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Newspaper Page TextMAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Orejoii, Maiuhy, February 1 1 Tornado Wins 63-46 Over Crater Comets In Conference Tilt SOUTHER! OREGON' CONFERENCE STANDINGS W L Pet 9 2 318 8 3 .727 8 4 .667 2 9 .181 1 10 .091 Klamath Fails Med ford Grants Pass Crater Ashland Held in check for one per iod, the Medford Black Tor nado gathered up steadier mo mentum in the second quarter Saturday night and spun away to a 63 to 46 basketball vic tory over Crater high in the Southern Oregon conference. Medford, needing the tri umph to hang on to second place alone in the circut stand ings, injected some snappy passing and slick play-making and shot at a warm .403 av erage from the field to pro duce the victory. Jerry Anderson sparked the Tornado point tabulation and rebounding with 19 coun ters and 11 retrieves. Lowell Dean put in 13 points and Jerry Shults 11 for the Med ford cause. Loyal Higinboth am, making nine of 11 free tosses, had 17 points for the Comet cause and ballhawk ing Chuck Turner cleared the backboards 11 times and John Burns on nine occasions for Crater. The Comets gave it the old high school try against their "crosstown" rival. In the first quarter they kept the Torna do in check with a lively, scrapping defense and with a boost from free shots headed the Medford aggregation 1 1 to 10 at the end of the canto. 19 Point Splurge From that point the Torn ado lashed out and wouldn't be stopped. The Medford five poured in eight of their eve- nings 27 field buckets and tossed in three gift chances for a 19-point period. In the meantime, Medford continued a stiff defense. This resis tance and the Comet's cold ness on their shooting oppor tunities kept the Central Point crew from becoming a come back threat." Crater hit only .236 from the field for the night. Medford was in front 29 to 17 at the half and picked up another nine field goals and two free shots for 20 more points for 49 to 29 spread at the end of the third stanza. Biggest lead for the Tornado was 27 points at 56 to 29 with ZVa minutes played in the fourth quarter. Reserves start ed entering the fray in quan tity for Medford midway in GAME FORFEITED Lakeview (DPD Lakeview was awarded a 3.9-37 forfeit basketball win over Grant Union High here Saturday night after one of the officials was struck by a fan with 3:30 left in the game. Lakeview led by that score at the time of toe incident. WRESTLING TOMORROW NIGHT Grants Pass MAIN EVENT Wild Bill Savage, 223 lbs. vs. Nick Kozak, 210 lbs. what great match this will be! SEMI-FINAL "The Avenger" (who is this mysterious masked man?) vs. Don Manoukian. Tuesday 8:30 p.m. JOSEPHINE COUNTY FAIRGROUNDS ARENA ELTON OWEN, PROMOTER WANTED Car Salesman NEW and USED .Experience Not Necessary Earn While You Learn Crater Lake Motors Main and Fir the fourth chukker and IS Tornados saw duty. Big sen ior Pete Rasmussen, who had been sidelined by a back ail ment, was in action for the first time in many weeks. Crater got off to a 3 to 0 head start Saturday on a free shbt by Burns and jumper goal by Wayne Allen. It was 4 to 1 after Lowell Dean of Medford and Higinbotham traded gift throws. Dean then flipped in a couple of hooks for 5 to 4 Medford. Crater went back on top at 6 to 5 on charity chucks by Higinboth am. Dean hit again from the slot for 7 to 6 Medford but Burns connected twice from the free stripe for 8 to 7 Cra ter. George Koch netted a pusher from the side for 9 to 8 then Bill White got a field er and a free point for Comet lead of 11 to 9. Koch's free shot made it 11 to 10 at the quarter. Tornado Takes Over Anderson took a feed from Don Peek and netted the ball for 12 to 11 Medford 15 sec onds into the second period. Peek got two free shots and Jerry Shults gifter and field bucket. Then Anderson goal ed twice more on feed ins and the Tornado was in 21 to 11 control 2V minutes into the canto. Medford got its 27 field goals in 67 tries and Crater hit nine of 16. Edge in re bounding favored Medford 43 to 39. Two home games are on the docket for Medford next week end-Ashland on Friday and Grants Pass on Saturday. Crater goes to Klamath Falls next Friday. Tornado hooDmen won the jayvee prelim against Crater Saturday 61 to 47. They had a 16 to 9, 36 to 22 and 57 to 37 quarterly commands on the Comets. Tom White had 15 points and Dennis Edwards li lor Crater and Stan Dow- son 10 for Medford. BOX: Medford Anderson Deakins . Koch . L. Dean . FG 17-9 0-0 7-2 14-6 4-0 9-5 6-2 2-1 3-0 3-1 . 1-0 FT 1-1 1-0 1- 1 2- 1 4-2 2-1 2-2 2--1 0-0 0- 0 1- 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 R 11 4 7 5 4 8 2 ' 1 1 0 O 0 1 0 0 PF TP 3 13 DurKee Shults Peek Harvey C. Dean Ice D. Allen Rasmussen .. Frohnmayer 0 2 0-0 1-1 Konopasek 0-0 Olson 0-0 Totals .87-27 16-9 43 R 5 9 4 12 4 2 3 0 23 63 PF TP Crater FG FT W. Allen Bums B. White Turner Hieinb'th'm . 9-3 .10-1 . 6-1 9-2 14-4 . 2-1 . 4-1 . 1-0 0-0 5-4 3-3 7-1 11-9 5-2 3-1 0-0 5 6 King Pfaff Sharp Totals ..55-13 34-20 39 11 46 Referees Douglas and Bocchi. JUNIOR VARSITY GAME: 61 Medford Crater 47 F 8 Barry Cooper F 9 Ragsdale Sharp 7 C 3 Quinney Edwards 13 G 10 Dowson Foote 5 O 5 Jensen T. White 15 Substitutions For Medford. B. Lindemann 4. Sieg 4. Hoots 2. C. Miller 7. D. Miller 2. G. Lindemann. Gastineau, HamHiack 4. Humphreys 3. Bray: for Crater. Woods 2, Hunt ley, Anhorn 5 , Portland Star Athletes Held Portland -(DPI) Two high school athletes were arrested early Sunday in a charge of larceny from an automobile, police reported. Bail was set at $250 each for Arthur Junior Pierce, 18, leading scorer in the Port land . prep basketball league from Washington high, and Raye Stephen Renfro, 18, all- state backfield star for Jeffer son high last fall. The arrest came after Leon ard Cooper told police two youths were siphoning gaso line from a car parked near his home. Police said one of the youths told officers he in tended to pay for the gasoline. Phone SP 3-4547 i ' "w . i I MAPLECOTJRT DANCE-Wayne Allen (24) Crater, shooting, and Don Peek (25), Med ford, guarding, have ballet-like poses in basketball game at Central Point Saturday. Hoop Court Showdowns This Week United Press International This is "showdown week" along the college basketball front. Two crucial games, either one of which would be a pro moter's dream, will take place in Dixie. Second-ranked North Carolina (16-1) will entertain fifth-ranked North Carolina State (18-2) Wednesday night and top - ranked Kentucky (19-2) will host sixth-ranked Auburn (18-0), the .nation's only major unbeaten team, Saturday night. In addition to these classic presentations, eighth - ranked Bradley and ninth-ranked St. Louis collide again tonight at Peoria, 111., Utah will place its perfect Skyline conference record on the line against Denver, its chief challenger, Thursday night, and Prince ton and Dartmouth, unbeaten in the Ivy league, meet on the Indians' home court Saturday night. Art Tyler Sled Victor St. Moritz, Switzerland-TOPD -Bobsled champion Art Tyler retired on advice from "the boss" today but left himself an "out" just in case his wife changes her mind. The 43-year-old physicist from Weston, Mass., piloted his homemade sled to . the world bobsled championship Sunday, and then, after a hur ried conference with his wife, Agnes, announced he was re tiring from the dangerous sport. Tyler and his crew of Gary Sheffield of Lake Placid, N. Y., Parker Vooris of Bell more, N.Y., and Marine Lt. Tom Butler of Saranac Lake, N.Y., captured the title with an aggregate of five minutes, 10.82 seconds for four runs down the twisting,, one-mile St. Moritz Olympic chute. An Italian sled captained by Sergio Zardini was second and a German sled skippered by Franz Schelle was third. The other U.S. sled, piloted by Stan Benham of Lake Placid, N.Y., was eighth in the field of 13 sleds from eight countries. HOCKEY NATIONAL LEAGUE United Press Iniernaiional Coach Phil Watson of the New ' York Rangers who wields the biggest "whip" in the National Hockey league, has introduced a new wrinkle in an attempt to snap his club out of its longest losing streak in two years. v When the Rangers dropped their fifth straight game to the Montreal Canadiens, 5-1, Sunday night at Madison Square garden, Jatson was so infuriated he ordered his players back on the ice for an exhausting 43 - minute workout. In Sunday night's other NHL action, Bronco Horvath and Johnny Bucyk scored in the third period to earn the Boston Bruins a 3-3 (deadlock with the Chicago Black Hawks and Gordie Howe fig ured in three goals in the fi nal period as the Detroit Red Wings bounced the Toronto Maple's 4-2. The Buffalo Bisons, after struggling through a surpris ing slump, have re-opened a six point lead in the American Hockey league pennant race. The Queen City skaters re gained their scoring punch just in time Sunday night to defeat the Cleveland Barons, 4-2, while the Providence Reds knocked off second place Her shey, 5-3. The Rochester Americans, battling to nail down fourth place and the final berth in the playoffs, ripped the Springfield Indians, 5-1, in Sunday's other AHL game. 4. MEDFORDv'iSiTRIBUNE sipaDiHnrs Huskies Have Big Opportunity in PCC PCC STANDINGS CONF. ALL, W L W L California Washington 8 7 7 15 14 12 12 13 Stanford Oregon State 6 USC 5 UCLA 5 Idaho 4 11 9 11 Oregon 3 Washington State .. 2 9 10 9 12 WCAC STANDINGS CONK. W L ALL W St. Mary's COP Pepperdine Santa Clara Loyola USF San Jose State 6 O 5 2 5 3 4 3 3 5 12 10 11 13 6 11 9 7 12 4 15 5 16 1 4 1 8 United Press International The clock, is running out in Washington's battle to ov ertake California in the Pa cific Coast Conference basket ball race, but the Huskies get a chance tonight when they host Southern California. . A victory over the erratic Trojans would nudge coach Tippy Dye's Huskies up to within a half-game of the pace-setting Bears. A loss would just about wreck the hopes of a Washington team which has won six straight since getting off to a rocky start. Doug Smart was on his stick again Saturday night as he poured in 20 points to help boost Washington to a 75-59 victory over Oregon State. However, California also kept Jacksonville Talent Club JACKSON COUNTY B LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet 10 3 .769 9 5 .643 8 5 .615 . 7 6 ,646 0 13 .000 St. Mary's .. Jacksonville Butte Falls . Talent Prospect Talent plays St. Mary's in Medford and Butte Falls vies at Jacksonville high in Jackson County B league basketball games on Tues day night. . Jacksonville - Jacksonville high had a 10-point bulge on Talent after three quarters Saturday night but were forc ed into overtime to beat the Bulldogs 46 to 50 in a Jack son County B league basket ball game. Henry Vessel put in two free tosses and Doyle Bran som and Dick Griffin each a field, goal for Jacksonville in Yardley Shines , In Nat Start United Press Iniernaiional Newly - acquired George Yardley could prove the "little extra" the Syracuse Na tionals needed to clinch a berth in the National Basket ball association playoffs. Making his first appearance in Syracuse since being ob tained from Detroit, Yardley scored five key points during a crucial second period stretch that brought the Nats ahead and helped them to a 121-101 victory over Philadelphia Sunday. Bill Sharman poured in 31 points in leading the Boston Celtics to a 120-94 victory over the Detroit Pistons at Boston. The New York Knicker bockers snapped a five-game losing streak by licking the Cincinnati Royals 124-97. BRUCE CALDWELL DIES West Haven, Conn. -0JP&-Bruce Caldwell, who starred in football for Yale and- play ed baseball briefly with the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn Dodgers, died Sun day in Veterans hospital at the age of 52. Other Medf ordites with eyes on the ball are Ken Durkee (21), Lowell Dean and Jerry Shults, right. Medford won 63 to 46. -(Knackstedt photo) winning by knocking off UCLA, 64-51, behind the 23 points of Denny Fitzpatrick. UCLA predominated on the boards, outrebounding the Bears 43-28. But Cal put the ball where it really counted. Walt Torrence, the mighty UCLA guard, scored 22 in a lost cause. It was the second defeat of the week end for the Bruins,' who succumbed to Stanford the previous night and dropped to sixth place. In the meantime, the In dians nailed down third spot with a 64-53 victory over Ore gon. ' Jim Ross, Washington State's five foot, eight inch guard, fired a 20-footer in through the threads with six seconds to play which gave the Cougars a 77-75 thriller over USC. It was only the second conference win of the season for the downtrodden Cougars, who walloped UCLA early in January. Pepperdine took over third place in the West Coast Ath letic conference with a brace of wins while league-leading St. Mary's sat it out. The Waves defeated hapless San Jose State, 68-52, Saturday to follow a rousing 90-78 tri umph over Santa Clara Fri day. Overcomes in Overtime the overtime. Score after the fourth canto of regular play was 40-all.' The Redskins got only one field goal for two points by Vessel in the fourth frame aft er leading 38 to 28 at the end of the third. They were .the victims of Talent defense, steals and interceptions, of violations and of fouls as the Bulldogs caught up. Ron Welburn led the Talent rally with nine points in the period. He had two field goals and five free heaves. In the final seconds of the fourth he hit the tying free 'throw but missed a second shot that would have put Talent ahead. Vessel grabbed the rebound for Jacksonville. Jacksonville . suffered a blow in the loss by fouls of Ken Perreard, a mainstay, early in the fourth quarter. Talent had seen its own Kip Walls retired on infractions in the third. The 'Skins led at the quar ter 11 to 10 and at the half 27 to 20. Perreard scored 15 points before his services were cut short. Ron Welburn had a 13 total for Talent and his brother, Rollie, had 12. Talent won the junior var sity game with Johnson put ting on 26 tallies. Lee Peters had 13 for Jacksonville. Victory gave Jacksonville varsity third place by itself in the B sandings. LINE-UPS: 46 Jacksonville F 15 Perreard F 8 Bransom C 4 Vessel Talent 40 Knudsen . Seaver 9 Walls 2 G 10 Griffin Ron Welburn 13 G 6 Davis Rol. Welburn 12 Substitutions For Jacksonville, White 3, Hanley: for Talent, M. Jacobs 2. Pittman 2, Butler. HOLLIS MAY QUIT Eugene 0PH Orlando John Hollis, dean of the University Of Oregon law school, had no immediate comment Sunday on reports that he is resign ing as Oregon faculty ath letic representative after the final Pacific Coast conference meeting at Seattle in May. "I'm sorry but I have no com ment to make at this time," he said. .'. Raiders In OCC OCC STANDINGS Top Hoop W L Pet. 10 1 .909 10 3 .769 6 6 .500 2 9 .182 2 11 .154 PSC . SOC EOC OCE . OTI Ashland - Southern Oregon college gained a 48 to 41 vic tory over the stubborn zone defense put up by Oregon College of Education basket ball quint Saturday night in Monmouth. Both hoop squads employed the zone to good advantage but the luckless Wolves of OCE could never find the range while the Raiders can ned 18 of 54 field goals. Raider guard Gordie Car rigan was high for both sides with 18 points and teammate Jim McAbee tied with OCE's i j Tucson Golf Title Won By Littler Tucson, Ariz.-IUPD-Gene Lit tler is really back on his stick with consecutive tourn ament wins at Phoenix and Tucson, and the touring golf pros knew it as they headed today for the Texas Open in San Antonio. The San Diego blond, orrce touted as4he successor to Ben Hogan as golf's big name, roared out of the pack Sun day to win the $15,000 Tuc son Open. He beat out Art Wall Jr., the money-bags of the 1959 tour from Pocono Manor, Pa., and Joe Camp bell, the promising rookie from Knoxville, Tenn. The back-to-back victories at Phoenix and Tucson put Littler second in money win nings, behind Wall. He pock eted $2,000 here on his 72 hole score of 65-67-68-66-266. That was 14 under par on the El Rio Country Club course, known as one of the easiest on the pro tour. Six Strokes Overcome Littler charged from six strokes back to overtake Campbell, who insisted it was "my putter, not pressure" that cost him top money here. Campbell, leader after the second and third rounds, blew to a fourth round 73, three over par, for a 72-hole total of 267, and second place tie with Wall, who upped his 1959 winnings to $11,630. Lit tler's 1959 earnings now to tal $7,083. One stroke behind Wall and Campbell came Doug Sand ers, Miami Beach, Fla.; Mas ters champion Arnold Pal mer, Latrobe, Pa., and Bill Johnston, Provo, Utah. Savage Slated Against Avenger Grants Pass-Promoter El ton Owen has lined up two outstanding matches for a big wrestling card this Tuesday night at the Josephine County fairgrounds arena. Wild Bill Savage will meet young Nick Kozak in the main event. Savage scrambled the big German, Karl yon Himmler, last week after he finally blew his top at the German's rough tactics. Bill is a pretty rough wrestler himself, and he has a fine basic knowledge of lev erage grappling. His pet hold is the neckbreaker in which he sits on his opponents back and pulls up and back on the head. Kozak defeated Shiroma in two straight falls last week. Nick is just a little faster than Savage but he will be giving away fifteen pounds. The one hour semi will introduce the mysterious masked man, The Avenger. The Avenger will meet Don Manoukian, the ex-Stanford football great. Louise Suggs Takes Tourney St. Petersburg, Fla.-flJPD-Louise Suggs won her first St. Petersburg Open tburna ment the hard way. The' veteran golfer from Sea Island, Ga., blew a five stroke lead in the final round but still managed to outlast Mickey Wright of Sonita, Calif., on the third hole of a sudden death playoff. Both women finished the regulation 72 holes with a 282, Miss Wright firing a four-under par 67 in the final round to Miss Suggs' 74. 17 Builders Supply fcffS. QUALITY pZ BLOCKS Ll .-Js-rI Dr'n Tile yl Bricks,- Flues. sl' W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Wolves Hassle Gary Henry for second high honors with 12. SOC's zone defense was the best it has employed this year which was evident by the fi nal score and 21 to 16 half time edge the Raiders held. Secure in Second t Coach Ted Schopf s Raiders now stand securely in second place in the Oregon Colleg iate conference with a 10-3 record and a chance for first place. They need to conquer Portland State ' twice next week end. In the first half at Mon month the Wolves managed to stay within two or three points until the closing three minutes when the men of SOC went from a 14 to 10 lead to the 21 to 16 margin. The second half was typi cal of the first until the clos ing minutes when the Wolves switched to a pressing man-toman offense. Three untimely fouls of the Wolves put the Raiders out of reach in the last two minutes. If the men of SOC win their next three games in the OCC it would assure them of at least a tie and, if Portland State would lose one more, the Raiders would wrap up the OCC title. BOX: OCE FG FT PF R TP I Spencer 3 0-0 5 6 6 Johnson 3 2-2 112 8 Henry ; 3 6-8 0 8 12 Sherk 1 2-2 3 5 4 Nve i. 0 0-0 4 1 0 Hartei 0 3-3163 Fast 0 0-0 0 3 0 Peterson 1 0-0 0 12 Weeks 2 2-4186 Ward 0 0-0110 Totals 13 15-19 16 51 41 SOC FG Biddington 3 McAbee 4 DOlivo 3 Carrigan ........ 7 Meunier 1 V'annice 0 Sword 0 Smith 0 FT O-l 4-5 3- 4 4- 6 0- 1 1- 2 0-0 0-1 PF R TP 2 11 6 12 9 18 2 1 0 0 Totals 18 12-20 15 37 48 BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE RESULTS United Press International (East) Niagara 79. Youngstown 64 St. Bonaventure 85, Detroit 64 LaSalle 72. Duquesne 65 Columbia 87, Pennsylvania 77 Seton Hall 43. LIU 38 Penn St. 74. Rutgers 56 Holy Cross 82, St. Francis (N.Y.) 68 Manhattan 76. Canisius 67 Fordham 79. St. John's 77 (OT) Dartmouth 76. Yale 72 (Souths William & Mary 109, Washington & Lee 62 Furman 90, George Washington 89 Mississippi St. 105. Florida 68 Vanderbilt 76. Tennessee 60 St. Joseph's "6. Wake Forest 67 Louisville 68, Marquette 55 Auburn 115, Louisiana St. 67 West Virginia 64, Richmond 62 Kentucky 71. Notre Dame 52 (Midwest) St.. Louis 64. Drake 46 Kansas St. 60. Oklahoma St. 49 Dayton 65. PorUand U. 58 (Southwest) Houston 68. Tulsa 56 Texas A&M 53. Texas Tech 52 TCU 76, Arkansas 71 Wyoming 91. New Mexico 64 Arizona 66, Hardin Simmons 64 Utah St. 74, Brigham Young 47 Colorado St. 60, Denver 52 (West) Seattle Pacific 84, Portland St. 53 Southern Oregon 48, OCE 41 EOC 79, Oregon Tech 53 College of Idaho 82. Linfield 69 Willamette 64. Whitman 50 PLC 97. Puget Sound 65 California 64. UCLA 51 Santa Clara 48. Loyola 45 Cal Poly 67, San Diego St. 52 Chapman 104. Westmont 77 Washington 75, Oregon St. 59 Idaho St. 73. Colorado St. 61 Air Force 79. Regis 76 Stanford 64, Oregon 53 Washington St. 77, USC 75 Pepperdine 68, San Jose St. 52 HEMMiTCA(GE A FINE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON Nature's None at liiIier prices! Golden grains, Kentucky's deep limestone water plus time, skill and the patience of a farming man make Old Hermitage one of the finest natural products on the market . THE OLD HES-ULVjE CO, LOUlSYKii, fcX DISTR1BUIEJ BXJABONAl WSBilERS PRODUCTS (XX 86 PROOF. vj rants rass I rims Ashland High 53-45 Ashland-Grants Pass high's eight more points at the free throw stripe made the differ ence here baturaay nigni when the third place Cave men defeated Ashland in Southern Oregon cenference maplecourt action. . Each club put in 18 field goals and GP had the free chuck edge 17 to 9. Grants Pass was on top only 35 to 33 when the third quarter concluded but took advantage of a Grizzly lull to widen its lead to 10 points in the early part of the final canto and to 15 with three minutes to play. Forrest Scores 18 Doug Forrest and Jim Bjork of Ashland with 18 and 13 points, respectively, were the scoring leaders for the night. Rodger Burton had 12 and Johnnie Olson and Rex Benner each 11 for the Cave men. Ashland scored first in the game but once the urants Pass team got in front it Christie's Tops Tiremen In AAU Cage Ashland Christie's Silver Dollar ,of Grants Pass toppled Hawkinson Tire Tread of Med ford 73 to 52 here yesterday afternoon in the play-off of the Jackson-Josephine county AAU basketball toga. The game also counted in the Southern Oregon Indepen dent league for Grants Pass, erasing from the schedule a game which had been set be tween the two quintets to night. Hawkinson's matched pace with the Christie's for the first half which ended 25 to 24 for the GP crew. In the sec ond half Hawkinson's was cold at the start and Grants Pass stretched to 45 to 28 be fore the Tiremen could get in stride again. Fifteen points at 55 to 40 was the closest the Medford team could then come. Widest difference for Willamette Leads Again United Press International Willamette was back in the driver's seat of the Northwest Conference today after tem porarily being dropped to second Friday night when the Bearcats lost to Whitman and Linfield was topping College ,of Idaho. The Bearcats regained the top rung Saturday night by whipping Whitman 64-50 and Linfield was dropping an 87 69 verdict to College of Idaho. Tonight, Willamette (9-2) meets College of Idaho and Linfield (8-2) is at Whitman. Pacific and Lewis and Clark were idle Saturday. Buz Wilfert paced Willam ette to its win by scoring 17 points. As a team Willamette shot ,470 from the field to Whitman's 260. Linfield's ace Jack Riley was held to 10 points while Ed Merritt was scoring 23 points for the Coyotes. finest bourbon better even 35 toso 45 Qt. pt. stayed there. Counts were 22 to 15 at the quarter and 28 ' to 21 at ttie half. Ashland came within one point of the Cavemen at 33 to 34 in the third stanza. The clubs were just about even in everything but shoot ing. Ashland hit 18 of 53 from the field and Grants Pass 18 of 54. Grants Pass had only three more rebounds, accord ing to the charts. Grants Pass' 17 free tosses were on 24 shots and Ashland's nine were on 14 tries. BOX: Grants Pass FG Olson 4 Sabin 0 Burton 4 Hayes 2 Benner 5 Erickson 0 Chandler 0 Fox 3 FT 3 3 4 5 1 0 1 0 PF 0 0 4 2 2 0 0 3 TP 11 3 12 9 11 0 1 Totals ..18 11 S3 Ashland Forrest Bjork Smith Johnson Taylor S temple . Allen FG 8 6 1 1 0 0 2 FT 2 . 1 1 2 1 1 1 PF 2 ' 4 4 2 3 0 3 TP 18 13 3 ' 4 1 1 5 Totals . ..18 9 11 45 Play-Offs Christie's was 73 to 50. . Don Reese was the scoring leader for GP with 31 tal lies. He had 15 field goals, 11 of them in .the second half romp. Most of his shots were at fair range from the hoop. Derald Wooton had 19 points for Hawkinson's. Power failure forced post ponement of a Hawkinson's league game at Butte Falls on Saturday night. Lights were out when the Tiremen ar rived. After a while they came on again. The clubs dressed for action and the lights went out again. Southern Oregon college Junior varsity plays at Grants Pass on Wednesday night in a league ruckus. LINE-UPS: 73 Christie's Hawkinson's 52 T 31 Reese Jones 4 F 8 Dean Madden 2 C 4 Bertrand Wooton 19 G 12 Heater Serak 7 G 5 Tlynn McCay Substitutions -For Christie's, Maurer 4. Jacobson 9; for Hawkin son's. Niles 4. Witte, Smith. I". Johnson 6, D. Johnson 2. i win rT i r i m m fircstonc STORES 214 South Riverside Ave. Phone SP 2-7119 n n n n n 6 1 TO 5 U KENTUCKY M I