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Oo O SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Three Tornado Cagers Up Scoring Averages While three members of the Medford high basketball team " boosted their per game scoring s mark, the Black Tornado, as a team, upped its per game point e making and field goaling aver ages and fell off slightly in its defensive mark and free throw shooting as a result of the two fray series last week at Marsh- field. n Smooth sureshooting Larry Copple continued as top scorer 3 of the Tornado by a wide mar gin, heading in total field goals and average points per game. Flashy Frank Rector continued to pace the regulars in free shooting and retained second place in total scoring. Tall Jerry Kalapus leads in four depart- s ments, rebounds, free throws made, personal fouls and field goal average. Copple, Rector and Bud Kast ner all boosted their per game 3 averages Larry now owns a 17.3 a pace for 16 games and has 277 ea total points on 119 field goals. Frank with 207 points has a 12.9 average and has a .790 average o in accuracy from the gift line. 3 cKastner, whose all-around ef 0 rffcctiveness has picked up in re cent contests, upped ms per game mark to 8.1. He has 130 o total points. Jerry Has 442 Rebounds o Jvaiapus wim aw puim hitting .580 from the field, has -r , -1 i no '. i- o 62 free throws, 52 personal in fractions and 142 rebounds. Medford's other tall regular, Glen Peterson is second in back- board retrieves with 104. He has 117 points. For 16 games Medford has made 392 out of 907 goals and 262 out of 445 free throw at t tempts for a total of 1046 points. The field goal average per game is .432 compared to .429 after 14 games and the free throw mark dropped from .600 to .588. Med ford's points per game average is 65.4 compared to 64.3 before the Marshfield series. Opponents have scored 743 against the Tor nado for a 46.4 pace. The aver age was 43.8 before Medford met the Pirates. The statistics were brought up to daie by Joe Raabe, Med ford Hi Times sports editor, who this week is transferring to Eu gene high school. Medford now owns a 15-win, 1-loss record and is leading both of the state's prep press polls. Black Tornado this week starts the second half of its Southern Oregon Conference campaign, meeting Grants Pass. Statistics provided by' George Curtis, sports writer for the Grants Pass Daily Courier, provide a com parison of the records of thej two teams. ' , MEDFORD "HIGH INDIVIDUAL BASKETBALL STATISTICS: Larry Copple , Frank Rector Jerry Kalapus Bud Kastner Glen Peterson ; John Foust Bob Tisdel Ed McCullough Bill Cochran Lloyd Cearley Ed Reinking Dick McLaughlin Warren Deakins GRANTS PASS INDIVIDUAL BASKET (The Top Seven) . Don James i Jay Reese . Mel Drews Bob Erickson Allen Drews'..... Introduction of milder, lower-priced, 86 Proof bottling as a companion to world-famous 100 Proof Bottled in Bond brings forth unprecedented public demand! 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In all Medford got points for 10 of the 12 scheduled bouts. Three 'victories for Medford came by forfeiture when the Cougars failed to put an oppon ent on the mat. Medford lost tallies in the 106-pound class for the same reason. One other win went to Medford in the 115 pound tussle when George Flan agan's rival Tom Baily of IV was injured. Tornado grapplers also won seven of the eight exhibition tangles. The Medford team goes to Grants Pass Thursday evening. RESULTS: 98 pounds Ken Dunlava. M, won by forfeit (no opponent). 106 Bill Arnold. IV, won by for feit (no opponent). 115 George Flanagan, M.- won by default from Tom Bailey, IV (Bailey hurt). 123 Gordon Owsley, M. pinned Russ Noble, IV. 130 Ray Hilton, M, dec. Floyd Matthews, IV. 8-2. 136 Ron Lingren, M, pinned John Champney, IV. 141 Roy Cole, IV, . pinned ' Jim Owsley. M. , . . 148 Ray Williams, M. pinned Ken Rosenberg, IV. 157 Les Walch, M, pinned Jack Lockhart. IV. 168 Larry Fraser, M, pinned Bob Burroughs, IV. 177 Paul Eckel, M, won by for feit (no opponent). Unlimited Bill Dyer, M, won by forfeit (no opponent). -EXHIBITIONS: , 121 pounds Dick Blouillette, IV, pinned Charles Finch, M. 135 Dennis Walker, M, pinned Larry Yandell. IV. 148 Fred White, M, . pinned Jan Thornton, IV. 148 Dick Swinney. M. dec. Jim Deaton, IV, 9-4. 148 Lyle Daun, M, pinned Andy Mellow. IV. 150 Dick Bourne. M. dec. Bob Earl. IV. 5-1. 154 Gordon DeArmond, M. pinned Dick Culbreath, IV. 156 Noel Black. M. dee. Don Krause, IV. 5-0. G TP Ave. FGM FGA Pet. FTM FTA Pet. PF RB 16 .277 17.3 119 228 .524 39 59 .661 31 76 16 207 12.9 79 202 .392 49 62 .790 26 31 16 192 12.0 65 112 .580 62 119 .521 52 142 16 130 8.12 49 145 .336 32 53 .604 28 74 16 117 7.3 41 93 .441 35 61 .574 42 104 16 40 2.5 . 12 24 .500 16 27 .593 19 : 44 10 21 2.1" 8 23 .348 5 9 .556 7 9 14 19 1.4 4 17 .235 11 13 .846 8 1 15 13 .9 5 11 .455 3 6 .500 4 23 14 11 .8 5 13 .385 1 8 .125 4 4 8 10 1.2 3 20 .150 4 6 .667 3 9 12 3 2 0 14 .000 3 10 .300 14 19 8 3 .3 1 2 .500 1 6 .167 3 5 BALL STATISTICS: G FG TF PF TP APG 15 66 72 32 204 13.6 16 51 70 53 172 10.7 16 51 53 45 155 9.7 16 40 40 40 120 7.5 16 21 14 42 56 3.5 12 13 11 11 37 3.1 8 5 12 21 21 3.0 8 Bourbon Whiskey $455 COMPANY. FRANKFORT. KY Wednesday, February 9. 1953 RED HEADS CENTER Dor sey Lee Anderson, above, is cen ter for Olson's All-American Red Heads, girls' basketball teams which plays men's teams under men's rules. The gals will meet the National Guard All Stars at 8:15 p.m. Thursday, February 10, at the Ashland high school gymnasium. Dorsey Lee causes veteran basketball fans to blink at the way she takes on a man-sized job with apparent ease. The attractive eager, a 6-footer, takes care of her assignment well. Red Heads feature good basketball, clever plays, trick shooting, zany an tics and novelty routines. Hawk inson Tires and the Campus five of the Medford city circuit will vie in the 6:30 p.m. preliminary. Junior Bowling Class Saturday A junior biwling clinic for A junior bowling clinic for held at 1 p.m. Saturday, Febru ary 12, at Medford Bowling lanes. Mrs. Ann Wilson, Medford, certified instructor of the Amer ican Junior Bowling congress, will conduct the class in correct fundamentals. She will be as sisted by Jackie Wilson and Fred Anderson, Medford. Boys and girls will be taught the proper swing delivery, stance andfour step approach through group instruction. Three Shots at Pin Following the group instruc tion, each boy and girl will get three shots at the head pin. If they hit it once, they will get a card for a free game of bowling. Then each student will bowl one game and the instructors will give individual attention as needed. At the conclusion of the class, boys and girls who wish to join a junior bowling league will be given an outline of the AJBC program and a registration card. TV Fight Film Brings Protest Los Angeles i(U.R) Local tel evision fans protested to news papers and a television station that Milo Savage didn't fight Holly Mims in New York Mon day night, but fought Moses Ward instead. Moreover, they argued, that Savage didn't lose a decision, but won. What actually happened was this: Mims and Savage fought "live" in New York Monday night, but the bout local fans saw on their TV sets here was a Savage Ward bout which took place 21 days ago. , A spokesman for KHJ-TV sta tion said an announcement' had been superimposed on the film to the effect that it was a "film ed presentation" before and at the conclusion of. the match. "Maybe they were out at the icebox getting a can of beer when the notices were shown," the spokesman said. STUDDED WITH STARS Eugene (U.R) The Nation al Cross Country ski meet at Willamette Pass this . Saturday and Sunday will be studded with stars. So far entries have been received from Sven Joh annson, national North Ameri can ski champion, and John Burton and Norman Oakvic, who placed third and fourth at the national ski championships for 1954 in Minneapolis,. Minn. Last year's national cross coun- try champion, Taune Pulkkinen ; of Brooklyn, N.Y., has entered along with Oakvic, who is also a cross country winner. MOVING? Save by Renting a BEE HIVE U - DRIVE o Vans Stakes and Pickup Trucks ' Also Avis RENT-A-CAR SIGNAL TUNE-UP & REPAIR 6th & Grape Phone 3-3261 MedfordTribuhe Crater High Comets Turn Back Ashland Quint 62-48 Central Point Pulling away in the final 3.V4 minutes of the conflict, Crater high won a ragged, rough non-league hoop scuffle from the Ashland Griz zlies 62 to 48 here last night. The .win evened the count for a late January nod of 57 to 54 by Ashland over the Comets. Crater went into the lead for keeps in the second quarter aft er deadlocks of 14-all and 16-all. A free basket and a fast break Andy's Faces Cab Quintet On Thursday Title for the. regular season championship of the Medford Independent Basketball -league will be at stake Thursday night in the feature game at the Med ford junior high gym. Andy's Jewelers and Yellow Cab vie in the 8:30 p.m. game. Yellow Cab, which hasn't seen loop action this week is the fa- vorite and goes into the mix unmarred. The Jewelers are figured to get by Company A of the National Guard this evening and also to enter the Thursday scuffle undefeated in the loop. In a non-loop hassle, the Cab bies soundly thrashed the Jew elers recently but Andy's, with loop honors at stake is expected to make a closer scrap of it this time. , Headquarters company of the National Guard and Prospect contend in the 7 p.m. game to morrow. Games Tonight Tonight's Company A - Andy's scrape is set for 7 o'clock with Skinner's Buick and Headquar ters company of the Guard to follow. Eagle Point narrowed the race for the league's third and fourth play-off berths down to three teams last night with a 52 to 21 win over Burelson's of Central Point. Prospect beat the YMCA 69 to 56 but is out of the running. The Eagles, Hawkinson Tires and Campus Five are left to scrap for those spots. Campus Five was assured of a play-off spot after trimming Burelson's on Monday and plays a protest ed tiff with Hawkinson's on Thursday at Ashland. Eagle Point and Hawkinson's vie next Tuesday. In the Prospect-YMCA fracas last night Don Mintz of the Y put in 35 points to win a scor ing duel with Jim Lenderman of Prospect who got 32. Prospect was in front at all intermissions 20 to 11, 40 to 27 and 58 to 34. President Bill Singler has called a league meeting for 8:30 o'clock tonight at the junior high. LINE-UPS: Prospect 69 Lenderman 32 f Robertson 10 f Sullivan 2 c Stauf f er 8 g Knudsen 13 g Substitutions For son 2; Snider 2; for 56 YMCA 35 Mintz Kuntz 8 Smith 7 Leaf 2 Johnson Prospect. Peter YMCA. Swisher. BROWNS SIGN DANDOY Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) The Cleveland Browns today listed 12 rookie's under contract for the 1955 National Football league season following the signing of halfback Aramis Dan: doy of Southern California and Tackle Jack Eaton of New Mexico. Tonight at Nine-Fifteen! Turn on Your Television! PAUL WARD, K-Bos : Relaxing Announcer BARKER'S "LET'S KICK IT AROUND" Back on s Television 5 Medford's Future Stat Championship Basketball Team as Guests: EVERETT KASTNER , GLEN PETERSON FRANK RECTOR JERRY KALAPUS LARRY COPPLE shot by Vern Parent broke the second tie and Crater scrapped on to a 25 to 18 halftime mar gin. But the Grizzlies whacked down Comet spreads almost to the danger point in both the third and fourth quarters. The third canto was a battle of foul shots for better than five minutes. Crater got eight and Ashland six in that space of time and Crater had 10 for the period. The Comets got five straight of their tallies on gift ers and Ashland four in a row. Margin Whittled Early in the period the Com ets had 10 point, gaps of 28 to 18 and 30 to 20 but the Griz zlies'whittled the spread to 30 to 26 and 32 to 28. Crater's count then widened to 43 to 30 but fielders by Doyce Lemley and Harry Johnson for Ashland made the score 43 to 34 at the end of the chukker. Crater lead was seven and nine points through the first four minutes ofHhe fourth pan el. Then buckets from the corner and in close by Gene Parent for Ashland hacked the Comet advantage to five points, 49 to 44. Harvey Tonn canned a jump er, a charity toss and a dribble in cast. Bob Gray followed with two free heaves, Tonn got an other gifter and John Shama hit a jumper to send the Comets to a safe 59 to 44 margin. Lem ley got a pair of free ones for Ashland but, after Harold Lef ler scored from the field and Don VonBuskirk from the free stripe, Crater owned its widest lead of the night, 16 points at 62 to 46. ' Lead Changes Hands Leadership switched four times in the first quarter. Ash land took a 2-0 lead at the start of the mix and overcame a five point Crater bulge to head for the second time .at 10 to 9. A drive-in shot by Tonn put Cra ter on top 11 to 10 at the quar ter. There were spots of rough and tumble in the loose fracas and neither team played up to its capabilities. Gene Parent and Phil Sword, Ashland, and Vern Parent, Crater, fouled out. Tonn was high scorer with 18 and Gray, a tower of strength under the offensive backboard, had 15. Gene Parent headed Ashland with 14. Ashland was without the services of Jerry Mickle who sprained an ankle while skiing. Crater won the jayvee game 43 to 30. LINE-UPS: Crater 62 Hogue 9 HiRinbotham 6 Gray 15 Tonn 18 48 Ashland f f e g 4 Sword 8 Baker 14 G. Parent 10 H. Johnson V. Parent 9 g 12 Lemley Substitutions For Crater. Kelley, Tidwell, D. Johnson, Von Buskirk 1 Shama 2. Bailey. Lefler 2. Douthit Anderson: for Ashland, Carter, To- biasson, Taylor, nail. Willamette Five Downs Pioneers Portland U.R) Willam ette's Bearcats held down third place in the Northwest Confer ence basketball race today after downing Lewis and Clark 78-60 here last night. Wilammette hit .435 from the floor to .323. Sot the losers to overcome superior backboard play of the Pioneers. Scoring was evenly divided. Neil Causbie led 1 Willamette with 13, while Joe Boutin had a like number for L and C. Pennsylvania, Take Long Strides in Leagues By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Pennsylvania and North Caro lina State each took a long stride toward a berth in the NCAA tournament, even, as upsets jolt ed the hopes of powerful Niag ara and Connecticut. Pennsylvania, leading all the way, took a tight grip on first Red Raiders Romp Over Owls 58-44 Ashland Southern Oregon college kept in the running for the Oregon Collegiate confer ence basketball toga last night by upending Oregon Technical institute 58 to 44 in a game play ed here. The Raiders are in second place behind Portland State college. First half of the tussle was close but SOC pulled to a 10 point spread at the start of the second half and, the Owls never got closer than seven markers. Score with Jhree minutes left to play was 53 to 38 and b o 1 5 teams finished with reserves. Smith Sparkles OTI headed 10 to 9 with nine minutes played in the game. Ti ger Bob Smith came through with a field goal and two free shots for the Raiders, giving Southern Oregon a 13 to 10 lead.' The Owls never caught up and halftime count was 26 to 22. Smith hurt his back . under the OTI backboard after giving the Ashlanders their' lead. He sat out the last 10 minutes of the first half. But he was in when the second half started and put in three straight bask ets which gave the Raiders 32 to 22 command. Keith Johnson and Lloyd Hof f ine of the Raiders were high point men with 16 each. By . UNITED PRESS Portland State's Vikings add; ed another victory to their Ore gon Collegiate conference bask- etball string last night by downing Oregon College of Ed ucation 82-64 in a rough game at Portland. .j . A total of 44 fouls were call ed in the Eortland State-OCE game. Ron Jones, the freshman star from Marshfield, canned 29 points for OCE, while four Portland Staters hit double fig ures, led by Paul Poetsch with 19. LINE-UPS: SOC 58 44 OTI Hoffine 16 f 8 Eckert Springer 2 f 8 Blair Titus 5 c ' 9 James Johnson 16 g 7 Dorn Smith 12 g 4 Hubble Substitutions For SOC. Love 1, Liiiebo 6, Bates, Lowrance. Crandall, Jacobson: for OTI. McCutcheon 3. Fahlgren 3, Anderson 2, Genty, Col lingsworth, ciarK. Portland (U.R) Tommy Prothro, new football coach at Oregon State, is scheduled to fly here to appear at the "Ban quet of Champions," of Oregon sportswriters and sportscasters tomorrow night. 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The victory gave Penn a 7-1 league record to Co lumbia's 5-2. State Abandons 'Press' . North Carolina State, rated No. 6 team nationally, trailed Virginia 18-10, after the first seven minutes of play as Vir ginia riddled State's all-court press. State abandoned the press, caught up at 22-22, went ahead at halftime, 47-41, and breezed home. Ronnie Shavlik led State to its eighth win in 10 league games with 23 points, but Buzz Wilkinson had 28 for Virginia for top honors. ' Syracuse, a team that has lost nine games, stunned Niagara by sinking 35 of 67 field goal at tempts and 17 of 19 free throws. Niagara ranked No. 18 nation ally by the United Press Board of Coaches, led by 42-40 at half- time as Ed Fleming scored 21 points. But Fleming was held to 12 in the second half and Syra cuse went ahead to stay with 2:20 remaining in the game on consecutive baskets by Ron Gil lespie and Vinnie Cohen. Cohen was Syracuse's high scorer with 26 points. 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