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.
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Bailey. Nixon, Smith (4). Sullivan (7)
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pitcher Hacker.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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