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Gamble By HOWARD APPLEGATE United Press International Portland, Ore. (UPD Two gambles-one of which paid off and one of which didn't told the tale of the first round western regional action In the NCAA basketball tournament today. The gamble that failed was taken by Seattle's veteran star, Dave Mills. With the score tied 70-70 against Ari zona State, he decided to try to turn one point into two with 30 seconds left to go. Instead of taking a free throw he hurled the ball against the backboard In hopes of recovering it. Instead Arizona State recovered the ball and junior Gerry Hahn sank a field goal to bring the Sun Devils victory, 72-70. USC coach Forrest Two good took a chance In the second and equally thrilling Tornadomen Shoot .370 From Floor (Continued from page 1C) Medford rampaged to a to tal of 27 field goals while its stiff defense limited the Cheesemakers to 11. The Tor nado had a .370 field shooting mark and Tillamook a feeble .200. The defending tltlists were not so impressive from the free toss stripe in dropping in 11 of 23 tries. More than two to one dom ination in rebounding played a big role in the decisive ver dict. Medfordites snared the ball from the boards 79 times, to 36 retrieves by Tillamook ers. Dowsonsand Hoots each cleared the backboards 12 limes and Ragsdale nine. The cheesemakers' top man on the boards was Sathcr with a mere four. Six Tornados equaled or did better than he. Barry's 12 markers were second high for an individual in the scramble. Leon Thomp son topped Tillamook with eight. Opening Shock The Tornado, after recuper ating from its opening shock, drew the "ohs" and "ahs" of the crowd for its sharp-functioning fast break, Its aggres sive battling and its solid teamwork. Onlookers agreed that Mcdford's was the high light performance, through its game in the tourney which opened Tuesday evening. But, Medford will run into another hustling club in the South Salem Saxons this eve ning. South fired at the hoop at a rip-roaring .518 clip to get by a .407 shooting Bend club. The Snlemites busted the fray open with 26 points to the Bears' 13 In the third quarter. They lagged Bend 33 to 31 at the half but led them 59 to 46 at the third rest stop. South let the gap slip briefly to six points at 63 to 57 in the final minutes. The Capitol city crew was short on height compared to the 6-5 of Bend's Rex Cham bers and Chuck DeSully but the Saxons used their quick ness, agility, spirit, aggressive ness and better placement to outrebound the Bears 45 to 31. Has Memory Medford goes Into tonight's fracas with the memory of the 1960 tourney semifinal game with the Salemitcs. South came close to upset in that skirmish. The Black Tornado had to overcome a 10-point deficit to win by a narrow 56 to 52. There was rumor yesterday that Coach Dick Ballnntyne may call upon his speedy Sax ons to run with the Tornado. Most "experts" advise against such strategy against the Black Tornado. BOXKSI Mrdliird FO Dowson, f.. 2-10 Qulnney. f. 11-19 Moots, c .. . 3- 8 nagsrtalc, g a- 5 Barry, g ... 8-14 Eaton, I ..3-4 Bray, f .... 0- 9 Hood, f .. . O- 2 Mclntyrp. 8 0-1 Clearwater 8 1- 4 TT 2- 2 8- 8 0- 9 1- I 2- 9 0- t 0- 8 1- 2 0- 1 Kfb. PfTP 12 3 19 I 12 t 9 9 8 2 4 2 9- 9 1 t Tolsls 21-7J 11-11 1t' 12 ti "includes 10 team rebounds. Tillamook F(l FT Hell. PF TP h. Thompson, f... 3-12 3- 7 2-in Hoffert, f Sather. c Brunes. g l-n n- n uaty, g .... i Olson, f .... 1 Mawblrter, I ( Duffy, g .... l J. Thompson. Hill, g Totals 11-39 10-14 IS" I 17 "Includes eight team rebounds. Officials Oberg and Barger. South Salem FO Steward f.. 8-18 Mbit, f .... 8-11 Nielsen. C. 8- 8 Brack, g .... 5- 8 Madison, g 1- 3 Ooldt. f .... S- 4 Hulck. f.... 8- 0 Allen, g .... 3- 4 FT 2- 4 1. t 1- 9 2- 2 2- 2 2- a 0- 9 0- J Totals 10-11 45 IS S "Includes threa team rebounds. Bend FG Riley, f ... 9-18 ChambYi, f 0- 0 deSully, c. 8- 8 Hawes, g .. 8-12 Peine, g . S- 7 Donahue, f 2- 9 Smith, g .... 0- 9 Lents, g .... 8- 2 FT 2- 3 2- 2 6- 9 2- 9 I- 3 0- 1 9- 9 0- 9 Reb. 19 4 9 2 4 0 9 0 PF TP .1 12 2 2 3 18 Tolsls 12-94 11-ti II 14 91 "Includes three team rebounds. Officials Burr and Buckltwtcx, THURSDAY, MARCH 16, 1961 Pays Off As USC Dumps contest. 0 r e g o n's upstart Ducks piled up a 36-27 half time lead, while USC's flashy John Rudometkin gathered four fouls. But Twogood started Rudo metkin in the second half anyway and the 6-foot-6 jun ior put in 18 points before fouling out with 2:37 to go. The Trojans hung on for an 81-79 win. The stage was thus set for four teams with almost iden tical records to fight it out starting Friday for the right to represent the West at Kan sas City next week in the nationals. Loyola (10-6) and Utah (21 6) will meet in the opener and the Trojans (21-0) and the Sun Devils (21-5) play in the other contest. Observers fore see a Trojan-Ute finals, but agree that any of the four MEDFOfoJITltlBUHl SIPdDIKTS Sport Parade Miami-IUPIi-Thc' public was victimized by a "fast count" just as much as Ingemar Johansson in his controversial knockout at the hands of Floyd Patterson, veteran Jack Doc Kearns asserted today. "People pay to see a fight and they should get it," said Kearns, shrugging off evidence presented in New York Wed nesday by Telepromptcr which indicated Johansson was on the floor 11 l-12ths seconds. "In the early days, the referee would tell you to 'get up and fight' but today they're too quick to count 'em out." The mandatory eight count, used in Monday night's fisaco, certainly deserved no place in a heavyweight bout, either, Kearns insisted. All In all, Kearns felt that the bout was completely un satisfactory and that while Johansson "proved to be a better fighter than most people thought" the victorious Patterson "isn't the champion a lot of people thought he was." Huffs And Puffs "I don't think Patterson was in the proper condition," Kearns explained. "He was too heavy and he was puffing and blowing from the start. Certainly he looked sloppy and logey. Floyd wanted to fight, yet, while he set a fast pace, he couldn't hold it. In the sixth they both were wallowing when Patterson happened to nail him." It's the reason behind the fact that a half century ago all the eastern champions were beaten when they went west. "In the West, they had a bunch of fast four-round kids who fought at a whirlwind pace," Kearns recalled. "Those who came in from the East could stand the pace for one round but after that they had it." Patterson, If the competition was around, wouldn't last long as champion because of the suspicious crystal quality of his Jaw, the still agile 79-year-old Kearns analyzed. Up And Down "From the way he's up and he has, Doc said, "It s pretty as strong as his heart. He reminds me of Fred Fulton, who was game and could box and punch. But hit him on the chin and he had to go." "It is," he continued, "the at baseball. Some of the slickest fielders in the game can't hit a lick. Yet some of the hardest hitters can't field. The real star Is the guy who does everything and that's the way it Is in boxing,, too." The man Patterson has to true champion, Is Sonny Liston. "And Liston would have If they fought now," Kearns speculated. "He's big and strong and rough and he can lake a punch as well as dish it out real good. I think he'd win the title and Patterson can't continue to dodge him no matter what the reason. Reason The reason is obvious to managed by the wrong people, you that Frankie Carbo still doesn t have a thumb in a num ber of boxing pies. You can't blame Patterson for not wanting anything to do with ring grime that might rub off one way or another. Llston's out is a completely new mangcrial setup. Kcurns currently is pointing Archie Moore toward a couple of fistic engagements in Europe. But from the manner in which the old ballyhoo artist praised Johansson for "fight ing and standing up better than anybody thought he would," It seems probable that Ingo and ancient Archie sooner or later will tangle in Sweden for another big payday. SPORTSCASTS Oregon A-l high school tat basketball tournament games to be broadcast by KYJC (1230 kc) today in clude tha South Eugene Grani gam at 4:15 p.m., the Medford-South Salem gam at 7:30 p.m. and the Roseburg-Wilion gam at 8:45 p.m. KMED (1440 kc) will also broadcast the Medford South Saltm gam. St. Petersburg Tourney Opens St. Petersburg Open Rolf tmirniinient offered the rich est rewards of its 28-year his tory as the touring profession als teed off in the first round today. Seven of the 10 tup PGA money winners on the 1961 lour were on hand fur the $22,500 event at the Pasadena Gold club course. There was Tommy Bolt, for mer National Open champ who won the Pcnsacola Open last Sunday; Cary Mlddlecuff, a two-time winner of this event, George Bayer, the de fending champion, and Gary Player of South Africa, No. I In earnings this year with $19,285 so far on the current tour. But Arnold Palmer. No. 2 In the earnings list, derided to bypass this tourney for a rest. He will resume the tour next week with the Sunshine Open at Miami. teams could well represent the West. Twogood was the first to admit that Oregon had scared him. "You bet your life they had me worried;' he said. "On a press such as Oregon puts on, your stars don't mean anything. Mistakes will beat you," he said In tribute to the Ducks hectic defense. He said he thought that the Trojans played one of their worst first halves of the year and their best second halves. The Trojans phenomenal .613 shooting percentage in the sec ond half bore out his latter contention. Oregon coach Steve Belko was dejected after the contest and pointed out that his team had taken finals all this week and had to continue them Fri day, But he did praise the per formance of John Rudomet By OSCAR FRALEY Untied Press International down in almost every fight obvious that his chin isn t same way in any racket. Look box now, to prove himself a to be the choice to beat him Obvious those Inside boxing. Liston is and don't let anybody toll Johansson Count Long, Not Short New York -(I'M- Floyd Patterson can tak a lot more prld in his world heavyweight boxing crown today following proof that the "short count" was actu ally th "long count." Many observers of th championship fight between Patterson and Sweden's In gomar Johansson at Miami Beach, Fin., Monday night wera of th opinion that ref eree Billy Regan counted Johansson out a split second too soon in th sixth round, Howevor, films taken by Teleprompter corporation showed Wednesday that Jo hansson was down for 11 M2th seconds, or 1 1-1 21h more than th required 10, Big Five Lead By Rudometkin San Francisco - illPIv-John Rudomekln of Southern Cali fornia missed his two final games, but still easily cap tured the Big Five scoring race, according to final league figures released today The big center hit 248 points In 10 games (or a 24 8 average. Bill Hanson of Wash liiKton was second with 108 points In 12 games for a 16 3 average. Hanson was IDS!) champion. Rounding out the Big Five were Chris Appel of SC, John Berberlch of UCLA and BUI McCltntock ot California. kin, who ended the evening with 24 points. Other stars In the Trojan Duck battle were Oregon's Charlie Warren who tallied 21 and USC's Gordon Martin who came off the bench and scored 14 in the big second half. Vince Cazzctta, coach of Seattle's Chieftains, refused to condemn Mills for his gamble, but added that in any tie game "you should go for the shot that will win." In the laughter-filled Ari zona State dressing room, Hahn recalled that "I looked up and there were four sec onds to go and I just shot." The shot still reverberated through Arizona today. Seattle was led by it's per ennial one-two punch of Eddie Miles and Mills, who scored 24 and 22. The well-balanced Sun Devil attack was led by Madras Wins Crown By Tripping Coquille Coos Bay - IUPIi - Madras' White Buffalos broke loose in the third period and romped to a 63-51 victory over Co quille Wednesday night for the Oregon high school class A-2 basketball championship The White Buffalos, trailing by 34-26 at halftime, outscor- ed Coquille 18 to 5 in the third period and were never again headed. Joe Piedmont, a 6-4 center, led the third period onslaught with 12 points. Coquille could get only two field goals and a free throw in the quarter. Piedmont led the winners' offense with 21 points and Gary Moe added 15. Ron Stein of Coquille topped all scorers with 22. Mt. Angel captured third place by bouncing Sherwood 63-44 and Seaside won consol ation honors with a 60-59 vic tory over Henley. Davit-Erickion Star Mt. Angel also rallied in the third quarter for its win and Dave Davis and Steve Erick- son combined for 37 points to lea'. Seaside to its narrow victory. Field Trial Open Won By Velvet Velvet, owned and handled by Dr. Charles N. Versteeg, Cave Junction, was the win ner Sunday in the open all- age event of the Rogue Valley Retriever club's picnic trial In the Rogue game manage ment area. Jocko, owned by Eurl War ren, Medford, look the quali fying stake, Rayo, owned by Ernest Black, Medford, the derby and Drip, owned by Mrs. Leonard Lilya, Trail, the puppy stake. The Sunday rivalry served as last warmup event of the club for its annual American Kennel club - licensed field trial. This licensed competi tion, bringing here some of the finest retrievers in the United States, is set for March 24, 25 and 26. Forty-four dogs were en tered in the picnic trial. Hop Second Hope, entry of William Bry ant, Ashland, was second in the open. Third went to Sam, entered by James 'Wevcr, Klamath Falls. Fourth place was NlkNak, owned by Ken neth Denman, Medford. Bry ant's Flint took the reserve certificate of merit and regu lar CMs .went to Debonaire, owned and handled by R. C. Mclnnis, Klamath Falls, and another Klamath entrant, James Stilwell's Rowdy. Leonard Lilyo's Imp was runncrup In the qualifying stakes and NikNak ran third. Cookie, owned by Thomas Hlckard, Medford, was third. A Medford dog, Everett Me Graw's Judy was awarded the reserve CM. Derby second was claimed by Hunter, owned by Leonard j Nelson, Medford. Mike Hem-1 ingway, Phoenix, entered; Boy, who took third. Punky j gained fourth. The dog, own-1 ed by Mrs. C. Weldon Kline,! Medford. was handled by Bry-1 ant. Blackie, owned by Dale j Brown, Cave J u n e 1 1 o n, ! copped the reserve CM. Cer-1 tificates went to Jay. owned by Hurley Nelson, Medford, and Buttons, owned by Mc Graw. Huniiernp in the p u p p y slake was Bunny, owned bv Dr. E. I.. Harlow, Medford. ' Harlow and Rickard were trial chairmen. Judges were Leonard Nelson, Charles Slelle and student Robert Morris Jr. open; Bryant, ott() Llly.'wd student Jo.n Cordona, qualifying: Ver steeg. Karl Warren and stu dent Lllya. derby, and Den man and McGraw, puppy. ' CAPTAINS WOLVERINES i Ann Arbor, Mich. 4PP-Jon i Hall of Havana, 111., has been elected captin of the 1 il 1-82 ! University of Michigan bas j ketball team, succeeding John Tidwcll who graduates in 'June. ' MEDFORD Oregon Ollie Payne with 18 and Tony Cerkvenik with 15. But it was Hahn and stubby Larry Armstrong who led the plucky Arizonans back from a 39-28 deficit. Hahn and Arm strong had 13 and 12 respec tively, and each 10 in the sec ond half. The Oregon-USC Box: use II G Stanley 4 Ashby J Rudometkin 9 Appel 3 Edwards 5 Sloniger 0 Martin 5 Hillman 2 V n-12 9- 2 6- 8 2- 1 0- 0 2- 2 4- 5 0- 1 Total! 29 23-35 Oregon 79 G Simmons 6 Warren 8 Moore 5 Hayes 1 Strickland 7 Mack 0 Kimpton 3 Jones 0 r 4- 5 8- 7 2- 7 1. 1 .1- 9 0- 0 2- 2 0- 1 Totals 30 19-32 Halftlmc: Orcfton 36, USC 20. Attendance: 4.709. Piedmont and Gregg Macy ot Madras, which completed the season with a 25-1 record, made the tournament's all- star first team. Also named to the six-man unit were Ray Brown and Kent Gooding of Henley, Er nie Bork of Mt. Angel and Stein. Sportswriters covering the tournament selected the all star squad. The second team was made up of Larry Rasmussen and Larry . Schuchert, Seaside; Roger Sanders, Coquille; Walt Ratzlaf, Sherwood, and Bob Saulsbury, Mt. Angel. Tournament attendance was 13,200. Prep Basketball Eugene (UPD A-l tourna ment at a glance: Wednesday's Scores South Eugene 30, Central Cath olic 34 Grant 61, Scappoose 96 Medford 65. Tillamook 32 South Salem 6B, Bend 57 Roseburff 57, David Douglas 48 Wilson 55. Jesuit 42 Cliiiinplonshlp Klamath Falls vs. Corvalld 3 p.m. South Eugene vs. Grant 4:15 p.m. Medford vs. South Salem 7:30 p.m. noscDurg vs. wnson b:45 p.m. Coos Bay (UPD State Class A-2 tournament at a glance: Wednesday's Scores (Championship) Madras 63. Coquille 51 (Third Place) Mt. Ansel 63, Sherwood 44 (Consolation) seaside go. Henley 59 Basketball COLLEGE BASKETBALL NAIA Tournament (At Kalians City, Mo.) central UKia. B4, mi. weaieyan 62 Northern Mich. 79. Missouri Val. 63 w minuter (Fa.l 85. Newberry 73 Anderson 86. Emporia St. 81 Grambling 80, Peru 60 NCAA Tournament (At llotiston, Tex.) Houston 77, Marquette ei NCAA Tournament (At Portland, Ore.) Arizona si. 72, beattie 70 USC 81. Oregon 7f) National Jr. Coll. Tournament (At Hutchinson, Kan.) 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MEDxORD, Mt -a re DRIBBLES AWAY Southern California's Chris Appel (13) is shown dribbling away from Oregon's Denny Strickland during a Rated Teams Face Hurdles In NAIA Play Kansas City, Mo.-WD-Top- seeded Westminster (Pa.) and defending champion South west Texas State face impos ing hurdles tonight in the quarter-final round of the 23rd annual NAIA basketball tournament. Westminster, which had to scramble Wednesday night to turn back Newberry (S.C.) 85-73, takes on Winston-Salem (N.C.) at 7 p.m CST. South west Texas State, a narrow 61 59 victor over East Texas Bap tist in the second round, meets second-seeded Northern Michi gan at 8:30 p.m. Other quarterfinal games to night match Anderson (Ind.) and Grambling (La.) at 5:30 p.m. and Central (Okla.) State and Georgetown (Ky.) at 10 p.m. . Winston-Salem became the "Cinderella" team of the tournament ever before it started bv defeating three- time NAIA champion Tennes see A&I in the district play offs, defeated West Virginia State, 86-76, Wednesday. Grambling, the tallest team in the tournament, had little trouble eliminating Peru (Neb.) State, 80-60, to gain its berth tonight against Ander son. PICK TRAINING SITE San Diego, Calif. UPD The San Diego Chargers of the American Football league, re cently shifted from Los An geles, will start their pre season training July 17 at San Diego State college. ORE. first-round regionals in 81-79. SEARS 72 IPirie TTiire Sail! SPECIAL ORDERS ACCEPTED DURING THIS EVENT EXAMPLE: 670x15 Black 750x14 Black Full 12 Month Road Hazard Guarantee No Trade-In Required I&epUace Your Winter Worn Battery m BATTERY S S GUARANTEE S (1) FREE REPLACEMENT lj lg within 90 days if found dffec- live and will not hold a charge. 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