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TWELVE MTDTORD (ORECOW) Rebound Control Question In Talent-Mai Power on the backboards has been a big factor in Talent high school basketball success this season and the big question as the Bulldogs await their District 5B championship play-off with Malin is whether they can wrest rebound control from the taller Mustangs and whether they'll need to get that control. The two aggregations, win ners of their respective county eliminations for Class B sub district laurels, combat on Fri day and Saturday night on the Klamath union high floor at Kla math Falls. It's a two-out-of-three series and if the clubs di vide at Klamath, they'll move to Southern Oregon college at Ashland, for the decider. Rebounding reportedly has been also a big asset this season to the Mustangs. That strength particularly helped in the vic tory over Chiloquin in the Kla math tourney finals. However, it was hot shooting rather than rebounding last year that made the difference as Tal ent took two straight from Ma lin and won a state tournament berth. There were a lot of the same faces on the two squads and Malin had much tne same height edge. Malin had the back board advantage in the first half of the second fray. Talent got its share in the last half of the seccond. Malin has four starting regu lars standing 6 feet or belter while only one man on the Tal ent squad, a non-regular, reaches the 6-foot mark. Norm Olivia, 6-3, is the tall est regular Mustange and Rog er Dokken, 6-2, in next. Even 6 footers among the starters are Glenn Steyskal and Ray John son. Lavon Frazier, 5-10, is the No. 5 man. A 6-2 boy, Don Raj nus, could be among the starters. Among the Talent regulars Jack Barrett, J. Lloyd Wood and George Zickefoose are listed at 5-11. Jim McAbee, the Bulldog scoring and rebounding ace, is a bit over 5-10. Gordy Thoreson is 3-9. Mel Wallace, a starter during much of the season, is 5- 8. Reserve Harold Bartol is 6- 1. Malin will go into this year's Julio Mederos Upsets LaStarza Miami, Fla (U.R) Former heavyweight contender Roland La Starza stood perilously near the end of the road today as his manager suggested he quit after a surprise five-round knockout by unknown Julio Mederos. Mederos, a 4-1 underdog from Havana, Cuba, floored La Star za three times in the lopsided bout Wednesday night, the last time for the full count at 1:37 of the fifth round. La Starza, who lay uncon scious even after Mederos' hand was lifted in triumph, still was but his manager, Jimmy De Ane- elo, admitted talk of plans seem ed futile. High School Scores WEDNESDAT GAMES District 6-A Playoff Eugene 72. Junction Citv 46 , St. Francis 49. Springfield ,44 District 10-A Tourney Astoria 48. Warrenton 40 District 11-A Tourney Cascade 36. Mt. Angel 32 North Marion 58. Silverton 33 District 8-B Playoff Enterprise 62. St. Francis of Baker 47 District 7-B Playoff Irrigon 66. Prairie City 62 CHAIN SAWS A SIZE AND STYLE FOR ALL CUTTING NEEDS ... OASOUNI Ye, we seJ the meat complete line of chain I saws manufactured J today . . . MALL. No i matter wnat yourj chain saw need may t be whether lac pulp-1 wood or timber pro-1 duction. wcodlot farm-1 tng, cleaning righti-of- wav. tree surgery or con struction work MALL has! a chain saw to make your job 1 easier and faster. Come in today and aee the complete! MALL chain saw nne. Ernie Holbrook 4661 South Pacific Highway OPEN HOUSE & DEMONSTRATION All Day Saturday, March 5 MAIL TRIBUNE in Play-Off hassle with a record of 18 wins and five losses. The Mustangs had a 5-1 mark in the Klamath County B league for second place. Their losses were two to Chiloquin and each to Henley, Ferndale, Calif., and Tulelake, Calif. Talent has 19 victories and three defeats this year but has beaten every rival that downed it. The Bulldogs split with Eagle Point and Powers and took two out of three with Rogue River. Record for the regular Jackson County B league season was 9-1. A split with Rogue River in conference action necessitated the third tussle to determine the loop and subdistrict titlist. Kansas City Club Fined St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) Commissioner Ford Frick was reported ready today to fine at least two more big league teams as a result of his expanding in vestigation into violations of the Mar. 1 spring training dead line. "The investigation is continu ing and there are almost certain to be additional fines," a source close to Frick disclosed after Wednesday's announcement that the Kansas City Athletics had been fined $250 and fines total ing $325 had been levied against seven members of the club. The identities of the other clubs were net disclosed but it is known that Frick is investigat ing charges that the Brooklyn Dodgers and Detroit Tigers were guilty of violating the training deadline. Frick says he believes the rule is a bad one but that he is "going to enforce it to the letter." Frick announced last Monday that he had fined the Milwau kee Braves $500 and assessed fines totaling $625 on 14 playeis for such violations. Salmon Season Opens on Part Of Rogue River Portland U.R) The weekly report on fishing conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: Southwest: Steelhead fishing on Illinois river ended Feb. 28. Season for Chinook salmon not less than 15 inches in length is now open in that part of the Rogue exclusive of tributaries above mouth of Mule creek; sea son for chinook salmon not less than 15 inches will open March 26 on Rogue exclusive of tribu taries below mouth of Mule creek; consult synopsis; steel head season closed in Zone 1, Feb. 28. Striped bass fishing in Isth mus slough should be fair to good if weather clears; striped bass being taken in Coos river: throughout Umpqua area Feb. 28; next open season of conse quence will be spring chinook April 15; catfish season open entire year, but normally un productive now. Hoffine Second In OCC Scoring Lloyd Hoffine, Southern Ore gon college, was second high scorer during the Oregon College Conference basketball chase and Tiger Bob Smith and Keith Johnson of the Red Raiders were also among the top 10 according to statistics prepared' by Al Gould, Oregon Journal sports writer. Hoffine with 322 points trailed Larry Pryse, Eastern Oregon college, who scored 350. Ted Schadewitz, EOC, was third with 297. Smith was fifth in the totals with 258 and Johnson eighth with 215. FG ..116 -103 -100 -121 - 91 -101 - 79 PT PF 118 63 116 44 97 50 40 46 TL 350 322 297 282 238 252 242 215 213 194 194 185 176 165 157 153 145 133 124 124 113 104 Piyse. EO Hoffine, SO Schadewitz. EO Viskov. PS Smith. SO 76 50 84 53 83 74 66 33 56 87 33 31 41 44 24 24 55 34 67 Jones. OC 53 42 38 47 47 66 66 43 32 59 35 44 50 27 40 49 64 Rcinking, EO Johnson. SO 81 Chamberlain, OC 65 Eckert OT 60 James. OT 64 Westenskow, EO 76 Peikin. PS 60 Poetsch. PS 39 Ycung, CC 62 Parker. PS 61 Xcnow, PS 52 Burton. EO 47 Hannon, PS 50 Cochran. EO - 50 Bates. SO 29 Titus. SO 35 Rector, Copple G. Pass Choices Frank Rector and Larry Cop ple, stellar Medford guards have been named to the all-season, all opponent team picked by players of the Grants Pass high school basketball squad. The Cavemen named six men on the crew. Others were Dave D'Olivo, Klamath Falls; Sandy Fraser, Marshfield, and Hoddy Schepman and Willard Reeve, both of North Bend. George Curtis, reporting the selections in the Grants Pass Daily Courier, stated, "Copple and Rector . . . were not only high scorers on the team that beat the Cavemen four straight, but also were key men on de fense and all-around floor play." Thursday. March 3. 193S Comets Hope To Repeat Past History In Cage Tangles With Black Tornado Zany Clowns Entertain Small Crowd The Harlem Clowns, mirth ful magicians of the maplecourt, demonstrated their wares to a two-thirds full house at Medford senior high school gymnasium last night and their comedy was better than ever. While the comic opera per formers of Casabaland didn't show quite the basketball prowess they have in former appearances here, they concen trated on the comedy and then show was tops. There were laughs every minute of the game and laughs in between the minutes when the clock was stopped and the Clowns kept the crowd in stitches from the time they warmed up until the show was over. Quite incidentaly,. and hardly sccidently, the Clowns scored enough to lick Andy's Jewelers of the Medford Independent league 64 to 58. The colored con tingent kept the action close enough to make the fracas in teresting all the way. They defi nitely gave the impression that they could have made the count worse had they wanted to. But there was some good playing and shooting on the part of the Jewelers who served as stooges for a lot of the barnstorming club humor. Chatterbox Shorty Buckner, Howie Rand and Emory Luck were the boys who provided most of the humor and they combined with John Barber and Red Young with some sharp, quick tricky pass ing that left Andy's dizzy and befuddled and both amused and awed the crowd. Buckner was the charterbox and the instigator of most of the Clowns' pranks. He gave Referee Lee Flink a particularly bad time. And Rand spent much time making faces at the players and spectators, particularly pret ty gals in the crowd. At one stage Buckner took over the reffing chores and called infractions on his own team for "no funny business," for "traveling without a suit case" and for "attempting to fly." It enabled Andy's, which was trailing, to close the score to 53 to 50. Even Flink got a free shot and had to be boosted up to the bucket to make it and he got his pants rolled up. Luck and Buckner took and threw the ball out Into the hallway and the Clowns objected when the Jewelers tried to substitute a dead and lopsided ball. In the last few minutes the Clowns came up with about everything including their foot ball formation and dropkicking, their well-known baseball game, the water bucket trick in which confetti was thrown on specta tors and fancy, clever dribbling by Young while the rest of the players laid around. Leave Floor In the final minute Luck and Barber went to the dresing room, got their hats and coats and started to leave. They returned to action. Buckner drew one of the big gest laughs when he saw Morris Jiminez of the Jewelers enter the game. "Wow-ooooo," he said. Jiminez is about 5-10, weighs about 230 pounds and has a rotund figure in a basketball uniform. Buckner called him skinny. The Clowns tried slow motion, slight-of-hand and rolling the ball in addition to ignoring the rules by walking around the court with the ball under their arms. They missed a lot of easy shots but gave the impression they could make them if they tried. Young, mostly on longs score 26 points and Buckner got 17 in general the same way. Keith Johnson put in 14 for Andy's. LIVE-UPS: Clowns S4 Luck 6 f . Young 26 f Barber 6 c Rand 9 g Buckner 17 g Substitutions For man 10, Johnson 14. 18 Andy's 6 Smith 8 Lilly 4 Wooton 10 Kramer 4 Soderlund Andy's. Board Jiminez 2. Television 'Out For PCC Play-Off Corvallis (U.R) There will be no television of this week end's PCC basketball playoff be tween UCLA and Oregon State and it's "doubtful" if next week's regional NCAA tourney will be televised, Assistant Athletic Di rector Jim- Barratt of Oregon State said today. Barratt said that Bill Perry, PCC television liaison man, had advised him that sponsors had backed away because of "high cost of TV installations." Portland (U.R) Veteran right-handed pitcher Red Ad ams has agreed to terms after first balking at his contract, the Portland Beaver baseball club said today. MEDFOJffisWTWBUire siPflDnnrs Dan Tully, Christean On PAL Boxing Card Here Saturday Night Pairings for two more bouts, including the semi-windup, for the Medford Police Athletic League benefit boxing card this Saturday night at Merrick's arena were listed today by PAL officials. The announcement in volved two scrappers of the Medford PAL stable. In the semi-windup encounter, Dan Tully, new heavyweight dis covery of the local club, will run up against Jack Reilly, 6-fcot 2-inch Portland PAL tussler. It will be a puncher-boxer hassle. Tully is listed as a speedy puncher who is "coming fast." Reilly has a reputation as a boxer. Loren Christean, fast hard slugging Medford middleweight, has been lined up against Walter Butterfield of Portland PAL. Twelve bouts in all are planned on the card and the spon soring organization reported that 14 of the boys slated to ap pear hold championships of one kind or another. The two newest pairings bring to five the match ings that had been completed by early today. PAL matchmakers hoped to have the other pairings completed by this evening or early Friday. Bouts Saturday start at 8:30 p.m. There will be a double main event with Jackie Puscas, Eu gene, and Mannie Fernandez, Eureka, Calif., in the top half and Tommy Thomas, Portland Air Base and Jim Wilson, Eu reka, Calif., in the other. Puscas, a real bombadier has been three times Oregon's boxer of the year and is a nationally rated battler. Fernandez is lightweight champ in his own area. He's reportedly as hard a puncher as Puscas in addition to being a master boxer. Thomas is regarded as one of the top men in the national AAU boxing picture. He recently won the northwest Golden Gloves toga and has many other tourney championships. Most impresive of his victories has been a TKO win over Joe Bathea, -national welterweight titlist. Wilson is the Eureka welter crown-wearer. In another scuffle previously reported match Larry Lewis, Medford, will oppose Dawson Carlysle, Portland Air Base. Other Medford PAL . boxers who are expected to be matched are Bobby Lyons, state AAU champ, Don Wolfe, Jimmy Evans and Billy Wright. The card will be the first one here in four months. Last was held in December. All proceeds go to the support of the Police Athletic League and PAL offi cers are hoping for a good turn out Saturday since boxing shows provide the major source of in come for this city police spon sored activity. PAL is dedicated to the enter tainment, guidance and educa tion of the youth of the Medford Portland Staters Capture Berth in NAIA Tournament Milwaukie, Ore. U R) Port land State's Vikings, already travel-wise after a trip to the Tulsa, St. Louis Sure of Berths By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Tulsa, and St. Louis both were assured of post-season tourna ment berths today, no matter how their hot league race comes out, and Pennsylvania got one foot . inside the NCAA tourna ment. Tulsa and St. Louis now are tied for the Missouri Valley con ference lead, and the eventual league winner will go to the NCAA tourney. But the Nation al Invitation Tournament an nounced today that it will in vite the loser, which will com plete the NIT's 12-team field. Both teams finish their sea son with games Saturday night, and if they both win, will play off early next week for the crown. . Pennsylvania was assured of at least a tie for the Ivy league championship Wednesday night when Columbia whipped Prince ton 65-58. However, Penn must face Princeton in ' its season fi nale on Saturday - and a loss could lead to a three-way tie among Penn, Princeton, and Columbia." r 1 -i i ON SATURDAY CARD Larry Lewis, flyweight pride of the Medford Police Athletic League, will be one of the big attractions Saturday night on the 12-bout PAL boxing car at Merrick's arena. He is matched against Dawson Carlysle, Portland Air Base champion. Lewis previous' ly decisioned Carlysle. Jackie Puscas fights Manny Fernandez and Tommy Thomas tussles Jim my Wilson in the double main event. All proceeds will go to help the needs and operation of PAL, city police sponsored or ganization to provide activities for boys in this area. area. Twenty to 30 boys have been taking advantage nightly Monday through Friday of the PAL facilities above the Acme hardware store. Facilities offer other exercise, billiards, tele vision and games and other op portunities in addition to boxing. Boxers work out nightly in preparation for their fights and do roadwork on their own ear lier in the day. They'll have their last strenuous workout this eve ning and will only "loosen up" on Friday. All persons interested are invited to drop in this eve ning or Friday and watch the boys in their final tune-ups. Officers of the Pal club report a fine spirit among the boys and say that they'll go all out Sat urday to win their bouts. Tickets are available at Sam's and Lamport's Sporting Goods stores, the Bohemian and Union clubs and the Medford police station. Mack Lillard's weekly pro fessional wrestling card has been suspended to make the arena available for the PAL club pro gram. Far East this season, board a train for Kansas City tomorrow evening for the NAIA basket ball tournament opening Mon day. '' ' . . Portland State, champion of the Oregon Collegiate Confer ence, defeated Pacific 71-57 be fore some 1500 fans here last night in the District 2 NAIA final. Eastern Oregon made it a big night for the OCC by edging Willamette 89-85 in a free-scoring consolation game. Norm Hubert, Pacific's smooth marksman, was held to 16 points for him a low total as Portland State threw up a de fense that puzzled the Badgers no end. Paul Poetsch, Portland State's dynamic little guard, stuck to Hubert all evening while the rest of the Vikings were employed in a fourman zone. ' Portland State went ahead 33 26 at the half and Pacific couldn't close the gap in the second half. Jim Perkin, Port land State guard, had 16 points while Jack Viskov and Ron Ne now had 13 each. Poetsch chip ped in with 12. Portland State shot .379. Spokane -U.P.) Whitworth defeated Gonzaga 82-64 last night to win the district 1 berth in the NAIA basketball tourna ment at Kansas City. Whitworth. won the first of the three-game series Monday night but lost Tuesday night Quints Meet On Friday, Saturday The Crater High Comets have not been talking about losing. They've only been talking about winning as they looked ahead to this week end's District 4A play-off series with the big wind of Oregon prep basketball, the No. 1 rated Medford High Black Tornado. And. the Comets are aiming to make some past history re peat itself when the two-out-of- three game titular series opens on Friday. What the Crater quint recalls is a couple of games when they were eighth graders and ninth graders. With their line-ups then almost the same as are the var sity quints now, the Central Point crew defeated the Medford gang once in each of those years. They'll be out to do it again. Crater and Medford play Friday at the spacious Central Point court. Saturday conflict will be on the Medford floor. A third scrape, if required, will be on a neutral floor. Junior var sity preliminaries are scheduled each night at 6:45 p.m. with the championship varsity skir mishes set for 8:15 p.m. Both Ready Both clubs indicated today that they'll be ready for the en gagements. Coach Frank Roe landt of the heavily favored Medford five indicated that the Black Tornado is healthy and out to extend its winning streak to 22 straight. The Tornado will likely take the floor with Jerry Kalapus, Everett Kastner, Glenn Peterson, Frank Rector and Larry Copple in starting posi tions. Medford had its last real hard workout yesterday, actually its toughest drill this week and was prepared to go once over lightly this afternoon. The club had only a squad meeting on Mon day and then had a good drill on Tuesday. Coach Leonard Warren of the Comets said this morning that Crater was "through with its work" and added, "We're going to be ready." Jim Higinbotham, Fred Hogue, Bob Gray, Harvey Tonn and Vern Parent are the probable starters. Work on Defense The Comets have emphasized defense this week, aiming at taming the high-powered of fense that has devastated other foes this year. Warren' said Cra ter does not feel that it can stop Medford cold but hopes at least to , take some of the blast out of the Big Breeze. "I think the Comets will give them a ball game," Warren re marked. "The kids will be giv ing everything they've got and are not the least bit. worried." Only Gray for the Comets and Peterson for the Tornado were not participants when the pres ent prep varsity players were eighth and ninth graders. Fred Spiegelberg in charge of tickets for Medford high games today reminded season ticket holders that they have through Friday to purchase the seats they have occupied this year for Sat urday night's mix. Season tick ets are not good for the Satur day contest. Principal Arthur Straus said today that only Southern Ore gon Conference passes will be honored at the Friday game at Central Point. It is estimated that : about 00,000 survivors of workers who died before September 1950 may now be eligible for social security payments. O) Medford "Battle 12 BOUT fm CARD! -.ajSg Saturday, Mar. 5-8:30 p.m. Interest Mounts in UCLA, Oregon State Corvallis (U.R) Excite ment mounted here today as Oregon State and UCLA pre pared to meet in a best two-of-three series for the Pacific Coast conference title and a berth in next week's NCAA re gionals, also to be held in this basketball-mad Willamette., val ley town. This will be the final PCC playoff. Next year the Northern and Southern divisions will be combined. Business Manager Jim Bar- Gola Named Top Player By NORMAN MILLER New York All-America Tom Gola of La Salle, basketball's master craftsman who has been lauded by many as the outstand ing college star of all time, today was voted the United Press play er of the year for 1955 almost by acclamation. The 21-year-old son of a Phila delphia policeman was an over whelming choice of 276 sports- writers and radio broadcasters who participated in the United Press All-America poll. Gola was the top choice of 169 voters, a remarkably high total consider ing the wide-open aspects of the ballot. Gola's closest rival for the honor was Bill Russell, San Francisco's All-America center who polled 46 votes. Of the 27 other players who received votes, none attracted more than seven. A Coach's Dream The 6-foot-7 Gola, who gave real meaning to the overworked accolade "coach's dream play er," drew unstinting praise from college and pro coaches alike for his superb versatility. Statis tics tell only half the story of his great talents. More than 160,000 American National Guardsmen served in Korea, including 80 per cent of the Air National guard. F Solve Your Rotary Tiller Problem WITH MOTO Spade Auto m atic clutch . - MotoSpade stops if op erator lets go. Precision ball bearings throughout. 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