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As Batting
By FRED DOWN
New York TP Stan Mu
sial's seventh National league
batting title shared honors today
with splendid all-round perform
ances by two of the circuit's
younger stars Hank Aaron
and Willie Mays.
Final official figures released
Sunday by the Elias Baseball
Eurei confirmed Musial, of
Donora, Pa., as the NL batting
champion with a .351 mark that
was his beffc)since 1951. The St.
Louis Cardinals' 37-year-old star
batted .500 in a September spurt
that broke up a five-player
battle for the crown and put him
far ahead of Mays' .333 second
place Ugure.
Musial's seventh chamDion.
ship leaves him one short of the
league mark held by Honus
vvagner and his 176 hits raised
his career total tn 2. 957 onlv
43 shy 'f) the 3,000-mark which
has been achieved by only six
players in modern baseball his
tory.
Aaron. Mays Stand Out
But, great as Musial's per
formance was, it could not com
pletly overshadow the steady
day-to-day batting exploits of
Aaron or the all-round skills of
the ever-amazing Mays.
Aaron, the world champion
Milwaukee Braves' most valu
able player award winner, led
in three important departments
runs, 118; home runs, 44, and
runs batted in, 132. His .322
average tied Cincinnati's Frank
Robinson for third and his 369
total bases beat out Mays' total
by three.
Mays, the 26-year-old center
fielder of the New York-San
Francisco Giants, was the first
player in 29 years to hit 20 or
more homers, triples and doubles
in the same season. Willie, who'll
replace the Golden Gate as
'Frisco's most spectacular land
mark in '58, numbered 35
homers, 20 triples and 26
doubles among his 195 hits and
also led the circuit with 38
stolen bases. v
The pennant-winning Braves
trailed the Cardinals in team
batting, .269 to .274, but they
scored the most runs, 772, and
hit the most homers, 199. The
hard-hitting Braves scored 100
runs more" than four other teams
the Giants, Phillies, Cubs and
jjratgB.
gorlatop Dick Groat of the
PJfJg gjt .315, and second-
Davis Cup Crew
Now in Stride
Brisbane, Australia (IP) Cap
ita! Billy Talbert of the U.S.
Davis Cup Team today discount
ed his (piayers' defeats in early I
tournaments in this country and
said so far his squad is progress
ing according "to plan."
Before sweeping the Philip
pines, 5-0, in the cup interzone
semi-finals last week, the U. S.
players showed poorly in both
the New South Wales and South
Australian championships.
"When we suffered early re
versals in both of these, there
was widespread alarm about our
cup chances," said Talbert. "I
feel sure those ideas are radi
cally changed now."
The U.S. team was scheduled
for a workout today at the Mil
ton Courts where it will meet
Belgium in the interzone finals
tiiis Thursday, Friday, and Satur-y.
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Champ
baseman Red Schoendienst of
the Giants and Braves, at .309,
were only other .300 hitters in
a league which averaged .260.
Schoendienst also led the league
in hits, with 200, for the first
time in his career.
Richie Ashburn of the Phil
lies had the most singles, 152;
Johnny Temple of the Redlegs
the most sacrifice bunts, 16, and
Wally Moon of he Cardinals the
longest batting streak, 24 games
from May 5 to May 31.
John Crow
Honored as
Top Player
By JOHN GRIFFIN
New York (LP) John Crow
of Texas A&M, a rugged all
around type back coveted by pro
football teams, can display new
credentials today as college foot
ball's "player of the year" to pro
officials in Chicago and Mon
treal. Crow was voted the 1957 top
individual award during the
week-end in a United Press na
tionwide poll of sports writers
and broadcasters.
The 210-pound Aggie halfback
from Springhill, La., was an em
phatic winne in the balloting
with 83 first-place votes. Half
back Walt Kowalczyk of Michi
gan State was a distant second at
25 votes and big Alex Karras of
Iowa, previously voted "Line
man of the Year," was third with
21 votes.
Crow, who earlier won "Back
of the Year" honors, received his
latest honor while he was listen
ing to play-for-pay offers from
the Chicago' Cardinals, who
claimed him in the National
Football league player draft, and
from the Montreal Alouettes,
who have named him on their
negotiating lists in Canadian pro
football.
End Jim Phillips of Auburn
was fourth in the voting with 14
points, followed closely by
sophomore halfback Bob Ander
son of Army with 12, and pass
ing star Lee Grosscup of Utah
with 10.
LANDY'S MARK FALLS
Melbourne, Australia (IP) Al
bert Thomas, 22, of Sydney, bet
tered John Landy's Australian
three-mile record by 1.5 seconds
Sunday when he was clocked
in 13 minutes, 25.9 seconds in a
dual meet. His time was 11.7
seconds off the world mark held
by Sandor Iharos of Hungary.
K. Falls Boys on
Goose Chase Rescued
Klamath Falls (IP) Two
15-year-old Klamath Falls boys
went on an authentic wild goose
chase Sunday.
Richard DePue and Johnny
Grems crossed frozen section
of the Gerber reservoir about 45
miles northeast of here while
hunting geese but when they
tried to make their way back
they found the ice had melted,
and they were stranded.
A search plane spotted them
Sunday afternoon a few miles
from the reseryoir, and they
were returned home.
"It was a real honker,1
Johnny said.
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SPORTS
Pirate Surge
Beats Yreka
Phoenix Phoenix high turned
a half-court press to advantage
here Saturday night as the Pi
rates stormed in the last quarter
to cop their season basketball
opener with Yreka, Calif., 54 to
47.
Lagging by 34 to 35 after
three periods, the Pirates em
ployed the press to get the ball
and roll up 20 points, while
holding the Miners to 12.
Jim Stout paced the Phoenix
attack with 20 points. Lester
Schleigh of Phoenix and Bill
Wilson of Yreka each hail 14.
Score was knotted at 11-all
at the quarter and Yreka was
on top 24 to 20 at halftime.
Phoenix will be host to St.
Francis of Eugene next Friday
evening and will oppose the
Southern Oregon college junior
varsity at Ashland on Saturday.
LINE-IPS:
54 Phoenix Yreka 47
F 6 Simmonds .... Mathews 1
F 14 Schleigh Dillen 7
C 4 Witte Wilson 14
G 2 Heath Reed 10
G 20 Stout Tourville 7
Substitutions For Phoenix. Wal
lace 3. Waldron 5. Hamilton; for
Yreka. Root 8. Wilburn.
Webfoot Squad
Banquet Guests
Eugene OP) The Oregon foot
ball team will be honored to
night at the annual Oregon club
banquet in the Eugene hotel. Fea
tured speaker at the dinner hon
oring the Rose Bowl-bound
Ducks will be Norm Van Brock
lin, pro football ace and star
quarterback of the 1948 Oregon
team.
HOCKEY
NATIONAL LEAGUE
By UNITED PRESS
The Toronto Maple Leafs, after
a slow start, are making up
ground fast in the National
Hockey league race.
The Leafs picked up three
points during the week end by
battling New York to a 3-3 tie
at Toronto Saturday night and
then edging the Rangers, 2-1,
Sunday night at New Yrk.
In other Sunday night games,
the Montreal Canadiens in
creased their league lead to
seven points by downing the De
troit Red Wings. 3-1. and the
Boston Bruins blanked the Chi
cago Black Hawks, 3-0.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
By UNITED PRESS
Pete Conacher, farmed out re
cently by the Toronto Maple
Leafs, is working his way into
shape with the Buffalo Bisons
of the American Hockey league.
Hampered by a leg injury ear
lier this season, Conacher flashed
some of his old-time form Sun
day night in pacing the Bisons
to a 5-4 victory over- the Spring
field Indians. He scored two
goals.
The Rochester Americans
broke the Cleveland Barons' 10
game unbeaten streak, 3-1, and
the Providence Reds downed the
pace-setting Hershey Bears, 5-2,
in other Sunday games.
Martin Behaim of Nurem
berg constructed the earliest
surviving globe in 1492, showing
geographical knowledge general
ly available just before Colum
bus' first voyage.
LOOK MOM, NO HEAD! Texas Western's Wayne Jones
appears to have a basketball for head in this unusual
photograph taken during game with Wichita University
in Wichita, Kas. Other players are Ev Wessel (51) of
Wichita and Jon Sanders (31) of Texas Western. Wichita
won, 71-48.
Jackson B League To Open;
Prospect
Jackson County B league,
playing a 16-game slate this sea
son, gets off to an early begin
ning in games that count by
launching loop activity on Tues
day night.
Jacksonville will be at Butte
Falls and Talent at Prospect.
Butte Falls has announced its
main game for 8 p.m. after a
grade school preliminary. St.
Mary's draws a bye.
Three of the B leaguers had
non-conference scraps following
the Friday jamboree. St. Mary's
polished off Sacred Heart of
Klamath Falls 41 to 32 on Sun
day. On Saturday - night Pros
pect clipped Rogue River 54 to
39 and Jacksonville lost 53 to
44 to Illinois Valley.
St. Mary's combined its great
er height and better shooting ac
curacy to overcome the Trojans
of Klamath Falls. Sacred Heart
showed better ball handling but
had trouble connecting from the
field was numerous "in and out"
shots.
Uses Full Squad
The Crusaders could have won
by a bigger score but Coach Bill
McKibbin chose to give his 10
squad members each a chance
to see considerable service. He
did not start three players who
loom as top line mer and several
of the apparent first liners sat
out part of the third and fourth
Is That So?
Water, the most abundant sub
stance on earth, is one of the
most eccentric thank goodness!
This eccentricity makes life,' as
we know it, possible on our
earth.
Water contracts as it cools
like any other liquid and so be
comes denser. That is, the lower
the temperture of the water, the
denser the water becomes and
the more it weighs for any defi
nite volume.
This normal behavior of liq
uids holds until the water al
most reaches freezing to be
precise, four degrees Centigrade
(39 15 degrees Fahrenheit)
when the water undergoes a
strange change. As it cools be
low four degrees C. it defies all
laws of liquids and begins to ex
pand. With the expansion its
density diminishes instead of in
creases and the water steadily
becomes lighter until the tem
erature reaches O. C. (32 F.) at
which it freezes, and turns to
ice.
When other liquids cool and
turn into a solid they tend to
contract and become denser and
heavier than the same volume
of the corresponding liquid at
the same temperature.
Water, refusing to conform,
does not obey this rule. As it
turns to ice, it continues to ex-pand--and
very rapidly, too, as
broken water mains and cracked
radiators testify. In this rapid
expansion while freezing it be
comes lighter by almost one
tenth than the water from which
it forms. This is the reason ice
bergs float.
These weight changes of water
at different temperatures defy
ing natural laws are of utmost
importance. Should the water
contract steadily with dropping
temperatures and then freeze
into still heavier solid ice the
climate of our world would take
on an entirely different pattern.
As for us humans, we wouldn't
be here.
Water Becomes Heavier
As winter brings its cold
weather the water of lakes and
seas become heavier. As its den
sity increases the water sinks
and displaces the lighter, warm
er water at the bottom which in
turn rises to the surface and
Take Games
quarters.
The Trojans were in front In
the early minutes. St. Mary's
pulled in front for keeps in the
second stanza but Sacred Heart
threatened to catch up in the
final quarter.
First quarter score was 9-each.
SM was ahead 18 to 11 at half
time and 33 to 23 after three
cantos. It narrowed to" 35 to 30
in the last panel. Dave Beard
was high point man in the game
with 13.
Craig and Dave Gardner with
16 and 13 tallies paced the Pros
pect decision. The Cougars had
14 to 7, 26 to 21 and 39 to 32
quarterly standings. Jon Bigman,
Rogue River, and Floyd Scaife,
Prospect, each had 10 points.
Illinois Valley had a 27 to 20
halftime lead on Jacksonville.
I.INE-UPS:
53 Illinois Valley Jacksonville
F 12 Slanaker D. Bransom
F 19 Goodwin E. Smith
C 4 Woodbury Dowell
G 4 Dickey Perreard
G 4 Hanby Davis
Substitutions For Illinois Valley,
Ollis 2. Lewis 6, Rauber 2; for JacK
sonville. Allen, Winningham, Caird,
Whitney, Hanley.
41 St. Mary'
10 King
4 Mansfield
3 Colver
Sacred Heart 32
Horn 5
Jackson
Collins 7
Hayes
Amsberg 6
G 3 Evans Beard 13
Substitutions For St. Mary's, Kirsch,
Miksche 2, Flakus 9, Daley, Kerr 10;
for Sacred Heart, Folk, DeBel, Bram
ble 1, Powell, Hurley, Wilkinson.
By EU6ENE BURNS
Ranger-Naturalist
cools. This cooling and mixing
continues throughout the lake
until the temperature reaches
four degrees above freezing C.
Then, as the water cools still
further, the density change re
verses. The top water which is
coldest suddenly remains at the
top instead of sinking as it nears
freezing. Finally, as this top wa
ter turns to ice, it becomes still
lighter and the ice floats on the
surface like a protecting cover.
If the density of the cooling
water did not undergo this re
markable change between four
degrees C. and freezing, the sur
face water would continue to
sink. As it dropped below freez
ing, the ice would form at the
bottom of the lake and would
build up there from season to
season until the waters of the
lake (rivers and seas, too) would
become entirely solid.
Only in summer then would
the surface layers of the lakes
and oceans melt slightly in some
areas and there would be ho
great movements of ocean cur
rents to modify the world's
weather. The tropics would then
become unbearably hot and the
temperate regions would freeze
throughout the year.
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JOBS FOR DISABLED
Albany, N.Y. P) The New
York State Division of Employ
ment found a record 34,000 jobs
for disabled workers last year,
according to Director Richard C.
Brockway. Brockway said 2,200
of these jobs went to workers
with major disabilities.
Monday, December 9, 1957
OSC Sweeps
Hoop Series
With Pilots
Vancouver, Wash. (IP) Coach
Slats Gill's Oregon State Beavers
racked up University of Portland
64-46 before 3500 fans here Sat
urday night for their second sec
ond straight lopsided win over
the Pilots. Oregon State won at
Corvallis Friday night 75-49.
Dave Gambee again was the
big man for the Beavers Satur
day. He scored 20 points to give
him a total of 43 for the two
game series. He also led his team
in rebounding.
Ken Nanson also was a Beaver
star. Besides scoring 18 points he
held Jim Armstrong, the Pilot
scoring ace, to only 7 points.
Dick Jolley was Portland's top
scorer with ,18.
Oregon State shot .397 from
the floor while Portland had
only .292.
Sanders Studies
Aggies' Offer
Los Angeles (IF) Coach
Henry (Red) Sanders of UCLA
s.ys he has been contacted bv
Texas A&M officials about tak
ing the football post vacated by
Paul Bryant last week.
The famous Bruin coach, who
has compiled a nine-year record
of 66 victories, 19 'losses and
one tie while at UCLA, com
mented Saturday that he had a
"wonderful job" and had not
considered leaving. "But," he
added:
"With the coast conference in
its present state of confusion,
it s hard for me to know exactly
what I want to do."
WILSON GETS CROWN
McMinnville (IP) Wilson
high of Portland won its first
state girls' swimming champion
ship Saturday by defeating
Cleveland high 50-44. Oswego
high was third with 39 points.
Gangster Tactics
Told To Committee
Washington (IP) The Senate
Rackets committee heard testi
mony Saturday that one team
sters union official threatened a
Knoxville, Tenn., grocer before
his store was dynamited and that
another was on the scene when
the blast occurred.
B. B. Powers, the food market
operator, said his store was dy
namited Sept. 5, 1956, less than
48 hours after he was threaten
ed with "trouble" by William J
Reynolds, then president of the
Knoxville Teamsters Local 621.
He said Reynolds made the
threat because he was selling
soft drinks (coca-cola) bottled in
a plant that Reynolds claimed
was on strike.
Two other witnesses testified
that W. A. (Hard-Heading Smit
ty) Smith, business agent of
Nashville, Tenn., Local 327, was
near Powers' store about the
time of the dynamiting.
John C. Chapman, a youthful
sheet metal worker who now
lives in Baltimore, and Luther
C. Hargis, 32, of Knoxville, iden
tified Smith from pictures as one
of three men they saw in , Cad
illac near the store.
Committee Chairman John L.
McClellan (D - Ark.) criticized
Knoxville police for laxity in
handling the still-unsolved dy
namiting case.
TIT FOR TAT
Hartford, Conn. (IP) After
writing out a speeding ticket for
Duane F. Ballard, officer Harold
Cunningham realized that two
years before in Iowa he had
been given a similar ticket by
Ballard. Cunningham was fined
$15, Ballard paid $11.
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Tarheels Look Strong
In Season Hoop Start
By JOE SARGIS
United Press Sports Writer
North Carolina's smashing
opening-game victory served
notice on the college basketball
world Monday that Coach Frank
McGuire's Tarheels are solidly
equipped to defend their national
championship.
The Tarheels, performing
without the graduated Len
Rosenbluth and injured Joe
Quigg, walloped Clemson, 79
55, Saturday to run their un
beaten streak to 33 games. The
victory was especially impres
sive because three of North
Carolina's principal rivals were
hard pressed to win and a fourth
challenger suffered its first de
feat. Second-ranked Kansas had to
go all out to shade Northwest
ern, 71-65; fifth-ranked Ken
tucky went to three overtimes
Bearcats Grab
Tip-Off Tourney
McMinnville (IP) The Wil
lamette Bearcats defeated Pa
cific at Linfield college here
Saturday night 74-57 to grab the
first annual Northwest confer
ence Tip-Off tournament title.
The Bearcats roared to a 43
18 lead at the half and fought
off a Badger rally early in the
second half.
Linfield took a consolation
crown by squeaking by Lewis
and Clark 63-61.
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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
before downing eight-ranked
Temple, 85-83; and seventh
ranked Kansas State was tied
six times before taking a 66-61
decision from Indiana. Fourth
ranked San Francisco and ninth
ranked Notre Dame had it a lot
easier the Dons swamping
West Texas State, 73-45, and the
Irish clobbering Wisconsin, 75
53. Kansas, Kentucky, Kansas
State, Temple and Notre Dame
go right back into action tonight
as does third-ranked Bradley.
Kansas opposes Marquette, Ken
tucky plays Maryland, Kansas
State faces Purdue, Temple
meets Cincinnati, Notre Dame
plays Nebraska and Bradley
faces Arizona.
North Carolina lost still a
third player Saturday when 6-7
Danny Lotz suffered a broken
foot but will be heavily favored
in all three games it plays this
week against George Washing
ton Tuesday night, Furman
Thursday night and South Caro
lina Saturday night. Neverthe
less, any talk of the Tarheels
challenging San Francisco's rec
ord 60-game winning streak will
have to wait until after the Ken
tucky Invitational Tournament
Dec. 20-12.
Games tonight include: Drake
vs: Creighton, Detroit vs. Wich
ita, Memphis State vs. Texas
A & M, Missouri vs North Da
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