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8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, December 16, 1958 S. . Surprises Pacific Coast ith Strength W San Francisco -CPU- The Pa cific Coast conference basket ball race may well turn out to be a fine example of "to getherness" in the 45-year-old loop's year of disintegration. The pre-season consensus had Washington running away with the title in a blaze of glory, leaving only the pick ings for the other eight schools. But the Huskies dropped a pair to lightly-regarded Colorado, then stum bled to victory over Hawaii and Houston, a pair of clubs not generally recognized as powerhouses in the basketball world. t Although Washington may still be the favorite, there remain at least five dark horses, foremost among the latter being defending cham pion California and a surpris ingly strong Southern Cali fornia five. The Bears have rung up vic tories over St. Mary s, title favorite in the West Coast Athletic conference, San Fran cisco and San Jose State, dropping only a close deci sion to second-ranked Kansas State. The Trojans breezed through Iowa State and Kan sas last week end and appear to be a definite title threat. Further north, Oregon and Idaho look much improved over last year. The Webfoots hold victories over B r i g h a m Young and Wichita while the Vandals are undefeated to dat? against Rocky Mountain competition. Stanford is still an unknown quantity, but UCLA appears ready for a strong run at the title, despite an early season loss to Santa Clara. The Bruins, as did their cross-town rivals, USC,' also came up with a pair of easy wins over Iowa State and Kansas last week end. This leaves only Oregon State and Washington State in the going-nowhere cate gory, but even the Beavers have been showing some strength of late after putting on a pair of dismal per formances against Utah. Any Team Can Win In the WCAC title chase, an outstanding squad has still yet to come forward as the odds-on favorite, although St. Mary's is given the best chance to go all the way. The Gaels have lost only one game so far, a close one to Cali fornia, and look to be the best bet to end USF's long reign atop the loop. The Dons have lost their last three games at their new hilltop gymnasium, but only by a combined total of five points. The latest heartbreak er was a one-point loss to Kansas State. The other de- leats at home also came against a pair of nationally ranked teams - Seattle and Texas Christian. Also given a reasonably good chance for the title along with USF, are Santa Clara, College of Pacific and Pepperdine. Kansas State Gets Upset; Player's Knee Injury Blamed United Press International A knee injury suffered by star Bob Boozer drew a large measure of the blame today for a stunning upset that sent second-ranked Kansas State tumbling from the ranks of the nation's unbeaten basket ball teams and only a rival's "boner" kept Kentucky from suffering the same fate. Boozer, a leading All-America candidate, missed almost the whole second half and scored only eight points Mon day night as Brigham Young upset Kansas State, 77-68, at Provo, Utah. That ranked as the biggest upset so far this season, but Maryland almost matched it before bowing to second-ranked Kentucky, 58-56, in over time at Lexington, Ky. Fired-up Brigham Young fought its way to a 37-36 half time lead over Kansas State and then the break of the game occurred early in the second half when Boozer hurt his knee. Almost immediately Brigham Young broke the game wide open as sophomore Gary Earnest led the way with 28 points, 16 of them in the second half. Wildcat Shooting Off Boozer returned in the clos ing minutes of the game but it was too late to save the Wild cats from their first defeat in five games. Another factor in the Wildcat loss was poor shooting State sank only 27 per cent of its shots against 42 per cent for Brigham Young. Maryland, defending champ of the Atlantic Coast confer ence, apparently had Ken tucky beaten with the Terra pins' Bill Murphy sinking two free throws for a 54-51 lead with only 12 seconds to play. But that's when the "boner" saved Kentucky. Substitute Bill Coffman of the NCAA champs drove down the right sideline and cut across to the baseline for a layup shot. If he'd been al- Prep Hoop Scuffles Give Comparison Opportunity; Tornado at South Eugene Dons Meet Wichita, May Break Up Jinx United Press International The University of San Francisco Dons, a usual pow erhouse in the national bas ketball picture, will be out to break somewhat of a jinx to night when they meet Wichita in the Dons new gymnasium. USF checked out of city- owned Kezar Pavilion last sea son with a string of 35 straight home wins but have lost three straight this year on the new home court. However, the losses were impressive. The Dons lost to second-ranked Kansas State by one point, to tenth-ranked Texas Christian by two, and to rugged Seattle by two. Both USF and Wichita will be going without their top notch centers. John Cunning- Red Sox Speed Up Trading Boston -IUPD- The Boston Red Sox, long known as one of the most reluctant traders of the American League, completed their third trade in less than two weeks when they dealt spare shortstops Billy Klaus to the Baltimore Orioles in return for outfield er Jim Busby Monday night. The straight player trade brought the pitcher-starved Red Sox their fifth outfielder to battle for the center field spot left vacant Dec. 2 when the outspoken Jimmy Piersall was traded to the Cleveland Indians. Acquires Two More In return for Piersall Bos ton acquired veteran first baseman Vic Wertz and rook ie outfielder Gary Geiger. In another Dec. 2 transactions, the Red Sox traded spare catcher Lou Berberet to the Detroit Tigers for righthand ed pitcher Herb Moford. Along with Busby and Gei ger, the other Red Sox cen ter field aspirants will be Gene Stephens, Marty Keough and Bill Renna. Ted Williams, of course, will be in left, while American League MVP Jackie Jensen will patrol right field. ham of the Dons was injured in the Kansas State game, and Wichita's 6-9 pivotman Ev Wessel was injured at Oregon. Meanwhile, the Santi Clara Broncs will play one of the tallest teams in the college ranks when they meet Hous ton. The center for the Tex ans stands 6-11, the forwards 6-8 and 6-6, and the guards stand 6-3 and 6-1. In. other games tonight, Southern California vs. Ha waii at Loyola, Redlands vs. Nevada, Westmont vs. Long Beach, Wheaton vs. Fresno State, and Portland vs. Wash ington U. of St. Louis. Seattle university, last year's Western NCAA cham pion, scored its fifth straight victory Monday night by swamping Portland State, 85 36. Seattle's Jerry Frizzell hit 20 points, although he played only about half the game. Ber- nie Jones led the Portland State team with 12. Washington State handed Montana State its first home defeat in a lackluster game highlighted by poor marks manship on both sides. Wheaton of Illinois scored its sixth victory by downing San Jose State, 52-46. It was the Spartans' sixth straight defeat. Scores of other games: Pur due 78, College of Pacific 62; Loyola 80, Los Angeles State 77; Sacramento State 73, Red lands 60; Texas Western 75, Santa Barbara 54; Pueblo (Colo.) 54, Compton 40; Lewis & Clark 100, U. of Alaska 85; Monterey Peninsula 94, Mof fett 55. Two basketball series this week give Southern Oregon conference followers further opportunity to judge the com parative strengths of league members. Games involving Grants Pass high and Klamath Falls are the ones which bear not ing. Klamath Falls will play Friday and Saturday evenings against Marshfield at Coos Bay. Grants Pass will go to Roseburg on Friday and will entertain the Indians on Sat urday. Grants Pass and Medford each played Marshfield last week while Crater had an ear lier series at Roseburg. Medford will find its Friday and Saturday night opposition this week at South Eugene while Crater will go to Eagle Point on Friday and be "at home" to the Eagles on Satur day. Ashland, fifth member of the SOC, has a two-game weekend jaunt to Tillamook. Jackson County B league games tonight start off this week's prep cage slate in this area. Jacksonville is at Butte Falls and St. Mary's at Talent. Illinois Valley will vie at Rogue River also this evening. The two clubs are members of the A-2 Rogue loop but are playing non-counters this eve ning and on Friday, tussling at Cave Junction in the week end scrape. Friday B league scuffles are Talent at Prospect and Butte Falls against St. Mary's at Medford. A-2 Phoenix is host to Hen ley on Friday evening and goes to Brookings for e Sat urday encounter. Cincinnati Widens Lead In UPI Poll Pioneers Nip Bears Portland - (LTD - Lewis and Clark overcame a 49-37 half time deficit here Monday night to hand the University of Alaska Polar Bears their second defeat in two nights, 100-85. in a non-conference basketball contest. The Polar Bears were trounced by University of Portland here Sunday night, 94-57. The Pioneers and Alaska both had 36 field goals but Lewis and Clark hit 36 free throws in 56 attempts while the Polar Bears had 21 for 31. Ron Largos of Lewis and Clark topped the scoring with 24 points. Royce McDaniel had 18. Dick Hodge was high for Alaska with, 20 points. Seattle U. Gets Fifth Seattle (UPD The Seattle University Chieftains, last year's Western NCAA cham pions, picked up their fifth straight basketball victory Monday night by romping over Portland State, 85-36. Portland had a 14-12 lead after about seven minutes but the undefeated Chiefs sudden ly found the range and out scored the visitors 73-22 the rest of the way to take home the win. The Chiefs, who hit on 52 per cent of their shots from the floor, were in front 41-25 at the half and ran up 16 straight points as the second period opened. Jerry Frizzel and Charley Brown, although each played only about half the game, top ped the scoring with 20 and 14 points. Bernie Jones was high for Portland State with 12. New York -(UPD- Oscar Rob ertson-led Cincinnati widened its lead over Kansas State to day in the United Press Inter national ratings as the college basketball powers began the flurry of preholiday activity that is bound to realign the top 10 teams. Except possibly for 8th ranked Xavier of Ohio and lOth-ranked Texas Christian, there's trouble ahead for the eight other teams in this week's top 10. Runnerup Kansas State, which fell 53 points behind Cincinati in the second week- Hedrick Beats Out Eagle Point Hedrick Ninth graders breezed ahead of the Eagle Point high school freshman team to an easy 47-29 win last night at Eagle Point. The Eagle Pointers were hampered with sickness and injuries which removed some of their key men from action. Quarter score was 17-8, 26-10, 37-21 and 47-29. Hedrick had control of the ball from the very beginning doing an excellent job of ball hawking all through the game backed up by a tight man for man defense. FIGHTS Paris (UPI) G u s t a v Scholz, 164 'i, Germany, outpointed Ger minal Ballarin. 164',i, France (10). Cleveland (UPI) Rory Cal houn. 168 Ii. White Plains, N.Y., outpointed Ralph (Tiger) Jones, 154. Yonkers, N.Y. (10). Providence. R. I. (UPI Willie Greene. 156. Providence. R.I., stopped Johnny Saxton, 151 b, New York (3). Boston (UPI) Paul Pender. 160, Brookline. Mass., stopped Pete Adams, 168. Newark, N.J. (4). New York (UPI) Bennie (Kid) Paret, 153 li, Cuba, outpointed Vic tor Zalazar, 157,2, Argentina (10). There is at least one com munity in the U. S. which bears a name of one of the nation's ex-presidents. ly UPI ratings, takes, on two members of the select group fourth-ranked North Carolina State at home Friday night and ninth-ranked St. Joseph's of Philadelphia at Lawrence, Kan., Saturday. Third-ranked Kentucky is host at its invitational tourna ment next weekend and could wind up in the final against seventh-ranked West Virginia. F i f t h-ranked Northwestern plays in the Bluegrass Festi val at Louisville, Ky., along with such powers as Notre Dame, North Carolina and host Louisville. Following Kentucky in or der among the top 10 teams came North Carolina State, Northwestern, Michigan State, West Virginia, Xavier, St. Josepr's and Texas Chris tian. Indiana headed the second 10 group, followed by Tennes see and Utah. There was a tie for 14th place between South ern California and North Carolina; with Bradley, Mis sissippi State, UCLA, Purdue and Kansas rounding 'out the second,10 group in that order. In all, 40 teams received votes this week. lowed to score unmolested, Maryland still would have had a 54-53 lead and possession of the ball with just three sec onds left. But Maryland center Al Bunge fouled Coffman as he sank the layup. Coffman cool ly sank the free throw to tie the score. In the overtime a 15-foot jump shot by Johnny Cox and two free throws by Dick Parsons gave Kentucky the victory. Foul Shots Save Kentucky Free throw shooting kept Kentucky in the game most of the way. The Wildcats, out shot and outrebounded by Maryland, sank 24 of 29 free throws while Maryland sank only 14 of 27. Mississippi State, Purdue, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Rice were other highly - touted teams to post wins Monday night. All -America candidate Bailey Howell sank 38 points to lead 17th-ranked Mississip pi State to a 98-71 romp over Arkansas State, boosting his personal average to 32.5 per game. Purdue, ranked 19th nationally, was held to a one point halftime lead by touring College of the Pacific but then broke lose for a 78-62 win as Bill Elson hit 26 points. Rice Beats Tulane Roger Taylor's 20 points led Illinois to an 68-46 win over an Iowa State team that missed its first 18 shots. Wis consin retained enough of an early 13-point lead to beat Missouri, 68-60. And Dick Ball's 22 points helped Rice hand Tulane its first loss of the year, 60-51. In other leading games Monday night: Louisiana State scored more than half of its points on free throws to beat Texas, 52-47; Mike Moran's 21 points led Marquette to a 79-63 decision over Drake; Duke scored its first win, 68 61, over South Carolina as sophomore Howard Hurt tal lied 22; Jeff Cohen's 31 points for William and Mary paced an 82-69 win over VMI; poor shooting on both sides marked Washington State's 41-34 win over Montana State; Missis sippi held off a late rally to beat Southeast Missouri, 81 76; Seattle trounced Portland, 85-36; St. John's N.Y. drubbed Hunter, 91-52; and Nebraska beat Texas Tech, 54-46. MedforivJTribune OTI Forfeits Games, Conference Decides Portland - (UPD - Officials of the Oregon Collegiate confer ence met here Monday and approved the forfeiture of all games played by Oregon Tech nical Institute last football season because the school used four players who were ineli gible. k All of Oregon Tech's op ponents were . voted winners by scores of 1-0. The action followed charges that Oregon Tech used the four players to win the 1958 conference football title. Win ston D. Purvine, director of Oregon Tech, said the school unwittingly used the four players by incorrectly inter preting the number of hours credited to junior college transfers eligibility. " Purvine said sweeping changes have been made in the athletic policy at Oregon Tech, but did not elaborate. Other member schools agreed to defer final action until the spring meeting of the confer ence. Conference members also adopted an original motion from a group of coaches that the four Oregon Tech players lose one year of football com petition. The members voted, however, that all four can participate in other sports be ginning with the new term next month. Oregon College of Educa tion, which lost only one game last season-to Oregon Tech was offered the 1958 confer ence football crown but re fused it. The title was de clared vacated. All the conference schools were represented at the meet ing. They included Oregon Tech, Portland State, Eastern Oregon and Southern Oregon. Cincinnati Gets Rollins Philadelphia -(DPD- The Philadelphia Warriors, cur rently in last place in the eastern division of the Na tional basketball association, Monday traded Phil Rollins to the Cincinnati Royals for Vern Hatton. The Warriors later announ ced they had asked for waiv ers on guard George Demp sey, five year veteran and a member of the Philadelphia 1956-57 championship team. No cash was involved in the" deal between the War riors and the Royals. Cincin nati got negotiation rights to Phil Wheeler, former Cin cinnati university player who was drafted by the Warriors in 1956 but never played with them. ORANGE BEGINS DRILL Raleigh, N.C.-UPD-The Syra cuse University football team which will meet Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla., on Jan. 1, begins drills today at the North Carolina State university field. Syra cuse Coach Ben Schwartz walder plans two-a-day prac tice sessions while here be fore taking his 48-man squad on to Miami Dec 27. Go to Home Appliance Co. and buy your darling wife a G - E Garbage Disposal for Christmas It will cause her to love you more! Hawkinson Wins With Fast Shots SOUTHERN OREGON INDEPENDENT LEAGUE W. L. Grants Pass 1 0 Hawkinson Tire 1 0 Southern Oregon JV 1 0 Riddle 2 2 Butte Falls O 3 Pet. 1.000 1.000 1.000 .500 .000 Hawkinson Tire flashed to a 56-47 victory by piling up a series of fast buckets near the half last night in the St. Mary's gymnasium during In dependent league play againsf Riddle. The Riddle team took an early lead and had a spread of 19-7 then made it 25-12 during the major part of the first half. However, a series of quick buckets by Bob Serek, Ron Perry and Bob Plankenhorn near the end of the half pull ed the score up to 24-27, still in favor of Riddle. When the second half start ed Hawkinson Tire had a lead of 28-27 and were never be hind after that. By the time Riddle got 31 points Hawkin son had built up a 20-point lead of 51-31., Through the mighty efforts of Riddle's Betice the lead was closed to nine points but Hawkinson went on to win at 56-47. Bob Serak was high point man for Hawkinson with 24 points and Betice was high point man for Riddle with 13. Hunter Safety Training Will Start in Oregon; Local Level Instruction CIRCUS TO PERFORM Jacksonville, Fla. -(UPD -The famed Florida State university Flying Circus, made up of 55 students, will perform at half time during the 'Gator Bowl game between Florida and Mississippi on Dec. 27. Three acts will be going on simul taneously in three rings at midfield, director Jack Hask in announced. Portland "Hunter safety training on a state-wide basis is to start in Oregon." This statement was made last week by P. W. Schneider, state game director, before some 160 game commission employees at a three-day con ference at Portland. Schneider said that the pro gram being initiated follows several months of careful study and planning in con formity with the commission's instructions to the staff to de velop and place into operation a hunter safety program at the earliest possible date. "We have become increas ingly alarmed'at the number of hunter accidents each year," Schneider said, "espe cially those involving juvenile hunters. To implement the program immediately, I have appointed Cal Giesler as the commission's state-wide coor dinator of hunter safety in struction. Giesler has been working with representatives of the National Rifle associa tion in developing the details of the program." Voluntary Program Colonel Tod Sloan, western representative for the Nation al Rifle association, and Stan ley Mate, NRA training activi ties director, spoke before the group and outlined firearms safety programs throughout the nation and the methods and techniques used by the organization. Sloan mentioned that 22 states now have compulsory hunter training while several more, such as Oregon will op erate, have voluntary pro grams. In all these states, Sloan emphasized, the inci dence of accidents among per sons who have had proper in struction in the safe handling of firearms has been materi ally reduced. Giesler told the group that the main aim of the program is that youths between the ages of 10 through 18 in par ticular can be trained and made aware of the proper i n derstanding, appreciation, at titudes, and skills in outdoor manners and firearms safety. Owls Lose By 72-62 Klamath Falls (UPD - Tom Tracy's blistering 32-point at tack was too much for Oregon Tech as the Northwest Naza rene Crusaders dumped the Owls, 72-62, - here Monday night. In pacing the Crusader at tack, Tracy dumped in 14 field goals and four charity tosses. OH jumped into a brief lead as the game opened, but was unable to hold on to it as the Crusaders came racing back -and went ahead 41-27 at halftime. AUTO PARTS? v PADGETT AUTO PARTS 345 North Central STORE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday thru Saturday 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday Adults will be encouraged to avail themselves of the pro gram. To be successful the program requires the aid of all public spirited citizens. "In fact," Giesler said, we hope to secure the endorse ment, cooperation, and possi ble active participation from sporting goods dealers and merchants; church and parent teacher groups; civic organi zations; rod and gun clubs; city, county, and state offices; youth and conservation groups; and veteran, " farm, and military organizations. To Certify Instructors The certification of quali fied individuals as instructors will begin immediately, ac cording to Giesler. Certifica tion will be through applica tion, with applicants judged on experience in handling firearms, ability as an instruc tor, and the successful com pletion of an examination. Instructors certified by the game commission will also be certified by the National Rifle association. Persons now hold ing the NRA hunter safety certificate will be invited to become Oregon hunter safety instructors. To expedite the program, planning and operation will be on a local level through the regional offices of the game commission, with com mission representatives serv ing as advisors and liaison to instructors and cooperating organizations and agencies. To insure uniform instruc tion the NRA hunter safety course will be used through out the state. All students who pass the course will receive the validated state of Oregon certificate of competency with firearms. Peterson Gets U. O. Award Eugene (UPD Center Bob Peterson of the Oregon foot ball team Monday night be came the first junior ever to win the coveted Hoffman award, symbolic of the most valuable player on the web foot squad. Peterson was chosen by se cret vote of his teammates. The rugged linebacker from Coos Bay was picked on the United Press International All-Coast team and also was the sixth ranking center in the nation on the UPI's All American squad. The award has been won in the past only by seniors. Coach Len Casanova pre dicted Oregon would have a "splendid season next year de spite our recent hard luck." Casanova was honored by proclamation of Monday as "Len Casanova Day" by May or Edwin Cone in recognition of "outstanding coaching and leadership in his eight years at Oregon." Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf, di rector of personnel for the San Francisco 49'ers, was the banquet speaker. Snowmen Will Meet Thursday Rogue Snowmen, local ski club, will meet at 8 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 8, at the Red Cross building on Hawthorne ave. Slides will be shown of areas where Snowmen ski and a talk on first aid is to be giv en by Dr. E. W. Sickels. Lack of snow has prevented skiing by club members the last couple of weekends at Mt. Shasta and Crater lake. Go to Home Appliance and buy yovr adorable wife a G-E Mobile Maid Dishwasher for Christmas HFC makes loans for shopping expenses At Household Finance you may borrow money to take care of the extra expenses of the season or for any other good reason. 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