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NRA Sectional Tournament Slated A sectional tournament of the National Rifle association will be fired Saturday and Sunday under the auspices of the Medford Rifle and Pistol club. Ashland armory will be the scene of the contest since Medford's gallery range is under construction. About twenty-five similar sectionals are held simultan eously throughout the country to pick the national individual OSC Beavers Tussle SC Trojans Tonight By GENE BRYANT Uniled Press Sports Writer California will meet Idaho's pesky Vandals at Moscow to night in the first of three games in the Northwest for the front-running Bears as the snarled PCC basketball race heads into a make-or-break week end which may see one or more contenders fall by the wayside f The Vandals knocked off UCLA last week end and with Gary Simmons back in form are out to make it two in a row over visiting Cali fornia clubs. The Moscovites themselves were virtually eliminated from title content tion in their disastrous swing through Western Washington and Oregon last week end. The Bears, currently lead lng the standings with a 7-2 Owls Head Conference Statistics Portland (IP) Oregon Tech, which can sew up its second straight Oregon Col legiate Conference basketball title with one victory over Oregon College at Klamath Falls this week end, leads the league in most statistical de partments. Team statistics show OTI leading in total scoring with 70.8 points per game, in total defense with 51.5 points per game, and in field goal accur acy with .446. Williams Accurate Individually, OTI's Truman Williams tops field goal ac curacy with a .537 mark. Charley Wilson leads in free throws with 18 out of 20 for .900 and Williams tops the rebounding with a 12.7 av erage. John Winters of Portland State is the top scorer with 17.3 per game to 17.1 for Bill Hollingsworth of Southern Oregon. Eastern Oregon, as a team, tops free throw accur acy with .683 on 231 out of 338. Hoad Subdued By Gonzales Philadelphia (IP) Rich ard Big Pancho Gonzales proved himself a stubborn, uphill fighter Thursday night when ht came from behind to defeat the slamming Aus tralian, Lew Hoad, 2-6, 8-6, 8-6, here at the Arena. In the opener, Francisco Segura's deadly placements carried him to an 8-2 victory over Tony Trabert in a one set match before 3,962 fans. Gonzales had one of the toughest battles of his career before he overcame the deter mined challenger from Down Under and cut Hoad's lead to 15-8 in their 100-match series. In a fast night cap, Gon zales and Trabert swamped Hoad and Segura 8-1, in a one-set match to wind up their tour here. They play next Sunday at Fort Worth, Texas. Yes Merry Tiller outdigs, outworks them all the big, hard-to-handle sod-lumpers as well as the little inefficient surface-scratchers. 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Ray Tatlow of Klamath Falls is the official referee, Mrs. Florence Bolton, execu tive officer, Charles Taylor, chief statistical officer, and Neal Tripp, range officer. mark, could find themselves deposed from the top spot should they lose to Idaho and UCLA trip Stanford. The Bruins will meet the upset- minded Indians in the first contest of a double-header at Long Beach. Oregon State will face Southern California in the nightcap. UCLA is 8-3 In conference play, while OSC is in third with a 7-3 record. Idaho and USC are both 6-5 in league competition and are still mathematically in the title chase. California will make the short jaunt to Pullman Satur day night to meet Washington State, then head for Eugene where the Bears will play the Oregon Webfoots Monday night. The University of San Francisco Dons, staging their annual walkaway in the West Coast Athletic conference, will take on an in-and-out Santa Clara quintet at the Cow Palace tonight in the top game of a full WCAC slate. The Dons, fourth-ranked nationally with a 20-1 rec ord on the season and an 8-0 mark in conference play, will be after their 17th straight victory. San Jose State will travel to Loyla and Pepperdine will host College of Pacific in oth er WCAC games. K nicks Fighting To Keep in Race By UNITED PRESS The New York Knicker bockers, last in the standings but first in attendance, meet the Philadelphia Warriors at Camden, N.J., tonight, need ing a victory to stay alive in the Eastern division of the National Basketball associa tion. The Warriors, in third place in the Eastern division, two and one-half games ahead of the Knicks, led all the way in beating the Syracuse Na tionals, 110-97, Wednesday in the first game of an after noon doubleheader at Bos ton. The Celtics came from behind to edge the Cincinnati Royals, 94-92 in the nightcap. In other games tonight the Detroit Pistons are at Cin cinnati and the Celtics, need ing only three victories in 10 remaining games to clinch the Eastern title, are at St. Louis. The Hawks need only two victories in 12 games to clinch the Western division title. BASKETBALL By UNITED PRESS (East) St. Louis 105 St. John's N.Y. 92 Notre Dame 93 New York U. 77 Massachusetts 64 Holy Cross 60 Delaware 95 Swarthmora 73 (South) (South) Virginia Tech 75 The Citadel 44 South Carolina 61 Clemson 60 Furman 88 Richmond 82 E. Kentucky 91 Morehead St. 72 George-own 72 Translyvania 86 (Midwest) Creighton 68 Omaha 53 Butler 93 Indiana St. 87 2 ot (Southwest) Oklahoma 52 Oklahoma St. 48 (West) Montana 71 New Mexico 45 Seattle 78 Montana St. 77 Digs to 12 Deep 8T0E18 CONFERENCE CHAMPIONS The McLoughlin Junior., high wrestling team, pictured here, won the Southern Ore gon conference championship recently. Front row, from .left, are Manager Ralph Lobdall, Elgin Oldham (95 pounds) Merle Hampton (123), Wayne Fields (130), Rus sell Walker (115), George Chambers (106) and Louis Thur Raider Quint Hosts NW Nazarene Five Ashland Southern Oregon college basketball team makes its final appearance on its home floor tonight and Satur day night as host to North west Nazarene college of Nampa, Idaho. Bowling ROGUE VALLEY LEAGUE Standings: W Darrell Miller Co. 19 Larrys Rich Maid 16 Fortune Gassers 14 State Forest Patrol 10 1st National Bank 10 Harry & David 9 Piggly Wiggly 7 Oak Grove Furniture 8 Jacks Drive Up 6 Pickells Real Estate ' 5 L 1 4 6 10 10 11 13 14 14 15 Results: Jack's 1 (Gould 430) 2566; Piggly Wiggly 3 (Fowler 450) 2661. Oak Grove 0 (Cook 572) 2495; Fortune 4 (Smith 487) 2634. Harry & David 0 (Skala 442) 2633; Rich Maid 4 (Kulo 580) 2790. Pickell's 1 (Withrow 504 2653; FN Bank 3 (Forbes 476) 2657. Miller Co. 3 (Clark 504) 2712; Forest Patrol 1 (Moran 496) 2701. EVERGREEN LEAGUE Standings: W L Medford Plaza Apt ..4 0 Medford Steel Co 4 0 Tru Mix Construction Co. 3 1 Barco Supply Co 3 1 Singler's Auto Supply 3 1 Medford Blowpipe Co. 3 1 Picard's Jewelers 1 3 Seven Up Bottling Co. 1 3 Medford Corporation 1 3 Safeway Stores 1 3 Chuck's Pump Service 0 4 Big Y Market 0 4 Results: Barco 3 (Judy 497) 2.449; Pic3rd's 1 (McDowell 538) 2.447. Safewav 1 (Tyler 462 2.056; Singlers 3 (Can- 562) 2.237. Medco 1 (Haugen 493) 2.283; Blowpipe 3 (Curley 561) 2.329. Plaza 4 (Armes 512) 2,364; Big Y 0 (Coghill 467) 2.158. 7 Up 1 (Engelkes 514) 2,180; Tru Mix 3 (Bell 506) 2,297. Chuck's 0 (Couch 524) 2.285; Med Steel 4 (Hopkins 527) 2,426. CITY LEAGUE Standings: W Weter & Olson 29 State Farm Ins. 27 Medford Barbers 25 Norton Lumber Co. 23 Ross Lumber Co. 23 Westside Merchants .. 23 Daugherty Lber. Co. 22 So. Ore. Moulding 2 Hi Cal. Ore. Pwr. Co. 20 First National Bank 19 ',4 Tele. Emp. Assn 16 Central Market 15 L 15 27 19 21 21 21 22 22 b 24 24i 28 29 Results: Daugherty 1 (Laye 485) 2,292; Westside 3 (E. Orr 514) 2.307. Ross Lbr. 3 (Culy 517) 2,348; Central Mkt. 1 (Schulz 527) 2.249. TEAA 3 (Rickman 523 ) 2,456; Barbers 1 (Speer 517) 2,370. State Fm. 1 (McWhorter 514) 2, 377; FNB 3 (Dimick 526) 2,447. Norton's 0 (Mager 461) 2,192; S O Mldg 4 (Knapp 513) 2,355. Copco 0 (Harper 538) 2,130; W & O 4 (Lumari 506) 2.327. INDEPENDENT LEAGUE Standings: W Cove Valley Supply .. ll',j Courtesy Chev 11 Hughes & Dodd 10 Com. Wkers of Am. 9 Table Rock Lbr. 8 Ideal Cement 7 Timber Products 7 Mid-Coast Painter 8 E. H. Mann Co. 6 Andy's Jewelers- 44 L 4!4 5 6 7 8 9 9 10 10 1154 Results: Timber Products 4 (John Aesch liman 598) 3069; Hughes & Dodd 0 (Dick Adkins 493) 2722. Andy's 2V, (Ralph Winters 501) 2703; Table Rock 2i (Frank Chap man 542) 2703. Courtesy 4 (Art Magganti 509) 2850; Mid-Coast 0 (Earl Lenze 534) 2737. Cove Valley 3 (Bill Ducker 476) 2702; Ideal 1 (Bill Day 455) 2575. CWA 2 (Leonard Thrun 454) 2708; Mann Co. 2 (Don Moser 482) 2713. Ms f Pmts. Ptnd. BMi 5? Merry Tiller . Custom Proressionil 4 vpi w 7 :i 7 .get " mm i f ' The series is non-conference and tilts on both occasions are billed for 8 p.m. Nazarene comes to Ashland with a 17-7 record so far this season. The Crusaders hold victories over Eastern Oregon which SOC opposes in the Oregon Collegiate conference. The Idaho club is a member of the Intermountain confer ence. It tied for third in that loop last year, then won the District 5 title of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics. Crusader record for last year was 25-9. Gardner Paces Leader of the Nazarenes is Dave Gardner, senior from Portland who scored 506 points for the Nampa school last year. Other top players are Tom Tracy, all-state from North Dakota, Sam Willard, Hank Steuckel and Bob Pepp ley. Coach of the Crusaders is Orrin Hills. For the Raiders Coach Ted Schopf is expected to call on the regular combination, Dave O'Olivo, John Foust, Bill Hol lingsworth, Ted Tenney and Dave Love. Southern Oregon on Wednesday completed its league schedule and this week end's games complete its regu lar slate for the year. The Raiders will vie in the NAIA district tournament with the hope of gaining the national tourney. Barbara Porter In Semifinals Ormond Beach, Fla.. (IP) Defending champion Barbara Romack Porter and medalist Mrs. Phillip Cudone, two mar ried women, were challenged by bachelor girls in the semi finals of the South Atlantic Women's Amateur Golf Tour nament today. Mrs. Porter, from Sacra mento, Calif., played veteran Marge Burns of Greensboro, N. C, and Mrs. Cudone met youthful Judy Bell of Wich ita, Kan. The blonde Mrs. Porter eked out a 19-hole decision over Doris Phillips, Belleville, 111., Thursday to survive the quarter-finals played in 25 mile -an -hour winds. There were only three holes won and lost in the tense battle. Mrs. Cudone advanced eas ily with a 6 and 5 win over Carol Beinbrink, Sunnybrook, N. Y. Miss Bell was carried to the final hole to beat Greta Leone, Chicago, 1-up, and Miss Burns won 2 and 1 over Mary Ann Reynolds, Albany, Ga. California leads the nation in the production of peaches for both the fresh and canned fruit markets. SEE THE NEW MERRY TILLER ROTO SLASHER That cuts through high grass and weeds without tangling! SPECIAL... .. . $125.00 $10 Down $10 Month SUBURBAN.... $169.50 $10 Down $12 Month We're Service Headquarters Too! 112 South Riverside ston (88). Back row, left to right, are Assistant Coach Ed Doran, Dave Jenkins (140), Al Funston' (168V Chuck Holt (154), Chuck Shaw (heavyweight), Bob Rix (148), Bob dis tance (136) and Coach John Reed. Walker, Chambers, Jen kins, Rix and Funston won conference titles and Holt and Thurston were runners-up. Iron Liege, Lea Race Favorites Miami, Fla. (IH With Bold Ruler missing from the field because of a leg injury, the , Calumet Farm entry of Iron Liege and Pintor Lea was a strong 1-2 favorite for the $100,000 added Widener handicap Saturday at Hia leah. Bold Ruler, the 1957 "Horse of the Year" who was to make his 1958 debut in the mile and one-quarter Widen er, was withdrawn Thursday after trainer Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons announced the colt developed a swelling in the left foreleg. Bold Ruler's withdrawal was expected to result in some surprise entries when the entry box opened this morning, but the Calumet pair, Christopher T. Chen ery's Third Brother, Mrs. Wallace Gilroy's Oh Johnny, the Brookmeade Stable's Oligarchy, Mrs. Ada L. Rice's Hoop Band and the Hasty House Farm's Mahan were certain starters. Model Watch 'em ride those all-day inns with a lively new kind of heads -up efficiency! Watch 'em keep at It, too week after week straight - through " the calendar. 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C. with new hustle, new muscle, new style! 3445 Step-Van with 8-foot body SJ ' CHEVRMEf Friday, February 21, 1953 Microwave Relay Channel Completed Portland (IP) Pacific Tele phone and Telegraph today announced completion of a second channel in its Portland-Spokane microwave re lay system. The expanded system Is ca pable of handling 600 simul taneous long distance tele phone conversations and is part of a $2,300,000 expan sion program by PT&T. Later this year - the firm plans addition of a second long distance channel on the Portland-Seattle radio relay and the addition of the first telephone channel between Portland and Sacramento which now has only a televi sion system. Division Manager H. H. Holloway said a new micro wave system would also be placed in service between Medford and Klamath Falls and a similar system between Portland and Pendleton is now nearing completion. Baker-Homestead Highway Closed Salem (IP) The Baker Homestead highway remained closed in the Robinette area today due to high water. Mountain passes were clear of snow but icy spots were reported at Chemult and Meacham. There was ground fog at Wilson river summit, Salem, Salmon river, Roseburg, Grants Pass, Cave Junction, Chemult, Meacham, Klamath Falls and Ontario. Hermiston Publisher To Seek Senate Post Pendleton (IP) Dan C. Bartlett, publisher of the Hermiston Herald since 1942, said today he will file for the Democratic ' nomination for slate senator from Umatilla county. He has been a news man in Nebraska, Idaho and Oregon for 35 years. Pl mi r J .-r VI When time means everything you need a truck with everything. You need a Chevrolet! All Chevy pickups and panels are quick-as-a-whip hus tlers in traffic and on the highway. They have Chevrolet's own special brand of built-in muscle extra-rigid front end sheet metal and hefty frames. They have new contoured fenders, dual headlamps. 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Your Local Authorized Chevrolet Dealer Navy Plane Lost -On Atlantic Patrol London (IP) A 30-plane air armada from three continents searched the stormy Atlantic today for a U.S. Navy plane" a flying radar station missing on a regular patrol with 23 and perhaps 25 men, aboard. The four-engine Super Con stellation, fitted with long-" range radar equipment, ap--' parently crashed or ditched on a round -trip patrol be tween Agentia, Newfound- -land, and the Azores Thurs day. The two points are 1,200 miles apart and searchers said there was no hint 'where the , plane might have gone down. Weathermen of the British Air Ministry said conditions', were suitable for ditching the ' big plane only within a 300 mile radius of the Azores. Outside that area storms had4 beset the plane's route with -rough seas, high winds and" temperatures at or below freezing. " (Ik' ' 1
