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FINAL NFL STANDINGS
Eastern Division W
Cleveland 9
New York 7
Pittsburgh 6
Washington 5
Philadelphia 4
Chicago Cards 3
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I-San Francisco 8
Baltimore - 7
Los Angeles 6
Chicago Bears 5
Green Bay 3
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Pittsburgh 27, Chicago Cards 2
Detroit 31. San Francisco 27
(Only games scheduled)
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco (W A rol
licking band of Detroit Lions,
who roared loudest all season
long when they were behind,
girded today for the big money
battle against the Cleveland
Browns in the auto city next
Sunday.
q Fresh from a 31-27 "kill" of
ihe SarKFrancisco Forty Niners
in the playoff for the Western
division title, the Lions are
"ready, willing and able" to
take on the Browns in the Na
tional Football league big game
where a win is worth about
$5,000 to each player. The game
is rated even.
The Lions, noted for come
backs, spotted San Francisco a
20-point lead early in the third
quarter and then came snapping
back with one of the great come
backs in football history.
' Trail by 20 in 3rd
Behind 7-27 with only 2714
minutes of play left, Detroit
scored three touchdowns and a
field goal on the brilliant pass
ing of reserve quarterback To
bin Rote and the slippery run
ning of halfback Tom Tracy.
Within two minutes they scored
two touchdowns midway in the
third period as the San Fran
cisco defenses fell apart.
Big comebacks are nothing
new for the Detroit club. It has
been doing the same thing all
season. The Lions trailed the
Baltimore Colts by 21 points in
the third quarter and came on
to win.
But this one had looked like
no competition for San Francis
co through the first half and
early in the third period.
It was just about this time
that the Lions dug in. "We saw
that money ' slipping," said
Creekmur, "and we decided to
claw."
They settled for a San Fran
cisco field goal there that made
the score 27-7 and then they
went to town.
Celtics, Hawks
Have Wide Leads
By UNITED PRESS
Like two racehorses running
ahead of the rest of the pack,
the Boston Celtics and St. Louis
Hawks were matching strides
today 814 games ahead in their
respective divisions of the Na
tional Basketball association.
The Celtics protected that
margin Sunday with a 115-98
victory over the Cincinnati Roy
als while Syracuse, second in
East, chalked up a 119-93 rout
of the Detroit Pistons.
Cincinnati's defeat enabled
St. Louis to gain a full game
in the West with a 123-115 win
over the Minneapolis Lakers. In
the other Sunday game, the New
York Knickerbockers downed
Philadelphia, 126-100.
HOCKEY
By United Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
The New York Rangers and
the Detroit Red Wings picked
up important ground on the pace
setting Montreal Canadiens dur
ing the week end.
The second-place Rangers de
feated the crippled Canadiens,
4-2, Saturday night and then
downed the Toronto Maple
Leafs, 5-2, Sunday night, reduc
ing Montreal's lead to four
points.
Detroit moved into a tie with
the Boston Bruins for third
place by sweeping a week end
series with the Chicago Black
Hawks. The Red Wings won
Saturday afternoon's TV game
5-3, and shut out the Black
Hawis, 2-0 Sunday night.
In another Sunday night
game, Andre Pronovost scored
two goals in pacing the Cana
diens to a 4-1 triumph over the
Bruins.
O By United Press
AMERICAN LEAGUE
A six-day pre-Christmas va
cation worked wonders for the
Hershey Bears, pace-setters of
the American Hockey league.
The Bears, who had won only
one of six previous games broke
out of their slump during the
week end with twin victories
over the Providence Reds and
Buffalo Bisons.
Two goals by Bobby Solinger
helped the Bears to a comeback
6-2 victory over Buffalo Sun
day night after they downed
the Reds, 5-4, in overtime Sat
urday night.
In Sunday night's only other
contest, Providence spotted Ro
chester a 1-0 lead in the open
ing period and then rallied to
defeat the Americans, 5-2.
SIPCDn&TTS
JOURNEYING TO TEXAS, Coach Red Sanders, Univer
sity of California at Los Angeles, and Mrs. Sanders, confer
at College Station with officials of Texas A & M who report
edly are offering him $40,000 annually to take charge of
football squad. He now gets $18,000. (International)
Cincinnati To Have
More Versatile Force
(Editor's note: This is the
sixth of 16 dispatches on the
off-season outlook of each ma
jor league learn .for 1958, writ
ten by ihe managers of each
club.)
By BIRDIE TEBBETTS
Written for the United Press
Nashua, N.H. OP) The Cin
cinnati Redlegs will enter a more
versatile attacking force in the
1958 National Baseball league
battle. The accent will be more
toward pitching and speed.
We have been known pri
marily as a power team but next
year we will not only hit but
move. Our thinking has changed
since finishing fourth last sea
son. The Redlegs are going to be
a combination of youth and
experience. You might say our
theme is to build for the future
while we take care of the
present.
That might sound like a large
O'.'der but I believe we have
or will get the personnel to
carry it off. There have been
some changes already . . . there
will be more before spring train
ing starts . . . and perhaps even
more before the first game of
the 1958 season.
Corrects Weakness
Pitching was obviously our
principal shortcoming last year
so we went out and did some
thing about it right away. Now
I believe we have corrected that
weakness.
We have already acquired
seven new pitchers including
good front-liners and solid re
lief strength. Harvey Haddix,
Bob Purkey and Willard Schmidt
would be welcome additions to
any staff.
In addition to our remaining
regulars, we expect a lot of
Charley Rabe who pitched well
for Seattle last year and there
are a couple of promising rookie
prospects coming down for
spring training who will get a
chance.
Naturally, we had to sacrifice
some power to get the men we
wanted. You do not get some
thing for nothing, even in base
ball. We lost batting strength in
yielding Wally Post and Joe Tay
lor but don't forget we still have
Frank Robinson and Gus Bell in
the outfield. Right now the best
prospect for Bell's replacement
looks like Stan Palys who led
the league in batting with Nash
ville last season.
Says Bailey Versatile
I am not saying I will do it
but there is another outfield pos
sibility if these other men don't
pan out. I might move Ed Bailey
out there and have Smoky Bur
gess do the catching. Bailey is
a very versatile man who gives
me that much more leeway in
planning.
Of course, the big question
mark is Ted Kluszewski. A lot
has been said and written about
Ted who was bothered by a
back ailment during most of the
1957 season but I prefer to
adopt a .wait-and-see attitude for
the moment. George Crowe filled
in well at first base in 1957 and
Steve Bilko will be up again
from Hollywood. Overall I would
have to say the picture looked
very bright now.
A great many people have
been picking Milwaukee to run
away with the flag next year
but I do not agree. It was a five-
Monday, December 23, 1957
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club battle until mid-August last
season and I see no reason why
it should not be the same, or
tougher, next year. Certainly
the Giants and Pirates also are
improved so I cannot see the
Braves running over anybody.
Bend Edges
Eagle Point
Cagers 46-41
V.aelp Point Fa sip Point
hi eh faces the rest of its basket
ball campaign with bolstered
confidence after a week end
jaunt to Bend.
While the Eagles dronped both
games of their series with the
Lava Bears, the defending A-2
Rogue league champions had the
satisfaction of two good perform
ances against Class A-l compe
tition.
Bend edged by Eagle Point 46
to 41 in a Saturday fracas which
was tight all the way. The Bears
had taken the Friday fracas ,50
to 43.
Five points was the widest
margin separating the teams in
the Saturday game. Eagle Point
was in front at the quarter 16
to,15 and Bend at halftime 29
to 25 and after three quarters
40 to 39. In the second half each
club put in seven field goals and
Bend had a 3 to 2 edge at the
free line.
Hawes Paces Home Team
The tussle was a wide open
one despite the low score. Eagle
Point more than held its own in
backboard play and in the second
half the Eagle defense held down
the Bears with the exception of
George Hawes who had six of
the Bend field goals over the
last two periods.
Hawes was the game's high
scorer with 16 while Bill Turner
had 11 for Eagle Point.
Eagle Coach Tom Van Etten
announced that varsity and jun
ior varsity drills will resume on
Dec. 30. The EP club gets a
sample of Rogue league rivalry
on Jan. 3 and 4 with non-league
action against Phoenix. After
the Eagles had won the Rogue
v,annpr last season, the Pirates
upset them in the subdistrict
tourney finale.
line-ups:
46. Bend Eagle Point
T 2 Harris Turner
F 10 Ylvisaker Greb
C 16 Hawes Christian
G 10 Hodge Veach
r C Fl,narv Nelson
Substitutions--For Bend. Lenaburg,
Connollv, Simonis: forEagle Point,
Hubbard 2, Smith, Chamberlain.
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Ashland A wide margin
built up in the second quarter
and early third period gave Ash
land sufficient protection against
a Cheesemaker threat Saturday
night and the Grizzly1 hoopsters
turned back Tillamook high 49
to 42.
The Grizzlies broke away
from an early second panel
deadlock to lead by 12 points
at 30 to 18 at halftime. They in
creased to a 16-point advantage
at 34 to 18 as the second half
got underway. From that spot
the Ashland offensive effort lost
stride, Tillamook began to out
gun the Grizzlies from the free
line and the Cheesemakers got
tough under the backboards.
Ashland by by 13 at 43 to 30
by the end of the thircj canto
but with just IV2 minutes to
play in the conflict, Tillamook
had whittled the Grizzly margin
to five points, 47 to 42. Jack
Tobiasson closed out the scoring
for Ashland with a brace of gift
counters.
Maurer, Miner Lead
Bill Maurer of Ashland with
12 points, all on field buckets,
and Barry Miner of Tillamook,
also with 10 were high point
men for the game.
The Grizzlies outscored Tilla
mook 12 to 10 In the first quar
ter, 18 to 8 in the second and 13
to 12 in the third but the north
coast quint had 12 to 6 advan
tage in the final panel. Statistics
bear out the boost Tillamook got
from its free point making. The
team from the land of cheese,
trees and ocean breeze shot 12
for 17 at the gift stripe in the
second half while Ashland was
making five for 15. Ashland had
the edge in field goals, seven
to six.
Score was tied four times be
fore Ashland kept the lead for
good. Two free heaves by Ben
Watrus made the score 14 to 12
to establish permanent com
mand. It was the second win of the
week end for Ashland over the
Cheesemakers. Friday score was
48 to 37.
BOX:
Tillamook FG
FT
0
1
4
1
1
2
0
5
0
4
PF TP
5 6
Snyder, f 3
Baty, f 2
5
12
3
3
2
0
7
0
4
42
Miner, c 4
Trammell, g 1
Krake, g 1
irieneer . o
Hatfield 0
Hoffman 1
Vaughn 0
Anderson 0
Totals 12
18 19
Ashland FG
Lombard, f 0
Maurer, f 6
Tobiasson, c 2
Hartwell, g 2
Petejson, g 5
Daniels 1
Watrus 2
Murray 1
Totals 19
FT PF TP
14 1
3
3
3
3
1
4
1
11 22
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Giardello
Choice Over
Tiger Jones
New York (IP) Middle
weight contender Joey Giardel
lo is favored at 3-1 to beat Ralph
(Tiger) Jones on Friday in the
featured bout of this week's
light holiday boxing schedule.
Giardello of Brooklyn, ranked
fourth among 160-pound con
tenders, meets unrated Jones of
Yonkers, N. Y., in a TV-radio
NBC 10-rounder at the Miami
Beach auditorium Friday night.
Six of Seven
Joey, campaigning for a title
shot, won six of his seven starts
this year and had one no-decision
affair with Willie
Vaughn. That brought his rec
ord to 70-13-5 and lnd. They
included 25 kayoes.
Jones also had seven bouts
this year. He won three, had a
draw with Joe Gray, and then
lost three on close decisions to
Gene Fullmer, Del Flanagan
and Willie Vaughn. His 44-20-4
record includes 11 knockouts.
There will be no Wednesday
TV fight since Wednesday is
Christmas day.
The week's boxing schedule In
cludes: Monday New York (St. Nicks)
Tommy Tibbs vs. Lulu Perez.
Tuesday None scheduled.
Wednesday None scheduled.
Thursday Boise. Idaho Dick Lane
vs. Roque Maravilla; Kingston, Ja
maica Sammy Walker v. Ben Lewis.
Friday Miami Beach Joey Giar
dello vs. Ralph (Tiger) Jones.
Saturday Milwaukee Orville Pitts
vs. Joe Rowan; Hollywood, Calif.
German Ohm vs. Boots Monroe.
UCLA Board
Talks Offer
To Sanders
Los Angeles (IP) One of the
top sports cliffhangers of the
year may be decided and or an
nounced today when the UCLA
board of control meets in a spe
cial session that could determine
whether football Coach Henry
(Red) Sanders stays or goes to
Texas A&M.
The thick air of gloom that
prevailed here was penetrated
only by statements from anony
mous sources that Red doesn't
really want to go. Sports ex
perts sadly reported it appeared
the odds for his staying were
growing slimmer.
Sanders, who returned from a
conference at Texas A&M over
the week end, hinted only that
his decision could go either way.
But he let it be known he was
interested in moving to Texas
and neatly left the next play up
to the board of control.
"We exist in a miserable
league here on the Coast," he
said, adding he thought the
Southwest conference was "a
very fine organization."
Door Open
He left the door open to the
Bruins by stating he planned to
make no proposal on his UCLA
contract but that he would
"listen if the local school came
up with one.
Athletic Director Wilbur Johns
held a two-hour conference with
Sanders immediately upon his
return from Texas, then an
nounced the special board of con
trol meeting.
Johns said Sanders had not
told him "what his' decision
might be."
But board, which is charged
with approving all UCLA con
tracts, presumably will consider
making attractive revisals in San
ders' long-term contract. The
board would have to receive his
resignation if he presented one.
Unofficial sources reported
that influential alumni were
busy working on ways to woo
Sanders into staying at UCLA
where he is the Pacific Coast
conference's most successful
coach. They spoke of "fringe"
benefits such as outside business
opportunities as well as contract
ROSE BOWL FOR DODGERS? President Walter O'Mal
ley (right) of the National League Dodger baseball club
and City Mgr. Don C. McMilian look over plans of the
Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, Calif. O'Malley has in
dicated that the Dodgers would "probably" play in the
Rose Bowl next season, but that there would be no defi
nite announcement made until about the second week in
January.
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Sooners To
Bowl
Editor's note: This Is the
seventh of 10 dispatches on
the football bowl teams. The
dispatches will cover the teams
in ihe Gaior, Orange. Rose,
Sugar and Cotton Bowls.
By BOB HAUGHT
Norman, Okla. (IP) Now that
he's out from under the pressure
of coaching the nation's top foot
ball team, Bud Wilkinson's main
worry is keeping the Oklahoma
Sooners in shape for their
Orange Bowl date with Duke.
Wilkinson's handling of the
team since Notre Dame clipped
its 47-game victory string has
been relaxed. A perennial pessi
mist, Wilkinson doesn't even
bother to -predict defeat now that
Oklahoma is a member of the
losers' fraternity.
Only Bowl Win to Gain
Oklahoma has little to gain by
beating Duke Jan. 1 at Miami
except for a third straight Or
ange Bowl victory. In 1954 and
1956, the Sooners were determ
ined to beat Maryland to keep
Tempe Picks
Frank Kush
Tucson, Ariz. OP) Youthful
Frank Kush, 27, line coach at
Arizona State at Tempe for the
past three years, has taken over
as the school's head football
coach, succeeding Dan Devine
who moved to the University of
Missouri.
Kush, a star guard on the
Michigan State team in 1950-51-52,
was named for ASC's top
football job Saturday by the
board of regents.
WOMAN BOWLS 84
Eugene (IP) Now women
are taking up marathon bowl
ing. Irma Chamberlain, 43-year-old
Eugene housewife, bowled
84 straight games during the
week end at the Eugene recrea
tion here with an average of
161 per game. Bus Eaton of
Roseburg, who started the mara
thon bowling fad, rolled up 425
straight games in Portland last
month.
to crow shout....
CONCRETE C?
248 E.McANDREWS RDt
Seek 3rd
in Row
their record-breaking winning
streak alive, and they won both
times.
In its last bowl contest before
the two Maryland clashes, Okla
homa had a 31-game winning
streak snapped' by Kentucky in
the 1951 Sugar Bowl.
Looking toward its battle with
Duke, the Oklahoma squad has
been going through a variety of
practice maneuvers. One day last
week, Wilkinson drilled the team
on downfield blocking, punts,
quick kicks, pass scrimmage,
ball carrying and punt return de
fense. "We're just trying to keep in
shape," Wilkinson said. "We try
to make our practices enjoyable
and not work the team too hard."
Injured Players Mended
Wilkinson closed out a 9-1 sea
son with four players, including
United Press All-America half
back Clendon Thomas, on the in
jury list. Thomas didin't miss
either of the last two games, how
ever, and all four squadmen
were running at top speed when
the coach opened final home
field drills here last week.
Although Wilkinson's creed
proclaims that "defense wins
football games," he isn't banking
on Oklahoma's regular season
yield of only 1,347 net yards to
win in the Orange Bowl.
Neither is he counting on
Oklahoma's tendency to score in
the third quarter, as contrasted
to Duke's late-game scoring
weakness.
"It's like baseball. One good
inning can't win the game. It's
scoring when you need to score
that counts," Wilkinson said.
"Duke is perhaps the best
team we've met with the excep
tion of Natre Dame on the day
we played Notre Dame," Wilkin
son said.
Dow Finsterwald
Wins Boca Raton
Boca Raton, Fla. OF) The
purse was small but young Dow
Finsterwald had the satisfaction
of winning a golf tournament
from Sam Snead on the veteran's
home course.
Finsterwald beat Snead by one
stroke for the $300 top prize
in the two-day $1,500 Boca Ra
ton Pro-Am Tourney Sunday.
The consistent Ohioan, playing
out of Tequesta, Fla., posted a
winning 133 after shooting a
four-under-par 66 on the final
round.
Snead, the first round leader,
missed putts of seven and three
feet on the two final holes to
post a 68 and 134 total.
Lew Worsham of Pittsburgh
teamed with Ed Tutwiler, six
times West Virginia State am
ateur champion, to win the Pro
Am event with a best-ball 122.
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Chino, Calif. (IP) Young
touring star Billy Casper Jr. of
Bonita, Calif., and Charles Sif
ford. former national Nesro
champion from Philadelphia,
tee off today in an 18-hole play
off for top prize money in the
Pomona Valley Golf open.
The two powerful stroke mak
ers deadlocked for the 51,000
first prize money Sunday in an
in-and-out session that saw each
of them in the lead and finally
wind up with 12 under par 294s.
The runnerup in today's playoff
will get $60 0.
Casper had a one stroke lead
going into Sunday's round but
had to come from behind by
registering a birdie on the 17th
and par on the 18th to keep
pace and walk off with a 70.
. Sifford shot a 69, one of five
fired over the long 7,100-yard
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Rhodes, who wound un third
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aeiicit to pass the hefty Casper
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on the back nine.
Oregon Quint
Victor Over
Cougar Club
By UNITED PRESS
Oregon seeks its second vic
tory in a row over Brigham
Young at Provo, Utah, tonight
while Oregon State, its first
loss of the season tallied up,
meets Indiana at Bloomington.
Oregon downed Brigham
Young Saturday night 63-55 as
Bud Kuykendall scored 19 points
and Hal Duffy and Dale Herron
controlled the backboards. Four
Ducks got into double figures.
Herron got 15 points while Duffy
and Charlie Franklin had 10
each.
OSC Loser in Overtime
Iowa tlowned Oregon State
77-67 in an overtime game to
make it 78 straight times at
home that Iowa has won over
non-conference opposition.
Oregon State had won five
straight until Saturday.
Dave Gambee of the Beavers
led all scorers with 20 while Lee
Harman had 15 and Ken Nan
son 13. .
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