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MAIL TRIBUNE, Medfori, Oraaoa, fMy, Dacemhw 26, 1958 Three Holiday &M Games To Be YeflevSsed Nationally . United Press International . College football's annual post-season holiday compete tion gets into full swing Sat urday with four games, three of which will be televised nationally for armchair quar terbacks. Saturday's features are the Gator Bowl game at Jackson ville, Fla.; the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery, Ala.; IHIoSoday Tourneys To Start Tonight United Press International College basketball's annual "madness" - the holiday tour naments starts to unwind tonight on five fronts. Opening round games are scheduled in the Holiday Fev tival at New York, the South- Sugar Hart Confident For Bout ' Miami Beach-UPD-Knockout puncher Garnet (Sugar) Hart of Philadelphia is confident he will upset the odds in a : 10-round television fight against veteran welterweight Ralph Dupas tonight at the Miami Beach Auditorium. . If he "shows up big," Hart said he will demand a shot at Don Jordan's 147-pound title. . Strangely, Hart is rated a notch above the New Orleans battler in the welterweight di vision, but Dupas is the 7-5 fa vorite for the clash, which is the only nationally televised bout of Christmas week on NBC at 10 pjn., e.s.t. Hart was ranked No. 2 among the welters by Ring Magazine and No. 3 by the National Boxing Association. Dupas drew third rating from Ring and fourth from x the NBA. But experts gave Dupas the edge tonight on experience and boxing skill. OSC Meets Air Force l Corvallis-(OPD-Oregon State e meets Air Force and Iowa .'tangles with Wyoming Satur day night in the first round of -the annual Far West basket ball classic here. The two winners meet Mon day night for the title with the losers playing a consola tion game. Oregon State has won the last two classics and the Bea vers, off their showing against Indiana last weekend, are con sidered the favorites again. The Air Force has a speedy team headed by former Walla Walla prep star Bob Bechtel, while both Iowa and Wyoming are tall quintets. Dave Gunther, Iowa for ward, is considered one of the top stars in the Big 10 while Tony Windis of Wyoming is the leading scorer in the Rocky mountains so far. Four prep teams also will take part in the classic this year, playing afternoon games. On Saturday at 2 pan Roseburg meets Beaverton and at 3:45 pjn. North Salem plays Marshfield. doesn't stop us! TRU-MIH Concrete Is HEATED To Produce Summer Pouring Conditions All Winterl 1 Delivered SP 2-5271 the East-West Shrine game at San Francisco, and the North South night contest at Miami, Fla. All except the Miami game will be carried on na tional TV and radio networks. Mississippi 8-2 will meet Florida 6-3-1 in the Gator Bowl before about 40,000 and a national CBS television au dience at 2 p.m. (EST). The Blue-Gray game before a ca- west conference tournament at Houston, Tex., the Big Eight conference tournament at Kansas City, the All-College tournament at Oklahoma City, and the Evansville Invi tation tournament at Evans ville, Ind. The other jamborees get un derway Saturday night. They are the Queen City tourna ment at Buffalo, N. Y., and the Far West classic at Cor vallis, Ore. The Holiday Festival actu ally opened with an afternoon double-header - Cornell vs. Utah and St. Joseph's vs. Sy racuse at Madison Square Garden. The first round will be completed tonight when Dayton plays Niagara in a "meetin' of the unbeaten" and St. John's meets Holy Cross. First Round Pairings Here are the first round pairings for the other tourna ments: Southwest Confer ence - Texas Christian vs. Baylor, Southern Methodist vs. Ark ansas, Texas vs. Rice, Texas A&M vs. Texas Tech. All-College-Bowling Green vs. Wichita, Tulsa vs. Du- quesne, Xavier, Ohio vs. Ore gon, San Francisco vs. Okla homa City. Big Eight Conference-Kan sas State vs. Missouri, Okla homa vs. Iowa State. Evansville Invitation - Ten nessee Tech vs. St. Mary s (Calif.), Washington, Mo.' vs. Evansville. v. St. Joseph's, led by 6-foot- 1 Bobby Clark, and Dayton, the runnerup in last season's National Invitation tourna ment, are the co-favorites for the Holiday Festival. Never Won a Tourney Dayton never has won a tournament at Madison Square Garden but could go all the way this time if it can get by Niagara tonight. However, strong support also is expect ed for St. John's, which has lost only one of its first six games and considers the Gar den its home court. Texas Christian is favored to win the Southwest confer ence shindig for the second straight year; Kansas State, the nation's third - ranked team, is the pick in the Big Eight tournament, Xavier looms as the team to beat in the All-College show, and Tennessee Tech should pre vail in the Evansville invita tion. In addition to the tourna ment action, there are several other major games on to night's schedule as the col legians swing back into action after a two-day holiday re spite. Notre Dame plays In diana, Butler hosts Purdue, Denver visits Southern Cali fornia, and UCLA entertains Santa Clara. COrXRETEC? 248 E. McANDREWS RD. pacity crowd of 25,000 at 2 p.m. (EST), and the East-West clash before a capacity crowd of 60,000 at 4:45 pjn. (EST), will be NBC-TV-radio fea tures. The North-South game at Miami, which figures to draw a crowd of 40,000, will be a radio feature of the Mu tual Broadcasting System. Thus the four games figure to draw 165,000 fans in addi tion to large TV-radio audi ences. Predicts High Scores Mississippi, which depends mainly on its passing game, arrived in Jacksonville on Christmas day and held a light workout. Florida, which arrived at Ponte Vedra beach near Jacksonville Monday, also held a light workout Florida made its reputation this year on defense but most observers look for a high-scoring; wide-open Gator Bowl game. Coach Johnny Vaught's Mississippi team, led by Quar terback Bobby Franklin, half backs Jim Woodruff and Kent Loveland and fullback Char ley Flowers, led the South eastern conference in rushing yardage this year. Franklin, equally adept at running or passing, scored six touch touchdowns and completed 56 of 121 throws for 10 touch downs. He may have some fun Sat urday because pass defense was Florida's big weakness this year. Florida has a tiny but capable passer in Jimmy Dunn, a 142-pound quarter back. . West Suffers Blow' The West suffered a serious blow for its clash with the East in the Shrine game at San Francisco when it lost Buddy Dial. Dial, a star end from Rice, sprained an ankle Wednesday and it was learned Thursday that he definitely will not play. Bill Steiger, who played both end and in the backfield for Washington State this year, may have to play at both spots at various times Saturday because of the loss of Dial. Lee Grosscup of Utah will start at quarterback for the West while Bob Ptacek of Michigan probably will be the starting signal-caller for the East. Dick Longfellow, West Vir ginia quarterback who ranked sixth among the nation's pass ers this year, will lead a fa vored North team against the South in the 21st Blue-Gray game. Jim Wood of Oklahoma State and . Gene O'Pella of Villanova are expected to be Longfellow's favorite targets. Bill Austin of Rutgers, the North's key runner, is hamp ered by a torn leg ligament. Share Quarterback Chores Billy Holsclaw of Virginia Tech, a quarterback who ranked sixth in the country in total offense this year, and. halfback . Bobby Cravens of Kentucky appear to be the South's key offensive perform ers. Holsclaw is expected to throw most of his passes to Sonny Randle of Virginia and Doug Padgett of Duke. Bill Kaliden of Pittsburgh and Al Jacks of Penn State will share the quarterback chores for the North in the Saturday night game at Miami while the South's signal-caller will be Buddy Humphrey of Baylor. Buddy led the major college passers this season. The Miami contest will be played under professional rules. The teams will use un limited substitutions. The team that is behind also may elect to receive kickoff s at any time. The nation's first school of journalism was established at the University of Missouri in 1908. WHAT ASJS.THE HIGHEST ODDS IN W2A.WINS OMR The odde against drawing ont card to fill a four-card etrfliaWb flush, both ends open, . ere 34 to. 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. Enclose self-addressed, stamped envelope. ' 1 JJw i 4m r Iff "i: OPTICAL ILLUSION-Jerry Anderson, left, Black Tornado forward, is not really seven feet tall, as he appears standing next to Coach Frank Roelandt in the picture above, but that much extra height probably would come in handy when Medf ord meets a scrap py Corvallis quintet at Hedrick gym this Friday and Saturday nights. Anderson is Starting Lineups Listed For Medford and Corvallis Most of Medford's tall tim ber basketball boys will see action starting at 8:15 o'clock tonight in Hedrick Junior High school against a report edly tough Corvallis squad. John Harvey has been named to start in Lowell Dean's slot in the first game of the two-game series here tonight and tomorrow night. Dean is out with a . strained back. Harvey, however, is 5 feet, 10 inches tall compared to Dean who is't about 6 feet, 3 inches tall. This could tell Bill Russell Sparks Celts To Victory United Press International Bill Russell buttoned up a green-checked vest after a col lege game at Madison Square Garden several years ago and said he hoped to become the world's finest basketball play er. . ' : An all-time National Basket ball association throng of 18,- 386 jammed the Garden Christmas night and many of them would say Bill is getting mighty close to his goal. The former University of San Francisco star and Bill Shar man sparked a - second-half rally that gave the Boston Celtics a 129-120 victory over the New York Knickerbock ers. , Russell, whose defensive ability has revolutionized pro fessional basketball tactics, led the Boston attack with 32 points. He also grabbed 33 re bounds in a brilliant exhibi tion of all-around piay. In the first game of the Garden double-header, Phil Jordan scored four of Detroit's five points in overtime to lead the Pistons to a 98-97 victory over the Minneapolis Lakers. At Cincinnati, Clyde Lovel lette, Bob Pettit and Cliff Hagan led the St. Louis Hawks to a 100-92 victory over the Royals before 3,303 fans. Gardena, Calif.-flJPD -John nie Parsons, Tony Betten- hausen and Ray Crawford are listed among the 15 drivers who have entered Sunday's 100-lap USAC national cham pionship midget auto race at Ascot Stadium. : Ring Magazine Summarizes Facts And Conclusions For 1958 Boxing New York (UPD The Ring Magazine today announced the following facts and con clusions about boxing in 1958: -Only nine deaths resulted from ring injuries among pro fessional and amateur boxers throughout the world, despite a mild fistic boom in some areas. -Don Jordan of Los An geles, the new welterweight champion, was voted the mag azine's "Progress of the Year" award.' -Sweden's unbeaten Inge mar Johansson, heavyweight champion of Europe, was named "Fighter of the Year," largely because of his first round knockout over Ameri can Eddie Machen, Sept. 14. . -Archie Moore's dramatic defense of the light heavy weight crown against Canad ian Yvon Durelle at Montreal, Dec. 10, was designated "The in the series with the scrappy , Corvallis quintette. Giving the team height will be Booth Deakins and Jerry Shults, also on the outside, both about 6-3. Jerry Ander son and George Koch, both about 6-3, also will fill the in side positions. Tornado Coach Frank Roe landt says his team shows plenty of good spirit, hustle and drive and will give the fans a good game to watch as the local squad tries to round out its pre-conference series with a no loss record. Sorely missed besides Dean will be Don Peek who has been side lined for some time recover ing from an appendicitis op eration. Has Edge in Height The Medford team will have the edge in height. Tall est player for Corvallis is Gene Milbrath, a skinny 6-3 southpaw forward who is second leading scorer with 57 points in six games. The other forward will probably be 5-10 Steve Moe, noted as a great footballer and son of Hal Moe, Tough Drills Given Bears Berkeley, Calif.- (UPD -University of California Coach Pete Elliott promised today to have the "spare parts" to his Bear football machine in working order for the Rose Bowl game. Elliott and most of his boys were to take off for Pasadena this norning to gather with some 15 Cal footballers who took advantage of a one-day Christmas break to spend the holiday at their southern Cali fornia homes. The California coach has been giving all members of his squad plenty of hard work during the training period with the thought in mind that often recently the Pacific Coast conference representa tive in the Rose Bowl has played splendidly during the first half and then folded. SWITCH GAME DATE Louisville, Ky. (UPD The West Virginia - Western Ken tucky basketball game will be played at the State Fair grounds coliseum Jan. 23 in stead of Jon. 24. Both teams agreed to the new date be cause of a conflict in ticket arrangements. Fight of the Year, -That first round at Goth enburg, Sweden, where Jo hansson knocked out Machen of Redding, Calif., at 2:16 after three knockdowns, was named the "Round of the Year" and described as "the most important first-round knockout since June 22, 1938, when Joe Louis stopped Max Schmeling of Germany." Editor Nat Fleischer of the Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tile Bricks, Flues. 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 I 9 really only 6-3 (the picture was taken on a stairway) and team mates John Harvey, guard, and Jerry Shults, forward, are 5-10 and 6-2 respectively. Medf ord is not lacking in the height department, nor in hustle, hav ing turned in a clean slate of victories so far this year. The squad is concentrating on fun damentals this week, according to Roelandt., ex - OSC assistant football coach. Center is Sig 'Hansen, 6-1, who so far is reported to have shown little scoring punch with 24 points in six games. However, he may be replaced by sophomore Geore Green, 6-2. Green is noted as one of the most prom ising athletes to hit the Wil lamette valley school in years. In his latest outing he scored 10 points against Beaverton. Corvallis guards which may start tonight are Keith Mor row, 5-10, team's leading scor er with 71 points, and Dwight Hunter with 40 points in six games. Both were starters last year. Subs Listed Substitutes for Corvallis are Wayne Lenhard, rugged 6-1 non-letterman with fair scoring ability and good re bounding, Jim '- Nanson, 5-5 younger brother of OSC's Kenny Nanson who has been a sparkplug in two games. An other on the sub list is Bill Edwards, 5-10, noted as a great hustler with little shoot ing ability. Darrell Cox, a promising junior with a good jump shot may also see action tonight. Of all these, Milbrath, Han sen, Morrow, Hunter, Ed wards and Gayle Mishler (an other reserve guard) are let termen. Directing this team Is Bob Payne, former OSC all-northern division choice. His team rates as a surprise so far be cause a coaches' poll picked them to finish fifth in the six team 8-A-l district. Medford's Tornadoes will be tightening up their man for man defense against a pos sible fast-breaking team. Cor vallis uses the fast break when the situation calls for it. Playing Beaverton they ran up 39 points in the first half. Shoot Set At Gun Club Shooters are scheduled to shoot off the ties in the skeet event held last month this Sunday at the Medford Gun club ,at Four Corners on the Crater Lake highway, Bert Peck, gun club official, an nounced today. Starting time will be 10 a.m. Sunday. Handicap prac tice and 16-yard shooting will be held also. Ring said only nine fatalities in 1958 was a tribute to the safety-first measures being used worldwide in profession al and amateur boxing. AUTO A A (ft 345 North Central STORE HOURS: 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday thru Saturday 9 a.m.' to 4 p.m. Sunday SPORT PARADE OSCAR FRALEY New York -DPD- Australia, the amazing athletic land down under," produced the world's outstanding athlete in 1958 in a rangy, running au tomation named Herb Elliott. There were eye-popping per formances in every field of sports. Name your favorite and there was a top per former. But Elliott, the health diet addict who trains by running a mere 20 miles a day, stood head and shoulders over the field. , The 20-year-old kid ran 10 miles under the four-minute barrier. Then,, at Dublin on Aug. 6, he lowered the world mile mark to a fantastic 3:54.5. They were efforts which stole the track thunder of Rafer Johnson, who set a new world record in the de cathlon which many regard as the toughest individual event of them all. Lists Top Athletes Baseball Bob T u r 1 e y, whose "iron man" pitching swept the New York Yankees to their 18th world champion ship. Football Jimmy Brown of the pro Cleveland Browns and Pete Dawkins of Army. Golf Dow Finsterwald, the "professional of the year," and Charley Coe, winner of the U. S. Amateur. Tennis Australia's Ashley Cooper. Boxing Ancient Archie Moore for his thrilling come back knockout of Yvon Dur elle. Riding Willie Shoemaker, the riding champion, and Round Table, the horse of the year. Hockey Maurice (The Rocket) Richard. Basketball Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain of Kansas and George Hardley of the pro De troit Pistons. Aids Yankee Comback Turley, a 20-game winner, was kayoed in the second game of the World Series against the Milwaukee Braves. But he came back out of the doghouse to win the fifth and seventh games and help "save"; the sixth, in a tremen dous Yankee comeback made possible by Turley's strong arm. Brown's 1,527 yards gained wrote pro football history for one year, smashing the old mark by 381 yards. Dawkins received the Heisman Trophy as the year's top player. - Finsterwald beat Sam Snead in a head-and-head fin al ro.und match to win the PGA championship, ousting Tommy Bolt as golf's big man because of Tommy's spanking for unbecoming conduct. - Australia which won the first world amateur golf champion ship and cheered native son Peter Thomson's British Open triumph, had more to boast about as Ashley Cooper swept the big three in tennis by win ning the Australian, Wimble don and U. S. titles. Moore Beats Durtlle Moore's triumph over Dur elle, in which he came off the canvas four times to score a knockout in defense of the light heavyweight title, was a classic compared with the Dempsey-Firpo brawl. It took the play away from Ray Rob inson's win over Carmen Ba silio to regain the middle weight title. i "Willie the Shoe" recap tured jockey honors with close to 300 winners while Round Table set a world rec ord in earnings of $1,336,364. Richard skated into the hock ey history books with his 500th regular season goal and his 600th counting playoffs. And Chamberlain was the top college star while Yardley be came the first player in pro basketball annals to score over 2,000 points in one sea son. They were the big stars and now it starts all over again. ADMIRAL'S WIFE DIES Pittsburgh -DPD- Mrs. Clara Moreell, 68, wife of Adm. Ben Moreell, former board chair man, of Jones and.Laughlin Steel Corp., died unexpect edly Thursday. The Eisenhower home, a na tional shrine, and the Eisen hower museum are in Abi lene, Kan. PARTS? 1 PADGETT AUTO PARTS Med: SLPdDIffiirS Coflts Work Out On FonaD Mils More Leaving Baltimore, Md. - (UPD - The final Memorial Stadium prac tice today prior to their de parture Saturday for New York and the National Foot ball league championship tilt with the Giants. The Colts planned a limited practice in New York Satur day, and then the big game, the one Ewbank called his club's "greatest opportunity." Hunting Rated Fair At Klamath Portland -(UPD-The weekly report on fishing and hunting conditions prepared by the State Game commission: Northwest' Nehalem river angling only fair; Necanicum in good shape but angling slow; Tillamook area streams murky and moderately high; steelheading slow on Siletz, Alsea and Siuslaw. Waterfowl hunting slow along Willamette river from Salem north and along Pud ding, and Yamhill rivers with very few ducks in area; mid- Willamette valley duck hunt ing improved; goose hunting fair to good. Southwest: Umpqua fair to good for steelhead; salmon fishing nearly over on Ten mile creek; fishing fair in Coquille river system; Illinois river low and clear but slight rainfall may cause improved steelheading by week end. Lots of ducks are in Coos Bay and Coquille valley; duck hunting success will depend on weather; fog or storms will make good hunting. Northeast: Steelheading fair to good in lower John Day between Clarno and Spray and poor throughout rest of northeast Oregon. Waterfowl hunting poor. Central: Hunting in lower and upper Klamath areas fair; management area poor; water freezing hard at night; an estimated 30,000 to 40,000 ducks are in upper Klamath lake area from Hank's marsh to Modoc point; fair popula tions of ducks in lower Klam ath valley. Southeast: Hunting slow at Summer lake; few geese are in Warner valley but hunting poor; duck hunting good in Malheur county in corn fields around Vale and along the Snake. fc5 Get Gates Nylon Commando Now at 30 DISCOUNT! 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However, with typical caution he brushed aside Bal timore's role as a- three and one-half point favorite. The Colts suffered a 24-21 regular season loss to the Giants, and Ewbank hadn't forgotten when the odds-makers were quoted. One off-the-field factor that most coaches agree does win games, however, is a close study of a rival's film, and ' the Colts have been, doing some heavy viewing in pre paration for their Yankee Sta dium showdown with the Giants. The viewing was fruit ful, too, according to Ewbank. Questioned whether he and his staff had learner! anything v after going over uie latest Giant film with a practiced eye, he acknowledged they had. Just what they learned, of course, will remain Ew bank's secret until after Sun day's game. s New York-flJPD-Coach Jim Lee Howell will put his New York Giants through their last strenuous workout today for their Sunday clash with the Baltimore Colts at Yankee Stadium for the National Football league title. The Giants, who had a long workout Wednesday morning, enjoyed a respite Christmas Day while the Colts practiced in Baltimore. Howell listed nine men en his injured list earlier in the week but all are expected to be ready Sunday with tht possible exception of Roose velt Grier. Grier, 280-pound defensive tackle, suffered a knee injury and aggravated an old arm injury during last Sunday's 10-0 playoff victory over the Cleveland Brown for the Eastern Division title. Howell hoped to receive a favorable report on Grier to day but may not know until Sunday whether the huge de fensive star will be able to play. : AGE NO BARRIER London -(DPD- Charles Bry ant, a 76-year-old antique dealer, competed in the an nual Christmas Day swim ming event at Serpentine Lake in Hyde Park Thursday for the 56th consecutive year. The water temperature was a nippy 40 degrees. plu your rarrMtfaM tir Btrtt any Oot tire a yaitr car Phone SP 2-4806 &t (fins
