; WEDNESDAY. JANUARY 21. 1953
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE 1 B
oirthern Oregon Clash Mere
B kif CLttTON KAHHOM
The Northern California League baseball situation may
be at an all time low now, with Klamath Fall a questionable
member and several of the other entries wondering what
can be done to boost the summer semi-pro circuit. And
without the NCL. Northern California sports fans would
be wanting for something to do with their summer Sunday
afternoons.
Irv Whitt, manager of the Klamath Kuhs, reports that
there is some question as to whether or not the local semi
pro club will be in operation this summer. And for once, it
is not a problem of finances. Seems the Kubs are above
water as far as money is concerned, but what they need
Is some person, or organization to get behind the team to take care
of the promotion and behind-the-scenes work.
Reports from other Northern California League cities indicate
a turn towards a later opening date and earlier closing date. Such a
move would help the teams in obtaining top college ballplayers who
get out of school late and must finish their summer ball season by
the first of September.
The late-start and early-end plan
that has been suggested seems to
have some strong backing. Mc
Cloud, a longtime member of the
: league, had to withdraw last year
' because of lack of players. This
problem would probably have been
' solved if the league play had not
started until after t h e school year
when college ballplayers were
available.
' Weed would probably favor such
a proposition. The Sons played
good ball during the regular sea
son, after the addition of a few
prime players from college, but
in the playoffs, after losing these
came prime additions, their play
fell off sharply.
Klamath's case is just about the
same. The Kubs depended upon
. several college athletes to fill out
its club. But most of these were
home grown and were able to
make it home for the weekend
eames until school finally ended
A later opening would help the
Kubs and save a few dollars trav
eling expenses on the part of the
boys who motored home on the
weekends for a game.
The big bug in the Kubs' case
seems to be the lack of promo
tional leadership. Whitt has his
hands full trying to run a club on
the playing field. If such responsi
bilities as ticket selling, schedul
ing. promotion stunts and general
managing duties were to be taken
over by a local organization the
Kubs would be sure to improve
by the move.
Here is a chance for a local
service organization interested in
building up its youth program
treasury to make a move. We
have no idea what type of fi
nancial agreement can be "made
between the Kubs and a local
group to handle such a job. But
whatever it is means pure profit
and a chance -to help build our
community.
It's something to think over.
Let's hone the Northern Cali
fornia League continues to oper
ate. Without it, our summers
would be baseball-lonesome. There
is a possibility that Medford might
join the circuit this year which
woud help to build up a new and
stronger rivalry within the league.
IRV WHITT
looking for some help
Tech Hosts Raiders
Tonight In OCC Play
OREGON COLLEGIATE
CONFERENCE
W L Pet. PF PA
South. Ore. 4 0 1.000 308 MS
Port. St. s o l.non 224 tsi
Ore. Tech 1 3 .250 244 305
East. Ore. 1 3 .250 269 29fl
Ore. Col 0 3 .000 147 211
Tuesday Results
Portland State 65, Oregon College
44
Wednesday Game
Southern Oregon at Oregon Tech
F'riday Games
Southern Oregon at Portland State
Eastern Oregon at Oregon College
Oregon Tech bye
.Saturday Games
Southern Oregon at Portland Slate
Eastern Oregon at Oregon College
Oregon Tech bye
Southern Oregon College's con
ference-leading Red Raiders come
to town tonight for an Oregon Col
legiate Conference basketball
meeting with the Oregon Tech
Owls from the Mile High Campus
Game time is 8 o clock.
A preliminary game is sched
uled for 6:15 pitting two of the
top City League basketball teams.
Oregon Food, comprised of KUHS
coaches, and Fleet's, a group of
OTI students, will tangle in the
prelim contest which will count
towards the City League standings.
Coach Wally Palmberg's Owls
and Ted Schopf's Raiders from
Ashland will be out in force as
the two clubs meet for the first
time this season. There is never
a dull moment in SOC-OTI ath
letic meetings and tonight's class
will be no different.
i
From other scribes' pens:
Dick Strite, Eugene Register-
Guard "One news service writer
suggested that Tippy Dye (Wash
ington basketball coach) take so
lace in the words of Red Auer
bach, coach of the Boston Celtics,
on the subject of the coaching pro
fession: 'A few years ago he
(Dve) was a hero. Now he's
dope because of a couple of freaks
out there can't put the ball through
the hoop.' If the Boston coach had
ever seen Smart (Doug) and Boin
(Bruno) in action he'd never think
of those two Huskies in the term
as freaks. They are solid college
basketball stars. . . .
Jack Richard, Corvallis Gazette-
Times "Comment heard in the
press box at Los Angeles this past
weekend alter tne announcement
came over the PA system that
Stanford had handed Washington
its third conference defeat 'T hey
laid Boin out last season . . .
maybe they should lay Tippy Dye
out this year. . . .' "
Al Lightner, Salem Statesman
Discussing the fact that ex-Ore
gon coach and now Pacific Coast
Conference official Bill B o r c h e r
has just recently been married
. . . "When the news that Borcher
had taken his vows reached Cor
vallis, one wag quickly quipped,
'Good! Now if she'll only keep
him home nights.
Moore was the target of some
"grandstand bench jockeys" . . .
he'd better learn to accept such
action because if he continues to
keep his scholastic work above
board, he'll be hearing lots more
in the next four years . , . but our
reports also indicate that lots of
the verbal tosses came ill the tone
of deep respect . . . and who
wouldn't respect a 21-point effort
on the part of a 6-8 flash of bas
ketball prowess?
On our trip to La Grande last
weekend with the Owls, it was in
teresting to look over the- new
field house and athletic plant that
has graced the Eastern Oregon
College campus ... a figure in the
neighborhood of $635,000 is said to
be the tab on the new EOC gym
and the plant is not completed
yet. . . . Eastern Oregon officials
have plans to put in a girls PE
department, an archery., range
and other athletic and PE develop
ments including a swimming pool
when this is finished the figure
will jump to over the one million
dollar mark ... as long as Ore
gon's higher education schools are
being bolstered by such new
buildings, it would be nice for one
or two improvements to be made
at Oregon Technical Institute
say a new and larger bucket to
place on the basketball floor to
catch the drops of rain that stream
through holes in the OTI gym
roof ... or stripping around the
big front doors and windows of the
gym to keep the cold winds and
drifting snow outside. . . .
Bill Veeck is battling hard in an
effort to buy the Chicago White
Sox ... and keeping his fingers
crossed that the colorful Veeck is
successful as general manager of1
the Cleveland Indians Frank Lane
. . . can you imagine what kind
of promotional antics will be ar
ranged between these two gents if
Veeck is successful? Veeck, you
will remember, brought several in
novations to baseball in years past
while with the St. Louis Browns
such as the midget batter
used to draw base on balls and
lure fans into the ballpark . . .
with Vceck's promotional talents
and Lane's trading and color
background, the American League
would be in for quite an improve
ment. . . .
Allen Jones, four-year Oregon
Tech football letterman, found out
that the game of basketball can
be rough. . . . Seems Al was
playing in a City League basket
ball game last week when he
slipped and fell. The damage: a
broken ankle. Jones is now on
crutches saying, "football wasn't
this hard on me."
It's Interesting to hear the same e?rSc!a"' manager of welter-
ouote come from two different I"'"1 '"'ner, is a picture
roaches on two different nights I'ramemaKer
after two different games. But try
this one for size. I
After last Friday night's OTI
win over Eastern Oregon, Moun-I
taineer coach Bob Quinn said. "I
have never coached such a dead
and flat team. It was the worst
team I have had."
So after Saturday night's game
when EOC bounced back and
clubbed the Owls in the second
game, Tech coach Wally Palmberg
used the same words just as
f rsn as they were first cast by
.
Basketball
Scoreboard
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Oregon Prep Basketball
Portland League
Grant 66, .Wilson 47
Cleveland 83, Roosevelt 54
Madison 49; Lincoln 25
Franklin 61, Washington 47
Jefferson 64. Benson 42
Other Scores
Myrtle Creek 65, Giide 51
Oakridge 57, Drain 56
Riddle 60, Oakland 58
Elkton 43, Yoncalla 36
Sutherlin 55, Douglas 33
Davs Creek 65. Canyonville 43
Forest Grove 54, Oregon City 32
Neahkahnie 45, Rainier 44
Aurora 49, Scio 37
Newport 64, Florence 38
Willamina 51. Amity 29
North Salem 48, North Eugene 21
Clatskanie 54, Estacada 45
Toledo 76. Taft 51
Stayton 47, Gervais 33
Woodborn 48, cascade ji
Nestucca 52, Sheridan 48
Dallas 55, Tigard 41
Grcsham 63, Clackamas 43
Hillsboro 50, Milwaukie 38
St. Helens 64, Lake Oswego 44
David Douglas 39, Central Catho
lic 38
Waldport 52, Rcedsport 49
Knappa 44, Jewell 34
Seaside 80, Warrenton 47
St. Francis (Eugene) 44, Creswell
28
Vernonia 69, Tillamook Catholic 48
Albany 52. South .Eugene 45
South Salem 57. Willamette U.
Frosh 53
Sherwood 49, Salem Academy 44
Serra (Salem) 52, Monmouth 37
Philomath 53, Yamhill .19
St. Paul 52, Detroit 42 1
Siletz 52, Valsctz 45
Chemawa 48, Colton 42
Falls Citv 56. Eddyville 48
South Salem JVs 50, Sublimity 48
Mt. Angel 65, Canby 52
Manleton 50. Crow 38
Milton-Freewater 61, St. r atricn s
(Walla Walla) 45
Jefferson 63, Alsca 51
Wv'east 56. The Dalles 51
Pleasant Hill 71, Willamette (Eu
gene) 45
West Fir 61, Coburg 44
Harrisburg 47, Lowel 46
Mapleton 50, Crow 38
Triangle Lake 60, Mohawk 47
St. Mary's (Medford) 58, Talent 34
Butte Falls 44, Jacksonville 40
St. Paul 52, Detroit 42 '
COLLEGE BASKETBALL
Virginia Military 81, Virginia
Tech 78
Bowling Green 68, Kent State 59
Murray IKY) 73, East Tenn 62
Florida Southern 84, Rollins 76
Centenary 72, Louisiana Tech 69
Providence 73, Upsala 37
Akron 66, Toledo 65
Grinnell 70, Coe 66
Southern Oregon will he point
ing for an end to a string of de
feats on the local collegians floor.
Oregon Tech has not lost a home
game to a Southern Oregon Col
lege basketball team in three sea
sons. 01 1 has turned back the
Raiders in home games plaved on
the Tech floor in 1956. 1957 and
ih.t. ticidsmakers see an end to
the OTI "home floor winning
streak" tonight with the Raiders
being the heavy favorites.
Dave D'Olivo, a 6-4 product of
Klamath Union High School, will
be leading the Raiders into action
against the Owls. The former KU
prep star is a leading scorer and
rebounder in the Southern Oregon
basketball program. D'Olivo is
averaging about 20 points a game
and will be a tough foe for the
Owls to stop this evening.
Running with D'Olivo at forward
for SOC will be Dick Smith. Punk
Biddington, a regular starter and
one of the Raiders' top scorers.
will probably be on the sidelines
with an injury. It is not known if
Biddington will see any action at
al! this evening. Don Vannice is
expected to open at center for the
Raiders.
Other Southern Oregon starters
will probably be Jim McAbce and
Gordie Carrigan at the two guard
slots. McAbee, a former Talent
high athlete, is a returning starter
from Southern Oregon's second
place team last year and is the
clubs top playmaker, Carrigan,
who gives McAbee a big assist in
directing the SOC offense, is a
good outside shooter and is cap
able of hitting in double figures
any night.
Palmberg will have a pair cf
lettermen on hand to open the
1959 SOC series, along with three
newcomers. The holdovers are
guard Charlie Wilson and forward
Dell Fra'ncis, The newcomers are
center Paul Layher, guard Jim
Ramseyer and forward J i m
Horton. Francis is still a question
able starter for tonight's game as
he waits for a foot injury to
heal completely. Francis missed
last weekend's Eastern Oregon
scries, but is expected to play to
night, and possibly draw a start
ing nod.
If Francis does not start, fresh-
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Floyd, Swede Ready
For Heavyweight Go
ANOTHER McCUTCHEON Oregon Tech has another
McCutcheon on its basketball club this year in the pres
ence of Jess McCutcheon, a 6-4 freshman from Spring
field. Jess' older brother John played four years of basket
ball for the Owls, including two as all-conference. Jess
will probably see some action tonight when the Owls host
Southern Oregon College on the OTI floor. Game time
is 8 p.m.
SiPOKTS
Mays Signs Contract
For $80,000 Season
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Star
center fielder Willie Mays, who
heard both cheers and boos in his
first season in San Francisco with
the Giants, draws an estimated
' W I 80.000 as his 1959 salarv.
,n M,B II, trie' t,,-.;t unit nt tin n f 1 T
time. Freshmen Jess McCutcheon,
forward, and Leon Wilson, a
guard, will probably see lots of re
serve duty this evening as the
Owls top bench strength.
This will be the only basketball
play of the week for Palmberg's
cagers. The Owls draw a bye Fri
day and Saturday and will not
play until next Tuesday night
when they travel to Ashland for
return game with the Red Raid
ers. This weekend s slate finds
Eastern Oregon going to Oregon
College and Southern Oregon at
Portland Slate.
Phil Mover
Defeats Dupas
PORTLAND (AP) - Portland
boxer Phil Moyer Tuesday night
repeated the performance put out
by his younger brother, Denny,
last month he won s 10-round
decision over Tony Dupas of New
Orleans.
Phil, weighing 152 pounds, kept
the 150-pound Dupas off balance
with his left jabs.
Dupas nose was bloodied In the
fifth round and his eye . was
swollen closed in the eighth round.
But despite this, Dupas' best
round was the ninth.
Moyer said Dupas caught him
with a low blow in the eighth
round and Moyer had to go to
his corner for about a minute to
catch his breath.
A crowd of about 1,100 saw the
fight, which was Moyer's 14th vic
tory in 15 starts.
Roger Rouse, 165, Portland,
won a unanimous but unpopular.
Stockton, Calif., in an eight
round preliminary. However, Fra
zicr was down for the count of
nine in the first round.
the advantage this year of not
having to contend wilh a wire
fence in front of the Seals Stadi
um scoreboard. It s being torn
down.
President Horace Stoncham an
nounced Tuesday night that the
fleet player had agreed to terms.
The amount wasn't announced
but Willie was believed to have
received a $5,000 boost from his
$75,000 of last season when he was
runner-up both for the National
League batting championship and
its Most Valuable Player award
Despite a mid-season batting
slump that started some of the
fans booing. Mays hit .347 for the
season, his highest in six with the
Giants and second only to Phila
delphia's Richie Ashhurn with
350. In voting for the MVP award,
Willie placed second to Chicago's
Ernie Banks.
Mays, 27, is No. 3 in the major
league salary bracket, which
topped by Ted Williams' $125,000
with the Boston Red Sox and Stan
Musial's $100,000 with the St. Louis
Cardinals. Mickey Mantle re
ceived $75,000 from the New York
Yankees last season and reported
ly is asking $85,000 for. 1959.
Stoneham reached agreement in
a telephone call with Willie in New
York. It was a far cry from last
year's spectacular news confer
ence at Seals' Stadium when Wit
lie's 1958 contract was announced
Last season Mays collected 208
hits, his greatest production, drove
in 96 runs and scored 121, more
than any other player in the loop
He also led in- stolen bases with
32, and slugged 29 homers.
Over six seasons with the club,
Mays has hit for a .317 average
with 1,111 hits, 216 of them home
runs. A stellar fielder, he'll have
PSC Mc.tn.en
Topple Linfield
PORTLAND (AP) Portland
State's wrestling team defeated i
squad from Linfield 33-3 Tuesday
The Portland team won in, all
weight divisions except one.
Picking up the odds and ends:
Our reports from Corvallis In
dicate Glenn Moore, the ex-Klam-ath
Falls prep basketball sensa
tion who is now playing for the
Oregon Frosh, may be in for
some bad times in that valley city
. . . seems in last Saturday night's
RookFrosh game at Corvallis,
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NEW YORK (API - The long
and sometimes baffling list of
likely candidates to meet Floyd
Patterson in his next defense of
the world heavyweight champion
(ship had narrowed down to one
today lngemar Johansson
Swede who was disqualified from
he finals of the 1952 Olympics for
relusing to fight.
Promoter Bill Rosensohn said
the fight was 90 per cent in the
bag and he plans to stage it in
Los Angeles, Colorado Srpings or
yew ork.
Neither the promoter nor the
fighters are the important cogs in
tne negotiations, lhcy all are
merely spear carriers for tempes
tuous Cus D'Amato, Patterson's
manager.
Unless something untorcscen
happens. I cannot see any obsta
cles in the way of a title match,
Cus said.
Coming from D'Amato, that is
like the weather bureau predicting
fair and warm for the next year.
There have been suspicions all
along that Johansson if he could
get out of his return bout contract
til hddie Machen, whom he
knocked out in the first round last
year would be Patterson's next
opponent.
But D Amato, a suspicious one
found all sorts of obstacles. As
lale as last Sunday, he refused
to talk to Eddie Ahlquist, a Swed-
h boxing promoter, who lists
imsclf as Johansson's agent.
Rosensohn, however, persuaded
D'Amato to talk to Ahlquist, at
least until Johansson shows up.
"The picture brightens pretty
much now that Cus and Ahlquist
have talked." said Rosensohn, who
promoted Patterson's last defense
of his title against Roy Harris.
Patterson, as usual, let D'Amato
do all the talking, but in his home
in Goteberg, Johansson said: "Of
course I am glad for the chance
to meet Patterson and I am ready
to meet him any time."
Ahlquist probably will summon
Johansson, the European cham
pion, here this week to complett
plans.
Rosensohn said he could not dis
close the financial arrangements,
but it was expected that Patter
son would get a 40 per cent cut
and Johansson 20 per cent. He
said the television rights would go
on the open market, but that he
leaned toward home TV.
Johansson has won all 21 of his
professional bouts. His biggest vic
tory was over Machen, a highly
regarded American heavyweight,
whom he starched last Sept. 14.
Patterson has defended his
crown three times since he
knocked out Archie Moore in the
final of an elimination tournament
to decide a successor to Rocky
Marciano.
Oregon College
Beaten By Viks
MONMOUTH (AP) .- Every
member of the Portland State
basketball squad played Tuesday
night as the team rolled to an
easy 65-44 Oregon Collegiate Con
ference victory over Oregon Col
lege of Education.
Leading the Portland State
scorers were John Fredrick, 16;
Don Bridges, 14; and Stan Web
er, 13.
Don Shcrk led the losers with
9 points.
University of North Dakota foot
ball coach Whitcy Helling has won
seven championships in 10 years
of high school and college coach
ing.
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