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CLASSIFIED ADS CLASSIFIED ADS SPOUTS Jttening TUESDAY, DECEMBER 21, 1964 , - 4 . l&i -V • Jh >, ¦' • - . Jfclaf - ¦ ¦ i ¦ C** San Francisco Bars CW Path to Ail-College Title ? ——— > Win, Lose or Draw Nays Selected Tulsa Next for Colonials; By FRANCIS STANN IT IS COMMON PRACTICE among the trade to pretend Kentucky Faces No. 2 Utah up Over Bannister to clean out desks near the end of a year in order to come ; ‘ Spatial Ditpatch to Dm Star to Frau with a review column. Actually, it merely involves shuffling Associated stale notes and clippings and stubs and reviving memories of OKLAHOMA CITY, Dec. 21 ItyKentucky was ranked as the the big and little things that one saw George Washington’s basketball 1 No. 1 basketball team in the Na- isAthleteof's4? team, newly rated No. 8 in the jtion today the weekly Asso- happen in sports. Such as . in •(country in poll the Maryland dress- oB Four-Minute IP this week’s Associated I ciated Press and if the Wild- Jim Tatum leaving MiJer Press poll, and San Francisco cats can get past this week’s ac- ing room after the No. 1 coach and the No. 1 ¦Bp|§ Followed by Landy, University, tied for 18th, appear tion. they’ll be hard to displace. team in the Nation went flat in the Orange K to be the class of the 19th annu- Adolph Rupp’s team boasts a last January 1 and lost to Oklahoma, Olson in AP Poll al All-College Tournament as 3-0 record and hasn’t bean beat- Bowl • • * •*' > m ¦ •* they head into tonight’s semi- game of 7-0. And picking up his 6-year-old son, By tbo en since the last the # Associated Press finals. 1951-52 season. The Wildcats whose lip trembling, and asking: wl Willie . lower was Mays, the sensational For the first time in the tour- didn’t field a team the followiflg to cry, are you, young W'; ;¦ “You’re not going ycyjy centerfielder who led the ney’s history, the Oklahoma Ag- year and they were undefeated New York Giants to a pennant gies, winners 11 rimes and de- for 1953-54. and World Series sweep in "I guess not,” little Tatum said in a y / his I?'' fending champions, were ousted They’re running their own first full year in the major in Hank low voice. Then . "Why didn’t we sneak W the first round. Coach tournament this week and they league, today was selected as the Valley Conference for touchdown?” Jp Iba’a Missouri go into action against three pre- a “male athlete of the year” in champions fell before George Club the year-end tenders to their lofty perch— Later in January the Touchdown tnntia gu--. Associated Press Washington in lust night's fea- poll. Utah, ranked No. 2; LaSalle, honored Col. Earl Blaik of West Point as ture. 56-46, witnessed by 3.000. was place shindig past 23-year-old batting which in first in the coach of the year. When the was over, well The and GW takes on Tulsa in tonight’s first polllast week, and Southern midnight, Blaik carried his gleaming trophy into Toots Shor’s fielding, star beat out Roger Ben- windup semifinal game, while California, possibly the class of Francisco, suite at the Statler, mopped his brow, and said to the man ¦ i 1 San which crashed the Pacific Coast Conference. Breakdown of Voting ranking list after upsetting ; sportswriters ¦ the Os the 69 and nearest him: * UCLA last week, meets Oklahoma getting just can’t take this any more.” The tabulation of the AP’s poll radio men who voted in the “I’m old. I on the the year City in the first game. San Fran- poll, put trophy. it,” male athlete of 21 the Wildcats in first The other glanced at the “You can’t take (first-place votes in parentheses cisco advanced past Wichita, 94- place. All told, they drew a he snorted. “I can’t get it.” and points on a 3-2-1 basis): 75, yesterday, while Tulsa out- total of 527 points based on the The other was Eddie Erdelatz of Navy, who licked Blaik hustled Wyoming, 69-64, and standard procedure of 10 for a 1. Willie Man. baseball (38) . ..185 City Hous- vote, nine this season, is going to the Sugar Bowl, and, who rates as a 2. Roger Bannister, track (38*4) 100 Oklahoma overcame first-place for second 3. Landy, track (7Va) 80 •/ ton. 72-65, in other first-round on. t coach-of-the-year himself. 4. Carl (Bobo i Olson, boxing (9) 35 and so Rocky Marciano, ' games ** * * 5. boxing (5) 33 8. Alan Ameche, football (3) 33 Illinois dose Third. 7 Frank ' f THERE WAS THOMSON’S horribly broken ankle Belvy, basketbalP (4) 27 GW Favored Over Tulsa. Utah, another of the rapidly BOBBY 8. Ed Furgol. golf (1) __ 25 spring tripling, possibly costing the Milwaukee Braves the 9. Dusty Rhodes, baseball (4) 18 dwindling In 10. Ralph Guglielmi. football (2)— 17 Wichita meets Houston and list of undefeated and the time in late February near when Others receiving first-place vote*: How- . Wyoming takes on the Aggies in riims, cornered 15 firsts and 437 pennant, Hialeah , ard Cassady. football; Arnold Palmer, points. sports FBI agents, disguised as the wives of Jockeys Conn McCreary golf; Ted Williams, baseball: Johnny this afternoon’s consolation Utah a 7-0 record. Antonelli; baseball;. Willie Shoemaker, games. Next was Illinois, one of the and Ted Atkinson, captured an ex-convict who had threat- racing; Kurt Bums.' football; Ford Konno. swimming; Tom Oola, basketball; GW, with a 4-1 record, rates as favorites in the Big Ten, with ened to “cut off our hands and fingers and harm our families” Ron Kramer, football; Otto Graham, (6-1) points. football: Paul Larson, football; Doak the favorite over Tulsa to- 419 if McCreary and Atkinson failed to signal him as to which Walker, football: BUI Vukovich, auto night. and San Francisco (4-1) LaSalle, pae- racing; Carroll Hardy, football. voted in the horse would win in a given race. has an edge over Oklahoma City season poll the potential na- And so the year grew older. Vic Raschi being sold by thfc nister, England’s miracle miler, (2-3>. Tulsa’s one loss was to tional champion, tumbled to Yankees to the Cards, Enos Slaughter being sold by the Cards by 35 points in the 24th annual Kansas, while It beat Creighton, fourth following its defeat at Baylor, to the Yankees. There was Paul Richards insisting this was’ poll of sports writers and an- Texas AdsM twice and the hands of Utah at Madiaon Arkansas before entering the Square Garden last Saturday. the year the Yankees would be beaten. He was both right and nouncers. tourney. “Say Hey” North Carolina State, with the wrong; he predicted his White Sox would top New York, The kid from Pair- its Ala., winner of the Na- GW’s one setback came In longest winning streak among Cleveland accomplished the trick. field. opener to Forest, whereas tional League’s batting, cham- season Wake the top colleges—eight game*— As a prophet, however, Richards piust have been among pionship and chosen which it handled decisively in a rounded out the top five. as the game, pre- the best of ’54. On the eve of the World Series he flatly league’s most valuable player, return while its other ¦olj (on tourney Others in the first 10, in order, victories Pitts- who will give the Giants pitchers received 38 first-place votes fromi were over stated, “The Cleveland hitter burgh Du- were Dayton, Missouri, George Wertz, Doby, Avila, not Rosen.” the panel of 122. He had 185 j —AP Wirephoto. and ninth-ranked Washington, Duquesne and Ni- the most trouble is Vic not not points quesne in taking the Steel Bowl up the Tribe’s hitting hero, a slow-footed, on a basis of three points i PRAYER FOR HER BENEFACTORS—Dick Moegle of Rice (left) and Ralph Guglielmi of Notre agara. Wertz wound as for first, two for one tournament. future. second and Dame, who will play with the West and East, respectively, in the annual Shrine East-West foot- synthetic first baseman with a bald head and little for a third-place vote. Last night the Colonials were Utah showed the biggest jump, ball game at San Francisco on New Year's Day, listen to a prayer of thanks by little Eugenia. In control all rising to 2d. George You didn’t see but marveled from afar when both Roger Bannister, tall, slender, 25- the way over Ok- from 15th the Eugenia is a patient in the Shriners’ Hospital for Crippled Children in San Francisco. Allpro- lahoma Rein- Washington also made its first Bannister of Great Britain and-John Landy of Australia who A&M. Coach Bill year-old intern first broke ceeds from the annual game help maintain it. hart used only five players, with appearance In the top 10, while the 4-minute mile. And then met in Canada hi the the four-minute-mile barrier in broke *- Corky Devlin and Joe Holup UCLA and Indiana dropped out. mile race among humans, with Bannister winning May and then roared from be- ; • . all-time edge each getting 20 points. Joe Spotlight on Lexington. and Collapsing into the arms of Landy, among others. hind to Australia’s John Fetcavich with nine points, Buzz * Landy in the “mile of the cen- Tonight’s duel between \*** Begin Quantico with Ken- tury” in August, received 36V2 East-West Stars Work Five Meets Ciriello five and George tucky and Utah tops the list aa NATIVE DANCER RETIRED ahead of his time with a first-place Klein with two filled out the votes and a total of totals.