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Newspaper Page TextTWELVE MTDrORD (OREGON) Tornado Copple, Kalapus, Rector On First Five; Peterson, Kastner Picked on Second Medford high's rip-roaring Black Tornado, which made a runaway out of the 1955 South ern Oregon Conference Big Four and District 4 basketball campaigns in its most brilliant season in 10 years, has gleaned additional laurels by its domi nation of the Mail Tribune's an nual poll picking the all-conference team. Three members of the Tor nado's regular starting quintet were named to the first team. The two others were the top choices for the second team as Medford placed five players among the top seven in the Mail Tribune balloting conducted among coaches, sportswriters and sportscasters in the four league cities. Larry Copple, loose-limbed guard and high scorer for the Tornado, was a unanimous choice along with Dave D'Olivo, 6-4 center and standout of the Klam ath Falls Pelicans. Rounding out the first quintet are Frank Rector, Medford guard and second high pointmaker for the Tornado: Jerry Kalapus. R-4'4. leading rebounder and third high point producer for the Medford team, and Jim Keia. fine scoring guard and driver of the Grants Pass Cavemen. Almost Unanimous Second team members are Everett (Bud) Kastner and Glenn Peterson, Medford; Don James, Grants Pass; Gene Parent, Ash land, and Guy Munsell, Klamath Falls. Rector and Kalapus barely missed being named unani mously. On the basis of two points for a first team vote and one for second team pick, 24 points were needed for unani mous selection. Rector polled 23 and Kalapus 22. Kastner came close to gaining the first team. Reid shaded him 16 to 15 in the voting. Peterson was seventh.high in the poll with 12 points, just four behind Reid. This year's all-star club is a combination of speed, height, capable ball-handling and scor ing punch. Copple, Rector and Reid are fast, fine floor men with scoring ability both in and out. They are ballhawks on de fense. Kalapus and D'Olivo were tops on the backboards for their teams in addition to their scoring contributions. All players picked in this year's poll, including honorable mention, are seniors with the ex ception of Parent. He is a junior. 12 Cast Ballots Coaches voting in the poll were Al Simpson, Ashland; Don Peterson, Klamath Falls; Frank Roelandt, Medford. and Ray Davis, Grants Pass. Sportswriter participants were George Cur Princeton Ivy Titlist New Brunswick, N. J. (U.P.) Persistent Princeton donned its sixth Ivy League basketball crown today. Storming from behind in. the second half, Princeton took the championship Wednesday night by trouncing Columbia in a spe cial playoff, 86-69, in the Rutgers University gym. The victory qualified Prince ton to meet La Salle Friday night in the first round of the NCAA Tournament regional at Philadelphia. Warriors Hopes Still Flickering By UNITED PRESS A victory over Minneapolis kept the Philadelphia Warriors' playoff hopes flickering in the National Basketball association today, but it would take only a light breeze to blow, out the flame entirely. . - The' Warriors led almost all the way to beat the Lakers, 102-89, Wednesday night . at Philadelphia to move up 2Vi games behind the third-place Boston Celtics in the Eastern Division. The Celtics have four games left and the Warriors only three. Thus any combination of Cel tic victories and Warriors loss es adding up to two will elim inate the Warriors. In the only other league game Wednesday night, the Roches ter Royals nipped the Syracuse Nationals, 100-97, at Rochester, beating the Eastern Division leaders for only the second time in nine meetings this season. TIDEO DECISION Chicago (U.PJ Whether the Big Ten will go along with the NCAA's football television plan for 1955 should be decided defi nitely next Monday, it appeared today. The conference TV Com mittee Wednesday received the NCAA plan,, as amended this week, and called a special con ference meeting of faculty rep resentatives and athletic direc tors for Monday. MAIL TRIBUNE Places tis, Grants Pass Courier; Clay Hannon, Klamath Falls Herald and News: Glen Prescott, Ash land Tidings: and Dick Jewett, Medford Mail Tribune. Sportscasters voting were Tom MacLeod, KYJC. Medford; Harry Carmichael, KUIN, Grants Pass, and Jack Rockwell. KFJI, Klamath Falls. Robert Reinholdt, insurance man and Grizzly scorekeeper, cast Ashland's third ballot The KWIN sportsc?ster declined because he saw few conference tussles. Votes were tabulated by the Mail Tribune sports department MH Cinder Squad Now Conditioning Early season conditioning is the order of the day now for some 75 boys out for track and field at Medford high school. Coach Bob Newland has 20 lettermen back from the 1954 squad but only six of these are returnees from the crew which entered and won the state cham pionship for the Black Tornado. The six are Dan Morris and Bud Kastner, sprinters, Louie Brea zeale. pole vaulter: Don Crowl, sprinter and middle distance man, and Les Walch and Glen Allison, milers. . Kastner, of course, is still playing basketball. Newland has reported that, along with many bright spots, there is some concern over the immediate lack of depth in the shot put and discus. Problem of filling this department will rest largely in the hands of Mel Mor gan and Larry Anderson, jun iors, and Neil Plumley and Larry Cranston, outstanding so phomore prospects. Leading the contingent up from the 1954 ninth grade ranks to bolster the Black Tornado as sophomores are Wally Larson, northwest junior AAU high hurdle champion, and Eldon Francis, Hayward relay javelin titlist. Hawkins Back Hurdle prospects have been brightened by the return of Mike Hawkins who pulled a leg muscle and didn't compete last year. Mile and 880-yard run outlook has been strengthened by the ad dition of Jeff Davis, miler from Port Angeles, Wash., and Les Lingscheit, crack half-miler from Yreka, Calif. . . Newland stated with the vet erans and additions, mentioned and not mentioned, the Black Tornado hopes to be a top con tender again in 1955 for state honors. More cinder aspirants are ex pected to join the squad shortly. Newland's assistants in the coaching chore are Lee Rags dale and Fred Spiegelberg. SCHEDULE: March 26 Ashland-Crater-Medford, here. 2 p.m. (tentative, shortened dis tance). April 2 Medford invitational, here, 1 p.m. April 9 R ogue relays, .here, 1:30 p.m. April 15-16 Hayward relays, at Eu gene, 11 a.m. April 23 G rants Pass-Roseburg-Medford. at Grants Pass. 1:30 p.m. April 30 Ashland here. 2 p.m. May 7 K lamath Falls there, 1:30 p.m. May 14 District meet, at Ashland, 10:30 a.m. May 21-22 State meet, at Corvallis. School interclass and NW junior AAU meet to be added). Rams Grasp Tourney Spot Portland (U.R) Central Cath olic last night won the 15th class A state high school basketball tournament berth with a 66-48 decision over Estacada. Jim Altenhofen, young broth er of three-time all stater Bob Altenhofen. scored 34 points for Central Catholic. .. . Only one state tourney berth remains to be filled with a best two-of -three game playoff be tween Cascade and South Salem to decide the 16th entry. LOSCUTOFF ON AAU CLUB Eugene (U.R) Jim Loscutoff, Oregon's Northern Division scor ing champion, has accepted an invitation to play AAU basket ball for the Olympic Club of San Francisco during the next two weeks. Loscutoff will play on a team which has such stars as Ken Sears of Santa Clara. Russ Law. ler and Ron Tomsic of Stanford and Bob Matheny, formerly of California. BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY COLLEGE SCORES By United Press Princeton 86, Columbia 69 MuhJenburg 77. Delaware 71 N'AIA Tournament (2nd Round) Gus. Adolphus 76. Tex. Southern 55 Florida State 110. Beloit 88 Alderson Broaddus 88. Quincy 84 Steuben ville 90. La. Tech 65 SE Oklahoma 106. Wesleyan 69 . E. Texas St. 94. Southwest'n Kan. 78 V" stem 111. 86. NE Missouri 85 , Ark. Tech 93. Atl. Christian 74 Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday : 10 a.m. Monday for Monday; other days 5:30 previous day Thursday. March 10. 1935 Three On - All-Conference LARRY COPPLE The Mail Tribune 1955 SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE All-Star Basketball Squad FIRST TEAM Player and points. Larry Copple, Medford (24) Dave D'Olivo, Klamath Falls (24) Frank Rector, Medford (23) Jerry Kalapus, Medford (22) Jim Reid, Grants Pass (16) HONORABLE MENTION: Larry Yarnell, Klamath Falls (4); Danny Lowe, Klamath Falls (3); Jack Sunitsch, Klamath Falls (2). MedfordsWTribune SIPOD Fanfare Barney L. Riggs, now coach of seventh and eighth grade teams at Central Point, will be head coach at the new East Med ford junior high school when it opens next fall. Gene Farthing, now Talent high baseball coach and assistant in other sports, will be assistant coach end teacher at the new Medford school. Both are former Southern Ore gon college athletes. Riggs was coach at Lincoln grade school two years before taking the post at Central Point where he is in his second year. He is a graduate of Ashland high school and Southern' Oregon college and taught at Talent a year before coming to Medford. Farthing has been at Talent five years. He was graduated from Southern Oregon college and Grants Pass high school. At Talent he has been an eighth grade teacher, coached the high school baseball team and has been assistant in other nreD sports. MOSBY RESIGNS Jerry Mosby, head coach of varsity athletics at Eagle Point high school, has announced his resignation effective at the end of the school year. He says that now he's just "look ing." Mosby has been at EP since the fall of 1951. The Griffin Creek, Oak Grove Foes In Non-High Cage Finale Friday Griffin Creek and Oak Grove grade schools will collide at 8:30 p.m. Friday in the championship finals of the Medford invita tional basketball tournament. The game at Medford junior high school, will determine the Jackson county champ among teams in non-high school dist ricts. Griffin Creek bounced West Side 30 to 24 and Oak Grove tipped Shady Cove 33 to 29 last night in the semi-final conflicts. Shady Cove will eicounter West Side at 7:30 p.m. Friday in the tussle lor third place. In the consolation bracket Howard and Elk-Trail posted victories last night to gain the 6:30 p.m. Friday engagement for fourth place. Howard whack ed Applegate 26 to 13 and Elk Trail beat Lone Pine 31 to 25. .The season for morels, those very tasty mushrooms, is brief: they appear with the first apple blossoms and are at their peak when the warblers are passing through. Work Sox Sale! FAMOUS LINCOLN LINE, 50 WOOL keg. 69c 35 WOOL SOLE) Reg, CUSHION 69c each 3 prs. $1.00 Prices Good Fri. The New Crater Dept. Store 2nd & Pine Central t ' JERRY KALAPUS All-Confarenee First Ttami Choices SECOND TEAM Player and points. Everett Kastner, Medford (15) Glenn Peterson, Medford (12) Don James, Grants Pass (10) Gene Parent, Ashland (10) Guy Munsell, Klamath Falls (8) Raleigh Burr, Grants Pass (4); By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor Eagle mentor reports that the new lighted baseball field is now in fair shape but there's quite a bit yet to be done on the school's track. First work out under the new lights was last night. New lighting setup at the school also includes the football gridiron. BIGHAM SCORES WELL Larry Bigham, ex-Crater high, was second ranking scorer for the Linfield college Rooks this season with a 161 total, seven points less than top man, Dick Brown. Bigham had the top pro duction for a single game with his 22 against the Pacific univer sity freshmen. He and Howard Morris, also ex-Crater, are out for varsity baseball now at Lin field. Morris was a varsity guard for the Wildcats last fall. ROGUE LEAGUE POLL Coaches of the Rogue League are submitting ballots in a vote to determine an all-star basketball team. So far only one ballot has been received by the Mail Tribune. REID MOST VALUABLE Jim Reid, all-Southern Oregon Conference basketball player, has been named most valuable player of the Grants Pass high squad. He gets his name engrav ed on the Grants Pass Lion's club trophy. LINE-UPS: Applegate 13 Lampert 3 McKay 2 Elmore 2 Gibson 6 Hanson 2 Howard Brown 2 Samples 10 Shults 8 Fowler 2 Feldman f f e 8 g Substitutions For AppleKate. Roff for Howard. Brown, Cooper 2. Bailev McCurdy, EUiot. Elk-Trail 31 Branson 1 Cooper 1 F. Peterson 15 Ashinhurst 2 Shuder 12 Substitutions 1 25 Lone Pine f 4 Maurer f 9 Wallace c Foresee X 8 Summers J 4 Penwell For Elk-Trail. D. Peterson: for Baker. Neisson. Lone Pine, . Lowery, Oak Grove 31 Boyer 6 Laurance 2 Plankenhorn 11 Thompson 2 Reich 7 29 Shadr Cove . 4 Waggoner Greer 10 Casev 9 Collins 6 Vanderlin f f c 8 or Substitution! Oak Grove, McLaughlin, Meier 5. McKniBht, Champion, Shults. Griffin Creek 30 C. Eckel 6 ' Wirth 4 T. Hamilton 14 Field 4 24 West Side f 4 Frohnmayer t 3 Johnson e 8 G. Wine-trout g J. Winetrout B- 9 Clark B. Eckel substitutions For Griff m Creek. Bates .1 Goodrich 1. D. Hamilton; for West Side. Humphries. T. Barrv. FINAL GAMES: Friday. March 11: 6:30 Howard vs. Elk-Trail for Fourth Flaee. 7:30 Shady Cove vs. West Side for Third Place. 8:30 Griffin Creek vs. Oak Grove for First & Second. each 3 prs. $1.00 NYLON HEEL AND TOE COTTON, Long & Anklet 3?cL. 5 prs. $1.00 and Sat. Only Point Phone 1502 FRANK RECTOR Macias Cops NBA Bantam Title Belt By SCOTT BAILLIE San Francisco (U.R) The cry was "Viva, Macias" down Mexico way today as hard-hitting little Raul (The Mouse) Ma cias headed back to his steno grapher's desk with the NBA world bantamweight-belt around his narrow waist. Macias won the title in con vincing fashion at the Cow Pal ac Wednesday night by scoring a technical knock-out over game, bleeding Chamrern Songkitrat of Thailand in the 11th round of their scheduled 12-round bout. Macias, who works as a sten ographer during the daytime for a wealthy Mexico City cattle rancher, Luis Andrade, cut the Thai policeman down with a fur ious attack to the head and body during the 11th, and Referee Fred Apostoli halted the bout at 2:38 of the round after Song kitrat had gone down twice in the round. Twice in Sixth Macias also dropped his man to the canvas twice during the sixth when he leveled him first with a right cross to the jaw for the count of four, then for six, with a left to the midsection. Although NBA President An thony Petronella hailed the "Mighty Mouse" as the champ along with the fight organization the state of California refused to recognize the fight as a title match. Neither does the World Box ing committee, leaving Macias the ch,amp everywhere except in this state, New York, France and Britain. France's Robert Cohen still was considered the king in those areas although the NBA stripped him of the crown for not risking it in 90 clays aft ter his victory over Songkitrat last fall in Bangkok. Macias said he was anxious to have it out with Cohen once and for all in Mexico City but George Parnassus, the Mouse's American spokesman, claimed that Cohen will not fight. "We chased him all over the country trying to get a bout be fore the NBA took his title away," Parnassus claimed. Calvert Satisfies like no other whis key! Rich, full-bodied flavor . . . and smoother going down . . . that's why millions have switched to Calvert Reserve now one of the world's two largest-selling whiskies! Ask for Calvert today ! you'll switch IUIIEI f 1IUEI-II.I HIOf-15 Mill Quintet Seeded Clubs Reach NAIA Round of 8 Kansas City," Mo. (U.R) All four remaining seeded teams made their way into quarter finals of the 17th annual NAIA Basketball Tournament, but at least one is sure to tumble to night when Western Illinois tan gles with Gustavus Adolphus. Top seeded Western Illinois, which hung on last year until the finals, squeezed into the quarterfinals by a one-point mar gin on Wednesday night and beat unheralded Northeast Mis souri State 86-85. Gustavus Adolphus, seeded fifth, downed Texas Southern of Houston 67 55. The Western Illinois-Gustavus Adolphus game is at 9 p.m., while No. 2 favorite Beloit, Wis., meets East Texas State of Com merce at 7:30 p.m., third-seeded Steubenville, Ohio, plays South eastern Oklahoma of Durant at 6 p.m., and Alderson-Broaddus of Philippi, W. Va., has a 10:30 p.m. quarter-final against Arkan sas Tech of Russellville. San Francisco's Woolpert Chosen UP Coach of Year New York (U.R) Phil Wool pert, who developed a gang of kids from the "backyard" of the University of San Francisco into the nation's No. 1 college basket ball team, today was chosen United Press coach of the year for the 1954-55 season. The 39-year-old Dons coach was elected in a nationwide poll Rocky Will Face Cockell On May 16 San Francisco U.R) The Rocky Marciano - Don Cockell world heavyweight title fight will be held at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium on May 16, ac cording to promoter Jimmy Murray. He predicted a million dollar gate. Murray said he based his fig ures on "terrific advance orders" and the fact that the bout only may be televised on the closed theater TV setup. He said 1,080 tickets had been earmarked for sale on the East Coast, while orders for 200 have been received .from Portland, Ore., and 300 from Seattle. "The international interst in the Britisher means that a lot of fans will be coming down from Vancouver, B. C, as well," Murray said. He added that the fight prob ably wil start at 8 p.m. PST in the chilly, gray stadium, where seats will be scaled from $40 down to $5. A final 1954-55 count of whooping cranes at their winter refuge in Texas shows that the sole surviving flock of America's rarest migratory birds has de clined to 21, three less than last year. $405 45 QT. PINT and to CLtylE RT HfirtU JfillTJ. CilTHI IISDIUK ci., 1. 1. 1 Four Quints Gird for NCAA Regional Mix at Corvallis Corvallis (U.R) Three of the nation's top 10 basketball clubs and ambitious Seattle University work out on the floor of Gill Coliseum today to get ready for tmorrow night's opening round of the Western Regional NCAA playoffs. Mighty San Francisco Univer sity, ranked tops in the nation with a 24-1 record, meets fourth ranked Utah (23-3) in-tomorrow night's top game. Eighth-ranked Oregon State (21-7) plays Seattle (22-5). The winners meet Satur day night for a spot in next week's NCAA semi-finals in Kansas City. San Francisco was to work out at 1 p.m. today; Oregon State at 3 p.m.; Utah at 5 p.m. and Seattle at 7 p.m. The work outs were closed to the public. Chiefs Improved Coach Slats Gill, whose Ore gon State team knocked off fa vored UCLA in the PCC play offs last week, saw Seattle down Idaho State in San Francisco Tuesday night and said the Chief tains had improved greatly since they lost to OSC early in the sea son. As for San Francisco, he agreed that the Dons are one of th finest ball clubs ever to play on the West Coast. Utah Coach Jack Gardner called his players a "great bunch of optimists" and said they had of 265 sportswriters and radio broadcasters who voted for the United Press All-America team. Woolpert's total of 140 votes was remarkably high, considering that 33 coaches figured in the balloting. Woolpert, a master at teach ing strong defense and sound ball-handling, guided San Fran cisco through a regular season 23-1 record and the No. 1 nation al rating of the United Press Board of Coaches. The Dons be gan their NCAA championship quest Tuesday night with an 89-66 victory over West Texas State. Rupp Runner-up The San Francisco coach was such an overwhelming choice for the honor that runner-up Adolph Rupp of Kentucky received only 28 votes. Dudey Moore of Du quesne, United Press coach of the year in 1952 and 1954, fin ished third this year with 14 votes. ' Woolpert's coaching feat this season is considered outstanding because he did it with home grown talent, a rarity in these days. Of the 14 players on the Don's roster, seven come from San Francisco and four others from the Bay Area. 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Furman Has NCAA Crown In Offense New York (U.R) Team ' championships in defense and re-j bounding will be decided by ' play in the post-season tourna ments, official NCAA basketball statistics disclosed today. But Furman has nailed down the offense title, George Wash ington the field goal percentage, and Wake Forest the free throw percentage, while Darrell Floyd of Furman has put the individ ual scoring championship under , lock and key. San Francisco, the nation's No. team, leads in defense aver age through games of March 8 with 51.3 points allowed per ' game. Niagara Shows Best Niagara shows the best re bounding mark, recovering 62.5 per cent of the rebounds in its game. Furman finished its sea son with a record average of 95.3 points per game. George Washington had a 47.8 percent age on field goals to 46.0 per cent for Wake Forest. The two teams reversed positions on free throws, Wake Forest on top with 75.6 per cent to George, Washington's 75.1 per cent. Both are finished for the year. Niagara has committed the fewest personal fouls, 13.8 per game. Floyd compiled 35.9 points per game through games of Mar. ; 5, being followed by Buzz Wil-; kinson of Virginia with 32.1 and Robin Freeman of Ohio State at 31.5. OSC Beavers Invited To Dixie Cage Classic Corvallis XU.R) Coach Slats -. Gill said today Oregon State has been invited to compete next De cember in the Dixie basketball classic at Releigh, N. C. He said the bid had not been acted upon. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Distinctive Jackets Tailored by . . . Add the zing of Spring to your casual wardrobe ... a real stand-out for masculine good looks and comfort. Beautifully lined with zipper . front. $11 495 f"" An imif ' Tjj'iejy Spring ""an Colors 1 "o) 6)