P age T
m ake the most powerful offense
the best defense.
Nowadays, it takes b e tte r con
Entered as second-class matter, at the postofflee at Brookings, Ore., ditioning of players to w ithstand
March 7. 1946. under the Act of March 3, 1879.
the pace set on the maple courts.
It is nothing at all to see two
D ewey A kers , Editor and Publisher
ordinary high school team s pour
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job this season, a l
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though not a team to break any
scoring records. G uthrie is one
who believes in winning by a
sufficient m argin, not one to have
There is rarely a day passes without some news re his boys pour it on when possible.
Guthrie likes team play, likes
lease concerning scandal somewhere among those who to give a show of ball-handling
are connected with the government of this country. No as well as scoring. His team s are
week ever passes without altogether too much of this a lw a y s alert to weaknesses of
the opponent. Guthrie is hard to
kind of news. People have come to the conclusion that stop when going gets tough. He
there doesn’t remain any honesty anywhere—certainly also is a great man to train the
boys in sportsm anship.
there is no faith in humanity any longer.
I seriously doubt if G uthrie is
No political party has a corner on the number of peo a man to perm it any of his boys
ple involved in these exposes. These scandals date back going a fte r a scoring record. May
be wrong, but I think G uthrie
more than throe decades—back to the Teapot Dome, the believes th a t such action is not
mail scandals— and since have not changed, except for the sportsm an-like way to play
the game. G uthrie’s m ethod is
the party in power.
proven as correct—f o r he has
People are becoming more and more confused, too, been a constant w inner ever since
by the apparent split in the leadership of the Republican I came to Brookings.
Basketball scoring records are
party which will not enable voters to make a change at great
"copy" for sports writers,
the coming November election. Where can any voter but I doubt seriously if the col
lege coaches approve too much of
put his faith at the moment? W hat will he believe?
the practice. The prep high scor
ers, in college, usually are ju st
I Swede Halbrook, of Lincoln high another group of fellow s out to
: at Portland scored about 50 in earn a position on the college
| a game late last season. Johnny team. Maybe I asn wrong, but I
Fredericks of Tigard broke that doubt it.
i w ith a 58 early in the season.
Playing Molalla later in the
season Lincoln High made it pos
sible for Halbrook to break the
M artha Grayshel, Max R rainard
Fredericks record, b y pouring
and
Lily Myers flying kites.
through seventy-odd points. This
sam e lad. a few gitmes, later put
Three “Men About Town” ju st
that record in the discard with about to get picked up for vag
about ten to spare.
rancy.
Last
week-end
a
Jerry
Crim-
■
Pete Lesm eister’s t a b l e -top
mins of M ilton-Freew ater, poured
through 94 points and Halbrook bassehall team —as much as he
will not lx* left alone with his now has.
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attem pt to hold the record. The
How about th at investm ent —
M ilton-Freew ater aggregation, in youth preferred—w ith e x tra div
this game, scored 116 points, itself idends From compound interest.
almost a high school record.
Shop-keepers finding a womans
M odem basketball, a fte r the
elimination of the center jum p,, < house) work never done.
is not the game I once knew. It
By D EW EY
is so much faster now— there is
B asketball scoring recoi'ds in more ocfipn tn a quarter than
S jJ
Oregon high school competition once vvm displayed in a whole
this year seem to be a dime a game. Prom the fans standpoint,
dozen, with plenty of change to scoring is what they w ant to see
the predictor. It all started when so team play has been built to
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