The Austin Daily Herald from Austin, Minnesota • 8

Willmar Koeck's 'JlH ROGER OSS CLAYTON REED BRYAN BAVDLER MIKE MARINEAU manly OSBORN TOM KEZAR i Is roger Booher TlERRY PETERSEN IRY GOODWIN JIM MILLER JOHN DEAN igt HAGGERTY Haggerty Tops Nates Gains State Tourney tournament to I "A 1 Roy Phil Golberg and Warren Austinsonof Lyle Leo Reding Don Notte against the 1 I Nates defeated Wagner's 58 54 at the Shaw Gym Wednesday night to cop the City Leagufe bas ketball championship" As a result Nates will play in i resurrecting the WIHL'for next season even though Minnesota Michigan Michigan State Michi gan Tech Colorado College and North Dakota plan to entomb it after thia season hisrh for Winona if it stave the league this year The other teams which with drew from the league earlier were Rochester which joined the class BcThree I League a professional organization and Mankato 'Directors determined that the four team League 'which will operate as a class A organiza tion sanctioned by the Minnesota State Baseball Assn will play a 36 game schedule over a 13 week period beginning May 25 and end ing August 21 Opening both afternoon affairs will find Austin at 'Albert Lea and Mason City at airmont The annual league All Star game will be played July 17at air mont With only three tfeams in 'action a change has been made in that airmont the host team will the Twin Cities during Statehood Week next May The list of candidates selected from Mower County included Jo seph A Schneider Lyle (Doc) back to the Austin Armory Wed nesday with a tag match to feature the all star card Hard Boiled Haggerty of New York and NikoB Zolotoff the tough Russian will trade holds and blows with the Baillargeon' brothers Paul and Lionel in two out of three fall or one hour time limit main event tag test I 'A special bout has been ar ranged between Red Bastien and Thor Hagen a newcomer while Lionel Baillargeon meets the Rus sian Zolotoff in the Opening bout The special match will go 30 minutes or one fail and the first bout will be IS minutes or one fall oj 4 it was a rout with Bill Gerig to talling 20 points and John Dob bert biting 19 in gearing the Crusaders to their 22nd straight victory South Dakota swinging along on an 18 game winning skein will be seeking a measure of revenge from the Illinois team Wheaton knocked the Coyotes out 'of the semifinals last year 90 80 In second game South Dakota snapped a tie in the last four minutes with seven free throws to defeat Southwest Mis souri State 63 58 to gain the semi finals The Wheaton South Dakota contest opens tonight's action at 7:30 pm CST St of Winooski Park VL advanced with a 84 76 upset of Grambling of Louisiana Top ping the attack was Tony Nico demo who crammed in 31 points high for opening action Evansville Aces surged in the final 10 minutes to trim American University of Washing ton DC 82 72 Ed Smallwood hubbed Evansville with 27 points but the game was knotted 10 times and the lead changed 15 times before the host team could move ahead to stay The loss ended an game winning streak tor American Season records of the survivors include 20 5 for South Dakota 27 1 tor far St and 22 3 for Evansville Honey to Cohtfnue to Use is Rookies BRADENTON la Despite an exhibition series record of three defeats and only one vic tory Milwaukee Braves Manager red Haney said Wednesday night he will continue to use his rookie pitchers Haney nominated Terry ox Ken Mackenzie and bart for duty today Dodgers here Youngsters Carlton Cincinnati to Make New Strategy Shifts 3 TAMPA la: (Ji Manager Birdie Tebbetts says you can ex pect some new strategy shifts in Ids 1958 Cincinnati Redlegs Tebbetts said Tuesday yil make more than ever" iCall ft platooning if you want to Take first base for instance I 4 eamSM Loo to Open 1958 Schedule on May 25 ALBERT LEA high for Winona if it stayea'in meet an All Star team comprised and about $40000 since he became a professional 15 mouths ago The 26 year oid pro lost a sud "'den death playoff Wednesday to Bin Casper of Apple Valle Calif for the New Orleans Open champtonip Bui the 166 rtm nerup money moved him from second to first place in the PGA money list with a total of $10262 since the start of the year: The top II official money' win 'i ners and winners of nine of the 11 5 1958 tournaments were here Also back were the winners of the first two Pensacola Opens Art Wall Jr of Pocooo Manors Pa who 1 won last year and Don airfield of Casey HL who won in 1956 4 The field will be cut to the low 66 tiros and ties and 10 amateurs after second round i nals wit By JIM KLOBUCHAR MINNEAPOLIS ffl Besieged Denver lone holdout against a move to dissolve' the Western In tercollegiate Hockey League puts western onrthe line to night against Clarkson College in the opening game pf the NCAA tournament The tournament opens against a backdrop jf tunnoil in the camp of western hockey long toe ruling force among hockey playing American colleges As Denver readied for its opep er against the tiny Potsdam NY technological college its hockey administrators were frankly Chop ping around for teams to play next season i Denver Coach Murray Arm ATRERT A Minn era Minnesota e'a baseball fans will see fqur teams operate during thez1958 season That was the decision of the boardof directors at a league meeting here Wednesday night wlen plans were completed for the new campaign four teams still active are Austin Albert Lea airmont and Mason City Iowa As was reported earlier toe Win ona Baseball Assn asked and was granted a leave of absence but along with aribault will retain league franchises Both clubs will be eligible to return to the league if they desire in Ed Rivers spokesman of the Winona group said that operating and travel costs would run too Sargeant ighter Cops Navy Title Bill Decker son of Mr and Mrs William Decker' Jr Sar grant won the 12th Naval Dis By SKIPPER PATRICK KANSAS CITY (ffl Three un seeded and generally overlooked entries battled their way into to quarterfinal round of toe National I Intercollegiate jtNAIA) basketball tournament The Georgetown (Ky) College Tigers who upset Pacific Lutheran 92 91 to overtime Wednesday night to the best game of the tourna ment thus far Coe College of Ce dar Rapids la and Texas South ern of Houston are the surprise teams Coe or Texas Southern will have to go tonight' They meet in the opening game at 5:30 (CST) Georgetown will have a rugged foe in 5th seeded West Virginia Wesleyan in the final game at 10 The top seeded Western Illinois Leathernecks who had all sorts of trouble outlasting Pasadena (Calif) College 83 80 go up (Ohio) Uni versity team in toe 7 gfinie Youngstown seeded No 8 overpowered Platteville (WiS) Teachers 74 63 to the second round Defending champion Tennessee State of Nashville seeded No 3 and East Texas St ate of Com merce seeded No 7 meet at 8 30" Texas Southern gained the quar terfinals by beating Drury College of Springfield Mo 91 61 and Coe ran away from Western Montana 103 69' Tennessee blistering speed burned up Anderson (Ind) College 77 56 Methodical East Texas started slow and finished fast to oust Northern State of 1 Aberdeen SJD £157 the hottest tournament circuit with three victories and top 1958 earnings The young San AUGUSTA Ga' A record field of 56 women golfers with the veteran Patty Berg at the helm started today in quest of the 72 hole titleholders championship Miss Berg 40 year old profes sional from St Andrews Ill again is the favorite The stocky defend ing champion is a seven time win ner of this prestige laden event The field of 23 professionals and 33 amateurs also includes Louise Suggs of Sea Island Ga a title holders champion three times Betsy Rawls of Spartanburg leading money winner of the current Ladies Professional Golf ers Assn tour also was given a good chance of grabbing the $17 000 slice of the $5000 purse Then there are such stars as Mickey Wright tall power hitter from San Diego Calif Marlene Hagge of Delrah Beach la Wif fi Smith sophomore professional from St Clair Mich and ay Crocker of Montevideo Uruguay The scene is the 6 290 yard Au gusta Country Club course a par 72 layout The field stood at seven mere than the 49 players who competed last year Miss Berg low average scorer on the LPGA tour came to Au gufa seeking her fijst victory since August when she the world' championship at Chi cago It has been the longest stretch without a victory for the fiery competitor Anne Quast 1957 amateur win ner is not defending the title Creek Lyle Dettoff and 1 Warner of Grand Meadow' and Gordon A Hansen and Hans Sch neider of Adams 1 from Austin "are Wally Ulrich golf Jackie Graves ing Harry Strong recreation The Cincinnati Royals finished in a tie with Detroit for second place in the western Pis Coach Red Rocha guessed right and Bob Cousy won hissixth straight playmaking cham pionship These were the last minute de velopments as the five month reg ular National Basketball Assn season ended 'Wednesday night The Royals defeated the Minne apolis Lakers 96 89 enabling them to finish with the same record as Detroit 33 39 Maurice Stokes who had 24 points and Jack Twy man each teamed for three point plays to lead late rally In flip of a coin after the game Rocha won (he toss Rochas call gave the first game' of toe best of three playoff series to De troit It will be played Saturday afternoon The second game will be played at Cincinnati Sunday afternoon and the third if nec essary in Detroit night Cousy had assists for Bpston as the Celtics dropped a 127 125 verdict to the New York Knicker bockers output gave him 463 assists nine more than De Dick McGuire Two free throws by Kenny Sears in the waning seconds won the game for the Knicks In toe only other game the Syracuse Nationals took the meas ure of the Philadelphia Warrioj 110 99 to a warmup for their east ern division playoff series The Nationals finished four games ahead of the Warriors so the first game will be played in Syracuse Saturday night and the second to Philadelphia Sunday night A deciding game if necessary will take place to Syracuse Tues day night i No dates have been set fantoe semifinals which will involve the divisional champions the Celtics and St Louis Hawks against sur vivors of the first round playoffs in their half of the circuit Miler Delany to Get 2 Cracks at Record CHICAGO Time appears be running outcn bid for a world indoor mile rec TOM BERVEN AUSTIN (Minn) HERALD Thursday March 13 '58 Royals Down Lakers Gain 2nd Place Tie or the Villanova miler ri Chicago Daily News relays at the International Amphitheatre is the next to last chance to break i the indoor record of 4:036 set by Gunnar Neilsen' Next week the indoor track sea son winds up at Cleveland 1 xauauy wwi ms za straigntH mile to the Knights of Columbus I games last Saturday turning to carry three first basemen an unimpressive 4:084 Ju Crowe Bilko and enough to tnp a game effort by I Dee oody and I may employ all oun vmm maryuma i (three to a SJ The dispute centers mainly oh the eligibility of Canadian players who have competed in junior league hockey to There were strong signs that the three Big Ten schools Minnesota Michigan and Michigan State will pass up Denver and Colorado College to their scheduling for next season Ifthe totraleague squabbling has "cut into' toe morale of the Denver team the Pioneers shown it to workouts at Williams Arena here Denver is favored on thestrength of its No' 2 finish to the western league Tt will have to contend how ever with one of the toughest goalies to college hockey poised and sawEd Macdonald Clark son capunr slightly more game jjon i6 3 lists 13 Canadians on Denver and North Dakota theuts 17 man squad WiHL champion which meets! A crowg of between 7000 and Harvard nday night to the other's 000 is expected mppt in All Sfinr htiTn mmnHRwl of players from the other three member clubs allowing toe regular season the three Minnesota teams Austin Al bert Lea and airmont will en gage in 'a playoff to determine the representative to play to the class A state Baseball tpurnament which will be held at New Ulm in September Mason sCity which is not eligible to compete the test will not engage in the playoffs The high ranking Minnesota team at' the completion of the regular schedule will draw a first round bye The other two teams will play a best two of three series followed by another best or three series between the Winner and the team which drew the bye for the playoff title and trip to the state nffirArc wpfa smthnrixAd to contact and hire umpires for thenew season Under class A rules each team in the league will be allowed two outsiders and one college player Contracts' for home players must be submitted to the league office no later thanApril 1 Directors also have league of ficers Len Plotnik of aribault Ringhofer of Owatonna and Bob Krick of Winona a vote "of confidence and theywill remain active 'this season Aljhough the league is down to four teams directors appear con fident that interest is still keen and a tight race will assure good attendance Because of new salary limita tions and the added feature of returning a team to the state tour nament it is hoped league clubs can finish the 1958 venture the ack' Directors present at last meeting were Emil Scheid of Aus tin Len Coy our of airmont Ken ny Hutzell of Mason CityHarry Olsen of Lea and Ed Riv ers of Winona Ringhofer will have toe 36 game schedule ready for approval at the next league meeting slated toe first week in April Golfer Berg to Seek 8th Titleholders in State By the Associated press Willmar 'and Bemidji won reg ional crowns Wedn0day night to' join Mora as three of the eighty finalists fa next payoff ses sions of the Minnesota High School basketball tournament at Williams Arena fa Minneapolis Mankato and Luverne wofi seni (final victories In Region 2tond will contest tonight for that crown at tha Gustavus Adolphus field house fa St Peter Willmar broke a five year hold Minneapolis schools have had fa Region 5 by defeating Edison 57 50 Consistent rebounding paid off for the victora paced by the 24 point' acoring ot Dean Anderson Winmar had a 36 28 margin at toe half Bemidji coming to the tourney for the eighth time had an easy 79 451 time of It in winning 'the Region 8 crown from ertile Ray Cronk the all state cen ter garnered S3 points before a crowd of more than 6000 at the University ot North Dakota field house orks Mora won the Region 4 cham pionship 'Tuesday night i Mankato wm pressed most of the 'way to gaining its 57 52 tri umph over Jackson in a contest which Was knotted successively at 13 35 and 89 The Katoans take over for'good at 43 39 until the last minutes of the third quarter Herb Stangland had 18 for Man kato and Ed Marquardt 14 for Jackson Juyerne beat Truman 71 56 to an afternoon game to gain the finals In Region 6 semifinals tonight af Moorhead it will be Brainerd against ergus alls and Breck enridge vs Saiik Centre In Reg ion 7 at Duluth Cloquet and Rush City will tangle at Hibbing Vir ginia is pitted against Keewatin In both those regions finals are slated riday night when Austin and Wykoff also will at Ro Chester for the Region 1 title Pairtags for next Thursday 2 pm Region 1 vs 7 3:45 pm 3 vs Willmar 7:45 pm Bemidji vs Region 6 And 9 pm Mora vs the Region 2 winner Bemidji NEMITZ CIGAR STORE Open 7 Dayt i Week 7ia tel 1:30 pB PAPER BACK ROOKS BIC SELECTION AU SUBJECTS Newspiperi Magatiaes Pipei tabacrei Cijars Nohsai eShelli Tackle 7 maiatata that if Austin plays ap to par Wykoff win have a tough time beating them AIthough 'assets have been the rule rather than the exception since the start ef the tournaments "we will ga on ptekiag Austin to represent Region One at the state Jfc i to Dick Puts StCfoud baskelbaU official Bemidjitotoe to'am to bcat to the state tournament 1 got Putz aaya the biggest Be midjt team seen and they are just as fast as other years Ray Crook' is simply great And get sizeand ''jtawtog tihrenglMMii the 7 PENSACLA? la IB A' fledg 7 Eng golf pro who never before 7 had seen the course was the fa vorite as play started to the $15 i 00 Pensacola Open He is Ken Venturi player on the winter trict bdXing oiroug etanco oi Decker 185 was heavyweight champion of Mare Island where heis stationed with the Navy His opponent to the title match was Gordon McConnell 189 Mof fett Pield Stick With Packer Club CORNER CHATTER Three members ef Wykoff's 1955 team which gained the regtonal finals have brothers on the team this 7ear Lynn Kldd and Ken Nash have been replaced a by brothers Dve Larry and Tom Of those three Dave Zimmer and Larry Kidd are seaion wWJe Tom Nash be back next i (' year atong with Gary Sikkink i 'Wykoff fans who remember the 1955 club say that team was a 'bigger but this year the Wykats are much faster and have better Bv TOM KOECK WHILE LITTLE WYKOJ WILL OER ALL THE hustle and scrap anyone can ask for Ove Aus tin Packers remain the favorites to win the Region One basketball title riday night at Mayo Civic auditorlum'i Wykoff parlayed their tremendous speed and desirefor a stunning 68 67 upset over Owatonna in the regional 'semifinals but against the Packers they face a team that has all the qualifications of a champion height good shooting fair speed a strong bencLand'the desire to make good The Wykats which have lost' only two games this season (Peterson and Elktpn) hope to outsmartthe Pack ers in this blue chip special' si Like coach Dave Holum says hope that we can outsmart the Packers if they come over here with the at tltude that this one is in the bag The boys rebound quite well for their height and score good from the The upset of Owatonna should have a stabilizing ef fect on the Packer quint bidding for statetour nament trip since 1955 when they turned back another strong Wykoff team in the regional finals 81 59 Thsrf was the last time the two teams have met i 7' Wykoff will floor a team without a six footer in the starting lineup It means that Wykoff must have'sn ex ceptionally hot shooting night to stay with the Packers They have no one to match front lineheaded by 6 6 Roger Voss and rebound control could be a determin ing factor Plays ast Break and Presy WYKO PLAYS A AST press on defense i run down on toe size of the starting unit Dave Zimmer ll 'to toe Wykoff center with John Gary Sikkink 540 brothers at tbfc forwards5and Tbnj Nash5 8 and Dave Wagner 5 7 at the guard John Tammel nd Larfy Kidd both 5 11 are top notch re serve John Sikkink will be tho fellow towatch and this job will probably 7 on Bryan Baudler who has been toe defensive ace for the Packers 'this season Sikkink sewed 31 potato against Owatonna including the three pomt play to the closing three seconds which produced the up set Gary Sikkink and Nash each added 10 and Zimmer finished with to back HolutaS statement that his club has scoring balance Holum an his boys are happy to be to the finals respect ability but our kids never quit and you never can4li added "Well give Austin the biggest battle ever Top 25 Mower County Sports Greats Named The Junior' Chamber of Com Haines and George Stiles 'of Le merce Centennial Sports commit tee headed by Bud Thompson named today 25 outstanding liv a Stahley Ulvenof mg sports ana recreation person alities of Austin and Mower Coun ty The 25 sports notables were se lected i as part of a state i project to name $958 sports and recreation greats as part of Min Texas South Coe Surprise Clubs in NAIA Austin MnAnHiM herald sports College Basketball NCAA TOURNAMENT Jnt Round Beattie B8 Wyoming 51 Idaho State 12 Arlzon: State (Tmpe) eg NCAA SMALL COLLEGE Quarterfinals i Wheaton 81 Chapman (Calif) 64 South Dakota 63 Southwest Mo 58 St Michaels (Vt) $4 GrambUng (La) 76 Evansville 82 American Univ (DC) 72 NAIA TOURNAMENT Second Round Georgetown (Ky) 92 Pacific Luth eran 91 (ot) Tex Southern 91 Drury 61 Tenn State 77 Anderson 54 Wheaton Quint aces fi' ft 'I UUtJII sJ ULI LI I lyfllLULtl By CHARLES CHAMBERLAIN 7 EVANSVILLE Ind UB 'X well balanced Wheaton college team taxes on South Dakota and host Evansville meets sharp shooting St NCAA college basketball touraa amt defending champions moved through Wednesday's quar terfinal opener of the meet to Roberts Memorial Stadium with a 81 64 decision over Chapman of Orange Calif smallest school to the field with 300 enrollment The lead switched 16 times to Jttie first half before Wheaton 7brok the game open with a 14 "point surge to the first 7 minutes 7 after intermission rom then on The Austin team meets Nash wauk In a firstfround game Sat urday at 11:30 am Quarterfin als will be held Saturday after and the championship game at 1:30 pm Sunday The game be tween Twin City champions and the outstate titlist will be played al 7:30 pm Sunday Chuck Wilson sparked Nates to the City League title with a 20 point "output 'while Dick Ander son followed with '17 Nates led 14 11 at the quarter and 28 21 at halftime but needed a fourth per iod rally to win after falling be hind 40 37 at the three quarter mark with 15 points and 'J Stephen added 14 Nates woi the first ggme of the championship playoff 57 55 but lost the second 57 50 at Pensacola XACU kJ WlflU 1 Bl 1958 statehood centen Manley Hammer archery nial iRichard Thatcher swimming Those 1 Thompson GeOrge Dugan baseball and re pointed out will be honored at a creation EmU Schaffer con statewide champions banquet in servationi Burdette Haldorson basketball Arthur (Doc) Cipra coach: Harold Red) Hastings coacn cmu ocneio oaseo ai i Ove Berven coach Earl gan gster coach and Harvey Ste wartl recreation work Besides the 25 the list includ ed 'six alternates Marty prowe Dick Seitz Walt Klemet Henry erris and Bud Thompson of Aus i tin and Jim Cauley of Rose Creek Thompson sd that more than 200 nominations had been receiv ed by the selection committee Candidates were judged on their contribution to sports and recrea tion All qualified under the resi dence rule High School students or athletes were not eligible Judges making the final selec tions included Leonard Dugan chairman Mrs Swede Paul Har ry' Smith Tom Koeck Ray Wes cott of Austin Jack Thill of Rose Creek Burns Grand Mea dow Merrill Cheese6rough of Le Roy and Verm Schafer of Adams i Additional Sports on pogo 1 2 Mat Card Here Denver larkson College Professional wrestlers come 7 Opens NCAA Hockey Test semi final are defending record rthe 17 team State Recreation tour of western success interrupted nament which will be held ri only by Boston College's in 'day through Sunday at South St 1949 and Rensselaer fa'pauL 1 1954 The tournament appearance is first and the second for Clarkson which was eliminated last season by titlist Colorado Col lege Clarkson Coach Bill Harrison calls his present cast least the equal ot last 4 'Armstrong forecast a defensive battle a couple of mistakes to a short series like this means you're out of Thus tournament tension itself might act as an equalizer between east and west even though the east eraers looking for any competitive cratches goals per iy Canadian players' and Clark 1 7 These Boys Bid for Region One i Cdgd Title riday Willey andi Vic Rehm pitched well Wednes day in holding the Dodgers at bay in a game at1' Vero Beach Los won 4 3 by collecting three runoff former bonus baby Joe Jay in the early faningS and taking one more from reliefer Don McMahon in the ninth Haney has at least 20 pitchers to camp and he said he plans to take a look at all of them 7' 4 1 Oi' Vbts ft (AM IP Lv If Zi II' I rr W'W Io IM la 1 dr i sib t' Z'K 4 Im TA i ML' '51' 7 I A MW Ifl din' 1 4 vs'lt? 5 WWl BCr a ft luS IMKa fc I I iBlvJWW' JMWJ' I ft i ft Ml 1 i i aSX vliqTh 6' (f AZ fz nw ttr I' i A 2 i iv wi svv Br JW 4 1 I wy I a a 4 wc: 1 CTi 1 Mt 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