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Newspaper Page TextMedforixTribune Trojans, Bruins Score Victories on Maplecourt TTnilsd Press International Southern California and UCLA will have the welcome mat out again this week end for junketing teams with ev ery intention of adroitly snap ping it out from under them again. " Both mighty Kentucky and highly-regarded Santa Clara -landed on the backs of their laps last Saturday while play ing the Trojans and Bruins, "respectively. VSC pulled a shocker by defeating the Wildcats, 87-83, 'and UCLA followed up with a 75-73 win in a twin bill at the Memorial Sports Arena. The .victims had won their first two games of the season. The Bruins came out of the week end scramble looking tougher than expected. They opened the season with a two point win over USC, lost to Kentucky on Friday by the same margin then felled Santa Clara in overtime. tl will.be Brigham Young against UCLA and Oklahoma State against Southern Cali fornia this Friday, then the visitors will, change partners the following night. ' Huskies Split With BYU . In other leading Saturday action, Washington' defeated Brigham Young, 60-52, Den ver bounced San Jose State 64-47, Utah smothered Los Angeles State 104-80, New Mexico State trimmed USF 72-63, St. Mary's clipped Stan ford at the buzzer, 53-51, and Oregon State bowed to a Na vy team '. in Hawaii, 69-55, while Oregon overcame Fres no State 68-60. Johnny Werhas sank 19 points for USC and the Tro jans also got a break when Kentucky's star tandem of Bill Lickert and Benny Coff man fouled out. While he was around, Lickert was held to three points. Kentucky knot ted the score at 49-49 in the second half but then the Tro jans moved away with a five point burst. The UCLA-Santa Clara game was tied seven times and they went into 'overtime, with the board reading 63-63. Then 'the Bruins exploded for 11 points and had a 67-63 lead going when the Broncs melt pH UCLA's freezing tactics three times to come within twn noints as time ran out. The Huskies' victory over Brigham Young earned them a split in the week end series. a nnsh shot from close up by Clint Names cinched things for them. Crater High Dumps Roseburg's Indians To Square Series ' Oysters, rich in protein and minerals, have been known as a health-promoting food for centuries. F- Mmmmli Sill Central Point - Hustle, ag gressiveness and strong de fense paid off here Saturday night in Crater High school's first basketball victory of the new season The Comets whipped Rose burg 45 to 34 to earn a week end series split with the in dians. Roseburg won Friday 60 to 57 Neither team hit well from the field Saturday but Crater had some edee in that depart ment, took advantage of more oDDortunities at the gift throw line and kept the In dians off balance with its de fense The Comets took the lead for good at 11 to 9 on a pair of free shots by Chuck Turner two minutes into the second quarter. They led at each pe riod pause 9 to 7, 23 to 15 and 34 to 25. Their widest margin was 13 points at 45 to 32. Surge Threatened Roseburg threatened to stage a fourth quarter rally, sucn as had pulled the game out of the fire for the Indians on Friday. But, the Comets re-established command and widened their difference with free tosses. Crater got only one field goal in the final panel. The push from the corner by Dave Sharp made the count 11 points apart at 36 "to 25. Two jumpers by Jim Jarvis for the Indians cut it. to 36 to 29 However, Chuck Turner and Sharp brought it to 40 to 29 with a pair of gifters. Mike Brundage put in a rebound for Roseburg but Sharp col lected a pair of free points and Higinbotham one for 43 to 31. .Two free shots by Turner 4- " Tht Veep Truck PUT IT TO THE TEST! Come in for a demonstration and discover 'Jeep' 4-wheel drive vehicles go more places do more jobs cost less to own! FIRST IN 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES BY WILLYS MOTORS... WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURER OF 4-WHEEL DRIVE VEHICLES 1 iit ...one of the growing KAISER industries wiltrs Come In for a demonstration MEDFORD MOTORS, INC. 225 SOUTH RIVERSIDE . Sanders Victor At Coral Gables Coral Gables, Fla.-UPD-The year 1959 began with aches and pains for young Doug Sanders, but he'll start the 1960 pro golf fresh from an impressive -tournament vic tory and with the assurance that he's in the best of shape. The 26-year-old Sanders, a runnerup in this year's PGA championship, won the sec ond major tournament of his pro career Sunday when he shot a six-under-par 65 to grab the $2,800 first prize in the Coral Gables Open. He sank a 20-foot putt for an' eagle on the first hole, added four birdies and did not stray over par once in a 30-35 final round that earned him the victory by three strokes over Dow Finster wald of Tequesta, Fla. Sand ers' 72-hole total was 272 strokes. Finsterwald, who was tied for ' the lead with Arnold Palmer after Saturday's third round on the 6,173-yard Bilt more Golf Club course, shot a final 34-35-69 to finish sec ond with a 276 total. Palmer soared to a fourth round 34-38-72 that put him in a three-man tie for third place at 279 with Johnny Pott of Shreveport, La., and Julius Boros Mid Pines, N.C. A FINE KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON 1 j $450, $2'. Enjoy Nature's Finest BotirI?oii...Tli.ere is ncie better 111 JU juiaiiuIE CO.'dPAhY. LOUISVILLE. atNIUCKf OISTftiBUIEO BY NATIONAL DISIILLE1S PiODUCIS COMFANI S6. KMF for the Comets and three by Bill Mundt for the Indians finished out the scoring. Turner with his all-around play, Sharp with his fine floor game and scoring, Coop er with his defensive work and rebounding, Denny Ed wards with his backboard work and Higinbotham with his floor play and point pro duction, combined for Coach Lloyd Hoffine's Comets. Jim Jarvis 20 Jarvis spurred the Indians with seven field buckets and six free shots for 20 points, individual high in the fracas. and Mundt topped his team's rebounding with seven "boards." Sharp put in 15 points, nine on free shots, Turner 13, sev en on gifters, and Higin botham 11 for Crater. Turner picked off 14 rebounds arid Cooper and Edwards each eight. Jarvis was the only Rose burg player with more than one field goal. Crater had the edge from the field 13 to 11 with a .282 to .250 accuracy average. The Comets put through 19 free shots to 12 for Roseburg. In rebounding the Central Point team head ed 3$ to 27. After the Comets gained'an advantage of 17 to 11 with three minutes left in the first half, Coach Curt Jarves' Roseburg team could not get closer than four points. The Indians reduced their deficit to this amount four times, the last at 28 to 24 with 2 min utes to go in the third stanza Jayvees Vie In the junior varsity scrape, Roseburg was on top 39 to 38 after a second and sudden death overtime. That was the score on the electric board and that was the count officially signed. However, a subsequent check of Crater's official book showed a tie score of 39 to 39. The Indian's scorebook totaled 40 points for Crater. Jim Allen had a field buck et for Crater and Rutter and Gordon J o e 1 s o n had free tosses for Roseburg in the first overtime which ended 37 to 37, since the scoreboard has listed 35-all after regular time. Allen got a'gifter for Cra ter in the second overtime and Joelson a pair. That con cluded it since Roseburg was the first team to make two points in sudden death play. The Comet jayvees trailed by about five points in the third quarter but came up to lead by 29 to 25 in the fourth. Roseburg came up to go ahead by one on the board and the front spot switched hands a couple of times be fore it stood at 35 to 33. Two free tallies by Al Minnick with 14 seconds left in regu lar time brought a 35 each listing. Roseburg Roberts, f TTinlr t Mundt, c Jarvis, g.. Baxter, g.. Brundage raim . Lorenzen French T.vrta Todd Miller .... 1-0 Endicott. 0-0 Withnell.. 0-0 Totals fg 6-1 4- 1 3- 0 14-7 5- 0 4- 1 4-1 2-0 1-0 0-0 0-0 ft 1- 1 0-0 3- 3 9-6 4- 2 2- 0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 reb. pf 4 O 0 7 5 5 1 3 2 O 0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 0-0 0 Skeeters oins . . Grid Team Eagle Point Back Bill Skeeters will be captain of the 1960 Eagle Point high football team. His election by teammates was announced at the annual banquet for the players on Thursday, Dec. 3, at the grade school gymnasium. Skeeters also won the team's high point award for the 1959 season although he suffered injury after playing only four games. Roy Moore was honored for making the most tackles during the sea son. Awards to Skeeters and Moore were presented by as sistant coaches Kenneth Van nice and Vern Steward, re spectively. The dinner sponsored' by the Eagle Mothers was at tended by 115 players, coach es, parents and special guests. Seniors Honored Senior players on coach Tom Van Etten's Eagle squad were honored by special in troduction. They were Duane Anderson, Bob Berryman, Steve Carroll, Paul Evers Max riawks, Kenneth Jorde, Mack Lemmon, Jim Nease, Gary Snyder and Bob Unger, The foregoing players were among those receiving letter awards. Others were Gary Ayres, Elvin Hawkins, Moore, Tom Perdue, Ray Peterson Bill Pfiefer, Skeeters, Rodney Snyder, Gary Steele, juniors: Steve Geren, Dick Hertager, Gary Sheldon and Dick Wil son, sophomores, and Carl Johnson and Charles Pom- eroy, freshmen. Awards also went to Willard Webster, man ager, and Wallace West, sta tistician. The players, under direc tion of Perdue, formed a chor us to present a couple of Christmas selections and the school song. The Rev. Joe Munshaw gave the invocation at the dinner. SpeciaL guests included Ray Treshman, school board chair man; Elmer Harnish and Jack Caldwell, board members; Glenn Hale, superintendent of schools; Spike Malloroy, football bus driver; Charles Martin, band instructor, and their wives; Mr. and Mrs. James Wallis and and the school cheer leaders. Acknowledgements for their work in connection with the banquet were made to Mrs, W . M. Lemmon, chairman, Mrs. Johnny Johnson, decora tions, Mrs. Martm Jorde, Mrs. Donal Geren, Mrs. Herbert Perduce, Mrs. Myrtle Snyder, Mrs. Maxine Berryman, Mrs. Clinton Ayres, Mrs. Emil Un ger, and Mrs. Richard Pfief er, the school cooks, the Girls Athletic association for serv ing and Mrs. Stewart Hopper and Mrs. Hall for their help with the girls. Decorations on the tables were made by Mrs. Brigg's class m the grade school. Mrs. Johnny Johnson made the dec orations for the head table. 44-11 19-12 27 21 34 Crater fg ft ' reb. pf tp Cooper, f 6-2 0-0 8 4 4 Edwards, f 3-0 1-0 8 10 Turner, c 14-3 8-7 14 1 13 Sharp, g 7-3 13-9 6 1 15 Higinbotham.. 13-4 5-3 2 5 11 J. Anhorn 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 B. Anhorn 0-0 0-0 - 0 0 0 White 2-1 1-0 13 0 Johnson 1-0 0-0 0 0 0 Totals 4S-13 28-19 39 15 45 Referees Fhnk and Perkins. JAYVEE GAME: 39 Roseburg 2 Rutter 5 Fenn 2 Burk 16 Hinev G- 6 Brothers Substitutions For Morris 3, Joelson 5, ey; Crater, Ryerson, rick. Crater 39 Beman 6 Allen 14 ... Minnick 4 Foote 6 . J. Anhorn 9 Roseburg, Bakala, Rich Kimball, Deb- DEPUTY IN TROUBLE" Mobile, Ala. (UPD - Randell Parker was fined only $1 in stead of the usual $25 when he explained he was on his way to jail when police stopped him for speeding. It seems Parker was pressed in to service to drive a few of the suspects to the station house after police broke up a card game and didn't have enough room in their automo biles to accommodate all the players. Viks Trip Eagle Poini Eagle Point - Myrtle Creek High school, which went into the Oregon A-2 basketball tournament last season with the No. 1 rating in its class, displayed strength for the new campaign Saturday night in a 45 to 30 victory over Eagle Point. The defending District 6 champs were on top 12 to 9 after the first quarter of the pre-league warm up game, The Vikings', who play in the Umpqua Valley league,' wid ened the spread on their Rogue league foe to 25 to 11 in the second panel. Third quarter score was 33 to 24. Fred Earwood, one of the leading scorers in the state in the 1958-1959 chase, led the Vikings with 16 points Saturday. Ken Watson had 12 counters. Dick Wilson had high total for the Eagles with 10. Glenn Moore Spurs Ducks Second Night LINEUPS: 45 Myrtle Creek Eagle Point 30 F 8 Trasic Wilson 10 F 3 Kinney .. Nease 4 C 16 Earwood 4 Greb 2 G 2 Tiffin : Berryman 2 G 12 Watson Perdue 4 Substitutions For Myrtle Creek, Tapp, 2. Shirtcliffe 2; for Eagle Point, Weidman 2, Geren 6. Britain's Post Office Sav ings Bank is the largest insti tution of its kind in the world. It has more than 22 million active accounts with total balances of about 1.7 billion pounds equivalent to ap proximately $4.76 billion. S, (S G32E Eu(3& GGtoES Euzene-tUPE-It looks as if Oregon has found the long awaited "big man" it has needed. - Th. Ducks swept a pair of games from Fresno State over the weekend. Instrumental in both wins was 6-7 Glenn Moore, a sophomore from Klamath Falls. Moore totaled 50 points in both games, hitting 28 in Fri day night's 62-48 win and had 22 in Saturday's 68-60 victory. Oregon had a little rougher time in the Saturday win, coming from behind in, both halves. Rask Holds Williams Moore picked up his fourth personal foul early in the sec ond half and was taken out by Coach Steve Belko. With Moore out, Fresno went to work and took a 45-42 lead. At this point Belko sent his big man back in and two minutes later Moore broke a 48-48 tie with a hook and Fresno never again went ahead. Chuck Rask, senior guard from Portland's . Jefferson high school, hit 18 points and did a good defensive job on Fresno's all-American candi date, Babe Williams. Rask limited Williams to nine point-seven of them in the second half. BOX: Fresno State Brown . Gilcrest . Wall Williams McFerson Crissman Barrett Clerico Sarantos Totals Fg Ft Pf Tp 10 5-8 p 25 2 7-9 2 11 3 2-5 2 8 3 3-4 2 9 3 1-1 4 7 0 0-0 10 0 0-0 10 0 0-0 2 0 0 0-0 4 0 21 18-27 20 60 Oregon Herron .......... Robertson Moore Rask Strickland .... Simmons Warren Knecht Kimpton ...... Totals . 24. .20-30 IT CO Ha If time Oreon 29. Frcxna State 26. Fg . 3 Ft 2-3 0 0-0 0 9 4-8 4 3 12-14 3 4 '2-3 3 10-0 0 3 0-2 2 0 0-0 0 10-0 1 Pf Tp 4 . 8 0 22 18 10 2 6 0 2 Navy Hoop Aggregation Defeats Oregon Staters Honolulu -DPD- A team of Navy all stars shellacked Oregon State, 69-55 Saturday night in a one-sided basketball game played for Navy relief at Bloch Arena, Pearl Harbor. The Navy squad, composed of players from the staff of the commander of the Pacific Service Force, took an early lead and remained in control throughout. The Beavers were Warriors Remain on Celts' Tail NBA STANDINGS: Eastern Division Boston Philadelphia Syracuse New York W L . 18 4 15 6 13 8 Pet .818 .714 .614 Western Division St. Louis ... Detroit Minneapolis Cincinnati 7 14 .333 W L Pet 11 8 .579 11 13 .458 7 18 .280 6 17 .261 United Press International Try as they can, the Boston Celtics just can't shake off those pesky Philadelphia War riors. The Celtics ripped off their fifth straight victory Sunday in the National Basketball as sociation, beating the Minne apolis Lakers, 121-104. The Warriors, meanwhile, kept on Boston's tail by beat ing the Detroit Pistons, 118 116, for their third victory in the last four games. As a result, the Celtics, who started the season as though they didn't plan . to lose a game, hold only a ZVt game lead over the Warriors in the circuit's Eastern division race. This time, though, the War riors were hard pressed to beat the Pistons because Wilt Chamberlain, their hottest scorer, had to sit out the game with a bruised bone in his left foot. Chamberlain suf fered the injury against the St. Louis Hawks Saturday night. Paul Arizin wound up lead ing the Warriors in Chamber lain's absence with a fine 33- point effort. never able to pull closer than six points after the opening period. Jack Stromberg of the Navy led all scorers with 29 points. Carl Anderson and Jim Wood land paced the Beavers, scor ing 10 and 9 points respective ly. ' The Beavers earlier last week split a pair with Uni versity of Hawaii. Oregon State next goes into action at Corvallis Friday and Saturday nights against Mon tana State University. Oregon State rlynn Johnson Niles Stafford Carty ...... Anderson CritchXield Jacobson .. Patterson Wold Woodland . Totals All-Stars Yates Mercardo Osborne , Ludvick Stromberg . Stewart Lee Jordan Totals . fg ft pf tp 4 1-2 2 9 1 2-2 2 4 0 0-0 0 0 0 0-0 0 0 1 1-12 3 3-4-1 3 10 3 1-1 2 7 0 0-0 ' 2 0 2 0-0 4 4 4 1-2-3 9 17-9 5 9 "l8 17-21 18 55 Fg Ft Pf Tp 7 3-6 2 17 -2 1-S 5 5 0 2-3 2. 2 3 1-117 8 13-18 1 29 1 0-0 0 2 0 1-1 0 1 1 4-3 4 6 22 25-35 15 19 Butte Falls Tips Chiefs Butte Falls - Butte Falls high, with 6-6 Raymond Ab bott dominating the back boards, nosed Rogue River 29 to 25 Saturday night in a non loop basketball tussle here. Abbott collected 23 re bounds. Lavera.' Baker of the BF' Loggers was high point getter with 10. Barry Frantz and David Carter each had nine for the Chieftains. Butte Falls was able to penetrate a loose Rogue River defense but Logger shooting was off. LINEUPS: 29 Butte Falls F 2 Remsen F 10 Baker C 5 Abbott G 6 Hawkins G 6 Ellefson Phil Archer Rogue River Frantz T3arter Laws . Van Dorn Substitutions For Butte Falls. N. Ellis, A. Ellis; for Rogue River, L- roy, Gail. SOUTH CP VICTOR " South Grants Pass defeated McLoughlin Junior high last Thursday in a ninth grade wrestling match 35 to 23. Winning bouts .for McLough lin were Gates 103, Young 112, Kline 120, Dalbec 133 and Conner 165. Conner won by decision and the others by pins. WIN OPENING MATCHES Sydney, Australia - (UPD -Lew Hoad and Ken Rosewall won their opening round matches Sunday in a profes sional tennis tournament. Hoad beat Mervyn Rose, 6-3, 6-3, and Rosewall defeated Pancho Segura, 6-3, 6-2. MAIL TRIBUNE, Madferd, Or. Q Monday, Dec 7, 1959 - EX-BIG LEAGUER DIES Mount Holly, N. J. - (DPD William (Wid) Conray, form er third baseman - outfielder with four major league teams, died Sunday at Burlington County hospital. Conroy, 81, had a lifetime batting aver age of .250 with Milwaukee, Pittsburgh, Washington and the old New York Highlanders. Bakersfield, Calif. (DPD Phoenix college was resting on its football laurels today after tromping previously un defeated Coalinga 46-14 in the Potato Bowl Saturday night. I! CHARGE j J AUTOMOTIVE CENTER TUESDAY SPECIAL Complete Grease Job $33 Tuesday & Wednesday. Only r j .Complete Hand Adjustment and Fill With Automatic Transmission Fluid 11 WEDNESDAY & THURSDAY Complete Wheel Alignment $588 Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday SeeA?'a:CiB9' $M ' "he" D"ke Adjustment M W rronr Wheel Pack 99 2 wheels HAVE YOUR AUTO REPAIRED WHILE YOU SHOP . . . 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McCoUnm Robert Selby LaVern Morgan Marvin Spradllnt; Audrey Hawk Jack Mansfield Edwin Beacknm Orville Stephenson C. A. Golden R. T. Costelan John Champ 1 Ted Salinons Herman D. Cannon J. W. Steele Goldie M. Hawk Jim Garrett Fred Edens Don Muir Jerry Glnes Ted Ruth K. E. Pickens E. J. Malloy Dave Baker Jr. Fred Hoffman M. M. Meadows James Frudenburc Butch Clemmens Don Bergman Ed Conoose Glen Vandergow H. M. Flowers -Roger Sutton Walt McMahen ' Glen Dawning MOST POINTS (tie) 10 Points S10 ln Merchandise Carl Bergnson Rogue River Ural Donnelly Medford Jack Keck David Roohr Wm. Fisher Ralph Hutchtns Kathern Atchison Mrs. Don Grate Kenneth Struck Don Great William Kime John Hawkins Jay Wood Gene Niece Bob Baker Larry Micheal ; CUff Coiner W. F. Thomsen Bill Hlckey Chas. L. Cooper I I j hi 1 t-V 8th and Riverside Medford, Ore. SI TT TT TT TT TT TT TT TT TT TT TT TT TT