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edford To Tighten After Last Black Tornado Coach Frank Roelandt will be working hard on defense this week with a stiff workout planned also on offense as a result of last week end's tight squeak past the Corvaliis Spartans. Medford won 58-43 Friday night on the home floor and 57-55 Saturday night. "Our defense is not what it hould be," Roelandt said. Seven PCC Teams Capture Victories United Prest International The forthcoming Pacific Coast conference basketball race took on added luster to day after seven out of eight loop quintets captured victo riest on the final Saturday be fore league competition be gins. The 1959 PCC chase will be the final one and it appears that it will also be one of the most wide open. Washington's Huskies el bowed their way back into the favorite's role with an 86 63 shellacking of Minnesota. The Huskies lost three in pre season play, but may have fi nally jelled now that Johnny Pariseau has proven to be the back-court to go with the Huskies' skyscraping front line duo of Doug Smart and Bruno Boin. California would appear to be second favorite for the Coast crown. The Bears rolled over Arizona 90-46 to end their preseason play with a strong 7-2 record. Southland Hopefuls USC and UCLA have also looked like champion possi bilities. The Trojans belted Santa Clara 63-49 Saturday and have shown impressive power at home while looking nondescript on the road. UCLA bombed Denver Sat urday, 71-57 with Walt Tor rence hitting 24. The Bruins dropped three preseason tilts and are always a contender. Oregon breezed by USF 64 53 in the All College tourney at Oklahoma City, Okla. To night the Ducks face Tulsa with the winner gaining fifth place. Oregon State defeated Air Force 49-47 in a thrilling opening contest at the Far Western classic tournament at Corvaliis. The Beavers battle Iowa in the finals tonight. Stanford, a conference dark horse with a small but expe rienced crew, disposed of the Olympic club 68-53. Idaho Loses Only Idaho lost among the PCC teams. The Vandals dropped a 69-60 battle to Utah State, but this was no dis grace since the Utes have amassed the top pre-season mark of the Skyline quintets. Washington State was idle but faces Montana State Tues day and Wednesday. Friday's conference open ers will help settle things in a hurry since California meets Washington at Seattle. Other contests Include Stanford Washington State, Oregon USC and UCLA-Idaho. Saturday, it's California Oregon, Stanford-Idaho, USC Oregon State and UCLA Washington State with all the games in the Northwest. The West Coast Athletic conference clubs will con tinue their practice contests this week with loop play open ing Jan. 9. USF. defending champ of the all conference tourney, has taken a nosedive in this year's battle. Tonight, the Dons face Wichita with the loser earning the cellar spot in the eight-man joust. St. Mary's still feeling the Modern Football Players All Plan Year or Two of Professional Ball By HAL WOOD United Press International San Francisco OIPD Sports shorts: Bob Ptacek, Michigan quar terback who got the starting call for the East Saturday, hopes to play professional football. "Haven't been draft ed yet, but I'm having con versations with a Canadian team and maybe I'll -be draft ed at the next National league session," says Ptacek ... Pro Football's Lore Surprising thing about to day's modern football play ers: They nearly all look for ward to a year or two of pro fessional football, no matter what type of a degree they get from college. Nick Piet rosante of Notre Dame would like a crack at the pro game; so would Bronko Nagurski Jr., another Irish star. "I'd just like a year or so of it to see what it's like," says Bronko, son of the all-time former Minnesota great . . . The annual Dolphin Dip, a regular New Year's Day fea ture, will go on as scheduled Week Ends Games "Not checking close enough. That's about it." The Tornadoes will be wor king also on a stiffer offense -moving the ball a little better-to perfect ball handling, Roelandt added. Roelandt was impressed with the per formance of Corvaliis guard Keith Morrow who was hit ting well from both outside and Inside. loss of Tom Meachery, cap tured third in the Evansville, Ind., tournament by defeating Washington of St. Louis 71-64 in a consolation contest. Games this week for WCAC clubs include Arizona at Col lege of Pacific tonight, USF at St. Louis Wednesday, San Jose State-Arizona and Santa Clara - Arizona State Friday and San Francisco State-USF, Santa Clara - Arizona, San Jose State-Arizona State and Peppredine-San Diego State Saturday. In other action last Satur day, Hawaii nipped Santa Bar bara 69-67 for the right to meet Kent State in the finals of the Santa Maria, Calif., tourney tonight. Other scores: Seattle 70, Loyola of Chicago 49; Mon tana 73, Montana State 50; Idaho State 86, Alaska 49; Arizona State 74, San Diego State 65; Bradley 90, Gonzaea 73; San Francisco State 67, Moffett Field 50. Gator Bowl Packed Full Of Action Jacksonville, Fla. (UPD The fans were nestled all snug in their seats, with vis ions of numerous touchdown repeats. But the Christmas week end Gator Bowl lived up to expectations only in the first eight minutes when Missis sippi led Florida, 7-3. The other 52 minutes were just so much action-packed drama to ice a well-done cake. In fact, for all practical purposes, the game was won with Ole Miss fullback Jim Anderson's one-yard scoring plunge with the game only five minutes old. Anderson pushed across the game winning touchdown on the 11th scrimmage play of the game, and he and his teammates spent the rest of the afternoon checking of scrappy Gators with an inter cepted pass, three recovered fumbles, pin point punting and a goal line stand on a slippery, rain-soaked field. But if there was a turning point in the game it was mid way in the second quarter, after Billy Booker kicked his 17-yard field goal for the Ga tors. End Dave Hudson had re covered Cowboy Woodruff's fumble of a punt return on the 42. A 13-yard pass to Rus sell Dilts and a seven - yard pass to Hudson, both by 142 pound quarterback Jimmy Dunn, moved the ball to the 10-yard line. Two rushing plays gave the Gators a first down on the five-yard line and it looked as if Florida was ready, to take the lead. On the next play.i center Joe Hergert's snap of an eel slick ball was low and bound ed past Dunn. Hanson Jen kins recovered and the Rebels stopped the first' of four would-be touchdown drives. at Ocean Beach here next Thursday. "Men" from seven to 70 will dunk in the Pa cific Ocean's cool and refresh ing waters that day. Antici pated water temperature: About 40 degrees . . . A four-man relay race around the icy waters of Lake Tahoe, site of the 1960 win ter Olympic games, will be staged Dec. 31. This was sup posed to be through heavy snows-now to date, no snow Morrow Greatest Sprinter? A survey taken by the Track and Field News gives Bobby Morrow, triple-Olympic medal winner at the" 1956 games in Melbourne, the crown as the greatest sprint er of all time. Under a point system used on the survey, Morrow compiled 432 points against 280 for Ralph Met calfe and 224 for Jesse Owens. Owens won four gold medals in the 1936 Olympics. Other leaders were: Char ley Paddock, 199; Lloyd La Beach of Panama, 188; Dave Sime, 183; Barney Ewell, 182; Mel Patton, 181; Harold Da Defense The black and red clad squad meets Klamath Falls this Saturday here. Tied at the end of the first quarter Saturday and behind at half-time, the Black Tor nadoes squeezed ahead with swishers from Jerry Shults, forward, and Jerry Anderson forward, during the third quarter. Two of Anderson's shots were rebounds and Dea kins' shots were scored from the outside. Both men scored three field goals each in the third canto. Medford had a 6-point lead with 3 minutes to go and went into a semi-stall, to wind up the third quarter. The Tornadoes kept, ahead the fourth canto. The game kept the fans on splinters to ward the end of the final per iod. With 29 seconds to go Corvaliis took the rebound on a missed foul shot by Med ford then called time. The blue and white clad Spartans then took the ball to the cen ter line and tried to feed it into the key. However Tor nado center George Koch and fellow guard Ken Durkee quickly broke it up with their tight, alert man for man defense. After a wild scramble Durkee came up with the ball and Medford still only two points ahead played catch un til the game ended. The straight man for man defense and fast breaking game got off to a swift start. From then on it was run, run, run all the way. Corvaliis used almost no zone defense Corvaliis weakened its de fense and gave Medford an opening for its winning push Friday in the third quarter. A hastily thrown up zone de fense around the key then at tempted to block Medford's outside shooting. Morrow High Point Man Spartan Keith Morrow, guard, was high point man for the game with 25 points. He made 11 field goals out of 16 attempts. He was almost a one man team, bedeviling the black and red shirts with fast breaks, keyhole jump shots, lay-ins and swift point making charges to the buck et? Medford put in Durkee to combat Morrow in the second half and the Black Tornado shaped him. The burden of the game rested on the shoulders of Guard Jerry Shults, forward Jerry Ander son, Koch and Durkee. They went all the way playing throughout the second half. Anderson was second high man of the game scoring 22 points for . Medford all on field goals and many on lay ins on feeds mainly from Koch. "Medford won the game on Corvaliis' mistakes," Spartan Coach Bob Payne said. "We missed too many lay-ins, for one thing." Football Bowl Lineup United Press International Dec. 31 SUN BOWL AT EL PASO. Tex Wyoming (7-3) vs. Hardin-Simmons (6-4) regional radio broadcast. Jan. 1 ROSE BOWL AT PASADENA, . Calif. Iowa (7-1-1) vs. California (7-3) NBC-TV and radio, air time 4:45 pjn. (EST). SUGAR BOWL at NEW OR LEANS Louisiana State (10-0) vs. Clemson (8-2) NBC-TV and radio, air time 1:45 p.m. (EST). COTTON BOWL AT DALLAS Texas Christian (8-2) vs. Air Force Academy (9-0-1) CBS-TV and ra dio, air time approximately 3:30 pjn. (EST). ORANGE BOWL AT MIAMI. Fla. Oklahoma (9-1) vs. Syracuse (8-1) CBS-TV and radio, air time 12:45 pjn. (EST). PRAIRIE VIEW BOWL AT HOUS TON, Tex. Prairie View A&M (7-2) vs. Langston, Okla. (4-3). No TV or radio. Jan. 3 SENIOR BOWL GAME AT MO BILE. Ala. NBC-TV, air time 3 p.m. (Ebi). Jan. 11 PRO BOWL AT LOS ANGELES -NBC-TV, air time 4 pjn. (EST). vis, 172, and Andy Stanfield, 171 .. . Random thought: One of the nicest guys we've ever met in the coaching profes sion is head coach Milt Bruhn of Wisconsin. He was an as sistant to head coach Duffy Daugherty of the East Shrine squad . . . Bruhn, incidentally, has his own version of how to win football games. It was given to him by the late Bob Zup pke: "A punt, and a pass and a prayer don't always win football games. The Lord is on the side of the team with Buy At Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tile Bricks, Flues. 727 W. McAndrews Ph. SP 2-4107 Med: Unbeaten umber n Pixie United Press International Top-ranked Cincinnati will find out first-hand today if it's true what they say about Dixie. The Dixie Classic long has been regarded one of college basketball's sternest tests and the unbeaten Bearcats will be the No. 1 target in the tour- nament which gets underway today at Raleigh, N.C. Oscar Robertson and his Cin cy teammates will be shooting for their sixth straight vic tory in the opening 'round against Wake Forest, and should the Bearcats get past that "warm-up" as expected, they'll find fourth - ranked Michigan State, defending Oregon Nips Dons 64-53 in Tourney Oklahoma City-(DPD-Oregon took advantage of defending champion San Francisco's second-half jitters Saturday to reverse a halftime deficit and defeat the Dons, 64-53, in the consolation bracket of the all- college basketball tournament here. The loss dumped once- mighty San Francisco to a battle for seventh place. In Saturday's first game, Tulsa got around a full-court press by Wichita to defeat the Kansans, 80-75. The win put Tulsa against Oregon in the consolation finals today at 4 p.m. Oregon had an early lead in the battle with San Fran cisco, but the Dons came back strong just before halftime to gain a 34-33 lead. But after intermission, the Californians could not connect and Oregon poured in 31 points to only 19 for the Dons. Leading the Oregon attack was Denny Strickland, 6-5 sophomore who scored 25 points. Bears Hold Light Drills Beverly Hills, Calif. -(UPD- The California Bears ran through a light, 30-minute workout today at Beverly Hills High School. Cal's star Joe Kapp was suf fering from a heavy cold but took part in practice. In Pasadena, the Iowa Kawkeyes took the day off from practice but met in the afternoon to go over offensive and defensive plans for Thurs day's Rose Bowl game. Both teams resume one-a- day workouts Tuesday. Iowa will drill mostly on timing. Drain Coach Named Manager of Year Wichita, Kan. (UPD -Ray Stratton , an Oregon high school athletic coach from Drain, Saturday was named 'manager of the year in the nation's non - professional ranks by the National Base ball Congress. - Stratton, 31, was a playing manager on the Drain Black Sox team which won the 1958 national non-pro title. No Bourbon tastes better ...none is in better taste! $445 FIFTH $290 PINT ' i KENTUCKY STRAIGHT B0U8B0K MUSKET. -ft KOOf ,Tribuxe Cincy 1 Target Classic champion North Carolina and sixth-ranked North Carolina State lying in wait for them. Even as the Dixie Classic begins, five other major tour nament titles will be passed out tonight and two other big new tourneys-the Sugar Bowl and the Motor City-will be launched. TCU. St. John's Favorites Texas Christian meets Texas A&M for the South west Conference tournament crown at Houston in one of the title clashes and St. John's will be gunning for its first tournament title in 14 years when it faces St. Jo seph's of Philadelphia in the Holiday Festival final at Mad ison Square Garden. TCU and St. John's are the favorites Oklahoma City, playing on its home court, is the choice to defeat Duquesne for the All-College tourney crown; Dartmouth and Canisius are rated practically even in their battle for the Queen City tournament championship at Buffalo, N.Y., and Iowa's high-scoring Hawkeyes are fa vored to beat host Oregon State in the Far West classic final at Corvaliis, Ore. Mississippi State, ranked 14th in the nation, goes against Maryland in the open ing round of the Sugar Bowl tourney at New Orleans to night while Memphis State meets Loyala, La., in another first round clash. Opening round rivals for the Motor City tournament at Detroit are Michigan and Princeton and Army and De troit. Kentucky Favored Third-ranked Kansas State has a date with Oklahoma in one semi-final of the Big Eight tournament at Kansas City, Mo., and Colorado op poses Nebraska in the other bracket. Kentucky's NCAA cham pions are a top-heavy favorite to make Navy their ninth straight victim of the season in a non-tournament contest tonight, and West Virginia, last year's national cham pion, also goes into action against Tennessee. Evansville won its own hol iday invitational tournament last Saturday by defeating previously - unbeaten Tennes see Tech, 100-73, with for ward Ed Smallwood netting 44 points for the winners. Purdue captured the Hoo sier classic at Indianapolis, Ind., with a 74-59" triumph over Notre Dame after But ler scored an 81-76 victory over Indiana in a consolation game. Welterweight Out on Bail Vernon,' Calif .-(UPD -Youthful Don Jordan, who became the welterweight champion of the world just 24 days ago, was free on $1,000 bail today after he and four other men were arrested on suspicion of possession of narcotics. Jordan, 24, was a passenger in an automobile stopped by police early Sunday in a rou tine check for holiday drunk drivers. The men were arrest ed when officers found a marijunana cigaret butt in the car. Mellow and mild Canada Dry Bourbon . . . gracious to give because it's so proudly served. Look for it in the gala red, gold and white package. Just the right way to send your Season's best. BOURBON - CANADA DRY CMPOMTIM, HEW THIS, 1 T. Shrine Star Crippled In Youth United Press International San Francisco-It took Andy Kerr, the 80-year-old wee Scot of the coaching ranks, just three minutes to explain to the country's ton vouna foot ball players why they were competing in the East-West Shrine game this year. The bovs had been through the Crippled Children's hospi tal; they had visited and "adoDted" a criDDled vouns- ster, and they had been told many times of the importance of their mission. But Andv pounded home the point. There was a two-year-old boy who was badly crippled," Kerr told the players from both squads. "There was great doubt he ever would walk. He was taken to a children's hos pital. There he underwent a series of 20 operations on his leg. Learned to Walk "Doctors said he'd never walk without a limn-if he ever walked at all. But this boy wanted to be an athlete more than anything else in the world. "He learned to walk with out a limp. He finally grew big enough and strong enough to play football. "When he graduated from high school in his home town of Pittsburgh, Pa., he was good enough to be invited to attend North Carolina State. There he made the college team and by the time he was a senior he was such an out standing player that he had gained all-sectional honors as a linemari. "Shrine coaches thought so much of him that they asked him to compete here and he's sitting among you right now. "Gentlemen, meet Bob Pepe, six-feet-two and 210 pounds of fine football play-er-a lad who came out of Children's hospital to become a great athlete." If the athletes didn't real ize it before, they knew why tney were playing when Andy got through with his talk.i Coached East Team This type of inspirational speech was "old hat" to Kerr. He has been coaching all over the country since shortly aft er the turn of the century. He had been a coach on Shrine East teams from 1928 through 1950. Since then the amazingly active little 120-pounder has acted . as business manager and adviser to the squad passing on his wisdom of the years to such able rnarhec nc Duffy Daugherty, Blaton Coi ner, jBenme Oosterbaan, Ed die Anderson. Bissie Mnnn Tus McLaughery, Beat tie eathers and Bernie Bierman. Andy doesn't stick his nose in where he isn't wanted. Rut you can bet your bottom dol lar that when he speaks the other coaches listen. It's like findine a cold mine of information right in your own back yard. Football Scores SATURDAY'S COLLEGE SCORES united rress international Rllll-flrav Mnntonmapir Ala Blue 16, Gray 0 ; "-, uuli.jv.i ,.ilt x' jo. Mississippi 7, Florida 3 East Texas St. 26. Missouri Valley 7 ShrinA namo Con TV.,.,,;..... East 26, West li Nnrth.Knnttv Miamf Gmitk Aa North 20 Only one home in 25 in the U.S. employs any kind of female domestics. o Any Time Any Place Any Amount Delivered SP 2-5271 TFIralllvllOI CONCRETE MAIL TRIBUNE, Medford, Oregon, Monday, December 29. 1958 Quarterback Hunter Enis Provides Texas Christian Coach Proud Moment (Editor's Note: This is the last of the dispatches on the football teams play ing in the post-season bowl games). By ED FITE United Press International Fort Worth. Tex. -4UPD-Hun- ter Ems, a lanky quarterback who blossomed from the ob scurity of the fourth team to pilot Texas Christian into its third Cotton Bowl classic in four years, has Drovided Coach Abe Martin with one of his proudest moments. I ve enjoyed three things most of all during my con nection with TCU coaching," Martin said, "and each one of them has concerned a Quar terback that made his critics -and mine-eat their words by living up to the faith I had in him. "The first was Ronald Bayli or On Top 10 List Set Bv NBA m New York -(UPD- Elgin Bay lor, the Minneapolis Lakers' brilliant rookie forward, was one of the 10 players selected today by writers and broad casters for the National Bas ketball association's ninth an nual All-Star game to , be played at Detroit, Jan. 23. Bob Pettit, the St. Louis Hawks' 6-foot-9 forward who leads the league in scoring with a 28-point-plus average, and Ken Sears of the New York Knickerbockers were the outstanding selections in each division of the league. For the first ' time in the nine-year history of the A11- Star game, there were no unanimous choices. The five East players cho sen were center Bill Russell and guards Bob Cousy and Bill Sharman of the Boston Celtics, forward Paul Arizin of the Philadelphia Warriors, and Sears. In addition to Pet tit and Baylor, the West play ers picked were forward Cliff Hagen and guard Slater Mar tin of the Hawks and guard Gene Shue of the Detroit Pis tons. mm mtst tip BRADY (Deeply humiliated) POFFS 4rS Thanks to an our readers of the Winnipeg Free Press and many other papers for remind ing us that they play pro foot ball in Canada and that the record for the longest punt 'in pro football is held by Chatlie Shephard of the Winnipe9 Blue Bombers With a boot of 32 yards. We had given the record to Bob WatertfekJ be a kick of 88 yards. For Industry On the Farm Around the Home CONCRETE C? 248 E. McANDREWS RD. Clinkscale in 1954, the sec ond was Dick Finney last year and now Enis," Martin said. Enis was the only one of the trio who had enough help to push the Frogs into a bowl game. But Martin and all of Enis' mates heartily agree that the Quarterback was the "key" man of that 8-2 season that TCU will carry into the New Year's Day clash with the colorful Air Force Academy at Dallas. Sticks With Enis After two desultorv seasons with the scrubs. Enis sudden ly popped up with phenomen al passing performances in spring training and Martin decided to go with him this season. Camp followers and others advised Martin aeainst en trusting what appeared to be an otherwise potent team to such an inexperienced hand. But Martin stuck to his guns. Alter the first two games, in which TCU walloped Kan sas with second-stringers do ing much of 'the damage and lost to Iowa when the offense bogged down. Martin waver ed and demoted Enis. . . He got into the next game in the final three minutes with TCU trailing Arkansas 7-6 and socked in on its own Rangers Score Fourth Victory United Press International The Montreal Canadiens may terrorize the rest of the National Hockey League but they're just another team to the New York Rangers. The Rangers scored their fourth victory in seven meet ings with Montreal and ended the Canadiens" 13-game un beaten streak Sunday nieht when they downed the league- leaaers, 5-3, at Madison Square Garden. The Cana diens had won 11 eames and tied two since their last defeat -also a 5-3 loss to the Rangers at New York. sS. Records have sounds you've rS neyer T heard... ... until you've played them on Hoffman Stereo Fi. Now the busy Christmas season is over, visit Home Appliance Co. and leisurely enjoy a dem onstration concert of Stereo-phonic music. You'r welcome anytime! APPLIANCE CO. 27-yard line. Martin sent in Enis with orders to pass. Instead, Enis noticed the Arkansas linebackers playing wide and decided to use full back Jack Spikes up the mid dle on a trap play. It clicked for 39 yards and two plays later Enis passed for the win ning touchdown. Turning Point "That was the turning point for Enis-and the team," Mar tin said. "After that he had confidence in himself and so did his teammates. He proved a real brainy signal-caller and a clutch passer." Enis wasn't the whole show in the drive to the Southwest conference crown, however.. The TCU offense, like Enis, wasn't spectacular. But, it was solid, and it got the job done while the defense chip ped in handily. Spikes, a bruising 200 pounder with the agility of a halfback, was the mainspring for the running game, with sporadic assists from half backs Marvin Lasater and Marshall Harris, who spec ialize in crisp blocks ' and tough tackles. This running game moved along at 207 yards per game and Enis' passing contributed a 105-yards-per-game balance. Blessed With Depth Martin was blessed with plenty of -depths at every-position and his second-unit backfield, utilizing the sprint er speed of hurryin' Harry Moreland and Billy Gault, is more of a caper-cutter than the first. Both backfields operate be hind big, agile lines of almost equal strength and tackle Donald Floyd, guard Sherrill Headrick and center Dale Walker forming the hard core for the main line of defense. It won't be of much con cern to the Air Force Fal cons Thursday, but - next year's opponents should be mindful of the fact that only five of the first 33 men Mar tin brings to Dallas are grad uating seniors. 9
