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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) AAU Division PSay-Off Hassles Scheduled on Saturday, Sunday1 4 Medford Quintets Take Part Pairings for the Jackson Josephine county subdistrict AAU basketball tournament were completed last night when Rogue River wound up in lone second place in the Grants Pass city loop and Wimer was put in third place. Quarte r-f inal scrapes are icheduled Saturday night at the Rogue River high court and Sun day in the Medford senior high gym with two games in each place. Contestants from the Medford Independent Basketball League will be the champion Prospect Lions, second-spot YMCA and third position Company A of the National Guard. Fourth entry from Medford will be Yellow Cab last year's district victor. Grants Pass loop entrant in addition to Rogue River arid Wimer is .the champion Camp's Electric team. Ashland Raiders round out the field of eight. Ashland, RH Open Ashland will take on Rogue River's Merchants in the first game at Rogue River on Satur day. Time is 7:30 p.m. Company A and Camp's are foes in the second brush. The frays are be ing played in reverse order to the times previously announced. Yellow Cab Thrashed by Oregon Tech .Klamath Falls Oregon Tech nical Institute of- Klamath Falls severely mauled the independent Yellow Cab hoop contingent from Medford 71 to 36 here last night. After a slow start the Owls took the lead at 5 to 4 and stayed on top the rest of the way. They had a 17 to 8 bulge with 9V& minutes played and led 32 to 17 at halftime. Midway through the last half the gap was 49 to 23. Ted Fischer of OTI was high icorer with 16 counters and Bill Werner had 11 for the Cabbies. Fischer had 12 tallies in the first half. OTI's multiple zone defense gave the Medford team trouble and Johnny Foster, Fasteen and John McCutcheon combined to give the Klamath junior collegi ans backboard control. Yellow Cab's last lead was 4 to 3 on a shot by Bill McLean. Fisher made the score 5 to 4 for OTI. OTI V Foster 7 f Fasteen 2 f McCutcheon 10 c Fischer 16 g Whitman 5 '' g 38 YelIowCab 4 Knapp Wendt 4 Stacy 6 McLean 11 Werner B. Hollingsworth 2nd in League in Points Per Game By UNITED PRESS . Eastern Oregon : may not be In first place in the Oregon col legiate conference "but the rest of the league is finding it mighty hard taking the scoring lead away from Ted Schadewitz of the Mounties. ! Again this week Schadewitz paces the league scoring, accord ing to figures released today by the loop fathers. Schadewitz has potted the points at a 24.7 per game clip and has chalked up 247 for the year in counting . play. - Hoff in Follows Bill Hollingsworth of South ern Oregon is second in t'h e league with an average of 21.3, followed by Portland State's Jack Parker with 18.2 and an other ,Viking, Jack Viskoy with 18.2. ; Loyd Hoffine of Southern -, Oregon, Johnny Foster of Ore gon Tech, and Lowell Kolbaba of Eastern Oregon stand right behind the initial quartet with averages of 18.1, 17.4, and 17.3 respectively. From there' things drop off considerably with Cecil Miller of Oregon College in seventh spot with 12.2, followed by Paul Poetsch of Portland State at 11.3 and John Reinking of Eastern Oregon with the same U.S. California Grade School Hoop Club Plays Sr. Mary V Interstate grade school bas- ketball rivalry is billed here Saturday night when St. Mary's fifth and sixth graders play host to a cluL trgm St. Catherine's parochial , school of Martinez, Calif. c' - The Calif ornians . are the Catholic Youth Organization league champions in the 80- pound class in their city. Game time at the St. Mary's schol gym will be 8 p.m. The tussle will follow a 7:15 pjn. opener be tween two Medford CatholiOkPee t wee clubs. Games are open to the public. Nine boys from St. Catherine's will make the trip and are scheduled to be in this area until Tuesday. They reportedly plan to go to Crater lake and to visit the police and fire stations and MAIL TRIBUNE At Medford on Sunday Yellow i Cab will play YMCA in the 7:30 p.m. mix and Prospect and Wi mer come together about 9 p.nu Semi-final scuffles on Monday night at Medford will match the Saturday winners and the Sun day winners. Finals will be on Tuesday night with the site still not definite. MedfordTribune Red Raiders Play Vikings In Portland By UNITED PRESS Portland State and Linfield risk their league leaderships in the Oregon Collegiate and the Northwest basketball loop races this week end. Portland State, at 9-3 one game ahead of Eastern Oregon in the OCC race, plays host to an in-and-out Southern Oregon five at Portland tonight and Saturday. Eastern Oregon meets upset- minded Oregon College of Edu cation, a team- which knocked off Portland State earlier this week.' Half Game Lead Linfield, with an 8-3 mark, has half a game lead over Col lege of Idaho and is a game and one half ahead of Pacific. On Saturday night Pacific gets a chance to chop that margin when it hosts Linfield at Forest Grove in the Northwest Conference's top , battle. College of Idaho' travels to Whitman for a pair. Lewis and Clark and Willam ette clash at Salem tonight and Portland Saturday. Portland University meets St. Martin's here tonight. Reigel Sets Pace In Small College Point Production New York (U.R) Six-foot, five-inch Bill Reigel of McNeese St. (La.), who fired 47 points through the hoop Saturday against Northeast Louisiana, took over as the national small-college basketball scoring leader today with an average of 32.8 points per game. The move to the top climaxed a steady uphill drive for Reigel and came after he had compiled a total of 120 points in his last three games. He is only the third player to lead the statistics is sued by the NCAA this season, succeed Dave Olmsted of Clark- son and Bob Hopkins of Gramb ling. Olmsted Second Olmsted, who had been on top last ' week, dropped to second with a 31.5 average, Chester Webb of Georgia Teachers stands third with 30.6, and Hopkins now is fourth with 30.5. On the basis of total points, Reigel also leads the nation with 819 and may become the first collegian to top 1,000 this sea son." Hopkins stands second in total points with 702 and his career total of 3,596 far sur passes the former college career record of 2,959 held by Carl Hartman of Alderson-Broaddus, Junior High Clubs Battle Hedrick eighth grade cagers trimmed McLoughlin 30 to 17 and the McLoughlin seventh beat its Hedrick counterpart 43 to 30 -yesterday in encounters at the Hedrick gym. The Hornet eighth had to break a Bulldog ball control game to push ahead in a fracas in which both clubs played good defense. McLoughlin headed at the quarter 6 to 5 and Hedrick 16 to 8 at the half and 22 to 12 after three quarters. Hedrick used a brief full court press to take command. Jerry - Anderson scored 15 points for the Hornets mostly on drive-m baskets. McLoughlin had leads of 13 to 8, 19 to 14 and 31 to 26 in the seventh grade game. Bob Quin- ney scored 20 counters and Hood 13 for the Bulldogs. Danny Sieg had 16 for Hedrick. LINE-DPS McL. ?th 43 Hamack f Funston 2 f Hood 13 ' c Bob Quinney 20 g SO Hed. 7th 16 Sieg 2 Dowson 4 Bray 4 M. Monroe Kagsdale 8 g Mclntyre Hedrick substitution Gastineau 4. Hed. 8th 30 17 Mc L. 8th Moore f 4 Durkee Frohnmayer 3 f 2 Hamilton McGiil t.0 c 4 Knight Olson 2 -- , g --. 4 Konopasek Anderson 15 g - 3 Allen substitutions For Hedrick, Dunn; for McLoughlin. Bennett, Shaw, Mor ns, anoemaxer. Little. , : radio, television and newspaper installations here. The youths will be on a good will tour and have earned their own money for the trip. . , . . Friday, February 17. 1956 Rogue River Merchants and Wimer has clinched tourney spots before last night but were tied in the standings at GP. Re sults of games established their places in the tourney openers. Rogue River downed Kelt Chev rolet 62 to 48 and Wimer lost to Southern Oregon Plywood 70 to 58. CONFERENCE MEETING Spring sports plans and di vision of the group into A-l and A-2 organizations are mat ters on the agenda at a South ern Oregon Conference meet ing at noon Saturday ax the Medford hotel here. The group will also pick a referee for the state A-l basketball tourney and determine the sportsman ship ratings. Wrestling tourney plans will be worked out. RACERS CONVENE 1 Southern Oregon Race club will discuss plans for the com ing auto racing season at a meeting at 8 o'clock tonight at Roy's Texaco service station, Jackson st. and Riverside ave Jerry Kalapus Averaging 13.1 For Pacific U. By UNITED PRESS Linfield. newlv elevated in the top rung in the Northwest Conference ladder, has good rea son to be right at the top, ac cording to statistics released by league officials today. In the ton 10 list of pnnfpr- ence point collectors are three of those Linfield men. a bis rea son why they now pace the cir cuit. , . : ..-. - v Porter Leads Don Porter of Linfield leads the conference scoring chase with a total of 217 points, an average of 21.7 tier outine. Sec ond .in' line is Whitman's Del Klicker with an average of 19 points per game and in third spot is Linfield's Bill Machamer with an 18.6 collection. R. C: Owens, College of Idaho: Danny French, Pacific; and Dave Sanford of Linfield follow the top three in that order with averages of 18, 14.6 and 14:5 re spectively. , Others in the top ten include: Hal Adrian, Lewis and Clark, 14.2; Jerry - Kalapus, Pacific, 13.1; Ed Ramsdell, Pacific, 12.2; and Max Sanchez, College of Idaho, 12.1. Quast-Walcott , In Links Finals Palm Beach, Fla. (U.R) Anne Quast and J. Walcott Brown, rapidly becoming specialists at back-nine rallies, met Jane Nel son of Indianapolis,' Ind., and William Hyndman of Philadel phia today in the 18-hole final round of the Palm Beach Mixed Foursome Golf Tournament. 1 Miss Quast, 18-year-old Uni versity of Washington student, and Brown, 53-year-old -Manas-quan, N. J., banker, reached the finals by coming from behind for the third straight time to win in yesterday's semi-finals. In the other semi-final, Miss Nelson and Hyndman downed Beverly Gammon of St. . Paul, Minn., and Robert Knowles of Aiken, S. C, 2 and 1. Read and Use Classified Adi "Comradt voferj, if elct.d fo Politbureau. I promisa .very cupboard will have bottle of . OLD Mr. BOSTON VODKA." : pTnt DIST. FROM 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS 80 PROOF MR. 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' Urness in Fold Of San Francisco San Francisco (U.R) Eddie Urness, right-handed pitcher from The Dalles, Ore., who won 12 and lost 9 with Corning, N. Y., in the Pony League last season, signed his 1956 contract with the San Francisco Seals yesterday. CHICAGO NAMES DIRECTOR Chicago JttJ.R) Walter L. Hass has k been named director of physical education and athletics at the University of Chicago. He was recommended for the posi tion by Robert M. Trozier, dean of students, who is in favor of Chicago returning , to inter collegiate football. . ' Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday: 10 a jn Monday for The Community's Biggest Marketplace Shag Bark Shirts 398 Smart, yarn-dyed plaids in pleasing color combina tions are yours at a budg et price. Imported, 'fine workmanship throughout, preshrunk for lastina wear. Sizes S-M-L Popular for work, popular for leisure, popular for. sports . . . your best buy in denim . . . now in a tweed pattern with nubby weave. Grey, beige, blue. Sport Oregon State Tussles UCLA At Corovallis (U.R) Oregon State's Beavers, refreshed after two weeks off from Pacific Coast Conference basketball play, meet UCLA's powerful Bruins here in two games here this weekend. UCLA, led by Morris Taft and Willie Naulls, has racked up eight straight .wins and appears headed for the PCC title and a regional NCAA berth here next month. It's a good chance for the Bruins to get accustomed to the Corvallis court and they need it as San Francisco University High School Scores THURSDAY BASKETBALL By United Press - Prairie City 55, Long Creek 41 , Spray 55,- Mt. Vernon 42 ' Mitchell 40. Monument 34 of New and narrow are the seasonTones are on the lighter side, with emphasis on of gray, blue and brown.' 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