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TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1961 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. Buckeyes National Champions New York-ttlPD - Unbeaten Ohio Stale today became the first team In history to be unanimously voted the nation al college basketball cham pion by the United Press In ternational Board of Coaches. The Buckeyes, heading for their defense of the NCAA title next week, swept over 23 opponents this season and have a two-year 28-game win ning streak going into their regular season finale Satur day. Ohio State, the pre-season No. 1 choice of the 35 coaches who comprise the board, lived up to its billing, holding down the No. 1 spot each week of the season and piling up an unprecedented 35 votes and 350 points in the final week's balloting. The Buckeyes at tained another feat never be fore achieved, being the unan imous choice five times dur ing the weekly ratings, San Francisco, the 1056 champion, previously had been the closest thing to a unanimous selection since the ratings were established in 1950-51, obtaining 32 first place votes. Repeat '60 Finish Cincinnati 23-3 rode an 18- game winning streak into sec ond place, the. same spot the Bearcats finished a year ago. The Bearcats' late surge un seated St. Bonaventure, second-ranked most of the sea son, and picked up 274 points. St. Bonaventure 22-3 suf fered a late season slump but picked up 266 points to wind up third. Kansas State 20-4 finished fourth and Southern Cali fornia 19-5 was fifth. Next came North Carolina 19-4 Bradley 21-5, St. John's 17-5 and Wake Forest 17-10, tied for the 10th spot. West Virginia headed the mountaineers were Utah, St. Louis, Lousvlllc, St. Joseph's Pa., Dayton, Kentucky, Texas Tech and Memphis State. The final ratings underwent a shakcup from last week with Cincinnati replacing St. Bonaventure in second place; Kansas State moving up from fifth to fourth; Southern Cali fornia Jumping from 10th to fifth; Bradley sliding from fourth to seventh; St. John's advancing one notch from ninth to eight; Duke dropping from seventh to ninth and Iowa, eighth a week ago, fall ing to 10th. Make Biggest Jump Wake Forest, surprise win ner of the Atlantic Coast Con ference playoffs, also rcpre sented the biggest change in the rankings. The Demon Dea cons, who didn t get a single point last week, vaulted Into 10th place with an upset vic tory over Duke in the ACC tournament final to climax their late season rally and fin ish with an unimpressive 17 10 record. Ohio Slate, coached by Fred Taylor and led by All-American Jerry Lucas, will receive a permanent trophy symbolic of the championship from the UPI. The UPI Board of Coaches is made up of 35 top coaches, five from each of the nation's geographical regions, and its ratings have become general ly accepted as the most au thoritative in the field. New York-llTli-The final 1960-61 major college bas ketball ratings by the Unit ed Press International Board of Coaches first place votes and won-lost records in parenthsesi Team Points 1. Ohio State 35 (23-0) 350 2. Cincinnati (23-3) 274 3. St. Bon'ture (22-3) 266 4. Kansas State (20-4) 218 5. Southern Cal. (19-5) 131 6. N. Carolina (19-4) 122 7. Bradley (21-5) 112 8. St. John's N.Y. (19-4) 102 9. Duke (22-6) 50 10. tie Iowa (17-5) 47 . Wake Forest (17-10) 47 Second 10i 12, West Vir ginia, 24; 13, Utah, 33; St. Louis 21; 15, Louisville, 16; 16, St. Joseph's Pa., 15; 17, Dayton, 14; 18 'tie, Ken tucky and Texas Tech, 13 each; 20, Memphis State, 12. Others: Kansas, 9; UCLA, Niagara, 7 each; Indiana, 6; Mississippie State and Du quesne, 2 each; Houston and William & Mary, 1 each. " t , i-rtv -., .,, r.. ,r7iffv If? W'i j v v , fpiKHwttt' r jm-vfA -yw i'v - v"vv9 - wity Hint lit MCa f hsJSMS! ten - -mmM 7 Jvi7w' - i M '.'W AJZ& FRESHMAN CHAMPIONS The McLoughlin Junior high ninth grade basketball team, above, won the Southern Oregon conference freshman trophy with a 9-2 record against league teams. Standing, from left, are Vern Craft, assistant coach, Jim Allen, Duane Turpln, Pete Hlnman, Ernie Clark, Bill Houston, Chuck Kimball, Don Kengla, Dick Bottger, Bob Walker, Mike Barnes, Rick Larson, Jim Coovcr, Ron Edmonds, Joe Banks and Head Coach Bob Radcliff. Managers, kneeling, left to right, are Wayne Howard, Roger Maxon and Jack Barr. The Bulldogs won 12 games over their full season and their only setbacks were at the hands of crosstown foe, Hcdrick. They out scored rivals 713 to 503 and won twice each over North Grants Pass, South Grants Pass, Crater, Ashland and Eagle Point and once each from Phoenix and Klamath Falls. Medford YMCA Swim Team 6th In AAU Meet The Medford YMCA boys' swimming team placed sixth in the Oregon AAU Age Group Boys' championships March 4 and 5 at Sunset pool in Beaverton, Bruce Hess led the Medford team with 12 Individual points. He placed third in the 13-14 age group 100 yard but terfly, 100 yard free style and 200 yard Individual medley. He anchored the 200 yard free style relay team which placed fifth. Other relay team mem bers were Phil Taylor, Bn Taylor, Tim Brown and Kelly MeHugh. The relay team plac ed sixth In the 200 yard med ley relay. Ted Lyons won eight points competing In 15-16 year old competition. He placed fourth in the 200 and 400 yard free styles and finished fifth in 100 yard free style competi tion. Phil Taylor earned eight points in 11-12 age group events. He finished fourth In the 50 yard free style, third in the 50 yard backstroke and sixth in the 100 yard individ ual medley. Taylor, Klrby Lusk, Riley MeHugh and Den nis Carson placed fourth In the 11-12 ago free stylo relay, Multnomah Athletic club won the meet. Seven meet and five stale records were broken during competition. New national marks were reg istered In two events. Pittsburgh Wiav Relciogston X. Zm High Gun i uugiier i iiciii ever By FRED DOWN United Press International underestimating the strength of the club. Murtaugh also announced thRt he wilt start 2n.ffumn oe lougncr man ever mis winner Vern Law, 18-game The Pittsburgh Pirates will year If they hit with the pow er they're shewing In spring arms. The world champions led the National league In batting last season but their 120 home runs placed them sixth in that department and a gen eral lack of explosive batting punch is viewed by their rlv vals as a possible fatal weak ness in 1961. But a visitor to Fort My ers, Fla., Monday would have been excused for thinking Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig & Co. had come back to life the way the Sues were "bustln" the ball. Bill Mozcroski, the 1960 World Series hero, Dick Stu art and Roberto Clcmenle provided most of the power as they clouted no less than 21 balls out of the park. Nine Homers Stuart hit nine "homers," Clcmonte had seven and Mm crosklt hit five to pace the drill which had manager Dan ny Murtaugh beaming. Mur taugh has been insisting since the start of spring training that the Pirates' rivals are winner Bob Friend and relief star Elroy Face next Friday in the Pirates' exhibition op ener with the Cincinnati Reds. Frank Boiling, who is slat ed to play second-base reg ularly, made his competitive debut with the Milwaukee Braves and hit a two - run homer off Don McMahon. Lew Burdette pitched three hitless innings in the game and Joe Adcock hit two "homers" In pre-game practice in other highlights of the Milwaukee workout. The Chicago Cubs, intra squad game turned into a comedy of errors, with 15 miscues being committed. There also were 12 walks, two hit batsmen and a balk to keep the Cubs' eight coaches awake nights. Other Camp Notes: Joe Koppe hit a homer and double In the Philadelphia flumes' inlra-squad game . . Shortstop Leo Cardenas, Wal ly Post and Joe Gaines hom ered aurmg tne Heds' game . . . Rookie Chuck Hlnton's homer was the big news of t h e Washington Senator's game In Shoot II3T and NCAA Feuding New York -lUPll- The feud still rages al'ler 23 years be tween those two giant, multi- Initialed basketball tourna ments known as the NCAA and the NIT. The NIT started big at Mad ison Square Garden in 1D3B and the NCAA rose from humbled beginnings a year later to become the lop post season tournament. This still bugs the boys from the NIT or, to give it the full treatment, the National Invitation Tournament. They lave been charging for years Ilia National Collegiate Ath letic Association (NCAA) has oecn trying to run 'em out of Dustiness. The big rub is that most col Icrc conferences automatical y send their champion to the NCAA playoffs-and refuse to How the second place team to compete In the NIT. You qualify for the NCAA or your tcason is over. "We'd be perfectly happy 10 invite some of those good runnors-up," said one NIT fig- jre. "Hut what's the use? We enow they wouldn't accept." tome Okay It A few conferences do okay JIT participation. Bradley, cond in the Missouri Valley to Cincinnati last year, came down to the big town and won the NIT. The Skyline will be represented In b o t h the NCAA and NIT this year. But the Atlantic Coast, Ivy, Big Ten, Big Eight and Big Five are among those that go only NCAA and that takes a big bite out of the potential guest list for the Garden. "There Is no set NCAA rule," according to lUiinrr Cooke of the National Collcgi ate Athletic Bureau, "except that we allow no conference runners-lip in the NCAA championship no mailer how good a team it might be. "The fooling nlwnys has been that if a team isn't good enough to win in lis ow n con ference It doesn't rate a chance to become a national champion." Most conferences feci their big race is their own back yard league campaign. An NCAA bid is merely a bonus. Hut a runner-uu. thev fimirn doesn't rate a bonus. Originally, the NCAA mart. ed as an eight-team tourna ment, one from each of the eight NCAA districts. It ran Hint way through 1H50 when the format was changed lo bring in conference champs and at-large members so the field totalled roughly 24. NIT Protests The NIT promptly charged the NCAA was stealing all the top teams. "Actually," said Cooke, "we were only trying to get enough brackets to make it a true national championship. Wd wanted to be sure all the leading candidates had an op portunity to play." The expansion, however, coincided with the basketball bribe scandals that broke around teams that had been more or less regulars at the Garden. Among those clob bered by the law was City College of New York which, in 111511, became the only team ever to make It a grand slam by winning both the NCAA and NIT titles the samp year. There was a rush out of the Garden and back to the cam pus by many a school and or ' its conference fathers. So the NCAA championship has become a sprawling road ; show that only rarely uses the Garden for a night or two. I Hut when you've got the big : ones - including Ohio State, Cincinnati and St, llonaven-ture-you don't need Iho Gnr-1 den to draw a crowd. 1 Frank Clogston, Medford, was high overall Sunday with 234 out of a possible 250 and took Class A 16-yard and Class I doubles in the early spring registered trapshoot at Medford Gun club. Lewis Fisher. Eureka Calif., was second overall with 227 and was high gun with 97 in 16-yard firing. Bill Bryant, Ashland, broke 95 birds for best in handicap and Clogston was runnerup with 94. Clogston won Class A 16- yard prize with a 94. Ted Rice, Myrtle Creek, fired 91 for second in A 16-yard. Fisher took Class B and Art Liebesch- er, Medford, was next with 94. Class C honors went to Paul Culbertson, Medford, with a 91 and Ted Sodin, Rose burg, followed with 89. Tom Mchl, Glcndale, took Class D with 92 and Bert Peck, Cen tral Point, was next with 86. Mansfield High Junior Bill Mansfield, Medford, fired a 93 for high junior and Chuck Skecters, Medford, had 82 for sub-junior prize. Donna Woolcy, Drain, was top lady with 88. In doubles Don Petersen, Medford, had a 42 score to follow Clogston's 46 In Class 1. Ken Gilkeson, Roseburg, copped Class 2 with a 45 and Bryant broke 42 for second. There were 40 shooters in the Pacific International Trap shooting association registered event. 696 Blunt's Score Hiqh in Meet Larry Blunt rolled a for high score in the crippled children's benefit tournament at Medford Bowling lanes. Zeffle Graves had high women's score with 640. The tourney. was sponsored by Delta Omega chapter of Epsilon S 1 g m a Alpha and $190 was raised for the hos pital at Eugene. Other men's high counts were Ernie Flakus and Hoy Prultt. each 692. Jack Cum tilings (ill l and Dick Snnin 676. I.ndies' bests Include Virginia Flakus 635, Maxitio McCall 622, Ellen Lamb 619 and Ethel C'.oocle 616. 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Tillamook 10 Others: Marshfield and Scappoose 7, Corvallis, South Salem and St. Hel ens 1. Linfield and EOC Meet for NAIA Berth Portland -IUPD - Northwest Conference champion Linfield and Eastern Oregon, a runner- up in the Oregon Collegiate conference, collide here to night with a berth in the NAIA tournament in Kansas City at stake. The game is scheduled for the Memorial Coliseum at 8:30 p.m. Linfield edged Portland State 50-49 lo get its berth in the finals while EOC was downing Lewis and Clark 82- 77. THERE'S AN EASIER WAY TO GET EXTRA r -r Z " - SEE COMMERCIAL CREDIT PLAN Why do it the hard way? Call on the Commercial Credit Plan whenever you can use ctra cash. Our loan service is fast, friendly and convenient. Rates arc reasonable. Thai's why thousands of families prefer to use Commercial Credit Plan It's the pay way that tits your pay tlay! Keep this ad as a reminder to phone or visit us. HOW MUCH DO YOU NEED? Cjjh Monthly Piymints For oil Gel 24 Mo. llMo7Tl? Mo. $100 ! 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