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MedfordQ3&Tribukk Webf oofs, Beavers Prime For Last Pair of Games By UNITED PRESS The University of Oregon and Oregon State College basketball teams J settled down Monday to the task of preparing for the final two contests of their an nual four-game series. Oregon invades Corvallis Fri day night and Oregon States goes to Eugene Saturday night for the Northern Division finale. Division Champion Oregon State's winning streak was halted at 13 games Saturday Prep Hoop Teams Eye Tournaments St UNITED PRESS Oregon high school basketball teams today eyed district and state tournaments, which are rominff ud in the next few weeks. - The Lakeview Honkers beat Madras 58-44 and Prineville 80 73 over the weekend to clinch at least a tie for the Central Ore gon league championships. Red' m o n d, which has one game left with Bend, can still tie the Honkers. . The North Bend Bulldogs edg ed Marshfield 65-62 Saturday and after dumping Bandon 72 63 Friday, to move two steps closer to tournament play. In Portland, Jefferson stopped Franklin, 60-49, and Cleveland whacked Washington 80-55 for the city's strongest bids for the class A tourney to be held in Eugene. Hiehlv-rated Milwaukie . roll ed, past Astoria, beset with the flu. 73-44. Beaverton cinched the Tualtin valley league champ ionship with a 77-54 win over Newbere, and are due for dis trict action tomorrow.. Si. Helen's Needs One Medford won its 17th and 18th straight victories by turning back Ashland 82-57 and 84-45, and St. Helens won its 18th vic tory by walloping . Clatskanie 81 ' 46. St. Helens needs only one more district win to qualify for tournament play. " .. The -Eugene Axemen, 17-3, beat South Salem 68-60 in dis trict sii action, and Albany stay ed, afloat in sub-district seven by outclassing Lebanon 69-29. Pendleton, 7-3, after beating The Dalles Saturday, appears to have cinched a tie in Blue Moun tain conference play. Baker and La Grande, both with 6-3 rec ords, meet this weekend to de cide the co-championship. night by a stubborn Washington State crew at Pullman, Wash. Hero of the 68-66 upset by the Cougars was little Eon Bennink vho sank a long one-handed push shot with only two seconds of play remaining. 13-1 Record The loss gave the Beavers a 13-1 Division record with only the two games against Oregon left to play. At Seattle, Oregon edged Washington, 60-59, by staving off a last-minute rally by a scappy, but nervous bunch of Huskies. OSC led WSC 28-24 at half- time. Center Swede Halbrook hit a hook early in the second and guard Bill Toole made two free throws to start of f a chain of ties. Then OSC took the lead 34 32, Bennink tied it up 34-aIl and the ties came in rapid succession. In the last seconds, WSC cen ter Bruce Olson hit a hook to make it 66-64 and Hallbrook sunk a basket to make it 66-66. Then the Cougars got the ball and Bennink went down the court for his long shot. Keep Second By turning the tables on the the Huskies, who romped over Oregon 80-60 Friday night, the Webfoots held fast to second place in the division. The Ducks' scoring was paced by big Jim Loscutoff, forward, and guard Howard Page, who each scored 17 points, and for ward Jerry Ross with 15, eleven of them from the free-throw line. Washington's Don Sunitch points of the Ducks. But from of his upper front teeth in a first-half collision, but came back in the second half to score eight points of his total. In fact, it was little Sunitsch who sparked the Husky rally and nearly pulled the game out of the fire for Washington. After Oregon had built a 53-43 margin midway in the second half, field goals by center Dean Parsons, two by Sunitsch and another by forward Ron Olsen brought Washington within two points of the Ducks. But from that time on, the Webfoots man aged to stay a point or two ahead Until time ran out. Parsons was high point man for Washington with 12, bring ing his total in varsity competi tion to 1,011. Chieftains Take Fourth From Portland Quintet Portland (U.PJ The agile Chiefs cf Seattle University made it four in a row over the Portland University Pilots Sun day night, downing the Port landers 86-62. - ; The Pilots, who appeared tired after Saturday night's basketball struggle , with the Chiefs, couldn't seem to handle Dick Stricklin. 6-foot - 8-inch sophomore who connected for a total of 29 points. His sub Ken Fuhrer, added eight more points, High School Scores SATURDAY GAMES ' Hood River 56. Wy'eat 54 Mac-Hi 61 Hermistoa 40 Parkrose 84 Tillamook 68 Columbia Prep 50 Cen. Catholle 49 Sisters 54 Mosier 45 Lakeview 58 Madras 44 Moro 62 Culver 58 Baker 77 John Day 51 Medford 82 Ashland 57 North Bend 65 Marshfield 62 Bedmond 63 Willamette Eugene 45 Myrtle Creek 52 Creswell 35 Klamath Falls 55 Grants Pass 51 Malin 54 Chiloauin 48 Sacred Heart K-Falls 45 Bonanza 37 Condon 59 Maupm 52 Tillamook Catholic 38 Jewell 36 Irrigon 43 Arlington 37 ' lone 41 Heppner 40 Powers 64 Siletz 40 Bandon 50 Coquille 48 TAKES BOWLING LEAD i- Coos Bay (U.R) Clarence Donahue of Hubbard rolled a 670 yesterday, to take over first place in the Class A singles competition of the 1955 Oregon Men's Bowling championships. The tournament ends next Sun day. CELEBRATES St. Augustine, Fla. (U.R) Don Bisplinghoff of Orlando, Fla., celebrated his 20th birthday by winning the national champion ship of golf club champions with a 5-4 victory over defending chamDion- Billy . Goodloe of Valdosta, Ga. ' ' " ' SEEKS BOUT - Seattle (U.R) Seattle boxing promoter Jack Hurley left today for New York to convince box: ine officials that a Rocky Mar- ciano Don Cockell heavyweight title bout should be held here BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES : East Holy Cross 66 Temple 54 Pennsylvania 61 Cornell 50 Ca nisi us 71 Iona-48 - - Columbia 58 Harvard 53 Connecticut 90 Rhode Island 73 .. Lafayette 99 NYU 71 LaSalle 85 Muhlenberg 71 Niagara 77 Siena 61 Syracuse 83 Penn State 60 Princeton 62 Yale 48 Westminster 94 Pittsburgh 92 Duquesne 70 Villanova 55 South North Carolina St. 78 Maryland 58 Virginia 92 Richmond 58 Alabama 90 Tulane 59 Auburn 75 LSU 71 Duke 84 Wake Forest 65 Florida 77 Mississippi State 68 Furman 110 Presbyterian 87 Georgia Tech 87 S. Carolina 84 Georgia 86 Mississippi 80 Midwest Illinois 99 Wisconsin 71 Nebraska 66 Kansas 55 Tulsa 74 Notre Dame 59 Louisville 79 Bradley 59 . Missouri 78 Iowa State 63 Kentucky 76 De?aul 72 . . Southwest Baylor 86 Texas A&M 68 Texas Christian 84 Rice 80 Arkansas 79 Texas 74 New Mexico 70 Colorado A&M 85 Oklahoma A&M 58 Houston 47 West Wyoming 82 Denver 60 Oregon 60 Washington 59 Southern Cal 71 Stanford 56 Brigham Young 63 Montana St. 62 San Diego St. 69 Pepperdine- 65 Seattle U. 92 Portland U. 77 ' Loyola (Calif) 71 COP 67 WSC 68 OSC 66 Portland State 51 So. Ore. 39 College of Idaho 77 Linfield 43 Pacific 76 Lewis and Clark 66 Whitman 63 Willamette 58 . Oregon Tech 80 OCX 71 , IT Wf '-SV " NFS l Faber Heads SO Baseball League Again Southern Oregon Baseball League retained its 1954 officers yesterday and a circuit of at least six teams for 1955 appeared likely following the session at the Roseburg city hall. Donald E. Faber, Central Point, was - reelected president and Walter Reese, Grants Pass, was continued in office as secretary-treasurer. All of last year's loop partici pants plus Bend, Bandon and Roseburg were represented at the meeting, which was attended by about 30 persons. Medford Cheney Studs, the Grants Pass Cavemen, The Coquille Loggers and the Drain Black Sox all in dicated that they will field teams again this season. The Brook ings Beavers said they may drop out of the circuit but no final decision had been made. League directors voted in Ban don as the fifth or six member of the SOL. They all expressed favor toward admitting Bend but delayed a final positive Vote The representative from the cen tral Oregon city did not have full authority to commit his club to the circuit but promised to notify directors in one week of the Bend organization s decision. Bandon pointed to a team nucleus right within its com munity with young, promising players coming up from the high school. Bend was in search of faster competition and a loop slate which would provide more games. Seeks Leadership The league is intensely In terested in bringing Roseburg into the fold and persons from that community outlined the lack of finance and leadership which kept them out of the loop last year. It was decided yester day that Roseburg representa tives, with the help of Bill Chat ham of the Drain club, should contact the best leaders it could find in the Umpqua valley me tropolis and try to organize group to handle baseball. A re port will be made at the next SOL session Sunday, March 6, at the Roseburg city hall. ; .-, Directors in the meantime will also contact Coos Bay-North Bend and Glendale which are rumored interested. If eight teams join the circuit it is the concensus that the loop will operate in two divisions The schedules would be arranged to bring travel to a minimum. A round robin would be played among four teams in a division with each team to face two teams in the other division also in a home and home set up. 91 Different Models Of Aircraft Produced Washington (U.R) To main tain American air supremacy in commercial and military avia tion, the-United States aircraft industry today is producing 91 different models of airplanes, exclusive of pilotless aircraft. Planes, official publication jof Aircraft Industries Association, said its -recent survey showed that 28 different airframe manu facturers have a total of 65 mili tary, aircraft models in produc tion ranging from Hght liaison types to supersonic bombers. In addition, 26 models of civil air craft are being built for the world commercial market. The AIA survey also showed that nine ; models of military helicopters are in production and that six helicopter models are available to the commercial market. Significant indication that we are maintaining leaaersnip in the air is that, for the first time, engine manufacturers are build ing more different models of jet engines than of piston en gines, the magazine said. PSC Vikings Out To Clinch Crown By UNITED PRESS Portland State college meets Eastern Oregon College of EdV ucation at La Grande tonight in an attempt to wrap up the Oregon , Collegiate conference basketball championship. , The Mountaineers, with a 7-5 league mark, are the only con ference member with a mathe matical chance of doing the Vik ings out of the title. PSC has an 11-1 record. In the Northwest conference tonight, College of Idaho (12-1) hosts Wilammette (6-6); at Cald well and Whitman, (3-9), hosts Linfield (4-9) at WaUa Walla, Wash. In other games this week Southern Oregon journeys to Klamath Falls to meet Oregon Tech tomorrow night, and EOCE will meet Oregon' college at Monmouth both Friday and Sat urday. Dead line for Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday. Sigge Ericsson Gains World Skating Honors Moscow : XU.R) Sigge Erics son, a swift Swede who turned almost certain defeat into vic tory in the world speed skating championships, cracked Russia's grip on the title and was cheered by 75,000 Soviet fans for doing it. ' ; . ' Ericsson, a lanky 24-year old skater from Ostersund, won the men s world crown Sunday at Dynamo Stadium by winning the last of the four events in the competition, the 10,000 meter race. , ' . Monday, February 21, 1935 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Mike Souchak Texas Titlist in bad weather and ; finished with 264, seven strokes behind. Souchak's 257 set a new PGA nine-hole record and his 60 the GLADD FREE AGENT San Diego, Calif. (U.R) The San Diego Padres of the Pacific Coast League yesterday signed ex-Portland Catcher Jim Gladd as a free agent, the Padres' front office disclosed. Gladd, released by Portland Saturday, was im mediately picked up by the 1954 PCL pennant winners. Gladd hit only .198 for Portland last year. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day San Antonio, Tex. (U.R) Former football player Mike Souchak, the new Texas Open champion, won .his first ..golf tournament since turning pro fessional in a : spectacular man ner by breaking two PGA competitive records and tying another. , The unheralded Durham, N.C., golfer won the championship Sunday with a 65 that gave him a 27-under par 257 for 72 holes, a new PGA record. Fred Haas, Jr., of Claremont, Calif., who had been trailing Souchak closely and went into the finals only two strokes off the leader's pace, faded to a 70 first day of the tournament tied the PGA mark for an individ ual competitive round. His 257 for 72 holes broke the old PGA 72-hole record of 259 shared by Ben Hogan, By ron Nelson and Chandler Harp er. - FLYING PAYS OFF Miami Beach, Fla. (U.R)-Fay Crocker, ! an outstanding . ex-, ponent of the "try, try again" school, .won her first profes sional golf tournament in 29 tries when' she scored ar one- stroke victory over Patty Berg Sunday in .the j $5,000 Serbin Open. Miss Crocker of Monte video, Uruguay, shot a two-over-par 76" on the final 18 for a 72 hole total of 296 and $1,000 first money. GOLDEN GLOVES Seattle (U.R) More than 70 amateur boxers, including eight champions, are expected to climb through the ropes during the 20th ' annual Northwest Golden Gloves boxing tourna metn here today and tomorrow. FUEL FROM TIMBER . 35 Years' of Proven Service "Most of the Best for less" Timber Products Company PHONE 2-8086 McANDREWS AT SUMMIT AND SAGE You Pick Up, or We Deliver Promptly Colorado has 13,022 miles of trout streams and 2,311 trout lakes, according to latest fig ures, a boon for fisherman. All of these streams and lakes are open to the public. c SAVE MONEY! DO IT YOURSELF! 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