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HERALD AXD NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday. Doc. 14, 1959 Baltimore Captures Western Title Colts Blitz LA Rams With Big 4th Period NATIONAL FOOTBALL LEAGUE FINAL STANDINGS Eastern Conference W L Pet. Pts OP New York 10 2 0 .833 284 170 Philadelphia .... 7 S 0 . 583 2ii8 278 Cleveland 7 5 0 .583 270 214 Pittsburgh 6 5 1 .545 257 216 Washington 3 9 0 .250 185 350 Chi. Cards 2 10 0 .167 234 324 Western Conference W L T Pet. Pts OP Baltimore 9 3 0 .750 374 251 Chi. Bears 8 4 0 .667 252 1 San Francisco . 7 5 0 .583 255 237 Green Bay 7 5 0 .583 24t 246 Detroit 3 8 1 .273 203 275 Los Angeles .. 2 10 0 .167 242 315 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Johnny Unitas, Baltimore's man with a golden arm, has pitched the defending National Football League champion Colts to their second consecutive Western Con ference title with one of his gilt edged passing performances. The cunning 26-year-old quarter back rallied the trailing Colts for a 21-point blitz in the final period Saturday that carried Baltimore to a 45-26 victory over Los An geles and into the NFL chain pionship game against the New York Giants, Dec. 27 at Baltimore. The situation was anything but bright for the Colts when Unitas decided personally to toss the league's youngest entry another crown. Losers of seven straight and playing their last game under Bend Defeats Honker Five LAKEVIEW - Bend's big Lava Bears exploded for 24 points in the first quarter and went on to post a 58-34 triumph over Lake view in a non-league basketball game here Saturday night. . The hosting Honkers were down 32-13 at the half and 44-26 at the third quarter mark. "We just didn't begin to jell until the third quarter," noted Lakeview coach Berge Borrevik following the came. Chucks deSully, 6-5, Bend post man, topped the winners with 13 points while teammates Jim Ward and Jim Hawes added 10 each Honker guard Doug Maxwell led his team with 13 . while center Frank Egenhoff contributed 12. ' Despite the fact that the Lava Bears got off to a lightning start and grabbed the major portion of rebounds from the smaller Honk ers, Borrevik praised his team by saying, "The boys fought well. I'm not disappointed." The Boxscore: Lakeview (34) Parkinson 4, Sawyer 2, Egenhoff 12, McCoy 1 Maxwell 13; Subs Daron 2, L. Peters, G. Peters, Tooke, Warner, Cossey, Conn, Wyman, Sipp. Bend (581 Riley 4, Ward 10, de Sully 13, J. Hawes 10, Donohue 8; Subs D. Hawes 4, Petrie 3, Chambers 4, Clark 2, Lentz, Smith. : ARCHER RETURNS TO RING NEW YORK (UPI) Welter weight Jimmy Archer of New ;York returns to the ring tonight after an 11-month absence for a 10-round fight with New Yorker Bobby Bartels at the Academy of Music. Coach Sid Gillman, the Rams led 26-24 in the fourth quarter with 65,528 partisan fans in Los An geles Coliseum cheering their every move. Unitas calmly reared back, spot ted rookie Jerry Richardson and fired a nine-yard touchdown pass to put the Colts out front to stay. It was Unitas' third scoring heave of the game, giving him 32 for the season and extended to 37 straight his TD-a-game streak. Both are KFL records. Coirs 45, LA 26 After Unilas' clinching TD, the Colt defense took over. Dick Szy manski went 15 yards with an in terception for one score and Carl Taseff tied an NFL mark by run ning back a missed field goal try i'9 yards for another. The Rams (2-101 had built their lead on four field goals by Lou Michaels and TD runs of four and 27 yards by Joe Marconia and Jon Arnett. Touchdown passes of two and seven yards from Unitas to Ray Berry and a 53-yard run by Mike Summer kept the Colts (9-3) within striking distance. NY 24, 'Skins 10 Charlie Conerly fired two touch down tosses against the Redskins (3-9) and Frank Gifford set a club rushing record as the Giants be came the first Eastern team to win 10 games since Cleveland in 1953. Gifford gained 84 yards for a career mark of 3,347. New York's Pat Summerall kicked one field goal and three conversions to finish second in the league's scoring race with 90 points. Browns 28, Eagles 21 Jimmy Brown, used mostly as a decoy in the early stages, plunged short yardage for two touchdowns in the final period as the Browns came from behind to overtake the Eagles. Both finished with 7-5 records. Norm Van Brock- lin kept Philadelphia close, con necting with 15 of 22 passes for 246 yards and one touchdown Brown again was the league's ground gaining champ with 1,329 yards in 290 carries. Bears, 25, Lions 14 Ed Brown arched a pair of TD flips and John Aveni booted three field goals for the Bears (8-4) tri umph over the Lions (3-7-1). The Chicagoans finished one game shy of first place for the second year in succession. GB 36, 49ers 14 Paul Hornung scored 22 points on three short scoring bursts and four conversions and Bart Starr passed for two touchdowns in the Packers' (7-5) triumph over the 49ers (7-5). Hornung won the NFL scoring title with 94 points. Green Bay thus capped a successful cam paign under new Coach Vince Lombardi, compiling its first win ning record since 1947. Pitt 35, Cards 20 Bobby Layne tossed four scor ing heaves and tallied once him self as the Steelcrs (6-5-1) avenged an earlier loss to the Cards (2-10). With his aerial display, Layne moved within 22 yards of the all- time career mark for passing yardage. Layne has gained 22,063 yards in 12 years while Sammy Baugh passed for 22,085 in 16 years with Washington. SPORT WAYNE SCOTT, Sports Editor iansE California Top Academic Picks Boston Philadelphia SAN FRANCISCO - With three players each, the University of Cal ifornia and Stanford lead in the number of representatives on the Pacific Coast all-star academic football team announced here Sat urday. Other players on the team, which is sponsored jointly by the College Sports Information Directors of America and The American Peo ples Encyclopedia, are from Ore gon State College, Southern Cali fornia, Washington, and UCLA. Named on the team are Skip Huber of California and Bill Don ohue of Staniord at the ends, Pat Newell of California and Neil Plum- ley of Oregon Slate College at the tackles, Mike Crawford of Wash ington and Mike McKeever of South ern California at the guards, J. T Jones of Stanford at center, and Grover Garvin of California, Jim Stinnette of Oregon State College, Skip Smith of UCLA, and Rick McMillen of Stanford in the back-field. Honorable mention was accorded Gerald Lundgren and John Papini of California and Stephen W. Pur sell, James J. Kroeter, and Rich Sugar Ray Readied For Ring Go Tonight NEW YORK (UPD-Sugar Ray Robinson and two other world champions are slated for non title bouts Monday night as a feature of this week's boxing schedule. Middleweight champion Robin son, who claims to be 37, returns to the ring after 20 months of in activity for a tune-up 10-rounder with Bob Young of Providence, R. I., at the Boston Garden. Young is light heavyweight cham pion of New England. Robinson regards the Young bout as a prep fight for his de fense of his- New York and Mas sachusetts version of the 160 pound crown against Paul Pender of Boston at the Boston Garden, Jan. 22. Pender also is on Mon day n BM S DOSlon taiu in a iv- rnnnHer with Gene Hamilton of New York. Robinson's title was vacated by the National Boxing Association .last May 4 because of his failure to defend. . ' Lightweight champion Joe Brown Is scheduled for a non-title " 10-rnunder with Joey Parks of Omaha. Neb., at New Orleans Monday night. Also Monday night, feather weight champion Davcy Moore meets Hilario Morales of Mexico at San Francisco in an over-the weight bout. None of the three showings by - champions will be televised. : Wednesday night's TV (ABO T scrap brings together middle ' weights Rudy Ellis and Gene Ace Armstrong for a 10-rounder at Camden, N. J. Neither is a rated contender. Ellis Is favored at 6-. Friday night's TV-radio (NBC) fight pits Charley Scott of Phila delphia, top-ranking welterweight contender, against Benny Kid Paret of Cuba at Madison Square Garden. Paret is unrated. The week's boxing schedule In cludes: Monday Boston (Garden) Ray Robinson vs. Bob Young 'non-title) 4 Paul Pender vs. Gene Hamilton. San Francisco Davey Moore vs. Hilario Morales 'non-title). New Orleans Joe Brown vs. Joey Parks (non-title). Philadelphia Eddie Woods vs, Johnny Gorman. Reno, Nev. Rudy Corona vs. Joey Vargas Dallas. Tex. Don Fleeman vs. Garvan Sawyer. Tuesday Los Angeles Tomb stone Smith vs. Ray Greco. Sac ramento, Calif. Auburn Cope land vs. Roberto Garcia. Hart ford, Conn. Billy Lynch vs. Lino Rendon. Buffalo, N. Y. Rocky Fumerelle vs. Joe Miceli. Tren ton, N. J. Eddie Armstrong vs Chico Vclez. Wednesday Camden, N. J. Gene Ace Armstrong vs. Rudy Ellis (TV). . Thursday Trinidad, B. W.I. Arthur Persley vs. Cesar Barrow. Los Angeles Alvaro Gutierez vs Jiro Sawada. Philadelphia Mel Middleton vs. Jim Arthur. Friday New York (Garden) Charley Scott vs. Benny Kid Par et (TV-radio). UW, Pilots, Seattle Win Northwest Basketball Standings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS W L Oregon 3 1 Washington State 3 1 Washington 3 1 Seattle University 3 1 Portland University 3 1 Gonzaga 2 1 Oregon Slate 3 2 Idaho 1 4 Saturday Results Washington 77, Washington State 62 Seattle University 76, South Da kota 57 Oregon State 78, Montana 58 Portland University -71, Idaho 64 (overtime) PORTLAND (AP) Seattle and Portland posted victories in a bas ketball doubleheader here Satur day night. Seattle downed the touring South Dakota squad 76-57 and Portland went into overtime to beat Idaho, 71-64. In the opener Seattle took the lead early in the first half and held it the rest of the way. Don Ogorek led Seattle's scoring with 19 points and Jim Chamberlain was high for the losers with 18. The second game was tied 56-56 at the end of regulation play. Chuck Rogers and Mike Doherty led the overtime. attack for Port land. Rogers was high for the game with 19 points. Idaho's lead er was Ken Maren with 18. SEATTLE (tfl It was a foul night for the Cougars and their errors helped Washington gain a 77-62 basketball victory Saturday, It was WSU's first loss this season. The Cougars committed 23 fouls and had a technical called on them for too much talking on the bench. Senior John Maris led Washing ton State to an early 14-10 lead but the Huskies caught up at 17- 17. Big Bill Hanson put Washing ton in front to stay with a basket and a free throw. ard T. Hecker of Stanford at end; Garry Finneran of Southern Cali fornia. Barry Bullard of Washing ton, Mike Kline of Washington, und Donald Watson, Bob Oakberg, and George Ingham of Stanford at tackle; Chuck Allen of Washing ton at guard, Al Story of UCLA. Bob Hivner and Sam Hurworth of Washington, and Hal Steubcr and Roy Stephen of Stanford in the backfield. Nominations for the team werel made by sports publicists of the West Coast and the selections were make by a committee of confer ence observers. Of the 28 nomin ations, 18 were linemen. Newell, who was co-captain of the UC team, was named honorary captain of the academic eleven by the selectors. He also led the 28 nominees in scholastic attainments with a 3.8 out of a possible 4 point average. He is a pre-legal student. Other team members with Garvin and Crawford. Players on the all-Pacific Coast academic team automatically are nominated for the All-America ca demic team to be selected by more than 1,000 sports editors of the country. "The selection of this outstanding team of scholars-athletes supports statements made by coaches and others who know that football to day requires brains as well as brawn," declared Carrol Chouinard, editor-in-chief of The American Peoples Encyclopedia. "This aca demic football team adds further evidence to our findings that the grade average of football players as a group is actually higher than that of other students in the na tion's colleges and universities." St. Louis Detroit Cincinnati Minneapolis Ace Goalie Proves Vital To Detroitcrs By TDK ASSOCIATE!) PRESS The surprising Detroit lied Wings, with goalie Terry Sawchuk back in harness, are threatening the Montreal Canadiens' National Hockey League supremacy. The Red Wings solidilied their hold on second place by whippinglSyracu.se the Toronto Maple Leafs 4-2 Sun-: New York day night after they edged first place Montreal 3-2 Saturday night. As a result, Detroit moved to within six points of the Canadiens while pulling three points ahead of third-place Toronto. In other games Sunday night, the Canadiens and the Chicago Black Hawks played a 4-4 tie and the New York Rangers completed a weekend sweep of the injury riddled Boston Bruins winning, 4-3. Since Sawchuk returned to the Red Wings' nets Dec. 5 after miss ing three games because of a vi rus neuritis condition, Detroit has been undefeated in five games During that span the Wings, picked to finish last in a pre season poll, have won four and lied one. Detroit twice overcame Toronto leads. Red Kelly put the Wings in front for good in the second period and rookie Murray Oliver added an insurance goal in the finale. Dcfenseman Dollard St. Lau- rant, a former Canadien, pro duced his first goal of the season late in the final period with Chi cago shorthanded to enable the Black Hawks to deadlock Mon trcal. The Canadiens have failed to win in their last six starts, los ing three and tieing three. War riors Sliding Despite Big Chief NBA STANDINGS Iskitlles in the National Basketball Eastern Division Assn. even with Wilt Chamberlain W. L. Pet. scoring at a record pace. Losing two games over the weekend, the Warriors slipped 5' 2 games back of the pace setting .3331 Huston Celtics in the eastern divi- ion and held to .second by a mere 22 4 .8-16 16 9 .610 15 10 .600 8 16 Western Division W. L. Pet. 13 10 .563 12 15 .444 9 19 .322 8 20 .286 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Philadelphia Warriors are finding that it is not all beer and Modocs Top Malin, 31-29 Renegades Win Junior RB Title PASADENA, Calif. W) Bakers- field's powerful Renegades start ed slowly but exploded with long scoring plays to overpower Del Mar College of Corpus Christi, Tex., 36-14, Saturday in the Jun ior Rose Bowl before 46.923. Scoreboard Oregon College Basketball By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Oregon State 78, Montana State U 58 Oregon 67, San Francisco 58 Portland 71, Idaho 64 (overtime) Seattle 76, South Dakota 57 Linfield 73, Pacific Lutheran 69 Portland State 51, Lewis and Clark 47 College of Puget Sound 69, Pacific 55 George Fox 69, Columbia Chris tian (Portland) 41 Portland Frosh 87, Idaho Frosh 64 Oregon College of Education JVs 68, Adair AF Base 47 College Football Junior Rose Bnwl Bakersfield (Calif) 36. Del Mar (Tex) 14 Shrine JC All-Star Game East 15, West 8 Shrimp Bowl Quantico, Va., Marines 90, Mc Clellan Air Force Base, Sacra mento, Calif. 0 Honker Hurt In Tule Loss MERRILL The tall Merrill Huskies scored a 36-26 non-league win over visiting Tulelake here Saturday in a rough and tumble game that saw Honker Bill Oehler ich, sophomore guard, taken to the hospital with a broken cheekbone. Oehlerich incurred the injury midway through the third quarter when Merrill post man Bruce Brickner caught the scrappy Hon ker in the cheek with an elbow in a rebound battle. Oehlerich, who was operated on following the game, will be out of action for about one month. Erickner, a 6 - 5 junior, topped the scoring with 12 points while Husky Brian Fields and Tulelake's Ron Long anl Butch King all col lected 10 counters. The Huskies, down 12-7 at the end of the first quarter and 15-14 at the half, caught the Honkers in the third frame, holding a 25-21 lead at the quarter's end. The boxscore: Tulelake (26) Long 10, Rogers 2, Osborne 3, King 10, Oehlerich; Subs Takacs 1, Alcorn. Merrill (361 Fields 10, Haskins 4, Brickner 12, Beasly 2, Salvadori 7; Subs Carleton 1, Parnell Wilson. MALIN Visiting Modoc Union of Alturas used a clutch layin and a free throw by Larry Sauce- do to edge Malin in the final min ute, 31-29, in a non-league basket ball game here Saturday night. Saucedo, hitting the three-point play off a fast break, broke open the tightly-played defensive con, test as he brought the Modocs from a 29-28 deficit. The see-saw battle saw Malin leading at the first quarter mark 13-11, Alturas at halftime 20-19 and the hosting Mustangs again at the third period rest 24-23. Mustang Randy Miller, hitting 10 of his tolal in the first half before leaving the game because of illness, a factor that has plagued several Malin cagers for the past two weeks, topped all scorers with 11 points, followed by Alturas' Tom Weber who hit for 10. Saucedo added nine count ers to the winners' cause. The boxscore: Malin (29) DeMcrritt 8, Long 3, Slastny 2, Miller 11, hirkpat- rick 4; Subs Rick 1. Alturas (3D Saucedo 9, Looper 2, Hess 1, Bell 5, Weber 10; Subs Brown 4. Huskies Clobber Cougars, 77-62 SEATTLE W) Washington's bustling Huskies posted a 77-62 basketball victory Saturday night over Washington Slate, the first loss in four starts for the young Cougars. The winning Huskies spent much of the evening at the free throw line as (he ovcreager staters com mitted 23 fouls. George Grant, Washington captain, led all the scorers with 22 points, getting a dozen of them from the charity stripe. Jack Riley's 31 Aids Linfield Win By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Three Oregon Northwest Con ference basketball teams played non-league games Saturday. Two were defeated. Linfield was the winner, down ing Pacific Lutheran 73-69. Lewis and Clark lost 51-47 to Portland State and Pacific was beaten 69 55 by College of Puget Sound. Bert Lundmark with 11 points led Lewis and Clark in the close game at Portland. His team was ahead 30-27 at the half. Linfield's upset of Pacific Luth eran was helped by Jack Riley's 31 points. 'Dogs, Etna Divide Pair DORR1S - Butte Valley High dropped visiting Etna 28-14 in the "B" game to earn a split in Siskiyou B League doubleheader here Friday night. In the "A1 game, Etna handed the Bulldogs a 29-20 defeat. In' the "A" game Harry Brown topped Etna with 12 points while BV was led by Gary Longmore's seven counters. Bulldog Ted Crutchficld led the winners in the "B" test with nine markers while Tom and Ed Mar tin scored three each for Etna. NORTH ADDS THREE MIAMI, Fla. (UPI) - Halfback Mark Johnston, tackle Dewitt Hoopes and guard Pete Arena, all of Northwestern, have been added to the North squad for the Dec 26 North-Soulh Shrine football classic in the Orange Bowl. one-game margin over the Syra cusc Nats. Chamberlain was held to 22 points, some 14 below his a erase is the Warriors dropped a 126-117 decision to the Celtics Saturday. The victory was the Celtics' ninth straight. But Sunday night, the 7-1 rookie came back with 33 against Syracuse. Slill Ihe Warriors lost 150 121 with Johnny Kerr matching Chamberlain point-for-point. The Nats set club records for lolal points, half and three quar ters as they took a 38-24 first period lead, increased it to 71-52 at the half and 111-78 at the three quarter mark. They also hung up a club mark in hitting 63 field goals on 111 shots lor a percentage of 568. Cincinnati broke even in two teams, beating Minneapolis 1(17-97 Saturday and losing to St. Louis 118-98 Sunday. New Yolk dropped deeper into the eastern division cellar, losing 147-129 to Detroit in a Sunday TV game as Walt Dukes turned his best pro performance. The Hawks held Jack Twyman to 19 points and got 53 points from their one-two punch of Bob Pettit and Cliff Hagan in downing the Royals. Pettit scored 26 points and led in rebounds with 19. Hagan tallied 27. Dukes, former Scion Hall acc who has threatened to quit, tossed in 38 points, a personal high, and set an Olympia Sladium record for rebounds with 32. The Pistons output was their highest since shifting to Detroit three years ago. Richie Gucrin, who scored 57 points against Syra cuse Friday in New York, paced the Knicks with 28 points. New York's Carl Braun became the 10th player in NBA history to pass Ihe 10.000-point mark when he tallied 14 to run his all-time total to 10,003. PAGE THIRTEEN ' "IWUinliinl u i ' i ' Don Jordan Handed KO By Unknown NEW YORK (UPD Frederick Thompson's sensational fourth round non-title knockout over champion Don Jordan at Buenos Aires Saturday night, had the fol lowing repercussions in the wel terweight world today: Thompson, 32-ycar-old cham pion of Argentina, demanded a shot at Jordan's 147-pound crown, and manager Tito Lectoure is ap pealing to our National Boxing Assn. to arrange the fight. lordan of Los Angeles, who suffered his fust kayo, says he's committed to a January defense against Carmen Basilin, and "nat urally Thompson will have to wait for a while." -Basilio, ex-welterweight and middleweight c h a m p i o n, an nounced at his h;mie in Chittenan- go. N.Y.. 1 m going to .ligm again instead of retiring, and said he would campaign for either the welter 1 147-pound) title or the middleweight (160-pound) crown, depending upon the best offer. He denied he was committed to a Jordan fight. Jordan, on a South American boxing tour, tangled with Panama-born Thompson of Argentina before 20,000 in Luna Park at Buenos Aires, Saturday night. Thompson, a fleet-footed, in-and-out coiinleipuiK'her took com mand in the third round. He gave Don a severe battering in that session and knocked him out at 1:20 of the fourth round. OWL HOOTS MEET The regularly scheduled week ly meeting of the Owl Hoots, the Oregon Tech booster club, Is slated this evening at 6:30 In the Chuck Wagon. Owl Hoot President Est in Kigcr reports the after-dinner program will consist of a report from Owl basketball roach Wally Palm berg on (he team's split with Sloffett Naval Air Station over the weekend. Laker Owner Warns Team MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The nosediving Minneapolis Lakers may have a new coach within couple of weeks unless they start winning. Owner Bob Short Sunday threat ened a major housecleaning, in cluding possible ouster of Coach John Castellani, as the aftermath of the Lakers' plunge to the bot tom of the National Basketball Assn.'s western division. Short did not specifically men tion the rookie coach when he re ferred to brewing changes. But he didn't exclude him, either. "We've lost a lot of games you can't blame on coaching, certain ly," Short said. "But as coach, he has to bear the ultimate respon sibility, of course." Minneapolis has lost 10 of its last 12 and 20 of 28 for the season. ALL-STARS WHIP AUSTRIANS NEW YORK (UPD-The Amer ican Soccer League All-Stars de feated the touring Austria Foot ball Club of Vienna, 4-1, Sunday in an exhibition match befort 3,000 fans at Gaelic Park. 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