SUNDAY. DECEMBER 28. 1958
HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON
PAGE S B
Palmberg Calls Club Back
Pelicans Return To Work
Owls'
Vacation
Cut Short
Coach Wally Palmberg calls his
Oregon Tech Owl basketball squad
back onto the playing court bun
day evening as the Tech cagers
return from their abbreviated
Christmas vacation.
The Owls are pointing for their
next maple court play January 2
and 3 against Westminster College
at Salt Lake City. On their road
trip, they will tangle with North
west N'azarene January 5 at On
tario on their way home.
Palmberg has two-a-day prac
tices billed for the Techmen this
coming week as they prep for their
three-game road trip, the first out
ing away from home this season
As the Tech cagers await their
three - game junket, Palmberg s
crew holds an even split in the
fix games playeo to date, winning
three and losing three.
Earlier in the season, Northwest
Nazarene whipped the Owls twice
on the Mile High Campus floor,
opening up a new basketball rival
ry tor Ull. ine iwo-game series
with Westminster will also add a
new foe on the Owl basketball
records.
Reporting along with the Oregon
Tech squad this evening will be a
few new faces, which are expected
to strengthen the Owl basketball
roster. Heading the list of new
comers is 6-4, 240-pound Arnold
Metcalf. the big Tech football tac
kle who was waiting until the end
of the fall term to become eligible
for basketball. Jess McCutcheon is
another new possibility with which
Palmberg can insert some added
height and backboard sirengtn
Metcalf, who moves extremely
well for his size, has been working
out and is reportedly in good
shape. McCutcheon Is a name fa
miliar to local basketball fans. Jess
is the younger brother of OTl's
all-conference standout John Mc
Cutcheon who finished his college
basketball eligibility last season un
der Palmberg. Jess, a freshman,
stands 6-4 and has enrolled for
winter term at OTI. He played
his prep basketball at Willamette
of Eugene and hpnngtieia, me tat
ter as a member of the Millers
itate tournament team
With the addition of Metcalf and
McCutcheon. Palmberg may move
Ardell Hamilton to a guard spot to
strengthen the Owls backcourt
weaknesses. Hamilton, the team':
leading scorer, has looked impres
sive at times in the first six games
and needs only a little more ex
perience to become a fine ball
player according to Palmberg.
Working Hamilton at guard, direct
ing the Tech attack may make bet
ter use of his speed and shooting
ability.
Going into the "new year," Ham
ilton heads the Owl scoring race
with 80 points in six games for a
per-game average of 13.4. Second
hiehest ooint producer for Tech at
this stage of the season is Charlie
Wilson with 60 points, and an even
10 points per contest.
The Owls individual scoring:
FO FT PFTP
TIME OUT
'mm
"I'll decide when you've had
enough, kid!"
Hal Wood's
Weekend
Short Shois
Hamilton
C. Wllion
Layher
Gantar
Koontg
Francis
L. Wllion
SimHytr
Dick
Smith
Maarerud
Marsh ,
Othri '
TOTALS
3d 22-37 31 SO
2.1 10-15 SO
21 S-23 11 47
13 4- 13 2B
11 5-9 11 27
7 a-u 8
6 -S 12
S 6-10 S
S 1-2 3
3 1-5 2
1 0-0
0 0-10
13 3-4 10
155 117-130 100 337
Wichita Trainer
Dies In Corvallis
CORVALLIS (AP)
(Doc) N e e d h a m ,
- Lester L
50, athletic
of
Sugar Hart
Scores Win
Over Dupas
MIAMI BEACH, Fla! (AP) -
Youth and punch beat youth and
experience Friday night as Gar
net (Sugar) Hart of Philadelphia
took a split decision over New Or
leans welterweight, Ralph Dupas
in a 10-round bout. ' '
The defeat put an end to Du
pas boast that he never had lost
to a welterweight, and the victory
for Hart bolstered his position as
contender for Don Jordan s
crown.
How soon the Philadelphian will
get a title shot is problematical,
but Harry Markson, International
Boxing Club executive director
who watched the fight, indicated
Hart would have to wait a while
at least.
Dupas was not particularly
downhearted by his setback.
which was by the narrowest of
margins. Asked how he rated Hart
among the other welters he has
met, he said he rated him right
along with Vince Martinez as the
toughest he has fought. He beat
Martinez.
It was a ding-dong battle from
the start in Miami Beach Audito
rium, and it was Hart's punching
power he had registered 20
knockouts in 29 previous fights
which was the difference.
Although Dupas is the same age
as Hart 23 he started young and
has had 90 bouts, exclusive of the
Hart affair. x
Referee Jimmy ' Peerless gave
the fight to Dupas, 98-97, based on
the 10-point "must" system for the
winner of each round. Judge Gus
Jacobson had Hart in front,
95, and Judge Stu Winston's card
had Hart on top, 97-94. ine Asso
ciated Press card had Hart win
nine 97-94.
The nationally televised bout
drew 2,846 fans who paid $7,172.25
to see the ranking welters battle
it out. Hart is rated No. 2 and
Dupas No. 4.
Orangemen Set
For Trip South
RALEIGH, N.C. (UPI) Syra
cuse University's Orangemen went
throuch their last drills here Satur
day before leaving for Florida
and their New Year's Day meet
ing in the Orange Bowl with Okla
homa.
Bv the time the squad finished
preliminary drills tor tne game
Art Baker, a sophomore from
Erie, Pa., appeared certain to fill
a backfield vacancy that has fle
veloped during the squad's two
week drill period here. He will
probably take the place of Ed
Keiffer at the fullback spot.
Keiffer. also a sophomore, was
hurt in the first day of drills and
has returned to the team as
second-stringer.
trainer for the University
Wichita, died in a Corvallis hos-
oital early Saturday.
Needham suffered a stroke the
night of Dec. 13, when the Wichita
team lost a basketball game 72-55
to Oregon State College here.
Klamath
To Meet
Challenge
The holiday season ended Friday
afternoon for coach Dean White
and his Klamath Union Pelican
basketball team as they settled
down in earnest to get themselves
set for the 1959 Southern Oregon
Conference cage wars which open
on Pelican court next Friday night
when the Grants Pass Cavemen ar
rive for their first visit to Klam
ath Falls.
Following the Friday night clash
with the Cavers, the Pels meet
what the dope sheets term the big
challenge to their supremacy, the
Medford Black Tornado; the game
to be played in Medford on Satur
day night.
Throughout the coming season,
all the SOC contestants play sched
ules matching two different teams
a week.
The contest with the Cavemen
finds the Pels meeting the only
club to collect a victory over the
1958 KU State Championship squad.
Last season the Cavemen caught
the Pelicans napping and notched
52-46 win In the second of their
four game series.
In preseason games this year,
the Pelicans (4-0 have shown ad
mirable ability as "a come from
behind" winner, having scored a
pair over the Springfield Millers,
48-44 and 54-53, Doth games being
decided in the last few seconds of
play. Their next outing saw them
overcome a 13-point flelicit at tne
hands of the Marshfield Pirates
and move to within four points with
31 seconds left. Some sharp ball
hawking by guard Dave DeLap
gave the Pels a tie which dissolved
in their favor, 74-72, in the second
and "sudden death" overtime pe
riod.
On the same junket to Coos Bay
the Pelicans were nearly caught
by a fired-up North Bend Bulldog
quintet before they finally eked
out a narrow 48-47 victory, this
one also in the closing seconds.
The Grants Pass five have col
lected four wins and two losses
so far this year; their wins com
ing at the expense of Marshfield
North Bend, Weed and a split
with Roseburg. The other loss was
credited to the Yreka Miners in
the season opener.
Medford, like KUHS, is unde
feated this season. A 64-48 triumph
over Marshfield was followed by a
56-44 win over North Bend. A pair
of scheduled games with South Eu
gene was stopped at the halfway
point by an OS A A ruling concern
ing the Axmen; Medford -having al
ready gained a 48-41 victory. Fri
day night the Tornado blew past
the Corvallis Spartans, 58-43, with
another test slated for Saturday
night.
The practice schedule for the
Pelicans puts them on the court
each morning at 10 o'clock for the
remainder of the week with the
possible exception of New Year's
Day when they will meet in the
afternoon for a short shooting ses
sion.
Friday evening's session found
the Pels doing without the services
of Bob Peterson and Bob Drace,
who were sidelined with minor ail
ments: Peterson with a bruised
foot and Drace with an infected
tooth. Returning to practice for the
first time since the North Bend
match when he was taken sudden
ly ill was Dean Dunson. Dunson
had been suffering from a severe
tooth infection. Probable starters
for the Grants Pass match were
unavailable at this time.
Pelican individual scoring:
FO FT PfTP
Hall 11 3-7 4 29
Lewis 8-0 3 13
Peterson 13 22-29 8 43
Bllhnp fl 3-4 1 IS
Don DeLao 24 10-13 5 fiR
Dave DeLap in 9-12 s 20
Drace ' 10 2-13 12 22
Dunson 4 1-2 4 0
TOTALS M 51-59 44 124
Olmedo.
Mac Kay
Draw Nod
Bv HAL WOOD
SAN FRANCISCO tUPP-Week-end
shorts:
Just for the record: Rose Bowl
Iowa 30. California 22: Cotton
Bowl - Texas Christian 20. Air
Force IS; Orange Bowl Okla
homa 30, Syracuse 14: Sugar
Bowl Louisiana State 22, Clem
son 0. . . .
Surprising thing about today's
modern football players: They
nearly all look forward to a year
or two of professionaj football, no
matter wnai type oi a aecroe
they get from college. Nick Piet
rosante of Notre Dame would like
a crack at the pro game; so
would Bronk Nagurski, Jr., anoth
er Irish star. I d just like a year
or so of it to see what it's like.
says Bronko, son of the all-time
former Minnesota great. ...
The annual Dolphin Dip. a regu
lar New Year's Day feature, will
go on as scheduled at Ocean Beach
here next Thursday. "Men" from
seven to 70 will dunk in the Pa
cific Ocean's cool and refreshing
waters that day. Anticipated wa
tor temperature: About 40 de
grees. . .
A four-man relay race around
the icy waters of Lake Tahoe, site
of the 1960 winter Olympic games,
was supposed to be through heavy
snows not to date, no snow.
A survey taken by the Track
and Field News gives Bobby Mor
row, triple-Olympic medal winner
at the 19d6 games in Melbourne,
the crown as the greatest sprinter
of all time. Under a point sys
tem used on the survey, Morrow
compiled 432 points against 280
for Ralph Metcalfe and 224 for
Jesse Owens. Owens won four
gold medals in the 1936 Olympics.
Other leaders were: Charley Pad
dock, 19,1; Lloyd LaBeaeh of Pan
ama, 188; Dave Sime, 183; Bar
ney Ewell, 182: Mel Patton, 181;
Harold Davis, 172, and Andy Stan-
tieio, 171. . .
Random thought: One. of the
nicest guys we've ever met in the
coaching profession is head coach
Milt Bruhn of Wisconsin. He s here
as assistant to head coach Duffy
Daugherty of the East Shrine
squad
Bruhn, incidentally, has his own
version of how to win football
games. It was given to him by
the late Bob Zuppke: "A punt
and a pass and a prayer don't
always win football games. The
Lord is on the side of the team
with the biggest tackles."
BRISBANE, Australia AP) -Capt.
Perry Jones said Saturday
night Barry MarKay and Alex Ol
medo would play the opening sin
gles against Auslialia in the Davis
Cup challenge round Monday.
In a hurriedly called late eve
ning news conference, he also an
nounced Ham Richardson, the
No. 1 U.S. player, and Olmedo
would play the doubles.
Jones' announcement ended long
speculation over the singles selec
tions. He said he believes his U.S
lineup has the best chance to beat
Australia next week.
Chief counsel Jack Kramer was
on hand when the announcement
was made. No players were
present.
"My decision on this matter was
dictated by the physical side of
it, Jones said. I felt that Rich
ardson would be unable to play
top-flight tennis m intense tropical
heat for three days.
Richardson said he was deeply
shocked by the announcement. He
criticized Jones method of mak
ing the selection
"He did not have the courage
to tell us, Ricnardson declared
adding that Jones did not show
any conviction. 1
"As a result, our team has been
in a state of strain not knowing
who would play and unable to
point to the Australians.
This is my last Davis Cup
campaign, Richardson added.
This is my last year of big
time tennis."
He repealed that it was incom
prehensible to him that he should
be left off :he singles line-up,
pointing out again his No. 1 rank
ing and his superior record.
I am disgusted, he said
Fraley's
Facfs,
And Figures
By OSCAR FRALEV
NEW YORK, i LTD - Fearless
Fraley's lads and figures:
It's okay to "join the Navy and
see the world," but if you're a
college athlete you sure can play
basketball and see the United
States.
As example, Seattle's cage
squad traveled 2,v miles last
year to lead the nation's collegiate
roundhall wanderers. 1 1 ah w as
the second most-traveled squad
with 17.2WJ miles.
After those two came Memphis
State and Idaho Slate with 16.01)0
miles each: Brigham Young
Xavier Whips Ducks
In All-College Clash
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - The
University of Oregon, beaten 68
57 by Xavier in Friday's round
of the All-College Rasketball Tour
nament, met San Francisco in Sat
urday afternoon's consolation
round.
Wichita played Tulsa in the
other consolation game.
The championship semifinal
round pitted Oklahoma City Uni
versity against Xavier and Bowling
Green against Duquesne. The tour
nament linal will be Monday
night.
Canadian Ski
Star Honored
TORONTO (AP) Last Febru
ary, 23-year-old Lucile Wheeler
capped 13 years of rigorous train
ing by winning two events in the
World Alpine Skiing Champion
ships at Bad Gastein, Austria.
The performances stamped her
as Canada's Outstanding Female
Athlete of 1958.
The award was made official
Saturday by the country's sports
editors and broadcasters partici
pating in the 24th annual Canadian
Press year-end poll. The blue
eyed redhead, only Canadian to
win a world title m skiing, took
honors by a tremendous margin
over 21 other nominated athletes.
Voters were asked by CP to
name the best three lanaaian
female athletes, in order, and the
now retired world champion from
St. Jovite, Que. dominated the
noil with 218 noints.
Mrs. Marlene Stewart Streit of
Toronto, one of Canada's all-time
great female golfers and poll win
ner in 1957, was second with 127
points. Ernestine Russell, 18-year-old
gymnast from Windsor, Ont.,
who won both the Canadian ana
American championships,
third with only 28 points.
Hawkeyes Work
On Field Goal
PASADENA, Calif. (UPI) -
Iowa, one of the nation's finest
offensive teams, won't be caught
napping if the Rose Bowl game
with California comes down to the
wire when a field goal would be
decisive.
Coach Forest Evashevski had
end Bob Prescott hard at work
Friday kicking field goals from all
distances. The reserve connected
several from the 35 yard
range.
Meanwhile, Iowa was devoting
considerable attention to passing,
with quarterbacks Randy Duncan
and Mitchell Ogtego tossing more
than 40 between them. Duncan hit
14,763; Bradley 14,200 and Port-i
land 14,0110 miles . . . and only a
bare handful of the nation's teams
traveled less than 2,0(10 miles dur
ing the season.
fcd Furgol. the former U.S.
Open champion, and slender
Gardner Dickinson both happily
report that they are recovering
from operations and are ready to
take another good shot at the pro
our.
I L'RGOL BOUNCES BACK
Furgol first was so despondent
after a bone chip operation on his
eood right arm that he said he
was giving up tournament golf
for good and would take a club
lob. Now he is optimistic again.
Dickinson was out six months aft
er undergoing surgery for a rup
tured disc in his back.
Bob Turley of the New York
Yankees and Archie Moore, off
his bout with Y'von Durelle, ap
near to be the best bets to re
ceive the S10.000 Hickok belt as
'he pro athlete of the year. The
winner will he named in a poll of
the. nation's sportswriters and
snortscastcrs but a private poll
indicates that Turley, off his 20-
game season and two World Se
ries wins, is the probable winner
It's a case of a season's work nut
weighing the work of one night.
GOLFERS BIG SPENDERS
Don't ask me what this proves
hut the Clemson collrsc football
team, which plays L.S.U. in the
Ian. 1 Sugar Bowl game, is
shouldergtiard deep in lassies. The
five coaches have 14 children and
12 of them are girls. Of the 11
married nlavers on the team, six
have children and only one is a
hnv ... nrobablv don t want em
to follow In the old man's foot
stens. -
The Denartment of Commerce
says that more money is spent on
trnlf than on any other sport, sup
nort ne this claim are imures
from the Na onal Golf Foundation
showing a' total Investment in golf
facilities ot SL,325,ooo,tini: an an
nual maintenance cost of $107,000.
000: annual snending of S50.000.onn
for new facilities; and the annual
SDendine of $51,000,000 for equin
ment, accessories and supplies in
lltiHUvUmll
Scoreboard
College Raskrthall
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
So. Calif. 61, Denver 51
Santa Clara 49, UCLA 47
Utah State 64. Idaho 63
Stanford 74, Arizona 59
Idaho Stale 100, Alaska 58
Kent Slate (Ohio) 80, Calif. Poly
(San Luis Obispo) 76
All-College
(First Round)
Duquesne 78, Tulsa 67
Bowling Green 85, Wichita 81 .
Xavier (Ohio) 68. Oregon 57
Oklahoma City 72, San Francis
co 64
Southwest Conference
(First Round)
So. Methodist 65, Arkansas 64
Texas Christian 62, Baylor 55
Rice 62, Texas 43
Texas Afc.M 66, Texas Tech 58
ECAC Festival
(First Round)
Utah 80, Cornell 61
Dayton 84, Niagara 79
St. Josephs (Pa) 72. Syracuse 63
St. Johns (NY) 77, Holy Cross 65
Big Eight -(First
Round)
Kansas State 69, Missouri 66
Oklahoma 68, Iowa State 65
Evansvllle Invitational
(First Round)
Tenn. Tech 69, St. Mary's
(Calif.) 67
Evansville 84, Washington (St.
Louis) 53
Tug Valley
(First Round)
West Va. Tech 100, Transylva
nia 78
Pikeville Ky.) 91, Alderson
Broaddus 72
Oregon jumped to an early lead
in its game, hut was quickly
smothered by Xavier, the nation's
No. 10 team. Xavier led 32-28 at
the half.
Oregon took the lead early In
the second half, 37-32. on nine
straight points. But the Ducks
cooled off again and Xavier went
on to win.
Hank Stein led the winners with
18 points. Chuck Rask was high
for Oregon with 16.
OCU, which lost in last year's
finals to San Francisco 60-45,
came out from behind early in
Friday night's first round game
and then staved olf a San Fran
cisco rally to win 72-64.
The Chiefs, small but fast, will
have a tough time trying to con
fine the shooting of Xavier's Stein
and an aggressive attack that has
made top-seeded Xavier the na
tion's No. 10 ranked team.
Both Oklahoma City and Xavier
went into the tournament with 5-1
records.
The only other team with a 5-1
record. Tulsa, was upset 78-67 by
Duquesne, which had a 2-4 season
mark before the tourney.
Tulsa played a listless came.
and was completely out-manned
on the boards. Roger Wendel
saved Tulsa from a complete rout
with 29 points, the most made by
any player in the tourney's first
round.
The meet's opening game
proved to be the closest, when
Bowling Green won in the last
minute from Wichita, 85-81.
Oklahoma City University, the
only team remaining in the cham
pionship round which has won the
meet, look the trophy in 1949 and
1951. I he Chiefs have been run-
ners-up for the past three years.
!an rrancisco had won two all-
college titles and Tulsa one.
XAVIER G F P T
Viviano 2 3-5 2 7
Pointek 3 4-4 4 10
Phillips 7 2-4 4 16
Stein ' 8 2-3 2 18
Castelle 2 4-5 1 8
Nicola! 0 2-3 2 2
Gumdrum 2 3-3 0 7
Totals 24 20-27 15 68
OREGON G F P T
Strickland 3 3-4 4 9
Herron 3 5-8 3 11
Robertson 4 2-5 4 10
Kuykendall 5 1-2. 1 11
Rask 7 2-5 5 16
Anderson 0 0-0 3 0
Totals 22 13-24 20 57
XAVIER 32 3668
OREGON 28 2957
on 14 of 22 -hi the workout, some
to end Curt Merz, who worked! pro shops alone.
out despite a bad knee.
Anyone for tennis?
College Cage Slate
Jammed With Action
Rook Paces
Xavier Holiday
(f irst Kounai k I
Grambling 103, Southern (La) 63 VV ArriOii
Dillard 60. New Orleans Xavier "aillWIJl
TIGERS WORK OUT
BILOXI, Miss. (UPI) The
Clemson Tiger football team ar
rived here Saturday for a pre-Sug-ar
Bowl workout before meeting
Louisiana State University New
Year's Day.
MIDDLE WEIGHTS MATCHED
MELBOURNE, Australia (UPI)
Australian cricket star Norman
O'Neill said Friday he had re
ceived an offer from the New
York Yankees for a baseball try
out next spring.
Ex-Cal Coach
Remains Serious
BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) - Old-
time University of California head
football coach Stub Allison was
reported still in serious condition
Saturday but slightly improved
from a heart attack suffered Christ
mas nieht.
One of California's team physi
cians, Dr. James Harkncss, re
mained behind to care for Allison
when the Bears flew south for the
Rose Bowl game against Iowa.
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
College football came up with
its first big post-season bowl pro
gram Saturday, so college basket
ball answers with this salvo:
1. Six major holiday tourna
ments.
Such important doublehead-
ers as West Virginia vs. North
western and Seattle vs. Chicago
Loyola at Chicago and Butler vs,
Indiana and Notre Dame vs. Pur.
due at Indianapolis.
3. A bundle of major games, in
cluding matches for the team with
the longest winning streak going,
Auburn (against Florence of Ala
bama), unbeaten Bradley (against
Gonzaga), and Georgia Tech-St.
Louis, Virginia-Tennessee, lem-pie-Connecticut,
Minnesota-Wash
ington, "Louisiana State-Florida
State. Princeton-Ohio State, and
Utah State-Idaho
The tournament schedule, hold
ing the key interest at tne mo
ment, reached the semifinal stage
Saturday night in the ECAC's Holi
day Festival at New York, the All
College tourney at Oklahoma City
and the Southwest conference
tourney at Houston.
Finals showed up Saturday night
in the Evansville Invitational, with
Tennessee Tech playing host
Evansville for the tille. Tech
nipped St. Mary's (Calif.) 69-65
Friday night and Evansville wal
loped Washington of St. Louis, 84
53.
Northwest Had Good Sports Year In '58
By JACK HEWINS
SEATTLE (AP) The year 1958
deserves to go down in sports his
tory as the year of the short-short
boxing story, the first sinking of
a Coast Guard vessel in this .cen
tury or the year that Washington
tripped the f ruds.
It also could be called the Anne
Quast year, the Nancy Ramey
year, the Elgin Baylor year or
the year of Victor Denny, if you
fancv eolf. swimming, basketball
nr tennis.
All these things and people were
headliners in 19.58, but for sheer
n-nrrinue and staving power the
yarn of the year was the contin
ued story that hasn't ended yet
the agonizing demise ot tne racu
lo Coast Conference.
It's a story that died slower than
a turtle and one with more branch
es than a Christmas tree. The
vear was only a few hours old
when Oregon, one of the confer
ence's Unwanted Four, put up
such a scrap against Ohio State
In the Rose Bowl that many west
erners still think the Webfoots
won.
California. Washington, Southern
. California and UCLA organized
the Bi Five with four members,
feat usually accomplished only
hy barbershop quartets. With nice
dramatic timing, the climax was
saved for the end of the year.
That was the "Nyet from
UCLA and Southern California
when Washington State asked the
defuncting conference tor appro
val to accept a bowl bid. Still
irked by the majority vote that
penalized them for cheating on
the rules, the Big Two invoked a
technicality to get even with one
of the majority.
While the decline and fall of the
PCC was the chief attention
getter in the West, other stories
involving westerners had more
impact nationally and internation
ally.
The victory of the University of
Washington crew over the Lenin.
grad Truds et al in Moscow was
news that circled the globe. So
were the swimming records set
by Nancy Ramey of Seattle and
the election of Seattle's Vic Denny
as president of the United States
Lawn Tennis Assn. Wherever golf
is played the fans know Anne
Quast of Marysville Is the U, S.
women's amateur champion.
Unlimited hydroplanes niaka a
larger news splash every year and
the Northwest has become thun
derboat. capital ot the country.
The Apple Cup at Chelan and
Coeur d'Alene's Diamond Cup
have grabbed spots on the racing
circuit.
The Gold Cup race at Seattle in
1958 was one of the most dramatic
in the event's half-century history.
The flamingo-pink Hawaii "Kai,
running its only race of the year,
roared to a convincing victory.
Miss Thriftway roared out of con
trol into one of the patrol boats
and gave Driver Bill Muncey his
punch line for winter banquet
speeches:
"I'm the first man to sink
Coast Guard vessel since the
Spanish-American War."
The short-short fight was almost
a 1958 trademark. Pat Mc.Murtry
of Tacoma kayoed in Round 1 by-
Nino Valdez; Alex Miteff dittoed
in ditto by Willy Besmanoff; Pete
Rademacher whacked in the
fourth by Zora Folley. And Grand
pa Kid Matthews unretired and
re-retired within a week without
thrnwina a Duneh.
Skipping quickly around the
sports front, these are some of the
notable incidents of the 12 gone
months:
Boating Hugh Entrop of Seattle
is first man to top 100 miles per
hour with an outboard.
Rnxine Dennv Moyer of Port
land shoulders way into national
scene; Terry Lewis of Spokane
tabbed as outstanding heavy
weight prospect; Bobby Hicks of
Seattle recognized as brilliant
lightweight while still a teen-aged
high school student.
Basketball Elgin Baylor of Se
attle University established as one
of game's all-time greats; Seattle
wins Western Regional collegiate
crown, then slapped with two-year
nrnhation: Orceon State ties Cali
fornia in hectic eM race, loses
playoff for NCAA tourney berth.
Golf-Willie Goggin takes Na
tional Senior Open In Spokane
Athletic Round Table's tourney.
Tennis Janet Honns of Seattle
defeats Althea Gibson but Injured
back stalls her quest tor major
titles.
Reshuffled Coast League has
satisfactory year after doubtful
start. Snokane leading loop in at
tenance; Earl Averill Jr., named
league standout; Fred Hutchinson
returns to Seattle as manager:
Salem plans to quit Northwest
League; Drain, Ore., wins nation
al semt-pro title,
Football Ted Bates of Oregon
State makes everybody's All
America; Washington State has
winning season despite injury to
star passer Bobby Newman: Port
land's Jefferson High team re
garded as one of region's best
prep clubs in many seasons: Ore
gon Tech wins Oregon Collegia1
Conference title, then loses
when four players declared ineli
gible; Willamette's Bill Long
named Little All America center,
Skiing Excellent crop
youngsters showing up. regionally
Oregon girls, led by Jean Saubert
of Portland, win the Western
States junior combined tourney;
Mike Buckley of Yakima and Kay
Eyraud of Walla Walla place high
in national junior meets: Wenat-
chee Jayceo has outstanding col
lege team.
All four favorites won in day-
night douhleheaders in the Holi
day Festival at Madison Square
Garden Friday. Dayton, snowing
the kind of class that could make
it the favored team, bounced back
from a nine-point halftime deficit
to down Niagara 84-79 as Bobby
Jones and Frank Case combined
for 34 points In the second half.
St. Johns whipped Holy cross
77-65, husky Utah overpowered
Cornell 80-61 and St. Joseph s, the
pre-tourney choice, defeated Syra
cuse 72-63 in other Festival games,
Duquesne, winner of only two
of six previous games, provided
the upset of the four first round
games m the Alt-College tourney,
clubbing Tulsa 78-67. Bowling
Green edged Wichita 85-81, fav
ored Xavier of Ohio spurted at the
end to defeat Oregon 68-57, and
Oklahoma City bounced San Fran
Cisco 77-64.
Texas A&M's 66-58 victory over
Texas Tech was the only surprise
the first round play in the
Southwest tourney. Tech was
12-point favorite. In other games,
TCU beat Baylor 62-55, Rice
whipped Texas 62-43 and SMU
edged Arkansas 65-64.
Form also followed in the Big
Eight's opening doubleheader as
Kansas State, with Bob Boozer
and Wally Franks combining for
45 points, beat Missouri 69-66 and
Oklahoma stopped Iowa State,
also by three points, 68-65.
Notre Dame and Purdue actual
ly met for the- "champion
ship" of the Hoosier Classic
the doubleheader also involving
Butler and Indiana at Indianapo
lis. The pairings for both days
were set, however, and it doesn
rank as an official tournament
Notre Dame rode Tom Hawkins
31 points to a 73-67 victory over
Indiana Friday night and Purdue,
winning its sixth straight, dropped
Butler 78-65.
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Hoosier Classic
Notre Dame 73, Indiana 67
Purdue 78, Butler 65
National Basketball Assn.
Philadelphia 106, New York 9!
Boston 107, Minneapolis 99
Detroit 131, Cincinnati 91
Oregon Prep bkb
Vale 67 Payette, Idaho, 28
Parma, Idaho 46 Nyssa 44
Medford 58 Corvallis 43 .
West Valley, Wash., 47 La Grande
41 '
Baker 67 Caldwell, Idaho 48
Elliott Says
Bears Ready
PASADENA. Calif. (AP) -
Coach Pete Elliott of the Califor
nia (jolden Hears agrees wai
Iowa should be favored to win
the Rose Bowl game, but he's not
about to admit they'll do it.
As for the 18 or 19 points quoted
on the champion Hawkeyes of the
Big Ten, Elliott said he Is neither
concerned nor perturbed at such
odds.
Idwa's record of one loss and
one tie during the regular season
gives them an edge over the
Bears 7-3 record, in tne eyes oi
the experts.
Elliott, who set up training snop
in the Hose owi area rnaay
said he is not one to make pre
dictions about the outcome of a
same.
Forest fcvasnevsKi, iowb s
coach, from the outset branded
the big point margin ridiculous.
and hasn t changed nis , mina
about California, which he calls
a good tootoaii team.
Both squads held single work
outs Saturday, each emphasizing
defense and perfecting timing on
offense.
Celtics Win
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
The headlong plunge of the
Philadelphia Warriors to the low
er depths of the National Basket
ball Assn.'s Eastern Division has
been stopped and it took a rookie
to do it.
Young Guy Rodgers, a former
All-America from Temple, put on
a great performance Friday night
leading the Warriors to a 106-93
victory over the New York Knick
erbockers at Hershey, Pa.
Rodgers scored 28 points, hand
ed off a dozen assists and grabbed
11 rebounds.
Until they went into their tail-
spin a couple of weeks ago. the
Warriors had compiled a 9-11
mark, which kept, them within
sight of the leaders. Now they arc
all but out of the running.
The Boston Celtics widened
their lead in the Eastern Division
by polishing off the Minneapolis
Lakers, 107-91, and the Detroit
Pistons whipped the Cincinnati
Royals, 131-91, in a doubleheader
in Detroit.
Bob. Cousy and Frank Ramsey
snuffed out a fourth quarter rally
by the Lakers to lead the Celtic
to their ninth straight triumph
and 15th in their last 17 games.
The Royals made a battle out
of their game with the Pistons for
two periods. At the half, Detroit
led, 53-51. But after that, the Pis
tons began to pour it on and had
built up a 111-65 margin early in
the fourth quarter.
CORNELL TO START
MIAMI (UPI)-Bob Cornell will
probably start as Oklahoma quar
terback in the Orange Bowl game
with Syracuse New Year s Day
He replaces Dave Baker, .dropped
from school because of scholastic
difficulties.
Leahy Wants
Change For Pans
MIAMI. Fla. (AP) Colleges
should do everything they can to
make football more Interesting,
Frank ljahv saVS.
The former Notre Dame coacn
suggests moving the goal posts to
the goal line and returning 10 me
two-platoon system,
"i sineerelv believe the new
rule allowing two points when the
conversion is made by running or
passing has made football more
ritinff for the fans." he said.
Leahy said he is for anything to
onrnurase scoring wltnoui en
dangering players.
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