Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, February 17, 1961, Image 12

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Newspaper Page Text:2 B FRIDAY. DAVIS OREGON'S iea ugaam Also Gains High Honor "By HOWARD APPLEGATE . a Portland -IUPII- For the sec ond year in a row one of Bill Bowerman's Oregon track . stars is Oregon's athlete of the year. , Otis Davis, the slender Los Angeles lad who came to Ore gon hoping to play basketball but wound up instead a dou ble ('old winner in last year's Olympics, was given the award Thursday night at the annual Bill Huyward Ban- - quet of Champions. Sharing honors with Davis was Ted Ogdahl, the person able Willamette football coach who guided his team to an un beaten, untied season last 'fall. Ogdahl was named Man of the Year. : Davis ' who ' won the - 400 meters at. Rome in record set ting time and anchored the winning U. S. '1,600 meter re lay team, succeeded Dyrol .Burclson, Oregon milor who won the award for his 1959 'achievements. ! Won UPI Honor ' Davis also was picked last December at the Unite Press International's 1960 athlete of the year for Oregon. Other awards included: Dr. Ralph Christenson, Eugene, the meritorious award for his work with the Emerald Em pire Athletic association of Eugene; the George' Bertz Memorial award to Pete Welch, president of Golf En' terprises, Inc., which returned ibig-time golf to Portland, and ; tile Rollie Truitt award for amateur baseball to Ralph lj. Myers Jr., Eugene, for his 'work with youth baseball ; there. , i Davis was picked from among a field of 12 finalists who also included: Terry flak ier and Don Kasso, Oregon State football tailbacks; Stan Solomon,' ' Willamette h a 1 f back; Hoyt Keeney, David Douglas tackle; Chuck Rask, Oregon basketball' ace; Mel Counts, Marshfield hoop ace now at Oregon State; Harry Jerome, Oregon track sprinter for Canada; Larry Petersen, Oregon State baseball out fielder; Mel Renfro, Jefferson high sport star; Pete Ward, former Lewis and Clark base ball player noV in the Ball! niore chain, ' a"hd Carolyn Wood, the 14-year-old Beaver- ton girl who came . back to win a gold medal at Rome in swimming after a heart-break' dng setback in the 400-yard butterfly race. Four From Jeff ' Four of the 12 finalists, Hask, Ronfro, Ward and Bak er, attended Jefferson high here. ': Ogdahl succeeded another football mentor, Fred Spicgcl berg of Mcdford, in winning the Man of the Year award. The main speaker was Norm Van Brocklin, the former Ore gon quarterback who is new head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. Van Brocklin paid special tribute to Jim Aiken who was his coach at Oregon in the late 1040 s. Truitt, 33-ycar veteran base ball announcer wh suffered a heart attack last year, was on hand to present the award to Myers. Mrs. George Bert, presented the golf award for her late husband. Gov. Mark Hatfield and Mayor Terry Schrunk spoke briefly at the opening of the banquet, attended by nearly 700 persons at the University Of Portland Commons. The banquet Is named for the late Col. Bill Hayward, famed Oregon track coach and the man Bowerman suc ceeded at the Eugene school, Grade Basketball Varsity games Roosevelt Washington 22 Oak Grove ;18. GrIIIln Crock 17 Howard 20, Jacksonville 10 1 Hoover to, JcHiM'ion IB ;.' Wilson 21). Jackson 20 THERE'S NO SNOW HERE It's all dry land. But pupils, under the tutelage of Mycr Jones, left, of the Rogue Snowmen, arc learning some of the fundamentals of skiing. One of the aims of the Snowmen is to promote interest in skiing in this area. One of the means of doing this wai its dry land ski chool recently completed at the t FEBRUARY 17, 1961 -'7 M it-. , -M. KU'' t Wm -' ninth jp ir hf OTIS DAVIS Athlete of Year College Grappling Tourney at Ashland Ashland - Day-long action in the Oregon Collegiate conference wrestling meet gets under way at Southern Oregon college Saturday at 10:30 a.m. with four member schools entered, Entrants from Southern Oregon college, Oregon Tech, Eastern Oregon and Oregon College of Education will clash, the first such ever held . Preliminaries begin at 10:30 a.m., following weigh-ins at 8 a.m. and a coaches' meeting at 9 a.m. Consolation and finals matches start at 2:30 p.m. Not only will a confer ence team champion be crown ed but an outstanding wrestler of the tournament will be selected, reports Raider coach Bob Bennett. Upon the conclusion of the meet, SOC president, Dr. El mo Stevenson, will present the individual weight champions with awards and certificates. Bennett, in his first peason at SOC mat reins announced this morning that the Raider squad seems recovered from their recent seigc of injuries. Slatdd for starting berths for SO Jayvees Vie Twice Ashland - Coach Al Akins' Southern Oregon Junior var sity basketball squad seeks to boost its season record when it hosts a pair of teams in week end action at the SOC gymnasium. Tonight at 8:30 o'clock the SOC juniors take on Brook ings High school in a non lcaguc encounter while on Saturday the Jayvee crew tackles Butte Fulls in a SO Independent leugue contest. The Jayvees currently con tinue to lop the league stand ings with a perfect 9-0 win loss record. Second is Wooden Shoo Restuurant with an 0-2 record. On the overall season, the SOC squad has posted a 15-2 mark. Larry Hink, the sharp shoot ing freshman from Roseburg increased his season scoring total to 274 points in 17 games for an average of 16.1 when he tallied 32 points In the Jayvees' 79-49 win over Butte Falls last Monday night. The total is a season high for Hink and for the Jayvee team. Hink tallied 30 In a game with College of Siskiyou earlier in the season. Running second to Hink Is another frosh, Steve DeFore from Madras who has piled up 198 points for an 11.6 average. Duffy Adams with a 10.6 av erage, and Dave Graham with a 10.5 mark, are the other top Jayvee point producers. ATHLETE V .... $ M SOC are Buz Parker, 123 pounder, .Ken Williams, 130, Jim Hicks, 137, Jerry Hull, 147, Rod Napier 157, George Moses, 167, Bill Hartley, 177, and Ron Mullanix, heavy weight. Oregon college coached by Ken Cumminskey, is the fav orite to win the crown on the basis of dual meet competition this season. The Wolves hold a win over Oregon Tech's Owls in a recent match. Meet officials are Hank Juran, referee, Dan Bulklcy, head timer, and Al Akins, head scorer. Admission will be charged only for, the afternoon session. Faculty, Forest Clubs Winners At Happy Camp nKCIlEATION LEAGUE W. Faculty ForcBt Service 4 Community Church 2 Sclad . 1 Firemen o Happy Camp In the men!s recreational basketball league the faculty picked up its fifth win, defeating the Commun ity Church 57 to 34, Wednes day. The same night the second place Forest Service gave the Firemen their fifth defeat in a close battle 46 to 42. The Faculty-Church- game had the Faculty loading all the way with Carl Hamilton tallying for the first time, more points than his team mate Bob Hokenson. Hamil ton scored 21 for the winners with Hokenson having 18 points. Halftime score of this game was 26-17. The losing Church team was led by Bill M&rriot with 19 points. Forest Service and the Fire men had a first quarter 14-14 tie and then the Forest Serv ice went ahead by half time, 27-18, and held the lead until the last 30 seconds of the fourth quarter when the Fire men tied up the score with 42-42. High scorer for the Forest Service was Joe Ragsdale with 15 points. Fred Robber- son and Sid Griffin made 12 points each. The losers high point man was Larry Graves with 11 points. FENCERS COMPETE New York -'IUPII - A total of 51 entrants from the United States were among the swords men participating in the first international fencing tourna ment which began today at the New York Athletic club. Ten nations are represented in the ertmpntillnn. ""4 - )'ii1Mifei11, " county fairgrounds pavilion. Students here arc getting Instruction from Jones in the third and final session. Les sons concerned equipment, walking on skis, step turns, falling down and getting up, sidestep, downhill running position, "snow-plow" maneuvers, the traverse, the kick turn, the tide slip and chmlis tuxui. OF YEAR TED OGDAHL Man of Year Walfcniaris Opposed To Merger Bill A resolution opposing House Bill No. 1271 now be fore the Oregon state legis Jaturc was passed by the Jackson County chapter of the Izaak Walton league at its regular meeting last Mon day. The proposed legislation would create a department of fish and game, merging the present fish and game com missions. Waltonlans in their resolution declared that they are opposed to any other bill with similar provisions. Members of the chapter point out that under the pro posed bill, a governor may remove commissioners, in ef fect, at will and could remove the' department director by removing the commissioners. No Qualifications Listed Waltonians point out that the bill calls for repeal of Oregon revised statute 496. 115 which provides that a governor may remove mem bers of the game commission for inefficiency, neglect of duty or misconduct in office but he must give the mem ber a copy of charges against him and an opportunity of being publicly heard. The proposed legislation, members of the chapter point out, makes no provision for qualifications of commission ers, as docs the present stat ute 496.110 under which-the game director can be re moved by the game commis sion and then only for cause and with the director having the right to bo publicly heard. They brought out that the' proposed measure makes no orovisions for qualifications of director but provides for repeal of s t at u t e 496.135 which gives necessary qual ifications. Eagles Foes Of Phoenix Phoenix - More hustle and better teamwork have been the objectives this week as the Phoenix High basketball team has propped for Rogue league play against Eagle Point. The two clubs meet tonight at Eagle Point. Pirate Coach Eldon Durham has sought to have his hoop sters pushing hard for posi tions. He's had the Pirates working on their board game and running their offense in short drills to get more snap in the patterns. Shorter, fast er practices have been in order. Durham indicated that he may call on Gerald Sloper, Othar Richey, Dave Johnson, Mike Consbruck and Gary Colfax as starters with John Morrison, George Glcim and Roger Davis ticketed for main reserve duty. mil huruhu tuAlL SIPOHMrS Raiders Entertain Vikings Ashland Southern Ore gon's Red Raiders attempt to grab the spotlight in the Ore gon . Collegiate conference when Portland State comes to town today for a two-game series at the SOC gymnasium tonight and Saturday. Tipoff is 8 o'clock both nights with 6:30 o'clock preliminaries also scheduled. The Raider hoopsters are out of the running for the OCC title this year, but they can grab the role of the "spoiler" by upsetting the ball-controlling Vikings of PSC. Coach Sharkey Nelson's Viks are hoping for a pair of victories this weekend if they are to stay in the running for the Conference crown. Bill Turner, a 6-5 sopho more, tops tne vik squaa in scoring with 243 points and a 12.2 per game average and will team with 6-2 senior Don Bridges at the starting for ward spots against the Raid ers. Holding down the post will be 6-5 Jack Bertell while guards will be 6-2 sen ior captain Frank Chase who a transfer from bastern Oregon college, and 6-1 jun ior Ron Saltmarsh. Bench Strength Don Powell, 5-9 junior, and Eldon Lahti, 6-0 junior, both were injured two weeks ago in a game with Oregon Col lege but provide the Staters with potent bench strength Sheduled to start for the SOC - squad . are 6-1 Dave Hughes and either 6-1 Don Vannice or 5-11 Bob Jensen at the forward positions, big 6-5 John Payne at center, and 6-2 Jerry Shults and 3-10 Gordy Carrigan at guards. Mitt Card Saturday Amateur boxers from Med- ford Pal club and the Talent boys club will square off against each other on Satur day evening,. Feb. 18, in the theatre at the Veterans Amin- istration Domicilary-center. ; A ten-bout card is planned. Headlining the card in the main event will be two red heads. Bobby Little of Med- ford and Curtis Lockwood of Talent. While both clubs just re cently have begun their box ing programs, all the boys are reported rarin' to go. A wild swinging action-packed show is anticipated. Observers watching the Tal ent boys in their workouts, report that the Lockwood brothers, Ivan, along with Curtis, who appeared here on a number of fight cards sev eral years ago, are heavier and hard hitting punchers. They also were pleased with Bill Vary and Ricky Brecse of the Talent club and predict that the Mcdford boys are in for a very tough evening. The card opens at 7 30 p.m. The vets will see the follow ing: fiO-Dound class Grce SDauldinff. PAL vs. Jerry Yntes, Talent; A3 Dale Birkland. PAL vs. Dana Pin ncy, PAL; 125 Paul Frison, PAL rranK naranau, laieni; John Glosowski, PAL vs. BUI Breese. Talent: 135 Ralph Payne, PAL vs. Ron Patterson, Talent; 135 John Winn in a ham. PAL vs. Ivan Lockwood, Talent; 140 Jerry Winningham, pal vs. Ricky Brecse, Talent;- 14S Merle Hamp ton. PAL vs. Bill Vary. Talent; 160 John Sullivan, PAL vs. Rex Howe. PAL; 143 Bobby Little, PAL vs. Curtis Lockwood, Talent. Mounties Face Oregon College United Press International Eastern Oregon goes out to get the lead in the Oregon Collegiate conference basket ball race back tonight. T h e Mountaineers, nosed out of first by Oregon Tech last week with a pair of losses to the Owls, will be at Mon mouth for a pair of games with Oregon College of Edu cation this week end. EOC is without Its high scorer, Larry Applegate, injured last Sun day in an automobile accident. Oregon Tech, which has a 9-4 record to 8-4 for Eastern Oregon, is idle. Don Stathos, insuror Special Low jl Si Automobile Insurance Rates 1 yT Convenient monthly installment! 'inlBUltb, MtOrunD, ( Mt. in Series Carrigan is the Raiders' top playmaker and leading scorer with 325 points and 16.3 ave rage per game. In his three years at SOC, the little guard has accumulated 1275 points ranking behind only Bill Hol- ingsworth and Lloyd Hoffine, who are the school's top point makers. Hollingsworth holds the school record of 1536 points to Hoffine's 1532 total Both played four years while Carrigan is playing his third and last season for coach Ted Schopf. The Raiders have a 5-8 OCC record to PSC's 7-4 mark. SPORTSCASTS Radio Station KYJC will carry the University of Ore-gon-Univeriily of Washing ton basketball game this evening following the broadcast of the Klamath Falls-Medford high game. It will air the Oregon-Seattle university tussle Sat urday night after the Med-ford-Crater high mix. Antonelli Front-Liner For Tribe By HAL WOOD - Tucson, Ariz. - (UPD - John Antonelli, the temperamental pitcher obtained by the Cleve land Indians from the San Francisco Giants in exchange for Harvey Kuenn, will be a front-line starter, Manager Jimmy Dykes said today. Dykes, here to bask in the sun a few days before opening spring training camp, says he talked with Antonelli last week and the fine Italian southpaw is ready to go. "He said he was in good shape," said Dykes. "And I still think he's a real good pitcher. He'll be a starter right off. There's .nothing -wrong with him physically." Dykes said Antonelli admit ted that he had "problems" while pitching in San Fran cisco. But he told Jimmy he'd rather not discuss them. Dropping Subject "And I told him that was right," said Dykes as he waved a big cigar. "We are just drop ping the subject of Johnny's problems in San Francisco." For those who came in late. Antonelli got into some kind of feud With fans and sports writers over the subject of the changing winds in the ball park. It got to the place where Johnny was booed unmerci fully if he so much as walked on the field. The result was that he finished out the I960 campaign as a relief hurler. Antonelli had a 19-10 record In 1959 but fell off badly last season. But he'll be a starter for me," says Dykes. "I think he'll be ready to go to the mound about every five days." John Gray Golf Leader Miami - (UPD - Former Phil lies pitcher Johnny Gray car ried a one-stroke lead into the second round of the base ball players golf chamDion- ship today but it was Mickey inaniie s tape-measure fair way home runs which thrilled the gallery. t Gray scrambled to a three over par 37-36-73 In the open ing round for a one-stroke edge on San Francisco Man ager Alvin Dark, Yankee pitcher Ralph Terry and Phil lies coach Peanuts Lowry. But it was Mantle's tower ing the shots which drew the majority of the 4,500 specta tors and, in the process, they saw chunky Yogi Berra shoot a 37-42-79 as Mantle chopped it up around the greens for a 38-48-86. attentionV YOUNG f DRIVERS V Tornado, Pel Clubs Collide Tonight; Crater Goes To GP; Comets Come Here Saturday Ambitions of Klamath Falls, Medford and Grants Pass for slate, tourney spots and the roles of Crater and Ashland as possible spoilers form the issues tonight and Saturday as basketball teams of the Southern Oregon conference comDlete their third round of Dlay and enter the lourtn ana stretch rouna ot xne circuu. Attention particularly fo cuses tonight on Medford with the state's No. 1 rated Klam ath Falls playing the Black Tornado at Hedrick gym. Cra ter will be at Grants Pass this evening. Saturday night con tention has Crater at Medford and Ashland at Grants Pass. Klamath can clinch a state tourney berth and no less than a conference co-cham pionship by scoring this eve ning a third victory for the season over Medford. On the other hand, Medford seeks a pair of triumphs which will at least maintain its two game bulge over Grants Pass while Grants Pass wants to sweep a pair to gain on Med ford or, at least, not lose ground. Still in Race Crater still Is mathematical ly in the race for second place but one more Medford win or Comet loss would put the Central Point team out of it. First and second place clubs in the league (District 6 A-l) enter the state tourney next month at Eugene. Tonight's ruckus here will find Medford physically in tact but Klamath Falls likely still without the services of two top players, Wally Palm- berg and Bruce Brickner. Even without the . two men, KF has the favored role, on the strength of its win over Grants Pass last week after the Cavemen had nicked the Black Tornado. Coach Frank Roelandt has reported a couple of probable Medford starting lineup changes in an effort to pro vide more height and shooting strength in the Tornado line up. He said that Steve Hoots, 6-5, tallest man on the squad, and George Clearwater, footer, who has a good eye for the hoop, would be in the opening gang along with vet erans Bob Quinney, Dick Ragsdale and Jim Barrv. The mentor has been working with that combination this week and Hoots and Clearwa ter, reportedly, have earned their assignments. To Pick From Eight coach Dean White in mid week indicated that his choice of starters may not be made until just before game time tonight. He'll pick from among eight, Ray Taylor, Wayne Dennis, Gary Patzke, Fred Biehn, Sherm Allen, Kent Hunsaker, Bob Lapsley and Dana Ash. Palmberg was sidelined by a Feb. 5 appendectomy and Bruce Brickner came down with mumps before that. Palmberg began workouts on Tuesday, and is reported far ther along in recuperating than Brickner and just might see some duty against Med ford. Brickner was said to have donned his uniform for a picture last Tuesday but was in his street clothes immedi ately thereafter. White won't be taking any chances with the two players. The pace-setting Pels are set ting good in the conference chase with a three-game gap over Medford and the mentor wants Palmberg and Brickner at strength for state tourna ment duty. Jannen Out Grants Pass, according to Jerry Acklen in the Daily Courier, will be without the services of Larry Janssen attain thic himI- KAAn... -r his ailing back. As of Wprlnos. I day Al Staley had not return ed to the Cavemen since a Feb. 5 ski accident in which he hurt his knee. - Possible GP starters this evening against Crater are Dave Hauntz, Jim Hamilton, Clyde Murray, Bob Lewellyn and Mel Atkins. Dennis Edwards, Loyal Hig inbotham, Mike Gllnes and Louis Alvarez probably will open tor crater with choice among Jim Allen, Tom White and Jeff Anhorn for the fith assignment. MALL BLDG. 1005 E. Main Phone SP 3-6658 Klamath Falls and Medford sophomores will collide at 5 p.m. today with jayvees fol lowing at 6:30 p.m. Crater and Medford junior varsities vie at Hedrick at 6:30 p.m. Soph omore teams meet at the same hour at the Medford high court. Teams Eye A-l Tourney United Press International Five teams were hopeful to day of landing spots in Ore gon's class A-l high school basketball tournament in Eu gene next month. Klamath Falls, Bend Scap poose and Grant and Wilson of Portland all could clinch spots in the 16-team tourna ment this week end. Top-ranked Klamath Falls needs only a victory over Medford tonight or a Grants Pass defeat either tonight or Saturday to win one berth. Bend needs victories over Hermiston and Pendleton. Scappoose could wrap up a berth with a victory over Wy'east; Grant can get in by beating Franklin and Wilson can enter by taking Jefferson. Beavers, Webfoots Have Tilts on Road United Press International Oregon and Oregon State, heading down the stretch of the 1960-61 college basketball season, open week end road series tonight. The Ducks, who have seven games left, meet Washington of the Big Five conference at 57 Tallied By Baylor United Press International Elgin Baylor is on the move again and he's carrying the Los Angeles Lakers with him. Baylor broke his own Olym pia . Stadium scoring record with a flashy 57-point per formance in Detroit that paced the Lakers to a 129-106 vic tory over the Pistons Thurs day night and also moved them into a second-place tie with Detroit in the Western division of the National Bas ketball association. Hitting for 23 field goals and 11 free throws, while even Detroit fans urged him on, Baylor eclipsed his own previous 55-point record at Olympia Stadium and in creased the 41-point per game average he has against the Pistons this season. The Cincinnati Royals, bat tling for a Western Division playoff berth, won their third straight game by beating the St. Louis Hawks, 133-107. The Syracuse Nationals scored their seventh victory in 10 starts over the New York Knickerbockers, 132-120. Strickland Has NCAA Lead in Free Throws New York - UIPD - Denny Strickland, University of Ore gon senior guard, is leading the nation's free throw shoot ers, NCAA basketball statis tics showed today. ; , Strickland is hitting free throws at an 89.1 per cent clip. He has canned 57 out of 64 attempts. The Skill of Mixing Concrete and the study of the uniform strength and appearance of con crete has been our chief concern for many years. We study con stantly to keep up with modern concrete research. We are always looking for new uses and new ways of mixing concrete better. Division of CSC Concrete 248 E. Mc Andrews Road LIKELY STARTER - Dave Hoots, above, probably will be among the starters this evening when the Medford High basketball team enter tains Klamath Falls at Hed rick gym. Hoots at 6-5 is the tallest of the Tornadoes. Also slated to make his first varsity start for Medford is George Clearwater. Seattle and Oregon S!at, with contests remaining, takes on Idaho, at Moscow. . Saturday night the Beavers play Idaho again and Oregon tangles with Seattle. Oregon State, at the top of the Northwest independents with Seattle with a 13-7 rec ord in the quest for an NCAA Far West at-large NCAA spot, hold three victories in three games with Idaho this year. And the Ducks, who rank right behind Seattle and Ore gon State with a 12-7 mark, beat Washington and Seattle last month in the teams' only previous meetings, Group Outlines Stadium Plan , Portland-tUPD-A plan for the city of Portland to purchase Multnomah Stadium from the Multnomah Athletic club has been announced by a group of Portland businessmen. , The proposal would make the city the sole owner of the stadium, which would be enlarged to 40,000 seats, and the MAC the occupant of a new seven-story club facility on the same site it now oc cupies. Multnomah Athletic club announced last year it wanted to sell the stadium. Under the proposal, the city would purchase the Multno mah property for S1.7 mil lion, roughly $2 million less than the club's offered selling price. To compensate the club for selling at less than its $3.5 million asking price, the city would' give MAC a 50-year lease on the clubhouse prop erty without a tax burden. Prep Basketball THURSDAY GAMES Adrian 61. 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