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AAU Subdisf rict Quarter-Fi finis n Senior High Court Toolgh Medford Indpendent Basket ball League's two best aggre gations, Medford Yellow Cab which played a non-league schedule and the No. 3 team of the Grants Pass city circuit per form tonight in contests com pleting quarterfinal action in the Jackson-Josephine county AAU subdistrict tournament. Engagements are set for 7:30 and 9 p.m. at the Medford senior high gymnasium. Medford YMCA, the MIBL second place team, will tussle Yellow Cab in the first affair. Prospect Lions, the MIBL cham pion, will take on Wimer, Grants Pass loop third place club, in the second game of the night. Eemi-Finali Set Winners of this evening's two games will be foes in semi-final encounters on Monday nighty This action again will be at the Medford senior high court. Other skirmish of the evening will match the victors of quarter final scuffles last night at Rogue River. In the Saturday games Company A of the Na tional Guard met Camp's Elec tric of Grants Pass and the Ashland Raiders tackled Rogue River Merchants. Subdistrict finals are planned for Tuesday. Teams contending tonight are made up of ex-college and ex prep players and hoopmen with considerable independent league experience. On the YMCA team, ex-Medford high athletes pre dominate, a good number of them ex-Tornado varsity men. They include Dick and Derald Wooton, LeRue Smith, Roland Thompson, Denni3 " Davis, Jim Singler, Tom Rodgers, John Niles and Dick Weber. Derald Wooton, along with Bob Serak, from Chicago, is an addition from the Hawkinson Tire team. Mixture of Players Yellow Cab has a mixture of players with college, high school and independent backgrounds. Jerry Knapp and Bill Werner are ex-Medford high. Don Wendt was a B all-starter at Jackson ville. Chuck Stacy has played many years of independent ball here. Bill McLean is ex-Southern Oregon college. Gary Effen- beck and Jack Ayers played for Mt. Shasta junior college and Dick Knutson for St. Mary's Medford,Tribune high. There's a possibility that the Cabbies may have recruited Johnny Foster from Oregon Tech for the game. He played with the car jockeys last year. Prospect's league titlists have scoring stars .in Dick Price, ex Southern Oregon college, and Wes Stauffer, ex-Willamette un iversity, Prospect school faculty members. Most of the rest of the talent is up from Eagle Point and Prospect high schools. Ted Greb and Bob Kimmel are from Eagle Point. Ex-Prospect prep- pers included Bob Larson and Sid and Norm Peterson. Wes Cory is a vet from MIBL teams. Ex-Rogue River high playars are on the Wimer team. They include men who have played AAU ball for 'the city of Rogue River but have formed their own club this year. The squad includes Pete Purrier, Jim Rhot en, Don Lehrman and Homer Howell, who are ex-Chiefs. A nominal admission price is being charged for the Sunday and Monday games here. PHOENIX, CRATER RUN UP ROGUE LEAGUE WENS ROGUE LEAGUE STANDINGS: W. L. Phoenix 9 2 Crater 8 3 Eagle Point 4 7 LUinoU Valley 1 10 Pet. .818 .727 .364 .091 Hedrick Jayvees Defeat- Pelicans Hedrick junior high ninth grade survived a Pelican fourth quarter upsurge yesterday after noon to nudge the Klamath Falls ninth 47 to 46. The Hornets held the lead throughout the game with inter missio nstandings of 12 to 8, 26 to 22 and 36 to 29. Klamath 'out played Hedrick in the final canto and had the Medford team hang ing on for its life. Hedrick suffered a consider able loss when Pete Rasmussen fouled out in the third quarter. John Harvey of Hedrick was the leading point maker with 15. Peterson racked up 13 for Klamath. Phoenix high retained its one- game grasp on front position In I the Rogue League cage race and Crater stayed in contention lor a co-championship in engage ments Friday at Phoenix and Central Point. ' The Pirates rah easily over Illinois Valley 68 to 48 and crater had a tougher evening clipping Eagle Point 45 to 40. A 21 to 4 spread in the first quarter put Phoenix in com plete control over the Cougars. Counts at the other period halts were 39 to 20 and 52 to 37. It was a hot night from the field for Phoenix which shot .457. Charles Wall with 22 points, sparked the shooting. He made good on eight consecu tive attempts from the field and got two other buckets in suc cession for 10 field goals. Bill Madden got 16 points and Jim Korth 14 for Phoenix. IV Shoots .441, Illinois Valley with a good second half hit .441 for the night. Dennis Kennedy scored 12 and Darrell Smith 11. The Cougars were without the ser vices of George Plumlee, who reportedly was ineligible and the Pirates had a somewhat re- L1NE-UPS: Hedrick 47 Peek 8 Maurer 10 Hasmussen 7 Harvey 15 T. Monroe 3 46 Klamath 5 D. Smith Coffman 1 Drace 10 B. Smith Schufs Hedrick, Wine- Suhstitutiona For trout 4. D. Monroe; for Klamath, Per kins, Don DeLapp 10. Dave DeLapp. Hall 3, Peterson 13, Story 2, Mathews S. Basketball FRIDAY- COLLEGE GAMES By United Pra Buffalo 70. Akron 66 Boston U. 98, Bowdoin 69 : , -" Brown 67, Columbia 59 Holy Cross 86, Colgate 63 Dartmouth 79. Cornell 61 Syracuse 75. Penn State 66 Louisville 59, Dayton 56 Geo. Wash. 107, Furman 87 Creighton 72, Omaha 61 ' Oklahoma 69, Kansas 68 -San Fran. 76, St. Mary's ' (Calif.) 63 Wyoming 95. Utah St. 73 UCLA 77, Oregon St. 56 Montana St. 79, Colorado College 52 Calif. 87. Washington St. 55 Colo. A&M 70, Brigham Young 59 Seattle 89. Gonzaga 78 Stanford 78, Southern Calif. 7 Washington 46. Idaho 34 COP. 60, San Jose St. 5S Portland University 102. St Mar tin's 69 Eastern Oregon 86, Oregon College 78 Portland State 90, Southern Ore gon 61 , Lewis and Clark 70. Willamette 64 College of Idaho 87, Whitman 80 Oregon' State Rooks 63, Pacific JV 49 Portland U. Frosh 94. Oregon Frosh 64 Central Oregon 68, OCE Frosh 59 Whitworth 77. Pacific Lutheran 61 Central Washington 71, Western Washington 66 Loyola of Los Angeles 59, Santa Clara 47 Fresno State 83, Pepperdine 72 Chico State 88, San Francisco State 80 Nevada 71, Sacramento 65 SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES Illinois 96, Michigan State 76 Southern California 74. Stanford 58 Haverford 115. Delaware 85 Vikings Lick Red Raider Crew 90-61 By UNITED PRESS Eastern Oregon stayed right on the heels of league-leading Portland State in the Oregon Collegiate conference basketball race Friday night by beating Oregon college 86-78 while Port land State waxed Southern Ore gon 90-61. Ted Schadewitz paced the EOCE quintet to its win over OCE at Monmouth with 23 points while Cece Miller had a like number for the losers. Five players hit in double fig ures for Portland State with Ron Nenows 23 points topping the list. Bill Hollingsworth hit 20 for SOCE. Portland State gained a 10-3 league-leading mark and EOCE a 9-4 record. Southern Oregon, in third place, has a 7-7 mark. Lone Pine Trips Oak Grove Clubs Lone Pine Lone Pine grad ers were victorious over Oak Grove Friday in three sports contests. The boys' basketball varsity won 24 to 12 and the junior var sity 16 to 14. Girls volleyball score was 19 to 13. Quarter scores in the varsity hoop scrap wire 10 to 2, 16 to 4 and 20 to 12. Top Lone Pine point men were Ron Mee with 10 and Cal Summers and Gar Ian Lowrey with . six each. Thompson had six for Oak Grove. . Ron Leeper put in nine for LP in the jayvee affair and Coghill had six for the Grovers. vamped squad. Both of the clubs were list less and without drive in the EP-Crater game. Eagle Point took the lead at the start but Crater jumped in front and nev er trailed after that. However, the game was deadlocked once at 14-all. Period gaps favored the Comets 10 to 6, 22 to 17 and 37 to 27. Neither team hit the hoop well. Rebounding was almost even, 32 for Crater, 30 for the Eagles.. Gale Friend put in 15 mark ers and Jack Greb 13 for Eagle Point and Harold Lefler 12 for Crater. In junior varsity brushes Phoenix won 49 to 41 and Cra ter was victor 43 to 35. LINE-UPS: - 48 Illinois Valley f 5 Pickle f 7 Preston c 12 Kennedy g Simington g 11 Smith Phoenix, Dean, McCarty, Phoenix 68 Wallace 8 Wail 22 Madden 16 Korth 14 Brood 7 Substitutions For James. Simmonds, Witte, Clower 1. Blunt: for Illinois Valley, Camp 7. ; King, Hogan 2, Piller 2, Spencer 2. Crater 45 Shama 9 Herrmann 9 Gray 9 Goyett 4 Lefler 12 40 Central Point f 13 Greb f i 4 Christian c 6 Foran i 15 Friend e 2 Vesc'a Substitutions For Crater. Callender 2; for Eagle Point, Tresham, Boren. Dons Defeat St. Mary's For 46th Win By JAMES C. O'NEILL Uniled Press Sports Writer Coach Phil Woolpert kept Uni versity of San Francisco's mighty Bill Russell on the floor every minute Friday night to beat down a determined St. Mary's 76-63 for the Dons' 46th consecutive basketball victory. For the first time this season, the USF All-American went all the way. Scoring 28 points for high point honors, Russell made the difference as the Gaels threatened repeatedly to end the Dons' record breaking spree. While USF fought to keep its national prominence, the power ful UCLA Bruins overwhelmed Oregon State 77-56 on the Beav ers' home cpurt. The win, the ninth straight Pacific Coast Con ference triumph for UCLA, gave the Bruins an apparent clear way to the league championship. CaL-Wash. State . California proved a poor host to Washington State by power housing to an 87-55 victory and took over second place in the PCC by virtue of Stanford's sur prise overtime upset of Southern California 78-74. For USF, the win over the Gaels (6-4) was its ninth Califor nia Basketball association win this season. - - ' Woolpert used only seven' men in the rough and tumble contest. The Gaels, trailing 26-31 at the half, played tight, man to man defense, which ruffled the de fending national champions' play. The only other PCC game of the night saw the University of Washington (8-3) down last place Idaho (1-10) 46-34 at Moscow, Idaho. In San Jose, Loyola of Los Angeles moved into second place in the CBA by pounding out a 59-47 win over the Santa Clara Broncos. The second win for the Lions (8-4) this week, the game was Loyola's from the start. " College of Pacific dislodged San Jose State from the second rung of the CBA ladder by a narrow 60-59 squeeze. The Tigers (6-4) were ahead the whole night until San Jose (7-4) tied the score at 57-57. . ,. Fresno State handed Pepper dine its 12th straight loss, win ning 83-72. Crusaders Close B Seasor Unbeaten; Tiffs Postponed Sunday, February 19, 1956 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Bruins Whip Oregon State Sports BRUINS -2 Col Hed Corvallis (U.R) UCLA's powerful Bruins kept the Ore gon State Beavers virtually be hind and shot almost .450 bas ket ball to down the Beavers 77-56 here Friday night. The win was the ninth straight for the Bruins in Pacific Coast conference play. Wayne Moss got the Beavers off to a 2-0 lead, but it soon melted and the Bruins maintain ed a slight edge throughout first half play. The spread was never more than six points, however. Gambee High . Dave Gambee, high for the game with 17 points, stuck close to Bruin star Willie Naulls and the 6-foot, 9-inch Moss played close under the basket to keep the Beavers in the ball game. The first half ended 41-36 for the Bruins. , Morris Taft, Naulls and Dick Banton put the pressure on Slats Gill's Orangemen in the second half and worked up a 25-point lead, 75-50, when Nolan Johnson made his only basket for UCLA. Taft took Bruin scoring hon ors with 16 points and Conrad Burke, Naulls and Banton all scored 14 apiece. Ken Nanson also dunked 14 for the Beavers. The hot Bruins sunk 33 out of 74 for a .446 shooting average while OSC swished only 20 but of 75 for a .276. BOX: UCLA FG FT PF TP Burke f .. Herring f Halsten f Rogers f Naulls Johnson c Taft g 0-2 2-2 2-2 1- 2 2- 2 0-1 2-2 McLoughlin Mat Team Triumphs McLoughlin junior high.wrest lers downed Hedrick 16 to 8 in a Friday match. Bulldog matmen took four of the six matches. Results were: 97 pounds Cobb, M, dec. Shuler, H; 118 Griffith, M, pin ned Megrew, H; 125 Joyce, H; dec. Schaults, M; 130 Young, M, dec. Hobbs, H; 142 Sieg, H, pinned McCullum, M; 150 Con ley, M, pinned Crawford, H. Banton g Adams g Arnold g Hutchins g Eblen g Totals Oregon State Allord f Gambee f Wilson f Moss c Haynes c Carroll c Nanson g Paulus g Crimins g Totals .6 2-5 3 14 .2 0-0 3 4 . 0 0-0 0 0 . 0 0-10 0 . 0 0-0 0 0 33 11-19 20 77 FG FT PF TP . 4 2-5 2 10 . 6 5-10 0 17 . Oi 0-0 0 0 .3 1-0 3 7 .1-0-1 0 2 .1 0-0 2 2 . 4 6-7. 3 14 . 1 2-2 3 4 . 0 0-0 1 0 20 16-17 14 56 SC Trojans Beat Stanford 74-58 Los Angeles U.R) The Southern California Trojans fought back from defeat here Saturday and trounced Stan ford's pesky Indians, 74-58, to even their two-game series. The victory gave the Trojans a 9-3 Pacific coast conference record leaving them in third place behind UCLA and Cali fornia. .... " ' Today's game started much like Friday's torrid affair. The score was tied three times in the first 10 minutes of play. But then USC solved the Stanford attack and found the basket to lead at the half 44-34. Portland Beats St. Martin's 5 Portland (U.R) With Jimmy Winters and Bob Altenhofen scoring 52 points between, them in their final home game, Port land university knocked off St. Martin's 102-69 here Friday night. Winters hit 32 points and Altenhofen 20. - Jackson Ends Unbeaten Grade Court Season . Jackson completed an unbeat en grade school varsity cage season Thursday by bouncing Lincoln 36 to 20. The Jacksonians had already sewed up the city championship and last week's tussle was an extra. -' Washington nipped Jefferson 30 to 29 to wind up with a 3-2 record, the same as Lincoln's. Roosevelt defeated St. Mary's 21 to 10. Kuharich Choice Replacement For Johnny Cherberg Spokane, Wash. (U.R) A University of Washington regent disclosed last night Harvey Cas sill "walked the plank" and re signed voluntarily as athletic di rector in the University of Wash ington football controversy in order to keep University Vice President H. P. (Dick) Everest on the job. The regent, who preferred to remain unidentified, also disclos ed that Joe Kuharich, coach of the professional Washington Redskins is the number one choice to succeed ousted football coach Johnny Cherberg. LOE'S SIGNED Brooklyn, N.Y. (U.R) -- Billy Loes, a righthanded throwback to the screwballs who used to play for Brooklyn in zanier days, Saturday signed his 1956 Dodger contract. Swaps Back in Running Wins LA Fair Handicap : ; Arcadia, Calif. ' (U.R) Rex C. Ellsworth's Swaps was back in contention yesterday with Na shua for national racing honors but the lanky ex-cowboy owner said he was neither seeking nor avoiding a third meeting with his colt's arch-rivaL Swaps made his return to the races after a long layoff ' Friday in the $15,000 Los Angeles Coun ty Fair Handicap, scoring a length and three-quarter win ov er a field of seven that included such well-known handicap per formers as Bobby Brocato, Traf fic judge and Joe Jones. 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Find You'll Always Reliability Uniformity Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST. PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrewt Road Phone 2-5271 Prospect . Butte Falls Rogue River Jacksonville W. ..10 . 7 5 4 2 0 Pet. 1.000 .778 .556 .444 .200 .000 St Mary's Crusaders slipped by Rogue River 50 to 45 Friday night to, close their 10-game Jackson County B League slate with out a loss. ' ' Two other scheduled B scuf fles were postponed because of the heavy snow Friday." Talent will play at Prospect on Wed nesday and Jacksonville at Butte Falls on Tuesday to conclude league basketball rivalry for. the year. The Medford parochials wrote end to their regular season in which they won 19 conflicts and lost only one in prep competi tion. Only defeat for the B loop champs was at the hands of A-2 Phoenix. Southern Oregon college junior varsity tripped the Crusaders twice in the Med ford team's 19-3 full season. Not Up To Par , : St. Mary's wasn't up to its capabilities against the Chief tains and had to come from be hind in the third quarter to win. The Crusaders were ahead 10 to 5 at the quarter but at half time lagged 20 to. 23. Rogue River stretched its bulge to sev en points but the Medfordites bounded back to have the lead 39 to 36 at the third quarter break. Holding the advantage all the fourth quarter, St. Mary's built up a nine-point margin at one stage. . Dick Paup was high tally man for SM with 18 and John- Walsh rang up 16. Harold Moore was the leader of the Chiefs with 15. In the junior varsity scrape, St. Mary's emerged 59 to 33. The Crusaders are now idle until the District ; 5B play-off March 2 and 3 at Southern Ore gon college. LINE-UPS: St. M try's 50 Walsh 16 G. Dailand . Miksche 2 Meunier 12 ' Paup 18 f 1 c e g 45 Rogue River 15 Moore 4 Towse ' 11 Weaver 4 Phillips 11 Stinchcomb Substitutions For St. Marv's. FHa. kus 2, Pruitt, Birmingham, J. Darland, Read; for Rogue River, Wilson. O'Brien Breaks Shotput Record New York (U.R) Parry O'Brien, the ex-University . of Southern California Olympic star; broke his own world shot put record last night with a toss of 61 feet 5V inches at the Na tional AAU track and field championships.' O'Brien's tremendous heave, which brought 13,000 spectators in Madison Square Garden cheering to their -feet, jcomplete ly overshadowed his own world indoor mark of 59 feet 5k inch es and also exceeded his world outdoor "mark of 60 feet 10 inches" ; It was the second world cham pionship effort of the Nationals as, in the afternoon, Bob Backus of the New YorkA. C. hurled the 35 pound weight 63 feet 1016 inches for another world rec ord. . BUYS CONTRACT New York (U.R) Tom Tannas manager of former world heavy weight champion Ezzard Char les, has purchased the contract of light weight L. C. Morgan of Youngstownj Ohio. 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