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o o o o edforc! 60-43 in Black Tornado hoopmen of Medford high wound up pre league warm-up competition Fri day with their second triumph over a Portland school and tum ett) thfit full Bnd heav concen tration to defense of the District A-l and Southern Oregon championships they havs claim ed for two successiv seasons. A 60 to 43 decision over Cleveland of the Portland Uiter scholgstic circuitcFriday was the ourtn str?L.t victory of the Reason for the Turnado which will enter conference conten tion with a 4-2 tune-up record. Inowhipping the Indians the Medford0maple court.ters joined with Crants Pass in making the second night of a two-tem i.et rop'Ddn invasion a bleak one In the fog-shrouded Rgue river valley? Grants Pass signalled its termination for a strong bid in the Southern Oregon loop by a f8 to 36 win over tfce Franklin Quakes and tall Ejarne Jensen Tie gjctoryGw;! surprisingly im pressive, conring on the heals oXJ 54 to 44 si tback 3 the hands of Cleveland on Thursday. Medford downed Franklin 50 to 46 in Thursday play. Jflamath Beatea The SO conference, however, di.ffi 'make full seep of its Friday play with the PIL. Jeffer son handedc Klamath Falls its first loss of the season, 63 to 59. Another SO member, Ashland, was a Friday winner nosing 30 to & the Cottage Grove club O which had downed Crater, 45 to 39 on Thursday. The Black Tornado's opening loop rivalry puts it against Cra ter next Friday and Saturday while Ashland ;uid Grants Pass contend. MiSrfford combined it's warmer shooting and its ruggedncss and d"Vii9stIed and out-ballhawked the Indians by streaks to lead all the way in downing the quick-moyirtg Cleveland quintet. A free snot 'by Dick Copple a.ng then long pusher by the Sledforck forward behind a screen by Dick McLaughlin gave O the Tornado a 3 to 0 jump in the first, minute of play. Med ford led by only 8 to 7-With 4V4 Qninutes played in the game but Lirry Terkirs took a rebound and maneuvered back in for a goal. Copple hit from in close on Dick Puhl's feed and follow ed with a juraperTor 14 to 7. Cleveland never got closer Op than six points the rest of the way. ttxst quarter score was O S4rio 7. ' N ' 32-22 i Half The Turnado led at half time 32 to 22 nd 49 to '.HI at the e nd of tliree stantas. Indians made O only one field goal in the final cipto to bo with three free shots as Mealoni bolstered its ad vantage3 with four field buckets and, finished the ruckus with rerves. O While the Tribe did not dan CE"rou'iJ peril the JTedford com mand, the Portland quint did const back to clip down a big bulge the Tornado had'manu O f.ierured in the second quarter. OAnd the Indians continued to whittle away into the third period., o r Medfordj, began its second can ta mp wiU the score at 18 to 12. From that stage Perkins canned a pair of gifters and Copple and Pulii each 'one, while O John Dippold scored' for. Cleve land. That made it 22 to 13. A long side shol and rebound hook n fyCTom Hamlin, a corner goal by Coppl and another bucket by Cripple on Puhl's long feed ,ior jjfeciiord, while Dave Boyle 4ut from the free stripe' for the Tribe, took the count to 30 to 14. n CopSJe made it an 18-point dif u ierence of 32 to 14 with a brace S'oC foul tosses. X3stxn Closes Gap Grant0Gaskln's bucket from the and a eouple of goals on fast breaks by the same Clevelander wefe rounded out q by0Tom Brctricn's two gift heaves W es:blish the 0 point halftime spresVI. the Medford advantage sway ed from 12 to Pight points Eagle Point, Douglas Nab Victories in Doubleheader q Egle Point Douglas and tagleoint high schflol basket ("aij quintets were Victors here FnciSy night in a basketball tinbill. o The Trojans frm Douglas ffmnty clipped Phoenix 62 to 42 and Eacle Point trimmed St. Mary's of MedforS 54 to 37. GeP.ing backboard control and hitting their shots well, the Douglas players bounced back from a Thursday loss to Eagle Point. They had quarterly leads of 11 to 9. 20 to 14 and 43 to 31. The game started slow with no scoring until midway in the openi:(g quarter. Once the Troj ans got underway they out played the P:rates. Tracy MQjlendon of Douglas and Jim Jam.s of Phoenix each got 15 points. Larry B:sonette put in 13 for the Trojans. Sht at 593 Eaale Point and St. Mary's a'-so had trouble getting coing. TMe Eagles forreH thp Crinder 0- u'j inucn snooting irom long O . , . range. The r.osts were able to Bounces Cleveland Pre-League Wrap-up SPORTS through five minutes of the third quarter. Score with that much time used up was 43 to 33. Then Gaskin plunked a jumper from the slit and Tom Allsen hit on a swing across the key as Cleveland closed the gap to six tallies at 43 to 37. Allsen failed to cut the spread to five when he missed a free shot. In the last IVi minutes of the third panel Perkins got two free points, Hamlin goaled from an angle back of the gift line and Perkins scored off Puhl s fast break pass. Allsen got a charity throw for Cleveland in the meantime as Medford pulled to its 11-counter margin at in termission time. lit; a , i n ten, L UP AND DOWN Dick Copple (33), Med ford. goes up for a lay-up in the fourth quar ter, as Ron Nakata (35), Franklin, spread eagled, comes down after missing a chance to stop the taller Tornado forward in the Bevo, iowa Coaches Blue On Bowl Chances Pasadena, Calif. (U.R) Iowa Coach Forest Evasheviski and Oregon State Mentor Tommy Prothro formed a tearful duet Saturday in crying the blues over the pre-Rose Bowl game atti tude of their players. Both coaches lamented simul taneously because, they claimed their boys appear to be growing too soft and complacent as a re sult of the acclaim and social life they have enjoyed in South ern California. But most observers were in clined to appraise the weeping twosome with a bit of skepti cism. It was conceded that too many outside distractions could hurt the team, but jt was doubted that either team' had been ser iously impaired by living high on the hog as yet. Evashevski cut down drastical ly on the Hawkeye's social ac tivity earlier this week on grounds that people were "be ing too nice'' to his players and thereby drawing their attention away from their business foot- get the ball into close range but did not connect consistently. They, however, wound up with a .393 field goal average while SM shot .309. Rebounding was about even with the Eagles having a 31 to 29 edse. Eagle Point was in front at regular intermissions, 7 to 2, 22 to 12 and 35 to 26. Jack Greb and Wayne Christian each got 15 points for EP and Ron Veach picked up 12. Jack Birmingham was the leading Crusader with 10. T.IVE-VPS: Eagle Point 54 J 'Greb 15 Christian 15 Foran 2 Veach 12 Boren 8 3T St. Mary's f 6 Dariand f 10 Birmingham c 9 Flakus 6 Daiey e 4 Priatt Substitution For Eaele Point. Hanson. Brown 2. McDonald: for St. Marys. Bead. Fogel 2. Miiksche. rtouelas cz Harty Grass 10 L. Bwsonet'e 14 Ta tor 5 42 Phoenix 13 James 6 Waiiace 4 V.'a dron 3 Stout 4 Heath NUCienrion -For Douctas. R Bis- . "v,16 ' "Vt nr 2. McLennan, for Phoenix. Sim- , monds 4. Schieiga 2. Witte. Blunt 4. 1 Medford had its biggest leads of the evening, 19 points, in the , last quarter. Cleveland was scoreless in the first 3'4 minutes of the session as the Tornado built to 57 to 38. The other 19- point gap was at 59 to 40. Copple headed all point pro ducers with 21 and he and big Neil Plumley cleared the back boards 10 times each for Med ford. Perkins was second high scorer in the tussle with 14. Gas kin with 13 points and nine re bounds was the only Indian to cash in double scoring figure for Cleveland. From the field Medford made 22 shots in 55 tries for .400 aver age for the game. The Tornado's first half goaling pace was .366 and it stepped up to .440 in the last two quarters with .500 in the final frame. Medford made 16 of 30 free shot tries and Cleveland 15 of 31. The home club led in rebound- ballt The shewd Iowa coach, dogged by the idea that his team's psy chological condition is not up to par, reiterated on a somber note that the Hawkeyes and the Beav ers should be rated even in the New Year's day grid classic. At the same time, Prothro also took a dismal view of his team's mental status. "I don't think I have ever seen a ball club so unprepared for a football game,'' he said. "I think my team is enjoying old home week. There are 12 to 13 players on the team from South ern California, and their families and girl friends are around to wish them good luck. I think it tends to get the team away from the fundamentals." Observers, however, took the lamenting lightly. They figure neither team will be in a state of lethargy during Tuesday's big game. Bums May Move Franchise West New York (U.R) There was new evidence Saturday that the Brooklyn Dodgers are consider ing moving their franchise to another city, possibly in Califor nia. Before leaving on a trip that will take him to Florida and California, Dodger President Walter O'Malley conceded "There is still a short time left before we would be forced to take an irrevocable step to com- Georgia Tech Tops Bowl Rival Jacksonville, Fla. 0J.R) Georgia Tech, eagerly grabbing four loose footballs, turned two such recoveries into touchdowns Saturday and withstood a rid dling Pittsburgh ground attack for a 21-14 victory in the Gator Bowl before 37.680 fans. It was Tech's second straight bowl victory over Pitt, which last Jan. 1 was the victim of Tech's same post-season magic in the Sugar Bowl. This was the Engineers' sixth straight bowl victory and eighth in 12 years for Coach Bobby Dodd, who has never had a bowl loser. h(W'.' A 1 lng 39 to 20 retrieves. McLaughlin played through the Franklin and Cleveland games with a bruised knee suf fered in an auto mishap and Copple protected a sore elbow in the Friday mix. Reserve Lar ry Slessler missed the Portland series because of a foot infection and reserve Frank Albert was not on hand Friday. He is a band member and made the' jaunt to the Shrine East-West football game at San Francisco. BOX: I leveland Oaskin. f KG FT 3 1 4 1 1 2 2 TP 13 1 8 3 3 4 6 S 0 Ballen. t 0 Allien, c 2 Boyle, c 1 Jones, n 1 Braden 1 MacEwan .. 2 Dippold 2 Alper .. 0 Total! 14 Medrord FG FT PF TP Copple. t 8 McLaughlin, f 4 Plumley. c 0 Perkins, g 5 Puhl. g 1 Hamlin 4 Stearns . 0 Peek 0 Wisely 0 Lane 0 3 0 4 1 2 0 0 1 0 16 Total! 22 I Officials Jones and Riggs. v - Thursday night prep basketball game here. Coming in on the play are Franklin's Jack Luhrs (22) and the Black Tornado's Larry Perkins (11). Medford won 50 to 46. North Wins Blue-Gray Game, 14-0 Montgomery, Ala. U.R) Big Don Vicic of Ohio State crumbled the South's beefy line with his bullish rushes Saturday and Jim Podoley of little Cen tral Michigan raced 80 yards for a touchdown as the North won, 14-0, in the 19th annual Blue Gray classic. The Yanks' backfield duo, plus Missouri quarterback Jim Hunter, gave a partisan crowd of 20,000 little comfort during what turned out to be a long afternoon for the South. The big Blue line contained with comparative ease a host of highly - regarded South backs. led by fullback Jack Pardee of Texas A. and M. and Mackie Prickett, South Carolina quar terback. IOWA WINS Raleigh, N. C. (U.R) Iowa shook off a late rally to edge West Virginia, 79-86, Saturday handing the eighty - ranked Mountaineers their third loss in three days of the Dixie Classic Basketball Tournament. mlt the Dodgers elsewhere." O'Malley's statement was is sued Friday after the New York City board of estimates voted S25.000 to the Brooklyn Sports Center authority to study the possibility of building a new stadium for the Dodgers in down town Flatbush. m WHEN YOU NEED HEADY -IVI IX CONCRETE ALL TRUCKS EQUIPPED WITH 2-WAY RADIO For FAST, EFFICIENT SERVICE! Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 Ashland 8121 John Brodie Passes Upset Win Over East in Shrine Classic By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.PJ Jaunty John Brodie of Stanford, pick ing his pass receivers with pre cision, led the West Saturday to an upset 7-6 victory over the East in the annual Shrine classic before a capacity 61,000 fans in Kezar stadium. In one of the great battles of the 32 year history of the classic, replete with half a dozen goal line stands Brodie tossed a 28 yard pass to Halfback Pete O'Garro of UCLA early in the first period and then watched Dean Derby kick the extra point that eventually won the game. Brodie's fine passing exhibi tion gave the West ball control all through the first half and also made a big chunk of yarda'ge in the second. Scores on Cake-Walk The Eastern score didn't come until midway in the final period when Abe Woodson of Illinois made a beautiful prancing side line cake-walk of 35 yards after taking a screen pass from Notre Dame's Quarterback Paul Horn ung. But Hornung missed the conversion which would have tied up the game. It was a sad ending to a dis asterous "team" year for the Irish Ail-American, he played in 10 games for Notre Dame and they lost eight. Then he played in another losing effort Satur day. But it wasn't Hornung's fault. He not only put on a good pass ing performance but he was sen sational as a runner. Coach Terry Rose Bowl Jaunt Third For Prothro Pasadena, Calif. IU.R) Tom my Protho, the 35-year-old head master of Oregon State football fortunes, is making his third trip to the Rose Bowl although he has been a head coach only two years. The Rose Bowl and Protho first came into direct contact when he was a player. His sec ond trip was in the capacity of an assistant coach. Now he heads back into the country's top inter- sectoinal for the third time but in his debut as a head men tor. The January 1 clash between Oregon State and Iowa thus makes Protho a member of one of the country's most exclusive groups. Only five other men have played in the classic, then returned later with their own team. One of those five was Wallace Wade, coach at Duke when Pro thro got his Rose Bowl baptism on Jan. 1, 1942. The remaining membership is made up of Jess Hill and Jeff Cravath of South ern California, Red Sanders of UCLA, Chuck Taylor of Stan ford and Shy Huntington, a former player and coach at Ore gon. ' Long Road Back For Prothro the road back has taken 15 years, the same time it has taken Oregon State. Pro thro and Oregon State got their Rose Bowl spurs together Pro thro as blocking back on that Duke team and Oregon State as the team that beat him. That January of 1942 rates as the only Rose Bowl history in the Beaver logs. The athletic career of Prothro began 22 years ago. Since then it has continued uninterrupted with the exception of a three year hitch in te Navy during World War II. Even before is participation, Prothro was getting the back ground that would take him into athletics. His father was a base ball player, once with the Port land Beavers of the Pacific Coast League, before moving on to managerial ranks. But the father's love of base ball wasn't handed down to son. When young Tom started his competitive career, it was in nearly every field but baseball. In 1934 he started in competi tive athletics at Central High school in his pative Memphis, Tenn. There he competed in foot- CALL LININGER'S Sunday, December 30, 1953 Brennan used him most of the way in the quarterback spot and he did a good job for a losing cause. In the first half alone he carried the ball eight times and gained 40 yards. Brodie was the star of the game and for his effort was chosen the game's most valu able player and winner of the Coffman award. Long Drives Halted The score of the game on both sides could have been much higher. In the first half, both the East and the West had long drives halted on the one yard line; and in the second half the Betting Public By HAL WOOD United Press Sports Writer A horse named Swaps, a rider named Longden and Mr. John Q. Public, the two-dollar bettor, shares the spotlight in California racing for 1956. Swaps, named the horse of the year for America, set five world records and, among other things, won the 5100,000 Hollywood bal, basketball and track. In 1936, he moved to nearby Riverside Military academy and for three years continued his participation in the same three sports. It was the fall of 1938 when Prothro entered Duke university. He competed in football, base ball and lacrosse for the Blue Devis until he capped his play ing career on Jan. 1, 1942 against Oregon State. He entered the Navy in 1942, coming out in 1945 as a lieuten ant. Then came his first coaching job.. He took a job as mentor of the Vanderbilt "BB" squad. After one year he stepped up to become Red Sanders assistant on the varsity. When Sanders moved to UCLA in 1949, Prothro moved with him. The association lasted until Oregon State lured him away two years ago to become head coach of the Beavers. Today, Prothro's life is all football. As his wife, whom he married shortly after coming to Oregon State, puts it, "There's nothing else. His whole life is football." p.WM.Ml.WLiilliHUMY'li HW ..iti tnirt -iin, o '49 to '56 Ford Passenger Cars and Lighr Trucks We will check COMPRESSION YOU'LL GET SACK THAT HEW CAS WITH THIS FORD ENGINE TUNE-UP GRATER LAKE MOTORS Main Cr Fir Srs. 5HP "WHERE GOOD SERVICE IS MEDFORD (OREGON) MATL TRIBUNE ELEVEN West Team to 7-6 East drove to the West one, with Hornung fumbling to the West on fourth down. The game ended with the West knocking at the East door with ball on the six yard line. Don Shinnick, a linebacker from UCLA, won the award as the most valuable lineman. For the East, little Jim Ros boro Of Ohio State did a fine job on defense from his half back spot. He was instrumental in either stopping running plays or knocking down passes a dozen times. Woodson's run was the most sensational of the day. He took Sets Record at Gold Cup, Sunset, Inglewood and Argonaut Handicaps, all at Hol lywood Park. Johnny Longden, the oldest rider in captivity, set a new world record for wins at Del Mar when he smashed Sir Gor don Richards' mark by riding Arrogate to victory in the Del Mar Handicap for his 4,871st triumph in the saddle. Evashevski Maintains OSC And Iowa Evenly Matched Pasadena, Calif. (U.PJ Iowa head coach Forest Evashevski again Saturday reiterated on a somber note that both his team and Oregon State should be ra ted even in the Rose Bowl game here New Year's day. "It's a tossup," said Evashev ski. "I can't buy what Coach Tommy Prothro says about our size. There's not too much dif ference in the lines arid Ore gon's backs Francis and Lowe are the most dangerous as on any club in the nation." The shrewd Iowa coach indi cated that his team might get upset in the Rose Bowl game because of the Hawkeyes' atti tude. "Take the Notre Dme game" Evashevski said. "What did we do? Whipped the Irish, 48-8, and I guess wrong on whether I thought the team was up ftfr the game." Meanwhile, Oregon's head mmon tue-up his mourn only : FIRST-then if OK- Install New Point and Condenser o Scope Distributor o Set Timing 0Q o Adjust and Clean Plugs ' 1 o ' 9 Adjust Carburetor " " o Adjust and Check Fan and GeneratorBelts Clean Fuel Pump Bowl 0 Check Battery and ALL THIS FOR ONLY Use Our Easy the screen J?ass frn Hornunjr just over scrimmage and then side-stepped at least a half dozen would-be tacklers before being nailed at the goal line. He fell into .the endzone for the score. Another beautiful run was the jeturn of tl "iollowing kickoff by Wyoming's Jim Crawford. He took the ball eg his own 30 and, with, a twisting a;top-and-go per formance, ran to the East 31 be fore being stopped. The victor was oSly the third in Jhg last 10 years for the West but gave Dthe "Some" boj a 15-13 edge in victories, i'A four ties. o Race Track And the betting public went to the races and spenteitore than ever before in.historv. O " Attendance at rating at tin 1 six major track in California set an all-tirae high, of i,655, 064 327, 47 more trn attend ed in 1955. And the betting mark was S360.341.915 S25,998,051 more than was put through (the mutuel machines the tprevious year. 0 football coach expressed unhac- piness about the attitude ofhis Q o team. " 0 o O Observers, however, tended to disagree with Prothro 'Uiat his team is. not fired up for the game. In the last week the Be; vers have held rugged practice1 . sessions in which they u leaver, shown a lot of spirit and ability, q In Friday's drill, the team stag ed a dummy pss offense drill. MULLOY LOSES New Orleans, La. Rio Bernard Bartzen of Dallas, Te., defeated Gardnar Mulls f Denver, Colo., I Saturday 0 to round .out the semMigal ogles field in the Sugar Bowl's an nual tennis tournament. 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