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TUESDAY, DECEMBER 18. 1962 9 n U V 1 Mi. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON PROTECTING BALL Big Steve Jones (23) of Oregon lands In front of two Stanford Indians to protect a loose ball as teammate Glenn Moore (52) prepares to grab It. Indians beat Oregon 63 to 44 in the first of a two-night scries. (UPI) Stanford Defeats Oregon By 63-44 United Press International Big Tom Dose led Stanford to an easy 63-44 basketball victory over an outclassed and error-prone Oregon basketball team here Monday night. It was the fourth victory of the season for the undefeated Indians, ranked eighth in the nation. Oregon suffered its second loss in four games. They meet again tonight. Dose scored 29 points, In cluding 13 in a row, before he was taken out of the game with five minutes to play with Stanford leading S7-36. The combination of the 6-8 junior center, Stanford's press ing defense and their own mis takes was too much for the Ducks. Stanford grabbed a 26-4 lead in the first 13 minutes and coasted to the victory. Oregon didn't score a field goal until forward Steve Jones connected after six minutes and 16 seconds of the game. That made the score 13-4 but the Ducks then went another eight minutes before getting another two pointer. The 6-5 forward from Port land was Oregon's only scor ing threat. He finished with 16 points. Jim Johnson, a reserve cen ter, scored 10 in relief of Glenn Moore, who couldn't get untracked against Dose. Moore hit only on of 10 shots from the field and one of four free throws before leaving the game with three points. Stanford hit 49 per cent of Its shots from the field to 29 per cent for Oregon and had a 47-33 edge in rebounds. Stan ford led at halftime 33-20. Nationally ranked Arizona State went down to its first defeat Monday night. At Wich ita, the Shockers down the Sun Devils .92-90, in overtime despite Art Becker's 25 points. Other touring western teams also had a tough time. Peppcrdinc, a team that goes a long way for a club without a big man, was nipped by powerhouse Colorado State at Kort Collins. 69-67. Lee Tinsley led the Waves with 19 points. San Jose State was at sev enth ranked Illinois, and wound up on the short end of a 90-64 count. Bill Yougc of San Jose had 14 points, but the Spartans were in trou ble when three regulars foul ed out. St. Mary's had difficulty figuring out the zone defense of lightly regarded St. Nor bert and just managed a 76-75 victory. Steve Gray was held to 19 points, but his teammates picked up the slack as the Gaels hit the bucket at a .539 clip. San Diego State was fed into the meal grinder at Lo gan, Utah, as Utah State emerged with a 101-57 deci sion. Bob Mac-key had 11 points for the Aztecs. Alameda State, only in its second year but one of the West's best small schools, up ended highly ranked Tennes see State, 58-54, at Hayward. Larry Lauritzcn, a guard any team could use, had 21 points to lead the winners. One of the coast's most un derrated players, Idaho Slate's Art Orump, ran wild Monday night at Pocatello. Crump hit 30 points and hauled down 25 rebounds to lead the Bengals past Gonzaga, 78-67. The 6-(fot-4 Crump Is scoring at a 28 point average. Eastern Oregon rolled up its fourth straight basketball victory by defeating Whitman 74-59 at La Grande Monday night. Bob Myers and Dick Turley sparked the Mountaineers with 22 and 17 points. The winners, running their sea son's record to 4-3, were ahead 35-26 at halftime. At Forest Grove, Ken Al corn scored 26 points to pace Pacific to a 72-51 victory over Portland Slate. The win was the third in a row for the Badgers and left them with a 5-2 mark for the year. Other scores Included these: Northern Illinois 82 Whit worth 70, Carroll 78 St. Mar tins 75, Seattle 76 Xavler 74, Pacific Luthcra n67 Concordia 66. Other gumes tonight in clude UCLA at Butler, San Francisco State at Murray State, Fresno State at Sacra mento State In a battle of small college powers, and Southern Oregon In a re match against Humboldt State. Tornadoes, Comets In Match Tonight Med ford High school's i wrestling team will appear in l . :. I its first home match this sea son. The Black Tornado will entertain Crater's grapplcrs. Competition will get under way at 6:30 p.m. In the boys' gymnasium. The Comets of Central Point and the Tornado go into action after posting week end victories, ("rater won from Del Norte high on Saturday. Mrdford defeated Rnsrburg on Friday. Mcdford is unbeaten in three matches so tar this rea son. Crater has won three of five matches. This will he the last match until after the holidays for the two teams. Roth varsity and Jayvre or exhibition bouts are on this evening's program TORNADO CRAP P L E R - Mike llorton, above, is a wrestler in the 123 -pound class for Medford high which meets the Crater Comets hero this evening. A7 Builders Supply i I r QUALITY BLOCKS Chimnyt Prtittf tserf , Cncrtt 3t 4 iu i . a j . PHONI 77J-4575 Dodgers Walk Off With Most Of National League Honors j SPORTS Cincinnati CUPU Southpaw Sandy Koufax and right hander Don Drysdale of the Los Angeles Dodgers per formed the niftiest two-man haul of the year today when they walked off with practi cally all of the National League's pitching honor for 1962. Koufax, who looked like a cinch to break his own league modern strikeout record until he came up with a finger in jury in July, compiled a 2.54 earned run average that was by far the best In the circuit. And Drysdale not only won the most games, 25, but also started the most, 41, pitched the most innings, 314, faced the most batters, 1,289, and led the league with 232 strikeouts. Official averages released at NL headquarters here re vealed that despite the indi vidual brilliance of Koufax and Drysdale, the Pittsburgh Pirates finished first In team pitching with a 3.38 earned run average. The St. Louis Cardinals were second with 3.55 and the Dodgers third with 3.61. Struck Out 216 Koufax, out of action for almost two months, still struck out 216 batters while posting a 14-7 record last year he struck out 269 bat ters to break Christy Mathew son's NL strikeout record of 267. Bob Feller of Cleveland established the all-time strikeout mark with 348 In 1946. Bob Shaw of Milwaukee was runnerup to Koufax in the ERA department with 2.80 while Bob Purkey of of Cincinnati was third with 2.81, Drysdale fourth with 2.84, and Bob Gibson of St. Louts fifth with 2.85. Purkey, with a 23-5 record, had the best won-lost percent age in the league, .821, and veteran Warren Spahn of Milwaukee pitched the most complete games for the sixth year in a row, 22, although he failed to win 20 games for the first time since 1955. The 41-year-old Spahn won 18 and lost 14 and his earned run mark of 3.04 was eighth best in the league. Ron Perranoskl of the Dodgers appeared in the most games, 70, and Pittsburgh re liever Roy Face finished the most games, 57. Jay Hook of the New York Mets yielded the most runs, 137, and rookie Jack Hamil ton of the Phillies issued the most walks, 107, and made the most wild pitches, 22. Hamilton's teammate, A r t Mahaffcy gave up the most homers, 36. Share Shutout Lead Bob Friend of the Pirates and Gibson each hurled five shutouts to tie for the lead in the category. McLoughlin 7th Beats Ashland McLoughlin Junior high won 41 to 26 from Ashland last Friday in eighth grade wrestling. Match r e i u 1 1 1 were: Rich Peters, M pinned Kent Bro. tad, A. 3rd; Stevt Orr, M. dec, Dalt Sorenson, A; Tom Tonay, A, dec. Paul Lewis, M: Steve Bank ion, M, dec. Jim McPhenon, A; Mlkt Tlllery, M, ptnned Tom Oil ver, A. 1st; Joe Schweiter. A. pin ned Tony McPharton, M, 2nd; Val Andren, M, pinned Steve Bucklew, A, 2nd; Bob Mann. M. pinned Mike Stonier, A, 1st; Jerry Sessions, A. ptnned John Damron, M, 1st; Chuck Low man, M, ptnned Joe Whltsett, A, 3rd; Gary Hooper, A, dec. Jim Bryan, M; Frank Htuch Ison, A, ptnned Brad Thompson, M. 1st; Jot Johnston, A, pinned Bill Atwood, M, 3rd; Bob Jones. M, pinned Lynn Bessnnette. A, 2nd; Sim Coulter, M, pinned Dick Simp on, A, 2nd. mm ERA CHAMP Sandy Koufax of the Los Angeles Dodgers, although sidelined the second half of the season by a bad finger, was earned run aver age king of the National league for 1962. (UPI) The only other 20-game winners besides Drysdale and Purkey were Jack Sanford of the Giants, who won 24 games and lost 7, and Joey Jay of the Reds, who had a 21-14 record. Sanford put together the league's longest w inning stretch when he won 16 In a row from June 17 through Sept. 11. He beat every team in the league during that stretch with the exception of Cincinnati. Koufax pitched the league's only no-hitter on June 30 against the Mets. Alvin Jack son of the Mets, Cal Koonce of the Cubs and Jim O'Toole of the Reds each hurled a one-hitter. OTHER STATISTICS In other statistics, the Dodgers also had a great year on paper. Although they lost the pen nant to the San Francisco Giants, they swept most of the statistical honors released by National League head quarters. Tommy Davis won the bat ting crown, led the league in runs batted in and collected more hits than anyone else. Another Dodger, Maury Wills, electrified the baseball world by setting a modern major league record of 104 stolen bases during the 1962 season. It was a banner year for the Dodgers all around except for one thing: somehow they missed getting Into the World Series. Davis Balled .346 Davis, who shuttled be tween the outfield and third base, won the batting title with a .346 mark and the RBI crown with 153. His total of 230 hits made him high man In that category, too, and marked the first time any National Leaguer led those three departments since Stan Muslal of St. Louis did it in 1948. Willie Mays' 49 home runs was tops in the Circuit and Frank Robinson of Cincinnati led In runs scored with 134, as well as finishing first with 41 doubles. Robinson was runnerup in batting with a .342 average, followed by the 42-year-old Muslal, who hit .330. Bill White of the Cardinals, with .324, and Hank Aaron of the Braves, with .323, rounded out the first five. 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Four Ironmen Wills also was one of the four players in the league to appear in all of his team's games. The others were Rob inson, Ron Santo of the Cubs, and Dick Groat, whom the Pirates recently dealt to the Cardinals. Aaron put together the longest hitting streak when he connected safely In 25 straight games from Aug. 1 through Aug. 25. San Francisco was the team batting leader with a .278 average, followed by St. Louis with .271 and Cincin nati with .270. Easiest team for the pitchers was the New York Mets, who batted only .240 to finish last in that department. Portland Pilots To Host Montana Team Vancouver, Wash.-flJPII-The Portland Pilots will play host to Carroll of Montana in basketball play here Wednes day night. The Pilots finished second in their own four - team Knights of Columbus tourna ment last week end. They lost to Tennessee State 96-82 in the finals. Carroll defeated St. Martin's 76-75 Monday night. SOIBLOpens Play Here Wednesday Three games are scheduled this week to open season play in the Southern Oregon basketball league. The tussles are set for Wednesday and Thursday evenings and will be the only games prior to January. Clendale will go against Drew's Manstore on Wednes day at 8 p.m. In the Thurs day twinbill Drew's and John Wheeler Logging are billed for 7 p.m. Grants Pass will face Sambo's restaurant at 8:30 p.m. Only the five teams are in the league. Next action will be on Jan. 2 when Sambo's plays at Glendale. Medford Lanes Teams Vie at Klamath Falls Lucky lanes bowliing teams had the edge over Medfora lanes men Sunday and wom en's teams divided in matches at Klamath Falls. Medford men won two games in the first match. Klamath's team nabbed one game and a total pin margin of 2873 to 2865. Fred Ander son, Medford had high series with 621. AI Hakenworth led BRAVES VS. RED SOX Cooperstown, N.Y. - IUPD -The Milwaukee Braves and Boston Red Sox, one-time city rivals, will play in the 1963 Hall of Fame game at Abner Doubleday Field, Aug. 5. Former major league players will be inducted into the Hall of Fame in ceremonies before the game. KF with 618. Lucky garnered two of the three games and total pins in match No. 2. Pin margin was 2886 to 2846. Hakenworth scored high game of the day with a 275 and a high 718 series. Tops for Medford was Bill Luman with 247 and 602. Dennis Bauman, Roy Harris and Bill Newland were other members of the Medford lanes team. Gino Rosterolla, Bob Victorin, Bill Hawley and Cliff Stemler teamed with Hakenworth. 256 Game In the opening women's matcli Klamath Falls won two of the three games and total pins 2590 to 2575.. Georgia Boardman paced the Medford gals with 256 high and 554. Vita Samples rolled 219 for Klamath and Eole Tomlin had a 549 series. Medford reversed things in the second scrap with two games and total pin difference of 2632 to 2578. LaRayne Har ris rolled 587 for Medford and Samples 598 for KF. Mary Bothwell, who took Tomlin's place for the second match, had a 223 game. Karen Smith, Marge Hen nebeck and Jeri Hutton wert others on the Medford team. Rolling for Klamath were Clara Beard, Joy Adrian and Beaver Football Team Arrives Back Home Corvallis - IUPD - Oregon State's football team, which defeated Villanova 6-0 at Philadelphia Saturday in the Liberty Bowl, was back home today. The Beavers arrived at Portland by plane Monday night. Their win in the Lib erty Bowl gave them a 9-2 record for the season. 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