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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1945)
Click! The light is off! Hmmm—maybe it is one of the gizmos that just goes on dim—I wonder. Yep the L.O.O.C. organization has lost a lot of steam since last Saturday after noon at Berkeley. All this is driving at the Head Coach Oliver situation. The hot potato has not been dropped as yet, nor will it be dropped as long as the present smudging cloud hangs over the campus. Facts will be presented as they come up. A clear- j eyed view can be gained only by a careful presentation of the many corners. A copy of a telegram sent to Tex Oliver was received in the sports office yesterday. I quote: “The Oregon Duck Club as sures you and the team wholehearted support. Club feels news paper criticism unjustified and unfortunate. WELCOME HIGH SCHOOL WRITERS This weekend the University plays the role of host to the an nual High School Press Club. From all over the state represen ts live students will journey to Eugene for the meeting, and a lot of sports writers will be in the group. The rear 1945 has witnessed an upsurge of power among the high schools in football. The sports department would like to give the fellows writing about these future collegiate aces a more than good-buddv glad-hand, and tell them to entei the Web foots domain next year and bring a bit of that football material with them. STATE SITUATION LOOKS GOOD Ducks are smoothing ruffled feathers this week, preening themselves for the homecoming clash with Orangemen from Oregon State. Hayward field was scene of light workouts Mon day and Tuesday. This take-it-easy period comes as an extra relief to gridders, after being raked over the coals in long road trips, and the grueling grind of week-in-week-out practice ses sions. Over in the Heavers camp the story is different. This Satur dnv those lucks’ Orangemen smack into Trojans. M'avbe the wooden horse will fall, but the point that interests this writer most is how much the wear and tear will atlect State s prepara tions for the game of the year. The trip to Los Angeles is a long, b ird haul and the' clack-clack of iron wheels tears down a body, and the Webfoots are pointing for this game like my pre-war Iviglish Setter bird dog, sooo— FRUSTRATED IN DEMPSEY INTERVIEW Last Friday night a long-awaited for opportunity came to realitv. an interview with a top celebrity—Jack Dempsey. Col leges coaches and stars in the various phases of athletics are sometimes hard to gel information out of, but Dempsey was really a tough nut to crack. The 50-\ ear-old "Manassa Mauler has stock answers to all of the questions thrown at him. This can be laid to thousands of times Dempsey has been asked, “How about the ‘long count’, the Firpo fight, what of Carpentier,’ etc. Dempsev hasn’t been asked about the outcome of the Lottis Conn fight but several hundred times, so I popped this ques tion. “Roth Louis and Conn are out of condition," he replied. “They have been out of the game over four years. They’ve fought, yes, but it is a different kind of fighting. I think it would 1>e foolish for anyone to try and pick the winner of next Junes’ |>out this earlv before Louis and Conn have a few preliminaries and a lot of training." Rranchmg oil into advice for budding athletes, the ex-pugilist s; vs, "he confident—l lie re are thousands of great fighters and tiev all gained this greatness by having self-confidence in their abilitv.” '1'his front the ten million dollar easher of boxing re ceipts, and king of the pugilists’ world from flattening of Jess \\ illard in 1919 to decision dropped to Tunney in T>26. BULL WITH BULL Army plows into Navy this weekend for top game of the na tion and watch those swabbies—Walt Donovan jumped to a tie for first place in the conference scoring parade after a two touchdown splurge against the Golden Bears Saturday—Sen ator Wayne Morris has invited the Webfoots basketball squad to a dinner in the Senate dining room when they fly across the nation for hardwood pounding in Madison Square Garden— KXL, radio station in Portland, is formulating plans for cov erage of the eastern court games for broadcast from the net side—local Greeks claim they have no team entered in the in tramural volleyball tournament because they want to give the other guys a chance to recover from smashing triumphs on the intra-gridiron. K-Falls Scene Of B-Ball Tilt Hitting the trail again this week, the fast-playing Duck five entrains for Klamath Falls and the Marine training base. Still possessing their dead eye basket hitting form, the Webfoots will continue their policy of “the best defense is a rapid fire offense.” Those in the starting line-up for the Friday night ball game are: forwards, Jim Bartelt and Dick Wilkins; guards, Reedy Berg and Bob Hamilton; and center, Ken Hayes. Also making the trip will be: forwards, Ed Allen and Chuck Stamper; guards, Bruce Hoffine and Les Wright; and center, George Bray. Marines Set for Game A complete workout is in store for the Hobson quintet over Thanksgiving holidays with the traveling team engaging in dummy practice. Not much is known about the Marine basket bailers, but that they live up to their rep of being prepared for all emergencies. With the win against the Thunderbirds last week behind them, the Lemon and Green and Duck Grid Clan Practice Light For OSC Finale Short and peaceful workouts are surprising the turf of Hay ward field this week as the Webfoots rest from the grin^ of many days traveling and eight successive weekend games, with^ the cry of Beavers over a week away from the homecoming fi nale. Injuries on the Webfoot eleven are tapering down to the non-existent stage, and by end of Thanksgiving holidays Bob Rey nolds and Bill Abbey are slated for full-scale action. The team is ex pected to round into the best con dition of the year for the climax game. Iron Men in Top Form Three 60-minute players in the California duel joined in the work outs this week. Tackle Gene Gillis, End Bob Anderson and Halfback Jake Leicht proved none the worse for their iron man stunt Saturday. Today’s sesion will hit the train ing grind a little heavier as the Ducks turn to short scrimmages and work on the blocking dummies. Lengthy squad meetings have also tripped the heavier play for quintet will be eyeing up the east ern pre-season games. Much is ex pected from the Hobson-coached squad because of their sensational flare last year. breaks in the menu. Beaver Vendetta Next Pounding and bruising workouts are in store for the post-turkey preparations for the homecom ing. Ducks will be pointing for a reversal of form shown in the 19 to 6 loss to the Staters in the first of home-an d-home series. High scoring Wait Donovan continued in fine form in the workouts. Two tallies in the win over the Golden Bears boosted the lemon and green wearer into a tie for first-place scoring honors in the Pacific Coast conference. Ticket sales for the Beaver clash opened yesterday at the Mc Arthur court ticket office. Orders for many of the 16,000 available reserved seats still remaining. Four thousand, five-hundred gen eral admission tickets for the 194S~““‘ finale will go on sale at Hayward the day of the game. DARRELL RIGGS, end ROBERT WATSON, fullback GLENN BOSTVVICK, halfback Medford Black Tornado Strikes Climax Game of Heavy Scoring Grid Season High school football swerves into a seething cauldron during the knives meet turkey holiday season with the unbeaten eleven from Medford tangling Grants of Portland for a spotlight grabbing mighty tussle on the southern city's home field Thursday. The Thanksgiving day affair at Medford will not decide the high school championship. The Oregon crown will not be felled until December 1, when the winner of the Hood River-McMinnville tiff, also on Thanksgiving day, comes forth to offer a championship challenge. Multnomah stadium has been set tentatively for the scrap. 19-Game Win Streak Flapping high and wide against fellow high school gridders, the swirling Black Tornado of Medford has racked up a 19-game winning streak, allowing only three tallies by opposition during the colossal '•15 season. Eugene Axemen scored one and the North Bend Loggers added two pay-dirt plays last week. Fullback Bob Watson is the lending blister, scorer and point after man in the Medford back field. He serves as the point for offensive tactics which also send Earl Stel'le, Jerry Boss and Jerry Clark into high-speed run ning plays. Outstanding broken field artist of the pack is Glenn Bost wick, but a shoulder injury kept him out of the North Bend fray and his services are not assured during the fracas with Grant. Rugged Darrell Riggs, captain of this year’s squad, is billed as one of the finest ends in the state, having been on the pay off end of numerous end-zone passes. Grant Smooths Roughness Coach James “Mush” Torson’s Grant charges are putting the finishing touches to a highly vaunted T-formation. The Generals have tplled 164 victory points against scrappy Portland elevens, while allowing only 24 points to be scored against them. Grant’s title-holding gridders stake most of their victory hopes on fast-breaking, highly confusing offensive trickery, built around Quarterback Tom Shaw, Half backs Gerry Smith and Pat Duff and Fullback Bill Gabriel. Don Stamm and Roland Curtis offer glue-fingered reception for aerial thrusts. Medford men will outweigh Grant as much as 15 pounds per man. Team average of the Black Tornado totals up to 186 pounds, and local rooters claim this beef and brawn is good enough to bowl over many college outfits in the northwest. Tornado Howls Long High school teams have felt the brunt of scoreboard-blackening Tornadoes for three years with the 1945 season staggering them still more—68 to 0 over Albany, 40 to 0 over Marshfield, 52 to 7 over Eugene, 38 to 0 ever Eureka, Cal., 51 to 0 over Klamath Falls, 73 to 0 over Grants Pass, 78 to 0 over Bend, 52 to 0 over Ashland and 26 to 13 over North Bend. Football is taken with the coffee by Medford citizens. Prince “Prink” Callison, later to build the University of Oregon VVebfoots into big time, had the most amaz ing coaching record at Medford 40 wins, one loss and one tie in six seasons of ball from 1923 through 1928. Callison’s initial year at Medford saw the Tornadoes drop a 13 to 6 decision to Salem and his next year’s team tied Ashland 7 to 7. From this point on, the gridmen record of 23 straight games, since up a 6-year mark of 1495 points to 174 for opponents. A1 Simpson, now 29, has a record of 21 straight games, since he wen four before leaving Ash land to take the Medford job. Simpson is in his third year of coaching high school football and also coached three years at Ash land junior high. He is a graduate of Eureka, Cal., high school, Southern Oregon College of Edu cation and the University ’of Ore gon.
