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I FRIDAY, DECEMBER 16, 1955 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE THIRTEEN Teamwork Praised As Pitt Awaits Georgia Tech Fray By JOHN CARROLL V died Press Sports Writer PITTSBURGH (UP) Last spring. Johnny Michelosen picked up a telephone, called a spoiling soods supply house and ordered bright new gold and blue uniforms for his Pitt Panthers. He wanted to give the team a psychological lift. Pittsburgh plays in the Sugar Bowl Jan. 2 against Georgia Tech. but big John admits it took more than new uniforms to get the Panthers there. It took the fine end play of Pitt's "terror twins," John Paluck snd Joe Walton alias Arsenic and Old Lace because they were 430-pounds of defensive poi son all season. It also ' took the determination of a couple of veteran backs named Pete Neft and "Lou Cimar olli, who Just wouldn't give up. Next. -a senior quarterback, wasn't even listed on pre-scason publicity releases. But once he took over. the Panthers won five, of their last six games. Including upsets over Duke and west Virginia. JOINED NAVY Cimarolll led H Pitt scorers as n sophomore halfback in 1951 and then encountered classroom trouble. He joined the Navy and returned two years later but was Willie Mays Wins Second Slugging Title NEW YORK (UP) Willie Mays, the New York Giants' brilliant centerfielder, today officially be came the first player in a decade to win the National League's slug ging crown two consecutive years. Figures released by the Ellas Baseball Bureau revealed that the S4-year-old Mays compiled a .659 slugging percentage and also topped the circuit in total bares with 382. Duke Snider of the Brooklyn Dodgers ranked second in slugging with .628 while Ted Kluszewski of the Cincinnati Red legs was second in total bases with 358. Mays, who also led the circuit In slugging with a .667 percentage in 1954, is die first National Leagu er to win two straight slugging crowns since Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals did It In 1943 -and 1944. Other National Leaguers who have won the slugging crown in consecutive campaigns were Johnny Mise, Chuck Klein, Rogers Hornsby and the late Hans Wag ner. Mays, who played In 152 games, compiled his 382 bases In 680 offi cial times at bat. He cojlected 185 hits. Including a league-leading 5 home runs, 13 triples and 18 doubles. Snider compiled his .628 percent age with 338 total bases for 638 at-bats. He had 166 hits, 42 homers six triples and 34 doubles. Klus zewski amassed his 358 total bases on 192 hits, including 41 homers and 25 doubles, but failed to hit a single triple. Musial ranked eighth In slug ging with .560. His 318 total bases marked the 11th time he passed 300 in his career an N. L. record. Eddie Mathews of the Milwau kee Braves, who ranked third with a .601 slugging percentage, led in bases on balls with 109. Richie Ashburn, the league's batting champion, ranked second with 105. while Kluszewski's 25 intentional passes were tops for that depart ment. Outfielder Don Mueller of the Giants struck out only 12 times for the best showing in that cate gory. On the other extreme Cin cinnati's Wally Post fanned 102 times. Peewee Reese of the Brook lvn Dodgers hit into the most double plays 22 and Bill Bruton of the Braves Into the least two. Bob Hopkins Breaks 3000 Point Mark NEW YORK ( UP) College bas ketball today hailed a new all time Meli-scoring champion six foot, nine-inch center Bob Hopkins of Grambling College of Louisiana. Hopkins became the first player In history to score more than 3.000 points in his college career during the past week when he scored 18 points in Grambling s "8-58 victory over Wiley College. He tallied 51 points the next night against the same team to run his all-time total to 3.062 points In 103 games. The Grambling ace already had passed the all-time record of 2.959 points, set by Carl Hartman of Alders'on-Broaddus In a four-year career ending last year. Hopkins' 168 points In five games (through Dec. )0i puts him atop this year's small-coTlege race, with an average of 33 6 points oer game, in small-college statistics released today by the NCAA. He's closely followed by Chester Webb of Georgia Teachers with 31.8. Al Meyer of Illinois Normal with 31 3, and Joe Girlando of Case Tech with 30 0 Jerry Truax of WheatoV) leads In field goal percentage, sinking .630 of his shots, and Dick On decker of Akron and Frank Davis of MSldle Tennessee State are tied for free-throw honors, each sink l ing 16 out of 17 for a .941 mark. Ralph Moore of Erskine Is the top rebounder with an average of 24.8 per game. Eliminate Slippery Driveways USE CINDERS FROM dropped from the squad for discip linary reasons last year. Many thought he was through. Lou turned up at spring practice and fought his way back to lead the team in rushing with 301 yards on 46 carries for a 'i-yard aver age. Basically, Pittsburgh Is a run ning team, operating from the split-T. Michelosen once said "passing teams lose running Ex-Champ Captures Pin Lead CHICAGO IH Veteran Joe Wilman, a former champion, and Anita Cantaline of Detroit, held the top spots after the first day's campetition in the finals of the Na tional All-Star Bowling Tourna ment. Wilman, champion in 1945-46. continued his excellent sniping Thursday during the opening day's four four-game matches and held a 3.15 Petersen Point lead over youthful Dick Weber of St. Louis. Wilman. of suburban Berwyn, moved Into the top at the end of the third matcb, displacing Weber. In marching to the front. Wil man won 13 of the 16 games. He defeated Stan Thaden.. Chicago: Harry Smith. Detroit: Weber and Tom Hennessey, Detroit, in that order. He piled up 79.34 points to Weber's 76.19. Only in one match was Wilman outscored In the Thaden match when Stan bowled 823 to Wilman's 797. Wilman, however, won on points, 18.47 to 17.48. as he took three out of four games. Wilman swept four games against Hennes sey. Eddie Lubanski. of Detroit, last season's runnerup, collected the most pins, 3.353 as he finished third. His pinnage was 19 more than Wilman. Defending champion Steve Nagy of Detroit, plagued by an Injured second finger on his throwing hand, won eight games out of 16 for 72.14 points and 10th place, 7.20 points way from the top. Former champions Don Carter of St. Louis, and Dick Hoover, Akron, Ohio, were in fifth and sixth places, respectively. Carter rolled the day's best series, a 908. as he blasted John Quinzl, of East Rochester, N.Y., In the day's third match. Carter's games were 173, 257, 267, 2.11. Miss Cantaline, a bowling in structor. ... stole the thunder, from the other 15 feminine contestants as she roared Into the lead at the end of the first squad and held It through the first session. Her loading total was 39.05 points. Cagers Plan County Play Malin's Mustangs go after their fourth straight basketball win to night at Henley in one of the two county high school cage meetings scheduled. The Mustangs will be meeting with A-2 Hornets for the first time this year after rolling to wins over Merrill, Bonanza and Bly in ac tion so far. Henley has won two of their three games to date. The two B teams will open the evening's cage fair at Henley to night at 7 o'clock with the varsity game following. In the other scheduled contest. Sacred Heart's Trojans travel to Bonanza in an effort to pick up their second win in three starts, while the Antlers are striving for win number three in four tries. Saturday night. Chiloquin travels to Talent to do battle with the Jackson County B-League favorite. Chiloquin presently holds an even up record of 1-1. Another Saturday battle pits Malin against Tulelake on the Honkers home court. Casanova Leaves For Shrine Post EUGENE iPi Len Casanova, Oregon football coach left Thurs day nicht for San Fiunclsco and his duties as a member of tbe West's Shrine game football coach ing staff. He will Join Jess Hill of USC. head coach, and Dal Ward of Uni versity of Colorado. The coaches will huddle until the West players arrive at San Francisco Sunday to start prepar ations for the annual classic at Kezar Stadium Dec. 31. OTTO WHITE ARCK-EASE BOOTS Packer Stitchdowns Oil resistant composition sol 31" 3350 36s0 Size 5 to 13 Width A to EEEE Also Available Caulked DREWS Manstore 733 Main teams win." His formula paid off with a 7-3 record, the best at Pitt since 1938 and the golden era of the late Jock Sutherland. Coach Michelosen's passing theory apparently fell on a few deaf ears. Quarterbacks Neft, Corny Salvaterra and Darrell Lewis had a combined passing average of nearly 50 per cent, hit ting on 40 of 82 attempts. And Walton caught 12 passes, eight for touchdowns to set two new school records. 19 YEARS Now that Pittsburgh is going to a bowl game for the first time in 19 years, what is the reaction on the campus? "At first we took the bowl In vitation with indifference." one student leader said. "But now it's the biggest thing out here, even bigger than our holiday vacation." Meanwhile, signs were uu all over the campus reading "Wreck Tech" and "Go. Go Panthers." The student body threw a party for the team this week, but the guests of honor failed to show up. Thev were busy practicing. A mile-long telegram containing the names of 40.000 students and Pitt followers was being compiled "at a quarter a name." It will be sent to the team the day of the biff same. And a post-game rally was planned to welcome home the "victorious ' panthers. Sports World Shorts CHICAGO UP The executive committee of the National Boxing Assn. will discuss New York's ban on the Boxing Managers' Guild at its meeting Jan. 14. President Lou RAdzienda said today. "Until then nobody can speak for the NBA," he added. PITTSBURGH (UP) Art Roon ey, owner of the Pittsburgh Steel crs, today refused to dicker with former Pitt star Henry Ford until he gains his release from the Tor onto Argonauts. Ford already has expressed a desire to play with the Steelers next season. PASADENA. Calif. (UP) The remaining 3.500 tickets for the Rose Bowl game Jan. 2 were (rnhhlurt nn nuicklv Thursday at a public sale. The tickets sold at $5.99 each, but It was reported some already are Deing "scaipea at $25 a pair. MIAMI. Fla. (UP1 Three jockeys were hospitalized Thurs day with minor injuries Minorca in a spill at Tropical Park. Ap prentice Berihic Sorenson suffered a wrenched neck. Chris Rogers injured is right knee and Don Wagner complained of a sore back. DENVER (UP) C.vey Tibbs of Fort Pierre. S.D., today was ac claimed the all-around champion cowboy in 1955 competition by the Rodeo Cowboys Assn. New Record Set For NBA By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tliere was a new recorrf for the National Basketball Assn. book Friday as the result of the Min neapolis 'Lakers' 135-133 triumph In three overtime periods over the Syracuse Nationals. The combined score of 268 points surpassed the old mark of 248 hung up by Suracuse and Ander son, Ind., in five overtimes in 1949. Syracuse won that one 125-123. The only other game played Thursday night was a defensive battle by comparison as the Phil adelphia Warriors. Eastern Divi sion leaders, turned back the Fort Wayne Pistons 80-73. The Nats tied the score in regu lation time at 105-all on Jim Tur ner's Jump shot with seven sec onds remaining. Chuck Mencel saved a 116-116 tie for the Lakers on a push shot with seven sec onds left in the first overtime. Ed Conlin's two free throws for Syra cuse deadlocked the game at 125 to send it into the third overtime. Ed Kalafat finally ended matters with the clinching basket with 40 seconds remaining. The score was tied 17 times during the game. ITS HERE! en your me npy TODAY! Htn't nliU.i iMty far (to WW ywt ...flmsm iMf hM ttew T. D. H MH far mr km ar Km H Tfktfallum LUMBER Corner So. 6th & East Main Ph. 8167 Out Of Amu dm tla c4.a i Weekend Hunting Outlook PORTLAND W There are plenty of waterfowl in the northern Willamette and Tualatin Valley aren. the Ortgon State Game Commission reported in Its weekly bulletin Thursday, but continuing high water in the streams has made success spotty. There is spotty success In some other areas too and poor success McGuire Tabbed TopCager By OSCAR FRALKY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UP) Dick Mc Guire, a man who makes his living playing professional basketball for the New York Knickerbockers, must be the most wide-eyed man in big time sports. McGuire ts one of those rare oddities in pro basketball: A "little" man who barely nudses six feet. Yet he is the playmaker and sparkplug of the Knicks. But personally and physically he is "wide-eyed." Brown-haired Dick at 29 is a confirmed bachelor whose eyes get round and startled when he Is asked for an autograph or when he is brought Into contract with the opposite, sex. And on the court he has the most astounding peripher al vision that the pros have tried to combat. Peripheral vision, as I under stand It, concerns the ability to see far to the side while looking straight ahead. McGuire has it to an astounding measure. Slater Martin, who plays for the Minneapolis Lakers and at five feet, 10 Inches is the "midget" of pro basketball ranks, sums it up like this: "McGuire must have eyes in the soles of his feet and the back of his head." A player who is modest to the point of reticence, McGuire is one of the finest "team" men in sports. He would much rather get off a good pass than make a basket. "It becomes annoying at times." says Coach Joe Lapchick. "I've even made bets with him that he won't take a certain number of shots In a game, trying to get him to take some shots because he is a great outside shooter as well as having a real great driving lavup shot. But you Just can't get him to shoot." Don't get the Idea from thai statement that the quiet man can't hit the hoop. In recent games against Philadelphia and Roches ter he scored 28 points and 23 noints. respectively. But much more typical was his latest con test against Minneapolis when he was well content with five points. "Just so we win." he says In his monosyllabic manner. "That's rea'lv all that matters." Tills self subjugation as well as a'i Intense desire to heln other members of the team makes Mc- OiUie the best-liked player on the Knicks. They all call him "Dickie" and that "ie" Is a mark of true affection. Starting at St. John's, McGuire .went to Dartmouth in the Navy V-7 urogram. Ihen to Great Lakes nnd finally back to finish at St John's. He was a three-time all metropolitan selection and twice named the New York area's most valuable player. Pee Wee Reese Sigr ns Bum Pact BROOKLYN. N.Y. (UP) The Dodgers may not play in Brook. lvn forever, but it's starting to look as If Pee Wee Reese will be the Dodger shortstop that long. Kentucky's "Little Colonel" from Louisville, who found a home in Ebbets Field In 1940, became the first member of the world cham pions to fall in line for the 1956 season today, and he got a husky raise that boosted him to about $40,000 in salary. Headquarters For WINTER SPORTS ICE SKATES Wto '16" SKI PARKAS '7" u,W SKI PANTS 7" toW Sleds-Toboggans-Skis All sold on Easy Terms Contract or Lay-away The Gun Store 714 Main Ph. 383 In others. The report by areas: Northwest Waterfowl: Spotty success pros pects. Elk: Special permit season In Clatsop County holds fairly good prospects. Southwest Rogue Rlvrr Valley holds scat tered small bands of ducks and success is spotty. Coos County has had fair hunting and if rains con tinue duck shooting should be ex cellent. Central Waterfowl: Poor. Deer: Special Alfalfa district deer season successful for those hunters beating the brush. Northeast Waterfowl: Umatilla shooting has been poor with ducks flying high; Wallowa County, though, has had some good reports espe cially along upper Prairie Creek and In the valley north ol Wallowa. Near Enterprise there are large flocks of ducks feeding in the stubble fields and haystacks. Union County hunting has been fair to good. Elk: Cottonwood controlled sea son opens Dec. 17 and hunting should be very good. Roads may be bad and camping conditions are pour. Southeast Generally poor In the southeast region although there has been some fair duck shooting in Harper Valley of Malheur County, along the river. Santee Said Not Worried NEW YORK (UP) Wes Santee. who proved he's in shape for top notch competition by running the fastest flat-floor mile ever seen in this area, says he Isn't worried by the AAU's new investigation of his amateur status. "I'd be heartbroken if not al lowed to run for the United States In the Olympics," said the Marine lieutenant last night after clocking 4:10.2 for the mile In a special handicap meet here. "But I'm not worried, because my conscience Is clear," Santee said. "I never made demands on meet directors. I have always ac cepted expenses In good faith and made full reports on them." Santee was suspended once by the Missouri Valley AAU on charges he accepted too much ex pense money for competing In meets In California last summer. The suspension was lifted a short time later by the same group's board of directors. But the national AAU convention In Louisville. Ky., voted on Dec. 4 to Investigate the case again. 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