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B MONDAY. FEBRUARY 27. 1961 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, ORE. Black Tornado Bops Cavemen To Clinch A-1 Tourney Berth SOUTIIKRN OHKGON CONFERENCE STANDINGS W. 1.. Pet. Klamath Falls 13 1 .020 Medford 11 888 Granti Paa B fl .371 Crater 4 10 .2B6 Aihland 0 13 .000 - With ' Jim Barry surely throw record and reportedly three short of the Btate stand ard, Medford high's Black rornaao oasKeiDau aggrega tion earned its third consec utive trip to the Oregon Class A-1 tournament by thrashing Grants Pass here Saturday night 75 to 44. ; Barry had a perfect night at the free throw stripe, hemp lng 18 without a miss. A bet ter mark cannot be recalled in the Southern Oregon con . ference, ,.. ' '. .. ' ." . Along with the free shots, Barry had two field goals. He and Tornado teammate Bob Quinney, who had 10 field buckets ad two Tree heaves, tied for high scoring laurels with 22 points each. Medford recorded its de cisive win, its third in four games with the Cavemen with a 21-point first quarter and a 22-marker third. It was ap parent early that this was Medford s game and that the Tornado once more was "go ing to State." Strong Big Wind defense was major con tributor to triumph. Grants Pass could make that shopworn remark, "we couldn't buy a bucket." But, it was mainly because Med ford was not selling many. Tornado defenders kept well on top the men they guarded Especialy, in the early going MEMWWLStiTiuBinn Pelicans Tuck Away Loop Banner, Defeat Ashland Trinmnlh T?all Klamath Union High school, its hopes f o narfont rpr-lirrl SOUthcm Oregon conference basketball season, wrecked i riaay ay Crater, overcame the stubborn challenge of cellarite Ashland here Saturday night to wrap up - lone possession of the league and District 6 titular banner. -v:. The Pelicans subdued the Grizzlies 87 to 54, running away in the final stanza after a close three quarters. ' Klamath brought lis loop standing to 13-1 with two games left next week end. That's 2V4 games ahead of Medford (11-4) which has Just one tangle remaining on Its Arn Palmer Golf Victor '5 Baton Rouge-IUPII- Pressure player Arnold Palmer, the guy who UBes golf clubs with the finesse of a virtuoso, was top the golfing world today after running away from the field to register a record 72 hole total of 266 In the $20, 000 Baton Rouge Open. Palmer, the defending champion, was tied for the lead at 65 in the first round but the rest of the Held fal tered as he shot sub - par rounds of 65-87-88-66. Only one other golfer in the tour ney, second place finisher Wcs Ellis Jr played all four rounds below par. Ellis, seven strokes back, had rounds of 68-68-68-80-273. Par on the 8,700-yard Sherwood Forest course was 70. Behind Ellis were Johnny Pott, Buster Cuplt and Gary Player -all bunched at 274. Burke was all alone at 278 nd then came Bob Nichols t 277. ' ". . Coast League Winner May Play Japanese San Diego - IUPD - The win ner of the Pacific Coast league pennant this year may meet, the Japanese baseball champions in a post season cries, Eddie Lelshman, gen eral manager of the San Diego Padres, has disclosed. Leishman said Pacific Coast league president Dewey Sori ano has called a meeting in Seattle' March 4 to discuss the nlan and other matters. Fi nances would be the big prob lem, he indicated He said the series with the Japanese would start Oct. 10, but he does not know where the games would be played Soriano commented, "When I think of the cost, I really don't see how it could be worked out. The winning team would have to sit around month and wait for the start of the series. Who is going to pay salaries for that time, plus trans portation and other costs? regular season slate and that with the Pels on Satur day night. Against the Grizzlies, tne Pelicans did not have things much their way until late in the third quarter. With five minutes gone in that panel, Klamath led by just 51 to 45. At the end of that canto they had upped to 60 to 47. Until the KF gang shot away in the final chukker, the action marked the best play of the season for t h e Grizzlies against the Pels. Klamath had 17 to 14 edge at the quarter and 36 to 30 difference at the half. There were ' ties of 24-all and 26 each In the second quarter be fore the Pelicans went ahead to stay. In the third canto KF lengthened to 45 to 36 but Ashland cut the deficit to four points at 45 to 41, Ashland had an early, lead of 4 to, 2. The score was tied at 4-all and KF had just a scant gap of 11 to 10 before going to first period margin. Klamath got going after Jerry Hauck. one of the taller Ashlanders, was removed temporarily because of four fouls. The Pels kept fresh by shuttling players in and out of the action. They built a 71 to 51 spread to outscore Ash land 16 to 3 in the last four minutes. In the jayvee mix, KF beat a cold shooting Ashland club 58 to 25 with 14 to 4, 34 to 7 and 48 to 15 quarter counts. Dave Stipplch had 16 points and Bob Dearing and Grover Dahn each 14 for Klamath and Tod Hess nine for Ash land. 1 - The Pels also took the sophomore mix 63 to 36 with 13 to 9, 27 to 18 and 43 to 20 quarters, Bob Piper scored 18 for the victors and John Polk 12 for the Grizzlies Prep Basketball SATURDAY GAMKS Klamath FalU 87, Ashland M Soulh Eugene 311. Willamette 39 Medford 75, Grant Puss 44 - Astoria fiS. Cl.ckamns 42 North Bend SS, Cottage Grave 50 Mpnngueia 43, 'lnursion 44 Rcwehura. SS, Marshfteld 44 Sutherlln 83. Glendale 40 Madras 62, Mllton-Kreewater 70 ' Eimtra 71, uaitridjie 40 Condon 02, Sherman 52 Star of Sea 45. Knappa 42 Riddle 68. Oakland .18 Coqullle 55, Myrtle creek 33 Sacred Heart (Klamath Fall! 92. Malln 42 Chiloquln 87. Bonanza 40 (Klamath-Lake County championship) Monroe 41, Crow 23 Glide 54, Douglas 43 Spray 58. Uktah 3D Long Creek 51, Dayville 42 . Mt. Vernon 48. Prairie Cltv 43 Cascade Locks 67, Mosler 45 BEAVER STILL UNBEATEN Corvallis - tUPB - Oregon Slate's wrestling team remain ed unbeaten against collegi ate conmpetition Saturday with a 20-6 win over Oregon. box: Ashland Hauck .....1... L. Pierce ... Brownson . DeBoer ....... Johnson Vorl Dostcr ....... Herijtes ....... R. Pierce ... Molt G. Tepper FO 0-fl ..17-7 .. 0-0 ..ia-5 .. 1-0 .. 3-1 .. 0-0 .. 0-0 .. 0-0 .. 0-0 .. 4-1 FT PFTP n-7 4 17 0-0 o-o li-o 0-0 2-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 5-3 3 14 I 0 3 in 0 0 4 2 1 0 1 0 Totals 45-19 26-18 10 54 Klamath Falls FO FT PFTP Pattke 7-3 10-4 3 10 Hunsaker 7-2 2-1 , 1 s Bricknor 1B-10 1-10 21 Allen ; 1-0 0-0 0 0 Lapsley 0-3 1-0 18 Biehn 7-5 3-2 2 12 Pa mbera- 11-5 1-1 3 11 Taylor 10-5 8-8 4 1(1 Dennis 7-2 2-2 2 8 Dearing 0-0 0-0 I 0 Brlsbon 2-0 1-0 10 Sllppich 0-0 0-0 0 tjORHiay u-u u-ii u Totals ...78-35 29-17 17 87 Lakers Spurred By Jerry West NBA STANI11NOS Eastern Division W.' I.. Pet Boston 48 21 .700 Philadelphia 41 29 .586 Syracuse 36 33 .323 New York 20 30 .288 Western Division w. I.. Pet. X-St. LOUIS 43 26 .634 Los Angeles 32 38 .437 Detroit 30 41 .423 Cincinnati 29 44 .307 By United Press International Credit Jerry West of Los Angeles with an assist that lowered Boston's magic num ber to 2 In the Celtics' drive for their fifth straight Eastern Division title in the National Basketball association. West, an All-American at West Virginia last season, hit a personal high of 38 points In the NBA that helped Los Angeles to a 121-116 victory over Philadelphia Sunday. Boston Increased its lead to eight games over the second place Warriors by defeating Detroit, 113-99. Syracuse rap ped New York, 136-110, and St. Louis romped over Cin cinnati, 148-122, In other con tests. . " Corvallis - IUPII - Oregon's swimming team defeated Ore gon State 50-44 Saturday and the Oregon Frosh dewned tin OSC Rooks 58-27. the Cavemen got few good shots at the hoop. Most of their field tries were forced Medford qualified for the A-1 championship classic by eliminating Grants Pass in the skirmish for the second-berth from District 6. Tornado vic tory gave it an 11-4 conference standing. Grants Pass is 8-6, The Cavemen have two games remaining on their schedule. Medford has but one. For the Cavemen, after a considerable build up for the game during the week,- the loss was a big letdown. They just never could get started against a Tornado determined to make the'anual trip to Eu gene. Field Goal Drouths . Grants Pass didn't get a field goal until Dave Hauntz hit a pusher just before the first quarter ended.- Three an one- fourth minutes were played before GP hit from the field in the second panel and the Cavemen went almost BV2 minutes with out a fielder in Approximately 70 reserv ed isction tickets for the Medford-Klamaih Union high basketball game at Klamath Falls next Satur day night will go on sal Tuesday at 7:30 a.m. at the Medford senior high office. It is stressed thai no general admission tickets will be sold at the door at Klamath and that no person will be admitted to the gam with out a ticket. the third session. And, the free shot they got were not enough to keep them in con tention. The Tornadoes had quarter margins of 21 to 4, 37 to 17 and 59 to 27. They were 34 points ahead at 59 to 25, Medford dominated every department of the game which contributes toward winning. The Tornado hit 22 field buc kets in 55 efforts for a re spectable. 400. GP had 11 to 49 for .224. Headed by Barry MHS sank 31 of 39 free tries and Grants Pass 22 of 32. 38 to 24 Rebounds The Tornado had 38 re bounds to Grants Pass's 24. Steve Hoots and Quinney each made eight retrieves and Stan Dowson six, topping the five each for Grants Pass by Dave Hauntz and Lee Burton. . Quinney .turned in some fine assisting along with his scoring. Ragsdale and Barry continued their hard driving play and Ragsdale was anoth er top feeder. Grants Pass won the junior conflict 52 to 41 after a Med ford midway edge of 20 to 17. Medford came from behind in the last quarter of the sopho more mix to take it 51 to 48. Norman- Sturgill had ' 11 points for GP and Mike Neat- hamer 10 for Medford in the jayvee go. Alan Hutchins had 10 points for the Grants Pass sophs while Darryl Stockton and Mike Rallton had 12-each for Medford and Dennie Sal yers scored 11. Score was 11- all after one quarter for the sophs. GP led 30 to 29 at the half and 42 to 37 at the third quarter halt.. BOX: Grants Pass FO Haunl7 f 6-3 Hamilton, f .... 2-0 Murray, c 11-2 Blacksmith, g 3-1 Lewellyn. g .. 3-0 Slurgilt 0-0 Davis .'. 3-1 Atkins ..1 1-0 Burton 7-3 Mllleman 0-1 FT Rll PFTP 7-6 0-0 3-3 6-3 3-1 0-0 8-6 0-0 3-3 0-0 Totals Mcdlord Hoots t .. Dowson. I Quinney. f .... Marry, g . Ragsdale, I Katon Hood Tlchcnor . Clearwater Melntyre . Hrown Sclirocdor Bray .49-11 32-22 24 25 44 FT Rll PFTP FO 2-0 4-3 ...,16-10 ....10-2 ... 0-2 ... 2-0 ... 2-1 ... 2-2 ... 3-2 ' ... 2-0 ... 0-0 ... 1-0 ... 0-0 ,. 3-3 4-1 2-2 18-18 1-1 7-4 4-2 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 3 2 7 1 21 , 2 22 4 .5 1 4 3 4 Totals S3-22 39-31 3 20 75 Referees Williams and sutphln. JAYVKF. LINKUPS: 32 orants Pass Medford 41 F 8 Shcpard Ndathamer 10 F 7 Bonzon Forde 3 C 8 Woodman Sander 8 G 3 Roddick Miles G 11 stum It Defflev Substitutions For Grants Pass, O'Lcary 2, Lindquist 6, Benner 7: For Mcdtorn, wmio Miicneii a, Lowery 1, Laurance 2, SOIMIOMOHE LINKUPS: 51 Medford Oranls Pass 4X F 7 Bold Hutchins 20 F 11 Salvers Kc ler C 7 Farmworth Scott 4 G 12 Stockton Furguson 7 G 12 Rallton Thompson 10 Substitutions For Medford, snaw 2, buger: tor uranis rass, Kclseckcr 7, DeCourccy. FOR TWIN DISC FLUID COUPLINGS CALL SP2S227 FOR COMPLETE STOCKS Ohio State Buckeyes Must Wait By GARY KALE United Press International Poor Ohio State has to wait until Saturday to clinch a Big Ten title and an accompany ing NCAA basketball tourna ment berth. Poor, poor North Carolina already has won a regular season conference champion, ship, but has no place to dis play its talents. Top-ranked Ohio Stale, de fending NCAA champ, was assured of at least a tie for the Big Ten crown by scoring a 97-74 victory over Wiscon sin during the week end. The undefeated Bucks, 22-0 for the season, are odds-on choices to win their second straight conference flag against Michi gan State on March 4. North Carolina gained the Atlantic Coast conference's pre-playoff title with a 69-66 win against eighth - ranked Duke. The Tarheels, however, are banned from NCAA post season play and have with drawn from the league play offs. It's anybody's guess who will win the playoffs and be St. John's opening round op ponent in the Eastern region al at New York's Madison Square Garden March 14. Other NCAA berths are in ference competition nears a the offing this week as con-climax, Thompson Wins Stock Modified Championship Daytona Beac'h-IUPD -Jimmy Thompson, veteran from Mon roe, N.C., running on the head end most of the way, won the 250-mile national modified stock car champion ship Saturday with a record average of 141.732 miles an hour., , , Thompson won a relatively accident-free race over the 2.5-mile Daytona Internation al speedway, despite 27- to 35-mile-an-hour wind gusts, to break the 116.612 m.p.h. record established last year by Marion Farr of Augusta, Ga. The Carolina driver finish ed a half-lap ahead of Bill Decoster of Basking -Ridge, N.J., with Sonny Black of Forest Park, Ga., third. Only 26 ' of the 60 starters were running at the end of the USC Trojans Split WithO regon State The Oregon State Beavers dropped to third place among Northwest College independ ent basketball squads Satur day night by dropping a hard fought 74-68 basketball deci sion to the sixth - ranked Southern California Trojans. The loss gives Oregon State a. 14-10 record, one-half game behind Portland's Pilots, who new stand 14-9. St. Mary's Eyes WCAC Opportunity United Press International Jim Weaver, coach of St. Mary's explosive basketball team; said today that Loyola is "no cinch" to win the West Coast Athletic conference title although the Lions face apparent patsies in their last two games. "You don't win on paper," Weaver said when reminded that Loyola, which holds a half game lead over St, Mary's, can assure itself of at least a tie for first place by beating the feeble two some of the University of the Pacific Friday and Pepper dine March 7. Weaver's club has captured five in a row, with one of the victories being a 92-61 stun ner over Loyola in the mili tant Gael gym. They close out regular season play against sterner opposition, meeting Santa Clara and San Jose State this week end and UOP March 7. Not Certain Nothing is certain in the Big Five, either. Southern California, loser of three out of its last five after an eight game win splurge, seeks to" nail down the league cham pionship when it plays UCLA Friday and Stanford Satur day. On paper, the Trojans should make it. But they split a pair with Oregon State in furious non-conference action last week end and Washing ton . has surged into second place after a bad start. The Huskies face California Friday and UCLA Saturday in road games. Southern Cali fornia is at home. - Oregon State is idle until March 10 when its meets Ore gon in a week end series. The Ducks visit Washington State this Friday and Saturday. The contest, uas 'a uiiM nnn which saw four technical fouls called, a fight between Ore gon State's Ernie Johnson and USC's Bill Martin, and a verb al duel between USC mentor Forest Twogood and OSC as sistant coach Rocha. Towel Thrown Twogood and Rocha jawed at each other for several min utes near the end of the first half. Twogood, provoked by a sweat - drenched towel thrown in his direction charg ed the Beaver assistant, but referee Al Lightner halted his progress. It all started when an Oregon State cheer leader flipped the towel toward the USC bench, a USC player threw it onto the floor where it was then thrown toward Rocha. Rocha then tossed the towel in the direction of Two- good. USC's Chris Appel led all scorers with 27 points and he was followed by teammate John Rudomctkin who tallied 18. Oregon State's Bill Wold paced the Beaver attack with 15. Linfield NW Champ United Press International Linfield wrapped up the Northwest Conference basket ball titli. Saturday night with a 95-87 victory over cellar dwelling Willamette. : In other games, College of Idaho assured itself of at least a tie for second place by tak ing its second in a row from Lewis and Clark 87-79 and Pacific dumped Whitman 75 68. Five Linfield players hit in double figures with Gene Carlson and John Polhemus triggering the Wildcats' title clinching victory with .18 and 17 points, respectively, v ; HOCKEY WESTERN LEAGUE, United Press International Portland's hockey team re turned home after a long road trip , Sunday, seven points back of first place Calgary. Portland dropped an 8-2 de cision at Calgary Saturday night. Spokane downed Van couver 7t3 Saturday and lost to Seattle 8-3 Sunday in other week end action. . Sportsmen Meet The meeting of the. Cen tral Point Sportsmen's club scheduled for 8 o'clock to night will be at the organ ization's clubhouse at Cen tral Point, It was inadver tently stated in Sunday's paper that the meeting would be at another location. Tourney Taken By Happy Camp Etna, Calif. - IUPII - Happy Camp Independents won the Etna Invitational basketball tournament here over the week end. Happy Camp whip ped Etna 44 to 42 in the finals Sunday. Happy Camp advanced to the finals by beating College of the Siskiyous and Fort Jones. The championship game was a seesaw battle. Happy Camp led 14 to 10 at the end of the first quarter. They held a halftime lead of 25-24 and led at the end of three frames 39-37. ; With two minutes remain ing the score was 42-all. Hap py Camp stalled for 1V4 min utes. With three seconds left Robert Hokenson put in the winning bucket. Hokenson led Happy Camp scoring with 24 points. Tony Hannah led Etna with 17. 44 Happy Camp Etna 42 T 24 Hokenson Face 7 F 4 Hamilton Dotson 12 C 10 Robberson Hannah 17 G 6 Cadola March 3 G Ragsdale Dean 1 Substitutions for Happy Camp, Griffin, Marriot; for Etna, Gil more 2, Benner Paces Rook Triumph Corvallis - IUPII - Oregon State's Rooks, riding along on the one-two punch of Rex Benner and Mel Counts, scor ed a 55-49 basketball win over the Multnomah Athletic club Saturday night. Benner, scored '21 and Counts made 19. ' Bulldogs, Pointers Win in Cage Games McLoughlin of Medford beat Central Point 35 to 19 Friday and Central Point bounced Fremont of Klamath Falls on Saturday in eighth grade basketball games. Mac had 9 to 8, 15 to 13 and 29 to 17 quarter gaps In its tiff with CP. Larry Stock man scored 11 points and Curt Wyatt-10. 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