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Most Improved Team
j LZO H. PETERSEN
Ifmii ret Sports Editor
St. Petersburg, Fla. (U.R)
Agrir4 with those who pick
his Ctr4mals as the most im
prov4 ia the National league,
Mar.(r Freddie Hutchison
pcintad ta centerfield today and
saidit "is the only hole on this
team."
"Of course." Hutch said, "We
could u.a another 20-game win
ner on our pitching staff, but
I'm not -orried about that. Cen
terfield is the big problem. I
have fellows who can do the
Job in tha field, but so far I've
seen there's no indication that
they ill be able to hit as they
should.
Bobby 1V1 Greco, obtained
from tl Pirates, played center
field mrt o the time last year
NBA Hoop
Slat Bills
Playoffs
1 UBITfcD FnLSS
The only thing certain when
the Natiorftil Basketball association-!)
288-game schedule grinds
to its close tonight is that there'll
be playoffs before the playoffs.
All eight teams will be in ac
tion, with New York at Boston,
Philadelphia at Minneapolis,
SyracuaV at Fort Wayne and Ro
chester . St. Louis at Milwau
kee. TtJ only teams not overly
concerned a-'ith the outcome of
tonight's gasnes are Boston and
O fcochester. Boston clinched the
stern Division title several
weVks go, while Rochester was
eliminated from playoff conten
tion lst Saturday.
In the Eastern Division Syr
acuse and Philadelphia could
wind up tied for second, and if
they do, they'll meet at Syra
cuse Friday night. If Philadel
phia and New York wind up tied
for third place then they'll meet
either Thursday or Friday night
at Philadelphia to determine the
division's third playoff team.
In the Western Division it's
mostly a battle for position. St.
Louis currently is in first place,
one game in front of Fort Wayne
and Minneapolis, but after to
night's action the three could
wind up tied for first place.
The Lakers, last a couple of
weeks ago, moved into the tie
for second by defeating the War
riors, 100-94, Tuesday night in
the only game played.
Waltonians
Opp
ibse Fast
Boating Bill
The Jackson county chapter
of the Izaak Walton league at a
meeting earlier this week passed
a resolution opposing Senate Bill
103, which would increase boat
speeds on Diamond lake.
Copies of the resolution will
be forwarded to Jackson county's
three legislators at Salem for
inforrfiational purposes.
Action on the resolution fol
lowed discussion that boats mov
ing as fast as 25 miles per hour
and towing water skiiers would
be dangerous to those in other
boa
Chapter members explained
fast moving motor powered boats
interfere with fishing and could
possibly make it impossible to
fish
As an alternative to high speed
motoring on Diamond lake, it
(Was pointed out most of Klamath
lake. Lake of the Woods and
many other local bodies of water
offer excellent facilities for fast
boating and water skiing.
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mail thibunz
but hit only .214.
Hutchinson has two other can
didates rookie Bobby Gene
Smith up from Houston where
he hit .299 and chuck Harmon,
a .360 hitter with Omaha last
year.
Harmon, who didn't make the
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be given "a long, good look
Hutchinson said, adding that
"the guy never really has had a
chance in the majors because he
never got to play full time."
"You can't tell what a player
can do until you put him in there
every day," Hutchinson added.
"I'm not saying I am going to
do that with Harmon, but he's
got to get a chance to show me
he is worth trying out that
way."
Hutchinson expressed pleas
ure at the deal which brought
him relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm
from the Giants.
Help For Bullpen
"Our bullpen was Inconsist
ent last year, but I think Wil
helm will straighten it out along
with Jim Davis."
He also hopes that Lynn Lov
enguth, who failed to make it
with the Phillies but earned an
other major league shot by win
ning 24 games with Toronto,
would strengthen the relief
corps.
Hutchinson praised the work
of two rookie hurlers Tom
Cheney, a 10-game winner with
Omaha, and Bob Smith, who
won eight at San Francisco.
"They both have a good
chance to stick on what they
have shown me so far," he said.
FUREY SIGNS
Calgary, Alta. (U.R) Jim
Furey, a 225-pound linebacker
from Newark, N.J., who captain
ed the Kansas State football
team in 1955, has signed with
the Calgary Stampederi of the
Canadian Football league. Furey
signed with the Stampeders af
ter turning down offers from the
New York Giants and Balti
more Colts Colts of the National
Football league.
COLUMBIA'S
New York (U.R) Columbia's
Chet (The Jet) Forte, a little man
who plays basketball in a big
,way, turned back the clock to
day by outspeeding the gangling
giants of the college game to
the 1957 United Press "Player of
the Year" award.
The 5-foot-9 pre-medical stu
dent, as sound fundamentally but
an even better scorer than the
solid little men who diminated
the early years of basketball.
gained the honor by a clear mar
gin in a nationwide poll of 281
sportswriters and broadcasters.
Forte received 63 votes in
widely-scattered balloting to win
over 'Wilt the Stilt' Chamberlain
UCLA Dominates
In 1957 PCC Action; Average 73
Los Angeles (U.R) The
UCLA Bruins, who finished out
the Pacific Coast Conference
basketball season in a tie for
second place, dominated the fi
nal official team statisticts re
leased today by the PCC.
UCLA ranked first in three
departments and finished third,
fourth and fifth in the other
three. The champion Univer
sity of California Bears were
first in one category, total de
fense. Stanford led in field goals
and Washington in field goal de
fense. The Bruins scored the most
points, 1171 for a 73.2 game av
erage. They took free throw
honors, making 72.7 per cent
of their attempts, and they con-
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Basketball
Scores
Bt cniteo prf.ss
NCAA at New York
Ftrit Round
Syracuse 82, Connecticut 76
Camsius 64. WeM Virginia 56
North Carolina t0. Yale 74
NCAA at Columbus, Ohio
First Round
Pittsburgh 86 Morehead State 83
Notre Dame 89. Miami lOhioi 77
NCAA at Oklahoma City
First Round
Oklahoma Citv 76. Loyola (La.) 53
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Wm. Jewel! 70. Adelphl 69 lot)
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Ball St. ilnd i 8. Troy St. iAla.1 70
Stetson 100. Wayne Tchrs. Neb. 84
Tennessee St. 87. Adrian 69
Younmlown 81. Westmont (Cal t 75
Western 111 101. S W. Ark St 70
SE. OkJa. St. 82. N.W. Nazarene 58
Prep Scores
Bt UNITED PRESS
A-l Tourney at Eugene
Lincoln S3, St. Helens 48
Benson 60. Astoria 39
A-2 Tourney at Salem
Madras 58. Dayton 40
Scappoose 64. Molalla 47
Drain 58, Cascade 42
Glide 60. Reed sport 41
Engle Named
Shrine Coach
San Francisco (U.R) Charles
(Rip) Engle of Penn State Uni
versity today was named head
coach for the East squad for the
33rd annual Shrine East-West
football classic, it was an
nounced by Managing Director
William M. Coffman.
Coffman said Engle, a mem
ber of the last two East coaching
staffs, would be assisted by Blan
ton Collier of Kentucky and
Milt Bruhn of Wisconsin.
The West staff of Jack Cur
tice, Utah; Tommy Prothro,
Oregon State, and Sam Boyd,
Baylor, was named several
weeks ago.
The 33rd shrine game will be
played here Dec. 28th.
BOYER SIGNS
Pasadena. -.Calif. (U.R)
Righthander Cloyd Boyer ended
his holdout seige with the Sac
ramento Solons Tuesday and
the club told first sacker Nippy
Jones it had given him its last
offer. On the holdout list along
with Jones are infielder Harry
Bright, outfielder Al Heisvt and
pitcher Rex Jones.
FORTE 'PLAYER OF YEAR'
brilliant seven-foot University of
Kansas sophomore, who had 51
votes. Six-five Grady Wallace of
South Carolina, the national
scoring leader, was third with
35 votes.
The selection of Forte, Ivy
League scoring champion, came
at the end of a surprising cam
paign in which he fought right
down to the wire with four physi
cal giants for the national scor
ing championship. He finished
with an average of 28.92 points
per game and awaited the re
sults of other scoring contenders
in post-season tournaments to
learn his final standing.
It also followed his selection
Final Official Team Statistics
trolled the most rebounds, 54.4
per cent
Trojans Arerage 72
Southern California scored an
average of 72.2 points a game
while Washington held a 71.4
average.
Cal sunk 72.3 per cent from
the free throw line and Stanford
70.8 per cent.
UCLA established a new rec
ord for consecutive victories in
conference games by winning
23 straight since 1955. The old
laark of 22 was set by Wash
ington during 1943-44.
The Bruins margin of free
throws was narrow as they
picked off 743 rebounds to their
opponents 620. Oregon State re
covered 54.2 per cent and Cali
fornia, 52.1 per cent.
Stanford's field goal mark of
41.2 per cent was achieved on
330 goals in 801 tries. Washing
ton shot 40.6 per cent and USC,
39.2 per cent.
Ducks Follow Cal
Cal allowed foes 313 field
goals and 321 free throws for
an average of 59.4 points a
game. Oregon State allowed 60.9
points a game and Washington,
64.3. In field goal defense, Wash
ington, 64.3. In field goal de
fense, Washington gave up 366
goals in 1112 shots for 32.9 per
cent to 34.3 per cent for Ore
gon State and 36.6 per cent for
UCLA.
Stanford committed the few
Webb Seeks
19th Victory
Chicago .U.R) Spider Webb,
Chicago's top entry among mid
dleweight title challengers, seeks
his 19th straight ring victory to
night in a 10-round television
bout against Wilf Greaves at the
Chicago Stadium.
Webb, third-ranking contender
for Gene Fullmer's crown, ex
pected to be at least a 4-1 choice
to outpunch and outbox the
roughhouse Geaves, a last-minute
substitute.
Greaves, a 21-year-old native j
of Edmonton, Alberta, Canada,
who now makes his home in
Pittsburgh, replaced Randy
Sandy when the latter turned up
MEDFORI)KTRIBUriK
sipaDiRTrs
Marshfield Upsets
K. Falls, 36 To 31
Eugana UR Marshfield upset Klamath Falls 36-31 In a
first-round state A-l high school tournament game today to move
into tha quarter-finals,
Tha underdog Pirates used a deliberate offense against the
Klamath Falls xona defense, slowing down the play when they
got ahead.
There was no scoring in the first four minutes of the second
quarter and for the first five minutes and 40 seconds of the final
quarter.
Roger Johnson, an all-itaier last season, led Marshfield with
17 points while Butch Kimpton had 11 for Klamath Falls, which
shot only .209 from the field. Marshfield led at the half 18-16.
Third Ranked
Team Missing!
From NAIA
Kansas City, Mo. (U.R) Only
one seeded team, third-ranked
West Virginia Tech of Montgom
ery, was missing today for the
second round of the NAIA bas
ketball tournament.
The 32-team tourney, which
opened Monday, has been re
duced to 16 for today's eight
game schedule. Quarter-finals
will be held Thursday night.
Villa Madonna of Covington,
Ky., scored the one upset so far,
whipping West Virginia Tech
93-91 Monday.
The scrappy Kentucky Rebels
open today's program in an 11
a.m. game with Eastern Illinois
of Charleston.
William Jewell provided Tues
day night's thrills with a 70-69
overtime triumph over Adelphi
of Garden City, L. I.
SAXTON GETS POST
North Bend (U.R) Cliff
Saxton, head football coach at
Siuslaw high school in Florence
for two years, yesterday was
named to the same post at North
Bend high school.
to the United Press All-America
team along with four players
from seven to 15 inches taller
than he.
On the court. Forte's specialty
is a jump shot off "the wrong
foot," a maneuver that confuses
rivals. He also features speed,
playmaking, and a two-handed
long shot that keeps defenders
from backing up to guard against
his drive.
The top three were followed
in the balloting by Elgin Baylor
of Seattle with 32 votes, Lennie
Rosenbluth of North Carolina
with 27, Hot Rod Hundley of
West Virginia with 24, and Gary
Thompson of Indiana with 15.
Points per Game
est personal fouls, 201, for an
average of 16.9 a game. Idaho
committed the most, 362 for a
22.4 average.
USC was the most fouled team
with 352 fouls 'committed
against it for an average of 22
a game. Washington State was
the least 'fouled with 267 com
mitted against it for a 16.6 aver
age a game,
Two conference game records
were established. USC attempt
ed 63 free throws against Idaho,
topping the old mark of 61 set
last year by UCLA, and UCLA
captured 71.1 per cent of all
rebounds in a game against
Stanford to crack the old mark
of 68.3 set by Cal last year.
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Darkhorse
Evansville, Ind. (U.R) The
coaches of the favorites, Lee
Pfund of Wheaton and Jim Phe
lan of Mount St. Mary's, agreed
today on the dark horse in the
college division basketball tour
ney of the National Collegiate
Athletic association.
Both picked Kentucky Wesley-
an. whose campus for 599 stu
dents, the second smallest en
rollment in the surviving field
of eight, is only 40 miles from
here. Wesleyan has won 14 and
lost 11 games, the worst mark
among the survivors.
Phelan pointed out, "They've
played better teams than just
about anybody else. They've had
Murray and Eastern Kentucky
and Western Kentucky and Lou
isville and just overall stronger
opposition."
Phelan's club, unbeaten in its
last 20 games and second highest
scoring college team in the na
tion with an average of 92.1
points per game, will open the
three-day tourney this afternoon
against- Rider of New Jersey,
which has 20 wins in 26 games.
Mount St. Mary's has a 25-4 rec
ord. Wheaton, winner of its last 18
starts and beaten only once in
26 games, will begin play tonight
against South Dakota, with a 19
3 mark.
Other games today will be San
Diego State 17-9 vs. Los Angeles
State 19-9 in the afternoon and
Buffalo, N. Y.. 18-6 against Wes
leyan at night.
A-l Hoop Games
Played Today
Eugene (U.R) Klamath
Falls met Marshfield and North
Salem played Ontario in morn
ing games of the 1957 state class
A-l high school basketball tourn
ament today.
Lincoln and Benson of Port
land turned in opening night
victories before 4,946 fans last
night as the tourney got under
way.
Lincoln, with a big height ad
vantage, downed last year's A-2
champ, St. Helens, 53-48. Lin
coln was ahead 52-32 in the
fourth quarter and put in its
reserves.
Astoria's Fighting Fishermen
fell before Benson's strong team
60-39. Guard Jim Warren of Ben
son led the scoring with 18
while Darrell Reef of Astoria
had 13.
Other games today matched
Grant and McMinnville at 1:45,
Central Catholic and Redmond
at 3, Eugene and Medford at
7:30 and Albany and Pendleton
at 8:45.
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Fighting Cocks
Is Increasing in the State of
By HAL, WUUJJ
United Press Sports Writer
San Francisco (U.R) Cock
fighting is illegal in United
States, but the growing of fight
ing cocks is a big business in the
state of California.
In fact, one of the biggest
commodities of freight carried
by Pan American Airways to
the Philippines is that of fight
ing cocks, grown and trained in
this state.
Cock fighting still Is a popu
lar sport in both Northern and
Southern California mostly for
Filipinos and Mexicans de
spite the fact that it is against
the law.
"It is illegal in this country
and there is a good reason,"
says a major fighting cock
breeder. "Cock fighting is inter
esting mainly because of the
gambling aspects connected with
it.
Brutal Sport
"Admittedly. It is a somewhat 1
brutal sport. But there is an-
other good reason, too. It is just i
about impossible to keep the !
sport honest.' I
He went on to explain there I
are many .ways in which cock i
fights can be rigged. He named
these two:
A The oldest and easiest way
is to feed one of the cocks lead ,
pellets, a la Mark Twain's
"Jumping Frog of Calaveras" i
story. The weight of the lead
makes the cock sluggish and un
able to leap.
B For a cock raiser to keep
two cocks until they are fully
grown. Then he puts them to
gether to fight each other. He
will keep either the winner or
loser, selling the other. Later the
MOUNTIES HAVE 23
Riverside, Calif. (U.R)
Three more players have arrived
at the Vancouver Mounties'
training camp to bring the teams
roll call total to 23. The three
players, who arrived in camp
Tuesday, were outfielder Willie
Tasby, catcher Bob Evert and
pitcher Bill McGee. Still listed
as holdouts were-third baseman
Karl Seigrist and shortstop Fred
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In chicken circles, the winner
of a cock fight becomes "cock o'
the walk" and the other cock
knows who is boss after one lick
ing. The loser will not put up
much of a fight.
May Be Fixed
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as popular as poker or horse
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