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Q MAIL TRIBUNE, Madiera, Or. Tuesday, March 8, 1960 Gift Shots Win Game Seattle -(UPD -A pair of free throws by Don Ogorek proved to be the difference as Seattle University squeaked by the Portland Pilots, 78-77, in the final basketball same of the season for both clubs Monday night. Ogorek's charity tosses came with only four seconds remaining and gave Seattle a 78-73 lead. Jim Altenhofen followed with a field goal for the Pilots but the claxon sounded next and the Chiefs were home. The win was the 18th for Seattle against 10 losses. For Portland, the defeat was the 15th as opposed to 11 wins. Seattle had a 22-point lead midway through the second half but started falling apart when two starting seniors, Tim Cousins and Don . Pia secki, fouled out. Altenhofen toog high game scoring honors with 24 points and Bill Garner got 20 for the Pilots. Ogorek and Dave Mills paced the winners with 21 and 17, respectively. Irish, Kentucky Team Favorites Lexington, Ky. (UPD Notre Dame and Western Kentucky, a pair of rugged, tournament wise basketball teams, ruled slight choices today to beat Ohio university and Miami of Florida, respectively in the first round of the NCAA Mid east Regional tournament. Winners of tonight's double- header will advance to the mideast semifinals at Louis ville, Ky., Friday night, where the Notre Dame-Ohio winner tackles Southeastern Confer ence champion Georgia Tech, and the Miami-Western Ken tucky victor challenges Big Ten titlist Ohio State. HIM CASH CREDIT PLAN , Why do it the hard way? Call ' on the Commercial Credit Plan whenever you can use extra cash. Our loan service is fast, friendly and convenient. Rates are reasonable. That's why thousands" of families prefer to use Commercial Credit Plan It's the pay way that fits your pay day! Keep this ad as a reminder to phone or visit us. HOW MUCH DO YOU HEED? There's An Easier Way to incf Cijh Monthly Payments For YtiiGtt 24 Mi. II Ms. 12 Ma. 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Tennessee A&I, tournament champion here for the past three years, makes its debit at 7 p.m. cs.t. against Mid western Texas university. Tonight's play will end first round action in the week long National Association of Inter collegiate Athletics tourna ment. ' Sharing the night billing with Tennessee A&I and Mid western are games between Hamline, Minn, and Florence, Ala., 5:30 p.m.; Pittsburg, Kan. State and Findlay, Ohio, 8:30 p.m.; and Christian Broth ers Tenn. and Parsons, Iowa, at 10 p.m. Day games match valley City, N.D., against West Vir ginia Wesleyan; Maryland State against Westminster, Pa.; Oakland City, Ind. against Wofford, S.C.; and Arkansas A&M against West ern Washington. Two tournament favorites were felled in Monday's first round action as unranked Oklahoma Baptist rode the 25-ooint scoring and brilliant all-around play of 5-foot 9-inch Don Masters to a 75-51 victory over third - seeded Southern Illinois, and William Jewell, Mo. bested seventh - seeded Stetson, Fla. 68-66. Other games saw Whituer, Calif, defeat Ferris, Mich. In stitute 77-71; New Mexico Highlands down Nebraska Wesleyan 96-90; Grambling, La. trounce Central Connecti cut 92-68; Villa Madonna, Ky. win over College ol ldano 70; Savannah, Ga. State trim Willamette, Ore. 8a-71; and Southwest Texas State over whelm Oshkosh, Wis. State 93-69. BASKETBALL United Press International NCAA MAJOR COLLEGE REGIONAL PLAYOFFS FIRST ROUND At Chicago DePauI 69. Air Force Academy 63 At Provo, Utah ' Utah 80. South. California 73 NAIA TOURNAMENT FIRST ROUND Villa Madonna 94, Col. of Idaho 70 Savannah St. 85. Willamette 71 New Mexico 96. Nebraska Wes. 90 Whittier 77. Ferris Ins. 72 Oklahoma Bapt. 75, South. 111. 71 . Southwest Tex. 93, Oshkash 69 William Jewell 68. Stetson 66 Grambling 92. Cen Conn. 68 .- Cineinatl 86. Xavier (Ohio) 68 St. Louis 66. Louisville 60 Kansas 79. Nebraska 74 Missouri 59. Iowa St. 57 SeatUe 78. Portland 77 Buffalo 65, Niagara 53 Muhlenberg 101. Gettysburg 75 Santa Clara 59, Loyola (Calif.) 53 Allegheny 82. Tniel 64 i h il NEED 220-100 AMP SEtlUICE LET SEARS ARRANGE INSTALLATION Includes: Service for Range, Dryer and Hot Water Tank Up to 30 Feet Each. Plus 8 Circuits. PHONE SP 3-6661 FOR FREE ESTIMATES Fall Medford high, the cham pionship team, and Klamath Falls, the runner-up, each placed two men, and Grants pass gained the other first team position on the Medford Mail Tribune's 1960 Southern Oregon conference basketball squad. Choices from Medford for the No. 1 quintet were Jerry Anderson, an all-stater last year, and Dick Ragsdale. Picked from Klamath Union high were Paul Bishop and Bruce Brickner. Rex Benner, Grants Pass, rounded out the star quintet. Coaches and teams of the five member schools cast bal lots in the poll. Voting was on an all-opponent basis. Mentors and players did not vote for men on their own squads. While Medford acquired two spots on the second team, as well as the two on the first, Black Tornado repre sentation on the two clubs was not so strong as had been anticipated from its domina tion of the conference. For the : Tornado went unbeaten through the 16-game slate, knocking over each league foe four times. Three Unanimous Anderson, Benner and Bish op were named to the first team on the ballots of all ri vals and thereby were "unan imous" selections. Two points were awarded for a first team vote and one for second team choice, with 16 points the most a player could re ceive. Benner and Anderson are repeaters from the 1959 league all-star team. They scored 417 and 366 points, re spectively, for their teams this season. The two are sen iors as is Bishop. Anderson has been a Medford regular for three straight years. Ragsdale, who played his first varsity basketball for the Black Tornado this sea son, and Bruce Brickner, transfer from Merrill, are juniors. Brickner was a mem ber of Merrill's 1959 state B championship club. Brickner Tallest Tallest man on the first quintet is Brickner at 6-6. Bishop and Anderson are 6-3, Benner 6-2 and Ragsdale 5-10. Brickner missed unanimous pick by two points. He was named to the first five on six ballots and to the second team on two, giving him a 14-point total. Ragsdale had 13 points. Crater's Chuck Turner led second team picks with 11 points: Others named on the second crew were Larry Jans sen, Grants Pass, Bob Quin ney , and Ken Durkee, Med ford, Garry Patzke, Klamath Falls, and Dave Sharp, Cra ter. Patzke and Sharp tied for the fifth spot with six points each. Honorable mention went to seven players, including two each from Medford and Cra ter and one each from Ash land, - Grants Pass and Kla math: Falls. At least two points were required .for mention. Webfoots Move To Corvallis Eugene-flJPD-Oregon's Web foots, in their first NCAA bas ketball playoffs in 15 years, move to Corvallis today for a workout on the Gill coliseum floor where they meet New Mexico State, the Border con ference champion Wednes day night in a first-round game. The winner of that game meets Utah in Seattle Friday night. The U t e s downed Southern California 8 0-73 Monday night. Oregon and New Mexico State each . competed in the Far West classic in Corvallis last December and each lost to Oregon State. They didn't play each other. George Knighton, 6-8 sopho more, and Bill Joe Price, a 6-7 center, pace New Mexico State. Game time here Wednesday is 8 pjn. AS LOW AS Nothing Down, 3 Years To Pay On Sears Modernizing Credit Plan JERRY ANDERSON Repeats on All-Conference Medford Mail Tribune 1960 SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE All-Star Basketball Squad FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Player and Points' Player and Points Jerry Anderson, Medford (16) Chuck Turner, Crater (11) , Rex Benner. Grants Pass (16) Larry Janssen. G. P. (9) ti i t- r. Bob Quinney, Medford (8) Paul Bishop. K. F. (16) Ken Durkee!! Medford (7) Bruce Brickner. K. F. (14) Gary Patzke. K. F. (6) Dick Ragsdale, Medford (13) Dave Sharp. Crater (6) HONORABLE MENTION: Lowell Dean. Medford Dan Mclntire. Grants Pass (4); Jerry Shults. Medford Dennis Edwards, Crater (3); (3); Phil Tucker, Ashland (2); MEDrXX&TWBOM srpaDiKTrs Medffojrd Edges MarshffDeDd Team By United Press International ' Medford edged Marshfield for the number one spot in the United Press International final prep poll of the season. The Black Tornado got five first place votes for 77 points to edge Marshfield which fin ished with 75 points. Marsh- All Star Team Chosen for Coast San Francisco -(UPD- Guard Jerry Grote, Loyola, today was named the "Most Valu able" player in the West Coast Athletic conference as the league all-star team was chosen. Named for the first team, with Grote, were: Frank So brero, Santa Clara and Tom Meschery, St. Mary's, for wards; Sterling Forbes, Pep perdine, center; and Bob Sims Pepperdine, guard. On the second team were: Jim Russi, Santa Clara, and Bob Gailard, USF, forwards; Leroy Wright, College of Pa cific, center; Ken Stanley, Tom Ryan, Loyola, Joe Sheaff, Santa Clara and Ed Bento, Loyola, guards. Honorable mention went to Gene Womack, St. Mary's; Rich Buckelew, Pepperdine; Charlie Range, USF; Vic Corl, San Jose State; and Tony Krallman, Loyola. Relief Star Given Review Phoenix, Ariz. -(UPD The San Francisco Giants have de cided to take a look at George Zuverink, former relief star for Baltimore. Zuverink, 33, had three good seasons for the Orioles, but then slid to an 0-1 mark last year plus a 3-4 record at Miami. But the veteran reliefer to day blamed last year's woes on a bad back and asked for a shot with the Giants. Another intra -squad game was scheduled by the Giants today. Pitcher Ramon Mon zant, a late arrival, planned to take his first work-out on the hill. Monday, the team took it easy with only a routine bat ting drill on the schedule. Jack Sanford, who was bothered by a cut finger earlier, pitched batting prac tice and showed he could fire the ball hard without pain. Willie McCovey, still a growing boy and 15 pounds heavier than last year, con tinued to . impress with his long-distance belts. Portland -4UPD- Madison won the Portland prep league wrestling title Monday and six places in this week end's state meet at Corvallis. Madi son had 99 points to 73 for Franklin. (5): (4)j Dean Dunson, Klamath Falls Loyal Higinbotham, Crater (2). field got the other three first place votes. Cleveland of Portland climbed back into the third place , slot ousting Hermiston which dropped one place to fourth. That; too, was close with Cleveland getting 56 points two more than Her miston. ; Klamath Falls dropped a notch to fifth place picking up 59 votes. Newcomer to the top 10 this week was South Eugene which got 31 points for sixth. The Axemen were 11th last week. ( South Salem Ninth David Douglas edged La Grande for the seventh, get ting 28 Vz to La Grande's 27 V2 for eighth place. South Salem got 18 points and placed ninth in the final poll and Jefferson finished 10th with 13 votes. All 10 of the teams in the poll are entered in the state tournament. Beaverton and Sandy are the other teams getting votes which are in the tournament. Each received one point. The coaches taking part in the UPI poll this year includ ed Jerry Mosby, Astoria; Don Peterson, Franklin; Glen Kin ney, Bend; Eldor Baisch, Mc Minnville; Herb Booth, Park rose; Frank Roelandt, Med ford; Mel Krause, North Eu gene and' Dick Ballantyne, South Salem. The top 10 teams with sea son's records in parentheses: 1. Medford (18-3) ....77 2. Marshfield (19-2) .1....75 3. Cleveland (17-5) 56 4. Hermiston (20-2) ......54 5. Klamath Falls (16-4)..49 6. South Eugene (15-6)..31 7. David Douglas (17-4) 28V2 8. La Grande (20-2) 27 Vt 9. South Salem (18-4) 18 10. Jefferson (17-5) 13 Others - 11, Springfield 4; 12, Roseburg, 3; 13, Benson, Beaverton and Sandy, 1 each. Sugar Ray To Meet Baldoni Baltimore - (UPD Ray (Su gar) Robinson has agreed to meet veteran middleweight Tony Baldoni in a 10-round bout at the Baltimore coli seum April 2, it was announc ed today by promoter Al Flora. Robinson accepted the bout as a tuneup for his rematch with Paul Pender at Boston April 29. Pender won the New York-Massachusetts version of the world middleweight title by outpointing Sugar Ray in their first meeting at Boston Jan. 22. Baldoni, a native of Wilkes Barre, Pa., who now resides in Baltimore, has been boxing professionally since 1948. He has won only three fights over the last four years. He en gaged, in only three bouts last year, . losing two on knockouts. Post- Sports, Ban Criticized United Press International Student newspapers at Big Ten schools attacked a pro posed ban on post -season sports on general grounds it would turn their conference into a "little ten," or a replica of the Ivy league. Newspapers at three of the schools commented on varying days and in varying ways in editorials decrying a confer ence decision to end the Rose Bowl pact and a proposal to eliminate all post-season con tests. Conference athletic direc tors and faculty representa tives will vote on the final ban at a May 18 meeting at East Lansing, Mich. It was at East Lansing, home of Michigan State Uni versity, that the student daily newspaper, "The State News," suggested naming the confer ence the "Little Ten to avoid desecrating the name of the Big Ten of yore." Lose Student Pride "The State News commends the Big Ten in its traditional form but until conference academic representatives kill the strategy proposal of the athletic directors that all post season sports be barred, our conference will no longer have its aura of bigness," the editorial said in a paper pub lished Monday. At Illinois, Urbana, 111., the student newspaper, "Daily Ulini," said in an editorial Tuesday that athletics "creates solidarity and university pride" on the national scale as well as at conference level. " "To withdraw from the rest of the country athletically," the editorial said, "we be lieve would ultimately lead to loss of student pride and the destruction of the conference itself." "Should the Big Ten con tinue to be one of the finest names in collegiate sports, or should the conference be rel egated to the position of. a 'once athletically powerful but now Ivy League' type of confederation of Midwestern universities?" the Illlni said. The Ohio State "Lantern" ran an editorial Monday re gretting the death of the Rose Bowl pact and entitled it "the end of an era." The "Minnesota Daily" termed the post-season ban as "ridculous" and said "it may hurt recruiting and make the Big Ten just a step behind the Ivy League." The Iowa student daily was officially mum on the matter but carried comments from athletes who were "dis appointed" and who predicted that top-notch high school athletes would not go to Big Ten schools. Coos Bay Sets Boxing Tourney Coos Bay-Southern Oregon Amateur Boxing champion ships will be held on April 8 and 9 at the Coos Bay Na tional Guard armory. . Titles are to be determined in 15 weight classes. Registration blanks may be obtained by writing Southern Oregon AAU Committeeman Bob Harles, 1783 Grant St., North Bend. No entries will be accepted after 3 p.m. on April 8. Weigh-in is scheduled for 1 p.m. on that date at the armory. Boxers who do not make the weight specified on their entry blanks may enter a heavier or lighter class as in dicated at the weigh-in. No boxer may enter more than one weight class. Contestants must be regis tered with the Oregon asso ciation of the Amateur Athle tic Union. Th The Bright new Star of the new Size Cars (DociaDBUg Soon! MEIDIF(0)l MOT(M 225 So. Riverside Medford SP 2-6157 Men on CaODfornoa's Bmhoffff For ADO-West Coast aan rrancisco - inpiurai?. fornia's Darrall Imhoff, the towering Ail-American from San Gabriel, Calif., topped the balloting on the All-West Coast basketball team an nounced by United Press In ternational. Imhoff was picked on every first team by the UPI sports writers and his team-mate, Bill McClintock, was on all except two first teams. He made the second team on the others. Bears Battle In layoff Match San Francisco -(UPD- Calif or- ( .John Rudometkin, a sopho nia's defending champions j more. ied the Trojans in de- battle upstart Idaho State to night for the right to go to Seattle Friday and meet Santa Clara in the opening round of the NCAA regional basketball tournaments. Santa Clara and Utah gained berths in the Western region al Monday night. The Bron cos defeated Loyola, 59-53, in a playoff between the co champions of the West Coast Athletic conference. Utah, kingpin of the Sky line scored an 80-73 victory over the University of South ern California, one of the West's two "at large" selec tions. The other, Oregon, meets New Mexico State of the Bor der Conference in Corvallis Wednesday night for the righ to play Utah at Seattle. California, which has a 24 1 record to date, goes into to night's battle with such im posing crowns as the nation's No. 1 team in - the United Press International ratings; the country's leading defen sive team, etc. But Idaho State is no push over. The Bengals have a 21-4 record and hold the Rocky Mountain Conference . cham pionship. They had a win string of 17 straight going un til their last- game of the sea s 1 when they were trounced br Seattle, 89-53. This is the same club they clobbered, 94 58, eariler in the season. Top man for Cal will be All-American center Darrell Imhoff, who finished the sea son averaging only 12.9 points per season which is plenty considering Cal's great defen sive work. The Idaho State center is Homer Watkins, who stands only six foot, six inches four inches shorted than Imhoff but is great on rebounds. Leading scorer for the Ida- hoans is Myrl Goodwin, a 6-5 forward from Durange, Colo., who has been scoring at the rate of 16.6 points a game. In Monday night's Santa Clara Loyola fracas, slim Jim Russi broke up a tight game by scoring 18 points for the Broncs in the second half be fore 4,300 fans at University of San Francisco gym. The senior guard scored a total of 25 to steal the spot light from what started as a personal duel between Frank Sobrero of Santa Clara and Jerry Grote of Loyola. Grote, the WCAC's "most valuable player," scored 16 points while Sobrero rolled up 13. Each man scored six points in the first three min utes of play. The big heroes of Utah's victory at Provo were Bill McGill, Jim Rhead, Joe Mor-. ton, and Allen Holmes. Theyj grabbed an early lead which USC couldn't overcome, al though the Trojans narrowed the gap to 46-45 at one point. McGill scored 27 points, I Morton tanked 18 and Holmes hit for 17. Rhead controlled the boards for the Redskins. - 'All - Gonferenoe Frank Burgess, high-scoring Gonzaga guard; Don Ogorek of Seattle university and Tom Meschery of St. Mary's were the other men named to the first team. It's a well-balanced team, with both height and speed and defensive abilities that would make even coach Pete Newell of California, the na tion's and West's "Coach of the Year" give a nod of ap proval. feat and took high score hon ors over all for the evening with 31. Portland Player Plans To Retire Portland - Portland's Beav ers have b e e n hit for the third time by a veteran play er calling it quits. Second- baseman Jack Dittmer recent ly telephoned Bill Sayles, rortiand business manager, that he's retiring from base ball to go into the automobile business in Iowa. Dittmer, who had been star lootbail end as well as infielder for the University of Iowa, had served with the Milwaukee Braves and first broke into the Pacific Coast ; league in 1958 with Phoenix, helping the Giants win the pennant. That winter he was sold to Seattle. The Ralniers eventually sold him to Sacramento in mid-season last year. Sayles says he is waiting for Ditt mer's declaration in writing before placing him on the vol untary retired list. First-sacker, outfielder Jim my Westlake and Bob DiPie tro who served in the same dual roles as well as that of coach, also have retired from the Beaver roster. "The taste is on the target" SAYS MR. SMOOTH TO MR. SILK Kessler as smooth a . I no burn, no bite jgjfl r to! VvV f i sv 1 I If flavor SMOOTH AS SILK JUUUS (ESSU1 CCUWBEXCEBUM. MUM. 8LMKD Cfiooce Cager Both Imhoff and McClin tock are well-known for their defensive abilities; but Mes chery is a gifted back-board man who also has a great scoring gift. Cleverest Guard Burgess rates as the clever est, hot-shooting guard in 'the west and has been largely responsible for whatever suc cess Gonzaga has had this season. Ogorek is the top scorer and rebound artist for Seattle. To make the first team, these stars had to beat out some top-notch talent. Meschery barely edged Chuck Rask of Oreeon for fifth place on the squad in the ballots. Close behind came John Arrillaea of Stanford: Bill Hanson, Washington: Le- Roy Wright, College of Pa cific, and Frank Sobrero. Santa Clara, all on the second team. . Making up the third team were Jerry Pimm and John Werhas of USC. Sterling Forbes of Pepperdine, Jerry uroie 01 L.oyola and Glenn Moore of Oregon. Honorable mention Includ ed the following: Finley, San Diego State; Russi, Santa Clara; Carty and Wold, Ore gon State; Sells, Washington State; Garner, Portland; Green, UCLA. 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