Woman Referee Handles
Boxing Chores Efficiently
Stockholm, Sweden IOT A
shapely blonde, who handles
herself perfectly In the clinch
es, is winning a unanimous
decision today over all those
boxing skeptics who feel a
woman's place is in the home
and not in the prize ring.
As Europe's first female
boxing referee, Mrs. Marga
reta Sjoelin, 25-year-old moth
er of three children, ij just
as much at home in the ring
as she is in her living room
at nearby Varnamo.
"Since I was a girl, I have
been fascinated by boxing,"
she explained in the dressing
room after officiating a bout.
"My brothers are fighters
and my husband, Stig, used to
be European middleweight
amateur champion. So it was
natural that I picked the only
activity in boxing open to
women-refereeing."
Fight fans who have seen
the efficient, business - like
manner with which the good
looking Mrs. Sjoelin works
in the ring, agree that she is
a better referee than many
men who have performed the
job.
So far she has refereed
only amateur bouts at the lo
cal boixng club of Vernamo
where she lives.
She applied for a national
referee's license a few months
ago but boxing officials pro
tested that the granting of
such a license would cause
Swedish boxing to "lose face"
internationally.
In Milwaukee, Wis., secre
tary Fred Saddy said the Na-
tional Boxing Association has
no written rule against worn
en referees but added it is
more or less of an unwritten
rule.
Mrs. Sjoelin's application
for a national license was
heartily endorsed, however,
by the provincial Smaaland
boxing section, which put her
through extensive tests and
granted her permission to ref
eree locally.
"Sweden is a country
where women's emancipation
is more advanced than in
most countries.", said one lo
cal boxing official, "so it's
only natural that we would
have a female referee sooner
or later."
Due to the controversy she
caused by seeking a national
license, Mrs. Sjoelin has made
up her mind to referee only
in her own home town where
the fight crowd is used to her.
In bouts outside Vernamo,
she acts as a judge.
Sweden's new glamour ref
eree takes exception with
those who feel she should be
home with her two daughters,
Birgitta, seven, and Arbor,
two-and-a-half, and her five
year old son, Bjoern, instead
of being at the fights.
"When I am away boxing,
I have to get someone to look
after my children," she says,
"but I don't think I'm neglect
ing them because of boxing."
Her husband, Stig, who
works as a butcher, has no
objections to her refeenng,
either.
This could be because he
won the Swedish and Nordic
amateur middleweight titles
more times than he can re
member and now serves as
a part-time coach for the
Swedish Amateur Boxing
Federation. He plans to be
come a fulltime boxing coach
next year.
Unlike many women who
are convinced boxing is a
brutal sport, Mrs. Sjoelin in
sists that properly executed,
it is no more dangerous than
any other contact sport.
Her big, ambition is to ref
eree in the 1960 Olympics in
Rome.
Meanwhile, she continues
to work in her home-town
ring.
And when they say "Keep
your eyes on tne reieree
they're never kidding around
here. .
ONE, TWO, THREE, HIKE Pro football stars Tobin Rote
(left) of the Detroit Lions and Elroy Hirsch of the Los
Angeles Rams keep in form with an assist from Pan
American Airways stewardess Sue Nave on Honolulu's
WaiMM Beach. The pros will meet a selection of college
all-stars in the Hula Bowl Jan. e
SIPODnBIFS
Oklahoma St. Lists 2nd Upset
By MILTON RICHMAN
Oklahoma State, a non-re-spector
of basketball reputa
tions, shaped up as the na
tion's No. 1 giant killer today
by adding sixth-ranked Cin
cinnati to a list of upset vic
tims which already included
mighty Kansas.
There were upsets galore
all over the basketball map
Monday night but possibly
the biggest one was Oklahoma
State's 61-57 victory over Cin
cinnati which came only four
nights after . the . Cowpokes'
stunning 52-50 triumph over
Kansas. The victory was Okla
homa State's ninth in a row.
Other Monday night upsets
included Montana State's 62
61 win over Iowa State; Io-
Sport
Parade
By
OSCAR FRALEY
Sports Writer
United Press
By OSCAR FRALEY
NEW YORK (IB You can
have your Bill Ttussels and
Wilt Chamberlains but retir
ing NYU coach Howard Cann,
looking back over 35 years as
a tap-in tutor, said today he
still ranks George Mikan as
the greatest of the big men.
"I'd have to take Mikan
over them all," said the for
mer NYU football and basket
' ball captain and 1920 Olympic
shot putter.
"And Bob Cousy of the Bos-
Blackbourn Out
For Green Bay
In Shakeups
Green Bay, Wis. (W The
Green Bay Packers' board of
directors Monday night voted
to fire head coach Lisle
Blackbourn and to replace
him with backfield coach Ray
Scooter McLean on a one
year contract.
Blackbourn had one year
remaining on a five-year pact,
calling for 525,000 per year.
The board said it would pay
Blackbourn the full amount
for next season.
The board action came af
ter unanimous recommenda
tion of the executive commit
tee which met Monday noon.
The ouster of Blackbourn and
McLean's promotion were
both recommended to the ex
ecutive committee by its
three-man contract commit
tee.
A board statement said "it
was to the best interests
of the Packers that a change
be made." It was "advisable
to hire McLean instead of a
coach from the college ranks
because McLean had seven
years with the Packers as
backfield coach, the board
said.
Salary terms of McLean's
contract were not- disclosed,
. but board spokesmen said he
was given free choice in se
lection of his assistants. Mc
Lean said he was "very sat
isfied" with the one year
agreement because it was "a
real challenge. I know I can
do the job," he said. "If I
don't . . . the board of direct
ors is free to find somebody
else."
McLean said he would
sign the contract "in the near
future."
Hoop Referees
Will Convene
Rogue Valley Basketball
Referees association will meet
at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan.
8. at Medford Senior High
school. Commissioner C. A.
Meyer said that game assign
ments will be made through
Tuesday, Jan. 21.
ton Celtics stands out in my
mind as the best all-around
player I've ever seen."
The 62-year-old coach isn't
one to dwell in the past and
thinks that the players of the
modern era are much more
skillful than those o'f the long
ago. Yet he refuses to compare
the ancient original Celtics
with a team such as the cur
rent pro champions, the Bos
ton Celtics.
Different Type of Game
"It's a different type of
game these days," he ex
plained. "If the old Celtics had
played the type of firehouse
game we do today, they prob
ably would have been even
more skillful than they were.
"The old Celtics had enough
height, and guys like Johnny
Beckman and Nat Holman
certainly had as many skills
as any of your modern play
ers," he added. "You have to
remember it was a different
game and those exhibitions
played by the old Celtics did
not mean too much.
"If they had played in a
league, it would have been
different," he said firmly.
"And those old Celtics could
have played in the pro league
of today."
Cann is stepping out under
a cloud. He has been involved
in a family brawl at NYU,
and blames a poor season in
which his team has won only
two games on the less of mor
ale because he was "fired."
Can't Win Recruiting Battle
Enumerating his woes, he
charges that:
NYU does not give athletic
scholarships; city colleges can
not win the recruiting battle
against schools which have a
scenic campus life, and NYU
ruined its other sports in an
abortive attempt 10 years ago
to" become "football's Notre
Dame of the East."
"Let's face it," he barked,
"recruiting is 90 per cent of
the battle. Personally, I can't
blame a boy who wants to go
to school, let's say, at a beauti
ful campus school such as
North Carolina.
"I went after a boy who
now is in the Ivy League," he
added. ,
"But, while I knew his fam
ily well, his mother told me
outright that she wouldn't let
him go to school in New York
City because there was so
much crime and so little cam
pus life."
wa's 70-68 victory over Illi
nois, and Columbia's 60-56
conquest of Cornell.
Fifth-ranked Kansas State
and seventh-ranked Bradley
barely averted defeat at the
hands of lesser-regarded riv
als, too.
Kansas State had to come
from behind in the final three
minutes to nip Minnesota, 72
71. Bradley was forced into
overtime before beating Hous
ton, 75-73.
Unbeaten Mississippi State
rolledito its 11th consecutive
triumph by licking Alabama,
46-42. Tulsa overcame an 11
point half-time deficit to
squeeze by Drake, 59-57,
while Purdue defeated Indi
ana 68-66. Notre Dame used
only five players in beating
Butler, 83-72.
In other games Michigan
walloped Wisconsin, 70-49;
Arkansas defeated Baylor, 68
53; Auburn topped Mississippi
71-51; Xavier, Ohio, defeated
Miami, Ohio, 78-65; Tulane
licked Georgia, 67-59; Tulane
downed . Villanova, 55 - 44;
Memphis State edged Okla
homa City, 53-50, and South
ern California beat Washing
ton, 60-54.
Shoot Won
By Gifford
Herb Gifford, Medford,
with a 465 score, headed a
field of 59 bowmen Sunday
in the Rogue Archers' indoor
tourney at the range in Cen
tral Point.
Ray Biles, Grants Pass, was
second with 460 and Ed Bad
ley, Rogue River, third with
454.
Jerry Williamson, Central
Point, won the women's divis
ion with 398. A 309 by Car
men Sanders, Brookings, took
second, and Susie 'Palmer,
Jacksonville, was third with
301.
Taking top boys' honors
were Jack Jones, Grants Pass,
312, Howard Misner, Grants
Pass, 280 and Wally Struble,
Crescent City, Calif., 247.
Karen Thompson,' Crescent
City, took girls' with 112.
16 Grid Deaths
Listed for 1957
Claims Survey
Waterbury, Conn. HP) Si
las Bronson Library an
nounced a "fine-free day" and
got back 400 overdue books
including one gone for 50
years.
Los Angeles (IP) Six
teen players 13 of them
high school youths, suf
fered fatal injuries on the
nation's football playing
fields in 1957, m survey re
vealed today.
There were no deaths
among college players,
while two occurred in sand
lot games and one in semi
pro football, the survey
said.
In addition, there were
five player deaths which
were only "indirectly" at
tributable to football be
cause they involved heart
attacks and infections.
The report was prepared
under the chairmanship of
Dr. Floyd Eastwood of Los
Angeles State College for
the American Football
Coaches Assn. and the Na
tional Collegiate - Athletic
Assn.
Football fatalities have
averaged 17.38 per cent per
year during the 26 years of
the survey, Eastwood re
ported. The 1957 figure rep
resented a decrease of 2 or
20 per cent less than 1956.
Eastwood's report . de
clared thai the chances of
death attributed io foot
ball "are extremely ' less
than the chances of death
attributed to motor vehi
cles, drownings, firearms
and fireburns."
According to the survey's
26-year records, more than
72 per cent of fatal injuries
are due to blows on the
head and the 16 last season
followed this finding.
Army Club
Drops OTI
Klamath Falls CIP - Ore
gon Tech suffered its first bas
ketball defeat of the season
here Monday night by drop
ping a 78-62 decision to the
San Francisco Presidio's
Army team.
Tony Psaltis, former South
ern California star, led the
Presidio with 16 points while
Charley Bogle of Oregon Tech
hit 29.
Tuesday, January 7, 1938
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waukee Braves have signed
a working agreement with the
Yakima, Wash., club in the
Class B Northwestern League
for 1958. The Braves said
manager Herb Kittle of Yaki
ma approached them during
the winter league meetings at
Colorado Springs and asked
for an agreement.
'THINKING' SIGNAL
Suracuse, N. Y. API Police
Chief Harold F. Kelly said
he intends to put up a "think
ing" traffic signal light to
slow down speeding automo
biles. He said pads will be
laid down on the approaches
to the light. If a car' speeds
over- the limit, the signal will
flash red. If the vehicle obeys
the speed limit, the "think
ing" signal will light the
green light.
OSC Court Club
Takes Time Off
Corvallis (IP) Coach
Slats Gill gave his Oregon
State basketball team today
off and said the players also
could take Thursday off from
practice.
The Beavers have won 10
out of 11 including two
straight PCC games, for their
best early season" mark since
1947. Oregon State's next
game 'is not until Jan. 18
against California at Berkeley.
SIEVERS WINS TROPHY
Washington (W Outfield
er Roy Sievers of the Wash
ington Senators, who led the
American League last season
with 42 home runs and 114
runs batted in, has been nam
ed winner of the Washington
Touchdown Club's Clark Grif
fith Memorial Trophy. He
will receive, the award next
Saturday at the club's annual
banquet.
BASKETBALL
COLLEGE RESULTS
By United Press
East
Columbia 60, Cornell 56
Niagara 53, Villanova 44
Brown 76, Harvard 70
Lehigh 73, Albright 69
South
Davidson 84. Wash. & Lee 6S
George Washington 72, Citadel 68
Loyola (La.) 79, Florida State 67
Memphis St. aa, UKia. uixy au
Tulane 67, Georgia 59
Florida 81. Louisiana State 97
Mississippi State 46. Alabama 42
Tenn. Teen 33, jc astern ivy. sz
Auburn 71, Mississippi 51
Kentucky 86, Vanderbllt 81
Midwest
Michigan 70. Wisconsin 4
Purdue, Indiana 66
Notre Dame 83. Butler 72
Kansas State 72, Minnesota 71
Iowa 70, Illinois 68
Xavier (O.) 78. Miami (O.) 65
Montana State 62, Iowa State 61
Missouri 55, Nebraska 54
Wash. (Mo.) V 66, Carleton 48
Southwest
Tulsa 59. Drake 57
East Tex. St. 61, Texas A&I 35
Oklahoma St. 61, Cincinnati 57
Arkansas 68, Baylor 53
Bradley 75, Houston 73
Tex. West. 73, Ariz. Tcmpe 72
West
Southern Cal 60, Washington 84
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