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SIX MEDFOHP (OlEGON) MAIL TBIBUNK 1 6-Day 1956 Olympic Games To Open Thursday for Athletes of 69 Nations Melbourne (U.R) The Com monwealth Weather Bureau pre dicts 70-iegree temperatures and dear skies for' the opening of Thursday's J6th Olympiad. By LEO H. PETERSEN United Precs (ports Editor -' Melbourne t-, CU.Rj .The XVI Olympiad opens Thursday with 4,985 aletes from 69 countries 3 determined to make this city an islartd of good will" in a world torn by strife. The gieet parade of the world's top athletes begins in the main stadium at the Mel bourne cricket grounds at 3 p.m. (Midnight Wednesday' EST). For the next 16 days they will go all out ui an unprecedented as sault on world records bearing in jnindJ at the same time the Olympic eode that "the main objective is nbt to win, but to play th game well." A crowd ofsl"lO,000, including visitor from all over the world, wiiJ be on hand for the colorful opening ceremonies and the ex cirment is expected to increase rather than .-diminish as the games proceed. This nation's population scarcely 8 5' million bu at? least that number of gnindmothers will "be reported ailing ip tne next two weeks. Battle With Russia Looms The United States, as usual, is ' favored to win the unofficial "team championship" after a ti tanic battle with Russia. The U. S. has c.sent a squad of 386 athletes while Russia has en- tered 412 men and women and BOWLING LADIES CLASSIC LEAGUE Standings: , w- HawkNuon Tire Tread 32 " 2" Jnrnemen'a Dairy 3 Hi 20 i Trail Creek Lumtsar 28 24 Wooden Soe 25 ' 2'.i Jack's Drive U 25 27 Uruon Cfab 24'i 27'i Crtrter Inn Motel 24 1., 27 a Anderson's Market 24 28 Morning Freah Bakery 23 29 Motor liavert Motel 22 30 Rilti: Cratr Inn 2-i G. RlSS 4M O. Wvatt 439 U. Over 404 W. SJsrrar 357 C. Huaton "427 o 2119 Andern Mki. 3 A. 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Also: VPI over VMI, South Carolina over Wake Forest, Id aho over Montana, Utah over Utah State, Denver over Colo rado A&M. The Saturday picks: East Yale over Harvard Bulldogs dined on Tiger steaks last Sat urday, i Princeton over Dartmouth Now the Tigers go for a square meal. Pittsburgh over Penn State Barbecued Nittany Lion over soft coal fire. Villanova over Iowa State and these Cyclones won't blow out the fire. Columbia over Rutgers Lit tle enough to do for Coach Lou in his finale. Also: Boston college over Brandeis. South Tennessee over Kentucky Who' 11 Volunteer to feed the Wildcats. Georgia Tech over Florida The Engineers want dinner in a bowl. Today's only drive truck ! It's tested, proven, certified and unique in its weight class. No other 4-wheel drive truck even touches its performance proved all-around utility. 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Also: Northwestern over Ilr linois, Minnesota over Wiscon sin. Southwest Baylor over SMU Baptists and Methodists have a church dinner. TCU over Rice They have Thanksgiving in Chinatown, too. Also: Houston over Texas Tech, Arkansas over LSU. Midlands Oklahoma over Nebraska Well-fed SDoners wind up husk ing corn. Far West Washington "over Washington State These guys provide the finger bowls. Stanford over California By an arrowhead. Colorado over Arizona We are getting Boulder and Bould er. UCLA over Southern Califor nia Gotta hurry, we're late for dinner. Buck Davidson Promoter at KF Klamath Falls Buck David son, well-known professional wrestler, has been named boxing and wrestling promoter here by the Klamath Falls boxing com mission. Davidson succeeds Mack Lillard, who has taken an extended leave of absence and with his wife will tour Central and South America In the next few months. Jeep TRUCK makers of 4-wheel drivi vehicles Phone 3-3655 field events with additional medals in boxing, as many as four in weight-lifting, and other medals in basketball, yachting and wrestling. Russia is expected to show general improvement in virtu ally every sport but its main strength probably will lie in the gymnastic events and in the women's track and field. The Russians won two team medals and 21 individual medals for a total of 23 in 1952. The 1952 unofficial team point score had the U. S. in front, 614 to SoSVi just about the figures impar tial experts expect the teams to achieve this year. Jordan Olivar Mentor of Week New Haven, Conn., Nov. 21 (U.R) The old grad, flushed with excitement, said he hadn't missed a home game since 1919 j and as darkness enveloped the huge bowl, declared: "This is the greatest team I've ever seen up here. That spirit. Man, did you ever see a team that wanted to win more." The tall, bald man on the sidelines wasn't ready to classi fy it as "the greatest" but he said "they even got me stirred up with all that spirit." M He s the United Press Coach T)f the Week, iubilant Jordan Olivar, who put teeth in the Yale Bulldog, then watched it chew the unbeaten, untied Princeton Tigers to shreds, 42 20, to all but clinch the Ivy League championship. In a game that had been marked up as a "pick 'em" af fair, Yale showed such superior ity that one wondered how there ever could have been any doubt about the outcome. Yet Yale on paper did not figure to be so su perior. PIONEERS TO HAWAII Portland (U.R) A 25-man Lewis and Clark fnnthall leaves here by plane tomorrow lor Honolulu where the Pioneers are rated three to four touch down underdogs against the Un iversity of Hawaii Saturday night. BHUINS BARELY MAKE IT UCLA end Pat Pinkston (89) leaps high but in vain for this pass as Charles McCue (41) of Kansas successfully bats the ball away. The Bruins, two touchdown favorites, were trying desperately to probe the Kansas defense as the teams went into the third quarter at Los Angeles with no score. At left, hoping the ball will deflect his way is Kansas quarterback Wally Strauch. OREGON CONCRETE Phone 2-5271 Thursday TRU-MIX USE TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS! Brociie Pass Record Class Of Circuit Los Angeles (U.R) The pass ing of Sanford's John Brodie and the kicking of UCLA's Kirk Wilson have been the class of Pacific Coast conference foot ball, figures from the PCC com missioner's office showed today. Brodie has led the nation in passing and total offense while Wilson has held national honors as a punter. Both players far outdistance their rivals in the PCC. Brodie has completed 130 passes for 1,541 yards and rates first in total offense with 1,546 yards. Wilson set a new PCC record last Saturday by averag ing 58 yards a kick on four punts. He leads the enference with a 48.8 yard average on 24 punts. Arneit Still Leads Southern California's Jon Ar nett although completing his five-game stint three weeks ago, still leads the PCC in rushing with 625 yards to 593 for team mate C. R. Roberts. Arnett hasn't played since the Stanford game. Stanford's Lou Valli tops con ference scoring with 54 points. Bill Steiger of Washington State has caught the most passes, 32, while r.rnie Zampese of South ern California leads in pass in terceptions with five. Leroy Phelps of Oregon has returned punls for the most yardage, 204, and teammate Jack Morris has the most yards on kickoff returns, 273. Brodie sparked Stanford to the passing lead in the team sta tistics. But Southern California holds a narrow edge in rushing and total offense. Indian Passing Stanford has averaged 216.9 yards a game passing to 204 for Washington State. The Trojans averaged 258.4 yards rushing and boast a leading 345 yards a game mark in total offense. The Indians rank second in total offense with 341.8 to edge Washington State with 341.1. Washington follows SC in rush ing with 257.6. UCLA passed the Trojans in team punting with a 40.5 average to 38.7 for SC. Oregon maintained the best defensive record for the ninth straight week, having allowed 235.3 yards a game to 249.7 for UCLA. The Ducks also lead in pass defense with 73.8 yards to 82.4 for California. COMPANY 248 E. McAndrews Road Football Briefs INDIANS HURT Stanford, Calif. (U.R) The Stanford Indians should be in pretty good shape for Saturday's "Big Game" against the Uni versity of California but if they had to play today. Coach Chuck Taylor would be in a bad way. Halfback Doug Dick has a sprained ankle; center Bob Long has a hip pointer: tackle John Kidd has a knee strain, and full back Lou Valli has a bad shoul der. But all four should be back in action Saturday. BEARS INCENTIVE Berkeley, Calif. (U.R) The University of California Bears never need any incentive for their annual clash with Stan ford in the "Big Game," but they'll have some this Satur day. They'll be out to win a final game for Coach Lynn Waldorf, who announced his retirement Tuesday night after 10 years of leading the Bears in gridiron battle. POST DEFENSE Seattle, Wash. (U.R) The University of Washington Huskies put the emphasis on pass defense Tuesday as Coach Darrell Royal prepared for Saturday's battle with the Washington State Cougars. SUTHERLAND BEAMS Pullman, Wash. (U.R) Coach Jim Sutherland is still beaming over Washington State's victory over the University of Cali fornia and he would like to see the same kind of results against Washington Saturday. He hopes the Cougar passing game will be able to compete with the fine running game of the Huskies, but he warned his team that Washington proved against Stanford that it has come up with the passes when they are needed. BRUINS HURTING Los Angeles (U.R) Coach Collegiate Ski Carnival Slated Portland (U.R) Plans for a two-day winter ski carnival on the slopes of Mount Hood, par ticipated in by nearly every col lege in Oregon, were announced here today. Sponsoring school for the Jan uary 26 and 27 week end will be Portland State. Altogether 10 colleges in the state will take part. , Schools participating .include: Portland State, Oregon State, Oregon, Lewis and Clark, Uni versity of Portland, Marylhurst, Reed, Oregon College, Southern Oregon and Eastern Oregon. THE BRAND Presents The One Different fflf . 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Los Angeles (U.R) Sopho more quarterback Jim Conroy polished up on his passing Tues day in preparation for his start ing assignment for the Univer sity of Southern California against UCLA. Conroy, who started the sea son as a fourth-stringer, looked sharp in the passing drill. He was named to replace injured quarterback Ellsworth Kissinger in the UCLA game Saturday. Chestnut Picked Over Tom Bain Hollywood, Calif. (U.R) Ike Chestnut, fourth-ranking featherweight from New York, rates as a 10 to 8 favorite to side track the title hopes of youthful Irish Tommy Bain tonight .in their nationally-televised 10 rounder at Hollywood Legion stadium. TAILOR MADE Melbourne (U.R) Prentis C. Hale, president of the Winter Games Organizing committee, told the International Olympic committee today that the site of the 1960 winter games at Squaw Valley, California will be "tail or made" for the competition. "Every facility including the vil lage, ice stadium, ski jump, al pine course, press and staff buil dings and bobsled course will be constructed especially for the games," Hale said in outlining the plans to the IOC. WEGERT TO RETURN Philadelphia (U.R) The Philadelphia Phillies announced today that offensive back Ted Wegert will return to action against the San Francisco Forty- Niners next Sunday and that halfback Bob Smith has been placed on waivers. Wegert has been sidelined with a fractured toe since Oct. 14. BROWN SIGNED AGAIN Pittsburgh (U.R) Joe L. Brown, who replaced Branch Rickey as general manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates last year, has been signed again for the job, club President John L. Galbreath announced today. OF THE BOURBON MAN BOURBON BasketbaH By UNITED PRESS The revamped St. Louis Hawks, paced by Paul Pettit and easy Ed Macauley, are pull ing away frm their rivals in the National Basketball association's Western division race. With Pettit tutting for 26 points and Macauley for 21, the Hawks sored n easy 104-81 vic tory over the Syracuse Nationals in Sr. Louis Tuesday night in the only game playefl' in the NBA. Tar Heel Boot o Ineligible Man Chapel Hill, N..C. (U.R) North Carolina Coach Jim Ta turn apologized today for hav ing a player on th Tarheel squa.d who used two names to play five years of football for two different colleges. Vince Olen, a junior end from Swoyersvilie, Pa., was suspend ed Tuesday when he admitted to university officials that he once played at Temple, univer sity in Philadcjphiii under his real name of Vince Olenik. "I am glad that it came out before the Duke game and we are embarrassed that he has com peted in games here in the pat," Tatum said. "I am'writirtf apol ogies to all our opponents." Olen entered Temple in 1950 and played fresTiman football. He also played for the Owl var sity the next year before enter ing the Army. YANKS COMMISSIONED Oklahoma City (iy?) 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