Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 25, 1963)
6 B WEDNESDAY, East Plans 60 40 Run-Pass Assault Against Westerners By HAL WOOD UPI Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Tne East will toss a 60-40 run and pass attack at the West in the Shrine game on Saturday. And Purdue's Jack Mollcn kopf, head coach of the East, thinks it will pay otf in the form of a victory. "You have to do a lot of pass ing with a team like this, where you have very little time to get the plays working to perfec tion," says Mollenkopf. The passers will be Ron Di Gravio of Purdue and Pete Liske of Penn State, both fine on the short toss. Neither did a tremendous amount of aerial ' ' ' j BURKE SHARPENS UP Vein Burke (80), AIl-Amcrican end from Oregon State, and David Parks (81), Texas Tech end, are scon going up to snag a joint pass (luring recent camera day at Stanford, Calif, where the West team in the annual East-West Shrine game is working out. The game will be played at San Francisco Dec. 28. (UPI) Athletics' Owner Vows To Use 'Cow Pasture' Rather Than City Park By JACK BRANNAN KANSAS CITY, Mo. (UPI)- Charlcs O. Finlcy, who wants to make baseball more appeal ing, vowed today to move his Kansas City Athletics into a "cow pasture" rather than yield In his dispute with the city over a new lease for Mu nicipal Stadium. To back up his threat, the American League club owner dispatched General Manager Pat Friday on a Christmas Day scouting mission to seek suita ble land for a new playing field. Ho also announced the Athletics' offices and equipment will be moved from the stadi um Thursday, five days before his lease expires. Looks For Lanil "Pat is looking for flat land In the Kansas City area where we can play our games in 10M," Fitilcy said. "We will play our games In a cow pasture before I yield one point further in my terms for new lease. Finley said the club's front offices will be transferred to the Civic Plaza National Bank Building in downtown Kansas City. Alex J. Bnrkct, bank chairman, donated 8,000 square feet of floor space in the build ing to the Athletics. Baiket also donated the ware house facilities of his Metropoli tan Construction Co. here for storage of the club's grounds keeping equipment used at the stadium. The move to new offices will be much easier than finding a piece of "flat land" suitable (or a major league baseball Held in this metropolitan area of more than one million. Two Other Parks Only two other baseball parks with seating facilities exist in Santa Anita To Open Despite Labor Dispute ARCADIA, Calif. (UPI) The Santa Anila race track will open its 55-day winter meeting Thurs day on schedule despite the lack of agreement on contract terms by the Janitors' Union. The janitors agreed just be fore midnight Christmas Eve to continue working during nego tiations with the Federation of California Racing Association (FCRA). NAVY TOP TEAM WASHINGTON (Uri)-Navy was selected today as the na tion's outstanding college foot ball team for 1963 by the Wash ington Touchdown Club. The Middies will receive the sward at the Touchdown Club's annual banquet Jan. 11. DECEMBER 25, 13 work during the regular season because they had strong ground attacks and teams that played ball control. For the running game it will be little Sherman Lewis, Michi gan Slate; and Paul Martha, Pitt, packing the ball on the end sweeps. ' Big Fullback Ready Big Gene Donaldson, Purdue, who stands 6-1 and weighs 220, will be ramming the ball up the middle on the line crashes. Martha also will be doing some of the off-tackle slants. Jim Kelly, the All-America end from Notre Dame, has been particularly impressive with his pass-catching during the city. One, accommodating several hundred persons, is used for midget league baseball and Softball. The other, a com bination football-baseball sta dium with scaling for about 1,000, is used by Catholic high schools and semi-pro baseball league. But we will play in a cow pasture, if necessary," Finley said. "I will build temporary scats if there aren't any." Finley has complained bitter ly about the current lease in the city s treatment ot the Ath letics since the Kansas City Chiefs of the professional Amer ican Football League moved earlier this year. The city gave the Chiefs a seven-year lease for the stadi um, with annual rent of St for the first three years, as an in ducement to persuade them to move here from the old home in Dallas. "We want to be treated (air ly, liko the football club," said Finley. "Wo feci as though we should demand equal treatment. Bears Get Ready For All-Out Drill Thursday CHICAGO (UPI) - The Chi cago Bears had a clay off to day to celebrate Christmas, but Owner-Conch George Halns told them to be prepared for on all out practice Thursday. The Bears face the New York Giants Sunday for the National Football League championship, and Males warned his team it would have to play its best game to win the title and about $0,000 per man prize money which would accompany It. arrive Friday and work out onlv five days since they won the" NFL Western Division ,i(c with a victory over Detroit on Dee. 15. j Halas gave them a three-day rest after the Lions game, i worked them three days last I week, and both Monday and Tuesday this week. He said the usual drills would be hold : Thursday, Friday and Satur-1 day. I The Giants were expected lo arrive Friday and workout I briefly Saturday in Wngley j tjon Sllitt he believed an elective Field, site of the gome. gam commission would be There were tickets available more responsive to the people for both the game as well asjlhan an appointed group. He the closed circuit television of j said it w ould not involve any the contest which will be piped i additional taxes or expenses to into throe large Chicago halls which will seat M.500 fans. However, both Bears officials and sponsors of the closed cir cuit expected sell-ouls before Saturday. workouts. The other pass re ceivers will include Paul War field of Ohio State and Paul Krause of Iowa. The East team has four crack All-Americans playing for it against only one for the West. The easterners, in addition to Kelly, are Lewis, Jay Wilkinson of Duke and Carl Eller, the 250 pound, 6-5 giant tackle from Minnesota. Eller, who already has been signed by the Minnesota Vik ings for pro football next year, has the pro scouts at work-outs awed with his play. "That boy is just tremen dous," says Coach Harlan Svare of the Los Angeles Hams. "He's fast and has all the moves. He's going to be a line professional player. East Defense Strong With Eller as the anchor man, the East defensive line is expected to be tougher than the West offensive forward wall. So the West presumably will be hurling more passes than the East. This has been the formu la in the past, too. Mollenkopf has announced that most of his backs will work on both offense and de fense. Warficld has been partic ularly strong on the defensive side. He is a slender 180-pound six-footer with a lot of speed. "Nobody is going to run away from him," says Syracuse's Ben Schwartzwaldcr, one of Mollcnkopf's aides. The West passers which War field and others will have to de fend against include Don Trull, the Baylor star who led the na tion this year in aerials; and the brilliant Bill Munson of Utah State. Both these throwers can thread the needle and it is going to be a busy afternoon for the East secondary if it is to stop the West's air attack. STANFORD, Calif. (UPI) - The West and East planned morning drills this Christmas Day as they readied (or Satur day's Shrine game at San Fran cisco's Kezar Stadium. This afternoon, members of both squads were to meet for the traditional Christmas din ner. At the West camp here, guard Marv Harris of Stanford and (ullhack Tom Crutchcr of Texas Christian were named co-cap- tnins. The West team worked out behind locked doors. At the East camp at Santa Clara, a defensive secondary of Paul Martha of Pitt, Ed Conti o( Syracuse, Paul Warficld of Ohio State, and Paul Krause of Iowa stood out in lengthy pass workouts. Teams Start Arriving For Far West Mix PORTLAND (UPI) - Eight basketball teams from widely scattered sections of the coun try take lime out for Christmas today before the (our - day, 12-gnme Far west basketball classic here. Louisiana State's Bengal Ti gers arrived in town last nigiu, while Colorado State, Oregon State and Iowa get here today. These four teams are sched uled to play Thursday night, with Iuwa playing Colorado Slate and Oregon S.ale meeting LSU. On Thursday, Oregon, Wash ington Slate, Seattle and Brig ham Young arrive. These four teams see second round action Friday night with Brigham Young meeting Seattle and Ore gon playing VSU. Consolation games are sched uled Saturday afternoon and Monday afternoon with semi finals Saturday night and finals Monday night. Some of the teams planned workouts today at Howard Hall on (he University of Port land campus since there is a hockey game at the busy Mem orial Coliseum Christmas night. Oregon State, which hasn t lost a Classic game since the event started in 1050. is 7-1 for the season and the seventh ranked Beavers are on the spot as favorites nagin. Elective Game Body Sought OLYMP1A (UPI) - A newly formed sportsmen's group Tues- (lay announced plans for an in- illative campaign to have th six members of the Stale Game Commission elected by the peo ple instead of appointed by the governor. The group, known as the Washington Stato Wildlife Coun cil, was incorporated Monday hv Robert Williams, II a r 1 e v lUcWilliams, James M. Gillis. Theodore l.ohman and Richard McNair, all of Olvmpia. A spokesman for the orgatma the stale to have the commis sioners elected. The earliest date the group ran file (or an initiative petition is next month, according to stale law. MEDFORDt'i-jRIBUNE SPORTS Texas Longhorns Amply Impressed By Navy's EDITORS: The following is the fourth in a series of dis patches sizing up the college football bowl teams. By KYLE THOMPSON United Press International AUSTIN, Texas (UPI) - The University of Texas Longhorns took a workout break Tuesday for Christmas amply impressed with Navy's gridiron ability but ready to go on the field in the Cotton Bowl to prove to any skeptic who's No. 1 in the na tion. The national champion Long horns will take the only perfect record among major colleges to the New Year's classic in Dallas against No. 2 Navy in a contest that has about every thing. A few opinions voiced mainly in the East that Navy should be ranked above Texas have filtered down Texas way in re cent weeks. In addition to featuring the two top teams in the nation, the Qrtton Bowl game will see the UPI "lineman of the year," Scott Appleton, going against the UPI "back and player of the year," Navy quarterback Roger Staubach. Well Known In Texas The Middie signal caller is becoming just about as well known among Texas players as their own famous coach, Dar rell Royal. Ask any member of the team or any coach about Staubach, and they settle down (or some serious discussion that includes all the adjectives used to describe a great player. He certainly passes as well Raiders To To Areata, For 2-Game Series ASHLAND Southern Oregon College will take to the road after Christmas to play Hum boldt State College at Areata, Calif., Friday and Saturday nights. Earlier in the month, SOC thumped the Lumberjacks twice in a weekend series at Ashland. Jerry Shulls, captain, playing in his fourth season with the Red Raiders, is leading the SOC squad in all around play. Shults has scored 119 points in seven games (or an average of 17 per game. He is followed by Royce Ki ser, a junior from Camas Val ley with 81 for seven games. Coach Ted Schopf is very hopeful of his 1004 squad cx pecially with big Mike Shaver, 6 ft. R, from Molalla, Ore., who lllini Turn Out For Brief Practice PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) - The University of Illinois foot ball team turned out for prac tice today as usual, but they planned to return to their hotel early for a huge Christmas din ner. The lllini practiced about 90 minutes Tuesday, mostly on pass offense, in preparation for the Rose Bowl. And Coach Pete Elliot said his team had "picked up mentally" and looked better. Elliot said Don Hansen, a line backer who sprained his ankle the day before, would be able to play in the New Year's Day contest. Tltl'HSDAY HKAIH.INKR-The Destroyer, former World Wres tling Alliance heavyweight champion, meets Luther I.indsey in the main event of tomorrow night's professional wrestling slate al Medford armory. Nick Rovkwinkle tangles with "Mad Dog" Vachon In the semi-windup and there will be two oilier matches, the first one starling al 8:30 p.m. Armory doors will be open al 7 o'clock . Power as Baylor's Don Trull and is a much better runner, said de fense Coach Miles Campbell. "He's the spitting image of Don Meredith plus the fact that he runs much better than Don could. He's something. He's an exciting football player." Defensive line Coach Charley Shira said the Staubach threat was "greatly increased" by the ability of Navy ends David Sjuggerud and Jim Campbell. Both Campbell and Shira said Texas will stick to its defensive pattern used throughout the season in the game with Navy. Stick With Pattern "We'd be fools to change our defensive pattern after winning 10 games with it," Campbell said. But he said he and his crew were reconciled to the fact that "you just can't stop Navy's at tack. "They're too fine a team for any body to stop them," Camp bell said. "The best we can hope for is to slow them down." Texas relies mainly on its ground game, headed by tail back Tommy Ford, the South west Conference's top ground gainer with 738 yards and a 4.6 average, and called by quarter back Duke Carlisle. Carlisle works from the old fashioned split-T. But he also does some defensive chores, and one of his great moments in this department was a last minute interception of a Trull pass against Baylor that saved Texas' undefeated streak and kept them at the top of the na tional rankings. Journey Calif. has shown steady improvement in the first seven games of the season. The Raiders will return to their home court Dec. 30 (o play Eastern Washington State Col lege. Ortiz To Sign WBA Contracts At Long Last NEW YORK (UPI) - After months of stormy ncgoliations lightweight champion Carlos Ortiz will sign official World Boxing Association (WBA) con tracts at New Orleans Fri day to: Defend his Mi-pound title against Filipino Flash Elorde. junior lightweight (lilO-pound) champion, at Manila, Feb. 1. Agree that the Manila win ner defend against southpaw Kennedy Lane of Muskegon, Mich., at San Juan, P.R. in early March. Puerto-Rico born Ortiz of New York signed private con tracts Tuesday for Manila and San Juan promoters; hut must sign WBA contracts before j Emile Bruncau, chairman of I the WBA championship commit I tee, at New Orleans Friday or j risk having his title vacated. Almost since Ortiz took the i 135-pound crown from Joe Brown at Las Vegas, Nov., ! April 21, 1962, the WBA has i hcen demanding that he defend i against top contender Lane. MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON Sonny Plays Santa Claus By JACK BACON United Press International DENVER (UPI) - Heavy weight champion Sonny Liston was celebrating what he called "the nicest Christmas I ever had" today at his Denver home. Liston, who leaves for Las Vegas Friday to begin training for his fight with Cassius Clay, has been spending much of the i past few days playing aanta Claus. He wound up the Advent period by passing out turkeys to needy families on Christmas Eve. Then the champ hustled out to Denver's Stapleton Airfield to greet an 11-year-old friend who flew all the way from Scot land to spend Christmas with him. The visitor was Pete Kee nan Jr., the son of the former British and empire flyweight champion. Liston and the boy, known as "Wee Peter," met while the American fighter was touring Scotland and England in Sep tember. They have been corre sponding regularly since then and Liston decided to bring the youngster here for Christmas. It is Sonny's first Christmas in Denver he moved here early this year and there is good reason for it being his "nicest." He defended his world title in July with a first-round knockout of Floyd Patterson and has signed for a multi-million-dollar tiff with Clay at Mi ami Beach in February. Loser Of WHL Game Tonight Will Be Last PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) -The loser of tonight's Portland San Francisco hockey game winds up with just what it did not want for Christmas last place standing in the Western Hockey League. Last season, the two teams dominated the league. Portland wound up the season in first place and the Seals grabbed the playoffs. Now, Portland is stumbling along with an 11-18-4 mark and the Seals are 12-19-2. Both teams thus are tied for fifth with 26 points. San Francisco will have a new performer on the ice, and he could be a good one. Gerry Odrowski, a veteran defense man of the National Hockey League, was obtained in a trade for Cliff Pennington and will see his first action for San Francisco tonight. Coach Bud Poile of San Fran cisco says he is still trying to swing a trade with Portland He called the Bucks "des perate," but did not deny a sug gestion that the adjective might also have relevance to his own team. Poile said that "I think our defense is set now that Odrow ski is here. Now we're looking for a centerman." There were no Western Hock ey League games played Tues day night. The Seals - Portland joust is the only contest on to night s schedule. Cup Opens Thursday ADELAIDE. Australia (UPI) Young John Newcombe of Sydney was the surprise selec tion today as the second singles player to represent Australia in the challenge round match of Davis Cup tennis competition against the United States. Newcombe, 19, will meet Den nis Ralston of the United States in the first singles match Thurs day at Memorial Drive Stadi um Courts. Newcombe, making his first appearance in Davis Cup com potition, was named in the draw with veteran Roy Emer son to meet the U.S. team of Ralston and Chuck McKinlcy in singles play. Emerson and Mc Kinlcy will play Thursday after the Newcombe-Ralston match. The Americans retained their roles as favorites despite one rather sluggish performance by the 21-year-old Ralston, who threw down his tennis racquet in disgust Tuesday following his next-to-last tune-up for Thurs day's opening activity. Ralston and McKinlcy were set to carry the entire load for the United States in the doubles as well as in the singles. Har-; ; ry Hopman, the non-playing j Aussie team captain, had de-i j laved naming his starters until, I the draw. j i Hopman also announced a i doubles team consisting of! ! Emerson and 30-year-old Neale Fraser, the "old warrior" of j I the Auggie Davis Cup team. Thev will plav the American i team Friday. Injury Will Keep Coffey Out Of Rose Bowl Tussle By JOHN R. LONG United Press International LONG BEACH, Calif. (UPD Washington, which gained its Rose Bowl berth with an attack built around the fullback po sition, will have to do without its No. 1 fullback, Junior Cof fey, in the Jan. 1 classic against Illinois. But this is nothing new for Washington because Coffey al so missed the first four games of the 1963 season with a foot injury. The 201 - pound linesmasher was injured again last Saturday when he broke a small bone in his left foot in a scrimmage nere. During the season, Coffey gained 390 yards rushing, a 4.3 yard per carry average, and was a unanimous first - team choice on the UPI All-Coast team. But oddly enough, Washington also boasted the No. 2 fullback on the West Coast in UPI bal lotingCharlie Browning and he will be stepping in to replace Coffey in the starting lineup for the Rose Bowl game. Browning has some mighty impressive statistics of his own, including an average of 5.0 yards per carry. "Browning is a real good full back," commented a Univer sity of Illinois official, "but of course it's always better to have two than one." "Coach Jim Owens isn't cry ing," said a Washington official, "but he probably wants to." Although Coffey will be out, chances are that other players who missed most of the season because of injuries or illness will see a lot of action in the bowl. Quarterback Bill Siler and guard Rick Sortun have fought their way up to the second string from deep down in the scrubs since the Huskies opened their pregame training camp here. Siler, originally the No. 1 quarterback, only played one game during the regular season as he came down with hepatitis during the second week of the campaign. Bill Douglas took over the signal calling reins af ter Siler became sick and guided the Huskies through the rest of the season. Sortun was injured in the Stanford game in midseason and hasn't played since. Owens has been juggling his first and second units around and at present it is not certain who will start for the Huskies when they take the field against the lllini. However, the unit that func tioned as the first string most of the season had Al Libke and Robbie Heinz at e nds, Jake Kupp and Mike Briggs at tack les, Koll Hagen and Rick Red man at guards, John Stupey at center, Douglas at quarterback, For a Gift of Lasting Christmas Joy ... Come In and Wrap Up A New Volvo! A real going machine. Look at it this way: Volvos are made in Sweden whete there are no speed limits and very little paving. 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 Ion 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 gu to prove it. STEVENS SOS North Central Ron Medved and Dave Kopay at halfbacks and Coffey at full back. Washington uses the I forma tion popularized last year by Southern California, but with a difference. The Southern California run- Top Powers Slated for LA Classic LOS ANGELES (UPI) - Na tional ratings and school pres tige are on the line in the eight- team Los Angeles Basketball Classic which starts Thursday, but a number of individual stars may emerge as definite Ail-America candidates. Already mentioned frequently are guard vV'alt Hazzard of No. 5 ranked UCLA and 6-foot-7 center Bill Buntin of Michigan, the nation's No. 2 ranked team on the United Press Interna' tional coaches' poll. Hazzard's credits come on his razzle-dazzle playmaking ability and shooting. Buntin was the Big Ten's leading rebounder last season and averaged more than 22 points a game. But there are others who will catch the fans' eyes at the sports arena during the three day tourney. For instance: Cazzie Russell, a high-scoring, 6-foot-5M! guard of Michi gan. Barry Kramer, New York University's forward who had a 29.3 point scoring average last year. Brian Generalovich, a 5-foot-4, 210-pound forward for Pittsburgh. Rick Kaminsky, a barrel chested forward who scored an average 19.6 points a game the previous season for Yale. Tom Lowry, a 6-foot-8 sen ior center on West Virginia's Mountaineers. Skip Thoren, Illinois' 6-fool-S'i center with a deft hook shot. John Block, a sophomore center for the University of Southern California who has led the Trojans in scoring honors this season with a 20-point av erage. First round games pit Michi gan against NYU, Yale against UCLA, Illinois against West Vir ginia and Pittsburgh against use. CHARTER From Ashland AIRPORT CHEROKEE 180 AL PORTER AUTO SALES Phone 773 ning game was built around its -halfbacks, but Washington's ground attack centers around" the fullback. Tho Hnckips arp not nrimari-. ly a passing team, but Douglas ; passes ettectiveiy enougn io the Hofpnsp from hunchinfl .- up to stop Washington's running ' game. Thp Hnslnps are a voung team and were not consistent1 during the regular season, they - dropped tnetr nrsi mree games, . but then came on strong, win--ning five straight before being, stunned by UCLA in the next to '. last game of uie year. . : Washington looked like a ; match for any team in the : fnnnlrv uhpn it nlavpH USC Oregon and Oregon State. If the Huskies can reacn mat same 1, Haul Voar's flav thp II-" lini certainly won't have any breather in fasaaena. Holiday Classic Set Friday Although the Christmas holi-" day has sharply reduced this' weekend's basketball activity in the Rogue Valley, a few games are scheduled. - Four Rogue League teams clash in the Lions Club Holiday: Classic Tournament at Cave Junetion Friday and Saturday -nights, a event which will give fans an idea of what to expect; in this year's Rogue loop race. Phoenix and St. Mary's play in! the opener Friday night, lo lowed by Illinois Valley and Eagle Point in the second' game. Friday's winners will play for; the crown in the finale Saturday night, following a consolation match between Friday's losers. " In other games. Crater enter-' tains Douglas Saturday night at; Central Point. Sutherlin will be' at Rogue River Friday night. the boys at Barker's wish Hilda Vargo a merry and wonderful Christmas. - 3655 ZS3 O
