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5 Teams Due A t Youmeyi Th News-Review, ReMburf , Or.. Won., Feb. 13, IMP Idaho Vandals Invade Oregon State Tomorrow; Ducks Lose To St. Mary's (Br The A MOT la Led Proeat Th scrappy Idaho Vandals in vade Oregon State tomorrow and Wednesday to ring in another week of hostilities in the Pacific Coast conference basketball race. The Vandals' weren't considered too hot until last Friday when they picked off first place Washington State with a slick ball-thieving trick ill the last 10 seconds of the game. Sophomore Sam Jenkins swished in the crucial shot from , out in the keyhole and gave Idaho a 51 to 50 victory. This Friday end Saturday, th Vandals move in en the Oregon Webfeots at lutene, while Washington State feces second lace Washington at Seattle. The Webfoota are in the division cellar now. even though they laced their traditional rival, Oregon State, by 45 to 34 Friday before the largest basketball turnout 8110 in the state's history. Oregon whipped St. Mary's, 1 to S3, the following nignt in non-ieague con test. Washington, meanwhile, split en intersections! series with Uni versity of Wyoming, losing by 4 t 1 the first night but winning by 17 to 1 Saturday on Frank Culsness' two gift throws. In the southern division, all eyes are focused on Trojan Bill Sher man's efforts to crack Hank Lui setti's all-time PCC scoring record of 232 points. With six conference games remaining on the 12 game Suit Yourself at Jot Richards schedule, Sherman now has 138 points to his credit. Luisetti, Stan ford's all-America, had 118 points at the halfway mark in 1938. The sharpshooting USC forward boosted bis average considerably over the weekend. On Saturday, he led the Trojans to a 5 to 4S tri umph over Stanford with a 23 point barrage. Against California the night before, Sbarman tanked 25 points, although his team lost, 59 to 54. California and Stanford play USC ana u(a again, mis lime in uom Angeles. The Bruins took over the division lesd last weekend by drop ping both of them the Indisns by u to so ana cat oy m to 47. Coltaej Basketball By The Associated Press Wisconsin 66, Northwestern 59. Iowa 70, Illinois 65. Purdue 61, Michigan S3. Indiana 59, Minnesota 39. Yale 60, Cornell 47. Harvard 60, Dartmough SI. Columbia 51 Pennsylvania 46. Texas Christian 64, Rice 36. Southern Methodist SI Texas 34. Ksnsas 49, Nebraska 38. Missouri 59, Kansaa State 43. Kentucky 79. Tennessee 52. Vanderbilt 47, Alabama 38. Auburn 64, Tulane 60 Georgia 77, Florida 52. North Carolina State 73 Wake Forest 35. Utah 49, Utah State 36. Colorado A4M 40, Brigham Young 30. UCLA 54, California 47. Southern California 59, Stanford 45. Oregon 61, St. Mary's S3. Washington 37, Wyoming 38. Vanpot 63, Eastern Oregon 55. Lewis It Clark 57, Whitman 47. College of Idaho 52, Pacific Univ. 44. Canisius 53, CCNY 49 St. Johns (Bkn) 72, Niagara 63. Syracuse 73, Army 53. Fordham 58, Siena 49. Duquesne 75, Geneve 47, Holy Cross 73, New York AC 58 Navy 48, Penn State 40. Bradley 67, DePaui 56. Ohio State 87, Michigan State 43. St. Louis 55, Notre Dsme 45. Arizona 72, Texas Western 49. o WALT BRITTELL Accountant Tax Advisor hat Cf From Tho Boyltt Bldtj. 327 N. Main St. To Moose Lodge Bldg. 321 S. Stephens St. IF You'd like to save money en your In come tax or bookkeeping, visit us in our new office, or Phone 1513-J e Douglas Fives To Clash Here Feb. 22 To 25 Douglas division tournament plans, formulated at a meeting of a i v i s i o n administrators ana coaches Saturday in the Umpaua hotel, were made to include five participating teams, Siuslaw hav ing been added to the four Douglas county scnoois making up me aivi sion. The tournament, to be held at senior high, starts Wednesdsy, Feb. 22, and will run until Fek 25. An extra day may be added. it neceaaary, to piay on tie. The tournament will be a dou ble elimination affair, with twe game losses necessary for dis qualification. Coach Jack Newby said. Seeding will be determined ac cording to the results of division league play, on the opening niif.it, number four team will play num. ber five, number two plays num ber three team and number one team draws a bye. Siuslsw was automatically relegated to position live. Two gsmes will be played on the first two days of the tournsment, one game on Friday, one on Sat urday and if necessary, one game tne louowing luesday. The sub-district trophy, present ed by the district, will be awarded to the league winner during the tournament. Two tournament trophies will go to the first and second piece winners. These are to bo denoted by Roseburg merchants. The following persons, represent ing their schools, were at the meet- ins: Siuslsw Jerry Medcalf. Drm cipal: Reedsport Jack Flung, su perintendent: Harry Rose, athletic director; Norm Olson, bssketball coach: outherlin Wm. Riddlebsr- ger, superintendent: Orrin Hills. coach; Myrtle Creek Ray Karp, principal; B. uellar, superintend ent; Forrest Loghry, coach; Rose- burs Paul Elliott, superintendent; George Erickson, principal; Cece Sherwood, athletic director and Jack Newby, coach. Duck Mermen Idaho Splash By The Associated Press Everyone came out even in the win column, but Washington State college athletes absorbed two los ses in the weekend activity among northern division boxers, wrestlers and awimmers. The Cougar natators, paced by Bob Cummings' first place finishes in the 220 and 400-yard freestyle events, blasted Oregon State 68-16 But Oregon State evened the ri valry on the wrestling mat, down ing WSC's cosst chsmpions 15-11 to clsim the unofficial northern division mat crown. Washington Stale's boxers also took it on the chin literally aa well as figuratively going down 7-1 before the highpowered Idaho squad. Oregon awimmers threshed to a 60-22 win over Idaho at Moscow with Joe Nishimoto setting two pool records in leading the victory Nishimoto churned the 220 -yard freestyle distance in 2:20.04 ti break a 13-year-old Vandal pool stsndard and followed it up with a 5:08.2 time in the 440-yard free style event, 13.8 seconds faster than the former mark. Bowling Team Refused Admittance To Tourney PORTLAND, Feb. 13 P) The Portland Bowling association refused Saturday to admit to its city tournament a team which in cludes a Chinese-American player. The association ssid that letting the team play would jeopardise the tournament't standing in the American Bowling congress. The litter group forbids non-csucasians from bowling in its tournament! The team is sub-station design, a member of the Bonneville power league. Earlier that team had said it would withdraw from the asso ciation if it were ruled off the alleys. Frsnk Ding, a Chinese-American employed by Bonneville, bowls on tho sub-station design team. The rity tournament is slated for Feb. 24-March 5. DOES YOUR HOME HAVE SAFE AND ADEQUATE WIRING? PREVENT SERIOUS FIRE LOSS! Each year thousands of homes bum some because of made- quate wiring. Don't let you and your fs-rHly be fire casualties. It you suspect your home wiring needs attention call us now. GOING TO BUILD? Do you plan to build a new homo Ihia year? You can be positive your electric wiring will be don thoroughly and with the finest materials If you phono 123 and ask Roseburg Electric to Install wiring. Electricity make lor bet ter living only If it's done right. m m p r;v.vTPr' . xj . PHONE 123 the number you oant forget. Your call will be answered by somebody sincerely Interested In providing you with top notch electric service. Let him help vou you'll be surprised how rea sonably we charge for wiring and all electric work. ROSEBURG ELECTRIC 131 N. Jackson Ghosts Defeat JVR Hoopers By 44-37 Tab Roseburg JVRs again bowed to a travr'ing basketball club, this time by a 44-37 score, at the hands of the Colored Ghosts. The game, played at senior high school Sunday afternoon to a fair riied crowd, was marked with clever ball handling and shooting by the spirited Ghosts, although they somewhat failed to measure up to the Globetrotters, who pre ceded them her a short while ago. JVRs Lead Several Times Roseburg waa ahead by alim margins on several occasions, but the visitors, sparked by Hod Hood guard, and Randy Hand, forward who bit for IS point each, man aged to tan trie lead again alter tne nan. even as they cut up on the court. John Bates, forward, and Bill Benson, center, piled up Uie points for Roseburg, getting 10 and eight counters respectively. Better This Came The locals looked much better against the Ghosts than when they played th "Trotters," getting off some snappy pivot snots and lakes that seemingly took the touted vis itors by surprise. This is the last game of th cur rent sesson for th JVRs. Manager Jeff Jeffriea aaid that because his boys lacked adequate practice fa cilities during the season, they would forgo an invitation to partici pate in a tournament series with Myrtle Creek Firmcof Riddle and Sutherlin Pastime. Lineups: Reseburg (J7) (44) Chests Hubbard 6 F 8 Fields Batea 10 F 15 Rand Benson S C 4 Garland Schindler 2 G 15 Hood Atterbury 2 .... G 2 Fincher Reserves: Roseburg West 2, McKe 2, Blanck 3, Piper 4. Officials Ray Brown and Hod Turner, both Roseburg. Hockey Results iBjr Tfca Aaaociate PreoW Seattle 3, Tacoma 3. SATURDAY NIGHT'S SCORIS Portland 2, Victoria 1. New Westminster 2, Vancouver Seattle S, Tacoma I. San Diego (, Los Angeles I. Fresno 3, San 'r::?isco 2, (tie). Lianra standing Nerlfcera: Dlrialea W L T P Of If, Wctmiiuur 1 11 13 II 1(0 Vancouver n i io ta Tacoma -1 SI I 00 241 Portland .3S 34 S 37 in Seattle M at I I IM Victoria - IS 31 S 43 ISO Bealhero Dltlilaa San Franclaco 28 IB S SO SOS San Diaio 2.1 33 10 SS ITS Lot Anseleo .. 33 S iS IS rra.ru . 13 30 13 3S 140 Colorful Jim Thorpe Greatest Athlete Riddle. Elkton Beat Jayvees Norm West's Warrior Javveea suffered twin losses in ames olav- ed over the weekend, first drop- Emjc urn iu ruuuie, 4-.y. ai aenior igh Friday afternoon, then losine out 50-31 in a hoop action at Elk- ton Saturday night. The Jayveea set a nattern for victory against Riddle, by doubling their score at th quarter marks: unfortunately, they failed to double in the last quarter and hung up the loss. Riddle led S3. 204 and 21-12 at the end of the first three quarters. Roseburg held their oononents to one free throw in the third quar ter niiu a iieia goal ana xree snot in the final quarter. Riddle's Buckley spsrked th winners with six counters; Lerov filing 01 Koseourg wss next best with five points. Horshberger Shines In the Elkton tilt. Jim Hersh. berger, gusrd, paved the way to a win for th B club hoopers with 13 points netted. Leroy Elting again led th Roseburg boys with Tomorrow night. Glide olsvs the Jayvees at aenior high, starting at S o'clock. Eddv Wvatt'a eighth gradera are dated for a prelimi nary against Riddle, starting at 15. Th gam will b th last this season for th jayvees. Lineups: Roseburg fit) (24) Riddle Dalroa 2 F Buckley Compton r 4 Mann Hampton S C 4 Zifka Ripperger G 4 Hendricks Elting S G 2 Haverly Reservea: Roseburg McKm ney 4, Cox 1, Nolle 2, Stonebraker. Moore, Wilkerson, Fisher, McKern, Roberts 2, Moats; Riddle Naughn, Davis 2, Bushnell 2, Rigsby, Strode, Miles, Carter. White. Halftime Riddle 20, Roseburg 8. Officials Bob Schindler and Don Hubbard, both of Roseburg. tlkton (50) (11) Resebura Beckley S T Dslros Scheever 1 F 4 McKinney J. Hershbgr 13 C 3 Hsmpton Binder I ti 12 E ting Hinderer f . . G 7 Ripperger Reserves: Elkton C. Hersh berger 7. Scott 2. Rilev 2. Mower. Cook, Otto; Roseburg Roberts, Compton, Nolle 1, Stonebrsker, Moore 3, wilkerson, cox, McKern, Mostes, Fisher 1. Halftim Elkton 31, Roseburg Officials Robert McKe and Walt Buss, both of Roseburg. ROD-GUN CLUB DATED The regular monthly meeting of the Roseburg Rod and Gun club will be held Tuesday, Feb. 14, at j the Winchester clubhouse. Moving pictures will b shown and refreshments will be served j Th entire membership is request ed to be present. ; USED TIRES 1.00 UP Se us for all alia of good used tire at th lowest price. Late medal IS. IS and 17-Inch wheal for all makea ears. Fre Tub with every tire purehaaed. DOYLE'S Salts & Servict Highway 99 at Garden Valley Phnn 611 Reedsport Tips Sutherlin Five On basket spelled the difference between a win and a loss Saturday night at Oakland, when the Reeds port Braves and Sutherlin Bulldohs tangled in a Douglas division tilt that ended with th Bravea on top 32-30. It waa a close battle throughout, although Reedsport took a 5-0 lead that aet Coach Orrin Hills to scrambling, and though the visitors were ahead 104 at the quarter, the Buildoga fougnt back and knotted the acore 15-all just before the half. Three quick buckets by the Bravea put the halftime count at 21-15. In the third quarter. Hills' boys held th visiters to a Ion bas ket, and In the fourth, th game was again tied up, as Sutherlin bounced back. Sutherlin failed to click at the free throw line, after chalking up aeven gift shots in eight attempts in the first quarter. After that, the Bulldogs made only three free throws good in 11 trys. Reedsport connected IS out of 22 times at the free throw line. Merly'Buck sparked the Suther lin effort, getting 13 points, to tap Reedsport's high scorer Leggett, who accumulated 12 point. The box: SatkerUo: Buck, t Tl Krouah, f 3 Crimea, c a Linden, g a Hol.ate, g 0 Erirkaon a Wahl 0 wniu a Weal 1 rt M Tp 1 13 3 3 S 3 3 S 3 0 IS IS IT eaieerli Lessett. t Jackaon, f Froman, e Dodd. g Parry, a Johnaoa -Kyllo Pinloa Reae Van Ordon . rs rt pi Tp 11 10 IS 33 Halftlma Reedaport 31, Sutherlin 15. Officiate Earl Ladd and Georsa Ertck eon, both of Roieburg. Peewees Remain On Winner List OBADS SCHOOL LSAQt'S reeweea PullerUm Roaa . Rlveraida Fullerton Benaon Hlveralde Fullerton Peeweea remained un defeated in their division after beating Riverside 13-5 Saturday, in a grade school basketball game at Fullerton gym. Rose Heaviea also are undefeated after pounding out a 15-5 win over Benson, at Benson gym. fullerton heavies, with a 17-2 win over Riverside, continues to retain the number two spot in the heavies division, while Rose Pee wees, blasting out 41-12 over Ben son, holda the second place niche in tne small try standings. Financts Blamed In Plan To Drop Football At UP PORTLAND, Feb. 13 (JPI Finances and schedule troubles were blamed today for the de cision of Portland university offi cials to drop out of the football picture. The school, boasting an enroll ment of 2.000 atudents, now is en gaged on a large-scale building program. Lack of a stsdium made it a virtual impossibility to draw top-notch teams aa opponents. Announcing their decision Satur day, school officials indicated the sport would be reinstated when conditions permit. By HUGH FULLRTON. JR. NEW YORK, Feb. 13 (B There are a thousand good atorics some of them true about old Jim Thorpe, the greatest . all' around athlete of th past 50 years. And, in the nearly 40 yeara sine the muscular Sac-Fox Indian first flashed to athletic fame at Carlisle Indian school, it has become in. creasingly hard to tell where th truth enda and where excusable exaggeration begins. James Francla Thorpe Is net merely a legendary figure In American sports. He's th kind of man about whom legends grew. And Thorpe himself sel dom hesitated to add to the fable ef eld Jim. Taking fact and fabl for whrt they're worth, the sports writers and broadcaatera of th United States, participating in th asso ciated Press poll, voted Thorp th outstanding male athlete of the first half of the 20th century. They put him far ahead of Bab Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Ty Cobb, Bobby Jones and Joe Louis all great ath letes about whom some colorful yarns also have been told. Bab Ruth Next Of the 393 voters, 252 named Thorpe first, 45 named him se cond and 29 third. Ruth drew 86 first place votes, 118 second and 45 thirds. Dempsey waa ranked third with 19, 67 and 55. In other ballots, the experts also chose Thorpe now 61 years old as the outstanding football player uf the 1900-1948 period and ranked him aecond only to Jess Owens in track. According to legend, Thorpe was virtually indestructible;, the kind ef guy who'd ask: "wh could get hurt playing football?" Yet Jim was hurt more than once playing football. In his first big season, 1911, be was on crutches most of a week before he led a 16-0 route of Pennsylvania and his legs were heavily bandag ed the day he kicked four field goals, the last 48 yards to upset mighty Harvard. There's a legend that Thorpe was a one-man track team who one beat Lafayette single-handed in a dual meet. Harold Anson Bruce, then Lafayette coach, has a different version in which Car lisle brought four men to help Thorpe. All Jim did that day was finish second in th 100-yard dash and win the pole vault, high jump, broad jump, ahot put and low bur dies. Couldn't Hit Curve And there's a legend that Thorpe couldn't hit a curve ball, a weak ness which finally forced him out of the major leagues. Yet Jim waa good enough to remain la the ma jors six seasons and to draw a $7,500 salary when $7,500 really meant something. His "lifetime" msjor league bat ting average was .252, but in 191. his last season, he hit .327 for 62 games. Eddie Roush won the Na tional league championship that year with .321 for 133 gsmes. In the next two seasons Jim batted .360 for Akron in the International league and .358 for Toledo in the American association. Pointing t those figures Thorpe asks: "Does that shew I was a sucker for a curve?" The established facts are almost as incredible as the fiction. Playing football for a little school that usually was outmsnned and outweighed against the strong est of the big eastern colleges. Thorpe scored 25 touchdowns and a 198 point total in 1912. That same year he had won both th pentath lon and decathlon at the Stock holm Olympic games, winning foui events in each competition. Later when his medals and tro phies were taken from him be cause he had violated the strict Olympic code of amateurism by playing professional baseball for $60 a month, his defeated rivaia refused to accept them. They in sisted: "Thorpe won them fairly. He is th greatest athlete in the world." Broke On Record Rediscovered records of Thorpe's Olvmpie feats, superb as they were at that time, show that he wouldn't be considered any great shskes by modern standards. In only one event, the high jump, did he sur pass Glenn Morris' 1936 world-record decathlon. By the same scor ing svstem, Jim would have finish ed about even with 17-year-old Bob TAKES TOP HONORS Jim Thorp, that almost legendary figure of th sports world, at 41 gives a drop-kicking exhibition at tho Polo grounds, New York, Sept. 26, 1 948. Previously voted tho No. I football player of th pa it SO yean, "Ola Jim" bcm th only doubl winner in Th Associated Preti poll when 2S2 out of 393 sports writers and radiobroadcaiten named hint greatest ml athlete of half-century. Bab Ruth wai th runner-up-1 AP wirephoto). Mathias when he won in 1938. But in his specislties, the sprint hur dles and broad jump. Thorp wasn't far from the 1912 world re cords, i Thorp als starred In base ball, baseketball and lacrosse at Carlisle .and had a fling at wrestling. When no later tried golf, he learned to shoot in the 70'. In his prime, Jim was a perfectly co-ordinated 18S-pound-er standing 4 feet IV. inches in his moccasins. Added to his all-around ability was a magnificent laziness a dis inclination to train or to exert him- slef more than was necessary and a notable weakneaa for firewater that has become th subject of more man on Thorpe legend. Steve Owen, coach of the New York football giants, tells of plav ing against Thorpe when Jim was the unpredictable star of eh Csn- ton Bulldogs pro footbsll team. Steve was a tackle and when Thorpe, playing wingback, didn't block him on the first two plays. uwen decided the Indian didn t feel like playing that day. Thorpe Ignored . . So on the third play I Ignored him and shifted wide for a real tackle," Owen relates. "I landed exactly on top of my head when he hit me. Then as Jim dragged me to my feet, he said: 'Young man, never take your eyes off the wing back.' " One of Thorpe's little-known feats was breaking up the only double-no-hit game in major league his tory. He was in right field for Cincinnati in May, 1917, when the Reds' Fred Toney and Jim Vaughn of the Cubs pitched hit- less ball for nine innings. In the tenth Larry Kopf singled and went to third when Fred Williams muff ed Hal Chase's fly. Then Thoroe beat out a slow hit to bring in Kopf with th only run of the game. Hew Thorpe s baseball teats heve been magnified is shown by a clipping en file in the Na tional league office. It tells how Old Jim spun a yarn about hitting three home runs into three different statea during a spring exhibition in the state-line city of Texarkana. The first, he said, was inside the park, which was entirely in Texas. The second went over the right field fence in to Arkansas and the third over the left field fence into Oklahoma. The item concludes: "Thorpe is rated the greatest all-around ath lete who ever lived. He must have been to hit that last home run, for th Oklahoma border is soma 40 miles beyond th left field fence he describes." 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