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THURSDAY, JANUARY 26, 1956 HERALD AND NEWS," KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PAGE NINE n m wis, imm Ml ?plni i Russians Favored To Snare Team Honors By CHARLES RIDLEY lulled Press Sports Writer CORTINA, Italy (UP) The seventh and biggest winter Olym pics Games of modern times open today in this chalet-studded village a mile high in the Dolomite Alps, with Russia picked to win the un official team championship. Signaling the start of the games were the formal words by Italian President Giovanni Gronchi in the 13.000-seat Olympic Stadium: "I declare open the Seventh Olympic Winter Qames of Cortina DIAmpezzo, celebrating the 16th Olympiad of the modern era." Next on the program was the solemn Olympic oath, intoned for the first time in the modern games by a woman athlete pretty Gui . liana Chenal Minuzzo, the Italian women's skiing champion: "We swear that we will take part in the Olympic Games in fair competition, respecting the regu lations which govern them and with the desire to participate in the true spirit of sportsmanship for the glory of sport and for the honor of our country." APPEARANCE Mrs. Minuzzo represented 947, athletes from a record number of 32 competing countrie3. including Russia. It marked the Soviets' first appearance in the Winter Games since the czarist days. The Olympic flame, symbol of the spirit of sportsmanship since ancient Grecian times, was placed on its mounting by Italian speed skating champion Guldo Carol). It will burn until the games end Feb. 5. ' - The athletes and various team officials lined up for the opening parade in the narrow streets of this famed ski town. The streets like the ski runs were covered Ex-Stars Named To Fame Hall NEW. YORK' lPI Hank' Green- herg, who in 1938 came within three of breaking Babe Ruth's rec ord of 60 home runs, and Joe Cronin, the most expensive player in baseball, took their places alongside the game's immortals to day in Baseball's Hall of Fame. The two. slugging right-handed hitters earned membership to- the shrine at Cooperstown, N. Y., yes terday when they received more than the necessary 75 per cent of the vote of the 10-year members of the Baseball Writers' Assn. They became the 80th and 81st Hall of Famers. Greenberg was named on 164 of the 193 ballots cast to 152 for Cronin. Only players active in the 1930-50 period Were eligible and they could not have been active as a coach or manager within the last five years. The pair will be inducted formally at (he Coopers town Museum next July. Grecnberg. 45, who quit as a player in 1947, now Is In his sixth year as general manager of the Cleveland Indians. Cronin, 49, has been general manager of the Boston Red Sox since 1948, two years after, he re tired as a player. In 1934 he was sold by Washington to Boston for a record" price of $250,000 and Im mediately was named manager of the Red Sox. In all, 130 former players re ceived mention, including several who were not eligible because their playing careers had ended before 1930. ' Charlie fRedl Ruffing, an out standing pitcher with the New York Yankee pennant winners in the '30s and '40s, was third with 97 votes. Other top vote-getters were Edd Roush, 91; Lefty Gomez. HO- Hftlr Wilnn Hi- Tnnv Tj77jri. (64 ' ' Greenberg. who broke in with the Detroit Tigers In 1930 and be came th regular first, baseman In 1933. clouted 331 major league nome runs .to rank ninth among the all-time home run hitters. In 1937. he drove in 183 runs, one be hind the American League record set by Gehrig. The next year, he Cammed 58 home runs to tie Jim my Foxx's record for right-handed miters. In 1946. his last year with De troit, he led the league in home runs, for the fourth time. He was sold to Pittsburgh Jan. 18. 1947. and finished his playing career with the Pirates. He was released at his own reauest at the end of the '47 season to become part own er of the Indians. He has a life time batting mark of .313. Cronin. one of the createst hit ting shortstops of all time, started with Pittsburgh. He came into his own at Washington, where he Marred from 1928 through 1934. He succeeded waiter Johnfon as man ager at the end of the 1932 season and led the Senators to a pennant in 1933. He was the regular Red Sox 'hortstop through 1945. winding up with a lifetime mark of .302. He Is a member of the 2.000-hit club with 2.285 in 2.124 games over a 20-year span. Skippy 7 Toll Tins DOG Cfc FOOD JV Buy Low Food Center with snow delivered not from the skies but by snow shovels. - CORTINA D'Ampezzo. Italy A The honor of carrying the U.S. flag In the colorful parade opening the seventh Olympic Games Thursday went to husky Jim Btck ford. 43-year-old bobsledder from Saranac Lake, N.Y., who is oar ticlpating in his fourth Olympics. He is a forest ranger. According to U.S. custom, Blck ford did not dip the Stars and Stripes when he passed President Giovanni Gronchi of Italy. Instead the Americans honored the white haired executive with a snappy eyes right as they paraded past him to the cheers of the crowd of 12,000 in the packed stadium. Cortina hasn't had a good snow fall in three weeks. Until Wednes day the streets were bare and the ski runs so icy and rockstrewn that cxperis warned that next week's downhill ski run could be "a race of death." However, the only events sched uled today were two hockey matches pitting Italy against Aus tria and Uannda against Germany. HEADS PARADE In tlie Impressive, flag - waving parade of nations, the teams lined up with Greece, as originator of the games, at the head of the pro cession. Other countries followed in Italian alphabetical order, with host Italy bringing up the rear. East and West Germany were represented by a single team and marched under a single, banner. This prompted Avery Brundage of Chicago, president of the Interna tional Olympic Committee, to re mark that "In the field of sport we have succeeded where the poli ticians failed." Officially, the Olympics are not a contest between nations but be tween Individuals and teams. But unofficially, 'most experts agree lhat Russia is the nation to beat in these games. For their return to the winter games, the Russians have the largest squad' of the competing teams 114 officials, helpers and athletes. And although they have suffered six of the 29 injuries in; pre-game workouts, they are fa vored lo win six of the 24 gold medals at stake. . D. Stricklin Grabs Point Lead With 316 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Tall Dick Stricklin of Seattle University stole the basketball scoring show from the little guvs this week In the Pacific North west, taking over top spot among the oollegians with a total of 316 for 15 games. The 21.1 average of the 6 foot 1 inch Chieftain center also was tops for the region. Loren Anderson of Seattle Pa cific was pushed from first down to 4th as Jimmy Winters of Port land University moved into 2nd with 315 points and Oregon Stale's Dave Gambee grabbed 3rd with 297. Anderson had 290 points when the books were closed for the week, on Saturday. Ted Schadewitz of Eastern Ore gon, a contender for the leader ship all last season, moved into 5th place with 289 and Larry Beck of Washington State, held to 6th with 288. Beck Is leading the Pa cific Coast Conference scorers with 119 points after six games; Gam bee is second with 108. - Southern Oregon College has two men in the Top Ten, Bill Hollings wcrth rating 7th- with .287 and Lloyd Hoffine 9lh with 274. Lin field's Bill Machamer is 8th with 283 and the 10th man is Seattle Pacific's Max Jerman. with 271. Gambee is the field goal leader with 112 and Stricklin tops the group in free tosses with 108. The scoring aces: G FG FT TP 15 104 108 316 16 108 99 315 16 112 73 297 16 95 100 290 14 103 83 289 16 98 92 288 14 94 99 287 15 101 82 283 14 102 70 274 16 97 77 271 Stricklin. SU Winters, Portland Gambee, OSC Anderson, SePac -Schadewitz. EOC Beck. WSC Hollingsworth.SOC Machamer. Llnf, Hoffine, SOC Jerman, SePac , Joey Giambra Tops Andrews NORFOLK Va. ft Joey Gi ambra is nearer a crack at the world middleweight boxing cham pionship after a fast finish Wednesday night gave him a un animous 10-round decision over Al Andrews. Giambra. from Buffalo. NY., swept. the last three rounds on the cards of referee Elder Craft, who voted 97-88 and judges John Bur ton 196-94) and Charles Ford (96 95 1. Giambra weighed 158 and An drews, of St. Paul. Minn., 1613t. A crowd of 3.000 watched the na tionally televised fight in Norfolk's City City Auditorium. MclNTYRE TRAVEL SERVICE Your Experienced Agent WILLARD HOTEL Phene 3011 mm COLLEGE BASKETBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Wednesday's Results FAR WEST Southern Oregon 69, Oregon Tech 66 - - Utah 87, Hawaii 77 . Montana 72, St. Francis (Pa) 56 Colorado 72, Air Force All-Stars ' EAST :.).'. Yale 76. Fordham. 68 St. Josephs (Pa 74, West Chester Iona 77, Siena 66 SOUTH Houston 95. Miami tFlal. 77 Tusculum 83. Mnryville tTenn) 63 MIDWEST Ohio Unlv 89, Toledo 79 89 Baldwin-Wallace 92. Youngstown Ball State 79, Indiana State 63 South Dakota State 90, Morning side 69 PRO BASKETBALL Wednesday's Schedule Minneapolis 104. New York 95 Fort Wayne 101, Boston 100 Philadelphia 112. Syracuse 100 St. Louis 114, Rochester 106 '56 May Be Year For Mick By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK (UP) Hope surges high in the heart of Mickey Mantle today that this will be the year he lives up to his billing as the "new Joe DiMagglo." That was the tag the New York Yankees hung on him when he came up In 1951. For here was a youngster with everything in. the way of speed and power. But, to now, he hasn't made It. There have, however, been ex tenuating circumstances. The kid from Oklahoma has been plagued by injuries. Fighting off osteomye litis of the' ankle, he also has been crippled from time to time by a bad knee and a thigh injury. Yet most of his troubles wore compounded by his advance pub licity and his willingness to be lieve It. Club officials began rush ing out with a tape measure every time he blasted a home run. When he struck a prodigious . blow at Washington in 1953 it was meas ured at 565 feet. HOME RUN This, plus the ballplayers' slo gan that "home run hitters ride in Cadillacs," naturally had Its effect on a youngster who reputed ly would hit for fantastic averages if he concentrated his speed on base hus. Yet. Mantle was home run crazy, " " .. His strikeout figures of last sea son are an illustration. He fanned 97 times. Eighty of those were accumulated by this switch hitter while batting left handed. That's the side from .which he hits the great majority of his home runs. Mickey won the American League home run title last season with a not too remarkable total of 37. It Is his only departmental championship, aside from 129 runs scored in 1954, in five years. Compare his figures with Dl Maggio's first five years and you'll see how far short he has fallen of the immortal Yankee Clipper he was supposed to re place. BEST MARKS Mantle's best marlcs In five sea sons are 37 homers, 102 runs bat ted in and a.311 average. Only once did he top 30 in homers and only once has he surpassed the century mark In RBI's. DIMaggio's best -marks In his first five years Included a home run championship with 48 and 167 runs batted in as a sophomore plus two batting championships with .381 and .352. DiMag in those five years sver nqed better than 35 homers, 138 RBI's and never was under .323 in the batting averages. Mantle's averages are 24 home runs, 71 RBI's and only twice has he sur passed .300. Mickey, it is clear, has a long way to go to become the "new DiMaggio." Yet you can't blame him for being hopeful as he faces another season. His legs, he reveals, are pain-free and fit for the 1irst time in his major league career. And he Indicated that he was ready to accept Manager Casey Stengel's theory that he should stop swing ing so hard, concentrate on get ting his hits and let the home runs come at will. If he does, he finally may arrive as a great player. Michaelis Leads SHA Dean Michaelis set a new sea sonal scoring high Tuesday night at Bly as the Sacred Heart Trojans turned back the host Bobcats 58-39 in a non-league contest. Michaelis, SHA sharp-shooter, netted 32 points for high honors. Sacred Heart held a 28-20 half time margin. The academy also captured the B game, 45-39. Broke . i Adjustment 119 All Makes Dugan & Mest 410 U. tth Ph. 4111 11 I 'ml Til rFf. TOURNAMENT PAIRINGS were given a going over by Marcy Hunt, right, and Marcy Garich, left, as the two women keglers await the second night of the 16th annual Women's City Bowling Tournament which continues tonight at Lucky Lanes. Hunt is the women's city secre tary. Team play will resume tonight and the tourney will close Sunday with singles and doubles. Current leaders in the team division are Pelican Drive Inn, Medo-Land Creamery and Klamath Flower Shop, each with a 256) score. The public is invited. AUTOMOTIVE LEAGUE W Bailn Moton 57 2.1 Xl'k 37 37 Lorent Co. Winde Buick . 43 commercial pntn 4.1 Motor Investment ' '42 Ea-itside Electric 41 'i 38' 42 HalversQiVi Union . 3fl'.a Balainer Motors 1 38 Quaker State Oil 37'4 42 4 Pacific Fruu i' Specialized Service 3ftfc 44! Carlson Mattres 21 59 Laat night'i results: Hnlverson'i 3 Carlson 1 Specialized 3 Pneiflr Fruit 1 Commercial Shell 4 Motor Investment 0 wjnde Buick 3 Lorenx 1 Balstgrr Motors 3 Quaker Slate 1 Buin Motors 2 EaiUide Blectjjc 2 High team tfame Commercial Shell 1030 High' tegm series - Commercial Shell 2A31 , , . . , High individual game Earl Keeney 226; Bob Morrison 220 High individual series 'Earl Keeney MAJOR CLASSIC LEAGUE W 1. M. 'L. Johnson - ' " 4Hli 31 '3 Haley Hereford's 4.v 34'a Bill Davis Associated . 43 37 Pelican Motors 40 40 Oregun Woolen 38 44 Sixth Street Oxygen 27 53 Last nlaht'i remits: Pelican 3 Oregon Woolen' 1 m. l. jnnnKtm J naiey uereinras 1 Davit Associated 1 Sixth Street 3 Hlsh team same M, L. Johnson fl03 High team series -M. L. Johnson High individual game Dave Robb 224; Venn Brandon 224 High individual series Dave Robb 623 MAJOR CLASSIC LEAGUE W 1 Bob and Polly's 43 3 Round-Up 42 3 Bing's Fountain , . ' 41 3 Landry Insurance 39- 4 Gremt Mfg. 39 4 Al Longe Realtor ,36 4 Last night's results: Landry 0 Bob and Polly's Al Longe 4 Bing's Fountain 0 Grems Mfg. 4 Round-Up 0 High team game Bob and Polly's R0R High team scries Bob and Polly's 2(W7 High individual game Hal Geiger 234 High individual series Don Mahaney Protests Fly In NBA Play; Hawks Win By UNITED PRESS Two more protests were headed today for the desk of President Maurice Podoloff of the National Basketball Assn. one from the Rochester Royals and the other from the New York Knickerbock ers. Technical foul calls were the basis of both squawks as the re sult of games Wednesday night In which the St. Louis Hawks de feated Rochester. 114-106, in St. Louis, and the Minneapolis Lakers defeated the Knicks, 104-S5, in Minneapolis. In other Wednesday games, the Philadelphia Warriors stretched their Eastern Division lead to 4'j games by beating the Syracuse Nationals. 112-100. and the Fort Wayne Pistons Increased their Western Division lead to the same amount by nipping the Boston Celtics, 101-100. TRACK MELBOURNE Dave Stephens. Australia's bare-footed milkman, tan 6 miles In 27 minutes. 54 sec onds to eclipse Emil Zatopek's world record by 5.2 seconds. JUST RECEIVED Another Shipment O.T.I. JACKETS Leather Sleeves ' The Gun Store 714 Moin Ph. 3863 Pel Wrestlers Host Grants Pass Friday Klamath Union High School's wrestling team goes out in search of victory number five Friday af ternoon at Pelican Court as the Pels host a' threatening Grants Pass mat squad in another South ern Oregon Conference match. The first bout of the afternoon will get underway at 3:45. Coach Dutch Simons' Pelicans are currently riding Just above the .500 mark ' 1th four wins against three losses. After already turning back Roseburg, Prlneville, Med ford and Lebanon, and falling be fore the OSC Rooks, U of O Frosh and Redmond High School, the Sl monsmen will be seeking to add the Cavemen to their list of vic tories. . The Friday afternoon clash la expected to bring together the two toughest clubs In the district, and should answer any questions as to what the local grapplcrs must face In winning their seventh consecu tive championship. Grants Pass and Medford are almost always the toughest competition Klamath Shuff-Stuff NATIONAL LEAGUE Last night's results: Eagles 2 Suburban 2 Tlny'a 1 Wocus 3 Tat's 0 Mecca 4 Tonight's Ball fare VICTORY LEAGI'E At Peliran School 6:45 DeMolay Oold vs. DeMolay Blue 8:00 Heaton's vs. Herman's , KLAMATH BASIN INDEPENDENT at Tulelake High Si honl 6:30 Malln B vs. Tulelake B 8:00 Malin A vs. Tulelake A at Merrill High School 6:30 Dorrls vs. Merrill 8:00 Chlloquin Firemen vs. hawks Jay CITY I.KAr.I E al Henley High School 6:30 Jets vs. Joslen Ramblers 8:00 Skeeta vs. National Guard "Golds" afa attaaCrl J ( Kentucky's Finest YEAR OLD Yr KENTUCKY siN-ctt1810 CLAYTON KANMON SPORTS EDITOR faces in the district, and this year u iooks as it tne cavemen - nave got it." Last Tuesday Orants Pass hand ed Medford a 41-13 pounding. A week ago today, the Pels walloped the Black Tornadoes '47-10. The comparison gives the Pelicans a nine point advantage, but compar ltive scores haven't carried much weight in the past. BILL STEINER, junior KU grappler will tee plenty of action Friday afternoon on Pelican Court when the Pell host Grants Pass in a con ference mat meet. Included In the 13 bout match will be a featured tiff pitting Klam ath's Richard Berg against Orants Pass' Dave Fllpse. a Caveman football star In the recent gridiron season. Flipse was a Kansas state champion, while Berg nailed down the Oregon prep title last spring. The two will probably square off In the 147-pound bout. Fllpse missed the Medford match because of a slight case of flu according to Grants Pass coach Bill Marlcll. Both teams are hop ing Fllpse returns in top shape to settle the question as to what sec tion of the county the prep wrestling power is found. annul aomia - llllMXl'IMHilllnf 'fan Late Game Hand SOC ASHLAND (Special) Southern Oregon College's Red Raiders evened-up their Oregon Collegiate Conference basketball series with the visiting Oregon Tech Owls here Wednesday night, but It took a last minute spurt of free throw shoot ing before the Owls bowed to a 69-66 decision after leading through most of the maple court battle. Tuesday night in Klanith Falls. Tech walloped the Raiders in a surprise 69-49 battle to win the first half of the cross-mountain se ries. Unlike Tuesday's contest when four cagers three from SOC and one from OTI were ejected fiom the game, last night's fra cas was not marred by unneces sary roughness on the part of the players. Wednesday night the spec tators at SOC's Memorial gymna sium carried the load of excite ment. Ouy Munsell, former Klamath Union High School athlete, led the major portion of the load as South ern Oregon bounced back from a 61-51 deficit with a little more than seven minutes remaining in the game. The ex-Pel tapped in two field goals and a pair of free tosses in a Red Raider flurry as the Tech lead was cut from the 10 point margin to a 63-63 count. Punk Biddlngton then fired In one from the field to give SOC Campy Drawing Top Price BROOKLYN W Roy Oampanel la, who two years ago feared his baseball career was over, now Is the highest priced player In Brook' lyn Dodger history. The jovial catcher, whose come back In 1956 perhaps was the big gest single factor In bringing Brooklyn Its first world champion ship, signed a contract yesterday calling for an estimated (42,500. He got about $38,000 the last two years. No other Brook player ever has cracked the 40-grand mark. ' In mid-season 1054, Campy was almost convinced that season would he his last. A broken bone In his left hand, suffered during spring practice, left him without control of two fingers. He finished the season with a pitiful .207 bat ting average, 18 h o m e runs and 51 runs batted In. , Back In form last season, he batted .318, hit 33 home runs, drove in 107 runs and won the National League's Most Valuable award for the third time. Campy, 34 and entering his ninth major league season, feels he "can go on o a t c h 1 n g 100 or more games for six more years and I'm not kidding, either." He's "completely satisfied" with his 1866 contract,- but he didn't give Vice President E. J. (Buzzy) Bavasi much time to breathe easy. "Next year I hope to get more," said Roy, "because I expect to have an even better season." With Campanella in the fold, the rooks now have most of their big names contracted. Among the missing, however, are Duke Snider and Carl Furlllo. Loyal Order of Moose Presents Amateur Boxing Show SATURDAY, JAN. 28 8:00 O'CLOCK AT EXHIBIT BUILDING Klamath Falls Fairgrounds MOOSE BOYS CLUB V. 5. MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC CLUB, PORTLAND and MEDFORD PAL CLUB DOUBLE MAIN EVENT! Jackie Buscas, National AAU champ vs. Dale Nicely Tennessee State champ Larry Lewis, Oregon State champ VS. Dairy! MrQuary Multnomah Athletic Club Reserved Seats - 1.65 tax inc. - General Admission 1.10 tax inc., Children under 12 - 50c UNDER AUSPICES of NAT'L AAU Reserved Seat Tickets On Sola at Dick Reedert Mem Store Gift Shots 69-66 Win Its first lead of the second halt with 1:56 remaining to play. Bob- oy wnitman sent Tech to the front again with two free throws, but , Munsell came right back' for Southern Oregon with a field goal to make the score 66 Southern Ore gon and 65 Oregon Tech with ex actly one minute left In the game. With 49 seconds showing on the clock. Whitman tied the score for Oregon Tech with one of two free throws, and the Raiders went into stall In an effort to save their lead. Bob Frost was called lor fouling Munsell with 43 seconds left, and Guy hit on one of his two tries. SOC recovered the re bound and went back into their keep-away tactics leading 67-66. Again Frost was called for foul ing, his fifth of the same, and Chuck Crandall tallied twice from charity lane with only 20 seconds remaining to assure the home folks that Southern Oregon had gained at least a split with their arch rivals from the Mile High Campus. In the first half. Tech lumoed io a 7-0 lead before Lloyd Hof fine hit with a long one-hander for SOC. The Owls held their lead un til Hoffine again twisted the twine with only four minutes left in the first stanza to give the Raiders a 24-23 heading. In the last four min utes, of the hair-raising first half, the score changed hands or was tied on nine different occasions in a "shot for shot" exchange. Jerry Fasteen gave Tech a 35-34 half- time bulge by hitting from the field with very little time left. Scoring honors for the evening went to Hoffine with 19. while three Owls and a Raider finished with 16 points. OTI's Johnny Fos ter, Whitman and Paul Hatcher each collected 16, as did Bill Hol llngsworth of SOC. Munsell fin- lihul m ninht llU 11 .It' .B.ivu mid ttgii mil, it, nil quill ing In the last hall, nine In the final seven minutes. Tech was able to outshoot their hosts In both the free throw and field goal departments. The Owls hit 22 of 43. attempts Horn the field lor a .512 average, while SOO was hitting .407 on 26 of 64 tries. From the free throw line, Tech accounted. for 22 of 30, while the Raiders had the same number of chances and hit 11- The eve ning's rebounding .was led by Southern Oregon, 30-23. aim.- rnuiiy.Hiiu OHiuiuuy, icuji pack its bag and heads for Mon mouth and a two-game series with Oregon College of Education In another pair of Oregon Collegiate Conference battles. - - . - In the Wednesday night prelim inary game, Southern Oregon's Jnyvees whipped OTI's Junior var sity 64-64, Tuesday night the Jun ior Owls fell 68-63. Jim Caiiile of SOO and Cal "Sugar Jet" smith of OTI led the prelim scoring with 19 points apiece. Boxscore OTI (Ml ra ft pf Tr- "7 a 3 is 0 0 A O ,14 3 8 7 1 4 18 .1 10 3 16 3 4 1 10 1 0 3 3 23 it 3A Hit FO IT l'F TP 7 S 3 7 3 S IS 5 0 3 10 .3 6 1 10 0 0 5 0 4 3 1 11 0 13 1 10 0 3 til It IS n. 33. SOC. .14; OTI 8. SOC 18; Foiier FI Frost (Fl McCutcheon (C) !ltchtr (Gi Whitman (Gt Fflsleen Flacher Total! SOC IKDI llnfllne ,FI ItollinRiiworth IF) RlddinRlon (CI Crrindall IG . Balei IUI Munich Tenney Carlllt Tntils Ttalftlmc tcore: C Fret throw! mined Official!, Swamon and Fllnk.