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Newspaper Page TextSATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1954 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE FIVE TIME OUT LI i.v aff Harris is afraid the fans might . .not reaun wnat a treat . foalie he la!" Toledo In Tourney t age hold By ED CORRIOAN NEW YORK !fl The NCAA tilled another 1 of its basketball tournament' berths today when Toledo University, champion uf the Mid - American Conference Joined the fold. The tournament now has live teams, two league champions and three at large quintets. Idaho . Stat, the winner ot the Rocky Mountain Conference, Is the other league winner, while Seattle, Okla homa City and Bradley are the bt-large outfits. Toledo scored its clincher last night with a 11-66 victory over Ohio University. With three min utes left, the Rockets were trail ing by one point. But Jim Ray hit with a field goal to put mem aneau to stay. . . , WARMUP Oklahoma City also warmed vp for the tournament by polishing off Wyoming 52-40 and thus avenging an early-season upset at the hands of the Cowboys from Laramie. Te Chiefs have been somewhat of a disappointment. Before the season got under way, most ex perts thought they'd show Better LaSalle In PHILADELPHIA HI La Salle College Saturday accepted a bid to participate in the 1954 National Collegiate Athletic Assn. basket ball tournament, the fifth year In succession the little Philadelphia college has earned a post-season tourney appearance. LaSalle will play in the Eastern regional playoffs In Philadelphia March 8 and 8. jhan they have. They won seven In a row before losing to Oklahoma A&M, then when they- dropped two games to Seattle, they're shin ing star dimmed. Still, they could be the dark horse in the tournament, , even though the at-large teams must play preliminary rounds while the conference champions get a bye. Idaho State, for its part, dropped a 19-73 decision to Montana State, This defeat would have been mean ingless except that It snapped the Bengals' 18-game winning streak. The loss was their first since they dropped the first two games of the season to Brigham Young. FIRST PLACE UCLA took over undisputed pos session of first place in the South ern Division of the Pacific Coast Conference with a 92-77 victory over Stanford. Southern California moved Into a second place tie with California by dropping the Bears, 56-36. UCLA plays Stanford again tonight then winds up operations with two games against Southern Cal. In the Ivy League. Penn re- ?tained on top by defeating Brown 9-67 in overtime to run its loop record to 7-2. Cornell, dogging the Quakers' footsteps, vanquished Yale 76-59. The Big Red's record ahows 6-3. They meet in Philadel phia Maroh S, but the rest of the schedule favors Penn. George Washington, the scourge of the Southern Conference, was the only team In the top 10 of the Associated Press' Weekly poll to get into action. The Colonials, No. 8, walloped Wake Forest 86-74, to run their season record to 18 vic tories and one defeat. In other major games, Seton Hall defeated John Carroll 90-59, Col gate upset Penn state 75-63, Sienna edged St. Bonavcnture 62-56, Ore gon State turned back Washington State 5149 nnd Oregon whipped Washington 63-59. Matmen ShutOut Cavemen The Klamath Falls' high school wrestlers won their thirteenth meet In an undefeated season with room to spare yesterday, shutting out the Cavemen of Grants Pass In twelve bouts to win 48-u. Half came by the fall route, half by decision. Now the Pelicans open a week's drill In preparation tor next week's district meet in which state entries will be picked. The district meet is booked for the Oregon Tech gym, Feb. 26 and 27. Summary: vf pounos Ken nuf iir puinea .fer ry Nichols. 105 Gary Roberts KP declsloned Tom Mtrfdleton. 11iRennle Conner KF pinned Chuck Dal'. 12 Richard Berf KT deelilened George Brown. 1 Larry Dearlnf W deciiloned Alln Brown. 1st Bob Baiett Kf deciiloned Hen ry Doefler. 140 Jay Dearlnf KT pinned Paul Dollarhlde. 147-Dou Bletin Kr pinned Mitchell Biles. Don Dexter KT pinned John 167' tlvtt Mitchell Kf declsloned Bare- Cannon. 177 Julia GoniaUi KF decision! d vie mpp. . Heavy Ji ark Htmelwnfhl KF pinned Phil Barker, Beavers, Oregon v Both Win By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Oregon State Beavers Sat urday clung to their slim one -game lead in the PCC Northern Division basketball title chase with the end of the season three short games away. The Beavers, leading the loop wun nuie wins and lour losses, had .to come from behind In the final three minutes Friday night to nip wasmngton state, 51-41. . The second-place quint. Oregon, at 8-5,. unveiled a promising soph omore In whiplnsr the University of Washington Huskies, 63-59. 'ihe liur-mes are in fourth place with 4-7 record. Washington Slate Is the last place club at 3-9. Idaho, Idle Fri day night, holds down third at 7-6. FIRST BUCKET Ray Bell, who never before made i field goal in conference plav, i parked Oregon's victory over game in the second quarter, with the Ducks trailing 22-15, and hit for 10 points before the intermis sion buzzer. He added five more points in the last half for a total of 15. The Huskies started fast and had a 20-13 lead at the end of the first quarter. They were lead ing 35-34 at the half, before the root fell in. Bell's charity toss at . RAY BELL . . . ex-Pel shines the start of the third knotted the score and Barney Holland hit for a field goal to give the Ducks a lead they never relinquished. Washington State, after trailing! through the first half, came to life at the start of the third period to erase a four-point intermission deticit at 30-26, and take a 39-37 lead at the end of the third. BULGE LEAD The Cougars Increased the bulge to 45-39 midway , through the fourth before the Beavers got a winning rally going. Three free throws and two iiem goais put tne Beavers on top briefly before the two teams exchanged the lead several times. With OSC trailing by a 49-48 count, Swede Halbrook put the Beavers Into the win column with a rebound shot. Ron Robin added a iree throw lor Oregon State to leave the final score at 51-49. The same duos square off again Saturday night. Oregon Wegner f Halberg f Anderson c Holland g Page g Stout f Bell f Ross g Hawes g P T 3 7 5 6 5 4 3 9 2 10 1 0 5 15 2 9 3 Touts 23 17 27t 63 t technical foul called on Ore gon's bench Washington Coshow f Voegtlin f Parsons c Perkins g Johnson g Tripp I Bryan g Patnoe g Olsen f Haiie g Totals Oregon G F 3 3 6 3 5 11 2 2 P T 4 9 1 15 3 21 2 6 - 16 27 18 59 13 21 18 1163 it 15 10 1439 Washington Free throws missed: Bell 3. An derson, Holland 4, Parsons 6, John son 3. Oregon Mate Whitcman f Deitn f Halbrook c Paulus g Fundingsland g Romanoff f Vlastcllca c Robins g Crlmmlns g Totals WSC Bennink f Perry f Render c Klock g F 0 2 P T 2 2 0 11 3 13 4 4 1 9 1 2 o e 0 3 5 5 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 1 18 15 13 51 O V V T 2 33 1 11 3 10 4 2 Swanson g Klehn f Underwood c Lodge f Hanks g Folsy g Totals Oregon slate Wash. Stale 17 16 18 49 1.1 17 7 1451 11 15 13 1049 Free throws missed: Oregon State Whlteman, Pnulus 2, Hal : brook 5. Vlastclica 4. Robins. Washington State Bennink. Reh- der 3. Marshall Pott 25; Pilots Beat 'Zogs PORTLAND I Ron Marshall hooped 23 points Friday night to lead the Portland University Pi lots to an 83-73 non conference basketball victory - over Qonzaga University of Spokane. High scoring honors went to Gonzaga's Bob Richardson, who got 36. Pee- S SCORES IKDLliaiAL LEAGUE L 14 20'i 31 30 Commercial Shell - Grems Manufacturing Car-Ad-co . .03 . 43 -44'i Pacific Mot'r Trucking , Klamath Creamery ...... 40 ?."".r.-,i' - a ureat nortnern -- rz,- B-oacfway Cleaners K..(lnn: fZilil.it -'- ( : -33 ... 34 .. 31 (a Medo Land Creamery ..31 S3 soerea l.eii mini .... Grams 4 lleralo-N'.'vs 0 National Guards 4 Great Northern fl Superior - Troy 3 Moose I . " PMT 3 Klamath Creamery 1 ... Commercial Shell 4 Meo Land 0 Broadway 4 Car-Ad-Co 0 Floyd Phelps of Broadway Clean ers rolled a 626 series last night in the Industrial Bowling League and his three lines were all higher than any other- bowler's effort. His lines were 202, 206 and 218. Second high for series was Clyde Shaw of Pacific Motor Trucking with a 572. Grems Manufacturing rolled the high team series. 2698; Broadway Cleaners had a 2665 and high game of 947. Grems had a 925. Bruins Go To Front By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS UCLA's high - powered Bruins, who jumped from also-rans to top dog In two weeks, could wrap up a share of the Coast Conference Southern Division title Saturday night by beating Stanford's In dians again. The clutch-shooting Westwooders moved Into undisputed iirst place Friday night with a 92-77- victory over the Stanfords, while the USC Trojans were disposing of the sud denly inept California Bears, 66-36, in Los Angeles. - A repeat Bruin performance would assure the UCLA basket ballers of at least a tie for the. division crown. The season ends next weekend with UCLA meeting USC and California playing Stan ford two games each. UCLA now has a 6-3 record, USC and Cal are 5-4 and Stanford has a 2-7 mark. Just two weeks ago, the Bruins had a 1-3 confer ence record. Since then they've won five in a row against Stan ford and California. Rich Derby On Today ny nun mi bus ARCADIA, Calif. Wl The 17th running ol the rich Santa Anita Derby unreels today with a cast of 3 year old hopefuls led by a Calumet Farm's entry shooting tor the stable's third straight victory here. The calumets are Duke's Lea and Indian Red, Chanlea won the Santa Anita Derby last year . for Calumet's mistress, Mrs. Gene Markey, Hill Gall did it the year before and went on to capture the Kentucky Derby. Today Calumet's entrv promised to be the betting favorite to rake in the winner's purse of 486,300 from a gross pot of 8133,400, fig ures oasea on all 12 horses start' ing. . Haled close behind Duke's Lea and his lesser known running mate are Andrew Crevolin's Deter mine and Mrs.' Harry Curland's caiuornia colt, Major Speed. The distance is a mile and one- eighth, a fast track is in prospect and a derby day crowd approach ing 50.000 is expected. Rounding out the field are the Hiirry James-Betty Grable colt, James Session; movie star George Brent's Mi. Mustard. Llangollen Farm's Ordained, Rex Ellsworth's El Drag, Mrs. A. W. Ryan's Fault t ree, the Dormar Stable's Trav- ertlne. and Owl Stable's Cobblers Bench and Howard A. Jones' For Free. Tenley Loses Skate Crown OSLO Ufi A tumble on- a jump mat sne nas made hundreds of times without falling cost 18-year-old Tenley Albright her world fig ure skating crown but the Boston girl lost like a champion. There were no sobs after Ger many's European champion. 18- year old Oundl Busch, skated to the top against heavy odds In the decisive free skating event Fri- aay at Oslo's Blslet Stadium the rink where Tenley rocketed Into the Olympic silver medal at the 1952 winter games. All the little girl, who overcame an attack of polio to win the U.S. junior title at the age of 14, show- ra was aeiermination to come back next year and win. "It sure came as a surprise to me but I'll be back", she said. Third went to Erica Batchelor of Britain and fourth to Barbara Gratton of Canada. Francis Dor sey of Mercer Island, Wash., , was IUU1. STILL AT HIALEAH MIAMI t Four iockevs who rode Hlaleah's opening dav 28 years ago are still at the track, though not in a rider' ranarlfv Ivan Parke, Walter Kelly and Ken Noe arc trainers, Freddy Stevens is an agent for Jockey Hedley Woodhouse QUICKIES fy Ken Reynold. These skates we got sharpened In the Herald A News Want Ada certainly are slippery, aren't IheyT" T Lou, Ted Should Huddle By tlAYI.E TALBOT NEW -YORK I We are only asking, but shouldn't Lou Bou dreau, the Boston Red Sox man ager, try to get together with his top hired band, Ted Williams, on the subject of where the Sox fig ure to linlsh in the coming Ameri can League race? Lou says he Believes he 11 have what It takes to beat the Yankees this time. Ted, who probably be came a supreme realist In the skies over Korea, says just hs positively that talk about a Sox pennant at this time is "silly," adding that third place would be more like it. . Jn justice to the homerun slug ger, he didn't know when he spoite uwt nis manager was Dusting out all over with confidence. Tea was uut of touch, having been away fishing. But in the interest of har mony the two should try to strike a balance, say, on second place. Honus Wagner, considered by many who saw him to have been Ihe greatest baseball player of them all, is set to celebrate his 80th birthday next Wednesday at Pittsburgh. , , A campaign is under way to raise ' 848.000 to erect an 18-foot bronze statue of the famous Dutch man at Forbes Field, scene of his mightiest triumphs. No one has asked for any sta tistics on the average Yale fresh man, but you're going to get them, anyway. ' In 1890 the average Yale fresh man weighed exactly 135 pounds and stood 5 feet, 7! it inches. He considered himself much brighter than the average Harvard freshman.-. . Today the A. Y. F. toes around 159 pounds and measures 5-10 !s tuaignt up. Either he's eating bel ter or ne s reaching college later. The Milwaukee Boosters' Club. which considers that city's Braves the last word in baseball teams, turns out to be a mobile organiza tion. Some rju of its members, un willing to wall, have taken up resi dence In a body at Sarasota, Fla a short distance lrom the Braves' training camp at Bradenton, Manager Charlie Grimm is cer tain to set a new all-time record for Being second-guessed early. A local source close to the Yank ees declares that club's officials are really worried about the amount of service they can expect to get out of Mickey Mantle in the coming campaign, He says that even if the Dhcnom does recover from his recent sup plementary knee operation in time 10 report tor training March 1 at si. Petersburg, he will be handled very tenderly and will not under any circumstances be permitted to pmy in exniamon games. He thinks, also, that Manager Casey Stengel finally will forget about Mickey's tend' year and adopt a sure enough tough policy toward nis problem boy. There is some thought the Yanks made a mistaice when they began measur- Ing Mickey's homeruns with tane arm compass last summer, He can read. Nielsen Advances In Meet NEW YORK Wl Kurt Nlelson. the 23-year-old Copenhagen bride groom. Joined defending cham pion Art Larsen Saturday as one of the quarterfinallsts in the Na tional Indoor Tennis Champion ships. Kunnerup here a year aao to Larsen and later runnerup to Vic Seixas at Wimbledon. Nielsen gained the quarterfinals Friday night by beating Irv Dorfman of New York, 9-2, 7-5. Saturday night he plays Budge Patty of Los Angeles and New York in one of four quarterfinal matches. The duel will have as comneti. tion a match involving Larsen of San Leandro, Calif., and Fred Ko- vaiesiu of Washington, D.C., a young government worker. The favored Tony Trabcrt, who holds the U.S. grass court crown, meets his old Cincinnati benefac tor and Davis Cup Captain, Bill Talbert, in the feature match. Ihe other Quarterfinal arnri Seixas against Sven Davldsson of oweaen. . - ESCAPES Selxas seeded third, barelv es caped defeat Friday night at the nanus oi jack Tuero, 27-ycar-old Port of Washington. N.Y.. nerfum salesman. Selxas was twice within two points of elimination before he finally wop, 4-6, 6-1, 11-9. Bud ire Pattv. seeded third. hH to rally to beat William Cranston, a Yule University sophomore, 4-6, 6-3, 63. Two foreign seeds were oustarl Carsda's Henri Rochon, No. 3, j leu oeiore IKlbert, 6-1, 6-1. Koval eski whipped fourth-seeded Rlcar do Balbiers of Chile, 64. 6-4, Dodgers Sign Morgan, Hodges VERO BEACH. Fla. un The Brooklyn Dodgers brought two more of the National . League champions in line Saturday with the signing of first baseman Oil Hodges and utility inflelder Bobbv Morgan. The terms of Hodges' contract' were not announced. Salts Rental Folding WH11L HJIIIW -V-' CURRINS for drugs ftk ' Mela FN. J J47I THIS IS BASEBALL Billy Pierce (Ictt) isn't grappling with Cass Michaels lor a job on the White Sox. The hurler and Michaels, a third base aspirant, are using the mat to get in shape. ' , Mountaineers Clinch Title LA GRANDE l.fl Eastern Ore gon College of Education clinched the Oregon Collegiate Conference basketball championship here Fri day night with an 87-67 victory over Oregon College of Education. Ted Schadewitz, scoring 25 points, paced Eastern Oregon which led ail the way. The halftlme score was 41-25. Larry Pryse of Eastern Oregon and Bobby Frantz of OCE each tallied 14 points. The win gave Eastern Oregon a conference record of 7-2. Oregon Tech, in second place, is 6-8. Flooded Gym Cancels Game HASTINGS. Mich. Wl Hastings High School had to call off lis basketball game with St. Johns, Mich., High Friday night. Just before the game was sched uled to start, an unidentified lad chinned himself on a pipe ot the sprinkler system in the gym. The pipe broke. 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If 'you are self-employed, join the Bond-A-Month Plan where you bank. Do it TODAY you'll be glad all the rest of yout life that you did) Tee V. .1 GwtrnmHl datt ml psy far tkii mditrtiiint. Tee Trttwry Dtpartmtnt ttsmki, I Ihii prtttoHt dtHutian, fee Adrfrtitmi Ctmtil dad Sports In Brief By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TENNIS NEW YORK I Defending champion Art Larsen led the way into the quarter-finals of the Na tional Indoor Tournament as hs defeated George Ball, 6-2, 6-0. . SKATING OSLO Tenley Albright of Bos ton lost her world figure skating crown to Oundl Busch of Germany as she tumbled to the Ice coming out of a double loop Jump. GOLF MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Patty Berg shot a two-under-par 72 to move into tne lead at tne nauway point In the Serbin Women's Tour nament. SAN ANTONIO, Tex. Johnny Palmer, Charlotte, N.C., took the lead In the Texas Open with a nine-under-par 62 that gave blm 127 lor 36 holes. LSU Boxers Whip Idaho BATON ROUGE, La. W Louisi ana State University boxers scored a knockout and two TKos FTidBy for a 7-1 victory over the Univer sity of Idaho mitt team. Don An derson gave Idaho Its only point by stopping LSU's Ronnie Bcnui lnghamp at 1:48 In the first round. First Federol Sovinqa It Lean Aitoc. Baltiqer Motor Company Klomath Basin Pine Mill Company Modoc Lumbar Company Matter Brothers Home Lumber & Supply Company Hitchcock li Mother Klamath Falls Branch U.S. National Bank The California Oreton Power Company Phils Sign Torgeson PHILADELPHIA Ml The Phil adelphia Phillies Friday announc ed the signing of first baseman Earl Torgeson, bringing the. total under contract to 28.., , ... But still holding out for better terms are pitcher Robin Roberts and shortstop Granny Hamner, probably the top players on the club. -. .. - . " ..-.- Phil president Bob Carpenter said Torgeson telephoned from his Anna Maria, Fla., home and ac cepted a contract giving him the same pay he received lost year. Besides Roberts and Hamner, six other Phils are unsigned. YANKS WERE TOUGH CHICAGO uB American League statistics show that the champion New York Yankees helped them selves to the 1953 flag via the douu leheader route. The Bronx Bombers won 25 games and lost only nine in twin bill competition. They copped both eames nine times and only once did they drop both games. in wasmngton ' . senators were the only ones to do the trick. The Yanks split seven doublebeaders. Herald & News WeVerhaeuier Timber Company Ellinqson Lumber Company Cer-Ad-Co Company Fluhrar's Holsum Bakery J. W. Kerns, Oregon Ltd. Garrison Equipmtmt Company Klamath Ice and Storoqa Company Darthcl Aims For Record By ED ( ORRIOAN . 'NEW YORK tfl-Josy Barthel. the Luxembourg swiftie, has noth ing left to race except the clock. so that's what he'll do tonight-at the Natlcnal AAU track champion shipshis last indoor appearance. Since the start of tne indoor sea son, the meet promoters have been urging Josy, a Harvard grad uate student, to try for Oil Dodds world record of 4:05 3 tor a stand ard 11-lap track. They . knew he' couia ao u it ne was so .uiuiurau ' and Dan Ferris of the AAU, hopes this Is the one.. Josy promises -nothing. '..!: But Mnl Whitfield, who breaks records like an elephant sitting on a juke box, and Horace Ashen felter, the Olympic steeplechase champion, arc not so reticent. PREDICTION . . Mai predicts he will wipe out Don Gehrmann's 1,000-yard rec ord of 2:08-2 . on the Madison Square Garden boards. He thinks he will be caught around 2:01- That would be some going, since Oebr mann's mark Is regarded as a mighty tough one to beat. .- Ashenfolter. the FBI agent, set - a world two-mile record ot 80.5 last week, so this time he will move to the three-mile lor a snot ut Greg Rice's 13:45.7. Last year, he ran the distance In 13:47.5. . Harrison Dlllard of Cleveland will era after his eighth straight hurdles championship, with, pos sibly, some competition trom jaca Davis of Southern California.. John Haines, tile Penn sophomore, will defend In the sprint ana Reggie Pcarman of the New York pioneer -Club, Is the favorite in the 600, vacated by Whitfield. CLOSE .. " . . In the field events, Parry O' Brien of Southern California, who has come closer to the 60-foot mark than anyone is the choice in the shot put; Bob Richards, as. usual. Is top man in the pole vault; Ernie Shelton of Southern Cal could beat out- Herman Wyatt and navy Lt. Ken wiesner in the high jump and Pvt. George Brown of Fort Ord, . Calif, the only 26-foo broad Jump. ' er in existence, should win his spe ciality.' '. ; V'v.:''- Hal Newhouser, who retired last year as a pitcher for the Detroit Tigers, was the last American League hurler to win 200 games. Hal had a lifetime mark of 200-148. -,VI