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TWELVE MTOFORD (OHEGOlf) MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, Noremb 80, 1955 San Francisco Overwhelmingly Bated Nation's No. 1 Cage Team By NORMAN MILLER few York iCUR) The Univer sity of San Francisco's defend ing NCAA basketball cham pion!!, led by All-America Bill Russell, were picked today by an overwhelming vote of the United Press Board of Coaches to win the national title once again. In f near-unanimous display of sentiment, 33 of the 35 out standing coac;s who will rate the college basketball teams weekly for the United Press dur ing the coming season voted Phil Woolpert's Dong as the best bet for 1955-56. North Carolina State was the top pre-season choice, of one coach and St. Louis university was selected by another. Of the two coaches who did not vote for San Francisco one picked the West Qtast Dons third and the other0seventh. On a point basis, that gave San Francisco 342 out of a possible total of 350. Picked Top Team San Francisco was picked as the nation'f)No. 1 team last sea son after winning 23 out of 24 gamj during the regular cam paign. The Dons then lived up to their top ranking by winning the NOfkA cbampionshiD at Kan sas City, beating LaSalle in the final 77-63. Kentucky, which has a peren n!nl haskptball Dowerhouse wi der CoSch Adolph Rupp, was picked as the No. 2 team in me coaches' pre-season sizeuii. fol lowed by Utah, North Carolina State and Iowa. Dayton was picked No. 6. Illinois aeii UCLA were tied for seventh, with Du ouesne's 1955 National Invita tion tournament champions ninth and George Washington 10th. Accordit to these pre-season ratings, here are the teams tne coaches expect to win the major conference championships: Southeastern Kentucky. Skyline Utah. Atlantic Coast North Caro lina State. Big Ten Iowa. Pacific Coast UCLA. Southern George Washing ton. Missouri Valley St. Louis. Southwest Southern Meth odist. Big Seven Kansas. - Ivy Princeton. B Loop Clubs Await Thursday Jamboree M West .Shrine Grid Squad Announced San Francisco (U.P.) South ern California and Stanford each placed three men on the West team named today for the Dec. 31 Shrine East-West football game at Kezar Stadium. End Leon Clarke, guard Or lando Ferrante and quarterback Jim Contrato were the Trojans named to the team, which will be coached by USC's Jess Hill. Tarr Picked Stanford will be represented by guard Tony Mosich, center Joe Long and fullback Bill Tarr. However, Tarr is being carried on the roster as a halfback. Two players each from South ern Methodist, Arkansas and College of the Pacific also were chosen. The Mustangs named were quarterback John Roach and tackle Forrest Gregg. Half back Preston Carpenter and full back Henry Moore were selected from Arkansas and end A. D. Williams anf guard Gene Cronin from COP. The Complete Roster Ends: Leon Clarke, USC: Hen ry Gaeminger, Baylor; Lamarr Meyer, Colorado; Menan Schrie- ver', Texas; A. D. Williams, Col lege of Pacific. Tackles: Forrest Gregg, South ern Methodist; Lon Stiner, Ore- gon; . John Jankans, Arizona Tempe State; Reed Henderson, Utah State. Guards: Orlando Ferrante. USC; Tony Mosich. Stanford; Vaughan Hitchcock, Washington State; Gene Cronin, College of Pacific. Centers: James Furey, Kansas State; Joe Long, Stanford. Quarterbacks: John Roach, Southern Methodist; Jim Con tra tto, USC. Halfbacks: Bill Tarr, Stanford; Preston Carpenter, Arkansas; Herb Nakken, Utah; Dick James, Oregon; Rex Fischer, Nebraska. Fullbacks: Henry Moore, Ar kansas; Earl Lunsford, Oklahoma A&M. The 1955-56 high school bas ketball season in southern Ore gon will be heralded in Thurs day night on the bt. Marys court here. Occasion is the Jackson Coun ty B league jamboree. It will start at 7 p.m. with all six mem bers of the league participating. The affair will give an idea, although not a too conclusive one, on how the clubs should fare in the regular season play. Participants will be Talent, Jacksonville, Rogue River. Butte Falls, Prospect and host St. Mary's. Each will appear in two quarters of play. As was done last year, the Darks will face the Whites with aggregate team scores to be kept. Talent, Butte Falls and Prospect will team on the white jerseyed side. St. Mary's, Rogue River and .Jacksonville will wear their colored jerseys. The Darks won in 1954. The teams will appear against each other in this order: Talent versus Rogue River, Jackson ville versus St. Mary's, Pros pect versus Butte FpUs. Talent versus St. Mary's, Rogue Riv er versus Prospect and Butte Falls versus Jacksonville. Six Contests There will be six separate. contests or quarters of basket ball for fans of the B schools to witness. Talent, the defending B league champion, Rogue River and St. Mary's go into the jamboree the best fixed with returning letter men. The Bulldogs have eight and the Crusaders of Medford and Chiefs of Rogue River each five. Prospect has two lettermen back and its hopes are bolstered by three transfers. Jacksonville has only one let terman presently out and eyes the return of two others late in the season. The two were injur ed during football. There is no report yet from Butte Falls. ' Actual league play does not start until January. The clubs will depend on a number of games through December to gird for the loop chase. Most of the clubs have full games this week end and several will meet loop foes this month in non-conference play. Teams were engaged in final practices this afternon in prepa ration for the jamboree. Lon Stiner Shrine Pick San Francisco (U.R) Two Oregon players were named to day on the West Shrine team which meets the East team here Dec. 31. They are Halfback Dick James and Tackle Lon Stiner Jr. James' selection had been re vealed after Oregon's 28-0 win over Oregon State. Vaughan Hitchcock of Washing ton State was picked at a guard spot. No one from Oregon State or Washington was named on the squad. Only seniors are eligible. CLOCK OUTSTANDING Portland (U.R) Lewis and Clark football players yesterday chose Tackle Mike Clock, a jun ior, as the outstanding player of the season for L&C. Transfers Aid Cougar Hoop Cause Prospect Two Cougar letter men and three transfers from the backbone of the Prospect high basketball squad at this stage of the season. Darwin Bean is the only re turning regular from last year and Lyle Pope is the only other Cougar hoopman who has won a basketball letter previously at Prospect. The transfers who figure in Coach Wes Stauffer's plans are David Gardener, from a school in Washington; Don Vannice from.Halsey, and Jim Daniels, from Butte Falls. Stauffer reported that Cougar reserve strength will be limited in experience and talent. Like a number of other prep clubs of the area. Prospect will have fair speed but will not have much height. According to the mentor, the club looks stronger on the backboards than last season's edi tion. Scoring ability is more evenly divided. 1 - The Cougars have not played together much as yet, Stauffer stated. However, he "said indi cations point to a hard working squad. On the Prospect roster are" Bean, Pope, Don Andresen and Ray Shafer, seniors; Daniels, Jim Davidson and' Vannice, juniors; Gardener, Jim Valentine, Bud Gillespie, Carl Spencer, Richard Robinson, Steve Hoag and Leo Daniels, sophomores, and Mel vin Yorton, Tom Davidson, Jerry Gaines and George Lycett, fresh men. Jim Hansen is hoop man ager. Dick Price, elementary coach and eighth grade instructor, will tutor the freshman and sopho more team. He graduated from Southern Oregon college last year. SCHEDULE: - Dec. 1 Jackson County B League jamboree at St. Mary's (Medford). Dec. 2 At Butte Falls; .Dec. 10 Canyonville home; Dec. 16.. ..At Jacksonville; Dec. 17 At Canyonville. Dec 20 Butte Falls home. Dec. 29 At Chiloquin. Jan. 6 St. Mary's home; Jan. 10 Chilquin home; Jan. 13 At Rogue River; Jan. 17 Jackson ville home; Jan. 20 Butte Falls BASILIO, DEMARCO EVEN RATING FOR TITLE MIX TONIGHT BRINGS QUERY Boston (UP) Here Is the tale-of-the-tape for tonight' Carmen Basilio-Tonv DeMarco welterweight title fight: " , DeMarco Basilio Age 23 2 Weight 147 147 Height 5-5 i S-6' Reach 7?H 67 Chest normal 37 J 4 Chest expanded 39 Waist -.291-4 Neck . 16 Thigh - 204 Calf ..14li Ankle 914 Biceps 1414 Wrist 7U Forearm 15 36U 39 29 15 2(P4 13:!4 10 134 6I4 15"j Spokane, Wash. (U.R) Pro moter Gus Cozza has offered S80,000 to the winner of to night's welterweight champion ship bout between title holder Carmen Basilio and Tony De Marco to defend here against Vince Martinez. Boston (U.R) Handlers of welterweight champion Carmen Basilio were suspicious of a bet ting coup today as "even money" was surprisingly quoted for his first title defense against ex champ Tony De Marco in their return bout tonight at Boston Garden. Co-managers Johnny De John and Joe Netro asked the Massa chusetts Boxing commission for reasurrances of a square deal for 28-year-old Carmen. "I simply can't understand it," said De John. "Last June, Car men was favored at 9-5 for their first fight at Syracuse, N.Y., and he took the title from De Marco on a technical knockout in the 12th round. Yesterday morn ing he was favored at 8-5. Now it's even money. What gives? Commissioner Henry Lamar told De John, "No news about the referee or judges could have leaked out of the commission be cause we haven't yet made up our minds about who will of ficiate tonight." Rumor Basilio Weakened Bookies said the swing to the 23-year-old De Marco was caus ed by rumors that rangy, raw boned Basilio had weakened himself paring down toward the 147-pound limit. Also because stocky young Tony should be in much better condition than for their first fight on June 10. The champion, seeking his 12th straight victory, had been favored because his savage hooking attack wilted De Marco after the seenth round. Tony was on the floor twice in the 10th. The dynamic,- black-haired son of a former Boston shoe maker had one bout since he lost his crown in June. On Sept. 14 he knocked out Chico Vejar in the first round. That victory brought his record to 41-5-1, in cluding 26 knockouts. He was stopped three times. Basilio fought twice since he won the title, outpointing Gil Turner and Italo Scortichini. His career list of 47-11-7 includes 21 kayoes. He was never stopped. Sacramento Gets Risley Columbus. O. (U.R) The Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast league opened the annual minor league draft yesterday by selecting infielder George Ris ley from the Augusta, Ga., team of the Sally league. He was the first of six play ers chosen by the eight Pacific FIGHTS home; Jan. 27 At Talent; Jan. 31 At St. Mary's. Febr 3 Rogue River home; Feb. 10 At Jacksonville; Feb. 14 Butte Falls; Feb. 17 Talent home. By UNITED PRESS Miami Beach, Fla. Rex Lavne. 209 2. Salt Lake City, Utah, "out pointed Mike Hammer, 189 li. De troit. 10. Tampa, Fla. Willie Pepp. 127, Hartford. Conn., outpointed Papny Gault, 124, Spartanburg, S. C, 10.' Junior High Home Room Cage Winners Reported Champions in recent home room basketball and pep tour naments at McLoughlin junior high school have been announced by the school. Winning rooms in basketball and the room supervisors are the ninth grade, No. 18, Mrs. Dorothy Sutter; eighth grade No. 34, Mrs. Gertrude Holmes, and seventh grade, No. 23, Mrs. Hazel Bosshard. Champs and the room super visors in the pep competition were ninth grade, No. 5, Darrell Davis; eighth grade, No. 35, Mel Boldenow, and seventh grade, No. 27, Ray Lewis. Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 UP Honors Jess Hill Los Angeles (U.R) He was laughed at when he quit coach ing track to take over his first head coaching job in college football four years ago. He was laughed at again only two weeks ago when he was hanged in effigy on his own campus. But Jess Hill, the United Press Coach of the Week, got the last laugh when his Southern California Trojans sprung one of the season's biggest upsets last Saturday by mauling Notre Dame, 42-20. Southern Cal never had beat en the Irish in their annual windup game since Hill took over the coaching reins from Jeff Cravath in 1951. This sea son, the Trojans reached the Notre Dame battle with an un distinguished 5-4 won and lost record, while the Irish had an 8-1 mark. Coast league clubs. Hollywood chose infielder Robert Ruck of Birmingham, who hit .285 playing with Win ston - Salem in the Carolina league. . Los Angeles, in 'the first round, selected George Freese, a third baseman, from New Or leans and in the second round chose John Goril, a third base man from San Antonio of the Texas league. Freese Hit .302 Freese, who was with tha Pittsburgh Pirates early in the9 season, wound up hitting .302 at Hollywood in the Pacific Coast league. Goril hit 3.01 for Wich ita of the Western league. Seattle also selected two play ers. drafting pitcher Arnold At kins from Shreveport of the Texas league and first baseman Kenneth Landenberger from Colorado Springs of the West ern league. As an open classification league, putting it just a step ahead of the Triple A American association and the International league, the Pacific coast circuit had the first choice of the minor league players left after the ma jors selected 10 playeri Mon day. , Portland (U.R) Portland U. and Portland State open their 1955-56 basketball season tomor? row nigSt by meeting each other at Howard Hall here. Oregon Staters CTEdge Grad Five Corvallis (U.R) Oregon State's basketball team finally edged an alumni group in a gs?ne-type scrimmage here yes terday,! 59-54. It was the first varsity victory in three tries 0 or the ex-stars who included Tony Vlastelica. Tex Whiteman, Bill Toole and Ron Robins from last year's team. Post 8 Wins Explorer Boiling Tournament Post 8 won a recent bowling tourtffcy in competition with two other Explorer posts of the Big Pines district of Boy Scouts. Scoreaj of 529, 589 and 554 were chalked up by Post 8 roll ers. Post 14 was second with scores of 446, 597 and 495 and Post 15 rolled 523, 504 and 479. Wayne paced the winning team with 389 for three games. Clark had 319 for Post 14 and Rinn carded 899 for Post 15. The tourney marked the first bowling for most of the boys. Wyoming Named For Sun Bowl El Paso. Tex. 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