TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON)
Little Six
'Openers This Eveeiin
Class A basketball attention
In this area focuses tonight on
Eagle Point where teams of the
Little Six begin their tourna-
. ment to determine who plays
Medford for the District 4
championship and a state tour
ney berth. Single elimination
play continues through Satur
day night.
: Two of the leading contenders
collide tonight in the tourney
opener. Phoenix, runner - up in
the Rogue League, and host
Eagle Point' mix at 7 p.m. Their
game will be followed by an
Illinois Valley - Henley engage
ment at 6:30 p.m.
Two games are scheduled
;Friday. Tonight's winners play
then at 7 p.m. Crater and Brook-
ings will be rivals at 8:30 p.m.
The Comets of Crater rank with
Eagle Point and Phoenix in the
contender role since they won
the Rogue title.
Interest High
Interest will be high in the
opening brush tonight. Phoenix
beat Eagle Point three times
out of four in loop play but two
of the margins were very close
and tonight's fray is considered
a toss-up. Eagle Point may start
with Harvey Nelson, Carl Chris
tian, Bill Caldwell,' Frank Reich
and Jack Greb. For Phoenix it
may be Bill Madden, Jim Korth,
Ron Vreeken, Charles Wall and
Ray Dahl.
; Illinois Valley probably will
Grow Stops
Teddy Hail
Klamath Falls Jimmie Grow,
Boise, Idaho lightweight cham
pion, knocked out Teddy Hall,
Seattle, in the eighth round of a
scheduled 10-round main event
boxing match here Wednesday
nigh before a capacity crowd.
The fast-stepping and hard
punching Grow had Hall on the
floor in the sixth round and
finished the fight with a short
but terrific left smash to Hall's
head. It was Grow's third vic
tory over Hall here and the sec
ond by a knockout.
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open with Larry Maurer, How
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Henley may have Dale Scearcy,
Randy Montgomery, Lou Zaro
sinski, Joe Arant and Gary Cun
ningham. Crater was to work out today
on the Eagle Point court. Coach
Leonard Warren said his Com
et squad is "healthy." The Com
ets have stressed defense 1 and
fast break this week. Against
Brookings tomorrow, Fred
Hogue, Jim Higinbotham, Bob
Gray, Harvey Tonn and Vern
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Med f o rd H oop Q u i n ts
Journey To Klamath
Three Medford basketball
aggregations travel to Klamath
Falls tomorrow and all three
could have their hands full.
Medford senior high and
Klamath Falls varsities will top
off the Friday program with a
regular Southern Oregon Con
ference ruckus. Jayvee teams
of the two schools scrap in the
preliminary. In the afternoon
ninth grade teams of the two
cities will have at it.
Black Tornado varsity and
junior varsity clubs stay over
for Saturday night action.
All three Medford crews came
out on top in earlier games in
Medford but the junior varsity
in particular had a close call.
The Pelicans are expected to be
tougher on their home floor.
They almost always are.
Two Clubs Unbeaten
Medford junior varsity and
ninth grade clubs go to Klam
ath with unbeaten records. The
Tornado varsity has suffered
one setback but since then has
won 13 games straight including
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Phone 3-3633
Thursday. February 24, 1955
Parent may start. No report has
been received from Brookings.
Referees for the tourney will
be Barney Riggs, Cliff McLean,
Golden Noble and Bill Esselstyn.
Timers will be Alf Mekvold and
William Ruck and, scorers will
be Les Warner and Robert
Southerland.
There are no season tickets
for the tourney. There will be
separate game prices for adults,
high school students and grade
school students with somewhat
higher prices for the Saturday
night program of three games.
10 in the conference and is
rated No. 1 in Oregon in two
press polls.
However, so far as the var
sity is concerned, Klamath Falls
is rated as the club most likely
to succeed in this area in knock
ing the Medf ordites off their
pedastal. It has a bign rugged
club which has improved
through the se:ason and which is
expected to make a better show
ing against Medford than in two
previous losses here.
Medford has the taller men
but Klamath has more all
around height and that is ex
pected to be more an evening
factor than in the first series.
Klamath with its size can run
and shoot, also.
Another indication of a close
Medford-Klamath series ' is
shown in the Klamath Falls
Grants Pass series of last week.
The two clubs split at Grants
Pass and only the week before
the Cavemen had thrown a ter
rible scare into Medford, the
Tornado winning finally by
seven . points. GP then beat KF
by seven but lost the following
night by four.
Starter Told
Likely KF starters are big
Dave D'Olivo, Guy Munsell,
Marlin Causey, Jack Sunitsch
and Larry Yarnell or Dan Lowe.
For Medford it may be Glenn
Peterson, Bud Kastner, Jerry
Kalapus, Fank Rector and Larry
Copple.
Coach Frank . Roelandt said
that he'll take his full Tornado
varsity crew of 13. Eight boys
from the regular jayvee squad
will make the trip and some of
the underclassmen on the var
sity likely will see junior var
sity action.
Prestige only is at stake for
the Black Tornado. It already
has sewn up the conference
championship. Medford leads
KF by four games with only
two to be played.
Records Likely
In South Division
Los Angeles (U.R) The final
weekend of play in the Pacific
Coast Conference Southern Di
vision should see three new loop
records set, statistics showed to
day. While UCLA' has clinched the
title and leads in every team de
partment, California's big Bob
McKeen and Stanford's little
Ron Tomsic are waging a furious
battle for division scoring hon
ors and one of them is sure to
break" the 238 mark set in 1950
by: Bill Sharman of University of
Southern California.
McKeen Has 219
McKeen has scored 219 points
in 10 games and Tomsic 208. The
California center already has
scored 627 points in three years
to break the division record of
612 points formerly held by
Hank Luisetti of Stanford.
UCLA's junior center, Willie
Naulls, meanwhile, has collect
ed 123 rebounds, just 11 short of
the record set by Stanford's
Ramstead in 1952.
Dick Welsh of SC and Don
Bragg of the Bruins are sporting
shooting percentages of 55.8 and
52.3 respectively and both ap
pear certain to break J. ; Rick
sen's 47.9 record set with Cali
fornia in 1953.
Steelhead Luck
Poor In Illinois
Portland (U.R) The weekly
fishing report prepared by the
State Game Commission:
SOUTHWEST: Smith river
and Tenmile lakes outlet clear
but steelhead angling slow; few
anglers out;" steelhead fishing
in south coast streams slow with
Chetco and Elk rivers producing
best catches; steelhead success
in Illinois river poor.
Regulation changes adopted
this year for the Rogue and Ap
plegate " rivers do not become
effective until 1956.
Dead line Sunaay Classified is at
noon Saturday ; 10 a.m. Monday for
Monday; other days 5:30 previous day.
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BACK WITH CLOWNS Sgt.
Howie Rand, late of the- U. S.
Army, and now back again with
the Harlem Clowns, cuts up a
bit. This is an action shot of
Howie biting his finger-nails as
he. looks at a basketball. What
to do? Generally Howie does
something to . get a huge laugh
from the crowd. The Harlem
Clowns play at Medford senio.
high on Wednesday, March 2.
A rarin' to go Medford Yellow
Cab basketball team, anticipat
ing a hard battle but hoping to
maintain its superiority over
southern Oregon competition,
invades Grants Pass tonight.
The Cabbies oppose the South
ern Oregon Plywoods and the
prize for the victor is the Dis
trict 10 championship -and a trip
to the Oregon AAU tournament
at Hermiston. Game time to
night is 8 p.m. .
" Both teams won their city
championships.
. With each team boasting ex
high school and ex-college play
ers, George Curtis of the Grants
Pass Daily Curier has reported:
"Probably the finest group of
amateur players ever to appear
in an independent basketball
game at Grants Pass will be in
the two line-ups."
Jimmy Vernon, skipper for
the Yellow Cabbies has reported
the Medford Independent Bas
ketball League champions in top
shape. Probable starters for Cab
are Ed Hummel, ex-Portland U.;
Johnny Foster, ex-Central Cath
olic high all-stater; Chuck Stacy,
independent ball veteran; Bill
Werner, ex-Medford high and
city loop vet, and Don Wendt,
ex-Jacksonville all-stater.
Among the top reserves will
be Don Harris, ex-Jacksonville
high all-stater, Max Hite, ex
Phoenix high all-stater, and
Dick Knutson, ex-St. Mary's.
The Cabbies have, lost this
season only to Martin Sign of
Eugene and to Firmco of Myrtle
Creek, with which they split.
They defeated . strong Alsea
Lumber of Corvallis and the
Fernandes Loggers of Vancouver
the southwest Washington AAU
champs.
Question on Reese
The Plywoods with a 14-3 rec
ord likely will open with Sherm
Heater, ex-Grants Pass; Gordon
Prehm, ex-Washington State;
Jerry Overen, ex-Klamath Falls;
Jack Yosten, ex-Grants ' Pass,
and Jack Endicott, ex-Prineville.
Keith McLean, ex-Southern
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District Mat
Meet Opens
On Friday
Medford high wrestlers make
their bids for district honors on
Friday and Saturday. The dis
trict action will be at Oregon
Technical institute in Klamath
Falls.
Coach Paul Evensen said that
the Black Tornado squad will
leave this evening for Klamath.
Nineteen grapplers and one
manager will make the jaunt.
Weigh-ins begin at 8 a.m. to
morrow. First matches probably
will start around noon. The meet
will continue until about 6 p.m.
Saturday.
Wrestlers making the trip for
Medford are Ken Dunlava,
George Flanagan, Gordon Ows
ley, Jim Nipps, Ron Lingren,
Ray Hilton, Dennis Walker, Bob
Welch, Jim Owsley, Ray Wil
liams, Fred White, Les Walch,
Gordon DeArmond, Larry Fras
er, Paul Eckel, Mel Morgan,
Bill Dyer and Larry Cranston.
The manager is Marwin De
Spain. If the Tornado holds to form,
its main contenders are the
heavier boys, including Dyer,
Eckel, Fraser and Walch.
High School Scores
WEDNESDAY GAMES
Subdistrlct 3B
Coburg 55. Lowell 33
McKenzie 52. Mapleton 38
Mohawk 47, Lorane 44
Westfir 49. Crow 40
manner
the manager.
Grants Pass reports said that
the Plywoods have .recruited
Don Reese, from Camp's Electric
for the play-off. But Vernon of
the Cabbies said that Reese, who
is to join the Medford team if it
goes to the state tourney, is not
eligible for tonight's contest.
JOHNSON, McABEE PACE B
LEAGUE ALL-STAR CHOICES
Gary Johnson, Rogue River,
and all-star Jim McAbee, Talent,
the leading scorers of the circuit,
were . the only unanimous
choices, in the poll of coaches
snd teams, for the Jackson
County B League All-Star team.
Others name to the team were
Ted Stanfield, Rogue River, J.
Lloyd Wood, Talent, and Tim
Dugan, St: Mary's. Each got six
out of a possible 10 points.
Coaches and squads of the six
schools each picked all-opponent
teams. They did not name their
own players.
Seven players received hon
orable mention. George Zicke
foose, Talent, with five points,
barely missed selection to the
lop line-up. Others polled four
votes or less. They were Bob
Gemaehlich, Jacksonville, (4),
Ron Couser, Prospect (4), Lee
Abbott, Butte Falls (4), Laval
Meunier, St. Mary's (3), Clete
Daily, Rogue River (1), and Joel
Walls, Prospect (1).
Johnson scored 201 points in
10 conference games to head all
scorers. McAbee followed with
197 and Couser was third with
165; Abbott scored 152 and Stan
field and Wood each 129.
LEAGUE LEADERS: -
1. Gary Johnson, Rogue River 201
2. Jim McAbee. Talent 197
3. Ron Couser, Prospect . 165
4. Lee Abbott, Butte Falls 152
5. Ted Stanfield, Rogue River.. 129
5. J. Lloyd Wood, Talent ..' 129
7. George Zickefoose, Talent .. 118
7. Bob Gemaehlich Jacksonville 118
9. Laval Meunier, St. Mary's 113
10. Bill Irwin. Butte Falls . 110
11. Sid Peterson. Prospect 109
12. Dick Sanford, Jacksonville.. 106
13. Clete Daily, Rogue River .... 102
14. Tim Dugan. St. Mary's 98
15. D. R. Smith. Butte Falls 90
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Another step in preparations
for the Oregon Open Golf tourn
ament here March 25, 26 and 27.
Rogue Valley Country club has
organized a "rock detail" for
this Sunday. Members of the
club have been asked to report
at 8 a.m. The club will provide
breakfast. Then the members
will go out to , the three new
holes on the course and pick up
rocks.
A golf tournament will fol
low. Club officials are hoping
for a large turnout in order to
get a lot done in a short time.
The three holes have been
closed to play during the winter
months as insurance against
wear and tear. They will be
opened for play on Thursday,
March 3.
WHAT ABOUT ROSEBURG
Are officials of the South
ern Oregon Baseball League
over-optimistic about the pos
sibility of Roseburg being in
the loop this season. At the
meeting in the Umpqua valley
metropolis last Sunday it was
decided that Roseburg persons
at the session would contact
the best leaders it could and
try to organize a group to
handle baseball.
Only a small story on the
session appeared in- the Rose
burg News-Review. It said:
"Although the league ex
pressed a desire that . Rose
burg field a team in the cir
cuit next year there was no
indication given that the city
wculd do so."
NOT ORDERING TICKETS
Frank Roelandt, Medford high
school basketball coach has this
answer concernmg inquiries on
posible local sale of state Class
A basketball tournament season
tickets: "Medford high is. not or
dering a block for local sale.
The reason is that the school
has to purchase the tickets and
can get no refund on unsold
tickets. The high school doesn't
want to take the chance of a
possible loss. -There's
another angle, too
; 16. Tony Miksche. St. Mary's
17. Joel Walls, Prospect
18. Gordy Thoreson. Talent
19. John Walsh, St. Marv's
20. Pat Conley. Butte Falls
21. Ron Mclntyre. Jacksonville
22. Don Ellis, Butte Falls
22. Harvey Hueners. J'ville
24. Joe Hassler. St. Mary's '
25. Gary Stinchcomb, R. River
TEAM TOTALS:
' PF
Talent t 649
Rogue River . 630
St. Mary's 518
Butte Falls 523
Jacksonville 505
Prospect 469
PA
403
523
469
669
580
637
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Mail Tribune Spoilt Niter
While everybody, or almost
everybody, expects the : Black
Tornado to be performing in the
state hassle, it's not certain yet
that Medford will be there. Med
ford must, yet meet and defeat
the winner of the Little Six
tourney. The Tornado, of course,
is a heavy favorite in the dis
trict play-off and only stunning
upsets or some other unforeseen
serious blow, apparently can
keep it away from Eugene.
ORDER FROM EUGENE
Season tickets for the state
tourney may be ordered from
Ted Bouck, tournament busi
ness manager, MacArihur
court. Eugene. Money must
accomoany all orders. The
Mail Tribune sports depart
ment can furnish information
on the prices for both students
and adults of season, general
admission and reserved seat
tickets. Prices of single ad
mission tickets on Friday and
Saturday nights differ from
those of the earlier days of
the tourney. Other informa
tion' can be obtained in Eu
gene by telephoning 5-1511.
extension 288.
MAKE GROUP ORDERS
Coach Roelandt has suggested
that local people planning to go
to the state tourney and wish
ing to sit together, should order
their tickets as a group.
PLAY-OFF TICKETS
Season tickets will not be
good on March 5 for Medford
high district hoop play-off
with the Little Six champ.
However, holders of season
tickets will be given through
Friday, March 4, to purchase
their same seats for the Sat
urday night fray. Friday game
of the play-off will be on the
smaller school's home floor.
It will be iwo-out-of-three
play-off with a site to be set
if a third game is necessary.
Jim Martinez
Beats Bob Jones
Spokane, Wash.-U.R) Jim
my Martinez, 157V4, Phoenix,
Ariz., took a unanimous decis
ion over seventh-ranked Bobby
Jones, 155V4, Oakland, Calif,
in a 10-round middleweight bout
here last night at the Coliseum.
Jones, who seemed sluggish
and ineffective, said after the
fight he had suffered a broken
hand early in the match. There
were no knockdowns and neither
fighter began to open up until
the sixth. Jones never was able
to take command. It was Mar
tinez' third victory of the month
and reversed an earlier loss to
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THree Still
In Race
PCC Scoring
Los Angeles -(U.R)--Althov!gh
Oregon State wrapped up the
Pacific Coast Conference North
ern Division title two weeks
ago, it appeared today the in
dividual scoring race won't be
settled until Friday , and Satur
day's final division games.-.;
OSC's seven-foot, three-inch
Wade " Swede Halbrook, Ore
gon's Jumping Jim Loscutoff
and Dean Parsons of Washing
ton all were in the running for
scoring, shooting and rebound
ing honors, this week's statistics
showed.
Halbrook has averaged 19.8
points by scoring 258 points in
13 games, and the young giant
has sunk 48 per cent of his floor
shots. Loscutoff has scored 270
points in 14 games for a 19.3
average and Parsons' 258 points
in 14 games gives him an 18.4
average. .
Loscutoff Near Cinch
Parsons has averaged 45.3 per
cent of his floor shots to threat
en Halbrook in that departments
while Loscutoff has nearly
clinched the rebound title with
a game average of 18.1 to Hal
brook's next best mark of 14.5.
Oregon State dominated all
but one team statistic, taking
second to Washington in per
centage of free throws com
pleted, 69.1 per cent to 68.5. The
Beavers led in total scoring with
64.2 points per game and in
shooting wit ha creditable 38.7
percentage. They took over the
rebound lead from Oregon, hav
ing collared. 182 more rebounds
than their opponents while Ore
gon has collected 174.
In defense, the Beavers allow
ed an average of 55.5 points per
game while Washington gave up
56.4. OSC also held their oppon
ents to 31.6 per cent of their
floor shots. ;
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