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TEIf MEDFORQ, (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Black Tornado Takes Able Pel Quintet This Great height and -all-around ability were factors which in the 1955 basketball season help ed carry the Medford High Black Tornado through0 an un defeated Southern Oregon Con ference basketball slate and to second place in the Class A state tournament. The Klamath Falls Pelicans have a similar combination of height and ability this year. That's what the Black Tornado will be up against Friday and Saturday in a loop series in Pelican town. And this week end's two-game stand should in dicate to a large extent how much the Pel combination will be a force in the 1956 chase for the circuit's title bunting. Glenn Moore, 6-foot 6-inch sophomore transfer from Bly and Earle Tichenor, 6-5 senior represent the main forces of Klamath altitude. Both nave demonstrated their ability to score and collect the rebounds in games so far this season. Tichenor Heads Scorers Tichenor with 141 counters and a 17.6 per game average leads the Pelican club in scor ing while Moore is second m total points with 105 and in average with 13.2. In backboard work Tichenor has averaged 14 per game in the Pels' eight games so far and Moore is not far behind with a 13.6 mark. A fifth real tall man on the club is Cliff Sutherland, 6-5, a junior transfer from Malin. Not all of the little guys are little. Butch Kimpton, a prob able starter is 6-even. Orin Perk Ins, a pre-conference game start er, stands 6-1. Donn Taucher, third high scorer of KF with 81 and a regular starter, is 5-10. Dave Pepple, who likely will have an opening role against Medford, in place of Perkins, is also 5-10. A top reserve, Mike Runge, te 5-11 and Lee McGill, 5-7, is the only real shorty on the squad. Pepple at Strength Pepple is now at full strength for the first time since he broke a foot early in football season. An ankle sprain and flu kept Pepple sidelined during the fore part of hoop play. Tichenor is still suffering from an ankle sprain suffered in the second Jefferson game two uppk ends aso. But he scored 29 and 22 points in the Grants Pass scuffles since then ana nis ild be stronger for the Medford series. Moore and Mc Gill were on the "under tne weather" list at the beginning of this week but are expectedo to be okeh for the series. Klamath goes into the Med ford series with a win-loss rec ord of 6-2. The Pels have aver aged 60.6 points per game and have held rivals to 56.4. The fig ures compare to averages of 62.77 for Medford and 53 for Tornado opponents. Klamath Falls has split with Reno, Nev., downed Redding, Calif., twice, split with Jeffer son of Portland and won two from Grants Pass. Yeoman Work Medford 6-footers faced with the big share of the task of bat tling the Klamath height are Neil Plumlev. Dick McLaughlin, Dick Copple and John Foust and they ara faced with the necessity of performing yeoman labor to overcome the Pels. Plumlev at a listed 6 feet 4 inches comes nearest to match- ins the tallest Pelican. Mc Laughlin is 6-2, Copple 6-1 and Foust six-even. But the place of 5-10 Bob Tisdel can't be discounted. He's one of the top Black Tornado rebounders this season, utilizing his speed and quickness and ability to get good position. The Medford starting line-up will be chosen from among the foregoing five and Lloyd L-ear lev. another 5-10 scrarjDer. Coach Frank Roelandt said 1st Big Indoor . Meet Saturday Boston (U.R) The first big indoor track meet of the year may prove to be disappointing as far as the records go. Many of the leading entries in Saturday's 1 30th annual Knights of Columbus meet at Boston Garden might be caught looking past the night their eyes on the 1956 Olympic try- outs at Los Angeles next June. The brighter lights, at least many of them, are adjusting their training schedules for June, not January. A case in point is Charley Jenkins of Cambridge, Mass., and Villanova. Jenkins has cop ped the 600 for two years run ning and holds the Boston rec ord for the distance with a 1:10 clocking last year. But, as Jenkins puts it, "I won't be razor-sharp in January because I have been training slowly. I want to be at my peak for the Olympic tryouts." HighSchool Scores THURSDAY BASKETBALL Knappa 47. Neahkahnie 42. St. -Mary s of The Dalles 55, Dufur 48 Sherwood 62. Corbett 30. this morning that he feels the Tornado is ready mentally for the Pelicans and he stated that the team should be okeh physi cally barring any mishaps this afternoon. He expressed the opinion that if the Medford MedfordWTribune SIPODIFirg Phoenix, Crater To Tussle For Lead in Rogue League Phoenix and Crater high schools, the two top aggregations last year in Rogue League bas ketball, renew court rivalry on Friday and Saturday nights. If either club can win both games, it will take over sole leadership of the loop. Clashes are set for Central Point on Friday and for Phoenix on Saturday.' In other Rogue competition Eagle Point' plays Illinois alley at Cave Junction on Friday and at Eagle Point on Saturday. Crater and Phoenix with two wins and no losses each are tied presently for the Rogue lead. Each club is going into the week end with apparent confidence. . At Central Point, Coach Leon ard Warren reported that the Crater Comets looked good in a drill last night. He said he thought the Comets would be "ready as much as they can be." The mentor indicated that he would have lived to have just a bit more time to prep tne Comets for the series. The club has been working on a defense aimed at stopping the Pirate high scorers, all of them. War ren said it would help if Crater possessed more speed. Reserve Strength Sought Possible Comet starters are John Shama and Fred Herr mann, forwords, Dick Callender, center, and among Harold Lef- ler, Nathan Douthit and Don Company A Raps Leader In City Loop Company A of the National Guard pulled the big upset of the Medford Independent Bas ketball League season last night by defeating the league leading Prospect quint. Vern Parent sparked a fourth quarter rally which enabled the Guardsmen to nip the Upper Rogue team 58 to 57. It was the first league loss for Prospect which, however, retained its front position in the circuit. In other games Hawkinson Tire Tread walloped Moose lodge 86 to 36 and Butte Falls came from behind in the second half to overtake Headquarters Com pany of the National Guard 66 to 60. - , Prospect Leads Prospect headed Company A 33 to 19 at the half and pushed to a 47 to 23 advantage before the Guardsmen got going. Par ent scored 26 counters in the conflict and Jim Higinbotham was second high for the up setters with 14. Wes Stauffer led the Prospect five with 19. John Drew tallied 24 points and Bruce Bateman 20 for Head quarters which led Butte Falls 41 to 34 at the half. Lee Abbott got 18 and Darwin Moore 16 for Butte Falls. Hawkinson's had a 40 to 13 margin at the half on the Lodgemen. Dick Wallace collected 21 points and Jack Boardman 19 for the winners. Ken Tucker had 12 for Moose. LI.NE-UPS: Hawkinson's 86 Wallace 21 Serak Cavanaugh 10 J. Johnson 11 D. Johnson 13 Substitutions 36 Moose McQuade White Barrett 11 H. Waldron 7 Williams Hawkinson's, For Boardman 19. : lor Moose, J. Waldron, Ken Tucker 12. Eastgate, Jones 4. Co. A. 58 Higinbotham 14 f Nolan 3 f Trautman 7 c Parent 26 g J. Burns 2 a 57 Prospect 13 Grebb 3 Corey 8 Kimmel 19 Stauffer Substitutions For Co. A. Colley 2: Stubbs 2, D. Burns 4, Maclntvre Carngan: for Prospect, N. Peterson 2. fa. Peterson. Snyder, Larson, Winkle, Sullivan. Osburn. 12 Price Thursday, January 12, 195S On Tall, Week End crew hustles and scraps all the way there is good chance for triumph over Klamath Falls. Other Southern Oregon Con ference has Ashland at Grants Pass on Friday and the clubs at Ashland' on Saturday. Goyette, guards. Dick Davis and Bob Gray 'are expected to see considerable service. At Phoenix, where Coach Jack Woodward has been trying to de velop reserve strength, the tutor said that the Pirates have looked "real good" in practice this week. The Pirates defensively have been working at measures to stop a fast break attack. Their offense is being primed to meet the anticipated Crater defense. Among the reserves Jim James, Don Wallace and Gary Simmonds have improved of late. Woodward hopes to use them during the Crater games to give the regulars rests. The five starters, Ray Dahl, Charles Wall, Bill Madden, Jim Korth and Delmar Brood, went all the way in last Saturday's game at Eagle Point. . Flood Stranded Fish Returned To Rogue River An estimated 150,000 ocean bound steelhead and chinook salmon, stranded in ponds and ditches when Pre-Christ-mas flood waters receded, were returned lo Rogue river in a week-long operation by three Game Commission men. Cole Rivers area fish biolo gist, and two others partici pated in the operation in the week following the flood. Rivers stated that most of the work was along the north' side of the river between Gold Hill and the mouth of the Ap plegate river with a particu larly big job at the hop yards near Grants Pass. Seines were used in some of the operation and ditching was done also to give the fish a route back to the river. SAC FRY PERISH The fact that the flood wat ers dropped slowly rather than quickly allowed many fish to find their own way back lo the main streams, the biolo gist said. However, many sac fry salmon, torn from the gravelly stream bed, were washed "high and dry" and were unable to get back to water. ' Damage to the salmon fish ery could prove considerable but won't be known for some four years when fish surviv ing the flood and sea life re turn to the river to spawn. Hunting Mishaps Kill 10 in 1955 v Portland OJ.R) The Ore gon State Game Commission re ported" today that 10 persons were fatally wounded in 1955 hunting accidents and 46 others were wounded less seriously. The total compared to 13 deaths in 1954 hunting seasons and 37 accidents reported. The commission added, however, that accident reporting had be come more efficient and that the actual increase over 1954 might not be as large as appeared on the surface. The first hunting accident of 1956 has also been recorded by the commission. It said an' 18-year-old youth was accidentally shot through the spine by a rifle while hunting bobcats on Jan. 2. The commission said that with out exception the accidents in volved a violation of some rule of gun safety. Only three casualties occurred where the hunter mis took the victim for game. An Invitation . An invitation is extended to our customers to drop in for your free tire rotation and inspection. It only takes a few minutes and your tires will wear longer. You'll feel safer too. Also January is free flat tire month ... if you stop in this month you will re ceive free, a flat tire card that means you will have all your flat tires on your car fixed free for one full year. Sports Bulletin San Francisco (U.R) Frankie Albert, former All American from Stanford uni versity and professional foot ball star, today was named head coach of the San Fran cisco Forty Niners professional football team. Middle-Size Spur College Court Wins By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer The new "era of the little man" in college basketball .picked up added speed today as a pair of medium-sized men helped Duke and Temple bid for even higher spots in the na tional ratings and an "ordinary" sized hot-shot set a new Skyline Conference scoring record. Duke, already ranked No. 8 in the country, chalked up a solid 109-80 rout of Clemson Wednes day night and setting the pace with 38 points was Bill Yar borough who stands an even six feet and would be considered small in recent seasons. Hal Lear of Temple is an inch shorter at 5-11, but he racked up 37 points to lead the unbeaten Owls to an 80-73 victory over Villanova. Toby Roybal of New Mexico is six-two, and that's just aver erage as the court sport goes to day. But he put the big boys in the shade as he ripped in 45 points in a 82-79 conquest of Montana to smash the Skyline Conference point mark. Before this season started, the game's lawmakers passed some new rules designed to deprive the giants of some of the edge given them by their sheer height; Whether or not final results of the season will show they suc ceeded, at this point shorter players seem to be turning in more of the top scoring jobs. Duke has a six-seven center in Junior Morgan and he played a mighty . big part . in Wednesday night's win with 21 points and 16 rebounds. But Yarborough's scoring was the crusher as the Blue Devils led all the way after the first eight minutes. The win gave the Devils an -11-2 overall record and a 5-1 pacemaking mark in the Atlantic Coast Con ference. Temple ran its .record to 9-0 with the triumph over Villanova, and that skein includes a win over Kentucky, the nation's No, 4 team. The Owls,, now ranked 14th nationally, were hard pressed to win this one after blowing an early 15-point lead, Record Spree New Mexico's Roybal pushed his scoring average to 22.5 points per game with Wednesday night's record spree at Albu querque, N. M., and also took over the Skyline Conference scoring lead." His record-busting goal with two minutes left was a beauty he dribbled through the tight Montana defense and fell flat on his back in the pro cess of flipping the ball in. However, Louisville, the na tion's No. 13 team, relied on the familiar figure of the big man in its important, 80-75, triumph over Notre Dame in overtime at South Bend, Ind. It was the Cardinals' 12th win in 13 games and six-eight Charley Tyra led the way with 21 points, includ ing two key baskets in the over time session. Six-five Lloyd Aubrey of the Irish tied Tyra for game scoring honors. Game Man To Discuss Waterfowl Program Students at Jacksonville high school and Howard elementary schoolwill have an opportunity to learn more about interna tional wildlife when Cal Giesler, education agent, Oregon Game commission, presents a program on waterfowl management at a student assembly on January 16, 1956. Giesler will discuss Oregon's part in the nationwide program of providing feeding, nesting and resting "grounds for waterfowl to insure their perpetuation and the acquistion and development of lands for public shooting grounds to provide recreational opportunities. Cartoon-like charts will illu strate Giesler's talk to be fol lowed by the sound, color film "Behind the Flyways." This 27 minute film shows the many co operative waterfowl manage ment activities carried but by federal and state agencies, with help from private organizations and sportsmen. Dick Fa tiger's 1760 No. Riverside Phone 2-5868 Jackson County B League Crews Collide on Friday Second round of action in Jackson County B League bas ketball is scheduled Friday night and the clubs who came out on top in last week's opening contention are expected to keep their records unblemished. How- j ever, a coupie or ine iavomes could be in for troublesome evenings. Tussles will take St. Mary's to Butte Falls, Prospect to Rogue River and Jacksonville to Talent. St. Mary's, Rogue River and Talent rate as favor ites. But Prospect and Butte Falls could be the trouble causers on the basis of games earlier this week and past per formances. Prospect showed strong on Tuesday, playing its best game of the season to whip Chiloqum 64 to 29 in a non-league. But it could be up against a free- wheeler in Rogue River which romped to a 92 to 72 decision over Class A Glendale on Tues day in a wide open offensive but foul filled hassle. Bilbee Lane did a good camping job for the Chiefs and scored a tremendous 38 points. Butte Falls merits the billing of, a tough customer for St. Mary's after a 72 to "48 non counter ramble over Jackson ville also on Tuesday, The Log gers made a big share of their points at the gift line. But free shots are a big part of basket ball and BF showed a marked ability to capitalize on its op portunities. Good backboard work was also turned in by the Loggers. SM to Mt. Shasta St. Mary's will have Saturday non-conference duty at Mt. Shasta, Calif. The Crusaders hold a 36 to 31 win over the California team earlier this sea son. Coach Millard Webb has the task now of getting the Crusad ers up from a plane they have appeared to reach. He may em ploy his usual line-up to start against Butte Falls. But, if it doesn't click, Webb has a cou ple of other combinations ' in mind. St. Marv's had a bit of set back when 6-5 Jerry Flakus sprained an ankle Monday. He'll Witte Will Miss Grappling Season Corvallis (U.R) John Witte, Oregon State football tackle and wrestler, has a torn shoulder muscle and will miss the wres tling season this year, Coach Hal Peterson said today As a freshman, Witte reached the national collegiate heavyweight-finals. Peterson said he didn't want Witte to suffer fur ther injury that might affect his football playing. USSERY LEADS HARTACK Coral Gables, Fla. (U.R) Bobby Ussery opened up a three ,victory margin over Willie Har tack today in the race for riding honors at Tropical Park. Ussery had one winner Wednesday Grand Risk $27.50 to up his total to 46. Hartack was shut out. -Each has been listed for three mounts today. Use Tribune Want Ads At The Sign Of The SAFETY TESTED SEAL! WAY-ACHHAP STYE. STYLE-'55 OLDS 98 4-door sedan. Rocket engine power with hydramatie super drive transmission. This car is in showroom con trition and has many extras. GUARANTEED 100. ACTION -1952 OLDS! 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Small College Coaches Fear 2nd NCAA Hoop Meet Portland (U.R) Small college basketball coaches expressed fear today that the NCAA's de cision to hold two basketball tournaments annually might hurt the already successful NAIA tourney. The NCAA decided in Los An geles yesterday to hold a small college national basketball tour ney to be known as the college division. Schools may decide .whether they want to play in the "University Division" or the "College Division" but they must make their intent known at least one year in advance. . Members of the Northwest Conference and Portland Uni versity are in both the NCAA and NAIA. Oregon College Con- ference members, except for Oregon College of Education, are in the NAIA. OCE is in both. More Chance '. Sharkey Nelson, coach at Portland State, said "I'd hate to see anything hurt the NAIA." He added, however, that there are many fine teams which can't get into Tournament play and that "now more should get a chance." GRAHAM HONORED New York (U.R) - Otto Gra ham, the Cleveland Browns quarterback who led his club to the' National Football League championship in 1955, has been named winner of the December voting for the $10,000 Hickok Professional Athlete-of-the-Year award. Graham received 61 first- place votes and a total of 256" points with middleweight cham pion Ray Robinson second with 200 points and jockey Willie Hartack third with 106 points. Basketball WEDNESDAY COLLEGE SCORES East Georgetown (D.C.) 82. American 63. Fordham 66, Princeton 64. , Duke 109, Clemson 80. Buffalo 77. Puerto Rico 63. Bucknell 79, ' Gettysburg 68. Kings 88, Rutgers 55. Columbia 82, Pennsylvania 74. Temple 80, Villanova 73. " Amherst 83, Brown 67. Army 69. Colgate 58. Boston Univ. 80, Boston Coll. Middlebury 69. Vermont 61. 65. South Maryland St. 82. Hofstra 72. Erskine- 84, Wofford 82. Tennessee 62, Georgia 59. Navy 83, John Hopkins 46. Midwest St. Louis 75, Bradley 67. Toledo 71, Bowling Green 69. Washington (St. L.) 59, S. Illinois 48, Southwest New Mexico 82. Montana 79. Murray Ky. 104, Middle Tenn. 82. Our '52 - '53 -'54 and 55 Oldsmobiles Are More Modern than many new cars. Before you buy consider how much more Automobile you get, for less money, in a nearly new "Rocket" Engine Oldsmobile. Yellow Cab To Play Oregon College J Vs Here Saturday Night - Yellow Cab basketball team, treated somewhat rougher than was generally expected in early season games, takes on their toughest foes to date Saturday night at St. Mary's gym when they face the Oregon College junior, varsity from Monmouth. The game will start at 8 o'clock. Coaches Gene Owens and Lar ry Chamberlain will bring a crew of 14 JVs on the Medford invasion, the first for the crim son and gray of Monmouth. The Oregon College team will aver- May Hurt NAIA Eldon Fix of Lewis and Clark said "the NCAA had to come to this or it would have lost all its small colleges." Fix, who is chairman of the NAIA's dis trict 2 committee, said the North west Conference had been dis appointed by the NCAA. "All they tell us is what we can't do." Al Negratti, coach at Portland University, said he believed there were enough schools for three tournaments. He predicted the NAIA and NCAA tourneys wouldn't hurt each other unless they were held at the same time. Bob Quinn, coach at Eastern Oregon, said "the NAIA has pio neered this thing and I don't see why the NCAA should break in on it now. My first thought is that it won't be so good." Duck, Beaver Quints Prep For PCC Play By UNITED PRESS Oregon and Oregon State bas ketball teams made final pre parations today for week end battles with southland teams, in Pacific Coast conference games. Oregon's Ducks, who now have won four games in a row, open their PCC season in Eugene tomorrow night against the Cal ifornia ' Bears. California split last week with Southern Cal in a series marked by a forfeit of the second game to USC by ref ree Al Lightner after pennies and paper wads were thrown on the floor. The Bears were due in Eugene late todays-for the two-game series. OSC Televised Coach Slats Gill's Oregon State Beavers, with starting guard Ken Nanson on the doubt ful list, meet Southern Calif ornia in a pair at Los Angeles. The second game will be region ally-televised Saturday after noon. . Nanson "has been suffering from an ear infection. If he is unable to start, Wayne Moss may move into the center spot, Dave Gambee to a forward and Dick Wilson to Nanson's guard spot. For Action, Use Tribune Want Ads o e o VALUE-'53 OLDS Super 88 4-door sedan. Powerful 165 horsepower Rocket Engine. A local car with reasonable miles and loaded with extras including power steering and power brakes. SAFETY TESTED AND GUARANTEED. LOOK '53 OLDS Super 88 4-door sedan. This beautiful car has washable nylon upholstery, two-tone paint, radio, heater and hydramatie. EXTRA GOOD MECHANICAL CONDITION. GOOD TIRES. age just a shade under six feet in height and while they lack the altitude of most present-day :: hoopsters, they are said to make up for it in speed and shooting ; accuracy. . 1 Scheduled to make the trip ; to Medford are Larry Buss. ; Portland; Stan Kenyon, Junc tion City; Tony Peterson, Junc tion City; Dewayne Crabb, Har ; risburg; Phil Estergaard, Har- j risburg; Les Birdsall, Sweet -Home; Doral Wodsey, Newport; Gary Milton, Baker; Bill Mul- ;. lin, Tigard; George Marlatt, Jef- : ferson; . Ray Tozer, Amity; Ed . Erickson, Reedsport; Pepper J Baker, Myrtle Point and Ralph Johnson, Junction City. Crabb and Estergard w r e members of the Harrisburg 1954 class B state champions. j Ho! man TKO j Victor Over j Satterfield j Chicago (U.R) Johnny i Holman, a 28-year-old heavy- weight who was knocked out ; twice by Bob Satterfield, J found a charm in his third at- tempt and hence today was a major factor in an elimination ' tourney to find a challenger , for champion Rocky Mar ciano. ; Holman finished Satterfield, 'j ranked fourth among the heavy- weight challengers, with a vie- j ious right hand for a technical ; knockout triumph at 2:52 of the ) eighth round of their Chicago : Stadium TV bout Wednesday j Ulglll. Immediately it was announc- j ed that Holman's triumph earn- ; ed him a Febi 17 date in Madison ; Square Garden against either Nino Valdes ranked third, ; among the challengers, or the : winner of the Hurricane Jack- " son-Bob Baker bout. Baker was . ranked second, ahead of Valdes. Cold As Ice - - ' Satterfield, who had won over both Baker and Valdes earlier ; to win his ranking, was cold as ice against Holman. He looked fast in the first round until he ; ffrpw f aiitiniis ripransp "Holman ' o - , , -1 1 1, ,1 was DiocKing weu. Then he was tagged with . a right cross and floored him for a nine count in the second round and barely managed to finish the session. In the third he ran : into two more potent rights and went down' for an eight count. Thereafter it was Holman by an ever widening margin until i i j i . ;ut lie puaucu iiwinv- a liiuouiiig iigui, hand with surprising speed in the eighth. Satterfield dropped on his back and though he was on his feet at eight, Referee Bernie brawL Weisman halted the Los Angeles (U.R) Notre Dame and the University of California have signed to meet in a home-and-home football se ries in 1959 and 1960. The first game will be played at Berkeley, Calif., Oct. 10, 1959 and the sec ond at South Bend, Ind., on Sept. 24, 1960. MQl
