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Thursday, February 11, 1932 Page Two LA GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA GRANDE, ORE. BLONDE RETAINS V SKATING CROWN Sonja Henie, of Norway, Takes First in Winter ' . ' Olympics Contest LAKE PLACID. N. Y, Feb. II W Sonja Rente. 20-year-old blonde lrom far away Norway, Is still the world's foremost troman figure skater. Before tbe first "sell-out" crowd that the third winter Olympics has attracted the petite Norwegian turn ed in a rfawung perf aims nee last night to gain once again the title of Olympic champion, the world title she has held for the last live years. Spinning through the breath-tak ing double-Jump , "corkscrew" top pirouette and "rabbit" Jump, unruf fled and perfect example 01 superia. tlve poise, tbe youthful Sonja brought to Its feet a crowd that packed tne big arena. Second honors were given to Prttzl Burger, Austrian champion. Marl bel Vinson of Boston was third. The Canadian skater. Constance Wilson Samuel, was fourth, Vivl-Anno Kulten of Sweden was rated fifth. Yvonne De Lingo of Belgium was sixth. ,, ..t. ., r RAIN HALTS EVENTS LAKE PLACID. N. Y,.Feb. 11 VPi A heavy downpour of rain this morn ing, following a sudden rise In tem perature, caused postponement of the first two beats of the four-man Dob sled competition until tomorrow. Willamette Downs Linfield 47 to 29 BAXaEM. Ore. Feb. 11 (ftWtlUm- elie university's quintet defeated lalnfteld college 47 to 29 her last night to remain one of tbe two tin- defeated teams In toe Northwest con ference. The Bearcaia left Ltnfleld way behind after they struck their pace about tbe middle of the first half. : . Whitman college, the other unde feated conference team, starts a two game series against Pacific at Forest Grove tonight. . - GLM.S WAR O.V VIPEBS TUNIS (JP) Flocks of sea gulls lent helpful beats to French co lonial troops assigned to clearing up plague of vipers driven W the coast by floods in the Interior, Sport Slants By Alan J. Gould ' -(Associated Press Sports Editor) Noting our prediction of an Olym pic marathon conquest for peerless Paavo Nurmi this . year. Maxwell . Sulea of tbe Los Angeles Examiner contributes mis information for the benefit of Paavo and the rest of us: "Nurml's chief rival In tbe mara thon may be the great Japanese runner. Seljl Takahashl. who has covered tbe Hitflw (26 miles. 385 yards 1 In 2 hours. 34 minutes, 30 seconds, and consistently beaten bis two countrymen. Tsuda and Ya mada. who placed sixth and fourth, respectively, at Amsterdam. Kusu mokl. with 2324. Is also rated better than Tsuda and Yamada. "If Nurml can win the classic marathon be will have climaxed tbe greatest career In the history of sports wltb the greatest achieve ment possible for an Olympic athlete." Brushing up sports WHILE The LOGM. B&S, lOERE V- KiOOMG TkE BALL A.KJ MAJf. C 7 1 UE Aii THE UJAV A.RDWD I , I . i -v-HrE BASES"" - fcsaf . I - . By Laufer Roberts Remains Leading Scorer "In Cage Circuit SEATTLE, Feb. 11 ift - Charles Roberts, flashy center of the UniverT sity of Oregon hoop team,, continued to hold top honors in the northern niTi&iofi Pacific Goast coofetitte-individual scoring race last week, but 1'the security of bis .position, was weakened aamevbat. .Roberts i points were Just seven better than the 77 marked up by Huntly Gordon. Washington State center, who has played two less games than the lead er.. .' ' ? -...:- -. - Gordon, who last season tied the cenference individual scoring record. I moved up to serocd from fourth place in last week's standings.:-.. , Ken Pagans, Oregon State forward. bettered, his last week's sixth place rating by forging into third posi tion with 75 counters, and. Winsor Calkins, Oregon guard, dropped down from second to fourth position with 73. Hotocen. and Cross, both of Wash ington State, were in fifth and sixth places with 70 And 65 . points re spectively. . ;" Hortoa Herman, Idaho forward, hung onto his rating of the league's "bad boy," by. advancing his per- eonal four total to 37, one more than Jack Robertson. Oregon guard. . The' fifteen highest scorers: G Vg Ft Pf Tp Roberts, Ore. - II 35 14 19 84 Gordon. W. S. C. 9 29 19 1 Tf Pagans, O. S. C. ; U 30 15 23 75 Calkins. - Ore. 11 19 35 14 73 Hois ten, W. S. O. 9 27 16 17 70 Cross. W. S. C 9 28 9 65 Barrett, Idaho IE 29 6 12 64 Levoff, Ore. 11 20 22 21 62 McLaamey. W. S. C. 9 25 12 20 62 Herman. Idaho ..11 25 9 27 59 Grenler. Idaho li 23 12 23 58 THEY ALL LAUGHED WHEN omCeAfuELgbtdiss ttg pehedr JThe Pirates were playing a picked team at St. Marys, Ohio. Hans Wagner and Bill Hinchman were veterans then and Max Carey and "Lefty" Cooper were youngsters. It rained in the -morning and at game time the field was one big puddle.- Loads of saw dust were spread about home pJate and the bases. A broom was provided to keep the sawdust leveled. The Pirates took a huge early lead.1 Then, in a late inning, varey came to bat 1 After taking two swings; he dropped his bat, while the home-talent pitcher was winding upseized the broom and swung from the hips. The ball plopped weakly toward third- and the pitcher seized it. But the cover was wet and the pitcher threw ar over first base. - Carey dashed for second. The first baseman heaved wildly into deep left field. Carey galloped home, and since everybody was having, so much fun, they 'et the run count. -i i . 12; Miles IYr Hour The best time ever registered for the Olympic marathon was 2:32:35 4-5, in 1920 at Antwerp by Hannes Kolehrnainen, the first of Finland's internationally famous dis tance runners and tbe best known up to Nurml's time. It was at the same games that Nurml. as a 22 -year -old phenome non, first broke into the ranks of Olymplo champions. El Ouafi, the African, won the 1928 marathon in 2:43:57. It's a long grind and a tough one. this marathon, hut if Paavo lays off the veal pie beforehand and does:t't experience any cramps or foot blisters. I believe he can romp the route In the hitherto unheard time of 2 hours and 15 minutes.- The best of the marathon plod ders average around 10 miles an hour. On a regular track the dis tance has been done In less than 2 hours and- 30 minutes. Z would figure Nurml capable of doing close to 12 miles an hour. I may be prejudiced In favor of the silent Finn, but I have seen him run two miles In 8:58 1-5 after spending two previous nights In Pullman berths and I haTe watched him romp over the countryside in weath er and under conditions that made such great ninners en Wftde and Rltola look like selling platers. No one may ever know how fast or how far Nurml can run when he really sets his mind to it. One of the few record attempts that really ever Interested him for any length of time was the mark for greatest distance covered In one hour. . Nobody ele seemed to care very much about this, but Paavo satis Jled himself by running almost 12 miles 21 miles, 1648 yards- in a fiO-mlnuto gallop at Berlin In 1928. .(.nir .vivo nit "Golf," asserts Albert R. Gates, the business administrator of the P. O. A., "has held more nearly to normal than any other snort through the present economic cri sis." Maybe so, but not where we hsve been watching it within the past year or so. The gate receipts for the big tournaments dropped more than 60 per cent In 1931. Big and little clubs hsve been hard hit. This is mainly because golf Is. relatively, an expensive sport for the Individual: not in the class with polo, but compared, for example, with tennis, which requires only minor ouUay for the performer and furnishes plenty of public courts. As for ml ii la tu re golf, view the ruins I -, ' La Grande Gun ; Club To Shoot In State Event By George Towue PORTLAND. Or Fb .11 iRwl ciaj) The announcement of The Oregonlan's seventh annual trap shoot tournament which appeared last Sunday met with a hearty re sponse on the part of gun clubs throughout tbe state. Already nine ; clay-bird organizations have filed ap plications to enter the wire league. This Indicates that the 1933 circuit will be bigger and better than ever, for never before has there been such an early response to the invitation for entries. Five of the nine applications came lrom clubs in the southern section of the state. They are from the Medford Gun club. Eugene Gun club, Ash land Gun club. Coos County Gun club of Marshfleld and the Douglas County Sportsmen's association of Boseburg. - Other entries received in clude those from the La Grande Gun club, PortlMid Gun dub and the Woodland Gun club of Washington. With the exception of Ashland, all competed in previous tournaments conducted by The Oregonlan. . --.. Club Officers UMed Officers of the clubs are: Medford. C. W. Wood, president, and K. W. Pease secretary; Roseburg, Dr. h. M. Lehrbacb. president, and P. B. Har tune, secretary; Eugene. Jay Salu man. president, and Fred H. Peters, secretary; Coos county. C. P. McNelly, president, and H. E, Thornton, secre tary: Ashland. Dr. W. E. Blake, pres ident, and Fred B. Neil, secretary; La Grande, Tracy HoUister. president, and P. N. Lannlng. secretary; Wood land. I. 9. Sweet, president, and C. B. Dunham, secretary. In connection with the entry of the Portland club, there Is some news which will be of interest to outside olubs, especially the ones with small Memberships, in the past the Port land club shot as a unit, which prob ably did not appear quite fair to the smaller organizations. Two Teams to Shoot At a meeting of he club directors yesterday It was decided to divide the Portland membership Into two teams to compete as two separate organizations. Harry T. Splcer, club j president, has selected Jim Manning ! and Harry lUd field, two live-wire ! members, for team captains. They j will make their team selections next i Sunday. One team will be knoa-n as ' Portland No. 1 and the other as i Portland No. 3. After the two cap-i anns have picked their teams the j same lineups will be carried through to the end of the tournament, .. j JACK DEMPSEY WILL BATTLE K.0, CHRISTNER CLEVELAND, Feb. 11 UP) Another pf Jack Dernpsey's barnstorming bouts will top off a fight card here tonight, with K- O. Christner of Akron as his opponent. - . v - Although the Mana&sa Mauler was the favorite to win. Christ ner. the "Akron rubber man," will be a dan gerous opponent lor the four-round go. . - - - -Dempsey admitted it's a long road back from the championship he lost to Gene Tunney In 1926. but said -be is showing steady Improvement' In recent ring appearances and hopes to : be able to "challenge the best of them j by summer."'"'-- -i,:: t Chris tner's rief asset will be his known ability wo soak, up punches, and come back for more, and there Robertson. Ore. Puller, Wash. Lewie, O. 8. C Merrill. O; S. C. 11 24 10 26 58 .10 23 12 16 56 11 23 10 20 56 11 22 20 53 will be the possibility, of course, that he may all p over some good blows for his own score. - r- - ; The former champion will weigh about 195 and Christner will tip toe scales around 204. ..-.t-, - Famous English' Abbeys Among - 4be 'r famous abbers of Great Britain are mentioned Westminster- abbeyi-ln London,- Foun tain's, St Mary's of Tork. Tinfern. Kirk-stall and Rievaulx. Slany of these abbeys were built during the early Middle ages, v : . .- See World Changing The word Msub4ropic",fs--defln?i as ''nearly tropical and pertains U the regioo bordering on the tropica zone. Just as indications in tlif rocks of the earth's surface shoti that our world was once -very macfe hotter than it is today so many go o legist a believe It is again approach ing this near-tropical condition. Nero Last of Family Nero was the last of the Imperial family; but thereafter ..Caesar be 'came a "title of dignity. ' -From the name "were derived the' German fealser and Rnssino tsar. Cougars Invade Webfoot Quint PULLMAN. Wash, Feb. II a-De-termlned to sweep through four games in Oregon and clinch the northern division basketball title. Washington 6tae Gougsrs 'started their first Invasion of coast courts today. ,- - - ' i Coach Jack Prlel named ten men for the trip, as follows : Huntley Gor don and Carl Lip pert, centers: Claud Holsten, Dob Cross, Ralph Rogers and Lee Soned ecker, forwards, and Arthur MoLarney, Bex Scott Pete-Graham and Phil SchmlU, guards. The Cougars meec Oregon at Eu gene Friday and Saturday, and Ore gon State at Cormllls next Monday and Tuesday- : r.---. We will cinch this thing IS pas-; slble in Oregon." Coach Prlel said. fbut we're looking , for plenty, of troubled - . . : . - " -.Oregon gave the Cougars their only defeat this season, -a 42. to 29 lacing at Pullman. a-:--...:,- C- ir :,- OB KRt SE WINS MEDFORD, Ore.,' Feb. 11 UP) Bob Kruse. Portland, defeated Al Karasick in a main-event - wrestling program here last night: - Walter Achru, Chi nese, .defeated: Ronald- Weaver of TREES HONOR MUSSOLINI BOMB XP " Bach :of Italy's 8000 communes is-planting. -" a tree: to honor the memory of the recently deceased - Arnaldo - Mussolini, : broth ef ol B Duce..i -- Henry Jones Pins u: , Billy Edwards PORTLAND, Ore.. Feb. II W Henry Jones. Provo, Utah, welter weight was the outstanding perform er on last night's wrestling card, dis playing plenty of speed and skill in defeating Billy Edwaaas. Kansas City, in two straight falls. Jones used a whip wristlock for both falls. Abe Kaplan, 220 pounds defeated Dick Raines, 225. in the main event two out of three fails. The heavy ttn.ir. .. oil t.ha latest rouch stuff developed in the mat game to keep the crowd on cage, numvo the first fall in 16 minutes SLsec- nnAB ka 7rfhhPf KaDlSU With a back-breaking bear hug. lifting him clear of the floor, wnmea mm awui. several times before dumping for rh ati trnninn ncfvf hts combina tion, flying wing and arm lock to down Raines for tne seconu ana mu falls In 29 minutes. 45 seconds, and three minutes, respectively. Ray Friable defeated Archie Rauta with one fall from a flying head Kis sers in the preliminary. BOISE WRESTLER WINS BAKER,. Ore Feb. 11 0P After giving one fall away, Carl Webb. 150- I pound Boise wrestler, won two more in a row to aeieai oeorge vjaic w Baker in a return match here last night. Gale took jhCiflrst fall with a body slam In the second round. Webb then put Gale down in a rolling fall and the referee gave him credit. The Boise man: questioned whether Gale actually had been down, and started in again. : He took the second fall In the fifth round with a Japanese leg split, and the third in the sixth with a double arm bar. Wrestling Hy tlie A-ssoeiateil Press New Yort (St. Nicholas) Joe Mai. cewicz. 204, Utica. N. Y., threw Dr Frea Mjrere, 200, Chicago, 3031: John (Casey) Kazanjlan, 295, California, and Charley Hansen, 203, Soattte drew 30:00; Marvin Westeroberg,-225, Tacoma, Wash., threw-Pat O'Hara, 210 Canada. 12:32: Nick Lutze, 21S, Ven Ice, Cal, and Charley Strack, 218, Spruig Valley. N. Y-; drew, 80:00. V New York (Hldgewood) Tiny Hoe. buck. 245. Oklahoma, threw Dick Da. vlscourt, 225, California, 22:00. LEW SAVI-V WINS SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 11 UPH-ln a surprise ring victory here last night, Le'w Savin. 164 pounds, knocked out Madison Dlx, 156 pounds. Belling, ham. Wash., in the fourth round of their scheduled eight-round battle. Dix received severe body punish ment before finally dropping lor the count In the fourth round under a sharp right cross to the chin,, ' SIIOKTAfiE OF MINISTERS COOLEEMEE. N. C.. UP) - Davie county has a shortage of Baptist ministers. There are 12 Baptist churches in the county with a mem bership pf about 2,000 and only one minister of that faith. Exnms Hard on Cagers MADISON, Wis. W pr. Walter E. Meanwell. University of Wisconsin basketball coach, says surveys he has made over a number of years indicate that his players lose from three to five pounds during the week and a half of mid-year examinations. He blames lack of exercise, decreased ap petite and late Btudy hours. - Purpat, of Money In lis broadwt sense nionev Is my material that by aurwrnent wrves as a common medium of ex. chantre anil measure of volae In tradn. Specifically It Is a standard it value and radium of payment es tablished by law. 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