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Newspaper Page TextHistory .1 , I' V : " If J , ' r ' 1 , B7a V I IN QUEST OF A CROWN Oregon Tech Owls Bob Petersen, top, Sweet Sammy Smith, center, and Leon Wil son, bottom, hammed it up for Herald and News Photog Don Kettler yesterday, but 'chances are they'll turn dead ly lerious tonight when they face the Southern Oregon Colleqe Red Raiders on the Mile High maple. A win over their "pet" foe tonight, and they will have made hittory at OTI. The Owls, with a good chance to snare the Ore qon Collegiate Conference Crown, have won three from the Raideri. They have never won four straight over the SOC five. - Makers? ' J v I i f Vi , . i I' if fit itani, Red Raiders The Oregon Collegiaie Confer ence basketball championship is just three games away from the Oregon Tech Owls but of more immediate importance is their match with the Southern Oregon College Red Raiders tonight on the OTI hardwood. For the Owls, who have meas ured the Ashlanders three times already this season, a win would mark a first in the history of Major Leaguers Face New Twist By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A new twist was added to an old story today as major league baseball clubs began the training chores for a season that w ill ex tend to next October. Pitcher Luis Arroyo was delayed in reporting to the New York Yankees camp because of a quarantine for bu bonic plague. That sounds like something John McGraw might have thought up for a wild, left-handed rookie pitcher. But in this case it hap pened and it merely emphasized the fact that 1961 likely will be a year of novelties and unforseen happenings in major league base ball. Arroyo had been pitching for the San Juan team in the Carib bean series in Caracas, Venezu ela. When he returned to Puerto Rico to pack for the trip to the Yanks' camp in St. Petersburg, Fla., he ran into a 10-day quar antine imposed, by Puerto Rican authorities because of a bubonic plague outbreak in Caracas. If that wasn't enough, an airline Piston Soph Shows Biq Improvement NEW YORK (AP) - Wilt (The Stiltl Chamberlain of Philadel phia is the National Basketball Association's lop scorer, but Detroit's Bailey Howell has made the biggest leap in the point- production department. Chamberlain, who has scored 2,446 points for a 37.6 average. still is below his league record of 2,707 points for the 1959-60 cam paign while Howell already has surpassed his total tor last sea son. The Pistons' sonhomore sharp shooter ranks seventh in league scoring statistics released today nith 1,543 points 211 over his entire production as a rookie. He is averaging 23.7 points a game. Elgin Baylor of Los Angeles, runner - up to Chamberlain lor point making honors with 2,222 and a 34.7 average, also is the No. 2 man in the improvement department. Baylor has surpassed his top mark by 148 points. Third place in the scoring pa rade still is held by Cincinnati rookie Oscar Robertson. He and Bob Pcttit of St. Louis have scored 1,867 points each, but Big O has 30.6 average to Pcttit's 28.3 because he has played five fewer games. Chamberlain also leads in held goal percentage, hitting .494 of his shots, and is tops in rebounding, with a 27.4 a game average. Dolph Schayes of Syracuse is No. 1 in accuracy from the foul line, with a .859 mark, and Robertson is the leader in assists, with 9.3 a game. 'Quiet Man1 Yaks It Up; Bums Work United Press International The presence of Leo Durocher already has made a "talkative" manager out of Walter Alston. Alston, generally regarded as major league baseball s quiet man. had difficulty containing himself Monday as Ihe Los Ang eles Dodgers opened their spring training camp at Vero Beach. Fla. Bouncing back and forlh be tween the playing field where the pitchers were busy taking sprints and tuning up and the "Iron Mike" batting capes on the hill behind the field where the batters were lining out "hits" against the me chanical pitchers. Alston kept up a running chatter. "Yes sir, this is one of the best opening day drills we've had." Al ston said after checking the pitch-!er- ' Then, with his face plastered against Ihe protective screen be hind the batting cages, his re jmarks ran: "If we get a little Isock. we have a chance to go all the way." Durocher. the former Dodgers manager now serving as coach, busied himself giving batting and hunting instructions lo Ihe "early bird" contingent of outfielders, in fielders and (arm hands. Oregon Tech. Never, in the years of competi tion between the two schools, have the Owls swept the annual four game series w ith the Raiders. Tonight's game will begin at 8 o'clock. A special program featur ing the Bonanza High girls' drill team is scheduled as half time activity. The Bonanza misses are under the direction of Mrs. Viola Hunsaker. strike would have made travel to Florida impossible. Some other new actors lo be reckoned with in IDtil are the ex pansion of the American League to 10 teams with the addition of lw0 new clubs and the shift of an other; a handful of new manag ers and the great Chicago Cubs' experiment of operating with eight coaches sharing the man ; agerial duties, a new club owner at Kansas City and too many changes of personnel to count easily. It may be hard to rccog- nize some of the teams Five clubs had early arrivals working out last week with a few veterans mingling with the rookies who were undergoing inspection. The Yankees camp formally opened Sunday for the arrival of batterymen. The entire Los Ange les Dodgers' squad was due at the Vero Beach. Fla., camp Monday, and the Athletics' pitchers and catchers were due at West Palm Beach, Fla. - ' The new Minnesota Twins (shift ed from Washington) and the Bal timore Orioles had their camp openings scheduled today. By the end of this week every club will have at least some men in camp except the Chicago White Sox, who report Sunday, and the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cards, who set Feb. 28 as the reporting date. Exhibition games are scheduled to start March 11. The training camp sites: American League Baltimore, Miami; Boston, Scottsdale, Ariz.; Chicago, Sarasota, Fla.; Cleve land, Tucson, Ariz.; Detroit, Lake- land, Fla.; Kansas City, West Palm Beach, Fla.; Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Calif.; Minneapolis- St. Paul, Orlando, Fla.; New York, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Wash ington, Pompano Beach, Fla. National League Chicago, Mesa, Ariz.; Cincinnati, Tampa, Fla.; Los Angeles, Vero Beach, Fla.; Milwaukee. Bradenlon, Ha.: Pittsburgh, fort Myers, Fla St. Louis, St. Petersburg, Fla.: Sanl Francisco. Phoenix, Ariz.; Phila- aelpnia. Clearwater, Fla. high jumper, is as straight-backed Of special interest will be thelas a west Point cadet, handsome efforts of the managers of the new as a TV idol, extremely modest- ciuds bui mgney ot tne Los An- geles Angels and Mickey Vernon of the Washington Senators to mould respectable squads from the second-line players made available by the olhcr American League teams and whatever other talent they have been able to pick up. Other new managers are Ralph Houk as successor to the inimi table Casey Stengel with the Yan kees, Joe Gordon at Kansas City, Bob Scheffing at Detroit, and All Dark at San Francisco. The world champion Pittsburgh Pirates are about the only club that took a stand pat attitude to ward off-season trading. They nicked uo Ditcher Bobby Shantz and have a good rookie crop up!saw only the bar. He appeared for inspection. Elsewhere there'll be plenty of new faces. And among the old familiar faces occupying new places on the training camp scene are Ted Wil liams and Joe DiMaggio as spe cial batting coaches for the Red Sox and Yankees, respectively, ,and Leo Durocher, back in uni-; iform (or the first time in several i years as a Dodger coach. KFLL To Meet A special Klamath Falls Lit tle League business meeting will he held in the Klamath Audito tnrium tonight at 7:3(1, accord ing to league president Wendy, lluettl. The session Is to con vene in the cafeteria portion of the auditorium. You get the Benefit of 20 yrs. Experience! at SHELL SERVICE CENTER P. 7 & " Horvy Morgon, 12 ycart; Don Edwardi, 5 ycori; Dick Putnam, 3 yean COMPLETE AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE BOWL FREE', o Get 2 lines of Bowling Free with eoch lube and oil change! SHELL SERVICE CENTER So. 6lh at t. Main Take The game w ill also serve as a1 fund-raiser for the March of Dimes, said athletic director Rex Hunsaker. The game programs,! normally presented free at the door, will tonight be sold, the amount paid to be at the discre tion of the buyer. All funds raised will be turned over to the March of Rimes committee. The Tech quint has laid out of action for the past 10 days after POET WAYNE SCOTT, Tuesday, February 21, 1941 KF Cagers Again Strong Poll Pick By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Klamath Falls, which has clinched a place in the class A-l tournament at Eugene next month with another victory over defend ing state champion Mcdford, again is a strong choice as Ore gon s top high school basketball team' this week. T7,dVe,0f !'le V"ri,V'il?, and broadcasters who voted in the Associated Press poll picked the Southern Oregon Conference leader, which has won 17 of its 18 games this season. Roseburg, which handed Klam ath its only defeat early in the campaign, again was voted the No. 2 team after victories over North Bend and North Eugene. The others in last week's top five Grant and Wilson of the Portland city league and Central Catholic of the Portland Metro politan League again are ranked 3-4-5. Grant and Wilson each added two more victories during the week and nailed down tournament berths. Wilson was scheduled lo try this afternoon to avenge its only loss of the season to unde feated Grant. Central neared the title in its league with a win over Sunset of jBeavorton. Bend, ranked No. 7 last week, Soviet Jump Star Admits To Nerves NEW YORK (AP) Valcry but his blue eyes light up like a Brumel. the Soviet Union's starrnman candle when hn rikenura an() human "I was nervous very nervous, ' Brumcl acknowledged in review ing his return duel last Friday night at Madison Square Garden with America's John Thomas. "But I was more nervous in the Olympics." The 18-ycar-old Moscow college student cleared 7 feet, 3 inches in the New York Athletic Club meet, winning his first competition on boards. Thomas, beaten by both Robert Shavlakadze and Brumcl in the Rome Olympics, flunked out at 7-2. Thomas said he was bothered by photographers' flashlight bulbs. Brumcl told intimates he as cool as an ice cube. "I knew the conditions were un usual, so I practiced on a wood cn floor at the institute in Mos- cow," Brumel told New York track writers at their weekly! luncheon Monday. "A long time! aeo I dreamed of coming to America. I was impatient lo meet Thomas again." The clean-cut Soviet athlete said his aim is to beat the 7-4' a leap he made recently in Lenin grad. "I worked hard and now maybe I better my own result," he added. He gets two more chances be fore returning home in the Na tional AAU indoor championships Satnday and the Knights of Co lumbus Games Ihe week after. Brumcl doesn't sieak English. Ph. 2-395? Final posting a convincing pair of vic tories over the erstwhile league leading Eastern Oregon College Mountaineers. Since then, although they were tied for first briefly by EOC Friday, the Owls moved back into the top sXt by a half game when the Portland State Viks and the Raiders split over the weekend as did the Mounts and the Oregon College Wolves. Following tonight's "big" gnme.j Sports Editor PAGE 1-B 'advanced to sixth position after gaming a tournament berth by beating Hermiston, then suffering! an upset defeat by Pendleton. Mcdford. ahead in the race for Southern Oregon's second tourna ment spot, moved up one notch lo No. 7. n,,ii, p,i ....,i,i ... . vaulted into eighth place after victories over Springfield and Marshfield, which slipped from sixth to No. 9. Beaverton, now tied with David Douglas for second place in the Metropolitan League, retained 10th place after a victory over Centennial of Grcsham. The poll, with won-loss records and points: Team Points 1. Klamath Falls, 17-1 .... 147 2. Roseburg. 15-2 133 3. Grant, 18 0 124 4. Wilson, 18-1 105 5. Central Catholic, 16-2 .. 80 6. Bend, lfi-4 '53 7. Mcdford, 13-5 46 8. South Eugene, 12-7 .... 34 9. Marshfield, 14-5 27 10. Beaverton, 14-4 24 Others; Corvallis 15. Scappoosc 12. Grants Pass 11, Tillamook 10, Madras 5. Woodburn 3, La Grande and Ml. Angel 2. North Eugene! land David Douglas athletics through his interpreters Yuri Serdov, assistant team manager, and Igor Tcr-Ovancs-yan, 22-year-old Soviet broad junior. "I began jumping when I was 11 years old," he said. "1 always liked sports. I tried running and hurdling and I played some foot ball, but I discovered that I wa;, best at high jumping. "I was born in a little mining town called Luganks. in the Urals. My father was a miner. I have an older sister, who is an engi neer, and two younger brothers, one 17 and the other 9. The 9-ycar-old, like me, likes athletics." it Now, Ihe most finicky car buyer has two kinds of Dodges STANDARD OR COMPACT makes battery last a lot longer than usual. Dart Is a to make him happy. Compact Dodge Lancer. Full-size YOU GETA GREAT DEAL WITH 'u"-size Dodge priced model for model with Ford and Dodge Dart. They differ in size, appearance and price. mm Chevrolet. The compact Dodge Lancer is priced down the Otherwise, they are virtually identical. Both have a uni- 1 fl W ( T line with Comet, Corvair and Falcon. Go see the cars tized, rust-proofed body. A superb ride called Torsion- 1 1 1 1 1 1 ll wT that have everything. Compact Dodge Lancer, Full-size Aire. And a new alternator that charges even at idle, tw W mw V mm Dodge Dart Do it soon. At your nearest Dodge Dealer.. 677 So. 7th St. Shot the Owls will travel to Monmouth where they will tangle with the j Wolves in the final two games of the season. A victory tonight over the Haid ers and the Owls will move into the OCE scries rated the heavy favorite to pick up all the con ference marbles. Coach Wally Palmberg plans to start Bob Petersen, Sammy Smith, Leon Wilson, Hewlett Nash and Lucas Not Alone: Survive Cage Cliff- Ry THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Coach Fred Taylor has been saying it right along. Opponents have had more than a strong sus picion and now the general pub lic is beginning to realize it. Jer ry Lucas, fine a player as he is, isn't the entire Ohio State basket ball team. That seldom has been more evi dent that it has been in the last two games, when the No. 1 ranked Buckeyes survived a couple of cliff hangers to keep their record untarnished and virtually sew up their second straight Big Ten ti tle. A revenge-minded Indiana team managed to hold Lucas to 16 points about 10 below his sea- on ve8 Mn'L nishl " Hoosier fans chanted "We want blood." But Mel Nowell, one of the "other guys" that Taylor has repeatedly praised for consistent play, came through and Ohio Stale won anyway, 73-69. Last Saturday it was Larry Siegfried who contributed the all important points in a narrow .vic tory over an Iowa team that lost most of its leading players by in eligibility but slill manages to hang in there. Iowa, due largely to the efforts of Don Nelson, the one surviving first stringer, turned back Michi-i gan 50-46 and retained that al most invisible chance of overtak ing the Buckeyes. Elsewhere Duke's Blue Devils. who dropped to sixth in this! week's Associated Press poll rank-; ings (Iowa is fifth), moved into a tie with Wake Forest for second place in the Atlantic Coast Con ference; Mississippi State stayed on top of the Southeastern and Florida continued its strong bid lo represent the SEC in the NCAA tournament with fairly imprcs sive victories. Duke, missing sophomore Art Heyman. who has been barred from the remaining conference! games, conquered Virginia 77-66 in a lacklustre game. The Blue Devils' big hope now is to earn the No. 1 seeding in the confer- Short Of Mark NEW YORK (AP) - National Football League punters didn't threaten any records in the I960! season, although they produced some mighly kicks. Jerry Norton of the St. Louis Cardinals won the individual litlc; with an average of 45.6 yards on each of 39 kicks. That was a yard and a half short of the figure that gave Detroit's Yale Lary Ihe 1959 title and a little more than a half yard belter than Norton's fifth place 44.9 average the previous season. FOR THE MAN WHO JOE FISHER O At Techmen Gene Branson. Branson, who has been nursing an injured leg since the Christmas vacation, is step ping into the starting slot in the absence ol Norman Johns who suffered facial injuries in an auto accident over the weekend. Although Johns' hurts are not considered serious, they arc prov ing a detriment to his court abili ty. Also figuring to sec a good bit dice tournament. a field goal in the closing seconds. Miss. Slate, which won't play 11 Wis just about a year ago in the NCAA lournament. ran its U'at Ohio State suffered its last SEC record to 9-2 by w hipping defeat, losing to Indiana at Bloom Georgia 9D-77 with the aid of 34;ngn. Since then the Bucks have points by Jerry Graves. Florida, winner over Mississippi State Sat urday, moved ahead of Vanderbilt into second place at 8-3 by taking an 81-77 overtime decision from Mississippi. The Gators had tol come from behind again to tic at 73-73 then pulled it out at the end of the extra period when Cliff l.uyk sank two free throws and PRO GRAPfLER Billy Nichols, a speedy 191 pounder from Seattle, will tangle with Sandy Barr in the opening match of the big professional wrestling card to be staged in the Klamath Auditorium to niqht at 8:30. The program, which features world light heavywoight champ Moe Smith, is the first pro card to be held in Klamath Falls for a number of years. Tex Hager, Carson City, It the matchmaker for the bouts. He expects to stage 10 consecutive weekly shows. Medford-KU Tickets Ready There will be no general ad mission seats sold to the Klam ath Uniou-Medford basketball game here March 4. according In Jim Johnson, KU athletic director. Reserved scat tickets to the game, the final one on (lie KUHS 1961 regular season schedule, are now available at the chamber of commerce, said Johnson. A warning from the fire mar shal that too many people had been crowding into Pelican Court for the Mcdford - KU games made the move necessary. f V I I WANTS EVERYTHING! Dodge Darlll a hjll-tiie Dodge Lmeof prleod right down of action tonight are Owl new. comers Bob Everett and Jim Ramseycr. Everett, 6-3, enrolled at Oregon Tech late in the open ing quarter of school and only last week became eligible. Ramscyer, who played on the Owl varsity last season, transferred to Oregon College then returned to Oregon Tech and also had to ride out the first part of the season until he became eligible. Buckeyes Hangers won 26 straight. They're 11-0 in the conference and about the only way they could lose the title would be lo drop their remain ing three games to second division rivals. They had some shaky moments Monday night when Indiana cut their lead to three points near the finish. Bui Nowell, high scorer with 27 points, tossed in four points and saved the game. Two of Ohio's remaining con ference foes came through with upset victories Monday night, Wisconsin tumbled Minnesota 83 75, ending an eight-game losing streak that began early in Janu ary, and Michigan State climbed out of the conference cellar with a 90-80 victory over Illinois in a heated game. In the Big Eight, Colorado re placed Oklahoma State in a third place tie far behind pace-setting Kansas and Kansas State by trimming Ihe Cowpokes 63-61 while Nebraska trounced Okla homa 83-61. St. Louis, an also-ran in the Missouri Valley Conference but a possible National Invitation Tour nament invitee, improved its changes with a deliberate 74-60 victory over Notre Dame. The Bil likens are 15-7 for Ihe season aft er handing Notre Dame its second home floor defeat in two seasons. Miami (Flu.), a NIT bound team, had an easy 96-80 victory over Jacksonville U. Alabama turned in a minor Southeastern Conference upset, bcaling Louisiana State 68-60, while Auburn trimmed Tulane 63- 44. : : In the East, independent Niag ara rah its record to 11-4 by beat ing Siena 68-44, Syracuse downed Massachusetts 74-66 and Boston College whipped Northeastern 75-54. Barrow Belts KO Victory SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Kirk Barrow, Spokane, 185, smashed a right to the head of Floyd Joyner, Phoenix, 203, to score a knockout in 2:08 of the- second of their match Monday night. Joyner jolted Barrow in the sec ond round, but Barrow came back with a left and then the lethal right. Joyner went down and took the full count. The win was the 21st for Bar row, who is 21. He has lost three and had one draw. Dodgs for the price of Ford or Choir the lino with Comet, Corvilr end Filcoi Klamath Falls, Or.