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RED RAIDER HOOPMEN OPPOSE OREGON TECH " Ashland One of the most j pirited rivalries of the Ore-j gon collegiate comerence is resumed this evening when the two southern members of the circuit collide here. Southern Oregon college is host to Oregon Technical in stitute for an 8 p.m. encoun ter. Winner will take over lone leadership in the OCC. Each quint enters the skir mish with a 4-0 league mark. Both schools have veteran teams. OTI has John McCut cheon, John Rhine, Truman Williams and Jerry Fasteen back from the starting crew of the 1937 conference cham pions. Fifth man in the line up may be Charlie Bogle, 6-9, who had one year at San Mateo Junior college. Southern Oregon is expect ed to go to tip-off with its usual combination of Dave SPORTS D'Olivo, Norm Oliva, Bill Hollingsworth, Jim McAbee and Ron Maurer. It is indicated that the SOC Raiders will aim at stopping the running game of the Owls. Six wrestling matches, the first at 6:15 p.m. will provide the preliminary to the basket ball game. Among partici pants will be Tom Findlay, coast champ, and George Ol son and Gerald Dilley of Southern Oregon and Lee Al len, Olympic team members from University of Oregon. SOC scrappers will face the UO team members. Sport $i 0SCAR FRALEY DmVm4a SporH Writer ruruuc fttX Uni,ed p,e" New York 0?) Carmen Ba illo, who would rather battle Suear Rav Robinson than wrestle a tuxedo, today chal lenged the mar. from whom he took the middleweight title to tn "miit heins? cautious and 1 ' ' eome out and fight." Basilio became the "Fighter of the Year" when he knocKea the middleweight crown off Rohinson's oatent leather locks last September. Ever inre then he has been Strug gllng to stay in shape while bouncing around the rubber chicken circuit accepting vari ous trophies. "I'd almost rather fight Rob inson twice than sit down to mother banquet," smilingly gays the quiet little man who fights so thunderously. Whether Robinson, who has threatened to retire, will meet Irim again was uppermost in Carmen's mind as he received Sis latest award. This was the trophy as fighter of the year presented to him last night by gie New York Boxing Writers sjjt their annual beef and boff ffet-together. Says Robbie Will Fight "I'm confident Robinson will fight me," he said. "I just wish he'd quit stalling and get with it. Nobody passes up that much money, unless they've got 15 times as much. And from what I hear, Robinson hasn't got that kind of dough." Meanwhile, looking ahead to such a bout, Carmen figures that It could be "easier or tougher," depending on how ach of them decided to fight. Although, quite frankly, Car men admits It would have to b quite a brawl to be tougher than that last one which went into the books as one of the all-time classics. "Still, what kind of a fight we make the next time could deDend on how we started." he analyzed. "He knows some thing more about my style now and I know more about his. So it could be easier or tougher for one or the other of us. Forgets Caution "Maybe he would fight with more caution," Carmen adds "Maybe I would although I do seem to forget all about caution when I get into the rinz. I come to fight and I try to make a fight." Basilio, a s o f t-speaking, pleasant man who is betrayed as a fighter only by the scar tissue over his eyes, thinks that Robinson was overly cau tious the first time. "He did a lot of running," Carmen asserted. "But in the end he had to fight just be cause there wasn't any place else for him to run to. The ring's only so big and he had no place else to go when I kept crowding him.' Basilio has no love for Rob inson because Sugar Ray snubbed him cold back in the old days when Robinson was riding high and Carmen was trying to get somewhere. But he doesn't take his foe lightly. "I've been working out off and on," he said. "As soon as these dinners get over, I'm go ing, to be able to get in a lot of road work. One thing sure, I'll be ready for him or any body else." And anybody, he admits, would be better than the soup and fish. Chief-'Cat Tiff Ranked As Crucial By NEAL VORBETT United Press Sports Writer Seattle university, dead locked with Illinois and Min nesota for the 19th spot in the national basketball rankings, sends flashy Elgin Baylor after little Montana State to night in what looks like a lead-pipe cinch but don't mortgage the old homestead to bet on it. Seattle returns home after being on the road almost a month, and it brings back a 6-4 record. However, Baylor is averaging 28.4 points per game, and scored 79 in two games against Portland U. last week. That should be enough to scare most teams right off the floor but Montana State's Bobcats don't scare easily. They've got a 10-3 record, with victories over powerful Iowa State, Idaho, Washing ton State, Utah State, Brig- ham Young and Denver. So what was expected to be just another game has become a crucial one. As independ ents, both teams are eligible for the at-large berth in this year's NCAA regional play offs. The chips are down and the two teams have the Paci fic Coast basketball spotlight all to themselves. A few teams saw action Tuesday night. In the West Coast Athletic conference, San Jose State took over undisputed fourth place by romping over Col lege of Pacific, 78-60, and Pepperdine notched its first conference win by blasting Loyola, 64-48. The Spartans took COP in a breeze, leading by as many as 19 points in the first half. Eddie Diaz led the attack with 20 points, while Leroy Wright was tops for the losers with 17. Pepperdine's victory moved the waves out of the celler, leaving Loyola all by itself. Sterling Forbes scored 19 points for the Waves, and Bill Wagner had 16 for Loyola. The WCACO standings: USF 3-0, St. Mary's 2-0, Santa Clara 2-1, San Jose State 3-2, COP 2-3, Pepperdine 1-2, Loyola 0-3. In California Collegiate Athletic association play, Fresno State rolled up a 22 point lead and then coasted to a 77-59 victory over tal Poly. The Bulldogs now have a 3-1 mark, while Cal Poly stands at 0-3. London (IP) British Empire lightweight champion Willie Toweel of South Africa was awarded a close decision over Cuba's Orlando Zulueta Tues day night in their Vio-round bout at the Empress hall. To weel scaled 135 pounds and Zulueta weighed 135. BODY ENGLISH Bill Casper of Apple Valley uses body english in attempt to steer putt on 17th green at Pebble Beach during final round of 50,000 Bing Crosby national pro-amateur tourney. He took a bogie, but still finished the round one under par to win the annual tourney with a 72-hole total of 277. St. Mary's, Talent Grab Jackson B Loop Tangles JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS W. Talent 7 Butte Fall 4 St. Mary s 2 Jacksonville 2 Prospect 0 L. Pet. 0 1.000 3 .571 3 .400 4 .333 3 .000 Talent High kept its unmar red record in the Jackson County B basketball loop on Tuesday night by nudging Jacksonville 26 to 23 in tight defensive conflict. In other action St. Mary's of Medford tabulated its second league triumph while hand ing Butte Falls its second cir cuit loss, 55 to 39. The win pulled St. Mary's into third place in the cir cuit. St. Mary's pulled away in the second half to trounce the Loggers. Butte Falls got a 6 to 0 jump in the hassle but the Crusaders knotted the count at 8-all. The game was tied six more times and. the lead switched on five occas ions before the Medford school went in front for good. Bill Evans long shot making the score 25 to 24 in the sec ond quarter brought perman ent lead. Score at the quarter of the fuss was 16-each. The Cru saders led at the half and 29 to 26 and 42 to 32 after oj f7uf?u mm 0 U 11 than the best of the Low-Price 3 for Wheelbase Is the real measure of size and the Chieftain dwarfs all three with a road-leveling 122 span! Beats them, too, with Tempest 395 power . . . man-size, stretch-out roominess . . . crisp New Direction Styling! So why buy a car with a low-price name? Get a Pontiac for less! oj MM SEE YOUR AUTHORIZED PONTIAC DEALER FOR A DRIVE AND A DEAL. YOU'LL NEVER FORGET three quarters. Ability to hit the hoop with regularity from long range was a big factor in the victory. Three Have. 13 Jerry Flakus and' Mike King of St. Mary's and1 Mike Conley of Butte Falls each picked up 13 points. Jim Ir win put in 12 for Butte Falls and John Kerr 11 for SM. Butte Falls was hampered by the absence of two of their top six players, Jerry Fergu son and Larry Cavin, side lined by illness. . Only one point was put in by each team in the final quar ter of the fracas at Jackson ville. Period margins all fav ored Talent, 8 to 5, 16 to 11 and 25 to 22. Despite the low score, the mix was at no time dull and there was action all the way. Both aggregations found the hoop well when they got the shots but, with both defending toughly, not many casts were made. The tangle had its rough characteristics. Ron Davis of Jacksonville and Buzz Heard of Talent were banished for an altercation near the end of the game. Jacksonville's cause suffered a blow when Eldon Smith fouled out. Marion Dowell of the home floor Redskins was the high point man with 10. Jerry Baer topped Talent with seven. LINE-UPS' 55 St. Mary'i Butte Falli 11 Kerr Conley 8 Miksche Smith 13 Flakus Abbott 6 Evans Irwin G 2 Colver Sheppard Substitutions For St. Marv's. King 13, Michael,- Hayes 2. Mans field, Cooper; for Butte Falls, Ba ker, Ellis. Wednesday, January 15, 1958 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE SEVEH 28 Talent Jacksonville 4 Walls Winningham 5 Welburn Smith 2 Combs Dowell 4 Heard Davis 7 Baer Perreard Substitutions For Talent. Gin- gerich 4; for Jacksonville, Bran som 4, Rasmussen, Whitney, Allen. Johnny Ray's Ear Operation Succeeds New York (W The ear op eration to restore the hearing of Johnnie Ray was success ful, the singing star's physi cian reported Tuesday. Dr. Sidney Feuerstein said that Ray will probably regain normal hearing within four to six weeks when the mem branes in the left ear have healed. Ray reported he could hear for the first time since childhood when Feuerstein re moved the surgical dressing to check on the operation on his inner ear. Feuerstein performed a window" operation known as a fenestration on Ray's ear Jan. 7. The operation involved cutting a window in the inner ear to permit passage of sound. Ray will be able to dis card his hearing aid which had become a trademark in his rise to fame as a bobby soxers' idol. PHILLIES SIGN DAVIS Philadelphia (Ut Former Baylor university baseball and football star Jack Davis has been signed by the Phila delphia Phillies organization and assigned to Miami of the International league. The 22-year-old Davis, who lives in Carthage, Tex., is a 5-11, 185- ppund outfielder. He is a grad uate of American Legion baseball. The gray fox can climb trees like a cat and often uses trees to escape dogs, but the red fox can't climb and usually burrows to escape Glendale Nudges Eagles In Rogue League Ruckus Eagle Point Glendale high wrote up its second ver dict in the .young Rogue league basketball chase last night by fighting from behind to nose out Eagle Point 50 to 49. While the Pirates stayed unbeaten in the conference, Eagle Point suffered its sec ond loss. The Eagles entered the fi nal quarter leading 40 to 36 but Glendale caught up at 45 all. A Bill Hale bucket put the Pirates ahead and Ray Munyon padded out his club's tabulating with three free shots. Ron Veach sank a set shot for EP after Glendale had gone in front. Bill Tur ner's last second goal for the Eagles closed the pointmak ing. The Eagles were on top 13 to 12 at the quarter and 29 to 23 at halftime. Turner was high scorer for the contest with 18 markers. Ray Mun yon had 16 for Eagle Point. EP won the junior varsity tussle 47 to 41 with Gary Hugo ringing up 13 points. LINE-VPS: 50 Glendale Eafle Point T 16 R. Munyon Turner F 5 T. Munyon Greb C 2 Worley Christian G 10 Young Veach G 14 Hale Smith Substitutions For Glendale. Rey nolds 3, Barrong. Smart. Mul larkey: for Eagle Point, Hubbard 3, Kelson, Chamberlain. HIRED AS SCOUTS New York (IP) Jim Murray, a former Brooklyn Dodger player, and Mark Christman, former Washington Senators infielder, have been hired as scouts by the New York Yan kees. 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