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. MONDAY. DECEMBER 29. !. HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OrTkOo PAGE THIRTEEN iaitimore Wins KIR Crown Don Overtime Unitas. Amorho I TIME OUT W U I fl k Colts In 23-17 Victory NEW YORK API - If they play pro footbail tor 100 years, Ihey never can top Baltimore's first championsh p snatched in a sudden death playoff 23-17 after f,'ew York refused to gamble. The Giants coddled a 17-14 lead with 21! minutes to play after an electrifying second half comeback. t was fourth down and inches to go on New York's 43. A first down probably would have permitted the Giants to run out the clock on four ground plays. A punt would give the Colts another chance. Go for broke? Or play it safe? Coach Jim Lee Howell elected to play it safe. The Giants punted, Coach Takes Extra Time To Grab Title NEW YORK (AP) - Coach Web Ewbank's five-year plan to bring the Baltimore Colts the National Football League championship has lucceedea. But with a smile on his face and tongue in cheek, he apologized for the Colts' 23-17 victory Sunday over the New Yoik Giants at Yan kee Stadium in an unprecedented Hidden-death playoff. "I miscalculated," he told Colts' President Carroll Rosenbloom in the team's tumuluous dressing room. "I predicted it would take five years to build a champion. It took me an extra quarter. Actually it took the Colts 8:13 extra to score the winning touchdown on the arrow-straight passing of Johnny Unitas and the one-yard touchdown smash of bull dozing Alan Ameche. "We just had to win because this was the bettor ball club out there," said Ewbank, a one-time assistant to Paul Brown at Cleve land. "And we never give up, that's us. That's characteristic of a great team, to come from be hind. And they have been doing it all season." - One of the many Baltimore stars was Steve Myhra, who kicked the' 20-yard field goal that tied the score at 17-17 with ten seconds to go in regulation time. "I had to hurry the kick," he said. "The Giants had blocked one attempt in the second quarter. I knew all the marbles were on the line. But I thought I just couldn't let a great bunch of guys like these down. It sure felt good when it went over;'' ' There was no apology from New York Coach Jim Lee Howell for his decision to piay safety - first twice in the key moments of the tense, thrilling title playoff. Both plays were fourth down and one to go situations. The most vital call was in the fourth quarter; the other in over time. The Giants led 17-14 with 2V4 minutes to play in the fourth quarter. '. A short run made it fourth down nd inches to go on the Giant 43. This nut it up to Howell, A Giant first' down would have en abled New York to run out the Clock, ... , ' : Briefs By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TENNIS NEW ORLEANS Mike Franks of Los Angeles beat top seeded Ron Holmberg of Brooklyn, N.Y. 6-3, 6-4 and Eddie Moylan of Tren ton N.J. defeated Mike Green of Miami 6-2, 11-9 to advance to the finals of the Sugar Bowl Invita tional Tournament. MIAMI BEACH, Fla. Lawrence Naglei of Los Angeles, third rank ing U. S. junior player, and Ron nie, Barnes of Rio De Janeiro won 18-and-under -semifinals berths in the junior Orange Bowl chanv pionships. MOTORBOAT RACING MIAMI BEACH. Fla. Ray Cassner, St. Petersburg, Fla., was declared winner on points after a long debate in the Orange Bowl international Grand Prix-power boat race. TRACK NEW ORLEANS Bobby Mor row won the 100 yard dash in 9.6 and Glenn Davis won the quarter mile in 48.8, both easy victories for the Olympic champs in the Sugar Bowl meet. Baltimore struck back to within scoring range and tied the score 17-17 on Steve Myhra's 20-yard ueia goat. Johnny Unitas Dassina and Alan Ameche's inspired running pro duced the winning touchdown in 13 plays in 8:15. Through the long winter niahts many will question Howell's strat egy. If he had gambled and not made the yardage, a Baltimore field goal was almost a sure thing. So he played it safe and lost anyhow. Perhaps the most gripping mo ment in the heart throb special came when Myhra, who had done double duty as a linebacker after Leo Sanford's first period injury kicked his hurried field goal. The clock showed only 10 seconds were left when he booted the ball high against the glare of the Stadium lights The Giants and most of the home crowd of 64,185 fans thought they got a break when they won the toss of the coin and chose to receive in the sudden death extra period, the first ever played in regular championship game. Once again tney came to a 4th and 1 situation but this time they were deep in their own territory on the New York 29. A messed up gamble would have given the Colts a sure game-ending field goal. The punt was the obvious strategy and Chandler boomed a lone one that Taseff returned a yard to the Colts' 20. In 13 plays Baltimore's fine of fense ground out a touchdown with Ameche crashing over right guard from the 1 through a gaping hole. Unitas, who couldn't play when the Giants beat the Colts 24-21 in the regular season because of three damaged ribs, was simply tremendous. The former Louisville star, who was snatched from theJ sandlots by the Colts, completed 26 of 40 passes from 349 yards. Time after time he hit Ray Berry, who caught 12, on beautiful pass patterns that split the Giants' defense. Gino Marchetti, who suffered a broken ankle and was carried off the field on a stretcher late in the game, rushed Giants' quarterback Charley Conerly all afternoon. The Colts' defensive line was superb, giving Conerly little time to throw, the line backers covered in excel lent style and the deep men did their job. Conerly connected with Bob Schnelker for a 46-yard pass on the first play pi the fourth period and threw to Frank Gifford for the touchdown that put the Giants ahead with only 53 seconds gone in the period. Pat Summerall's second conversion made it 17-14. Gifford. whose 38-yard-run set up Summerall's field goal, fum bled in the second period and the Colts marched from the Giants 20 to score with Ameche smashing from the 2. Another Gifford fumble as New York had the ball on the Colt 10 spurred Baltimore to a 86-yard drive in 14 plays. Unitas hit Ber ry with a 15-yarder for a 14-3 half- time lead. A Giant goal stand gave New York the ball on their five late in the third period. An 86-yard gain soon resulted when Connerly oassed to Kyle Rote, who fum bled when hit but teammate Alex Webster picked up the ball and raced to the l. inen( Mei irip lett bulled over for a 14-10 lead Two Baltimore thrusts were blunted by the Giants, one when Bert Rechichar's 46-yard field goal attempt tailed. With time running out, the Giants racked up one first down and reached tne New York 43 on 4th and 1 lac tually inches) when they punted and the Colts came back with their tving field goal. All the statistics ran neavuy in favor of the Colts. Few were in clined to disDUte coach Webb Ew bank when he said, "We just had to win because this was the bet ter ball club out there. ' The record gross receipts of $698,646 including the 200.000 tel evision fee, made for the richest payoff ever. Each full Colt share will be $4,718.77. Each Giant gets $3,111.33. I V I "Whaddya mean that isn't a strike? There you Ro again taking all 'the fun out of the game by being so technical!" Moyer Gets Big Chance. Faces Ortega NEW YORK (UPI) - Light weight contenders Kenny Lane and Carlos Ortiz clash in a 10- rounder at the Miami Beach Au ditorium Wednesday night for a probable shot at the title. Their nationally televised (ABC) fight is the top attraction on this week's light holiday box ing schedule, although welter weight contender Gaspar Ortega engages newcomer Denny Moyer at Madison Square Garden Fri day night. The Ortega - Moyer 10-rounder will be televised and broadcast nationally by NBC. In addition, four non - televised 10-roundcrs will be staged Mon day night at the Dallas (Tex.) au ditorium, with much attention fo cused on a bout between heavy weights Art Swiden of Pittsburgh and Bert Whitehurst of New York. For Wednesday's Lane -Ortiz fight at Miami Beach, the betting is at even money. Southpaw Lane of Muskegon, Lch., is well sup ported because he gave cham pion Joe Brown an unexpectedly close title fight at Houston, Tex., July 23, although he lost the de cision. Lane, 26, is ranked tops among contenders by Ring Magazine and third by the National Boxing As sociation. Ortiz, 22, is rated tops by the NBA and second by Ring. For Friday's welterweight fight at the Garden, lanky Ortega of Mexico is favored at 8-5 over un beaten Moyer of Portland Ore., largely because of his greater ex perience." Ortega's 47-13-2 record includes 20 knockouts. Moyer, only 19 years old, won all of his 18 pro fessional bouts, four by knock outs. The week's boxing schedule also includes: Monday: Dalles, Tex. Bert Whitehurst vs. Art Swiden, Paul Jorgensen vs. Bobby Bell, Alvin Williams vs. Hurricane Sims, and Junior Flores vs. Tommy Bain. Louisville, Ky. Ruddell - Stitch vs. Chico Vejar. . Tuesday: Phoenix, Ariz. Jim- mv Martinez vs. Tony Montano Saturday: Hollywood, cant. Neal Rivers vs. Willie Vaughn. Pettit, Sears Pace NBA's Star Balloting NEW YORK AP-Boh Pettit. scoring ace of the St. Louis Hawks and Kenny Sears, New York Knickerbocker star, topped the voting today for the National Bas ketball Assn. All-Star game. The game, between hand-picked aces of the Western and Eastern divisions, will be played in Detroit Jan. 23. Writers and sporlscasters se lected 10 players announced hy NBA President Maurice Podoloff The remaining live players on each squad will be named by the coaches next week. The lone newcomer is rookie Elgin Baylor, former Seattle All America now with the Minneapo lis Lakers. The other nine have seen action in the annual All-Star event with Bob Cousy of the Bos ton Celtics booked for his ninth successive game. In addition to Sears and Cousy the Eastern squad is composed of Rill Russell and Bill Sharman of Boston and Paul Arizin of Philadelphia. Members of the western squad include Pettit, Baylor. Cliff Hagan and Slater Martin of the Hawks and Gene Shue of Detroit. Only one NBA same was played Sunday as the Cincinnati Royals handed the Minneapolis Lakers their fourth straight setback, 120- 116. Jack Twyfnan paced the Royals with 32 points. I in Saturday mgnt games, bos-i ton tightened its hold on first place in the Eastern Division with a 112-94 decision over the Lakers. New York remained four games back by downing Syracuse 106.102 and Philadelphia turned back St. Louis 114-108 in overtime. Fans Celebrate Title In Frenzied Turnouts BALTIMORE ( AP) After 11 long years of waiting, it finally was "next year lor Baltimore Colt fans. So when the Colts rallied to win the National Football League championship, defeating the New ork Gianls 23-17 in sudden dcatti overtime Sunday, it lifted the lid on a lot of pent up emotion. A crowd estimated by police in excess of 30.000 turned out at Friendship International Airport to welcome home the champions. It was Baltimore's first winner since the Colts joined the old All America Conference in 1947 and shifted to the NFL in 1950. Three trainloads of spectators who witnessed the title game in New York's Yankee Stadium pa n oiTnvrvnT.rr W lx vliiiv XI Dixie Cage Classic Gets Nation's Best Rangers Stop Montreal Run Jordan Faces Narcotics Rap LOS ANGELES lAr) umcers arrested world welterweight box ing champion Don Jordan on sus picion of narcotics possession Sun day. ' Four other young men in a car with him also were booked. Jordan denied any knowledge of a freshly crushed marijuana cig arette butt which officer Robert Ludwig said he found on the floor of the back scat. Jordan, 24, won the 147-pound crown Dec. 5 from Virgil Akins. Those booked with the fighter were Javier de la Cruz Sanchez, 24, also a boxer; Pete Padilla, 19, driver of the car; George Chavez, 21, and Richard Holguin, 18. Jordan was released later on $1,000 bail. By 'THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Montreal s unoeatcn 13 - game hockey streak lay shattered today but the Canadiens still had a bulg ing lead in their National Hockey League runaway. The New York Rangers. cnalK- me un their tourtn victory eight games with Montreal this season, cut down the league lead ers 5-3 Sunday night. Montreal had won 11 and lost two games since Nov. 26 when the same pesky Rangers trimmed them. The dofeat lett Montreal a dozen points ahead of second nlace Detroit. Boston and New York were deadlocked in third place, two points behind the Red Wings. The New York victory shoved them into third place with the Bruins who fell before Detroit 5-3 after losing to Montreal 6-1 Satur day. The Chicago Black Hawks de feated the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-3 at home Sunday night after they had played a 2-2 tie in Toron to Saturday. The Rangers, cheered by a sell out crowd of 15,925 at Madison Square Garden, held a shaky 3-2 lead but bolted for two goals with in three minutes, in the second period to sew it up. Rookie Les Colwill produced his first NHL goal and then Red Sullivan blast ed from close range. Gino Marchetti Fractures Bones BALTIMORE (AP) - Defensive end Gino Marchetti of the NFL Champion Baltimore Colts will have two broken bones In his right leg set today. The defensive star suffered the injury late in the fourth quarter of Sunday title game against the New York Giants. Dr. Erwin Mayer, team physi cian, said both the tibia and the fibula in Marchettl's right leg were fractured in the ankle area. By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The college basketball fan heard giving out wilh "1 wish I were in Dixie isn t whistling in the dark He's in tune with the times, broth er. For while moie. than a dozen holiday tournaments are on the schedule today, the majority of the big boys have converged on Raleigh. N.C., for the Dixie Classic. Four of the nation's top ten teams entered tne Dixie, and to morrow night's semifinals could see them banging heads in a dou bleheader, providing all survive today's opening tound. Cincinnati (No 2 met Wake Forest, North Carolina (No. 3) faced Louisville. N.C. Slate (No. 61 was paired with Yale and Michigan State (No. 9) took on Duke, i Meanwhile, unoeaten Kentucky, idle for a week alter winning its own invitational tournament, puts its No. 1 ranking on the line against Navy a: Lexington. The Kentucky boys nave won eignt straight this season. Championships will be decided tonight in ECAC Holiday Festival at New York, tht All-College Tour nament at Oklahoma City, the Far West Classic at Corvallis, Ore., the Queen City Invitational at But falo, N.Y., and the Southwest Con ference tournament at Houston. The Big Eight tourney reaches the semifinals with the champion ship tomorrow night. The Motor uty. urange nowi r.ator Bowl. Suttar Bowl and Rich mond Invitational tournaments, all four-team affairs, get under way tonight, while the Carrousel Tour nament at Charlotte. NX., an eight-team battle like the Dixie, opened with a twinbill this after noon. The ECAC final matches St. Jo- senh's of Philadelphia and St John's of New York, a pair of once-beaten teams. Oklahoma City and Duquesne dash for the All-Co ege title. Favorite Texas Christian . ana darkhorse Texas AlcM play for the pre-season Southwest crown. Oregon state lacxies iowa m wc Far West showdown. Canisius and Dartmouth play me big one in the Queen City.. . . Kansas Stale uvea up 10 its ia- vorite tag with a 69-66 first round triumph over Missouri in the Big F.ioht's first round at Kansas City, while Oklahoma State went under 55-48 to Nebraska. Colorado meets Nebraska in one semi tonight, while K.State nlavs Oklahoma Michican olays Princeton and Army tests Detroit in openers at the Motor City tourney at ueirou, raflefl and shouted their way through Pennsylvania Station. Elsewhere in the city there was bedlam. Soon after Alan Ameche plunged over for the winning touchdown, residents rushed outside into mild winter temperatures to dance, set oil iiroworks and shout the praises ol the tolls. "The Colts won. The Colts won." was the olt-hcard cheer. Bells rung. Aulo horns sounded. Main one-way streets leading into the city were jammed with bumpcr- to bumper traffic. At the airport, the crowd be came unruly, damaged several vehicles, and threw Hares and fireworks. A near panic developed when hundreds of persons were jammed into a small area as a bus carrying Colt players inched its way through the mob. One window in the bus was broken and about 30 fans climbed on the roof to lead cheers. Police later picked up 14 of the roof riders after the bus was taken to a lonely road about one mile from the airport. No charges were placed. The crowd at the airport over whelmed some 30 policemen and special guards as they stormed through a rope barrier. Olmedo Wins, Barry Loses In Davis Play Crowd Causes Video Blackout NEW YORK 'UPD-Thc over enthusiastic crowd at Yankee Sta dium Sunday caused a 2'i minute "blackout during the sudden death period of (he National Foot ball League championship game between the Baltimore Colts and New York Gianls. A National Broadcasting Co. spokesman said the milling fans disconnected the cable that brought power into the NBC equipment room. TJhe break was repaired in time for the cameras to record Alan Ameche's plunge for the winning touchdown. BRISBANE, Australia 'API Alex Olmedo crushed Mai Ander son, but Barry MacKay fell before the smooth strokes of Ashley Coop er today to giw the I'nitcd Slates and Australia one victory apiece in the opening singles of the Davis Cup Challenge Hound. The results also made Perry .Jones, the controversial 70-year-old U.S. captain, look alternately like a slick old genius and a not-so-smart old-linur. It was Jones who conv inced U.S. brass that Olmedo, a Peruvian, should be put on the team. It also was Jones who bypassed Hamilton Richardson, the No. 1 U.S. player, for MacKay ovei the former's vi olent protests. Olmedo whipped Anderson 8-6, 2-6. 9-7. 8-6 in a magnificent up hill battle. Cooper, after writhing under MacKay a bullet services for one set, came out on top 4-6, 6-3, 6-2, 6-4. So now it's a crand new match. The doubles are scheduled for Tuesday with Olmedo teaming with Richardson and Cooper pair ing with left-handed Neale Fraser for the Australians. It is in the doubles that the Americans were conceded their best chance in pre- match forecasts.. The courts were soaked from a tropical storm the night before, and all four players donned spikes at one time or another. Despite the canvas covering, some rain seeped onto the turf of the Milton Tennis Stadium Olmedo, 22, ihe first foreigner ever to play on a U.S. Davis Cup team, more than acquitted himself before the sellout crowd of 18,500. He hauled himself (iff the deck a couple of times when he ap peared ready to take the count, and slugged it out toe-to-toe with Anderson until the tide of battle changed. In the first set, Anderson was ahead 6-5 and ran up a 40-15 mar gin on Olmedo's rervice. But Alex forced Anderson into two errors, then grabbed two more quick points and it was tied at 6-6. In the third set again, Anderson made a bid to cnop down Olmedo. But Alex again wouldn't give. An derson was ahead 7-6 on Olmedo's service. No fewer than five times was the Aussie at set point, only to have Olmedo come storming back at him, and finally win the game. That one discouraged Anderson, and by the time the fourth set came around, Olmedo was tha master of the situation. As for MacKay, he tried to put his service right through Cooper for three sets. His strategy worked for one set. but then Cooper began merely keeping the ball m play and wait ing for the proper spot to go for his winners. That finished MacKay. In the fi nal set, Barry also decided to change his tactics and he gave up trying to overpower Cooper. By that time it was too late. Sportsmen Dog LOVERS Htlp ma find my Chetapaake bitch, Lait seen my ploct 9 miles north of K. F. Saturday. Madium size, dork ton, imall lump under low, black laathar strop around nedt, 3 ywt old. Scett Wocrtn. TU 4-8084. 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