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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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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