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MAIL TRIBUNE, MtdforJ, Oregon, Tuesdjy, Detmbf 23, 1951 Oregon Cal Plays United Pru International California'! cagen battle tough St. Louis tonight and it will take a Bear victory to regain some of the Pacific Coast Conference's sagging prestige. - . , Washington, Stanford and Southern California, all con- Marquette Trounces Xavier By 86-71 Before 7,100 Fans United Press International Eddie Hickey, that razzle- dazzle man from St. Louis, is making those sports-happy fans in Milwaukee as wild about basketball as they, are about their beloved Braves, A crowd of 7,100 howled with joy Monday night as the Marquette university team, which had just handed high ranked Xavier of Ohio its first loss of the season, 86-71, carried little Professor Hickey off the court on their shoul ders. For Hickey, who came to Marquette this season from St. Louis university where his famed fast break made that school one of the nation's greatest in basketball, is com piling an amazing first year in the Braves home town. Lost Only On i Mondav night's triumph, in which Marquette led all the way against last 6eason s "Cinderella" champions of the National Invitation tourna ment, was the eighth in nine starts for Hickey's squad, whose only loss was by a sin gle basket to Nebraska in the third game of the season. Xavier, ranked eighth na tionally with a nine-game winning streak, pulled up twice to within five points during the second half but each time the Warriors pulled away again. All five Mar quette starters scored in dou ble figures, led by Mike Mo ran with 26 points. Red-haired Hank Stein tallied 23 in a vain effort for Xavier. Big Ten basketball prestige which took a good battering in games played Saturday, rallied Monday night as Northwestern, Minnesota and Ohio State scored victories over invaders from the West. Wildcats Beat Washington Northwestern, ranked 10th nationally, pushed its record to 5-1 by chalking up a 75-69 victory over 1 8th - ranked Washington at Evanston, 111. Trailing with 12 minutes to go, the Wildcats rushed into a 10-point lead during the next KMED Reports Bowl Schedule Badio station has an nounced a list of four holiday football game broadcasts which it will carry. First will be the Blue-Gray tussle at 10:45 ajn. Saturday, Dec. 27. This will be follow ed by the East-West Shrine game at 1:45 a.m. on the same day. On Sunday, Dec. 28, the station will air the Baltimore New York play-off for the National Football' league crown. The Rose Bowl game will be broadcast at 1:45 p.m Thursday, Jan. I. Florida Gators Have Good Players, Both Big and Little in Heckman, Dunn (Editor's note: This is the sixth of 10 dispatches on the football teams playing in the post-season bowl games.) By JAMES C. WARTERS United Press International Gainesville, Fla.-OMl-Wheth-er a good big man is better than a good little man is purely academic. But it doesn't matter to the Florida Gators who play Mis sissippi in the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville, Fla., Dec. 27 -they've got both. The big man is Vel Heck man 232-pound tackle of Al lentown, Pa., a member of the United Press Internation al All-Southeastern Confer ence squad and picked to the UPI All-America second team. And the little man is Jimmy Dunn of Tampa, Fla., who at 142 pounds probably is the smallest starting Quarterback in the nation. Dunn didn't make any all-star squads, but Coach Woodruff says he's the best quarterback "pound for pound" in the country. Both men are seniors and both are counted on to carry the burden in the Gators sec ond appearance in the Gator Bowl. Week after week Heckman spearheaded the Florida line which gave up but 95 rush ing yards a game to such op ponents as national champion Louisiana State and unbeaten Edges Montana 70-69 St. Louis sidered good possibilities for the PCC crown, lost in a "Blue Monday" for the Coast loop. The Huskies loss was espec ially disheartening. The high rated Washington quintet had rebounded with five wins aft er two opening defeats, but four minutes, then stood off a late Washington rally as Joe Ruklick and Nick Mantis shared scoring honors with 18 points each. At Columbus, Ohio, Ohio State ripped off 53 points in the first half and romped to a 92-68 win over Utah, which shares the No. 18 national ranking with Washington. The first half spurt by the "Buckeyes, who went into the game with a 1-4 record, opened a 24-point margin and Utah never could close the gap as Dick Furry led Ohio State with 22 points. Minnesota, on the other hand, had to rally from a nine-point halftime deficit to beat Stanford, 72-61, at Min neapolis. Ron Johnson led the Gophers with 23 points. Colts Have Seat Sellout Baltimore, Md.-flJPD-Fans of the favored Baltimore Colts have gobbled up all 15,000 seats available to them for next Sunday's National Foot ball league championship game against the New York Giants in New York's Yankee stadium. The block of 15,000 seats sent here by the Giants was put on sale Monday morning. The sale was limited to season ticket holders and Colt offi cials planned that any tick ets which were left over would go on sale today for the general public. There were none left over- the season ticket holders took 'em all. The Colts have been in stalled a 3k point favorite to bring their rabid fans the league championship. They also have been rated 3-2 fa vorites in man-to-man "mon ey betting." Lohrke To Be Tri-City Pilot Portland - (DPD Jack Lohr ke, utility man with the Port land Beavers of the Pacific Coast league last summer, is scheduled to manage the Tri City team of the Northwest League next year, a Portland baseball team official said to day. Bill Brenner, assistant gen eral manager, also said the Tri-City club was negotiating with Tip Berg, Portland train er and traveling secretary, to become general manager of the class B club. Brenner indicated that Port land also would send player help to the Tri-City team. Paraguay's national flag has the coat of arms on one side, and a lion on the re verse. Auburn. And of Florida's six victories, Dunn was instru mental in four of them. The other two were routs. Woodruff has been high in praise of his "Mutt and Jeff' combination, calling Heckman "an Ail-American if there ever was one." And after Dunn raced 76 yards for the touchdown that gave Florida a 7-6 win over Georgia, Wood ruff said, "Thank goodness for Jimmy Dunn." Heckman would be a dream of any coach. He uses his weight with remarkable speed in slashing through opposing lines and carrying out his blocking assignments. And Dunn does everything well. His passing gave Florida a victory over Miami and kept the Gators from losing with a last-second touchdown pass that tied Vanderbilt 6-6. He's punted 64 times in three years and 20 of the punts went out of bounds inside the 15-yard line. But the Gators are not a two-man team by any means. In the backfield for instance, fullback Bob Milby and half back Don Deal, both sopho mores, developed into first stringers after less than three games. Both players have plenty of drive and speed. Milby had the best average on the squad with 5.4 yards per carry. Deal was instrumental in the Tu- Tonight dropped their third game on Monday to Northwestern, 75 69, at Evanston. Washington led with four minutes to go, but then Wild cat star Joe Ruklick found the range and that was that. John Pariseau had 17 for the losers while Bruno Boin scor ed 14. It has been Boin's in ability to hit predicted scoring heights that has especially hurt the Huskies. Troy Also Collapses USC pulled within one point of defense-minded Okla homa State with six minutes to go, but then the Oklahom ans' Al Hollingsworth hit six point in 42 seconds and the Aggies pulled to a 66-54 win. Jim Hanna scored 12 for USC. Paul Neuman scored 19 and played a flashy floor game, but it wasn't enough for Stan ford, which lost to Minnesota 72-61. Ron Johnson had 23 for the winners. Stanford led 34-25 at half-time, but faded. The PCC's lone win came as Oregon edged Montana 70- 69 in the opener of a two- game series. Denny Strick land tallied 19 for the Ducks. Tonight's Co-St. Louis game figures about even. The Bears, expected to go nowhere this year, have lost only one out of six and are ranked in a tie for tenth nationally with Northwestern. Key to the Bear success is 6-10 Darell Imhoff. That old magician, Bear coach Pete Newell, has somehow trans formed this gangling soph of last season into a high-scoring junior this year. Stanford faces Illinois to night while Kent State of Ohio battles Idaho in other intersectionals. Elsewhere last night, Brig ham Young defeated fading St. Mary's 72-67. The Gaels are feeling the absence of in jured star Tom Meschery. Two Wins, At Least In other tilts, the picture was brighter for the Coast. College of Pacific snapped a five game loss streak with a 76-63 win over Iona. Dave Klurman scored 27, and Gary Kaufman 24. Seattle cashed in on an am azing 25 of 34 shots in the second half to come from be hind and down Marshall 91- 80. Francis Saunders and Charlie Brown had 28 and 22 respectively. In other action, Idaho State and Fresno State continued mowing 'em down. Idaho St. walloped Arizona 71-51; Fres no trampled Montana State 86-59. Arizona State breezed past Loyola of Los Angeles, 79-46. Also on tab for tonight: COP at St. Peter's (N.Y.), Red- lands at Pepperdine, and North Dakota at Portland. PLAYER REPORTED OKAY Stillwater, Okla.-flJPD-Jerry Pimm, captain of University of Southern California basket ball team, was reported in good condition today follow ing an emergency appendec tomy operation. Pimm was taken to a hospital Monday after he was stricken- in the early morning hours. FOG POSTPONES GAME Nashville, Tenn. - (UPD - Fog and engine trouble postponed Monday night's scheduled bas ketball game between Van derbilt and Baylor. The Bears were stranded when their plane could not take off from ' Dallas, Tex. lane and UCLA triumphs with identical 67-yard touchdown scampers. Proud of Ends Besides Heckman, the ends are the pride of the Gator line. Captain Don Fleming and Dave Hudson - ranked among the top ends in the SEC and Junior Dan Edging- ton pushed both men for a starting berth all season. Tackle Dick Brantley and guards Asa Cox and Edwin Johns, all weighing about 200 pounds, round out the Florida forward wall. This; will mark Florida's second bowl game in 50 years, both in the Gator. The Gators stopped Tulsa 14-13 in the 1953 classic. With a 6-3-1 record as com pared to Mississippi's 8-2 mark, Florida is a one-touch down underdog. But Woodruff thinks his boys can win and predicts they'll do it with the long run. "We're going to open up against Ole Miss," says Wood ruff. "We're not going to pull any punches against a team such as the Rebels." We Give GREEN STAMPS CENTRAL REXALL DRUG Main and Central - - 9 MEI03DOTRIfiUNE Cincinnati Tops UPD Coaches FoDB (For Third Week New York-fllPD-The Cincin nati Bearcats, Kentucky Wild cats and Kansas State Wild cats remained on the top rungs today in the United Press International college basketball ratings but the other "cats" shifted positions. Cincinnati was No. 1 for the third straight week and Coach Adolph Rupp's Ken tucky team, unbeaten in eight starts, replaced Kansas State in second place. The 35 leading coaches who rate the teams weekly for UPI gave the first three teams all their first-place McLoughlin Pins Crater The McLoughlin Bulldogs took on the Comets of Cfater yesterday in a match of the freshmen and emerged in the winners column by a score of 34 to 13. This was the last match for the local team until after the vacation period. The next op ponent will be Ashland at the local kennel on Jan. 6, 1959. The time is 4 p.m. Results: 85 Kit Jepson (C) dec. Clay Var- ney (M) 12-2. 103 Gary Meade (C) pinned Mike Drink water (M). 112 Dave Guches (M) pinned Jar- ry Scarborough (C). 120 Sonny Leffler (M) pinned Dennis Fisher (C). 127 Dennis Dwyer (M) dee. Arlin White (C) 4-3. 133 Don Fisher (C) pinned Merl Guches (M). 138 Eric Koellner (M) pinned Ron McAvin (C). 149 Steve Ray i (M) dee. John Ciemmons (C) 5-0. 154 Jim Dexter (M) pinned Del mar Smith (C). 165 Danny Coghill (M) dee. Ken Mainwaring (C) 4-2. Unl. Gary Barber (C) dec. Carl Washburn (M) 2-0. Exhibition: 112 Dave White (C) dee. Ken Paschke (M) 7-0. 112 Tom Richardson (C) dec. Leon ard Walch (M) 7 0. 154 Gary Barber (C) dec. Carl Washburn (M) 2-0. Spahn Holds Most Marks New York - (UPD - Southpaw Warren Spahn of Milwaukee made such a monopoly of Na tional league pitching honors this year that he left practi cally no laurels for anyone else, the official averages re vealed today. The 37-year-old ace, who defeated the Yankees twice in the World Series and then was beaten himself in the sixth game, compiled a 22-11 record last season and set a major league record by be coming the first left-handed pitcher to win 20 or more games in nine different sea sons. About the only major honor he missed, was the earned run title which went to right hander Stu Miller of San Francisco. Miller fashioned a 2.47 ERA while winning six games and losing nine. HOWLOHCDlDrT TAKE TO EVOLVE Ttife 1 .The first track meet I the Qx-foi-d-Cambridge meet of 1864. Time firth mile that dai was 4.5$ made by Charles B. Lawes of Cambridge. TOP THIS! To any reader submitting contrary proof, Tip Brady will send a signed, wallet-sized diploma. Write to: BEAT THIS, co this paper, Box 575, Sausalito, Calif. Endow self-addressed, stamped envelope. a MtClar KmM tmm &Qe 1 IV I II 9 CHRISTMAS THROUGHOUT THE YEAR! Your son or daughter will enjoy a YMCA membership 12 full months of every year! Put a Y' card under the tree! $300 Only for one full year 522 W. 6th SP 2-6295 votes in ballots based on the games played through Satur day night, Dec. 20. Cincinnati received 25 first-place votes, Kentucky eight and Kansas State two. California Newcomer North Carolina, Auburn and California were the new comers in the first 10. North Carolina, the 1957 NCAA champion, advanced from 14th to fifth to make its first appearance of the campaign in the select group. North Carolina made its big jump after capturing the Blue Grass Festival tournament last week end with victories over Notre Dame and North western. Auburn advanced from 35th to ninth while Califor nia moved from 25th into a tie for 10th with Northwest ern. Auburn whipped Ala bama for its 16th straight vic tory and the Birmingham Classic title Saturday night. California defeated Iowa and Wisconsin in midwestern road games during the week end. Michigan State advanced from sixth to fourth. Then came North Carolina, North Carolina State and West Vir ginia. Xavier of Ohio remain ed eighth. Bradley headed the second 10 group. Texas Christian, Mississippi State, St. John's (N.Y.), Purdue, St. Bonaven ture, Washington, Utah, St. Joseph's (Pa.) and Indiana fol lowed in that order. Ducks Edge Grizzlies By 70-69 Eugene (UPD The Oregon Webfoots edged the Montana Grizzlies here Monday night, 70-69, in the opener of a two game non-conference basket ball series. Except for a 2-2 tie in the first minutes the Ducks led all the way. After a 35-29 halftime advantage Oregon built its lead to 13 points midway in the second half before the Grizzlies became aroused. With 33 seconds remaining, Montana's Marv Suttles put in a hook shot to narrow the Webfoot lead to one point, 68-67. With seven seconds left Oregon's Bud Kuykendall was fouled by Grizzly guard Mike Allen and both free throws were good, making the score 70-67 for Oregon. Suttles made a jump shot with three seconds remaining to end the scoring. Denny Strickland paced Oregon with 19 points. Kuy kendall had 13. For Montana, Guard Dan Balko was high with 21 points. Oregon collected 32 re bounds versus Montana's 19. The Ducks shot .378 from the floor and Montana .322. The teams play here again tonight. The Box: Oregon 70 Herron Strickland . Robertson . Kuykendall Rask Kimpton Anderson o r p' t 3 6-8 3 12 6 7-10 3 19 4 0-2 18 4 5-5 2 13 4 4-5 3 12 10-0 2 2 12-2 0 4 Totals Montana tt Screnar Dunham Suttles 23 24-32 14 70 G . 1 F 0- 0 1- 2 1-4 9-10 1-1 1-2 0-0 0-0 0 - 6 Balko -. S Ignatowicz 6 Shelby ... 5 Roberts 4 Allen 0 Totals 28 13-19 21 9 Halftime score: Oregon 35, Mon tana 29. BASKETBALL East Connecticut 76, Georgetown 68 . Seattle 91. Marshall 80 Coll. of the Pacific 76, Iona 63 South Georgia Tech 110, Wyoming 78 Memphis St. 96, Toronto 52 Midwest Ohio State 92. Utah 69 Detroit 101, Delaware 71 Northwestern 75. Washington 69 Marquette 86, Xavier (Ohio) 71 Minnesota 72, Stanford 61 Southwest Oklahoma 57, New Mex." A&M 52 Okla. St. 66, Southern Cal. 54 Rice 81, New Mexico 69 Tex. Western 75, Missouri 71 West Brig. Young 72, St. Mary (Calif.) 67 Fresno St. 86, Montatna St. 59 Idaho St. 71. Arizona 51 Oregon 70, Montana 69 YMCA Iowa Big Favorite To Win Rose Bowl Pasadena, Calif. -(UPD-Among the men who believe they know football best, the sports writers and broadcasters cov ering the sport, Iowa today was an overwhelming favor ite to defeat California in the Rose Bowl. The press and broadcasting delegation was polled Monday at the Rose Bowl luncheon of the Southern California Football- Writers' association and voted 70-7 that Iowa would be the winner. Those picking the Hawk eyes said they would win by an average of 16V4 points. The seven brave souls picking Cal ifornia felt the Bears would win by five points. Iowa Needs Practice Coach Forest Evashevski, Iowa coach, said his team showed it needed practice by fumbling five times during Monday's workout and demon West Hoopsters Involved In Feast of Conflicts United Press International 1 Basketball fans will have a feast of games this week de spite the Christmas holidays, although some West Coast squads will be away from home during the early part of the week. Christmas Eve and Christ mas night will find all the teams idle, but outside of that there will be plenty of action as teams wind up intersection als before the opening of con ference campaigns. The California Bears, who put a double crimp in Big Ten prestige by walloping Iowa and Wisconsin, finish off their eastern jaunt against St. Louis Tuesday night. They'll return to Berkeley Christmas Eve in plenty of time for their game against Arizona Satur day at home. Washington at Northwestern Washington, which defeated the same Big Ten teams, takes on Northwestern tonight and then returns home to host Minnesota Saturday night. Stanford, which downed University of San Francisco 53-45 'Saturday, left early Sunday to play Minnesota to night and Illinois Tuesday. The Indians will return home for a game with Arizona Fri day and the San Francisco Olympic Club on Saturday. Oregon's Ducks take on Montana tonight and Tuesday, then leave for the All-College tournament in Oklahoma City. They'll play their first game with unbeaten Xavier of Ohio which conquered Seattle 80-68 Friday night. Another tournament entry is USF, which will meet the host Indians Friday. The Dons have won the tournament two years in a row. . Trojans Busy Oregon State meets the Air Force Academy and Iowa plays Wyoming in the Fit West Classic Saturday night in Corvallis. The winners play Monday. Southern California, whose five-game win streak was shattered on the road by Okla homa and Wichita, plays Ok lahoma State tonight, -then returns for a game with Den ver Friday in Los Angeles. The Trojans meet Santa Clara on Saturday. UCLA, which took a pair from Colorado last week end, meets Santa Clara Friday and Denver on Saturday. The St. Mary's Gaels play Brigham Young tonight, then move to Evansville, Ind., for December 26 and A MWium tin MMm rfIkiiineGiHKi.eI strating its timing was off badly." But he said his goal was to have the squad reach its peak towards the end of next week. Evashevski added,'we have every respect for the coaches and players of California and we are by no means taking them lightly." California's spokesman was athletic director Greg Engle hard who said Iowa probably deserved to be favored by the prevailing odds of 19 points but that California was not frightened. "The California team is a dedicated group that is com ing down here for one pur pose to win the game," he said. "In Joe Jfapp we feel we have a trmy great quarter back and he has a bunch of inspired players who feel their mission in life is to spring him into the open." a. tournament. Their first foe will be Tennessee Tech. The Gaels will be minus the services of Tom Meschery, their brilliant 6 foot 5 sopho more, who suffered a hemor rhaged Charlie horse as a re sult of a midweek game with Redlands. He will be sent home from Salt Lake City, where he was hospitalized. College of Pacific, which has lost five in a row on its current eastern swing, meets Iona, N. Y., tonight and St Peter's, N. J., Tuesday. Idaho takes on Kent State Tuesday and Utah State Saturday Pettit Out To Cut Jinx New York -(DPD -St. Louis point-maker Bob Pettit is out to break a jinx that has seen all Christmas day leaders since 1954 fail in their at tempts to annex the National Basketball association scoring championship. Pettit, with 768 points and a top average of 28.4 points per game, will carry an 88 marker advantage over Phila delphia s Paul Arizin when league play resumes Christ mas night. Rookie Elgin Bay lor of Minneapolis is third with 670, followed by defend ing champion George Yardley of Detroit with 654. Presbyterians Win Overtime Church Tussle First Presbyterian needed an overtime Saturday night to defeat First Christian 40 to 38 a YMCA men's church league basketball game at the Y. Firts Methodist tipped First Nazarene 31 to 27 and East wood Baptist was winner by forfeit from Phoenix Presby terian. Bill Russel of the Christian church and Patton of First Presbyterian each had 14 points. Colley had 13 points for Methodist and Johnson 10 for Nazarene. Los Angeles -(UPD- The Air Force academy wants to hold an annual alternating football game against the Army and Navy here starting in 1960, it was learned today. Bedford .ftefail ILuiirinibeir Dealers Won ..-.'.and We Extend to One and All Florey Among Club Directors Central Point Chauncey Florey is among members of the Central Point Sportsmen's club who were elected last week to serve on the board of directors. His name was in advertently omitted from the list released for publication. D'Amato Considers Title Bout New York-flJPD-Cus D'Ama- to, manager of Heavyweight champion Floyd Patterson, disclosed today that one of the offers he is considering for a title fight, "involves far more than $400,000." He declined to amplify that statement, explaining he had made it merely to correct the impression that Patterson's best offer for a 1959 defense was the $400,000 guarantee from Cuban group headed by George Raft. "However, D'Amato admit ted, "Yes, I'm still giving the Cuban guarantee serious con sideration, for Floyd will have more than one title fight next year." He said a representative of the Cuban group planned to come to New York next week with a certified check for $400,000 "just to show that they have the money and are acting in good faith." SELECTED TOP ATHLETE Havana OJPD Heavyweight contender Nino Valdes has been selected Cuba's top ath lete of the year by Cuban sports writers. Valdes, with six straight victories, vaulted into the title picture with a first round kayo of Pat Mc Murtry Friday night. Out Front for te Holidays Your Key to gracious LIVING and gracious GIVING ... memorable OldFitzgehmd . 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