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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1958 HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACK ELEVEN Catcher Paralyzed; Future Questionable GLEV COVE, N.Y. Ul Roy1 Campanella, Los Angeles Dodg . crs catcher who broke his reck in an automobile accident, was described Wednesday as "some what better and the over-all pic ture is encouraging." Those words came from Dr. ; Robert Sengstaken who performed i a four-hour, 20 minute operation ' Tuesday. The top ranking Negro ball player still was paralyzed from : the shoulder down, but this con ' dition was expected to improve. Community Hospital said he had "quite a good night considering his condition." There seemed little prospect, however, that he would swing a bat or don a mask again in major league competition. "It could take anything from . two months to years before he even walks again, said Dr. Rob ert Sengstaken, who headed the seven-man team that performed the operation. "He won't be able to play be fore a year, and in my opinion, he would be foolish if he continued playing baseball. But he is not my patient, so I won't advise him." Dr. Sengstaken said he expected Campanella, 36, to recover, but he said it is possible some paral ysis may remain. . . He said Campanella suffered a fracture and dislocation of cervi cal (vertebrae) 5 and 6. "He is paralyzed from just be Virgil Akins Nets Top Spot In Welterweight Division NEW YORK Ul - Virgil Akins, Wednesday was boosted to the top position in the latest Ring Maga zine ratings of the champlon-less welterweight division. The St. Louis veteran was pro ' moted from second to first for his second straight knockout con , quest of former welterweight champion Tony DeMarco of Bos ton. He moved up from second in a change of positions with Isaac Logart, the sleek Cuban contender. DeMarco was dropped from third to fifth. Vince Martinez of . Paterson, N.J., advanced from . fifth to third while Charley (Tombstone) Smith of Los An - geles vaulted from seventh to fourth. . . Spider Webb, the classy Chica go middleweight contender, went from sixth to third on his sensa tional knockout of muscular Rory ' Calhoun, of White Plains, N.Y. '. Calhoun dropped from third to Sixth. . kJn the one shuttle In the heavy- ' ' weight list, Ingemar Johansson, ; Sweden's undefeated , European , champion, was ranked tenth. He : aispiacea lommy (Hurricane' Jackson of Najv York. 'The rankings: - Heavyweights, champion, Floyd Patterson, Brooklyn: " 1. Eddie M a c h e n, Redding, - . Calif.; 2. Zora Folley, Chandler, Ariz.: 3. Willie Pastrano, New Orleans: 4. Roy Harris, Cut and - Shoot, Texas: 5. Pat McMurtry, Tacoma, Wash.: 6. Nino Valdes, Cuba; 7. Mike DeJohn, Syracuse N.Y.; 8. Wayne Bethea, New York; 9. Alex Miteff, Argentina 10. Ingemar Johansson, Sweden. Light heavyweights, champion, Archie Moore, ban Diego: Grant Whips Washington By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Grant of Portland, the new No. 1 team in the Associated Press high school basketball poll, per formed according to its rating Tuesday by hammering Washing ton 75-49. Bill McKenzie scored 19 points for Grant as the Generals won their 14th straight game of the season. The- other Portland league school in the poll's top 10 teams didn't fare as well: Jefferson, tied for ninth place, was upended 55-46 by Roosevelt, which dropped out of the poll this wejk after be ing among the prep leaders since early in the season. The upset was engineered by Jim Chambers who, after failing to get a field goal in his last two games, entered the contest Tues day as a reserve and topped his team with 16 points, Another factor in the defeat was the three-man defense Roos evelt erected around Terry Baker, the league's leading scorer. Ba ker was held to 11 points. The other squads in the top 10 were idle Tuesday. Jerry Unser Set For 'Indy 500' INDIANAPOLIS ifl - Jerry Unser Jr., Long Beach, Calif., U.S. Auto Club national stock car racing champion last year, was nominated Wednesday for annual 500-mile race for special cars May 30 at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. He has never competed in the speedway. Unser was named to drive a Kurtis roadster with semi-stock engine, entered by Tony Capnan na, Los Angeles, and Harry V. Duncan Jr., Compton, Calif. 3.187 HOI.ES-IN.ONE 'CHICAGO IUP A total of 3,187 holcs-in-one were recorded during 1957 by the nation's golf ers. . according to Golf Digest magazine. Of the total, 2.949 were made by men and 138 by women. Charles Hedrick of Lubbock. Tex., made the longest shot 374 yards at the Meadowbrook Course in Lubbock. low the shoulder to the toes," said Dr. Sengstaken. "He cannot push his arms out or grasp, but he can pull his arms in if they are held out for him." If the fracture had been an Inch or two higher, Dr. Sengstaken said, he would not have pulled through. The fact that Campanella. a squat 215 pounds, has heavy neck muscles probably helped save nis life. However, they also caused the operating team to take some additional time. Dodgers President Walter O'Malley. who is keeping in con stant touch with the hospital, re fused even to discuss the possibil ity of acquiring a new catcher. "We're not even thinking of Hoy s luture in DaseDaii, u Aiai- ley said. "All we're thinking of is his recovery and a return to norm al life. I guess it was touch-and-go for him. Until they opened up the area entirely, they could not teU whether the nerves were com pletely severed or not." Even if Campanella recovered in a year, doctors said, he would have to take it easy, and the hard fact is that athletes crowding 40 rarely come back. The accident took place on an S turn here early Tuesday while Campanella was driving a rented car home from his Harlem liquor store. He was pinned in the wreck age against a pole a half hour and never lost consciousness al though he was in a state of shock. 1. Harold Johnson, Philadelphia; Yolande Pompey, Trinidad; 3. Yvon Durelle, Canada; 4. Tony Anthony, New York; 5. Willi Hoepner, Germany; 6. Artenio Calzavara, Italy; 7. Chuck Spie- ser, Lansing, Mich.; 8. Clarence Hinnant, Washington, D.C.; 9. Gerhard Hecht, Germany; 10. Erich Schoppner, Germany. Middleweights, champion, Car men Basiuo. Chittenango, N.Y.: 1. Sugar Ray Robinson, New York; 2. Gene Fullmer, West Jor dan, Utah; 3. Ellsworth (Spider) Webb, Chicago; 4. Joey Giardel lo, Philadelphia; 5. Charley Hu- mez, France; 6. Rory Calhoun, White. Plains, N.Y.; 7. Joey Gi- ambra, San Francisco; 8. Bobby Boyd, Chicago; 9. Charley Joseph New Orleans; 10. Willie Vaughn, Los Angeles. Heavyweight Scrap Slated CHICAGO w A pair of knockout-powered heavyweights, Wayne Bethea of New York and Young Jack Johnson of Los Angeles, clash Wednesday night at Chica go Stadium in a nationally tele vised 10 rounder. Bethea, 24, is a 7-5 favorite in the scrap that will be beamed by ABC starting at 6 p.m. PST. Johnson, 29. is a substitute for Bob Satterfield, who was forced into retirement with an eye in jury. The West Coast battler stopped both Ezzard Charles and Zora Folley in 1955. He dropped a close decision to Harold Carter late in 1956. Managerial troubles limited him to only one fight in 1957, a 10 round victory over Duke Sabegon on Sept. 16. Both Johnson and Bethea have had 25 pro starts. Johnson, who at 6-3 is four inches taller than Bethea,- has a 15-9-1 record and scored 8 knockouts. Bethea has a 16-7-2 and 6 kayoes. Bethea, a Bronx tomato pack ing plant worker, won three out of five starts in 1957. He defeated Jeff Dyer, Bert Whitchurst and Paul Andrews and lost to Folley, current No. 2 heavyweight con tender, and Harold Johnson. Johnson's real name is John Lee Storey. His handlers gave him the "Young Jack Johnson" tag because they thought he re sembled the original Jack John son both ui build and ring work manship. Both fighters are big men, top pin? 200 pounds. The bout will be scored on the five point must system. Ernie Nevers Cites Francis Great Back PALO ALTO. Calif Ifl Ernie Nevers called Joe Francis "one of the greatest backs ever turned out on the Pacific Coast" Tues day night as he presented the tail back the 1957 Pop Warner Award. The former Stanford All Amer ica made the presentation at the PALO Club's annual banquet. The Oregon State player was chosen the most valuable senior player of the Coast by a poll of sports writers and broadcasters. Nevers said Warner would have chosen a player like Frances, whose home is Honolulu. Warner, now dead, had coached at Stan ford. "Joe can kick, pass, run and play defense. Football players like that are hard to find these days," Nevers aaid. Francis told the banquet "This is a night I will never forget." He credited coach Tommy Proth ro and his teammates. Chuck Taylor, who retired from coaching to become Stanford's athletic director, said Francis is "one of the reasons I decided to give up coaching. There's no de fense for a player of the capa bilities of Joe Francis." Francis ran and passed for 274 yards in Oregon State's 24-14 vic tory over Stanford last fall. Even As A Child, 'Campy' Dreamed Diamond Career NEW YORK (UP) Little Roy Campanella, standing there and selling newspapers on a Philadel phia street corner, instinctively knew that one of his big league heroes had just belted a home run at nearby Shibe Park. "How can you tell, Roy?" asked one of his eight-year-old compan ions, who also was peddling pa pers. "Easy as pie," chirped the chubby little Campanella boy, still keeping an ear cocked to the roar of the crowd at the ball park. "Hear them yells?" he said. 'That ain't no double or triple they hollerfn' about. That there is a home run. Gotta' be, because they keep yellin' so long." Even as a youngster, Roy Cam panella dreamed of the day base ball fans would be hollering for him although no Negro had ever played in the major leagues as yet. Shibe Park, which is now Con nie Mack Stadium, was only a few blocks from the Campanella nome. Most of Roy's boyhood buddies preferred to play stick ball but campanella liked "hard ball' much better. It wasn't long be fore he was playing sandlot base ball and by the time he was 13 he already was a member of the neighborhood American Legion team. Campy wasn't particular what position he played but while he still was attendine Gillespie Jun ior High School he noticed no one ever wanted to be the catcher. So he volunteered to handle the mask and mitt. Actually, Campanella wasn't much of a hitter at all in his youth. He had a number of other things going for him, though, such as tremendous enthusiasm, a fine arm and a remarkable ability for playing three and even four games In a single day. At 15, Campy came into a wind fall. The owner of the Bacharach iiiams, an all-Negro semi-pro team, paid him $35 to play on many nights, baturday and Sun day. A year later, he became the regular catcher for the Baltimore Elite Giants and it wasn't long atterward that he quit high school to campaign around the country with that team. Bowling I FRATERNAL LEAGUE Elk! ' M Flying' Eagles Roberts Hardware Klamath Gag .10 't 29!-4 48 32 Knights of Columbus Sons of Italy Pioneer Tobaoco Moose Wright Real Estate Sunrise Lone Easles ' 25 19 Sons of Norway . 61 High team game Elks 959 High team scries Pioneer Tobacco 2694 High individual game Joe Wachter 224 High individual series Tie Bill Campbell, Sarge Moss 563 COMMERCIAL LEACt'E Ellington's Loggers 52'i 27s Pepsi Cola 49 31 Grigg'g Foods 47 .1.1 VFW 45 35 Superior Tray 44 :J Fleets 4:t 37 Weyerhaeuser 41 39 Dugan-Mcst 39 41 Steinseifer Electric 33 47 Rlckys 29 SI Stukel Rustlers 29 51 Great Northern 2S'fc SUa High team series Pepsi Cola 2913 High team game Pepsi Cola 1002 High Individual series Glno Rosterolla 6o5 High individual game Chuck Reynolds 419 'Windward1 Sets Record SAN DIEGO (UP) The Los Angeles sloop Windward today held the first to finish tronhv and the record time trophy after cross ing the finish line in record-shattering time in the San . Diego to Acapulco yacht race. -The Windward, owned by E. R and Don Chilcott, may yet lose the over-all title, however. The handicap winners of the race, with some of the class C boats having as much as two to three davs. will not be decided until at least Thursday afternoon or later, Copley News correspondent aboard the Coast Guard cutter Perseus said. The 82-foot Windward crossed the finish Une at 12:34 a.m. Tues day in the record time of 8 days, 12 hours and 34 minutes. The old record was 10 days, 7 hours and 55 minutes. The race handicap title appears to He among the surprising class C boats, which have consistently been leading class A and B ves sels on the basis of corrected time. The over-all championship title was being fought for by the class C boats Mistral and Carousel, with the Mistral leading at last report. Dr. McGill Quits Ring Commission PORTLAND Wl Dr. Clinton McGill quit Tuesday as a physician-member of the Portland Box ing Commission. He hod served nearly 10 years. He aaid he needed more time for his medical practice. Mayor Terry Schrunk appointed Dr. Jack Battaglia to replace McGUI. O Newspaper SPOT ADS are inexpensive repealed dally I4e Playing in the Negro leagues didn't exactly afford Campanella the life of a baseball rliley. The big day for Roy camu in October, 1945. He had just caught a game for the Negro All-Stars against a group of big leaguers in Newark, N.J., when Chuck Dressen, then as now a Dodger coach, told him that Dodger Pres ident Branch Rickey wanted to see him. Campy figured it was some kind of a ioke at first but the next day he dutifully visited the Dodg ers' office in mid-town Brooklyn and came face-to-face with the colorful Rickey. Rickey asked Campanella if he would like to come into the Dodg ers' organization, but Roy, think ing that Rickey was about to form another Negro league turned down the effer. Less than two weeks later, Campanella learned that the Dodgers had made a similar offer to Jackie Robinson. And Robinson told Cam panella that he was going to sign with Montreal of the International League, thereby becoming the first Negro ever to play in organ ized baseball. Campy thought he had missed the boat. It turned out he was only a little late. The following spring, the Dodg ers sent him to Nashua, N.H., of the New England League and his career was launched. Gael Quintet Faces Buffs By UNITED PRESS The West Coast Athletic Confer ence has delegated St. Mary's to probe Colorado tonight in the Cal ifornia basketball loop's quest for a "friendly" Western state but so far, they seem to be scarcer than hen's teeth. In the past two nights, WCAC representatives have received rough treatment in Nevada, Wash ington and Idaho St. Mary's got the cold shoulder from Idaho Mate Monday night tor the second straight time, but hope for better luck against Regis at Denver tonight Santa Clara was also defeated Monday night by Seattle, and Col lege of Pacific was turned back by the University of Nevada in Reno Tuesday night by a score of 63-56. The Nevada team had trouble Betting throueh the Gael defense. which averaged 6-4 so the Wolf pack fired over , the lop. In the opening minutes of play. the lead changed hands three times and both benches exchanged heated words in the center of the floor. But Nevada pushed to a 32- 27 halftime lead and wjent on to win. Nevada's John Legarza led the scoring with 22 points, while Le roy Wright had 17 for the visitors. In a non-conference game in Southern California. Chapman swamped Laverne College, 91-49. Razorbacks Fatten Lead By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS In the Southwest Conference. those Arkansas Razorbacks are eat in' high on the hog. The Porkers fattened their first place bulge with a comfortable 67-51 victory over in-and-out Tex as A&M at Arkansas last night. It was the seventh straight for Arkansas, now 12-3 for the season, 5-0 in the conference and 17th in The Associated Press poll. It was another light night among major clubs. Furman hit its high est score in two seasons with a 108-95 breeze against Presbyter ian. Navy stood off a Penn State rally for a 58-53 decision at Annap olis. Memphis State beat Tennes see Tech 64-63. Arkansas, the all-time SWC leader with 13 titles, won only 11 games last season and linished fifth in the conference at 5-7 Short on height, the Porkers were given a chance for nothing more than a possible first-division finish in a pre-season talk. The Aggies, now 10-5 over-all, stand 3-3 in conference play. Steven Ross, 6-7, hit his career high with 38 points and 31 re bounds for f-urman as the Palad ins beat Presbyterian for the first time since 1955. Among the minor colleges, once beaten Boston College blew a 10- point lead, but came back with five points In the last 50 seconds for a 71-67 decision at Massachu setts. BC is 11 1. BALL FARE CITY LEAGUE At Altamont Al's Drive-In vs. Hal's Sport Shop Jayhawks vs Fleets Shuff-Stuff South Sixth Pinrs Armory TIME OUT "Darn It, Purvis, you could have at least waited until my girl friend finished giving me a good luck kiss!" Today's Sports Parade By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK (UP)-Roy Cam panella is using the same com forting refuge today which helped him through a hundred tight spots. "I'm praying." That's always been Roy's ace in the hole. And he was praying hopelully today as he lay in a Ulen Cove hospital with a broken back suffered in an automobile accident. They i worked for him often be fore. They had to for this roly poly man to make it all the way from the Negro sandlots to one of the lop spots in baseball. You remember some of them as you look back over his career, one complete with broken bones, operations and flaming tendons. Like the time in 1951 when he went down into the basement to light the gas heater and it blew up in his face. For a few moments Roy thought he was blind. There was a question as to how much dam age had been done to his eye sight. , -"I prayed hard," Roy said. He had a blistered cornea In each eye but treatments cleared it up. That same year he was beaned on the left ear, But de spite it all. Campy oame back to win most valuable player honors tor the lust ol three times. Roy has had more than his share of troubles, even with his own. Jackie Robinson often got on him" because, as Robinson and others fought for "recogni tion," the smiling, happy-go-lucky Campy wasn t militant enough. But he was there to play base ball, overcoming horribly bat tered hands and bad legs in the process, and made the best cru sade of them all because of his smiling niceness. Campy, a beaming Buddha could be a clown or a gadfly on the field. He was there to run the pitchers and wield a big bat. That he did in a Hall of Fame manner. Off the field campaigns he left to others. Campy was too busy making good and making a living and a future for his family They kidded him once about parking his big, splashy Cadillac in front of his Harlem liquor store. Campy grinned hugely "Shucks," he said, "that's so the people know I'm there. When they do, they come in and buy. That s good business not van ity." Another time they asked him about dissension on the team "Dissension?" he asked. dunno. Maybe we got no pitchers but what we do got is harmony. Campy s secret of success "prayin' and tryin'." That's is why they're not counting him "out" yet. Campy will make it back if it s humanly possible. Maybe even it it isn't possible for most humans. Because Roy has a genuine faith in his prayers and helps them along as much as possible personally. Lakeview Group ! Backs Golf Site' Phil Quisenberry has been named general chairman of a lo cal group of people Interested in the formation of a gold club at Lakeview. Chick Chaloupka is sec retary. Quisenberry has been au thorized to appoint six other men to serve with him as board of directors. A name will be decided on by the directors following which time Chaloupka will file for ar ticles of incorporation. The site of the golf course will be on city owned land at the south east, edge of the municipal air port, with construction of six holes planned for spring. A tract of 65 acres- will be available for the construction, and the group also intends to lease the old bachelor officers' quarters building for use as a locker and clubrooms. Eventual establishment of nine holes and a putting green is planned with an estimated cost of $20,000. USED AUTO PARTS An Instillation ECONOMY AUTO WRECKERS Oregon Prep Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Hood River 66, Wy'East 54 LaPine 50, Sisters JVs 46 Monroe 35, Philomath 31 Sheridan 47, Sherwood 41 Knappa 49, Star of the Sea (As toria) 35 Glide 59, Oakland 48 Ontario 59, Weiser (Idaho) 47 Newport 62, Taft 32 Neahkahnie 50, Seaside 42 Scappoose 77, Vernonia 49 Forest Grove 58, Tillamook 41 Tigard 58, Oregon City 37 Beaverton 55. Parkrose 45 Milwaukie 62, David Doug 1 a s (Portland I 46 Central Catholic (Portland) 53, Hillsboro 43 St. Francis (Eugene) 69, Elmira 52 Corbett 70, Colton 63 Nestucca 52, Warrenton 44 Banks 64, Amity 47 Oakridge 58, Wlilamette (Eugene) 53 Mupleton 47, Waldport 40 Yamhill 63, Dayton 45 Molalla 82, Oswego 37 Scrra Catholic (Salem) 66, Mon mouth 36 West Linn 63, Newberg 43 St. Helens 70, McMinnville 59 Nehalem 43, Tillamook Catholic 41 (two overtimes) Coquille 47, Reedsport 38 Pleasant Hill 36, Drain 31 Creswell 44, Junction City 40 Lorane 82, Crow 58 Westfir 54, Coburg 45 Brownsville 55, Halsey 31 Toledo 59. Florence 50 Portland League Grant 75, Washington 49 Roosevelt 55, Jefferson 46 Benson 58. Wilson 42 Franklin 58, Lincoln 41 Cleveland 69, Madison 60 Bly Trounces Chiloquin Five COUNTV "n" LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet. Bly (12 .750 Chiloquin . 6 2 .7511 Malln 6 2 .750 Merrill 4 3 .571 Bonanza ' 3 5 .375 SHA 17 .105 Gilchrist O 5 .000 The league leading Chiloquin Panthers traveled to Bly Tuesday night only to hove the Bobcats prove a hostile host by dumping them in the basketball sack and pulling the string with a 55-49 count. The Bly quintet paced by tre mendous ellorts by Waller Lee and Jim Patzke, who collected 24 and 21 points respectively. The Panther quint stayed with in a - nine-point distance of .the Bobcats but could never quite get up the hill. . At the end of the first quarter the Bly five had a 14-11 edge which they managed to run to 28-23 at the half. The margin didn't change in the third frame us it ended 41-37. The Chiloquin team registered .640 at the free throw line and Bly hit a cool .760. Ochoa and Ravizza shared top honors for the Panthers with 12 each while teammate Pope con tributed 11. Malin Mustangs Edge By Trojans The Malin Mustangs played host to the Sacred Heart Trojnn9 Tues day night in a rough and tum ble basketball game that the Mus tangs finally pulled out with a 49-45 score. The Mustangs got off to an ear ly lead and maintained a 10 point edge throughout the first half: the periods ending on 20-10 and 30-20. In the third canto the Trojans pulled up to within four points as the frame ended at 38-32. The contest wns a close one from here out as each team in its eagerness for the win committed more fouls than usual. The Ma lin squad hit nine for 26 at the charity line while the Trojans collected 19 of 36 attempts. Scoring honors went to Farrell Wilson, of the Mustangs, who gar nered 18 while Harlcy of SUA meshed 15. Anpcral of SUA ran third with 11 tallies. Hockey HOCKEY AT A GLANCE By THE ASSOCIATED, PRESS (Tuesday's Results) EASTERN LEAGUE Clinton 4. Johnstown 3 Philadelphia 3, New Haven 2 Charlotte 8, Washington 7 (over time) WESTERN LEAGUE Calgary 2. Winnipeg 1 Seattle 5, Vancouver 3 LAFAYETTE COACH QUITS EASTON, Pa. (UP) Steve Hokuf. Lafayette College head football coach, has resigned after a siA-yuar tenure to sock an ad ministrative position in teaching. Under his direction the school team scored 25 wins and 27 de feats. He is 47 years old and holds a doctorate in education. AUTO PAINTING 50 And Up Painting Glow Installation Body Work EitlmatM, Gladly So. 6th AUTO BODY & PAINT SHOP COMPLETE 2013 S. 6th Ph. TU 2-0084 Professional Clubs Draft Four Oregon Football Stars By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS I Professional football teams drafted four Oregon players Tues day, including one who had little desire to play football when he entered college. Oregon's stellar halfback. Jim Shanley was not picked. He had said he wanted to play pro foot ball but at 5-8 and 170 pounds he is smaller than the usual run of professionals. Picked two years aso when his starting class graduated was Ore gon's Jack Morris, a selection of the Los Angeles Rams. The surprise Lick of Tuesday was Ron . Parrish. Linfield Quar terback, drafted by the Los An geles Kams. ' Another National Football Lea gue team, the Green Bay Pack ers, took two of the players, Joe f rancis ot Oregon State and Jer ry Kershner of Oregon. Oregon quarterback Jack Crab tree was dratted by the Philadel phia Eagles. Of the Oregon players drafted. Parrish's selection came as the greatest surprise, for Linfield is a member of tne Northwest Con ference, a circuit composed of small Northwest colleges. The six-loot, 185-pound quarter back from Prineville, last season guided Linfield to a co-champion- snip in the conference. After Parrish's draft, Linfield coach Paul Durham said the selection came as no surprise to him because the Rams had studied movies taken of three Linfield 'games last season. Parrish said he was "complete ly surprised" at his selection and said he would have to think over the offer before making a decision to play professional foot ball. uurnam said rarnsh had no desire to play football when he Frank Leahy, Chuck Mather Cited Possible - AF Mentors DENVER lH Frank Leahy and former Kansas coach Chuck Mather were mentioned most often Wednesday as possible re placements for Lawrence T. (Buck) Shaw as Air Force Acad emy football coach. The Academy and- Shaw, 60-year-old veteran of college and pro coaching jobs, came lo an amicaoio purling ot the ways lucsnay. By "mutual consent." an Aca demy spokesman said, Shaw was released from his five-year con- Chico Coach Dies During Hunt For Lad WILLOWS (UP) -Gus Manolis. 34, football coach at Chico State College, collapsed and died Tues day while searching in Mendocino National Forest for 12-year-old Dennis Wurschmidt. Manolis collapsed while huntinn clues in the Grindstone Canyon area, one of the most rugged purts of the forest. , Sheriff Lyle Sale withheld the news of Manolis's death until his wife could be notified in Chico. I The area in which ho died was so rugged that a stretcher party hud the utmost difficulty in re moving his body. A native of Sacramento. Mann- lis played football while attending me university of California. lie was an assistant to UC Coach Lynn Waldorf before becoming head coach al Yuba Junior College in Marysville in 1950. He went to Chico from Yuba JC. Portland Vikings Win 3rd Straight PORTLAND Portland Slate won its third consecutive basketball game Tuesday night, defeating Oregon College or Edu cation, 51-40. in the Oregon Col legiate Conference. Oregon College has not won in seven conference starts. Johnny Winters and Stan Web er each scored 14 points for the winners. NOW IN 100 PROOF, AS WELL AS 80 Specify Smirnoff whon ordering vodka drinks. ' It's the Vodka of Vodkaj mirnoff TIE (REMEST milt IK VODKA 80 AND 100 PROOF. DISTILLED FROM GRAIN. STE. PIERRE SMIRNOFF f LS. (DIV. OF Hf.UBLf.IN), HARTFORO. CONNECTICUT enrolled at Linfield, but rather wanted to concentrate on base ball. - "Ron developed more in four years than any kid I've ever coached," Durham said. "He's the best passer I've seen in 10 years in the conference and I'd rate him next to Washington State's Bobby Newman among passers on the Pacific Coast." Last season, Parrish was the eighth best offensive player among the nation's small college players. The selection of Francis came as no surprise, for the Hawaiian- born speedster led Oregon State to a co-championship in the Pa cific Coast Conference and played well in the East - West Shrine game. ' f. t Francis said, though, he is not certain he' - will ' accept Green Bay's otter. - "I want to take a try at pro ball," Francis said, "but there are details to be-Ironed out. I have an offer to.' play for a Ca nadian team, but I-haven't made up my mind yet.'V. Oregon's Jack Crabtree, a skill ful 6-foot, 189-pound" quarterback, said he was extremely pleased at being drafted 'by : Philadelphia and plans to attend- the Eagles' training camp. Crabtree was named the out standing player of the last Rose Bowl game, in which Oregon was narrowly beaten 10-7 by Ohio State. His Rose Bowl teammate, tackle Jerry Kershner, was not available for comment immed iately. Oregon line coaches Jerry Frel and Bill Hammer both said, how ever, they thought Kershner would do very well as a profes sional. They said he is extremely fast despite being 6-4 and weigh ing 220 pounds. tract with three years to go. Ha was reported to have agreed to accept one-half of his salary, be lieved in excess of $15,000 annual ly, for the remaining years. Col. George B. Simler. Acade my athletic director, -said the white-haired coach s business com mitments made it impossible for him to spend the time with the team that is required. Shaw is a vice president of - the Royal Con tainer Corp. in San Francisco. ' , Simler said he hopes a successor will be chosen within a month. He said he has "several men in mind" but declined to rnentio any. .",'.- j . But the names of Leahy, whe has busincss'rtnterest tn Denver, Mather and Ben Martin, University-of- Virginia coach, immedi ately cropped up. Leahy recently accepted and then, on doctor's orders, rejected un offer to become athletic di rector and head coach at Texas A&M. But, an Air Force Academy pol icy which allowed Shaw to devote about 5'i months a year to foot ball, was believed such that Leahy might be given niedical clear ance. .Mather recently announced he would enter insurance business in Ohio, but ho was reported in terested in the Academy job. In his two seasons at the Aca demy as its first football coach ahnw compiled a record of 9 vic tories, 8 losses and 2 ties. Before coming out of retirement for the job he coached the San Francis co 4!lers of the National Profes sional League for nine years. New Pine Creek Fighter Enters Golden Gloves The New Pine Creek boxing cliil), under the direction of Rev. Jeff SwinneL has produced at least one. boxer, Frankie Lightle, who has won eligibility to attend the Golden Glove Boxing Tourna ment to be held In Portland on February 7 'a"nd 8. Lightle and Rev, Swinney will leave on Thursday, February 6, to attend the meet. New Pine Creek businessmen are sponsoring the young boxer on i his initial debut into the Golden i Glove boxing circle. ffoift i Pi t
