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WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 18, laiill .MEDI'OIID MAIL THIBUNE, MEDEOKD, OREGON Y.A. Tittle Takes NFL Passing Title NEW YORK (UPI) - Y. A. Tittle of the New York Giants had to try for 14 years but he finally won his first National Football League passing champ ionship. It was an old familiar honor for Jimmy Brown of the Cleve land Browns, however, as he regained the rushing crown he prevously had won for five straight seasons between 1057 and 1981. Brown's six rushing championships are a league rec ord. Abe Woodson of the San Fran cisco Forty Niners was the only one of last year's champions to repeat, according to final sta tistics released today by the NFL. Ho won the kickoff re turn title a record third time. Besides Tittle, other new in dividual champions were Bobby Joe Conrad of the St. Louis Cardinals in pass receiving; placekicker Don Chandler of the Giants in scoring; and Dick lames of the Washington Red skins in punt returns. Dick Lynch of the Giants, who won the pass interception title in 1961, shared it this year with Roosevelt Taylor of the Chicago Bears. Each stole nine passes. Lary In Punting Yale Lary of the Detroit Li ons won his third NFL punting rrown, although he missed near ly the entire last half of the season because of an injury. Lary built up a 48.9-yard punt ing average for 35 kicks and no one could overtake him during his idleness. Tittle and Billy Wade of the Bears, the rival quarterbacks in the NFL's championship playoff, Dec. 23, each will be throwing against the league's leading pass-snipers in Taylor and Lynch. The 37-year-old Tittle complet ed 221 out of 367 passes for a league high percentage of 60.2 and an NFL record 3fi touch downs. Johnny Unitas of the Baltimore Colts was second with an NFL record 2:17 completions and a season high of 3,401 yards. Bart Starr of the Green Bay Packers, last year's passing champion, finished only seventh this year, although his 10 inter ceptions were fewest among the regular quarterbacks. League High Jimmy Brown, the NFL's first "milcr," gained 1,863 yards In 201 carries for a league high average of 6.4 yards per try. Jim Taylor of the Packers, last season's champ, finished second with 1,018 yards. Brown and Taylor were the only rushers to top 1,000 yards. Conrad caught 73 passes that Rained 067 yards and produced 10 touchdowns. Bobby Mitchell of the Redskins, last season's Champion who wasrunncrup this year, led the league in yardage with 1,436 while Terry Barr of the Lions, in third place, was high in touchdown catches with 13. Chandler scored 106 points on 18 field goals and 52 conversions to edge Jim Martin of Balti more by two points. Taylor, last year's champ, did not finish among this year's top 10. Woodson became the first NF player to win the kickoff return title three times when he aver aged 32.2 yards for 29 runbacks, and James took over the punt return leadership in the final game of the season, averaging 13.4 yards on 16 runbacks. West Clubs Find Road Play Tough By United Press International A group of battered West Coast basketball teams today could testify that wins come tough on the road. University of San Francisco and Gonzaga were the major teams to absorb defeats Tues day night in a group of inter sectional disasters. The Dons, who excited a brief flurry of interest when a na tional magazine picked them second best in the nation, dropped their third straight when Miami of Florida look a 95-83 win. Rick Barry, who has scored at a 34-point clip for the Hurri canes, tossed in 35 against the Dons. Ollie Johnson and Russ Gumma hit 24 and 21 for USF. The Dons probably have enough stuff to win the West Coast Athletic Conference, but would seem a year away from rating among the nation's elite squads. Gonzaga fell at Wisconsin, 115-71 as the Badgers broke the j field house scoring record against the Bulldogs. Five Badgers were in double figures while Elmer Deschainc sparked Gonzaga with 18. Wisconsin Wins Oklahoma State, more famous for its defensive brand of bas ketball, also set a new scoring mark by dumping Long Beach Slate, 01-66, at Stillwater. Tom Bell had 22 for San Die go State, which fell befnte Ne braska Wesleyan at Lincoln. Score was 78-73. And Lemoyne College blasted Los Angeles State, 91-68, at Syr acuse, N.Y. Games among Far West teams produced these scores Cal Lutheran 73 Claremont 62, Pacific Lutheran 94 California Slate 81, Whitman 75 Central Washington 61. Sport Parade OSCAR FRALEY United Pran International John Unitas To General West Team LOS ANGELES (UPI) Balti more's Johnny Unitas was ' chosen today to quarterback the West team in the annual All Star Pro Bowl game for the seventh consecutive time. Unitas heads a squad of 34 players from the National Foot ball League's Western Confer ence, selected by the head i coaches of the various teams. The champion Chicago Bears , and the second-place Green Bay Packers landed eight men each on the squad. The Colls placed a total of five men on the squad; the De troit Lions six; the Minnesota Vikings three; and the Los An geles Rams and the San Fran cisco Forty Niners two each. This will be the 14th annual Pro Bowl game, scheduled for the Memorial Coliseum here on Jan. 12. The (ifffiitiive Squad: End .1 Rail CoRdill, Lions; Mike DitkH, Bears: John Mackey, Colts. Tackles tJniflv Alderman, Vikincs. For rest CirecR, Parkers. Guards Jim Parker, Colts; John fiordy, Linns; lerry Kramer. Packers. Centers Jim Rinso. Paekcrs; Mike Pvlc, Bears. Qunrterhaeks John Unitas, Colts; Billv WHde. Bears. Left half tiarks Dick Buss, Rams; Tommy Mhsoii. VikiriRN. Flankers Terry Pair, Lions; Raymond Berry. Colls. Kul Ihf.ckK Jim Taylor, Packers; .Ine Marconi. Hears. Kicker Tom my Davis. Forty Niners. The Defensive Squad: Ends Willie Davis, Packers; Doun At kins. Bears; Gtno Marchetti, Colts. Tackles Roosevelt Brown, Lions; Merlin Olsen. Rams; Henry Jordan, Packers. Linebackers Joe Fortu nato. Bear.-: Bob Schmidt. Lions; Wavne Walker. Lions; Rip Haw kin, Vikincs. Halfbacks Herb Ad rlerlev. Packers. Jesse Whiltenlon, Parkers; Abe Woodson. Forty Niners. Safeties Richie petit bon. Bears; Roosevelt Taylor, Bears. East Squad Announced For Pro Bowl Game LOS ANGELES (UPI) -The rushing of Jim Brown and the passing of Y. A. Tittle again will be the feature of the Eastern Conference's team in the 14th annual All-Star Pro Bowl foot ball game. Brown, of Cleveland, and the veteran Tittle of the New York Giants headed the Eastern squad of :M players listed this wcrk for the National Football League's All-Star game here Jan. 12. The Western squad is sched uled tn he announced Wednesday and the coaches will be selected later. The 0frii..ive Squad' Ends Del ShnlntT, Gianl.s. Pete RellaM, Kaulrfi. Lee Folk ins. Cowboys. Tackles I lick Sella I rath. Browns; Charley Bradshaw, Steelers. Guards Vime Pininuto. Redskins; Dar rell lies, GtantM; Ken Gray, Cardi nals. Centers Boh Deniaico, Cardi nals, Jnlui Morrow, Browns. Qnar tnbacks Y. A. Tittle. Giants; (' barley Johnson, Card inn Is. Half backs Tun. Brown. Ea (jtes; Don Perkins, Cowboys Flanker s Hobby Mitchell. Redskins; Buddy Dial, Steelers Fullbacks Jim Brown. Browns; John Henry John son. Sleelers, Kicker Sam Baker, Cowboys. The Defensive Squad: Ends Jim KatravaKe, Giants; Lou Michaels. Sleelers, Bill Glass. Browns Tackles Joe Krupa. Sleelers; Jne RutRens, Redskin; John l.nvetere, Giants. Linebackers Ataxic Ban Khan. Funics; Dale Melnert, Cardi nals; Myron Pnltins, Steelers; Ga len Kiss, Browns. Halfbacks Erick Barnes, Dick Lynch. Giants; Ber ive Parri", Browns Safeties Lary Wilson. Cardinals; Glcndon Thom as, Sleelers, MEDFORDrWTRrBUNE SPORTS I Real Pro-Type Football In East-West Conflict By HAL WOOD , L'PI Sports Writer j I SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -That looks like a mighty inter esting football game in the Cot- ton Bowl on New Year's Day ; 'when the Republic of Texas! ! takes on the whole U.S. Navy, j The Nebraska-Auburn battle 1 in the Orange Bowl looks good, too. And the Illinois vs. Wash- ington thing in the Rose Bowl isn't bad. ' But the real, pro-type football will be played on Dec. 28 in the j Shrine East-West classic in San f Francisco. Whereas there may he a half dozen boys dratted from ine teams in each of the other bowls, the National Fotoball League has drafted 3(i of the 48 men who will be appearing in the Shrine game. j Checking The Rejects ! And they are after some of the others that they overlooked j during the drafting session. The records show that seven men who were drafted No. 1 by the NFL will be competing in the Shrine tilt. That's just half of the 14 No. 1 selections un-1 less they've changed the style 1 of short division. ' Paul Martha, a fullback from Pill, was picked No. 1 by the 1 Pittsburgh Steelers, natch. Paul Warfield, Ohio State, was No. 1 for the Cleveland Browns; tack-1 le Carl Eller, Minnesota, was the top choice of the Minnesota j Vikings. Pete Bcathard, USC quarter-' back, was selected No. 1 by the I Detroit Lions and signed with , Kansas City of the American i Football League: Bill Munson, Utah State signal-caller, was at the top of the Los Angeles Rams' list; Chuck Taylor, Ari zona State halfback, was chosen by the Washington Redskins; and Dave Parks, Texas Tech, was the top choice of the whole draft being picked by the last place San Francisco Forty Nin ers. Red Shirts Also Some of the boys were chosen last year as "red-shirts," such ! as Mel Profit, who was picked off the UCLA team as a high choice of the Rams. j So head coaches Jack Mollen-j kopf of Purdue, for the East; and .Jim Sutherland, Washing ton State, leader of the West, are practically busting their buttons as they try to decide a starting lineup. "I guess we'll just have to use Bcathard on defense," says Sutherland. This may come as a shock to the Kansas City team which drafted him as a possible signal-caller. But the West has two other good quarterbacks in Don Trull, rcd-shirted last year by Baltimore; and Munson, the aforementioned top choice of the Rams. Sutherland also may use Parks on defense. Excels On Defense "I know he's a fine offensive player, but he also excels on defense," says the coach, who will be looking for a new job come Feb. 1, 1964. Tom Crutcher, a line-smashing fullback at Texas Christian, will he shunted to linebacking Dennis Butcher Haunts Knicks By United Press International The New York Knickerbockers were wondering today if per haps they shouldn't have let Donnis Butcher see a little more action before they sent him to Detroit in a trade. Butcher, involved in a week end trade between New York and Detroit, returned to Madi son Square Garden with his new Piston teammates to haunt the Knicks Tuesday night. Detroit let Butcher play 44 minutes the longest single game stint of his pro career with these results: Butcher scorde 17 point, pulled down nine rebounds and played a key role in the Piston's come-from-behind victory. Key Rebounds He grabbed two key rebounds in the last minute of play and scored three of Detroit's final five points as the Pistons over came a six-point deficit in the final seven minutes for a 107 lo:i victory. In the opening game of a Madison Square Garden doub leheadcr, John Havlicek's 43 points sparked the Boston Cel tics to a 131-114 win over the Baltimore Bullets. The San Francisco Warriors held off a last period rally by the St. Lou is Hawks for a 110-106 victory in Tuesday's only other game. North Plans To Count On Running MIAMI (UPI) Michigan's 1 Football League. For it has an-1 ually is a driving ground at Bump Elliott counted on a pow- other fabulous passer in George tack. ?U1.1"'!lgvat!!Cc t?uwinthe Bork of Northern Illinois. I The South is counting primar- 16th annual North-South college All-Star football game at the Orange Bowl Saturday South on Passing , " . mlr, Pa"'nS Pyecnmcs . nir , .u n- -r ' Miami s George Mira and Yet, Elliott is of the Big Ten , Maryland's Dick Shiner to Elliott aided by Iowa Coach wnere ln ey 10 success us- counter the North s strong run Jerry Burns, took a grateful as- j ning game, sist from eastern passer Jack RESCHEDULE GAME i "We have fellows like Mat Concannon as he put together) NEW YORK (UPI) - Adel- Snell of Ohio State, Louis Hol a balanced ground-air attack .. , CCN,Y ... and of Wisconsin and Dewey whic i he figured would bring P" f and on Lincoln of Michigan State." he him his third coaching triumph Saturday night, Feb. 29, in a explained witn satis(action in in this game after wins in 1959 college basketball game origin- singling out three of the 15 Big and 1960. ; aiiy postponed due to the death Ten players on his 24 man The North, however, doesn't j of CCNY sophomore star Mike squad, have to rely only on the pass- Schaffer. Schaffer, 19, was The South holds a 9-6 edge in ing arm of Concannon, the Bos-1 struck down by a car on Satur-! this series, sponsored by the ton College quarterback drafted I day night after a CCNY game j Miami Shrine for the Variety number one by the American I and died shortly aferward. Children's Hospital. duties in this game of special ists. The East coaching squad is made up of Mollcnkopf, Par seghian (Ara) and Schwartzwal der (Ben) and if you can pro nounce that firm's name, you may be able to find from them they have a pretty good club, too. They have the same problem as the West: great ball pack ers who will have to be used on defense; fine pass receivers who must act only as blockers. 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They withstand Swedish winters and survive Swedish mountains. Put a Volvo on our roads over here and it runs away from other popular-priced compacts in every speed range... gets over 25 miles to the gal lon like the little economy imports... is virtually indestructible. You don't be lieve it? Then come on in. We've got a Volvo and a gallon of gas to prove it. STEVENS AUTO SALES ig 505 North Central Phone 773-3655 MIAMI (UPI) H happens i completed the job. every year to the big, confident Over in another coiner, Al young men, strong of heart and1 Grugaliunas of Pitt, Jim Ma- touch of hodv, who play in the North - South Shrina (oolhall game. It starts out as a lark, this trip o the Orange Bowl which zurek of Syracuse and rival Bil ly Weaver of t'lrmsnn did get the wrappings off a lire engine." "Shucks,"' grunted Maurek in disappointment, "It won't winds up their collegiate grid work without batteries careers. Then Uiey visit Vari-j But the smile thev got from ely Children's Hospital and; the little colored boy with his everything changes. Tiiey know then why they're here. They clatter up to the white arm in a cast almost made it work. "Can I pick him up?" fear- fully asked Iowa's Gary Fletch- portico, joking, laughing and'er of a nurse holding a red whistling. One, this lime, was! haired bov. singing "Here Comes Santa Clan And it still hadn't taken hold as they milled in the lobby, carrying in toys, blowing up bal loons and gathering around the platform of electric trains set up in the foyer. There was horseplay, feinted shoulder blocks and a tendency for those in the red jerseys 4n separate themselves from those in the blue. Until they went inside. Playing Bigger (lame He took the child, gingerly, and there was Christmas, New Year's and the Fourth of July in the youngster's shining eyes. Tommy Fcdor. a lO-yoar-old from Racine who is hediied with a hip disease, talked bright eyed with "two guys from home," Wisconsin's Louis Hol land and Miami's John Sisk, who is from Wauwntnsa. Wis . and the two big ones walked away friends if rivals Then, as they walked oul the door. Ken Kortes from Louis- There the horseplay ended , ville hei,H hi M and they forgot that the guy be-i reclining youngster of 10 and side them was a Yankee or a ordered: Southerner. Those measuring "Hov. each of vou gus. sign eyes turned damp when they ! this hoy's autograph hook." saw more than 100 children i Thev did. tliev would have paying a bigger game, where anvhow. But Hordes' six (eel. life was the stake. The big, four inches and J9;t pounds said rough hands became lender and they'd better, fumbling and the hoarse voices 1 Thev left quietly. And ou became soft and consoling inc- practice would he more "Hey there, bub," said John- rugged todav Thev know now ny Nichols of Rice to a lad o(lWhv they're banging each other seven with his leg in a cast. Saturday. "Look what we got (or you." j J He held up a toy lank, wrapped in heavy plastic ClfiHT Til intl nl ihic nl f k. ! 1 for you." he whispered. ! The little bov watched with IK I'nitrrt Prevs Inln n.ition;il LONDON (CPU - kid Solo- hig eyes as Johnny Nichols mon. l:'4'v. Jamaica, drew with wrestled with the plastic, like a lot o( fathers will do on Christ mas Kxt. ' Here, lot us help nu," of fered Dewey Lincoln of Michi- Hobby D.ivics. IS , 101. F.ng hi ml NFW YOKK it'PIt - Iconic Mangiapano. I.'i.i, Corona. Y Kan Stale and Bill Swingle of knocked out Jesse T.inco, US, Northwestern. "We got to get Puerto Kico CO tins out of here." I N'urnf Takes Over I SAN JOSE, Calif. (t'PI) - They looked abashed, the big Luis Molina, LW, San Jose, do ones, when the lilllt boy laughed ; cisioned Hobby Scanlon, 1 in, as a nurse'i aide look over and San Francisco 1 101, RESULTS! MEDFORDaWTRIBUNE Newspaper Advertising Scores More Sales than Other Media The nation's local advertisers invested S2.7 billion in newspapers last year. That's six times as much as they spent in radio, nine times as much as in TV, three times as much in newspapers as in all other major media combined! Herman C. Nolen, president of McKesson & Robbins, Inc., puts it this way: "We at McKesson feel that if you place an advertisement in a news paper the result is -something happens. You get action." If you want action, if you want results - use the daily newspaper. (J o ( ) O
