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Top tBasIkdlball Teams Top
Warm-ups With Victories
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The firit returns of the
new college basketball season
indicated Kentucky, Cincin
nati, Kansas State and West
Virginia are ready to pick up
where they left off last March.
Although Coach Adolph
Rupp used three spohomores
In his starting lineup, Ken
tucky's defending champions
opened their -campaign Mon
OSC Tops (Oregon
68-60 Dn (Opener
Corvallis-(UPI)-Guard Lee
Harmon led Oregon Sate to a
68-60 basketball victory over
Oregon at Gill Coliseum Mon
day night in a non-conference
season's opener for both
teams.
Harman scored 21 points,
high for his career here. Ted
Miller, former Milwaukie
prep ace elevated to a start
ing forward role, came
through with 19 points.
Oregon State jumped off to
a 19-10 lead which the Web
foots nibbled away but Har
man came back with a field
goal with five seconds left in
the half to make it 38-36 OSC
at the midway mark. Oregon
at one time led 36-32.
Bearers Pull Away
The Beavers pulled away
after intermission and at one
point held an 11-point lead.
Dale Herron led Oregon
with 16 points and Chuck
Rask came through with 14.
Southern Oregon
Opens Series Here
Ashland - Southern Oregon
college opens the 1958-59
hoop season with a two-game
series against visiting Chico
State college Friday night at
8 pjn. in the SOC gym. The
two teams will play again
Saturday evening for the sec
end contest.
Coach Ted Schopf has two
veteran starters from last
year's squad in forward Dave
D Ohvo and guard Jira Mc
Abee. D'Olivo Is the extent of the
experienced height at 6-4 al
though Schopf does have
Glen Peterson at 5-6 but the
tall hoopster lacks the play
ing experience in college ball.
Teaming with D'Olivo at
the other forward probably
will be Punk Biddington, 6-3,
who played one year for the
Raiders back in the 1955-56
season. Biddington has the
jump shot along with D'Olivo
and appears to be a good re-
bounder.
Rebounding does appear to
be a problem for the Raiders
though due to their lack of
height but with the shooting
of guards McAbee and Gordie
Carrigan from the outside
this problem could be cut
down.
Dick "Hughie" Smith will
play the post position to start
with and although he is only
6-3, Smith has proven to be
an apt ball handler and jump
shooter.
Injuries Plague
Injuries have played a big
part in the pre-season prac
tices with D'Olivio suffering
from foot blisters, McaAbee
and Biddington with knee
trouble. Tom Bernet is out for
the season with an operation
coming up in January, and
Dick Puhl has a broken
finger.
Also In the forward wall is
Ashland freshman Jack Tobi
asson who has shown quite
well in the rebounding de
partment to the extent that
he will most likely see some
action this weekend against
he visiting Californians.
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day night by rolling to a con
vicing 91-68 victory over Flor
ida State.
Cincinnati, led by All-American
Oscar Robertson's 41
points, breezed to a 93-64 tri
umph over Indiana State; Bob
Boozer totaled 45 points as
Kansas State turned back
Purdue, 96-83, and West Vir
ginia, voted the No. 1 team
in the nation by the UPI
Gary Goble, the 6-8 OSC for
ward, also had 14 while
Denny Strickland, Oregon so
phomore from Bremerton, hit
a dozen counters.
Oregon State hit 27 out of
63 shots for a .429 average
while Oregon had .345 on 22
out of 64.
THE BOX:
Oregon State (SO PPT
Miller 0 1-1 3 19
Goble 6 2-4 3 14
Anderson, K. 1 1-2 3 3
Harman 7 7-9 1 21
Anderson, J. 2 3-3 2 7
Flynn 10-13 2
Critchfield 0 0-0 1 0
Woodland 0 0-0 10
Copple 10-0 0 2
Johnson 0 0-0 0 0
Critser . 0 0-0 0 0
Totals
Oregon (0
Strickland
Herron
Robertson
Rask
Kuykendall
Andenan
Kimpton
27 14-20 17 18
G
. 6
5
3
3
3
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0-2
6-9
2- 3
3- 7
3-4
0-0
0-0
0-0
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3
3
3
5
3
0
0 s
0
Newton
0
Total
22 16-25 IS 0
Laval Meunier, letterman
Dave Lowe, and Chuck Nevi
round out the guards in addi
tion to forwards Don Vannice,
Puhl and Phil Sword.
Meunier and Nevi are ball
handlers and do not shoot too
much but Vannice appears to
have a good jump shot and
Sword has his best point get
ter in a hook.
Love is a reserve of last
year's squad and his speed has
proven to be an aid in the
fast break.
Each of the two varsity
games will be preceedea by
junior varsity contests begin
ning at 6:30 p.m.
These will be the only two
games the Raiders will play
at home before January 2 and
3 when they tangle with Ever
ett JC. Following the Chico
series, the following week the
Raiders will journey to the
Bay area to encounter San
Francisco State and Saqra
mento State before they play
in the Far Western tourna
ment at Humboldt Sate col
lege December 18-20.
U. of O.
Guard Gets
4th Choice
PhUadelphia-DPD-Bob Grott
kau, University of Oregon
guard, was picked by the De
troit Lions as a fourth-round
choice Monday in drafts by
the National Professional
Football league. He was the
only player selected in the
first four rounds from the
Pacific Northwest.
Two other players from the
West Coast were selected in
the first four rounds. They
were Dick Bass, College of
Pacific halfback, who goes to
Los Angeles, and Southern
California tackle Monte Clark,
drafted by the San Francisco
49'ers.
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LEA MOTORS, Bartlett at 5th,
board of coaches at the end
of last season, opened with a
76-67 victory over Furman.
Rupp Not Pleased
Kentucky got off to a
slow start against Florida
State but managed to open
a five-point lead at halftime
and then smothered the Sem
moles in the second half.
Johnny Cox, the lone hold
over from last season's start
ing five, led the Wildcats
with 27 points.
Rupp, who admitted he did
"a poor job of substituting in
trie first half," wasn't too
pleased with Kentucky's de
but.
"We didn't play nearly as
wen as we are capable of,
said the Baron. "Our defen
sive work was bad and our
offense wasn't too solid."
Cincinnati ran up an 11-1
lead in the first six minutes
against Indiana State. The
Bearcats held a 45-31 advan
tage at halftime and led by
30 points throughout most of
the second half.
Deadly Free Throws
Purdue outscored Kansas
State from the field. 31-27.
but was unable to halt Booz
er, who dropped in 11 baskets
and 23 of 26 free throws. The
entire Wildcat team was
deadly from the free throw
line, converting $2 of 56 at
tempts.
West Virginia also won its
opener on charity shots, dunk
ing in 22 of 32 while Furman
converted 13 of 23. The Moun
taineers trailed 65-60 with
three minutes remaining but
rallied to win behind the
shooting of Jerry West, who
wound up with 29 points.
Kansas, playing without
two-time All-America Wilt
Chamberlain, who turned pro
at the end of last season, un
veiled a new fast-breaking of
fense in whipping Rice, 65-49,
Ron Loneski paced the Jay
hawks with 22 points.
Indiana Not Impressive
Indiana and Temple two
other top-ranked teams last
season weren't as impressive
in their debuts. The Hoosiers,
defending champions of the
Big Ten, pulled ahead in the
second half to defeat Drake
68-59, while Temple turned
back Gettysburg, 60-53.
Michigan swamped Pitts
burgh, 75-55, despite a 28
point effort by the Panthers
Don Hennon; Northwestern
set a school scoring record in
downing Western Michigan,
102-60; Iowa gained its 80th
consecutive home victory over
non-conference foe by
downing Colorado, 67-46, and
Steubenville, last season's
UPI small college champions,
dumped St. Michaels, Vt., 81-
63, for its 24th straight vic
tory. In other major games,
Jackie Moreland scored 39
points to lead Louisiana Tech
to a 77-59 victory over South
eastern Oklahoma State; Fred
Edmondson's 23 points spark
ed Georgia to a 76-59 triumph
over Clemson; The Citadel de
feated Richmond, 55-45; Ore
gon State whipped Oregon,
68-60, and Stanford coasted
to a 57-40 victory over San
Jose State. ,
DeVoss Named Waltonian
Division Vice President
, Henry (Hank) DeVoss,
elected vice-president of the
Oregon division of the Iaaak
Walton league, is a special
education instructor in
Medford senior and junior
high schools. He teaches
remedial reading and read
ing acceleration DeVoss,
who lives near Talent, is a
senior pilot for the Civil
Air Patrol, a lieutenant
Junior grade in the U. S.
Naval Reserve and an ar
dent fisherman.
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Pirates, dodgers
Start EBig Boom
Dn Player Swap
Washington-(DPD-There was
a sudden boom in baseball's
trading market today with the
Pirates and Dodgers huddling
over a prospective Frank
Thomas - Johnny Podres deal
and the Giants making a
strong bid for second baseman
Don Blasingame of the Car
dinals.
All the trade talk wasn't
confined to these four clubs,
however. Here are some of the
other deals being handled
about in the corridors and
hotel lobbies of this smoke
filled major and minor league
convention:
-The White Sox are offer
ing Billy Goodman and Bub
ba Phillips around for "a first
class relief pitcher."
-The Yanks have renewed
their efforts to get either
Pedro Ramos or Dick Hyde
from the Senators.
-Boston is after Vic Wertz;
Cleveland is listening but in
sists upon Jim Piersall in re
turn. -Gabe Paul of the Redlegs
says "we'll trade anyone but
everybody keeps asking about
Johnny Temple and he comes
very high."
-The Phillies have offered
the Dodgers a list to choose
from that includes Willie
Jones in return for rookie sec
ond baseman George (Sparky)
Anderson.
Thomas Deal Hottest
The hottest deal at the mo
ment, however, appears to be
Army Wins
Grid Trophy
7th Time
New York - (UPD - Army re
ceived all but one first-place
vote to win the 1958 Lambert
Trophy, symbol of Eastern
major college football su
premacy.
The Cadets, who finished an
undefeated season by whip
ping arch-rival Navy last Sat
urday, received 9.9 of a pos
sible 10 points in the final
balloting by a 10-man selec
tion committee of coaches,
sports writers and broadcas
ters. It was the seventh time
since the trophy was initiated
in 1936 that Army was named
No. 1.
Syracuse (8-1) the only oth
er team to receive a first-place
ballot, finished second in the
voting with 9.0 points.
Navy, last year's Lambert
Trophy winner, placed third
this season with a 6-3 record
and 7.2 points. Penn State
(6-3-1) was fourth with 6.95
points and Pittsburgh (5-4-1)
was fifth with 6.55 points.
Eugene-fiJPD-The Izaak Wal
ton league meeting here Sat
urday put its weight behind
a proposal to make steelhead
a game fish.
The Walton league wants
the steelhead to have full
blanket protection in Oregon,
saying its value as a game
fish far exceeds its value to
commercial, fishermen and
that it is primarily a trout
and entitled to classification
of a game fish.
Resolution ,
The league also passed a
resolution that the U. S. Fish
and Wildlife Service should
investigate sites in the central
Willamette valley. for a mi
gratory game refuge.
Another resolution, like the
steelhead measure sponsored
by the Jackson County chap
ter, was approved asking the
federal power cominission to
refuse to grant the Coos-
Curry Electrical Cooperative
permission to construct a
high dam on, the Illinois river
at Bald mountain.
Luhr Jensen Jr., H oo d
River, was elected state divis
ion president of the league
for 1959.
Elected vice - presidents
were, Allen Kelly, Portland;
Ivan Masterson, La Grande;
Henry DeVoss, Talent Ted
Turel, Eugene; Don Stotler,
Portland, and Tom Thayer,
Madras.
Jim Handy, Ashland Young
Outdoor Oregonian, was one
of the speakers at the Satur
day night joint banquet of the
league and its youth affiliate.
St Andrews, Scotland-TOPD-
The local town council has
granted the Royal and An
cient Golf club permission to
stage the 1960 British Open
championship on the old
course in celebration of the
famed tourney's centenary.
the one involving Thomas and
Podres. Pittsburgh long has
been after a standout left
handed pitcher-and the one
who appeals to the Pirates
most is Podres, who had a
13-15 record with the seventh
place Dodgers this year.
The Pirates believe that a
southpaw like Podres would
give them a pennant-winning
pitching staff along with 22
game winner Bob Friend,
Ronnie . Kline, Vern ' Law,
George Witt and Curt Ray
don. Pittsburgh feels it can
sacrifice some power and
would be willing to let Thom
as go. Thomas, a right-handed
swinger who hit 35 homers
and drove in 109 runs while
hitting .281, would be right
at home with the short left
field screen in the Los Ange
les coliseum.
Spurned in their efforts to
obtain Temple from Cincin
nati, the Giants have turned
toward St. Louis in the hope
of landing Blasingame, who
hit .274 and played brilliantly
afield. The Giants are dang
ling shortstop Daryl Spencer
and first baseman Bill White
at the Cards.
Al Lopez of the White Sox
says simply, "I've got to have
a relief pitcher," and he'll
give up Goodman or Phillips
and perhaps even both to get
the man he wants. He had his
eye on Don Mossi and Ray
Narleski but that was before
Cleveland dealt them to De
troit. -Nats
Want Howard '
Cookie Lavagetto, Washing
ton's skipper, says the Yanks
can forget about Ramos or
Hyde unless they are willing
to talk about Elston Howard.
That doesn't sit so well with
Casey Stengel, but the Yanks
are still trying.
Frank Lane of the Indians
has been busy outlining a new
draft proposal so he hasn't
had too much time to talk
trade. But he'll take Piersall
from the Red Sox if they keep
wanting Wertz so badly.
Milwaukee persists in its el-
forts to get Temple as a re
placement for hospitalized
Schoendienst, but Birdie leo-
betts will have to come up
with more than he's offered
so far to get his former em
ployee in a Braves uniform.
Manager Eddie bawyer ot
the last-place Phillies blandly
owns up, "we're looking for
everything. I've talked to
everyone, but so far no dice.
The Phillies are hot after
young Anderson who hit .278
aj Montreal last season and
supposedly "does everything
well."
The list of availables Phila
delphia offered the Dodgers
for Anderson included Stan
Lopata and Jack Meyer as
well as. Jones. The Dodgers
are in no hurry to get rid of
Anderson, however.
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Star Defense Man
Quits Pro Football
Washington-flM-The Wash
ington Redskins got the bad
news today and the rest of
the National Football League
got the good news-Joe (Scoot
er) Scudero announced he is
quitting football.
Scudero; brilliant two-way
halfback for the Redskins
over the past five seasons,
couldn't overcome the handi
cap of a pulled leg muscle
,that has sidelined him peri
odically over the last three
years.
"I'm not use to the team
and the leg will never be
entirely well," the Scooter
said. "I may as well call it
quits and go into my other
profession."
That "other profession" is
acting. Scudero has been a
Hollywood stunt man, appear
ed in television dramas and
movies, and is anxious for a
stage career as well. Last year
he was a villain on TV's
"Gunsmoke" and he was test
ed for the role of Rocky
Graziano when the latter's
autobiography "Somebody Up
There Likes Me" was made
into a movie.
No Name
"They finally decided to
get a 'name' actor for the
part," Scudero mourned. "I
just never became well-known
enough in football to qualify
as a 'name.' "
The reason Scudero has
been an unsung player is a
story in itself. Ninety per
cent of his time with the Red
Two Tilts Tonight
Open High School
Basketball Season
Basketball takes up this
week where football left off
last week end on the Oregon
High school athletic scene.
Two conflicts tonight lead
off the season for southern
Oregon schools. Twelve games
are billed for this week with
Jackson County B league
members beginning confer
ence play.
Class B Jacksonville meets
Riverside Will
Tangle in Bowl
Bakersfield (UPD Riverside
City college Tigers, undefeat
ed in nine games this season,
were selected today to oppose
Bakersfield College in the
11th annual Shrine Potato
Bowl football game Saturday
Riverside was champion of
the Eastern conference, roll
ing up 300 points to 68 by
opponents this season. .
Bakersfield was runner-up
in the Metropolitan confer
ence, losing only to Santa
Monica City college which
was selected for the Junior
Rose Bowl game! 1
NAMED WESTERN COACH
Los Angeles (UPD W e e b
Ewbank, coach of the Western
division champion Baltimore
Colts, has been named coach
of the Western representative
for the ninth annual All-Star
National. Football league pro
bowl game Jan. 11.
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skins has been spent on de
fense, a chore which won him
the respect of every NFL
scout but not many headlines.
"He could have been one
of the finest offensive backs
in league history," backfield
coach Mike Nixon declared.
"But we needed him more
on defense and he never
griped, never complained and
never gave us anything but
100 per cent effort."
As a defensive back, Scu
dero was a deadly, vicious
tackier who hit low and hard.
"Without taking anything
away from Jim Brown of the
Browns," Washington Coach
Joe Kuharich said, "I wonder
if Jimmy would have broken
the league's rushing record
a couple of weeks ago if Scu
dero hadn't been injured and
unable to play. The only way
to stop Brown is to hit him
low and hard around the
ankles, and that's the way
Scudero loves to tackle."
The player who will miss
Scudero the most is little Ed
die LeBaron, Joe's closest
friend on trie squad. The two
room together on road trips.
"We're losing a great play
er," Eddie commented. "A
greater player than most peo
ple think. 'Joe's a real pro
and if he had played offense,
we would have been the talk
of the league."
Scudero, a doe-eyed Italian,
played for Kuharich when the
latter coached the University
of San Francisco.
A-2 Illinois Valley at Cave
Junction this evening while
Butte Falls, another B school,
opposes A-2 Rogue JSiver at
Rogue River.
Talent and Butte Falls in
augurate the Jackson County
B loop slate Thursday at
Butte Falls. On Friday in the
circuit Prospect vies at Jack
sonville. Crater Plays
Three members of the A-l
Southern Oregon conference
have non-loop openers this
weeks. Crater of Central Point
plays at Roseburg on Friday
and Saturday nights. Ashland
will be at f ortuna, (Jam., on
Friday and at Eureka, Calif.,
on Saturday. Grants Pass also
has a California trip, meeting
Yreka on Friday and Weed on
Saturday.
Phoenix, A-2 subdistrict de
fender, follows Grants Pass to
Yreka, with a Saturday non.
counting mix against the Min
ers. Eagle Point, just through
with its A-2 football slate,
goes to Myrtle Creek on Sat
urday after just a bare week
on workouts on the maple
court.
Medford, which played In
the class A-l football semi
finals last Friday, won't have
basketball contention . until
Dec. 12 'and 13. It meets
Marshfield and North Bend
here on those respective
nights. St. Mary's of Medford
begins its campaign on Dec. 9
as host to Jacksonville.
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Frankfurt, Germany - (UPD -
When Vladimir (The Sailor)
Kuts announced his retire
ment last month, Russia lost
most than its top athlete. It
lost a fine sportsman as well
a performer who was dif
ferent from the unsmiling
type of Soviet athlete.
Stomach ulcers have side
lined Kuts, Olympic 5,000 and
10,000 meter champion, for
good, a recent Moscow an
nouncement said. The end of
his sports career came at SI
at an age when his idol,
Emil Zatopek of Czechoslova
kia, still had many years of
great running ahead.
With his whipping, blond
mop of hair bouncing as he
ran, Kuts dominated interna
tional distance running for
three years. He set Olympic
records in the 5,000 and 10,
000 meter races and also holds
the world marks for those
events.
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But as Soviet sports outhor
ities marked his records by
heaping decorations and
titles on him, Kuts remained
what can best be described
as "a real, nice guy." He. was
frank and relaxed during in
terviews even with report
ers from Western nations.
He preferred to talk about
his hobbies books and mu
sic. He is the only Soviet ath
lete who ever showed this re
porter pictures of his wife
and baby.
Kuts probably will be re
membered by most track fans
for his victory over Britain's
Gordon Pirie in the 10,000
meter irace at the 1956 Olym
pics in Melburne. Pirie, then
at the height of his career,
doggedly kept on the Rus
sian's heels. There wag a tre
mendous roar from the crowd
of 100,000 when the Briton
once overtook Kuts briefly.
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sprint that made it appear
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that Pirie had "switched off'
his power. He hadn't. Kuts
was just running that much
faster.
Politics Were Out
While Pirie faded to finish
a demoralized eighth, Kuts
crossed the finish line smiling
and waving to the crowd. He
appeared fresh as a daisy and
trotted on for a full lap while
his opponents struggled home
one by one, completely ex
hausted. The most impressive thing
about Kuts' brilliant Olympic
triumphs was the way he
took them. Soviet officials
spared no efforts to present
him as a genuine product of
their "superior" system but
Kuts never tried to bring poli
tics into running.
"The medals are for my
little son," he pointedly told
reporters.
He brushed aside with a
contemptuous smile sugges
tions from reporters from
Communist nations that Pirie
had tried to spike him.
Like Zatopek, Kuts be
lieved in the type of training
which few Western athletes
have the time or energy to
follow. '
He ran a daily average of
20 miles in training. Ever
since the first signs of his ul
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