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0 8 MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, March 1, 1959 Cincinnati, Bradley Favorites In College Tourneys; Bearcats Oust Top-Ranked Kansas State By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press International Cincinnati and Bradley, who waged a bitter title fight in the Missouri Valley con ference race, were clearly stamped as fa-ites today in the two biget post-season basketball tournaments but look out for those upstart teams like Louisville. The NCAA tourney champ will be crowned Saturday L'niled Press International Here are tbe all-tournament teams picked by sports writers and broadcasters at the four NCAA regional tourneys which concluded Saturday night: Charlotte. N.C. Jerry West, West Virginia; Jay Metzler, Navy; Bob Cumings. Boston L'niversity; Joe Spratt and John Egan, St. Joseph's, Pa. Evanston, 111. Don Goldstein, Louisville; John Green and Bob Anderegg. Michigan State; Ben nie Coffman, Kentucky; Don Kojis. Marquette. Lawrence, Kan. Oscar Robert son. Cincinnati; Bob Boozer and Don Matuszak, Kansas State: H. E. Kirchner. Texas Christian; Bowie Carl. De Paul. San Francisco Darall Imhoff, Al Buch. and Denny Fitzpatrick, California: Jim Rodgers, Idaho State; Laroy Doss. St. Mary's, Calif. night in Louisville, Ky. - and right now the experts figure it will be national scoring king Oscar Robertson and his Cincinnati Bearcat playmates, The National Invi t a t i o n tournament will conclude with a nationally televised game Saturday afternoon - and top-seeded Bradley still Is the pick to become cham pion for the second time in three years. What does form mean after the way early-round games have been going in both tour naments? Who could figure that Louisville, with 10 los ses, would whip both Ken tucky and Michigan State? The four regional winners in the NCAA pair off Friday night at Louisville this way: For eastern title-West Vir ginia (27-4) vs. Louisville (19- 10). For western title - Cincin nati (25-3) vs. California (23- 4- Only Top Team Alive Cincinnati, which handed nationally top-ranked Kansas State an 85-75 whipping in the Lawrence, Kan., regionals Saturday night, is the highest ranked team (No. 4) left alive in the competition. That, and Robertson, make them the choice. Robertson was outscored by All-Ameircan Bob Boozer of K-State, 31-24, in their personal duel but State paid the penalty for concentrating on stopping "the big O" -Oscar's pass-offs set up team mates for 26 additional points. Louisville, conquerer of second-ranked Kentucky Friday night, amazed again by blast ing third -ranked Michigan BOWLING ROGUE ROLLERS Standings W L O.K. Market 29 11 Desert Service 26 14 Skeeters . 25 15 Kachina Room 22 18 Henry s 21 19 Harry & David 19 21 Kim's 19 21 Elk Lumber 19 21 Twin Plunges 18 22 Chuck's Market 16 24 Economy Market 15 25 FNB ... 11 29 Results: Economy Mkt. 1 (Leg? 407) 1863; Twin Plunges 3 (Gross 466 1890. Kachina 4 (Miller 407 1938; Skeeter s 0 (Hollenback 419) 1815. Kim's 1 (Morton 430) 1917; Henrv's 3 (Mang 422) 1957. FNB 2 (Swanson 364 1858; Elk Lhr. 2 (Dickenson 481 1 1841. Harrv & David 0 (Marsh 388) 1994; Chuck's 4 (Shaffer 491 2118. Desert Service 1 (Minger 430) 1944; OJC. Market 3 (Phipps 485) 2085. Split Conversions Marion An derson 6-7-10: Gayleen Packwood 5-10. Loretta Morton 6-7-10. Betty Minger 5-7, Honey Hobbs 5-7. INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Standings W L Richfield Oil 62 l',a Graham Elec'xic 6 2 City Hall . 6 2 Kim's 6 2 Snoboys 5 3 Desert Service 5 3 Eagles 4 - 4 National Cash Register 4 4 Standard Oil Co 2',i 5'i Rail Rogues 2 6 Oregon Roof & Paint Co. 1 7 Red Blanket Lumber Co. 0 12 Results: Richfield 3'i (Dunphy 524) 2836; Standard i (Fowler 494) 2782. Desert Service 1 (Kula 529) 2702; Cash Reg. 3 (Spain 544) 2866. Oregon Roof 0 (Parrish 492) 2643; Kim's 4 (McNeel 496) 2764. Graham 3 (Still 482) 2762; Rail Rogues 1 (Kidd 477) 2759. City Hall 3 (Compagnoni 568) 2827; Eagles 1 (Weber 521) 2757. Snobovs 4 (Couch 496) 2690; Red Blanket 0 (Fuller 475) 2583. State, 88-81, once again Peck Hickman's Cardinals came from behind with hot shoot ing - .571 against Kentucky, .543 against Michigan State. State led, 43-40, at intermis sion but Hickman "made some adjustments" and Louis ville opened the second half with 12 straight points and even a 29-point performance by State ace Johnny Green couldn't stop the Cards. Louisville Redhot Despite its poor overall rec ord due to a 5-6 slump in De cember, Louisville is red-hot now with 10 wins in the last 11 games. West Virginia was hard pressed to beat - Boston uni versity, 86-82, in the Char lotte, N.C, regional finals and once again, as in the Friday win over St. Joseph's, the Mountaineers were saved by All-American Jerry West. This time West tallied 33 points and now has 94 in three tour ney games. California will toss the na tion's No. 1 defense 51.56 points per game and a 14 game winning streak at scor ing champ Robertson. The Bears shackled St. Mary's (Calif.), 66-46, in the San Francisco regional finals Sat urday. Bradley Impressive Winner Bradley, 1957 NIT cham pion, was an impressive 83 77 winner over Butler in its quarter-final game at Madison Square Garden Saturday night. The Braves, who lost out to Cincinnati in the Mis souri Valley race on the last day of the season, blew almost all of an early 11-point lead but showed real class in rally ing to win comfortably, led by Ban Smith's 24 points. Unseeded St. John's also gained the NIT semi-finals by beating third-seeded St. Bon aventure, 82-74, as sophomore star Tony Jackson led the war with 27 points and 17 re bounds. First-round NIT games Saturday saw Provi dence beat Manhattan, 68-66, on John Egan's 30-foot shot and NYU rout Denver, 90-81. In NIT quarter-finals Tues day, St. Louis meets Provi dence and Oklahoma City plays NYU. Semifinals are on tap Thursday. Tennessee State, ranked the nation's No. 1 small-college team by the UPI Board of Coaches, stre ngthened its claim by winning the NAIA tournament at Kansas City, beating Pacific Lutheran, 97 87 in the finals and taking the title for the third straight time. Kashey Makes Grappling Debut At- Grants Pass Grants Pass-The main event action at the Josephine county wrestling arena this Tuesday night will introduce Al Kash ey, a real highly touted new comer, against the rough and rugged Wild Bill Savage. Kashey has been a sensa tion in Portland, Salem, Eu gene and other Oregon cities. He is a real handsome and fast moving ball of fire who loves action and the more rugged the better. He wrestled in Mexico City just three weeks ago before 17,000 fans and held their champion to a two-hour draw. Kashey has also seen much action around Oklahoma City, Los Angeles and Houston. Matchmaker Elston Owen rates him as the same type of boy as Nick Kozak, only with much more experience. He will need all of his sensational drop kicks and spinning toe holds to stay in there with Wild Bill. Savage pulled on a mask of his own and knock ed The Avenger silly on last week's card. To Vie for Title Savage may be the new Northwest Heavy champ the next time he appears here as he is meeting Francis for that title on Friday night in Port land. The one-hour semi-final will match two strong rivals in the persons of Nick Kozak and Haru Sasaki. Handsome Nick is well liked by the Grants Pass area fans and this protege of Stojack's will be trying to give the little Jap an air plane spin. Sasaki is a judo expert and a real sneering, sneaky Jap. Nick was unable to get his spin on Ed Francis last week but won on a foul. The big gest crowd of the year was on hand last w eek. Matches start at 8:30 pjn. State A-2 School Hoop Tussle Starts Coos Bay -(UPD- The 1959 Oregon class A-2 high school basketball tournament, for schools with 150 to 500 stud ents, opened here this after noon on the Marshfield High school floor. Myrtle Creek met Philo math in the tournament open er and Junction City played Newport. Night games match Mac-Hi and Stayton at 7 p.m. and Seaside and Coquille at 8:45 p.m. Mac-Hi and Myrtle Creek were the early favorites. The Mac-Hi team from eastern AAU TRACK SET Eugene -(UPD- Eugene will be the site of the Oregon AAU track and field cham pionships July 4, this year, it was announced Saturday by Dr. Ralph Christenson, presi dent of the Emerald Empire association and Buck Gray son, president of the AAU in Oregon. BEST SPORTING NEWS OF THE CENTURY THIS WEEK! Pensaeola Golf Won By Harney Pensaeola, Fla. - (UPD - Paul Harney trained his sights on the rich Las Vegas invitation al tournament today as he picked up his first-place money for the Pensaeola Open golf tournament. Harney won the tourna ment Sunday with a 72-hole total of 269, a new record for the four-year-old tourney. The victory automatically quali fied him for the Las Vegas match next summer. The slender professional from Worcester, Mass., en tered the second half of the tournament Sunday with a five stroke lead. He fired a seven-under-par 65 in the morning round and followed it up with a 70 to finish three strokes ahead" of his closest challenger, Jay Hebert, San ford, Fla. Bob Rosburg, Palo Alto, Calif., who went into the final round in second place, tied at 276 with Chandler Harper, Portsmouth, Va. Slate Adopted By NW League Portland - (UPD - Officials of the Northwest league met here Sunday, . elected officers and adopted a schedule for this year. The league adopted a 141 game split season schedule. The season will open April 24 and close Sept. 7. The first half closes July 2 and the second half starts July 4. Officials also voted to stage an all-star game with the win ner of the first half title play ing a team of all-stars from the rest of the league. The game would be played on a Monday night in July in ac cord with the champion's home schedule. Jim Fleishman was re-elected president. Serving with'him will be Tom Marchant, Lewis ton, Ida., first vice president, and Frank Graham, Eugene, second vict president. The league consists of Eu gene and Salem, Ore., Yak ima, Wenatchee and Tri-City, Wash., and Lewiston, Idaho. The opening day will see Eugene at Salem, Yakima at Tri-City and Wenatchee at Lewiston. I Oregon had only a ' 19-8 won lost record for the season, but played a tougher schedule than did many of the other entries. The Pioneers also have a veteran team with a starting lineup of five sen iors. Myrtle Creek, from south ern Douglas county, rolled up an impressive 23-1 mark for the season, best of the field. Other season's records in clude Philomath 19-3; Junc tion City 17-7; Newport 20-4; Stayton 18-2; Seaside 17-5 and Coquille 20-3. Stayton has all-state Mike Cruson back again this sea son but he suffered a leg in jury against Canby 11 days ago and is not in top shape. Gary Bogle leads the well liked Mac-Hi team. He's scor ed 412 points this season. Co quille, which might be called the host team, is led by Jim Jarvis, son of Coach Curt Jar vis, who has scored 528 points in 23 games this season. Myrtle Creek lost its only game early in January to Newport by a 49-40 score. CBS Tells Plan For Broadcast Of Baseball New York-(UPD-The "Game of the Week" program to be televised by the Columbia Broadcasting system during the coming major league base ball season actually will be two games per week, accord ing to plans announced today. CBS said.it will telecast a big league game every Satur day and Sunday afternoon this year, starting on April 11, with 25 Saturday games running through Sept. 26 and 24 Sunday games running through Sept. 20. Games at New York, April 11-12, be tween the Yankees and the Boston Red Sox will inaugu rate the series. The series will be telecast nationally except into major league cities in which a game is in progress. Telecasts are "blacked out" within 50 miles of cities in which the gam'e being televised is being played. Swim Classes . Open Tuesday Women's swim classes are starting their second session this spring on this coming Tuesday, March 17. The classes will run for 10 sessions on Tuesday and Thursday nights. Beginning swimmers meet from 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. and advanced swim mers meet from 8:30 to 9:30 a.m. Members of the YMCA can take the lessons free of charge. Non-members must take out a limited privilege membership. The first session of classes, which started last month, were almost filled to capac ity, and the new groups will be held to 20 swimmers. More lessons will run through the summer following this period. Dutch Farfan will again in struct the classes. In Grandad's Day, the place to go for extra cash when you needed it was Household Finance, And that's just as true today. Every year more than 2 million families get prompt, courteous loan service, at HFC. When a loan will solve your prob lems, you too can borrow with confidence at HFC. Household makes loans op to $1500 with np to 24 months to repay. Household Finance of course! America's oldest and largest consumer finance company Life insurance on your loan available at low group rat OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SPring 3-5301 Open Monday Evening till 8:00 P.M., Saturday till 1:00 P.M. TRUST MedforivS&Tribuni sipcmits BLACK TORNADO ALL-STATER-Jerry Anderson, above, Medford high eager, has added all-state laurels to his all Southern Oregon conference honors. He was named to the Oregon Journal's second team in all-state basketball selec tions and to the Portland Oregonian's third all-Oregon prep team. Anderson Selected On All-State Eleven Jerry Anderson Medford high, received all-state recog nition in selections an nounced Sunday by two Port land newspapers. Trie Black Tornado star was chosen for the Oregon Journal's all - Oregon second team and for the Oregonian's all-star third quintet. Polls of the newspapers re sulted in the same selections for the first teams, each nam ing Bob Petersen, Klamath Falls; Gordon Scott, Astoria; Mel Counts, Marshfield; Steve Pauley, Beaverton, and Terry Baker, Jefferson. No. 2 Teams With Medford's Anderson on the second Journal five were Jerry Bergstrom, Frank lin; Grant Harter, North Sa lem; Bill Adams, St. Helens, and George Hawes, Bend. The Oregonian No. 2 crew had Ed Hoffman, Sandy; Dave Nelson, Pendleton; Jim Jar- , vis, Coquille; Harter and Adams. Along with Anderson on the Oregonian's third club were Keith Morrow, Corval lis; Fred Earwood, Myrtle Creek; Bergstrom and Ha wes. Rex Benner and Johnnie Olson, Grants Pass, were on the honorable mention lists of both newspapers and Bill Turner, Eagle Point, was so honored by the Oregonian. BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE GAMES National Invitational (Second Round) Providence 68, Manhattan 66 New York U. 90, Denver 81 (Quarter-Finals) Bradley 83, Butler 77 St. John's 82, St. Bonaventure 74 NCAA Eastern Regionals (Final) West Virginia 86, Boston U. 82 (Consolation) Navy 70, St. Joseph's (Pa.) 56 NCAA Mideast Regionals (Final) Louisville 88, Michigan St. 81 (Consolation) Kentucky 98, Marquette 69 NCAA Midwest Regionals (Consolation) Texas Christian 71, DePaul 65 (Final) Cincinnati 85, Kansas State 75 NCAA Western Regionals (Consolation) Idaho St. 71, Utah U. 65 (Final) California 66, St. Mary's (Cal.) 46 NAIA Tournament (Final) Tenn A&I 97, Pacific Lutheran 87 (Consolation) Southwest Tex. St. 87, Ft. Hays 80 Nats Gain Spot In East Finals United Press International Coach Paul Seymour, whose Syracuse Nats have clinched a berth in the Eastern finals of the National Basketball association playoffs, took a gloomy look ahead today to ward a guy named Bill Rus sell and said, "you gotta get the ball before you can run." Seymour issued this pung ent comment after his Nats outran the New York Knicks, 131-115, in Syracuse Sunday night to clinch their first round series, two games to none. The Western first-round series, however, stalled in a 1-1 deadlock when the De troit Pistons, who dropped the opener, bounced back on their home court to beat the Minneapolis Lakers, 117-103, despite a 26-point, 16-rebound performance by the Lakers' Elgin Baylor. The Nats open the Eastern finals against rebounding star Russell and his Boston Celtic teammates Wednesday night at Boston. 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McGowan and Roberts teamed for 31 of Pilot Rock's Women's Golf Rogue Valley Country club lady golfers play for Thurs day, March 19, will be a blind partner tourney. Competition for Thursday, March 12, was fewest putts. Winner in the A group was Mrs. H. E. Nulton. B group was won by Mrs. Lee Flink and C group winner was Mrs. Russ Heysell. Mrs. Lou Mc Laughlin was victor in the D group. Nine-hole play re sulted in a tie between Mrs. Ed Kliever and Mrs. Robert Mclntyre-. MARCH 19 PAIRINGS: (Ladies are to contact others in their threesome.) Mesdames Edward W. Stevens, Dean M. Lambert. Noble T. Vin cent; Warren Lesseg. Sam Colton. Rose Jane Bunch; Frank Tamnev, W. O. Blackledge, Ray Frisbie: T. A. Culbertson Jr.. Ed Milne. Wil liam Schei; Richard Finch, Parker Woods. Thomas Teutsch:- Bernard T. Nutting. Brian Douglass, Wil liam T. Clark; Jack Eidswick, Frank Benesh, Mahr Reymers; Alton Hart. Robert P. Templeton, H. E. Nulton; Leslie Schneider, C. Ed Gordon, Robert J. Lockwood; F. Lee Flink, C. B. Collins, Kenneth Teeter. Mesdames Stuart V. McQueen, Jerry Olson. R. B. Knight: Al Wil liams, C. H. Barren. W. L. Stark; B. D. Mitchell, Ralph Barclay, Floyd Somers; T. J. -Harnsberger, Rich ard Rementeria, Fred Coleman; Richard Swan, Joseph Moore, Ed win Radzweit; Robert DeLorme, Ed Ross, Miles Doran; Lou C. Mc Laughlin, Richard Schwahn, Wayne Safley; L. T. Anderson, Jack Six, M. Donald McGeary; Glen Fabrick, Paul Moore, Vern Watrud; Tom Polk, Robert Taylor, Robert Mor ris; J. W. Barnard, Lawrence Buono core. Ken McHugh; W. C. Knope, Reese Alexander, W. H. Pyle; Paul Dix. Earl Nelson. Mesdames Jim Nistler. Glen Bran lund. Thomas McFadden; William Williams. Homer Sullivan, Ray Bak er; Richard Alley, James Dunlevy, Galen Sanner; Sylvan Mullin, Wil liam Deatherage, Robert Mclntyre; Dick House, Bob Walker, Warren Bayliss; Vincent Nicoletti. Robert Van Duker, Melvin McGrew; Rich ard Hogan, Jim Finegan, Clvde Campbell; Randall Gifford. Bill Walker, Charles Madsen; Royal E. Bebb, Dorothy Dowson, Ralph Mar lott; Gordon H. Taylor. Paul Havi land, David Lowry; Ray Stewart, Jerry Gastineau, John Jensen. (Women who wished to be pair ed for Thursday's play may tele phone Mrs. T. L. Teutsch, SPring 3-3381.) 19 points. McGowan led with and Roberts had 12. It was McGowan's layin that put Pilot Rock in front, 46-44, and his two free throws that clinched it for the Rock ets. Merrill Third In other tournament action Merrill captured third place with a 64-54 win over Joseph. A torrid second quarter in which Merrill scored 27 points proved to be too much of a margin for Joseph to over come. Jefferson took consolation honors in the eight-team field with a 48-44, victory over Yoncalla. Pilot Rock dominated the eight-member all-tournament team. The champions placed Mc Gowan, Jesse Jones and Rob erts on the team. 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