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GIRD FOR ASTORIA Coach Frank Roe
landt charts some strategy for his Medford
high school basketball crew as it readies for
its Series with the Astoria Fishermen here
Friday and Saturday nights. Players, left
to right, are Tom Hamlin, Bilbee Lane,
ornado
Friday Against Astoria Five
Astoria high's Fishermen, with
only one returning regular and
their most experienced men jun
iors, are expected to give the
Medford basketball quintet a
nigged time under the back
boards Friday- and Saturday
night's when the Black Tornado
makes its first appearances of
the new campaign on its home
court.
The north Oregon coast club
and Tornado collide at 8:15 p.m.
on koth occasions on Hedrick
Junior High school floor. There
will be 6:30 p.m. starters with
fedford jayvees vying both
Rights.
Gordon Scott, 6-2 junior for
ward, good shot, good rebound-j
9 &nd fine defensive player, is
git returnee regular on the Fish
ermen rooster. Jon Wagner and
9rian Paaso, juniors and forward
(fcnd guard, respectively, were
Jitd W alternates in the state
(journey roster last March. Wag
Ofcr, 6-2, is regarded is an accur
st Shooter and tough backboard
JTifn. Paaso, also 6-2, is an alert
fflyir adds to the Astoria
yfctcjtboard strength,
ome Beef
Atori won't have any real
&tht dvntge over the Tor
9f o crew but boasts some beefs
3rtt hlp out in clearing the
fctrtU after mived shots. Scott
4 900-pounder and Paaso tips
ghf acalc It 199. Wagner and
Arnold Curti, 6-1 senior, are
173-poundera. Curtis is team cap
tain. He ha good eye for the
hoop and is quick and tricky.
jTalltat player on the club is
DavaoHellberf, ff-3, 150-pound
junior,
Caa,ch Jerry Mosby of the
JJshermn eould pick his start
ers from among Scott, Wagner,
Hallbirg, Paaso, Dick Seppa,
8xry Lempea and Curtis. Seppa,
a ynior guard, is known for his
goring ability and continued
jpaxd play while Lempea, also a
junior and g guard, plays a fast,
glart fpirited game.
aVlso on the Astoria roster are
jenioif, Jack Leinenweber, Dick
Matthews, Darrell Isaacson and
Dick Neimi, and James Johnson,
a sophomore.
Complete Astoria record is not
HOCKEY
If ATIOVAL LEAGUE
Bt UJITED PRESS
Coach Phil Watson finds it
hard to smile after a defeat, but
he isn't too sorry the Chicago
Black Hawks handed his New
York Rangers their first Christ
mas night defeat at home since
1928.
Billy, Lea, Ted Lindsay and
Lorn Ferguson three of the
mlayers Chicago got this year
from the Detroit Red Wings
scored the goals that shattered
cn of the most unusual unbeat
en streaks in sports. They spark
ed g 3-1 triumph that ended a
five-game losing streak for the
last-place Chicago, club in Na
tional Hockey league play.
The Black Hawks cost the second-place
Rangers a chance to
cut Montreal's lead to two points
because the Toronto Maple Leafs
edged the Canadiens, 5-4. In the
other game Wednesday night,
the Boston Bruins whipped De
troit, 4-1.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
By UNITED PRESS
The Hershey Bears have a fat
lead in the American Hockey
league, but the second-place
Cleveland Barons found out
Wednesday night that the first
place club isn't letting down a
bit.
Cleveland took a 2-0 lead on
Jimmy Moore's two second pe
riod goals but the home club
pulled even before the regula
tion game ended and won, 3-2,
at 3:52 of the overtime period
on Obie O'Brien's goal.
. The Buffalo Bisons walloped
Begins IHIome Season
available but shows wins of 58
to 35 over Seaside and 73 to 32
and 48 to 37 over Scappoose.
Coach Frank Roelandt of the
Tornado had his squad running
this afternoon, trying to "get
some of the turkey off." He re
ported that regular Tom Hamlin,
who turned an ankle last week,
is moving a lot better on the in
jured limb and "may go some"
MedfordTribunb
STOMPS
EAST BOASTS MOST BIG
NAMES IN SHRINE FRAY
By HAL WOOD
San Francisco (IP) The flu
bug has again sidelined one of
the East's star players as the
cream of the nation's collegiate
football players made ready for
the annual East-West Shrine
classic.
All - America lineman Alex
Karras from Iowa complained
of a temperature and sore throat
Wednesday. One quick look and
the East team's medicos put him
to bed at the Santa Clara Uni
versity infirmary.
Another East star, halfback
Jim Pace of Michigan, was back
in the lineup, but still far from
his peak potential after a week
end bout with the flu.
However team physicians said
they expected all ailing players
to be ready to take the field in
Kezar Stadium here Saturday
when the Shrine charity classic
gets under way.
East Has Big Names
The East has most of the big
names in the collegiate ranks,
which accounts for its being
favored by nine points by those
who claim to be privy to hjOW
games should come out.
The West has no standout
performers to match Karras,
Pace, Walt Kowalczyk of Michi
gan State, Charlie Brueckman
of Pitt and Mickey Trimarki of
West Virginia and seldom has
in the past.
But the over-all record for
the 32 East-West game discloses
that the West has won 15 times,
the East 13 with four deadlocks.
Best known players on the
West squad are Bob Stransky,
Colorado back; Jim Jones, Wash
ington fullback; Jim Shofner,
TCU back; Ron Wheatcroft,
California end; and Joe Fran
cis, back from Oregon State.
Both squads the East at
Santa Clara, the West at Stan
ford went through a short
drill Wednesday and then
knocked off ' for a Christmas
party.
Engle Confident
East coach Rip Engle, him
self only recently out of the
sick bed, wasn't making any
predictions. But he indicated,
flu or no, his boys would be
Weil-Known Golf
Announcer Dies
Los Angeles D. Scott (Scotty)
Chishplm, 80, noted golf tourna
ment starter and announcer died
Wednesday at his home in Santa
Monica. Calif.
Chisholm, co-founder of the
Los Angeles Open Golf tourna
ment, has been scheduled to
work at the tourney when it be
gins next Thursday.
the Rochester Americans, 7-1,
and the Springfield Indians
edged the Providence Reds, 4-3,
in the other games.
Thursday, December 26, 1957
Jerry Anderson, Don Peek and Lowell Dean.
Hamlin turned his ankle in practice last week
and just how much service he'll be able to
see isn't certain. Games each day will be at
8:15 p.m. They will follow 6:30 p.m. preliminaries.
on Friday and Saturday. Don
Bowling, letterman, who has not
seen duty so far because of a
broken bone in his foot, will be
in uniform, Roelandt said. But,
it is doubtful that he'll be able
to play.
Medford junior varsity meets
Rogue River varsity in the Fri
day prelim and Tornado and
Grants Pass second teams.
out in front at the final gun.
Jack Curtice of Utah, charg
ed with woulding the Western
ers into a coordinated machine,
wasn't talking either. But the
Ute mentor has been quietly
schooling his squad into a
smooth T - formation group
which, his sly smile tips," will
give the Eastern headliners a
run for their money.
Regardless of the outcome
Saturday afternoon the real
winners will be the crippled
children the Shriners hope to
see walk again.
Crater High,
Willamette
Mix Friday
Central Point Crater high
winds up its pre-conference bas
ketball slate Friday and Satur
day nights with another pair of
scuffles which should shed light
on its chances in the Southern
Oregon circuit. ,
And the Comets are expected
to have their hands full against
both rivals although playing on
the Crater floor. They meet Wil
lamette of Eugene on Friday
and Coquille on Saturday.
Grants Pass of the Southern
Oregon conference, is host to
the two schools on the opposite
evenings.
Willamette will come with a
3-1 record. The school from the
Eugene area holds an overtime
nod over Springfield which in
one game lost by only one point
to Klamath Falls of the South
ern Oregon loop.
Willamette also has beaten
Madras and Cottage Grove and
lost to Toledo in overtime.
Eslremado Will Start
Only scores available for Co
quille show a split with New
port and a win over Siuslaw.
It's reported that the Red Dev
ils also dropped a closey to To
ledo. Coach' Don Anielak, who aims
to have the Crater crew bounce
back from Oakridge setbacks,
has indicated that senior Jim
Estremado may make his first
starting appearance for the Com
ets. Bill White, Wayne Allen
and Randy Campbell may get
other starter assignments with
the fifth man to be chosen from
among Kermen Bennett, Jerry
Kime'and Joe Teeter.
AGGIES ARRIVE AT GATOR
Jacksonville, Fla. OF) Coach
Paul (Bear) Bryant and his Texas
A&M football squad arrived to
day to complete their prepara
tions for Tennessee in the Gator
Bowl Saturday afternoon. The
Tennessee Volunteers arrived
Tuesday and even worked out
behind closed gates on Christmas
Day to get ready for the Aggies
and their much-honored half
backs, All-America John Crow.
Cubs Hope
Like Finish
Editor's note: This is the seventh
of 16 dispatches on the off-season
outlook of each major league team
for 1958, written by the managers
of each club.
By BOB SCHEFFING
Written For United Press
Scottsdale, Ariz. (IP) If we
can start next season as we fin
ished the last one, the Cubs will
do all right.
During the last two months of
last season we won 29 and lost
27, and that is the kind of base
ball we want to play all season.
We've done a lot of building,
and some trading, and we'll do
more to get the material we need
to become a solid club. .
The baseball writers have
been ribbing me about the trade
we made with Milwaukee, in
which we gave right-handed
pitchers Bob Rush and Don Kai
ser, along with outfielder Eddie
Haas, for left-handed pitcher
Taylor Phillips and catcher Sam
Taylor.
I think we helped our club
in the deal. We got youth, as
both Taylor and Phillips are 24.
And in Phillips we got ourselves
a probable starting left-handed
pitcher, which we badly needed
last season.
When you are trying to bring
a club up, there is nothing like
trying to find young players,
with lasting qualities, who might
not win the pennant for you the
first year or so but will improve
with experience and make you
a contender for several years.
We brought up some young
players in the second half of last
season and our winning percent
age started going up. We've got
some good young pitchers, prob
ably the best staff of young
pitchers of any team in the ma
jor leagues. Barring ' physical
handicaps, they'll get better with
seasoning. .
The pitching staff of Phillips,
Moe Drabowski, Dick Drott, Jim
Seattle, San Francisco
Among Tourijey Favorites
By JOE SARGIS
United Press Sports Writer
College basketball's annual
holiday head-knocking begins in
earnest tonight with several of
the nation's more highly regard
ed teams in action in five ma
jor eight-team tournaments.
The action unfurls in such
widely separated cities as Kan
sas City, Mo., Big Eight, Ral
eigh, N.C., Dixie Classic, New
York City Holiday Festival, Ok
lahoma City, Okla., All-College
and Houston, Tex., Southwest.
Kansas and Kansas State,
ranked 1-2 by the United Press
board of coaches, are the teams
to beat in the Big Eight tour
ney which also includes Okla
homa, Missouri, Iowa State, Col
orado, Nebraska and outsider
Princeton. Kansas plays Okla
homa and Kansas State meets
Missouri tonight while the others
play Friday night.
Tarheels Dixie Favorite
The Dixie Classic offers the
most evenly-balanced field of all
the tourneys, but North Carolina,
upset by West Virginia in the
Kentucky Invitation tournament
and " the defending national
champion, is favored. The com
petition here includes North
Carolina State, Duke, Wake For
est and outsiders Duquesne,
Northwestern, St. Louis and Se
ton Hall.
The opening day pairings find
Wake Forest playing Duquesne,
N. C. State- meeting Northwest
ern in afternoon action and
fourth-ranked North Carolina
playing St. Louis and Duke
meeting Seton hall in night
games.
The Holiday Festival at New
York offers 12th ranked Temple,
13th ranked Seattle, California,
New York University, Dayton,
Manhattan and Connecticut.
Temple and Seattle are favored
to reach the final round with
each drawing comparatively
"easy" opponents in the open
ing round. The Owls play Pitts
burgh and Chieftains meet Con
necticut. Dons Top Field
Fifth-ranked San Francisco tops
a "stacked" field in the All-College
tourney which includes
such teams as Western Ken
tucky, Denver, Niagara, Tulane,
Oklahoma City, University, Tul-
sa
and Idaho State. San Fran-
cisco
opens against uenver in
Rose Bowl Clubs
Back at Practice
Pasadena, Calif. (IP) The
Rose Bowl teams of Ohio State
and Oregon return to the prac
tice field today after a day off
to enjoy Christmas.
Coach Woody Hayes planned
an afternoon workout for the
Buckeyes at East Los Angeles
Junior College, and coach Len
Casanova called for a scrimmage
for his Oregon Ducks in prepar
ation for their New Year's Day
game.
Both teams attended Christ
mas celebrations, sponsored by
the Tournament of Roses assoc
iation and alumni. The Ohioans
received gifts from Columbus
merchants.
Casanova reported that co
captain Harry Mondale was re
covering nicely from an attack
of influenza but that his No. 1
replacement at guard, Joe Schaf
feld, had been hit.
for Start
of 1957
'Brosnan, Johnny Briggs, who
seems to be recovered from an
arm injury that has hurt his ca
reer, Bob Anderson, and a
couple of youngsters we've
brought up should do all right.
Ed Mayer, up from Fort Worth,
and Glenn Hobbie, a left-hander
from Memphis are highly re
garded, although still a little
rough around the edges. So was
Drott when 'he first came along.
Outfield Problems
Don't be surprised if Fernando
Rodriguez, at 35, gives us some
good relief pitching. We got him
from the Giants' Minneapolis
farm team, and he's doing well
in the Winter League down in
Cuba.
We haven't any deals in sight
right now, but we still have out
field problems, particularly in
center field. The outfielders we
have are Lee Walls, who came
from Pittsburgh last year in the
deal which also gave us Dale
Long at first base; Jim Bolger,
Bob Speake, Walt Moryn and
Chuck Tanner.
Third base was a problem last
year until John Goryl came
along and did a pretty good job.
We've got Bobby Adams for
third base duty also, and have
been given high recommenda
tion on Antonio Taylor, a 20-year-old
from Minneapolis.
Jerry Kindall and Bobby Mor
gan give us pretty good protec
tion at second and Ernie Banks,
well, you just tell me a better
guy to have at shortstop who
hits those long ones for you like
he does.
Cal Nieman, another young
ster 'who made the team last sea
son, caught more games than
any other catcher in the Na
tional League and was only out
hit by three or four catchers, if
memory serves me correctly. I
know he can do a good job for
us, and Taylor will be of help.
the three-day tourney, and rates
the favorite's mantle off its su
perior height and general all
around consistency. Western
Kentucky is the "dark horse"
here.
Undefeated Texas Tech and
defending champion Southern
Methodist get the Southwest
Conference tourney off in the
afternoon while co-favorites
Texas Christian a'nd Rice play
a little later. TCU winds up the
afternoon's activity against Tex
as A&M and Rice meets oft
beaten Baylor in the second
game of a night twin-bill. Other
teams include Texas, Arkansas.
Semi-finals are scheduled for
Friday and the final for Satur
day. North Nicks
South Grid
Stars 23-20
Miami, Fla. (IP)- Dick Christy
and Jim Ninowski set a frantic
pace with long runs and passes
Wednesday night as the College
North-South All-Stars wrapped
up the ihrills of a whole season
in one night for 28,303 fans in
the Orange Bowl.
Ninowski, the slender Michi
gan State quarterback who was
named the North's most valuable
player, completed 13 of 33 passes
for a record 295 yards in leading
the "Yanks" to a 23-20 victory,
only their third in the 10-game
series sponsored for Shrine
charities.
His throws, most to teammate
Bob Jewett at end, produced one
touchdown and set up another.
They also put Michigan State's
other senior end, Dave Kaiser in
position to boot a 36-yard field
goal for what wound up being
the winning points.
Christy Goes on Rampage
Christy, the 180-pound speed
ball from North Carolina State
who was named the South's
MVP went on a second half ram
page. He broke through the line
for 62 yards and a touchdown in
the third period and carried back
a punt 57 yards in the final quar
ter for another score.
As if that were not enough,
the stubby "Rebel" halfback
from Chester, Pa., nearly pulled
off an upset for the south, a four
point underdog. With 2:15 left
in the game, Christy ran back
a North punt 47 yards; then with
15 seconds left, he caught a 23
yard pass from Arkansas quar
terback George Walker on the
North two. There was time for
only one play, and a dive at the
line by LSU's Jimmy Taylor fell
one yard short as the Yankee
forward wall held.
DUKE, SOONERS ON HAND
Miami (IP) The Duke and
Oklahoma football squads ar
rived today ' by plane to begin
work for the big New Year's
clash in the Orange Bowl. The
players for both schools re
assembled on their campuses
Wednesday night and this morn
ing after spending Christmas at
home. The Duke squad is due
shortly after noon and the Soon
ers about 2:30 p.m.. (e.s.t). Nei
ther team plans a workout until
Friday morning.
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FRANK LEAHY
To Sign Aggie Pact
Frank Leahy
To Become
Aggie Coach
College Station, Tex. an
The T-xas Aggies picked up a
driving football fundamentalist
the' same pattern as Paul (Bear)
Bryant Wednesday night when
Frank Leahy, former coach at
Notre Dame, agreed to become
head coach and athletic director.
Dr. M. T. Harrington, Texas
A&M president, said Leahy
agreed to contract terms by tele
phone and that the formal sign
ing of a contract was expected
by the end of the week. This
may be Saturday at the Gator
Bowl in Jacksonville, Fla., where
the Aggies meet Tennessee in
their final game under Bryants
who is going to Alabama.
However, Leahy was in a hos
pital at Michigan City, Ind., to
day. He slipped and broke his
ankle Tuesday while carrying
Christmas packages into his
Long Beach, Ind., home. He was
taken to the hospital for X-rays
and remained for treatment.
Three-Year Pact .
Dr. Harrington said Leahy,
49, would be given a salary of
$16,000 a year plus rent-free use
of a college-owned residence.
The contract is for three years.
The Natre Dame graduate,
noted for pessimistic attitude de
spite having winning teams, will
become the 22nd coach since
A&M fielded its first football
team in 1894.
Leahy's overall record, includ
ing two years at Boston College,
is 107-13-9. .
Leahy was expected to report
to College Station soon after the
first of the year,. Harrington said.
Leahy quit Notre Dame after,
the 1953 season because of ill
health. He compiled an 11-year
record of 87 victories, 11 losses
and 9 ties and had six undefeated
seasons.
. He said Wednesday he had
completely recovered his health.
"The layoff got me over all the
troubles that I had and my local
doctor has told me that I am
healthier than I've been in 10
years."
Bearcats Open
Hoop Tourney
Sacramento, Calif. HP)
The fourth annual Far Western
conference invitational basket
ball toournament got under way
here this afternoon with Wil
lamette university meeting San
Francisco state.
Other opening (round games
will pit defending conference
champion Nevada against Whit
tier college, California Aggies
against Chico State and host
Sacramento State against Hum
boldt State.
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New York ttPt Notre Dame
and the Milwaukee Braves de
serve their fair share of glory,
but for the upset of the year Tve
got to hand it today to angular
Mai Anderson, the unseeded
cowboy from Australia who won
the National Amateur tennis
championship.
Anderson's victory at Forest
Hills may not sound like such
great shakes if you don't happen
to be a tennis buff. For there
still are those who regard the
court game as not essentially a
he-man's dodge.
In such case, they'd better
take another look, because An
derson's feat required great en
durance, skill and the ability to
withstand pressure.
And his triumph was really an
earth-shaker in, the tennis world
because no other unseeded play
er ever had captured the big
one. To put the icing on the
cake, the 22-year-old Aussie in
the final heat the No. 1 seed,
Ashley Cooper and did it in
straight sets to boot.
Notre Dame must be the popu
lar choice because of the much
more widespread general inter
est in college football. The Fight
ing Irish put over the shocker
when, as an 18-point underdog,
they ended Oklahoma's 47-game
Rice Works On
Defense Against Passing
(Editor's note: This is the ninth
of 10 dispatches on the football
bowl teams. The dispatches will
cover the teams in the Gator,
Orange, Rose, Sugar and Cotton ,
BOW1S.)
By JOHN COLTON
Abilene, Tex. 0P Coach
Jess Neely checked his Rice
Owls into this West Texas city
today and ordered ' "heavy"
workouts daily both here and in
Dallas to offset a five-day Christ
mas holiday lay-off.
The Owls, who face potent
Navy in the Cotton Bowl on
New Year's Day, move to Dallas
for Dec. 30-31 workouts, also
tagged "heavy." But what Neely
calls "heavy"is something to
wonder about.
The Owls last Friday wound
up a solid week of the roughest
practice scrimmage the efficient
Jess could dream up. They re
sume practice here to make way
for basketball players in Hous
ton, where. Rice Institute is host
to the Southwest Conference
Tournament opening today.
"The boys are in fine condi
tion," Neely reported. , "I'm real
pleased with the way they react
to Navy plays. I think our of
fense looks all right, but we're
far from through. We have plen
ty of work to do yet."
While the Owls have done
plenty of head-knocking, Neely
has concentrated on passing and
defense against passing, with
Navy's passing trio of Tom For
restal, Joe Tranchini and Pat
Flood in mind.
Forrestal, N a v y's No. 1 T
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winning streak by a tight 7-0
score.
In the matter of unexpected
performances you also have to
hand it to the Braves and to the
Cleveland Browns.
The Braves will tell you, of
course, that they expected to win
the World Series from the Yan
kees. However, the oddsmakers
made them the outsiders and
they kicked over the tote board
to win it.
As for the Browns, not even
Coach Paul Brown thought his
Cleveland club could come all
the way back in the National
Football league race this season.
The team had a lowly 5-7 record
last year and was rebuilding
with 12 rookies.
Yet the Browns captured the
Eastern Division championship
going away and come Sunday
they'll have a chance to make
it all the way to the league title.
Two other major upsets of
1957 which stand out in the mind
are the victory of Iron Liege
in the Kentucky Derby and Mike
De John's boxing triumph over
unbeaten Argentine heavyweight
Alex Miteff.
There were many other upsets
during the year but these, at
least in this corner, were the
stickouts and - Anderson's
topped them all.
Aerials,
Rice counterpart, have account
ed for a third of their team's to
tal offense. Hill chalked up 1,244
yards in the Owls' 7-3 season.
Forrestal made 1,169 in Navy's
8-1-1 season.
Hill and Frank Ryan, his
quarterback understudy from
Fort Worth, pa?sed Rice to the
Southwest Con "erence c h a m
pionship. The Cwls gained 1,091
yards in the sir against Navy's
1,469. But Hill and Ryan threw
only half as many passes 65
completed in 116 attempts 'to
Navy's 113 in 229 attempts.
The versatile Hill, who oper
ates with equal ease from a bal
anced or unbalanced line, a split
or tight-T, also leads the Owls in
rushing with a net 446 yards in
90 carries, a 5.0 average. He has
five TQ's and 17 conversions for
47 points.
On the ground it's practically
a stand-off. Navy rushed for a
season total of 2,375 yards. Rice
made one yard less in its 10
game season 2,374 yards.
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