Pacific Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1959, Tokyo, Japan Page 20 the stars and stripes sunday february 22, 1959__ Louivy Ijar it3tlaon squares Safe basketball playoffs rangers trip Ramstein 83-80. As Dewall stars winos Badin Germany p s o 1 1 y did t have a Chance Camp from behind saturday night to Knock Over defending Champion a Nuslein a 5-Ho, and Force the Saki a basketball championships into a sudden deals con test. As a result of the Laon Victory the championship settles Down to a showdown game at the Limley air base gym sunday. Tipoff Lime will Tol pm. Big Jim Singleton Dunne de by Leo a Kink staff writer Diu ii Dewall. Off the Wilcox nears scoring title by associated press Paul Wilcox bidding to become the sixth scoring King from the slate of West Virginia has just about wrapped up the Small col lege individual title. Figures released Friday by then Caa service Bureau and including games of feb. 14 show that the Davis Elkins Junior boosted his average to 34.6 Points for 19games after a 70-Poinl explosion against Glenville . five other men Ever scored 70 or More Points in a single game closest to Wilcox arc Carl Bruno Lowell tech Mas with 30.3 Pete Reese Cedarville Ohio. 28.2, and inn Grimm Carloton minn27.1. Rebound Leader too Wilcox also regained the rebound end with a 22.7 average As Tom Cooke Chapman Caliban Early Eason pacesetter took Over second place it 22.6. Grambling la increased its Lead As the top scoring team with a 97.3-Point average for a string of23. Straight victories. West Virginia tech dipped to 92.1. Humboldt Calif state regained the defense Lead with a 51.0-Point per game yield to the 51.5 figure of Stephen f. Austin Tex Knox 111. Tops the list in foul shooting with a .751 average. But the Best individual foul shooter is Bill Reece of Lenoir Rhyne . Who has a .903 record. Calif. Tourney set san Diego Calif. Up the san Diego marines will play Host to a six team collegiate invitational baseball tournament March 23-26. Joining the leathernecks in the tourney games at the Marine re Cruit depot Are Southern califor Nia san Diego state College Stan Ford Fresno state and Utah stat College. Wall Jerome Smith and Curt Jen son members of a team that had played four games in As Many nights ran their Well rested opponents ragged and beat them off the boards before a Jam packed crowd. After rallying to overtake ram Stein and grab n5-32 Lead at intermission the rangers paced by their big four plus player coach Dick Riecks opened their Lead to 50-40, after five minutes of the second half and then held ram Stein it Bay until finish. Rumstein out fought under the boards depended on player coach George Linn and hot shooting de my Couloy to keep them in business in the second half. Mccurley who got. 20 of his 25 Points after inter Mission was the Only thing that kept rms join within striking Dis Tance. Linn was High for the rams with 32 Points 18 of them in the first half despite fouling out wit three minutes to a. Ramstein made its last big bid just before that when Mccauley Sone hand jump shot pulled the rams up to 70-7,1 but. Singleton hit two foul shots and Jenson added two on hinders. Laon had an 82-74edge with 48 seconds left and it was All Over but the shouting. Singleton sex shape Ace led the Well balanced Laon attack with 20points, Jenson and Dewall each scored 19, with the latter coming off the Bench to Pluy a Lendi Grolo in the rangers comeback. Fields sidelined the rms played without the services of Little Jim Fields the speedy offensive threat who suffered in ankle injury in practice Friday afternoon. Fields a Star for Rumstein the past two seasons averaged 2g.5 Points in his first two games. For a while it seemed As if the combination of Linn s Marksman ship and Rumstein s superiority off the boards would run Laon off the court. The rams moved quickly to a i-0 lend with Linn getting five of the Points. A Nuslein stayed in the Lead wit advantages ranging Between two and four Points until Linn tossed in Lour successive foul shots to extend his club s margin from 18-16 to 22-l i. Jim Ward followed with u Basket and de Mcculey dropped in a pair of free throws to give therms a seemingly secure 10-Point Lead at 2g-ig. It was at this Point Dewallen tired the game and ignited rangers for the remainder of the half Dewill and Jenson who in playing with three personal foul singed n two Man show. Two baskets each by Jenson am Dewall Cut Ramstein s Lead to 26 24, and after Linn interrupted the Streak by batting in a rebound the Ranger duo took Over again. Dewall tossed in n foul shot Jen son a Basket and then Dennl came Back with two More Charity losses to put Laon in front 29-28with 2 07 to go in the first half. A Basket by de Mccauley gave the Lead Back to the rams but Dewall dropped in four straight foul shots and Jenson added a Basket from mid court just As the gun Well off to give the rangers a 35-32 margin at halftime. Rebounds Bam Stein Kains al Ludecke above White Jersey Battles Laon s Curt Jen soil for a rebound. Jim Ward be Low rams Juggins a Loose Ball As a teammate and Laon defender watch. Laon won 83-80, to Square the Safe basketball championship series Between the champions of the France and Germany districts at one game apiece. Is Burguss George Linn. S2-Point Effort , r Ramstein Fig it to f Witul. O a Lumblo g me aulos it Ocul. K Ilir Giuld. It ii 4 it 0 8 21 u totals 28 s4 Ramstein ruins Laon rangers sin i i. T , i so Tiki iou. Jonson Johnson k i Wall f Hloi is h in id Ron k totals 32 35 Laon Fig it to 5 1 7 4 0 g 8 0 is 81 4880 4883 Sacramento nine sold for $180,000 Sacramento Calif. A the Sacramento solons will open at the same old stand this Spring under new management. The Pacific coast Loague club was sold for $180,000 by one local group to another. That covers players and franchise. The verbal agreement Calls for $30,000 a year rental on the Ball Park which will continue under present ownership. Shoemaker wife part los Angeles a National Champion jockey Willie Shoemaker my his pretty wife Ginny have disclosed they Are on a trial Sepa nation. Mrs. Shoemaker plans to go o Florida later this week. Shoe Naker will continue to ride at Lanta Anita and then Fly to Florida in March for further Rac no. N. Lebaron cops ii Ocial nil passing title Philadelphia up Eddie Lebaron of the Washington red skins the Little Guy with the Strong Arm won the passing championship of the National football league when he averaged 9.41 Yards gained for every pass thrown in 1958. Johnny Unitas who led the Baltimore. Colts to the league championship finished fifth under the Tricky league ratings which Divide the number of passes thrown into the number of Yards gained to de Termine the passing average. He had a 7.63 Yard average according to official league statistics release sunday. Second place went to Milt Plum Cleveland Browns with 8.57 Yards and third to Bobby Layne Pitts Burgh Steeles with 864. Billy Wade playing his first full season As the los Angeles rams Quarter Back was fourth with 7.63. The first 10 was rounded out by Unitas Mack Reynolds Chica go cardinals 7.29 John Brodie san Frai Cisco 7.12 y. A. Tittle san Francisco 7.05 babe Parill Green Bay 6.80 and Tobin Rote Wade leads in Yards Lebaron s first place finish was forged on 79 completions in 145 attempts for a net gain of 1,365 Yards and 11 touchdowns. He had10 throws intercepted. Wade gained 2,875 Yards representing All but 25 which los an Geles gained in the air during the season. The 19 touchdown passes of Unitas was the High in scoring throws. Wade threw 18. Unitas completed 136 of 263passes for 2,007 Yards along with his 19 scores and had Only seven intercepted. His 2.7 percentage of interceptions was the Best in the league. The throwing est quarterback inthe league was Norm Van Brock Lin Philadelphia who passed 374 times. His 198 completions were High for the season while Brodie s 59.9 per cent of completions was High in that category. Wade suffered the most interceptions with 22, followed by Van Brocklin with 20. Rams Ink Williams for 1959 season i�7m Angeles up Sam Williams Michigan state end named the most valuable lineman of the shrine East West game has signed a contract with the Losangeles rams. Williams was the fourth Rookie signed by the rams who waited three years to get the defensive great. He was drafted in 1956 be fore he had played any varsity football. The ram s got a look at him when he played for Pensacola air station. Williams was also named the most valuable lineman of the Hula bowl. Ohio proposes freeze on new race tracks Columbus Ohio up the Ohio racing commission has pro posed a one year freeze on Operat-7 ing permits for new horse racetracks in the state. The four member body meeting to consider questions by gov. Michael v. Disalle for a cleanup of Ohio tracks suggested the freeze be effective april 1. A Public hearing on the proposal must beheld before such a ban could go into effect
