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V'N A (VSERCU 49er Coach Undecided On QB to Face Bears Pal Ro's Bowls 195 8 TUESDAY NOV 28 1967 eta in experience He didn't have the advantage of prc-scason scrimmages because he was in the All-Star- the coach -continued Meanwhile X-rays will be taken of the knee of the third Forty Miner signal caller George Mira this week If they prove negative Mira will be activated to fill thevacancy 1 caused by the injury to defensive halfback Jim Johnson End Dave Parks will miss the Chicago" game because of muscle pulls and a severe hamstring He may be out for the season Thus the Forty Nkiers three All-pro candidates John -Thomas Parks and Johnson all have had injury-riddled seasons Jacoby (center) and University of Wyoming coach Lloyd Eaton (right) whose team will meet'LSU In the game Displaying the trophy is Sugar Bowl President Sam Corcnswrt PRIZE OFFERING Looking over the Sugar Bowl trophy a memento in which they have more than a passing Interest since their tram Is a contender for the award are Glenn Baseball Parley Shaken By Richards' Approach High Game Pat Ross bowled a high game of 195 and a 349 series to lead the Elementary Rec Ledgue Saturday morning at Central Lancs His Team Six blanked Team Three 3-G A 164 game by 99 average bowler John Webber put Team One past Team Five 34) and Terry Warren's 139 game was high for winning Team Two as it shut out Team Four 3-0 Michelle Stephens a 104 average kegler tossed a 160 high game and a 272 series for Team Six as it took Team Three 34) in Elementary Rec Girls League play Team Two sneaked by Team Four 2-1 as Edie Low-man rolled a -140 in a losing cause Helen Church knocked over the pins for a 129 as her Team Five dropped a 2-1 decision to Team One Ted'Miriton came Into his own with a 179 high game and 492 series to pace Team Three to a 3-1 victory over league leading Team One in High School Rec Boys League bowling Sieve Berryman also hit a 179 game as Team Four snowed Team Two 34) In High School Rec Girls League competition Gaye Wan posted a 160 high game and 428 series but her Team Four dropped a 44) decision by forfeit Harrietts Hartshorn had a 157 as her Team Two took Team Three 3-1 Bowling Sunday Nlte Mixed 4's BAAM 3 Frank Wright Chevron 1 Drive In Liquors 4 Hide-a-Way 0 Pony Express 2 Bartons Nursery 2 Feather River Inn 3 Golden Oaks 1 Marshalls TV 3 Keg Room 1 Longs 3 Pierces Joan Thievierge 6-7 split HIGH TEAM GAME Les Drive In Liquors 859 HIGH TEAM SERIES Marshalls TV 2300 HIGH INDIVIDUAL John Horn Drive In Liquors 212 Joan Thievierge Marshalls 198 HIGH INDIVIDUAL SERIES GM Stephens Hide-a-Way 554 Joan Thievierge Marhsalls 508 COMMERCIAL Ore Village TV 4 Doug's 1 Shell 0 Sand a Jravel 3 Hobble Chev 1 Wes-ern Pacific 4 Guy Harts 0 Valley Music 3 Oroville Cable 1 Olive Lc-unge 3 Merry Go Round 1 City of Ins 1 Knights of Columns 3-Wismer and Becker No 1 lj and Becker No 2 1 HIGH TEAM GAME Hobble Chev 1038 HIGH TEAM SERIES Valley Music 2917 HIGH INDIVIDUAL GAME-Ed Heyen Valley Music 235 HIGn INDIVIDUAL SERIES Pat Hoover Olive Lounge 621 OTHER GAME OVER 220 -Pat Hoover 222: Jack Kitrick picked up 4-6 split NITE OWL DOUBLES Oroville Title 2 Stanford Norwalk 2 Robert Rogers 4 Inter continental 0 3 Oroville Ambulance 1 HIGH TEAM GAME- Robert Rogers 376 HIGH TEAM SERIES 1306: HIGH INDIVIDUAL GAME-lozella Ramseyer Ore Ambu lance 202 HIGH INDIVIDUAL SERIES Betty Hoffinaster 879 L- RE 0 CITY Calif Coach Jack Christiansen still has not decided whetiier it will be Steve Spurrier or John Brodie sit tin controls when San Francteco- hosts Chicago nest Sunday i Christiansen said Monday that he would piay Spurrier' lot' in the Prospectors final three games but had not decided on a starter Spurrier went the route in the 26-9 loss to unbeaten Baltimore 'ast Sunday Off that performance no reason not to- start him against Chicago said Christiansen "gainst the Colts he di some good things and some things not so good His timing wasn't as good as it had been in practice and he did misread the defense when Lenny Lyles ran the interception for a touch down But those things are understandable in a first game has the tools to do the job and he ll get a lot more playing time to build his Bing Crosby Slated For Golf Honor PEBBLE BEACH Calif Singer Bing Crosby one of the world's leading sportsmen with interests in a hall dozen sporting ventures will be honored next January with the establishment of the Bing Crosby Golf Hall of Fame memorial to the champions of the golf tournament bearing his name A bronze plaque bearing the names of winners of the previous 26 tournaments and citing contributions to charity and the advancement sports win be dedicated an permanently installed at the Del Monte Lodge All previous winners of the Natipnal Pro-Am from Sammy Snead to 1967 champion Jad Nicklaus will be invited to attend the simple ceremonies which win be televised nationally by ABC on Jan 13 as part of the coverage of the 1968 National Pro-Am tourney Crosby founded the tourney at Rancho Santa Fe in southern California in 1937 and moved it to Pebble Beach In 1943 Over the years the tourney has -provided more than $1 million in charity mostly to boys dubs 13 Gridders 7 To Recejve Cash Grants NEW YORK (UPI)-Qiiarfer-back Gary Beban of UCLA and center Bob Johnson of Tennessee are among the 13 college seniors who will receive grants of at least 8560 each as scholar-athletes chosen by the National Football Foundation and Hail of Fame Also named for foundation fellowships were linebacker Tom Lawhorrie of Georgia halfback Bill Eastman of Georgia Tech tackle Steve Warren of North Carolina-State end Barry Furst of Ohio Wesleyan fullback John Root of Stanford quarterback Keith Miles of Trinity (Corih) quarterback John Scovell of Texas Tech linebacker Bud feswiacheny of Army tailback Job Weber Of Princeton guard Alan Bersta of Harvard and guard John McCarthy of Yale athlete was a standout in the classroom and on the football field 9 natural campus said Vincent DePaul Draddy the awards chairman in making the announcement Santa Clara Given Nod SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-The Northurr California Basketball Writers need a crystal ball to pick UCLA as the winner of the Pacific Eight Conference title (his season but they did come up with a surprise when they picked Santa Clara to take the West Coast Athletic Conference crown UCLA was a unanimous choice as was expected as the writers made their annual forecasts Monday during their first weekly meeting id the 1967-68 season They picked Washington State to finish second in the Pac-8 and Oregon State to wind- up third There was some support for California to wind up second or -third but hardly any for Stanford Southern California Oregon and Washington the other members of the confer- ence Santa Clara was a clear ncut pick to succeed University of Pacific as WCAC champion The UOP Tigers won the league title the past two seasons and carried UCLA to the final minutes of the NCAA Western Regional title game last March before bowing out University of San Francisco 1 boasting lettermen- at every starting position and only one new player from the team which wound tip fourth last season was picked to finish second and UOP was named to wind up third The writers retained Bucky Walter of the Sain Rrariclsco Examiner as president and named Nick Peters of the Berkeley Gazette vice president and USF publicist John McGregor as secretary-treasurer Fight Results PARIS (UPI)-Stan Hayward 150 Philadelhhia drew with Jean Josselin 150 France (10) AUCKLAND NZ (UPD-Fate Davis 150 Akron Ohio outpointed Ron Becking 144 Australia (10) TOKYO (UPI) Pedro Adigue 138 Philippines outpointed Jaguar Kakizawa 138 Japan (10) SEACAUCUS NJ Chuck Wepner 22 Bayonne NJ stopped Charley Harris 198 (6) PHILADELPHIA (UPD-Ro-ger Russell 18 Philadelphia outpointed Leotis Martin 197 Philadelphia (10) LAS VEGAS Nev (UPI) -Ferd Hernandez 164 Las Vegas outpointed Jimmy Ramos 162 Honduras (10) OROVILLE CALIFORNIA NEW YORK (UPD-Soulhern Trojans whose ultimate fate was finaUy decided by a successful extra point today became the elite of college football this season when the 35-member United ress International Board of Coaches crowne them 1967 national champions John Trojan st dis-odged from the No 1 ranking in their next to last game of the season bounced back to defeat op ranking UCLA 21-20 'am regain top honors Their position was assured Saturday when second place Tennessee scored an unimpressive 17-7 victory over Kentucky (2-8) and Purdue (No 3) and UCLA (No 4) fell victim to upsets Southern California with a 3-0 oss to Oregon State the only ilur in its 10-games was parnet No 1 on 27 ballots and received 340 points to easily outdistance second ranked Tennessee The national championship is the second for the Trojans who meet Indiana Jan in the Rose Bowl They also won the title in 1962 Tennessee Ii Second Tennessee unbeaten since an opening game loss to UCLA received six first-place votes and 295 points to capture second dace handily The Volunteers now 8-1 with their season finale against Vanderbilt1 Saturday ice third ranked Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl The Somers the Big Eight Conference champions finished third with one first place vote and 204 points The only loss in nine games for Coach Chuck 'alrbanks' team was a 9-7 decision to Texas Notre Dame the 1966 champion and a heavy favorite to repeat again in 1967 took fourth dace its highest ranking since idng upended by Purdue in the bird week of the season The lighting Irish who practically forfeited all hope for the national title when they were ripped 24-7 by Southern Cal ended with a 8-2 mark by outlasting Miamia (Fla) 24-22 last Friday night Wyoming the Western Athletic Conference champion and the only major unbeaten untied team in the nation finished fifth the highest rating in the history Hie Cowboys' 10-0 and scheduled to meet Louisiana State in the Sugar Bowl received 162 points 22 less than Notre Dame Sixth place went to surprising Indiana which pulled off one of Pheasant Kill Rises-Over Hunters on 15 areas operated by the California Department of Fish and Game bagged 3664 cock pheasants on the opening weekend of the -1967 season compared with 2770 for opener a year ago the DFG reported today Hie over-all bag on the areas was down the DFG said because no hens were taken this year Last year northern California hunters were permitted one hen in the bag on opening weekend but this regulations limit hunting to males only The hottest hunting spot was the Gray Lodge Wildlife Area in Butte County where 1002 hunters took 058 pheasants for an average of 96 per hunter Over-all 8760 hunters bagged 3664 birds for an average of 42 bird per hunter Last year 0096 hunters tool 4820 including 2050 hens for an average of 53 bird per hunter Tbps among the cooperative hunting areas operated by DFG was Grimes where 772 hunters took 629 birds for an average of 81 The areas operated by DFG include the Grimes Ryer Island tyler Island and Staten Island cooperative hunting areas the Honey Lake Gray Lodge Grizzly Island Mendota and Los Banos state wildlife areas and the Delevan Colusa Colusa Sutter Sacramento Merced and San Luis Island national wildlife refuges The pheasant season opened Nov 18 and continues through Dec 3 ta northern and central California and Jan' 1 in southern California the season's biggest upsets and gained its first Rose Bowl bit by stopping Purdue 19-14 Saturday The Hoosiers their eight-game winning streak snapped the week before by Minnesota and appearing to be out of the running for the Rose Bowl finished 9-1 and wound up in three-way tie with Minnesota and Purdue for the Big Ten championship Alabama which had Its unbeaten string broken by Tennessee this season was awarded seventh place The Crimson Hde now 7-1-1 face Auburn in their traditiona season finale Saturday and take on Texas AIM in the Cotton BowL Dave Bing Takes Over Cage Lead NEW YORK (UPI)-Scrappy Dave Bing of Detroit added the National Basketball Association scoring lead to his pre-game average first place margin today as he continued to fulfil all the' billings he received a Syracuse University several years ago Bing the nets with a 279 average for 19 games replaced Nate Thurmond of San Francisco as the- NBA scoring leader with 530 points In games through last Sunday Walt Hazzard of Seattle made one of the super sonic rises among the scorers when he moved up from seventh to second place with 519 points Thurmond dropped to seventh with 499 points but retained his rebound lead by hauling down 533 caroms 49 more than Wilt Chamber-lain Big Wilt starting to emerge from a non-scoring habit continues to lead in fieldTgoa percentages with 141 for 251 am a 562 mark Larry Seigfried of Boston is first in foul shooting with 60 of 68 for an 882 percentage and Lenny Wilkens of St Louis heads the assists department with 182 Scoring -T" Ron Copeland Wants Chance Af-Olympics LOS ANGELES (UPD-UCLA track and football standout Ron Copeland said Monday he was in the 1068 Olympic Games and would not take part in a Negro boycott Copeland a high hurdler In track and pass catcher in football said he attended the Thanksgiving Day meeting here which produced a resolution for the boycott He said he was at the meeting with UCLA defensive tackle Hal Griffin but explained the pair left before the boycott vote was taken was there only for about a hplf hour and it was only to find out what the meeting was all Copeland declared found out right away that it was nut for Gome Report Reveals 18 Elk Bagged Hunters chalked up a 72 per cent success record in special controlled hunt for Roosevelt elk in Humboldt County the Department of Fish and Game reported today The 25 lucky hunters who beat odds of 414 to 1 in the statewide drawing for pennits took 13 antlerless elk and five bulls during the two periods of hunt Hie Fish and Game' Commission had approved pennits for eight bulls and 17 antlerless elk in the hunt The hunt was requested by the Areata Redwood Company on whose- land most of the hunting was done Jn a 1964 special huntfor 100 animals hunters bagged 87 elk for a success ratio of 87 per cent The hunt area included Oregon upset specialist took the No 8 ranking after dumping Purdue and Southern Cal and -tying UCLA Purdue dropped to ninth after its loss to Indiana UCLA rounded out the top 10 The demoralized Bruins toppled from the No 1 ranking by Southern Cal on Rikki extra point conversion were trounced 32-14 by Syracuse Saturday and fell from fourth to 10th Top 10' Teams At A Glance NEW YORK (UPI) The United Press International final major college football ratings for 1967 with first place votes and won-lost-ticd record in parentheses: Team Points 1 x-Southern Cal (27 (9-1) 340 2 Tennessee (0) (8-1) 3 Oklahoma (1) (8-1) 4 x-Notre Dame (8-2) 5 x-Wyoming (10-0) 6 x-Indiana (9-1) 7 Alabama (7-1-1) 8 x-Oregon SL (7-2-1) 9 x-Purdue (S-2) 10 x-UCLA (7-2-1) Second 10-11 x-Penn (1) (58) 12 x-Syracuse 13 x-Colorado (28) 14 x-Mtanesota (27) 15 x-Florida State (20) 16 Miami (Fla) (18) 17 x-North Carolina State (16) 18 x-Georgia (12) 10 x-Houston 20 -Arizona State (4) x-Completed regular season schedule 295 204 184 162 155 106 82 73 State (33) Beban Heads Shrine Game Player List SAN FRANCISCO (UPD-Gary Beban do-everything quarterback and a leading candidate for the Heisman -Trophy will lead the West on Dec 30 when it takes on an East All-Star aggregation in the 43rd annual Shrine football classic at Candlestick Park Beban who has ranked among the top quarterbacks for three seasons- was named to' the West team by the Shrine committee Monday The committee gave him two able backup men in quarterbacks Danny Holman of San Jose State and Bob Lee of University of Pacific Also named to the squad were center John Erquiaga of UCLA offensive tackle Larry Slagle also of UCLA and end Phil Odle of Brigham Young University Odle joined -Moses Haven of San Diego State and Warren McVea iff Houston on the West pass receiving caps Haven and McVea were earlier selectees to the All-Star team The West team will be coached by Ray WiHsey of California Dee Andros of Oregon State and Ben Martin of the Air Face The East coaches are An Parseghian of Notre Dame Alex Agase of Northwestern and Paul Dietzel of South Carolina Hartnell Wins Flip of Coin In Playoffs SAUNAS (UPD Hartnell won the flip of a coin Sunday to gain the California junior college football championships following 29-29 tie Sat urday with the College of Marin Marin called heads but the coin came up tails and Hartnell thus advanced to the playoffs The Marin-Hartnell game was so even that of the four statisticians present two had Hartnell ahead in total net yardage and two had Marin ahead Each team had 20 first downs In the event of a tie It had been pre-determined to give the playoff berth to the team with an edge in the statistics The conflicting yardage figures necessitated the coin flip Hartnell will host Reedley next Saturday in the playoff Reedley defeated 'Mira Costa 25-21 Saturday Other teams in the champion ships are American River Fullerton Los Angeles Pierce and Bakfrffliiii MEXICO CITY Pau' Richards has a breaking point like any other human being If you pin him up against the wall and slick lighted matches under' his fingernails he'll finally crack and confess in the same class with Lincoln right He's way ahead of his time ever agrees with me right he says I come up with a suggestion people laugh and then go away and think it over at least two years They all think I got an right about that too People generally think he has and sometimes they're right because 'you know the old saying about how you can fool some of the people some of the time Richards has a fancy title with the Atlanta Braves vice president in charge of basebalL His real title with them is guiding genius When it comes to dub personnel and all baseball matters he calls the shots Tosses Out Idea As such he attended a session of general managers and-field managers here Monday and when it came time to toss around ideas Richards got up and tossed one around himself Move the mound bade five feet Make it 65 feet from home plate instead of 60 idea had the exact uvsame effect as a suggestion that Charlie Finley now shift his franchise frpm Oakland back to Kansas City Everybody in the room fen over laughing think about it awhile the same way they do with an my says Richards undisturbed finally getting rid of the spit baU after 47 years Now put the mound back five feet and have some real action so sacred about 60 feet? Put the mound back and enlarge the strike zone up and down I mean and be action from the opening pitch way things are now I think the hittprs can handle 60 feet Their averages are way down and going down more all the time Lock at it this way: making gloves bigger parka bigger and everything else bigger to help the-pitcher What jabout helping the hitter for a change? We gotta do something to put the double and triple back in baseball When did football and basketball start drawing people? When the scores went up We gotta do the same thing no two ways about In his capacity as secretary for the general managers it No Fishing At Lake Oroville Says Warden SpitbaU Control Racked MEXICO CITY Remember the slogan: expectorate if you expect to Organized basebaU felt that way long before Madison Avenue came up with the admonition and the spitbaU and ether Ulegal pitches have been outlawed since 1920 The Only trouble was that some pitchers relied on the spitbaU and flouted the rule despite vehement protests from opposing managers Major league officials hope they put an end to the Ulegal pitch Monday approving a rule change which forbids a pitcher from touching his mouth or Ups while on the mound Umpires Enforce Rule By adopting the rule change only one hour after it was submitted by a major league general managers and field managers following a meeting earlier in the day the rules committee placedjhe authority of enforcing the ride In' the hands of the umpires Previously if an umpire caught a pitcher throwing an Ulegal pitch he would merely warn the offending hurier The rule change puts sharp teeth into the lcgislation Now the "Umpire" will warn piUber pncer A second violation will bring automatic ejection from the game with a finer and suspension up to the league president How wUI this affect such reputed spitbaU pitchers as Gaylor Perry of the San Francisco Giants Dick Farrell of the Philadelphia Phillies Jack Hamilton -of the California Angels Ron Kline of the Minnesota Twins and Larry Sherry of the Houston Astros? Cot Deal former major league pitching coach said the rule change stop cheats tag" Try Harder The pitchers wiU only be said the new manager of Oklahoma City in the Pacific Coast League who previously coached with Houston Kansas City add the New York 'Yankees: Hie ImpUcation that a pitcher can still go to the back of the neck or arms to throw a wet one In attempting to speed up the game the managers and general managers passed along number of resolutions to league presidents Joe Cronin and Warren Giles One proposal says only an umpire may examine a baseball thus eliminating the prerogative Also long and repeated conversations between pitchers and catchers would be stopped A batter would be required to run not walk back to the plate after bunting foul- Pinch hitters would have to be on the bench not in thq bullpen when the previous batter completes his turn and golf qarts would be used for transporting relief pitchers from distant biuipens Two Linemen Shore Aword SAN FRANCISCO Mike Maggart a 200-pound defensive guard and Washington State linebacker Steve Bartelle Monday were named co-winners of the Pacific Eight Conference's of the award was Richards who first suggested that more teeth be put into the rule against the spit ball He did that last October during a meeting of general managers1 at White- Sulphur Springs WVa laughed at that one he recalls except Buzzy Bavasi and Chub Feeney Their silence to my proposal was thunderous I figured there was a good reason for Spit BaH Teacher Richards readily admits he used to teach his pitchers to throw spitters but he won't anymore not gonna try to circumvent the he says the point In it? I want my pitchers thrown out of the game I think the new rule is a good thing When I said the spit ball was dangerous and duty they made me laugh drat think an umpire in the game today that could tell a spit ball when be sees one say two or three pitchers on every club throw a spit ball now Hank Aaron claims he was gotten but with a spitter 31 times this AboUshment-of the spit ban win have three distinct advantages according to Richards 'It wfil speed up the game help the batters and halt a great deal of bad publicity about the game somewhere has got to start obeying the says Richards referring to the widespread illegal use of the why basebaU gets a lotta bad publicity Jackie Burke Jr the golfer He's a good friend of mine but always telling me how golf It all over basebaU Another thing he keeps telling me is how he can take a nine iyon and hit a golf ban over- roof the Astrodome In Houston day we went out to the golf course together and I teed up a basebaU on the first hole I said to bim ahead and show me how you can par the course with that betcha a hundred dollars you You see Richards really is like Lincoln ahead of his time And there are some people always taking shots at him too Kentucky Adds Coach Player-Wins By United Prm Intematinnal A new coach and a new player added up Monday night to a new look for the Kentucky Colonels in the American Basketball Association Scoring almost at will the Colonels gpve Gene Rhodes their new coach a smashing 138-100 victory over the New Jersey Americans And it was Louis Dampier fresh from the Army who led the barrage with 25 points as the Colonels scored their sixth victory in 19 games Tony Jackson Scored 31 points including 24 on free throws but they nearly enough-to prevent the Americans from suffering their 10th loss in 18 games The Americans are in fourth place and thy Colonels -in fifth place in the Eastern Division of the ABA Art Becker scored 30 points and Joe Hamood had 22 to lead the Houston Mavericks to a 101 67 triumph over the Pittsburgh Pipers in the only other Monday night game Connie Hawks led the Pipers with 16 points despite a 4-for-13 night from the free throw line No fish can be caught legally in Lake Oroville until Jan 1 it 'was learned today from W-W Payne game warden At that time fueling for bass will be legal Ordinarily black- bass-fishing is legal the year round when trucking of salmon around Oroville Dam was begun the bah on fishing In the rivers to the mouth of Jbe South Fork and Middle Fork was established Paynf laid When the trucking ceased the fish and game commission decided to leave the ban as it was because of th unusual situation Fishing in lake for trout will become legal on the opening day of the regu lar trout season footer powered by thgee outboards for the Jtaal minutes of the elght-hoor two day event to bring victory to his three-man driving team VICTORY RUN Crossing the finish line at Lake Havasu to win the Outboard World Championship Is Mike Reagan 22 son of GoV Bosaid Keegan Yousg Beagu drove his 29- the same land that was hunted this year I rl 'I mjx.