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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATlJ FALLS. flREGON PARR THntTTCBY Orange Bowl Report .... ... Terps, Sooners Campy, Yogi True Jvl V Ion! Foes u P Selections Defense Key For Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. (UP) Tliat old baseball phrase "Good field, no bit" best describes the Maryland team that laces mighty - Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl Jan. 2. The 1955 Terrapins went unde- feated in a 10-game season largely because of their mammoth and mobile line. It Is big, savage, hungry and proud taking more delight In. throwing somebody for . a 20 yard loss than the average team takes in scoring touchdowns. i This was the line that held high , scoring UCLA to 21-yards minus . rushing: that permitted no oppon , cnt more; than two touchdowns; that led the nation In- defense . against rushing with a per-game . average of only 76.1 yards; that - hung up four shutouts. It is Maryland's superb defense that makes the Orange Bowl clash a literal "dream game." because Oklahoma will be throwing the na tion's top rushing attack against ttiat brawny Terrapin line. When . Maryland Coach Jim Tatum was asked what would happen when ' the "irresistible force" met the . "immovable object," he replied frankly: "I don't know. Oklahoma never ran against a line as good as ours ; but we never saw an offense as good as theirs." SECOND STRING Tatum's concrete defense in cludes All - America linebacker , Bob Pellegrini, tackle Mike San dusky and two crack guards Jack Davis and Gene Dyson. Maryland second-string line is as big and almost as good as the first. The Terps' four ends Bill Walker, i Russ Dennis, Tim Plynn and Jim Parsons are seniors with expcrl J ence and savvy. Offensively, Maryland has been j erratic all year. Quarterback . Frank Tamburrello is smart, fakes j well and is rated a fair passer, i Halfback Ed Vereb, the Washing J ton Redskins' number one draft ( pick, is a fast starter and the t Terps' only consistent ground- gainer. The other Maryland backs t are either . too light or too slow to be mentioned in the same i breath as Oklahoma's fleet grey ) hounds, and the Terrapins are par- ticularly weak at the fullback slot , where two converted sophomore halfbacks, Phil Perlo and Fred Hamilton, share the duties. Lacking the big. fast fullback that has marked Tatum's spllt-T attack for years, Maryland has bee firing mostly wide sweeps at enemy defense. Tatum's best gainer all season was the "belly play" with the Quarterback faking to the fullback and then handing otf it Verb. PASS ATTACKS Maryland's aerial game is used mainly as an auxiliary weapon, seldom employed .in the Terps' own territory- but' an occasional surprise jthreat. Tamburello likes to Throw ;a long one when he has second down and short yardage to go for a first down a gimmick that has caught more than one opponent slumbering. Defense - minded Tatum natur ally won't reveal what plans he has for slowing down Oklahoma's swift backs and It may be he won't change the defense patterns that worked so well all year.- Mary land's basic defense is a 5-4-2. oc casionally shifting to a seven-man line against an almost certain run ning play. Pellegrini calls the de fense signals, and he seldom guesses wrong. "If Oklahoma can run against this gang," says Tatum grimly, "it deserves to be called the best football team in America." 1A DEATH NOTICES HAMILTON Bun Hamilton. SI. died here December 14. Husband of Pauline, father of David, Dennis, son of Mrs. Edna Hamilton, brother of F.lmer all of Klamath Falls. J. D.. of San Jose, California. Marvin of Medford. Pete at Klamath Falls. Mrs. Joe Weber. Klamath Falls. Mrs. Fred Gtard of uetroit. Michigan. Wirt runtrii Home in charge of arrangements. IB FUNERAL NOTICES KIDD Beatrice Vlaska Kidd, 39. died Portland. Ore.. December 13. Wife of Hubert. Klamath rails, sister of Carl Palmer. Redding. California. Funeral services First Presbyterian Church De cember 16. 2 p.m. Interment Klamath .Memorial Park. Ward's Funeral Home In charse. MUIR James Rolind Muir. 71, died Dorris, California. December 13. Fath er of Mrs. Dora Branham of Dorris. grandfather of Michael of Dorris. Clif ford Branham Jr. of Medford. Funer al service, Dorris City Hall December 14 at 2 p.m. Interment Plcard Ceme tery. Ward's Funeral Home in charge of arrangements. v o-" mw.' i jyp"- whiH sursey GjfijjPp j J(3 T" . . . ptoi ii.Hi" w hMf Mtt Hn T. LUMBER Corner 6th & East Main Ph. 8167 W J i tMilW' l 72 i j wrfia TOP TERRAPINS Jim Tatum, center, will play a strong hand 1 against Oklahoma in the Miami Orange Bowl, 'Jan. 2. Maryland's j coach leads with halfback Ed Vereb, left, and Bob Pellegrini, j Tar Heei Hoopsters Joins Court Powers By BEN OI.AN By THK ASSOCIATED PRESS This, very definitely, must be Brooklyn's year. The Platbush victory influence is extending south to North Carolina, where the tall, talented Tar Heel basketball team is showing evi dence of becoming ono of the col legiate powers. ' WW Bill Davis Associated Haley Herefords M. L. Johnron Ins. Oregon Woolen Pelican Motors Sixth Street Oxygen Last night's results: Pelican 4 Haley Hereford! 0 Davis 4 Oregon Woolen 0 M. U Johnson 3 Sixth Street 1 High team game M. L. Johnson 9C3 High team series M. L. Johnson 27;i0 High individual game Dave Robb 2,15 High individual scries Charlie Booth 628 MINOB CLASSIC LEAGI'K W 1. Bine's Fountain Bob and Polly's Ice Cceam nound-up Tavern Grems Mfg. Landry Insurance 2:t :J.( At Longe Realtor 19 33 Last night's reiu Landry 4 Bfng's Fountain f) Grems 4 Bob and Pooiy's 0 Al Longe 2 Round-Up Tavern 2 High team game Al Louse Realtor 226 High team series Grems MfR. 2576 High individual game Al DePew 226 tiign individual series uon r erguson 573 AL'TOMOTIVK LtAlil F W L Basin Motori 4y 16 Motor Investment 33 Lorenz Co. 32' 3 23ai Quaker State Oil 3l'a 24' Halverson's Union , ;ut 26 Commercial Shell .10 26 Winde Buick 28 23 Eastside Electric 27 1 1 28' a Balsiger Motors 27 2l Pacific Fruit 22 34 Specialized Service 'M't Carlson Mattress 13 41 ' Last night's results: Eastside 4 Lorenz 0 Basin Motors 4 Quaker Slate 0 Commercial Shell 4 Pari fie Fruit 0 Specllized 3 Motor Investment 1 Carlson Mattress 4 Balsiger 0 Halverson's Union 3 Winde Buick 1 High team fame Carlson Mattress 97B High team series Specialized Service 2784 High individual game Art Phelps 222 High Individual series Jules Hunt 370 Bonanza Tops Cats Bonanza's Antlers won their sec ond straight over the KUHS Wild cats Tuesday night at Pelican Court as they downed the Klamath soph omores 56-41. Tile Antlers led all of the way holding quarter score leads of 20-5. 29-15 and 42-27. Dick Burnett led Bonanza with 18. while Ron Roberts collected 10. Mickey Savage paced the Cats with 10. while Ray Wood chipped In nine. In the preliminary game, the Klamath Union Freshmen turned tlie tide with a 46-40 win over the Bonanza "B" squad. IV I, 36 20 34'i 21 'i 2Ba Sfl'-a 25 31 2.". :n 18 38 o4 $r V ;2K f .it Frank McGuire, the N.C. conch, is a former St. John's of Brooklyn mentor. Lcnnie Rosenbluth, the team's high scorer, played high school ball in Brooklyn. Sophomore sensation Joe Quigg and forward Pete Brcnnan also come from Brooklyn. Medline's lads have won their first four games this season, hard ly working up a sweat. Last night, Alabama, the nation's slxlh-rr.nked team, was mowed down 99-77 by North Carolina's hih-power . attack. It was Ala bama's first defeat In five starts. Rosenbluth dropped in 29 points. In other games, second-ranked North Carolina State routed South Carolina 90-66. Dayton swamped Idaho 93-56, La Salle defeated La fayette 95-81 and Richmond knocked otf VMI 96-54 in a South ern Conference game. Washington of St. Louis sur prised Canisius 68-63 and St. Jos eph's (Pa. I knocked Vlllanova from the unbeaten ranks 83-70. Pur due edged Loyola of Chicago 69-08 on Don Tljurnburg's Jump shot in the last 10 seconds. Houston tripped Texas A&M 78-44. North Carolina boosted Its aver age to 88 points a game as the 6' foot-9 Qulgg and Jerry Vayda com. pleted Rosenbluth's output with 18 points apiece. Brcnnan had 13. N.C. State, which figures to give North Carolina the most trouble in its quest of the Atlantic Coast uonierenco championship forged ahead of South Carolina with three minutes left in the half and stayed there. The Wolf pack's 6-11 Bob Scitz find 6-9 Ron Shavlik poured in 46 points between them. Dayton's Flyers, ranked seventh in the last Associated Press poll, had an easy time against Idaho for their fifth straight victory. Oregon Tech JVs Nip Bend Cagers Coach Jim McCown's Oregon Technical Institute junior varsity basketball squad put on a strong second half rush to come out on top with the Central Oregon Com munity College of Bend cagers 71-06 Tuesday night on the OTI floor. Al Bailey hit from the lane with just two seconds left in the regu lar playing time to tie the score at 65-65 and force the game into overtime. In the added period of play. OTI s Bob fingers and Paul Hatcher picked off field goals, and Bailey threw in a pair of free throws to give Tech the win. At half time, the junior Owls were trailing on the short end of a 34-20 score. At one time the Bend cagers led the Tech jayvees 22-6 early in the game. Wes Parrish and Bailey led the Tech scoring with 22 and 12 points respectively. High for the losers was Robert Marsh with 27 points. m Oklahoma Nation's Top Team NORMAN, Okla. (UP) Okta hoina is the nation's No. 1 team in raniyng, scoring, i rusiilng and total offense, but perennial pes simist Bud Wud Wilkinson fears Maryland's defense will take the bloom off the Soouers' - Orange Bowl football hopes. Wilkinson, in conuast to Mary land Coach Jim Tatum, believes in conditioning his team for vic tory and his fans for defeat. He never hints he thinks his national champions can win. His Orange Bowl prediction fits that pattern., "I think all of the advantages are with Maryland," lie said. "The best defensive team will win in any case, and I have a feeling Maryland Is a far superior de fensive team than ours and they share the feeling." Oklahoma's jet-propelled backs and linemen almost as fast are riding the crest of a 29-game win ning streak, 53 Big Seven Confer ence games without defeat, and have scored in 105 straight james. Toe Sooners beat Maryland, 7-0, In the 1954 Orange Bowl and an other victory this time would all but clear the way for Oklahoma to break its own national record of 31 straight triumphs. The Sooner's first two opponents next season are North Carolina and Kansas State. ONE (iAME Wilkinson tries to prepare the Sooners for one game at a time, emphasizing each victory as equal ly important. But it's no secret the hopped-up Sooners want to win this one more than any other. Tatum's predictions of victory and praise of his No. 3 ranked team has irritated many of Okla homa's high-spirited players. An added factor is Tatum's unpopu larity in Oklahoma while Sooner coach in 1946 with Wilkinson as his assistant and team lead ers see the game as a contest between Wilkinson and Tatum. They don't want Wilkinson to come In second-best. Wilkinson pointed out that In Past bowl games the favorite lost about 75 per cent of the time, but said he did not think the psycholo gical effect of a team's national ranking had any effect. The 1955 Oklahoma squad aver aged 36.5 points per game well below the 1952 squad's 40.7 aver age but many observers think this Sooner edition is Wilkinson's finest over-all unit. 8P".KD IS KEY The key this season has been speed. In halfback Tommy Mc Donald Oklahoma has one of the fastest backs In the game, equally dangerous running or passing. If the defense spreads to stop Mc Donald as did Colorado right halfback Robert Burns and full back Billy Pricer. churn through the middle. ' Guard Bo Bollnger, an All America, leads a Sooner line strongest from tackle to tackle. center Jerry Tubbs, who mayvbe crippled with a knee injury, riiaNte me Ail-America third team and has stood out as a linebacker. Tatum's longin? for revenge for the 1954 defeat. Oklahoma's desire to defend its No. 1 ranking, and the penchant for upsets In bowl games all are "lust interesting sidelights," Wilkinson said. I honestly don't think those fac tors enter Into It," he said. "They don't ever affect the outcome of a game." Maryland game movies show the Terrapins are "by far the best team we've played," Wilkinson said gloomily. "I think we'll play as hard as we can play," he added in his closest move toward a prediction. "If they beat us it will be because they played better." OCE Wolves Fall . MONMOUTH. Ore. W Pacific University fought off a late-game Oregon College of Education rally Wednesday night to hang up a 64 59 basketball victory. Pacific ran up a 23-5 lead at the start but OCE tied It 29-29 at the half. Pacific pulled away again In the second half but OCE rallied and the visitors had to bat tle to preserve their final 5-poinL margin. By OSCAR FRALKV Vnileit Press Snort Writer NEW YORK (UP) For the third time both Yogi Bcrra and Roy Campanella stand enshrined today as the most, valuabl? -players of tlieir craft and on sober reflection ycSi can't find too much fault with tlieir selection. . The honors In tho National League, you may Icel, could have gone to such as Duke Snider, Don Newcombe or Robin Roberts. If you're an American Leaguer you may feel that Ted Williams, Al Kaline or Al Smith should have taken the laurels. But when you compare chunky Yogi or roly-poly Roy with the Immortal Bill Dickey you see Just Hal Wood's Mid-Week Short Shots By HAL WOOD I'nltcd Press Pnorts Writer SAN FRANCISCO (UP) Short shots: A young prep basketball player by the name of Fred LaCour of St. Ignatius High in San Francisco has the scouts on his tail hot and heavy. . LaCour recently scored 41 points against the Stanford freshman team and Stanford varsity Coach Howie Dalhnar says the youngster is a better prospect Uin Tom Gola was at that stage of development. Rene Herrerias, former USF star and St. Ignatius coach, be lieves that LaCour Is the best prospect ever to come out of this area and that covers a lot of territory, Including Hank Lulsettll Tommy Heath, the rotund, bald headed manager of the Sacramen to Solons, played Santa Claus the other night without any pad ding. "When a fellow asked me If I wore padding," said Heath, "I told him yej. I didn't want him to think I was this fat all by my self!" What they are doing today dept.: Ferris Fain, two-time American League batting champ who will be a playing coach at Sacramento this year, Is selling kitchens and bathrooms In Oakland; Jackie Jen sen, star outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, Is working at his restau rant in the same city; and Buzz McGee. former Santa Clara and later professional football star, has Just taken over as sales manager for a large brewery. The $35,000 Tanforan Handicap which will be run on Saturday has a lot of history behind it but not continuous. It was first run In 1899, but this la only the 12th run ning. After It was run In 1 (being won by a two-year-old, in cidentally), it wasn't revived until 1023. There was a 10-yenr time out again until 1933; and the fourth running wasn't presented until 1947. It has been run contin uous since that time. Ballfare CITY LKAGUK BASKETBALL at Altnmnitt .1r. High 6:30 Klamath Jets vs. Bmg's 8:00 Skects vs. National Guard "Gold" Modoc Hunters Many SACRAMENTO, Calif,. tf Sportsmen hunting in. Modoc Coun ty during snecial doe hunting sea son were advised Thursday to keep their heads down. Modoc sheriff's deputy. Gerald Wilson, described one sector as only slightly less dangerous than some wartime beachheads. "The wildest and heaviest shoot hip; I've ever seen," said Wilson. He reported two men who went into the area to rescue a wounded hunter had to crawl on their stom achs to avoid being hit themselves. MWATERFILL A1 jfflil bottledV5 im bond . j&z i ' m-gy jJA how valuable they are to their re spective teams. Don't think this is a "home town" decision. My personal choices would be Williams and Roberts. I can't conceive of any body being more valuable to their teams than tall Ted is to the Bo sox or the dazzling Robin is to the Phillies. , VOTING HINGES But much of this voting, and probably rightfully so, Is predica ted on leading your team to vlc tory.Certalnly, Yogi and Roy did Just that if you can select be tween Campanella and Snider of the Dodgers. Yet the catcher's chore unques tionably is a dog'a life. Remember that the players themselves call tlieir equipment "the tools of Ig norance." They lead the most strenuous ltle in baseball, direct ing the action, handling various pitchers, suffering from battered fingers and crushing contact at the plate as well as doing deep knee exercises that would quickly wear out ordinary mortals. Still you can't evaluate the value of such as Yogi and Roy who also are offensive stars until you compare them with the mishty Dickey. No one will question the fact that, with Mickey Cochrane, Dick ey is regarded as one of the finest backstops In baseball annals. Yet both Berra and Campy are en route to putting big Bill In the shade. FEWER GAMES ' Dickey only once caught as many . as 140 games in a season. His next most durable season saw him behind the bat in 132 games. For the 13 years which were re garded as his best, he averaged but 109 games per season. Cam' panclla's average for eight years past has been 129 games a season, twice catching 151 games. Yogi's Is even more startling, an average of 145 games for six years past, and he also twice caught 191. Dickey's batting average Is more impressive but he wasn't be ing worn to the bone behind the mask. When he hit his tops at 363 he received only 112 games His next best, a .339 mark, came in 109 games. Yogi batted .322 when he caught 151 games and .307 over the same distance. Campanella hit .325 in 143 games and .312 In 144. This year, Campy's mark was .318 In 123 games while Yogi batted .272 in 147 games. Compared with Dickey, one of the Immortals, you've got to rate thorn mighty high. Which means (hat, compared to the current crop tneir selection isn't a disgrace. Gary Glick To Talk With Toronto Club FORT COLLINS. Colo. IPl Gary Gllck. Colorado A&M back and 1956 bonus choice of the profes sional Pittsburgh Steelers football learn, said Wednesday night "I have no Intention of signing a con tract with any team right away." The 25-year-old star of the Sky line Conference champion Aggies and his wife were to leave by plane for Toronto Thursday to talk over a $12,000 offer to play with the Toronto Argonauts. The offer came from Harry Son- shlne, general manager of the Easter Canadian League team. He invfted Click and his wife to Toronto on an expenses-paid trip. Gllck told reporters here the To ronto offer was made on a verbal basis and he Informed Pittsburgh officials about It. 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