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.
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"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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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 ..... Hall
G 5 Davis Fitch 14
G 6 Hanley Scaife 12
Substitutions For Jacksonville.
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Los Angeles -flJPD- The Los
Angeles Rams utilized their
play - the Bill Wade to Del
Shofner pass to defeat the
Baltimore Colts, 30-28, Satur
day in a National Football
league game before the third
largest crowd in pro history.
The game was in effect a fu
tility effort as the Colts al
ready have cinched the West
ern division NFL champion
ship. 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,
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Tourney
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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.
Ellis had gone into today's
round in second place, two
strokes behind halfway lead
er Tommy Jacobs of Whittier,
Calif.
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a 69-yard flanker pass play
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while a 63-yard Wade to Shof
ner aerial set up the Rams'
first TD on the Baltimore two
yard line.
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plunged into the end zone for
the first score trom that point.
For the first quarter, it ap
peared that the Rams were in
for the same type of shellack
ing they took at Baltimore
two weeks ago, when the
Colts won, 34-7. The Colts
scored with the game only
three minutes old after Gino
Marchetti recovered a Wade
fumble on the Ram 30-yard
line.
The Baltimore score came
- on the first of Baltimore
quarterback Johnny Unitas
three touchdown passes -from
the three-yard line, with
end Ray Berry taking the aer
ial behind the goal posts.
The Colts scored handily
again right before the period
ended, marching 62 yards in
12 plays, with Unitas tossing a
five-yard pass to his favorite
target, Lennie Moore.
But then the Rams regroup
ed and struck quickly with
two touchdowns, first Wil
son's and then a 12-yard pass
interception return by line
backer Dick Daughetry. This,
coupled with a 43-yard Paige
Cothren field goal, gave the
Rams a 16-14 lead at half
time.
Wade won his passing duel
with Johnny Unitas Saturday,
completing 11 for 26, with
two interceptions; for a total
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Boston College 26. Holy Cross
Miami (Fla I 2. Oregon 0
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