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Newspaper Page Text4 B MONDAY, i I ,-' ' - i vV ; ill WBmir$fSm FIELD GOAL BLOCKED This sequence shows second quarter Held goal attempt by the East which was blocked by West's Jerry. Mays of Southern Methodist in Shrine all-star football game' Saturday at San Francisco.. With Minnesota Favored Down Huskies in Rose Bowl By ALEX KAHN United Press International : Pasadena, Calif.-IUPII - Tv;'o old football foes, Minnesota and Washington, clashed for the biggest stakes in the his tory of their rivalry today when they met in the 47th an jiual Rose Bowl game. Minnesota's brawny squad had at state its ranking as 'the national champion team and the incentive of a first Rose Bowl appearance as well as the honor of the Big Ten. 1 And the Golden Gophers Sport Parade n OSCAB FRALEY United Press International . Miami -lUI'D- Baseball, per ennlally In the front spot, bowed to worldwide Influence of the Olympic Games in 1060 with the international sports spectacle in Rome ranking as the number one sports story of the year. .. The summer Olympiad, with Its hundreds of stories within a story, vibrated across the world's sports pages for weeks. Trailing in the wake was the dazzling action of the Pittsburgh Pirates' seven- game triumph in the World Scries. The top 10 stories of the sports year In this corner's estimation were: 1. Summer Olympics, 1 2. Pittsburgh's World Series victory. 3. Floyd Patterson first man to recapture heavyweight title. 4. Baseball's expansion, S. Winier Olympic Games. ' S. Casey Stengel fired, 7. Arnold Palmeri grand l i : .1 ; it lam Ola 111 gull. 8. Canada Cup golf. 9. Venetian Way's Kin tuck; Derby win. ' 10. Jim Rathmann's Indian apolis 500 triumph, The Olympics were out In front by themselves with cyc widening performances by such as Rafer Johnson and Wilma Rudolph the failures of such as John Thomas and Ray Norton, the usual rhu barbs and glittering overall performances. Pittsburgh, after capturing its first pennant in 33 years, went on to conquer the Yan kees in as wild and hairy a finale as the Series has ever seen. It will be remembered as the one when a double play ball took a bad hop, sent Tony Kubek to the hospital, opened the way for five runs only to have the Yankees tie it up In the top of the ninth - to set the stage for Bill Maieroikl's winning homer. Patterson rewrote boxing history with his knockout of Ingcmar Johansson to become the first man ever to recap ture the heavyweight crown. Floyd had something extra going for him, however, being only 25 years old instead of a washed-up has-been living on past glory. Baseball's sudden expan sion. Us hand forced by con gressional action, was a riotous, htphasard affair with the American League taking on Los Angeles and Minneapo lis for this year and the Na tional holding off New York and Houston until 1962. The Winter Olympics, con ducted the dazzling white- JANUARY 2. 1961 t were favored to preserve their status and honor before some 100,000 fans in the famed sta dium, home of the original bowl game. Clear, warm weather made for ideal play ing conditions. ' The game also is being tele vised nationally (NBC). But Washington was no less filled with desire. The Hus kies were seeking to become the first team to win two straight Rose Bowl games since the New Year's classic became a Coast-Big Ten af- . by oscar fraley United Press International 110s of Squaw Valley, via tele vision brought skiing into to cus in U.S. homes but the high light was a fighting U.S hockey team's triumph against favored Russia and Cunada. It was one of the year's most thrilling perform ances. Stengel's firing, aftor lead ing the Yankees to seven world championships and 10 pennants in 12 years, was gasper. Still active and able. old Case didn't go quietly. Palmer's bid for a fantastic grand . slum, after dramatic come from behind wins In the Masters and the U.S. Open, was a continuing story even though It ended with a second place finish In the British Open and total collapse In the PGA. The Canada Cup, growing fantastically in international prominence, proved by the worldwide intorest it gener atod that It had arrived as the world series of the fairways. Palmer and Sam Snead beat the best from 30 nations to win it for the U.S. As usual, the Kentucky Dor- oy, on tradtton as well as Venetian Way's triumph, bounced up Into the ton eche lon. So, too, did Rathmann's triumph at Indianapolis with a record speed of 131.787 miles per hour, it being more than a mere auto race storv as a seating tower collapsed to kill two and injure 50. There were numerous other top stories but for usage and render Interest, these were the best. BASKETBALL SATURDAY COLLEGE HOLIDAY FESTIVAL Final COhlo St. 84, St. Bomtven 82 Consolation St. John's (N Y.) 73, Utah B5 Seton Hall 01. St. Josenh's (Pa.) 83 DIXIE CLASSIC Final North Carolina 7(1, Duke 71 Consolation Vlllanova 75, Marquette 70 N. Carolina St. 09 Wake Forest 91 QUEEN CITY TOURNEY First Round Drake 90, Connecticut 81 Canisius 79, Princeton 73 Iiuisville 49, St. Louis 47 Kentucky 81. Missouri (19 North western 59, Notre Dame 56. Cincinnati 84, Geo. Wash ington 61 Xavicr (Ohio) 78, Yale 63 N. Carolina Col. 92, J. C. Smith 83 West. Wash. 73, L!nfd 60 Michigan State's Tom Wilson (28) holding, Auburn's Ed Dyas starts boot, at top left. At top right, Mays is on top of ball. Wilson goes after ball, at bottom left, and falls on It for recovery, at bottom right. East won 7-0. (UPI Telephoto) To Wear fair in 1946. The Huskies and Gophers have been meeting since 1036; with Minneosta holding a 0-5 edge. Minnesota was favored by 6 points to wear down the Huskies with their powerful line and then grind their way to scoring territory. Tactics Pay Those tactics paid off dur ing the regular season with and 8-1 record and the nation al championship. And the Gophers hove the "horses" to do the Job. Perhaps the most closely- observed lineman in Rose Bowl history will be Minne sota's All - American guard Tom Brawn, the lineman of the year and winner of the Outlund trophy. . Brown Is flanked by an al most as great lineman in team captain Greg Larson, center and linebacker. The Gophers' starting line averages .220 pounds and rarely has been turned or pierced this season. Washington's pride was in flashy and speedy backs led by halfbacks George Fleming and Don McKcta and featur ing the line plunging of full back Ray Jackson. It's not-so-secret weapon is breakaway start Charlie The Missile Mit chell who understudies Flem ing. And the Huskies have two outstanding quarterbacks in Bob Schloredt and Bob Hlv ner who were expected to al ternate on an even basis, al though Ilivncr was listed to get the starting call. It was Schloredt who led Washing ton to Its 44-8 upset victory over Wisconsin last New Year's Day. Hivner Sparks But when Schloredt was in jured Oct. 15 in the UCLA game, Hivner look over and sparked the Huskies lo a 8-1 season and their second bowl bid. Although the Gophers do not have the speedy backs to match Washington's they fea ture one of the best defensive quarterbacks In college foot ball In Sandy Stephens, a 215 pounder who also is a hard hitting ball carrier and good short passer. And Stephens Is joined by such hard-hitting mates as fullback Roger Hagberg and halfbacks Bill Munsey and Dave Mulhollnnd. Washington's line Is led by center Rov MaeKcsson whose job it will be to meet Brown head-on. The Huskies .also have other fine lineman like Chuck Allen, Kurt Gcgnor and Bill Kinnune to give the Gophers a buttle. Independents Clash Tuesday Five games are scheduled this week in the Southern Oregon Independent Bas keslball league. Two ot the conflicts will be on Tuesday at McLough lin gym here. Butte Falls will meet Medlord National Guard at 7 p.m. At 8:30 p.m. Grants Pass National Guard will oppose Wooden Shoe. On Wednesday night. Grants Pass Guard will be host to Butte Falls and Mediord Guard will play Woedon Shoe at McLough lin court. Both games are planned (or 8 p.m. GP Guard will play Southern Oregon college junior varsity at Ashland on Friday evening. A Wood en Shoe-SO jayvee mix which had been set for Sat urday has been postponed. s lit s 1 1 OSC Slates Portlanders Saturday WEST COAST BASKETBALL By United Press International Now thai pre-season tour neys are history, West Coast basketball teams hit the floor this week for the long cam paign which may lead to a spot in the NCAA or Nation al Invitational tournaments. Oregon State and the Uni versity of San Francisco, who won their conclaves last week, swing into action as do the potent UCLA BrUins who lost to Iowa in the finals of the Los Angeles Classic. Coach Slats Gill's Beavers, winner of five straight Far West Classics, meet the Port land Pilots next Saturday night. And the USF Dons, up set winners of the West Coast Athletic Conference scramble, invade Los Angeles next week end for games with Pepper dine and Loyola. St. Mary's which was top pled by the Dons In the over time title contest, 51-48, also goes south for a Friday game with Loyola and a Saturday lilt iigaiii.it Pepperdine. All four teams arc launch ing the WCAC race which will find the champion meeting the Skyline Eight tillist in the NCAA rcgionals next March. UCLA's Bruins, who lost lo Iowa In the Los Angeles Classic's finals by a 71-B5 mar gin after belting two Big Ten opponents, have a week end date In Seattle where they meet Washington Friday and Saturday night in Big Five ac tion. The Huskies have been idle since Dec. 20 when they lost to Northwestern to end their midwcslern trek on mi 'oh and three" note. Another Big Fiver brings Southern California to Berke ley for two weekend games wllh California's Bears. Cal exlcKdcd Iowa to four over times before bowing to the Hawkeycs in the Los Angeles Classic. The Trojans lost to Iowa by eight. Stanford, the fifth member of the new conference, hosts Fordham on Tuesdav while Santa Clara meets College of the Pacific in their WCAC lid lifter. Another brace of weekend games finds Oregon tangling with Idaho. Goiuaua meets Whitworth and Seattle battles Portland Tuesday. Los Angclc.", Slate, coach Johnny Saxlon's high-scoring quintet, meets Fresno Slate on Friday and Cal Poly on Saturday. The Diablns down cd'Bowling Green, 82-78, last Friday after taking fourth place In the Evansvillo Tournament. clean up bills and get ready for winter expenses CITY FINANCE COMPANY 185 E. Main St. Phone: MU. 9-5421, Ashland til iniutant available M oU loam at lew group ratM 1 7 MEDFORD MAIL Ohio State, North Carolina Capture Holiday Hoop Crowns By MARTIN LADER United Press International Ohio State, taking heed of an old expression that New York is a fine place to visit but a bad place to stay, lost little time in returning home today with the Holiday Festi val basketball championship safely tucked away. The top-ranked Buckeyes, who twice came close to de feat during the four-day tour nament, now must look ahead to the defense of their Big 10 title starling with a home con- Woolpert Considers Job Offer By SCOTT BAILLIE United Press International San Francisco - 91PD - Phil Woolpert, who stepped down more than a year ago as coach of the University of San Fran cisco's once-mighty basketball team, may return to the hard wood in the role of a diplo mat. . ' - "I'm checking possiblities of instructing South American coaches as part of a State De partment program," 0the 45-year-old defensive wizard said today. "That's the only way I would go back lo the sport. Coaching players is a job for younger men. But if I could work with coaches themselves on a permanent basis, I might move with my family to South America." Woolpert, now a sales di rector for a vending machine company, feels that sports often does a lot more for in ternational relations than morning coats and and fancy receptions. His Dons of 1959 did a little spade work in that field when they toured the Philippines. "The big thing about inter national basketball is that you really get to the people," he said. Jangled Nerves Woolpert built a basketball empire midway through the last decade when USF won the NCAA title in 1955 and 1956, streaked to 60 consecu tive wins and gave the sport such names as Bill Russell and K. C. Jones. But by 1958-59, the big wheels were gone and the Dons closed out that season with a 6-20 mark. Came the 1959-60 campaign and "Wool py," hampered by a sore back and jangled nerves, whistled himself out ot the business before the season was very much along. Yes, he'd quit all over again. "Coaching doesn't get easier as you grow older, we might as well be realistic about it," Woolpert said. "No game wears down the nervous sys tem more. Basketball coach ing calls for younger men. You can keep a better per spective when you're in your thirties. I still remember how I'd sit down to dinner before a game, take one bite and shove the plate away." Hermiston Gets AAU Tourney Portland - .UPI) - Hermiston was named the site of the 1061 Oregon AAU basketball play offs Saturday. The playoffs will be held in the Hermiston High school gymnasium March 4-5. IMPRESSIVE VICTORY Perth, Atistralia-WPIUMike Sangslcr of Britain has start ed the new year with his most impressive victory since leav ing home three months ago on a tennis tour. Sangster de feated Fred Stollc of Australia B-4. 6-4, 4-6. 9-7 on Sunday to cap'iurc the men's singles title in the West Astralian Lawn Tennis championships. SPORTS n . 9 v . ask the friendly loan man $25 to $1500 TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. ORE. test against Illinois on Satur day. Hailed by many as one of the top college basketball teams ever assembled,' Ohio State and Its super-star, Jerry Lucas, just managed to hold on to an 84-82 decision over St. Bonaventure in the Festi val last Saturday for its ninth victory in as many starts this season. In the semi - final round, the Buckeyes had to overcome a 13-point second half deficit before eliminating St. John's. Tarheels Win Dixie North Carolina captured the other major tournament decided Saturday, beating Duke, 76-71, in the Dixie Clas sic. St. Bonaventure and St. John's, highly rated in the last United Press Internation al balloting, also solidified their claims as a major power although they had to settle for second and third places re spectively in the Holiday Fes tival. The fifth-ranked Bonnies, led by their All-America for ward, Tom Stith, threw a big scare at Ohio State before ac cepting their first defeat of the season after nine straight victories. Stith scored 35 4th in Row Won in NBA By Detroit Nil A STANDINGS: Eastern Division W L ret. Boston 25 11 .694 Philadelphia 23 12 .657 Syracuse 14 19 .424 New York 10 26 .278 Western Division W L Pet. St. Louis 24 11 .686 Cincinnati 19 23 .452 Detroit 15 19 .441 Los Angeles 15 24 .385 United Press International The Detroit Pistons, who only a week ago were battling to stay out of the National Basketball association's West ern division cellar, suddenly have caught fire and are mak ing a strong bid for second place. Detroit overcame an early 10-point deficit to whip the Los Angeles Lakers, 116-105, Sunday night. The victory was the fourth in a row for the Pistons and left them just percentage points behind second-place Cincinnati. Once again it was strictly a team effort for Detroit as three men hit for over 20 points. Bailey Howell led the Piston scorers with 26 points, Gene Shue had 24 and Shellie M c M i 1 1 0 n contributed 22. Walter Dukes, who scored 15 points, also was outstanding on the backboards. Elgin Baylor of the Lakers, however, took scoring honors for the night with 39 points. In other Sunday games, Tommy Hcinsohn scored 23 points and Sam Jones added 22 as the Boston Celtics whipped Syracuse 113-96, and the Cincinnati Royals nipped St. -Louis, 114-112, before a record Cincinnati crowd of 10,289. DEAF OLYMPICS Portland-IUPD-Four Oregon athletes were named Satur day to compete in the Deaf Olympics next August in Hel sinki, Finland. They were Brian Powers and Gerald Buyas, Portland; David Wood, Stayton, and Leo R e i d, Springfield. All are students at the Oregon State School for the Deaf In Salem. Powers and Buyas are milers and Wood and Reid compete in the sprints. We're ?lrmly resolved to go all out to merit your continued favor in 1961. Nothing will be left undone that will add to your pleasure and satisfaction in doing business with us. Thanks for your patronage. Delivered SP 2-5271 points, 26 of them in the sec ond half, as St. Bonaventure gamely fought back into con tention after trailing by as many as 11 points in the sec ond half. But as is usually the case with the Buckeyes, Lucas came to the rescue. He con verted three key foul shots in the final minutes of play and set up the basket which even tually proved the margin of victory. Lucas Most Valuable Lucas finished the night with 32 points and 21 re bounds and won the Festival's most valuable player award. St. John's, third-ranked in the nation, withstood a 34 point performance by Billy McGill to defeat Utah, 73-65. The Redmen led by only 37-35 at halftime, but Kevin Lough ery and Tom Jackson got hot in the second half to gain the Johnnies a commanding mar gin. Seton Hall topped St. Jo seph's (Pa.) 91-83, behind the 36 points of Hank Gunter, to take fifth place in the tourna ment. North Carolina won its third Dixie Classic champion ship in one of the roughest games in the tourney's tjis tory. Duke center Carroll Youngkin was ejected from the game early in the second half for roughing under the basket and several technical fouls were called on each team as the fans littered the court with coins and paper. Control Backboards Control of both backboards proved the decisive factor in the Tar Heels' seventh vic tory against two defeats. It was the first setback in 10 games for the tenth - ranked Blue Devils. Doug Moe and Dick Kepley shared scoring honors for North Carolina with 16 points each and Moe was voted the tournament's most outstand ing player. In consolation games, Villa nova beat Marquette, 75-70, for third place, North Caro lina Slate defeated Wake For est, 99-91, for fifth place, and Maryland turned back Wyo ming, 84-77. Kennedy Shuns Golf Publicity New York - (UPD - Two old friends from service days were playing golf at Monter ey, Calif., last Memorial Day. On the 15th hole, one of the golfers drove to the green with a No. 7 iron and the ball headed unerringly toward the pin. "Go in!" yelled one golfer. "No, no!" shouted the man who had sent the ball on its way. After the ball stopped a few inches short of the cup, ac cording to the current Look magazine, the golfer who had wanted the ball to plop into the cup asked the oEhcr why he had shouted "no, no." "If I had made a hole-in-one," said Sen. John F. 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