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Newspaper Page Textv iff' k 'yJt&rk ''Aw j ADVANCING Bn for crack at title, Rudy Garcia (left), Los Angeles, stops Gene Smith, Washington, early In sixth round of ; Brooklyn fight. Here he has right cocked as Smith steps Inside left during third round of featherweight bout. (International) Scoring Diadem At Stake In Browns-Lions Pro Mix By EARL WRIGHT r Uniled Press Sports Edilor The defensive unit gets most of the credit for the surge of .'the Cleveland Browns to the Na tional Football League's Eastern title but the offensive unit 'isn't exactly helpless. . The Browns have allowed few- : r points than any other NFL club, 148. But they also have ."cored, the most; 326. The Detroit Lions are close behind with 323. When the Lions and Browns play off their post poned Oct. 3 game Sunday, the winner will wind up with scor ing honors for the 1954 cam paign. Cleveland's defensive unit has set up numerous scoring op portunities for the offensive team by intercepting passes or recovering fumbles. But the offensive team has been able to score frequently from inside the opposition 20- yard line something the Browns were not able to do on many occasions in 1952 and 1953. Lou Groza's field goal produc tion is the best gauge of the ef fectiveness of the offensive team that will try to score against Detroit's strong defensive unit in the Dec. , 26 ' championship game. , Groza kicks field goals when Trabert, Seixas Cop Zone Tussles Brisbane, Australia U.R) The United States Davis Cup tennis team rose to the challenge of a strong Swedish squad and stormed to a 2-0 lead in the inter zone finals today on a straight set sweep by Tony Trabert and and a gruelling five-set victory by Vic Seixas. Capture of both of the open ing day matches virtually lock ed up the series for the favored Americans, who now need win only Friday's doubles match or one of Saturday s two smgles matches to earn the right to meet Australia, the present cup holder, in the challenge round at Sydney, Dec. 27-29. - .Trabert, former U." S. cham pion from Cincinnati,, needed only 75 minutes to blast his way through dangerous ' Sven Davidson, 6-4, 6-3, 6-4. Seixas, present U. S. cham pion from Philadelphia, battled through a 50-game match to down Sweden's veteran Lennart Bergelin 5-7, 6-2, 6-4, 5-7, 6-2. You'll enioy with CHATEAUX VODKA I S7 The fast right ingredient to make o good martini perfect ... to bring out the best in fruit juices or soft drinks .". . with a subtle distinction you'll enjoy again and again. s BULLED flOK 119 GEAIN HEUTSAl SMUTS I8E CIEAI SMUGS DlSIIlimS COWAHT UEUOXT, KENTUCKY the offensive unit bogs down and last year he booted 23 ' an all-time NFL season record. This year he has kicked only 15 with one regular season game to go and his field goals provid ed the victory margin only in the hard-earned, 6-0 triumph over Philadelphia. Cleveland has allowed slight ly more than 13 points per game so far. Since it took a 55-27 wal loping from Pittsburgh, the team has allowed only 58 points in winning eight games, slightly more than seven per rival. De troit won the tough Western Division title for the - third straight time by allowing 179 points, an average of 16.3. " With the other 10 clubs fin ished for the season, the Lions and Browns will play at Cleve land the next two Sundays be fore nationwide TV audiences. This Sunday the Browns, - (9-2) are favored over the Lions (8-2-1) at Cleveland." - Penalties Don't Keep Clubs From Winning Tangles New York (U.R) Penalties dcn't keep football teams, from winning and recovering fumbles doesn't keep them from losing, miscellaneous statistics compiled by the NCAA' Service Bureau showed today. . Notre Dame, which won nine of 10 games, lost most yardage by penalties and gained les3 than any team but Colgate by .oppon ents' penalties. " Pennsylvania, which lost all .nine games, bener f ited most from penalties against its foes. " And Holy Cross, which won only, two games, recovered most enemy fumbles. ' 87 Per Game ' . The Irish were set back an average of 87 yards a game for infractions, their opponents 29.5, a net loss of 57.5. yards a game. On total yardage, Notre Dame was penalized 870 yards, Wichita 831 and Texas Tech 812. Wichita was penalized most often, 88 times to Notre Dame's 85 and Texas Tech's 82. Wichita and .Texas Tech had highly success ful seasons too. ,"';".-.. As for Pennsylvania, even a gain of 75.1 yards a game on pen alties didn't help. But the referees, didn't travel far against Rutgers, -Harvard and Utah. Rutgers had fewest penalties called . against ' it, 26. Harvard lost least actual yard age, 220 in eight games, and Utah least per game, 23.3 in 11 games. , . " ' ; -. Holy Cross grabbed 32 enemy bobbles, tying the all-time rec ord set last year by Texas Tech. The Crusader opponents fum bled 48 times, and only South ern California was given more cracks at a loose ball, 50. Navy War . College Gets Rare Collection - Newport, R.I. (U.R) A rare collection of 200 volumes on significant explorations and vovagps durinz the last 400 years has been presented to the Naval War college. The collection comprising the first and second series of the Hakluyt Society publications was donated to the War col lege by Dr. A. Hamilton Rice of Newport. 1 The Hakluyt Society was or ganized in 1846 for the purpose of publishing rare volumes on voyages, travels and geographic records. It publishes one volume a year. Nature's Therapy Said Better lhan Creams Sugar Hill, N.H. (U.R) The Cosmetologists of America, experts on beauty culture, got an earful from Gov. Hugb Gregg here. "There is no need for science's new odorless, greaseless creams which act in new ways to bring new kinds of relief for the min or pains of arthritis, rheumatism and muscular aches," he said. "Whether you are emotionally upset, or just physically or men tally deficient, the place to ig nore' your cares is in the air conditioned scenic splendor of New Hampshire where over half a million of us thrive on nature's therapy." MedforihTribuice Bowl Rule Prevents Dream Game; Bruins Gain All Top Honors By STEVE SNIDER United Preu Sports Writer New York U.R) ' UCLA's single wing fury captured all the top collegiate football honors this season except a richly de served date in the Rose Bowl against Ohio State. Unbeaten in nine games, the mighty Bruins swept their con ference and the national cham pionship and their coach, Henry (Red) Sanders, was elected by his fellow mentors as : 1954's "Coach of the year." But a clause in the Rose Bowl agreement prevented UCLA from returning to the bowl aft er last year's unsuccessful stand against Michigan State and thereby was blasted the "dream game" of the year between the nation's No. 1 and No. 2 power houses. UCLA reached the top by a mere seven points over, Ohio State in the final ratings by the United Press board of coaches. Ohio State (9-0) made the big bowl as Big 10 representative but instead of UCLA the Buck eyes will be playing Southern California, a second place team in the Pacific Coast Conference that blew down before UCLA 34 to 0. Bud Scores Again Oklahoma, unbeaten in . 10 games and Big Seven champion for the eighth straight time in Bud Wilkinson's eighth season as coach, also was shut out of a bowl game on a ."no-repeat" rule. Nebraska, thrice beaten runnerup to Oklahoma, got the Orange Bowl bid ; over the Sooners. The Cornhuskers meet Duke on New Year' Day. - Arkansas was the Cinderella team of the year, making it into the Cotton Bowl against Georgia Tech on a wave of upsets with a team regarded as still in the rebuilding stage. Individual star of 1954 was Alan (Th,e Horse) Ameche of Wisconsin, who com pleted his fourth varsity season with an all time ball carrying career record of 3212 yards. Ameche : won v"the Heisman Trophy and was named Player of the Year by the United Press. Only three teams UCLA, Ohio State, and Oklahoma sur vived through. a .list, of major foes with an unbeaten record and thev were ranked just that way in the final ratings of the United Press board of coaches. Irish Fourth Notre Dame, beaten only once in its first season under youthful Coach Terry Brennan was ranked fourth followed in order by Navy, Mississippi, Olson Hit Solidly More Often Than In Past Scraps By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) Is Bobo Olson, the middleweight champion, growing complacent? This was the question around ringside last night during his winnine battle with' challenger Pierre Langlois. The question arose when Ol son, who used to be a picture of the careful man in the ring, receipted for a-flock of solid smashes on the chm from lang lois. .,.. Without taking any credit away from the Frenchman, it must be pointed out that the champion was nailed solidly more often than in any fight in his career including tne losmg bouts he had with Sugar Ray Robinson. Takes Blows - The difference was that Lang lois just doesn't punch that hard. Where .Olson used to weave and bob all the time, twisting his shoulders and shifting nis feet, last night he often stood flat-footed and just took the blows without batting an eye. However, on occasion he was his old self especially after he had been clobbered a couple of times. Once, in. the eighth round, Lanelois connected solidlv. Bobo came tearing out like an enraged lion and he looked like tne champion of old. He pumped rights and lefts into Langlois' head and body until he was arm weary. The Frenchman, who had been knocked out only twice in his life before the fight last night, withstood the battering but he came un bleedin? from the nose, mouth and eye. Army, Arkansas, Miami and Wisconsin.'. While the Rose . Bowl and Orange. Bowl had to settle for at least one runnerup instead of a champion, the Sugar Bowl exe cuted the year's best coup by luring Navy into the New Year's Day show at New Or leans against Mississippi's South eastern Conference kings. -Navy,' surprised by Pittsburgh in a two point loss and beaten by Notre Dame' by a touchdown in the nfud, whacked Army in the service classic, 27 to 20, and promptly voted to accept the Sugar Bowl bid. The victory over Army also wrapped up the Lambert Trophy, emblematic of Eastern football supremacy. Yale and late-blooming Cor nell tied for the Ivy League title but that was , little solace for Yale, which lost to Harvard and Princeton. Harvard won the ancient Big Three title by down ing both Yale and Princeton. ' Duke, losing only to Army and Navy and tying Purdue, won the Atlantic Coast Confer ence crown when Maryland was tied in an "upset" by Wake For est. Thus Duke earned the Orange Bowl bid against Ne braska. Mississippi was unbeaten against its natural rivals in the Southeastern Conference but it was determined that Mississip pi's game against Arkansas of the Southwest Conference would count in the Southeastern standings in order to give Ole Miss enough "conference" games to be eligible for a bowl bid. Ar kansas won 6 to 0 but Mississippi still carried off the crown from twice-beaten Georgia Tech. Georgia Tech, its offense re jiggered after the mid-year sus pension of star halfback Billy Teas, accepted a Cotton Bowl bid from Arkansas, champion of Southwest. Southern Methodist, only conference team to defeat Arkansas, was tied by pre-sea-son favorite Texas and thereby lost a chance for the Cotton Bowl role. Baylor, tied for third, accepted an invitation to play Auburn of the Southeastern Con ference in the Gator Bowl game. West Virginia, led by Freddy Wyant, won the Southern Con ference championship, Wichita came through surprisingly in the Missouri Valley with Texas Tech winning the Border Con ference, Denver in the Skyline and Montana State in the Rocky Mountain. In total offense for the year, high geared Army led the na tion, followed by Texas Tech, Arizona, Navy, Mississippi and Notre Dame. Purdue, led by Len Dawson, and California, with Paulson pitching, ran one-two in passing, followed by Oregon, Mississippi, Notre Dame and Dartmouth. In total defense, Mississippi wound up as national leader with Richmond, Clemson, Bos ton College and Oklahoma com pleting the first five. UCLA led in rushing defense and Alabama topped them all in pass defense. Patera To Play In Hawaii Bowl Honolulu (U.R) All-Coast grid star Jack Patera of the University of Oregon and Ail American Jack Ellena of UCLA will be in the lineup for the rnllece all-stars in the ninth an nual Hula Bowl here Jan. 9. The Hawaii All-Star team will include Quarterback Otto Gra ham and Tackle Lou Groza of the Cleveland Browns. TOUGH TEST Portland (U.R) Pat McMur try, the young Tacoma Irishman rated as the Pacific Northwest's leading heavyweight boxing con tender, gets one of the toughest tests of his young career tonight against Kirby Seals of San Diego. FURGOL HEADS FIELD - Havana, Cuba (U.R) U. S. Open champion Ed Furgol of St. Louis and little Bob Toski of Livingston, N. J., headed a star field of American professionals teeing off today in the first round of the seventh annual '$12,500 Havana Open golf tournament. WEISER SERVICES HELD Beatty, Ore. (U.R) Funeral seryices were held here yester day for Ralph Weiser, 26-year-old fighter, who died early last Saturday of a brain hemorrhage after being knocked out in a fight Friday night. " CHRISTMAS SPECIALS JACK ARNOLD'S Chevron Station 701 West 6th St. Phone 3-9032 O Car Lubrieation$1.00 O Car Wash 1$1.00 O Tire Repair " .75 Free Pick-up and Delivery After 2 P.M. Prices Coed . '(j from Saturday to Dee. 25rii Thursday. December I6 1954 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE KLEVElf TIME TO RETIRE? Former baseball great of the Phila delphia Athletics, Sain Chap man, shown on his job as a new car salesman in San Francisco, is not sure he'll re join the Oakland Oaks in 1955. He contends he just can't play forever. Andy's, EP Have Friday Scramble MIBL STANDINGS Yellow Cab Andy's Jewelers YMCA Skinner's Buick Campus Five .. W. 3 , 2 . 2 . 1 ; 1 Company A (NG) . 1 Headquarters Co. (NG) - 1 Hawkinson Tires 1 Burelson's (CP) 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 Pet. 1.000 1.000 .667 500 , .500 500 500 .333 .000 . .000 .000 Sacred Heart Church Eagle Point ... Pre-Christmas schedule of the Medford Independent Basketball League concludes. Friday when Andy's Jewelers . scuffle Eagle Point at Eagle Point. : The "Jewelers, defending champs, will aim to keep their current season record unblem ished. It will be their third con test. Eagle Point wilr see its first loop action. Only other game on the docket before the first of the year will be on December 29 with Skin ner's Buick at Eagle Point. That fracas was moved ahead from a January 'date. A game between Skinner's and Prospect, post poned last week, has been set for January 17 at Prospect. NCAA To Seek New Look in TV Kansas City. Mo. (U.PJ The National Collegiate Athletic as sociation will Drooose - a new look" ' in the televising of "'col-1 lege xootoau games in 1955 when it convenes in New. York next month. Most of the five proposals un der study involve liberalization of restrictions on telecasts and more regionaizatlon. ' During the 1953 and 1954 sea son, when the NCAA allowed only one game to be telecast nationwide each, week, ' with re gional telecasts generally ban ned, criticism waff heard both from the schools involved and from football fans. One of the five proposals to be studied at the Jan. 5-7 New York meeting follows closely the regional plan advanced by the Big Ten Conference add the Pacific Coast conference. Would Regional! The second would regionalize Saturday telecasts undcrr NCAA supervision, possibly limiting a school to one TV appearance at home and one Way within the region. t Another proposal would be a "one rule" system, permitting any Institution to televise one of its home games and appear on TV in one game ' away from home, with only one of the games to be carried on a net work. .. A fourth proposal would per mit regional telecasting, but no televising across traditional re gional lines. The fifth plan would remove all restrictions on telecasting. OSC Grid Coach Won't Be Named Until After NCAA Meet in January; Corvallis -(l.R)-- A successor to Kip Taylor as head football coach at Oregon State College will not be named until after the NCAA meeting in New York next month, Athletic Director Spec Keene said today. - Keene returned from a visit to California and said "I talked with a lot of people. . . I always do, for I have friends every where." But he did not give de tails of any possible coaching ap plicants he might have met Dead line Sunday Classified f at noon Saturday ; 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 previous day. Shaw To Coach Former Players In Star Scuffle Los Angeles (U.R) Coach Buck Shaw, fired from the San Francisco Forty Niners for fail ing to produce a championship team, will coach seven of his for mer players in the fifth annual Pro Bowl football game here Jan. 16. The' seven Forty Niners were among 29 players named yester day to play on the Western Con ference team. Shaw was picked to. coach the Western team after George Halas of the Chicago Bears declined because of health reasons. Heading the Western squad were Ram quarterback Norm Van Brocklin, the leading pass er in the National Football League, Sari Francisco's Y. A. Tittle and the Fort Niners Joe Perry, the NFL's top runner.. The squad was selected by sports writers and fans who bal loted on their favorites for the game. The Western squad: Ends Harlon Hill. Bears; Billy Wil son, 49ers. Gino Marchetti, Colts; Ed Sprinkle, Bears; . Bob Boyd. Rams. Tackles Lou Creekmur. Lions: Bill Bishop, Bears; Art Donovan. Colts; Al Caparella, 49ers; Dave H a n n e r. Packers. . - . - Guards Bill George. ' Bears: Duane Putnam, Rams; Bruno Banducci. 49ers. Linebackers J o e Schmidt. Lions; Roger Zatkoff, Packers; Laverne Tor geson, Lions; Les Richter. Rams. Center Leon McLaughlin, Rams. Quarterbacks Van Brocklin. Rams, and TitUe, 49ers. Halfbacks Jack Christiansen. Lions; Jim Cason. 49ers; Skeet Quinlan, Rams; John Henry Johnson, 49ers; Jim David. Lions; Buddy "-Young. Colts; Doak Walter, lions. Fullback s Chic Jagade, Bears, and Perry. 49ers. Beavers Going To San Francisco Corvallis (U.R) A 12-man Oregon State basketball squad leaves here by train tonight for San Francisco and a two-game weekend appearance. The Bea vers meet San Francisco U. Fri day night and Santa Clara Satur day night. . Coach Slats Gill said Sopho more Bob Allord of Areata, Calif., might crack the starting lineup at a forward spot. He would team with Jay Dean, Tony Vlastelica, Ron Robins and Reg gie Halligan. , ' Amity, Ore. 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