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STATE TOURNEY THEIR GOAL First state
basketball tournament berth for their school
is the aim of the St. Mary's high of Medford
Crusaders, above. In order to make the trip
to Baker the Medford parochials will have to
whip the tough Malin Mustangs in a week end
play-off series for the District 5 B bunting.
Games are scheduled Friday and Saturday
nights at Southern Oregon college gym in
Ashland with a third game, if necessary in
two-out-of-three elimination, to be contested
on a Klamath county floor. The Jackson
County B League champion squad is: Kneeling,
from left, Manager Jim Duda, Pat Sullivan,
Dick Paup, Laval Meunier, Ronnie Pruitt,
Jack Birmingham: standing, left to right,
Coach Millard Webb, Gerald Darland, John
Walsh, Jerry Flakus, Tony Miksche, Jim Dar
land and Father Robert Tomisser, athletic
director. Main games each night in Ashland
are set for 8 o'clock. Preliminary tussles are
planned each night. (Landis-Shangle photo).
$17,000 Salary
Set for Royal
At Washington
Seattle - (U P.) Darrel Royal,
new football coach at the Univer
sity of Washington, will receive
an annual salary of $17,000 on
a four-year contract it was an
nounced yesterday.
It will be the highest salary
ever paid .Washington football
coach. Howie Odell was paid
515,000 yearly and John Cher
berg, fired Jan. 21 after a "play
er rebellion," earned 512,000 a
year.
The associated students of the
University of Washington's
board of control approdd Roy
al's salary by aH17-2 vote. The
action was subject to ratification
by Dr. Henry Schmitz, university
president.
Briggi $11,000
' George Briggs, the school's
new athletic director, will re
ceive an annual salary of $11,000.
Koyal, 31, was hired Tuesday by
Briggs to take over the head
football job at Washington. He
was an outstanding quarterback
binder B(p Wilkinson at the Uni
versity of Oklahoma and coached
Mississippi State in 1954 and
1955 finishing with a 6-4 mark
both years.
Royal announced yesterday
that Jim Pittman, 29, assistant
line coach at Mississippi State the
past five years, would become
line coach of the Huskies.
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Game Men Hurriedly Replacing
Fish Count Station at Gold Ray
Game Commission fishery de
partment personnel out of the
Central Point shop are laboring
hurriedly this week to replace
the fish counting station at Gold
Ray dam.
Reason for the speed: The
main run of winter steelhead is
expected to reach he Gold Ray
fish ladders any day now.
" The station was washed out
last Tuesday for the second time
this winter. Cole Rivers, Grants
Pass, field agent and fish bio
logist for the - State Game Com
mission, 'Said that it is hoped to
have the station rebuilt by Fri
day afternoon or Saturday morn
ing. - A steel rack across the lad
der, a gate to let fish across a
counting board and a small
shelter for the man who does
the counting make up the sta
tion. Rivers said that when
water reaches 8-foot level on
the dam, the counting station has
to be removed to prevent its
loss. However, in the pre-Christ-mas
flood and on last Tuesday
water came up so fast that noth
ing could be salvaged.
Lost Only Twice
The two recent floods are the
only times in 14 years that count
ing stations have been lost.
Counting is done on sample
basis. The counts are made on
half days, alternating morning
and afternoon six days a week
all year long. To make up for
the periods when no tabulation
is taken an extremely accurate
formula is applied to get a total
fish count figure.
The Gold Ray rfigures are of
considerable value in studies of
the Rogue fishery.
Dukes Upset
Dayton Five;
Green Stars
By JOHN GRIFFIN
United Press Sports Writers
Some folks have been saying
that Duquesne is in the Nation
al Invitational tournament field
"on a pass," but its upset of
high-ranked Dayton served as a
blunt warning today that the
Dukes mean business in defense
of their NIT crown.
Dayton, the nation's No. 2
team, figures to be top-seeded
for this year's tourney starting
on March 17, but Duquesne
whipped the Flyers, 87-86 Wed
nesday night on a stunning per
formance by All-American- Si
Green
Green racked up a total of 40
points in the fray at Pittsburgh
and his driving layup with five
seconds left proved the winning
goal. The Dukes, who have a
dull 14-9 record that little be
comes a tourney team, thus av
enged an early season less to
Dayton and reminded the ex
perts they beat these same Fly
ers, 70-58, in last year's NIT fi
nals. Seven-foot Bill Uhl tallied 30
points in vain for Dayton as the
Flyers suffered their third loss
in 25 games.
Two Gain Berths
On the NCAA tournament
front, Texas Tech and Manhat
tan college became the 12th and
13th teams to gain berths in the
25-team carnival starting at var
ious sites March 12.
Texas Tech wrapped up the
Border title with an easy 87-66
conquest of New Mexico A&M
at Lubbock, Tex., sinking 44.2
per cent of its shots. The Red
Raiders thus qualified to meet
SMU, the Southwest conference
champion, in a first-round game
at Wichita, Kans., March 13.
Manhattan (15-6) landed its
berth by winning nine of its
last 11 games and will be in the
regional at New York, March
12, against one of the four yet
undetermined conference champions.
O DICK JEWETT
Mail Tribune Sports Editor
Baton Rouge Golf
Tourney Begins
Baton R6"uge, La. (U.P.)
Baton Rouge's $12,500 open golf
tourney opened shortly after
sunup today on a breezy but dry
course for a four-day match
where no top-heavy favorites
emerged in warm-up sessoons.
Winter tour stars Cary Mid
dlecoff and Ted Kroll, the latter
winner of the Tucson Open, were
conceded favorites by a few pros,
but not by an overwhelming
margin.
Charleston, S. C, is the na
tion's number one port of entry
for long staple cotton.
Saturday Cage
League Enters
Title Play-Offs
LEAGUE STANDINGS:
W. L. Pet.
Timid Tigers 9 0 1.000
zombies 7
Trojans .....s 6
Sleepy Hollow Boys 6
Stompers 5
Strokers ... 3
Virgil Swanson, dean of ref
erees in southern Oregon and
one of the most capable over the
years, has announced that he
will go into semi-retirement as
a basketball official at the con
clusion of this season.
. The ex-Medford high athlete
of the Prink Callison coaching
era Q not putting his whistle
away for good. But after more
than 20 years of officiating he'll
work games on a more limited
schedule.
Swanson, who has been toot
ing for basketball tussles since
1935, said that he will not handle
any Class A-l hoop contests next
season and will not continue as
area commissioner of referees, a
post he has held through this
season. He may accept a few col
lege jobs and work an A-2 and B
prep fray "now and then."
Abilities of the veteran arbi
ter are not confined to basket
ball. He has also refereed foot
ball and umpired baseball and
again has been right at the top
in capability. Swanson said that
he may work afew A-l grid
games next fall and that he'll
continue as baseball ump on a
reduced schedule.
whether, as partisans, they have
agreed with his decisions or not.
MORE TIME TO RELAX
Relieved of a heavy officiat
ing slate, Swanson, whose reg
ular occupation is that of a
mounted mail carrier, feels
that he will be able to relax
more and will have time for
other interests. He says he
may do some golfing.
APPRECIATED
This writer has found Swan
son helpful in a cooperative
and courteous way when he's
pressed the arbiter with ques
tions on rules, interpretations
and incidents in games. It js
been appreciated. We've also
found Virg reluctant to criticize.
STATE TOURNEY REF.
Swanson's stature has been
recognized in his selection to
referee Oregon state basketball
tourneys in 1951 and 1953 and
the Nevada state prep hoop tour
nament in 1952. In both 1952 and
1953 he was a ref for the state
championship conflicts. Those
jobs have been among the high
lights of his career as was his
post of headlinesman last August
in the state Shrine all-star foot
ball game in Portland. Swanson
finished Medford high in 1928
and turned to refereeing and
umpiringafter several sea:ms
of semi-pro ball.
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Championship play-off first
round games are slated this week
end in the Saturday recreation
basketball league at Medford
senior high school.
Timid Tigers, unbeaten in the
loop's round robin, will tak? on
Sleepy Hollow Boys on Friday
at 3:45 p.m. in a championship
bracket fray. Other battles in
the titular flight will match the
twice-trimmed Zombies against
the Trojans at 11 p.m. Saturday.
Two other Saturday scrapes
will be in the play-off for fifth
place or consolation honors.
Stompers will play the Strokers
at 1 p.m. and Fragrant Five will
tussle the Eight Balls at 2 p.m.
Tigers Beat Zombies
Last Saturday the Tigers
edged the Zombies 38 to 35 to
keep their record clean. The
Trojans overpowered the Frag
rant Five 55 to 35 and the Sleepy
Hollow Boys took a forfeit win
over the Rodents to wind up
in a tie for third at the end of
the round robin.
The Stompers won from the
Eight Balls for No. 5 spot in
the standings. The Strokers were
'pulled into a sixth-place tie with
the Fragrants and the Eight Balls
when they lost to the Studs. Fin
ishing out of the running for a
play-off place were the Studs
and the Rodents.
EVIDENCE OF ABILITY
Officiating a ball game isn't
the easiest job in the world and
an arbiter is seldom the most
popular man on the field or
floor. A ref's job with its bavy
responsibility and concentration
to keep the game in hand and to
make the right "call" with split
second quickness is one of stress
and strain. Add to that the occa
sional abuse from the partisan.
The occupation to do it well
requires a poised firm fibered
personality. That Virg has been
the ma in the striped shirt or
the blue serge suit for so many
years at so many games in the
area is evidence that he has the
qualifications and at the same
time is tribute to his ability.
Swanson, in the years we've
followed his -work, has always
exhibited thorough knowledge
of the rules of the sports he has
reffeed. And his impartiality,
honest and fearlessness his in
tegrity have been respected by
coaches, p 1 a y e iQ and fans,
Mentor Claims
W. Nauljs Better
Than Bill Russell
Los Angeles (U.R) Coach
Johnny Wooden of UCLA be
lieves his high-coring center,
Willie Nauls, is a better all
around player than Bill Russell
of the University of San Fran
cisco.
"Russell will be on every
body's All-America team and
Player of the Year and all that,"
Wooden said. "He deserves it, but
Naulls is a better all-around
player than Russell. Willie can
do so many more things."
Naulls, who is six feet 5 inches,
leads the Pacific Coast Confer
ence in scoring with 272 points
in 12 games for a 22.7 point game
average.'
One of Finest
Wooden said that on
Bruins' eastern swing last
cember, "the coaches back there
considered Willie one of the fin
est pro prospects they'd seen."
When USF defeated UCLA, 70
53, in the finals of the Holiday
Festival in Madison Square Gar
den, Naulls outscored Russell, 19
points to 17. Both players were
selected on the tournament's all-
star team.
De-
Pro-Am Golf
Tournament
Slated Here
Final day's action of a three
round pro-amateur tournament
will highlight the spring golf
schedule at Rogue Valley Coun
try club here.
Linksmen will come to Med
ford for the last 18-hole stint on
March 20 after having played on
March 18 at Laurelwood course,
Eugene, and on March 19 at Rose
burg Country club.
Money will go to the pros and
trophies to the amateurs for both
overall tourney contention and
the separate play on each course.
In addition to money from the
entry fees, the three clubs are
putting up a purse of S600, each
contributing S200.r
Of the total S300 will go as
prize money for entire 54 holes
and SI 00 each will go to the in
dividual local competitions. For
amateur divoters there will be
three gross and three net prizes
of the 54 holes.
Rogue Valley Pro Al Williams
and Tournament Chairman Bill
Thorndike also have announced
the RVCC schedule of men's
golfing events for the year.
Deadline Moved
Qualifying for the spring han
dicap, chairmaned by Bob Web
ber, is underway now. Because
of bad weather, the deadline for
qualifying has been extended
from this week end until March
11. Match play in the event is to
end on April 29. .
The third annual two-ball
match play competition is set for
April 27 through June 10. Mem
bers will participate in National
Golf day rounds on June 2 or 9.
Club championship action is set
for June 9 through August 9 and
the senior club title play June
21 through August 19. The
Southern Oregon Junior tourney
will be sometime in June and
the Southern Oregon Men's and
Women's championships August
29 through September 3.
Father and son play is billed
for September 9 and the Me and
Mine (husband and wife) rivalry
fo September 23. Holiday han
dicap contention will last No
vember 22 through January 1.
Interclub match dates are yet
to be announced.
Basketball
WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAMES
By United Press
Fordham 81. Columbia 68
Dartmouth 76, Yale 6"
Duquesne 87. Dayton 86
Penn St. 75. Carnegie Tech 68
Canisius 76. Syracuse "73
Temple 86, Albright 75
LaSalle 71. Villanova 64
Niagara 78, Siena 44
Notre Dame 87. Marquette 69
Louisville 83. Xavier of Ohio 70
Texas Tech 87. New Mexico A&M 68
Portland Varsity
Receives Scare
From Freshmen
Portland . U.R) The Uni
versity of Portland Pilots, just
to keep limbered up for the
coming district 2 NAIA tourney
took on the Frosh team in an
exhibition stand here last night
and before the ' evening was
through the varsity was more
than limbered up.-
The Pilots managed to escape
with a two-point margin of vic
tory and salvage some measure
of prestige with the final count
79-77. It was the first loss of
the season for the freshmen.
Bob Altenhofen, 6-4 pivot
man for the regulars, led the
night's scoring with 27 coun
ters. Jim Armstrong stuffed 23
markers through the hoop for
the Frosh.
Minneapolis Ups
Gap Over Royals
By UNITED PRESS
The Minneapolis Lakers took
a commanding 2i game lead
over the Rochester Royals today
in the battle for a playoff berth
in the National Basketball asso
ciation on a victory sparked by
little Whitey Skoog.
The Lakers downed the Syra
cuse Nationals, 98-94, at St. Paul
Wednesday night as the Royals
were handed an 86-81 defeat by
the Philadelphia Warriors at
Philadelphia.
In the only other game played
Wednesday, the Boston Celtics
downed the Fort Wayne Pistons,
106-99.
At its greatest length, South
Carolina is 235 miles.
OSC WRESTLERS WIN
Portland (U.R) Oregon
State's wrestling team downed
Portland State 24-4 here yester-
dayT George Meyer of OSC
scored the only pm, winning
from Steve Roso of the Vikings
in 1915 of the first period.
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Freeman Might
Overtake Floyd
New York (U.R) Robin Free
man of Ohio State has an outside
chance of gaining the nation's
scoring championship, but he'll
have to score "real big" in his
team's final two games to nose
out Darrell Floyd of Furman,
the current leader.
According to NCAA Service
Bureau statistics,- Floyd has
scored 872 points in 26 games
for a leading 33.5 points per
game average compared to Free
man's 32.4 average on 647
points in 20 games.
Floyd has finished his regular
season and soon will be playing
in the Southern Conference
tourney. Freeman gets his chance
to catch up against Michigan
State Saturday and Minnesota
next Monday.
In the all-time scoring rank
ings, Buzz Wilkinson of Virginia
holds the No. 3 spot behind
Frank Selvy, also of Furman,
and Floyd on his 1955 average of
32.1 points per game. Freeman
can move ahead of him by main
taining his current pace.
Dan Swartz of Morehead State
is third behind Floyd and Free
man at 28.4 and Julius McCoy
of Michigan State is fourth at
28.0.
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