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TORI COIF TO ADO PULLS TO THREE-FRAY ERENCE LEAD; FIRST CLUB GAIN TOURNAMENT BERTH SOUTHERN" OREGON' CONFERENCE STANDINGS W Medford ..... 8 Klamath Falls 5 Grants Pass - 2 Ashland . . 1 Pet 1.000 .625 .250 .125 The Medford Black Tornado got off to a good start, slowed and cooled in the middle por tions of the ruckus and finished with a rush that stemmed a Grizzly challenge to crush the Ashland high hoopsters 65 to 49 Saturday night and take a three game lead in the Southern Ore gon Conference campaign. Medford, first A-l cage con tingent to qualify for state tour-1 nament play, ran its unblem ished conference record to eight wins Saturday night and got help from the Grants Pass Cave men . in opening the three-fray gap over the second place Klam ath Falls Pelicans. Grants Pass nipped the Pels 47 to 46 to stay in the running for one of the two District 6 tourney berths. Klamath Falls comes to Med ford next-Friday and Saturday and the Black Tornado needs only a series split with the Pels ; tb gain its second successive league diadem. Big Night At Free Lane Against the Grizzlies at Ash land Saturday, the Tornado was warm in its first quarter shoot ing but turned 'cold from the field during the . next two periods. But Medford had a big night at free toss line and got hot from the field in the final stanza to win by its substantial 16 points. First panel count favored Med ford 21 to 10. At halftime it was 30 to 19 and Ashland closed up to 42 to 35 in the third quarter. At Klamath Falls Allen Drews sank a hook shot from - under the hoop for Grants Pass to break a 45-all deadlock with six seconds to play. Lee McGill of the Pelicans got two free shots with one second left but made only one of them. Klamath led through most of the fracas and was ahead at the half. Tom Bernet had 16 points for Grants Pass and Donn Taucher of KF and Drews 12 apiece. Bob Tisdel was the only Med fordite who found the hoop with real regularity at Ashland. He had half of Medford's 20 field goals and seven free shots for 27 points. Dick McLaughlin sighted in for five fielders and had 17 points for the night. Medford Stalls The TornadS' shot 20 "for 56 for .357 for the evening from the field. A seven for 16 first quarter and nine for 17 last stanza built up the average. Med ford got only two goals in 12 shots in the second period and just two for 11 in the third. However, at the gift stripe the loop leaders made 25 of 33 tosses. Action in the second period was slow as Medford fought to bring the Grizzlies out of their zone. But Ashland outfought Medford in the battle for ball and played a steadier game in the third chukker. Second period play was marked by a two minute stall on the part of the Tornado. Dick Copple stood holding the . ball with a slight grin on his face. The Ashlanders refused to come out after him. A Medford time out halted the dead stall and the Tornado passed the ball about to control it in the last seconds of the half. The Tornado kept the lead in the game for good after Dick McLaughlin made it 2 to 1 on a close in bucket with lVfc minutes played in the game. The margin was upped to 30 to 15 in the second quarter. Gay Closed To Five , A free shot by Copple and' a jumper goal by Tisdel were the only Medford scores in the first 'fi our minutes of the third quarter. AsAand in the meantime put in two field goals and five free markers to slice the Tornado ad vantage to 33 to 28. That's closest the Grizzlies came. Medford got seven free shots and a field goal to Ashland's three fielders and one gifter to lead by 10 to seven tallies during the remainder of the quarter. , . ; In the first four minutes of four. I BOX SCORE: the fourth quarter, Medford picked up four, field goals and five free shots while Ashland got four points to make the score 55 to 39. "Wildest Medford bulge of the'night was 19 points, 65 to 46. ; Tisdel was able to collect his high total despite sitting out about eight minutes of action be cause of his third and fourth fouls. Rebounding in the game fav ored Medford. Copple and John Foust headed Medford with nine retrieves each out of a total of 31. Ashland picked off 21 with no Grizzley grabbing more than Medford Copple, f McLaughlin, f . Foust, c Cearley. g Tisdel. g Perkins Reinking . Stearns Slessler Puhl Totals Ashland Woods, f Sword, f Parent, c Johnson. g Locke, g . Fherhart tt 0 -. 5 2 1 -10 0 .. 2 0 .. 0 .. 0 ft 2 7 6 0 7 0 3 0 0 0 Pf 4 3 2 4 4 0 3 0 0 0 20 25 20 65 Green '.s Baker . H ..: 2 1 . 4 2 2 2 0 2 Pf 1 2 3 5 3 0 4 1 Totals . 15 19 19 49 Referees Jim Bocchi and Harold Douglas. Medford. .Tribune IPdDLMT CRATER CLIPS PHOENIX AGAIN; ILLINOIS VALLEY RECORDS FIRST VICTORY ROGUE LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Phoenix ; 8 2 Crater 7 3 Eagle Point 4 6 Illinois Valley 19 Pet .300 .700 .400 .100 Syracuse Trims Knickerbockers By UNITED PRESS The defending champion Syra cuse Nationals started to close in today in a playoff berth in the National Basketball associa tion as Vince Boryla, New York's new coach, started to discover the headaches that plagued Joe Lapchick. The Nats, buried in last place in the Eastern division, came through with a thumping 101-74 victory on Sunday and pulled to within two games of the third-place New York Knicks who bowed to Boston, 116-108. In other Sunday games, all day affairs, the Fort Wayne Pis tons increased their Western di vision lead to six full games by beating Minneapolis, 82-78, and the Eastern division leading Philadelphia Warriors downed the St Louis Hawks, 87-79. Crater high was only one game back of first place and Illi nois Valley had its first win of the 1955-1956 basketball season when the final buzzers sounded on Rogue league games Satur day night. At Central Point the Crater Comets came from behind in the fourth quarter -, to boom by league-leading Phoenix," 49 to 46. At Cave Junction the IV Cougars got by Eagle , Point 54 to 53 for their initial hoop vic tory in 17 conflicts. The Comets, adding the Sat urday night verdict to a 72 to 54 win on Friday, took a series sweep over the Pirates and stayed in the running for the conference diadem. Illinois Val ley, which dropped a 41 to 39 Friday game, got a week end split with the Eagles. . . Eagle Point's bidi for at least second place in the final loop standings was ruined and week end results insured first round byes .for Phoenix and Crater in the southern division tourney of District 6 A-2. Cornels Warm TJp . .. . . In their Saturday engagement the Comets warmed up in the second half after being cold in the first. They fell behind in the early moments of action and never caught up until the fourth quarter when Dick Cal ender's jumper made it 40-all. Callender followed .with anoth er jump bucket for 42 to 40 and Crater kept on top from there Phoenix had intrmission leads of 12 to 8, 23 to 19 and 36 to 34 IV's Cougars were a fired up team Saturday. They held 22 to 12, .32 to 25 and 46 to 38 margins at the quarters. Eagle Point surged up in the third quarter to knot the score at 32-all. The Cougars pulled away from there and had an eight-point lead half way through the fourth quarter. The Eagles closed in but couldn't quite overtake the Cave Junc tion squad. After climbing to 53 to 54 Eagle Point missed its two final tries from the field. The Crater-Phoenix fuss was, over all, a defensive struggle and for the second night in a row the Comets' Fred Herrmann did a fine job in holding down Bill Madden, tall center of the Pirates. Madden accumulated only 10 points. Most of Crater's shooting op portunities were good ones and the Comets swished them in the second half where they didn't in the first. The Comets had 20 field goals to the Pirates' nine in the skirmish and put in just nine gifts while Phoenix got 18. Phoenix headed by one to three points much of the fracas and opened a nine-point gap in the third period. "Ray Dahl of the Pirates got 17 points and . Herrmann, Bob Gray and Nathan Douthit of Crater each 12. George Plumlee was the big shooter for the Cougars on Sat urday with 28 tallies, 19 in the first half. Gary Foran did good job of holding Plumlee down during a big share of the opening half but midway-in the second quarter was sidelined when he bit through his lip. Jack Greb was the Eagle high point man with 22. . . Rebound retrieving was about even in both Saturday games. . Rogue league play winds up this Friday , and . Saturday with Phoenix meeting Illinois Valley and Eagle Point playing Crater. LINE-UPS: Illinois Valley 54 53 Eagle Point Pickle 6 f 22 Greb Preston 4 f 10 Christian Plumlee 28 c 6 Foran Kennedy 11 g Friend Simington 3 .' g 10 Veach Substitutions For Illinois Valley: Camp 2. Smith, King; for Eagle Point: Boren 4, Tresham 1. Crater 49 Shama 5 Herrmann 12 Gray 12 Lefler 2 Douthit 12 46 Phoenix 17 R. Dahl 4 Wall 10 Madden 6 Brood 7 Korth Substitutions For Crater: Callender 6, Goyette; for Phoenix: Wallace 2. Ray Drake Picked Over Small wood New York U.R) Handsome Ray Drake . of Far Rockaway, .N.Y., is favored at 7-5 to beat Hardy (Bazooka) Smallwood of Brooklyn tonight in 7 their .TV middleweight 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena.' - ' Drake, 25, is favored because of his skill and ruggedness al though he lost his last two bouts to Peter Mueller of Germany and slugger. Tony BaldonL Fay Crocker Golf Winner Miami Beach, Fla. (U.R) Fay Crocker of Montevideo, Uru guay, had her educated putter to thank today for a second straight triumph' in the $3,500 Sebring Women's Golf Tournament- , . -. '.: Miss Crocker, Women's Open champion, won the tournament yesterday when she outputted Patty Berg in the final, round to finish with a 36-hole total of 144. Miss Crocker sank a seven- foot putt on the final green for a par four and a 73 while Miss Berg faded on the final three holes. Cathy Cornelius of Lake Worth Fla., Betty Dodd of San Antonio, Tex.; and Ruth Jessen of Seattle, Wash., tied for third with 148s. , Howling BANTAM BOWLING LEAGUE Team , W Rainbow Cafe ...... 18 Bud Wilson's Chevrolettes 16 Hudson's Pharmacy Kiwanis .. V. F. W Cummings Agency . W. O. T. M - Ginn's Flower Shop Hawthorne Market Grabow's Wilson's Chev. 2 - David Wilson 129 Ken Wise 208 Jim Yoder 177 Pl'kenh'n (abs)200 Handicap 262 976- 16 15 i 15 13 i 13 11 , 9 8 Ginns 1 Larry Little THrk Bvrd Edmonds(abs) 164 Norm Olson 188 Handicap 226 961 L 9 11 11 lli 12 13 '.i 14 v 16 18 19 168 215 Kiwanis 3 Ed Floate Carol Booth Karen Haas D Popow(abs) 106 Handicap 446 163 182 118 Hawthorne Mkt 9 D C'tianson 154 Mike Wright 124 B Stroh- (abs) 122 Bud Lee " 112 Handicap - 362 1015 874 V. F. W. 3 Jobie Kellogg 164 Ron Bauman 121 Darrell Floate 101 D. Bauman 222 Handicap 402 1010 Hudson's 0 B Andrews 163 Mike Higday 151 J Tompkins 152 Beverly Lenz 194 Handicap 266 926 Cummings 3 Jim Wise Hichard Lenz D Bohannan , Mike Florey ' Handicap 174 148 175 220 118 953 Grabow's 0 Cliff Roberts 212 Mike O'Neill 70 Bob Edwards 173 Calvin Lenz 161 Handicap 160 ! 936 Rainbow Cafe 3 Ralph Goode 223 Mary Elrod 148 M Jantzer 170 Mike Jantzer 180 Handicap 123 W. O . T. M. 0 Jack "Webster 233 Cora Ravenor 137 Karen Hunter 58 Rick Newland 154 Handicap . 366 967 948 ROGUE ROLLERS LEAGUE - Vivian Knox of Ralph's Res taurant took high game and high series in Rogue Rollers Bowling League Friday night with scores of 210 and 524. It and M. Shell had high games series, 796 and high team series, 2297. Doris Hickson of Clave Construction picked the 6-7 split. Team Ralph's Restaurant W 22 16 16 16 15 Brooks Electric B-B Auction Darrell Miller Co. H and M Shell Women of the Moose 14 Rogue Sportsmen 13 First National Bank 13 Clave Construction 9 Chris Drug 6 12 12 12 13 14 15 15 19 22 W.O.T.M. 2 R. Wad'.ow .. 408 S. Coulter 374 D. Finley 321 M. Fordyce 380 E. Olson 431 Handicap 321 Kalnh's Rest. V Knox F Doty R Edmonds K Smith M Clark 534 450 370 405 503 1914 2252 B-B Auction 1 J McCready 409 A Zohnow 318 M. Tremblay 331 H Culy (sub) 424 V Findley 457 Handicap 457 Brooks Elec. 3 P Braack . 380 E Sessions 383 G Riggs (sub) '.85 J Barnum 452 G Hayse 409 1993 I 2109 Clave Const. 0 D Hickson M McNeel F Clave A Hoffman , J Tresham Handicap 419 383 365 404 364 265 H-Rl Shell 4 G Blind (sub) 503 E Lenz 467 A Bohannon 349 E Baker 481 D Christenson 497 2200 2297 F.N.B. 4 H Read J Davis V Schmidt M Martin CSelleck ' Handicap 418 320 278 378 355 159 1879 ..Miller Co. 0 N Roberts 407 M Tremblay 341 A Zenor - 403 P Carmony 315 - O Wyatt .'1'ir347 1813 Rogue Sptsmen 0 G Ludwig D Paul D Webster E Johnson A. Frost Handicap 431 405 353 372 358 83 2002 Chris Drug 4 E Doty T Tolles G Russell A Walton V Corby 432 459 39 7 439 406 2133 St. Mary's Eyes Title; Defeats SH St. Mary's high of Medford will be intent on "capturing the Jackson County B League bas ketball pennant Tuesday night. The Crusaders have to win only one of their remaining two games this week in the circuit for a clear cut title to the flag and tomorrow evening they are hosts to Jacksonville, last place team in the loop. : Other Tuesday night scraps take Talent to Rogue River and Prospect to Butte Falls. The regular league seasons ends Fri day with Jacksonville at Butte Falls, Rogue River at St, Mary's and Talent at Prospect. St. Mary's all but put Talent, only remaining contender, out of the running last Friday. Tal et's hope at best is a deadlock in the final standings and a play off for the mantle but the Bull dogs must win two and Cru saders must fall twice for that to happen. And the concensus establishes that -possibility as a major, miracle. The Medford parochial quint is undefeated in eight league hassles . while Talent has lost twice, both times , to St. Mary's. St. Mary's of Medford defeat ed Sacred Heart high of Klam ath Falls 59 to 43 yesterday in a basketball fracas at Klamath Falls. : '-.-' The home club Trojans were on top 11 to 8 at the quarter and 25 to 23 at the half but the Cru saders of Medford fought ahead 41 to 32 in the third quarter. Dick Paup of St. Mary's and Rick Wicklein of Sacred Heart each scored 16 points. - The Trojans are- the second place team in the Klamath Coun ty loop and St. Mary's leads the Jackson circuit. St. Mary's ' won the jayvee prelim 50 to 43. LINE-UPS: -, 43 Sacred Heart f , S Michaeiis f 1 4 Depuy c 6 Durreil g - 16 Ri. Wicklein g 6 Ro. Wicklein Substitutions For St. Mary's: Flak- u's 2, J. Darland 3. Birmingham, Pru- ltt, Bechardt; for Sacred Heart: Sari 2 Conforti, Ambers, Jackson. St. Mary's 59 Walsh 8 G. Dariand 11 Miksche 8 Meunier 11 ' Paup 16 Portland Evens Seattle Series Portland - (U.R) Portland evened up its two game series with Seattle University here last night, handing the Chieftains a 97-84 setback in a rough and game marred by Monday. February 13, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NIKE Southern Oregon Sweep? Series From OCE Wolves By UNITED PRESS Portland State, the pace setter in the Oregon Collegiate Con ference, faces a "make-or-break" week as the Vikings go to the post three times in what could virtually clinch the league toga. The Viks have a pair with Southern Oregon on the week end, all on their home floor. Action the past week didnt hurt the Viking standing any either as their nearest rival, Eastern Oregon had to be satis fied with an even split with Ore gon Tech. Owls Win . " The Owls won the opener at Klamath Falls Friday night, 74- 55, only to see the Mountaineers rebound for a 70-67 decision in the Saturday night tangle.- Southern Oregon" two-timed Oregon College to maintainat least a mathematical chance at the league title. Friday night the Red Raiders coasted to ah easy 80-64 win and followed up Sat urday with nearly as easy 78- 63 verdict at Ashland. " ". The Raiders hopped to 8 to 0 advantage at the start Saturday but halfway through the , first half the Wolves went on top 19 to 18. SOC came back to head 32 to 30 at half time. Margin for the victors was 67 to 50 with five minutes to play. Southern Oregon shot 26 for 56 Rodgers, f .... Zitek, c Hoy, g . Buss, g Baker, f Totals 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 13-23 19 soc Hoffine. f Hollingsworth. f Titus, c Crandall, g Bates, g Munsell, c-f Tenney, g Carlile. g . Biddington, g . De Puy, f Lowrance. c fg ... 4 ...10 1 4 5 ... 0 ... 1 ... 0 ... 1 ... 0 ... 0 It 4- 5 5- 8 4-6 3-4 6- 6 0-1 2-2 2-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 Pf 4 4 4 0 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 63 tp 12 6 6 11 16 0 4 2 2 0 0 Totals 26 T6-34 16 78 for .464 from the field made 25 for 70 for .357. BOX SCORE: OCE Adams, f Jones, f .-. Young, c Girod, g .. Miller, g Milton, g .... Summers. g OCE '. I . 4 1 . 7 . 2 - 1 ft u-0 0-1 6-12 0-0 3-4 0-1 2-2 Pf 0 3 3 1 2 0 1 tp 'Cats Subdue sngton Husky Fund Does Exist Seattle, Wash. (U.R) The ex istence of "a "downtown fund" for aid to University of Wash ington athletes was confirmed Sunday night-by its proprietor but he denied it was used to pay "salaries" to football players. R. C. (Torchy) Torrance, Se attle businessman known asthe chief recruiter of football talent for the . university, said the "downtown fund does exist." But he said it does not contain the $75,000 widely rumored. ' Torrance made his remarks in a radio-television broadcast set up to answer . the charges of ousted . Football Coach Johnny Cherberg that Torrance was part of an "unhappy triumvirate" which brought about Cherberg's firing. Heard Rumors Just about everyone knew about the fund, . Torrance said, except top university officials, and "they've heard rumors." - "Every conference school and every other university of any consequence knows of such funds," Torrance-said. ' Cherberg told a committee of the Washington state legislature Martinez Grade Cagers To Play St. Mary's Five Martinez, Calif., division championship . basketball team, in the 85 pound class, from St. Catherine's parochial school, will be in Medford, Saturday, Feb.; 18, to play an exhibition game with a St. Mary's squad. According to the Rev. Nicolas I Deis of St. Mary's, the Martinez team plans to visit the Medford fire, and police departments and tOUr tlie VariOUS newspaper, ra- that. Tnrranne trnt Viim IrioUoH dio nd television stations. One out because "Tm-ran was afraid he would lose control of stipulation in the request for the trip here was that they be taken to Crater lake. The St. Catherine's team members have-'i earned their own money for the trip and plan to make it a good will tour. The exhibition game on the St. Mary's floor , will be at 7:00 p.m. ' . , r the fund unless I was out of the picture." The legislature is in vestigating the disturbed ath letic picture at Washington. , More than -330 reservoirs have been built in northeastern Brazil as an anti-drought protection measure. . " '. a ITSOM LOGGERS! BE SURE TO SEE THE 60 tumble fouls. Scoring leaders were made at packed 40 -minutes as Portland's Jimmy Winters led the Pilots with 34 points,' 20 ofthein com ing from the charity stripe. High for the . Chiefs - .was Cal Bauer with 37 and 19 of those were of the . one . point variety. Seattle lost-four men via the personal route and a fifth man was ejected by the officials for J unsportsmanlike conduct. - By UNITED PRESS , Action in the Northwest Con ference resumes on. two fronts tonight, taking only a one night breather from, the week end's action that put the top three clubs into a real scramble for the league leadership.; Linfield hosts Whitman at Mc Minnville while College of Idaho moves to Salem for a one game engagement with Willamette. Linfield stunned the look dope sters over the week end by rising I up to twice belt down the league leading Coyotes from Idaho: Fri day night it was a rout for the : Wildcats, winning 89-51. Satur day it was more difficult but the same result with Linfield taking a ,75-64 decision. " "'.''! At the same time Willamette two-timed Whitman, Friday by a 92-56 -shellacking and followed up with a '59-42 win Saturday at Salem. ' - - Lewis and. Clark andPacific fought out the only close game in the loop during ' the week end's action at Forest Grove be fore the Badgers gained a 64-62 win over Lewis and Clark. ' icier at the scrra ascade logging Conference Redding, Cal.,F8k IS, 17, 18 For Further Information Contact CHUCK LEWIS -Phone Medford 2-6745 Cascade Industrial Supply ' Redding Phone 1195 Grants Pass Ph. GR 6-7466 Klamath Falls Phone 3711 Kroll Victor At Tucson Tucson, Ariz. (U.R) The best tournament golf of his career made veteran pro T'd Kroll, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., $2,000 richer today as he and the rest of the touring professionals head ed into Texas for more stops on the winter circuit. Kroll captured the 11th edi tion of the $10,000 Tucson Open Saturday with a 72-hole total of 264, the lowest in his career. Next stop on the tournament trail is the $20,000 Texas Open which begins Thursday in San Antonio. Finsterwald Bids In his final five-under-par 65 round, Kroll held off a bid by Dow Finsterwald. x Finsterwald shot a 67 for a 72-hole score of 267, three strokes behind Kroll. ' Gene Littler of Palm Springs, Calif., finished in third . place with a 268. Tied for fourth at 269 were Don January, of Abi lene, Tex., Paul Harney, BelJn, Mass., and Lionel Hebert, Erie, Pa. High School Scores SATURDAY BASKETBALL By United Press Baker 59 Mae Hi 56 Lakeview 65 Burns 62 Seaside 60 Rainier 49 Roseburg 61 Marshfield 50 Cottage Grove 84 North Bend 73 Maupin 58 Moro 34 Culver 76 Sisters 66 Hermiston 59 Wy'east 31 . Condon 49 Fossil 47 Stanfield 79 Lexington 35 Grants Pass 47 Klamath Falls 46 Medford 65 Ashland 49 Crater 49 Phoenix 46 Cascade Locks 46 Mosier 28 Illinois Valley 54 Eagle Point 53 Huntington 53 Wilder. 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