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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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'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.
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. 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."
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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
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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.
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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.
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