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
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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.
Four games will be played on
cross courts (two at a time) on
Thursday. There will be four
games on Friday and three on
Saturday.
Action is scheduled to start at
7:15 p.m. on Thursday.
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round game of annual NATA tournament at Kansas City.
Texas won, 68-55.
PLAYER INKED
Spokane (U.R) The Spo
kane Indians of the class B
Northwest league yesterday
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lefthanded first baseman de
scribed by Manager Eddie Lake
as a "very good prospect.
Crawford, of San Leandro, Calif,
batted .273 in the 110 games in
the West Texas-New Mexico
league last year.
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