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4 ; -Al ' J' Sit fl'l pi) jf GRABBING HANDS-A common sight Mon day night in the Illinois-Oklahoma game in Champaign, 111., were grabbing hands. Illi nois pulled to a 47 tie in the last two min utes and beat Oklahoma 60-57 in overtime. Play was aggressive under the boards and OSC Grabs Victory From Huskers 67-55 - Portland-niPD-Oregon State fought off a second half real ' ly by Nebraska here Monday night to record a 67-65 bas ketball victory. Nebraska fought back from 12 Signed For 49'ers Grid Team San Francisco -4UPD- Twelve young players have been sign ed to 1960 contracts, the San Francisco Forty Niners an nounced today. Included on the list are four players drafted at the Nov. 30 NFL meeting; , two rookies who barely missed making the 1959 squad; five so-called "red shirts" from previous drafts, and one free agent. The new draftees signed are: Ola Murchsison, College of Pacific end-linebacker, sixth draft choice. Bot Wasden, Auburn, end linebacker, ninth choice. A Jim Stem Williams, 260 pound tackle from North Carolina college, 12th choice. Carl Robinson, 250 -pound tackle from South Carolina State, 18th choice. ; ; v The "Red shirts" men with another year of college eligi bility signed were: . . Dan Colcbico, San Jose State, seventh choice; Lew Akin, end, Vanderbilt, eighth choice; Dee Mackey, East Tex as State, drafted 24 in 1958; Ron Warzeka, Montana State College, drafted 14th in 1957; Paul Tripp, Idaho State, 22nd choice in 1957. ' The first free agent signed was Fred Williamson, offens ive end from Northwestern. : Rookies from the 1959 team who were cut from the squad and who will get another chance are Mike Dukes, Clem son, and Tom Osborne, Hast ings. Negotiate For Fight Interest New York -flJPD- Attorney Roy Cohn and associates plan to meet again today with Bill Rosensohn in their attempt to buy his one-third interest in Rosensohn Enterprises, Inc., arid clear the way for promot ing the return Ingemar Jo hansson - Floyd Patterson heavyweight title fight next summer. Little progress was made at Monday night's conference with Rosensohn, who report edly asked more for his stock than the Cohn group deemed reasonable. ' The new organization of wealthy New York business men purchased two-thirds of the stock in Rosensohn Enter prises last week from Vin cent J. Velella, a Harlem pol itician. Velella's selling price reportedly was $150,000. Rosensohn, who had been v asking $75,000 for his one third reportedly boosted the price Monday night. . here Illinois' Ed Perry loses ball to George Kernek (3) as John Wessels, UI, reaches for a part. Buddy Hudson (13) is going away from play. Perry led UI with 16 points; Kernek with 14 points shared honors for OU. . (UPI Telephoto) a halftime 30-21 deficit to tie the count at 33-33 on Her schell Turner's bucket. It was tied four more times with the last coming at 53-53. The long-range shooting of junior Bill Wold kept OSC in the game in the second half as the Beavers were off on their free throw shooting. Wold took game scoring honors with 19 points with 15 of them coming in the second haft. ' Nebraska got to within one point in the last 32 seconds, 66-65 but Herschell hit one of two free throws just before the final buzzer. Al Maxey hit 16 points to pace the Cornhuskers. BOX: Nebraska (S Kowalke Buuck Harry ; Turner Maxey Roots G 2 6 2 5 . 5 F 1- 1 2- 3 0-2 4-4 p T 1 ' 9 2 14 6-8 1 1 2 0-0 1 0-1 2 2-3 2 Barth Bowers . Totals 23 15-20 22 65 Oregon Stat (T Jacobson Carty Anderson 6 1 4 7 F- . 2- 4 ; 3- 8 2-3 5-8 . 4- 5 1-2 0-1 Wold Woodland. Campbell . Niles 5 1 . 0 0 , 0 Flynn Critchfleld Totalj 25 17-32 16 67 Halftime: Oregon State 30, Ne braska 21. Touring Pros Aim at Prizes Dunedin, Fla. -(TOD- The na tion's touring pros will battle it out for more than $750,000 in prizes on the Professional Golf association's tour from mid-April through August in 1960. The 1960 spring and sum mer schedule, announced to day by PGA President Harold Sargent, again ' will blanket the nation and features two new events - the "500" Festi val Open Invitational, a $50, 000 tourney at Speedway, Ind.,: May 26-29, and the $35, 000 Milwaukee Open Invita tional at Milwaukee, Aug. 25-28. - The 42nd annual PGA championship, to be held at the-Firestone Country-club in Akron, Ohio, July 21-24, will carry a $30,000 minimum purse as it did in 1959. Top money as usual will be offered in the Masters, ex pected to reach $76,100. It is the final tourney listed on the official winter tour and. will be played at Augusta, Ga., April 7-10. New York-IIPD-The Ameri can league's board of gover nors voted unanimously Mon day to uphold a 12-game sus pension of forward Bob Bailey of the Buffalo Bisons. Bailey was accused of hitting Ted Harris of . the Spring field Indians with his stick. New York DPB Al Paul, who moulded the powerful line which helped Hofstra go unbeaten and untied this year, was named today as as sistant football' coach at Col umbia university. Paul re places Vaughn Mancna, re cently named athletic direc tor at Florida State. (Ohio State. Georgia Tech Fall Down; Cincinnati Next? United Press International v Ohio State and Georgia Tech have fallen by the way side and tonight it could be Cincinnti's turn to be bounced from college basketball's un beaten ranks. Utah snapped third-ranked Ohio State's winning streak at six games and ran their own string to seven with a 97-92 triumph at Salt Lake City Monday night while Southern Methodist handed eighth ranked Georgia Tech its first loss, 80-71, at Dajjas. ' Neither was in the nature of a shocking upset since Utah is ranked sixth in the country and SMU is one of the favorites in the Southwest conference. And, there's little question that Oscar Robertson and Cincinati face their tough est hurdle of the season to date when they take on sev- Cincinnati Still Kates Top Team New York -(UPD- Cincinnati remained No. 1 in United Press International's major college basketball ratings to day for the third straight week but West Virginia re placed Ohio State in second place. ' Ohio State slipped to third while California remained fourth. St. Louis was fifth, Utah sixth, Bardley seventh, Georgia Tech eighth, Kansas ninth and Indiana 10th. Georgia Tech, moving up from 12th, and Indiana, which advanced from 11th, were the newcomers in the top 10. North Carolina dropped from fifth to 11th and South ern California slipped from 10th to 11th in the latest bat loting by the United Press In ternational Board of Coaches. Tarheels Head Second Group The 35-leading coaches who rate ; the major schools for UPI based their latest votes on games played through Sat urday night, Dec. 19. The top four teams boasted perfect records through that date. . North Carolina headed the second 10 group. Kentucky, New York University, Vil lanova, Southern California, Texas A & M, Iowa, Illinois, Michigan State and Notre Dame rounded out the first 20 in that order. , Each coach votes for 10 teams in the order he ranks them nationally. Points are awarded on a 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1 basis for votes froni first through 10th place. Mountaineers Gain Support Cincinnati received 20 first place votes and a total of 327 points, four less than last week. . West Virginia, which drew only--' two ': first-place votes and 252 points last week, . received' eight first place votes and '308 points. West Virginia picked up the additional support because of its impressive triumph over Kentucky Saturday night in the final of the Kentucky In UCLA Only Victorious Team On Road; Mometowners Rate West Coast cagers resume action tonight in regional and intersectional clashes - and unless somebody changes the form sheet, the home-towners "have it made." Tonight's key intersection al games, find Stanford invad ing Marquette, Santa Clara at Connecticut and Washington's Huskies hosting Northwest ern, j, . - . Monday night's basketball bill featured a full schedule of cross-country tilts, but the UCLA Bruins were the only "travelers" to emerge victor ious,' as they nipped Minne sota, 73-72. .Wiscon's young squad took Oregon Trounces Spartans by 56-41 1 Eugene - (UPD - Oregon's Ducks toyed with San Jose State here Monday night and beat the Spartans, 56-41. The two teams meet here again tonight. Oregon never was in trou ble after the first five min utes of the game and held a 25-13 halftime edge. The Ducks controlled both backboards and picked off 49 rebounds -to San Jose's 30. Glenn Moore had 14 rebounds for the Ducks but was held to only four points by Dennis Marc. Moore had gone into the game with a 22 plus av erage. Charlie Warren and Dennie Strickland took up the scor ing slack hitting 12 and 11 points respectively. Vic Barnes topped the vis itors with 10 points. Marc enth-r a n k e d . and unbeaten Bradley tonight. ' -, : '. Lucas Wins Duel ' The Utah-Ohio State game was billed as a meeting be tween two of the country's best sophs Utah's Billy Mc Gill and Ohio State's Jerry Lucas and it turned out to be a mighty show between the two 6-9 giants. Lucas "won" the personal duel, 32 points to 31, but McGill's neutralization of Lucas enabled his team mates, to control the game. Utah led by as much ,as 14 points in the first half and had a 49-44 lead at intermission.. Max Williams, a 5-10 "rab bit," and Steve Strange, a 6-7 stringbean, totaled .39 points to engineer SMU's upset of Georgia Tech, which had won six straight this season and 13 in a row over a two-year span. Williams had 20 points and vitation tournament at Lex ington, Ky. Ohio State received two first - place votes and 264 points. California drew the other five first-place votes and 247 points. St. Louis received 138 points and Utah was close be hind with 137. Bradley re ceived 111. The last three teams in the top 10 were separated by only two points. Georgia Tech drew 47, Kan sas 46 and Indiana 45. North Carolina, in 11th place, was close behind Indiana with 43. Pitcher Traded To Pirates Pittsburgh (UPD- Right hander Ronnie Kline, who posed a "pitch me or - trade me" option to the Pittsburgh Pirates last summer, was St. Louis-bound today in ex change for an outfielder and another pitcher. Pittsburgh shed Kline to the Cardinals Monday for outfielder Gino Cimoli and righthander Tom Cheney. Kline got what he asked for-if, indeed, he really did want to leave. Disappointed at not being used in strict rota tion, the 27-year-old hurler publicly expressed a desire to be traded if he could not pull a regular turn on the mound. "I guess I got what I wanted," Kline said after learning of the trade. "I hate to leave all the guys I played with but maybe I'll be better off in St. Louis. ATHLETES SON DEAD Royal Oak, Mich. AM -John Thomas Tracy Jr., a seven-week-old son of Pitts burg Steeler fullback Tom The Bomb Tracy, was found dead in his crib Monday. Po lice said death apparently was due to suffocation. The Tracys also .have a 2-year-old daughter. ;- . . a squeaker from Stanford at Madison, 60-59; and a scrappy Providence college team snap ped a . three game losing streak to edge the touring Santa Clara Broncos, 62-60: Creighton whipped Seattle, 77-70. Huskies Pound Cats Coast fives at home fared better, with Oregon State de feating Nebraska, 67-65, and the University of Washington pounding Northwertern's Wildcat, 79-60. College of Pacific's Ken Stanley hit a 15-foot jump shot with six seconds left to give the Tigers an away-from-home win at Idaho State, 57- followed him with nine points. ': The win was Oregon's fifth against a single loss. San Jose State now stands 2-4 on the season. BOX: San Jose 41 Chapman ........... Galvey . Marc McGrath . Ryan .. . Barnes Corl Ashmore Total! G ... 2 ..... 1 4 ..... 1 ..... 0 5 .... 2 0 F 1-2 1-1 1- 2 5-7 2- 2 0-0 2-2 0-0 IS ll-K 11 41 Oregon SS P T warren .... 2 8-11 2 0-0 .. 2 0-1 S 1-1 4 1-1 Robertson , Moore - Strickland Rask Herron . 0-1 Simmons . .. 2 0-0 Anderson i 0 0-1 Knecht 1 ' 0-O . Kimpton 1 0-0 Totals 23 16-1C 9 56 Halftime: Oregon 25, San Jose 13. Strang 19 as SMU's tight de fense broke Georgia Tech's fast break. . East Tennessee State scored one of the year's major upsets when it beat previously-unbeaten Mississippi, 79-60, in the first round of the Watauga Tournament 'at Johnson City, Term. Badgers Shade Indians Illinois beat Oklahoma, 60- 57, - and Wisconsin shaded Stanford, 61-60, but four oth er Big Ten teams were beaten. UCLA fought off a late rally to edge Minnesota, 73-72, Washington whipped North western, 79-60, Denver beat Michigan, 71-65, and Brigham Young downed Michigan State, 79-75. Providence de feated touring Santa Clara, 62-60, Creighton rallied to down Seattle 77-70, Louis ville whipped Alabama, 84-54, and Xavier of Ohio defeated The Citadel, 94-91, in other games. Illinois out-scored Oklaho ma, 13-10, in the overtime period after senior Al Gos nell's field goal with 1:33 left tied the score. Gov Vaughn connected on two straight jump shots to get Illinois off in front in the extra session but Ed Perry took game scor ing honors with 19 points. Marty Gharrity's field goal put Wisconsin ahead by a point with two minutes left and the Badgers controlled the ball the rest of the way to insure victory, and UCLA hit on 44.1 per cent of its field goal tries and never trailed in its one-point victory over Minnesota. New Orleans-Coffee drink ers in Louisiana and Missis sippi drink two or three times as much coffee per day as the average for the rest of the U.S. IT COSTS NO MORE "See Your Travel Agent" Airlines know we can helo vou have . more fun. That'$ why thev " say ' "See vour Travel Agent first." Drop in today and talk over your next trio. See GEORGE LEWIS ROGUE TRAVEL SERVICE We Reserve and Sell Airline antf Steamship "I.kets PHONE SP 2-6779 111 E. 8th 55, but in other regional tilts, home-town form held true. Arizona State university won its 19th straight home tilt by beating Washington State, 94-70; Oregon's Ducks toyed with San Jose State, 56-41; and San Francisco State top pled San Diego State 66-59. In other regional action, Westmont of Santa Barbara downed Humboldt State, 53 48; Idaho pulled a home-floor upset against Utah State, 57 56; and Long Beach State buried visiting Nevada, 82-57. Western Washington tamed Ricks of Idaho 75-70. Wisconsin'e pesky Badgers, not regarded as Big Ten title contenders this season, used a stall to preserve their win against Stanford's Indians. Stanford captain John Arril laga led two rallies that put Stanford ahead, 60-59, with less than three minutes to play, but Wisconsin's Marty Gharrity scored and the Bad gers put on the freeze to win. Santa Clara absorbed its second beating of the year at Providence, although Bronco Frank Sobrero led both teams in scoring with 26 points. A pair of final minute free throws gave Providence the victory, played before 3,300 fans. UCLA fought off a late stage Minnesota rally at Min neapolis to gain its one-point victory. UCLA jumped to an early lead and never trailed, atlhough the Gophers almost closed the gap several times. Minnesota center and cap tain, Ron Johnson, led scorers with 27 markers. - Cliff Bran don tallied 15 for the UCLANS. Oregon controlled both backboards at Eugene while hammering the San Jose Spar tans. Nine Ducks scored in the contest, with Charlie War ren and Dennis Strickland hitting 12 and 11 respectively. Other games tonight pit San Jose and Oregon in a re turn match. Hawaii at USC, Washington State at Arizona,. Idaho at Utah State, Chico at Long Beach, Gonzaga at Pa cific Lutheran, and Pepper dine at Redlands. ChicagcForty-five railway companies in the U.S. each operate on more than 1,000 miles of their own trackage. BULLETIN Champaign, III. - (CPS -Pete Elliott, a famed Michi gan football player, today was named football coach at the University of Illinois. 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While Wisconsin stressed defensive line play in Pasa dena Monday, coach Jim Owens of the Huskies worked his young squad on defense on a rain-moistened field at Veterans' Memorial Stadium. Use Films Using knowledge from game films, Owens and his staff worked at setting up de fenses against the Big 10 Badgers. . Washington, which turned down a chance to work in doors Monday at a pier build ing at Long Beach harbor, will go through a scrimmage Thursday to put its newly acquired knowledge of the Badger attack to test. It will be the Huskies' first full contact drill since arriv ing from Seattle last Friday. After Monday's two-hour session, the team toured Re vue Motion Picture Studios and dined on prime rib at Lawry's on Los Angeles "Res taurant Row." Ownership Changes at Oak Knoll Ashland -Oak Knoll Golf club here, under new owner ship, wiQ open the links to the public to free play on Christmas day. W. L. (Ted) Porterfield, new owner and manager, said also that free coffee will be served to golfers from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday. Porterfield has purchased the links from a stock corp oration. A resident of Grants Pass for the past five years, he is now living at the course. His son, Walter (Boots) Por terfield, Oregon Professional Golfers association titlist, is the new head professional. Boots has been pro at Grants Pass Golf club and will con tinue his association with that course. The elder Porterfield said that some links changes are planned and that a driving range will be put inl Installa tion of additional drain tile is contemplated. f YViiilH1'11 Q303 this $10,000 sea cruising team THUNDERBIRD ii j . wa m !! i- i Enter easy contest DO AT-MOTOR SPECIALS, TOO! SPORTSCASTS Radio stations KYJC and KMED will carry the Med-ford-Roseburg high basket-' ball game at 8 o'clck tonight. Jackson, Miss. 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