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cogon Stfaf e Bring
Vlvtf no In, 69-52
Although all eyes ere focuied on the men'i city championship
lourney coming up Monday, regular league play went on this
iveek and the Automotive circuit linished ott iu S 1-week tchedule
with the Lombard squad coming out aneaa m poima.
That's based on the system o( one point for each team game
win and one for high series total. ' .
Tk. nf ih. loBoim finished In this order: Ashley Chev-
OSC NEEDS
NEW PLANT
CORVALLIS, March 8 Im
possibility that Oregon state
college may get .a new football
field and stadium and a new
basketball pavilion is voiced in
- tlie current issue of the Oregon
Stster, alumni magazine.
The Stater quoted President
A. L, Strand as telling an alumni
group recently that It is possible
coin jods can oe done at once
because of the prospect of strong
- public support of athletics for
several years plus large enroll
ment which will Increase the
student building fee fund.
. The Stater adds that construc
tion might require shifting
. "home" football games to an-
oiner location lor one season but
says this would be favored by
the coaching staff. ,
Santa Anita
Track Fast
ARCADIA, 'Calif., March 8
- (A1) Santa Anita park winds up
its tenth extravagantly staced
turf meeting today with an event
tnat may boast more color than
class the $100,000 derby.
Thirteen 3-year-olds eiaht of
-them California bred were
named for the mile and one
quarter race. They were Step
father. W. L. Sickle. On Trust.
Hubble Bubble, U Time, Hor-
: -mone, rropical sea, peau nasn,
Grey. Skies, Overslept, Sparky
. Cannon, Fauoon and Full House.
Cloudy weather and a fast
track were in prospect, with
some threat of light showers,
which the weather bureau said
- might not arrive until nightfall.
The track predicted a - record-
breaking derby day throng of
. arouna 7U,uuu, or eome is.uuu
more than the top crowd which
watched Stagehand score in the
1936 derby.
. Post-time was tentatively set
- for. B:03 o'clock (Pacific standard
-. tune.) .
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Krolet (49), Jack's Shell (41),
Dick B. Miller (38), Anderson
Motors (38). Bulck (37), mack
and White (37), Balslger (34).
In clinching the circuit title,
the Lombard quintet this week
comnlled a series total of 3034
pins to vanquish Balslger four
points, second place Asmey
team took a whole series from
Jack's Shell.
Henry ' Dlllitrom of the
Bulck squad took individual
honors during the Automotive
loop's seesoa with a 254 game
and 117 series. The Ashley
team had a 9112 three-game
ratal for high ia that sector,
while the Balsiger outfit com
piled a team game total of
1116 for the season's best. .
Ernest MacBeth and Frank
Hall turned in the. best three
game scores in the Classic
league this week, each' a 203.
MacBeth had a sparkling 233
and Hall's best was a 217.. Mac
Beth's effort came while the
Landry team was taking a for
feit series from Bonanza, while
Hall' pin-toppling helped the
Palmerton ' boys take two of
three from Medical-Dental Bar
bers. Kermlt Sheets had 999,
including a 221 line, for the
Barbers, and Cliff Baxter struck
216 for Palmerton.
Louie's Food earned a 9S1 to
830 line from Edwards Richfield
to gain a split in points on that
series; Bill Davis Associated
took two of three lines and
series total from Watters in
surance. A 517 aeries rolled by Vivian
uu-icn ox ine uoca-coia team
Etted this week' Lady Bug
jr. Mary Bothweli and Paul-
Suty each had 907's. Martha
McCollum's 18S line was best.
Coca-Cola took a series from
Rogers Jewelry ' and Oregon
uiuiDmeni Deat pacific Fruit
Express a series. Fluhrers divid
ed with Houston's Beauty and
Pine Street Market split with
Griggs Food.
Monday. Tuesday. Wednes
day and Friday nights of next
week will find Recreation al
leys occupied by the city tour
nament, so no leagues will roll
during the week. The two
ladies' leagues. Lady Bugs
and Termites, have the floor
Thursday night.
In a recent match between
two Klamath lnHic' .-,. 01
a pair of Medford girl squads,
the locals eopoed everv series in
scratch bowling, generally by. a
pretty gooa margin
The sauad. miniMwI'nf fin
Ann Eaton, Vivian Ulrich, Doro
thy Adams. Marv Bothweli and
Pearl Poppy racked up a 2436
uuvc-cune roiai in one series.
FIGHTS LAST MIGHT
By The Associated Press
NEW YORK Artie Levin
164. New York, outnointed
Herbie Kronowitz. 1571. Bnk.
lyn. 10. .
HOLLYWOOD. Calif Fanl.
Chavez, 133. Los Angeles,
knocked out Sammy - Anders,
ijo Angews, 4.
SAN DIEGO. Calif Jnhnnv
Haynes, 221, Los Angeles,
knocked out John Donnelly.
IBS, Topeka, 8. I
PORTLAND. Ore. Cnxteltn
Cruz, 173, Santa Barbara, TKO
Jimmy Casino, 183, Los Ange
les, 3.
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REWARD
Call 5898
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UCLA Threat
Bottled Up
CORVALLIS. Ore., March 8
Pt One up on UCLA with a
69-32 victory, Oregon State be
came the favorite to win the
Pacific coast conference crown
here tonight in the second game
between the teams.
Sent out with orders from
Coach Amory T. "Slats" Gill to
"stop Barksdale," the Beavers did
lust that last night.
Putting two and sometimes
three men on Center Don Barks
dale, the high-scoring negro cen
ter for UCLA, they held him to
five field goals and a total of
IS points. For the 6 foot 6-inch
Barksdale that is a poor night.
ins result was a convincing
win for the Beavers. After
overcoming jitters in the early
minutes, they out-slick sr ad the
Uclan Bruins in floor play
and at times the losers seemed
dased by the rapid ball-handling.
.
Early nervousness put the
Beavers behind by a 6-0 count,
but 8 foot 10-inch Lew Beck
snapped them out of it. He set
the pace on fast breaks into
UCLA territory and within min
utes they edged into the lead at
11-8.
Then 6 foot 8-Inch Center Eptv
rlam "Red" Rocha caueht fire,
He dumped in six field goals In
the first half, and the Beavers
held a 39-26 advantage at the
Intermission.
It almost became a rout in the
second period, the Beavers mov.
ing first to a 13-point lead and
later to a 20-point margin that
was cut only after Gill removed
his regulars to let them rest for
tonight's effort. -
Rocha. in between moments
of guarding the ever-dangerous
Barksdale.- found time to
run his total to 20 points be
for going to the bench with
five minutes remainLaa. - -
Despite the gang effort " on
Barksdale, the 220-pound-Bruin
was impressive. Several times
he reached over three men to
score with a flick of the wrist.
Given any lack of alertness by
Beaver aeienaers. ne could re
verse the score toniaht. -
In scoring, Forward Cliff Cran-
aau of the Beavers duplicated
Barksdale's 13 points. He was
followed by Erland Anderson
and Lew Beck of Oregon State
with 12 each. Dick West was
second high for the Uclans with
10. .
Indoor Mark
In 440 Set
CHAMPAIGN, IU., March 8
(JPh-The University of Illinois.'
powerful bid tonight for a sec
ond straight Sig Nine indoor
track title yielded the spotlight
to the mini's own Jamaican
born Herb McKenlev. who now
has streaked to the fastest indoor
and outdoor quarter mile times
in the record books.
McKinley last nieht blurred
around the Illinois armory for a
new American indoor 440 mark
of 48 seconds flat in preliminary
competition, of the Big Nine
meet.
There is no world record for
the quarter mile indoors, but
McKenley, who probably 'will
represent Britain in the 1948
Olympic games, last spring gal
loped to a new .world outdoor
mark of :46.2 in the Big Nine
cnampionsnips.
Trip To Denver
PORTLAND. March 8 UP)
The Salem Page Woolens team
won the Oregon AAU basketball
championship last' night and a
trip to tne national aau tour
ney at Denver by downing Lum
ber Sales of Eugene, 46-37.
Eddie Salstrom with 15 points
and Frank Page with 12 led the
Salem team to the victory. They
were ahead at the hall 9A.14
and never again were threatened
seriously.
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Cage Sport Doesn't Make Good Writing
Now that basketball is virtually over and the cage sport had
a particularly gratifying season In Klamath Falls and tho county,
I'd like to comment here for what it's worth, that I, for one, am
glad that It's Just about finished tor this year.
Basketball is a great sport to play and a
great one to watch even for the casual specta
tor. It's a lot of tun to pick out a team like the
Pelicans or Chlloquin or Henley or Ashley
Chevrolets, see every game the team plays and
just generally follow the thing
the end. .
But of all the major organized sports,
ketball probably lends itself less to good
writing: and action covcrniio than any
There lust isn't a dominant
game from which to hang a news story and
make it really colorful and good reading.
No One Spectacular Crowning Punch
Instead, basketball Is a rapid-fire succession of incidents and
the only two concrete points a sports reporter can glaum onto
are the score and the play which turned the tide tor the eventual
winner.
In football there Is usually a long broken-field run or a sensa
tional pass completion that a sports writer can go Into a dither
over.
In baseball the crowning blow Is when a hitter clouts one
over a distant fence.
In boxing the stlckout point is a knockdown, in wrestling
it's the fall, in almost every spectator sport there's that one
thrill-packed incident that the fans remember for weeks to
come and the sports writer uses as the feature Interest of
his coverage.
Every Sports Writer Has Same Worry
But basketball is so fast that it just doesn't break out In sen
sation like the other sports. That's not only true from my own
Eersonal observation while trying to write up innumerable bas
etball games this season. If yourd care to compare with basket
ball coverage in other newspapers you'll find that every sports
writer who does the hoop sport Is faced with the same problem.
When he sits down to his typewriter he can't possibly put a
picture of the breaking, checking, guarding, passing and shooting
down on paper. It can't be done. He just starts out by telling
which team won and that's that.
Another angle that moat sports writers will agree on is
.that there ia too much basketball. A reporter covering the
sport will see probably five games to even the most rabid
fan's one. and along about the first of March he's pretty well
fed up with it and wishes football season would hurry and
roll around.
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Klamath Can Be Proud Of Them
Now that that's off my mind, and It's not to be considered a
slam on the sport of basketball, let me say that up here at the
high school we have one of Ihe best all-round hoop teams ever
to grace this part of the country, and the Pelicans should go
places in the playoff at Eugene. You won't find boys with more
ability and a better sportsmanship attitude than the fellows on
Wayne Scott's team this year.
Out at Chlloquin Sandy Miller had a wonderful team and a
Sang of fine boys. For a small school their record was the best
the state and certainly a credit to the basketball-loving town
of Chlloquin. It was unfortunate that the Panthers got bumped
the first day in Arlington, but in this book they're still cham
pions. ' . ' . - . .
SNAPP LOOKING SHARP
AT TRAINING SESSION
' Ursal Snapp, - the Merrill
leather-puelfer now in training
for his next bow in the local
squared circle, looked plenty
sharp as he mauled four spar
ring mates with the 16-ounce
pillows at the Salvation Army
gym last night.
Snapp went eight rounds, two
with each spar boy, in keeping
with his training policy of being
prepared to go 10 rounds. The
popular Ughtheavy fights Sonny
Kelly Jackson, the tough Port
land colored boy. Tuesday night.
About a month, ago Jackson
was decisioneov by Snapp, but
the fight went 10 rounds, the
first time Snapp had ever been
required to take it and dish it
out for that length of time. He
Dig Nine Crown Hanging
On Outcome Of Half Game
EVANSTON, 111.. March 8 JP)
The Big Nine basketball title,
the conference's individual scor
ing champion and possibly a
berth in the NCAA playoffs will
be decided tonight in an un
precedented "20-minute" game
between Wisconsin and Purdue.
this fantastic finish of the
western conference cage season
reduced to capsule size has no
parallel in sports. All the hon
ors bestowed in a rugged cam
paign during which each
school played a total of 70 hours
or more on the courts are
Involved In this last half finish
ot a game which was tragically
interrupted February 24 by the
collapse of a bleacher section in
the Purdue fieldhouse.
Three students were killed
and more than 250 were injured
in the accident.
The Evanston high school
gymnasium, a neutral court, will
be the stage for Big Nine's cage
wind-up. As the players square
right down to I
incident In the
was jt weary boy when it was
over; "! '
High spot of the remainder of
the card for Tuesday will be
the semi-wlndup between the
fast-improving Monte Montgom
ery and speed ball Bobby Morris
of Bend, welterweights. Morris
hse fought here only once, that
on last May 21 when he pound
ed Out a TKO over Rudy Carlson
in one round.
Montgomery, who Is probably
the best ring prospect of all the
boys fighting here, given proper
guidance and training, has ap
peared In the local ring eight
times, won six, lost one and
drew one. In his latest outing
he knocked out Rudy Carlson In
the first round.
off for the start of the last 20
minutes of action the score
board will show Purdue 34, Wis
consin 33.
A victory for Wisconsin
would give the Badgers the Big
Nine crown outright with nine
victories and three defeats. A
victory for eight-place 1 Purdue
(4-7) would provide a three-way 1
tie among Wisconsin, Illinois
and Indiana.
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Lebanon
In Opener
By The Associated Press
Tho lineup for tho annual
class "A" state high school bas
ketball tournament was com
plete today with Roosevelt of
Portland and Salem High the
final teams to qualify.
Roosevelt dofcated Jefferson,
37-27, for second place In tho
Portland league and tho right to
represent district 10 at the tour
ncy in Eugene, Mnrch 11-13.
Sulom trounced Sucrod Heart
of Salem In (he flmilx of the
district 11 playoff, 4B-18.
This comnluted tho list of 10
entrants. The first round pair
ings follow (team and district
represented):
Washington (IS) vs, Astoria
(10) Tuesduy, 7:30 p. m.
Hood River (2) vs. Redmond
(3) Tuesday, 8:45 p. m.
Coos Buy (S) vs. Molulla (12)
Wednesday, 1 p. m.
Sandy (13) vs. Rainier (14)
Wednesday, 2:15 p. m.
Roossvolt (16) vs. Sulcm (11)
Wednesday, 3:30 p, m.
Hlllsboro (9) vs. Newberg (8)
Wednesday, 4:48 p. m.
La Grande (1) vs. Eugene (6)
Wednesday, 7:30 p. m.
Lebanon (7) vs. Klamath Falls
(4) Wednesday, 8:48 p. m.
Radio station KFLW and
Sportscaster Don Neal will air
the Klamath Pelican games
play-by-play direct from Mac
Arthur court as long as the Pel
icans remain in the tournament.
Pete Stakes
Junior Title
Tickets went on sale this
morning at Castleberry's Drug
store and Klamath Billiards tor
the championship mat affair
coming up between Pete Bel
castro and Billy Weldner at the
armory next Thursday night.
Promoter Mack Llllard has
announced that the title match
is made and will be a five
rounder. Belcastro Is the current
holder of the Pacific coast junior
heavyweight belt, which la the
diadem indicative of leadership
in the northwest muscle circuit.
Weldner has posted $300 as a
reward to Belcastro for the
champlonshlo mutch. Geones
Dusette was the man In line for
the title shot, but Belcastro, In
order to pluck the $300 plum,
is passing the muscular French
Canadian.
Cruz Batters
Casino In 3
PORTLAND. March 8 () A
vicious head and body attack
that sent Jimmy Casino, 183, Los
Angeles, tumbling to the canvas
seven times gave Costctlo Cruz,
173, Santa Barbara, a TKO win
at tlie end of the third round of
their scheduled 10-rour main
event here last night. ' Referee
Packy McFarland awarded the
bout to Cruz after' Casino had
difficulty answering the bell for
the fourth canto.
In the scbsduled six -round
seml-wlndup, Dick Wagner, 138.
Oregon City, scored a third
round tku over Steve Moran,
163, Seattle.
Preliminary reuults Included:
Rocky Sullivan, 130, Spokane,
knocked out Duane rloag, .136,
Portland. (1): Dick Abnov. 130.
Salem, TKO over Pat Kelly,
153, Portland, (1); Frankie
Rowe, 178, Fort Lewis, outpoint
ed Bomber Daniels, 177, Port
land, (4).
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Panthers Lose . . . I H
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Finalists In
m M...,h ta
hlilHj. of Lane county meet Union of Union county hero tonight
tl 8:45 p. m" for th ! D "'h eUol "k.tlwU chain.
pl0ThePHIUbllHes. fa-le team In the tournament, biased pu.t
th ton' conquered Star of the Seas (Astoria), 43-42, but only
with dlfflcuTtv. The victors trailed at half-time 28-26. but spurt
.J u.ilii 7 A, ,a wait McBrli e's sensational shooting.
Ho bagged 22 points, top for
43-38 lend with 11 minutes to go.
It aasnai artnlllfh
Star of the Sea and Psrkdale
will meet at 7:30 p.m, for third
P'lnCthe consolation finals It will
be Myrtle Creek vs. Dayton this
afternoon. Those two teams ad
vanced to the consolation play
off by wins over Chlloquin and
John Day yesterday.
The Chlloquin Panthers,
eliminated irom the champion
ship bracket opening day of
the tourney, was edgsd by
Myrtle Creek, 2$ to 14. Myrtle
Creek had Friday's tussle In
hand throughout, but little
Chief Hatcher gave the fans a
thrill when he caged a field
goal with but 20 seconds to
play.
That mado the score 23-24 and
Myrtle Creek froze the ball on
out, not letting the Panthers
have another shot.
Chlloquin netted 12 field goals
to 10 for Myrtle Creek, but the
winners capitalised on five free
tosses for tho margin. Myrtle
Creek played an exceptionally
clean game, committing a single
personal foul. The Fantners nsd
10
errors called.
Lineup and scorln
ig:
Chlloquin (24)
O. Hutcher 4...
Hannlgan 12...
Seversen 4
Jones
(23) Myrtle Ck.
F 8 Shlrtcltft
F 8 Hanna
C 8 Bnwen
O 1 Wilson I
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Reserves: Chlloauln Sours 2.
A. Hatcher 2.
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SALEM, March 8 ( There
were 3tt persons killed In Ore
gon traffic accidents In January,
the traffic dath rnt rtr ton.
000.000 miles traveled mounting
io 1 1., secretary oi stale Koo
ert S. Farrell Jr., said today,
Eire, which was called the
"poorhouse of Europe" In 1840,
today has one of the highest per
capita wealths In Europe.
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