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HERALD AND NEWS, Klamath Falls. Ore. PACK Pels, Blade Tornado Tangle At IW Tl Travels For Single With KU Quint Definite Underdog Medford and Marshficld are the teams scheduled (o battle it out for the 1960 Oregon stale basket ball championship. This is the gen eral consensus of opinion among coaches, players and fans the length and breadth of Oregon. The Klam ath Union Pelicans, who open the Southern Oregon Conference season Saturday night when they host Bedford's Black Tornado on the KU court, are noot rated even a look-in. Tickets to the January 2 ball game may be obtained nt the KU Athletic Department office prior to game time. Persons wishing re nerved seats may contact Jim Johnson nt TU 4-7.r!)5. The Whitebirds' perfect 6-0 rec ord for games played so far has no bearing on their potential for the remainder of the season, fn fact the Klamath Union club is accused of meeting nothing but "Patsies" while winning its six straight. Saturday night they must devise a method to prove they have a right to their unbeaten status. The Pelican defensive, one that has garnered 52 victories while los ing only six since inaugurated, gets probably the supreme test when the Tornado blows in for the one night stand. As Pel coach Dean White says, "If Medford can crack our de fense Saturday, we'll probably be handed loss number seven." Since the present day Pelicans started school, as freshmen, the Pels have won 10 games and lost but two to the vaunted Medford quint. Medford is planning loss number three this weekend. In 84 games, counting since this year's club started school at KU the Pelican win-loss record reads 75 wins and nine losses. Since this year's seniors stepped onto the court at Klamath Union the Peli cans have won the conference championship each year. Saturday night Medford plans to put a stop to this sort of thing. Said coach White, "We know that Medford has been building this ball club for three years and they are definitely out to even up the rec- ord books this year. We'll try to stop them. We feel that our de fense will be the deciding factor. If our defense works as well as it has in past games we can do it.' "We. are all healthy and pre pared. We've given considerable time to every phase of the game everything but alibis. If we lose Saturday we'll have none of these quoted White. He went on, "This is Medford's best ball club since our present team started high school but, at the same time, our team is far from the worst we have floored in the same period." Medford coach Frank Rolandt plans to start Lowell Dean, 6-3, Jerry Anderson, 6-4, Booth Dea- kins, 6-2, Dick rtagsdale 5-11, and Bob Quinncy, 6-4. Standing by as very able reserves are Jerry Shults, 6-3, and Ken Durkee, 5-10. Pelican starters Saturday night are to be chosen from among Paul Bishop, Bob Lewis, Dean Dunson, Bill Santo, Don Eastman, Gary Patzke, Steve Binney and a new comer, ex-Merrill Husky Bruce Brickner. Almost any combination of the first eight total nearly a 6-4 average; a height that is figured definitely a must if the Pels plan to stretch the win string they have going. Additional leserve strength will be drawn from Wally Palmberg Wayne Dennis, Ray Taylor, Rich Depew and Kent Hunsaker. Medford's record for early sea son games, 3-3, includes a loss to their potential tournament foe, Marshfield. They opened against the Pirates and missed out, 66-58. Tiie next night North Bend bumped them 42-36. The Tornado evened the score the next week end with a pair of wins. 73-57 and 67-52, over South Eugene. They were dealt their third loss at Rose burg when the Indians caught them. 72-68. Tuesday night the Medford itcs came back to grab an easy 76-48 victory over Roseburg, this time on the Medford floor. Seattle Victory Paced By Rookie AKROX, Ohio (AP) Pete Guadin led Seattle to a 116-95 Na tional Industrial Basketball League victory over Akron Thurs day night, snapping a string of three losses. The rookie from Loyola of New Orleans racked up 20 points. Teammate Carroll Williams was right behind with 19. Seattle led all the way, except for a few moments in the second quarter when Akron held a 39-38 edge. The halftime score was 60 47. . WAYNE SCOTT, The SCOREBOARD By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Sports Editor NEW YORK (NEA) - In the tight game, where you can start an argument by mentioning the correct time or the fact that it's raining, there is rare accord on the subject of Sonny Liston. It is generally agreed that right now he could lick anything on two feet and that it will take a minor miracle to get him the chance he deserves at the heavy weight championship. Mere men tion of the 27-year-old bullyboy, who scored his 19th straight vic tory and fifth consecutive knock out over durable Willi Besmanoff, sends managers of other large fighters scurrying for cover. Liston is so good they have to bribe other heavyweights to get in the same ring with him. The usual price was doubled, or better, for Top Gridder In Bowl Test TUCSON, Ariz. (AP)-Are top football players on small college teams as good as their widely publicized brothers on major col lege squads? That's what the second annual All-American Bowl is supposed to decide Saturday afternoon. A year ago the major school all stars took a 14-12 decision. The small school players felt they had won by plunging over the goal line in the final quarter. Officials said they were stopped inches short A crowd of 13,000 is expected, with proceeds of the game spon sored by Tucson Optimist Clubs to go to charity. The small school squad has eight Little All Americans, two from the second and three from the third All America teams. Only six of these will be offensive start ers. The major schools will use All America Billy Cannon of LSU and guard William Burrcll of Illinois second team quarterbacks Richie Lucas of Pcnn State and Frank Curci, Miami, and a scattering of other second and third team All Americas. The major schools have an edge in backfield speed witn sucn men as Cannon, a 9.4 sprinter, Gordon Speers of Rice, 9.6 and Dwight Nichols. Iowa State, and Don Perkins of New Mexico. Garney Henley, a 9.7 sprinter from Huron College, South Dakota, is the fastest of the small school starters. A dozen pro scouts will be in the University of Arizona stands to watch the game. Today's Sport Fearless Selects Yanks, Colts, Among Others, In '60 Spotlight By OSCAR FRALEY NEW YORK (UPI) Happy I New Year, and here are Fearless Fraley's annual predictions on just what the sports world will be doing to make it that way for the fans. Boxing Ingo Johansson (if he fights) will successfully defend the heavyweight title against Floyd Patterson. Archie Moore (if he fights) will remain champion until retiring to become an actor. Ray Robinson (if he. fights) will regain the now-divided middle weight title. Charley Scott will replace Don Jordan as welterweight king: Car los Ortiz will supplant Joe Brown as lightweight champion, and there will be nine new investiga tions of the boxing business. Baseball The New York Yankees and Milwaukee Braves will bounce back to regain the respective big league pennants with the Yanks copping the World Series. The new Continental League, due to a lack of players, sets back its de but until 1962. Ted Williams and Stan Musial give U on last fling, find it Sports Editor Nino Valdes, Cleveland Williams and Mike DeJohn, all flattened by the Arkansas-born Liston when they were considered dangerous. Ranked third among the con tenders, Liston has been in frantic, if futile pursuit, of Floyd Patter son, Eddie Machen and Zora Fol ley, the only ones who precede him in The Ring magazine s of ficial listing. Machen, it is reported, hastily backed away from an offer of $20,- 000. Folley is equally disinclined, Liston's proprietors knew they would be wasting time talking to Cus D'Amato about letting him qualify for a rematch with Inge mar Johansson by warming up against their big bloke with the mysterious background, even if the Great Crusader had not had a con tract for a return with the Big Swede. Any fight guy will tell you. "They couldn't get Floyd in the same ring with Sonny if Gene Autry lassoed him." James D. Norris, who last Feb ruary frankly told me that Liston was high fighter, set out to have him eliminate all contenders so that he finally would have Patter son in a corner. Johansson . beat Big Jim Norris and Liston to the punch, and may be even tougher to corral than Patterson, the hide-and-seek former champion with the peek-a-boo style Patterson hid in his Long Island home, an abandoned road house in Connecticut or an inaccessible training camp deep in the wilds of New Jersey. Johansson operates on a grand international scale, making the task of buttonholing him a world-wide rather than a local matter. , ..-.-..:,.... ' Liston's personal background is murky, with an admitted sojourn fn a reform school as a youth and hints of time served after. But Machen and a lot of other king size beak busters got off to a bad start and overcame it. What went on in Liston's life in the past is nobody's business but his own, es pecially in a trade which doesn't exactly lend itself to gentility. Paradoxically, Liston's career may be hampered by his manage ment, or reports concerning it. Al though he is officially under the guidance of Pep Barone, a one time Allentown, Pa., promoter, it is widely said that Blinky Palermo, a Philadelphia character, is the real power behind the throne. And then, of course, there is the Jim Norris tie-in. There was a time when Blinky Palermo's interest in a tiger was tantamout to plenty of work, but certain recent unsavory disclosures involving Blinky boy with Frank Carbo, the deposed underworld czar of professional boxing, have made it a kiss of death. So, you see, Sonny Liston has strikes on him other than being too good. ',. Parade tougher than 1959 and simultane ously call it a career. Mickey Mantle and Hank Aaron will win the batting titles. Horse Racing Warfare mops up in California and Venetian Way wins the big three year old stakes in Florida. Warfare wins by a length in their Kentucky Derby meeting and goes on to take the triple crown. Wil lie Shoemaker wins another riding crown (ho hum). Basketball Cincinnati sweeps collegiate honors with Oscar Robertson picking up his third straight scor ing crown and then turning pro with the Cincinnati Royals. The Boston Celtics bomb through the pro league again. Olympic Games . Russia wins the winter ' games by placing heavily. At Rome, the United States cops the track and field and swimming divisions with Rater Johnson regaining the world decathlon record from Vas- sny nuzneisov. Kussia scores heavily in Greco-Roman wres tling, weight lifting and gymnas tics, etc., to take the team crown. Golf Gene Littler wins U.S. Open at Cherry Hills and Dow Finsterwald Chico St. Techmen To Travel For Test The holiday became a thing of the past for all but two members I of the Oregon Tech Owl basketball team when they met on the Mile High practice floor Wednesday night to begin pointed sessions aimed at preparing them for the weekend venture to Chico where they clash with the potent Wild cats in a single game Saturday night. The Chico Stale match is the last non-league action the Owls encoun ter prior to their meeting with Port land State next weekend in the Oregon Collegiate Conference open er. Missing from the first scheduled practice before the California jun ket were big Paul Layher, the Tech men's tallest, and freshman Bruce Guill. Their absence from the Wed nesday night session made the two Owl cagers improbable choices as starters for the Saturday night game, according to coach Wally Palmberg. The balance of the squad, ob viously in good shape after a long rest over Christmas, is slated for two-a-day sessions on the practice court before leaving for Chico ear ly Saturday morning. Thursday and today the Owls con vened at 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. for workouts destined to get them rea dy for the powerful Califernians. The Owls, 1-5 in the win-loss col umn for early season play, will field a starting five that averages 6-2. The five are forwards Jack Horton, 6-5, and Norm Oliva, 6-3, center Gene Branson, 6-4, and guards Roy Johnson, 5-11 and Den nis McKee, 6-0. The Owls have their hands full in attempting to subdue the rugged Wildcat quintet. Thus far this sea son, Chico has a 5-6 record, but the list of foes includes several central California schools of high ranking. The five Chico victories came at the expense of the Cal' Aggies, Cal Poly,' San" Francisco t.State and Southern Oregon College, twice Victors over the-Wildcats in non league action are Santa Clara, Col lege of Pacific, Westmont, Long Beach State, Pacific Nazarene and Whittier. The Whittier win gave them the recent Far Western Con ference Invitational Tournament championship staged at Chico. Coach Gene Maxey's Chico squad fell 82-62 to the highly-touted Whit tier quint, rated as one of the top small-college cage quints in the West. i - Expected to give the Owls a rough time are - Wildcats Wade Wall, Ron Tibulski, Fred Ober miller and Bob Sherrard, team captain. Substitutes Willie Burney and Hal van Bargen both turned in respectable performances in the FWC - tourney are also possible starters against the Techmen. MACKAY REACHES FINALS CALCUTTA, India (UPD-Bar-ry Mackay of Dayton, Ohio, reached the final round of the Asian lawn tennis championships Thursday, by defeating Sweden's Ulf Schmidt,. 4-6, 6-4, 6-3, 6-2. elates the home folks taking the PGA at Akron. A dozen U.S. pros go to the 100th anniversary of the British Open and Mike Souchak takes it home. Ireland comes back in the Canada Cup to take it on home soil with Gary Player taking individual international honors. Football Syracuse, loaded with juniors and sophomores, keeps national collegiate honors while in the pro league the balance of power re mains unchanged and the Colts and Giants square off again with the Colts making it three for three. Tennis Barry MacKay barges to the front at Wimbledon and in the U.S. championships but Ncale Fraser's inspired play permits Australia to keep the Davis Cup. Pancho Gonzales continues to rule the pros and the U.S. Lawn Ten nis Assn. Bowling The number of bowlers jump; from 23 million to 30 million and produces a horde of new tourna ment stars. Three Horse Parlays Most of us will fall two short but happy New Year, anyhow. TME Oif T "Now . watch his going over that way revive the rumor that I feed my boys pep pills!" NMS Aggies Club Eagles In Sun Bowl EL PASO, Tex. (AP) New, Mexico State exploded for twol" touchdowns in a wild, weird final sr SnmnH r ih fi,- nnaiinr and went on to upset North Texas State 28-8 in the Sun Bowl football game Thursday. Pervis Atkins, the nation's lead ing scorer, rusher and punt re turner this season, took a Charley Johnson pass and scampered 37 yards past three Eagles for the opening Aggie score. Then came the weird one. On the first play following the kickoff, North Texas quarterback Bob Duty pitched a pass into the flat. It was intercepted by Aggie end Bob Kelly on the Eagle 33. Kelly was all alone running for the goal when he dropped the ball on the North Texas 8. The ball dribbled into the end zone and escaped the diving grasps of two North Texas stat ers. In the scramble that followed; the Aggies recovered and tackle Dick Rudzik was given credit for the recovery and touchdown. How ever, a check alter the game re vealed that Billy Ray Locklin, an other tackle, had recovered the ball. The Aggies added their third score when Kelly took a pass from Johnson. The 15-yard play capped a 98-yard drive. Fumbles six of them killed North Texas State. The Eagles had five drives cut off by fum bles four of them within the New Mexico State 24. Youngsters Meet Tonight NEW YORK 'AP) Two new faces will be seen in the Madison Square Garden ring tonight when Tom McNeeley, unbeaten 22-year- old heavyweight from Boston, meets George Logan, 23, of Boise, Idaho. McNeeley has been seen in the garden as a preliminary boy, building a 15-0, record that in eludes 13 knockouts. In his last! appearance, Nov. 27, he stopped Lou Jones in the fourth round.! Peter Fuller, his manager, then j decided to move him up to the main event class. Logan, who owns a 12-1-1 rec ord in three years as a pro, was) beaten by Hurricane Jackson, Sept. 3, his only defeat. The main event will be carried on network (NBC) radio and tele vision starting at 10 p.m., (EST). As usual in New York, two judges and a referee will score it" by rounds, using a supplementary point system in case of even rounds. Chances are they won't have to worry about points or rounds. McNeeley has an 87 per cent KO record, Logan 86 per cent. South Leading Scoring Races NEW YORK (AP)-The South has taken charge of team and in dividual scoring races in small college basketball. Mississippi College is the most productive1 team and Cleo Hill of Winston-! Salem (N.C.) the No. 1 individual.: Statistics released today by the' NCAA bureau and including' games t h r o u gh last Saturday, ! show Mississippi College scoring 113.4 points a game while com piling a 5-2 record. West Virginia Tech, unbeaten in 11 games, isi second with 111, followed by Wil-I liam Cary (Miss.) with 99.6 and Bridgeport (Conn.) with 94. I Hill heads the individual point makers on an average of 33.6 for five games. Ron Altenberg of Cornell (Iowa) is second at 31.2 ; and Tommy Covington of Missis sippi College third at 30.8. ' Other small college individual pare setters are Washington andj Jefferson's Pete Gulden in field; goal accuracy (.7241, Emporia State's Ron Slaymakcr In free throws (.960 with one miss in 25 attempts), and Zclmo Bcaty of Prairie View (Tex.) in backboard control. Beaty has captured 26.6 per cent of all the rebounds in his gam. In urn SAN FRANCISCO (UI'D Kas. and West, both claiming their "best teams in history," clash Saturday in the 35th annual Shrine charity football game at Ki'ar Stadium the battle in which All-American stars play the game of their lives for the kids in hospitals. The East, installed as a seven point favorite and using the Mich igan State system under coach Duify Daugherly, is expected to play mostly a ground game. Daughcrty drilled his squad in secrecy Thursday and announced starting lineups without giving the positions on the defensive team in the backfie.d. "If we tell them the secondary defense, then they'll know wheth er we'll have four, five or six men in the line," said Daughcrty. The West team, enjoying the un derdog role, indicated it was tired f hninn nhnlll Mm "Oin.nnlinH ,,.", r . 'e aon i care now mg .nc.v are," said lineman Don Floyd of Texas Christian. "I'm just getting tired hearing about their size. We can play some football, too, you know." Here are the offensive and de fensive teams: East Oflensc: Ends Stickles, Notre Dame and Norton, Iowa; tackles Gossagc, Northwestern, and Pyle, Michigan State; guards McGee, Duke, and Smith, Au burn;-center Scholtz, Notre Dame. Quarterback Look, Mich igan Slate; halfbacks Jeter and Jauch, Iowa; fullback White Ohio State. Defense: Ends Brooks, Pur due, and . Aucrcman, Indiana; tackles Houston, Ohio State, and Michael, Ohio State; guards Cordilcone, Clemson, and An- dreotti, Northwestern; center Burkett, Auburn; backs Toncic, Pitt; Jams, Purdue; Burton, Northwestern and Martin, Michi gan State. West Offense: Ends Bur ford, Stanford, and Cogdill, Washington McMurtry Has Elbow Operation TACOMA (AP) The surgeon who removed a bone chip from Pal McMurtry's right elbow said Thursday the handicap may rob the Tacoma heavyweight of his full punching power. "It's something that time alone can tell," said Dr. Wayne Zim merman, who performed the op eration Wednesday. "Even when the surgery is com pletely successful, many baseball pitchers are unable to throw a ball with their former effective ness," Zimmerman said. "Simi larly, Pat could be permanently de prived of his full punching power with his right arm." & The Versatile New VOLVO TRACTOR The new handy, comfortable and versatile VOLVO tractor. It's compact and if all-around designed for convenience of operation. For maximum output at low cost tee the VOLVO tractor . . . 32 brake h.p. .The only tractor with a positive traction rear end, On SHELL STATION, MERRILL, ORE. West Clash ' uri.:.'ii, ana .. Loveless, " UCLA; center - Ron: quarterback '.; SMU; halfbacks - Wilson, I :,nu Bass, COP; fullback Spokes, TCU. Defense: Ends Christopher, SMU. and Robinson, Stanford; tackles Denton, COP, and Floyd, TCU; guards Pepper corn, Kansas, and Armstrong, TCU; backs Davis, Oklahoma, lb: Holland, Montana State, lb: Ellersick, WSU, rh; Garvin, Cal, safety; Bucek, Rice, lh. Parry Cited By Writers; Looks Ahead LOS ANGELES (API Only one achievement could top winning the Sullivan Award, says Parry O'Bri en. That's throwing the shot 65 feet. "And I expect lo do it maybe this year in the Olympic games," the husky shot-put king said after he won the 1959 James E. Sullivan Amateur Athletic Union Memorial Trophy Thursday. The two-time Olympic champion was first choice on 176 ballots cast by a nationwide tribunal of sports authorities. Weighllifter Tommy Kono of Honolulu, also a double Olympic winner, was second with 113 firsts and swimmer Chris von Sallza of Santa Clara, Calif., was third with 73 firsts. "This is something I've been shooting at for six or seven years," said O'Brien. The former University of South ern California star, who'll be 28 later this month, holds the Olym pic record in the shot at 60 feet 11 inches and the current world mark of 63-2. He has a toss of 63-4 up for recognition. O'Brien's citation noted that dur ing the past nine years he has made 26 foreign tours four for the State Department to compete and help in foreign track clinics. Now a banking executive, O'Bri en trains daily after work at the UCLA track and in the evenings at a gym lifting weights. His fa vorite exercises are hoisting 380 pounds in the prone press and knee squats with 500 pounds. He is 6 feet 3 and 238, and says he's stronger than ever. RECORD ADVANCE SALE AKRON, Ohio (UPI) An ad vance sale of tickets to the 1960 PGA golf championship netted a record $116,228, it was announced today by Lorcn Tibbals, general chairman for the tournament to be held at the Firestone Country Club, July 18-24. The old advance sale record of $108,000 was estab lished last year for the National Open championship at Mamoro- neck, N.Y. ANNOUNCING Display At Walker Bros. Curly Wilson, Representative Tourney Doras At reeviil ifetln! of all rounlv filch whtml pilnclpals, II vi.ii, rtriiUil to 'dove the li.ili oi ilif t ciiinty Basketball TY,uriiH(i-M to 1'iiiruary 18, H nil.' '?. I'w ti'jrney, which i-, ,timrtl the t'U gymnasium, v ,n yumou!? -Jatd for Feb :. it ild 28, but had ( w t- I ,...! l i mn- (I because the OTI h.'.i' ii home scries with I t.'i'.'gc that weekend. SU C.iieftain Completing 'Changeover' SAN FRANCISCO (UPD Being hypnotized was a "wonderful help," Seattle University basket ball player Dave Mills said Thurs day. Mills is the once-timid six foot five inch forward who was hyp notized by team physician Dr. Iluber Grim before Seattle's open ing game in the West Coast Athletic Conference cage tourney here. Alter the treatment, he broke loose to score 60 points in three games and grab -58 rebounds. "I think I'll be able to keep going strong," Mills said. "My confidence is back. That treatment was wonderful for me." Mills said Claude Norris, the Chieftains' trainer, "noticed that I was getting the rebounds in practice, but not geting so many in games because I was not re laxed enough," Mills said. Norris told Grim about It and the doctor, who used some hyp nosis in his regular practice, de cided to try it. "About six hours before the St. Mary's game," Mills said, "I went up to the Doc's room. We had a talk. He asked certain questions while I was in the trance. I re member everything that was said. "I'm sure I was hypnotized. In fact I could do it to myself again. Dr. Grim showed me how. "But I don't think I'll need it again," Mills said. "I've built my confidence back up." He showed his confidence by scoring 21 points against St. Mary's and snagging 17 rebounds, although Seattle lost the game. Against Pepperdine he scored 18 and had 18 rebounds. And Thursday night, working against LeRoy Wright of College of Pacific the nation's second ranking rebound man Mills led 23 to 9 in rebounds and scored 21 points. Mills is a. 22-year-old Negro, from Columbus, .Ohio. He is a transfer from Allen Hancock Junior College, Santa Maria, Calif., where he was a cage star. PHILS SIGN CATCHER PHILADELPHIA (UPI) - The Philadelphia Phillies have signed George Schonath, an 18-year-old catcher from Oconomowoc, Wis., to a minor league contract. Ht will be assigned to one of ths Phillies' minor league teams fol lowing his discharge from the Army in March. Delivered Right Here In Merrill, Oregon, Only $2045 00 Terms, of Course Parrs and Service Right Here In Merrill, Oregon
