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Newspaper Page Text- - MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdfsrf, Or. A Wednesday, Mar. 1 6, 1 960 BASKETBALL Tourneys at a Glane A-l at Eugene Marshfield 59, David Doug las 54. ' Cleveland 49, Albany 43. Today' Schedule 9 a.m. Oswego vs. La Grande. - 10:15 a.m. Sandy vs. Klam ath Tails. 1:45 p.m. B e a v e r t o n vs. South Eugene. 3 p.m. South Salem vs. Jef ferson. 7:30 p.m. St. Helens vs. Hermiston. 8:45 p.m. Jesuit vs. Med ford. A-2 at Cooi Bay Title Bound St. Francis 49, Vale 46. Willamina 42, Myrtle Point 38. Consolation Myrtle Creek 66, Woodburn 3. Reedsport 71, Clatskanie61. Today's Schedule 2 p.m. Reedsport vs. Myrtle Creek, consolation. 7:30 p.m. Myrtle Point vs. Vale, 3rd place. 8:45 p.m. St. Francis vs. Willamina, title. Bowlers Set High Scores Possibly a new record in team bowling scores was set '. Monday night in the Classic league at the Medford Bowl ing lanes when Morse Motors recorded a 3096 team series. The team put together games of 979, 1007 and 1110. Individual scores on the Morse Motors team were: Dick Weber 653. Willie An derson 542, Gary Couch 643, Ray Speers 589, and Frank Driscoll 669. The evening turned out to be a good scoring night for quite a number of bowlers. Other high scores in a series were: Vern Allen 640, Gene Piazza 681, Kay Clark 641, Dick McKenzie 613, and Ralph Brock 605. High games bowled during the evening were: Gene Pi azza 278, Frank Driscoll 254, Dick Weber 246, Gary Couch 240. Vern Allen 234, Ralph Brock 233, Bill Blunt 232, and Dick McKenzie 226. Ex-Medford Ace At Portland U. High-jumping George Koch, 6-3 forward from Medford, averaged over 8 points a game for the 1959-60 University of Portland Freshman basketball team. Koch. 'an ex-Medford high school star, scored 129 points in 16 games for an 8.1 average. He hit for 47 field goals and 35 of 55 free throws. A regular, Koch averaged 12 points a game in his last six appearances with the Port land freshmen. TO TELEVISE MASTERS New York (UPD The Mas ters golf tournament will be televised from the Augusta National Golf club April 9 and 10 by the Columbia Broadcasting system. Play will be telecast from 5 to 6 p.m. e.s.t. on April 9 and from 4 to 5:30 p.m. e.s.t., April 10. z: (JLOGSTON'S Metal Weather Stripping and Screens Estimates Gladly Phone SP 1-1014 Evenings 8 VALIANT Eastern Oregon Teams Favored Eugene-flJPD-Eastern Oregon powerhouses La Grande and Klamath Falls were favored to win their opening games in Oregon's class A-l high school basketball tournament today, but if opening-night performances are an indica tion it may be tough. La Grande met Lake Os wego at 9 a.m. and Klamath Falls played Sandy at 10:15 a.m. Marshfield, the state's second-ranked team in the UPI poll, and Cleevland, the Port land champion, both won Tuesday night but each had a tough time. A record opening-n i g h t crowd of 7,191 jammed Mc- Bowling Tourney Set Here The 15th annual Mailo graphic National Team handicap tournament of the American Junior Bowling congress will be held March 19 at the Medford Bowling Lanes, announced - Mable Clark, junior director of the Oregon State Woman's Bowling association. - More than 10.000 teams will be bowling from 50 states, Canada, Germany, France, England. Turkey, Morocco, Japan, Guam, La brador, the Canal Zone and the West Indies, the bowl ing official said. Medford will have 30 teams entered from the Medford and R o x y Ann lanes, five senior boys, three senior girls, eight jun ior boys, three junior girls, four bantam girls and seven bantam boys teams. All scores will be mailed to Chicago headquarters for checking and compiling. Re sults will be made available about April 15. Lutherans Win League Game Paul Moore dumped in 13 points to lead the Zion Luth eran church to a 45-35 victory over First Methodist in Church Basketball Senior league ac tion at the YMCA recently. Jack Joyce with 13 count ers, Wayne Thompson with 12 and Bruce Hill with 10, scored all of First Methodist's points. The Sacred Heart squad picked up a recent win on a forfeiture from the Episcopal church and the Presbyterian senior quintet likewise picked up a victory on a forfeiture from the YMCA. Hockey Player Nears Title By United Press International Freddie Glover was only two points away from a Cleve land club record today on his way to the Ameicran Hockey league scoring title. The veteran wing increased his season total to an even 100 points by picking up a goal and three assists in the Bar ons' 7-1 triumph over the Que bec Aces in Tuesday night's only action. Jackie Gordon, the Barons' coach, set the team's single season record of 102 points in 1953-54. Springfield plays Hershey and Rochester meets Provi dence tonight. . COLGATE COACH QUITS Hamilton, N.Y. - (UN) r John Hooper, end coach at Colgate university, has resigned to take a coaching position at West Orange, N.J.. high school. Hooper, former head coach at Upsala college, said he hoped to devote more time to graduate studies. DICK KNIGHT CO. Plymouth DeSoto - Valiant 33 So. Riverside at 8th St. -- brilliant Dependable dealer - Arthur Court as Marshfield edged David Douglas 59-54 and Cleveland got by Albany 49-43.' Counts Counts Marshfield got 23 points from 6-9 Mel Counts who also grabbed 18 rebounds. The Coos Bay Pirates also held Da vid Douglas' star forward, Jim Dortch, to only six points and just one field goal in 14 attempts. But even so the David Douglas team made a battle of of it all the way. Leon John son, a six-foot guard, canned 21 points and David Douglas got 13 more from Joe James. Marshfield was ahead 30-26 at the half. David Douglas tied it up at 33-all in the third quarter but the Pirates again pulled away. Cleveland had it even tougher against Albany. The under-rated Willamette valley club was ahead 28-26 at the half in a game that was tied nine times. Bruun Hits Key Goal Cleveland didn't pull out until the final 28 seconds. With 1:44 left Albany led 42 41. Larry Bruun hit a field goal to make it 43-42 Cleve land but a free throw by Moye tied it up. Then Bruun hit a lay-up with 28 seconds left and Warren Newell add ed four Cleveland points in the final seconds. Newell had 19 and Bruun 13 for Cleevland while Doug Drynan hit 14 and Moye 13 for Albany. Cleveland plays Marshfield at 3 p.m. Thursday in a title round game while Albany meets David Douglas at 8:30 a.m. Thursday in a consola tion contest. The rest of today's sched ule included Beaverton vs. South Eugene at 1:45 p.m., South Salem vs. Jefferson at 3 p.m., St. Helens vs. Hermis ton at 7:30 p.m. and Medford vs. Jesuit at 8:45 pjn. - Burgess On Catholic Team New York -(UPD- Frank Bur gess of Gonzaga was the only player from the Northwest to get honorable mention this year on the Catholic college all-American team picked for Catholic Digest magazine by 10 leading coaches. Al Negratti of the Univer sity of Portland was one of the 10 coaches who selected the team. Exercise Room At YMCA Open The new exercise and weight room at the YMCA is now complete and ready for use, according to Bob Nelson, chairman of the physical edu cation committee at t he YMCA. Equipment now in use in cludes, dumbbells, barbells, a massage table, a vibrator belt, prone benches, inclined benches and a squat rack on a newly built weight lifting floor. The new room is primarily intended for the use of YMCA members although guests are allowed when accompanied by a member, Nelson pointed out. Each participant will be charged an additional $5 year ly fee, he said, which will be used to pay for the future YMCA Business Men's Health club which is to be construct ed separately from the pres ent YMCA facilities. Nelson said that anyone in terested in using the exercise room should -contact the YMCA for further informa tion. - . Infants see upside down and separately with each eye. Their vision is completely blurred for the first few months. new car KNIGHT MEDFORtvSi&TRIBUlfl Title At Stake Tonight In Tourney Coos Bay-(UP1)-St. Francis of Eugene and Willamina clash tonight for the 1960 Oregon class A-2 high school basket ball title. St. Francis upset pre-tour-ney favorite Vale 49-46 and Willamina pulled a mild sur prise by knocking over Myr tle Point 42-38 Tuesday night. Vale meets Myrtle Point for third place and the two Douglas county entries, Reedsport and Myrtle Creek, met this afternoon for the consolation title. . Reedsport eliminated Clatskanie 71-61 and Myrtle Creek ousted Wilt To Meet Russell By United Press International Wilt Chamberlain faces his toughest playoff assignment tonight when the Philadelphia Warriors meet Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics in the opening of the National Bas ketball association's eastern division finals. The St. Louis Hawks open their best-of-seven , western sectional final playoffs against Minneapolis, the team that beat them in last year's post season games. Chamberlain, the 7-2 fresh man sensation who broke eight season records and set a playoff mark of 53 points against Syracuse Monday, has had nothing but trouble from Russell during his rookie cam paign. Although the Warrior whiz kid outscored and outrebound ed Big. Bill, 479-237 and 358 294 respectively, he only man aged to pace Philadelphia to five victories in 13 meetings with the Celtics. Boston, meanwhile, won its fourth straight Eastern ti tle and set a record of 59 vic tories in a season. Bob Cousey, Celtic play maker who broke his own as sist record at 715, believes Chamberlain "must be 100 per cent" effective in order for Philadelphia to beat Bos ton in the series. St. Louis, which also won its fourth straight division crown, thought it had a breather in the Lakers last season, but Elgin Baylor help ed Minneapolis eliminate the Hawks, four games to two. The Hawks beat the Lakers in 10 of 13 games over the reg ular season, averaging 113.9 points per game to 104.5 for Minneapolis. However, the injury jinx has again caught up with the Western champs. Slater Mar tin, who missed the 1959 play offs with the Lakers, is suf fering from a pulled leg mus cle. The Hawk playmaker, smallest man in the NBA, may see limited action if at all. 40 Thinclads For Medford Forty Medford high youths have turned out for track and field at Medford High school, Coach Dean Benson has re ported. He said that about 10 more are expected with the close of basketball season. Sixteen lettermen return. Senior lettermen are Len Griggs, sprints and . broad jump; Skip Bennett,' pole vault; Ray Smith, mile; Terry Ryan, quarter mile; v Bruce Hill, half mile; Bob Hamilton, Matthews Seeks Title Shot . Philadelphia (UTD - Len Matthews of P h i 1 a delphia wants a shot at top-ranked lightweight contender Carlos Ortiz as a reward for his 10 round decision over Lahouri Godih Tuesday night. Godih, 138, who narrowly missed upsetting Matthews in their nationally televised bout last month, crowded and at tempted to smother the hard hitting attack of the fourth ranked lightweight contender. But the 20-year-old Mat thews, who stopped 14 oppon ents in compiling a 24-3-1 log, managed to buckle the former F r e n c h 'lightweight cham pion's knees with several rights and take a unanimous decision. In the second half of the twin bill, Clarence Tiger Floyd, 17412, New York, scored a surprise upset when, he gained a 10-round split decision over Von Clay, 172, Philadelphia. It was the first loss the 20-year-old fourth ranked light heavyweight con tender suffered in the course of an 11-1-2 career. Woodburn 66-58 Tuesday. Vale had a 28-23 halftime lead over St. Francis but a tight defense and a fourth quarter scoring spree carried the Eugene team to victory. Spies Sparks Drive Vale led 36-34 going into the final quarter but Tom Spies sparked St. Francis to its winning drive. Spies! wound up with 18 points for game honors. Lloyd Turner and Dave Wilcox had 17 each for Vale. Willamina had to hold on to get its win over Myrtle Point. The northwest Oregon club led 26-17 at the half and stayed well ahead in the third quarter but in the final pe riod Myrtle Point closed the gap and twice was within two points. Gary Littlejohn led Willa mina with 15 while Larry Dornath had 13 for the losers. Jay Norton with 25 and Ron Stull with 22 paced Reedsport to its win over Clatskanie. Stan Otterstedt hit 27 for Clatskanie. Myrtle Creek got 24 points from Rod Trask and 20 from Fred Ear wood to knock over Wood burn. Trout Farm Planned at Sportsfair Talent Trout Farm again will furnish a fishing pond for youngsters at the Crater Lions Sportsfair, according to Dave Franklin, general chair man for the event. The pond will be located in a large two-ring tent connect ed to the Armory and will be sponsored by Drive-In Clean ers. Harry Ringland and Homer Harris, owners of the trout farm, expect to keep between 300 and 350 hungry trout in the pond at all time. It is not feasible they said, to keep more than this number in the pond since the fish need plen ty of fresh water and oxygen. Trout to be planted in the Sportsfair pond will not be fed for two days prior to the fair. Ringland and Harris ex plained that the fish will trav el from the farm to the Arm ory better on an empty stom ach and will also be more eager to take the bait offered by young anglers. Salmon eggs and .beef liver are the pre ferred foods. The fish prefer the liver, but the salmon eggs are easier to handle for feed ing purposes. The trout farm is four miles above . Talent on Anderson creek rd. in what the state game commission has desig nated as one of the best nat ural locations in the state for a trout hatchery. The Sportsfair will be held March 26 and 27 at the Med ford Armory. Work Out High Team hurdles, and Jerry Shults, high and broad jump. Juniors Listed Junior monogram winners back are Phil Humphrey, sprints; Kent Blew, quarter mile; Dan Sieg, broad jump and sprints; Mike Hood, hur dles; Walt Ayers, hurdles; Bob Rix, half mile; Bill Dahl strom, mile: Nick Lingren, pole vault; Tom Bortis,shot put. Among promising aspirants out now and showing good in preseason practice are Mike McCullough, Hiram. Martin, and Don Miller. Jerry Shults and George Clearwater were still with the basketball squad. , The Tornado trackmen open their season in Salem on April 2 at the Willamette re lays. First home meet is on April 9 when the Tornado host the Rogue relays. Next meet will be the Hayward re lays at Eugene. ABC Acquires Football Rights New York (UPI)- The Amer ican Broadcasting company has acquired the NCAA TV football rights for the 1960 and 1961 seasons. ... Financial terms were not revealed in the joint an nouncement by Rix N. Yard, chairman of the NCAA tele vision committee, and Thomas W. Moore, vice president of the ABC, but it was empha sized that it is the first two year agreement made by the NCAA. The National Broad casting company held the NCAA TV rights the last few years. ' Bennies Efout St. Johns, (Bradley Seats Dayton New York-WPO-Can those amazing, Ijall-hawking Bon nies panic top-seeded Brad ley the way they panicked de fending champion St. John's? That was the big question in . the National Invitation Basketball tournament today as a result of St. Bonaven ture's stunning 106-71 rout of St. John's and Bradley's im pressive 78-64 victory over Dayton in quarter-final games at Madison Square Garden Tuesday night. The two red-hot teams col Sport Parade New York - (UPD - College basketball has reached the patternized stage where no drastic rule changes seem to be in the offing, St. John's coach Joe Lapchick asserted today, and any revolutionary alterations must sterif from the pro ranks. Looking into the future, the former star of the original Celtics predicts that: -The pros eventually will "have to do something" to counteract the skyscrapers by either raising the basket or making the rim smaller. -The colleges will adopt an orange ball more condu cive to television. -Minor rules will be intro duced to combat "gimmicks" but the colleges won't "buy" the pro time limit on posses sion for many years. Few College Gaints "College basketball doesn't actually have the height prob lem which pro basketball faces," explained Lapchick. "Actually, in college play while the overall height aver age has increased there still are only a very few real giants playing every season. "But the pros, who take the pick of the college crop annually and put the accent on the biggest fellows, even tually will have to do some thing I suppose," he added "The big boys are scattered among a host of colleges, let's say 500 of them, while there are only eight pro teams. So the pros must make the ad justment either with a higher basket or a smaller rim." There will always be rule adjustments 'in the college sport, Lapchick contends, but he sees nothing really dras tic in the forseeable future.' Must Eliminate "Gimmicks" "All games must be tam pered with to eliminate bugs," he argued. "Progress must be part of any sport and you have to knock out the 'gim micks'." By gimmicks, the' lean bas ketball great means such rule- evaders as the trick Kansas Senators Aid Senators' Team Washington; D.C. -. (UPI) -Three United States senators are coming to the aid of the Washington Senators in" an effort to boost the American league club's home atten dance. Chairman Alan Bible (D Nev.) of the Senate District of Columbia committee, Chairman John L. McMillan of the House counterpart group and Rep. Carroll D. Kearns (R-Pa.) made $15 con tributions Tuesday to a Sen ate pool. The idea is to get everyone of the 250.000 fed eral and District of Columbia employees to buy at least two tickets to one game this year. Kearns, who is credited with originating the idea, plans a "roll call night" at Griffith Stadium sometime this year with President Eis enhower and Vice President Richard Nixon present and a quorum of the Senate and the House answering to their names. Heavyweights Battle Tonight Cleveland, Ohio (DTD Heavyweight contender Zora Folley risks a nine-fight win ning streak against slugger Mike DeJohn in a televised 10-round bout tonight at the arena. Folley will rely on clever ness and a stinging left jab to repulse the charges of his stronger opponent. Currently ranked third among heavyweight contend ers, Folley has a 50-3-2 rec ord, including 29 knockouts. In his last fight, the Phoenix, Ariz., battler outpointed highly-regarded Eddie Machen. DeJohn, a KO artist, is list ed ninth among heavyweight aspirants. His record is 39-7-1. The Syracuse belter, the last of seven fighting broth ers, has scored 27 knockouts. Incandescent lamps gener ate four times more heat than fluorescent!. lide in a- semifinal Thursday night for the right to meet the winner of the other semi final between Providence and second-seeded Utah State in Saturday afternoon's finale. St. Bonaventure, only a one-point favorite, drove St. John's crazy with its ball stealing and shot the eyes out of the basket with a 58 per cent shooting average in hand ing the Redmen their worst defeat in 15 NIT campaigns. Play Like Sophomores "Panic is the only way to By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International came up with when it had Wilt Chamberlain. On out of bounds plays under their own basket, they flipped the ball over the backboard and Wilt, standing in front of the bas ket, merely tapped it in. The rule makers countered by ordering the ball taken out on Hie side. Rangers Get Three More Grid Men Dallas, Tex.-fUrD-The Dallas Rangers of the National Foot ball league announced the ac quisition of three more play ers today to bring to 30 the number of players signed, bought or bartered lor the new club. From the Detroit Lions, the Rangers added the names of Charles Ane, a center who played collegiate bail with the University of Southern Cal; Jim Doran, end who hailed from Iowa State, and Gene Cronin, a linebacker who joined the Lions from the College of the Pacific. Rangers General Manager Tex Schramm said the play ers were acquired by the agreement of NFL officials that the Rangers buy three players from each of the older league teams in order to be able to put a team on the field this fall. The Rangers still have se lections of three players each from the Chicago Cardinals and the Philadelphia Eagles. Other selections announced Tuesday by the Rangers: F r o m the Chicago Bears Jack Johnson, defensive half back who played collegiate football with Miami; Pete Johnson, defensive halfback from VMI, and Don Healy, of fensive guard from Maryland, From the Pittsburgh Steel- ers Ray Fisher, defensive tackle from Eastern Illinois, Ray Matthews, offensive half back who is a veteran of nine seasons with the Steelers and who played with Clemson, and Bobby Luna, place kick ing and punting specialist from Alabama. - From the Washington Red skins Doyle Nix,- SMU de fensive halfback star; Joe Nicely, offensive guard, and Tom Brantz, offensive end. LITTLE LEAGUE MEETING Chicago - (UPD - The Little League baseball congress will hold its fourth annual conven tion here March 17-19. Dele gates from 50 states repre senting over 5,200 franchised leagues will " elect five new directors and discuss the fu ture of the program. describe what happened to us," admitted Coach Joe Lap chick of St. John's. "When they stole the ball on us three straight times, our sophomores just started to play like sopho mores." "Can they panic Bradley?" said Lapchick in answer to a query. "Well, now, that's a dif ferent story. Bradley is a much more poised club than we are." Coach Ed Donovan prom ised that his Bonnies from Olean, N. Y., "will start with the modified press defense against Bradley and use it all thp wav unlpcc u;o trM ' - i . 1 1 i ,, imo uuuoie inai way. Switch To Press Defense A press defense also was a major factor in Bradley's win. The Braves were traling, 37-33, when they switched to that defense early in the sec ond half and the resulting surge carried Bradley to a 68-56 margin with less than three minutes left. "We had to change to the press because we were getting licked," admitted Bradley Coach Chuck Orsborn. "We had to do something that would change the pace of the game. Coach Tom Blackburn of Dayton was bitter about the officiating, particularly the work of Charley Eckman, former coach of the old Fort Wayne Pistons of the National Basketball Association. "Eckman was less harmful to the coaches when he was a coach," said Blackburn. "I thought we were going to win when we had that four point lead, but Eckman made three straight bad calls against us. We lost the ball three straight times without taking a shot, and there went our lead." JIM BEAM One Beam family for six generations... One Kentucky Bourbon formula for 165 years! What makes Beam bourbon taste o good? More than anything it is the fact that today, as for 165 years, it is still the Beams who make BEAM, under the same formula, in the same Kentucky country where bourbon was born. That is why you can always buy Beam bourbon with trust. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY 86 PROOF DISTILLED AND BOTTLED BY THE JAMES B. BEAM DISTILLING CO., CLERMONT, KENTUCKY MS Qihiiiifc) Sassy IUiima wr-xr I lUW VI w W Vt See Fight In Texas San Antonio, Tex.-UPI)-The largest fight crowd in San An tonio history turned out Tues day night to see world ban tamweight champion Jose Becerra pulverize Ward Yee of Pasadena, Calif., and in stead saw a slightly sluggish Becerra take an unpopular though unanimous-decision. Yee. a Chinese - American who got his start in boxing while stationed at Lackland Air Force base here, came on strong in the late rounds and had Becerra standing helpless in the 10th before the bell ended the non-title fight. Some 1,500 Lackland air men in the crowd of 7,000 booed the decision and even some of the Latin-Americans in the crowd felt Ye had made a better showing. Referee Leonard Z u n i g a scored it 99-96 for Becerra, Judge Manuel Williams 99-94 and Judge Edward Lopez 97-95. Becerra was five pounds heavier than he was for his Feb. 5 title fight against Al phonse Halimi of France in Los Angeles, and was a pound and a half over the 122-pound limit he and Yee had agreed to before the fight. Yee weighed 121. FIGHTS United Press International Buffalo. N.Y. (UPI) Jose Tor res. 159'i. Brooklyn. N.Y.. out pointed Tony Dupas. 155, New Or leans (10). Philadelphia (UPI) L e n Mat thews. 137. Philadelphia, outpoint ed Lahourari Godith. 138. Algbka (10): Clarence (Tiger) 175'. New York, outpointed Von Clay. 172. Philadelphia (10). San Antonio, Tex. (UPI) Jos Becerra. 123'j. Mexico, outpointed Ward Yee. 121. Pasadena. Calif. (10 non-title I. Sacramento. Calif. (UPIi Josev Lopes. 134, Sacramento, knocked out Henry Salcido. 136. Midland, Tex.. (2). i ib mn nwsnomar WW miser