TElf MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE
Tuesday. January 1, 1957
Iowa is Nine Point Favorite to Stop
Oregon State; 101,000 Expected
By HAL WOOD
United Preu Sports Writer
Pasadena, Calif. U.R Ore
gon State and Iowa, a pair of
perenniel also-rans in big time
iootball competition, headline
the 42nd Rose Bowl show today
with the versatile Hawkeyes
a nine-point favorite to continue
Big Ten domination of the Pasa
dena classic.
A capacity crowd of 101,000
is expected to jam the huge
saucer under sunny skies and a
temperature of around 70 de
grees.
It's the first appearance in his
tory for Iowa in this oldest of
all post-season grid shows; and
only the second time for Oregon
State. But this year both these
small schools came up with their
finest football teams that netted
conference championships.
Beat Beavers Earlier
One of the. reasons for the
Iowa favoritism is that the boys
from the corn belt administered
a 14-13 licking to the Beavers
earlier in the year. It is the first
time since the Big Ten-Pacific
McCormick
Voted Top
'56 Amateur
New York jOJ.R) Pat Keller
McCormick, the greatest woman
diver in history and mother of a
9-month-old son, today was vot
ed the James E. Sullivan award
as the nation's outstanding ama
teur athlete of 1956.
The 26-year-old Mrs. McCor
mick, who now has retired from
competition to become a full
time housewife in Lakewood,
Calif., was the only diver ever
to win two Olympic gold medals
in each of two successive Olym
piads. Tha pretty California star won
the Sullivan award, the nation's
most coveted amateur prize, by
a wide margin over decathlon
star Rafer Johnson of Los Ange
les and sprinter Thane Baker of
Elkhart, Kan., with the rest of
the field far behind.
"It's the greatest thing that
ever could happen to me," said
Mrs. McCormick in Lakewood.
"AH athletes dream of winning
the Sullivan award, and I've al
ways thought about it. It is the
greatest honor an athlete can
get.
"I was nominated for it twice
before, I believe," she said. "So
it was a thrill today to hear that
I've finally won it."
The Sullivan award, named In
honor of a founder of the AAU,
goes annually to the amateur
athlete "who, by performance,
example, and good influence,
did the most to advance the
' cause of good sportsmanship
during the year."
Mrs. McCormick was only the
second woman to gain the award
in its 27-year history, the first
being swimmer Ann Curtis in
1944.
The new winner, wife of U.S.
Olympic women's diving coach
Glenn McCormick, won both the
women's springboard and plat
form diving at the 1952 Olymt
pics in Helsinki, Finland. She
repeated in both events at the
1956 Olympics in Melbourne.
Femandes Whips Norm
Perry in Net Tourney
Miami Beach U.R) Young
Carlos Fernandes of Sao Paolo,
Brazil, whipped Norman Perry
of Los Angeles for the singles
crown in the Orange Bowl jun
ior tennis tournament Monday,
then teamed with him to win
the doubles championship.
Fernandes, a smooth-stroking
player who outdid Perry both
at the net and in the back court,
won the singles title, 6-1, 6-3,
6-4. It was his first tournament
appearance in this country.
Huskies, UCLA Named
As PCC Teams to Beat
Los Angeles U.R) Univer
sity of Washington and UCLA
were named today as the teams
to beat in the Pacific Coast con
ference basketball race by the
Southern California Basketball
Writers association. "
Of 11 votes cast,. Washington
received seven, UCLA four and
a lone vote went to Oregon
State.
Medford Jr. Rifle
Club Plans Meeting
The Medford Junior Rifle
club will hold its annual meet
ing and election of officers at
7:30 p.m. Jan. 3 at the Medford
YMCA building.
Plans will be made for this
years shooting program, it was
announced. Club members have
reported that it is important all
those intending to shoot this
year be present.
TRACK DEBUT
New York U.R) Four min
ute miler Laszlo Tabori, one of
38 Hungarian Olympic athletes
now in this country, will make
his American track debut in the
two-mile run in the Boston K. of
C. meet, Jan. 19, it was an
nounced today.
Coast Conference pact signed 10
years ago that there had been
a rematch on a regular season
game for the bowl.
This will be a battle of wing
formations with much less pass
ing to be expected than when
T-formation teams are playing.
Coach Tommy Prothro of Ore
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SECRET WEAPON The un-heralded Oregon State
passers limber up their throwing arms during a practice
session in Santa Monica, CalifT, for Rose Bowl game
against the Univ. of Iowa Hawkeyes. The Beavers don't
pass much but possess a secret weapon in Jot Francis
(left) aand Paul Lowe (right) who both have a 500 per cent
or better record.
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Tournament Denies
UM Color Bar Claim
Owensboro, Ky. U.R) The
University of Mississippi's claim
that it was "guaranteed" no
Negro players would compete In
the Kentucky Ail-American City
Basketball Tournament was flat
ly denied today by tournament
chairman Gus E. Paris.
Mississippi withdrew from the
tournament Sunday rather than
play a consolation bracket game
against Iona College of New Ro-
chelle, N. Y which has Negro
guard Stan Hill of New York
City in its starting lineup.
At the time, University presi
dent Dr. J. B. William and Ath
letic Director C. M. Smith issued
a joint statement in which they
said. "When we accepted the in
vitation to that tournament, it
was with an understanding there
would be no Negroes in it.
Smith said he couldn't think of
the name of the person who
gave him this assurance but "it
was the tournament manager or
director."
Paris, a professor at Kentucky
Wesleyan College, insisted that
no such assurance ever was giv
en Mississippi.
"The question of Negroes was
not discussed with University of
Mississippi officials, and abso
lutely no guarantee was made
that there would be no Negro
players in the tournament," said
Paris.
In the absence of Mississippi,
Iona automatically advanced to
the finals of the consolation
bracket and tonight will play
Montana State. A special com-
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VISITING DISNEYLAND with other football players. Ail
American tackles Alex Karras, Iowa (left) and John Witte,
Oregon State, meet Ann Mossberg, Rose Bowl queen, who
will preside over annual game in Pasadena Jan. 1 between
championship teams. (International Soundptioto)
gon State uses the single-wing;
Coach Forest Evashevski of
Iowa uses the winged-T balanced
line and single-wing blocking.
Both clubs boast powerful for
ward walls. The anchor man for
the Beavers is All - America
tackle John Witte a 232-pound-er
chosen by opponents as one
mittee will meet after the tour
nament to decide what monetary
arrangements should be made
with Mississippi in view of its
withdrawal.
Mississippi's action followed a
similar move by Mississippi
State College in withdrawing
from the Holiday Tournament at
Evansville, Ind., rather than
play against Negro players, on
the Evansville College team.
Howe Nears
Pro Hockey
Point Lead
Montreal (U.R) Gordie Howe
of the Detroit Red Wings moved
to within six points of Mon
treal's Jean Beliveau for the
lead in the National Hockey
League scoring race during the
past week.
Including games played last
Sunday, Beliveau had 19 goals
and 33 assists for 53 points.
Howe picked up three goals and
five assists in three games last
week to increase , his season to
tal to 46 points'.
Howe had 23 goals, tops for
the league, and an equal number
of assists in 33 games..
Ted Lindsay of Detroit held
down third place with 43 points,
while linemate Norm Ullman
had 35 points, two more than
Montreal's Bert Olmstead.
In the goalie statistics, the
Montreal duo of Jacques Plante
and Gerry McNeil boasted the
lowest goals-per-game average
2.14. Glenn Hall of Detroit was
second with a 2.30 mark.
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of the great linemen of the year.
The most respected man on
the Iowa line is Alex Karras,
also a tackle, who was chosen
All-Big Ten.
Iowa Coach Uncertain
The Iowa coach still can't
make up his mind about who
will start in the backfield and
won't make the announcement
until the men line up for the
kick-off.
It will be Ken Ploen at quar
terback and Don Dobrino at left
half; but at right half it may be
Mike Hagler, who has been on
the second string, or Bill Hep
pie, the regular; and at full,
Evashevski can't make up his
mind between regular Fred Har
ris or second stringer John
Nocera.
The Oregon State backfield
will be the same as it has been
for the last seven games: quar
terback Gerry Laird; left' half
Joe Francis; right half Earnel
Durden and fullback Tom Berry.
Indications are that this will
be a low-scoring game.
Coast Teams
Unimpressive
In UP Poll
New York U.R) West coast
basketball teams don't look too
tough to the United Press Board
of Coaches. In this week's poll
only UCLA from the West. coast
could make it into the top ten
and only four other Pacific
coast schools even rate mention.
Kansas, with Wilt "The Stilt"
Chamberlain living up to all the
notices, continued to head the
list of basketball powers. Behind
the Jayhawks were such fami
liar names as North Carolina,
Kentucky, Southern Methodist,
Louisville and Illinois.
Oklahoma A&M and Manhat
tan joined UCLA to round out
the top 10 teams in the minds of
the coaches from across the
country.
Oregon State drew mention
this week but picked up only
three votes and was far down
in the list of vote getters that
failed to make the first 20.
Washington also missed the
top 20 but California was named
to the No. 16 spot and Seattle to
the 17th place in the poll.
Bowl Game
Lineup
By UNITED PRESS
Here in capsule form is the
lineup of New Year's Day bowl
games:
Rose Bowl at Pasadena, Calif.:
Iowa 8-1 vs. Oregon State 7-2-1;
NBC radio and TV, starting at
5 p.m. EST; expected attendance,
101,000.
Cotton Bowl at Dallas, Tex.:
Texas Christian 7-3 vs. Syracuse
7- 1: NBC radio and TV, starting
at 2 p.m, EST; 65,000.
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans,
La.: Tennessee 10-0 vs. Baylor
8- 2; ABC radio and TV, starting
Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla.:
Colorado 7-2-1 vs. Clemson, CBS
radio and TV, starting at 2 p.m.
EST; 70.000.
Sun Bowl at El Paso, Tex.:
Texas Western 9-1 vs. George
Washington 7-1-1, starting at 3:30
p.m. EST; 15,000.
Tangerine Bowl at Orlando,
Fla.: West Texas SUie 7-2 vs.
Mississippi Southern 7-1-1; start
ing at 8 p.m. EST; 12,500.
Jockey Injured In
Race Is Recovering
Salem (J.R) A 21-year-old
jockey who was injured in a fail
during the Oregon State Fair
racing program, has virtually re
covered completely from the ac
cident. Friends here said they had re
ceived word from Caldwell, Ida.,
that Dewey Henshaw, who re
mained unconscious for more
than a month in a Salem hos
pital after the accident, is now
nearly well.
Henshaw said he planned to
give up his career as a jockey
and serve as a trainer.
BOXERS SIGN
New York U.R) Bobby
Courchesne of Holyoke, Mass.,
and Johnny Busso of New York
have been signed for a 10-round.
widely - televised lightweight
bout at St. Nicholas arena, Mon
day, Jan. 7.
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TITLE BOUT Sugar Ray Robinson, right, will defend his
middleweight crown against challenger Gene Fullmer, left, in
a 15-round title fight Wednesday, Jan. 2 at Madison Square
Garden. The fight will be broadcast at 7 p.m., over KYJC.
Sugar Ray, Fullmer Clash Wednesday
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SOARING HIGH ABOVE THE HEADS of his Notre Dame
opponents, Melvin Wilkes of Brigham Young snatches the
ball from four Irish players. Notre Dame won the game
in Madison Square Garden 91-66. (International Soundrhoto)
Basketball
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East
St. Bonaventure 70 Creighton 0
South
AIl-Amerfcan Tournament
At Owensboro, Ky.
Seml-Final
New Mexico A&M 43 Maryland 43
Consolation
Montana St. 75 Georgetown 71
Georgia 69 Florida 62
Midwest
Loyola III. 57 Western Mich. 55
Northwestern 73 Yale 63
Akron 75 Toledo 60
Southwest
Okla. ,City U. 74 Oregon 52
PRINCETON GUEST
Kansas City, Mo. U.R:
Princeton, Ivy league champion
three times in the past seven
years, will be the guest team in
the 1957 Big Seven conference
pre-season basketball tourna
ment, it was announced today.
THE BLUES
Kalamazoo, Mich. (U.R) The
Perennial State Fair homemak
ing champion, Mrs. John L. Holt,
has the blues. She has been
patching together her prize rib
bons in a quilt, but the color
scheme is unbalanced because of
all the blue ribbons. She needs
reds, yellows and whites, to liven
up the pattern but hasn't figured
out how to prepare a second-best
cake or third-best preserves.
Cleveland. Ohio U.R) When
Willard Bu ion took his stepson,
Roger Pennington, fishing in
Lake Erie here and was overdue
nine hours, he didn't need an
alibi. Mrs. Burton, who had no
tified police when they failed to
return, was surprised when her
husband showed up with more
than 200 white bass. Burton said
they were biting so good, he just
could not leave.
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RETIRING Artie Gore, 48,
baseball umpire for 20 years,
10 in the minors and 10 in
the National League, his
hung up his gear to retire
to Lexington, Mass. home.
Gore was released by Na
tional League President
Warren Giles to make room
in the league's umpire ranks
for two younger men.
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Referee
Rebuffs
Warnings
New York KU.PJ Julius Hel
fand today rebuffed the sugges
tion of Sugar Ray Robinson's co-
managers that the referee be of
ficially warned against Gene
Fullmer's possible butting and
hitting low in Wednesday night's
middleweight title fight at Mad
ison Square Garden.
Chairman Helfand of the New
York State Athletic commission
said, "I've never issued any
warning or special instructions
to a referee yet, and I won't start
now. Whoever referees the fight
will know his job and do it.
Because of challenger Full
mer's headlong attack. Sugar
Ray's co-pilots Ernie Braca and
Harold Johnson announced
they would ask Helfand Wed
nesday "to issue storm warnings
against head collisions and low
blows, even though uninten
tional." They recalled that Robinson
suffered a deep brow cut in a
head collisision with England's
Randy Turpin at the Polo
Grounds in September, 1951,
shortly -before knocking out
Turpin In the 10th round.
"And if Ray hadn't belted out
Randy just when he did, Ray
probably would have lost on a
technical knockout," Braca said.
Thirty-five-year-old Robinson,
who -was very impressive in his
final two rounds, of sparring
Monday, rested today and de
clined to comment on the butting
angle. "I'll let my managers han
dle that end," he said.
And no comment came from
25-year-old Fullmer, still incom
municado in a midtown hideout.
Carlos Ortiz Takes
19th Straight Win
New York (U.R) Unbeaten
young Carlos Ortiz of New York,
fresh from his 19th straight vic
tory, resolved today: "1 11 break
into the top 10 lightweight rank
ings this year."
Ortiz climbed off the canvas
at St. Nicholas Arena in the first
round Monday night and gave
young Gale Kerwin of Valley
Stream, N. Y., a body beating
for a lopsided 10-round decision.
Carlos weighed 135Vi pounds;
Kerwin, 139.
Clarksville. Ark is believed
to be the nation's smallest com
munity with a symphony orches
tra. The population by the 1850
census was 4,343.
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Fourteen shooters fired at
1,300 targets Sunday at the Med
ford Gun club with highs In 16
yards.
George Jantzer scored 86 hiti
out of 100, Ed Pease had 50 out
of 50, Bert Peack, 47 out of 50;
and Bob Langhoff and - Harry
Elden had 25 straights.
Ed Pease and Harry Tom
were high in the handicaps with
24 hits out of 25 each. In skeet
shooting Everett Gibson was
high with 45 hits out of 50 and
Bert Peck had 44 out of 50.
There will be shooting each
Sunday throughout the winter
with programs as shooters de
sire, club members' have an
nounced. The annual team shoot will
be Feb. 10 and the membership
meeting end dinner Feb. 13. The
same team captains are expected
to be in charge.
FARIA SURPRISE WINNER
Sao Paulo, Brazil U.R) Man
uel Faria of Portugal was tha
surprise winner of the St. Syl
vester long distance run of
about 4V4 miles today through
the streets of Sao Paulo. Stritof
Drago of Yugoslavia was second
and Herbert Schade of Germany
third in the traditional race
which begins one minute after
midnight on New Year's day.
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