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NBA Drafts Top Prospects MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, ORE. TUESDAY, MARCH 28, 19G1 St. Louis - IUPD - Thp Na tlonal Basketball association completed its annual draft of the nation's top eligible col lege basketball players and all that was left today was to sign them. The nine league clubs met here Monday and made their draft choices. However, this year the NBA will have to woo the prospects from the newly formed American Bas ketball league, which begins play next season. The ABL held its draft meeting in Chicago March 19 and many of the big names at Monday's meeting were prom inent at the Windy City draft. Chicago, the newest entry in the NBA, was given first choice in every round and surprised no one when they opened by picking 6-foot-ll Walt Bellamy of Indiana. Then, the other eight teams in the league got a pick and Chicago was given five con secutive choices. In the five, the Chicago franchise was able to grab York Larese and Doug Moe, both of North Carolina. Moe and Larese had been touted as first round picks before the meeting. The New York Knicker bockers came out of the draft conference with some good young players. The Knicks picked up the rights to the services of Tom Stith and Whitey Martin, both of St. Bonaventure, in the first two rounds. In the third and fourth round, they got Tony Jackson of St. John's and George Blaney of Holy Cross. Other first round picks: Cin cinnati, Larry Siegfried of Ohio State; Detroit, Ray Scott of Portland; Los Angeles, Sport Parade By OSCAR FRALEY United Press International New York-IUPD-The current basketball "fix" scandal will nowhere near approach that of a decade ago, sports fore caster Joe Harris predicted Monday, "because only a handful of teams and officials are involved." Harris, who for 20 years has compiled a football and bas ketball . rating system for newspapers, has two infallible barometers. One is his system, which when compared with fluctuat ing point spreads quickly sorts out suspicious or "pe culiar" impending contests. The other is a conversational contact with numerous "books" on the "action" in volved. "You can pretty weir tell from these just what's going on and who's doing business," Joe explains. First To Know With wagering on an aver age basketball night running into inestimable "millions of dollars," the books are the first to know when all is not kosher in Copenhagen. For this reason, there is one conference in the country which the books will not han dle at all. And there is a cer tainty in certain quarters that in some instances it is referees -not the players-who are "do ing business" with the gam blers. "There probably is a lot of fixing which never will be de tected," Harris insists. "You can't catch a fixer who is working with a close friend or a relative. The ones they catch are the ones who work with strangers. But it's no where near as bad now as it was 10 years ago." Prior to the 1951 scandal, Harris asserts, "games were being fixed by the carload." Writes Expose "Everybody was doing it," he says. "The kids adopted the attitude that everybody's do ing it, why not me?" Harris at that time tried to "break" the scandal in the Sporting News, for which he was doing some work at the BEEFEATER BEEFEATER the imported English Gin that doubles your martini pleasure Unequalled since 1820 BEEFEATER GIN 94 PROOF 100 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS K0BRAN0 CORPORATION . NEW YORK 1, N. I I BE" time. The editors turned down his information on the grounds it had no basis. "The Brinks robbery was on Jan. 17, 1950," Joe recalls. "That day, as subsequently re vealed, Long Island univer sity 'dumped' to North Caro lina State in the Garden. They were shouting headlines about the Brinks job when we walked out and a guy said: 'They must have done it to bet on LIU'." Harris, after the scandal broke, received, a letter from the Sporting News saying that it was "sorry" it didn't break the story and "now know that you were 100 per cent right." To those who might suspect that his suspicions are aroused because one of his selections lost, Joe points out that Min nesota and Kentucky, for two, treated his selections very poorly this year but he con siders them completely above suspicion. Underdog Wins "In nearly every Minnesota game the underdog on the point spread won," he said. "In its first 10 games, every game Kentucky played the un derdog in the spread won. But this, you could tell, was simply a trend. There was no business going on." Suspicions among the book makers are aroused, Harris explained, when "a team is bet as if the game is already over." "The bookies themselves could prevent fixes simply by refusing to accept bets of more than $50," he contends. "But they won't do it. They usually have a $1,000 per game limit but the profit po tential is too big to resist." So the bets are made, the gamblers go to work to try to make it a sure thing and where it ends nobody knows. Not even forecaster Harris. Four JC Transfers Enroll at Oregon - Eugene IUPD Four junior college transfers who play football enrolled at Oregon Monday as spring term began. They include Paul Burle son, an end, and Ron Veres, a quarterback, from El Camino, Calif., JC. Burelson is no re lation to Dyrol, the miler from Cottage Grove. Others included Gayle Lau denslager of Boise JC, a broth er of former Webfoot halfback Don, and Dennis Jackson, a halfback from Monterery, Calif., JC. COMPETE IN MASTERS Miami Beach, Fla. - IUPD -The two spots allotted to play-ers-at-large in the Masters golf tournament for 1961 have been won by Bill Collins of Chrystal River, Fla., and Ma son Rudolph of Clarksville, Tenn. The Masters will be played at Augusta, Ga., start ing April 6. Wayne Yates of Memphis State; Syracuse, Ben warley of Tennessee A & I; St. Louis, Cleo Hill of Winston-Salem State College; Philadelphia, Tom Mcschery of St. Mary's; Boston, Gary Phillips of Hous ton. Second Round Picks In its second round selec tions, Chicago picked up rights to John Turner of Louisville, Jerry Graves of Mississippi State, Larese and Moe, Don Kojis of Marquette Oregon State Center Drafted by Lakers St. Louis -IUPD- Karl Ander son, Oregon State center, was drafted Monday by the Los Angeles Lakers in the 9th round of the pro basketball draft. Ray Scott, onetime Portland center, was picked by Detroit in the 1st round. Frank Bur gess of Gonzaga was picked in the 3rd round by Los Angeles and Dave Miles of Seattle in the 8th round by Syracuse. and Jeff Cohen of William and Mary. Other second round choices: Cincinnati, Bob Wiesenhahn of Cincinnati; Detroit, John Eagan of Providence; Los An geles, Fred Sawyer of Louis ville; Syracuse, Chris Smith of Virginia Tech; Philadel phia, Ted Luckenbill of Hous ton; St. Louis, Ron Horn of Indiana; Boston, Al Butler of Niagara. Kid Paret To Defend New York-IUPD-Benny (Kid) Paret of Cuba will defend his world welterweight title for the second time in four months Saturday night when he meets Emile Griffith of New York at Miami Beach, Fla., in this week's feature bout. Paret is a 2-1 favorite for the scheduled 15 - rounder, which will be held in the same convention hall ring where Floyd Patterson knocked out Ingemar Johansson 'in their heavyweight title bout earlier this month. The fight will be televised nationally on ABC starting at 7 p.m. PST. Paret, 24, won the welter title from Don Jordan in Las Vegas, Nev., last May, then outpointed Federico Thomp son in his first defense last December. The flashy Cuban has a 33-9-3 record for 45 pro bouts. Griffith, who has lost only two of 24 scraps, earned a title shot after a brilliant 1960 cam paign, which featured vic tories over Florentino Fer nandez, Willie Toweel, Luis Rodriguez and Jorge Fernandez. McCoy Slates Portland Race Portland-A top field of late model stock cars will try to inaugurate the 1961 auto rac ing season, Sunday afternoon at the Portland speedway. A field of over 20 cars in cluding 1959, 1961 and 1960 models will be in action and compete for the $2,000-plus booty. Time trials are set for 1:30 p.m. with the first racing event to be at 2:30 p.m. Racing events will see five races preceding the 100 lap feature with all cars compet ing in the century run. A top group of California NASCAR aces led by Eddie Gray of Inglewood, Cal., driv ing a 1961 Ford; Jack McCoy of Ashland, driving a 1959 Chev; Art Watts of Portland and 1960 champion, driving a 1960 Ford. WIN SIXTH STRAIGHT Fort Lauderdale, Fla. -OIPD-The Portland Beavers won their sixth exhibition game against one defeat Monday with a 10-3 victory over Rich mond of the International league. Cardinal Pitcher Struck By Piece of Broken Bat St. Petersburg, Fla.-dTD-St, Louis pitching ace Larry Jack son, enjoying the finest spring of his career, received the news today that a freak acci dent would sideline him for at least a month. The hard - throwing right hander as working against the Los Angeles Dodgers in an ex hibition game at Vero Beach Monday when Duke Snider of the Dodgers hit a broken-bat dribbler back to the box. As Jackson stooped to field the NOW- Medford's Newest and Finest Automatic Transmission Rebuilding WATCH FOR OUR GRAND OPENING! MEDFORD TRANSMISSION 1910 Table Rock Road YLJi1- I T I SP 2 8368 Acrou from BIG Y Mrket fall, the barrel end of Snider's bat crashed against the low left side of his jaw. Jackson fell to the ground, bleeding badly. Jaw Cracked Following emergency treat ment, Jackson was brought to the Cardinal base here and X-rays indicated two cracks in his jaw. Dr. Grover Austin, a plastic surgeon, wired the jaw shut and estimated Jackson would be out of action at least a month. A solidly built 190-pounder, Jackson has been the Cardin als' most consistent pitcher In the last few years. He had an 18-13 mark in 1960 while working 282 innings, and was anxious for a fast start this season to attain his 20-game goal. Jackson, a notoriously slow starter, took the accident philosophically, j "Maybe It won't hurt if I I don't pitch," he said, "bo I cause usually I don't help the i club befora May anyhow." t-r V - v,' Y JlWi SIGNS CONTRACT Casey Stengel, al though out of baseball, Is still signing con tracts. The former manager, who was thought to be "too old" for his Yankee : 3L . w' alV"? sat m i Mm E-,t!fiWlW S5Q job, is shown signing a contract for a guest appearance with Jane Powell in a television special entitled "Young at Heart." (UPI Telephoto) MEDFORD-iKTRIBUNK Spahn Wins Third Exhibition Game By United Press International i but three of those hits were homers. Warren Spahn is just like any other pitcher-he'd rather brag about his hitting. 'Just call me slugger," the Milwaukee Braves' ageless southpaw chuckles whenever he gets a hit, which isn t of ten. He collected only 14 safe ties in 96 at-bats last year for a rather anemic .146 average Central Point Jr. High Hoop Team Honored Central Point - Members of the eighth grade basketball team of Central Point Junior High school were honored at a luncheon held recently at North's Chuck Wagon in Med ford. The team won the South ern Oregon loop championship with a 10-2 record. This was the second year in a row the team won this honor. Team members feted at the luncheon were Kelly Wilson, Frank Armstrong, James Kingslein, James Pitts, Donnle Patterson, Larry Branch, Fred Marshall, Larry Glawe, Nor man Henney, John Yoaklcy, Bob Bray, Buzz Donker, Billy Colley, Lexie Hamilton and Steve Jorde; also managers John Boyce, John Tate and Tom Lees; statistician, Jody Van Horn and scorekeepers, Emmons Burns, Dean McCal vey and Dan Cesaro. Also attending the luncheon were George Johns, Junior High principal, Charles A. Meyer, superintendent of Dis trict 6C, Keith Johnson, coach, Jim Owens, assistant coach, and Joe McCalvey. The boys presented a trophy to Johnson. Baseball LINKSCOKKS: Bait. (A) ...220 110 030 9 8 2 Minn. (A) ... 003 002 52x 12 13 O Fisher. Jones 171 and Carver. Lumenti, McAvoy (3). Constable (71, Uonikowshl (0) and NarnKon, Henry (7). Winner Constable. Loser Fisher. HRs Breeding, Valdlvlelso. McAvoy, Adair, Phil ley, Dobbek. St. Louis (N)OOO 000 200 2 8 2 LOS AllR. (N) 203 302 lOx 11 14 1 Jackson. McDanic! (7) and Can nizarro. Drvsdnle. Palmquist (HI and Koseboro. Camilli (81. Winner Drysdalc. Loser Jackson, lilt snider. FILES SUIT San Luis Obispo, Calif.-IUPII -The widow of a Cal Poly football player killed in an October airplane crash has claimed that she is entitled to $20,500 under the Cali fornia Workmen's Compensa tion law. The suit, unprece dented in California, was filed for Karen Vnnhorn and her infant son, Craig. It alleges that Gary Vanhorn, 22, of Paso Robles who received a work scholarship of S50 a month for a four-month sea son was employed as a Cdi Poly football player. Even in spring training, Spahnie spends almost as much lime in the hitting cage as he docs on the mound. And this devotion to his "slug ging" paid off in a 1-0 vic tory over the Chicago White Sox Monday. Single to Right Spahn, who will be 40 next month, drove in the only run in the seventh inning with a sharp single to right oft Bob Shaw to gain credit for his third victory of the exhibition season. He and Lew Burdette, who worked the first four in nings, blanked the White Sox on five hits. Herb Score pitched six fine innings for the White Sox, stopping the Braves on three hits before giving way to Shaw, who made his first ap pearance of the spring after a long holdout siege. Wally Post and Steve Bilko, a pair of legitimate sluggers, also struck key blows for their teams. Post unloaded his sixth home run of the Grape fruit league season following a two-run poke by Vada Pin son to give the Cincinnati Reds an 11-9 victory over the Detroit Tigers. LA Wins Bilko drove in four runs with a homer and a bases loaded double as Los Angeles turned back the Cleveland In dians 9-7. Johnny Antonelli staggered through the first j five innings for Cleveland, ; giving up eight hits and seven runs. The Kansas City Athletics whipped the New York Yan kees, 5-2, in 10 innings, Dick Ellsworth went the route for the Chicago Cubs in a 7-4 vic tory over the San Francisco Giants, the Minnesota Twins gained an uphill 1 2-9 triumph over the Baltimore Orioles, and the Los Angeles Dodgers downed the St. Louis Cardi nals, 11-2 in other exhibitions. Detroit (A) 004 300 020 9 12 1 Clnn. (N) .. 033 110 03x 11 14 1 Lary, Fox Narlcski (8) and Brown. Hook. Henry (4). Stcnhnnsc lu . Uriel's tu and ualley. z in- merman (7). HHs Cash, Brown, Coleman, Pinson, Post.. Sports Briefs B 3 STARTS ARMY HITCH Fort Jackson, S. C. -IUPH-Oscar Robertson of the Cin cinnati Royals reported to ! Fort Jackson Monday for a six-month Army hitch. WILLAMETTE WINS Salem - IUP1I - Willamette's baseball team defeated Ore gon College 8-2 Monday as Dave Brock got three singles and Jiggs Burnett hit a homer and a single. WINS WESTERN New Orleans, La. - HOT -Jack Nicklaus of Columbus, Ohio, won the Western Ama teur golf tournament Sunday with a 4-3 decision over Jim Key of Columbus, Ga, CROSLEY DIES Cincinnati - IbTII - Powell Crosley Jr., 74, owner of the Cincinnati Reds baseball club developer of the Crosley auto mobile, died early today at his home in suburban Mount Airy. SOCCER TEAM FINED London - IUPD - The Burnley football club has been fined $2,800 by the football league for fielding 10 reserves In a match against Chelsea o n March 11. The fine is the highest ever imposed on a British soccer club for not playing a full strength team in a league match. SPONSOR CLASSICS New York - (UPI) - The Gil lette Safety Razor company will share radio and televi sion sponsorship of this year's World Series and All - Star games with the Chrysler cor poration. Total payment for the TV and radio rights were announced at $3,750,000 by Baseball Commissioner Ford Frick and Hill & Knowlton, Inc., which represents Chrysler. do iimincs) Kans. City 000 001 010 35 10 1 N.YorklAlOOO 110 000 0 2 5 2 Nuxhall. Kunkcl (m. Kccsan (8. Baker (10) aad Pignatano. Ford, aiaunra lut ana uerra. winner. Kcciian. Loser Stafford. (10 Innings) ' Wash. (A) 0O0 000 023 0 5 9 2 DC(. (A) .. 001 012 001 16 10 1 Donovan, blslcr (til and uotterer, Recall. Grzenda. Scvfriend (lot and Chill. W 1 n n e r - Seyfriend. Loser aisicr. uns until, urccn, Dotterer. , Milw. Chicago (N) 000 000 1001 S 2 (A) 000 000 00O 0 5 bpann (51 and C Shaw (71. Stalcv Winner Spahn. Loser dall. Score, and Lollar. Shaw. Chicago (N) 010 O20 310 7 11 0 San Fran. (N) 010 003 0004 12 2 Ellsworth and Taylor. Miller, O'Dcll 171. Davlault (8) and Orslno. Loser O'Dcll. Polio Victim Wins $180,000 in Court Portland - IUP1I - Settlement of $180,000 for a 9-ycar-old boy who was stricken with polio in 1955 shortly after in oculation with anti-polio ser um was approved Monday. Probate Judge William Dickson approved the settle ment obtained by attorneys for Kenneth Kudson from Cutler Laboratories of Cal-1 Ifornia. The settlement was one of the largest obtained in such cases. Kenneth, son of Mrs. Joseph Kudson, was almost totally paralyzed but now can breathe without mechanical aid about half the time, He also has learned to type, hold ing a baton in his mouth. His mother was widowed about a year ago. Clevel'nd (A) 010 113 1007 11 1 Los Ang. (A) .100 021 Olx 9 10 1 Antonelli, Hawkins (0) and Tho mas. Moeller. Clevcngor 5), Mor- !an (91 and Rice, winner Moeller. Loser Antonelli. Kits DUlard. Cerv, Bilko, Francona, nice. 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