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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
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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."
While Richardson is wing
ing back across the Pacific,
Barry MacKay of Dayton,
Ohio, who won the singles
assignment over the Louisiana-born
star, will play An
derson and Olmedo will face
Ashley Cooper in Wednes
day's pairings.
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Basin Team
Wins 92-42
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in Junior college took things
easy Monday night to defeat
Central Oregon 92-42 in a
basketball game here.
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players and 13 of them scor
ed. Ed Maddock of Central Ore
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