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leavers To Move Up m Long Beach, Calif. HP Forward Dave Gambee broke the all-time Pacific Coast con ference , career scoring mark Saturday in leading Oregon State to a 77 to 61 victory over UCLA that moved the Beavers into second place In the standings. Stanford earlier scored a mild upset victory, 69 to 61, over USC in the first game of a PCC basketball doublehead er held here. Gambee, the Beaver's All Conference forward, scored 30 points, his best effort of the year in a conference game, to push his mark to 858 points In three years of playing. He Is a senior and has about four games to play this season. His effort broke the record of 855 points set by Bob Houbregs, of the University of Washing ton, In the period 1951-53. Gambee scored 15 points in each half. The Beavers outplayed the Bruins in the first half for a 39-30 halftime lead. In the second, the Bruins twice closed the gap to within one or two points, but never caught the fast-moving Beav ers who finally ran up 10 con secutive points to Ice it. Frosh Keeping Pace With High New York T Mark down Kelly Coleman, a fresh man at Kentucky Wesleyan, as a basketball star of the fu ture. Matter of fact, the weekly major college statistics issued Saturday by the NCAA serv ice bureau indicate that Cole man can claim top billing right now. Although his college of 500 students plays teams with much greater manpower Cole man has become the highest scoring freshman in major college history. He also has jumped from 13th place last week to fifth this week in the current individual scor ing standings for all play ers. Coleman scored 113 points In three games last week to give him an even 600 points for the season. That broke the record of 555 set by Cleo Littleton of Wichita in 1951 52. Coleman's average of 26.1 points a game is bettered only by those of Elgin Baylor of Seattle (33.9), Oscar Robert Southern Oregon Raiders Trip Northwest Nazarene Ashland Southern Ore gon college hoopmen spiked Crusader rally efforts in the closing minutes here Friday night and defeated Northwest tisr fircstono STORES 214 South Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-7119 i 35H n n I J I .Totals DEPENDABLE BATTERY 24 Mo. Guarantee $7.95 Exch. THIS I! & REPLACEMENT GENERATOR FOR MOST CARS . CHECK OUR STOCK IGNITION POINTS Down Guard Lee Harmon re turned to action today and scored 13 points for Oregon State. High scorers for UCLA were Walt Torrence and Ben Rogers, each with 14. The win gave the Beavers a 9-3 conference record behind California's 9-2 going into to day's contests. UCLA was dropped to third place with 9-4. In the first game, Stanford Captain Paul Neumann staged a one-man rally in the final seven minutes to overcome the Trojans. Or.ron SUt (T7) O T 8-10 1- 2 3- 5 0-3 5-9 2- 3 01- 4- 4 T 1 5 1 4 1 5 1 1 1 20 4 2 3 0 1 4 4 2 2 0 1 1 1 Gambee, I ... Nanson, f 11 5 1 3 4 3 0 0 Goble, e - Moss, c Harmon, g ... Anderson, f Critser, g ... Miller, g ... Schroeder, g Totals UCLA (SI) Burke, f Halsten. f ... Underbill, f Archer, f . Miller, t Rogers, e ... Torrence. g Crum. g . Steffen, g French, g Johnson, g ... Brandon, g 0 0-0 27 23-37 0-0 4-5 2-5 0- 0 1- 2 2- 4 8-6 0-0 0-0 0-0 2-3 0-1 0-0 Bell, g Tntals 22 17-26 25 Halftime score: Oregon State 39 UCLA 30. Pointmen son of Cincinnati (33.6), Wilt Chamberlain of Kansas (31.4) and Bailey Howell of Missi ssippi State (26.8). The fig ures include games through Thursday night. In team ofense, Marshall (89.4 pointa per game), Cin cinnati (87.2), West Virginia (86.0) and Seattle (83.7) stood 1-2-3-4 for the fourth straight week. On defense, San Fran cisco (49.4 points allowed per game), Oklahoma State (51.0) and Dayton (53.5) headed the list for the fifth week in a row. Seattle leaped from sixth to first place in rebounds with a .093 average. ioiaover in field goal - accuracy (48.8 per cent) and Marshall in free throw accuracy (79.0 per cent). Among the individual lead ers are Ralph Crosthwaite of Western Kentucky in field goal accuracy (87.4 per cent), Gerald Clark of Texas Tech in free throw accuracy (87.4 per cent) and Alex Ellis of Niagara in rebounding (25.7 per cent). Nazarene college 58 to 51 in the opener of the two-game series marking the finish of the Raider season on its home court. The Raiders started strong but Nazarene warmed to the task and caught up to chal lenge the Ashlanders. South ern Oregon then worked to a good lead but the Idaho club narrowed the gap again. Bill Hollingsworth-of SOC was high scorer with 22 while Tom Tracy had 14 for the Crusaders. Southern Oregon had back board control 45 to 28. BOX: Nazarene Freeman Gardner Peppley Tracy Willard Martin Steuckel FG FT Pr TP . 0 2 0 2 S 7 6 0 0 0 0 Hanson Sinkbeiner White Totals 0 ..21 11 51 SOC D'OIivo Hollingsworth FG FT PF TP e o l 12 (Java McAbee Maurer Sutherland . Crandall Tenny Love Foust ..24 10 11 58 AUTO SUPPLY WJM0t,. IS THE PLACE .. . . .. .A 137 WW The Store With 10,000 Items PCG Standings MedforivTribunb snpawmrs 6A-2 Fives Paired For Cage Tourney; EP Nabs Rogue Tilt ROGUE LEAGUE FINAL STANDINGS W L. 2 3 3 4 8 10 Pet Phoenix 8 7 .800 Glendale .700 Brookings 7 Eagle Point 6 Illinois Valley 2 .700 .600 .200 .000 Rogue River 0 Glendale and Rogue Riv er highs will be foes in the opening game at 6:30 p.m. Thursday. Feb. 27. in the District 6 A-2 southern di vision basketball tourna ment at Southern Oregon ccollego in Ashland. Drawings for the tourney were held yesterday at Rogue River. Eagle Point will meet Henley at 7:45 p.m. and Brookings takes on Illinois Valley at 9 p.m. on Thurs day. Phoenix, as Rogue league champ, drew a bye. It will tussle the Glendale-Rogue River winner in a Friday night ruckus. The other Friday championship brack et fray will match the vic tors of the Eagle Point Henley and Brookings-Illi-nols Valley games. Consolation and champ ionship finals and the tangle to decide third place will be on Saturday night. Glendale tied for second place and Eagle Point was only a game behind in fourth position after Friday victories in conflicts which wound up the Rogue league basketball slate. Glendale's Pirates dumped Illinois Valley 61 to 30 and Eagle Point submerged Rogue River 70 to 38. The Eagles nabbed their lead right at the start and flew away easily. They had rebound control. EP starters played in just the first and third quarters. Bill Turner and Wayne Christian of Eagle Point divided high scoring laurels with 14 each. Dave Carter had 11 and John Big man 10 for the Chiefs. Peri od standings were 22 to 10, 39 to 17 and 58 to 28 for the Eagles. All Eagles Score All 11 Eagle players Tall Chief Wins Race By ALEX KAHN United Press Sports Writer Arcadia, Calif. HP) Little Johnny Longden, the all-time riding champion m the history of the turf, closed with a rush in the stretch Sat urday with Tall Chief II to capture the $57,300 Washing ton's birthday handicap after Santa Anita's hillside and in field course by a half-length It was Longden's fourth victory in five runnings of the Washington's birthday race over the grass course but he and Tall Chief II had to fight off a determined bid by Promised Land in the stretch to score the win. Solid Son was third and Hi Pardner fourth as the 6-5 favorite, Ekaba, faded under his top impost of 128 pounds when the real racing got underway Production of coal in the U.S. each day of about one million tons would fill a train of 50-ton railway coal cars ex tending from Pittsburgh to as far west as Cleveland, Ohio Custom Trailer Hitch For Most Gars TWIN GAR RUGS cored. Glendale had bulges of 16 to 5, 27 to 12 ana 44 to 14 at the quarter pauses. Bill Hale ran up 16 points and Tom Munyon.12 for the Pi rates and Howard Ollis to talled 10 for IV. Eagle Point beat Rogue River also in the junior var sity fuss with Neil Cooper putting in 17 markers. Jim Erwin of Rogue River and Nolan Greenwood of EP rang in 12 each. Glendale jayvees beat IV by a narrow 44 to 42, LINE-UPS: 70 Eagle Point Rogue River 38 T 14 Turner Carter 11 F 8 Hubbard B. Bigman C 14 Christian Kirkley 3 G2 Veach Johnson 7 G 3 Smith J. Bigman ,10 Substitution For Eagle Point, Chamberlain 2, Nelson 9, Greb 6, Cooper 6, Knudsen 4 Gerbing 2; for Rogue River, McCabe 1, Goosey, White, Laws. Air Conditioning-temperature A BEAUTIFULLY MOVING THING! '58 See your Talent Keeps Record Clean In B League JACKSON COUNTY' B LEAGUE STANDINGS W. L, Pet. 1.000 .533 .467 .429 .087 Talent 15 Butte Falls 8 St. Mary's 7 Jacksonville 6 Prospect 1 0 7 8 8 14 Talent continued its spot less season Friday night, cop ping its 15th Jackson County B league basketball triumph by whipping St. Mary's 60 to 42 while Jacksonville almost duplicated that result with a 59 to 42 verdict over Pros pect. The Bulldogs of Talent have been concentrating on ball control in recent games. On Friday Coach Millard Webb turned them loose In their more natural running game. They utilized their speed and hustle to overcome St. Mary's height and employed their us ual tough defense to gain their 17th win of the 1957 1958 campaign. Jacksonville took control in the second period, played the Cougars on even terms in the third quarter and out romped the Prospect five 21 to 17 in the last quarter. The Redskins controlled the back boards. Talent had 12 to 5, 25 to 13 and 39 to 29 period mar gins. 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