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Harvesters Will Host Top O' Texas Tournament FRIDAY, DECEMBER If, Iftftl 54th YEAR Pampa Boxers Win In Eight Dees Bouts Pampa boxers wracked up eight decisions Thursday night against a strong Amarillo Dees boxing club at the local Optimist arena. Gary Wilhelm won feature bout on the card over Ray Willa' more in the 155-pound division. Wilhelm won over his Amarillo opponent for the second time in as many fights in a gruelling hard fought match. Results: 55 Ronnie Simms, Lefors dec. Bruce Watson.

Pampa 50 Ronnie Watson, Pampa dec. Hubert Sims, Lefors 55 Mike Clement, Dees dec. Johnny Roth, Pampa 58 Johnny Cameron, Dees dec. Gary Sims, Lefors 73 Bob Herman, Borger dec. L.

L. Lofton, Lefors 74 Richard Jones, Pampa dec. Howard Cleinrnt, Dees 85 Tommy Thompson, Dees dec': Glen Hicks, Lefors 85 Alfred Brown, Pampa dec. Jerry McGuirc. Dees 95 Robert Cameron, Dees dec.

Phillip Long, Pampa 110 Don Clement, Dees dec. Pete Pettit, 125 Mike Slatlery, Dees dec. Grover Ray, Pampa 133 Johnny Ironmonger, Pam pa dec. David McKoy, Dees 145 Ronnie Fletcher, Pampa dec. Ronnie Brock, Dees 145 Vernon Mangel, Pampa dec.

Billy Profanirk, Dees 147 Kenneth Cameron, Dees dec. Pat McDonald, Pampa 147 Lucky Dunham, Pampa vs. Ronnie Morgan, Dees, no dec. 155 Wilhelm, Pampa dec. Wil- lamore, Dees.

Boxing resumes on the local scene Saturday night when the Pampa Optimists tangle with the Liberal, Kan. club at. 8 p.m. at the Optimist arena. Admission is $100 for adults, 75 cents for students and 25 cents for children under 12.

Dowries Posts $50,000 To Fight Fender BOSTON (UPI) Promoter Silver-man declared today England's Terry Downes Four Bowl Classics Slated For Saturday Wisconsin In Upset IT Tourney Victory United Press International Ohio State and Cinci moved into college basketball tournament finals on opposite coasts just as everyone predicted who ever figured on unranked and unheralded Wisconsin? The top-ranked Ohio State Buckeyes advanced to the title round of the Los Angeles Classic against Southern California by beating UCLA, 105-84, Thursday night. The Trojans of USC crushed Utah, 85 65, in a semi final game, Cincinnati, ranked second and hoping for another NCAA championship showdowu. with Ohio' State, reached the final of the I Holiday Festival in New York with a 64-56 victory over La Salle. But it was Wisconsin which pulled the upset ol the New York to help Southern Cal offset the of Utah's MC scorer. Five clutch field goals by Tom Thacker overcame a stubborn La Salle zone defense midway in the second half to lift Cincinnati into; the Holiday Festival final.

Paul Hogue, the Bearcpls' fl-9 center, led both teams with 21 points, Ron Jackson and Tom of Wisconsin scored 62 points between them as they overcame Superior Dayton Height. Villanova won its 10th straight game this season by completely out classing Duquesne, Hubie 22 race Sam that must forfeit a bond of $50,000 if he refuses to defend his portion of the middleweight crown in a "rubber match" with ex-champion Paul Pender at the Boston Gar den on April 7. Silverman said $50,000 was the guarantee Downes had posted before he won Pender's share of the 160-pound crown on a ninth- round technical knbckout at London on 11. Although Downes fought Pender of Brookline, at Boston in their first title bout, last Jan. 14, and was stopped in the seventh round, he now refuses "io meet Pender at Boston in their third fight because he fears "home town treatment," Downes announced in London, "I want to Ko to a neutral city where I'll get a square deal.

I don't think they intend to give me a sqimre crack of the whip in Boston." Their rubber match was originally slated for last September at Boston, but Downes asked for a long postponement because of a hand injury at home. "I gave him the postponement," Silverman explained today. "And now I expect him to carry out his contract. If he doesn't he'll not only lose his $50,000 forfeit but he'll also be suspended by the British Boxing Board of Control. I have the board's assurance.

That would prevent his defending in the areas where he is recognized as champion." is champion in Europe, Massachusetts Gene Fullmer of West, Jordan, Utah, is the National Boxing Association's champion. By United Press Internationr! Four bowl games are on tap for Saturday and those who just can't make it to the Gator Bowl, Shrine Classic, Blue-Cray or Sun Bowl can still sea some of the nation's finest football performers by a simple flick of the wrist. All four games will be nationally televised, The Gator Bowl battle at Jacksonville, between Georgia Tech and Penn State will be televised by CBS; the Sun Bowl clash involving Villanova and Wichita at El Paso, will be carried by ABC, and NBC will televise the Blue-Gray game at Montgomery, then the Shrine game between the East and West at San Francisco. Saturday's four bowl g-ames will serve as the appetizer for Monday's main course, consisting of the Rose Bowl gnme between UCLA and Minnesota at Pasadena, the Orange Bowl contest pitting Louisiana State and Colorado at Miami, the Cotton Bowl game at Dallas where Texas will tangle with Mississippi; and the Alabama-Arkansas skirmish in the Sugar Bowl at New Orleans. All four of those games will be televised also.

Dodcl, the "grand-daddy" of all bowl coaches, is confident, but not cocky about the chances of his 13th ranked Georgia Tech Kochman, who scored nine touchdowns this season and led the team with 668 yards rushing, and Georgia Tech's Billy Williamson, who led the Engineers in pass receiving and punt returns as well as having gained 331 yards rush- A crowd approximately 58,000 is expected to be on hand at: San Francisco's Kcrar Stadium to see a pair of mammoth lines tear into each other in the East- West game. Both coaches, Joe Kuharich of the East and Jim Owens of the West, expressed satisfaction with their teams. Who wouldn't be satisified with arrays like these? Ernie Davis of Syracuse, Bob Ferguson of Ohio State, either Roman Gabriel of North Carolina State or Ron Miller of Wisconsin and Angelo Dabiero of Notre Dame will compose the East's offensive backfield. And for the West it will be either John Hadl of Kansas or Mel Melin of Washington State, Curt McClinton, Kansas, Mac Burton, San Jose State, and Ronnie Bull of Baylor. Ray Graves, who will coach the Gray team.

against the Blue at Montgomery, is worried about Syracuse's "terrible meaning quarterback Dave Sarette, scatback Dick Easterly and WAYNE KREIS Harvester Sparkplug Yellow Jackets against the 19th- center Bob Stem. But Graves has ranked Penn State Nitlany Lions in the Gator Bowl. Dodcl lias coached the Yellow Jackets 17 years and during that three Auburn players he can counter Hunt, Dave Edwards and Wayne Frazier. The Gray leads in the series, i lime, he has taken them to nine, 13-9, although the Blue, which is a bowl games, eight of which they have won, Georgia Tech and Penn State each go into the game with iden- tical 7-3 records although Dodd'sihis Wildcats had no injury prob- point favorite, has taken three straight and four of the last five. At the Sun Bowl in El Paso, coach Alex Bell said team went through a tougher lenis whatsoever and were in schedule.

i "top shape" for the game with time lead, Iowa won the right to meet Villanova in the Quaker City tourney final Saturday night as Tech, Steers Seek More Meet Wins LUBBOCK Texas Tech meets Mississippi and Texas in the Holiday Doubleheader basketball tourney at Lubbock. Texas bombed Mississippi 88-71 and Tech whipped William and Mary 91-70 Thursday night. The Yellow Jackets stress de-i Wichita's Wheatshockers. fense and place more than the'; The Wichita team is coached usual premium on punting, while by former Army star Hank Fold- the Nittany Lions are more offensive-minded. The game could develop into a berg, who will become Texas A.

head coach and athletic director after the Sun Bowl con- duel between Penn State's Roger! test. action with a 105-93 win over Don Nelson's 17 points led the I The Longhorns and the Rebels, previously unbeaten Dayton that over Pennsylvania. moved the Badgers into Saturday's final against Cincinnati. Villanova staged a similar surprise in the Quaker City lourney by knocking over seventh-ranked Duquesne, 78-53, in a meetin' of the unbeatens. The Wildcats now! football foes in the Cotton Bowl Bowling Green knocked over 1 New Year's Day, battled back fifth-ranked Wichita, 69-68, in the semi-finals of the All College Basketball Tournament at Okla- and forth in the first half and the game was tied six times, Texas bolted to a 47-29 halftime Paul Hornung Voted NFL Player Of Year homa City.

Two free throws by lead. Howard Komives in the final minute spelled defeat for the Nke on Iowa, a 72 64 victor over' Shockers. Texas, hitting a torrid 52.1 per cent of shots from the field, zipped awny from the Rebels in Penn, Houston gained tonight's final i the second half and held a 25- AH-Americn Jerry Lucas scored, against Bowling Green with a point lead at one time. 30 points and grabbed a tournament record 30 rebounds in lead- 58-46 triumph over Utah State. In Big Eight tournament piny ing unbeaten Ohio State to its at Kansas City, Iowa State of the season at Jim Brown of Texas was top point-maker with 19 points.

Don Kessinger of Ole Miss won game ninth victory Los Angp'es. John Rudomctkin's rirl Chris Appel's 19 were enough i ing Kansas, 61-61). and Oklahoma advanced to the scoring honors with 26. NEW YORK (UPI) Halfback Paul Hornung, the Green Bay Packers' "Mr. Do-it-all," today was voted the 1961 National Fool- ball League player-of-the-year in the annual United Press International poll.

In a League of many stars is undoubtedly the most versatile since the old era of the two-way pro player. The 215-pound former Notre Dame All-America carried the ball, blocked, threw and caught passes, and handled the Packers' place-kicking. And he did it this season under some rather tough circumstances. Hornung was hampered in at semi-finals, State trouncing Color-j Tech. defending Southwest Con-1 least ree es becausa of 22 points ado, 62-52, and the Sooners edg- ference champion, scrambled to a I put e(l eg niuscle.

And "shortly called and fullback Jimmy Brown of the Cleveland Browns five. Quarterback Y. A. Tittle of the New York Giants and halfback Lennie Moore of the Baltimore Colts each had three votes, while the others went to three other players, Hornung, with a sense of humor to go with his football talent, explains his scoring success this way: "As long as Taylor keeps carrying the ball to the one-yard line, I'll keep scoring." Pampa Seeking Sweet Revenge Dumas and Lawton. kick off the Top Texas Dall tournament tonight at 7:30 in Harvester Fleldhouse with the Host team, Pampa seeking sweet revenge in the process.

Pampa, which won the last T6p past the Indians in the second half. Pinpoint outside shooting broke up William and Mary's zone Pampa's Shockers exploded for at the end of the third period and defense and the Raiders coasted 2l' bis points in the second quarter wei never headed after that. Shockers Win 60-50 Tilt 41-38 halftime lead, but roared in. Thursday nijjhl ant! then went on (o post an cpsy 60-50 victory over Leading the Shocker i Bobby Gin ford of Tech led all were Charles Price with 16 and' scorers with 20 points. Raider Clarendon'varsity squad in! Gary Sikes with oil l(s Donnie Harvester Ayers also chipped in 11 to help With the score knotted at 12-12 in the local attack.

Kennv Hebert center Harold Hudgens added 17, Mac Percival 15 and Del Ray Mounts 11. Bl'ihe'end oTihe ff 7qimrter' the sho defp se fnr Pam P. a wit Will am Roger Ber- Shacke- erupted in the second' his bnlliant a rabbin 8 off the loser, with 16, followed by Jim Roy with 14 and Gooding with 12. period to a commanding 3321 lead at the half Cl i The Shockers held a 47-31 lead rebounds all n.ghl Tlie win gave sllockers a H-l niark this ear PACKERS SELL GRABOSKl CHICAGO Veteran Na- VALO TO SCOUT NEW YORK (UPI) tional Basketball Association star Joe Graboski has been sold to the Syracuse Nationals for an flf he N8tiona Le8 ue TO FOLLOW FULLMER Elmer NEW YORK (UPI)-Utah fol- Valo, a veteran of 20 years in lowers of middleweight co-cham- the major leagues', has signed as pbn Gene Fullmer are charter- a scout with the New York Mets ng a plane from Salt Lake City undisclosed sum by the Chicago Packers. In addition to Valo, the Mets also added Barney Hearn.

Sam ciation dinner on Jan. 14 when Graboski will be used by the Allen, Joe Buik and Dick Wilson Fullmer receives the Edward Nats as a replacement for the 0 their scouting staff. injured Dolph Schayes. after mid-season he was into the Army. He missed two games and played others without the benefit of mid-week practice, Still he managed the following accomplishments: the NFL in scoring for the third straight season with 146 points.

4.7 yards in 127 ball-carrying tries and scored eight touchdowns; 15 passes for 145 yards and scored two additional touchdowns; 3 passes in 5 tries for 42 yards and a touchdown; 41 out of 41 extra points; 15 field goals in 22 attempts. Hornung won the honor by poll- ing 12 votes from a panel of 42 so they can be present at the NFL writers (three from each New York Boxing Writers' Asso- league city). In the scattered voting, his teammate, fullback Jim Taylor, and quarterback Sonny Jurgensen of the Philadelphia Eagles each reached eight votes. Cage Results By United Press International Holiday Festival At New York Semi-Final Wisconsin 105 Dayton 93 Cincinnati 64 LaSalle 56 Consolation New York U. 73 Providence 61 St.

John's (NY) 71 Dartmouth 40 Quaker City Tournament At Philadelphia Semi-Final Villanova 78 Duquesne 53. Iowa 72 Pennsylvania 64 Consolation Holy Cross 79 'Penn State 66 Wyoming 69 Niagara 59 Big Eight Tournament At Kansas City First Round Oklahoma 61 Kansas 60 Iowa St. 62 Colorado 52 All College Tournament At Oklahoma City Semi-Final Houston 51 Utah St. 46 Bowling Green 69 68 Consolation Okla. City 77 Tex.

Christian 67 Texas 71 Seattle 54 Los Angeles Classic Semi-Final Southern California 85 Utah 65 Ohio State 105 UCLA 84 Consolation Purdue 86 West Virginia 79 Washington 68 Army 52 Queen City Tournament At Buffalo First Round Drake 78 St. Joseph's (Pa.) 55 Cornell 75 Canisius 62 Hurricane Classic At Miami First Round Temple 70 Minnesota 66 Miami (Fla) 83 Miami (Ohio) 73 Gator Bowl Tournament At Jacksonville, Fla. First Round Florida 68 Navy 63 Virginia Tech 79 Vanderbilt 78 Downcast Classic At Rangor, Maine First Round Maine 89 Coast Guard 79 Columbia 57 Bowcloin 53 New Hampshire 53 Bates 52 Rochester 88 Colby 86 Far West Classic At Portland, Ore First Round Idaho 61 Portland 50 Oregon 71 Michigan State 59 Sun Carnival At El Paso, Tex. First Round Texas Western 70 Baylor 46 Washington Invitational At St. Louis First Round Harvard 93 Wheaton 83 0' Texas tourney back in 19.57, square off against Elk City the 9:00 scrap with an eye out or avenging their earlier season MossV to the Oklahoma cagftrs.

'ampa dropped 'a 44-41 decision Elk City in the much heralded 'unfinished" game in Elk City which the local team walked off the floor in protest to one of referee's decisions with some i7 seconds remaining on the clock. Pampa will also be seeking to down a victory over Dumas, which Heat the Harvesters by a lair in their initial meeting this year, 36-35. The locals only other oss on the year was to Hobbs, which sent the' Harvesters down to a 72-65 loss for their first setback this year. Saturday night's action will pit the two losers in the 7:30. game while the two winners of Friday night's action will vie for the title in the 9:00 scrap.

Trophies will be awarded to the four teams, depending on their order of finish and an all tournament team will also be picked by the sportswriters and coaches of the four teams, following the final game Saturday night. Phillips, 75-56) and will be especially eager Elk i Friday night" Culley said the team was in. good 'Shape with the return of Ronnie Chase to the fore. Chase has been sidelined since Npv. a leg: injury and will returning to 'the Harvester, lineup for the; first timt since then.

Spearheading the Harvester attack will be Randy Matson, the 6-6. post man, bucketed 35 points -in. 1 two-clay tourney in Dumas last weekend 'and who 1 has almost consistently hit in double figures all season long. Also aiding the local crew will be Wayne Kreis, who exhibited an amafcing- 'degree of'' pin-point accuracy from the free throw. against Phillips last Saturday, hitting 14 of 16 free throws.

Kriei had returned to the Harvester lineup following illness, whl-ch kept him out of tlie. Friday 'night game with Dumas. Rounding out the Harvester lineup will be Bobby Neslage and Lloyd Balch, and Gordon Balch at the other guard skt with Kreis. A Top 0' Texas luncheon yas Coach Terry Culley of the Har- held in the Starlight room of the i .1. vesters seemed pleased with the boys workouts Thursday and ex- presed optimism in the two day tourney.

"The boys seemed to be fired up after last, week's victory (over Coronado Inn Friday at 12:30 with coaches, players nnd members of the press and radio attending. The luncheon was sponsored by the Pampa-athletic department and the local. chamber of commerce. Feller Rated Top Favorite For Next Hall Of Fame Enshrinement BOSTON (UPI) Bob Feller, fastballing no-hit strikeout artist for 18 seasons with the Cleveland Poage To Start At Fullback For Longh6rns AUSTIN Texas coach Darrell Royal said Thursday he will start his injurv-plagued fullback Ray Poage in the Cotton Bowl game against Mississippi Wash. (Mo) U.

87 Win. Jewell 65 but did not know how long he' could stay in. Royal said the big question on Poage is how much and how long I Alfred 61 Albany (N.Y.) St. 60 he can run. He said he will de-j Siena 36 Rensselaer Poly 29 cide how much to use the Texas' battering ram after Poage plays some in the bowl, Texas spent 75 minutes going over the plays it hopes to beat Mississippi by.

Drills followed the same pattern they have all week. "A little bit of everything," Royal said. Texas Western To Meet New Mexico In Title Contest EL PASO Texas Western and the University of New Mexico meet tonight in the championship game of the Sun Bowl basketball tournament. Texas Western clubbed Baylor 70-46 and New Mexico nipped New Mexico State 80-76 in double overtime Thursday night in opening round games. Baylor find New Mexico State will meet tonight in the consolation game.

Texas Western, behind the 18- point shooting of Nolan Richardson, buried Baylor in the second At halftime the Miners led 32-21. A flareup of tempers in -the second half resulted in a player on each team being kicked out of the game. The players were Harold Henson of Baylor and'Willie Brown of Texas Western. Bill Moore was high point man for the Bears with 10. The New Mexico-New Mexico Capital City Round-Robin At Albany, NY.

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First Round Springfield 70 Vermont 65 Assumption 59 Buffalo 42 Amherst 81 Wagner 63 Christmas Invitational At Camp LeJeune, N.C. Semi-Final Indians, is the top -favorite join 81 immortals in Baseball's Hall of Fame next month. Feller, former Dodger second baseman Jackie Robinson, and Ion? time Yankee Phil (Scooter) Rizzuto list of newly eligibles for the bass- ball, shrine under a revised tern to go into effect next month. Veteran members of the Base 4 ball Writers Association of America will ballot once and possibly twice in a -move designed to choose the first modern 'Hall of Famer since 1956. At that time, American League President Joe Cronin and former slugger Greenberg.

won places with baseball's immortals. Under the close restrictions placed on Hall of Fame selection, however, nobody was chosen in either the 1958 or I960' elections. hanger. The contest was tied 64-64 at the end. jf regulatipn.pl.ay and 70-70 at.lh'e end of tha first overtime.

1 Joe McKay. with 16, and Francis Grant with 15, 'paced New Mexico's attack. State was led by hot-shooting George Knighton, State game was a real cliff-, who pumped in'35. points. MALCOLM HINKIE, Inc.

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