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Fanfare
r DICK JIWETT
Mail Tribune Spertt Editor
McArthur Court, University
of Oregon, Eugene Medford's
Black Tornado learned Thursday
night- in the Oregon Class A
prep tourney second round,
what it really means to be a
top rated favorite in state
tournament. The partisan Med
ford rooters, of course, vocifer
ously backed their team. But
everybody else was cheering for
the McLoughlin High Pioneers,
spillers of strong North Bend in
the opening round, to pull an
other big upset. Eugene high's
cheer section particularly joined
the smaller Mac Hi representa
tion and one of the Pioneer lead
ers even led a yell in front of
the Eugene section. Perhaps, the
Axemen backers were hoping
for a set-up in tourney finals.
It's natural, however, to boost
the underdog and blast the favor
ite. It's the price good teams
have to pay and Medford's hoop
men weren't rattled. They took
it with poise.
Cheers for the Pioneers lost
their gusto when it loomed cer
tain that they were outclassed.
The yells and shrieks didn't
reach the fevered pitch of the
North Bend-Mac Hi fray.
the opening quarter against NB,
Jensen hurt his knee and never
returned to action. The towering
Quaker had opportunity for only
three field tries and made just
one against the Bulldogs for a
game total of two points.
TUMBLER. TOO
By the lima he is in college,
Jensen may make cage fol
lowers in this state forget all
about the fabulous Swede Hal
brook. He's a tumbler and a
boxer along with his basket
ball ability.
OVERCONFIDENT
Big reason for the North
Bend loss to the Pioneers ap
parently was that the Bulldogs
had counted the chickens be
fore they hatched. They
weren't seriously thinking of
the game of the moment. They
regarded Mac-Hi lightly and
were more concerned with
what they might do to Med
ford in the second round. The
oyerconfidence prored fatal
and gar the less cocksure
but still confident Black Tor
nado an easier quarter-final
foe.
INTERESTING SPECULATION
It's interesting to speculate on
just what might have happened
had North Bend and Medford
played Thursday in the cham
pionship quarter-finals here. The
Black Tornado had nicked the
Bulldogs by three points early in
the season but North Bend had
wins over Marshfield which
Have Medford two tough battles
in mid-season. In Thursday con
solation play the Bulldqgs shot
.467 from the field and beat
Franklin of Portland 75 to 67
compared to Medford's .407 and
60 to 51 over the Quakers on
Wednesday.
There was a big difference in
the two games. The Quaker's 6-9
sophomore Bjarne Jensen played
much more against Medford. He
sat out quite a bit of the Med
ford fracas because of fouls. In
FURTHER SPECULATION
North Bend's second upset de
feat of the tourney, to Baker on
Friday morning by a 69 to 59
count, also caused pre-game spec
ulation on the Firday night Med
ford - Cleveland scuffle in the
championship bracket. Going
strictly by comparative tourney
scores the Tribe had rated a
slight edge over Oregon's No. 1
team.
But neither Cleveland nor the
Eastern Oregon club were play
ing their best ball in their tour
ney opener. Baker was at its
best in dumping North Bend in
the scramble of the Bulldogs,
outscrapping the coast team and
overcoming a 14 to 23 first quar
ter deficit for a 35 to 33 halfway
lead.
At that, the personal foul sit
uation took some of the luster
away from the Baker win. North
Bend committed 23 infractions
to Baker's 11 and the easterners
grabbed advantage for 21 out of
36 gift shots while North Bend
got only three out of 15. NB had
a 28 to 24 margin in field goals.
BLOEDEL TOP REBOUNDER
Elmen (Red) Bloedel, Mil
waukie, took over the stale
tourney rebound lead at the
halfway point with 48. His 27
en Thursday was second high
for en game in tourney his
tory, trailing Swede Hal
brook's 32 for Central Cath
olic in 1952. First day high's
in the classic were 24 each by
Jim Altenhof en of Central
Catholic and Oliver McCord of
Baker. Our Cleveland-Baker
statistics sheet got stuck in a
hind pocket Wednesday and
we overlooked McCord in our
previous Fanfare.
Jerry Kalapus and Everett
Kastner led Medford in re
bounds after two games with
20 each.
MORAN SCORE LEADER
Mike Moran of Eugene and
Dick Jolley of Cleveland took
second day scoring honors with
27 each and Moran took the mid
way tourney lead with a 50 total.
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For Livewire Teams
Los Angeles (U.R) Paci
fic Coast League President
Claire Goodwin backed up his
"hustle" campaign with cash
today as he announced some
$20,000 prize money will be
handed out to livewire teams,
players and managers during
the coming baseball season.
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the plan at a meeting here
yesterday. The Pepsi Cola Co.
will sponsor the program,
which calls for monthly S2500
awards to the club with the
most hustle, and $2500 prises
at season's end to the player,
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Don Stamps of Albany had 45
and Bloedel 44. Jerry Kalapus of
Medford tied for eighth in the
total with 32. Copple had 31.
Jolley was a shining light on
Thursday despite a bad ankle.
AXEMEN SWIPE THUNDER
Eugene's .541 and .518 shoot
ing averages enabled the Axe
men to swipe a lot of No. 1
rated Medford's thunder in the
favorite category of the touin
ney. Axemen brilliance con
trasts to Dallas' pitiful .169
against Milwaukie on Thursday.
MORAN FIRES .769
The Axemen's superb Moran
had a two-day .769 field goal
average for best individual mark
in the tourney. Kalapus with 11
made of 17 attempts shot .647 for
Medford while Copple had 14
out of 29 and .483.
RAABE REPORTING
Seen daily on press row at
the tourney is Joe Raabe, who
moved to Eugene recently after
holding the sports editor job of
the Medford Hi Times. Joe is
now writing for the Eugene
school paper. We've missed
him since he left Medford for
he was good at providing Black
Tornado statistics for us. We
suggested that Joe spend a
week end in Medford after the
state tourney and work out
the Tornado's season data. He
politely declined.
EX-TORNADOES SEEN
Seen and talked to so far are
several ex-Medford high athletes
now at University of Oregon,
Jack Morris, Terry Maddox,
Dave Newland, Norm Chapman.
Jack finishing his freshman year
after four years in the Air Force,
is expected to star in Frosh
track this season. He says he
hasn't worked out much yet.
Maddox is anticipating a Cali
fornia jaunt with the baseball
team soon. He's being given the
finer points of catching after
previous prep, semi-pro and cqW
lege freshman service as a pitcher
and outfielder.
Newland, newly crowned coast
collegiate wrestling champ in
his weight, has turned -his atten
tion to track and his pole vault
specialty. So far he's just done
some running to get his legs in
shape. -
Chapman is looking forward to
spring football practice after the
vacation period.
Morris has indicated that his
brother, Frank, won't be out for
track at Oregon this spring.
There have been rumors he
would. But Jack states that
Frank hasn't recovered suffic
iently from a polio attack last
year.
NORTH BEND RAN
Some teams in this current
tournament have stalled at the
end to hold leads and in some
ease it's almost proved fatal.
North Bend, against Franklin,
was a learn which ran all the
way. The Bulldogs, against the
Quakers, too, lost Dick Wool
sienhulme, Dave Hartley and
Al Van Leuven but didn't
seem severely hampered.
OLD ACQUAINTANCES
The state tourney is a fine
place to meet and renew old ac
quaintances. We've seen two old
college acquaintances, so far,
whom we hadn't seen for years.
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Kansas City, Mo. U.R)
San Francisco's Dons lived up
to their No. 1 national ranking
Saturday night by administering
a decisive defeat to LaSalle's de
fending champions for the NCAA
basketball championship. The
score was 77-63.
Six-foot 10 inch Bill Russell,
All-American center of the San
Francisco club, electrified a sell
out crowd of more than 10,000
with an amazing display of all
around court skill. He poured in
23 points to feature the 26th con
secutive San Francisco victory
that brought the first national
championship to the West Coast
school.
Colorado's Big Seven cham
pion Buffaloes fought from an
eight-point underdog position to
beat Iowa 75-54 in the consola
tion game.
Billed as a "Battle of AU
Americans," the game began as
that, but LaSalle's Tom Gola
ultimately was forced to concede
honors to his taller rival.
The lean San Francisco Negro
coupled his size with unbeliev
able jumping ability to thrust an
arm above the basket and guide
many shots down through the
San . Francisco goal. Several of
the counters made were credited
by a gracious official scorer to
teammates of Russell.
But it wasn't a one-man San
Francisco triumph by any means.
K. C. Jones, 6-1 guard with two
of the quickest hands in the col
legiate sport, not only did a
great job in his assignment to
guard Gola,. but he rammed in
24 points 18 of them in the
final half when San Francisco
definitely was in control.
Gola managed 16 points but
in this crucial test saw a team
mate, Charley Singley, gain the
individual scoring honors. Sing
ley got an even 20.
Sunday, March 20, 19SS
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUWE WW
New York (U.R) Duques
ne's master ball - control artists,
with all-American Si Green and
Dick Ricketts combining to score
all but 14 of their total points,
won the National Invitation Bas
ketball - Tournament Saturday
night by outclassing towering
-aSalBe, 77-63;
Wins NIT. by 70-58
Dayton, 70-58.
A crowd of 18.496 largest
of the season at Madison Square
Garden watched Green score
33 points and Ricketts 23 in a
superb two - man show that
earned Duquesne its first NIT
championship in eight tries.
Despite the brilliance of the
two Duquesne stars, however,
Maurice (The Magnificent)
Stokes of St. Francis (Pa.) was
unanimously voted the Most
Valuable Player in the tourna
ment. Stokes, who scored 124
points in the four-tournament
games, was the first player from
a semi-final team to win the
award since Ernie Calverly of
Rhode Island State in 1946.
In the opening game, Cincin
nati was forced into overtime by
Stokes' brilliant shooting before
pulling out a 96-91 victory over
St. Francis (Pa.) for third place
in the tournament.
Willy Mays Says Fielding
More Fun Than Hitting Ball
Phoenix, Ariz. (U.R) Willie
Mays, the major league batting
champion, insisted today that
outfielders should be paid for
their fielding and not their hit
ting. "You get a man out there in
center field who's good with a
glove, and can run and throw
the ball good, and he's better
than a guy who hits good but
can't field," the Giants star said.
"The way I feel, you don't have
to hit so much, just long's you
can go get that ball in the out
field." Mays, of course, does both
well some say better than any
one else in the game. But if he
had his way, he'd just as soon
play the outfield all the time,
and let the other guys do the
batting.
Outfield Is "Real Fun"
"Don't get me wrong," he
said, "I like to hit, too. But
there's nothing like getting out
there in the outfield, running
after a ball and throwing some
body out trying to take that
extra base. That's real fun."
Last season it was hard to de
cide whether Mays was greater
with a glove or bat.
His defense maneuvers were
climaxed with that over-the-shoulder
World Series catch off
the bat of Cleveland's Vic Wertz.
His work with a bat in his hands
was told by the statistics: .345
batting average, 41 home runs
and 110 RBI's.
"I felt real good last year,"
he explained, "and it helped a
lot being with a team like this
one. We really went out there
to win every game. It's great to
be with a club with these kind
of guys."
He said again he never would
play any more baseball in the
Caribbean League during the
winter months. "Things aren't
the same down there for the
players," he said. "And when
you play baseball all year like
that, it gets to be too much like
work. This is a game, and a lot
of fun, and I don't want to spoil
it."
"Everybody always talks
about my hitting, and whether
I'm gonna hit those 60 home
runs that Babe Ruth hit, and
stuff like that. I try to get any
kind of hit I can. If I can get a
single that will win a game for
us, I'd rather have that than a
dozen home runs that don't
mean anything.
"But I don't like to talk about
hitting all the time," he said. "I
like to talk about fielding."
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Ski Conditions
Skiing conditions at Crater
Lake National park were
"poor to fair" Saturday, the
ranger's office there reported.
The snowpack, which is 90
inches deep compared te 128
last year, is rough and icy.
There were light flurries of
snow Saturday.
Highway 62 to the park is
open, and the road to the rim v
is open with spots of ice. High
temperature Friday was 44,
and low Saturday with 11.
with a 13 degree temperature
at 8 a.m. Saturday.'
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Portland (U.R) The wres
tling bout between Kurt van
Poppenheim and Eric Pedersen
was called "no decision" Friday
night after they collided head
on. Both were knocked unconscious.
epen Sunday weather permitting.
Portland (U.R). Weather
conditions will clear in Cas
cade mountain ski areas Sun
day, the weather bureau said,
with winds of 20 to 30 miles
per hour at elevations rang
ing from 5000 to 7000 feet.
Skiing conditions at Mt.
Hood were reported good.
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