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'- f 4 f ? I " If BACK WITH CLOWNS Ed (Rookie) Carter, above, is back with the Harlem Clowns after a hitch in the Army. The 6Joot 2-inch hoopman, came directly to the Clowns out of high school after being an All-Chicago selec tion. He played with the club two seasons before entering the service. Carter will be seen on Thursday night by southern Ore gon fans. The Clowns meet Yel low Cab at Crater high gym at Central Point. Three Stars Return to Clown Club Three great stars of the Har lem Clowns basketball team of 1952-53 are back in the line up tgis year after having spent a couple of seasons with0 Uncle Sam's mighty squad, the Army. Manager Al (Sunt) Pullins is happy to announce 'that he has Ed (Rookie) Carter, George Moore and Bob Woods back in uniform. The Clowns play the Yellow Cat) Independent quintet at 8 1 p.m. Thursday at the Crater high gym at Central Point. Moore, of New York City is the smallest active player on the iquad at an even 6 feet in height and weighing 170 pounds. He first came to the Clowns in 1951 from Lincoln university. He is a superb showman and tricky ball handler and a "dead eye" eet shot artist. Edward Carter, the "rookie" of the 1951-52 ball club, is 6 feet 2 Inches and weighs 175 povflhds. He came direct out. of high school t the team, played two seasons and then went Into the Army where he was a star oa service teams. Carter may develcti into the star of this year's club. Natural Comlo Bob Woods, 6-5, weighing 225 pounds, was a track, football and basketball star at McCly- monds high school In Oakland, Calif., and played at Modesto junior college before joining the Clowns. He played one season and then went into the Army. Big Bob Is a natural comic and is leading the laugh par ade thisQeason for Pullins' Hil arious Harlequins. TKe team is a virtual power house. Ralph Hayes, 6-69 weigh ing 2t)0, played college ball at Niagara university. Manny Kennedy, 6-3, weigh ing 180, v(& an outstanding play er 'at Iona college. Al Sutton, 6-3, weight 185, was a great star at Cal-Poly, San Luis Obispo, Calif., before joining the Clowns. New Mexico's overall area of iffcrest laads is currently esti- on nnn nrm (CreS" WHAT WHISKEY! YOU'LL LOVE IT! TAKE A BOTTLE HOME TODAY! MmiacH STRAHi? BOlRBO America's Finest Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old -86 Proof Distributed fay: I Canada Dry Ginger flU, int., New York J SIPCMTS Seventh Ranked Holy Cross Loses To Alabama, 89-84 By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Alabama's surprise - studded northern tour, which already has jolted the national basket ball ratings twice, created an other upheaval today with an 89-84 upset of Holy Cross. It all started last Wednesday when Alabama, ranked seventh nationally and hailed as a pow er after winning the Blue-Gray tournament, visited North Caro lina. The Tide was favored, but Carolina showed stunning pow er in a 99-77 rout and moved up to the No. 8 national rank ing. On Saturday, in New York, Alabama was upset again, by Sports Broadcasts Radio stations KYJC and KMED will air the Medford Roseburg high school basket ball game tonight while sta tion KWIN will carry the Southern Oregon college Humboldt Stale college con test. Season Tickets For New Gym Available Now Basketball fans may now pur chase their tickets for season re served seats for Medford senior high basketball at Hedrick jun ior high gym. Persons who have already bought season tickets and used them for the first four games of the Black Tornado home sched ule may have them exchanged for seats at Hedrick. Office at the senior high school is open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Friday for purchase or exchange of the ducats. Starting next Friday Hedrick's spacious gym will serve as home court for the senior high Tor nado. Medford will play Rose burg. Failure of baskets to arrive prevented the senior high to be gin play earlier at Hedrick. Seating for 1.800 persons will be available for Friday night's contest. It will include room for 1,600 on bleachers.. More seats of temporary na ture can be added should the Tornado be involved in any big play-off contests here. Ca pacity at the senior high gym is approximately . 1,400. Hedrick Wins 3 Games at EP Hedrick Junior high school teams won three victories over Eagle Point teams at Eagle Point last night. Hedrick ninth graders, leading 24 to 16 at half time, went on to hand Eagle Point freshmen a 42 to 28 defeat in the three-game basketball program. John Harvey led the ninth graders of Hedrick by scoring 13 points, while Don Peak and Bill Maurer contributed 9 and 8, respectively. Collins with seven points was high for Eagle Point. Hedrick's eighth graders handed EP's eighth graders a 49 to 20 loss, led by the scoring of Jerry Anderson, who tallied 17 points. Eagle Point's Nease con tributed 10 points. Hedrick was leading 25 to 8 at halftime. The local seventh graders posted a 31 to 21 victory, pulling away in the second half from a 15-12 halftime lead. Bob Mcln- tyre and Stan Dawson scored 10 and 9 points for Hedrick and Predue and Weidmen tallied 6 and 5 for Eagle Point. Phoenix Wins 84-64, in MIL The Phoenix Merchants, be hind the 27-point scoring of Fen ton, handed Butte Falls an 84 to 64 defeat in Medford Independ ent Basketball league play last night. Phoenix got off to a 51-33 half time lead, after taking the lead early in the game by using the fast break. T. Yarnell added 12 points for Phoenix' second highest scorer, and Abbott dumped in 16 for Butte Falls. Phoenix is to meet Prospect at Phoenix next Wednesday in a non-league tilt. LINE-IPS: Phoenix 85 64 Butte Falls Fenton 27 f - 8 Casev Madden 7 f 1 J. Moore Thompson 10 c 8 Shoich Furry 4 g is Abbott T. Yamell 18 g 6 Cooley Substitutions: For Phoenix. Schmel zer. 12. and L. Yarnell 8: for Butte FaUs. Brown 2. D. Moore 12. Bartlett 9. Tienshaw, Tygard 2. Didlard and Smith. REFUSES TO REPORT New York (U.R) Ivan Irvin, veteran New York Ranger de fenseman, has refused to report to Providence in the American Hockey league, Manager Muzz Patrick said today. Irvin was de moted to Providence late last week on waivers following a ma jor shakeup in the Ranger lineup. St. John's, 87-79. Monday night in Boston un beate Holy Cross, ranked sev enth nationally, was a heavy choice but this time it was Ala bama's turn to surprise. George Linn paced the Tide in an opening assault that notched 24 points in the first 10 minutes. Alabama led by eight at half time and 14 early in the second half. Holy Cross cut the gap to 64-62 with five minutes left, but a six-point string by 'Bama kill ed the Crusader rally. Kentucky Hosts Tourney Kentucky, Alabama's big riv al for the Southeastern Confer ence championship, plays host in the Kentucky Invitational Tournament opening tonight at Lexington, Ky., and Wildcats find themselves in the unusual role of underdog. Kentucky, ranked ninth, is a slight pick over Minnesota in one of tonight's games, but ex perts figure the winner of the other opening-rqund game will win tlie tournament title. That one matched Utah, the nation's No. 2 team, against fourth-ranked Dayton. The Carousel tournament at Charlotte, N.C., reached the semi-final stage today with the title choice Wake Forest meet ing Colgate in a night game and Clemson meeting Tennessee in the day time. In opening round games Mon day night: Wake Forest trounc ed Mississippi St., 95-68; Ten nessee nipped Boston univer sity, 80-77; Colgate drubbed Da idson, 88-51; and Clemson routed Florida St., 94-76. Illinois Routs DePaul Illinois, ranked 11th nation lly', scored an impressive 97-79 victory over De Paul at Cham paign, 111. In other leading games Mon day night: Ohio States, ranked 16th, downed Tulane, 72-66; Du quesne, tied for 16th, bounced back from two straight .losses to whip Loyola (Calif.), 71-55; Vanderbilt, ranked 19th, troun ced Georgia, 85-61; Indiana, ranked 20th, routed Cincinnati, 80-61; Missouri took an 81-57 win over Idaho; Wisconsin won 71-52 from Nebraska; Rice ran its record to 7-0 with a 75-66 upset of Kansas; Iowa State won over Colorado A&M, 72-60; vis iting Dartmouth nearly blew a 20-point lead .but beat Southern California, 61-57; visiting Calif ornia downed Arizona, 84-74; Manhattan edged Connecticut in overtime, 85-84; and Florida nip ped Miami (Ela.), 74-69. Trabert Heads To Even Score With Gonzales Oakland, Calif. (U.R) Tony Trabert will be out to even the score with Pancho Gonzales to night when the two men meet for the sixth match of Jack Kra mer's all-star professional tennis tour. Tonight's contests will be a benefit performance for the Northern California Tennis as sociation's junior development program. r Last night Trabert, U. S. na tional singles champion, in 1955, gained ground on Gonzales with a 6-3, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5 victory at the San Francisco Civic auditorium. Gonzales leads in the series, 3-2, but Trabert has won two of three West Coast matches. The Cincinnati flash is battling Gon zales for a- $25,000 bonus at the end of their 100-city tour. In the first match last night, Pancho Segura continued his mastery over Australian Davis cup sta r Rex Hartwig with an 8-E "pro-set" victory. Segura leads 5-0. In doubles play, Trabert and Hartwig downed Segura and Gonzales, 5-7, 6-2, 6-3, to take a 3-2 lead in the series. Younger To Miss Game on Monday Los Angeles (U.R) The Los Angeles Rams will go against Cleveland in next Monday's Na tional football league champ ionship game minus Paul (Tank) Younger, their first string full back. Younger was declared out of the game yesterday because of a hairline crack of a neck ver tebrae. Younger had been com plaining of a sore neck since the Rams' final game with the Green Bay Packers, but x-rays failed to show the cause of the injury until yesterday. The fracture itself was min or but if Younger played against Cleveland he could suffer ser ious injury if hit in the same place and might be permanently hurt, said team physician Dr. Danny Fortman. Meanwhile, Ram Coach Sid Gillman said he would start Dea con Dan Towler in Younger's position. - Texas Death Mix At Grants Pass Grants Pass First "Texas Death Match" to be held in Ore gon is scheduled Wednesday evening when Kurt von Poppen heim ad Wild Bull Savage crawl into the wrestling ring at the Josephine county fair grounds, according to Promoter Elton Owen. There is no time limit, winner take all, no disqualification, and the man who wins is the one who can answer the bell when his opponent is unable to con tinue whether it takes one fall or twenty. This bitter rivalry between the two roughest guys in the Northwest wrestling came to a head last week in a bloody match at the fairgrounds. Both men were counted out and the match declared "no contest." In the battle outside of the ring Bull Sanage hit Poppenheim with a chair and cut hi3 head open. The Grants Pass Com mission warned Savage that from now on any wrestler who picks up a chair will be fined and possibly suspended. Jealous Both of these men are jealous of each other and they are both vying for top TV honors in the Portland area. Savage is very fast for a big man and his youth could help him. Owen has assigned ex-boxer Alec Perez to referee. The one hour semi will see dynamic Thor Hagen, the Swede from Minnesota trying to con tinue his winning ways against the veteran Scotty .Williams. Hagen won a great match last week over Alec Perez. Hagen has developed a giant swing that leaves his opponents help less. Annual tournament of the Medford Bowling association will be ' held during January. Team events have been sched uled for the regular league nights for the first week of the month to avoid conflicts for members. All doubles and singles are slated for the four Sundays of January with three shifts each day, unless that number are not required. Participants may place themselves on the schedule board at the bar when they turn in their applications at the desk to Buz Green or Bob Lane. More Than One Team Bowlers may participate on more than one team if no more than two of any five vie togeth er on any team. The association has bought permanent trophies, on which names of winners will be placed each year, for all events except singles. The Mann trophy is the award for that event. Individual trophies will be provided by the lane's management if a team, singles, and doubles entries are 315 E. 5th St. Bowling Welterweights -May Fight Again In Late January New York (U.R) Carmine Fiore and Gene Poirer, two wel terweight "quick-bleeders," will meet in a return TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena, Jan. 30, if time heals the wounds suffer ed last night while fighting to a bloody draw at St. Nick's. Left-hooker Fiore of Brooklyn said today, "I'll be ready for Jan. 30. I didn't even need any stitches." Carmine suffered a cut on his left brow in the first round, and a nick at the corn er of that brow in the seventh. Poirier, a right-handed sharp shooter from Niagara Falls, N.Y. got a four-stitch slice on his right brow in the ninth. And, ironically, the flow of his own blood apparently inspired him to the strong finish that earned him the draw. Trabert, Hart Top Net Ratings New York (U.R) The U. -S. lawn Tennis association, empha sizing its need for fresh talent. announced that Tonny Trabert and Doris Hart both of whom recently turned professional head its respective men's and women's 1955 amateur singles rankings. Trabert, now busy learning the hard facts of his new pro career with Jack Kramer's tour ing troupe was placed first in the men's rankings because he won the U. S. singles crown. He also won the 1955 Wimble don championship, winning both major titles without losing a set. Tentative Rankings Miss Hart, now a teaching tennis pro after 14 seasons as a leading amateur in national and international competition, won the No. 1 women's ranking for the second straight year. She climaxed her amateur career by retaining her U. S. title in Sep tember. The rankings are tentative. They must be approved at the annual U.S.L.T.A. meeting at San Francisco Jan. 21, but this usually is a mere formality. McMurty To Fight In Portland Soon Portland (U.R) Pat McMurty, highly-regarded young Tacoma heavyweight, will fight in Port land again. Jan. 9, according to Promoter Tex Salkeld. McMurty will meet Cordell Jones, Oakland, Calif. McMurty last appeared in Portland early this month, Vhen he stopped Jimmy Walls. Jones stopped Idaho's Harley Bresh ears on the same card. sufficient to warrant the ex penditure. It is hoped to top last seasons entry of. 85 doubles and 172 singles. New 56 D Invades Low-Price Field ! Gome share the rewards of the peat Dodge soccess! Here's the Here is no stripped-down "price special" . . . but a fvM-size, full styled, full-fashioned beauty that's KING SIZE in every way. This new Dodge Coronet takes the measure of all others in the low-price field on every point of value: Size! Beauty! Style! Power! Roominess! Comfort! 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