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.F ioims Hold Mo. aTMYome Gophers Go To 4th Place By NORMAN MILLER New York U.R) San Fran cisco, with a 20-1 record, an 18 game winning streak and a berth in the NCAA Tournament, was the No. 1 choice of the United Press Board of Coaches today for the third week in a row. Minnesota's Big Ten leaders made the biggest advance among the top 10 teams this week by vaulting from the eighth to fourth ranking. Mar quette, ' which has won 20 straight games and also has ac cepted an NCAA bid, moved up one notch to ninth. These were the only teams promoted this week. San Francisco was the first place choice of 30 of the 35 lead ing coaches who make up the rating board. With two addi tional second-place votes and ninth places, the Dons had a one each for third, eighth and total of 32 points for a 119-point lead on runnerup Kentucky. La Salle Third The coaches, basing their rat ings on games played through Saturday night, Feb. 19, again voted La Salle 20-4 the No. 2 berth, followed in order by Minnesota 14-5, Duquesne 17-3, UCLA 19-3, North Carolina State 23-4, Utah 19-3, Mar quette 20-1, and George Wash ington 19-4. With San Francisco and Mar quette already carolled, and six other teams along the United Press top 10 likely to qualify, the NCAA . Tournament will have an- excellent field this year. The six conference powers who probably will join the NCAA field are Kentucky of the Southeastern, La Salle of the Middle Atlantic; Minnesota of the Big Ten; UCLA of the Paci fic Coast; Utah of the Skyline, and George Washington of the Southern. Other First Place Votes Kentucky 18-2 received two of the five remaining first-place ballots this week, while Du quesne, Utah and Marquette each had one. The Wildcats, who topped the ratings for six straight weeks before being knocked off the perch by San Francisco, beat out La Salle for the No. 2 rank ing this week, 213 points to 200. Minnesota edged Duquesne for the No. 4 spot, 182 points to 181. With 10 points awarded for a first-place ballot, nine for a sec ond and so on down to one for a lOth-place vote, UCLA had 166 points, N.S. State 150, Utah 138, Marquette 84 and George Washington 57. Illinois again topped the sec ond 10 teams, followed in order by Iowa, Dayton, Oregon State, Missouri, St. Louis and Texas Christian. There was a tie for 18th place between Wyoming and Colorado, with Niagara 20th. - ' - MedforivSITribuns SIKDMITS Oval Stars Named for Track Meet New York (U.R) Eight na tional indoor track and field champions, including a newly confident Wes Santee, were among the 33 stars named to rep resent the U.S. in the Pan-American games at Mexico City, March 12-26. The team was selected by the Olypmic track and field com mittee after Saturday night's na tional championships at Madi son Square garden. Santee, America's top miler, snapped a two-race losing streak by gunning from behind in the last lap to win the indoor mile title by three yards over Denmark's Gunnar Nielsen. The 22-year-old Kansas cowboy's 4:07.9 clocking wiped out the old meet mark of 4:08.3 set by Gil Dodds in 1944. Others To Compete Besides Santee, the newly crowned champions selected to compete in the Pan-American games were Lt. Parry O'Brien of Los Angeles; Arnold Sowell of the University of Pittsburgh; Bob Richards of Los Angeles; Horace Ashenfelter of the New York Athletic club; Roselyn Range of Los Angeles; Bob Backus of the New York A.C., and Ernie Shelton of Southern California. O'Brien retained his shot put title by bettering his world in door mark of 59 feet, four in ches with a 59 foot, 5V-inch performance.. Sowell produced a brililant last lap sprint and equalled Don Gehrmann's world record of 2:08.2 while beating Norway's Audun Boysen by 10 yards in the 1,000-yard race. Pole Vault Record Richards pole vaulted 15 feet, four inches, to better Cornelius Warmerdam's meet record of 15 feet, 3 7-8 inches; Ashenfelter kept the three-mile title with a 13:54 clocking; Range Reaped 25 feet, one inch to win the running broad jump; Backus retained the 35-pound weight crown with a toss of 60 feet, AVi inches. Shelton tied John Hall of the Armed Forces team for the run ning high jump title when each cleared six feet, 8 3-4 inches." Fishing Change An error has appeared in the February Oregon Game commission bulletin regarding steelhead fishing on the Ap plegale river, according to C. R. Shepard, district gam agent. The Bulletin states that the Applegate river will be open to winter steelhead : fishing until Feb. 28, which is an er ror. This date for the stream will not be effective . until 1956, he said. The river was officially closed to steelhead fishing on Feb. 15, he added. Bevo Proposal For Stadium is Given to Group Portland (U.R) Portland baseball club directors last night submitted to the board of direc tors of Multnomah Stadium a proposal to rent the stadium for the 1955 baseball season. It was believed the offer in cluded a cash guarantee and a percentage of gate receipts. Chairman Tom Stoddard of the stadium committee negotiat ing with the baseball club em phasized that the talks do not mean greyhound racing will not be held there this year. So far the stadium and the Multnomah Kennel Club haven't agreed on rental terms. The baseball club and stadium officials will meet again later this week. CI Wins 13th NW Loop Game Bv UNITED PRESS College of Idaho made it 13 Northwest Conference victories in a row last night by man handling Willamette's basket ball team 104-67 as Elgin Bay lor poured in 33 points. In a battle of second division teams, Whitman downed Lin field 76-72 to move into fourth place ahead of the Wildcats. Baylor and R. C. Owens grab bed off 53 rebounds between them as the Caldwell Coyotes completely outclassed Willam ette. Neil Causbie had 15 points for Willamette. . Don Porter had 28 points and Bill Machamer 18 for Linfield in its. losing cause against Whit man. CALDERONE AGREES - Portland (U.P.) Sam Cal derone, catcher acquired by the Portland Beavers from the Mil waukee Braves last month, has agreed to terms for the 1955 sea son, Bevo General Manager Joe . Ziegler said today. Eastern Oregon Tops PS, 92-79 La Grande, Ore.U.R) East ern Oregon kept alive, its hopes for a possible tie in the Oregon Collegiate Conference basket ball race last night with a 92-79 victory over Portland State. Portland State has clinched a tie for the crown and either a win for PSC or a loss for EOCE would give the Vikings the title outright. Last night's win moved EOCE into second place ahead of Southern Oregon by a few per centage points. EOCE has an 8 5 mark and SOCE a 9-6 record. The second place finisher likely will get a spot in next week's district NAIA playoffs. John Rienking paced Eastern Oregon's win last night with 34 points. Ted Schadewitz had 23 while Jack Viskov led Portland State with 16. The two teams meet here again tonight. THE ROCK' TRAINS Grossinger, N. Y. (U.R) Rocky Marciano turned in sev en miles of road work and then sparred four rounds Monday at his training camp. It was his sharpest workout since he de fended his heavyweight title against Ezzard Charles last au tumn. 2-Day Shoot Slated Here Medford Gun club members are preparing this week for the first registered trapshoot of the year. The 500-target event will be held on Saturday and Sunday, February 26 and 27. Sixteen yard handicap and doubles ev ents will be shot both days. Many trophies will be offered, including awards to high junior and high lady each day in the 16-yard firing. Pacific International Trap shooting association rules will prevail during the two days, The event is the fifth annual spring shoot staged by the Med ford club.' -Scores of 23 each by Don Hawk and Bert Peck and 20 by Martin Clogston were sent in last Sunday for the Pendleton East Oregonian telegraphic skeet shoot. Clogston was high Sunday in 16-yard action with 98 out of 100 and in handicap bird-bust ing with 45 out of 50. George Jantzer shattered 97 at 16 yards. Ray Coleman got 47 out of 50 and Bill Thomas 46. Larry Horn racked 44 out of 50 handicap targets. Traditional Rivalries Set This Week on West Coast By NORMAN HITTER United Press Sports Writer The Pacific Coast's three lead ing candidates for national tour nament honors, USF, UCLA and Oregon State, were champing at the bit today just waiting to get at each others' respective throats. But they were going to have to be patient. Traditional rival ries and battles for second place take place over this week's cage action with the big tourney qualifying struggles still two weeks away. UCLA's Bruins, who became the last of the "Big Three" to nail down a championship when they downed California 84-67 Saturday for the Southern Divi sion crown, meet cross-town rival USC this weekend in a pair that winds up the regular season for both teams. SECOND PLACE Southern Cal, which won the Pacific Coast conference and the regional title last year, will be fighting for second place in the final SD standings. The Trojans are currently tied with Stanford at 5-5. Meanwhile the Indians will be engaging downtrodden Califor nia with the same thought in mind. University of San Francisco, named first in the nation by the United Press board of coaches the last two weeks, plays two of its last three California Bas ketball Association contests this week, meeting San Jose Wednes day and College of Pacific Sat urday. The Dons, 9-0 in the league and 20-1 for the season, won the CBA title last week. They play tneir last league game March 2 against traditional rival San ta Clara before tangling with the winner of the Border Con ference for the right to enter the regional NCAA tournament in Corvallis March 10. The Corvallis site also will de termine the Pacific Coast con ference champ when Oregon State, which clinched the North ern Division crown last week, meets UCLA. The Beavers play second place Oregon this Friday and Satur day in the annual season end scrap that opens mammoth Gill Coliseum in Corvallis and moves to Eugene's MacArthur court for the finale. Loop Game Washington State plays Idaho tonight in the only PCC action of mid-week. Washington hooks up with Idaho in a pair this weekend. Tuesday, February 22, 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN Bowling INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Standings: W. L. Hunter and Best 36 12 Medford Steel . , 30 18 Barnard's 29 19 Telephone Employees 27 21 Austin King 25 23 Richfield Oil 24 24 Snowboys , . 23 25 Stevens Kaiser-Willys 22 26 Hawkinson Tire Tread Co 20 28 Cummings Agency 20 28 Padghams 19 29 Junior Chamber of Commerce 15 33 RESULTS: Hunter and Best 2. Barnard's 2; Medford Steel 3. Telephone Employ ees 1; Austin King 2, Snobys 2; Rich field Oil 3. Hawkinson Tires J: Stev ens Kaiser-Willys 4; Padgham's Mill work 0; Cummings Agency 3, Junior Chamber 1. High individual series, Virgil Painter, Richfield. 571. High team series. Barnard's. 2545. Gals Signed To Finish Mat Bout Mack Lillard announced today that Gerry Hunter, wrestling's blonde bombshell of the fem inine circuit, has agreed to a return match with Ella Kowal ski in the feature spot of next Saturday night's card at Mer rick's arena. There will be no time limit and two out of three falls will decide the winner, Lillard said. Buck Davidson, last week's referee, has postponed a trip to Idaho in order to comply with Yoggi Hussane's demand for a chance to square fancied wrongs suffered at Davidson's hands last week during Hus sane's match with Joe Hahn. Davidson and Hussane will go 45 minutes with two out of three falls . deciding. Lillard " said . another match was expected to be added today. ' Tickets are on sale at - the Rogue restaurant, 42 South Cen tral ave. Sellout Reported for NCAA Regional Playoffs Corvallis (U.R) AH tick ets for the Western Regional NCAA basketball tournament here March 11-12 have been sold OSC Ticket Manager Jim Bar ratt said today. Barratt also said all tickets for the PCC playoffs between Oregon State and UCLA March 4-5 would be gone today and advised that no more fans should apply. LITTLER LEADER . New York (U.R) Golfer Gene Littler today owned the first leg on the 1955 Hickok "athlete of the year?, award. He led all professional athletes in the January poll. ROBINSON BOUT Boston (U.R) Sugar Eay Robinson, former welterweight champion, will fight Georgia Small of . Brookline, . Mass., at the Boston Garden, March 5, it was announced today. $ve&&zqa 'tSg 0), SHOP ROBINSON BROS. For the BEST In Quality Men's Wear ROBItlSOf BROS. THE BUDS FOR QUALITY DUDS Next to Pick's Apparel Medford District No. 4 o LITTLE SIX DIVISION BASKETBALL TOURNAMENT FEBRUARY 24-25-26 Eagle Point High School Games Start Thurs. & Fri. 7 p.m. Sat. 6:30 p.m. PARTICIPATING HIGH SCHOOLS Phoenix Eagle Point Crater Illinois Valley Henley Brookings Harper Decisions Italo Scortichini San Francisco (U.R) Man- rice Harper used a combination of well aimed left jabs and jolt ing right crosses last nieht tn win a unanimous welterweight decision over Italo Scortichini of Italy. Scortichini. 153. carried the fight .to his - opponent but punched wildly with lefts and rights, giving Harper beautiful openings for his hard, straight punches to the head. The Italian ran out of gas in the seventh round when he be gan bleeding from a cut over the right eye. He had started fast, rushine Harper, 149, of Oakland, Cailf., with furious blows. Harper held off the attacks with his arms, however, and then scored with choppmg lefts and rights. YOAKLEY TO REFEREE Klamath Falls Earl Yoakley, Medford, has bee named referee for a boxing card at Klamath Falls Wednesday, night, it has been announced. Jimmy Grow, Boise, Ida., lightweight cham pion, will meet Teddy Hall, Se attale, in a rematch. Grow won xneir iirst encounter with a knockout in the 10th round aft er trailing throughout the fight EXAMS PASSED New York (U.R) Feather weight champion Sandy Saddler and challenger Teddy (Red Top) Davis passed physical examina tions Monday for their world title fight . at Madison Square Garden Friday night. Both re turned to their training camps for final sparring sessions. DUCK MONEY Hartford, Conn. (U.R) State Fish and Game Superin tendent Arroll H. Lamson said a Greenwich woman applied for a state aid to help pay a feed bill. He said she started feeding a few hungry ducks and within a month had spent $250 on feed. Lamson took the request "under advisement." Co-op . .' T- .... : " New 198-hp Mercury pulls 4 tons up Mob Hill Tough San Francisco test proves that Mercury's new dual-exhaust Super-Torque V-8 delivers more usable power to the rear wheels ..where it counts! You may never have to haul a 41 -foot, 8090 pound trailer. But the fact is that this car a standard production model easily pulled this load up one of the steepest hills in the country a phenomenal demonstration of the tremendous reserve power in this new Mercury Montclair. There's 198 horsepower in its new supeb torque V-8 engine. And there's a new dual exhaust system and a 4-barrel carburetor to put this power to work. You get far more than just greater top speed. You enjoy split-second getaway, instant response for passing, effortless hill climbing. Brilliant new acceleration at every speed from 1 mile per hour to whatever the law allows. But the Mercury story of 1955 isn't based on power alone. There are new improve ments in ball-joint front suspension for even easier handling. There are new improve ments in Merc-O-Matic Drive for even quicker action, greater smoothness. There are new improvements in Mercury brakes 20 greater brake lining area for faster stops. And Mercury is now offered in 3 series of cars. The low Montclair (only 58Ji inches high) is being introduced thi3 year for the first time. The beautiful Monterey and lowest-cost Custom Series bring a Mercury within the range of almost every budget 10 stunning models in all. And every model has an all-new body on an all-new chassis longer, lower, bigger all over. See these completely new Mercurys at our showrooms now. Take one out on the road for any kind of a test. You'll find out why it pays to own a Mercury. IT PAYS TO OWN A nl l Elf"FR FUTURE ?TYL,NG' SUPER P0WER Don't mis the big television hit, Ed Sullivan "TOAST OF THE TOWN," Sunday evening S:00 to M VM., Station KBES-TV, Channel MEDFORD MOTORS 6th & Ivy PHONE 2-6157 Dead line Sunday Classified It at noon Saturday : 10 am. 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