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Tigers Most U Corey; Robeson, Smith Pace Second Win For Ld Grande ' Bv NEIL ANDERSEN Observer Staff Wriftr ONTARIO i Special )-La Grande scored its second straight victory of th? year sweeping Eside I'"" tall, highly-rated Ontario team 6 46 in a game p'ayed here last , night. The Tigers junipul inlo an early lead and led by right points at the first tjuart'er break, 2012. The margin stayed the sam? a! luilf time, with La Grande leading 33 25 The Tigers then pushid 17 counters through the hoon in the third period while Ontario could con nect (or only four. . Buck Corey paced the La Grande team in seeing with 13 counters good enough for game honors. Ccrcy also took 17 rebounds oil Ihc backboards to naec the team in that department. Bob Kobe-son connected !ur 13 Jerry Crowser T6 Hoop Win ELGIN Spccijl - Klein's Huskies scord a 58-W victory over Burns last night to up their season's record to 21. Jerry Crowser was the game's top scorer with 1!) points and Dar rell Cason hit .16 (or the winners. Hank liiekerscn was high for the losers with 15 and Gordon Mcrs?th had 10. , . The Elgin junior varsity also scored a victory ovtr the Burns JV's. , F.lgin will play host to Grant Union High School of John Day on the Huskies' home Hour to night. Big Ten Meets To Study TV, Money Ills CHICAGO i ITI ' The ' Big Ten's winter meetings were coa- ) fronted today with the dunl prob ' lems of finances and television. Major, legislative matters were expected to come up today at the beginning of the athletic directors and faculty representatives' ses sions. V Wednesday. Big Ten Commis sioner KemiBth L. iTugi Wilson presented the cjmfo:cuce's TV committee the relayed, version of an advei tising agency's three mil lion dollar offer for three years' rights to Big Ten sports events. The offer cavcrcd video rights to 26 conference events in ea.-h of the years, including nine foot ball games aid 13 basketball con tests. TIGERS SIGN THREE DETROIT ' ITI The Detroit Tigers havo signed three hopefuls John Griffin of North Branch. Mich., Don Nowe-y of Albion, Mich., Biil Sholtou of Washington. DC, and Tom Schrocder of Kci niore. N Y. to I960 minor league contracts. eavers on Oreq Coait Basketball Roundup United Press International Southern California's Trojans, a tough veteran quintet, at last apear ready to Rive California a , lively battle for the AAWl' crown. , California presents o tough p ohlem (or anyone to solve. 'Hie Bivirs uie Ud by All-American candiduto.Jiurnill Imhoff a-.d ore rated number two in the nation by UPI, Moreover, Southern California fans begun to aider when the Trojans dropie;l their first two contests. But the Trojans rolled over hijh-ranked Kentucky, and Fndav night swamped Oklahoma State, 73-50 to indicate they have finally Jelled. Big Jim- Hanna, who will have to try to coral lmhrff when thi Bears and Trojans meet, tallied 19 to lead scorers. John Werha. the Trojans sharo-shooting sco--ing ace a ided 17. The game was the second half of an intersect ional twin bill which also ftund I'CLA thumping Brig ham Young by a surprisingly large' 6242 margin. Kent Miller., the only veteran in the Young Bruin lineup, scored 17 . points The Los Angeles teams switch foes tonight. West I'oasJ llubn found the going rugg.xl in the Boieman. Mont, invitational tourney. Oont, Ducks Drubbed Oklahoma t il v lolled over h.np Maul Ontario, nion In points to finish second in point I production while smooth Steve! Smith was connecting fpr 10, ... Lynn Yturri shook loose for eight j points in the lirst half and finish ed the game with 12 for Ontario's I top p.oduction. Jim Holliday had 11 for Ontario. j The Snake River Valley cham p!ons were never , close to the Tigers as t.a Grande, conn-cted on 30 of 69 field goal attempts for 1 s red hot 44 per cent from the lield. Ontario hit 21 of 62 attempts ' j for a respectable 34 per cent. La Grande connected on five of eight f.ce throw attempts and Ontario had 415 from the charity stripe in a low fouling congest. Ontario failed to use their height advantage rs the Tigers dominated the boards. In addition1 to Corey's 17, Itohcson and Westenskow- pick ed off nine each and Carman snagged s'ven. , Tiger Coach Sack Rahiey was phased with his team's board game and said he was "pleasantly surprised" at the outcome The game was rough end at times erratic but Rainey credited Smith with a good Job of setting uo p'ays and directing the floor gme. The absence of Rod ChandlT and Jim Milliard from the lineup didn't hurt the Tiger if fort. Chan dlT has been sidelined with a back injury and the high scoring Milliard is out with the flue. Neither boy Is cxp-cted to play tonight wh'.n the Tigers, open at home agaiust Union. There will be three games on tao beginning' at 5 p.m. The junior high school will play the sophomores in the first game, the Union and La Grande junior vrsity's wi'l square off at 6 30 and Union and La Grande tangle in repeat performance ut 8: 15. Union was defeated by Joseph last night. 46-40. In preliminary games Ontario swept two from tho La Grande forces. Thr Tiger sophomores were defeated 57 37 with Jim Haydcck hitting 14 for La Grande and Steve Binder getting 27,. for Ontario. The Ln Grande Wildcats were stopped 69-53. . Baine Ca'cr con tributed II points in the losing effort and Don Smith tossed in 10. Scoring honors w.nl'lo Ontario's Don Taylor with 21. . Li Orand FG FT-A PF TP Corey 9 1-2 4 19 Kobeson 7 1-2 1 15 Westenskow ... 1 2-2 0 6 Smith 5 0-0 1 10 Carman 3 1-1 4 7 B. Milliard 4 0 1 2 f Vorui 0 00 V 0 Coleman 0 0 0 0 . 0 Peterson 0 0-0' 1 0 Dc Boie ...... 0 0-1 ' 0 0 Totals 30 5 8 12 65 Ontario Holliday 5 14 0 11 Schiemer I 0 1 2 2 Dungan 2 11 2 5 Yturri 6 0-3 1 12 Hagood 3 0 0 0 6 Lynch i 2 4 0 6 Phillips 1 O0 0 2 Shiraishi 0 0 1 3 0 Hickman 1 00 0 2 Totals 21 4 15 8 46 Bounce Montana; Upset In tourney less L'SF. 71-54. In the second contest, the host Montana State quintet sin prised Oregon. 81-75. The main headache for the Ducks was Montana's Lurry Chanay with X! points. Dale llerron led the l.scis with 18. . , Oklahonvi City and Montana State fight for the tourney trophy tonight while f SF ard Oregon vie for third place. Oregon State had luile trouble dipu!chiiig of Montana Friday night 67-52 . Jay I'll ly and Jim Wo:dland led ,tho Beaver attack with 14 points each Portla-d rolled over a cold South Dakota club. 60-45 South Dakota made things easy by hit ting only 16 of 68 shots. Portland, a powerful iiKleiwide.it ulusc lirst team averages 6 (cot 5. was led hy Jim Altehnofeii with 1 points. A d( utile bill in Portland lo night pits South Dakula and Seat tle in tho o'iier a:.d. Portland and Idaho in the finale. Ooorge Grant scored. 14 points and engineered back-court play tg lea Washington to a 5s S2 ic lory ove- Idaho Friday r.iht Other action in the Northwest found Hawaii finally winning one in its mainland tour with an up set win over lewis aid Clark . another 56 52 scoie Waves Woihtd Up At Laramie. Wyo t rrpperdme. perhaps the major disainvintmenl on Hie Cosst thus far. ran into . hot shiH.ling h-i lot niaiHv bv o Home SPEED BURNER Alan Livingston, Union, one of Eas tern Oregon's top sprinters will be in the starting line up tonight when the Bobcats invade La Grande. La Grande opened the prep season last week at Union with a 77-25 victory. There will be three games on tap tonight with the first underway between the Kittens and the sophomores at 5 p.m. lObserver Photo) Observer, La Grande, Ore., COLTS CAN CLINCH PRO FOOTBALL TITLE Unilei Preis International The Baltimore Colts guanoed o:ie-half of their California jinx last week. They plan to smash the other half Saturday at Los Angeles a ... Kai'or. I . mo, sec - ond straight Western Division li- tie in the National Football Lea e , ' , . , , Tli.. IV.ll IHti r.tr hint VVIVI at San Fra icisco until they de fcatod the Forty - Niners asl once in seven previous appear shnps it I ,1.- Jlnm.li.a hut nrn 10- pcint choices to trample thc Rams. i2-9i this time. Til,, onme will bo rationally-televised iCUS. Baltimore lea.ls tin; Forty-Ni-ners and the Chicago Bears 'each 7-4J by a game and needs a vic tory or tie in its regular season wind up Saturday to qualify as tiling's Ter;y Happcll. He scored 'S3 points and Wyoiiiinu won 7a-68. The lowers' Bob Blue ond Dick Bmkcli'W both tallied 19. (In, other actimi, Ainzunu's. Fresno State cashed in on 33 per cent of its shots in the second half to smother tho Cat Aggies 74-38. Cliieu Stale edged Southern Ore gon. 59-j5, The game was pliiycJ eveu though Oregon coach Theo dore Schopf and two players were hcspilalucd by a four-car crash a few. bours befo e game-lime. Cther scores: Wcstnnnit 74 Oc e.idontul 67. Pacific Lutheran 81 Willamette 68, San Francisco Pres sidto 71 Nevada 66. , .California returns to action to niglit' when it hosts San Jose Statu. Another Northern California jug gernaut, St. Mary's, could be up ended when it moots rough Kvans vilk in, Indiana en the start of a four giinu road trip. Other games tonight pit COP Sacramento State: Washington State-Washingto:!. Occidental-Loyola,. Long Beach- Nevada; Chapman-Fresno Stale. Arizona l.os Angeles, Slate, San Dicgj State WhMlier, Pomona- Santa Barbara Slate.. Cal , Poly Kent State and SiTtlthcrn Oregon- Chico State. Consoweld 4 Formica Beautiful, durable pltlc covering that you con easily Inilslll MILLER CABINET SHOP 6546 Op ener OBSERVER Neil Andersen Sat., Dec. 12, 1959 Pag 2 hot to the New York Giants in the championship game. The Colts and Giar.ts clashed in the VXS title game at New York I t. P .llln,,.,... i n i ,i Hin , , tA,rii,lK, xhlMer ,,,, ' , , , ine oiiht in sri. cuius eno their regular seasons Sunday. ' wins uie rnriy - .ii-ris anu ; iear win khj-a R.,i';rr mey viii nave a cna ice lo lie lor tne ttesb-rn title whei tliey start plav. The Forty Niners are fivc- i P" ''-vcrites ior their San Fran Kaiut- un tne viiee:i nay i uim ip-j'. i no m-..is piay host to the Detroit Lions ' 3-7-1 1 and are favurccl by 7' a. New York clinched its second straight Fastern Division crown last Sunday with a 48-7 victory over the Cleveland Browns. The Giants are nine noint choice to boost their regular season record lo 10 2 by dawning the Hedskins ;l-8 at Washington. The Philadelphia F.aglcs '7-4' are one ixunt favorites over the vi.Mtiug Browns 6-5 and the Steclers 3-5-1 are favored over the Chicago Cardinals 12 9' at Pittsburgh in the other games. District 7 Holds Meeting In Elgin F.I.G1N (Special) A meeting of superintendents, athletic dir ectors and coaches of district 7 A 2 learns will be held here Sat urday, according to Athol Sayrc. The representatives of Ih? 10 schools in the district will plan athletic activities of the district and conduct routine business in the dual session scheduled for the high school. I Delegations from John Day, Lakeview, Burns, Nyssa, , Vale. Madras, Heppncr, Enterprise, Mac-Hie and Elgin will be on hand. ' ' ' 1 1 NOTICE The Skaie-Arena Will Open Friday, Dec. lltK 14J3 WASHINGTON KoiU'cnratod Enlarged Floor Improved Sound 7:00 to 9:30 50c with skates 75e rmt JBaker JV's Hand Cove First Loss BAKER t Special i - Baker's junior varsity squsd handed Cove thtir first loss of the year with a I scoring 28-27 victory over the Panthers last night. Both teams were ice cold from the livid as Cove experienced traveling jitters and hit only 20 pir cent of their shots from the fit ld. The Bullpups couldn't do any better as they also connected for a meager 20 per cvnt. Rich Robinson hit six lield goals and four frei throws for 16 points and scoring honors. Frank Con i ley hit 3-4 from the field and 'wound up with seven points. The ' oi. ly other Leopards to count were 'John Haggerty with three points from the free throw line and Jim Mansfield with one. Carl Staab lnad the Baker team with eight points and Dick Chap man had six. The Leopards had a chance to win the game in the last 30 seconds when John Chase stole the ball and drove the length of the floor and missed. Conley grabbed off the r: bound and also missed a follow up shot. Con'ey fouled out of (he game moments later after drawing his first five fou's in three games The two teams play again to night on the Cove floor. Cove 4 10 18 27 Baker JV 0 11 22 28 Air Service Tops With 33 Bowling Wins Blue Ml. Air Service regained first p'ace with 33 wins after Wednesday's play. Betty Lovel had a high series of 452 topp?d by a 175 high game. June Forrey verted 3-10 split. 126017 total pins.) Lcntz Body Shop moved into a strong second place with 32 wins. Ann Decker and Margaret McCoy tied with a 407 series with Mar garet's 163 high game. (22298 total pins.) Hot Lake Sanatorium gained third place with 29 total wins. Rose mary Teuscher's 520 series with 184 game was high. Gloria Nelson converted both the 2-7 and 3-10 splits and Marilyn Herrmann con verted the 5-. '24213 total pins.) Meadow Gold Distributors are in fourth place with 284 wins lUtty Bethel's 482 series and 176 game were high. She also convert' ed the 5-10 and 5-6 sp'its. (23570 total pins i Graham's Drug Center is fifth with 23 wins. Myrna Woodcll had high series with 425 and Joan Duckett high game with 159. Lenora Hiatt converted the 5-7 split. (22009 total pins.) Doug llolmon Insurance is sixth with 19 wins. Darlcne Villincs' 422 series was high and Vickie Durfee had high game with 178. Darlene converted both the 5-10 and 2-7 splits. (21891 total pins.) Odorless Cleaners is seventh with 16 wins. Fern Kilfingbeck was high with a 436 series, 152 high gam?. Lou Burke converted the 4-5-7 split. 21349 total pins.) La Grande Fruit remains in eighth p'ace with ll'i wins. Lola Watts was high with a 420 series which included games of 134, 142, and 144. (18709 total pins.) Sou. Oregon. Cdgers, Codcri In Car Smdsh YREKA, Calif. LPI One per son was killed and live others, including the coach and two play ers of the Southern Oregon Col lege basketball team, were injur ed yesterday in a "chain reaction" four-car smashup on Highway 99 north of here. . , ; ' . Dead was Ida T. Nelson, 70, National City, Califv , rr r Injured were .Theodore. Scbop,.', 44, coach at the Ashland., Ore., school and two of his .. players, Merton White, 18, Ashland, and Bradley Flanary, 18. Bend, An other college student, Richard Scott, 21, Ashland, was also hos pitalized. ,. , ( Schopf was traveling south on Highway 99 in a car loaded with basketball players, enroute ., to Chico. CahL, for a game.., with Chico State, when ho tried lo avoid . the mishap ,r that i killed Mrs. Nelson. The car skidded and turned over several times, -. Yanks, Kansas City Swap Seven Players NEW YOK.l'ii The Ne Vok Yankees gave up their greatest outlay of talent in more than a decade but insisted today it "was worth it" to get out sider Roger Maris,, a 25-year-olJ question mark from Kansas City. Forced lo keep pace with the recently-strengthened White Sox. tho Yankees sent perfect game pitcher Don Larsen, outfielders Norm Sieberu and Hank Bauer and first baseman Marv Throne berry to the Athletics for Maris. shortstop Joe DeMaestri and first baseman Kent Hadley. The deal was the 15th bet wee a the clubs in Ihc last five years during which they have swapped a total of 59 playe's., Tried Other Deals the Yankees, whi had not (.ipped into their front line, talent so deeply since trading Joe Cor don to Cleveland for Allie Rey nolds in IMC. explained they were A-2 Teams Rejoin Tu Va I ley Loop ENTERPRISE fSpecial) El gin and Enterprise High Schools were back in the Tu Valley Lea gue fold as a result of a meeting held last week end in Enterprise. . The vote to admit the A-Z schools tiack into the B classifica tion league was unanimous, ac cording to Superintendent Athol Sayres of Elgin. Elgin and Enterprise will now compete for all athletic champ ionships sponsored by the Tu- Valley League, including football, basketball and track. The ruling will become effective with the start of the 1960-61 school year. Tne two schools, however, are not eligible for state B play-off action. The Oregcn State School Athletic Association would have to take action and reclassify the two schools to make this possible. Also represented at the meet ing were Joseph, Lostine, Wallo wa, Cove, Union and Imbler. North Powder did not send a delegate. SCORES . By UNITED PRESS College Basketball Results ' EAST Maine 67 Vermont 61 Temple 90 Lehigh 62 Army 77 Williams 58 Kings Pt. 75 Brooklyn Coll 65 Upsala 79 Newark Rutgers 44 Hampton Inst 86 Delaware St 65 Pittsburgh 74 St. Johns i N Y ) 73 Wesleyan "0 Coast Guard 68 Kings Coll 67 Eastern Baptist 58 SOUTH Citadel 75 George Washington 58 North Carolina 60 Kansas 49 Furman 83 Richmond 68 NoXar. St. 66 Kansas St 59 Kentucky St 72 Ballermine 55 David Lipscomb 80 Belmont 70 J. C. Smith 86 Howard V. 82 Alabama St. 78 Fisk 76 Alabama A&M 71. Talladega 64 Tennessee Tech 94 Morehead 67 Midwest Marquette 74 South Dakota St. 69 Cinti 123 St. Joseph's (Pa.) 79 WEST Oregon St. 67 Montana 52 West Mont 79 Coll of Idaho 62 Utah 103 Wichita 80 Washington 56 Idaho 52 Stockton, 71 Rcedly 55 . Wyoming U. 75 Pepoerdinc 68 UCLA 62 Brigham Young 42 Drake 83 Hah St. 73 I SC 73 Oklahoma St. 50 Chico St. 59 Sou. Oregon 55 Hawaii 58 Lewis and Clark 45 S F. Presidio 71 Nevada 66 Portland 60 South Dakota 45 Santa Barbara St. 84 Arizona 78 Pacific Lutheran 81 Willamette 68 Bozeman Invitational Tourney) Oklahoma City 71 Ln. L'SF 54 Montana St. 81 Oregon 73 N8A Results Boston 122 St. Louis 99 New York 152 Syracuse 121 'Only games scheduled).. . I Good News for mm on o bodily Injury and property damage collision coverage o medical payments FARMERS INSURANCE GROUP AUTO LIFE FIRE t TRUCK Doug Holman Insurance 1011 Adorns virtually forced to do business with Kansas City again. (icneral Manager George Weiss said he tried to make deals with two National League clubs and will keep on trying "but we just can't seem to get toaetber." The Yankees, delighted in ob taining Maris, although he batted only .273 last season, said they had no apology to make over the fact they had to deal with the A s again. We have faith in each other and that's why we dealt with them." Weiss declared. Casey Stengel, who okayed the deal, said at his Glendule, Calif., home that Le planned to make Maris his regular left-fielder de spite the fact Roger played right field exclusively for Kansas City last season. "Now it looks like we have a complete outfield." Stengel said. "We'll try to go with Maris in left. Mickeyl Mantle in center, and i Hector) Lopez in right. I know we gave up a let but we feel it was worth it to get the man we wanted.". Had Eyed Him . That man, of course, was Mar is, on whom the Yankees have had their eye for the past two years since he broke in with Cleveland in 1957. Maris hit only .235 in 1957 and .240 in 1958 but has shown evidence of tromen- dous Mantle-like power. He hit 28 homers and drove in 80 runs in 18, a season during which the A's obtained him in, a five-player deal with the Indians. He led the American League, with a .350 figure early last season un til he was laid low by appesJi- C't:s. .... General Manager Tarke Carroll of the A's felt he and owner Ar nold Johnson had made a. good deal. "Bauer can do us a lot of gcod and I ve always liked Sicbern Carroll said. FARM OUT FORWARD NEW YORK l'PI Earl Ingar field. a young New York Range-s forward, was sent to the club's Springfield farm club in the American Hockey League Mon day after the Rangers obtained waivers on him from the other National Hockey League teams. INTERNATIONAL SOUTHWEST Decatur Baptist 83 Dallas U. 61 Ouachita 8ft Arkansas A&M 54 Texas A4.M 70 Midwestern 43 Dillard I'. 91 Texas 69 Oreaon Preo Baskttball Scar Serra 57, Mt. Angel 41 S. Eugene 52. S. Salem 41 Willarnina 50. Dayton 32 Neahkahnie 66. Coquille 48 Arlington 38. Culver 31 Sisters ST. Condon 41 Canby 52. No:th Marion 44 Klamath Falls 48. Springfield 44 Yoncalla 64. Oakland 44 Crater 53. Willamette 49 Newberg 49. Centennial JV 42 West Linn 50. Milwaukie 46 Lakeview 60. Klamath Falls JV 53 Madras 63. Prinevilie 45 Astoria 59. Centralia 44 North Bend 67. Grants Pass 56 Hermiston 74, Mac Hi 45 Salem Academy 74. Amity 53 ' Albany 50. Ilillsboro 33 1 Wishram 65. Trout Lake 43 ' Vale 59, Payette 45 Parma 47. Nyssa 38 Perrydalc 56, Gaston 29 ",! Harrisburg 64, Central Linti 41 TYV North 77, TYV South 71 Junction City 56, Cascade 4 '' Myrtle Point 55, Siuslaw 49"'" Waldport 55. Tafl 52 . Wy'cast 53. The Dalles 39 - Central 41. Silverton 36 Hood River 52, Banks 48 u. Philomath 47. Nestucca 42 . Pasco 52, Pendleton 45 ' -Caldwell 54, Baker 43 ,v Portland Preps Grants 64. Gresham 48 - . Washington 5n Piri,.. ,c Central Catholic 76. Madison 38 Reynolds 53. K Franklin 60, David Douglas 57 ". nattic Ground 57 Two - Car Families! Pm. 10 Extra Discount to AKident-FreeDriverjl ' 1 litt Post Office WO 3-3711 Don Carter Reigns As Alley King CHICAGO 'IT!1 Deliberate Don Carter reigned as "world" bowling champ for the second time in three years today by vir tue of the rallying power that won him the world's invitational match game bowling champion ships. Caiter staged a heated finish Friday night by rolling 320.32 Petersen uoints to the .110 27 for 1 t$u ml- 1 X DON CARTER World Bowling Champ Detroit's hard-challenging Bill Go lembiewski. Olga Gloor of Chicago, rolled -past Donna Zimmerman of Akron, Ohio, in the final round, with 149.02 Petersen points to the run ncrups 145.41, to take the wom en's "world" title. Carter set a new record for the three-year history of the tourna ment by totaling 14.107 pins and received the $5,000 winner's share i of the purse for men while Golem hiewski and Mrs. Gloor got $2, 500 apiece for the men's runner up and the women's champion ship shares. Carter,' bouncing back from a-second-place finish in the tourna ment last year, was not himself af the start ef the final round ', this season but shook the poor start and closed fast on the lead ers Friday and Thursday. ENDS TO'.MITE CUNT WALKER "YELLOWSTONE KELLY" Plus VICTOR MATVRE "The BANDIT of ZHOBE" SUNDAY, MON., TUES. I The THINGS 0 m nicy uu iui if irirc 1 1 1 Jfe Plus COMIN3 SOON PJ?4 2V It''.tre 1 r : X r 1 -' " -' 7s "tf RAD FULTON ' li ANN DORAN fV t . j V - REGIS 100MEY 0 m mm athm mciuh 'moI I I y . at HI W Km. Blflf HK'I Kit Mf Lw an ati .it) A iil'l 'vxse