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Top Athletes Get Honors In LA. Los Angeles -flJPD- The na tion's top athletes in all ' sports were honored Monday night at the Los Angeles Times 17th annual Sports Award Dinner.- - Larry Sherry, whose relief pitching fos the Dodgers - brought the wtyld's cham pionship to Los Angeles, re ceived the baseball award. ' The college basketball honor went to west Virginia s Jerry West. Billy Cannon, the All- Amencan back from Louisi ana State, was accorded col lege football honors. Jon . Arnett of the Los Angeles ' Rams accepted Cannons award because Cannon was busy preparing for the Sugar Bowl game. Jim Brown of the Cleve land Browns was named top back in pro football and Gino Marchetti of the champion Baltimore Colts was t?bbed as best lineman. Jim Lee Howell cl i c Mew ' York Giants was honored as pro coach of the yer and ..Jim Owens,- vhozs .Washing ton Huskies represent the West Jan. 1 in the Rose Bowl was chosen top collese. men tor. ' ( Becalves Golf Award . Billy Casper, Apple Valley, Calif ., winner of the National open, received the men's golf . award while top woman pro fessional golf honors went to Betsy Rawls, . Spartanburg, S.C. Indiana University's Frank McKinney. Olympic Games star and national backstroke "champion, received the men's award In aquatics while Chris Von Saltza, Santa Clara, Calif., garnered the woman's trophy for winning three na tional titles this year. . In tennis, Darlene Hard, Pomona (Calif.)' college, was honored as the outstanding female performer and Peru vian-born Alex Olmedo was chosen in the men's division Hack Ross, trainer who de veloped Warfare into the na tion's champion 2-year-old, re ceived the horse racing 'award. The nation's top sprinter, San Jose State College's Ray Norton, was honored for his track- and field accomplish ments and Rodger Ward, win ner of the Indianapolis Me morial Day 500, was named for auto racing. Ageless Archie Moore, the world's light heavyweight champion, was accorded the boxing trophy -for the second straight year. Special awards were pre sented to Stanford university quarterback Dick Norman, University of California bas ketball coach Pete Newell, Harvey Kuenn of the Detroit Tigers. Henry Aaron of the Milwaukee Braves, Manager Walt Alston of the Los An geles Dodgers, and Wilfred Smith, sports editor of the Chicago Tribune. Y " wNiy ' BIG RAISE Harmon Kille brew of the Washington Senators signed a new con tract which calls for a re ported $25,000 salary. Kille brew tied for the American League home run champion ship last., year when he hit 42. The Washington man agement has so much confi dence in him they turned down a $500,000 offer by the Cincinnati Reds to buy him. Navy 'Hydronauts' To Seek Ocean Data Washington-flJPD-Navy "hy dronauts" will attempt to de scend seven miles into the ocean more than double the present record in search of scientific data vital to sub marine warfare. - The. bathyscaph Trieste will try in a dive early next month to belter the depth record of 18,600 feet more ttian ZVz miles which it set last month. The Navy announced the try Monday. J The "hydronauts" will at tempt to go progressively deeper in later descents, all to be made in the so-called Marianas Trench in the Pa cific about 200 miles south west of Guam. Eventually, they will at . tempt to reach the bottom of -the trench, which is seven miles deep and said to be the deepest portion of the ocean. ,...r.r . imn ------ 7 LOSES BALL Denny Strickland (No. 30) looks surprised as the ball was knocked out of his hands by Dwight Damon (No. 43) in ; a game of the annual Far West Classic last Oregon vs. OSC.; Finals Seen Qn Far West Classic Corvallis-fl!PD-Oregon State vs. Oregon. That's the way the finals of the fourth annual Far West Classic shape up today. This will be the fourth year in a row that the host Beavers have reached the finals hav ing' won the trophy in three previous appearances.,' Action in the tournament Monday saw Oregon State ease Idaho 49-48 on Bill Wold's last second shot artd Oregon had an easy time in whipping Washington State State 63-48. In consolation play Denver walloped Hawaii 76-59 and New Mexico State topped Portland, 66-61. Oregon's win might prove costly. The Ducks lost their leading scorer and 6-7 center Glenn Moore with a sprained ankle. The team physician said he . definitely would be out of action in tonight's championship game. Most thrilling game of the tournament Monday was Ore gon State s win over Idaho, Wold hit his winning shot with only four seconds left in a play resembling last year's semifinal when Jim Wood land hit a similar shot With four seconds left to give Ore gon State a 49-47 win over Air Force and advance them to the finals. In the first game tonight Idaho and Washington State will battle for third place. ; Consolation action this aft ernoon saw Portland and Ha waii battle for 7th place and Denver and New Mexico vie for fifth place. Wold 'Saves OSC Wolds shot climaxed a thrilling second half that saw the Beavers come back from a 24-22 halftime deficit to tie at 33-33, then go eight points ahead only to have Idaho come back to tie and even tually take the lead. Idaho had grabbed a 46-45 lead with 1:24 to go but Karl Anderson regained the lead for Oregon State on a hook, 47-46. Idaho playe"d for one last shot but never got it as Jay Carty fouled. He sank both Then it was Oregon State's turn for last ditch heroics and Wold came through. Carty paced OSC with 15 points fol lowed by Wold with 13. Oregon Wins, Loses Moore Oregon lost Moore" with only 2:31 played in the sec- ona half. There was no con tact, Moore just fell to the floor. Team physician Dr. George Guldager diagnosed the in jury as a severely ' sprained ankle and said Moore would be lucky to play in next Sat urday's game against Stan ford. X-rays were to have been taken Monday night. Oregon jumped off to a 19-6 lead and after 13 minutes had been played led, - 26-9. The Ducks had a 34-22 halftime lead and Washington State could get no closer than 10 points in the second half. Sophomore Charlie Warren took up the scoring slack for Oregon and wound up as high CO-CAPTAINS ELECTED Palo Alto, Calif.-tCPD-Quar-terback Don Meredith of Southern Methodist Univer sity and tackle Paul Oglesby of UCLA have been elected co-captains for the West team in Saturday's East-West Shrine football game. : . Baubinway, Mich.-(UPD-Rob-ert Smith, 40, asked, a state policeman Monday where he could find a good place to eat, and wound up having lunch in the Mackinac county jail. The trooper recognized Smith as a man wanted for stealing two watches from a gasoline station. . - New York-UPD-Peter T. Ta tanis, 75, founder and former publisher of the - Greek-lan guage newspaper tne National Herald, died Sunday. ife If?, if; point man with 19 - points. Denny Strickland had 13. New Mexico State's Aggies were paced by George Knigh ton and Billy Joe Price in their win over Portland. They combined for 40 points. Denver set one new tourna ment record and tied another Three Top it Tourney Slocks By JOE SARGIS United Press International Utah, Illinois and New York University, three top-ranked basketball teams, ran into road blocks along the holiday tournament trail but Cincin nati, the nation's No. 1 team, kept right on rolling behind a new' scoring ace. jemn - ranked utan was bounced from the Dixie Class ic at Raleigh, N.C., Monday night when Duke's five "iron men outran the Redskins in a 63-52 upset: ninth-ranked Illinois fell before third-rank ed California, 62-48, in the Los Angeles Classic, and 10th ranked NYU wilted in the sec ond half before Iowa's tall and speedy Hawkeyes, 80-75, to bow out of the Holiday Festival at New York. Cincinnati reached the final of the Holiday Festival against Iowa by whipping St. Joseph's, Pa., 86-77, with All- American Oscar Robertson taking a back seat to Bob Wiesenhahn, a six-four junior who led the Bearcats to their eighth straight victory by scoring 28 points, three more than the fabled "Big O." Robertson, however, still proved an important factor in the victory. When St. Joe's put two and sometimes three men on him, Oscar fed off to Wiesenhahn, who found little trouble hitting the mark. The 25 points gave Robertson, the national scoring champion the last two years, 72 for two games and left him needing only 19 more to break the tourney record. Duke Reaches Semi Duke's victory put the 18th ranked Blue Devils into the Dixie Classic semi - finals against 11th ranked North Carolina, which beat Minne sota, 72-66. Dayton which beat North Caroline State, 36 32, plays in the other semi final against Wake Forest, an 80-71 winner over previously unbeaten Holy Cross. It mark ed the first time in the 11-year history of the Dixie Classic that NC State, a seven time winner of the tourney title, was ousted in the first round. California gained the Los Angeles Classic semi - finals against Southern California, an 81-62 winner over North western. UCLA, which whip ped Michigan, 93-68, will meet second-ranked West Virginia, which eliminated Stanford, 66-47, on the strength of a 27-point effort by All-Ameri-can Jerry West. In the only major holiday tourney completed last night, little Canisius climaxed its re turn to major status by rout ing Wisconsin, 80-65, to win the sixth annual Queen City Invitation at Buffalo, N.Y., while in another "shocker," 14th ranked Kentucky made good on 24 of 29 free throws, six in. the last two minutes, to upend fourth-ranked Ohio State, 96-93. Indiana Defeats Maryland Eighth-ranked Indiana, get ting some sharp outside shoot ing from guards Herb Lee and Jerry Bass, defeated Mary land, 72-63, to gain the final in the Bluegrass Festival at Louisville against Louisville, night' at Corvallis. John Maras (No. 55), Charlie Sells (No. 41) of Washington State university and Charlie Warren of Oregon watched the play. Oregon won 63-48. (UPI Telephoto) in beating Hawaii. Jim Peay nabbed 25 rebounds to set a single fame mark and the Pioneers had 32 field goals to tie that mark. A pair of Bobs, Grinstead and Moe, paced Denver's scoring with 21 and 18 points respectively. ' Rankers which had to scramble to beat Fordham, 66-61. Defending champion Olda homa City U. shellacked Clemson, 84-57, to -reach the semi-finals of the All-College Tourney, the nation's oldest collegiate carnival, against Bowling Green, a 61-58 win ner over Tulsa. Wichita down ed Cornell, 78-62, to earn the other semi-final berth along side Utah State, which defeat ed Niagara, 75-65. The Southwest Conference's tourney has Arkansas meeting Southern Methodist and 12th ranked Texas A&M playing Texas in the semi-finals to night. In opening round games, SMU defeated .Texas Tech, 85-65; A&M downed TCU, 72-61; Arkansas elimi nated Baylor, 71-66, and Tex as beat Rice, 79-63. - Dick Hickox, a five-six hot shot, led Miami, Fla., to the final round of the Hurricane Classic against Xavier, Ohio, as Miami whipped Brigham Young, 100-93. Hickox scored a tourney record 34 points. Xavier reached the finals by beating Florida, 86-74. Oklahoma Beats Missouri Detroit reached the final of the Motor City tourney along side Western Michigan by beating New Mexico, 100-64, while Western was whipping Valparaiso, 76-64; Kansas downed Oklahoma State, 67 59, and Oklahoma beat Mis souri, 70-65; in opening round play of the 14th annual Big Eight pre-season tourney; and Evansville won the Evansville Invitational title by beating Wittenberg, 70-60. In opening round play of the Down East Classic at Ban gor, .Maine, Colgate nipped Bates, 88-83, in overtime, Bowdoin shaded Delaware, 55-53, Colby beat St. Michael's Vt , 66-64, and Maine routed Columbia, 74-66, while in the Keystone Classic at Harris- burg, Pa., Pennsylvania down- . . Wo i m' ea Jjuquesne, 1 1.-00 , ana xeiii- ple beat Penn State, 60-50. Idaho State closed fast to beat the Colorado State Ag gies, 58-51, and Gonzaga eliminated Wyoming 52-43, in the Idaho State Invitation al, while in the Far West Clas sic, Oregon State nipped Ida ho, 49-48, and Oregon routed Washington State, 63-48, in semi-final play. . Michigan State fought back from a.halftime defici to beat Butler, 85-80; Tennessee de feated Princeton, 79-71, and De Paul ran , its unbeaten string to seven by downing Marquette, 75-55, in major non-tourney games. BASKETBALL West Coast Con. Tournament At San Francisco 1st round St Mary's 65. Seattle 60 - . santa Clara 00, feppertune oo Far West Conference Tournament At Chico. Calif. 1st round ban Francisco St. 69. Sac State 55 Chico state 74, Cal Aggies aa Willamette 75. Humboldt State 64 Whittier 68, Nevada 51 Long Beach State 72, Pasadena 69 Eastern Washington 78. St. Mar tina 53 NBA RESULTS Boston 107, Minneapolis 104 Philadelphia 109, Cincinnati 104 St. Louis .120, Syracuse 106 Only games scheduled. Tuetday, Dec. 29, 1939 - sipciDimrs -C til aearne racinc on SOC Cage Ashland - (UPD - Southern Oregon college .finishes up the vacation basketball slate tonight and Wednesday against Seattle Pacific in the Red Raider hoop arena with game time set for 8:15. Pre liminary - games mark the schedule for 6:30 o'clock each evening. Gordie Carrigan will lead the Raiders who possess a 2-4 record in their first six games. Carrigan is the leading scorer with 97 points and a 16.1 game average.. - Seattle Pacific is fresh from a " victory over Lewis and Clark college last week and they wEI open with a lineup averaging over six feet. Forward John Payne is the leading rebounder for the men of SOC in addition to having the best free throw conversion mark. The 6-5 forward is pull ing in 11.8 rebounds per game and he has hit 13 of 17 gift tosses. . Center Glen Peterson is right behind Payne in the re bounds stats with a 10.3 aver age per game while averaging 5.5 points per game. Payne is averaging 9.1 tallies per con test. ' Free Throws Troublesome Teamwise the Raiders are hitting 36 per cent of their field shots, but only 56.2 per cent of the gift tosses while their opponents have hit 34.8 per cent from the floor and 62.1 per cent from the gift line. The free throw mark is what Raider coach Ted Schopf is concerned about. The down fall of the Raiders in aj least two games" has been failure to hit at least half of the at tempted free throws. In the Raiders first six games they averaged 52.7 points per game which is less than the first five players on last year's squad averaged. Opponents, on the other hand, have averaged 58.7 points per game while the Raiders lead in rebounds 45.3 to 42.7. A starting lineup is still un decided for tonight's game, ac cording to Schopf. Carrigan will be at one guard and eith er Dennis Conner or Dick Puhl at the other, he added. 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Jayvee coach Jim McAbee indicated many of his cagers are back from vacation and will be ready to go in the preliminary games which get under way at 6:30 p.m. Stanford End Wins Trophy Palo Alto, Calif. - (UPD -Chris Burford," Stanford end, won the 11th annual Pop Warner award as the most valuable football player on the West Coast and will be presented a wrist watch and trophy at the . Palo Sports Club's annual "Million Dol lar Banquet" Jan. 26. Burford, third Stanford player to win the award, was selected by 400 sportswriters, sportscasters and coaches. The towering wingman, now practicing with the West team for the Shrine East-West game Jan. 2, recently signed a con tract with the Dallas Texans of the new American Football league. , During the 1959 campaign, Burford tied the NCAA rec ord for pass catches in a sin gle season when he nabbed 61. He. picked up 756 yards and scored six touchdowns to lead the nation. His high mark came in the final game of the season against Califor nia when he caught 12 passes for 122 yards and one touch down - another.NCAA record. HORTN SIGNED Philadelphia-OIPB-Steve Se bo, general manager of the New York Titans of the Amer ican Football league, has an nounced the signing of Vil lanova fullback Leon Horin. Sebo made the disclosure from his suburban home near Philadelhpia. li Li Li ti and Riverside TT VT All Hunting Insulated 1 FLY RODS l TERRIFIC J f CV- fcfci k COATS & Underwear- and Some 3 II RIIYCT J - V feYi f' VESTS Sweat Sock, REELS j II ' . BUYS! J ? io off io off 20 off ! Jr b TT Missouri In Come Close, Editor's Note: The follow ing is the last of 10 dis patches siiing up the foot ball bowl teams. By DON SWANSON United Press International Columbia, Mo. Missouri's Tigers hope the sixth time is the charm. Winning post-season bowl games has been almost as dif ficult for the Tigers as cap turing the Big Eight confer ence championship. Five times Missouri teams have appear California Ranks Third in Nation By EARL WRIGHT New York-fllPD-Cincinnati, West Virginia and California engaged in holiday basket ball tournaments this week ranked 1-2-3 today in United Press International's major college ratings. Cincinnati, competing in the Holiday Festival aU New York, topped the ratings for the fourth straight week. The 35 leading coaches who rate the teams weekly for UPI gave Cincinnati 24 first-place votes and 326 points. The coaches based their votes on games played through last Saturday night. West Virginia, entered in the Holiday Tournament at Los Angeles, remained second with three first-place votes and 309 points. California, another entrant in the Los Angeles event, replaced Ohio State in third place with sev- Twyman Gains Ground on Wilt New York -(DPD-Jack Twy man of Cincinnati, aided by a 41-point outburst Sunday night, gained ground over Philadelphia's Wilt Chamber lain during the past week in their battle for the National Basketball Association scor ing championship. Twyman, with the added advantage of playing four games during this period to Chamberlain's two, increased his lead to 41 points in these games to raise his total to 1,088. Chamberlain's 84 points lifted his total to 1,041 as the season neared the half way mark. Chamberlain increased his per-game average lead slight ly with a record 35.9. Twy man also boosted his average to 31.1. Li Li Li Li Li Li - Medford, Ore. n n rr ir if Bowl Games But Tally Five Losses ed in post-season classics, and five time they have gone down in defeat. But Tiger partisans hope the tide will' turn Friday when Missouri meets Georgia in the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fla. Missouri won the right to represent the Big Eight in the New Year's Day classic by finishing second to Oklahoma. The Sooners were ineligible to return, having played in the Miami bowl game last year. Missouri teams have come en first-place votes and 277 points. Ohio State, beaten last week by Utah for its first defeat of the campaign, slipped to fourth with the other first place vote and 214 - points. Utah advanced from sixth to fth with 211 points. St. Louis was sixth with 149, Bradley seventh with 67, Indiana eighth with 58, II lionis ninth with 52 and New York University 10th with 43. Illinois, up from 17th, and NYU, which advanced from 13th, were the newcomers in the top ten. They replaced Kansas, which slipped from ninth to 15th, and Georgia Tech, which dropped from 3th to 17th. St. Louis defeat ed ' Kansas last week while Georgia Tech bowed to South ern Methodist. North Carolina headed the second 10 group for the sec ond straight week. Texas A &M, Iowa, Kentucky, Kans as, Villanova, Georgia Tech, Duke, Southern California and Michigan State completed the. first 20 in that order. LANCASTER PREDICTS KO Minneapolis, MLnn.-flJPD-Un-derdog Ray Lancaster of New York, who hopes a victory over Kenny Lane will vault him into a welterweight con tender's role, predicted today he would blast Lane out of the ring tonight when they meet in a 10-round bout at the Minneapolis Auditorium. Lane had a different 'idea about the bout. He said to night's fight was strictly a "warmup" for his Jan. 13 meeting with Ralph Dupas. FIGHTS Auckland, N.Z. (UPIt Sonny Maori. 179, New Zealand, outpoint ed Chuck Woodworth, 182, Boise, Idaho (10). fr shop II 1 I CENTURY (l :Vr-A I for these (f M J' t'jtA') TT TT TT TT Five Times, close to winning bowl games on several occasions and they never have suffered a bad post-season defeat. They made their first bowl appearance in 1939, bowing to Georgia, 21-7, in the Orange -Bowl. Lost Bowl Games Since then, Missouri teams lost' to Fordham, 2-0, in the 1942 Sugar Bowl; to Texas, 40-27, in the 1946 Cotton Bowl; to Clemson, 24-23, in the 1949 Gator Bowl; and to Maryland, 20-7, in the 1950 Gator Bowl. The big reason for the 10 year lapse since Missouri's last bowl appearance was Ok lahoma's -dominance of. the Big Eight. Sooner teams have either won or shared the Big Eight championship since' 1946. Missouri claimed its last conference championship in 1945. Missouri scrambled Into this year's classic the hard way, winning only six of 10 games. The Tigers lost to Penn Stale, 19-8; to SMU, 23 2; to Oklahoma, 23-0; and to Colorado, 21-20. They defeated Michigan, 20-15; Iowa State, 14-0; Ne braska, 9-0; Air Force Acade my, 13-0; Kansas State, 26-0; and Kansas 13-9. "We're not a great team,' Missouri coach Dan Devine said, "but we have a bunch of kids who like to play foot ball and will give it 100 per cent of their ability when ever they are on the field. "We may not beat Georgia, but we will be giving it every effort ... and we feel we have a good chance of win ning," Devine said. BURFORD WINS AWARD . Palo Alto, Calif.-(DPD-Chris Burford of Stanford has been named winner of the 11th an nual Glenn S. (Pop) Warner Award as the most valuable college football player on the Pacific Coast in 1959. A method has been develop ed for transmitting stereo phonic sound over AM radio frequencies only. baY Builders Supply QUALITY BLOCKS Drain Tile Brickc. Flues . 727 W McAndrewi Pheae SP 3-4575 er SP 2-4107 - Li. TT TT TT
