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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, February 21. 19S5 TORNADO FLARES It! 2ND HALF TO CRUSH ASHLAND FIVE 82-57 SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS W 1 Pet Medford 10 0 1.000 Klamath Fails 6 4 .600 Grants Past ; 3 7 .300 Ashland , 1 9 .100 With a second half display of glittering might and aggressive ness' and of fired up determina tion, the Medford high Black Tornado put a stop to hot shoot ing by the Ashland Grizzlies and powered to an 82 to 57 Southern Oregon Conference basketball win here Saturday night. r Bettering 80 points for the third time this season against the Grizzlies, the Black Tornado also took its fourth verdict from the Ashlanders. It was the 10th triumph against : no defeats in the conference for Medford and ran the full season victory string to 18 in a row. Tornado record for the year is 19 wins and one loss. .: Saturday victory assured Med ford of at least a two-game mar gin over second place Klamath Falls in final league standings and a four-game bulge is pos sible. The Pelicans got a series split with Grants Pass by a 55 to 51 edge over the Cavemen Saturday to stay four games be- MEDFOaDwJTRIBUNE siPdDiFirs fEIla Kowalski Seeks Following Tussle Rmafch Draw in Mat ' Promoter Mack Lillard today was attempting to satisfy Ella Kowalski's demand for a return no time limit wrestling match with Gerry Hunter. The ' two girls went to a fall-apiece draw in the feature match of a card at Merrick's arena : Saturday night. . Subdistrict Togas To Be Determined All A and B subdistrict titlists in this southern Oregon region will have been, determined when the coming week end's high school basketball slate is com pleted. The stage--will then be set for the following week when play-off's decide state . tourna ment entries from this area. . : Final series in the Southern Oregon conference, the Little Six 3 tournament and the Jack son County B ' league titular play-off those' tussles provide the bill-of-fare this week. & Medford has already , been crowned Southern Oregon con ference champ. Nothing will be at stake except prestige ' this week in the circuit. However, the Tornado, in its bid. for an unmarred season in the loop, anticipates its toughest series of the 12-game campaign in the Friday . and Saturday night stands at Klamath Falls. -, Other skirmishes in the loop match Grants Pass and Ashland at Grants Pass on Friday and at Ashland on Saturday. Who Plays Medford? Medford's Black Tornado has already claimed - the Big Four division mantle of Class A, Dis trict 4. The Little Six tourney at Eagle Point will determine who plays Medford for the ov erall district toga. Action starts Thursday when Phoenix opposes Eagle Point and Illinois Valley takes on Henley. Crater meets Brookings on Fri day and the winners of the pre vious night's games collide. The championship and two . other tangles are billed for Saturday. Talent and Rogue River, who deadlocked in the . regular Jack son B races, are adversaries on Friday in the St. Mary's "gym Winner will take on Malin the following week for the District 5-B tiara. Malin won the Klam ath county subdistrict- laurels Saturday night by rapping Chil oquin 54 to 48 in tourney finals. Cinch SD Laurels Berkeley, Calif. U.R) UCLA broke loose late in .the second half to defeat California 84-76 and cinch, the Southern division of the Pacific Coast con ference basketball- title here Saturday. ..r . A hot 36 points" by California's Bob McKeen was offset by the sharp shooting of three Bruins' each of whom made more than 20 points. McKeen ran' his three year total to 626 points, eclipsing Hank Luisetti s Southern divi- lion record of 612 points. He dumped in 15 baskets and six of 11 free throws. Taft Gets 26 Morris Taft with 26 points led UCLA but was followed closely by Ron Bane's 24 and John Moore's 21 points. - .;... .; The game was tied eight times when Bob Blake got four straight, free throws to make it 72-72. Moore then hit .two free throws and a .tip-in and Taft got a pair of free throws and a jump shot to give the winners an invincible 80-72 lead. - - UCLA hit 30 of 62 shots from the floor, 20 of them in the sec ond half to run their record to 11 in a row and 19-3 for the season with a 9-1 conference record. . - ' Miss Kowalski complained to Lillard that she believed Referee Harold (Buck) Davidson gave Miss Hunter all the breaks and in an interview after the match Miss Kowalski gave that as her reason for attacking Davidson during the bout. She said she wants a different referee if she gets the return bout. Miss Hunter, who claims the world's feminine, middleweight championship, took the first fall before a sell-out crowd with a Boston crab hold in 17 minutes and 15 seconds. The second fall went to Miss Kowalski in 8:10 with a body press. Miss Hunter, angered at Da vidson's interference with her rough stuff, ripped, the referee's white duck trousers completely off him , and later threw him about the ring with a headlock while Miss Kowalski sat on the ropes and watched. Another -- match . loomed for Lillard when Yoggi Hussane is sued a challenge to Davidson following Hussane's loss to Joe Hahn in the middle match. After Hussane. had taken the first fall from "Hahn in l&A minutes with a surfboard hold, he tackled Davidson for inter ferring with his rough stuff, which rivals that of any ever seen in the arena.' Davidson pol ished Hussane off without too much difficulty after which the angered Turk, turned on Time keeper Joe Crawford. That last ed only until Crawford raised his hammer. v ; Hahn won the second fall on a foul in five minutes and five seconds when . Hussane refused to break choke holds. Again Hus sane took after -Davidson and again he took a beating from the arbiter. The winning fall went to Hahn, again on a foul. Hussane had been awarded the fall . with a shoulder press but Hahn, the crowd and Crawford screamed that Hussane used leverage by holding Hahn's pants, an illegal maneuver, to get the fall.-Davidson reversed his decision and gave the match to Hahn." Time was six minutes. Hussane tackled Davidson for the third time and was tossed over the ropes Onto the. arena floor for his efforts. . ; Johnny Dobbs, another rough- house expert, drew a multitude of jeers from the crowd as he polished off Larry Presnell, Portland, in the opener, - two falls to one. All in all, the card was well received . by the throng and many of the spectators; called it the best wrestling program they have seen in Medford in recent years. - . . " Joyvees Nip Ashlanders . Medford high junior . varsity hoopmen blew a 12 point lead in" the 'fourth quarter here Sat urday night but managed to hold to. tight enough to eke out a 45 to 43 win over the Ashland jayvees and extend ." their ; un beaten record to 18 contests. The Junior Tornado went into the last quarter heading 36 to 29 and soon had a 41 to 29 ad vantage. That 1 edge was - cut down to two-point gaps of 41 to 39, 42 to 40. and 44 to 42. The margin slipped to 44 to 43 when Lance Locke made a gifter for Ashland and John Hawley miss ed one for Medford on a double foul. : Larry Gober got a final, free shot with 25 seconds left to bring ' the score to the final count. Medford was . leader at the quarter 14 to ft. and at the half 25 to 20. Gober totaled ' 21 points" for Medford and Woods and Fitch each 10 for Ashland. hind the Black Tornado. Med ford clinched the SO Big Four crown Friday, whacking Ashland 85 to 54 while Grants Pass spilled the Pels 54 to 47. Early Lead Medford took the lead early Saturday against the Grizzlies and after the first quarter ended another Tornado runaway . ap peared in the offing. That canto ended 21 to 12. . But in the second stanza the Tornado fell victim to torrid Ashland shoot ing and its own defensive and offensive lapse. The Grizzlies outscored the Tornado 18 to 15 in the panel and the Medford spread at halftime was cut to six points at 36 to 30. A rejuvenated, hustling, driv ing, ballhawking Medford club, however, took the floor at the start of the second half and the height provided by Jerry Kal apus and Glenn Peterson and the torrid fast breaking and ball handling of Larry Copple, Bud Kastner and Frank Rector, as usual, took its toll. 29 Point Lead - Medford ran up 25 points to Ashland's 10 for a 61 to 40 lead at the end of the third quarter and the regulars pushed their margin over the Grizzlies to 29 points at 73 to 44 before giving way to reserves with 3 V4 min utes played in the final quarter. Frank Rector headed the third quarter scoring parade with six field goals and a free shot. Kal apus got four field goals in the surge. . Ashland's .542 field goaling average on 13 buckets in 24 tries kept it in the ruckus during the first half. Medford fired 15 out of 38 for only .397 during that stage of the fracas but came back in the third quarter to make 11 out of 22 for a .500 mark of its own. The Tornado held Ashland to a .321 goaling average in the second half. .407 Average Medford racked up its most field shots of the year, 35, but with 86 attempts had one of its "poor" nights with a .407 mark. Ashland's average for the night was .423. Tornado reserves in the closing part of the mix didn't get the ball in the hoop ' with the consistency of the regulars and Medford hit only nine for 26 in the last quarter. Eighty per cent of the made Tornado field shots were from close range and Ashland got 14 out of its 22 from short distance. most of them in the first half and late fourth quarter. Tornado height paid off offen sively but the rebounding margin was not decisive.. Medford cleared 40 boards to 32 for Ash- land. Kalapus and Ashland's Gene Parent each had 12. Kast ner and Copple got six each for Medford and Peterson five. .-, Larry .Copple was Medford's high scorer with' 20. Peterson ana tector got 15 apiece and Kalapus 12. Parent got 16 for Ashland, Stu-Baker and John son each 11 and Jerry Mickle 10. BOX: Medford Kalapus, Kastner. f Peterson, c L.. Copple, g ttector, g McCullouBh ' McLaughlin Cochran -... Cearley Tisdel Reinking Dtakins ; 5 2 7 ; 9 , 7 2 1 1 0 1 0 . 0 ft ,pf r.tp 3 12 2 6 0 15 1 20 1 15 0 '4 5 0 3 0 1 0 Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor We're glad to see an early start in preparations for this year's Medford Softball season and hope there is a good turnout for the 8 o'clock meeting sched uled tonight at the YMCA by Russ McKechnie, Medford Soft ball Association president. Softball, abandoned during the years professional - baseball was in Medford, has struggled since its revival a few years ago and could die out completely, on a league basis, unless more in terest is shown in making the circuit operate. The job can't be done by one man or even two. The fact that the MSA had to switch from play on a lighted field and finish the season, with twilight games is evidence that there are problems to be faced, even for the coming sason. Per haps, the long range answer is a city financed and administered recreational program. slderation and study. Ashland Baker, -f . Sword.: f Parent, c Mickle. g , Johnson, g Schultz Locke Taylor .. Lemley Carter 35 12 16 82 tg ft pf tp 5 1 7 4 5 0 0 0 0 0 1 5 11 4'2 6 3 4 1 0 0 .0 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 0 2 1 22 13 16 57 Medford 45 D. Copde. 4' Inskeeo 7 Stearns 2 ' Hawley 4 uoDer 21 f f c g g 43 Ashland 4 Moores 3 Clemens 6 Green S Lock - 10 Woods SuhRtltllTirms TT1.- 1trfn.l c;i --Puhl 1. Plumley. 2; for . Ashland: Fitch 10, Bailey, Ebexhart 2. Cray 3. Red Raiders Out of Race In Circuit Ashland Portland ' State col lege eliminated Southern , Ore gon college from the Oregon Collegiate conference basket ball running and assured itself at least a tie for the champion ship Saturday night by clipping the Red Raiders here 51 to 39. . Victory put the Viking record at 11 and 1 in the circuit and put SOC's standing at 9 and 5, leaving only Eastern Oregon (7 and 5) with a chance to catch the PSC team. Stall Used Southern Oregon employed a zone defense in the conflict and Portland State, leading 19 to 15, stalled five minutes late in the first half. The' 19 to 15 count prevailed at halftime. "The Vikings controlled the boards with a 62 to 22 margin in rebounds. - r -,- ; Lloyd Hoffins of the Raiders was high scorer with 15 points. Paul Poetsch .of. PSC. and Tiger Bob Smith of SOC each had .12.. Southern Oregon ends : its loop slate Tuesday playing Ore gon Tech at Klamath Falls. LINE-UPS: PSC 51 Parker 6 Robertson , 7 Nenow 9 Viskov 10 Poetsch 12 f f c .8 e 39 SOC 15 Hoffine . 12 Smith 4 Titus .1 Johnson 4 Bates Perkins 5, OSGC EYES SUPERTROUT Ken Denman, Medford, mem ber of the Oregon State Game Commission, has reported that Commission has looked into the steelhead propagation and planting program of its state of Washington counterpart and feels "that they" have some thing there." Trial of a sim ilar program in Oregon is an ticipated. Denman says , some procedures will have to be changed. Under the program headed by Clarence Pautzke, chief biologist for the WSGC, steelhead fishing in Washing Ion has .produced more and bigger fish despite heavier fishing pressure. Substitutions For PSC Evans 2. Mclntyre; for SOC: Springer 2, Lillebo 1. Love. Crandall. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon -Saturday-: 10 - a jn. Monday -for Monday; other daya 5:20 previous day. V ALTON PLAN FAVORED . Sentiment was generally lav- brable toward the Izaak .Walton League of America land restora tion proposal : last week during a discussion at the - Jackson county Waltonian chapter ses sion. Members, however, delayed until March 14 their decision on whether they will support the proposal. - r . .. . The. I WLA. plan, presented by its land use committee proposes that the U. S. Department of Agriculture lease from the own ers and remove from all agri cultural production a sufficient acrease of cultivated land to bring production back' into line with current demand. Committeemen in presenting the matter ' for " consideration pointed to paradoxes. On; the one hand there is over-produc tion and increasing productivity through technical advances. Meanwhile, foreign ' m a r k e t s have dwindled, and enormous and growing surpluses of basic commodities have been pur chased in the federal price sup port program. An estimated -70,-000,000 acres- are being culti vated which are not suited to cultivation. .''', The committee1 charged that the country is using 10 per cent too much pf its potential produc; tMty '"and' misusing and de teriorating a substantial amount of land resources. - .A term of the. leases proposed would be that the land be im mediately condition ed and planted in a way to assure high est fertility stabilization and re storation. .The IWLA plan aims at an effective soil conservation program. It would first supple ment then supplant the present system, of price supports. It is felt-by-, the . Walton committee that the program would at least strike at the roots of economic; social ana conservation - pro grams facing agriculture. The 'idea evolved by ' the sportsmen's group has. much merit but requires careful con- MIBL HAS GOOD YEAR Despite the fact that the Medford Independent Basket ball League had to curtail its slate for financial reasons, no real harm resulted and the loop actually enjoyed one of its best years, particularly from an administration stand point. And the circuit and its officers axe to be congratu lated. From Glenn Linn, principal of the junior high school, where MIBL . games were played,, comes this comment: "There's been the 'finest, re lationship we've ever had.". He pointed out that the city leagues showed courtesy and took fine care of the interior of the- gym quarters. Linn said it was the first time the league ihas been permitted ' to use the shower room that there has been no trouble. He praised the loop for having . someone on hand responsible at the games and for the ef forts of the players to get out of the building on time after games. Promptness on the part of players and referees had a lot to do with the getting games underway and over on time. A big share of the credit for a successful year goes to President Bill Singler and to his work and guiding hand. His administration proved the value of having as president a non-player who has no team affiliation. WHO IS THIS - - - WELL-KNOWN- .... SPORTS FIGURE APPEARING ON BARKER'S TELE VISION PROGRAM THIS COMING WEDNESDAY NIGHT? POINTERS ROMP Out at Central Point there's considerable pride in the eighth grade basketball team coached bv Barney. Riegs. ; The club is undefeated in 10 games includ ing - two with Medford. The Pointers will attempt to end the resular. season unbeaten in eames Tuesday night . . with Grants Pass and Thursday after noon ; with St. - Mary's. Both scraps will be at Central Point. PILOTS FLY The. Nazarene Pilots, see end place Cagers in the local church league, really flew during the week end. They journeyed by commercial air liner to Crescent City, Calif. They downed the Foursquare team, tops in the Crescent City church loop, 102 to 70 then flew- back to - Medford. Clar ence Johnson scored 26 : for .Nazarene. One - Foursquare player got 28. Crater, Eagle Point Grab Rogue Cage Loop Finales ROGUE LEAGUE STANDINGS (Final) w . It Crater 10 2 Phoenix 7 - 5 Eagle Point 6 6 Illinois Valley 1 11 Pet .833 .583 .500 .083 Crater high added gleam ; to the luster of its championship and Eagle Point gained a break even record in the circuit Sat urday 'night as Rogue league basketball opposition concluded. The Comets of Crater bounc ed Phoenix 54 to 42 at Phoenix to " boost its spread to three games over the second place Pir ates. Eagle Point outscrapped Illinois' Valley at EP, 58 to 48 for its sixth loop setback against as many setbacks. . Both Saturday winners had little trouble. Crater took its lead early and was never head ed. The Comets outplayed Phoe nix and kept a good lead through out the tussle. Eagle Point, too, was on top from the start and its fast break worked well. Both victors had 20-point advantages after three quarters. Parent Drives .' Period margins favored Cra ter over the Pirates 17 to 7, 28 to 19 and 50 to 30. Vern Par ent stood out for the . Comets with his driving and shooting. He was high scorer for the con flict with 16 markers and his teammate and fellow guard, Harvey. Tonn, was next with 14. Jim- Korth had 10 for Phoenix. Eagle Point had intermission standings of 10 to 0, 26 to 9 and 47 to 27. Frank Reich of Eagle Point and Larry Maurer of Illinois Valley each had 17 tal lies. Reserves saw duty for most of the third and fourth stanzas for the Eagles. " A .480 average from the field and .526 clip from the free line assisted the Eagles. The Coug ars averaged .318 in their buck eting and at the gift line got 20 of their points at a .689 shoot ing rate. Eagle Point had the re bounding advantage 38 to 25. Eagle Point won its jayvee contest 32 tp 30 in overtime. LINE-UPS: Eagle Point SS " 48 Illinois Valley Nelson 13 f 17 Maurer Christian 6 f Hemingway Caldwell 4 c 6 Krauss Wyatt , g 10 Sams Reich 17 g 10 Harrison Substitutions For Eagle Point: Bit- terling, Tuttle 7. Greb 8. Mason. Friend 3. McDonald; for Illinois Val ley, Pickle 4, King, Preston 1. Bobby Bell Favored Over Carmelo Costa New York (U.R) Bobby Bell of Youngstown, Ohio, eighth ranking featherweight contender, is favored at 8-5 to beat tin ranked Carmelo Costa of Brook lyn again tonight in their return 10-round bout at Brooklyn's Eastern Parkway Arena. Middleweight Rafael Meretino of . Argentina makes his U.S debut tonight in another TV 10- rounder with Rinzi. Nocero of Brooklyn at St. Nicholas Arena. ' Oil is now produced commer cially in 28 of the American states. The most recent addition to the list is South Dakota. 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