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EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Cavemen, iPosStoons SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS Klamath Fall 11 1 Grants Pasa 6 4 Med ford 4 6 Ashland 4 8 Crater 3 9 Pet .917 .600 .400 .333 .250 Southern Oregon con ference's two frontrunner contingents were more firm ly intrenched in their posi tions after scoring two-garhe basketball sweeps over the week end. And the league leader was certain of one of District 6 A-l's two berths in the state tournament in Eu gene next month. Klamath Falls, which fol lowed a 72 to 42 Friday ver dict over Ashland with a 70 to 37 count on Saturday, is the club assured of the March jaunt to the A-l cage extrava ganza. Grants Pass is still four, frays behind the KF Pelican but is now two tussles ahead of the nearest of three other challengers for the district's other place in the tourney. The Cavemen tumbled Crater 54 to 43 Saturday in un spectacular contention that came on the heels of a 43 to' 41 come-from-behind nod on .Iriday. The Pels of Klamath need only one more victory to .wrap up a second straight conference championship and they are favored to sew up the mantle when they host Grants Pass next week . end on their home floor. At the same time third-running Med f ord and fourth place Ashland .have a home and home series with each ambitious, to gain on the Cavemen. Dominates Action Grants Pass on Saturday took the lead on Crater with about five minutes played in the first quarter, beat off a Comet bid in the second pe riod, dominated most of the last half and had backboard control to squelch their rivals from Central Point. The Cavemen had a 13 to 7 edge at the quarter and made it 15 to 7 as the next stanza opened. But the Comets, with Chuck Turner getting five markers in the rally, cut the gap to a pair of points at 18 to 16. GP widened to five points at 23 to 18 by half time. In the third chukker GP held Crater to one lone field bucket while getting five of its own and at the three-quarter mark the spread was 14 tallies at 39 to 25. Crater out scored the Cavemen 18 to 15 in the final panel with 10 of the markers on free heaves. However, the margin whitt ling did not begin until after Grants Pass had built a com manding bulge of 19 points at 44 to 25. Jim Smith was the heaviest gunner for the Cavemen with seven goals from the field and two from the charity strip for 16 points. Wayne Allen was .the only Comet with- double figures. He had 11. Cold At Start Grants Pass was cold in the opening minutes of the scrape and spurty in its shooting the rest of the evening in getting the win. GP took lead in the fray for keeps after yielding the first point to the Comets, go ing ahead then falling behind again. Allen's gifter for Cra ter opened the scoring. Smith made it 2 to 1 for tne Cave men but Allen's jumper put the Comets on top 3 to 2. Smith, hit from close range for 4 to 3. Loyal Higinbotham knotted the mix at 4-all and Allen hit again for a 6 to 4 Crater margin. Chuck Rembert sank a GP gift toss and the Cavemen as sumed the upper hand for good at 7 to 6 on a closey by Jerry Putnam. Ashland gave Klamath a tough tangle for 13 minutes Saturday but the Pels pulled away after .that. .Score with three minutes left in the first half favored KF 17 to 15. The Pels had quarterly spreads of 16 to 9, 25 to 19 and 50 to 26. It was a rough-and-tumble affair. Grants Pass junior varsity team won its game from Cra ter 45 to 29 with Rex Benner recording 12 points. Crater FG Allen. 5 Kime. f 1 White, c 1 Eennett. g 0 Higinbotham. g 0 Teeter 1 Campbell 1 LaCasse 0 Turner 2 Pfaff 0 Totals ,...11 FT PF TP 13 11 0 0 2 13 3 S 2 5 2 0 2 4 3 6 4 3 6 0 4 0 4 5 8 0 10 21 24 43 FT PF TP 2 3 16 4 3 10 3 0 5 4 4 4 0 2 4 12 3 2 2 4 0 10 0 2 8 0 0 0 16 19 54 Grants Pass Smith, f landquisi. f Putnam, c 7 3 1 0 Hayes, g Sparlin. g 2 hemoert l Thomas 1 Benner 0 Proctor 4 jNIoser ....v 0 Totals 19 Keferees Swanson and Flink. LINE-UPS: 37 Ashland F 12 Maurer F 2 Lombard C 5 Tobiason Klamath Falls 70 Peterson 12 Is mles 9 Moore 12 G 1 Hartwell Robinson 9 G 1Q Peterson Herrera 5 Substitutions: For Ashland. John son 4. Forest 3, Daniels. Hampton, for Klamath Falls. Ankeny 5, Don Delap 9. Dave Delap 2. Bishop 2. Drace 1. Dunson 2. Santo 2. Hail. Preliminary: HamaUi rails JV 67, Ashland JV 48. PeDocans at Front MEDFORPtjWTRIBUNE SDPdDIlTS Chief Rivals Hope To Upset Leaders By FRED DOWN The nation's major basket ball teams are idle tonight but their chief rivals are all in action as the college basket ball season heads into its tour nament-showdown stage. Two of the NCAA tourna ment's 16 berths already are filled by Oklahoma State and Connecticut but three streaking teams still hope to dislodge Kansas State from its No. 1 ranking and both Oscar Robertson and Wilt Chamberlain may yet over take Seattle's Elgin Baylor in the scoring race. Extend Winning Streaks Second-ranked West Vir ginia, third-ranked San Fran cisco and fourth-ranked Cin cinnati extended their late season winning streaks Satur day night and go back into action tonight against rela tively weak opposition. West Virginia sees its seventh straight win and 21st in 22 BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES By United Press (East) NYU 91. Army 88 Pennsylvania 90. Columbia 77 Georgetown 66, Seton Hall 55 Providence 53. St. John's N.Y. 50 Yale 70, Dartmouth 67 West Virginia 74, Penn St. 71 Holy Cross 88, St. Francis 60 St. Bonaventure 80. Villanova 66 i Rutgers 62, Lehigh 60 (South) Alabama St. 89. Alabama A&M 77 Richmond 92, Furman 87 Alabama 73, Tulane 64 Mississippi St. 90, Florida 78 Vanderbilt 83, Tennessee 70 Louisville 72, Murray St. 58 Mississipi 81. Georgia 63 (Midwest) Cincinnati 71, Oklahoma St. 59 Northwestern 76, Minnesota 75 Bradley 77, Drake 62 Missouri 74. Oklahoma 53 Notre Dame 89, No. Carolina 70 St. Louis 89. North Texas St. 60 (Southwest) Texas Christian 82. SMU 71 Baylor 63. Rice 62 Texas Tech 69. Arkansas 48 Abilene Christian 83. Trinity 78 Texas 74. Texas A&M 68 New Mexico A&M 56. Texas W. 54 Tempe St. 71, Hardin-Simmons 63 San Diego Marines 83, Arizona 74 Wyoming 61, New Mexico 52 Oregon 87. Washington 83 over time San Francisco 49, Loyola (Calif.) 42 Portland Frosh 62. Lonsview Loggers 51 Pacific 67. Whitman 57 Portland 89. Regis 71 Idaho 73. UCLA 67 Linfield 86. Willamette 81 Lewis-Clark 70. College of Idaho 62 Portland State 47. Southern Ore gon 44 treorge rox sz, need 71 Eastern Oregon 72. Oreeon Col lege 64 uregon frosh 68. centralis JC 59 Idaho State 76. Colo. Western 55 Pacific Lutheran 97, Whitworth 75 San Diego State 70, Pepperdine 59 Eastern Wash. 80, Western Wash. 66 Cal Poly 60. Cal Tech 53 Pasadena 83, Occidental 64 Redlands 60, Pomona-Claremont 56 Halas Retakes Coaching Chore Chicago HP) George Halas, the "papa bear" of pro fessional football, will be back on the sidelines to coach his Chicago Bears next fall. The 63-year-old stalwart of the National Football league said he has decided to "step back into the picture" as an active coach instead of devot ing his time to front office duties which have occupied him for the past two years. Halas has been plainly un happy with the Bears' recent so-so showing. But he had re fused to take the reins from Paddy Driscoll, another Bear veteran, who was appointed coach when the boss retired. Driscoll will become ad ministrative vice president. In this capacity he will work with the coaches. Halas, a founder of the Na tional Football league, or ganized the Bears in 1920 when they were known as the Decatur, 111., Staleys. Bowling ROGUE ROLLERS Standings: O.K. Market W -17 15 .15 .13 .10 .10 .10 L 7 9 9 11 14 14 14 15 16 Timber Room Trowbridge & Flynn Henry's Ralph's Chuck's Economy Kachina Room 9 8 21 Club Linineer's 2 22 Hideaway and Skeeters (Postponed) Results: Ralph's 2 (G. Riggs 480) 1972; Kachina Em. 2 (J. Lovett 438) 1971. Henry's 2 (T. Tolles, V. Knox 429) 2029; Economy 2 (D. Veal 468) 2072. Trowbrideg & Flynn 1 (M. Mc Neel 440) 1913: Timber Room 3 (M. Legg 406) 1921. Chuck's Mkt. 1 (D. Hopkins 466) 2060; O.K. Mkt. 3 (V. Findley 432) 2128. 21 Club 3 (E. Baker 546) 2121; Lininger s 1 (M. Clark 475) 2082. E. Baker, high game, 218. Split conversions, E. Baker. 5-7, M. McNeel, 5-7, J. Lovett. 6-7-10, G. Russell, 5-7. Monday, February 17, 1958 Fortify off Loop starts against Detroit, San Francisco hopes to make it 16 in a row and 20 out of 21 egainst Fresno State and Cincinnati tries for its 11th straight and 11th in 21 against Drake. Baylor, who doesn't play until Thursday, carries a 34.32-point-per-game average into the final weeks of the campaign. Robertson, who canned 30 points in Satur day night's 71-59 victory over sixth-ranked Oklahoma State, is second with 33.17. Cham berlain, who scored 34 in Kansas' 90-51 rout of Iowa State Saturday and plays against Missouri tonight, has a 33.17 average. Meet Tight Defenses Kansas State, West Vir ginia and San Francisco en countered tight zone defenses and had to go all out to win Saturday while Cincinnati re versed an early-season loss to Oklahoma State with one of its most impressive victories of the season. Kansas - State beat Colorado, 68-62, after leading by two points at the half, West Virginia topped Penn State, 74-71, after trail ing by nine at the half and San Francisco beat Loyola of California by only 49-42. Seventh-ranked Temple de feated George Washington, 62 55, but eighth-ranked Mary land bowed to ninth-ranked North Carolina State, 69-64, in three overtimes, Notre Dame whipped North Caro lina, 89-70, and Loyola of Chi cago upset Kentucky, 57-56. North Carolina and Kentucky were tied for 10th ranking. Nats Cut Down Pro Hoop Gap By UNITED PRESS Everyone has conceded the Boston Celtics will win the Eastern division title of the National Basketball associa tion except the stubborn Syra cuse Nationals. The second-place Nationals still can overtake the Celtics although it would take a near- perfect brand of basketball. The Nats whittled the Celtics' lead to 6V2 games by whip ping the Cincinnati Royals, 113-105, Sunday. The Cincinnati team arrived one hour later for the game in Syracuse, N.Y., due to a heavy snowstorm. That same storm caused postponement of the game between the Cel tics and New York Knicker bockers in Boston. No new date was announced. Walt Dukes tipped in a shot as the final horn sound ed to give the Detroit Pistons a 100-98 win over the St. Louis Hawks, Western Divi sion leaders. Veteran Vern Mikkelsen registered 31 points to lead Minneapolis to a 106-99 vic tory over Philadelphia. Swimmer Sets Three Records San Jose, Calif. OP) Chris Von Saltza, a jet-propelled mermaid from San Jose, had three more records to her credit today after a week end of assault on Am erican women's swimming The 14-year-old Miss Von Saltza, who bettered three American women's free-style swimming marks Saturday, smashed Ann Curtis Cuneo's 10-year-old American record for the 200 yard free style Sunday while breaking her own mark for 250 yards. She also toppled her own U. S. mark of 2:08 for the 200 yards with a time of 2:T)5.6. She swam the 220 in 2:19.6, whittling 3.7 seconds off the standard of 2:23.3 which Mrs. Cuneo set in 1948. Her clocking for the full . 250 yards was 2:41, or 1.3 seconds better than the American record of 2:42.3 which she es tablished at Beverly Hills, Calif., last April. All three marks fell as Miss Von Saltza was leading the Santa Clara Swim club to an 81-22 victory over the Los Angeles Athletic club. SUGAR RAY SNOWBOUND Greenwood Lake, N.Y. API Sugar Ray Robinson, training for his March 25 middleweight title bout with champion Carmen Basilio, had to clear some five feet of snow from a 30-foot path Sunday before boxing four rounds. Robinson is scheduled to rest today. Title Bout Television Confirmed Telecast of the Carmen Basilio-Sugar Ray Robimon middleweight title boxing bout definitely will be car ried at the Craterian thea ter on March 25, Bob Cor bin, manager here for Ore gon - California Theaters, announced this morning. He said that confirmation was received today from Teleprompter. Inc. Ticket plans will be an nounced soon. There will be no home television of the bout. Video of the fight was shown to a packed house at the Craterian last Septem ber when Basilio look the title from Robinson. Johnston Nabs Texas Golf Title San Antonio, Tex. (IP) Roving golfer Bill Johnston of Provo, Utah, packed his lucky clubs and $2,000 Texas Open prize money today and headed for his next tourna ment at Houston. The slender Johnston calm ly outplayed tournament-leading. Dave Marr Sunday in the home stretch of the $15,000 Open to register his first PGA tournament victory. His 72-hole total of 274, which was 10-under-par, swamped Marr, who had led the first three days of the Texas Open and carried a one stroke advantage into the fi nal round Sunday. Aimed At Pars Johnston, an infrequent visitor to tournament golf, aimed at pars, stayed out of trouble and took birdies as he could in a 3-under-par 68 round. Bob Rosburg caused John ston a lot of concern with the day's best score, a 6-under- par 65. But Johnston refused to crack. He had birdied the first hole to go into a tie for the lead, and then scored birdies at No. 14 and 17 to win the 31st annual Open by 3 strokes over Rosburg. Meanwhile, Marr's putter had lost its magic touch and he scrambled in with- a 2- over-par 73. This gave him a 278 total, tied for third be hind Rosburg. Tied with Marr t were Bo Wininger, Jimmy Demaret, and Billy Maxwell, all with a 34-34 68 for Sunday. Werner, Snite Slat Winner By UNITED PRESS Bud Wprner anrl TSpfcv Snite. two American skiers who suffered disappointments in the world Alpine ski cham pionships, were finding great er succes stoday in Switzer land. Werner, a 22-year-old sold ier from Steamboat Snrines. Colo., won the international lnierno Race," a four-mile marathon downhill event, at Muerren on Sunday. Miss Snite, who comes from Nor wich, Vt., won the women's slalom in the Mont Lachaux trophy meet at Crans Sur Isierre. HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE By UNITED PRESS Sharp-shooting Eddie Llt zenberger is the big reason the battling Chicago Black Hawks still feel they have a long-shot chance to land a berth in the Stanley Cup play offs. - Litzenberger, the Black Hawks' leading scorer, drilled home his 20th and 21st goals of the season Sunday night to help topple league - leading Montreal. A fine goal-tending job by Terry Sawchuk enabled the Detroit Red Wings to beat the Toronto Maple Leafs, 4-1, and take over sole possession of third place. Guy Gendron's third period goal gave the New York Rang ers a 3-2 triumph over the Boston Bruins. The victory enabled the Rangers to hold on to second place by one point, over Detroit. AMERICAN LEAGUE The usually offensive-minded Providence Reds have a firm grip on third place in the American Hockey league, after racking up two shutout victories during the week end. Providence drubbed the Hershey Bears, 6-0, Sunday night, by scoring twice in each period; The Reds, who blanked Ro chester, 3-0, Saturday night, now have a comfortable seven point hold on the third spot with five weeks remaining in the AHL season. In other action Sunday night, Ab McDonald's two goals paced the Rochester Americans to a 3-1 triumph over Springfield, and the Buf falo Bisons came from behind to nip the Cleveland Browns, j 3.2. . .... : ' RETURNING TO PRO FOOTBALL, Lawrence T. Shaw signs contract to coach Philadelphia Eagles. He is trying on Eagles' jersey for size, while chatting with General Manager Vince McNally. Shaw coached San Francisco 49ers for nine seasons. (International Soundphoto) EDucks Nip Huskies Dn Overtime; Bears On Top in PC Loop Seattle HP) Washing ton slipped into seventh place in Pacific Coast conference standings Saturday night when Flashy Oregon guard Charlie Franklin paced the Ducks to an 87-83 overtime victory over the Huskies. Franklin poured in 36 points and was responsible for the tieing score in the fading seconds of the game that sent the contest into an overtime. 20 Seconds Left Washington, .was leading 79-77 with 20 seconds to go when Franklin hit his tying basket. Oregon's Bud Kuy kendall opened the overtime period with a quick two-pointer and Washington never was able to catch up. . Halftime score was 38-36 for Oregon by virtue of a long set shot by Kuykendall just as the buzzers sounded. Doug Smart, Washington's legendary point-getter, was given a tough defensive ride but still managed to account for 27 points. By SCOTT BAILLIE United Press Sports Writer California moves into Stan ford's dinky basketball gym nasium tonight for a tilt that could increase the Bears' lead over the Pacific Coast conference basketball field to a full game or drop them back into second place. ' Coach Pete Newell's vastly improved club walloped the Southern California team 80 62, on Saturday night to inch a .half-game ahead of UCLA which took a 73-67 beating from host Idaho. The loss left the Bruins in a second place tie with Oregon State, which was idle. UCLA also has a game to night at Washington which will close out a four-game road trip. Most eyes, however, will be on the Stanford-Cal game. The Indians, who are next to last in the PCC race, have a strange way of pulling off upsets. They handed mighty University of San Francisco its only defeat of the year Rental Equipment Air Compressors Water Pumps Cement Finishing Machines Electric and Gas Cement Vibrators Roller Water Wagon WITH OPERATOR 2 Graders Shovel 4 Cranes Back Hoe Drag Lines Tractors with Bulldozers, Ripper or Carryall 2 Turnapulls Gunnite Machine with Mobile 600 cu. ft. Compressor Delivered SP-2-5271 last December, shocked Ore gon State after that, then bounced Southern California, 57-44, on Friday. Dons Outlast Loyola The Dons had a rough time Saturday with Loyola, win ning out 49-42 against a tough zone defense. Cal's victory over the Tro jans atoned for a 10-point loss to them in Los Angeles. It was a rough game which saw Cal's Joe Kapp, who is bet ter known as a quarterback, get the heave-ho along with Larry Houser of Southern California. Jim White of Troy was high for the game with 20. In the meantime, UCLA got the "Napoleon" treatment while invading Moscow, Ida., and retreated with its' seventh defeat of the season and third in conference play. Gary Simmons scored 37 points for the Vandals while sparking a dangerous team made more so by the whoops of 5,000 partisans. The win pulled Idaho into a third place tie with the Tro jans who took a one-two belt during the week end. BOX: Oregon FG FT PF TP Franklin 14 8-11 2 36 Herron 0 1-13 1 Duffy 7 0-0 2 14 Rask 4 4-5 4 12 Kuykendall .... 8 0-0 1 16 Robertson . 4 0-118 Totals ..... 37 13-18 1J 87 Washington FG FT Irvine 4 3-4 Murphy 4 1-2 Smart 13 1-2 Stady 4 2-2 Crews 6 -5-5 Grant ... 3 1-2 Coaston 1 0-0 PF TP 2 11 9 27 10 17 7 2 Totals 35 13-17 13 83 Halftime score: Oregon 38, Wash ington 36. U.S. BOOTERS CRUSHED Lisbon HP) Portugal scored a 13-1 triumph over the United States Sunday in a European military soccer match. Portugal completely outclassed the Americans. Paris (IP) Kurt Nielsen of Denmark won the men's sin gles title in the French inter national indoor champion ships Sunday when he scored a 7-5, 6-3, 6-2 victory over Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt. CONCRETE C? 48 E.McANDREWS RD. Pilots Tip Regis 76-71 Portland (IP) Portland University defeated Regis College of Denver, 76-71, in Portland Sunday to sweep a two-game series with the visitors. The Pilots dumped the Rangers Saturday night 89-71. .f Dennis Boone of Regis took game honors with 34 points. Ray Scott had 29 points and was high for Portland. Regis held a halftime lead of 31-29. Pearson Gains Links Mantle Miami, Fla. API Washing ton was assured today of hav ing at least one baseball cham pion in 1958. ( He is rookie outfielder Al- bie Pearson, who Sunday won the national baseball players golf tournament with a 1-up victory on the 19th hole over Johnny Gray, lanky pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies. The five-foot-six inch Pear son also had to beat three time winner and defending champion Alvin Dark of the St. Louis Cardinals in the morning semi-finals, 4 and 2 for a shot at the title in his first appearance. Gray, mean while, upset Chicago White Sox manager Al Lopez 3 and 2 to gain the finals. TOP ACTS O BEST COMEDY O GOOD MUSIC "PATE" Jj Show Starts 7:30 p.m. Wed. If H 8:15 p.m - Thursday, 11 J Friday and Saturday f II Feb. 26-27-28 March 1 MEDFORD SENIOR HIGH 'X. - MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Boxers Rated Even for Bout New York (IP) Unbeaten Gene (Ace) Armstrong will risk a 13-straight victory string tonight against his for mer Army boxing coach, mid dleweight contender Charley Joseph of New Orleans, in their TV fight at St. Nicholas Arena. Unranked Arm strong of Elizabeth, N.J., is confident that a victory over ninth-rated Joseph would boost him into the top 10 among 160 pound contenders. Betting is at "even money." Buckley Cops Combined Toga Government Camp (IP) Mike Buckley, Seattle and Jean Saubert, Lakeview, Ore., won combined honors in an nual Silver Skis competition at Mt. Hood Saturday and Sunday. Buckley raced down the course Sunday with a win ning time of 1:07.6. He placed fourth in the slalom Saturday. Miss Saubert, national jun ior girls champion in 1957, triumphed in Sunday's down hill feature and took the sla lom championship Saturday. Her time in the downhill was 1:14.2. SQ'G AC GPH1PQ QULQ SAQPIXCMPA'G RCDDL I GCY NCI GSYQV HPAQG LIP L RIPLBV JL1WLSA1 ft Main Grelle Third In Baxter New York (IP) Jim Grelle of the University of Oregon finished in third place here Saturday night in the Baxter Mile in Madison Square Gar den. The Oregon runner finished four yards behind Istvan Roz savolgyi of Hungary who in turn was four yards behind the winner, Ron Delany. Grelle took the lead for a few yards and then fell be hind. Delany's winning time was a slow 4:10. . Portlander Has National Mark Portland (IP) Olympic star Nancy Ramey of Seattle set a national record for the 200-yard butterfly Saturday night at the Multnomah club pool by covering the distance in 2:25.7 in an invitational age group swim meet. Miss Ramey clipped six tenths off the former Ameri can mark set by Shelly Mann of Washington, D.C. PLAZA HOTEL PORTLAND, OREGON Single with Bath $4.00 New Lew Family Rate Plan Shoppingly Located Broadway at Waihingten C. V. Cooley, Mgr. & Central 1UM MOWS
