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o o o est Frov si Oropp r Than 7-13 Ratings Saturday o By HAL-WOOD San Francisco TP) Gary Nes- bitt, a battering-ram back from Arkansas, personally accounted for three touchdowns Saturday ai?he powered the West to a sur prisingly easy 27-13 upset over the heavily favored East in the 33rd annual Shrine game. With Stanford's Jackie Doug las calling the signals and doing an important bit of spot running himself; and Halfback Jim Shof ner of Texas Christian doing a fine ball-packing and kicking job, the West went ahead in the first quarter and was in charge throughout. For hi3 standout performance, Nesbitt was voted the "outstand ing player of the game" while Don Manoukian of Stanford, FUNSTON PLAYS Farrell Funston, College of Pacific end, who played for Ihe West in the Shrine East West all-star game, is a cousin of the football playing Funslon brothers, Jim and Fred of Xedford high, and Al of Mc Loughlin Junior high. I . MXJ. MEDFORDfcPTRIBUNE teamed with Clyde Letbetter of Baylor to two-time all American lex Karras of Ohio all day, 1on the "lineman of the game" (award. o Playing before 60,000 fans in light drizzle, Nesbitt was al most unstoppable as he scored in the first quarter on a one yard lunge; counted again in the third on an eight-yard power drive over tackle; and then cap ped the performance by taking an eight-yard pass in the end tone for another score early in tiie last quarter. This show put In the shade (some fine work for the East by itlalfbacks Kowalczyk of Michig an State and Bob Mitchell of Il linois: and End Fred Dugan of Dayton. The West was in front 13-7 at fbe half and boosted the margin right away to 20-7 in the third period when Douglas kept a 37- yard drive going on third down quarterback "keep" plays with runs of 14 and nine yards. That set up Nesbitt's score. The East didn't give up, how ever, and Quarterback Trimarki f West Virginia struck back rthre minutes later by hurling a 35-yard touchdown pass in the end zone to Dugan. The other second half touch down came after a 78-yard drive P by the West with the payoff an J eight-yard pass from Douglas to Hesbitt. During the first half the West had complete ball control. They ran 43 plays against 25 for the East during that time. The first touchdown came after a 55-yard ground march with Nesbitt and Shofner taking turns cracking through the porous East line. Nesbitt plunged over from the one. Early In the second period, the West piled up a 13-0 lead when Merrill Douglas of Utah scooted around left end from the 14 to -complete a 67-yard march in eight plays. Just before the half ended, the West was forced to punt. Mit chell took the kick on his own 33 and returned it to the West's four yard line, evading several tacklers and once cake-walking the sideline strip for about 30 yards. Kowalczyk plunged into the line three times to finally score from the one. Coach Rip Engle of the East - had announced a passing attack. However, Trimarki threw the ball only once in the first half 'and completed it for a total net gain of four yards. In the second fealf, he threw 21 completing jRine for 139 more yards. The West used five different men in passing, threw 21 passes, completed only seven for 87 ryards. " However, Nesbit was the work horse of the day. Ha,, packed a Slippery ball 22 times for 91 yards, an average of 4.14. His longest run was only . 1 1 yards. Kowalczyk was the leading ground-gainer for the East with 33 yards in 14 tries. m m If leiro eel To ro Tes By JACK BERRY Detroit (TP) Professional football's greatest and whack iest season closes today with a team that was supposed to be "rebuilding" and another label led "dead" battling for the richest purse in National foot ball league history. Only 14 players remain from the Cleveland Browns team that humiliated the Detroit Lions, 56-10, for the NFL crown in 1954. The Lions have only 18 ont heir roster from the 1954 defeat the only one hung on them by Cleveland in six regu lar season or title games. Picked to finish back in the pack in the Eastern division this season, Paul Brown molded together his veterans and 12 rookies into a team that opened with a 6-3 victory over the de fending champion New York Giants and then never slowed down, winning nine, losing two Cleveland day In Final or Title and tying one. The Lions were scorned by Buddy Parker, the man that led Detroit out of the' also-rans into three straight divisional championships and two world titles, just two days before their first exhibition game this sea son fittingly enough with the Browns. Parker hung a "dead team" label on the Lions. But his as sistant, George Wilson, took over and with every week a "must" victory, piloted the Lions into a tie in the closest Western con ference race in history and then a playoff victory over San Fran cisco. On offense, the Lions and the Browns proved opposites this season with the Eastern division champions moving steadily throughout the game. Only two of Detroit's nine victories could Detroit forced to rally in the second half in six of the wins. Oregon State, Utah Cop Far West Tiffs Corvallis (IP) Oregon State, led by the 35 points of explosive forward Dave Gambee, drubbed the Yale Bulldogs 79-69 in the second game of the Far West basketball classic Friday night after Utah edged Washington 64 62 in the first game. Gambee set a new scoring rec ord for himself. His former total point record for a single game was 32. The Yale attack was headed by forward John Lee, who scored 27 points, including a perfect 21 out of 21 free throw attempts. In all the Bulldogs hit 31 free throws out of 34 tries. Widen To 15 After a 39-28 halftime lead the Beavers widened the gap by 15 The Score fcv Periods: West 7 6 7 727 East 0 7 6 0 13 West scoring: Touchdowns. Nesbitt 13 U plunge; 8. plunge; 8. pass from Douglas). M. Douglass ( 14. . endrun). Conversions. Kramer 3. East scoring: Touchdowns, Kowal czvk (1. plunge I. Dugan (35. pass from Trimarkii. Conversion, Michaels. East West First downs Rushing yardage . Passing yardage . Passes Passes intercepted Punts .. Fumbles lost Yards penalized . P--U h 10 62 143 10-22 by 0 6-43.3 O 116 ..... 1....H 23 199 87 7-21 1 6-33.67 1 23 MHS Jayvee Clubs Chiefs Medford high basketball jun ior varsity got in stride after a slow start Friday night romped over the Rogue River Chieftain varsity 57 to 30. Coach Tom Marier sent 18 of his players into the fray for the junior Tornado. Calvin Dean with 12 points and Henry Olson with 10 were high tally men for Medford but Ed Johnson .of Rogue River was tops for the game with 13. The mix was the preliminary to the Medford-Astoria varsity scramble. Jan. 7 heavy- FIGHT CALLED OFF Denver OP) The scheduled fight between weight's Alex Miteff of the Ar gentine and Nino Valdez of Cu ba has been called off because Valdez has "a sprained ankle," accordingt o promoter Joe Dup-ler. ROSE BOWL SOLD OUT Pasadena, Calif. (IP) The Tournament of Roses association which sponsors the annual Rose Bowl game, has announced that the 1958 New Year's day classic is a sellout. Only 3,500 tickets, which will be put on public sale, remain. The Rose Bowl seats 100,155. LINE-UPS: 57 Medford JV Rogue River F Monroe Carter F 12 C. Dean McCabe C 3 Frohnmaver Irwin G 4 Allen Stewart G 10 Olson Ross Substitutions For Medford. Ice Durkee 7. Manley 6, Moore 2, Konopa sek 2. Miller 4. Jensen. B. Ljnderman 1, G. Linderman, Knight. Parsons, Cantrall. Kliever; for Rogue River. Kirkey 2. Moore 2. White 5, Goosey 3, Laws, Archer, Johnson 13. 4 Big Klu Traded In Player Deal With Pittsburgh Cincinnati, Ohio (TP) Strong armed Ted Kluszewski, the Cin cinnati Redlegs' top slugger and drawing card for nearly a dec ade, was traded to the Pittsburgh Pirates Saturday in a straight player deal for first baseman Dee Fondy. The trade, involving the big gest baseball name since the close of the 1957 season, was an nounced by General Managers Gabe Paul of Cincinnati and Joe L. Brown of the Pirates. The 240 - pound Kluszewski, long one of the most feared hit ters in the National league, went on the trading block following a miserable season in which he was relegated to mainly pinch hitting duties because of a pain ful back injury. Despite Kluszewski's doubtful physical condition. Brown said "there are no stipulations if Ku szewski is not sound physically." He told the big first baseman by telephone he though they would have "no trouble getting togeth er on salary." Although big Klu's salary was never made known, it was esti mated he made a top of S40,000 at Cincinnati and around S30.- 000 last season following a 25 per cent cut. points before Lee and another Yale forward, Larry Downs, and guard Tom Sargent shaved the score to within three points. But OSC rallied, and kept a 10 point lead throughout the last 10 min utes of the game. In the first game, Utah for ward DeLyle Condie dunked a field goal with barely two min utes left to nip the Huskies. The teams see-sawed for points in a game that was tied six times in the first half and seven times in the last half. The Redskins led at half 35-32. Poets Trip Willamette In Tourney Sacramento, Calif. (IP! Whit tier college and host Sacramento State Friday gained the Saturday championship game of the Far West Conference Invitational Basketball Tournament. Sacramento easily defeated the Cal Aggies, 59-45, but Carroll Hooks had to score a layin with three seconds remaining to give Whittier a 77-76 squeaker over Willamette. Hooks shot came after a toss up between Ed Grossenbacher of Willamette and Earl Reese of Whittier with 13 seconds left. Whittier led 43-32 at halftime but the Bearcats came back to tie the score at 59-59. It was tied five more times before the gun. Reese led the scoring with 26 points, while Grossenbacker had 18 for Willamette. Sacramento State built up a 35-21 halftime lead over the Aggies and was never in danger. Frank White was high for the winners with 11 points. In the consolation semi-finals Humboldt built up a 35-26 half time margin over Chico and then coasted to an easy 75 to 58 win. In the second consolation con test San Francisco defeated Ne vada, 45-39, after holding a slim 20-17 halftime lead. Sunday, December 29, 1957 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE ELEVEN BOX: Oregon State FG FT PF TP Gambee, f 12 15-11 Nanson, Moss, c Harmon, g ... Anderson, g . Schroeder, f Goble, c Copple, g Haynes. g . Miller, f Totals 4 2 3 2 2 3 1 0 0 0-0 1- 0 4-2 3-3 0 7-4 0-0 2- 1 0-0 29 32-21 22 79 Yale FG FT PF TP Lee, f 3 21-21 2 27 Downs, f 7 1-0 4 Bodmen, c 2 4-4 3 Sargent, g 6 4-3 4 Molumphv, g 0 0-0 3 Harwell, f 0 0-0 2 Scopelitis, g 1 2-2 0 McFadden, g 0 2-1 4 Mayer, g 0 0-0 1 Willamette Nails 6th Spoti n Test Sacramento, Calif. OP) The University of Nevada defeated Chico state, 67-52, and Willam ette university walloped the Cali fornia Aggies, 67-38, Saturday in the battle of also-rans in the Far West Conference Invitation al Basketball Tournament. Willamette nailed down fifth spot in the tournament by humil iating the Davis Farmers. Wil lamette, led by Larry Lynn with 15 points, held a 33-19 edge at halftime. Whittier college and host Sac ramento state tangle for the championship tonight and Hum boldt state takes on San Fran cisco state in the consolation finals. HOCKEY Totals 19 34-31 23 AMERICAN LEAGUE By United Press Stan Smrke, recently farmed out by the Montreal Canadiens, is battling hard in the American league hockey league for anoth er chance with the parent club. The veteran wing banged in three goals Friday night to lead the Rochester Americans to an 8-4 victory enabling the Ameri cansto move into a fourth place tie with the Bisons. 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