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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
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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.
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NFL ATTENDANCE UP
NEW YORK (UPD The Na
tional Football League s 1958 at
tendance rose 5.98 per cent from
1957 and soared to 3,006,124 the
first time the league topped the
3-million mark. NFL attendance
in 1957 was 2,836,319.
Owl Hooters
Meeting Tonight
The Owl Hoots will hold their
weekly dinner meeting at the
Chuck Wagon tonight at 6:30, the
last meeting of 1958.
Oregon Tech basketball' coach
Wally Palmberg will be on hand
to preview his club's road trip to
Salt Lake City for games against
Westminster College this weekend.
The Tech cagers face Westminster
Friday and Saturday then return
to Ontario for a game against
Northwest Nazarene Monday eve
ning. All Oregon Tech boosters are in
vited to attend the weekly dinner
meetings.
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