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Pel Rooters Hail
Returning Heroes
By WAYNE SCOTT
Herald I News Sporti Editor
Highway 97 travelers northbound (lirough Klamath Falls Sunday
afternoon were more than pleased that there was a bvpass lead
ing around the town.
Because for an hour or so "Championship Boulevard" was a
one-way street.
It was jammed from curb-io-curb with hundreds of horn-looting
ears containing a horde of screaming basketball fans who
turned out to welcome the 19il Oregon Prep Championship Klamath
Union Pelican basketball team on its return from the annual pl.
grimage to Eugene.
It's getting to be a habit. Thel
rcis won melt second slate title in
four years Saturday night when
they brushed off the powerful
Medford Black Tornado, 66-M. be
fore a record crowd in the Uni
versity of Oregon's McArthqr
Court.
The north entrance to the. city,
from the edge of town to Wocus.
was lined with cars containing
Pelican fans who had been un
able to attend the tournament, and
when the caravan of those who
had accompanied the team came
into sight, the scene exploded into! room work would be a secondary
a roar of cheers and horns. thing In the school today.
In the quadrangle adjoining the
gym at KU the players were sur
rounded by a howling mob that
did Its best to shake the arms
off the players and their coach.
Among those on hand to greet
them was school Principal WIN
lard McKinny, who grinningly
shrugged when besieged with que
ries (and commands) as to whe
ther Monday would be declared
a Pelican holiday. -Regardless
his ultimate decision.
one got the impression that class-
The players, who traveled most
of the way home in private cars,
were assembled in Klamath Falls
police cars, which, with
The championship is the third
in the history of KF, the first
coming in 1043 and the second in
sirens . in jam me ru team nnisnea
screaming and lights flashing,
headed a procession that traveled
the length and breadth of town
to wind up at the high school.
New League
Ends Draft
Of Players
CHICAGO (AP) The Ameri
can Basketball League which
plans to begin its operations next
fall drafted a total of 131 college
players at the end of a two-day
meeting Sunday.
The preparation of schedules and
the question of playing rules
which will list several changes
from the way the game is played
were referred to various commit
tees for study.
Abe Saperstein, owner of the
Harlem Globetrotters, who has
been acting as commissioner of
the new league, will operate the
Chicago franchise. The league of
fices will be located in Chicago.
Other members of the league
are Washington, D.C.; Pittsburgh;
San Francisco; Los Angeles: Kan
sas City; Honolulu, and Clove
land.
All of the players drafted were
seniors, and each . team was al
lowed two territorial selections.
Among draftees were: '
Los Angeles Rafer Johnson.
UCLA. Honolulu Frank Burgess,
Gonzaga. and Dave Mills. Seattle.
Open draft selections include:
Los Angeles Clint Names,
Washington: Bill Ellis. UCLA.
Honolulu Karl Anderson, Ore
gon State: Jim Altenhofen, Port
land: Rollie Williams, Idaho.
San Francisco John Bcrbcrich,
UCLA: Stan Morrison. California:
Jim Woodland. Oregon State.
sixth in the classic and in I960
they grabbed third place honors.
Also in 1960, they had prom
ised head coach Dean White in
the dressing room following their I
third place win. they would nail
the championship this year.
The team lived up to its prom
ise, rocking state high school bas
ketball circles with as thrilling a
performance as ever witnessed on
the university floor.
The victory became theirs with
four seconds remaining to play
when junior guard Ker-S Hunsak
er flipped a pass to '.econd team
all-stater Gary Pa'zko, another
junior, who leaped high and
crammed the ball through the net
for the most Important two points
in the lives of the 1961 Pelicans.
The championship game, a fit
ting climax to a five-game duel
between the Pelicans and t h e
hard - working Medford squad,
shook the rest of the state since,
in the very fact that It was
played, It emphasized that South
ern Oregon had established a su
premacy over the more thickly
populated and favored northern
portion of the state.
Third place in the tournament
went to Grant of Portland with a
win over Wilson High, the teams,
like Klamath and Medford. . also
the number one and number two
representatives in their own
league.
Another heated rivalry, one ex
isting between South Eugene and
South Salem, culminated in a
fourth place spot for the Axemen
who defeated the Salemites 58-53.
David Douglas of Portland defeat
ed league-mate Central Catholic
for consolation honors.
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KFFans
Jubilant
Saturday night Klamath Falls
people took over the entire base
ment of the Eugene Hotel for a
gigantic victory celebration alter
the Pelicans had won the 1961
Oregon State Prep basketball
championship.
And Ihcy invited their favorite
enemies." the Medford fans and
players, to join thern.
While the adults filled one gi
gantic room the players and stu
dents gathered in a nearby room
lor their own party.
A well-stocked buffet provided
in congratulations by Klamathj
Falls Winema Hotel, awaited the
celebrants and the building rang
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GOOD WINNERS. GOOD LOSERS An atfitud. 4UD;
of that following the KUHS victory over Medford in tho
championship game at Eugene Saturday night is exem
plified hero as pair of Tornado rally squad girls con
gratulate Pelican captain Bruce Brickner at the conclu
sionofthi hard-fought game.
Culminates Long Year;
Injuries: Ailments Make For Tough Row
ny iTAirvc m.uii nore enoucn pnysical problems ot ace o! these obstac cs. serves as
Herald and News Sports Edilor last a number of seasons in their a tribute to the nih il of the nlav-
The Klamath Union Pelican
basketball team had to overlook,
overcome, accept, or otherwise ig-
climb to the 1961 Oregon Prep
Lliampionslup.
Their accomplishment, in
the
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Saxons Claim
Special Award
EUGENE lAPi The first
place sportsmanship award at the
Oregon class A-l basketball tour
nament was awarded to South
Salem High School Saturday night.
Corvallis was named to the sec
ond place and La Grande took
third.
The awards are given on the
basis of sportsmanship of both the
school team in the tournament and
the school's rooting section.
Celtics Down
Nats, 128-1 15
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The well-restcd Boston Celtics
are off on the right foot in de
Icnse of their National Basketball
Association playoff championship.
The Celts trimmed the weary
Syracuse Nats 128-115 Sunday in
a nationally televised game in
Boston to take a 1-0 lead in the
besl-of-7 Eastern Division title
series.
Syracuse had completed a three
game sweep of its best-of-o semi
finals against the Philadelphia
Warriors Saturday night, winning
106-103.
Meanwhile, in the Western Divi
sion the Los Angeles Lakers elimi
nated the Detroit Pistons in their
best-of-five semifinals Sunday. Los
Angeles turned back Detroit 137
120 to take the series 3 games to
2.
The second game of the Celtics-
Nats scries will he played in Syra-
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PELICAN HERO Klamath Union Pelican Gary Patzke,
the lad who came up.with the game-winning two points in
the title struggle here gets t victory hug from Rich Bo
gatay, the I Ith man on the KU squad, at the conclusion
of the test. Patike was named to the All-State second
team, as was teammate Wally Palmberg, Captain Bruce
Brickner was voted to the first team.
their coaches and the school,
and reflects credit that can be
shared by every citizen of Klam
ath Falls.
The KU cagors got off to a
flying start as the season opened,
but even at that time they were
forced to live with a pair of
things that could have dampened
the enthusiasm of lesser boys.
One ot their players, junior
Gary Patzke, had been a victim of
Perthe's disease since he was S
years old. The ailment has caused
him to grow to his 6-3 height
with one leg markedly shorter
than the other. His decided limp,
however, has been overlooked
many times by opponents that
saw him spring high in the air to
pull down the lion's share of re
bounds over the season, and also
watched him leap skyward with
the two points that won the cham
pionship (or the Pelicans Satur
day night. Despite the bad leg
Patzke matched all-stale team
mate fi-7 center Bruce Brickner
for the number two position,
among all the reboundcrs on the
16 tournament teams. '
Brickner, himself, had his mis-1
cries during the late regular sea-'
son. He was stricken with Ihe
mumps and forced to miss a
number of games while recuperat
ing. The forced benching natural
ly cut into his effectiveness prior
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to Ihe start of the tournament, a
poor time for inactivity for many
a basketball player.
Brickner't performance at Ihe
tournament, and particularly in
the championship struggle with
Medford, however, failed to indi.
cate he had ever been sick.
Another front-line Pelican. 5-10
senior guard Freddie Biehn. plays
his championship basketball with
an abnormal back, one that has
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS !cll5e Tuesday night
Sunday kcsuiis ; Tle ulerJ open hejr ,,.7
LOS rtnseics mi. union ilWesern fina s with the Hawks at
wins nest-of-five
1 Los Angeles
scries. 3-2'
Boston 12a. Syracuse 113 1 Bos
ton leads besl-of-seven semifinals,
1-0'
Saturday Results
l- IIK Philariolnhia 103
won hest-of-li. series.'-
St. Louis Tuesday night.
Tacoma Giants
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3-0
Detroit 123. Los Angeles 114
Monday Games
No games scheduled
Tuesday Games
Los Anpeles at St. Louis 'First
of a hest-of-seven semifinal I
Boston at Syracuse
LL Meet Tuesday
The Klamath Falls Little
League will hold a special
meeting Tuesday ni(bt at
7:30 at Ihe city hall. All
roaches and officers are
urged to attend.
Uipi
Monday
named veteran left handed pitch
ier Bill Werle as player-coach for
the I1 Pacific Coast league
I season.
General Manager Rosy Ryan
pointed out Werle should prove a
valuable man in assisting manag
jir Red Davis with the develop
iment of the young pitchers on the
Giant staff.
Davis indicated Werle would be
used primarily as a relief pitcher,
along with spot starting assign
ments in addition to his coaching
duties.
Davis said he would hold tlie
first intrasquad game Wednesday.
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