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ec-i RUL asketball c vu n ED FORD ES m 0RE60N M C MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Or. U A Monday, March 21, 1960 A-l TOURNEY AT GLANCE How They Finished 1. Medford 2. Marshfield 3. Klamath Falli '4. South Eugene 5. Jefferson 6. South Salem 7. Lake Oswego 8. David Douglas Saturday Scores (Championship) Medford 63. Marshfield 58 (Third Place) Klamath Falls 74, South Salem 69 (Fourth Place) South Eugene 63, Lake Oswego 55 (Consolation) Jefferson 68, David Douglas 60 Celtics Near Eastern Title United Press International Wilt Chamberlain's hand in jury brightens the Boston Celtics' chance of wrapping up their fourth straight East ern division title Tuesday night . when they meet the Philadelphia Warriors at Bos ton. The St. Louis Hawks, how ever, are having their troubles with the scrappy Minneapolis Lakers, who seem determined to turn the tables on them again. Elgin Baylor's clutch goal Sunday produced a 103 101 Laker win and dead locked the Western division series at two-all. Boston needs only one more victory over the Warriors since taking a 3-1 advantage in the series with a 112-104 triumph in Philadelphia Sun day. Receives Honor Portland - HJPD - George Pa sero, sports editor of the Ore gon Journal, and Bob Black burn, sports announcer for radio station KPOJ. have been honored by the National Sportswriters and Sportscast ers Association. Pasero was voted the out standing sportswriter in the state and Blackburn received a similar honor for sports broadcasting. Pasero has been with the Oregon Journal for 18 years and became its sports editor in 1956. Both will be honored at Salisbury, N.C., April 12, at the association's awards banquet. r '" '' ' w'"'nr&Wl"iWI " '" AUTOMOTIVE Mid-Week Specials O Lube Job O Oil Change 5 Qts Regular Oil O Front Wheel Pack O Brake Adjustment O Muffler or Tail Pipe INSTALLED (Plus Price of Merch.) O 4 Wheel Rotation ALL THIS WEEK O Wheel Alignment $6 Satisfaction guaranteed or. your money back Jackson at Biddle SP 3 Open Mondavi and Tornado Stalwarts Subdue Marshfield Pirates in Finale "It was a great thing." That terse but emotion packed comment by Coach Frank Roelandt echoed the sentiment of this Rogue val ley metropolis Sunday as the mighty, terrific and triumph ant Medford Black Tornado basketball contingent return ed home flushed with the joy of the greatest hoop honors achieved for its school in more than three decades. A rampaging Big Wind with a fighting pull-together spirit and romping with a torrid shooting pace, the Tornado from the City of Pears ruled as master of the maplecourt among Oregon's Class A-l high schools after clubbing Marshfield of Coos Bay Satur day night in the 1960 tourna ment finale game. Medford turned back Marshfield and its tall hoopster, Mel Counts, 63 to 56 at Eugene on Univer sity of Oregon's McArthur court. The outcome of the five-day colorful cage carnival brought Medford high its second ma jor athletic championship for the 1959-1960 school year. Its basketball titular trophy will join the hardware emblematic of last fall's A-l football dia- ! dem in the Tornado trophy case. This is the second such double triumph for Black Tornado teams. Medford last won the state cage tourney mantle back in 1929 after hav ing gained Oregon's mythical gridiron banner in the fall of 1928. No other school in the state, so far as can be recalled, has won the grid and hoop court pennants in the same academic year. Join the Greats Tornado athletic power houses of 1959-60 have joined the "Terrors of the '20s" in the annals of the greats. Sizzling accuracy from the field, poised and assured floor play and aggressive defense those were elements, as they have been through the sea- SERVICE SPECTACULAR TUES. & WED. ONLY each - 6661 FREE PARKING Fridays 'til 9 P.M. ,son, in Medford's 21st straight victory and its title clinching play. And, with the threat from fouls and free shots in stopping the Pirates bid, it took an eight-man effort. Lowell and Cal Dean, Jerry Shults, Jerry Anderson, Booth Deakins and Ken Durkee, sen iors, and Bob Quinney and Dick Ragsdale, juniors-those are the champions and the he roes of Saturday's deciding game. And they share their laurels with Coach Roelandt and with reserves Darrell Miller and Jim Barry, who contended in the first two of Medford's four tourney games. Marshfield's cagers, rated No. 2 by pollsters to Med ford's No. 1, made it touch and go for the Tornado over much of the 32-minute route. While the leads they held ex ceeded one point only once, they seldom let the Tornado, itself, stay very far ahead. Counts teamed with Bob Buries, mainly, and with Karl Coke, Dick Shanley, Bob Burke and Jerry Weekly to give the Tornado battle. Crushing Blow Frequent Pirate tactic was to feed into Counts, the gigan tic hoopster, in tries for close in easy shots. Tornado defen sive measures against Counts and Buries cost many fouls and free shots. But, for Med ford this pressure eased when the 6-10 Buc center Counts fouled out in the late third period. And,' Coos Bay cham pionship ambitions suffered a crushing loss. Counts had 24 points, 10 on free shots, and 11 rebounds for his abbreviated duty. Buries had 13 tallies and 10 backboard retrieves. Top Medford scorers Saturday were Anderson with 15 count ers and Shults and Durkee with 10 apiece. Anderson had 10 rebounds and Quinney and Ragsdale five. Medford put in 23 field buckets to the Pirates' 17, out hitting the southwest coast club .435 to .327. Marshfield had the free toss edge 22 to 17. Medford, turning in a con fident, determined, sparkling brand of ball, despite the bug aboo of fouls, grabbed the lead for keeps on a play which I coincided with giant Counts' departure from the fracas. Lead, For Keeps Marshfield had taken its only lead of the second half with just two minutes to go in quarter No. ,3 when burly Buries netted a bucket from the side of the slot. That made it 39 to 38. But the Bucs held this slim advantage for just a brief 17 seconds. The Tor nado's Anderson drove across the key slot and looped the casaba through the hoop to make the scoreboard read Medford 40, Marshfield 39. Referee Bill Gatch's whistle tooted and Counts was charg ed with fouling Andy. It was i the center's fifth personal and banished him. Pirate parti sans set up a chorus of boos that lasted minutes long. They thought that Counts, with four infractions already .charged against him, was trying hard to avoid his fifth and that the Medford all-stater made the contact. But, that's not the way Gatch saw it and the Buccaneers had lost the king pin of their team, as they did also before the ends of their quarter and semifinal tilts. Coim On Floor Marshfield backers display ed further disapproval as coins and debris were tossed upon the court. Anderson, when play re sumed, made his free toss for 41 to 39. With 36 seconds left in the panel, Cal Dean and Ragsdale, a pair of solid per formers in the titular mix, combined. Dean took a feed from Ragsdale and flipped the ball into the cage. Cal drove the bucket and scored with one second remaining in the quarter. Buries fouled him and Dean"s free marker established the score at 46 to 39. Durkee, whose feeding, floor play and shooting fig ured strong on Medford's bril liant night, started off the fourth quarter fireworks. The Tornado opened the fourth quarter seemingly bent on playing a deliberate, ball con trol game but willing to take the long and mid-range shots they were sure that they could make. Captain Durkee hemped a one hand push from back of the key, one of his effective shooting spots. 54-42 Widest Gap Cal Dean put in a gift mark er for a 10-point 49 to 39 spread. Shanley for the Bucs hit a pusher from the side and Deakins, another sturdy Tor nado stalwart in the clutch, sank a shot from the corner SCRAP FOR BALL It's anybody's ball as Dick Ragsdale (22), Medford, and Jerry Weekly (53), Marshfield, jump for it in state A-l prep basketball championship final at Eugene Saturday night. In background at right is Medford's Jerry Anderson. Medford defeated Marshfield 63 to 56 for its third hoop championship in Tornado athletic history. , (UPI Telephoto) in a trade of buckets. Rich Hughes of Marshfield and Ragsdale of Medford each made free tosses and, when Lowell Dean, rugged bulwark under the hoop, goaled from under the cage on playmaker Ragsdale's feed with 4:19 to go in the game, Medford had its widest margin at 54 to 42. Coke's long push and Burke's gift shot cut the Tor nado edge to 54 to 45. But Ragsdale came through with a pair of charity casts. With 2:21 left on the clock Shanley put in a driver for the Bucs. Medford's slender scrapper Quinney fouled out on the play and, when Shan ley added the one-pointer, the score was 56 to 48. A pair of Buries free markers made it 56 to 50 with 1:36 remaining. Braces of free heaves by Dur kee and Lowell Dean took Medford back to ' a 10-point difference, 60 to 50, with one minute on the clock. Cal Dean Adds Clinchers Then Buries put in a driver for the Pirates. Lowell Dean fouled on this score but Buries missed the gifter. "With 47 seconds to go Shanley made two free points for 60 to 54. In the next seven seconds An derson and , Shults missed free throws but with 17 to go Cal Dean put in a driver and then an extra counter on a foul. Weekly then topped off the Pirate scoring. The horn blared and the Black Tor nado were the champs. ' First quarter of the conflict saw a ding dong battle mark ed by seven lead switches and four ties. Durkee gave Med ford 16 to 14 advantage at the buzzer. Medford outgun ned the Coos Bay club seven to four from the field for the chukker but the Buccaneers gained six free heaves to the Tornado's two. Shults. Anderson,' Quinney," Lowell Dean and Durkee all got points for Medford in the quarter with Shults, a year long cog in the Medford scor ing and playmaking machine, and Anderson each collecting five. Counts got six points for Marshfield and Coke and Buries each four. Buries, who teamed with Counts as chief thorns in Medford flesh, got his markers at the free line. Game Tied Counts jumper tied up the game as the second period opened and Marshfield went ahead 18 to 16 when the big boy hit twice from the free line. But Lowell Dean put in a jump over Counts to tie the game again. Anderson scored off a steal but a Big Mel re bounder made it 20-all. Durkee came back with a long push, then grabbed a loose ball under the Marsh field hoop and dribbled down the floor. He fed off to Quin ney who dropped the ball through the net for 24 to 20. Medford headed the rest of the period "with margins as much as seven points at 30 to 23, 32 to 25 and 34 to 27. The Tornado went to the dressing room at halftime leading 34 to 28 after a rebound bucket by Anderson at the buzzer of a short shot by Rags dale had ' been disallowed. Pear City scoring in the stanza again was distributed among "five men with Andy swishing six. -- Counts had 12 of Marsh field's markers in the second session and Buries the other two as only three Pirates tal lied in the initial half. .577 Field Coaling . The Tornado, with only four points on free shots in the half, outshone its rival with blistering .577 shooting from the field on 15 of 26. The Pirates made just eight of 29 for .276. However, the Pirates kept within range by flipping in 12 free shots on 20 tries. Medford at halftime had Lowell Dean with four fouls against him and Quinney and Shults each with three. Coos Bay opened second half point production with a jumper and free shot by Counts for 34 to 31. Quinney sank a try from the side of the slot for Medford but Weekly put in a long range pusher and Counts a turn jump from close to the hoop. Counts' free tally tied up the game at 1 36 apiece halfway through the canto. Shults and Buries exchanged gifters for 37-all. Anderson cashed in at the free stripe. Then Buries gave the Oregon coast team its last and short-lived lead. This was Roelandt's third Medford team in the state prep finals., His clubs lost to Eugene in 1955 and to Frank lin of Portland in 1956 in the title games. And the Tornado tutor was high, in retrospect, on the Tornado's team effort and its ability as a pressure crew. All - state . selections proved, the coach declared, that Medford won as a team. Coach In Daze He referred to the fact that, from the Tornado's roster of fine ballplayers, only Ander son was an all-state choice. He made the tourney's first all-star team. Not a Medford its, even, was selected for the second team. The South Salem game showed, Roelandt pointed out, that his Tornadoes could come back under pressure. South almost upset the Medford gang before falling 56 to 52 in a Friday semifinal. The Tornado, seldom under strain through the regular season, had the pressure on it, too, in the championship game. "Right now, I'm still in a daze, myself," the Medford coach commented yesterday. "I'm very happy, I'll tell you that. We're all happy and are sitting and relaxing." Praising the players, Roe landt said, "I'm really proud of them. I think they sure deserved it (to win).", He men tioned .the players' own confi dence in their ability and their great competitive spirit. "They knew they could win," Roelandt stated. ' Proud, Thankful "We are real proud and thankful of the enthusiasm of the Medford people there," Roelandt said of Tornado sup porters who saw the team breeze over Jesuit and St. Helens, rally by South Salem and then dump the Pirates, who had,tripped the Tornado 66 to 58 in its season starting game. The. coach hestitated in making comparisons of his current crew with his Med ford teams of past years. He stated that it is unfair to try to single out any players be cause there have been so many so good. But he did agree that the 1959-1960. ag gregation, which compiled a 23-3 mark, was tops for depth of fine basketball talent. His players gave Roelandt the traditional and ceremon ious dousing in showers Sat urday night. The mentor de clared, "It, definitely, was the best shower I ever had." BOX: Marshfield FG FT RB PF TP Buries 3-9 7-14 10 .4 13 Burke 0-1 1-3 6 3 1 Counts 7-17 16-16 11 5 24 Coke 3-9 0-0 0 0 6 Shanley 2-10 3-3 3 5 7 Weekley 2-4 0-0 4 3 4 Eickworth 0-2 0-0 3 0 0 Hughes 0-0 1-2 0 2 1 Totals -1J-S2 22-3S IJ 22 II Klamath Grabs 3rd flnState Tourney Eugene -filPD- Klamath Falls , Paul Bishop paced K-Falls nailed down third place Sat-jwitn 23 points followed by urday night by downing South iuce jfVc J o i on Brack had 26 to lead South Salem 73-69 in the Oregon J. Salem Class A-l high school basket ball tournament. Wally Palmberg Jr., made his only basket of the night an important one in Klamath Falls' third-place win. He drove the key to lay up a shot that sent the game into overtime. He tied the score at 67-all. Lakeview Shifted To District 6 McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene - Oregon School Activities association board of control action Satur day moved Lakeview high school from District 7 to Dis trict 6 for A-2 high school competition. The change will be effective Dec. 1, the start of next basketball season. Board action came when the schools of the two districts voted 13-10 in favor of the switch. Lakeview will ioin in with Rogue league schools, f noenix, n.agie Foint, Kogue River and Illinois Valley for District 6 southern division rivalry. It is reported Glendale may j shift from the Rogue league to me umpqua vaiiey loop in the northern part of the dis trict. Lakeview requested the change because of the great distance it has had to travel for athletic contests. Heppner and Sherman high school of Morrow will become A-2 schools next fall and will play District 7 teams. Sam White To Retire Tucson, Ariz.-(UPD - General Manager Frank Lane of the Cleveland Indians said today catcher Sammy White's deci sion to- retire from baseball cancels a deal with the Bos ton Red Sox in which his club gave up Russ Nixon for White and another player. White faces a 60-day su spension if he reconsiders and tries to play for Boston, Lane indicated. Lane belatedly received a wire from White Saturday confirming he was qutting and therefore would be un able to report as scheduled under terms of the trade with Boston. ' , . Lane promptly sent two telegrams. One went to Com missioner Ford . Frick, and asked that the star catcher be placed on suspension for 60 days if he attempted to play for Boston. White, 31, termed the de cision "the toughest of my life." The announcement came through a public relations firm handling a bowling alley enterprise White initiated only recently. White batted .284 with Bos ton last year to lead all Amer ican league catchers. In addi tion, he was rated the top re ceiver in the league in his ability to handle pitchers. , White was traded to the In dians along with first base man Jim Marshall in ex change for 25-year-old left handed hitting catcher Russ Nixon. . " STRONG MAY INHERIT St. Petersburg, Fla. - (UPB -It appeared the strong would inherit the St. Petersburg golf title as the field faced a tir ing 36-hole windup today. Strongest after the second round Sunday was George Bayer, the hulking slammer who also has a delicate touch with a putter. Bayer, of Glen eagles, 111., fired a three-un-der-par 69 Sunday and led the field by four strokes. ' Medford FG FT RB PF TP Anderson 5-12 5-9 '10 4 15 L. Dean 3-3 2-4 3 5 8 Quinney 3-8 0-0 5 5 6 Shults 4-7 2-3 3 4 10 Ragsdale 0-1 3-4 5 3 3 Durkee 4-7 2-2 1 2 10 Deakins 1-1 0-1 2 12 C. -Dean i 3-4 3-4 11 9 Totals .-.-23-43 17-27 30 25 S3 Mima SP 3-4393 DAILY'S U-CRIVk - - Medford .'Airport The third place tangle had a scorching finish. Lead changed hands 12 times in 4 minutes 35 seconds of the last quarter. Salem Takes Lead John King put Salem ahead 66 to 65 with a jumper with Wz minutes to go and Loren Seitz added a free toss with 26 seconds left. With nine sec onds to go Klamath got the ball out of bounds when Sa lem's Ed Swearinger was call ed for traveling. The Pels took timeout with seven sec onds on the clock. Palmberg took the ball on the inbounds throw and drib bled oh a bee-line for the bas ket. He put the ball through the hoop with one second of regular time remaining. . The Pelicans of KF led at the quarter 22 to 19 and Sa lem at the half 36 to 34. South headed by 54 to 49 when the four quarter ended. Klamath victory gave south Am anrJ snnthwpstprn OrptrMi I h t th0 nbr ; final tournament standings, I I Beavers Down iQ I Oil NillG 2-1 s, Bernadino -0JPD- Port land made it two baseball wins in a row Sunday over Sacramento as the Beavers downed the Solons, 2-1, with an unearned run in the ninth inning. Don. Frailey went 2 for 3 at the plate to pace the Port land win. Bob Anderton, who saw duty only in the last inning, was the winning pitcher and Chuck Hickman the loser. Portland won Saturday 8-3. CAMPY IN HOSPITAL Vero Beach, Fla.- (UPI) -Roy Campanella, paralyzed former Dodger catching star, was re ported resting comfortably to day after he was taken to St. Mary's Hospital in West Palm Beach suffering with a dizzy spell. PAQUIN SETS MARK Pullman (UPD Phil Paquin, University of Oregon, set a new pole vault record for the 18th annual Washington State invitational track meet Satur day with a leap of 13 feet, 8V2 inches. of the west! ' 1 'j;. ill CODE 272 CODE272C aepenaonsj Pain 42 ' f AUl JONES DISTILLING COMPANY, Anderson All-Stater Eugene-tPI)-An all-senior all-tournament first team was picked by competing coaches in the state A-l lournament Saturday night. Picked were Jerry Ander son, Medford; Sandy Nosier, South Eugene; Mel Counts, Marshfield; Jay Brack, South Salem and Paul Bish op, Klamath Falls. Six players made up the second team. Selected were Bo Blair, South Eugene; Warren Newell, Cleveland; Rod Young, Lake Oswego; Clauis Nickelberry, Jeffer-. son; Bruce Brickner, Klam ath Falls, and Leon John son. David Douglas. Counts won the tourna ment scoring title with 100 points in four games. He was followed by Brack with 87, Young with 84, and Nosier and Anderson with 77 each. 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! The whiskey with the zest t -t a jib AMERICAN BLENDED WHISKEY LOUISVILLE, KX.JJS6 H0Of 71S GRAIN 1 SPORTS GIBB LEAVES U OF I Moscow, Idaho -(LTD- Direc tor of Athletics Robert Gibb is leaving the University of Idaho after six years to go back to Boise. His resignation is effective July 1. Gibb will become staff coordinator of the First Methodist church in Boise and an executive of In spiration, Inc., a church or ganization. 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