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San Francisco, Seattle; LaSalle Grab NCAA 1st Round Hoop Spots By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Defending champion La Salle nd national champion San Fran cisco both displayed stunning coring power as they led eight preliminary round winners to day into berths in the first round of the NCAA Basketball Tourna ment. Advancing along with the two hottest early favorites for the title by victories at four sites Tuesday night were Canisius, Villanova, Marquette, P e n n State, Bradley, and Seattle. But La Salle, smashing the tournament's single-game record by thrashing West Virginia, 95 61, and San Francisco, almost matching that total by walloping West Texas State 89-66, were the most impressive winners. Besides La Salle, other vic tors in the preliminary round triple-header at New York's Madison Square Garden were Canisius by 73-60 over Williams and Villanova by 74-73 over Duke. At Lexington, Ky., Penn State nipped Memphis State, 59 55, and Marquette was forced into overtime to beat Miami of Ohio, 90-79. In a single game at El Reno, Okla., Bradley ousted Oklahoma City, 69-65. At San Francisco's Cow Palace, San Francisco was joined in victory by Seattle, 80-63, over Idaho State. Friday's Regional Set The winners move on to four new sites for the first round of regional competition Friday night, as follows: At Philadelphia Canisius vs. Villanova. La Salle vs. winner of tonight's Columbia-Princeton playoff at New Brunswick, N. J., for Ivy League championship. At Evanston, 111. Marquette vs. Kentucky. Penn State vs. Iowa. At Manhattan, Kans. Bradley vs. SMU. Colorado vs. Tulsa. At Corvallls, Ore. Seattle vs. Oregon State. San Francisco vs. Utah. Friday night winners will meet Saturday night at the same itei. The regional winners then will go to Kansas City where, on Friday, March 18, the Philadel phia and Evanston winners will meet for the eastern champion ship and the Manhattan and Cor rallis winners will meet for the western championship. Eastern and western champs will meet the following night for the na tional championship. Hundley Shows Well Despite La Salle's 34-point vic tory margin, the Explorers were tangled in a battle for 15 minutes as West Virginia's Rodney (Hot Rod) Hundley ran wild. But Hundley, who scored 16 points in the first half, was held to one in the second by a three-two zone defense. La Salle, sparked by All America Tom Gola's 22 points and brilliant playmaking, breezed home. La Salle's 95 points erased the tourney record of 92 the Ex plorers set themselves in beating Bradley in last year's finale. Six-10 All-American Bill Rus ell tallied 29 points to lead San Francisco after being twice "flattened" in fouls by his rival Portland OJ.R) The Port land Beavers announced today that catcher Jim Livesay has been placed on the retirement list. Livesay said he hopes to re turn to the Pacific Coast league team next year. center. West Texas State was in the game only for the first five minutes, until Russell hit three straight lay-ups. to break a tie. He was the Dons' defensive star, too. San Francisco's first team sat out the last 17 minutes of the game. Seattle led almost all the way in beating Idaho State for the fourth time In five meetings this season. Seattle's big center Dick Stricklin led the scoring with 20 points. Idaho State was forced to do without five important freshmen who were members of the squad during the regular sea son. The win gave Seattle a 22-5 season record. Medford Tribune siPODimrs Colorful Basketball, Showmanship Slated By Texas Cow Cirls A state famous for its biggest oil wells, biggest cactus plants Songkitrat, Macias Scrap For NBA Belt San Francisco (U.R) Cham rern Songkitrat of Thailand and Raul Macias of Mexico each weighed in at 117V4 pounds today for their 12 round fight tonight for the NBA world bantamweight title. By SCOTT BAILLIE San Francisco (U.R) Raul Macias of Mexico and Chamrern Songkitrat of Thailand, a pair of little men who have battled before mammoth crowds in their homeland, meet in a 12 round bout tonight at the Cow Palace for the NBA version of the world bantamweight title. The fight, which is the first world bantam title to be held in the United States since 19,47, will be televised by CBS start ing at 10 p.m. EST. It also is be ing broadcast direct to Mexico and relayed to Thailand by the Voice of America. The telecast is blacked out in a 150-mile ra dius of San Francisco. Macias, a hard-hitting game cock who also dances a sharp mambo, has been installed as a 2-1 favorite over Songkitrat. The Thai police lieutenant rush ed over here on short notice to take the fight after Mario D'Ag ata, originally scheduled to fight Macias here, was wounded by a shotgun blast during an argu ment in his laundry at Avezzo, Italy. Bout Suffered -Promoter Benny Ford, who is staging the bout, with the IBC, said he is expecting the fight to lure 8,500 fans who will put $35,000 into the till. The bout suffered something of a knockout itself at the hands of the California State Athletic commission which refused to go along with the NBA in recog nizing the fight as a title af fair. Ford has not advertised the fight as being for any title lest he stir the wrath of the com mission. But NBA President An- and biggest liars sends another "biggest" into this area Friday and Saturday nights. Its the Texas Cow Girls basketball team, famous throughout the United States and Canada for its basketball showmanship. The Cow Girls will play Yel low Cab, district 10 AAU cham pions, at St. Mary's gym in Med ford Friday night and at Crater high school gym in Central Point Saturday night. Both games start at 8 o'clock with doors to open an hour earlier. Over the seasons the Cow Girls have garnered many lau rels in their field and are con sidered the nation's number one girls pro team. They were the first girls team to play in the maritime provinces of Can ada and the only girls, team to play in the famous Boston Gardens and Madison Square Garden. The team has been operated since its inception by Dempsey Hovland. Their famous acts of hog tying an unsuspecting and bashful member of the opposite sex, shooting the referee and other well-known Cow Girl gags have marked them as a unique basketball attraction. Florence Holder, one of the outstanding women basketball players in the game, is team captain. She is said to excel in team play and is a top scorer and play maker. She is also said to be a terrific show girl who likes to "cut up" when her team is out in front. Average age of the team is 20 years. The girls, who play men's rules, will present a half time free throw shooting contest and trick shooting. Cherokee-Jeri, western song stylist, also will present halftime entertainment. Randy Turpin Scores Knockout Over Gonzales London (U.R) Randy Tur pin, former world middleweight champion, knocked out Jose Gonzalez of Spain in the sev enth round Tuesday night. Tur pin weighed 171, while Gon zalez scaled 177 pounds. thony Petronella is in town with a belt to give to the winner emblematic of world supremacy as far as that organization is concerned. Medford Retains I Press Poll Lead Medford high's storming Black Tornado was unani mous choice again this week for No. 1 place in the Associ ated Press Oregon prep bas ketball ratings. Sporxswrilers vote in the poll. Milwaukie and Eugene, which cinched state tourney berths last night, ran second and third, respectively, again in the voting. Final poll will be conducted next week. f Wednesday, March 9, 1933 r MEDFORD (OREOOrT) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEr? 1. Medford; 23-1 ... 2. Milwaukie, 21-3 3. Eugene, 21-3 Points 90 75 79 4. North Bend, 23-3 68 5. Cleveland, 18-4 6. St. Helens, 21-0 49 39 7. Albany, 20-4 35 8. Astoria. 24-4 22 9. Beaverton. 21-5 11 10. (tie) Franklin. 13-10 S 10. (tie) Dallas, 21-4 8 Others: Pendleton S, Powers 5, Grant of Portland and Baker 4, Milton-Freewater 3, Harrisnnrt 2. Franklin HS Gains Berth In Tourney Medford high will oppose Franklin of Portland on Wednes day, March 16, in the first round of the Class A Oregon high school basketball tournament at Eugene. By UNITED PRESS Defending champion Milwau kie, Eugene, and Franklin of Portland qualified for the 1955 Oregon class A high school bas ketball tournament last night, leaving only two berths yet to be filled. Milwaukie and Eugene, tour ney finalists last year, will meet in a first round game next Wednesday. Milwaukie downed Oregon City 68-48; Eugene dumped Springfield 56-45, and Franklin turned back Grant 73-52 in games last night. The two remaining berths are between Central Catholic and Estacada in district 13 and South Salem and Cascade in district 11. Independent Tourney at Eagle Point Eagle Point An independent basketball tournament will be held Thursday, Friday and Sat urday this week at the Eagle Point high school gymnasium. Participants will be YMCA and Headquarters company of the National Guard from Med ford, Burelsons of Central Point, Prospect town team, Prospect Lettermen, Eagle Point town team, Eagle Point Lettermen, and Butte Falls town team. 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