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Hoppy' Autographs Ball for Young Gal Big 10 Foes ; '" . 1 lucks, -OSC Nip Mh..,.. f 1 t v! Si "' jmmmm San Francisco Tops APPoll ' lylUNNY MASON Go) Cufc Professional IAN FtANClSCO Hwrl (Hopalong) Cassady, Ohio SUtc halfback wh win play with the East team la the Shftaers East-West football fame Dee. 31. autographs a miniature football for Cecilia, 14, patient it the Shrioen hospital for crippled children. Proceeds front the game g to help the chil dren who are patients at the hospital. (AP Wirephote). Shrine Stars FindRcoh For BiGanJ By CHRIS EDMONDS SAN FRANCISCO Dark ftorm clouds hung over the red brick building on San Francisco's west aide Tuesday, but inside It was the brightest day of the year In the lives of scores of -children. Actually, if you'd looked only at the glowing faces of the young sters and ignored their twisted limbs and bodies, you'd never have known they were crippled.. They were -the happiest, kids in town, these boys and girls in the Shrine's Crippled Children s Hospital, as they entertained a half-hundred football stars. Bright College Colors It was the occasion of the annual visit of members of the East and West squads to the big hospital and Christmas took a back seat to bright college colors in the wards as the youngsters made the "irid stars welcome. The talk between the crippled pa tients and the husky footballers was say. It was just like, for in stance the conversation between big brother and little sister in mil lions of American homes at the holiday season. "I've got a boy friend, confid ed brown-haired Sharon to big Jim Mense of Notre1 Dame as he sat on the edge of her bed. Sharon's right arm was in a sling, but her eyes sparkled. 'Hes at home, though. There's a boy In the hos pital who likes me, but I don't like him." Mense, s 206-pound center, grinned delightedly as the eight (Cont page 2. col.. 7) , , Foxes Upend Newberg Club NEWBERO (Special) Visit ing Silverton closed fast in the final period to defeat Newberg High School 44-32 in a non-league hoop game played here Tuesday night The Foxes, ahead 18-14 st the halftime mark, surged to a 36-28 lead in the fourth canto and coasted to victory from there. Forwards Jack Week and Rex Brown led the Silverton victory. dumping in 12 points apiece. Don McAdams with 11 and Bo! Rainfourth with 10 topped th Newberg effort Newberg won the JV clash to gain some conso lation. In an effort to satisfy the many people who have asked us to write something constructive, along the lines of playing golf, we will today attempt to teach readers how to hit the wedge shot. In selling wedges to golfers, the question is almost always asked, "What do you use this thing for?" Also, "Will it do anything I can't already do with a No. I iron?" In answer, lei s jook at it this way: Would you try to jack up an auto with a crow bar? A No. 9 iron is fine for any type of shot that does not require a lot of spin on the ball. But for the real tough little shots around the green, the wedge is the answer. Many of the top playing pros carry three wedges. One is for long ap proach shots (100 yards on down to SO yards), another for short, lofted shots and the third for a sand iron that will loft shots sharply. We would never recommend that the average player carry more than on Wedge. But no one should go with out a wedge after be or she "learns to break' 100 in scoring , ,. . The first rule te remember la playlag this clk Is never to ever extend It. The average player caa hit a wedge shot asset M yards. Doa'l try to go beyoad that distance. Th mor distance yoa try to get with a lofted club, the more aHHade yoa ye get aid the harder it 4 to eeatrel the ball. Next, always remember I that any shtt wttfea kiftoel clb sheald be" kit with a very Arm stroke, aad ao m lonu mvrmrai m-b t afaH lu m4 la s driving. Crip fief stick very firmly aid fit will u bmcs? of 1 mwlf"' 1. fim BVNNT MASON Saxons Clidnse Date of Game South Salem's Saxons will play Eugene at Eugene Thursday night rather than Friday, school officials reported Tuesday.: The game has been moved up one day so as not to conflict with homecoming activities at South Salem. ... ' .. ., . Three of South Salem's basket ball teams will make the trip to Eugene. The sophomore team will play Eugene at 4 p.m., the Saxon Jayvees will play at 6:15 and the varsity will climax the night with their gams at 8, Colts Get Bonus Of $1,000 Each BALTIMORE ( - The Balti more Colts, who finished fourth In Jie Western Division of the Na tional Football League, got checks tor f 1.000 each in the form' of bon is payments, it was disclosed Tugs- the aatnral tendency to over-swing. This holds trae for. say shot, we might add here. Place -the ball between the feet, avoiding any hint of favoring the Teft foot. Your weight should be evenly distributed. Take the club back with "very little wrist break. Use the length of the back swing to gauge the length of the shot you want Never make more than a three-quarter swing with this club. If you feel you must make more of a swing for distance at hand ,use your I or I iron . . . Hit down and through the ball, making certain that you get the ball on the downward arc. Turf should be taken from the ball toward the hole, but never behind the ball. The most common error in playing this shot is that the novice tries to slip the ball into the air rather than letting the club do the work Never break the wrists forward of the address position until the ball is well away. That i all there Is to it on paper, that is. . I ; ' ...... Short Game is Easiest to Practice, Too The' one place that any golfer eaa take strke off his game Is around the green, and It Is the easiest part of the game te practice. It yoa want to leara to be a tiger around the putting surface. Just spend a little time learalag to kit those lofted clubs with a firm stroke and leara to hit them la the middle of the fac of the ehib.' Yoa caa make them spla Just Hke the big boys d . . . Jack Owens has decided against his recent move to the bay area and has moved to Salem instead. Now we can't criticize that kind of thinking, can we? Jack took one look at the crowds down south and said to himself, "It there is that many people down town, there must be millions mor' on the golf courses, I could never get a starting Jins," " - So the' popular "round man" s back with us and is now associated with Shyrock's Men's Wear in the Capitol Shopping Center. We join many others in wishing him lots of luck ... TlMVplayff that Fat MlkHa aad the anther were to be la last Sunday raa Into a little hitch with the weather. The Pro-Director Trophy will have te hold tonga aatll sometime la January aw . , . Bruce Williams Is the aew Mea's auk prexy at SGC, aad with hi bscksroand should mak a dandy. Bruce never was one to do things hall way. Dick llendrle was koaored with several gifts by th boys for bis fine job la IMS as president, aad certainly de. serves a vote of thaaks from aU. We had a good year aad there . was never a dull week for the who waated te play ... N.C State Rated Second Utah, Dayton, BYU Follow in Order By HUGH FULLERTON JR. THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Although the experts have settled on San Francisco as the No. 1 team, college basketball's leaders hardly will stand .still long enough to get them into an orderly rank ing. ' On the basis of results np through last Saturday, U sports writers and broadcasters' participating in the- weekly Associated Press poll listed Sad Francisco,s North Caro lina, Stat and Utah asthe top three teams the same positions they had hejd the. week before. Then they shuffled - the other teams around and came. up. with Dayton, Brigham Young.' North Carolina, Holy Cross, Vanderbilt, Kentucky and Iowa as the remaind er of the top ten. Before these experts could get their collective opinion intq print, look what happened! Alabama, dropped from fifth place to 16th as a result of two losses last week, knocked off Holy Cross, which had moved up from 10th to seventh In the balloting. . . San Francisco! Dons, tabbed by Duquesne Coach Dudey. Moore as the .best college team he ever has seen, apparently have justified the faith the writers and broadcast ers have put in them. Led by All America Bill Russell, a tall man who is a great defense player, San Francisco won th DePaul tourna ment in Chicago last weekend and ran its two-season victory string to 31 strsight. ': The Dons were picked first by 92 of the 150 expert end on the usual (Cont page I, col. 3) Statesman, Salem, Ore., Wed., Dec. 21, '55 (Sec. II)-1 Big Decision Awaited 49ers Consider Albert For Head Coaching Job SAN FRANCISCO W-Frankie Albert, one of the "original" San Francisco 49ers, "definitely is under consideration" as next head coach of the National Football League team, owner Tony Morabito said Tuesday night Gty GervaisTops my Gervali rode to victory on a one man scoring punch Tuesday night as the Cougars downed Salem Academy, (2-52, at the Crusader gyro. Allen Schmidt was the big reason for the victory as he poured In 33 points, IS of them coming in the third quarter. The game was tight the first quarter, which ended. 10-10. and Gervais could gain only sligntj advantage at the half. 26-23. But in the third period, with Schmidt showing the way, the Cougars tal lied 2 points to gaia a safe mar gin of M-35 at th end of that quarter. ' , Larry Merk with r? points and Glenn Pfau with 14 tried to keep the Crusaders in the game but failed. ; . . Salem Academy's Jayvees won the preliminary, 45-35. GcrvaJi () t S. Academy ffftpMB fiftpftp Mannf.f 4 1 10 Xnapp.f 0 0.1 Mahny, I I I I Rltmar S 4 4 1 Alnfce IISS Pfau.e S 4 114 MCall.C 1 U Merk.f 1 3 S17 Shmt.f 14 I 1 33 Zwkrt.f S I 3 11 Upndl.f S MClain.f 1 S 1 Bergtt.f ( 1 0 Edlftrj ( Banctt.C 1 rhpin.c S01 0 , Hall 0 0 3., Fnkhirf II 1 I Sibcl,f t US 0 ToUl 16 10 203 Total II IS 14 53 Trca throw mlisrt: Ccrvaii 11, Academy IS. Halftlm icon: Gcrvati 2S. Academy 33. OttlclaU: Vender vort and Toetl. "I can't ssy yes and I can't say no," Mora duo repuea in an answer to a direct question as to whether Albert would succeed Norman (Red) Strader, dismissed Monday after serving one season on a 3-year contract. "Let me put it this way." Mora bito continued. "It's within the realm of possibility. He definitely is under consideration. Albert, All-America quarterback at Stanford University in -1940-41. was Strader's backfield coach, this fall when the 49ers finished with the second worst record in their history four victories against eight defeats. The little lefthand er, who . has his own television show over a local station, said he hasn't decided whether he'd take the coaching job if it were offered him. "It would take a lot of careful and serious thinking," he said. A brilliant T-tormation quarter back, Albert gained a reputation as a gambler during his years with the 49ers. He broke in with the club when it was formed in 1946 as a member of the now defunct All-America Conference and con tinued with it in 1950 when the 49ers joined the NFL. After the 1851 season he played one season in Canada, then returned to San Francisco and became a radio aqd television commentator. : SEATTLE U VICTOR SEATTLE UR Hitting a tead ily torrid pace, the Seattle Univer sity Chieftains crushed the invad ing JSt. Mary's Gaels Tuesday night for the second time in a row, 8449 Oregon Edges Northwestern;; Beaver Topple Wolverines CORVALLIS, Ore. tfV-Oregon and Oregon State of the Pacific Coast Conference defeated Big Ten opponents in a ricthorse b3skeU ball doubleheader her Tuesday night Oregon downing North western 65-81 and th Staters defeating Michigan 64-71. . Max" Anderson. Oregon center, was high scorer in the opener with 31 points whil Capt. Dick Mast, Northwestern guard, led te losers with 27. Glen Los had 26 and made 14 of Northwestern' s fi nal 21 points. ' Northwestern led almost the en tire first half but lost Its shooting eye in the second period. Oregon, trailing 44-52 at halftime, sharp ened its offensive attack and caught up and tied the score 54-54 on two free throws by Anderson with just three minutes of the sec ond half gone. Jerry Ross then put Oregon ahead with a free throw but Lose countered with two for Northwest ern. The lead changed three times before Rom dumped in two free throws and Oregon went ahead 61-58. With just seven minutes to go. Lose scored four straight points on charity tosses and tied the score 67-67. But then Oregon g a a r d Phil McHugh sank a layln and a 15-foot one-handed shot and gave Oregon a four-point lead whkh it never lost. - Michigan and Oregon Stat fought to 14 ties in the first half, th last time at 33-33. Then Wayne (Cont page 2, cot. 1) OaKOON PKKI GAMCS Cervata S3. Salem Academy S3 , ., .. .,, f., ton : i t Silverton 44. Hewbers 33 .... . d.M.UUll Dallat 94. afcMtnnvtlle 40 Sweet Homo 37, Toledo .11 Molalla 4S, Ml. Anfcl Z ! ValseU 7S. Eddyv.lle ' : Mill City 47. Amity 31 Scio 4S, Detroit 3 . Jetferion 6. Gate 3 Sublimity 11. St. Paul 44 Central 51 WlUamlna 4 Brownavllt S3, Philomath 3 - Valset! 73, Eddyville Astoria 47. nnoxevelt Portland) S3 Drain 3. Sutherlln 37 Nampa iltianm ., Ontario 4 ' , Sweet Hon II. T-lr- f , Sandy . Forest Grove ST ' 8L Helena 08. Cm m,h.) S3 . The Dallea 4. WyTaat 4) Newport 4. Slleta 33 John Day . Burns S " Star of Sea lAntorta) 77, MacLartn tWoodbumi 81 Douelat Portland) 4S. ETerfreea (Wh. 4 overtime Ft Vancouver (Wash.) , Grata, am 4 ,. Medford S3, ttoeehurf 11 -Ba radon 41. Gold Beach 43 Huntington &, North Powder , S3 (overtime! Albany 17. Junction City 41 Harrtaburg SI. CreiweU 4 , Umira S3. Monroe M (Cont. page 2, col. 1) Burrow Leads Kentucky Win LEXINGTON, Ky. i Ken tucky, getting a 27-point perform ance from center Bob Burrow, downed Minnesota 72-65 to advance opposite Dayton in the finals of the Kentucky Invitational Tourna ment Dayton, powered by 35 points by hard-driving, dead-eye Jim Pax son, defeated Utah 77-73 in a clash of' nationally, ranked, unbeaten powers.' ; . Minnesota and Utah meet for third place preceding Wednesday night i championship test. Dayton was rsnked the No. 4 team in this week's Associated Press hoop poll while the Utes were given the No. 3 nod. Dons Whip' Wichita WICHITA, Kan. Wl - San Fran cisco University, the nation's top ranked college basketball team, continued its unbeaten streak Tues day with a 75-65 victory over Wichi ta of the Missouri Valley Confer ence. ' $4,700 Purse Given Back to John Bratton SCRAMTON, Pa. Wt Pennsyl vania Athletic Commission Chair man James T. Crowley announced Tuesday that a $3,000 forfeiture will be returned to former welter weight champion Johnny Bratton, now in retirement at Detroit. The money was held out of a $4,700 purse due Bratton for a fight he lost to Johnny Saxton of Philadelphia here Feb. 24, 1954. Henning Wins Rough Mat Mix In Eight-Man Russian Royal rj. and Williams grappled to t draw and Weaver beat Peret Next Tuesday ladies will be ad mitted free to a six man tag John Paul Henning, the flashy ex-frog man and present holder of the Pacific Northwest heavy weight title, won the Russian Royal and an extra $200 purse at team match. the Salem armory Tuesday night. I ' '' :' ' It was a wild and round royal with big Don Kindred dishing out tVal0ll TlllU plenty of punishment with his IHOiaiia IUU11CS bead butts. ' Santa Says . . . WHY WAIT UNTIL NEW YEAR NOW All WOOL First man eliminated wis Mau rice '.LaChapelle. Buck , Weaver nd Bill Savage teamed up and were successful in living Henry Lens the heave-ho to, make him the second man out Bud Hen ning, Williams and Alec Perez decided then that It was time to break up that team so they damped Weaver out, much to the dismsy of Savage. Perez was the next man out, quickly followed by Williama. , '. This left Henning, Savage and lay. , V. f ; .,-'; f ... rhimned out when he turned The amount may bav been lb his attention to Savage and failed lighest excess bonus ever paid to a to Me Henning' coming with a drop kick. Henning then dumped irofesslonal football team. ; All 36 members of the squad re Wived bonus checks. Carroll Ros mbloom, principal owner of the earn, has steadfastly insisted man igement has no desir to mak a refit frqm the .team. Savage with a beauty of a drop kick to end the royaL , , The crowd was treated to four dandy prelims before the royal. Savage defeated Kindred,. Hen ning defeated LaChapell, Leu To Nudge Preps MT. ANGEL (Special) Super ior, height and a final quarter splurge gave visiting Molalla a 46 38 non-league cage victory over ML Angel In a game played here last night, The Indiana, behind 33 33 at the end of th third period, surged from behind on the shooting of substitute forward Bob Parker, who had 12 for the night, to win going away. Their taller front men were too much for Mt, Angel as the game went into the final stages. Center Ken Wachter scored 11 for Mt. Angel. The Indians cop ped the JV clash 57-26. Mt. Aniel IIS) (44 Molalla Mleaaner III r .. l Reed Kabul 111 F , IS) Sartr Wachter (lit C (II Parker. Sow (1) .C (l Aha i Carroll (111 O- (II Lewie I Reservea ecorln: Molalla Mrrick I. Parker 12. Otlidala; BoaVi and CusUiaoo. i TOPCOATS m)0 -1. . x Regular to $40-N0W Regular, ' to $55-fJ0W 1 OlSTINCTIVf MgN't Wf AN CORNER SINATOR HOTIl ' ' Wo .4 X f VE'ilEi REALLY FLAYING SANTA CLAUSf ' WE'RE MOVING TO A NEW LOCXT.ON! 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