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8--Columbus Telegram Columbus. Nebraska i From press row By TERRY ANDERSON Telegram Sports Editor. Not many people around the state of Nebraska like the High wrestling team and coach Lanny Neese want it any other way. You see, these other teams and fans are simply tired of getting beat time after time by the -Discoverer mat squad. It's been a fact of life nobody likes a winner.

I myself was fan of the New York Yankees when they controlled major league baseball a decade and a half ago. But once they began to Mose, their popularity with me began to grow. I The only thing different between the Yankees and CHS's is that it doesn't seem likely that there will be a loser that school in the near distant future, especially after how the junior varisty and junior high programs performed this season, i And the varsity doesn't appear to be too soft after its showing in the Apollo Conference tournament last ISaturday five champions, four runners-up and two third for a record 183M: points. With Columbus pulling away during the semifinals, fans rom the other six schools began to root against the Discoverers, jregardless of the opponent. And when they were going head-on- Ihead with CHS, any call against them usually resulted in boos or other derogatory expressions.

I Prime example came in the second round wrestle back at pounds between Mike Rinne of Beatrice and Brent Arment Jot Columbus. i Both wrestlers had fought to a 0-0 deadlock with only 'seconds remaining when the official gave Rinne a warning for along with several others at matside, thought it was iRihne's second warning and should have resulted in a penalty jpoint for Arment. The official was told this and agreed, signaling one point for Arment, which brought a loud cry from the Beatrice rooting The official reviewed the scorebook and determined ithat warnings had been given to both wrestlers and not just to Rinne so the match continued scoreless and likely to go into Jovertime. But there was no overtime. Rinne, as action resumed, locked his hands and Arment was given one penalty point as the match concluded.

Again the Beatrice crowd objected as their second-rated wrestler had been defeated by an unknown by the name of Arment, who had a losing record, no The Beatrice crowd reminded me of last year's state meet where Columbus was fighting with Omaha Westside For the state title. Columbus had won the last two championships and.because of that, I feel, nearly all of the other fans in Nebraska's old Coliseum cheered against the Discoverers even the outstate schools, who, I'd think would like to keep the state trophy outside of the metropolitan Omaha and Lincoln areas. About the only friend Columbus had last season at state was -Sod Shada and his Grand Island Islanders. But this year, iiey're right in the fight, too, so who knows who, if anyone, will ic backing the Fighting Discoverers. Last week the Nebraska School Activities Association a story about the 1977 girls state basketball tour- lament, "the first ever." I've received a counter claim to that statement from the community.

It seems back in 1924, Schuyler won the state tournament sponsored by the Havelpck Business Club in Lincoln. Coach of that team was Mary Lou Campbell. Captain was Klice Smatlan. Other team members were Marguerite Tully, Dorothy Schrader, Bessie Richardson, Alice Riley, Luvone Jenkins, Blance Bosh and Leita Babcock. I'm sure the NSAA realized this situation and actually was only more recent times.

shoot for loop third Tuesdoy. Februqry I. 1977 UCLA jumps to No. 2 peg FIRE PREVENTION Vikings Tim Mueller (35) anJ Larry charge in from, both sides of Madison's hot scorer Craig Wehrle (34) to prevent him from firing in one of his total 34 points in the opening round of the West Husker Conference tournament. (Telegram Photo by Terry Anderson) Madison drops Lakeview from W.

Husker tourney Trock OMAHA--T 1. San Francisco (31) (21-0) 2. UCLA (7) (15-2) 303 3. Nevada Las 191 Warquette (H-21- 185 Michigan (152) 6. Kentucky (1) (14-2) 147 '7.

Louisville (152) 8. Wake Forest (I) (16-2) I. Alabama (15-2) 103 10. Tennessee (u-2) 82 II. Cincinnati (U-2) 64 12.

North Carolina (11-4) 54 13. Arkansas (17-1) 45 14. Purdue (134) 34 15. Arizona (15-3) 30 16. Minnesota (151) 26 17.

Providence (17-2) 24 18. Clemson (15-3) 22 19. Missouri (16-3) 18 20. Utah (15-4) 16 NEW YORK (UPI) The University of San Francisco, a last-second winner Saturday night over unheralded Santa Clara, remained atop the UPI Board of Coaches college basketball ratings Monday as UCLA jumped ninth place to second. Three for Plane San Francisco, which beat Santa Clara twice during the week to run its record to 21-0, remained No.

1 by a wide margin, collecting 31 first- place votes and 402 points, to 303 points and seven first- place votes for twice-beaten UCLA. The ratings, however, did include UCLA's im- pressive victory over Ten- nessee Sunday and with another good week, the Bruins figure to challenge for the top spot next Monday. The major casualties were North Carolina, which lost by 20 points to Clemson and drtpped from third out of the top 10; Alabama, which slipped from fourth to ninth after being beaten by Ken- tucky; and Tennessee' which fell from sixth to 10th despite winning its only game. Although it dPn't play last week, Nevadt-Las Vegas moved up from fifth to third on the.strength of two first- place votes and 191 points and Marquette climbed four rungs to No. 4 with 185 points.

Michigan skidded from second to fifth and was a shade back of the Warriors with 184 points after suffering a 99-87 upset loss to Nor- thwestern last week. Kentucky rose one step to No. 6 on the strength of its victory over Alabama, Louisville vaulted from 10th to seventh and Wake Forest earned one irstplace vote and stepped into eighth place. Sam Francis, Sayers name to Hall of Fame Club Games Tonight 6:30 Wayne vs. Emerson 8:00 Stanton vs.

Wlsner-FUger Results Monday CC 56, Wakefleld 48 Madison 75, Lakeview 63 Finals Wednesday Wisner-Pilger 50, Lakeview 31 8:00 Championship iVayne vs. Wisner-Pilger WAKEFIELD-Wisner-' 6:30 Consolation puger girls, rated- ninth in jakeview vs. Stanton class used a rebounding Results Monday advantage to unleash a 50-31 Wayne 45, Stanton 11 victory over Lakeview here Mnnrlavniffht in the semifinal Sports Calendar For This Week TnNIPHT I i union) Girls Basketball Columbus at Scotus, 6 p.m. Platte at Mid-Plains Boys Basketball Fremont at Columbus 1 Sophs, 7 p.m. West Husker Conference Tpurnament at Lakeview WEDNESDAY Girls Basketball West Husker Conference Tournament at Wakefild 2 Southeast Nebraska of Fair- Boys Basketball i Southeast Nebraska of Foir- 1 bury at Platte, 7:30 Wrestling Lakeview, 7 p.m.

1'. THURSDAY Boys Basketball Immanuel at Scotus Junior High. 7 p.m. West Husker Conference Tournament at Lakeviow Swimming Grand Island at Columbus, 7 p.m. FRIDAY j'J Boys Basketball Wohoo Neumann at Scotus, 6:15, 8 p.m.

Wahoo Neumann at Scotus 9th, 5 p.m. West Husker Conference i Tournament at Lakeview Columbus at Papillion Wrestling Columbus at Big Ten Con forefice Tournament at Keor SATURDAY Boys Basketball Scotus at Hastings SI Cecilia Wrestling 'i Columbus at Big Ten Con Tournament at Kear Jney i. lakevlew at West Huske i Conference Tournament a Swimming Columbus at Millard In ivitationol. 9 a.m. MONDAY.

FEB. 7 Girls Basketball Norfolk of Columbus, 5:45 Northeast Nebraska of Nor- Jfolk at Platte, 5p.m. Boys Basketball 1 Northeast Nebraska of Nor- jfolk at Platte, 7:30 i David City Aquinas at JScotus 9th 7 p.m. David City SI. Mary at Scotus Junior High, 6p.m.

round of the West Husker basketball conference touj- nament. Viqueen coach' John Miyoshi thougHt the Gators hurt his club the most at the boards hauling down 49 rebounds to Lakeview's 21. i rebounding coupled with Harlene Hat- terman and Sheryl Heller's scoring forced the Viqueens in the consolation round. "We had played Wisner- Pilger before and knew those two were their leading scorers so we changed from our normal 1-2-2 zone to a 2-1-2 to help us in the middle against Hatterman. We also shifted our forwards towards Heller but things didn't work out too well," explained Miyoshi.

Hatterman put 16 points on the board for the Gators while Heller rallied for 12. Senior Tammy Runge took scoring honors for -Lakeview with 11 points. Forward DeLoris Behle snatched 10 Lakeview 5-8, tangles with 10-5 Stanton Wednesday night at 6:30 for third Miyoshi predicts a tough game in the championship rounds as 94 Wayne wrestles with Wisner-Pilger, now 12-1. LAKEVIEW (31) FG FT PF TP Runge 4 3-9 1 11 Brunken 1 0-0 0 2 Behle 2 0-0 4 4 Behlen 0 0-0 1 0 Janssen 2 3-6 3 7 Luchtinger 0 1 2 0 1 Langan 1 0-0 2 2 Bakenhus 0 0-0 2 0 Dedrickson. 1 0 0 1 2 Dedrickson.K.

1 0 0 2 2 Totals 127-17 1631 WISNER-PilGER (50) FG FT PF TP. Choce 1 0 0 0 2 Hatterman. 7 2-3 3 1 6 Pslueger 1 1 6 3 3 Brockvmeler 2 0 0 2 4 Miller 5 2-8 4 1 2 Rothke 0 0 0 1 0 luschen 1 0-0 0 2 Anderson 1 1-2 4 3 Johnson 4 0-2 2 8 Tolall 22 6-21 16 50 Scoring by quartan: laktvlew 6 10 8 7--31 14 50 By BECKY MOORE Lakeview is burst of shpoting in the fourth quarter came too late to pass up the young Madison squad Monday night in the opening rounds of the West Husker Conference Tpurnament held in the Viking gym. The Dragons enter the semifinal rounds with their 75-63 win over-the Vikings along with Hartineton Cedar Catholic, which defeated Wakefield 56-48 earlier in the evening. Lakeview produced a healthy scoring drive in the final quarter to outscore Madison 25-18.

Unfortunately the drive came too late in the game and 13 points short to put the Vikes in the semifinals. Tom Bock, 6-2 junior, hustled for 10 of his total 24 points in the fourth quarter alone. Head coach Dennis Geraghty complimented Bock saying, "Tom played his usual good, consistant game. Lately he has been doing everything for us." The veteran center also led in Lakeview rebounding with 11. Lakeview refused to let Madison grab hold of any kind of commanding lead in the opening eight minutes by knotting the score six times.

With a little over two minutes, left in the quarter Madison coach Fred Letheby called a time out and the Dragons went back into the game to build up a lead they never lost. Madison held only a six point lead going into the second quarter but gradually doubled the advantage to 12 points at the half. Craig Wehrle, 6-4 junior, left in for all but the final few minutes of the game to rack up 34 points for the Dragons. Even with Wehrle in the majority of the game Lakeview never allowed the Dragons to lead by any more than 20. And once Madison took the 20 point advantage late in the third quarter, the Vikings came around to challenge the leaders.

Geraghty explained that he had a "long talk with the guys and put things on the line. We set out to stop Wehrle because he had 34 points against us the last tune we played." He also added that despite not stop- ping Wehrle from getting off his shots he was still proud of the Viking's "better efforts." Junior forward, Mik'e Iverson drummed up 11 points for the Lakeview effort with sophomore Tim Mueller putting in nine. Jerry Schmidt and Tim Koenig also hit double figures for Madison with 16 and 12 points respectively. Lakeview, now 1-13 was bumped out of the tournament and will not see action until Feb. 11 when they host Wisner-Pilger.

Madison continues in the tournament and face Hartington CC Thursday at 6:30. LAKEVIEW (63) FG FT PF TP Bock 9 6-8 3 24 Iverson 5 1-3 2 1 1 Wotkins 3 0-0 5 6 Mueller 3 3-5 4 9 Wetgen 2 0-1 2 4 Groteluschen, DeanO 0-0 1 0 Groteluschen Dwayno 1 1-1 1 3 Schaf 1 4-4 2 6 Wont 0 0-1 0 0 Totals 2 4 1 5 2 3 2 0 6 3 MADISON (75) FO FT PF TP Nathan 3 2-3 2 8 Hortner 2 0-0 2 4 Wohrlo 11 12-14 3 34 Schmidt 8 0-0 2 16 Koenig 6 0-2 5 12 Geary 0 0-1 2 0 Huddle 0 1-2 1 1 Rowley 0 0-0 1 0 Totals 30 15-2 1 8 7 5 Scoring by quarters: Lakeview 16 12 10 25--63 Madison 2 2 18 17 18--75. Wakefield 9 9 12 18--48 Hartington CC. 12 13 16 15--56 Sew el Rusie, Lopez get Hall of Fame spots OMAHA-Platte Track Club had three event winners and several other high placings at the All-Comers Meet Sunday at University of Nebraska-Omaha. Kent Adamson won the 880 yard run with a time of 2:06.7.

Lee Hansen took the 440 in :55.9 and the mile medley team of Al Johnson, Adamson, Hansen and Phil Roewert captured the top place with a 3:56.1. Platte finished 2-3 in the high jump. Tom Schrad of Omaha won with a 6-4 jump. Scott Keagle was second, 6-2, and Johnson was third, 5-10. Roewert also placed third in the 176 yard dash (one lap on the UN-0 oval) with a 20.2.

Tom Bassett of Lincoln was first, 19.0. Around 250 athletes com- peted in the meet with no team scores compiled. Platte, which is coached by Jim McMahon, will be in the eight team Doane meet Saturday. NEW YORK Sayers and Bob McLeod, two of the best running backs in history, and Leo Nomellini, a mountainous tackle, were among 11 players named today to the National Football Foundation and Hall of Fame. Sayers, a two-time All- America for Kansas (1962-64), and McLeod, considered by Red Blaik the best player he ever coached at Dartmouth (1936-38), will be inducted at the foundation's 20th annual awards dinner, Pec.

6, 1977, along with Nomellini and eight other players. Nomellini, a '6-foot-3, 255- pounder, starred for the Uni- versity of Minnesota 1946 through 1949. All three, as well as some of the others named, went on to outstanding professional ca- reers but they were accorded this honor for their perfor- mances in college. Also named to the' shrine were Francis Bagnell, Penn- sylvania, 1948-50; Bill Banker, Tulane, 1927-29; Joe Bellino, Navy, Hggie Czarob- ski, Notre Dame, 1942-43 and 194647; Jim Daniell, Ohio Creighfon pops DePool 84-75 CHICAGO (UPI) John C. Johnson scored 21 points and Rick Apke added 20 to pace Creighton to an 84-75 non conference victory over DePaul Monday night.

DePaul led only once, 27-26, with 7:56 left in the first half. Creighton took a 37-29 lead with 4:16 remaining, but the Demons battled back to forge a 39-39 halftirne deadlock. Creighton jumped out to a five point lead in the first five minutes after the in- termission. DePaul narrowed the gap to 72-71 with 3:05 left, but Creighton, which upped its record to 15-3, ran off eight unanswered points to put the game out of reach. NEW YORK (UPI) One made strikeouts his bread and The other made a career of avoiding them.

Together, Amos Rusie, one, of baseball's first great fastball pitchers, and Joe Sewell, a hard-hitting short- stop with the Cleveland Indians and New York Yankees in the 1920s and '30s, have earned their niche in the Baseball Hall of Fame by virtue of their strikeout statis- tics. Rusie and Sewell along with, former American League Manager Al Lopez were elected to the baseball shrine Monday by the special Committee on Veterans, which annually votes on two former players previously considered by the Baseball Writers Association of America and one former manager or executive. Rusie, a right-hander who compiled a 243-158 won-lost record from 1890-1901 mostly with the New York Giants, led the National League in strikeouts for six straight seasons. Although his career was curtailed to just over 10 years, he wound up with 1,856 strikeouts. Sewell, a career .312 hitter in 14 major league seasons from 1920-22, was most noted for his ability to avoid striking out.

In 7,132 lifetime at-bats, he fanned only 114 times and in 1925 set a season record for fewest strikeouts (4) in 155 games. "I'd have to say the fewest strikeout records were my most significant -ac- complishments in baseball even though at the time I never put any extra effort into it," said the 78-year Sewell, who still works at a milk distributing company in Tuscaloosa, Ala. Lopez, who as manager of the Cleveland Indians and, later, the Chicago White Sox from 1951 through 1969 compiled a winning per- of .582, Had the distinction of twice breaking up the pennant-winning NFL players, owners close to agreement yiU State, 1939-41; Sam Francis, Nebraska, 1934-36; Rod Franz, California, 1946-49 and Century Milstead, Wabash, 1920-21 and Yale, 1923. Sayers, whose professional career was cut short by a knee injury, was a broken field runner in a class with Red Grange and Tommy Harmon. He currently is the athletic director of Southern Illinois University.

A 6-0, 190-pound wingback during the old 06) of the single- wing formation, McLeod was an outstanding runner, especially on Blaik's patented double reverse. Riyals said the "whole student body blocked for McLeod" when he took the ball on the deep reverses. McLeod later was an outstanding runner for the Chicago Bears, although he isn't much remembered for his feats as a pro. Nomellini was a perfect example of a two-way tackle, surprisingly quick on offense and a tower strength on defense. He served in the Marines during World War'll, played pro football with the San Francisco 49ers and wrestled professionally.

record 111 games, snapped two strikes and a series the Yankees' string of five court TM? straight AL pennants, while in footbi and owners 1959, he led the White Sox to, are lc to S1 8 nm new their first AL flag in 40 vears a a i i Tad a sources indicated. Neither side, however, is finished first four more straight times. "I'm very happy, this is something ballplayer would like to do in his lifetime," said Lopez from his Tampa, Fla. home where he now lives in semi-retirement. "My first ambition 1 was to become a professional ball- player.

I had no idea I could do that. After you become a ballplayer, you want to manage and after you manage, you hope you can make it to the Hall of Fame." Lopez, Sewell and Rusie will be enshrined along with Ernie Banks, the Baseball Writers! selection, at ceremonies in Cooperstown, M.Y. Aug. 8. "It's a long, long way from Tuscaloosa to Cooperstown and I've never been there," said Sewell.

"But I'll be there this year if I have to walk it." Columbus ninth grade girls are winners 35-19 Columbus defeated Scotus Monday in girls ninth grade basketball action, 35-19. The winners led 12-1 the first quarter, 16-11 at half- time, and 30-11 after three periods. Carol Latham paced Columbus with 12 points, whiifi C. Davidson led Scotus nith six. Columbus ninth graders will host Aurora at 4 p.m.

today in the junior high gym. overconfident of a settlement Before the announced target date of Feb. 15. Nonetheless, both the NFL Players Association and the owners' Management Council have indicated "encouraging progress" after a four-day bargaining session at New Orleans last week. Garvey, NFLPA executive director, goes to Milwaukee this week to confer with lawyers on proposed language for a new contract to replace the one that expired Jan.

Representatives of the players and owners have agreed to meet next week either in Washington-or Miami, where NFLPA President Dick Anderson is recovering from surgery. Consideration is being given to increasing the regular season by two games and revising the college player draft, UPI has learned. The current 14-game regular season schedule might be enlarged at the owners' urging, but the pre- season schedule would shrink i from six. to four games. Sources said the question of adjusting players' salaries-is making the issue sticky.

The draft, struck down last year by a federal judge as an antitrust violation, could be settled by one of two approa- ches. One would be through salary arbitration, after a 45- to-6May period, for a college star who refused to sign with (UPI) the team thai selected him. The other would adopt pro basketballs approach, setting up a sliding minimum wage scale for a player signing for periods such as one to four or five years. Also, the draft would be reduced from the 17 rounds to a maximum of 10 or 12. It also was learned that the owners and players have agreed on such major issues as injury protection payments for players signing long-term contracts;" compulsory ar- bitration for disputes between a player and his club; and an agency shop, which would require a non-union member to pay a certain amount to the NFLPA as a "negotiating fee." The owners are also ready to make retroactive pension fund payments for those they have withheld the last three years because of the absence of a contract.

The payments would'be spread out, however, over a period of time. Another stumbling block is the "Rozelle Rule," which allowed the commissioner to set mandatory compensation for a team signing a free- agent veteran. The rule has been held illegal by federal courts and could cause a negotating impasse. set new mark in city meet Joe Karnick and Ervin Paben established a men's city bowlirig tournament record when they posted a doubles scratch series of 1,333 in the 38th annual tournament which concluded Sunday. Karnick rolled games of 277, 207 and 191 for a 675 series.

Paben had games of 222,222 and 214 for a 658. The old record of had been set the previous week by Darrell Janssen and Gary Muth. Top tournament finishers: Team 1. K-O'Vending, 3.131: 2. Columbus Coble TV.

3.107: 3. Rogers-Riley Motor 3,096: 4. Cesh Swine System, high scratch Equitable Savings and Loan, 2,896. Doubles'-- 1. Kamick-Paben, 1.390; 2.

Janssen-Muth, 3 Juel Warner-Joe Fischer. 4. Thoyne Whitcome-Kenneth Smith, 1,278. High Scralch, Karnick- Poben, 1,333. Singles 1.

Milan Levos, 697; 2. Harry Carlson, 686; 3. Stan Wemholf. 679; 4. Larry' Harrington, 674.

High scratch Hairy Carlson, 638. All-events 1. Harrington, 2. Stan Paprocki, 3. Muth, 4.

Carlson, 1,900. High Scratch Muth, 1,824. IMPORTANT The State of Nebraska has self-assessment for their taxpayers. This means that owners of taxable 'personal property are respon- sible to see that their property is assessed in accordance with what is deemed to be the actual value. The.hours for assessing will be 3:30 to 4:30, except Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays.

Assessors will be at the following locations for your convenience: Tf TOWN Columbus LOCATION Courthouse Station MEETING DATES Jan3-Marchl 15-16 Febr. 1-4 Platte Center. Legion Club. Monroe Fire Station Febr. 8-11 -M0NA MOJE Platte County Assessor Now! Suzuki 4-Strokes Suzuki's in town with more strokes than ever before.

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