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Don Jordan Batters Akins To Nab Welterweight Toga - Loc Angeles -4UP9- Lanky Ion Jordan, whose hammering left fist won the world welter weight crown Friday night from Virgil Akins, smilingly agreed Saturday to give the badly-bruised ex-champ a re turn shot at the title in mid February at St. Louis. : "And I'll beat him worse next time because I'll . weigh lighter," said the Negro-In-dian ex-produce worker who by a unanimous upset 15 round decision, became the first Los Angeles born welter weight ruler. Twenty-four-year-old Don, who is known as the "Geroni mo Kid" and who is an expert with th bow and arrow, kept lancing with left jabs and jar ring left hooks in nearly every round Friday night at the Olympic auditorium while 7, 344 fans cheered the 3-1 un-der-dog lustily and booed Ak ins to the girders. Had It Sewed Up It was Don's ninth straight victory and the greatest of his career. Jordan tired in the late going because of the drubbing he had given 30-year-old Akins, but he already had wrapped up the bout and it would have taken a knock out to salvage victory for roughhouse Virgil, who was making his first defense. Con tracts for the bout called for a return title fight at St. Louis within 60 days if Jordan won the 147-pound crown. Truman Gibson, president of the International Boxing club IBC, said Saturday. ii il mi if rr ii imi Ji't n ii ; llfllV rUT U II UIZT 1,1 IP i-t II l II 1 II If UIMllfRN Hi s " nil II it" ii 11 Check with us before you ' 8 take off on that next ' g fit 1 J trip we want you to see the 1 ? if finest collection of men's f " I fashion patterns ever. Ijt JJ Yes, choose one or two i 1&&J of the new weaves or . '"Sfsii colors and make the trip . s'jf' i a personal conquest flXs $ 1 for yourself. y "They're talking about stag ing the fight at St. Louis-in mid-February - as Jordan wants to get the return bout out of the way as soon as possible." Jordan and Manager Don Nesseth want a mid-February date; but Akins was somewhat uncertain whether his gashed and badly-bruised right brow would be healed in time to train for a fight at that time. Gibson stressed that the IBC had no part in the con tract which was between the two fighters and managers -but that the IBC would be in terested in televising the bout if possible. Had Minor Cuts The three ring officials fav ored Jordan on a 10-point must basis as follows: referee Lee Grossman, 145-138; judge Mushy Callahan, 145-132; and MedfowwS&JTribune siPdDnBTrs Rose Set For Big Chicago-(UPD-Big Ten offi cials will discuss the Rose Bowl contract next week at the annual winter meeting, judge Tommy Hart, 146-136. The United Press Internation al agreed, 143-139. Don, 14th of 19 children, six of whom died, registered his 44th victory in 55 fights while Akins suffered his 19th defeat in 69. The new champion Saturday had slight nicks over each eye, but they were so slight that only a week or 10 days will be required for healing. There were no knockdowns during the bout, but in the 10th and 11th it seemed that the 5- 914 Jordan might knock out his shorter opponent. Akins was groggy from a head beat ing during most of the 10 th and he was staggered twice in the 11th. After the 11th, Jordan be gan to tire under Akins' body blows, many of which were low. In the 13th, a right to the body almost jack-knifed Don. Contract Ten Talk but it was unlikely any firm action would be taken until the spring meeting at Madi son, Wis., next March. This meeting was certain to announce that the 1960 game would be played as scheduled, since the confer ence agreed unofficially last August that it would accept a proposal by the Pacific Coast conference to play that game with athletic directors of currest West Coast schools acting as "trustees" to super vise the contest. However, since the Pacific Coast conference will be dis banded before the 1960 game, the current inter-conference bowl contract must end. Whether the Big Ten will con tinue with a different West Coast group must be decided, but such decision probably will be held off until next March since no concrete pro posal has been received from the West Coast. Football coaches will open the conference session Wed nesday and presumably will spend considerable time dis cussing officiating. Faculty representatives and athletic directors will convene Thurs day and probably continue meeting until Saturday. Also up for reconsideration was a proposal for a 10-game football schedule which if ap proved could result in round robin grid schedules by 1960, The 10 game feature would be effective in 1965. Butte Falls Indicated As Winner Butte Falls Rule inter pretations obtained Friday in dicated that Butte Falls high, rather than Talent, was the winner in the Jackson Coun ty B league basketball game between the two schools. The scuffle last Thursday went three overtimes but should have gone just two, it is contended. Talent and Butte Falls were tied 35-each at the end of reg ular playing time. That was still the score after one ex tra period and the game went into a sudden death second overtime. Butte Falls put in one free shot and was ahead 36 to 35 after this second ses sion. Many Logger fans had thought their team had won but the game was continued on the idea that a team is re quired to score at least two points to win in a sudden death period. Talent's Bulldogs put in two free shots in the third over time and play was halted with Talent on top 37 to 36. Rule Confirmation On Friday, however, Bray checked into the overtime rule and talked to C. A. Meyer, commissioner of Rogue valley basketball officials, and A. Oden Hawes, assistant secre tary of the Oregon School Ac tivities association by tele Bray's conversation con firmed Butte Falls ; stand in the matter According to the rule stipulation and interpre tation the first team to score two points in a sudden death period is winner but a team also is declared victor if it is leading when time runs out, even if it has just tallied one point in the extra session. Although Bray gained tele phone confirmation, he is fil ing a written formal protest on the issue as a matter of procedure. Referees for the game were Earl Iba and Jim Akerill, Ashland. mJz l I ltd a SLd RAIDER CAPTURES CASABA - Dave D'Olivo (51) grabs off a rebound for South ern Oregon college in the basketball fray with Chico State Friday at Ashland. He thwarts the effort of Gary Newman (20) of the rival Wildcats. Other SOC Red Red Raiders Bounce Chico In Overtime Ashland - Southern Oregon college, led by ex-Crater high star Gordie Carrigan, downed a stubborn Chico State five 70 to 63 Friday night in its opening basketball game of the season. The scrap went into overtime on the Red Raider floor here.- Carrigan had 24 points' for high honors. He tied the game in the final stages of the sec ond half to send it into over time. Again in the extra ses sion his set shot deadlocked the mix after Chico State drew first blood. Score was tied up at 59-all at the end of regular playing time. Southern Oregon had been on top most of the way until the last five minutes when Chico pulled ahead by 'Nice Guy' Wins Derby, $25,000 .San Bruno, Calif.-tfJPD-Nice Guy, given a whipping ride by Jockey Dick Griffiths, won the $25,00 . California Derby Saturday as he withstood a stretch- drive by favored King's Canasta to cross the finish line in front by a head. The victory, fourth in a row for Nice Guy, was the eighth in 18 starts for the .son of The Buttler and Wonderful You, and was worth $15,690. This brought his lifetime earnings to $34,950. . Never worse than third in the 11 horse field, Nice Guy took a lead going into the home stretch and pulled away to a full length. But King's Canasta, which had been hemmed in at various times during the mile and race, finally got through the pack and came up to within a neck with 100 yards to go. But he "hung" there as Griffiths applied the whip to Nice Guy. The winner is owned by Joe W. Brown of Las Vegas, Nev., and New Orleans. . Nice Guy, going the route in 1:50 25, paid $10.10, $4.00 and $3.20. King's Canasta paid $3.50 and $2.70 and Alibi Blue paid $5.40 to show. Earlier , in the day, a two year old named Ole Fols set a new Tanforan track record for a mile as he breezed the distance in 1:38. The old mark was 1:38 25. There are now about 41,000 milk-vending machines in the U. S., a three -fold Increase since 1953. Distributor "ThedDaSto Burn" 'Best In S & H Green Medford Tel. 2-2111 three. In those last five min utes kept within that three point range until Carrigan drove the base line to put up a jump shot. He was fouled in the successful effort and his free try went in to tie the tussle. Darby Shoots Alan Darby gave his Wild cat club the lead with a jump er in the overtime. SOC pull ed up on Carrigan's goal, Dave D'Olivo put the Raiders on top with a pair of free tosses and Don Vannice add ed two gift shots. Darby countered with a driver from the left side but Punk Biddington retaliated for sock with a short jumper which made it 69 to 63 for SOC. Laval Meunier dropped in a gifter at the final gun. The Raiders had led 33-26 at halftime mainly on Dick Smith's eight points and D'Olivo's 11. Speed and hustle appeared to be one of the main deffer ences which put the Raiders on top. They were short in comparison to the visiting Californians but the rebound count showed the Raiders leading on offensive 20 to 12 and on defense 42 to 39. D'Olivo was second high man of the evening with 17 points and 15 rebounds while Chico's Don Richardson had 16 points and Darby had 14. In overall statistics the Raider hit but 18 of 40 free throws while Chico got 19 in 26 tries. SOC fired 43 per cent from the field as opposed to Chico's 28 and the Raiders fouled 20 with Carrigan and Smith fouling out. The Cali fornians fouled out three and committed 33 infractions. Southern Oregon's Jayvees lost the preliminary game 74 57 to an independent team consisting of ex-SOC players and Medford basketballers. Chico Richardson f Ellis f Newman c Darby g Westlake g Miller g Wilson g von Bargen c Sherrard g Davalos f Obermiller f - Totals FG 5 3 2 5 .... 1 0 .. 2 .. 1 2 .. 1 0 FT PF TP 6-7 5 16 2- 3 3- 5 4- 6 0-0 0-0 0-0 4-5 0-0 0-0 0-0 22 19-26 33 63 SOC Biddington f D'Olivo f Smith c FT PF TP 1-2 1 3 Carrigan 8 McAbee g Meunier g Vannice f Sword e Tobiasson f Totals 26 18-40 20 70 Chico 26-33-4 63 SOC 33-26-11 70 Officials: Warren and Esselstyn. 1 5 7-11 3 17 5 1-5 5 11 11 2-6 5 24 3 3-7 19 0 2-6 0 2 12-3 4 4 0 0-0 2 0 0 0-0 10 The West Stamps Too fuel co. Court & McAndrews Raiders in the picture are Don Vannice (41) and Punk Biddington (43). Chico players are Don Richardson (22) and Alan Darby (11). Southern Oregon won 70 to 63 in overtime. Jacksonville Triumphs In B Fray Jacksonville Jackson ville high broke into Jack son County B league basket ball action with a 58 to 36 de cision' over Prospect here Fri day night. The Redskins used a quick start and a strong second half to drub the Cougars. Jacksonville will continue its league campaign on Mon day night against St. Mary's at Medford. It will be the sea son opener for St. Mary's. 14 to 2 Jump In the Prospect hassle, Jacksonville had a 14 to 2 bulge at the quarter. Halftime count was 25 to 14 and after three cantos the spread was 42 to 27. Ken Perreard put in 19 points and Doyle Bransom 15 for the Redskins. Bob Fitch had 14 and Floyd Scaife 12 for Prespect. Jacksonville had board control in the fracas. The Redskins took the jun ior varsity scrap with Dick Griffin dropping in 11 points and Gale Sheperd making 10. LINE-UPS: 58 Jacksonville Prospect 36 F 19 Perreard . ... Sweat 5 F 15 Branson Chapman 3 C 8 Hubbard ..... 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But it did set a record of sorts making the Rams the first team in NFL history to play before two 100,000 crowds in the same season. A crowd of 100,202 watched the nip-and-tuck ball game which saw the Rams take over the lead in the final seconds of the first half and then hold on for the two-point victory. The other 100,000-plus crowd came five weeks ago for the Ram-Chicago Bear game in the Coliseum. The Wade-tOrShofner combi nation scored one touchdown, Canadian Leads In Tourney Dorado Beach, P.R. -(DPD-Wes Ellis, the 26-year-old Ca nadian open champion from River Vale, N.J., slogged over waterlogged fairways through an intermittent tropical show er Saturday to shoot a one-under-par 71 for a two-stroke lead after three rounds of the Dorado Beach invitational golf tournament. Ellis, a university of Texas graduate completing his forst full year on the professional tour, had a 54-hole total of 211. Ted Kroll of Fort Lauder dale, Fla., carded his third straight 71 to take the second spot at 213. Kroll clinched the runner-up spot at. the end of the road by putting his ap proach shot on the 18th green four feet away from the cup for a birdie. Playing in humid weather as rain and sunshine alternate ly soaked the 7,115 yard Do rado Beach course, Ellis sank putts of eight, 15, and 20 feet for birdies on the third, fifth, and sixth boles, then put his approach on the eighth green eight inches from the cup for his fourth birdie- on the out going nine. Marring the per formance was a bogey on the second when he three-putted and another on the ninth when he trapped his approach shot and then missed a five footer. After his two-under-par 34 for the first nine, Ellis shot eight straight pars coming in until he bogeyed the 18th by three-putting from 30 feet away. 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