0 O Tigers While f Observer, La Grande, Ore., Heavyweight Title Bout Locks Only State O.K. ' STOCKHOLM iUPl Only the I take pluce when the champion approval of the Now York State visits New York in niid-Janua-j. Athletic Commission appeared to "We have been burned before be missing today to complete the I and want some further informs- picture of a return heavyweight championship bout between Inge- mar Johnassol and r'loyd Hatter tin in New York City late next June. Verbal agreement on such a bout was reached Monday be - tween Johansson and members of the new promoting group. Fea ture Sports Inc.. organized by at torney Roy Chon. But Johansson wants the New York commission to assure him that everything is In order be fore he goes through a formal con tract signing, which probably will Scores By United Pratt International Menday't Coll Batketball United Pratt InlamaHanal ' Eatt NBA Ratultt Boston 107 Minneapolis 104 Philadelphia lot Cincinnati 1M - St. Louis 120 Syracuse 106 Holiday Ftttival Tournament at Now York (Semi-Fin el) Cincinnati 86 St. Joseph Pa.) 77 Iowa 80 New York U. 75 (Contolation) St. Johns (NY) 73 Durt mouth M St. Bor.avenlure 96 Manhattan 86 Queen City Invitational at Buffalo, N.Y. (Final) Canisius 80 Wisconsin 65 (Consolation) Boston Collegers Pittsburgh 66 South . Dixlo Clastic at Raleigh, N.C. (First Round) Wake Forest 80 Holy Cross 71 Unytcn 36 North Carolina St. 33 Duke 63 Utah 52 North Carolina 72 Minnesota 65 Hurricane Tournament at Miami, Fla. (First Round) Xav.er (Ohio) 88 Florida 74 Miami r"la.) 110 Brig. Young 93 Blue Oratt Tournament at Louisville, Ky. (Firtt Round) Louisville 86 Fordham 61 Indiana 72 Maryland 63 Tennessee 79 Princeton 71 Kentucky 96 Ohio State 93 Auburn 76 FlorfctaSt. 63 Vanderhilt 76 Yale 65 Midwest Big Eight Tournament at Kentat City, Mo. (Firtt Round) Oklahoma 70 Missouri 65 Kansas 67 Oklahoma St. 59 Michigan St. 85 Butler 80 Loyola '111 I 85 Montana St. 73 Del'aul 75 Marquetto 55 Southwell Southwest Conference Tourney at Houtton, Tex. (Firtt Round) Arkansas 71 Baylor 06 SMU 85 Texas Tech 65 Texas A&M 72 Tex. Christian 61 Texas 79 I! ice 53 All-College Tournament at Oklahoma City. Okla. (Firtt Round) Wichita 78 Cornell 62 I'tah St. 75 Niagara 65 Bowling Green 61 Tulsa 58 Oklahoma City U. 84 Clemson 57 Wetf . . Lot Angelet Invitational at Lot Angela Calif. (Firtt Rowtd) Southern Cal. 81 Northwestern 62 West Virginia 66 Stanford 47 I TLA 93 Michigan 68 California 72 Illinois 48 Far West Clattic at Corvallit, Or. (Semi-Final) . Oregon St. 49 Idaho 48 Oregon 63 Washington St. 48 (Contolation) Denver 76 Hawaii 59 New Mex. St. 66 Portland V. 61 West Coast Con. Tournament 1 (At San Francitce 1st round St. Mary s 65 Seattle SO Santa Clara 85 Pepnerdinc 63 Far Witt Conference Tournament' (At Chico, Calif. Itt round) 1 San Francisco St. 69 Sac. St. 55 Chico State 74 Cal Aggies 68 Willamette 75 Humboldt State 64' Whittier 68 Nevada 81 l-ong Beach Slate 72 Posmlena 69' -Kastcrn Washington 78 St. Mar-1 tins 53 Gonzaga 52. Wyoming 43 ' Illinois VaHey17. Phoenix 1 Keel Pnfnf tit - Hntnl Rlvr M I Drill for Ontario Pencil AAan figures OBSERVER Neil Ande Tues., Dec. 29, 1959 Page 2 lion from the New York State Athletic Commission." said Edwin Ahlqvist, Johansson's adviser. "The commission can view the situation better thujf we can. We want tighter regulations for the 1 economic side ot Uie promotion, I We have been promised that by t'ohn and his group. Ahlqvist said that Cohn and his associates "seem very honest."' "But Vclella and his associates also -lid at the first stages of our hegofiotions," he added. ) Ahlqvist was referring to Vin cent Vclella. a New Vork politician from whom the Conn grcup purchased Feature Sports Inc.- And with it the return Bout contract between Johansson and Patterson. Vclella currently is un der indictment In New York afid the company's promoter' license has been 'revoked by the com mission. Casey Tibbs Wins Sixth B rone Title DALLAS. Tex. UP1 Casey Tibbs. 30, one of the personality kids of the ride-for-money cowboy clan, had his sixth national aaddle bronc title lately tucked away today. - 'v The Fort Pierre. N.D.. veteran of 15 years on the rodeo trail clinched that honor Sunday in the second day of action In the na tional finals rodeo being staged here as a highlight to Cotton Bowl Week. - DUNCAN WINS FEATURE WKST HEMPSTEAP N. Y. jJJPIi Len Duncan. 48-year-old veteran from Philadelphia, won the featured 35-lap race for three quarter autos at Of; ltland Gar den. Ben Land Is df Lancaster. Pa. was secord and Bob Marshman of Beading, Pa., was third. 'PERFECT, .GAME' 4-Minute Sports Storv Of . . m STEVE SNIDER United Prett IntornoNonal , NEW YORK lUPD The top sports story of the "fabulous fif ties" occurred on May 8. 1954, when barrel chested Roger Ban nister stunned the athletic world by breaking the four-minute bar rier in the mile run. That was the verdict announced today in a poll Of United Press International sports writers on the top 10 sports stories of the dec ade Just drawing to a close. Crowding Bannister's miracle mile for lop honors was Don Lar- sen's "iiertect game for the Now York Yankees in the 1958 World Here's how the VP! writers rat ed the 10 biggest events from 1950-59: ' 1. Roger Bannister breaks four minute mile barrier I95i. 2. Don Larsen's perfect pitching in World Series tl5S. 3. Major league baseball expan sion to West Coast 1 19571. - 4. College basketball scandals (1953-53). I-'.-. I Russia beats U. S. for Sum mer Olympic team title U95t. 6. Bobby Thomson's homer wins pennant playoff for Giants U951). 7. Ihgemar Johansson knocks out Floyd Patterson (1959. DancV Into Thi NeW Year Af The ' Union! fire Department's Annual New Year Y Eve Ball ' ' THURSDAY, DECEMBER 31ST at the' Union High School Gymnasium MUSIC BY THE PYRAMIDS . i ( i ...... One cf the greatest popular bands to come out of the Pacific . i ; Norlhyet in the last decade, be there! ADMISSION lf,0 MKSON . . INCLUMS PARTY HATI 4 NOIf feMAKIRSI . Dendnf tlirtt At :30 Three Tigers Lead In Four Stat Columns By NEIL ANDERSEN Obtervor Staff Writer The La Grande Tigers, riding the crest of a five game winning , streak, continue their daily work outs in preparation for the first game of the year Saturday night. The Tiger will tangle with On tario in the first of two grimes at the Eastern Oregon College Coli- j teum at 7 p.m. I La Grande has faced the Ontar-1 to team, always a powerhouse in the Snake Hiver Valley league, already this season. The blue clad Tiger walked off with a 65 46 win in their second game of, the season. - ' While the team has been busy on the floor the statistician has been busy with the pencil. Coach Jack Rainey has no leading, scorer ; but came up with a list M per formances in other departments. ' Gary Vorus tops the Tiger team in field goal percentage with an outstanding 44- per cenl. Buck Corey, who also leads in two other departments. Is second along with Dave Carman at 42 per cent. Bob Robeson has hit 48 per cent of his shots and Ray Westenskow connected on 37 per cent to com plete the top five. ' . I Cerey Rofcewnot I . Cerey has pulled 7t rebounds off the boards to more than double the total of the second place Wes tenskow. Last year's most valu able player has 'grabbed 32 re bounds Just six more than Robe ton with 26. Rob Chandler has 23 and Carman XI. Jimmy Hilliard has cleared the boards 19 times. Venn 13 and Ron Coleman 12. Steve Smith, the Tiger's back court smoothie, heads the team in assists with nine. He also leads the team in free throw percentage after a sparkling 13 for 16 per formance in La Grande's last out ing at Elgin. The 21 counters that Smith had In that game also marks the largest single point production by a Tiger player this year, .- La Grande s big center. Corey, also has the lead In the loose balls recovered department. Corey has 30 but Smith trails by only one with 29. Smith's tunning mate, Carman, has grabbed uo 20 locsr balls to 19 for Robeson. 18 for I includes Hilliard with 36; Smith, Westenskow and 11 for Hilliard. 35: Buddy Hilliard. 30: Hon Colt Corey has seven assists. West-1 man. !0; and Dale Peterson enskow six and Robeson five to with 17. SECOND Mile Rated Top m 8. Ben Hogan wins U.S. Ope.i 16 months after near-fatal crash (1950). . West Point "cribbing scan dals'' oust 90, wreck football team (195D. 10. Rocky Marciano retired un defeated after 49 fights 1956.1. Ohnodo't Foot Ralod Highly Other stories prominently men tioned in the balloting were Alex Oltnedo's feat in leading the United States to its 1958 Davis Clip win over Australia, the Bal timore Colts' overtime playoff vic tory over the New York Giants in 1958, Ray Robinson's recapture of the middleweight title from Turpin in 1955. Ed Furgol's victory in the 1954 U.S. Open golf cham pionship, and Nashua's victory over Swaps in a match race at Chicago in 1955. But ' Bannister's historic mile run was a sports shot heard round the world. Competing for the Brit ish Amateur Athletic Association in a dual meet against Oxford, the blond British medical student climaxed a long, secret training campaign by flashing across the finish line in three minutes. 59.4 second for the mile run. The miracle mile was a feat that had eluded the world's ath letes so long that many wondered 1 I IV f mania ' V ".A UP AND IN Rob Chandler goes up for a layin during a practice session at the high school. The Tiger forward has been handicapped during the first five games by a back injury. Coach Jack Rainey is counting on the tall, slender srnior to provide scoring punch and back board strength when the Intermountain conference season gets underway in January. (Observer Photo) Coast Hoop Prestige Rises With Victories United Prett International 1a high-scoring UCLA quintet. West Coast basketball prestige The Bears, third-ranked nation went up a notch today, due in ! ally, threw up as tight a defense large par! to the efforts of a deas Illinois is likely to see this fense mir-Jed California, club and trail Smith in that t-ategory. The team field gral piro-nta" Fifties if it were humanly possible. In the six years sine? Ba'inisler's feat. 20 other athletes have taken heart and followed his example, with the amaiirg Herb Elliott lowering the ma:k all the way to 3:54 5. Hut Bannister was the trailblaier. and his race in 1954 was the athletic sensation of the The husky LarseVs perfect game polled 84 points in the bal loting, cnly two less tl-an Bannis ter's mile. The Yankee righthand er faced only 27 Brooklyn Dodgers in (he fifth game of the -56 Se ries and retired all of them fo the only "perfect" game in World Series history. Oddly, the closing d;iys of the decade saw Larsrn traded from the Yankees to Kansas City. 1959 FRIGIDAIRE APPLIANCE SALE! SAVE $20.00 TO $100X0 ON THESE BARGAINS IN NEW APPLIANCES! 6 Only Refrigerators, 11 cu. ft. fo 14.2 co. ft. 4 Only Frcciers, 12' a eo. ft. to 20 co. ft. 4 Only Dryers T Only Dishwasher. Also 2.V, Off On All Used Appliances. During This Sale. TESTED . . APPROVED : . GUARANTEED DOLVEN'S 108 Depot , ' "Home of Frigieiaiae' 3-3327 v. eason while breezing to a 82-48 decision over the Big 10 club in the Los Angeles Basketball Clas sic Monday night. - The previously undefeated II lini, ninth in the rankings, lost possession numerous times to the ball-hawking Bears and were sel dom able to break loose for a clear shot. Govenor Vaughn, the team's leading scorer, was held to eight points, although Mannie Jackson managed to collect 17. Darrall Imhoff paced the Bear attack by dropping in 23 points, 17 of which came in the first half. The 6-10 center also controlled both backboards while serving as the bulwark of the California de fense. In the first half of the twin-' bill, played before a crowd of 10.530 at the new Los Angeles Sports Arena. UCLA used 16 play ers while overpowering a weak Michigan team. 938. Kemp Mil le" led the Bruin scoring parade with 15 points. The Wolverines' Terry Miller poured in 32 points in a futile effort to keep Michigan in the game. USC flollt On Second-ranked West Virginia scored a 66-47 victory over Stan ford and Southern California trounced Northwestern, 81-62, in afternoon contests. Ail-American Jerry West scored 27 points to lead a second-half surge by the Mountaineers. Stan ford stayed in front during most of the first half and remained within a point of West Virginia Oregon Reports Increase In Big Game Hunters Big game hunters who across more sportsmen - than game during the 1999 seasons have good reason to bemoan the fact that everywhere the "woods were full of hunters." - Incomplete reports from license agent throughout the state indi cate 'there were more big game hunter afield during '59 seasons than ever before. ' Big game tigs sales through Oct. 31 show a sub stantial increase in the number of deer tags Issued, and the num ber of elk tag sales is expected to exceed or at least eqt'M last year's high. - Tallies through October show a total of 242,790 deer tags Were issued. This exceeds last year's record sales by more than 10, 000 tags. Total deer tags for 1959 is expected to reach around 244. Cal Bears Slip Into 3rd Spot In Ratings NEW YORK UPI The Unit ed Press International major col lege basketball ratings (first-place votes and won lost records through Dec. 26 in parentheses I: Team Points 1. Cincinnati 24 7-0 2. West Virginia (31 '8-01 3. Calif crnia (7 6-0 - 4. Ohio State Hi 7-l 5. Utah (8-01 6. St. Louis '8-2i 7. Bradley (6-1) 8. Indiana (6-1 9. Illinois (5-0) 10. New Y'ork University (7-0 43 11. North Carolina, 34; 12. Tex as A & M. 32; 13, Iowa. 26; 14. Kentucky, 20; 15 Kansas. 16: 16. Villanova, 13; 17, Georgia Tech, 12: 18 (tic), Duke and Southern California, 11 each; 20. Michigan State. 10. Dick Kazmaier Tops Ivy League Player Of 50's NEW YORK (UPD Diet Kazmaier. who won All-America honors after leading Princeton to its second straight undefeated sea son in 1951, today was named the Ivy League's football player of the decade in a poll conducted by the league. ference tourney at San Fran cisco, St. Mary's upset Seattle, 65-60. and Santa Clara shellacked Pcpperdine, 85-63. in a pair of first round games Monday night. Idaho State turned on the pow er In the final period to hand Col orado State a 58-51 setback and Gonzaga eliminated Wyoming, 52 43, at Pocatello in the Idaho State Invitational. Down one point at halftime, the Bengals took command of the backboards in the second half to win going away. i In first round play of the Far, West Conference Tourney Mon-j day night. San Francisco State, defeated Sacramento State, 69-55. Chico Slate edged the Cal Ag-j gies. 74-68. Willamette belted Humboldt State. 75-64, and Whit tier durrwxd Nevada, 68 51. until the Mountaineers opened upj with nine minutes remaining. : USC had little trouble in post ing its sixth straight win against Northwestern. Johnny Werhas led the Troi.nns with 22 points. In the West Coast Athletic Con-1 SPECIAL "NEW YEAR'S EYE SHOW" THURSV DEC. 31 ADM. 90c . HATS! NOISEMAKERS! HAVE FUN! m m a 17118. PLUS: "LEGEND OF I (ndt Tonit: Hope Lante Stray Parker THI BEST Of IV! RYTHINO" Alto -Dons Bij "IT HAPff NtO TO JANE" caWOOO. Last year 233.885 tags were issued. Reports from license dealers disclose the tale of 36,541 elk tags, which is above the sales re ported t this time lost year. Fi nal tallies are expected to push the 1959 total elk tag sales above last year's record of 42,448. tllea.al Elk Kill Down Reports from the narth coast indicate some improvement of the wanton waste of elk in the Clat sop area during the 1959 seascn. During the 1958 season, an un precedented 67 elk, of which 50 were spike bulls, were Illegally killed bv hunters. This year 15 illegally killed animals were found in the same area, plus an additional 12 in the Wilson unit, opened to elk hunting for 'the first time. . '. Phil Schneider, slate game di rector, said that although the il legal kill was down, the 27 -am mals reported indicates that some hunters still flagrantly violate the principles of hunting tradi tions and sportsmanship. Most encouraging and gratify ing of all was the increased co operation this year from sports men in reporting game law viola tors. Thirteen arrests were made for the 27 illegal elk kills. Most of the arrests were made with the assistance of hunters who ob served the violations. If this is any indication of things to come it seems that sportsmen are be coming aware of the big stake they hold in Oregon's, fish and game future. It also indicates that game law violators are be coming extremely unpopular and will not be tolerated. ' Inboardt Lighter The new inboards for 1960 will weigh less, have more power, lower profiles and more rugged ness for marine use. In its annual preview, Popular Boating noted that added horse power has been gained by in creasing compression ratio and weight has been kept to a mini mum through extensive use of high strength aluminum alloys. The V-engine shape predomina tes in higher horsepower gaso line engines with the result that power plants present lower sil houettes and save valuable be- low-deck space. The new inboards feature, as do all pure marine engines, cool ing water passages especially de- singed for salt-water use in the block manifold and head. A new development in the die sel field has also been announced. Flat and vertical cylinder diesels are being manufactured which re portedly run on almost everything including diesel oil, gasoline, fur nace oil, kerosene, jet fuels or just about any hydrocarbon li quid. nwEirroRY FOIillS ; Year's End . i Accounting Supplies' IIcGLASSON'S STATIONERY 1104 Adam , STARTS WEDNESDAY i TRAVEL TOM DOOLf Y" e. TNCY'ftl HOCK I H' S ri ROCKf T WITH LAUGHS! P i .VS. riATURt HITI Far West Finals Pit OSC, Ducks CORVALLIS L'PI - Oregon State vs. Oregon. That's- the way the finals of the fourth annual Far West Classic shape up today. This will be the fourth year in a row that the host Beavers have reached the finals having won the trophy In three previous appear ances. Action in the tournament Mon day saw Oregon State ease Idaho 49-48 on Bill Wold's last second shot and Oregon have an easy time in whipping Washington State 63-48. In consolation play Denver walloped Hawaii 76-59 and New Mexico State topped Port land. 66-61. Oregon's win might prove cost ly. The Ducks lost their leading scorer and 6-7 center Glenn Moore with a sprained ankleThe team physician said he definitely would be out of action in tonight's cham pionship game. Wold hit his winning shot with only four seconds left in a play resembling last year's semifinal when Jim Woodland hit a similar shot with four seconds left to give Oregon Stale a 49-47 win over Air Force and advance them to the finals. Wold Saves OSC Wold's shot climaxed a thrilling second half that saw the Beavers come back from a 24-22 halftime deficit to tic at 33-33. then go eight, points ahead only to have Idaho come back to tie and eventually take the lead. Idaho had grabbed a 46-45 lead with 1:24 to go but Karl Anderson regained the lead for Oregon Slate on a hook, 47-46. Idaho played for one last shot but never got it as Jay Carty fouled Joe King and he sank both. Then it was Oregon Slate's turn for last ditch heroics and Wold came through. 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