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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NIKS MEDFORD -mm, ..CRATER COHT FIR - DISTRICT: M Friday, March 4. 1955 Court Fives Vie Tonight, Saturday This is a week end of decision or near decision throughoutOre gon for prep basketball teams who aspire for and still are in the running for berths in state high school basketball tourna ments. On the local scene attention of high school cage followers will be focused tonight on Cen tral Point and Saturday night on Medford where the Crater high Comets and Medford Black Tornado collide. Victor in the two-out of three series will get the District 4A bid to the big school tournament at Eugene. Junior varsities provide pre liminary action for the titular games at 6:45 p.m. Varsity at tractions, the big ones, start about 8:15 p.m. If the two clubs divide tonight and Saturday, there will be Monday night ac tion on a neutral floor. Tornado Favored Medford, favored strongly in the play-off and rated No. 1 in coaches and sportswriters polls for Oregon, will be shooting for its second state tournament trip in three years. The Tornado went in 1953 and bowed out after three games. -Crater, with actually nothing to lose and the most to gain in the play-off so far as prestige and honor is concerned, has never entered a state basketball tourney. The Comets, neverthe less, have been on the threshold numerous times. They are sub district champions for the fourth consecutive year. Last year the Comets missed the tourney by one game when they lost the third tilt in a two-out-of three eries with Grants Pass. Medford won two straight from Crater in 1953 in the dis trict play-off. The Black Tornado of Med ford has indicated it is all set to go all-out this week end against the Comets. Coach Frank Roelandt said that the Tornado gang always wants to play Cra ter and figures that in the dis trict "series is the best place to meet the Central Point school. They are not thinking of losses to Crater or Central Point teams in former years but have their minds on the opportunities of the present. Starters for Medford tonight are expected to be Bud Kastner, Glenn Peterson, Jerry Kalapus, Frank Rector and Larry Copple. For Crater the opening five is Jim Higinbotham, Bob Gray, Fred Hogue, Harvey Tonn and Vern Parent. Crater will yield some but not great height advantage to Med ford. Peterson and Kalapus are 6-4V4 and G r a y and Higin botham 6-3. GIARDELLO SIGNED Chicago (U.R) Joey Giardel- lo of. Philadelphia has been sign ed to meet Al Andrews of Superior, Wis., "in a return 10 round bout in the Chicago Sta dium, M a r c h ; 23. - Giardello outpointed ; Andrews in their first meeting on January 26. MEDFORD PAL CLUB BENEFIT FUND Battle of Champions SEE IN Tommy Thomas Jackie Puscas BOTH NATIONALLY RATED . and MANY OTHERS! Saturday, Mar. 5 8:30 Merriclk's Arena BIG FOUR CHAMPS AIM FOR TOURNEY SPOT Members of the Medford high basketball crew, Oregon's No. 1 rated contingent, will be out to clear the last hurdle in the way of a state Class A tournament berth when they oppose the Crater high Comets this week end for the District 4 championship. Medfbrd won the Southern Oregon Conference Big Four ban ner. The Black' Tornado and Comets meet at Central Point 4 Unanimous Choices for ND Star Five Corvallis (U.R) One player from each of the five Northern Division schools was named to day on the 1955 all-star team selected by the coaches and an nounced by PCC Commissioner Victor O. Schmidt. ' The team includes four seniors and one junior with Wade (Swede) Halbrook of Oregon State and Ron Bennink of Wash ington State unanimous choices for the second straight year, Dean Parsons of Washington also was named for the second straight - year. Rounding out the first five were Jim Loscutoff of Oregon and Cliff Melton of Idaho. Par sons and Loscutoff were unani; mous choices this year. All but Halbrook are seniors. . ' Second team: Jay Dean, Ore gon State, F.; Tony Vlastelica, Oregon State, F.; Bill Rehder, WSC, C; Ron Robins, Oregon State, G.; Jay Buhler, Idaho, G. Fisherman Sees Pole Skyborne Going East Eros, La. (U.R) Fisherman Clark Fuller lost his fishing pole and a nice catch of fish to a thief when he left them lying on a bank as he set out more lines upstream. Fuller returned to find a hawk tangled in the line devouring his catfish. " The hawk set its claws fast and took off. The last time Fuller saw his fishing pole it was sky' borne' in an easterly direction. 12 Bout Card ACTION P.M. MEDFORDiTRIBUNI Swede Problem For Bruins In Scuffles With Beavers Corvallis, Ore. U.R) The problem of bottling up the ex pert shot-making of seven-foot. three-inch Wade (Swede) Hal brook of Oregon State faced powerful UCLA in the opening game of the Pacific Coast con ence playoffs tonight. Lady Docker Claimant To World Marble Title Castleford, England U.R) Fun-loving Lady Docker won a marble shooting world cham pionship last night while kneel ing on a gold satin cushion so she would, not. dirty her $1000 peacock blue ballgown studded with diamonds and emeralds. She drove to this Yorkshire factory town just below the Scottish border in her gold plat ed Daimler limousine and took on 10 factory girls wearing fril ly dresses for the occasion. She won seven matches, drew one and lost two. Her victory was proclaimed a world championship by the hun dreds who had flocked into Cas tleford for the charity match be cause there had never been any thing like it. She confirmed it by trouncing Pauline Phillips. 17-year-old laundry worker, in a playoff. Walt Dropo To Forget About Power Walloping Tampa, Fla. U.R) Big Walt Dropo is going to forget about the long ball this season and con centrate in driving in runs. Noted as a power hitter, al though he banged pnly four, out of the park last season while with Detroit, the new Chicago White Sox first baseman figured today that, he would be more valuable to the club by going for singles and doubles. "After all," he reasoned, "I'm going to have a lot of men on the bases when I go up to the plate this season and that's a lot different than it was at Detroit. VWith the Tigers I had to go for the long ball because we had so few runners on but I know it will be different with the White Sox. Knickerbockers, Royals Tighten Grips in NBA Br UNITED PRESS The New York Knickerbock ers and the Rochester Royals took tighter grips on third place in the Eastern and Western divi sions, respectively, or me na tional Basketball association to day. 'The Knicks moved two full games in front of the idle Phila delphia Warriors in the battle for the last playoff spot by cruising to an easy 103-89 tri umph over the Milwaukee Hawks, while the Royals moved comfortably ahead of the Hawks by downing the Minneapolis Lakers,. 83-76. . In the only other game played the Syracuse Nationals defeat ed the Fort Wayne Pistons, 83-81. BASSET SETS FIGHT Paris, France (U.R) Percey .Bassett of Philadelphia, "inter im" featherweight champion while title holder Sandy Saddler of New York was in the Army, has signed to , meet Seraphan Ferrer, the -French lightweight champion, in a 10-round bout at the Palais des Sports April 4. tonight and here on Saturday. Medford squad is, left to right, front row, Manager Jerry Couch, Bob Tisdel, Frank Rector,. Larry Copple, Bud Kastner, Ed Reinking, Lloyd Cearley and Ed McCullough and from left, back row, Manager Don Gray, "Warren Deakins, Johnny Foust, Bill Cochran, Glenn Peter son, Jerry Kalapus, Dick McLaughlin and Coach Frank Roe landt. (Landis-Shangle photo) Halbrook has been the differ ence between a dismal and a very fine season for the Beavers and he has averaged 19.6 points per game in helping OSC to victory in 15 out of its last 16 games. , The PCC playoff series is a best two-out-of-three affair to night and tomorrow night, with a third game Monday, if neces sary. The games, to. be played in Gill basketball pavilion, are ex pected to be witnesed by sell-out crowds of 11,000 each night. There will be a coast-wide radio broadcast, but no television. Off their respective records this year, UCLA has to be fa vored to win. The Bruins have lost only three games one each to top-ranked University of San Francisco, LaSalle and Stanford. They have won a total of 18 against some very stiff compe tition. For OSC Halbrook is the key. Without him, the Beavers are very ordinary. Prior to Jan. 1, when he was ineligible, OSC won only four while losing six games. Since he rejoined the club, it has won 15 out of 16 tilts. So he is not used to defeat. Vejar Favorite . In-Graham Mix New York (U.R) Young Chico Vejar expects to lick ex welterweight challenger Billy Graham tonight at Madison Square Garden because it's open season on ring veterans right now. The odds-makers agreed mild ly with him; for they made 23-year-old Chico a slight favorite at to 5 to beat 32-year-old Graham of New York in their nationally televised and broad cast 10-rounder at 10 p.m.. EST. New York (U.R) By a strange coincidence, Billy Graham, the evangelist, appeared at Madison Square Garden Thursday night; and Billy Graham, the fighter, performs there tonight.' r PARK FREE While You Shop ot Either Robin r son Bros, or Pick's Apparel Rogue River, Pointers in Grade Finale Central Point Its Central Point afainst Rogue River Sat urday night in the finals of the Jackson county grade school basketball tourney. The tourna ment for graders in high school districts is being conducted at the junior high court here. There will be no games to night because of the C r a t e.r Medford liigh play-off game at the Crater gym. Central Point last night de feated Gold Hill 55 to 16 and Rogue River drew a bye through the semi-final round. In another scuffle Phoenix won a consola tion final berth by beating Butte Falls 42 to 23. Phoenix will play Talent on Saturday. Talent got a bye last night. Final at 8 p.m. Consolation game tomorrow will be at6 p.m. St. Mary's of Medford and Sams Valley will scrap at 7 p.m. for third place. Championship game will be at 6 p.m. Central Point was on top 23 to 16 , at the half last night. Wayne Allen scored 14 and Je rome McQuade eight for the winners. Huntly got 12 for Gold Hill. , Phoenix led Butte Falls 23 to 12 at halftime. Ed Ellis got 14 for Butte Falls and Korth'and Floyd each 10 for Phoenix. Romans Leader At Baton Rouge Baton Roige, La. (U.R) A heavy field set out today to catch leader Walter Romans in the $12,500 Baton Rouge Open and it was still anybody's tourn ament with 20 pros four strokes or less off the pace. Romans, on his vacation from the Baltimore, Md., Country Club, turned in superb putting Thursday to birdie eight of the last nine holes and take a one stroke lead on the field. of 65. One stroke off the pace at 66 were Bud Holscher, Apple Val ley, Caiif., Paul McGuire, Wichita, Kan., and Marty. Fur gel, Lemont. 111. " HUSKIES CHOICE Eugene J (U.R) Washington was a heavy favorite to win the Northern Division swimming title here .today and tomorrow. PARK 2 HOURS FOR Ee ONLY THE FIRST HOUR IS FREE When you purchase .5 .-gal' Ions or more of gas from the Associated Station on the corner of Main and Front. PARK ANY TIME ON THE Parking Lot CORNER MAIN AND FRONT PARKING RATES 10c First Hour 5c Each Hour Thereafter W. Halbrook On All-Coast Hoop Crew By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) A quin tet of men who average six feet, nine inches in height today was named on the 1955 United Press All-Pacific Coast team. It took the stars of five teams to produce that amazing altitude record with the : shortest man being Johnny Moore, the veter an UCLA sharpshooter who led his team to the Southern divi sion , Pacific Coast conference crown. Moore is practically a midget on the squad at six feet, five inches. The others on the club, picked by coaches and sports writers, are Bill Russell, of the nation's No. 1 University of San Francis co team; Wade (Swede) Hal brook of the Oregon State dub that walked away with the Northern division PCC ' crown; Ken Sears of Santa Clara and Bob McKeen of California. Second team Morris Taft, UCLA; K. C. Jones, USF; Jim Loscutoff, Oregon; Ron Tomsic, Stanford; Ron Bennink, Wash ington State. Third team Anthony ' Vlaste lica, Oregon State; Dean Par son, Washington; Roy Irvin, Southern California, Dick Welsh, Southern California; Jerry. Mul len, usf. . 'r: Little Hope for Martin To Return to NY Yanks In Forthcoming Season Fort Carson,' Colo. (U.R) Billy Martin, New York Yankee second baseman now sweating out his final year of military service, apparently has no hope of playing "with the American League club this season. ' . Early this week, a Fort Car son public, information officer told United Press that with ac cumulated leave, and an early discharge, Martin ought to be free to join the Yankees before mid-summer. But Martin - then said . he didn't intend to report to the Yankees until his actual dis charge. He hoped this would be in July, because the Army is now discharging draftees as much as three months ahead of schedule. But Lt. Charles L. Snyder, the public information officer, said Wednesday that Martin's record had been checked and he could not expect discharge be fore Oct. 6. Beavers Schedule Multnomah Use Portland (U.R) The Port land Beaveis of the Pacific Coast League will move from ancient Vaughn Street park to Multnomah Stadium next year and may use the 30,000-seat stadium this year, it was report ed today. Joe Ziegler, new general man ager of Ihe Beavers, commented that it "means moving from the worst ball park in the country to what promises to be the best." A decision on whether the move will be made . this season is likely next week. TEAMS CERTIFIED Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Seven more teams were certified today for the annual National Intercollegiate Basketball tour namet, which starts here Mon day. Latest to be named for the 32-team event were Loyola of Los Angeles, Regis ; of Denver, Geneva of Beaver Falls, Pa.-, Evansville of Indiana, Whit worth of Spokane, Wash., Mis sissippi Southern, and Atlantic Christian of Wilson, N.C. 9 Spring Tooth Harrows o Discs o Spike Tooth Harrows o Plows . o Van Brundt Grain Drills HUBBARD-WRAY CO., INC, 25 South Riverside Avenue r- Medford, Oregon Talent, Malin Open B Title Talent Talent high school's basketball team, seeking its sec-' bnd straight B tournament trip, headed this morning for the Dis trict 5 play-off at Klamath Falls and Coach George- Bray re ported that the Bulldogs are the strongest physically that they have been; since early in the season. Malin, Klamath county tour ney winner and Talent, Jackson- County B League titlist, jangle tonight and Saturday night in the Klamath union high gym In the first two ' games of a two-cut-of-three play-off. A third game if needed will be on Mon day at Southern Oregon college in Ashland. The Bulldogs left here about a.m. and had a 30-minute shooting practice this noon at the Klamath court. Aim was to familiarize themselves .with the surroundings as well as loosen up. Talent aid not work out at home yesterday. - Bray reported that 10 players would be 'in uniform for the Malin series. Forwards will be Jack Barrett, George Zicke- f oose, Ray Weinhold and Mel Wallace. Centers will be Jim Mc Abee and Harold Bartol and Gary Combs and guards will be J. Lloyd Wood, Gordy Thore son, Bob Hoffman and Freddie Helm. " The coach ; reported that the Bulldogs have recuperated from injuries and illness and are in their best shape since Barrett injured bis knee on December 15 in game with Phoenix. 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