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1 ; "' i ' i i 1 ' t f ; 1 I 1 (Sec 2MZ5a& Or., TESx, to 21, 1854 Cougar Whizz No, 1 Shooter Bennink's 21.0 Mark North Division's Best LOS ANGELES, Jan. feu Ron Bennink, Washington State's high geared point producer, and Ore gon's Ed Halberg, who Connects with the accuracy of a top secret bomb sight, have taken the spot light frnm Ctrptrnn Stat rntpr Wade Halbrook in the hectic Northern Division racej it was disclosed today by figures from, the Pacific Coast Conference Commissioner's office, j , . ' i The statistics for g'a m e s through Jan. 16 showed Bern nink had taken over the scoring lead with a 21 point j average after four games, to 20.8 for the) 7-foot 3-inch Halbrook. I Bennink had 29 field goals and! 28 free throws in' his point totaL Hal berg ranked third with a 16.8 average while Dwight Morrison; Idaho, had 15.8 and Tony Vlas telica, Oregon State, 13.3. ' Halberg set a new j Division game record last weekend when he dropped 9 of 11 floor shots for 81.8 per cent and the feat showed up in field goal percentage! where he leads the pack with a blistering 61 per cent. The lanky forward has taken 41 shots and connected on 25. Ranked sec ond and third are teammates Max Anderson, 52 per cent, and Bob Stout, 50 per cent. I Duck Top Gift Shooter j f Halberg also sets the pace from the free throw line with 86.4 per cent setting 19 points on 22 tries. Harlan Melton, Idaho! has 81.3 ter cent and Barney Hot land. Oregon. 80 per cent Hal brook is the No. 1 rebounder, bijt by a narrow margin with an av erage of 12.5 per game to 123 for Anderson. Both are sopho mores. As a team Oregon ! leads in shooting with a deadly 43 per cent from the floor, followed by Oregon State with 39.3 per cent Washington State has the top free throw mark, 61.7 per cent, while Oregon has the best poiht average, 68.5. Oregon State's re- i bounding game is the best with 145 rebounds to their opponents . . -mtr 1 a. . : k - iih. wnue wasmnKiun: uas ex hibited the best defense, holding fnps tn 53.8 Doints a game. This weekend Oregon State Journeys to Moscow for a show down series Friday ana Jsaturaay night with Idaho, while Oregon, tied for the lead with the Beav ers, entertains Washington in Eugene. j Total Scorinf V it tt pt tp ay Ron Bennink. WS ... 4 2a 18 10 84 21.0 Wade Halbrook. OS 4 28 27 14 83 29.8 rn Hlr,-r O 4 25 19 9 67 11.8 Dwight Morrison. I 4 21 21 15 63 18.8 Tony VlaateUca. OS 3 19 2 8 40 13.3 M Anrlersnn. 0 4 13 23 14 49 It 3 Dean Parsons. W. .. 4 11 24 13 46 U.5 Harlan Melton. I. ... 4 18 13 14 45 U.3 Barney Holland. O. 4 18 8 13 44 11.0 Rill Rohder. WS . 4 14 16 15 44 11.0 Ken Wegner. O 4 16 i 9 14 41 W.3 Don Tripp. W 4 14 11 M 39 S.8 Ron Robins. OS ..... 4 13 i 7 19 38 8.5 Tom Flynn. I..: 4 18 j. 5 7 37 J Kl Victim. W ...... 4 13 11 8 37 3 Recffie Hailisan. OS 4 14 i 8 10 36 S O Jerry Ross, O 1 Ron Olsen. W . 4 Bob Swanson, WS . 4 11 Bob Klock. WS . 4 9 Howard Page. O . 4 8 Doyle Perkins. W.. 3 8 i Bob Bryan. W....... 4 8 Bob Stout. O 4 10 Al Perry. WS 4 8 TheyH Do It Every Time ; By Jimmy; Hatlo HOWCUM? with everv U6HT OM AMOTWE HELP ALL OVER THE JOlNT A CUSTOMER WILL SAy-QUOTE- 4 14 17.0 8 28 '6 .9 7 28 8.5 8 25 6 3 S 24 6 .0 2 18 fi.O 8 22 5 5 1 12 21 j 5.3 4 12 20 : 5 0 Buckaroo Aee All-Star Pick i llftri HEY ARE VOUl-J-T? I I WILL PULL UP WHEN - Plgr HEyARE VDUir i EVERYWINS'S DARK AMO CLOSED ? JPS" . LOCKED AND SAY 'p 5. tvmm 1 ,4i t i ar' w -w mm a 1 i 8.yy e). mm, wrm rurnn rrmKATs. i, wo-.ld tvr-p r rVC TTUNXAND ATP Of THEMATLOMXT BURNS, V. COOUOGEI Three Quints Still in Tie For WVL Lead With Dallas, Silverton and Es- iacada still in a tie for the league lead, Willamette Valley Loop basketball teams add Round No. 6 to their season Fri day night The three pace-setters have won four of their first five games in the hot pennant strug gle, i Friday offers the following games in league: play: Mt. Angel at Estacada, Silverton at Sandy, Dallas at Canby and Molalla at Woodburn. Of the four the Silverton-San- dy and ML Angel-Estacada tiffs loom as close ones. Dallas should handle Canby," and Molalla fig ures over Woodburn. Bee games Friday night are to start at 6:45 o'clock. The individual scoring race in th? league is commanded by Stan Childers of Molalla who tossed in 31 points Tuesday night in the Indians' win over Canby. Child ers now has 119 markers in five games for a spectacular 23.8 av erage and is the only league eag er over the 100 level. Nearest to Childers is Herb Brandli of Dallas with 79 points, while Don Myers of Sandy has 72. Other leading scorers are Rex Domosehofsky of Woodburn and Fred Kaser of Silverton, 59. Ar len Bigham, Canby, 58. Del Kig gins and Gary Ames, Estacada, 57. Dick Thornton, Sandy, 55. Jim Alexander, Molalla, 53. Bus Rayley, Canby and Jerry Plank, Woodburn, 51. Larry Gorman, Mt. Angel, 49. Jim Zauner, Mt. Angel, 46. WILLAMETTE VALLEY LEAGUE W L Pet. W L Pet. Dallas . 4 1 .800 Mt. Ansel 2 3 .400 SU'r'ton 4 1 .800 Sandv .... 2 3 .400 Estacada - 4 1 .800 Canby .... 1 4 .200 Molalla .3 2 .600 W'dburn 0 5 .000 Friday games: Molalla at Wood burn, Dallas at Canby. Silverton at Sandy. Mt. Ansel at Estacada. NBA's Best to Vie Eastern Stars Favored ; i In Pro Basket Classic NEW YORK UP1 With nine of , the league's top 11 scorers on their side, the Eastern All-Stars were favored Wednesday to beat the West's best in the National Basketball Assn.'s fourth annual East West game in Madison Square Garden Thursday night Each team has 10 players and Eastern Coach Joe Lapchick of the New York Knickerbockers will open with a sky scraping five av eraging ; six feet, 5 4-5 inches. Western Coach John Kundla of the Minneapolis Lakers is counter ing with a starting quintet aver aging 6 feet, 4 2-5, including the great George Mikan (6-10). Lapchick's starting team is made up of Adolph Schayes, Syra cuse,! 6-8; Ed Macauley, Boston, 6-8; Ray Felix, Baltimore, 6-11; Bob Cousy, Boston, 6-2, and Dick McGuire, New York, 6-0. Lady Golfers Cut Corcoran TAMPA, Fla. W The Ladies Professional Golf Assn. and Fred Corcoran, its founder, parted on Janj 1, it became known Wednes- dayi Betty Hicks, of Palm Springs, Fla. publicity director of the LP GA said that Corcoran had been dropped Tuesday by the women stars because the group was, un able to pay his 512,000-15,000 sal ary In New York, Corcoran said he had stepped out on Jan. 1 when the I National Golf Foundation, group ot golf equipment manu facturers, had withdrawn its fi nancial support of the women pro fessionals. i Besides Mikan, the West's start ers are Mel Hutchins, Fort Wayne, 6-6; Jim Pollard, Minneapolis, 6-5; and Rochester's backcourt shor ties, Bob i Davies, 6-1, and Bob Wanzer, 6-0. ; East Leads Series The East t won the first two games at Boston, 111-94 and 108-94, but the West won last year at Fort Wayne, 79-75. Widely known players will be seen in action in the preliminary game between two service teams, Ft Belvoir i and the Aberdeen Proving Grounds. Ft Belvoir has Dick Groat, one of the nation's top scorers at Duke and laterj with Fort Wayne; Bud Donnelly, j captain of La Salle's 1932 national invitation champs. and Ed Diddle of Western Ken tucky. Aberdeen features the fam ous O Bnen twins, Johnny and Eddie, of Seattle; and Fred Iehle, another La Salle luminary. ST. PAUL (Special) Smith, a senior in the St. Paul Union High School has been j! se lected as one of 22 players on the All Star B Football team from the West half of Oregon to play in the Shrine game next August 28th at Pendleton, against the all stars from Eastern Oregon. Sam Smith has played four years of football on Coach Ned Gleasbn's Buckaroos and this year was the outstanding halfback in the Ben ton, Marion, Polk and Linn Cpun ty Championship, team. This is the first time a player from St. Paul hSs been selected to play in one of these Shrine Benefit games. Coach of the West team is Ray Stephens of Amity, Oregon. s Contest Helps ?SE I Vikings' Fund 1 ; Knute Rockne coached five un beaten and untied Notre Dame football teams-1919, 1820, 1924, 1929, 1930. I Salem Senior High School has received $100 in cash through the efforts il a Detroit, Mich., woman in a recent contest spon sored by the Kellogg Company. Mrs. Leta Faught, formerly of Sa lem, won fourth place in the con test as the result of a letter giving reasons why the Salem football team deserved a trip to the New Year's Day Orange Bowl game. Mrs. Faught, a 1948 graduate of Salem High School, received a $25 U.S. Savings Bond in addition to the cash award to the school. Officials say that the money will be added to a fund to provide a Look and Learn I By A. C GORDON Nardico Loses Bloody Scr-ap Knockdowns Add Up As JVorkus, Racks TKO MAIMI BEACH. Fk (JU Charlie. Norkus. a 5-1 j underdog. scored a surprising technical knockout over Danny Nardico,' ranking light heavyweight in 2:15 of the ninth round here Wednes day night j . Norkus, from Jersey City. N.J.. and Nardico, of Tampa, Fla., staged one of the rnost bru tal fights ever seen in j the Miami Beach City Auditorium before a crowd of 2,535 who paid a gross gate of $10,663 to see I the sched uled 10-rounder. ! Norkus staggered Nardico in the first round with a looping right and hurt him again in j the second before he floored the Tampan with a looping right near the end of the round. i Nardico took the eight 'count and was holding on at the bell. A left hook staggered Nardico and a right sent him down for an other eight count in the third. He was floored twice more in that round and fell once when Norkus moved away quickly. In the same round Nardico smashed Norkus' nose and drew blood from the Jersey City fighter. Norkus Down Both went down in, the fourth and? Nardico sent Norkus flying into the ropes with a hard left rsaraico caught NorKus with a right and sent him down for an eight count. In the fifth, Norkus hurt Nardico and drew blood from the Tampan's mouth. A right by Norkus had Nardico hanging on in the seventh and a left and a right almost put the Tampan out for good. ; In the ninth both were staggered with rights and a hard right smash sent Nardico down. He came up at the eight count and threw punches out ot sheer gameness. Again Nar dico went down for the eight count, got up and was helpless on the ropes when referee Jimmy Peerless stopped the fight. Nardico weighed 18J ft and Nor kus 197 pounds. HUSKY MATMEN WIN NORTH MARION HIGH SCHOOL (Special)4-North Mar ion's Huskies scored a 29-21 wres tling victory over Scappoose Wed nesday night The Huskies won seven matches and the losers took five. It was the fourth triumph of the season for North Marion against two losses. College Comments . , By TOM YATES Local basketball filberts find themselves' with a oair of first place teams this week, and quite unexpectedly at that The Oregon College Wolves, by sweeping their weekend air with OTI at Mon mouth, started off their Oregon; Collegiate Conference season 'on the right foot while the also undefeated (in league play) Northwest Conference Bearcats of Willamette top their circuit by a full game over College of Idaho. Favored Eastern Oregon College trails the wolves in the OCC with a 3-1 record ... OCE hits the road this weekend for a return two-same set with the Owls at Klamath Falls, but the Wolves will be home the 29th and 30th for a crucial pair with EOCE. The Bearcats are idle til a week from Saturday when they move to Forest Grove to take on Pacific. ! One ofl the Eastern Oregon staters is C-5 Bob Adrian, bro- ther of Lewis & Clark's 1U1, Both boys did their high school I hooping at West Linn. Center Bobby Frtntz of (he Wolves ; will no doubt get the assignment of tnsxdinf Adrian when the easterners make their visit Frantz has been one ot Coach Bob j Livingston's number one boys this year with his sensational i hook shots and fine defensive work. . When Bobby fouled out : of Friday night's OTI tiff it was the first time fn his career at the Monmouth school that he had collected five infractions in one game. Saturday evening he returned toform, however, being whistled down but once ... The Northewst Conference is turning into quite a home team monopoly on victories. Of the 15 games to date, the hosts have walked off with 12. Only teams to lose thus far on their own floor are Linfield (2 of 4) and Whitman (1 of 3). The Willamette quint not onlv has a nerfect home record in three tussles, but they also ho racked up the other win oyer Roy Helser's Wildcats, while Lew is b Clark owns the one foreign win over wmtman at waua Walla ... i The predominance of home town wins bodes no good for ; the currently high flying Bearcats of John Lewis, who have : seven of their remaining 11 league mixes on the road. And don't let that 100 to 79 licking the 'Cats handed the C of I Coy otes fool you into thinking they'll have a picnic when they visit Caldwell the end of February. Sam Vokes really has the Idahoans moving now, especially the redoubtable R. C. Owens who leads the country in rebounding off of a tremendous three games over this past weekend. Willamette fans will be pleased to note that last year's All Conference selection Dick Mase is still pushing them through the nets vin thouffh he comnlefed his eligibility with the Bearcats. Rubber legged Dick has been! appearing in the Salem YMCA line uo with regularity. That's the same Y' team that invaded the deep Atith last vear to narticiDate in the national YMCA tourney as dis trict representatives. Mase is currently doing graduate work toward his teaching credentials atWillamette. Reed Leading: ! .- -' t -: i O Cats9 Scoring WQub Takes Time Out for Examinations Pete Reed, soph forward from Scappoose, leads the Willamette Bearcats' scoriae department through the first 14 games of the Campaign with 186 points and Captam Dick Hoy, junior from Newberg, . ranks next with 180. Latest squad statistics were re leased this rweek as the Bearcats turned attention : to semester exams. : 1 The Northwest Conference leading WU quint gets a two Weeks layoff before resuming Conference action against Pacific at Forest Grove on Jan. 30. Next home game for Coach John Lewis men is with Lewis and Clark Feb. 5th. i ; ! Other leading scorers for tho Bearcats are Center Tom Gooding iwith 174 points and Jerry McCal lister with 145. Other scoring: Duane Shield 75, Dave Gray 62, Bill Colvard 61. Jack Bishop 42, Neil Causbie 36, Dale Gustafson 7, Wes Malcolm 4, Jim Henslee 2 and Ron; Fitzgerald 2. ! Lewis is giving his men only light drills this week other than for a scrimmage today with Jerry Frei's Bearkittens. i Willamette is unbeaten in con ference play, having four straight wins. Ike Passes Up Yakima Bid Because of Duties U. S. Slal Star I Out of Action j KITZBUEHEL, Austria m Billy Beck, 25-year-old Kingston, R. I., skier, broke his right ankle in a practice slalom run and will miss the world ski championships in Sweden next month. Beck, a tall, stocky veteran of the 1952 Olympic winter games in Oslo, was training on a steep sla lom track with the other members f the U.S. squad who will com pete in the third international ski festival beginning here Thursday. .The Cincinnati Redlegs open the 1954 baseball season at Cros ley Field April 13 againstfthe Milwaukee Braves. ; Tide Table Tides for Taft. Oregon January, 1954 (complied by U.S. Coast & Ceo deUc Survey, Portland. Ore.) HIGH WATERS LOW WATERS Jan. Time Ht. Time 21 3:22 ajn. 19 7:46 ajn. 1:30 p.m. S.7 8:21 D.m. 22 2:52 a.m. 6.0 8 33 a m. 2:11 pjn. 6-2 8:50 pjrt. 23 3:24 a Jn. (.1 9:22 ajn. 2:55 pjn. S t 9:20 pan. 24 3:56 a.m. 6-2 10:13 ajn. 3:45 p.m. S.I 9:51 p.m. 25 4:30 ajn. 6.3 11.11 a.m. 4:40 pjn. 4.6 10:24 p.m. 26 5:09 a.m. 6.3 12:15 pjn. 5:54 pjn. 42 11:04 p.m. 27 5:53 a.m. 6 4 1:22 p.m. 7:24 pjn. 4.1 11:53 p.m. 28 6:42 a.m. 6.5 8:55 p.m. 4.2 2:25 T.m. 29 7:35 a.m. 6.6 12:56 a.m. 10:06 pjn. 4.4 3:21 pjn. 30 8:28 a.m. 6 8 2:05 ajn. 10:57 p.m. 4 5 4:10 pjn. 31 9:20 a.m. 7.1 3:09 a.m. 11:36 p.m. 5.0 4:54 p.m. YAKIMA UTi President and Mrs. Eisenhower won't be able to attend the Little World Series here next Sept. 1-4. Owen Q. Carpenter, general chairman of the National Ameri can Legion Junior baseball finals, received the information Wednes day from: Thomas E. Stephens, presidential secretary. Stephens wrote: ! "The President has asked me to thank you' for your letter of Jan. 7 inviting: him and Mrs. Eisen hower to attend. . . "He wishes very much that it were possible . . . but, unfortunate ly, the pressure of his duties here and his Calendar as already ar ranged will not afford him that pleasure, i "He is nonetheless most appreci ative of your invitation and has' 2 :1 asked me to convey his very best o.i f wishes." i Ht. 2.7 0.2 2.6 6.7 2.4 12 2.3 1.7 21 22 1.9 2.7 1.6 3.1 12 3.4 0.8 3.6 0.3 new Vj iking football scoreboard. Mittiigan State has won three successive Western Conference cross-country I championships. Gonzaga's Vermillion Leading rtment 1. Who reigned longest as a sports champion? 2. Which is the largest daily newspaper in the world? 3. What three words are used most frequently in radio commer cial advertising? 4. What is the tuft of hair above a horse's hoof called? 5. What is the largest country of: South America? I ANSWERS J. Willie Hoppe, who retired at the age of 65, after 46 years' reign as the World's No. 1 tourn ament billiard player. 2. The London Daily Mirror, with a circulation of 4,432,700. 3. According to latest statistics. the words "you," "wonderful,' and "new." ' 4. Fetlock. 5. Brazil. North vestinrointDepa l. - By THE ASSOCIATED PRSS Jerry Vermillion of Gortiaga, moving at such a point making pace they may change his name to Verbillion, nudged his average up to 24.8 per game last week to take over top spot in the Northwest Collegiate basketball tally derby. Basing the race on per-game av erage, Vermillion succeeded Wade Halbrook of Oregon State in the pace position after Halbrook bumped into a drought against Washington and skidded to an av erage of 22.8. i ! I On total score, Joe Pehankk of Seattle U topped the field with 328 points to 323 for Vermillion and 320 for Halbrook. But Joe garner ed his over a longer route and , ranked third on an- average of 21.9. ' Nine players are averaging more than 18 counters per clash, among them R. C. Owens of College of FASTEST KNOWN RELIEF FOR GAS OH ' STOMACH THANK nSAVtWBI Mwt atUcka are acid inchCMUon. When It aWUtta Uk ll-ana tablet. Ttwy eon tin lte-etm o4 heartburn and "S2?it.V Idaho, whose record was reported for the first time this week. He took over fourth place with a 20.8 figure while1 Jackie. May of St Martin's, idled by last week's snows, retained fifth with his 19.9 average. The scoring leaders (based on games through Jan. 16): G Pts Ave Vermillion, Goni 13 323 24.8 Halbrook, OSC 14 320 22.8 Pehanick. Stf 15 328 21.9 Owens. Col. Ida 13 271 20.8 May. St. Mart 14 278 19.9 Bennink, WSC 13 293 19.6 Jordan, Whitwrth 10 193 19.3 Keefe, So. Ore 15 284 18.9 Edwards. EWCE 14 260 18.6 Now Many Wtar FALSE TEETH WlthUHI. Worry Cat, talk, laugh or tneere without ttit of Insecure falM teeth ti-onpinr, Slipping or wobbllne. FASTESTH hold plates firmer and mot can lortably. Tola pleasant povder haa a rummy, tooay, paaty taate or f eeUnf. DOMB't aUM BaUafrh. It tUfctlUt (n on -add). 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