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See local. World I960 Sports Bevievj On Page BARKS ir BITES ly WAYNE SCOTT Friday night I finally get a chance to see tha Klam ath Union Pelicans in action.. . . and it took ma naarly tha ontiro second quartar to catch my braath. And, at that, I mada it btfora tha Cratar Comats did. Thay navar twite cauaht ua. " I tHought I had ten some brilliant basketball sine I Urtfd1HERALD AND NEWS' Klamath Falls. Ore. frequenting rrllcan and MacArthur count but Friday night s lint quarter exhibition topped them all. . From there on the game admittedly got sort of ho-hum , , , but, oh that tint few minutes. Just think how demoralizing it WAYNI SCOn. Sports Mirer Sunday, January 1, 1M1 PAGE I B Hard To Check must be for an opponent to run acroti a club that can get all Ave starting players into the core column inside the first min ute and one half of play and one gets 10 points in five minutes put it "I gel around with a one legged hopping arrangement." He hasn't lacked for company since he's been home and not all of his guest have been school buddies one young lady in parti- rral you'll Point sagged a little. realize why the Cen-cular is drawing pretty close at- squad may a a e.'ention. 1 SAMMY SMITH ; . . . got to shoot A word of caution ... before someone makes the claim that the Comets weren't too much compe tition, I might point out' that they had a lot to do with slowing the KU five down in the second half. Mark my words . . . before the season is over the Comets will rise up and belt somebody good on their home floor. 'Solphomore Louis Alvarez (12) and Loyal Higinbotham will get hot the same night that big Bry ton LaGasse and Detinis Edwards come through and someone is go-, bet they will be reedy. ing to have trouble. " .In fact, there could be a pretty mean battle for the third place spot in the league race ... it He still plans to play basket ball next season and was happy to hear that his Beavers were finally rounding into shape shape good enough to win their fifth straight' Far West Classic championship Friday night. Odds and Ends. ... Speaking of OSC. ... I re member meeting Steve Pauly back in 1958 shortly after be had finished matching talents with Pelican Bob Petersen in the Bea verton KU state tournament game. His mouth was a little tender from eating elbows but he still had a compliment for Pete's ability. Petersen accorded him the same respect. Most of us Glenn Moore . fans are waiting for the former KU All-timer to take the wraps off his abilities this season ... he seems to be having some trou bles. Since I've yet to see a game, however, it could be that the Ore gon opponents are going to great pains to keep him bottled up . . . but that must spring Charlie War ren loose, so it's also possible it's a planned strategy. 1 The Portland State Vikings fig ure to be in good condition by the time they arrive here Friday! for their two-game series with the Oregon Tech Owls. . . . The team has been working continuously over the holidays and they have a game Tuesday night. Meanwhile the Owls have taken a layoff . . . but don't sweat it too much they'll have three days together before the series starts and I'll Sammy Smith, the (-it "inside" man for the Owls, should be one of the best crowd p leasers seen on might even slop over into the a local floor in some time. At second place fight , : . assuming of course that KU is a cinch for first-. . provided Medford has no serious objection. Nampa, against Northwest Naiar- ene. Smith needled coach Wally Palmberg who was playing him outside for a half, "Coach, I've Yes, I think I'll make plans to got to get in there where I can W.t-sZ' ..ill 1L0 :J -J V: r. ,r, --i,.. i I ill 1 W ,:'.V; r-- .1 1 ft Smallest Man On Gridiron PJlakes :j Pty b Host 7-0 Triumph Ohiolvotcd the game's outstanding East all the way with his running Westerners' final threat. tnepiaycr, threw a 10-yard touchdow n and passing providing the major Prior to that, Penn State's Jim SAN FRANCISCO (AP) State's Jimmy Herbstreit, smallest man on the field, turnedipass to Tulane's Tommy Mason. offense. The West lost a first-half Kerr had interceded a Rich Mavo ilh a 55-yard That climaxed a tremendous dc- scoring threat when Indiana's big pass in the end zone. The 29-yard touchdown advance started with Michigan State's Herb Adderley smashing for two yards. Matte then hit Pittsburgh's All-America Mike. Dipka with a 16-yard pass. Wisconsin's Tom Weisner added -1 and then Matte connected with Mason. East 0 0 7 07 West 0 0 0 0-0 in the biggest play with i run back of an intercepted pass tensive battle in this 36th annual Earl Faison stole the ball from Saturday as the East beat the all-star game befitting the Shrine Kilmer at the East 30. West 7-0 before 59,000 in Kezar Hospital for Crippled Children. in the i i,t,H noi inH nfii-p th Ed Dyas of Auburn, who missed i West reached the 25, Herbstreit a pair of field goal tries during grabbed a Kilmer pass for his the first half, booted the conver- game-breaking interception. Then sion after the third period touch- with only 2 minutes, 20 seconds down. left in the came, the S-foot-8 Buck- Matte. No. 1 draft choice of the eye intercepted another Kilmer Baltimore Colts, engineered the aerial at the East 8. ending the Stadium, Herbstreit, 164-pound defensive halfback, picked off a pass from UCLA's Bill Kilmer at the East 16, racing back to the West 29. Four plays later quarterback Tom Matte, also of Ohio State and Football Scores College Football By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS East-West Shrine East 7. West 0 Gator Bowl Florida 13, Baylor 11 Blue-Gray Bowl Blue 35, Gray 7 Great Southwest Bowl Texas A&I 45, Arkansas Tech 14 Sun Bowl New Mexico State 20, Utah St. Bowling Team Inks Lubanski DETROIT (AP) - The Detroit Thunderbirds of the new National Bowling League announced Satur day the signing of Ed Lubanski of Detroit to a professional contract. Lubanski is the third player signed by the Thunderbirds. The league, which goes into operation in 1961, permits a minimum team of seven bowlers and a maximum squad of nine. ' Northern All-Stars Rack South 35-7 MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) I Prcgame workouts made the Quarterback Bcrnie Allen of Sou'" a 6-pomt favorite on the Purdue and halfback Ray Purdin s'rensth of ,h Pf SU,S ah,1"y of of Northwestern combined their! Norma.n "ncad of Wake lores gridiron talents Saturday to give 0' 2 .'" ' na,,on hu year, and the Northern All-Stars a 35-7 vic tory over the South in Blue-Gray game. a rainy Francis Tarkenton of Georgia, fourth in the nation. But the rain and a rugged Yan Las Ji.f.H.B I lL- DJ Allen, who led the Boilermakers TT.uZT nation's No. 1 team, during the regular season, passed for three touchdowns against an outclassed Rebel squad in the nationally tele vised game. The 6-foot, 173-pound Allen also kicked four extra points. Purdin scored first on a 39-yard pass and again on one which traveled 8 yards. Then, grabbing a Rebel punt on his 42, he out ran frantic South pursuers for 58 yards and another touchdown. get a passing streak going long enough to score in the third period. Mic key Mangham of Louisiana State went over on a 16-yard toss from Snead. With Allen out of the Yankee lineup late in the final quarter, quarterback Dale Betty of Mary land took over the attack and en gineered the Blues' final score. Betty plunged over from the one. Blue 14 7 7 7-35 Gray 0 0 7 07 Basketball Scores Queen City Tournament (First Round) Drake 90, Connecticut 81 Xavicr (Ohio) 78. Yale AS Cincinnati 84, George Washing ton 61 Kentucky 81, Missouri 69 . Spindale. N.C., Rotary (Third Place) Wofford 80. Presbyterian Tt (Third Place) St. John's (NY) 73. Utah t Florida Wins 13-12 Gator Bowl Thriller shoot Anybody that makes All- America playing with Sammy has got to do it rebounding cause I'm gonna shoot." I'll be happy to publish the re sults of my astute Bowl game choices . . . Tuesday. It wouldn't WHO NEEDS A LADDER If the air gets thin up near the basket it doesn't seem to bother big Bruce Brickner, 6-7 Pelican center. Here Brickner leaves Utile room for. error es he counts a two-pointer ever the top of Crater's Bryson LaCasse (6-5) in the KU quint's Friday 66-36 Southern Oregon Conference win over the Comets. see- a few more Pelican basket . ball . games before the season is over. ' , It's back to school at the start of the spring term for Bob Niles, the ex-KU cage star whose ca reer as an Oregon State basket- bailer was at least temporarily be fair to tip the mitt today slowed by an ugly auto accident might upset the going odds, about six weeks ago. Bob, who has spent the holi- Earl Iba had only eight Griz days at home in a wheel chair zlies in suits for the Grants Pass, except for an occasional car ride, j Medford series this week . . : says he feel? fine and is rarin' and the scores reflected it. to go-except that it will be some Iba has had a disciplinary problem PASADENA, Calif., (AP)-Roselmath and the Gopher squad is atiwas brewing any drastic changes iime ueime nt can sneu we wueei w ' "cu , Bowl nvals Minnesota ana wash-1 Pasadena s Huntington Ho tel. in its oilcnse. chair for a walking cast. The couple ot important Doys ... ana b ved bv tclearams of. Washington is at the Lafavette JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) - ; Baylor missed a go-for-broke two- point conversion attempt in the closing seconds Saturday and Flo rida won a 13-12 thriller in the 16th Gator Bowl football game, Baylor, led by quarterbacks almost pulled out the victory stops Bobby Ply and Ronnie Stanley, after Forida had built a 13-0 lead, but a conversion try by Larry Corley failed after the first touch down, and Ply's pass barely grazed halfback Ronnie Goodwin's fingertips after the second touch down. Florida guard Chet Collins re covered a Baylor fumble and in duced another with a jolting tac kle. Each recovery led to a Ga tor touchdown in the second quar ter. But Baylor wouldn't concede and the Bears from the Southwest Conference struck iiy air on the passes of Ply and Stanley for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter. Ply hurled 11 yards to Goodwin for the first, and halfback Ronnie Bull scored the second from the three after a Stanley-to-Goodwin pass covered 49 yards in the final minute. Baylor '0 00 12-12 Florida ' 1300 ai3 Olympian Earns Award NEW YORK (AP) - Rarer Johnson, the greatest all-around athlete in the world, Saturday won the -1960 James E. Sullivan' Ama- - teur Athletic Union memorial trophy. , Johnson, world record holder and Olympics champion in the de cathlon beat out Wilma Rudolph, also an Olympic star, by taking.' 233 first places in 635 ballots for 1,611. points. Miss Rudolph had 103. first places and 1,079 points. : . Jeff Farrefl, the game Wichita, Kan., swimmer, was third with 85 firsts and 702 points. Sports writers . and amateur sports leaders throughout the; country constituted the jury. Johnson comes from Kingsbury, Calif.,, and went to the University of California at Los Angeles: He fought bis way back to' the top of the sports world after a serious leg injury, capturing the ,worid . record in the decathlon with 8,863 points. He won the Rome Olym- . pics after an uphill battle against C. K. Yang of Nationalist China. with Vastly Kumetsov of Russia third. - . , Rose Boivl Enemies Buoyed By Telegrams, Good Wishes from using crutches, but as Bobltion break high on his arm keeps himjhis 6-4 man was away on a vaca-!gooa wjshes from thousands back Hotel in Long Beach. home, wound up their training Eleventh-hour good wishes from r w ai 1 I Ml I I I II I I II I 111 A I Hv JJ t? -JsrSK J Tiwi i L ri Saturday and went into seclusion. Both teams held light, one-hour drills, tapering off sessions in which they got a final prepping for expected enemy formations in Monday's battle. Curfew Saturday night is 10 p.m. for both teams. There was to be jno New Year's Eve revelry for the players, confined to their rooms, and none for the nervous coaches. Minnesota Coach Murray War- fans in Minnesota and Washington poured in. An eight-pound telegram roll containing some 15.000 signatures, largest Rose Bowl telegram in memory of Western Union offi cials here, was presented to Min nesota players. To Washington's defending Rose Bowl champions came a similar package containing more than 10,- 000 signatures. There was no sign either team j much new. "When a boxer has been hurting people with is left hook all year there s a pretty good chance he'll be using it in the big match, Warmath commented. Key to Minnesota's attack all season has been the power of its line, bulldozing the way for Sandy Stephens, Roger Hagbcrg, Bill Munsey and Dave Mulholland. Regarding possible new twists in his own offense, Coach Jim Owens of the Huskies observed ."There really isn't much time in preparation like this to dn Big Ten Tries To Avoid Collapse Of Bowl Rivalry PASADENA, Calif. (API Pow-.men saluted the Rose Bowl Frl-mlaved Ohio Si.ni. erful Big Ten football figures are day as one of the nations great 'three vears aeo R IW! ha,.l, seeking here to head off a total sports spectacles and "the best' ? .. 8 BwI batk ers at Minnesota one of the BiBBie Munn. one.tim, Minn.. nB,onc Ioe 01 Post-season foot- sola playing star, former Michi- ba" 8ames are hoping Wilson gan State coach and now Michi- ran alter the school faculty's po Km .-..i.e miiieui- uirucior. lorn sition. 'ine Minnesota faculty is rupture in the 14-year-old Rose bowl game in the land.1 Bowl rivalry between the Big Ten and the Far West. A few inddicated privately they were jolted by what they consid er a hard line taken by Commis-.more than 3.000 persons at the an- sioner Tom Hamilton of the west- nual kickoff luncheon Friday: era Big rive. "I hope the Big Ten and tht Hamilton, three days ago, re- Pacific Coast see fit to gel to- affirmed the Big Five's intention gether on a long pact." to pick the nation's top-ranked The Rose Boul. he said, is the team as the eastern representa- ultimate goal of players and live, whether or not it happened coaches alike in the Big Ten. to be from the Big Ten. Big Ten Rose Bowl advocates This is the Big Five's policy.. drew further support from first- he said, in view of the Big Ten's.year President O. Meridith Wilson "Trust women to confuse our automatic pin spotters!" . Van Brocklin Adds Honors PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Quar terback Norman Van Brocklin of the Philadelphia Eagles Saturday was named the outstanding Amer ican athlete of 1960 by the Phila delphia Sports Writers Associa tion.. Van Brocklin, whose sensation al passing led the Eagles to the National Football League cham pionship, will be honored at the writers annual dinner here Jan 23. 'it-it , THEY'RE AT THI POST At if an almost invisible barriar bald them from reach ing tha ball Pelicans Bob Lapsley, foreground, and Wayna Dannis surge forward, along with an unidentified Crater Comet, in quest of tha ball in Friday's KU victory over the Central Point squad. The win gave tha Pals their first in tha Southern Ore gon Conference campaign. ' ' ' ' ,' ' ' "You should buy your wife a fur coat, Ed . . . closest thing to the apron el a green and Ideal for . practicing chip shots!" still opposed to any continuins Big Ten involvement in post-sea son games. Hamilton, speaking briefly at the luncheon, said the Big Five is happy to have the No. 1 team in the country playing Washing ton Monday. The Big Ten's Rose Bowl pact lapsed last year after the old Pa- The 1946 Boston Red Sox were the last American League team In move from the second division to the pennant. Sport Shorts TRAINED THEN RODE NEW YORK (AP)-Many thor oughbred trainers were jockeys but Larry Larkin made the grade the other way around. He began as a jockey in 1957 but that hardly counts because Lar kin failed to ride a winner. Then he went into training. When Willie Molter died, Larkin saddled T. V. Lark to win the Tropicana Stakes at Bay Meadows last April. Two months later Larkin returned to the races as a rider and won his first victory at Lansdowne Park in Canada. cific Coast Conference broke up. ine new Big Five indicated its Jfailurc to renew the Rose Bowl i of Minnesota, a warm friend of .contract. the Tournament of Roses. Minne- ANOTHER R ROUND Pelican 6ary Patxlto goes high Oas Bi Tee official said this sola, he said, would go away with willingness to continue the tie-up inside Cormtt Pewit towards to pull down one ef his 14 ainsuaied to a "defiant" attitude, great respect for the Ros Boul, with the Big Ten, but the Big rebounds in ttie KU victory ever Central Point in the ijeoperdtsmg a long and profitable, game and the manner in which itjTcn now Is split 5-5 on resumption. Southern Oroya Conference opener on Pelican Court Friday nigfrr. Policeni Freddie liahn 123) end Bruce Iricltner 4i r fMvinn) u t tend 4 needed hand, 1 Big Teo-Pacific Coast tradition in , the RcKe Bowl. j A battery ef Big, Ten spokes- is conducted. (Members are free to accept a Wilson was president of the Uni- Rose Bowl invitation fie an in versity of Oregon when Oregon, dividual school basis. 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