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TEN MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE PLAY FOR DISTRICT TOGA The Crater high Comets, above, who claimed the southern division basketball crown last week end, go after the District 6 A-2 laurels when they play Coquille on Friday night at Coquille and on Saturday night at Central Point. Prize is a berth in the A-2 state tournament at Salem. Kneeling in the picture are, left to right, Crater, St. Mary's For District Crater high of Central oint and StMVIary's of Medford will try tonight and Saturday eve ning for victories that would mean a Jackson county sweep of prep district basketball cham pionships in southern Oregon this season.' Crtpr will oppose Coquille for the District 6 A-2 (Crown while St. Mary's will encounter in a series for 5B laurels. Med ford has already claimed the District 6 A-l banner. The crippled Comets of Crater vie at Coquille this evening and host the Red Devils at Central Point on Saturday. Medford's parochial Crusaders battle Ma lin both nights at Southern Ore gon college in Ashland. The titu lar tussles are set for 8 p.m. on the courts involved. Coquille-Crater action Satur day will follow 7 p.m. prelim tangles in which four Central Point grade school intramural clubs will play. There will be no preliminaries on the college court. Could Play Monday If the clubs split in Friday Saturday part of the best two of three play-offs, Monday games are planned. Site of the A-2 fuss is not settled but the B's would move to a Klamath Qiounty court. All of the probable Crater starters have been on the sick or hobbled list this week. Fred DINE and DANCE At CLUB O FIRST & LAST CHANCE HORNBROOK, CALIF. t) o . Crater. Coqui Saturday Night OVER SO. OREGON'S TOP SPORTS Manager Don Chitwood, Mel' Marsh, Wayne Allen, Don Goyette, Tred Herrmann and George Juveland. Standing, from left are Coach Leonard Warren, Harold Lefler, Nathan Douthit, Dick Callender, Dick Davis, Neil Green, Gordon Tidwell and John Shama. A regular not shown is Bob Gray. Herrmann missed practice two days this week. He has throat trouble from flu and a cold and was to have a doctor's check this morning to determine whether he should go to Co quille. Nathan Douthit turned his an kle Wednesday but should be able to play some. Bob Gray is under the weather from sinus trouble. Herrmann and Shama have old foot sprains troubling them, Harold Lefler has a bum ankle and Dick Callender a bad knee. If ,. they're able, Coach Leonard Warren probably will start Herrmann and Shama at forwards, Gray a center and Douthit and Lefler at guards with Callender and Don Goyette to see much action. Despite their physical ills, the Comets have shown much spirit this week and they have been hot in practice. Paup Hobbled Possible Coquille starters are Don Nelson and Tom Creager or Leroy Ames at forwards, How ard Waggoner at center and Le roy Sargent and Jack Liles at guards. s Coach Millard Webb gave his St. Mary's' Crusaders a rest yes terday. They didn't work out at rail. Only ailing member of the Medford team is Dick Paup, who hurt an ankle early in the week. He should be all right to play, according to Webb. Those likely to open action for SM are John Walsh and Gerald Darland at forwards, Three Beavers Sign Contracts Portland OJ.R) Pitcher Ad Satalich, Catcher Johnny Rose boro and Outfielder Jim Ko rand: returned their signed 1956 contracts to the "Portland base ball club yesterday, bringing the number of players on the Beaver fold to 18. Basketball Playoffs Direct from Coquille - o Marys vs. Mali o Your Mail Tribune Station Friday, March S, 158 ontend Tony Miksche at center, and Paup and Laval Meunier at guards. Crusader spirit also has been high. For Malin, the defending dis trict champion and state B run nuerup in 1955, the lineup may be Roger Dokken and Allen Myers at forwards, Norm Oliva at center and Glen Steyskal and Ray Johnson at guards. Oliva, Johnson and Steyskal were all staters last year. , Wayne MedforbMIubune In NCAA Hoop Tournament By JOHN GRIFFIN Uniitd Prss Sports Writer Former champion Utah and dark-horse Wayne university of Detroit landed berths in the NCAA tournament today as that big basketball carnival drove to straighten out its lineup. The Utes, who won the NCAA crown in 1944 in one of the tourney's biggest surprises, qualified for this year's fray Thursday night by clinching the Skyline Conference champion ship with a 91-60 rout of Colo rado A & M at Salt Lake City, Utah. Wayne, . with a 16-1 overall record that includes a 15-game winning streak, was named as a "member at large." Utah "draws a first-round pass and will play its first game at Corvallis, Ore., March 16, against the winner of the Idaho St.- Seattle first-rounder. Wayne will meet De Paul in a first-round game at Fort Wayne, Ind., March 12. e p. urn. STATION 8 D.ttl. Nats Widen Lead Over Knick Quint By UNITED PRESS The Syracuse Nationals open ed up a two-game lead over the New York Knickerbockers in the Eastern Division race of the National Basketball association today while only one and one half games separated the last three teams in the tight West ern Division race. With only two weeks left in the regular NBA season spirited battles are expected for the play off spots. Only the first three teams in each division will com pete in the post-season playoffs. The Nats, paced by Dolph Schayes and Johnny Kerr with 23 and 22 points, respectively, led all the way in downing the second-place Boston Celtics 111- 100. Hopes Alive The last-place Rochester Roy als kept alive their hopes in the Western Division by defeating the St. Louis Hawks, 95-94, and a pair of free throws by Slater Martin with only two seconds left to play enabled the Minne apolis Lakers to defeat the Phil adelphia Warriors, 102-100, Thursday night. . Minneapolis is in second place in the Western Division, one game ahead of the Hawks and one and one-half in front of the Royals. The Lakers and Hawks have 10 games left to play, while Rochester has only five. Both the Knicks and Nats have eight games to go and meet each other only two more times , In tonight's games, all at Bos ton, New York meets Fort Wayne and Minneapolis plays the Celtics. The NCAA also announced the following first-round paringsfor the regional eleminations at New York, March 12-13: Holy Cross vs. Temple; Canisius vs, Atlantic Coast Conference cham pion; Connecticut vs. Manhat tan; member-at-large bid will be offered to Ivy League chamrjion if decided ia time vs. Southern Conference champion Uiah And Wayne Addition of Utah and Wayne fills 15 of the 25 NCAA places Still open are one member-at- large place the one in New York arid nine conference champion berths. The tourneys to decide the Atlantic Coast and Southern Conference champions move to the semi-final stage tonight. In the Atlantic Coast at Raleigh, N.C., the games are North Caro lina St.-Duke and North Caro lina-Wake Forest. In the South ern at Richmond, Va., it's West Virginia-Furman and Richmond- Washington & Lee. The Atlantic produced the ex pected, first-round winners, but three games were surprisingly close. North Carolina St. barely nipped Clemson, 88-84, as six- height Ronnie Shavlik played only 10 minutes with his broken wrist and scored only one bas ket; North Carolina rallied in the last three minutes to nip Vir ginia, 81-77, as Lennie Rosen bluth scored 35; Wake Forest came from 10 down to beat South Carolina, 79-64; and Duke romped over Maryland. Upset In Southern Washington and Lee upset top- seeded George Washington, 63 60, in the Southern. West Vir ginia played poorly in edging Davidson, 59-53; Richmond easily beat William & Mary, 79- 62; and Darrell Floyd of Furman broke the tournament record with 43 points in an 84-70 win over Virginia Tech, Alabama can, gain an NCAA berth tonight by beating Au burn to clinch the Southeastern Conference champion. The Tide already has clinched at least title tie. UCLA can clinch at least a tie for the Pacific Coast Conference championship to night by beating runne"r-up Cali fornia in the first of a two-game series. And Dartmouth can drive closer to the Ivy League cham pionship by beating Harvard Sailey Leaves For Indoor Run Eugene U.R) Jim Bailey. Oregon s ace distance runner and the NCAA mile champion last year as a sophomore, left here yesterday for the 37th an nual Knights of Columbus games in New York Saturday night, Bailey will be making his first race on an indoor track. He ran three-quarters of a mile in 3:02 this week, two seconds faster' than he has done pre viously. Use Tribune Want Ads Easy, Just Dial 2-6141 Land Berths UBQJ) WLW(G ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE Kliever's Machine Shop took four games from Seven Up Thursday night to increase their lead in the Rogue Valley Bowl ing league to eight games over second placs Star Body Works. Bud Van Hoy took all the hon ors, with a 559 series and a 207 game. Standing!: W. L. Kliever's Machine Shop 27 5 Star Body works 19 13 U. S. National Bank 18 14 City Hall 17 15 Pine Tree Market 17 15 Andy's Jewelers 17 15 State Forest Patrol 16 16 Seven Up 12 20 Darrell Miller 912 22 Vx Lorenz Co 7',i 24 Vi Results: Pine Tree 3 D. Chapman 414 H. Zeber 510 B. Jenkins 535 F. Chapman 519 D. Kreer 455 City Hall 1 O. McNeel 470 N. Dow 443 G. Brown 357 Absenteee 411 J.Compagnoni 525 Handicap 39 2206 Andv's 4 B. Wright 442 D. Kline 475 D. Johnson . 466 Miller Co. 0 J. Haven 442 D. Tremblay 426 H. Wyatt 346 C. Cox 347 B. Kramer 451 Handicap 111 2123 T. Anderson 462 C. Ericson 404 2249 Lorenz Co. 0 C. McWhorter 436 U. S. Bank 4 S. Doty 477 E. Humphrey 391 G. Rader 433 F. Eastwood 395 P. Shafer 523 Handicap 186 2405 Mathes 450 D. M'Cormack 422 B. Tye 464 H. Arant 543 2315 Forest Patrol 1 Star Body D. Stockton 404 H. Smets 474 A. Bohannan 471 B. Graham 401 H. Allen 460 B. Thornton 437 543 475 54 B. Van Hoy 559 D. Graham Bradish 478 I. Graham Handicap 2375 2401 Kliever's 4 Seven Up 0 L. Knapp 532 K. Shaw 457 E. Isaacs 443 D. Coates 439 M. Jacobson 503 D. Schlachter 505 T. Van Sickle 540 J. Morgan 334 v. Allen 524 D. Swan 439 Handicap 120 2542 2294 EVERGREEN LEAGUE Medford Barbers took over first place in the Evergreen Bowling League by posting A 3V2 to V2 series from Pierce Freight Lines the previous weeks leader. Barbers had high game of 835 which Hunter and Best took high1 series 2441. Howard Russell had high series of 604. Standings: W. L. Barber Local 6V2 IV2 Domestic Laundry 6 2 Big Y Mkt 6 2 Hunter and Best ....... 5 3 Pierce Freight Lines 4','j 3 ','2 Swift and Co 4 4 Eastside Market 4 4 Jackson Creek Lumber 3 5 More Steel Co 3 5 Chuck's Pump Service 2 6 Oasis Ball Room 2 6 Jorzensen's Dairy 2 6 Results: Jorgensen'i 0 Big Y 419 PickeU 388 Gifford 360 Hooker 355 Withrow 547' McQuat 81 2150 4 Duncan " Pritchett Jorgensen Givler Ellis Handicap 419 394 465 510 505 2293 Domestic Lndry. 3 Eastside Mkt. 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