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New York 0J.R) Big Bill
Russell was discovering today
that in professional basketball
you have to be rough, tough,
and nasty.
The 6-foot, 10-inch Olympic
star wasn't exactly a sensation
in his Madison Square Garden
debut as a pro. He was rocked
and socked as his Boston Celtics
lost a 113-102 decision to the
JCew York Knickerbockers.
'Willie" was simply too po
lite. On the few occasions when
he knocked down Harry Galla
tin, Russell reached down and
helped his floored opponent to
his feet. On the numerous oc
casions when the situation was
reversed, Harry the Horse mere
ly grinned in wicked satisfac
tion. Mora of Sam
And when Gallatin was on the
bench, Sweetwater Clifton dish
ed up much more of the same
to Russell.
"Sweets" had to find out the
hard way himself when he first
came up that you aren't courte
ous on the cash court. They al
most ran him out of the league,
as they have dozens of others.
"Get tough," ranted Joe Lap
chick, then coach of the Knicks.
"Get tough or get lost."
So the next time to he was
bounced. Sweets replied with a
fistfull of knuckles and has kept
them ready ever since.
It's a lesson they all must
learn to survive among the rug
ged pros. These guys are not
impressed by Russell's Olympic
and All-American clippings.
Each one of them has a fat
scrapbook of his own.
Not that anyone believes Rus
sell will be put out of the bask
etball business. This was only
his 10th pro game and he had
been highly impressive on de
fense with 201 rebounds in his
first nine contesis.
Better Than Expected
"He has done far better than
we expected," said Boston
Coach Red Auerback. "He's a
great player and gives us the
rebound strength we needed."
Eddie Gottlieb, owner of the
Philadelphia Warriors, who
complained ahout Russell's
"goaltending." also feels that
the former San Francisco star
is a potential great.
But Russell no longer is the
laughing boy who kept the
Olympic team in stitches. He is
California,
Washington
Head Stats.
Los Angeles (U.R) Cali
fornia and Washington domii
nated the Pacific Coast Confer
ence basketball team statistics
released today by the PCC com
missioner's office with the Bears
the top team on defense and the
Huskies first on offense.
Washington averaged 78 points
a game in opening conference ac
tion last weekend. The Huskies
shot a blistering 49.2 per cent
from the floor in winning two
games.
Southern California was second-ranked
in scoring with a 75
point average of 66.5 for UCLA.
Washington hit 61 of 124 field
goal attempts for a big margin
over the 45.8 per cent of Oregon
State and 45.3 per cent of Stan
ford. Bears Strong
California held its weekend
opponent to 54.5 points per game
to top Stanford with 61 points
and Oregon State with 61.5. The
Bears also displayed the strong
est game on the boards, picking
off 77 rebounds to 56 for the
opposition. The Bears headed a
third department by hitting 35 of
44 free throws for 79.5 per cent
to 75,6 for UCLA and 73.8 for
Washington State.
Idaho led in field goal de
fense, holding foes to 29.4 per
cent on floor shots while UCLA
allowed 35.4 and Washington
35.9.
In individual statistics. South
ern California guard Danny
Rogers and Washington sopho
more Doug Smart topped the
field. Rogers led in total points
with 52 on 19 field goals and 14
free throws while Smart was
first in field goal percentage by
bucketing 19 of 31 floor shots
for a 61.3 percentage mark.
Smart Rebounding
Smart also headed board play,
picking off 33 reboupds out of
174 chances for 19 per cent. He
was followed by Gary Goble of ;
Oregon State with 24 out of 136
chances and Duane Asplund of
California with 18 out of 133.
Two points behind Rogers in
scoring was Dave Gambee of
Oregon State with 50 followed
by Larry Friend of California
and Bruno Boin of Washington,
both with 47 points. Second in
field goal percentage was Paul
Neumann of Stanford with 10
out of 18 shots and Don Mcintosh
of California came next with
seven out of 13 attempts.
Southern California center Jim
Sterkel led in free throws with i
13 in 14 attempts for a 92.9 per
cent average, followed by Don
Sunitsch of Washington with
88.9 per cent and Goble with j
85.7.
tight-lipped and laconic, speaks
reluctantly and obvidbsly is
feeling his way cautiously.
"These guys all exceed my
expectations." he said tersely.
"They are all good."
ISPORTSI
Grid Balance
Appreciated
By Coaches
St. Louis (U.R) Football
coaches took over today at the
51st convention of the National
Collegiate Athletic association,
and congratulated themselves
for the college game's "good
balance."
Today's schedule called main
ly for the coaches to attend clin
ics and study film.
The American Football
Coaches asociation, which can
do no more than recommend
rules changes to the NCA, would
change the substitution rule to
permit re-entry by any player
once in a period. That is about
all. The association also would
like to see a better guard against
illegal substitution.
The present substitution rule
aDplies only to a player who
started the period. He may re
enter once.
While the AFCA found little
for controversy, the NCAA ex
ecutive council expected to stir
comment in such matters as eli
gibility, recruiting, and rules
violations.
Bowl Disapproved
Walter Byers, NCAA execu
tive director, said after a day
long council meeting Tuesdav
that it was not possible to ap
prove a proposed Orange Bowl
meeting later this month or in
early February for Hungarian
refugee relief. The game would
have matched the No. 1 Univer
sity of Oklahoma against Miami
university.
Byers expected eligibility to
occupy an important place on
the council's agenda later this
week. One matter was discussed
briefly Tuesday in connection
with the "College World Series"
won last spring by the Univer
sity of Minnesota.
The council said it would ap
point a committee to work with
the American Medical associa
tion on sports injuries.
The NCAA kept hands off bas
ketball television. It said the
matter was too regional and gen
erally under too good a control
to warrant regulatory measures,
such as apply to football TV.
Portland State
Defeats Wolves
Portland (U.R) Defending
champion Portland State handed
Oregon College a 69-39 basket
ball whipping last night for its
first Oregon Collegiate confer
ence win of the season. The Vi
kings dropped two straight to
Oregon Tech last' weekend.
Portland State led only 25-24
at the half last night but poured
it on the Wolves in the second
half for an easy win.
Johnny Winters led the PSC
scoring with 19 while Jack Park
er hit 16. Wayne Young was
high for OCE with 9.
Ring Pilot Tells
Of Persuasion
Cleveland (U.R) Jack Car
penter. Warren. Ohio, boxing
manager, testified at the govern
ment's anti-trust boxing trial
here Tuesday that he was per
suaded to join the Ohio Boxing
guild minutes before one of his
fighters was to appear on a
Cleveland boxing show.
Carpenter also testified that he
was expelled by the Internation
al Boxing guild later because his
fighters took part in televised
studio bouts in 1955.
The government suit is against
the IBG and the Ohio Boxing
guild, an affiliate, and three of
ficials of the two groups. It is
being heard by Federal Judge
James Connell without a jury.
Zone Helps
Dayton Five
Gain Upset
By JOHN GRIFFIN
United Press Sports Writer
The zone defense outlawed by
the pros and bitterly criticized
by some college coaches, turned
up today as a key factor in
basketball's latest major upset
Dayton's 65-58 victory over
llth-ranked Canisius.
North Carolina, the nation's
No. 2 team, and fourth-ranked
Southern Methodist each sur
vived a rugged test to gain its
12th victory of the season Tues
day night.
But Canisius, tagged wi t h
only its second loss in 12 starts,
ran up against the first zone
defense used by a Dayton team
in the 10-year coaching reign
of Tommy Blackburn. After a
see-saw first half that finally
left host Dayton on top 28-27.
the strategy helped Dayton con
trol the ball for most of the fi
nal 19 minutes to gain the up
per hand.
Unbeaten North Carolina had
to rally in the second half to
beat William and Mary 71-61.
on the losers' court as Carolina
star Lennie Rosenbluth was
held to just one basket and a
total of 10 points. William and
Mary led 28-26. at halftime but
Carolina went head after 15
seconds of the second half and
led the rest of the way, though
never by much. Pete Brennan
had 20 points and Joe Quigg 18
to make up for Rosenbluth for
the Tar Heels.
SMU Tops Texas A&M
Once-beaten SMU ran into a
zone defense manufactured by
Texas A&M but fought to a
62-53 victory compared to a
68-42 romp over the Aggies in
the recent Southwest confer
ence tournament. The Aggies
benched their usual tall team and
started five short swifties in
hones of making the zone de
fense work but they couldn't
stop 6-8 center Jim Krebs of the
Mustangs from scoring 30
points. George Mehaffey led the
Acgies with 23.
In other leading games Tues
day night: Princeton tripped
Columbia, 100-96: in overtime
in the Ivy League although Co
lumbia's little Chet (The Jet)
Forte scored 34 to set a Prince
ton court record; Texas downed
Texas Christian, 85-76, in the
Southwest Conference: fresh
man Carl Sloan's 18 points led
Richmond to a 56-50 win over
Virginia; Lee Marshall's 35
Doints. including four free
throws in the final minutes gave
Washineton and Lee a 72-69
win over Citadel in the Southern
conference.
Bob Satterfield Scores
Knockout; Puscas Stopped
Portland U.R) Bob Satter
field, flashing a lightning right
hand and keeping his chin cov
ered, posted a fifth-round knock
out over Dale Hall in their
scheduled 10-rounder here last
night.
The 184-pound Chicago slug
ger had the edge all the way but
not until the fifth did he have
Hall in serious trouble.
Then late in the fifth Hall
took a pair of left hooks -that sat
him back on his heels. Satter
field followed up with a flurry
of rights that dropped his Los
Angeles opponent for the full
count with 2:57 of the round
gone by.
The knockout was the only
knockdown of the fight.
None of the four preliminary
bouts on the night's card went
the distance.
Hall Halts Jackie
Teddy Hall, 135-pounder from
Seattle took a first round TKO
over Medford's Jackie Puscas
and Ted Poole, Chicago- 178
pounder, took a TKO in the
third round of his scheduled six-
Fans Out for Tussle;
Opposing Fives Absent
Altoona, Pa. U.R) Fans and
sports writers turned out in
numbers at a YMCA gym here
Tuesday night to watch a sched
uled basketball game between
Potomac (W. Va.) State college
and Penn State's Altoona center.
Redfaced officials explained
the game had been rescheduled
last month because of a conflict.
"I guess we forgot to tell any
body," an Altoona spokesman
admitted.
rounder with Andry Jurgens of
Winnipeg.
Bruce Olson, 268 pounds, of
Seattle, stopped Jack Riley of
Portland in the second round of
their match and Portland's Tom
my Thomas posted a fourth
round knockout over Dave Gott
schalk of Vancouver, B.C., in
the semi-windup.
Wednesday, January 9, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THIRTEEN
The Hall-Puscas bout was
stopped after Hall had dropped
his Medford foe with a blow to
the chin. Puscas reportedly
started well and had Hall in
trouble. But after the Seattleite
sneaked through a punch that
hurt, Puscas reverted to his style
of amateur days, giving Hall an
opening, according to the report.
Martin Named
Coach of Hawks
St. Louis kU.R) The smallest
player in professional basket
ball, Slater (Dugie) Martin, took
over as coach of the St. Louis
Hawks today, replacing Red
Holzman who resigned two days
ago.
Martin, who stands only 5 feet
10 inches, was named to pilot
the Hawks for the rest of this
season by owner Ben Kerner
late Tuesday.
HORSE DECLARED OUT
Miami, Fla. (U.R) Greek
Game, who became the biggest
money-winning juvenile of 1956
with earnings of $214,805, has
been declared from the $100,000
Added Flamingo Stakes to be
run at Hialeah park, March 2,
because of small bony growth
under each front knee.
CP Quintets
Victors Over
Eagle Point
Central Point Central Point
basketball clubs won three games
from Eagle Point teams yester
day. Crater high freshmen won
their mix 48 to 25. The Central
Point eighth graders were vic
tors by 33 to 14 and CP also took
the seventh grade test 30 to 19.
The Comet frosh had 15 to 9,
32 to 15 and 38 to 16 quarterly
margins and were led by Dennis
Pfaff with 18 counters. Tom
White scored nine tallies for the
eighth grade Pointers and Byr
son LaCaussse and Allen Nelson
stood out on defense. CP was on
top 16 to 6 at the half. Weidman
scored six for EP.
Central Pointers headed 20 to
9 at the half of the seventh grade
fuss. Geren was top man for EP
with 12 and John Champ had
eight for Central Point. j
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Duke Snider Has
?41,000 Contract
New York '(U.B Brooklyn
Dodger slugger Duke Snider had
a brand new $41,000 contract
today and the boss' best wishes
"to edge out teammate Roy
Campanella as the National
league's most valuable player."
"Every other year is supposed
to be Campy's year," said Dodg
er President Walter O Malley af
ter Snider, National league home
run champion, telephoned his
acceptance of the new pact from
Fallbrook. Calif. "But this year
I'd like to see the Duke edge
him out for the award."
Snider never has won an MVP
award although he finished a
close second to Campanella in
the 1955 voting.
Folley, Bethea
On Video Card
Syracuse, N.Y. U.R) Heavy
weight Zora Folley goes hunting
for his seventh straight win and
Wayne Bethea seeks revenge for
a one-point loss tonight in their
nationally-televised 10-round re
turn bout at War Memorial audi
torium. New York Bethea wants to
overturn his split decision loss
to Folley, of Chandler, Ariz.,
and the odds makers, who in
stalled Bethea as - an early 6-5
favorite, seem to think the 24-year-old
Wayne has the staying
power to do it.
The win moved Folley into
10th ranking as title contender
replacing Bethea.
Folley has the more impres
sive win record, 27-2-1, with 18
wins by knockouts; Bethea's rec
ord, 13-5-2, includes six wins by
knockouts.
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