Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 10, 1955, Image 12

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Newspaper Page Texti TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Andy's, Cabbies Scrap Tonight For MIDI Crown; Ho Play-Offs Andy's - Jewelers and Yellow Cab contend at the junior high school tonight for the champ ionship of the Medford Inde pendent Basketball league. The league play-off, which had been set for next week, has been cancelled, it was announced to day. Depleted finances is the reason, MIBL President Bill Singler reported. Play -off plans were abandoned at a loop meet ing last night when Singler ex plained the financial condition of the league. Title game tonight will be at 8:30 o'clock after a 7 o'clock opener between Headquarters Company of the National Guard and Prospect. The cabbies and Jewelers both go" into the final game tonight with undefeated records in the league. Each has won 10 frays and this evening's game would :have completed their regular league schedules, anyhow. That makes the titular battle and the season finale a "natural." CReal Hassle Andy's has been beaten by Yellow Cab once in a non-league fracas and by a large margin. But they are expected to make a z real hassle of the skirmish tonight when the stakes are higher. Best game of the whole MIBL season could result. - The Jewelers are expected to name their starters from among Derald Wooton, Willard Lilly, Red Heads At Ashland This Evening Ashland Ashland plays host to a top-ranked girls' basket ball team tonight when the Ol son All-American Red Heads ap pear on the high school maple court at 8:15 o'clock against the National Guard All-Stars. The Red Heads play only men's teams and they play men's rules but they succeed time and again in beating the. boys at their own game. And, on top of that, the, gals put on a :real show.. They play good basketball, uncork fancy passes, do trick shooting and come up with novelty routines and zany antics that make them entertainers as well as athletes. They have gained raves through out the country for their ab- unv. Members of the team hail from Arkansas, Oklahoma, Iowa and Louisiana. Dorsey Lee An derson and Alice Hammond are six footers on the Red Head ros ter. Emogean Shelton, 5-11, is a top rebounder and passer with the "fastest hands in basket ball." , ? Campus Five and Hawkinson Tires play a 6:30 p.m. prelim inary. Big Fracas In B League Game of the week in the Jackson County B League could decide that chase or prolong it. Talent and Rogue River highs are the Friday night foes ire the big game which will be at Tal ent. A victory by the Rogue Chiefs will all but sew up the mantle. They are unbeaten, and should at least win one of their remain ing frays after playing the Bulldogs. Talent's only loss has been to Rogue River. It can tie up the first -place, spot with, a win Friday but will be. all but out of the picture if it suffers its second loss.- , v. . Possible Rogue River starters are Gary Johnson, Clete Daily; Bill Weaver, Ted Stanfield and Gary Stinchcomb. . For Talent the likelies are George Zicke- foose, Mel Wallace, Jim Mc Abee. Gordy Thoreson and J. Lloyd Wood. Other loop games Friday are St. Mary's at Jacksonville and Butte Falls at Prospect. Littler Favored In Tucson Open Tucson, Ariz. (U.R) Gene Littler, fresh from victories in Los Angeles and Phoenix, was favored to annex the $10,000 Tuscon Open as play started to day, but Frank Stranahan, who recently turned professional, was considered dangerous com petition. : ; " ; -: Littler, of Palm Springs, Cal., warmed up with a 69 in the pro amateur event preceding the tourney. Par for the El Rio course is 35-35-70. Stranahan, of Toledo,' Ohio, cwho holds the competitive course record of 61, carded a 68 in a practice round. Ed Carpenter, San "Antonio, Tex., pro, led qualifiers with a seven under par 65. LIEN RETIRES San Francisco U.R) s Al (Inky) Lien southpaw mainstay of the San Francisco Seals' pitching staff fcr 11 seasons, to day announced he , was retiring to enter the real estate business. MAIL TRIBUNE Roger Clark, Loren Soderlund, Jack Boardman and Bob Fasel. Yellow Cab starters likely will be Ed Hummel, Johnny Foster, Chuck Stacy, Bill Werner and Don Wendt. Yellow Cab has been idle so far this week but Andy's re corded its 10th victory last night by drubbing Company A of the National Guard 75 to 23, an indication that it will be in full stride tonight. Headquar ters company and Skinner's Buick wound up city league ac tion last night as the Guards men came out ahead 45 to 38 in what someone called "the best football game ever played in Medford junior high gym." Cabbies Bill Alsea Andy's in its mix had a 31 to 15 halfway lead. Loren Sod erlund of the Jewelers was high scorer with 16. National Guard headed Skinner's by quarter counts of 10 to 9, 20 to 19 and 39 to 28. Bruce Bateman scored 18 for the winners and Ive Mc- OSC Cagers Paces Division In Four Team Los' Angeles (U.R) Ore gon State, with a record of 10 wins and no losses, leads in four of six team departments in Pa- cific Coast conference Northern Division basketball play, statis tics from the PCC commission er's office showed today. The division's individual scor ers were Oregon's Jim Loscutoff in total scoring and rebounds; Oregon State's Wade Halbrook in field goal percentage: and Idaho's Bill Bauscher in free throws. Oregon State dominated the shooting departments. The Bea- Ron Tomsk Paces Loop Los Angeles (U.R) Stan ford's Ron Tomsic leads Pacific Coast Conference Southern Di vision individual basketball scoring while UCLA, tied for first place .with Stanford, dom inates team statistics, according to the PCC commissioner's office. . Tomsic, who set a new South ern Division single game scoring mark of 40 points against South ern California Friday, has scored 134 points for a six game average of 22.3. Next is Calif ornia's Bob McKeen with 21.5, followed by UCLAs Johnny Moore with 16.7 and SC's Dick Welsh with 16.0. Tomsic, the five-foot, 11-iftch sensation, also led in free throw percentages with an .40 mark. He sank an outstanding .561 of his floor shots, but still ended third in the division. Don Bragg leads with' a .622 floor mark, followed by Welsh at .615. UCLA Top Score UCLA led in total scoring with a 75.2 game average. Stan ford followed with 73.0. The Bruins also led in re bounding, having collected 70 more than their opponents while all three other division team have minus marks. , In defensive statistics, the Bruins also lead, having given up an average of 65.7 points per game and allowing then opponents to complete only .374 per cent of their floor shots. Stanford has the lead in floor shooting with a sizzling .485 per cent to the Bruins' .447. SC sank .410 of its shots, California .336 per cent. Baker Knocks Out James in Second Baltimore - (U.R) Big Bob Baker, who toppled tall Willie James in the second round, was seeking at March fight today with Cuba's Nino Valdes, top- ranking heavyweight contender. . ."I licked Valdes two years ago and I'll stop him the next time,", said Pittsburgh Bob, who Wednesday night knocked out James of Roxury, Mass., at 2:50 of the second round of their na tionally televised bout in the Coliseum. . .. Baker, favored at 3-1, stag gered James with a right to the chin. He followed immediately with a left hook and two rights that dropped six-foot-three- inch Willie in a corner. Referee Ben ny Goldstein counted "ten" when James was-still; trying to regain his feet. . . Wednesday Big Day for Reeve Eugene (U.R) It. was a big day yesterday for Hal Reeve, 225-pound Oregon football line man. ; Reeve signed a contract to play football next season with Edmonton of Canada's Western Interprovincial Union, - believed to call for $8000. Then he rushed to Sacred Heart hospital, where his wife gave birth' to their second child,' a daughter. . ; V Reeve had been drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers of the National Professional Football League. -.. .. . ... ,.. Thursday, February 10, isss Kinney 15 for Buick. Singler reported that regular league games which had been slated next Tuesday, also have been cancelled. No matter what the outcome of tonight's encounter, Yellow' Cab has a game billed' for Sat urday night at St. Mary's gym. It will play the potent Alsea Lumber club of Corvallis. Alsea with ex-Oregon State collegians on its roster is unbeaten and rated as the toughest independ ent to appear in Medford yet this season. LINE-UPS: Andy's 75 Wooton 7 Lilly 6 Clark 8 Soderlund 16 23 Company A 3 Snook Baum 6 Heberling 4 Saxbury f c Kramer 8 g 8 Burns Substitutions B or Andy's. Board' man 14, Fasel 12, Smith 4. Moore, Trautman; for Company A. Cooper. Headquarters 45 Bud Bateman 4 K. Bateman 10 McCandliss Br. Bateman 18 38 Skinner's 5 Cook 6 Romine 13 McKinney 2 Nelson Drew 6 4 Christian Substitutions For Headquarters, Mills 5, Perkins 2; for Skinner's, Nichols 6. Departments vers led in field goals with 38.7 per cent and free throws with 69.8 per cent. Defensively, they allowed but 52.7 points per game and held opponents to 31 per cent on field goal attempts. Ducks Top Scoring Oregon led team scoring with a 61.5 point-per-game average, to a 61.4 for Oregon State. The Ducks also led in rebounds with 482 to their opponents' 358, with Oregon State again be ing second. Loscutoff has averaged 19 points in each of his 10 games to date with a total of 78 field goals and 41 free throws. He is followed by Ron Bennink, Wash ington State, 17.5; and Dean Parsons, Washington, 17.4. Halbrook, who won both the scoring and marksmanship titles last year, leads in field goals with 44.1 per cent on , 49 goals in 111 attempts. Parsons follows with 43.9 and Oregon's Reggie Halligan with 43.3- Bauscher leads in free throws with 86.7 per cent on 26 points in 30 tries, while Halligan has 85.8 per cent and Washington's Jim Coshow has 78.1 per cent. Loscutoff has the rebounding all to himself with an average of 17 per game. Parsons has av eraged 10.6 and Halbrook 10.1. This week end Oregon hosts Idaho at Eugene, Ore., Friday and Saturday nights while Washington State and Washing ton meet in r Seattle the same evening. OSC Second In Defense New York (U.R) Furman, although' held in check in a 69- 58 victory over Virgina Tech, not only retained the national basketball scoring lead today but also kept a good chance of setting a new all-time scoring record. , The Tech game, lowest Fur- man score since 1952, sliced the Purple Palladins per-game scor ing average from 100.97 points to 95.9. But that still left Furman with a comfortable margin over second-place Connecticut. The U-Conns also had one poor scor ing game during the week, a 70-65 loss to Fordham, and had their average drop, from 92.4 points per game to 90.1. ; Good Reason San Francisco, which took over as the No. 1 team in the nation this week in the ratings by the United Press Board of Coaches, displayed a good rea son why it led the nation in de fense statistics -for the sixth straight week. The Dons have allowed- only 49.9 points per game in win ning 16 out of 17 games. Oregon State stands second with 52.1 points per game and Oklahoma A and M., national defense lead er 15 times in the last 19 years, was third at 54.7. Training Sites ' , ,- , Picked for PCL San Francisco (U.R) The Pacific Coast league directors held a "get. together" session today with new PCL president Claire Goodwin : but they had "nothing specific on the agenda.'' .. - .. Donovan said that the train ing sites for all the PCL teams have been settled and the play ers will go to camp March 1. The final sites are as follows: Los Angeles at Fullerton, Port land at Glendale, San Francisco at Brawley, Hollywood at Ana heim, Oakland at El Centro, Sacramento at Yuma, Ariz., and San Diego at Ontario.. The official PCL schedule opens April 5. To bring oil to Americans in 1953, the oil industry drilled approximately one mile of holes every 14 minutes around the clock. - POWERFUL HAMMERLOCK appears to have Champion Lou Thesz in bad way during Los Angeles match with Wilber Snyder . but because the good guys are supposed to win Thesz broke the hold and before too long won the match. ; ; (International) , MEDFORDTRIBUNE Madden, Higinhotham Head Rogue Loop Point-Making Bill Madden, Phoenix high, and Jim Higinbotham, Crater, members of rival teams tied for the lead in the Rogue Basket ball League, head the loop scor ing race by a wide margin. Madden is top man with 124 markers in eight games for a 15.5 per game average. Higin botham is not far behind with 121 and has a 15.1 average for the league chase. Ron Vreeken; Phoenix, trails in third spot with 82 while Bill Caldwell,, Eagle Point, and Larry Maurer, Illinois Valley, are knotted for fourth wiht 80 each. Vern . Parent, Crater, ranks sixth with 71. Crater's Comets have two others among the top 10, Fred Hogue, tied with Den nis Krauss, Illinois Valley, with 68 each, and Bob Gray, Crater, with 65. Gene Sams, Illinois Valley, with 63, rounds out the upper 10. - Crater with 430 points com pared to opponents' total of 320, has the best offensive and de fensive marks. The Comets have averaged 54.25 points per gam and their rivals 40. Phoenix ranks next in both categories, scoring 373 points and yielding 327. Eagle Point has broken even with its opponents, piling up 355 and giving up the same number. There is full scale activity in the circuit this week with Crater having the best chance to break in lone lead again. The Comets play Illinois Valley at Central Point on Friday and at Cave Junction on Saturday. Phoenix draws a tougher assignment, facing Eagle Point at Phoenix on Friday and at Eagle Point on Saturday. . Phoenix and Crater currently have six wins and two losses North Carolina Breaks Record By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer North Carolina State took the "high road" by smashing scor ing records; Duquesne took the "low road" by holding a rival to 27 points; but they both ar vied at impressive victories to add to their brilliant records. Led by Ronnie Shavlik's rec ord 55 points, State rolled up the highest score ever by an At lantic Coast Conference team in crushing William and Mary, 126-99, Wednesday night. Duquesne, which has accept ed a bid to the National Invita tion Tournament at the earliest date in history, celebrated by tying Carnegie Tech in knots, 62-27. The two easy triumphs gave Duquesne a 14-3 record and N.C. State, also a hot NIT pos sibility, a 19-4 mark'. : Villanova, ranked 16th, was a major victim. The Wildcats, after jumping off to a 16-4 lead, eventually were beaten, 84-79, by a Georgetown, D.C., team that hadn't won a game since four regulars . were suspended from school 10 days ago. Hay ward Trophy To Be Presented Portland (U.R) The Bill Hayward trophy will be present ed to one of 12 top Oregon Sportswriters and Sportscasters association's banquet of cham pions here. A: committee of 50- leading citizens is selecting the winner. Special guest at the banquet will be Joe E. Brown,' noted film comedian whose sons once play ed football at UCLA. -,- - apiece in the circuit. Eagle Point has won three and Illinois Valley one in eight league en gagements. INDIVIDUAL SCORING: 1. Bill Madden. Phoenix '. 124 2. Jim Higinbotham, Crater . 121 3. Ron Vreeken. Phoenix .' 82 4. Bill Caldwell. Eagle Point 80 . 4. Larry Maurer, Illinois Val.. 80 6. Vern Parent, Crater 71 7. Dennis Krauss. Illinois Val... 68 7. Fred Hogue. Crater ... 68 - 9. Bob Gray, Crater 65 " 10. Gene Sams, Illinois Valley 63 11. Harvey Torin, Crater 60 12. Jack Greb, Eagle Point 56 13. Jerry Cave, Eagle Point 55 14. Jim Korth.- Phoenix 53 14. Charles Wall. Phoenix ........ 53 .16. Howard Pickle. Illinois Val. 44 17. Frank Reich, Eagle Point 39 17. Carl Christian, Eagle Point.. 39 19. Jerry Tuttle. Eagle Point .. 30 20. George Harrison, Eagle Point 27 .20- Harvey Nelson, Eagle Point. 27 22. Ray Dahl, Phoenix .. 26 23. Ron Bean, Phoenix 22 24. Jim Hemingway, Illinois Val. 20 25. Ken Bitterling. Eagle Point 13 TEAM SCORING: " PP APG PA Crater 430 54.25 320 Phoenix 373 46.6 327 Engle Point -....355 44.37 , 355 Illinois Valley 323 40.37 479 APG 40. 40.87 44.37 59.87 m mm . a drop of Seagrams Seven Crown Hie favorite of millions, by millions of bottles SEAGRAM DISTILLERS BLACK TORNADO AIMS TO BE PREPARED FOR CAVEMEN'S STRATEGY Bef ore Medford and Grants Pass high schools met in Jan uary in the first round of the Southern Oregon Conference basketball campaign, Coach Ray Davis of the GP Cavemen ven tured concerning the Black Tornado: "They can be eaten." Medford's torrid ball aggrega tion responded to the challenge with 63 to 44 and 86 to 37 tri umphs over the Cavemen. But those imposing , victories have not caused the Tornado to for get Davis's warning words. The Medfordites aren't sure about what the GP mentor and his . Cavemen cohorts may be cooking up for them this week but reports this week from the Tornado camp is that it again will be prepared for any even tuality. " Grants Pass and Medford meet again Friday, night at Grants Pass and Saturday night at Medford. And one thing is sure. The Cavemen will be fired high to -atone for the two earlier humiliations.. Work on Defense Coach Frank Roelandt said to day that the Tornado has work ed more on defense this week than it has for quite a while but that offense was not being forgotten.; This week's practice is aimed at. being prepared and not "lost" for anything, that Grants Pass, may try. "We're looking for anything," Roelandt said. The coach reported that John ny Foust, No. 6 man in the Tor nado scheme, missed Tuesday and Wednesday workouts be cause of a sore throat but is ex pected back tonight. The others on the squad were ..reported healthy today. Medford starters this week end are expected to be the usual five, Bud Kastner,-Glenn Peter son, Jerry Kalapus, Larry Cop pie . and Frank Rector. Foust was : a starter. ' against Grants Pass in both conflicts at the start of the loop season. Medferd Favored - Davis is likely to open with Jim Reid, Raleigh Burr, J Jay BEAVERS REST ' - - S Corvallis (U.R) Coach Slats Gill gave his Oregon State bas ketball ' regulars a rest today since the Beavers are idle this Week end. OSC meets Idaho here next Monday and Tuesday." Population of Sweden is esti- mated at 7,000,000. P ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' I COMPANY, NEW YORK CITY. BLENDED Reese, Mel' Drews " and Don James with Bob Erickson and Allen. Drews likely to see quite a bit of duty. Statistics and previous re sults ; establish Medford as a heavy favorite for the week end series. But, -: as Sportswriter George, Curtis of the GP Cour ier reported last night, "statis J j Wfiace EqiiiiiipiiiraiBirafr Letter Files . Home Desks Steel 3 Drawers Tour Choice SSlJMkSO Reg. $100.00 Reg. fiWV Now $6950 89-50-- v - - ,,- - Office Chairs 1 Mie rOltierS Upholstered. Reg. $71.00 Box of 100-Legal Size QW $4950 & Now $3.10 Pendaflex Folders SsSpsO iff 15 each 1 QNw $59.50 Small Book Case B W Light Birch t O O CA Reff- 65c C: N O W 1 0 1 Reg. $60.00 HaV.3V , : ONE USED Office Typewriter iSS, : $25.00 One New " : .. ' : oo, now$149.50 Yalnul Arm Chair CARBON PAPER 1A MMO tA Spring clip hoards 72 Price ff9.5oNO W $29.5 O Catalogue Rack Duo-Fast Staples feo !4pnce : !4 Off MEDFORD OFFICE EQU8PMENT COMPANY 41 South Grape Phone 2-4100 WHISKEY. 86.8 PROOF. 65 6 tics never won a ball game yet, of course." He added however, , that teams which win consist ently are 1 the ones which pile up statistics. . Grants Pass, with a record of two conference wins against four losses compared to. Medford'i six : wins and no defeats, isn't entirely out of the conference race but has a long haul to make if it still has ambitions. It could play a spoiler to the Black Tornado as they did in 1952 when Medford started the second half with a 5-1 '' mark and GP with an identical 2-4. The Cavemen lost two in , the second half to Klamath Falls and won two from Medford in the final series of season play to; push Klamath into the title. iliiillii R.AIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS.;