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•AN FRANCISCO PICKED
TO REPEAT THIS YEAR
, (by The Associated Press :
Free wheeling San Francisco
bidding for a second straight
NCAA basketball championship
after soaring out of virtual ob
scurity a year ago. gained an
overwhelming vote of confid-;
ence today Ifrom the nal ion’s
sportswriters and ibroadcasters
who voted the Dons the No. 1
clulb in the Associated Press
“pre-season” poll.
While many of the nation’s
major colleges opened their
1955-56 season last week, this
is the first full week of the sch
edule and the Dons, who alrea
dy have won two to stretch
their winning streak i o 28
games, are off and flying.
•San Francisco picked up 63
first place votes from the 110
ballots, gaining almost a 200
point edge over second place
Kentucky and virtually doubl
ing the point T otal of third place
North Carolina State.
Kentuckv, with a 1-10 rec
ord, and N. C. State, with a 2
0 mark, each gained seven
first ;nlace votes. Iowa, (the de
fending Big 10 champ and 1-0
to date, colled 10 first place
votes, but fell down in the oth
er listing to finish fourth. iuc!
two points behind the Wolf
pack.
Utah, Alabama, Dayton. Ill
inois, Duquesne and Brigham
Young ran in that order.
Second ten:
11 Holy Cross, 12 Oklahoma
City, 13 George Washing on.
14 (tie) Marquette, West Vir
ginia, 16 (tie) Ohio State UC
LA, 18 LeSalle, 19 Stanford,
20 (Minnesota.
(/Note: Idaho received one
first (place volte.)
I will he responsible for only
those bills contracted iby my
self, afi:er this date.
Published: Dec. 6, 7, 8, 1955.
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HONUS WAGNER DIES
'PITTSBURGH (/P) John (Hon
us) Wagner, all-time great short
stop who became a legend in
his lifetime, died in his sleep
today.
Wagner, sometimes called the
greatest player in baseball! his- j
tory, was a bandy-legged bar-1
rel-ehested Dutchman. He fin- J
ished a 21-year major league
career in 19*17 with a lifetime
batting average Of .329.
He played more (games than
any other major leaguer in his
tory — 2,785. He had tthe most
times at bat — 10.427. He made
the most total hits — 3,430. He
made the most one base hits—
2,431, the most doubles — 648.
the most triples — 250. He bat
ted .300 or better for 17 con- j
secutive years and led the Na
tional league in hitting for 8
years.
And Honus si.ole six bases
in a world series — another
record.
UCLA FINED FOR
BREAKING PROMISES
SAN FRANCISCO UP) UC
LA was fined $1,000 yester
day by the Pacific coast con
ference for “enticirig an ath
lete under false pretenses.”
It was (the maximum fine
possible. The athlete was no.
named.
H. F. Everest, University of
Washington faculty represen
tative and FCC spokesman,
said the Bruins athletic depart
men!: offered an academic
scholardship to a prospective
athlete. The student enrolled
but didn't iget the scholarship,
he said.
The conference athletic di
, rectors and faculty representa
! tives ruled that UOLA made
an unauthorized pledge. Ath
letic departments may not of
;fer academic scholarships,
; which the university itself
musit process.
The conference granted an
other year of eligibility to
three athletes: Douglas Lusher
Washington oarsman who
transferred to UW after five
days at For! land State and
was penalized a year; Frank
Mattarocci, California foot
ball center who ibroke an an
kle five minutes after the
start of the first (game (this
f season, and Otis Stroud, Cali
fornia rugby player who was
out for the 1054 season after
being injured in three minutes
of the opening game.
The conference asked mem
bers i o make no commitments
for basketball games after
Dec. 20, 1057. in order that a
new round robin home-and
home schedule, introduced this
year, can be put into full ef
fect.
In other action, the confer-j
ence select ed Victoria, B: C.
for the sipring meetinig late in
May and announced the resig
nation of (Frank McCormick as
FOC commissioner of football
officials, effective Jan. 15,
1956. No successor was named.
Sports Trail —
, !
by Whitney Martin
NEW YORK (&) Ronnie Bea
gle, like an eager-beaver plum
ber who couldn’t find a leaky
pipe to fix, fek frustrated.
“I felt so useless out there on
defense,” Navy’s all-American
end said concerning his part
in the Army game. “For the
first time in my football career
I played through a game with
out makinlg a tackle.”
Before someone jumps to the
conclusion Beagle was missing
ball carriers all over the place,
it might ibe a good idea to sug
gest the reason he didn’lt make
a tackle is that Army avoided
the left side of the Navy line*
where he and tackle John Hop
kins operated, like it was a
poison ivy patch.
Other teams long (before had
discovered they could make no
profit in that direction, but
could gnaw out yards on i;!he
other side. Notre Dame found
it out first, and Duke followed
the blueprint.
Beagle, a superbly built six
footer, probably is the only
player in his orv to make the
All-American team /playing
throughout the season with a
broken wrist.
■“I hurt it about 10 days be
fore tihe season start ed,” 'he ex
plained. “It was just a tiny,
hairline fracture, but they put
it in a cast for awhile. Then
put his leather harness on it,”
he indicated the brace which
ran down to this fingers. “I cut
(continued on page three)
Apportionment
may be tough nut
for delegates
FAIRBANKS (JF) Senatorial
districts following the lines of
Alaska’s four judicial divisions
were sought ithis morning in
the constitutional convention
by Dora Sweeney, Juneau dele
gate.
The proposal, referred into
committee, would assign four
senators to each of the current
ly constituted judicial divisions
and four additional senators to
the state as a whole.
This 20 senator plan if or the
proposed dtate legislature may
reach “tough sledding” after
apportionment has tbeen report
ed out of committee. There is
a strong move evident for a
change of the present division
al boundaries and many dele
gates have said re apportion
ment is at the root of Alaska’s
need for better government.
It is reported ithat some cha
nge in apportionment will come
out of the committee assigned
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to that subject.
Also at the Tuesday morning,
plenary session a hassel devel-j
oped over what Juneau dele-1
gate Mildred Hermann termed j
the “slowness of the commit
tees' in producing results.”
She moved to have eaich com
mittee chairman report daily
on progress. This iwas opposed
in a majority voice vote.
In speakinig agains: the Her
mann motion, six delegates
pointed out that several com
mitltees are practically ready to
report out in full and other com
mil tees are very busy and chair
men don’t have time to compile '
daily progress reports.
John Hellenthal. Anchorage,
chairman of the committee on
suffrage, election and appor
tionment, presented a report
.this morning covering the first
two topics assigned to that com
mittee. George McLaughlin of
Anchorage announced that his
committees full report on the
judiciary (branch would be read
,to delegates Wednesday.
Still going strong!
SAN FRANCISCO (JP) Al
bert Gowdal. 93 who claims ser
vice in Indian, Spanish-Ameri
can war and Pancho Villa cam
pailgns, came to San Francisco
hospital as a traffic casualty.
Goudal, knocked down by a
car yesterday, had a broken
arm, a black eye and lipstick
prints on his bald head.
Explaining the lipstick, Gou
dl said, “I was just having a
nightcap in the neighborhood
tavern.”
Weather
40s in moslt areas except iktr
50s along the gulf coast and
near 70 in the central and
southern Florida. The 40s and
low 50s were general on the
coastal areas of the west: coast
and 20-degree readings were
reported in the plateau region.
It was raining in Seattle.
{Dulles assails
On other matters Dulles said
1. The west will hold Russia
fully responsible for rail and
ibarge movements ifrom West.
Germany to Berlin, regardless
of the Soviet decision to give
East German communists the
right to license barge trips to
jhe divided city.
2. The United States is con
sidering The Philippines, Cey
lon and possibly Japan as sites
for an atomic energy center to
serve friendly Asiatic countries
3. Intelligence reports shew
Red China, while building uip a
ring of airfields near the Nat
ionalist islands of Quemoy and
Matsu, has yet to make the pre
parafions that would be neces
sary prior to launching an at
tack in ihe area at this time.
Nationalist China has not in
formed the United States yet
whether it will follow an Amer
ican example and avoid use of
the ve o in considering1 the Un
ited Nations membership for
communist backed Outer Mon
golia. The United States re
mains opposed in principle to
use of the veto in considering
applications for membership in
the international organization.
maHM
WILDLIFE DINNER
Auspices of Sitka Sportmen's Assn.
Featuring a WILD-GAME Menu
Friday, 7 p.m. Moose Hall
Public Invited - Entertainment
Awards — Moose Deer Derby to be given
Showing of Wildlife moving picture
$1.50 a person for entertainment cost
Announcing the Sale of the
Beach Plumbing Shop
Effective December 5,1955
to the
Sitka Cold Storage Company
I want to thank our many customers
for their patronage and hope they will!
extend the same courtesies to the new
Mrs. Kathryn Beach
owners.