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Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribun Sportt Editor It doesn't ;eem to be realized generally Hereabouts that the Southern Oregon Conference will send two of its four teams to the state A-l high school basketball tournament in March. That's how it will be despite the fact that the conference, made tip of Medford, Klamath Falls, Ashland and Grants Pass, forms the smallest district in the state. Holding of a separate A-2 tourney this year cuts down on the number of schools gunning for the annual trip to Eugene. However, the A-l tourney will remain a 16-team event. The December issue of the Oregon School Activities association bul letin outlines the basis for team selection. A-l schools have been divided into eight districts, the same as the A-2s and Bs. However, Dis tricts 1 and 2, composed of the eight Portland Interscholastic Leaeue clubs will send a com bir total of three tearos. With one exceptiorVjeach c the other six districts will qualify two teams. The exception is that third-place teams of District 5 4?-d 8 will play off for the rijjht to be the 16th team in the tournament. Southern Oregon Conference schools are in District 6. The four-team circuit is expected to expand to five next year with , the addition of Crater, which is still in A-2 category this year. Next smallest to District 6 in size are Districts 3, 5 and 7 with six schools each. ... with the winner to meet the northern division champ. In the other subdistrict are Myr tle Creek, Sutherlin, Coquille, Myrtle Point, Glandale, Ban don and Douglas. BIG SCHOOL EMPHASIS The A-2s will have an eight team state tournament at Salem and the Bs will con tinue with that number in their titular affair which this T&ar will Te at Baker. The emphasis still continues with the big schftls of the state. With just 46 schools vying for state tourney participation it appears a bit odd that the A-ls- have a IS-team tourna ment while the A-2s, number ing 7C, must do with an eight school play-off. Yet, tourney income appears to be a most .important consideration and the A-l affair looms as the certain money maker. There's also the fact that the Bs have "got along witl an eight-team ruckus for a good number of years without any loud or per sistent wailing that they have been slighted. CHALLENGE FAVORED The A-2 championship trophy won't mean as much fh the eyes of the public a.O the A-l hard ware. We'd still like to see right of challenge for a play-off be tween the two champs. It's pos sible in basketball where it isn't in football, baseball or track. teaQs LISTED In District 6 A-2 southern di vision are Crater, Eagle Point, Illinois Valley, Phoenix. Hen ley and Brookings. These clubs have dheir subdistrict torney at Central Point the last -week-end in February Al Lightner, sports editor of the Oregon Statesman, Salem, has this comment on how tough state champion Marshfield found Medford in the Oregon high school football quarterfinals: "The tougest team the Pi rates faced all season? We asked this of some of the showering athletes following Friday night's finale. With out the semblance of a hesita tion the answer was 'Medford.' The Pirates downed Fred Spie gelberg's Tornado, 20-6, in the quarterfinals, but it was a rousing battle, one that we saw and one that saw Medford give the Coos Bay clan a real go. . ." Not mentioned previously in dope on last Thursday's Jackson County B League jamboree was that the cage event serves as a' laboratory for referees. Eleven arbiters in all, most of them in the novice class, saw duty, pair ing off to work the six periods. Virgil Swanson, commissioner of refs for this area, was on the sidelines observing. RECTOR SHINES Frank Rector, second team all-state basketball player at Medford high last season, scored 15 points last week in a University of Portland fresh man victory over the Portland State college rookies. Bob Pettit Takes Over NBA Scoring New York (U.R) Bob Pettit, 6-foot, 9-inch former LSU star, took over the scoring leadership in the National Basketball Assn. today with an average of 24.4 points a game. The St. Louis Hawks' star wrestled the lead . from Clyde Lovellete of - the Minneapolis Lakers by scoring 129 points in five games last week, including a 40-point outburst against the Philadelphia Warriors. He now has a total of 341 points in 14 games. Lovellette, who has played 16 games, dropped to second place with a total of 338 points and an average of 21.1 per contest: Oth ers who are averaging 20 or more points a game are Ed Mac Cauley of the Boston Celtics, 22.3 and the Warriors' Paul Ari zin and Neil Johnson, who are averaging 22.1 and 21.9 points respectively. FIGHTS New York (St. Nicks) Peter Muller, 157, Germany, outpointed Ray Drake, 159 3A, New York, (10). Providence, R.I. Gene But ler, la9, Boston, outpointed Curly Monroe, 138V4, Worcest er, Mass., (10). . Iti s o Tourney Victors Play Rogue River Tornado Jayvees Medford hig school's junior 9arsity basketball team sees its first action on Wednesday night when it oppes the Rogue River varsity. The game will be at Rogue River. Grants Pass freshmen will play the Chieftain junior varsity. Coach Bob Newland is now carrying a squad of 25 players on the junior Tornado of Med ford. Of the group 15 are soph omores. He reigrted that ' posi tions on the club are still wide open. i! CUT-RATE TICKETS New York (U.R) Iona col lege announced today that a to tal of 2,000 tickets for each of its six home "basketball games this season will be0sold at cut-rate prices to patrons who buy a specified amounts of groceries at a chain qfe neighboring super markets The plan is similar to one used successfully by Villan ova during the 1954 football sea son. Q REGIONAL TSYOUTS Los Angeles (U.R) Twenty regional tryout tournaments in addition to four in the armed forces will be held to select the make-up of the Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling teams which will represent the United States in the 1956 Olympic games. Finalists in eight weight classes will be chosen in the national finals starting at Los Angeles on May 1. $40,000 TOURNEY Washington (U.R) The third annual 840,000 Sponsors Golf tournament will be held at San Diego, Calif., next Octob er and its organizing commit- tee edicts that "every leading golf professional in the country" ,-cwill participate in it. Basketball Referees Meeting Wednesday A meeting of basketball ref erees of the Rogue Valley area will be held . at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday at Hedrick junior high school here. Referees' Commissioner Virgil Swanson said that assignments for fu ture games will be given. Dis cussion will include problems which have come up in the first few games. Heavyweight Bouts Top Portland Show Portland U.R) Two eight round heavyweight bouts top to night's boxing card at the Civic auditorium here. Irish Pat McMurtry; of Taco- ma meets Jimmy Walls, Ber muda heavyweight king in one bout while Johnny Arthur, South African heavyweight champ, faces Billy Wallace of New Westminster, B.C., in the other. There will be three other bouts. WITHDRAW TEAM Lancaster, Pa. (U.R) Or ganized baseball seemed doom ed here today when the Kansas City Athletics announced they were withdrawing all affiliation with the Lancaster club of the Piedmont league. Kansas City farm director Henry Peters said the move was made because of the "doubtful operation of the Pied"iont league next year." BLAMES 'ADULT DRINKING' Chicopee, Mass. (U.R) Bill Moge, coach of Chicopee High school, blamed some of the prob lems facing today s teen-agers on "adult drinking" at football games but conceded it was a small minority which was re sponsible for "this shameful practice." ' Use Tribune Want Ads &&&& & A ABOUT FACE! Green Bay Packer guard Len Szafaryn (68) ends up upside down as he tries to block a punt by 49er halfback Bobby Luna (left) in pro game at Keza'r Stadium in San Francisco. On the right is 49er fullback Bud Laughlin (36). The Packers won, 28-7. Club Owners Talk Trade, No Transactions Made Chicago (U.R) There was more "spieling" than "dealing" today at the major league meet ings where club owners talked for hours about big trades, but brought forth nothing in the way of even a minor transaction. , The Chicago White Sox, Cleveland Indians and Baltimore Orioles still had a triangle deal on the fire and Manager Marty Marion of Chicago said "it looks pretty hot." Marion spent Monday after noon talking with Manager Al Lopez of Cleveland and said "I know he wants what' we're of fering and we like what he has for us." Marion then went out in the company of John Rigney, the White Sox vice president, in the hopes that General Manager Paul Richards of Baltimore could be talked into completing the deal. Speculation On Deal The speculation on the deal was that the White Sox would come out with pitcher Ray Moore from Baltimore and catcher Hal Naragon from Cleve land. Cleveland has been casting sheep's eyes at Chicago first Jones JC Heads For Junior Rose Bowl Ellisville, Miss. (U.R) Jones Junior College's unbeaten foot ball squad headed for Pasadena, Calif., today to face a racially integrated team in the Junior Rose Bowl Saturday. A 37-membertraveling squad, three student managers and three coaches were to board a plane in Jackson during the morning to fly to California to keep the post-season date which pro-segregation critics said should have been cancelled. Unbeaten Compton, Calif.,. Junior College, Saturday's host team, has eight Negro players on its roster but Jones officials de cided to make the appearance and set up rules governing fu ture policy on "matters of this type." . Boyd Named Head Coach at Baylor Waco, Tex. (U.R) Baylor university's football fortunes were entrusted today to big Sam Boyd, a Baylor end in the late 30s with a reputation as coach for whom the boys "will play their hearts out." Boyd was named yesterday as successor to the veteran George Sauer, who becomes ath letic director at the Baptist school. NINE GAMES West Point, N.Y. (U.R) Army's 1956 football team will play a nine-game schedule that features Pittsburgh, VMI, and William and Mary as new faces. Army's other opponents will be Penn State, Michigan, Syracuse, Columbia, Colgate and Navy. JtCANADAW MtRICAS F!NE" STRAIGHT BOIBBO" YOU'LL LOVE IT! TAKE A BOTTLE HOME TODAY! America's Finest Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey ' 6 Years Old -86 Proof Distributed by : Conocfa Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., New York sacker Walt Dropo. Dropo is a power hitter and might "be the answer to replacing Vic Wertz, who is said to be retiring even though he has recovered from his polio attack. The Yankees put the quietus on a deluxe 15-man deal with Washington in which they were supposed tq have gotten eight Senator players, mostly veterans, for seven Yankee kids, all sec ond stringers. However, President Calvin Griffith of the Senators said he hoped a deal could be made. J. P. Wagner Of Baseball Fame Dies Pittsburgh CU.R) John Peter (Honus) Wagner, whose iron man exploits with the Pitts burgh Pirates made him base ball's "greatest shortstop of all time," died early today at his home in nearby Carnegie at the age of 81. The famed "Flying Dutch man" died in his sleep at 12:56 a.m. At his bedside were his wife Bessie, his daughter-in-law, brother-in-law and other inti mates of the family. Wagner, who had been ill in recent years, made his last pub: lie appearance April 30 when he attended the unveiling of an 18-foot, 40-ton bronze statue erected in his honor just beyond the left field wall at Forbes Field. He had been bedridden since last September when he injured his hip in a fall at his home. The Hall of Fame hero with the peculiar bowlegged stance was one of baseball s legendary figures. He led the National League in batting eight times and was a .300-plus hitter for 17 straight seasons. He set rec ords which are still intact and at which players have been aim ing in vain for nearly half a century. 18 Season Honus spent 18 full seasons with the Pirates after coming here from Louisville in 1900. He starred in 100 or more games for both Louisville and Pitts burgh for 19 years. Although one of baseball's greatest players and top draw ing cards, he never got more than $10,000 a year for his services. During his spectacular ca reer, Wagner stole 720 bases, paced the National League in extra base hits seven years, led in triples five years and was first in doubles eight seasons. He played in 2,785 games, post ed a .329 lifetime batting ave- Tuesday, December 6. 1955 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Phoenix Beats NG Crew, 59-39 Phoenix pushed into a tie for first place in the Medford Inde pendent Basketball League standings last night while the YMCA nabbed lone hold on third position. The Phoenix crew whacked Company A of the National Guard 59 to 39 to knot with Prospect at the head of the cir cuit with two wins and no set backs. YMCA edged Hawkinson Tire Tread 48 to 45 for its sec ond win in three games. Joe Fenton led the Phoenix team with 17 counters. Max Hite had 13 and Keith Thompson 11. Joe Nolan scored 12 for the Guard and Jim Higinbotham 10. Halftime score wars 25 to 17 for Phoenix. Bob Serak of Hawkinson's was high with 18 in the contest with the Y. LaRue Smith scored 16 for the victors and Thompson had 10. YMCA's halftime mar gin was 23 to 18. LINE-UPS: YMCA 48 45 Hawkinson's Davis 8 f 4 F. Johnson Wooton 3 f 18 Serak Denman 2 . c 3 Wallace Rodgers 2 g 4 J. Johnson Thompson 10 g 4 D. Johnson Substitutions For YMCA. J. Sin gler 2. Smith 16. Niles, Mintz. Weber, Soderlund 5; for Hawkinson's. Cav anaugh 8. Nichols 2. L. Johnson 2. Phoenix 59 39 Companv A Furry 6 f 10 Higinbotham Yarnell 2 f 12 Nolan Thompson 11 c 2 Trautman Schmelzer 7 g 8 Snook Kite 13 g 4 D. Burns Substitutions For Phoenix. Fen ton 17, Bertrand 3. Madden; for Com pany A. Mclntyre 3, Saxbury, Van Horn, Spry. ' rage, made 4.320 putouts and 5,664 assists. He had only 612 errors for a .943 fielding average during his 21-year major league career. SAVE MONEY We Use Flat Rate on Repair Work. INTERNATIONAL HARVESTER Company, Located in Cullen Building, 2232 Biddle Rd. Portland U.R) If you can't fight 'em, join 'em. Fight pro moter Tex Salkeld said today he is installing television sets in the auditorium Tuesday so ear ly comers to the Pat McMurtry- Jimmy Walls, heavysveight bout can watch the $64,000 Question. 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