TEN -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
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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
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33
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23
5
4
6
0
14
2
0
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Knutson
1
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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
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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
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22
22
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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