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Red Raiders Victors Over OTI 58 to 36 . Ashland A sharpshooting Southern Oregon College bask etball team thumped Oregon Technical Institute 58 to 36 last night to wind up its Oregon Col legiate conference campaign by clinching third place. ' The Red Raiders played a control-type game and shot a tor rid .605 from the field to blast the Owls. SOC hit on mostly long shots against the OTI zone in the first half., ; Taking command at the start the Red Raiders fought to a 22 to 8 halftime lead. The Ashland ers had an 8 to 0 lead before Ted Fischer tallied for ,the Owls five minutes into the game. Score was 16 to 2 with 10 min utes played before OTI got its second bucket and the count was 18 to 6 with 15 minutes of the half gone by. SOC used a collapsing zone to hold OTI to 11 field goals. The Klamath Falls team shot only .204 while the Raiders were getting their 23 for 38 tries. Lloyd Hoffine scored 21 and Dale Bates 16 for the victors. The Ashland club ended with an 8-8 mark in the OCC. It plays Humbold,t State twice at Areata, Calif., this week end to complete the season. Southern Oregon junior-varsity downed OTI jayvees last night 52 to 44. . . . . MEDFORdJTRIBUNE LINE-UPS: ' SOC 58 ' J OTI Hoffine 21 f 4 Foster HoUingsworth 12 1 10 Fasteen Hunsell 4 c 4 McCutcheon Bates 16 4 Fischer Crandnll 5 g 8 Whitman - Sutwtitutiona For SOC, Tenney, Lowrance; for OTI, Frost 4, Smith 1, Hatcher, Blair. Recreation Loop Top Crews Meet Timid Tigers zombies LEAGUE STANDINGS W. Sleepy Hollow Boys 5 Trojans 5 Stampers 4 Strokers ... 3 Fragrant Five 3 ; Eight Balls .... 3 Studs 1 Rodents 1 L. Pet. 0 1.000 1 .379 3 .633 3- .633 4 .500 5 .375 5 .375 5 .375 7 .125 7 .125 Top two teams in the recrea tion basketball league at Med ford high school will be oppon ents on Saturday in the last game of the final round before the season end play-off. The undefeated Timid Tigers will clash with the once-marred Zombies at 2 p.m. Other Saturday games will be Trojans versus Fragrant Five at 10 a.m., Studs versus Strokers at 11 a.m. and Rodents versus Sleepy Hollow boys at 1, p.m. I The Stompers and the Eight Balls will vie immediately after school on Friday. In games last week end the Trojans tripped Sleepy Hollow 47 to 38, Eight Balls forfeited to the Zombies, Tigers waxed the Studs 47 to 24, Stompers top pled the Fragrant Five 32 to 23 and the Rodents forfeited to the Strokers. OLYMPIC BILL REFERRED Washington (U.R) Rep Tor bery H. MacDonald's (D-Mass.) bill to provide for government . reimbursement to U. S. Olympic athletes for certain travel and training expenses has been re ferred to the House foreign af fairs committee. The bill would have the government reimburse "any athlete for his travel and other expenses at the training site selected by the Olympic association. CAMERA TELLS STORY of Nashua's victory in Widener Race at Miami's Hialeah track. Horses front to back are: . Social Outcast, Nashua, Sailor and Find. (international) Willie Naulls Leads PCC Scorers; Gambee Has 207 Los Angeles '(U.R UCLA center Willie Naulls has main tained his Pacific Coast Confer ence scoring leadership although his teammate, Morris Taft, is pressing him for honors, statis- GIANTS DRAFT Pitcher Steve RirMk shows the num ber 44 he will wear as a New York Giant. The 26-vear-old newcomer to the Polo Grounds was drafted from Seattle in the Pacific Coast League by the Giants. He was leading hurler during the Winter League in Puerto iico. Fight Results My UNITED PRESS Miami Beach', Fla. Al Andrews, 163, St. Paul, Minn., out-pointed Billy Kilgore, 160, Miami, Fla. (10). Baltimore, Md (U.R) Dick Donlin, an end from Hamline university who was the second draft choice of the Baltimore Colts, has signed his 1956 Na tional Football League contract with the club. tics showed today. Naulls has 218 points in 10 games for a 21.8 point game ave rage. Taft has 207 points for a 20.7 average. Dave Gambee of Oregon State also has 207 points but he has played 12 games, cut ting his average to 17.3. Other individual leaders are Bruno Boin of Washington, 204; George Selleck Stanford, 195; and Larry Beck, Washington State, 181. Naulls also is the conference leader in rebounds. He has grab bed 145 of 879 rebounds for a 16.5 per cent average. He is fol lowed by Jim Coshow, Washing ton 14.5 per cent; Max Ander son, Oregon 12.9; and Charlie Franklin, Oregon, 12.3. In team statistics, UCLA wasningxon ana aoutnern caiii ornia dominated PCC play. UCLA, unbeaten in 10 PCC games, led in total offense and rebounding. Washington was tops in total defense, free throw shooting and goal defense, and Southern California was first in field goal shooting percentage and second in the five other departments. UCLA Average 77.4 ' UCLA has averaged 77.4 points per game, SC is second with a 70.8 average and Calif ornia third with 66. UCLA's re bounding leadership is the result of recovering 513 rebounds to its opponents 366 for a 58;5 per cent record. Southern California is second with 54 per cent, Califor nia third with 52.8, and Wash ington fourth with 52.4. Washington has held its foes to an average of 55.9 points a game while Southern California ranks second in that department with a 58.5 average. Earl Robinson, California, has the top field goal shooting ave rage among individual scorers. He has made 53 of 114 attempts for 46.5 per cent. Bill Bauscher of Idaho held on to his free throw leadership with a 78.1 completion average, sinking 43 to 55 free throws. Doyle Perkins, Washington, is second with 78 per cent. By Popular Request We Are Repeating Our o CHEVROLET o MOTOR OVERHAUL v Through the Month of Feb.! Reg. 8983 VALUE WE WILL: Install piston rings Install piston pins Grind valves Clean and refaes rackar arms Adjust main A con necting rod bearings Clean oil pump Clean oil breather Tune motor ' A GUARANTEED CHEVROLET MOTOR RECON DITIONING PERFORMED BY MASTER MECHAN ICS USING GENUINE CHEVROLET PARTS. WE FURNISH: Piston rings Piston pins - - Distributor points Condenser " All gaskets--valve, head and pan . 5 Quarts oil 1937 h A"'; to '" 1954 Models Only TO85 Easy Credit Terms Arranged! FIX YOUR CAR NOW AND FIX US LATER! COURTESY CHEVROLET MH Varsity J Awaits GP Medford high varsity basket ball players,, champions of the Southern Oregon Conference for 1956, were to have then heavy workout of the week to day in preparation' for the final loop series with Grants Pass. The Black Tornado plays the Cavemen here on Friday and at Grants Pass on Saturday eve ning. Coach Frank Roelandt gave his varsity charges the day off Monday for a rest following their tough week end series with Klamath Falls. The crew returned to the maplecourt yes terday but the workout was only of the light conditioning type. The mentor reported some, sniffles among the players but no serious illness or injuries and said he was certain the squad will be ready to meet the Cave men. With Medford sure of the championship and certain of a state tourney spot along with Klamath Falls, the pressure will be off the Tornado. Buf prestige will be at stake and Grants Pass still would like to record a pair of triumphs over the champions. NCAA TICKETS SOLD OUT Corvallis (U.R) Tickets for the 1956 western regional NCAA basketball tournament here March 16-17 have been sold. San Francisco (U.R) A con ference of far western police Of ficials will be held here March 23 to outline plans for a 'central intelligence : headquarters for western crime fighters, Police Chief Frank Ahem said yester day .. Wednesday, February 22. 19SB MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEN 1 HE'S A BRAVE MAN Giants' star Willie Mays, 25, lets his bride, the former Marghueri Wendelle,' 27, in on a few trade secrets with a baseball bat at her home in New York after their marriage. They were wed in Elkton, Md. Mays was arrested on his way to the wedding for speed ing on the New Jersey Turnpike. He paid a $15 fine. PRO GRID FRAY SET San Francisco (U.R) The Philadelphia Eagles and the San Francisco Forty Niners will meet in a pre-season exhibition foot ball game at Sacramento, Calif., on Sunday, Sept. 23. The game will mark the Forty Niners' last exhibition tilt before the regular season opens on Sept. 30. PGA MEET SLATED New York (U.R) Top pro fessional golf stars of the United States and Canada will meet in the fifth annual International PTA team matches at the Colon ial Country club, Fort Worth, Tex.. May 7-8, it was announced today. .. HEAD NET FIELD New York (U.R) Vic Seixas and Art Larsen, America's top ranking tennis players, head a field of 32 players in the Na tional Indoor Tennis champion ships opening today, opening a season aimed "at recovery of the Davis Cup from Australia. Eastern Oregon Counties Drought Disaster Areas Washington (U.R) ' Rep. Sam Coon (R-Ore.) said today all of Crook county, parts of Deschutes county and a portion of Lake County, Ore., have been designated as drought dis aster areas. This makes ranch ers eligible for discounts on feed grain. Coon also announced that "preliminary approval" has been given to a $175,000 grant to the Hood River memorial hos pital, Hood River, Ore., by the Department of Health, Educa tion aiid Welfare. OLD NEWSIE Omaha (U.R) A 75-year-old "newsboy," crippled by polio when only a youth, began his 56th year hawkine caners on downtown Omaha streets re cently. Fred G. Witte said he plans to continue selling papers, except on days when there's four or five inches of snow." Cape Good Hope, despite pop ular belief, is not the southern most tip of Africa. That distinc tion goes to Cape Agulhas to the southeast, which is 33 miles nearer the south pole. Kapers Reserve Seat Plans May Be Made Reserved, seat arrangements for the eighth annual Kiwanis Kapers show may be made start ing Thursday, Feb. 23, at Bar ker's Men's store, Central ave. and Main st. The big stage production, "Holiday Review," will be pre sented by Medford Kiwanis club on Feb. 29, March 1, 2, 3 at the Medford senior high auditorium. It will have music, gags and dance chorus numbers and all local talent under direction of Don Hansen, Lassen Theatrical productions. 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