Al Llghtner, of the Oregon Statesman, remarked about Boc chl and the All-State line-ups. 'Kmuikinir of All-State hooDsters. the old bugaboo which ac tually makes a farce of the selection was certainly in evidence FT I Saturday nigm ever gave a on the All-State J Jim Bocchi. His 20 points and all-around floor I game was the big reason why Baker got herself I annihilated. But the All-State selections were i made Saturday afternoon as usual, so naturally ERmvhl'n hrllliant 4 ias far as ,he mythical team was concerned. f 1 S-yf, "Incidentally, Frank Ramsey warned us I 1 T I l.hnnt his Bocchi CALISE down he'll show and from experience. Bocchi showed us and the other 2399 fans jammea in ine noop nu gmvimng anuiiuj ui.it Most of us do agree with Lightner on the "silly" way the coaches are picking the All-State teams every year and this may be another sterling example why the selections should be made immediately after the final game. . WAYNE SCOTT Wayne Scott disappeared quickly after the tournament final at' Salem and we were not able to get in contact with him for his views and opinions of the Pelicans championship records. But we got him now. We asked Scott a few questions on his opinions on the tournament and the Baker team: "What was my opinion of the state tournament? I think that there is only one answer. The best team won. Was Baker a good team? Yes, Baker was by far the best team other than Klamath Falls that was In the tournament. These are the things that made our team the best. First of all we had five men on that bell club that had to be watched and accounted for at all times. We didn't have a couple of stars on the team that the opposition could concentrate their defense on. For example in the Eugene game the Eugene coach had his xone arranged to stop Bocchi and Cox. During the third quarter Welch scored seven points alone. Ford Mullen said after the game that he had never figured on that. In the Pendleton game Foster, who ordi narily doesn't score much, came through with ten points when they were needed. Saturday was Bocchi's day when he went through them, around them and over tnem to score -U points which was a record for the number of points scored by one play er in the championship game. scoring all of the time which opposition to know just who was going to score next. CONTROL OF BACKBOARDS "Secondly, we controlled both backboards in practically all of our games. This was where Baker was most surprised as well as a lot of sports writers. Baker had a tall and rugged team. They had always controlled the backboards and expected to do it against us. Young and Cox playing as they have all season took everything off the boards which was quite a deciding fac tor. When you can take the ball down the court and get several shots at the basket before you lose it you have a greater chance of scoring the basket. If the opponents get only one shot at the basket every time they take the ball down the court because they don't get it off the backboard, then they are going to have a hard time scoring very much. PELICANS HARD AND TOUGH "The third thing was our condition. The boys who have trained well all season were in so much better shape that they had the opponents run ragged before the game was very old. They were just as tough and in just as good condition the third night when they played Baker as they were the first night when they played Eugene. They were driving just as hard the last min ute of the ball game against Baker as they were the first. It is always easier when you have the condition and extra energy when the time comes. Poor condition and fatigue lead to poor defense and fouling. We capitalized on this fouling by making our foul shots as well as many of our opponents being sent to the showers with four personal fouls on them. We did not lose a single player on fouls and had only 19 fouls called on us in th .three games which is, I believe, a record. That isvan average of six arid one-third fouls a ball game. Fouling is a result of two things. One as I mentioned above, fatigue which is shown In the second which is poor defense. If you play good defense end stay between your man and the basket you should have no trouble keeping your man from scoring and have very few fouls called. It is the poor defensive player who lets his man get past him and then tries to stop him from the side that has a lot of fouls called on him. BAKER GAME A PERFECT GAME . "The fourth determining factor was that the boys were good competitors. When the chips were down, so to speak, was the time that they played their best ball. They didn't show too much against Eugene and Pendleton mainly because they knew that they could beat those teams and consequently weren't keyed up to playing any great game against them. In the championship game against Baker they played a PERFECT GAME. Their shooting average was good hitting, 23 out of 64 shots.' They handled and passed the ball like a team of professionals. They didn't run around wildly but as soon as they got the ball they went right to work on their plays executing them beautifully. Usually the championship game is exciting only because of the thing that is at stake and not because it is well played. The Klamath Falls-Baker game was one. of the best played champion ship games I have ever witnessed. They weren't tied up as teams usually are as shown by the seven points they scored in the first 57 seconds of the ball game. When a team can play ball like they did, when the chips are down and things are really at stake, then you have to hand it to them as being great competitors. SPORTSMANSHIP "The fifth thing that helped win was the good sportsman ship and clean playing on the part of the players. The low num ber of fouls called on us is proof that the boys were playing clean ball. The conduct on the floor and -off was without re proach. The officiating was very good with Lenchitsky, Heneges and Chappie King doing the whistle-tooting. Each of them worked good games for us even though I wouldn't have blamed Chappie King if he hadn't after the way some of the Klamath fans treated him after the Klamath Falls-Vancouver football game. Everyone has his own opinion and mine is that maybe Chappie had a bad day and it is also very possible and proba ble that he could see some things that we couldn't from our seats 50 yards away. BOCCHI AND COX DESERVING "As to the all-state team, Foster was very deserving of the honor bestowed upon him. I feel as did the person making the awards, that ha hated to do this because he knew it wasn't right. Bocchi and Cox were head and shoulders above any others and very deserving of that honor. Young and Welch should have received places on the second All-State team. The reason mainly responsible for the mix-up was that the selection was made Sat urday noon Instead of after Saturday night's games in which the boys plainly showed themselves tops. As far as I am con cerned they are all on my All-State team." WEEKEND FISHING PORTLAND. Mnrrh. 10 rPl I'isltfng will bo good in Curry and Coos county streams and in the lower Willamette river this weekend, the stale game commis sion predicted today. These county reports were in the commission's weekly bulle tin: CLACKAMAS Salmon pros pects good for this weekend in the Willamette. Some trout token from Clackamas river. COLUMBIA Columbia river yielding only a few salmon. Oth er streams poor. : COOSJe-Good catches of steel liead and large trout .reported auer me uue game, u ")viii gilt-edged performance and belonged first five it was Klamath Falls' nerformance went for notmng Friday. 'When the chips are you something.' predicted Frank Cox and Young were in there made it extremely bard for the from Coquillc river. Ten mile lake yielding limit trout catches. Some sleelhead being taken on upper streams. Bass fishing good. CURRY Salmon being caught in Rogue river. Some bag limits of stcelhead and trout reported from other streams. Clatsop and Tillamook coun ties reported poor fishing and Siltcoos lake offered the only angling in Lane county. riOHTS By Th Aaaoolatad Prttl niuitr.A.sn pahk, n. j.-joo buicio I.vnrli. Ids. I'lnlnfMd. N. J and Tcto Orno, 168. Unr York, drew (S), llUNTON-.la.-kin tMnrn. list. Hamilton, lint.. otltlinlntrH Jai-Mr Wilson. Ir.U. Tilts. liurjb (it), (llrlalntd KBA fwtliairtUM I I " lat-S'' IT i 1 i i . VWTM.'1t"' ' f u'1ScoN.tN ygfji BASEBALL -Tpri . ifftfr TRAINING CAMPS ' U fl 4 ((if 1943 SEASON 1 , ,VifJlr h 11 n j J3 f?p f .Indiana ISO - " " CG-.? f 7 ilunois v Aa0"10 ( rr 7Hpx fes Detroit .....- St. Louis A Brown I . Itiiviii O Clr. lJb . T . St. UO Express Opposition To PCC Split Anton B. Cornell hat Come Outright With Opposition To Divide South and North SPOKANE, March 19 (AP) Only one of the six northern schools in the Pacific coast con ference, the University of Ore gon, has expressed outright op position to dividing the con. ference football schedules into northern and southern division, states an article in the Spokes man-Review by Sports Editor Charles R. Stark, Jr. A telegraphic survey launch ed by Stark found a Washing ton State official doubting that even split play would be feasi ble; Montana State and Idaho favoring the split, and Oregon State non-committal. The Uni versity of Washington did not reply. Anson B. Cornell, director of athletics, stated Oregon's posi tion: "The University of Oregon believes that it is neither neces sary or desirable under pres ent travel conditions to aban don the present plan for inter collegiate football in the con ference next ' fall and that it would be foolish to say what conditions will be like at that time." Only Montana and Idaho came out strongly for more lo calized grid play. 73 Varsiiy Duck Cagers Get Letters EUGENE,' March 19 (fP) Twelve of the 13 University of Oregon basketball players grant ed varsity letters last night by the student council after the rec ommendations of Coach Howard Hobson, are Oregonians. The lone out-of-stater was big Roger Wiley of Bremerton, was one of three freshmen given awards. The awarding of letters was under a more lenient plan this year because of war. conditions and the probability that few if any of the players will return to collegiate hoop competition. Three-year awards were made to Captain Don Kirsch, Portland; Rolph Fuhrman, Coquille, and Warren Taylor, Banks. Two- year awards were given to Bob Wren, Portland; Bob Newland, Medford, and Wally Borrevik, Reedsport. First-year awards, besides Wiley, were given to Wal Reynolds, Portland; Sam Crow ell, North Bend; Al Popick, Port land; Roy Seebord and Al Wil liamson, both Astoria, and Ed Dick, The Dalles. Dick and Williamson Were the other freshmen members of the Oregon squad that finished sec ond in the northern division cir cuit after a stretch drive i that brought seven victories in the last nine games. Jeff Heath Will Continue to Work ; At Shipyards SEATTLE, March 19 (P) Rather than play baseball at a sharp salary cut, Outfielder Jeff Heath will continue to work at a shipyard here, he said last night in reporting he had re turned unsigned the second con tract sent him by the Cleveland Indians. He said the second offer was boosted from the original con tract proposal ' of 40 per cent less than last year. When in Medford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Jo and Anna Earley Proprietors ) Cardinals J" aenamni fej i - -r"Ne- n tfrn v - j bv r iv si i i Y " While Sox . ""V I ' T ffjf JUV Louis Training CampBriefs By The Associated Prats BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y., March 19 (IP) Frank "Rube" Melton, righthander, has agreed to terms and will report to Man ager Leo Durocher of the Brook lyn Dodgers today. Veterans Johnny Cooney and Paul Waner arrived last night. CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. New zest was added to the St. Louis Browns today when popu lar George McQuinn, first base man, Veteran Catcher Rick Fer rell and Infielder Dan Gutter idge showed up for practice. Manager Luke Sewell said In fielder Don Heffner and Pitchers George Caster, Paul Dean and Bill Seinsoth are expected to make their appearance in a day or two. FRENCH LICK, Ind. Jimmy Dykes planned to order a work out for his Chicago White Sox as soon as they reached their camp today. Arriving wjth Skipper Dykes from Chicago were Thorn ton Lee, Orval Grove; Don Kol loway, Tom Turner, Ed Weiland, Lee Ross, Jimmy Grant, Vincent Castino and Don Hanski, the lat ter a free agent lefthander. There are eight scratches on the roster issued four days ago. The most prominent is Dario Lodigi ani, said to be . in the army al Washington Siate Claims Athletics Must Go On PULLMAN, Wash., March 19 (AP) Graduate- Manager Earl Foster of Washington. State col lege said today it "appears log ical the northern division should carry on its own schedule." Echoing the belief expressed by Arnold Eddy, University of Southern California graduate manager, that wartime travel restrictions would limit the scope of Pacific coast confer ence football, Foster predicted round-robin competition would be dropped at the June meeting of the conference. He declared the college ath letic program "must be carried on, and yet in full cooperation with an Intensified military program." "Football should be contin ued,'.' he asserted, "for the mo rale of the students left in the schools, which is just as impor tant an item as the morale of soldiers in bases and canton BOWLING LADYBUO IIAQUI . Oimlt ImuranM Jwiora 1.18 13 131 Rutlfr , i2 ids ioj -1W UO l!l Struthtri -n 10 117 ll IS4 120 m llowiirfl Handicap Total 7ii 7 ten Town Club Chcjne Coif i tans 1.12 177 IM . . , . 107 107 107 121 l! IS! t: 351 3l 339 7B 3t Frlman I.U 140 Rarkfl !l IM l!( -114 114 114 flamtieap Total ' lit tii an fiummlna'a Fur IhoB WIMIama ' 143 114 Mltcham 119 155 III nrllottl 1 1 1 113 133 Fonbrrl IM 137 II! Oatra i" 133 133 Handicap 104 104 104 Total .. 701 75 714 ModlrnHllo Btiul thou Norlln . 144 144 144 VorVland. 131 123 139 fltorm 135 127 l3 KnHI 185 135 1.15 Will ' 10! 119 135 Handicap (! - 12 Joint ...729 71S 711 Kit Lorani eomoaiw Abientca 125 IM 125 Hathlan? 11! lit 153 Uod 171 110 It! . Truelnva , 171 149 McCollum 114 too Itl Handicap 10S 103 tot Total. i 769 863 aia Blaok and Whltt tarvlu Grim .. ..; 118 103 129 Tyler ,. 114 124 119 Hwraay ,., ,,. v" 1x7 no lllllman -, , , 144 123 Alirrntta , , 144 144 Handicap 97 97 97 Total though the club hat not heard from him. MEDFORD, Mass. The big question in the camp of the Bos ton Red Sox right now Is Bobby Doerr. . - Club officials are worried over a report that Doerr is planning to remain on his war job, and they acknowledge he returned his contract unsigned. Pitcher Yank Terry is the only other regular unsiRncd. , . LAKEWOOD, N. J. The stocky little guy cavorting around frist base at the New York-Giant camp yesterday was Manager Mel Ott. . This doesn't mean the skipper plans to play that position. It just means no one else was avail able. However, Joe Orcngo has ar rived in camp, and upon learn ing Johnny Mizo may not be available and Babe B a r n a doesn't fit the part, he announced he was ready to give the job the old college try. HERSHEV, Pa. The Giants, Pirates and Braves are interest ed in Bobby Bragan, who doub led as shortstop and catcher for the Phils last year. However, Manager Bucky Harris said the Phils will make no further trades until Commissioner Landis has ruled on the Nick Ettcn case. ments. With the great reduc tions in student bodies due to young men going into the armed forces, some drastic changes must be made. Foster saw a possibility that restrictions might go beyond the dividing of the conference football schedule into northern and southern divisions. "If even the northern divi sion schedule can't be adopted, then schools will have to play purely local competition like Washington State, Idaho and Montana getting together, and possibly meeting service teams which wish games, said Foster. "Next fall it is reasonable to believe there will be boys in school wno wish to turn out for football. As long as we have the facilities to give them the sport without interference with the war effort we intend to continue,- even if on a very limited basis." Pluhrar'a lakary - I 170 155 110 108 125 -122 114 Nazal' atautv thou Short ..! IM 148 llanvllle .11! 114 101 Dalton 1 11 133 180 .lonM Pprnluotll Handicap . Total - 85 103 79 ..150 188 121 ...101 101 101 ...72! 788 710 2200 noderltrom rirn t.'lierrr 137 IM 171 493 l'oppjf HI 144 4.19 Handicap 35 35 5 Itt Total 7J8 781 798 2311 NOTICE TO BUS PATRONS War-Time Conservation Makes It Necessary To Install Skip-Stop System Buiiet will ttop only at the ttop tignt Watch for the tlgnt, Beglnt Monday, March 22nd. Pleat cooperate What wa save may help tome toldier on the battlefield. Klamath Bus Company Phllnclolphla , J, -Alhlctlrs New Urk (ilnnls Pep, Angott Collide for Mitt Tussle Billed at Non-Title Lightweight Bout to Be Held in Gordeni By SID FEDER NEW YORK, March 19 (AP) Wee Willie Pep and swarthy Snmmy Angott collide in Mudi son Square Garden tonight in a ton rounder thics billed as a non-title lightweight tussle but on one believes that part. As a matter of fact, some of the bettor 49th street betting shoppes have quoted odds that the winner of this shindig in which both fighters must come in under the 135-pound limit will lay claim immediately to at least a portion of the world lightweight title and get some recognition for it. This, of course, would be a separate portion from the piece owned by Beau (the Jumping) Jack, who received the New York State Athletic commis sion's blessing after Angott "abdicated" the crown last fall. The National Boxing associa tion has left tho title open. Tonight's outing is Sammy's first since ho decided to come back with "miraculously" cured hands. The crouching, crowding, mauling style of the squat little Pennsylvania Ital ian figures to produce the toughest hurdle for the all-time record 62-stralght winning string Wee Willie has put to gether in hit unbeaten career. Sam Presti Listed as Missing CHICAGO, March 19 (P Sammy Lo Presti, former Chl cago Blackhawk goalie, was on tho navy a list of missing today the first such casualty believed to have been suffered among the country's nationally known ath letes now in the armed forces. The navy did not elaborate further regarding the 200 pound, 28-ycar-old hockey player from Evclcth, Minn., who once stop ped 80 of 83 shots in a game at Boston for a National Hockey league record. But where his duties then as a goal tender were strictly defen sive, friends indicated that in this instance, as a coast guards man, ho might have been getting in a few licks of his own. Lo Presti was in charge of a gun crew on a merchant marine ship, according to recent word here. Girls Swim Aces Attempt to Crack National Marks PORTLAND, March 19 (IP) Multnomah Athletic club girl swimming aces will. attempt to crack two national records hero Saturday and Sunday in tho an nual Oregon state swimming and diving championships. Nancy Mcrkl, one of MAC't stars, is the favorite to win the 100-yard women's junior nation al breast stroko Saturday and Suzanne Zimmerman, another of the club's record-breaking girls, is the lop contender in tho 190 yard individual Junior women's medley Sunday, I'ACIC WIGHT New York Yanks May Toss Their Pitcher to First Base By JUDBON BAILEY ASBURY PARK, N. J March 19 (T) The first baieman for tho New Yolk Yankees thlt year may be lnnky John Lindoll, who appears on their roster at a pitcher. Tllt would be a ttrange twap In , positions, although many years ago a player named George Sister moved from the mound to tho No. 1 suck with an adequate amount of success. The Yankee brain trusters decided last winter, before thoy brought Nick Etten from the Phillies, to have Lindell make a try for first base this spring and to this end had him buy. a mitt and work out at tho posi tion at his home in California. This. turned out to be a tmart move because the Etten deal has been pi need in Commissioner Landis' lap and the Yankees aren't turo whether thoy have him. Discussing tho problem today Manager Joe McCarthy said, "I'm going to shuffle Lindoll around a lot this spring at first and in tho outfield and on the mound, to. What I've got lo find out Is whether he can hit when he's in the lineup every day. When I know the answer to that, I'll know where to play him. "I've seen him work around the bag and ho can get along. Anybody can piny first base, but my first baseman has got to bo a hitter. It will tko some time to find this out about Lindell. It will take right into the regular Bocchi Leads Pelican Hoop Total of 276 In a final review of the Klamath Falls Pelicans cham pion baskotbali team for 22 games, Klamath scored 941 points to their opponents 822. The average points per game (or Klamath 42.7 and tho op ponents 23.7. Totaling up fouls. tho Pelicans had a low 8.1 per game. Out of 22 games Captain Jim Bocchi of the Pelican hoop team led hit teammates with 278 polntt with Wilbur Welch second, with 201 tallies. The teams . averago went as loiiows: FG FT F TP Bocchi, James ....118 44 42 278 Welch, Wilbur .. 88 25 21 201 Cox, James 48 21 18 117 Young, Rox 40 22 28 102 Foster, Ralph .... 33 13 29 70 Conroy, James .. 26 20 10 72 Bcllolti, Aldo .... 17 11 9 45 Bigger, Don 9 3 3 21 Pope, Richard .... 6 2 1 14 Welz, Charlct .... 3 3 5 0 Smith, Jack 2 2 4 Giovannini, Ang 0 2 7 2 Hunter, Richard '0 0 1 0 Morris, Dclbcrt ..001 0 Out of the 22 hoop games played the Pelicans only lost two. One with Medford and one with Albany. K. Falls 52 Weed 24 " 42 Grants Past 36 " 34 Grants Past 25 " ..20 Albany 32 " 48 Redmond ....17 40 Redmond ....12 " 68 Lakovlew ... 37 . " 32 Grnntt Past 28 " 37 Medford ......43 45 Ashland 35 " . 35 Ashland 27 " 60 Bend 20 " 58 Bend 25 " 30 Ashland 20 " 52 Ashland 20 " 50 Lakevicw ....35 " 45 Medford 28 " 48 Grants Pass 20 " 34 North Bond 33 " 30 Eugene ........10 " 36 Pendleton ....27 " 52 Baker 28 DANCE EVERY SATURDAY . NIGHT ARMORY Mutlo by Baldy's Band Dancing 8 Till 1 Regular Admission Mnivli in. mm season becauso you can't (Ind out any other way. "He batted .338 in 80 gamrt In the const league, but ho scorn ed to have a fust bull and they iiiudn a pitcher out of him. Ho t lust Unit fust ball. 1 could toll It lutt tousoii and the records hnm It hnriiiiia even in hit bill year at Newark In 1041, when . ho won 23 games ho only tirucK out about 100 men. :-i "If he doesn't have a fast ball, then tho thing to do is to find out If ho can hit well enough to v fit In tomewhere elto." NIB Tourney; Running to Usual Form Favorite Knocked Off In First Round Last Night; Other Firtt Round to Go NEW YORK, March 10 T) 1, The natlonnl Invitation basketo," ball tournament at Madison . Square Garden is running true .' to lit usunl form. The favorite . wat knocked off In the firtt . round Inst night. Crolghton university, seeded jp No. 1 and undefeated In college competition this season, emerged M on tho tmull end of a 43-42 tcore " In Its game with the Washing- Ion and Jefferson quintet, seed-'' ed No. 8. I; Toledo, however, salvaged", some glory for the favorites by defeating Manhattan, 54 to 47, ' putting on a fine display for the ' crowd of 18,20,1 In earning the' right to tneel W. At J. In the semi" ' finals March 27. ') Washington and Jefferson took ' advantage of Crelghton't errort ' to turn In the astonishing upset. Behind, 38 to 30, at the 10-mtn-;; ute mark of the closing period '.' tho Pennsylvania!)! slowly closed""' the gap, and tied the score at 4 1- " all with three and one-hnlf min- utes remaining. Little Ted Mlsh-'" tal took a rebound a mlniilo Inter ' to score the winning basket. Toledo's all-freshmen quIntiH :j put on a fine show In elltnliiMt- ff lug the youthful Jaspers of Mun- hattan. With Charles (Jackrab- -bit) Harmon letting the peco the " Ohloant pulled away after the v score had bcon tied seven timet'! In the first 15 minutes and left tho floor at the hnlf with a 25-20 " advantage. - . The Jaspers came back ttrong-'r ly and cut tlv margin to three points 40-37 but Toledo"" matched the rally with one of " Its own and never was seriously -; threatened again. The other two garnet of the - first round will be played Mon. day night, with St. John's meet ing Rico and Western Kentucky taking on Fordhnm, v. v ey 4 Giant Valuet From The Won't Shop SHIRTS, SHORTS and BRIEFS 39c, Ea. 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