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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Fanfare Congratulations to Larry Cop pie and Frank Rector, the steller Medford high school basketball guards who were named to the first and second all-star teams, respectively, of the Oregon Class A high school basketball tourna ment. There were a lot of good players' in the tourney, even among some of the clubs that did not finish high in the event, and to gain the recognition they did, to be listed among the top 10 participants, is an honor not only to the boys but to the team, the school, the town of Medford and their coach, Frank Roelandt. CAN BE PROUD The Medford Black Torna do, wiih a record of 26 wins and only two defeats, best in the state this year and one of the best in the school's his tory, need not be ashamed be cause it did not win the Ore gon championship. It lost in the finals to a fine team which apparently played the best of the season in the state tourna ment itself. And Medford's lone losses of the year were to the champion Axemen. While the Tornado didn't roll and shoot consistently at Eugene at the blazing clip that marked much of its path to the tourney, the fact is that the Medfordites did win their first three games and gain the finals. And the point is that, if the boys feel that they played their level best all the way and were always trying, they can hold up their heads with pride despite bitter disappointment and downcast spirits that fol lowed the loss in the titular struggle. They can be proud of the second place iropny even though it was not the one they wanted. TOO MUCH MORAN. TUTTLE In that final game it was just too much Mike Moran and Leigh ton Tuttle, Moran with the height and Tuttle with the rug gedness to take up the offensive slack. And the two horses had ponies to help them along in Bud Kuykendall, Larry Hughes and Pete King. Its a quint which had been together since grade school days and had the immediate benefit of coming up from or behind the state runner-up Axe men of two previous seasons. GAMES REVIEWED In their first tourney con flict against Franklin the Tor nado had opposing height to combat, in the second against Mac Hi they were up against a club who deliberateness and ag aggressive defense made up for youth, in experience and lack cf polish; in the third against Cleveland they met a team playing aggressive, pressing defense to make up for height deficiency and a deliberate but good moving offense to shake open their star, Dick Jolley. "TOURNEY" TEAM Eugene, which had the advan tage of living at home and a large gallery of hometown sup porters, was a real "tournament" team and its hot pace for the whole four game slate is statis tical evidence. The Axemen ave raged .480 from the field in their tourney shooting, a terrifically hot mark for a battle matching the state's elite. Medford, a .443 average team for games up to the tournament, shot .353 in the Eugene competition. MIKE GOT BENEFIT There shouldn't be any ali bing of Medford high's Satur day night loss nor can a lot be taken away from Eugene's Mike Moran, who really earn ed his all-state laurels. But we did feel, and so did others, that officiating leaned to his benefit. Doubtlessly, it was un intentional. It didn't happen in just the Medford fray. The big boy got by wiih some elbow use on defense and on offense rivals trying to stop Moran found it difficult to do with out being whistled down. Teams seldom can rightfully blame refs for their losses but poor calls and overlooked fouls can be mighty demoralizing. BALLS REFLATED There could have been some nrpiudice in Euaene getting the sportsmanship trophy. Other schools were jusi as aeserving. We're not thinking of the teams but of the rooting sections. The rpnnrt has come to us that Med ford and Milwaukie balls which hnnnced into the Eugene cheer ing section during games with other schools got back to the Tornado and Mustangs all right but were in deflated condition. Then there was that Medford- Eugene supporters' sign tearing dual in the balconies during the final game. MOB HYSTERIA The mob hysteria of victory can prove dangerous. That was demonstrated Saturday night when virtually the whole Eugene rooting section erupted on to the floor to con eraiulate the new champions. No less than three girls were hurt, crushed or knocked out, in the mad rush, and could have been more seriously in jured. Among those frantical ly trying lo wave the Eugene students back to their seat and unjam the mob was Cecil War ren, former Central Point high school mentor now an assis MAIL TRIBUNE By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor tant to Hank Kuchera, the Eu gene cage tutor. GALS SWOON How an athletic event can stir emotions to the breaking point was shown but the hectic third place game of the tourney which Cleveland of Portland won by one point over Central Catholic of Portland. Five girls reported ly fainted, including the girl friend of Dick Jolley, Cleveland star. One girl, who was carried out, was said to have fallen and hit her head. Anyway, there was a lot of business for doctors. CALLS SHOT Hank Kuchera, the Axemen coach, has a joshing manner which sometimes gives him a pop-off reputation. He said be fore the final hassle that Eu gene won the first game early in the year with Medford and Medford the second so now it was the Axemen's turn. Ku chera also said after coin toss for jersey choice on Saturday night, that Medford won the flip but that Eugene would win the game. SUPERSTITION There was some concern about Coach Frank Roelandt chosing the Tornado's Black Togs for the final hassle. Those were the uniforms in which Medford suffered its only defeat. However, the Tor nado won plenty of games dressed in black and scored its most lopsided victories of the year in those uniforms. There was no need for super stition. COPPLE HEADS SCORING Larry Copple was Medford's top scorer in the state tourna ment with 56 points and Bud Kastner headed in rebounding with 33. Among the Medford regulars Kastner scored 26. Glenn, Peterson 26, Jarry Kal apus 49 and Frank Rector 39. The rebounds included Cop ple 25, Kalapus 32, Peterson 31 and Copple 25. Eugene's Moran was high scorer of the Class A event with 104. KASTNER. KALAPUS PRAIS ED Medford Coach Frank Roe landt reported that in the coach es section, where he sat when Medford was not playing, talk was high on Kastner for his ter rific spring and rebounding and on Kalapus for his backboard work and shooting. He, himself, praised Kastner for fine work on Dick Jolley in the Cleveland game. While the Tribe kingpin got 25 points almost all of his backfield goals were from far out. An all-state team named unofficially in a poll of the press section was almost the same as that picked unoffic ially by the coaches. The press section listed Don Stamps, Al bany, instead of Larry Copple, Medford. Others chosen were Mike Moran, Eugene; Leigh ton Tuttle. Eugene; Dick Jol ley, Cleveland, and Ted Mil ler, Milwaukie. No second team was selected in the poll conducted by Art Moyer of the Albany Democrat-Herald. MUSTANGS RATE BETTER We're not willing to place Mil waukie above Medford's own Black Tornado without proof in an actual game, but the Mus tangs seemed to us to rate better than the fifth place they had to be satisfied with after losing to Eugene in the first round of the state hoop tournament. BOWLING ROGUE ROLLERS Standings: W. Chris Drugs 27 Ralph's Green Lantern 25 Burelson's 24 Clave Construction 93 B & B Auction 21 Va Rogue Sportsman 20 O. K. Market 19 Women of the Moose , First National Bank 14 Brooks Electric 9 L. 13 15 16 17 18 'i 20 21 22 'a 26 31 Results: 1st Nat l. Bank 0 V. Abbott 282 H. Read 394 D. Scholev 272 M. Tedrick 298 C. Selleck 371 Mandicap 90 B and B H. Hobos O. Wyatt A. Zenor V. Miller G. Rises 4 40 387 376 334 457 1707 1956 Burelson's V. Findley H. Culy D. Dotv A. Jahnow J. McCready 3 439 398 439 368 389 W.O.T.M. C. Thorsen S. Coulter D. Finley J. Jordan E. Olson Handicap 1 341 320 306 311 376 327 1981 2033 Rogue Sptsman. 2 O. K. Market 2 E. Baker 405 A. Bohannon 410 G. Russell 422 D. Christ'nson 462 E. Lenz 416 A. Wilson 350 L. Keener D. Webster N. Roberts D. Ricks Handicap 325 3H8 334 426 306 213 2117 Chris Drugs B. Minser B. Henson I. Forga R. Cable M. Clark 4 418 396 446 403 532 Brooks Elec E. Asher V. St. Hill E. Sessions G. Havse M. Durham Handicap 0 343 349 413 . 386 365 150 2016 2185 Green Lantern 2 Clave Const. A. Swoape F. Clave T. Smith A. Hoffman J. Tresham 2 521 314 435 328 384 V. Knox 446 O. Henson M. Pierce K. Smith F. Doty Handicap 399 253 412 408 54 1970 1982 Peanut acreage for 1954 in North Carolina was estimated at 175,000 acres. The total for 19,53 was 184,000 acres. A modern railway tank car may have a capacity up to about 116,000 gallons. Tuesday, March 22, 195S J Major Loop Skipper Job Bragan Aim By SCOTT BAILLIE Anaheim, Calif. 4U.R) Slow spoken, trigger-tempered Bobby Bragan figures he is destined to become a major league manager and only grins when his enemies shriek "Bush!" "My ambition is to run a big league team and I intend to get up there," the sultry Tsar of the Hollywood Stars said today as he watched his Pacific Coast League squad work out. "And even if it meant managing a last place club, it still would be the big time." Thus Bragan, who is seeking his second pennant in three years with the Pittsburgh farm club, indicated he is in the run ning for the Pirates' helm if ever the brass decides that Fred Haney, the Bucs' current strate gist, needs a change. And Bra gan is known as one of general manager Branch Rickey's favor ites. An "Ump-Hater" Bragan, swarthy and brown eyed, is a masterful public rela tions man as well as umpire hater and holler guy. Spring training fans who haven't seen him for over a year are greeted by name by Master Bobby, and he gallantly throws away his chaw of tobacco if they are elderly ladies. Bragan doesn't like to sit down and discuss the club with reporters. While some managers reiax, cross their legs and talk easily, Bobby prefers to stand with his hands on his hips so that he won't lose sight of them and vice versa. Possibly he will discuss the year ahead while catching batting practice. "Atta boy, Lindy!" he will yell from behind the plate if a rookie or veteran hits a high popup. Then he calls strikes and balls if the hitter gets too choosy. Goes For Dramatics Bragan has adopted a rather melodramic approach to the game which has rubbed some of his critics the wrong way. His slow stride out to the mound when a pitcher falters has irked some. Others never got over last spring training when he lay down on the ground and dared an umpire to heave him off the field. If a towel is waved from the dugout the umps are prone to blame it on Bragan. "Ah don't forsee any drastic changes in my policies toward the umpires," Bragan says. So another stormy year seems ahead for the doughty Texan maybe even more so if the un tested club has trouble making a race of it. But come first place or last place, Bragan wants that major league job. Bobby Cox Said Planning Move To Minnesota Seattle (U.R) Bobby Cox, the University of Washington first-string quarterback, may not be back to play football for the Huskies next fall, it was report ed today. It was believed Cox was head ed for the University of Minne sota where he would be eligible to play the 1956 and 1957 sea sons under the rules of the Big 10. One of the player's close friends said Cox was not happy at Washington. He said Cox started correspondence with Minnesota about a month ago and that when he found he could play two seasons in the Big 10 decided to cast his lot with the Gophers. Washington Coach Johnny Cherberg said the news is more than a surprise to him. Said Ch.irberg "Cox has a fine caret r ahead of him in foot ball. I hojja he isn't doing any thing to Virt it." Bobo May Fight Bout in Seattle Seattle (U.R) Middleweight champion Carl (Bobo) Olson may fight a non-title match here next month against the winner of to night's 10-round bout between Milo Savage of Seattle and Tig er Al Williams of Los Angeles, it was reported today. George Chemeres, matchmak er for the Olympic Boxing club, said Olson was offered the match yesterday. He said Sid Flaherty, Olson's manager, seemed to be inter ested in the offer and a defin ite reply is expected from Flah erty within the next few days. Indians Trip Giants To Even Spring Series Phoenix, Ariz. (U.R) The Cleveland Indians finally have caught up to Marv Grissom. Grissom, New York Giants' veteran relief ace, handcuffed the Indians in last year's World Series but Monday, he was blast ed for 10 hits in four innings as the Indians won, 3-2, to even the spring series between the clubs at 4-.4 Al Rosen singled off Grissom in the ninth inning to drive in the last two Indians' runs. The Indians play the Chicago Cubs at Tucson today. yf.7mriBaiaiaiii w $$$$ 1 Ln"tgjm TO TACKLE DOBBS Cyclone Cobb, above, six feet, four inch Texas Negro who tips the scales at 242 pounds, will take on "Crybaby" Johnny Dobbs in one of the scraps on Saturday night's wrestling card at Merrick's arena. Cobb won the plau dits of fans last week with his big bag of tricks. Yoggi Hussane and Buck Davidson clash in another match. In the feature spot, Gerry Hunter has pledged to throw Tiny Kim and Ella Kowalski in 30 minutes or forfeit her purse. Tickets are on sale at Rogue restaurant, 42 South Central ave. Medford sipod WALKER CUP LINKSMEN TO VIE IN OREGON OPEN MEET HERE THIS WEEK Two members of this years United States' Walker cup team will play this week in the Ore gon Open Golf tournament at Rogue Valley Country club here. They are Bruce Cudd, Port land, the defending open champ, and Dick Yost, formerly of Port land but now working in Seattle. The open, which will draw some of the leading pro and am ateur talent from several west ern states, is scheduled for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday. It is a medal play affair and will go for 72 holes, 36 of them on the final day. Sponsors are the Medford club and the Ore gon branch of the Professional Golfers association. A pro-amateur hassle on Thursday will unofficially launch tourney ac tivities. Entry list so far contains a total of 153 names, according to Club Manager George Harring ton. Of these 32 are pros, 110 are amateurs and 11 are aspir ants for the senior champion ships. Cudd and Yost are amateurs. Both will go to England in May to vie for the Walker cup match es. In addition to picking up the open mantle last year, Cudd won the Western Amateur. He was Oregon Golf association match play titlist in 1952 and 1953. Yost won the Northwest Open in 1951 and the OGA toga in 1950. Also among the newest en tries is Dick Price, Vancouver, the 1953 Washington amateur champion. The amateur list also includes Eddie Simmons, Medford, 1953 OGA crown winner, and Gene Bates, and Hal Duden, Portland Golf club. Simmons fired a 69, which is three under par, in practice on Sunday. A group of Astoria linksmen plan to arrive on Thursday mor ning by chartered plane, it was reported here yesterday. The group likely will include Ralph Dichter, 1954 Oregon Open runner-up, Ron Kapurna, pro at Astoria Golf and Country club, and Bill Palmberg. Ford Knutson, Astoria, is ar riving here Wednesday to par ticipate. Programs are now off the Stan Gifford Slates Move To Midwest Portland (U.R) Oregon is losing one of its best bowlers to the Midwest. Stan Gifford, operator of the Palace Bowl in Portland, and the city's top alley man, has an nounced that he has signed a contract to bowl with the Fal- staff Beer team of Chicago next season. Gifford has won the Oregon state match game title two out of the past three years and in 1953 finished 14th in the na tional match game champion ship. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE ; Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Road Phone 2-5271 -Tribune '-! OPEN ENTRY Bob McKend- rick, above, Oswego Country Lake Country club pro, will be among contenders Friday, Sat urday and Sunday in the Ore gon Open Golf tournament at Rogue Valley Country club here. He is president of the Oregon branch of the Professional Golf ers association, co-sponsor of the tourney with RVCC. press and Rogue Valley Country club is mailing them to various clubs in Oregon, Washington, California, Arizona and Idaho. Some club members, as individ uals, are mailing the programs to various places in the country, Harrington said that the pro grams are available free of charge for others to mail Proceeds from the program are financing the tournament and Rogue Valley will not charge links fans who wish to join the galleries and follow their favorite players. Shooting School Set For Saturday Medford Gun club plans an other shooting school on Satur day afternoon, March 26. Instructors will be on hand to give trapshooting pointers New shooters and anyone else with a "problem" will be wel come, members said. On Sunday skeet, 16-yard and handicap practice is slated and there will be firing in the Jour nal trap and East Oregonian skeet telegraphic events. A pre Easter ham shoot is on tap for Sunday, April 23. Last Sunday's skeet scores en tered in telegraphic rivalry were Bert Peck, 24, Ed Pease 21, and Ed Henselman 19. Peck shot 48 out of 50. For the Jour nal's 16-yard hassle Pease, Hen ry Niedermeyer and Charles Bendell all had 24s. In practice Ray Coleman had a handicap count of 46 out of 50 and Bill Baylie shot a 25 at 16 yards. Pat AlcCormck Expected To Lead U.S. To Further Triumphs in Pan-American Games Mexico City (U.R) Olympic diving champion Pat McCormick of Los Angeles was expected to lead the United States to still further triumphs in swimming competition today in the Pan American Games. Favored for Title Mrs. McCormick, ranked as the favorite both for the plat form diving and the three-meter diving, was favored for the title in the latter event today. More over, she was backed up by two strong U. S. entries in Hoop Rule Sets Changes in Code Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) The National Basketball Rules com mittee planned to meet today to "refine" the wording of six changes it approved in the code to reduce closing-minutes foul ing and cut down on stalling. Two Primary Problems H. V. Porter of Chicago, sec retary of the committee, said the rules-making body felt from the start that "the two primary Ricketts Leads East To Victory Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) All- America Dick Ricketts of Du quesne today held the most valu able player distinction for his 19- point play that led the East All Stars to a 90 to 77 fourth annual Shrine basketball victory. Monday night's victory was the first for the East, which also had the help of All-America Tom Gola of La Salle. Gola scored 10 points. But Fordham's Ed Conlon tal lied 10 points during a five-and-one-half minute drive as the East set up its superiority over the West and never fell behind. Con lon finished with a 14 point total, tying Indiana's Don Schlundt for second high honors on the East team. Ricketts, a 6-foot-7 Duquesne senior, was an overwhelming choice for the most valuable player award. ' The halftime score had the East ahead 41-to-27. The West squad was hindered when three players, including All-America Dick Garmaker of Minnesota, failed to appear. High point man of the game however, was on the West side as Oklahoma's Lester Lane, the smallest man on the floor, scored 23 points. Ca I Crews Beat Oregon State Oakland (U.R) The Uni versity of California varsity and junior varsity crews scored vic tories over Oregon State yester day on the Oakland Estuary." The Beavers grabbed an early lead, but California came from behind to win by three-quarters of a length. The Bears covered the 2000 meters in 6:32. The California JV crew rowed the same distance in 6:28 and triumphed by two lengths. REFLECTION of PERFECTION Reflected in every drink you serve is the quality of the whiskey you use. And when that whiskey is Seagram's 7 Crown . . . every drink is sure to be a reflection of perfec tion! That is why year after year, 7 Crown is the favorite of millions ... by millions of bottles ! Say caarams and be Seagram-Distillers Company, N.Y.C. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. Jeanne Stunyo of Detroit and Emily Houghton of Lafayette, Ind. U. S. swimmers also were ex pected to set the stage for heavy point scoring by strong per formances in the trials of two men's events the platform dive and the butterfly breaststroke. The United States picked up four gold medals in Monday's competition one in swimming and three in boxing. A brilliant U. S. team won the 400-meter medley relay by the Committee problems in basketball today are concerned with fouling and stalling." The committee has to meet again this morning to make "edi torial refinements" on the regu lations and discuss aiding offi cials in controversial calls of the game. The six revisions were: 1. The bonus rule adopted for the full duration of the game. 2. A restriction placed on the privileges of the dribbler. 3. Free throw lanes widened from 6 to 12 feet. 4. Two free throws given in stead of one for any flagrant technical foul. Jump Ball Rule Change 5. Jump ball rule revised to eliminate the delayed whistle. 6. Use of rubber-covered ball permitted for high school and YMCA teams, but leather-covered type retained for colleges. Adoption of the bonus rule for the full duration of the game was designed to cut down on the number of fouls in the late stages of the game. This means one free throw will be awarded on each foul, with another shot if the first is good, throughout the game. The old bonus rule was effective for the first 37 minutes with a straight two-free-shots for each foul during the final three min utes, Card Beaned By Pitcher St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) Joe Cunningham, St. Louis Car dinal first baseman who was beaned in Monday's exhibition game, will be able to play again after a two or three day rest. That was the opinion of doc tors at a local hospital today after examining x-rays. Cun ningham, who hit .284 as a car dinal rookie last season, was struck on the head in the second inning by a pitch thrown by southpaw Tom Casagrande, a Philadelphia Phillie rookie. The pictures, however, dis closed no fracture. Casagrande, a former Ford ham University star, combined with Lynn Lovenguth to hold the Cards to five hits as the Phillies scored a 3-2 victory. Stan Lopata's three-run homer in the sixth inning provided the Phil's victory margin. The Cardinals play host to the Cincinnati Reds today. length of the pool over second- place Argentina. Title Winners The three titles In boxing were gained by welterweight Joe Dorando of Lynhurst, N. J., lightmiddleweight Paul Wright of Flint. Mich., and middle weight Orville Pitts. Pitts was the most sensational winner by probably the most explosive "technical" knockout in the history of the game. In the third round of his bout he floored Miguel Safatle Ali of Chile with a hard right to the chin. The Chielean fell so hard that the referee didn't bother to count and the victory was officially recorded as a technical knockout, although it took han dlers five minutes to revive the loser. Seven Grid Frays Slated For RR High Rogue River Coach Tinker Hatfield has lined up seven foot ball contests for the 1955 sea son, he announced today. Two open dates remain to be filled. Hatfield is negotiating for a contest on Sept. 9, and a game with Oakland may be arranged for that date. The remainder of the schedule includes Sept. 16, Rogue River at Phoenix; Sept. 23, Rogue Riv er at St. Mary's; Sept. 3, Eagle Point at Rogue River; Oct. 7, Jacksonville at Rogue River; Oct. 14, open; Oct. 21, Rogue River at Prospect; Oct. 28, Rogue River at Talent; Nov. 4, open, and Nov. 11, Illinois Val ley at Rogue River. The Chieftain mentor hopes to arrange a game for Oct. 14. The Nov. 4 date will be left open. A vacancy has been created on the schedule by the fact that Rogue River and Glendale will not meet this year. The 1955 season is expected to be a building year for Rogue River, which loses 16 lettermen by graduation. Portland Golfer Getting in Rut Portland (U.R) Dale Mulholland scored a hole-in-one six months ago on the 145-yard fifth hole at Lloyds golf course while using a four iron. His partner was Carl Larson. ' Yesterday, Mulholland got another hole-in-one ' on the same hole wiih the same four iron. Again,. Larson was his ' partner. Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks, Flues Drain Tile 727 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 urc 65 Grain Neutral Spirits. m i Seagrams 5ES
