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- MraFORDdSTRIBUNB . SIPCDHMTS MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY. MARCH 15, 1963 Six Players on Mail Tribune's All SO-Conference First Team j , " TOMUMSON I ' FORDE 1 '.. - ' II GL1NE3 ' ' I HUTCHINS I , XplPPIN RAMTS PASS GRANTS PASS.yf L , . CHAM BORLAND J KlAMAtH FALLS VT A first team of almost all six-looters has been chosen in the Medford Mail Trib une's 1963 Southern Oregon conference basketball poll. Six players were named to the No. 1 team two each from Crater and Grants Pass and one each from Medford and Klamath Falls. Medford High school's 6-4 ' 4 Jack Forde headed the selec tions as the only player to get all possible points. Cra ter placed Howard Tomlin son, 6-1, the league's top scorer, and Mike Glints, 5-8. Grants Pass choices were Al Hutchins, 6-3, and Jim Pippin, 6-2. Wayne Chamberland, 6-3, Klamath Falls, lied with Pip pin for the fifth position on the team. Named on the second team were Lou Alvarez, 5-8, Crater; Jim Hill, 6-2' 2, Medford; Dan Miles, 5-7, Medford, Fred Kcllcy, 6-4, Klamath Falls, and Jim Lamb, 6-5, Ashland. All-Opponent Coaches and teams of the five member schools cast bal lots in the poll on an all-opponent basis. They did not vote for their own players. Tabulation was made by the Mail Tribune. Two points were awarded for a first team vote and one point for second team selection. A player needed at least two points for honorable mention. Forde got first team votes from all opposing teams and coaches for a total of 16 points. Tomlinson got 14 points and Hutchins and Glines each 13. Pippin and Chamberland each had 12. Alvarez barely missed first team choice. He had 11 points to lead the No. 2 lineup. There were no repeaters from 1962 on the first team. Alvarez and Miles were sec ond team choices last year. Hill was a first team choice last season. Rich Bcnner, Medford, a first team selec tion last year at Grants Pass, Pippin, Forde On 3rd Five of Oregon Journal Jack Fords, Medford, and Jim Pippin, Grants Pais, were named to the third team today in the Oregon Journal Class A-l high school all-state basketball selections. Mike Glines and Lou Alva res. Crater, were chosen on the fourth team. Honorable mentions from this area were Al Hutchins, Grants Pass, and Rick Pierce, Ashland. First team selections were Dave Rompannen, Astoria; Bill Thomas, North Eugene; Nick Jones and Stan Koltsch, Marshall, and John Pinkstaff, South Eugene. Sixty coaches participated in the poll. 1963 Medford Mail Tribune Southern Oregon Conference ALL-STAR BASKETBALL SQUAD FIRST TEAM Player and Points Jack Forde, Medford (16) Howard Tomlinson, Crater (14) Al Hutchins. Grants Pass (13) Mike Glines. Crater (13) Jim Pippin, Grants Pass (12) W. ChBmblerland. K. Falls (12) SECOND TEAM Player and Points Louis Alvarei, Crater (11) Jim Hill, Medford (8) Dan Miles, Medford (8) Fred Kelley, K. Falls (8) Jim Lamb. Ashland (7) HONORABLE MENTION: Tom Sparlin, Grants Pass (E), Paul Bransom, Crater (5), Rick Pierce, Ashland (4). Larry Vowell, Medford (3), Rich Benner. Medford (2), Grover Dahn, Klamath Falls (2). Clay-Johansson Fight Sought New York - ill Pit - Cassius , night and who has been veil- had a late start in conference play this season because of a broken wrist. He was one of six who received honorable mention. The lop seven in the poll were the top scorers in the league. Clay may have been booed thunderously in his latest fight, but the Louisville Lip will be favored at 8-5 to beat former heavyweight cham pion Ingemar Johansson in June or July, if that match is made next week. That's what an active book maker forecast today. Matchmaker Teddy Bren ner of Madison Square Gar den will fly to Sweden next week in an attempt to arrange for the Cassius-lngemar bout at the Garden if Clay & Co. have refused to accept a return match with Doug Jones of New York. It was diminutive but dan gerous Jones who lost an un popular decision to Clay at the Garden on Wednesday LAMPORT'S Medford's Most Popular Sporting Goods Store 226 East Main Street TENNIS BALLS Wilson, Dunlop, Tretorn PHONE 772-6815 ing for a return bout in which, Jones said, "I'll knock him out." Canada, Swedes Vie in Hockey . Stockholm - lUPB - Canada and Sweden meet tonight in a 'grudge' match which could settle the World Ice Hockey championships and has the usually phlegmatic Swedes in a frenzy. The Canadians trail Swe den by one point after five games, nine to ten. Russia has eight and the Czechs seven. Each team has two games left. The United States finally got its first victory of the championships Thursday when it beat West Germany, 8-4. 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