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) TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Rector, Foust on Sick List as Black Tornado Preps for Ashlanders Illness plagued the Medford high Black Tornado today as it girded for the series which could assure it of the Southern Oregon Conference Big Four Basket hall crown. - Coach Frank Roelandt re ported Frank Rector and John ny Foust on the sidelines as the Tornado tuned up for its series with the Ashland Grizzlies at Ashland on Friday and here on Saturday. Rector, regular starting guard and second high scorer on the crew, has a touch of flu and has been on a juice diet for a couple of days. He was out for practice Tuesday but missed yesterday's drill. Foust, the first line re serve, was cn hand for the work out yesterday but Roelandt stated that a sore throat will keep him out today. Reserves Named The head mentor of the Tor nado had hope of having the two on hand for both Ashland engagements. He said, however, that if Rector is unable to start, Ed McCullough or Lloyd Cear ley may be named to take his spot. Ashland currently is deep in the conference cellar with only one victory in eight games. But the Grizzlies could prove a stumbling block in the Tornado . . ii i ?ii nrn a 1 drive to cincn xne Tine, me asu landers were in the cellar last year and rose up to smack Med ford in a high scoring struggle after losing the first three games of the season. Coach Al Simpson, who had his Ashlanders come up with stalling tactics last week end in a futile attempt to halt the Klam ath Pelicans, could come up with something similar against Medford. He's more than likely to have something up his sleeve. Mickle May Play Jerry Mickle, speedy guard, too, may be back m the Grizzly line-up. He's been out since hurting his ankle a couple of week ends ago in a skiing acci- Cottonpickers. Senior, Wieners Hold 2nd in Loop League standings L. 0 1 1 1 , 2 4 3 4 5 6 Pet. 1.000 .833 .833 .800 7 .333 550 -500 .000 .000 Tweakers Cottonpickers Senior Wieners Gold Ray Salmon Backs nubbin five Screwballs Mountain Boys Beany Boys Thunderbirds Nico-Quint The Tweakers resume action this week in the Saturday re creation basketball league at Medford senior high school and hope to continue their unmar red record against the cellar team, Nico-Quint. Cottonpickers and Senior 0 Wieners held on to a second place deadlock after last weeks 5 action. The Cottonpickers rap ped the Beany Boys 37 to 10 and the Wieners beat the Flubbin' Five 30 to 20. In other action the Screwballs bounced Nico-Quint 25 to 20. ne inunaerDiras ana wuuukuu Boys failed to field teams for thpir same. Tussles this week are Cotton- pickers and Thunderbirds at 10 a.m. Beany Boys and Salmon cBacks at 11 a.m., Flubbin' Five and Mountain Boys at 1 p.m. and Tweakers and Nico at 2 p.m. Because a number of boys will go to Klamath Falls to see the Medford-Pelican varsity tangles, there will be no Satur day loop scuffles on February 26.. Final league frays will be on March 5. Louisiana State Choses Dietzel Baton Rogue, La. (U.R) Paul Dietzel, new Louisiana State University football coach, said today he would install a rugged rock 'em, sock 'em type of football at the school, based on Army's type offense. The LSU Board of Super visors picked Dietzel unani mously Wednesday lo succeed Gaynell Tinsley, who was fired a week ago Saturday. He was given a three-year contract at $13,000 a year, ' highest in the school's history. . LSU still needs an athletic director to replace T. P. Red Heard who was allowed to re sign the day Tinsley was fired. BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY COLLEGE SCORES East Pennsylvania 67, Brown 61 Canisius 86. Villanova 63 La Salle 89. Albright 70 Army 72. Hatwick 63 Princeton 53. Columbia 52 Connecticut 91. Rutgers 78 . Syracuse 78. Cornell 61 Gettysburg 74, Navy 72 (overtime) West Virginia ' 93. Pittsburgh 86 Rhode Island 92. Providence 72 St. Bonaventure 90, Westminster 82 South Wake Forest 83. N. Carolina 70 : V. Kentucky 71. Oklahoma City 59 midwest Marquette 93. Bradley 83 Butler 68. DePauw 47 Iowa State 82, Drake 73 Southwest Kansas 87, Oklahoma 75 Oklahoma A&M 62, Tulsa 52 West MAIL TRIBUNE dent. There has been some rumbling of other reasons. Medford wants a series sweep badly this week. That will give the Tornado the banner no mat ter what happens in the Grant Pass-Klamath series this week end at Grants Pass and in the Medford series at Klamath next week. Grants Pass could help Medford by at least a series split with the Pelicans. Probable Medford starters this week are Rector, if he's ready, Larry Copple, .Jerry Kalapus, Glenn Peterson and Bud Kast- ner. Simpson may pick . his Grizzly five from among Mickle, Harry. Johnson, Doyce Lemley, Stu Baker, Gene Parent and Phil Sword. There will be 6:45 p.m. jayvee scraps before the 8:15 p.m. main attraction. Washington Star Climbs In ND Chase Los Angeles (U.R) Dean Parsons of Washington has crept to within 12 points of Pacific Coast Conference Northern Di vision scoring leader Jim Loscu toff while Oregon State con tinued to dominate team statis tics, it was announced today. Loscutoff, of Oregon, leads with 233 points for a 19.4 game average while Parsons is averag ing 18.4. Both have four games to play. Other top scorers in cluded Ron Bennink of Wash ington State with 17.1 per game, seven-foot, three-inch Wade Hal brook of OSC with 15.9 and Idaho's Harlan Melton with 12.8. Most Accurate Parsons lead the division in shooting accuracy with 48.6 per cent of his floor shots ad OSC's Reggie Halligan was best from the free throw line with an 85.4 percentage. . . Oregon State, undefeated in ten division games after a slow early season start, leads every statistic ' except rebounds, in which Oregon was strongest with 622 to their opponents 432. The. Beavers lead in average points per game with 64.4; per centage of field goal attempts with 38.1; free throw percentage with 69.8; and defense, holding their opponents to 52.7 points per game and 31 per cent of their field goals. , Buzz Wilkinson Challenges Floyd In Hoop Scoring New York (U.R) Richard (Buzz) Wilkinson of Virginia, basketball's highest returning scorer from last season, moved up today to challenge Furman's Darrell Floyd for the national collegiate scoring lead. Wilkinson, who stands 6-feet-2, tossed in 68 points in two games during the week ending Sunday, to boost his per game scoring ev erage to 32.1 points. Only Floyd, with 40 points in a single game that week, is ahead of him with 35.5. Wilkinson thus moved ahead of Robin Freeman of Ohio State whose average is 31.5 points per game and will stay at that fig ure since he has quit for the season because of his health. Yarborough Next Behind Floyd, Wilkinson, and Freeman in the top 10 scoring this season are Bill Yarborough of Clemson. at 28.6 points per game, Dick Hemric of Wake For est at 28.3, Denver Brackeen of Mississippi at 27.3, sophomore Dick O'Neal of Texas Christian at 27.0, John Mahoney of Wil liam & Mary at 26.8 and Jack Twyman of Cincinnati, also 26.8. Stan Glowaski of Seattle took over the national basket-shooting lead with a 59.7 per cent shoot ing mark from the floor. Jim Scott of West Texas State re tained the free throw shooting lead with an average of 90.8 per -cent. Charlie Slack of Marshall College stayed on top in rebound ing with an average of 26.1 re bounds per game. A bull sea elephant, by far the largest of the seals, may grow to a length of 20 feet and weigh as much as three tons. Its thick layer of blubber beneath the skin yields a valuable oil. You'll Always Find o Reliability O Uniformity o Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY MeAndrews Road Phone 2-5271 Thursday, February 17, 1955 Links Fund Will Red Cross New York Chief beneficiary from National Golf day proceeds in 1955 will be the American Red Cross, Frederick L. Riggin, president of the National Golf fund. Inc., which disburses tour ney feets to golf-related courses, announced today. , During the three years the annual event has been staged, the National Golf Fund has re ceived $321,000 in $1 entry fees which players pay to compete against the National Open cham pion. Half of that amount has been presented to the USO and the remainder distributed to various organizations for turf research, junior golf, handi capped golfer and caddie scholar ship programs, Riggin said. Flexible Plan In announcing Red Cross par ticipation in 1955, Riggin ex plained that the change in bene ficiaries was made because the Golf Fund wished to establish a flexible charity-support plan at this time and that this in no way reflected upon the continu ing need of the Armed Forces for USO services. Golf fund of ficials, Riggin said, believe that such a plan will help assure the continued vitality of the Na tional Golf day program, which each year has attracted more and more players. National Golf day is spon sored by Life magazine and the Professional Golfers association, with the cooperation of the United States Golf association. In 1955 the event will be held cn Saturday, June 4. The cham pionship round will be played at the Olympic Club, San Fran cisco, site of this year's U. S. Open tournament. Defending champion will be Ed Furgol, 1954 Open winner. This year, for the first time, there will also be a champion for women to compete against Mrs. Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharies, 1954 Women's Open winner. '. Red Cross officials emphasized that golf day receipts will be returned to local chapters based on participation in each com munity. . Tenley Albright Appears Certain To Grab Mantle Vienna, Austria (U.R) Honey haired Tenley Albright .of New ton, Mass., won the compulsory figures contest today and ap peared certain to go on to win the women's world figure skat ing championship. Only the same kind of un lucky break that struck her down last year can keep the American teen-ager from being crowned the 1955 women's skat ing champion at the completion of the competition tonight. That was the opinion of the world's leading skating experts as the 19-year-old Miss Albright carried a commanding lead into today's "free skating" competi tion, the final half of the wom en's event. Jenkins Victor A triumph by the pretty young medical student would give the United States a sweep of the two biggest titles at stake in the tournament, for Wednesday Hayes Alan Jenkins, of Akron, Ohio, won the men's champion ship for the third straight year. Jenkin's victory, which gave the United States the men's title for ' the eighth straight year, headed an American sweep of the top three places. Ronald Rob ertson of Long Beach, Calif., who actually outshone Jenkins in the free skating-division, fin ished second and David Jenkins, 17-year-old brother of the cham pion, was third. Four Rate High In Texas Meet San Antonio. Tex. (U.R) Veterans Johnny Palmer and Tommy Bolt and a couple of fledgling pros. Gene Littler and Billy Maxwell, were rated the men to beat as the $12,500 Texas Open Golf tournament started today. Littler, like Maxwell a former National Amateur champion, and Bolt already have two tour nament ckamDio'nshiD checks de posited in their bank as a result of victories along the eight weeks old winter tour, while Palmer has one and Maxwell has a runner-up check to his credit. ' ' - MEDFORDvTRIBUTfB srPdDimrs W rTb . . 1''- - ;f ;:- ' 1Hl YOGGI HUSSANE Colorful Turk on Mat Card Good Crowd Expected To See Mat Inaugural Advance ticket sales point to a near-capacity crowd at Mer rick's arena Saturday night when Mack Lillard presents a three-ply card lifting the cur tain on the spring wrestling season. "... -. Out of the six participants, Crowley Named To Pennsylvania Athletic Group Scranton, Pa. (U.R) James H. (Sleepy Jim) Crowley, former gridiron great newly appointed to the Pennsylvania Athletic Commission, said today he plans to rid the racket-element, "if it exists," from state boxing. "We plan to make it one of the cleanest and most ethical sports," said Crowley, one of Notre Dame's famed Four Horsemen and' former grid coach at Ford ham University'. Benjamin R. Donolow, a Phila delphia Democrat, has charged that boxing in Pennsylvania is "racket-ridden' 'and has intro duced a resolution for an inves tigation of the sport by the state legislature. The 52-year-old Crowley said he had a chat in Harrisburg Wednesday with Gov. George M. Leader who appointed him and the result was a plan to forget "what has happened in the past." "We want to get a fresh start," said Crowley who appears in line for the post as commission chairman to succeed Frank Wie ner of Philadelphia. Two other commissioners must be appointed and Crowley said, "I will have a lot more to say when I meet with them." Crowley's appointment came less than 24 hours after Leader, a Democrat, fired the three Re publican members of the com mission. The appointment is subject to approval by the Republican-controlled state senate. The other commissioners given the gate in addition to Chairman Wiener were George Jones of Williamsport and John Holohan of Pittsburgh. SEE THE RUGGED TRUCK THAT SNOW ICE MUD SAND D0NT STOP TTTT T7T7T T7TT 7fy AMERICA'S LOWEST 4 -WHEEL -DRIVE TRUCK CMnJs3 WITH 115 HP SUPER-HURRICANE ENGINE MADE BY THE WORLD'S LARGEST MAKER OF 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES WILLYS MOTOKS, IN&, Ultrf 1, ON Stevens Kaiser - Willys, Inc. 505 North Centra! Medford, Or. five will be making their initial appearance in a Medford ring. Lillard has carded two men's matches and a ladies match, each for 45 minutes or two out of three falls. Yoggi Hussane, a big and colorful Turkish matman who isn't beyond taking things into his own hands if an opponent starts getting the better of it, will take on Joe Hahn, Port land fireman, in one of the clashes. Hahn is a fast-stepper who likes - clean wrestling but knows how to take care of him helf in any kind of company. Larry Presnell, another Port lander who works for the police department, tackles Johnny Dobbs, big Omaha bonecrusher, in the other men's match. Headlining the card will be Gerry Hunter, only one of the sextet to have been seen here before,, against Ella Kowalski, red-haired Polish cutie. Although much interest is centering on the ladies' match, fans are looking forward to see ing the other newcomers in action. Lillard said today that sev eral choice ringside seats are still available at the Rogue res turant, 42 South Central ave. General admission tickets will go on sale when the arena doors open at 7:30 p.m. The first bout is slated for 8:30 p.m. with Har old (Buck) Davidson to referee all matches. Yankee Baseball Player Visits Woodson (Woody) Held, New York Yankee baseball player, visited here Tuesday as over night guest of his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Ernest San to. Lozier lane. He was accompanied by his wife and two daughters, Cinda and Joy Lynn. They have just returned from Puerto Rico where Held played baseball throueh the winter months... The family lives at Sacramen to, Calif. They soon will leave for St. Petersburg, Fla., where he will begin spring training for the Yankees. ONE-TON 4-WH EEL-DRIVE TRUCK PRICED Dons Extend Win Strealc To 18 Games By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Wriler Marquette and San Francisco, those twin tourney-bound comets of the court, now have extended their dazzling winning streaks to 20 and 18 games, respective ly. ' . Marquette gained the 20-mark easily with a 93-83 romp over Bradley Wednesday night at Peoria, 111., but San Francisco, the nation's highest-ranked team was hard-pressed to make No. 18 with a 65-57 decision over St. Mary's at Moraga, Calif. Each victor now sports a 20-1 record. But St. Mary's, with a 6-16 record, really made San Fran cisco work. The Gaels jumped off in front and held the lead for 16 minutes before San Fran cisco edged ahead, 19-18. The Dons stayed in front the rest of the way, but simply couldn't shake off the pesky Gaels. Six 10 Bill Russell, the Dons' sop homore star, sparkled again with 24 points and 22 rebounds. SF Heads CBA . Although the Dons haven't officially landed a tourney berth yet, they're leading the Califor nia Basketball' Association with a 9-0 record and seem a cinch to land in the NCAA Tournament. Wednesday night's most sig nificant conference game saw Tulsa ousted from the .Missouri Valley conference lead by a sur prise 62-52 loss to defending champion Oklahoma A&M. The loss put Tulsa's league record at 5- 2 and moved St. Louis (4-1) into the top spot, which it de fends tonight in a game against Wichita. By contrast, ; Pennsylvania took a commanding Ivy League lead by whipping Brown, 67-61, while second - place Columbia was being upset by Princeton, 53-52. Penn now leads with an 8-2 mark, while Columbia ' is tied for second with Cornell at 6- 3. ; ; V Bruce Cudd To Defend Title Here Portland (U.R) Golfing star Bruce Cudd said today he was withdrawing from Portland Uni versity for spring - semester to sharpen up on his golf game for the Walker Cup matches in Scot land in May and to compete, in several major tournaments. Cudd said j would return to his studies next fall. . Cudd plans to compete in the Oregon Open at Medford March 25-27 and then go to Augusta for the Master's tournament. He and Dick Yost, also of Portland, recently were named to the U S. Walker Cup team. best Bobo Olson Whips Jones Handily; Eyes By ED SAINBURY United Press Sports Writer Chicago (U.R) Middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson got "just the fight I expected" from Field Goal Mark Should Fall in SD Los Angeles U.R) With only four games remaining for Pa cific Coast Conference Southern Division teams, it appeared cer tain today that Dick Welch of University of Southern Califor nia and UCLA's . Don Bragg would both break the loop rec ord for field goal accuracy. Division statistics after eight games showed Welch with a 60.6 average from the floor, just a point ahead of Bragg with 59.6 per cent. Both are well ahead of the division record of 48.9 per cent set in 1953 by Cal ifornia's John Ricksen. ;.. . Meanwhile, Ron Tomsic of Stanford preserved his scoring lead over Cal's Bob McKeen with 168 points for . a 21-point game average. McKeen aver aged : 19.8 followed by Welsh with 16.9, UCLA's Johnny Moore at 16.4 and Willie Naulls, another Bruin, with 14.3 Carr In Lead - Free throw percentages show ed SC's Chet Carr in the lead with 82.1 per cent. Eddie White of UCLA was just behind with 81.5 and Bragg has hit on 79.3 per cent. ' . Willie Naulls led in rebound ing with 98 to McKeen's 79 and Trojan Roy Irvin's 71. UCLA, with a league-leading 7-1 record, dominated team sta tistics. The Bruins'. 77.1 scoring average was seven points better than second place Stanfords' while they lead in defense also, allowing 64.5 points per game to SC's 69.4 and Stanford's 70.8. Sanford maintained its shoot ing margin over the Bruins with a team mark of .446 from the floor to .434 for UCLA. : In rebounding, UCLA . has picked off 121 more than their combined opponents. The three other teams in the division, as a result, have, minus marks in that department. SUBSTITUTE NAMED San Francisco (U.R) Pro moter Bennie Ford announced that Chamrern Songkitrat, Thail and's bantamweight champion, has agreed to box Raoul (Raton) Macias of Mexico here March 9 for the NBA' version of - the world bantamweight . champion. Songkitrat . is .substitution for Mario d'Agata of Italy who was wounded by a shotgun blast earlier this week during an argu ment over his laundry business. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. served in i circles... The extra years enrich kg its great Bourbon flavor tOlD f :' V U Jul JUl m EEMRJ 405 1 '""""i stkaightIJOUBBOII1 OLD HICKORY DISTILLING CORPORATION PHILADELPtSA,'PA. Bigger Game Ralph "Tiger" Jones Wednesday night and as a result he was geared up today for a shot at bigger game. Olson, weighing 168 pounds, the heaviest of his career, neatly carved Jones into a hulk bleed ing from the eye, the mouth and the nose to win a handy 10 round decision. "He's got as big a heart at anybody I've ever seen," Olson said of Jones. Olson, entering the ring, was assured of a chance to go for the bigger game as the sponsor ing International - Boxing club scheduled him for an April 13 ace against the former light heavyweight champion, Joey Maxim. Felt Fine The bout was contingent only upon Olson defeating Jones, and he did that handily. Referee Frank Gilmer and Judge Spike McAdam gave the champion every round for a perfect 100 points in his 10-round non-title engagement, while Judge John Bray gave him 99 points. "I felt fine at that weight," Olson said, "and that's about what I'll weigh for Maxim, I was. strong and never got tired, and I could punch pretty well.; "But he fought the kind of fight I expected. Coming at me all the time. Just the kind . I like." . Both Sid Flaherty, Olson's manager, and Maxim's handler. Jack Kearns, predicted the bout between their brawlers would draw $200,000 with the Cow Pal ace scaled to a $15 top. They also expected television revenue for the Wednesday night fight and - Flaherty said that San Francisco would be blacked out Southern Oregon Baseball League Session Sunday "Preparations for the 1955 Southern Oregon league baseball season will, be launched . next Sunday, February 20. League President Donald E. Faber, Central Point, has called a meeting for 1:30 p.m. at the Roseburg city hall. Faber reported that all of last year's loop members' have in dicated that they will again field teams. In the circuit were Med ford, Grants Pass, Brookings, Drain and Coquille. V Baseball interests of Bend, Klamath Falls, Coos Bay-North Bend, , Glendale, Roseburg and Hauser Air Force Base (near North Bend), have been invited to have representation at the session. Particular pressure is being placed on Roseburg ' this spring. Roseburg participated in the organization of the loop last year then ; dropped out before the season opened. . ' - SIX YEARS OLD 86 PROOF San Francisco 65. St. Mary's (CaL) 57 1
