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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD (OREGON) Rack Up Tuesday Victories JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS W. I Pet 0 . 1.000 1 .667 1 .667 2 .333 2 .333 3 .000 Rogue River Talent St. Mary' Jacksonville Butte Falls Prospect 3 2 2 1 1 . 0 Rogue River high's Chieftains, to whom county, district and state B championships are an old story, appeared back in title stride today. The Chiefs, who in 1952 won their second 'state B champion ship in three years, moved up Into Class A competition in 1953. ' Then last season they were back in the B race only to lose out in the Jackson county campaign to Talent's Bulldogs. Last night Rogue River, play ing on its home court, downed Talent 64 to 58 to take over un disputed first place in the county B league. . In other tangles within the the circuit last night St. Mary's defeated Jacksonville 51 to 38 and Butte Falls rolled over Pros pect 74 to 42. The Crusaders pulled into a tie with Talent for second place while Butte Falls East Wins Pro Contest . New York U.R3 Bob Cousy had the West players so fright ened they forgot all about Bill Sharman and that's why the East won the fifth annual Na tional Basketball Association All-Star game. " At least that's the explanation offered by Sharman, the Boston Celtics bullet who was voted the "outstanding player" in Tuesday night's 100-91 triumph at Madison Square Garden. Sharman, former Southern California court star and an out fielder in the Brooklyn Dodgers farm system, was only second highest scorer for the East with 15 points but he fired 10 of them in the final period to spark a drive that turned a one-point deficit into a comfortable tri umph. . Cousy High Scorer "The West boys .were concen trating on Cousy, and that's why I was able to shake loose in the fourth period," explained Shar man, and he added simply, "Bob is the greatest." Cousy, Sharman's more famed Celtic teammate, was the out standing player of last year's All-Star game and was " the East's high scorer " last night with 20 points. 'Mindful of his game-winning play, a year ago, the West scrambled - madly to stop him in the final frame while Sharman was killing them with a brilliant assortment of one-hand shots. Sacred Heart, Headquarters Cop Ml BL Conflict A pair of Medf ord Independ ent Basketball League game will be contested tonight ' at the junior high court. The Campus Five will tussle Eagle Point at 7 o'clock and the two National Guard units here. Headquarters ; Company and Company A, are rivals at 8:30 ' o'clock. The clubs which have been at the bottom of the heap jumped up to score, triumphs in the Medf ord Independent Bas ketball League last night. Sacred Heart church whacked YMCA 69 to 49 and Headquarters Com pany of the National Guard laced Burelson's of Central Point 51 to 28. It was the second league win for each of the victors. YMCA held on to fourth place in the standings despite the) loss. 1: Sacred Heart had quarterly advantages of 15 to 9, 37 to 21 and 45 to 30. Stan Read with 24 points and Tom Weiskamp with 21 paced -.the way for Sacred Heart. Don Mintz piled up 17 and Tom Rodgers 16 for the Y. ' -":-,w: ;.c Bruce Bateman with 19 was the big gun for the' Guardsmen and D. Burns got 12 for Burel son's. Headquarters was on top ; at the end of every period 9 to 2, 21 to 14 and 38 to 28. LINE-UPS: -Sacred Heart 69 Murray 8 f Harden . t Weiskamp 21 ; - c 1 49 TMCA 11 Leaf 17 Mint Smith IS Rodgers Read 24 g Driscoll 10 g S Johnson Substitutions For Sacred -Heart. Fendergast 6. for YMCA, Swisber. Headquarters 51 -Bu. Bateman 4 : K. Bateman 7 McCandless 1 Drew 7 28 Burelson's - 2 Wisely ; -- i. 2 Connor 3 Burns 7 Simmons 12 D. Burns Br. Bateman 19 Substitutions For Headquarters. Mills 8. Perkins 5; for Burelson's, Hall 2. Campbell. . s Roy Hewitt Top Scorer In Weekly Pistol Shoot " Roy Hewitt led the Medford Rifle and Pistol club pistol shoot ers ; last night with- 266 out of possible 300. Max Terzenback was second " with " 265, ; Loren Croucher 250, Jim Bolton . 247 and Don Payne 242. It was first trip of Payne into ', five high. New shooter was Arnold Medi cus who recently moved to Med MAIL TRIBUNE Lone B League M99ers rose to a fourth place tie with Jacksonville and Prospect stay ed alone in the cellar. ... Si. Mary's Underdog ' The Chiefs now will be favor ed to upend St. Mary's in a loop engagement in Medf ord on Fri day and continue at the front of - the pack. Talent is expected to roll back into the win column at Prospect .Thursday and Jack sonville may face a bitter strug gle at Butte Falls on Friday. Rogue River led Talent 14 to 12 at the quarter last night, slip ped behind 25 to 28 by half time then went on top to stay midway in the third quarter. The Chiefs had a 47 to 42 vantage at the end of the third period but the edge slipped to three points halfway through the , closing stanza. - Jim McAbee . and , George Zickefoose gave Talent consid erable strength on the back boards .and the Bulldog cause was hurt when McAbee fouled out in the third quarter and Zickefoose went out early in the fourth. Ted Stanfield and Bill Weaver pretty much gave Rogue River control after that Johnson Has 24 There was some wild shoot ing in the tense fourth quarter. Gary Johnson of Rogue River was top scorer in the fracas. J. Lloyd Wood of Talent picked up 20. Mt. Mary's had a 15-point 32 to 17 spread shortly after the second half opened but the third quarter didn't go so well for the Crusaders and their margin was hacked to 10 points, 39 to 29, at the end of that period. Jackson ville on two free shots by Sam Bishop cut the gap to 39 to 31. Then a long howitzer by Dick Paup, two shots from the side by Tim Dugan and a goal by Laval Meunier on a steal bulg ed out the SM lead again. Meun ier added a free shot and an other field goal and St. Mary's advantage was 19 points, 50 to 31 its widest of the night. The lead switched three times and the score was deadlocked once in the first quarter which ended 15 to 9 in Crusader favor. Jacksonville's Redskins cut the edge to 16 to 13 in the second period but by the half St. Mary's had a lead of 39 to 17. In the third quarter Jacksonville out scored the Crusaders 12 to 9. St. Mary's got only one field goal in that stanza. Abbott Gets 27 Dugan with 16 and Meunier with 11 for St.' Mary's were high point men. Sam Bishop was high for the Redskins, matching the nine picked up by the Crusad ers' Tony Miksche. - : Butte Falls was on top at ev ery intermission, in thumping the Cougars.' First quarter ended 16 to 7. Each club got 18 poinfe in the second canto which ended 34 to 25. The Loggers steadily moved ahead in the last half, Third quarter score. was 52 to 35. -. - Three men hit in double fig ures for Butte Falls. Lee Abbott poured in 27 counters and Bill Irwin 23. Pat Conley got 13. Dale Ray Smith of the Loggers and Ron , Couser of Prospect each put in nine. Sid Peterson of Prospect put in 15 In junior varsity prelims St. Mary's tripped Jacksonville 35 to 26, - Prospect nudged Butte Falls 23 to 20 and Talent beat Rogue River 59 to 38. Rogue Blver Johnson 24 - - -58 JackxonviUe .16 Zickefoose 5 M. Wallace 9 McAbee 5 Thoreson Weaver .v Daily 5 Stanfield 17 Stinchcomb 4 20 Wood Substitutions For Some Hiv e r. Moore. Phillips 2. Towse 1: for Tal ent. Hon Weinhold 1. Bartol 2. P. combs. Teeters. Hoffman. - St. Mary's 91 Walsh 6 Bobbett 3 Miksche 9 Meunier 11 3S Jacksonville : T Sanford f f e 9 Bishop 8 Gemaehlich S .8 Mclntyre Dugan 18 ST 4 uaiy Substitutions For St.. Mary's. Paun 8, nassier. iJberta.- oariand. Murphy for Jacksonville. Wilson 2. Guches 2. i. Jttueners, il. Jttueners. pawiowski. Butte Falls 74 Irwin 23 D. R. Smith 9 Conley 13 ' Abbott 27 42 Prospect f .f e 1 g 15 Peterson 8 Walls 2 Oswald 9 Courser D. L. Smith g Ring Substitutions For Butte Falls. Dan iels 2. Henshaw; for Prospect. Ik Bean, a. Bean B. Artmure. Now Contains Whether you feed light or heavy cattle . . TllERE S A POniUA STEER FATEllA FEEDING PLAN . TO FIT YOUR MEEDS Ut y$ work whkyovona hSng phntoMpyouft month f from grain, sihg and roughag MldPMAIECffl SffiHED & IFIEIEID) CD. - loth s s. fir "FARM STORE" 10 t s. fir Wednesday, January 19. 195S Willie Mays 'Greatest Leo Claims By MILTON RICHMAN United Press Sports Writer Leo Durocher declared flatly today that Willie Mays is "the greatest ball player I've ever seen," ana that memoes rem- an from Babe Ruth to Stan Musial. "If I had 'to choose between Willie and Musial," Durocher said at press conference in New York, "I'd take Mays. And no body admires Musial any more than I do. "Willie would be great at any positions you . put him. Third base, first base or . shortstop. Why, a lot of times before games, he gets out there at short and I hit grounders at him until get blisters on my hands. He handles the hottest ones I hit at him as if they were nothing. . " 'Is this where you used to play?' he needles me. 'Why it's just like an old man's home.' " Could Be 'Greatest' r - Durocher said that if Mays hits .325 for : the next four or five years he could be the "greatest ball player we've ever had." "To be a great ballplayer, you need five things," he said. "You need to be able to hit, you need to have power, you need to be able to run," field and throw. Willie can do 'em all. "He's as good a hitter as Mu sial and he has much power. And he can out-field, out-run and out throw Musial. . ; "Maybe Willie doesn't have the greatest I.Q. in the world, but all I know is that he's never made a mistake for me." Apart fronv the subject of Mays, Durocher predicted that Milwaukee might cause ' "the biggesttrouble" in 1955 and that the Cardinals and Redless should be tremendously .: im proved." . - . ; -: -y-. Cards Have Good Prospects- ; . ine uarainais nave some fine young ball players coming up, like Eill Virdon, Ken Boyer ana w uiner jyiizeii, wno is get ting out of the Army. They could make St. Louis ; awfully rough. Brooklyn? They, always give us a helluva battle." On other baseball fronts, pit cher . Tom , Morgan became the 19th Yankee player to sign his contract for 1955. ; He posted a 11-5 record last year and was given a slight raise. Nelson King, 6-foot-6-inch righthander, who compiled a 16 5 record with New Orleans of the . Southern X association, be came the first Pittsburgh player to return his signed contract. Pitcher Bill (Bud) Black, fresh out of -the Army was the 12th Tiger player to sign for 1955. He came to Detroit in a trade with the St Louis Browns two years ago.-. ' :':-;'--;;..v,v" Veteran catcher Walker Coop er, 40, became the 11th Chicago Cub to sign. Cooper appeared in 48 games for the Cubs last season after coming from Pitts burgh on waivers and hit .301. Coast Leagues Plan Spring Loop El Centro, Calif. U.R) Four Jfacific Coast League baseball clubs today planned to turn apiing training into a paying proposition by establishing a four-team league and a regular scnedule of games. . Disclosure of the plan, unique in organized baseball, was made yesterday at a conference at tended by representatives of the four clubs, the Oakland Oaks, ban Francisco Seals, Sacramento Solons and Seattle Rainiers. under the plan,! the ; teams will play nine games in Palm Springs, 10 here, 10 in nearby Calexico and 11 games in Yuma, Ariz. League standings and sta tistics will be kept and the games may be broadcast. -. TJie four clubs, all of which tram m this area, set up an executive - committee with member from each city to handle promotion and other details of the league.. A contest will be held to pick a name for the training league. . . Mil ma. CASTING OFF with left handed hook shot, Dick Welsh of USC .scores as UCLA's Mark Costello (foreground) and Don Bragg (background) move too late to stop him. Welsh makes 25 points but Bruins win thriller 70-67 at Los Angeles. . (International) Medfordjtribune U lift W, Ka i t BEAUTIFUL BUT RUGGED In the qualification trials at Cypress Point the backdrops are beautiful but the course ' is rugged. Here Jay Bedsworth blasts out of sand trap on the 17th hole as BiU Collins, George Bayer and Bill Higgins Geft to right) watch. They are goifing in the Bing Crosby j L Invitational Tournament at Febble ceacn, Lam. Swede Halbrook Suspended From Oregon State Squad Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) After an H hour-and-a-half , conference yesterday afternoon, r Oregon State College basketball coach Slats Gill announced the suspen sion of his high-scoring ' center Wade Swede' Halbrook. - The suspension came in the face of a tough basketball clash expected this week end with the University of Oregon Webfoots in Eugene in a two-game series that will go a long way in de termining the Northern Division winner. "Halbrook has not done those things an Oregon State basket ball player is expected to do," GiV'- brif announcement said. . Gill added he expected Hal- brcuK to snape up and promise to do. better before he would be .whether you have good A FEEDLOT FAVORITE for 25 YEARS LBESTEE0 0 ; reinstated on the team. The 7-foot, 3-inch giant, who Won All-Coast honors as a sopho more, had to sit out the pre-con- f erence slate because oi scholas tic difficulties and only returned to the fold Jan. 6. ' There were hints Halbrook's "poor attitude'? and non-attendance at classes were major rea sons for the suspension. There was no way of knowing if he would be back in the lineup by Friday night to face Oregon. Halbrook scored 35 points against Washington last week end ' and, has 60 tallies in the four conference games he has played this year. Phil Shadoin. worked out in Halbrook's center spot yester day. - or poor roughage VMAOI KIHT I rilCID IIOMT f KOVIO IWHTf j IIUCIO-IUXID U T " " ' ""-V--".. ' GricI CKarge Denial Made At Mai CoUege Park, Md. (U.R) Coach - Jim Tatum's denial - of "foot ball over-emphasis' at Maryland was : supportr . at least in part today by 'ae com missioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference. "No school, no conference member, nor the NCAA has ever asked me about Maryland's ath letic policies," said ACC Com missioner James .Weaver in the wake of charges levelled by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. The report was made to the Maryland General Assembly.':, -NCAA officials declined com ment but the outspoken Ta turn declared the charges were "un founded, uninformed and out dated." He then proceeded to "take "apart" the charges as fol lows: " . ; "Maryland has violated no NCAA or Atlantic Coast Confer ence rules and if the association had ever read the rules.- the charges would never have been made. ' - ' r,r -. "In addition," Tatum continu ed, "between, the time Maryland was investigated by the associa tion and its report issued, our athletic department already had satisfactorily explained its pro-. gram, policies and activities to me Association and our own board of regents. - mucn oi tne criticism was based on misunderstanding and madequate information," Tatum said. "It is unfortunate that this outdated report has created mis leading headlines all' over the country. . s -; J. - Tatum also pointed out that Maryland is the only ACC team which also belongs to the Middle States Association. ; "That's the main reason 'the charges are so unfounded and uninformed," he said. "It would seem that . the association is somewhat unacquainted with conference rules." : Free Throws Aid Cougars Pullman,1 Wash. KlhPJ Wash ington State's . flashy forward Ron Benhink drove : a usually stall minded University of Idaho basketball team to desperation last night by dribbling literally for minutes at a .'. time, then calmly leading the Cougars to a 53-39 victory on free throws. The win boosted Washington State from the cellar to third place in the' Northern division and dropped the Vandals to the cellar. "; At" one point in the second half Bennink dribbled for two and a half minutes; Two Idaho players fouled out trying to get the ball away from him while Bennink scored sevea of the 10 free ""throws Washington State chalked up : in a nine-minute stretch. - Bennink collected 24 points, 10 df them free shots, for the night BASKETBALL- TUESDAY COLLEGE SCORES -, By UNITED PRESS East .Vale 83.' Dartmouth 79 ? Holy Croas 84. American Intl. 73 ' WiUiama 77, Maoachuaetta 57 SonUi - South Carolina SO. Clemaon 87 G. Washington 75. Maryland 53 : Loyola (iLa.) 76, Miss. Southern-58 N. Carolina 84. N. Carolina St 80 William & Mary 88. VMI 68 - : Florida A&M 85, Tuskexee 53 -Southwest Baylor 89. Texas A&M 77 . Riee 73. Texas Christian 63 West -- - - Montana St. 96, Colorado Col.- 55 Washington State 53. Idaho 39 , -San Jose 63. Fresno 60 Southern Oregon 74, Oregon Tech 54 Central Washington 80, Seattle Pa cific 62 FIGHTS Miami Beach. Tla.: Bobby Dykes, 162, Miami, Fla., outpointed Andy Mayfield. 163. Miami, Fla. (10). Salt Lake city, utan: nex uiyne, 209. Salt Lake City, Utah, knocked out Kirby Seals 190, ucm Angeies toi. in rJm cf a tstter deal for toman at thawhcdidtii 315 East 5th rvland n . n n n YELLOW CAB FACES 'STRONG FIRMCO FIVE ON Fans who like their basketball flavored with lots of scoring like ly' will see that kind of a game Thursday: night when a coupje of the top independent aggrega tions of - southern - Oregon - col lide here. - . The skirmish brings together iFirmco, of Myrtle Creek, and Yellow Cab, one oi the unae feated leaders in the ' Medford league. Game time is 8:15 p Jn. at the St. Mary's school gym: M. Carolina Upsets NCU By Running r By JOHN GRIFFIN .United Press Sports Writer Basketball's new wave of up sets rolled on today, smashing efforts by North Carolina State and Texas Christian to take un disputed league leads. :;;' North Carolina State, titan-of the Atlantic Coast : conference and ranked No. 5 among the nation's court powers,' had been expected ; to - snow under - rival University of North Carolina. In stead . State : had its . " knuckles cracked,: 84-80. ..:;.... It was only the second , time that North Carolina, had beaten State, since Coach . Everett Case came .out of Indiana"- nine years ago to guide State's cage teams. The last r time North , Carolina won was almost two years ago Jan. 24, 1953. .: Texas : Christian grabbed the Southwest conference lead by upsetting " Southern Methodist last Saturday, but got some, of its own medicine Tuesday night in a 73-63 loss to Rice. The de feat shoved TCU back into a first-place tie with SMU,- each j with a 3-1 conference rocord. Switch Confuse Stale f A crowd of 10,500 at Rat eigh, . N. C, saw Coach Frank McGuire of North Carolina con fuse mighty State by a sudden switch in tactics. Instead of the "slow, down" strategy McGuire had always used against State, as in a 47-44 loss to, State earlier this season, North Carolina start ed racing with the first; whistle and roared' to a 38-18 lead in the first 16 minutes of play. State spent the. rest of the night slowly . closing the gap and fi nally running out of timei : Lennie Rosenbluth, sophomore from.Brooklyn sank five straight baskets ' to pace the early . Tart heel : assault: and was .the Vic tors' high 'scorer with 22 points. However, Ronnie - Bhavlik of State look game honors with 32 ooints. -The - victory left North Carolina with a .7-1 league rec ord and : dropped State into fourth ' place " behind Maryland and Duke. ' ' Rice beat Texas Christian by stopping the Horned : Frog's brilliant sopohomore center Dick O'Neal, the Southwest Confer ence's leading scorer who fouled out after scoring only 13 points, Yale Upstls Dartmouth ; Meanwhile, Rice center Terry Tellieman : was Dlavine one ef the best games of bis career and winning scoring honors with 26 points. Joe Durrenburger added 18 points for TCU and did fine rebound work. ' - v - ' Another major upset last night saw. Yale defeat Dartmouth, 83 79, in overtime. It was the third Ivy league loss in five starts for Dartmouth and put a damp er on the title "hopes that . had been aroused by the Indians' vic tory in the New England college tournament last month. It Nwas only the second win in 14 games for Yale. ; yJyrr.y; George Washirgton, defend ing Southern conference champ ion ranked No. 18 nationally, scored what could be called a mild upset by beating Maryland, ranked No. 11, nationally, 75-53 in a local rivalry. . , I - .... r .9 i Standard Dod8 ViAsa pick-cp truck with ssssonal new 145-hp Ptnvsr-Ds V-8 tffslm conquers world's most rugged driving conditions in unprecedented tirct far trccks ...progf that yea grt Kin ysm and dbilitylSeeusnowforademssaiSai! A MODUCI pp rtf CMtrsiet COIP. o Telephone 3-3537 THURSDAY Last week Yellow Cab lost an 85 to 81 decision to Flrmco at Myrtle Creek. After that the Douglas county club was tagged "the basketball power of south ern Oregon." -Firmco added to the claim with two more wins List week to. bring its record to 10 straight victories. Its success so .far this week hasn't been learned nere. The Cabbies feel despite the previous loss that they have the wherewithal to dispute the Myr tle Creek claim. And this time -they will have the advantage of their "home" floor. X , Svidence Given Evidence of a high scoring en counter . and i possibly another close game arises . xrbm last week' score. Four men on each team scored in double figures. Ed Hummel of Yellow Cab was high with 28. . Bill Werner got 19, Chuck Stacy 16 and Johnny Fos ter 10 for the Medford team. For Firmco, Bob Stout, ex-Oregon, put in 22, Wally Richardson, ex- -Pacific got 18, Bob Stuempges, ex-Santa Clara, counted up 16 and Ron Gillispie was second high to Hummel with 24. The Cabbies had the lead on Firmco in the final quarter last week put could not hold it Firm co tied up the game at 77-all then pushed away. Yellow Cab's full court press didn't pay off and four ' technicals were called on the'Medford team. . - There will be no regular city, league games tonight, enabling all fans interested to take in the non-loop attraction. Ray Robinson Fiqhts Chicago (U.R) Sugar Ray Robison' meets : the ' second hurdle on his "comeback' cam paign to regain the middleweight championship tonight, : and the former titleholder was a solid 7 to 2 favorite to i whip tril horse Ralph (Tiger) Jones, v "He's a rough, tough boy," Robinson said, "and he punches all the time." - But to - Robinson : the bout, slated on the television network from the Chicago stadium, will be another means to determine when he'll be ready to make an attempt to whip the 160 pound champion, Carl (Bobo) Olson. -Only Way - -. . -r-; :1 v "That's the only way I'm go ing to be able to tell when I'll be - ready -fori Olson," he . said. "How I do in niy, fights. I can't say that it'll take so many fights to be ready and that I want him after another one or two fights. "I don't want him until I'm ready and the 'only way Til know' is how: I feel fighting. In conditioning," I'm ready right now." . Robinson made his first ring appearance in 31 : months two weeks ago in Detroit when he scored a sixth round knockout over Joe Rindone, the second time his fight with that battler came out in the same fashion. ' Red Raiders Trounce OTI Ashland U.R) -Southern Ore gon disposed of Oregon Tech 74 54 here last night in an Oregon. Collegiate Conference basket ball game. '" : . V A: pair of Bobs, Johnson and Smith, led the SOCE scoring with 26 and 19 points respective ly, while Johnny James hit 22 for OTI. Gropplers at Klamath For Encounters Today Medf ord high's wrestling team was in Klamath Falls this after noon for its fourth match of th season. The Black Tornado con tingent included 35 boys, 32 of them wrestlers.; Medford has won twice from Illinois Valley and once from Grants Pass. . CIO , n ford from Torrance, Calif.