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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1957 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON PAGE NINE Michigan State Tops National Grid Poll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS History repeated itself today. The nation's sports writers and broadcasters again placed Michi gan State ahead of Oklahoma as the No. 1 college football team poll. It was almost exactly a year ago Oct. 23, 1956 that the experts voted Michigan State in to first place ahead of the all winning Sooners. Today, they did it again, giving Michigan State 1,797 points and Oklahoma 1,704. Michigan State, second last week, mauled Michigan Saturday 35-6 margin while Oklahoma, hard pressed by Texas, won its 43rd consecutive game 21-7. A year ago Michigan State had won impressively from Notre Dame to go ahead The next week Oklahoma turned its ferocity on the Irish, regained first place and didn't lose it until today. The Sooners were the preseason choice this year and had been first in each of three previous weekly bal lots. . This time 92 of 196 voters put State's Spartans on top and 67 rated them second. In the point scoring on the usual basis of 10 for each first place vote, 9 for second, etc., Texas AIM came in a poor third with 1.215 points. Fourth-place Minnesota got 1,184 points. The bulk of the Oklahoma sup port came on 64 first-place votes and the same number for second, Michigan, sixth a week ago, mustered a bare 30 points and squeezed into 18th place by a one point margin over Washington btate. Rice and Army. Duke, victorious over Rice by just one point, retained fifth place. Iowa moved up from eighth to sixth while Oregon State remained in seventh, Notre Dame, on the strength of its 23-21 victory over Army, jumped from the second 10 up to eighth, followed by Auburn. The Arkansas Razorbacks, who upset Baylor, replaced Army in 10th place. The top 10, with first-place votes in parentheses: 1. Michigan State (92) 1797 2. Oklahoma (64) 1704 3. Texas A4M (5) 1215 4. Minnesota (6) 1184 JIM CROW Spoiit Editor Stengel Tabs Some Rookies For Old Yanks NEW YORK (UP)-Casey Sten gel, just about ready to call it a season, prepared to head back : v. i-r . . . i;uiit;t;a lumuai, idlings ui u home to California today after ' as- press Board o8Coacnes. will be better than ever next year because of a promising group of farm hands. Stengel named 10 newcomers whom he felt could help him re sain the world championship at his final press conference of the campaign Monday. Spartans Top Choice On United Press Poll NEW YORK (UP) Michigan State, rolling up better than 500 yards a game, grabbed the num ber one spot today in the weekly college football ratings of the To Go Or Not To Go; Fans Said Yes. Kuharieh Said No WASHINGTON (UP) You're the head coach of the Washington 6. Iowa (10) 7. Oregon State (1) 8. Notre Dame (3) , 9. Auburn (6) 10. Arkansas (5) The second 10: .867 691 ..585 ...548 -.373 5'. Duke (5) 7.1 II 893 i5skins yuJre tra,ilin.s He new lull, uiuuia f-u Kaiiy ill iiie first period, and you have fourth and one on the Giants' 11. What do you do? Go for the first down or send in your field goal kicker for an almost certain S'SSraLilUs: "S Redskin Coach Joe Kl,harich 4 S?!:; 1 Problem las. Sunday He sent in -' KJ lSam ,the Poor man's Groza) ic" PiVtih,,;;; Baker, who booted the three-point- 7 fSSSSS 'stTi S r-with some 30,000 fans object- 17. Louisiana State 36 ine ,oudl lLnMiS,hi!ua" c. .; 30 i "When a coach takes advice "T ol?" 'from the grandstand, he might as R1Ce and Army (tie) 29 weU quits coacning.. Kunaricn commented today with charac- Georgia Tech Falls Shorty ZTZi 7zri anumiuu, wuen a cuui'ii iiMciieu Of Preseason Grid Ratings ATLANTA What's happened to Georgia Tech's football team? Nothing, says Coach Bobby Dodd, whose Engineers were up set 20-13 Saturday night by Louisi ana State. "I've got exactly the kind of team I thought I'd have this sea son." he said. "A team which can look like a fine football team one day and like a bunch of sopho mores, which( they are, another day." Tech has won one, lost one and tied one a slow start for a team which was rated, over Dodd's pro test, as one of the nation's pow ers. "The Tech team is not as poor as it looked Saturday night losing to LSI!," Dodd said, "and it is not as good as most preseason rat ings had it listed." Sixteen of Tech's top 22 players on last year's great team are gone. Against LSU. Dodd used 30 players. Fifteen were sophomores. .More important, 8 of the 10 backs. were sophs. Senior halfback Stan flowers is the only nonsoDh in Tech's starting backfield. The on ly other nonsoph back who played against LSU was senior Bobby Dover, used as a spot punter. Two players who would be play ing regularly for Tech are side lined with injuries. Junior Tackle Don Denning smashed an elbow in a private plane crash in the summer and isn't counted on at all this season. Junior halfback Doe DeLany broke his collarbone against Kentucky. He will be dressed for the Auburn game Sat urday and may be used to punt some. But the injuries to DeLany and Denning did not reduce Tech's ef ficiency drastically. Dodd says he simply is having to play too many sophs too much of the time. to the crowd gambled on fourth down and came away with noth Kuharieh. whose Redskins lost a 24-20 thriller Sunday, was under a mild panning from some fans who preferred to gamble for seven instead of settling for an almost certain three. 'There are tunes when you have to gamble depending on how much time is left and how far behind you are," Joe explained. "But gen erally speaking, anytime you can get inside the other guy's 40, you shouldn't leave without at least three points and you take those three points whenever you can get them. Most fans don't realize that the last yard on fourth down inside the opponent s 20 is the longest yard in football. They re massed wait ing for you, and their defensive assignment is simple just pile em up. On the other hand, the offensive team can make 11 mis takes on one running play and has yard than the defense has in pre venting the gain. "In other words," Kuharieh con tinued, "you must play the per centages and usually, the per centage is with the field goal and against the first down. 1 don't want to name names, but I can cite you at least two instances this season alone when hometown fans influenced coaches to gamble and both games were lost." Bob Shantz, John Podres Top Earned Run Averages Right Combination Behind Wisconsin's Victory Streak MADISON, Wis. tfl Football Coach Milt Bruhn of .the. Univer sity of Wisconsin said today, "It may be true that I have all my eggs in one basket, but I also have the right combination." "In 1956 we just couldn't seem to find the right man to do the signal calling," he said. "But it's different now. Instead of playing five or six boys I'm sticking with one." Quarterback Sid Williams is the one. He is unusually alert to seize the advantage in situations where another might back down, Bruhn feels. "The boy's mind works like a computer," Bruhn said, "and he can deliver." Bruhn said he believes the team passed its first major test by beat ing Purdue 23-14 Saturday in its Big Ten opener. The Badgers vis it defending champion Iowa this weekend. "I admit we lack experience. but that will come along," Bruhn said. "This may sound corny, yet we re going to play one game at a time and whatever we do or don't do will be remembered." As a nucleus for his sophomore- loaded team, Bruhn has tackle Danny Lanphear, fullback Jon Hobbs, halfback Danny Lewis, end Earl Hill and Williams. Bruhn thinks his line speed poses a particularly dangerous threat because of scoring poten tiality from any spot on the field. The Badgers throttled Mar quette University 60-6 and West Virginia 45-13 before the Purdue victory. NEW YORK Wl Southpaw Bobby Shantz capped a success ful pitching comeback in 1957 by winning the American League earned run title. In becoming the eighth Yankee player to head the ERA listings, Shantz posted a 2.45 average. Figures compiled by The Asso ciated Press also revealed Tues day that the Brooklyn Dodger lefthander Johnny Podres cap tured earned run laurels in the National League. Podres, who be came the second Dodger hurler to win the crown, had a 2.66 mark. Shantz, having been plagued with arm miseries, was traded by Kansas City to the Yanks last February in a multi-player deal. With the A's in 1956. the 32-year-old Shantz had a 2-7 record and a 4.37 ERA. The change of uniforms d i d wonders for the diminutive lefty. He won 11 games and lost five with New York while allowing 47 earned runs in 173 innings. Podres, who had a 12-9 won-lost record, also topped the majors in shutouts with six. The Yanks' Tom Sturdivant was runner-up to Shantz with 2.53, fol lowed by Detroit's Jim Bunning with 2.70 and New York's Bob Turley with 2.71. Warren Spahn of Milwaukee and Don Drysdale of Brooklyn trailed . Podres with each and the Braves Bob Buhl ranked fourth with 2.74. DeMarco-Akins Bout Is Not Title Fight Says Jackson RACINE, Wis. (UP) Gilbert I in DeMarco as champion." The Jackson, newly - elected president ! fight is scheduled for Boston, De- of the National Boxing Assn., has asked the Massachusetts Boxing Commission to call off the sched uled fight between Tony DeMarco and Virgil Akins that's being billed as a championship bout. "It's out of order," fired Jack son in a blistering letter to Harry Lamar Monday that labeled as "ridiculous" Lamar's contention that the Oct. 29 fight will be for the vacated welterweight title. "This is an utter, absolute vio lation of NBA rules," said Jack son, "and it annenrs to me to be strictly a local promotion to shoo-1 Marco's home town. Jackson said the NBA Execu tive Committee agreed in Septem ber to "sponsor" an elimination tourney among the four top con tenders in the welterweight divi sion if champion Carmen Basilio defeated Ray Robinson to become the middleweight titleholder. "Massachusetts was represented at that meeting," Jackson said. "Since that time, I personally wired each of the four top con tenders to learn if he would take part in such a tournament. . I got yes answers trom all Dut DeMarco. who didn't even reply," said Jackson. The other contend ers are Isaac Logart, Vince Mar tinez and Gil Turner. Akins was fifth in the latest NBA ratings. "How in heaven's name can they pick a fifth-rater and call It a title fight," said Jackson. BOBBY SHANTZ - .-!Jwf""i! h " M Pirates Still Lead Prep Poll By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Undefeated Marshfield did not have to play a game last week to keep its position atop the Associated Press Oregon high school football poll. Despite its fifth straight win, 28-0 over Albany, South Eugene had to be content with second place again. Marshfield s awesome power at tracted first-place votes from 12 of the 16 sportswriters and sports- casters participating In the poll . Marshfield, unbeaten 1 n 39 games, last week was scheduled to play eighth place Grants Pass. But the game was cancelled when a flu outbreak struck the Grants Pass team. Grants Pass fell to 11th place in this week's poll. Once-beaten Beaverton, mean while, moved from sixth to third place in the poll, displacing Mil waukie, the team it last week trimmed 20-7. Milwaukie dropped to eighth. - Portland s Jefferson remained in fourth place, south Salem which defeated Albany 20-7, kept fifth place, only a point behind Jefferson. Another big gain was registered by undefeated Grant of Portland which rose from No. 9 to No. 6 spot with a 26-6 triumph over Franklin. Again in seventh place this week is McMinnviUe, a 34-7 victor over Oswego. A 19-0 victory over Corvallis enabled North Salem to rise one notch to ninth place. Tenth went to Medlord, which turned in a crushing 40-14 victory over Cen tral Point. The poll, with won-lost records: Team Points 1. Marshfield (4-0) . 156 2. South Eugene (5-0) 142 3. Beaverton (4-1) 105 4. Jefferson (4-0) 5. South Salem (4-1) .. 6. Grants (4-0) 7. McMinnviUe (5-0) i 8. Milwaukie (4-1) 9. North Salem (4-1) 10. Medford (2-2) 28 Others: Grants Pass 22, Spring field 16, La Grande 10, Baker 9, Benson 6, Vale 4, Serra (Salem) and Gresham 1. CASEY STENGEL He mentioned catcher John Blanchard, pitchers Mark Free man and Ryne Duren, first base man Marv Throneberry. outfielder Norm Siebern and infielder Fritz Brickell from Denver in the Amer ican Assn.: pitcher Jim Coates, in fielder Dick Sanders and first baseman John Jaciuk of Rich mond in the International League: and outfielder Deron Johnson of Binehainton in the Eastern League. "This club hasn't gone to the woods, Stengel insisted. Don t let anyone try to tell you that this ship has sunk. The two players regarded to have the best chance of making the Yankees next year are Sie bern. who was with the club dur ing part of the 1956 season, and Duren, who had a 13-2 record witn 116 strikeouts at Denver. Notre Dame and Arkansas, two unbeatens who turned in last-quarter upsets over sectional power houses last week, crashed the top 10 in the ratings by 35 leading coaches. Michigan State displaced Okla homa as the national leader for only tne secono time in two years. The Spartans, who won the 1952 national championship, rolled to a 35-6 win over a Michigan team good enough to rate No. 5 last week. Meanwhile, Oklahoma won its 43rd straight game with a 21-7 triumph over Texas but had its bands full. The coaches gave Michigan State 321 of a possible 350 points, based on 10 points for a first place ballot, nine for second place, etc. Oklahoma dropped to 308 points and second place. Eighteen coaches rated Michi gan State No. 1 while Oklahoma received only 12 votes for the top rating. Minnesota drew two first-1 place ballots and Iowa, Duke and Arkansas had one each. Notre Dame, a 23-21 winner over Army in the renewal of their col orful rivalry jumped from an 11th place tie to eighth place. Arkan sas, a 20-17 victor over Baylor, advanced from 13th to 9th place. Michigan and Army dropped out of the top 10. Behind Oklahoma, shooting for its third straight national title, came Minnesmta up mne notch fromhlast wcec. That dropped Texns A&M to fourth place. Iowa leaped from ninth to fifth. Duke was sixth and uregon state sev enth, switching their positions of last week. Auburn again w a I ranked 10th. After the too 10 came Missis sippi in 11th place, Wisconsin 12th and Pittsburgh utn. nice ana North Carolina State were tied for 14th. followed by Army in 16th, Ohio State and Navy for 17th and UCLA and Texas Christian tied for 19th. NEW YORK (UP)-The United Press college 1 0 0 b a 1 1 ratings (with first-place votes and won- lost records in parentheses): Team Points 1. Michigan State (18) (3-0) 821 2. Oklahoma (12) (3-0) 308 4. Minnesota '21 (3-0) 251 4. Texas A&M (4-0) ' 221 5. Iowa (1) (3-0) 156 6. Duke (1) (4-0) 138 T. Oregon State (4-0) 135 8. Notre Dame (3-0) 99 9. Arkansas (1) (4-0) 77 10. Auburn (3 0) , 74 Second 10 teams 11, Mississip pi, 24: 12, Wisconsin, 21: 13, Pitts burgh, 17: 14 (tic), Rice . and North Carolina State, 13 each; 16, Army, 11; 17 (tie) Ohio State and Navy, 8 each; 19 (tie), UCLA and Texas Christian, 4 each. Others - Michigan, North Caro lina and Florida, 3 each; Oregon, Penn State, Georgia Tech, Wash ington State and Texas, 2 each; Dartmouth, Arizona (Tcmpe) St., and Louisiana St., 1 each. Ray Robinson had a reach ad vantage of 5'i inches for his bout with Carmen Basilio. Basilio won a split decision and relieved Ray of the middleweight title. Colorado's Bob Stransky Relies On Wooten's Blocks JOHNNY PODRES Whitey Ford of the Yanks tonDed the American League in 1956 with 2.58, but was ineiigiDie this season because he pitched only 129 innings. To be eligible a pitcher had to work at least 154 lnninas. Milwaukee s Lew uur- dette, the National League leader vear ano with 2.71, compiled a 3.71 ERA in 1957 and finished out of the running. Man O'War Enshrined SARATOGA SPRINGS, N.Y. (UP) Man O'War, regarded by most experts as the g r e a t e s ti E II thoroughbred who ever lived. ,0 ' ArmStrOPQ rCllS day was enshrined in the National j . - Museum of Racing along withlElH0 TnOmDSOf) nine other champions of the 1910- i ' ' " 1930 era NEW Y0RK ,up) Middle- Winner of 20 of his 21 races, I weight Gene ( Ace) Armstrong, a "Big Red" was the unanimous stacker in a gin distillery at Ehz choice of a national committee of abeth. N.J.. was in excellent spir sportswriters for racing's shrine its today because his 12th straight along with Equipoise and Exter- professional victory had assured a minator. two of the greatest future fight with ex contender weight carriers of all time. Randy Sandy, Others selected were Gallant Fox, Twenty Grand, Blue Lark spur, Regret Grey Lag, Sarazen and Sir Barton. Gallant Fox was the 1930 Triple Crown champion while Regret gained fame as the only filly to win the Kentucky Derby. TV ANTENNAS 10 ll.mtnt Yogi $7?3 CH. 7 REDDING . . Smith Auto Supply Unbeaten Gene scored a techni cal knockout over Eddie (Machine Gun) Thompson of New York in their TV fight at St. Nicholas Arena Monday niKht. K e t e r e e retey Scanzo stopped it at the end of the seventh round because Thompson was bleeding badly from his left brow and his nose. METSKER'S COUNTY MAPS Bail vast far SpartimtB, Tralla, Cratkt, Lafcaat all caanlUe, laaha, Oraffaa, Waiblnrtan, California. Far aalt at Statlaarrr ani Sparta Starta 4 "Malakar liapa," Tacaaa, Wirt-lartaa. Podres, who served in the Navy a year ago, yielded 58 unearned runs in 196 frames to join Dazzy Vance as the only other Dodger pitcher to capture ERA honors. All tickets are for the Klam- Vance led three times in 1924, ath-Medford game only ana an 1928 and 1930. The 25-year-o 1 d i seats are reserved. Pelican-Tornado Ducats On Sale Reserved seat tickets for the KUHS Pelican - Medford football game to be held at Modoc Field Friday night are now on sale at the chamber of commerce omce. KUHS Athletic Director Jim Johnson said there are plenty of good seats available for the game. Rookie Sweeney, Jim Moore Lead Hockey Scoring NEW YORK (UP) Bin Swee ney, a rookie center witn tne Providence Reds, shared the American Hockey League scoring lead with Jimmy Moore of the season. Each had three goals and four assists for seven points in games played through last Sunday. Kenny Wharram of the Buffalo Bisons was third with six points, based on three goals and three assists. Rookies Bruce Carmichael and Eddie Shack of Providence, Dick Gamble of Buffalo, Johnny McLellan of Cleveland and Willie Marshall of the Hershey Bears had five points each. Fights By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK Gene (Ace) Armstrong. 155., Elizabeth, N.J., stopped Eddie (Machine Gun) Thompson, 1564, New York, 7. . PROVIDENCE, R.I. -Rudy Sawyer, 151, New York, out pointed Rudolph Bent, 152'i, Brit ish Honduras, 10. BEAUMONT, Tex. Fight be tween Floyd East, Lake Charles, La., and Otho Sugar, Houston, Tex,, cancelled. SYDNEY, Australia Cllve Stewart. ltil-T. Australia, defeat ed Milo Savage, 161W, Salt Lake City, 12. TOKYO-Hitoshi Misako, 122V4, Japan, outpointed Kuno Naphapu hol, 110, Thailand, 12: Koji Ishi bashi, 1 1 8 1 -1-. Japan, knocked out Sanong E.T.B., 1184, Thailand, 6. NEWCASTLE, England George Bowes, England, outpointed Jake Tuli. South Africa, 8. (Bantam weights). BOULDER. Colo. Iff) Running , with the football "is easy when Big John's ahead of you," says Colorado halfback Bob Stransky, the nation's leading ball carrier. In four games Stransky has car ried 78 times for 467 yards 6 yards a try. He scored three touchdowns in Colorado's 34-14 victory over Arizona Saturday. "I couldn't do that well if it wasn't for Big John," Stransky says of guard John Wooten, a 228- pound speedster wno icaas me in- Grid Jamboree Set For Tonight The Klamath Falls elementary school football jamboree will be held tonight starting at 6:30 on Modoc rield. The jamboree will consist of five abbreviated games between the elementary schools. All parents and interested per sons are requested to get out and back the youngsters. Seals Sold To Giants BOSTON W Gen. Mgr. Joe Cronin announced Tuesday the Boston Red Sox have sold their San Francisco club in the Pacific Coast League to the New York Giants. In return the local American League club receives the fran chise and territory of the Min neapolis club of the American Assn. and an undisclosed amount of cash. The transaction, said Cronin, is subject to approval of the Pacific Coast League. Minneapolis has been owned by the Giants for many years. The Sox bought the franchise and ter ritory of the San Francisco bay area baseball club in 1955. The New York Giants have an nounced their intentions of play ing in San Francisco next sea son. terference on Colorado's single- wing plays. You don't have to wait for him. I just follow him and away we S- . . .. Stransky, a standout football and track star at Yankton, S.D., says that "while the most Import ant factor is blocking, I try to keep the tacklers from getting a good solid shot at me. I always try to watch the tackier and try to keep him off stride." Stransky, a six-foot, 180-pound-cr. says he's able to pay close at tention to the tacklers "because we've gone through our offensive patterns so much that they're just automatic with me. I don t have to think about them I concen trate on the tacklers. ' Stransky's ability to duck and dodge past would-be tacklers in the open field has been the main stay of Colorado's multiple offense this season, but he's talented in other offensive maneuvers. He ranks third on the team In passing with 4 for 9 good for 67 yards and one touchdown. He's second on the team In pass re ceiving with 3 for 34 yards. He s first in kickoff returns with 7 for 161 yards and second in punt re turns with 4 for 31 yards. Milwaukee held a National League baseball franchise in 1878 and the club finished last in a six-team league. PLASTI-DUK DECOYS Mallards, Pintails, Canvasbacks Reg. $24.95 $4 "f 95 Now DOZ. 17 FLEET'S 222 So. 7th Ph. 4-5520 9 NO INCREASE IN PRICE P9 F ft "Con-Do" is our V J iiflffi onswer t0 vour J nHT lj excavotin9 needs- i When time means money, coll us and save both. In excavating equipment and man-power, we're geared for fost oction. 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