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"14-tttt--" 4 mb 'ce ter be inn her "ilthaftaget 1100 mow LOOKING FOR Till flDTIM State's Demons who finished third in 1956-57 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 Demons are (left to right) senior center Larry Fontenot 4'''''' )' Aill gm 11011111Mit 'i-S 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 Cheneyville and sophomore forward Phillip Haley of Belmont Foreigners in Net Sugar Trophy May Go Abroad ute the Bossicr and Byrd Kcop Top 1 I I 1 i 1 1 i 4 4 1 1 1 1 1 i 1 i 1 I 1 i 1 1 i 1 1 I I 1 1 I Colfax Climbs in Cage Ratings tee the be the Ty FANEST PARTON NM ORLEANS tA'---The trophy from the Sugar Bowl Invitational Mink Tournament may leave the country this year for the first time since 1942 Six foreign competitors led by England's Michael Davies were included in the 16-man field beginning play today in the three-day tour- first event on the INSIDE AUTO RACI NG bowl's six-day sports program Ity DON O'REILLY By DON O'REILLY By JERRY BYBD Journal Sports Writer five times and gone undefeated In its 21 other games and Ringgold Q14) Coach Jack llolley's young Redskins have shown decided improvement in the last two weeks Journal Auto Raring Column Int 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 hut was not impressive in edging Arcadia 53-50 in the finals Binggold 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 Fort Necessity boosted its rec ord to 20-1 and still looks like the best of the Class lot add ing the Mangham tournament title to its impressive list of trophies The other toprated ''C" clubs Mary's of Natchitoches (26-9) Cheneyville (23-13) Sum merfield (22-8) and their respective pmitions "Dark horses" include Pleasant JIM and Belmont state finalists in 1958 and 1957 respectively Kenneth Dyes and Billy Eaves bitting 23 and 22 points per game respectively have sparked the latter club to 20-6 record More Class '111 Threats A half-dozen ville Castor onceheaten Forest Marion Florien and Cloutierville ready to displace those top five Of those Coach Glen 'Poqt's Marion quintet may be the "dark horse" Marion owns an 18-3 record with two of those losses coming when 8-1 Bobby Andrews hitting 292 points per game was sidelined fly 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 Tangerine Bowl at Orlando Fla was the only other bowl game pitting two college teams For hose who like variety the North-South game -tit Miami tonight Entinded out Florida's contribution while the Blue-Grey game at Montgomery Ala anti the East West shrine game at San Francisco brought together more of 1958s top talent A national televisnin (CBS) audi enrr WalChPd tWke-hefiteti AIM Nit Its one tnuchdown favorite role against thrice beaten Florida in the (tor classic Fit Jack sonville before 41000 Ole MISA with quarterback Bobby Franklin And halfbacks Kent Lovelace and Cowboy Woodruff leading the way pitted themselves against a Florida ground defense that seventh in the nation Franklin and Gator quarterback Jimmy Dunn A 142pnund mite that can throw a football deadly accuracy were expected to exploit each tam' a big defense Ole Miss WAS 11th In the Southeastern Conference Florida 12th East Texas Slate went nut to keep its Tangerine Bowl title it won 10-9 against Mississippi Southern last Jan against a potent single wing outfit from Missouri Valley College Missouri Valley in Its ninth bowl in II years was minus hall back Ken Asbury not with a neck Injury while the Texans counted no quarterback Sam McCord to run their straight formation offense The biggest of the all star games the East-West classic at San Francisco's Kezar Stadium pitted the vaunted running and defense abilities of a massive East team against the passing of West quarterhack Lee Grosscup from Utah West coach Jack Curtice of Stanford did not expect a break from the weatherman who predicted 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 219 pounds 29 mare than the West defense Michigan Slate's Duffy Dangherty the East reach banked on the running of (thin Statfos Don Clark and Noire Dame's Nick Pietrosante to give the East its 14th victory before 6000 Cortice lost a key cog in his aerial game when Bice' All 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 auhstitution permitted Another televised all star affair is the IllueGrey glassic with 21- non on hand under a drizzly sky The game was lelevisH by NBC beginning at 2 pm EST Grey Coach Blanton Collier of Kentucky is banked on quarterback Bill Itolsclaw of Virginia Tech to lead his attack Coach Jack Mollenknpf of Purdue had quarterback Dick Longfellow of West Virginia and Bob Span of Purdue ready to team wit America Bill Austin hampered a bit with a bum ankle Tonight the North and South go at It in Miami's Orange Bowl before 35000 with Army Pete Dawkins the 'Reisman and Maxwell Trophy winner leading the North against quarterback Buddy liumphrey's deadling passing South coach Darrell Royal of Texas has made no bones ot going to the air to match North coach Ara Parseghian's running game nY irts Writer 1 first of 1st season es topped offering on cheer at Orlando bowl garne teams For the Nort11 imi tonight contribution game at the East an Francisco -e nf 1958s (CBS) audi fiten idown favor beaten Flor sic at Jack lerback rob chocks Kent iy Woodruff 1 themselves Auld defense the nation quarterback pound mite 'oration with expected to Jig wenknes Lis WAS itth Conference went nut to flow) title it issippl Southnst ri pntent om Missouri In Its ninth minus half with a neck sons counted McCord to formation of II star games at Skin Fran pitted the defense obitEnst team if West (mar from Utah Curtice of a break in who pre atinnally tele beginning 3 )eat her would ans of trying East delen ita pounds 29 defense ntirly Doughh banked on Statfos nnn Dame's Nick the East it (LOW cog in his Blec's All Dint sprained workout this play In con not have any game to be rules with permitted all star affair ssic with 21 drizzly sky dsed by NBC EST on Collier of on quarter of Virginia Mock Coach Purdue had mogfellow of Bob Slim) of ain with All hampered a and South Orange Bowl Army rete an and Max leading the Buddy passing 'ell Royal of innes of going North coach nning game Tly JACK tLAItY Associated Press Sports Writer hOThfei sease veGamtoar joBropwols first football bowl games toppc the first big college offerir Of holiday gridiron che( today The Tangerine Bowl at Orland Fin4 was the ordy other howl garr riding two college teams Pi those who like variety the Nort South garne -at Yliami tonig Entinded out Florida's contrthutio mhile the Blue-Grey game Ntontgoniery Ala anti the Pa WeSt shrine ganlo at San Francis4 Vrouglit together more of 195a top talent A national television tCBS) ata ii PAH" InttA telpittoot tfltfe encr volched twiceheateri Missi DAVVONA 'REACH Fla "Thirlytme degrees you soy! Tito Cs 45 degrees rind I'll het you Jimmy Thompson era Monroe rove driver contended a ft er looking over the high banked 20700 feet etuit and west turns of 1 he )1PW Day hm a International Speed woy And (at her Bruce a (inner rove driver who operates a garage In Monroe support Vd the claim 111'n1 GONNA CONIE bock with my equipment and show you fellows that these hanks tire 45 degrees" Bruce chimed In as the fot her-son comhination gasped for hrealh er completing their tour of the amazing new racing plant that is stated for inaugural races Fell 20 21 and 22 as the NASCAR Fictivi ties Are singed Thompson became the first entry for the 200mile NASCAR modified-sportsman stock ear race Se he ul cc! for Saturday Feb 21 over the high honked track that is attracting interns-linnet nttent ion and destined to become the worlds astest speedway kill rts 'It had to happen some time and I'm glad it was re by a good team like Col eat fax That was the comment of Coach Oddist Lambright of Plainview a (Glemnora) following his teams ing 76-80 overtime loss at Colfax Tuesday night It was the first setback in 44 games for Plain- as view and represents the only major change in The Journal's the second weekly North Louisiana led prep basketball ratings Harold Pay Strother Plain-view's 6-4 scoring phenom scored 200 points in five games during am the week to boost his season total to 1408 an average of 32 len per game He fouled out with in 1:45 left in the Colfax game 'Looks Coach Reed Perriloux of Col- as fax commented "Ws possible that we will meet Plainview me three more times this season and It sure looks rough" His )ri- Tigers boosted their record to ari i 31-5 and replaced Plainview as nt top Class team in North Loui- na siana as the first-time losers slipped to second Of The Journal's North Louisiana prep basketball ratings are gathered from information supplied 1 1 1 1 'i 4 4 1 1 i 1 1 1 i I I I 1 i i A Flyers Advance in 1 1 Dayton Cage Quintet Wins uupas Upset By Hart The only foreign champion th 24-year-old tournament has had was Pancho Segura of Ecuador now a professional star Australia's Met' vyn Rose now a pro is the only other foreigner to come close Ile reached the finals In 1956 before bowing to San Francisco's Tom Bra kV Brown who won the title for a third time last year and l'etired the trophy In't entered this year Young Ron Holmberg of tirook lyn NY a Tulane student Is rated the best het to stop the for eign threat Holmherg sixth In the USLTA's 1957 rankings is seeded No I among the US players William Quinlan of Seal lie Wash who upset I lam Richardson here last year in the quarterfinals hut lost in the next round was net behind Holmberg Kosel Kamo of Japan follnwed Davies in the foreign seedings Two veterans Eddie of Trenton NJ and Gardner Molloy 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 1934 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 Li Henry Jungle of New Orleans llohnberg meets Billy Knight of England Kama 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 lban Salas of Chile and Mississippi Slate against against Moylan Mutiny against Don Fontna of Canada and Myron Franks of Los Angeles against Crawford Henry of Atlanta 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 Rice Next for nially a flop in tournament play at the Garden for no ex Texas Tech Upset by an ng Ion By MAX SKELTON' lIOUSTON pre-season Southwest Conference basketball tournament went according to form until the final game of the first round last night Then Texas ASzAl rose up to swat favored threatened seriously the rest of Texas Tech 66-58 Tonight the way although drawing within the Aggies will face Rice six Ipoints with only 37 seconds while TCU battles SAM in to oNpeiVwisher led the Aggies with the semifinals 22 points and was high man of 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 ith MIAMI BEACH Fla Sugar 'Hart upset conqueror of Ralph Dimas yelled for a welterweight title fight today but prob ably will be matched soon with Vince Martinez for a Philadelphia bout Hart of Philadelphia an 11-5 Underdog won a split '101ound desion over werly Dorms of New Orleans last night before 28411 paying fans at the Miami Beach auditorium The lanky Philadelphian 22 and ranked second among contenders weighed Pliti pounds to Dupas' 1431i Dupes 23 Is rated third hy the fling Magazine but he was favored last night bP(781ISP of his experience and elusiveness Marty Stein Harts manager pressed loudly for a shot at champion Dun Jordan Stein said to Marry Markson' managing direr-tor of the International Boxing Club "Let's sign now for a title fight Hart' going to be the next champion anyway" But Markson replied "Let's talk about a possihle match with Vince Martinez at Philadelphia" Martinez of Paterson NJ is rated ninth the game JOURNAL'S North Louisiana Cage Ratings CLASS I Byrd Bolton Bastrop West Monroe CLASS Jonesboro-Hod Neville Ruston Springhill CLASS of 011a Tioga St Matthew's of Monroe Coushatta Many CLASS Plainview of Glenmora Doyline Dry Prong Ringgold CLASS Necessity: St a ry's of Natchitoches Cheney ville Summerfield Dart) JIMMY W110 FINISHED sec rind in the final NASCAR moth fled-sportsman stock car race staged over the beach-road course last year plans to drive a MO Ford equipped with a ThunderhhA motor end owned by Marion Cox of Hemingway "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 srnooth surface and the high banked turns of the world's only "Mover course THE DAYTONA TRACK was described as 8 trioval because of the Iwo high honked 31 degree turns (disputing Thimm s(ins CI degree contention) and the additional bulge on the front stretch that reaches an le degree hank to break the long straightaway and provide spec 'Mors with something that all other tracks lack In addition to conweting in 111P 200mile modifiedmortsmon battle Jimmy also plans to drive in the late model events as a partner for his younger brother Alfred "Speedy" Mom son winner of the 197 "South ern 500' at Darlington SC "YOU'VE HEARD OF these tracks that steparate 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 closfd courses The opening day's race card on Feb 20 calls for a 100 mile Grand National event for hardtop late models end a 100- mile race for convertibles The Saturday card calls for a 200 mile modifiedsportsman event plus a 25mile late model Kansas Slate Whips Missouri plainable 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 Day ton 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 45-36 halftime deficit Frank Case another of the Flyers' bundle of sharpshooters scored 26 points-16 in Dayton's second half rally St John's with 5-11 Al Seiden scored 21 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 Notre Dame Cagers Defeat Indiana 73-67 ii I lid ay up Rodgers Sparks Pro Cage Win By Philadelphia Defending Cage Champ Loses In Cotton Bowl Meet Cage es In Meet ing 4 )int LM jig muld up nk DALTA51 tfirl Dotendine ehoropion Per Arthur HA on the sidelines totito os the Cotton Bowl high arhoot baskothall tournament moved toward Its onarter-finals Pont Arthur was eliminated in tha first round yesterday by Rroulev with its 7-1oot Lewis Qualls Smiley beat Hon yollow Jackets 54-35 as Qualls ecorod 20 points Houston IVillhy and Fort Worth PolY the en-favorites sailed through the first two rounds without trouble and meet in the (warier-Nook tonight Mil-by beat Gland Prairie 87-42 and Poly tumbled Dallas Kimball 1-41 in tho first round too the second round MOM" heat Waco 5a-43 and Poly smashed Hillerest 77-50 tither ten ITIR in the nuarter-finale are HMISIOn FIPtlaire Smiloy Dallas Jefferson Garland Dallas Sainuell and Odessa In tonight's' ocheolule Pelintro meets Sinitry Poly playa Milhy Jefferson elashes with Garland and Samuell gages Odessa fling champion le sidelines towl high school moved tolaard millated In the )y PrIlliPV With Smiley beet 4-35 as Qualls (la Worth poly it through the it trouble and sk tonight Mu 87-42 And Poly 11 71-41 in the nd round Milhv Poly smashed nuisrler-finals Smiley Milks las Sainuelt anti Ttellaire meets Jefferson nd Samuell en By The Associated Press Notre Dame has finally defeated a Big Ten opponent this season The Irish picked on Indiana's de fcding champions in the Iloosier classic Notre Dame ripped the Hoosiers 73-67 last night behind a 3I-point scoring spree by Torn Hawkins Purdue scored its sixth straight victory by drubbing Butler 78-63 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 learns will he in action Saturday Northwest ern takes part in the first doubleheader of the season in Chicago Stadium The Wildcats meet West VII' ginia after Loyola of Chicago and Settles Chiellans clash The Northwestern West Virginia con tests not only pits two of the 'na tion'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 Ruklick 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 Ore gon 1Sooners Work Out 1 In Steady Drizzle CLIMAXING THE OPENING races will he the first annual 500-mile NASCAR international Sweepstakes open to 64 cars on Sunday Feb 22 in celebrating Caorge Washington's birthday By SKIPPER PATRICK Associated Press Sports Writer KANSAS CITY 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 will meet the Colorado Buffaloes in the first game at 7:30 pm (CST) And Oklahoma State the leagues 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 68-65 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 mindes 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 TCU started off with a 62-33 triumph over Baylor coming from behind to do it Next SMU had to beat off Arkansas in the final seconds to win 63-64 Then Rice whipped Texas 62-43 and it looked like the tournament was going as forecast But the Aggies 12-point underdogs 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 TCU Plays SMU TCU plays SMU at 7:30 pm In the battle of the teams that have won this tournament the roost 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 trail jog 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 advan tage 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 4643 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 11 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 Pro Cage Standings By United Press International Guy Rodgers is finally snapping out of a service layoff and showing the form for Philadelphia that made him an All-America at Tern-pie last year: Rodgers turned In his best performance since returning to the Warriors by scoring 28 points last night to down the New York Knickerbockers 11)693 and halt Philadelphia's Fey ng a me losing streak The Boston Celtics after blowing a 23-point lead recovered to defeat the Minneapolis "Akers 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 NewYork in the Eastern division as the Celtics broke a 92-92 tied with 358 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 Baylor'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 Vera Mikkelsen topped the with 20 then went on a 15-point tear to wrap up the contest Ramsey was high with 26 while Vern Mikkel sen topped the with 20 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 teams record scoring leaders and "Top Ten" teams to The Journal sports department The "big-school" AA and virtually unchanged In triple-A action Bolton (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 I Bossier Byrd Lose to Texans Bossier City (1-5) and Byrd (7-4) kept their top two spots despite a pair of shellackings from Dallas Tex powerhouses 'West Monroe moved past Fair Park into the fifth position as 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 before trouncing North Caddo Monday 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 78-95 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 BY Tnr Atiz4gr)(1110 rnrss EASTERN DIVISION Pet GB Pottion 21 it 724 New York 17 12 59S 4 warn 14 14 5on a 1(1 Viiiindelphin In IR 357 lOts WESTERN DIVISION Pet GB St Louis 2n 714 Detroit IfI 13 a Minneapolis I 17 393 9 CflcDiuht 2:1 207 14 rnirmrs nusulTs rhnRdriphia Inn New York 93 ofiston 107 Minneapolis 99 Detroit 131 Cincinnati 91 SATURDAY'S SCHEDULE St Uinta at Philadelphia Boston vs Minneapolis at Detroit Cincinnati at Detroit SUNDAY'S SCHEDULE Minneapolis at Cincinnati Allison Is Improving BERKLEY Calif Oldtitne University of California head foot ball coach Stub Allison was reported still in serious condition today but slightly improved from a heart attack suffered Christmas night One of California's team physicians Dr James Ilarkness re mained behind to care for Allison when the Bears flew South for the Rose Bowl Game against Iowa )ving up) Oldtitne nia head foot lison was re condition to-roved from a ed Christmas team physiIlarkness re re for Allison South for the ainst Iowa mg :111 111 PI I 1 PI to UU MIAMI Fla drill was ordered today for the Oklahoma Sooners in preparation for their Orange Bowl meeting with Syracuse New Year's Day The squad arrived in two chartered planes Christmas night and Coach Bud Wilkinson had them out early Friday for a strenuous lirnbering up of muscles unused during the week's vacation he granted the squad There was a second workout in a steady drizzle Friday afternoon after a pre-rain session devoted to picture taking The are 44 players who will suit up for the looked lean and hard and went through the workout with zest Wilkinson isn't underestimating the threat of the Syracuse team which is due to arrive Sunday afternoon from its impromptu training site at Raleigh NC Ile has viewed films of the Syracuse learn in action and rates the Orange as 'the hest-halaneed dub we have played in two or three years" He was particularly impressed by the fact Syracuse's backfield had averaged about four yards per carry and the quarterback Chuck Zimmerman had completed more than 60 per cent of is passes Evans Advances In Chess Tourney ess i ourney Big Gate at Santa Anita ARCADIA Calif Anita's 22nd annual winter meeting is off to a rousing start and another big turnout is in prospect this afternoon Chief attraction is California's pet Silky Sullivan in the $250oo added Malibu Stakes But he may not get to the post Silky's presence in the rice de pends upon a final workout Silky is unpredictable before a race as well as in one NEW YORK Evans of New York defeated Ray Weinstein of Brooklyn in 38 moves last night and in the process moved hack into 13 tie for first place with Bohhy Fischer of Brooklyn in the National Chess Championships Each has a 41 record In the only other completed match of the night William LOITI bardi the 20-year-old world junior champion from New York and Robert Byrne of Indianapolis drew in 38 moves 'ORK ns Larry Eva of defeated Ray Weinstein yn in 38 moves last night he process moved back for irst place with Bohby al Brooklyn in the Na-- ss Championships as a 41 record only other completed the night William Lom- 20-year-old world junior from New York and vrne of Indianapolis drew les CONLEY FARMED DETROIT Boston Celtics coach Bed Auerbach last night put big Gene Conley on the basketball squad's Farmout Aucrhaph explained that the 6-8 Conley pitcher for the National League champion Milwaukee Braves is the ilth player for the Celts but will remain with the club Dorsey Says: hottest fine for 159! See America's No 1 road car today! New styling! New engineering!" Holmes Pontiac Co 1322 TEXAS AVE PHONE 2-4622 HAROLD DORSEY Dorsey Says: 1 ottest line for CONLEY FARMED 159! iSee America's No 1 road DETROIT ti'l BOSIOn CelliC -1 coach Red Auerbach last night put car today! New styling! New big Gene Conley on the basketball i squad's Farmout liQ engineering! Auerhaph explained that the 6-8 Conley pitcher for the National Holmes Pontiac Co- League champion I 1 a Braves is the llth player for the 1322 TEXAS AVE PHONE 2-4622 Celts but will remain with the HAROLD DORM club 1 i 4tpgetell004ogrrgokropowo-otiolikte9w4FrydexcvjelItotfoompoptolot oot-ooprAno2--aw401000.