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SIGHT MEDfOHD (OHEOOK) MAIL TSIBUKB friday, January 4, 18S7 Tornado-Cornets Meet Tonight To Initiate Conference Action Southern Oregon conference basketball competition will get under way at 8:15 p.m. tonight when the Medford Tornado in vades the Crater High school quintet on the Crater floor. Medford High school will be defending their 1956 district A-l championship. The Tornado was runner-up last year for the state hoop crown. Both Crater and Medford bring identical win-loss records into the opening conference en counter. The two teams have won four and lost two in pre conference action. After six tussles Medford' hoopmen have totaled 310 points while Crater has sunk 280. De fensively 295 counters have been acored against the Tornado com pared to 258 allowed Crater op v ponents. Leading Medford point maker is Dick Copple with 81 tallies. He is followed by Larry Perkins 59, Dick McLaughlin 57, Dick Puhl 35, Neil Plumley 33 and Tom Hamlin 28. Fred Herrmann tops Crater with 62 points. Other high Cra ter scorers are Dick Davis 55, George Juveland 37, Craig Coch ran 32 and Wayne Allen 29. Medford coach Frank Roe landt states he expects a rough game but that the Tornado "is in good shape and has suffered no ill-effects from the holiday lay-off." The coach said Larry Slessler will be sidelined for the third straight game due to an in fected foot. He is expected to see action the next week. Roelandt added Junior Don Bowling has been brought up to the varsity squad from the JVs to bolster the Medford team. He is a forward. The Crater-Medford JV squads will clash at 6:45 tonight. Also in the Southern Oregon confer ence Grants Pass and Ashland will tangle tonight at Ashland. Other hoop action tonight in cludes Illinois Valley at Eagle Point in Rogue league play. In the Jackson County B league, Rogue River will be at St. Mary's, Talent at Prospect, and Jacksonville at Butte Falls. Eastern Oregon college will meet Southern Oregon college in an Oregon Collegiate confer ence game in the Ashland High school gym. The contest will fol low the Ashland - Grants Pass prep tilt. aa,,"",',"aM"""""aaaaaBaaaaaaaa. mmmmammmm TO MEET TORNADO This group of Crater High cagors will be on the starting lineup when the team meets Medford tonight at Crater High gym in the first conference game for both teams this season. This is the first year that Crater has entered class A-l com petition, and will meet Grants Pass, Ashland and Klamath Falls later in the season. Coach Jim Nau, with ball, is shown above as he gives his team pointers on how to stop the Medford team. The players are, left to right, Dick Davis, Craig Cochran, Wayne .Allen, George Juveland and Fred Herrmann. ! Basketball By UNITED PRESS Bast Holv Crosi 111. Ma&sachiuett 96 Rutsers 70. Delaware 64 St. Bonaventure 82. Lemovne 62 Wake Forest 72, Ceorg Wash. 54 Lafayette 99. Moravian 84 Lincoln 72, Bethany 61 South - Georgia Tech 95. Howard 54 Tennessee 98. Grambling 94 Loyola Md. 83, Baltimore 76 Christian Brothers 68. Arkansas 63 Colorado 73. Miami Fla. 68 Senior Bowl, Mobile, Ala. Final Sprint: Hill 83, Morehead Ky. 7t Midwest Bradley 87. St. John's N.Y. 78 Klamazoo 64, Calvin 56 Duquesn 79. Dayton 71 Xavier O. 87. Western Ky. 78 Evansville 91 Indiana St. 85 Bail State Tchrs. 89, Estn. Mich. 73 Oklahoma City 80. Arizona 55 Southwest Rice Institute 53. Texas AiM 39 Lamar Tech 78. North Tex. St. 62 West Utah State 68. Utah 64 Central Wash. 65, Whitworth 55 Pac. Lutheran B4. Eaat. Wash. 59 Modesto JC Tournament Long Beach 94. San Mateo 82 West Contra Costa 106. L A CC 97 Allan Hancock 69. Stockton 50 Fresno 60. Sacramento 51 San Jose 65. Ventura 60 San Francicso 64. Sequoia 46 Modesto 79. Et Camino 71 PSC Favored To Keep Title Portland OI.R) The Ore gon Collegiate Conference bas ketball chase opens tonight with four clubs determined to unseat Portland State as the loop cham pion. But Coach Sharkey Nelson's Vikings are still favored to make it three titles in-a row despite losing nine lettermen from last season. Eastern Oregon, runner-up last season, has only two lettermen back. Oregon Tech and South ern Oregon both appear im proved while Oregon College, although not showing much yet, has a number of .returning vet erans. Opening games this week end send Portland State- to Klamath Falls and Eastern Oregon to Southern Oregon. Oregon Tech has the best pre season mark with a 5-1 record. Southern Oregon has 4-68. East ern Oregon 3-5, Portland State 2-5 and OCE 0-6. Portland U. Host To Seattle Team Portland (U.R) The Uni versity of Portland gets a chance this week end to make its bas- ' ketball season a success, no mat ter what it does the rest of the ; year. The Pilots host Seattle Uni ; versity in a pair of week end ' games. And v,hen Portland and Seattle collide, the rest of the schedule can hang. Both clubs have turned in strong performances thus far in the season with Portland com piling n 8-1 record while Se attle has been beaten only twice in 12 starts. Saturday night's game is : scheduled for Hudson's Bay high school in Vancouver with the action shifting to the Portland armory for a Sunday afternoon struggle. . - Golf Pros Tee Off Today in LA Open Los Angeles, Calif. U.R A crack field of professionals, all armed with a new mental atti tude toward the game of golf since the institution of set fines for unbecoming conduct, teed off today in the 31st annual Los Angeles Open. With a top prize of $7,000 for first place and a chance to gain an early lead in the 1957 money standings, nearly every profes sional of note in the country was on hand for the first round at the long, rolling Raneho course. Many of them are teeing off with certain reservations. There now is a specific schedule of fines for such things as break ing a club in anger, swearing, failing to show up to compete, etc. So most of them will be on their very best behavior at least for a day or two. While Dr. Cary Middlecoff, the National Open champion, Paul Waner Seriously III Sarasota, Fla. OJ.R) Paul (Big Poison) Waner, a member of Baseball's Hall of Fame, was seriouslly ill today in a hos pital with an attack of pneu monia. The 53-year-old former Pitts burgh Pirates' star outfielder, stricken Sunday night at his home, was being kept in an oxygen tent most of the time. Mrs. Waner disclosed her husband's illness Thursday night saying, "Paul is very sick and is far from out of danger.'' She said he has had a tem perature of 105 and suffers from congestion of the right lung and has reacted poorly to : medicine. ' Waner, three - time National ! League batting champion who ! spent' his greatest days with the Pittsburgh Pirates, is one of j seven men to collect more than 3,000 hits in their major league careers. Known as "Big Poi- : son", he played with his broth er Lloyd "Little Poison'' Waner in the same outfield. Waner had planned to parti cipate in the second annual old- i timers baseball gama at St. Petersburg Jan. 19. j has been installed as, the heavy favorite at 3-1 to win the event, some of the eyes are going to be on a young fellow named Gay Brewer, ex-GI from Cin cinnati, Ohio, who played the course Thursday in 32-32 64, seven under par to win the pro fessional share of S400 in the pro-celebrities tournament. Among the other stars favored in the event are PGA and Mas ter champion Jackie Burke; and Gene Littler, the 1955 champion in this event. Others in the field include E. J. Dutch Harrison, Jim Ferrier, Julius Boros, Arn old Palmer, Doug Ford and Ed Furgol. HOCKEY By UNITED PRESS The Montreal Canadiens have lost only three of their last 18 games but still can't pick up any ground in the National Hockey League race. , The defending Stanley Cup champions suffered further frus tration Thursday night when they were held to a 3-3 tie by the last-place Chicago Black Hawks in the only league action. They now trail the pace-setting Detroit Red Wings by three points and are two points back of second-place Boston. Goals by .Hank Ciesla and Jack Mclntyre gave Chicago a 2-0 lead in the first period. How ever, the Canadiens scored three straight goals two by Maurice Richard to take a 3-2 lead mid way through the second period. But Harry Watson tied the score again for Chicago later in the session. Red Raiders and Eastern Oregon Battle Tonight to Open Conference Hoop Play Ashland Southern Oregon college and Eastern Oregon col lege will initiate the Oregon col legiate basketball conference at 9:30 p. m. tonight when they tangle in the Ashland High school gym. Southern Oregon's squad re ceived a severe jolt this week when three varsity ball players were ruled ineligible for further basketball competition due to scholastic difficulties. The players involved are Don Reese and Don Jacobson, both ex-Grants Passites, and Bruce Penny, 6-6 freshman form Pasco, Washington. Reese was second to Norm Oliva in scoring with 133 points SPC Coach Refuses to Play EO Seattle (U.R) Ken Foreman, Seattle . Pacific College basket ball coach, today said he would never take another of his teams to play against Eastern Oregon College at LaGrande, Ore. Foreman pulled his basketball team off the floor Wednesday night after a fist-throwing inci dent in which Mickey Martino, Seattle Pacific player, was floored. "The officiating was good until the incident," Foreman said. "There was a loose ball. Martino went over the back of Bill West, EOC center. A foul was called on Martino. "Several words went on be tween the two players. Our Dave George stepped in and Martino took his position at the free throw line. West pushed George away and hit Martino. Orville Anderson hit West." Foreman said he jumped off the bench to separate the play ers. He said one of the officials remarked, "I won't get In be tween them." Foreman said he then took his team off the floor to save any further trouble. Eastern Oregon was declared the winner, 64-53, although there was still 6 minutes and 30 seconds to play. The Stilt Defies Trend In Scoring New York aU.R) Sophomore sensation Wilt (The Stilt) Cham berlain of Kansas continued to defy a general downward trend in college basketball scoring to day as he increased his lead in the national scoring race. The Jayhawk seven-footer tal lied 36 points against Oklahoma and 45 against Colorado during' the past week to boost his aver age to 34.0 points per game for the season. In second place again, at 30.3 points per game, was senior Grady Wallace of South Carolina. These were the only two play ers among the nation's major league athletes who were scor ing at better than 30 per game This falling off also was re flected again in team statistics, which showed Ohio University on top in scoring with 91.0 points per game and Morehead, the defending scoring champion, was the only other team over 88 points with a 90.4 mark. Hedrick Hoopmen Stop Crater Hedrick ninth grade stopped the Crater ninth grade yester day 45-30 on the winner's floor. Leading Hedrick scorer was Darrell Miller with 14 points. He was followed by Jerry An derson who had 10 counters and John Frohnmayer with 8- Frohn mayer also starred on the back boards. Dennis Pfaff led Crater hoop men dunking nine tallies. Hed rick now has 2-1 won-loss rec ord, defeating Eagle Point and losing to Grants Pass. GAME SCHEDULED St- Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) Baseball greats of the past go back into action Saturday, Jan. 19, for the second annual major league old-timers' game for the benefit of the March of Dimes. TO DEFEND TITLE New York (U.R) World fly-weight champion Pascual Perez has agreed to defend his title against Memo Diez of Mexico at Buenos Aires, Jan. 23, it was announced Thursday by Charley Johnston, who is ne gotiating the fight. I CALL LININGER'S WHEN YOU NEED READY-MIX CONCRETE ALL TRUCKS EQUIPPED WITH 2-WAY RADIO For FAST, EFFICIENT SERVICE! Phone 2-5336 or 2-5897 Ashland 8121 in the 10 game preseason sched ule. Jacobson was third with 75 points. Replacing Jacobson and Reese will be the biggest problems fac ing head coach Ted Schopf as the Red Raiders go into Oregon Collegiate basketball competi tion tonight and tomorrow night against Eastern Oregon on the Ashland High school floor. Bill Hollingsworth, high scor ing Ashlander who led the team last year in scoring with 502 points, and placed within the top five in the Northwest will be back in the starting line-up at one forward position. Ron Owings up from the JVs will be at the other forward spot. Norm Oliva will be at center, and two pint sized guards, Dale Bates and Chuck Crandall will start the conference opener a gainst Eastern Oregon: Eastern Oregon will have only two returning lettermen on the team tonight. They are Bill West a senior, and Larry Howard, sophomore guard Working with West and Howard in the starting line-up for Eastern will be Jer rold Baxter, 6-4 sophomore and Earle Smith, 6-3 freshman. Both men are forwards. Bill Cahill, Dick Quinn or Don Persinger are guards which Coach Bob Q u i n n can choose from to team with Larry How ard. Eastern Oregon will have a team featuring height and speed as well as scoring punch through Bill West, 6-3 La Grande junior, and Earle Smith, 6-3 Redmond freshman. Larry Howard a 5-10 shortie is also dependable to hit in the double figures and also serve as the Eastern Oregon playmaker for the Mountaineers, . Last year Eastern Oregon wal loped the Red Raiders 3 out of 4 contest. Eastern was runner up to Portland State with a 10 and 6 won-lost record. Southern Ore gon will attempt to better its 8-8 record of last season. Tomorrow, night, the Red Raid ers will tip-off at 8 on the Ash land Hi hardwood against East ern Oregon, and the SOC JVs will play the preliminary at 6:30 p. m. Four National League Stars Sign 1957 Pacts; Banks First Signer Bf TIM MORIARTY United Prats Sports Writer Four of the National League's brightest stars, including one who now shines for the Cardi nals and a "big one that got away," signed 1957 contracts to day in baseball's drive to pre pare for spring training. All-star third baseman Kenny Boyer of the Cardinals, outfield er Bill Virdon, who left the Cardinals for the Pirates and and finished second in the bat ting race, home, run slugger Ernie Banks of the Cubs, and re turning southpaw Johnny Podres of the Dodgers were the latest to come to terms. , . . Boyer got an unspecified "in crease in pay," as well he might after a year in which he batted .306, fifth best in the league, drove in 98 runs, clouted 26 homers, and stole eight bases in 11 tries. But Card General Manager Frank Lane, who already has signed pacts from 19 players, emphasized, "Ken hasn't ap proached his peak performance OSC Faces Huskies In PCC Opener San Francisco (U.R) The boys start playing basketball for keeps along the Pacific Coast tonight, and the big job will be to knock UCLA and the Uni versity of San Francisco out from under their respective crowns. In the important battles of the "eligibles," Stanford hosts Oregon State and Washington State tests California. Oregon with a 2-5 record, will just sit by to watch which way the ball bounces. Stanford and Oregon State bring identical 4-5 records into their contest, but the Beavers should get the nod. The veteran Oregon State team started slow, but then crushed USF and Wash ington in their last two outings and besides, the Beavers aver age 6-foot, 6-inches, two inches taller than the highest man on the Stanford team. yet. He has a tremendous natural potential. Lane is not so glib, of course, about Virdon, the 1955 "rookie of the year" whom he traded in 1956 to the Pirates for out fielder Bobby Del Greco- Virdon - finished second to Hank Aaron of the Braves in the NL batting chase with a .319 mark and had 10 homers and 46 runs-batted-in. Virdon agreed to Pirate terms on a visit to Pitts burgh for a television appear ance. Banks was the first Cub to sign for Hie coming season. In juries to his right arm and an in fected haid hampered him in 1955, forcing him to miss 18 games in August after setting a Cub team record of 424 consecu tive games. Banks hit .298 with za homers and 85 runs batted- in. . The Dodgers, who may have lost the last World Series for lack of a good left-handed pitcher, welcomed back 1955 series hero Podres with open arms. Blond Johnny missed all last year due to Navy duty but was discharged last October be cause of a chronic back condi tion. 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