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-V WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22. 1956 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THIRTEEN Pels, Ashland Battle In Final Season Play The tale tournament bound Klamath Union High School Peli cans close out their regular sea son play this weekend in a two game Southern Oregon Conference basketball series with Ashland on Vic Seixas, Larson Lead Net Entries NEW YORK (UP l Vic Slixas and Art Larsen, America's top ranking tennis players, head a field of 32 players in the National Indoor Tennis Championships opening today, opening a season aimed at recovery of the Davis Cup from Australia. The tourney Is the first major event on this year's tennis pro gram and is the first chance for Seixas and Larsen to prove they still rate Davis Cup berths ahead of several aspiring youngsters in cluding Sammy Giammatva of Houston, Tex.. Gil Shea of Los Angeles, and Grant Golden of Chi cago. There also is a strong for eign entry list headed by former U. S. Indoor champion Sven Da vidson of Sweden and big Kurt Nielsen of Denmark. Seixas. of Philadelphia, has been seeded first among U.S. entries, with Larsen. of San Leandro, Calif., second. Shea third, and Giammalva fourth. Among the foreign players, Davidson has been seeded first, Nielsen second, Ulf Schmidt of Sweden third, and Rob ert Howe of Australia fourth. Nats Nudge New Yorkers By UNITED PRESS The New York Knickerbockers are finding to their dismay that getting rid of a coach and hiring a new one is no sure-file formula lor success. , Thev were further than ever to day from their objective of third place in the Eastern Division of the National Basketball Assn. and a spot ' in the playoffs. For the fifth straight time they were beat en by the Syracuse Nationals, 108 107, In two loverttme periods at Madison Square Garden. : . Syracuse, riding high with a six- game winning streak, now has a third place lead of a game and a half over the Knicks. Ironically, 'when Joe Lapchick gave up the I ghost as coach, the Knicks were in third place, com lortably ahead of Syracuse.' But sincer Vince Boryla took over as head man oh Feb. 12 the New Yorkers have won only two games while losing ifive. . At St. Lous, Chuck Share and' Bob Pettjt piled in 27 points apiece to pace the Hawks to a 101-97 vic tory over the Boston Celtics. St. Louis retained third place in the Western Division. 7 HERE'S Y G&i WHERE I'M I ftftiua to HAVE A TOUGH S TIME GETTIN&TO READ THE PAPER. THE DAYS DC C nVADDC AO TP r e fc V I tnnn YOU WE'LL ABLE TO SEE IT, WHILE YOU ARE f 'A peedy's 1955 Plymouth $ Belyedere Hardtop In a beautiful 2-tone green and eggshell color combination. Complete with rodio, heater, standard transmission end over-drive. This car sold new for over $3,000.00, and carries a new car guarantee. Only 9,000 miles on this one. Take it away for $2295.00. the Grizzlies home court. This Is the final conference play for both teams. Coach Don Peterson's Pels, al though "in" the slate's prep clas sic, will not be able to look ahead if they are to add to their pres tige. Last weekend. It was Ash land that put the Whitebirds in the state meet by splitting with Grants Pass. In the Saturday nis'M Ashland-Grants Pass game, the Grizzlies polished off the Cavemen and their hopes for a tourna ment berth. 53-38. Earlier in the year. Klamath posted two conference triumphs over the Grizzlies, but on their home floor and with additional sea soning under their belts. Ashland may be ready to spring another league upset. Even if the local prepsters drop both games to Ash land this weekend, second place and the tourney bid is still their's. This will be the final high school basketball action not counting tournament play for seven of Pe terson's Pelicans and nine Ashland Grizzlies. Klamath hoopsters who are seniors and will be graduating this spring are Donn Taucher. Earle Tichenor. Orln Perkins, Dave Pepple. Jerry Burke. Mike Runge and Bill Hamblln. Senior members of Ashland High's squad makin; their final prep outings are . Phil Sword. Harry Johnson. Gene Par ent, Lanes Locke, Stew Biker, all of whom are starters: Dave Woods, Bob Alley, DeVar Cluff and Dick Green. Going into the final two-game play, the Pels' sterling sophomore center, Glenn Moore leads the scoring pace with 230 points, while Earle Tichenor and Ddiw Taucher are close behind with 219 and 217 respectively. In the rebounding de partment. Moore is tops with 225 snares, while Tichenor has 184 and Cliff Sutherland 111. As a team, Klamath has scored 1073 points for an Bverage of 59.6, while Peli can opoonents have hit for 1026 and a 57.0 average. The individual scoring for the Klamath Union team Is as follows: Name G. Moore . E. Tichenor D. Toucher B. Kimpton O. Perkins C. Sutherland M. Runge J. Burke D. Pepple L. McGlll K. Douglas B. 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Ten of Machen's 11 wins were by knockouts, one of which was over Howard King of Reno, who went 10 rounds but lost a decision to light heavyweight champ Arch ie Moore here Monday night. His longest fight was a 10-round deci sion over Ben Wise last Decem ber. Mederos, on the other hand, has two knockouts to his credit. There I? no question that the 23-year-old Cuban has on the whole fought bet ter opponents than Machen. KFLW (ABC) will carry the blow by blow account of tonight's fight, starting at 7:05 p.m. n i r ........ in lha luet Govan National League campaigns gained a 24-3 edge over the Chicago Cubs. After tours with the Phillies and Dodgers he Is back with the Cubs. RELOADERS JUST RECEIVED LARGE SHIPMENT ' SHOT NEW LOW PRICES,' The Gun Store 714 MAIN Ph. 3843 mm PLEASURE'S ALL! YOURS FOLK Si Va. 'SPEEDY ni ' kii ff- u .Jl U(J Mi kzs NC State Snarles ACCRace By UNITED PRESS An unheralded North Carolina Slate substitute, who has warmed j the bench for most of three sea-; sons, was the principal cause of a four-way .snarl-up for first, place ; today In the Atlantic Coast Con ference basketball race. Lou Dlckman was the unsung sub who scored eight points in the final four minutes Tuesday nitht to give the Wolfpack a come-from-hind 79-73 victory over North Caro lina. As a result of Dickman's heroics. North Carolina State, North Caro lina, Wake Forest and Duke all are tied for first place In the At lantic Coast Conference with iden tical records of 10 league victories and three defeats. ' Duke rolled over Virginia. 92-58. with' center Junior Morgan scoring 24 of the Blue Devils' points. Bob McCarthy and Wlstar Nelllgan each netted 14 points for the los ers. South Carolina dropped Clemson Into the Atlantic Coast Conference cellar by beating the Tigers. 89-83. in a game which twice saw spec tators running out on the floor. Grady Wallace was individual high scorer as he led South Carolina to victory with 35 points. Canislus overcame a poor start to defeat Villanova. 89-81. and vir tually clinch a berth in the NCAA, tournament for the second straight year. Southern Methodist clinched a tie for Its second straight South west Conference title with an 89-68 triumph over Baylor as guard Ronnie Morris of Shawnee, Okla. hit for 21 points for the Mustangs. SMU now has a 10-0 conference record. A Heidelberg H Midd feweights Stealing From Heavies In By OSCAR F HALEY Vniletl .Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UPl A hard rock puncucr iiom the hard coal belt and a fighting Irishman out of uiyl:nd's ooxiiL2 booths are mak ing luces at each other today as 4U.,.icr prjor Unit the middle weights compose the ring s hol ies, division. The heavyweights seem to be in moth balls and the I.r.h heavies j apparently are all but e:;tmct. So j in the thir.d straight 16a-pound bout to be televised nationally on Friday nihi it will bo Pennsyl vania's Rocky Castellan, against Britain's John L. Sullivan. That famous name hasn't swayed the oddniakers. bee u use Castellan! Is a 2 to 1 choice. Bui It does prove that the middlewcights are hotter than a two dollar pis tel. Such 160-pound-ers as Gene Fullmer and Gil Turn er, alonp with Eduardo Laussc and Bobby Boyd, dominated the last two big shows. Ray Robinson is slated to defend the middleweight title against Bobo Olson at Los Angeles on April 20 and, waiting in the wintra, are such prime hope fuls as Joey Giambra. Tiger Jones and the undefeated young Rory Calhoun. 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