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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, January 30, 1956 Crucial Play Tonight in City League Tough foes tonight stand in the way of Hawkinson Tire Tread and Company A of the Na tional Guard, who each have their sights on the one remain ing berth0 for the Medjord Inde pendent Basketball League in AAU sub-district play-offs. Hawkinson's takes on Pros pect, which is already the regu lar season champ with only one loss in the loop charged against it. The game will be at Prospect. Company A meets Butte Falls, a club out of the running but no pushover in the circuit. Thgjnix will be at 7 p.m. at McLoughlin junior high here. . Tiremen Third ' The Tiremen, now in third place, will cinch a tie for second and the play-off berth with a win tonight. Company A fourth-ranking and a game behind Hawkin son's, needs the combination of a verdict over Butte Falls Srfd a Tread team loss to tie for third and fSrce an extra game. Tussles tonight are the final one of the regular slate for both Hawkin son's and the Guardsmen. In an 8:30 p.m.' fray at Mc Loughlin tonight, YMCA wiD play a non-league crew, the inde pendent Raiders club of Ashland. Y has completed regular MIBL play and is certain of a tie for second and a subdistrict run-off spot along with Pr6spect. PCC Chase Turns Hot PCC STANDINGS Conference Games Team UCLA .. use Washington Stanford California Oregon . .... OSC WSC Idaho All Games Team UCLA ........ use Washington Stanford California -. Oregon OSC WSC t Idaho .. W h PF PA . 4 0 351 276 . 5 1 408 221 . 5 1 394 3M .6 2 532 459 . 2.2 234 258 . 2 4 386 .2 6 451 5-3 . 1 5 339 iZ . 1 7 508 602 W L PF PA 9 5 1068 953 ,9 6 903 807 9 7 1070 1023 13 2 964 847 .9 4 808 751 . 8 8 1077 1027 5 13 1035 1126 . 3 13 880 1063 . 3 14 1066 1278 By UNITED PRESS A red-hot basketball race is shaping up in the Pacific Coast conference. Washington, which takes on first place UCLA next week, re mained deadlocked with South ern California for second place as each club swept its week end series. Stanford also kept in the running by posting a brace of wins over Oregon while the Bruins tuned up for next Sat urday's Huskies invasion by trouncing Arizona (Tempe) State 99-79. "i , California, having failed to "freeze" the Dons out of their 40th straight win, plays host to an Oregon State club that is having a rocky season. Th'e Beavers were belted twice by Washington, losing Sat urday night's game 83-63. Southern California with Jack Lovrich and Jack Dunne com bining for 35 points, walloped last place Idaho 73-59 to hand the Vandals their 14th straight loss in 17 games this season. Stanford downed Oregon in a televised game Saturday after noon 73-60. B League Games Tuesday; St. Mary's, Prospect Vie Second half slates get under way this week for prep basket ball contingents of the Kogue and Jackson County B Leagues but only non-league scrapes are scheduled for teams of the Southern Oregon Conference. B leaguers start out the bill-of-fare for the week with three games on Tuesday. St. Mary's of Medford is host to one of its tougher rivals of the circuit as it tries to maintain its unbeaten status against Prospect. Second place Talent will go to Butte Fall prepared for stiff competi tion. . Rogue River will be the favorite at Jacksonville. Another threesome of B games will be on Friday with Talent at Jacksonville, Butte Falls at St. Mary's and Rogue River at Prospect. Rogue loop play resumes after a midway pause in which there was some non-league activity. Phoenix will go to Eagle Point on Friday and entertain the Eagles on Saturday. Crater versus Illinois Valley games are billed for Friday at Cave Junc tion and Saturday at Central Point. Medford Plays Saturday Phoenix is unmarred after the first round of six games, while Crater and Eagle Point are dead locked with 3-3 marks. Illinois Valley has failed to win a game so far this season. . Medford of the Southern Ore gon Conference will be host to Roseburg on Saturday and Ash land will traveLto Yreka, Calif., the same evening. The Black Tornado-Roseburg , tangle was originally billed for December 23. It was postponed at Roseburg request because of bad weather, flood and road conditions. Conference play for Medford won't resume until February 10 and 11 when the Tornado plays Ashland. Grants Pass goes to Klamath Falls the same week end. - MedfordTmbune lorth Bend Bulldogs ally To Rip Tornado Flink Cops Holiday Toga Lee Flink with a 164 total was winner in the holiday handi cap golf tourney aRogue Val ley Country club. He had point scores of 42-42-41-39 for his four best 18 hole rounds. Points were given on the basis of one for a bogey, two for a par, three for a birdie, five for an eagle and 10 for a double eagle. The t o u r,n e y opened Thanksgiving day and ended Sunday. v ., . ' Travis was second with. 160 He had one round of 48, highest single total of the tourney, help ed by a double eagle. Larry But ler was third with 158. A. C. Broyles had 149 and Loyd Pope 147. 1 Broyles was winner in the week end sweepstakes which realized $25 for the March of Dimes. He had a 69Qnet. Stan Stark was next with 70 and Jim Dunley and Ed Hall follow ed with 70s. Blind bogey winners were Butler and Bill ' Kalibak with 78s, Nelson Gallant and Warren Deakins Sr., witi 78s and Deane Lambert with 85. Portland Nabs 2nd From Zags Portland (U.R) The Uni versity of Portland's Pilots made it two in a row over invading Gonzaga of Spokane here last night with a narrow 76-73 decision. The action was a far cry for the Pilots from their easy 91-66 route of the Bulldogs in their initial meeting of the season a night earlier. Little Jimmy Winters, Port land's dynamic floorman who only the night before set a new four-year scoring for the Pilots: topped the game's scorers as h collected 31 points. North Bend high's stubborn, persistent Bulldogs, thwarted for most of three quarters in efforts to overtake the visiting Medford hoop aggregation, scampered out to swish through 12 consecutive markers in the last three min utes Saturday to tumble the Black Tornado 79 to 73. Medford led 73 to 67 with 3Va minutes to play but went scoreless from there to the fin ish as North Bend capitalized on its pressing defense, a couple of Tornado broken dribbles, a Medford "lost" ball, a steal, a fast break and free shots to garner its triumph over one of the top rated clubs in the state. The Bulldog final splurge wasn't exactly a surprise. North Bend had alternately lagged and then surged to close the gap prior to its successful push. The Black Tornado went into the final panel , of the contest leading 60 to 56:, North Bend sliced the margin to 60 to 57 and 62 to 59 on two free shots by Bob Jacobsen and one by Sam Hyatt as Bob Tisdel sank a field er for Medford. The Tornado then built up its advantage to seven points at 72 to 65 on field buckets by Dick McLaughlin and Tisdel, four free shots by Tisdel and two by John Foust as Jacobs and Bert - Why hit twice from the-free stripe and Chuck Whittick once from the field for the coast team. Why Ties Game McLaughlin tallied Medford's final point and Thompson sank a follow shot for NB for the 73 to 67 situation. Jack Shanlev pushed in a goal and Thompson pair of gifters for 73 to 71 Bert Why tied up the fray for tne .Bulldogs on a steal and then put his club on the top for the first time since the start: of the second quarter with a bucket off a fast break. ., Shanley and Whittick padded out the margin with a brace apiece of free shots. In the meantime Medford had lost some of its scoring power. Tis del, the high point man for the night with 26, was sidelined with his fifth foul. Medford paced by Neil Plum- ley and his towering height took two to four point leads after the opening moments of the first quarter but, after a 16 to 12 Medford spread, North Bend pulled up and shoved ahead 19 to 16 with Whittick getting two. field goals to provide the lead. Plumley hit his fifth field goal of the quarter and the coast gang headed 19 to 18 at the intermission. Medford Regains Lead In the second canto Tisdel put Medford on top with two free buckets. Then the Tornado, pac ed by the strong backboard play of Plumley, McLaughlin, Foust and Dick Copple and the shoot- ing-of Plumley and Tisdel, went on top 32 to 21 and 34 to 23. Plumley, who had scored all his 16 points to this stage, was removed after his third foul. That evened the situation under the backboard for the Bulldogs and they began an upward club. They caught up with the Tor nado at 36-all on a basket by Shanley but Copple amazed the crowd by firing a goal from side court at the buzzer. Medford had a halftime edge of 38 to 36. The Tornado worked to a 46 to 38 lead in the opening min utes of the third quarter. North Bend cut it to 46 to 43. Medford upped its gap to nine points at 56 to 47 but at this point, with three minutes to go in the panel, Medford lost Plumley for good on the big center's fifth foul. That meant that the Tornado was without his height for the last 11 minutes of the game. Basketball SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES By United Presi (East) Villanova 88 Delaware 62 St. Josephs (Pa.) 72 Penn 60 Duquesne 70 St. Bonaventure 60 Canisius 81 Creighton 65 Lafayette 78 Albright 74 Fordham 64 Army 46 Connecticut 82 Colgate 80 Georgetown (DC) 77 Providence 51 Siena 78 Manhattan 73 Temple 93 Navy 74 Niagara 80 Scranton 57 (South) Virginia 78 VMI 77 Tenn. Tech 101 Western Ky. 79 North Car. St. 82 St. Johns (NY5 70 La Salle 74 Richmond 59 Vanderbilt 81 Kentucky 73 Georgia Tech 73 Tennessee 72 West Virginia 76 Furman 73 Alabama 99 Georgia 75 Arkansts 85 Mississippi 69 Wake Forest 104 Clemson 103 " . Auburn 73 Jacksonville St. 64 (Midwest) Illinois 80 De Paul 66 Bradley 65 Marquette 57 St. Louis 104 Cincinnati 86 Louisville 66 Dayton 64 (OT) Detroit 89 Drake 77 Minnesota 83 Northwestern 67 Michigan St. 94 Ohio State 91 Iowa St. 71 Oklahoma 59 (Southwest) SMU 105 TCU 64 Tulsa 46 Oklahoma A&M 42 Houston 104 Trinity 62 Hardin-Simmons 90 How. Payne 86 UCLA 99 Arizona (Tempe) St. 75 (West) Washington 83 Oregon St. 63 Stanford 73 Oregon 60 Denver 78 Regis 68 Colorado A&M 66 Wyoming 56 San Francisco 33 California 24 Southern Cal 73 Idaho 59 Fresno St. 88 San Diego St. 86 (OT) College of Pacific 68 Nevada 59 Montana 69 Montana State 67 Utah 89 Hawaii 85 St. Francis (Pa) 95 Seattle 88 Portland 91 Gonzaga 66 . Oregon Tech 66 Oregon College 61 Portland St. 103 Eastern Oregon 85 . Linfield 73 Lewis and Clark 68 Chico State 77 Humboldt State 51 S. F. State 77, Sacramento St. 53 Santa Barbara St. 68 Occidental 62 Poly 79 Long Beach 59 Idaho St. 92 Colo. Western 81 Pacific Luth. 83 Eastern Wash. 68 Seattle Pacific 69 Taylor 52 British Columbia 59 Cen. Wash. 5 Whitworth 74 Puget Sound 62 Dons Set Big School Record ; Shoot for 55 After a Medford lead of 58 to the gap began to diminish. Dennis' Smith got a free shot and Thompson scored for 58 to 52. Cearley made it 60 to 52 for Medford but Whittick and Shan ley tallied for the Bulldogs for the 60 to 56 third period stand ing- North Bend's opportunity and ability to retaliate at the free throw line for Medford field goals enabled it to keep in the game and be in position for the final rally. The Bulldoes sot ,31 gifters out of 38 tries to Med ford's 19 for 26. Medford had the edge in field goals 27 to 24. McLaughlin, Tisdel and Plum ley turned in top performances for the Tornado: McLauehlin shone on defense and under the boards, supplementing the scor ing and rebounding work of Plumley and the firing of Tisdel. Plumley's 16 counters were sec ond high to Tisdel's 26 for Med ford. McLaughlin counted up 13. bnaniey had 20 points for North Bend and Whittick 18. Plumley saw only 16 minutes playing time of the 32 because of the personal infractions charg ed against him Medford will play Roseburg next Saturday night in a non conference game here. The date with the Indians was confirmed this morning. BOX SCORE: North Bend Shanley. f Jacobsen, f . l carver, c Fiore Favored To Lick Poirier New York (U.R) Welter weight Carmine Fiore is favored at 7Vz to 5 to beat Gene Poirier tonight' in their return TV 10- rounder at St. Nicholas arena, although Poirier held him to a draw in the same ring on Dec. 19..:. , : : :':;Vv;-; . ;.-... Neither Fiore of Brooklyn nor Poirier of Niagara Falls, N.Y., fought since then. Left-hooker Carmine is fav ored because of his greater ex perience and harder punch, and because he is expected to be "sharper" than in December. That was only his second bout after a 13-month layoff. By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer -J National champion San Fran cisco, which "walked" to a new major-college record of 40 straight victories, promised "no letdown" today as it drove to ward theall-time all-college rec ord of 55 straight triumphs. The Dons won No. 40 Satur day night when they overcame a freak stall to beat California, 33-24. The historic conquest sol- ified their hold on the No. 1 na tional ranking for it came on the same night that arch-rival Dayton was ousted from the unbeaten ranks by Louisville, 66-64, in overtime. The 40 straight tops the old major-college mark of 39 straight held by Long Island University (1935-36) and Seton Hall (1940-41). Now the target is the string of 55 wins compiled by Peru, Nebr. State Teachers from 1921- 26, which stands as ' the small college and all-college records. San Francisco has 11 more regu lar games to play so an all- conquering career would carry the Dons past this figure in the late stages of the NCAA tourn ament. The Dons try to take over the lone unbeaten lead in the Cali fornia basketball association and win their 41st tilt Tuesday night when they play San Jose State. , Then they play Loyola, Calif., Friday. The Spartans are on top of the loop with a 4-0 record while-4 USF, which is 3-0, mathemati cally trails by half a 'game. Dayton, which had won 14 straight", bowed in a hectic game on its home court as Louisville, ranked No. 10 nationally by the United Press Board of Coaches, pushed its season record to 16-1. Kentucky, ranked No. 4 na tionally, was another major up set victim bowing to eighth ranked Vanderbilt, 81-73. The loss was. the Wildcats' first in Southeastern conference play and dropped them into third place. Two other teams ranked in the top 20 nationally were upset 16th-ranked Cincinnati by St. Louis, 104-86, and 19th ranked Marquette by Bradley, 65-57. Illinois, ranked No. 3 nation ally, paced the other victorious ranked teams with an 80-66 win over DePaul. Illinois now has an 11-1 record. Vic Seixas Winner At Hollywood Beach "'. Hollywood Beach, Fla. (U.R) A virus ailment didn't stop Vic Seixas from winning the singles crown and teaming with Ar mando Vieira of Brazil to grab the doubles championship at the Hollywood Beach invitational tennis tournament. Seixas collapsed Friday after winning the semi-finals of the men's singles. - But the Philadelphia star, top-ranked amateur in the na tion, was back in form yester day. ... He quickly" disposed of fourth ranked Eddie Moylan of Trenton, N. J., 6-3, 6-3, for the singles title. : ASHLAND RECORDS SECOND VICTORY OVER CRATER HIGH Ashland Ashland high established a lead with control of the backboards in the first quarter and stayed ' in front to trim the Crater high Comet bas ketball quint 75 to 60 in a "strictly offensive" skirmish Who says tennis is a game for kids? Renville . McMann, new president of the U.S. Lawn Ten nis . Association, is almost 60 years old and i plays the game almost daily preferably singles. Scarff To Quit As Rams' Tutor Portland (U.R) Harry Scarff, who has led Central Catholic to two " state . high school : football titles, said today he has resigned his job to take an undisclosed coaching position ' at an out-of- state school. He will remain on the faculty until June.;; Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 EOCE Next For Raiders : By UNITED PRESS . A full brace of games-awaits the Oregon Collegiate confer ence this week with all five teams seeing action. Portland State and Oregon College lead off the week's action with a single game Tuesday night. Portland State, leader of the. loop since its ' pair of verdicts over Eastern Oregon Friday and Saturday, puts the lead on the block Tuesday in Portland against fourth place OCE, then follows up with a Friday and Saturday night engagement in Klamath Falls with Oregon Vikes Score 103 Eastern Oregon and Southern Oregon collide this week end in a twin-bill to round out the week's schedule at Ashland. Portland State hit better than 100 points for the second suc cessive night Saturday as it whipped . Eastern Oregon, 103 85. Fletch Frazier and Jack Per kins led the Portland State at tack, Frazier with 25 and Per kins with 21. The loss dropped the Moun ties into second spot with a six and two record. In the other half of the con ference's Saturday schedule, Oregon College downed Ore gon Tech, 66-61. here on Saturday'evening. Victory made it a two-gam? non-league sweep for the Grizz lies who won over the Comets 64 to 53 on Friday. Despite the wider score on Saturday, Ashland faced a Comet club which gave an im proved performance. The Comets began clearing the backboards on more even terms with the Grizzlies in the second quarter and they were within - striking distance of the Ashlanders until the final minute of the game. The Lithians picked up some fast break points near the end to pad out their margin. Ashland had margins at the quarterly rests of 22 to 13, 41 to 33 and 59 to 52. While the Comets looked their best for quite a spell, had more and better shots than on Friday and came out fairly even with the Grizzlines in rebounding, they couldn't effective stop the shooting of Gene- Parent and Phil Sword. Parent counted up 27 points for Ashland and Sword 22 and both were strong under the boards, John Shama was high gunner for Crater with 15 and Douthit scored 14.. Bob Gray was the re bounding power for the Comets in the last three periods and had 19 retrieves to his credit.: Ashland won the junior var sity game 46 to, 30. LINE-UPS Thunderhird Toga Taken By Demaret Palm Springs, Calif. (U.R) The golfing tourists headed to day for Phoenix, Ariz., and the big money pot there this week end with another "new" cham pion to beat for the cash. This time it is 45 - year - old Jimmy Demaret, the handsome Texan who had not won a tour nament since he captured the Celebrities event in Washington, D. C, in 1953. . Jimmy won the $15,000 Thun- derbird Invitational tourney here Sunday when he closed with a late rush to edge the third-round leader, Dr. Cary Middlecoff. Demaret had a 269 total, compared with 270 for the Memphis dentist, and received check for $2,000, instead of the $1,000 for second. Littler Third In third place came Gene Lit tler who plays from this Thun- derbird course. He closed with finesse by firing a 66 for a 277 total and $750. ' , Gardner Dickson, Panama City Beach, Fla., and Julius Boros, Mid Pines, N. C, each had 278s for $600; and there was a five way tie for sixth place among Arnold Palmer, Latrobe, Pa.; Bud Holscher, Apple Valley. Calif.; Tommy Bolt, Chattanoo ga, Tenn.; Mike Souchak, Gros singer, N. Y.; and Fred Hawkins, El Paso, Tex., each collecting $365 for a 279. Ashland 75 Parent 27 Sword 22 Baker 10 Locke 7 Woods 8 Substitutions , f f c g 60 Crater i! Hermann 15 Shama 5 Gray 2 Goyette Alien For Ashland: Eber- hart 1, M. Fitch;. D. Fitch; for Crater Lefler 10, Douthit 14, Callender 9. KUCKS INKS PACT ' New York '(U.R) Johnny. Kucks, a graduate of last year's New York Yankees' pre-training school, today signed his 1956 contract with the American league club. Kucks, a right handed ;. pitcher, " won eight games and lost seven in his rookie year. He won 19 and lbst six for Norfolk in 1952 and then went into service. Use Tribune Want Ads Use Tribune Want Ads Just Call 2-6141 PICTURE TUBES REJUVENATED Is your picture tube dull and weak? Most picture tubes can be restored to original brightness at only a fraction of the cost of replacement. Fir further information CALL Electronic Service 18 N. GRAPE PH. 3-1971 Whittick. e Why, g Hyatt Thompson ... Bloomquist Totals fg ft pf tp ... 6 8 0 20 . 1 9 "4 11 ... 2 3 3 7 ... 8 2 4 18 5 2 0 12 - 0 1 1 1 ... 2 4 4 8 ... 0 1 0 1 ... 0 10 1 24 fg 3 .. 5 7 . 8 3 1 Reinking o Stearns ........ o Totals Medford Copple, f McLauirhlin. f Plumley, c risael, g Cearley, g .. roust 31 ft 2 3 2 10 0 2 0 0 16 Pf 2 3 5 5 2 4 0 0 27 19 21 73 Pilots To Get Coyote Player Portland (U.R) Charlie Jen kins, a regular for Northwest Conference basketball leader College of Idaho, was planning today to enroll at Portland Uni versity here in spring term. Jenkins, who scored 12 points in an independent game here Saturday night, said he had de cided to leave College of Idaho and attend school in a larger city. He would be eligible to play with the Pilots next basket ball season. 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