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).
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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.
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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." '
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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.
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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.
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