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About La Grande evening observer. (La Grande, Or.) 1904-1959 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1932)
Page Two BASKETBALL RACE IS ANYBODY'S NOW Eight eams to Meet Hetfe in Sub-District Tourna ment Feb. 26-27. ; ' By Nolan Skiff . High school basketball teams In pastern Oregon are going down the back stretch this week and next, preparatory to tho spurt at the cor- -ner and then the gruelling dash down tho home stretch. And It is just as much anybody's race as it ever was! In , Union and Wallowa counties, exclusive of the city of Union, there nro, eight teams, all cf which have a definite chance for qualifying at the ' sub-district tournament to be played here at tho Ii. D. 8. Recrea tional hall Feb. 26 and 27. Out of the eight three will go to Union, and five others will return to their homes to start thinking about what might have been and next year. Several Upsets Occur During the hist week, however, a '.number of upsets have occurred that put . a slightly different complexion, on the faces or the aopescers, first, ' Union took La Grande into camp ' last Tuesday. - Second, Joseph hum bled Union decisively at Union Jest Saturday night. Third, Baker fell ' before La Grande here last. Friday "and then La Grande went down in a, sluggish contest with Pendleton on Saturday, although It took the Bucks an overtime period to defeat a de termined bunch of reserves who went Into tho game in tho fourth quar ;ter after it seemed hopelessly lost. All of those things mean some thing. First, Wallowa county at last , has a team that may make a really effective bid for a place at Union, and that team la Joseph. When, the ' sub-dlstrlct tounament opens here, ' one must count Joseph as the etrong? est team In that county, at least un Ittl It Is actually demonstrated that ' such Is not the case. ' Outlook Changes j Not so long ago certain dopesters wero predicting that La Grande, Cove I and North Powder would go to Union, i with Wallowa county not represented. -That docs not promise to hold true I now, although it still could happen. Tho defeat of Baker by La Grande i reyeals two things. One is that Ba I ker Is not unbeatable, and tho other ' is that La Grande can play a cham pionship brand of basketball. Un-. i ion's defeat of tho Tigers proves tho latter to be true of the Bobcats, al so. And in turn Joseph's win puts tho Eagles up In. tho front, at least : for a while. j Tho way the whole thing looks I . now is that the race ' for tho three places In the Union tournament is I .likoly to simmer down to a. contest between La Gramlo, Cove, Joseph and North Powder, with the possibility .that either Imbler, Elgin, Enter .prise or Wallowa might displace any . one or two qf the first mentioned four teams. In other words, it Is still a toss-up, with the first men - tloncd teams conceded a Blight edge j and the word "slight" means ox-r actly jat ami. nothing morol i - J u Urii1 the Dark lornn i Turning to La Grande, sports ob servers look upon tho Tigers as tho If "dark horse" In tho entire district. ' Coach Ira Woocllo has a team that can rise to supreme heights In. one night, yet tho following may play barely modtocro basketball,. They pan win from Baker, a really strong team, yet lose to Pendleton, which . cannot boast of a quintet of cham pionship caliber tills year. One night tho Tigers can't miss, and the next , the boskets look as little as dough . nuts to them, and their shots full to - find tho scoring hole. , Probably tho reason for this, more thun anything else, la the extreme youth of the La Grandcrs; Torrenco is tho only seasoned player on the squad. Whether the Tugers con stand ' up under the rugged test of the ; tournaments is the question that 1 looms as all-important so far as La Grande's chances aro concerned. As a matter of fact, tho nearer the ' tournament season approaches, the ' more tho matter of picking the ' strongejt teams seems an Impossible task. ' It's anybody's racol OWLS will GO TO BAUER TO MEET ANTLERS The Jack Allen Owls will go to ; Baker tomorrow night for a gome with ( uio uatcor Antlers, mi nggreffntlou : About on par with the Bttkcr Blue ' Jays, which lest to tho Owls earlier , In tho Benson In n fairly clone game. ( The Antlers wero defeated by tho Eastern Oregon Nonnnl school but this will be the first contest with the Owla. Saturday tho Owls defeated the Wallowa team 38 to 28 at WXillown. Dempsey Chalks Up Two More Victories CHICAGO, Feb. 10 (!) Jack Pcmp uey came back to Chicago today, with two more knockouts on his conic ' back tour list, and about 95500 rich er, to finish preparation for his match Thursday night in the Chi caqo stadium with King Levlnsky. Uempaey last night Bpent two mln- lit oa at Flint. Mich.. In knocking out ' George Kohler of Chicago, and one , Pat McLaughlin of Wausaii) Wis., i'beforo U.000 worth of trade, half of which wont to thp former heavy weight champion. ' If Thursday's crowd measures up to ; Indications. Demiwcy will make his first comeback appearance In Chicago , beforo a record Indoor crowd of ..nround 22.000 spectators. Should the .tudlum draw a full house for the four-round exhibition with the for . inui fishmonger, Dempsey will pick 'lip another $36,000. CITY CLAIMS WIllKST STItKKT TULLAHOMA, Henn. W) What city has the widest street In the 'world? Tullahomn, residents of this city claim. At Inn tic street, 330 feet ' wide, Is broader than the Champa Elysees, In Paris, 250 feet, or Canal street, In New Orleans, 200 foot. Tid lanoma aiso nas a puouc square con-1 taming 14 acres. ' Most Football Mentors Favor New Grid Rules By Herbert W. Barker (Associated Press Bports Writer) NEW YOEK, Feb. 18 W Generally speaking, the official reaction tp the changes made In the playing code by the national football rules com? mjtteo has been favorable but there have been dissenters enough to make the debate Interesting. The new and liberalized substi tutes rule and the move toward mak lng equipment safer not only for tho wearer but his opponents as well met with almost uuanimpus approval. But protests of varying degrees of emphasis greeted the otner four changes-rthe alternations In the klckoff and "dead; ball'' rules and; tho committee's decision to forbid the use of tho flying block and fly ing tackle, and the aggressive use of the hands on the defense. Believe Game Is Safer Those who favored the changes took the position that the rules commltt tee had made the game safer for the players without taking anything vital from It. Those opposed be. lleved some spectacular features had been removed and that the new rules would handicap the smaller player severely. Elmer Layden, of Duquesne, de- clared the rule which forbids a play-r er on the defense to strike a rival on the head or face with his hands will eliminate the use of small play? era," and called it "simply a protec tion for the big boys." He was Joined by three former Notre Dome-trained coaches, Tommy Mills, of Georgetown, Rip Miller, of Navy, and Edward (Slip) Madlgan, of St. Marys of Oakland, and by Bit) Ingram, of California. Harvey Har man, of Penn, thought the penalty for violation of this rule (disqualify eatlon of the player and loss of half the distance to the offending team's goal line) was so severo that of ficials would bo chary of calling It. Warner's Comment Qlenn 8. (Pop) Warner, of Stan ford, favored all of the regulations except that calling for an automatic aeaa oau wnen any part 01 wie carrier's body, except his hands or feet, touches the ground. Te point ed out that a ball-carrier could out distance all opposition in a dash to tho goal line and still lose a touchr down should he happen to slip and fall. pernio BJermian, who, branded the rule changes "mostly a hunch, of bunk," thought. the "dead'-' ball rule Was o, good one. "It's one. place," he said, "whore they've scot at the oauso of accidents." - Elimination of the flying block or flying tackle will handicap the little player, Dick Hanley, of Northwest ern, thought, and J. J. Llpp, a. Big Ton official, said it was "going to bo hard to call" a violation of this rulo. Olark Shaughnesay, of Loyola of tho south, favored elimination of the flying taokle but he thought the flying block was the smaller player's best woapon.s SPEAKH, MCIIIHSI.Klt DISAGREE PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 10 WH-The two loading football coaches of Ore gon do not soo ovo to eve on . the question of revision of football rules Urge For More Speed Has Campbell ily Edward Stanley LONDON Ono swift, urgent llfp story FASTER! H must bo put In capitals, for he has roared down tho sands faster than any man before him 246.773 miles un hour. If things go right he will go faster yet at Day ton a Beach In February when he tries to beat his own mark perhaps 300 miles an hour, five miles a minute I Just how fast ho may go Camp bell won't say ho doesn't like to make predictions and not live up to kill-Ill, But last April he wroto that he might bo able to go that fast In bis revamped Bluebird. More Power AH ho will soy now is: "I've got somo more powor than I had last year and we've made some altera tions in tho stream-lining. I'm sure the cor will develop more speod but wait and seel" Actually, some changes have been mado In tho front of tho machine not major, but Improvements. And the rebuilt Bluebird hos a new motor developing 1600 horsepower, which Is about 100 more than the one with which he set the present world record. Sir Malcolm-flie was knighted last year aftor his feat at Daytona has felt this urge for speed all his life, and ho will bo 47 on March 11. Whore he gets It he can't explain, perhaps from some bold Scot ances tor. Ills own father was a diamond merchants and lived a moderate, temperate life. Slurted on Hike But Malcolm started out with a blcyole, soon had a molor bike, then ono of the early automobiles, one of the early airplanes, and In 1910 started serious racing. In the meantime he hod become n member of Lloyd's. Since 1010 he had driven In scores of races, in England and abroad, and uet eight world spood marks. Now, ot 40, when most racing driv ers havo loft the track for good, ho is just nt the peak. In Oreat flhape Some of the explanation, of course. is the superb physical trim he keeps. ,: np noes n i turns, tmoKes a lot. but slows up before a race or test, and j boxes a bit every day. He lives out ( In the country, but has his office : in Old Bond street. Slim, and always looking ready, he has Homothlug of tho suggestion of steel springs about him. He has ; briBht blue eyes, a good laugh and I hard handshake, and like Americans, j Canadians. New Zealandcrs, and "all J those kind of people." t no thinks the Americans are al most too good to him. For the first time In nearly two yenra now haltet golfing activities i ln senttle for a few tlays the mldtllo 0 jwlunry. LA BRUSHING UP ABB '2 Urr IF The RKBBiT , HAD uJtoTep upturn ju . The. ehusImenT . - UNE,TfiE NWV MIGHT WWE LOST A, Gooo . 4 A a v a k t-i r-A WELCOMES J ( . cp.- mm fUCY AM I Al IfUCn VXUCM RABB'T MARANVIUE declared h? I HfcT ALL LAUC7MtL WMtIN would join the Navy, but the Rabbit sun prised everybody, including himself, on short notice. The Rabbit was. with the Braves in 1917, Besides being one of the best shortstops in baseball, Maranville had. a flair for bright lights, While hi? team was jn Philadelphia, the Rabbit and some hilarious friends were bending 3 festive elbow, Minute by minute the Rabbit waxed more patriotic. Suddenly he bolted for the nearest naval enlistment station, where he joined a fqn'g line of prospective recruits. Immediately he was recognized by an officer who happened to want a good shortstop for a service team. He considerately pushed the Rabbit to the head of the line. . The Rabbit has confessed that if he could have kept his place itv the ipe, his, patriotism and inspiration would have worn off long before he could reach the recruiting desk and the Navy would have had to worry along without a nifty shortstop. as announced Monday by the na tional rules committee. "What wo need," said br. Clnrcnco W. Spears. University of Oregon coach "Is more rigid enforcement of the rules rather than additional rules to confuse both officials and players." John Paul Schlsslcr, coach at Ore gon State .college, bellevos the new rules "a very constructive stop." Spears declared It will be extremely difficult to determine under tho new loying With Death Since Boyhood RISKS NECK TO A life Ioiir emvini; Tor peel will send Sir Malcolm rnmphpll in his niiirhlril II Kinnilng over tho sumls nt Dn.rlonn lirnch litis nioiKh orter a nev wurlil word. 'nmitell In shown below in the big car on the bench lint year whem he set t he pre-sent reran! of 'MS.773 miles per hour. MILErOSTS LEADING TO DAYTONA LONDON (in Life has been a welter of world records for Sir Malcolm Campbell, who will try to better his own speed mark: at Daytona Dcach In February. Here aro the high spots: Juno 34. 1033: World record, 137 miles an hour, mado nt Fanoc Island. Copenhagen. Sept. 35. 1034: World record, 146.16 miles an hour, made at Pcndlne Sancs. July 31. 1033: World record. 150.760 miles nn hour, made at Pcndlne Snntis. Feb. 4, 1037: World record, 174.324 miles an hour, made at Pcndlne Sands. Fob. 10, 1038: World record, 306.05 mlfes an hour, Daytona Beach. April 3. 1039: Double world record, five miles at 313 miles an hour, five kllomeUirs at 311 miles per hour, mode at Vernouk Pan, South Africa. July 17, 1030: New lap speed 80.7 miles an hour. Phoenix Park. Dublin. Feb. 5. 1031: World record. 345.773 miles per hour, Daytona Beach. GRANDE EVENING OBSERVER, LA. GRANDE, SPORTS... IT y u m J & rriDRSEP oi5E Tftt m THE SIA0RIS16P Tue SERVICE" rules, If a man uses his hands legally or Illegally arid that the rule will "create numerous discrepancies." As for the flying block, he said, the rules have prohibited that for many years "but in 15 years on the gridiron I have seen a man penalized for It only onco." Coach Schissler said he believed the rule on the use of hands by linesmen should bo clarified some what. Ho salt! the new substitute RAISE OWN MARK lib MlSm nn 1 By Lauf er rulo was "an excellent one" and that ho favored abolition of the flying wedgo formation. Schissler was par ticularly pleased with the new rul ing on when the ball Is dead. The Oregon State coach believes, however, the rule against the flying block "places too much of a handi cap on. the defending team." Sport Slants S S 3 s S " Alan J. Gould By (Associated Press Sports Editor) The Big Town gave Hack Wilson a pretty fair send-off, considering ho camo ln oa something of a second or third hand baseball "chattel, hav ing been discarded by the Chicago Cubs and subsequently by tho St. Louis Cardinals. But tho Hack has color. He is be ing given a fresh chance to deliver and tho benefit of a lot of ballyhoo. ii he gives his new employers in Brooklyn the same- kind of a "break" it will be nil O. K. in Plat bush. . True, Wilson took a 50 per cent salary cut, tho biggest of the year lor any bnseball star, but Hack is a for tuna to young man with piano legs and a bull neck to be gettino anything likp 10.500 for six months work when you consider the way he squandered his resources last sea son. Many a bank has been robbed for much less money than that and two such celebrated youngsters as Pep per Martin and Dizzy Dean won't una that much in their pay enve lopes combined, all year. bo the Hack, one may well sav. has been "staked" very generously for his como-back, which he seems qulto confident of making. Ho mum bled something that sounded like "Hit 45 for yuh," ln talking to Max Carey -and referring, presumably, to home runs. It's a large size or der with the jock-rabbit ball no longer available to knock around. Hack will be lucky if he collects 30 home runs this year, considering tne extra distances he must carry ln the big Brooklyn park, plus the fact that pitchers will tackle him with considerable confidence this year. Eyes O. K. Wilson ridicules the; story that there has been or is anything the matter with his eyes, beyond a mild astigmatic condition that exists in virtually every set of human orbs. "I can't use that as an alibi for last year or whatever happens to mo this year." said Wilson. "I have had three specialists in as many different towns examine my eyes thoroughly and they can't find any thing wrong; Just a little astigma tism. I have always had that. I don't really know what caused my hitting slump last year but I'm sure it wasn't my eyes." , No doubt it wasn't. Right after that Wilson promised his new bosses ho would stick to the straight and narrow path, avoid tho lures of dissipation and get to bed earlier nights than he did with the Cubs last season. Scott, of Milton, Seeks Re-election j PEtfDLBTON. Ore.. Feb. 16 UPI i James H. E. Scott of Milton, Umatilla ; county representative ln the state i legislature, has filed his candidacy ! for re-election on the Republican i "ckct. . ORE. Cougars Defeat Oregon Staters In Close Game Conference Standings Northern Division W. L. Washington State '.. 0 3 Washington, , 8 4 Oregon Stale 6 6 Pet. .750 .667 .600 .463 .181 Oregon 6 7 Idaho - 3 ii OORVALLIS, Ore., Feb.. 16 W) Washington State college, leaders of the northern . division oi the coast basketball conference, gained a more secure hold, on, their position last night by defeating Oregon state col lege. 28 to 24, alter a sun upniu battle. The Cougars, have won nine games and lost three and have only four more games to play, including an other contest with Oregon. State to night. The University of Washington, defending champions and closest riv als of the Cougars, have won eight games and lost four. They have four more games to play, two with Idaho and two with Washington State. The Cougars last night came through tho first half at the short end of a 13 to 7 score. In the sec ond half, however; they found their stride and drove well to the front before the Orangemen scored again. Oregon State had plenty of fight left and climbed to within one point of tying the score when Holsten, Cougar forward, eluded his guard, dribbled the length of the floor and scored. Cross added the final score on a free throw yoar wire or sweetheart, tk Packed in a liandy pocket pouch of heavy foil. Keeps the tobacco better and makes the price lower. Hence.,. Qq YOU CAN DEPEND GOLF-TOURNEY x WILL BE HELD v AT ALDERWOOD PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 16 OT The Pacific Northwest golf association's annual championship tournament will bo held nt the Alderwood coun try club hero June 27 to July 2. Paul P. Farrens, association president, an nounced Monday. Originally scheduled for June 30 to 25, the tournament was postponed by telegraphic vote of the directors. The original dates werb fixed at the annual meeting of the directors In Seattle a week ago. President Far ren cited several reasons fck' the , postponement. AltnouKli the dates for the Oregon State golf tournament have not been named it usually Is held early in June and Fnrrons said the officials of the Northwest association did not wish to havo the. two tournaments too closo together. . Piiget Sound Loses To Albany College ALBANY, Ore., Feb. 16 (P) With the score tied and ten seconds to go Albany college basketball team de feated College of Puget Sound 32 to 31 hero lost night when Bob Buchan an, Albany center, dropped a field goal for the winning point. The game was close throughout and was tied at 16 to 16 at the halfway mark. The American merchant - marine had a total of 25.471 steam, motor. and sailing vessels, canal boats, and barges at the close of 1031. - -Indoors. .... outdoors e most pleasing .An: aroma estpipe ON A LIGGETT & Tuesday, Fcbraary. 16, 19331 . . , . , -, g IRISHMEN STALL' AND WIN 131-27 (Continued From Page One) ' although he did go In during the last 15 minutes when Medcalf retired due to four personal fouls. But the Moun taineers were not ;playlng tho type of ball they have exhibited here in seme other games this season. McCarthy, Columbia forward, was easily the outstanding player on the floor and ne topped tne scorers with eight field goals for a total of lo points. McCormick, Irish center, and Woi thlcy, B. O. N. forward, each made six for second honors. The game was preceded by a pre liminary in which the faculty won from tho E. O. N. seniors 29 to 10. summary: ; Columbia (31): Hunt, f ......... McCarthy, f Mccormick, c ..... Plskol. g Leineweber, g ... Meyerthorlen, o . Warren, g '.. FG FT PP TP 0 2 12 8 0 2 16 3 0 2 6 11 2 3 0 0 2 0 10 2 2 1 0 12 14 3 12 31 FG FT PP TP 13 4 5 3 0 16 2 12 6 2 0 2 4 12 1 4 110 3 10 7 10 27 Totals: 14 E. O .N. (27): Medcalf, f Worthley. f Belts, c Carden, g Baxter, f Totals: Officials: Goodbrod, referee: Peare, timer. c. During the halftimo period, a group of Normal school boys, part of them dressed ns girls, engaged in a mock basketball game which caused a great , deal of hilarity among the fans. lerica s I acco MYERS PRODUCT
