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O O TgWMCTrORO (ORESOK1 MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday. March 7, 1957 Tornado, Pelicans Cop Closing SO Conference Cage Scuffles SOtTHflk' Pllf-flU roNFtBISHC TAIPISG (Final)' W. Klamath fmllm 11 Medtord ' Ashland . e Grant Pass t Crater a 11 Prt. .875 .750 .500 250 .123 Their 1957 Southern Oregon confirOttice campeigns complete, Champion Klamath Talis and runncr-up iidford High school had -tfce Class A-l state tourna ment to look forward to today vhi'm Crater and Grants Pass high" athletes could Join Ash land in turning their full at tention to spring sports prepar ation. Medford trimmed Grants Pass 67 to 51 and Klamath turned back Crater 63 to 52 last night in conference maplecourt con cludes. Oytcome preserved the Klamath two-game margin over ford, gunning from the field at a warm .423, pulled away from the Cavemen after a hard bat tled first quarter pnd assumed a 23 point command early in the final stanza. Klamath Falls, with a run and shoot offense, overcame a Comet first quarter 8 to 6 edge and kept the lead from there although the Cen tral Pointers challenged in the second quarter. Ttamt Scouted Both Medford and Klamath were being scouted by their re spective opening round tourney foes. Eugene and Marshfield. Grants Pass opened with an all-senior line-up in its last tus sle of the year and the Med ford regulars, also- all seniors hopped to a 10 to 0 lead. Then Cavemen juniors, Jim Smith, Mike Sparlin and Chuck Rem- Medford in the final standings. The Black Tornado of Med-1 bert entered the action and GP UTTE ONTARIO ROUNDS OUT A-l TOURNAMENT ROSTER Br UNITED PRESS The rosters for the state A-l and A-2 basketball tourneys which open next week were completed last night with a sur prise entry grabbing off the only remaining spot in the two brackets. Ontario edged out a 51-46 win over Hermiston on the loser's floor last night to take the No. 2 spot from district 7 in the A-l show, the only vacancy that re mained. Ontario will meet North Opti LA Officials imistic After Visit Vero Beach, T 1 a. U.R Mayor Norris Poulson headed back to Los Angeles today with the news the Brooklyn Dodgers may not be far behind. "Vim are optimistic as a result of our visit," said Poulson after a fou hour meeting with Dodger President Walter O'Malley. "We G want major league ball in Los Angeles and we want the Dodgers." Poulson, who met with Brook' lyn -officials "to test Mr. O'Mal ley's sincerity," added, "I don't think New York will solve the Dodgers' problem and I believe we will propose a comprehensive program the Dodgers can't re sist. Maw StaeUus The mayor and hla group told O'Malley and his top lieutenants Qhat Los Angeles could supply the Dodgers with a "brand new stadium" seating about 60,000 "one year from the day we get the okay for a move to the coast." Poulson's group presented the Dodgers with a plan to clear Chavez Ravine, a mile from downtown Los Angeles, at a cost of about $1.5 million and then construct a stadium for about $7.5 million. The experts estt mated it would take about 60 days to clear the ravine and ap proximately 10 months to build the stadium. Such a stadium, incidentally, would give the Dodgers the larg est seating capacity in the Na tional league. Claude Miles' Boots Records Upset in Trial Boots, dog owned by Claude (Shorty) Miles. Medford, was upset winner Sunday in the open-qualifying combined stake of a, Shasta Cascade Retriever pluM-oicnic trial near Merrill. Boots did perfect work under difficult conditions and won over more experienced dogs, some of whom have won championsnips. Thp Miles' dog was among Rogue Valley Retriever club en trants which did exceptionally well at the Shasta Cascade event. Tuffy Lylia's 10-month-old pup py. Imp, did outstanding work in winning the derby. Otto Ly lia's Lady was second and Earl Warren's Jocko third. Charles Stelle and Tom Rick ard were RVRC members who attended the trial along with Warren Miles. Tuffy Lylia and Mr. and Mrs. Otto Lylia. Trial Here Sunday Rogune Valley club is having a picnic trial Sunday, March 10, which should be of interest to all retriever fans of the area. It will start at 8 a m. at the county gravel pits at the north end of the old military bridge over Kociie river. RVRC dogs have been douig well this year and could win some places in the club's Amer ican Kennel club licensed trial on March 22, 23 and 24 at Hoov er lakes. At the south coast trial in Cal ifornia last month. Flash, owned by C. Weldon Kline. Medford. received a judge's award of mer it in the amateur all-age stake. Salem in its first round game. The tournament pairings now look like this: A-l TOURNEY At Eugene, Tuesday. March 12. 7:30 p.m., St. Helens vs. Lin coln. 8:45 p.m., Astoria vs. Benson. Wednesday. March 13 9:00 a.m., Klamath Falls vs. Marshfield. 10:15 a.m.. North Salem vs. Ontario. 1:45 p.m., Grant vs. McMinn- ville. 3:00 p.m.. Central Catholic vs. Redmond. 7:30 p.m., Eugene vs. Medford. 8:45 p.m., Albany vs. Pendle ton. A-2 TOURNEY At Salem. Monday, March 11 2:30 p.m., Madras vs. Glide. 3:45 p.m., Dayton vs. Reeds- port. 7:30 p.m., Molalla vs. Dram. 8:45 p.m., Scappoose vs. Cas cade. came up scrapping to knot the game at 10-all. Score was tied five times and the lead switch ed twice in the first quarter. ine Cavemen went on-top at 14 to 12 on two gifters by Smith. Dick Copple tied un the mix with two from the free line. Sparlin hit a jumper for 16 to 14 for GP. Copple hit from about Prep Scores WEDNESDAY RESULTS Ontario 51. Hermiston 4S Klamath Falls 68. Crater 52 Medford 87, Grant Fasa 51 Vr ''; i eight-foot range for another knotted count and Tom Ham lin's pusher from the side made for an 18 to 16 Medford lead. Larry Henderson dropped in a feed shot in close in the final seconds of the. quarter for 18 all. Copple's long jump and Ham lin's rebounder made it 24 to 20 in the second quarter. Smith countered with a long shot but Hamlin hit from the side and Copple on a steal and Neil Plum ley got a pair of gifters as the Tornado got on its way. Widest 65 to 37 Medford led 37 to 26 at the half and 56 to 37 after three quarters. The Tornado spread ran to its widest bulge at 65 to 37. Grants Pass closed out against mostly Medford reserves. scoring eight free shots and three field goals to the Torna do's one field bucket. The game had an eruption of temper in the final minutes when Hamlin got an elbow on the side of the head and came up with blood figuratively in his eye and literally oozing from the gash above his ear. Techni cal fouls were called on both Hamlin and Smith and they were banished from the contest. Medford had a rebounding ad vantage of 21 to 15 for the first half but Grants Pass led for the game 37. to 31. Plumley had 11 and Copple and Dick McLaugh lin each eight retrieves for Med ford and Walker nine for GP. Copple put in 10 field goals and six free shots for 26 points. Plumley got 11 markers and Dick Puhl, who played a fine driving game, collected 10. Smith was tops for Grants Pass with 13 counters, nine on free shots. Larry Walker had a 10 total. The Pelicans headed Crater 20 to 12, 38 to 35 and 52 to 39 at intermission times. Cliff Suth erland had 14 points and Butch Kimpton 12 for Klamath and Crater's Craig Cochran was high for the game with 18. Don Goy ette had 14 for the Comets. Goy ette with five shots from the field and Cochran with four goals spurred Crater when it pulled up on KF in the second quarter. Klamath's Glenn Moore was sidelined by illness for the sec ond night in a row. Basketball Scores WEDNESDAY COLLEGE GAMES By limed Press (fcajt) LaSalle 75. Villanov-a 81 Brown 82. Rhode Island 71 Fordham 74. Rutgers 64 Syracuse 69. Cornell 58 Princeton 88. Columbia 82 ' Yale 60. Pennsylvania 54 (South) Louisville 86. Detroit 78 (NAIA Tournament) Elon College 82A.Presbvtenan 67 (Midwest) St. Louis 74. Oklahoma AIM 59 Notre Dame 94. Marquette 55 Nebraska 64. Oklahoma 55 Kansas 64. Kansas State 57 NEW ANGEL MANAGER Clay Bryant (above), veteran minor league mentor and former Chicago Cubs pitch er, has been named new manager of the Los Angeles Angels Pacific Coast League baseball club. BOX; Medford Copple. f McLaughlin, f Plumlev, c Puhl. g Perkins, g Hamlin Slessler Lane Wisely . Peek .. Stearns Bowling .. Totals Grants Pass Walker. ( Marks, f Henderson, c . Tompkins, g . Lasher, g Smith Rembert Proctor Sparlin ... Lindquist Fowler Putnam ... FG FT PF TP 10 ...... 0 3 4 1 4 0 n o o o o it 23 2J S7 FG FT PF TP 4 4 3 12 Kansas Gains Hoop Crown In Big Seven By JOHN GRIFFIN United Presa Sports Writer Kansas, the nation's No. 2 basketball team, rode the sky high shoulders of Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain into a berth in the NCAA tournament today and tonight North Carolina, the No. 1 team, opens its bid for a similar berth. Utah and Bradley, meanwhile, accepted bids to the National Invitation tournament complet ing the 12-team field for that carnival starting in New York's Madison Square Garden, March 16. Kansas landed its spot in the NCAA when it clinched the Big Seven conference championship Wednesday night with a 64-57 .triumph over runner-up Kansas State as Chamberlain, just named to the United Press All- America team, led the way with 24 points. The win gave Kansas a 10-1 league record with only one game left to play. Jayhawks Meet SMU It also sets up what should be one of the season's very best matches Kansas No. 2 against Southern Methodist, the No. 4 team, in an NCAA tourney game at Dallas, March 15. Kansas was the 20th team to gain an NCAA berth. The three remaining berths are reserved for the champions of the . Ivy League, Atlantic Coast Confer ence, and Southern Conference. Yale clinched at least a tie for the Ivy league crown Wed nesday night by beating Penn sylvania, 60-54, as Larry Downs set the pace with 21 points and Ed Robinson added 12 points and 21 rebounds. Face Clemson North Carolina, with a 24-0 record, won the regular-season ACC championship but must win the league tourney starting to night at Raleigh, N.C., to gain an NCAA berth. The heavily- favored Tar Heels face Clemson (7-16) in their first-round game Other first-rounders are Duke South Carolina, Maryland - Vir ginia, and North Carolina State- Wake Forest. West Virginia, regular season champ of the Southern Confer ence, with a perfect league mark, opens a similar tourney- for-a-tourney-berth today at Richmond, Va. The Mountain eers (22-4) send Hot Rod Hund ley against Davidson (7-19) in their opener, while other first rounders are Furman-Richmond, Washington and Lee-Citadel, and Virginia Tech-William and Mary, Semi-finals in both tourneys are Friday and finals Saturday. By Saturday midnight the NCAA field will be complete. Those Wishing VA Park Use Asked To Contact Special Service Officer Camp Whit A good num ber of groups have asked con cerning us of the stadium now being constructed at the Veterans Administration dom iciliary. Teams, and organizations of the area wishing lo use the facility this summer hare been asked to contact Frank Glonning, special services of ficer of the domiciliary, - as soon as possible in order that a schedule can be made up giving equal us of the park to groups interested. Domiciliary Manager E. K. Ricker has announced that May 30, Memorial day, is lh target data for dedication of th stadium. la' B Tourney First Round Tiffs Today Bend (U.R) The state high school class B basketball tour nament opened here today with three perfect record teams in its eight-team field. Six of the teams, including the defending champion Malin, are repeat en tries from last year. Opening game of the tourney this afternoon matched Malin 20-5) against Jefferson (21-2). Second game paired Elkton (22 0) and Union (16-11). Knappa (24-0) and Echo (22- 2) open the evening schedule at 7:30 o'clock with Sisters (22-0) meeting Coburg (20-2) at 9 o'clock in the final first round game. All tournament games will be played in the Bend high school gym, the first year the Central Oregon town has played host to the meet since it left Salem and moved to Baker last year. TEN-GRAND SPOT Cindy Girard lifts her ball from the 18th cup on the Desert Inn Country Club golf course where some lucky golfer will win $10,000 in the Tournament of Cham pions in Las Vegas, Nev. April 18-21. A total of $38, 500 will be split among 24 pro golfers with the' Inn donating an additional $35, 000 to the Damon Runyon Fund. Pensacola Open Gets Underway Pensacola, Fla. (U.R) Some 160 of the nation's top golfers battled March winds today in the opening round of the $15,000 Pensacola Open Golf tourna ment. May 26 Opening Drag Race Date v Southern Oregon Timing as sociation has set May 26 as ten tative opening date for drag races at the White City strip. Officers of the association re ported that many improvements are being made to provide bet ter and safer drag racing. They said that until the May opening date, speed contests of any kind on the drag strip or in the White City area is strictly illegal and unauthorized and of fenders will be punished to the full extent of the law. Forest Green Detective ' agency has been given full authority in pa trolling these premises. The property is private and trespassing is prohibited. Only authorized personnel are permit ted in the area. SOTA officers stated that without full cooper ation on the matter the associa tion will be unable to retain the drag strip for organized racing. A complete racing slate will be published later. Persons wanting information on the drags by writing to SOTA at PO Box 462, Ashland. Total! 15 21 28 51 Referees Dawes at Sutphin. Criter Herrmann, f Davis, f Cochran, c Govette, g , Greh. c Teeter , Kime . .. -. Campbell wnite Totals Klamath Niles. f Douglas, f Sutherland, c Kimpton. g McGill. g a mo Robinson Tawney ... Bramwell Yeun Croxford . Ankeyny . FG FT PF TP . 2 3 5 9 2 18 14 1 7 , 2 I 0 0 0 PHILLIES NEED HITTING Clearwater, Fla. (U.R) Manager Mayo Smith thinks the Phillies have enough pitching to win the pennant, but he has expressed doubt whether they could come up with the necessary hitting. Watching the 41 players on his roster go through a spring training drill, Smith observed that in addition to more power, "We need a shortstop and a right fielder." TAKES ARMY JOB Baltimore, Md. U.R) Tackle Coach Frank Lauterbur, who joined the Baltimore Colts coach ing staff in 1955, has resigned from the1 National Football League club to accept a position as defensive line coach at West Point. Before coming to Balti more Lauterbur coached in the high school ranks in the Cleve land area and at Kent State College. BOUT BILLED San Francisco flJ.R) Mexican featherweight Ricardo Moreno, who has scored 31 knockouts in 33 professional bouts, has signed to meet Gaetano Annalora of Italy, Europe's second b e s featherweight in a 10-round bout at the Cow Palace, April 1. An nalora is expected to arrive here next week. Middleweight Title Bout Date Reset for May 1 Chicago (U.R) The Gene Fullmer-Ray Robinson middle weight title bout has been post poned from April 24 to May 1 at the request of the television sponsors. The International Boxing club said the date was changed to conform with a sales promotion campaign planned by the TV LOGART, TURNER SIGNED New York (U.R) Isaac Logart of Cuba, the fourth-ranking wel terweight contender, and ex challenger Gil Turner of Phila delphia have signed to meet in a 10-round return bout at Madi son Square .Garden, March 29. In their first bout at Madison Square Garden Logart scored a close decision. sponsors. Fullmer won the title from Robinson in New York Jan. 2. GOOD SO GOOD IT'S REMARKABLE Sportsmen Form Second Chapter At Shady Cove formation of a Shadv Cove chapter of the Oregon Sports men Club of Jackson county was authorized at a meeting of the group Monday night, according to Sportsmen president Russell DeForest. The new chapter will encom pass the area of rospect. Shady Cove, Trail and Butte Falls. The meeting was attended by 58 pros pective members from that area. Elected president of the Shadv Cove chapter was Frank Dolen shek, Arnold Ragsdale was nam ed vice president and Miles Wil liams, secretary, and Carl Scott, treasurer. A total of eight directors were chosen. They are: For one year, Ray Briggs, Arnold Leiders, Ar chie McKillop and "Hedgie" Hedgepeth; for two years, Vic Chapman, Jess Francis, Bill Brewster and Gene Anderson. Would Limit Speed Area The Oregon Sportmen club is organized for promoting the in terests of hunters, fishermen and conservationists in Oregon, and is currently consulting with state legislators on a proposal to de lay another deer doe and cow elk season until a restudy of conditions can be made. Concerning the current bill before the legislature which would permit motorboat speeds up to 25 miles per hour frqm 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. during fishing season at Diamond lake, the Sportsmen club has taken the position that the proposition should be amended to restrict these speedboats to a limited area of the lake during the fore going hours. Also planned for the upper Rogue river area is Junior Sportsmen club for youngsters, which will have no membership dues. DeForest said that the Jackson county Sportmen's club will help any area organize a local chap ter silimar to the one in the Shady Cove area. nw isT nun Early Times is so good that of all the whiskies made in' Kentucky, Kentuckians themselves choose Early Timei over all other straight whiskies. See the award,-winning recipes from the recent Early Times nationwide drink mixing contest in the March issue of Coronet magazine. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY 86 PROOF EARLY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY LOUISVILLE 1, KY. DERBY FAVORITES Agua Caliente, Mex. U.R) Calumet Farm's Barbison and Wheatley Stable's Bold Ruler, winner of last Saturday's Fla mingo Stakes at Hialeah, today were 3-1 co-favorites in the Cali ente future book's opening odds on the Kentucky Derby. f Only a diamond is hard enough to cut a diamond. t 11 52 FG FT PF TP .2 5 1 2 5 5 1 3 3 a 0 0 n 2 0 23 22 12 68 -Douglas and Harvey. Touts Referees- BIG MEN PICKED New York (U.R) Charlie Tyra of Louisville and Jim Pal mer of Dayton, each 6-feet-8, are Coach Frank McGuire's Big man selections for his east basketball team in the annual East-West college classio March 30. Pre viously named to the squad were Lennie Rosenbluth, North Carolina and Grady Wallace of South Carolina. WE'VE MOVED! to Corner 5fh & Central Yellow Cab Co. PHONE 2-6262 Exciting Adventure! On And Under The Sea LININGER'S Ready Mix Concrete Is Pleased to Bring You "Kingdom of the Sea" KBES-TV Every Friday 6:30 p.m. A STORY OF THE SEA IN ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD Fine Entertainment For The Entire Family! LININGER'S Ready Mix Concrete Phone Medford 2-5336 or Ashland 8121 NO. F NANCE 1955 BUICK Special 4-Door Sedan-Has all the 'latest power features such as steering, brakes and seat. Probably the cleanest 1 955 Model Car in $4) AQ Jt? 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