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0 TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) Graders To Begin Varsity, Jayvee Cage Contention Medford elementary school basketball varsities will play six-game slates this season with opening encounters' set for this Thursday afternoon. t. All five of the public 'schools , and St. Mary's parodhial school will participate ein the once around varsity slate and which will be followed by play-off has sles. Games with St. Mary's, however, will not count in j championship play. Junior varsities of the public schools will launch their sched ules on Friday. Varsity games, with one ex ception, .will continue through February 16 on Thursdays and junior varsity play will be on Fridays through February 10. All scuffles are to begin at 4 p.m. At the end of the regular var sity slate the first and second plage teams will be matched in an "extra" tussle (February 18.) The third and fourth place clubs will be rivals and the No. 5 team will take on St. Mary's. This extra rivalry will have no affect on the loop standings with the exception that tangles be tween the top two will count fir first place if the two clubs wind up regulay play tied. Ties for other places will remain as such. VARSITY SCHEDULE: Jan. 12 Roosevelt at Jackson: ' Washington at Lincoln; St. Mary s at Wfannn- Tan 1Q .TflflfKmi at Jeffer- nn T inrn!n at RnnCPUolt St.. MflTV'S at Washington: Jan. 26 Jackson at Lincoln, Jefferson at Washington, St Mary's at Roosevelt. trK 9 Washington at Jackson. Jef ferson at Roosevelt, Lincoln at St. Mary's; Feb. 6 Jackson at St. Mary's: Feb. 9 Roosevelt at Washington. Lin coln at St. Mary's; Feb. 6 Jackson at St. Marys; eo. w noose veil ai wasn ington. Lincoln at Jefferson; Feb. 16 No. 1 vs. No. 2. No. 3 vs. No. 4. No. 5 at St. Mary's. . JUNIOR VARSITY SCHEDULE: Jan. 13 Jackson at Roosevelt, Lin coln at Washington, Jefferson bye: Jan. 20 Jefferson at Jackson. Roose velt at Lincoln, Washington bye: Jan. 27 Lincoln at Jackson, Washington at Jefferson, Roosevelt bye: Feb. 3 Jack tori at Washington, Roosevelt at Jef ferson, Lincoln bye; Feb. 10 Wash ington at Roosevelt, Jefferson at Lin coln. Jackson bye. Clogston 410 Skeet Victor Martin Clogston won the 410 gauge trophy Sunday in skeet competition at Medford Gun club and Don, Hawk took the merchandise prize in the 50 bird, all-gauge event with add ed handicap. Clogston broke 39 out of 50 in the 410 affair and Ray Coleman was runnerup with 33. Hawk's prize was settled on the flip of a c&in. He and Ed Gordon tied at 50 straight, me two also deadlocked on a 25 bird shootoff. Annual team shoot of club will be held next Sunday, Jan. 15. Wilton White is captain of the Blue team and Pau Culbertson is leader of the Reds who won last year. Winners will get bacon and losers will have the honor of serving the annual dinner on Wednesday night, Jan. 18. The shoot is slated rain or shine and practice will begin at 10 a.m. Lunch will be available at the grounds. DIRECT WORKOUTS - Los Angeles (U.R) Eddie LeBaron of the Washington Red skins and Adrian Burk of the Philadelphia Eagles took turns directing the East squad yester day in a practice drill for Sun day's annual Pro Bowl game. Basketball By UNITED PRESS East Northeastern 81 Bates 58 Buffalo 73 Toronto 48 Pace 91 Brooklyn College 90 Baltimore 76 Paris Uni. 68 South Virginia Tech 89 Davidson 63 Florida State 71 Rollins 70 LSU 91 Florida 90 William & Mary 92 Furman 81 Vanderbilt 72 Georgia Tech 59 Maryland 59 South Carolina 33 Miami (Fla.) 89 Mississippi Col. 84 West Virginia 89 VMI 65 Georgia Teachers 94 Wofford 85 Pfeiffer 93 Atlantic Christian 85 Mississippi 76 Auburn 69 ' Alabama 87 Mississippi St. 75 Midwest Baldwin Wallace 94 Westminster 82 Cincinnati 85 Loyola (La.) 53 Detroit 81 Drake 65 Illinois 96 Wisconsin 77 Minnesota 77 Indiana 71 Iowa 88 Ohio State' 73 Missouri 76 Kansas 54 Michigan 74 Purdue 67 Southwest Houston 18 Oklahoma City 64 West Willamette 65 Whitman 61 College of Idaho 73 Liniield 60 Pacific Luth. 58 British Columbia 31 Col. of Puget Sound 69 W. Wash. 57 SCOTTY WILLIAMS Battles Montana MAIL TRIBUNE , MedfordSTribune YaTTnmTrnrmci t$.ur uy m n is Southern Oregon, Rogue League Clubs Will Battle To Gain Lone Leadership Battles for lone leadership of two basketball conferences will be the principal events during the forthcoming week end of high school competition. In the Southern Oregon Con ference Medford will go to Klamath Falls in attempts Fri day and Saturday nights to wrest command from the Pel icans. The two schools vere knotted with two wins and no losses after the first week end of league activity. Other tussles in the circuit match Grants Pass, and Ashland at Grants Pass on Friday and at Ashland on Sat urday. Phoenix and Crater fight for the sole lead in the A-2 Rogue League, going into scraps each with 2-0 records. Friday night play -will be at Central Point Phoenix Hands Butte Falls MIL Loss, 71 to 52 The Phoenix Merchants over came a halftime deficit of one point to hand Butte Falls a 11 to 52 loss in Medford Independ ent Basketball league play last night. - The Merchants, trailing 30-31 at halftime, changed to a man-to-man defense in the second half to pull into the lead. Fen ton tallied 19 points to lead the Phoenix scoring, and Abbott tossed in 18 for Butte Falls' leading scorer. In MIBL games tonight, the YMCA opposes Moose lodge at 7 o'clock and Headquarters com pany of the National Guard meets Phoenix at 8:30 o'clock. Both frays will be at McLough- lin junior high. In Wednesday action at Mc Loughlin, Prospect will face Company A of the National Guard at 7 p.m. and Hawkinson Tire Tread will tussle Moose lodge. -Headquarters wil play at Butte Falls at 8 p.m. BOX SCORE: Phoenix 71 Fenton 19 Madden 8 Thompson 8 Furry 7 52 Butte Falls 4 . Moore . 10 Brown 6 Snoich 18 Abbott f f c g Yarnell 14 g 2 Tygart Substitutions For Phoenix: Schmel- zer, Schroeder. Hite 15, and Bertrand; for Butte Falls:. Smith 2; D. Moore 10, and Krammer. Pat McMurtry Beats Jones Portland (U.R) Irish Pat McMurty, a flashy Tacoma, Wash., heavyweight, knocked out Cordell (Emperor) Jones, Reno, Nev, in 2-49 of the third round of a scheduled 10-rounder here last night. It was the 19th win in 2C professional starts and the 17th knockout for the speedy Tacoma boy, who weighed in at 185. Jones, a 188-pound veteran of 37 fights, scored well with sev eral left hooks, but McMurty had him battered and bleeding from the nose in the second round. In the eight-round semi wind- up, Diamond Dick Lane, 153, Billings, Mont., decisioned Joe Murphy, 154, Reno. Kel Wayne, 162, Vancouver Wash., knocked out Willie Stev ens, 163, also of Reno, in 2.30 of the second round of a six round special bout. Bert Singer, 136, Portland, decisioned Carrol Renn, 140, of Seattle, in a preliminary match. REDUCE STALLING New York 4J.PJ Coach Howard Hobson of Yale believes college basketball should adopt the 24-second possession rule now used by professional teams. "It is the only way to reduce stalling," said Hobson, who also suggested awarding three points for basqets made from 24 feet out to ."kill the zone." Ladies' Night Set For Mat Tussles Grants Pass In appreciation for the support from the fans in recent weeks, wrestling Match maker Elton Owen is having a ladies night at the fairgrounds arena at Grants Pass this Wednesday night. All ladies will be admitted free except to the ringside seats, If the ladies wish they may con tribute to the March of Dimes as they enter. Bull Montana, the Toledo Ter ror, will return to meet Scotty Williams in the main event. Montana defeated J. P. Hen- ning last week. He used a couple of atomic drops to wreck J. P, .the semi will send tne griz zled veteran, Maurice LaCha- pelle, up against Cal Roberts Roberts was a member of the Canadian Olympic team and has a fast moving acrobatic style, Tuesday, January 10, 1956 with Saturday meeting at Phoen ix. Eagle Point will meet 111 ionis Valley at Cave Junction on Friday and the two clubs have at it at Eagle Point on Saturday. Schools Vie The top ranking clubs in the Jackson County B League all have the favored role this Fri day. Talent will be host to Jack sonville, St. Mary's will go to Butte Falls and Rogue River will entertain Prospect. St. Mary's, Talent and Rogue River all won openers last week. Four members of the B loop have non-counting action to night.. Butte Falls plays at Jack sonville. Rogue River will be at' home to Glendale, and Pros pect will entertain Chiloquin. St. Mary's will go to Mt. Shasta on Saturday. On the junior high front Med ford seventh and eighth grade clubs will have tussles on Thurs day afternoon on their home courts. Hedrick teams will play Ashland and Central Point will come for games at McLough lin. On Friday afternoon Hed rick ninth graders will be hosts to Eagle Point freshmen. Mc- Loughlin ninth grade players go to Klamath Falls on Saturday. In college play Southern Ore gon takes on Oregon College of Education on Friday and Sa-.ir-day at Monmouth. Four Udefeated In Saturday Loop LEAGUE STANDINGS: W Timid Tigers 2 W L Pet 2 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 2 0 1.000 1 0 1.000 1 1 .500 1 1 .500 0 1 .000 0 2 .000 0 2 .000 0 2 .000 Trojans Zombies Fragrant Five .... Sleepy Hollow B The Stompers The Rodents Eight Balls Strokers The Studs Four teams still carried? un beaten records after last week end's play in the Saturday rec reation basketball league at the senior high school. Keeping their records clean were the Timid Tigers by a 30 to 21 count over the Stompers, the Trojans with a 71 to 10 trouncing of the Eight Balls and the Zombies with a 48 to 31 . er dict over the Studs. Each of the three victors scored its second win. In the other Saturday mix the Sleepy Hollow Boys scored their first win, 37 to 20, over the Strokers. The fourth unbeaten team in the circuit, the Fragrant Five, had its second round mix de layed until next Friday after noon. It will oppose the Rodents. Games this Saturday will be Eight Balls against Rodents' at 10 a.m.. Zombies against Stomp ers at 11 a.m., the Studs against the Sleepy Hollow Boys at 1 p.m., and- the Strokers against the Fragrant Five at 2 p.m. The limid Tigers and Trojans will collide at a time and place to be announced. YMCA, Red Cross Aquatic School Starts Thursday lvieaiora xmja and tne Jack son County Red. Cross chapter will have a joint aquatic school starting Thursday, Jan. 10, at 7-p.m. This course will be in two parts, Part one starts Thursday and meets on Tuesdays and Thursdays until Jan. 30. At that time ( the American Red Cross area water safety director will conduct part two. 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Big Weakness Hack, now spending much of his time duck hunting in the rice stubble fields of the Sacramento valley, said it's only a "big weakness" in the outfield that even makes him say things like that. He said Banks is' as close to having his short patch job tied down as is possible in ad vance of spring training. There will be 10 or 11 candi dates for outfield jobs, Hack said, including Frank Keller, the first baseman purchased from Brooklyn. "We picked up Monte Irvin in the draft and I hope Hank Sauer can come back and help us." Hack said. "Then there's Walt Moryn who came in the trade with Brooklyn. He swings the bat good he may not hit for an average but he has power ana could be a help if he has a good year." About 90 per cent of all house hold goods moving is handled by trucks. ONE 5-MILE DRIVE WILL Easier riding and handling on sharp turns new comfort on bumpy roads widest choice of safety features in its field help explain why ttt r.l" ? T the big buy for 1956. 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Indiana lost its shooting eye and bowed to Minnesota, 77-71, at Minneapo lis, and Purdue was beaten by upset-conscious Michigan, 74-67, at Ann Arbor, Mich. These surprises enabled Illi nois, ranked No. 5 Nationally, to vault to the top with a 2-0 mark by whipping Wisconsin, 96-77. Ohio State could have tied for the lead, but was beaten by Iowa 88-73. Defending champion Iowa started as a favorite to win, but lost five of its first eight games. Illinois bid. for attention then, Fight Results By UNITED PRESS New York: (St. Nicks) Carlos Ortiz, 135, New York, autpointed Ray Por tilla. 141, New York (8). Toronto, Ont.: James J. Parker, 213, Barrie. Ont., outpointed Johnny Ar thur. 218',2. South Africa (10). New Orleans: Jimmy Hackney,-138-, Philadelphia, stopped Lawrence Arm stead. 135 Vx, New Orleans (6). Providence. R; I.: Parry De Marco. 139'i, Brooklyn, outpointed Jackie Blair, 134',i, Dallas, Tex. (10). Arcadia, Calif. 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SEMI-FINAL Best 23 fall or 1 hour limit Maurice LaChapelle, 200 France vs. Cal Roberts, 198 Vancouver, B.CV All ladies attending free will have the opportunity to con tribute whatever they wish to the March of Dimes, Co-op j
