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t SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Wtdntsday. February 19, 1958 Red Raiders Tussle Owl Quintet Tonight Ashland Eyes of Oregon collegiate basketball follow ers will be on Ashland to night. Oregon Technical Institute and Southern Oregon college tangle in their fourth and final Oregon Collegiate con ference fray of the season Game time is 8 p.m. Tarheels Take Over 2nd in ACC By TIM MORIARTY United Press Sports Writer Who said the North Caro lina Tar Heels "is dead"? Led by Pete Brennan, transplanted Brooklynite, the defending national champions vaulted into second place in the tough Atlantic Coast con ference Tuesday night by whipping North Carolina State, 81-69, in their season rubber match before 12,000 fans at Raleigh. The victory carried North Carolina to within a half game of pace-setting Duke in the ACC. State tumbled from second to fourth place while Maryland took over third by downing Virginia, 69-55. The Tar Heels still have tough row to hoe if they hope to defend their NCAA title They have conference games remaining with Maryland and Duke, then must win the ACC post - season tournament to nnalifv for next month's NCAA shindig. Aooear Ready However, based on their latest victory over NC State, Frank McGuire's young men now anDear ready and able for "the big push." Maryland, obviously look lng ahead to its weekend dates with Duke and North Carolina, sot off to' a slow start against Virginia. The Terrapins spotted Virginia the first 10 points but never look ed back after gaining a 17-16 edge at the nine-minute mark. Tennessee climbed back into a tie for second place in the Southeastern conference by beating Georgia Tech, 84-65. Red Sox Sign Two Pitchers By UNITED PRESS The Boston Red Sox signed two pitchers today, both up from the minors, and pitcher Al Worthington renewed his bond with the San Francisco Giants for 1958. Signing contracts with the Red Sox were Murray Wall and Jack Spring. Wall was purchased from Dallas of the Texas League late last season, and compiled a 3-0 record for Boston in re lief roles. Spring had an 11-9 for San Francisco of the Pa cific Coast League. Worthington planned t o leave with his family today for the San Francisco Giants' training camp at Phoenix, Ariz. "I didn't get what I orig inally asked but I wound up with a good contract," Worth ington said. "I'm glad I'm in the fold and I'm anxious to get going." Worthington posted an 8-11 record with the Giants last season. The Red Raiders of South em Oregon must win to keep in the running for a co-cham pionship in the loop. OTI will sew u lone claim to the diadem by taking the contest. Raider hopes for a lone mantle were belted last week end when they lost two tangles to Portland State. Four Overtimes Memory of the last ruckus here between the Owls and Raiders should draw a sizable crowd to the SOC pavilion this evening. That game end ed with the Raiders on top at the end ,of four overtime periods. Oregon Tech has won the two scraps with the SOC crew on the Klamath Falls court. One score was lopsided and the other close. The loss suffered here by OTI is its only one so far in the circuit. Southern Oregon concludes league play with tonight's battle. OTI will have Oregon college yet to face and is heavy favorite over the Wolves who have taken only one conference victory. Dave D'Olivo, Norm Oliva, Bill Hollingsworth, Ron Maur er and Jim McAbee are pos sible starters for Coach Ted Schopt's Southern Oregon club. For OTI Mentor Wally Palmberg may call on John Rhyne, John McCutcheon Truman Williams, Jerry Fas teen and Charley Bogle Bill Russell Sets Mark In Rebounds BY UNITED PRESS Glue-fingered Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics is the new rebound champion of the National Basketball associa tion. The six-foot, 10-inch Celtic center shattered the single season record for most re bounds while helping Boston to a 113-111 victory over the New York. Knickerbockers Tuesday night. Russell grabbed 25 re bounds against the Knicks to increase his total to 1,280 in 58 games this season. Maurice Stokes of . Cincinnati set the old record with Rochester when he totaled 1,256 in 70 games last season. A 48-point performance by George Yardley helped the Detroit Pistons snap a three game home losing streak with a 1Z0-S8 triumph over tne Syracuse Nationals. Although he sat out practi cally the entire last quarter, Bob Pettit netted 33 points in leading the St. Louis Hawks to a 118-98 win over the Min neapolis Lakers. MedfordMIubune Sreelhead Found Near 16th Hole Portland (IPI A biologist and a hatchery 'superintend ent startled golfers Tuesday by netting 40 migrant steel- head in Crystal Springs creeK near the 16th hole of the East- moreland golf course. The fish represented a suc cessful experiment by the state came commission that began two years ago when 10,000 winter steelhead were released in Crystal Springs creek to see if they would return. Kenneth Cochrun; local game fish biologist and Percy Southwick, superintendent of the Roaring Springs hatchery near Scio, netted the 5 to 9 pound fish a nd took their eggs. The fish were later re leased and put in the lake above a small dam that forms Crystal Springs lake. Ernie Gipson Winner by KO Portland (IP) Ernie Gip son, Seattle, knocked out Har vey Burke, Portland in the seventh round of a scheduled eight round televised fight here Tuesday night. Four of the five prelims ended in knockouts. Bull Hal sey, Portland, won a decision over Herb Stepper, Salem, in 4. Joe Robinson of Portland figured in two knockouts. He took a first-round TKO over Dave Minner of Portland but lost a second round KO to Hugh Williams, Portland. Don Dee, Portland, scored a second round TKO over Freddie Mack, Estacada, and Billy Cox, Vancouver, Wash took a third round TKO from Ralph Colvins, Portland. Tilts Won By Hedrick Hedrick Junior high ninth grade hoopmen, playing well as a squad, turned back an Eagle Point team 56 to 34 yesterday. Hornet eighth grade won 34 to 30 in overtime and the seventh also took its game 44 to 14 to complete a sweep. It was the first victory of the season for the Hedrick eighth. Reports that the Hornet crew had beaten Ash land last week was erroneous and inadvertent. The ninth grade club from Medford had period margins of 17 to 4, 32 to 5 and 48 to 16. Tex Perdue of EP was high scorer with 14. Overtime Needed Eighth graders had to go into overtime. Deadlock was 28 each in the regular play ing session. Bob JNeiison got two field goals and Ronnie Vowell two free heaves in the extra for Hedrick. Geren had 14. markers for Eagle Point and Higday 10. Charles Allen put in nine for the Hornets. Eagle Point had 5 to 3 first quarter advantage. Hedrick . was on top at the half 13 to 10 and EP took the lead 21 to 20 in the third panel. Dan Miles with 17 and uidd Mitchell with 10 headed the Hedrick seventh which was in front 18 to 9 at the half. Charters had eight for Eagle Point. McLoughlin Cage Victor McLoughm Junior high ninth grade pulled away early m uie nassle yesterday to down its Ashland basketball foe 42 to 29. Quarters scores all favored the Bulldogs and were 13 to 3, to 12 and 40 to 22. Bob Quinney had 17 points for Mo JLoughlm and Harris 11 for the Grizzlies. The Bulldogs in shaping the win worked the ball around the Ashland zone ef fectively, rebounded well and played good defense. St. Mary's Crusaders Nip Butte Falls Quint 48-46 LINE-UPS: 42 McLoughlin F 17 Quinney F 4 Hood C. 8 Baird G 5 Ragsdale l a jberry Ashland 29 ... Voris - Lewis Crapser 6 Cameron 1 .. Harris 11 auDstituuons Fbr McLouehlin Humphrey, Brown, Adams 2, Ham mack, Minnick, McKinley 2, Seav- er, jvi. jonnson. JBalch: for AshlanH Diair, uosier, farmer, Black. 4 Hedges 3, Johnston, DeBoer 4. SULLIVAN AWARD Abilene Christian sprinter Bobby Morrow flashes a broad smile at the coveted Sullivan Award trophy presented to him at sports award dinner in Dallas, Tex. LOWELL DEAN HEADS MEDFORD WITH 212 LINE-UPS: 56 Hedrick F 4 Bray F 6 Sieg - C 7 Gastineau G 6 Monroe G 9 Miller Eagle Point Pfeifer Palm Ayres West Perdue 34 In some large U.S. forest industry plants, 75 per cent of the entire tree is used. fmmK I BIGGER, BETTER THAN EVER! I Barbara Porter Defends Title Ormond Beach, Fla. (IP) Defending champion Barbara Romack Porter of Sacramen to, who passed up the quali fying round Tuesday, teed off against Dale Fleming of Tulsa, Okla., in a featured first round match today in the South Atlantic Women's Amateur golf tournament. Mrs. Phillip Cudone, West Caldwell, N.J., fired an even par 74 over a wind-swept course Tuesday to win medal- j ist honors. Hef opponent to day was Norma Shook of Morganton, N.C., who carded an 86. Miss Fleming qualified with an 83. HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM FEB. 26-27-28, MARCH 1 Benefit Kiwanis Dental Clinic COMEDY! MUSIC! GET YOUR TICKETS NOW From Any Member of Medford Kiwanis Club 5 3 14 Substitutions For Hedrick Lorish 4, House 2, Griffin 1. Ford 3, Dowson 6, Watkins 2, Mclntyre, Boyce, Cummins. Dunlevy, Bur num 3. Brown 3; for Eagle Point Beaver 2, Evers, Cox, Nease 1, Peile 6. To say the least, the Med ford high school basketball crew is somewhat crippled as it faces its week end basket ball series with the Ashland Grizzlies. Lowell Dean, the club's leading scorer and rebounder through the season, is side lined because of a foot infec tion. Bilbee " Lane, second high in total points is no long' er on the squad. Tom Hamlin, No. 3 in scor ing, missed drill yesterday because of illness. Don Bowl ing, who has done some fine work as a reserve but has been favoring one foot be cause of a pre-season fracture has a slight ankle sprain of the other limb. Medford is host to Ashland on iriday and goes to the Lithia city on Saturday. Right now, concerning possible starters for the series, Coach Frank Roelandt says, "Your guess is as good as mine." The mentor has brought Calvin Dean, twin brother of Lowell, and Jerry Shults up from the jayvees this week to drill with the varsity. They will suit down with the var sity for the Grizzly games but whether they'll see action isn't certain. Back at Regular Pace Tornado players drew a bye last week end in the Southern Oregon circuit. They worked out only two days last week. A light prac tice was held Wednesday and scrimmage was conducted on Thursday. Workouts resumed at the regular pace on Mon day. Lowell Dean heads the club with 212 points in 16 games and has 137 rebounds to his credit. He has the best field goaling average among those who have been playing reg ularly with .468. Dean has appeared most frequently at the free throw line where he has a .652 mark. Source ot his current ailment is a blis ter on the bottom of his foot. Bowling has hit 15 of 19 free tries for .784 and tops in the accuracy department. As a team Medford has shot a mark of .376 from the field and .535 from the foul stripe. It has totaled 790 points for an average of 49.4 per game. Rivals have a veraged 53.5 with an 856 tabulation. Tor nado season standing is 6-10. Campanella Report Due Glen Cove, N. Y. (IP) The baseball world was to receive the first "official" word on Roy Campanella's future to dayand the news doesn't promise to "be good. Dr. Robert W. Sengstaken, the neurosurgeon who oper ated on the Los Angeles Dodgers' catcher after he suf fered a broken neck in an auto accident Jan. 28, said he would issue "a complete re port tnat probably will in dicate whether Campanella ever will walk again. ur. bengstaken gave no hint of the details in the re port but he previously had said Campanella's chances of walking again were "slim" and he has not contradicted that statement since. Complete' Appraisal "The bulletin will be a complete appraisal -of Roy's condition and progress since he entered the hospital three weeks ago," the surgeon said. Campanella has had no vis itors other than members of his immediate family from the time he entered Commu nity Hospital here shortly aft er he suffered his injury. , "He talks about his team mates, fellows like Don New- combe, Gil Hodges and the others quite often," Dr. Sengs- taken said, "but he doesn't care to have any visitors out side of his family, right now." St. marys 2 col hed srjorta Gary Miksche, on an assist by Dick Hayes, broke a dead lock in the closing moments to give St. Mary's of Med ford a 48 to 46 nod over Butte Falls high last night in a Jackson County B league bas ketball ruckus here. Score was knotted on sev eral occasions during the eve ning but the Crusaders didn't get the lead until Miksche's bucket which proved the mar gin of victory. The win brought St. Mary's MEDFORD HIGH BASKETBALL STATISTICS: fgt pet. ft ftt pet. tp pf reb. Frank Albert Jerry Anderson Don Bowling - Larry Brown Booth Deakins .. 1 .33 Lowell Dean 75 John Frohnmayer .. 3 Tom Hamlin 45 John Harvey 5 Bilbee Lane 79 Don Peek 18 Ron Peery 6 Bob Plankenhorn 2 Hasmussen 2 TOTALS 4 .250 2 7 .286 4 8 8 76 .434 24 50 .480 90 44 80 18 .500 15 19 .784 33 3 15 24 .292 10 15 .750 24 21 37 1 1.000 0 0 .000 2 1 1 169 .468 62 95 .652 212 60 137 10 .300 4 6 .667 10 4 10 141 .319 25 43 .582 115 40 122 11 :454 3 4 .750 13 6 6 199 .396 19 49 .385 177 34 59 61 .295 27 42 .643 63 47 26 18 .333 20 29 .689 32 11 10 8 .250 0 2 .000 4 1 2 4 .500 7 9 .777 11 8 10 286 735 .376 198 370 .535 790 288 533 Simmons Leading Smart By 20 In League Scoring Pedro Gonzales Phil Moyer Foe Portland (IP) Young Phil Moyer, hoping for a shot at ex-middleweight king Gene Fullmer, meets Pedro Gon zales of New York here Thursday night in a sched uled 10-rounder. A tentative bout between Moyer,and Fullmer has been lined up here for April 3 should Moyer defeat Gonzales and should. Fullmer win his match with Milo Savage at Salt Lake City March 3. GOES FOUR ROUNDS Greenwood Lake, N.Y. (IP) Ray Robinson, forced indoors because of extremely cold weather, boxed four rounds Tuesday in preparation for his March attempt to regain the middleweight champion ship from Carmen Basilio. SECOND DEFEAT IN ROW Coimbra, Portugal (IP) The United States military soccer team dropped a 6-1 de cision to a comparable team from Portugal Tuesday. The host team led, 3-0, at half- time. Portugal beat the same U.S. team, 13-1, Sunday at Lisbon. Los Angeles (IP) Idaho's Gary Simmons and Washing ton's Doug Smart were sep arated by 20 points today in the race for Pacific Coast con ference high scoring honors. With five games left to play and 11 games past, Simmons had scored 250 points, an av erage of 22.7, while Smart had totaled 230 points for a 20.9 average. Other statistical leaders were Stanford's Dick, Haga in field goals and teammate Gerry Tuesen in free throws. Smart was tops in rebounding. Simmons and Smart were trailed in total scoring by Oregon's Charlie Franklin, 20.1 average; and Oregon State's Dave Gambee 17.3. Haga Heads FG List Haga led the field goal list with a record -of 41 hits in 79 field goal attempts for an av erage of 51.9 per cent. Thue sen was second with 48.2 per cent, followed by Idaho's Hal Damiano, 46.7; UCLA's Con rad Burke, 45.8, and SC's Jim White, 44.2. Don Mcintosh, California, trailed Thuesen in free throws. Thuesen had made 28 of 31 for a percentage of 90.3. Mc- Grant Clinches Tourney Berth Portland (IP) Grant, un beaten this season, sewed up a spot in next month's state A-l prep basketball tourna ment Tuesday by walloping Cleveland 64-49 for its 18th straight victory. Intosh had made 36 of 42 tries for 85.8 per cent. Gambee was next with 83.7. Smart had a 16.6 'per cent record in recovery of re bounds. Gambee was second with 15.6, followed by Hal Duffy, Oregon, 14.3. In team statistics, Cali fornia was tops on defense and . Idaho on offense. The Bears had allowed foes but 50.7 points a game while Ida ho had averaged 69.3 points a game in 11 contests. Dodgers Sure Of Fan Average Of 7,250 Daily Los Angeles (IP) Count ing their customers before they see a big league game, the Los Angeles Dodgers al ready have been assured of a daily average attendance of 7,250 fans for the coming sea son. Business manager Harold Parrott said Tuesday the Dod gers had sold 6,500 box seats and 750 reserved seats on a seasonal basis, but that the figure may go as high as 30.000 by early April. Figuring at $250 for a box for the season and $180 for a reserved seat, the ticket sale so far totals $1,760,000 Parrott said the response has been more than twice as heavy as any pre-season sale in history at Ebbets field. In other business Tuesday the Dodgers signed a contract with United Air Lines for 14 charter flights, covering 16, 710 air miles from San Fran cisco to Philadelphia during the coming season. - Kid Gavilan Faces Tiger Miami Beach (IP) Middle weights Kid Gavilan of Cuba and Ralph (Tiger) Jones of Yonkers, N.Y., clash tonight in the center of a local hotel's plush nightclub ballroom for a 10-round nationally tele vised bout. A sellout crowd of 1,250 is expected for the fight at the Carillon Hotel's club Siam, believed to be the first time a video fight has originated from a hotel. The bout was moved to the swank oceanfront establish ment after promoters discov ered the Miami Beach audito rium was already booked for the night. Gavilan, former welter weight titleholder, is ranked an 8-5 favorite to whip the 29-year-old Jones, generally considered a spoiler in the tough middleweight division. In a previous meeting, Gavi lan scored a 10 round deci sion over Jones in 1953. States Realize Record Revenue From Betting ' Lexington, Ky. OP) Rac ing revenue to th 24 states with legalized betting on horses reached a record total of $216,718,962 in 1957, the National Association of State Commissioners reported today. lnorougnorea racing con tributed the largest portion to the state treasuries and New York collected the largest seg ment. The "flat runners" fun- nised $168,002,815 in revenue while harness horses raised $44,995,440. County fairs, at which both thoroughbreds and standard breds race, and quarter horse meetings con tributed $2,720,707. New York collected a total of $77,670,007, almost three times as much as runner-up California which got $25,- 974,808. New Jersey was third in revenue with $24,484,666. to an even record of seven victories and seven losses in the loop. It was the seventh setback for Butte Falls which has won eight. Butte Falls headed 14 to 7 at the quarter, just 24 to 23 at the half and 40 to 36 after the third quarter. Two Scors 21 In pulling the tussle out of the fire, the Crusaders util ized the under the hoop threat of Miksche and Jerry Flakus. In rallying they were able to get the ball in more to Miksche was had 21 points for the night. Flakus got 12 but was handicapped by picking up four fouls by the second quar ter. Jim Irwin also had 21 for Butte Falls and Mike Con ley 13. St. Mary's won the junior varsity fray 37 to 16 with Ron Daley, Al Gates and Rog er Hout each getting 10 points and Jerry Ferguson scoring seven for the Loggers. LINE-UPS: 4 St. Mary'i F 6 King F 21 Miksche C 12 Flakus O 2 Evans G Butte Falls Conley Irwin Abbott Cavin Smith Colver Substitutions For St Marv's Hayes 5, Hout 2; for Butte Falls, Ferguson 2. Club Champions Continue Play St. Augustine, Fla. (IP) Top amateur players, led by defending champion George Toms of Durham, N.C., today moved out in near-freezing weather for the scond 18-hole qualifying round in the Na tional Golf Club Champion tournament. Toms, only one of the 53 entries who mastered the tricky 6,545 yard course Tues day, fired a two-under par 69 to forge ahead. Paul Kelly, metropolitan New York champion, shot an even par 71, while Pete Ar end, Deal, N.J., and Wally Goodwin, Sheridan, Wyo., each carded 73's. Linfield Defeats LC Portland HP) Linfield came to the big city Tuesday night and went home with a big victory in its drive for the Northwest conference bas ketball championship. . The Wildcats defeated Lew is and Clark 81-76 as Jack Riley and Bill Machamer poured in 25 points apiece. The victory gives Linfield an 8-2 conference mark to 8-3 for Willamette. It dropped Lewis and Clark to 6-6. Ron Langos, Lewis and Clark freshman, led all the scoring with 26 points. Riley got 20 of his 25 points in the second half. Machamer, in ad dition to his scoring, plucked 15 rebounds. Linfield hit .444 from the field while Lewis and Clark had .368. Messinger Rolls 300 Portland (IP) Bill Mps- singer of Portland rolled a perfect 300 game here Tues day night after two earlier games of 158 and 185. SEE THE IP Only 7 Moving Parh in the Engine, Up to 35 Miles Per Gallon Front Wheel Drive COMPARE jc Roominess k Economy ( Initial Cost Looks Keith Schulz Garage 116.N. Front - Ph. SP 2-4756 HUNGARIAN MILER RUNS New York HP) Istvan Roz savolgyi, the Hungarian mil er, will run against a former teammate in the National AAU indoor track and field championships at Madison Square garden Saturday. Andy Bajcsa, who once be longed to the same Budapest athletic club as Rozsavolgyi, will represent Kent State in the mile event. Bajcsa is a freshman at the Ohio univer sity. Kurt Nielson Opens Defense New York m Kurt Niel sen of Denmark, one of the world's top tennis players, will open defense of his U.S. indoor title tonight against Jonathan Clark of New Haven, Conn. 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