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Bill tosell Mow Cling Qr (Boards On Pro Basketball United Press International Boston t PB Bouncing Bill Russell, billed two years ago ai the greatest "big man" to hit professional basketball since George Mikan, has be come undisputed king of the backboards. The six-10 former San Fran cisco All-America has yo-hoed his way to more than 3,000 rebounds in the equivalent .of two season with the Boston Celtics in the National Bas ketball association. His scoring feats, while not spectacular, have been climb ing steadily to a present 17.5 point average. His rebound ing ability has definitely been spectacular, the latest NBA statistics giving him 585 in 26 games and a spread of more than 100 grabs over the num ber two boardman. Russell's name already ap pears in a dozen places in the NBA record books. He holds the all-time season rebound ing mark of 1,564 set last year, his first full campaign. He got the most rebounds in a single game, 49, most in a half and most in a quarter. Busy Man Russell tied for third among the best field goal shooters in the league a year ago and was fifth most active player work ing an average of 38.3 min utes per game. When Bill signed his play-for-pay contract in the midst of the 1956-57 season, Boston owner Walter Brown predict ed he would be the big man needed to make the then-fal-t e r i n g Celtics professional champions. "The first year he was up SpOrt JaJA OSCAR FRALEY Dflffffl O Jiijr&r Sports Writer VII UUC S&f7l United Press New York-flJPD-It's another year for the memory books today in a chapter packed with muscles, sweat and torn up tote tickets. Ron Delany started it run ning for this corner just one calendar ago as he ground the opposition into the Madi son Square Garden boards and everything has been go- Cal Player Plans Win In Bowl Los Angeles -(UPD- Califor nia, an 18-point underdog, won't roll over and play dead when it meets Iowa in the Rose Bowl on Thursday. "We didn't come here to get beat," said center Terry Jones. "I firmly believe we can beat Iowa. We have the stuff to do it and the fellows are thinking that way." While Coach Pete Elliott still continues to soft pedal any talk about victory, the players have become infused with a spirit that wins ball games. "All I can say," said El liott, "is the same as I've been saying all along-we'll give 'em a battle." "I can't understand those 18-point odds favoring Iowa," said halfback Grover Garvin, who has to be just as fast as any of the Iowa second ary. "Those gamblers just haven't seen California play. And they haven't noticed Joe Kapp, either." Kapp has completely recov ered from a cold that bother ed him for a couple of days and the whole squad appears to be in tip-top condition. Changes Made in Centennial Group Salem-(UPD-Two changes in the centenniail advisory com mittee, prompted by resigna tions, were announced Mon day by Gov. Robert D. Holmes. The governor announced appointment of F. Robert Pet zold, Parksdale, to succeed Frank Wink, The Dalles and of William Cook, Coquille, to suceeed Elton Schroeder, Myrtle Point. The advisory committee co ordinates local plans for ob servance of Oregon's centen nial celebration next year. Chaplin Silent on Tax Settlement London - (LTD - Movie actor Charlie Chaplin, from whom the U.S. government has ex tracted $425,000 to settle an income tax claim, entered a London clinic today with a badly abscessed wisdom tooth. He had no comment on the tax settlement when he ar rived here by plane from his Lake Geneva villa in Switzerland. we won the world's champion ship. Last year he was hurt and we lost in the playoffs. He couldn't play and we got beat," recalls Brown. "Right now, we've won 10 in a, row and have the best record in the league. Russell's been healthy." Has Russell fulfilled his promise? "After all," said Brown, "we knew we were getting a good big man. He had played for two NCAA champions and in the Olympic games. We needed a good big man and he certainly was it. Everybody's Player "Last year, the players voted him the most valuable player in the league. The sportswriters didn't pick him; the players who have to play against him every day did." That oversight was not re peated. Russell was named center on the 1958-59 East All-Star team announced to day at New York. Russell has been involved in only one dispute since joining the pro ranks. That was last season when he was accused of "goal-tending" or illegally knocking the ball away from the hoops on its downward flight. Rival coaches, tired of see ing .their shots snatched off the rim, demanded that the officials watch Russell more closely. The whistle brigade closed in, and after a three-week study, gave the towering cen ter a clean bill. There hasn't been a peep out of anyone since. ing in circles ever since. There were those winter fight nights at the Garden and some valid aquatics while in Florida to see Tim Tam bolt down the stretch and cop the Florida Derby at Gulfstream Park. Cock fights in Haiti, golf in Jamaica and swimming in the Bahamas. The way -ou missed the Giants and the Dodgers, wan dering around parks filled only with pigeons as they opened the baseball season on the coast. Enjoying the hoop la as the Yankees started an other winning drive at the Stadium and rooting for some long - forgotten outsider as Jewel's Reward galloped off with the Wood Memorial. Staring up at Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain's amazing altitude as he announced he was turning pro and swelter ing in the heat at Tulsa as Tommy Bolt won the U.S. Open. Telling everybody they ought to give him a break, and then watching him break up at Pine Hollow. Glad that the PGA let him off the hook, even so, and cheering on Dow Finsterwald as he turned birdie gambler and caught Sam Snead on the last round of the PGA championship at Llanerch. The All-Star game in Balti more as Billy O'Dell halted the National league. A stretch on Lake Ontario, golfing, fish ing and cutting up touches with fight promoter Norm Rothschild, Bill Rapp and Ben Schwartzwalder, who said his Syracuse team wasn't much but leads it into the Orange Bowl Thursday. Taking lumps from Jay He bert and Mike Turnesa, even though they were using old wooden shafts and stunned even more by the way Roy Campanella looked in his first hospital interview. Marveling at Ashley Cooper's icy exteri or as he won the national ten nis title at Forest Hills. Lontsom End Surprise Then the Series and Bob Turley's walloping. Back to New York, with the perennial poker game on the plane, and Turley's amazing comeback. Back to Milwaukee for one of the best wind-ups in Series history and never getting even on the plane. The surprise over Red Blaik's lonesome end offense during those football week ends at West Point, and learn ing the finer points of bowl ing from lady champ Sylvia Wene and forgetting them al most as quickly. The flight to Mexico for the International golf champion ship. Breakfast with an easier going Ben Hogan. Lunch with a jittery Sam Snead. The bull fights at the Plaza del Toros and how the Mexican golf gallery carries its "oles" back to the golf tournament. Driv ing through the Mexican mountains and the boy divers doing their dizzy plunge from the cliffs at Acapulco. Another chapter. May the next b as pleasant Local YMCA Sets Swim Competition The Medford YMCA swim team launches its second sea son of competitive swimming at Sat., Jan. 3, at 10:00 a.m., Coach Wilson Gilinsky an nounced. A strong team from Salem will be in Medford for the 40 event meet. The Salem club recently captured fourth place in the Columbia Basin Valley Swimming league pre-season meet, bowing out to the Mc Minnville "Y", and the Bea verton teams. The Medford team will not take part in the league meet, of which they are a new member, but the other ten members of the league were on hand for the two-day meet. Approxmately 50 boys and girls will be on hand for the meet this Saturday morning, which will also be Salem's first league meet of the year. The public is invited to at tend the meet, which will launch a. season of about fif teen meets for the Medford club. There will be no charge for the event. USGA Sets Dates For Golf Tourneys New York - (UPD - The 1960 women's amateur champion ship will be held at the Tulsa Country club, Tulsa, Okla., Aug. 22-27, the U.S. Golf as sociation has announced. The USGA also set the sites and dates for three other of its championships during 1960 and 1961. The 1960 men's amateur championship will be held Sept. 12-17, and as previously announced, the site will be the St. Louis Country club at Clayton, Mo. The 1960 girls' junior cham pionship will be staged at the Oaks Country club at Tulsa, Aug. 15-19, and the 1961 women's amateur is scheduled for the Tacoma, Wash., Golf and Country Club, Aug. 21-26. Starters Listed Starting field for the wom en's national amateur cham pionship will be limited to 128 players beginning with the 1959 tournament at the Congressional Country club, Washington, D.C. There were 195 entries in this year's championships. Ring Champ Beats Rap Vernon, Calif. (UPD World welterweight champion Don Jordan won his latest bout with the law Monday when the district attorney's office refused to file a narcotics charge against him. Jordan, who has held his boxing crown less than one month, was arrested along with three other men in a car Saturday when police said a marijuana cigarette was found in the auto. "I'm no angel, but I don't associate with narcotics users," the 24-year-old bcxer said. Arresting officers reported there was no evidence Jordan actually had been using the marijuana or knew anything about it. The fighter said he and a friend had accepted a ride in the auto but would have refused had they known marijuana was being used. Police said Richard A. Hoi quin, 18, Los Angeles, one of the men in the car, admitted smoking the narcotic. It was the second time in two months Jordan had a brush with the law and emerged unscathed. In November he was jailed for allegedly shooting arrows at a car in which two women were riding. Jordan labeled the incident a prank and po lice brought no charges. Polaris Launching 'Partial Success' Cape Canaveral, Fla. - (UPD - The Navy's Polaris missile, designed to be fired from sub merged submarines, rocketed off to a clear Florida sky to day but the second stage had to be destroyed after about a minute and a half when it veered from its planned course. However, a Navy spokes man called the launching, "a partial success" since it was the first time a Polaris with both stages had been fired. Also, the two stages separated during flight, which was one of the main tests in today's launchmg. HELP YOURSELF Ovington; England - (UPD -It was really nothing, but it was still more than Basil Sharp expected for having his num ber drawn in Britain's state- run lottery. A letter from the National Savings Movement informing Sharp he had won was accompanied by a signed blank check. He returned the check. Kaffer Johnson Shaping Up Now For IBaskeibalH Los Angeles - (DPI) - Rafer Johnson, the world's greatest athlete, is making a belated stab at becoming a basketball player-and Coach Johnny Wooden of UCLA couldn't be happier. Johnson, the world decath lon champion, former high school baseball and football star, etc., is the second-high scorer on the Bruin cage team and shows .signs of improving every game. "Rafer played four games for our freshman team in 1956," says Wooden "and then didn't play again until last year. If he had stayed with the game all through college he would have been one of the greatest by now." Johnson, who stands 6-3 and weighs 200 pounds, is as the boys say, murder around the backboards, both on re bounds and when he goes in to shoot. Because he has played so A USGA handicap not ex ceeding six strokes was the only limiting factor on entries up to now. But starting next year, the women's amateur field will consist of the 128 entrants who have the lowest USGA handicaps, up to a limit of six. The' current women's ama teur champ is Anne Quast of Marysville, Wash. Tighter Rules Topic Of Meet Cincinnati, Ohio -(UPD- The tightening of eligibility rules and possible curtailment of expenses to prospective ath letes in prep schools are two of the major proposals the Na tional Collegiate Athletic asso ciation will consider at its meeting beginning here Sun More than 2,200 representa tives from colleges and uni versities throughout the na tion are expected to attend the 53rd annual meeting, which will last a week. Seven other national ath letic groups also will hold their meetings during the NCAA sessions. The American Football Coaches association will hold its 36th annual convention during the week, and other organizations scheduled to meet are the American Asso ciation of College Baseball coaches; the National Collegi ate Track Coaches association; College Athletic Business Managers association; College Sports Information Directors of America; the National Foot ball Foundation and Hall of Fame; and the Navy V5 asso ciation. Paul Dietzel of Louisiana State university will be pre sented with the Coach-of-the Year Award during the con vention, Balloting for the award was conducted by the New York World-Telegram and Sun and the Scripps-How-ard Newspapers. NAMED HEAD COACH Rock Island, 111.-(UPD - Ray Loeschner, assistant track and football coach at Lake Forest college and Northwestern uni versity, Monday was named head football coach at Augus tana college. The 1953 gradu ate of Albion (Mich.) college replaces Vince Lundeen,' who recently announced plans to retire. WINS GOLF TITLE Pinehurst, N.C.-(UPD-Buddy Baker, a 17-year-old shotmak- er from Florence, S.C., won the 11th annual Donald J. Ross golf championship Mon day with a one-under-par 70 over the rain-soaked Pine hurst No. 3 course. Billy Wo mack, also of Florence, fin ished second in the A divi sion, 15-17 years old, of the tourney. Philadelphia-tUPD-The Phil adelphia Warriors will meet the Minneapolis Lakers at Convention hall Sunday, Jan. 4 in the National Basketball association's nationally tele vised NBC game of the week, beginning at 2 p.m. (est). We Will CLOSED FRIDAY & SATURDAY January 2nd & 3rd ? FOR INVENTORY Sims Cycle & Hobby Shop little, he is a bit timid about shooting.' But in the eight games UCLA has played this year, he has taken 49 shots and made good on 27 of them for an average of 59 per cent. Conference Play The Bruins haven't the greatest basketball team in the country - or the West Coast -this year. They have won five, lost three of their first eight starts. They get down to Pacific Coast confer ence competition on Friday night when they travel north to play Idaho at Moscow. Johnson will perform in that game, but he will miss the tilt against Washington State the following night be cause he has to fly to New York after the Idaho game to appear with other Olympic stars on the kickoff show to raise funds for the 1960 games. If all goes well, he hopes to fly back and rejoin the team for a game against Washington at Seattle on Tuesday, Jan. 6. What makes Wooden so en thusiastic about Rafer is the fact that he shows improve ment, learns new moves, scores better in every game. He was held scoreless in the opening game of the year against St. Mary's; he got only two points in the next outing against Santa Clara. Steady Improvement Then in the third against Kansas he came through with 11 points. In the fourth tilt against Iowa State he collect ed six points got nine in one game against Colorado and followed up with 14 points in the next. Last Saturday, in a losing cause against Santa Clara, he came, through with 16 points-his highest. "If Rafer played all the time, he would be the great est crowd pleaser in UCLA I history," says tub-thumper Vic Kelley. "Every time he steps on the floor, he draws great cheers from the home crowd. "He has a certain touch of class, a magnetism that draws him close to the fans." UCLA isn't among the fa vorites to win the PCC crown this year-but with a sharp- shooter like Walt Torrence and the improving Johnson, the Bruins may hold the key to who will be champion. The rest of the conference week end schedule: Friday- Southern California at Ore gon; California at Washing ton; Stanford at Washington State; Saturday - Southern California at Oregon State; California at Oregon; Stan ford at Idaho. Sarp Plays For Legion The Dalles -(UPD A famil iar name made an appear ance on "the basketball court here again on Monday night Ted Sarpola, a three-time all-stater at Astoria and a member of the 1939 Oregon national champions, scored one point as the local Legion team lost a 64-59 decision to Multnomah club of Portland, "Sarp" is high school coach here. Tanker Grounded Oil Maryland Cape May, N.J. - (UPD - The 21,000-ton Liberian flag tank er African Queen ran aground off the Maryland - Delaware coast today and broke in two. The Coast Guard said 47 men were aboard, under Capt. Kai Danielsen of Norway. A search plane spotted 25 of them on the stern section of the ship. The plane reported both halves of the ship ap peared firmly aground and in no danger of sinking. v- Three Coast Guard cutters were en route from here to effect resuce. United States Helps In Loan To Argentina Washmgton-UPD-The United States today threw its finan cial support behind a bold program to put Argentina on its economic feet. The U.S. government, the International Monetary Fund and 11 private banks advanced $329 million in credits to help the Latin American na tion. B. Anzin In High Point Cage Group United Press International Paul Arizin of the Philadel phia Warriors joined George Mikan, Ed MacAuley, Dolph Schayes and Bob Cousy today in the National Basketball as sociation's select 10,000 point club. The ex-Marine who played his collegiate ball at Villa nova poured in 25 points Mon day night in leading the War riors to a 95-93 victory over the Minneapolis Lakers. The feat boosted his NBA lifetime point total to 10,0001. Arizin started the current season as the league's sixth highest scorer with 9,271 points, but passed teammate Neil Johnston a couple of weeks ago. However, he is far behind Schayes' all-time high of 13,047. Mikan retired with a career total of 11,764, while MacAuley, who took himself off the playing list shortly after taking over as coach of the St. Louis Hawks, has 11,225 and Cousy has 11,158. Had Hands Full Dspite Arizin's fine per formance the Warriors had all they could do in handing the slumping Lakers their fifth straight loss. Behind by two points in the final 10 seconds, the Lakers gained control of the ball and Vern Mikkelsen attempted a jump shot. The ball rolled off the rim, but Elgin Baylor tipped it in. The officials, though, ruled Bay lor's tip-in came after the final buzzer. Cousy, admittedly not the scorer he was several seasons ago, pumped in 24 points and Bill Russell chipped in with 28 to lead the Celtics to a 107 105 victory over the Syracuse Nationals and Bob Pettit's 35 point output paced the St. Louis Hawks to a 124-112 vic tory over the Cincinnati Roy als in other games. Jack Twy man scored 32 points in a los ing cause for the Royals, while Bob Hopkins had 25 for the Nats. North Salem Wins 54-37 Corvallis -(UPD- North Salem defeated Beaverton 54- 37 on Monday afternoon to win the first high school division title of the Far West basketball classic. Grant Harter, North Sal em's 6-9 inch center, scored 22 points and got 22 rebounds. Steve Pauly led Beaverton with 17 points. Marshfield edged Roseburg 39-35 for third place. The chairlift on Mount Nor quay in Alberta rises 1,300 feet vertically in 3,240 feet. KtTa - - 'T-w ONE This is' the historic ; first. dispatch of United; Press International. It marks the'start of operations by the greatest independent news ? agency, combining the forces and faciUtief XJnited Press Asso ': ciations and International News Service. The UPI logotyperepresents objective thorough," arid enterpris ing reporting, by word" and picture, throughout the world today. MedforivTribum SIPdDIffiTrS Net Team Plays Record Doubles Brisbane, Australia - (UPD -Hamilton Richardson, a dia betic of questionable stamina, and Alex Olmedo won the longest challenge round dou bles match in history today to give the United States Davis Cup team a 2-1 lead over Australia in the best-of-five series. After spotting Australia's heralded super men, Mai An derson and Neale Fraser, the first two sets, the gritty Yanks rallied courageously to win the four-hour struggle, 10-12, 3-6, 16-14, 6-3, 7-5. Now the underdog Ameri cans need only one victory in Wednesday's concluding matches to reclaim the famed mug, which Australia has won seven times in the last eight years. But they'll have to do it without Richardson. Although ranked No. 1 in the U.S. tennis ratings, Rich ardson was omitted from the singles assignments by non playing Captain Perry Jones, who considered the former Rhodes scholar from Arling ton, Va., too weak to handle the giani Aussies. Richardson won't even be Kapp Gets Warner Grid Award Palo Alto, Calif. -(UPD-Quar-terback Joe Kapp of Univer sity of California today was named winner of the Glenn C. (Pop) Warner Award as the Pacific Coast's most val uable senior football player. Sportswriters, broadcasters and coaches voted the award to Kapp by the widest mar gin in the award's 10-year history. The trophy and a wrist watch will be presented here Jan. 20 by the Palo Sports club, sponsors of the award. Kapp winds up his career with the Bears against Iowa in the Rose Bowl Thursday. Past winners: 1949, Eddie LeBaron, College of Pacific; 1950, Russ Pomeroy, Stan ford; 1951, Ollie Matson, USF; 1952 Jim Sears, USC; 1953, Bob Garrett, Stanford; 1954, George Shaw, Oregon; 1955, Bob Davenport, UCLA; 1956, Jon Arnett, USC;. 1957, Joe Francis, Oregon State. NX69 NEW YORK, KAY 24 (UPD --THE UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATIONS AND INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE JOINED FORCES TODAY AROUND THE WORLD IN THE CREATION OF A SINGLE NEWS AGENCY NAMED "UNITED PRESS INTERNATIONAL." . THIS IS THE FIRST DISPATCH OF THE NEW SERVICE WHICH WILL EMBRACE THE LARGEST NUMBER OF NEWSPAPER AND RADIO CLIENTS EVER SERVED SIMULTANEOUSLY BY AN INDEPENDENTLY OPERATED NEWS AND PICTURE AGENCY. AGREEMENTS COVERING THE CONSOLIDATION OF SERVICES WERE SIGNED MUjjHE U) f-ilSCCiSCPTrrlSTP or 1957. EVOLVElBy'.lFSANJC' Bi" SARTHOLCKEW "AN D LER0Y KELLER FROM THE UNITED PRES AND J.D.' SOftTATOVSXTAND KINGSBURY SMITH FROM THE INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE. JP1139A UPI dispatches daily in The Medford Mail Tribune MAIL TRIBUNE, Mtdferd, Oregon, around watch his mates in the decisive singles matches. Extremely bitter over being snubbed by Jones, the freckle faced netman will leave by plane for the States Wednes day morning because "my part of the job is done." 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THE COMPLEX GLOBAL NEWS EFFECTIVE TRANSMISSION Tuwday, Dec.mbtr 30, 1958 7 Basin Team Wins 92-42 Pasco -(UPD- Columbia Bas in Junior college took things easy Monday night to defeat Central Oregon 92-42 in a basketball game here. The local team used 15 players and 13 of them scor ed. Ed Maddock of Central Ore gon took game honors with 14. nri 7.' i.TILII.i teUly by . " Eitab. loutsvitU, Ky.,1149 PRESIDENT INSURE THAT THE PLAN WAS Sy Builders Supply hrfh. QUALITY rMz BLOCKS Bricks, Fluat. Vl W. McAndrawt Ph. SP 2-4107 ULOFlUGEMLO u Fifth m
