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m Eatordav, January 2, 1954 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, Salem, Orcgoa t Pact IS Well lis Sparks S jpa ritca mis Over 'Bruins; Sooneirs Won 7thBigTeni "tot I Maryland Rose Win i-or. Br ALEX KAHN . Pasadena, Calit 4A Michi gan State odd the Bif Ten'e seventh victory in the Rom .Bowl game today because it turnra in uue ox oaraa in the hew Year's Day classic with UCLA's favorite detensive 'weapon, the blocked kick. I The game's individual hero ' was halfback Billy Wells who . sparked Michigan State to two touchdowns in the third period -and scored a third himself on a 62-yard runback of punt in the fourth. . Little Medicine ine ia-pouna senior was chosen as the "player of the day" by a board of snorts writ ten immediately following tne game. Coach Clarence ' (Biggie) . Munn said the only medicine i he fed his players at halt time when they trailed 1 to 14 to set the stage of the two touchdown splurge In the third period was a brief chalk talk and "a little splr- ' It was end Ellis Duckett who - came in to block all America halfback Paul Cameron's punt - in the second period with leu than five minutes of pasy re 'maintng. And he scooped up the "loose ball on the six to score. .'" Wells then took over in the '' second half, sparking a 78-yard , "drive that ended with LeRoy Bolden scoring from yard out. ' Minutes later the Spartans "started another drive from their 27 and Wells went over ..from his own five. 'The Stars 'r The "Menominee Meteor," f as Wells was known in Chicago as a preps ter, brought his day to a close with a twisting 62- yard run that ended in a touch . .down. As expected, Cameron was - the UCLA star, even though .- he had the first pant of his . college career blocked and a. the first ever blocked for a Sanders coached team. He scored himself In the sec ond period, climaxing an 18 ' yard thrust after another fum ; ble recovery with a two and half-yard slant to pay dirt. And in the final period he brought UCLA to within a point of the ' Spartans with a 28 yard pass to "'end Rommie Loudd for a touch " down only to have Wells make "his long scoring run. -Bevo Averaging 43.9; R.C.Owens Leads Rebounds New York () Bevo Fran cis, finally established as a big leaguer In college basket ball circles, maintained the na ; ton individual scoring ,mmh among the small rhmli last week. The sensational star of the Rin Grande. Ohio, five has f tossed in an average of 43.9 I "mints ner same. He made 131 i' field goals and 89 free throws 'for 351 tmints in eight aamrm, ' Statistics released Saturday bv the NCAA Service Bureau also show that Vince Leta or Lycoming is second with a 38 point average followed by Carson Lovett of Franklin and Marshall 3S.8 and Jake Hend zelek. Juniata, 32.8. ' Dick Larson of Carleton Is the top man in field goal ac curacy with 30 out ol o tor 60 per cent and R. C. Owens of College of Idaho is the lead er in rebounds with 26.1 per same. Baltimore university, witn an average of 89.5 points for four games, is the offensive pace-setter among the smaller colleges. Lawrence Tech, un beaten in seven games, has shown the best defense hold- 'ins the opposition to 51.1 points per contest. Billy Martin Wins Babe Ruth Plaque For Series Playing New York V-Billy Mar tin, scrappy second baseman of the world champion New York Yankees, Saturday was awarded the Babe Ruth Mem orial Plaque, voted each year to the outstanding player in the World Series. It marked the fifth straight year that the New York chap ter of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America picked a member of the Yankees. Joe Page earned the honor in 1949, Jerry Coleman got It in 1950, Phil Rizzuto in 1951 and Johnny Mite In 1952. It was Martin's single to center, scoring Hank Bauer in the final game, that gave the Yankees a 4-3 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers last October to clinch the series in six games. Even before he de livered the decisive blow, however, Martin had played the starring role. Billy's final hit was his 21th of the series. That matched he greatest number of hits Fumble Paul Cameron of ECLA fum bles (arrow) In the first ouar- ter at Pasadena, Calif., and It ft -Zrz Blocked Punt Michigan Ellis Duckett raeea after the ball as he blocked Paul Cameron's punt and carried it over the goal line for Michi gan State's first touchdown in the Rose Bowl Temptation was too Great yard line as he streaks down sideline on 95-lard touch down run in the Cotton Bowl football game at Dallas, Texss. The temptation was too grest for Alabama Full back Tommy Lewis (42) (arrow) of Alabama bench. He started running and a second later tackled Moegle on the Alabama 41-yard line. Officials awarded Rice a touch down. Alabama Center Vince DeLaurentis (54) and Halfback Bill Oliver (33) chase Moegle. No. 78 is Rloe Tsckle Dick Chspman. This picture was made by Tom Dlllard, staff photographer of the Dallas Morning News. (AP Wirephoto) Moegle Leads Over Alabama in Cotton Dallas. Tex. (U.B Alabama's Coach Harold Red Drew was convinced today that a bench warmer tackle by an impetu ous Tide fullback didnt' have anything to do with his team's 28-6 Cotton Bowl defeat by Rice. The bench warmer was Ala bama's regular fullback. Tom my Lewis, who leaped from the bench to throw a chilling body block into goal-bound Rice halfback Dicky Moegle in the second quarter. "The incident didn't have any demoralizing effect on our team," Drew said. Of course they got a touchdown, but I don't believe it made any dif ference. "Moegle is the best back I have seen this year." the losing coach said of the wire-stemmed Rice halfback who sped 79 and 34 yards for touchdowns. In addition to the rudely-interrupted junket alongside the bench. For his fine afternoon of football, Moegle won-the out standing back award without a dissenting vote among the 89 sports writers covering the game. . ever play. made in World Series recovered by Michigan State. The visiting Michigan State won the Rose Bowl contest, 28-2. (UP Telephoto) the ball is - '':-V.Vv '"TV; -vlJi .tic 4fJ Game "against UCLA. Duckett picked up the ball on the Brains six and ran over unopposed. Cameron Is at upper left, racing for the ball with three other Spartans. Michigan State won the game, 28-20. (AP Wirephoto) 8 tat a End Rice Halfback Dicky Moegle crosses 50- Rice 28-6 - Kramer's Tennis Tour Will Start New York ( Jack Kra mer, professional tennis' no. 1 player, will start another tour of the country tomorrow at Madison Square Garden but this time the role of the for mer two-time U. S. amateur champion will be more as a promoter than player. Kramer has lined up Frank Sedgman of Australia, Pancho Segura, Pancho Gonzales and veteran Don Budge for a trip that is expected to include 100 matches in 85 cities before the first of June. Last year the tour grossed $860,000 with Kramer defeat ing Sedgman in 54 out ol 95 matches. Al (Dusty) Stefano, basket ball coach at St John's Uni versity, was stationed at Pearl Harbor on that Infamous day Dec 7, 1941. He was In the Army. fights Last Hight Brr Trw AMctiM Ptmii Star Twt tMMUjon atu.r. crtrat 11. rrm. 1M. Braklrn. witpolnud Dane ouiw,, IS. Lm asmim. u. V ,V VI Beavers Drilling On Weak Points Found in Travels Corvallis 0JJ9 Coach Slats Cill pat his Oregon State Heav ers back to basketball drills to day, hoping to polish up a few weak spots" uncovered on a cross-country, pre-season Jaunt against some of the nation's top teams. The Orangitnen arrived here by bus Z. will Portland yester day after flying In from Raleigh, N. C, and Washing ton, D. C, ending a tough schedule of seven games In 12 nights. "We got what we went aft er." Gill said grimly. "We went after experience, and we got what we went after. That was our primary objective." The Beavers won two and lost two on the road that lat ter pair in heartbreaking bat- tics in the Dixie Classic Bas ketball tournament in Raleigh where they walked Into a hor net nest of mid-season peak play. After today's drill, the Beav ers planned a day off Sunday before opening the regular Northern Division play .In a series against Idaho on Jan. 8. Sports Shorts In the hope of reducing fu ture hunting accident, fish and game officials of St. John, New Bruswlck, sponsor courses for boys, 12-17, on the proper handling and care of firearms. East Lansing, Mich. The longest Michigan State basket ball winning streak was 18 games the last 15 of the 1930-31 season and the first of the 1931-32 season. Nation's No. 1 Team Maryland tries a field goal yard line in the first quarter ' 4 Ill - III WP! Virninin D -"1 U 3 1 JT A -Nk.- ,'.f. saa.y ssW K ,J M 2 sLl.T1 t- " r.r."" - ' 'A II halfback Larry Ruffln (12) makes a first down In the first quarter of the 8ugar Bowl game at New Orleans. Reaching tor him Is Tommy Allman (33), West Virginia fallback, West Virginia in Sugar Bowl Scores (Br Th. AMOClltod PrffM) Rose at Pasadena Michigan State 28, UCLA 20 Orange at Miami Oklahoma 7, Maryland 0 Sugar at New Orleans Georgia Tech 42, West Vir ginia 19 Cotton at Dallas Rice 28, Alabama 6 Gator at Jacksonville, Fla. Texas Tech 35, Auburn 13 Sun at El Paso Texaa Western 37, Mississippi Southern 14 Rice at Tokyo Marines (Camp Fisher) 19, Air Force (Nagoya) 18 Cigar at Tampa LaCross (Wis.) Teachers 12, Missouri Valley 12 (tie) S.iiJ at Fliuenix Fort Ord 67, Great Lakes 12 Prairie View, Texas Prairie View 35, Texas South ern 8 Tangerine at Orlando, Fla. East Texas 7, Arkansas State 7 (tie) , , ft , u MUnn Said tO Have Told Sanders Bowl Game Was His Last Los Angeles W Specula tion over the fate of Biggie Munn, coach of the Michigan State team that beat UCLA In the Rose Bowl yesterday, was stirred today by a "whisper."' The Los Angeles Times car ried a story this morning quot lng UCLA Coach Red Sanders as saying that while he was congratulating Munn after the game in Pasadena the Michigan State mentor whispered to him that It was his last game as a football coach. Sanders told a Times sports writer that Munn Informed him he would soon take over the Michigan State athletic direc tor's post being vacated by Ralph Young. WHAT IS BISHOP'S i GOING 1 TO DO? i Beaien Bowl at Miami but It fell short Okla homa's S Doners came back In the second half to beat the team voted as the nation's mythical chimps, 7-4. (UP Telephoto) from the SS in the Orange Tech rgiti Tech Crushes New Orleans 4JJ9 A beam-' lng Bobby Dodd, his bowl record still Intact with five wins, today credited little Pepper Rodgers and speed for his Georgia Tech Engineers' brilliant win over husky West Virginia In the 20th annual Sugar Bowl classic. The deceptive and speedy Engineers broke six major Sugar Bowl records as they ran and pased through, over and around the big Mountaineers for a crushing 42 to 19 victory in a game that had been tabbed as a "crusade for revenge" by West Virginia. Completes 1( of 23 Of the 168 pound Rodgers, who spearheaded the Tech route with his unstoppable pas sing, Dodd could only say: "He's a great kid. He was the best on the field." To top off his afternoon's work, Rodgers completed 16 of 26 passes for 195 yards, while the Mountaineers' heralded quarterback, Frcdy Wyant, hit only on four of 15 for 29 yards. Coach Art Lewis, whose Mountaineers were out on a "crusade for revenge" as a re sult of criticism of many sports i wnw;rs auoiu weir sooioau bility. said that Tech had "a darn line team." Tech scored three touch downs the first half, with two in the first 12 minutes of the1 game, to go into the halftlme with a 20-6 lead Rodgers' passing accounted for three Tech touchdowns and he made two of three conver sion tries. Dupas to Fight DeMarcoTonite New Orleans VP) Ralph Du pas, 18-year-old New Orleans high school student, opens his 1954 campaign for more light weight honors tonight when he meets punching Paddy DeMar co of Brooklyn In a nationally televised 10-round bout. Dupas, ranked third among lightweights by the Ring mag azine, will be making his first US THIS MKT OStCOH WUTHR MHPDttD THI Willi Of TOUI ROME) Nothing b mors inslghtlr or is unhealthful at wel-dimp wills nd bssements. For complete witer proofing of taement wills or irrt wills ki your liomt or offlco wo glvi complett guirintacd unlet. WifeihirirUftO. N0BHAN . HOGENSn MASOKtT PtOtHJCTJ 2224 Breyman Street Telepho who grounded him wllh the help of Sam Huff (75). Number 24 is West Virginia halfback Carl Norman. The "rambling wrecks" romped over the Husky moun taineer line to the tune of 42-11. (UP Telephoto) Bench Tackle Features Play In Cotton Bowl Dallas, Tex. U.K The 1954 Cotton Bowl game seemed certain today to go down In football history as the "bench tackle" game. Kit Institute took the vic tory, 28 to 6, over Alabama yesterday, but Alabama full back Tommy Lewis provided the strangest play of the sea son when he came off the bench to stop Rice's Dickie Moegle with a 12th man tackle. Lewis of course, had no business on the field and a touchdown was awsrded te Rice as a result Actually, Moegle bad already scam pered 57 yards when Lewis nailed him on the Alabama 38 yard line and probably would have gone all the way for a 93 yard touchdown run. "I saw him coming a long way off," said Lewis In a statement issued for him after the game. "The nearer he got to me, the nearer I moved to the field." The situation Is not cov ered ic the rules, which spe cifically state a touchdown can't be awarded aa a penal ty, but Referee Cliff Shaw was apheld by Abb Curtis, chief of Southwest Confer ence officials. The play was seen by a na tionwide NBC television au dience as well as the capacity bowl crowd of 75,504. start In a regulation 10-rounds. DeMarco holds the No. 9 lightweight ranking and has bested such veterans as Billy Graham, Gonsalves, Savole and holds two decisions over feath erweight champion Sandy Sad dler. 13791 yyas Korea No. 1 in U.S. Miami. Fla. 4JJ0 Oklahoma's "bunch of guy named Joe" trudged home today with a hard earned 7 to 0 Orange Bowl victory over Maryland to their credit, plus a revised un official rating as perhaps toe best football team in the land. . That possible No. 1 accolade took in a lot of territory, but so did the Okies yesterday as they roved relentlessly in run ning up their triumph over pre viously perfect record Mary land. Held Firm Twice Coach Bud Wilkinson cred ited "bunch of guys named Joe" from the oil country for the upset win. They stood off the "Terrible Terrapins" from Maryland twice in the shadow of the goal Then they unleash ed Larry Grigg to spark a mightly 80-yard push that net ted the winning touchdown. ' Orlgg, a slender halfback who thought "by golly, we ought to be the national champions," ran for 13 and 13 yards la the game's only ' touchdown drive In the first period and went the final 28 with a dancing spin down the sidelines. Wilkinson refused to claim the national football champion ship or compare Maryland with once tied Notre Dame which the Terrapins unseated for th title. "It was Just a helluva vic tory," Wilkinson said with a broad grin. - TexasTech GainsGator Bowl Win Jacksonville, Fla. 4JJ9 The wrecking crew of Texas Tech and Bobby Cavazoe flew Jubi lantly home to the West Texas - plain today wiih a 35 to II Gator Bowl football victory over Auburn and a "communi ty cadlllac" to add to the Tex as legends. "Cavaaoa made all the dif ference," said Auburn Coach Ralph - Jordan. "He Just made all the difference." Cavazos. who personally bat tered the huge Auburn line into submission and scored three touchdowns to pull the Texans from behind in the second half, was roundly praised by Tech Coach DeWitt Weaver. "He's the greatest running back in the country," Weaver said. Cavazos added the final touchdown of the game as the crowd of 32,000 was filing to ward the gates when he low ered his head and butted through tackle, leaving Auburn tacklers strung out behind him for 59 yards. It was the longest scoring run in Gator Bowl his tory. Texas fans gave Weaver a yellow Cadillac which be de cided to bold for the team's 'community" use. The squad painted a big double T on the sides. Dallas-Central Game Tonight at Central's Court Dallas A high school bas ketball game previously sched uled with Central tonight In the new Dallas gym will be played at Central, Coach Gor don Kunke of Dallas said last night It was to have been the fourth home game for the Dragons, but one with Btayton was re-set for Jan. 30, one with Willamette froth was played In Salem, and one with Tillamook was postponed. Dallas' new gym, still In complete as far as accommo dating a crow 1, Is expected to be finished next week for the game with Sandy here. The University of Texas has won five Southwest Confer ence '. football championships and one co-championship dur ing the past 13 years. SRIPPY iTOPS IM QUAUTY1 LOW IN PRICE !1iitatioh$VCh III j'.LJSs 111 iJrTUPOp