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0 TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) t GOOSE TATUM Bringing Magicians Tatum Quint I Slates Two I Tilts in Area t n The man who has scored a 3 Tiundrccb thousand basketball " points and registered a million 1 laughs around the world will be :. seen in action in these parts " soon. o "Goose" TatiTrn, the clown prince of basketball, brings his 1 Harlem Magicians to Grants Pass and Ashland in a pair of e games against the traveling New S York Olympians. , ' The Ashland game is sched " u'.ed for Tuesday .evening, ' March 27, with the teams mov- ing up to Grants Pass on March ; 23, the ' following day. Both games will be played in the high ' school gym, starting at 8 p.m. t Co-Owners Tatum, t!ie harum-scarum court comic, is co-owner, with Marques Haynes, of the Magi . cians Which they organized last fall after leaving the Harlem Globetrotters. Both starred for - years with the Trotters and - toured the world with them. While ''the Golden Goose" is primarily a box office attraction due to his laugh-provoking tal : ents, he is conidered to be one of the great players of the game. : His behind-the-shoulder one r. handed tosses into the basket r. look easy as Tatum performs them with comic seriousness. but they are the result of 16 r years practice. Haynes is considered the "world's greatest dribbler," said he is out to prove it in every ' games as he gives his dazzling exhibition of ball control, drib it bling over, under and through " the opposition while he runs, i- crawls, even rolls on the court. Tn The Olympians big offensive t threat is Big Bill Spivey,- the Kentucky all-time great who is "only" 7 feet 1 inch tall, Spivey, says Los Angeles sports writer 2 Bob Hunter, doesn't shoot bas !7 ket, he "stuffs" the ball into the nets from above. ' High School lettermen's clubs will sponsor the games. HOOP TRAINING Kansas City (U.R) The Day ton, Ohio, and Bunker Hill, Ind., Air Force Bases are under con sideration as possible sites where the American Olympic basketball team will train. It's good to have a social drink at the end of the day. It's best if it's made with Seagram's 7 Crown.., American whiskey at its finest Sa Seagrams and be Sure Seagram-Distillers Company, New MAIL TRIBUNE MedfordTribune Canisius Five Scores Upset Over By UNITED PRESS A stunning four-overtime loss dealt to North Carolina State served warning today that it's "open season on favorites" as the NCAA Basketball' tournament moved to complete its round of action with a slate of four games. N.C. State the nation's No. 2 team in the regular season bowed to Canisius, 79-78, in a first-rounder at Madison Square Garden, Monday night that went four overtimes. Other first -round victories were scored by Temple, Wayne University, Morehead State, and Seattle in play at three different sites. These teams earned berths in regional tournaments starting Friday. At New York West Virginia Portland State 84-76 in NASA Hoop Fray Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) First round games in the sudden death, weeklong NAIA basket ball tournament produced no up sets Monday. Top-seeded West ern Illinois of Macomb blew past Eastern New Mexico of Portales, 114-87. Geneva of Beaver Falls, Pa., losers of only two regular season Seattle Nips Idaho State Five 68-66 Seattle (U.R) Seattle Uni versity held a ticket to the West ern regional NCAA basketball playoffs today after a chilling 68-66 victory over the Idaho State College Bengals. Idaho v State uncorked a tre mendous second-half drive last night in the playoff game at the University of Washington's Ed mundson Pavilion before 6,000 fans. Seattle U. . held a 37-30 half: time margin but Gail Siemen and Lloyd Harris of the visitors began firing long one-handed howitzers in the second half to grab a 47-46 lead with 12 min utes left. Bauer High . ; Cal Bauer, a free-wheeling 5-9 guard, paced the Seattle U. at tack with 20 points. Siemen and Harris each hit 16 for Idaho State. It was the fourth straight year the two teams have met for the at-large berth to the region als and Seattle U. now holds a 3-1 edge. Seattle will meet Utah, Sky line Conference champs, in the first round of the regionals which also will pit San Francisco against UCLA, Pacific Coast Con ference title holders. York City. Blended Whiskey. 86.8 Proof. 65 Grain Neutral Spirits. Tuesday, March 13, 1956 NC State (21-8) is favored over Dartmouth (16-9); Manhattan (16-7) is favor ed over Connecticut (16-9). At Wichita, Kans. Southern Methodist (22-2) a 10 -point choice over Texas Tech (13-11); Oklahoma City (18-6) an eight point choice over Memphis State (20-6). At New York Temple beat Holy Cross, 74-72, in a game that ended in a wild uproar. At Fort Wayne, Ind. More head missed the tourney scoring mark by one point in beating Marshall, 107-92. Wayne, led by soph Clarence Straughn, handed, De Paul an upset defeat, 72-63. At Seattle, Wash. Seattle held on to beat Idaho State by a surprisingly close 68-66. Trimmed games, suffered a series of jitters before living up to its No. 2 tour ney ranking by eliminating Ark ansas Tech of Russellville, 74-69. Fifth seeded Eau Claire (Wis.) won easily over Portland (Ore.) State, 84-76. Eau Claire's bid in the night opener wasn't a success until late in the game. The Wisconsin team blew five leads and trailed at half-time, 32-25. But Roger Han son's big 28 points and Jim Bol linger's 21 were enough. Fletch er Frazier kept the losers in con tention with 20 points. Cheer Home Entry The crowd of some 7.400 gave its loudest cheers to the Rock hurst Hawks, Kansas City's own entry, who won as they pleased over Rider (N.J.) 81-59. Central Ohio of Wilberforce, one of three all-Negro teams entered, slipped past Montana State of Bozeman, 67-66, but Gustavus-Adolphus of St. Peter, Minn., had no difficul ty turning back Eastern Ten nessee of Johnson City, 80-60. In other-games, Georgia Teach ers of ' Statesboro-.eliminated Southeastern Oklahoma of Dur ant, 81-78 points and Stephen F. Austin of Nacogdoches, Tex., de feated Coe of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 72-64. College Basketball MONDAY COLLEGE GAMES By UNITED PRESS (NCAA Tourney 1st Round) At New York Temple 74, Holy Cross 72 Canisius 79. N. Car. St. 78, (four o.t.) At Fort Wayne, Ind. Wayne 72. DePaul 63 Moorehead State 107, Marshall At Seattle. Wash. Seattle 68. Idaho State 66 (NAIA Tourney 1st Round) ' Stephen A. Austin 72, Coe 64 Gustavus-Adolphus 80. E. Tenn. 92 60 Central 111. St. 67, Montana St. 66 George T. 81, Southeastern Okla. 78 Eau Claire 84. Portland State 76 Western 111. 114. Eastern N. Mex. 87 Rockhurt 81. Rider 59 , Geneva 74, Arkansas Tech 69 KANSAS STATE TAKES TITLE While teammate Jack Parr (30) blocks out Kansas University's Lew Johnson (25), Kansas State's Pachen Vicens (24) dribbles around Maurice King (8) for opening of Big Seven championship game at Lawrence. Kansas State won, 79-68. Tigers Take Loop Mantle Timid Tigers lashed the Zom bies 56 to 25 in the play-off fi nale last night to claim the championship of .the Saturday recreation basketball league at the senior high school. The Tigers were in front all the way and had 12 to 5, 21 to 14 and 34 to 20 quarterly mar gins. Jerry Gatlin led the Tigers with 25. Third place in loop standings went to the Sleepy Hollow Boys with a 42 to 14 triumph over the Trojans on Saturday. The Fragrant Five to fifth place by forfeit from the Stompers and Strokers got seventh by de fault from the Eight Balls. Saturday recreation in city school gymns concluded last week end. The gymns are now closed to that activity. LINE-UPS: Timid Tigers 56 . 25 Zombies Hawkins f 7 Taplett Hoist 10 f 3 Sparks Gatlin 25" c 1 Lewis Bosworth 2 g 3 Morris Kellington 15 g 7 Black Substitution For Tigers. Gregory 1. Bellack; for Zombies, Tarns, Hulburt. Buchan Crushes Albany Quintet' Seattle .(U.R) The Buchan Bakers of Seattle rolled over Albany, Ore., 87-47 last night to qualify as the Pacific Northwest representative in the national AAU basketball tournament at Denver." The Bakers, composed mainly of former University of Washing ton stars, raced past. Albany, a team of former "Oregon State standouts, with ease. Dean Parsons, Phil Jordan, and Ed Halberg controlled the backboards and led the Buchan scoring attack with 17, 13 and 12 points respectively. Albany just couldn't find the range in the University of Wash ington pavilion. The Oregon team got off to a slow start and trailed 25-39 at half time. Reggie Halligan and Tex Whitman, members of last year's Pacific Coast Conference champion Ore gon State club, led the losers in scoring with 13 and 10 points re spectively. Small wood Given Nod Over Drake New : York (U.R) Middle weight Hardy Smallwood of Brooklyn wasn't overly elated over Ms majority decision over Ray Drake today and instead was looking forward to meeting either undefeated Rory Calhoun or German Peter Mueller. Smallwood worked hard to get the decision over Drake, but in the end he was lucky to get the nod. Referee Mark Conn penalized Drake for hitting and holding tactics and that proved to be the difference. Conn took the fourth and sev enth rounds from Drake and scored the fight even in rounds and points. He had it 4-4-2 in rounds and awarded six points to each boxer. However, Judge Artie Schwartz gave the fight to Smallwood, 5-4-1 and Judge Joe Eppy concurred, 6-4. SNEAD, HOGAN PAIR Nassau, Bahamas (U.R) Sam my Snead and Ben Hogan will be partners for the first time in their long competitive history March 15 when they play Francis Francis, former British Walker Cup star and New York's Tommy Goodwin in a charity exhibition match at the Bahamas Country Club. BEAVERS BUY HURLER Portland .(U.R) Portland Beaver General Manager Joe Ziegler announced yesterday the purchase of Ray Shore, a highly respected right-handed hurler from Toronto of the International league. Shore, a 33r year -old strikeout specialist, will be used as a relief pitcher by the Bea vers. ' Ducks and geese fly in a V formation because they have side vision and can follow the leader better when they are to the side and rear of him. Oregon Tech Gains Finals Cedar City, Utah (U.R) De fending Champion Boise and Oregon Tech moved into the finals of the region four national junior college basketball tourna ment last night with victories over Utah opposition. Boise, the nation's 10th ranked junior college team, had an easy time walloping Dixie College of St. George, Utah 84-69 in the opening contest. Oregon Tech knocked tourney darkhorse College of Southern Utah out of the running with a close 58-54 win. Don Fairfield Wins Pensacola Pensacola, Fla. (U.R) Young Don Fairfield of Casey, 111., pocketed the top prize in the $12,500 Pensacola Open Golf Tournament. today and immedi ately began looking for new fields to conquer. Fairfield was in and out of trouble during the final 18 holes, but weathered a contyiuous driz zle and the pressure to win the $2,200 first prize with a closing round three-under-par 69 for a 72-hole total of 275. Finishing three strokes farther back was the veteran Bo Win ninger of Oklahoma City, who along with Al Balding of Erin dale, Canada, carded the best round of the day, a four-under 68. Paul Henry shot a 71 to fin ish third, at 279, while Balding and Don January, of Abilene, Tex., tied, for fourth with 282's. Syracuse Certain Of 3rd Place Tie By UNITED PRESS The Syracuse Nationals had the third playoff berth in the Eastern Division of the National Basketball association just about locked up today. The Nationals assured them selves of at least a tie for the spot Monday night when they beat the St. Louis Hawks, 97-92, while the Minneapolis Lakers downed the New York Knicker bockers, 102-89. 'Dirty Sidewalk' Case Dismissed in Court New York (U.R) Allan J. Wilson, manager of a Times Square book shop, won dismissal of a "dirty sidewalk" summons Monday when he pointed out that it would have been illegal for him to clean his walk. The summons, for cigaret butts on the sidewalk in front of his shop, was issued during the day and an ordinance prohibits side walk sweeping after 8 a.m., Wil son said. Native Ostrich Dies Of $10.35 in Stomach Buenos Aires (U.R) An au topsy showed Monday that a Nandu the native ostrich died of complications caused by swallowing coins worth $10.35 and weighing four pounds. The curator of the zoo or dered the hoard of coins distrib uted among the Nandu's keepers. Baseball MONDAY EXHIBITIONS By UNITED STATES New York (A) 4, Chicago (A) 2 Kansas City (A) 7, Boston (A) 4 Philadelphia (N) 5. Pittsburgh (N) 1 Cincinnati (N) 2. St. Louis (N) 1 St. Louis (N) "B" Chicago (A) 2 Cleveland (A) 7, Chicago (N) 6 New York (N) Baltimore (A) 5 Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday. 10 a.m Monday for Monday other days 5:30 orevious day Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Bricks. Fl'ies Drain Tile W. McAndrews Phone 2-4107 A's Atf if uHe Said Better This Season . By LEO H. PETERSEN United Press Sports Editor West Palm Beach, Fla. (U.R) Lou Boudreau holds out hope today that his Kansas City Ath letics will leave the "have not" class in the American league and join the "haves" within the next three or four years. Noting "quite an improve ment in mental attitude and per sonnel" ince he took over the team a year ago, Boudreau pointed out it "will take quite a lot to move any higher than our sixth place finish" of 1955. "We just don't figure on beat ing out the Yankees, Red Sox, Indians, White Sox and Tigers this year or for a couple of years to come," Boudreau explained. "But we hope to ' join those 'have' clubs when our youth movement starts to mature. It's a three or four year program and until then we'll just have to do the best with what we've got." Well Satisfied He said he was well satisfied with the finish of his team last season his club was almost a unanimous pick to wind up in the cellar. But he admitted that "trying to get higher than last yearls taking on a job that might oe too much for us." "Naturally, we're trying for the first division and we just might make it," he added. "However, I'm now counting on it. But if we finish sixth again I'll say this we did it jwith a better ball club than last year's."1 ' He praised the spirit of the players this spring. "It's quite a difference from last spring when there was noth ing but a defeatist attitude in this camp," he said. "Now, the players are out there trying." About 2,000 feature films are produced by the various studios each year. B. F. Goodrich mm B- Goodrich sn A95 TRADE NOW as low as $1.00 DOWN See y DICK FANGER,, f 760 North Riverside ; Phone 2-5868 WALT KINGMAN, Mgr. 144 S. Central Phone 2-8781 MOON MULLINS, Ashland H FIRST IN Chene, Montana To Don Gloves At Grants Pass Grants Pass Feature at traction on the biggest card so far in the new year at the Jose phine county fairgrounds arena next Wednesday night will be a 10-round grudge boxing match between Leapin' Larry Chene and the grizzled ape man, Bull Montana. Chene hurled a challenge at Montana for a boxing match aft er they had mixed it up plenty after the thrilling tag team of last week. To the surprise of everyone Bull accepted. Mon tana says that he has had plenty of boxing experience and that he wih iail Chene in a hurry. The bout may not go the full ten rounds but just in case it does, two ringside judges will be picked along with the ref eree to make a decision. Regu lar boxing rules will apply and 8-ounce gloves will be used with taped fists. Semi-final on this card will match popular Bill Fletcher, the Boise belter, against Cal Rob erts. Last week Fletcher more than held his own against the big boys. Roberts is a fast mov ing veteran who has been rough ing his opponents up with reck less abandon in the past few weeks. The special event will match big Pedro Godoy, the South Am erican bully, against popular Scotty Williams. This is a big card for the Grants Pass area fans and a sell out is expected. George Eck stein may referee the boxing match. Arthur King Awarded Decision Over Vejar Toronto (U.R) Arthur King, 14534, of Toronto, scored a ' unanimous decision ' Monday night over Chico Vejar, 15212, of Stamford, Conn.," in their 10-round welterweight bout in Toronto's Maple Leaf gardens. NEW TREADS Get a fresh, new start on mileage. Just pay for the tread. Drive on safe tires and avoid accidents. B.F.Goodrich SAFETYLINER TUB EL ESS This is the same tire as comes on new cars. Equip your car with TUBELESS safety NOW. Patented inner liner reduces bruise blowouts to safe s-s-slowouts. - B. F. Goodrich SAFETY-S TUBELESS NOW TUBELESS tire safety at a new low cost. SAFETY-S A tube-type tire with "same tread design as formerly came on new cars. SIZE 6.00-16 and your rteappabl tir . Slt i. iS jij? WWW or, , filf&fc RUBBER - FIRST Shooters Turn In 72 Trap Score An aggregate score of 72 was wired to Portland by Medford Gun club Sunday in the Ogon Journal telegraphic trapshoot. James and Larry Horn and Henry Neidermeyer each broke 24 out of 25 birds. Ray Coleman busted 45 out ot 50 in the handicap competition at the club and Larry Horn fol lowed with 4"4. Bert Peck smash ed 24 of 25 at skeet. There were ' 25 shooters. Next Sunday the Ed Pease handicap will be fired. There will be 16-yard and skeet events and shooting will begin at 10 a.m. A pre-Easter ham shoot is slated March 25. There will be fryers as well as hams for prizes. In the Journal event Medford shot against Ochoco club of Prineville, Portland, Ontario and Pendleton-Pilot Rock. Scores from those clubs are not yet available here. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads WRESTLING GRANTS PASS ARENA WEDNESDAY NIGHT, MAR. 14 . MAIN EVENT Extra Special Attraction . . . . THE BIGGEST CARD OF THE YEAR DON'T MISS IT! 10 Rounds or Less Grudge Boxing Match $100 Side Bet LEAPIN' LARRY CHENE, 201, . Detroit ' vs. BULL MONTANA, 207, The Toledo Terror They will battle it out with 8-ox; gloves. 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