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Newspaper Page Textr SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Clenuii&acCxy Lead: New York U.R Kentucky ' regaining its winning . habit I after its nerf ect record was I ruined, topped the United Press college basketball ratings today for the fourth ; straight week, 1 .aV V. WAV AwU& Ul 0V' with LaSalle and Illinois ad- ; vancing to the next two spots. - Twentv-one of the 35 lead- ; ing coaches who comprise . the ' United Press rating board cast New York (U.PJ Oregon State College has moved back into the basketball spotlight. The Beavers are ranked in a tie for 19th place in this week's United Press ratings along with St. Louis, Ala- . bama and Texas Christian. - first-place ballots this week for Coach Adolph Rupp's team, which rebounded from its upset defeat at the hands of Georgia Tech by -beating DePaul and Tulane during the past week. Tha Wildcats' - point - total Junior Loop Night Games Total 208 By ED SAINSBURY , Chicago (U.R) The American League, which now sprawls out 1,273 airline miles between Bos . ton and Kansas City, reduced its 1955 night, game total to 208 today in the annual schedule. " - Last year there were 215 night games scheduled and the league's all-time high was 218 in 1953. The 208 night game total for the American League contrasts with the all-time high ; of 250 'scheduled by the more compact 'National League where the dis tance between the extreme points, New York and St. Louis is only 888 miles. Because of ; the lesser distances involved, it is possible ; for the National League to schedule more night games since less time is required for travel. . Kansas City-Night Garnet : : New Kansas City- club leads the way in night games with a i total of 40. That contrasts with the all-time major league high of 56 scheduled by the St. Louis . Cardinals in the National League. v ) Washington this season sched ? tiled 39 night games while Balti- more listed 34, - Cleveland 30, j Chicago 21, New York 16 land f Boston and Detroit 14, each 1 The 1955 campaign will open . on April 11 with the- traditional presidential inaugural at Wash- ington. Baltimore will furnish the opposition. On April 12 the rest of the teams will swing into i action. Kansas City will herald major league ball with Detroit I as the inaugural opponent Chi j cago will be at Cleveland, Boston j at Baltimore, and Washington at New -York. In the secondary openers on April 14 it will be ? Cleveland at Detriit, Kansas City at Chicago and New York at i Boston. y - - i 12 Sunday Dates ' Each team was allotted 12 Sun ! day dates and the Chicago White Sox gave- their fans the biggest ; break by " scheduling double headers for 11 of them. The f White Sox also 'scheduled two week-day double headers, the ? only team in the league to do so. Cleveland and Baltimore list t ed eight Sunday twin bills. New York seven, Boston six, Kansas I City three and Detroit two. : i The weekday afternoon game, ; once the backbone of the sched- f ule, will find Detroit with the 1 most, 33. New York has 29, Bos 1 ton 25, Chicago 19, Kansas City , 15, Cleveland 13, Washington 11, ' and Baltimore 10. Chisox Sign 26th Player By UNITED PRESS The Chicago White Sox, first big league club to sign all their , players in . 1953 and 1954, are well on their way toward doing it again in 1955. Outfielder Bob Nieman be came the 26th member of the White Sox to sign Tuesday, leav ing only 15 players who haven't as yet agreed to terms. ' Nieman, acquired in a trade - with Detroit two months ago along with Walt Dropo and Ted Gray, batted .263 in 91 games last year. Elsewhere in the majors, i switch-hitting Junior Gilliam of the Dodgers signed his contract after receiving a slight raise. Gilliam batted .282 in 146 games last year. The Cardinals announced the " signing of three rookies, Pitcher Luis Arroyo, shortstop .Bob : Anhmson and third baseman ,. w- .- T?nnnif Plaza. Vic Wertz, the only Cleveland hero in the World Series, ac- OTital the same $25,000 salary i after General Manager Hank Greenberg refused to give him I a token raise. ', I Thanks largely , to protection ! of the National Audubon society, roseate spoonbills have made a t strong comeback in Texas. They ' have also increased in Florida. v In 1890 they had disappeared from Texas and almost .from Florida. Retains dob f 9 swelled to 326 out of a possible 350,. for a comfortable 110-point margin over runner-up LaSalle. Kentucky, with a 9-1 record through Saturday night, Jan. 15, played Louisiana State Monday night and is pitted against Tenn essee next Saturday. Illini Make Big Gain Illinois, which defeated two Big Ten opponents in running its record to 9-2, made the big gest jump among this week's top 10 teams, moving three notches to third place. The Illini beat out San Francisco 1 2-1 for the No. 3 rankings, 189 points to 182.:,' y :- ry, - v. , For the third week in a row the same group of teams made up the nation's top 10, with a few shuffles in the order.. North Carolina State 15-2 dropped one notch to fifth, and Duquesne 8-3, second last week, dropped to sixth. . . 5 -r i Utah 11-2 and Missouri 10-2 retained the next - two places in order, while Minnesota 8-4 moved up one spot to ninth, ex changing places with . UCLA 11 3. The Gophers from the Big Ten edged UCLA for that No. 9 rating by only one point. There was a four-team tie for the ' 19th V. ranking . among Alabama, St. Louis, Texas Chris tian and Oregon State. '; Rogue River Talent Host Jackson County B Basketball attention focuses tonight, on Rogue River. where the Chief- tains hosts to the .Talent high Bulldogs. L . Undisputed , loop , lead will be the prize for victory. Winner of the scrap also will remain the only unbeaten quintet in the circuit. In other games Jacksonville will play St.: Mary's in Medford and .Prospect will journey to Butte .Falls. Victor in the St. Mary's-Jacksonville hassle will earn a tie for second place in the standings with the 1 os e r at Rogue River. The scuffle at Butte Falls is over the, cellar position. " Tourney Ambitions . Ambitions for a state tourney trip in March should intensify the Bulldog - Chieftain battle. Talent is defending county and district champ and thereby .was a state tourney. entry last year. Several boys on the current Bulldog team made that trip and One taste has . created an appetite for more. Rogue River has been a power in B: league rivalry and has sent a number of clubs to the titular , event at Salem in recent years.,-.. Coach George Bray of Talent may call on Mel Wallace, George Zickefoose, Jim McAbee,.J. Lloyd t Wood and Gordy Tho're- son as starters. For Ray Mc Clain's Chiefs the quintet may be Gary Johnson, Bill Weaver, uiete Daily, Ted Stanfield and Gary Stinchcomb. . , Ducks Win 6th Straight Spokane, Wash. U.R) The University of Oregon Ducks won their sixth straight basketball victory last night y defeating a tough Gonzaga University team 71-57. ', Gonzaga tied the score at 2all in the opening moments of the game, but the powerful Ducks quickly recovered, took .the lead and kept it throughout the game. . . . ;'"tT; However, the Bulldogs stayed close on the heels of -thehvop-ponents despite injuries to guard Bill Gray, who was knocked out for a few minutes, ' and Jerry Vermillion, who suffered a brok en nose. -Page Hits 27 ' Oregon guard Howard Page made 27 points to lead the eve ning s scoring and Clark Irwin led the Bulldogs , with 14. Oregon meets Oregon State on its home court Friday in a PCC Northern Division match and Gonzaga plays Portland Un iversity here Friday and Sat urday. ''' Max Anderson had 12 and Jerry. Ross hit 11' points for Oregon, while high scoring Jim Loscutoff hit only four points. PTA Will Have Benefit Game 1 Phoenix A benefit basketball game is planned by the Phoenix Parent-Teacher association, for Thursday, January 20, at 7:30 p.m. in the high school gym. One wo m e n's .team, the Bloomer Girls, will play the Pedal Pushers, another team of women PTA m ember s.'- The men's game will be played be tween the. Sad ; Sacks and the Eager Beavers. x -:y ? All teams are practicing hard for the. big event, and a hilar ious and ; exciting;4 evening for the whole family is anticipated by the committee in charge. Admission will be charged at the door and refreshments such as wieners, buns, and dough nuts will be sold during the evening. ' flfc Tuesday, January 18. 1335 Medford 1st, Eugene 2nd In OJ Rating Portland (U.R) Medford continued, to. hold down. first place today in the weekly Jour nal coaches' poll, with Eugene not far behind.. The Medford team, winner of 11 out of 12 games, polled five out of eight first place votes while Eugene got the. other three. '. "t The ratings: Team Points 1. ; Medford 2. "Eugene 77 71 59 55 45 43 18 18 17 11 3. Milwaukie 4. Cleveland 5. St. Helens . 6. North Bend . 7; Astoria . . 8. Albany 9. South Salem 10. Beaverton . Others: Lakeview 9. Pendle- ton 5Vi; Grants 1, Marshfield 1, Central Catholic . : j In the Associated Press sports writers poll, Eugene edged out Medford for the top spot by two points, 89 to 87. Milwaukie was a close third with 84 points. Gale Culy, Tru-Mix Set Kegling Pace First weekend at the annual Medford City Bowling associa tion tournament, held for the first time at the new alleys, was completed in better form than in past years with no great array of high scorers. . : High bonors of the weekend were gained by Tru-Mix Con crete' Construction - company team with - 2906 score and by Gale u Culy whose individual counts nut him in ton . in two departments. Culy teamed with Jj'rank Martin for 1244 best score in doubles and his three series gave him all-events front spot with 1747. Ken Christian- son was best in singles wiht 651. Leading scores for the first week end indicate a close race for prizes and titles. The tour ney will continue for two more weekends. Tournament officials said that their is plenty of space for keglers who wish to try their skills in the remaining sessions. . Spectators interest vas good over the weekend ; and is ex pected to hold up with some good team and individual events yet to come. . , It is planned to publish the schedule of participants each Friday and Sunday. FIRST WEEK LEADERS: Teams Tru-Mix 2906. Crater Electric 2858. Indenendent Order of Foresters 2750, Big Y Super market 2747, Hawkinson Tire service 2737, Pierce Freight lines 2733. Doubles G ale C u 1 v and Frank Martin 1244, George Rus sell and Ed Dwight 1179, Max Anient and ' Bob Findley 1142, Ernie Olson and Bill Newland 1137, Gene Eberius and Dan Wunderlick 1123, Harold and Vern Allen 1110., ; Singles Ken Christiansnn 651, Darwin Morehouse 633, Findley 622, Ament 617. , All-Events Culy 174 7, Har old Allen 1735 Darrell Cone- land 1722 and Vern Allen 1711. Game Director Asks Cooperation For Kill Study Portland; "The success of de termining : hunting ; season kill rests upon your individual co operation." So reads part of the letter from P. W, Schneider, state game director, to 5,250 Oregon hunters. ? These hunters are ones hold ing hunting licenses with num bers that correspond to numbers selected several years ago by use of mechanical equipment of the Oregon State Game Com mission. , - I . A letter and questionnaire is sent to these hunters, and the information thus obtained is cor related with other facts gathered to determine the harvest of game birds and mammals in Oregon for 1954. - , - Since few hunters get the same license number each year, it is possible to use the numbers selected for. a number of years. The questionnaires will be sent out , within - the next ' few weeks, and the game ' commis sion asks that the hunters re ceiving them aid the survey by filling '-. out and returning -' the questionnaires as soon as, possi ble. BEAVERS GET WILSON Portland GJ.F9 Management of the Portland Beavers baseball club today was well satisfied with the "more than $20,000 deal" which b r o u g h t second baseman Artie Wilson to the Beavers i r o m Seattle. Wilson, who has hit better- than .300 for the five years he has played in the Pacific Coast loop, was swapped to Portland in ex change for pitcher Jehosie Heard, third baseman Rocco Krsnich and an undisclosed amount of cash. Deld line Sunday Oudfied Is at Boon Saturday ; 10 mjsl Monday for Monday; otner days AM stniauM day. Fanfare With the selection of Half back Alton Stone, Guard Paul Eckel and Center Mike DeVore to the State squad Medford high gets as much representation as one school can expect in the an nual Shrine all c star football squad. If all three are on hand for the contest next August, Medford will - have the best representation . it's - had in a Shrine scrap. - All .three of the Medford play ers were- all-Southern Oregon Conference choice. Stone made the Portland Oregonian all-state second team, gained honorable mention on the Wigwam Wise men of America polling.' DeVore was named - to an insurance magazine all-state first team.' ; LUCK CHANGES ; Dick McLaughlin may at tribute his change of luck to , a change of. uniform. The Med-; ford high basketball player's regular uniform didn't get to ' Ashland on Saturday night so : he wore a pair of white trunks and black jersey No. 25 in , stead of his usual No. 11. He. got into he scoring column for the first time this season.' GOOD FLOOR SHOW - Medford high's pep team has been stealing some thunder from the basketball aggregation in re cent games. It's ; quite - a floor show the gals have been putting on s with high kicks and : skirt swishing and swirling routines in . time .to the music of the bands. The seven peppy "chorus" girls are Melissa .. Jennings, Carol Denman, . Donna Halvor sen, r Dinah Hutchinson, ; Peggy Lydiard, Beverly Newbry and Sally Walker. KLAMATH TEAM TALL . The Black Tornado of Med ford will be up against quite a bit more height, when it . plays Klamath Falls here Fri day and Saturday nights, than it was in the Grants Pass and Ashland series. It is anticipat ing considerably more opposi tion than it has received so far in the Southern Oregon Con ference basketball campaign. Four of the likely Pelican starters are 6 feet 2 inches or better. Guy Munsell and Lar ry Yarnell are right at that level. Dave D'Olivo is 6-4 and Marlin Causey is 6-3. The fifth man is a midget, . Jack Sun itsch, . 5-6. Among reserves Denny, Todd is 6-3 and Orin Perkins 6-1. Two others who may see duty here, Dan Lowe and Dave Pepple, are 5-10 each. - LOOKING FORWARD Coach Frank Roelandt has in dicated that the Tornado cagers are plenty serious about the Pelican series. "The boys have been working forward to it," he remarked. Defense is ex pected to get the emphasis this week in Medford drills. The aim will be to stop ' the r scoring of D'OUvo and Munsell. D'Olivo is leading the Pels with 174 points in 10 games. COPPLE HAS 199 -Larry Copple continues to head Medford scorers and has 199 for 12. games. Jerry Kala pus has 153, Frank Rector 141, Glenn Peterson 88 and ; Bud Kaslner 78. The per game averages are Copple ;-16.58, i Kalapus 12.75, Rector 11.75 Peterson 7.33 and Kastner, : 6.5. ','. '. PELS WIN 6. LOSE 4 The Klamath Union high school- record in basketball to date: Six wins, four losses. Klamath lost twice to Reno, Nev., won two from Redding, Calif., beat Grants Pass twice and split with Jefferson of Port land and with Ashland. : HARTLEY PACES QUINT V At last report Rollie Hart ley, . ex-Talent high school athlete, was leading the ' George Fox college (Newberg) : basketball team in the Metro politan League with an aver age .of about 16 points per game. FROSH GRADES LOW . .University of Oregon recent ly announced a B-minus scho lastic average during the fall for the varsity football squad. But Dick Strite of the Eugene Register-Guard has . pointed ' a finger at some of low grades among outstanding freshmen athletes and at the poor public relations resulting. He advises the coaches to be more particu lar in selection of athletes to par ticipate in the grant-in-aid pro gram. According to Strite, Jimmy You'll .Always Find o Reliability o Uniformity o Full Strength IN EVERY LOAD OF TRU-MIX Tru-Mix FAST, PROMPT McAndmn Rtud 5C : By DICK JEWETT Mail Triemie Seerts Idlter (Precious) ' Williams," Don Gra ham and Bill Woodward, Frosh gridders, have been disqualified because of : low grades with others who" will not . be around for' spring practice unless they improve. Dave Shelby. Norm Willoughby; Don Ainge and Dick Koford, freshman hoop sters are ineligible. Shelby and Ainge are still " in school and Willoughby is enrolled in a jun ior college. Two freshman base ball players, Frank Burford and Laverne Bradley have dropped from school. WALTONIANS GET REQUEST With a little change in dates the Oregon State Game Com mission has tentatively: grant ' ed just about what . the: Jack son .County chapter of the : Ixaak. Walton league requeit ed relative to more accessible winter steelhead , fishing and : a longer season on a longer stretch of river. .! .The r Commission after . ir hearing last Saturday set Jan uary 1 to February 28 as sea son for angling for trout not less than 12 inches on : the Applegale river . exclusive : of tributaries below the mouth of the Little Applegate. If this decision is made final after a second hearing on January 28 the January 1 to February 28 season will go into effect in 1956. r j.h . Walionians' asked by letter that the ; Applegate to open from its mouth to MeKee bridge from, . January? 15 to -March:. 15 for winter steel-; head. The stretch of river pro posed is about two miles long- , er than that granted. Tentative angling changes adopted by ; the commission in cluded: ; "Summer regulations for trout, aal mon. steelhead and jack salmon: "Open, season April 30 to October a in ail zones. May s to uctoDer for lakes. reservoirs and their tribu taries, within national forest boundar ies in the- Cascade mountains, (in' cIiiHm Paulina mountains.) "Bag limit Steelhead and salmon 30 inches, and over including Rogue River trout zu incnes ana over xua twr inH A in nAssession er in 7 consecutive days. Not more than 40 such fish in the aggregate of which not more- than 20 may be salmon aur ing any calendar year. ..... . ... - "Zone 3 "Diamond lake and tributaries are closed to all angling. "Lake creek, outlet of Diamond lake. closed above the works of the Dia mond lake hatchery. . ... "Zone 4 r.;. "Bolan lake closed to all angling. ' "Rogue river closed from the Gold Hill irrigation district spillway to a point 700 feet' upstream from January x to jury is. ''Aonleeate river closed to all an gling between Laurel Hill dam and the mouth or wuuams creek. . v . . "Rorue River Svstem "Date for Rogue "river and Apple- gate January l to February l. ; "Date for aggregate bag limit chang ed from August 15 to July 15. "January 1 to 31 Rogue river ex clusive of tributaries below mouth of the Applegate, open for angling for trout not less than 12 inches. . . . . LUCCHESI NAMED 7 Frank Lucchesi, who man- , aged the Medford Rogues of the Far West . league during the 1951 baseball season, has been named : skipper of the Pocatello Bannocks of ; the Class C Pioneer' league. Luc chesi, now 29. played for Twin - Falls in the Pioneer circuit in 1950.' The next year he was pilot of Thomasville in the Florida league -and the last two seasons he has been man ager of Pine Bluff, Ark., in the Class C Cotton States league. Skiing Enjoyed At Crater Lake Despite Weather Snow fell and the wind blew all day Sunday at Crater; Lake National park but Rogue snow men found skiing "not too bad'' and said they managed to have a good time. There were about 50jmow en thusiasts on the hill; iccording tn Snowmen 1 President '" Bill Brooks. About half were mem bers of the ski club. Brooks re ported no accidents. The road was closed from Government Camp to the lake rim. . .. Eddie Simmons gave instruc tion to new members and other beginners. Classes will be con ducted by Snowmen each Sun day.' Biggest crowd in a couple of years was at the warming shack where park rangers had a good fire going. - . The club, which operates tows on Garfield slope, is a non profit i group and ' has stressed that it is not resonsible for acci dents on the slope. Brooks men tioned that there are plans to form a ski patrol or some sort of first aid organization; , , JC7 - e CONCRETE Co. 'DCLIVEIY 1 PhoM 2-5271 DDItaaii. Suffer Bog Opsefis By JOHN GRIFFIN United Press Sports Writer The upset lightning " flashed through college basketball again today, knocking -mighty Illinois and Vanderbilt , out of , their league leads and narrowly miss ing Kentucky, the nation's No. 1 team. .A- T-i- - Illinois, the ' nation's third- ranked team and tied with Min nesota for first place in the Big Ten, was blasted out of their co leader role; by a 92-80 loss to Iowa Monday night at Iowa City, Iowa The .victory moved Iowa up. into that leadership tie with idle Minnesota. - . Vanderbilt, t deadlocked with idle Alabama for first place in the y Southeastern Conference, was handed its first league de feat of the season, 77-63, by Mis sissippi at Oxford, Miss. Vandy had beaten Mississippi by -25 points in a previous meeting. But an upset to eclipse these nearly occurred at Baton Rouge. La., where Kentucky just squeezed out a - 64-62 1. victory over Louisiana State. Joe Fahey of LSU missed a driving shot from 10 feet out with' just four seconds left to play, and that was the margin of the Kentucky victory. Ken tucky, apparently still suffering a. hangover from its upset by Georgia Tech a week-and-a-half ago, went stone cold in the sec ond half after taking a 39-32 halftime' m a r g i n." Meanwhile, LSU hit on 45.1 per cent of its shots in the second half in a stubborn but vain effort to catch up. Phil Grawemeyer of Ken tucky and Roger Sigler of LSU tied for scoring honors at .18 points. " ' - . - Illinois apparently had Iowa whipped, holding a 47-35 half time lead and boosting the mar gin to 16 points early in the sec ond half. But then Iowa, rank ed No. 12 nationally, displayed its prowess in a brililant drive that finally gave the Hawkeyes the lead at 70-69. Iowa hot only never was headed after that, but pulled out ' to win comfortably as Bill Logan led the attack with 19 points. However,: Bill Ridley of the Illini took - individual scoring honors with' 32 points, j Vanderbilt found fouling its fa tal weakness in losing to Missis sippi. The Commodores matched Ole Miss' total of 18 baskets, but Ole Miss annexed; 41 of 50 CI Clobbers Linfield, 90-63 By UNITED PRESS : ? College of Idaho continued to cut a ; wide . swath . through Oregon basketball teams last night by ' clobbering Linfield 90-63 for its sixth straight North west Conference victory.. : ; i . Willamette struck down Whit man 98-73 in another league encounter. , - . Again it was rubber-legged Elgin Baylor who led the Col lege of Idaho team as he racked up , 27 points, and got 27 re bounds. Don Porter had : 24 points for Linfield. " Willamette was red-hot against Whitman, rolling up a 61-33 halftime lead but falling two short of the 100-point mark, Neil Causbie hit 17 points to top the Bearcats' scoring. . To V? V and be $Wt SsOTWitjllers Compgry, free throws. Denver Brackeen, who missed the first game be cause he was ill, led Mississippi with 30 points. Ole Miss led al most all the way, holding a 40-26 halftime bulge, , Colorado Downs Oklahoma Colorado moved into a tie with idle Missouri each with 3-0 records for first place in the Big Seven by beating Oklahoma, 91-82, at Boulder, Colo. Center Buddy Haldorson paced the Buffaloes by setting a new court record with 31 points. Oklahoma pressed Colorado closely during the first half, but the Buffaloes maintained a steady lead and won comfortably. In other games: All-American Don Schlundt tallied 38 points, including the key baskets, to !iECRU)eTaUBTO Pattersoij TKO's Grant New "York (U.R) -Floyd Pat terson. Brooklyn's remarkable young light heavyweight con tender who stopped Don Grant in the fifth round, indicated to day . he would by-pass : a sure shot at the 175-pound title this year, and . challenge for the heavyweight crown in 1956. Patterson and manager Custer n'Amatn sifreed today to fight heavyweight Rex Lane of Salt Lake City at Brooklyn's Eastern Park Arena, Feb. 14 or 21, if matchmaker Teddy Brenner could close the deal. Brenner said fTll-have no trouble." . Only 168 sounds was Floyd's weiarht Mondavvniffht when he scored a technical knockout over Grant of Los Angeles, 166, at 1:15 of .the fifth round at tne Parkway." Rut Flovd. former Olvmmc middleweight champion, said he wpuld register about 175 for Layne, who is a 200-pounder. "T'm ffrowinff and Til be a full- fledged heavyweight by the end of the year," added the lightning-fast 20-year-old Negro who had been slated for his first 10-round bout ' Monday night. Although he is the fourth-ranking contender, his age had pre vented accepting more than eight rounds previously. . BASKETBALL 1 MONDAY COLLEGE GAMES ' East. : v- t - . ' f . - Carnegie Tech 86. Grove City 74 : - Tufta 77, Northeastern 72 South -i :V ' - . Kentucky 108, Middle Tennessee 83 Georgia Tech 90. Miss. State 71 Kentucky 64, LSU 62 - - Miami (Fla.) 103. Tampa 76 Mississippi 77. Vanderbilt 63 ' Wm. & Mary 75, Virginia Tech 69 . Transylvania 78. Bellarmine 73 Wisconsin 57, Butler 53 . Iowa 92, Illinois 80 - - Indiana 88. Michigan Stat H Kansas 73. Iowa State 72 ' Northwestern 93. Purdue 88 Southwest . New Mex. 94. Abilene Christ 89 West Colorado 91, Oklahoma 88 Oregon 71. Gonzaga 57 . Stanford Braves 78, Moffett Field 75 Mt. San Antonio 78, Riverside 62 -. College of Idaho 90. Linfield 63 -Willamette 98. Whitman 83 be good to in 1955.:. New York City. Blended Wnsksy. SSJ PWrf, 5 Graia ftral SpL-Sa.- lead Indiana to an 88-79 victory over Michigan State, and Har old Grant's 26 points led North western . to an overtime 93-88 win over Purdue in the Big Ten; Bill Brainerd's free throw with 11 seconds left gave Kansas a revenge 73-72 win over Iowa State in the Big Seven; Geor gia Tech, which had lost three straight games . since beating Kentucky, got back on the win ning path, 90-71, against Missis sippi State in the Southeastern conference;. Wisconsin stalled through the last two minutes for a 57-53 win over Butler, William and Mary hit 41 of 52 fre throws to beat Virginia Tech. 75-69, in the Southern -conference; and Miami, Fla., routed Tampa, 103-76. Hopkins Cup Play Begins; Rain Expected La Jolla, Calif. U.R The weatherman frowned today as the 14 golfers "representing the United States and Canada teed off for the opening rounds of the fourth international PGA matches for the Hopkins Trophy. A. W. Anderson, chief of the San Diego Weather Bureau, Said a storm coming down the coast would dampen the area by night fall. He predicted nearly a half- inch of rain would fall within the next 36 hours. The seven team members of the United States golf squad will be shooting for their fourth straight victory. n Although this is the first of the Hopkins matches to be played in the United States, the Canadians believe they . have their best chance yet of victory. The seven-man team from North of the Border t has been prac ticing on the 6,600-yard La: Jolla Country Club course for more than seven days and seems to be taking to the fairways . and greens. . In a practice nine holes Henry Martell fired the back nine with a five-under-par 31. Heading the United States teams as captain is Charles Chick Harbert, of Northville, Mich., holder of the U.S. PGA championship. With him will be Ed Furgol, St Louis, the U.S. Open titleholder; Jack ." Burke Jr., Kiamesha Lake, N. Y.; Jerry Barber, La Canada, Calif.; Marty Fiirgol, Lemont, IU.; Lloyd Man grum, Niles, ni. and Cary Mid cUecoff, Memphis, Tenn. In addition to Martell, ; the Canadian team includes Stan T ...... n aoittltfl Dat VlatffTl- William Kerr, AT Balding, Jules Huot and Gordon Brydson. - Within a . 500-mile circle drawn around Pittsburgh, Penn sylvania, lies more population and probably more natural wealth than in any such radius of any other metropolis in North America. yourself :