The Austin Daily Herald from Austin, Minnesota • 8

ROCHESTER ALSO ALLS Pacelli alls in Overtime Los Angeles thumped Wa Austin High's True Wins 138 Pound Title Twins Add Dakota Team to arm Chain 3 i rue won lour decisions prior 3 to his championship match with PROUD GOPHERS IN 23 21 DEEAT ft Warmath Offers No Alibis sota Gophers who trooped off the Houston on the other hand had HOP a Warmath said be of our boys our team and our season They gave it everything inferiority complex wiped OBtunUl it 2 28 0 MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL AP MinnesotaTwins have add ed another teanyto their chain of farm clubs President Calvin Grif fith announced over the weekend Griffith said Twins officials are now waiting for contracts to sign which will bind the Twins and Bismarck Mandan of the Class Northern Baseball League Bismarck Mandan announced it would join the Northern League which recently voted to expand from six to eight teams for the 1962 season Minot an affiliate cf the Kansas City Athletics will be the other new club edge in rebounding was the thing which kept them in the game And of course there was Hamm it was a shame they were denied their reward" It was evident midway through the first quarter which way the gamewouldgo After Sandy Ste el (Iowa) The latter three are the only conference battles 0 0 0 5 0 1 i Individual honors while Dave Ha zelton chipped in with 10 It was a good thing Austin High toppled Richfield 77 57 for Rochester became the second Big 9 quintent to tumble Saturday Trailing 27 23 at the half the Rockets managed only 2 for 22 from the field in the second half while losing to Stillwater 62 34 Bob 21 paced the Pon ies who shot a remarkable 553 per cent on 21 of 38 shots Tom Daugherty 66 center and Jon Sivly 6 2 forward had nine apiece for Rochester Spring Valley will bid for Its third consecutive victory Tues day against LeRoy in one of sev en area games scheduled Others find Elkton at Wykoff Alden at Glenville Ellendale at Rose Creek Blooming Prairie at Morristown Carpenter (Iowa) at Stacyville and i 0 0 1 0 0 24 57 42 65 28 44 57 PACKER BOXSCORE Skippers Dump Cavaliers Twice MINNEAPOLIS ST PAUL (AP) The Twin City Skippers captured a pair of National Bowling League contests over the weekend and in the process dealt San Antonio its 11th and 12th straight league losses Bob five points paced the Skippers to a 15 10 victory Saturday night A 267 second half game by Earl Johnson helped wipe out a 12 8 San Antonio margin In the Skip 23 17 win Sunday big game Strampe compiled two points to narrow a 12 6 halftime disadvao age 4 zf pin positions on a number of oc casions but just quite make the grade Morrison won the first two matches by pins before dropping a 6 0 decision Sparks had a first round bye pinned his second round foe and then was declsloned in the quar ter finals After two decision vic tories' Stephani was ahead of his opponent when he suffered a pin setback Other first round victors and also point getters were Dean Osland (103) Rich Bumgartner (120) Ed Bakke (120) Charles Overby (138) and Jerry Shupp (154) Steve Deor (154) and Qary Stephani (175) received first round byes but lost their next matches Wisconsin immediately tied the i game however and then went i ahead to stay except for one hirief moment in the third period when the Gophers grabbed a 20 15 lead on'a 22 yard run by Jerry Jones only to see it disappear 38 seconds later when Miller hit his big end Pat Richter with a 21 yard scoring pass Jim Bakken cemented the vic tory in the final period by kicking a field goal after missing five straight attempts and then There was a mixup Hall attracted atten tion on the play by waving his arms causing nearly everyone in the stadium to see what he want MANKATO Minn Austin Tom True runnerup the past two years in the 127 pound bracket in the state tournament1 breezed through five opponents our on decisions and one in a fall in winning the 138 pound di vision at the Invitational Wrestling Tournament Saturday 'John Morrison (95) Gary Sparks 145 hnd Paul Stephani (heavyweight) also were heavypoint scorers by advancing to the quarter finals before losing for Coach (Sky) Packers TVfIO tJ'fln Tahi rlanlciAHe nrlnr HUH iUUl ULti BViJJ iwi knocking down a Gopher pass on a two point conversion attempt after the final touchdown 'We just put enough pressure on their said end Jack Park explaining Wis aerial success think we missed Jim Wheeler and Dick Enga to the It was generally conceded after the 'game that the Gophers were hurting with injuries Wheeler and Enga play at all Robin Teller left early in the game with an injury and Bobby Bell was hampered the entire second half after being carried from the field the first half said Warmath "we i anywhere near being rt iuii strength but not going to alibi Wisconsin has a mighty fine team COLLEGE BASKETBALL Northern (SD) 79 Bemidji 7J St Thomas (Minn) 73 Lewis 60 Dickinson (NDj 65 Block Hills 60 Houston San Diego Mix Shou Id Sizzle By JIM ROGERS MINNEAPOLIS (AP) It was a 0 Low 0 Dryg 2 Smith 0 Lory 2 Ltndbcra 0 Weaver unapman 0 By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Yelverton Abraham Tit tle like the fabled Rum pelstilskin has a name virtually Impossible to remember But his ex ploits are hard to forget Acquired in an Aug 15 trade that caused little stir Tittle has been the No 1 offensive weapon for the New York Gtonti In a series of stunning triumphs the latest a 37 21 walloping of the Cleveland Browns Sunday Tittle 34 with 12 years experi ence fa the National ootball League completed 18 of 27 passes for 253 yards against the Browns and kept the Giants rolling to ward the Eastern Conference title with their fourth consecutive romp and ninth victory to their last 10 games Point Producers Under the Bald guid ance the revitalize New York offense has accounted for an amazing 170 points to the last four games as the Giants built and maintained a one game lead over the defending league champion Philadelphia Eagles Hie Eagles (8 3) kept pace Sun day whipping the Dallas Cowboys 35 13 behind Sonny five touchdown passes They still have three games left including a Dec 10th meeting with the Giants at Philadelphia In the Eastern Conference Green Bay 17 9 winner over De troit Thursday holds a command ing lead over the Lions and San rancisco 49ers tied for the run ner up spot at 6 4 The packers at 9 2 can wrap it up with one more victory They meet the Giants at Milwaukee next Remain tn Contention The 49ers remained to conten tion by beating Minnesota 38 23 In other games Chicago edged i 28 24 Baltimore Washington 27 6 and Pittsburgh nipped St Louis 30 27 Despite prolific passing the Giants scored all their touch downs on the ground with A rambling five yards for one to the key clash that has just about eliminated the Browns (7 4) from title contention Bobby Gaiters sepred twice on runs of 1 and 11 yards Erich Barnes got the other on a 35 yard jaunt with an inter ception and Pat Summerall con tributed three field goals By GORDON BELSHAN HERALD Sports Writer Coach Don Pacelli Shamrocks missed a golden op portunity to win their Saturday night home opener in regulation time then tumbled to overtime to a Tom Hamm led St Cloud Cathedral club 48 44 to break a two game winning streak Center Larry Arndt missed a single free throw try with 35 sec onds left and that was the signal for the Crusaders to go to work Pacelli came down with the over time session' opening jump but failed to score giving the win ners a chance ter feed Hamm who ended with 28 points And they did Shamrock co captain Ed Han son second leading Pacelli scorer with 12 missed a pair of free throws and again the way was paved for Hamm The Crusaders of Pat Connelly responded and ted their 6 3 ace for this 27th and 28th points Bill Jahr 5 10 guard then pumped in the only overtime bas ket for team to make it 46 44 A foul gave Cathedral its last chanfe to add to its margin with 35 seconds remaining and Jerry Linskog made both of them for the final four point gap Unaffected by Defense Hamm was jmaffected by the Shamrock defense throughout the game The big boy turned out to be tougher than had been antici pated and shoved his some 200 pounds around in a very coor dinated manner which kept the losers at bay Jahr the shortest man on the floor finished second to Hamm with 20 points eight of them baskets from the 18 to 20 foot range St Tom Stuerak and Hanson were the only other in double figures with 13 and 12 respectively After the game Carlson blamed the loss on a offense and failure to capitalize on scoring opportunities He admitted before the tipoff 'hat he expected Hamm to be the center of offense but figured they could stop him Carlson Comments About the failure to rally to the overtime session the former St graduate commented: "We just come up with the steady three mtoutes of play we Although the Shamrocks suf fered through a cold shooting first quarter once they began to sweat they pushed the winners all the way The failure to dunk more than half tPaeelli made of 16) of their free throw chances was probably the biggest one in a post game analysis 8 AUSTIN (MlnnJ HERALD Monday Nov 27 1961 son (51) and Bob Lary 25 hare other Richfield players pictured while the Packers Mike Burke is at riqht Aus heartbreaker to Wisconsin The denied a share of the Big Ten title a high national ranking and a possible Rose Bowl bid Gopher Coach Murray Warmath offered no alibis after the defeat saying Wisconsin'played a great game and deserved to but ft was an especially bitter defeat for last Coach Houston" has "only three games to go and the first Is San Diego If it wins one it can expect to cop the Eastern Division title and clash with San Diego to the COLLEGE HOCKEY Michigan State 3 St Lawrence 2 (OT) Winnipeg Maroons 4 of North Dakota 2 fG TP 2 12 Von 2 2 8 1 0 CO Austin Tom Hardy one of the most feared halfbacks in the state with his breakaway speed' Sunday was given an of fensive position with Bob Grausnick tn the Minneapolis annual all state public school grid selections International Tony Lynch and Tom Drazeno vich were the other honored of fensive backs in addition to Grausnick and Hardy who fin ished 1 2 in the Big 9 indivi dual scoring race with 91 and 93 points respectively In addition 33 linemen and 17 backs from area teams includ ing Austin Terry Ball Don Bulson and red Wellmann were citied for honorable mention" rat mgs Linemen Included Doug Cipro Harlan Nelson and Mike erguson Glenville Du ane Benson Dennis Lorenzen and Jim Glymt Grand Meadow Hiood Boe Doug 1 Robinson Paul Paulson and Gary Austin LeRoy Dennis reund Adams Lynn Knut son and Roger Twait Elkton Galen Lehn hardt and Tony Schaufenbil Lyle Rick Holm Rose Creek Dove Tonolli Carl Younqdahl Gary Moeykens and Tom Noble Blooming Prairie Roger Stover Mike Gerlach and Jim Bambcnek Winona Gene Dierksen aribault Bruce Palmer Albert Lea Roy Sutherland and Larry Noser Rochester Mike Galvin and Den nis Nielsen Red Wing Glen Stoltz and Jim Racek Owatonna and Chuck Car koski The backs were Glen Jensen and Hor ry Anderson Glenville' Darnd Haopn Merle' Knutson and Duane Kennedy GrandMeadow Don Larson LeRoy Doft Jul tfs Adams Roger Otto Elkton Alben Slin de Lyle Jint fngvalson and Dave Cole Blooming Prairie John Schumm North field Morris Miller Winona Jon Schwest ka Owatonna Dave Glasrud and Rog er Nelson Rochester and Dennis Jacob son Red Wing CATHEDRAL (48) TP 0 0 0 1 0 0 AMS' Hardy Gets All State Halfback Nod Dail? CPflllTC herald Ml UH 1 SKIP AND SCORE Austin High forward Del Senjem '(52) does just that as he comes down i after tossing up a shot over Spartans' tin High won easily 77 57" (HERALD Ed Byhre 451 formerly of aribault Photo) and Russ Eliason (55) Chuck Thore 15 Spy ar 4 0 4 Hamm 14 xv nalstrom 1 3 Linskog 0 0 Stuenak 0 OJcsop a Opatz TOTALS 18 8 44 score by Quarters: rAVCLLI Cathedral Connelly meanwhile to his first seasop at Cathedral felt his AT MANKATO INVT'L rt pHcfA in rohMiniinrt nmr Gt I A WAY IT'S MINE That's what Rich fields Russ Eliason (55) seems to be saying to Austin High's Terry Ball (44) who seems to have his eyes closed in this flurry during the Packers' 77 57 home opener victory Saturday night It was the second successive win in two nights for Coach Ove Berven's team who humbled Blue Earth 66 35 'riday night (HERALD Photo) Grid Packers Given Trib No 1 Trophy Ted Peterson of the Mfanea polb Tribune was at Austin High this' afternoon to present that No 1 fa the stete football plaque to Coach 'Art Packer grldders The presentation which took place at a 1 pm senior high only student assembly found Peterson presenting the plaque to senior guard Dick Johnson who accepted It on behalf of the entire team and coaches Hase Al Lehrke and John Steffen Johnson in turn passed it on to Supt 8 Harbo re presenting the school adminis tration The plaque will be plac ed hi the trophy display case as the south end of the gym Another phase of the assem bly found Hass presenting in dividual trophies to the squad members for winning the Big 9 championship with a 7 0 1 rec ord Tbe Packers became the heir apparent of the Tribune award when they finished first in Pet prep ratings Just a step ahead of Lake Confer ence champion Richfield after leading most of the season Last state football titles won by Austin High came in 1947 1950 and 1951 under present ath letic director (Red) Hast ings when the Tribune used the Litkenhous ratings for determin ing a state titllst crew Houston can kill two birds with one George Blanda just about 'sew up the Eastern Division championship of the American League and show that San Diego is human after all By so doing the Oilers could become favorites to repeat as champion 'too San Diego yet lost a game and already is Western Division king Things have come A 4A is ai is 24 35 42 48 son True had earlier foes at near they had Saturday and everything touchdown which Stephens said they did this season was the mark came on a checkoff of a real champion I just think just say 7 we cover Halt EG TP 4 16 111 1 13 2 10 0 6 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 Minnesota Would Have Accepted BidMINNEAPOLIS (AP) Minno iota was ready to accept a Roda Bowl bld if It had been offered them ft was revealed Sunday iTho Minnesota administration had decided ft would accept a second straight Nd to the grand daddy of all bowl games If thJ Gophen had captured a Big Ten conference tie Saturday But Wisconsin upset the apple cart with a 23 21 victory and Ohio State went on to an undisputed conference title with a 50 20 thdmplng of Michigan Stif! Possible There Is still a possibility that the Gophers will get a bowl bld No 1 ranked Alabama has voted to go to the Sugar Bowl rather than the Rose Bowl and Ohio State has constantly opposed the post season classic If both those schools should turn down an Invi tation the bld would probably go to Louisiana State or Minnesota with the Gophers having the inside track By HAROLD RATLI Associated Press Sports Writer point made Oilers getthe San Diego Chargers on the lot this week and the tf (luma Wiljro U1CXH UHC I for Wally hard bitten leae Only New and Oakland remain and Houston should have no worries about those outfits 2 Gene Johnson of Truman The 21" 6 48 High senior' took 3:50 in that match before he pinned John Tittle Is Key Man for Giants POINTS! An open mouthed guard Bill Jahr (in background) ara Ed Hanson drives in for two of his 12 others in the picture Coach Don Carl point total despite the menacing out son's Shamrocks lost theirfirst hand of St' Cloud Cathedral in' three starts tumbling to the Cru guard Jerry Linskog (25) and Bob saders 48 44 in an overtime session Sexton (53) moving up at right Pa Saturday night inPaceli's home open celli center La rry Arndt (42) and er (HERALD Photo by Ken Hanson) S' fbMranr to what happened 'last of tbe Year who confounded the 23 That was the day San experts with such a high finish Diego beat Houston 34 24 It gave year PREPARE OR BOUT TORONTO (fi World heavy weight champion loyd Patterson and challenger Tom McNeeley are in Toronto for their Dec 4 title fight at Maple Leaf Garden? McNeeley the 23 year old Bos ton challenger arrived Sunday night Patterson has been in Tnr onto a couple of weeks pretty easy for the Chargers sad and weary group of Minne A AAV Aawv AW a 1 OVU3 UVULTCJD W11U uwpvu Ull U1C to dig out of a terrifying early field Saturday after losing a 23 21 season "smmprlf team profits i more from mistakes the Oilers 1 to be just about perfect 7' 6th Straight" Win They have won six games fa a and averaged 40 points per fr contest They beat New York 43 j12 which to a point better than San Diego could (to 1 The thing that haunls the (Kiers I Spring Valley Upsets Winona Spring Valley pulled one cf the young basketball first big upsets Saturday night by clip 1 11 ptag defending Region One champ Winona 44 42 on the clutch free throw artistry of Wolve for ward Gary Erickson Erickson who led Coach Dick Kowles team to its second straight wfa of the campaign pumped in six consecutive free tosses in thefinal minute and a half to rally Spring Valley from behind He 'finished with 15 points while feamnate Ron Smith added 13 The raggedly played game was tight all the way with the Win 7 hawks 84' 29 edge early fa the final period the biggest of thegame But it long before Erickson went to work and pushed the Wolves to a 44 41 lead Leof last "second free throw made It the final 44 42 or Winona Bob Grausnick Northwood (Iowa) at St Ansgar me rsig vs leaning rootoau scorer hit for 16 points to high game Errors 'Hurt I Improvement in the mechanical error department which Carlson had listed as 100 per cent after his first two games just there Saturday night The Shamrocks stalled and stammered when they should have been push ing the ball at full force Next action for the Carlson coached team is set for Saturday when Hopkins Blake a 59 33 loser to Pacelli during the 1960 61 season comes to town SHAMROCK BOXSCORE PACELLI (44) Hanson Sheedy Arndt Jahr Goblirsch Ruzek Voneldt WCHIILD ALLS BEORE 46 PER CENT SHOOTING Sizzlina Marksmanshio Gives Packers 17 57 Win 11 By RICH MELIN I HERALD Sports Editor II what was Richfield coach Gene i first reaction in post game comments after his II Lake Conference Spartans tumbled before towering I Austin High 77 57 in the home opener for Coach Ove I Packers in the High School Gym Saturday nignu And shoot Is just what the once again rangy Packers did They fired up 72 field goal attempts and found the basket on 33 oc casions for an amazing 46 per cent clip in this just their sec ond game of the season (Blue Earth was riday night's Austin High victim 66 35) Such shooting is usually not the common practice for Berven coached teams who usually wheel up even more shot attempts know ing a tall strong back line will In most cases be there to "mop But Saturday night was an exception to the nile Lanky Don Shirk senior center was the deadliest of all with 10 of 17 field goal tries and of 3 free throw opportunities for a 21 polnt output to follow ri 17 against Blue Earth Against the Spartans Shirk was hitting sweeping right hand hooks with" regularity and did I yeoman like work helping team mate Mike Burke clear the boards Rebound Hero In fact Burke the lone re turning regular from the 1960 61 squad singlehandedly retrieved 21 missed shot attempts most of them on the defensive board The bespectacled 6 4 senior had 20 rebounds in the triumph over BlueEarth The 47 to 27 advantage which Berven's club held on both boards was tiie decisive factor fa Packers breaking up a tight 26 23 game with just six minutes left in the opening half both coaches agreed afterward At that point Shirk pumped fa two medium range shots guard Dick Johnson who played admir ably fa relief of foul laden Toga Hardy and Terry Ball each got a jumper and Burke two freethrows to boost Austin High to a comfortable 36 23 lead one it never again lost Press Help A hounding Spartan press fa the early minutes which gave the Packers brief trouble seem to have any truly positive effects in the final 16 minutes when Berven ran almost his en tire bench into the contest' Leads ranged anywhere from 25 points at 75 50 with 3:33 left to 12 at 42 30 following Spartan guard Bob second half opening 20 foot jump shot Usual ly the margin within 'the high teens or low 20s with all the Packers seemingly having little trouble hitting the basket' Holley Incidentally was one of four Richfield players in double figures with 10 points orward Jim Wheeler was tops for ar team with 16 while cen ter Ed Byhre formerly of ari bault followed with 13 and for ward Chuck Thoreson had IL AHS Sports Balance Besides second straight team leading performance steady Burke hit a variety of shots for 17 points while Ball and Hardy gave the Packers a strong punch at guards with 13 and 10 respec tively Johnson another guard just missed double figures with eight all in the first half But it all a bed of roses for Austin High In thefirst quar ter it had to rally from a 13 8 deficit to tie it up only to fallbehind again at 17 14 But quick basketsTby ShirkBall and John son in the final 42 sec onds made it 20 17 at the gun and the Packers were never head i ed after that AUSTIN HIGH (77) RICHIELD (57) t( I Burke 6 Miller 0 2 2 Thoreson 5 dnirx iu i 2 Hvhr Harrfy 0 42 10 4Ball 13 Myhre 3 juitiiMtn a rimcnH jensen Perry Senjem Lundberg Bawdier I Hovland 0 Nelson 1 Schmitt 0 TOTALS 31 II 77 TOTALS Score by Quarters: AUSTIN HIGH 20 Richfield 17 phens hit an tmguarded TOKrHdl 'ed exceot the stirnricArT'RgHo nn a LJ 1 iui ou ov ydru wucnaown pass we first time the Gophers had the ball Wisconsin had pretty much its own way The Badgers' who threw 41 passes for the 37 by quarter back Ron were never deep in their own territory 'and kept Minnesota backed up all day Miller thus had room to maneuver and consequently passed a great deal Wisconsin Coach Milt Bruhn IZWheeler 6 6 i I ill Howtos i 'T Ai 51 I 'vis 7 I MM I A JB Ar 'X'.