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6 C THURSDAY. JANUARY 3. 1363 MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON MEDFORDgjJfefTRIBUNB SIPCDIffiTS- Tornadoes Oppose Grants Pass High Mcdford high's Black Top nado, third in the loop last season, begins Its 1963 South ern Oregon conference bas ketball slate on Friday night by facing the defending state champions. The Tornadoes travel to Grants Pass for an 8 p.m. en gagement. It will be the only fracas of the wee'-, end for Medford. Grants Pass, which battled to the state diadem of 1962 after taking second in the cir cuit, will vie on Saturday at Klamath Falls. Klamath is the defending conference and District 6 A-l titlist. Mcdford will carry the bet ter win-loss record Into the Friday contest. The Pig Wind is 5-1 for pre-loop action and fourth ranked in the current prep poll. Grants Pass, 4-2, is seventh rated. The two aggregations have encountered three common foes. GP whipped Marshfield and North Bend by wider margins than did Medford. Tornado cagers won by 32 and five points from Willam ette high. The Cavemen nosed Wil-Hi by one. Hill Sidelined Medford split with South Eugene. Grants Pass divided with Roseburg and bowed to No. 1 ranked North Eugene. Tornado players will go into action this week without the services of the top r-bounder and scorer Jim Hill. Coach Frank Roelandt reported that the 6-2 4 jumping jack threw his shoulder out of action last Friday at practice. Friday's games will be pre ceded by sophomore and jun ior varsity tussles. Grants Pass has five play ers back from the Cinderella club which won the 1D62 Class A-l banner. They are larry Lindquist, 6-4, Marty Bauer, fi-2, Jim Pippin, 6-2, Bob Shepard, 6-1, and Den nis O'Leary, 5-10. Up From Jayvee They are supported by players with junior varsity or sophomore experience. Among these are Glenn Scott, 6-1, Tom Sparlin, 5-11, Ly man Kicsecker, 5-0, Gary Red- dick, 5-9, and Gary Van Ko ten, 5-9. A 6-4 transfer from San Carlos, Calif., John May nard, with the equivalent of jayveo experience, is also on the squad. A H-3 nnn-lellcrman, Al liutchins, who is being much counted on, injured his ankle in pro-season drill. It was re ported yesterday that Dennis O'Leary, who started CP's last pie-league name, was on crutches. O'Leary, has been playing despite a football In jury. He went on crutches on doctor's advice, however. Medford has a player Ril ing in addition to Hill. Rich Bonner, transfer from Grants Pass, broke his wrist at the slart of Meritord's third game of the new season. Bonner was a member of the stale title Caveman iuad and will miss this first opportunity to play against his former team males. Hill Has 79 Hill with 79 points, Jack Fordo with 72 and Dan Miles with (IB were the muin scor ers in prc-confercnce play for Mcdtord. Hill has the top to tals in field goals with 34 and In free tosses with 11. Forrie Is second In both categories with 32 and eight. The two tall men also domi nate (he rebounding. Hill has 77 snares and Fordc 60. Medford has out-tabulated lis opposition In points 364 to 304 and has compiled a 257 to 174 margin In rebounding. The Tornado has fired hot from the field but cold from the free heave line. Its field goal average is .421 on 152 made in 361 tries. At the gift line the Mcdford's have put In 60 of 123 unguarded shots for .481. Mcdford KG FT Krh. TP Bnrne 11-2 7-S 10 Bonner 20-7 11-4 17 IB uellley 6-2 2-2 2 Forde (17-32 10-S SO 12 Hill 82-34 25-1! 77 71) Houiton .... .1-3 3-1 3 7 Lowory 3-0 4-2 4 Miles ao-3o is. n l.-i sn Mitchell 23-9 7-3 22 23 nesinamer 34-21 13-7 is 4n Rcid 0-0 2-2 1 2 .Salvers 12-3 7-4 in 14 Stockton .... 1-0 '3-1 8 I Vowell 13-7 3-2 5 10 Crater Encounters Ashland Saturday; Grizzlies Face KF Totals 361-1J3 m-SO 37 34 Opponent! -1I8 126-68 174 304 TORNADO CAGER - Darryl Stockton, above, has seen duty as a reserve for the Mcdford high basketball team this sea son. He is a 6-1 'a senior. Med ford opens its Southern Ore gon conference schedule on Friday at Grants Pass. Gifford Honored New York-IUPII-Frank Gif ford, who ended a one-year retirement, mastered a new position and played a big part in the New York Giants' fine season, today was honored by United Press International for the 1902 comeback -of-the-year in the National Football league. The handsome halfback's career appeared endcu exact ly two years ago al this time when ho was sent to the hos pital with a severe concus sion after being hit hart by Chuck Bcdnarik in a game against the Philadelphia Eagles. Clifford sat out the 1961 senmn and earned a comfort able living as a radio broad- castor and a model for tele vision commercials and maga zino advertisements. But as Clifford put II, "Mo tiring was a big mistnko." "I had to got buck." he said. "Football is my life." Linebackers To Convene Medford Linebackers club will resume weekly sessions with a noon mooting on Fri day. The mooting will he at North's C'hurk Wagon. Two Modford high head rnarhes have boon invited to t lie luncheon. Thry are Frank Rocliindt, basketball mentor, and Ralph Monroe, wrestling tutor. Roelandt likely will discuss Mcdford's pre-conference hoop performances and talk con cerning the Blark Tornado's Friday night game at Grants Pass. Monroe, In talking on Mcdford's mat squad, will speak on a sport which Is growing in importance as a prep activity in the state and which is building a growing following locally - alihough the majority of fans are not so familiar with wrestling as Ihey are with bnskethall. ROYALS PLAY Portland - flM - The Port land Royals will meet a team of all-stars from Vancouver, B.C. in an amateur hockey tame here Saturday night. Trust Fund Tale Denied Milwaukee - WPP - The vice president of the Green Bay Packers denied emphatically today the club had set up a $250,000 trust fund for coich Vince Lombard! to keep him from going to the Los Angeles Rams, but the president of the team said he didn't want to talk about such a report. Lombardi, who also is the general manager of the team which has found fabulous suc cess In the National Football league standings as well as at the gale, said "I Just don't know anything about it." When asked if he was deny ing the fund rxislod, Lom bardi answered "I am Just say ing I don't know anything about It. No more, no less." Richard Bourguignnn, the vice president of the Green Bay Packers, Inc., a non-profit corporation, Insisted "there Is no truth" to the report by Joe Williams, sports editor of Scripps Howard Newspapers, that a $250,000 trust fund was set up for Lombardi by Green Bay directors. Ashland High school, one of three Southern Oregon conference teams untarnished in pre-league tussles, meets the other two this week end In the opening conflicts of 1963 District 6 A-l conten tion. On Friday night the Griz zlies entertain the defending conference champion Klam ath Union high Pelicans. On Saturday Ashland goes over to Central Point to meet the Crater Comets.. The two varsity hassles will be preceded by jayvee and sophomore skirmishes. Ashland, Crater and Klam ath each go into conference competition with 6-0 records. There is, however, no direct means of comparing the three clubs. Crater won two from Lebanon and Mt. Shasta Calif., and one each from Cot tage Grove and Eagle Point. Ashland won a pair each from Phoenix, Fortuna, Calif., and Shasta high of Redding, Calif. i Klamath has defeated Rose burg, Springfield and Bend In two games each. Comet Prestige Crater will carry the most prestige into the league's starting play. The Comets are sixth-rated In the Portland Oregonian prep poll. Ashland tied for 11th in the voting and Klamath Falls picked up one vote. Ashland will fight for con ference honors after failing in three straight seasons to win a league game. The Griz zlies, some followers feel, may prove a surprise team in the loop. Crater has been ac corded a darkhorse role in the circuit chase. Klamath, which hosts Grants Pass Saturday, has an other big team which works the boards well but docs not have the speed of last year's club. The Pelicans may use the tactics of zone defense which give the opposition lit tle inside chance and use their height to grab the ball on missed shots from outside. Fred Kelley, 6-5, is a re turned KF regular. Grover Dahn, 5-10, and Dick Scott, 6-1, are lettcrmcn. Up from the junior varsity are Wayne Chamborland, 6-3, Hal Hol man. 6-2, and Lanny Guyer, 5- 8. Terry Ash is a fl-3 sopho more on the crew. Bob Moore, 6- 1, is a freshman who looms as a fine varsity prospect. Moore has played in two games. Hopes For Upset Ashland would like nothing bettor than to launch its 1963 league slate by spilling the 1962 winner. The Grizzlies have been working on their rebounding and defense this week. Coach George Koil said that the Bruins are drilling to patch some of the weak spols which appeared in last week end's Fortuna series. Bolstering Ashland is the return to full strength of Mike Cotton. Weakened by flu, he did not play for the Grizzlies Inst week end. Return to their regular floor for practice lias spark ed up the Crater Comets. They have boon drilling in the girls' gym while the boy's gym was worked on during the holidays. Crater Coach Lloyd Hot-fine reported all hands at prac lice yesterday with exception of Merle Flonnor. who suffer ed a bad ankle twist in last Friday's workout. Flonnor has seen reserve duty In all Comet games so far and has been of considerable value to the Fireballs In practice because of his quickness. Pepper Tumi Ankle Pat Pepper turned an ankle in yesterday's Crater drill bul lloffino tools he'll be ready for the Ashland game, the Cornel's only one of the week end. If not, rllher Darryl Sunimorfiolri or Noil Rivcnburg may got (he call. Summcrficld gives the Com ets board strength while Riv enburg provides more offen sive power. Rivenburg report edly has started to hit his stride and is doing well in workouts. Mike Glincs, Howard Tom linson and Lou Alvarez paced the scoring and Paul Bran som and Tomlinson the re bounding for the Comets in their six pre-league encount ers. Glines has totaled 99 points, Tomlinson 95 and Al varez 82. Bransom has clear ed backboards 81 times and Tomlinson 81. Fourth high scorer for Crater is Pat Pep per witn 65 points. Summer field runs third in rebounding with 32. Shot .397 Glines leads in field buck ets with 44 while Alvarez has 35. Tomlinson has put in 39 of 47 free toss attempts for a fine 830 average. As a tceam the Comets have shot a warm .397 average from the field on 172 goals in 433 attempts. They are .712 from the free stripe on 104 of 146 tries. They have outscored rivals 448 to 283. Crater has outshot its ad versaries both from the field and the free line. Field av erage for opponents is .283. The rivals have averaged 592 in gift tossing. Rebounding comparison Is not possible because figures tor Mt. Shasta are lacking. The Comets beat the Califor nia team twice. Crater CJllnes Itivonburg Alvarez .... Tomlinson Bransom .. Pepper .innes .. Sunimerfl'lf B. Turner.. M. Turner Menner .... Gardner .... SI roh Mincer Totals FG FT Rco. TP 9S-44 16-11 12 09 14-6 7-3 0 17 H3-33 17-12 17 B2 75-28 47-30 7B 03 41-14 IB-10 Bl 3B 81-27 14-11 IB 38 11-3 2-2 14 8 10-11 8-3 32 27 4- 2 4-4 fi 8 1- 1 0-0 12 3-1 2-0 I 2 5- 0 10-3 2 5 2- 0 1-0 4 0 0-0 0-0 1 0 131-171 llfi-ln'l Tl4 Till Ili4-ln3 1111-77 2S1 COMET HOOPSTER Lou Alvarez, above, has scored 82 points for Ihe Crater high has kctball loam in six games this season. Alvarez is a 5-8 sen ior in this third year on the varsity. The Comets open their league slale on Satur day as hosts at Central Point to Ashland. Rod Laver Pro Debut Slated Sydney, Australia - HPI1 -Rod (The Rock ell Laver. proud owner of a contract de scribed the "best ever" sign id by an amalcur, will make his protcssional tennis dchut at While City courts hero Sat urday night when he mods follow Australian star L e w llnad. Laver, 'he grand slam champion who signed a Ihrro yoar contract Wednesday for a guarantee of 49.00(1 pounds (approximately $109,270). will ho on display as a pin for Ihe first time in the United States next month. Commission Cites Medford Gun Club Medford Gun club recently received certificate from the slale industrial accident com mission citing II or 27 voir of unlnlerriiDted rnvprjmr nn. dor the Oregon workmen's compensation action. The club also was cilod for ' promoting Ihe protection of its workers." k I i'i Hubbard Bros., Inc. WILL BE CLOSED FOR INVENTORY Thursday, Friday, Saturday January 3, 4 and 5 In Cat of Emergency Phone 773-7777 Magazine Rema To Al Lightner Salt Lake City -IUPII- Utah basketball coach Jack Gard ner Wednesday challenged re marks attributed to veteran referee Al Lightner criticiz ing Gardner's court conduct. Gardner was one of four coaches singled out by Light ner for "exeplosiveness." The veteran West Coast official made the charges in an article in a national magazine (Sat urday Evening Post). "Biggest bunch of baloney I ever read," Gardner said when asked to comment on the article. The article, entitled "Basket ball's Bullies" said reckless coaches, rowdy players and riutous fans were disgracing college basketball. "I think Lightncr's remarks are out of line. He's certainly doing basketball an injustice. Sure it's an emotional game. That's why it's so popular," said Gardner. Called Hooligans The article also tabbed the crowd on hand for the Utah Southern California game at Provo, Utah, in 1960 as 11,000 "hooligans." Gardner said he had a statement from Larry Varnell, Lightner's fellow official in the Utah-USC game disprov ing Lightncr's charges. Gardner quoted Varnell as saying "I did not see anything come on the floor at all from any of the spectators in any portion of the game. I am positive that the game at no time had to be stopped for any reason. I recall clearly having loft the game under normal peaceful conditions." According to the article Lightner said paper cups, pro- rks Attributed Challenged grams, apple cores ana a aeaa fish showered down and the floor became unplayable when Lightner called a foul on Utah star Billy McGill. Counts 3rd in Rebounds New York - IUPU - Oregon State center Mel Counts tum bled out of the top 10 in bas ketball scoring this week, but the seven-foot junior moved up to third in rebounding. Counts has collected 159 re bounds in nine games for a 17.7 average. The leader is Paul Silas of Creighlon with a 19.2 average. Nick Werkman of Seton Hall holds the scoring lead with an average of 36 per game. Seattle's Eddie Miles is third with a 29.7 average on 267 points in nine games. Counts scored 64 points and grabbed 57 rebounds in three games in the Far West Classic last week. Miles was the Classic's leading scorer with 70 points. NIEDER APPLIES San Francisco IUPI) Bill Nicder, the Olympic cham pion shotputter whose profes sional boxing career lasted less than one round, will seek to regain his amateur status. Jim Terrill, who is handling the Feb. 15 Golden Gate In vitational indoor track meet at the Cow Palace, said that the 240-pound Nieder will be a competitor if cleared by the AAU. Joe Mann Joins OSU ' Corvallis - OJPII - Joe Mann, a 6-8, 220-pound transfer from Clark Junior college, joined the Oregon State basketball team Wednesday. He is Imme diately eligible. Mann, who is from Irrigon, led the Oregon State Rooks in scoring in the 1956-57 season and then went into the Navy for three years. The Beavers, who won their seventh straight Far West Classic title last week end to run their season's rec ord to 6-3, play host to Wash ington State here Friday and Saturday nights. Sophomore Jim Kraus, a 6-7 forward, probably will start against the Cougars. The other probable starters are forward Steve Pauly, center Mel Counts and guards Terry Baker and Frank Peters. CASCADE VICTOR Los Angeles UPI Cascade College of Portland defeated Southern California College 55-52 in overtime in the first round of the Los Angeles Pa cific college basketball tour nament Wednesday night. ' TRIAL RESUMES New York - IUPD - The trial of former Columbia Univer sity basketball star Jack Molinas on charges of bribery is scheduled to be resumed to day after a motion for a mis trial was denied. JAPANESE SCHEDULED , Portland - IUPII - A team of Japanese high school wrest lers is scheduled to arrive here Saturday. The team will compete against 18 Oregon high school squads during this month. BAY Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS 11 ""f Chimneys J r Prestreased I r - Concrete w- MeAndr.wf PHONE 773-457$ STOCK SALE 25 Off On All Items Stock: Amount in Stock: Fuel Pumps 25 All Models Spark Plugs Universal Joint! 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