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Yellow Cabbies Take E3IBL Toga; Play Alsea Lumber on Saturday Two former Oregon State col - lege varsity basketball players, two former OSC Rook perform ers, an OSC varsity football and three former Alsea high school hoopmen, including an all stater. That is the roster of the Alsea Lumber company team which opposes the Medford in dependent champ, Yellow Cab, in a special game here Saturday night at St. Mary's gym. The two ex-college varsity courtmen are Jack Orr, from Grants Pass, and Ted Romanoff, 6-10 giant. Gary Lindell and Dick Humble are the lads who have played for the Rooks and Wes Ediger is the right flank man who co-captured the Beav ers on the gridiron last fall. Del Stone is the ex-Alsea eager who won all-state recog nition. It came two years in a row. The other Alsea boys are Loren Sapp and Keith Atickson. .Ron Siegrist, ex-OSC, is coach. Strong Crew They add up to a strong ag gregation in independent play strong enough to have an un blemished record so far this sea son. And the Lumbermen are expected to give the Cabbies their most severe test so far this season. They have a win over Martin Brother's Signs, Eugene, which downed the Cab bies here. Just what will be the starting line-up for the Alsea gang has not been reported here. Yellow Cab i likely to open with Ed Hummel, Johnny Foster, Chuck Stacy, Don Wendt and .Bill Wer- So smooth it leaves you ' breathless mirnoff te qreaiest -name VOBKA 0 proof. Made from 1 00 grain neutral spines. Ste. Pierre Smirnoff Fls.lnc.Harrford.Coaa. IFir Sole USED QUIRAfl One T-O FERGUSON TRACTOR $1200 One Late Model HG CLETRAC TRACTOR $J150 One John Deere MODEL M TRACTOR With Plow, Springtooth Harrow and Cultivator 5950 7X One HG CLETRAC TRACTOR $1050 These Tractors Are in Good Condition and Are PRICED RIGHT! 25 South Riverside Ave. , ner, its usual five. Game time is 8:30 p.m. Yellow Cab's high-riding hoop contingent, recognized as the independent power of southern Oregon, picked up its first of ficial championship of the year last night by thrashing Andy's Jewelers 78 to 48. Victory gave the Cabbies the Medford Basketball League bunting. They wound up the MIBL campaign with an un defeated record and inflicted on the Jewelers their first and only loss in an 11-game league slate. Last night's championship contest wound up the season for the MIBL and did so because plans for a play-off next week, matching the top four teams in the regular slate, were aban doned. Play-off cancellation ac tion at a Wednesday night loop meeting was the result of a de pleted treasury. G P Champ Next Yellow Cab will play the Grants Pass League champion on February 24 at Grants Pass for the AAU district mantle. The winner will go to the state tournament at Hermiston. With Andy's beginning with a slow, deliberate confident game, the Cabbies got off to a cold start last night, missing many shots. But YC slowly warmed and by halftime was showing that its previous 102 to 61 non-league verdict over the Jewelers was no fluke. Score at the midway pause favored the car jockeys 38 to 20. By the end of the third quarter , the count was broad ened to 61 to 27 as the Cabbies had a warm canto and the Jewelers were cold. Andy's had brief leads of 2 to 0, 4 to 2 and 6 to 4 as the con flict got underway and there were ties of 2-all, 4-all and 6-all. Bill Werner then drove in for a bucket after a swipe. That gave Yellow Cab ihe upper hand for the first time and for good with four minutes having been played. Knuison Spurs The lead hopped to 16 to 6 but the Jewelry five on five gifters hacked the margin to 16 to 11 by the quarter. In the next stanza, the Cab bies' built a 25 to 12 command with five minutes gone by. The advantage was cut from that 13 point bulge to 11 tallies on three occasions, the last at 28 to 17. From there the Cabbies moved to their 18-point halftime spread.- Reserve Dick Knuts6n spurred this half-end push with three field goals. In the third panel the victors managed to get a lot of close in J N One FARMALL A TRACTOR $450 One HG CLETRAC TRACTOR $950 rs One Model M Allis Chalmers CRAWLER ?450 One CASE TRACTOR Steel Wheels 350 Phone 2-401 1 shots to lengthen the advantage to 34 points. Andy's had the edge in scor ing, 21 to 17, in the fourth quar ter, which had some roughie spots. And rugged Derald Woo ton provided some of the spark, driving in nicely for three goals. Hummel Score Leader . The mix was marked by some rugged scrapping under the boards. . Ed Hummel in particular for Yellow Cab had trouble finding the hoop. Nevertheless, he wound up high scorer with 17 markers. Cabbie scoring was well distributed with Johnny Foster getting- 16, Werner 14 and Don Wendt 12. Wooton was high for Andy's with 12 and Loren Soderlund picked up 10. In the preliminary fray last night, also a city league tussle, Prospect blasted Headquarters Company of the National Guard 61 to 38. Jim Lenderman count ed up 28 points for the winners and Wes Stauffer got 18. Kay Bateman and Mills were best for the Guard with 10 apiece. , Prospect broke a 16 to J. 6 first quarter deadlock to get a 30 to 19 halftime margin. Third quarter score was 41 to 26. LINE-UPS: Yellow Cab 78 Hummel 17 Foster 16 Stacy 5 Wendt 12 48 Andy's Jewelers f 12 Wooton f 2 Lilly c ' 9 Clark g 10 Soderlund Werner 14 g 2 Kramer Substitutions F o r Yellow - Cab, Knutson 6, -Moore. Harris 7. Johnson 1, Hite: for Andy's, Boardman 3. Fa sel 6. Smith, Trautman 4. Prospect 61 38 Headquarters Lenderson 28 f 9 Br. Bateman Snyder 6 f 3 Drew Sullivan 3 McCandliss Stauffer 18 g 6 Bud Bateman Knudsen 2 g 10 K. Bateman Substitutions For Prospect. Peter son 1, Robertson 3; for Headquarters, Mills 10. LaSalle, St. Louis Gain "Insurance" With Victories By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Flashy victories in the big town provided La Salle and St. Louis today with some "tourna ment insurance." Just in case they should miss out on NCAA tournament berths in their respective conferences, La Salle trounced Manhattan, 76-62, and St. Louis razzle-daz zled New York University, 87- 66, Thursday night to virtually assure themselves a bid to the National Invitation Tournament. But coaches of both teams em phasized after the double-header at Madison Square Garden that their teams would go first to the NCAA tourney, if possible, La Salle, the nations' third' ranking team with an overall record of 17 wins and four losses, seems almost certain to be picked by the Middle Atlan tic Conference for the NCAA classic. But St. Louis, with a 3-1 league record, still trails Tulsa 5-1 in the Missouri Valley. Manhattan To NIT Meanwhile, it is believed that Manhattan, with a fine 14-3 rec ord despite Thursday night's loss, is in line for a bid to the NIT. Already in the NIT field are Duquesne and Dayton.. No teams have yet qualified or been selected for the NCAA. OSC Win String Best in History Oregon; State College, Corval- lis As the Oregon State college cagers rest this week end after running up 10 straight North ern Division victories, a check of athletic news bureau records shows that never before have Beavers posted that many con secutive wins in the circuit. The win string in the loop has notNbeen matched by the great clubs of 1933, 1947 and 1949, all of them Pacific Coast Con ference champions. Oregon State resumes ND contention next Monday and Tuesday here against Idaho and anticipate trouble from the Van dals. Last week end OSC had to come from behind twice to beat Idaho. - OSC SCORING IN ND ND All ft tp Season it Swede Halbrook 49 Tony Vlastelica 41 45 143 143 106 239 76 145 69 159 48 127 36 39 35 60 34 68 31 52 21 31 8 36 7 17 0 2 O 0 0 0 31 24 7 : 14 8 9 6 9 11 4 1 0 0 0 Reggie Halligan 26 Kon KODins Jay Dean Bill Toole John Jarboe Tex Whiteman Larry Paul us 31 17 14 13 14 11 5 . 2 3 0 0 0 nob Ailord Phil Shadoin : Ron Fundsinpslnnrf Ralph Carroll boo sutton . Dick Wilson . OSC Totals .226 162 Opponents 174 179 616 1118 527 1041 Syracuse Gives Assist' To Fort Wayne Pistons . By UNITED PRESS The Fort Wayne Pistons cred ited the Syracuse Nations with an "assist" today as their lead in the Western Division of the National Basketball Association was ballooned to seven full games.. With six players scoring in double figures, the pistons drub bed the Philadelphia Warriors, 105-97, Thursday night while the Nationals squeezed out an 85-81 triumph over the Minne apolis Lakes. The results left the Lakers seven games behind the Pistons in both the "won" and "lost" columns. Ed BingKam Might Start Eugene U.R) Coach Bill Borcher told his Oregon basket ball team to be ready for either a running game or a slow-em'-up contest tonight as his Web foots meet Idaho in the first of a two-game Northern Division series. Idaho has used both the fast break and the deliberate offense under new coach Harlan Hodges this season. Oregon won the first game at Moscow 82-59 and the second by only 41-40. Borcher said that Jerry Ross, who hurt . his ankle against Washington last week, was ex pected to start. If he doesn't, Ed Bingham sophomore ' from Med ford, may get the call. EASY TERMS TO FIT YOUR BUDGET TAB da dr 4- Ml db SPORTS Junior Bowling Class Tomorrow Boys and girls, of Medford, who are interested, will be shown the finer points of the kegling sport Saturday at Med ford Bowling lanes. Instruction will start at 11 p. m. Group and individual instruc tion will be given and each boy and girl will have an oppor tunity to bowl one game. Regis tration cards will be given to those who wish to join a junior bowling league. ' Instructors will be Ann Wil son, Jackie Wilson and Fred An derson. ; IP Radio, Heater, 11 VU Take C EI 1 Mil mm Nil! El HAT mm SIStlRI A Friday, February 11, 1955 Central Pointers Win ' 2 Games From Talent Central Point Central Point ' grade cchool basketball five won two games last night from Talent! The seventh grade won 14 to 11 after an 8 to 6 halfway lead. Eighth graders didn't ramble until the fourth quarter but wound up with a 48 to 27 ver dict over Talent. Central Point headed 22 to 12 at the half and 30 to 20 after three stanzas. . Jerome McQuade made 16 counters for the CP eighth, and Paul Beach and Wayne Allen each 10. Ron Welburn had 13 for Talent. Jerry Michael got 8 for the ' Pointer seventh while Jacobs picked up seven for Tal ent.' , MEDFORD'Sf 1NBT K IP H ACS B oiners, i owner. wwwn Radio, Heater, Hydromatic-1 Owner ...........DOWN , Has Every Possible Continental Kit 1 Heater and Dual Range Hydromatic 1 Owner .. Hydromatic - 1 Owner Your Choice at E V E L E Syncromesh Transmission. Like New 1 Owner Power-Glide Heater Average Motor frUD n nnn New PICK UPS m LOTS OF OTHERS! J) SE&AI?E MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVElf Byrne Gets TKO Over J. B. Reed San Francisco (U.R) Jimmy Byrne, Portland heavyweight, won a technical knockout over Sgt. J. B. Reed, Travis Air Force Base, in the 10th round of a liminary fight here last night. Headline bout at the Winter land arena was the Eddie Chavez-Manny Renteria lightweight match. Chavez, of San Jose, won a 10-round split decision over the Los, Angeles fighter. Byrne finished off Reed aft er 50 seconds of the final round. Referee Ray Flores stopped the fight after the serviceman was spun around in a circle by a left an i rights to the head. , rower aieering, rower diaivcs, nyui wiuauw, fy Radio, Heater, Comfort Control Seat, Plus many V;0! i i nnuki I J Accessory Even an Imported Owner .................;:.....'....DOWN .... DOWN DOWN IT S .DOWN One Owner 5000 Actual Miles .. ...... DOWN DOWN .DOWN Radio, Heater, Overdrive ........ DOWN Paint ...DOWN Radio, Heater Sharpl; A-l Condition U3 W StfElEEEB NW Circuit Eyes On Forest Grove Forest Grove (U.R) The eyes of the Northwest Conference will be on Forest Grove this week end as College of Idaho brings its unbeaten league rec ord and its star, Elgin Baylor, to town for an important two game series with Pacific. A crowd of 2500 each night is expected in the local high school gymnasium. Pacific has lost two conference games and needs to win the week end con tests to stay in the, title race. Other Northwest conference action sends Whitman to Lewis and Clark for a week end series, and Willamette hosts Linfield Saturday night. V DOWN s S $ wm
