.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. Monday for
Monday: other days 5:30 srevioui day.