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TWELVE MECrORD (OREGON) Tennessee, Seek Head By UNITED PRESS Head football coaching berths were open at Tennessee and the Citadel today, while Jim Tatum, one of the nation's top mentors, again was being urged to switch from Maryland to the University of North Carolina. Harvey Robinson was fired as boss-man at Tennesse and John D. McMillian was released as head coach at the Citadel Mon day. Meanwhile, the University of Pittsburgh named defensive coach John Michelosen to sue- Seattle U. Faces U.O. . Eugene (U.R) Seattle un iversity's go-go basjketball team, tune-up victors over Western Washington last Saturday, meets sterner competition tonight as it clashes here with the Univer sity of Oregon of the Pacific Coast conference. . Seattle rolled over Western Washington 85-48 but Coach Al Brightman discovered several bumpy spots in his defense which need smoothing out if the Chieftains are to down the Ducks. "Against Western our defense was very ragged," Brightman said. "Though the score didn't indicate it, Western got 94 shots. We were fortunate they made only 14. Our shooting, 34 of 70 shots, would have been better if our fast-break game had been going." Brightman was expected to start his two watchcharm guards 5-foot, 8-inch Bobby Malone and 5-foot, 9-inch Cal Bauer with Bob Godes, 6-9 at center and Stan Glowaski, 6-3 and transfer Ken Fuhrer, 6-5 at forwards. Oregon dropped a' couple to Santa Clara and the University of California over the week end. However, Jim Loscutoff and Max Anderson, two of Oregon's big boys were expected to pro vide plenty of trouble for the Chieftains off the boards. j Expect Majors Will Reject Minors Plea By CARL LUNDQUIST New York-4U.R) The major leagues are expected .to slam the door in the face of the minor leagues today, flatly rejecting the "little fellows' " plea for re strictions on radio and television. The minors, holding their an nual meeting in Houston, Tex., last week, passed 11 amend ments to the major-minor league agreement among them one forbidding the majors from au thorizing either radio broadcasts or telecasts of big league games into minor league territories. The minors claim these air wave shows are "killing" attend ance in the minors, and declare that restrictions must be passed before the whole minor league structure is wrecked. But the majors, meeting in joint session of the American and National leagues today, aren't expected to agree to go along. Even minor league officials at tending the conclave don't hold out much hope of getting the re strictions passed. Chances Belter for Others The minor leaguers do have more hope that another amend ment they passed will be accept ea one that sets specific fees the majors would have to pay in setting up working agreements with teams in the lower minors These would include a $3,000 to $o,000 fee for making the agree ment, plus a $100 minimum fee for each player the major league team called up from the minors, plus some help in paying the man ager s salary and in paying spring training expenses. The American and National leagues met separately Monday and the emphasis in both cases was on expansion. In fact, there were appearances of a "West ward Ho" race between the two circuits to see which one could So smooth it leaves you breathless mirnoff tlte qreaiest -name vuunrt 80 proof. Made from 1 00"o grain neutral spirits. S:e. Pierre Smirnoff Fls. Inc.. Hartford. Conn. MAIL TRIBUNE Citadel Mentors ceed ailing Lowell (Red) Daw son at the helm of the Panther's football team. Bowden Wyatt, who directed Arkansas into a Cotton Bowl berth this season, immediately was installed as the leading can didate for the vacant Tennessee position, while former Army backfielder John Sauer was be ing tabbed as the next coach at the Citadel. Wyatt definitely would fill the bill as Robinson's successor at Knoxville, where officials re portedly .are looking for an out standing "Tennessee man." He learned his football as an end under former Volunteer Coach Gen. Bob Neyland. However, Wyatt's salary re cently was increased to $15,000 at Arkansas, where he also was handed an additional $20,000 from an "appreciation fund" and a new automobile from ov erjoyed Razorback fans. Thus it would seem doubtful he could be persuaded to leave his cur rent post. Sauer visited the Citadel's president, Gen. Mark W. Clark, Monday but said he merely was giving the former Army com mander "pointers on what we did" in the athletic organization at West Point.' Currently an as sistant coach with the profes sional Los Angeles Rams, Sauer played in the same Army back- field with Glenn Davis and Fe lix Blanchard in 1943-44-45. TV Studied by PCC; Oregon to Host Track Pasadena, Calif. U.R) The Pacific Coast conference has spent several hours studying possible changes in its television policy but has reached no defi nite conclusion as yet, accord ing to Prof. H. P. Everest, offi cial spokesman for the PCC. Possible changes in television policy along with PCC plans to abolish spring training in foot- place a team in Los Angeles or San Francisco first, preferably without expanding the circuits to 10 teams. The American even went to the extent of presenting a 162 game schedule for a 10-team race in which each team would play tne other nine games at home and nine away. The National League moguls said there was nothing new about that because they had considered such a change last month. - The National League gave President Warren Giles a new four-year term of office to begin at the conclusion of his present term in 1955 at a substantial raise in pay. It also retired its senior umpire, Bill McGowan, who has worked in the loop 30 years, at a substantial pension. Italian Stops Cuban Varona New York (U.R) Speedy Italo Scortichini of Italy, who sur prisingly overwhelmed Cuban Chico Varona at his own slug ging game, said today he ex pected to win the welterweight crown in 1955 because of "my new American kick." The muscular, black -haired Italian, scaling loiYz pounds to Varona's 143, not only won a lopsided decision over Chico in their TV 10-rounder at St. Nicho las arena Monday night; but he nearly stopped him in the ninth. They had gone into the ring at "even money." BASKETBALL MONDAY COLLEGE RESULTS East Harvard 61. Northeastern 49 Duquesne 72. Carnegie Tech 52 Hofstra 67. Kingspoint 58 South Davidson 78. Guilford 69 VMI 83, Hampden Sydney 74 Virginia 95, Randolph Macon 54 Wofford 75. Stetson 71 W. Va. Weslevan 106. Becklev 81. N. Car. A & T 96. W. Va. St. 85 Catholic U. 78, Western Md. 72 Fisk 76, Alabama State 75 Midwest Missouri 64. Indiana 61 Iowa State 78. Carleton 60 Iowa 84. Nebraska- 61 Kansas 83. LSU 58 Loyola (111.) 90. N.D. State 75 Marquette 96. Creichton 68 Wash. (Mo.) 66. Miss. State 44 Wisconsin 80. West. Michigan 68 Detroit 91. Bowling Green 60 La. Tech 88. Arkansas Tech '85 Lake Forest 93. Wheaton 82 Southwest Tulsa 60. Baylor 48 - Colorado 65. Brigham Young 46 Tex. Western 67. Abilene Chris 60 Southwest Tex. 101. How. Payne 46 Arizona 86. Kansas State 81 West Utah 109. Hawaii 67 Humboldt State 78, Southern Ore gon 65 Puget Sound 70. Western Wash. 63 ' NW Nazarene 109. Eastern Oregon 95 College of Idaho 74, Western Mon tana 56 , OREGON PREP RESULTS SOCE Frosh 63, Jacksonville 38 Oregon City 63. Oswego 39 : Knappa 62, Vernonia 37 FIGHTS By UNITED PRESS New York: Italo Scortichini. 154'i, Italy, outpointed Chico Varona. 153, Cuba (10). Brooklyn: Bobby Bell. 127 Vi, Youngstown, Ohio, outpointed Car- meio Costa. 129 la. Brooklyn (10). Tuesday, December 7. 1954 Chisox Get 6 Players v New Lork U.PJ Manager Marty Marion of the Chicago White Sox, joyful at obtaining six new players in two deals on the same day, said today he thinks the Sox will be a pen nant contender now because they have new slugging power. "Minnie Minoso couldn't do it all," explained Marion. "We had to have some more hitting pow er. . Marion, brand-new manager of the third-place Sox, was sup plied with these new players Monday as General Manager Frank Lane swung two major straight-player deals in eight hours at the major league meet ings here: First baseman Walt Dropo, outfielder Bob Nieman, and pit cher Ted Gray obtained from the Detroit Tigers in exchange for first baseman Ferris Fain, infielder Jack Phillips and pit cher Leo Cristante. Catcher Clint Courtney, in fielder Jim Brideweser, and pit cher Bob Chakeles obtained from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for pitchers Don John son and Don Ferrarese, catcher Matt Batts, and utility infielder Fred Marsh. Marion expained that Minoso was regarded as the only "long ball" hitting threat on the squad last season. He said that a team of "high average" but singles hitting players did well at home in big Comiskey park, but lost some key games in smaller parks for want of a coupfe of home run belters. ball were indicated as the major items on the agenda of the con ference s winter meeting here Prof. Everest said all of yes terday was spent considering the possible television policy cnanges. The only action taken by ath letic directors and faculty rep resentatives was to combine the radio and television committees int.o one committee made up of four athletic directors and one faculty representative, their names to be announced later. -Track at Portland The conference voted to hold its annual track meet at Port land, Ore., with the University of Oregon as host, May 27-28, 1955. The annual PCC Big Ten track meet tentatively was set for Tuesday following the NCAA track meet in Los Ange les. The date has not been set. The inter-conference meet will be at Brkeley, Calif., with the University of California as the host school. Two football games slated to be played during daylight hours in 1955, the Oregon-Washington game Oct. l,at Portland and the California-Oregon game Oct. 15 at Portland, were rescheduled as night games. : - The conf ereice ' considered a series of petitions by athletes to be granted additional eligibility. Denied More Time Among these, Charles Butt, California shotput champion, was denied further competition on grounds he had competed for the junior varsity against junior colleges. Gary Mark, Oregon basketball player, was denied further eligi bility for having competed at Santa Ana, Calif., in football, as well as on a church basketball team. Small Fish Will Go To College . Portland Approximately 1, 000 spring chinook salmon fin gerlings from an Oregon fish commission hatchery on the Wil lamette river system will "go to college" this winter. Contrary to the claims of ang lers, fish really haven't become that intelligent yet. These fish will be used in pollution experi ments at Oregon state college ac cording to State Fisheries Direc tor M. T. Hoy. In a letter last week to Irvine French, director of fish culture for the commission, R. E. Dim ick, head of the fish and game management department at OSC, explained the tests. Dimick said the experiments will be conduct ed to try and determine whether chinook salmon fingerlings are attracted to or avoid, pulp and paper mill wastes. The fish will be tested in groups of 200 each over the next two months. You'll Always Find O Reliability O Uniformity O Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX CONCRETE Tru-Mix Concrete Co. FAST, PROMPT DELIVERY McAndrewt Road r Phone 2-5271 i mm wmxszzxm GOLLY, HE'S DETERMINED Pierre Langlois of France, really gets down to serious business in San Francisco as he starts training for Dec 15 title fight with Carl (Bobo) Olson. Medfo: SEPCDLBTTS LaSalle Ranked Top Team; Oregon State Picked 1 7th New York (U.R) LaSalle, the defending NCAA champion, re ceived 28 of a possible 35 first place votes today to top the first 1954-55 weekly college basket ball ratings of the United Press' Board of Coaches by a wide margin. With the voting based on games played through Saturday night. Coach Ken Loefflers La Salle team collected 322 of a possible 350 points. LaSalle won its first two starts, including an New York -(U.R)- dregon State's Beavers are the only Northern Division basketball learn ranked in the top 20 in this week's United Press col lege basketball ' ratings. The Beavers are in 17th place, tied with Oklahoma A and M. . UCLA ranks ninth. South ern California 15th and Cal ifornia 21st. Washington is the only other Pacific Northwest team mentioned, getting two votes out of a possible 350. 85-71, Sunday night triumph over Loyola of New Orleans that did not show on the scoreboard in time to affect the balloting. Iowa, which also won its first two starts, did not receive any first place votes but was sup ported heavily with second and third-place votes and placed sec ond with 190 points. Duquesne and Kentucky were tied for third with 160 points each and Indiana was close be hind with 150. Duquesne and Kentucky each received one first-place vote while Indiana drew two. Pre-Season Ranking LaSalle, Iowa, Duquesne and Indiana were ranked 1-2-3-4 by the 35 .leading- coaches who Harlem Clowns -Play at Ashland Ashland The Harlem Clowns, a barnstorming basketball team will play here on Wednesday, December .15. Exponents of the. razzle-daz-zzle-pass-fun show type of the maplecourt sport, the Clowns will be opposed by the Ashland National Guard all-Stars. Ash land Junior Chamber of Com merce will be sponsor of the presentation. The barnstorming club is man aged by Al (Runt) Pullins, one of the most amazing athletes in the country. He's still playing after 27 years of basketball and is sometimes called the "Satchel Paige" of his adopted sport. . Pullins played for the Harlem Globetrotters in their early years and in one season made Robert Ripley's "Believe It or Not" feature by making ,2,582 points in 141 games. He hit 77 points in one game. In 1934 1935, Pullins, a mighty mite on the maple floor, left the Trot ters to organize his own club. He lets his taller and younger hirelings do most of the work now but occasionally plays and continues to amaze the fans. K IBUrfE make up the board in their pre season ratings for the campaign, Coach Adolph Rupp's Ken tucky club was ranked fifth in the- pre-season balloting but moved up because of its 74-58 opening game victory over Loui siana State. Illinois, ranked 15th in the pre-season voting, made the big gest advance. The Big Ten team received one first-place vote and jumped to sixth with 108 pohjts after its impressive, 77-49 triumph over Missouri, North Carolina State, rated seventh before the campaign be gan, remained in that spot with 102 points. Holy Cross, last spring's National Invitation champion, was eighth with 100 points. UCLA moved from. 12th to ninth with 73 points placed 10th with 67. Niagara The other two first-place votes went to St. Louis and California St. Louis was tied with Utah for 1th place with 41 points each, while California as '21s.t with 16 Great SEAGRAM-DISTILLERS COMPANY, NEW YTJ8K CITY. BLENDED Missouri Upsets Indiana, 64-61 By JOHN GRIFFIN Credit Missouri's defensive- minded Tigers with the first ma jor upset of the college basket ball season a 64-61 triumph over Indiana on the Hoosiers' home court. Indiana, currently ' ranked fifth in the nation by the United Press Board of Coaches and an easy winner of its only previous game, seemed on the way to the expected "victory as it took a 35-32 half time lead and increas ed it to 53-47 midway in the second half. But right there the Hoosiers ran smack into a roadblock thrown up by Tiger Coach Sparky Stalcup. The Hoosiers were kept outside, and their outside shots missed. Indiana had only five second half bas kets. Missouri went on a scor ing spree to take the lead and never lost it. Hoosier All-Amer- ican center Don Schlundt took scoring honors with 25 points. Three other highly ranked teams second-ranked Iowa, third-ranked Duquesne, and 13th-ranked Utah came through with expected triumphs. Hawkeyes Win Third Iowa, favored to succeed In diana as Big Ten champion this season, racked up its third vic tory in easy fashion, 84-61, over Nebraska and ran its home non- conference winning streak to 34 Gridder's Death Not Caused by Injury in Game Washington (U.R) Dave Sparks, Washington , Redskins lineman, died of a heart attack that could not be attributed to any football injury, the coroner reported Monday. : Dr. W. C. Welburn, the cor oner who performed the autopsy said there were indications that the youth suffered "severe heart damage during a period about 24 hours before the game." "There's no way of explaining it," Dr. Welburn said. "These things happen more frequently than people realize and there is not way of predicting it. Sparks died following the Redskins game with the Cleve land Browns. Washington (U.R) The sad dened Washington Redskins foot ball squad met at Griffith stad ium today to pick six pallbear ers for the funeral of teammate Dave Sparks, 26-year-old line man who died Sunday. night of a heart attack., ; Sparks will be buried Thurs day morning in his home town of Lorrain, Ohio. Accompanying the six' players and representing the coaching staff will be As sistant Coach-Mike Nixon. Duames People and time make a name great. And no whiskey has ever achieved the esteem of so many millions for so long a time as Seagram's 7 Crown.. That is why anytime you serve the whiskey with this great name, you're sure to please anyone . . . anywhere! games. The Hawkeyes took a 43 27 half time : lead and coasted home to spoil Nebraska's home debut under new Coach Gerry Bush. Bill Logan and Deacon Davis of Iowa and Rex Ekwall of Nebraska each had 14 points. Duquesne - opened its season with an easy 72-52 conquest of Carnegie Tech " and got set for its first major showing in the Steel Bowl tournament this Fri day and Saturday. Utah, now rated as the title favorite in the Skyline confer ence, broke its field house scor ing record in walloping Hawaii university, 109-67, as Art Bunte sank 20 points. . Kansas Routs LSU Kansas showed that it will be a dangerous rival to Missouri in the Big Seven by displaying its strength in an 83-58 rout of Lou isiana state. The Jayhawks of Phog Allen rolled -op an early Don't let SWOGS Rob your home c 1. of Heat J Buy clean-burning , . . 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