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MUDJ'OMi) MAIL 'iUxiUi., MfcUtOttU, OfiL Toniadomen Thump Sort Salem Saxons 80-33 Bend Loses Consolation Game 53-49 Eugcne-lUPII-Klamath Falls, ,. Grant, Medford and Wilson moved into the semi-finals o( the Oregon high school class A-l basketball tournament , with convincing quarter-final victories Thursday. Wilson scored a mild upset by beating Roseburg 64-50 and Medford walloped South Salem in the night session . Unbeaten Grant stopped South Eugene 63-43 and Klamath Falls tripped Corvnl f lis 75-53 in afternoon games. Klamath Falls and Grant tangle at 7:30 p.m. and Med ford and Wilson meet at 8:45 p.m. tonight. The champion ship game is set for Saturday night. Consolation Play In consolation play Thurs day, David Douglas knocked off Jesuit 56-47, Tillamook topped Bend, 53 to 49, Central Catholic downed Scappoose 62-48 and St. Helens edged La Grande 50-43. St. Helens met Central Catholic at 9:30 a.m., Tilla mook played David Douglas at 11 a.m., Corvallis faced South Eugene at 2 p.m. and South Salem and Roseburg collided at 3:15 p.m. today. Wilson had a surprisingly easy time beating Roseburg. The Trojans, from Port land, whose only two losses in 24 games this season were to Grant, got a 26-polnt per formance from center Jim Smith and used a tight zone defense. Roseburg's Jim Jarvis, the slate's top scorer during the regular season, tallied 19 points to pace his team. Wilson ran out a 31-23 half tihie lead and was on top at : 18-13 at the end of the first period. Medford's win was one of the easiest of the tournament. Grant Unbeaten . Grant won its 24lh in a row this season by beating South Eugene. The Generals, the top ranked team in the final coaches' poll, were behind 13- 11 after the first period but they were in command from there out. Grant held 26-19 halftime and 40-24 third quarter leads Nine of 10 players used scored for the Portland team with Ed Tollcfson and Bob Phillips leading the way with 10 and 9 points, respectively. South Eugene's Bo Blair topped his squad in scoring with 11. Klamath Falls shrugged otf i tournament high 28-point effort by Corvallis' little Lar ry Enos. The Pelicans with Gary Patzke, Wally Palmberg and Bruce Brlckncr combining for 52 points, rolled up a 22-11 first quarter lead. Pntzke and Palmberg each had 18 and Brlckncr chipped In 16. Enos made 10 for 10 from FOULED Steve Buswick (45) of South Sa lem High school fouls Medford's Steve Hoots as Bob Quinney (40) watches. Medford won their quarter-finals game with the Saxons 60-33. (UPI Telephoto) HappyCamp All-Stars in Invitational Happy Camp - The Happy Camp All Stars have been In vited to participate in the Redding Industrial League In vitational basketball tourna ment Saturday at the Shasta college gymnasium. The Happy Camp club Is made up of players from the local recreational league. Four loams will buttle for the tourney crown.. Games will start at 1 p.m. In addition to Happy Camp, other squads are: U.S. Plywood, of Ander son; Service Pharmacy, of Chlco, and Falstnff, of Red ding. Happy Camp players are Carl Hamilton, nouert is.o kenson, Fred Robbcrson, Sid Griffin, Joe Ragsclale, Bill Man-lot, Bill Cadola and Tom Blcc. the free throw line and 9 of 24 field goal attempts. Attendance after 16 games was 48,044. Tournament offi cials said reserve tickets to the championship game al ready have been all sold out. All Wheel Drive few 4x4's for Everyone IHC-JEEP-WILLYS 1957 A-120 4x4 Fronl w.ch lwb $1595.00 1957 A-120 4x4 ,,,. G..dLWB 1495.00 1956 S-120 4x4 Short Wheel Base .... 1395.00 1956 S-120 4x4 Long Wheel Base.... 1395.00 1949 Willys Pickup Rough But Hum 375.00 1959 Willys Station Wagon fZl 1695.00 1942 Jeep Full Top 325.00 1947 Jeep Half Cab .. 395.00 ALL MUST GO! Alio a Wide Selection of 2-Whesl Driv Travelolli, Pickups and Truclct Come and Sea Trade Come and Buy OPEN SATURDAY ALL DAY International Harvester Co. McCormick Farm Equip. Store 2232 Biddle Road SP 3-8223 Fanfare By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene Merits of prep sports rating polls were discussed by a small handful of writers in an after-game get-together here at the Oregon A-l basketball tournament. It was agreed that the polls cer tainly stir up Interest but doubt was expressed concerning their accuracy, and even veracity. One scribe termed polls "space fillers." While this writer has tried his best to spend some lime each week and make his poll participation as fair and accu rate as possible, he feels the futility of trying to qualify as an expert on the comparative strengths of teams and leagues outside of southern Oregon. He realizes, also, that there can be manipulations based on psychological aims and senti mental reasons. Thereby, the balloting does not ' always reflect a true picture. , One writer mentioned telephone calls made to coaches participating in polls from other- mentors asking that their teams be downgraded in the polling. Then, there's the case of one tutor who reportedly rated a rival prep club No. 1 as a psychological measure in anticipation of meeting that club in the stale tourney. WORKING ON SHOESTRING There's mora to covering a slate basketball tournament than watching games and pounding a typewriter. Said one of our colleagues. Bill Thompson of the Bend Bulletin: "Could you do me a favor? It's kind of an odd request. Will you tie my shoes?" He'd had a disc operation and couldn't bend over to 'do the job himself. He'd planned to go to a shoe shine parlor and get the job done there. Then, he saw this writer. No, yours truly did not get a tip. OLD HOME WEEK There's something to a state tourney like a college re union or homecoming. You see former schoolmates and other old acquaintances. Some of them have sons actually participating in the tourney or sons and daughters attending schools represented In the tourney. HOGLAND COACHES It's actually Doug Hogland in the top role of hoop coach for the Tillamook Cheesemakers, an ulcer having limited the services of Head Coach Tony Dooher. No mention of this was made by Dooher when we sought information from him on the phone earlier in the week before coming to Eugene. Probably thought we already had heard about it. POOREST RECORD South Salem high, which Medford met Thursday night In the A-l cage tourney quarterfinals, entered the meet with the poorest season record of any team among the 16 who qualified. The Saxons were 13-9 for the regular season. We recall many years back when there was Just one high school in Salem, when the tournament was held at Willamette uni versity and when Salem was always an entrant as host team, that r Capital city club entered the tourney with more losses than victories. And, It fought its way to the state cham pionship. PROOF IS HERE By the foregoing, it can be teen that regular season rec ords don't mean everything once clubs arrive for this Oregon big ichool maplecourt extravagama. And, getting back to polls for a moment, it's right here in tournament play where the authenticity o( ratings is proved or disproved. TOURNEY RECORD Medford high's 77 rebounds Wednesday, in gaining its third cage win of the season over Tillamook, Is a state tour nament record. The total was earlier indicated as 79 because of poor mimeograph reproduction. SOLD ON QUINNEY The scouts looking for college basketball material are numerous at this tournament. One sitting next to ut at the Modford-TUlamook game had hit eye particularly on the Black Tornado t Bob Quinney. But, he taid that he did not really have to watch the game. His ichool already wat told on the Medford athlete. PLATOON TEAM This tournament's exponent of platoon basketball is Grant of Portland which has two units of exceptionally tall men. The Generals have two 6-5 and two 6-4 boys and only one of the 10 players Is under six foot. They were Just too tall for South Eugene Thursday in winning their 24th straight game of the season. Grant has sliced and hot shooting to go with the height. Coach of the Generals is Ed Rooiu-y who once coached at Jacksonville high. REBOUND MARK Bruce Brickner cleared the boards 21 timet at Klamath Falls took Corvallii in the quarterfinal. He thereby claimed the top tingle game rebound effort of the tourney, beating the 19 each In the opening round of Bob Quinney, Modford, and Ron Lake, Roseburg. All-ttater Larry Enos, tcored 28 points for Corvallii In the loting cause to better the 27-point total of Quinney, who wat tingle game high for the lint round. Enot tied the tourney all-time Iree ton record of 10 for 10. STREAKS END When Bob Blair missed his second free toss in South Eugene's tourney opener against Central Catholic, he ended a string of 34 straight gift tosses without a miss over five or six games. Blair had 18 for 18 in a single giime as did Jim Barry, Medford. Barry came to the tourney with 27 in a row and missed his first attempt hero. a r By DICK JEWETT Mail Tribune Sports Editor McArthur Court, University of Oregon, Eugene - An "on the ball" Medford High school maplecourt contingent, play ing pressure defense through the game and driving offense as often as they could Thurs day night blitzed into the semifinals of the Oregon Class A-l basketball tournament here by drubbing a plucky South Salem aggregation 60 to 33. The Black Tornado, defend ing the championship it cap tured here last year, simply outgunned the Saxons from the state's capital city. South drew opening blood in the hassle and troubled the Big Wind some, with its zone de fense. But, Medford grabbed the lead for good when the fray was VA minutes old, pulled to a comfortable spread in the second quarter and never was troubled from there on. The Saxons tried to run with the Hurricane as the second half began. Their fast pace worked for a couple of buckets. Then, Medford's de fense stemmed the Saxon romp and the Wind whirled out for a rash of baskets of its own. Two Leagues Contend Now it's only Portland and southern Oregon in the title running. Quarterfinal verdict sends Medford tonight against Wif son of Portland in semifinal play. Winner will meet cither Klamath Falls or Grant of Portland in Saturday's crown deciding skirmish. The Tor nado went against the Trojans in this evening's 8:45 o'clock tangle. KF and the Generals tussle at 7:30 p.m. Bob Quinney was Med ford's biggest scoring and re bounding punch for the sec ond successive night with 18 counters and 17 retrieves. Dick Ragsdale swished for 12 markers and other statistics showed balanced all-around team effort as Medford hit 22 times from the field and 16 from the free stripe and dom inated the battle on the boards by 52 to 38. South Salem, cold as well as harried, hemped only nine goals from the field for .200 average to Medford's .386. Steve Stewart's seven were the most points for the Sax ons. Ed Maerz cleared seven rebounds. Head at Quarters Tornado cagers headed 14 to 7, 30 to 11 and 44 to 22 at the quarters. Stewart sank a long jump er for South Salem 40 seconds into the fracas but Quinney knotted the count at 2-all with a jump from the corner. With 6:48 still to go in the opening panel, Stan Dowson meshed a free heave for the Tornado. South never went on top after that or so much as evened the score. . Dowson netted a tipin for Medford. Jerry Madison came back with a pusher for the Saxons and it was 5 to 4. Quinney's long push and Bar ry's driver upped the differ ence to 9 to 4. Medford fin ished the quarter on a field bucket and three free casts while Jim Glodt goaled for South. Keeping the Saxons off bal ance with their effective man-for-man defense, the Torna does held the South club to a one field basket in the second period. That came in the last two minutes of the session on a Jon Brack driver. He got the ball from post man Maerz. The other two points by Sa lem in the period were giftcrs by Glodt. Four Fast Breakers Medford had five buckets in each of the first two quar ters. The majority were from fair range. South, aided by five free markers to Medford's two had a bit the better of it over the first five minutes of the third quarter. Then, the Tornado hit on four fast break baskets to stretch to 44 to 20. Steve Hoots tallied on a feed from Quinney, Barry hit the hoop off a long pass by Quinney, Kagsdalc scored off a Hoots interception and Barry tab ulated on his own intercep tion and drive. The Saxons managed only three field goals in the third quarter and two in the last while Medford put in six in each. Biggest spread for the po tent Red and Black was 30 points at 55 to 25. Reserves worked in from that point, seeing service the last 3' 4 minutes. Work Cut Out Defense was the big factor in Medford's triumph and bnllhawklng scrap played a role. The Tornado was not so sharp, otherwise, as in Its opener against Tillamook. Medford's stalwarts encoun tered cool streaks, on especial ly as the second half began. But they turned in a generally steady game and came up in possession most often In scrambles when there was an elusive ball. Medford had even scoring with 14. 16. 14. and IB quarters. Medford's work Is cut out for it tonight. That was noted for sure, when Wilson pulled the first upset of the tourney by lacing Roseburg 64 to 50. The Trojans showed the good big men in such as 6-6 Jim Smith, 6-4 Richie Voss and 6-3 Doug McDougal and capable little guys in Jeff Johnson 5-11, and Stan Johnson, 5-8. Smith led the Wilsons to victory with 26 points - the highest scoring in a game of his career. McDougal had 12 rebounds and Voss 11. Wilson fourth rated in the state and runnerup to undefeated Grant in the Portland Interscholastic league, revealed itself as a strong contender for the A-l banner by going ahead of Roseburg in the first quarter ana never relinquishing front position. The Trojans had quarter differences of 18 to 13, 31 to 23 and 47 to 30 on Roseburg, which had led one final prep poll, was second in another and tied for second in a third. Jarvis Ailing Roseburg's Jarvis, of course was ailing. He was not feeling well and didn't see full action. Still this skillful player man aged 19 points for the Indians, who now join the battle for fourth place. Saturday's championship game could be all Southern Oregon conference or all-PIL, or a mixture of each. To night's losers meetin the Sat urday 7:30 p.m. scrape for third place. Grant was rated No. 1 in the final Oregon Journal poll of coaches. Klamath topped the closing ratings made by scribes for the Portland Ore gonian. Medford was fifth in the final polls. Grant looked strong in crushing in-and-outer South Eugene utilizing tall men and two platoons to great advant age. It got balanced effort from its squad and .420 blaz ing from the field while the Axemen gunned a poorer .264. Highest Score Klamath Falls ran up the highest team score of the tour ney and fired a' sizzling .425 from the field in disposing of Corvallis 75 to 53 in one of the quarterfinals. Gary Patzke and Wally Palmberg each put in 18 points and Bruce Brick ner 16 for the victorious Peli cans. Individual high in the game was Larry Enos of Cor vallis with 28 but he was the only Spartan h double scor ing totals. Brickner had 21 rebounds and Patzke 13 for KF. The Pelicans poured through 31 field goals and had quarter advantages of 22 to 11, 37 to 30 and 56 to 41. They jumped on top 6 to 0 at the start and led all the way. Corvallis did once narrow the gap to one point at 10 to 9. Eugene Tournament Enters Semi-Finals Eugene tbPlt State Class A-l tournament at a glance: Thursday's Scores Consolation St. Helens 50, La Grande 43 (loser out) Central Catholic 62, Scap poose 48 (loser out) Tillamook 53, Bend 49 (loser out) David Douglas 56, Jesuit 47 (loser out) ' Championship Klamath Falls 75, Corvallis 53 Grants 63, South Eugene 43 Medford 60, South Salem 33 Wilson 64, Roseburg 50 Friday's Schedule Championship Klamath Falls vs. Grant 7.-30 p.m. Medford vs. Wilson 8:45 p.m. BONNIES WIN TROPHY New York-OIPll-The Eastern Collegiate Athletic conference named St. Bonaventure, the nation's third-ranked college basketball team, Thursday as the winner of its annual major college basketball trophy. FIGHT RESULT Los Angeles - fflPD -' Tony Herrera, 123, Inglewood, Calif., outpointed Henry Nie to, 125, San Francisco (10). 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