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EIGHT -MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, February 4, 1955 .6raadiv borate ConUrid ai Coos ". Medford high's basketball ag gregation, the power c the Southern Oregon Conference and No. 1 ranked in - Oregon, goes back into action tonight after a two-weeks pause which has refreshed them for the final laps of their campaign. The Tornado headed for Coos Bay today aimed at resuming the terrific pace that has carried it to 12 straight triumphs. Med ford plays Marshfield high both tonight and, tomorrow evening, r Its finer record of 13 wins and one setback compared to Marshfield's 12-6 mark estab lishes the Tornado as the fa vorite for the non-league series. Medford holds victories over North: Bend and Eugene, botlv of whom" have licked the Pirates. And the Tornado handed Grants Pass more severe defeats than i did Marshfield. ' Rugged Gang , But' the Pirates, a rugged lot, although Me df o r d will have some height edge, definitely will be going for an upset." If the teams just play basketball, Med ford should sail along. If, how ever, the Pirates adopt "foot ball" tactics, like they did in a 5s-:Bay Beavers Eye Chance for NCCA Berth ; By HOWARD APPLEGATE Corvallis, Ore. (U.R) Oregon , State College .will. play . host for ' . the fourth straight year to the Western Regional NCAA , Bas ketball Playoffs in March--and this year Coach Slats Gill hopes ithe OSC Beavers finally will be 'among the four teams to com : pete. ' Despite tbV fact that Oregon State won only three pre-season games and that the balance of 'power in Pacific Coast basket ; ball seems to lie in the Southern ; Division this season, Gill's team .lis given a good chance of mak- t mg it. , , ".Big Reasons There are two big reasons: " ! 1. The return of Swede Hal- I. . 1 ... . . DrooK, me rvii-vudsi. seveii-auui- f three. center who is the tallest player in the country. - '. 2. The form chart, which says ithat a host team nearly always wins the PCC playoff and thus a regional NCAA berth. TT.it 1-- j.... - xiaioruvn s icuuiii gives v.uj i practically the same squad with ; which he finished second to Southern California last season I With him back, the Beavers noain sra tavnrM i,thf North- ern Division. - ; - This season for "apparently the last time a PCC playoff , .will be held and it will be on . 'the court of the Northern Divis ion 'winner. Next year the con ference Is scheduled to link the . two divisions together with each . team playing the other twice. , Only once since . 1937 has a host team failed to win the PCC playoffs. That was in 1948 when Washington took two out of three from California at Berke ley. 1 . . : r '-, m . oi. i jn iorm, aiso, vregon aiaie would stand a good chance of winding up in the NCAA semi finals in Kansas City. The PCC champ--Washington in 1953 and USC last season took the West ern Regionals here. Santa Clara, which has been here all three seasons, won it in 1952. San Francisco U., Santa Clara and Loyola appear - likely . to fight it out for one of the four , regional NCAA berths here. Se attle, Idaho State and Gonzaga are among the strongest inde- pends in the North. The Skyline Conference winner: will be the othr team, with Utah favored.' BETTIS SIGNS Green Bay, Wis. U.R) Tom Bettis, Purdue university guard and linebacker who was the Green Bay Packers 'No". 1 draft choice in the recent (National Football league draft, has signed a contract for the 1955 season with the Packers.". Dead line Sunday Classified tai at noon Saturday : 10 jn. Monday . for Monday: otberdays 5:30 nreviouaday series here last year, there may De a rougn night for the Tornado. Medford with 6-4'Glenn Peterson and Jerry Kalapus and b-4 JBiil Cochran has the taller boys. Marshfield has Gene Tan- kersley at 6-3 and Roger John son and Sandy Fraser both at better than 6-1. Peterson. Kal apus, Bud Kastner, Frank Rector and Larry Copple may start for Medford and Tankersley, Fraser, Johnson, Ted Fischer and Denny Baker for Marshfield. A' 13-man Medford squad is making the coast trip. Bill Coch ran,-on the doubtful list yester day because of flu, reportedly is okeh and is with the squad. , soc Tussle for Lead in OCC By UNITED PRESS ' Oregon State, College' of Idaho and Portland State seek to hold their league lead in three north west basketball conferences this week end with Portland State facing the roughest assignment. -Coach Slats Gill's Beavers are at Moscow, Ida., for a pair of games with the Vandals. OSC will be trying to keep its North ern Division mark unblemished and is favored to do so. Other Northern Division action ' sends Washington to Eugene for a pair with Oregon that the Ducks need to win to stay in the running for the title. - CI Meets Whiieman ' College of I d a h o, unbeaten in tne JNortnwest i;onierencei meets Whitman tonight at Walla Walla. Pacific, in second place, meets Willamette at Salem Sat urday night, while Linfield and Lewis and Clark meet in a week end series, Friday night at Mc- Minnville and Saturday night at Portland. 1 Portland State, leading the OCC race with a 5-1 mark, plays second place Southern, Oregon (8-2) in a week end series at Portland. Other OCC teams .play non conference bpponenis. Oregon Tech meets St. Martin's in a week end pair at Klamath Falls; OCE plays Seattle-Pacific at Monmouth Saturday and East ern Oregon - hosts Northwest Nazarene Saturday." UCLA and Stanford, tied for the lead in the Southern Divis ion of the PCC, with 3-1 records, play host to California ,and Southern California, respec Junior High Clubs Oppose Grants Pass Local seventh and ninth gra ders will be out to repeat their previous successes and : the eighth grade will seek to even the score this evening in jun ior high basketball games here. Medford teams oppose . the Grants Pass Cavekids. Two games are set for 7 p.m. Eighth graders will vie in the boys' gymnasium and seventh graders in the girls' gym. Action at 8 p.m. will match the ninth grade aggregations in the boys' gym. . . : - - Clubs from the two schools met last Friday. Medford. won the seventh and ninth grade has sles and Grants Pass dunked the local eighth; c ' The Bulldog ninth graders have it on the Grants Pass five in size but the Cavekids possess speed and could make the 'eve ning interesting for Medford with v that asset. Grants Pass will have the advantage in size in the eighth grade mix." , Medford Ninth graders are un beaten so far this season. Sev enth graders have an eight-game win streak behind . them after losing their first scrape of the season. - Followers of basketball in the public schools can focus on the junior high encounters here to night since the senior high var sity is out of town and the jay vees are idle. LITTLER LEADS AT PHOENIX; G.' HARRINGTON STROKES 74 Lloyd Hoffine, Southern Ore gon college, with 233 points, is the Oregon Collegiate Confer ence leading scorer. OCC SCORING: Name : ' FG Hoffine. SOCK :...81 Prys EOCE ....... JL...60 Schadewitz. EOCS 65 Johnson. SOCE 67 Smith, SCCS ... ; 56 FT Total 71 233 Fahlgren. OTI Viskov, PSC James. OTI ... Reinking, EOCE Eckert, OTI Dorn, OTI Westenskow, EOCE Bates. SOCE Perkin. PSC Burton, EACE Jons. OCE ....... Chamberlain. OCE Hannon, PSC Parker, PSC .... Nenow, PSC. (Conference games , 58 58 41 44 43 41 38 25 ...33 .. .26 u 32 .. ,.23 1 ..28 24 10 only) 80 57 34 49 29 22 ,51 39 38 22 22 41 24 31 10 20 10 14 25 200 187 168 161 145 134 133 127 124 104 98 91 90 83 74 v 66 66 63 63 Criticism Reason For Resignation Evanston, m (U.R) Bob Voigts was through as North western University football coach today, because of "one of things.." '" "' ? "It was just an increasing amount or criticism over v my- coaching," he said, "and it ' was probably hurting the school so I just quit. You can take it. for a while, but things keep hap pening and eventually- you, just step out." '. " - Voigts handed in his resigna tion in" a surprise move Thurs day after eight years in the job and with one year remaining on his contract. His team last year won two . and lost seven games while during his tenure his clubs won 33 and lost 39. r Kid Gavilan, Durando Mix New York -(U.R) Kid Gavi lan, the Cuban song-and-samba mauler says his comeback fight with Ernie Durando tonight will be far different from the recent return performance by that oth er ditty-and-dance tguy, Sugar Ray Robinson. . , . . "I no look, like Robinson to night,? declared the ex-welter weight champion. "I be 20 times faster than I was in October.", Lost lo Sexton In the Keed's last fight on Oct- 20, he lost the 147-pound title to Johnny Saxton at Phila delphia. Although the decision was very questionable, Gavilan was far off form that night. ' For tonights nationally tele vised and broadcast 10-rounder," middleweight-' Durando of Bay onne. N. J.is a 4-1 underdog. The odds-makers believe Gavi lan can salvage enough of his old-time speed and savvy, to lick the Bayonne Belter, who is the hardest puncher . in "the 160 pound division but probably its least-polished boxer. ; , Kentucky Romps Without Puckett By JOHN GRIFFIN . , United Press Sports Writer - Kentucky's nation-leading bas ketball team served sharp no tice today, that it has no inten tion of collapsing despite its troubles with upsets and a re signing player. : . Rebounding from its surprise defeat by Georgia Tech and hardly missing star player Lin ville Puckett at - all, the Wild cats handled dangerous' Florida with impressive ease," 87-63, at Lexington, Ky., Thursday night to stay ia the thick of the fight for the Southeastern Conference championship. And the absence of 'Puckett,' who quit the team ' Wednesday after Coach Adolph Rupp is sued a blast about breaking training, obviously made little difference. " t ' . Utes Win 16th i The victory gave Kentucky a 13-2 overall record and a 5-2 conference record. Alabama leads the loop with a 4-1 mark. ' .Utah, ranked third in'the na tion behind Kentucky , and San Francisco, easily extended its season record to 16 wins against only two defeats : by, trouncing Los Angeles State for the second straight night. -' George Washington, defending champion of the Southern Con ference; put the brakes onFur: man, : the . nation's highest scor ing team,. 76-71, to rush its third place league record to 4-1. Phoenix. Arix. (U.R) George Harrington of Med ford, Oregon trailed Gene Lit tler, the leader, by eight strokes today in the Phoenix Open golf tourney. Harring ton carded a 36-38 74 yester day in first-round action. Bob Duden of Portland had a 76. Phoenix, Ariz. (U.R) Gene Littler,- proving himself a "real pro" at the age of 24, , had a one-stroke lead today going into the second round of the $15,000 Phoenix Open golf tournament at the Arizona Country Club. Littler showed an early mas tery of the sometimes perplex ing Arizona Country Club course as he fired a 33-33 66, Beavers To Keep Fleming as Tutor Portland (U.R) Joe Ziegler, general manager of the Portland Beavers, said yesterday that Bill Fleming would be retained as aj coach with the Pacific Coast League club for next season. Ziegler also said Jim Livesay, former . University of Oregon catcher,, would go to spring training camp with the Beavers, Livesay tried out last year but returned home when he became ill. four strokes under par. Just one stroke behind him were three players Walter Burkemo,. Franklin, Mich.; John ny Palmer, Charlotte, N. C, and Jack Fleck, Davenport, Ia all with 67. -. -. . . . .Defending champ -Ed Furgol, Clayton, Mo., still was in the running with a 70. .".'' Jimmy Clark, Laguna Beach Calif., among the last to finish as darkness set in, was two strokes behind Littler with a 34 3468. ' : Grade Tourney Plans Announced Central Point Bracket posi tions already have been drawn for the Jackson county grade school basketball tournament for teams in high school dis tricts. The tourney will be held at the junior high gymnasium here March 1 through 5. . Ten teams are entered and first-round pairings are Talent against St. Mary's, Prospect againsf Rogue River, Butte Falls against Gold Hill, Eagle Point against Sams Valley and Phoe nix against Central Point. , There will be. troptiies for the top five places in the meet. A sportsmanship trophy also will be awarded, based on con duct of players and spectators. Loscutoff , Keeps Lead Los Angeles (U.R) Jim Los cutoff of. the University of Ore gon continues to lead the Pa cific CqastT Conference's North ern Division in scoring and Je bounds,"" according to PCC bas ketball statistics. , t During ' eight league games through Jan. 29, Loscutoff av eraged 18.8 points and 16.3 re bounds. In scoring; he was trail ed by Washington's Dean Par-! sons, with 16.8 in eight games. Two Oregon State College players topped in free , throw percentages. Reggie. "Halligan had .875 and Tony Vlastelica .883. ;?'"V;-rH:;v : O S Dominates , .. Oregin State, undefeated in eight division games, dominated most of the team statistics, Hal ligan and teammate .Wade Hal brook sported field goal percent ages of .474 and-. .452 respect ively to lead that department., - OSC also led the division in floor shooting with a .384 aver age, in free throws with .692 and in total defense, holding oppon ents to an average of 51.5 points per game. v - -. Oregon led in total scoring with a 62.4 game average and in rebounds, collaring 378 to their opponents .' 252 in eight games. : Washington Quintet Remains1 Unblemished Tangles were nip and tuck yesterday among varsities in the city grade school basketball loop but Washington managed to stay unmarred by nicking Jackson, 23 to 21 and Roosevelt tripped Lincoln, 22 to 18. . Washington and Jackson were tied at the half 11-all. 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