HERALD AND NEWS. Klamath Falls, Ore. Monday. January 25, lOfiO
PAGE NINE
Voting Unsuccessful
Solid 7 Won't Budge
NFL Owners Agree, To Keep Disagreeing
MIAMI BEACH, Fla. (API-Efforts
of National Football League
owners to select, a successor to
the late Bert Bell have gone to
the ridiculous side.
Not only can't the 12 owners
agree on a boss, they even have
trouble deciding what time to
start disagreeing. After seven un
successful ballots Sunday 21 in
all since voting began last Thurs
daya motion was made to ad
journ again.
"Move we reconvene at 5 p.m.
tomorrow," said one owner who
must have had visions of a day
at Hialeah. Then came a few
other motions, one suggesting an
8 a.m. starting time, another ll
a.m., still another 1 p.m. The lat-i
ter. after some discussion, finally
prevailed.
It was midnight when the sun
tanned executives came from the
meeting room. Attorney Marshall
Leahy o San Francisco still had
seven voles San Francisco, Los
Angeles, Cleveland. Detroit, New
York. Uroon Bay and the Chicago
Cardinals. The "Solid Seven" re
fuses to budge. They won't even
nominate a compromise candi
date. Lined up permanently as op
position is the "Fearless Four,"
Philadelphia, Washington, Pitts
burgh and Baltimore. The minor
ity group switched from time to
time from Baltimore's general
manager, Don Kellett, lo Acting
Commissioner Austin H. Gunsel.
They switched just to break the
monotony. The four votes, how
ever, remain solid. They were
last cast for Gunsel on the 21st
round.
Nine votes are necessary to
elect a new commissioner.
Also static is the position of
George Halas, owner of the Chi
cago Bears. Papa Bear passes on
every round. The leading exponent
of league expansion, Halas has
been criticized from both sides.
"Vote for the other group and you
lose ou rcxpas nnoi'v.etos 'a'id
lose our expansion vote," said
Halas.
The battle obviously tends to re
duce the meeting to a war of
nerves. The chief factions are try
ing to wait each other out. Each
is counting on the other to give in
to end the debacle.
This all-important annual win
ter meeting is nothing reminis
cent of the long, hard days and
nights put in under the whip hand
of Bell when the sessions wera
held in cold, clammy Philadel
phia. There is more play her
than work.
For example, Sunday after
noon's session was adjourned for
he professed purposes of cau
cuses. A glance around the lobby
however, showed one owner play
ing bridge, several watching tele
vision, others telling jokes to
newsmen.
Garney Henley of Huron College
scurcd 141 points during the 1959
football season. In four years at
the South Dakota school he tallied
394 points.
PELS IN COMMAND KU Pelican Don Eastman hoists the ball out of harm's way in Sat
urday's record-breaking 97-61 victory over Central Point. At Eastman's left is Comet Dave
Sharp, 14. Right front is KU's Bob Lapsley. The entire Whitebird team saw action in the
game, one that set an all-time scoring record. The Pels' previous high was also registered
at the expense of Central Point.
WAYNE SCOTT, Sports Editor
Kentucky, Georgia Tech Claim
Week's College Cage Spotlight
Fy THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
This is the night college basket
ball learns if Adolph Rupp and
his Kentucky Wildcats still have
the knack for winning the big ones.
The big one this time puts Ken
tucky at Georgia Tech in a game
that probably will decide the
Southeastern Conference champi
onship and the SEC club to chal
lenge for the national collegiate
tournament title in March.
Challenging for the NCAA and
winning it is an old Kentucky hab
it, what with Baron Rupp and his
Wildcats holding NCAA records
for number of games won in tour
nament play, number of appear
ances and number of national col
legiate titles (four). ',.
This time, however, ' Georgia
Tech stands in the way and has
the edge so far on the Blue Grass
perennials after whipping Ken
tucky at their Lexington lair Jan.
2. They get together tonight at
Tech with the Engineers holding
first place in the SEC with a 5-0
record to Kentucky's 4-1.
Besides, being the road club,
Kentucky is further hampered by
the temporary loss of junior star
Billy Lickert, who has a leg in
jury, and the ineligibility of his
planned replacement, Roger New
man. But of the top ten rankings so
far, Kentucky has a 10-4 record
but has come on strong after
dropping three of its first seven
games. Tech was ranked sixth na
tionally in last week's Associated
Press poll and has a 14-2 over-all
mark after splitting a pair last
week. Tech beat Tennesseee 74-69
Saturday after losing a game that
didn't count in the conference
standings to SEC foe Auburn 66-59
last Tuesday.
The Kentucky-Georgia Tech
game tops the Monday program
as basketball begins to perk up
some with many of the schools
having finished mid-term examinations.
All of the top ten teams have
games this week except lotn-
ranked Texas A&M and the likes
of Bradley, California, West Vir
ginia and company probably can
hardly wait to get going again
after the way top-ranked Cincin-
nati and its All-America, Oscar
Robertson, have been floundering.
Baskefball
Standings
UO Boss
Anxious
For Five
EUGENE (AP) It would be
nice, says coach Steve Belko, if
the University of Oregon s best
five players all could be on the
basketball court at the same time.
First, Belko said, it was Glenn
.Moore, a-prize 6-7 sophomore who
was hobbled for weeks by an ank
le sprain.
Moore recovered his full strength
hv Oreeon's lone weekend game,
but then Charlie Warren came
down with the flu on the eve of
the team's Friday encounter with
Washington.
Oregon lost that game 63-56 and
then drew two days of rest before
resuming practice today.
Belko said Sunday night that
Warren, Oregon's other high-scoring
sophomore, appeared to be
recovered enough from the flu to
re-join the team.
"I hope we get them all healthy
by this weekend," Belko said.
"We haven't had our best five
together for quite a while."
It's doubly important for Ore
gon to be at top condition this
week, Belko said, for the Ducks
swing into California for games
Friday and Saturday nights.
The Friday night game will be
et Berkeley against California's
defending national champ
ions, winners of 14 of 15 games
this season.
It will be the first meeting of
iho imiH between the two
teams, and of California Belko
aaid: "Real good personnel.
They're big and have a lot of
' bench power."
Belko said Oregon's drills this
vopIc will he concentrated on
ways of threading through Calif
ornia's tin-top defense.
That defense is one of Calif
rnla's best points, but Belko said
Bis team will attempt an extra
ordinary effort to overcome it.
NORTHWEST BASKETBALL
W L
Oregon
Oregon State
Seattle University
Gonzaga
Portland University
Washington
Washington State
Idaho
x includes service game
Saturday's Scores
Seattle University 102, Montana
State 93
Stanford 54, Washington 42
Idaho 62, Oregon Slate 56 (over
time)
13 4
10 x6
8 6
7
8 7
8 9
8 11
7 10!
Cincinnati, coming off its Jan.
16 loss to Bradley, managed to
win its 14th in 15 tries, 61-58 over
Duquesne Saturday night but the
Bearcats had one of their toughest
struggles with Robertson limited
to 13 points by the defensive play
of George Brown.
Oscar, needing 46 points to
break the all-time three-year scor
ing record of 2,538 points estab
lished by Furman's Frank Selvy
in 1954, hit only 4 of 14 shots from
the field. He is still 33 points away
from breaking Selvy's mark and
needs 82 to top the major school
all-time career record of 2,587 set
in four seasons ending in 1955 by
Wake Forest's Dickie Hcmric.
Robertson, gets one crack this
week against The Citadel at Cin
cinnati on Friday.
Other games involving the na
tion's elite show seventh-ranked
Utah (14-2) against Los Angeles
Loyola Wednesday, eighth-ranked
Villanova (12-1) at Army on
Wednesday and at Canisius Satur
day, and ninth-ranked Utah State
(14-2) against Brigham Young Fri
day.
The nation's longest major
school win streak is a bare nine
in a row (Idaho State) after Hous
ton snapped the 11-game string of
Miami (Fla) 88-79 Saturday night.
BIG FIVE STANDINGS
Conf All Games
W L Pet. W L Pc.t
Calif.
UCLA
Stan.
use
Wash.
.800 14 1
.750
.667
.600 11
.000 6
8 7
7 7
5
.933
.533
.500
.688
.400
Northwest Basketball Standings
W L Pet
Linfield 5 1 .833
Willamette 5 1 .833
Whitman 3 3 .500
College of Idaho - 3 3 .500
Pacific 0 4 000
Lewis and Clark 0 4 .000
Saturday Results
Linfield 101, Pacific 62
Willamette 67, Lewis and Clark
65
OREGON COLLEGIATE
CONFERENCE
W L Pet.
Portland State
Southern Oregon
Eastern Oregon
Oregon Tech
Oregon College
.750
.571
.500
.400
.250
Saturday Results
US Ply 66, Oregon Tech 54
Portland St. 37, So. Oregon 31
East. Oregon 75, Oregon College
66
SOUTHERN OREGON
CONFERENCE
W L Pet
Medford
Klamath Falls
Grants Pass
Central Point
Ashland
0 1.000
.667
.500
.288
.000
Saturday Results
Klamath Falls 97. Central Point 61
Medford 92. Ashland 32
Beavers
Get Tired
Of Trips
CORVALLIS, Ore. (AP) - Ore
gon State's basketball team is
weary after three weeks on the
road. But there's more barn
storming just ahead for the Beav
ers.
"We're getting a little tired
Coach Paul Valentl said Sunday
night. "We've been on the road
three weeks. And as everyone
knows, that's quite a chore."
Oregon State went north over
the weekend, beating Washington
Slate at Pullman Friday night,
then losing to Idaho 62-56 in over
time at Moscow Saturday night.
After that game with Idaho
Oregon State rushed back to Spo
kane by bus to catch a midnight
train. The train arrived in Port
land at 7 a.m. Then the players
took a bus on to Corvallis.
'It's just the traveling," Val
enti said. "No one sleeps very
well on those trains. Everything
is a little different. Just being
away from home is tiring. Then
you have to do it again in a few
days."
This will be the fourth week in
a row on the road for Oregon
State. The squad leaves by plane
Thursday for San Francisco, and
a Friday game with Stanford and
a Saturday contest with Califor
nia.
"We'd like to keep the drills as
intense as we can this week, but
we have to be careful because we
know the kids are tired," Val-
enti said.
"There's no sense in spending
all your excess energy on prac
tice and having none left for the
game.".
Against California, Oregon Slate
will be facing the defending
national champions, loser of only
one of 13 games this season.
Valenti said the game with Ida
ho was a tough one. "The kids
did a good job of staying in there
all the way."
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