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,
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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.
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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.
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