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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (Feb. 27, 1961)
. : n : si $ Q ff f Si TOURNAMENT TROPHIES Trophies were awarded late Saturday night to climax three days of spirited action in the Klamath County B Tournament. The first four fin ishers, in order, were Chiloquin, Bonanza, Sacred Hoar), Academy and Malin. In the picture at left, Dr. Cliff Robinson, county school superintendent, presents the sec- Odds Favor Fullmer By 6-5 Margin NEW STORK (UP!) The mid dleweight championship series be twcen Gene Fullmer and Sugar Ray Robinson resumes at Las Vegas, Nov., Saturday night in contest number four, with the standing even at 1-1-1. Stocky, muscular Fullmer of i West Jordan, Utah, Is defending the National Boxing Association's version of the world 160-pound championship against the slender, 40-year-old New Yorker who wore the undisputed crown an unprece dented five times. Although each was victorious in one of their three previous bouts and although they fought to a draw in their latest encounter at Los Angeles last Dec. 3, Fullmer is favored at 9-5 to win Satur day's "rubber match" because of his strength, stamina and com' parative youth, 29 years. Their scheduled. 15-round" fight will be televised nationally by ABC, but the promoters in, blacked out Las Vegas expect 8,000 fans at the Convention Cen ter. Jf Fullmer wins, he may try to force a fight with Paul Penderi of Brookllne, Mass., for the un disputed championship. Pender wears the New York Massachu setts-European segment of the crown. . Pender, however, plans an ear lier defense against ex-champion Carmen Basilio at Boston April 22. WAYNE SCOTT, Sports Editor PAGE Monday, February 27, 1961 Chiloquin Quint To Host Prospect The Chiloquin Panthers have their work cut out for them this week. But they don't really mind. The owners of both the County B league championship trophy and the annual B tourney cham pionship cup, the-Panthers went back to work this afternoon to prepare themselves for the next: step in the quest ot a state championship. Thursday night at 8 o'clock on the Oregon Tech court the Pan thers square off against the Pros pect Cougars for the first game of a best two of three series which will resolve the District 5B crown. . The two clubs will meet again Friday night at the some time, and, should a third game be nec essary, again on Saturday night. The winner of the district title will then move on into the state B playoffs which are to be held in Bend. The Prospect squad, coached by Duane Payne, former mentor at Tulelake, boasts only two men 6-0 or better, and only one of these draws a starting role. Over the 21' game season they com pleted for their western division title the Cougars have scored 985 points for an average of 47.0 per game. Accepting their lack of height the ' Prospectors have relied on a rugged defense as the key to their success. They have permitted their opponents 723 points over the season for an average of less man 33 per game. , Craig Gardner, a 6-0 guard, is the Cougar high scorer with a 10.5 per game mark. The Panthers are led by Butch Crume, Frank Hcglund and Ed Case who, in addition to gaining berths on the Tourney All-Star team, also were the top three! scorers in the meet. Crume aver-l aged 22.7 per game while Hcg lund nan a 14.7 and Case a 15.0. The B tournament high scorers follow: WINS DOG RACE LACONIA, N.Y. (UPI) - Ern est Brunei, a rural mail carrier and father of eight children, won the sixth annual Laconia World Championship sled dog race Sun day with a three-day total of 4:22.16. The triumph earned Bru- net $1,000. end place trophy to Bonanza captain Henry Dearborn and coach Erv Ellis. The Antlers put up a game battle before being downed 67-49 for the championship. 1n the center picture, Chiloquin captain "Smiling Ed" Case and coach Gordon Kuist accept the first place cup from Dr. Robinson. In the picture at right, student body president Ray Story and principal John Mathis admi Merrill High' School. A record crowd the tournament and were rewarded wi teams were Bly, Paisley and Gilchrist. ire the coveted iammed the OTI ith exciting bas sportsmanship trophy, won by qymnasium this year to watch ketball. Other participating Oregon High School Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i Coquiile 56, Myrtle Creek 33 Roseburg 56. Marshfield 44 Riddle 68, Oakland 38 Star of the Sea (Astoria) 45, Knappa 42 Medford 75, Grants Pass 44 Madras 82. Milton-Freewater 70 North Bend 55, Cottage Grove 50 Springfield 45, Thurston (Spring field) 44 South Eugene 59, Willametlel (Eugene) 36 Elmira 71, Oakridge 40 Klamath Falls 86, Ashland 54 District 3-B Tourney Finals Harrisburg 50, Lowell 45 Alsea 60. Coburg 41 (3rd place) Monroe 41, Crow 23 (4th place) Sub-District 7-B Tourney . Mt. Vernon 48, Pra'rie City 43 Long Creek 51, Dayvllle 41 Sprague 58, Ukiah 36 Sub-District 5-B Tourney Chiloquin 67, Bonanza 49 (cham pionship) i Sacred Heart Academy (Klam ath Falls) 52, Malin 42 (3rd place) Berth Won By Medford By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Medford, the defending state champion, is the 12th school to qualify for the 16-team Oregon Class A-l high school basketball tournament at Eugene next: month. Medford defeated Grants Pass. 75-44, Saturday night to become the Southern Oregon Conference's second entry. Klamath Falls is I the other. Billv Steuart of Johannesburg South Africa, is captain of Mich igan State's swimming team. NOR-CAL Semi Pro Loco Talked MOUNT SHASTA-Complete de tails are yet lacking, but North ern California Baseball League at the usual semi-pro level is as sured for 1961. This eliminates the talk that it would not be jorgan ized this year. Charles Carroll, colorful and successful manager for Mount1 Shasta Seals, will again call the shots for the home team. Some of the fading stars of yesteryears have decided to call it quits this year, but a few high school boys are ready for semi-pro ball and will take up the slack. KF Archery TOP SCORERS COUNTY B TOURNAMENT w L T Pet. I 0 .Bit1 i o ,Ba 3 0 .727 1 0 . .700 5 0 .300 S 0 .500 4 0 .364 Signal Oil ' Farmers Lumber Joes Sporting Good! Hapco Tims Shell Roberts Hardware Guh Store Hals Sport Shop Drews Manstore Fleets Spts. Goods Lewis Chevron 4 s u .jjj Western Auto 1 10 0 .100 Results: Joes 705. Lewis Chevron 608; Sional Oil 711, Western Auto 694; Gun Store 707, Drews 67S; Farmers 726, Hals 708. High' team (hdep.), Joes Sporting Goods 795; high team (no hdep.). Farmers Lumber 698. High man. Dale Baxter 268; high woman, Anne Baxter 221. Week's schedule Monday Feb. 27, Sig nal Oil vs. Farmers; Drews vs. Fleets; Gun Store vs. Hals. Wednesday, Mar. 1, Lewis Chevron vs. Western Auto. Saturday, March 4, Hapco vs. Joes; Rob erts Hdwe. vs. Tims Shell. Player . Butch Crume (Chil) Ed Case (Chil) Frank Heglund'(Chil) Henry Dearborn (Bon) Keith-Murray (SHA) Larry Rick (Mai) Dick Clark (Mai) Rod Schooler (Bon) Joe O'Conner (Bon)" Bob Brown (Mai) Nick Johnson (Mai) Del Sweiringen (Pais) Mike Holland (SHA) Jerry DeNault (SHA) Gerald Warren (Gil) Mike Slowey (SHA) Jim Hall (Bly) G FG FT-FTA TP 3 26 16-30 68 3 12 21-29 45 3 17 9 -14 43 3 16 4 - 9 36 3 10 12-18 32 3 14 2 - 4 30 3 10 7 -12 27 3 10 6 -13 26 3 9 8-12 26 3 10 6 - 8 26 3 11 3-9 25 1 6 13-18 25 3 8 7 -15 23 3 9 3 - 6 21 1 6 8 -11 . 20 3 4 11-17 19 1 8 2-4 18 Shuff Stuff Topper Drum Stick Wocui WflBS Play Houst Roundup Tats. Tavern Night Hawk Eagles Tiny MUDS PROSPERITY Bob Gicgengack is in his 15th season as Yale track coach. He formerly coached at Fordham. PROUD PANTHERS The Chiloquin Panthers had good reason to be proud Saturday night after they whipped the Bonama Antlers 67-49 or the Klamath County Class B basketball title. Sylvan' (Butch I Crume, the tourna mont'i leading scorer, it standing at left. Coach Gordon Kuist is knoeling in front of his team. Back row, from left, captain Ed Case, Greg Harris, Albert Wilder and Frank Heglund. Front row, from left, Norman Jackson, Mike Ochoa, Allen Eggiman, Mike Cunningham and AI.Do-Bortoli. Merrill Five Tips Reeder's Merrill pounded out a 74-64 win over Dick Reeder'i in Thurs day night Klamath Falls City League basketball game. Tom Tucker led the Merrill scorers with a total of 19, '18 of which came from the field, but Fred Floetke topped all the shoot ers with 23 (or the losers, and all but one point of his. were two-pointers. The scoring summary: Merrill (741 B. Tucker l, T. Tucker W, Barry 4, Ren) t, . Carleton Is, Ron son t, D. Carleton 4. , OI Reader'! (44) Floetke JJ. artis S. Johnston 14. Men 1, McLean X. Ander son ? . . OTI Tops OCC Standing Oregon Collegiate Conference Final Standings W L Pet. Oregon Tech 12 6 .750 Portland State 10 6 .625 Eastern Oregon . 10 6 .625 Southern Oregon 6 10 .375 Oregon College 2 14 .125 Saturday nieht scores: Orceon Tech 85. Orceon Cohere 40:' East- em Oregon 58, Portland State 56 (overtime). By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon Tech, which already had clinched the Oregon College ate Conference basketball cham pionship, won Its final game of the conference schedule Saturday night, swamping last place Ore gon. College 85-40. Eastern Oregon edged Portland State, 58-56. in overtime as the teams wound up tied for second place. Sammy Smith, with 24 points, and Bob Petersen, with 2i. paced Oregon Tech and were the game's high scorers. A 21-point performance by Mel Holmes sparked Eastern Oregon. Portland Slate's leaders were Don Bridges and Frank Chase, each with 17 points. freshman basketball center, comes! I from Topcka, Kan. ' Plywooders Stop Eagles ANDERSON (Special The U.S. Plywood basketball team meas ured the College of Siskiyou Ea gles 59-4J here Thursday in an Eagle warmup for the coming Etna tournament. COS' Woody Smith connected sity of Washington star Doug Me Clary for individual scoring hon ors. McClaiy drilled 21 to help the Plywooders to lead 26-25 at the halfway point. The scoring summary: SPTS ADD PLVWOOCER J4 4 COS (411 Beckham e. Bekestro , Smith 73. Glrard 4. Jordan 1 Zelvnarde 7. U.S. PIT (let Cavote 11. McOary 1, Frleiw . Gleaton 4, Mlchllcrt IS. Oirder Yotif Edition CupiSS now - Mailed any where in the y.s each SO' 1301 ESPLANADE TU 4-8111 Use this handy coupon form to re serve enough copies for your friends, relatives and business associates else where. 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