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Salenj, Oregon, Weiestfay, October 19,1955 N. y THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section S Pa?e Sparts 9 Planutis Back-of-the- Week Welsh Runtterup to Upset Star . in AP Vote B THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Fullback Gerry Planutis o( ch jsan Slate, who plunged for Iht winning towhdown against Noie Dame last Saturday, was selected as The Associated Press Back ot the Week Wednesday by a nar row majgiaover Navy's George crushed Penti' State. H was a contest between two lads from the anthracite region of Kaster.n Pennsylvania with Hazel ton's Planutis topping Coaldale'S welsh. A national television audience saw Pbnulis overpower the Notre Dame line tiilh savage tone bucks as the Sn.1rl.1ns moved to their winning TD in the third period. Not only did Planutis go over for the winning touchdown, but he set the stage (or MSU's final TD m the Spartan's 21-7 triumph by re covering, an Irish fumble on the Notre Dame IB in the last quarter. And he converted all three points. After the game he was awarded the ball by his teammates for his tremendous work. Others nominated incluJed Tom my Mcponald of Oklahoma: John Roach of Southern Methodist: Frank Sanro of Washington State; John 'Drums) Majors of Tetnes see and Jon, Arnett of Southern California. Back-of-Week w fa ! r -r- jp; l.LmJ- '- 'A 1,1 1 -ir-rjiiil 1 UilknownKO's Randy, Speeds Up Retirement Yolamlc Pompey Is To Rrjilarc Turpin Against Moore OE PALOOKA OfcLY SUSPICIOUS A BUM WITH A J RACTt Aw. UiC AIICBErl TLB UHJAI K K. I DAD W TUP DPPT HAC. W I THROvft OUTA ORAET... E LONDON Ml Randy Turpin's decision to quit the ring opcnM the door of opportunity Wednes day to another British light heavy weightTrinidad's Yolande Pom pey. jurpin. the former world middle weight champion, announced his retirement Tuesday night after he was knocked out In the fourth round by Gordon Wallace, an un known Canadian. Promoter Jack Solomons, had plans to match Turpin with ing record in 1935 Pacific Coast world licht heavyweight champion League action, final statistics Archie Moore, made a quick ; showed Wednesday. switch and threw his backing to Pompey, a hard puncher, Moran Chalks Up New Mark SAN FRNAICISCO i Jim my Moran. San Francisco second who baseman, set the only new field- Pioneer Grid Stars Taking Courses in Ballet Dancing PORTLAND (lTP) A group of What's more. Coach Joe Huston athletes at Uwis and Clark Col- and Mrs. Axclsen a-ffree that it lege, includins several members of neiPs coornmauon. Ana one p ay. Sad Knd to Career "I am cabling Moore right away with terms for a title defense in ! London on Jan. 10," said Solomons. "Pompey deserves a break." Pompey knocked out Vvon Du relle. the Canadian licht heavy weight champion in two minutes of Fullback Jerry Planutis of Michigan Slate was named As sociated Press back-of-the-ueck today for his play against Notre Daine Saturday. (AP Photofax) Fralcy Picks Irish, Terns, OSC, USC, UCLA to Win Moran fielded nt a ,!H2 pace to break the old mark for second base man of .93 set 12 years ago by Roy Hughes of Los Angeles and equaled in 1953 by Moran himself. The new Coast League record was compiled on only 6 errors in 754 chances. Moran played in 133 of the Seals' 172 games. San Diego and Los Angeles the Pioneer football team, are lak-! ing a course in ballet dancing and ofiicials agreed today that the help in coordination offset: the ribbing the players tn-ke. Instructor in the class is Mrs. Margaret Axelsen, whose toughest the seventh round of a scheduled . b?" c? for the tcarn ''elding crown 10 on the same card as the Tru- i , down 10 'he wire the Padres pin-Wallace affair. j f,n?ll-v,. 'n"ln! 'h,e. h"m '",1 For the 27-year-old Turpin. it was ! ''h .hmsh b' ,0 lhe AnSds a sad end to a fine career. When i ' i , he outpointed Sugar Rav Robinson' Thf '"dividual league leaders by in 19.M. he became the first Briton ' P0!!10"' announced by stat.sucian i .i, ...u ,:; William J. Weiss, were: in no vnir ! r-d Mickelson, Portland About 15 athletes were expected in the class at the start of the year. Now that figure has nearly problem as explaining it wasn't I doubled, one reason probably be "sissy" stuffi That done with, the ! ing the large number of coeds who athletes turned out pretty well and i turn out to watch the athletes are cooperative students, she said. I perform as dancers. By Ham ftsiellV WU, i Tops Passers V.tulls 165 Prfund:. J Ace. to Top Gorge Welsh's spectjcuir nt ial display against Pcnn State h' T.-xilttd th Navy's poised psitl frnn 1-Kh to.fir.st place among tha nation's major college football yaitlage gainers. . Despite the damp weather, tin lM-pound Middle ,. quai tcrbacH completed IS of 20 passes for 2SJ yards and two touchdowns, and added three yards on the ground, for a 2AA-yard total, top individual at leat of the year, and the second best passing show in five year. With his tolal of 834 yards rush touchdown pass against Linfield. judged and prizes awarded at a I!"8 a.n1 passing- (minus one rusrf iiik, n.M passing), vieisn Decamc I fourth different player to head III oflcnsc lists in as many weeks. TI14) other pace-setters were Joe Clem, rnts Tevnc rlnnHo nnnl,on1 r. (lumbia; and Art Luppino, Arizona. ... THAT WAS WM.VT W-WHAT...' tVHY OIOH'T tEANVhTlE IN TH WB?5feT"I ? HO.MAN MV VOU SAY 60 Z. JJ. Y WSU.TP" Sl5iO , rSZy ' L3- j& A BIT C BRAHMS er. Bill Stempel who caught a t'otxllHirn Buck ' Derby Jutlging Set on Oct. 27 WOODBURN The Buck Der by, sponsored by the Woodburn Rod and Gun club, will be attributed the neat fake he pulled I regular meeting Thursday u. wnau i p.cKea up in rymmns, bcr 27 at ,he ci(y hal, Octo- first But 'he has been on the down-!bi,sc.mcn.'9;!B;. DicLMy.0"' S30"- grade since, and his loss to Wal-' I By OSCAR FRALEV Vnited Press Sports Writer am retiring," said Turning. Ht.. 11 , tl lily ltln-AW MIC IIUl UU'IU any ington State. COP over San Jose more. When that happens, it is the State, Colorado Aggies over Utah end mento, shortstop, .973: Milt Smith, lace convinced him to hang up his ?pn ,mrn baseman sn : Ai OVeS. i.v.-,, .,-.,.,.,.. I HOCKEY TUESDAY'S RESULTS .... INTERNATIONAL LEAGUE Indianapolis 3, Fort Wayne 2 (over time! WESTERN LEAGUE Calgary 5, Winnipeg 2 Edmonton 5, Victoria 4 .993; Myron (Joe Ginsberg. Seat tle, catchers, .990. and Charles (Redl Adams. Portland, pitchers, 1.000. Prothro Denies Con tart by Col. A representative from the Ore gon State Games Commission will be present and talk on the Round up of deer hunting sea son, and will bring the latest movie on sieclhead, entitled "Troubled Journey." The committee for the eve ning will be Glen Seely, refresh ments: Roy Click, entertainment and Harold Ingram, prizes. Ctnln Ttlnl, UN.nn-Inn linn NEW YORK (UP) - Fraley'sjJana 'over New Mexit;0 andDcnver follies and the weekend football "winners" or a "square" jets nep for those same old Saturday night blues. Gamrs Of The Week Notre Dame over Purdue: Or dinarily the Boilermakers get "up" high enough to slip the Irish a Mickey Finn. But alter last week, the rebounding South Benders should he too lnu?h In manhnnrile. Maryland over Syracuse: Upset Auburn over i-urman. conaueror of Arm v. Svracu.se will Tech over Florida State find this a different tune by at least three touchdowns. West Virginia over Penn "fetate: Big. rough and ready, the Moun taineers are looking for prestige. They've got the horses to win easy. The Kasl Navy over Penn: Shake, rattle and roll. Army over Columbia: Dream on, my love, dream on. Cornell over Princeton: The blue plate special. Also: Bast on College over Mar quette, Yale oyer Colgate, HaiJ vard over Dartmouth, Holy Cross over Baston University, Brown over Rhode Island, Rutgers over Lehigh. Lafayette over Bucknell and North Carolina State over Vil lanova. The Midwest Michigan over Minnesota: Little brown jug How I love thee. OREGON STATE COLLEGE, ..UKianoma over Colorado: I tie ; Corvallis. The first 1955 pre surrey with the real silk fringe, view of things to come in the wav Michigan State over Illinois: ! 0f football talent will be staccd That old black magic. ihere Friday at 2:30 p.m. when the Also: Wisconsin over Ohio State. josC Rooks and the Oregon Krosh Indiana over Northwestern. Misinieet. souri over Nebraska, Oklahoma j if good weather conditions pre Aggies over Detroit. Iowa State I vail, the game will he plavcd at over Kansas State. SMU over Kan-, Parker stadium; otherwise, the sas and Texas Western over Wich- clubs will tangle on ancient Bell ita. field. Both squads are filled with The West top talent from lost year's prep miiA over mwa: me scourge ; brigade. over Brigham Young. The South Miami over TCU: Rock around the '60 minute) clock. Duke over Pitt: A man with a dream. Kentucky over Florida: Some thing gotla sivu. Also: Mississippi ovtr Arkansas, Mississippi State over Alabama, ueorgia Georgia over Tulane. Clcmson over South Carolina, Tennessee over Dayton, North Carolina over Wake Forest, George Washington over William and Mary, VPI over Virginia and Citadel over Presbyterian. The Southwest Texas over Rice: I can dream, can't I? Baylor over Texas Aggies: Hey, Mr. Banjo. Oregon over Arizona: Learnin the blues. - Also: Texas Tech over 'Houston, Hardin Simmons .over 'West Texas State and Cincinnati. over Tulsa. After Turpin won the middle weight title from Robinson, he promptly lost it back to Sugar Ray via a TKO just fi4 days later. He got another chance at the title in 1 1 953 but lost on points to Bobo 01 : son. i Last year, Turpin Inst his Eurn- pean middleweight title to Italy's j Tiherio Mitri. Turpin returned to the ring this i spring as a light heavyweight and I won his four outings until he went Oil CoflcJl lot) were circulated on the campus : that he was being endorsed for the CORVALLIS (UP) Football ;Cal job by Golden Bear alumni Coach Tommy Prothro of Oregon j groups. He said no one has direct State denied today he had bcenily or indirectly approached him approached about the head coach ing job at the University of Cali fornia. The denial rame after reports about the job. The reports said Prothro was being mentioned by alumni as a successor to Pappy Waldorf after this season. Luppino, second In total offcnsi with 6(16 yards, maintained his grip in rushing with the same number of ynrds. A new pass lender was unveiled, however, in Dartmouth's Bill Beagle. The Dartmouth quarterback hit on 19 of 40 throws for 278 yards in the Indians losing effort to La. fayette. Beagle now has completed S3 passes. His yardage totalo f 600 is 35 short of Welsh's figure. Com pletions are the measuring yaroV stick in passing. Beagle's attempts and comple lions are single-game highs for tlii season and his yardage was second only to Welsh's. Rooks Phi Frosli Frida 0 htfwagy .1 OH 1 I'SC over California: Wake the town and tell the people. Washington over Stanford: What ever Lola wants. Also: Oregon Stale over Wash- Jerry Frei. who formerly coached at Willamette, is Oregon's Frosh mentor, while Dick Twenge is in charge of the OSC Rooks. Admis sion is $1 for adults and 23c for children. 0 Doris Hart joins 1 tos MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Wi-The ranks of United States amateur tennis were further thinned today with the announcement that Doris filar t, the "nation's No. 1 woman player, , had turned' professional. Miss Hart, an active amateur for 20 years and winner of all the world's major women's tennis titles, will become a teaching pro at tne rlamingo Hotel here. Just a week ago Tony Trabert, the men's amateur champion, turned professional at Los Ange 1e.s. - Miss Hart, who was considered sickly almost from birth, took up the game at Henderson Park Miami at the age of 10, after an operation. A hard-driving,, fast-serving and net-forcing game carried her to the top. "While I still love tennis, the strain of competing Is getting to be a little too much." she told newsmen. "Besides, there are al ways the younger players coming up who have the fire you once had." 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