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IUI enley Take By JERRY WAGGONER Herald and News Spurts Editor COOS BAY That long await ed day for the Henley Hornets arrives Monday when the state's top ranked Class A-2 team en ters the State A-2 Basketball Tournament here in the Marsh field High gym. And Monday could well tell the story for the championship, too.. The Hornets take on the third ranked team in the state. Elraira, in the first round of HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Chamberland Makes SOC First Team; Kelley On Second Five Wayne Chamberland, the hard working senior forward-center for the Klamath Union Pelicans, was the only Pelican to crack the first team lineup for the South ern Oregon Conference All-League team which had six first team members. The Coaches and teams had one ballot each to cast and choices were tabulated on a basis of two points for a first team pick and one point for a second team choice. Any player making the Honorable Mention list had to gather at least two points. The other five members of the first team, which is a good and representative unit, includes Medford's Jack Forde, Crater's Howard Tomlinson and Mike Glincs, Al Hutchins and Jim Pippin of Grants Pass and Cham berland. Korde was the only unanimous choice in the conference. He got 16 votes. Tomlinson, the league's leading scorer, was second with 14 points. Hutchins and Glines each nabbed 13 votes while Pip pin and Chamberland each had 12 points. Klamath's Fred Kelley made the second All-Conference team. Lou Alvarez of Crater led the All-League Selections Southern Oregon Conference All-League Selection First Team Name Jack Forde School Votes Med. ford 16 Howard Tomlinson Crater Al Hutchins G.P. i: Mike Glines Crater 1! Jim Pippin G.P. l: Wayne ChambcrlandK.F. i: Second Team Lou Alvarez Crater 11 Jim Hill Med ford I Dan Miles Medford 8 Fred Kelley K.F. 8 Jim Lamb Ashland 7 Honorable Mentions Tom Sparlin, Grants Pass (6), raul Bransom, Crater (5), Rick Pierce, Ashland (4), Larry Vowell, Medford (3), Rich Benner, Med ford (2), and Grover Dahn, Klamath (2). College Scores By L'nited Press International National invitation tournament at New York. 1st round: St. Louis 62 La Salle 61 Miami (Kla.l "1 St. Francis iN.Y.i 70 (Quarterfinal) Villanova 54 Wichita 53 NCAA Mideast Regional Tourna ment at East Lansing. Mich. Mississippi St. 65 Bowling Green 60 (consolation) NCAA Eastern Regional Tourn ament at College Park. Md. West Virginia 83 New York U. 73 (consolation) East Lansing, Mich. Loyola (111.) 79 Illinois 64 (re gional final) College Park, Md. Duke 73 St. Joseph's ' Pal 53 (re gional final i OSU Welcomes Bearcat Quint PROVO. Vtah iL'PI' Veteran Coach Slats Gill said Saturday nipht he and his Oregon Stale tram welcomed the challence of going up against defending NCAA basketball champion Cincinnali. "They've proven how fine a team they have and we welcome the opportunity to meet them." Gill said in the dressing room at Brigliam Young University field hj aftor hn team won ',he Vnr West NCAA championship The Oregon State coach credited his team's ability to stop Arizona States fat break with turning the tide in the game. "We knew we had to stop their fast break and I think our boys handled it okav." Gill said. the tournament ai 8:45 p.m. Many think this will be t h e game for the st'.; title. The game also is a must or the Hornets. They take an un defeated 22-0 record into the tournament, the only unbeaten record in the state, and must stay that way to win the title. One loss knocks any team out of the championship running. The Hornets left this morning at 8 o'clock for Coos Rav Thev had a practice scheduled on the Sunday, second unit with 11 points. Jim Hill of Medford, Dan Miles of Medford and Kelley each had eight votes and Ashland's Jim Lamb finished the second five with seven points. Those who made Honorable Mention were Tom Sparlin of Grants Pass (6), Paul Bransom WAYNE CHAMBERLAND First Team Selection ff . XT ft : Ram Postpones Three-Bout Card LOS ANGELES (UPD - A scheduled triple-header title box ing program was rained out Sat urday night, including a national ly-televised welterweight title match between champion Emile Griffith and contender Luis Rod riguez. Co-promoter George Parnassus announced that the show would be held Monday or Tuesday and that the decision would be made Sun day. He made this announcement in the offices of the Dodger Stadium. The rain had been falling contin uously since 2:30 p.m. and it was coming down harder as the 7 p.m. PST time approached for the; main bout between Griffith and Rodriguez was to go on. His decision was made after a conference with co-promoter Cal Eaton and after Gil Clancy, co- manager of Griffith had demand Cincinnati's Fighting Colorado, 67-60 LAWRENCE. Kan. (UPD - Powerful Cincinnati, a sputtering basketball machine for half the game, came to life in the second period Saturday night to defeat Colorado 67-60 for the NCAA Mid west Regional Championship. The regional title was Cincin nati's fifth in a row and sends the nation's top-ranked Bearcats into tlie NCAA semi-finals next week in Louisville, Ky. Texas beat Oklahoma City Uni versity 90-83 for the Consolation. Texas Raps Oklahoma Quint, 90-83 LAWRENCE. Kan. L'PI Tex as, with five players scoring in double figures, defeated brawny Oklaiioma Citv Cniversity 90-83 Saturday night (or consolation honors in the NCAA Midwest Re gional Basketball Tournament. Texas, the Southwest Conference champion, started off as if to U. r.,.,-,., .... nl llltinv UIC .11111; a luuanoj anu buiit a 10-point lead in the first -even minutes. BjI before claiming its 20th tory against seven aeicais. uie seven Longhorns had to fight otf re located threats by Oklahoma City. Tiny Jimmy Gilbert, a 5-9 guard, paced Texas with 17 points. Hike Humphrcv followed with 14 and Jimmy Purvcar and John Helier scored 12 eacn. Lar ry Franks had 11 and Jack Du gan scored 10. mi Marslifield court from 5-6 p.m. Every team has an opportunity to drill one hour on the court Sunday. The Hornets are stay ing at the Bay Bridge Motel. The teams in the tour nament include Central. Yam hill - Carlton. Vale. North Cath olic, Newport. Coquille. Elmi mira and Henley. Henley was ranked first in the state, El mira third and it beat out sec ond place and defending cham March 17, 1963 of Crater (5'. Rick Pierce of Ashland (4, Larry Vowell (3 and Rich Benner of Medford (2) and Klamath's Grover Dahn (2). The first team is one which, with their combined total scor ing added together, would aver age 85.3 points per game. The six scored 1,822 points amongst FRED KELLEY Second Team Pick ed a postponement because, "This fight is too important for either boxer to take a chance on fighting in the rain." Instead of the Griffith - Rodri guez match, ABC television an nounced it would substitute a vi deo tape of last Wednesday's Cas- sius Clay-Doug Jones bout in New York. That match was not shown on home television. "This cost us the $70,000 tele vision fee," said Parnassus, "but I felt I could not disappoint the Mexican nationals who had come so far to see the fight program by postponing it any longer than the first of the week." Also postponed until the first of the week were bouts matching do (ending featherweight champion Davey Moore and Sugar Ramos and pitting Battling Torres against Roberto Cruz for the vacated jun ior welterweight title. Rally Downs All-Americans Ron Bonham and Tom Thacker sparked Cincin nati's late rally, which overcame a lead the ninth-ranked Big Eight co-champions held for Die first 24 minutes of the game. But it was George Wilson, Cin cinnati's silky, 6-8 center whe scored the tip-in that gave the Bearcats their first lead at 40-38 with 16 minutes remaining. inc Bearcats never gave up the lead after they gained it but were unable to widen to more than eight points. Colorado, behind the brilliant play of Ken Charlton, led by as much as nine points throughout the first half and maintained a 32-31 halftime advantage. Charlton scored 13 of his 23 points in the first half, but was forced to leave the game with four minutes remaining when he reinjured a knee that troubled him the whole season. Colorado was unable to muster any kind of attack without Charl ton. Bonham scored 22 points. 11 in each half. Thacker had 19 and Wilson 15. - - - j - KanCnGT M66TS vic-'GQrf leltl FjVC SEATTLE ILPD-Blanchet and Garfield, two Seattle teams, met Saturday night for the state class AA high school basketball title. Blanchct. unbeaten this season defeated Hudson's Bay of Vancou ver 50-43 and defending state champion Garfield downed Rich land 52-47 Friday night. pion Pleasant Hill for the tour nament berth. Central tied with Elmira for third, Coquille fifth. North Catholic seventh. Vale eighth and New port ninth. Yam hill - Carlton wasn't ranked in the top 10. The winner of the Henley-El-mira clash in the final game Monday night figures to be for the championship although a very tough Central quintet can not be overlooked. Central of District 8 takes on PAGE 11 A themselves. Tomlinson finished the schedule by copping the scor ing title with 362 points and a 16.4 average. Forde, who led most of the season, had 341 points and 15.5 average. Pippin had 309 points for a mean of 14.0, Hutch ins 260 points for a 14.4 average and Chamberland 251 points for an 11.4 average. Alvarez led the second team also in scoring with 317 points and 14.4 average. Kelley had 228 for a 10.4 mean. Hill 240 for 11.4. Miles 205 for a 9.3 average, and Lamb, 212 for a 9.9 mean. Medford and Grants Pass fin ished in a tie for the SOC title with 11-5 records. Both will enter the state tournament next week. Grants Pass won the toss and got the easier first round bracket pick. Medford plays Lebanon Tuesday night in the tournament's first game at 7:30. Grants Pass meets South Salem in a 2 p.m. game Wednesday afternoon. This is the first time in seven years the Pelicans have failed to make the state tournament. Chamberland was the work horse for the Pelicans all season. He was the leading rebounder on the team also and only because he was rugged under the boards and got good position on his op ponents. He stands about 6-2. He had a brilliant shooting percent age lor the season, one of the best in the league. SOC Stats FINAL SOUTHERN OREGON CONFERENCE STATISTICS Season Turn w L Pet. PF Medlord 16 6 . 727 1398 1184 Crater 15 7 .682 1437 1283 Grants Pass 15 7 .682 1286 1170 Mamam falls 13 .591 1161 1146 Ashland 8 14 .364 1093 1202 toniertnci 'tarn w L Pet. PF PA Medlord i 5 ,6Bg 034 860 urants pass 11 5 .688 953 861 Crater 9 7 .563 1009 1000 Mamain halls 7 9 .438 850 881 Asmand 2 14 .125 777 1001 Individual Players Scoring loo or more Points During Season Player GP fg ft.a f tp sua Tomlinson, C 22 117 128-175 65 362 16.4 Forde, M 22 131 79-122 63 341 15.5' Alvarei.C 22 131 55-78 70 317 14.4 Pippin, GP 22 103 103-170 51 309 14.0 Glines, C 22 128 43-69 39 299 13.6 Hulchlns, GP IB 102 56-88 59 260 14.4 inamDerland, KF 22 96 59-96 58 251 11,4 21 100 40-85 75 240 11.4 Hill, M Kelly, KF Lamb, A 22 90 48-67 63 228 10.4 22 68 76-125 55 212 Miles. M 22 85 35-78 42 205 9 3 Pepper, C Pierce, A Scolt, KF 22 75 45-63 55 195 22 72 41-66 80 185 20 6 7 44-66 62 178 22 67 27-45 69 161 Sparlin, GP Tepper, A Bransom. C Dahn, KF Hess, A Holman, KF 22 56 44-77 77 156 22 55 44-100 77 154 21 S3 22 48 19 46 22 49 19 49 22 42 21 48 22 34 22 37 14 43 46-101 54 152 53- 87 73 149 54- 75 22 146 46-77 50 144 32-38 37 130 37 61 52 121 21-39 20 117 41-57 48 109 30-57 42 104 16-38 19 100 Shepard, GP Vowell, M auer, GP j neainamer, ivt Kelsecker, GP Banner, M Other Klamath Falls players who not in Dan games ourmg tne season Ash 29-48 38 93 Piper 9-12 12-19 11-23 5-10 0-3 0-0 0-0 13 41 19 34 Holman Guyer Moore 5. Bauer Blnney Phelps Rodgcrs S. Dakota Defeats Wittenberg EVANSVILLE, Ind. (UPD It's never loo late to win a bas ketball game. Ask South Dakota State. The Jackrabbits delcated Wit tenberg and won the NCAA Col lege Division basketball title Kri day night when Al Bostic sank a desperation shot from about two yards out with exactly one sec ond left to play. In winning the crown, the Jack- rabbits, who prclcr a running game, beat the first-ranked and favored Tigers from Ohio at thei- own game of ball control, 44-42. The score was tied five times Minutes before Bostic's dramatic hot, Wittenberg led 41-38. A long shot by Dakota's Bob Glasrud made it 41-40, but Bob Hamilton netted a Irec throw to give the Tigers a 42-40 edge. Glasrud hit on another longic to tie the score, and Bostic, tak ing a pats from a teammate who recovered a rebound, dribbled to within two yards and sank his shot one second before the buzzer. mora un Yamhill Carlton of District 2 in the opening game Monday at 2 p.m. Vale of District 7 meets North Catholic of Dis trict 1 to tangle in the 3:45 game. The opening night game at 7:30 pits District 3 Newport against District 4 Coquille. Then comes the Henley-EJmira con test at 8:45. Coach Jerry Johnson w ill take 10 players and a manager to tlte state tournament. The start ing five will be 6-7 Kent Good- CHARLEY THOMPSON Y 'VrV --H M f wi t& hNM Bows mm PROVO, Utah (UPD Oregon State's methodical Beavers forced Arizona State University into one mistake after another Satur day night to down the Sun Devils 83-65 and win their first NCAA Far West Regional Cham pionship since 1949. By winning the Far West Re gional title. Coach Slats Gill's crew moved into the semi-finals and earned the chance to meet defending champion Cincinnati at Louisville, Ky., next Friday. The Beavers, paced by tower ing Mel Counts, led throughout the entire game as they matched the Western Athletic Conference champions in brawn and out shot them from the field. Unlike Friday night when Arizona Slate racked up 62 points in one-half of play. Hie Sun Devils were cold from the field and Oregon State was nearly as hot as ASU was in the opening game. The Beavers connected on 6b per cent of their field goal at tempts in the first half, hitting 19 of 29 attempts in racing to a 4J- 38 lead at intermission. Counts, a seven-foot junior, got seven of 10 from the field in the first half. He had able assistance from teammate Steve Pauly who got six of eight. Oregon Slate ran the margin to 15-5 aflcr five minutes of play. then stretched it to 19-9. Arizona State then narrowed the margin to 30-28. the closest the Sun Dcviis ever got in the entire contest. Early in the second half. Tor ry Baker connected on a drive in and was fouled and converted the free throw. Then Counts hit n long shot from the left corner and Baker followed with a jump er to strrlch the advantage to 56-42. After that, it was no contest as the Sun Devils made a des perate bid to narrow the gap but ran into foul trouble. Counts led all scorers wilh 26 noints and Pauly had 21. Baker followed with 15 for the Beavers For Arizona State, Joe Caldwell was high man with 17 and team mate Tony Cerkvenik had 16. Art Becker followed with 13. In the game for consolation honors, the University of S a n Francisco nipped UCLA 76-65. A crowd of 10.386 saw the double- header at Hrigham Young Uni versity fieldhouse. San Francisco battled back from a 10-point. first half deficit to score its pulsating victory over the Bruins and take third spot in the reginnals. The Dons successfully converted four clutch free throws in the closing two minutes of play to save the victory. Sophomore center Ollie Johnson scored 20 points, including 13 in a torrid second half shooting dis play, to pull the San Franciscans ahead alter they had trailed throughout the first 26 minutes of the came, forward Ed Thomas added 15 points for the winners Four of tiie UCLA Bruins scored in the double figures. They were led by Gale Goodrich with 17 points. Dave Waxman had 14 and Walt Hazzard 12 for the Los An geles club. Reserves lluey Thomas and Dick Brainard tossed in a pair of free throws apiece in the clos ing minutes to secure the win ovc the Bruins. LCLA trailed only 72 71 when Thomas calmly sank two shots from the line. Brainard fol A-2 ing, forwards Mike Beymer and Earl Allbritton, and guards Le Voy Young and Steve Reiling. The top two substitutes will be Charley Thompson and Tom Sanders. The other tliree play ers making the trip are Steve Rand. Elton Schiro and Dick Johnson. The Hornets will be looking for their 23rd successive vic tory without a loss. Elmira will bring a 22-2 record into the TOM SANDERS lowed with his two as the Bruins fouled trying to wrest the ba'l from the Dons. Counts, Baker All-Tourney PROVO. Utah (UPD-Tower-ing Mel Counts, Oregon State's seven-foot center, was named the most valuable player In the NCAA Basketball Tournament which concluded hero Saturday night. Counts and teammate Terry Baker represented the cham pion Beavers on the all-tourney team selected by sports writers and sportscastcrs covering the tournament. Runncrup Arizona Slate Uni versity also placed two play ers on the honor team. ASU was represented by Joe Cald well and Art Becker, the fifth spot on the team went to Ollie Johnson of Uie University of San Francisco. Counts, junior from Coos Bay, Ore., was the tourney's high scorer wilh 48 points. Bend's Skjersaa Places Fifth JACKSON, Wyo. (UPD Karen Skjersaa of Bend finished in fifthl place in the girls' giant slalom event in the national junior skiing championships Friday. Miss Skjersaa, 16, was clocked in 1:39.2. Cathy Nagel ol i.num- claw. Wash., won the event in 1:31.3. 1 "'"lull i in ii i.iiiuiuiiiwi!H wf!rfimirtm'tmrvn t 1 "-"J--11 iww'iM"ifj (ylpset Champion Reinjures Knee; Bout Postponed Again MIAMI (UPIi-The world cham pionship heavyweight fight be tween champion Sonny Liston and Floyd Patterson was postponed indefinitely Saturday night be cause of a recurrence of a knee injury Liston suffered three weeks ago swinging a gulf club. Jack Nilon, Liston's adviser, said that postponement of the April 10 Miami Beach bout had to be made to determine whether an operation was necessary on Liston's left knee. "I don't know how long the fight will have to be postponed but we will not permit Liston to fight until the knee is In perfect con dition." he said just before meet ing with Championship Sports, the promoter of the event. "I know these people, Patterson and the city of Miami Beach are being inconvenienced and when the knee is well wo will be willing to fight in Miami Beach or anywhere else." Except, Nilon said, in New York City, which refused to stage the fight in which Liston won the title from Patterson last September wilh a knockout in 2:06 of the first round at Chicago. Liston will leave Miami by pLne at 12:50 p.m. Sunday for Chicago where, he will rest a week before going back into training. "He will work In tho Rym In Chicago to determine if Die knee tournament. Both losses were at Uie hands of Pleasant HiU which w as defending state champion. Tliey beat Pleasant Hill tlu-ee of five times, includ ing a best two of three plav oil. Gooding leads tlte team in scoring and rebounding. He topped the Rogue League scor ing, also. He has 474 points for a 22 5 average per game. He also has 373 rebounds for a STEVE RAND The San Franciscans first took the lead 38-37 on a fielder by Jim Brovelli with 16:22 showing on the second half clock. They wid ened the margin to 64-55 but UCLA twice cut the USF lead to one point. The taller UCLA team had moved to a 24-14 lead with an cf fcclive fast break and zone de fense early in the first half. How ever, San Francisco toughened on the backboards as the game prog rcssed and slowly cut UCLA s margin. Sharp-shooting Hazzard carried Hie bulk of UCLA's offensive load in the first half wilh nine points and several key plays. Ho also had nine rebounds during the first 20 minutes. The Bruins held a 35- 30 margin at intermission. The Duns wasted little time after intermission in chopping off the Bruin s lead. Baskets by Bo- vellt and Johnson narrowed the gap to 37-36 and Vovelli's field er sent Sun hrancisco ahead. The middle part of the second half saw the lead seesaw back and forth, but three conseculive field goals by Johnson, a rugged 6-foot-8 center, moved the Dons to a 52-46 advantage. THE BOX (811 OregonState Kraus Pauly 0 0-0 2 0 9 36 3 21 Counts Peters Baker Jarvls II 4-4 3 26 4 6-6 4 14 6 3 1 4 15 1 33 i i Rossi 0 2-3 3 2 Torgerson Totals Arliona Stale (151 Caldwell 0 0-2 0 31 11-14 24 81 O F P T 6 5 10 J 17 5 610 5 I6! 6 1-3 3 13 Cervenlk Becker Dalrman 2 1-3 2 4 0-2 1 O 33 3 Senltfa Howard Diarulino Totals Haillime: Oregon Stale 38. 10-0 3 2 14 17-11 11 43, Arliona will hold up or whether an opera tion for torn cartilage is neces sary," Nilon announced. "There is no question but that the knee is bad. If an operation is necessary it will be eight to 10 weeks before he can go back into training again." Nilon. the little Irishman from Philadelphia who handles Liston's affairs hut is not listed officially as his manager, said that they "would like the fight to be held in May if possible." "However." he said, "where and when it will be held we cannol say at the present time." The fight originally was set for April 4 in Miami Beach and a postponement to April 10 was made when Liston injured tlie knee swinging a golf club for the benefit of magazine photographers. H fflTliTiTtf f .iff? 1 17.7 average. And Ik has fouled only 29 times in 21 games. Bey mer is second with 303 points for a 13.7 average. He has only 127 rebounds for a 5.7 mean. Allbritton is third in the scoring department with 265 points and a 12.0 average. But lie is til second loading re bounder with 251 and an 11.4 average. Young has 137 points and a 6.2 average and Roiling 99 points and a 4.5 mean. The ELTON SCHIRO Henley Statistics THROUGH GP FG 21 189 22 137 22 109 22 56 21 37 22 36 20 23 10 6 11 8 NAMES Gooding, Kent beymer, AAiKe Allbrilton, Earl oung, Levoy Thompson, Charley Reiling, Steve Sanders, Tom Schiro, Ellon Rand, Steve Pielby, Terry Johnson Dick, Lewis, Bob Others Totals 604 Texas Team Cops NAIA Cage Title KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPU - Pan American College of Texas, with 6-foiil-9 Lucious Jackson amming in 25 points, defeated Western Carolina (N. C.) 73-62 Saturday night for the champion ship in the 26th National Associa tion of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) basketball tournament Olympic Skiers Vie At Shasta MOUNT SHASTA (UPD-Paul Bacon and Smilic Kerridge, both representing Mammoth Mountain of Southern California, Saturday won top honors in the Olympic tryouts at the Mount Shasta Ski Bowl. Bacon made the 700-foot, 46 gate run in 5.2 seconds in the men's event while Miss Kerridge skied her slalom in I h c women's event over the same eottrso in D7.fi seconds. Oswaldo Ancinas of Alpine Meadows, Calif., was second in the men's event wilh a time of 1:00.9 and Tom Rryant of San Francisco was third In 1:07. In the women's slalom, Elea nor Bennett of Mammoth Mountain placed second in 98.7 and Sliaron Pecjack of Aspen, Colo., was third in 108. The race is one of many simi lar events currently underway iround the country to determine the membership of the U.S. Olym pic Skiing Team. Today's grand slalom was cancelled because of heavy snow. It's Easy Copeland TEH 1. 30 Day Charge 2. Revolving Charge Carry up to $125.00 balance for only 90c a month carrying charge. 3. Long Term Credit Borrow up to (hit omount Buy On EASY TERMS See Us For All team lias averaged 69.1 points per game. Gooding has the school rec ord for scoring. He has piled up 1214 points in three years for the school record. He made the Rogue League All-Conference team and Uie Oregon Jour nal All-State team. Beymer was a second team All-Conference selection while Allbritton and Young both made Uie Honorable Mentions. 3 " : - DICK JOHNSON 22 GAMES FT-FTA REB, 86-153 373 34- 69 127 47. 83 251 34- 67 86 33- 45 120 27- 59 94 27- 44 37 4- 5 14 6-6 AVG. 17.7 5.7 11.4 3 9 5.7 TP AVO. 474 22.5 303 13.7 265 120 117 62 3.6 16 2.0 0.7 03 4 0 49 4 7 313-519 1151 53.3 295 152 Jackson, who also grabbed 25 rebounds in the title contest, was voted most valuable player in the tournament. He is a junior. Western Carolina, trailing 39-35 it halftime, made a close game of it until midway in the last half. Then Pan American began pull ing away on Jackson's rebounding and scoring, plus long shots by Mitchell Edwards who finished with 20 points. Sophomore Ed wards also was named to tho all- tuurnament team. Mel Gibson, 6-3 Carolina senior voted to the all-tournament team. scored 26 points to top his team's offense. Other members of the all-tour ney team wero Herb Stangc, sen ior on the Fort Hays (Kan.) State team which finished fourth; Her- schel West, Grambling (La.) Col lege senior whose squad finished third with Saturday night's 107-86 triumph over Fort Hays. Pan American connected on 40 per cent ot its shots Horn the field and 13 of 18 free throws, compared with 40.9 per cent field goal accuracy by Western Caro lina and 8 of 12 charity tosses. In rebounds, with Jackson lead ing Pan American, the Tcxans controlled the backboards 50-33. Grambling's 6-foot-9 Willis Reed scored 40 points in the consola tion struggle. Fort Hays oulscorcd I lie towering Louisiana team 50 39 in the last half, but could not overtake Uie huge first period deficit. Sam McDowell, with 18 points, led the Fort Hays offense. Z4 to Buy at Lumber on Pay this omt. 36 months MS $ 200.00 $ 4.38 $ 300.00 9.58 $ 500.00 $15.95 $ 700.00 J22-3S $1,000.00 J31.93 Building Needs! J. W. COPELAND Lumber Yard 66 Main, K. Falls Chifoquln
