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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. The height and long arms
Medford was up against has to
be taken into consideration.
The press section was duly im
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Mail Tribune Sport Editor
writers concerning the Med
ford whirlwind was: "Who can
stop them?" Pete Cornacchia,
prc writer for the Eugene
Register-Guard, reported that
Medford looked Improved over
the club which split in this
Willamette valley city with
Eugene high early in the sea
son. 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.
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Pheister To Forsake Pro
Ball for Coaching Ranks
Eugene (U.PJ- Ron Pheister,
star University of Oregon foot
ball center from Portland, will
forsake professional football to
coach next fall, it has been an
nounced.
Pheister, who graduates in
June, has accepted the coaching
job at Tigard high school near
Portland, according to Al Pie-
pila, principal at Tigard.
The husky center was a draft
pick of the San Francisco 49ers
Indians (the school nickname)
and the boys even wear war
paint. But imagine the Medford
yell squad dressed like Tor
nadoes.
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.
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Hunter Will Be Pressed
By Kim-Kowalski Combine
In Saturday Mat Program
Gerry Hunter, the blonde
bombshell of the wrestling ring,
will be gunning for her second
victory against no defeats in the
local arena when she clashes
with Tiny Kim, Honolulu doll,
in the feature scrap at Merrick's
tomorrow night. Hunter has a
draw in her other match here
But it will be a tough row for
the title claimant to hoe, for
Miss Kim has been training for
two weeks with Ella Kowalski
and will have the Polish flash as
her chief second against Hunter.
Miss Kowalski met Hunter twice
here, getting a draw and losing,
and figures she will be a good
asset for Kim.
While mat bugs have their
eyes set on the gals' match, they
are also looking forward to the
initial appearance of Cyclone
Cobb, burly Texas Negro, who
clashes with Yoggi Hussane, the
most hated man currently on
the circuit, in the middle tussle.
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
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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.
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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. They
have finished as runnerups both
previous times.
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about 100,000 times a day.
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had been re-
solved.
Thomas, who had a .298 aver
age last year, said he misunder
stood what Branch Rickey Jr.,
had told him Feb. 12, the last
time he had negotiated with club
officials.
"I was under the impression
after that meeting that the club
would contact me for further
talks and I just sat tight." Thom
as said. "But Branch Jr. wrote
me" a letter explaining the mis
understanding. I called him to
thank him for the letter, which
helped to clear things up."
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