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TWELVE MEDFOHD (OREGON) Tornado Plays Roseburg Friday in New Hedrick JH Gymnasium When the Medford Black Tor nado entertains the Roseburg high hoop quintet at the new Hedrick junior high gymnasium here on Friday night, it will have only little advantage over the Indians in familiarity with the maplecourt. The Tornado squad was sched uled to workout this afternoon in the spacious new gym. It was the first time on the floor for the Medford senior high ag gregation and the only time be fore tomorrow's game. Roseburg and Medford vie at 8:15 p.m. tomorrow following a 6:45 p.m. preliminary between varsities of the two schools. The games will formally in augurate basketball competition on the Hedrick floor. But there will be3 little fanfare in connec tion with the conflicts since the school building already has been dedicated. Workout of the Tornado at the junior high, new home court for senior high varsity, was a "see what it's' like" venture. The workout and the Friday game may indicate how much drill will be needed on the Hedrick floor during . weeks ahead of . home games. Because the baskets are the same fan-shaped type as at the jenior high, the court may not prove too different from the one which has served the varsity for many years. However, trie "ac tual floor, itself, could give the ball a different bounce. Medford high varsity will seek its second win this week over the Indians while the jay vees will try to square a loss; The Tornado varsity downed Roseburg 63 to 51 Tuesday while the junior gang was nicked 55 to 53. Coach Frank Roelandt of the Tornado crew had all hands on deck for drill yesterday and practice was a rather light one, Tribe Gains Loop Honors In Defense Chicago (U.R) The Cleve land Indians had leaders at three positions and also made off with the club defensive hon ors in the American league this year. Official statistics compiled by the Howe News Bureau reveal ed that the Indians had three individual champions in catcher Jim Hegan, shortstop George Strickland and outfielder Gene doodling. In addition, the Tribe beat 8it the Chicago White Sx in a coe race to win club hon ors with a .9814 percentage. Hegan3 led the catchers for the secoyd straight year and for the third time in his career with a .997 mark that topped Shermaf? Lollar of the White Sox by two points. Strickland topped the shortstops with a .997 mark that topped Sherman Lollar of the White Sox by two points. Strickland topped the shoifctops with a .976 average and Woodling led the outfield ers with .9952. George Kell won honors at third base for the sixth time in his career. Kell, who played in 100 games, had a .9763 per centage which beat out the .9757 mark compiled by Grady Hat- ton of the Boston Red Sox. Kell also led American League third- sackers in fielding in 1945, 1946, 1950, 1951 and 1953. Iokie Norm Zauchin of the Red Sox led . the first basemen with a ,9951 average followed by Walt Dropo of the White Sox, who had a .9948 mark. Both were charged with six- errors but Zauchin handled 1,227 chances to Dropo's 1,169. Gil McDougald of the Yan kees led the second basemen for the first time in his career with a .985 figure while Johnny Schmitz of the Washington Sea ators topped a list of 32 pitchers with 1.000 percentages by hand ling 48 chances. The Indians were followed by the White Sox' .9813 but the Yankees led in double plays for the second straight year with a total of 180. SURE AS GO FOR THIS CANADA DRY WHISKEY! Americas f;SE STRAIN"1 'VAu&:' America's Finest Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey 6 Years Old 86 Proof Distributed by: Car.cia Dry Ginger Ale, Inc., New York MAIL TRIBTJNE mostly shooting and loosening up after a somewhat wearisome trip to Roseburg. Roelandt did not name an exact starting line-up for the second session with the Indians. It will likely be from among the six hoopmen who see almost equal duty. They are Dick Mc Laughlin, John Foust. Dick Cop pie, Neil Plumley, Bob Tisdel and Lloyd Cearley. The Indian opening five may be named from among Dick Medfof SIPdD r 2 ,':-rV.-:. GEORGE Dribbling Star of m,'mMmmmm3MMmmm .. CLOWNS TAKE ON CABBIES AT CENTRAL POINT TONIGHT Al (Runt) Pullins and his mirthful magicians of the bas ketball court, the Harlem Clowns, will be at Crater high gym in Central Point this eve ning to show their -sleight-of- hand ball handling, lightning like passes, comedy routines and horseplay. They'll meet the Yellow Cab independent team of Medford and the show and game will get underway at 8 p.m. These cats keep me laugh ing on the bench every night," says the ageless 'Runt.' "In 20 years with the Clowns and a half dozen years before that with the Trotters, I have never laughed so much as at this year's gang'. They are just a bunch of natural cut-ups and what a basketball team! I believe this is the best clowns club in history." 50 Applicants Pullins explains that the hap py combination of a fine player and a comedian is hard to find. "We picked this year's team from a list of more than 50 ap plicants" says Runt. "This year we have big men, ball handlers and a couple of great comics." Tallest of the Clowns is Ralph Hayes, 6-7, from Niagara univer sity. He played last year for Scranton in the Eastern League. Next is Bob Woods, 6-6, from Modesto junior college, a cut up who leads the comedy gags. Al Sutton, 6-3, attended Cal Poly at San Luis Obispo and was all-conference three years and most valuable player two, years. Manny Kennedy, 6-3, is ex Iona college leading scorer and made the all-Far Eastern Army team last season. Ed Carter, 6-2, joined the Clowns originally out of high school from Chicago where he was a city all-star. He's Vandal Mentor Drops Player Moscow, Idaho (U.R) Bob Goold, sophomore starting cen ter on the University of Idaho basketball team, has been dis missed from the squad for "dis ciplinary reasons," Coach Har lan Hodges said yesterday. "The action was necessary because of Goold's attitude dur ing games," Hodges said in a telephone conversation from St. Louis. Goold, from Hoopston, 111., had been starting center in all of Idaho's games with the ex ception of Monday night's con test which Idaho lost to Missouri at Columbia. Hodges indicated the dismissal followed the Uni versity of Kentucky game Sat urday. Thursday, December 22, 1955 Woolstenhulme, Jerry Droscher, Fred Skeels, Jim Coen, Bill Oer ding and Lee Burghardt. Hedrick seating facilities pro vide at present for 1,800 specta tors with 1,600 roll-away bleach ers. Season tickets for reserve seats may be bought at the sen ior high office or at the game Friday. Those who have already bought season reserves and used them for Medford's first four games may exchange them for Hedrick tickets. Tribune MOORE Harlem Clowns been in the Army. George Moore, 6-even, from Lincoln university, was top scorer in his confer ence. A superb set shot and show man, he puts on a dribbling act. Shorty Buckner, 5-7, comic and pepper box may be with the club. Boyd Beats mi St. Louis (U.R) Bobby Boyd, winner Wednesday nisht over Italo Scortichini by unani mous decision, today was head ed for an early meeting with Ed- uardo Lausse or Milo Savage. The Chicago middleweight's co-manager, James Di Vito, said he and Bernard Glickman, Boyd's other pilot. hoDed to match him with the winner of a January 6th fight between Lausse and Savage. Di Vito discounted Wednes day night's dull match with a shrug. "Scortichini can make anv good fighter look bad," he said. "I never saw a man fight so low." Boyd, who notched his sixth straight triumph with ridicu lous ease, had . to solve the de fense of a man who sometimes had his head between Boyd's legs. He was successful only be cause in the middle and late rounds he was able to straighten Scortichini .up with looping hooks he started from his knee caps. Beavers Acquire KC Shortstop Portland (U.R) Jack Littrell, a shortstop has been purchased by the Portland Beavers of the Pacific Coast League from Kan sas City of the American League at an undisclosed price, General Manager Joe Ziegler said. Littrell, 27, played in 37 games with Kansas City last season and batted .200. He is known as a slick fielder. Fowl Hunting Spotty To Poor in Rogue Area Portland (U.R) The weekly report on hunting conditions prepared by the State Game Commission: Southwest: Rogue valley spotty to poor for waterfowl hunting. :'::::S:V::::-:;:::r ; For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads Dayton Quint Nabs Crown At Lexington By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer The high-riding Dayton Fly ers walked off with the Univer sity of Kentucky tournament championship today and left famed Kentucky Coach Adolph Rupp singing their praises as possible national basketball champions. The Flyers walloped defend ing champion Kentucky, 89-74, in Wednesday night's final round at Lexington, Ky., with an amazing all-around display of court brilliance. "This is the best-coached team we've ever seen in Lexington," Rupp cfeclared after catching his breath. "They are a tremendous team; they have everything," said Rupp. "They have the big boy, seven-foot Bill Uhl, the driver Jim Paxson, the shooter Arlen Bockhorn and the player Ray Dieringer. Particularly that big boy." Dayton, which went Into this important two-night tourney ranked fourth nationally, broke out of a 40-40 tie with a minute to go in the first half, seized a 45-40 halftime margin, and never was headed. It was Uhl, the Greenfield, Ohio, goliath who scales 245 pounds who kept control when" Kentucky chal lenged in the second half. Bird Leads Scorers Dieringer topped the Dayton scorers with 25 points but game honors went to Jerry Bird of Kentucky with 34. For Kentucky, beaten earlier this year by Temple, the defeat marked the first time in Rupp's 26 years as coach that the Wild cats lost two home games in a single season. And Dayton's 89 points equalled 'the highest to tal ever posted against a Ken tucky team; by CCNY in 1950. Dayton's record is now 8-0. ' Earlier Wednesday night, Minnesota had surprised by trouncing Utah, 80-77, in the tourney's consolation game. The Utes, ranked second nationally but beaten by Dayton in the first round, never led. North Carolina State, ranked No. 3 nationally, scored its most important win so far this year by whipping fifth-ranked Brig ham young, 95-81, at Raleigh, N.C., the first loss for BYU. State led at halftime, 45-39, and pulled away, as Brigham Young went six straight without a field goal. Favored Wake Forest won the Carrousel tournament at Char lotte, N.C., beating Clemson in the final round, 98-79. Recreation Loop Opens Contention At Senior High The 10-team Saturday recrea tion basketball league at Med ford senior high school will con tinue its slate after the Christ mas and New Year holidays. Play, which opened last week end, will resume on January 7. A single round robin schedule will be followed by tournaments matching the top four teams for the championship and the fifth through eighth place teams for consolation honors. Members of the circuit are the Studs, Sleepy Hollow Boys, the Stompers, the Fragrant five, the Trojans, the Eight Balls, the Rodents, the Timid Tigers, the Strokers and the Zombies. Four Games Saturday Four games will be played each Saturday with the other two paired clubs to arrange a day and hour for their tussle. In scraps last week end the Fragrant Five beat the Eight Balls 27 to 16, the Stompers downed the Rodents 26 to 20, the Trojans laced the Studs 40 to 29 and the Timid Tigers shied by the Sleepy Hollow club 33 to 24. The Strokers and the Zom bies were to play today. All senior high boys are elig ible for the league except those on the varsity, junior varsity or city league teams. Church league players are eligible but no more than two players from a church team may play on a Saturday loop squad. NASHUA 3-1 FAVORITE Agua Caliente, Meex. (U.R) Nashua, the horse of the year, has been established as a 3 to 1 favorite in the opening line of the Caliente Future Book on the Santa Anita Handicap. Swaps, who defeated Nashua in the Ken tucky Derby, is listed at 4 to 1. noon Saturday. 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Road GAME STILL SLATED Coach Jim Vernon of the Yellow Cab - basketball team has received assurances from the Harlem Clowns that they will be on hand for the game at Crater high gym at Central Point tonight despite the high water conditions. There was no indication today that Fri day high school basketball games in this area will be called off. Crater High, Grants Pass Vie Friday Central Point Crater high will wrap up its pre-Christmas basketball activity by playing Grants Pass here on Friday night. The Comets, having their fifth game, are still after their first verdict of the season. Grants Pass will aim for its second victory in five starts. The Cavemen have split with Rose burg and lost to North Bend and Marshfield while Crater has dropped action with Cres cent City and Oakridge. . Grants Pass may display a platoon type of basketball. Pos sible opening combination in cludes Larry Henderson, 6-5, Ron Davis, Jim Smith and Tom Burnet, all 6-footers and Chuck Nevi, 5-8. Second combination which could be equally as tough is Les Walker, Arnold Slaven and Bob Erickson, 6-footers, and Allen Drews. Have Speed The Cavemen reportedly have speed but so far have not been shooting well. They are expect ed to pick up stride as the season progresses. Likely Comet starters are Fred Herrmann and John Shama, for wards; Dick Callender or Dick Davis, center, and among Na than Douthit, Harold Lefler and Don Goyette, guards. Neil Green returned to the squad last night and had limited practice. He's been out with a sinus ailment. Crater has been working on defense much this week, Coach Leonard Warren stated. The club has been working on its faking and on getting the ball in close for shots. . Odds Widen Favor of Clevelanders Los Angeles (U.R) Odds fav oring Cleveland over the Los Angeles Rams in next Monday's 1955 National Football Leaeue championship game have length ened from ZVz points to six points. . " The point spread widened yes terday as a result of the loss of two Ram regulars, fullback Tank Younger and offensive center Leon McLaughlin. Younger has a hairline fracture of a neck vertebra. McLaughlin contracted a case of the mumps. MrT.aiiehlin is a "doubtful" starter, 'but Younger is defin itely out of the professional foot ball title game and also may not get to play in the pro bowl game here Jan. 15. However, the Rams still seemed high in morale. The in jury jinx put them on the short end so much this season that, as quarterback Norm Van Brocklin put it, "It feels comfortable." Normal Losses Gillman, finding himself right back in his old situation of hav ing to produce a "patchwork" team, shrugged off the losses as "normal." McLaughlin's doctor said "it is extremely unlikely" that the mumps would spread throughout the team. - To fill in for McLaughlin, Gill- man switched 250-pound offen sive tackle Bobby Cross tO' Mc Laughlin's pivot spot. Cross has never played the post before. Normally, Larry Morris would go into the spot. But Morris, an exceptional defensive lineback er, will be busy filling at full back behind Deacon Dan Towler. Ez Charles Given Edge San Francisco (U.R) Former World Heavyweight Champion Ezzard Charles, who never has lost a fight . in San Francisco, has been installed as a slight favorite to whip promising new comer Bob Albright in their 10-round battle tonight at Win terland. Albright, who is only 23 years old, will have a 25-pound weight advantage over the veteran Charles. Phone 2-5271 Phoenix Will Face Time in Basketball Phoenix Phoenix high, which has given he Ashland Grizzlies some stirring rivalry on the gridiron, has its first basketball encounter with a Lithia city varsity Friday night- and local interest is high for that reason. Ashland and Phoenix varsities collide about 8:15 p.m. follow a 6:45 p.m. junior varsity tussle. Phoenix and Ashland are about similarly fixed with ex perience. Each is expected to have four veterans in its start ing line-up. Ashland will have Gene Parent, Stuart Baker, Phil Sword and Harry Johnson. Rounding out the possible five is Lance Locke. Pirate lettermen who may open are Ray Dahl, Charles Wall, Bill Madden and Jim Korth. Delmar Brood is the likely fifth man. Fits In Well Brood has fitted in well with the vets. His speed, driving in and ballhawking have quicken ed the pace of the Pirates and they are playing more of a run ning game than they did last year. He's also one of the top scorers. Chief scorer this year has been Korth who has been troubled by a cold this week, but is expected tdbe-on hand. Wall has not been a heavy point maker but has been valuable for his rebounding and feeding. Pre-league action for Phoenix will continue Monday and Tues day. The Pirates will play Tal ent Monday and Eagle Point will play Areata, Cal., in a dou blebill at Eagle Point. On Tues- Basketball WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAMES East Seton Hall 61,' Colby 54 Geneva 83, Carnegie Tech 66 South (Kentucky Invitational) Championship Round Dayton 89. Kentucky 74 Consolation Round Minnesota 90, Utah 77 (Carrousel Tournament) ' Championship Round Wake Forest 88, Clemson 79 (Consolation Round) Colgate 87, Tennessee 83 Boston Univ. 87, Davidson 69 (Quantico Tournament) Semi-final Round Quantico 94, Akron Univ. 74 Mt. St. Mary's 86, Ball St. Tchrs. 79 Consolation Round Lemoyne 93, Iona 70 Georgia Tchrs. 90, Wabash 81 Rice 82, Auburn 80 Louisville 84, Marquette 68 No. Car. St. 95, Brigham Young 81 Midwest Denver 65, Iowa St. 62 DePaul 84. Wayland Coll. 56 Houston 86, Kansas St. 79 Mich. St. 84. Notre Dame 78 Cincinnati 87. DePauw 58 West Washington (Mo.) 75. Idaho 62 Stanford 56, Dartmouth 55 Oregon St. 73. Northwestern 61 Michigan 81. Oregon 71 Southern California 64, Santa Clara 49 Stanford 56, Dartmouth 55 California 64, Arizona State 59 Gonzaga 93. Carroll Collese 65 Oregon Tech 75, Shasta JC 63 Yakima Valley JC 82, Central Ore gon 56 Southwest Kansas 62, Sou. Methodist 58 In handsome decanter at no extra cost. 1 A30 45 Qt 86 PROOF Ashland First This Friday day at Phoenix, Areata will be the Pirate rival while Eagle Point and Talent will vie. Don Mentor Will Ignore Controversy New Orleans, La. (U.R) Coach Phil Woolpert, whose top rated San Francisco Dons meet Loyola -here tomorrow night, said one of his reasons for sched uling the basketball game was to show that "whites and ne groes can play together" in the segregation-conscious South. Woolpert said he would ig nore the controversy that devel oped over the actions of Shel lie. McMillon, Negro Bradley forward who was booed Tues day night in a game here "against Loyola. Not Racial He said he had been assured by Loyola officials that the box ing of McMillon for sticking out his tongue at the crowd when he fouled out was not a "racial incident," . but could have happened to any player, re gardless of race. There are five Negro players on the San Francisco team which arrived here last night, includ ing All-America Bill Russell. Three, including Russell, are in the starting lineup. Woolpert said that he knew when the game was scheduled with Loyola that he would have Negro players on the team. Loyola,- a Roman Catholic school, has pioneered in integration of athletic events,, seating also is on a non-segregated basis. CAMPBELL SHOOTS FOR 250 London (U.R) Donald Camp' bell, who cracked the water speed barrier of 20.0 miles per hour on Lake Mead at Boulder City, Nev., has announced he will now shoot for a riew record of 250 m.p.h. in his jet .speed boat. Campbell, who said "I be lieve it is possible," will make his try either iir Britain or the U. S. " HARTACK WINS 412 Coral Gables, Fla. U.R) Willie Hartack, who on Dec. 3 became only the second jockey in racing history to account for 400 triumphs in a year, booted home four winners at Tropical Park Wednesday in his final ap pearance of the year. Hartack scored on Mr. Blue Sky $9.80, Yock Tom S5.00 and Sharp Tack $14.10 to wind up the year with 412 triumphs.- - - Radium has ' been produced from pitchblend in Europe and also fro mautunite ores. In the United States it. has also been found in carnotite. h&tiiuiei... HICKORY efiiayti BOURBON a; SIX TEARS OLD OLD HICKORY DISTILLING CORPORATION PHILADELPHIA, PA. Philadelphia Heads by 31 2 By UNITED PRESS The Philadelphia Warriors opened up a 3 game lead in the Eastern Division of the Na tional Basketball association to day and are well on their way to compiling the circuit's highest won-and-lost percentage in five years. The Warriors handed the Rochester Royals their fourth1 straight loss, 96-93, Wednesday night for their 15th victory in 21 games. Their .714 percentage is the highest in the league since the 1949-50 season when the Syracuse Nationals and Minneapolis Lakers both topped tliat figure. Neil Johnston led the War riors with 21 points and Paul , Arizin added 20 more while Jack Coleman's 20 points were high for Rochester. The loss gave the Royals a 10-13 record and left them a gallic onu a uau uciuuu uov- place S.t. Louis in the Western. Division of the circuit. 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