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Oregon States Beavers Favored In Far West Basketball Classic MEETS FUTURE TEAMMATE time national collegiate past receiving records, recently siqned with the San Francisco 49ers. Burke, who will be playing on the West squad in the annual East-West Shrine Game Dec. 28 in San Francisco, is shown shaking hands with future teammate John Brodie, 49er quarterback. Burke is 6 feet, 4'i inches tall and weighs 201 pounds. UP1 Telephoto PAGE-10 IIMMl.I) AND Mira Paces South's Win; Concannon Rematch Jan. 4 By United Press International George Mira of (Miami tfla.) walked off with a "hometown" decision over Boston College's Jack Concannon, but a rematch has been arranged for a neu tral site next year. 'Mira and Concannon, two of college football's most glamor ous quarterbacks, hooked up In a tremendous passing exhibition Saturday in Miami's North South All-Star Game. Mira was declared the unofficial winner on the basis of the South's 23-14 victory but tire two are due for another meeting In the Senior Bowl at Mobile, Ala., on Jun. 4. Don Trull, statistically the top passer in the nation for the past two seasons, also staged a spec tacular aerial display to load Baylor to a 14-7 victory over Louisiana State in the Blucbon net Bowl at Houston. But the only passing done at Philadelphia's frigid Liberty Bowl wis by the fans, who passed up Mississippi Stale's 16-12 victory over Worth Caro lina State in record numbers. Both Have Signed Both Mira and Concannon. w ho already have signed with tlie San Francisco Forty Niners and Ue Philadelphia Eagles of the National Football league, respectively, turned in thor oughly professional performanc es in the North-South contest. Mira, playing before a home town crowd of 19,120 at the Or ange Bov.'l, connected on 27 of 42 passes for 339 yards and two touchdowns to steer the South from a J4-0 deficit. The 14 Northern points were Uic work of Concannon, wlio scored one TD and passed for ttie other while accumulating a total of 327 yards. All the North's scoring was Ducks Get Brief Rest EUGENE (Uril Coach Un Casanova ran his Oregon foot ball team through two more workouts today in preparation for its Sun Bowl game against Southern Methodist at El Paso, Tex., Pec. 31. The Ducks will take off Tues day and Wednesday for Christ mas and will leave by plane Thursday for El Paso. Oregon, which posted a 7-3 regular season's record, held two workouts Sunday, stressing defense in a mining practice session and working on olicjisc in an afternoon drill. Casanova singled out quarter back Bob Berry, center Oliver McKinney and guard Hon Jones for praise. Tlie Ducks ocnod formal workouts Saturday for tlcir bowl appearance. The two-hour drill was their first action since a season-ending 31-14 victory over Oregon State Nov. 30. IJJgJZQ; gins nm I Oreqon State's Vern Burke NEWS. Klamath Falls. Oregon crammed into the first .period. Concannon drove the Yankees 72 yards to the Rebels' eight late in the opening session. 'But on a third-down situation. Coach Bump Elliott replaced Concan non with George flork of North ern Illinois, and the Uircat died. Trull shredded tlie LSU pass defense for 26 completions dur ing the day, but the Bears didn't reach the end zone until the fourth quarter. Trull passed seven yards- to end Jim Ingram to tie the game at 7-7, then hit Ingram with another TD toss for 13 yards and Uie victory. Louisiana State had taken an early 7-0 lead in the opening pe riod on Buddy Soefker's eight yard scoring dash, but the crowd of 50,000 saw Trull easily erase the Bluolxinnct passing records in tlie process of eras ing the Tigers' lead. Tlie Liberty Bowl was played BASKETBALL SCORES By United Press International Saturdays College Basketball EAST Cornell 7fi Columbia 74 Diesel 69 Upsala 59 Army 83 Manhattan 59 Syracuse 100 Valparaiso till C.W. Post Tti Alfred H Fonlhnm 84 Dartmouth 51 Temple 5 Pcnn 53 Boston Coll. IM Los Aug. St. 83 Long Island 94 Clark 7fi Marshall 102 St.Francisil'a.l 9t Geneva B4 Carnegie Tech 01 Boston U. 80 Maine 70 SOl'TII Tennessee 81 Va. Tech fiu Maryland 75 Louisiana St. 65 Fla. Southern 102 Tenn. Wcs. 91 Ga. Tech 90 Georgetown (X:i 71 Florida St. 107 Tampo 61 Ky. Wcslcyan 82 So. Carolina 74 Alabama R0 So. Mississippi 74 Memphis St. 9R Mississippi 78 Tulsa 80 Florida 82 Vanderbilt 91 Ixmisvillc 82 MIDWKST Ohio St. 78 Wichita 60 Michigan K Duke 67 Notre Dame 70 Northwestern 68 Minnesota 64 Drake 51 Akron 72 Kent St. 70 DePnul 90 Marquette 69 Ball SI. 78 Buffalo St. 6ti Washington iMni 5(1 New Mcx. 55 Evansville 110 Purdue 84 Butler 82 Toledo fll Iowa St. 103 So Dakota St. 59 Indiana St. 71 St. Cloud St. 58 BING'S SATELLITE ond TOWN & COUNTRY RESTAURANTS - Both Restaurants Will Be CLOSED ALL DAY CHRISTMAS J- (right), holder of two al Monday, December 23, 19l3 in 22-degrec weather and at tracted a sparse gathering of 8.300 a crowd which barely filled the concession stands in vast Municipal Stadium, which accommodates 102,000 people every year for the Army-Navy game. Mississippi State did all its scoring in the first half. Tommy Inman picked up a blocked Wolf pack punt and raced 11 yards for the first touchdown. Tlie Bulldogs tlien capitalized on a short North Carolina State quick kick and drove 47 yards with quarterback Sonny fisher scoring from the three. Justin Canale's 43-yard field goal closed out tlie Bulldog scor ing boforc the Wolfpack could make the scoreboard. Jim Ros si ran for one touchdown and passed five yards to Ray Bar low in a vain North Carolina Slate comelwck attempt. St. Louis 72 Missouri 65 W. Mich. 106 No. Illinois "8 So. Illinois 74 S.W. Missouri 68 SOUTHWEST Ariz. St. (Tempo) 71 Calif. 66 Mich. St. 118 Oklahoma 100 Arkansas St. 84 Tulanc 77 Oklahoma St. 69 Texas 53 WEST Colorado 80 Wyoming 74 Colorado St. 90 Wash. St. 60 Utah 79 Rice 72 Montana SI. 72 Bemidji St. 52 Utah St. 64 Aruoiia 60 Humboldt St. 70 Oregon Tech 65 Baylor 7!) Long Beach St. 67 Oregon St. 5S Indiana 52 San Francisco 75 Kansas 58 Fresno St. 109 Adams St. 62 Stanford 72 St.Maiy'siCalif.) 37 Pacific U.(Cal. 76 San Fran 65 USC 79 Nebraska 64 Uwis & Clark 90 Pac. Luth. 70 Pcppcrdine 92 Pasadena 76 Paget Sound 86 Lintield 8.1 UCLA 95 Crciuhlon 79 Weber St. U6 Cliico St. 62 Hamilton AFR 77 Whittier 61 Saturday's 1'rrp Basketball Hillshorn 69 Forest Grove 57 Tigard 72 Gresham 46 Grants Pass 62 Tillamook 48 Crater 49 Lebanon 38 Mcdfoixi 68 Willamette 49 Elmira 65 Siuslaw 43 Phoenix 47 Myrtle Creek 44 St. Mary's 70 St. Francis 61 Sacred Heart 55 Malin 37 Eagle Point 52 Brookings 43 3 By HAL WOOD tl'l Sports Writer This is the week of the big test (or West Coast college bas ketball teams. There's the Los Angeles Clas sic in the southland, the Far West Classic at Portland, the West Coast Athletic Conference event in San Francisco, and an All-College Tournament at Ok lahoma that attracts three Western teams. But unbeaten Stanford shies away from all tourney compe tition and tangles with Kansas tonight. Southern Method ist Saturday and Arizona State Dec. 30. "By then we'll know just w hat we may be able to expect from our team when the con ference race opens Jan. 3." said Indian coach Howie Dull mar. "We've only played four games so far and really haven't had a chance to find out too much about our club." Four Straight The Indians waxed St. Mary's, 72-37, Saturday night for their fourth triumph in a row. Competing in the Los Angeles Classic where undefeated UCLA and USC act as co-hosts, will be Michigan, Illinois, New York University, Pittsburgh, West Virginia and Vale. The Bruins won their sixth straight on Saturday night by drubbing Crcighton, 95-79, on the strength of Walt Hazzard's 26-point performance. And Southern California warmed up for the big one by whipping Nebraska for the sec ond straight night, 79-64. Favored Oregon State meets Louisiana State the first round of the tournament at Portland. The Beavers, with seven wins out of eight starts this year, knocked over Indiana twice during the weekend, with a 56 52 score on Saturday night. Oth er teams competing in this classic are Iowa, Colorado State, Brigham Young, Seattle, Oregon and Washington State. University of San Francisco OSU Holds Win Skein In Classic PORTLAND IUPD - Oregon Stale is ready to defend its Far West Classic basketball title. The Beavers, who have won every tournament since it was started in 1958, completed a two-game sweep over Indiana with a 56-52 victory before 9.123 here Saturday night. The sweep left Oregon State with a 7-1 record for the sea son and established it as the favorite for the eighth annual Classic, which begins at Port land Thursday night and runs through Monday night. Seven-foot Mel Counts scored 21 points and collected 21 re bounds to lead the Beavers to their second triumph over Indi ana. The senior center, who set a modern school scoring record with 42 points in a 70-57 win over the Hoosiers at Corvallis Friday night, had 15 points in the second half as Oregon State overcame a Tour-point holftime deficit. Jim Jarvis scored 16 points and Frank I'ecrs tallied 13 for the Beavers. Dick Van Art-dale had 16 for Indiana, which now has a 4-4 record. The Hoosiers held a 24-20 half time lead and were In front 28 23 early in the second half. The Heavers went ahead to stay at 30-29 on a three-point play by Counts with 15 55 left. The Classic oicns Thursday and runs through next Monday with a day off Sunday. Opening night games sent Ore gone Slate against Louisiana Stale and Iowa against Colorado Stale. On Friday night Oregon meets Washington State and Se attle University clashes with Brigham Young. BUY YOUR TOYS AT WHOLESALE! OPEN EVERY NIGHT 'TIL 9 P.M. UNTIL XMAS FOR YOUR SHOPPING CONVENIENCE RANCH WHOLESALE SUPPLY MERRILL-LAKEVIEW-JUNCTION hosts the WCAC tournament. The other teams entered are Loyola of Los Angeles. Univer sity of Pacific, Pepperdine. St. Mary's, San Jose State, Santa Clara and Santa Barbara. Dons Favored Tlie Dons, who are favorites to win the conference champi onship this year, are off to a rough start. They dropped three games in a row on the road, Chargers Win West Crown; Wait Boston - Buff alo Test By United Press International American Football League Eastern Division W. L. T. Pet. PF PA x-Boston 7 6 1 .538 327 257 x-Buffaln 7 6 1 .538 304 291 Houston 6 8 0 .429 302 372 New York 5 8 1 .385 249 399 x-playnff for division title. Western Division San Diego 11 3 0 .786 339 255 Oakland 10 4 0 .714 363 282 K. City 5 7 2 .385 347 263 Denver 2 11 1 .154 301 473 Sunday's Results Kansas City 49 New York 0 Oakland 52 Houston 49 San Diego 58 Denver 20 It figures to be a mighty cold day Saturday when the Boston Patriots and Buffalo Bills meet in the American Football League's Eastern Division play off but the winner can expect a warm reception one week lat er in San Diego. The San Diego weather should be sunny and the San Diego Chargers hot. The Chargers clinched the Western Division crown Sunday with a 58-20 rout against the Denver Broncos and now have a two-week stretch in sun soaked California to prepare for the AFL's title playoff against the Eastern Division w inner at San Diego. Jan. 5. The Bills and the Patriots, who ended their regular season last weekend with 7-6-1 records, clash next Saturday afternoon at Buffalo in temperature that undoubtedly will be freezing. Coach Sid Gillman and his Chargers will be waiting to thaw out the winner. High Scoring Game The Chargers weren't the only hot team in the league on the final Sunday of the regular sea son. The Oakland Raiders edged the Houston Oilers, 52-49, in the highest scoring AFL game ever played. Despite the win, the Raiders failed in their game try to overtake San Diego. The Kansas City Chiefs drubbed the New York Jets. 48-0 in the oth er game played. In winning Ihe Western Divi sion title for the third time in By United Press International Saturday's Collrge Football Liberty Bowl At Philadelphia Miss. St. 16 No. Carolina St Hluebonnet Bowl At Houston, Tex. Baylor 14 l-ouisiana St. 7 North-South Game At Miami. Fla. South 23 North 14 12 .' . but came back to snow under Kansas, 75-58, on the home court Saturday. Ollie Johnson scored 24 points. The Dons now stand 4-3 for the season. California's in-and-out Golden Bears stay on the independent path during the week spending a holiday in Hawaii. They dropped the finale of the Sun Devil Classic at Tempe. Ariz., on Saturday night to host Ari four seasons, the Chargers fin ished with an 11-3 record, one game ahead of Oakland. In their first two playoff ventures, in I960 and '61, the Chargers lost both times to Houston. Paul Lowe scored two touch downs, on runs of 10 and 66 yards, and gained, 183 yards in 17 carries for San Diego. The Chargers scored the first four times they had possession of the ball, yet they led only 26-17 at halftime. Don Brcaux, rookie Denver quarterback, hit on eight straight pass attempts during the first half to keep his team in the game. However, George Blair's 28-yard field goal and Lowe's 66-yard touchdown run pulled the Chargers away in the third period. And with second string quarterback John Hadl taking over for most of the fi nal quarter, they broke the game wide open with 22 points. Return Battle Paces Week's Boxing Slate NEW YORK i UPI i A return fight between former welter weight champion Luis Rodri guez of Cuba and middleweight contender Wilbert (Skeetcrl McClurc of Toledo, 0 features th's holiday week's light boxing schedule. iRodriguez, 26, and McClure, 24, will square off for another nationally televised 10-roundcr at the Miami Beach auditorium Friday night. Speedy, aggressive Rodriguez is favored at 2-1 to win again over the heavier and harder hitting middleweight, who out weighed Rodriguez, 159' i to 150' 2, for their previous bout at New York's Madison Square Garden, Oct. 18. Rodriguez floored McClurc with a left hook for a count of eight in tlie third round that night and won a unanimous de 1 m 1 i Msv" AT V THOMAS DODGE IN EFFECT UNTIL THE FIRST OF THE YEAR Repack front- wheel bearings and align front wheels. Save tires. Be safe! BOTH FOR ONLY Rotate all tires and give transmission tuncup. BOTH FOR ONLY Motor tuncup and ready to go on xcro 1050 PARTS EXTRA ON SPECIALS THOMAS DODGE "Where Service Still Counts" 424 So. 6th St. TU 4-7716 zona Slate, 66-71. Washington, which was idle during the past week, meeis Colorado State tonight, then plays in the Oklahoma tourna ment along with Idaho and Montana State from the West. In tlie Holiday Tournament at San Diego. California Western won the championship by de feating San Diego Marines, 64-59. Mike Mercer of Oakland kicked a 39-yard field goal with 4:37 remaining to beat the Oil ers. At least four records were set in the game. In addition to the 101-point total, Clem Dan iels set an AFL season rushing record of 1.098 yards and Art Powell caught four touchdown passes. Daniels gained 158 yards Sunday, giving him two more yards than the record set last year by Buffalo's Cookie Gil christ. Tom Flores completed six touchdown passes, one less than the AFL record; George Blanda who holds that mark, threw five TD tosses. Oakland gained 407 yards by passing and 181 by rushing for a 588-yard total offense that also was a single game mark. The Raiders, who won only one game in 1962, closed out the '63 season with eight straight wins and a total of 10. cision over the former Olympic light middleweight champion. McClure's best round, the sixth, was taken away for low blows. Loss of that round helped Rodriguez win a 5-4-1, 6-3-1, 5-3-2 decision. The week's boxing schedule includes: Monday: Paris -Don Fullmer vs. Soule Daillo. Thursday: Worcester, 'Mass. Joey B a s i 1 i o vs. Frankic Cooper. Friday: Miami Beach Luis Rodriguez vs. Wilbert iSkceter) McClure ITV. Ideal Location DOWNTOWN Business or Office Inquire GUN STORE $1 clean fuel filter. Be mornings! 675 $90 2 i v ' - v- ' ' t .r 'J. V ' ' HARD LUCK PLAGUES HIM Star fullback for the Washington Huskies, Junior Coffey, sits in dismay look ing at the cast on his injured foot. A broken bone in his left foot will keep him from his place at fullback when the University of Washington meets the University of Illinois in the Rose Bowl on New Year's Pay. UPI Telephoto Tiger Dropped; Hurricane Next CHERRY HILL. N.J. (UPU-Ex-champion Dick Tiger is "out" as challenger for Joey Giardello's middleweight crown and Rubin i Hurricane Carter is confidently offering $100,000 to get the title shot. Obeying tlie World Boxing As sociation (WBAl, champion Gi ardello of Cherry Hill today an nounced the abandonment of plans for a return title fight with Tiger of Nigeria, from whom Joey won the 160-pound crown at Atlantic City, Dec. 7. At the same time, Joey smacked his lips over a $100. 000 guarantee for a defense against top contender Carter of Paterson, N.J., who blasted out a sensational first-round knock U47 pound) champion Emile Griffith at Pittsburgh Friday night. 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