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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE rater Comets Nick Pirate Five In Tourney Central Point Crater high school's Comets, who started slowly but have come along well in late season, wore the District 6 A-2 southern division basket ball crown today and eyed their chances in the play-off for the overall district diadem and a state tourney trip to Salem. The Comets, runners-up in the Eogue league during the regular season, nudged the conference championT Phoenix Pirates 55 to 54 in a tight,- tense, lulu of a battle down to the final buzzer here Saturday night Jm the sub district tourney final. Seew-saw finish of the ruckus saw the Crater crew go on top with less than 1 minutes to play and Central Point Three play ers - from Phoenix high, two each from Crater and Eagle Point and one each from Il linois ' Valley, Brookings and Henley were named to the District 6 A-2 southern 'divis ion tournament ' all-star team by the coaches of the partici pating schools. ' Phoenix selections were Bill Madden, Jim Korth and Charles Wall, Fred Herrmann and John Shama were picked from the champion Crater club and Jack Greb and- Gale Friend were the Eagle Point choices. '. " Others chosen were Gary Coates, Brookings; Dale Searcy, Henley and. George Plumlee, 'Illinois Valley. stay .there in the final heart pounding moments. Phoenix was in ' the running until the final second of the game. Victory qualified the Comets to meet either Myrtle Creek or Coquille next week end in a two-out-of -three series for the A-2 district bunting. The Vikings and Red Devils knotted in their regular northern division slates with 10-2 records and vie Tues day night at Roseburg. Illinois Valley Third Crater's brush with Phoenix was one of three tangles here Saturday. Illinois Valley outlast ed Eagle Point 59 to 53 for third place in the subdistrict and Brookings bombarded Henley 2 to 27 for fifth. - ; Lead switched hands 14 times In the championship struggle in which Crater matched its rugged rebounding against the Pirate's greater ' speed and quickness. There were five tie scores in the final 10V4 minutes. ' Five . of the leadership ex changes were in the final quar ter. Harold Lefler put the Com ets ahead for good 53 to 52 with a close-in rebound shot. With one minute , to go .Nathan Douthit got a pair of free heaves on Delmar Brood's foul for 55 to 52. With 35 seconds left Jim Korth fouled Lefler but the Comet missed. Crater tied up the ball 16 seconds away from -the title but on the jump Douthit fouled Bill Madden, tall star Phoenix center. Madden made good on two tries for 55 to 54. With 14 seconds remaining TONIGHT! Rev. Harold Volk, Evangelist im.uii . MM'.U & , fmin n n i 1 fr r '- 'in vti' A - ains the Comets put the ball in play. Phoenix ganged Lefler and Mad den got the ball as three seconds showed on the clock. Little Don Goyette boomed in to check him and with one second left Referee Darrel Copeland. signalled held ball. On the jump Madden tipped the: ball back, not toward the hoop, and the game was over. ; Pirates Ahead 43 to 42 Phoenix went into the final quarter leading 43 to 42. Crater went in front 44 to 43 on Gray's two free buckets and Dick Cal lender added another for 45 to 43. Korth tallied a gifter for Phoenix but Callender hooked from close in and Douthit got Medfoi UCLA Californians Set Up Showdown Scuffles in PCC COAST CONFERENCE Team U C LA California : Southern' Calif. Washington Stanford Oregon Oregon State Washington State Idaho :. By UNITED PRESS, UCLA and.; California set the stage for the showdown battle in the Pacific Coast Conference next week end as both the Bruins and the Golden Bears sailed through two-night stands over the week end with nothing worse to show for it than a mild scare." . UCLA, leading the pack with a 12-won and 0-lost slate, twice took the measure of Oregon at Los Angeles, routing the Ducks 97-71 Friday and then following with a conference record break ing 108-89 win. in Saturday's TV showing. Oregon State gets a rest this week end after its split series with Idaho last week end. The Vandals surprised the Beavers with a 58-55 decision Friday night but Oregon State was back Royals, Knicks Miss Chances , By UNITED PRESS ' , It was a Sunday of missed op portunities for the Rochester Royals and New York Knick erbockers two last- place teams battling for berths in the National Basketball association playoffs. i j. . v Each of the tail-enders could have gained important ground, because the third-place teams they are chasing lost. But the Royals were handed a 111-110 whipping by the Boston Celtics to stay two games deep in the Western Division cellar; and the Fnicks were beaten by St. Louis, 103-85, to remain IV2 games down in the East. ! In . the other Sunday game, Philadelphia beat eastern third place Syracuse, 87-85, on Ernie Beck's basket, and Fort -Wayne beat western third-place Min neapolis, 95-90. . - . REVIVAL SERVICES Held Over TONIGHT Through Wednesday 7:30 P.M. Each Night FIRST CHURCH of the JAZAflENE Holly and First Medford W L . 12 0 , : t io 2 9 3 -9 5 - R ' fi ; .. 3 9 3 - 11 2 10 . 2 : 12 R. W. Hurn, Pastor Monday, February 27. 1956 2 Division a pair of free tosses for a five point 49 to 44 Comet spread. Seconds later . Crater's Fred Herrmann went out with his fifth personal and Korth made two gift points. Charles Wall swished a long shot and Brood bounded in for two points, driv ing off a jump ball for a Phoenix lead of 50 to 49. Douthit sank another brace in his six free shots of the quarter and Crater led again 51 to 50. Then Madden got the ball out of a melee under the hoop and gave Phoenix its last lead at 52 to 51. f Crater had early five-point margins in the game but Phoe nix pushed on top 9 to 8 on a UNE for a 69-59 Saturday night win. Oregon Stale had to stave off a desperate Idaho second half flourish to pick up that Satur day night win, though. The Bea vers carried a 38-9 half time bulge into the second period, built it into a 45-12 margin, then settled back to watch , Idaho whittle away at the difference until the final gun when only 10 points separated the two clubs. Bob Allord sparked the Bea ver cause with 27 points and also took the game's scoring honors. i Oregon entertains the upset minded Cougars of Washington State next week end. ROGUE ROLLERS Gertie Riggs of Rogue Sports man took all top honors in the Rogue Rollers Bowling league last week, rolling 207 for high game and 573 for- high series. Anna Dale Bohannan had 201, Dell Christianson 203 and Mabel Clark, 200, for the only. other 200 games of the evening. H and M Shell had high garpe, 859, and high team series, 2267. Standings: Ralph's Restaurant . H and M Shell Roeue Sportsman ... W 26 22 L 10 14 16 16 17 17 19 19 26 26 .: 20 Women of the Moose B and B Auction . Brooks Electric Darrell Miller Co First National Bank Chris Drug L Clave Construction 20 19 19 17 17 10 10 Ralph's 3 V Knox 457 F Doty 439 R Edmonds 379 J Frohreich(s) 396 M Clark 535 B-B Auction 1 J McCready 439 A Zahnow 344 M Holdon 378 A Gebradt (s) 434 V Findley- 421 Handicap 118 2206 2134 H-M Shell 4 A Monroe 390 E Lenz - 460 A Bohannon 570 E Baker 463 D Christ'nson 544 . Miller Co. 0 N Roberts M Tremblay A Zenor . P Haven , O Wyatt Handicap 437 367 395 316 361 249 2267 , 2135 Rogue Sports 4 Clave Const. 0 GXudwie 464 573 359 396 D Hickson . M McNeel ' J Tresham A Hoffman T Clave Handicap 414 G Riggs (s) D Webster E Johnson A Frost 361 379 351 387 66 431 2223 1958 Chris Drug 1 W. O. T. M. 3 E Doty 438 "S Coulter 331 T Tolles 484 D Kaufer (s) 366 G Russell 358 I) Fmley 361 AWalton- - 381 M Fordyce 383 V Corby 410 E Olsen 498 Handicap 195 2071 2134 Brooks Elec.2. . . F. N. B. 2, P Braack 436 V Stearns 435 E Sessions- 406 J Davis 288 M Durham . .355 . V Schmidt (s) 297 J .uarnum aoi m Martin Z78 G Hayse 426 C Selleck 445 ' Handicap 174 1974 1917 BANTAM "LEAGUE High game 122, Ralph Goode, Rain bow Cafe: high series 237 Goode: high team game 542, Wilson's Chev- rolettes; high team series V.. F. W. . . . , . . . . 1,060, Standings: Wilson's Chevrolettes Rainbow Cafe Hudson's Pharmacy , Kiwanis , M Rowling W li ..21 12 ..21 12 ..20 13 19 14 18 15 1614 1614 16i,i 16V4 13 20 11 22 9 24 V.-P. W.- W. O. T. M. Cumming's Agency . Ginn's" Flower Shop . Grabow's Jewelry Hawthorne Market Kiwanis C Booth M O'Neil Karen Hass D Popow Handicap W.O.T.M. 2 J Webster K Hunter C Ravenor R Newland Handicap 180. 82 115 114 398 889 168 89 210 132 366 965 Cummings Agcy 0 V.F.W3' r " J Wise 192 170 , 194 J Kellogg 181 R.Lenz D Bohannon M Florey Handicap . R Bauman . 185 B Van Duker 180 D Bauman 168 Handicap 346 186 236 978 1060 Rainbow Cafe 3 R Goode 237 M Elrod 174 M Jantzer 189 Mike Jantzer 174 Handicap 244 Hawthorne Mkt. 0 D Christianson 160 D Wright 90 B Stroh 177 M Wright 98 Handicap 388 1018 913 Hudson's P'cy J B Anderws 197 J Tompkins 189 C Neifert 174 B Lenz 201 Handicap- 224 Wilson's Chev. 2 D Wilson , 165 K Wise 189 M Higday , 127 J Yoder 220 Handicap ??? 985 ??? Grabow's J'lr'y 3 C Roberts 191 S Stroh 93 B' Edwards 173 C Lenz 183 Handicap 306 846 Ginn's F. Shop 0 L Little 143 D Byrd 172 D Higday 146 N Olson 185 Handicap 236 Hoop long shot by Madden. Douthit also hit from far out for 10 to 9 for Crater but Don Wallace came back with shots from the side and corner for a 13 to 10 Pirate gap at the quarter. Game Knotted The Comets took a brief edge in the second stanza when Gray, lengthy center stole the ball and lumbered to the goal for 16 to 15. Korth then got a rebounder for Phoenix" 17 to 16 and the Pirates maintained the upper hand until late in the third quar ter, three times having spreads of six points. With 2Vi minutes left in the third stanza Callender dunked a jumper for Crater to deadlock the fray at 38-all. Douthit follow ed with a long cast from the side for a Crater, lead of 40 to 38. Wallace drove in for a tying Phoenix bucket, Callender foul ed him and Wallace made the free marker for 41 to 40 for the Pirates. Herrmann tallied at short range for a Comet edge of 42 to 41. But Wallace got one gifter to knot the count and another to make it 43 to 42 for Phoenix seconds before the quarter ended. t Wallace Scores Madden, a "big scoring threat of the Pirates, was held to three field goals as Herrmann and Cal lender. had. the job of guarding him in the Comet combination zone and man-to-man defense. That strategy, however, loosed Wallace and the driving Phoenix forward got eight field goals. He added five free heaves and was high man for the night with 21 points. Herrman and ' Douthit each had 14 for Crater, Douthit get ting eight , free markers. Korth got 13 points for Phoenix, seven from the charity stripe. Crater charts showed the Com ets with 43 . to 27 command in backboarding and with a - .417 field shooting average. Gray plucked 16 rebounds and Cal lender nine. Phoenix had a 16 for 23 night at the free line and Crater shot 15 for 24. The Com ets hit 20 shots from the field and Phoenix 19. Three in Five Victory wasn't exactly an up set for Crater. The Comets have beat Phoenix in the last three of five games this . season. The tourney championship brought the Crater season record to 11 wins and 11 losses. Phoenix wound up the campaign with an impressive 20 triumphs against four setbacks, the last of which was bitterest to take. A big first quarter, and George Plumlee's and Dennis Kennedy's shooting from the free line were features of the Illinois Valley win over Eagle Point. The Cou gars got a 21 to 7 bulge in the opening canto. They sagged and the Eagles got going, better after that. EP picked away at the IV lead through most of the rest of the game and almost but not quite caught up. Plumlee made an amazing 20 out of 23 free shots and Kennedy sank 10 for 13. For the night Plumlee had a total of 24 points. Gary Foran of Eagle Point was second high with 16. Kennedy and Plumlee with thirty gifters between them had the major role in a 37 out of 46 night for IV at the free stripe. Eagle Point hit 13 for 24 but outshot the Cougars from the field 20 to 11. Two-Poini Difference , Closest the Eagles came to overtaking IV was 51 to 53 with one minute left in the game, Kennedy put in four free points and Plumlee two after that to ice the mix. Plumlee had nine of the TV counters and Kennedy the other six in the last quarter. Cougar leads were 32 to 21 at the half and 44 to 39 after three quarters." 1 Just plain coldness was the damaging .factor for Henley as Brookings rolled against the Hornets. The Klamath county nine got only 10 field goals while the Beavers from the coast col- m 0 'A BANK Klfout. CONVENIENCE! of pur Late-llour Vindovs Sal lected 24. Henley kept fairly close in the first half but got only eight points in the rest of the game. Quarter scores favor ing Brookings were 11 to 8, 25 to 19 and 46 to 23. line-ups: ' Creater 55 54 Phoenix Shama 4 f - . 3 WaU Herrmann 14 f 21 Wallace Gray 8 , ' c 9 Madden Lefler 10 g 13 Korth Douthit 14 g 6 Brood Substitutionsi-For Crater: Callender 5, Goyette; for Phoenix: James 2. Illinois Valley 59 53 Eagle Point Pickle 5 f 7 Greb Preston 4 - f 16 Foran Plumlee 24 c 2 Christian Kennedy 14 g 14 Friend Simington 2 g Veach Substitutions For Illinois Vallev: Piller. Camp 4, Smith 6, Spencer, King, Carothers; tor tagie Point: Boren 6, Tresham 2, Wallace 6, Axtell. Brown. Hanson. Brookings 62 R. Bullock 3 t Rush 9 f Coates 10 c Anderson 10 g 27 Henley 2 Roberts 10 Searcy . 2 Blofsky 11 Arant Gribble 12 g Cunningham Substitutions For Brookings: Gra ham 2, Evans 6, M. Bullock, Weaver 1, Fox 9, Ingle; for Henley, Moffitt, Montgomery, Miller 2 ,r NW League Crews Eye NAIA Berths - By. UNITED PRESS " Only one game remains in the Northwest Conference schedule for the year this week, that a Tuesday night meeting between Linfield and Willamette at Mc Minnville. The other four clubs in the loop closed out activities over the. past week end. College of "Idaho,-; with an 80 72 win over Whitman Friday night at Caldwell, grabbed off the. conference . crown- for the second consecutive year. Cou pled with the Coyote win were a pair of Linfield losses to Lewis and Clark and Pacific fell be fore t Willamette. Lewis and Clark, a late start er this year, twice downed Lin field, Friday- night by a 79-71 count and Saturday by a margin of 80-73. Pacific and Willamette met only Saturday night with the Bearcats taking the measure of the second place Badgers with a 67-60 decision. Out of Running Linfield and Willamette are both out of the running for. the conference toga but a great deal could hinge on the outcome of Tuesday night's finale. - A win for Linfield would move them into a tie for second place in the standings while, a loss for the Wildcats would put them in a tie with Lewis and Clark for third spot. Up for consideration are berths in the coming four-team NAIA tourney. Pacific, as run nerup in the league will take .one of the spots undoubtedly, but should Linfield . lose to Wil lamette, the ; Pioneers V of Lewis and Clark could be in conten tion for a bid to the tourney that already has Portland State and the University of Portland in it. Betsy Rawls Winner In Women's Open Golf Sarasota, Fla. U.R) Betsy Rawls, who survived a shaky finish to score a one-stroke vic tory, and gallant Babe Zahar ias, were the big winners in the Women's Open Golf tournament run for "the Babe's" cancer fund. Miss Rawls,' sandy-haired lass from Spartanburg, S.C., earned $900 for the three-over-par 291 for 72 holes that gave her first place. . Mrs. Zaharias, recuperating from her third battle with can cer, was on hand to receive in the name of her cancer fund, the money and land in ceremonies at the close of the tournament now named for her. Betty Dodd of San Antonio, Tex., wound up in second place with a 292 total. Mon. through Fit Drhf-vp eJr window MEDFORD BRANCH MYRTLE POINT BUCKS COP AAU DISTRICT BASKETBALL BANNER Rogue River The Myrtle . Point Bucks, spurred by Jack Orr, won' the Southern Oregon district AAU chamnionshiD in basketball here last night. Orr scored 41 Doints as the Bucks defeated the Rogue River Merchants 81 to 77 in a closely contested .final. Myrtle Point will go into the state tournev at Albany this week end against eitner Paddock's Inn of Eugene or the Longview. Loggers. The new titlists downed YMCA 84 to 83 Saturday in a double overtime semi-final here while Rogue .. River tripped MH Jayvees Rally to Tip Grants Pass Medford high junior varsity basketeers came from 12 points behind in the third quarter to. overcome the Grants Pass jay vees 55 to 51 Saturday night at Grants Pass in the season finale for both clubs. With the win the junior Tor nado ended its campaign with a bright 18-win 2-loss record. Grants Pass headed at all the intermissions Saturday, 20 to 11, 33 to 25 and 41 to 39. The Med fordites tied up the game with 2Vz minutes to go. GP went back in front then Medford took the lead and the score was once more tied before the Tornado got on top to stay. Medford used ball control to get the lead. Mike Russell of Medford with 20 and Sparlin and Gary Tomp kins of Grants Pass with 15 each were high scorers in the game. Medford lost once to the Rogue River high varsity and once to the'Roseburg jayvees during the season. 5- LINE-UPS: Medford JV 55 51 GP JV Mullen 2 f 15 Sparlin Hamlin 9 f 3 Smith Russell 20 c 5 Lindquist Puhl 5 K 15 Tompkins Peery 2 . g 9 Rembert Substitutions For Medford: Wisely 7, Funston 2, Lane 4, Brauner 2, Berg man 2, Payne; for GP: T. Putnam 2, J. Putnam 2. tiairte $m Q Medford Kiwanis C!ob .;:p ' presents'' : 8th Annual Kiwanis Kapers The Kiwanians biggest, happiest featuring holidays in other lands sketches. On the Stage at the Medford Senior High School Auditorium Tickets Available from any Kiwanian or at iorkeir This is the only Kiwanis Fund Raising Progrc.n -for the entire year to raise money for their underprivileged children's work. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Skeets tavern of Klamath Falls 85 to 79. Score was tied 15 times in the final game. Last deadlock was at 75-all. Joe Martinka and Ross Pinkley put . the Bucks , on top with field goals and Don Reese came back with one for Rogue River. Orr got two free shots to round out the scoring. Orr's Tip In Wins Halftime score was 44 to 41 for Myrtle Point. Don Reese had 24 points for Rogue River. Orr, ex-Oregon Stater also headed the Bucks against YMCA with 33 counters while Bob Serak got 27 for the Y. A tip-in by Orr with 10 seconds to go in the second overtime gave the MP five the win. Score at the end of regular playing time was 67-all and the clubs were locked at 73-each at the close of the first extra period. Serak missed a lay-in with two seconds to go that would have given the YMCA the vic tory in the regular time. Y was ahead most of the way until the final five : minutes. The Medford team led 36 to 27 at the half. Rogue River, was in front of Skeet's 36 to 35 at halftime Sat urday. The Klamath team went with just five . men until Doug Crippen fouled out at the start of the fourth quarter. Manager Hi Hatfield took his place. . LINE-UPS: Myrtle Point 81' ' 77 Rogue River Lewellen 4 f 24 Reese Orr 41 f 6 Heater Hammack 18 c -. 6 Clark Walton 4 g 18 Hatfield Pinklev 10 . g 6 Dimick Substitutions For Myrtle Point: Gutowski Clears 15 Feet in Vault Los Angeles, Calif. (U.R) Bob Gutowski of Occidental col lege became the sixth 15-foot pole vaulter in history Satur day night when he cleared 15 feet, Vi inch in a dual meet with California. Institute of Technol ogy. Gutowski also is only the fourth vaulter to clear 15 feet during his college career. Wed imesdfey USD Couts, Martinka 4, Miller for Bogus River: Stanfield 9, Bean 6, Johnson 2. Myrtle Point 84 83 YMCA Lewelleri 6 t , 7 Smith Martinka 12 f 12 D. Wooton Hammack 23 c 9 R. Wooton Orr 33 g 14 Thompson Couts 6 g 27 Serak Substitutions -x For Myrtle Point: Miller. Pinkley 4, Walton; for YMCA: Singler. Niles, Newton 2. Rodgers, Weber 5, Johnson 6. Rogue River 85 Reese 14 : f 79 Skeet's . 13 Crippen 1 Shallhorn 11 Overen 19 Whitney 32 Dawes For Rogue River, , Stanfield 6, John Brown; for Skeet's: Heater 25 f Clark 10 c Dimick 10 8 T. Hatfield 8 g Substitutions Bean 10, Biggers 2 son. Black. Frantz, Hi Hatfield. Simsbury, Conn. (U.R) Robert F. Buckley paid a $30 fme for speeding to work, and for driving with his electric shaver plugged into the car ciga rette lighter socket. KLAMATH FALLS $375 plus tax Scheduled Local Service 6 production . . . comedy only V 35 ) minutes to WEDNESDAY NIGHT " :: is -.; Students Night STUDENTS & ff CHILDREN 3y Curtain at 7:30 p.m. Curtain time 8:15 Thursday, Friday, Saturday Nights GENERAL ADMISSION $1.10 . .. RESERVED SEATS $1.65 Reserved Seats Are On Sale at BARKER'S ONLYI Lee Mansveld, Singer - 882
