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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBTTNE THTRTEEW Albany Quintet Bounces Bedford From Oregon A-1 Tourney 56-40 Friday, March 15. 1957 LINCOLN, CENTRAL CATHOLIC, EUGENE, NORTH SALEM REACH A-1 BASKETBALL SEMI-FINALS Eugene U.R) Lincoln, Central Catholic, North Salem and Eugene swept Into the semi finals of the state high school class A-1 basketball tournament here today but North Salem and Eugene had to go all out to make the final four. Eugene rounded out the semi finalists in last night's closing game of the second round as Charlie Warren set a blistering last quarter pace that ' finally overcame Pendleton and gave Eugene a 60-43 win. Warren, who hit 30 points, personally engineered the Eu gene finish. Early In the fourth period it was a 41-41 ball game but Warren broke the tie and then battled on the board and hit fro mall angles to lead the Ax men into the final 17 point spread. Never In Danger Central dropped Grant, 47-37, in last night's other game in a match that left the fans unin spired as the Rams led all the way and were never in danger. North Salem took a 50-49 win over Marshfield in a minor up set in a championship round game yesterday afternoon. The Vikings came with a rush in the second half, scoring 23 points after trailing 28-18 at the half. TOPS QUARTER MILLION San Francisco U.PJ The Shrine East-West football game, played here on Dec. 29, 1956, netted $251,008.28 for the San Francisco Shriners hospital for crippled children, making it the first time in the 32 year history of the game the take has topped a quarter of a million dollars. Basketball Scores THURSDAY COM FOE GAMES By UNITED PRESS N l Tournamrnt (Quarter-Final) Pac. Lutheran 91- Tx Southern 72. Eastern 111. 8fl. Hnmline 83. Tenn. St. 90. Western Illinotl 88. S E.'ern Oklahoma St. 69, Youngs town 65. N Small College (Third Kniindl Wheaton 71. l.r Angeles St ST Kv. Weslevan 9. Mt. St. Mary s 81 GRANTS PASS WRESTLING JOSEPHINE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS ARENA TONIGHT - MARCH 15 8:30 P.M. MAIN EVENT TEXAS STYLE TAG TEAM MATCH!!!! But 23 Fall or 1 Hour Four Midgets end Two Big Boys Mixing It Up!!!! Lord Littlebrook, the Brown Panther Tito "Elvis" Carreon vs. Major Tom Thumb Irish Jackie Martino Angalo For a riot of action don't miss this one. SEMI-FINAL Beit 23 Falls or 1 Hour Umit Wild Bill Savage, 220, Joliet, III. . Reg. Parks, 218, Calgary Come early for a good seat. This is the last chance to see the Mid gets in action until next fall. ; s 4h HUBBARD -WRAY CO. 25 South Riverside Phone 2-4011 North Salem finally moved ahead at 46-45 with less than five minutes to play as Dale Drake sank a free throw. North Salem went into a ball control game at that point but still scored four points before Marshfield's Roger Johnson hit twice to make the final spread only one point. Cards Win Easily Lincoln gained its spot with a comparatively easy 61-46 win over Benson. Jim Hindman drop ped in 15 to lead the Cardinals who led all the way, holding a halftime margin of 29-14 and SPORTS Fanfare McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene Tournament notes: Remark by Medford high fan yesterday after Black Tornado's loss to Albany putting it out of the Oregon Class A-1 hoop tour ney here: "Well, you can't win every year. To which might be added: "You can't be second best all the time, either." AXEMEN GET ADVANTAGE To this possibly prejudiced eye it certainly seemed that Eugene got the benefit of the whistle tooting in its first round game with Medford in the Oregon Class A-1 high school basketball o u r n e y here. Whistles seemed to blow quick with a held ball being called in the scrambles where Medford appeared on the verge of controlling the ball but often when Eugene was getting the advantage in fight ing for the casaba no whistle would sound and Eugene would get possession. ALL-NEGRO FIVE Benson high of Portland has one distinction over other clubs in the tournament. All of its starters, Don Bridges, Claude Pierce. Chuck Patterson (son of a former Benson, Southern Ore- eon college and University of Oregon great), Jim Warren and Bob Butler, are colored, we heard someone ask, "How are the 'Globetrotters' doing? ALTENHOFEN IMPRESSIVE Of all the players seen in the tourney so far, this writer has been impressed most by Jim Altenhofen of Central Catholic The 6-5 Ram center is terrific in putting in tip in shots and controlling rebounds although a bit inclined to in dividualism. On tip in tries he'll pump the ball up again and again until it goes through the hoop. MOORE DRAWS RAVES Glenn Moore, Klamath Falls' fine 6-7 junior, continues to draw raves for his natural ability. USE 2 third quarter bulge of 49-27. McMinnviUe, Klamath Falls, Astoria and Albany reached the semi-finals of the consolation bracket yesterday. McMinnviUe dropped Redmond, 72-43; Klam ath Falls rolled over Ontario, 53-32; Astoria edged St. Helens, 50-44, and Albany tripped Med ford, 56-40. Today's schedule in the con solation bracket matched As toria and Klamath Falls and Mc MinnviUe against Albany this morning. The race for fourth place saw Benson and Marshfield meet and Grant and Pendleton play ing this afternoon. Lincoln meets North Salem at 7:30 tonight in the championship bracket with Eugene and Cen tral Catholic colliding at 8:45 in the final game of the day. By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor Again we hear accusations that his teammates do not pass him the ball often erfbugh to take advantage of his ability. MUSCLES ON MUSCLES On seeking Jack Temple, McMinnviUe guard, we were reminded Medford football coach Fred Spiegelberg's de scription of former Tornado grid star Rocky Stone. Temple, too, "has muscles on muscles." They bulge all over. Young Temple was also a star foot ball back for the McMinnviUe Grizzlies, taking after his father. Mark Temple, of the U of O all-time greats. WILSON HEADED SCORERS John Wilson's 22 points for Albany against Pendleton were high for the first round of the tournament. Altenhofen's 22 re bounds were tops. They were against Redmond. REBOUND RECORD McMinnviUe high establish ed a new per game mark in rebounding for stale tourney play with its 71 retrieves aganist the hapless Redmond Panthers. Gene Carlson paced the Grizzlies with 20 retrieves and each of the nine players who got into the tussle had three or more. Reserves Dave Ryals and Bill Kizer helped with 11 and 20, respectively. The old record was 65 by Mil waukie against The Dalles in 1955. SHULT NINTH TERMER Earl Shult was a big gun in the early season for Redmond and those early victories helped the Panthers into the state tourney. But Shult was not on the roster to help the central Oregonians in the tournament. He is a . ninth termer and in eligible. COACH CHOSEN Portland U.R) Gerald Da dey, 28-year-old coach at Gon zaga Prep in Spokane, will be football, basketball and base ball coach at the new Jesuit high school opening here in Sep tember. JOHN DEERE MANURE HANDLING EQUIPMENT There are two ways of handling manure the hard way and the easy John Deere Way. With dependable John Deere Manure Han dling Equipment you'U not only take the hard work out of loading and spreading but handle more manure per day. Cleaning out sheds and feed lots is done faster and easier with the John Deere Push' Typ Loader. It's strongly built for heavy work; weight is properly distributed for better trac tion. Unique flywheel drive assures more pay loads per day . . . less work for the operator. Its working partner is the John Deere Model "H" Spreader sturdily built with plenty of strength to withstand the strains of mechanical loading. Proper distribution of the load as sures ample tractioo for both the spreader and tractor wheels. We'd like to show you why it will pay to use John Deere Manure Handling Equipment on your farm. Sec us soon for full particulars. Bulldogs Overcome Early Deficit of 12 Points; Nab Command in Third Quarter By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene "You can't win 'em if you can't hit 'em and the other team can." The foregoing important pre mise in basketball was the un doing of the Medford high hoop contingent for the second day in a row as the Black Tornado was eliminated yesterday in its bid for honors in the 1957 Class A-1 prep tournament here. Albany's Bulldogs, who barked and growled with the joy of the fight when they found they could calm the Big Wind from South, spotted the Tornado 12 points in the opening stanza, splurged up to make a dogfight of it in the middle stages then pulled away at the end to take a 56 to 40 triumph. Started Hot Victory put the Bulldogs in the consolation semi finals today against the McMinnviUe Griz zlies who outclassed the Red mond Panthers 72 to 43 in an other quarter-final. For Medford, its second setback in the double elimination competition wrote the finish for the season with a 16-8 record. Medford started hot but cooled off in the conflict. For the Al bany quint it was the reverse. The Bulldog offensive perked up in the second quarter along with a tightening defense and the Al bany attack was more than ef fective in the late third quarter and fourth quarter clutch. Albany's entire starting com bine, Jack Rohrbaough, John Wilson, Buz Wilfert, Bob Close and Joe Phohoska, performed ably in the clutch and in the process of salting away the ver dict. Tornado defense, tough and ballhawking in the opening min utes, weakened in the second panel and in the third quarter, when the Pear city club got a number of heartening goaling opportunities, the Medfordites couldn't consistently make their shots go in. Bulldogs Shoot .442 Albany, whose field gunning average of .442 contrasted to Medford's .271, needed slightly more than half the game to over take the Tornado. The Bulldogs briefly lost their lead then pushed on top to stay. At the start Albany victory seemed the remotest possibility. With Dick Copple spearheading the attack with four field buck ets the Tornado surged to a 13 to 1 command in the first 5Vi min utes of action. Copple got an other field goal for Medford. Pro hoska reboundered for Albany's lone field points of the quarter Slayer of Eugene Policeman Arraigned Eugene (U.PJ Albert Wach smuth, accused of the slaying of a state police officer during a gun battle at his home here last month, was arraigned on a first degree murder charge yesterday. The elderly River Road area man was scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing today to determine if he is to go before the grand jury to face the charge. Wachsmuth is accused of kill ing State Police Officer Charles Sanders when officers tried to rout him from his home where he had barricaded himself after a domestic quarrel last Feb. 22, BIG BEAVER Cave Junction, Ore. U.R) What may well be the grand- daddy of all Redwood Empire beavers was trapped recently on Sucker Creek by Merve Ho gan of Cave Junction, Ore. The animal weighed 56V4 pounds. and had an estimated value of $35. Birmingham, England (U.R) The largest tire ever made in Britain containing enough ny lon to make 8,280 pairs of nylon siocmngs was uruppea irum iu , j a r u. mold here today. Dress Right You Can't Afford Not To! Men's Hosiery Phoenix Munsingwear Jockey Esquire $00 to $295 We Give S&H Green Stamps Free Parking Robinson Bros. THE BUDS FOR QUALITY DUDS Next to Pick's Apparel Medford, Ore. but the Bulldogs added four more counters on gifters as Med ford took a 15 to 7 edge at the game's first intermission. Rohrbough with six points was the spark as Albany outshot Medford 16 to 9 in the second quarter. Halfway count favored Medford only 24 to 23. Wilson Gains Lead Wilson's jumper back of the circle gave the Bulldogs their first lead at 25 to 24 with less than a minute played in the third panel. Dick McLaughlin put in a free tally to tie up the game at 25 apiece. But Rohrbough, a 5-6 driver, zoomed into to make it 27 to 25 for the Bulldogs. Wilson swished another jumper and Prohoska a free basket for 30 to 25. Medford put together a suc cessful splurge at this stage. Mc Laughlin plunked in a jumper from 18 feet away. Neil Plum ley's cast went in from free line range. Tom Hamlin connected from 20 feet- out and Plumley, although off balance tipped a shot in. That made it 33 to 30. Wilfert, a 6-5 center, put Al bany back in front for keeps. He canned a brace of free throws and got hook and jumper goals in close for 36 to 33. That was the score at the three quarter rest. Tornado Hopes Helped A minute and a half into the fourth quarter Prohoska put in a jumper from the side. He dit toed a half-minute later. With three minutes played, Wilfert re covered a Medford muff under the Bulldog basket and collected another goal. The score was 42 to 33. There was still Medford hope after Copple pumped in a pair of fielders from Medford. But Albany followed with five points on gift chances and a couple of field baskets by Wil son. That put the Bulldogs safe from Medford threat at 52 to 37 with slightly more than 1V4 min utes to play. Copple got a long jump for the Tornado and McLaughlin a free toss but Wilfert and John Zander rounded out Bulldog scoring from the field to establish the final standing. Medford coolness was at the free throw line as well as from the field. The Tornado put in only eight of 19 tries from the charity stripe. Not once did Medfordites put in a pair of free heaves. They missed second shots on eight occasions. Albany made 18 of 28 from the free line. Copple Hot Copple was the only hot shoot er for Medford with nine out of 18 attempts for 18 points to knot for high scoring laurels. He didn't have a free shot awarded. Wilson had 18 points for Albany and Wilfert got 14. The Tornado played the boards to its advantage in the first half but the Bulldogs had the upper hand through much of the sec ond and lead 40 to 33 in re trieves for the game. Bob Close had 14 rebounds for the Bull dogs, Prohoska 11 and Wilfert 10. Plumley had 10 and Mc Laughlin eight for Medford. Medford had 16 field goals in 59 shots taken and Albany fired 19 for 43. The Tornado aver age was some improvement over Wednesday night when it fired just ,246 in losing to Eugene's .457. BOX: Medford Copple, f McLaughlin, f Plumley, c Puhl. g ... Perkins, g Hamlin, f Slessler, c Bowling, t Total! Albany Bob Close. Joe Prohoska. Buz Wilfert. c 4 John Wilson, g 6 Jack Rohrbough. g 3 Ellison Chandler, c 0 David Sease, g 0 Jon Zander, f . 1 Cliff King, g 0 Larry Mullen, f . 0 Totals Ouarter Scores MHfnri Medford v,h.0 7 16 13 I Referees Bill Gatch and Joe Proulx. FG FT Reb PF TP 9 0 8 4. 18 3 4 5 5 10 2 I 10 3 5 112 2 5 0 2 5 S 2 10 12 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 IS S 31 16 40 FG FT Reb PF TP f 2 0 14 1 4 1 3 3 11 0 9 8 10 1 14 8 1 4 18 3 3 3 8 0 110 0 0 10 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 19 18 40 11 56 IS 9 9 7 40 2056 Burns, Elden Elected To Gun Club Positions Jack Burns and Harry Elden have been elected to positions in the Medford Gun club at a meeting held earlier this week. Burns was elected treasurer and Elden secretary. Club officials have announced a "buddy shoot" will be among other events held at the gun club this Sunday. Longshoreman Wins $112,000 Damage Suit Portland (U.R) A Portland longshoreman was awarded $112,000 on damages yesterday as a result of a fall he suffered while working on an Oceanic Steamship Company ship here. General damages of $100,000 and special damages of $12,000 were awarded to Guy W. Swan son. His suit had stated that he fell into the hold of the S.S. Ventura when he stepped on an unsafe hatch cover. 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