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Show K4 Trojans Whip Tulane In Final Grid Battle 20-13 By CHARLES NETtlAWAY United Prets Sports Writer NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 21 (U.PJ A big Southern California team with bruising line and a smart quarterback in Mickey McCardle flashed power to burn today to trample the Tulane Green Wave 20 to 13 in a post-season inter- Families of Men Killed In Bus Crash Get Checks SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 21 (U.PJ Families of nine Spokane base ball players killed and six others injured in a bus crash last June today awaited Christmas checks totaling more than $114,000, mailed by major and minor lea' gue baseball clubs and indivi duals. The needs of each family were considered fn distributing the money. Pitcher Dick Powers of Oakland. Cal., who is still in a hospital suffering from critical neck and back injuries, drew the largest share of $11,910. Mrs. Bessie Lyden, widow of pitcher George Lyden, Tensed, Ida., will receive $11,167. She has three children. Other shares ranged from $3,000 to $9,000. Organized baseball contributed more than $63,000 to the cnrut mas fund and another $21,000 was raised in a benefit game between Oakland and Seattle of the Pacific Coast league. Vince DiMaggio Rumored As New Bee Pilot REDONDO BEACH, Cal Dec 2KU.R) Vince DiMaggio today ad mitted he was "considering" two baseball deals, but declined to say whether one of them was the managership Of the Salt Lake Bees of the Pioneer league. DiMaggio, eldest of the three baseball-playing DiMaggio brothers broth-ers of San Francisco, said he had Signed no contract but was considering con-sidering two proposals. Radio Station KDYL, Salt Lake City, Utah, announced last night that DiMaggio had slrned with the Beei. Charles Graham, president of the San Francisco Seals, which has a working agreement with the Bees, said the last rumor he heard was that DiMaggio was to manage San Bernardino in the new Sunset league. "I am waitinglfor word from a friend of mine before deciding what I'll do," DiMaggio said. He would not comment when informed of the KDYL announcement, announce-ment, but said, "I promised not to name the clubs with which I'm dickering until the deal is closed." The Bees' managership has been vacant since Joe Orengo was given his release a few weeks ago so he could "negotiate with a spot for a bigger team." The team topped the Pioneer league last season. Bowl Teams Hold Drill Sessions LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 U.R More hard practice was on the schedule for the UCLA football team today as Coach Bert La Brucherie sought to get the play ers back in mid-season form. LaBrucherie said that several days of practice so far for the Rose Bowl game with Illinois ' have shown that the Bruins were not "clicking." The coach said he planned to "drive the kids every night that's the only way to get them back into mid-season form." BATON ROUGE, La. A "good" workout was planned for the Louisiana State football team today to-day as it prepared for its Cotton Bowl, game with Arkansas. The Tigers will take a four-day Christmas holiday after today. returning to the practice field on Dec. 26 for a final drill on the home field. They will fly to Dallas, site of the game, on Dec. 29. FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. Arkansas' Ar-kansas' football team is behind in its conditioning for the Cotton Bowl game, Coach John Barnhill said today, because bad weather has hampered all practice. MORAGA, Cal. Coach Jimmy Phelan admitted today he will enjoy a Merry Christmas after his St. Marys college football team showed fine form in its final workout at home before the Oil Bowl game New Year's Day against Georgia Tech. SAN JOSE, Cal. After a week devoted to studies, San Jose State football players returned to the practice field today for hard drill in preparation for their New Year's Day game in the Raisin Bowl against Utah State. sectional game before a crowd of 23,000. The Trojans crashed two Intercepted Tulane passes to set up, touchdown drives, while the Green Wave for most of the way was cheeked by the rugged California line. USC took the opening kickoff from its 15 to score as McCardle pitched and ran the California team into scoring territory. His toss to Doug Essick was good for the last -seven yards. Tulane came back in the first period to score spectacularly - on a blocked punt Bob Franz, Tulane tackier crashed through, knocked McCardle's punt back from the Tulane 44, scooped it up and ran the rest of the way for a touchdown. Southern California started to a second period touchdown when Don Doll grabbed Doug Fortier's pass on the USC 20. Doll raced to the Tulane 41, and on the next play gathered in a pass from George Murphy that moved the ball to Tulane's 17. A line play failed, and so did a pass, before McCardle re-entered the game to throw to Doll on the Tulane seven, McCardle went to the one and John Rossetto plunged the final yard. USC scored again early in the third period, again turning an Interception into six points. Mike Garzoni grabbed one of Fortier's passes on the Tulane 41 and moved to the 28. McCardle's pass to Essick added seven more yards and plunges carried to the one foot line where Bob Musick plow ed over. Tulane's bid to get back in the ball game came immediately after the next ' kickoff. The try was sparked by Fortier s passing, but the final drive was provided by Marvin McCain on a three-yard smash. The drive started on Tulane's Tu-lane's 40, was interrupted briefly when Tulane kicked on the USC 33, but was resumed again when Tulane recovered a fumble on the USC 24. Tulane threatened "on several other occasions but a staunch eight-man line usually was able to halt the Green Wave in paydirt territory. Southern California had driven inside the Tulane 100 and was threatening to score again a? the game ended. rr.mnrr.iMn -,ni. ine new xorx xanxees xoaay named all-American Charlie Trippl, Georgia halfback, as their first choice in the, player draft of the Ali-American conference, while Felix (Doc.) Blanchird and Glenn Davis, army's touchdown twins, were chosen by Brooklyn and San Francisco, respectively. Gene Roberts, Chattanooga university uni-versity back, and Francis Barzi-lauskas, Barzi-lauskas, Yale guard, were chosen by the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Cleveland Browns were reported to have made Dick Hoer-ner. Hoer-ner. University of Iowa fullback, their first choice. Other Ail-American draft se lections were withheld, pending Spmpletion of the drawings at to-ay's to-ay's meeting of the league own ers. The league officials last night huddled with Robert Rodenberg, Washington sportsman, who is after af-ter the non-open Miami franchise for Baltimore. Miami was dropped drop-ped from the league yesterday. . League officials said a decision on the open franchise would be made soon, and.it was indicated Baltimore probably would get the mod. Several other cities are in terested in the franchise. Weatherman Fools Shi Enthusiasts No snow, no skiing! This was the cryptic report from Timp Haven, new ski mecca near Provo. Due to the fact that the weatherman is still catching up on his autumn weather, ski enthusiasts must forego their pleasure at the canyon course, Ray Stewart reports. ' If enough snow falls, however, city recreation ski courses will be offered Thursday as well as next Saturday. Interested parties should register with Jessie Scho-field Scho-field in the recreation office by Tuesday. THERE TO BE HEARD BATON- ROUGE, Dec. 21 Louisiana State's basketball squad will boast the most color ful warm-up outfits in the school's history. The hoopsters will don gold satin slacks, supported sup-ported by purple and gold jackets. Bowl Odds Shift In Fovpr Of UCLA LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (U.R) Rorc Bowl odds shifted today to make the UCLA Bruins six point favorites over Illinois, largely because of Halfback Cal Rossi's sensational scrimmage play. Bruin hopes rose yesterday when Halfback Onr Hatcher was unexpectedly given the doctor's I okay to work out Monday and then fell when it was learned that Tackle Wes Mathews had reinjured his side. ALL IN FAMILY EVANSTON. 111.. Dec. 21 Three pairs of twins are on Northwestcrn's basketball squad. They are Lawrence and Loran Day, Bill and Jim Stricklen and Bob and Joe Hughes. Robinson Wins Velf er Crovn Pro Yan!ts Choose irippi in Uratf n R.innMl Rrarjl VJItti Roll 21 ttJB- ;UU , ' f f IfPMI New Welter King LONG AND SHORT OF IT MIAMI, Fla., Dec? 21 Long-shot Long-shot rewarded backers the biggest big-gest payoff in Hialeah history, Feb. 4, 1932. He paid 484-to-l for placing. The shortest-priced favorite for the course was Two-sy. Two-sy. paying $2.30 for $2 last February. : t , If I 1 - Ray Robinson TODAY'S SPORT PARADE Ray Not 'Little Joe Louis7 After Bell BoutSez Fraley By OSCAR FRALEY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (U. Ray (Sugar) Robinson wore the welterweight crown today after waiting five years and five rounds but time and a scrawny negro named Tommy Bell had disproved the myth that here was a miniature Joe Louis. "Uncrowned king; of the welterweights." That's what they have been calling the slim Harlem dynamiter who lost only one fight In his career. But five rounds In the glaring glar-ing circle of light at Madison Square Garden last night, Sugar Ray was not better than the crown prince. The crowd was cheering vio lently. hungry sounds which roared .through the rafters as Bell chased Robinson about the ring They had come to see a killer tiger, and they were seeing him tamed by a wasp-waited man with a silly little black moustache and a left hook which wistled against Ray's jaw. This wasn't the bone-breaking bone-breaking ' puncher billed as the greatest fighter, pound for pound, since Joe Louis came up to the big time. This Robinson was a nun with glowing bruises on his face and confusion in his eyes and the frenzied fans were rooting for the underdog. They didn't care that Bell, hungry-looking citizen from Youngstown, O., was beating an old home-town favorite. They didn't care that he has a reputation repu-tation for being close with a dollar dol-lar and a fair mathematician against whom several managers hold a grudge for being able to All This and a Five-Year Contract XVS. ' v V" "" - , - r I f : .' 4 -vi; LYi M&fl' i figure percentages as well as they could. They didn't think he looked ridiculous on those shuf fling flat feef which boast not the slightest trace of an arch But then came the sixth round and retribution for the man who had dared humiliate the mighty Sugar Ray. Robinson banged him with everything in the boob and claret flowed freely from Bell's nose. By the 10th it had blossomed like a ripe tomato. And in the 11th his face was a gory mass through which Bell peered as Robinson sent him crashing to the canvas for an eight count. He was on queer street then, and through the 12th. And it was during those rounds that Robinson lost his reputation. Bell was a tottering target which absorbed all the battering bat-tering from those flailing fists of the uncrowned king-about king-about to be crowned. But he didn't go down again. He shook them off and clutched and staggered and fell back and then still had the courage cour-age to come back swinging. He was there on sheer guts. And he had enough of them to surge back and win the 13th round with a surprise attack. But nobody in the house felt he could win and it was no surprise when Robinson whaled him at will again through the 14th and 15th. But he couldn't put Ben down again lor ne nan taiieo wnen the time was ripe. So Robinson finally had his title today, in exchange for a reputation. And to Bell, the crown prince, went the honor of proving that Sugar Ray is good but not a little Joe Louis. f SUNDAY HERALD ovo. otah coowrr; wtah rsnrzp T 1 SUNDAY. PECIMBCT 13. 1S4S M 1 I i n i hi in I nj Bi-dwns Face Yanks For -Pro Title By JACK CUDDY United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Dec. 21 0J.R) -J As Ray (Sugar) Robinson donned his new welterweight crown today, to-day, it must have seemed doubly Drecious: for he had gained it "the hard way"ln the toughest brawl of his career, after waiting wait-ing five years for title shot 's For six tumultous rounds last night In Madison Square Garden, It seemed that Sugar Ray's long wait might be climaxed toy a knockout defeat de-feat Instead ef a crowning victory. But he rose from the canvas, and came from behind be-hind to win the unanimous IS - round decision ever dangerous Tommy Bell in their battle for the vacant title. Th two tall negroes fought for the crown left vacant when Marty Servo retired from the ring on Sept. 25 because of nose injuries. And what a fight it was! The crowd of 15,670 was on its feet during those six rounds, in frenzied anticipation of the biggest big-gest boxing upset in years t Bell, a 5-1 underdog, shook the great Robinson with crisp left hooks that had him groggy again and again. Bell of Youngstown. O. a slender, dark-brown youngster with the big shoulders and mus cular arms of a light heavyweight had the Garden . in pandemo nium in the second round when he floored the pride of Harlem with a left hook to the chin for a count of seven. Robinson, badly bad-ly hurt but desperately clever, evaded a kayo and was fighting back gamely before the round ended. Going into the seventh round. Bell, 23, was ahead on the United Press score sheet, three rounds to two, with one even, By DICK DUG AN United Press Sports Writer ' CLEVELAND. Dec. 21 U.R) The Cleveland Browns and the New York Yankees meet tomorrow tomor-row to settle the first championship champion-ship of the All-America football conference before an expected bad-weather crowd of approximately approxi-mately 45,000 in huge Lakefront stadium. AA officials, who had hoped to better the record playoff attendance attend-ance of 58,346 set by the Chicago Bears and New Yortr Rlmt, nf h National professional league last, ween, saia neavy snows here over the weekend would keep approxi mately ' 20,000 out-of-town cus-national leaguge in case of a tie. tomers away from the game. The predicted 32-degree temperature, tem-perature, however, provided perfect per-fect playing weather and the field, protected all week by a tarpaulin, was dry and fast. The Browns, quoted as 12 to 14 point favorites, were expected to ?rofit most from the firm foot-ng, foot-ng, as they pitted their deceptive i-iormation against the power plays of the New York single-wing single-wing attack. Whatever the outcome, the score at the end of 60 minutes playing time was to be final. AA officials ruled against the "sud den death" playoff adopted by the Cleveland, -relying largely on its speed and passing attack, was -expected to center its offensive! in the hands of Otto Graham, the" league's most effective passer, and Edgar (special delivery) Jones, their best running back. COLLEGE BASEBALL NEW YORK, Dec. 21 The, American Association of College. Baseball Coaches holds its annual4 meeting in New York, Jan. 5-6 the two days preceding the NCAA ' session. at the same site. New Coaching Trio Named By Dodgers NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (U.R) The Brooklyn Dodgers today boasted a three-man 1947 coaching staff, consisting of Ray Blades, Clyde Sukeforth and Jake Pitler. to fill the vacancies created by the resignations res-ignations of Charlie Dressen and Johnny Corriden. Brooklyn manager Leo Duro- But in the decisive seventh sev-enth round, Robinson, 25, barraged Bell's body with' such an explosive hooking attack, Robinson hammered his opponent into a corner and blasted him so terrifically terrifical-ly that Tommy's knees buckled. However, Tommy was not floored in the seventh, nor during dur-ing the ensuing rounds of punishment punish-ment until the 11th, when Ray belted him groggy with a salvo to the head and then blasted him to the canvas with a crushing straight right to Bell's bleeding nose. Bell was up at the count of eight, in such a pitful condition condi-tion that the gong, soon afterward, after-ward, apparently saved him. That Tommy survived the 12th round verged on a miracle of rugged-ness. rugged-ness. for Robinson, reputedly one of the ring's most able knockout specialists, battered him from rope to rope for the full three minutes. Ammazingly Bell rallied to win the 13th from a Robinson who. apparently was dead tired from his previous efforts; and Bell gave Ray stiff competition in the 14th, but Robinson finished much stronger in the 15th. Robinson registering his 74th victory in 76 professional bouts scaled 146 i pounds; Bell, 146. It was Robinson's second triumpn over Bell, who had proved a much easier victim in tfteir first meeting at Cleveland, Jan. is, 1945 Referee Eddie Joseph and Judge Artie Schwartz each voted 10 rounds for Robinson and live for Bell. Judee Jack O'Sullivan favored Robinson, 8-6-1; and the United Press favored him io-4-i. The eross aate was $82,948, re duced to smaller than expected by snow and rain. NON-UNION TALK COLUMBUS. O.. Dec. 21 Coach Mike Peppe says that bar-j ring ineligibilities his swimming! leam looms as uie sirungcst to represent Ohio State. cher said at Los Angeles that he chose Blades and Sukeforth yesterday yes-terday "because I wanted to get the best men available." Pitler was named Dodger coach last month. Surrounded by models, Glenn Dobbs gets lesson in handling beach iuvucii wii nuami oeacn. former luisa passing luminary was given five-year contract by Brooklyn Dodgers, one of longest ever signed by a professional football player. LARRY'S NOVELTY CO. Come and See Our MYSTERY DRINKING BIRD We specialize in novelties and gifts for everyone and all occasions. 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