Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, January 31, 1958, Image 8

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Newspaper Page TextEIGHT MEDFOHD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. January 31, 1958 Black Tornado Host To Comets Tonight; Tight Race For 2nd Somebody remarked that this week end's scrambles in Southern Oregon conference basketball will separate the men from the boys as the paying goes. That's a matter of opinion. But this is known for certain: Either the tight race for second place in the circuit will open up a little or it will continue in its present jammed condition. Medford is host to Crater at Hedrick tonight while Grants Pass entertains Ash land. On Saturday Medford meets Crater at Central Point I , " fa ' H ' 4 IBs! I mi & II 't - the start of the second half but it will still be a dogfight among three of the four con tingents. There was nothing new on the Medford front this morn ing. At least their was no re port from mentor Frank Roe landt. Reserve John Harvey was on the doubtful list be cause of the thumb injury. For Crater a pair of fresh men, Bryson LaCasse and Loval Hisinbotham. are ex pected to be wearing varsity uniforms. It's been reported that Higinbotham loomed as a possible starter during drills this week. However, he sut- fered a head cut in practice last night and needed a couple of stitches. The injury could change the picture. Roelandt likely will go with his usual Medford five, Jerry Anderson, Tom Hamlin, Lowell Dean, Don Peek and Bilbee Lane. Crater starters will be chosen from wayne Allen, Jerry Kime, Randy Campbell. Kerman Bennet, Chuck Turner. Joe letter, Bill White and Higinbotham. TORNADO HOOPMEN Don Bowling, above, has had a re serve role on the Medford high basketball squad since recuperating from a foot in jury which kept him out of early season games. The Black Tornado plays Crater at Hedrick gym here tonight and at Central Point on Sat urday. There will be 6:30 p.m. junior varsity scrapes with the main engagements at 8:15 p.m. while GP comes to Ashland. The week end series mark the halfway point in the confer ence and District 6 A-l chase. Klamath Falls draws a rest this week, having reached the midway point with a three game lead over the rest of the pack. While Klamath foes still hope to dispute the point, most prognosticators concede that the Pelicans are shoo-ins for their second straight league championship. They have a three-game lead over second place Ashland. That leaves for second place and a 6tate tourney berth among the rest of the five-team field Tightly Bunched They are bunched almost as tight as is possible. Ashland with a 3-3 mark is just a game ahead of Medford, Grants Pass and Crater, all with 2-4. Splits in week end series will maintain this situa tion. If series sweeps are rec orded, the successful clubs will have an advantage for Race Won By Carousel Acapulco, Mex. IIP) Carousel, a 40-foot sloop own ed by Ashley Bowen, San Diego, walked off with top honors in the San Diego to Acapulco yacht race, accord ing to overall standings an nounced today. The handicap of 2 days, 9 hours, enabled the smaller craft to win the championship from Windward, the 82-foot sloop of E. R. and Don Chil cott, Los Angeles, which finshed Tuesday, setting a new record for elapsed time. Second in the overall point standings was another Class C boat. Lady Bountiful, a 41 foot sloop owned by Waldo Waterman and Steven New- mark, San Diego. The Wind ward, a Class A craft, took third. 60 Tallies By Baylor Sets Mark By RAY ANDREWS Seattle (ffl They might as well rip page 24 out of Seattle University's basket ball press book because the way big Elgin Baylor is man handling it is something fear ful. That's the page that lists the school's individual marks but Baylor's basket-bombing has made it as obsolete as high button shoes. The 6-6 Negro star had the Medfoi Tribune SIPCDDBTTS Roy Campanella Shows Continued Improvement; Paralysis Still In Legs Hinnant Fights Durelle Tonight New York (IP) Light heavyweight contender Yvon Durelle will try to avenge his only defeat in a year tonight in a return TV fight with Clarence Hinnant at Madison Square Garden. Their 10-rounder will be televised and broadcast na tionally by NBC at 7 p.m. (PST). Betting is at "even money" although lanky Hinnant of Washington, D. C, stopped the muscular Canadian fish erman in the eighth round at Miami Beach last Feb. 20 be cause of a cut eye. ATTENTION EARLYBIRDS! buys a BRAND NEW 1958 DESOTO 4-Door Sedan FREE Push-Button TorquefliU Transmission, Constant Control Power Steering, Fresh Air Heater and Defroster a gift to you from Dick Knight if you buy DeSoto now during Earlybird Sale. DeSoto 4-Door Sedan with full factory equipment plus free ex tras described above .. $3195 DICK KNIGHT CO. 33 So. Riverside af Srh St. greatest night of his career Thursday night with a 60 point explosion; that carried the Chieftains from the depths of a 19-point deficit to a tingling 94-91 victory over Portland University. Two School Records Set Baylor gave page 24 anoth er beating as he cashed in 24 of 34 field goal attempts and 12 of 13 charity tosses to set two new school records and move to within a whisker of the nation's leading scorers His 24 field goals broke the school mark of 22 which he set earlier in the month against Montana State Col lege. His 60 points also was a new school high, washing out the 53 he established against Montana State. Baylor was the only sane person in the house when he stepped to the free throw line with 11 seconds left and cas ually dropped in two free throws to snap a 91 to 91 tie. Baylor's 6 0 -point burst raised his game average to 31.7 and leaves him breathing on the necks of Oscar Robert son of Cincinnati and Wilt The Stilt Chamberlain of Kansas. May Turn Pro In Juno Robertson got 30 markers Thursday night in Cincinnati's 79-59 verdict over Miami of Ohio and his 32.6 game mark leaves him just a notch ahead of Chamberlain at 32.4. A junior who transferred from College of Idaho, Baylor has put in four years of col lege and will be eligible for pro ball when school is out this June. The line is forming on the right. Whether he makes the jump to pro ranks or finishes up his college career next year is something that has Coach John Castellani keeping his fingers crossed. The consensus is Baylor will make an outstanding pro player. Portland blew a 19-point lead late in the second half to watch Baylor come up with a record - shatter in g perform ance Portland threw freshman sensation Ray Scott, a high school teammate of Wilt Chamberlain's, into the fray but Scott's 28 points were not enough. The Pilots will have another chance at Seattle again tonight and the 6-9 Scott may wel hold the key to a Pilot victory if some thing can be done about Baylor. Glen Cove. N. J. (IP) Roy Campanella showed continued improvement today in his bat tle to shake off the paralysis I that set in after he suffered a i broken neck in last Tuesday's automobile accident. "The patient spent a better day Thursday than Wednes day," the latest bulletin from Glen Cove Community hos- j pital said. "His temperature is moderately elevated which is expected. There is further improvement in feeling which is now present over the ab domen. Paralysis in his legs is unchanged." Harry Gifford, the hospital administrator, pointed out that Campanella is improving faster than originally expect ed but that he remains on the critical list. (This is the last of three dispatches tracing the career of Roy Campanella). Finsterwald Has Phoenix Lead Phoenix, Ariz. (IP) Ed Oldfield of Roseburg, Ore., shot a 74 -Thursday in the first round of the Phoenix open golf tournament. Bob Duden of Oswego had a 75 Phoenix, Ariz. (IP) Dow Finsterwald, who makes $40,- 000 per year playing "con servative golf," and -Stan Mosel, an unknown who makes $15,000 per year as a club pro, went into the sec ond round of the Phoenix Open golf tournament today deadlocked for first place and holding comfortable two- stroke leads over the rest of the field. Finsterwald, a notorious slow starter in tournament play, who has finished second 13 times in the last two years while winning only two tour neys, had a steady 33-33 in the opening round, while Mosel had 32-34. By MILTON RICHMAN New York (IP) Any day now, Roy campanella is go ing to prop himself up on his hospital bed and inquire: "Hey Doc, when am I gettin out of here?" Campy hates hospitals. He s been in so many that some of his Los Angeles Dodger team mates kiddingly call him Doctor Kildare." Hospitalized with a cracked left kneecap in July of 1955 he complained his nerves were being "worn to a frazzle from following the Dodger games on radio and television It got so bad that Campan ella put on his clothes one day and went out to the Polo Grounds where the Dodgers were playing the Giants. He came down to the bench in his civvies and the first one who spied him was his room mate, Don Newcombe. Newcombe Needles "Ain't you got the life?" Newcombe needled. "Loungin' around up there, takin' it easy and drinkin' all the beer you "Lemonade," Cam panella corrected solemnly. "Yeah, I'll bet you're strug elin'." big Newk continued. "I'm fixin' on coming' back 'cause I figure you miss me "Darn rieht I do," New combe grunted. "They gave me a new roomie Sandy Amoros, and he snores some thin' awful. That wouldn't be so bad, 'cept he does it in Spanish." CamDanella never could stand inactivity and it invar iably puzzled him to see any other ball player loaf. "How can they do it? ne a ask. "How can they stand out there and play ball if they don't want to do it? Me, i guess baseball's in my blood. I just gotta' play or else I'm miserable. No sir, I couian i have gone through all those seasons of playing 250 games a year if I didn't enjoy it. Cracker-Barrel Talker Although he never gained Jackie Robinson's fame as a sneaker Campanalla often omapH listeners with his cracker - barrel type philos ophy on all subjects. When there was talk about govern mental anti-trust legislation against baseball not so long ago, the portly Dodger receiv er summed up the situation this way: "They can sit in Washing ton and debate this and that. But I want to tell everybody this. Baseball will do more for the things which this coun try stands for than all their elocution. We aren't worried about who caught or hit the ball his nationality or his politics but only about the guy who wants to win." Word from Community hos pital in Glen Cove, Long Island, where Campanella was admitted Tuesday follow ing his near-fatal automobile accident, is that the irrepres sible Dodger receiver has be gun "telling jokes." It's the best "sign" Campy ever has given. Ray Nagel Utah Tutor Salt Lake City, Utah (IP) Ray Nagel, a student of two of college football's finest coaches, hasn't decided what type of formation he will use when he assumes the reins as head coach at the University of Utah. The 30-year-old UCLA as sistant was named to the top Utah position late Thursday by the University board of regents over two other candi dates, both from the state of Utah Andy Everest and Tally Stevens. Everest is now an assistant at Utah and Ste vens, a graduate of Utah, is an assistant at nearby Brig ham Young university. Nagel will receive a salary of $12,000 per year.' He suc ceeds Jack Curtice, who re cently accepted the head job at Stanford university. Cur tice's resignation is effective March 1. Nagel will come to Utah with a wealth of experience under two of the nations finest head coaches Red Sanders of UCLA and Bud Wilkinson of Oklahoma Sanders teaches the single wing, ana Wilkinson is an ex pert with the split-T. Shooters faced By Heindenreich Harrv Heidenreich with 386 was top shooter this week in Medford Rifle club competi tion at Phoenix. Clinton Charley and Frank Rush recorded 385s and Lew Conger 384. Monte Perrard, visitor from the Ashland club was fifth high with 383. Mr. and Mrs. Archie Hask- ins, Ashiana, were oxner visi tors and John Webber ana John Klassen fired for the first time of the season. Pitt HanHs St. John's Hoop Loss By TIM MORIARTY United Press Sports Writer That hoped for "meetin' of the unbeatens" between West Virginia and St. Johns at New York next week has degener ated into a "weepin" of the beatens." First, West Virginia was knocked off by Duke Monday night and then Pittsburg hung an 86-73 black eye on St. Johns, the last of the major college perfect record teams, Thursday night at Pittsburgh. St. John's had gone unbeat en and untested in its first nine games, toying with such "patsies" as Bridgeport, Hunt er, Washington & Lee, Roa- noke and Rhode Island. So this .clash with Pitt was con sidered the Redmen's initial trial, even though the Pan thers claimed only a 9-5 rec ord. It turned out to be no con test. Led by little Don Hennon's 25-point barrage, Pittsburgh led almost all the way. The Panthers jumped to an early advantage, reached the inter mission with a 42-37 bulge, and fought off the New York ers in the second half. Julius Pegues also had a big hand in the Pitt triumph by contributing 19 points. Alan Seiden poured in 28 points for St. John's, but this was small consolation to Joe Lapchick's men, who now must face Temple Saturday night before tangling with West Virginia. Oscar Robertson hung on to his slim lead over "vaca tioning" Wilt Chamberlain in the national scoring race with a 30-point effort that helped Cincinnati whip Miami of Ohio, 79-59, while Elgin Bay lor of Seattle joined the fight again by pouring in a record 60 points as the Chieftains edged Portland University, 94-91. Robertson now has scored 523 points in 16 games for an average of 32.69 points per contest. Chamberlain had a 32.42 point average when Kansas knocked off for mid term exams almost two weeks ago. The Jayhawks don't swing back into action until next Monday night against Kansas State. Duck Cagers Face Beaver Quint In Fray at Eugene By UNITED PRESS Oregon and Oregon State square off at Eugene tonight in a Pacific Coast Conference basketball game that OSC needs to win to stay in the thick of the title picture. Oregon State defeated Ore gon 60-55 in an earlier, non- conference game. Coach Slats Gill's Beavers are 4-2 in the conference race and another defeat tonight would put them well bhind Warriors Hope To End Celtic String at Home By UNITED PRESS The Philadelphia'Warriors, fighting to regain the third and final playoff spot in the Eastern division of the Na tional Rnclrolifall 3nriitinn i I hope to break Boston's home court winning streak tonight. The Warriors defeated league-leading Boston, 116-96, in the feature game of a Phil adelphia doubleheader Thurs day night to climb within a half-game of the third place Knickerbockers, who were idle. In the opener of the twin- bill at Philadelphia, Detroit held off a late Syracuse rally to whip the Nationals, 87-83. Important Prep Tiffs Scheduled By UNITED PRESS Oregon high school basket ball teams have some im portant games scheduled for this .week end as the top powers begin to eye the class A-l tournament at Eugene starting March 18. South Eugene, which final ly lost a game, has a big week end coming up in the Coos Bay area. The Axemen play Marshfield tonight and North Bend Saturday night. Spring field switches opponents with South Eugene. Pendleton and Hermiston clash Saturday night with the Blue Mountain conference leadership at stake. Pendle ton meets Mac-Hi tonight. In the Valley league, North Salem puts its perfect 4-0 mark up against Corvallis on its home court. Astorians Vie Astoria, the Metro- leader, plays Parkrose tonight and Gresham Saturday night. The top Portland games sent Grant against -Benson and Roosevelt against Madison. In other games, Roseburg, the team which knocked off South Eugene, is at Cottage Grove, Grants Pass and Ash land exchange home games, Medford and Crater meet in a home-and-home pair, Baker is at La Grande for two, Sea side goes to The Dalles Sat urday night, Albany meets Sweet Home Friday and Junc tion City Saturday, Bend and Prineville exchange home games, and Lebanon and Dallas play at South Salem. pace-setters UCLA and Cali fornia who are 5-1. Gill indicated he would go with a starting lineup of Dave Gambee, Ken Nanson, Gary Goble, Jim Anderson and Lee Harman. Steve Belko of Ore gon probably will start Charlie Franklin, Dale Her ron, Hal Duffy, Chuck Rask and Bud Kuykendall. Franklin got 35 points in his last time out against Idaho. Saturday Fray Oregon State moves back to Gill Coliseum Saturday night to play Stanford while Ore gon plays Stanford here Mon day, night. Washington will host Stan ford in the other PCC game slated tonight. UCLA, tied for the PCC lead with California, will play Santa Clara of the West Coast athletic conference in an inter- league tile at Bakersfield. All other PCC squads are idle. The powerful San Francisco Dons, third-ranked nationally, will meet a weak Loyola quin tet while College of Pacific takes on Pepperdine in the only WCAC contests scheduled. Other games on the Coast tonight will include: San Diego State at Fresno State; St. Martin's at Gonzaga; Chap man at Long Beach State; San Francisco State at Humboldt State, and the Cal Aggies at Nevada. Fine abestos fibers have a strength comparable to those of silk. Portland Signs Lloyd Yandell Portland mThe Portland Beavers today announced the signing of Llovd Yanrtpll i . year-old Reedsport infielder. lanaen, an all-around ath lete at Reedsport, plays short stop and will report to the Beavers at their spring train ing camp. He is six feet tall and weighs 170 pounds. 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SP 2-5271 Grelle Accepts Bid To Garden Eugene (IP) Jim Grelle, Oregon miler, has accepted two invitations to run at Madi son Square Garden in New York. He will appear on Feb. 15 at the New York Athletic Club meet and then compete in the annual AAU indoor championships a week later. Bill Bowerman On Rules Group Eugene (IP) Bill Bower man, University of Oregon track coach, said today he has accepted a position as a mem ber of the National Track and Field Rules committee. HOCKEY By UNITED PRESS The Montreal Canadiens have difficulty stifling yawns over the National Hockey i league "race" "but they're pulling out all the stops to set a new single-season team scoring record. Coach Toe Blake's high- scoring sextet romDed over the Detroit Red Wings, 7-0, j Thursday night and now have scored 181 goals in 48 games for an average of 3.77 per game. They need only 55 goals in their remaining 22 games an average of 2.5 per contest to equal the season mark set by the 1950 51 Red Wings. 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