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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, February 7. 1956 oos in First Place For emains eesc: Dayton 10th 2nd New York 4U.R) The Unit ed Press college basketball ratings and won-lost records through Feb. 4 in parentheses: Team Pts. 1. San Francisco (16-0) 339 2. Dayton (16-1) 272 252 208 170 143 96 76 69 53 3. Illinois . (12-1) 4. North Car. St. (16-2) 5. Louisville (18-1) 6. Vanderbilt (15-1) 7. Kentucky (13-3) 8. Temple (14-1) 9. So. Methodist (16-2) 10. Duke (13-3) Second 10 teams 11 St. Louis, 51; 12, North Carolina 37; 13. UCLA, 27; 14 (tie) Holy Cross and Alabama, 21 each; 16, Iowa, 19; 17, Brigham - Young, 17; 18, St. Francis. N.Y.. 11; 19, Utah, 10; 20, Stanford, 9. New York (U.R) Unde feated San Francisco, which is rolling toward an NCAA berth at a non-stop clip, was back at the same old stand atop the United Press college basketball ratings today for the 10th straight week. The Dons, who ran their rec ord victory string to 42 games by licking Loyola of Los An geles, 68-46, Friday night, re ceived 31 first place votes from the 25 leading coaches who com prise the United Press rating board. The coaches, who based their ballots on games through Feb. 4, kept San Francisco on top of the heap with a total of 339 points. The Dons, sporting a 16-0 record this season, are favored to make it 18-0 by the end of the week. They meet College of Pacific tonight and Fresno State Friday.-, Dropped in Points Actually, San Francisco re ceived one less first place vote than it did last week and totaled one point less than it did last week also. Dayton strengthened its hold on second place with 272 points as compared with 238 a week ago. Even without their ace, Bill Uhl who was ailing, the Flyers registered their 16th victory in 17 starts by beating Loyola of New Orleans, 82-62, over the week end. Illinois retained third . place with 252 points while, North Car olina State remained fourth with 208 points. Louisville climbed from sixth to fifth place in the ratings, tra ding places with Vanderbilt, which dropped to sixth. Kentucky, with a 13-3 record, jumped from ninth place to sev enth place while Temple, which suffered its first defeat of the season during the past week at the hands of Muhlenberg, fell from seventh place to eighth. Southern Methodist (16-2) climbed from 10th place to ninth, by winning two games during the week and Duke (13-3) re turned to the top io, gaining the 10th spot after being 11th a week ago. The only casualty among the teams which were rated, in the first 10 last week was North Carolina, which tumbled from eighth place all the way down to 12th. - The teams which made up the second 10 group were St.; Louis in 11th place; North Carolina, 12th;UCLA, 13th; holy Cross and Alabama, tied for 14th; Iowa 16th; Brigham Young 17th; St. Francis (NY) 18th; Utah 19th and Stanford, 20th. msmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmwmmii photo by Sam Mikulm CAMERA CATCHES EXPERT STEALING This remark able action shot by photographer Sam Mikulin shows USF's Mike Farmer going nigh in the air to take a re bound away from John Erceg fleft) and Marvin Branstrom (20) of San Jose State in game, in San Francisco's Cow Palace. Moving in on the play are San Jose's Ray Goodwin (9) and Mike Preaseau (18) of USF. While the largest crowd in Pacific Coast cage history looked on, USF crushed the Spartans, 6740, to win No. 41. Action Resumes This Week In Southern Oregon Loop; St. Mary's, Talent Battle SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE -STANDINGS W. Medford . 6 Klamath Tails 4 Ashland 1 Coyotes Continue March To Crown By UNITED PRESS College of Idaho and Pacific notched wins in Northwest con ference action last night as the Coyotes continued their seem ingly unstoppable march toward retention of the loop flag. Coach Len Yandle's charges measured Lewis and Clark, 80 62, at Caldwell as R. C. Owens hit 29 points. -.The win ran the Coyote string to eight-won and one-lost in counting play. In the other half of last .night's schedule, Pacific trail ing . by 17 points at the half, rallied to trim Whitman, 82-65 Jerry Kalapus, the leading scor er in this affair, stuffing through 24 counters. -i Lewis and Clark took an early 12-6 margin in their battle at Caldwell but by halftime were trailing 39-30. With Idaho hit ting an even .400 from the field, the Pioneers were never in con tention from that point on. Whitman had a seemingly safe 37-20 bulge at the intermission in their battle with Pacific, but the Badgers came back . frorn the rest period red hot to win going away. Basketball By UNITED PRESS East Massachutts 61. Amherst 56 Penn State 88. Lehigh 64 Colgate 79. Pittsburgh 68 Temple 63, Duquesne 48 South Kentucky 81. Florida 70 Western Ky. 93, Eastern Ky. 92 (overtime) Clemson 114, The Citadel 69 Alabama 88, Vanderbilt 61 Tulane 110. Mississippi St. 72 Murry (Ky.) 86. Regis 84 Wake Forest 81. Richmond 73 Louisiana St. 100. Mississippi 76 Memphis St. 84, West Virginia 69 Midwest Missouri 85, Kansas 75 Kansas St. 566, Nebraska 52 Iowa 78. Wisconsin 74 Illinois A2. Indiana 89 Michigan St. 86. Michigan 76 Oklahoma A&M 65, St. Louis 63 Oklahoma City 63. Wichita 59 Southwest Texas Tech 105. Arizona 67 Austin Beay 76. Arkansas St. 73 West College of Idaho 80. Lewis and Grants Pass ...... 1 Pet. 1.000 .667 .167 .167 Prep basketball activity in this section of the state this week end will 'be highlighted by the re sumption of Southern Oregon Conference games after a three week's -pause, by Phoenix's ef forts to sew up the Rogue League flag and by a crucial conflict among leaders in the 'Jackson County B League. Medford's Black Tornado, un- marred in six games of the first round in the Southern Oregon circuit, entertains Ashland Fri day and goes to the Grizzly town on : Saturday. Gram's Pass will play both nights at -Klamath Falls. v- - - - In the Rogue circuit Phoenix is host to Crater Friday and faces the Comets at Central Point Sat urday. Illinois Valley and Eagle Point contend at Eagle Point Friday and at Cave Junction Saturday. SM at Talent , Friday B league scraps are St. Mary's . at Talent, Prospect at Jacksonville and Butte Falls at Rogue River. - Prospect is host to Rogue River this evening. The game was postponed from last Friday because of the legal hol iday.- - : Medford needs only a pair of triumphs to assure itself of a state tourney berth from District 6 A-JL. That would clinch at least second place for the Tor nado and two teams from this district make the Eugene jaunt this year. . The Black Tornado, leading Klamath Falls by two games, is in the best position to go on to the SO title. Ashland and Grants Pass are tied three games behind the Pelicans but are still mathe matically in the chase and have indicated that they'll make a tough fight of the second half. Eye Crater Fracas Phoenix can tuck away the A-2 Rogue laurels by winning any two of its remaining four games. However, the Pirates have . hopes of making quick 'work of title clinching with a single victory one over Crater Friday. Rogue League contention has no bearing on a berth in the A-2 state tourney. However, No 1 and 2 clubs in the final Rogue standings will draw first round byes in the southern division tourney of District 6. Talent with the advantage of its home court will try to dead lock the race with St. Mary's for the B league banner. The Bull dogs only loss in the loop has been to SM. The Crusaders, un beaten in seven hassles, will vir tually ascertain the crown for themselves with a win over Tal ent. A loss to the Bulldogs likely would mean a play-off at the encj, of the regular slate.' Medford ites Bowl at KF On Sunday One men's bowling team from Medford and two women's quints made successful appear ances in Klamath Falls Sunday while two other men's aggre gations failed to fare so well. Medford. Bowling lanes men's five took two games and total pins in one scuffle with Klam ath Basin Pin and grabbed two games but lost total pins in an other brush with that crew. Jorgensen's dairy ladies crew nabbed two tiffs and total pins from Klamath's Winema hotel but lost the other match in the same manner. Union club wo men's gang swept all four points in each of two encounters with a Klamath team. In - action matching Veterans of Foreign Wars men, Klamath swept one test but the Medford team got one game in the other series. Tabu Tripped Klamath Falls Lucky Lanes defeated Tabu Dining room of Medford. The Medford crew won only one game in each match, taking one of the games by only a pin. Medford Bowling lanes had a one pin edge, 2548 to 2547, in its win. Fred Anderson" had a 530 count for the Rogue Valley quintet and Clayton Sweasy 552 for the Pine club. Sweasy , had a 600 tally and Ed Learning 569 Other Medford participants were Ted Jantzer, Bob Dyer and Jim Morgan In its sweeps Union club had 2431 to 2333 and 2421 to 2236 advantages. Vera Cummings had 546 in the first engagement for Union and LaRayne Harris 541 for Klamath. Dell Christianson rolled 527 for Medford in the second try and Clara Beard had 489. Vivian Knox, Gertie Blind and Elsie Baker also played for Union. Lois Learning Has 537 Jorgensen's in its winning match had a 2197 to 2114 total. Lois Learning carded a 537 for the Medford gang and Mary Bothwell 487 for Winema. The Klamath gals had 2236 to 2169 margin in the other series. Mrs. Learning had a 492 game and Mrs. Bothwell rolled 490. Clau dia Lowd, Anna Dale Bohannon, Delores Hawley and Lorraine Jantzer joined Mrs. Learning for the action'. . In VFW - action Klamath ac complished its sweep 2557 to 2305. Clyde Ritten of Klamath had a 599 and Dale Graham of Medford 482. , Al . Bohannon, Howard Baker, Ken Christian son and Lee Graham were others on the Medford quint. Leonard Breem had 545 for Klamath and Dale Graham 500 for Medford in the other match which the KF team took 2490 to 2285. Lucky Lanes outscored Tabu 2690 to 2589 in the only match between the two on which com plete information was available. Harry Goode had top score for Tabu with .555 and others on MedfordWTeibune Alabama Beats Vanderbilt, lllini Wins Over Indiana By JOHN GRIFFIN Unite Press Sports Writer A pair of. streak-busting major upsets Knocked Vanderbilt out of first , place in, the Southeastern Pettit Leads NBA Scoring New York (U.R) Paul Pettit, the St. Louis Hawks' gangling shotmaker, held a six-point lead over Paul Arizin as well as a "two-game in hand" advantage today in the National Basketball Assn. individual scoring race. Official league figures showed that . Pettit has tallied 1,148 points in - 47 games compared to Arizin's 1,142 in 49 games. Pettit's average was 24.4 points a game and Arizin's 23.3. Clyde Lovellette of the Minne apolis Lakers ranked third with 1,068 points and a 21.8 average while Neil Johnston, last year's scoring champion, was fourth with 990 points and a 21.1 av erage. Arizin led- with a .454 field goal percentage, Dolph Schayes of Syracuse in free, throw per centage with .851, Maurice Stokes of Rochester in rebounds with 788 and Bob Cousy of Bos ton in assists with 436. HEAD FOR DERBY Hallandale, Fla. U.P.) Nee dles and Nails, outstanding juve niles last year who were soundly beaten by Call Me Lucky in the Golden Glades purse at Hialeah park Monday, headed a record list of 82 nominations today for Gulfstream park's $100,000 Flor Newell Sees OS Improving Play San Francisco (U.R) Coach Pete Newell of California thinks that Oregon State's basketball team will pull out of its unac-, the team were Ray wise George customed spin pretty soon. j Spaunhorst, Bill Hawley and "Slats Gill has the makings of another strong club," Newell said at yesterday's session of the Northern California Basketball Writers association. "He could win a couple of more games this season and cause some eye brow raising around the cir cuit." -. - . ....... ', - ,. Newell's quintet won two from OSC last week end which left Gill's defending Pacific Coast conference- champions staggering with a- 2-8 PCC mark and, 5-15 for. the season. . But neither win was a pushover, es pecially the Friday night game which was settled in overtime 65-63. "Oregon State is a good sophomore team and it will be a solid outfit when the boys stop making mistakes," Newell said. "Look out for Dave Gam bee at forward. He is the. kind of a guy you have to - start guarding as soon as his shoes are on." Rogue Archers Victors In Practice Encounter Rogue Archers outhit the Black Bear Bowmen 1545 to 1496 last week in practice at the indoor range in the Merrick building. Scores for Rogue Arch ers were Herb Gifford 465, Milo Barnes 380, Roy Hewitt 376 and Harold Willis 324. Black Bear- men's" totals were Joe William son 429, Russ Howard 403, Jerry Williamson 356 and Mac Oetkin 308. Totals for the women were Lee Morton 287, Lucille Oetkin 281 and Doris Howard 174. Frank Driscoll. Montana, Savage Foes on GP Mat Grants Pass. One of the roughest matches of the season is anticipated Wednesday night when Bull Montana encounters Wild Bill Savage in the main bout in the Josephine county fairgrounds wrestling arena. Montana, beetle browed man from Toledo, , has run over all opposition so far in the - north west. Fans, here have been wait ing to see him against Savage. ' Wild Bill is big, young and rough and the Bull is experienc ed and aggressive with explo sive power. Savage is an ex Navy and national AAU champ. ' Rito Romero, TV performer from Mexico will make his first appearance ' here in the other bout. He'll meet Thor Hagen, the courageous Swede. : START TRAINING Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Ger many (U.R) Dario Villalla, Spanish champion, ? Maryvonne Huet of France, Yvonne Sidgen of Britain and Lindis and Jeff rey Johnson of Canada have be gun training for the Feb. 16-19 figure skating world champion ship here. Altogether, figure skating stars from 11 countries, including Tenley Albright of Newton, Mass., and 16-year-old Carol Heiss of Ozone Park, N. Y., will vie for honors. Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m . Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 oreviousday. You'll Always Find Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrews Road Phone 2-5271 Fort Wayne Increases ' Western Lead in NBA By UNITED PRESS The Fort Wayne Pistons stretched their Western Division lead in the National Basketball association today to a whopping 5V.games by virtue of a dispute filled victory over the Syracuse Nationals. The Pistons held, on to win Monday night's fray at Fort Wayne, 99-98, as Earl Lloyd of Syracuse and Bob Houbregs of Fort Wayne were ejected for fighting in the third "period and Nats' Coach Al Cervi was ban ished in the same frame for ar guing with the officials. There was no other action in the league Monday .night. In a doubleheader at New York to night Philadelphia plays , Syracuse- and Boston meets New York. ' Conference basketball race and loosened St. Louis' grip on the top spot in the Missouri Valley conference today. Both high-ranked outfits were looking for their 10th straight wins Monday night, but instead Vanderbilt was dealt a stunning 88-61 defeat by Alabama in Tus caloosa and St. Louis rallied too late in losing to Oklahoma A&M 65-53, in St. Louis. : As a result, Alabama took over the SEC lead with a perfect loop mark of 6-0, dropping Vander bilt ,into a second-place tie with Kentucky at 7-1. And St. Louis' Missouri Valley record was cut to 6-1 for just a one-game lead over Houston. Illini Hold Lead Other important conference ac tion Monday night saw Illinois retain first place in the Big Ten's blazing race with a 92-89 victory over Indiana, and Kansas State cling to the lead in the Big Seven with a 66-52 decision over Ne braska. . ' Marquette was added to the field for the National Invitation Tournament Monday night. The Warriors," who have a 10-6 mark, were the fourth team picked for the 12-team New York post-season carnival, joining Duquesne, Dayton, and Seton Hall. Other Top Games In other leading games: Second-place Iowa stayed hot on Illinois' heels in the Big Ten as it came from behind twice to nip Wisconsin, 78-74, as Bill Lo gan led the way with 26 points; Julius McCoy of Michigan -State ripped in 41 points in an 86-76 victory over Michigan; Temple pushed its record to 15-1 with a 63-48 rout of National Invitation bound Duquesne; Missouri took an 85-78 win over Kansas; Okla homa City dumped Wichita, 63 59; Wake Forest beat Richmond 81-73; Kentucky took" an 81-70 win over Florida; Clemson set a school scoring mark in a 114-69 win over Citadel; Colgate beat .Pittsburgh, 79-68; Western Ken tucky nipped Eastern Kentucky in overtime, 93-92; Tulane wal loped Mississippi St., 110-72; Louisiana St. beat Mississippi, 100-76; Memphis St. routed West Virginia, 84-69; and Penn State defeated Lehigh, 88-64. GOLD MEDALIST Sverre Stenersen of Norway crosses finish line to win the Nordic Combined Ski Competition event in the 7th Winter Olympiad at Cortina, Italy. His victory gave Norway its second gold medaL ENTERS BAXTER MILE New York (U.R) George King, the Canadian indoor mile champion who is a student at New York University, has been added to the list of entrants for the Baxter Mile in the New York A.C. Track and Field Meet at Madison Square Garden Satur day night. King joins Ron Delany of Villanova, Len Truex of the USAF, and Joe Deady of Wash ington, D.C., in the mile event, Rector Leading Golf Qualifiers Bob Rector had low score among initial qualifiers last week end for the annual spring golf handicap at Rogue Volley Coun try club. He carded a 77. There were 10 early qualifiers. 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