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Suaoay, March 20, 1 960 A MAIL TRIBUNE, M.dford, Or. ., lack tornado After First. - Half Scaro : Edges Saxor f iw I Medford Trails At Half By 10 Points Br DICK JEWETT Mall Tribune Sports Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene - A fright ened Medford High school basketball contingent, in one of its rare experiences this season under pressure, col lected its poise and fought up hill through the second half to burst into the Saturday night finals here for the Ore gon Class A-l prep diadem. Outplayed, outrun and out shot for half the conflict Fri day night, the Black Tornado blazed back to outscore South Salem 34 to 20 over the last two stanzas and nudge the valiant Saxons 56 to 52 in a state semifinal scrap. It was the Tornado's 20th straight victory of the 1959-60 maplecourt promenade and sent the Medford hoopmen into a titanic titular struggle with Marshfield of Coos Bay. The Golden Pirates outlasted Klamath Falls in the first of two Friday night adrenalin chargers 57 to 55 to reach the championship mix. Southwest Gets Crown Semifinal outcomes spoiled hopes for an all-Southern Ore gon conference state finale fray but assured the big school mantle for southwest Oregon. And, aptly matched were the No. 1 and No. 1 rank ed quintets in the final coach and sportscaster-writer polls, But, South Salem's cagers, a fiery tournament team, showed little, if any, respect for the No. 1 rating accorded Medford. Spurred offensively by Jay Brack and Charles Hudkins and defensively by the fierce play of Ed Maerz, John King and Hudkins under the backboards, the Saxons had the Tornado 10 points down 32 to 22 when the half time buzzer blasted. Then Jerry Anderson, Ken Durkee, Bob Quinney, Lowell Dean, Jerry Shu Its, Dick Ragsdale, Booth Deakins and Cal Dean intermingled efforts in a gradual Medford upward Are You The Salesman -Who Can Qualify? Expansion program of fifty year old California company provides unusual opportunity for ambi tious man with successful sell ing experience to qualify for lifetime as Special Representa tive in this community. Should be favorably known and resident here for some years, married, with a liking for peo ple. Man selected will be given ade quate training and sales assist ance, with salary and commis sion compensation plan to en able him to earn $7,500 or more first year increasing each year thereafter to $12,000 or more within five years. ' Substantial retirement income and insur ance benefits in addition. If you qualify and desire to dis cuss further in personal inter view, telephone in confidence Monday, March 21, between 8 and 11 ajn. or write to E. J. Mocabee, Manager Medford Agency 33 N. Central Avenue 3-3876 climb. Anderson, held to three points by Salem's stiff under- the-hoop defense, rang in 12 counters in the second half for Coach Frank Roelandt's Tornado team. Durkee con tributed seven markers and Quinney five. Cal Dean and Deakins came off the bench to help steady Tornado skirmish ing in the clutch. Quinney Gets Lead Medford headed 16 to 14 after one quarter of the game but fell behind at 19 to 20 some 23A minutes into the sec ond stanza. They did not go ahead until the final panel. Quinney put the Medfords in front for good at 50 to 48. His driving baseline bucket pop ped in with 3 minutes 9 sec onds left to play. Outpointing the Saxons 17 to 9 in the third session, the Tornadoes lagged Salem just 39 to 43 going into the closing chukker. The Pear city stal warts tied the score twice and fell behind on two occasions before going on top to stay. Anderson tallied on a feed in shot and then put in two gifters for 43-all with 6:48 left on the clock. Hudkins hit from the circle to restore the South lead and Maerz added a free shot for 46 to 43. Quin ney sank two free tosses but King did the same for the Capitol community kids for South margin of 48 to 45. Next Coach Dick Ballan- tyne's Saxons suffered a rug ged blow. Maerz, rebounding ace and a major factor in stopping Medford's Anderson and Quinney in the gang ups under the hoop, fouled out. There was 4:16 to go as Shults put in the free toss on the foul. Quinney drove in for a basket off a Cal Dean feed for 48-each with 3:52 remaining. Shults Widens Gap Tall Bob followed up with the marker that put Medford in front and with two minutes on the clock Shults plunked a 20-foot jumper. But South was still in contention as King made two free tallies. These were offset by Cal Dean's pair with 45 seconds on the clock. King intercepted a Medford pass and hit from close range for 54 to 52, Med ford with a half -minute to .go. Eight seconds showed when Anderson slipped along the baseline and looped the ball in for a clincher. Time ran out and as the buzzer sounded jubilant Med ford cagers danced and hug ged each other and cheerlead ers gathered round to join in the joyous moment. Hudkins was the scrap's top point man with 20 and Brack totaled 17. Anderson put in 15 counters, Durkee added 11. Quinney 10 and Shults nine. Quinney control led 12 rebounds from the boards while Anderson and Shults each gathered nine. Maerz had 10, King nine and Hudkins seven. Medford, despite poorer shooting a v e r a g e, .317 to South's . .352, had one more field goal for the night and put in two more free points. Saxon .trouble making free heaves go in proved costly in the second half. Saxons Storm The Tornado's field barrage suffered in the first two quar ters from the inability to find pn; 3 iff w& J5 J . VeiTTn SHULTS SCORES Medford forward Jerry Shults leaps high in the air to score two points against the South Salem Saxons in semi-final action at the state A-l high school basketball tournament at Eugene Friday. Medford battled back from a 32-22 half-time deficit and won the encounter by a 56-52 score. The win advanced the Tornado crew into the championsnlp game with Marsh field last night. (UPI Telephoto) Ladies Only! "QUEENS" Bowling Bee (Moonlight Bowling in the Afternoon) Every Tuesday Afternoon at 1:30 P.M. ROXY ANN LANES 2375 South Pacific Highway LOTS OF FREE PRIZES! Try Your Luck... and WIN A PRIZE! o NO EXTRA CHARGE Open Bowling Prices -LADIES ONLY- s. S i f I & S L 1 the range from outside and the ganging defense of the Saxons in the inside area. At the same time Salems were waxing hot, getting good posi tion or tipping the ball for rebounds and then beating the Tornado at its running game. Medford got its share of steals and interceptions but could not press them to the first half advantage that the Sax ons did. Still in grabbing victory after viewing the brink of de feat, the Tornadoes, one of the finest teams in Medford high history, flashed the comeback quality which is the mark of a championship contending club. The hard earned tri umph after two easy games, however, gave rise to specula tion as to its effect on Med ford for Saturday's title-deciding tangle. The Tornado In the semi fell behind after once holding 16 to 11 advantage. It nabbed first quarter lead when Shults scored at close range on a Ragsdale feed for 10 to 8. A Durkee tally after a Shults swipe, a Lowell Dean pusher and a Durkee longie, while Maerz hit from the foul mark ana ttuaKins dunked a re bound, resulted in the five- point difference. A Brack charity heave and Dan Wells push made it a 16 to 14 quar ter. South Goes Ahead Brack's jumper gave South its 20 to 19 lead. Hudkins' long push and two free count ers, Maerz' gift throw and Brack's pusher made a 28 to 19 score. Shults' driver and Anderson's charity shot cut it to 28 to 22 but Hudkins and Brack each goaled to estab lish the half time count. In three minutes of the third session, Medford reduced its trailing margin to five points at 33 to 28. Durkee got a brace of field goals and An derson and Durkee free points while Brack hit just a single ton for South. Brack and Deakins exchanged baskets, then Hudkins flicked the net for 37 to 30. Lowell Dean's free shot and Anderson's pair of buckets hacked the gap to 37 to 35. Hudkins pushed a shot from the circle but Anderson and Deakins made it up at the free stripe. Salem then upped the spread to six on Ed Swear inger's driver and Hudkins jump from the corner. Durkee free tosses made it 43 to 39 at the pause. Seven Times In Finals Medford advanced into' the state basketball tourney finals for the third time in six years and became a seventh time finalist. In 1955 the Tornado, bowed to Eugene in the finale and in 1956 it lost to Franklin ' of Portland. 'In each of those i former tussles, the Medford, opposition was bolstered by a giant player. Saturday night the Tornado had to face another skyscraping eager in Marshfield's 6-10 Mel Counts. The 1960 championship en gagement matched Medford and the Coos Bay school for the second time this season. In December non-league play Medford lost to Marshfield 66 to 58. It was the Tornado's season opener. In its Friday semi the Marshfielders had to go the last four plus minutes with out the services of Counts. He fouled out with the Pirates leading 49 to 42. The Klam ath Pelicans then proceeded to catch up in the evenings first feature of a double thriller program. Dean Dunson, Bruce Brickner and Paul Bishop got field goals and Bishop two free casts while Bob Buries gained a single gift heave for the Pirates. That made it 50 each with less than 2A min utes to play. Counts Has 24 A Buries bucket and gifter then gave the Bucs 53 to 50 edge. Gary Patzke got a free toss for KF but Dick Shanley fast broke for a Coos Bay goal. Shanley followed up with double success at the gift stripe for 57 to 51 with l1 minutes left. Dunson goaled for Klamath in the final sec onds and Brickner netted the ball at the buzzer. Counts did plenty to help the Bucs before he retired with 24 points and 23 re bounds. Paul Bishop had 20 KF points and Brickner 14 board retrieves. Marshfield won out at the rree line witn 21 points on 27 tries while Klamath made 17 of 26. The Pelicans had one more field goal, 19 to Coos Bay's 18 and the better gunning record, .297 to .286. On the scoreboard the two teams seldom were far apart and 23 to 15 was Marshfield's biggest spread. Quarter stand ings all favored Marshfield 15 to 13, 29 to 28 and 41 to 40. Forewarned KF put in the first goal of the scrape but did not have a lead again until the third period. The Pels went on top at 30 to 29 and once were 36 to 32. Marshfield tied at 36-all and a 38-all knot fol lowed. ' Medford, which drubbed Jesuit 75 to 41 on Wednesday and St. Helens 80 to 51 in a Thursday mix had plenty of warning that South Salem could not be taken lightly. The Saxons knocked out Port land's Jefferson 64 to 52 in the opening round with a siz zling scoring pace. Then they fought from behind to bop South Eugene, a club which in pre-Ieague play had pushed them over twice. Marsh field beat David Douglas 59 to 54 and Cleve land 49 to 43 before facing Klamath. " South Salem and Klamath Falls met last night for third place. Nielsen . Wells .. 0-1 1-3 0-0 0-3 Marshfield Earns Right To Battle Medford With 57-55 Win Over K Falls Eugene - (UPD - Medford got its chance: for revenge last night when the Black Tornado took on Marshfield for the 1960 state A-l hoop title. Medford earned the finals Friday night with a 56-52 win over South Salem and Marsh field won 57-55 over Klamath Falls. A crowd of 10,106 saw the semifinal session, a new record. The Black Tornado lost only three games this season and one of them was to Marsh field early in the season. The game matched the number one and two teams in the final United Press International prep poll. Medford finished first and Marshfield second. Klamath Falls - and South Salem played , a preliminary game for third place. Totals Medford L. Dean Anderson .. Quinney Shults Ragsdale Deakins Durkee C. Dean Totals ..19-54 14-31 39 17 52 U 1-11 5-19 4-10 4-6 1-5 1-1 4-11 0-0 ft 1- 2 5-7 2- 2 1-3 1-2 1- 2 3- 4 2- 2 reb pf tp 6 9 12 9 2 2 5 4 4 4 15 2 10 3 2 2 5 11 0 ..20-63 16-24 49 22 56 Marshfield tg B. Buries 1-6 L. Eickworth ..0-8 M. Counts 9-25 K. Coke 2-9 D. Shanley 4-9 0-2 0-0 2-4 J. Weekly R. Hughes B. Burke Totals ft 7-8 l-i 6-6 1- 3 2- 3 2-2 0-0 2-4 reb pf tp 7 2 3 23 4 2 2 0 8 9 2 5 24 5 3 10 3 2 0 0 ..18-63 21-27 49 20 57 Klamath Falls tg B. Lewis 1-3 G. Patzke 0-5 B. Brickner 6-13 D. Dunson 4-15 P. Bishop 8-26 W. Palmberg .0-2 ft reb pf tp 2-3-5 2 4 7-12 5 3 0-1 14 4 12 2-4 3 4 10 4-4 8 3 20 2-2 4 3 2 Totals .19-64 17-26 39 19 55 BOX: South Salem tg ft reb pf tp Hudkins 9-26 2-4 7 1 20 King 1-4 4-9 9 1 6 Maerz 1-1 5-6 10 5 5 Brack 6-15 5-7 5 3 17 Swearinjnr 1-4 0-1 3 3 2 Seitz ; 0-0 0-1 2 10 Mule Deer Wear Bells Portland - Nimrods hunting mule deer bucks in the Silver lake backwoods country of Lake county this fall who hear the tinkling serenade of Silver Bells" need have no fear they are having halluci nations or that the mysterious musical ringing in their ears is the result of too" much .strong campfire "coffee" of the night before. In fact it might pay them well to follow the tinkling notes to their source, for the Pied Piper in this case might well be a trophy buck. The bell-ringing deer In the Silver lake area are a part of a comprehensive study by the game commission of deer movements and migrations, which in itself is part of a long range research project on deer herd management. The entire project which began almost a year ago in cludes the study of deer foods, range utilization, seasonal dis tributions, reproductive rates, diseases and parasites, various census methods, hunting pres sures, recreational values, .and other factors. Unit Established. Cooperating in the study are the Pacific Northwest Forest and Range Experiment station, the Oregon game com mission, and the hunting pub lic of Oregon. Hunters may recall that last fall as part of the study the Silver lake-management unit was established ' Eugene, Jeff Win South Eugene won fourth place in the Oregon class A-l high school basketball tourna ment Saturday afternoon by defeating Lake Oswego 62-55. Jefferson of Portland claim ed fifth spot by trimming Da vid Douglas 68-60 in consola tion play finals. The Axemen of South Eu gene raced to a 19 point first half lead then outplayed most of the rest of the way. They survived a stirring second half rally by the Lakers. Os wego narrowed the south mar gin at 59-55 with just one min ute, 47 seconds to play. The Axemen resorted to ball con trol over the last four min utes to check the surging Laker team. South Eugene was on top 18-9 at the quarter and 41-22 at the half way rest. The dif ference was only 11 points 52-41 when the third quarter ended. Sandy Nosier and Don Du Shane each had 22 points for Eugene. Roger Paul collected 17 and Rod Young 13 for Lake Oswego. ' Jefferson pulled away from David Douglas after a see-saw scuffle. The Douglas Scots led 53-50 after three periods but Jeff outscored the Metro- Pirate Ace Leads A-l Point Race University of Oregon, Eu gene - Mel Counts of Marsh field carried the scoring lead into the finals of the 42nd Oregon high school basketball tournament Saturday night against Medford on the strength of a 24-point per formance against Klamath Falls. Counts had scored 76 in three games to hold a five point lead over Rod Young of Lake Oswego, who had 71 points. Third spot was held by Medford's Jerry Anderson with 62, and the top five was completed by South Salem's Jay Brack with 61 and War ren Newell of Cleveland with 57. Counts also had . the re bound lead with 56 while Bo Blair of South Eugene had 47 and Wilbur Brown of Jeffer son had 42 to round out the top three. Top scorers follow: . Player tg ft reb pftp Counts. Marsh 29-62 18-22 56 14 76 Young, L Osw 25-48 21-27 15 7 71 Anderson, Med ..25-51 12-17 26 8 62 Brack, S Sal ..26-59 9-16 18 5 61 NeweU, Cleve 23-43 11-12 10 11 57 in osier. sue zz-47 li-ie Z3 10 55 siair, s tug ZU-47 3-IB 47 e 53 Brown. Jeff 21-52 6-11 42 Nickelberry, Jeff 23-69 1-6 15 Bishop, K Fans 19-50 B-ll 20 Hoffman, San 15-47 14-20 19 8 48 2 47 4 47 4 44 for either - sex deer hunting throughout the entire season with a .specified number of hunters allowed to participate on a special drawing basis. To determine movements and migrations, deer winter ing in the Silver lake range are being trapped, ear tagged, and belled. The bell is attach ed to the deer's neck with plastic rope. 1MKG MDK - Slab and Rough Blox Green Dandy to Burn with Dry Wood Big Double Load or Single Load MEDFOUD FUEL CO. Ph. SP 2-21 1 1 - Court at McAndrews loREENI (stamp sj politan League champs 18-7 in the concluding canto. The Democrats headed 20 18 after one quarter. At half time each team had 33. Leads switched hands five times and the score was tied on three occasions, in the sec ond half. Jefferson went in front to stay at 56-55 erasing a 55-50 David Douglas mar gin. Leon Johnson of the Scots paced all scoring with 26 markers. His teammate Jim Dortch had 19. For Jeff, Clauis Nickleberry put in 19 and Wilbur Brown 17. 1 Lake Oswego fought its way into the fourth place bat tie by upsetting Portland city champs Cleveland 56-49 and South Eugene made it by beat ing St. Helens 64-46. Favorites Get Battles Jefferson gained the con solation championship round by downing Hermiston 57-44 and David Douglas took La Grande 44-40. Both semi-final games were close, exciting and in doubt until the closing moments. Medford had to come from a 32-22 halftime deficit to nab its win. South Salem's in ability to convert at the free throw line cost the Saxons heavily. South Salem could hit only 14 of 31 free throws and made only 1 of 9 in the third quarter as Medford closed the gap. Counts Fouls Out Marshfield ran Into trouble with Klamath Falls when tall Mel Counts fouled out with a little over four minutes left. At that time Marshfield was in front 49-42. Three quick buckets in the space of a minute and 10 seconds by K Falls narrowed the score to 49-48 and the Pelicans were very much in the game. Bob Buries hit one free throw for the Pirates to stave off the rally momentarily but Paul Bishop came back with two free throws to tie at 50. Buries connected on a three point play and about 30 sec onds later Dick Shanley scor ed four points in about 10 seconds to put Marshfield In front 57-51. Time ran out before Klam ath Falls could catch up al though Dean Dunson and Bruce Brickner hit field goals to bring the score to 57-55. Counts had 24 points while Bishop hit 20 for Klamath Falls. South Eugene had too much speed, height and depth for St. Helens. Bob Blair and Sandy Nosier paced the Axe men with 20 and 14 points respectively. Lanny Myers paced the Lions with 12 points. Rod Young - a 5-9 guard -paced Lake Oswego's second tournament upset. Young had 21 points and was instrument al in getting the Lakers off to a 21-8 lead. Biff Steers came off the bench for the Lakers to add nine points and help control the boards. Champ Denies Postponement Vaernamo. Sweden - (UPI - Ingemar Johansson, world heavyweight boxing cham pion, denies reports his sched uled June 22 return title bout with Floyd Patterson may be postponed until later in the year. "The return bout between me and Floyd Patterson is not postponed. 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