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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) Dons Remain First for Straight Week; Dayton New York (U.R) The United Press college basket ball first place -voles and won lost records through Feb. 11 in parentheses: TEAM POINTS 1. San Fran. 30 (18-0) 339 2. Dayton 2 (18-1) 283 3. Illinois 2 (14-1) 276 4. - No. Car. St. (18-2) 199 5. Louisville 1 (19-1) 148 6. Vanderbili (16-2) 133 7. Kentucky (15-3) .... 106 8. SMU (17-2) 92 9. Temple (17-1) ... 69 10. No. Car. (15-3) 44 . Second. 10 teams: 11, Ala bama, 40; 12, UCLA, 32; 13, Iowa, 23; 14, Duke, 26; 15, St. Louis, 18; 16, Holy Cross, 17; 17, tie, Utah and Brig ham Young, 16 each; 19, Hou ston. 13; 20 lie, Xayier, O., Ia. Slate and Cincinnati, 6 each. New York (U.R) The San Francisco Dons led the United Press basketball ratings today with 30 first place votes and. 339 points, and were heavy favorites to extend their record major college victory streak to" 46 by defeating San Jose State to . night and St. Mary's (Calif.) Fri day night. . , San Francisco now has topped the ratings for 16 straight weeks, counting the last five weeks of he 1954-55 season. No other team has dominated the ratings lor such a stretch since they were inaugurated in 1950. Dayton (18-1) remained sec ond with two first place votes and 283 points. Illinois (14-1) held third place and reduced Dayton's margin to seven points by drawing two first place votes and 276 points. Dayton led Illi nois by 20 points in last week's voting. Hold Sam Positions ' The next four teams also held the same positions. North- Caro lina State (18-2) was fourth with J99 points. Louisville, which re ceived the other first place vote, was fifth with its (19-1) record and 148 points. Vanderbilt (16-2) was sixth -with 133 and Ken tucky (15-3) -was seventh with 106. ' - While San Francisco appears a cinch to boost its current sear eon mark to 20-0 this week, the other highly ranked teams face some rugged tests. The Dayton Flyers entertain Memphis State Wednesday night and Friday .. night they yisit Louisville Louisville handed the Flyers their only defeat of the campaign ; Jan. .28 at Dayton. Illinois has a date with Michi gan State Saturday night at East Lansing. , North Carolina State entertains 14th ranked Duke to night. SMU Moves Up " Southern Methodist (17-2) ad vanced from ninth to eighth in Ed Hall Leading In Golf Handicap Ed Hall is leading some SO men -who have qualified so far for the Rogue Valley Country club spring golf handicap tour nament. Hall has a 71 and George Har rington is next with a 72. Cards of 76 have been turned in by Bob Phillips and Paul Mey ers and Bob Rector, who was leader a week ago, has a 77. Qualifying play continues f through March 4. TO ATTEND CAMP Portland (U.R) Cliff Dapper, manager of the Eugene Emeralds of the Northwest league, will at tend the spring training camp of the Portland Beavers of the Pa cific Coast league, General Man ager Joe Ziegler said. Dapper, a former major league -catcher, worked last season with the Beavers in picking out talent for his club which copped the loop flag. t Numi-Bush 7JKJ short In K i only! I ,-. j MAIL TRIBUNE the ratings with 92 points. Tem ple (17-1) received 69 and slip ped from eighth to ninth. North Carolina (15-3) dropped out of the top 10 last week but popped back into 10th place with 44 points. Duke, 10th last week, dropped to 14th. Fall and winter steelhead bag limit on the Rogue, Illinois and Applegate rivers is now two fish per day, despite information giv en otherwise. Cole Rivers, Grants Pass, Oregon State Game Com mission field agent has reported. The limit was established when 1956 angling regulations went on Saturday, Feb. 11. Previous lim it was three fish. MALIN FAVORED Malm's Mustangs, defending District 5B champions and 1955 runner-up for state litle honors, likely will play the Jackson county, prep champ again this season for the dis trict mantle. The Muslangs must survive a Klamath-Lake county lourney but Ihey are the big favorites for the event. Malin is seeded No. 1 for the Klamath-Lake play-off and Sa- cred Heart No. 1. : Two of the Mustang players. . Norm Oliva and Ray Johnson, were first team B all-state se lections last year and two .oth ers, Roger Dokken and Lavon Travis, made the second all slate . five. Malin was - lipped 48 to 45 by Knappa in the 1955 slate B finale. Si. Mary's of Medford has the Jackson B mantle all but clinched and barring an un foreseen turn of events . will play the Klamath-Lake victor March 2 and 3 at Southern Oregon college in the first two hassles of a iwo-out-of-three play-off for - a stale tourney spot. CRATER CONTENDER . Crater High, winner of the Little Six A school hoop tourney for the past two -years, has boomed into a top contender roll for this year's area tournament, for which it will be host on Feb. 23, 24 and 2,5 at Central Point. Phoenix was rated team to beat until this weekend when Crater surged into the title picture by tripping the Pirates twice. The Comeis had suffered two previ ous losses to Phoenix. ' Also listed as a club to have an eye on is Henley, Klamath coun ty club which is playing ,an in dependent slate. Other entries will be Eagle Point, Illinois Val ley and Brookings. The tourney . has ; different meaning the year with an A-2 state basketball tournament ; for the first time. In the past the Little Six winner has met the Southern Oregon Conference Big Four titlist in play-off for a state A meet berth. This year the Lit tle Six session will 'decide the southern division A-2 crown of District 6 and . -the ; victor will meet the northern sector winner for the overall title and a trip to the state hassle at Salem. Phoenix and , Crater are sure of the two first night byes in the annual Little Six affair as the top .two teams in the Rogue league. . . ." . ' This will be Crater's last year in A-2 . ranks, unless the en rollment specifications should change or the Central Point MEDFORDsTRIBUNE h T Q T By DICK JEWETT I X J. A CA.J. Mail Tribune Sports Editor I Tuesday, February 14, 1958 16th Second Alabama headed the second 10 teams. UCLA, Iowa, Duke, St. Louis, and Holy Cross followed in that order. Utah and Brigham Young, tied for 17th. Houston was 19th. Xavier (Ohio), Iowa State and Cincinnati tied for 20th. school take a big drop in its own student body size. POLLS MEANS LITTLE There's one thing apparent in Oregon prep basketball as scores come in from week to week and conference and dis trict races, approach lhe show down point . . . There's a large numl er of good clubs of equal caliber. With the possible ex ception of Eugene and Jeffer son of Portland, no clubs con sistently are shining out above the others. And even those two have been beaten and have had' close calls. Ratings and polls mean less this season than anytime since Ihey came into vogue. PREP TRACK MEET EYED Southern Oregon college re portedly is planning an invita tional track meet this spring as a replacement for the annual B basketball tourney the school has conducted. This season marks the first, time since the end of World War II that the tourney has not been held. The 22-game limit imposed by the Oregon School Activities association and the diminishing number of B schools have put the stopper on the hoop event which dated back to 1927. WOMEN? . Note from Elton Owen, pro moter of wrestling matches at Grants Pass: "We don't- need women to draw crowds Hal" Linfield Leading NW Conference By UNITED PRESS The Northwest Conference found itself with a new pace setter, today, the first time in the last two seasons that College of Idaho has been crowded out of the uppermost spot. Riding high atop the league standings today is Linfield, holder of an eight-won and three-lost record. The Wildcats, two-time spoilers of College of Idaho over the weekend, follow ed up with a 75-63 win over Whitman last night at McMinn- ville. -Coupled with the Wildcat's string of victories, College of Idaho met its third straight set back since coming to the Wil lamette valley four days ago with a single blemish on its rec ord. Willamette handed the Cdyotes a 72-59 drubbing. Don Porter, little All-Ameri- can for Linfield last year, stuffed 33 ; points through the hoop to lead the Wildcats to the league leadership. At Salem Don Hoy sparked the Bearcats to the lopsided win over College of Idaho with 22 Los Angeles (U.R) : Center Willie Naulls, who scored 61 points to lead UCLA to victories over Stanford last week end, was named "Player of the Week" for the fourth time Monday by the Southern California Basket ball Writers Assn. EVERY PAIR REDUCED 1195. Some Edgerton Shoes BY A DIVISION OF NUNN-BUSH - from f.5 Wa Give NORTHERN wwm 229 EAST MAIN Tornado 3rd In Prep Cage Rating Poll Portland U.R) Eugene High school captured all eight first place votes in this week's Journal board of coaches' bas ketball rankings. Following the defending champion Axemen in the bal loting were Jefferson of Port land with 72 out of a possible 80 points and Medford with 56. The rankings: Team Points 1. Eugene 80 2. Jefferson . 72 3. Medford . 56 4. Lincoln . ... 40 5. Baker ... 34 6. Marshfield : 33 7. Bend 26 7. Franklin (tie) 26 9. Beaverton ... 16 9. Molalla (tie) ;. . 16 Others: Central Catholic 13; Pendleton II; Mac-Hi 7; St. Francis of Eugene 5; Astoria 3; . Milwaukie 1. Quints Aim For Mantles In 3 Leagues ' Medford, Phoenix and" St. Mary's High schools, leaders re spectively in the Southern Ore gon Conference, the Rogue league and the Jackson County B league basketball campaigns all will endeavor to sew up championships this week. Regular action for the season ends Friday for B loop .contin gents and Saturday for Rogue circuit members. Southern Ore gon Conference teams will have one more week end to play in their 12-game rounds. . St. Mary's could be the first to run up a title banner. The Medford parochials meet Jack sonville here this evening and will have the pennant with a vic tory. -Medford can get the SO loop crown by winning at least one of its Friday and Saturday games here with second place Klamath Falls. One-Game Lead Phoenix- needs to preserve its one-game lead over Crater and will face Illinois Valley at Phoe nix Friday and at Cave Junction Saturday. Crater plays Eagle Point at Central Point Friday and at Eagle Point Saturday. The Comets of Central Point have an outside chance for a clean cut toga or a share of the diadem. However, Phoenix is heavily favored over the IV Cougarsi.'V.-i:b: --t:.:.::.;; ; i While T Medford and Klamath are tussling, Grants Pass will battle to keep in the running for one of the SO Conference's two A-l tourney berths. The Cave men vie at Ashland Friday and host the Grizzlies at Grants Pass Saturday. Talent will be at Rogue River and Prospect at Butte Falls to night in the B leagued Friday's schedule is Jacksonville at Butte Falls, Rogue River at St. Mary's and Talent at Prospect. Moore Demands American Referee San Diego, Cali. (U.R) Arch ie Moore today demanded an American referee when he de fends his world light-heavyweight boxing title against Yo- lande Pompey in London March 13. "I want no part of the fight the way it stands now," Moore said, referring to a recent con troversial decision handed Kid Gavilan in England. "I won't meet Pompey unless the third man in the ring is an American." Moore said "with the English system of officiating the way it is, I just feel it would be too risky to put my title at stake." ' Meanwhile, it was disclosed that Moore had signed or a non title bout here Feb. 27 against Dave Whitlock, San Francisco heavyweight, as a warm-up. for the Pompey battle. $11(0195 Higher Tans Blacks Grains Cordovans Your opportunity to save money and to experience Ankle-Fashioning . . . the Nunn-Bush development which gives you extra dollar saving miles of smartness. STAMPS MEN'S STORE ST. Louisville Accepts NIT Berth; Xavier Hands Team 1 st Loss By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Louisville, victim of a 40-point drubbing in one of the most astounding upsets of the basket ball season, must be wondering today what lies ahead in the Na tional Invitation Tournament. "Monday started out as a day of jubilee for the Cardinals, be cause they announced the ac ceptance of a bid to' the big NIT at New York's Madison Square Garden. It ended with a stunning 99-59 walloping by Xavier of Ohio at Cincinnati. It was not so much that Louis ville, ranked fifth nationally by the United Press with a 19-1 rec ord. before Monday night, lost because Xavier also has an NIT berth. But the humiliating loss saw the Cardinals outplayed in every phase of the game as their 11-game winning streak went smash. Louisville was the seventh team named to the 12-team NIT field. No teams have yet been named for the NCAA tourna ment, where selection depends for the most part on conference championships. Two Leads Strengthened Monday night's important league action saw Illinois and Alabama strengthen their con ference leads, while Wake For est and West Virginia each took so-called "undisputed" league lead. Illinois, ranked No. 3 national ly, held onto the top spot in the Big Ten with an easy 89-66 rout of Michigan. The win made the mini's perfect league record 8-0, was their 14th straight victory, and their 15th against a single loss this season. Alabama stayed in front in the Southeastern ' Conference, also with an 8-0 record, by wal loping Florida, 108-74. It was Alabama's 10th straight win, 15th in 18 games. Wake Forest edged ahead in the Atlantic Coast Conference by beating Richmond. 73-68. Wake Forest has a 10-2 mark to 9-2 each for Duke and North Caro lina, but Duke can catch up by beating North Carolina State, the nation's No. 4 team, in one of tonight's top games. ; West Virginia Wins West Virginia moved ahead in the Southern Conference with a 105-90 ' win over : William and Mary. West Virginia, has a 9-2 mark to - George - Washington's 8-2 ' In other leading, games: Iowa stayed one game behind Illinois in the Big Ten by routing Pur due, 88-75; Vanderbilt, ranked No. 6 nationally, stayed on Ala RITO HOMERO Meets Fletcher at GP Montana, Savage Rematch Slated Wednesday Night (Spot bottom page with 1 col ct) Grants Pass A rematch be tween grapplers Bull Montana and Wild Bill Savage in the Jo sephine county fairgrounds arena has been arranged for Wednesday night by Matchmak er Elton Owen. There will be no time limit and winner will take all, Owen stated. Last week's ruckus between the two has been declared "no contest." The referee was slug ged. The ring was practically torn apart and some repairs will have to be made, according to the promoter. The two men wound up battling under the ring. Owen said that Savage bought his way out of a Longyiew, Wash., contract in order to meet Montana again. He wants to hang the first defeat on Montana. May Have Two Refs The matchmaker is debating on the possibility of using two referees.- Savage was bleeding from a head wound at the end of the scrape last week. Rito Romero, TV star and gay caballero from Mexico, will take on Bill Fletcher in the opening one-hour match. His speed and savvy made a big hit last week Fletcher is a dynamo in the ring and a scientific match is ex pected. Owen reported that extra ring side seats will be set up to pro vide for the expected large bama's heels with a "74-67 vic tory over.Tulane for a 17-2 over all record, and Kentucky did the same with an 86-65 route ofMis sissippi St.; Wisconsin nipped Indiana, 69-67, in the Big Ten; Robin Freeman scored 28 in Ohio State's 83-'?2 win over Northwestern; Minnesota down ed Michigan" State, 77-73; 16th ranked Holy Cross downed Notre Dame, 74-72; Cincinnati trounced NIT-bound Duquesne, 95-79; Arkansas took undisputed second place in the Southwest Conference with a 61-52 win over Texas A&M; Oklahoma A&M drubbed Detroit, 74-48; Georgia Tech set a team scoring mark in beating Louisiana , St., 97-74; Bob McCarty of Virginia had 42 points in a 96-85 win over Clemson, and Kansas State edged Wyoming, 78-74. FINKS TO DECIDE Pittsburgh (U.R) The Pitts burgh Steelers said today it was up to quarterback Jim Finks to jlecide whether he would accept an assistant coaching position at Notre Dame but that they "hope he remains with us." Finks, con sidered one of the best short passers in the National Football League, visited, the Notre Dame campus last week. Basketball By UNITED PRESS East Holy Cross 84. Notre Dame 72 Boston College 91, Tufts 79 Cincinnati 95. Duquesne 79 Georgetown (D.C.) 75, Spring H. 51 CCNY 99, Upsala 84 South Alabama 109, Florida 74 Virginia 96, Clemson 85 Florida St. 92, Florida Southern 74 Georgie Tech 97, LSU 74 Kentucky 86, Mississippi St. 65 Wake Forest 73. Ric'.lmond 63 Tenn. Tech 85, David Lipscomb 75 west Virginia ma, wscm. au Midwest Illinois 89, " Michigan 66 -Wisconsin 69, Indiana 67 "Iowa 88, Purdue 75 Minnesota 77, Michigan St. 73 Xavier (Ohio) 99. Louisville 59 Ohio State 83, Northwestern 72 Southwest Arkansas 61, Texas A&M 52 Oklahoma A&M 74,- Detroit' 48 . Drake 70,. Oklahoma City 66 Texas Tech 70, Hardin-Simmons 55 Nebraska 68, Oklahoma 61 Texas Western 85. Arizona 84 West . ' Kansas St. 78. Wyoming 74 ' , - Linfield 75, Whitman 63 Willamette 72, College of Icaho 59 Western Washington 71, Whitworth. 69 . British Columbia 49, Eastern Wash ington 44. . FOR THE COMPLETE LINE inu( Kip, Coaly Win Stakes Kip, Coaly, Darky and Tim were victors Sunday in the .sec ond of five picnic trials in Rogue Valley . Retriever club trophy competition. Kip, labrador male dog owned and handled by Ken Denman, was first in the open all-age stake. Coaly, who took qualify ing stake laurels,' is owned and handled by Ira G. Parish, r Darky, owned and handled by Noreen Hunt, took derby honors, and Tim, owned and handled by O. R. Middlekauff, won the pup py stake. The competition is to deter mine the best dog in svake in the valley. "Sunday's trials were on the Game Commission land north of the Military bridge on Rogue river. . '" ' . -. - Charles Miller and Laddie Skinner judged the open, Wel don Kiine and Denman the qual ifying stake, Earl Westcott and Parish the derby and Wescott and Tom Carter the puppy event. Other Results Open stak e Second, Zeke, Hal Shidler, Klamath Falls, handler-owner; third. Belle.. Earl Wescott, handler owner; certificate of merit. Rogue, Dr. C.'.T. Eambo, Rogue River, hani-ler-owner. - Qualifying stake Second. Rip. Eu gene Hunt, handler-owner; third. King, uick Morgan. Klamath Falls, handler owner; fourth. Colleen. Mr- Savage, Cave Junction, handler-owner: re served CM, Smoky. Helman Miller, Central Point, handler-owner; CM, Flash, Morgan, handler-owner; CM, Sam, Tom Rickard. handler-owner. Derby stake Second. Chief, owned by Sid Menasco, Grants Pass, and handled by Carl Newell: third. Star. owner by Mr. Brader, ChemiUt. and handled by Carl Newell: fourth, Cindy, iee ataggs. handler-owned; re served CM. Iady. Otto Lilya. Trail, handler-owner; CM, Stigg, Morgan handler-owner. Puppy stake Second, Lady; third, Mike, Laddie Skinner, Grants Puss, handler-owner. Mueller, Martinez Fight In Portland Portland (U.R) A pair of the top middleweights in the busi ness will slug it out tonight in the auditorium here, in a bout scheduled to go 10 rounds. Both : Peter Mueller of Ger many r'and Jimmy Martinez, noted for their- knockout punches,' predict the. bout won't go the distance. "I knock him out," Mueller mutters in his best English while Martinez swears, "I'll be in there to belt him out." Experts predict that should the bout go the full 10 rounds, Martinez probably would be tag ged for :the win. The same dop- irters have Mueller pegged as the winner, should the victory come by knockout. Use Tribune Want Ads QUICK ana EASY! TEitaes FIRST IN TUBELESS and the - Of V NATION'S FOREMOs TIRE SERVICES DICK FANGER 1760 N. Riverside Ph. 2 TIRE STORES WALT KINGMAN 144 So. Central Ph.2-8781 Smallwood, Drake Ask Return Bout New York (U.R) Hardy (Ba zooka) Smallwood, worker in a chewing gum factory, and hand some Ray Drake, student of elec tronics, both asked for a return bout today to untangle their draw in Monday night's TV mid dleweight fight at St. Nicholas Arena. Drake, 25, wound up with an even.break although Referee Ray Miller had warned 'him repeat-' edly for various infractions and penalized him two rounds for fouls. Yet Miller unexpectedly favored Drake on rounds, 6-4. Smallwood. weighing 158VS pounds to Drake's 15&V, was fa vored on a rounds basis, 5-4-1, by Judge Artie Aidala. However, Judge Nick Gamboli gave each five rounds and each five points, and called the fight even. The United Press favored Smallwood, 6-4. However, a poll "of ringside writers showed six for Drake and four for Small wood. Smallwood's record now is 16-4-2; Drake's 21-6-1. Monday night Smallwood went into the ring favored at 7-5 because of late support that switched the betting from 8-5 fa voring . Drake. Smallwood gave, Ray a body beating because Ray allegedly has a glass jaw. There were no knockdowns. Drake slip ped once. Joe Rossi Signs as , Manager of Spokane Spokane (U.R) Joe Rossi, for mer catcher for the Spokane In dians, was signed yesterday as manager of the class B North west baseball 'league team. Rossi played here three years before moving to Portland in the Pacific Coast . League and the Cincinnati Reds. He played part of last season with Wenatchee of the Northwest loop. , - Washington (U.R) Douglas M. Moffatt, prominent New York lawyer, was nominated by President Eisenhower today as the new ambassador to Austra lia. - : v:: i Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Flues Drain Tile 527 W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 - 5868 Over 15C0 OK RUBBER WELDERS stores to serve you! QP(i3Tr5sy I J crowd. Iff- -'Hi
