Tornado, Caveman Series
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In Fight for A- i Berths
Southern Oregon confer
nee basketball series open
this evening on Medford
and Central Point courts.
Medford high will be
host to Grants Pass at Hed
rick Junior high gym and
Crater will entertain Klam
alh Falls. GP and Medford
Tie at Grants Pass on Sat
urday while KF will be at
Crater again.
Varsity games are set for
8:15 p.m. after 6:30 p.m.
prelims. However, there
will will be no prelim at
Central Point tonight.
Medford and Grants Pass
are fighting for second
'place in the conference and
A-l tourney berth. Crater
is still in the running for.,
the spot but is three games
back of Grants Pass and its
hopes are rather dim. Klam
ath has cinched the league
title, has been assured of a
trip to the Eugene tourney
and is playing its last games
of the regular season this
week end.
By UNITED PRESS
Fifteen A-l high school bas
ketball teams remain in con
tention for nine remaining
berths in the annual state
tournament next month at
Eugene but the field may be
reduced this week end.
. Several key games are
scheduled including a series
between The Dalles and
Hermiston, another between
Medford and Grants Pass, a
game between South Eugene
and Springfield and the Jeff
erson - Roosevelt contest in
Portland.
Seven teams are "in" for
the McArthur court tourna
ment. They are Grant of Port
land, Astoria, Beaverton,
North Salem, Bend, Pendle
ton and Klamath Falls.
Grants Pass could gain a
tourney berth with two wins
over Medford. If they split
or Medford wins two the is
sue goes into next week. The
Dalles and Hermiston open a
two-out-of-three game series
in Hermiston tonight for a
tournament spot.
Red-hot Midwest
Roosevelt would quafily for
the tournament with a win
over. Jefferson while the lat
ter needs to win to keep alive
its chances for Portland's
' third tournament spot. Frank
lin also is a contender.
The red-hot Midwest league
sees South Eugene meeting
Springfield tonight. Spring
field could win one tourney
berth with a victory. South
Eugene, with Charlie War
ren back in the fold, is 6-3
while Springfield is 7-2, Rose
burg 5-3 meets North Bend
and Marshfield this week end.
North Bend is 4-4 and Marsh
field 3-5. The loop has two
tourney berths.
St. Helens and McMinn
ville, tied for first place in
the TYV league, clash tonight.
Tigard, just behind, also
hopes for one of the two tour
ney berths from the loop, and
plays Oregon City tonight.
Corvallis hopes to join
North Salem as a Valley
league tourney representative
and could do so with a win
over Lebanon tonight.
In class A-2, two of eight
berths have been filled.
Dallas and Stayton have
qualified.
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Bears Launch Tough
Home Tussle Stand
hf GENE BRYANT
United Press Sports Writer
The California Bears, with
a fast-closing Oregon . State
squad breathing down their
necks, open up a tough three
game home stand tonight
against UCLA as the hot Pa
cific Coast conference basket
ball race enters its next-to-last
week end of competition.
The surprising Bears will
take on a dangerous Idaho
team Saturday night then
Oregon next Friday, needing
a sweep to insure their sec
ond straight PCC champion
ship and a berth in the NCAA
playoffs two weeks hence.
As of now, California leads
the field with a 11-2 mark,
followed by Oregon State
(9-3) and UCLA (9-4).
Bruins Still Ineligible
The Bruins, with a mathe
matical chance to finish in
first place, are ineligible for
the western regionals and the
PCC title, however, because
of conference penalties.
OSC, only a game-and-a-half
behind Cal, will have a
much easier schedule than the
Bears in the last days of con
ference play. The Beavers
will host slumping Southern
California Saturday night,
with a pair of games against
weak Washington State and
a single contest against Idaho
slated for next week.
A four-game sweep by; the
Beavers and a single loss by
California would cause a two
way deadlock for first place.
A single OSC loss, however,
would put the Bears in the
enviable position of needing
only two victories in their
last three games to take the
championship. The Bears
have taken their last eight
games at home.
Stanford Hosts Idaho
In addition to the Cal
UCLA contest tonight, Wash
ington will host the last-place
Washington State Cougars,
USC will travel to Oregon
and Idaho will go against
Stanford's upset specialists at
Palo Alto. Oregon State is
idle.
Over in the West Coast
Athletic conference where
the University of San Fran
cisco has already sewed up
another championship the
powerful Dons will go after
their eighteenth straight
when they host San Jose
State. Coach Phil Woolpert's
quintet edged St. Mary's, 49
47, last Tuesday to inch the
title and a berth in the NCAA
playoffs.
Other WCAC games will
pit St. Mary's against Loyola
and Santa Clara against Pep
perdine. Chieftains Need Win
In the important game in
the Northwest, Seattle uni
versity's slumping Chieftains
will be out to score an im
pressive victory over Pacific
Lutheran in the hope of land
ing a berth in the Western
Regionals.
The Elgin Baylor-led Chief
tains were upset by a strong
Idaho State, another squad
anxious for a trip to the
NCAA playoffs, last Satur
day after escaping with a nar
row one-point victory over
Montana State earlier in the
week. .
Nevada's Far Western con
ference co - champions will
visit Montana State and San
Diego State will host Long
Beach State in other games
tonight.
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fashion is Yves Latraille, of Los Angeles, Calif., at Squaw
Valley, Calif., Lodge, -site of the 1960 Olympic Winter
Games. The snowy hi-jinks took place during a recent
outing on the ski slopes. Heavy snows lately have made
ski conditions at Squaw Valley and other Sierra resorts
ideal.
George Yardley
Brings Record
Within Range
By UNITED PRESS
George Yardley, the bald
ing sharpshooter who helps
build guided missiles during
the off season, now has George
Mikan's one-season profes
sional basketball scoring
record within range of his big
guns."
Yardley, the Detroit Pis
tons league - leading . point
maker, racked up 41 tallies
Thursday night in leading De
troit to a 112-109 victory over
the Minneapolis "Lakers at
Philadelphia. The win gave
the Pistons a 1V4 game grip
on second place in the West
ern division of the National
Basketball association.
In the only other game
Thursday, the Philadelphia
Warriors moved within two
Friday, February 28. 1958
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINS
Jerry Kaiapus Leads NW
With 22.1 Point Average
By UNITED PRESS
This is the showdown week
end in the Northwest confer
ence basketball race.
Linfield has the edge going
into the final two days of the
1958 schedule but Willamette
and Lewis and Clark still
nurse some title hopes and
the race conceivably could
end up in a three-way tie.
Linfield, 9-4, has a home-and-home
series with Lewis
and Clark, 7-6. Two wins by
the Pioneers would tie them
with the Wildcats. Willam
ette, 9-5, has just one game
left, a home contest against
Pacific in which it is heavily
games of second place in the
Eastern Division by beating
Syracuse, 97-91.
favored
Willamette could tie Lin
field for the crown by win
ning if Linfield should lose
just one of its two games to
Lewis and Clark. But if Pa
cific should upset the Bear
cats, Lewis and Clark could
move into a three-way tie for
first by a double win over
Lirtfield.
The Willamette - P a c i f i c
game is tonight in Salem.
Linfield meets Lewis and
Clark in Portland tonight and
at McMinnville S a tu r d a y
night.
The Northwest conference
champion will enter the
NCAA Pacific Coast regional
small college tournament.
Jerry Kaiapus of Pacific
leads the loop in scoring with
221 points in 10 games and
a '22.1 average compared to
a 21.5 average by Jackie Riley
of Linfield with 280 points
in 13 games. Kaiapus also
leads in rebounding.
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THURSDAY COLLEGE SCORES
By United Press
(East)
Syracuse 66, Colgate 52
Rutgers 76, Montclair Tchrs. 73
Pittsburgh 75, Westminster 74
Manhattan 95. New York U. 77
(South)
Furman 90, Citadel 74
Mississippi St. 91, Mississippi 60
Dayton 103. Loyola (La.) 69
Drake 94, Marquette 76
(West)
Idaho St 91, Colorado Mines 42
Utah 74, Brigham Young 56
San Francisco's Chinatown,
with an estimated population
of 30,000, is the largest in the
world outside of the Orient.
Ducks Face
SC Trojans
In PCC Tilt
Eugene (IP) Oregon's
Webfoots close out their 1958
home basketball season this
week end with games against
Southern California tonight
and Washington State Satur
day night.
Oregon still has a road trip
left next week with games
against California and Stan
ford. Coach Steve Belko indicat
ed he would start Dale Her
ron, Charlie Franklin, Hal
Duffy, Bud Kuykendall and
Chuck Rask against the' Tro
jans tonight.
Oregon hopes to move
ahead of Southern California
into fifth place. The Trojans
are just half a game ahead of
Belko's crew.
Southern California moves
to Corvallis Saturday night to
meet Oregon State while the
Ducks meet the Cougars here.
Oregon has accepted a bid
to play next Dec. 26-27 in the
23rd All-College tournament
at Oklahoma 'City. Oklahoma
City university is host school.
Bonanza Upsets
Mali nCagers
Klamath Falls Bonanza
high upset Malin, regular
Klamath league winner, 63 to
62 last night in the opening
round of the Klamath-Lake
county B basketball tourna
ment. Chiloquin rapped Sacred
Heart 51 to 35. In afternoon
scraps Merrill laced Gilchrist
69 to 18 and Bly whipped
Paisley 58 to 32.
Merrill meets' Bly and Bon
anza plays Chiloquin tonight.
Tourney finals are Saturday
and winner will take on Tal
ent next week end for the
District 5B title.
Ron Roberts scored 33
points for Bonanza.
Wright Keeps
Small College
Leadership
New York (IP) Teddy
Wright of South Carolina
State, who has completed his
season, now must wait anx
iously while Bennie Swain of
Texas Southern makes a dan
gerous attack on his national
small-college basketball scor
ing lead.
Wright remained on top in
weekly scoring statistics is
sued today by the NCAA for
games through Feb. 22. He
has an average of 28.0 points
per game.
But the six-eight Swain
zoomed from fourth to sec
ond place at 27.4 points per
game after a week that saw
him hitting at a 33 average
clip. Swain has tournament
play remaining, so has a
chance to overtake Wright be
fore the books are closed.
Swain Accurate
Swain already leads the na
tion in field goal accuracy,
sinking .638 per cent of his
shots as he led Texas South
ern to a record of 22 wins
and three losses. His marks
manship helped put Texas
Southern in the team lead in
the same department with a
.532 shooting mark.
Arnold Siith of Allen uni
versity has finished his sea
son as the top free throw
shooter with a .912 average,
topped in history only by the
.920 record set iast year by
Jim Sutton of South Dakota
State.
Marv Becker of Perm Mili
tary leads in rebounds with
25.5 per game.
West Virginia Tech tops the
team scoring list with an av
erage of 101.4 points per
game through Feb. 26, fol
lowed by Texas Southern at
93.9. McNeese State of Loui
siana leads in defense, allow
ing 46.7 points per game.
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