SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Sports World
With Optimism for 1955
By LEO H. PETERSON
United Press Sports Editor
New York (U.PJ Sborts en
joyed another successful year
In 1954. Business boomed at
the box office and for sheer
drama in the playing fields there
re few years to equal the one
Just passed.
And far 1955, the sports world
looked ahead optimistically.
Only minor league baseball
appeared headed for trouble,
Kut that Jo Tinthinir new for the
situation with the minors has
grown worse every year since
into.
Except for thee minors, all
other sports enjoyed banner sea
eons. There was nothing to ap
proach the boom years right aft
er the war, but attendance and
box office receipts generally
were higher than in 1953.
Athletes Supply Drama
But far overshadowing the
brisk business at the turnstiles,
was the drama supplied by the
athletes themselves.
And topping that department
was one of the greatest feats in
sports history the first mile
run under four minutes. Roger
Bannister, a tall, thin English
doctor, became the first human
to accomplish man's dream on
May 6 when on the rain-soaked
track at Oxford he ran the dis
tance in 3:59.4.
But that mark was not- to
stand long, because before the
war was out the four minute
"barrier had been cracked three
more times, with John Landy,
of Australia, turning in the best
MIBL Resumes Actiyity Tonight;
11 Games in 4 Days During Week
MIBL STANDINGS
W l Pet.
Yellow Cab
..3 0 1.000
Andy's Jewelers
YMCA -
3 0 1.000
2 1 .667
1 1 .500
1 1 .500
1 1 .500
Skinner's Buick
Campus Five
Company A (NO)
Headouarters Co. (NG) - 1 1 .500
Hawkinson Tires 1 2 .333
Burelson s (CP) 0 3 .000
Sacred Heart Church 0 2 .000
Eagle Point 0 1 .000
Contention in the Medford
Independent Basketball league
will be full blast again this week
with 11 conflicts in four nights.
Three tangles are set for this
evening, two on Tuesday, three
on Wednesday and three again
cn Thursday. Most of the action
will be at0Medford junior high.
Sacred Heart and Andy's Jew
eler's get the competition mov
ing with a 7 o'clock game to
night while the YMCA follows
against Hawkinson Tires at 8:30
o'clock at the junior high. Bur
elson's goes to Prospect for 8
p.m. battling.
Tuesday s encounters are both
here on. the Medford court with
Rogue River
Phoenix Host
On Tuesday
Phoenix and Rogue River will
start off the new year in bas
ketball for high schools in this
area and the first week of 1955
will be highlighted by the open
ing sessions in two prep confer
ences. The Pirates of Phoenix jour
ney to Rogue River for non-conference
contention on Tuesday
and the two clubs clash again
at Phoenix on Saturday.
Friday is the opening night
for the Southern Oregon con
ference and the Jackson County
B league. In the Southern Ore
gon Medford will be host to
Grants Pass and Klamath Falls
will be at Ashland. B league
scuffles match Talent at Jack
sonville, Rogue River at Pros
pect and Butte Falls at St.
Mary's in Medford.
Medford will go to Grants
Pass on Saturday night while
Klamath has another tangle at
Ashland. In a non-loop test Tal
ent travels to Eagle Point on
Saturday to try for a second win
of the season over the Eagles.
Medford junior high ninth
grade goes into action on Fri
day against the Crater freshmen
at Central Point.
Play in one other prep con
ference, the Rogue league, won't
start until January 14.
Gil Turner Meets
Italo Scortichini
New York (U.R) Can Joe
Louis help Gil Turner again to
night? The odds-makers say he can't.
And they've tabbed middle
weight Turner of Philadelphia
a 13-5 underdog for his televis
ion fight with slick, quick Italo
Scortichini of Italy at St. Nich
olas arena.
Turner, 24, has been getting
instructions and inspiration
from ex-heavyweight champion
Bomber Joe. He has been taking
an in-person Louis course some
what similar to the one that
helped light heavyweight con
tender Paul Andrews belt out
top-rated Boardwalk Billy Smith
at Miami last Wednesday night.
Tonight's fight will be the
second for Turner under Jolting
Joe's tutelage. On Nov. 24, Gil
stopped F,ay Drake of New York
in the ninth round at Brooklyn's
Eastern Parkway arena. And he
said Louis was largely respon
sible for his victory.
Looks Ahead
time, 3:58.0 at Turku, Finland,
on June 21. Then in the "Mile
of the Century" in the British
Empire games at Vancouver on
Aug. 7, both Bannister and
Landy performed the feat again.
With more persons than ever
before watching a foot race, be
cause it was televised through
out, the United States and
Canada, Bannister forged to the
front on the last half lap and
won by four vards in 3:58.6.
Landy was timed in 3:59.6.
Other Dramatic Moments
There were many other dra
matic moments in the sports
world in 1954. Ed Furgol, with
a withered left arm, won the
U. S. Open; Mrs. Babe Didrick
son Zaharias, one year after un
dergoing a cancer operation
which threatened to end her
career, won the U. S. Women's
Open; Determine became the
first gray ever to win the Ken
tucky Derby.
Willie Mays made one oj the
most sensational catches in
World Series history in the first
game as the Cinderella New
York Giants swept tte Cleve
land Indians in four straight.
Rocky Marciano proved he
belonged among the great heavy
weight champions by defeating
Ezzard Charles twice, the first
time by a decision in a bout
which had the fans cheering
wildly as for a time it looked
like the Cincinnati Negro would
upset the Brockton block-buster;
and there were the. tennis tri
umphs" of Jaroslov Drobny, Vic
Seixas and Doris Hart.
Yellow Cab against Sacred
Heart at 7 p.m. and the Campus
Five against Headquarters com
pany of the National Guard at
8:30 p.m.
Wednesday Burelson's takes
on Company A of the National
Guard at 7 p.m. and Skinner's
Buick meets Andy's in the fol
lower here. Hawkinson's will go
to Prospect that night.
The Cabbies tackle Headquar
ters company in the early game
Thursday on the Medford floor
and Campus Five completes the
evening against Company A.
Eagle Point goes to -Prospect.
Andy's arid Yellow Cab are
current loop leaders with three
wins and no losses each.
Don Bailey
Has Pro Ball
Aspirations
San Francisco U.R) Don
Bailey, the understudy who be
came the star of the East's 13-12
victory over the West, said to
day he would like to play pro
fessional football "if anybody
willhave me."
The 178-pound Penn State
quarterback, voted the most out
standing player in the Shrine
classic Saturday, should have
little worry about being over
looked by the pros.
Professional scouts unani
mously hailed Bailey as the star
of the game.
These included Clark Shaugh
nessy of the Chicago Bears, Red
Strader and Frankie Albert of
the San Francisco Forty Niners
and Dick Gallagher of the Cleve
land Browns.
Others Praised
And coach Chuck Taylor of
Stanford, an advisory coach for
the West, said "Bailey was pri
marily a faster quarterback,, and
that speed in getting the ball
away, his snap, got the jump on
the West."
Although the lion's share of
the acclaim went to Bailey, lots
of credit was given to Ralph
Guglielmi, Notre Dame's All
American quarterback; Penn
State's Jim Garrity; California's
Matt Hazeltine and Cincinnati's
Dick Goist.
Guglielmi, who had been ex
pected to keep Bailey on the
bench most of the game, entered
the game fighting off the effects
of a siege of flu which hospital
ized him last Thursday and Fri
day morning.
Nevertheless, his touchdown
pass to Purdue's John Kerr in
the fourth quarter was describ
ed by Strader as "the beauty
which broke the West's back."
Hazeltine Top Lineman
Garrity followed up that TD
by kicking the point after
touchdown that gave the East its
razor-thin victory. His catch of
Bailey's pass mentioned by Gal
lagher also was a key play.
The West's Hazeltine was
named the outstanding lineman
of the game. The big center
scored the West's first touch
down when he picked off Gug
lielmi's first pass, blocked a con
version attempt that kept the
score tied at 6-6 and otherwise
played a whale of a game on
defense.
The East coach, Dr. Eddie An
derson of Holy Cross and Bailey
joined in praising the play of
Goist. Bailey said Goist saved
the game with his pass defense
in the second half and "picked
up the whole club" as he hit the
line for four and six yards that
helped the East keep control of
the ball.
Monday, January 3. 195
NCAA Annual
Convention
Begins in NY
New York (U.R) The 49th
annual convention- of the Na
tional Collegiate Athletic Asso
ciation gets under way today
with a meeting of the executive
committee, but the most of the
fireworkes aren't expected until
later this week.
More than 1,400 representa
tives from 424 universities and
colleges have gathered at two
noteis lor tne weeK-iong con
clave. Five affiliated organi
zations also have scheduled their
annual meetings to coincide
with the NCAA convention.
Committee metings will keep
may of the members busy today
and Tuesday, then the NCCA tel
evision committee will meet on
Wednesday. Five possible plans
for the future televising of col
lege football games will be pre
sen ted to the membership at a
round table discusion Thurs
day.
General Business Session
A general business session
tops Friday's schedule and the
convention will come to a close
Saturday with a meeting of. the
NCAA council.
Many college representatives
still are not satisfied with the
NCAA's eame-of-the-week foot
ball program and will get
chance to consider the commit
tee's newest proposals at Thurs
day's round table meeting.
Among the plans which will
be presented for a straw vote
of the memDership are a nation
al-regional type of program, a
strictly regional plan, unre
stricted television, and a one
rule plan which would permit
any member college to televise
one of its home games and ap
pear oa television in one of its
away games, only one of which
may be carried on a network
National Region Plan
Under the national - regional
Dlan. the United States . would
be divided into regions for the
television purposes and colleges
would be allowed to telecast any
time once at home and once
away from home on stations in
regions where games are played.
At today's executive meeting,
recommendations for dates' and
sites for several national cham
pionships during 1955 will be
presented for approval.
The American Association of
College Football Coaches and
the sports divisi'on of the Amen
can College Public Relations As
sociation also planned to meet
today.
Other groups which will hold
meetings during the week in
clude the American Football
Coaches Association, the College
Athletic Business Manager's
Association and the. National
Collegiate Track Coaches Asso
ciation. Quarterbacks
Dominated
Bowl Frays
By MILTON RICHMAN
United Press Sports Writer
Even the most critical Mon
day morning quarterbacks join
ed in the cheering today for
three of Saturday's quarterbacks
who personally guided Ohio
State and Navy to brilliant bowl
victories on New Year's day.
As a group, quarterbacks dom
inated practically . every game
played Jan. 1 but their eye
catching, performances somehow
attracted the most attention in
the Rose and Sugar Bowl games.
The nation's television view
ers who watched Ohio State's
20-7 victory over .Southern Cal
ifornia in the mud-drenched
Rose Bowl at Pasadena. Calif..
for example, couldn't help but
notice Buckeye quarterback
Dave Leggett each time they
looked at the screen. He ran to
one touchdown, passed to an
other and sparked a drive that
led to the third score.
Credits Quarterbacks
Navy Coach Eddie Erdelatz
said that first and second-string
quarterbacks George Welsh and
Dick Echard "did it for us" aft
er the Middies mauled" Missis
sippi, 21-0, in the Sugar Bowl
at New Orleans.
Leggett, Welsh and Echard
seemed .to set the pattern for
other quarterbacks to follow in
virtually New Year's Day
games. -
Don Bailey, Penn State quar
terback, was voted the outstand
ing player in the last's 13-12
victory over the West in the an
nual Shrine game at San Fran
cisco, and quarterback Jerry
Barger of Duke passed for two
touchdowns in the Blue Devil's
34-7 rout of Nebraska in the
Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla.
Line-smashing fullbacks fea
tured Georgia 'Tech's 14-6 vic
tory over Arkansas in the Cot
ton Bowl at Dallas, Tex., but
in the Sun Bowl at El Paso, Tex.,
quarterback Jess Whittenton
passed for two and kicked five
extra points as Texas Western
licked Florida State, 47-20.
BASKETBALL
SATURDAY COLLEGE SCORES
Minila 57 Portland State 49
Linfield 90 Dahl and Penne (Port
land) 80. ,
MEDFORDTRIBUNE
mm
Fanfare
With the beginning of a new
year the traditional time for
making resolutions, this depart
ment has one to suggest. It deals,
perhaps, with a touchy subject.
It will be unpopular probably,
with a lot of fans who take their
basketball seriously. The sug
gestion, however, is that backers
of Medford high's Black Tornado
both adults and students
should resolve to refrain from
this incessant and excessive boo
ing at games.
Although booing at any time
is not the best of conduct, this
writer can stomach occasional
spontaneous outbursts of disap
proval. They come naturally
from most avid, loyal fans. But
the prolonged, deliberate and
unsportsmanlike booing when a
referee's decision doesn't favor
Medford had ought to be stopped.
It's not the itention of this de
partment to try to dampen the
rising enthusiasm for Medford's
fine team this year. The Black
Tornado has the potential to go
a long way and loyal cheering
fans can help it. But booing just
doesn't accomplish any good and
in the long run could hurt both
the team and the community.
PIRATES JOLTED
When Areata, Calif., v)'as
jolted by an earthquake early
last Thursday morning, it felt
like a truck ran into the side
of the . hotel room, . according
to Coach Jack Woodward of
the Phoenix high basketball
team. A short, sharp jar was
felt. "I knew it was an earth
quake," Woodward said. The
jolt was a big disturbance to
the sleep of the Pirate players
but they aren't offering it as
an alibi for their defeat on
Thursday night.
Phoenix split its series at
Areata and considered it good
experience, reporting that the
California town has a "pretty
good team" with a number of
regulars back from last year.
Woodward indicated that the
Pirates shot from the field bet
ter than they have in other
games this season. Free shot
accuracy by Areata hurt Phoe
College Basketball Quints
Launch Conference Action
By JOHN GRIFFIN
United Press Sports Writer
College basketball lays aside
the tinsel trappings of holiday
tournaments and gets down to
the brass tacks of official con
ference play tonight with the
Big Ten and the Pacific Coast
Conference heading the sched
ule. ,
The last major tourney cham
pion of the Christmas season
was duly crowned at Buffalo,
N. Y., on Saturday night when
Canisius whipped St. Bonaven-
ture, 59-56, in the finals of the
Queen City Invitational.
But that victory was over
shadowed that night by a non-
tournament game in which
North Carolina State, the na
tion's No. 2 ranked team riding
a 12-game unbeaten streak this
season, took a 91-78 walloping
from twice-beaten Villanova for
one of the major upsets of the
season.
The Big Ten staged its first
official action of the season on
Saturday when Wisconsin drub
bed Illinois, 79-64, but that
famed league really starts cook
ing on all burners tonight with
a program of four games: Indi
ana - Michigan, Wisconsin - Iowa,
Ohio State-Michigan State and
Northwestern-Minnesota.
Coast League Opens
A single game at Pullman,
Wash., , matching Oregon and
Washington State, lifts the cur
tain on the Pacific Coast Con
ference season tonight and that
league will be going full blast
at the end of the week.
The Big Seven and the South
west Conferences both begin of
ficial play Tuesday night, each
with four games involving every
league team. The Southeastern
Conference, which has had only
one game,will stage one on Fri
day night and then go into high
gear Saturday with five.
Kentucky, ranked the nation's
No. 1 team, ran its winning
streak to seven games this sea
son and 32 over a two-year span
by trouncing Temple, 101-69.
The Wildcats set a new record
for Philadelphia's Convention
Hall by sinking 43 baskets, two
over the record set nine years
ago by Rhode Island State. Pac
ing the Kentucky assault were
Bob Burrow with 25 points and
Ray Mills with 24 but Temple's
Harry Silcox had 29.
LaSalle, ranked No. 3 nation-
RACE SANCTIONED
Boise, Ida (U.R) The Pacific
Northwest Ski Association has
sanctioned the first annual
Muddy Numbers Cup Race, a
slalom event which will be spon
sored by the Davos Dusters Skj
Club of Boise in mid-March.
EBTTS
By DICK JEWETT
Mail tribuiM Sports Editor
nix in the second game.
COUNTERPART
Glenn Peterson, Medford
high's band leading basketball
player has counterpart at Jeffer
son high in Portland. Gene Gin
ther, a 6-foot 8-inch center on
the hoop court, leads the Demo
band. Big Pete has done GintherJ
one better as drum major for the
Tornado band at Shrine East
West football games at San Fran
cisco. Ginther's role as well as
Peterson's were mentioned Sun
day in Bob Swan's Oregonian
Prep Patter.
ROONEY CLUB UNBEATEN
Bob also tells of Coach Ed
Rooney . and his unbeaten St.
Helen's high basketball team.
Rooney will be remembered in
this area as coach for two years
at Jacksonville high. He was
jayvee tutor at Beaverton last
season . . . Woes of Eagle Point
Coach Jerry Mosby, first with
his own injury and then with
those of his football and basket
ball players, in meeting ambi
tious schedules are also subjects
of comment by Swan.
CONFERENCE STARTS
Questions, fans have been ask
ing about the strength of the
teams in the Southern Oregon
Conference will be answered this
week end when Medford plays
Grants Pass and Klamath Falls
tackles Ashland in the league
hoop openers.
Comparative scores seem to
favor Medford's Tornado over
the Cavemen but the real test
comes only when they face each
other. The two clubs tied in the
Southern Oregon Conference
jamboree but Medford has had
the more sparkling record since
then. Common foes have been
North Bend, Eagle Point and
Roseburg. Grants Pass lost to
North Bend and Medford won
from the Bulldogs in a pair of
close contests. Medford and
GP each defeated Roseburg and
Eagle Point, the Tornado by
more impressive spreads. The
Black Tornado split with Eu
gene which has defeated Marsh
field and Marshfield hung two
setbacks on the Cavemen.
ally, played the only major
game on Sunday and downed
St. Louis. The defending NCAA
champions broke out of a 62-62
tie with 10 minutes left with
six straight points on two' set
shots by Charley Singley and
two free throws by Ail-American
Tom Gola and never were
headed. Gola had 34 points,
Singley 24. ' -
Buck Coach
Qualifies
Comments
By FA YE LOYD
Pasadena, Calif. U.R)
Woody Hayes, the glib, bouncy
Ohio State coach who won the
Rose Bowl game but made few
friends in Southern California
with post-game comments, mel
lowed a bit today as he depart
ed for home.
' He said his team might not,
after all, have been able to beat
UCLA had the Buckeyes and
Bruins, the latter named na
tional champions by the United
Press board of coaches, met Sat
urday in the Rose Bowl.
But stage a football "World
Series," speculated Hayes, and
Ohio State would emerge in
company with the New York
Giants.
The Buckeye coach, following
his 20 to 7 victory over second'
ranked Pacific Coast conference
team Southern California made
comments uncomplimentary to
the Trojans and the playing con
ditions in the rain-soaked Rose
Bowl, adding: "I definitely think
we are still the No. 1 team in
the country over UCLA." The
Bruins, who whipped Southern
California 34 to 0, were unable
to play in the Rose Bowl be
cause of a "no return rule.
One Game Unfair ,
Today, however, Hayes said
he thought one game between
Ohio State and UCLA would be
unfair to both teams, insofar as
settling a disputed national
championship. "We should play
at least five games," he said. '
"I do think that out of a se
ries we'd win most of them be
cause we play a tougher sched
ule. I don't think UCLA could
have lived up to that schedule
of ours. The Big Ten in 1954
was unbelievable in strength."
, Coach Red Sanders of UCLA,
meanwhile, declined to engage
Hayes in a verbal wrestling
match over which man had the
better team.
"To get into controversial
comment about the comparative
strength of teams, difference in
scores and what not," said Sand
ers, "is kinda like a hoop.
There's no end to it and I think
it's somewhat juvenile." ' ,
Pere-Scope
First Down
Determiner
By SCOTT 'BAILLIE
United Press Sports Writer
San Francisco (U.R) The
flask, electric clock and hand
warmer, all have taken their
place on the football scene and
now comes the "Pere-Scope"
which is designed to make first
down measurements foolproof.
It was invented by Louis P.
Peresenyi, a former director of
physical education at St. Mary's
and spring into national prom
inence last New Year's day
when it appeared along the
sidelines at the East-West Shrine
game!
The "Pere-Scope" resembles a
surveyor's transit and replaces
the front pole of the chain gang.
A hair-line within the four-power
mechanism marks the exact
spot where the ball should touch
for a first down and Peresenyi
says this eliminates the need of
the head linesman running out
with the chain gang to measure
first downs.
He just has to peer into this
telescope and is able to wave
to the referee whether a first
down has been made or not.
"It's easy to operate and it
speeds up the game," Peresenyi
says. "Ana it also insures an
accurate decision for both teams
regardless of weather conditions
or errors in lining up the field."
Peresenyi points out that quite
a few football gridirons are out
of line.
"At one college field the Pere
Scope picked up a 36-inch er
ror," Peresenyi says. "Although
tne lines were parallel to each
other they were not at right
angles to the sidelines."
Peresenyi, who has applied
for a patent and is asking the
NCAA football rules committee
to approve the instrument, has
estimated that it has saved about
10 minutes per game.
Peresenyi says he got the idea
for the Pere-Scope in 1934 when
on the athletic staff at Pennsyl
vania but he never got around
to building it until last summer.
Only one Pere-Scope is in ex
istence. He estimates they will
retail at $200 each if he goes
into mass production.
Soggy Track
Wrecks Try
By Santee
New Orleans (U.R) " Wes
Santee, the world's greatest ac
tive miler, had no apologies to
day for his slow time in the
Sugar Bowl Track meet.
"I'll break four minutes when
conditions are right," said the
22-year-old Ashland, Kan., "An
telope" who will run next Jan.
16 at Los Angeles.
Santee put together quarters
of 68-62-65-59 for a disappoint
ing '4: 14, far off his unofficial
American mile record of 4:00.6
set at the Compton Relays last
June.
The race, however, was held
on a track still soggy from rain
that forced a postponement of
the meet from Friday until Sun
day. An early morning rain on
Sunday left the track even slow
er. Set Record In 1953
The six-one, 146-pound Kan
san set the Sugar Bowl record
of 4:04.2 last year.
Kansans completed the sweep
of Sunday's mile. Bill Tidwell,
Emporia, Kans., Kansas State,
was second at 4:15.5 and Kansas
University's Art Dazall, third in
4:15.5.
Big Jim Mashburn, independ
ent from Oklahoma A&M, was
chosen "most outstanding" ath
lete of the meet for his stellar
performance in defeating NCAA
champ Jim Lea of Southern Cal.
in the 440-yard run.
Mashburn, former Olympic
performer, finished in 48.0, fol
lowed by Lea, 48.8, and Rice's
Harold Griffin, 49.9.
New Relay Record
The Rice one-mile relay team,
Griffin, Roy Thompson, George
Salmon, and Don Pucek, broke
fee old Sugar Bowl record of
3:16.4 set by Oklahoma A&M in
1949 with a 3:16.1 performance.
Second-place Texas University
also broke the old record in
3:16.3. Oklahoma A&M was
third in 3:18.6.
Defending NCAA and Sugar
Bowl champion Willard Thom
son of Illinois , won the opening
120-yard hurdles in 14.3, follow
ed by Ray Roberts of Oklahoma
A&M and Jim Hollingsworth of
Texas A&M. ,
Deam Smith of the University
of Texas took the 100-yard dash
in 9.8, beating out Bumper Wat
son of the University of Florida
by a stride. Bruce Lenoir of
Louisiana Tech was third.
DUDEN VICTOR
Los Angeles U.R) Bob Du-
den, Pbrtland, Ore., shot a 33-
33 36 four-under-par yesterday
to win Individual honors and a
$100 first prize award in Annan-
dale golf clubs annual pro-ama-teuu
golf tournament. However,
Billy Maxwell, ex-U.S. amateur
champion from Odessa, Tex.,
pocketed $300 for taking the first
two spots in the pro-amateur di
vision. He was paired with local
golfers R. G. Smith and Tom
Fleming, each team scoring best
ball totals of 61. "
Oregon, Washington State
Start Northern Division
Race With Tussle Tonight
By UNITED PRESS
The 1955 Northern Division
Pacific Coast Conference basket
ball season gets underway to
night with Washington State
playing Oregon at Pullman. The
two teams play again tomorrow
night.
The rest of the Northern Divi
sion teams go into action Friday
and Saturday nights with Idaho
against Washington at Seattle
and Oregon State playing WSC
at Corvallis.
Oregon State, defending
champion, is the favorite in the
division race, with the Washing
ton Huskies given the best
chance to take the crown away
from the Beavers.
This will be the last season
for the split Pacific Coast Con
ference basketball schedule. The
teams return to a conference
wide round robin schedule in
1956 with southern and north
ern teams exchanging visits.
Chiefs To Play
Seattle University's Chieftains
also go back into action this
week with a game Friday night
against the Chinese Nationalist
team in Seattle.
Eastern Washington and Cen
tral Washington colleges of edu
cation usher in the 1955 Ever
green Conference race at Ellens
burg Thursday night. College of
Pugc-t Sound plays the Universi
ty of British Columbia, and Pa
cific Luthern College meets
Western Washington at Belling
ham in Friday Evergreen games.
PLC goes on to Vancouver to
play UBC Saturday night, while
Boxing Floundered Toward
Possible Federal Control
By JACK CUDDY
New York (U.R) Cham
pions Carl (Bobo) Olson and
Rocky Marciano were redeem
ing standouts in 1954 as Ameri
can boxing floundered further
toward the possibility of fed
eral control, and foreign com
petition generally lacked
sparkle.
Hawaiian-born Olson of San
Francisco stretched his victory
string to 18 straight by winning
seven bouts this year. They in
cluded three defenses of his
middleweight crown against Kid
Gavilan, Rocky Castellani and
Pierre Langlois TKO 11. He was
the busiest of champions and
"the Fighter of the Year."
Rocky Marciano of Brockton,
Mass., the only unbeaten cham
pion ever to rule the heavy
weight division, finally con
vinced the skeptics that he could
prevail over a good combination
boxer-puncher by twice beating
ex-champ Ezzard Charles. r
Marciano extended his profes
sional streak to 47 victories as
he outpointed Ezzard in June
and knocked him out in the
eighth round in September de
spite a badly split nose. Their
gates of $543,092 June and $352,-
654 September were the largest
of the year anywhere.
Fourteen Title Fights
There were 14 title fights
throughout the world in 1954
and five title changes.
But American interest in those
bouts and other important scraps
was dulled considerably by in
vestigations, hearings, accusa
tions, charges and counter
charges. The ultimate in un
favorable publicity was reached
when a magazine article accused
Jim Norris, the world's foremost
promoter, of "fixing" two fights
17 years ago. Norris denied
heatedly and announced a $5,-
000,000 libel suit against the
magazine.
Adding to the turmoil, the
New York commission and the
National Boxing association were
"split" on Dec. 14 over the
NBA's withdrawal of recognition
from featherweight champion
Sandy Saddler because of his
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Gonzaga plays Lawrence Tech
in Chicago tonight and Creigh
ton University at Omaha, Neb.,
Tuesday night. The Bulldogs are
scheduled to arrive home at
Spokane on Wednesday.
Pacific University and Whit
man meet in a two-game series
at Walla Walla Friday and Sat
urdy nights.
Clans Face Stanford
To the south UCLA, bruised
by LaSalle in the semifinals of
the Holiday Basketball Festival
in New York last week but still
a PCC favorite, opens a two
game series at Stanford Friday
night. .
UCLA will be out to roar
Stanford's record which shows
only two losses after a tough
December schedule.
California, sailing along fine
until the Big Seven tournament
in Kansas City last week, will
try to hit its stride again in a
twin bill with USC.
In the California Basketball
Association, play gets underway .
Tuesday when powerful Univer
sity of San Francisco, currently
sixth in the United Press' na
tional ratings, meets St. Mary's.
At Stockton Wednesday, San
Jose State will play College of
the- Pacific. Santa Clara will
play COP at San Jose Friday
and St. Mary's tangles with San
Jose State the .same night.
In the Far West Conference,
San Francisco State will be at
Nevada and Humboldt State at
Sacramento State this weekend.
failure to defend since he came
out of the Army in April. The
New York commission continued
to recognize him as ruler of the
126-pounders. , b
A stormy title-change oc
curred at Philadelphia on Oct.
20, when Johnny Saxton of
Brooklyn took the welterweight
crown from Kid Gavilan of
Cuba on a very questionable de
cision. A large majority of writ
ers at the ringside thought Gavi
lan had won the dull bout. Angel
Lopez, Gavilan's manager, shout
ed "robbery" and "fix."
New Yorker Paddy DeMarco
won the lightweight diadem
from New Yorker Jimmy Carter
on a decision at Madison Square
Garden, March 5; but Carter re
captured it from DeMarco a.t
San Francisco on a 15th round
kayo, Nov. 17.
: Jimmy Carruthers of Austra
lia retired and gave up the ban
tamweight title in May. Robert
Cohen of France won the vac
ant 118-pound crown by beat
ing Chamreon Songkitrat of
kok. And in the flyweight divi
sion, little Pascual Perez be
came Argentina s iirst worm
boxing champion by winning the
112-pound title from Yoshio
Shirai, Japan's first champ, at
Tokyo on Nov. 27..
Meanwhile, Archie -loore of
3cui iicgu, youi., luauc vwv out
cessful defenses of his light
heavyweight crown. He out
pointed ex-champ SToey Maxim
again in their third title fight at
Miami, Jan. 27, and knocked
out the highly touted Harold
Johnson of Philadelphia . at
Madison Square Garden in the
14th round, Aug. 11. Those two
triumphs and two non-title vic
tories extended 38-year old
Archie's winning streak to 19.
And he now is yelling loudly for
a shot at Marciano' s crown.
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