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PAtlfi fl THE RttfiVfiLANfifin (WtS.) DAILY NEWS Hodags Nudge Merrill, 77-74, in Overtime Session; Jahnke Gets 28 -RicUewen 1 Helps- Offensive Attack With 22 Points The Rhinelander Hodags. overcoming a six point deficit in the last three minutes of play, posted ii 77.74-vu4w-.v- in an overtime session at Merrill Friday night. The Wisconsin Valley Conference duel was staged on the losers' court. This was one of Rhinelander's toughest games of the season. At MO time during the contest were the teams separated by more than six points, and in every case, it was Merrill that had the widest lead.

Most, of the gome, however, (he Scoreboard showed a margin of only one or two ixiints. And 18 times during the course of the evening, the lead exchanged hands. Merrill's decided height advantage, now that Bob McMillan has returned to duty, kept Rhinelander Hodags Meet Rapids Tonight The Rhinelander Hodags face league leading Wisconsin Rapids in the Junior High gym tonight. Game time is scheduled for 8:15 p.m. lost it.

This happened once more Merrill stayed in the lead, moved their margin to with a minute left to Jahnke and Cloutier pretty well strapped on the bnck- boards. The Hodags had to be satisfied with the smaller share of rebounds and tips. But they overcame this disadvantage with sharp shooting. They hit 28 of 62 shots for a .452 percentage. Merrill missed many easy layup shots.

McMillan was the guiltiest on that count. Time and again he had opportunities to tally on rebound attempts. He made plenty of them, but his average was not good. Another thing that helped the Hodags was that Don Bacher, leading scorer in the Valley prior to Friday, was off his pace. He scored only three baskets and five free throws for 11 points.

He also missed a gift shot that would have given Merrill a one point victory without an overtime. Misses Gift Shot. What happened is that Rhinelander tied the score at 72-72 with a minute left to play. Neither team scored for the next 57 seconds. Then Frank Schultz fouled Bach- i-r.

His free throsv attempt bounced off the rim. That gave Rhineland- L-r its chance for victory. And the Hodags made good use of it. Bruce Johnson put the Hodags ahead, 74-72, early in the overtime, but McMillan knotted the score with a rebound attempt. The score stayed at 74-74 until the clock showed a minute and 10 seconds remaining.

Then Rich Jewell scored on a pivot shot. Shortly afterwards, Dave Norton added a free throw to give Rhinelander a 77-74 lead. And that was the game. The deadliest shots on the Rhinelander outfit Friday were Max Jahnke and Jewell. Jahnke slipped in 10 field goals and eight free throws for a 28 point total.

The classy forward shot 59 per cent from the floor and 62 per cent from the free throw line. He made 10 of 17 field goal attempts and eight out of 13 free throws. Jewell scored 23 points on eight baskets and six free throws. Others who helped out in the scoring department were Neil Cloutier and Bruce Johnson. Cloutier garnered 12 points and Johnson made 10.

McMillan, Pete Preboske and Dewaine Bellile were high point men for Merrill. McMillan coined 22 jjoints, Preboske made 14 and JVIlilc counted eight. Friday's victory was the 1 ninth nf the season for the Hodags against five defeats. In conference competition, the locals have a 5-3 reeerd, good for third place. Merrill has failed to win in nine Valley outings.

Things certainly pointed to a Merrill win during most of Friday contest. The Hodags took a lead during the first minute of play, then Merrill tied it up on a rebound shot by McMillan. The then moved ahead, and stayed there 1 the remainder of the period. Hhinelander was always within three points of the leaders, but was unable to catch up. The period ended with Merrill in front.

17-lii. That first quarter set a rough am! tumble pace that was main- tamed throughout the game. A total i if 52 fouls were called during the evening, 30 of them on Rhiiu- i.inder. Second Period. Paring the 1 first five minutes of second period.

Merrill jacked lead to 25-19. Then the Hodags ued Jahnke scored on a i shot, two fin 1 throws and a ui iiv-r attempt to deadlock ihe i- at 25-25. Then Jewell dropped rebound to put Khiiielander the lead. Merrill, however, iv- the lead, holding it until clock showed I5. second.

1 lell ill scored on a IOIIK shot mx the gup then Cl mtiei put the Hodags ahead with a jump -Mot McMillan again put Men ill but Jewell's live thuu iticl" tttU'mpt made Hie haltlim. 111 st three nillii.U ol IhiVd pviluii. Hlniti K.iuk Ul Il'l'llt TIlCIl Beilln iXMUbllU-d their t.nri:!. 1, IvIi.Li I.IMII before The Jnys five points play. Then tallied Iwo points each, making the three quarter score, 57-50, Merrill.

Early in the fourth quarter the two teams battled back and forth without getting anywhere. Then Merrill popped in seven quick points to move out in front. 7004. There were three minutes left in the ball game, Cloutier and Jahnke cut the lead to 70-68. but Preboske added another bucket for Merrill.

At that point the Hodags stopped the Jays cold. Jewell hit on a free throw, and Jahnke made three more to deadlock the score at 72-72. Rhinelander's lineup for part of the overtime session had Jewell at center. Rog Palmer and Neil Cloutier at forwards and and Norton at guards. Of the five, only Jewell and Norton are starters.

Jahnke, Nixon and Johnson left the game with five fouls, Rhinelander's next game will be played in the Junior High School gym tonight. The league leading Wisconsin Rapids Red Raiders visit here for an 8-15 p.m. duel. RHINELANDER FG Nixon, 1 Palmer, 0 Jahnke, 10 Jewell, 8 Norton, 0 Schultx. 0 Johnson, 4 Cloutier, 5 Totals 28 MERRILL FG Bacher, 3 Bellile, 4 Smith, 4 McMillan, 8 Rehwinkle, 0 Tushinski, 1 Preboski, 4 Batimgart, 0 Totals 24 Rhinelander .16 20 20 Merrill 17 17 23 FT 2 0 8 6 1 0 2 2 21 FT 5 4 1 0 0 6 4 26 1G 15 PF 5 3 5 4 2 2 5 4 30 PF 1 4 5 5 1 0 3 5 24 Rapids Clinches Valley Title with Win Over Tigers WISCONSIN RAPIDS Lincoln High School of Wisconsin Rapids clinched the Wisconsin Valley Conference basketball title here Friday night by handing Marshfield a 74-53 defeat, the eighth straight in loop play for the Red Raiders.

Wisconsin Rapids never trailed in the game, as Marshfield did not get their first field goal until after six minutes elapsed. The Raider, also started slowly and led by 14-8, at the quarter. At the start of the second quarter they quickly ran the count to 20-10 and Marshfield never got close again. Reserves played a good of the second half for the Raiders, but Marshfield was unable to cut the margin. The Tigers had poor luck on their shooting and made only 21 of 42 free throws.

Sammy Sampson, Rapids' guard. Jed the scoring with 24 points, all in the first three quarters. Jerry Scheibe's 15 paced Marshfield. NIC Teams Begin Tourney Competition Next Week Terzinski's 525 Series Leads Commercial Loop Doug Terzinski and Ray Olson split the kegling laurels Friday night when the Commercial League competed at the Eagles Club. Terzinski was the series leader with a 525 score.

He put the total together witr games of 177, 198 and 150. Bruno Grimelli ranked second in series. He rolled games of 189. 151 and 180 for a 520 sum. Olson led in singles with a 212.

He was followed by Pete Swistak's 211 and Terzinski's 198. Rapids Fey, Turiwv, Wilson, Snmp'n, Johna'n, Ancler'n, Lalti'er. Knurn'r. Bonton, inn. v.

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liMnson, 1'Mnnthei. Ft 27 20 2V Totals 16 21 18 Wisconsin RnpiiJB 14 MarshfielH 24 12 10 15 17-74 18-53 Hodag Coach Noble Boom Bar 2 ....778 799 1 792 788 Sht. Met. Bay Bar 2 834 791 1 773 784 Rhldr. Beer 3 Wildwood Ser.

Harlcy-David. 2VL- Eagles Club .830 818 728-765 783 788 783 778 High series: Terzinski 525, Grimelli 520, Hank Priebe 516 and Olson 502. High singles: Olson 212, Swistak 211, 198 and Jack Locks 191. St. Joseph Is Beaten by Zion St.

Joseph's suffered its first de-1 feat of the season Friday night when Zion po.sted a 32-29 victory i in Rhinelander Church League ac- tion. Gary Trump was high scorer for the winning cause with 21 points. Joel Pecore and Wilhelm led St. Joseph's with nine and eight tallies. In the only other game played.

St. Mary's edged out Trinity. 3128. Donovan and Schiek led the winners with 13 and 10 points respectively. Chuck Teske was high for Trinity with 12.

Coach Suspends Varsity at Freedom FREEDOM, Wis. Freedom High School Basketball Coach Ben Meixl said Friday night he had suspended the 11 members of his varsity team as a disciplinary action after they stayed out too late following a school dance. Meixl's action came to light after Freedom was defeated 63-23 Frida.v night by Keodsville. Freedom, a niembiT ot the l.itta- Nine Conlerciiiv. with a junior s'i'iad including live that brought on tccurred Wednes- Pointers Maintain First Place in State College Loop By The Associated Press Stevens Point turned back La Crosse 88-71 Friday night to retain its first place position in the state College Conference basketball race.

Other developments saw Eau Claire and the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee move into a tie for second place, replacing Platteville. Platteville traveled to Superior where the Ycllowjackets took an 86-75 victory. It was the third loss in eight league starts for fTfc" Pioneers. Superior is now 4-4. Ron Schultz of Superior was the game's high scorer with 24 points.

The high point man in the Stevens Point game at La Crosse was the Pointers' Lavern Luebstorf who collected 32 points, 23 of them in a second half surge that kept the Indians off balance. The Pointers have an 8-1 record while La Crosse is 3-6. A UW-M victory would have- given the Cardinals undisputed second place, but in the contest at Eau Claire the Blugolds salted away the triumph 95 90 with steady free throw shooting and control ball in the final four minutes. The teams have identical 6-3 records. Eau Claire controlled the game in the first half and jumped off to a 45-28 lead at the intermission.

Milwaukee took over in the second period, but Eau Claire was too far ahead. Leon Etten collected 28 points and Jim Bollinger had 27 for Eau Claire while Tom Kneusel got 24 and Jerry 23 for UW-M. At River Falls, the Falcons had to come up with a second half surge to defeat Oshkosh, 100-88. River Falls now has a 4-4 record. Oshkosh is 3-6.

And in the final conference encounter, Stout turned back a late bid by Whitewater to take a 77-73 victory at Menomonie. It was the seventh defeat in eight for Whitewater. Stout is now 3-6. Six of the 10 Northern Lakes. Conference teams will compete in the sub-district basketball tourna-, ment to be held at Woodruff High School on Wednesday.

Friday and; Saturday, Feb. 20-22-23. I Those participating in that tour-! ney include Woodruff, Eagle Riv-. er, Elcho, Minocqua, Phelps and; Three Lakes. Opening night schedule calls for Eagle River to meet Phelps i in the first game, at 7 p.m., and Minocqua to take on Elcho im-1 mediately afterward.

I Woodruff plays the winner of the Eagle River-Phelps contest in the opener Wednesday, and Three Lakes takes on the winner of the Minocqua-Elclio duel. Wednesday's losers will play the first game on Saturday night, and the winners will clash in the second affair. The winner of the Woodruff sub- district will go to Three Lakes on Thursday, Feb. 28, and Saturday, March. 1, to compete for district laurels.

Other sub-district winners from Birnamwood, Crivitz and Niagara will be entered in the Three Lakes district meet. The team winning district laurels will then proceed to Stevens Point for sectional playoffs. The sectional champion is eligible for the state meet. Two other Northern Lakes Conference teams have been assigned to the Birnamwood sub- district. They arc Crandon and White Lake.

That tourney starts Thursday, Feb. 21, with Birnamwood meeting White Lake at 7:30 p.m., and Crandon taking on Mattoon at 9 p.m. Tile two losers will play the first game on Saturday, Feb. 23, and the winners will play the second. The victor then goes to Woodruff for the district.

Wabeno goes over to Gillett for its tournament action. Laona, winless in league play, was assigned there, too. But because of its pool- record, the Kellys were excluded from post season competition. The Gillett meet begins Feb. 22.

The schedule calls for Bonducl ot vie with Wabeno in the first game, and Gillett to meet Suring in the second. The losers play the first game on Feb. 23, and the winners play the second. Sub-district champion at Gillett moves to Hortonville for district play. The district winner then competes in the sectional at Stevens Point.

Spahn Agrees to Contract Terms Of About $50,000 MILWAUKEE Lefthander Warren Spahn today accepted a contract from the Milwaukee Braves calling for about $50,000, but 10 other players, including five regulars, remained unsigned. General Manager John Quinn said the dean of the Braves' pitching corps agreed to terms by phone from his home in Hartshorne, Okla. Spahn, who won 20 games last season, said he would leave for Florida shortly. Three other starting pitchers, Lew Burdette 19-10 Bob Buhl (18-8) and Gene Conley (8-9) are unsigned along with shortstop Johnny Logan and outfielder Billy Bruton, among the I a Others still out of the fold are Ernie Johnson, Felix Mantilla, Frank Torre, Wes Covington and Don McMuhon. With the exception of Logan, none of the others is believed to Five New Scores On Honor Roll This Week Four new scores were added ti the men's bowling honor roll, while only one was added to the women's this past week.

Three of the four scores on the men's roll were in the series division. Ed Pecore turned in the best set. a 077. 11 ranks fifth in the city. Truman Davis rolled a G02.

good for an cighr.i place tie, and Tom Christensen racked up a G56 to earn 10th place. It was Christensen's first (100 score of his bowling career. A 257, bowled by Ed Pecore, was the only singleton high enough to make the singles roll. It ties for eighth place. Present leaders in the men's division are Truman Davis, Judd Prince and Harold Peters.

Davis is tops in series with a 714, and Prince and Peters are tied for first in singles with a 277 each. In the women's division. Carol was the only bowler to hit the honor roll during the last week. She bowled a 575 set, which ranks fifth. Miss Fritz leads in both series and singles.

Her highest set was 598, and her best game was 246. This week's bowling honor roll includes games rolled through Thursday night. The leaders follow: Roll Men's Bowling Honor Three Game Totals: 714 Truman Davis, Business Men's League. G91 Ed Jayes, Business Men's League. 685 Ken Sweo, Classic League.

683 Ed Pecore, Classic League. 677 Ed Pecore, Classic League. 670 Bob Fritz, Business Men's League. 667 Clay Arndt, Business Men's League. 662 Truman Davis, Business Men's League.

662 Oscar Flaminio, Veterans' League. 66J Hodag 'B' Team Trounces Merrill, 55-37, Friday The Rhinrlander ITodng Jayvccs led by Ilic sharpshooting of guards Dick Lehman and DcWatnc Olson and forward Doug Tfarkins, poster Ihoir sixth win of the season Fri clay night when they whipped Mer rill, 55-37. The triumph gives the TTodags season's mark of six wins againsi fighl defeats. They Hirer more games to play. Lehman, substitute guard, and Olson were high scorers for Rhine lander with 14 counters each.

Har kins helped out with 10. Waller led" Merrill with 12 points, 10 01 Iheni made on free throws. After the first quarter. Rhine lander had no (rouble with The first period ended 12 10. Rhinolandcr's favor.

The Ho- dags then jacked their lead to 24 14 at halftime. They added anothei point to the lead in the third quar ter, and pasted on seven more in the finale. Rhinelaricfer's next game will ht played this evening in the Junioi High gym. The Hodags meet the Wisconsin Rapids squad in game starting at 6:45 p.m. Rhldr.

llarklns, Letell'r, I nlmer, l.orts'r, Kich'ski. L.ckrose, Cilley, l.chman. llurlbutt. Olson, PflMcrrill 2) Leopold, I Smith, 1 Bemirlry, Fg Ft OjPahles, liKlien'dt, Totnls 22 II Rhinelanclpr Merrill 21 181 Totnls HI 17 .12 10 12 4 15 14 16 9-37 Welker Cooper Leader in City League Welker Cooper slammed out a 589 series and Pat Stafford rolled a 227 singleton to lead all other bowlers in City League competition staged at Jewell's Recreation Friday night. Cooper put his score together with games of 186, 195 and 205.

Runnerup in the series division was Len Terczynski. He bowled games of 190, 197 and 192 for a 579 total. George Feldman was second in singles with a 218, and Art Cox followed him with a 213. Ray's Tap 2 Old Time Tav. Men's League.

656 Tom Christensen, Classic League. 1)50 Arvid Clure, Ripco League. Rhldr. Read Beer 3 West. Pabst Bl.

Rib. City Lumber 1 Kozy Korner 2 Klaas' Bar 1 ...852 810 1 823 812 1001 914 3 923 889 2 724 881 ...890 862 ...865 904 ...842 823 Individual Games: 277 Judd Prince, Men's League. 277 Harold Peters. League. 27G Harold League.

275 Jewell League. 274 Clay League. Dick League. Myron Kobernat. League.

John Loduha, Business Industrial Vicktnan, Ripco Jenkins, Classic Arndt, Business Lund, Business Business Social Men's 268 Men's 208 Men's 207 League. 266 Ken Sweo 2(iO Norm League. 257 Ed Pecore League. 257 Bill Frankc, City League. High series: Cooper 589, Terczyn- ski 579, Stafford 571, Jewell Jenkins 558, Cox 554, Jess Medhurst 536, Bernie Moes 535 and Feldman 524.

High singles: Stafford 227, Feldman 218, Coy. 213 and Cooper and Jenkins 203. Basketball Scores Three Lakes Beats Woodruff, 65-60 Teams Share NLC Championship; Crandon Is Second Nor thorn Final Standings. Conference. Woodruff Three Lakes Crandon Elclio While Lake Wabeno 7 Eagle River 4 Phelps 3 Minocqua 2 Laona 0 12 12 7 7 TV 807 887 731 (175 711 684 580 OP nan 700 738 72!) 006 710 775 889 931! Classic League.

Skeway, Ripco Classic Elcho's Kegling Leaders Listed Art Wiskow, Bnh Moore, Lionel Palmer. Connie Herman, Helen and D.irothy Gardner bowled the highest scores this past week ill actiun staged ill Elclio. Wiskow and Moon- led the men's National League. Wiskow was first in series with a (Jlli. and Moore k'd in singles with a 252.

Hans Ellner was second in series with a till, and Bill Krausi- was runner- up in singles with a 238. Palmer bowled a 007 set and Herman rucked up a 218 singleton to lead the men's American League. Mrs. Prxybyla's 574 and Mrs. Gardner's 2110 were tops in the women's league.

Korz Record Falls At Nekoosa Gym incident pell-i ii! rn.icli all the am! explained tiial them leturn to Monday. He didn't Would. practice Mon- tournament IK xt Thursday, i NEKOOSA Mlsn.i set a inghi as hi Nekoosa's new gym and The -ilil: ll.V K' V. elll llH record Friday poured in 47 points am deleatcd Sparta 91- 'lii gym record of 46 la 1939 by iihinelander who to become a star at ei sitv of Wisconsin. be far apart from management on terms.

Logan has said he will remain here until he signs. Friday, the shortstop said he had talked with Quinn several times "and we are very far apart." Logan reportedly received about $25,000 in 195U when he batted .281, led the National League with 31 sacrifice bunts and placed second in fielding among regular shortstops. The shortstop planned to confer again today with Quinn as did Bruton who has made several fruitless trips to the Braves' office. Bill hit .272 last year and led the league with 15 doubles. t'onlej Opposes Cut.

Quinn planned to leave later today for Florida where he will encounter the three other unsigned hurler.s. Buhl and Conley said from Brai nlon they talked with the club by phone Friday, but failed to reach agreement. Conley asserted "my record last year wasn't bad that 1 should merit a cut." Shoulder trouble kept him out of action until June last year. The big rightnunder said he was confident he could work out the right kind of arrangements when he talks next with Quinn I who will spend a lew days at Fort Laudcrdale belore yoiny on Bradcnton. i Buhl, a fast ball righthander, said only that he was refused use ol the Braves' training grounds "until 1 signed." Burdette, a resident of Sarasota Springs, said he had sent his unsigned contract back several days ago.

"Let's just say I'm not satis- lied," the big righthander said. Women's Bowling: Honor Roll Three Gume Totals: 598 Carol Fritz, Bowlerctte League. 592 Carol Fritz, Bowlerctte League. 592 Hildegarcle Holm, Tuesday League. 591 Mildred Takala, Tuesday League.

578 Carol Fritz, Bowlerette League. 575 League. 554 League. 550 League 550 League 548 Alberta League. 547 League.

547 Phyllis League. Carol Fritz, Bowlerette Carol Fritz, Bowlerctte Carol Fritz, Bowlerette Helen Motowski, Thursday Poskie, Tuesday Joan Knudsen, Junior Phelps, Tuesday Individual Games: 246 Carol Fritz. Bowlerette League. 23ti Florence LaCrosse, Thursday League. 235 Val Rhode, Bowlerette League.

235 Mildred Takala, Tuesday League. 232 Alyce Daluin, Tuesday League. 230 Hildegarde Holm. Tuesday League. 220 Carol Fritz, Bowlerette League.

224 Lisbeth Krctlow, Bowler- ette League. 222 Al.vci League. 222 Carol League. 221 Verna Didelot, Thursday League 221 Helen Mutowski. Thursday League.

Dalum, Tuesday Fritz, Bowlerette By The Associated Press High School. La Crosse Central 74, Menominee 'Mich.) 61. Three Lakes 65, Woodruff GO. Phvlps 78, Minocqua GO. Wabeno 52, White Lake 41.

Crando 66, Elcho 59. Rhinelander 77, Merrill 74. Medford (12 Phillips 44. Tomahawk 74, Park Falls 58. Schofielcl 74, Mosinee 51.

Fond du Lac 07, Oshkosh 50. Waukcsha 54, Cudahy 45. Milwaukee Country Day 77, Milwaukee Univ. School 56. Milwaukee Lincoln 62, Milwaukee East 61.

i overtime I Milwaukee North 84, Milwaukee Junuau 62. Kenosha 06, Beloit 62. Manitdwoc 73, Appleton 69. Madison West 63, Madison Central 38. Janesville 74, Madison East 60.

Racine Horlick 57, Racine Park 55. Sheboygan Central 70, gan North 69. Lancaster 55 Platteville 54. Shorewood 95 -Greendale 64. Milwaukee Messmer 68, Waukesha Memorial 67.

West Milwaukee 61, West Allis Hale 47. South Milwaukee 75, West Allis Central 53. Two Rivers 88, Shawano 80. Wauwatosa 63, Whitefish Bay 59. Peshtigo 85, Gillett 41.

Coleman 88, Crivitz 70. Nekoosa 91, Sparta 67. Wisconsin Rapids 74 Marshfield 53. Menasha 62, Neenah 59. Kimberly 78.

Clintonville 47. Milwaukee Washington 74, Milwaukee dialer 67. Wautoma 75, Port Edwards 37. Omro 54, Winneconiie 42. We.vauw.'ga 59, Manawa 56.

Waupaea 61, Amherst 63. Bonducl Go, lola 54. College. Kentucky 115, Chicago Loyola 65. Ferris Institute 70, Michigan Tech 66 St.

Olaf 69, Lawrence iWis.i 48. Superior State 86, Platteville Stati; 75. CarleUm 80, Ripon 74. Stout 77, Whitewater State 73. Eau Claire State 95, Wisconsin Milwaukee 1 90.

Kiver Falls 100, Oshkosh State 88. Stevens Point State 88, La Crosse State 71. Results Friday. Three Lakes 05. Woodruff GO, Crandon 66, Elcho 59.

Wabeno 52. White Lake 41. Phelps 78, Minocqua (iO. The Three Lakes Bluejays, showing a tremendous desire to win. upset the mighty Muskies of Woodruff Friday night to claim a share of the Northern Lakes Conference championship.

It was the first loss of the season for Woodruff. The unit had constructed a 12-0 record prior to Friday, and needed a victory over the Jays to wind up with a perfect mark and the undisputed crown. The Muskies were favored, too, because they had soundly spanked Three Lakes in a previous encounter. That was the Jays' only defeat in 12 outings. But it wasn't in the books that Woodruff should triumph.

Although the Muskies played well, they were unable to cope with the highly keyed Jays. In other games played Friday, Crandon defeated Elcho, 66-59, to claim second place, Wabeno downed White Lake, 52-41, and Phelps whipped Minocqua, 78-60. Elcho's loss and Wabeno's win created a three way tie for third place in the conference. Sharing that position, with a 7-6 mark each are Elcho, Wabeno and White Lake. Phelps dropped Minocqua into the second to last berth.

Eagle River, in fourth place, and Laona, in the cellar spot, finished their schedules last week. BLUEJAYS UPSET MUSKIES, 65-60 inspired Three Lakes basketball team pulled the upset of the season here Friday night when it nudged out Woodruff, 65-60, in the final game of the season. Because of the loss, the Muskies were forced to share the NLC crown with the Bluejays. Three Lakes made an especial effort to stop high seeping Dennis Schmitkc. who had been averaging 27 points per game.

His night's total of 14 points indicates the Jays ivere successful. Three Lakes started out force- iilly, taking a 14-10 first period lead. They added another point to ihe gap in the second quarter, making the halftime score read, 294. From there on out, however, he teams matched each other. Sach tallied 19 points in the third and 17 in the finale.

Gene Maney and Bob Wojtusik were the big offensive guns for the Jays. Mitney dumped in 27 points on 12 buckets and three gift shots, and Wojtusik added 13 more points. Ken Egvedt and Fred Raichle were high fur Woodruff. Egvedt garnered 25 points, and Raichle made 15. first quarter lead, then hit a freezing spell.

The Lakers scored only four (joints in the second canto, while Wabeno drilled in 12. At halftime, the score read. 24-17. Wnbe- no then added five more points to its lead in Ihe third quarter. The Lakers whittled the margin by one point in the fourth, but that was all the better they could do.

Walirno NrcMo. I liirrii'n, Si. I'Vr, Horu-v, Tmil'ff. Ft 4 Pf I 11 I. Ml i I II I 2 Pf 4 2 II I 2 17 7 12 I I 41 PHELPS TROUNCES MINOCQUA, 78-fifl big quarters, the second and third, gave Phelps a good sized working margin here Friday night.

The Knights wound up on the long end of a 78-60 score. Phelps grabbed a 13-7 first period lead, then added five more points to the lead in the second. Outscoring Minocqua. 31 points to 18, in the third quarter, Phelps's margin was increased to 67-43. From there on out the Knights coasted.

Larry Rosner and Ron Monty were high scorers for Phelps. Rosner tallied 22 points and Monty added 19. Doug Rohrbacher and Harold LeSieur led Minocqua with 16 and 14. Minocqua Fg Kohr'er, 7 Bast, 2 Dlcnsll, Carl'n, LeSieut 1 Snyder, 31 Rosner, 3 Hiih'ki, 4 Strnbiii-k, I 4 Burrr.iin. 2 Montv.

IIOstiT'K, Fg Ft Pf 7 I Totals 2i 14 24- Totnls 21 32 17 PI.plps Minocqua 7 21 IK II 11 78 IH 17-60 Woodruff Si li'tkr. l-'ri-cl'lm, i Hairhlr. U.II.-H. Fg II 7 12 2 I Pf'T. Fg I.Manry.

I 2 Woj'sik, 5 Callum, 4 0 luquitll, 1 2 Jurl. I 1 Strforn-k. 0 2 Totals IH 4 Iv Tolnls 25 I i Woodruff 10 Three Lakes 14 14 I 7 17-65 CRANDON FELLS ELCHO. ELCHO The Elcho Hornets, playing without the services of ace Matt Bubon, who was ill with a strep throat, bowed before Crandon here Friday night, 66-59. Crandon dominated throughout the first half, taking a 15-10 first period lead, then lipping it to 3019 at the mid-rest.

Elcho was in control during the third period, outscoring the Cardinals, 23 points to 19. Both teams scored 17 in the fourth stanza, giving Crandon a seven ixjint lead at the game's end. Mike Osgood and Jim Sparks spearheaded Crandon's attack. Osgood drilled in 25 points and Sparks made 23. Bob Follstad and Joe Flannery led Elcho with 14 and 13 tallies.

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Fg I i 5 Ft Pf Crandon Fg Ft McKee, 1 Sparks. 2 Kerr, 5 Ison. I Muc, ') II Totula 1 7 0 10 I Ib 10 ululc ') I i 2i 19 17 17 5') bb WABENO TIPS LAKKKS, 52-11 by the shooting talents of Ron St. Peter and Tom Neddo. the Wabeno Log Rollers assured themselves of a share of third place in the NLC Friday night when they downed White Lake.

52-41. St. Peter was high scorer for the winning cause with 24 points. Ho made 11 baskets and a pair of free throws. Neddo helped out with 14 points.

Larry Gaudette was the Lakers' offensive star. He scoi cd 18 points. White Lake jumped off to a 13-12 Foster to Use Same Squad Against Buckeyes COLUMBUS, Ohio University of Wisconsin will reach for its second Big Ten basketball victory tonight against Ohio State which defeated the Badgers in their first meeting a month ago with a great finish. Ohio State, shoved out or the Big Ten lead by Indiana last weekend, has been trying to break a three game losing streak. The Badgers will seek to bolster confidence gained in beating Michigan earlier this week.

Either team could win. Coach Bud Foster of the Badgers will use the same squad tliai tripped Michigan. 70-65. Starring will be Bob LiUow and Glenn Borland at forwards, Steve Radke at center and Brian Kulas and Walt Holt at guards. Kulas and Holt gave the Badgers their first scoring punch by guards last Monday and Foster said that was what beat Michigan.

Big Hay Gross, G-7, the tallest man on the Badger squad, made the trip but is not expected to sec action because of a foot injury. When Wisconsin and Ohio State met Jan. 22, the Badgers played probably their best game of the season, but Ohio State edged to a 67-64 triumph. Webb Looks Slick Defeating Rivers NEW YORK For a guy who has had less than two years of pro boxing under his belt, Spider Webb, 25, looked mighty deceiving last night at Madison Square Garden. He was that good.

Slick and sensational words to describe the weight contender from who racked up his 18th victory with a lopsided over rugged Neal Rivers Vegas. A graduate of street fighting in Tulsa, college boxing in California and at Idaho State and the Olympics, Webb's impressive performance indicated he was ready for anyone in the division including champion Gene Fullmer. The Spider had no set up for his Garden debut, which was telecast nationally. Rivers, 22, is the eighth-ranking contender. He had won 16 of his last 17 and knows his way around the ring.

But the brawny-armed transplanted West- 4 crner was simply outclassed in the 10-rounder by a boxer-puncher I who showed everything. 1 i Webb, rated 4 by Ring and I No. 5 by the NBA, was a 3-1 favorite and won like a 100-1 shot. Referee Harry Kessler and Judge Frank Forbes each had him ahead 9-1 in rounds. Judge Artie Schwartz had it 8-1-1.

The AP card made it 9-1. are the middle- Chicago straight decision of Las Former Packer Back Takes Coaching Job VANCOUVER Schlinkman, former Green Bay Packer fullback, signed Friday as backfield coach for the British Columbia Lions in the Western Intei- provincial Football Union. Schlinkman, of Columbia University, will start work immediately..