Bears Tighten Up Grip
On First Place Position
San Francisco -(LTD- Walt
Torrence's basketball stock
continued to boom today as
UCLA's fizzled.
The latest coach to get on
the Bruin guard's bandwagon
was coach Pete Newell of
Cailfornia who claimed that
his team was "fortunate" to
beat UCLA last Saturday
night even if the final score
was 64-51.
"I think Torrence was a
tremendous problem for us to
handle," Newell said of the
game which saw the Bears
take a tighter grip on first sion of the NorthernCalifor-
place in the Pacific Coast con
ference race and the Uclans
lose their fourth straight.
"We played him with five
men and there were many
times when he made a basket
with two on him."
Newell added that Torrance
might have clicked on 13 of
his 18 shots if they had not
been deflected at the basket.
As it is, Walt finished up the
fight with 22 points.
Newell made his observa
tions at Monday's weekly ses-
Sport
Parade
By
OSCAR FRALEY
United Press
International
New York-UPII-Almost three
years after his self-exile from
Hungary, Laszlo Tabori still
is trying today to strike off
the chains of loneliness.
"It was very bad at first,"
he admits. "I couldn't even
read the signs. But, while the
English, it still bothers me, I
am doing better."
Studying English at San
Jose college and working at
the Santa Clara youth center
has filled the gaps as he
trains morning and night in
an attempt to regain the
heights he once strode as one
of the world's finest runners.
Three years ago he was one
of Hungary's record-smashing
trio along with Sandor Iharos
and Istvan Rozavolgyi. Laszlo
had run a 3.59 mile at Lon
don in 1956 in a race in which
Britain's Chris Chataway and
Brian Hewson both had run
3:59.8. His hopes were high
for a 1,500-meter and 5,000
meter double in the Olympic
games at Melbourne.
Hungarians RsyoU
But shortly after the Hun
garians left for the Olympics,
their countrymen rose up in
a vain but storied effort to
win their freedom from Rus
sian domination. Tabori, a
one-time army lieutenant, was
frustrated to be so far away
from the action.
"It was impossible for us
to train properly in those
three weeks before the Olym
pics," recalls the slender, long
jawed man with curly chest
nut hair. "We certainly
couldn't keep our minds on
such things as sports."
It is no alibi. It is merely a
firm statement of fact. It also
accounts for the fact that Ta
bori ran fourth in the J.500
meter race and sixth at 5,000
meters. Then .he joined the
freedom flight along with 35
of his countrymen to the
United States.
Others Go Home
"They were terribly lonely
days," says the little man.
"Sandor and Istvan went
back home. They had the wife
and childs. I didn't hear from
my mother, father or sister. I
was in a strange country and
couldn't speak the language."
For a time Laszlo thought
of going back to his native
land. He worked in a ' shoe
factory and at various other
jobs. And, finally, he began
to absorb English.
Currently he is East to run
in various indoor meets. He
was second to Ireland's Ron
Delany in the Philadelphia
Inquirer meet in 4:06.8 and
Saturday ran second to Chi
cago's Phil Coleman in a
4:08.6 race at the New York
AC games. This Saturday
night he'll compete in the Na
tional AAU championships.
nia Basketball Writers and
Broadcasters association.
Bears Face Road Trip
Turning to a three-game
road trip which faces the
Bears, Pete indicated that he
was looking forward to their
second invasion into the
Northwest.
"We don't want to be class
ed as a home court team,"
Newell said. " It will be a
tough trip but we play well
away from home. And the
team that wins on the road
this year will win the confer
ence title."
The Bears, sporting a road
mark of three wins and two
defeats, are at Washington
State Friday, Idaho Saturday
and Oregon State Monday.
Jim Weaver, the St. Mary's
mentor, worried over the fact
that a lame back might side
line Dick Sigaty, the veteran
guard on the eve of three key.
games this week. The Gaels
meet the University of San
Francisco tonight.
"If Dick cannot start we'll
use Al Claiborne," Weaver
said. "He'll do a fine job if
he gets the confidence."
Denny Fitzpatarick of Cali
fornia, who was named play
er of the week off his 23-point
performance against UCLA,
said that such confidence fig
ured largely in his own shooting.
Ex-Champ
Favored in
Ring Bout
Regular Slates Near End
In Two Prep Conferences
Regular season play in the
Rogue league and also in the
Jackson County B circuit, ex
cept for one make-up game,
comes to a close this week
end while the Class A-l
Southern Oregon conference
has this week end and two
more to go in its basketball
competition. ,
Three Rogue league high
schools are still in hot con
tention for two berths in the
District 6 A-2 hoop play-offs
and in the B circuit St.
Mary's, leader in the race for
the championship, is being
pressed by three challengers.
Among the Rogue clubs, Il
linois Valley (6-1) winds up
its regular slate as host to
Eagle Point (5-1) at Cave
Junction on Friday. On the
same night Phoenix (1-6 and
out of the running) goes to
Glendale (4-2). Final tussle on
the loop schedule is Glendale
at Eagle Point on Friday.
Tie Could Result
The Rogue champ qualifies
for the district play-off auto
matically but the second place
team must meet Henley for
the second berth from the
southern division of the dist
rict. Illinois will have the title
alone if it beats Eagle Point.
Victories by the Eagles in
both their games will give
them the diadem. Glendale is
still in the running for a co
title and should EP beat IV
and Glendale trim both Phoe
nix and Eagle Point a three-
All-Time High Reached in Sale
Of Hunting Fishing Licenses
state, if it could be computed,
Portland Oregonians in
greater numbers each year
are turning to the sport of
hunting and fishing for their
recreational outlet. This fact
is borne out by the sale of
hunting and fishing licenses
last year which set a new all-
time high, surpassing' the 1957
record sales by more than
50,000 licenses.
Figures disclosed by the
game commission show that
some 579,200 individual li
cense sales were made last
year compared to 529,061 in
1957. The total sales figure
will probably be somewhat
higher since about 2 per cent
of the license agents have not
filed final returns. This is the
third straight year that the
number of hunters and fish
ermen in Oregon has passed
the half million mark.
The total number of hunt
ers and fishermen in the
V - 1
....
ON MAT CARD The Avenger,
above, will face Don Manouki
an on the pro wrestling card
at Grants Pass this evening.
The masked man will appear
in the one-fiour semi-main
starting at 8:30 p.m.
is undoubtedly much higher
than the recorded license sales
since thousands of youngsters
under 14 years of age who
may fish or hunt small game
without licenses are not rep
resented. Nor are landowners
who require no license to
hunt small game or to fish on
their own property.
The daily angling license,
which went on sale last year,
proved popular with a sale
of 72,366.
way titular knot will result.
. Henley play-off is billed for
Feb. 27 at Klamath Falls and
the full district run-off for
March 6 and 7 at Ashland.
In the B league tonight
Butte Falls is at Jacksonville
and Talent meets St. Mary's
at Medford. St. Mary's plays
at Butte Falls on Friday and
Prospect at Talent. St. Mary's
then will have a make-up
with Prospect, possibly next
Monday.
B Play-Off
County play-off is set for
Feb. 26 and 27 at Eagle Point
with the first and fourth
teams and second and third
of the conference season meet
ing on opening night. If the
conference champ fails to win
the tourney, it will play the
tourney winner on Feb. 28 for
the right to meet the Klam
ath county champion for the
District 5 banner.
Talent and Jacksonville
have caught fire in late sea
son games and they and Butte
Falls each have a chance to
catch front running St.
Mary's. The Crusaders of Med
ford have particularly tough
assignments against Talent
and Butte Falls.
Medford high will have
Southern Oregon conference
contests on consecutive nights
at home, opposing Ashland on
Friday and Grants Pass on
Saturday. The Black Tornado
needs triumphs over both foes
to keep in the conference run
ning. Crater goes to Klamath
Falls on Friday and Ashland
to Klamath on Saturday.
nms
. At its farthest point, the
moon is 252,710 miles from
earth; at its nearest, 221,463
miles.
New York -flJPD- Twin win
streaks will be risked
Friday night when Gene Full
mer, former world middle
weight champion, and Wilfie
Greaves, Canadian champ,
fight at Madison Square Gar
den in a featured bout on this
week's boxing schedule.
Fullmer of West Jordan,
Utah, is favored at 3-1 to reg
ister his ninth straight victory
against Greaves of Windsor,
Ont., who has a string of 13
consecutive Wins.
It's a v return bout. When
Gene was champion, he won
a non-title decision over Wil
fie on Jan. 28, 1957.
Fullmer, campaigning for
a return shot at the 160-pound
crown, is ranked second
among contenders by both
the Ring magazine and the
National Boxing association.
Twenty three year old
Greaves will try to smash into
the rankings in this fight.
Their 10-rounder ' will be
televised and broadcast na
tionally by NBC.
Heavyweight Scrap
Wednesday night's TV fight
brings together heavyweight
contenders Mike DeJohn of
Syracuse, N.Y., and Sonny
Liston of Philadelphia at the
Miami Beach Exhibition hall.
Liston, boasting 15 straight
victories, is favored at 13-5
over lanky Mike, despite their
practically equal ratings. De
John is rated ninth by the
NBA and 10th by the Ring.
Liston is ranked ninth by the
Ring and 10th by the NBA.
Each is a good puncher. Son
ny scored 13 knockouts while
winning 22 of his 23 bouts.
DeJohn registered 25 kayoes
while winning 36 of his 42
starts.
Welter contender V i n c e
Martinez of Miami Beach is
slated for a 10-rounder with
unbeaten young Denny Moyer
of Portland, Ore., at Portland,
Tuesday night. It will not be
televised.
OTHER FIGHTS:
Tuesday: Richmond, Calif Tony
Domingeuz vs. Joe Neal. San An
tonio, Tex. Zuany vs. Dean Bo
gany. Wednesday: Tokyo Pascual
Perez vs. Kenji Vonekura non.
title. Albuquerque, N.M. Art Per
sley vs. Joe Limos.
Thursday: Los Angeles Baby
Vasquez vs. Jimmy Hornsby. Boise,
Idaho Glen Burgess vs. Luther
Rawlings.
Saturday: Hollywood. Calif.
Pelone Cervantes vs. Billy Peacock.
Stakes Headed
By Tomy Lee ,
Arcadia, Calif. -(UPD- Top
three - year - olds, headed by
Tomy Lee, make their final
stakes start prior to the $100,-
000 Santa Anita Derby in
next Saturday's $50,000 San
Felipe Handicap at Santa
Anita.
Tomy Lee was beaten in
his only start of the meeting
in the San Vincente Stakes by
Ole Fols who comes back to
oppose' him again in the San
Felipe. The race also brings
out the well-regarded Royal
Orbit for his long-awaited
duel with Tomy Lee.
The mile and a sixteenth
race includes in its interna
tional field Sundown II and
Die Hard. Both Tomy Lee
and Ole Fols are English-bred
horses. Sundown II won his
first start in this country by
breezing to a five-length win
on the turf course.
Orlando Hollis Resigns Post
As UO Athletic Representative
Eugene-(UPD-Orlando J. Hol
lis, dean of the University of
Oregon law school, resigned
today as Oregon's athletic fac
ulty representative effeclSve
June 30, on the eve of the
scheduled breakup of the Pa-
Vacation anglers cific Coast conference.
and nonresident anglers took
a decided drop from about
29,000 in 1957 to a little over
18.00Q last year. Resident an
glers ' took a drop of about
4,000 but was almost compen
sated for by an increase in
the sale of resident and spe
cial combination licenses. Ju
venile anglers remain approx
imately the same.
The total number of per
sons licensed to fish within
the state including the combi
nation license holders was
327,678. This figure does not
include the more than 72,000
daily license issued since tour
ists and occasional . anglers
could have purchased more
than one. During 1957 anglers
numbered 337,341, not includ
ing some 23,000 daily salmon
angling licenses issued.
Resident hunters increased
from about 162,000 tow ell
over 171,000. Juvenile hunt
ers jumped about 1,000, while
nonresident hunters remained
about the same.
SUSPEND JOCKEY
Miami, Fla.-OJPD-Bobby Us-
sery, Hialeah park's leading
jockey with 31 victories, be
gins a 10-day suspension on
Wednesday for rough riding
in the fourth race here last
Saturday. The suspension will
deprive him of his mount on
A Dragon Killer this Satur
day in the $100,000 added
Widener Handicap.
The resignation was an
nounced by Dr. O. Meredith
Wilson, university" president,
who praised Hollis for his
conscientious efforts which
he said "saved the university
a position of dignity in most
trying circumstances."
Dr. Raymond T. Ellickson,
head of the physics depart
ment ot the university, was
named to succeed Hollis.
'With Regret
"Since the conference for
which he has performed so
ably is about to tie dissolved
it seems only fair to relieve
him of a most difficult assign
ment," Dr. Wilson said, add
ing "it is with regret that I
do so."
Hollis has held the position
since 1940. He said he was
confident that "the faculty
athletic staff, alumni and
friends of the university are
firmly committed to the fun
damental policy of permitting
on this campus only one kind
of an athletic program-a pro
gram which is directed and
administered by men of in
tegrity, which is worthy of
inclusion in the activities of
a state university and which
affords in all respects a desir
able kind of experience for
young men."
Hollis was an advocate of
the round-robin PCC football
schedule and often was under
fire by critics in southern
California!
Work Praised
, Dr. Wilson, praising his
work, said he had served Ore
gon for 19 years with distinc
tion and "at difficult times he
has worked for honesty and
truth whether it meant reor
ganization of our own athletic
program or discipling of oth
ers." Penalties against some
PCC members helped lead to
the breakup of the PCC.
Dr. Wilson described El
lickson as a distinguished
scientist and educator who
will "continue the tradition
of honesty and truth in athle
tics which have distinguished
the period in which Dean Hol
lis has served us."
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NEW WORLD'S RECORD His face contorted by strain,
Don Bragg clears the bar at 15 feet, W2 inches to set a
new, world record for the indoor pole vault. Bragg, a for
mer Villanova University vaulter and now with the U.S.
Army, set the new record at the Philadelphia Inquirer
Charities track meet at Philadelphia.
STANDINGS:
1
Rogue Valley .
Y ettes
W.
4
4
Central Point Womens 4
Gold Hill 3
Y'Nots 2
Eagle Point Girls 1
Crater Girls 1
Griffin Creek 0
Five matches are on the
schedule this Thursday eve
ning in the tournament of the
Medford YMCA women's vol
ley ball club. ',
Matches on the regular
slate will be Eagle Point
against Griffin Creek, Y'Ettes
against Gold Hill, Y'Nots
against Crater girls and Rogue
Valley against Central Point
women. Gold Hill was unable
to play its tussle last week
with Rogue Valley and that
will be made up at 7 p.m.
this Thursday.
The Y'Ettes and Central
Point continued in a second
place tie with victories last
Thursday. Central Point de
feated Crater 15-11, 15-4 and
Y'Ettes beat Eagle Point 15-7.
15-3. Y'Nots won 15-6, 15-1
from Griffin Creek.
TOURNAMENT OFFICIALS
Richmond, Va. - (UPD - Zig
mund Mihalik of Ford City,
Pa., Philip S. Fox of Wash
ington, D.C., Lou Bellow of
Raleigh, N.C. and Curly
White of Cheverly, Md., will
officiate at the Southern con
ference basketball tourna
ment here, Feb. 26-28.
The fer-de-lance, a poison
ous American pit riper, may
reach seven feet in length.
MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Tuesday, February 17, 1939
Moyer, Martinez To Clash
Portland, Ore. -4UPD- Denny
Moyer, 19, and Vince Mar
tinez, 29, both with eyes on
the welterweight champion
purchase the new York fran-10-rounder.
Martinez, the veteran from
Paterson, N.J., with a 61-6
record, was favored to end
Moyer's 19 -fight victory
string. .Both wound up stren-
Baptist, Christian
Clubs Win in Loop
First Baptist and . First
Christian made their ; records
2-0 in the YMCA men's church
basketball league with Satur
day night wins.
The Baptists whipped First
Nazarene 48 to 37 and First
Christian nicked Presbyterian
56 to 54.
Zimmers had 14 Doinus for
Nazarene and Quails nine for
Baptist. Helm had 24 markers
for Christian and Erion 22
for Presbyterian.
FIGHTS
United Press International
New York (ITPtl-Hill Unnt
ker, 218. Pittsburgh, Pa. (10).
Baltimore. Md. (UPD WaVne
Bethca. 205, New York, knocked
out Warneli (Boom Boom) Lester.
183, Bel Air. Md. (10).
Boston (UPI) Joe De Nucci.
165 ii, Newton. Mass.. ttonnpd Ike
Jenkins, 157',s, New York (3).
Philarlntnhia . TTDTt T ..
tnews. Philadelphia, stopped Ray
Lancaster. Spartansburg, S.C., (2).
TTamna ITlo TTDTi A n m1 n--
cla. 136 '.'4. Havana, Cuba, defeated
Henry Ferguson, 140, Nassau,
Bahamas (10).
uous training Sunday and
were expected to weigh in at
about 148 Vi pounds.
Martinez, who has scored
31 knockouts in his career,
will be up against a sharp
young boxer in Moyer, who is
hoping for a title shot here
this summer against Don Jor
dan if Jordan gets by ex
champ Virgil Akins in their
upcoming match.
Martinez, who lost to Akins
in an elimination bout, also
has title aspirations. He de
feated Stefan Ridl at Newark
last December in his last
fight.
SPORTS
BASKETBALL
MONDAY COLLEGE RESULTS
United Press International
West Virginia 99. V.M.I. 55
Massachusetts 80, Connecticut 79
Furman 53. Citadel 52
Maryland 77. Clemson 58
Mississippi St. 76, Georgia 59
Alabama 89, Louisiana St. 84
Auburn 79. Tulane 56
Michigan 90. Iowa 86
Purdue 94. Indiana 89
Illinois S3. Wisconsin 54
, Michigan St. 71. Northwestern 60
Butler 92. Notre Dame 89
Wichita 65, Houston 63
Kansas St. 75, Oklahoma 55
Oklahoma St. 59. Iowa St. 54
West Texas St. 84, Arizona 78
Colorado 65, Kansas 53
Portland 69, Regis 64
College of Idaho 57, Willamette
47
Washington 75, Southern Calif. 55
Seattle 88. Gonzaga 68
Linfield 65. Whitman 55
Pacific Lutheran 86, Montana
State 65
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