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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Jackaon, f
Froman, e
Dodd. g
Parry, a
Johnaoa -Kyllo
Pinloa
Reae
Van Ordon .
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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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Sam Chapman, hard hitting Phil
adelphia Athletics' outfielder, hss j
signed a two year contract with i
owner-manager Connie Mack, at a I
"pretty good boost in salary." I
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