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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.
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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.
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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
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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."
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far in the new year at the Jose
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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