TWELVE 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.
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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
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Elk-Trail 31
Branson 1
Cooper 1
F. Peterson 15
Ashinhurst 2
Shuder 12
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J 4 Penwell
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Oak Grove 31
Boyer 6
Laurance 2
Plankenhorn 11
Thompson 2
Reich 7
29 Shadr Cove
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Wirth 4
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Field 4
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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come through before against
tough opposition "so I don't
know why I worry." San Fran
cisco, meanwhile, was given ad
ded impetus with the naming to
day of its coach, Phil Woolpert,
as the United Press coach of the
year.
San Francisco is the nation '
top defensive club!
Four centers pace the scoring
7-foot 3-inch of Oregon State .
all-American Bill Russell, 6-foot
10-inch for San Francisco; Art
Bunte, a mere 6-foot 3-inch of :
Utah, and Dick Stricklin, a .
promising 6-foot 6-inch sopho-;
more, of Seattle.
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.
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