TET MTDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
liii Tornado Opposes Ashland
S
Whether the Ashland high
Grizzlies, eying possible upset
of Medford's No. 1 ranked bask
etball quintet, will try to run
with the Black Tornado or will
resort to slow 'em down tactics
was not known today. But it's
a good bet that the Tornado will
be prepared for either, or any
eventuality. ; i
Medford and Ashland, long
time foes on the athletic court,
send their basketball forces
against each other here on Fri
day and there on Saturday. Jun
ior varsity contests are planned
for 6:45 p.m. on both days. Var
sity games will be at 8:15 p-m.
: The games will be Southern
Oregon Conference engage
ments. Klamath Falls will be
the scene of other league en
counters as host to Grants Pass
both Friday and Saturday. Med'
ford is the favorite both against
Ashland and in the conference
after wins over GP last week
leads the circuit.. Ashland tilts
will provide further evidence to
Its league possibilities.
Runs With Best :
Should the Grizzlies attempt
to run with the Black Tornado,
they face the fact that Medford
has a fast-moving, hard-driving
hustling team which has run
successfully with some of the
best fives in the state so far this
season. If the Ashlanders slow
the action, they may have to
prove sharp In their shooting
and scrapping hard under the
boards because Medford s edge
In .height could give it. advan
tage in rebounding, control of
th ball much of the time and
still opportunity for its own of
fense to. perk.
Medford Coach Frank Roe-
landt reported a good workout
yesterday after the , fair one
Tuesday and said the Tornado
clicked rather smoothly in the
Wednesday drill. He felt the
Medf ordites would be ready to
go after the good scrimmage.
Both of Medford's tallest boys
probably will start Friday. That
would put Glenn Peterson at a
forward and Jerry Kalapus at
center with Everett Kastner at
forward and Larry Copple and
Frank Rector at guards round
ing out the crew. The five have
started most Medford conflicts
this season. . - . ". " '
Suiherlin Doubtful
Ashland may have Stu. Bak
Castellan I
Victor Over .
Holly Mims
N Cleveland W.R) Rocky Cas
tellani's manager screamed
"breach of contract today when
officials - of the International
Boxing Club refused to name
Rocky the : immediate middle
weight challenger ; despit his
"elimination" victory over Holly
Mims Wednesday night.
.Manager Alvin Naiman,
wealthy Cleveland junk dealer,
shouted, Tve got a contract: It
says the winner of last night's
fight gets a title shot at Carl
(Eobo) Olson within 30.days. It's
breach of contract if they try. to
name another challenger."
. Castellani, who lost a title
verdict . to champion Olson in
August, won a unanimous deci
sion over Mims of Washington,
D.C., at 1he Cleveland Arena in
' a 12-rQund bout that was adver
tised as an "elimination" to de
termine a challenger.':
Lots of Ifs
But Truman Gibson, secretary
of the IBC. said today, "Well
see. There are a lot of ifs. We
want to see how Joey Giardello
: looks on Jan. 24. If he looks
good, he should get the title
fight because he's the Number
One contender." .
Giardello of " Philadelphia,
who had a knee operation earlier
in the winter, is slated to fight
Al Andrews at Norfolk, Va., on
. Jan.. 24. It will be his first. bout
v since the operation.
Castellani, ranked second
among contenders, weighed
159V pounds for Wednesday
night's nationally televised bout
that attracted 5,349 fans and
$22,786. Mims, rated No. 3, scal
ed 155, as he suffered his first
defeat . in 14 bouts. f :-fv :
Rocky won by a fair margin
Wednesday night but he did his
challenger's, cause little good by
using his regular hit-and-hold
tactics after he had promised to
come in with a , new "tiger
technique." -; " '" '
It was a dull bout in which
Rocky1- registered the only
knockdown, dropping Mims with
a left hook to the chin in the
eighth round.
Junior HigK
Games Slated
Medford junior, high ' eighth
and ninth grade basketball
teams take on their second op
ponents of the week when they
play host to Ashland aggrega
tions Friday.
.Eighth grade game is set for
3:30 pjn. at the junior high
court with the ninth grade setto
to follow.
Seventh graders, also playing
for the second time this week,
were at Phoenix this afternoon.
pop
0.151
Friday,
on
er and Phil Sword at forwards,
Gene Parent at center and Jerry
Mickle and Harry Johnson at
guards. Jim Sutherlin, a usual
starter, is on the doubtful list,
victim of a locked knee. Wheth
er he will be available may not
be known .until -game time on
Friday.
Copple is current Medford
scoring , leader with , 159 points
and heads the conference race
for all schools with 43. With 10
games behind Medford his a v -
erage is 15.9 per game. Kalapus
is next on the Medford list with
122. Rector has 117, Peterson
73 and Kastner 65. Other Med
ford scoring "totals, are John
Foust 21, Bob Tisdel 12, Bill
Cochran 11, Ed McCullough 11,
Eagle Point Gym Will Be Scene
Of Little 6 Basketball Tourney
Eagle Point high school's gym
nasium will be scene of the
Little Six basketballtournament
on February 24, 25 and 26.
The site was picked last night
at a meeting at Crater high in
Central Point. Drawing for po
sitions will not occur until about
one week before the tourney.
Eagle Pointy Crater, Phoenix
and Illinois Valley of the Rogue
League and Henley and Brook
ings will be participants. Tour
ney winner will meet the
champions of the Southern Ore
gon Conference Big Four race
for the District 4 banner and
the right 'to enter the state tour
nament.
Neither Henley nor Brookings
was, represented at the meeting.
A committee was named to su
pervise the olav-off. Chosen
wereArthur Straus, Crater; S.
W., Callaghan, Eagle Point; Don
Barnes, Illinois Valley, and
Jack Woodward, Phoenix.
It will be old basketball ri
valry under a new cloak this
week end as Rogue League con
tention 1 begins.; Crater will op
pose Eagle Point on -Friday at
Central Point and on Saturday
at Eagle Point. Phoenix will
meet Illinois Valley on Friday
at Phoenix and on Saturday at
Cave Junction. i
Competition among the four
small. Class A; schools dates back
to their years as B schools. All
were members of the : JDJ
League which disbanded at the
end of last, school year. Sched
ule this year is patterned after
that of the Big Four schools with
each team playing each other
one on four occasions, v
Eagle Point enters the race as
favorite.' But the Eagles could
Oregon Grapplers
Pioneers :
. Eugene (U.R) Oregon's
varsity wrestling team defeated
Lewis and Clark 30-11 here last
night while " the Oregon Frosh
defeated Vancouver high school
30-5.-
BOWLING;
' - Medford - Bowling aisocia
Hon tournament play will
open , this Saturday and Sun
day at Medford Bowling
lanes. Secretary . Bob Lan
said that it is planned to
publish a schedule Friday of
the week end action. Teams
will roll on Saturday at 7 and
9:30 p.m. and singles - and
doubles shifts will go off at
noon, and 2 and 4 p.m. on
Sunday.
LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE
Eloda Ludwig from Craterian
Beauty Shoppe had high game
223 this week in the Ladies'
Classic Bowling league. Mabel
Clark of the same team had high
series 580. Craterian .. Beauty
Shoppe also had high team game
748 and high team series. .
Other 200 games were rolled
by Mabel Clark 202 and Irene
Schroeder of McDuffie's 203.
RESULTS:
McDuffie's
I. Schroeder 448
V.. Corby, "416
Anderson Thrift '
N. Hollenback 418
I B. Ha mm 407
Niuttrell(abs)"3l
A. Wilson 377
M. Dyer 379
A. Carbiener 362
N. Burroughs 465 MJJen'ington 427
Handicap s
2091
1995
Medford Feed
M. Little 443
M. Tennant 483
D. Kawley 438
L. Sacchi 429
R. Barr 451
Handicap 18
2263
Crater Inn
A. Gebhardt 435
J. Hamoson -. 454
L. -Farrar t-. 399
G. Retres ': S12
C Teter, 458
2258
- Kachina Room
L. Enckson 361
R. Shama 416
B. Doyon - - 368
A. Monroe ' 401
R. Lane . 450
Trail Creek Lbr.
M. Nathieson 316
G. McKilloo 299
T Bevens - 383
L. Jantzer ' 386
Ei Goode 369
Handicao ' 180
1933
1998:
Mary's Casa
M. Porter 427
V. Float 405
T. Tolles 456
H. Writtht 312
V. Blunt - 473
Handicap ... 228
2301
Craterian Beauty
V. Cununings 454
R. Eberius 402
E. Straus 369
M. Clark - 580
E. Ludwifc 532
2337
Morning Fresh
F. Aasen . 435
S. Beck ' 313
G. Evernden 361
Fashlonette
V. Knox 505
P. Mathe . 377
D. Klein.,; . 435
L. Dudy . 428
X. Baker 460
V. Bateman 355
K. Jennings 480 :
Handicap 72
2016
2205
Jorcensen'i. J Elk Lumber
C. Lowd 447 H. Norwood 439
I. Forga : 378 D. Royce - 364
J. Wilson j - 429 V. Florey 338
F. Willett 438 A. Tamney 384
P. Gardener 468' D.Christiansen T51
. v.:..'. Handicap 144
2160
.8220
Thursday, January 13, 1955
Saturday
Lloyd Cearley 8, Ed Reinking
7, Stan Read 3 and Warren
Deakins 1.
Dave D'Olivio, Klamath, is
second in league scoring with
31 and Parent, Ashland, Mun-
sell, Klamath, and Kalapus tied
for third with 28. Rector has 27
Medford has rolled up ; 610
points to rivals 435 this season.
Medford students of Grade
school and junior high and sen
ior high age coming to basket-
Lball games at Medford high are
to enter the student door 'and
sit on the. student side unless
they come with their parents
and actually sit with . them.
Those are instructions of . . Lee
Ragsdale, supervisor, of Physical
education for the local schools..
get a good challenge this week
end from Crater's Comets, who
have been at the "top .or shared
the top in the circuit for several
seasons. Coach Leonard Warren
indicated: lots of spirit on the
Comet squad today. He reported
a likely change in the Crater
starting, combination which
would have Bob Gray at center
and send Jim Higinbotham to
forward. Fred Hogue would be
at the other forward with Harvey
Tonn and Vern Parent at guards.
Gray and Higinbotham are both
six-foot three-inchers.
uette,
Cincinnati
ressive
By JOHN GRIFFIN ' .
United Press Sports Writer.
Marquette and Cincinnati.
two teams who feel they've been
unjustly : overlooked, clamored
for- national ' basketball recog
nition today' as they added vic
tories . over high-ranked rivals
to their impressive records.'.1
Marquette ; ran its winning
streak, the longest among the na
tion's major-colleges, , to 12
games with an - 82-78"- victory
Wednesday night ovfr Louis
ville, currently ranked 19th na
tionally.
And - Cincinnati extended its
overall i record to 11 wins . and
three losses by whipping Dayton
the nation's 11 th-ranked team,
85-78. ;.. .-'s.v;::.
Marquette lost its opening
game of the season to Michigan
State, 91-72, on State's court and
has not been beaten since. Real
ly gathering .steam as : they
moved along, the -Warriors have
beaten such strong teams as
Michigan, Bradley, and Louis
ville once before, 6-62 and be
lieve they're in high ? gear now
that high-scoring Russ Wittber-
ger has recovered, from a bout
with pneumonia.
Riding Crest Of Wave .
Dayton went into its game
with Cincinnati on the crest of
a wave, having just beaten pow
erful Duquesne to cap a come
back after being defeated in the
Holiday . Festival ; tournament
last month. But Cincinnati made
the flyers their third straight
victim. ,
An upset that would have
been a real stunner was threat
ened for a ; time " Wednesday
night before LaSalle, the .na
tion's No. 3 team, rallied to beat
Muhlenberg, 88-79.
' Muhlenberg surprised by driv
ing to a 48-42 lead early in the
second quarter and then with
stood LaSalle's battling to stay
in front as long as 57-52. But all
America Tom Gola and Alonzo
Lewis; sparked LaSalle in a
string of 10 points to gain the
lead , and the : explorers ; never
were headed. Lewis nipped Gola
his much more famous team
mate, for scoring honors . with
24 points to 23, while Bob Gall
of Muhlenberg matched Gola's
totaL -
Conference Results::: ;
-In leading conference games:
Duke rallied to beat South Car
olina, 82-64, in the Atlantic
Coast Conference despite 25
points by Carolina's Bernie Fan
nin; and George Washington, de
fending champion of the South
ern Conference, followed Corky
Devlin's 39 points to a 79-65 vic
tory over William and Mary.
In other games: Temple scored
its eighth victory in 12 games,
6751, over Albright as Hal Lear
scored 22 points; Fordham ran
its victory string to seven games
by edging Columbia; 71-68, as
Ed Conlin scored 27 points; Bill
Johnson's 2i- points led Colgate
to a 90-72 'victory over Army.
Penn State scored its 42nd
straight home court victory,
107-85, over Syracuse as Jesse
Arnelle scored 38 points;' Wash
ington and Lee won its ; first
Southern Conference game in
the last 14 starts, 88-63, over
Virginia Tech. - J ' '
Villanova downed Kings Col
lege (P,a.), 97-71, despite 27
points by Bernie Panzak of
Kings; Amherst trounced Har
vard, 70-47; Navy ' crushed
Franklin and Marshall, 90-50;
Toledo edged Bowling Green,
75-69; and Denver routed Colo
rado College, 109-60. . ,
SLPflDDKirS
AAagnuson Holds Nose Over
Televised Bouts; Amenable
To Suggestions for Probe
By A. ROBERT SMITH
Mail Tribune Correspondent
Washington Sen." Warren G.
Magnuson CD-Wash.), like many
Americans, has been watching
boxing matches on television
but lately he has been holding
his nose over some of the con
tests he has seen.
- Magnuson is wondering out
load whether professional box
ing is going the way of -professional
wrestling, substituting the
old custom of staging clean, hard
fought, ; best-man-wins struggles
with put-up or thrown fights de
signed only to make money for
the promoters, the fighters and
those who know on which man
to place their bets.
Would Seek Racket Ties
This is why Magnuson,- who is
incoming chairman of the Sen
ate Interstate and Foreign Com
merce Committee, is., amenable
to the suggestion that profes
sional boxing be investigated by
Congress for possible - ties with
bigtime racketeering. His com
mittee is expected to go into the
subject because televised fights
aire transmitted across state lines
to a nationwide audience, i
' "It wasn't so bad in the old
days when you and I could only
see a fight . by going to the
arena," explained Magnuson. "If
we didn't ' like " the match ' or
thought the fighters weren't do
ing their best, we could boo and
holler and express our disappro
val or walk out and not come
back. Now it's different. These
fights are in every home, and the
kids - see these- boxing, matches
and get a . wrong idea of what
good sportsmanship and"5 hard
fought athletics are supposed to
be."
A former quarterback at the
University of Washington, Mag
Martin Sign,
Play Here Saturday Night
Fans will have an opportunity
to see some of Oregon's top in
dependent and AAU team bas
ketball talent this Saturday in a
doublebill at . the St. Mary's
school gymnasium.' Medford's
leading independents willplay.-
The special attraction will be
headlined by a tangle between
Yellow Cab of the Medford In
dependent League and the Mar
tin Brothers Sign company of
Eugene. That scuffle will be at
8:30 p.m. Andy's Jewelers of the
MIBL will see the initial action
of the program opposing: Hal's
Sport shop of Klamath Falls.
. To followers of University 4of
Oregon basketball and to fans
who saw the state AAU tourney
here in 1953, names' of ;the Mar
tin Sigh squad will ;be familiar.
Mel Streeter, - Jack McElravy,
Doug Talbot, Brad Fullerton,
all are ex-Oregon players and
were on. the state titular team
in 1953. ;-.- - vtV s-v; :
The same players with rein
forcements upset the mighty
Phillip . Oilers in a stunner and
gained the semi-finals of the na
tional AAU tourney . the same
year.; They were playing as
Sandy Favored
Over Ted Davis
New York 0I.R) Odds-makers
installed Sandy Saddler a
favorite at 9-5 today to make a
successful title defense against
Teddy (Red Top) Davis of Hart
ford, Conn., at Madison Square
Garden on Feb. 25.
Elongated Sandy of New York
was made the favorite because
of his punch. Although king of
the 126-pounders, he hits like a
middle weight. .- v.-'
Sandy hasn't pared down , to
the 126-pound limit since his last
defense of the title against Wil
lie Pep on Sept. 26 1951'. How
ever, manager Charley, John
ston said today,' "We don't ex
pect Sandy to have any trouble
making the weight But, ot
course, it could happen. He's
been weighing about 132 for
bouts since he came out of the
Army in April."
r, Saddler engaged in nine non
title bouts last year and ' lost
only to Hoacine Hkalfi of Al
geria. But because he waited so
long for a defense after, his
Amy discharge, the National
Boxing Association vacated his
crown recently.
Dead line for Sunday dasaUied is
at noon Saturday. . .
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nuson says he fears . the conse
quences if youngsters take seri
ously what they see on TV in
'"big time'sporting arenas -and
begin to disregard the advice of
their high school coach or scout
master to play the game hard
and clean. -Urged
by Kefauver
"Wrestling- is bad enough,'
added the senator, "but fortun
ately, most people don't ': take it
as seriously as they do. boxing,
and many people laugh at it like
they would slap-stick comedy."
- Magnuson was. urged to probe
prize fighting. by Sen. Estes Ke
fauver (D-Tenn.), who - said in
1950 when he was investigating
crime and racketeering-around
the Nation he obtained informa
tion that linked professional
boxing to the underworld. But
he said the ; committee, hadn't
sufficient time to check into it
thoroughly. .'. ' 'V
"Magnuson" said his committee
is already investigating tele
vision, and in that, connection
might tackle the boxing matter
specifically. The senator has
been advised by Chicago news
men of information obtained by
their newspapers purporting to
show a tie between professional
prize fight matchmaking and
the underworld of that city.
' Although he comes up for re
election next year and, as most
politicos see it, would benefit
according to the probable sensa
tional character of any such
crime inquiry, . Washington
state's senior senator is taking a
cautious approach to the possible
investigation and sees no pros
pect of launching a full scale
probe as asked by Kefauver. . . j'
Magnuson said he will put it
up to his committee for the last
word. - r
Sport Shop. .
Everybody's drug that year, and
won . the Oregon toga under , the
same colors' again last season. v - .
. Martin's has some good height
with Streeter, McElravy and
Bill Clausen. All are 6 feet 4
inches.' Cab has a taller man in
Chuck Stacy at 6-8 and Johnny
Foster; of the Medford team is
6-3. Foster and Ed Hummel of
Yellow Cab were on the top
Portland team last year, Jewish
Community, center. ' C
Andy's s and the S Sport ! shop
fives; boast . ex-Medford ; and
Klamath highs players.5 Among
the Jewelers are Derald Wooton
Jack Boardman, Bob Shores
Loren Soderlund, Willard Lilly,
Bill Kramer,; Bob Fasel and
LaRue Smith. Also on the roster
are Ben Clark, ex-North Bend,
and Dean' Norman, . ex-Iowa
State. Klamath has Ed Whitney,
Gary Dawes and R. Beard
among its cagers. -
Unbeaten Teams
To Be Rivals in
Recreation Loop
' Two clubs . are due to be
knocked from : unbeaten ranks
this week end in the round -of
basketball games in the Satur
day recreation league at Med
ford senior high schooL
: The tangles put thef Cotton-
pickers against the Tweakers at
10 a.m.. t h e ; Thunderbirds
against the Flubbin' Five at 11
am., the Gold Ray Salmon Backs
against the Senior Wieners at
1 p.m. and the Nico-Quint
aeainst the Mountain Boys at
2 t.m. .. ,. ' - t.''
Through last; Saturday the
Salmon Backs; Senior Wieners
and Cottonoickers were un-
marred in two. games each. The
Tweakers have won their . only
contest. - - -
Results ' last Saturday were
Salmon Backs 34 to 9 over Thun
derbirds, Senior Wieners. 48 to
20 over -Nico-Quint, Flubbin'
Five 28 to 15 over Beany Boys
and Cottonpickers 38 to 30 over
Screwballs. . 4 .
Beany Boys and Screwballs
have byes this week.
LEAGUE STANDINGS ; ' V "
Pet
1.000
Gold Kay Salmon Baclcs 2 0
Senior Wieners 2 0
Cottonpickers -i ?
Tweakers .. f ?
Flubbin Five 11
1.000
1.000
1.000
JSOO
.000
Mountain Boys . f
Nico-Quint I J J :
Thunderbirds ; J
Strrffiirhalla . - 0 2
MO
.000
.000
.000
Beany Boys - : 0 v 2
Furman Has
Major Team
Score Lead
. New York Fiirman,
which set a new. major college
record of 154 points in a single
game during the past wek, took
over the national basketball
scoring leadership today in
weekly major college figures
released by the NCAA.
Amazing everyone by contin
uing to tally points in box-car
numbers despite the graduation
of record-buster Frank Selvy,
the "Purple Palladins" of Fur
man now have averaged a fan
tastic 99.2 points per game.
Furman has won- the. nationid
scoring title for the last two sea
sons, led by Selvy, and, a third
straight title would equal a rec
ord set by Rhode Island State,
with Its famed "firehorse" teains
of 193639. .Furnrian moved up
to . take over the : scoring -lead
with its 154-67 triumph over the
Citadel ' and V 10245- victory
over llrekine." . ; . : ;
The performance against Cita
del wiped out' the major college
record of 149 points that Fur- j
man set last year against New
berry. The Palladins, by - scor
ing. 84 points in the first half,
smashed another major college
mark and narrowly . missed a
third' when their total of 61 field
goals fell two short of the 63
they scored against Newberry.
Only 5-5 Record
The statistics, complete
through games' of Jan. 11, show
Furman with a substantial lead
over second-place Connecticut,
which has averaged 93.8 points
per game.1 However, despite its
high-scoring high jinx, Furman
has, only, a 5-5 won-lpst record
while Connecticut 'has won ' 12
and lost, only one.
Marshall College wjis ? third
with 92.0 points per game, fol
lowed by DePaul w4th ,90.7 'and
Virginia with 89.3 to round out
the top 10. . V ,
San ' Francisco retained its
national defense leadership dur
ing, tne past ; weeic and even
lowered its average - to -48.3
points per game, the best record
of any team at this stage of the
campaign since 1952.
Oregon State was second in
defense -with 52.0 pomts al
lowed per game average. Okla
homa,. A' and M, the national
leader in 15 of the last 19 years,
stood third with 54.0, followed
by, Santa Clara . at 56.5 and
Southern California at 56.7, "
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Missouri 1956
Foe of Beavers
$ Corvallis '-- U.R) 5 v Oregon
State will open its. 1956 football
season against the University of
Missouri at - Columbia, Mo., it
was announced here today.
; Oregon State replaces Ford
ham on ' the Missouri schedule.
Fordham recently dropped if oot-
ball. r. : j . ; :
Dead line - Siuvday Ciassified is at
noon Saturday : 10 a.m.- Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 previous day
Gridder Can Return to Fray Onto
Each Quarter Under New Colleger
Rule; Fiye j Other
" New York' BJQ College
football, has six. brand-new rules
today; designed to give the
game 'some of the 'blessings" of
the two-platoon system without
any of its "curses."
A rule permitting more sub
stitutions and five other more
minor changes were announc
ed Wednesday by ' an NCAA
committee headed by Herbert
O. (Fritz) Crisler the group
that has the final say" on the
rules of the game. . ;
Under the new substitution
rule, a player, may -: leave r the
game once, in each period. Last
season, a nlavpr TpmnvpH frnm
the game could not return in the
same period except for the last
four minutes of the second and
fourth periods,. : . ,
The five other iew rules were
as follows:-;'; '.h: '' ' t
2. A change in the signal for
a fair catch" ' from wig-wagging
of a raised arm to a salute
with one arm raised skyward.
Changed because wig-wagging
made it tough to catch the punt
3. Allow the ball-handler on
extra points or field goals to at
tempt to run, kick, or pass it,
although his knee may be touch
ing the ground when he "spots"
the ball. ' -: . "
4. Make other linemen eligible
to. catch forward passes, only if
no other player on the . team
lines up closer to the sidelines.
5. Outlaw the i "hideout" or
sleeper play inl which a' play
er lurks near, the sidelines, then
speeds downfield to catch a pass.
6. Allow a change in cleats to
round ends instead of flat ends
if desired. V ;
The committee officials hop
ed that the greater freedom in
substitutions would .; give foot
ball two of the alleged benefits
of- the old unlimited substitu
tion tor, "two platoon" system
that Is, efficiency; of play and
less injuries. '.
; The rules-makers figure, play
Washington,
Oregon State
In 'Crucial'
By UNITED PRESS
Oregon State and Washington
meet in a pair of "crucial' bas
ketball games this weekend at
Corvallis that could go a long
way toward deciding the North
ern Division title. ; -
WashfogtQh is the team figur
ed to gve OSC the toughest fight
this season, and the Huskies are
seething iafter dropping one, qf
two games to underdog Idaho at
Seattle last week end. A sweep
of the series for either club
would definitely put it in the
favorites role. . , :,
- Oregon which has assumed tt
"dark-horse" role after taking
three out of four from Washing
ton .State travels to Moscow.
Ida., for a pair with the unpre
dictable Vandals.'. . . -
Weiicfes... .
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The ixtra vttii esiicb KH Its crest Csriira llarrf
Changes Mado
will be more efficient because'
coaches will be able to adjust'.
their lineup to meet situations
at least once each, period. And
they figure the return rule will
prevent injuries by easing the!
way-for a player who is tiredv
or nursing an injury to leave
the game.
But the use of offensive and
defensive "platoons" . still will
be impossible.
Willie May
Scraps With
Rube Gomez
San Juan, P.R. (UJ An
unusually moody - Willie Mays -checked
; upon .airplane depart
ures for the U.S. today and pre- -
f erred not to talk .' any mora .
about his fist fight with team-..
mate Ruben Gomez.
The battle between Mays and
Gomez, who are not only team-
-mates with the New York Giants
during the summer - but also -with
the' Santurce club of the
Puerto Rican Winter league,
took place during batting prac
tice Tuesday but ' first was re
vealed by local newspapers Wed
nesday. Mays admitted there was a
fight, but didn't care to elabor
ate on it. His chief interest, he
said, was getting back home.
Mays, who led the National
league in batting with a .345 av
erage and was recently voted the
Most Valuable Player in the
circuit during 1954, wanted to
quit the. Santurce team on the
spot immediately after the fight
with Gomez, according to re-.
pofts. v ,
Outfielder -Roberto Clemente
Pittsburgh Pirate rookie, was
taking batting practice and de
cided to get another bat when
the trouble began. While Cle
mente was out of the batting '
cage, Gomez stepped in and mo
tioned right-hander Milton Ra
lat to pitch to him. .- . ' -.. :
Ralat told Gomez that it was
still Clemente's turn to hit .and
that he -wouldn't pitch until he
came back. Irked, Gomez sat
down on home plate.
Mays entered the batting cage
at this point , and Ralat tossed r
up a couple of slow balls to him
even, though. Gomez continued,
to sit where he was. Willie ask
ed Ralat to speed up his pitches
but the hurler refused, fearinf
he might hurt Gomez. ' " r
Mays then hit a slow ball right
back at Ralat and the Santurce
pitcher expressed , his displease '
ure ; Willie advanced toward hhnB
whereupon Gomez v quickly::.'
jumped up and , started after
Mays.- . -
t. A fight, ensued In which, as
cending to reports Willie drop '
ped Gomez with a hard, short
right to the jaw. The pitcher '
then managed to wrestle Mays-;
.to" the ground . and ' bolh mea
pummelled each other.-
SIX TEATS CLO