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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) m FiramicDSCO Podbs e. Kentucky's Hold Ended 3 By NORMAN MILLLER New York U.R) San Fran cisco, the surprise team of the college basketball season, cli maxed a steady rise in the Uni ted Press national rankings to day by taking over the top spot with an overwhelming margin over Kentucky. . Coach Phil Woolpert's Dons, whose 1954-55 prospects were so lowly regarded that they did New York (U.R) Oregon Slate's Baavers retained 15ih position in this week's United Press college basketball rat ings Three of the candidates for for a western regional NCAA playoff berth at Corvallis next month are in the first 10. They are San Francisco, first this week; Utah which is fourth and UCLA, in seventh position. not even receive a single vote in the coaches' pre-season sizeup of the national race, were the No. 1 choice this week of 27 members of the 35-man United Press Rating Board., J San Francisco thus ended six straight weeks of Kentucky ' domination by extending its un beaten string to 14 and its over all record0 to 16-1 with two triumphs last week while Coach Adolph Rump's men faltered. The wildcats were beaten by Georgia Tech for the second time, giving them a 14-2 record at week's . ml TTT i. a ItMIC a end. lne west uuaav uuLia joyed a wide 327 to 228-point margin over Kentucky. They've Been Climbing The Dons, unranked for the first two weeks of this season and placed only 23rd the third week, maae ineir urst uis im pression on the coaches by win ning the All-College Tournament at Oklahoma City during Christ mas vacation week. That triumph earned Woolpert's team cthe No. 6 ranking and it has made steady progress ever since. One of the most important fac tors in the Dons' rise from re lative obscurity this season has been a remarkable defense that has yielded an average of only 49.4 points a ; game-r-the best record in the nation. San Fran cisco's only defeat this season was by UCLA, by a 47-40 score rat Los Angeles, Dec 11. One week later, in San Francisco, the Dons reversed the outcome, 56 c44. Their next opponents are College of Pacific and San Jose State, on Wednesday and Fri day of this week. Illini Bounce Back Illinois 11-3 represented the only change in the identity of this week's top 10 teams, replac ing Marquette in 10th place. Be sides this and the order of the two teams at the top, the only other alteration in the top 10 was La Salle's advance from "fourth to third, with Utah re versing the process. La Salle had 'a 16-4 record and Utah 17-3. Duquesne 12-3, North Carolina- State 18-4, UCLA 15-3, George Washington 15-3 and Minnesota 10-5 all retained the previous week's ratings, from fifth to ninth in that order. The coaches based their rat ings on 'games played through Saturday night, i eD. 5. Marquette, dropping back one vlace. headed the second 10 group with 56 points. Next in order came Iowa. Missouri. Day ton, Oregon State, Villanova and Cincinnati. Niagara and Maryland were tied for 18th and Stanford 20th. FIGHTS By UNITED PRESS Brooklyn: Eastern Park way Chi co Veiar. 152. Stamford, Conn., out pointed Joey Klein. 149. New York, (10). New York:- St. Nicks Holly Mims. 157 'i, Washington. D.C.. outpointed Milo Savage. 160Vj. Salt Lake City, Utan. (10). Rochester. N.Y.: Jimmy "Martinez, 149 'i. Glendale. Ariz., outpointed Joe Kuceli. 154, New York. (10). o Providence. R.I.: Lou Campanelli, 165, Providence, outpointed Jose Con treras. 163, Taunton, Mass.. (8). (Vodka in orange juice) It leaves you breathless mimoff itume VODKA 80proof.Midefrom100jrinoeutrl spirit. mz. ricrrramirnoarii inc., Hertford, Conn. As. MAIL TRIBUNE XTLEilirirniTT Wildcats Gain Loop Lead With 61-56 Win By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Kentucky, though forced to the limit by a winless foe, gained solace today for its loss of the No. 1 national basketball rank ing by seizing first place in the Southeastern Conference. In other major conference changes as a result of Monday night's court action, Minnesota took over undisputed lead of the Big Ten by a half-game and Mis souri backed into a tie for first place in the Big Seven, thanks to a surprise defeat handed Colo rado. But Kentucky's 61-56 triumph over Mississippi State at Stark ville, Miss., topped these other changes for tension and drama. The Wildcats went into the fray anxious to show they really are the nation's best team, a rat ing they lost to San Francisco as a result of last week's sur prise loss to Georgia Tech. But instead of the easy win that was expected, Kentucky was forced to go all the way with only five players and fight off two late rallies by a state team that hasn't beaten a league club this season. Kentucky trailed, 56-55, with 1:49 to play when Bill Evans' basket put them ahead to stay. Two free throws and a basket by Phil Grawemeyer clinched the victory as State tried desperately for another rally. Sophomore Game Commission For Improving Camp White Area Planting, fencing, pond-making and pheasant liberation plans for the Rogue Valley Game Management area at Camp White during 1955 were outlined today by C. R. Shepard, district game biologist who at the same time warned against rubbish dumping in the area. Two more ponds are planned this year in the area which was formerly part of the military Jade Wins Open Stake Jade, a black labrador female retriever, does all right despite the fact that she is minus a leg. The three-legged dog, owned and handled by Tom Rickard, won the only place given Sunday in the open stake of a picnic trial conducted by Rogue Valley Re triever club north of the Mili tary bridge on Rogue River. She was the only retriever, among six which started, to complete the stake. Belle, owned and handled by Earl Wescott, took the qualify ing stake and Tar Baby, owned by Hugh McAdams, Grants Pass, and handled by Carl Newell, Medford won the derby. 26 Dogs Entered There were 12 entries in the qualifying test and 10 in the derby and 26 dogs in all were entered in the day's competition, including some brought by non- club members. All dogs which picked up awards, with one ex ception were black labradors. A sizable crowd was on hand for the event. Some Rogue Valley members plan to enter dogs in picnic trial at the game commission grounds south of Klamath Falls next Sun day. KESULTS: Qualifying stake First. Belle, own. ed and handled by Earl Wescott: sec ond, Pete, owned and handled by Sid Manaco; third. Happy, owned and handled by Hugh McGinty; fourth. Jade, owned and handled bv Tom Rickard; certificate of merit. Tar Baby, owned by Hugh McAdams and handled by Cart Newell: CM. Rosie, owned and handled by Mrs. Hugh Mo Ginty; CB, Betta, owned and handled by Charles Miller, and CM. Buck, golden retriever, owned and handled oy faui SKmner. Derby stake First. Tar Babv: ,ee. ond. Coaly, owned and handled by Ira Parish; third. Smoke, owned and handled by Hilman Miller: fourth. ip, ownea ana Handled by Gene Hunt, and CM. Rogue, owned by Dr. namoie, ana Handled by Wescott. Gonzaga Downs Cougars, 71-61 Spokane (U.R) "Coach Hank Anderson used the pla toon system to good advantage last night as his .Gonzaga Uni versity basketball team defeat ed Washington State, coached by Jack 'Friel who invented -the platoon system, 71-61 in a non conference game. The Zags, led by forward Jer ry Vermillion with 18 points, were ahead all the way and were never in real trouble. They led 32-27 at halftime. Forward - Ron Bennink was high point man for Washington State with 14. New York (U.R5 Davis cup stars Tony Trabert and Vic Seixas today were named co winners of the Tennis Writers of America Award as 'the per sons who rendered ' distinguish ed service to tennis in the Un ited States in 1954. ' Tuesday, February 8, 1955 Gaom Top Team Spot UJieji tt Jim Ashmore of Mississippi State took scoring honors with 19 points, while Jerry Byrd led Kentucky with 15. The triumph gave Kentucky a 7-2 league record to go ahead of Alabama, which dropped all the way to third place at 5-2 by los ing to Vanderbilt, 78-57. Vander bilt took over second with a 6-2 record. Minnesota went a half-game ahead of idle Iowa in the Big Ten by crushing Ohio State, 82 56, and Illinois tied Iowa for second place by beating Michi gan, 81-80, on Hiles Stout's last minute basket. Feature of the Minnesota tri umph was the duel between the Gophers' Chuck Mencel and Ohio State's Robin Freeman, the Big Ten's leading scorer. Mencel out scored Freeman, 18-17, and, meanwhile, flashy Dick Gar maker of Minneapolis eclipsed both with 27. Colorado, unbeaten in five previous Big Seven games, was upset by Nebraska, 84-77, at Lin coln, Neb. Tulsa retained first place in the Missouri Valley conference by beating Detroit, 77-72, in a game that featured a magnificent scoring duel between Tulsa's Bob Patterson and Detroit's Guy Sparrow. Patterson had 37 points, most ever scored against Detroit, and Sparrow had 35. Outlines Plans reservation, Shepard reported. He stated that 50 acres along Little Butte creek have been leased to the adjoining land owner for cooperative farming. Part of the grain planted on the acreage will be left standing for game bird use. Two other grain plots will be put in, one on the Agate slough and one on the military slough. Test plots will be planted on the desert area to determine what grasses are best adapted. Cooperation Fair Some permanent fencing will be done, Shepard said, to allow future grazing leases. Spring and fall pheasant liberations are planned this year from game farm stock. . Public cooperation in keeping the area clean has been fair, according to Shepard, but rub bish dumping is still a prob lem. He pointed out that the Medford city disposal area is more conveniently reached for dumping of refuse. And it's cheaper." The area is heavily posted with signs stating that rubbish is not to be disposed of in the game management area. Seven persons have been fined in dis tract court for violation of the regulation. Average fine and court costs in the cases was $25. Shepard said there will be not let up in enforcement of the reg ulation. Snowmen Meet To Swap, Sell Rogue . Snowmen will swap and sell skiing equipment Wednesday at an 8 p.m. meeting at tne ymca. It is hoped to have a ski film to show at the meeting. All per sons interested in joining the group are invited. The Snowmen the past two Sundays have conducted novice skiing classes on their hill at Crater lake. They make no cnarge to club members and some of the better skiers of the club are volunteer instructors. Members, who have initiated the new tow on the slope at the lake, indicate that it is operating well. it nas three times the power of the old tow and handles more skiers faster. LONG TO GET BACK TO THOSE OLD SNAKE TRAILS? Have you felt inferior . hate to look the fel lows in the eye? Now you can lift your head again, be back on the snake-path with your friends. Barker's Wednesday-at-nine Tele vision program builds confidence, gives an appetite, puts snap in you. It's GOOD for snakes. G. Johnson Top Scorer In B League Garv Johnson, Rogue River, scoring at a rate of 20.3 points ner eame. and Jim McAbee, Talent, hitting at a 17 per game clip, pace the individual statis tics in the Jackson County B High School Basketball compe tition while unmarred Kogue River is offensive leader and second place Talent is best m team defense. All six member schools are represented among the top eleven individual scorers. Johnson has a total of 142 counters and McAbee has 119 for the seven league games. They are the only cagers to ex ceed the 100 mark but J. .Lloyd Wood. Talent, running in third place, is close on that total with 98. Ron Couser, of cellante Prospect is fourth ranking scor er with 93. Bill Irwin is the Butte Falls noint leader in conference ri valry and is fifth in the loop with 87. Ted Stanfield is the second Rogue River player anions the leaders with his 83 for sixth place. Jacksonville is paced by Bob Gemaehlich, who didn't Dlay last week. He has 80 for seventh spot. Sid Peterson, Prospect, has 77 for eighth and Lee Abbott, Butte Falls, Laval Meunier, St. Mary's, and Clete Daily; Rogue River, are tied for ninth with 76. As a team Rogue River has run up 461 points and a 65.8 per game average. Talent has second high total and average, 428 and 61.1. . Onnosine teams have scored nnlv 270 ooints against Talent, an average of 38.6 in seven con tests. St. Mary's ranks next in defense, allowing rivals 324. or 46.3 per game. INDIVIDUAL SCORING: 1 Gary Johnson, Rogue River 142 2. Jim McAbee, Talent 119 3. J. Lloyd Wood. Talent 98 4. Ron Couser, Prospect 9a 5. Bill Irwin, Butte Falls 87 6. Ted Stanfield. Rogue River .. 83 7. Bob Gemaehlich, Jacksonville 80 8. Sid Peterson. Prospect 77 9. Lee Abbott, Butte Falls 76 9. Laval Meunier, St. Mary's 76 9. Clete Dailv. Rogue River 76 12. D. R. Smith, Butte Falls 74 13. George Zickefoose. Talent .... 68 14. Tim Dugan, St. Mary's 67 15. Dick saniora 16. John Walsh, St. Mary's ... 53 IB .Tnol Walls Prosnpct 53 18. Pat Conley, Butte Falls 52 19. Tonv Miksche. St. Mary's .... 50 20. Don Ellis. Butte Falls 49 21. Gordy Thoreson. Talent to 22. Gary Stinchcomb, Rogue River 41 ot Haruov Hoiinprs Jacksonville 37 24.' Bill Weaver, Rogue River 35 25. Hon JYLOintyre, jacKsravme TEAM SCORING: ' PF APG PA APG Rogue River 461 6S.8....354 50.6 Talent .'. 428 61.1....270 38.6 St. Mary's 350 50.0....324 46.3 Butte Falls 345 49.3.-427 61.0 Jacksonville 326 46.4....380 55.6 Prospect 312 44.6....449 64.1 Quaker State Solons Study Boxing Probe Harrisburg, Pa. (U.R) The state Senate Law and Order committee studied today a reso lution demanding the investiga tion of an alleged "strangler's hold" on professional boxing by racketeers in Pennsylvania. The resolution, - principally sponsored by Sen. Benjamin R. Donolow of Philadelphia, charg ed that "there is evidence that racketeers and crooked gamb lers possess a strangler's hold on the profession." It added that "evidence of fraud and fixed fights, and many of the decisions of fights recent ly held, show the incompetence of some referees and judges." Four other Democratic sena tors co-sponsored the resolution with Donolow Monday. It had the backing of Gov. George M. Leader, who announced his sup port of a boxing "clean up" last week. SKI ENTRIES POUR IN - Eugene (U.R) Entries are be ginning to pour in for the two day national cross-country ski championships to be held at the Willamette Pass ski area next weekend. Meet officials said the entry , list to date is topped by Sven Johansson, Anchorage, Alaska, winner of the North American Ski championship at Minneapolis last weekend. High Conferences Slate Action Two non-loop frays tonight start off a week of high school' basketball in this area which will wind-up with action in all three conferences. Tonight's encounters put Ash land against Crater at Central Point and takes Rogue River to Glendale. League contention will see the Southern Oregon Conference Big Four launch their second half. Phoenix and Crater, tack ling different foes, will try to break their Rogue League dead lock while Talent has its last good chance for successful title defense in the Jackson County B league. Mighty Medford with six wins and nary a loss in the first, half is favored to sweep on to the Big Four title. The Black Torna do has a three game lead over second place Klamath Falls and interest will be aroused by the strategies other conference teams will impose in efforts to calm the Big Wind. At GP Friday Medford will play Grants -Pass there on Friday and here on Saturday in the second series this season between the two schools. Ashland scrapes at Kla math Falls on Friday . and Sat urday nights. In the Rogue circuit, Crater encounters tail-ender Illinois Valley at Central Point on Fri day and at Cave Junction on Saturday. Phoenix is host to Eagle Point on Friday and goes to EP. on Saturday. Crater will be heavy favorite to dunk the Cougars while Phoenix battles with the Eagles are rated toss ups. Taient, 1954 champ, is trail ing unblemished Rogue River by a game in the B circuit. The Bulldogs' meet Rogue River on Friday and must win if they are to retain ambitions of an other state tourney jaunt. The Chiefs handed Talent its lone loss so far in the loop and the Bulldogs can tie up the race Friday. Both! are favored -over other remaining rivals Butte Falls at Prospect and St. Mary's at Jacksonville com plete the Friday B program. GIANTS TO FLY New York (U.R) The world champion New York Giants will travel by air almost exclusively during the 1955 season, it was announced today, The team will make 24 differ ent chartered plane trips, but will travel by train for short hauls betwen Chicago and Mil waukee and between Philadelph ia and New York. w f II t it yw-cni f$- AT OUR DIG February 'CLEflBflHCE m 1949 MERCURY 1953 CHRYSLER a n e-j New Yorker Deluxe 595 ;i . 2395 $75Qp.wn 1946 DODGE 1951 CHRYSLER V-8 4-Door Sedan 4-Door Sedan Radio and Heater 295.". $450 d. 1947 BUICK WE HAVE SEVERAL Sedanette 41 '$ - 42'$ & 46's RadEXancdondeater EXTRA GOOD TRANS- ix.cona. PORTATION CARS. COME $OTFC Fu" IN AND MAKE US A DEAL W Price - ON ONE! 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Central Catholic ..... 16 10. Beaverton and Jefferson tie 10 Others: Lakeview 6, Cleve land 4, Redmond 1. Cottonpickers Nudge Salmons In Saturday Loop IJEAGUE STANDINGS W. . 5 . 4 Lr. O" 1 1 1 1 3 3 4 5 Pet. Tweakers Flubbin' Five 1.000 .800 .800 .800 .800 .250 Cottonpickers 4 Senior Wieners 4 Gold Ray Salmon Backs 4 Mountains Boys 1 Beany aoys l Screwballs '. 1 .250 .200 .000 Thunderbirds 0 Nico-Quint 0 5 .000 The Tweakers were left the only undefeated team in the Saturday recreation basketball league at Medford senior high when the Gold Ray Salmon Backs tumbled last week end Cottonpickers edged the Sal mon Backs 27 to 25 while the Tweakers plastered the Screw balls 53 to 23. In another contest the Flub bin' Five beat Nico-Quint 30 to 16. Senior Wieners won by for feit from the Thunderbirds The Tweakers will keep their position this week since they and the Salmon Backs both draw byes. Games this Saturday are Sen ior Wieners versus Flubbin' Five at 10 a.m., Thunderbirds versus Mountain Boys at 11 a.m Screwballs versus Nico-Quint at 1 p.m. and Beany Boys versus Cottonpickers at 2 p.m, A "dependent re-survey" is a cadastral survey which identifies re-establishes and re-marks the land boundaries that were set up by a prior cadastral survey. Used Car PHONE 2-8516 Chrysler-Plymouth Dealer Mims Unpopular Winner; Falls for Shoelace Trick By JACK CUDDY New York (U.R) Middle weight contender Holly Mims, an unpopular winner and a near victim of the ancient "shoelace trick," will meet slugger Milo Savage in a return fight at St. Nicholas arena, March 14. Mims of Washington, D. C, third-ranking contender was giv en a majority decision over un ranked Savage of Salt Lake Brave Seeks Wage Boost By UNITED PRESS Slugging Eddie Mathews gave the Milwaukee Braves . fair warning today that he intends to hit 'em up for "a substantial increase." Mathews, who received an es timated $25,000 last season, will have a number of talking points including 40 homers and 103 runs batted m when he con fers with General Manager John Quinn about his 1955 contract later in the week. "The club made a lot of mon ey last year," Mathews said, and I think the players should share in it." Elsewhere around the majors, players were .signing their con tracts in brisk fashion. The Chicago White Sox ad ded third baseman Stan Jok and outfielder Ed White, both up from Memphis of the Southern association, leaving outfielder Minnie Minoso tneir only un signed player. Floyd Baker, 33-year-old ut ility infielder, and rookie sec ond baseman Gerald Claycomb became the 14th and 15th mem bers of the-Phillies to agree to terms while the Boston Red Sox signed rookie catchers Guy Morton and Joe Buck. 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However, all six boxing writers at the ringside voted unani mously for Savage. And the 900 fans booed the verdict. Promoter Tex Sullivan an nounced today that the manag ers of both fighters had agreed to the return bout because of the protests that greeted the verdict after Monday night's tel evised ten-rounder. A Real Laeing Mims said, "I beat him last night. I don't know what the fuss is about. Sure, he pulled the old shoe-lace trick on me, and I fell for it. But the next time, I'll givs him a real lacing." It happened in the third round. Savage, scaling I6OV2, to Mims 157V, suddenly point ed with his left glove at Mims' shoe. He said, "your shoe lace is untied." As Mims stopped and glanced down at his shoe wahm! Milo hit him on the chin with a straight right that knock ed him backwards four steps. And then Savage swarmed over him in a corner. 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