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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday, December 1, 1955 KF Pelicans Strengthened By Transfers Klamath Falls "Shy of ex perience" are the words which briefly describe the basketball picture at Klamath union high school. But Bob Peterson, beginning his second yea? as head hoop coach of the Pelicans, has some good height, some encouraging transfer prospects and a number of candidates up from the junior varsity. They should make Kla math title possibilities shine brighter as the season progress es. There (aire two returning let- termen. Orin Perkins, 6-foot for ward-guard, and "Dave Pepple, 5-8 guard. Pepple is taking it easy on a broken foot which kept him out of football action. (9kte has yet tt) give it full test in scrimmage sessions and is just shooting to keep in shape. Other than this twosome there isn't much to be counted upon in the way of varsity "know how." O Peterson, however, has three top prospects who transferred to Klamath Falls this year and two of them are in the "big boy" category. Tallest is a 6-6 color ed youth from Bly, Glenn Moore. He's a sophomore and a very "promising hoopster. Moore is re garded as aboi a year away from Southern Oregon Confer ence standards. However, he moves well for his 16 years and size and could be tough at the end of the season. Bob Niles at KF Another new Pelican is 6-5 uu liuinenana, junior xiom Malin. He also lacks the polish demanded. A-l prep play, lead ing ' Peterson to point for next year. Mike Runge is a 5-11 trans fer from Ev'anston, 111. He's a fair outside shot and may break into the starting line-up. Other leading. candidates now are Donn Taucher, 5-10, senior; Butch Kimpton, 6-1 junior; Lee McGill, 5-7 junior, and ' Earle Tichenor, 6-5 senior. Starting combination is still undecided but a possible one is Moore at Center; Runge, Kimp ton and Taucher outside and Tichenor or Sutherland in under with Moore. Another transfer, Bob Niles from Medford, may be in the future planning of Peterson. Niles, a sophomore, is 6-3. He's with the varsity now but may complete the season with the jay-vees. Battered Basilic Stops Tony In Welterweight Toga Defense By JACK CUDDY Boston (U.R) Carmen Ba-! silio, the "Iron Man" from Chit tenango, N. Y., who again stop ped ex-champion Tony De Marco in Wednesday night's thunder ing return battle at jammed Boston Garden, will make his defense of the welterweight crown in February against an other ex-champion Johnny Sax ton. Dr. Charles Heck of Syracuse, N. Y. personal physician to the 6courageous armor-plated welter king said today he doubted that Carmen's injured left hand would prevent a February de fense. "It appears to be only bruised," he said of the left fist that was hurt in the second round of Carmen's sensational return fight with young De Marco of Boston. Real Iron Man Only a real iron man of the ring could have survived the terrific battering Basilio took in the early rounds, before he came on to floor De Marco twice and win another 12th round techni cal knockout over slugger Tony, from whom he had wrested the 147-nound at Syracuse, N. Y., June 10. Referee Mel Manning stopped the fiaht at 1:54 of the 12th. Basilio was nearly knocked out in the seventh round by a left hook to the chin that buckled his knees and o almost dropped him, and by the barrage that sent him, reeling about the ring until the bell ended the seventh. 0 He had taken such a batter ing before his body attack again began to wilt De Marco that all three ring officials had young Tony ahead on their score sheets at the end of the 11th round. Tries To Rally Hooks to the body almost jack knifed stocky, black-haired Tony in the 10th. Tony was staggered seven times in the 11th as he tried to rally and engaged the persistent champion in savage exchanges. . Early in the 12th a barrage of hooks to the head staggered the tired Bostonian and a solid right to the chin dropped him. He was up at "eight" and Basilio was rocking him with head hooks as the referee started to step in. But before , Manning could separate them, another ex-fnounced he would try to stage plosive right landed on Tony's jaw and blasted him to the can vas'. Manning waved his hands over him to denote the finish and another TKO triumph for Carmen. It was his 12th victory and his 48tr? in 66 fights. Promoter Jim Norris an- the match between Basilio and Saxton of Brooklyn in Febru ary at Miami, Chicago Los An geles or Syracuse. Saxton lost the title to De Marco last April 1, and De Marco held.it only 70 days before losing it to Car men. Ken Carpenter Most Valuable Seaside, Ore. (U.PJ Ken Car penter, former Oregon State backfield ace, was notified yes terday he has been named the most valuable player by his temmates on th Regina Rough rider team of the Canadian leaeue. Carpenter, who spent a Sveek at home, left to play in the East-West Canadian all-star game Saturday night. O Anti-Big Man Rule To Get First Test This Evening By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer College basketball puts the 1955-56 show on the road to- night with a pair of star Giants, Bill Uhl of Dayton and Ronnie Shavlik of North Carolina State, ready to give the new anti-big man rule its first test. The. anti-big man rule, mak ing the free throw lane 12 feet wide instead of six feet, is gne of three major changes made in the college game this year. It's designed to keep the giants fur ther away from the basket to make them "earn" their goals in stead of rolling up scores on slap-in shots. But seven-foot Uhl and six eight Shavlik, two of the na tion's outstanding contenders for All-American honors, figure to do quite a bit of scoring under any rules tonight. North Carolina State, peren nial Atlantic Coast Conference power ranked No. 4 in the nation by the United Press board of coaches in the pre-season rat ings, is expected to have little difficulty with Florida State, and Dayton, ranked No. 6 na tionally, is a top-heavy favorite over Pepperdine. Other Top Games Fordham, ranked No. 13, meets a 'stronger foe in St. Hunting Outlook Reported Poor In Rogue Valley Portland (U.R) The weekly report on hunting conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: SOUTHWEST: Waterfowl hunting, prospects fair in Coos county but high water hampers shooting; . Rogue river valley hunting poor. CENTRAL: Hunting prospects for oucks good on Davis .lake. Davis creek and upper Deschutes river if weather conditions do not change; for hunters with special tags for the alfalfa spe cial deer season which opens Dec. 3 prospects fairly good in forest fringe area aDove tne Arnold ditcn southeast of Bend and in the jumper breaks in the Six Corners area 10 miles east of Bend; not many deer moving into the area at present but more ex pected as winter conditions become more vigorous. -SOl'THWESX: Waterfowl hunting at Summer lake management area un imnrovprf wntpr still fre from ice: very few geese in area; few more ducks are in the area than last week but shooting remains poor; in Mal heur county Snake river fair to good e for jump shooting ducks and fair with decoys in early morning or late evening: Malheur river fair to good for jump shooting and fair with de coys; Willow creek fair to good for jump shooting; flights of ducks come and leave depending on weather; lots of gpse reported in Jordan valley UCLA Gridders Pick John Witte Los Angeles (U.R) John Witte, Oregon State tackle, today was named to the all-opponent team of UCLA, PCC champions. Witte will get a free trip here Friday, Dec. 9, to be a guest of UCLA at its junior prom. Use Tribune Want Ads fir 1 AAU Heads Clear Way For San tee . Louisville, Ky. (U.R) The Amateur Athletic union, which opened its annual convention here today to determine coaches and trial dates for the United States Olympic teams cleared the way for mile star . Wes San tee to take part in the; 1956 games. The AAU allowed the 10-day period for . lodging protests against the clearing of Santee on professionalism charges to pass Wednesday without action AAU President Louis G. Wilke of Bartlesville, Okla., said no protest had been received against the clearing of America's top miler by the board of man agers of the Missouri Valley as-sociation. Santee was suspended by the local registration group last June for allegedly accepting ex cessive expense allowances while competing in California track events. . Kelly Chosen The. AAU Track and Field committee named James Kelly, track coach atQthe University of Minnestoa, as head coach of the Olympic track team, subject to approval by the AAU Board of Governors. Named assistants to Kelly were Robert Giegengack of Yale and Frank Anderson of Texas A&M. qJess Mortenson of the University of Southern Califor nia was named team manager and Ralph Higgins of Oklahoma A&M and Major Robert Ingle of Army Special Services at Wash ington were named assistant managers. Final' trials for the Olympic track team will be held at Los Angeles, June 29-30. Three qualifying meets will also be held: The NCAA at Berkeley? Calif., June 15-16; the AAU na tional championships at a jjate to be determined by the conven tion; and the all-service finals at Los Angeles, June 15-16. MtlRtCAS nJ 8TRA1GH. BOCRBO ft SUPERB WHISKEY WORTHY OF A GREAT NAME! TAKE A BOTTLE HOME TODAY! : America's Finest Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof Distributed by: Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Inc.. New York Joseph's, (Pa.) Alabama, ranked No. 15 and apparently Ken tucky's biggest rival in the South-eastern Conference, opens against Jacksonville State. And Southern Methodist, No. 18 na tionally and title choice in the Southwest Conference, faces North Texas State. Other majog rules to be given their first showing involve stall ing andfouling. The rule designed to prevent stalling calls for a "held ball" if a "closely guarded" player in possession of the ball does not pass or shoot within five seconds. The rule on fouling wipes out the previous "three-minute rule" which called for two free throws on every personal foul in - the last three minutes of the game. The free throw rule now is the same for all 40 minutes one shot on common personal fouls and a "bonus" shot if that one is made; two shots on fouls in the act of shooting. OSC Cagers Ranked 18th New York (U.R) Oregon State, defending Pacific Coast Conference champion, has been ranked 18th nationally in the pre-season basketball ratings by the United . Press board . of coaches. - The Beavers, who lost to first ranked San Francisco in NCAA regional playoffs, were tied with Southern Methodist. Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 Look Shows Glick Choice o Logical One By EARL WRIGHT United Press Sports Writer A glance at the National Foot ball league standings indicates that Pittsburgh's choice of Gary Glick of Colorado A&M as the bonus' choice during this week's draft of college players was more logical than surprising. Glick, a quarterback who re ceived little national publicity until the draft, is noted for his defensive ability. Defense has decided the NFL division and league championships In recent years and figures to be the key to success again this year. The Cleveland Browns, Wash ington Redskins, Chicago Cardi nals and New York Giants cur rently rank 1-2-34 in the Eastern Division. They also have given up the fewest points. The Pitts burgh Steelers and Philadelphia tagles-, bring up the rear. They also have allowed the most points. Pittsburgh has allowed more points than any other team in the division, 227. Same In West It's the same story in the Western Division. The Los An geles Rams, Chicago Bears and Baltimore Colts, who rank 1-2-3, have given up the fewest points. The Green Bay Packers, Detroit Lions and San Francisco Forty Niners hold the last three places and have allowed the most points. The general ignoring of the 1955 cojlegiate All-America play ers in the first three rounds of the NFL draft this week wasn't too surprising, either. In the last five seasons, only two backs who made United Press All-America teams were on clubs that played in the NFL championship. They were quar terback Bobby Layne of Texas and halfback Doak Walker of Southern Methodist, both of whom play pro football for the Detroit Lions.' Browns Hold Record ' The champion Cleveland Browns who have appeared in the NFL championship game a record five straight times, ac complished the feat with a stout defense and no All-American backs. Otto Graham, Cleveland's star J passer, probaJj will get most ofpthe publicity Sunday at Pitts burgh but . Brownie - defense backs Warren Lahr, Ken Konzj Tommy James, John Petitbon and Den Paul will play equally important r roles. The Browns (7-2-1) are picked to defeat the Steelers (4-6.) Other selections with won-lost-tied records in parenthesis: Rams (6-3-1) over Colts (5-4-1) at Los Angeles; Bears 6-4) over Lions (3-7) at Chicago; Giants (4-5-1) over Redskins (7-3) at Washington; Forty-Niners (3-7) over Packers (5-5? at San Fran cisco; Eagles (3-6-1) over Cardi nals (4-5-1) at Philadelphia. Small, Fast Court Crew o At Talent Talent Talent high will rely on a small fast aggregation this season to defend the Jackson County B League basketball championship it has won for the past two years. The Bulldogs have more let- termen on their squad than any of the other league members but only two of them have earned more than one hoop monogram. Long term veteran is Jack Bar rett, a three-year letterman sen ior, who was a regular as a soph omore and junior. Mel Wallace, a junior two-year letterman, was a part-time regular last year. A bad knee kept Barrett side lined much of last season but he's going full blast now. Other lettermen are Gordv Thoreson, Ray Weinhold and Gary Combs, seniors; Fred Helm, and Ron Weinhold, juniors, and Bob Hoffman, sophomore. Others being counted on now for var sity service are Eldon McGarity, ii-ioot rf-mcn senior with no ex perience, Phil Combs, sopho more and Terry Hazelton, junior, whfpwas at Talent as a freshman but attended Eugene high last year. Thoreson Hampered Thoreson is still hamnered bv a knee injury suffered in0 Ameri can Legion junior baseball but later on is expected to be push ing for a starting spot. A possible starting five pres- ently for Talent is Barrett and Ray Weinhold, forwards; Gary combs, center, and among Helm, Hoffman and Wallace, guards. Coach George Bray has reported tremendous competition for starting berths and said that any player might be moved out by almost any other player in at least threSe positions. McGarity and Hazelton are the only 6-footers on the squad. Hazelton is aif even 6 feet. Bar rett is 5-11 and Ray Weinhold and Gary Combs each 5-10. Georgia Tech Will Ignore Negro Issue Atlanta - (U.R) Georgia Tech will ignore a protest by influential segregation support ers aeainst the Sugar bowl game with Pittsburgh, which' has a Negro player. "Our boys voted to play in the Sugar bowl and we will not break our contract, especially since Georgia and Tech have played against Negroes before and there has been no criticism" a spokesman said. If Pitt uses second - string fullback Bobby Grier he will be the first Negro to play in a Sugar bowl football game but mixed athletics in other sports is not new to New Orleans. Neither Sugar bowl nor Tech officials placed any racial con ditions in their post-season game contract and Pitt's Negro player attracted little attention until the protest was issued yesterday. The executive committee of the States' Rights Council of Georgia, Inc., with membership including one member of the State Board of Regents, sent its protest to Georgia Tech Coach Bobby Dodd. Dodd declined to comment publicly but the spokesman said Tech considered the matter to be "the Sugar bowl committee's business they make the invitations." Collegiate Hoop Quints Open Action Most of Oregon's college bas ketball teams swing into action this week. Top game on the list is the Friday night contest at Eugene between Oregon and Oregon State. This is a non-conference af fair, but is expected to provide plenty of interest as the two teams don't meet in PCC compe tition until late in the season. Portland University and Port land State meet in Portland and Eastern Oregon play's Whitman a ,La Grande in games tonight to get the season started. On Friday night, Portland State, Pacific, .Lewis and Clark and College of Puget Sound meet in the first of a two-night tourna ment. Olympic JC meets the Oregon reserves at Eugene tonight and Oregon Tech at Klamath Falls Friday night. Willamette travels to Spokane to play Whitworth Friday night and Gonzaga Saturday night. Linfield opens its new gym Saturday nighPagainst Portland U. EOCE travels to Nampa for a game with Northwest Nazarene Eight Games On Prepster Cage Menu High schools in Oregon make the transition from foot ball io basketball this week end. Two jamborees highlight the maplecouri start in south ern Oregon and 10 hoop club of Jackson county will be in volved in at least eight regu lar games. Jackson County B League clubs get the season underway tonight with their annual jam boree on the St. Mary's high school floor here. Southern Oregon Conference schools have their "jam" session on Friday night at Klamath Falls. Four full scale conflicts are billed also for 'Friday night and four games will be played on Saturday night by teams of this area. 0 SM Opposes IV St Mary's will be host to the Illinois Valley Cougars "on Friday night and on the fol lowing evening the two aggre gations will meet at Cave Junction. Rogue River will go io Eagle Point tomorrow night tmd will be host to the Eagles on Saturday. Other Friday encounters are Phoenix at Glendale and Prospect at Butte Falls. Crater owill bow-into action on Satur day night as host to Crescent City, Calif., at Central Point. Talent will play at Ashland. St. Mary's will be minus two players. Gerald Darland, student body president, and Ron Pruiti, vice-president, will be in Portland on Friday and Saturday attending a session of student officers of Catholic schools. However, Coach Mil lard Webb reported that Jerry Flakus, 6-5 sophomore, has begun to work out. A concus sion suffered during football season prevented earlier turn out. 0 The jamboree is Medford high's only action this week end. Wide Open Scramble Among Pros For Pass Reception Championship Philadelphia) (U.R) The in dividual passing and rushing i races remained unchanged after the 10th round of play in the Na tional Football League but the pass reception, championship is a wide i open scramble. Rookie Alan Ameche of Balti more clung, to the rushing lead today with 867 yards in 185 carries, a total of 99 yards more than second place Howie Fergu son of Green Bay. Otto Graham of the Cleveland Browns, who held the passing lead by a fraction of an inch over Ed Brown of the Chicago Bears last week, widened his gap as a result of a brilliant performance against the New York Giants. Graham held a 9.36-yard average gain for each of the 148 passes he threw. Brown had an 8.65-yard average for 143. ; Billy Wilson of San Francisco took the completion lead with a total of 44 for 728 yards. Wil son, co-champion last year, was tied for fourth last week. In the reception shuffle, Tom Fears of Los Angeles, was bumped out of first place with 43 completions, and 1954 -co- champion Pete Pihos of the Phil adelphia Eagles jumped '.from seventh into a third . place tie with Dave Middleton of De troit, each with 41. : Hill Leads TDs Harlon Hill of the Bears, fifth ! in pass receptions with 39, leads in touchdowns with eight and in yards gained with 741. Fred Morrison of the Browns ranked third in rushing, with defending champion Joe Perry of San Francisco fourth and Frank Rogel of Pittsburgh fifth. Bobby Thomason of the Eagles stepped into third place in the passing race, pushing Y. A. Tittle of the Forty-Niners to fourth. Tittle and Tobin Rote of Green Bay lead in touchdown passes with 14 each, and Jim Finks "of Pittsburgh leads in yards gained with 2,004. Doak Walker of Detroit, with 87 points, held a six-point lead over Vic Janowicz of Washington in scoring, and Norm Van Brock- Iin continued as tnr leading punter with a 44.8 average, a mark of 1.3 yards better than second place Adrian Burk of the Eagles." ' Ollie Matson of the Chicago Cardinals moved up front in. punt retinsj) Al Carmichael of Green Bay is the leader in kick- off returns and Willard Sher man of Los Angeles leads in in terceptions with nine. Pesky To Skipper Carolina Team Columbus, O. (U.R) Johnny Pesky, a native Portlander who was a player-coach at Denver last season, yesterday was named manager 'of the Durham, N.C. club of the class B Carolina League. Charlotte, UN. C. (U.R) ... George Barclay's contract as head football coach at the Uni versity of North Carolina will not be renewed according to a report -in theCharlotte Observer. Barclay's three-year contract ex pires Jan. 1. Most frequently mentioned as Barclay's successor is Jim Tatum, who currently is head coach at the University of Maryland. Fishing Success To Depend Upon Water Clearness Portland (U.R) The" weekly report on fishing conditions pre pared by the State Game Com mission: Southwest: Streams of central Douglas county high and roily. Angling possibilities are poor al though many steelhead are in the Umpqua fiver. Good runs of bright fish are in the Grants Pass to Galice sec tion of the Rogue river, but the success will depend upon clear ness of the (water. Staters Select Miss Basketball Corvallis (U.R) Joan Nor man, member of the Oregon State rally squad, has been named "Miss OSC Basketball" and will be entered in a contest which could result in a free trip to the Dixie basketball tourna ment at Raleigh, N. C. , Miss Norman's picture will be entered along with those of con testants from the seven other schools taking part in the tourn ament Dec. 29-31. Highway Officials Going io New Orleans Salem ffl.R) The Oregon Highway Department will be represented by four of its top of ficialsat a meeting of the Ameri can Association of State High way Officials in New Orleans, La.o R. H. Baldock, state highway engineer and a member of the association's executive commit tee, will leave Wednesday night by plane to attend pre-session committee meetings. Baldock said proposed federal aid for highways will be onS) of the main subjects up for dis- itcussion. Other Oregon officials who will attend the meetings are W. W. Stiffier and G. S. Paxson, assistant state highway en gineers, and C. W. Enfield, chief counsel for the highway commission. Baker (U.R) Distribution of natural gas by Cascade Natural Gas Corporation is scheduled for July 1 for Baker consumers. Company engineers are due to begin a survey of the distribu tion system in about two weeks. 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