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Black Tornado Ends Regular Blasting SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS (Final) W Medford 11 Klamath Falls 7 Grants Pass 3 Ashland 3 Pet .917 J 83 50 .250 The stalwarts who carry the Medford high Black Tornado standard on the maplecourt to; day reviewed a highly success ful regular season and looked forward to the Oregon A-l tourn ament at Eugene with only one bit of apprehension. They hope they don't come down with the measles. Medford's high spirited hoop men, a surprise aggregation to pre-season prognosticators, com pleted their Southern Oregon Conference campaign with an 11-win 1-loss standing Saturday night with their sparkling 67 to 54 victory over the Grams Pass Cavemen at Grants Pass. They finished with a 17-5 mark for the state's allowable 22-ganie slate in pre-tourney schedule. Sharpshooters from long range . and almost two to one command under the backboards were the keys to the win as the Tornado regulars, loose and relaxed, played a sharp game. Medford came out ahead in a nip and tuck first quarter, broke away in the second and continued to pile up its margin the third. The Black Tornado was 25 points on top early in the final period. Fear that illness might hurt state tourney possibilities came when Chuck Nevi of the Cave men broke out with -measles Saturday. The Tornado players were "exposed" to him in the Friday scramble here. Bernet Gets 28 . . Medford margins at the inter missions Saturday were 18 to 14, 35 to 20 and 55 to 34. Re serves took over after the Tor nado built its . widest bulge in the final stanza. The lead had shrunk to 10 points with three minutes to play and the regulars went back to finish out the game. Frick Tells Plan For TV Presentation By CARL LUNDQUIST Phoenix, Ariz. (U.R) Base ball. Commissioner Ford Frick disclosed plans today for a gi gantic television "spectacular" whlchwill develop "the story of baseball as an American institu tion.". "I want this to be one of the finest things that the American people ever have seen on their TV screens," he said. "I have been in Los Angeles and Holly wood discussing' plans for the show which will come shortly before the opening of the major league season, possibly on the Sunday night preceding the openers.". The show, which will be tele vised by the National Broadcast ing Co., will run an hour and a half. Top script writers, actors and actresses, and production men are involved in putting it together. In Color TV 1 "It will also be in color TV and there will be a narration, something along the lines of what was done in the play 'Our Town' with flashbacks, pictures of the old great stars," he said. f'The show probably will origin ate from Hollywood but baseball .personalities in various cities v will come into the picture." Frick said he wanted the spec tacular to "tell a story" and that it is designed for the enjoyment of both youngsters and old tim ers. "And we're going to have both youngsters and old timers in the script, too," he said. "We want some Little Leaguers and kids from the Babe Ruth league in it, along with some of the mem bers of, the Hall of Fame." Frick, relaxing in the brilliant sunshine by the swimming pool at his resort hotel here, said the . TV show would climax the second annual "Baseball Week" which he instituted last year. Swaps Could Have Won Handicap, Owner Says Arcadia, Calif. (U.R) The runaway victory of Bobby Bro cato in the $100,000 Santa An ita handicap failed to impress Swaps' owner, Rex C. Ellsworth who" said today that his horse would have won the race had he elected to run. "But we weren't going to risk a million dollar horse on that kind of footing," Ellsworth told the United Press. "Every horse that ran in the race took a chance and we didn't want to take the risk with Swaps. It was a big disappointment to us not to run him. Had he run, he would have won." - Ellsworth said there was noth ing wrong with . Swap's foot which had been operated on and the horse can handle any sort of going. But he said he and trainer Mesach Tenney felt all 'along he was behind in his training and the slow, sticky track that prevailed Saturday could have hurt the horse. Grants Pass Cavemen 67-54 Bob Tisdel paced the Medford scoring with 20 counters and Neil Plumley got 16. But Tom Bernet, slick Caveman forward was high man with 12 field goals and four free shots .for 28 total: Under, the backboards : Med fordites picked 44 rebounds and GP got 24. Plumley had 16 re Eugene Sure Of Spot in State Tussle By UNITED PRESS Berths ' in the 16-team state class A-l basketball tourney are rapidly filling; up with four more clubs making the cherish ed circle this past , week end. Two ciubs had spots already notched going into the week end's' activities. Eugene and Central Catholic assured themselves they would be in the thick of the five-day battle which opens March 13 at McArthur court in Eugene. Also gaining spots for their past week end's performances "were Beaverton : and McMinnville of the TYV league. Medford and Klamath Falls already had taken up spots earl ier. ' Three Move Up fIn addition to the half-dozen already in, three other clubs moved up into positions where they are assured no worse than a tie for a berth. Jefferson of Portland and Pendleton and Mac-Hi of the Blue' Mountain conference all can finish no worse than , tied for spots and all appear to be good bets to make the. trip without a playoff enroute. Only two teams have quali fied for the Class A-2 meet, scheduled to start at Salem March 12. Ontario captured a berth a week ago and iiedmond joined it this week as the - ;c ond entry. Quints End OCC Season By UNITED PRESS The Oregon Collegiate Con- ference put the wraps on an other season Saturday night with the five-team stacking up at. the finish pretty much as pre-season dopesters had predicted they would. Portland State, assured of no worse than a tie 'for the title a week ago, came through with its second undisputed crown, splitting a pair with Eastern Oregon at La Grande over the week end. The Vikings won the Friday night opener, 93-92, in an over time period to make the finale just an anti-climax. Eastern Ore gon, the second place finisher in the circuit, took the Saturday night verdict with a 95-83 score. 12-4 Season '-:.' The Vikings ended the count ing campaign with a 12-won and 4-lost record while Eastern Ore gon had a 10-won and 6-lost cam paign. , .. In the other half of the week end's schedule, Oregon Tech twice bounced Oregon College, winning Friday night 86-56 and then rounding out with a, 84-61 decision Saturday. Tech finished in fourth spot in the league, just, below South ern Oregon. Oregon College held down the cellar. Schmidt Cops Indoor Tennis Championship N New York (U.R) The U.S. indoor tennis championship be longed to a Swede today for the second time in the last three three years ' and - this quickly brought ' predictions of trouble for' the United States in this year's Davis Cup competition. Ulf Schmidt, 22-year-old Swe dish ' star, captured the crown in Sunday's . finale ' by beating fellow-countrjTrian Sven David son, 6-1, 6-3, 8-10, 6-3. Davidson won the title in 1954. Seixas 2nd Sam Giammalva of Houston, Tex., won the doubles crown with a 6-4, 18-16, 6-3 victory oyer Larsen and Rob ert Howe of Australia. LUMP ON HEAD; ' Houston, Tex. (U.R) Arlene McCollum had a lump on her head today as a- reminder that she is an avid fan of golfer Ted Kroll, who won the $30,000 Houston Open. Miss McCollum, who bought a ticket for the tournament finals expressly to see Kroll play yesterday, was knocked unconscious by a 140- yard drive by Kroll on the 17th fairway. . She " went to , the hos pital for treatment and never did get to seeKroll play. - Europeans discovered gold ore in the plateau of Brazil in 1693. trieves, for the Tornado and Dick McLaughlin 12. Bernet and Larry Walker plucked eight each 'for the Cavemen and Larry Hen derson six. The Tornado field goaling mark on 27 for 75 was .360. Abil ity to work the ball well through the GP zone defense boosted the Humboldt Tops Raiders Ashland Humboldt State college basketball team made it two in a row over Southern Ore gon college by tripping the Red Raiders 66 to 58 on Saturday, at Areata, Calif- The Lumberjacks led 34 to 28 at the half but SOC tied up the game at 34-all. Humboldt then got 10-straight tallies to take command again. Relations between the two schools were near the breaking point after Humboldt won Fri day 55 to 50. Coach Ted Schopf of the Raiders threatened not to play on-Saturday but then went ahead. He called the officiating the worst he'd ever seen Friday and said that he wouldn't, take another team to Areata unless capable referees from outside the area were secured. Chuck Crandall suffered a bad cut over his eye in the melee.' Total 26 14-23 14 66 SOCE (58) fg ft pf tp Hoffine, f . 7 8-8 1 22 Munsell: f 3 4-6 4 10 Hollingsworth, c 5 8-8 3 18 Bates, g 12-2 3 4 Tenney, g 2 0-12 4 Biddington f 0 0-0 .1 0 Totals . : 18 22-25 14 58 Humboldt (66) fg ft pf tp Taylor, f 3 2-2 2 8 Shield, f 6 4-7 1 16 Meyer c 4 2-5 3 10 Ibarrata, g 7 3-4 2 17 Cooper, g 4 2-2 4 10 Baker, f .... ; 2 0-10 4 Wallace, f 0 1-2 2 1 Kroll Victor At Houston Houston, Tex. (U.R) Ted Kroll, the chunky little- New Yorker playing out.ofFort Laud erdale, Fla., took "over the lead in winter tour money earnings today in the wake of his $6,000 first prize in the Houston Open Golf Tournament. By pulling down a fifth of the $30,000 prize pot with his 11 under par 277 at Memorial Park, Kroll soared from 10th to first in earnings, with $8,380, although he's played in only four tournaments. He also won the Tucson Open. Kroll and most of the name pros moved- on to Port. Arthur, Tex., for a $3,500 pro-amateur, today en route to the Baton Rouge Open. Burke Second Jack Burke, a hometown pro duct now playing out of Kia mesha Lake, N. Y., and thin Dave Douglas of Newark, Del., wound up with second money of $2,700 each as they finished, at 280.. Jimmy Demaret, another Hous tonian with a Kiamesha Lake golf, address, also found the home course to his , liking and led a quartet of 283 ' scorers that earned them $1,425 each. The others were Art Wall Jr., Po cono Manor, Pa., Don Fairfield, Casey; 111., and Jimmy Clark, Los Angeles. Bob Bell Picked To Beat Berrios New York :' (U.R) Veteran Bobby Bell of . Youngstown, O., is favored at 7-5 to beat Miguel Berrios, New ' York's newest featherweight sensation, tonight in their TV 10-rounder at St. Nicholas arena. . Bobbyi 27, is favored because of liis experience in 63 fights. Twenty-three year old Berrios, whose career was curtailed by a' two-year, hitch in the Army, has had only 19 bouts. But he was terrific in his last two. LAST BROADCAST ' Saign, Viet Nam (UiR) Radio France-Asia made its last broad cast in Indochina Sunday night. Listeners heard the voices of the beleaguered garrison of Dien Bien Phu recorded over the crash of gunfire, the battle re ports of the late - Marshal de Lattre De- Tassigny and Gen. Paul Ely announcing the Indo Chinese armistice. PATTY CHAMPION Nice, France (U.R) Budge Patty, Los Angeles' "gift" to Paris beat Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt, 15-13, 6-2, 6-4 to win the men's crown in the Cannes In door Tennis Championships Sun day while Althea Gibson of New York won the women's title with a 6-1, 6-2 triumph over Shirley Bloomer of Great Britain. Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday: 10 a jtl 1 Monday for Monday; othtrdaya S JO Drevloui day, Schedule Medford cause. . Coach Frank Roelandt said he would call a squad meeting today to map plans for future practices. Only two actual drills were con templated by the mentor this week but work will resume full scale next week. Tournament games begin on March 13. . Ashland spilled Klamath 63 to 62 Saturday to end in a third place tie with Grants Passs, in the final standings. Klamath, second place1 team goes to the state meet along with Med ford.:: Measles danger for the Tor nado lies in the fact that a num ber of the players could come down with the disease just be fore the big tournament. Ron Davis of the Cavemen missed both week, end games because of the illness. - Medford - Copple, f : McLaughlin, f Plumley, c Tisdel. g . Cearley, g Foust ... Reinking Perkins . . fg 4 2 7 - 8 .. 4 - 0 -2 0 .. 0 ft 4 2 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 : 0 pf 2 2 1 4 2 1 0 0 0 0 Slessler Gober : 0 Totals 27 13 12 67 fg ft pf tp ; 12 4 2 28 2 0 1 4 - 121 4 3 0 2 6 0 2 3 2 0 0 0 0 4 0 1 8 10 1 2 . 0 0 1 0 23 8 12 54 Grants Pass Bernet, f Weller, f Henderson, c Drews, g Walker, g Taylor Smith " Winger ... Slaven Totals Archer Nabs Pin Crown Portland (U.R) Warren Archer of Eugene bowled a three-game total of 655 last night to capture the class A men's singles title in the 15th annual Oregon men's bowling champ ionships. -.', Team winner in the' seven week tournament was . Gerlingr er Carrier Co., Dallas, with 2918. Doubles winners in the A division were Kelcy Allen and Clayton Gross of Portland with 1309. ,.,'" Malin Wins In Klamath Klamath Falls Malin won the Klamath-Lake county B basket ball tournament Saturday night and wiil meet St. Mary's of Med ford at Ashland next Friday and Saturday for , the championship of District 5B. The Mustangs whipped Chilo- kquin 68 to 54 in finals for their third straight Klamath-Lake title. They are defending district champions and were runners up last year for the state mantle. . Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line for Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. 8 reasons why the WORlD'S'iMOST Versatility. The Universal 'Jeep' spreads its cost over hundreds of jobs, on or off the road, in all kinds of weather. ; Towing. With the extra traction of 4-wheel drive, and in "low-low" gear, .the 'Jeep' has a rated 2317 pound draw-bar pull. W. Hileman Trapshoot Class Victor Walter Hileman, Cottage Grove, Gilbert Smith, . 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Basketball SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES: By United Press -7 ' St. Joseph's (Pa) 72 Virginia 69 Duquesne 66 Temple 64 Niagara 83 St. Bonaventure 72 Canisius 96 Detroit 75 NYU 81 Army 69 Colgate 73 Syracuse 67 Cornell 63 Columbia 58 Dartmouth 74 Pennsylvania 60 Fordham 82 St. Johns (NY) 59 Seton Hall 79 Muhlenburg 66 Penn State 82 Rutgers 72 Yale 81 Princeton 66 St. Francis (NY) 71 Siena 70 Harvard 93 Boston College 74 Alabama 101 Kentucky 77 Louisville 83 Murray (Ky) 70 Georgia Tech 81 Georgia 72 Maryland 72 Georgetown (DC) 61 South Carolina 89 Furraan 84 - Vanderbilt 80 Florida 75 , . Duke 90 Geo. Washington 71 N. Car. St. 80 Wake Forest 78 Pittsburgh 94 West Virginia 77 . Wm 8c Mary 79 Richmond 77 St. Louis 73 Tulsa 62 Missouri 86 Oklahoma 66 Michigan 78 Wisconsin 68 Purdue 63 Michigan St. 56 Kansas 60 Nebraska 56 Iowa 83 Minnesota 73 OT Kansas St. 82 Iowa St. 62 Indiana 84 NortKryestern 82 Ohio State 87 Illinois 84 Dayton 90 Eastern Kentucky 76 ': Cincinnati 87 Wash. & Lee 57 . Bradley 46 Oklahoma A&M 4? Marquette 80 Loyola (HI) 73 De Paul 80 Notre Dame 74 Texas 101 Baylor 95 Brigham Young 95 Montana 73 California 63 Washington 60 UCLA 108 Oregon 89 Wash. State 69 Stanford 67 Wyoming 60 New Mexico 36 Oregon State 69 Idaho 59 Willamette 67 Pacific 60 Lewis and Clark 80 Linfield 73 Humboldt St. 66 So. Oregon 58 ' . Oregon Tech 84 Oregon College 61 ' Eastern Oregon 95 Portland State 83 Northwest Nazarene 71 Whitman 47 Finnish Students Unionj Supports Autherine Lucy Helsinki, Finland (UiR) The Finnish Students Union has sent a cable to the National Stu dents Union of the United States expressing support of "Au therine Lucy in her campaign to study at the University of Alabama, the organization re ported today. ' . Finnish " students support the American Negro girl because "all people have equal rights to study, irrespective of their race, religion or political attitude," the message said. Selectivity. 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