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Light West Coast Hoop Schedule for Tonight By United Pxei International A lieht. but significant West Coast basketball sched ule tonight finds four unbeat en cage squads colliding in San Francisco Bay area con- tests. Santa Clara faces Miami of Florida in a contest at San Jose. The Hurricanes are apt ly named since they bring one of America's most race-horse outfits westward. Miami averaged over 80 points per game last year in winning 23 and losing 4. They have won two this year ai ready They will be an interesting contrast to Santa Clara, which like all Bay Area squads likes to play it nice and easy, The Broncs feature three ex tremely promising sophs in their first string lineup. They lack experience, but will get plenty of it tonight, California, which looked sluggish in downing U.C. of Santa Barbara, meets San Jose ; Middleweight Title Claimed By Robinson Los Angeles-(UPII-A reiuve ated Sugar Ray Robinson to day laid claim to the middle weight crown as a result of his draw with co-champion Gone Fullmer and announced plans for a series of European - bouts. The 30-year-old Robinson, after considering possible re tirement from the ring, in stead announced new plans that Included the European tour, making a movie in Rome and awaiting a possible third return match with Fullmer. Robinson based his claims to National Boxing Associa tions version of the title on the fact that he never lost the crown in the ring but was stripped of it by the NBA. "Since I didn't lose the title boxing I feel that the draw with Fullmer gives me the right to claim the champion ship," Robinson said while announcing his program for 1881. 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California's 60-94 win over Santa Barbara took on added luster Monday night, however, as the Gauchos upset Oregon State, 62-53 Santa Barbara maintained a three-quarters court press which forced the Beavers into many mistakes and the taller Beavers only managed 38 shots from the floor during the contest. Joe Fleiss of Santa Barbara had 18 while Oregon State's Steve Paul connected for 16, The Beaver's giant center, Carl Anderson, was held scoreless. At Peoria, 111., the Cal Ag gies were mowed down by another national powerhouse as Bradley took a 102-65 vic tory. Chet Walker, Bradley's All-America candidate, tried 26 shots and made 20 of them He threw in 10 free throws for 90 points, breaking numer ous school and field house records. David and Goliath Tom Indart scored 25 for the Aggies, who in their cur rent road tour are playing the role of David against the Goliaths of the cage world and finding out that someone has rewritten the script. In the only other action Monday night, St. Mary's blitzed Humboldt State 72-38 Halftlmc saw the Gaels with a 40-7 lead. Tom Meschery, who may be the coast's finest player this year, played 12 minutes and scored 12 points, no ion the floor with the score 28-1 Soph guard Kit Ruona of the Gaels took scoring honors with 15 points. The Gaels are loudcd for bear this year-the California bear, perhaps? Saturday night's meeting of the Bears and Gaels will answer llial one. Action tonight also finds Oc cidental at Loyola, Portland State at Portland and Pasa dena at Cal Poly of San Luis Obispo. Baylor Has Slim Lead New York-UIPD-Elgin Bay lor of Los Angeles and Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia are scoring at a pace torrid enough to break Will's Na tional Baskebtall Association point-making record set last season. Biylor continued his slim lead over Chamberlain this past week as his point produc tion reached 849 lor 24 games. Wilt, who tallied 2,707 points during the 1050-60 season, has netted 833 in 22 contests. NBA teams play four more games this season than last. Chamberlain retained his lead over Baylor in the re bounding snaring 619 for a 28.1 average. Baylor has 502 and a 20.8 mark. The Stilt also showed in creasing accuracy from the field as he took ovor as the league's basket leader with 357 field goals in 744 attempts for a .480 percentage. Oscar Robertson of the Cincinnati Royals Jumped to the runner up spot with 254 for 532 and .477. The big "O" kept his as sist lead over second-place Guy Rodgcrs of Philadelphia, 213-184. Robertson's percent age was 8.5 to 8.4 for Rodgcrs Bill Shannon of the Boston Celtics resumed his old post tion as free throw leader with a .046 mark. Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse National's dropped to second at .802. Marathon Paced By Bruce Hess Swimmer Bruce Hess leads Mcdford's municipal swim ming team on its "300-mile swim to Portland" marathon with 161 miles at the end of approximately three months of swimming. Close behind Hess in sec ond place is Ted Lyons with 160 miles. Following Lyons are Linda Hess. 142 miles; Rhonda Hess. 139 miles; and Linda Wilkes, 139 miles. Only 23 of the original 50 swimmers to embark on the race arc still lett, according to municipal swim coach Ken Lyons. The race is being swum in the YMCA swimming pool as a means of keeping the city swimmers in shape for next summer s swimming meets. Beavers Receive Card Players Portland - IUP1I - The Port land Beavers of the Pacific Coast league have received 10 players from the St. Louis Cardinals of the National league with whom they re cently signed a working agree ment. The players Include out fielders Ed Burda, Jim O' Rourk, Joe Caffie and Ray Cromer, shortstop Phil Gag llano, and pitchers Joe Craig, Gerald Henderson, George Stetler, Bob Maischncr and Dick Hughes. ! ?7.;." 1 f THii :- 'jiJ-"5 .H'i &in f ft IWkt c;;a 1 V 1 . v M t I ' A ii,ik I) 4 ; LOSES BALL Big Bill Russcl couldn't let control of the basketball in this first quarter action during last night's gunio Du tween the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Santa Clara Coach United Press International San Francisco - IUP1I - Bob Feerick, the grey-haired wiz ard of basketball at Santa Clara university, fears for the worst tonight. He thinks that, for the first Santa Barbara Dumps Beavers In Hoop Clash Goleta, Calif. -IUPII- The Uni versity of California at Santa Barbara, throwing up a press ing defense that forced a surprised Oregon State team into a host of ball control er rors, upset the favored Bea vers 62-53 Monday night. Oregon State, bothered by a three-quarter court press by the Gauchos, got only 38 shots from the floor during the en tire game. The taller Beavers constantly lost the ball on wild passes and interceptions. OSC didn t score its first field goal until five and a half minutes into the first half. Santa Barbara led 5-4 at that time. Although the Beavers tied it 15-15 with seven minutes left In the initial period, the winners held on for a 31-26 hnlftime lead. Fleiss Hits 19 Joel Fleiss of Santa Barbara led all scorers with 19 points, while OSC's Steve Pauly con nccted for 16. The Beavers' 6-foot-10 cen ter, Karl Anderson, who was averaging 17 points a game, was held scoreless. About 1,300 fans saw the game. Bob Jacobson followed Pauly In scoring with 11 points for the Beavers but no one else had more than six. Oregon State had a 42 per cent shooting average, hitting 16 of its 38 field shots, and also was accurate at the foul line, gcting 21 out of 29. Santa Barbura had a 36.7 field goal average on 18 out of 49. Oregon State now is 1-2 for the season. The Beavers de feated Now Mexico State Fri day night but lost to Arizona State Saturday night. Protest Use Of LA Player Oakland, Calif.-lUPI) - The Los Angeles Chargers' 41-19 win over the Oakland Raiders was under protest today. Raider general manager Chet Soda said he had protest ed to American Football league president Joe Foss over the Chargers' use of lineback er Al Bansavage. Soda said that Foss had told him Saturday that the protest would be valid if Ban- savnue played Sunday. "Foss told me Saturday that no called and informed him about his decision In the Bansavage case," Soda said. Soda said that Bansavage, a Raider drnttoe, refused to play for Oakland, but was ac tivated as a Charger Saturday, MEDFORD MAIL Lakers. Jim Krebs (32) is shown complicat ing Russcl s problem. Celtic star Bob Cousy (14) is shown In the background observing the struggle. (UPI Telephoto) time in his coaching career, a cage team may roll up 100 points or more against his club. "We play University of Mi ami and the more I hear about them the worst the prospects look," sayj Feerick, who at one time coached and played in the pro ranks for the old Washington Capitols. "That team scores 90 points a game more than any club in the country." Feerick, who gels more kicks out of athletics than do most perennial sophomores, is worried about stopping a guy named " Dick Hickox, who averaged 22.1 points a game last year and is up to his old tricks again this season. "We are going to put our best defensive man, Barry Christina on him," says Feer lck. "And if he can hold him to 16 or 18 points I figure it will be a job well done." However, Feerick h a s n ' given up hopes of winning. "I found out the other night that there are ways to win a ball game that I never heard of before." he says. "We were playing Cluco State and II was a nip-and-tuck ball game. lliey had a big 6-6 man named Harold Von Bargen who was having the greatest night of nis career, "He had taken nine shots at the basket and made good on eight of them. He was tre mendous on the hook shots AFL Drafts 4 State Players Dallas - IUPD - Three Ore gon State football players and a University of Oregon grid- der were drafted Monday by three American Footbail league clubs. Oregon Staters drafted were Art Gillmore, end Aaron Thomas and tackle Neil Plum- ley. Gillmore and Plumley were drafted by the New York Titans and Thomas was picked up by the Dallas Texans. Gill more was selected in the 11th round while Plumley was chosen in the 19th round. The Texans picked Thomas as 16th round choice. Plumley is a former Med ford High school player. Oregon quarterback Dave Grosz was drafted by the Oak land Raiders in the 28th round. However, Grosz was drafted last year by tlie Phila delphia Eagles of the Nation al Football league. TO COACH SOUTH Miami, Fla. -lUPK- Paul Bear Bryant, coach of the Univer sity of Alabama, was named today to assist Darrell Royal of Texas in coaching the South team In the North-South Shrine Football game at the Orange Bowl on Dec. 26. Bry ant's Crimson Tide and Roy al's Longhorns will meet In the Blucbonnrt Bowl at Hous ton, Tex., on Dec. 17, I TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. ORE. Scared and he had just made another midway in the last half to pull up with us. "Then I noticed Cliico Slate took time out and he went over to talk to the coach. He was taken out of the game and didn't return for five minutes. "During the minutes he was gone, our team sailed into a six point lead and they never could catch us." I found out later that he had to go to the little boys' room. And that s how we won the ball game." Feerick, always optimistic, isn't hinting that maybe this should happen to Miami. 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With 10 points for each first-place vote and nine for second, that gave Ohio State a grand total of 349 points of a possible 350 the highest ever, achieved by any team in any week since the UPI board began its ratings in 1850. The previous record for any week was 348 points by San Francisco on Dec. 27, 1955. Only last week, the Buckeyes set another point scoring record when they re ceived 347 points in the pre season balloting, an all-time rscord for the pre-s tascn ratings. Ohio State, last seasons NCAA tournament champion, opened its season on Dec. 12 with an 85-64 romp over Ohio University. Jerry Lucas, the 6-8 All-America and Olympic star of the Buckeyes, scored 29 points in the easy victory. This weeks ratings were based on games played through Dec. 4. As in the pre-season ratings, Bradley was second, Indiana third, Kansas fourth, and North Carolina fifth. The second five received a big shakeup as twice-beaten Utah dropped from sixth to 15th and Auburn and Ken tucky also dropped out of the top 10. Utah State and St. Bonaventure moved up to share the No. 6 spot. Cincin nati, impressive m two wins even without the graduated Oscar Robertson, jumped Bellino Named Back of Year New York IUPII - Joe Bel lino, Navy's football version of a depth charge, gained an other major award for his col lection when he was named college football's "Eack of the Year" for 1860 by United Press International. The All-America halfback from Winchester, Mass., re ceived the votes of 223 of the 422 sports writers and broad casters throughout the nation who took part in the poll con ducted by UPI. EMM STRAIGHT BOURBON FROM KENTUCKY Nature's 349 of Points from 18th to No. 8. Detroit rose from 14th to No. 9 and St. John's (N.Y.) moved from 11th to 10th. Kansas State headed the "second 10" in the No. 11 spot, followed in order by Georgia Tech, Providence, Auburn, Utah, Duke, Califor nia, Washington, Western Kentucky, and Dayton. New York -IUPD- The United Press International major col lege basketball rankings (first-place votes and won-lost records through Dec. 4 in parentheses): Toams Points 1. Ohio Stale (34, l-0)..349 2. Bradley (1-0) 254 3. Indiana (1, 1-0) 253 4. Kansas (1-0) 212 5. North Carolina (1-0) .129 6. (tie) SI. Bona venture (2-0) 11Z Utah Slate (1-0) 112 8. Cincinnati (2-0) 79 9. Detroit (1-0) 49 10. St. Johns, N.Y. (1-0) 43 Second 1011, Kansas State, 35; 12, Georgia Tech, 34; 13, Providence, 31; 14, Au burn, 30; 15, Utah, 23; 16, Duke, 20; 17, California, 14; 18, Washington, 13; 19, West ern Kentucky, 12; 20, Dayton 11. MHS Girls Score 14 At State Medford entries placed in a relay and three individual events Saturday to tie for seventh place in the girls' state high school swimming meet at Beaverton. Linda Hess was second in the 100-yard individual med ley, Nona Donahue fifth in the 100-yard butterfly and Linda V. na.es sixth in the 100-yard freestyle. The 200 yard medley relay team of Hess, Wilkes, Shirley Hopkins and Rebecca Rowan took fourth. Beaverton won the team championship with 50 points. Parkrose and Sunset each scored 31, Grant 23 V4, Cleve land 20'2, Wilson 19 and Cat lin, Medford and Reynolds each 14. Noel Gabie, Sunset, set rec ords in the 50 and 100-yard backstroke races and Pam Mc Pike, Reynolds, in the 50 and 100 breaststroke. Olympic swimmer Carolyn Wood, Beaverton, broke her own Standard in the 100 freestyle. Others on Medford's tour ney squad were Becky Gates, Bonnie Knapp and Diana Hiatt. Finest SOPdDIBlTS Indiana Battling For Championship By United Press International Jerry Lucas of Ohio State and Walt Bellamy of Indiana show early indications of nar rowing the college basketball picture to a point where their teams will be battling for the right to succeed California as the national champion. Both schools showed their true caliber Monday night by overcoming first-half deficits and racing back to decisive victories. Ohio State, the defending NCAA champion and ranked No. 1 by the United Press In ternational Board of Coaches, shattered its first major ob stacle of the season by defeat ing a tough St. Louis squad, 81-66, after training 35-34, at intermission. Lucas Sparks Drive Jerry Lucas, who had teamed with Belamy on the victorious United States Olympic team, sparked a sec ond half drive by scoring 17 of his 23 points. He netted nine of 11 Buckeye points during one streak as Ohio State won its second straight. Indiana also made it two in a row as Bellamy, held to eight points in the first half, rallied for 18 in the second half to put down a scrapping Kansas State team, 88-80. The third-ranked Hoosiers were down 45-40 after the first 20 minutes, but surged to the front with four minutes gone in the second session as they simply out-ran a Kansas Kilmer Big Five Back of the Week San Francisco - IUPII - Bill Kilmer, who led UCLA to a 7-2-1 record this year, was named the Big Five's final "back of the week" for his performance against Duke on Saturday. Kilmer, a second team All American this year, gained 200 yards as the Bruins rolled over Duke, 27-6, in a game which had been considered a toss-up. He ran for 147 yards and passed for 53 more. Kil mer's performance gave him the U.S. total offense crown this season. Marv Luster, UCLA end, earned "lineman of the week" honors for his fine perform ance against the Blue Devils. JH .vor Beoudfuly TUESDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1960 State squad which showed little strength beyond Its starting five. Cedric Price of the Wildcas, however, had the honor of scoring a game high of 28 points. Bradley Beats Davis The Bradley Braves, who beat out Indiana by one point for second place in this week's ratings, slaughter the Davis Branch of the University o California, 102-65; Kansas topped Texas Tech, 87-75; North Carolina beat Louisiana State, 77-61 and Detroit edged Utah State, 70-68 among tho other ranking teams. In other games, Notre Dame defeated Evansville, 83-68; Iowa State outclassed Wiscon sin, 88-76; Rice upset Florida, 68-63; Michigan State subdued Bowling Green, 70-67; Tennes see beat William and Mary in overtime, 83-76;. Furman routed South Carolina, 81-63; Wichita topped Northwestern, 78-60, and Minnesota downed Missouri, 60-56. Ducks Work On Fundamentals Eugene - (UPI) - The Oregon Ducks worked for lVi hours on fundamentals Monday in preperation for their Dec. 17 Liberty Bowl clash at Phila delphia with Penn State. Coach Len Casanova said Monday's workout would de termine what the Ducks would drill on for the re mainder of the week. Casanova said the Webfoots, who are in excellent physical shape for the Liberty Bowl contest, would hold single afternoon workouts through out the week. The Ducks had a squad meeting before the -opening of drills for the Dec. 17 battle with Penn State. Fireplace Materials and Natural Stone So. Oregon's Complete Masonry Supply INTERSTATE STONE CO. 2146 W. Main SP 2-9912 wrapped fo the holidays $A50 $095 Pint
