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Pelicans Tackle Tough Tornado In Final Came PAGE 10-A HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls, Ore. Thursday, March 7, 1963 Doug Sanders Defends Pensacola Golf Crown The Klamath Union Pelicans, out of the state tournament berth run, can make it rouph on their favorite target at Pelican Court Friday niht if they can spoil the front running efforts of the Medford Black Tornado. Coach Al Keck s crew, out of tiie state tournament picture for tlie first time in seven years, can make it tough on the Tor nado which is tied for first with Grants Pass and Crater. A 1 1 Ciirfl te.?ms have a 9-5 record while the Whitebirds sport a ' '7-7 Southern O:e,iur.-Ojnlrrence record. Reserved tickets for the game are on sale at the Cham- . ber of Commerce. -..'This will be the final game of the season for the Pelicans and . they hope to make it a winner. They also hope to even their . season's record with the Torna do which has won two of t h e three contests. - And the Medford team is the hottest thing in the loop at present. The Black Tornado has San Francisco Dons Seek To Light Cage Torch Again " By United Press International The University of San Francis- ' co, which set the college basket ball world on fire in Die mid isno's, is seeking to light the -torch once again. -'San Francisco still holds the "ell-time record for a college team " of 60 wins in a row stretching from 1954 to 1956, including two llraight NCAA championships. Leading the team in those ban ner years were Bill Russell and K. C. Jones, current stars with tlie professional champion Boston Celtics. The Dons never could reach the lame peak again, hut slill may Sports Schedule TODAY'S 5-B TOURNEY PAIRINGS 1:30 Butte Falls vt. Bonanza . 3:15 Merrill vs. Prospect 7:30 Paisley vs. Gilchrist 9:15 Chiloquin vs. Malin FRIDAY'S SLATE At Ashland Henley vs. Douglas Eagle Point vs. Myrtle Point At KU Klamath vs. Medford WCAC Cage Race . Hottest In Years By United Press International The West Coast Athletic Con ference has known a few stronger teams than any of this year's crop, but it has never produced a more hectic race. Santa Clara and USF. as alike as two pens in a pod, w ill meet Saturday night in a showdown battle. Both have 9-2 records and 16-8 season marks. Both feature big front lines, slick guards, but must rely heavily on their start ers because of a shortage of re servo help. The Dons polled even with the Broncs again Wednesday night by sweating out a 51-46 win over San Jose State in the type of slow motion chiller that tlie WCAC tea lures. Dave Lee, who had 19. and Ol lie Johnson with 15 sparked tlie Dons, who built up a 36-20 lead midway in the second hall and then turned cold as ice. Dennis Bates of the Spartans meshed 19 and kept Ins team In the game with his stellar all-around play. EvcrylKKly is Idle tonight, but action breaks out on all fronts Friday. In the Big Six, Stanford 17-1 can Ice the title by dumping the only other team mathematic ally in tlie race, UCLA (5 5. ( al and USC iboih 4R also go to it r rinay. 1 tie Los Angeles teams swap foes Sahnd.iy and UCLA must win both battles and then have USC! deleat Stanford Saturday for tlie Bruins to even get a share in the ' roa n. I lie m ums hopes are lim at Ih-sL Oregon State, with a 17-7 record and an NCAA berth in its pocket. finished the year by playing at Oregon and then hosting the Ducks. Oregon is 11-1.1, but dumed the Beavers once this ) eai . iientlle. 20-5 and another NCAA tourney memlier, hosts Idaho in a grudge battle Saturday. Tlie Chiels don't have much of a People Read SPOT ADS yeu ere now. a seven-game w inning streak go ing after turning in a poor open ing season start. They have since come from the fourth place position the Pelicans now hold, into the lead. The Black Tornado will be favored. The Pelicans have lost five of their last six games. The Whitebirds still have a winning record, however. They won their first six games and are 13-8 going into l!e final contest. Coack Keck v. ill have at least one new face in the starting lineup Oiis week. The probable starters will be seniors Fred Kclley, Dick Scott and Wayne Chamberland and probably jun ior Hal Homan at one guard and senior Don Piper at the other. The starting guard berth was opened this week when senior guard Grover Dahn was re leased from the team because of a breaking of a school pol icy. Lanny Guycr, small junior guard, is also a possible start er. Terry Ash, a sophomore for cause a stir if they reach the NCAA tourney next week. They moved Into good position to do just this by turning back San Jose Slate. 51-46, on their home court Wednesday night. The triumph pushed tlie Dons back into a first place tie with Santa Clara In the West Coast Athletic Conference. The two top teams meet in a showdown game Satur day night with an NCAA berth awaiting the winner, and San Francisco will have the all-important home court advantage. Vitlanova and Marquette, both of whom will play in the National Invitation Tournament, warmed grudge but the Vandals, uninvited and unrated despite a 19-4 record would like to prove their mettle against Seattle. Idaho is at Wash ington Friday. First round of the NCAA small college regional tourney Friday pits San Francisco Stale (14-11) and Chapman (20-5) in one game and Fresno Slate (18-7 and Santa Barbara (17-91 in the other. Liston Expects To Get Signal MIAMI BKAC1I. Fla. (UPD Sonny Liston's manager said ear ly today that he expected the heavyweight champion will "io ceive a green light" to resume training Saturday after a thor migh physical examination by Dr Duke Baird of Miami. Jack Nilon said the heavy weight champion will be exam ined lor the second time in 2-1 hours by Dr. Haird this afternoon and added, "we e.Xwit Sonny to lie cleared ami given a go-ahead to resume training Saturday." Liston's return title bout with Floyd Patterson, from whom he won the crown on a one-round knockout last September 2i. has already been switched bom April 4 to April 10 because of the champion's injurv to his right knee. The Miami Herald rewted to day that there was a xissibility of an ojieration on the knee hul Nilon discounted the ivxul. "No oK-ralion is likely," heifalgary said. "The liht is not in dangcr.'Kdmontnn BUICK TURBINE TRANSMISSION SPECIAL We will reploce the front rear teals, adjust low and vert bands, a d j u 1 1 turbine clearance, and adjust linkage. All for Including Parts and Labor WILSON WILEY BUICK CO. 1330 MAIN PH. TU 4-3141 ward-center and senior forward Bob Homan also will get into the scrap. The Black Tornado probably will open with leading scorer lack F'orde, Dan Miles, Rich Benner. Jim Hill and Don Vow ell with Dick Deffley, Mike Barnes, Gibb Mitchell and Mike Neathamer also to see a lot of action. The BIck Tornado won the last meeting between the two in Medford by tv points, 4JM7, when the Pelicans fell at the charily line to lose the game. They had the baskets on the Tornado, 19-18. The Pelicans hit only nine of 17 gift tosses and Medford connected on 13 of 22 for the win. All three previous games have been close and this one is ex pected to follow the same pat tern. Chamberland was high for the Pels in the last game with 13 points. Bob Holman, playing his finest game of the season, was second with JO. up for the task with victories Wednesday night but Canisius. also headed for the New York tourney, was beaten by Dayton 75-64. Villanova snapped Seton Hall's 18-game homo court winning streak, 71-64, as Wally Jonesl scored 38 points; Dick Nixon tal lied 20 points to lead Marquette to a 74-68 triumph over Orcigh- Ion; and Dayton coasted to vie lory over Canisius after opening a comfortable nine-point halftime lead. Dave Lee scored 19 points for San Francisco and Ollie Johnson added 15 as the defense-minded Dons held San Jose to only 1 points in the first half. Dennis Bates of San Jose shared game honors with Lee by registering 19 points. Seals Go For Loop Solo Lead Western Hockey league Roundup By United Press International The San Francisco Seals will try to hurst (lie tic that binds to night when they meet the Los Angeles Blades in Western Hock cy League action at Los Angeles The Seals, deadlocked with the Portland Buckaroos for the lead in the Southern Division, are shooting for their sixth straight win, which would boost them into solo occupancy of the top spot. It s the only game on the sched ulc tonight. Wednesday night was another one-game evening In the W11L with Vancouver padding its Northern Division lead by thump mg the Calgary Stampcders 3-1 at Vancouver. Vancouver's win enabled the Canucks to ease out to a four point margin over second-plncej Seattle in the division. It also severed a f I v e-game victory string for the Stampcders. Calgary scored first with John Kosiancic hitting the net early in tlie second period, hut a minute and 20 seconds later Buddy Boone scored the equalizer (or Vancou ver. Bob McCusker hit the deciding goal at 8:40 of the second period, and Marty Howe sewed it up witli another winner alter 3.1 seconds in the third period. Calgary, battling for third place in the northern bracket and spot in the playoffs, remains one point ahead ol fourth place F.d monton. Will, Staiullncs Southern Division W 1. TI'tst.Kf San Francisco 37 20 I 75 244 183 Portland 35 20 5 75 2.10 16.". Los Angeles .10 24 .1 63 197 185 Spokane 27 27 2 56 181 178 Northern Division w i. t Pts ;k c.a Vancouver Seattle 2!l 27 .1 61 204 192 28 20 I 57 193 206 20 39 t 41 196 245 19 39 2 40 1110 273 and re- QS 39' Wi ;' wf. . it s r T.iiVfrrft jr Mlrr.ailfiWltit i. m - " fv1, - GET 'EM READY BOYS This pair of Klamath Union trackmen, Dave Vaagen, left, and Jim Sibbet, look over their feet while practicing for the Klamath Marathon which is to be run at Moore Park March 15 at 3:30. The five-mile run (or walk) will be open to anyone who wishes to enter. County school track participants and Oregon Tech runners are urged to enter as well as anyone in the area who wishes to get into the open air for some exercise. It is sponsored by the Park and Recreation Office in joint connection with Coach Jack Peterson and the KU track program. A course is now being laid out. Anyone wishing further information can contact Peterson or Gary Woodring at the Park and Recreation Office. 'Louisville New York NEW YORK (UPIl - Unbeaten Cassius Clay, tlie ring's most colorful heavyweight since the late Max Baer, is taking blase New York by storm. In unprecedented numbers, the fans are buving tickets for his fight with New Yorker Doug Jones at Madison Square Garden next Wednesday night. Matchmaker Teddy Brenner an nounces, "there'll be a complete sellout of all 18,000 seats b-e-f-o-r-c the day of the fight, for the first time in the new Garden's 38-ycar history." Brenner explains that the last Garden pro boxing sellout, 13 years ago. and a couple sellouts Detroit Fighters Capture Golden Gloves Crown CHICAGO (UPI - Detroit's amateur boxers held the team championship today after what might have been the last national Golden Gloves tournament, but individual honors had to go to Omaha's Harley Cooper and Wade Smith of Muncie, Ind. Cooper, a 2a year-old Air Force sergeant w ho is the father of sev en children, defeated Ronald Marsh of Kansas City and James Taylor of Hollywood, Calif., to win the heavyweight champion ship with his 50th straight tri umph, covering seven years. Smith, a welterweight who won the National AAU crown last year, revenged himself (or loss of the Golden Gloves crown when he defeated Rorv O'Shea, one ol three brothers who have held Chicago and national crowns, in rematch of last year's title hoot. O'Shea was the only de fending champion who advanced as far as the semifinals Wednes day night. Detroit won only one individual title, by 118 winder Emanuel Steward, who whipped Frank Glover, Columbus, Ohio, for the crown, and three other Detroit scrappers were eliminated in ei ther the scnnlinals or title bouts. Still the Motor City team got 16 points to finish well ahead of the ruiiners up. Chicago and Co lumbus, lied at 12 points. 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"including tlie first." them were Fort Worth with 11 Hollywood and Nashville with 10, Cincinnati and Omaha with 9 Kansas City and Green Bav with 8, and Buffalo, Kenosha, Toledo, Cleveland and Strcator, 111., with 7. Other individual champs were! Freddie Garcia, at 112 pounds who won the first crown ever for Rnswcll, N.M., Nick Petracca of Chicago at 126 pounds, Perrv Bennett, Strcator. 111., at 13.1 pounds, middleweight Bill Doug las, Columbus, and light heavy weight Ted Gulhck, Cleveland. College Scores lty United Press International EAST Westminster (Pa.t 76 Slip. Rock 59 Alliance 65 Mansfield 46 Villanova 71 Seton Hall 64 Rider 104 Bloomfield 65 Cornell vs. Columbia, cxld SOUTH W. Va. St. 67 W. Va. Tech 60 Louisville 96 E. Kentucky 78 Athens 85 Huntington 83 MimVKST Missouri 84 Nebraska 72 Marquette 74 Creighton 68 Davlon 75 Canisius 64 WKST S. Francisco 51 S. 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I CPU - Defending champion Doug Sanders tees off in the 125,000 Pensacola Open golf tournament today de termined to prove it just takes a jinx to win. A field of 149 pros and 10 ama teurs, including Downing Gray, 1962 National Amateur runner- up and top amateur here for the past three years, compete in the event over the 6,400-yard Coun try Club course hard on the Gulf Of AtcXicO. . I Sanders, a hustling Georgian. won ttv? tournament last year w ith a 14-under-par 207 after gash-j ing his left foot. Pelican Booster Club To Fete Cage, Mat Teams The Klamath Union basketball and wrestling teams will be feted Sunday night in the Winema Hotel in their annual winter sports banquet, put on by the Pelican Booster Club. The fete, which is to begin at 6 o'clock, will have Portland University's basketball coach Al Negratti as the featured speak er. Bob Williams, head football coach at Klamath Union, will be the master of ceremonies. The banquet is open to the public and Pelican fans are In vited to attend. Tickets for the affair will be on sale at the door to the banquet room in the Winema and are $2.25 each. Special awards also will be given to the respective teams during the night. The wrestling team took third In the state this year and missed being state champions by only two points. The basketball team didn't have quite that success but came up with a winning season. TAKE DELIVERY OF NEW are shown here with Jim Knoles of Juckeland Motors, taking delivery of a new cus tom built F 1 800 dual-drive 8-10 yard International dump truck. The unit was de signed especially for Mr. William to provide him with the most efficient transpor tation in his sand and qravel business. This is just one of the many Internationals built to do a particular job. Sold, serviced and warranteed by the Basin's largest Truck Center, Juckeland Motors, I Ith and Klamalh. STORE HOURS He arrived at the course by ambulance for the second round and won the tournament while two Navy medics followed him with bandages and medicine. Packing up after the Bing Cros- Ku Onen at Los Anceles two months ago, Sanders broke the little finger on his left hand picK inir un a suitcase. His first start since the mishap was at New Orleans where he tied for fourth money. Sanck-rs J-,:e""s kte hard luck somewhat pessimistically. Tf I herame a watermelon farmer, picnics would go out of style, he said. - But, he aaaeo UNIT Mr. and Mrs. Je Wards-just say 9:30 to 5:30 fc-. .-w .... ; a fiQ&uUMt- B IET j : . - . .. -.. ,. ; ,-".v --v . with a touch of optimism, "I'm hoping to repeat here." But the experts figure Sanders' handicap may be too much of a drawback in the formidable com petition. They established Arnold Palmer, Gary Player and Bo Win inger as the early favorites. Palmer fired a six-under-par 66 Wednesday to post the lowest in dividual score in a pro-am event over the Naval Air Station course. Palmer's team, including three aontpurs. finished in a three-way tie nr filst plrtci: . tiu .siiiviv groups headed by pros Chandler Harper, Portsmouth. Va., and John Langford, Enid. Okla. Palmer, who won here in 1960, has won two top prizes on the winter tour and currently is in second place among the money winners. Player heads the earn ings list with more than $20,000. Wininger picked up $6,400 top money in the New Orleans tourna ment for his third victory in less than a vear. INGO HAS SON GOTEBORG, Sweden lUPD Former heavyweight champion Ingemar Johansson's wife gave birth Wednesday to their first child, a boy. Johansson said the child weighed seven pounds and has "blue eyes, unusually big hands, a dimple on his chin and brown hair." Williams, Laverne "Charge It!" Phone TU 4-3188 St.. i A st
