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MtDrOHD MAIL THlBUNt:, MLDl-'OHD, OKL. SUNDAY, MAHorl 5, lbbl B 7 Fields, Shaw in Oregon A-1 Wrestling Tournament Finals Corvallis - Two Medford High school entrants, Wayne Fields, 141, and Chuck Shaw, 191, reached the Saturday night finals in their respective weights in the Oregon Class A-1 wrestling tourna m e n t here. Al Funston, 178, also ol the Black Tornado, was In con tention lor third place after Saturday afternoon semi finals. Three other Medford par ticipants. Bill Owen, 130, Larry Gunn, 157, and Chuck Holt, 168, were out of the running, as were three grap plers from Crater High school, Butch Barber, 155, Dave White, 123, and Dennis Fisher, 136. Klamath Falls had five men in the finals in top running for the title, and Grants Pass had Gary Stevens, 148. Fields last night faced Ron Barrett, Centennial, 1960 state runner-up at 136 pounds. On Friday he beat Al Mendel- MEM SPdDMTS Brumel Outjumps Thomas Third Time ' New York - (UPII - Valcry Brumel of Russia, the world's undisputed high jump cham pion, had only one parting word of advice today for de flated John Thomas-practice. The 18 -year -old Russian completed an all-victorious United Stales tour by break ing the world indoor record with a jump of 7 feet, 3'j inches Friday night in the Knights of Columbus track meet at Madison Square Gar den. The old record of 7-3 was set by Thomas last month at Boston and was equalled by Brumel in his U.S. debut two weeks ago in the New York Boston Proves Hit Of Track By RICHARD McKINNEY Portland (UPD World broad jump champion Ralph Boston didn't set any records in the Far West track and field Clas sic Friday night but he was easily the hit of the show. Boslon, who had broken the indoor record in his specialty three times in the last three weeks, captured first places in the broad jump and the 60 yard high hurdles events and took a second in the high jump. The Tennessee A & I star, who lengthened the indoor broad jump mark to 26 feet, 6 4 inches at New York last week end, won this time out, in 25-7-14. His time in the hurdles was 7.1 seconds, only one-tenth of a second off the world indoor mark. And in the high jump he went 6-feet-7. Hank Wyborney of Washington State won the event at 6-fcct-9. Cook Equals Record Stubby Roscoe Cook of Ore gon equaled the world record in the 60-yard dash in six sec onds flat for the third time in his career and the second this year. Several others are co holders of the mark. Miler Dvrol Burleson of Oregon and pole vaultcr Ron Morris also turned in spark ling performances. Morris, who collected a sil ver medal at last summers Olympic Games at Rome won with a leap of 15 feet, Vi inches and Burleson, who said ha was running to win and TIP-TOP CAR CARE See BILL RAMBO (formerly Service Mgr. at Dick Knight Co.) for all Gal lub General Repair Tune-Up Brakes RAMBO'S RICHFIELD SERVICE LuLunEB 83S S. Riverside SP 3-6817 cow, Lebanon, third in slate last year, 6-1, and Hank Thomas, Scappoose, V-l. In yesterday's semifinal, Fields took a referees decision after tying 1-1 with Gary Blakeley, Redmond, in overtime. The two were 3-3 after the regular three rounds, and Fields trail ed 0-3 going into the third. Shaw Mat Hancock In his three matches Shaw decisioned Doug John, Rose burg, 7-1, Art Makinster, Til lamook,. 5-0, and Wilson Al len, Corvallis, 6-1. In the finale he ran up against Gary Hancock, Klamath Falls. Funston lost yesterday af ternoon to Gerald Franzen, David Douglas, by a third round pin then won in con solation over Gary Tuinstra, North Eugene, 11-5. His foe last night was Tony Drcssell, Newberg, the 1960 champ, whom Medford Coach Art Keith tutored as a sophomore at Newberg. On Friday Funston de- IBUHB A.C. meet. However, Thomas again disappointed a crowd of 14,255 al the Garden Friday night when he failed to clear seven feet. It was the third straight week Brumel had outclassed the Boston University student, who was celebrating his 20th birthday. Asked what's wrong with Thomas, Brumel explained that he did not watch Long John jump because he always sits with his back to the pit when his rivals are com peting. "But I Ihink all Thomas needs is more practice," said the Russian youth. Program not for a fast time, came out on lop in a sizzling 4:03.8. Parry O'Brien, two-time Olympic shot put champion, won with a heave of 62 feet, 6Vi inches and Jack Yerman, former California star quar- ter-milcr, came in first in the 500-yard dash in 57.4. BASKETBALL United Press International EAST Temple 88, Lafayette 68 Pennsylvania 94, Harvard 63 Brown 66, Columbia 61 Princeton 68. Dartmouth 54 Cornell 84, Yale 68 SOUTH Tulane 68, Louisiana St. 65 Atlantic Tourney (Semifinals Duke 92, South Carolina 75 Wake Forest 98, Maryland 76 Southern Tournament (Semifinals) Geo. Washington 94, The Citadel 87 W tt M 88, West Vlminia 76 WBST Utah 8.1, Wyomine 6U Colorado St. U. ti7. Montana 4B Utah St. 108, New Mexico 78 BriRham Young 74, Denver 57 Washington St. 81. Oregon 56 California 52, Washington 51 San Francisco 4!i. San Jose St. 38 soutnern Cal. B6. UCLA 85 Sana Clara tin. SI. Mary (Cal.) 53 inano lub. t-ionzaga ,H Pasadena 70. Rerlands 73 Loyola 7fi. Univ. of Pacific 51) UC at Santa Barbara 76, Art zona 60. Prep Basketball United Press International Washington 54. Marshall 51 Grant 65, Roosevelt 36 Jefferson 51. Cleveland 45 .Madison 72, Lincoln 66 Wilson 68, Franklin 59 Bcaverton 53, David Douglas 4!) Milwaukie 53. Central Catholic 44 Astoria SO, Grcsham 55 Sunset 73. Hillsboro 70 Clackamas 71, Centennial 37 Forest Grove 47. Tipard 45 Tillamook 54. West Linn 50 Dallas 71, Lake Oswego 62 St. Helens 57, OrcRon City 51 McMinnville 51. Newberg 50 Wy-East 72, Mollala 58 Scappoose 55, Sandy 47 Jesuit 4f, Parkrose 34 Sweet Home 5!), Lebanon 88 Albanv 65. Corvallis 61 North Salem 43. South Salem 41 Springfield 6B. Collage Grove 46 South Eugene 82. Thu-ston 55 Koseourg ui, Willamette oi North Eugene 48. Marshfield 44 Crater 48. Ashland 36 Klamath Falls 61, Grants Pass 40 Vernonia 49. Hood River 46 Seaside 66. Clatskanie 49 Salem Academy 57. Yamhill Carlton 38 Sherwood 32, Nestucca 30 Mt. Angel 49. Scrra Catholic 12 Newport 57. Toledo 49 Reedfport 48, Waldport 41 Pleasant Hill 72. McKenzie 64 Coqullle 38. Myrtle Point 29 Bandon 76. Pacific 51 Gold Beach 46, Brookings 4 Class B Playoffs (District II Portland Christian 75, Star ot the ! Sea 46 : (District 2) Perrvdale 52. Colt-in 40 I Jefferson 66. Detroit 65 (District 4) Powers .,9. Camas Vallev flj Canvonvllle Bihle 59. Days Cr 29 (Distrlrl 5) Prospect 60, Coquille 58 , (District ) I Dufur 44. Matipin 42 ! Wheeler 58. Culver 48 ! (District ! Pilot Rock 56. Long Creek 5J McEwen 57, Prsirie City 51 i lone 49, Umatilla 41 ! Wetton 55, Mt. Vernon .18 (District si i Huntington 47, Joseph 4t cisioned Doran Duncan, Sweet Home, 5-2, and Rick Jackson. Silverton, 9-7. Owen was beaten in Satur day consolation 4-1, by George Myran, Lebanon. On Friday Owen decisioned Bill Johns, Marshfield, 7-2, and lost to Ron Calhoun, Clacka mas. Gunn on Friday was pinned in the second round by Bob Davidson, David Douglas and Holt was decisioned by Charles Holliday, Prineville, 5-4. The Medford entrants lost out when Davidson and Holliday, 1960 third in state, were eliminated. Crater's Barber won his first match 7-5 from Dennis Cornish, Reynolds. . lost to Dick Berkland, North Bend, 3-2, and lost lo Ron Hadda, Hillsboro, 2-0. White won from G. W. Marcial, Rose burg, 6-2 and was beaten by Larry Christy, Cleveland, 8-2. Then, John Stopa, Newberg, beat the Comet grapplcr, 5-2. Christy was a tourney runner up last year. Fisher beat Jerry Wright, Oswego, 6-2 and lost lo Duffy Brown, Wilson, 9-4. Wilson later lost, eliminating Fisher, YSC Clinches Loop Crown By MIKE HUDSON United Press International Southern California and Loyola eyed the likes of Utah and Ohio State Friday after having all-but-clinched' NCAA tournament berths and their respective conference titles. Even though the Big Five race has three games to 50, it is over. For either UCLA or Washington must win their remaining games, while USC drops its remaining trio for the race to end in a tie. It's not going to happen. USC ended it all Friday night with a palpitating 86-85 overtime victory over UCLA. Troy would' mathe matically clinch it all if it won against Stanford last night. Smith Scoring, Rebound Champ of College Loop Portland - Sammy Smith Oregon Tech's 6-5 sophomore center, won the Oregon Col legiate conference scoring title and nabbed the confer ence rebound crown in pac ing the Tech Owls to the 1961 OCC basketball title. Official conference statis tics released today show that Smith scored 296 points for an 18.5 point average through 16 conference games. His 257 rebounds averaged 16 per game. Tom Nccl of Eastern Oregon was second with 235 points, one. more than that scored by EOC's Larry Apple gale, the season's leader until hurt in an auto accident. Ap plegate missed the final four games but still scored 234 and held the highest per game average. He hit 19.5 per con ference game and his season's total of 478 is the second high est among collegiate players in the Northwest this season. Carrigan Tops FT S m i t h's leammale, Bob Petersen, a Klamath Falls freshman, closed out the race with 232 points in 15 games for a 15.4 average and was second to Smith in rebounds. TEAM STATISTICS: Offense ICA-fOM OTI 1048-406 EOC 1036-415 SOC 930-365 OCE 903-334 PSC B74-317 Defense F( A-F(JM PSC 896-295 OTI 870-345 SOC 948-373 OCE 995-407 EOC 1006-414 Pet. .386 .400 .388 .369 .361 Pet. .329 .396 .393 .409 .377 FTA-FTM 463-205 388-237 320-208 374-235 295-193 FTA-FTM 297-176 347-211 400-237 393-256 391-262 INDIVIDUAL STATISTICS: Scoring 1 Smith, OTI Neel. EOC Applegate. EOC Petersen. OTI Turner PSC Carrigan SOC Spencer. OCE L. Wilson. OTI Arritola. EOC Rankin. OCK Bridges, PSC Pavne. SOC Wolf, OCE Shulls. SOC Hughes. SOC ..16 .12 .15 .16 .16 .16 .16 16 1 CULVERT Call SP WWiil B ! I 1 lUliiilM nn li- fm ijif. , If; v j WIN HOLIDAY GOLF Howard Cusic, left, and Dick Kline were the winners in the three-month-long holiday handicap golf tourney at Rogue Valley Country club here. They totaled 41 points in 13 matches to win by five points. Cusic, Kline Take First In Holiday Golf Handicap Howard Cusic and Dick nilllu, Luiujjuuiifc tiKdtuai wit. largest field in the history of the tournament, won the holi day golf handicap at Rogue Valley Country club with a record score of 41 points. The tournament ran from Dec. 1 to March 1 with 54 two-man teams taking part. A minimum jf 12 matches were required to qualify for honors. Cusic and Kline got Iheir 41 markers in 13 contests. C. A. Holmes and Paul Hav- Petersen copped the field goal accuracy title with a .480 per centage. The free throw shoot ing crown went to Southern Oregon's Gordy Carrigan who fired at an .806 clip, In both cases Petersen and Carrigan were awarded the titles on the basis of more attempts than several other players who shot less times but had higher percentages. Teamwise, Eastern Oregon was the most accurate from the field wilh a shooting per centage of .400. Portland State was the best from the foul line, hitting at a .654 clip, and led in team defense, giving up only 47.8 points per game. Oregon Tech was the top rebounding team and Ore gon College of Education drew the most fouls. Cham pion Oregon Tech was the of fensive leader with a 67.1 point per game average. Pasco Arritola of EOC won the "hatchet" title for the 1960-61 season. He was whis tled for 60 infractions over the 16-game conference sched ule to edge out teammate Neel who had 56 Pet. .615 .619 .650 .628 .654 Rehs. 7110 . 556 592 421 659 l'F 215 281 289 293 250 TP 1076 1007 938 90.1 827 n. Ave 67.1 66 6 58 6 56 4 51 6 Pit. .592 .605 .592 .651 .670 Itrhs. 572 507 567 671 688 TP 766 9'KI 963 1070 1090 (i. Ave 47 a 56 2 lil 4 66 8 118.1 202 270 FO 116 93 R6 FT 64 TP 296 235 234 232 190 182 175 175 174 147 159 Ave. 18 5 It 6 19 5 15 4 14 0 14 7 1 1 8 12 0 10 9 10 9 10 8 9 8 9 5 8 0 6 9 361 421 478 295 303 301 241 355 307 250 267 178 162 151 198 71 74 33 27 47 54 SEWER PIPE DRAM TILE 3-7555 or NO .Hand finished second in the tourney with 36 points for 20 matches and Bob Fascl and Leonard Schildt took third with 35 for 14 times on the course. Dr. Ralph Odell and Dr. Dave Engleson attempted to close some of the distance early last week but managed only lo break even with Jack Mitchell and Bob Van Duker. This left Odell and Engleson in fourth spot with 32. Best Ball Record Dick Travis and Bill Jen nings had 26. Randall Gifford and Jack Six 24 and Tom Teutch and Rannv Smith 22. Players played full 18-hole matches with their rivals and gained plus or minus points according lo how many holes they were ahead or behind their adversaries after 18 Karl Clinkenbeard and Paul Spnrso set a tourney record with a 57 low net best ball score in one of their matches They nipped Cusic and Kline who netted 58. Bob Morris and Ed Simmons combined for a 60 as did Travis and Jennings. Matches in this tournament alone totaled 1,140. Qualifying for the spring golf handicap is under way and will continue through Sunday, March 12. Matches Points Cuslc-Kllne 13 Plus 41 C. Holmcs-llaviland .20 55 36 Fasel-Schildl ' 14 " 35 Ddell-Engleson 17 " 32 Travis-Jennings 14 " 26 r.ifford-Six 12 " 24 Tculsch-R Smith 15 " 22 P. Moore-Brooks 18 " 18 Bavliss-Lulhcr t2 " 18 Nuich-Vargo 12 " 13 Clinkerbeard-Sparso ....12 " 9 Cowning-D. Wilson 12 " 7 Kohlik-Thnmpsen 12 " 7 Mnrris-Simmons 12 " 7 Millhollln-Schuler 7 " 6 Nulton-Swnnson 5 " 8 B. Aiulcrson- P. Mitchell 21 " 4 Thonias-Bulterficld ....14 " .1 Marlen-Dunlcvy 13 " 2 Lylle-Pickell 19 " I F.aton-Scrogglns 6 " 1 D Mlller-B. Clark 4 " I II. Smlth-Prough II " 0 Meni-ke-Rowan 8 " 0 J . Milehcll-Van Duker 13 Minus I E Milne-Schmidt 20 " 1 Voectly-V Milnes 11 " 2 B. Calcv-P. Meyers .... fl " 2 Rakcr-Fahrlck 3 " 2 Casey-Hngan 1 I ' 2 Nclson-Tavlor 11 M .1 J. Moore-A. Clark 12 " 4 Lindquist-llartman 18 " 5 Perl-Horog 1 " 5 C. Knight-Parsons 9 M 7 Johnson-Whlllng 5 " 7 Pnytnn-Vnn de Kama 17 " B Slaccy-Hntipert 5 "11 Hoiisr-Kcllcnberger ....13 " 12 Gctchell-Teetcr 9 "12 Hinman-Finch in " 15 Watson-C. Mryer 7 "15 Mongrain-Quincv 19 " 15 Pitts-ll. Holmes 14 " 16 Schwahn-Huller 10 " 16 Shavlor-Marlowe 8 " 17 Sanner-Stcwarl 10 " 20 Pearsnn-Finnell 9 " 21 MncLcnd-Spicer 8 "21 Renshaw-Robinsnn 13 " 23 Humphrev-Navaretle .. 5 " 25 Cosf-nllc-Dumas 10 " 30 PIPE 4-1217 SOC's Carrigan, Payne Chosen On OCC All-Star Second Team Portland - Freshman Bob Petersen and sophomore Sam my Smith, members of the Oregon Collegiate conference championship basketball team from Oregon Tech, were un animous choices of conference coaches for the 1961 All-Conference team. Only one senior was named to the six-man first unit. He's Don Bridges ot Portland State and a second team choice last year. Another sophomore and two juniors complete the first team. The second year man is PSC's 6-5 center Bill Turner. The juniors receiving the coaches nod for first team berths are Larry Applegate. the second best collegiate scorer in the Northwest this WSU Rolls Over Duck Five 81-56 Pullman, Wash. - tUPB-Fast- breaking Washington Stale rolled past Oregon 81-56 in a basketball game Friday night for the Ducks' sixth straight loss: The Cougars, behind the hot shooting of Terry Ball and Charlie Sells, jumped off to a 43-40 halftime lead and were never behind. Ball finished with 24 points to lead all scorers, with 13 in the first half, and Sells had 19, 18 in' the initial period The closest Oregon could come in the second half was eight points. Charlie Warren topped the Ducks' offense with 17 points. McLoughlin Blacks Finish Undefeated McLoughlin Junior High school Blacks finished a 10- game seventh grade basket ball season undefeated Fri day when they won 27 lo 20 from Ashland. Quarter scores were 6 lo 1, 12 to 4 and 20 to 16 for the Medford team. Dennis Byrne had 11 points for McLough lin and Smith eight for Ash land. ROAD TBIP Portland - (UPD - Portland's Pilots will meet Dayton, Xa- vier of Ohio and Seton Hall in a midwest road trip In bas ketball next season Athletic Director Al Negralti announc ed Friday. WHEN APPEARANCE MATTERS Barclay fine worsted suits quickly snap to smooth perfection In the final analysis, a suit is judged. by its ability to shrug off wrinkles. These Barclays are fashioned from worsteds loomed in America's finest woolen mills. Worsteds noted for endurance and wrinkle resistance. All are skillfully tailored' by Wards in the lean, lissome look that's so popular today ... in a hand-picked collection of patterns and colorings. Truly a marvelous buy at this surprisingly low price. Alterations Included. Just say "charge it" al Wards: Pay In 30 days or extend payments: season, and Oregon Tech guard Leon Wilson. Six Selected Since there was a three way tie in the balloting for the final two first team berths, six players were named to the top unit. A similar situ- Walter Mails To Speak Here John Walter (The Great) Mails, ex-major league base ball pitcher and now head of the speakers bureau for the San Francisco Giants will be in southern Oregon March 13 through 15 for a series of ap pearances. His main appearance will be at American Legion jun ior baseball open house at Centra! Point on the evening of Tvionday, March 13. This event, sponsored by Bill Ask- wilh, of the Cheney Studs, and Donald E. Faber, Central Point developer, will be at the Crater high cafetorium. Mails will address the Med ford Rotary club on Tuesday, March 14, and the Medford Kiwanis club on the follow ing day. Radio interviews are planned. Mails was a pitcher for the Cleveland Indians and St. Louis Cardinals in the majors, hurling for the world cham pion Indians of 1920. He also played in the Northwestern and Southern, Pacific Coast leagues and the American as sociation. St. Helens and Jesuit Qualify United Press International St. Helens and Jesuit be came the 14th and 15th teams to earn berths in the 16-leam class A-1 prep basketball tour nament al Eugene, by posting victories Friday night. St. Helens became the num ber two entry from the TYV league by downing Oregon City 57-51 and. Jesuit gained the number two spot from the Wilco league by topping Park rose 46-34. The only remaining berth lo be filled Is in the Midwest ern league where Marshfield North Eugene and South Eu gene can end up in a tie. The two Eugene squads need vic tories in Saturday night ac lion in order to tie Marsh field, which dropped a 48 - decision to North Eugene Fri day night. MONTGOMERY WARD ation resulted in the 1 he vote for second team berths and six also were named to the alternate unit. Four seniors and a pair of juniors were second team choices. The seniors are Tom Neel of Eastern Oregon, Gor die Carrigan of Southern Ore gon, Dennis Spencer of Ore gon College and Pasco Arri tola of Eastern Oregon. The juniors are John Payne of Southern Oregon and Ron Hunt of Eastern Oregon. There were no repeaters on (he first team from a year ago. Carrigan dropped lo the sec ond team along witli EOC's Hunt and PSC's Don Powell rated only honorable menu- this year, the same as Frank Chase of PSC who was a sec- nd team selection last win ter. John Payne of SOC re peated as a second team choice. INSTALLED FREE IN FIFTEEN MINUTES 44 (m.95 mm uwHm ifli! ! ffcAWV'i I Hi', to p all m I vQ I i f ft ; I r I M : 1 ,V km k Mmfl ' '-'! f 1 " i'"- r--.r - ii i i ........ r r -.- -v - r :..t fyf Je9istered i Here today A big day of activity Is scheduled today at the Med ford Gun club. Members are staging their early spring shoot registered under the Pacific Intcrnation al Trapshooling association, They will conclude their spring league tournament and begin firing in the Oregon ' Journal telegraphic tourney. Register targets offered aro inn al 16 yards, 100 in handi cap and 25 pairs of doubles. There will be a 20-target bnckcrup event which is non registered. Practice traps will be open through the day and lunch will he served at the grounds. Poison Oak? Try a Bottle of ZEMACOL You muit b satisfied or your money cheerfully refunded. Gat a bottle today jt WESTERN THRIFT Silent Type Chevrolet Mtreury De Sott Mtlropollttn Ood Hah fdiil Oldsmobtt Ford Pickin) Fruir Plymouth Hfnry J Pontile Mixtion Rambltr Kiittf StudcbaMf Liocort Willyt Md Iff Buit CtdiitKCtvyt 12th and So. Central SPring 3-6450 MMmm 5 4
