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PAGE 30 HONOLULU STAR-BULLETIN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 25, 1960 ba From Jensen Retire Sportraitures By TOM HOPKINS SPORTS EDITOR i LOS ANGELES, Jan. 26 yjstw- -SKa4a (AP) Jackie Jensen, the silent strongman who was too good to be obscured even by the tall shadow of the great Ted Williams, is quitting baseball. He told the Associated Press today he turned down a generous 1960 contract offered by the Boston Red Sox because: always been very generous to me." Asked if he doesn't feel he is leaving the Red Sox with a considerable hole in their outfield, Jensen chuckled and said: "I'm sure they'll have no trouble. Those things may seem big at the moment but, golly, there's the old saying that you can always be replaced. "I hope I don't leave them in too much of a lurch and I hope somebody will come along and do the job for them." Noting his outfield companion, Williams, has signed for 1960, Jensen said: "I sure hope his neck is feeling good.

If it is, he'll have a real fine year." Jensen, a 10-year major league veteran, said his wife, the former Olympic diving champion Zoe Ann Olson, had nothing to do with his decision to quit. Jensen, in Los Angeles on business, will return tonight to Oakland, California, where he has a restaurant. He and his wife and three children have a home in Nevada, near Lake Tahoe. "Mostly, I wanted to spend some time with the family. And I also have some business ventures that I want to stay a little closer to." The stocky, 32-year-old outfielder winner of the American League's Most Valuable Player award in 1958 had been rumored near retirement for some time.

But he said it was "just the other day" that he made up his mind "after thinking about it a long time." "I felt that I had three more good years in baseball at least at my present capabilities," he said. ENJOYED BASEBALL "I can't knock baseball at all. That's not my idea in this. I've enjoyed every moment of it. It's just that I do want to be at home more and I feel my business activities warrant all the time I can give them.

"I was thinking of retiring after last season. I worked at my business that way and hoped that's how it would turn out. 'The Red Sox sent me a very nice contract, one I had no complaints about They've Jackie said his business operations include the restaurant, a home building firm in which he is a partner "and a couple of other things that I'm not able to discuss at this time." STARTED WITH YANKS Jensen had been with the Red Sox for six years. The Sox got him from the Washington Senators in a trade at the start of the 1954 season. A great football player at the University of California, Jensen went into baseball with Oakland of the Pacific Coast League in 1949.

He was brought up to the majors by the New York Yankees in 1950. He was with them until 1952 when went to Washington. Mendes Keeps Scoring Lead Punahou's Norbert Mendes retained his lead in In-terscholastic League of Honolulu basketball scoring with 87 points in games through Saturday. The leading scorers: INDIVIDAUL SCORING Twogood Opposed to 24-Second Rule Basketball's 24-second rule, whereby the offensive team must make a shot within 24 seconds after gaining ball possession, may be okay for the pros, but the time is not ripe for its inclusion in the regulations that govern play of college and high school teams. That's the opinion of Forrest Twogood, veteran basketball coach at University of Southern California, which opens a three-game Hawaii series tomorrow night at Otto Klum Gymnasium against the Hawaii Rainbows.

"I don't believe we are ready for the 24-second rule," Twogood told a gathering of the Honolulu Quarterback Club yesterday at Elliott's Chuck Wagon. "You must remember that when the collegiate and scholastic rulesmakers get together they are setting up playing regulations for thousands of teams. On the other hand the pros make their rules for only eight clubs. "They have to make their game attractive enough to bring in the paying customers. That's one reason why they have outlawed the zone defense.

They are subject to a fine of $500 if they even as much as appear to be playing a zone. Survey of Non-Pro Games "A recent survey of college and scholastic games showed that on the average the teams get rid of the ball within 11 seconds after gaining control." "College coaches in areas where pro basketball is cut ft 'A F9 Ft Pts. Av. 32 23 8 7 1 4 26 16 68 17.0 2) 10 52 13 8 Mendez, Pun Martin, Far Chai, St. L.

Snea, Roo Muller, Pun 130 Army southpaw Henry DePalma floors Allen Armentor of Marines in first round with left to chin. DePalma won fight on kayo in third round. Star-Bulletin Photo by Jack Matsumoto. It 16 52 18 45 13 15 41 14 37 15 6 36 13 10 36 14 7 35 Kumura. MP I Nirti, Mck ''i Lopez.

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Young, McK 12 32 3 31 30 5 29 29 4 2 4 29 10 21 3 25 14 11 12 10 12 12 11 Acapulco Yacht Race Lead Held by Pursuit SAN DIEGO, Jan. 26 (AP) The 83-foot cutter Pursuit, running well ahead of her nearest rival, may finish the San Diego-to-Acapulco yacht race by midnight. She stands a good chance of winning on a handicap basis as well as on actual elapsed time. Smaller craft get time allowances. Pursuit, out of the Newport Harbor (California) Yacht Club, sailed 127 miles in the last reported 24-hour period and was 211 miles out of Acapulco.

On a handicap basis, the smaller Carousel of San Diego was running second and the Barlovento of Los Angeles was third. In actual position, Barlovento was second, Santana, third, Carousel fourth and Nam Sang fifth- Enos, Roo Hook no, Kam Haliniak, Roo A. Lee. lot I Young, McK Kewaihae. St.

Ramos, MK Mark Card Two Upsets A. A. U. Fight TEAM STATISTICS OFFENSE DEFENSE Pts. Av.

PA Av. 230 38 3 185 30 1 214 42 8 224 44.1 179 44.8 160 40.0 Punahou Kaimuki Kam St. Louis Farrington Roosevelt McKinley Mid-Pacific 300 taking in the action- 170 42 5 133 33.3 159 39 8 146 36 5 150 37.5 138 34 5 148 37.0 168 42.0 140 35 0 192 48 0 138 34.5 181 45.3 Tvo night's Hawaii upsets marked last second card of the Olympic Boxing as a KO for DePalma, who was pretty much of a sharpshooter last night. Attendance again was on the dismal side with about lolani Marvknoll 134 44.7 131 43.7 loaded smoker. The third card of the tourney goes on next Monday night.

Trials at the Chic Audito- ii Key: Pts, points scored; everagi vl Pei" game; PA, points allowed; I erage points allowed per game. num. Little known Robert Aut-man, Army, looked like a 156-pound title threat with his win over ring-wise Al Stensrud of Hawaii Marines. ting in on college attendance are the ones favoring the adoption of the 24-second rule, but on the whole the percentage of coaches advocating such a rule has dwindled considerably in the last couple of years." Twogood, here for his sixth basketball trip, said he is highly impressed with the progress being made in the athletic program at the University of Hawaii. On an extremely optimistic note, the Trojan mentor said he thought the time might come when Hawaii would be a member of the Association of Western Universities, the organization which supplanted the defunct Pacific Coast Conference.

He expressed doubt that the old conference would be revived although he did add that many of the people who were responsible for the bitter feeling among the schools and the subsequent blowup of the league no longer are on the scene. He also had a word to say on Mike McKeever, the Trojan football guard who was charged with dirty play by California in the incident which resulted to injury to Ted Bates, Cal player, in their game last fall. "McKeever will carry that taint with him for the rest of his football career," Twogood said, "Instead of being remembered as one of the finest guards in Trojan history he will be remembered as the player who was accused of dirty play. "I've known Mike a long time and I know him to be a fine fellow, respected by his teammates and opposing players. I don't think his action was deliberate.

It's a shame this boy has to live under that cloud for the rest of his career." Coast Basketball Ratings Discussing Coast basketball, Twogood rates California, 1959 champion, as the best, with Santa Clara second, the Trojans third, followed by Washington and U.C.L.A. He goes further and rates Cal the best team in the country. "In fact," he added, "I think Coast basketball on the whole is great. On a given day any of the five clubs in our league could beat any team in the nation. They are all strong." Also on hand as Quarterback guests were Chick Hearn, N.B.C.-TV sports announcer, and John Ramsay, who handles the public address system at the Los Angeles Coliseum and the adjacent Sports Center.

Hearn, who did the Rose Bowl game earlier this month, had a word to say on the McKeever incident. "It happened right down in front of our booth and I didn't think it was intentional. I saw movies of the incident several times and I still have the same opinion. "I think McKeever was done an injustice. The publicity the incident received cost him a consensus All-American rating and I think it had a lot to do with Don Clark's resignation as head football coach of the Trojans." In a 165-pound scrap, Leatherneck Ray Phillips evened the score against Army's Larry Little.

Little shaded Phillips the first time in the Junior Boxing Nationals last month in the same arena. However, Phillips proved the sharper boy last night as he kept pressing Little all the way and connected with the harder punches. Rugged Autman won largely on his aggressiveness. He kept on top of his seasoned opponent all the way. EASY KO WIN Marine puncher Gabriel vti I tZ, x-v i i 'Vy' vr Mtswfe- Terronez lived up to expectations to knock out Navy's Roy Thornton in 50 seconds of the first round.

Terronez whammed in two clean hooks to the chin, took one solid blow in return, then put the sleeper on Thornton with a left upper-cut to the chin from the inside. Thornton was out cold. Bereno Samson, Army, continued to look good in taking his second straight decision win, this time over Bobby McKinley, Marines, in Stock Car Racing Point Leaders Francis (Cherrie) Neves (Modified Division); Guy Campbell (Futurity i i-sion); and Tommy Arakaki Division) got 50 points each for winning their respective division races Friday night at the Stadium, Other point winners: Modified Bernard Follosco, AS) Jerry Flowers. 44; Dick Sonodar 44; Stan Shiroma, 42; George Tarumoto( 40; Fred Matsushima. 38; Bob Pestana, 36; Sol llae, 34; Ted Shimabukuro.

32; Paul Taba, 30; Frank Miguel, 28. Sportsman Dick Shimabukuro. 48; Dick Nakama, 46; George Kenmotsu, 44; George Medeiros, 42; George Gaza, 40; Tom Ueo, 38; George Matsumura, 36; Walt Maddoc, 34; Jim Gima, 32; George Matsushima, 30; Dick Taveres, 28; Mike Freitas, 26. Futurity Al Lader, 48; Max Fernandez. 46; Herb Rapozo, 44; Earl DeMelio, 42; Dan Oshlro, 40; Don Smith.

38; Hank Morton. 36; Lon Philips, 34; Ken Souza, 32; Aaron Linker, 30; Claude Pope, 28; Joe Barroza, 26. fS a 125-pound bout. NATURAL BANTAM Incidentally, Samson is a natural bantam (119) and will return to that division as soon as an opponent is found for him in that class. Army lefthander Henry DePalma continued with his winning ways as he reported in with the only other kayo of the 12-bout card.

His victim was marine Allen Armentor, still a good prospect notwithstanding his setback. DePalma floored Armentor in the third with a lef to the chin. Armentor came up rubbery-legged so referee Walter Cho stopped the fight. I --lip tf' 5. fro Ji fa MHiMaiOT Ii IIIIWIM tWHWM 'tSMf (101 i1illMiinriTITllMlMMMssMa I if If I 8 ACTION IN THE AUDITORIUM TOMORROW NIGHT WEDNESDAY AT 8 Hawaii Tag Team Championship Match Jerry Gordet, handiome New Jeriey mat star, and Lord James Blears wil.J Ibattl Wild Bill Savage and Hard-Boiled Haggerfy this Wednesday Night at the Civic Auditorium.

It will be for the Tag Team Wrestling Champion-g ship of Hawaii and will be 2 out of 3 falls to a one-hour time limit. Mads na introduction here. He is making a return showing at theS a drink is only as SURE as the whiskey that makes it JrAuditorium and promises to prove to his many friends here that he ha There's no such thing as a TKO in amateur boxing. So it goes into the record book Tourney Results 112 Juan Pasion, Army, decisloned Gerald Dominick, Marines. 147 William Castillo, Moiliill B.C., de-eisioned Ray James, Army.

Heavy Phil Wlnstead, Marines, decisloned Otha Biggs, Navy. 125 Rudy Fleming, Navy, decisloned LeRoy Maldonado, Hawaii Youth. 132 L. V. Rainey, Marines, decisloned Stephen Ortiz, Hawaii A.C.

133 John Lopes, Army, decisloned John Rayford, Marines. 139 George Chapman, Marines, de-cisioned Roy Isa, Veterans. 156 Robert Autman, Army, decisioned A I Stensrud, Marines. 125 Bereno Samson, Army, decisloned Bobby McKinley, Marines. 139 Henry DePalma.

KO'd Allen Armentor, Marines. 1:40 of 3rd round. 165 Ray Phillips, Marines, decisioned Larry Little, Army. 147 Gabriel Terronez, Marines, KO'd Roy Thornton, Navy, SO seconds of Ut round. jflost none of his color, skill and popularity.

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