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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.
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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.
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