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V V i V Kentuclq? Stuns LaSalle 63-54; Loyola Upsets Top-Ranked Mini By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer Coach Adolph Rupp said to day he still doesn't think his Kentucky Wildcats are the best college basketball team in the nation, but a lot of folks dis agreed with him in the wake of a stunning 63-54 victory over ' defending NCAA champion La Salle. The Wildcats' triumph Wednesday night" in the final round of their own holiday tournament at Lexington, Ky., came on the same night that Illinois, ranked No. 1 nationally, was upset, 72-66, by Loyola of the South. It was the second straight year Kentucky had won its own tour ney, the Wildcats' 30th straight win, and their 128th straight home court win. And it came rather easily after the Wildcats took a 15-point lead midway in the first half. But the wily Rupp insisted, "No, I don't think you could call us the best team in the .nation although we certainly have progressed much faster than I had anticipated. I re peat what I said before the sea son started we will be a much better ball club by the middle of January when we have a few more games under our belt," To Much For LaSalle The Wildcats' scoring punch was just too much for LaSalle. The. Explorers rallied gamely after trailing by 15 midway in the first half and trailed by only six, 34-28, at halftime. But, when Bill Evans and Bob Burrow boosted the Kentucky margin! to 10 points, LaSalle never threatened again. Evans and All America Tom Gola of LaSalle tied for scoring honors at 20 points each. Illinois ran afoul of a Loyola team stirred up by the death in an auto accident Wednesday of Bobby Hanburg, star Loyola More Fine Camera Features Than You'd Ever Expect For Only $95 k THl : 1 -a. 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Leading the way was Eddie Galvin, ; 6 foot, 6-inch center from Chicago, with 22 points. The Wolfpack broke the game's 12th tie, 54-54, with seven minutes left and led the rest of the way. Paul Jud son paced Illinois with 19 points. Frisco Takes All-College San Francisco bid lor national honors by winning the All-College tournament at Oklahoma City in impressive style, trounc- MedfomU!Tribune Mack Celebrates 92nd Birthday Fort Myers, Fla. U.R) Connie Mack celebrated a 'quiet 92nd birthday today unable for the . first time in 20 years to "look forward to just one more pennant." Baseball's "grand old man," new merely the honorary chair man of the Kansas City club's board of directors, instead looks forward to celebrating a 100th birthday. Connie is reported to be back in good health, after a recent illness but still sadden ed by the loss of the Athletic's Philadelphia' franchise. "I like to i take life easy," Mack said. "People these days are living too fast." Dead line Sunday Classified Is at noon Saturday ; 10 a.m. Monday for Monday: other days 5 JO oreviousday. WHISKY II PROOF CAILY TIMES DISTILLERY COMPANY ing George Washington, 73-57, in the final round. The Dons, who crushed Wichita and Oklahoma City , in early-round games, led almost all the way as Bill Rus sell set the pace with 23 points. Top scorer for George Washing ton, the reigning Southern Con ference champion was Corky Devlin with only 12 points. California whipped Ohio State, ranked seventh nationally, for the second time in two nights, 54-50. The lead changed hands 20 times in the wild bat tle. Robin Freeman, the nation's leading scorer, tallied 34 for Ohio State, but five points in the last two minutes by Mike Diaz gave California the nod. Baylor Bears Pack Punch On Offense u By ED FITE Waco, Tex. U.R) Win, lose or draw, Baylor should give Gator Bowl fans a fcrisp display of scoring wallop and fierce de fense when it meets Auburn in the Dec. 31 classic at Jackson ville, Fla. For, the team Coach George Sauer has been guiding along a winning path in its Southwest conference bailiwick packs an explosive offensive punch that can hit you with precision pass ing, speed and deception to the outside and - breakaway power up the middle. Selection of Bayor as an op ponent for Auburn's Plainsmen virtually assured Gator bowl spectators of a colorful, high geared battle with yardage ex pected to be a cheap commodity. The choice was greeted with much enthusiasm on the Baylor campus and dispelled the dis appointment which arose over the team's failure to bring Bay lor its first championship in three decades. The Bears lost three games the same as Auburn but two of them came in conference play to Cotton bowl bound Arkansas by a single point and to Rice in the season finale by a touch down. Making much use of the flank er version of the T-f ormation, Sauer's Baylor teams have scor ed in 50 straight games and av eraged three touchdowns per game while doing so. The team is blessed with depth and versatility in the backfield and was equally as well equip ped up front until Sauer dismiss ed two starting linemen, guard Dan Miller and center Jimmy Taylor, last week in a disciplin ary blow. Billy Hooper, the sweet sling- er from Sweetwater, Tex., home of another slinger named Sammy Baugh, led the conference in passing and on one of his "hot" days might be the difference between winning and losing. . New York (U.R) A total of 28,559,267 persons jammed through the turnstiles at the nation's race tracks in 1954 and bet $2,034,914,728 a United Press survey revealed today. It's the quality pf the whisky that keeps Early Time's on top- t . . FIRST FOR HOLIDAY SERVING . It's only natural during the holiday sea son for you to serve the one 86 proof straight bourbon that most people buy and enjoy all year long. Early Times is -bottled only at the peak of perfection , Truly, Every Ounce A Man's Whisky. Pjckin' Pears The other day a rangy, ath letic looking member came to the office to register as a voter. When Ray Williams, registrar, came to the question: "What is your occupation?" the reply was, professional baseball player. ; The man is Ira Townsend, who played professional baseball throughout the country for 11 years, starting in .1920. He was a rookie pitcher for the Boston National League team for two seasons and then went to To ronto of the International League. They ; call him "Tex" because he pitched most of his games with teams in Texas leagues. Townsend finished his career in baseball with the Piedmont league. He is proudest of one achievement, when he pitched his last game for a semi-pro team in Texas to win 4 to 2 at the age of 55. "I like it here at Camp White and I guess I'll stick around," he says. "Of course, I'd like to get a job somewhere but they are not taking us older men any more." Ira knew Satchel Paige, the hardy perennial of baseball, and when asked about his longevity in the game, he remarked: "The guy has a rubber arm." Another event In his career which he is proud to recall is the time he pitched for his team in the service in France with Presidents Wilson and Poincaire as spectators. Sgt. Frank White is a man who really knows baseball at Camp White. And he should be cause he tilaved and was ident ified with suqh teams as the Cleveland Indians, the Chicago White Sox. and Kansas City, Portland and San Antonio in the minors. And there is another reason. He comes from a baseball fam ly, with a brother who was a rpal notable the famous ,"Doc" White, pitcher of the old White Sox. "DoC vvnite was reauy a doctor of dentistry, having grad uated from Georgetown univer sity, in Washington, D.C. lie is now retired and living at San .Tnsp. Calif., his brother says. White is able to keep tne "nor stove" leaeue going with his familiaritv with tlavers, plays and --incidents of the game both nast. and nresent. He thinks tne trmihl with baseball today is the lack of inducements to young players to ioiiow uie nrofpssionallv. - "When they stop encouraging the young blood they may as Billies Clip Washington By UNITED PRESS The St. Louis Billikens were homeward bpund today with an even split in their two-game basketball series against the University of Washington Huskies. The- Billikens flashed a pre cision attack and a solid defense last night to down the Huskies 73-64. Washington had won the first game of the intersectional series Tuesday night 72-70. , Dick Boushka of St. Louis led all scorers with 26 points. Center Dean Parsons was high for Washington with 16. At Pullman, Washington State college made some sharp shoot ing from the foul line count in the final minutes to defeat Mon tana State University 72-63. j , The Cougars scored only, one more field goal than did MSU but they tossed in seven more free throws, six of them in the last five minutes of play, for the victory. Bill Rehder paced Washington State with 25 points., . LOUISVILLE 1 KENTUCKY well .quit baseball," he notes. Aside from pitching and play ing in the outfield White was a scout for Cleveland for several' years. Here is his all time team of greats, which he believes could beat any of the modern teams: Outfield, Jackson, Speaker an4 Cobb; infield, Sisler, 1st, Ger ringer, 2nd, Wagner, ss, and Traynor 3rd; Alexander, Walter Johnson, Rube Wad dell and Lefty Grove, pitchers, and Coch ran catcher, with Eddie Collins, utility infield. Other professionals from the baseball world have spent some time at Camp White. Leo' San terre is the player most frequent ly remembered. From his wheel chair he conducted the fruit and popcorn stand in the hallway and both passed from the scene at the same time. Leo was with Portland, Seattle and Los An geles in the Pacific Coast League. In addition there are a num ber of collegiate baseball stars around, including Assistant Manager R. H. Denning, who played with the University of Nebraska team, and Frank Glon ning, special services chief, who played with his college team in Minnesota and pitched on semi pro teams during the summer. J. C. Barry, a member, played at the University of Oregon and with several Portland city teams. At one time he was consider ing baseball as a career. He chose banking instead. Alexander Cowie, another member, was president of the old New England League and then went in business. Domicil iary Officer Ruffin, Postmaster Scarseth and other members of the personnel spent considerable time at the game in their young er days. Duck Quintet 86-74 Loser To Detroit Detroit U.R)-p- The Univer sity of Oregon's basketball team headed home for Christmas to day, with three defeats and a lot of valuable experience be hind it after an all-losing tour of the Midwest. - Oregon dropped one-sided de cisions to Louisville and Dayton and lost last night to Detroit, 86-74.' The Webfoots looked sharper last night in the first half and were ahead 36-35 at the mid point. But in the second half Detroit Forward Guy Sparrow got hot and the host team went ahead decisively. Jim Loscutoff was the only Oregon player able to hit the hoop constantly. He .came through with 27 points on 10 field goals and seven . free throws, but lost high point hon ors to Sparrow whot hit 30. Phil McHugh hit nine, Ed Bingham eight, and Dick James, Ray Bell, Max Anderson and Bill Moore contributed six each for the Ducks. BASKETBALL WEDNESDAY COLLEGE SCORES East Fordham 61. St. Joseph's (Pa.) 52 South Loyola (La.) 72. Illinois 66 (Kentucky Invitational) Championship Kentucky 63. LaSalle 54 ' (Consolation) Southern California 54, Utah 52 (QuanOco Tourney) Consolation Belmont 70, Farl.-Dickenson 68 Wabash 77. Buffalo 61 Springfield 74. American U. 72 Midwest Bradley 82. Southern Methodist 73 Butler 83. Northwestern 62 DePaul 76. Michigan State 75 Detroit 86. Oregon 74 Loyola (111.) 81. S. Dak. Stat 73 Southwest Texas Christian 97. Austin CoL 63 (All College Tourney) Championship San Francisco 73, Geo. Wash. 57 Consolation Houston 57. Oklahoma A & M 48 . Wichita 82, Wyoming 74 Oklahoma City 73, Tulsa 68 West Brigham Young 70. Michigan 69 UCLA 106. New Mexico 41 St. Louis 73. Wash. (Seattle) 64 Washington State 72. Montana 63 California 54. Ohio State 50 Central Wash. 68. Western Wash. 61 Olympia JC 71. Washington JVs 48 High School Scores WEDNESDAY GAMES Marshfield 50. Bandon 40 North Bend 71, Beaverton 64 Milwaukie 50, Jefferson 37 Central Catholic 55. Washington 48 Seaside 50. Tillamook 43 (overtime) Battle Ground, (Wash.) 51. Grant 50 Gold Beach 46. Brookings 37 Brownsville 62, Monroe 39 Condon 58. Kt Morv'. ITh. Thltul Dead line Sunday Classified ! at noon Saturday : 10 ajn. Monday for Monday: other days 5:30 nreviouaday & AMERICA'S LOWEST PRICED STATION WAGON ' Available in 2 or 4 Doer Models SEE THEM NOW AT Medford Hudson, Inc. NEW HUDSON DEALER FRONT & JACKSON , Phone 26281 3 Thursday. December 23, 1954 ToronasSo Medford high's Black Tornado will put a well-balanced score making crew, on the court to night when it engages the Rose burg Indians here tonight in the sixth combat of the pre-confer-ence basketball season. Figures for the first five games show all of the regular starters making a good contribution to Medford point totals. Jerry Kal apus, lengthy non-letterman on the quint, so far is scoring lead er with 68 tallies. Larry, Copple is right on his heels with. 63. Frank Rector has 47, tall Glenn Peterson 43 and Everett Kastner 33. Copple is the only Tornado to have scored in two figures in every game. Kalapus has done it in four and Rector in three. Other point-making for the Black Tornado this season is John Foust 12, Bill Cochran 11, Lloyd Cearley 6, Ed McCullough 4, Bob Tisdel and Ed Reinking each 3 and Warren Deakins 1. Medford will rule the favorite over the Indians here tonight on the basis of previous contests. The Tornado goes into the. tussle with a record of four wins in its first five encounters while the Indians have counted only one victory in five games. However, this could be the night the In dians hit their stride and the Tornado is not looking for any push-over. Taking Time , ' Medford holds a 59 to 56 de cision over North Bend which pasted the Roseburg quint 66 to 31. North Bend also bounced I " 1 I I I 1 ' ft Ks-tf-- I t Cottage Grove which the Indians nicked 42 to 41. Roseburg counts three varsity returnees in Nub Beamer, How ard Backen and Dick Roberts. Under new head coach Bill Har per, the Indians are expected to require time to adjust to new plays, yet good progress through the season is anticipated. The club has average height of 5 feet 11 inches and has medium bal ance. Outlook for the full season is not overly bright because1 of the lack of real height and of ex perience. - . Likely Indian starting five is Duke Snider I nks Pact for $30,000 Brooklyn, N.Y. (U.R) Duke Snider finished third to Willie Mays in the National league batting race but the Brooklyn Dodgers' center fielder topped the New York Giants' star today in the "Lary League." ' For .while Mays signed for an estimated $25,000, Snider agreed to a new pact with the Dodgers calling for $30,000. He is the fourth Brooklyn player to come to terms. Snider hit .341 last season. In i Cincinnati, meanwhile, Gabe Paul signed a new four-year-contract as general man ager of the Redlegs. 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