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WEDNESDAY. DECEMBER 31. 1958 By CLAYTON HANNON Herald end News Sporta Writer We've had a good year locally, one filled with many exciting and interesting sports attractions that won fame and fortune for some. sorrow and defeat for others. But m all, we can i complain. What was the top local sports story in wsu: mats a tough question to answer. We had many "Top stories. Such nominations as the Pelicans state Al basketball championship Merrill's winning the state B foot ball title; Oregon Tech's domina tion of the Oregon Collegiate Con ference as the Owls won the bas ketball, track and football titles (the latter was forfeited by the school because of ineligible play ers) or many, many others. While we had several very out standing team efforts that stood out. there was no shortage of in dividual stardom. The Klamath Ba sin had more than its share of standout individuals in the world of sports in 1058. What about big Glenn Moore, the leader in the KUHS state basket- hall championship? What about Oregon Tech's little Ail-American guard Allen Jones and all-Coast end Norm Hooper? What about Vein Allen, the Tulelake teacher and coach, who rolled a 747 series to set a new Lucky Lanes bowling record and possibly an all-time city alley mark? What about Dr. Jim Noel who won the Reames Golf and Country Club championship? And you can't leave out Moore, Dave Robinson and Bob Peterson who were named to the all-state A-l Basketball team at the close of the tournament. Or Denny Knowles who copped t h e state class B trapshooting title. Besides team and individual ef forts, we were in on several "firsts" for the Basin. Klamath Falls played host to the regional Babe Ruth League finals. Klam ath had its first season of official Little League baseball play. Local sports car enthusiasts formed a car club. Also a first was the ini tial archery hunting season when local bow and arrow followers set out to, bag doer in August and September in the Keno area. Let's review 1958 season by sea ton, sport by sport. Archery The big event for Klamath area archers was the first bow and ar row deer hunting season in August and September. Local bowmen took part in the usual number of state and invitational shoots held this past year, holding up the honors for their respective clubs. Baseball Summer baseball was headed up by the Klamath Kubs' title drive in Northern California League base ball play. This was also the first year for Little League baseball, as six teams of local youngsters took part in the national program for 10, 11 and 12 year olds. Johns Jlanville won the KF Little League championship in the first season's play. Klamath was the host to the northwest regional Babe Ruth League tournament, which was won by Washington's entry from South King County. Local Babe Ruth of ficers have also offered a bid for the state championships to he held here this coming summer. Merrill advanced to the state B semi finals before losing out. Oregon Tech's Charlie Ganter was named to the Oregon Collegiate Conference all-star team at shortstop. Ron Ow ings, ex-KUHS and Southern Ore gon College baseball star, signed a bonus contract with the Pitts burgh Pirates, but was released after a shoulder injury while play ing for Las Vegas. Hi Hatfield did a fine job in managing the Klam ath Falls American Legion Junior baseball team to the league cham pionship and into the district finals and state quarterfinals before bow ing to North Bend, two games to one. It was the first legion title here in several seasons. Donn Taucher. KF K u b. centerfielder, iff ' . UK1Sji ?,"" 1 Urn LITTLE LEAGUERS Klamath Falls enjoyed its first of ficial Little League baseball season in 1958. Above are members of Bob's Union team, one of six, to take part in,, he. local program for boys 10. II and 12 years of age. mvievjing lorn Sports Happenings PELICAN BASKETBALL Klamath Union High School defeated Grant High of Portland for the state A-l basketball championship last March in Eugene. Above Glenn Moore snares rebound In title game. , was named the outstanding player in the Northern California League all-star game at Dunsmnir after he sparked the south to victory over the northern stars. Merrill's town team won the Klamath Basin In dependent League crown. The Port land Beavers and Vancouver Moun ties of the Pacific Coast League played an exhibition game here early in the spring, with the Moun ties winning. The Beavers' start ing pitcher was Niles Jordan, ex- Klamalh Falls Gem hurler in the days of the Far West League. Basketball Klamath Union High and Oregon Tech both produced some fine bas ketball in 1958. The Pelicans won 25 of 2fi games and the state cham pionship by beating Grant High of Portland. The Owls won their sec ond straight Oregon Collegiate Con ference basketball title, plus post ing a 20-6 season record. Merrill igh won the county tournament title, but lost in the district play off to Talent. Oregon Food Store BUTCH KIMPTON . . playing for Webfoots led the City League standings and captured the district AAU honors before losing out in the area finals. Klamath had three on the all-state team in Glenn Moore, Dave Robin son and Bob Petersen after win ning the A-l title. Moore also set a new all-time KUHS nasneiDan 1000-point mark in three years of competition. The same three Fels Moore, Robinson and Petersen along with Bob Niles were named to the all-Southern Oregon Confer ence team for their play. Oil players on the all-OCC team were John McCutcheon, Truman Wil liams and Charlie Bogle. Butch Kimpton. a 1957 graduate of KUHS, sparked the University of Oregon frosh basketball team last winter, ft M L L . ,, , n-'- and now as a sophomore is bidding high for a starting job on the Webfoot varsity. He is classed by Oregon basketball leaders as one of the top guard and playmaking pros pects to come out of the state in many years. Larry Pretty Weasel scored 52 points in one game to lead Lodge Grass (Montana) to the championship of the annual all- Indian invitational basketball tour nament at Chiloquin. The tourna ment, the biggest in the history of the meet was again sponsored by the Reservation Jaycces. Bowling A in - lane addition to Luckv Lanes Bowling Alley was the big news for local bowlers. All new automatic pinsetters help to take care of the huge demand made on the South Sixth Street bowling establishment. Vern Allen's 747 headed the list of individual efforts on the KF lanes. Three other 700s were rolled Frank Beard's 709, Cliff Stemier with a 706 and Roy Harris with a 704. Stcmlcr teamed with Bob Victorin fo win the men's state class A doubles champion ship at the state tournament, l.a Rayne Harris continued to pace the women bowlers by winning another city all-events 'scratch champion ship. Lucky Lanes was busy with exhibition schedules as nationally- known greats slopped here lor pub lic shows. The three names who were here included Dick Hoover, Buddy Bomar and Bill Lilliard. Boxing The armory was quiet as far as professional boxing was concerned this past year. In Lakeview the in tcrest in amateur and PAL boxing clubs for boys was high. Frankie Lightle of Lakeview won the 147- pound state AAU novice boxing championship. Cross Country For the second straight year, Oregon lech sponsored a cross country team. Although the team against SOC and was on a limit ed schedule, Coach George Miller had some fine track prospects Heading the list was Roger More land and George Pappen, the lat ter the Owls top distance runner in track. Dogs Again the two retriever field tri als sponsored by tne ahasta-Cas cade Retriever Club were success ful. Over 100 entries took part in both the spring and fall meetings Clover, a Lab, and Joaquin Nug get, a Golden, were the winners of the Open All-Age stakes at the two S-C trials. Hal Shidler qualified and entered his fine Labrador, Hal's Spi-Wize-Zeke in the national amateur championships held near San Francisco. Zeke finished all nine of the series and placed high in the final standings. Pat Mont gomery and Bob Trotman worked on the trial grounds crew while Jim Slilwcll, another local retriev er leader, was one of the three judges. Fishing We had a good fishing season. As usual, many anglers hooked some lunkers from the waters of Williamson River, Agency Lake and Upper Klamath Lake. Dia mond Lake was very good early in the year, with fly-fishermen get ting several weeks of good fishing late in the season. Lake of the Woods despite a scare that the trout in the lake were dying be cause of a tapeworm was very good for pan-sized fish and was heavily stocked for future fishing seasons. Klamath River was better early in the spring than it has been for years. Football The top football news here was Oregon Tech's great 6-2 season which included a 4-0 Oregon Colle giate Conference season record. But the Owls bubble burst when LU FOR the school found it had four ineli gible players, and forfeited the ti tle. The Owls lost only to Hamilton Air Force Base and Whittier Col lege, while grabbing such big wins as 66-7 over Oregon College and 40 0 over Southern Oregon before forfeiting 1-0 after the announce ment of ineligible players. Although KUHS had a poor season in the won-lost column, end Gary Kran enburg was named to the Oregoni- an s all-state honorable mention list. Merrill rolled up its first state class B football championship and an undefeated team under the coaching of Al Keck. Keek's teams in the last three years have ad vanced to the quarterfinals, semi tinals and now the championship. Merrill clubbed oncalla W)-7 in the championship game for the biggest score on record for any state high school championship game, regardless of classification Jack Himclwnght, ex-KU football er, played his third year of vai sity football for the University of Colorado and was named to the all-Big Eight Conference first team ALLEN JONES . . . little A-A mention as a tackle, as well as. making LTl s all-America honorable men tion list. Jack also played in the Copper Bowl game as a member of the Southwest team. Al Sieg ner, another ex-Pelican, played his second year of football at Monterey Peninsula (JC) College and was picked to the West team which played in the East-West All-Ameri ca Junior College bowl game. Five Klamath County B high school foot- 5-- o OCC CHAMPIONS Oregon Tech won its second straight Oregon Collegiate Conference basketball title in 1958. Above, all-conference iter John McCutcheon puts up a shot in a game against Oregon College. REGISTER NOW FOR J. W. KERNS BIG PRIZES THE BEST WHISKERS bailers from 1957 played in the an nual East-West B Shrine game in Pendleton last August. The five were Perry Laney, Merrill; Dick Steyskal, Malin; Steve Pope, Chilo quin; J. D. Mc.Murtry, Merrill and Jasper Strunck, Bonanza. Oregon Tech has six boys on all-star and all-America teams at the close of its fine season. Allen Jones, the four year letterman guard and cap tain, was named to the Associated Press' Little All-American honor able mention list. End Dale Mc- Culloch was on Williamson's Rat ing System little A-A honorable mention list. Jones and end Norm Hooper were picked to the second team all-Little Pacific Coast team selected by UP1. Hooper was a first team selection and Jones a second team choice for all-Little Northwest honors. Backs Earl Green and Charlie Ganter and tackle Arnold Metcalf were picked as honorable mention on the all Little Northwest team. Charlie Wil son, Ardell Hamilton, Frank Wil son and Roy Johnson were all OCC football choices this fall along with Jones, Hooper, Ganter, Green and Dick Hill. General Len Surles and Don Mcgale re signed from positions al Klamath Union High School and the ath lotic department. Joe Peak quit the post as physical education and health director of the city grade schools, ourles, for nine years a JOE PEAK . . . leaves Klamath post member of the KU staff, left his track job here and moved to Or ange, California where he is a jun ior high athletic director and city recreation otficer. Mcgale. after guiding the Pels to the state bas ketball title, quit to take a post in the Oregon State College PE de partment. Peak, after a very long tenure with local schools, dropped out of the teaching business and moved his family to the coast. Golf Dr. Jim Noel won the club cham pionship at Reames. Clark Good Ileames pro, set a new course rec ord by posting a 68 for 18 holes. A pair of hole-in-oncs were re corded this season once by Bill Hagelstein Sr., and the other by Max Marvin both came on the short seventh hole. Bob Harrahill defeated Wes McNce for the Presi dent's Cup title. In the all-Basin Tournament, Carl Woods won the low gross honors and Pelican foot ball coach Andy Knudsen led the low net field. High school golf was also started for KUHS students as a part of the high school athletic program, under the direction of Bob Johnson and Good. j4 , .ustm VALLEY PUMP AND EQUIPMENT COMPANY COMPLETE PUMPING SERVICE ALL MAKES REPAIRED Call TU 4-9776 2175 So. 6th St. ty.v! ihL III4''' 1 1 TENNIS VICTOR Portland's Bill Rose, left, receives the men's singles trophy for the third straight time after win ning the Herald and News Labor Day Tennis Tournament at Moore Park. Presenting the award is Earl Brooks, tourna ment chairman. Hardtops Again this summer, the Klamath falls Racing Assn. headed a hard top racing season. Bud Cook, a veteran driver, ran off with (lie individual point championship. The IRA also started a junior racing group for boys, and the youth group took part in the weekly rac ing sessions. Horseshoes For the first time, the city rec reation department scheduled an ROLLING TO STATE B TITLE championship this year under sets off on scoring run. Trapshooting Denny Knowles won Class B hon ors In the state trapshoot meet, Vern Moore traveled to Reno to en ter in both the Golden West Grand and the Pacific Grand. In the Golden West, Moore fired a 100-100 and was high among the finishers. , Wrestling KUHS lost the district champion ship for the first time since com peting in district competition. But DeLance Duncan s Pelicans went on to finish fourth in the state tournament held at Oregon State College. Pelican wrestler Lyle Mc Farland won the slate champion ship in his weight. Henley High started a wrestling program in its athletic program, and competed on a limited scncdule, but will be plan ning more mat action this year. Only one or two professional wrestl ing bouts were held at the armory. The midgets were here once and put on their usually fine show. Jay Dearing, university of Oregon wrestler via Klamath Falls, won the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate wrestling title in his weight di vision. W" 1 K ) r--- i !,,, p , in I II 1 1 II I 1 1 1 1 II III I p Mn III I . .hi. In 195$ all-city horseshoe tournament. The winner was Johnny Henderson. Hunting Due to hot and dry wealhor con ditions, our 1958 deer hunting sea .-ion was poor. Several fine tro phy bucks were bagged by hunters. but for the most part, the big deer and highly-sought alter bucks were hard to find because of the drv lorests. Pheasant hunters had t good season, with plenty of birds, Duck and goose shooting was good early in the season, but here again weather didn't help the hunters. Merrill High School won coach Al Keck. Above in Skiing The big news in this winter sport was the official opening of the Mt. Shasta Ski Bowl. Local ski ers will be giving Ihe Northern Cal ifornia winter wonderland lots of business as soon as the winter snow season is settled. Tomahawk Ski Bowl on the Lake of the Woods road also drew more Basin ski fans this past year. Jean and Joan Saubert of Lakeview won several ski titles in meets all over the country. SHOVELS! 4 7WE IIAVE THBtt R Jill III ATAIf 111 II IT tlllfMONt 1.I4JF 4ji sni hs mm KLAMATH Mill The late season hunting condition! included cold, but clear weather with freezing ice chasing lots of birds out of the country and into California to the south. Several gunners dropped big bear on out- mgs this fall. Local elk hunters: also had their share of success, although the overall state outlook for elk hunters vis poor. Softball The city recreation department had another banner year for their I'oung boys summer Softball rro- cram for Bantam and PeeWee ace boys. Market Basket s city league winners advanced to the state tour nament and lost out to Salem in a 1-0 extra inning ballgame that was broken up by a long home run. The Klamath Basinettes were reformed and entered the state women's Softball tournament at Medford. The local girls team placed high in the state playoffs, and also had several exhibition games both at home and on the road. Sports Cars Local sports car patrons formed a club of their own, for "little car people." The name of Ihe club is Sport and Import Car Club. The group held several travel-log trips and timing races. Tennis Klamath Union High tied for the state boys tennis championship. The doubles team of Pelicans Juli us Reynolds and John Bousquet won the state twosome champion ship. Jimmy Jackson won the Li ons Club City Tennis Tournament championship. Bill Rose for the third straight year won the annu al Herald and News Labor Day Invitational Tournament. Track Merrill placed fifth in the state B high school meet. Gordon Sellarj was the lone KUHS representative in the A-l meet and finished fifth in the broadjump. 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