i 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.
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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
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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."
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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
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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.
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