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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 26, 1945)
TWO HERALD AND KTZWS Monday. fb. 16, lti Medford Wins Tournament; Pelicans Bounce Caveman Five In Consolation Tiff By PAUL HAINES HAINES END OF THE TRAIL To all intents and purposes, the Klamath Pelicans have reached the end of the basketball trail for the 1944-45 season The Klamath kids didn't do badly this year considering the fact that they were a green, incxpuicntcu .,uu the start of the season and wound up in second place in the Southern Oregon conference. Now the time has come for us to stick the old neck out and choose an all-conference five for this year. Selecting the first five was not too hard, but the second team offered a little more difficulty. There were many players that were almost of the same ability, and in a case of this kind, we tried to be impartial as to school and judged by seniority. Here are the first and second all-conference clubs for this caacnn nc wp spe it. FIRST TEAM SECOND TEAM Player School Pc. School Player Palmer, Klamath Falls F Ashland, Jandrcau Ross, Medford F Grants Pass, Lutz Riebel, Grants Pass - C Medford, Riggs Noreen, Klamath Falls .. G Klamath Falls, Biehn Watson, Medford G - Ashland, Samuelson As to the first five: Ross and Palmer were undoubtedly the two top forwards in the conference. Both boys were exceptional shots and led the conference in scoring at the end of the season. Riebel of Grants Pass was the only man that made the Cavemen a threat, although Lutz was a brilliant ball player. Noreen and Watson at the backcourt positions were both outstanding ball players. Noreen was the most aggressive hoopman in the confer ence, by far, and Watson was a top defensive man. Considering the second team, Jandreau of Ashland rates a spot on any prep selection and Lutz of Grants Pass was a fine eager and a good shot. The altitudinous Riggs of the Black Tor nado worker well under the bucket and was a fine hand at can ning tip-in shots. At the guard slots, Biehn played an effective defensive game and was a better than average shot, while Sam uelson is just another one of those guys you can't leave out. This, then, is our choice for the 1944-45 all-conference bas 1 ketball squad. Let the chips fall where they may! 24. BASKETBALL SCORES OREGON PREP Rogue River 36, Central Point TRUCKS FOR RENT You Driv Mots Youxieli Sit H Long and Short Tripe STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phone 8304 1201 East Main Oregon City 39, West Lin 30. Pendleton 46, MUton-Free-water 26. Hood River 40, The Dalles 36. Pleasant Hill 34, Oakridge 28. St. Mary's (Eugene) 36, Maple ton 18. Enterprise 41, North Powder 19. Talent 36, Jacksonville 23. Reedsport 84, Glendale 43. Myrtle Creek 29, Drain 18. Lowell 38, Elmira 25. ENJOY THIS BETTER WHISKEY Jansdoitne Reserve A MAN'S WHISKEY n y A J A superlative blend of selected whiskies and choice All-American grain neutral spirits created by master blenders in the slow, 'old-fashioned way. You will appreciate this truly fine whiskey and its smooth, pre-war mellowness. Enjoy your share of the limited supply now available. olNDED WHISKEY. 4 PROOF Wif. GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS THE IANSDOWNE DISTILLERY. HAVRE DE 6 RACE, MARYLAND By PAUL HAINES The Rcd-and-White of Klam ath Union hinh school flies gal lantly aloft today and the kids that wear these colors, wear them proudly. The Klamath Pelicans officially ended the 1944-45 basketball season at Ashland Saturday night with a 32 to 22 triumph over the Cave men from Grants Pass to bow out in a blaze of glory. Had Dame Fortune smiled more benignly on the Klamath team, it is not only proDaDlc, out certain, that the Pelicans would be representing this district in the state tournament. But sucn was not the case, as the old lady chose to endow the Medford Black Tornado with her favor. By dint of this, Medford reigns supreme today with a victory string of 24 straight and was pro claimed district champion Sat urday night after humbling the Ashland Grizzlies 46 to 33 in the district finals. It was not this game, but the first tussle between Klamath and Medford Friday night that told the story, however. In this epic tilt, Klamath held a one point lead with only 15 seconds remaining in the same, but Ladv Luck chose to look the other way and Medford courageously knot ted the count and nosed out the Klamath five in the overtime by three tallies. In their consolation tiff with the Cavemen, the Klamath hoopmen set the pace all the way. i Holding a slim 10 to 8 lead at the end of the first quar ter, the Pelicans built up their advantage to an eight point mar gin at the end of the half when they were out in front, 20 to 12. The end of the third canto found the K-men leading 30 to 15 and they coasted through the final frame to a 32 to 22 vic tory. Flashy Jim Noreen led the Pelican offense with 10 points and Lutz canned 14 markers for the Cavemen to cop high scoring honors. Noreen and Lutz did more than pot buckets in this tourna ment, however. These two lads were chosen for outstanding sportsmanship during the joust by coaches and players alike. Noreen has come in for some unjustified criticism this season because he has run up a large numuer of personal fouls. The reason for this is not because the Klamath backcourt man is a rough ball player, but merely because he is aggressive and al ways after the ball. He and Lutz both deserved the honor bestowed upon them. In a selection of a district all star squad. Palmer. Thome, and Noreen were chosen from the Klamath ranks. Other mem bers of this mythical team were Kiggs. Ross and Matson of Med ford; Riebel and Lutz of Grants Pass; and Samuelson and Jan dreau of Ashland. Noreen, Ross and Samuelson were unanimous choices. Summary: Klamath (32) Grants Pats (22) Palmer, 4 F.... 2. McClellan White, 6 F 14, Lutz Thome, 6 C 2, Riebel Noreen, 10 ....G 3, Ausland Biehn, 2 G 1, Pippin Substitutes: Klamath; Mason 2, Redkey 2, Zarosinski, Buss man. Grants Pass; Dubbs, Boyce, Bertram, Everton, Robertson Officials: Chappy King, Port land; Don McPike, Portland. Halftime score: Klamath 20, Lrranis rass iz. Pete Belcastro To Meet Johnson In Main Event Pete Belcastro, the rugged weea assassin, will climb into the ring Friday night at the Klamath arena to butt biceps ana oop Deans wim uust John son in the main event. Belcastro is a mauler of the rough-and-ready school and will probably be favored to flop his tenacious opponent wnen tney meet Friday. Gust is a grappler more on tne scientific side, but he can get tough too when the occasion warrants. Last week Johnson came within a hair's breadth of downing the savage "Grey Mask" and anyone who . can even come close to tossing the hooded hoodlum is certainly no liiy-of-the-iicld. Army Grid Star No Slouch at Heaving Shot By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK. Fob. 26 id1) Felix Blanchard, fullback of Army's unbeaten football team last fall, may be the strong man to help bring the Cadets their second straight IC-4A indoor track and field title nt Madison Square Garden Saturday night. The hard guy with the soft Louisiana accent never as much as picked up a 16-pound shot tin. til this winter, but Saturday night he grabbed second in the national AW meet with a heave of 48 feet 7 inches. Wilfrid Hansen of Missouri was first with 50 feet. 51 inches. Blnnchard's effort was two feet and three inches better than the putt that won the 1C-4A a year ago. Sam Snead Takes Money AtPensacola By SKIPPER PATRICK PENSACOLA. Fla.. Feb. 26 (.P) Tempermcntal Sammy Snead of Hot Springs, Va., was one championship. up on Byron Nelson of Toledo, O., today as the barnstorming pros pulled out for Jacksonville where thev be- gin their fourteenth tournament of the winter golf circuit Thurs day. Slammin' Sammy gave the money boys another lesson in driving yesterday to win the S6500 Pensacola Open with a 72-hole total of 267, twenty-one strokes under par and seven strokes better than runner-uD Nelson. Nelson still tops the field In war bond earnings however, hav ing raked in a grand total of $14,468.66 maturity value dur ing tne winter compared to Snead's $12,516.66. Snead has played in two less tournaments than Nelson, skipping the Texas and Corpus Christi Opens to rest a lame oack. His share here was $1,333.33, Nelson's $933. Hitting straight down the fair way, Snead drove onto the 320- yard tenth green and reached the 508-yard 12th in two strokes. He scored 24 pars, 10 birdies, one bogey and a double-bogey in chalking up a pair of 4-undcr par 68 rounds yesterday. Snead had his troubles on the final rounds, however. He drove into the trees from the 14th tee on the third round and penalized himself two strokes before hol ing out with a double-bogey 6. After topping his second shot on the long 12th fairway in the afternoon, he complained to the gallery that clicking of camera shutters was spoiling his game, but he managed to birdie-4 on the hole. Three Teams Running Close Race for Northwest Title; Cougars, Orangemen Win By The Associated Pross NORTHERN DIVISION BAS KETBALL STANDINGS UO .. OSC WSC UW Idaho W. ....10 5 10 5 5 5 11 .... 5 11 Pet. .(ifi7 .1)67 .643 .313 .214 For A est 71111 fill" 677 605 H.MI (UO 714 7D7 540 653 The northern division Pacific Coast conference basketball rnro conies roaring Into the stretch this week with one of the tight est finishes in years in Ihe offing. Wnshinutnn Stale's inrtominat- able Cougars, by turning back ; Washington twice nt Scuttle, now can finish in a tie with cither Oregon Slate or Oregon, current ly knotted at the top, by down ing the University of Idaho In i both games of a Friday-Saturday I series. ; I Oregon State moved up to tic; Orcson by defeating Idaho, 44-i 33, Saturday night, and the two Oregon clubs ore scheduled to battle it out in their fiiuil game at Kugene Saturday. Washington State clung stub bornly to its title chances by van quishing Washington 53-45 In a tight battle Saturday. The lend in the game changed hands 13 times and the score was tied four times before the Cougars surged ahead in the closing minutes. WSC's Vinco Hanson got him self 16 points for a season's total of 224, tieing the northern di vision record set by Gale Bishop, also of WSC 1!)43. Hanson has, two guinea to go to build up a new record. Bishop now Is the country's leading .service team scorer. Idaho was strong In the open ing phases of Its game with the Heavers, but, after holding the lead at several points during the first seven minutes, faded in the face of Oregon State's suitor lor power and size, Ironmen Lead Hockey League By Two Games By The Associated Press Two full games separated the leading Seattle lroiunru from the Portland Kagles today In the northern division. I'liclNe Coast Hockey league, HtiiiKtlngs as a 1 '!?"" Snaill,'., nd rorlla,,,,.,;"1'. '!"' '"'"" "Mho K ii. .ii. "puirglng allies alt three inn errill ns Tourney By JOHN LARSON KUHS Kreter By defeating Gilchrist, 40-33. Merrill became the county chimi; pious in the finals of the "H" tourney played Saturday night at Altainuut gym. Playing before a capacity crowd, the Huskies outplayed a game Gilchrist five all the way. Jumping off to an early lead, the Merrill qulntut led, 12-11. at the end of the first quarter, and real ly turned on the heat In tin) sec ond canto to outscoro their op ponents, 13-6. Tho second-half saw both teams swap baskets on fairly even terms. Kimdni sparked the Merrill drive with 21 markers as Van Tassel made U for Gilchrist. This victory entitles Merrill to ' play the winner of the Central ' rolnt'Hoguc itivcr game ior inu Southern Oregon "U" district championship. The consolation tilt saw Keno trounce Mulin, 211-20. After i starting slowly, the Keno squad i led 15-12 at the first half, and; held Malln to 8 points during the ! final tin 1 f. Johnston paced the ! Keno five with 12 tallies, closely i followed by Zarosinski with 11. Vlctorinc led Malln with 0 : counters. In games played Saturday morning, Gilchrist edged Chllo-, quin. 35-33. and Keno topped the i Aurlnmi. VH.1.1 direction today when a 10-man T10 closest ciash of tho tour-1 committee meets here to make ; npy stlw Glchr(st drop n fighting; recommendations ior revision or . chiloquin five in n thriller. Tho i the major-minor agreement. loa(i changed hands many times. : Among the proposals expected , both tt,nms connected often, to be offered in revision of the Wanipler made 13 and For- ' agreement which expires next (juson swished 22 for high-scor-1 January arc: jnK honors of Chiloquin and Gil- 1. Greater self-government. rhrist. rosnnrtivelv. a. uuarnmecs againsi posi-war Minor League Clubs Demand Recognition CHICAGO. Feb. 26 UV) Minor league baseball, "kicked around" more or less by the majors for years, is ready to stand on its own feet and assert itself. The smaller leagues, from class AA down to non-operative but still "alive" class D circuits, will take the first step in thul jj IT5 ENbi'foE i' " "zS Comody Ii' luno STORY !i ln "Star 7 ; ""Dangerous Z !; Lady" 'i wl,h iJePorter' !; Noil HAMILTON ,SJ ..flTTTTTirrrTjT I fcl .4111 if.iTI m A .1 I . ; , in wroiiuiioM em nt; on - major league expansion 3. A voice in selection of a commissioner to succeed the late Kcncsaw Mountain Landls. 4. Increase in the draft price, which now is $7500 for a class AA player. Marine Cagers Split Series With Pilots In a two-game cage scries played over the weekend, the Leathernecks from the Marine Barracks and the San Francisco Coast Guard Pilots divided the double-decker. In the initial tussle Saturday night on the KUHS hardwood, the Pilots swamped the marine five, 56 to 33, but the scrappy Leathernecks bounced back from their defeat Sunday eve ning on the post maple to drop the coast guard club, 37 to 31. The loss of John Cox, who was injured in the first game, was sorely felt by the marine outfit and apparently demor alized the entire team Saturday. The Leathernecks rallied their forces Sunday, however, and pulled out a closely contested victory to even the series. Bill Mills and Eddie Mcath turned in a good game for the marine hoopmen, but Mangiara cina, manager-coach of the Pilots was about the cleverest man on the floor. He did not play Sun day, however, as the Pilots used their second string throughout most of the contest. Emlen Tunnell, dusky back court man, displayed some superlative ball handling and Ernest Bcrtollotti, star coast guard pivotman, showed plenty of stuff, although he, too, played but little of the ball game Sun day. In the first clash Saturday, the marines led by one point at the end of the half, but the Pilots turned on the heat in the final canto to capture the tilt. The position was reversed in the second tussle at the Bar racks with the coast guard five holding the advantage at the mid-way mark, but the Leather necks marked up seven points in the first two minutes of the second half to take the lead and were never headed from then on in. CHICAGO Selection com mittee to consider applications for baseball commission at St. Louis meeting Tuesday. The Academy showed none of the accuracy of the preceding day, as Keno trampled them for a consolation game berth. John ston led Keno with 12 counters while Garner chalked up 5 for the Academy. Both games were extremely rough, ns a total of 75 personal fouls were called. In a poll among the coaches, the following 10 boys were chosen as the best performers; during the tournament: Kandra, Sowall, Haskins, Mer rill; Ferguson, Jcssup, Van Tas sel, Gilchrist; Zarosinski, Keno; Hnnnlgan, Chiloquin; Spolek, Malin and Cole, Henley. The following are the five high-scorers for the tourney: Kandra, Merrill. 40; Fcrgtmon, Gilchrist, 38: MeChcsncy. Acad emy. 31; Hunnignn, Chiloquin, 25; Johnston, Keno, 25. BOSTON Braves purchased Outfielder Garden Gillcnwater from Brooklyn Dodgers. Continuous Shows From 1:00 P. M. 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