The Daily Reporter from Dover, Ohio • Page 14

Dundee Ai Dellroy Host Sfeubenville Central Visitors Rated As Top Team The touted Crusaders of Steubenville Central Catholic wiU invade Memorial Hall tonight to tangle with Coach Joe Drotavick's St. Joseph's Ramblers in one of the two games on the county slate. In the other contest, the Dundee Bulldogs will trek to DellrOy. STETJBENVILLE'S forte lies in a small, fast quintet with Dick Donnely, 6-3, the only man to reach over, the six-foot mark. Flanking the lanky pivotman will be Frank McElwain, 5-7, and Dick Deffenbach, 5-11, at the and Tom Mieczkowski, and Patsy Marchetti, -both 5-8, at the guards Frank Kuchan, will be the substitute center.

THE CRUSADERS-walked over Dennison St. Mary's 74-41. in their opening game of the season and then piled up three more victories in succession, beating Yorkville 6562, Bellaire St. John's 61-47, arid Wheeling Central 54-52. Steubenville's Big Red put the first dent in-the Crusader recorc by handling the Central Catholic School a 68-47 setback-and Wellsville added another defeat 62-58.

The start this season is reported 1942 team which went to finish with a 15-3 mark. Coach Joe Drotovick plannec in the Rambler lineup which has brought in four victories as against two losses. "Gametime is slated for 8:15 p.m. Bevo Leading Cage Scoring NEW YORK Francis, finally established as a big leaguer in college basketball circles, maintained the nation's top individual scoring average among the small schools last week. The sensational star of the Rio Grande, Ohio, five has tossed in an average.Q,f 43.9 points per game.

He made 131 field goals and 89 free throws for 351 points in eight games. Statistics released today by the NCAA Service Bureau also show tfjat Vince Leta of Lycoming is second with a 3G point average followed by Carson Lovett of Frarik- 1m and Marshall 35.8 and Jake Handzelek, 'Juniata 32.8. Football Results By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Kose at Pasadena Michigan State 28, U.C.L.A. 20 Orange at Miami. Oklahoma 7, Maryland 0 Sugar at New Orleans Georgia Tech 42, West Virginia 19 1,1 'Cotton at Dallas Bice 28.

Alabama 6 Gator at Jacksonville Texas Tech 35, Auburn 13 Sun at El Paso Texas Western 37, Mississippi South. em pice at Tokyo Marines 19. Air Force 18 Cigar at Tampa Lacrosse Teachers 12. Missouri Val- Salad at Phoenix Fort Ord 67, Great Lakes 12 Prairie View, Texas Prairie View 33. Southern 8 Tangerine at Orlando, Fla.

East Texas 7. Arkansas 7 Hockey Results By THE. ASSOCIATED PRESS National New York 2. Boston Chicago 4, Detroit 2 American Cleveland 6, Providence International Fort Wayne 5. Johnstown 3 Louisville 6, Troy 3 Last Night's Fights By THE ASSOCIATED PBESS NEW YORK (A Perez.

ISO. Brooklyn, outpointed 130, Los (10). DICK SLEMMER, 6-1 forward for the Dundee Bulldogs, who see action tonight at Dellroy. Slemmer, a veteran of last year's campaign which saw the Dundee quintet have a losing season, has-been one of-the big reasons for the Bulldog comeback. A top rebounder, Slemmer is also the leading scorer for the Bulldogs.

He has compiled 169 points in 11 games. (Daily Reporter Photo) DAILY REPORTER Sports PAGE 14 JAN. Speculation Starts Over Munn's Status LOS ANGELES WV-Speculation over the fate of Biggie Munn, coach of the Michigan State team that beat UCLA in the Rose Bowl yesterday, was stirred today by a Vhisperr- 1 The Los Angeles Times carried a story this morning quoting UCLA Coach Red Sanders'as saying that while he was congratulating Munn after the game in Pasadena the Michigan State mentor whispered to him that it was his last game as a football coach. Sanders told a Times sports writer that Munn informed him he would soon take over the Michigan State athletic director's post being vacated by Ralph Young. Previously on several occasions tfunn said emphatically that any nformation on the coaching situa- ion at Michigan State would have io come from the coliege president, John A.

Hannah. iiiS Basketball Calendar TONIGHT Local Steubenville Central vs, St. Joseph's p.m. County Dundee at Dellroy at AOena Bob Kigali is a halfback on the fotre Pame football squad, His ather woa a Notre Dame football back in 1925. Big Cage Wars Get Start NEW YORK WJ-The Big Ten basketball teams come back to their home neighborhood tonigh for the opening of the conference season and the last of 'the.

holiday tournaments ends at Owensboro Duqueshe- the No. 2 team in the country; and.winner of the New York Holiday Festival, takes time out to demonstrate the game to the University of Mexjcb, Indiana, the defending NCAA tJhamp which lost for the first time last week, visits Michigan and Purdue is. at Wisconsin but the major Big, Ten interest wQl be centered on Champaign, where eighth ranking Illinois entertains sixth ranking Minnesota. Minnesota suffered its first defeal earlier in week against Kentucky while Illinois also has been beaten once, by Oklahoma Holy; Cross, the Sugar Bowl champion, returns home for an intersectional engagement with Alabama. The Crusaders currently are ranked 12th but probably will move up on the strength of their New Orleans' The All-American City Tourna ment at Owensboro, last of some 30 holiday competitions, matches Maryland against Kentucky Wesleyan in tonight's final.

The Terps' basketball team had considerably more success last night than its vaunted football team did yesterday afternoon as it stopped high-scoring Evansville College 6G-58. Kentucky Wesleyan, the host, edged St. Francis of Brooklyn 71-69. New Year's action was scarce but in a major upset Seton Hall lost its first home game in 47 starts dating back to the 1950-51 season. William and Mary beat the Pirates 57-55.

High School Lad To Face Tough Test NEW ORLEANS Dupas, 18-year-old New Orleans high school student, opens his 1954 campaign for more lightweight honors xwiight when he meets punching Paddy DeMarco of Brooklyn in a nationally televised 10-round bout. Dupas, ranked third among lightweights by the Ring magazine, will making his first start in a "regu- ation 10-rounder. But his lack of distance fights has been made up victories over such title as Johnny Gonsalves and Armand Savoie, both triumphs coming over the eight-round route, DeMarco holds the No. 9 lightweight ranking and has bested such veterans as Billy Graham, Gonsalves, Savoie and holds two decisions over featherweight champion Sandy Saddler. Promoters said the fight may dr-aw close to 10,000 fans, capacity 'or the Municipal Auditorium, and predicted the gate may excead 120,000.

The bout will start at 9 p.m., SST, and will be televised by ABC. It will not be broadcast. BILL PFISTER, veteran floor- man of the Sugarcreek-Shanesville Pirates. Pfister, who missed three games because of an arm injury, came back in the Strasburg Holiday tourney to give a good account of himself out front in the ball-handling department. Pfister is fourth man on the team in the scoring department with 42 markers.

On Dec. 24 JIM SFAHR was erroneously introduced as Pfister. (Daily Reporter Photo) Too Emotional Call Over, the greatest money winning son of Devil Diver, has been retired to stud duties. Sunshine Park in Florida Js scheduled for a 51-day racing meeting in 1954. The dates are Jan.

15 to March 15. Including the Sugar Bowl game at New Orleans, a total of 464,485 fans saw the Georgia Tech football roll through 12 games unde- Teated and untied last season, The grandstand and clubhouse sections of the Atlantic City race rack have a seating capacity of 15,000. DALLAS, Tex. Ifl Alabama's Tommy Lewis may have added a new one for the book of blunders yesterday with his 12th man tackle In- the Cotton Bowl, but he has of sympathy. "I feel sorrier for him than I can say," said Rice's Dicky Moe- gie, who was spilled in the midst of an obvious touchdown run by -lewis' bruising tackle straight 'rom the Crimson bench.

There were some booes immediately following the incident, but when Lewis came back in a few plays later the crowded stadium applauded as he and Tfloegle shook lands. too emotional," Lewis said, "I know I'll be hearing about this the rest of my life." And he probably was right since grid fans were Immediately reminded of the 64-yard wrong-way Roy Riegels run in the 1929 Rose Bowl. The California center grab bed a Georgia Tech fumble and was saved from scoring for his foes only by a teammates tackle on the one-yard lire. Basketball Scoreboard By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS PROFESSIONAL Boston 95, Syracuse 92 Milwaukee 62, Baltimore 52 Rochester 79, Philadelphia 76 COLLEGE AU-American Tourney At Owensboro, Ky. Maryland 66.

Evansville 58 Kentucky Wesleyan 71, St. Francis Tennessee 69. Arizona State 57 Denver 77, South Carolina 63 Other College Games William Mary 57, Seton Hall 55 Hofstra 83, Ohio Wesleyan 79 Wheaton 105, Kalamazoo 53 Albion 76. Wooster 62 HIGH SCHOOL Springfield Public 69. Portsmouth 64 Martins Ferry 53, Wheeling (W.

Va.) 43 Powhatan 58. New Martinsvilte (W. MicUUetown 79, Dayton Dunbar 53 Perez Gets Unanimous Decision JACK HAND NEW YORK No more gentleman of the ring for Lulu. Perez. The 20-yeaf-oid Brooklyn featherweight has learned the facts of ring life.

Perez, qualifying for a Feb. 26 bout with Willie Pep, the old master, tore up the book of etiquette last night in a boxing. wrestling match with Davey Gallardo of Los Angeles at Madison Square Garden. This was No, 3 of the Perez- Gallardo series and probably the last. All three officials voted for Lulu Referee Ruby Goldstein 7-2-1 Judge Jack Gordon and Judge Arthur Susskind 6-4.

Ths AP card also for Lulu. They faulted Perez for letting Gallardo rough him up in their Nov. 27 fight when Davey avenged a September TKO defeat -by upsetting Lulu. Nobody could fault Perez for playing the Lord Fauntleroy after his most recent outing. First he wrestled Gallardo through the ropes.

When he got up and offered to touch gloves, Lulu answered with a right to the body. Naturally, the crowd booed. "I decided to stop being a -gentleman, it don't pay," said Lulu in his dressing room. "I don't care what people say. He roughed me up so I roughed him." The crowd of 3,242, paying $8,201, didn't seem to appreciate Lulu's efforts too much, although most agreed he won.

It was his 34th victory in 36 pro iights, an important decision-over was ranked No. 5 challenger to champion Sandy Saddler. Gallardo's left eye was sliced open again, leaking through most of the fight. He said after the fight that he was stale from too much training. Billy Martin Voted As Top Series Player NEW YORK Billy Martin, scrappy second baseman of the world champion New York Yankees, today was awarded the Babe Ruth Memorial Plaque, voted each year to the outstanding player in the World Series.

It marked the fifth straight year hat the New York chapter of the Baseball Writers Assn. of America picked a member of the Page earned the honor in 1949, Jerry Coleman got it in 1950, Phil Rizzuto in 1951 and Johnny Mize 1952. It was Martin's single to center, scoring Hank Hauer in the final jame, that gave the Yankees a 4-3 triumph over the Brooklyn Dodgers last October to clinch the Series in six games. Even before le delivered the decisive blow, however, Martin had played the starring role. Billy's final hit was his 12th of the series.

That matched the greatest number of hits ever made in World Series play. Alt th others, james to reach the 12-hit total. Martin did it in six games. Martin batted an even .500 in the series, a mark topped only by Babe iluth's ,625 in the four-game series between the Yankees and Cardinals 1928. Odd Facts Brandeis University will open its i953 grid season by playing two ol ast year's foes at the same time.

Arnold College and Connecticut united to play as one unit this fall. End Carl Diener is the biggest man on the 1953 Michigan State football squad. He 8-3 and weighs 230 pounds..