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Basilio Ring To Wrest Favor Crown From Sugar Ray New York If Sugar Ray Robinson had an advantage of only 61 2 pounds today when he weighed 160 to Carmen Basilio's 153li for tonight's middleweight title fight ai Yankee Stadium. Sew York ( IP) I We' the tale of thp tape for tonight s Rav Rnl-insnn- armen BaMlio middleweight title fiEht: ROBINSON 37 vrs. Ate ISO Ins. Weieht exp. 5 ft. -11 in. tlrieht 5 Reach Chot normal Chest Pxp. WaKt Xerk Thiih talf Blrep Korea rm Ankle Wrist in. in. 36' 30 in. 2', in. 15 in. n-1! in. 1V4 in. II ', in. 10', in. in. "!2 BASILIO 30 vr. 151 lbs. ft.-6'i in. 67 in. 36' 2 in. 39 in. 29 in. 15 in. 20 in. 13', in. 13'. in. 15'-. in. 10 in. S it in. This Could Be Last Day in IVOajor Loop Championship iftaces ISPORTSj ; !j By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer New York 't? Welter weight Champion Carmen Ba silio is a solid 3-2 favorite to wrest the middleweight crown from Sugar Ray Robinson to night in their modernistic ring spectacular at Yankee stadium. Anticipated late support for 37-year-old Sugar Ray failed to materialize before weigh-in time today. Despite the smaller stadium crowd, tonight's scheduled 15 rounder at 6:30 p.m. (PST) will be witnessed by more paying spectators than any previous at traction in history sports or otherwise. Through the help of Sports Broadcasts Radio Station KMED will carry the Carmen Basilio-Ray Robinson middleweight title boxing bout at 6:30 p.m. to day. electronics, the fight will be shown on screens in 178 theatres in 135 cities in the United States and Canada, with more than 510,000 seats available. Sale of those seats could approximate $1,800,000. The battle of champions be tween slender, debonair Robin son, 37, and raw-boned, fist-scarred Basilio, 30-year-old ruler of the welterweight division, will not be televised to homes. But will be sent to homes by radio NBC in the United States, Can ada, Hawaii and some Latin American countries. Thanks to theatre-TV tonight's bout will be the richest in the careers of Robinson, the flam boyant New Yorker, and Basilio of Chittenango, N. Y., the some what shy son of an onion farm er. The betting, in which Basilio has been favored ever since the match was signed on June 28, ap parently was more affected by Carmen's seven-year edge in youth than by Robinson's weight advantage of approximately five pounds. Carmen, who marches forward persistently bobbing and weav ing knocked out 25 of the 70 men he met since he turned pro fessional nine years ago. He won 51 bouts, lost 12 and had seven draws. He twice won the welter weight 147-pound title, most re cently on a ninth-round knock out over Johnny Saxton, Sept. 12. 1956. Sugar Ray. who holds thet record for winning the middle weight 160-pound crown four times, will be making his first defense since he recaptured it from Gene Fullmer on a fifth round knockout at Chicago last May 1. Ted Cinches Batting Toga New York OP Ted Wil liams, who batted 1.000 against the New York Yankees' pitching the last three days, predicted today that the same pitching will prove decisive in a World Series with the Milwaukee Braves. Williams, who has clinched his fifth American league batting title by lifting his average to .383 since he returned to the Boston Red Sox' lineup last week singled out left-handers Whitey Ford and Bobby Shantz and right-handed fireballer Bob Tur ley as the Yankees' "key men in the Series." "That Turley is a tremendous autumn pitcher," the 39-year-old Williams said. "And wait until the Braves get a load of Ford and Shantz. Those little guys are terrific pitchers in Yankee stadium." Willamette ' Ties Aggies By UNITED PRESS It was a sad day for more of Oregon's small college football teams Saturday. Linfield, Pacific and Lewis and Clark of the Northwest Con ference all took sound beatings. Willamette escaped with a tie while Southern Oregon and Eastern Oregon scored wins over Air Force teams to uphold the honor of the Oregon Collegiate loop. But Oregon Tech and Ore gon college were beaten. Linfield and Pacific invaded Cougars Will Host Bears By SCOTT BALLIE Washington State, which hasn't been in the Rose Bowl since 1929, gets a chance to take a big step in that direction next Saturday when the Cougars host California in the only Pacific Coast conference game of the afternoon. Coach Jim Sutherland's crew, with Bob Newman's passes strictly on target, opened the season with a 34-12 victory over Nebraska Saturday as Southern Methodist was upsetting Cali fornia, 13-6. The Cougars, Bears, Stanford and Oregon are the only four teams in the wracked PCC eligi ble for the Pasadena trip. And of those four, the Cougars rate the week-end palm. While Washington State was thumping the Cornhuskers, highly-touted Oregon had a rough time getting by Idaho, 9-6, and Stanford started off with a 46-7 breather against out manned San Jose State. Oregon State, which can't go to the Rose Bowl this year be cause it was the PCC team there last January, launched its sea son with a 20-0 triumph over Southern California. Washington, which remains barred from the bowl along with the Trojans and UCLA for misdeeds, had to scramble to gain a tie with Colorado in its season opener, 6-6. REPEATS AS WINNER Astoria (IP Defending champ Mrs. Francis Rowell of Portland successfully defended her Oregon Women's Golf associ ation championship here defeat ing Mrs. R. L. Borst. also of Portland, 2 and 1. California. The Wildcats lost to Cal Poly 32-7. Pacific dropped a 48-6 decision to Chico State. Ha waii handed Lewis and Clark a 40-6 whipping. Willamette, at Salem, came through with a 13-13 tie against the California Aggies. Southern Oregon defeated Moffett AFB 26-6 and Eastern Oregon squeaked by Malmstrom AFB 19-18. Yakima JC upend ed Oregon Tech 12-6 while the Seattle Ramblers handed OCE 35-0. What has age to do with borrowing money? Age in a company spells experience. Because HFC is America's oldest and most experienced consumer finance company, you can borrow here with confi dence. You get prompt at tention, repayment terms tailored to your needs, peace of mind about money matters. Do as three gen erations have done. Bor row with confidence from Household Finance. OUSEHOLD FINANCE 128 E. Main St., 2nd Floor PHONE: SP 3-5301 By CONNIE RYAN United Press Sports Writer This may be the last day of the 1957 major league pennant races if Milwaukee and Kansas City win tonight, the final six days are simply for the formal records. The New York Yankees, Chi cago White Sox, Milwaukee Braves and St. Louis Cardinals all won single games Sunday, so the Yanks clinched at least a tie for the American league pen nant, while the Braves held a five-game lead over the Cards with six games to go and the Cards run into the Braves in a decisive three-game series start ing tonight. Yankees Need One The Yankees, who are idle the next twb days, need win only one game or the White Sox need lose only one to settle the AL flag. The Chisox play at Kansas City tonight and the Athletics, who strongly resent being called the Yankee "farm club," can win it for the Yanks by downing the Chicagoans. Manager Fred Hutchinson named lefiy Wilmer (Vinegar Bend) Mizell, who has won eight and lost 10, as the Cardinal starter in this "must-win" series from the Card point of view The Braves, with a six-game winning streak and confident they will win their first flag since coming to the midwest from Boston, named Lew Bur dette (16-9) as their starter. A's Win Fourth In yesterday's games, the Yanks beat Boston 5-1, when Red Sox pitchers walked four runs home in the sixth inning; the White Sox stayed "alive" by taking Cleveland, 9-5; Baltimore defeated Washington, 6-5; and Kansas City ran its winning streak to four straight by beat ing Detroit twice, 4-3 and 2-1. Milwaukee went 10 innings to beat the pesky Chicago Cubs, 9-7; the tenacious Cards came from behind to trip the Cincin nati Reds, 7-5; Brooklyn beat the Phillies 7-3; and Pittsburgh happily accepted four unearned runs to defeat the New York Giants, 5-1. Braves Send Up Rousing Chorus Milwaukee, Wis. (IP) "We'll wrap it up tonight and let the batboy pitch tomorrow." Veteran Warren Spahn voiced the pennant - clinching keynote which met with a rousing chorus of agreement from all the rest of the confident Milwaukee Braves, who need only a victory over the St. Louis Cardinals to night to make them the new Na tional league champions. "That World Series is so close now I can almost taste it," said shortstop Johnny Logan, as the Braves prepared to face the Car dinals in a three - game series that automatically becomes meaningless if Milwaukee wins tonight. Even ultra-cautious Fred Ha ney, who had been studiously avoiding any talk about the pennant-clincher, almost as if it were some kind of contagious disease, broke down and admit ted it looked like the Braves were "in" after they beat the Chicago Cubs 9-7 in 10 innings Sunday. STANDINGS (Bv UNITED PRESS) NATIONAL, LEAGUE W L. Pet. GB Milwaukee 91 57 .615 St. Louis 86 62 .581 5 Brooklyn 82 68 .547 10 Cincinnati 77 71 .520 14 Philadelphia 74 7fi .433 18 New York 69 82 .457 23 'i Pittsburgh 60 91 .397 32 'j Chicago 58 90 .392 33 Sunday's Results Milwaukee 9 Chicago 7 f 10 innings) St. Louis 7 Cincinnati 5 Brooklyn 7 Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 5 New York 1 AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. GB New York 95 54 .368 Chicago 88 59 .599 6 Boston 78 70 .527 16 i Detroit 75 73 .507 19 '2 Baltimore 72 75 .490 22 Cleveland 71 76 .483 23 Kansas City 56 90 .384 37 2 Washington 55 93 .372 39 !2 Sunday's Results New York 5 Boston 1 i Chicago 9 Cleveland 5 ' Baltimore 6 Washington 5 Kansas City 4 Detroit 3 (1st) Kansas City 2 Detroit 1 (2nd) Jack Regas Nabs Double Victory Washington (W Cement truck driver Jack Regas, Liver more, Calif., hung up a double victory in the President's Cup Regatta. Regas piloted Hawaii Kai IV to victory in both the Presi dent's Cup and American Speed boat Championship races Sun day before more than 90,000 fans lining the Potomac river. Redskins to Feature New Offense in 1957 This is another in a series on the 1957 prospects of Na tional Football League clubs. By BOB SERLING United Press Sports Writer Washington HP) Washing ton's resurene Redskins are hitting the National Football League warpath this year with a brand-new offense, a sensation al rookie halfback and the high morale which is typical of a Joe Kuharich squad. Kuharich, whose complicated defensive patterns made the Tribe surprising contenders the last two seasons, is readying a radically-new attack for 1957. It is an unbalanced line, literal ly combining the power of the old single-wing with the decep tion of the "T." Washington sputtered through most of its pre - season games, its offensive linemen obviously unfamiliar with Kuharich's new system. But both the club and COLLEGE SCORES By United Press SOUTH Duke 26 So. Car. 14 Virginia Military 7 Tampa 0 Rice 20 Louisiana St. 14 MIDWEST Cincinnati 13 Dayton 13 Louisville 33 Evansville 7 Bowling Green 60 Baldwin Wal. 7 So. Dakota U. 6 N. Dakota St. 0 So. Dakota St. 23 Iowa Tchrs 20 Kansas St. Tchrs 13 SW Missouri 0 Kansas St. Tchrs 13 SW Missouri 0 Valparaiso 27 Kalamazoo 6 SOUTHWEST Arizona St. 28 Wichita 0 Houston 7 Miami (Fla.) 0 Hardin-Simmons 14 Tulsa 0 Mississippi 44 Trinity Tex. 0 Tex. West.v14 N. Tex. St. 13 Tex. A&I 47 Nat. U. of Mexico 6 New Mex. 25 New Mex. A&M 7 WEST Utah 32 Montana 13 Brigham Young 14 Arizona 14 Montana St. 27 Fresno St. 14 Oregon St. 20 So. Cal. 0 Eastern Ore. 19 Malmstrom AFB 18 Cal Poly 32 Linfield 7 Willamette 13. Cal Aggies 13 Cent. Wash. 14 Whitman 13 SOC 26 Moffett AB 6 Seattle Ramblers 30 OCE 0 Chico St. 48. Pacific 6 Yakima Vallev JC 12 Ore. Tech 6 Col. of Idaho 20 Humboldt St. 14 High School Scores By United Press Burns 20 John Day 7 Tillamook Cath. 13 Gaston 0 Merrill 33 Sac. Heart of Klamath Falls 0 Chiloquin 18 Bonanza 6 Concordia 53 Star of the Sea 0 Brookings 18. Illinois Valley 13 Portland Jefferson 56 Madison 0 Grant 20 Wilson 6 Wash. 19 Lincoln 19 Benson 28 Cleveland 12 Roosevelt 34 Franklin 6 Seixas, Gibson Tennis Champs Los Angeles (IP) Vic Seixas, the veteran Davis Cupper from Philadelphia, and U. S. Cham pion Althea Gibson, of Mont clair, N. J., today shared top honors in the final results of the 31st annual Pacific Southwest Tennis championship. Seixas, second-seeded, easily annexed the men's singles cham pionship Sunday by turning back unseeded Gil Shea, of Los An geles, in, straight sets, 9-7, 6-3, 6-4. Miss Gibson likewise had little trouble in downing her rival, Louise Brough, of Bever ly Hills, Calif., 6-3, 6-1, for the women's crown. Australia's Ashley Cooper and Neale Fraser, both upset earlier in the week in singles play, staged a comeback in outlasting Seixas and Budge Patty, of Los Angeles and Paris, to win the men's doubles title, 3-6, 5-7, 13 11, 13-11, 6-3. The marathon match lasted nearly four hours. the new attack are loaded with potential. Going for the 'skins this year is the apparent return of little Eddie LeBaron to his 1955 form, after an injury-hampered '56 sea son. Behind LeBaron is Rudy Bukich, obtained from the Los Angeles Rams, who gives Ku harich the long-ball passer he always has wanted. Fine Rookie Crop If his quarterbacks come through, Kuharich's spirited braves could do a lot of scalp ing. The Redskins have the fin est crop of rookies to wear the burgundy and gold of "Marshall Tech" in 15 years. Halfback Ed Sutton of North Carolina, fullback Don Bosseler from Miami, offensive tackle Ray Lemek of Notre Dame and defensive tackle Ed Khayat of Tulane have clinched jobs on a predominantly veteran squad. But the outstanding freshman of them all is a lanky speedster from tiny Central Michigan Col lege Jim (Poodles) Podoley. Washington coaches label Podoley as "good and potentially great." Even Kuharich, tradi tionally cautious, privately thinks the big youngster could be one of pro football's finest backs. Add Podoley, Bosseler and Sutton to Washington's veteran backs like Leo Elter, Dick James and Billy Wells, and it's easy to see why the Redskins have high hopes for what has been their chief weakness an erratic offense. Washington also boasts two of the finest offensive guards in football in Dick Stanfel and Red Stephens, and a veteran defen sive unit that's big, fast, smart and mobile. Leaky Pass Defense Kuharich's title hopes, how ever, are clouded by a question able pass defense. The Redskins badly miss Roy Barni, a crack defensive halfback who was killed last summer. Pittsburgh's All-America end, Joe Walton, is being groomed for Barni's wing back post. But while Walton shows promise, he's also dis played the faults that come with inexperience. And Kuharich al so lacks depth in the safety slot, where veteran Norb Hecker has been unable to plug this major defensive loophole by himself. "You gotta face facts," says the frank Kuharich. "One mis take in that defensive backfield and it's six points for the other guy. You can blow a signal on the offense and all you lose is a few yards. Goof up on defense, and it could cost you a game." Kuharich is predicting no title for his '57 Redskins, not with known and thus far uncorrected pass defense weaknesses. But Joe will go as far as to agree "it's a pretty good football team." And from the cautious Kuhar ich, that is the same as saying "give us a few breaks and . . . maybe." Ray Robinson Has Fight Offer Los Angeles IP) If Sugar Ray Robinson wins his Middle weight match with Carmen Ba silio tonight, he will be offered a shot at the light-heavyweight crown now worn by Archie Moore, George Parnassus, matchmaker for the Olympic auditorium, said Saturday. NOW! THE BEST TASTING 90 PROOF. 6 YEAR OLD STRAIGHT BOURBON YOU CAN FIND! $280 pt. $435 45 qt. mm v""- NATIONAL DIST. PROD. CO., N. Y., STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. 90 PROOF Monday, September 23, 1957 MEDFORD (ORE-SON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE Oregon State Dispells IDoubts By Shellacking Trojans 20-0 By HOWARD APPLEGATE United Press Sports Writer Portland OP) Any doubts about whether Oregon State would have a football team cap able of putting up a strong de fense of its Pacific Coast confer ence title were dispelled today. The Beavers handled the highly-rated Trojans of Southern California with ease in Multno mah stadium Saturday night to rack up a 20-0 victory, first OSC win over USC since 1946. The Trojans were the only PCC team to defeat the Beavers last year. The crowd was the largest ever to see a football game in BOARD GETS CONTRACT San Francisco OPi The pro posed contract to bring the New New York Giants to San Fran cisco came today before the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. The board planned to refer it to its finance committee for a pub lic hearing on Wednesday. Oregon. The official attendance was 36,885, passing the former mark of 35,266 set 27 years ago when Oregon played Washing ton. Kansas Is Next Oregon State now goes on the road for two weeks. The Beav ers meet Kansas at Lawrence Saturday and the following week play Northwestern at Evanston, 111. Fullback Nub Beamer from Roseburg paced the relentless ground attack of Coach Tommy Prothro's single wing Beavers by scoring two touchdowns, one on a 31-yard run. Beamer, a junior, racked up 131 yards in 23 carries. The other Oregon State touch down came on a 46-yard run by end Dwayne Fournier on a double reverse. Southern California in its first game under new coach Don Clark was no match for the ex perienced Oregon State team. The closest the Trojans came o scoring was in the first half when they marched to the Ore gon State 26 after recovering a fumble at mid-field. Beamer Booms Beamer, a substitute last sea son, plunged over from the two yard line early in the second quarter after sparking an Ore gon State drive which carried 71 yards in nine plays. His 31 yard scoring romp came in the fourth period climaxing an Ore gon State drive which moved 70 yards in 11 plays. 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