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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) STATE HOOP TOMEY SET Rams Play Redmond in First Tilt Eugene OI.R) Central Catholic of Portland meets Red mond at 7:30 p.m. and South Salem faces Hillsboro at 8:45 p.m. as the 1955 Oregon State high school class A basketball MEDFORD TOP RATED Medford's Black Tornado hoop team copped its second wire service No. 1 rating to day when Associated Press placed the local club at the top of its final ratings. It marked the eighth consecu tive week that Medford had paced the AP poll. The Medford club earlier had gained the No. 1 spot on the United Press final rat ings after holding the top spot for a large part of the season. The 13-man Medford squad was scheduled to work out at the state tournament site at McArihur court on the Uni versity of Oregon campus in Eugene at 3:30 p.m. today. tournament gets underway to night in McArthur court. Six 'games Wednesday will complete first round action with a 9 a.m. clash between Eugene and Milwaukie, finalists last year, topping the agenda. Medford Plays Wednesday Other games tomorrow in clude: 10:15 a.m. Albany vs. Dal las; 1:45 p.m. St. Helens vs. As toria; 3 p.m. Baker vs. Cleve land; 7:30 p.m. Medford vs. Franklin and 8:45 p.m. Mac-Hi vs. North Bend. Central Catholic and South Salem were slight favorites for tonight's games, although Red mond with a 15-8 record might make it rough. The Rams, with a 16-9 mark, have another Al tonhefen this season. He's Jim my, a 6 foot, 4 inch sophomore and a high scorer who is a bro ther of Bob Altonhofen, three time all-stater for Central. Upset Winner Hillsboro entered the tour nament as upset winner over Beaverton in a best two-out-of three series and has a season's record of 13-15. South Salem has a 17-10 mark. St. Helens has the best record of any team in the tournament with 22 victories. The coaches' poll ranks Medford as No. 1 team with Milwaukie and Eu gene right behind. More than 60,000 fans are ex pected to see the five-day tour nament with a record morning crowd likely tomorrow. Huskies Select Ex-USC Gridder Seattle U.R) Don Doll, for mer University of Southern Cali fornia and professional backfield star, was signed yesterday as an assistant football coach at the University of Washington. Harvey Cassill, the school's athletic director, said Doll's ap pointment completed the Husky 1955 coaching staff. Doll will specialize in pass defense, line backing and kicking. The 28-year-old new assistant to Coach Johnny Cherberg play ed for USC in 1944 and in 1946 48 with a hitch in the Marine Corps in 1945. He played pro fessional ball for the Detroit Lions in 1949-52, for the Wash ington Redskins in 1953 and for the Los Angeles Rams in 1954. Baseball (At Sarasota. Fla.) Cincinnati (N) 000 000 001 1 8 1 Boston (A) ....000 000 000 0 4 4 Valentine. Staley to). Lane (8) and Bailey. Nixon, Smith (4). Sullivan (7) and Morton. Winning pitcher Lane. Losing pitcher Sullivan. (At West Palm Beach, Fla.) Chicago (A) ....100 111 4019 13 1 Kan. City (A) 000 002 010 3 6 2 Trucks. Fornieles tot and Battey, Lollar (6). Trice. Cecarelli (4). Dixon (7). Duser (8i and McKcnzie. Winning pitcher Trucks. Losing pitcher Trice. (At Clearwater. Fla. 12 inn.) Pitts. X Oil 000 000 000 2 11 1 Phila. IN) 000 100 100 001 3 13 1 Friend. Sawyer tot, Scholtz (7), Balboa tll and Atwell. Managan t6t. Wehmeier. Roberts (5i. Miller 10) and Lopata. Lonnett f6). Niarhos Of. Win ning pitcher Miller. Losing pitcher Bar boa. (At Dunedin. Fla.) Cin. tN) "B" 002 061 000 9 11 2 San Ant. (Tex) 000 100 2003 8 2 Hommell. Podbielan (5) and Dot- terer. Burack. Fanovich 14). Perkins t7 and Masterson. Winning pitcher Kemmell. Losing pitcher Burack. (At Phoenix, Arizona) Chicago tNl 000 310 210 7 13 3 New YorkN) 132 000 41x 11 18 3 Cole. PoUet (3). Hacker (7), Church (7) . Elston (9) and E. Tappe. Hannah (8) . Hearn, Margoneri (4). Grissom (5). Corwin (8) and Grasso. Katt (8). Winning pitcher Grissom. Losing pitcher Hacker. (At Miami, Fla.) Baltimore (A) 020 010 000 3 1 Brooklvn N 110 220 OOx 6 9 0 and Smith. Zrskine. Palica (4) Negray (7) and Campanella. Winning pitcher Erskine. Losing pitcher Rogovin. (At Bradenton. Fla.) New York (A) 212 500 110 12 17 2 Milw. (N) . 403 000 40011 13 2 Cereghino. Russell (4). and Howard. Gorin (41. McMahon (7) and Crandall, White 7). Winning pitcher Russell. Losing pitcher McMahon. (At St. Petersburg. Fla.) Detroit (A) 000..000..001 1 5 1 St. Louis N) 000 020 Olx 3 10 1 Black. Froats (4). Zuverink (7) and Wilson. House (7). Haddix. Woodridge (4i. Schultz (7 and Rice. Winning fitcher Woodridge. Losing pitcher roat. MAIL TRIBUNE Scribe Voices Warning About Franklin Quint If Franklin high of Portland plays in its Class A state tourn- ament opener like it did in its play-off finale for a berth in the big hassle at Eugene, Medford watch out! That warning was sounded yesterday by Bob Swan, prep sports writer of the Portland Oregonian. Portland's tall Quaker quint has only a record of 14 wins and 10 setbacks for the season, com pared to Medford's 23-1. But Swan indicated that Franklin showed its real potential in drubbing Grant 73 to 52 last week in the play-off for PIL second place and the big city's second position in the state tour ney bracket. It was the second win in three games for the Quakers over the Generals. Medford's Black Tornado fac es Franklin at 7:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the first round of the tournament. While the Quakers had a lean two-win six-loss record in pre loop play in a schedule includ ing a couple of strong state of Washington clubs, they fared considerably better in the PIL with a 10-4 mark for the regu lar slate. They split with Cleve land, the league champ, Grant, Jefferson and Lincoln. So it was a rather rocky road to the tour ney. Three Way Tie Franklin tied with Jeff, as well as Grant, for the second spot and barely sneaked by the Demos 46 to 45 before the final tiff with the Generals. Quaker average per game in strictly league play was 57.8 points. Opponents ran up 52.7. Big threat in a Franklin line up, "which has all its starters over 6 feet tall is Bjarne Jen sen, 6-9 sophomore. Lacking experience the big boy wasn't too sparkling as a scorer in the pre-season but in the PIL he's Coast League Briefs Yuma, Ariz. (U.R) The Sac ramento Solons, with a two game losing streak going in Desert Coast League spring training series, square off against San Francisco tonight. Manager Tony Freitas elected to give veteran righthander Emil Patrick another starting chance. Patrick was shelled free ly in his spring opener. Palm Springs, Calif. (U.R) Manager Fred Hutchison takes his Seattle Rainiers to nearby Ontario today to meet San Diego in an exhibition game. The Suds blasted 10 hits in downing Fort Ord 5-1 yester day, and used a lineup of rookies in the process. Catcher Lloyd Jenney collected a triple in the eighth. Glendale, Calif. (U.R) The Portland Beavers, last in the 1954 PCL race, walloped the team that wound up in first place, San Diego, 15-8, yester day to run their record against league teams to 3-0. Today they take on the UCLA Eruins, and are expected to keep on rolling. In beating the Padres twice and the Hollywood Stars once, the rejuvenated Beavers have scored exactly half a hun dred runs on 53 hits. Anaheim, Calif. (U.R) The Hollywood Stars resumed rou tine training today after rally ing for 11 runs in the last two innings to whip University of Southern California 11-8 yes terday. Tommy Watson hit a two run triple to spark a seven run seventh inning that turn ed the tide. George Prescott continued on his hitting spree with three singles in three at bats. Ontario, Calif (U.R) The San Diego Padres, licking their wounds after two pastings by the Portland Beavers, play host to Seattle today in an exhibition game with John Carmichael slat ed to pitch. Milt Smith homered for the Pads, but it was not enough as the Beavers rallied for nine runs You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD J0F TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrewi Road Phone 2-5271 Tuesday. March 15, 1955 been the Quakers' top gunner with 227 points and a 16.2 av erase. Jensen's combination of 82 field goals and 63 free toss es gave him No. 3 high scoring status in the loop. He has a 293 count for the full season. Fine Prospect The towering Jensen, accord ing to Swan and other Portland sources, has come a long way this season and it is figured he will be a fine college prospect. He moves well. Swan says Jen sen doesn't just "totem pole" his shots but hooks and jump shoots well from as far as 12 feet out. Bob Matthews, 6-3, paced the Shakers for the full season with 318 points in the 22 games up to the Jeff-Grant play-offs. He scored 199 points for a 14.9 av erage in the PIL. Dave Smith, 6-412, has hit at a 9.6 per game clip in the PIL and has 217 for 22 games. Ernie Spargur, 6-1, had a 6.1 mark for the league. Jack Luhrs, 6-even, the other starter, hit at 3.9. Scotty MacDonald, 6-2, and Al Jensen, 5-8, are the main re serves, but a third reserve is Jim Kuhn, 6-2. Jenson was a starter last season but this year gave way to Luhrs. The Franklin record: Pre-conference Won from Camas, Wash., 56 to 40 and Cen tral Catholic 57 to 54. Lost to Longview, Wash., 54 to 58 and 67 to 80, Vancouver 64 to 74, McMinnville 66 to 67 and Sac red Heart 50 to 67 and 68 to 75. Portland Interscholastic League Lost to Grant 58 to 78, won from Cleveland 46 to 44, beat Washington 64 to 52 and 57 to. 51, beat Jefferson 69 to 56, lost to Lincoln 41 to 47, beat Lincoln 56 to 51, tripped Roose velt 64 to 44 and 72 to 60, beat Grants 66 to 59 and lost to Cleveland 37 to 43. PIL Play-off Won from Jefferson 46 to 45, beat Grants 73 to 52. in the sixth inning, and won 15 8 yesterday. Brawley, Calif. (U.R) San Francisco travels to Yuma, Airz., tonight to meet San Diego in a Desert Coast Lea gue exhibition game. The Seals lineup was bol stered yesterday by the addi tion of Cuban shortstop Raul D i e p p a. Manager Tommy Heath drove 25 miles across the Mexican border to pick up Dieppa, who had been having immigration troubles. PCC Unhappy With Latest TV Proposal Los Angeles '(U.R) The Paci fic Coast conference indicated today it would not accept with out a good deal of study the lat est National Collegiate Athletic asociation plan for televising football games next fall. Will Get Study "The NCAA plan for games will be given study by the Paci fic Coast conference and its tele vision committee," Commission er Victor O. Schmidt said. "This plan, as submitted, is not the plan the PCC sponsored or re quested. Al though the NCAA plan does have some regional features written into it, these regional features are more re stricted than those desired by the PCC." Schmidt said the PCC would not reach a decision on the plan until after a "thorough study." Big Ten Will Comply Chicago (U.R) The Big Ten will comply with the NCAA football television plan this fall, a conference special meeting has decided, but it might market its own regional program on the five Saturdays such games will be permitted. The conference also decided to pool the television rights of all members with the Television committee handling negotiations for video rights. All receipts will go into a fund to be divided equally among the 10 members. 1 TO START Pilots Name Al Negratti Head Coach Portland (U.R) Al Negratti, Cleveland high school basket ball coach, was signed yesterday afternoon as head basketball and baseball coach of Portland Uni versity. Length of the contract or terms were not revealed by the Rev. Michael J. Gavin, univer sity president. He said the agreement would be effective August 1. Negratti said he was "elated at the opportunity to graduate to college ranks," but also ex pressed regret at leaving his Portland champion Cleveland high team. His high school con tract expires the end of this school year. The post of basketball coach of the Portland Pilots has been vacant since the middle of the past season when Art McLarney resigned. Negatti has been coaching since 1948 after graduating from Seton Hall and playing two years of professional ball. He came to Cleveland from Lakeview in 1953. ' His Portland champs were due at Eugene today for the state tournament. Freshman Coach Mike Tichy handled the Pilot basketball team the latter part of this sea son after McLarney became ill. Rich Garlascio, semi-pro base ball star, was signed to handle the 1955 Pilot baseball team. Crack U.S. Athletes Making Runaway of Pan American Games; Set Four Records By HAL WOOD United Press Correspondent United State athletes were in the process today of spoiling the Pan American games by making BobyAvila Threatening To Quit Tribe Phoenix, Ariz. U.R) American League batting champion Bobby Avila threat ened to go into private life as an engineer today if the Cleveland Indians don't meet his salary demands. Avila, who is believed to be asking for $32,000 was en route to his Vera Cruz, Mex ico, home following an un successful conference with General Manager Hank Greenberg. Avila, who hit .341 last season, is Cleve land's only unsigned player. "I want to be treated and paid like a major league ball player." Aila said after the conference with Greenberg." I think I showed last year that I'm worth more than he's offered, and I'm not going to play until I get it." Avila was miffed when Green berg announced he would return to Cleveland "to handle some business" after he and Avila failed to reach an agreement. Bobby then an nounced that, he too, was going home. km Down To Earth Prices oArch Support o Leather Sole oVery Flexible o Rubber Heel Black or i mister SHOE, 15 South Central gjjjpjjg 'Cats Tip Niagara in mi Upset; Top-Rated Dukes Advance; 74-66 By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer New York (U.R) Dayton was a six-point choice over record-smashing St. Louis and St. Francis (Pa.), a one-point pick over defending champion Holy Cross in tonight's quarter-final games of the National Invita tional tournament but they could well fear the fate of Ni agara. Niagara Upset Niagara, a four-point choice, was upset in double - overtime by Cincinnati, 85-83, in a quarter-final game after top-seeded Duquesne had opened the round topping Louisville, 74-66. Duquesne anq fourth - seeded Cincinnati will meet in one of the semi-final games in the big post-season carnival at Mad ison Square Garden on Thurs day night. Tonight's winners will clash in the other semi-final. ' Cincinnati, an underdog de spite its seeding since it had lost four straight games, stun ned and thrilled a crowd of about 8,000 by rallying from a a run-away of the competition. Smashing records with gay abandon, they went into the third day of two weeks of com petition with so many points to their credit that the battle already appears to be for second place. Four New Records The U.S. team has 135 unoffi cial points compared with 41 for runnerup Argentina. Coach Leo Johnson's track and field squad sent men out in four events yesterday and the result was four Pan American records. Shotputter Parry O'Brien, hundred meter sprint man Rod Richard, four hundred meter hurdlers ace Josh Culbreath and broadjumper Roselyn Range all won their events. In fact, the only U.S. defeat of the day came in the women's 60 meter dash when Bertha Diaz of Cuba beat out Isabel Danies of the United States by the length of a lipstick. Today's competition was ex- Boxing Results By UNITED PRESS New York: Sammy Walker, 156, Springfield. Mass.. outpointed Milo Savage, 16, Salt Lake City, Utah (10). New York: Rudv Garcia. 1233i. Los Angeles. Calif., stopped Noro Brooks, 125, Cleveland, Ohio (4). Providence. R. I.: Lou Campanelli. 166V2. Providence. R.I.. outpointed Jose Contreras. 163. Taunton, Mass., (10). Rochester, N.Y.: Jimmy Slade. 182. New York, outpointed Bob Biehler, 177. Rochester, N.Y.. (8). S)0tS Top Flight at Brown Brown STORE Fluhrer Bldg. 17-point deficit to deadlock Ni agara at 78-78 in regulation time and 82-82 at the end of the first overtime. Winning Margin Then Frank Nimmo's leaping push shot and a free throw by Bill Lammert gave the Bearcats their winning margin in the second overtime, when Niagara's only score was a 'tree throw by Tommy Hemans. As for Duquesne, the title fav orites got their winning break, as Coach Donald Dudley Moore freely admitted "when their Johnny Prudhoe collected his fourth personal foul and our Dick Ricketts didn't." All-America Ricketts was skating on the same thin ice as Prudhoe, for he was tagged with his third personal late in the first half. He sat out the last four minutes of that session while Duquesne stalled. He re turned to start the second half. When the whistle blew at the three-minute mark, it was for Prudhoe and not Ricketts and that could easily have been the game. pected to continue along victory lines for the Americans. The pole vault tops the agenda and the three top men in the world, the Reverend Bob Richards, Don L.az ana tsoaby smith, are jumping for the U.S. The discus is on the agenda too and the world's best is For tune Gordien. Then there is the finals of the eight hundred meter run where the Yanks have qualified Mai Whitfield. Lon Spurrier and Ar nold Sowel. Track and field men, of course, aren't winning all honors. The American team is a sur prise leader in the pentathlon and weight lifters from north of the Rio Grande are chipping in with an unexpected number of points. The U.S. boxing team, how ever, is absorbing more than its share of lickings. Both U. S. en trants lost in bouts last night. (Dfaqved in "ffie best circles... OLD Five Free Throw Champs Crowned In City Schools- Five city school free throw champions were crowned Sat urday after finals of the Sat urday recreation program con test at the senior high gym. Ron Peery topped the field with 21 out of 25 throws in fi nals to win the ninth grade championship ribbon. David Morris was second high with 20 to get the grade seven hon ors and Bob Pond was eighth grade winner with 19. Bob Quinney, Jackson, tossed in 18 out of 25 efforts for sixth grade laurels and Robert Shroeder, also Jackson, swished in 15 for the fifth graders' top ribbon. Other scores in the finals were: Fifth grade Larry Pierce, 13, Don Kooser, Washington, 12; Bill Edwards, Washington, 10 (out of 30), and John Fisher, Lincoln, 9 (out of 30). Sixth Grant Davis, Lin coln, 16; John McKinley, Wash ington, 18 (out of 30); Larry Hammack, Jackson, 16 (out of 30); and Dick Ragsdale, Wash ington, 13. Seventh Bud Quinney, 16, Henry Olson, 15, Harold Holmes 13, and David Shultz, 10. Eighth Bromley 18, Elvin Hood, 15, Don Marshall 10, Jer ry McLeod 8! John McCamant Coach, Captain Of Skiing Team Northfield, Minn. Co-captain and student co-coach those were the positions of John McCamant, a senior from Med ford, Ore., on the Carleton col lege ski team here this past sea son. McCamant, who competed in the slalom, downhill, cross country, and jumping events, al so coached and captained the Knight cross - country squad which won the Midwest Confer ence championship last fall. In outdoor track, he is the confer ence defending champion in the 880. He also won the event two years ago, and began working out with the indoor cindermen when the ski season ended last week. John, who has won three let ters in both cross-country and track and two in skiing, is a gov ernment and international rela tions major with a "B" averag A graduate of Franklin high in Portland, McCamant was elected president of the Carle- ton Ski club for 1954-55 and is a proctor in the senior men's dormitary. He is also a mem ber of the Carleton service fund board. John is the son of the Rev. and Mrs. Thomas McCamant, 300 Oakwood Drive, Medford. EJCXQIT Th "flaw 25 jr-SSp STRAIGHT HICKORY DISTILLING CORPORATION PHILADELPHIA, PA., Dons Fear Loss of Ace Forward San Francisco An injury and illness plagued University of San Francisco team kept its col lective fingers crossed today in fervent hopes that flashy for ward Jerry Mullen's puffed ankle would respond to treat ment. Mullen, described by his coach "the best" the most underrated collegiate forward" in the business, could easily be the dif ference between winning and losing the NCAA title in Kansas City this coming weekend. Has 50-50 Chance The likeable Mullen, a 6-foot-5 "middle-sized" forward who recoils off the backboards like an automatic rifle when he's fit, has only a 50-50 chance of seeing action when USF takes on Colo rado in a semi-final contest Fri day night for the NCAA regional title. A "game" Mullen injured his ankle in the first 30 seconds at Corvallis, Ore., Saturday night, but came limping off the bench six minutes later his ankle swathed in tape to inspire the ailing Dons in their 57-56 win over Oregon State College. Mullen stayed in for the rest of the game. Russell Has Cold Loss of Mullen would be a blow to USF's chances against semi-final opponent Colorado. Already on the ailing list, but expected to play, is Ail-American center Bill Russell. He nurses a heavy chest cold. Re serve center Gordon Kirby, the team's third tallest member, is bedded down with influenza. If the Dons successfully by pass Colorado, it will run their win streak to 25 and give them a season record of 27-1. It also will qualify them to meet the winner of the La Salle-Iowa game. If it is La Salle, it will set-up the much anticipated meeting between Russell and La Salle's AU-American, Tom Gola. Pettit Buckets 34 in NBA Final By UNITED PRESS Bob Pettit closed out his roo kie season in the National Bas ketball association with one of his best performances. The former Louisiana State university star scored 34 points Monday night in leading the Milwaukee Hawks to a 99-84 victory over the Philadelphia Warriors at Albany, N.Y. It was the final NBA game of the regular season. The Eastern division playoffs get underway tonight at Boston, with the Cel tics playing host to the New York Knickerbockers. The Boston-New York Eastern eliminations will continue . at New York Wednesday night, while Rochester and Minneapo lis will open their Western divi sion series at St. Paul, Minn. J OURB OHWHISKT SIX TEARS OLD 86 PROOF UJjJJ HICKORY j i i.i i,
