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J 1 in ! i it Ashland High Noses Crater In 1st Hoop Win of Season Central Point Ashland High school's Grizzlies went over the mountain Saturday night. And, what a wonderful sight they saw. They had it all over the proverbial bear. In addition to the other side of the mountain, they viewed with jubilation their first basketball victory of the 1958-1959 season-a triumph enthusiastically welcomed af ter 15 straight defeats. Jim Bjork, Don Taylor and Doug Forrest turned in the heavy scoring and Forrest and Clark Smith the strong work under the backboards as the Ashlanders overcame their long frustration and nosed out the Crater Comets 55 to 53 here in a Southern Oregon conference game. The way the sparked up Grizzlies went about it, they would have given any club in the circuit a tremendous run on Saturday. But, they had to stage a torrid and stir ring uphill battle in the sec ond. And, after a brief peek over the summit, they requir ed an overtime against the slowly yielding Comets to cinch the winning nod. Taylor's Bucket Wins Taylor's drive in bucket with a minute yet to go in the extra session was the de ciding goal after a regular playing time route of 53-all. Even then a Crater last ditch effort came close to bringing on a second and sudden death added period. A two-hand shot by Loyal Higinbotham from deep midcourt hit the front of the basket rim as the over time buzzer sounded. The Ashlanders kept the ball moving expertly and steadily in their set 'em offen sive style and blazed away at a .500 average from the field to erase a 12-point mid-way deficit of 22 to 34. They still trailed 41 to 45 going into the fourth quarter, caught up at 49-all with five minutes still to play in the stanza and were leading 53 to 51 when a lone jump goal by Wayne Allen for Crater with 27 sec onds left sent the fracas into extra time. Bjork ran up 21 counters, Taylor 18 and Forrest 11 in the Grizzly winning cause. Taylor and Bjork flipped in five field goals each and For- Art fAni in tho cpmnH half XCOfc : splurge. For Crater Higinboth- . U J H nninfc urii h n 1 no I for- nine from the free line. Bill White had 14 and John Burns 12. Taylor Scores Three A recovery shot by "Bjork started out the fourth quar ter for Ashland. Higinbotham got a pair of charity heaves for Crater for 47 to 43. Tay lor, man of the, hour, sank two long jumps and a driver to put the Grizzlies on top 49 to 47. White scored for the Comets on an Allen feed but Forrest hit from outside for 53 to 51. Allen then contrib uted his knotting goal. After two minutes of ten sion in the extra, Taylor slic ed in for the winning bucket. With nine seconds left in the session, the Comets' White fouled Smith, with Crater hoping for a missed toss and a recovered rebound. Smith did miss, but Ashland controlled the ball. Seconds later, however, the Comets had the ball out of bounds in the back court. They called time out with three seconds on the clock. In a calculated move, Allen passed to Higinbotham who fired the long two-hander. It was. a valiant try and almost paid off. But the ball bounded from the rim and hoop. Cra ter's chance was gone and Ashland had its triumph. Crater Tops 2nd Period The Teams were even in the first quarter which ended with Crater high on top 15 to 14. Crater, fast-breaking with a good, well knit team effort and perfect free throwing, dominated the second chuk ker. When halftime came the Comets led 33 to 22 and ap west Klamath Falls f f M H Round Trip Excursion Fare $7.40 plus tax . For Information and Reservations Phone SPring 2-7269 ! peared to have firm grip on the game. It looked like a bright varsity coaching debut for new coach Lloyd Hoffine. But, the Grizzlies, after a momentary setback, growled out in the third panel and clawed away the Crater mar gin. Comet offense and de fense, tough in the first half, faltered before the Bruin rampage. Chuck Turner potted a gift er for Crater in the opening seconds of the third quarter for 34 to 22 spread but Ash land rose up to score six field goals while Crater pick ed up three points for the 45 to 41 intermission stand ing. 16 For 32 Ashland had only- eight field goals in 29 tries in the first half but sank 16 for 32 for the rest of the way and had a .387 average for the game. Crater put in 11 buck ets on 26 shots in the first half and seven for 26 in the second for a game mark of .346. The-Comets came close to taking the tussle at the free toss line with 17 points in 24 shots to Ashland's seven for 18. Crater had 11 for 14 in the first half. In rebounding Ashland showed a 34 to 31 edge with Mounties Defeat Raiders To Split OCC Southern Oregon con tinues Oregon Collegiate conference hoop action this week when it tangles with Oregon Tech in the Raider gym beginning at 8 p.m. This is the third encoun ter of the year for the two clubs. On both previous oc casions the Raiders tri umphed. Coach Ted Schopf will go with his usual line-up of center Dave D'Olivo. for wards Punk Biddington and Hawkinson Club Plays JV Toni ight Southern Oregon Independ ent Basketball loop action is billed for a Medford court to night. ' Hawkinson Tire Tread is host to Southern Oregon col lege junior varsity at Mc Loughlin gym. After two wins over 'the week end- the jayvees have lone lead of the loop. Hawk inson's is third in the stand ings. SOC downed Butte Falls Saturday and Riddle Sunday. Game time is 8 o clock to night. Viks Trip Pirate Five Phoenix - Myrtle Creek High A-2 top-rated Vikings fought away after a close first quarter to down the Phoenix High basketball team 59 to 29 at Myrtle Creek Saturday night. First canto count was tied at 11 each. The Viks were ahead 24 to 15 and 38 to 21 at the other stops. Phoenix started well against a MC zone defense and had an 11 to 7 lead. In the second quarter the Vikings went to man-to-man protection and took charge. Myrtle Creek worked for a lot of easy baskets, particularly in the 59 Myrtle Creek Phoenix 29 F 11 Lindquist MacKintosh 9 F 10 Earwood Sloper 3 C 10 Klimback Blessing G 2 Thompson ;.. Reese 5 G 13 Trask Consbruck 6 Substitutions For Myrtle Creek. Bell 4, Watson 3. Davidson 2, Kin ney 2, Paine 2: for Phoenix. Bar low 2, McClurg 4, Caster, Richey. Flovd. a The Vatican state was es tablished by a treaty with Italy during 1929. cons? ninuncs Forrest getting 11 retrieves and Smith eight. Burns col lected nine for the Comets. Ashland also won the jun ior varsity tussle with a come-from-behind performance. Fi nal score was 43 to 37 after Crater had led 27 to 22. The Central Pointers were on top 21 to 18 at halftime. Crater was in front 32 ' to 29 after three cantos. Steve Harris was top scoremaker with 19 for Ashland. Denny1 Edwards hemped 12 for Crater. Ashland Forrest Taylor Bjork .. Johnson Smith Stemple Totals FG ...15-5 ,.21-9 17-9 . 2-0 FT 2- 1 3- 0 4- 3 5- 2 3-0 1-1 PF TP 5-0 2-1 ..62-24 18-7 34 18 55 Crater FG FT R PF TP Turner 7-1 3-13 5 3 Burns 10-5 2-2 9 2 12 B. White ...11-6 3-2 6 3 14 Pfaff 4-1 1-0 12 2 Allen 11-2 4-3 5 2 7 Coop-i- 2-0 2-0 0 0 0 Kin 0-0 0-0 10 0 T White .. 0-0 0-0 1 0 0 Higinb'th'm 7-3 9-9 5 2 15 ToUls 52-18 24-7 31 16 54 Referees Swanson and Flink. JV LINE-CPS: 43 Ashland F 19 Harris F 6 Alley C 4 Voris Crater 37 Sharp 6 T. White 4 Edwards 12 G 6 Dickerson Cooper 4 G 3 Cameron H. Woods 2 Substitutions For Ashland, Gray 3. DeBoei. Jackson 1. Stewart 1, Tucker; for Crater. Foote, Neil son, Anhorn 5, J. Allen, Johnson 4. Cage Series Don Vannice, and guards Gordie Carrigan and Jim McAbee. OTI sports two new play ers in Dennis McKee and ex-SOC forward Norm Oliva who just recently be came eligible. Ashland Larry Howard led the Mounties of Eastern Oregon to a 74 to 70 come-from-behind victory Saturday night in LaGrande to gain a split in the two-game basket ball series against the Red Raiders of Southern Oregon college. Howard hit 10 of 20 field goal tries and 10 of 11 gift tosses for the high scoring honors at 30 points. The Mountie guard hit 14 in the first half and 16 in the second stanza. Dave D'Olivo was high for the Raiders with 17 followed by Punk Biddington with 15 and Gardie Carrigan with 14. The game proved to be one of the most exciting the Raid ers have played thus far this year which is evident by the fact that the lead changed hands 11 times and the score was tied seven times before the Mounties got an unsur mountable lead in the closing minutes. "SOC's Raiders now stand 7-3 in the Oregon Collegiate conference second only to Portland State who is first with a 9-1 mark. Both the Raiders and the Mounties hit 26 field goals but the difference was from the free throw lane where EOC hit 22 of 35 while the Raiders managed only 18 of 29. The win for the Mounties was their first in the four game series which saw the Raiders win the first three by decisive margins of at least 15 points each time. D'Olivo was high in the re bounding with 16 steals and the Mounties Jerrold Baxter grabbed off 13. BOX: EOC FG Neel 5 Arritola 5 Baxter 3 Chase 3 Howard 10 Bamhart 0 Hudspeth 0 Paulson 0 FT 5-8 1- 5 2- 4 4-7 10-11 0-0 0-0 0-0 PF 5 3 5 3 4 0 0 0 TP 15 11 8 10 30 0 0 0 74 TP 15 4 17 8 14 8 0 4 0 70 Totals 26 22-35 21 39 SOC FG FT PF R Biddington 7 1-3 4 5 Vannice 1 2-3 3 4 D'Olivo . 7 3-5 3 16 McAbee 2 4-7 5 12 Carrigan 5 4-6 5 7 Meunier 3 2-2 12 Love 0 0-0 0 0 Smith 12-3 3 6 Sword 0 0-0 0 0 Totals .26 18-29 24 52 come aboard the jet age mm prop-jet v- w a. COMET FIRES Bill White, Crater, fires at the hoop while Clark Smith (40), Ashland high, defends in Saturday night Southern Oregon conference basketball. Ashland surged in the second half and topped the Comets 55 to 53 in over time. It was Grizzlies' first win of the season. Watching the play are Earl Cooper (22) and Loyal Higinbotham (30), Crater, and Jim Bjork (42) and Doug Forrest (52), Ashland. St, Mary's, Talent Top Foes in Jackson League JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS W L St. Mary's 10 2 Pet. .833 .583 .583 .455 .000 Butte Falls 7 Jacksonville 7 Talent 6 Prospect 0 5 6 12 St. Mary's of Medford for tified its Jackson . County B league basketball lead at the expense of -the second place aggregation Saturday night, whipping Butte Falls high 50 to 38 here. Talent brought its loop standing to even status by downing Prospect 43 to 30 at Prospect. , The Crusaders of SM wrote down their 10th league win against two defeats, handing the Loggers their fifth loss. The setback enabled idle Jack sonville to share second place with Butte Falls. The Talent Bulldogs ran up their sixth victory in the cir cuit and their fourth straight. St. Mary's had a close game on its hands until midway in the fourth quarter when Cru sader fast breaking and ball hawking broke t he contest open.' Rebounding of Gary Miksche and Dick and Bob Evans were boosts to the SM cause. Butte Falls headed 8 to 7 at the quarter and 19 to 16 at the half and St. Mary's was on top 30 to 28 after three cantos. Edwin Ellis had 16 points for BF and Dick Evans and Roger Hout each 15 for SM. Dick Evans had 12 re bounds and Bob nine while Miksche collected 10. Talent had 12 to 5, 17 to 12 and 32 to 21 spreads at the quarters. Ron Welburn paced scorers with 17 for Talent and his brother, Rollie, had 11. Bob Fitch and Floyd HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE United Press International If Phil Watson's ulcers are flaring up again today, you can blame it all on Bronco Horvath and Ron Murphy, two of his former charges on the New York Rangers. Horvath, who always plays his best hockey against ' his former teammates, scored twice in each period in lead ing the Boston Bruins to a 4-1 victory over Watson's Rang ers Sunday night while Mur phy, traded to Chicago by New York two years ago, fig ured in four goals as the Black Hawks whipped the Toronto Maple Leafs, 7-2. In Sunday night's other league game, the pace-setting Montreal Canadiens snapped out of a surprising slump by downing the Detroit Red Wings, 3-1. The week end results en abled Chicago to open a four- point lead over the Rangers in their battle for second place while the Bruins pulled to within one point of New York. AMERICAN LEAGUE United Press International Fred Glover, the Cleveland Barons' veteran center, picked up the 700th and 701st point of his American Hockey league career in a losing cause against the Providence Reds Sunday night. The 31-year-old Toronto na tive reached the 700-point mark by assisting on a first period goal by Eddie Mazur and drew another assist on a third period score by Bob Barlow. However, the Reds won the game, 6-4, on a four goal burst in the final session. ,In Sunday night's other league games, pace-setting Buffalo edged Springfield, 4-3 on a third period goal by Wally Hergesheimer while Rochester and Hershey battled to a 3-3 tie. i Scaife were high for Prospect with nine each. In junior varsity game St. Mary's won 31 to 26 and Tal ent 52 to 40. Roger Ellefson had 11 points for Butte Falls and Mike Austin eight for St. Mary's. 50 St. Mary"s ' Butte Falls 38 F 15 D. Evans Hemsen 3 F 6 B. Evans Ferguson 6 C 6 Miksche Abbott 8 GSR. Haley Ellis 16 G 15 Hout Cavin 5 Substitutions For St. Mary's, Frazier, Shasky, Yates 3, Cooper, H. Daley; for Butte Falls, Ellefson. 43 Talent Prospect 30 F M. Jacobs Chapman 5 F Walls Hall 3 C 9 Pittman Davidson G 17 Ron Welburn Fitch 9 G 11 Rol. Welburn Scaife 9 Substitutions For Talent. Butler 2. Seaver 4: for Prospect,. Sweat 2, Jantzer 2. Veeck Gets Option on Sox Stock Chicago ItTPD - Bill Veeck will own controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox come the 1959 season, it ap peared certain today, but cur rent Vice President Chuck Comiskey insisted he still was "doing business at the same stand"-a stand rapidly crowd ing to capacity. Comiskey had no comment to the revelation that his sister, Mrs. Dorothy Rigney, sold an option on her. 54 per cent of Sox stock to Veeck for $2,700,000. If Veeck fails to pick up his option, the stock will go to the local in surance broker Charles O. Finley for the same price. Finley already has slapped down a $500,000 deposit. Veeck only has paid $100 for his option but his lawyers al ready have drawn up all the papers. Continue With Plan "We will continue with our plans to buy the stock," Veeck said. He said his option was "not for sale" and he definite- PUT IT TO THE TEST! 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But he was the key factor in the Beaver St. Louis Near NBA West Toga The St. Louis Hawks need only two more victories to clinch at least a tie for the Western division title in the National Basketball associa-tion-and they have 18 games in which to do it. The Hawks, who defeated the Boston Celtics for. the NBA title last season came from behind in the final pe riod Sunday to defeat the Philadelphia Warriors, 100 93. It marked their fifth vic tory in eight games this sea son over the Warriors and was their 38th in 54 games. The Celtics, who are eight and one-half games in front of the second-place New York Knickerbockers in the East ern Division race, posted an easy, 136-117 triumph over the Cincinnati Royals. The Celtics set one record and tied two others on the way to victory. ' 20 FG In Period When they scored 20 field goals in the third period, the Celtics wiped out the old league mark of when set dur ing the 1956-57 season and tied by the Detroit Pistons last season. Tommy Heinsohn, who scored 36 points in all, hit for 10 baskets in the same period to tie a record shared by Cliff Hagan of St. Louis and Dick Garmaker and George Mikan of the Minne apolis Lakers. The second record they equalled came when they scored 48 points in the third period, matching the old mark set by the Baltimore Bullets in 1952. The Syracuse Nationals ended Ney York's string of nine straight victories over them by defeating the Knick erbockers, 113-104, in the na tionally televised game of the week and the Minneapolis Lakers zipped to a 115-103 victory over the Detroit Pist ons in other games. ly intended to go tnrough with his deal to Mrs. Rigney. Comiskey has filed a three pronged court petition aimed at spiking sister Dorothy's sale but it nevertheless ap peared that even if the court ruled favorably toward Com iskey, the situation's lone change would be the date on which Veeck takes over pos session. Currently, it appeared he would assume the helm be fore April 4. 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Crater 53 (OT) Pendleton 71, The Dalles 44 Hermiston 45, La Grande 40 ' Cottage Grove 59, Roseburg 50 Lakeview 60, Burns 48 Myrtle Creek 59. Phoenix 29 Ontario 48. Vale 39 1 OPEN TONIGHT 'TIL 9 7.10-15 22.88 7.60-15 24.88 Pitn excite tax and trade-in ffre Don't take chances! Enjoy fhe safety of Super Deluxe tires . . . now built with Super strong Nylon or Tyrex. Rugged cord body takes hard road poundings plus "King-Row" tread provides extra traction. 20-month guarantee. Whitewalls also on Sate! all 6-voh US 95 most T2-vefl with trade-i.. CLUB -mi NEWS G. E. Stitchers The G. E. Stitihers met Feb. 2 at Edge Oak Dairy at 10:30 a.m. The members sewed in the morning and had lunch at noon. Mrs. Edge and Mrs. Gar dener served valentine re freshments of cookies and ice cream. After lunch we had a busi ness . meetinff. LinHn Mnn lead the flag salute and Donna Young lead the creed. Instead of saying "present" for roll call we had to desrrilv differ. ent events that happened dur ing me month. At the next meeting w have to describe the valentine we like best and why. We elected a new vice Dresident because Debbie Norris moved away. Linda Moore is the new vice president. After the meetine we sewerl until 3:30 p.m. Our next meet ing wm be t eb. 28. ' Janet Burk, Reporter. I- NEW RIVERSIDE "24" Si ort power equak or coeds original qutpmoitt 3 Hmo more) rewrttemco to overchargo. No. 1 bet. killer 2 timex more resistance) to undercharge, No. 2 hot. killer Greater charge acceptance full power after draining Extra electrolyte for extra plate protection Extra shock end impact re- sistant rubber case
