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B re nr. an Given Pink Slip by Notre Dame; Kuharich Gets Job South Bend. Ind.-aPD-Joe Kuharich, head coach of the Washington Redskins of the National Football league and former Notre Dame guard, today was named football coach at Noire, Dame, succeeding Terry Brennan. Kuharich's appointment was announced by the Rev. Edmund P. Joyce, Notre Dame executive vice presi dent and chairman of the faculty board in control of athletics. Father Joyce said that Kuharich has been given a four-year contract. Since 1954, Kuharich has been coach of the Washing ton Redskins. The new Notre Dame mentor, who is a native of South Bend, actually began his coaching career at Notre Dame in 1938, the year of his graduation, when he served as an assistant fresh man coach while taking graduate studies. South Bend, Ind. - (UPD - Natre Dame's Terry Brennan a major college football coach at 25 and Coach of the Year at 27 was out of a job at 30 today. Notre Dame announced Brennan's firing Sunday night. . Brennan first received his pink slip in a just-before- Christmas meeting of the uni versity's faculty board in con trol of athletics. He said the board called him in "a couple of days ago" and told him he was through. "I had no indication this was going to happen," Bren nan said. "All they said was they were going to change the coaches. They didn't say they werent satisfied and there wasn't any discussion." Glendale Mat Victor Eagle Point-Glendale high .defeated Eagle Point wres tiers 38 to 17 on Saturday. The Pirates won eight of the 12 matches and drew in another. Eagle Point headed 15 to 10 after five matches and 15 all midway through the card. Turning point came in the sixth bout when Ben Nork of the Eagles severely sprained a wrist and had to default to Stanfill of the Glendala team. Nork was leading 1 to 0 at the time. The Eagles had a 13 to 8 edge in exhibition bouts.- 95 Dale Vaughn. Hurst. G. third round. 103 Dick Hertaeer. pinned E. pinned ' Stewart. G. first round. 112 Watson. G. pinned Terrell Cowdwn. E. first round. 120 Dan Densley. G, pinned Tom jviuse, iirst round. 127 Dave Shepherd. E. pinned Gale Austin. G, second round. 133 Stanfill. G. won by default from Ben Nork. E. 138 Ray Moore, E. drew with Jim Berry. G, 3-3. 145 Miller. G. decisioned Sid Jackson. 9-6. 154 Mosely. G. pinned Fred Jos ey. second round. 163 Sturges. G. pinned Bill Pfeifer. E. first round. 175 Lynn Troxel. G. decisioned Dale Casey, E. 10-7. Heavyweight Jim Mohr, G. pin ned Delbert Simmons, second round. Eagle Point Exhibition winners Ed Kenworthy, Dennis Loper, Jim Vanderlip. , Open Tonight & Tuesday 'til 9 p.n .THE GIFT OF THOUGHTFULNESS Here's a new, novel way to give a gift he really wants a gay miniature hat box . . . hanging brightly on the Christmas tree! The tiny hat and certificate inside will be the tip-off that a Stetson Hat awaits him. He chooses from our vast selection of styles and colors. From $10.95. FREE GIFT WRAPPING Park Free While Shopping Here In the Lot Behind Our Store! Robinson Bros. THE BUDS FOR CHRISTMAS DUDS Next to Pick's Apparel Medferd Year to Year Brennan, who took over the Notre Dame football helm when Frank Leahy retired in 1954, had been working on a year-to-year basis since 1957. In five seasons with the Irish, his alma mater, he won 32 and lost 18. Notre Dame President Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh said he accepted the board's de cision to fire Brennan "with great reluctance." In a letter to Brennan, Hes burgh said: "As you know from our conversation of Dec. 16, the faculty board in con trol of athletics has recom mended to me that a change be made . . ." Issues Statement Brennan's only official an swer was a 90-word statement saying it was "an honor" to have coached the Irish and expressing "appreciation" to "alumni and friends for their help." "If they want to change things, that's their right," he said later. Speculation i m m e diately began that Brennan, a native of Milwaukee, might fill the football vacancy at Marquette university. This was spiked, however, by Marquette of ficials who said they didn't even know Brennan had been fired. Brennan's team won six and lost four this season, losing to Army, Purdue, Iowa and Pittsburgh, while defeating Indiana, Navy, Southern Cali fornia, Duke and Southern Methodist. Harry Wills Victim of Diabetes New York-IUPD-Harry Wills, the famed "Black Panther" who tried vainly for six frus trating years to get a crack at Jack Dempsey's world heavyweight title, died Sun day night as perhaps the most famous "uncrowned cham pion in the history of box ing. Wills, 68, died in Jewish Memorial hospital, where he was admitted Dec. 8 with an acute case of appendicitis. A hospital spokesman said Wills died of diabetes. Wills' body was laid out in the Walter B. Cooke funeral parlor at 72nd st. in New York City. A strappiing 6-foot, 2-inch, 220-pound giant in his prime, Wills is remembered in box ing history as the man the great Dempsey should have fought-but never did. For six years, from 1920 to 1926, Wills hounded Dempsey for a chance at the title but cir cumstances always prevented the match. Dempsey himself was will ing to meet Wills but Tex Richard, the great promoter, and Dempsey's handlers fear ed a "mixed match" for the heavyweight title in view of the unfavorable public reac tion to the reign of Jack Johnson as heavyweight champion. Give him a STETSON Christmas Gift Certificate Shrine Grid Stars Open Practices San Francisco-TCPD-The East and West Shrine football teams today buckled down to a week of hard work in pre paration for the 33rd version of the annual football classic in Kezar Stadium next Satur day. The 48 players-top grid ders from the 48 states-arrived Sunday and lost no time in getting started under East Coach Duffy Daugherty of Michigan State and West Coast Jack Curtis of Stanford. After the traditional visit to the Shrine Crippled Chil dren's Hospital the East squad held limbering up drills and the West team a skull session. The teams performed most ly for photographers this morning but were to start heavy work this afternoon aft er the Shrine luncheon in San Mateo. The East team is camp ed at Santa Clara university and the West squad at Cur tice's home base of Stanford. East Ground Game The East team is expected to concentrate on a ground game, with such running backs as Nick Pietrosante of Notre Dame, Wray Carlton of Duke, and Don Clark of Ohio State. Daugherty is assisted by Milt Bruhn of Wisconsin and John Michelosen of Pitt. Curtice, assisted by Len Casanova of Oregon and Bill Meek of Southern Methodist, may bank on an aerial of fense to defeat the Eastern ers. He has Washington State's Bobby Newman and Utah's Lee Grosscup, two of the na tion's most dangerous passers, among his backs. SE Suspension Follows Earlier OSAA Warning Portland (UPD Suspension of South Eugene High school from the Oregon School Ac tivities association on Satur day was the first such action in eight years against a large school by the group's board of control. The OSAA removed South Eugene from all interschool competition in sports and oth er activities. Suspension could remain in effect for ne year but will be reviewed by the board on Jan. 15. Board decision resulted from a protest by Albany su perintendent of schools John Cox. The protest stemmed from the painting of an Al bany school bus with obscene language last Tuesday. Corvallis in 1950 Last OSSA suspension of an A-l school was ruled against Corvallis in 1950 when Albany was victim of a painting incident. In November the OSAA had issued a warning to South n-ugene in regard to "un sportsmanlike conduct" of some of its students during the 1958 football season. Dean Mickelwaxt, principal qf South Eugene, said he had warned students earlier about the possibility of a loss of privileges if further incidents occurred. Larry Hirons, South Eu gene student body president, said he "felt very bad" about the suspension but added he believed the shock of the ban would bring an improvement in conduct of the guilty stu dents and that South Eugene would "soon be back in the association's good graces." Landry Praised For Defensive Preparations New York-ttJPD-Texas Tom Landry really did the job up brown and all that the tri umphant New York Giants asked today was that he do an encore against the Balti more Colts next week. From Head Coach Jim Lee Howell on down to the water boy, the Giants all credited Sunday's 10-0 playoff victory over the Cleveland Browns to Landry, a tall silent technical minded ex-halfback who now serves as New York's defen sive coach. "I've never seen a team play a better defensive," How ell said, "and Tom Landry was the key to the whole thing." Some of the collective farms in Russia, stressing large-scale machine farming, cover 45,000 acres. Go to Home Appliance Co. and buy your adorable wife a G-'E Mobil Maid Dishwasher for Christmas. Med SIPdDIffiTrS OSC Beavers Nudge Indiana Hoopsters Corvallis - (LTD - Oregon State's Beavers grabbed a 73 69 intersectional basketball victory from the Indiana Saturday night with four free throws in the final 10 seconds to even a two-game series be tween the two squads. The Beavers were behind 28-24 at halftime and trailed most of the second half be fore they tied it at 63-63 with four minutes and 15 seconds remaining. The lead changed hands five times after that and with 18 seconds left the score was knotted at 69-all. Then Roy Critser was fouled by Indi ana's Gene Flowers, and Crit ser made the free throw. With five seconds left a technical oul was called on Indiana coach Branch McCracken and Critser hit the- free shot to make the score 71-69. Hoosier guard Allen Sch legelmilch fouled OSC's Jim Woodland with two seconds remaining and Woodland sunk Sport Parade New York-flJPD-Just in time for Christmas, Fraley's hoop follies-and how the big round ball games ought to turn out this week. MONDAY Brigham Young over St. Marys-On the Kansas State impetus. Northwestern over Wash ington-Husky but they have not jelled. TUESDAY St. Louis over California Bob Ferry gets 'em over this river. FRIDAY Notre Dame over Indiana With the moonlight on - the Wabash. Holiday Festival St. Joe's over Syracuse- And probably all the way. -St. John's over Holy Cross -The tournament darkhorse. Utah over Cornell-Big Red gets the big blues. Dayton over Niagara- They've got a case, first name Frank. Southwest Conference TCU over BaylorvBest bet to win it all. SMU over Arkansas-A toss up. Rice over Texas-Tom Rob itaille is the difference. Texas Aggies over Texas Tech-Betting on Neil Swish er. All-College Tournament Bowling Green over Wichi- BASKETBALL (United Presi International) St. Bonaventure 69, Duquesne 56 South (Kentucky Invitational) Final Kentucky 97, West Virginia 91 (Blue Grass Tournament) Final N. Carolina 78, Northwestern 64 (Birmingham Classic) Final Auburn 79. Alabama 60 Consolation Texas A&M 74, Wyoming 64 (Citadel Invitational)"" Final Citadel 93, Miami (Fie.) 77 Marquette 70, Creighton 49 Cincinnati 57. St. Louis SO Dayton 69, Eastern Kentucky 68 North Carolina St. 66, Kansas 63 Tulsa 84, Hardin-Simmons 78 . New Mexico 79, Santa Barbara 73 Oregon St. 73, Indiana 69 UCLA 58. Colorado 54 Brig. Young 75, Santa Clara 65 Pepperdine 66, Whittier 50 Idaho St. 86. Arizona 58 Willamette 72. Cal Aggies 51 -Pacific 57. Puget Sound 55 Western Wash. 75, Linfield 70 Lewis and Clark 79, OCE 56 Westminster 73, EOC 68 Corvallis-flJPD-Lester Need- ham, athletic trainer for the University of Wichita has suf fered another apparent stroke and is in critical condition, his physician said today. Needham, 50, was first strick en Dec. 13 during an Oregon State .Wichita basketball game. Needham earlier had shown some improvement but apparently suffered another stroke Friday night, the doc tor said. UNI both free throws to end the game. Woodland took high scor ing honors with 17 points Steve Flynn of Oregon State had 16. Flowers was high for Indinana with 16 points, all of them scored in the second half. Tall Indiana center Walt Bellamy had eight. BOX: Indiana FG Butte 1 Radovich .... . 4 Bellamy 2 Lee 4 Wilkinson 1 Witte 0 Horn 2 Schlegelmilch .. 2 Long 0 Flowers ........ 6 Totals 22 FT PF TP 1- 1 0 3 6-8 0 14 4-4 4 8 2- 2 2 10 0-3 3 2 0-0 1 0 6-7 2 10 2- 2 3 6 0- 0 0 0 4- 7 5 16 25-31 20 69 FT PF TP 3- 4 .3 .17 2-4 2 16 1- 3 3 3 2- 4 5 12 1-2 1 5 1-3 3 5 0-0 0 0 0-0 1 0 5- 8 2 9 0-0 0 2 0-0 0 4 1S-2S 20 73 Oregon Stat FG Woodland 7 Flynn .. 7 Goble 1 Harman 5 J. Anderson .... 2 K. Anderson 2 Crltchfield 0 R. Johnson O Critser . 2 Copple 1 E. Johnson . 2 Totals 29 By OSCAR FRALEY Sports Writer United Prase ta-Big and deep. Xavier over Oregon -The tournament choice. Duquesne over Tulsa-Wil-lie Joe Hunter shoots 'em down. Oklahoma City over San Francisco-They're at home. Big Eight Tournament Kansas State over Missouri -The ultimate winner. Iowa State over Oklahoma -This ain't football. SATURDAY Northwestern over West Virginia-One of the big five. Notre Dame over Purdue Picking the home five. Tennessee over Virginia The upsetters get upset. Queen City Tournament Dartmouth over Brigham Young - The all-veteran Ivy league champions could take it all. Seton Hall over Canisius The Hall's best team since the days of Walter Duke. Far West Classic Oregon State over Air Force Academy-You can't get a seven-footer into a jet fighter. Wyoming over Iowa-Tony Windis takes the breeze out of 'em. Big Eight Tournament Kansas over Colorado-A vote for the home team. Oklahoma State over Ne-braska-Six-eight Arlen Clark pours in enough points to win and the defense takes over from there. HFC makes loans for shopping expenses At Household Finance you may borrow money to take care of the extra expenses of the season or for any other good reason. You will find HFC's service is prompt, efficient and under standing. The HFC manager is a specialist in making loans up to $1500 and in helping you select the repayment terms that will be most conven ient for you. 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At that, the 32-year-old Ash burn had to finish with a rush to gain the title over Willie Mays of the Giants, who was runnerup with a .347 average. North Carolina, Kentucky Win Hoop Tourney Togas By MILTON RICHMAN United Press International North Carolina, Kentucky and Auburn already have claimed college basketball's first three major tournament crowns and just so no one will feel left out for Christmas, seven more big titles are be ing made available this week Five major tournaments start Friday and two more get under way Saturday in a sud den boom of court activity that promises to affect the national rankings and keep basketball fans buzzing from coast to coast. Sophomore York Larese, a Tar Heel from the the side walks of New York, helped North Carolina capture the Blue Grass Festival tourna ment title. Larese notched 16 points in an 81 - 77 victory over Notre Dame on Friday night, then' netted 24 points in a 78-64 triumph over North western Saturday that won the crown for the Tar Heels. Kentucky won its own in vitational tournament by de feating West Virginia, 97-91. The Wildcats thus avenged a loss to the Mountaineers in the finals of the same tourney last year. Jerry West of West Virginia set a new tournament record with 36 points. Sid Cohen, a Brooklynite, led Kentucky with 19 points. The Wildcats thus extended their winning streak to 13 games dating back to last season. Wins Own Tourney The Citadel won its own invitational tournament with a 93-77 triumph over Miami (Fla ). Dick Wherry paced the winners with 23 points. Top - ranked Cincinnati which enjoys a week off and then participates in the Dixie Classic next Monday, con tinued unbeaten with a 57-50 win over St. Louis. Oscar Rob ertson was limited to nine points in the first half, but then notched 18 more in the Co MONTHLY PAYMENT PLANS , 24 20 12 6 psymtt paymts pajmb pymtt $100 5.90 S 6.72 S10.05 $18.46 200 11.81 13.44 20.09 36.92 300 17.71 20.16 30.14 55.38 500 28.86 32J97 49.64 9L66 1000 53.89 62.21 95.64 179.56 1500 I 77.87 9a38 1140.57 P66.36 i chant u the monthly raU of 3 am of a balance not exectdini 1300. 2 on of a Mau in txcat of fJOO but m tiOO. and 1 on amy rtmaindtr. Mays scored the most runs in the circuit, 121, and led in stolen bases for the third successive year with a total of 31. Ernie Banks of the Cubs, named the league's Most Valu able Player, was off by him self in the power department. He was high man with 129 runs batted in; 47 homers; and 379 total bases. Frank Thomas of the Pi rates, with 109 RBI's was the only other NL player to drive in 100 or more runs. Harry Anderson of the Phils totaled 97; Mays and rookie Orlando Cepeda of the Giants, 96 apiece, and Hank Aaron of the Braves, 95. . Stan Musial of the Cardi nals, the 1957 batting champ, finished third to Ashburn and Mays this year with a .337 average. Aaron was fourth with .326; Skinner of the Pirates with .231 and Banks sixth with .313. second half to pace the Bear cats to their triumph. Fourth-ranked North Caro lina cut down Kansas, 66-63, and fifth-ranked Michigan State rolled to an 80-55 vic tory over Nebraskaxin a final tune-up for the Dixie classic tournament. Sophomore Davy Miller, who hadn't scored a point pre viously, netted seven points in an overtime period to lead Oklahoma State to a 63-59 win over Ohio State in the conso lation game of the Kentucky Invitational tournament, while Natre Dame ended a four-game losing streak by beating Louisville, 61-53, in the consolation game of the Blue Grass Festival. 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Bruins Trip Phoenix HS Brookings - Brookings high broke away in the late second quarter to take command and went on to down the Phoenix cagers 36 to 24 here on Satur day night. It was a slow, ragged game with both clubs cold in field shooting. The Bruins of Brook ings averaged just 28 per cent from the field and the Pirates were even colder at 17 per cent. BUI Workinger of Brook ings was the game's main scorer with 13 markers. Quar ter margins were 7 to 4, 20 to 11 and 30 to 19 all for Brook ings. LIVE-UPS: 36 Brookings Phoenix 24 F 5 Hansen MacKintosb 5 F 13 Workinger Dillree 2 C 1 Breimm Baker G 7 Anderson Reese 4 G 4 Midwood McClurg 2 Substitutions For Brookings, Morris 1. Turpin 4, Hahn AlberUon. Booth, Raymond 1; for Phoenix, Consbruck 7, Barlow 2, Caster 2, Blessing, Floyd. OUTSTANDING LINEMAN Philadelphia-(DPD-John Gu zik, AU-American guard from the University of Pittsburgh has been named 1958's out standing collegiate lineman by the Philadelphia Sports writers association. 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