MONDAY, MARCH 1, 1054 liKRAJ.D ANi' NEWS. KLAMATH H'AI.i S OKMtllN PAGE ELEVEN Beoveirs, o Won -:rv a .) WHERE ARE WE? It looks like wrestling referee tries to catch Kenny Carlson, who is i on opponent Chuck Hales' shoulder in a fine-looking airplane spin. But they were doing it on , the wrong night. The pair engaged in a bantamweight battle at Minneapolis amateur show. Hales was able to swing the decision, too. ' i ..' ' ' ' '. By ED CORHIGAN t NEW YORK W-Only one spot remained to be tilled in the Na tional Invitation Tournament today arid it is an open secret that, the second-place team in the South west Conference will get the bid. v The league race is scheduled to ' end tomorrow night when Rice and Texas, which are tied lor first place ench with 8-3 records, play Southern Methodist and Texas Christian, respectively. I The conference winner, of course, will go the NCAA Tour nament, which still is far from settled. The NIT will be satisfied with the runner-up. So the 11 teams in the NIT now ' are Duquesnc, Niagara, Dayton, Louisville, Western Kentucky. St. -Francis of Brooklyn, St. Francis of Loi-etto, Pa., Manhattan. Holy Cross, Bowling Green and Wichita. . If it wins the Missouri Valley title, .however, Wichita will pull out. 'The club has finished its league season with an 8-2 mark. Oklahoma 'A&M the leader with 7-1, still must meet AAtM and St. Louis. . ..NIT BIDS . Holy Cross and Bowling Green .were named to the NIT yesterday urter Connecticut was named to represent New England in the P"2W : . WHERE YOU GOING?-Fordham's Bob Reese 131 plays police .man on La Salle's Tom Gola and, breaks up a try for a basket in game at Philadelphia. The referee, along with the camera man, caught this and Gola got a foul shot lOregon Prep Quints Eye State 2 By THE ASSOCIATED TRESS J ' District tournaments and sub- J district piayons continue uiw I as Oregon high school basketball Jlcams scramble for berths in the J class A slate tournament, opening March 10 at. Eugene. ' In Saturday night action, Marsh 3 field defeated North Bend 73-68 to .win the title of its sub-district 5. S Marshfield, No. 5 in last week's Associated Press poll, now meets Mvrlle Creek for the district J Drain ior the other sub-district title. J Grants Pass plays Crater Hiqh tfor Ihe district 4 championship. J Cralcr High won its sub-dlstrict 2 title Saturday night by downing iEagle Point, 56-51. A victory over Cottage Grove navHric ihp final snot In the J four-team district 6 tournament, "opening Monnay at duucic. Swell meets Willamette of Eugene fin the opener and Eugene plays Oakridgc in the second game. I SURVIVE J McMinnville and Willnmina sur vived Saturday nlnht games in the district 8 tournament. Central of J Monmouth-Independence and Dal- las also are In the running, with Is slated Friday. j Bcaverton Fores , oreie, nms- J boro and Tlsard al l are n lie . TJilla. inisirivtu luuinv., - f-iin nrxt 'veekrnd j In district 10. Warrenlon cllml inntcrf T.llamook 40-30. Seaside 5 nuipcil Ne:-lucca 64-46 and Astoria : f walloped Ncahkrthnle 50-29. Five J teams remain in the running. : Silverton and Mt. Angel were , J .second-round winners Saturday J night In the district 11 tournament. . Silverton downrd Woodburn 64-45 and Mt Ansel beat North Marlon i Position Still NCAA. Connecticut defeated Holy Cross 78-77 Saturday night. For Bowling Green, which fin ished second to Toledo in the Mid America Conference, the NIT ap pearance will be its sixth. It reached the finals once and this year shows a 15-6 record. Tile NCAA gets under way next aTent filled, here is how the teams line up nt tne momeni: At Fort Wayne, Toledo will play eilher Notre Dame, Loyola or Perm State, all at-large teams. Toledo's opponent will leave the other two to plav. AT BUFFALO At Buffalo the same night. Ford ham will play La Salle and Con necticut will go against Navy. The rest of the Eastern field still is undecided. Duke is champion of the Atlantic Coast Conference, but the NCAA bid goes to the team that wins the league's postseason tourney. Ditto with the Southern Conference, ' where George Wash ington ciime out on top. The Ivy League still has three contenders Cornell, Princeton and Penn. The Big Ten will send either Indiana, ;uwa ui Illinois. .The Hoosiers already have clinched a tie, and If they defeat Illinois Sat Positions f2-43. Action . resumes' Monday niuhl. ... FAVORED ; ' The district 12 championship will be determined in a single-elimination tournament opening Friday at Milwaukle. Milwaukie, top team in the AP poll, is a heavy favorite. Seven teams open the district 13 tournament Monday, with double elimination play Continuing this week. Gresham. No. T in the poll, and Central catholic are favored. Clatskanie has the edge in dls trlct 14' after hentin? Vemonia j Frj(lay nlf!nt xhe teams play I again Tuesday. Roosevelt, the Portland champ. js the only team with a state tournament spot cinched. Benson. Cleveland and Lincoln are fighting for the other Portland berth. ! OTHERS ! in other districts. Baker and Ontario meet In beBt-of-three series opening Friday for the dis trict 1 title. The Dalles and Pendle ton will play a similar two-out-of-three series for the district 2 crown. Prinvllle, Burns. Lakeview and Madras open a single elimination tournament next weekend for the district 3 title. The district 7 race will- be decided in a Mngje-cllmiiiation immr-v nnnninir Thursday at dor- non. Corvnllis. Albany entered, with Cor- vallls, No. favored. 2 In the poll, heavily People DO Read SPOT ADS -you ore! Open urday, they're In. Illinois also plays' Northwestern weile Iowa tnngles with' Ohio State tonight. It could wind up in the three-way tie. ; TIE SEEN In the Southeastern Conference. Kentucky and Louisiana State are unbeaten and tills one, too, could finish In a tie. 1 ' The Western section is more set tled. Tf!e four at-large teams are Bradley, Santa Clara. Oklahoma City and Seattle, plus Idaho State, the Rocky Mountain tltllst. and Colorado A&M, the Skyline cham pion. The Bitf' Seven representative could be decided tonight when Kan sas plays Colorado, and the Bor der Conference winner will be de termined tomorrow night when Texas Tech and West Texas State meet. ' The Pacific Coast title will be determined this weekend when Southern California, the Southern Division winner, plays Oregon State, champion of the Northern Division. , Swiss Gal Wins Race ARE, Sweden iflfi Ida Schoep fer of Lucerne, Switzerland, Monday-won. the ladies downhill race of the World's ski Championships with an unofficial time of 1:28.2. , Trudc Klecker of Austria, unof ficially placed second With 1:29.3 and Frances Lucienne Schm'tn came In third with 1:29.5. ,. The figures and times were pre liminary and, unofficial, - .Alter a protest period - Monday afternoon results will, be made linat ana oi ficial. The race was held on tile 2,000 mctre run winding through the woods of Arcskulan Mountain. There was a drop of 510 meters. On the way down racers had to pass 25 control gates to slow them down on especially dangerous sections of the run. In fourth place. In this second event of the worlds ski champion ships, was Jeounctte Burr of Se attle, Wash., in 1:30.9. Among early finishers Miss Burr was leading but then the Austrian and Swiss girls begnn flashing paat Ihe line and the American girl dropped back to fourth place Idaho Grabs Ski Title LEAVENWORTH, Wash. Ml -The University of Idaho won the team championship and a Seattle University skier took individual honors in the NCAA regional ski meet at Stevens Pass and Leaven worth over the weekend. Idaho piled up a total of 565.8 points with a first in the cross country, second In the downhill and slalom and third in Jumping. Washington was second with 501.6 points, Seattle third with 557.1 and Whitman fourth with 462.6. The individual four-way cham pionship went to Bard Glenne of Seattle with 372.1 points. Olnf Stavlk of Idaho was second with 368.9 and Washington's Jack Haase was third at 359.3. Bergi Cooper In Golf Win vitiunnLWi i in, iT r k'uuci iui ibiouznt Fatty Bere and Pete Pnnivr ' o A anA 9 vlrlm-u nxiitr -Grace .DeMoss Smith and George jBoIe'sta and the international jMixed Two-Ball Golf Tournament title. I Miss Berg, from Chicago, and Cooper, from Tampa, who lost In the 1951 final to Bolesta end Babe Zaharlas, led all the way after the second hole. ' They completed the morning 18 ahead, 3 up and 1 under par 71. Mrs. Smith, a Coral Gables, Fla:, and Corvallls, Ore., amateur, and Bolesta, another Tampan, were three over par. The lead shrank to 1 up after : a Berg-Cooper bogey on the 20th 'and a smlth-Bnlesta birdie on the 22nd but that was the closest the losers came. Berg-Cooper were acaln 3 up alter a par on the 23rd nnd'a birdie on the 25th. Cooper closed out the match- with l.fnnt mitt In, hit-rifa lha sixth of the day for his team, on the par three 33rd. !d riving and putting Sunday"';"" FOR HUDSONS SEE JUCKELANDl Webfoots Dui In Final By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Northern DivUlon W L Pet. Oregon State 116 .688 Idaho . ' 1 .5b3 Oregon 7 .563 x-Washlngton"' 5 9 .357 x-Washington State 4 10 .286 (x Only teams with conference games remaining) Southern Division Southern California ' 8 4 .667 UCLA 7 5 .583 California " 6 6 .500 Stanford 3 9 .250 With the Coast Conference bas ketball race all but history, Slats Gill's Oregon State Beavers were pointing Monday toward Los An geles and a crack at the PCC hoop crown. The Beavers meet the Southern California Trojans at L.A.. this coming weekend for the confer ence title and a berth in the Western Regionals. of the NCAA tournament starting at Corvallls, Ore., March 12. The Beavers took over the Northern Division title Saturday night by downing the University of Oregon Ducks, 55-46, at Cor vallls, home of the Beavers. The win gave Gill's- charges an ti-5 record for the season. Ore' gon, and Idaho, tied for second place with identical 9-7 records, have closed out their seasons. FINAL SERIES Washington's Huskies, the fourth-place team with five vie tories and nine losses, meet Wash ington State, in last place at 4- 10. in Seattle Friday and Satur- day nights in the final series of the 1954 Northern Division sched u!e. The Huskies took their ninth de feat Saturday night at the hands of Idaho's Vandals in a game at Moscow, 77-76. Washington State was idle. Oregon Stale, slaeed a 22-oolnt scoring performance! in the third period to gain its win over Ore gon. The Ducks were held to 11 points during that period. TONY HOT Trailing 22-21 at the end of the first half, the Beavers spotted Oregon two points at the start of the third and then moved into hlirh gear with Tony Vlastelica show- uig the way. viastenca hit lor . nine nnlnV points after he went In with three nnnuies gone and the rest of tile Beavers took his cue and hooped an additonal 14 points while hold ing Oregon to a total of 11 for the period. Oregon Slate got 12 more points in the fourlii -quarter, while Ore gon had to settle for 13, for the victory and the Northern Division standard. Bob Garrison's field goal in the final eight seconds spelled victory for Idaho over the- Huskies in the thriller at Moscow. TIED With the score tied at 75-all late in the final period, Don Tripp of Washington gave the Huskies a one-point lead by sink Iiir one of two charity tosses. The Vandals put the ball back into play and streaked down the floor as the second hand moved along to the eight second mark. Garrison took the ball -and cast off a 40-foot shot that hit nothing but the bottom of the net for two points and the margin of the Idaho victory. The ending was typical of the entire game, with the longest lead ever enjoyed by either team Ida ho's 66-60 advantage early in the fourth quarter. Washington's Dean Parsons topped scoring with 23, followed by teammate Karl Voegtlln with 22. Bob Garrison was high man for Idaho with 16. -. The Oregon-Oregon Slate hoi: OREGON G F P T 12 6 4 Halberg, ..f , Weaner, f Anderson, c Holland, g Page, g Ross, g Hawcs, g Stout, f Bell. c l ota Is OREGON STATE Whiteman, f Dean, f Halbrook, c Toole, g 2 2 6 ,1 3 3 1 0 2 4 1 0 0 0 0 0 3 6 2 15 3 9 2 2 2 8 4 2 2 0 0 0 16 14 23 46 G F P T 3 0 7 0 4 0 0 4 11 3 10 0 10 Fundingsland, g 1 0 0 0 2 6! 3 3 faulus, f Robins, g Haillgan, f Vlastelica, 4 1 1 5 2 1 12 totals 17 21 14 55 12 10 11 1346 i 14 7 22 12 55 i OreRon State free throws missed: Oregon I Wegner 2, Ross S, Bell 2. Oreaon Slate Whiteman 2, Dean 3. Hnl-: brook 6, Toole, Robins 3, Vlastel-' lea. Raiders In NAIA Field PORTLAND The field for the Oregon NAIA basketball play offs here Tuesday and Wednesday were completed Saturday when Southern Oregon College of Ed ucation of Ahsland accepted a big to compete In the tourney. Southern Oregon, joins Pacific University, Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education and Portland University in the four-team tourn ament, with the winner getting a I rmrV at lha Nallnnal UiTl till tournament starting at Kansas I City March 8. POP KNOWS BEST Freddie Lindstrom, former National League thirdj base and outfield great, . imparts know-how to youthful aspirants familiar with hit feats hit tons (I to r), Charles, ,17, who played American Legion ball last year; Fred Jr., now In the Air Force, end Andy, 20, who will try out with the Phillies. : ' ' . r Mickey Vernon Trade By BEN OLAN Associated press sports writer The prospect of a major trade involving . Mickey Vernon, the American League's leading batter last season, was more than a re mote possibility as spring training officially opened in the major league camps today. The 35-year-old Washington first baseman has yet to sign his 1954 contract. He is said to be asking for double the $19,000 he received last year. "No. I won't sell him," Clark Griffith, Senators owher, declared. "But I might trade him if they of fered me the right players for him." ; He added it had never been his practice to trade players who are holdouts, but that he might be ready to make an exception in Vernon's case.- " " Annual Raps Against Spring Training Here By GAVLE TALBOT NEW YORK W Thls-i annual Why Spring Training?" week, when almost any publication you pick up will feature - a genuine, hand-tooled "expose" 6f the cus tom of taking baseball players South for a month of sunshine -and exercise before the season-begins. It is not really necessary to read more than one of them, for the general theme. Is the same. Spring training is strictly a racket de signed to get tne paying customers up North excited anead - of time. It doesn't do anything, for the .players that couldn't be. done by funking them a couple of times in a turklsh bath. As for the actual benefits, we've often wondered vaguely about that ourselves. The best conclusion is that it doesn't do any of them any harm unless they step in a hole on some minor league field,, and that it undoubtedly does some of them a lot of good, especially those who are Inclined to take on bluo ber during the winter. READY ' In every team's camp thereare Jayvees Top Grants Pass By DAVID LANpiS - ' The Klamath Junior varsity end ed its season Saturday night with a 48-33 win over the Grants Pass jay vees. The Klamath five led all the way. 11-8 at the quarter, 20-18 at the half and 38-24 heading into the last quar ter. Jerry Barker rolled In 14 points for the Klamaths; Al Drews scored 12 for Grants Pass. The Klamath Freshmen swamped Orants Pass, 52-43, In an afternoon game. O. PANS mt (M) KLAMATH A. DrewN 12 F . 14 Barker McndenhaU 2 V 2 Perkins l)etrt a c 11 caii'ey Nevl 3 C 2 pepple Winger 8 G S Sonllsch CranU Pais subs Bnrtletl 3. Evans 4.- M. Drews. Brnwn. McCoy. Thomn. Cannon. Johnson. Klamath subs Lowe 10, Blanchard, Bechen, Mccarty, Borden i, nannon. 5 STAR ."ft TwT Engine Tune Up ft Adjust Carburetor and Fan Belt fr Test Compression ft Set Distributor ft Tighten Manifolds and Headbolts ft Clean and Adjust Spark Plugs GOOD ONLY THIS WEEK! lei 522 So. 6th Several American League clubs. Cleveland and Baltimore among them, have been reported seeking first base help - and In Vernon they'd be getting Just that. Be sides his pace-setting .337 average in 1953, the veteran drove out 15 homers and piled up 115 runs bat ted in". Better news for the Senators was the return yesterday of star pitch er Bob Porterfleld, almost com pletely recovered from a minor concussion. The big right - hander was hospitalized Saturday after be ing hit by a batted ball In prac tice '-, ... Y Enbs slaughter, another veteran, made the big noise In the St. Louis Cardinals' camp at St. Petersburg, Fla. He belted four "homers" over the fence. Said Enos after the workout: "Never felt better." ETC - On other spring training fronts, players who are Teady to go nine Inhings the day .they Teport. in fact, one of Dazzy Vance's favorite stories about Uncle Wllbert Robin son, : the fabulous old Brooklyn manager, concerns the camp open Ing when'Robby greeted all his athletes fondly and said that, dog' gone It, he was hungry to see some baseball and how about hav ing a game? "And," Das!zy recalls, "we put On a real' humdinger for him, nine full innings with sliding and every thing. Robby sat mere In his rock er and loved every minute of it. Some of us were a mite sore the next few days " EXCEPTION That, however, was an excep tional case. The average manager today doesn't want to see anything except some running and pepper games lor most of the first week That doesn't go, of course, for players who have been earning pay in the Caribbean leagues all winter. Actually, It's a little silly for these men to report at all for about the first two . weeks of training, and some of them don't. Those who make a career of kidding the siftishine camps always point out that the big leaguers trained In the snowy North during the recent war years and ap peared to be in about as good shape as ever for opening day. Leo Durocncr, wno trained his Brooklyn team In the vast West Point fieldhouse, concedes that his boys were ready. But neither he nor any other manager would like to repeat the experience - COACH'S FOOTSTEPS SYRACUSE, N. Y.' Bruce Yancey, Syracuse University ath letic atalwart 'Is 'following In coach Roy Simmon's footsteps. Yancey is . a star in football, boxing and lacrosse. His coach, Roy Simmons, played in the same three sports here 30 years ago. Simmons Is head coach of both boxing and lacrosse and was Yan cey's backfield coach in football Yancey's home Is In Bellcrosc, N. Y. ft tt & Ph. 8101 fiflEST in View Boston Red Sox Manager Lou Boudreau announced that Ivan De lock and rookie Jim Ehrler would pitch the club's grapefruit league opener against Pittsburgh. Satur day . . . Rudy Regaldo, a .325 batter In the American Assn. last season, hit Cleveland's first home run in an lntrasquad game . , . outfielder Bob Borkowskl smashed a two-run homer in the first Inning of Cincinnati's untrasquad game Brooklyn stalwarts Jackie Robinson and Pee Wee Reese worked out for the first time Pittsburgh Manager Fred Haney said many rookies would be in the lineup against the Boston Red Sox next Saturday . . Ray Boone, Walt Dropo and Don Lund showed up In Detroit's Lakeland, Fla camp. Several playerb just got In under tne March 1 signing deadline, in cluding second baseman Billy Mar tin and outfielder Gene Woodltng of' the Yankees, First baseman Whitey Lockman of the Giants and outfielder Johnny Wyrostek of the Phillies. Santee Runs. Javhawks Win KANSAS CITY W Wes Santee ran the swiftest Indoor mile of the season on a board track in lead. Ing the Kansas J ay hawks to their third straight Big Seven cham pionship although he failed In bis bid for another world record. . Aiming at the world board mile standard of 4 minutes 6.3 seconds set by Gil Dodds In 1848. Santee won the mile without a challenge in 4:06.5 on the - 12-lap boards In Municipal Auditorium Saturday nignt. .(. , Tlie confident senior from an Ashland, Kan ranch, set a new indoor dirt track record of 4:04 at East Lansing, Mich., earlier tins month. In the Big Seven meet Santee also won the half mile in 1:55.2 and ran a leg In the mile relay. Kansas amassed 58 points. Mis souri finished second with 31 points, followed by Oklahoma 27 !i. Colorado 21, Kansas State, 20, Nebraska 11 !i and Iowa State 11. NIGHT GAME SPECIALIST CLEVELAND lift Joe Ginsberg, who dlvldied his time in 1853 be tween the Cleveland Indians and the Detroit Tigers, did his best playing under the lights. Joe batted .414 in 27 games at night. In day games he hit a puny .190. His over-ail season average was .290. vm WRITE A WINNING "GAG LINE" TO THIS WOODBURY CARTOON! Mail or bring in your entry and win a $25 TRADE CERTIFICATE good in trade on ANY USED CAR! Contest andi midnight, Friday, Mar. 6th. Name of winner will appear here next week along with a new cartoon. Be lure to enclose name and addren. LAST WEEK'S WINNER Frank P. Steele, 525 No. 9th St. THIS WEEK'S 1946 Plymouth Special Dlx. 4-Dr. Grty celer, htotir, very seed upholstery, moter )ood, body portoct, fair tlrts, A root nice cor that will definitely catch your eye, end It's a not Ipocioll DICK B. MILLER CO. 7th and Klamath Playoff Site Not Settled LOS ANGELES Hr Coach For rest Twogood ond his Southern California - basketball team are . looking for a gym in which to play Oregon State for the P a c 1 1 1 o Coast Conference title. ; , The Trojans wrapped uo the Southern Division title with last second 60-67 victory over UCLA finished its Northern D 1 v i 1 o n Saturday night while Oregon State championship season with 55-46 win over Oregon. The teams meet In a best two-of-three series for the conference crown Friday and Saturday nights, and next Monday if necessary. southern California has player home games in several cvma this year because Its own. holds only about 500 fans. The most, likely spot . for the title playoff Is the nearby Long Beach City College court. USC turned, down, with thanks, an offer by the Beavers to hold the playoff in Corvallls. Substitute forward- Chet Carr pushed in a field goal lrom the corner for the spine-tingling Tro jan triumph. It gave USC the di vision tltlo for the first tune in U years In a season In which California started with a rush, fal tered and was succeeded by UCLA as the team most likely to win the title chase. But the Trojans In the last three weeks whipped Stanford once and California and UCLA, twice each, to finish With a 8-4 record. UCLA ' wound ud with a 7-5 mark, fol lowed by California with 6-6 and Stanford at. 3-8. Stanford beat Cal ifornia 80-70 Saturday night. Sports in Brief By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS GOLF MEXICO CITY Johnny Palm er of Charlotte, N.C., sank a putt on the last hole for a two-under- . par 286 to nose out Argentina's Roberto de Vicenzo for the Mexi can Open championship ORLANDO, Fla Patty Berg and Pete Cooper scored a 4 and 3 victory over Mrs. Grace dcmoss Smith and George Bolesta to win the International Mixed Two - ball Tournament. BASKETBALL NEW YORK Holy Cross and Bowling Green accepted bids to the National Invitational Basket ball Tournament and Connecticut was named to represent Mew Eng land in the NCAA. ..' TRACK ' ' KANSAS CITY Wes Santee of Kansas blazed the mile In 4:06.5 In the Big Seven meet as be attempted to break the world Indoor board mile record. NEW YORK . Yale won Its first IC4A track championship since 1933, breaking Manhattan's four-year domination of the title. RACING ARCADIA, Calif. 1 Rejected (t6.90) won the $143,000 Santa Ani ta Handicap, racing the mile and a quarter In 2:00 3-5i MIAMI, Fla. Turn-to (J4.00) captured the (133,600 Flamingo Stakes at Hialeah Park. Rainiers Sign " Carl Gunnarson SEATTLE iffl Dewey Soriano, general manager of the Seattle entry in the Pacific Coast League, Saturday announced the Rainiers had signed. Carl Gunnarson of Vancouver, B.C., as a trainer. USED CAR BUY! 290 Phone 4103 mm