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12 MAIL TRIBUNE, MedforJ, Orwi, Monday, D.etmbrr 1. 1938 Colts Capture Western Division Professional Football Mantle Mere's A Value Packed Event . . Baltimore Burns Hot SPORTS 1 NFL STANDINGS Eastern Division WLI Pet. PF. PA Cleveland 8 2 0 300 271 190 New York 7 3 0 .700 214 156 Pittsburgh 6 4 0 .600 209 195 Washington 3 7 0 300 180 254 Philadelphia 2 7 1 .222 221 263 Chicago Cards ..2 7 1 .222 226 288 Western Division WIT Pet. PF PA x Baltimore 9 1 0 .900 341 152 Loa Angeles 6 4 0 .600 280 230 Chicago Bean 6 4 0 .600 247 200 Detroit 4 5 1 .444 228 236 San Francisco 4 6 0 .400 188 291 Green Bay 1 8 1 .111 152 300 X Clinched division title. Sunday's Results Cleveland 21. Washington 14 New York 24, Philadelphia 10 Pittsburgh 24, Chicago Bears 10 Baltimore 35. San Francisco 27 Los Angeles 20. Chicago Cards 14 Only games scheduled) By EARL WRIGHT United Press International The Colts, Baltimore's big gest sports find since Babe Ruth, have won their first pro football division title and will play the Cleveland Browns or New York Giants for the Na tional league championship Dec. 23. The Colts proved their class Sunday by scoring 28 points in the second half to erase a 27-7 San Francisco Forty Niner lead and clinch the Western division title with a 35-27 triumph. Each NFL club has two more games and no team has won the Western race so easily since the league assumed its current setup in 1950 with the Browns, Forty Niners and Colts entering from the All-America confer ence. Such stars as John Unitas, Lenny Moore and Alan Ameche probably could be elected mayor of Baltimore this week but the Colts and their rabid rooters also owe a vote of thanks to the league's hottest current club, the Pittsburgh Steelers. Green Bay Selects Duncan in Pro Draft Philadelphia - (UPD - All American Randy Duncan, star passer who led Iowa to the Big Ten championship and the Rose Bowl, was the first choice today of the Green Bay Packers as the National Football League opened its early player selection meet ing. Duncan, a 21-year-old six foot 180 -pound quarterback from Des Moines. Iowa, ac- counted for 1,406 yards as he completed 57 per cent of his passes this year and threw 11 touchdowns. He was the Big Ten leader in total offense. The Philadelphia Eagles' first choice previously was traded to Los Angeles and the Rams picked up halfback Dick Bass from the College of the Pacific. Backfield men continued to be the choice of the club own ers as the Chicago Cardinals took Bill Stacy, quarterback of Mississippi State; the Wash- ington Redskins took Don Al- lard, quarterback and defen sive star of Boston college, and the San Francisco Forty Niners selected Dave Baker, back from Oklahoma. The Detroit Lions elected Nick Pietrosante, Notre Dame fullback as their first choice. The Chicago Bears' first se lection was Don Clark, Ohio State halfback. Pittsburgh, which traded away its first four choices, had its first round the prop erty of San Francisco and the Forty Niners chose Dan James, Ohio State center. Los Angeles, on its own choice, selected tackle Paul Dickson, Baylor, and the New York Giants took Lee Crosscut, quarterback of Utah. Cleveland took pass-receiver Rich Kreitling, an end from Illinois, and the first round selections were ended when Baltimore took line backer Jackie Burkett of Au burn. Sweetwater Clifton To Play With Harlem Stars Here on Dec. 9 Sweetwater Clifton, one of the stars with Goose Tatum's Harlem Stars, is no stranger to the basketball court. He will ba with the globe girdling Stars, when they meet Hawk inson Tire of the Southern Oregon Independent league at Hedrick Junior high school gym Tuesday, Dec. 9, at 8 p.m. Clifton started his basket ball with a Chicago high school team and upon gradua tion spurned professional of fers and entered Southern Uni versity, a top Negro school. After making All - American Grudge Battle On Ring Card At Grants Pass Grants Pass-Kurt von Pop penheim will meet Luigi Ma cera in a grudge match this Tuesday night at the Jose phine fairgrounds arena. Kurt, the rugged German, defeated Macera here three weeks ago and last Tuesday they really tangled after the referee was knocked out of the action. - Poppenheim ended up with a bad cut on his forehead and he was irked at what he called "outside interference from Macera. He challenged Macera to meet him in a "win ner take all" match and Ma cera accepted immediately providing that the match was with "no time limit." Well Known Both of these men are well known here and there is a lot of interest in this match. They are trying to get a chance at Ed Francis and the Northwest Heavyweight belt. Poppen heim is a mat veteran of many years and knows all the tricks. He is a sound basic wrestler who likes the rough going and he proved his abil ity last year by wrestling sev eral top matches in- New York's Madison Square gar den. Macera, the. popular French Italian, knows that he must win this one to keep his main event status and to keep in title contention. The semi-final, which is down for one hour or the best two falls out of three, will match Eric (The Great) Ped erson against newcomer Sey mour Freeman. Eric lost a close one to Luther Lihdsey here three weeks ago. Freeman is a younger brother of Herb. Matches will get underway at 8:30 pan. for three consecutive years, he turned professional and fi nally wound up as a star with the Harlem Globetrotters. After playing with the Globetrotters for two years, he was sold to the New York Nicks for $35,000. The color ed ace was one of the stand outs for the Nicks for seven years and during that time was the only player in the league able to hold the great George Mikan under 20 points a game regularly. Tatum surprised the basket ball world last season by lur ing Clifton away from the Nicks. Since joining the Stars he has been an outstanding crowd-pleaser with his clever ball handling and trick shoot ing. Tickets will go on sale at Lamport's sporting goods store, 226 East Main st., Tues day morning. OSAA To Study Realignment of Athletic Areas Portland -(UPD- Two things became apparent here over the weekend as the Oregon School Activities association met and discussed realigning school districts. When Portland's 11th high school opens its doors in 1960 the Portland Interscholastic league probably will drop out of the prep playoffs. Portland high school principals are re ported to be opposed to the playoffs by a 9-1 margin. Secondly a committee on re classification of P o r tland schools went on record oppos ing that a new Metropolitan league, made up of schools with 1000 or more students, be formed at this time. A committee also was nam ed to study realignment prob lems in prep athletic districts over a three-year period. The original committee named a year ago to study realignment recommended a status quo on prep districts. Steelers Defeat Bean The Steelers, playing in 16- degree weather at Pitt sta dium, were as hot as a blast furnace while whipping the Chicago Bears-only club that had much hope of catching the Colts, 24-10. The victory, the first the Steelers ever scored against the Bears in 14 tries, enabled the Colts to boost their margin to three games with only two to play. Cleveland put basketball shoes on quarterback Milt Plum in the final period and maintained its one-game mar gin over New York in the Eastern race. Plum's passes, plus the receiving of Ray Ren fro and Lew Carpenter's run ning, enabled the Browns to rally and defeat the Washing ton Redskins, 21-14, while the Giants defeated the Philadel phia Eagles, 24-10. Rams Beat' Cards Billy Wade's two touch down passes to Leon Clarke in the last 20 minutes gave the Los Angeles Rams a 20-14 victory over the Chicago Car dinals in the other games. The Detroit Lions scored a 24-14 victory over the Green Bay Packers Thursday and those two clubs did not play Sunday. The Steelers, who have swept their last five starts, trail the Browns by two games and the Giants by one but don't get another crack at the two leaders. The Browns visit the Eagles next Sunday while the Lions entertain the Giants. The Giants then play host to the Browns Dec. 14 in the game which probably will decide the Eastern race un less Cleveland and Detroit win Sunday. Ruth went on from Balti more to become baseball's greatest slugger but it's doubt ful if even the mighty Babe ever caused as much sports excitement in the Maryland city as the frisky Colts. Things looked black Sun day when Y. A. Tittle, the bald-headed quarterback who once played for the Colts, scored twice to spark the Forty-Niners to a 27-7 half time lead. But Coach Weeb Ewbank's Colts reacted like thoroughbreds in the last 30 minutes. Colts Daze 49'ers Passes by Unitas set up two one-yard scoring blasts by Ameche and cut the Forty- Niner lead to 27-21. Then the sellout crowd of 57,557 in Bal timore's Memorial stadium got its big . chance to cheer. Moore raced 73 yards to score. The dazed Forty-Niners ap peared to have him trapped at least four times as he gal loped down the sideline, then cut back to midfield en route to the fourth period touch down that climaxed the rally. Steve Myhra's conversion made it 28-27. Unitas followed with a short pass to Ray Ber ry for Baltimore's last touch down. Washington held Jim Brown, Cleveland's record busting rusher, to a season low of 12 yards on 11 tries and took a 14-7 lead into the final period after Eddie Le Baron's third- period touch down toss to Sid Watson. Plum, wearing basketball shoes to get better footing on Cleveland's frozen turf, then passed to Renfro and Pete Brewster to move the ball 88 yards to the Washington three. Carpenter plunged for the tying touchdown. Plum, Ren fro and Carpenter then led an 80-yard march. Plum then plunged for the winning touchdown after running 22 for a first down in a third-and-20 situation on his 41. Giants Beat Eagles Norm Van Brocklin's 14 yard pass to Bob Walston gave the Eagles a 7-3 first quarter lead at New York in 22-degree temperature but the Giants went in front to stay when Frank Gifford's six yard dash ended a 75-yard second period march. Don Heinrich threw passes to Bob Schnelker and Kyle Rote for the other New York touch downs. Bobby Layne, Tom Tracy and Jim Orr were Pitts burgh's offensive stars against the Bears in 16-degree weath er. Tracy scored on runs of 30 and 18 yards. Orr, who set up one Tracy touchdown by covering 59 yards with a Layne pass, scored Pitts- burgh's other touchdown on a 38-yard Layne pass. Rams Have 2nd Place Opportunity Los Angeles-(DPD-A measure of satisfaction and second place in the Western division of the National Football league were all the Los An geles Rams had to look for ward to today. Although the Rams defeat ed the Cardinals 20-4, at Chi cago yesterday, they were a sad lot when they returned home Sunday night because Baltimore's comeback win over the Forty Niners clinched the division crown for the Colts. The( satisfaction and the chance to remain in the run ning for second place comes Saturday when the Colts in vade Los Angeles for a game which the Rams will seek re venge for their defeat at Balti more. Determined Band Tied with . the Bears for second, the Rams will be out to beat the Colts Saturday and the Packers the following week. At Chicago Sunday the Rams ran into a determined band of Cardinals using a new spread formation that for a time puzzled the Los Angeles club. But the Cards made an untimely fumble in the fourth period to give the Rams the scoring chance they needed. End Gern Nagler made the bobble after catching a pass and Dick Daugherty recover ed on the Card's 32. Jon Ar- nett then worked the ball to the seven and Billy Wade hit Leon Clarke with the winning touchdown. The Cards fought back and twice were in scoring terri tory on the Rams' 11 and 22- yard line but failed to push over a touchdown. On Cold Day Baltimore, Md. - (UPD - The Baltimore coathing staff had one explanation today for the Colts' sensational come-from behind 35-27 win over San Francisco, but most observers felt that was only a small part of the story. . The Forty Niners led 27-7 at half-time. But in the second half, according to assistant coach Charlie Winner, "We moved our line-backers wider and had them come up faster to stop the wide stuff. ' But many felt the real story of Baltimore's win began 10 years ago when the Colts en tered pro football. The first years were ones of disaster and defeat; the recent years ones of near misses, almosts and late-seascn collapse. Early in the second half Sunday it was announced that Pittsburgh had downed the Chicago Bears. A win would give Baltimore its first West ern division title. I Explosion! With a hysterical packed house of 57,577 egging them on, the Colts burned hot in the sub-freezing weather. They exploded for 28 points to bury the luckless San Franciscans, For the Forty Niners, it marked one of the best show ings in a disappointing year. They had gone into the lair of the league's top team and nearly pulled off the upset. "I was proud of them," said coach Frankie Albert, "dog gone proud. In fact, I was proud of everything but the final score." The first half was the Forty Niners' best effort of the year, They outgained the Colts 231 yards to 83 as quarterback Y, A. Tittle and fullback Joe Perry ran wild. , Tittle scored twice - and Hugh McElhenny once from a few yards out to climax long drives. Matt Hazeltine lugged an intercepted pass 13 yards for the other tally. . - But in the second half, the title-hungry Colts roared back for 313 yards to San Fran cisco's 82. Four interceptions and a peerless performance by the Colts boyish-looking quar terback John Unitas turned the tide1. NWC PLEA REAFFIRMED Portland -(UPD Representa tives of the Northwest con ference met here Saturday and athletic directors reaf firmed their desire to recom mend changes' to faculty rep resentatives that NWC teams be allowed to compete in NCAA and NAIA tournament games if desired. Faculty rep resentatives said they would submit the question to presi dents of the member schools, The North west conference track, golf and tennis champ ionships will be held in Salem May 16-17. TO BE WELCOMED Washington -OD - Houston, Dallas and Fort Worth offi cialy were to be welcomed into the American association today as the newest members of a 10-game league barring some unforeseen, last-minute hitch. The. presidents of both leagues involved, Ed Doherty of the triple A American as sociation and Dick Butler of the Double A Texas league, were "highly confident" the new realignment setup would be adopted. Billy Caspar Havana Victor Havana -(UPD -Billy Casper of Apple Valley, Calif., turn ed in a great front - running performance in walking off with the Havana International Golf championship. The steady-stroking Califor nian gained the lead in the first round and never relin quished it, finishing the 72 hole tournament with a 278, one stroke ahead, of Bo Win inger of Odessa, Tex. Doug Sanders of Miami, Fla., finished third with a 281, one stroke ahead of Tony Lema of San Leandro, Calif., bracketed at 283 re Wes Ellis of Aldercress, N.J., Dick Mayer of St. Petersburg, Fla., Doug Ford of Paradise, Fla., and Mike Fetchick of Yonk ers, N.Y. Buy At Builders Supply OUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tile Bricks, Flues. 727 W. McAndrews Ph. 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