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12 MAIL TRIBUNE. Medford, Of.. Monday, D.tembr 11. 1958 Giants Edge Cleveland 10-0 in Pro Grid IPlay-dDffff NFI. STANDINGS Eastern Division W L T New York 10 3 0 Cleveland 9 4 0 Pittsburgh 7 4 1 Washington 4 7 1 Philadelphia .. 2 9 1 Chicago Cards -291 Prt. PF PA .769 256 183 .692 302 227 .638 261 230 .364 214 268 .182 235 306 .182 261 356 Western Division W Baltimore 9 Los Angeles 8 Chicago Bears 8 San Francisco - 6 Detroit 4 LT Pet. PF PA 3 0 .750 381 203 4 0 .667 344 278 4 0 .667 298 230 6 0 .500 257 324 7 1 .364 261 276 Green Bay 1 10 1 .091 193 382 Sunday's Results (Plavoff Came) New York 10. Cleveland 0 New York -UPD- "I'm scar ed to death of the Baltimore Colts," coach Jim Lee Howell said today. But how can you believe him after what his New York Giants did to the Cleveland Browns during one of the National Football league's finest comebacks. The Giants, two games be hind the Browns after the 1958 season was only five weeks old, topped their late season surge Sunday by shut ting out Cleveland in a play off for the Eastern division title, 10-0. That triumph, only the sec ond shutout recorded against Cleveland in its 13-year his tory, gave the Giants the right to entertain Baltimore's Western Division champions for the league crown next Sunday at Yankee stadium. And although the Giants whipped the Browns on suc cessive week ends to reach the championship game for the second time in the last three Mississippi Black Book Spells Florida Trouble (This is the fifth of 10 dis patches on the football teams playing in the post season bowl games.) By JOE McDAVID United Press International Oxford, Miss.-ftTD-A legen dary "little black book" spells trouble for Florida in the Gator Bowl. The book is owned by John ny Vaught, Mississippi's vet eran head coach, and is re puted to contain every good play he has seen run on the nation's gridirons, plus a few he dreamed up on his own. Vaught laughs when that little book is mentioned, and he must have been .studying it since the season ended, be- , cause he was in a happy frame of mind. "We are coming up with a lot of new stuff," Vaught announced with a chuckle. Whether the innovations click or not, only time will tell. But surprise isn't the only thing Vaught counts on for next Saturday's bowl, bat tle. Two Big Threats Mississippi's biggest threats are its old standbys - quarter back Bobby Franklin on the option and fullback Charlie Flowers up the middle. Arkansas Coach Frank Broyles once said "Franklin on the option Mississippi can hurt you with that one play alone." Broyles wasn't fool ing. Using the option as a spring-board, Franklin racked up 1,022 yards and 16 touch downs in leading the 12th ranked Rebels to an 8-2 seas on record. Franklin gained 71.0 yards with his passes and reserve quarterbacks Billy Brewer and Jake Gibbs padded the Rebels' aerial mark to exactly 1,000 yards for the year. That undoubtedly had a lot to do with making Ole Miss a cne-touchdown favorite over Florida, which has the most porous pass defense in the Southeastern Conference. Tough Ground Game Good as the passing record is, Mississippi's ground game is even better. The Rebels were second to none in the SEC in rushing. Mississippi gained 2,906 yards on the ground, and the 6 - foot, 195 pound Flowers counted for 560 of them with his line-busting charges. One of Flowers' jaunts carried 37 yards. Vaught laughed off the idea that Ole Miss would concen trate on passing against Flor ida, which boasts the SEC's second-best rushing defense. "We plan an all-out attack - both passing and running," Vaught said. "If it is open to a pass, we're going to pass. If it is open for a run, we'll run." Have Bowl Habit Going to bowls is getting to be a habit with the Rebels, though this will be their debut in the Gator. In the past five years, Mississippi has been to the Sugar Bowl three times and the Cotton Bowl once. Last New Year's, they upended Texas 39-7 in the Sugar Bowl. Mississippi lost only to top ranked Louisiana State Uni versity (0-14) and Tennessee (16-18) this year. The Rebels boast victories over Memphis State (17-0), Kentucky (27-6), Trinity (21-0), Tulane (19-8), Hardin - Simmons (24-0), Ar kansas (14-12), Houston (56-7) and Mississippi State (21-0). Harold Woolley Sponsor of Year Wichita, Kan. -(UPD- "Spon sors of the Year" awards by the National Baseball Con gress have gone to an Oregon industrialist and a Texas cow boy. The awards went to Harold Woolley of Drain, Ore., and Herbert Kokernot of Alpine, Tex. Drain won the NBC semi-pro title this year. years, the oddsmakers backed Howell's appraisal of the Colts. Bookies Favor Colls The bookies immediately established Coach Webb Ew bank's high-scoring Colts 13 10 choices to defeat the Giants and win their first NFL cham pionship. The Giants forced Sunday's playoff when they tied for Eastern honors by edging the Browns here in a snowstorm in the final regular season game a week ago, 13-10. New York's defensive unit starred in that game. Sunday, with the players battling ,for a jackpot that could hit $200, 000 for next Sunday's win ners, New York's defense really sparked in 25-degree weather. Roosevelt Grier, Andy Ro bustelli, Dick Modzelewski and Jim Katcavage on the front line and linebackers Sam Huff, Cliff Livingston and Harland Svare were the huskies who wrecked Cleve land's bid for its eighth East ern title in nine seasons. The G i a n t s 1 imited the Browns to 24 yards on the ground and 62 in the air. Conerly Scores Charley Conerly, gray-haired and oldest player in the NFL at 38, scored the game's onlj touchdown. Pat Sum merall, whose 49-yard field goal with 127 seconds to go a week ago forced the play-off, booted an extra point and a 26-yard field goal. But defense put the liiants into the title game because the New York offense was shackled most of the game by Cleveland's defensive unit. New York's defensive line men charged so fast and with so much power and skill that Milt Plum and Jim Ninowski, C 1 e v eland's quarterbacks, were thrown for losses total ling 52 yards while trying to pass. With, Cleveland's pass ing game nullified, the Giants had no trouble stopping Jim Brown, the 228-pound Cleve land fullback who set an NFL rushing record of 1,527 yards during the season. Muff Scoring Chance Jim gained only'a net of eight yards on seven rushes. He had minus 12 yards until he blasted 20 to the New York four late in the third period. The Browns started this drive when Gene Hickerson recov ered Don Maynard's fumble of a Cleveland punt. The whole outlook of the game might have changed if the Browns had scored then and cut New York's lead to three points. But the New York defense stopped Brown cold on his next blast from the four and threw Plum for a 12-yard loss on the next play. On the first play of the fin al period, Plum threw direct ly over center. Huff was the only man in the area. He in tercepted to end Cleveland's only serious threat. Medfordjtribune Eagle Pointers Nick Crater High 4240 f'rav Is Your Santa Claus a fisherman? THRILL HIM THIS CHRISTMAS WITH A Special attention given to any lady wonderful enough to want to give her favorite fisherman a Sea Horse. We'll advise you as to size arrange easy terms if you wish take his old motor in trade. Christmas delivery assured. XfJA 319 East 6th More fishermen use Johnson Sea-Horses than any other out board motor. Four famous fish ing sizes: 3, 5M , and 10 hp. Ltttrell Farts MARINE DIVISION Johnson Sea-Horse t- first in dependability I Phone SP 2-6235 Central Point-Eagle Point high, with, sparkling Bill Tup ner the man of the hour, en tered its first victory in the basketball season ledger Sat urday night, nudging the Cra ter Comets here. Turner led the way to the close 42 to 40 verdict with 26 markers on a variety of shots and with his all around floor play. He personally account ed for 13 of the 16 Eagle field goals and earned a shoul der ride to the dressing room following the contest. Triumph was of consider able satisfaction to the Eagle Pkoint crew for on the previous evening it had been suppress ed 64 to 44 by the same Comet gang. The Eagles had their own troubles with wildness and raggedness but put up a tough, determined defense and took advantage of the Comets' erratic play to emerge in front. Never more than six points separated the two aggregations. The lead switched hands on seven occa tions and there were five tie counts. Take Lead for Good Eagle Point went ahead to stay at 36 to 34 when Turner tossed in a recovery bucket with 3V2 minutes remaining in the scuffle. Jim Nease added two gift heaves for 38 to 34. Bill White hooked in a shot to cut the gap for Cra ter with three minutes left. However, Turner fired in from a corner for 40 to 36. John Burns swished a corner Red Raider On All-Star By United Press International Willamette and Southern Oregon won their final games in the Far West invitational basketball tournament at Ar eata, Calif., Saturday. Willamette defeated the Cal Aggies 72-51 to take fifth place and Southern Oregon downed Chico State 73-57 for seventh place. Ed. Grossenbacher of Wil lamette and Dave D'Olivo of SOC were named to the all tournament team. San Francisco State defeat ed Humboldt State 43-31 for the title. . Kalapus Scores Elsewhere on the small col lege front, Westminster made it two straight over Eastern Oregon at La Grande with a 73-68 win Saturday night. Ron Langos, with 19 points, led Lewis and Clark to a 79 56 victory over Oregon Col lege of Education. . A field goal by Jerry Kala pus at the final buzzer gave Pacific a 57-55 win over Puget Sound in Tacoma Saturday night. Jackie Riley was held to only one point as Linfield lost a 75-70 decision to West ern Washington at Belling-ham. Keglers Divide Here on Sunday Medford and Grants Pass men came out even yesterday in match rivalry at Medford Bowling lanes. The Medford five took a 2782 to 2658 decision in total pins and won two of the three games in the first set. Grants Pass had like success in the second match with a 2659 to 2656. Jim Morgan with a 611 to tal and Don Ivie with a 221 game and 599 series paced the Medford win while Jim Mc Clellan had a 612 series and Hal Bell a, 225 game for GP. Dennie Dunham had a 623 series and 246 game to lead Grants Pass in the second set. Dick DeGroot had -200 and 577 for Medford. Others on the team were John Tomlin and Fred Ander son. Gene Chapman and Karl Bennett rounded out the GP quintet. goal for the Comets less than two minutes to go but Bill Hubbard got a pair of EP free tosses for 42 to 38 about 30 seconds later. Burns put in the final bas ket for Crater with eight sec onds on the clock. First quarter margin was 13 to 9 for the Easles but Crater prevailed 22 to 19 at the half. Eagle Point was in front again 30 to 29 at the third quarter rest. Six Point Bulge The Comets had one edge of 5 to 4 in the opening quar ter but EP pushed back to six point differences of 11 to 5 and 13 to 7 in the canto. EP stayed in front until the last three minutes of the sec ond half. A Bill White took tied the combat at 16 each and Dennis Pfaff's driver made the count 18 to" 16 for the Comets. When White put in two free tosses Crater had its widest edge of the evening, four Doints at 20 to 16. After the halftime breather Turner potted a jumper on a fast break and then put in a driver for Eagle lead at 23 to 22. Pfaff retaliated with a drive shot and Crater went back on top. Burns' long jump made it 26 to 23. Turner hit from in under the hoop and Hubbard dunked a free shot for a 26-all tie. Then Turner goaled off a jump ball and Larry Smith hit from the gift stripe for Eagle lead at 30 to 26. Burns, White Cut Gap Burns' two free points and another gifter by White cut the distance to just one point at the third period buzzer. White's turning jump shot and free marker put the Com ets in brief command at 32 to 30. But Turner's buckets on a steal and on a jump beside the slot returned the lead to Cocrlo -Point at 3d. to 32. BSmS knotted the Standing at the free line. Turner then put nis club ahead for good. ; Faele Point actually won by its margin ot 16 to 15 in field goals. Each club had 10 coun ters on free throws. i Crater had a good margin in rebound retrieving with 38 to the Eagles' 22 bu balls lost on 10 bad passes and on nine fumbles kept them from exploiting their backboard work Crater Leaders ' Bill White with 13 points and Burns with 12 were the Comet top score makers. Burns with 12 retrieves, Chuck Turner with nine and Dave Sharp with eight for Crater and Dave Huffman with nine controls and Hub bard with seven for the Eagles took backboarding honors. ' , Loyal ' Higinbotham who had 26 points for Crater on Friday was held scoreless by the Eagles. He shot from the field eight times. Wayne Al len, a usual top point-getter for the Comets, had just two field goals. He also had eight attempts. Eagle Point and Crater each finished pre-holiday play with one-win, four-loss records. Crater won the junior var sity game Saturday 35 to 19. BOX: Eagle Point FG Nease 5-1 Huffman 5-1 Hubbard .12-1 B. Turner ..21-13 Smith 1-0 Greenwood O-O Hooper 1-0 Charters 0-0 5- 3 4-1 6- 5 2-0 1-1 0-0 0- 0 1- 0 R PF TP 20 5 9 4 4 0 0 0 4 0 3 7 26 1 0 ' 0 0 Totals .45-16 19-10 22 12 42 Crater FG C. Turner 3-1 Allen 8-2 B. White ....10-4 Higinbot'm 8-0 Bennett 3-0 Burns 7-4 Sharp 6-2 Pfaff 3-2 T. White 0-0 FT 1-1 0- 0 8-5 1- 0 1-0 4-4 0-0 0-0 0-0 R 9 0 6 2 1 12 8 0 0 PF TP 1 3 4 13 0 0 12 4 4 0 Totals 48-15 15-10 38 14 40 Referees Swanson and Jones. 35 Crater JV Eagle Point JV 19 F Cooper Weidman 7 F 15 Edwards Wilson 8 C Neilson Ayres G 11 Eldred Perdue 2 G B. Anhorn Henderson Substitutions For Crater, Woods 3. Huntley. J. Allen. Foote 2. Wal ler 4, Johnson; for Eagle Point, Anderson, Skeeters,1 Greb, Myers, Geren, Palm 2, West. , AUTO PARTS? 4 PADGETT AUTO PASTS 345 North Central " ; STORE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.. Monday thru Saturday 9 a.m. to -4 p.m. Sunday- Sugar Hart, Ralph Dupas Vie Friday. New York ' -UPD- Welter weight contenders Ralph Du pas and Sugar Hart will meet at the Miami Beach auditor ium Friday night in a boxer puncher fight that features Christmas week's light boxing schedule. Dupas of New Orleans is favored at 7-5 to beat Hart of Philadelphia in their nation ally televised and ' broadcast 10-rounder because of his greater experience and skill. Hart, 22, is well supported because of his punch. He stopped 20 of his 30 oppon ents while winning 25 starts. Dupas, 23, is a comparative ly light hitter who scored only 13 kayoes while winning 74 of his 89 bouts. Rank High They are high-ranking con tenders for the 147-pound crown. Hart is rated second by the Ring magazine and third by the National Box ing association; Dupas, third by Ring and fourth by the NBA. There'll be no TV fight on Wednesday. Instead, Bishop Fulton J. Sheen wijl give a special Christmas talk"- over ABC. Monday Philadelphia: Len Matthews vs. Ray Lan caster. Providence, R. I.; Paul Pender vs. Willie Johnson. Caracas, Venezuela; Ike Chestnut vs. Sonny Leon, and Ramon Arias vs. Jose Gazon. None scheduled . Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday. Friday Miami Beach; Ralph Dupas vs. Sugar Hart TV-Radio. Saturday Hollywood, Cal.: Tombstone Smith vs. Tiger Al Williams. Tillamook Quintet Tips Ashland for Second time Tillamook-With a 54 to 47 verdict Saturday night, Tilla mook high made It two bas ketball triumphs for the week end over Ashland. ' But the Cheesemakers had tougher going in the series finale than in their 55 to 38 win on Friday. Ashland trailed by only five points at 39 to 34 with five minutes left in the game. Quarter standings all had Til lamook on top, 14 to 10, 28 to 11 and 39 to 28. The Grizzlies of southern Oregon had trouble with the Tillamook zone defense since they had not prepared for it and they also missed Clark Smith's height when he turn ed an ankle in the Friday fray. Olson was high gunner for Tillamook with 20 nointc and Bob Johnson put in 19 for Ashland. Anhland Biork B. Johnson . Taylor G. Allen Forrest D. Johnson Alley Gray Hardy Totals Tillamook Batty Krake Hoffman Olson .... R. Warren G. Warren Thompson Huffert FG ... 1 ... 6 l 2 ... 1 ... 1 ... 0 ... 3 ... 0 FT PF 3 3 7 0 2 2 1 0 2 0 TP 5 19 2 6 4 3 0 8 0 .15 17 22 47 FG .. 5 .. 1 .. 1 FT PF 4 2 Totals .... 1 .... 0 .. 1 .... 3 . 18 TP 14 4 5 20 3 0 2 8 17 56 Pete Dawkins Rhodes Scholar Swarthmore, Pa.-ATD- Pete ' Dawkins, one of Army'g most ' outstanding . cadets, had an other honor to add to his huge list today-that of a Rhodes scholar. - ; , ' The 20-year-old West Point-: er, who has . distinguished -himself as an athlete, cadet ; officer, class president, musi-; cian and vocalist, was one of 32 top collegiate young men selected Sunday . as Rhodes scholarship winners. The scholarship calls for two years of study at Oxford : university in England in the" field of the recipient's choice. Indians Tip GP Quintet Grants Pass-A field goal and two free shots in the last 19 seconds gave. Roseburg high a 36 to 33 basketball nod over Grants Pass on Saturday night. Grants Pass led all the way until that time. Rod Hoenisch got the field bucket and' Bill Mundt the two gifters. Grants Pass led 23 to 15 at the half. LINE-UPS: 36 Roseburg Grants Pass 33 F 6 Frank Benner . 6 F 3 Flury Fox 5 C 5 Barrong .. Putnam 7 G 2 Baxter Haves 10 G 14 Steele Olson 5 Substitions: For Roseburg Hoen isch 4, Mundt 2, Peterson, Roberts; for Grants Pass Sabin, Burton, Janssen, Ericson, Lenart. DIVIDE TEAM MEMBERS Hazleton, Pa.-0!PD-The East tern Professional Basketball league has divided members of the defunct Rochester club among the remaining teams in the circuit. The Rochester franchise folded when back ers suffered financial losses. Go to Home Appliance Co. and buy your darling wife a G-E Garbage Disposal for Christmas It will cause her to love you more! 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