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'raoomimmAlwayAN tL) luIJAY'S -Peoweamor 1 1 UM I i THE SHRtALFORI JUutCNAL sAluBDAY DECEMBER 27 1958 WWW tee IHkthE Gator Bowl Tops List Of Today's Games I 1 tt) it)IJAY 'S PiL7IIIRLS THE SIIRtAtuOlif JuutCNAL SAltADAY DECEAIBER 27 1958 IHRLE di 1 -PopnnmaErtftmmmftaWV'WNAmalmoa-wrowAr-pwo rep intewelimrMPFli PanalliwA1111 oummstatasea10mma1 -mov-- I r- 1 1 of-t 0 Shaw 4' A Gator Bowl 1 1 1 NI --A I 1 Tops List I Of 4- --I It IIT's -'sc I 4 4 1 I 1 A 1 1 i 't 4- 4c-- I i 1 01LS Tod Games 0004 17 lk 011' I 4 '11 1 1 I 1 I 1 17 3 i 4 31PP i 1 1 tt- yr 4 I ''11st I At 1' t-r--7-: -y ---4-- tt 4- 'r PI e) 1 1 I 111 A 4 'A 1 4''''''sv -4 --i 1 --it i i 7" A I 1(t 1 1 i t1- A4-77- '-e I'l I -4 l'J- t'' 1)1 I 10 i 4- i 4 --) -44: 'k i-il 1 '14 i sip 4 i 1 11 7 I 1 i rli ag a' 1 i I 't i 1 I i to' 't 3 i 1 1 It 1 1 il It'j '01 1 i k't i 6 44' 1 1 i 1 St 'aita II 1 ---1' '4 0 1 'll I 4c to- I 4 I By JACK CLARY Associated Press Sports Writer The Gator Bowl first of the five major post season football bowl games topped the first big college offering of holiday gridiron cheer today The Tanzerine Bowl at Orlando Fla was the only other bowl game pitting two college teams For those who like variety the North-South game at Miami tonight rounded nut Florida's contribution while the Blue-Grey game at Montgomery Ala and the East West Shrine game at San Francisco brought together more of 1958s top talent A national television (CBS) audio ence watched twice-beaten Missis sippi put its one touchdown favor Ile role against thrice beaten Plot Ida in the Gator classic at Jack sonville before 42000 Ole Mks with quarterback Bobby Franklin and halfbacks Kpnt Lovelace and Cowboy Woodruff leading the way pitted themselvee against a Florida ground defense that was seventh in the nation Franklin and Gator quarterback Jimmy Dunn a 142-pound mite-that ran throw a football with deadly accuracy were expected to exploit each team's big weakness defense Ole Miss was lith In the Southeastern Conference Florida 12th East Texas Slate went out to keep its Tangerine Bowl title it won 10-9 against Mississippi South ern last Jan 1 against a potent single wing outfit from Missouri Valley College AigoelaBleYIPArCeKsiCSLpAorittirs Writer The Gator Bowl first of the five major post season football bowl games topped college offerin of holiday gridiron cheer the first bi tone day 'Tangerine Bowl at Orlando Fla was the only other bowl game pitting two college teams For those mho like variety the North- South game at Miamonitritbountiigetillt rounded nut Florida's bile the IllueGrey game at Montgomery Ala and the East brought tWest Shrine game at San Francisco ogether more of 1913s thPA Inaalteinotnal television (CBS) audit ence watched twice-beaten Missist sippi put its one touchdown favor Ile role against thrice beaten Plot of De Quincy senior guard Bobby Wicker of Baton Rouge senior guard Jimmy Leach of Florien junior forward Jimmy Atkins of Gibs land senior forward Elvin McCann of Chcneyville and sophomore forward Phillip Haley of Belmont nf DrOuinev srritnr ruarti lInbhv Wicker nf T1atnn lintirrt LOOKING FOR THIRD-TIME States Demons who finished third in 195657 and second in 1957-58 will be looking for their first championship in next week's fifth annual Gulf South Basketball Classic at Hirsch Youth Center A few of the more experienced Dcmons are (left to right) senior center Larry Fontenot LOOKING FOR TIIIRD-TIME LOOM States in 195' in next at Hirs Dcmon Foreigners in Net Sugar Trophy May Go Abroad Bossier and Byrd Keep Top 'Colfax Climbs in Cage Ratings By ERNEST BARTON NEW ORLEANS trophy from the Sugar Bowl Invitational Tennis Tournament may leave the country this year for the first time since 1942 Six foreign competi tors led by England's Michael Davies were included in the 16-man field beginning play today in the three-day tour nament first event on the INSIDE AUTO RACING bowl's six-day sports pro gram RV DON O'REILLY By DON O'REILLY five times and gone undefeated in its 21 other games and Ring gold (217) Coach Jack Holley's young Redskins have shown decided improvement in the last two weeks By JERRY BYRD Journal Sports Writer "It had to happen sometime and I'm glad it was by a good team like Jou "it 1 time by a Journal Auto Racing COIIIIIMINI Fort Necessity boosted its record to 20-1 and still looks like the best of the Class lot adding the Mangham tournament title- to its impressive list of trophies The other top-rated clubs Iktary's of Natchitoches (269) Cheneyville (23-8) Summerfield (22-8) and Eharb--held their respective positions "Dark horses" include Pleasant Hill and Belmont state finalists in 1958 and 1957 respectively Kenneth Dyes and Billy Eaves hitting 23 and 22 points per game respectively have sparked the latter club to 20-6 record last week Nothing happened to disrupt the other St Matthew's (No 3) Coushatta (No 4) and Many (No 5) The big event in Class was Colfax's victory over Plainview but there were other shakeups as well Spearsville No 2 last week won the Farmerville tournament but was not impressive in edging Arcadia 53-50 in the finals Ringgold thumped the same club 85-45 Tuesday night Castor No 5 last week dropped a one-sided 80-44 decision to Fort Necessity Moving up in the ever-changing Class scene were Dry Prong a team that has lost to Colfax DAYTONA BEACH Fla "Thirty-nne degrees you say! That's 45 degrees and I'll het you money" Jimmy Thompson veteran Monroe NC race driver contended after looking over the high htmked 2700 feet east and west turns of the new Daytona International Speedway And father Bruce a former race driver who operates a garage In Monroe supported the claim 'Tin GONNA COME back with my equipment and show More Class B' Threats 'A half-dozen vine Castor once-beaten Forest Marion Florien and Cloutierville ready to displace those top five Of those Coach Glen Post's Marion quintet may be the "dark horse" Marion owns an 18-3 record with two of those losses coming when 6-1 Bobby Andrews hitting 292 points per game was sidelined you fellows that these banks are 45 degrees" Bruce chimed in as the father-son combination gasped for breath after completing their tour of the amazing new racing plant that is slated for inaugural races Feb 20 21 and 22 as the NASCAR activities are stage(L Thompson became the first entry for the 200-mile NASCAR modified-sportsman stock car race scheduled for Saturday Feb 21 over the high banked track that is attracting internaIlona! attention and destined In become the world 's fastest speedway Flyers Advance in Festival That was the comment of Coach Oddist Lambright of Plainview (Glenmora following his teams '76-80 overtime loss at Colfax Tuesday night It was the first setback in 44 games for Plainview and represents the only major change in The Journal's second weekly North Louisiana prep basketball ratings Harold Ray Strother Plain view's 6-4 scoring phenom scored 200 points in five games during the week to boost his season total to 1408 an average of 32 per game He fouled out with 1:45 left in the Colfax game 'Looks Coach Reed Perriloux of Colfax commented "It's possible that we will meet Plainview three more times this season and it sure looks rough" His Tigers boosted their record to 31-5 and replaced Plainview as top Class team in North Louisiana as the first-time losers slipped to second The Journal's North Louisiana prep basketball ratings are gathered from information supplied That Oddist I Glenmo 76-8o ov Tuesday setback view al major second prep bas Harold view's 6- 200 poin the wee total to per gan 1:45 left 'Looks Ri Coach fax con that wo three it Tigers I 31-5 and top Cies siana slipped I The 11 prep hal ered fr( Dayton Cage Quintet Wins Dupas Upset By Hart The only foreign champion the 24yearold tournament has had WAS Pancho Segura of Ecuador 110W a professional star Australia's Met vyn Rose now a pro is the only other foreigner to come close Ile reached the finals in 1955 before bowing to San Francisco's Torn Brown Brown who won the title for a third time last year and retired the trophy isn't entered this year Young Ron liohberg of Brook lyn NY a Tulana student: is rated the best bet to stop the foreign threat Ilolmberg sixth in the USLTA's 1957 rankings is seeded No 1 among the US players William Quillian of Seattle Wash who upset Ham Richardson here last year in the quarterfinals but lost in the next round was next behind Holmberg Kosei Kamo of Japan followed Davies in the foreign seedings Two veterans Eddie Moylan of Trenton NJ and Gardnar Mutiny of Denver Colo could upset the favorites hopes Mutiny national senior champion has won the singles twice the last time was in 1952 Moylan is a three time champion winning the title the last time in 1954 Tournament officials planned two rounds of singles today semi-finals Sunday and the finals in singles and doubles Monday In the first round matches Davies plays Lt Ilenry Jungle of New Orleans Ilolmberg meets Billy Knight of England Kamo opposes Vincent Distefano of New Orleans and Quillian goes against Donald Dell of Washington DC The other pairings had Reynaldo Garrido of Cuba against Mike Green of Miami Fla than Salas of Chile and Mississippi State against against Moylan Mulloy against Don Fontna of Canada and Myron Franks of Los Angeles against Crawford Henry of Atlanta 1 Ga NEW YORK with perhaps its best team ever plays clever St John's of New York and bulky Utah tests St Joseph's of Philadelphia as the ECAC's holiday basketball festival moves into the semifinals at Madison Square Garden tonight The Flyers from Dayton peren Rice Next for Aggies--- Missouri Valley in its ninth bowl in 11 years was minus halfback Ken Asbury out with a neck Injury while the Texans counted on quarterback Sam McCnrd to run their straight formation offense The biggest of the all star games the East-West classic at San Francisen'a Kezar Stadium pitted the vaunted running and defense abilPies of a massive East team against the passing of West querterhaek Lee Grosscup from Utah West coach Jack Curtice of Stanford did not expect a break from the weatherman who pre-dieted rain for the nationally televised (NBC) game beginning 5 pm EST The wet weather would interfere with his plans of trying to go around the big East defensive line averaging 2111 pounds 20 mnre than the West defense Michigan State's Duffy Daugherty the East (Tech banked on the running of Ohio States Thin Clark and Notre Dame's Nick Pietrosante to give the East its 14th victory before 60000 Curtice lost a key cog In his aerial game when Rice's MI America end Buddy Dial sprained an ankle during a workout this week and will not play In contrast Daugherty did not have any contact work for the game to be played under college rules with unlimited substitution permitted Another televised all star affair is the Blue-Grey glassic with 21- no0 on hand under a drizzly sky The game was televised by NBC beginning at 2 pm EST Grey Coach Blantnn Collier ot Kentucky is banked on quarter))ack Bill Ifolselaw of Virginia Tech to lead his attack Coach Jack Mollenknpf of Purdue had quarterback Dick Longfellow of West Virginia and Bob Spon of Purdue ready to team with MI America Bill Austin hampered a bit with a bum ankle Tonight the North and Snuth go at it in Miami's Orange Bowl before 3500 with Army Pete Dawkins the lieisman and Maxwell Trophy winner leading the North against quarterback Buddy liumphrey's deadling passing South coach Darrell Royal of Texas has made no bones of going to the air to match North coach Ara Parseghian's sunning game Texas Tech Upset 0oa0WftWd00ft1000 By MAX SKELTON HOUSTON pre-season Southwest Conference basketball tournament went according to form until the final game of the first round last night Then Texas rose up to swat favored threatened seriously the rest ot Texas Tech 66-58 Tonight the way although drawing within the Aggies will face Rice stix Ipoints with only 37 second! while TCU battles SMU in oNpeiFwishpr led the Aggies with the semifinals 22 points and was high man ot threatened seriously the rest of the way although drawing within six points with only 37 seconds to play Neil Swisher led the Aggies with 22 points and was high man of MIAMI BEACH Fla Sugar hart upset conqueror of Ralph Dupas yelled for a welter weight' title fight today but prob ably will be matched soon with Vince Martinez for a Philadelphia bout Hart of Philadelphia an 115 underdog won a split 10-round de-Rion over speedy Dupas of New Orleans last night before 21145 pay ing fans at the Miami Beach auditorium The lanky Philadelphian 22 and ranked second among contenders weighed 14412 pounds to Dultsse 14312 Dupas 23 is rated third by the Ring Magazine but he V4145 favored last night because of his experience and elusiveness Marty Stein Harts manager pressed loudly for a shot at champion Don Jordan Stein said to Marry Markson managing director of the International Boxing Club "Let's sign now for a tiCe fight Hart's going to be the next champion anyway" But Markson replied 'Let's talk about a possible match with Vince Martinez at Philadelphia" Martinez of Paterson NI is rated ninth the game fax" 1 JIMMY WHO FINISHED sec-end in the final NASCAR modified-sportsman stock car race staged over the beach-road course last year plans to drive a 1950 Ford equipped with a Thunderbird motor and owned by Marion Cox of Hemingway SC "I believe our car is capable of covering this course at a speed of 170 miles per hour" Jimmy insisted as he looked over the long balanced spirals the smooth surface and the high banked turns of the world 's only "trioval" course THE DAYTONA TRACK was described as a trioval because of the two high banked 31 de gree turns (disputing Thom!) son's 43 degree contention) and the additional bulge on the front stretch that reaches an 18 degree bank to break the long straightaway and provide spectators with something that all other tracks lack In addition to competing in the 200-mile modified-sportsman battle Jimmy also plans to drive in the late model events as a partner for his younger brother Alfred "Speedy" Thempson winner of the 1937 "Southern 500" at Darlington SC "YOU'VE HEARD OF these tracks that separate the boys from the men Well here's the track that separates the strong from the weak after the boys have been sidetracked" Jimmy contended With the greatest purses in NASCAR history being posted for the February races President Bill France anticipates new speed records for all closed courses The opening day's race card on Feb 20 calls for a 100- mile Grand National event for hardtop late models and a 100- mile race for convertibles The Saturday card calls for a 200- mile moditied-sportsman event plus a 23-mile late model consolation CLIMAXING TIIE OPENING races will he the first annual 500mile NASCAR International Sweepstakes open to 64 cars on Sunday Feb 22 in celebrating George Washington's birthday nially a flop in tournament play at the Garden for no explainable reason had to show all their class last night in overcoming a fine Niagara team 84-79 A 6-2 215-pounder who munches on toothpicks while he plans Bobby Jones turned the trick for Dayton which has failed to pick up a title in seven Garden appearances in the national invitation tournament and two previous tries in the holiday festival Jones moving into the pivot in the second half scored 18 of his 20 points after the intermission as Dayton rallied from a 43-36 halftime deficit Frank Case another of the Flyers' bundle of sharpshooters scored 26 points-16 in Day ton's second half rally St John's with 5-11 Al Seiden scored 24 points although he played little more than half the game whipped Holy Cross 77-65 St Joseph's the tournament choice downed Syracuse 72-63 and Utah with a squad averaging 6-312 and 205 pounds overpowered Cornell 80-61 in other first round games First round losers met in a consolation doubleheader this afternoon with Cornell opposing Syracuse and Niagara clashing with Holy Cross The finals will be played Monday night after consolation games for third and fifth places Nearly 20000 turned out for the opening program of the seventh annual festival There were 7284 at the afternoon doubleheader and 12135 at combined total of 19419 Kansas Stale Whips Missouri TCU started off with a 62-55 triumph over Baylor coming from behind to do it Next SMU had to beat off Arkansas in the final seconds to win 65-64 Then Rice whipped Texas 62-43 and it looked like the tournament was going as forecast But the Aggies 12-point under dogs went on a scoring spree midway of the second half to upset Texas Tech and knock one of the big three out of the tournament The others are TCU and SMU Notre Dame Cagers Defeat Indiana73-67 Rodgers Sparks Pro Cage Win By Philadelphia Defending Cage Champ Loses In Cotton Bowl Meet JOURNAL'S North Louisiana Cage Ratings CLASS i Byrd Bastrop West Monroe CLASS CLASS Jonesboro-Hodge Neville Ruston Springhill CLASS of 01Ia Tinge St Matthew's of Monroe Coushatta Many CLASS Plainview of Glenmora Doyline Dry Prong Ringgold CLASS Necessity St Mary's of Natchitoches Cheneyville Summerfield Ebert) by a panel of more than 50 high school coaches in the area which includes over 40000 square miles Any coach is invited to join this panel simply by sending his team's record scoring leaders and ''Top Ten" teams to The Journal sports department The "big-school" AA and virtually unchanged In triple-A action Bol- ton (No 3) and Bastrop (No 4) were the only teams among last week's ''top five" to do better than break even in pre-Christmas play Bolton upped its record to 9-3 by taking consolation honors in the Tioga tournament while Bastrop copped a pair from Mer Rouge and St Matthew's to boost its mark to 8-4 Bossier Byrd Lose to Texans Bossier City (7-5) and Byrd (7-4) kept their top two spots despite a pair of shellackings i from Dallas Tex powerhouses West Monroe moved past Fair 4 Park into the fifth position as a the Rebels won the Calhoun 'tournament with a 53-52 overtime victory over Neville in the finals Fair Park established itself as a "dark horse" threat however by playing Minden and Springhill down to the wire be fore trouncing North Caddo Mon day night The Tribe has broken even in eight games Minden (18-4) took third place In the strong LaGrange-American Press tournament in Lake Charles to retain its No 1 spot In double-A standings The other AA clubs kept their positions too as No 2 Jonesboro-Hodge (15-5) was idle Neville (16-3) went to the Calhoun finals fourth-ranked Ruston (11-5) went to the finals of the Oil Belt tourney in El Dorado and No 5 Springhill picked up a pair of victories over Byrd and Fair Park respectively Class 'A' Runs to Form LaSalle's 78-65 victory over Tioga in the Tioga tournament stuck to the form sheet as The Journal's Class A ratings placed LaSalle first and Tioga second CLASS Byrd Monroe: OAS! boro-Hoo Springhi CAS! Tinge Coushat CLAS! Glenmoi Ringgolo CLAS! Mary's vine Si by a pa school includes Any cok panel team's and ''T Journal The AA and changed ton (No were th week's than bro play 9-3 by in the Bastrop MerRi to boost Bossier Bossio (7-4) despite from West 4 Park lo a the RE tournan Victory Fair as a "I ever 1 Springh fore fro day nig even in Mindo In the Press Charles In doub AA ch too as (15-5) went fourth-I to the tourney Springb vict one Park Clacs 'A LaSa Tioga stuck Journal LaSalle DALLAS: Defending eharnpinn Port Arthur was on the sidelines lodes as the Cotton Rowl high school basketball tnurnament moved toward its (matter-finals Port Arthur wits eliminated In the first round yesterday by Smiley with its 7-foot Lewis QI18111 Smiley beat the Yellow Jackets 54-35 as Quails scored 20 points 1101INinn Mt thy and Fort Worth Poly the co-favorites sailed through the first two rounds without trouble and meet in the quarter-finals tonight 1111- by beat Gill 11(1 Prairie 07-42 and Poly tumbled Dallas Kimball 71-41 in the first round In the second round l'Ailhv beat Warn 56-43 And Poly smashed Dallas 'interest 77-39 Other towns in the quarter-fins! are Houston Pensive Dallas Jefferson Garland Dallas Sam Uell and Odessa In tnnight's Prhedule Pe Haire meets SmileY Poly plays Mi Thy Jefferson clashes with Garland and Samuel! engages Odessa By The Associated Press Notre Dame has finally defeated a Big Ten opponent this season The Irish picked on Indiana's defeding champions in the Hoosier classic Notre Dame ripped the Hoosiers 73-67 last night behind a 3I-point scoring spree by Tom Hawkins Purdue scored its sixth straight victory by drubbing Butler 78-65 These results set up what should be a great battle tonight between Purdue and Notre Dame Indiana will meet Butler in the other half of a doubleheader Four other Big Ten teams will be in action Saturday Northwestern takes part in the first doubleheader of the season in Chicago SI adium The Wildcats meet West Virginia Sooners Work Out In Steady Drizzle By SKIPPER PATRICK Associated Press Sports Writer KANSAS CITY 01 The Big Eight will wrap up the first round of its annual December basketball tournament tonight and whatever happens is expected only to make the conference championship picture more confusing Tonight the Kansas Jayhawks tournament champs the last two sears will meet the Colorado Buffaloes in the first game at 7:30 pm (CST) And Oklahoma State the league's newest member will play the Nebraska Cornhuskers Favorite Kansas State the nation's No 4-ranked team in the Associated Press Poll defeated Missouri an erratic sophomore aggregation 69-66 in the tournament opener last night The Wildcats weren't too impressive themselves although they stayed in front all the way The Oklahoma Sooners favored to take Iowa State by at least a half dozen points had trouble winning 63-65 Kansas State with Wally Frank and Bob Boozer commanding the scoring and the rebounding got a healthy 30-21 halftime lead then piddled around letting the Tigers make a contest of it at the finish Frank led the scoring with 23 points and Boozer had 22 before fouling out with six minutes left in the game But that was enough to give him a new Kansas State career scoring record of 1190 points Del Heidebrecht got 23 points for Oklahoma 15 of them at the free throw line Larry Fie scored 18 for Iowa State Pro Cage Standings By United Press International Guy Rodgers is finally snapping nut of a service layoff and showing the form for Philadelphia that made him an All-America at Temple last year Rodgers turned in his best per-1 formance since returning to the Warriors by scoring 28 points last night to down the New York Knickerbockers 106-93 and halt Philadelphia's seven-game losing streak The Boston Celtics after blowing a 23-point lead recovered to defeat the Minneapolis Lakers 107-99 in the first game of a National Basketball Association doubleheader at Detroit The Detroit Pistons swamped the Cincinnati Royals 131-91 in the nightcap Boston extended its winning streak to nine longest of the season and went four games ahead of New York in the Eastern division as the Celtics broke a 92-92 tied with 3:38 to play for their triumph The Celtics had a 61-38 bulge at halftime Minneapolis closed to 76-68 at the end of the third period and tied the game on Elgin Bay lor's free throw to cap a great comeback However Bob Cousy Bill Russell and Frank Ramsey then went on a 15-point tear to wrap up the contest Ramsey was high with 26 while Vern Mikkelsen topped the Lakers with 20 TCU Plays SMU TCU plays SMU at 7:30 pm in the battle of the teams that have won this tournament the most each At 9 pm it will be Rice vs Texas Consolation play begins this afternoon with Baylor meeting Arkansas and Texas clashing with Texas Tech Texas Christian was an easy favorite over Baylor but found itself continually in trouble trailing the fighting Bears most of the way The Frogs had to score eight points in the last minute and a half to pull it out The Bears led 53-48 with three minutes left Free throws by Tommy Turner and Bobby Tyler cut the advantage to one point then Derrill Nip pert sank a field goal to shove TCU ahead to stay Kirchner led the Frog scoring with 23 points It also was high for the game Carter Creech shot SMU into a 46-43 lead early in the second half after the Mustangs had trailed Arkansas virtually all the way Creech also put the Methodists back ahead after Arkansas tied the score Then when Arkansas again grabbed the lead little Max Williams flipped in five points to put SMU back ahead to stay Clyde Rhoden ArkansaS sophomore racked up 23 points to lead the scoring but SMU had four men shooting in double figures Rice had little trouble beating Texas although the Owls never could gain more than an 8-point advantage until the stretch Rice got 20 points in II minutes while limiting the Longhorns to only nine points Dale Ball of Rice was the games leader with 14 points Texas and Texas Tech played a thriller for the capacity crowd of 6300 staging a nip and tuck battle that wasn't settled until the Aggies held Tech scoreless for seven and a half minutes of the second half ran its lead to 52-39 and Tech never Ply TRY ASSOCIATED PRESS EASTERN DIVISION Pet GB Poston 21 8 724 New York 17 12 588 4 Syrgenie 14 14 500 111i PhiJadelphia 10 111 357 lOta WESTERN DIVISION Pet GB St Louis 20 A 714 Detroit 18 15 5101 5'4 Minneapolis II 17 393 9 Cincinnati it 73 207 14I's FRIDAY'S RESULTS Philadelphia 106 New York 93 ni3ston 107 Minneapolis 99 Detroit 131 Cincinnati 91 SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE St Louis at Philadelphia Boston vs Minneapolis at Detroit CincinnAti at Detroit SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE Minneapolis at Cincinnati Allison Is Improving BERKLEY Calif Oldthne University of California head football coach Stub Allison was reported still in serious condition to day but slightly improved from a heart attack suffered Christmas night One of California's team physicians Dr James Harkness remained behind to care for Allison when the Bears flew South for the Rose Bowl Game against Iowa MIAMI Fla drill was gillia aller la in "Iceig" ordered today for the Oklahoma SeLttle's Chiettans clash The Northwestern West Virginia con- Sooners in preparation for their Orange Bowl meeting with Syra- tests not only pits two of the na cuse New Year's Day tion's better teams hut also finds The squad arrived in two chart- two Of the country's better players ered planes Christmas night and opposing each other Coach Bud Wilkinson had them out The game has been billed as a early Friday for a strenuous libattle between Northwestern's Joe m- bering up of muscles unused dur- Mind and West Virginia's Jerry ing the week's vacation he granted West the squad Ohio State takes on Princeton in There was a second workout in a a regionally televised matinee and steady drizzle Friday afternoon Iowa will take part in the West after a pre-rain session devoted to Coast tournament in Corvallis Ore- gon picture taking The are 44 players who will suit uP for the Evans Advances looked lean and hard and went through the workout with zest Wilkinson isn't underestimating in Chess the threat of the Syracuse team which is due to arrive Sunday NEW YORK (R--Larry Evans of afternoon from its impromptu New York defeated Ray Weinstein training site at Raleigh NC Ile of Brooklyn in 38 moves last night has viewed films of the Syracuse and in the process moved back team in action and rates the into a tie for first place with Bobby Orange as 'the best-balanced club Fischer of Brooklyn in the Nawe have played in two or three Ilona' Chess Championships years" I Each has a CI record Ile was particularly impressed by In the only other completed the fact Syracuse's backfield had match of the night William Inmaveraged about: four yards per hardi the 20-year-old world junior carry and the quarterback Chuck champion from New York and Zimmerman had completed more Robert Byrne of Indianapolis drew than 60 per cent of his passes in 38 moves after Loyola of Chicago and SeLttle's Chiellans clash The Northwestern West Virginia contests not only pits two of the nation's better teams hut also finds two of the country's better players opposing each other The game has been billed as a battle between Northwestern's Joe Buklielt and West Virginia's Jerry West Ohio State takes on Princeton in a regionally televised matinee and Iowa will take part in the West Coast tournament in Corvallis Oregon cg re ''''')' is a-1x: II'Ai Dorsey Says: hottest line for '59! See America's No I road car today! New styling! New engineering!" Holmes Pontiac Co 1322 TEXAS AVE PHONE 24622 Big Gate at Santa Anita ARCADIA Calif An ita's 22nd annual winter meeting is off to a rousing start and an other big turnout is in prospect this afternoon Chief attraction is California's pet Silky Sullivan in the $25000 added Malibu Stakes But he may not get to the post Silky' presence in the race depends upon a final workout Silky is unpredictable Wore a race as well as in one CONLEY FARMED DETROIT Boston Celtics coach Red Auerbach last night put big Gene Conley on the basketball squad's Farmout list Auerbach explained that the 6-8 Conley pitcher for the National League champion Milwaukee Braves is the llth player for the Celts but will remain with the club HAROLD DORM LE1111111EIMILI veelkM01MWOMiItak.

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