Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 13, 1957, Image 12

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Newspaper Page TextTwt$1k-ei:eroHD (ohegon) Cards Said League's Most Improved Team j LZO H. PETERSEN Ifmii ret Sports Editor St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R) Agrir4 with those who pick his Ctr4mals as the most im prov4 ia the National league, Mar.(r Freddie Hutchison pcintad ta centerfield today and saidit "is the only hole on this team." "Of course." Hutch said, "We could u.a another 20-game win ner on our pitching staff, but I'm not -orried about that. Cen terfield is the big problem. I have fellows who can do the Job in tha field, but so far I've seen there's no indication that they ill be able to hit as they should. Bobby 1V1 Greco, obtained from tl Pirates, played center field mrt o the time last year NBA Hoop Slat Bills Playoffs 1 UBITfcD FnLSS The only thing certain when the Natiorftil Basketball association-!) 288-game schedule grinds to its close tonight is that there'll be playoffs before the playoffs. All eight teams will be in ac tion, with New York at Boston, Philadelphia at Minneapolis, SyracuaV at Fort Wayne and Ro chester . St. Louis at Milwau kee. TtJ only teams not overly concerned a-'ith the outcome of tonight's gasnes are Boston and O fcochester. Boston clinched the stern Division title several weVks go, while Rochester was eliminated from playoff conten tion lst Saturday. In the Eastern Division Syr acuse and Philadelphia could wind up tied for second, and if they do, they'll meet at Syra cuse Friday night. If Philadel phia and New York wind up tied for third place then they'll meet either Thursday or Friday night at Philadelphia to determine the division's third playoff team. In the Western Division it's mostly a battle for position. St. Louis currently is in first place, one game in front of Fort Wayne and Minneapolis, but after to night's action the three could wind up tied for first place. The Lakers, last a couple of weeks ago, moved into the tie for second by defeating the War riors, 100-94, Tuesday night in the only game played. Waltonians Opp ibse Fast Boating Bill The Jackson county chapter of the Izaak Walton league at a meeting earlier this week passed a resolution opposing Senate Bill 103, which would increase boat speeds on Diamond lake. Copies of the resolution will be forwarded to Jackson county's three legislators at Salem for inforrfiational purposes. Action on the resolution fol lowed discussion that boats mov ing as fast as 25 miles per hour and towing water skiiers would be dangerous to those in other boa Chapter members explained fast moving motor powered boats interfere with fishing and could possibly make it impossible to fish As an alternative to high speed motoring on Diamond lake, it (Was pointed out most of Klamath lake. Lake of the Woods and many other local bodies of water offer excellent facilities for fast boating and water skiing. 32U.13CN i M. K T All over the nation bourbon drinkersre salut ing today's COUNTY FAIR - lighterlin taste, lighter m flavor, lighter in body than eveibefore. uo usni...Ko nent...tro i Hallert mail thibunz but hit only .214. Hutchinson has two other can didates rookie Bobby Gene Smith up from Houston where he hit .299 and chuck Harmon, a .360 hitter with Omaha last year. Harmon, who didn't make the Kuc wiui iiitr ncu wiu . . . . . . U U T"l I T ....11 be given "a long, good look Hutchinson said, adding that "the guy never really has had a chance in the majors because he never got to play full time." "You can't tell what a player can do until you put him in there every day," Hutchinson added. "I'm not saying I am going to do that with Harmon, but he's got to get a chance to show me he is worth trying out that way." Hutchinson expressed pleas ure at the deal which brought him relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm from the Giants. Help For Bullpen "Our bullpen was Inconsist ent last year, but I think Wil helm will straighten it out along with Jim Davis." He also hopes that Lynn Lov enguth, who failed to make it with the Phillies but earned an other major league shot by win ning 24 games with Toronto, would strengthen the relief corps. Hutchinson praised the work of two rookie hurlers Tom Cheney, a 10-game winner with Omaha, and Bob Smith, who won eight at San Francisco. "They both have a good chance to stick on what they have shown me so far," he said. FUREY SIGNS Calgary, Alta. (U.R) Jim Furey, a 225-pound linebacker from Newark, N.J., who captain ed the Kansas State football team in 1955, has signed with the Calgary Stampederi of the Canadian Football league. Furey signed with the Stampeders af ter turning down offers from the New York Giants and Balti more Colts Colts of the National Football league. COLUMBIA'S New York (U.R) Columbia's Chet (The Jet) Forte, a little man who plays basketball in a big ,way, turned back the clock to day by outspeeding the gangling giants of the college game to the 1957 United Press "Player of the Year" award. The 5-foot-9 pre-medical stu dent, as sound fundamentally but an even better scorer than the solid little men who diminated the early years of basketball. gained the honor by a clear mar gin in a nationwide poll of 281 sportswriters and broadcasters. Forte received 63 votes in widely-scattered balloting to win over 'Wilt the Stilt' Chamberlain UCLA Dominates In 1957 PCC Action; Average 73 Los Angeles (U.R) The UCLA Bruins, who finished out the Pacific Coast Conference basketball season in a tie for second place, dominated the fi nal official team statisticts re leased today by the PCC. UCLA ranked first in three departments and finished third, fourth and fifth in the other three. The champion Univer sity of California Bears were first in one category, total de fense. Stanford led in field goals and Washington in field goal de fense. The Bruins scored the most points, 1171 for a 73.2 game av erage. They took free throw honors, making 72.7 per cent of their attempts, and they con- - ,- if .w the lightest County Fair ever distilled! pint utii , y kaivm unty Fail JIMItHT KUIBON KHISHtl BOTTLED 'I N'BOND Wednasday. March 13, 1957' Basketball Scores Bt cniteo prf.ss NCAA at New York Ftrit Round Syracuse 82, Connecticut 76 Camsius 64. WeM Virginia 56 North Carolina t0. Yale 74 NCAA at Columbus, Ohio First Round Pittsburgh 86 Morehead State 83 Notre Dame 89. Miami lOhioi 77 NCAA at Oklahoma City First Round Oklahoma Citv 76. Loyola (La.) 53 V I r k . r. . . I 1 1 ... .. ... - J Round Wm. Jewel! 70. Adelphl 69 lot) Llor Ball St. ilnd i 8. Troy St. iAla.1 70 Stetson 100. Wayne Tchrs. Neb. 84 Tennessee St. 87. Adrian 69 Younmlown 81. Westmont (Cal t 75 Western 111 101. S W. Ark St 70 SE. OkJa. St. 82. N.W. Nazarene 58 Prep Scores Bt UNITED PRESS A-l Tourney at Eugene Lincoln S3, St. Helens 48 Benson 60. Astoria 39 A-2 Tourney at Salem Madras 58. Dayton 40 Scappoose 64. Molalla 47 Drain 58, Cascade 42 Glide 60. Reed sport 41 Engle Named Shrine Coach San Francisco (U.R) Charles (Rip) Engle of Penn State Uni versity today was named head coach for the East squad for the 33rd annual Shrine East-West football classic, it was an nounced by Managing Director William M. Coffman. Coffman said Engle, a mem ber of the last two East coaching staffs, would be assisted by Blan ton Collier of Kentucky and Milt Bruhn of Wisconsin. The West staff of Jack Cur tice, Utah; Tommy Prothro, Oregon State, and Sam Boyd, Baylor, was named several weeks ago. The 33rd shrine game will be played here Dec. 28th. BOYER SIGNS Pasadena. -.Calif. (U.R) Righthander Cloyd Boyer ended his holdout seige with the Sac ramento Solons Tuesday and the club told first sacker Nippy Jones it had given him its last offer. On the holdout list along with Jones are infielder Harry Bright, outfielder Al Heisvt and pitcher Rex Jones. FORTE 'PLAYER OF YEAR' brilliant seven-foot University of Kansas sophomore, who had 51 votes. Six-five Grady Wallace of South Carolina, the national scoring leader, was third with 35 votes. The selection of Forte, Ivy League scoring champion, came at the end of a surprising cam paign in which he fought right down to the wire with four physi cal giants for the national scor ing championship. He finished with an average of 28.92 points per game and awaited the re sults of other scoring contenders in post-season tournaments to learn his final standing. It also followed his selection Final Official Team Statistics trolled the most rebounds, 54.4 per cent Trojans Arerage 72 Southern California scored an average of 72.2 points a game while Washington held a 71.4 average. Cal sunk 72.3 per cent from the free throw line and Stanford 70.8 per cent. UCLA established a new rec ord for consecutive victories in conference games by winning 23 straight since 1955. The old laark of 22 was set by Wash ington during 1943-44. The Bruins margin of free throws was narrow as they picked off 743 rebounds to their opponents 620. Oregon State re covered 54.2 per cent and Cali fornia, 52.1 per cent. Stanford's field goal mark of 41.2 per cent was achieved on 330 goals in 801 tries. Washing ton shot 40.6 per cent and USC, 39.2 per cent. Ducks Follow Cal Cal allowed foes 313 field goals and 321 free throws for an average of 59.4 points a game. Oregon State allowed 60.9 points a game and Washington, 64.3. In field goal defense, Wash ington, 64.3. In field goal de fense, Washington gave up 366 goals in 1112 shots for 32.9 per cent to 34.3 per cent for Ore gon State and 36.6 per cent for UCLA. Stanford committed the few Webb Seeks 19th Victory Chicago .U.R) Spider Webb, Chicago's top entry among mid dleweight title challengers, seeks his 19th straight ring victory to night in a 10-round television bout against Wilf Greaves at the Chicago Stadium. Webb, third-ranking contender for Gene Fullmer's crown, ex pected to be at least a 4-1 choice to outpunch and outbox the roughhouse Geaves, a last-minute substitute. Greaves, a 21-year-old native j of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, who now makes his home in Pittsburgh, replaced Randy Sandy when the latter turned up MEDFORI)KTRIBUriK sipaDiRTrs Marshfield Upsets K. Falls, 36 To 31 Eugana UR Marshfield upset Klamath Falls 36-31 In a first-round state A-l high school tournament game today to move into tha quarter-finals, Tha underdog Pirates used a deliberate offense against the Klamath Falls xona defense, slowing down the play when they got ahead. There was no scoring in the first four minutes of the second quarter and for the first five minutes and 40 seconds of the final quarter. Roger Johnson, an all-itaier last season, led Marshfield with 17 points while Butch Kimpton had 11 for Klamath Falls, which shot only .209 from the field. Marshfield led at the half 18-16. Third Ranked Team Missing! From NAIA Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Only one seeded team, third-ranked West Virginia Tech of Montgom ery, was missing today for the second round of the NAIA bas ketball tournament. The 32-team tourney, which opened Monday, has been re duced to 16 for today's eight game schedule. Quarter-finals will be held Thursday night. Villa Madonna of Covington, Ky., scored the one upset so far, whipping West Virginia Tech 93-91 Monday. The scrappy Kentucky Rebels open today's program in an 11 a.m. game with Eastern Illinois of Charleston. William Jewell provided Tues day night's thrills with a 70-69 overtime triumph over Adelphi of Garden City, L. I. SAXTON GETS POST North Bend (U.R) Cliff Saxton, head football coach at Siuslaw high school in Florence for two years, yesterday was named to the same post at North Bend high school. to the United Press All-America team along with four players from seven to 15 inches taller than he. On the court. Forte's specialty is a jump shot off "the wrong foot," a maneuver that confuses rivals. He also features speed, playmaking, and a two-handed long shot that keeps defenders from backing up to guard against his drive. The top three were followed in the balloting by Elgin Baylor of Seattle with 32 votes, Lennie Rosenbluth of North Carolina with 27, Hot Rod Hundley of West Virginia with 24, and Gary Thompson of Indiana with 15. Points per Game est personal fouls, 201, for an average of 16.9 a game. Idaho committed the most, 362 for a 22.4 average. USC was the most fouled team with 352 fouls 'committed against it for an average of 22 a game. Washington State was the least 'fouled with 267 com mitted against it for a 16.6 aver age a game, Two conference game records were established. USC attempt ed 63 free throws against Idaho, topping the old mark of 61 set last year by UCLA, and UCLA captured 71.1 per cent of all rebounds in a game against Stanford to crack the old mark of 68.3 set by Cal last year. 4 Big Reasons WHY YOU SHOULD USE CONCRETE I TRU-MIX CONCRETE it scientifically designed, controlled and I 3 mixed. TRU-MIX CONCRETE effan Job. Yea know what each cubic coat. That is an important the cost of each operation must be closely watched. TRU-MIX CONCRETE makes it possible to obtain uniform strength and appearance in the finished work. SPECIFY and INSIST on TRU-MIX CONCRETE Kentucky Noted NCAA Darkhorse Evansville, Ind. (U.R) The coaches of the favorites, Lee Pfund of Wheaton and Jim Phe lan of Mount St. Mary's, agreed today on the dark horse in the college division basketball tour ney of the National Collegiate Athletic association. Both picked Kentucky Wesley- an. whose campus for 599 stu dents, the second smallest en rollment in the surviving field of eight, is only 40 miles from here. Wesleyan has won 14 and lost 11 games, the worst mark among the survivors. Phelan pointed out, "They've played better teams than just about anybody else. They've had Murray and Eastern Kentucky and Western Kentucky and Lou isville and just overall stronger opposition." Phelan's club, unbeaten in its last 20 games and second highest scoring college team in the na tion with an average of 92.1 points per game, will open the three-day tourney this afternoon against- Rider of New Jersey, which has 20 wins in 26 games. Mount St. Mary's has a 25-4 rec ord. Wheaton, winner of its last 18 starts and beaten only once in 26 games, will begin play tonight against South Dakota, with a 19 3 mark. Other games today will be San Diego State 17-9 vs. Los Angeles State 19-9 in the afternoon and Buffalo, N. Y.. 18-6 against Wes leyan at night. A-l Hoop Games Played Today Eugene (U.R) Klamath Falls met Marshfield and North Salem played Ontario in morn ing games of the 1957 state class A-l high school basketball tourn ament today. Lincoln and Benson of Port land turned in opening night victories before 4,946 fans last night as the tourney got under way. Lincoln, with a big height ad vantage, downed last year's A-2 champ, St. Helens, 53-48. Lin coln was ahead 52-32 in the fourth quarter and put in its reserves. Astoria's Fighting Fishermen fell before Benson's strong team 60-39. Guard Jim Warren of Ben son led the scoring with 18 while Darrell Reef of Astoria had 13. Other games today matched Grant and McMinnville at 1:45, Central Catholic and Redmond at 3, Eugene and Medford at 7:30 and Albany and Pendleton at 8:45. There are seven national for ests in New Mexico, covering more- than 13,000 square miles. maximum convenience on the yard of TRU-MIX CONCRETE wm item any time but particularly when CONCRETE C? Fighting Cocks Is Increasing in the State of By HAL, WUUJJ United Press Sports Writer San Francisco (U.R) Cock fighting is illegal in United States, but the growing of fight ing cocks is a big business in the state of California. In fact, one of the biggest commodities of freight carried by Pan American Airways to the Philippines is that of fight ing cocks, grown and trained in this state. Cock fighting still Is a popu lar sport in both Northern and Southern California mostly for Filipinos and Mexicans de spite the fact that it is against the law. "It is illegal in this country and there is a good reason," says a major fighting cock breeder. "Cock fighting is inter esting mainly because of the gambling aspects connected with it. Brutal Sport "Admittedly. It is a somewhat 1 brutal sport. But there is an- other good reason, too. It is just i about impossible to keep the ! sport honest.' I He went on to explain there I are many .ways in which cock i fights can be rigged. He named these two: A The oldest and easiest way is to feed one of the cocks lead , pellets, a la Mark Twain's "Jumping Frog of Calaveras" i story. The weight of the lead makes the cock sluggish and un able to leap. B For a cock raiser to keep two cocks until they are fully grown. Then he puts them to gether to fight each other. He will keep either the winner or loser, selling the other. Later the MOUNTIES HAVE 23 Riverside, Calif. (U.R) Three more players have arrived at the Vancouver Mounties' training camp to bring the teams roll call total to 23. The three players, who arrived in camp Tuesday, were outfielder Willie Tasby, catcher Bob Evert and pitcher Bill McGee. Still listed as holdouts were-third baseman Karl Seigrist and shortstop Fred Marsh. B.F.Goodrich LIFE FORMER SEALS PUNCTURES PERMANENTLY NAIL IN OR OUT HIGH QUALITY AT LOWEST COST EXTRA SERVICE 11 95 i I fitrwdaMa) 6.00-16 tn YOUR RETREADABLE TIRE MAY BE YODR JOIN THE aTTWajM Said. Big Business And two cocks again will be put in a ring to fight, this time in public where there is wagering. The original owner knows who won the first fight and therefore he know who will win the second. In chicken circles, the winner of a cock fight becomes "cock o' the walk" and the other cock knows who is boss after one lick ing. The loser will not put up much of a fight. May Be Fixed "But despite the ease with which a cock fight may be fixed," said the man, "it still is as popular as poker or horse racing in some areas. "In fact, some of the fans in SPECIALISTS Free Parking LIST PRICE WITHOUT TRADE 7.10-15 33.00 45.30 7.60-15 36.15 49.75 NYLON 8.00-15 40.25 54.40 at slight 8.20-15 41.20 56.95 extra cost Pius tax and retreadable tire . LOW, LOW PRICES ON REGoodrich SAFETY-S -BsastTakMa 95 6.00-ie 'Plus tax and retread able sir regular 2b98 value NOW ONLY A handr, afl-purpose pail for use in the kitchen I I laundry or workroom. 1 J Dick Fanger 1760 North Riverside SAFE DRIVER LEAGUE California this area will travel 100 miles to see a good cock fight in a dimly-lighted barn, or a smoke filled room. "I will say this about it, how ever. As a sport it is much more humane than bull-fighting. "In this sport, at least, the competitors are evenly matched and at least have a chance for their lives." It's Tim to Ready Your Power Mower For Spring. We can do it. 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