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
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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
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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,
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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.
Federal Judge Claude McCol
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the largest ever made in a Fed
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