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1 EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Tornado Encounters Grizzlies On Hedrick Floor This Evening Ashland high Grizzlies try to make it four straight over the Black Tornado for the season and Medford cagers fights to even the score for the two previous setbacks when the Southern Oregon conference adversaries mix it tonight at the Hedrick gym here and Saturday at Ashland. In the January scuffles, the Grizzlies tipped the Medford ltes by three point margins. On the basis of those close games and on other season performances, this week end's scrapes could be regarded toss-ups. However, the Tornado squad won't be up to its strength of the earlier games and some of the hoopsters who haven't regular action this season will be called upon for heavier service. Coach Frank Roelandt said tms morning that "it will help if they just do what they are capable of doing. Each Needs Sweep He may call upon Ron Peerv. Larrv Brown, Don Peek. Jerrv Anderson and Tom Hamlin for starting as signments. Hamlin has been "under the weather" this week. Availability of Lowell Dean, leading Tornado scorer, was still uncertain. He has foot infection caused by Mister. Don Bowling, re servist, has ankle trouble which hampers his maneuver- abilty. Bilbee Lane, second high scorer this season, is no longer on the squaa. rnr Ashland Coach Earl Iba likely will open with Al OTI Expected To Clinch Toga By UNITED PRESS Linfield and Willamette take to the road this week end in quest of the Northwest conference basketball title while Oregon Tech is expect ed to wrap up the Oregon Collegiate conference crown right at home. Oregon Tech, 12-2, needs only one win in two games against Oregon College of Education which is 1-13 in the conference and 1-18 for the season. The Owls meet the Wolves tonight and Saturday night. The other OCC series sends Portland State to La Grande to meet Eastern Oregon. Linfield, 8-2, plays Whit man at Walla Walla tonight said Saturday night and Col lege of Idaho at Caldwell on Monday. Willamette, 8-3, plays College of Idaho tonight and Saturday and moves to Whitman Monday. Lewis and Clark plays Pa cific at Forest Grove Satur day night. Volleyball Class Planned at Y A class for volleyball begin ners will open for men on Monday, Feb. 24 at the Med ford YMCA. It will also be an exercise lass. The programwil 1 have 15 minutes of calisthenics fol lowed by volleyball instruc tion. Badminton, trampoline performing and swimming will be added. Hours each Monday will be 7 to 8:30 p.nr. Gordon Williams, YMCA physical director, will be in structor. First two classes, those of Feb. 24 and March 3 will be open to men without charge. Further details may be ob tained from Williams at the YMCA. CRASH CLAIMS ANOTHER Munich. Germany (IP) Soccer player Duncan Ed wards died in the Isbar hos pital today, the 22nd victim of the Feb. 6 crash of a charter ed airliner carrying members of the Manchester United team and sports writers home from a game. FREE lubrication ... for the next 30 days we will give FREE a regular lubrication with every oil change! (Any make or model passenger car.) Don't get just a grease job get a thorough lubrication now! DARRELL. MILLER GGD. 415 S. Riverside Ave. bert Hirtwell, Jack Tobias- son. Scott Peterson and Bill Maurer and either Kip Lom bard or Bob Johnson. Medford and Ashland each are ambitious for a sweep to keep in the running for a state tournament berth from the conference. A split would be damaging to both aggrega tions. A double loss would put Ashland virtually out of the running. Right now Medford is 4-6 in the loop and in third place. Ashland is 4-8 and fourth. Grants Pass (6-6) in second place vies at Klamath Falls (11-1) on Friday and Satur day. Ashland-Medford games are planned for 8:15 p.m. after 6:30 p.m. junior- varsity hassles. Phil Moyer Winner of Ring Fray Portland OP) Phil Moyer, 158, up and coming Portland fighter, won a unanimous decision over Pe dro Gonzales, 160, Rankin, Pa., in the main event of a fight card at the Civic Audi torium here Thursday night. Moyer built up a command ing lead in the early rounds, and floored Gonzales for the mandatory eight-count in the fourth with a solid right to the jaw. Moyer alternated a vicious body attack with left jabs to the face in keeping his foe at distance through most of the fight. Gonzales' best rounds were the 5th, 6th and 9th when he apeared to have the edge. The victory was the eighth straight for 19-year-old Moyer since he turned pro last Oc tober. Chuck Lincoln, 162; Port land, won a split 10-round de cision over Lou Josephs, 159, Seattle, in a prelim. Chinco Chavez, 144, Port land, won a TKO over Jimmy Zale. 141, Portland, m 2:25 of the 6th and final round. Gene Gresham, 140, Rim- rock, Wash., won a TKO over Burt Singer, 144, Seattle, in 36 seconds of the 6th. Top Contenders Find Foes Tough New York (W First- seeded Kurt Nielsen of Den mark an second-seeded Barry MacKay of Dayton, Ohio, hope for easier pickings tonight when the National Indoor Tennis championships advance into the quarter-final round. Both Nielsen and MacKay experienced ' unexpected trouble before reaching the quarter-finals Thursday night, Nielsen with a 7-5, 8-6 tri umph over 17-year-old Earl Buchholz Jr., of St. Louis and MacKay with a 6-4, 5-7, 6-2 victory over Yale sophomore Don Dell. Third-seejied Budge Patty of Los Angeles and Paris de feated Robert Barker of Great Neck. N. Y., 6-3, 6-1, and fourth-seeded Dick Savitt of South Orange, N. J.," beat Kosei Kamo of Japan, 6-2, 6-4. In tonight's quarter-finals, Nielsen is scheduled to play Henry C. Van Rensselaer of Greenwich, Conn., MacKay faces Julius Heldman of New York, Patty meets Sammy Giammalva of Houston, Tex., and Savitt opposes Grant Golden of Evanston, 111. FRENCH FIGHTER ARRIVES New York (IPi Lahou- ari Godih, the lightweight boxing champion of France, arrived here Thursday for a U.S. campaign. Although he has been living in Paris for seven years, Godih is a native of Algeria. Friday. February 21, 1938 ' ' 4 TAKES ON ASHLAND Ron Peery, 5-10 senior, may be in the Medford high starting line-up tonight when the Black Tornado cagers tussle Ashland at Hedrick gym here. He has collected 32 markers for the Tornado in a reserve role this season, picking up most of his points on free shots with a .689 shooting average. Medford plays at Ashland on Saturday night. West Side Nabs Title; 3 Knot For 2nd Place JUNIOR VARSITY LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L. 0 2 2 2 4 5 S Pet. 1.000 .667 .667 .677 .333 .167 West Side 6 Jefferson 4 Washington ... . 4 Lincoln 4 Roosevelt 2 Jackson 1 Oak Grove 0 .000 Washington nicked Jeffer son 22 to 20 and Lincoln downed Jackson 25 to 11 yes terday to earn a tie with Jeff for second place in the final standings of the city grade school junior varsity basket ball league. West Side, which previous ly had cinched the champion ship with an undefeated rec ord, bouncer St. Mary's 28 to 19 in a non-counting contest. Roosevelt .topped Oak Grove 32 to 10 in the other fracas. St. Mary's Catholic school has played a full slate with the city school teams but its games have not counted in the standings. Miteff, Valdes Figured Even New York Wl Betting is at "even money" for to night's fight between young Alex Miteff of Argentina and veteran Nino Valdes of Cuba in the firts heavyweight main event at Madison Square Gar den in more than a year. Their 10-rounder will be televised and broadcast na tionally by NBC at 7 p.m. P.S.T. Each weighs more than 200 pounds; each is a good punch er, and each is a ranking con tender. Big Valdes is rated sixth and brawny Miteff, ninth. Nino, 33, seeks his seventh straight victory against Alex, ten years younger. Not since Harold Cartels win over' Bob Baker, Jan. 11, 1957, have two heavies fought in a star bout at the world's most famous punch em porium. AIDES CHOSEN Stanford, Calif. (IP) Wayne Hansen and Andy Everest, who played together 10 years ago for coach Jack Curtice at Texas Western, will team up again next sea son as their old boss's assist ants at Stanford. The pah were named Thursday to Cur tice's staff which will in clude four holdovers from the Chuck Taylor regime. A fifth, George Lynn, resigned two weeks ago to sell insurance. Phone SP 2-6209 State Mat Tournament Underway Corvallis OP) The 11th annual Oregon high school wrestling tournament opened in Gill Coliseum on the Ore gon State college campus to day with several squads hop ing to dethrone defending champion Newberg. Sweet Home, which is entering 10 men, was consid ered a strong contender, along with Redmond which qualified 15, Grants Pass with 11, Klamath Falls with 9 and Franklin of Portland with 6. Newberg qualified 6 men but still was rated a strong threat. A total of 156 matches were scheduled today and 104 on Saturday. Ed Arcaro Has 4,000th Arcadia, Calif. (IP) "The only tension I felt was what you newspaper fellows creat ed yourselves," veteran jock ey Eddie Arcaro declared fol lowing his 4,000th turf vic tory. Arcaro left for Florida's Hialeah track Thursday night after scoring No. 4,000 in the eighth race aboard Ban Thurs day. He is scheduled to ride Mahan in the $100,000 Wide- ner Handicap at the Florida track Saturday. "It was just another day of racing for me, but I'm glad to have reached the 4,000 mark," he said of Thursday's feat. "I'm going to go right on riding, probably not an other 27 years, but a few more anyway. Arcaro, who turned 42 only J day before achieving the milestone, is in his 27th year of racing. He will be presented with large silver plate following the fourth race here next Tuesday. Arcaro is the third rider in history to reach the 4,000 mark and only the second on the American turf. Johnny Longden is the champion with 5092 winners. Retired Sir Gordon Richards of England has 4870. Baseball League Meets March 1 A meeting of the Rogue Valley Baseball league will be held on Sunday, March 2, in the Grants Pass city hall council chambers. President Harry Chipman said that the meeting will open at 2 p.m. He stated that all persons in terested are invited. Sportsmen Club Session Slated Shady Cove Regular monthly meeting of the Shady Cove chapter of the Oregon Sportsmen club will be held at 8 p.m. Monday, Feb. 24, at the fire hall here. Sportsmen of the area are invited, Secre tary Bill Brewster stressed. Outdoor Store Defeats Rooks Portland (IP) Portland Outdoor Store routed the Oregon State Rooks 78-52 in a basketball game here Thurs day night. " Ron Nenow with 17 points led the AAU team, which held tall Karl Anderson of the Rooks to five points. Outdoor Store led at the half 32-21. The latest work-saving features, real John Deere quality, and power aplenty for a compelte farming job on smaller acreages in a John Deere "320" tractor. The "320" handles, one-row planting fertilizing, and cultivating . . . ideal for orchard, field, vineyard, haying and sim ilar work. COME IN John Deere meet the '320 HUBBARD-WRAY COMPANY 25 S. Riverside Phone SP 2-4011 MEDFORDaTMBUNE SIPODIETrS m , ' ft 1 BALANCING BALL on tips York Knickerbockers, makes Boston's Bill Russell looks on Medford Gun Club Host for Trapshoot Medford Gun club holds its first registered trapshoot of the season here Saturday and Sunday i and the event is ex pected to attract scattergun ners from various parts of southern Oregon and the southern Willamette valley. It will,be the eighth annual Early Spring shoot. Shooters will be offered a possible 500 targets with 100 at 16 yards, 100 in handicap and 25 pairs in doubles each day. There will be class com petition,, rivalry over overall, veteran and ladies honors and a buddy shoot. Many trophies Prep Basketball Quints Have Crucial Conflicts By UNITED PRESS Springfield seeks to sew up one of the hotly-contested state tournament berths in the Midwestern league this week end as Oregon's high school basketball teams en ter the home stretch of title races. Springfield, 6-1, plays Marshfield tonight and North Bend Saturday night. The two coastal clubs, along with Roseburg and South Eugene, also are in contention for one of the district's two tourney berths. All but Springfield have suffered three losses. South Eugene reverses the order and plays North Bend tonight and Marshfield Sat urday night. Roseburg plays Cottage Grove, the only team out of the running with a 0-7 league record. In Portland, Grant seeks to grab at least a tie for the PIL title in a game against second-place Roosevelt. Berths Nailed Grant has clinched a tour ney berth, with Roosevelt, Jefferson and Franklin con tending for the other two The THRIFTY NEW JOHN DEEREW 1-2 Plow Tractor for Smaller Farms Tho 1-2 plow "320" Standard k pictvnd horo with m 4100 Soriot Cultivator. Dual Teuch-o-matie to provid dolaynd lift k optional on Hm tractor. thrifty new GtD3ED of fingers, Ken Sears, New charging leap for basket as helplessly. (International) will be up for grabs along with purses. Each day will start with 16 yard events, at 10 a.m. on Saturday and at 9 a.m. on Sunday. Lunch at Grounds Practice traps will be avail able through the day. Lunch can be obtain e-d at the grounds. The tourney is registered by the Pacific International Trapshooting association. It is one of three registered com petitions scheduled here prior to the state shoot in June. Spectators are welcome during the week end activity. Portland vacancies. Jeff meets Franklin in another head- liner. Other teams which have al ready nailed down A-l tour ney spots include Bend, As toria, Klamath Falls, Pendle ton and North, Salem. Hermiston' and The Dalles, still in the running for an other eastern Oregon tourney spot, both play champion Pendleton this week end. Cor vallis has a date with Sweet Home. Both are tied for sec ond place behind North Sa lem in one Valley League. Beaverton, which holds an edge for the second tourney berth behind Astoria in the Metro league, plays Hills- boro tonight. In the closely- contested TYV race, McMinn- ville, leading with 11-2, meets last place Newberg while St. Helens, 10-2, hosts Lake Os wego. Tigard, 10-3, has the night off. North JJalem can clinch the Valley crown with a win over South Salem. Many common headaches are believed , to be caused by eyestrain. mm Notre Dame Strength in By FRED DOWN United Press Sports Writer Notre Dame's five "Iron Men" served notice today that they 11 have more than the luck of the Irish going for them in the NCAA tourna ment. Playing intact until there were only three minutes and 15 seconds left in the game, Notre Dame whipped New York university, 93-77, at Madison Square (harden Thursday night to run its sea son record to 18 victories in 22 games. St. Louis defeated St. John's of New York, 105 92, in the opener. Notre Dame, ranked 13th in the nation, turned in a brilliant performance in its annual visit to New York. The Irish led by only 37-35 early in the second half but broke open the game with a 14-2 burst over a four-minute span. The "Iron Men" Mike Graney, Tom Hawkins, Bob Devine, Dean Duffy and John McCarthy accounted for all but six of Notre Dame's points. Hawkins was high man with 25 points followed by McCarthy with 24. Johnny Bucyk had 27 for NYU which entered the game entertain ing hopes of a bid to the Na tional Invitation tournament. Jack Mimlitz scored 33 t Y FLANSTED WOOL SLACKS unbelievably better through the magic of DOW CORNING SILICONES At last! Slacks with the virtues of wool . . . yet they're stain, spot. I water, tear and abrasion-resistant. Flansted slacks have the drape of flannel, the wear af worsted . . - hold their crease and shape ... take fewer trips to the cleaners. Action tailored and California-styled in the new "slim-look" hv "Rouah Rider" to fit better. 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