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MEDFORDvWTRIBUNE EPdDnBTTS McArthur Court, University of Oregon. Eugene The Meaford high Black Tornado had th wtll-wishes of its home town for its Wednesday night encounter against Franklin of Portland in the Class A Oregon high school basketball tournament here Vestern Union reported a flood of messages for the boys from loyal supporters who could be here only in spirit. SIGH OF RELIEF Coach Frank Roelandt in dicated that his crew of Med ford cagers breathed a big sigh of relief after their 60 to 51 decision over Franklin for not again in the tourney do they anticipate meeting a team with the Quaker's start ing combination of overall and extreme height. Both South Salem and Albany, if they wished, could field a starting quint near the 6 - foot 3 inch average of the Quakers but neither has a 6-9 Bjarne Jensen to strengthen that al titude. Eugene, of course, has Mike Moran at 6-8 but no overall great height to go along with him. Central Catholic has a 6 6 reserve, Jim Devaney. And, South Salem, Albany, Eugene and Central Catholic are all in the upper bracket and Med ford is in the lower. Should the Black Tornado go all the way it can meet only one of the four. In the lower group left in the title running after Wednes day no other club had a com bination to match Medford's 6-4' 2 Glenn Peterson and Jerry Kalapus. HOT FROM THE FIELD It seemed for a short while Wednesday that Franklin would have the firepower to go along with its height advantage. The Quakes cashed in on their first 6ix field goal attempts while Medford made the first three shots it tried. Thereafter, the shooting pace of both aggrega tions fell off but Medford hit with more regularity, shooting less but making more than the tall Portlanders. The Tornado connected on 24 out of 59 tries to 19 out of 65 by Franklin. PRESS IMPRESSED It's no real criticism of the Black Tornado to say that il has looked better in previous games than against the Quak ers. 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RECTOR HAD COLD Bud Kastner and Larry Copple of the Black Tornado who had colds early in the week were "healthy" for the Franklin mix but Frank Rector was bothered by a heavy cold. While "off" in his shooting with only a meager two points for the night, Rector came through with his usual hus tie, drive and fine ball-handling AXEMEN FIRE .541 Eugene with its .541 had the best field goaling average of the state tournament's first round with Medford's .407 ranking second. Hillsboro picked up the booby prize with a feeble .204. But Eugene al most threw away its contest despite hot shooting. The Axe men, after building up wide bulge (47 to 34 after three quarters), tried control tactics to hold it. The tactics almost backfired as Milwaukie. spur red by Red Bloedel, rallied strong at the finish and almost caught up. Eugene outplayed Milwaukie for much of the first three quarters but in the final canel it was the Mus tangs carrying the fight. Only things that kept the Mustangs from overcoming the Axemen were several missed shots and failure to get the ball into the court from out-of-bounds in the last seconds in time to try another shot. They had seven seconds of opportunity but were slow' on the trigger. COPPLE HIGH SCORER Jim Altenhofen of Central Catholic with 24 and Bloedel and Moran, each with 21, were lead ing rebounders of the first round of the Class A besketball classic. Bloedel and Medford's Larry Copple with 24 each were tops in point-producing. Moran col lected 23. CHEER GALS DRILL Cheer leaders, like basket ball teams, need practice and that's what the Medford high pep gals were doing in the hall at the Osburn hotel Wednesday about two hours before Medford met Franklin. DRESS LIKE INDIANS Cleveland hieh's yell leaders. both boys and girls, dress like real clodbusters! And these new Simplicity Rotary Tillers offer you all the advantages of modern rotary tilling at the price of a single implement! 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CHEER SECTION GROWS Mac Hi of Millon-Freewater had only a small cheering sec tion at the start of its first round hassle with North Bend but a Redmond gang and root ers from Eugene took up the chant for the Pioneers and, when it became apparent that the eastern Oregon team was going to upset the coast club, all but the staunch North Bend fans chorused in. Mac Hi be came the darling of the tourney like Dallas two years ago and Madras last year. CONTEMPLATE MEETING One conversation at the Os- burn hotel Wednesday night was between Coaches Frank Roe landt and Ed Rooney of Medford and St. Helens over the chances of their teams meeting in Friday semi-finals. Rooney moved to St. Helens this school year after be ing at Beaverton as an assistant in 1953-1954. The ex-Pacific U athlete will be remembered in the Rogue valley as coach at Jacksonville high for two sea sons. GIVE FINE SERVICE Art Litchman and his Ath letic news bureau at Univer sity of Oregon go out of their way to be helpful to sports writers at the state tourna ment. One of their services is a complete individual and statistical summary ready a few minutes after each game. They also provide a packet of cards bearing information on each team in the tourpey. In addition to the dope on each player, the cards list the stale tournament record of each team. Medford's all-time tourney record, for instance is 17 years in the event, 36 vic tories and 20 losses. The cards also show Med ford with the second best pre tourney mark this year with its 23 wins and single setback. St. Helens came to Eugene with an unblemished standing for 22 contests. NEWLAND HERE EARLY Bob Newland, the Medford high assistant coach, says this is the first time in eight years he arrived early for the state bas ketball tournament. Newland, the Tornado head track coach, switches to tutoring the cinder- men as soon as tne jayvee noop season is over. This week, until spring vacation opened, New land left the track men in the hands of Lee Ragsdale and Vern Wolthoff. Larry Copple and Jerry Kalapus went by streaks of 10 in keeping the points rolling in for Medford in the Franklin conflict. Copple got 10 in the first quarter, and again in the third and Kalapus hit that fig ure to help keep the Medford advantage in the fourth. Kala pus also was the leading gun ner in the second stanza when the entire Medford effort to taled just 10. He got six. CHILDREN TAKE CHANCES . . . D0N7 YOU! CHECK YOUR BRAKES TODAY BRAKE SPECIAL Here's What We Do... t. Usenet limn 2. CUaa, (.pack Freat Wheel X AM Brake FlvW 4. hupeel Great $. Arfjurt Brak 4. TeetBrakee ire$fotte STORES NINTH & S. 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Popular Buck Davidson will have his hands full in the 8:30 p.m. opener when he matches muscles and skill with Johnny Dobbs, who is pushing Hussane hard for the meanie title. All matches will be for 40 minutes or two out of three falls. Joey Lopes Favored To Beat Carmela Costa New York (U.R) Harder hitting makes Joey Lopes a 5 to 6 favorite over Carmela Costa tonight at Madison Square Garden here. Lopes is ranked ninth in the lightweight division and Costa ninth among the Featherweights. Both have agreed to scale 133 pounds or less. To prevent liver from shrink ing during cooking, remove the membrane from the outer edge first. Try a Ford i GERRY HUNTER To Face Judo Ace and you'll buy Friday. March 18, 1953 Fans Riot At Montreal Montreal (U.R) Fifteen hundred angry fans turned a hockey game into a donnybrook on ice here last night. The rioting fans began by throwing eggs, tomatoes, bags of water and a tear gas grenade at the president of the National Hockey League, Clarence Camp bell. They ended by smashing the front of the Hockey arena with bottles, ice, stones, and bricks. One even fired a couple of rifle shots. One fan hit Camp bell in the face. The violence began shortly after the game between the De troit Red Wings and the Mon treal Canadians got underway. Campbell was the target because he had suspended Montreal Star Maurice Richard as the result of a tussle during a game last week. Officials halted the game, and the victory, was awarded to De troit by default. But the Red Wings had been leading 4 to 1 anyway. z, Spokane Business Manager Replaced Spokane (U.R) Herschel Cayton, hired earlier this year as business manager of the Spokane Indians of the Class B Northwest Baseball league, re signed yesterday. He was re placed by Frank Herron. radio broadcaster and a member of the club's board of directors. Cayton gave no reason for the resignation. The directors, after announcing the change, also said a stock sales campaign would begin soon to finance the team which begins spring train ing at Clarkston next month under Manager Eddie Lake. Indian Scouts became a part of the Regular Army in 1901. a MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN Thomas Ready For Salary Talk .ruisDurgn lu.ry Slugging outfielder Frankie Thomas, lone Pittsburgh Pirate holdout, pav ed the way for salary talks with the club Thursday by mailing a letter to General Manager Branch Rickey Sr., after a "mis- Duquesne in With Dayton New York U.R) Top seed ed Duqesne and second . rated Dayton powered their way into the finals of the National Invita tional ..tournament here last night. Duquesne blasted its way into the championship game with a 65 to 51 victory over Cincin nati's Bearcats, while the Dayton Flyers tripped St. Francis (Pa.), by a 79 to 73 count. For Dayton, it marked the Flyers' third trip to the cham pionship round of the NIT. 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