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PORTLAN D INQUIRER Friday. February 1. 1946 Page f i » t SPORTS faú Until inquiry AMUSEMENTS Jesse Owens' Kansas City Stars Battle With Rollerdrome Quintet Mathis to Illinois WASHINGTON— (ANP) — Bill Mathias, the Washington school boy cinder path sensation, en rolled last week at Illinois uni versity. Mathis holds the interscholas tic 10 meter AAU indoor record and over the past two seasons hasn’t been defeated in the dashes in an indoor meet. In the District of Columbia he holds the 100 yard dash, 220 yd. dash and broad jump records for the high schools. He stands only 5 feet 7 inches and weighs 150 pounds. Jack Claybourne Wins Second Till In Local Ring Jack Claybourne, better known to wrestling fans, as “The Black Panther” , has won and is winning the admiration of sport fans in Portland in his two appearances here. He is a fast, clever, and ex perienced wrestler who has been clean, and exhibiting sportsman ship tactics against the opponents who have opposed him. Tuesday night he defeated Babe Small of Portland, two falls out of three. Claybourne won the first fall m 15 minutes by the use of the cork screw hold. He lost the second fall when Small used a leg hold. After being treated to some “roughing” by Small, and being thrown out of the ropes, Clay bourne leaped over the ropes with and conquer boys” on all types of programs. “There is no OWI to send us our Allocation fact sheet each month in our war on intolerance”, he wrote. “And never forget that it is our war, the war of radio, the war of everyone who believes in the principles for which we have jui't fought and the principles for which Americans started dying before 1775.” He warned against attempting to “ballyhoo a nation into an in telligent understanding of the other fellow’s point of view the way you can whip it into a lather of patriotic fervor for rendering unto butchers that which is fat salvage” and cautioned that “the fight against intolerance is long, slow, never spectacular campaign of education in decency and good taste that we, who discovered the propaganda weight of radio dur ing the late war, must carry on for true peace on earth, good will to all.” Monday night, Feb. 4 Jokes are mighty propaganda weapons, he said, and added that gag writers are perhaps the most important group of radio writers that can make a mighty consrtuc- tive contribution against inteler- ance. Names do hurt, he advised. The old saying, ’ “Sticks and stones NEW YORK— (ANP)—The ra may break my bones but names dio can pl^iy a major role in pro will never hurt’ is passe” , he adds. moting peace and tolerance, ac cording to an article recently VICTORY LUNCH written by Carroll Carroll, a and CLUB columnist for Variety, a national — W e S e rve 24 H o u r s D a ily — theatrical publication. H O T B IS C U I T S and J B T -I.Y C H IL I Since the voice of radio enters N o t e : H o lid a y , f o r m e r l y a t into millions of homes, it has be K e y sto n e is a t O nr C lu b come a commanding force, he B o b S eeger, M a n a ger said. Radio writers have a 1466 N. Williams Court chance to “warn against the slinking weapon of the divide- COMING TO THE DUDE RANCH Jesse Owens, Olympic track champion and world’s festest hu man, is looking forward to ap pearing in person and presenting his crack Kansas City Stars bas ketball team against Fee’s Roller Drome Quintet at Jefferson High school on Feb. 10, 1946, Sunday, 1:00 - 2:30. Owens has been breaking gym attendance records with his per sonal appearances throughout the nation since his triumphant re turn from the Olympic Games at Berlin in 1936, in which he won four first-place medals and four records, the first time any athlete had ever achieved that feat. Never in the history of any sport has a champion approached Owens’ record. In personal pop ularity, he ranks second to none, due to his engaging personality and devotion to his people. He has equalled or shattered world’s records in eleven recog nized track and field events, es pecially the sprints, hurdles and running broad jump. He broke three world’s records and tied another within a period of two hours in the Big Ten (Western Conference; track meet at Ann Arbor, Mich., May 26, 1935, when, as a member of the Ohio State University team, he gave the greatest one-man exhibition of speed and endurance ever wit nessed. From there he went on to more and more great achievements, cli- maked by his leading the United States team to victory in the 1936 Olympiad before the anguished eyes of Adolf Hitler. Jack McVea and his orchestra opening Promote Peace, Tolerance by Radio Programs Joe Kahul Now In California OUT ^5 Jack Capri is en route to San Francisco with Joe Kahut to take in the Jimmy Bivens-Oakland Billy Smith fight there Wednes day night. Kahut sends word that he has no intention of retiring becaus of his first-round kayo by Gus Lesnevich, but thinks he "DEEP ARE THE R O O TS" N A - play, sent its national company learned a lot from it and will go TIONAL C O M PAN Y— With its out on the road last week. Left to ahead now with all the more de original production still going right, Henry B. Scott, Frances termination. Oddly, his defeat strong as the only dramatic smash Waller and Robert Harrison are has gained him more recognition hit on Broadway, "Deep Are The the three distinguished players than all his victories did. In San Roots" the remarkable color line heading the cast. (ANP). Francisco he and Capri will dis cuss offers to appear there and in iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii¡iiiiitiiiiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii^ ¡ Los Angeles, and when they come I home a proposal to headline a big- name fight revival in Seattle will as be considered. Meanwhile Joe is tentatively listed for a comeback (Under New Management) appearance in Portland on a dou- [ ble main-event bill with Tommy ! 522 N. 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