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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. January 16. 1955 SOUTHERN OREGOV CONFERENCE STANDINGS W. I.. Vtt Medford . 3 0 1.000 Klamath Tall . 2 1 .867 Ashland 1 2 .333 urranis flu 0 - 3 .000 There's a pattern which has become ' familiar this season as the persistent, free-wheeling Medford high school basketball quintet whirls along. The high balling Black Tornado finds the going a bit hard at the start 'of a fracas. Then the speed, the height, the sharp floor play and the fire-power of the Tornado begin to take toll on the opposi tion. Medford builds up a com' manding lead. Reserves finish out the game. - That was much the : routine again Friday night as the Med ford prepsters raced 'to a 71 to 46 victory over Ashland on the Tornado court. It was Medford's third straight win In the South ern Oregon Conference, it's ninth for the whole season and ' its 10th in 11 times out in the current campaign. While the Tornado still held the lone conference lead Friday night, -Klamath Falls was right behind. The Pelicans handed the Grants Pass Cavemen their third loop loss, 53 to 41, and there was good evidence that Klamath is the club which will give Med ford most trouble in its drive for the conference bunting. Ran Hard Ashland's Grizzlies, who worked and handled the ball well, seldom used out-and-out freeze tactics Friday in their ef fort to upset the Tornado. They' uiu, iiuwevcr, nave a mure ue- liberate style of play which slowed the game tempo some what' But, Metlford ran hard and mostly well when it could, which was often. And, its better balance in shooting and backboard-work and its tight defense, which held the Grizzlies well in checks turned the tide. - ' o The Medf ordites were able to race in or feed in for many, close shots-i-not a great number were from far out and took advant age for 30 field goals,' one' less than in the 86 to 37 winr over Grants Pass a week ago. A Medford pass on the start ing tip off play was partly blocked, but Bud Kastner plunked the ball in the hoop for the first bucket of night. Medford led ' throughout the game. The' Tornado gap was briefly 4 to 3 in the opening minutes. Score j by Kastner, Jerry Kal apus, plenn Peterson and Frank Rectof for Medford, while Gene Parent got a gift heave for Ash land, made it 13 to 4. With more than pix minutes played in the panel 'Parent got Ashland's first field. Shot. 1$ was followed by a goal 6y Stuart Baker, two free heavefe - by Phil Sword and . a fielder by Jerry Mickle while, ior - jaeatora, .Larry i;oppie canneB a free one. Count at the end of the quarter was 14 to 12. BuildUp Lead In fie fore part of the second quartfr a shot from the side by Peterson was followed by . a jumper by Kastner, a rebound goal and jumper by Kalapus and a f astf. break basket by Rector. In thfe meantime Baker got a singleton gifter. Medford's com mand .was established with that 24 to 13 lead. Ashland cut the spreae to seven points at 26 to 19, 29 to 21 and 30 to 23. But, at thd; end of the half Medford had tshland by 13 points, 36 to 23. Connie, who had onlv three pojitsf in the first half warmed and headed a Medford 19-point assault in the third quarter with 10 markers. The Tornado scored almost all the goals in the period close Jn, two or three of them on fast breaks. Peterson, 6-foot 414 inches, dribbled nearly - the lengtli of the floor after busting the Ashland offense to lay-in a tvo-peinter. . Widest Tornado lead jof the chukker was 23 pointst At the end of the quar ter itTwas 22 markers, 55 to 33. As the fourth canto opened John Foust scored ' on the tip off, Kelapus put in a charity toss and Copple. hit' from the field. That, made the standing 60 to 33, a 27 point bulge and Med fordVbiggest. V Reserves began to filter into the Igedford line-up and with 412 minutes left to. play .and the score 63 to 40 an all reserve Tornado quint was on the .floor. Ashland also wound-up' with a crew of pre-dominately reserves. Parent Fouls Out Asifland, which played with out the services of a backboard ace, Jfim Sutherlin, was further impaired when its major scor ing threat, Gene . Parent,' was whistled for four personal in fractions in the first quarter. He sal out the second stanza and retunfed at the start of the sec ond hjilf. With 3 minutes left to play in the , tussle he fouled out. Sutherland has. a knee ail ment. - -.;. . ,: . -. Medford controlled the back . boards and the retrieving point- by ftshland71.-46; Tops irainits Pass u sriT I BALL PLUNKED IN Bill Cochran (33), 6-4 reserve Medfordite, puts in a shot for the Black Tornado after getting the ball on a rebound in the closing part of the basketball fracas here Friday night with Ashland. Up with him from the melee, to Cochran's left is teammate John Foust. Back to camera is Ashland's Phil Sword (39). ' (Landis-Shangle photo) producing was well shared. Pet erson and Kastner were credited with -seven rebounds apiece, Kalapus and Copple with live each' and Ed'Reinklng and Bill Cochran with -four each. Copple picked1 up 16 points, Kalapus 14, Rector 12; Kastner nine and Peterson eight. Baker of Ashland tied with Copple for high point honors, shooting with considerable accuracy when he was open. , Medford had a .536 field goal average with 30 out of 56. Ash land put in only. 14 field shots but from the free line cashed in on 18! out of 22 tries. Sword got six chances and made them all. The Tornado also got 22 gift opportunities and made 11. - -. : The Tornado concludes, tht first half of its season next week end playing Klamath Falls here. FG FT PF TP BOX: Medford ' Kastner. f ... 2 3 2 9 Peterson,: : 4 0 2 8 Kalapus. c . 6 2 3 14 Copple, g 7 2 1 16 Rector, g - 6.0 2 12 McLaughlin 0 0 1 0 Foust 1 2 2 4 McCullough 1.22- 4 Deakins J '. 0 0 0 0 Reinking . 0 0 0 0 Cochran 10 0 2 Tisdel , . 1 0 0 2 38 H 15 ' 71 Ashland Baker, f . Parent, t . Sword, c . Johnson, g Mickle, K Carter, Lcmiey Schultz ... Taylor , Green Locke - FG FT PF TP 6 4 3 16 1 1 2 - 3 - 0 0 . 0 . 1 . 0 . 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 14 .IS 13 ' 48 High School Scores FRIDAY GAMES Jefferson 44, Benson 26 Grant ,78. Franklin 58 Lincoln 40, Washington 37 Cleveland 58. Roosevelt 37 Mediord 71. Ashland 46 Klamath Falls 53. Grants Pan 41 ' Eugene 76. South Salem 61 ... Marshfield 49, Myrtle Point 30 v . North Bend 71. Cottage Grove f 3 Milwaukie 71. Gresham 55 Beaverton" 65. Newberg 34 v HUlsboro 42. Tigard. 40 ' ; Mac-Hi 52, Pendleton 51 '." : Baker 73. Henniston 46 ' La Grande 76. The Dalles 58 Vale 42. Nyssa 37 . - ' Albany 54. Sweet Home 31 . Astoria 55. North Salem 46 Central Catholic 52. Parkrose 48 St. Helens 84. Clatskanie 43 Seaside 79, Scappoose 48 . Springfield 70. Willamette 66 Junction City 65. Oakridge 35 -McMinnvUle 58. Forest Grove 52 . Burns 69. Madras 56 ... Coquille 48. Bandon 46 - Powers 64, Langlois 33 '' Yoncalla 64. Camas Valley 53 . Glide 56. Canyonville 48 Elkton 77, Days Creek 56 1 Riddle 55. Oakland 40 Jacksonville 65, Prospect 48 Lakeview 66. Prineville 52 lone 49,' Irrigoh. 42 Phoenix 50. Illinois Valley 44 Crater 58. Eagle Point 38 - - Dayville 36. Spray 35 . ' -Gold Beach 59. Ophir 39 Heppner 53, Condon 29 Stanfield 42. Lexington 32 ; Arlington 46. Fossil 32 Wy'East 53. Columbia Prep 52 . Brownsivlle 69, Shedd 67 -,' Alsea 98. Valsetz 70 Colton 70. McLaren 51 Rogue River 83. Butte Falls 58 Reedsport 41.' Newport 40 ... : Huntington 59. Hereford 39 . Taft 57. Toledo 53 - - ? Mapleton 56. Lorane 42 Amity 37. Yamhill 28 Gervais 48. Serra 46 (overtime) -Siletz 65. Falls City 54 Cresweil 65. St. Francis 62 ; Gaston 68. Nestucca 36 Star ot Sea 57, Nehalem 45" ' Canby 45. Mt. Angel 42 . 1 Willamina 46. Dayton 43 (overtime) Scio 63. MiU City 49 North Marion 69. Banks 47 Warrenton 48. Vernonia 47 ' . Rufus 57. Wasco 47 Molalla 59. Estacada S7 " Talent 60. St. Mary's (Medford) 27 J Dead line Sunday Classified tm at noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for Monday; other days 5 JO previous day. Patty Berg Leads by 1. Sea Island, Ga. (U.R) Chunky Patty Berg of St. Andrews. Ill- fired an opening round 76 Satur day to take a one-stroke lead in the second annual $3,500 Sea Island Women's Open Golf tour nament. The veteran star was a stroke ahead of fellow professional Marlene Bauer, Sarasota, Fla., and amateurs Pat "Lesser of Se attle, Wash., and Mary Lena Faulk, Thomasville, Ga., in the 36-hole tourney. Patty shot a 37 on the front 'nine and came home with a 39. Fire Knotted " j V Five-other pros were knotted at 78, two strokes hack of .Miss Berg, last year's leading money winner on the ladies' golf circuit. They were Mrs. Jackie Pung, Honolulu; Betsy Rawls, Spart anburg, S. C; Pat O'Sullivan, Southern Pines, S. C; Fay Crock er, Montevideo, Uruguay, : and Betty Jameson, San Antonio, Tex. . . Louise Suggs of Atlanta, win ner of the Inaugural Tourna ment, soared to an 81 to prac tically eliminate herself from the running. . The final 18 holes will be played today with the low 12 professionals sharing in the prize money. The winner will pocket $700. Med: iTRIBUNE Judge's Opinion Disagreed with By Boxing Men Boston (U.R) Boxing circles disagreed Saturday with a judge's opinion that the death of Los Angeles heavyweight Ed Sanders last month amounted to legalized murder. . Reporting on an inquest into Sanders' death, in the ring, Chief Justice Elijah Adlow. of Muni cipal Court had said the Navy Negro should not. have been al lowed to fight Willie. James at Boston Garden last Dec. 12. v Sanders,' a 'former Olympic titlist," died .of a brain; hemor rhage shortly ? after the sched uled 12-rpund match was stop ped in the 11th found. 1 Matchmaker . Sam Sullivan of the Callahan Athletic Club, pro motors of the Sanders - James bout; accused Judge Adlow Fri day night ofjjeing "unqualified to call the Ed Sanders-Willie James bout a mis-match." The jurist 'hasn't seen a half dozen fights in his life," Silverman added. . Dr. Samuel Sandler( physician for the state boxing commission, said he had the highest respect for Adlow "as a judge and as a man," but said he couldn't agree that Sanders did not die acci dentally." i ; i ,s , ;.'He was in excellent condi, tion when I examined him after the 10th round," Dr. Sandler said. ' -. .'. Cleveland (U.R) Veteran right-hander Bob Feller, the dean of Major League pitchers, Fri day signed his 17th contract with the Cleveland Indians for an estimated $30,000, about the same he received last year. Talent, Rogue River Mix Tuesday For Front Position in B Circuit; Bulldogs,Chiefs,RedskinsWin JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS Talent Rogue River St. Mary's Jacksonville Prosriect Butte Falls . 2 2 1 1 0 0 L. 0 0 1 1 2 2 Pet. 1.000 1.000 .500 .500 .000 .000 Rogue River high and Talent clash Tuesday for the lone lead ership of the Jackson County B Basketball League. The en counter will be at Rogue River. Stage for the 'conflict was set Friday night when Rogue River ran over Butte Falls 83 to 59 and Talent lashed St. Mary's of Medford 60 to 27. The victories left the defending champion Bulldogs and Rogue River's Chieftains the only unblemished clubs in the circuit. Each posted its second win. Jacksonville gained a one-win, one-loss record in the B loop Friday by subduing Prospect 65 to 48. Games in addition to the head liner on Tuesday will be Jack sonville at St. Mary's and Pros pect at Butte Falls. Loggers Fought Hard Butte Falls fought hard Fri day night despite the bulging 24-point winning margin of the Chiefs who were hosts for the fast-running fracas. First quart er standing was close, favoring Rogue River 18 to 15. The Chief tains were on top 40 to 30 at the half and 59 to 39 at the three quarter stop. Lee Abbott of the Loggers was top pointmaker with 20. He was followed closely by Gary John son of Rogue River, and Don Ellis of Butte Falls: Each got 19. Talent was hot and St. Mary's was just the opposite. And that was the story as the Bulldogs rolled with . period " spreads of 15 to 3, 31 to 9 and 49 to ,15 at Talent. The Crusaders of Med ford had been reported fired up for the skirmish. - George Zickefoose was the big gun for the Bulldogs. He was high scoring player with 14, was great on defense and gathered in 13 rebounds. Laval Meunier of St. Mary's and J. Lloyd Wood of Talent each had 13 tallies. Cougars Lead at Half Talent got better than half of the rebounds with Jim Mc Abee collecting 14. At Jacksonville, the Redskins led 16 to 9 at the end of the opening stanza but Prospect warmed up : and Jacksonville's Harold Jordan suffered an in jury. Halfway score favored the Cougars 30 to 28. Jacksonville Poona Sets New Record "Arcadia, Calif. (U.R) Irish: bred - Poona . II . raced to a new world's record for a mile and a sixteenth in the $28,100 San Fer nando Stakes at Santa Anita Saturday as the favored Determ ine . finished fourth in seven starters. Ridden, by the famed Willie Shoemaker, - Poona II. finished better than four lengths in front of the' Calumet Farm entry of Miz Clementine and Duke's Lea in his fantastic victory. His time was 1.40 45. The world's record of, 1.41 was set by Count Speed in 1947 at Golden Gate Fields. It also,, of course, bettered the track record of 1.41:35"held by Snow Boots. Carrying 112 pounds to De termine's 126, " Poona took the lead going into the first turn and just stayed there.- It was that simple. And without hard ly varying their finish order Miz Clementine and Duke's Lea fol lowed him; with Determine stay ing in fourth .position all the way. . . " "V ''v:i ' " '' was back in front 45 to 40 at the third intermission. , ;. Bob Gemaehlich of Jackson ville and Ron Couser of Prospect each piled ?up 17 points. - In junior varsity action Rogue River downed Butte Falls 52 to 41, Talent tipped St. Mary'S 42 to 37 as .4-11 Freddie Helm got 14 points and Jacksonville beat Prospect 64 to 42. Talent's trip to Prospect this week will be on Thursday . in stead of Friday at the request of the Cougars because of a con flicting activity Friday at Prospect. Beavers Speed To Trounce Huslri Floor Game es 66-38 - Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State speeded up its floor., game here Friday night to win its third straight . Northern Division - bas ketball game, beating helpless Huskies of Washington, 66-33., The Huskies couldn't buy a basket, and during one period in the second half made only two field goals in 13 mintiies of play. The Huskies hand an ice cold .172 shooting percentage, to .407 LINE-UPS: Talent 60 M. Wallace 10 f Zickefoose 14 f Mac A bee 10 . c Wood 13 K Thoreson 2 Z 27 St Mary's 3 Bobbett Walsh 3 Miksche 13 Meunier 4 Duean Substitutions For Talent. Ray Weinhold 3. J. Wallace 2. G. Combs Bartol 2, Ron Weinhold. Hoffman 2, Helm; for St. Mary's. Paun 2. Hassler, Darland 2. Murphy. Elberts. Jacksonville 65 Jordan f Sanford 12 f Gemaehlich 17 c Mclntyre 7 B Dalev 2 g AS Prospect 10 Peterson 15 Walls 1 Oswald 17 Couser Artnure Substitutions For Jacksonville. Bi shop 5. Guches 1. G. Heuners 9. H. Heuners 10. Wilson 2; for Prospect, Bean 1, Ring 2. Pope. 2. Rogue River 83 ' ' 59 Butte Falls Johnson 19 f 9 Irwin Weaver 4 f , 19 Ellis Daily 10 c 20 Abbott Stanfield 16 K 5D.L. Smith Stinchcomb S . e 4 D. R. Smith Substitutions F or Roe ue River, Moore 5. Twiest 2, Towse 5. Thorell. Morrow 7, Phillips 9; for Butte Falls, Conley 2. - MJKS Nicks Ashlanders Medford junior high ninth grade had a, bad afternoon on the basketball court Friday but managed to- hold its Ashland foe and get a 26 to 24 nod. The Bulldogs could get a fair ly good lead but couldn't hold it that way and Ashland threat ened the Medfordites in the closing minutes: ; Medford went Into the last period leading 20 to 18. Two baskets by Jim Funston and one by Tom Hamlin made it 26 to 18. The Bulldogs . looked safe but S. Peterson and H. Bear sank long shots for Ashland , and in the last minute of play J. Tobias son sank two free goals to make the finish a tense one. Score- after one quarter was 6-all. At the half Medford was on top 15 to 9. v The scheduled . eighth ' grade scuffle was cancelled because of Ashland's inability jto put a team on the floor, A short scrim mage between the Medford eighth and ninth grade jayvees" preceded regular the hassle. All three Medford junior high clubs play at Eagle Point on Monday. Seventh graders vie at 5:30 p.m., eighth graders at 6:30 p.m. and ninth graders at 7:30 Youth, Odds Favor West In Pro Bowl Los Angeles (U.R) Youth, speed and the odds are with Buck Shaw's Western All-Stars in today's fifth annual Pro Bowl classic as: they face a bunch of seasoned, if not down right aged gentlemen from the National Football League's eastern division.- ' --' - ' ":'-. " - -' More than 60,000 fans, lured by the promise of good weather, are expected in Memorial Col iseum to watch the charity game, which will be preceded by a special niile race featuring Wes Santee, the Kansas distance star. The West is rated a 3V point favorite on the strength of its three speedy, young ends, Billie Wilson of the San Francisco 49ers, Harlon Hill of the Chi cago Bears, and Bob Boyd of the Los Angeles Rams. Doing the West's throwing will be Y. A. Tittle of the 49ers and Norm Van Brocklin of the Rams. Otto Graham, finishing what he says is his last season of pro ball at the age of 33, heads a list of nine Easterners who are 30 years or older. But consider these decrepit old men: Chuck Bednarik, 30, Eagles, considered the best line backer in the NFL; Frank Gat- ski, 32, ' the Cleveland Brown's flawless offensive center; Lou Groza, 30, the Brown's indis pensable "toe"; Frank Kilroy, 34, middle, guard and mainstay of the Eagle's fine defensive line. for the Beavers. -visionfehampion, was" tied twice m the eairly minutes of play halftime margin of 37-20. - 1 Wade (Swede) Halbropk; seven-foot three-inch OSC center, scored 16 points for game hon ors, followed by OSC Guard Larry Paulus with 11. Gary-Nelson, Washington's seven-foot cen ter, led the Huskies with nine points. . , " , ., - nnv. --'..- OSC : Y Vlastelica f Dean f Halliiran f Allord f .. Halbrook c WVlittrnn n Shadoin c . Dnhin, Paulus g Toole g .. jarooe it Fundingsland K FG - 2. - 1 .3 ' - l 5 . 1 . O 3 4 2 3 .: - 1 FT Pr TP 0 14 4 0 1 3 0 3 3 1 O 3 5 - 4 C 0 0 0 3 O . 0 0 0 2 18 IS CC Washington . Coshow f . Olren f V'oegtlin 1 Morris f Parsons c Nelson- c Perkins g - Johnson g Eryan it Patnoe g . .... Sunitch g Monroe g 2 FG FT PF TP ' 2 8 1 . 1 0 ;o o o o 3 . 2 . 4 5 2 0 - 2 : :0 0 0 1 1 0 0 3 2 0 -3 1 1 " O 0 20. - ' 1 Is 12 3 Halftime score: OSC 37, Washington Ski Conditions Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. - - - If Crater lake is accessiblt today, skiing there should' b fair to good, the national park ranger's office reported yester day afternoon. . ' Snow fell hard all day yes-, ierday and there was -a high wind.-The road from -Annie, Spring to the rim , was closed yesterday and travel was not advised . on H igh way.. 62 through the park. Park em ployees indicated that, they will do their best in clearing the roads but had no idea yes terday as to whether they . would be open today. Skiers desiring information can call park headquarters after 8 a.m. The warming hut will be open if roads are open. Snow depth, yesterday morning .was 63 inches with 4 inches of new snow. Surface snow was pow dery, j' Middlecoff Leads Golf Play Midway Pebble Beach. Calif. (U.R) Dr. , Cary Middlecoff , the Mem phis dentist now playing out of Kiamesha Lake, N. Y., vaulted into the lead midway through the second day of the $15,000 Bing Crosby .National Pro-Amateur Golf .Tournament Saturday with a 36-hole total of '138.'. Pushing : through a rainstorm that bogged the course down with soggy fairways and mushy grerans, Middlecoff scored his second straight 69 to take a nar row -lead over the ram-coated fiejd. -. ' . - " Right behind him, each with 139, :: came Stan Leonard, the veteran shot-maker from Van couver, B.- C, and young Bobby Rosburg of San Francisco. Rosburg, one of the new sen sations of the tournament trail, had a great . 67 on the Country Club course, where the wind isn't quite as strong as at Cy press Point. Leonard had a 73 after his opening round of 66. Tournament favorite Gene Lit tler of ' Palm Springs, the im perturbable heir-apparent to the Ben Hogan crown, came in with his second straight 70 for a 140 total just where he likes to be with the final round coming up. .. Among the other leaders were Jerry Kesselrine. Toronto. Can ' and Fred WamDler. Indiananolis.. each with 142 totals. , There was. a run-away in the making in the ' nro-mateur di-: vision, where Rosburg, teamed with Hank Mann of San Fran cisco, had a two-day total of 123 stroKes on best-ball rounds of 62-61. . - - NSt to Host Skiers In PNW Contests Kimberley, B.C. (U.R) Wash ington State College will , host Skiers, and Jumpers of the Pa cific Northwest at an intercol legiate Ski meet here Feb. 12 13, it was announced Saturday. About 70 Skiers took part in the meet here last year. It will be the second time: the inter collegiate contests have been held here. . .. pm. rrvE-rPS: Medford 9th 26 Hamlin 8 . Funston 6 Russell 2 v Brauner 5 Bergman 5 Substitutions f f e 9 e -For now, Albert. . Peery: Peterson 2. Lombard. 24 Athlsnd 9th r 4 P. Simnson ,v Stansbury ""9 J. Tnbiasson 5 Harrwell 4 Bear Medford. - Bolde ; for,- Ashland. 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