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
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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.;;
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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 ,
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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.
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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.
Dead line Sunday Classified is at
noon saturaay, 10 ajn Monday for
monauy. otner days 5:30 previous day
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