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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday, February 24, 195S Coyotes, PSC Hold Trumps En leagues By UNITED PRESS College of Idaho and Portland State hold the trump cards as the title deciding week end at last was on hand in the Northwest Conference and Oregon Collegi ate Conference basketball races. College of Idaho can assume itself of a tie by beating Whit man in its final regularly-scheduled game tomorrow night. Lin field has three games to play and needs to win them all to tie, providing College of Idaho wins from Whitman. Linfiel plays Lewis and Clark in Portland to night and at McMinnville Satur day. Next Tuesday the Wildcats play at Willamette. Pacific Could Tie Pacific, which could tie should College of 'Idaho lose and Lin field also drop at least one game, meets Willamette Saturday night in its final conference game. Pacific 'and Linfield also are shooting for a berth in the NAIA playoffs next month with the second place Northwest Confer ence team assured of a berth. Portland State invades East ern Oregon for a pair, needing only one win to cop the OCC title. A double win for EOCE would tie up the league race. Oregon College and Oregon Tech battle to stay out of the cellar in a series at Klamath Falls. Tornado Plays Grants Pass Tonight in Last Home Tiff Teams Advance In KF Tourney Klamath Falls Chiloquin plays Sacred Heart high and Ely tussles Malin- tonight in semi finals of the Klamath-Lake county B school basketball tour nament. . ...... , Finals will be on Saturday with the winner to play St. Mary'i of Medford next week end for the District 5B cham pionship. In yesterday's games Chilo quin licked Merrill 68 to 47, Sacred Heart' bounced Gilchrist 72 to 51, Bly beat Paisley 46 to 33 and Malin swamped Bonanza 68 to 38. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads "Medford will be heavily fa vored to win two straight this week end; but the Cavemen . . . should be " rated as having at least at outside chance for one or even two upsets." That's a quote from George Curtis, sportswriter of Grants Pass Daily Courier. And his fur ther Remarks in the Thursday is sue of his paper indicate that the GP Cavemen will go all out to make the most of their "outside chance" when they tangle with Medford high's Black Tornado basketball aggregation tonight at the Hedrick court here and Saturday at Grants Pass. Flooding waters in their home community and their elimina tion from Southern Oregon con ference title contention appar ently have not dimmed Grants Pass cagers' ambitions to tum ble the Black Tornado. The Cavemen in the final" league se ries of the season will be out to gain back lost prestige. GP hoopmen have been drill ing every day this week, con ducting midafternoon drills on MedfomhWTribune YMCA, MP Bucks Vie In AAU District Mix Medford YMCA will collide with the Myrtle Point Bucks at 9 p.m. Saturday in the AAU dist rict tournament at Rogue River. Skeets Tavern of Klamath Falls will skirmish the "Rogue River Merchants in the 7:30 p.m. ruckus. Line-up for the tourney was completed last night when Rogue River bumped Firmco of Myrtle Creek 69 to 65 for the fourth berth in the play-off. Tourney finals will be on Sun day also at Rogue River. Winner will enter the state tournament next week at Albany. Myrtle Point represents the Coos-Curry-Douglas county area in the district hassle while Skeet's is the Klamath-Lake county titlist. YMCA won the Jackson-Josephine banner and Rogue River was runner-up. Jack Orr, 6-4, ex-Oregon State college and Grants Pass . high player ,is one o fthe mainstays of the Bucks. Harry Lewellan is player-manager. Others on the squad are Jim Hammack, 6-3, Dick Walton, Ross Pinkley, Cor ky Couts, Allen Miller and Joe Martinka. Ex-Medford high players most ly make up the YMCA crew. They included Dick and Derald Wooton, . Larue ' Smith, Roland Thompson, Dennis Davis and Jim Singler. Tom Rodgers, John Niles and Don Weber are also from Medford high. Bob Serak, scoring ace for the Y in sub district play-offs, is sfrom Chi cago. Doug Crippen, ex-Medford high hoopman, is on the Skeet's of Klamath crew, along with former Klamath union high men such as Gary Dawes, Ed Whit ney and Danny Lowe. Rogue River draws heavily from for mer Rogue River high ranks. : IllPllillln WITH 4" JOINTER OR 18" JIGSAW i ... " " " . W WEEKS 0C3LY FIRST TIEIE EVER! FEBRUARY 16 - 29 FREE JOINTER OR JIG SAW WITH SHOPSMITH ALL -FOR s28950 BARD - WRAY RHPflMY, Inc. 25 South Riverside Avenue Phone 2-4011 both .Tuesday and Wednesday when the rest of their school mates had the day off. High wa ter made operation of school buses dangerous on some roads on those two days. To Groom Players Seniors on the GP roster will get particular attention from Coach Ray Davis this week end while Coach Frank Roelandt of the Tornado will use the games to groom as many players as he can for A-l tourney action. Fri day, and Saturday frays will be Medford's last before going to the big affair in Eugene the middle of next month. ' Three seniors are expected to be in the GP starting five to night, Tom Bernet, Chuck Nevi and Allan Drews, with juniors Larry Henderson and Larry Walker likely to have the other berths. All seniors may open the game at Grants Pass tomorrow. Three juniors, Dick Copple, Dick McLaughlin and Neil Plumley, and two seniors, Bob Tisdel and Lloyd Cearley, may have the starting call for Med ford. Grants Pass hopes are based on two good showings against Medford in January and on the fact that the Cavemen have one win over Klamath Falls which managed a victory over the Tor nado last week end. - Varsity games . each night will be about 8:15 o'clock. Jun ior varsity preliminaries are set for 6:45 p.m. Tonight's game will be the last opportunity this year for a good number of fans to see the Black Tornado in action. The game willl be the last for Med ford on its home court. Junior Archery Class To Be Held In PAL Quarters A Rogue Archers junior class, which has been held in the Mer rick building, has moved to the Police Athletic league quarters above Acme Hardware store. First class in the new location will be at 1 p.m. this Saturday. Making of arrows is also being taught. - The Merrick building is being torn down and work has ad vanced to the point that the Archers must move to other quarters. The adult bow group also will use the PAL facility on Saturdays and Sundays until weather permits out door shooting. Read and Use Classified Ads High School Scores THURSDAY BASKETBALL By United Press Molalla 95, Canby 47 St. Francis of Baker 49, Richland 44 Eagle Point 47, Henley 35 Illinois Valley 51, Brookings 42 Huntington 74, Adrian 43 Hereford 61, Jordan Valley 56 Bly 46, Paisley 37 Malin 68, Bonanza 38 Dayville 48, Sprav 47 Mt . Vernon 54, Mitchell 50 Halfway 73, Harper 71 Chiloquin 68. Merrill 47 Sacred Heart of Klamath Falls 72, Gilchrist 51 Bly 46, Paislev 33 Malin 68. Bonanza 38 DICK WAIBEL SIGNS Portland U.R) Dick Waibel has signed his contract to pitch for the Pertland Beavers this coming . baseball season, the fourth hurler in the fold. Oth ers signing so far include Royce Lint, LeRoy Han and Dave Gray. Phoenix Hosts Medford Rifle Shooting Group Medford Rifle and Pistol club members were guests at the shoot of Phoenix Rifle club this week and will continue to parti cipate in the regular Tuesday firing in the indoor, range at Phoenix Community hall for the time being. Indor facilities of the Medford club in the Merrick building have been evacuated since the structure is being torn down. The Medford group has not yet announced its plans for relocat ing its own indoor range. Sixteen shooters were on hand last Tuesday at Phoenix. Three high men for Medford were Clinton Charley 386, Charles Taylor S83 and Roy Hewitt S75. For Phoenix the top three were Neil Tripp 375, Bill Townes 371 and Marty Perrard 366. Use Mail Tribune Want AdJ follow ... 10 A) Watch for v . exciting news in f this paper and fa- 5 ?' C GOES AGAINST CAVEMEN Second high scorer for the Med ford high basketball team is Dick Copple who'll be seen in action this evening against Grants Pass high on the Hedrick floor here. He has 210 points. Copple is also one of the three leading re bound men on the aggregation. Tussles with the Cavemen this week end will wind up South ern Oregon Conference play. The crews collide. Saturday at Grants Pass. Game time each night is 8 o'clock. "Comrade human cannon ball never gives up. Someday hopes to be shoH over iron curtain where he can getj OLD Mr. BOSTON VODKA. No tell-tale breath " 2s 3" ' 65 45 qt. 135 PINT DIST. FROM 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS 80 TROOF MR. BOSTON DIST., INC.. BOSTON See Other END-OF-MONTH VALUES On Page 14 Charge it tomorrow . PAY APRIL 10th! 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