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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE eavers liadem With 6.7-56 .Win Over Vandals Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State clinched the Northern Div ision basketball title last night by downing' a hard-fighting Ida ho team 67-56 in Gill coliseum before 7030 fans, Paced, by giant center Wade Halbrook who racked up 31 points, the Beavers had to fight off a Vandal team that had the game tied up five times in the first 7V4 minutes of play, e Halbrook : snagged 36 re bounds to break his own North ern division J record of 32, set only Monday : night against Ida ho. Several times in the first half he broke the ice when the Vandals threatened. ' Late in the first half the Beavers pulled ahead and fin ished the half with a 31-22 edge over the Vandals. Tied Up Game In the second half, the Van dals narrowed this gap down to a midway tie of 47-all when Jim Sather made two . free throws on a personal foul by Halbrook. But Oregon State got hot again and pulled ' away to end the game 67-56. Oregon State's biggest lead came inj the second half when their margin -at one point reach ed 13. Idaho's Jim Sather trail ed Halbnook's high point 31 with 25. I - i Last mght's victory gave Slats Gill his veighth clear title in the Northern division in 27 years of lie iusl cl uiviuuu lajf-uii iu Washington. The game also was the Beaver's 12th straight vic tory in the 16-game Northern division. - .. ' '. . y Play-offs with the southern champ are scheduled here for March 4, 5, and possibly 7. BOX: Oregon State . Vlasteltca f FG FT PF TP .3 3 0 9 Dean f 0 1 1 paulns S Halliean f 2 2 4 4 2 4 1 1 2 O 1 Whitemao f Halbrook c . Shandoin c Robins g Toole g Fundingsland 14 0 1 2 0 Jarboe g 0 23 11 17 67 Idaho 58 Buhler f Melton f FG FT PF TP . 4 2 3 10 0 .7 0 0 0 0 6 13 1 .0 6 ,.V0 7 Hoots f Webb f - Sather c Bauscher g Falash g 0 0 25 2 12 17 . 22 19 5 McGraw Pacing Golf Qualifying t Everett McGraw continues to pace the field which has grown to 44 entries in the spring handi cap golf tourney at "Rogue Val ley Country club. He has a net 64 in qualifying. Four others have posted 65s, Stan Stark, Leland Clark, Mahr Reymers and Norm Hillyer Best gross score has been 73 by Eddie Simmons. Qualifying concludes on Feb ruary 27 . Gun Club Slates Registered Event Medford Gun club will hold its fifth annual early , spring trapshoot on February 26 and 27. It will be a Pacific 'Interna tional Trapshooting registered event. f The shoot will be a 500 target affair. There will be competition in; 16-yard-handicap and doubles. BAKER-LA YNE MATCH New York -p:(U.R) . -Heavyweight contenders Bob Baker of Pittsburgh and Rex Layne of Salt Lake City have been matched for a 10-round bout, at Brooklyn's . Eastern Parkway Arena, Feb. 28. Baker is ranked fourth among the 'world " con tenders; Layne,. seventh. ., ..... ACADEMY APPOINTMENT Lawrence (Buck) Shaw (above), who learned his foot ball from the immortal Knute Rockne as a star tackle at Notre Dame, has been ap pointed as "special consult ant" at the nation's new Air Force Academy in Denver. The appointment is taken to mean ne will be football coach when the academy is ready for varsity competition in 1956. Wrap Hp MedforivSTribunii SIPODIMr iff (My FINISHING FAR in front, FredDwyer, Armed Forces dark horse, again conquers Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen and America's Wes , Santee, setting new meet record of 4 minutes .06.2 seconds in Baxter Mile of NYAC Games In New York. (Inter-national) Roseburg Indians Subdue Medford Grapplers Again Medford ' high grapplers last night lost their second match of the season with strong Roseburg high. Final score of the card at Roseburg was 29 to 13. The Tornado tusslers won only three of the 12 counting bouts, but got two draws and they fared better in the exhibi tions. Medford wins were by Gordon Owsley over Larry Lane, Paul Eckel over Larry Jacobs and Bill Dyer over Jim Schaef fer. : Ray Williams drew with Vernon Forree and Larry Fraser broke even with Mel Thomas. 7Z " Z- Little Six Clubs Draw On Fri Eagle Point Participating schools will draw at 3 p.m. here this Friday for places - in the bracket for the District 4 Little Six division tournament. The tourney will be held here on February 24, 25 and 26. It will be single elimination. Par ticipants will be Crater, Eagle Point, Phoenix and Illinois Val ley of the Rogue League, Hen ley and Brookings. Two games are scheduled the first night of the tournament. Two teams will get first round byes and will oppose the first round winners l on the second night of the tournament.' On the final night three games will be played, one for the champion ship ' and second place, one for third and fourth places and one for consolation honors. . Tourney winner will play off with the Southern Oregon Con ference Big Four champ for the right to enter the state tourney at Eugene. Crater won the Little Six tourney last year and was also subdistrict winner the two previous years on the basis pf season record against division rivals. . Referees for the little Six event will be Barney - Riggs, Cliff McLean, Goldie Noble and Bill Esselstyn. Timers will be Alf Mekvold and William Ruck and scorer Les Warner and Rob ert Southerand. GAMES SWITCHED Corvallis (U.R) The Oregon State-Brigham Young football game scheduled for Sept. 17 has been transferred from Portland to Corvallis and the Oregon State-Stanford game, originally scheduled for Corvallis Sept.. 24, will be played in Portland, it was announced today. CLEMENTINE ENTRY Arcadia, Calif. (U.R) Calu met Farm's Miz Clementine to day headed a list of 13 nomina tions for the $20,000 Los Cerri tos Handicap at Santa Anita Saturday. The seven furlong dash will serve as a companion feature to the $100,000 Santa Anita Derby. A sign in the Everglades Na tional Park in Florida warns would-be anglers that "fishing within one mile of Royal Palm Raneer Station is reserved for th birds." The sign illustrates the point by a picture of a bird holding a fish in its mouth, crimes rates in the world. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturdav: 10 a.m. Mnnriav for Monday; other day 5:30 previous day. iday Wednesday, February 16, 1955 Northern In 10 exhibition bouts Med ford. wrestlers won. seven. Den nis Walker, Dick Swinney, Noel Black, Maury Butts and Mel Morgan won by pins and Lyle Daun and Gordon DeArmond. Morgan, wrestling out of his class gave about 30 pounds to his rival. Medford - goes to Klamath Falls for district action on Feb ruary 25. RESULTS: 98 Dick Stalling, R. dee. Ken Dunlava, M. 2-0. . 106 Roseburg won by forfeit. 115 Milton Swepe, K. dec. George Flanagan, M, 4-3. . 123 Gordon Owsley M. dee. Larry Lane. K, 2-0. ' 130 Gil Harvey, R, dec. Ray Hilton, M, 4-0. . 136 Bob Moore, R, dec Ron Lin gren. M. 9-1. 141 Jim Hicks, R,' pinned Jim Owsley, M. 148 Ray Williams, M, drew with Vernon Forree, R. 157 Charles Palmer, : R. dec. Les Walch, M, 4-3. , 168 Mel Thomas, R, drew with Larry Fraser. M. . 178 Paul Eckel, -M, dec. Larry Jacobs, R. 4-2. Unlimited Bill Dyer, M, dec. Jim Schaeffer, R, 6-2. EXHIBITIONS: , 110 Jerry Courtney, R, ' pinned Bob Williams. M. . , 118 Don Dunnihoo, R. dec. Jim Nipps, M, 4-0.. - . 130 Jim Houston, R, dec. Bob Welch. M. 6-4. 134 Dennis Walker, M. pinned Larry Dorman, R. 148 Lyle Daun, M, dec. Loren Het, R, 11-8. ' . 148 Dick Swinney, M, pinned Tom Olson, R. 156 Gordon DeArmond. M, dec. Larry Turner. R, 4-3. 156 Noel Black, M, pinned Charles Ridenour. R. 177 Maury Butts, M, pinned Rod ZUKOWSkl, R Unlimited Mel Morgan, -M. pinned Drew Moran. R. Rooks Pick Up 12 th Triumph Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State's Rooks made it 12 wins in a row last night by handing the McChord Air Force Base basketball team a 62-49 defeat here. Ken Nanson led the Rooks with 15 points. ' IN SECOIfD ROUND v Palm Beach, Fla. (U.R) Wiffi Smith of Los Angeles and James McHale.of Philadelphia, the defending titleholders, meet the 1952 champions, Polly Riley of Fort Worth, Tex., and J. "Wal cott Brown of Manasquan, N. J. today in the second round of the Everglades - Mixed. Foursome Golf Tournament. The 1953 win ners, Canadian champion Mar lene Stewart of Font Hills, Ont., and Hobart Manley Jr., of Savan nah, Ga., meet Marge Burns of Greensboro, N.C., and Les Handt of Tampa, Fla. -. 7::s ..v TAKE n n n n r n command... a new clp 50 Custom Royal Linear given away fraa! It's fun I Its easy! A contest avsry day I SEE YOUR DODGE DEALER Division Saves NSC From Upset By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer It's mighty hard to overlook a chap who stands 6 feet, 10 in ches, but that's just what was happening to huge Bob Seitz until he suddenly stepped into the spotlight to save North Car olina State from a major upset: State managed to defeat Duke 84-78, at Raleigh, N.C., Tuesday night to remain tied for the At lantic Coast conference lead, but it was only through the surprise heroics of the husky substitute. Seitz got bis chance when State star Ronnie Shavlik col lected a fourth personal foul midway in the second half and Duke assumed a 70-60 lead. Seitz, with an average of 1.6 points per game, ambled in and quickly stunned Duke with an awesome display of hook-shooting and rebounding. Only three minutes after .his entry, State tied the score. Broke Game Open With 1:56 to play, the score was tied at 78-78 when he broke the game open by sinking a tie breaking basket, feeding Shav-. lik for another, and then adding the final goal of the game him self. ,, . The comeback victory en abled State, ranked the nation's No. 7 team, to remain tied with Maryland for the league lead. Maryland just barely squeaked to victory, too, downing Clem son, 68-66 at Washington. Texas Christian clung to a one-game lead in the Southwest conference race Vby defeating Texas, 75-56, as second-place Southern Methodist kept the pressure on by beating Texas A&M, 81-56. Cockell Tiff With Rocky Ires Moore Grossinger, N.Y. (U.R) Rocky ' Marciano 1 went c ahead with plans today to defend his heavyweight title against Don Cockell in May at San Francis co despite the outraged pro tests of Archie Moore, who has wired the governor of California urging him to prevent the bout. Moore took , the action shortly after Rocky's manager, Al Weill, pronounced Marciano's previous ly injured nose was sufficiently healed to permit a title defense in May. . Big Gate Predicted Although Weill announced that the bout with British Em pire champion Cockell "prob ably would be held in San Fran cisco or London," it was believ ed definite that Marciano will fight outdoors in San Francisco's Kezar stadium, where Promoter Jimmy Murray Dredicted a mil. I lion dollar oato f g j.ne gamblers in Las Vegas were too honest to permit the fight there," added the 38-year-old light heavyweight champ ion who has been clamoring for a heavyweight title shot for al most a year, "and they couldn't get the fight in New York, so they are trying to palm: it off on California." Tex Salkeld Announces Plans for Mitt Cards , Portland (U.R) Promoter Tex Salkeld today announced plans for three boxing cards here in the next two months, the first in early March featur ing South African Heavyweight Champ Johnny Arthur who is training here. Salkeld ,said Arthur's opponent had not yet been chosen. Floyd Patterson, a top-ranking light heavyweight, . will appear later and the third card will feature Pat- McMurtry, rising Tacoma heavyweight, Salkeld said. : Bij "Get Till Thrill" Contest Going On Right Now At Your Dodgi Dialers! ft 4i h DONS STILL ON TOP-Ball in hand, Santa Clara Forward Rich Montgomery tumbles to floor in unsuccessful attempt to stay inbounds in game with University of San Francisco at San Jose, Calif. Teammate Lu Jenkins (21) looks on as thoDons K. C. Jones (4) appears to be doing calisthenics. USF, ranked number one team in the nation, overcame a first half deficit to defeat the Broncos, 66-52. Tornado Hoopmen Improve Defense Mark In GP Tilts ' Medford high school's basket ball team improved its season defensive average and its free shooting' mark as the result" of its Grants Pass seiies last week end but the per game offensive and season field goaling averages-dropped slightly. The average points allowed rival teams amounted to 45.9 af ter the completion of 18 games compared to the 46.4 figure aft er 16 contests." Medford now has made ?99 out of 499 free shot at tempts for a .587 count, ine record stood at .588 before the Tornado met the Cavemen. - Medford ran ' its season scor ing total to 1165 compared to 826 by opponents. Average per game for the locals is 64.7. Be fore the GP series it' was 65.4. Grants Pass last Friday did the lowering job by holding Med ford to 51 points, the least Med ford has scored- since it. started its 46-game winning streak by nudging Eugene 51 to 50. , . Tornado record from the field INDIVIDUAL RECORDS: Larry Copple Frank Rector Jerry Kalapus . Bud Kastner Glenn Peterson John Foust -. Bob Tisdel Ed , McCullough . Bill Cochran ... Lloyd Cearley Ed Retaking Dick McLaughlin Warren Deakins . Portland Beavers Portland (U.R) Catcher Jim Gladd, who failed to hit well for the Portland Beavers of .the Pacific Coast league last season, had his walking papers today. , ; General Manager Joe Ziegler announced the release of Gladd and also that of Milt Martin who was optioned to Victoria by Port land last season. t The first Beaver to return 'a signed contract was Dick (Bird : 3 enjoy thelwhisrikey that's 'Hs an xeutlv of a big department stor. In th 1 v i fin whiskey department, ha i prefer Old Sunny Brook." Ona atp and he's got . that Sunny Brook amile I J8 6 , FtOOf 0 1 A 1 hUN is 433 goals in 1003 attempts, That puts the average at a bit over .431. It was .432 last week, Larry Copple continues as Medford leader in total points, field goals and per game aver age. He has 300 counters even for the season, 125 buckets from the field and has scored at a rate of 16.66 per conflict. Jerry Kalapus has the free throw lead with 79. Frank Rector is second high point maker with 232. and has a 12.8 game average. Kala pus is next with 227 and 12.6. The Black Tornado will try this week to make the most of an opportunity to ' cinch the Southern Oregon ', conference banner. It plays Ashland there on Friday and here on Saturday and can . sew up the bunting with a sweep. ; . ; ; : Defense was to get the stress today. The Tornado, according to Coach Frank Roelandt is also working on different phases of defense this week and aiming at improving its ball ' handling. 18 300 16.6S 125 50 . 35 18 232 12.8 91 " 50 26 18 227 12.6 74 79 58 18 138 7.66 52 34 36 18 132 . 7.33 47 38 50 18 42 2.33 13 16 23 11 23 2.1 - 9 5 9 .15 23 1.53 5 13 8 16 15 .94 6 3 4 16 11 .11 ' 5 14 8 10 1.2 3 4 . 3 13 4 .3 J) 4 14 . 9.5 .55 2 , 1 3 Let Martin Go Dog) Whitman, the former Un iversity of Oregon . outfielder who has played with Brooklyn and Philadelphia in the Nation al league and was with Montreal last season. Ziegler also said Dick' Satal ich, a pitcher who once was a Portland batboy, had returned from military service and would go to spring training camp with Portland. I U T I AU8 U LT ; P.H tXOTBTS U N N Y H Q O tj.C O M f A N Y.Tl Rogue River, Victors in B league Frays JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. 1 1 4 6 Pet. .889 . .875 .556 .333 .222 .125 Rogue River 8 7 5 3: Talent .1 St. Mary's Jacksonville Butte Falls 2 7 Prospect . 1 '. 7 A playoff for the Jackson County B league basketball championship loomed more cer tain than' ever after Rogue River high bounced St. Mary's of Med ford entirely out of the running last night.. The Chiefs got by the Cru saders 62 to 50 at Rogue River while Jacksonville won a scor ing battle of also-rans 89 to 68 from Butte Falls. Victory by the Chieftains put them a half -game ahead of the Talent Bulldogs who are expect ed to pull even again when they entertain P r o s p e c t tonight. Rogue River and Talent split, in their home and home play with in the loop to suffer their only losses thus far and are favored to win their final regular season frays on Friday. . SM Played Well Friday games will be Talent at Butte Falls, Rogue River at Jacksonville and Prospect at St. Mary's. - At Rogue River last night the Chieftains shot ahead for keeps in the third quarter after once trailing , 35 to 36. St. Mary's headed 14 to 13 at the end of the first quarter. Rogue River was leader 35 to 29 at the half way point: and 50 to 42 after three periods. First half of the game was' see-saw quite a bit of the time. St. Mary's played good ball against the Chiefs but were pleagued by "in-and-out" shots. Gary Johnson scored 21 and Ted Stanfield 19 points for RR and Laval 14 for SM. At Jacksonville it was a scor ing duel between Bob Gemaeh- "LETS KICK TELEVISION AT NINE TONIGHT St" - GUESTS - FRANK ROELANDT, Medford Hi's Head Basketball Coach BOB NEWLAND Assistant Basketball - Coach, Head ' Track: Coach 2- i f J Ht e? "f 11 Vi KENTUCKY) BLENDED WHISKEYJ Jacksonville lich of the Redskins, and . Lea Abbott of Butte Falls. Gemaeh lich won out 32 counters to 30. The Jacksonville center, like his teammates, made shots from a variety of spots. Butte Falls col lected lots of field goals from well out and that's how Abbott got most of his. ' The Redskins had auarterlv edges of 24 to 18, 44 to 32 and 62 to 54. Both teams senrprt' at better than a .500 clip. St.. Mary's won its jayvee tilt 37 to 33. ' LINE-UPS: Rogue River 62 Johnson 21 f Daily 12 f Weaver 6 c Stanfield 19 g Stinchcomb g Substitutions For More 2. Morrow 2; Hassler 2. Paup 10. 59 St. Mary's 4 Bobbett 4 Walsh 8 Mikscbe. 8 Dugan 14 Meunier Rogue River, for St. Mary's, Jacksonville 89 G. Heuners 2 . f 8 Butte Falls 10 B. Irwin 9 D. R. Smith 10 P. Conley 30 Abbott Sanford 16 f Gemaehlich 32 c Melntvr 17 .. tf Jordan lz z 6 Ellis SuHsstitiif innc TTj-m .TalrfM.m. xr Heuners 10, Bishop. Wilson. Guches. Dalv: fftr Riitf Troll t i,ri X7 shaw 6. D. L. Smith, M. Conley. Giardello Victor Over May field Miami Beach, Fla. (U.R) Middleweight contender Joey Giardello, who didn't "mess around" in a technical knork. out triumph over Miami's Andy Mayfield, didn't plan today to waste any time going into train ing for his next bout. . Giardello, ranked the No. 1 challenger in the middleweight division, floored Mayfield four times Tuesday night before the referee called a merciful half at 2:09 of the eighth round of the scheduled 10-rounder. WEATHER By United Press Northern California: Mostly cloudy; occasional rain; cooler. IT AROUND" MAIN AT CENTRAL 45 QT. O U I $ V 1 1 1 1 . K I N T U C ty
