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" 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
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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
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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
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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. Murray will scout the
Long Island area, while
Christman will serve as a part
time scout around his home
area in St. Louis.
Royals Pacing Also-Ran Quints
By UNITED PRESS
The Cincinnati Royals prob
ably never will catch up with
the pace-setting St. Louis
Hawks in the National Bask
etball association's Western
division race, but they easily
are the best of the also-rans.
The Royals- buried the New
York Knickerbockers, 117
111, in the first game of a
twinbill at St. Louis Tuesday
night to move to within a
game of the .500 mark.
The Philadelphia Warriors
came from behind to edge the
Hawks, 110-109, in the night
cap. The results left the
Hawks with a still comfort
able seven and one-half game
lead over the Royals.
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will propel an eight-gallon -container
of fire-extinguishing
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