Bear Fracas
Rated Tough
For SF Dons
By HENRY RIEGER
San Francisco (UP.) Pa
cific Coast basketball fans were
as nervous today as an expect
ant father as they awaited the
renewal of the University of
San Francisco's bid for a new
major college consecutive win
mark.
And the anxiety was sharpen
ed bycan unusually long for a
basketball team two weeks lay
off between the 0 Don's record
tieing victory over Fresno State
and the Jan. 28 record breaker
with California.
The Cal game, a win would be
number 40 in a row, will be any
thing but a pushover for USF.
Shrewd Pete Newell, a long
time teammate of USF's Phil
Woolpert at Loyola of Los An
geles, has bought his young
team along 'to where it is one
of the better Pacific Coast Con
ference teams and they would
like nothing better than to upset
the Don victory train.
Activity Curtailed
The same mid-year layoff that
has sent USF basketeers to their
examination books, has curtailed
the week's court activity up and
down the coast.
The highlight of an otherwise
slim schedule is the Stanford
Oregon State two-game series at
, Corvallis, Ore. Other double
header series this weekend
match Oregon at Idaho and
Washington State at Washing
ton. Action in the California
Basketball Association, USF's
parent conference, also is prac
tically nil.
Stanford, given little chance
of winning 50 per cent of its
games, in pre-season forecasts,
has an overall season record of
10-1 and is the vanguard of the
PCC's leaders.
Lovellette Clings
To Scoring Lead
By UNITED PRESS
Big Clyde Lovellette of the
Minneapolis Lakers clung to the
scoring lead in the National
Basketball association today at
the end of another round -in his
battle with Bob Pettit of St.
Louis, but his leading margin
was 'cut to 13 points. '
Lovellette notched only 17
points Thursday night as the
Lakers were beaten, 122-100, by
the Syracuse Nationals. Pettit
notched 25 as St. Louis bowed
to Fort Wayne, 90-83.
The New York Knicks an
nounced an official protest of
Wednesday's 1.08-103 loss to the
Rochester Royals, claiming the
Royals scored a basket , in the
closing minutes when the time
keeper was unable to call time
' because he wasn't provided with
a noisemaker.
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Klamath union high matmen
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yesterday to defeat Medford 47
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Klamath Falls.
Ra Hilton, 147-pounder, and
Mel Morgan, 191, were the only
Tornado victors, both by pins.
Hilton beat Bernard Hartman
and Morgan subdued Darrell
Peterson.
Klamath winners were:
Larry B e n d er, 97, pinned
David Mansfield; George Kra
mer, 105, pinned Don Large;
Jim Brown, 114, pinned Sam
Jennings; Gary Roberts, 122,
pinned Fred Baker; Pete Barn-
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Reds Need Strengthening
At First Base, Left Field
This is one in a series of- in
terviews by United Press staff
ers with the major league
managers on their prospects
for 1956.)
By JOE PHELAN
Nashua, N. H. (U.R) Cincin
nati Manager Birdie Tebbetts is
ready to trade off a star or two
if it will help the Redlegs to a
first division finish in the
"toughest National League race
in years."
Tebbetts figured solution of
his two main problems "real
first line performers at third
base and left field'! would
boost his team from a fifth-place
finish a 'year a8 to "at least
third place this season."
"And if I get the pitching I
expect, we'll win the pennant,"
the affable Redlegs pilot said.
Putting bite in his bark, he
further ventured in an aside to
interested rivals, "We'll deal for
anyone who can help us and deal
anyone to do it.-Nobody is im
mune." Not Fooling
Those are no wild statements,
either, for Tebbetts, as "brainy"
an insurance executive as he
was a catcher in his active play
ing days with the Boston Red
Sox, is hot a pop-off guy. He
is perfectly aware of the obsta
cles a second division team faces
if it expects to rise even as high
as third place. In fact, Tebbetts
acknowledged the Philadelphia
Phillies,, one of the teams he
proposes to bypass, "will " be
rugged again as long as they
have Robin Roberts."
But as- far -as he's concerned,
"Brooklyn is still the team to
beat" though he doesn't see the
Bums off to the early season jet
start that virtually clinched the
flag last year.
"This is going to be the tough-
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est National League race in
years, which means the Dodgers
won't get the jump they did in
1955," he said.
"New York and Milwaukee
are bound to be tough customers
again. I think the Cardinals will
improve tremendously, Chicago
is going to be right up there . . .
and I'm looking for stiffer com
petition all. the way down the
line."
The Redlegs field boss con
cedes his main considerations
will be finding somebody to join
Gus Bell and Wally Post, "as
good as they make them," in the
Cincinnati outfield, and a third
baseman.
However, fielding frowns turn
to pitching smiles when he con
siders his corps of hurlers, plus
the plans to have the veteran
Smokev Burgess receive them.
Joe Nuxhall, Art Fowler and
Johnny Klippstein are a trio of
"definite" starters and Hal Jeff-
coat, obtained from Chicago in
an off-season deal for catcher
Hobie Landrith, "should be good
for at least six or seven games."
Backing them up are Hershel
Freeman, Bill Kennedy, who did
"a great job for us last season,"
and Corky Valentine.
SC SIGNS BASS
Columbia, S.C. U.R) Mar
vin Bass, a much-traveled assist
ant football coach, has been
signed as a line coach at the Uni
versity of South Carolina. Bass,
who left a similar post at North
Carolina to take the job under
new South , Carolina Head
Coach Warren Giese, also has
served at - William and Mary,
twice, and with the professional
Washington Redskins.
White Sox
Interested
In Robinson
By MILTON RICHMAN
United Press Sports Writer
The Brooklyn Dodgers are
trying to get Jackie Robinson to
hold still for a S7.000 salary
slice, but if they are unsuccess
ful, the Chicago White Sox,
among other clubs have indicat
ed they'll be glad to take him
off their hands.
Robinson huddled an hour
with Brooklyn Vice-President
Buzzy Bavasi Thursday but fail
ed to come to terms. The Dod
gers then said that they arid the
36-year-old Robby "are not too
far apart." But that's the same
thing they said two weeks ago.
There have been repeated
questions as to whether Robin
son would play ball again this
year and to all those questions
he has replied, "That depends on
the contract I get." He received
an estimated S40.000 last year.
No Dire Need
Brooklyn, well fixed at third
base with Ransom Jackson, who
was obtained from the Cubs,
and also loaded with seven left
field candidates, is not exactly in
dire need of Robinson, despite
his .314 lifetime battng average.
An offcial of the White Sox
has admitted they tried to get
Robinson late last year but
Brooklyn could not get him out
of the National League on
waivers. Cincinnati and Pitts
burgh reportedly also are inter
ested in Robinson even though
the .256 average he compiled
last season was his worst in the
majors.
Friday, January 20. 1956
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE MINK
Writer Predicts
Coach of Huskies
Will Walk Plank
Santa Monica, Calif. (U.R)
Dick Vanderveld, assistant
sports editor of the Santa Mon
ica Outlook, said yesterday in
an exclusive ' story that . Coach
Johnny Cherberg of the. Univer
sity of Washington. will be
"walking the plank" when a
current poll of players on the
Huskie squad is completed.
"From the voting will come
the basis for dealing with the
man who last November fired
Jim Sutherland, new Washing
ton State coach, as backfield
mentor at the height of the
Husky varsity rebellion," Van
derveld said. ,
He said the recent Board of
Regents investigation and subse
quent conclusion to "rehire"
Cherberg was "rumored to be
a smokescreen" to curb possible
student demonstrations.
; "The result of the vote is ex:
pected to send him (Cherberg)
packing," Vanderveld said.
NUMBER ONE PRO Otto Graham sucks in his breath as
he tries n the Hickok $10,000 diamond-studded gold
buckled belt symbolic of the "1955 Professional Athlete
of the Year" after presentation at Rochester, N. Y. The
34-year-old quarterback who came out of retirement to
lead the Cleveland Browns to the NFL championship,
received the award at the annual Rochester Press and
Radio Club dinner for the Polio Fund. -Brooklyn's Johnny
Podres was runner-up.
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