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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
FRIDAY, JANUARY 13, 1958
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Mark Tie
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Only a
miracle in the form of a major
upset tonight can keep the na-
, 'lion's number one University of
'San Francisco basketballers from
becoming the third team in col
, logiate history to ring up 39 con-
. sccutive victories.
. , Potential victim 39 Is Fresno
State, a team with a 6-3 record
compiled against opposition genci'
ally inferior to that which the Dons
liiive upended In winning tncir
ursi 12 games mis easun.
If Sun tanclsco whips Fresno
State at Fresno tonight, and even
the staunchest Fresno fan doubts
that the Dons will drop this one, it
jointly will share honors as the
,-Jiinlnge.st college along with the
' 137 Long Island University club
and the 1942 Scion Hull five.
';'And the Dons reckon to accom-
pllsh this feat In two seasons
Where as their predecessor pair
' took three. LIU'S streak spread
" from 1935 through 1937, including
ft 26-0 unblemished record in the
1935-36 season.
Scton Hall's mark spanned 1939
through 1942 and Included a 17-9
; season In 1940-41.
" ASV VICTORIKS
USP dropped Its third game last
"year, a loss to UCLA which was
later reversed, and then went on
" to win 26 straight Including the
V NCAA championship. This sea-
son a 12 today Include ridiculously
easy conquests in the loaded Chi
! eago Invitation and New York's
'. annual Holiday Festival.
' Ti? Dons stand to become the
. flr.sVto make it 40, 599.
v- -Two weeks from tomorrow night.
;.fd!iwlng a two week layoff for
i mid-year exams San Francisco
"resumes the torrid pace in what
could be the toughest game of
them all, that with the vastly Im-
proved University of California
quint.
The game will be played In
, Cal's gym where the Bears sel
dom lose even in an off year.
SLIGHT SETBACK
'San Francisco gc:i into tonight's
'game suiierlng somewhat of
; psychological setback. Coach Phil
wooipcrl received word Wcdnes.
... day that the NCAA, in an arbi
trary move, refused to give their
v captain K. C. Jones another year
or ncaa eligibility.
- Jones, the man who kept the
great Tom Ooln in check in last
year's 77-63 NCAA championship
victory over La Salle, underwent
, an emergency appendectomy after
. the first game of the 1953-54 sea-
r.' son and missed the remainder of
his Junior year.
The California Basketball Asso
ciation, as well as tho Pacific
Coast Conference, grnnted Jones
ii additional year's eligibility un
der a "hardship" case ruling. The
NCAA, meeting In Los Angeles,
refused to do likewise, meaning
that the spirited Don floor leader
will sit out the NCAA champion
shipsif the Dons qualify for a
, .repeat as expected.
But this "setback" could have a
t reverse twist effect, igniting the
lred Dons to an undefeated sea
son, nils could run the victory
string into tho high 60s.
;KF,GunClub
"Slates Shoot
Another practice shoot Is being
planned by the Klnniath Oun Club
- for all Interested tiapshontcis this
., .Sunday starting at 10:30 at the
Wocus Traps.
. Last weekend, a good turnout of
j spectalors and gunners supplied
one of Iho best shoots this season.
The snack bnr will again be open,
and the public is invited to take
. pat In the day's practice run or
watcn tne smoothbore artists show
their stuff.
v Marlon Grant and John Llchten-
a stern led the Id-yard event last
Sunday Willi scores of 41). while
Lichlcnstern paced the handicap
I shoot with a 48 of 50 record.
. The results of the shoot were
r as follows;
lll-Vd. Ilnitcp.
Marlon Clrmit
John Lichlcnstern
. Dr. J. M. Admit
. Vcrn Monre
llnH Smith
NrlMin Rccrt
I.loyci "roi-H
" C J. Martin
Pet. Drlacoll
Knrl Kent
mil DaviH
Hill Coflcv
. Tom Vi'Mttrri
v It C. Hrndbury
Jim rtihcr
Juk. Stciscr
Virail nvl
Bay Blllii-aa
Clyde Bitter
411
: Cardinal Stars
I Sign 1956 Pacts
ST. LOUIS tfi The St. Louis
a Cardinals have signed the bark-
bone of their team Stan (The
Man) Musial and Red Schoen
, dienst. ,
, The long-time National League
Slurs expressed satisfaction at the
ceremony Thursday where they
put their names to contracts call
a lug for a reported $l''5.(ii)0 total.
. ', For Musial It will be the sixih
season a( an estimator! $80,000
' Schoendlenst will get a reported
, $45,000, believed to be the snme as
last year.
me two are the only holdovers i
from the Redbirds' last chain '
pionship club of 11M6. For the 35.!
year-old Musial it will be his 14th i
; treason with the St. Louis team.
Schoendlenst Is ready for his l.th
ycar '
om Face Las.
EOC Picked
Over Owls
LA GKANDE (Special) Coach
Dob Qui tin's Eastern Oregon Col-
leffe of Education iMountulneer
are heavy favorites to ref Inter
their third strain lit Oregon Col
legiate Conference basketball
win here tonight an they host the
visiting Oregon Technical In'
atitutc Owls in the first of a two
game series.
The Mountles won a pair of
conference games from Southern
Oregon last week, while Tech
was dropping a pair to the Vfk
Jngs of Portland State. In the
overall season's play, EOCE has
won seven and lost three, com
pared to Tech's 4-7 record.
Eastern Oregon has won twice
over HOC, University of Nevada,
and Whitman,' and once over
NW Nazarene. The three losses
came at the hands of NW Naza
rene and twice to Seattle Pacific.
Tech has lost to Seattle Pacific,
Shasta, Humboldt State, St.
Martin's Olympic and twice to
Portland State. Their wins have
come from Shasta, Humboldt,
St. Martin's and Olympic.
Wally Palm berg will probably
start with John McCutcheon and
Johnny Foster at the forward po
sitions, and big Charlie Bogle,
the 6-9 pivotman, will handle the
center chores. Working In bark
court for the Owls will be Jerry
Fasleen and Bobby Whitman,
two hoopstcrs who earned the
first-line spots by standout per
formances last week against
PSC.
For Qulnn, who has been at
EOCE for 27 years, Ted Schwa-
dcwltz and Jack Cochran at the
guard positions, while Lowell
Kolhaba and Kenny Westcnkow
are expected to draw the front
line forward assignments. The
center duties will bo given to G-S
John Itelnltlng, who has been
the spearhead of the Mountain
eer attack In the last few games.
Last year Tech won one of
four from the EOCK club. Since
the OCC first started, Tech has
won nine compared to Eastern
Oregon's 11.
P. Richards
Sees Better
Oriole Year
BALTIMORE, Md (UP) Paul
Richards, steering clear of any
rash promises, conceded today the
Baltimore Orioles "won't be sen
sational" this year but he Insisted
they will be "100 per cent im
proved over last year."
Richards has a flock of logical
reasons why he feels the Orioles
certainly will belter their seventh
place finish of 1055.
"We were a much more solid
ball club toward the end of last
season than at the beginning," he
said. "Only three -ved
us over the last half or the season,
New York. Cleveland and Chicago.
Another reason the club Is
bound to be better is because I
know a lot more about It than I
did last spring.
"But most important of all. we
have some young fellow on the
lub who I Just know will ) fine
ballplayers one day.
Among the youngsters Richards
referred to were catcher Hal
Smith, lnflelders Wayne Causey.
Gus Tiiandos, Dob Hulc and Don
Lenpert and oullie'-' --' Nel
son, Jim Plsonl and Chuck Ouer-
tcl.
"A lot of clubs won' 1 to
l'ave Smith but Ihcy won't get
him." Richards said. "Causev has
n ade tremendous strides and Trl
andos and Utile are In", good
hitters. Keep an eye on that fellow
Plsonl. too. He has all the nvklnss
of a big leaguer."
Jim Wilson, Bill Wight. Ray
Moore, Erv Pallca. Hurry Dorlsh,
and George Zuverlnk will form
Hie mu'lctis of the Orioles' pitching
rlaff, which Richards rates as a
toed one.
"Watch Wight this year." Rlrh
ards advised. "I think he's going
to really show everyone somelhing.
lie's a mlghly, tine pitcher."
Baltimore's outfield orobahlv
vlll be manned by Dave Pope,
Jim Dyck and Dave Plilllev or
Chuck Dteling unless Plsonl or
Oertel can break into the regular
lineup.
"We ll be much stronger at first
base and behind the plate, espe
cially since the men there now
have a year's experience under
their belts," Richards said. "Willi
Mliamlu gives us everything we
need at shortstop, and the addition
of Hobby Adams should furnish us
Willi belter Iniicld reserve strength
tlinil we hud last year."
The lanky skipper of tho Orioles
also Is anxious to get a look at
Tito Framona. a much heralded
first basemaii-oulfielder who Is
coming out of service.
H0CKEY
Scores
ICE HOCKEY
By THK ASSOC I.M Kl) PRESS
Thursday's He mi It
WESTERN l l E
Seattle 3, Winnipeg a (overtime)
ATinvti iriri i"
t .AliovL M.AGt fc.
c Mc 5. Boston 0
Dctrolt 8- New York 0
INTERNATIONAL LEAlil'E
Cincinnati 6, Grand Rapids 3
Albert Selected Head
Coach By
SAN FRANCISCO (UP)
Prankle Albert, who used the pre
rogative of a left-hander to change
his mind about his future, today
embarked on his new career as
head coach of the San Francisco
Forty Nincrs professional football
team.
Albert, who had often said he
was not interested In a coaching
Job, was given the position as
field boss of the Forty Nincrs yes
terday.
"I've always been unpredictable
Joey Lopes,
L. Lightburn
Clash Tonight
SAN FRANCISCO (UP) A
brown-skinned young British Hon
duran who bids fair to become
1058's first darling of the TV fans,
makes his West Coast debut here
tonight In a 10-round nationally
televised fight with California light
weight Joey Lopes.
He Is 21-year-old Ludwig Llaht-
burn, who boomed into the seventh
ranking spot last month by out
punching New Orleans speedster
Ralph Dupas In Madison Square
Garden.
As training (or tnnltht's an wno
wrnnnor! im this lnral nHrB.m.l.n.E
wore quoting 2 to 1 that Llght-
uurn win give Lopes a set of
lumps. The fight men who hang
around Newman's Gym on Leav
enworth Street were that Im
pressed by the Central American's
speed of list and potent sock.
Ludwig, who proudly announces
that his old man was once the
lightweight champ of Honduras.'
has won 36 out of 42 professional
starts, including 13 kayoes. He has
never been stopped.
Over on the other side of the
baV. Sncramfntn .Innu nrnnnH ,.n
tralnlntr soberlv determiner! tn win t
or else. I
Currently lOlh ranked, he had an
excellent record tin !n th tvilHrlla
of last year when he suffered two
setbacks in front of the nation's
TV viewers. One licking was at
the hands of Carmnlo nnstn nH
the other by Frankle Ryff.
He knows he's got to win this
one or risk sliding right out of
ine lightweight title picture. ,
Si
Tops Royals
By UNITKD PHICSS
The Philadelphia Warriors' la
test winning strenlc
games today as the runaway Na
tional Basketball Assn, leaders in
creased their first-place margin in
me r.astern Division to five full
gomes.
The Quaker Clly hot-shots led
all the way Thursday night in scor
ing a 123-94 triumph over the
Rochester Royals at Philadelphia.
In the only other league action,
the Syracuse Chiefs snapped a four
game losing streak bv beating St.
Louis. 93-78, in a battle of tall
enders. Rochester stayed In contention
tor 16 minutes, when Philadelphia
held only a 37-36 margin. But then
the Warriors ripped off 11 straight
pounds to take charge and the
Royals never came closer than
six points again. Neil Johnston
scored 23 poinls and Paul Ariiin
had 20 for the Warriors and Ed
Fleming had 19 for the Royals.
ciyrucuse alio si. Louis were tied
27-27, with 4'j minutes led in the
first half but the Nats staged
a sudden splurge for a 44-29 half
time bulge and breezed ill. Bill
Kcnvillo of the Nats had 19 poinls.
BLACK HAWKS DOMINATK
CHICAGO ifi Former Chicago
Black Hawks appear on every Na
tional Hockey League team. Tor
onto has Harry Lumlev; Montreal
has Bert Olmstead: the New York
Rangers have a pair In Bill Gadsbv
and Dave Creighton while Detroit
and Boston each have three for
mer Hawks. Detroit has Bob Gold
ham, Uui'ky Holllngworth and Me
tro Piystai while the Brums have
Vic Stasiuk, Lome Davis and Cat
Gardner.
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Just a lefthander," said Ihe for
mer All . American quarterback
trom Stanford who also put In an
outstanding career as T-fJrmaticn
QB for the team he will now head.
Albert succeeds Norman (Redi
Strader at the Forty Niner helm
and becomes the youngest head
coach in the professional ranks.
The original college T-forniution
quarterback with Clark Shaughnes
sy's Stanford teams is 35 a
year older than Paul Brown was
in 1B46 when he took over control
of the Cleveland Browns.
utMjwner oi ine i'orty Nincrs
Tony M o r a b i t o. made the an
nouncement of Albert's appoint
ment at a news conference yes
terday and hailed Frankie as an
"Inspirational leader" who has
been connected with the Forty
Niners since their beginning days.
Albert, who threw many a lelt
handed pass and punted many a
football with his left foot while di
recting the club, becomes the third
San Francisco coach in as many
rs.
For nine seasons Lawrence T.
(Buck) Shaw coached the team
only to be fired last winter by
Morabito, Strader, lured as
Shaw's replacement and the sec
ond coach since the team was or
ganized, lasted only one season.
Morabito fired Strader last month
after a dismal 3-9 season that
started out witli the team picked
for first or second in the Western
Division.
Morabito refused to d 1 s c 1 o s e
terms of the contract given Al
bert, but admitted the quarterback
had little coaching experience.
"He had done more for the
Forty Niners than any other one
man." Morabito said. He called
Albert "Mr. T Formation" and an
"inspirational leader" and said the
Forty Niners had watched Albeit
lor 11 years.
"We like what we have seen,"
Morabito added.
Cubs May
11 M I
CHICAGO (UP) The Chicago
Cubs will be Improved in pitching
nnd cn tcli in? in -1056, Manner
Stan Hack said today, forsccintr
a possible first division finish for
the club in the National League
race.
'Jlm Brosnan has improved
enough to help the club pitching."
he said, "and Turk Lown I be
lieve has probably found hhnsflf
again. Then Russ Meyer can be
a stnrter for us nnd help. Hobie
Landrith will help the catching,
and Don Honk will give us im
proved hustle and defensive play."
Hack, appearing at the annual
news conference preceding the
Chicago Baseball Writers' dinner
said his team would have the
"best second base combination in
either league" in second basrm.ui
Gene Baker and shortstop Erme
Banks.
But to complete the strength
down the middle, he was unrer
lain about center field with Gale
Wade, Solly Drake and perhaps
Eddie Miksis getting a chance at
the job.
Minm.i; counts
"I believe a ball club has to be
built down the middle," he said,
"with the side positions supposed
'.o be the power hitters."
Tonight's
Ballfare
OniCGON t'OI.LKC.l.VTE
rONKEKEM'K
1:00 Oregon Tech at EOCE
1:00 Southern Oregon at OCE
SOl'TIIKKN OltlX.ON
COMK11 KNCE
8:15 Medlord at Klamath
8:15 Ashland at Grants Pass
t'OI'NTV B I.KAtilE
7.30 Henley at Malin
7:30 Bonanza at Sacred Heart
7:30 Chiloquin at Merrill
7 30 Gilchrist at Bly
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LEE McG!LL, speedy junior guard, may be in the starting lineup
tonight as the Klamath Union Pelicans host the invading Mod
ford Black Tornadoes at Pelican Court. The Friday-Saturday
series will determine the leadership of the conference race.
Hoekev Trademarks
By OSCAR FRALEY
United Press Sports Writer
Nlvj VORK" (IlPi Tee hockev
players, fighting for survival in a
bono-jarrmg sport, nave memories
nir nin-iimnts nnd work on the
vengeful principle of two eyes for
an eye and two teeth for a tooth.
Gratifies are carried until they
urn nnirl nff not OIllV ill full but
wit!) usurious interest. The theory
is that if you don t get even witn
a vengeance you probably will be
run rit;l)l out of the league.
"You're no hoc!:cy player until
somebody knocks your teeth out,"
insists Phil Watson, coach of the
Now Vork Rnntrers. "nor until you
knock out somebody el'e."
well, tne Rangers nave a aeniai
candidate ozl both courts. He is
Lou Fontinato. a six foot, one inch
190-poimrt blocvbuster who is giv
ing larruping Ted Lindsay of the
H A ft 5rf rl a 6
Hack's theory that Hoak, In
fidrier obtained from Brooklyn
with oul fielder Walt Moryn in a
December trade, would he'n the
club draw support from Meyer,
nnti'hcr (o-mor Brooklyn player
traded to the. Cubs.
"HaUc wiil make the fans for
get about Randy Jackson," Meyer
said. "I tlniik Randy is a good
ball player, and Hoak won't hit
the low: bull like he does, but
he'll make up for it in hustle and
leadership.
"He'll Miow 'you how to run
bases. When he goes out on that
field, there's only one thing on
his mine; how t beat you and
l.e doesn't care how he does it.
With him I'll defy you to name
a bettor defensive Infield in the
lcu'uie."
Hack .said he didn't know about
Moryn. but that he honed "he'll
be another Bill Nicholson, and
Meyer, who played with the Cubs
with Nicholson earlier, said that
he thought Moryn could be the
"slee;er of the deal."
tim:mi;moi s hi:i.p
"When he was sent out In 1355, "
he .said, "he didn't want to go,
and J think he has good possibil
ities of being another Nicholson.
I think the deal is going to be a
tremendous help."
Hack listed Meyer, Bob Rush.
Sam Jones. Warren Hacker nnd
Taul Mhmcr as potential starting
pitchers wuh Brosnan and rookie
John Briefs perhaps rating start
ing berths too. For relief work he
listed Turk Lown and. Jim Davis.
To complete his outfield, it ap
peared he would rely on Hank
Saner and Monte Irvin, but he
speouk-U that he was going to
spring camp with an "open mind."
"Everybody has a chance to
make our ball club." he said,
'and everybody is going to get a
good leok."
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producing bad man "honors."
VILLAINY
Fontinato, who bears a facial re
semblance to Joe Di Miigsio, bids
fair to join such immortal hockey
villains as Eddie Shore, Red Horn
er and Ching Johnson, the physi
cal demands are as expected. Only
in his second year on the big time,
Lou has suffered a broken nose,
two knee injuries, severely bruised
chest cartilege and enough cuts to
delight the needlework guild.
"I was the only boy In our fami
ly and had six older sisters." he
says. "I guess that's enough to
make anybody mean."
But whatever the reason, Lou
Is skating on thin ice. The men
who carry those Tipperary rillcs
are swift to retaliate on a despera
do of Fontinato's inclinations and
talents.
Last year, as example, you'll
remember how Boston's Hal Lay
coe parted the hair of Maurice
(The Rocket) Richard. Maurice
was serene until he saw blood.
Then he saw red. The Rocket real
ly went off. Linesman Cliff Thomp
son tried to stop the fit;ht and was
failed by a punch. Richard then
concentrated on giving Laycoe a
irassase with his stick, gashing
his, adversary's head and bruising
his eve.
FEUD
Lindsay and "Wild Bill" Ezin
icki carried on a feud for years
after terrible Ted used his stick
lor a 22-stitch cranial operation.
Ezinicki always thereafter ratted
to get on the ice at the same time
but Detroit Coach Tommy Ivan
would derrick Lindsay.
Ezinicki was too obvious.
Montreal's Ken Reardon waited
three years before he lowered the
boom, although the delay occurred
because he didn't know who hand
ed him a 14-stitch stick blow dur
ing a general melee. Eventually
a member of the rival team was
traded to Reardon's club and he
discovered that the unpaid three
year old debt was chalked up
against Toronto's Cal Gardner.
The next time thev met. Reardon
precipitated a fight and a long
tvustrated punch which broke
Gardner's jaw in two places.
Fontinato. you can see. is travel
ing a rocky, hemstitched road.
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NEW YORK IjT The Cape Cod
Tuna Club won the U.S. Atlantic
Tuna Tournament 1955 tagging con
test. Jake Brown, one of its mem
bers, personally entered a total of
34 tagged fish. The tournament re
ports that 216 bhicfin tuna were
tagged during 1955.
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KUHS Hosts State's
Fourth Ranking Team
The storm warnings are up for
the Klamath Union High School
Pelicans tonight and Saturday eve
ning at Pelican Court as the fourth.
ranked Medford Black Tornadoes
Managers
Deserting
NY Guild
NEW YORK Wl The rush of
fight managers to desert the Box
ing Guild of New York continued
today as Julius Helfand, chairman
of the New York State Athletic
Commission, set a Jan. !9 hearing
on charges against the Monday
night televised fights from St.
Nicholas Arena.
Helfand's office announced last
night that 29 members had left the
broken guild and many more had
called to ask about the proper pro
cedure of resigning. Another batch
of resignations was expected in
today's mail.
The specific charges against
matchmaker Tex Sullivan, Treas
urer Willie Gilzenberg and the
London Sporting Club, which pro
motes at St. Nick's, was expected
to be the "convincer" for managers
who can't make up their mind.
Sullivan and Gilzenberg were hit
with eight charges and the London
Sporting Club with seven. The two
men were ordered to appear Thurs
day to show cause why their li
censes and the club's license
shouldn't be revoked.
Helfand charged Sullivan and
Gilzenberg with "cunsorting with
persons convicted of crime, book
makers, gamblers and persons of
similar pursuits" in violation of
state law. Last week at a press
conference he accused the St.
Nick's promoters of associating
with men with criminal records in
attempting to move their opera
tions to Baltimore, effective Jan.
23.
The two men also were charged
with trying to move to Baltimore
as a "subterfuge" to enable guild
members to "circumvent and sabo
tage" the commission in its rule
forbidding membership in the guild
after Jan. 16. In effect, the men
were charged with conspiring to
work with the guild to knock out
boxing in New York and move it
out of the Jurisdiction of the com
mission. While Helfand was in Florida on
vacation, Ihe St. Nick's promoters
received permission from the
Maryland commission to move to
Baltimore, saying they couldn't
make matches in New York after
the Jan. 16 deadline. Maryland
Gov. Theodore McKeldin reversed
the commission last Friday.
"We feel sure we've done noth
ing wrong," said Sullivan, who
also spoke for Gilzenberg. "There's
nothing In the charges we're afraid
to answer. We'll be glad to appear
and give the public our side of the
story."
Helfand said he would continue
to approve matches for St. Nick's.
provided the managers involved
have resigned from the guild, until
a final decision Is made.
MUDDLE HUDDLE
LEXINGTON. Va. wi William A.
(Bill) Chipley, Washington and Lee
University's new head football
coach, still takes a lot of kidding
over his "wrong way" incident
back in 1946.
As a star end for W. & L..
Chipley got into the wrong huddle
against West Virginia. The game
was played on a rain-soaked, mud
dy field at Charleston, W. Va.
Bill turned up in the West Vir
ginia huddle after a series of
rough plays. He was confused more
than ever when the Mountaineer
quarterback called play "94-X."
i don't Know any such play,"
Chipley blurted out.
Somebody scraped the mud off
Bill's face and sent him back to
W. & L.'s side of the scrimmage
line.
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Invade Klamath Falls to face the
Pels of Coach Don Peterson In a
two-game Southern Oregon Confer
ence basketball series.
Game time tonight is 8:15. The
Junior varsity teams from both
schools will take to the maples with
tip-off time slated for 8:45.
District and conference leader,
ship stands as the goal for both the
Tornado and Pelican squads, but
the Whitebirds from Klamath Un
ion have an added incentive la
posting a double triumph, or even
just one victory, over the state's
number four prep power. Not since
the early part of the 1953-54 seasoa
has a KUHS cage club turned back
a Medford basketball team. The
red and black sharpshooters of
coach Frank Roelandt have made
a clean sweep of the last ?. ba.
ties in which the Pels and Tornadoes-have
clashed.
Last weekend, Medford complete
ly outclassed Ashland in their first
conference play, while the Pels
took a Dair nf nnmp. fmm nrn,c
Pass on the Caveman's home court,
sometning uiey have been unable
to do in the last. Kir vpflr. A
double win by either of the two
teams this weekend would fill the
driver's seat for conference honors
Medford has been installed a
slight favorite because of their im
pressive win-loss record over some
of the top high school teams in the
state. The Tornado cagers have
rolled up seven wins against only
two setbacks, while the Pels have
been setting down six opponents
and dropping two tilts.
Frank Roelandt's club turned In
wins over the state's number one
team Franklin, plu3 the fact of
splitting a pair with Eugene, which
is ranked by many as the best
team in the state. Others triumphs
by Medford have been recorded at
the hands of North Bend, Marsh
field. Roseburg, each once, and
Ashland twice. The Pels have won
double victories from Redding and
Grants Pass and divided a pair
with Reno and Jefferson of Port
land. Peterson was having troubles
this past week selecting his "num
ber 5" man for tonight's starting
lineup. Donn Taucher and Dave
Pepple- are almost sure to be in
lor the opening tipoff at the Pell
can guard spots, but the battle
for the Other nntsirip nnsitlnn ate
still not settled in Peterson's mind
at ine close or Thursday night's
practice.
Orin Perkins. Hlltrh THmntnn afirt
Mike Runge have been alternating
ai me tnird outside spot, but stiff
competition has also been coming
from Lee McGill and Jerry Burke
this past week, According to Pet
erson, all will probably be seeing
lots of action as the Pelicans try
fo turn the rnllinu Hrifff lli MoH.
ford powerhouse.
The other two starters for the
Whitebirds will probably be Glenn
Moore and Earle Tichenor at the
twin nost nONilinns Tirhnnnf Is ctill
bothered by a swollen ankle suf
fered in the second Jefferson
game, and Moore missed school
early in the week due to a cold
and sore throat, but both are ex
pected to be ready for tonight's
tussle. Others who are expected to
be seeing action are Cliff Suther
land, the Pels' number three post
man, Ken Douglas and Bill Ham
blin. ....
Medford's starting unit will prob
ably find Bob Tisdel and Lloyd
Cearley at the two guard spots.
Neil Plumley at center and Dick
Copple and Dick McLaughlin at
forward. John Foust, a returning
letterman from last year's club,
may open at center in place of
Plumley. and is expected to see
plenty of court play before the se
ries has ended tomorrow evening.
The Tornadoes will rely upon the
scoring punch supplied by Tisdel
and Copple. who have netted point
total of 132 and 107 in games
played so far this season. Klam
ath's Tichenor and Moore are car
rying the Pelican offensive load
with six-game totals of 141 and 105.
Taucher gives the KU quintet a
third scorer with his 81 points,
while McLaughlin has tallied 92
for Medford.
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