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s MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford', Or. -Bradley Wins Tittle WBth 88-72 Score New York - (IPD - Mack Herndon and Mike Owens led Bradley on a spectacular late gpurt that wiped out a 12 point deficit and beat scrappy Providence College 88-72, Sat urday for the National Invita tion Basketball Tournament championship. A crowd of 16,421 in Madi son Square Garden and a na tional television audience (N. B. C.) watched the Braves from Peoria, 111., stage their spectacular comeback in the last 10 minutes of play to win the N. I. T. for the second time in four years. Bradley won the tournament in 1957 and was beaten in last season's final by St. John's. The six-foot, six-inch Hern- . ion scored 25 points, 14 of them in the second half, and Owens contributed five clutch field goals during Bradley's late rally that made a rout of what had been a back-to-the-wall battle for the Braves throughout the first minutes of the game. Ranked Fourth ; - The Braves, who are rank- ra lounn nationally Dy tne United Press International board of coaches and were runnersup in the Missouri Valley Conference with a 24-2 regular season record, acniev ed their victory with only limited service from Chet Walker, their star 6-6 center. Walker, victim of an orange HERTZ TRUCK RENTAL Available at HOPKINS RICHFIELD SERVICE McAndrews at Court Phone SP 3-9068 feprf trim modern comfort. . . Jockey underwear mode oy by Men of all ages, all occupations enjoy the true lasting comfort of Jockey brand under wear. It's exclusively made to fit the male body perfectly. Tailored of soft, absorbent cot ton. Jockey underwear is the favorite of men and boys all over the world. BRIEF men's sizes 23-50, $1.25 boys' sizes 3-12, 89e prep sizes 14-20, 95e T-SHIRT men's sizes S-M-L-XL, $1.50 boys' sizes 8-12, 1.00 prep sizes 14-20, 1.25 UNDERSHIRT men's sizes S-M-l-XL, $1.00 MIDWAY men's sizes 28-50, $1.65 I Open Monday Till 9 P.M. If Men and Boys Wear It . Robinson Bros. Carry Itl Sunday, March 20, 1960 juice "poison" scare, played less than 10 minutes before he was sent into the game with 5:21 left to play when Ed -Wodka fouled out. Al though Walker complained he felt weak because of a virus, he contributed an important three-point play during Brad ley's rally and later scored two field goals to break the game wide open. Rul Out Poison Police chemists Friday ruled out the possibility that a glass of orange juice given Walker by a "phony" hotel bell hop on Thursday made him ill. They officially re ported that the juice con tained "no narcotics, no toxic substances, andor no com mon sedatives." Despite the brilliance of Bradley's victory, the tourna ment's most valuable player award was won by Len Wil- kens, slender six-foot Provi dence backcourt star, who scored 25 points and played a superb all-around game in an effort to earn the Friars an upset victory. Wilkens was a unanimous choice of the tournament committee. He scored a total of 84 points in four N. I. T. games. Utah State captured third place in the tournament yesterday by trouncing St. Bonaventure, $s-83, as Jerry Schofield scored 32 points and Cornell Green added 26. BASKETBALL j FRIDAY. A-l TOIRXEY SCORES Setm-Finuls Marshfield 3". Klamath Falls 55 Medford 56. South Salem 52 Fourth Plare Lake Oswego 56. Cleveland 49 South Eugene 64. St. Helens 48 Consolation Jefferson 57, Hermiston 44 David Douglas 44, La Grande 40 COLLEGK BASKETBALL RESULTS NCAA Tournament At San Francisco Semi-Finals Ohio State 76, New York U. 34 California 77, Cincinnati 69 NEWELL NAMED San Francisco - fUPD - Pete Newell of California was named Coach of the Year by the U.S. Basketball Writers association Friday. . . LOSES REBOUND Cincinnati forward Larry Willcy (23) loses control of a rebound in a semi-final game with California at the NCAA championship playoffs in San Fran Hard To Pick Winner Of Cal-Ohio Contest By HAL WOOD United Press International Judging from the Friday night performances of Ohio State and California it was hard to pick a winner for last night's NCAA basket ball championship at the Cow Pal ace in San Francisco. California, it's poise miss ing in the first minutes of play, came back with a rush to whip powerful Cincinnati, 77-69, while Ohio State more or less toyed with long shot New York University, 76-54, in the semifinal rounds. Mistakes killed Cincinnati. The Bearcats, harassed by the always-pressing Cal defense, lost the ball 14 times on er rors. But Cal made only five-ball-control mistakes all eve ning. The big item was the stop ping of All - America Oscar Robertson by Cal's Tandy Gil lis; and the equally brilliant play of another All-American, Darrall Imhoff of the Bears. Robertson, who had aver aged 34.3 points a game for the season, was held to four field goals plus 10 free throws -18 points. Imhoff Scores 25 Imhoff scored 25 points -against his average of 13.5 per game. The towering 6-9 Cal center outmaneuvered Cincin nati sophomore center Paul Hogue under the basket and Gold Rey Fish Count WEEK ENDING MARCH 19: Silver salmon-None. Winter run steelhead -1.813. FULL SEASON: : Silver salmon -371 (in cludes 4.8 per cent jack salmon) since Oct. 17. Winter run steelhead -5,061 since Jan. 19. Super Modified mm West Coast's Cars and S 1 9 III cisco Friday night. Cincinnati lost to the stronger California five by a 09-77 count. Also pictured are Bear players, Bill Mc Clintock (42) and Paul Hogue (22). (UPI Telephoto) dunked 10 field goals. Ohio State, raging up and down the floor like a tornado, took an early 8-0 lead over NYU and never was headed. The Violets did get into the game once, closing the gap to 24-26 with four minutes to go in the first half. But the Buckeyes, under the guidance of sophomore sensation, Jerry Lucas, came ripping back to take a 37-28 lead at the intermission. The Bearcats and Violets tangled for third place in the preliminary game Saturday night. ROBINSON STARTS TRAINING New York-OJPD - Sugar Ray Robinson has opened training for his return bout with Paul Pender, who beat Robinson last January for the New York version of the world middle weight championship. Robin son sparred two rounds Fri day and will meet Tony Bal doni in a tune-up bout at Bal timore, April 2. PATRIOTS SIGN LINEMEN Boston - (UPD - George Gil Christ, 275-pound tackle from Tennessee State college, and Robert E. Lee, 240-pound guard from the University of Missouri, have signed con tracts with the Boston Patri ots of ' the new American Football League, the club an nounced yesterday. - HAWAII LIKES GIANTS Honolulu-tUPD - The Hawai ian House of Representatives has passed unanimously a resolution which would make the San Francisco Giants its official baseball team in the major leagues. The resolution is subject to concurrence of the state. Senate. BAC Fastest - Finest Drivers PURSE Pro Star Hurts Hand Boston - (UPD Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors was taken to a hospital for X-rays of a damaged right hand late in Saturday's National Bas ketball association Eastern di vision playoff final with Bos ton. Bill Russell paced the Cel tics to a 120-90 win over the Warriors. The 7-foot, 2-inch Chamberlain injured his shooting hand in last night's game at Philadelphia. He played today against the or ders of the - Warriors' team physician, Dr. Si Ball, but was ineffectual, scoring only 12 points before retiring with one minute 19 seconds remain ing in the third period. Chamberlain's hand, heavi ly taped for the game, was swollen as he left for Massa chusetts General hospital and he said it bothered him a good deal. Russell, taking advantage of Chamberlain's injury, led all scorers with 26 points and turned in two NBA playoff marks while grabbing 39 re bounds. Russell's 26 rebounds in the second period and 34 in the first half both broke his own records. ' It was unclear exactly how Chamberlain suffered his hand injury. Wilt himself said after Friday night's game he didn't know whether it result ed from a brief fist fight with Boston's Tommy Heinsohn or whether he banged it into a basket rim while going after a rebound. He scored 29 points Friday night and open ed the series with a 42-point effort here Thursday night. BASEBALL Saturday Baseball Results United Press International Detroit 7, St. Louis 6 Milwaukee 7, New York 4 Philadelphia 1, Cincinnati 9 Chicago (Nl 5. San Francisco 1 Cleveland 11, Boston 6 New York-IUPD - Wilt Cham berlain, rookie basketball star for the Philadelphia Warriors, Saturday was named winner of the February poll in the 1960 race for the Hickok "professional athlete of the year"'' award. New York (UPD Carol Heiss, 20, Olympic and world champion figure skater, will officially announce her en gagement to Hayes Allen Jen kins, another Olympic skating champ, Monday night, it was revealed Saturday. BARGAIN GRADE 2x4x8' $HiS00 Per MI' Chenev Stud Mill AT Central Point Fanfare McArthur Court, Univers ity of Oregon, Eugene Down at John Warren's hardware store in this college town is an interesting window display which . provided shoppers a meansof keeping track of the Oregon. Class A-l high school basketball ' tournament . pro gress. In the window is a basket ball court complete with bas kets. On the floor or along the sidelines are .16 figures of players, each representing a team in the tourney and garbed in the colors of the particular school. To begin with, each of the players stood on the court paired with its opening round rival. When the first round was over, the eight losers were relegated to the 'consola tion' bench and the winners were paired according to their championship quart erfinal games. Then, when a team lost a second time in the tourney and was eliminated, the cor responding figure in the win dow was placed on the "los ers'' bench. PUSH - BUTTON BASKET BALL One of the veteran tourn ament sports writers here, obviously impressed by Medford High school's well geared Black Tornado as it defeated St. Helens on Thursday, said he wanted to ask Tornado Coach Frank Roelandt this question: "How does it feel to be able this year to just sit back and push the buttons?" ' When this remark was passed on, it led to a pos sible nickname for Marsh field's tremendous tall man, 6-10 Mel Counts "The Big Button." Medford's state hoop tour ney squad has on it the son of a one-time tournament play er. Darrell Miller's father, Darrell Sr., Pear city auto dealer, played for Klamath Falls in the 1934 prep cage show. There are two other hoop men in this tournament, that we know of, whose fathers also were tourney players. Wally Palmberg of Klamath Falls is the son of the Wally who gained all-state honors for Astoria back in 1931 and 1932. The senior mentor is now hoop mentor at Oregon Technical institute. Back in 1937, when we saw our first state tourney, an Ed Maerz (pronounced like the planet) was on the Salem team. Now his son, Ed, only a sophomore, is cog for South Salem. Young Ed on Thursday against South Eugene set a new tourney, mark of 'free throws, made in one , game 15. He muffed only two of 17 chances. Maerz gifters helped make the scoring difference for the Saxons against . the, Axemen. He put in all but four of the 19 free tosses Sal em got while Eugene was can ning just seven. PERKINS AT CLARK , Skeet O'Connell, basket ball coach at Clark Junior college, had some fine, com ments to make on Larry Perkins, ex-Medford high eager and baseballer. Per kins started a number of scufflesf or O'Connell dur ing the season just finished. He was hampered by illness toward the end of the cam paign. CHISTEAN LIKED From another source comes the report that Washington State university football men tors have high hopes for Lorin Christean another ex-Medford-ite. They like his speed, his ruggedness and toughness and his hands. His ability shows up in his qualities as a boxer and track runner as well as a footballer. The Cougar grid staff is "trying to find a place" for Christean and. he may wind up as an end. Lor in, a fullback in his senior year in high school, played on the Coubabes team last fall. Already a varsity lineman for WSU (seeing a lot of ac tion last season) is of course, By DICIC'JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor Dick Copple.' He didn't get much opportunity to demon strate his placekicking ability for the Cougars last fall be cause WSU chose most of the time to try for two-point con versions by running or pass ing. WEARISOME JOB Jerry Slubbiefield, ex Ashland high athlete, who is on the University of Ore gon track squad, has receiv ed . quite a bit of kidding. He was sitting on a chair at the tournament here Thurs day afternoon," holding the rope to keep spectators off the playing surface and fell asleep. COUNTS FOULS OUT You wonder about accuracy of the statement, "As Counts goes, so goes Marshfield." For, that was not absolutely true here Thursday when the Gold en Pirates of Coos Bay whip ped Cleveland of Portland 71 to 57. Big Mel fouled out with 4 V2 minutes left to play and with Marshfield leading 60 to 45. A writer next to us said, "It's a new ball game, now." But any hope of the Indians that the absence of Counts would enable them to overtake the Pirates was dash ed as the Bucs held their own without the spire over the rest of the route. It certainly has to be ad mitted nevertheless, that, de spite his premature departure, Counts played a big role in the triumph over Cleveland. He made 11 of 16 field bas ket tries and all seven of his free attempts for 29 points and had 15 rebounds. In ad dition, Mel reached ups and out and all around with his long arms to frequently mess up the Tribe attack. Marshfield had a whopping .538 firing mark thanks to the shooting of Counts and the four of five efforts of Bob Buries. Reserves Do Well Klamath Union high, run ner up to Medford in the Southern Oregon confer ence maplecourt campaign, showed good tournament bench strength in its 81 to 59 pasting of Lake Oswego. Pelican reserves were on duty for almost half the game. Medford reservists also have seen plenty of service in the two easy ver dicts that assured the Black Tornado a full four-day stay in this Emerald Empire metropolis. Medford Coach Frank Roelandt's choice to play all his squad rather than shoot for records has been admired. NEAR MARKS ON FTs Medford came close to set ting a free throw mark for this prep hoop classic in its quarterfinal against St. Hel ens. The Tornado cagers made 20 of 21 for .952 average. A perfect foul heave night would have tied them with the 1.000 effort by Lakeview in 1953 but would have put Med ford at the. top of the list since the Honkers' mark is 10 for 10. Bob Quinney, Dick Rags- dale and Cal Dean each flip ped four of four and Booth Deakins and Darrell Miller two of two apiece. The Thursday free tossing was an improvement on Wed nesday's 9 of 18 against Jesuit and gave Medford 29 of 39 for .717 average for the two games. From the field the Medford mark was 63 of 137 for .459. LEAD FADES AWAY South Salem's victory over South Eugene in Thursday quarterfinals was another of those occasions in which the winner had a poorer field shooting average than the loser. Eugene out marks manned the Saxons .357 to DONT BUY A BOAT Until You Try TRU-V The Locally Built Boat You Don't buy a car without a demonstra tion Why buy a Boat without first test ing it for PERFORMANCE. MANEUVERA BILITY, DRYNESS, SAFETY and EASY RIDING COMFORT? TRU V EXCELLS IN ALL THESE! We have our TRU-V BOATS in the water ready to demonstrate. We urqe you to come eut any time and have a ride; then com eare with all ether boats en the market. KNOW what ' you are getting. Try the VENUS THE VOYAGER and THE VAMP. You'll like these unique TRU-V models. We build these TRU-V Bears for you. First Ducks Arrive In Basin Area Portland - the first water fowl to head toward their nesting grounds in the far north began arriving in the Klamath basin in early March, according to a report just released by the U. S. fish and wildlife, service. Leo L. Laythe, regional di rector of the interior depart ment's bureau of sport fisher ies and wildlife, reported 1, 500,000 pintails, 170.000 div ing ducks and 200,000 snow geese along the Oregon-California border. These birds have completed the first leg of their annual journey by moving some 300 miles from the Sacramento valley of California. They are slightly ahead of schedule this year. Generally t h e s e; birds move on schedule with little regard for weather. An aerial survey at the same time revealed another 60,000 snow geese in the Goose Lake-Warner valley areas near Lakeview, Ore. The birds have most of their flight ahead of them with the snow geese nesting at the .377 and made more goals. 23 to 20. We've been told that the Axemen this season have had a habit of piling up leads then seeing them slip away. In a good num ber of scuffles they've man aged to halt the opposition in the clutch and win. This time they couldn't hold the Saxons, a team they topped twice early in the season. BRACK CLUTCH PLAYER ment.. and ..Brach.. was., the The tussle of the two South's topped the champion ship quarterfinals for excit ment and Brack was the clutch playor of the Saxons. Two of his goals gave Salem tie scores, an assist gained another knot and a Brack fielder put the Saxons on top to stay. Still another helped the Saxons hold the lead. Brach came up with a key recovery when he and Eu gene's Bo Blair tussled for the ball under the Salem buc ket. The Saxon finally nab bed it and passed to Loren Seitz, whose shot deadlocked the mix at 48-all. 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