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North Carolina Leads Rating
Poll for Top Basketball Team
By FRANK LITSKY
New York If) The Universi
ty of Xorth Carolina Tar Heels
tarheeled the opposition today in
the first weekly ratings of the
1957-58 season by the United
Press Board of Basketball
Coaches.
The coaches, rating the teams
first week of the season which
ended Saturday, gave the defend
ing national champions 325 of
a possible 350 points. North Car
olina was the only team Tnen
tioned on every ballot, collecting
19 votes for first place, 10 for
second, four for third and one
each for fourth and fifth.
Points are awarded on the
basis of 10 for a first-place vote,
nine for second and so on down
to one point for a lOth-place ballot.
Kansas, runnerup In the rat
ings with 283 points, drew 10
first place ballots. Two coaches
rated San Francisco on top while
Kentucky, Kansas State, Michi
gan State and St. Louis each
drew one first place vote.
Kentucky Haled Third
Kentucky was third, in the
overall ratings, with 210 points.
Bradley won a close battle for
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MAURER SCORES FOR RAIDERS Ron Maurer goes high in
the air to dump in a goal for Southern Oregon college in its
Saturday night basketball game with Humboldt State. Bob
Lawson was the unsuccessful Humboldt defender on the play.
Referee is Virgil Swanson. Southern Oregon won 61 to 52.
Baylor Cans
34 Counters
In SU Win
Seattle (IP All - America
candidate Elgin Baylor scored
34 points Monday night as Seat
tle university opened its colle
gfcrte basketball season with a
104-54 victory over Portland
State.
Baylor, who averaged nearly
30 points per game last season,
connected on 12 of 17 shots
from the field and on 10 of 12
from the free throw line.
As a team, Seattle hit on 43
of 72 field goal attempts for a
.597 shooting percentage. Port
land State scored on 20 of 58
shots for a .344 percentage.
Baker, Turner
To Post Wins
Say Oddsmakers
London (IR A pair of ring
wise American heavyweight
Bob Baker of Pittsburgh and
Howie Turner of Brooklyn are
7-5 favorites to whip British op
ponents tonight in co-featured
10-round bouts at Harringay
Arena.
Baker, who has been fighting
professionally since 1949, tangles
wth young Dick Richardson of
Wales while Turner, a pro for
six ' years, meets Brian London
of Blackpool, England.
Lane Tops Easter,
Looks for Better
Bouts in Future
San Francisco (IP! Flashy
Lightweight Kenny Lane is
ready for a crack at Champion
Joe Brown or even Middle
weight Champ Carmine Basilio
according to Jack (Doc)
Kearns, Lane's co-manager.
Kearns was full of enthusiasm
Monday night at Lane scored
his 50th victory in 55 bouts by
stopping Luke taster in the
eighth round of a scheduled 10
rounder at Civic Auditorium. He
charged that Brown was giving
his boy the runaround.
"If we can't get Brown, we'd
like to get Basilio," Kearns said.
"Kenny can beat Basyio. There
are a lot of middleweights
around Kenny can beat."
Lane, the top-ranked light
weight contender from Muske
gon, Mich, came in at 138 pounds
Monday night, to 137 for Easter.
The San Francisco fighter
scored well in the first round,
but Lane took over in the sec
ond and kept control. Easter,
who has not been off his feet
"in his 17 pfo bouts, slipped twice
' to the canvas after rough flurries.
Referee Vern Bybee stopped
the contest at 1:51 of the eighth
after Easter became a punching
bag for everything Lane served
up.
Shanley Awarded
Hoffman Watch
Eugene (IP) Halfback Jim
Shanley won the 16th annual
Hoffman award at an Oregon
Club banquet Monday night
honoring the Rose Bowl-bound
Webfoots at the Eugene hotel,
The award, a gold watch, was
presented to Shanley by Vernon
Hoffman, Eugene businessman,
who established the award in
1939.
More than 500 people attend'
ed the banquet. Coach Len Cas
anova received a standing ova
tion when he was introduced.
WINS FEATHER CROWN
Nottingham, England (IP!
Percy Lewis won the vacant
British Empire featherweight
championship Monday night by
scoring a technical knockout
over Charlie Hill of Scotland in
the 10th round of a scheduled
15-round bout. Hill, who weigh
ed 126 pounds to Lewis' 12434 ,
was knocked down seven times
before the fight was stopped.
foutrh place with 177 points to
173 for fifth place San Francisco,
165 for sixth place Kansas State
and 153 for seventh place Mich
with 88 points, UCLA ninth with
57 and Notre Dame 10th with 43.
Every member of the top 10
was undefeated through the first
week except Temple, which
dropped an 85-83 triple overtime
thriller to Kentucky Saturday
night.
North Carolina, the No. 1 team
last year with a 32-0 record, won
its 1957-58 opener Saturday with
an impressive 69-58 victory over
Clemson.
The coaches also rated North
Carolina first and Kansas second
in their pre-season ratings. They
placed Bradley third, San Fran
cisco fourth, Kentucky fifth,
Michigan State sixth, Kansas
State seventh, Temple eighth,
Notre Dame ninth and Washing
ton 10th.
Thus, Kentucky from- fifth
to third and UCLA from 13th to
ninth made the most impressive
gains from the pre-season rat
ings. Kentucky beat Duke and
Ohio State, two strong clubs, be
fore its victory over Temple.
UCLA won from St. Mary's,
Calif., and Oklahoma on succes
sive nights.
The ratings with first place vote
and won -lost records through
games of Saturday, Dec. 7, in
parentheses:
School Points
1. North Carolina (19, 1-0) 325
2. Kansas (10, 3-0) .! 283
3. Kentucky (1, 3-0) 210
4. Bradley (1-0) 177
5. San Francisco (2, 2-0) 173
6. Kansas State (1, 2-0) . 165
7. Michigan State (1, 2-0) ..153
8. Temple (2-1) 88
9. UCLA (2-0) 57
10. Notre Dame (2-0) 43
Second 10 group 11, Rice, 42;
12, St. Louis 1, 31; 13, Seattle,
26; 14, Utah, 20; 15, Minnesota,
19; 16, West Virginia, 16; 17, Cin
cinnati, 12; 18, Ohio State, 10;
19, Illinois, 9; 20, Washington, 8.
Others North Carolina State,
7; Oklahoma State, Michigan and
Iowa, 6 each; Memphis State and
St. Bonaventure, 4 each; Duke,
Yale, Oregon State, Purdue and
Auburn, 3 each; Iowa State, Pitts
burgh and Mississippi, 2 each;
Xavier, Ohio, California, Texas
Christian and Idaho State, ' 1
each.
Ryff Lifts Face,
Wins TV Fight
New York (IP) Lightweight
Frankie Ryff, who had his
"brow-balconies" removed by
plastic surgery, was confident to
day he can become a ranking
contender again because he suf
fered no face cuts while out
pointing Frank Ippolito for the
second time Monday night.
Thei return 10-round TV bout
at St. Nicholis Arena was Ryff's
first fight in eight months and
his first since he had the bones
of his brows pared down during
a four-hour operation in June.
San Jose, Ducks
To Meet Tonight
Eugene (IP) Oregon's bas
ketball team, winner- of two
straight over Utah State, meets
San Jose State here tonight and
Wednesday night in a pair of
non-conference games.
San Jose dropped a 70-62 de
cision to California in its last
outing and is expected to pro
vide a stiff test for Coach Steve
Belko's crew.
Belko is expected to go with
a starting lineup of veterans Hal
Duffy, Charlie Franklin and
Bud Kuykendall along with
sophomores Chuck Rask and
Stu Robertson.
Los Angeles (IP) Nonie Foley,
18-year-old skiing whiz from
Houghton, Mich, and Sun Valley,
Idaho, Ski Club, was named to
day as recipient of the Helms
Athletic Foundation -Andrea
Mead Lawrence United States
Junior Woman Skier of the Year
award for 1957.
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Clowns Plan
Game With
David Club
Those Crazy Casaba comics,
the Harlem Clowns, will be in
town to entertain local basket
ball fans so prepare for an eve
ning of laughs!
They play the bewhiskered
House of David team at 8 p.m.
Thursday, Dec. 12, at the Hed
rick Junior High school gym.
There will be no prelim. Local
share of the proceeds goes to the
Medford high athletic fund.
The clowns merry mapcaps of
the hardwood are a bunch of
fun-loving youngsters who play
their audience for laughs from
the time they romp on the floor
until they leave the court spin
ning basketballs on fore-finger
tips.
The Harlem Clowns stage all
the comic routines of clown bas
ketball plus a lot of impromptu
stuff. They often concoct gags
as they go along, like the night
one of the Clown borrowed a
camera from a fan and took his
own picture.
And there was the night that
a college coach suddenly sent in
men from the bench. The Clowns
met this challenge by recruiting
fans from the stands. The last
two minutes of this game was
quite a merry mix-up.
Fans get a big laugh out of the
act when one of the Harlem
Clowns takes over the referee's
job he never calls fouls on the
opposing team he calls them on
his team-mates for such viola
tions as "Travelling without a
suitcase!" or "Funny Stuff."
Then the regular referee is usu
ally called on to takea free shot.
When the Harlem Clowns play
the fun starts as soon as they
come out on the floor a fast
warmup routine, follewed by a
lot of trick stuff and fancy ball
handling and then when the
game whistle blows you can
expect gags right from the be
ginning, along with enough real
ly great basketball to make it
one of the most interesting eve
nings imaginable.
House of David basketball
originated in the 1920's at Ben
ton Harbor, Michigan, the home
of the famed House of David
religious cult.
George Anderson, a resident
of Benton Harbor, has been man
ager of David basketball and
basketball teams since the early
1930's.
The Davids are playing a
series of games against both the
Harlem Clowns and the world
famous Harlem Globetrotters
this season. They end their series
with the Clowns in early Janu
ary. The House of David was
founded in 1904 at Benton Har
bor, Michigan, by Benjamin and
Mary Purnell.
. Today the colony operates sev
eral farms and a tourist camp
where several hundred vacation
ers come every summer. A large
amusement park can be found
at the colony.
The House of David is a relig
ious organization and beliefs are
taken from both the Old and
New Testaments. Members of
the colony are vegetarians and
none of the male members cut
their hair. Quotation "Ye shall
not round the corners of your
heads, neither shalt thou mar
the corners of thy beard." (Lev.
19-27).
SPORTSWRITER ADAMS DIES
Manhassett, N.Y. OP) Cas
well (Cas) Adams, a sports writ
er for the New York Herald
Tribune and New York Journal-American,
died here Mon
day. Adams started his sports
writing career with the Herald
Tribune in 1927 and moved over
to the Journal-American in
1953. He was 50.
Tuesday, December 10, 1957
MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE NINE
BALLS ARE PLENTIFUL "Man, look at all those basket
balls!" So says big Bob Woods, comedy star of the Harlem
Clowns, who play before local fans on Thursday evening at
Hedrick gym. The Clowns meet the House of David. Woods is
regarded as one of the greatest court comics in the history of
traveling basketball.
Spahn Wins Master
Title, Loser Battle
For Statistics Lead
By FRED DOWN
New York OB Warren Spahn
was the grand . "old master" of
National League pitchers this
year but the circuit's real
strength lies in its young stars
aged 18 to 28.
The release of official statis
tics, by the Elias Baseball Bu
reau showed that the 36-year-old
Spahn's 21 victories for the Mil
waukee Braves made him the
league's only 20-game winner. It
marked the eighth time Spahn
entered the 20-win circle ex
tending his own league record
for a left-hander.
At the same time, the figures
actually were dominated by
younger pitchers.
Podres ERA Leader
Johnny Podres, 25-year-old
Brooklyn Dodger left - hander,
was tops in the earned run aver
age with 2.66 and also led with
six shutouts. Spahn and 21-year-old
Don Drysdale of the Dodgers
tied for second at 2.69 in the
ERA department.
The Braves' Bob Buhl, 29,
ranked fourth with a 2.74 ERA.
Jack Sanf ord, 28-yearold
Mulloy Replaces Flam
In Davis Cup Contests
Brisbane, Australia (IP) Billy
Talbert, non-playing captain of
the United States Davis Cup
team, today admitted "we might
play Gardnar Mulloy in the sin
gles matches against Belgium"
in the inter-zone final starting
Thursday.
"I know it would be a surprise
decision to make, but we are far
from happy about Herbie Flam's
form," Talbert added. "Herbies
not sleeping well. He appears
physically okay but there's some
thing not quite right."
Flam of Beverly Hills, Calif.,
and Vic Seixas of Philadelphia
each won two singles matches
against the Philippines squad in
the inter-zone semifinals last
week at Adelaide, while Seixas
and Mulloy whipped the Fili
pinos in doubles.
Now 44 years old, Mulloy was
being counted on only for the
doubles assignment against Bel
gium, too, but with Flam suffer-
Howard Grade
Quints Victors
Howard defeated Gold Hill,
36 to 18, Friday in a grade
school varsity basketball game.
Scott Eaton of Howard was top
scorer with 21 counters.
In the jayvee contest Gary
Rosenberg paced a 30 to 7 How
ard win with 16 tallies.
The Howard school had its
annual chili feed on Friday.
There was a basketball game for
the physical education classes, a
series of father-son activities
and a volleyball game in which
the faculty defeated the eighth
grade girls' team.
rookie of the Philadelphia Phil
lies, had a 19-8 record and led
the circuit with 18 strikeouts.
Next game the Chicago Cubs'
precocious 21-y e a r-old right
handers, Moe Drabowsky and
Dick Drott, who tied at 170
strikeouts each.
Friend A Workhorse
Bob Friend, 27, had a 14-18
record with the Pittsburgh Pi
rates and led the league in three
departments innings pitched,
277, most starts, 38, and faced
the most batters, 1148.
In all, 12 of the 15 pitchers
with the lowest earned run aver
ages over at least 154 innings
were less than 30 years old. The
three exceptions were Spahn, the
31-year-old Newcombe and 32-year-old
Brooks Lawrence of the
Cincinati Redlegs.
There wasn't a single no-hitter
in the league but one-hitters
were turned in by the Braves'
Lew Burdette, the Cardinals'
18-yearold Von McDaniel and
Cincinnati's Johnny Klippstein.
McDaniels effort was a nearper
fect game in which he faced only
27 batters.
FIGHTS
By UNITED PRESS
New York Frankie Ryff. 139'i,
New York, outpointed Frank Ippolito,
193 New York (10).
Nottingham, Eng. Percv Lewis,
12434. Oxford, stopped Charlie Hill.
125. Scotland (10) won British Empire
teatnerweignt cnampionsnip.
Attorney Denies Night Club Parley
Portland (IP) District Attor
ney Leo Smith of Multnomah
county today denied that the Dis
trict Attorneys' Association of
Oregon had a meeting in the
Desert Room night club here last
week.
Smith issued the statement in
reply to Larry Landgraver, at
torney for Nathan Zusman, the
club's owner. Landgraver was
quoted as saying last week at a
city council meeting where Zus
mans' liquor license application
was being considered that "last
night the district attorneys of
Oregon had their conclave up
there."
Smith said the association held
its regular meetings in the Mult
nomah county courthouse and
that on the particular night in
question they had a social gath
ering at Piluso's restaurant.
' Smith added that "on Inquiry
it was determined that a couple
of district attorneys went to Zus
man's, not as district attorneys
but as individuals, and at no
time did the association hold any
formal or informal meeting or
conclave at Zusman's night club.
GOLF CHARITIES GET $56,000
Chicago (IP) A total of $56,
000 has been allocated by offi
cials of National Golf day to 10
golf charities. The money was
obtained fro mthe 1957 competi
tion. The largest amount, $26,
000, went to the Western Golf
association's caddy scholarship
fund
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