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Tlit ABILENE REPORTER-NEWS Abilene Texas Ralurday Evening December SI 1151 2-A Underdog brighten San (Francisco Wins Other Favorites Do Meet Poorly beaten Florida 83-69 in last night's semifinals The Generals kept pace by spoiling Kentucky Wcslcyan'l perfect rerord 88-78 The undefeated Dutchmen of Uufstra notched their 11th victory heoling Muhlenberg 91-78 In the finals of the winner' annual tourney llofstra'i 6-6 center Bill Thieben tallied 34 points for a tournament record of point In three games The New England tournament title went to Connecticut for the second time In three yean when the Ucisins outclassed host Colby 78-71 at Wulmillc Maine At Fayetteville Va Marshall eased past Denver 79-78 to win the By WILL CRIMSIKY The AmwIhIH lrr0 A sudden shill of MnUmrnt to-wurd tha underdogs incited new interest today in the weekend rash i ot bowl football game promising tbe clueeet rivalrie In many yeara not more than a touch-down difference in any of the big gunc according lo latent odd 1 and komr may be reduced to "pick atatua by kickuif lime While Oklahoma' national duunpiun held firm ai a 7-point choice over Maryland in the "prestige" conflict at Miami Michigan State aw it edge over UCLA in the Ruse Bowl rut from to 6 point and (leuryia Teel) oneo a whopping 13-point choice fell to I over Pittstnirgh in the Sugar Bowl Fluctuating odd on the Colton Bowl at Dullai nude Tcxa Chris- tun firwt 7 over UiMtiwippl then 71 and finally hack to 7 The fanciest of all how! pro- grams matching nine of the top II team in The Associated final season poll open today with AFTER TOURNEY WIN Pro Coach Calls Dons Top College Five Ever Reb Coach Predicts High-Scoring Game Ilie liator Bowl at Jacksonville Ha and a-trio of involving picked senior player The largest of these to the annual East-West Shrine game at San Francisco to bn witnessed by (IOMO with Howard ilopn1ong) Cassady of Ohio Stale making the East squad a 7-point favorite Aulnirn is a six-point pick over Vanderbilt in the Gator Bowl at Jacksonville Fla where 3COOO nr exported to are the kickoff The Blue force are a slim six over the Graya In the North-South at Montgomery Ala and tltere'i little to choose between the Skyline and Runler Conference all-stars in the Salad Bowl at rhoenis Aril The Blue-Gray starting at 230 pm KST and the East-West at 4:43 pm Ah are to be televised by NRC The Gator Bowl to to be telecast by CBS The main events are scheduled Monday when some 400000 fans will pay more than t2tnoono to see four major bowl games and three minor ones tram had been aide to move the ball well "TCD does that too" Vaught commented "Therefore 1 think only reasonable to expert that be considerable scoring Vauglit who found out about TCU tlwuugh a couple of game films said wryly that he was sorry he had tanked at Texas Christian's victory over Texas "They did everything well and thfc Chuck Curtis tried seven passes and com pie led four for touchdowns So I would say that while TCU has been a running bad club you can't discount its pawing" lie said his tearo was the most spirited of any he ever had had at Mississippi that its morale was high and that he had had no per-1 aunnel problem all season Abe Martin the Texas Christian I coach said he also bad been pleased with the spirit and effort of his team all season But be wouldn't predict a victory for TCU He said Mississippi ranked with tbe best TCU had played that "no quarterback we've faced has put tU pressure on our defense with! run-pass option like Eagle Day I and John Blalack can" DALLAS Iff Coach Johnny Vaught ol Mississippi thinks his Cotton Bowl game Monday with Texas Christian will be a high-scoring affair but he (ears TCU -r will do must of it The bakling coach of the Rebels XU who brought hi team in yesterday -from Oxford Mi to complete XI In training at the site of the bowl he bad been unharpy with his lefene all season but that the By JOE REirilLER NEW YORK Tlie unlwnten and unrtialhmgul San Francisco Done champion of the KCAC Holiday Festival tournament and holders of an unholted siring of 36 consecutive victories were calkd today "the best college basketball team 1 have ever seep" by Joe Lapchick veteran coach of the New York professional Knickerbockers Lapchick connected with the game either as a player or coach for some 35 years was an interested spectator at Madison Squtire Garden last night as the dashing Dons flattened a tough UCLA five 70-53 with ridiculuus ease for their third straight onesided triumph The former star center of the fabled original Celtics generally recognized as the greatest basketball team ever put together unhesitatingly called coach Phil Woolpert's San Francisco quintet as better than tho powerful Ken- Ponies Win SWC Meet HOl'STON Tex 'F-Big Jim Krebs came through in the clutch to redeem himself and cany Southern Methodist fo its second Southwest Conference basketball tournament championship in four years The hook shot giant of the Methodists gave his team a three-point lead in rn ovrrtlme last night to win a thrilling 76-73 victory over Rice and bag the title Rice had won 10 straight games going into this battle and was favored to win the tournament But SMU snapped the Owls' winning streak and Ylimbed into the chair in the conference race that begin1: next week with SMU meeting Rice in its opening game Texas with Raymond Downs scoring eight points in the last four minutes for a total of 24 beat Southern California the guest 1 team 71-63 (or third place BOYD GOES UP RELL COMES Bruce Boyd (24) Abilene guard missed this field goal but made two successful free throws as a result when Fort Worth Tech's Parks Bell (14) drew his fifth foul forcing hiim to the sidelines Looking on in the foreground is Tech's Raymond Ames (5) Abilene won the game 83-37 (Staff Photo by Bob Gulley) Odessa and Abilene Favored To Gain Eagle Meet Finals Pitt Topples 'Poke Cagers ill Tourney OWENSBORO Ky Dec Jl-The Bardin -Simmons Cowboys met Col- lege Pacific this afternoon for seventh place in the All-American City basketball tournament alter 's'jbme ing to Pittsburgh 74-67 Friday C' The Pekoe held a live point lead for the first minutes against tbe Panthers but ran out of steam and never threatened terwiuly in the aeoond half Delnar Poss flashy guard paced the Cowboy with 29 points the second best individual performance of the tournament to date but out-aide of Johnny Whatley with 12 no other Poke scored in double figures A1 Lazor was tops for Pittsburgh with 26 point Pittsburgh overtook the Cowboys with 11 maiufca gone in the first ball 15-15 and took a 19-17 lead moments later and raa never headed Following Poss and Whatley in (he H-SU scoring column was Bar-ry King with eight and Cowboy CarLon with seven Lefty Ronnie Ryan accounted far only two bee 1 shots in the game By IIARIFSS WADE jnon tangles with Fort Worth Tech lion Heights II Jery llodges Repwtrr-News Sports Writer at 10:20 Losers ol those same piataview It Jerry Lamm Sweet- The Odessa Broncho and AM- will meet far seventh ptaro at 3: 30 1 water 10: and Dmi Hitt Odesia Iuad arrived ahead of 1P became slight favor- and the winners will vie forw Mississippi yesterday and had a jte 0 Kajn tu fjnl tbe 1st the consolation fifth place) trophy -snappy workout Anile It was go-annuj Abilene High invitation bas-t ing on somebody auric Off from ketball tournament Saturday right The third place game will be un-the players clothing in the locker room at Ownby Stadium the Southern Methodist University field where TCU to practicing at 8:45 thanks to impressive vie-'reeled at 7:20 and will be followed hy the champiunship final at Dale McKechan Sweetwater's 6-4 all-slat center -meshed 32 point turit-s Friday Abilene ripped Fort Worth Tech widiaad cm inmi I rirr I Rbenun Wri Uim rH I rtnvhl wirji1 Him fl Ilulklny tourney crown Wlea NAIA Tip-Off Title Die pre -tourney favorite West-rrn Illinois came through at Omaha to win NAIA "tip-off" championship wlto an 83-72 victory over Custavua Adolphus Tha Midwest Collegiate tourney title went to Indiuna Slate's Sycamores 74-71 victors over tli Quantlco Marines In non-tournament games fifth-ranked Iowa continued to fade in losing to California's Golden Bears at Berkeley 70-45 Other tourists fared poorly as host Stanford tripped Wisconsin 65-53 Butler downed Princeton 89-70 and Bradley bounced Dartmouth BO-74 lucky teams of the Lou Groza-Ralph Beard era or Ihe Oklahoma AAM teams of Bob Kurland's days As coach of St John's Lapchick masterminded against those great clubs as well as Utah's whiz kids of some 10 years ago and Ihe plendld St Louis teams with Easy Ed Marauley 11 also was around wlm Img Island University ran up the record 30 straight in 1935-37 and saw the St Join's wonder teams of tlie late '20's "I've got to call San Francisco the best I've ever sevn" Lapchick said last night "Kentucky and suite of tlwse other teams may have been better offensively but none of them could compare with the Dons on defense "That's because no (com ever had a player like Bill Russell That guy beats you on defense Just as much as on offense He disrupts your entire style or play This team gives you just one shot at the haket and that's all You never get it not until they score anyway" Russell was clxwcn by a panel of writers as tire most valuable player of the tournament Holy Cross bout Duquesne 61-57 for third place Lasalle took St Johns 85-76 for 5th and Syracuse drubbed Fordliam 7941 for 7th New Orleans and Jose Aguero of Brazil 64 0-1 in the other acini-fine! match In the morning doubles play Brown and Mulloy outlasted Bub Bedard of Canada and Rob Howe of Australia 6-4 3-6 6-1 Golden and Bartzen beat Allien Morris of Atlanta Ga and Harcourt Waters of New Orleans 6-1 6-2 while Seixas and Schwartz ousted Armando Vieira of Brazil and Johann Kupferburger of South Africa 84 6-1 SCORES aaacr 71 Caarllaad I fearlatflrld FIHk Plan Uaa it AHBON IMITATION Fteala Ahraa It Waaalrr Third Flan Ofete cater aa 0 DIXIE CL ASWC BamUteala Xarlh 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Haaad Ofua Iwrafwatcr (I Mldlaad 40 Platerlrw ArSadia Natekfa Varan 14 AMteM I) Fart Warlk Tark IT Into OOBMAN TOt'ENSMENT Nan 44 Clrda arford FnartiUak Frldir 41 Crartard Eaallaad 47 Car Km is (Urh Mrahmllte Id l-radrawaa 77 Hk'aai Dahlia If mmIiHh FriHd anr OarmaaThr IkrMt Carllaa Kaallaad SI HOWARD FATNE TOCBXXT Harder Pari Arlfear 4S Lmarla 5 Ilaaa i BalNaivr Darkall 41 DmwawaaS SI Dtwrtinmllk If rawaalallaa AalMm S0 Drady 41 Laaiyaaaa Maariard 10 BartegTS arlrr-BIrmlda 17 trtamaa CamMtka 17 By PETE PEDERSEN The Associated Pres Sm Francisco la the type of bnsketball team that sport writer admire The Dona maka the expert look good Spirts folks have consistently voted -Ron Francisco tops in Uie Associated Frets collegiate rankings this season Tho Golden Outers Justified tribute hy weeping the Eastern Collegiate Athletic Conference Holiday Festival tuurnament at Madison Square Garden last night crushing UCLA 79-53 Elsewhere however top-rated trams fared only ao-so in tournament play Utah ratd No 7 Ml before Notre Dama in Uie finals of the Sugar Bowl tournament 70-65 Southern Methodist handed Flier No 17 it first defeat of the year a the Mustangs took an overtime 76-73 thriller and the championship of die Southwest Conference tournament Fern Holds True But form held true in the Winter Invitational tournament at Cullcge Park Md when George Washing-Urn ranked 12th won the championship from No 16 Michigan State 65-62 And fourth-ranked North Carolina spoiled eighth-place Duke's unbeaten record with a 7s-64 triumph in the semifinals of the Dixie Classic at Raleigh NC that set the stage for the Tar llecl' meeting with third-ranked NC Stale in the Classic finale today NC Stale moved into the finals at the expense of Wake Forest 79-56 Unranked teams stole the spot liglri in other sections of the country as the annual holiday tournament frenzy neared an end West Virginia hit on 33 of 47 free throws In drubbing Miami 'Fla) 83 71 in the finals of the Orange Bowl's Inaugural tournament In Kansas City little Gary Thompson provided the big points as Iowa State wun its first Big 7 Conference tourney crown with a 67-56 victory over Kansas The nation's televiewers watched the final half of the Garden main event All-Amerira Bill Russell and Co gave the viewer and 16357 paying customers plenty to gape at a they breezed past the Uclan with ease The victory San Francisco's SulJi straight left the Dons only three short of the all-time college mark of 39 consecutive triumphs posted by Long 'island In 1935-37 and equaled by Seton Hall in 1939-41 Key Irish Csgrr Notre Dame's Sugar Bowl title was its second straight Ke man in the Irish surprise was forward John Smyth who netted 27 points Utah's hopes sagged when ace center John Bunte fouled out with more than 13 minutes remaining Big Jim Kclw was the hero tor SMU when he tallied three quick point in the overtime period to give the Mustangs victory Rice led by 6-10 Temple Tucker had surged from behind to erase a 7-point SMU lead in the final min-itcs and gain a 67-67 tie Joe Holup set the All-America drums booming with a 31-point named to an all-tournament team along with George Klein of GW Duane Peterson and Hooks McCoy ol Michigan State and Bob Kessler of Maryland North Carolina thrilled a crowd of 12409 in Reynolds Coliseum by surmounting a 16-point halftime deficit The loss was Duke's first in eight starts rinrlnaatl Wins Meet The second annual Richmond In- vitatiunal went to Ciocinrali's Bearcats 8940 victors over Rich jinond Cincinnati spurted to a 21-1 I point bulge at halftime Washington and Lee faces Evansville Ind today in the finals of tlie All-Americari City tuurnament at Owensboro Xy Evansville stunned previously un Rehearing Sought By Ousted Official AUSTIN Dec 31 Attorneys for kin Eslella Garcia have filed a rehearing motion with the Supreme Court after the court had i approved her suspension as Duval County commissioner The court's action Dec 14 rent suited in a switch in the balance of tlie commissioners court as Mrs- I Garcia was a supporter of George Parr longtime political leader in Duval County Hernandez Given 20 Years in Murder REFUGIO Pete Hernandez tried a second time for murder because the US Supreme Court reversed a 1951 decision pleaded guilty and has been sentenced to 20 years in prison Hernandez admitted be shot Joe Espinoza in a Jackson County tavern after an argument Teen-agers Right Get Gun and Leave DENVER ff-Whcn Mrs Thelma Cameron 50 pointed an automatic pistol at three teen-aged boys trying to break into her apartment one of them laid: "That gun fn't loaded" He waa right Tha boys threw Mrs Cameron to tha Boor grabbed the gun and ran 1 Htlhfi Vmtrzn i TOTAL: MkiitlfB i33l find rt in the second to lead first round pointmakers Only three other players gainel the magic 20-point circle They 13-37 and Odessa nipped Sweetwater 63-63 In other first round contests Midland bumped Fla inview 59-53 and Arlington Heights of Fort Worth dropped Vernon Dick Savill Ousts Seeded Tom Brown NEW ORLEANS Dec 31 iff)-Dick Saviu of Corpus Christi Tex ignored pre-tourney rankings Friday and outstroked fourth-seeded Tun Brown Jr of San Francisco 6-3 5-7 6-4 in Uie semi-finals of the Sugar Bowl Invitational Tennis Tournament Tops ceded Vic Scixas of Philadelphia edged veteran Gardnar Mulloy of Denver Colo 6-3 6-4 in the other semi-final match The top-seeded doubles team of Mulloy and Brown reached the finals with a 6-4 24 6-3 victory over Grant Golden of Chicago and Bernard Bartzen San Angelo Tex Seixos and Sidney Schwartz of Baylor led by Jerry Mallctt who I New York City the No 2 seeded flipped in 17 points held Texas i uam trounced two Tulane Um-Christian's high scoring Dick varsity students Henry Jungle of 55-54 in an overtime period Odessa battles Midland in remi- Auburn Likely Gator Winner i were Keith 'Pee Wee1 Morris ol Vernon 23 Jim Owen rf Midland 1 1 22 and Freddie Sinimons of IMam finals action Saturday afternoon at vilw jo pithV 1 and Abilene takes on Arlington! 2:20 with Uie others finals at stake consolation play Sweetwater Midland at 9 a and Ver- Other players scoring in double him? 'i figures on opening day were: Gary Roberson Midland 19: Warner Giunhlin Odessa 17 Rubba Meyer Sweetwater 14 George Miril TOTVH: 'irr to haiitifv Krrr Jenkins Arlington Heights 14 Bruce Boyd Abilene 13: David Rnur-land Abilene 13 Clifton Hartley Plainview 13 Jim Brock Arling- RfibTsuii Hartley 1 (Mrm Hill Ht-nHnia Piintank Hurrt Lrr PtfIMto ftRBKl Lmor BraMinv Ktanama Lunf CfrwM KkMT TP 11 4 12 2 2 2 I 4 to 3 II 1 2 1 oses1 JACKSONVILLE Fla -ff-Van-derbilt and Auburn launch the long New Year's weekend of football bowl games today with their clash in the Gator Bowl This was Auburn's thim "freight post-season trip to Jacsiaxiville and the Plainsmen who had an M-l season were favored by a1 touchdown Vandy which won and lost 3 teivi- had appear in a bowl 1 A sellout ciowd of 36WX) wase- pectd for the 2 pm kickolf ihe game marked the first appearance I on a national television network 1 CBS) for both 'earn don't feel we are going into the game under any handicap" said Vandy Coach Art Guepe He referred to speculation about the effectiveness of quarterback Don Orr who dislocated his right in the final game of the Heights at berth In meet East In heads with stars today Shrine The East the starting to pound BOWLING RESULTS OA1 rklfMT IMbHI klTTI'M StpihU-' Huik ert i Mtr-'t'lp Tyl rr CtaiiMtrs 3 nrnM tiriP Hjrtm loaurnrs PivnirMer 2 Newman's JpwpIhr 2 Impt'b Jswrlrr i llirk jAdividtttol Itme Dtxun Par ti- Utah Mvtdaal lore Dixon Par tin Hiah loam Partin Itwuranr-o 77! 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PitUburch RSI IlielaU: EdclM Bcnhrrl Columbia lo Rent 104 Films lo TV NEW YORK Columbia Pic (urea has announced it win rent nut 104 of it old feature films to television This to believed to be the first time a major movie producer toj making its feature pictures avail- 1 able to TV while retaining liUe Tha Columbia announcement yesterday did not say which films are involved or give financial ar-I rangementa The full-length pic- (urea are being released by a Columbia-owned subsidiary Screen Gems Hie company stressed Uie dealt "does not constitute a sale" adl-ZHbig: will maintain our title the pictures and to aU residual r- rights" Several days -ago RKO-Radio pictures sold outright a 740-film library to Die Super Corp a TV distributor for 815200000 In Any Language HOUSTON A French restaurant offers on its New Year's Day menu pois au yeux noire Black eyed peas in other words TO SELL SURPLUS things run Sale Atb In The Reporter-News They work! For a Classified ad-writer dial 17841 Orr looked share with his passing and nverall play during Vandy's last two workouts Should he need relief regular end Tommy Harkins was prepared to switch to signal -calling duties Auburn and Vandy both rely principally on fine runners Auburn running stars indude halfbacks Fob James the nation's fourthleading ground gainer with 879 yards Bobby Hoppe a sophomore fullback Joe Chil- aleet takeofb in the business In Auburn's previous two Gator Bowl appearances ttie Plainsmen lost to Texas Tech and defeated Baylor Alabama Draws Recruiting Fine BIRMINGHAM Ala iff The University of Alabama has been fined 11000 for illegal recruiting of athletes in violation of Uie Southeastern Conference grant-in-aid code The fine was announced yesterday by SEC Commissioner Bernie Moore and it followed closely on the heels of a 81000 fine against Auburn on similar charges Moore said Alabama was fined because a Hueytown Ala high school football star voluntarily stated to his office that a group of four Alabama alumni and friends or supporters gave him a suit of ciothei an overcoat a tie television set and 82840 in cash He said all members of tl squad would play and that nobody could be considered a second-stringer Jockey Hurt CALGARY Doc 31 'ff Bryan Peters 17 an apprentice jockey from Montana was taken unconscious to a hospital this morning after a riding accident in Victoria Park Defenseman Injured MONTREAL Dec 31 iff -Further X-ray exmination of Montreal defenseman Doug Harvey's injured hand disclosed a fracture the Canadiens said Friday Comics Left Out BRYAN (ff-For the first time since the war the Bryan Daily Eagle eliminated all comic strips In Friday's issue because of the newsprint shortage 4.

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