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Newspaper Page TextTEN -MEDTORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Yellow Cab Bounces Oregon Tech 87-76 Yellow Cab, Medford's inde pendent power of the hoop court, playing its last pre-AAU tourna ir.ent scuffle last night added Oregon Technical Institute of Klamath Falls to its long list of victims. OTI's Owls, visitors in the ruckus at St. Mary's school gym here, scored a massive 30 points in the closing quarter. But the Cabbies had established a wide enough lead and scored suffic iently, themselves, to win by a comfortable 87 to 76. Yellow Cab had a 24-point spread at 71 to 47 early in the final stanza and ran up 21 coun ters, itself, during the period. In fact the Cabbies never scored less than 20 points in any of the chukkers. First half of the fracas was fairly close. The Owls came near but could never quite pull even v.'ith the Cabbies after the Med ford crew took a 4 to 2 advan tage in the early moments. First quarter margin was 22 to 21. At halftime the edge was 42 to 35 and after three cantos it was 66 to 46. Hummel Sparks Medford's independent loop and District 10 AAU titlists had 10-point margins of 18 to 8 and 20 to 10 before the OTI gang boomed up at the conclusion of the period. Ed Hummel with 11 points headed Yellow Cab in its first quarter. Ritchie Perkins and Johnny James each had eight in the quarter but Don Hubble, Dennis Eckert and Ter ry Blair lent them a Hand in the surge at the end of the canto. In the second panel it was Fos ter with 11 points who spurred the way offensively. OTI went scoreless for the first four minutes of the second half and that gave the Cabbies the opportunity to really take control. The Medford team accu mulated nine tallies in that time for a 51 to 35 margin. Hubble then got a bucket for the Owls but Hummel hit on follow and fast break shots and Don Reese from the corner for a 57 to 37 command. Cabs' widest gap in the third quarter was 21 points at 64 to 43. James Awes Fans James, who awed fans with his jumping-jack abilities and clever faking before fouling out in the final quarter, teamed with Perkins and Jerry Fasteen in the OTI scoring burst in that closing period. Each had eight points. Nearest the Owls came to the Cabbies, however, was the final 11-point margin. Both clubs played ragged ball at the start and there were streaks of ragged play in other parts of the game. But the Cab bies combined enough good play ing and snapshooting to keep to their usual high scoring pace. Work of Ed Hummel ana Johnny ' Foster at Cabbie for ward spots made the difference. Hummel, a master at shaking loose for good shots and at hawk ing the ball under the defensive basket, got 33 points for Cab and Foster racked up 23 tallies and contributed some fine back TONIGHT AT NINE: OVER TELEVISION Barker's "Let's TONIGHT'S GRATER HIGH'S A-2 DISTRICT CHAMPIONS! Leonard Warren, Coach Vern Parent Harvey Tonn Jim Higinbotham Tom MacLeod Each Wednesday Evening at Nine o'Clock over Television. KYJC's Ace Sports Announcer Interviews Local Coaches, Players, and Visiting Sports Dignitaries Barker's, Medford's Oldest Men's Clothing Store, Invite You To Meet Over Television Each Week Local Players and Coaches. board work. Don Reese indicated he'll help the Medford team in the state tourney at Hermiston starting Saturday. The Grants Pass ad dition to the club got 14 points last night mostly from "out" cr from the corners. James, short for a center but combining the faking of Hum mel with the springiness of Fos ter, had 24 counters for OTI. Perkins scored 20. The Owls drove well at times but not con sistently enough. BOX: Yellow Cab Hummel, f . Foster, f Stacy, c Wendt. g Werner, g Harris - Reese FG FT PF TP ..14 33 . 7 . 1 . 1 - 3 0 . 6 23 5 4 6 0 14 2 0 0 Knutson 1 0 0 Hite Johnson 33 21 21 n OTI Eckert. f . FG FT PF TP 2 5 Hubble, f 2 9 8 4 1 0 0 0 2 4 24 20 9 2 0 2 2 8 James, c Perkins, g Blair, g McCutcheon . Anderson Clark Collingsworth Fasteen 2S IS 24 76 Campanella Says Hand Feel s Good By UNITED PRESS Roy Campanella, who could be the key to the whole Nation al league pennant race, issued a proclamation today that started cheering in Flatbush: "I'm all right now." "I don't feel a bit of pain in the hand," declared the Brook lyn Dodger catcher after smash ing five long drives in yester day's first practice of spring training. "My hand feels as good as it ever did. Nothing could be better news to the Dodgers, for Campanella' s collapse from "most valuable player" of 1953 with a .312 bat ting mark rnd 41 homers to a .207 average and 19 homers last year was one of the biggest rea sons for the Dodgers' collapse. And the big factor in Roy's failure was his ailing left hand, which was operated on for a bone chip in May and again in November to cure a "numb feel ing" that had spread throughout the hand. Bad News While the Dodgers were get ting this good news, the New York Yankees were getting some bad news about Billy Martin. Instead of rejoining the team by opening day, as announced by a spokesman at Ft. Carson, Colo., on Monday, Martin won't get out of the Army until "early July at the latest." Officials at Ft. Carson, said that Martin, whom the Yankees are counting on as their short stop of the future, did not have enough accumlated leave time to rejoin the Yankees by open ing day. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday fot Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday. Kick it Around GUESTS Kay Kelley Fred Hogue Bob Gray See the Battle of Champions Saturday Night MAIN AT CENTRAL Wednesday March 2. 195S DISTRICT CHAMPION CABBIES Med ford's Yellow Cab basketball squad, shown above, is awaiting its trip to the state AAU tourney starting this week end at Hermiston. The Cabbies, who cut a wide swath in south ern Oregon independent circles this season and won the AAU District 10 banner, will leave Friday night for Hermiston. They take on Economy Drug o! McMinnville at 10 p.m. Saturday in their first game. Left to right, MedfordJSTribune Better Record Establishes Black Tornado As Favorite Over Comets In Play-off A better overall season rec ord against generally tougher opposition and better success against common foes, insofar as comparisons can be made are reasons for establishing Medford high as the big favorite and Cra ter high as underdog in their series this week end for the District 4A basketball cham pionship and a trip to the state tournament at Eugene. The Black Tornado and Com ets collide Friday at Central Point and Saturday in Medford in the first two scraps of a best two of three series. If they split, a third game will be on Monday, probably on a neutral floor. Medford's season record of 21 victories and 1 setback com pares to the Comets' standing of 17 and 7. The Tornado has a string of 20 straight wins, 12 within the Southern Oregon Conference Big Four. Crater was 10 and 2 m its Rogue League race which didn't figure in sub-district eliminations. Three Common Foes Common foes of the two clubs have been Eagle Point, Grants Pass and Ashland. But they did not meet those adversaries an equal number of times. Medford triumphed by 34 points in its single mix with Eagle Point. The Comets whipped the Eagles four out of five times with 27 points the widest margin. The Black Tornado thunder ed over Ashland four times by gaps of 25 to 47 points. Crater lost a three-point nod to Ash land and beat the Grizzlies once by 14 tallies. Medford won four times over Grants Pass, three times decisively while the Com ets lost twice to the Cavemen by MEDFORD INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS: Larry Copple Frank Rector .. Jerry Kalapus Glenn Peterson Bud Kastner John Foust Ed McCullough Bob Tisdel Dick McLaughlin . Bill Rochran Ed Reinking Lloyd Cearly Warren Deakins Pacific, Portland State In Oregon's NAIA Finale Milwaukie, Ore. (U.R) Pa cific meets Portland State to night for Oregon's berth in the NAIA basketball tournament opening next week in Kansas City, Mo. Pacific, paced by Norm Hu bert's dead-eye shooting which accounted for 34 points, downel Eastern Oregon 86-78, and Port land State outhustled Willamette 69-59 before about 2,000 fans in the Milwaukie high school gym nasium last night. Pocific was ahead of EOCE nearly all the way but the Moun taineers styed within striking distance despite losing three stars on fouls and Hubert's marksmanship. Larry Pryse, Ted Schadewitz and John Reinking fouled out for Eastern Oregon. Badgers Warm Pacific shot .400 from the field, with Hubert getting 16 field goals out of 30 attempts. Schadewitz had 24 points for Eastern Oregon with Reinking and Gary Burton hitting 15 each. Danny French chipped in with 19 for Pacific. EOCE hit .340. Portland State's Oregon Col legiate Conference champs stopped Willamette's attack with a zone defense and hit .442 from the field to go inti the finals. Paul Poetsch, the Portland State floor leader, topped the scoring with 19 points. - Dick Hoy had 17-for Willam front row are Co-Coach Miles Robinson, Fred Johnson, Don Wendt, Bill Werner, Dick Kline, Mascott Danny Vernon and Co-Coach Jim Vernon. Back row, from left, are Richard Knutson, Johnny Foster, Don Harris, Chuck Stacy, Max Hite, Ed Hummel and Ron Moore. Yellow Cab won the Medford Inpedenderit league crown and defeated Southern Oregon Plywood, Grants Pass, for district honors. (Landis-Shangle photo) one and seven-point differences. During its 22-game season Medford has accumulated 1462 points and permitted rivals 1028. Offensive and defensive per-game averages are 66.45 and 46.73, respectively. Crater has collected 1305 counters in 24 contests for a 54.4 scoring rate. Defensively it has yielded 1065, 44.4 per engagement. Comet fig ures for its first 22 games were 1167 total points, 967 given to opponents and offensive and de fensive per game records of 53.8 and 44.04. .435 Field Clip The Medfordites have made 544 field goal tries out of 1251 attempts this season for a .435 average. Crater had 414 field goals for its 22-game regular season but its average was not available. At the free line the Comets for 22 tussles hit 339 out of 530 tries for .640. Exact Medford free throw count wasn't on hand today but the Tornado has put in 374 tries in slightly more than 600 chances. Crater has not been a heavy fouling team, averaging just 12 personals per game in 27 scraps. Larry Copple is still Medford scoring leader by a big margin. He has 392 for a 17.6 average in 22 games. Frank Rector is next with 281 and 12.78 per tangle. Jerry Kalapus has 275 for 12.5. For Crater Jim Higinbotham has 327 for 24 games for 13.62 average. Harvey Tonn has pick ed up 257 for 10.7 and Fred Hogue 214 for 8.91. Vern Parent has 209 for 20 games, a 10.45 average. The other Crater regu lar, Bob Gray has scored 138 tal lies in 23 games. G 22 22 22 22 .22 TP APG FG FT PF 392 17.6 158 76 48 281 . 12.78 110 61 36 27S 12.50 91 93 82 180 8.18 65 50 58 161 7.32 61 39 47 42 2.1 13 16 25 32 1.68 8 16 9 31 2.38 12 7 9 15 .94 5 5 23 19 1.0 8 3 4 12 1.2 4 4 5 11 .58 5 1 9 8 .66 3 27 7 20 19 13 16 19 10 . 19 12 ette which shot .344. Portland State was ahead 36-28 at the half. GALS TEE OFF Ormond Beach, Fla. (U.R) Thirty-two amateur women golfers led by medalist Wiffie Smith of La Canada, Calif., tee off today in the opening round of the 26th anual South Atlan tic Golf Tournament. High School Scores TUESDAY GAMES By United Presf Grant 69. Jefferson 62 Cleveland 45, Lincoln 31 Franklin 72, Roosevelt 60 Washington 75. Benson 39 St. Helens 65. Vernonia 40 District 13A Tourney Central Catholic 59. Parkrose 58 Columbia Prep 57. Gresham 56 District 12A Tourney Milwaukie 78. West Linn 53 Oregon City 80, Canby 72 District 10A Tourney Seaside 54, Astoria 43 Warren ton 51, Tillamook 44 District 9A Tourney Beaverton 65, Sherwood 48 Hillsboro 50, Forest Grove 45 East Subdistrict 1A Ontario 59, Vale 49 West Subdistrict 1A Baker 49, La Grande 44 District 2A Playoff Mac Hi 43, Hood River 42 Subdistrict 11A Tourney South Salem 46, North Salem 40 Subdistrict 11A-2 Tourney -Silverton 64. Gervais 59 North Marion 47, Woodburn 44 SMU Grabs Southwest . Loop Title By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Spoils Writer Southern Methodist, with its first league championship in 18 years, was catapulted into the NCAA tournament today by the same bolt of Arkansas lightning that struck down its chief rival Twenty-four hours before SMU was tied with Texas Chris tian for the Southwest confer ence lead, but Tuesday night Texas Christian was stunned, 110-89, by an Arkansas team that sank an amazing 57 per cent of its shots. At the same time, SMU closed out its season with a 93-80 vic tory over Texas. The Mustangs' league cham pionship, their first since 1937 gives them a berth in the west ern regionajs at Manhattan Kan., March 11. Their first foe will be the winner of a game be tween two "members at large' yet to be selected. Seton Hall in NIT The National Invitation tour nament also added a team to day Seton Hall (17-6) winner of the tourney in 1953. The Pirates from South Orange, N.J., were the 11th team picked for the NIT. It's believed the tourney would like to give the last remaining berth to the runner-up team in the Missouri Valley conference, but Tulsa and St. Louis are tied for the lead in the loop now. If they should finish that way by winning their final games on Saturday and thus force a play off, the resulting delay could force the NIT to look elsewhere and the bid could go to Alabama or DePaul. DePaul Toppled " DePaul's tourney hopes were jarred by a 72-61 loss to Notre Dame, DePaul's sixth loss against 16 wins. Lloyd Aubrey led Notre Dame with 26 points, 20 of them in the second half. An important Ivy league game between second-place Princeton (8-3) and third-place Columbia (8-4) holds the spotlight on to night's program. A Columbia victory would assure league- leading Pennsylvania (10-3) of at least a tie for the league cham pionship. But a Princeton vie tory would make Saturday's Princeton - Pennsylvania game the deciding battle. St-. Helens Cops District Berth Vernonia (U.R) St. Helens, only unbeaten class A high school basketball team in Ore gon, won the district 14-A state tourney berth last night with a 65-40 victory over Vernonia. I I WITH THC rhj. SCINTILI Iter, k ktoel aM faulf.-f fa HigiIii rMpMiag. tf llr muiliw, tarn I CMt. Might ami smoM ia lin. Tk. mM t7 -SpkmI $eWoof" b maoa lotlurtn o m. I omov MM. Ill -SdntillotOfT (M ia ladoy. Sat atmim tfrohoa wita. actual tamfilm at inww, at wfito for hat CAL -ORE Machinery Co. 944 S. Central Phone 2-6155 Medford, Oregon .won Bob Baker Boosted in Ring Rating New York J (U.R) Big Bob Baker of Pittsburgh replac ed ex-champion Ezzard Charles at third place among the world's heavyweight contenders in the monthly ratings released today by Ring magazine. Baker's boost from fourth to third strengthened his chance of getting a September title shot. Only Nino Valdes of Cuba, No. 1, and Don Cockell of England, No. 2, are above him now. Cock ell already- has been signed to challenge Rocky Marciano for the crown at San Francisco in the week of May 16. Valdes could be by-passed again in Sep tember. Baker, carrying 214 pounds on a 6-foot 2-inch frame, was elevated because of his knock out of Willie James on Feb. 9 and his decision over Rex Layne Monday night. He now boasts eight straight victories. Despite Charles' victory over Charley Norkus on Feb. 18, ex champ was dropped to fourth place because of inactivity. That was his only bout since his last defeat by Marciano on Sept. 17 Neuhaus Drops Heinz Neuhaus of Germany, European heavy champion, was dropped from sixth to eighth be cause he was held to a draw by Henry Hall of New Orleans. In the lightweight division, ex champion Paddy DeMarco of New York was dropped from top contender to number four because of his knockout by Ser- aphin Ferrer of France. Dulio Loi of Italy moved up one notch to first place. Charles Humez of France rose from fourth to second among middleweight contenders be cause of his knockout Monday night of Pierre Langlois of France. Former welterweight champ ion Kid Gavilan of Cuba sank from second to fourth among 147-pound contenders because of his upset defeat by Hector Con stance on Feb. 23 In the light heavyweight class Harold Johnson of Philadelphia regained second place by knock ing out Paul Andrews on Feb, 11. Andrews, of New York, drop ped from second to fifth, M. Buckwalter Skyline All-Star Salt Lake City (U.R) Morris Buckwalter, former La Grande, Ore., high school all-stater, to day was named to the 1955 United Press all-Skyline confer ence second team at a forward position. Buckwalter is a member of the Skyline champion Utah quintet which will play in the NCAA regionals. at Corvallis next week. Two Utah players, Art Bunte and Gary Bergen were picked on the first team, Colliers Choose All-America Five New York (U.R) Tom Gola of La Salle, Dick Ricketts and Si Green of Duquesne, Robin Free man of Ohio State and Don Schlundt of Indiana have been named to Collier's Magazine All- America basketball team. Brawley, Calif. U.R) The San Francisco Seals, 35 strong officially began spring training today under the watchful eye of Manager Tommy Heath. I &l . - I Ipm . The finest .1 ' , in 71 years . . I j tlP now in this J ; J TEUriflfll 2aa.nd.some new paoJcage . hi I Jjjjgjs ' Wa proudly present in this handsom 1 -I ' 4 y ?tiL ' new package the finest Century Out j C j j jyjj ' ver bottled Enjoy it tonighll 1 .-J- (IrS 6TEABSOLD I I ft fW&t ' $Q65 $410 . 1 1 v kr& pint so - I Straight Bourtooa "WTiisJtey SS IToor . 2?aUoaea Pistil 1 era Products CkrporaUoiNewYoritN?: Casaba Clowns Play Andy's Quint Tonight Those Crazy Casaba comics, the Harlem Clowns, will be in town, tonight to entertain local basketball fans so prepare for an evening of laughs when they take on Andy's Jewelers at 8 o'clock at the senior high school. These merry madcaps of the hardwood are a bunch of fun-loving youngsters who play their audience for laughs from the time they romp out on the floor until they leave the court spin ning basketballs on fore-finger tips. The Harlem Clowns stage all the comic routines of clown bas ketball plus a lot of impromptu stuff. They often concoct gags as they go along, like one night one of the Clowns borrowed a cam- OSC Seeks Defense To Stop Bruins Corvallis (U.R) The UCLA Bruins arrive here tomorrow aft ernoon from Los Angeles and plan a light workout at Gill Col iseum to get ready for this week end's playoff for . the Pacific Coast title with Oregon State. Coach Slats Gill of the Bea vers, meanwhile, was trying to figure out a defense to stop the high - powered UCLA attack which has averaged 76.2 points per game and a shooting everage of .410. Top scorer for the Bruins is forward Johnny Moore, who has 343 points in 24 games. UCLA has outrebounded its opposition, 1,114 to 799. UCLA Bruins, who meet Ore gon State at Corvallis this week end for the Pacific Coast Con ference title, will definitely alter their defenses to try to stop the Beavers' seven-foot, three-inch center, Wade Halbrook. Bruin Coach Johnnv Wooden admitted he would switch tactics for the biggest of the Beavers but would not elaborate further as he spoke before Southern Cal- ifornia basketball writers yester day. Forest Twoeood. coach of the USC team which beat Oregon State two out of three for the PCC crown last year and lost four straight to UCLA this sea son, said the Bruins will surorise OSC. "UCLA is going to be mighty tough to beat," he said. "I don't think Oregon State has played anybody who gets up in the an as high as the Bruins." The writers selected Wooden as Coach of the Year and star Bruin forward Johnny Moore as Player of the Year. Moore and UCLA guard Mor rie Taft were named to tkeir AU-PCC Southern Division team as were Stanford's R.on Tomsic, Bob McXeen of California and Dick Welsh of SC. LA STARZA FAVORED Miami (U.R) Former heavy weight challenger Roland La Starza of New York is favored at 4-1 to beat Julio Mederos of Cuba here tonight in a 10-round bout, without benefit of televis ion. OLYMPICS INVITED Sacramento, Calif. (U.R) Gov. Goodwin J. Knight has is sued a formal invitation to the International Olympic Commit tee to hold the 1960 winter Olympic Games at Squaw Valley. era from a fan and took his own picture. And there was the night that a college coach suddenly sent in men from the bench. The Clowns met this challenge by recruiting fans from the stands. r arts gei a Dig laugn out oi in act when one of the Harlem Clowns takes over the referee's job he never calls fouls on the opposing team he calls them on his teammates for such viola tions as "travelling without a suitcase!" or "funny stuff." Then the regular referee is usually called on to take a free shot .. When the Harlem Clowns play the fun starts as soon as they come out on the floor a fast warmup routine, followed by a lot of tricky stuff and fancy ball handling. Tall Players The Clowns have three 6-S players in Johnny Shaw, a fin playmaker who was a mainstay of the Harlem Roadkings two seasons; Cleveland (Deacon) Harp wno was with the Harlem Globe- trotters one season and with Marquis Haynes All-Stars last year, and John Barber, standout for Los Angeles State last year. Another 6-footer on the squad is Howie Rand, welcomed back to the Clowns from the Army. under the fathom level are Marland (Shorty) Buckner, 5-5. fine comic, ball-handler and set shot; Emory Luck, 5-11, Clown veteran and deadeye long shot, and Charles (Red) Young, 5-11, uncanny dribbler and fine all around player. Skipper of the Clowns is Al Pullins, who first formed his own club back in 1934. CHILDREN TAKE CHANCES . . . D0NT YOU! 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