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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Medford- Tornado Whirls To 73-64 Victory Over Pelicans Medford Leads Conference Race A furious wooshing Medford Black Tornado whirlwinded to a bulging lead and blasted two big "Whitebird comeback at tempts Friday night to blow over the tall Klamath union high Pelicans 73 to 64 in a con flict of Southern Oregon Con ference basketball leaders. Medford, in one of its familiar displays of blazing, brilliant hustle, whished to its third vic tory in as many league tries and took over alone and un marred the top position in the conference race. The wind-blast plucking was Klamath's first in the circuit for the season. But the outcome marked the seventh consecutive loss overlapping three seasons that the Pels had suffered before the Medford gale. While the Medfordites were storming, Grants Pass slipped by Ashland's0 Grizzlies 58 to 55 for the initial Caveman win of 1956 in the loop. Shooting Torrid Torrid firing from the field, paced by Bob Tisdel, and terrif ic work for sweeping control of the backboards, led by Dick McLaughlin, during the first half, offset the Pelican advan tage in height and were the maior elements in the victory. Medford also generally out hustled Klamath through the night. But, after building up a commanding 20 - point margin, the Tornadpes had to choke off rallies which cut the bulge to 10 points in the third chukker and to a slender six in the final moments of the fray. Tisdel was the scoring ace of the night with 11 field goals and five gift shots for 27 points and Neil Plumley, Dick Copple and Tisdel were the rebound retrieving forces, along with McLaughlin, in the stirring Medford performance. Copple collected 13 points and John Foust 11 for the Tornado. Glenn Moore waSx the main Pel threat to the Pear Capital quint. The 6-foot 6-inch center collected 17 markers and pick ed off 10 rebounds. Earle Tiche nor, 6-5, got 12 points and Butch Kimpton 11 for KF. Pels Held Down Medford ran up a 21 to 14 first quarter lead. Its defense limited the high-reaching Peli cans to just two field buckets in the period but the Klamath ites were sharp at the free line, making 10 of 14 tries to keep within striking distance. The Tornado increased Its spread to 14 points by halftime at 39 to 25. In the third panel the Medford club ran its count to 51 to 31, the 20-point lead." At that stage the Pels deter minedly settled down to work. Moore plunked in two field goals and Kimpton, . Tichenor and Dave Pepple each one to whittle their deficit down to 51 to 41. Medford quelled the uprising, and was on top by 12 tallies, 55 to 43 at the third in termission. The Tornado edge went to 59 to 45 early in the stanza and was 15 counters at 67 to 52 four minutes from the final horn. Advantage Trimmed Klamath got clicking again. Moore collected a couple offield buckets and Mike Runge a pair of free points. Then , Kimpton and Lee McGill scored on swipes. Larry Perkins in the meantime had hit from the free line for a lone Medford point. That whacked the Tornado ad vantage to 68 to 62. The lead was strengthened when Foust pwt in a free toss and he and Copple broke for successive cripple shots. Kimp ton sank a goal at the buzzer to complete the scoring. Action saw Tichenor and Plumley charged with their fourth personal - fouls and re moved from the action in the latter part of the second quar ter. Plumley fouled out with 10 seconds to clay in the third period and Tisdel was sent to the bench with his fifth in Hornets Rap Eagle Point Hedrick junior high outclas ed the Eagle Point freshman squad 59 to 37 in a Friday fracas. Fourteen Hornets got into ac tion as the Medford quint re corded quarter scores of 17 to 7, 38 to 17 and 49 to 22. John Harvey tallied 14 and Don Peek 12 points for Hedrick and Steve Charters and Huff man 11 each for the Eagles. LINE-CPS: Hedrick 59 Peek 12 Whaley 6 Rasmussen 10 J. Harvey 14 37 Eagle Point 2 Gerbing 11 Huffman 4 Hubbard 11 Charters T. Monroe 2 4 Hay Substitutions For Hedrick. R. Har vey. Bromley. Jones. Winetrout 6, DeVore. Emmens 1. Phair. R. Monroe 6. Cripe 2; for Eagle Point, Sharp 1, McLour 4, Hooper, Collet. When disaster strikes a com munity, the National Guard is the first to pitch in and help. Two fifths of the AEF in World War I was made up of. National Guard divisions. MAIL TRIBUNE fraction with a . bit less than ZVz minutes remaining in the game. Lead Taken Early Tichenor hit from the field for the first markers of the eve ning but Copple and Tisdel fol lowed with fielders and Coach F r a n'k Roelandt's Tornado charges never trailed after that and they compiled a 9 to 2 score before the Pels found the hemp again. The Medfordites pumped the ball through the hoop at better than .500 average for the first half and full game mark for the Roelandtmen was .397. They shot 73 times and made 29. Coach Don Peterson's Pels fired 22 for 59 for .373. Medford also won the junior varsity encounter 62 to 46. The junior Tornado lagged Klam ath 13 to 15 at the quarter but was ahead 26 to 22 halftime and boomed to 53 to 32 control in the third canto. Richard Puhl collected 15 points and Jay Mul len 14 for Medford while Cal Fanfare Attention of this writer has been called to an apparent mis understanding in the Phoenix school district. It prompts this comment The election Monday in the district has. nothing strictly nothing to do with the athletic status of Phoenix high school. The school district this fall became first class for adminis trative purposes when the cen sus showed more than 1,000 school-age youngsters for the en tire district. Phoenix- high with an enrollment of just over 200 students is in A-2 category for athletics something entirely different. Administrative Issue Puropose of the election Mon day is simply to make Phoenix entirely independent of the Jackson county rural school district.- It's an administrative and financial issue. Phoneix high has been an A-2 athletic competitor for a num ber of years and will remain so until the average membership, in the high school alone, reach es 500. That time appears to be a long way off. No Immediate Change There are no immediate plans to install glass backboards on the main basketball court at Hedrick junior high school, home court for Medford senior high contests. That's the word from Leonard Mayfield, super intendent of Medford schools. However, he says, that does not mean that glass may not event ually replace -the present white- painted metal fan-shaped type. From recent conversations its apparent that a number of people expected the glass boards would be included with the baskets and support appartus for the new gym. Mayfield, who took up the city school reins last August, says that so far as he knows, they were not plan ned and were not in the original order. To Enhance View Actual purpose of glass is to enhance the view of spectators in high seats behind backboards. Since end bleachers at Hedrick are low running five rows up from the floor level glass boards weren't considered nec essary. On top of that the glass type costs some $300 to $400 more than the metal fan type. Advantage here would be to provide Medford senior high cagers with ' the same type of Lightburn Gets Split Decision San Francisco U.R) Young Ludwig Lightburn, a 135-pound hurricane from Brit ish Honduras, flew ack to New York yesterday to "sit and wait for an offer" after scoring a hairline split decision over California's Joey Lopes in a 10 round TV main event. Neither Lightburn nor Lopes will be fighting anybody for a week or so at least as both men came out of Friday night's go with eye cuts that will' take some healing. Real Tough Nursing a lump the size 6f a golf ball and an inch-long cut over his left eye, the 21-year- old Lightburn laid on his back in the dressing room and allow ed as how Lopes was "a real tough boy." Off to a slow start due to his inability to solve Lopes' sneak rights, the Carribean boy hit his stride in the third when he started beating Lopes - at the counterpunching game. Lopes weighed 137V- and Lightburn 139V4. MedfordMIobuije '- mmm i -- I Sunday, January 15, 19SS Tichenor and Dan Shaw were Pel leaders with eight each. SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS (Friday night) W. . 3 . 2 . 1 . 0 L. 0 X 2 3 Pet. 1.000 .667 .333 .000 Medford Klamath Falls Grants Pass . Ashland BOX: Medford Copple, f McLaughlin, Plumley, c . Tisdel. g Cearley. g . L. Perkins Foust Stearns Totals FG FT PF TP 6 14 13 1 3 5 0 2 3 0 7 5 27 6 4 11 0 -29 15 21 73 TP 12 11 17 4 Klamath Falls Tichenor, f Kimpton, f Moore, e FG FT PF 4 4 4 5 3 0 1 1 2 0 4 0 0 Taucher, g Pepple, g McGill Sutherland Burke Kunge O. Perkins Douglas Totals 5 3 6 0 6 0 22 20 16 64 Referees: Joe Zarosinski and Clar ence Mellbye. By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor boards that are used by a num ber of rival schools. In the Southern Oregon Conference, in which Medford competes, Grants Pass and Ashland have glass boards and Klamath Falls re portedly is pondering such in stallation. A number of observers feel that playing on a court with backboards different from which a player is accustomed produces at least a psychological disad vantage. But that's a factor which could work both ways with players accustomed to glass boards at a possible dis advantage on courts with the white metal type. Red Raiders Romp Over OCE 88-59 By UNITED PRESS Eastern Oregon College of Ed ucation defeated Oregon Tech, 84-72, and Southern Oregon Col lege of Education tripped Oregon College of Education, 88-59,. in Oregon Collegiate conference basketball games Friday night. The Eastern Oregon Moun taineers maintained their tie for first place with three straight wins with Ted Schadewitz lead ing the way at La Grande. The slick Mountaineer scored 28 points. -Eastern Oregon led, 37 31, at halftime. Little Trouble At Dallas, Southern Oregon had little trouble handing OCE its 10th consecutive loss of the season. The game started as close affair but the Red Raiders began pulling away and led by a comfortable 30-17 margin. Lloyd Hoffine scored 23 points for Southern Oregon while teammate Bill Hollings worth was scoring 22. Ron Jon es paced OCE with 13. Portland State, which shares the OCC lead with Eastern Ore gon, went outside the conference to down St. Martin's at Olympia, Wash., 87-70. soc Hoffine. f Hollingsworth, f Titus, c . Bates, g Crandall, g Munsell, f FG FT PF TP -10 3 3 23 22 5 13 Depuy, f Lowrance, a Carlile, g Biddington g Totals -27 31 16 88 OCE Rogers, f Hoy, f Jones, f Young, f Adams, f Janes, c . Zitek, c Andrick, o Girod, g Summers, g Miller, g Bass, g Totals .. FG FT PF TP 0 3 5 3 : li 6 0 0 0 ' 0 0 4 2 2 13 -.19 21 33 59 Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a.m Monday for iwonaay; otneraays 5:30 previous day Free Flat U of O Nudges California 63-62 in Coast Conference Eugene (U.R) The Oregon, Ducks outswapped the Cali fornia Sears in a Pacific Coast Conference battle here Friday night by a score of 63-62. Oregon came close to losing its first conference game of the season in the final seconds when Duane Asplund drove through for a layup for the Bears and was fouled by Oregon's Bill Moore. Asplund made the free throw and cut Oregon's margin to one point with 37 seconds to play. Aspund was again fouled on a drive from the basket by Max Anderson with nine seconds to go but Asplund missed both free throws. The game was tied five times and, the lead changed hands seven times. Oregon held a 33 31 margin at half time. Biggest spread in the score was a 43-37 advantage held by the Ducks midway through the second half. Bears Tie Game ' . Oregon had a 12-4 advantage in the first quarter as the Bears tried a forecourt press. After three straight breaks down the floor by the Ducks, the Bear abandoned the tactic. They came back and tied the score at 18 all and then held Oregon to a 29-26 score before Johnny Lun- dell and Charley Franklin team ed to give the Ducks seven straight points. ( Ray Bell, an Oregon forward. held previously high -scoring Larry Friend of California ' to two baskets and Friend was fin ally removed from the game. -.an Robinson of California topped the scoring with 27 points, followed by Oregon's Anderson with 22. Robinson got ii out oi li at the free throw line. Oregon Bell, f .... Moore, f FG . 4 - 1 - 7 .. 2 FT 0- 1 2- 2 8-11 3- 4 PF TP 5 8 2 4 4 11 3 7 Anderson, c . McHugh, g .... Dons Equal College Win Records By TIM MORIARTY United Press Sports Writer The San Francisco Dons, who have been teaching their oppon ents the finer rudiments of bas ketball with amazing success, called a 15-day time out for classroom tests after equalling the major college record for con secutive victories. Coach Phil Woolper't's top ranked Dons extended their vic tory skein through 39 games Fri day night by downing Fresno State 69-50. Ironically, it was their 13th straight of the cur rent campaign and was posted on Friday the 13th. The Dons' latest triumph put them in a class with two famous teams the 1937 Long Island uni versity squad and the 1942 Se ton Hall quintet. However, they both needed three seasons to reach No. 39, while San Fran cisco has turned the trick in less than two full seasons. After taking time out for mid year examinations, the Dons will attempt to set a new major col lege mark when they resume ac tion against California at Berke ley, Jan. 28. Athletes Gather For Olympics Cortina, Italy U.R) Olym pic athletes from all corners of the world, including the first Russians, trooped into this .win ter games site last night and work gangs put the finishing preparations on Cortma's $4,- 800,000 worth of tracks, rinks and slides. With the seventh winter Olympics only 12 days away, omcial practice will get under way Sunday morning when eager bobsled teams from the United States and nine other countries match their skill and courage on the precipitious Olympic slide. HOOT EVERS HITS St. Petersburg, Fla. ttJ.R) Outfielder Hoot Everg of the Cleveland Indians showed the old timers today that the mod ern era sluggers can still deliv er when it's needed. Evers hit a three-run homer in the last inning to give American leag uers an 8-4 victory over the Na tionals at Al Lang field. Some 3,000 fans saw the game played for the March of Dimes. Tire Repairs It's the O.K. Rubber Welders, the place where the boys like their tire work, forthe best tire deal of the year. In January it's free flat tire card month. Just stop in, no obligation, and pick up your free flat tire cardIt's good for one full year and means that. you will have all your flat tires on your car fixed free for one full year. Ross, g 3- 4 1- 3 0- 0 2- 2 Franklin, f Duffy, c Lundell, g - Totals ..22 19-27 18 California Blake, f FG FT 3- 4 0- 0 4- 9 11-13 0- 4 0- 0 0- 1 0- 0 0- 0 0- 0 PF TP 2 11 4 2 Friend, f 4 6 Asplund, c 1 Robinson, g 8 Arrillago. g 3 Mastrop, f 0 Mcintosh, 1 3 Hagler, c 0 Hess, g 1 Washington 0 27 6 0 6 0 2 0 62 Totals ..22 18-31 16 Y, Phoenix Priming for MIBL Scrape YMCA and Phoenix Mer chants fight to break their sec ond place deadlock in a Mon day night feature as the sixth we.ek of play begins in the Medford Independent basket ball league. Hawkinson Tire Tread will be out to take advantage . of a chance to gain a tie for third place in the loop. The Tiremen oppose upsurging Company A of the National Guard at 7 p.m. at McLoughlin junior high Phoenix and YMCA follow at 8:30 p.m. The Y and the Merchants have split in previous hassles this season, YMCA winning in league play and Phoenix in a holiday practice encounter. Sizeable Chore . Hawkinson's faces a sizeable chore against Company A, who bumped over league-leading Prospect last week. However, if the Tire team makes the most of its opportunity, it will have a chance to climb even higher on Tuesday. It will face YMCA in the second Tuesday night scrape at McLoughlin gym. Butte Falls takes on the Moose Lodge in the 7 p.m. start er. Wednesday night's first game on the junior high court match' es the two National Guard units, Headquarters Company and Company A. Phoenix and Moose collide in the second ruckus. Seventh and final mix of the week will be Thursday when Headquarters journeys to Pros pect. NBA Vote Favors Ban Chicago (U.R) The Na tional Boxing association execu tive committee Saturday voted full support of New York's ban against the manager's guild and recommended recognition by members of all suspensions im posed under the ruling. However, the action was only a recommendation to the NBA membership and will not become compulsory until approved by the annual convention, schedul ed in Havana, Cuba, next fall Further, Henry Lamar of Massa chusetts, acting secretary of the meeting, pointed out that the convention could reverse the ac tion. The resolution, proposed by NBA President Lou Radzienda of Illinois, was approved unani mously by the 14 members at tending the meeting. It called up on the NBA and all members to give "full support to the ' New York State Athletic commission ruling" and to "recognize all suspensions pertaining to the same." Two additional resolutions to "put teeth" into the support also were approved. One requested members to require that a pro moter, manager, boxer, trainer, second or matchmaker must be licensed in his home state before he can obtain a license In an other state, and the second call ed upon "every state in the coun try" to uphold any suspension, revocation or denial of a license in any other state. Seattle Steams Over Portland Seattle (U.R) Seattle Univer sity turned on the steam in the second half to overcome a Un iversity of Portland lead and go on to defeat the Pilots, 88-77, here last night' in a rousing basketball game. Big guns in the Chieftain at tack were Dick Stricklin who poured in 22 points and Cal Bauer who hit for 20 to over come a 40-34 Portland halftime lead. Jim Winters led the Pilots with 19. Dick Fanger's 1760 No. Riverside Phone 2-5868 High School Scores FRIDAY BASKETBALL, Portland Schools: Grant 64, Benson 47 Franklin 64, Washington 60 . Lincoln 54. Roosevelt 45 Jefferson 74, Cleveland 55 Concordia 48. McLaren 43 Upstate Schools: Beaverton 58. Oregon City 51 McMinnville 51, Hillsboro 49 (over time) Eugene 60. Milwaukie 58 (overtime) Corvallis 51. North Salem 41 Albany 61, South Salem 52 Forest Grove 40. West Linn 29 OCE Frosh 69, Dallas 68 Fall City 66, Verboort 52 ' Woodburn 44, Gervais 43 St. Helens 67. Wy' East 51 Grant Union 60. Nyssa 50 Silverton 59, Mt. Angel 43 . Redmond 42. Madras 40 Burns 70, Prineville 65 Drain 49, Junction City 45 Vernonia 68, Scappoose 56 Newport 60, Philomath 58 Taft 50, Waldport 30 Nehalem 47. Star of Sea 43 WUlamina 67. Yamhill 52 Sheridan 58, Banks 50 Hermiston 75. The Dalles 56 Tillamook 56, Neahkahnie 51 Sutherlin 44, Glendale 32 Maupin 72, Moro 54 Scio 55, St. Paul 32 Stayton 47, Serra 35 Warrenton 48, Rainier 48 Culver 61, Sisters 53 Mac Hi 49, Baker 47 Sweet Home 49, Lebanon 35 , Colton 51, Perrydale 15 Central Monmouth . 49, Estacada 47 Medford 73, Klamath Falls 64 Siuslaw 61, Bandon 60 Phoenix 51. Crater 40 Grants Pass 58, Ashland 55 St. Mary's (The Dalles) 44, Dufur 40 Tigard 37, Newberg 34 Gresham 50. Sandy 40 Talent 59. Jacksonville 37 Gold Beach 84, North Bend JV 75 Pendleton 50. La Grande 28 St. Francis 67, Pleasant Hill 44 Willamette 56. Creswell 46 " Elgin 64, Powder Valley 56 Huntington 57, Hereford 33 OSC Rooks 31. Canby 8 West Picked Over East Los Angeles (U.R) The West was installed as a one-toucn-down favorite . to shellack the East in the annual pro bowl football bame- here today and if the odds hold up, dt will break a jinx for home teams on west ern gridirons this winter. East defeated west in the Shrine game, Cleveland beat Los Angeles in the pro play offs and Michigan state whipped UCLA in the Rose Bowl. This one could be different. West Coach Sid Gillman thinks thinks his team will win, and a lot of fans think the same way. In fact, about 40,000 will traipse into the coliseum to wit ness the battle of the titanics. There will be no radio or tele-, vision of the game. HUMEZ BEATS STRETZ Berlin (U.R) Charles Humez of France, the European middle weight champion, outpointed Hans Stretz of Germany Friday night in a 10-round non-title bout before 9,000 fans. RUSSIANS WIN Basle; Switzerland (U.R) Russia's hockey team scored its third straight victory over Swit zerland Friday when it downed the Swiss, 7-2. The Russians have out-scored the Swiss, 20-7, in the games. The T2G! 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The ex-Duke footballer booted an opportunity to take over sole leadership as he bogied the fin al three holes for a 71, which added to his 64 of yesterday gave him 135. Defending Champion Middle coff had one of the .more con sistent rounds of the day put ting together six birdies and one double-bogey for a 68 to add to his 66 of yesterday. Biggest disappointment of the day was the play of sentimental favorite bronzed Ben Hogan, who limped in with a one-over-par 73 at Monterey. This, coup led with his first round 67 left him six strokes back of the lead ers. Obviously tired from his eight months self-imposed retirement, and still showing the effects of his near-fatal auto accident five years ago, the little master hob bled off the 18th green on pure grit alone. PREXY REELECTED New York (U.R) George D. Widener was re-elected chairman of the Jockey Club Friday. JANUARY SPECIAL! CHEVROLET BRAKE RE LINE 1937 TO 1955 MODELS , Inspect Axe! 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Twenty-eight races grossed $100,000 or more for a new high. , OBEDIENCE For PURE BRED DOGS New Classes Starting Jan. 18 BEGINNERS 7 P.M. to 8 P.M. ADVANCED NOVICE-8 P.M. to 9 P.M. Sponsored by: SOUTHERN OREGON KEIIF1EL GLU3 Phone 2-9333 for Registration Inspect Brake Drums Check Master Cylinder Replace Brake Lining Fill With Brake Fluid Chevrolet Phone 2-6115 fS)7 129 South UNi II Central 88 Mr la EXTRA SPECIAL School Jackets Reg. 14.95 Leather C gg Insert Jackets Rain Coats New Franklin Building
