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TWELVE MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL, TRIBUNE Sunday, March 18, 1956 ina Defeats Pirates 75 To Win Is Ber ornacio O O Medford Shoots Torrid .409 To Gain Decisive Semi-Final 0 By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon. Eugene The Med ford Black Tornad.o. denied in its 1955 quest for Oregon high school basketball's most coveted laurels, became a state tourney finalist for the second successive year Friday night, with a blis tering 75 to 57 triumph over the Marshfield Pirates in the class A-l extravaganza here. Medford's "desire" team, able and worthy successor to last year's "dream" Tornado, whizzed itself into a battle against Port land's Franklin high Quakers in the Saturday night titular ruck us. Franklin emerged over Lin coln, also of Portland, 43 to 40 in the other Friday semi-final. Driving Offensive Driving offensive action, capped by some of Medford's hottest shooting of the year, was Dick McLaughlin Scores 20 in A-l Semi-finals combined with fierce, booming, sure play, under the backboards as the Tornado fought. its way into the championship encounter. Marshf ield's big, rough, tough, footballish Pirates had employed the same hard-running game to squelch the hopes of its two previous rivals in the clas sic. Medford turned the tables and victory was decisive. It started slow but once it began to whirl it quickly became the master of the Pirates. Marsh field, which had hoped to add the hoop crown to the state grid iron toga it claimed last fall, couldn't match consistently the sharpshooting, blazing pace and the rugged aggresiveness of the Black Tornado. Hit More Than Half . Medford recorded a torrid .409 from the field, hitting more than half its shots, 19 out of 36. tries in the first half. Dick McLaugh lin with 20 and Bob Tisdel with 24 were the scoring leaders and they were the main drivers too. Dick Copple and Neil Plumley were the top forces under the "boards" and McLaughlin and Tisdel had substantial hands in rebounding. Lloyd Cearley came through with his usual solid, steady floor (Jvlay and stout defensive work. He tallied early vital markers as the Black Tornado, in its best effort of the tourney and one of its outstanding games of the sea son, outhustled and outball- hawked the Pirates. Medford had the jump on the Oregon coast area team almost all the way. The Tornado went ahead for keeps early in the second quar- tr after lagging in the early moments of the game. A margin was slowly piled up, putting Medford out of reach of the Pirates. First quarter edge fa vored the Pirates 21 to 18, but by halftime Medford headed, 43 to 31. After three quarters the tally was 57 to 40. Medford once had a spread of 24 counters, 69 to 45. Franklin In Command Franklin, the prep alma mater of proud Medford Coach Frank Roelandt, also established itself in command in the second quar ter. The Quakers, getting re venge after two setbacks by the Cards in the Portland interschol astic league." played just ade quately enough to win 'for the third time in the tournament. They had quarter margins of 13 to 11, 29 to 18 and 41 to 28. As usual 6-foot 9-inch Bjarne Jen sen was the rebounding ace of the Quakers, but this time he yielded scoring honors to Jim Kuhn, who got 16 points, and Ernie Spargur who totalled 13. Big Bjarne got 11. Friday's earned finale match put Franklin and Medford to gether for the second time this season. Medford won a Decem 4 Mm mm ber hassle 58 to 53. The Tornado and Quakers also met in a tour ney starter contest in 1955 with Medford subduing Bjarne Jen sen and company 60 to 51. New Hands Medford's hoop contingent, consisting almost entirely of new hands this season, has left few stones unturned in its aim not to be outdone by the 1955 Tornado team. For a while Friday, how ever, it seemed the Medfordites would falter. The Pirates grabbed a 10 to 4 lead and the Tornado had to come' from be hind twice before going in front for good. Two buckets by Cearley and a driver by Tisdel knotted the scrap at 10-all. Barry Bullard and Hardy Spurgeion connected and Spurgeion got a gifter shot for a 15 to 10 Marshfield spread. Tisdel canned a jumper and a driver for 15 to 14 but Bullard made the standing 17 to 14. Free shots by Cearley and Plumley and a Tisdel jumper brought the tally to 18 to 17 for Medford's first time on top." Denny Baker swished successive goals to give Marshfield its quarter gap of 21 to 18. Second Quarter Plumley started out the sec ond period with a free shot. Tisdel got a long jumper and Copple a basket from the side to tie up the mix at 23-all. Then Tisdel drove for a close-in shot after an interception by Mc Laughlin. Medford built its mar gin to 31 to 23 before the Pirates could find the bucket. Tornado advantage then went up to 40 to 25. A fantastic .503 field gunning clip in the first half marked Medford's push. The Tornado was less accurate in the second half but Marshfield never got closer than the 12 points which separated the teams at the mid way intermission. In the third quarter, biggest Tornado spread as 18 counters at 56 to 38. New Team In Medford's 69 to 45 advantage came with 4V minutes left to play in the fuss. The Pirates started pressing at that -point but the strategy was of no ser ious consequence. The Tornado went into a ball control offense in the last three minutes of the game. A complete team of non starters was sent into action by Roelandt before the finish. In its field goaling, Medford hit 27 for 66, and the Pirates had a .349 average for 22 for 63. At the free line the Tornado put in 21 for 37 and Marshfield 13 for 27. Only in the first quarter did Marshfield outscore the Tornado. Medford rolled up 25 points in its best panel,' the second. Roger Johnson was the leading point maker of the Coos Bay club with 15. Bullard had 13 and Sandy Fraser 12. Plumley was third high for Medford with 11. Medford's effectiveness under the backboards was strongest in the first half. The Tornado had a 52 to 44 edge in retrieving. Copple . got 15 boards, Plumley 13, McLaughlin 11 and Tisdel 9. Spurgeon collected 14 and Fra ser 11 for Marshfield. Third Contest The Medfqrd-Marshfield fray, as in the case of Franklin and Lincoln, was .the third between the two schools this season. The Tornado lashed Mashfield 80 to 44 in December and the Pirates won in January 57 to 52. Med ford Friday took the rubber game. Against Lincoln on Friday, Jensen had to contend with some big opponents, although they were not quite so tall as he. He collected his usual allotment of rebounds with 24, surpassing the efforts of the Cardinals 6-6 Andre Laborde, 6-5 Berkeley Holman and 6-4 Ron Anderson. Neither of the Portland teams shot well. Franklin had a .254 field mark and Lincoln .250. Sixth Final Role Medford got a finalist role in the tourney for the sixth time in 38 seasons. It won the cham pionships in 1924 and 1929. Franklin claimed the title back in 1921 and was a finalist also in 1925 and 1936. ' To gain the semi-finals, the Tornado defeated Beaverton 58 to 49 and Milwaukie 65. to 53. Franklin nicked South Salem 65 to 62 and topped Eugene in overtime 56 to 50. SF Seals Have Bad Day, Lose Game and $2,400 Daytona Beach, Fla. tU.R) The San Francisco Seals suffer ed a double setback yesterday when thieves made off with S2400 in players' valuables while the team was being shut out, 2-0, by Omaha. The burglary took place at Deland where the players don ned uniforms before traveling 23 miles to Daytona Beach. Manager Eddie Joost said someone broke the clubhouse door with a crowbar and then broke into the trunk where the players lock their valuables. Stolen were Joost's $1,000 World Series ring and S500 watch and S900 in valuables be longing to the players. Average Victory Franklin was second rated and Medford fourth by pollsters at the end of the season. Eugene was No. 1 and Jefferson of Port land! ousted by Marshfield, was No. 3. Jeff and Eugene fought for fourth place in the tourney Saturday afternoon while Lin coln and Marshfield were pushed into the tussle for third spot. No. 1 in 1955 Medford's aggregation of 1955 went into the 37th annual tour ney No. 1 ranked and was the victim of Eugene on the final night. A horde of Medford fans were here for the Friday struggle, and the Tornado had a sizable student rooting section. Tornado sup porters, wild with enthusiasm, had to postpone their congratu lations to the hoopsters. They were warned not to rush down from the stands. But the yell staff, already on the floor, gath ered round the cagers in a glee ful demonstration. Marshfield fga fg fta ft reb pf tp Fraser, f 16 4 10 4 11 3 12 Spurgeon. f 4 1 1 1 14 2 3 Ballard, c 5 4 9 5 8 3 13 Johnson, g 19 6 5 3 6 5 15 Boker, g 13 5 1 0 4 4 10 Page, f 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Amsbary. f . 0 0 0 0 0 2 0 Langenberg, c.. 0000000 Hines. g 5 10 0 112 Bick, g 1 1 0 0 0 0 2 Totals 6i 22 26 13 44 23 57 Medford fga fg fta ft reb pf tp McLaughlin, f ....13 8 9 4 11 3 20 Copple. f 14 3 3 2 15 3 8 Plumley, c 7 4 5 3 13 4 11 Tisdel. g 23 9 9 6 9 4 24 Ceariey. g 7 3 4 3 0 1 9 Foust. f 2 0 5 3 4 2 3 Gober. f 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Stearns, c 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Reinking. g 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 Ferkins, g 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 66 27 37 21 52 18 75 Officials: Pat Wohlers and Harvey Oberg. Franklin fga fg fta ft rebpftp Spargur. f 13 4 6 5 9 2 13 Kuhn, f 15 6 7 4 10 4 16 Jensen, c 19 4 9 3 24 2 11 Luhrs. g .13 3 4 1 5 3 7 Hutton. g 6 0 3 1 3 2 1 Jarboe. f 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 Porter, f ..: 1 0 0 0 2 0 0 Totals 67 17 29 14 53 14 48 Lincoln fga fg fta ft reb pf tp LaBorde. t 10 2 8 5 9 4 9 M. Doherty, f ..16 4 1 0 11 2 8 Holma, c 8 12 16 2 3 Miller, e 5 14 12 4 3 Cloutierv 6 2 0 0 3 1 4 Goddard, f 7 13 16 0 3 Anderson, c 5 4 6 2 10 4 10 P. Doherty, g 2 0 0 0 1 0 0 Blitz, g 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 Totals 60 15 24 10 48 17 40 Officials: Bob Howell and Bert Burr. Jensen Leads Scoring In A-l Prep Tourney Eugene (U.R) Bjarne Jensen, Franklin's High's tall center, set the individual scoring pace to day in the State Class A-l Hiid School Basketball tournament here with 69 points in three games. Charlie Warren of Eugene had 62 points at the end of the third round, and Bob Tisdell of Med ford had 58. Roger Johnson of Marshfield was in fourth spot with 57. Maxwell Leads Petersburg Open St. Petersburg,. la. (U.R) Billy Maxwell and Lionel He bert dueled in a hole for hole match yesterday and it took all the skill Maxwell could muster to preserve a one stroke lead at the end of 54 holes in the St. Petersburg Open Golf tourna ment. Maxwell, the former Nation al champion from Odessa, Tex., who started the blustery, cold day off with a three stroke lead over his Erie, Pa., opponent, en ters the final round today with a 204 total to Hebert's 205. Both were in the same three some yesterday and Hebert eras ed Maxwell's three-stroke ad vantage at the seventh hole. It was almost match play from there on with the lead see-sawing before a gallery of more than 1,000 persons. Marlene Steward Leads Women's Amateur Tilt Pinehurst, N.C. (U.R) Tiny Marlene Steward, the Canadian champ from Fonthill, Ont., and teenager Anne Quast of Marys ville, Wash., chopped down two U. S. Curtis cuppers Saturday with impressive fairway play to move into the semi-finals of vthe North and South Women's am ateur golf championship. Defending champion and only Curtis cupper left in the prestige tourney, Wiffi Smith of St. Clair,- Mich., and deliberate Wanda Sanches also advanced with crisp victories. Cyclotron Breaks Track Record At Tanforan San Bruno, Calif. (U.R) Cyclotron, an "unsound" horse, closed with a rush to win the S15,000 -California Handicap at Tanforan Saturday as the heavily-favored Colonel Mack ended up in third place. Cyclotron ran the mile and one sixteenth n 1:42 1-5 cracking the old track record of 1:42 3-5 set in 1952 by Trust ing. Use Tribune Want Ads Quick in Results! PAL Boxers Will Battle Burns Boys Medford police athletic league boxers will meet fighters spon sored by the Burns Elks club and from Ashland on a boxing card set for April 7, at 8:30 p.m. at the St. Mary's High school gymnasium. Both the main event and the semi-final fights will be five rounders. Proceeds from the bouts will be used for mainte nance of the PAL club. In the main event, Jackie Pus cas, national AAU lightweight champion, will meet Clifford Sams of Burns. The semi-final will match PAL club pugilist Larry Lewis, Oregon state AAU flyweight champ, with Lloyd Louis of Burns. Following the fights a dinner will be given for all PAL club boxers and the regular fighters will be presented with trophy jackets. Mrs. Kay Crowell is in charge of dinner arrangements. Tickets for the bouts are now on sale at the city police sta tion. Prices are $2.50 for ring side reserve, SI 50 for reserve, and SI for general admission, all taxes incluued. Santee Huns 4:06.9 Mile Cleveland iU.R) Wes Santee demonstrated one and for all today that he's back at his cham pionship peak. ' With a blazing 4:06.9 perform ance in Friday night's Knights of Columbus meet, the Kansas Marine once again is a threat to challenge Kurt Nelsen's world indoor mile mark of 4: 03.6. It could almost be said that all that-stands between him and the mark is the courts. It wasn't only that Santee sliced five seconds off his best previous mark of the indoor sea son that caused the track ex perts to gasp The key fact was that Wes, for the first time since he started his running court bat tle with the national AAU, dem onstrated that he still has his famous last-quarter "kick." Wes hit the halfway mark at 2:04.5, and reached the- three quarter in 3:06.7. Then at the point where he tired in his two earlier races Wes turned it on . and lapped the entire four man field with a blazing 60.2 second final quarter. Air Academy Is Interested in Scheduling OSC Washington (U.R) The Air Force Academy is interested in scheduling a football game with Oregon State college but sug gested dates in 1959 and 1960 are unacceptable, Rep. Walter Norblad (R-Ore.) was informed Saturday. Norblad recently wrote aca demy officials endorsing an Ore gon State proposal for games on Oct. 3, 1959, and Sept. 24, 1950. He pointea out the 35,000 seat Multnomah stadium at Portland would be available Lt. Gen H. R. Harmon, aca demy superintendent, replied that he agreed with Norblad that an appearance of the academy team in Oregon would be valu able. But he said the 1959 date al ready has been scheduled ten tatively. And he said the acade my has a policy of not schedul ing September games since ca dets do not return to the academy for the fall term until the middle of that month. Harmon said, however, that contact will be maintained with Oregon State officials "with the hope of worikng out some kind of competition between Oregon State and the Air Force Aca demy." Chicago Bears Slate 12 Games During 1956 Chicago (U.R) The Chica go Bears have announced a regular-season schedule of 12 games for the 1956 campaign, six at home and six away. The Bears open Sept. 30 at Baltimore and close the season Dec. 16 at home against Detroit. The schedule includes games with the San Francisco Forty Niners Oct. 14 at Chicago and Cct. 28 at San Francisco and with the Los Angeles Rams Nov. 4 at Los Angeles and Nov. 18 at Chicago. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line Sunday Classified is at noon Saturday 10 a.m Monday for For a GUARANTEED GOOD USED CAR Before You Buy Be Sure To Look the Lot Over at . . . MORSE MOTORS 1201 N. RIVERSIDE an Francisco Dons Score Corvallis, Ore. OI.R) The national champion University of San Francisco Dons moved into the NCAA basketball quarter finals Friday night by easily de feating the highly-touted UCLA Bruins, 72-61. The University of Utah Utes were never behind in defeating the Seattle University Chieftains 81-72. USF Coach Phil Woolpert called on the famous and the obscure for his victory. The famous was 6-foot, 10 inch center Bill Russell : ev erybody's Ail-American and "Player of the Year." He shack led UCLA's great Willie (The Eugene Axrnen Win A-1 Fourth Position McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene Eugene nabbed fourth place and McLaughlin high of Milton-Freewater took fifth in the Oregon Class A-l prep basketball tournament by winning Saturday afternoon en counters. Eugene's Axemen, rated No. 1 in the state before the tourney, overcame Jefferson of Portland 78 to 76 in a rousing finish and Mac Hi defeated Pendleton 55 to 49 in a tangle of Blue Moun tain conference entries. Axemen Lead The Axemen shoved in front at the start of their combat but Jeff surged on top 17 to 13 by the end of the quarter. At the half the Democrats of Portland still headed 33 to 26 but the Axemen slugged back for a 57 to 51 advantage at the third in termission. The final panel was hotly contested. Jeff tied the score at 63-all and 65-all. vEugene went ahead 72 to 65 and the Demos cut it to 72 to 70. The Axemen went to 76 to 70 but the count was only 76 to 75 with 32 seconds left. Chuck Rask put in six free shots and missed two tries in the last 2Vz minutes for Jefferson. Rask topped all scorers with 27 points and Dave Powell piled up 19 and Charlie Warren 17 for Eugene. The hot firing Axemen and Demos racked up the highest scoring totals of the tournament. Eugene hit from the field at a .468 average and Jefferson at a .424 clip. Blue Mountain Special In the Blue Mountain special McLaughlin fought into the lead OSAA Moves to Increase Number of Officials Eugene (U.R) The Oregon School Activities Association has increased the number of officials who will work high school basketball tournament games next year. - 1 At the group's annual winter board ' meeting here yesterday, officials working Class A-l games were increased from six to eight and four officials instead of three, were designated for fu ture Class A-2 and B tournament games. Each of the eight districts in the state will pick one official from its district for the. A-l tourney. High School Scores TOURNEY SCORES By United Press Championships: Franklin 48, Lincoln 40 Medford 75, Marshfield 57 Consolation: Pendleton 64, Central Catholic 57 Mac-Hi 46, Beaverton 42 Jefferson 63, Milwaukie 55 Eugene 60, Klamath Falls 54 College Basketball By UNITED PRESS NCAA Regional, Friday Games (At Philadelphia) Canisius 66, Dartmouth 58 Temple 65, Connecticut 59 (At Iowa City, la.) Iowa 97, Morehead St. 83 Kentucky 84, Wayne' 64 (At Lawrence, Kan.) Southern Methodist 89, Houston 74 Okla. City 97. Kansas Ct. 93 (At Corvallis. Ore.) San Francisco 72. UCLA 61. Utah 81, Seattle 72 NAIA Tournament (Semi-Final Games) McNeese 78, Pittsburgh (Kans.) 72 Texas Southern 82. Wheaton 73 in Over DC Whale) Nauls, scored 21 points, blocked sure baskets time and again, and grabbed 23 rebounds, more than half the UCLA re bound mark of 43. Brown Top Scoier , The obscure was sophomore Gene Brown, looking very much like AU-American guard, K. C. Jones, who he replaced for the Dons. Jones, USF's play-calling sparkplug, was sidelined aft er the regular season. The little guard used up his collegiate el igibility and USF's plea for a waiver was denied early this year. But the "green" Brown, who had started only three games in the first quarter and kept it. The Pioneers built up a halftime gap of 14 points and still had a 12-point edge after three periods. But the pressing Pendleton quint had the better of it during the final stanza and McLoughlin had to survive a strong Buckaroo bid at the finish to retain its status as No. 1 club from District 7. Pioneer quarterly margins were 11 to 7, 30 to 16 and 38 to 26. Pendleton slimmed the McLoughlin bulge to four points at 43 to 39 with 3Vi minutes to play and again at 49 to 45 with less than lVa minutes to go. Mac Hi won on free shots. Pot ting 29 to the Bucks' seven. Pendleton had the field goal edge 21 to 15. The Pioneers had board control 53 to 32 in the mix with George Lieuallen getting 25 re bounds. Gary Tague, Pendleton, was high scorer with 22 while Norm Weiss got 16 and Bob Olinger 15 for Mac Hi. TIP FOR MedforbTribune S3ve Yocjc (Soo QMs over-all SAFETY 695 SPECIAL $695 MINOR TUNE-UP THIS MONTH ONLY '49 to '56 Ford Passenger Cars' and Light Trucks WE WILL CHECK COMPRESSION FIRST THEN IF O.K. We Will ... Install New Points and Condenser Scope Distributor Set Timing Adjust and Clean Plugs Adjust Carburetor Adjust and Check Fan and Generator Belts Clean Fuel Pump Bowl Check Battery and Cables M BE SAFE SO YOU WON'T HAVE TO BE SORRY LATER ON CRATER LAKE MOT "WHERE GOOD SERVICE. IS A Phone 3-4547 Medford all season, was the game's top scorer with 23 points most of them on long field goals. It was the 52nd consecutive victory for the dazzling Dons, who pulled away early in the contest and were never serious ly threatened. UCLA, which suffered its first defeat in 18 games, closed the gap to 57-48 in the second period on some sharpshooting by Morrie Taft, but the Dbns, apparently coasting, pulled away again in the final mom ents. Taft and Naulls each had 16 points for the Bruins. ( Coach Johnny Wooden of UCLA hailed sophomore Brown as "better than Jones offensive ly," but added that Jones was still tops on the defense. The towering Russell said af ter the game: "I've been trying to tell people about Brown now maybe they'll believe me." Seattle Rallied Utah, led by some great clutch shooting by Gary Bergen, overcame a second half Seattle threat to earn the dubious right to meet the Dons. The Chief tains were never ahead but with a sudden rally they tied ,the score at 66-66 with only seven minutes remaining. Bergen then went to work. The big 6-foot, 8-inch senior, playing with four fouls on him, sank three straight buckets and two free throws to make it 74- 66. He fouled out with three minutes to ptey, but Utah was safely in front by that time. Art Bunte, Utah's big center, scored 24 points for game hon ors. Dick Stricklin, Seattle's center, had 16. Cal Bauer, Seat tle's great little playmaker, hit 13 points but didn't make a field goal in the second half. Bergen had 16 points before he fouled out. CAL WINS TRACK MEET Tucson, Ariz. U.R) The Na tional Champion University of Southern California track team ran roughshod over the Univer sity of Arizona Saturday to roll up a 105-26 victory. The Trojans took first places in every event except the high jump. HAPPY LIVING 1 Ski Conditions Skiing conditions at Crater Lake National park were poor to fair at 4 p.m. yesterday. Snow was icy in the morning with a breakable crust in the afternoon. Maximum temper lure at the park yesterday was 52 and minimum was 25. There was 167 inches of snow compared to 94 last year and 198 in 1952. Highway 62. through the park, was open. 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