I i SALEM H1BH SLATES ES . Who will be high school state champion of Oregon in 1928 may be indicated before the tourna ment is held, Salem high school yesterday completed arrangements for a two game series with Medford I n southern Oregon for February 3 and 4. and with two other possi ble title contenders on the sched ule, Eugene and Astoria, a fair in dex of the strength of the various schools in this section will be pretty well established almost a month before the big show is stag ed in the Willamette gym. What eastern Oregon will pro duce this year in the way of bas ketball teams is a bit uncertain, but it is significant that never Hi the tournament's history has the title been won by other than a Willamette valley or southern Ore gon team. The lack of proper playing facil ities and the long distance between contending schools are features which slow up development of out standing teams in eastern Oregon. The night before the first game gainst Medford, Salem will play Ashland, making three tough con tests in a row. Ashland one year won the state title, but have usually-been bested by Medford for the privilege of competing in the tournament. On the schedule, now practical ly complete, announced yesterday by Manager Homer Lyons is a game against Washington high school of Portland for January 13. This is the night Willamette uni versity pays Gonzaga here, and it Is possible that the two games will be put on as a double header in the Willamette gymnasium on a fifty-fifty basis. Some new material for the team was uncovered yesterday when Coach Louis Anderson pitted his men against the Black fCats, a lo cal independent aggregation. Sa lem high won the game by a 40 to 18 score. Charles Kelly, Bob's brother and a budding star in the football backfield last fall, broke into a forward berth and by, his show ing yesterday, may be kept there for the season, at least until Tom Duffy Is eligible. With Kelly at forward was Schafer. Ecker and Bob Kelly at guard and Lyons in his customary berth at center completed the team which wal loped the Black Cats. Anderson indicated yesterday that this would be his starting lineup against the Finns next Fri day and Saturday at Astoria. , Ten or twelve men will be ta ken to the Columbia river city in a bus starting Friday morning if the highways are in a good condi tion. PETTIT REFUSED CHANCE TO PLAY Earl Pettit, backbone of the Parrish junior high school basket ball team, will not be in the line up tonight in the first game of the season against its Salem rivals. Leslie Junior high. -Mrs. LaMoine Clark, principal at Leslie, yesterday issued a vig orous protest to Superintendent George Hug against Pettit's rep ; resenting Parrish. on the ground that he is Ineligible. Superintend ent Hug indicated that the pro test would be sustained. Pettit, who starred at football n pel for Parrish and who is considered J proactive candidates for the Sa one of the most able athletes ever!iPm spnator snnad next soring. developed by a Junior h!$h school. Is taking three subjects at the sen ior high school, and only one sub ject at the Junior high. 'Mrs. Clark bases her eligibility protest on this point, covered by a state association rule that a player must be taking four sub jects and passing in three. Coach Earl Douglas of Leslie said his team would not play to night if Pettit was used In the Parrish line-up. When notified of the protest. Coach Frank Brown of Parrish de clared he would start his second team against Leslie and attempt to; aeieai me scnooi vim tnat aggre gation, rather than break up his first string combination which he is'polishiffg up to meet a number of valley high schools. The men slated to open the game for Parrish are Vanderhoof and Foreman, forwards: Morley. -Center; Slegmund and Bachelor, guards. Starting for Leslie in the initial game between the two rivals will be Kenneth Lewis, at center; Connie Duncan and Floyd - Del Harpport, at forward; and Claude Martin and John Bone at the guard positions. Shipman may break into the line-up in place of Martin. Reserves on the Leslie squad who may get a try are Bill Trinde, Otaker Sedcik, Leone Wenger, Boyd Trindle, and Claude Mathls. " Leslie has been greatly handi - capped by the lack of a maple court on which to practice. The men hare been . using ' the high school floor at odd intervals, but not with anything approaching! regularity, and bo practice at all was held yesterday. The game tonight will be played on the Parrish floor starting at 7:30 o'clock. Later in the seas on, a fame will. be played on the high school floor. i 4-; ItaNaifesfata A v.t u i i A T - 4C A Long Shooter v Kenneth Yunker, captain of the University of Missouri basketball team, will conclude this season his third letter year at forward posi tion. He is known throughout the Missouri valley as one of the most accurate long shots In the conference. ort racisms BILL PITT Babe Ruth has just won the duck shooting title of the Yankees. He afso holds the dollar snagging honorg. ' When hunting the quarkere Babe just shuts his eyes, imagines he's facing Pittsburgh pitching and lets fly with both barrels. For the next two hours there is a solid rain of bagged birds in the vicinity. In a single day of hunting Babe knocks more fowls than he does all season in the St: Louis ball yard. Babe says he has lost 16 pounds, so somebody else must be getting the drumsticks he bring to earth. Babe is wearing a new racoon coat. He probably bagged lba baby In the wilda of Fifth Avenue. Ruth says he is eager baseball season to open, the ducks. for the So are DIAMOND SEASON ALREADY TALKED Weather in the Willamette val ley doesn't look! much like base ball, but there are a lot of peo ple thinking about the national sport, even though the earliest practice is more than a month awav. Within the last few days two have approai hed Manager Leo "'Frisco" Edwards. One was a hefty pitcher who looked like he i-ould put a lot of weight behind the ball, and the other was an out fielder. Meanwhile Edwards has heard from another source of a prospec- 1 Hvtfc Renfltnr thnnirh nprhanQ nnt for next season. Word has been re ceived that Bill" Steers, home run star of last year's team, is the father of a husky boy born December 12. Steers, Jr.. weighed 9H pounds at birth, and Bill says he expects to have him ready to QUt for the team ,n about one more season. (JEXE SARASKX WIN'S MIAMI BEACH, Fla., Jan. 3, (AP) Gene Sarasen, former open national champion, today success fully defended his Miami Beach open golf crown, winning that event with a card of 292 for the 72 holes of medal play. : The Idea that bad luck Is at tached to the number 13 Is com monly explained by the fact that Christ and Ht disciples totaled thirteen persons and. that He was betrayed by one of them, accord ing to an answered question in liberty. aPortlsAcL ZOOcoanlarraMc SAM D. ADK1S80N pTJ &ttwZe I" t pi P'f - ' - J ? 4 A I - L & 'ih 'I I 'It ' ' ''i ' "I vM I iu on : VB HOTEL CONGRESS : PORTLAND. OREGON VHE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON. MA 'S 1 ; Cardinal, Bearcat hoop star at center, is temporarily on the shelf with a bad ankle and lee because of an injury suffered in the Mo hawk game, and the chances for a good showing against University of Oregon are much minimised. Coach "Spec" Keene said yester day. The two game series is sched uled for Friday and Saturday of this week at Eugene. Whether Cardinal will play de pends upon prompt healing of the injury. While it is not a serious one. Keene wishes to take no chances of having Cardinal laid up when the team plays Pacific In the first conference tilt, January 20. Strength to the squad was add ed yesterday when Glass, a fresh man, an all-state guaTd from In diana, reported to Keene. havint returned . from his holiday vaca tion in Califronia. Manager Swegle of the Oregon Mohawks is not satisfied with the result of the game against the Bearcats last week, when his team lost 3d to 29, and has asked Keene for a return game. Swegle declared that the ab sence of Roy Okerberg, all-coast center, weakened his offense 85 per cent. Okerberg started from Eugene at 4:15 in the afternoon h Aid not arrive in time to start at center on account of the treach erous condition of the highway. With the regular playing season approaching, Keene does not eye another game with the Mohawks with any satisfaction and proDaDiy will not schedule It. o- I LISTEN IN WEDNESDAY MOKNINO 8:00-9:00 KXU (220). Early Riser pro 8- 30-9 :'0 KTBR 285). Moiic. I OO-lOiOO-KEX (240) P",.C'ik- 9- 00 10:00 KXL. Portland Early Birta. 900-10:30 KTBR. Women Eichance. 10:00-11:30 KGW (492). Household hlD and music. 10:00-12:00 KOIX. Housewife a pro loToomi;:30 KXU Lire AViro and eoux-t-qy prorratna. WEDNESDAY ATTERNOOH f -00-1:00 KOIN. Organ concort. 13:00-1:00 KFEC (214). athr r , port and music. 12 :00 6 :00 KFX. 12:30-4:30 KXU tiont. 1 00-1 : 15 KOIN. 1 :00 1 :30 KWJ.I iervicc program. 1 00 3 :00 KTBR. 1:30 2:00 KWJJ. gram. OO 6:00 KWJJ. Concert. Afternoon present Farm flash. (220). V. S. Poatal Music. U. 6. Marine pro Concert 3:00-4:0 KOJN. New and qiusle. 3:00-4:00 KWBS. Mnaie. 4:00-5:00 KKEC. Musi. 1:30-8:00 KXl.. Mimic and market r ports. 5:51-6:00 KOIX. Topsy-Turry Times. 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Sporf 6 DoneBnotyrt Round 0 -JUftft The poor showing of Bobby Jonei and the victory of Tommy Armour In the U. 8. open golf championship tourney were the high spots of the month of brides. Atlanta Bobby started off In the open with a score of 7t. His sec ond round fotind him with a score of 72, and he wound up the tour ney with a total of 309 strokes. His showing throughout the play was poor enough to worry his most araent supporters, it was his worst score In an open event since he broke In. He had a 303 at Columbia In 1921. Coincident with Bobby's blowup came a popular victory for Tommy Armour, game little Scotchman, carrying the wounds of war. Armour and Harry Cooper. Los Angeles youth, ended the regula tion .72 holes tied, with 301. Cooper finished his last round ahead of Armour. When the lit tle Scot faced the last six holes he seemed hopelessly beaten. Then he fonnd his stride. Playing the next fire holes under par he came to the last hole to face the prob lem of shooting a birdie three to tie Cooper's score. He met It. In the playoff that followed Armour and Cooper came to the thirteenth green with Tommy, the Scot, two down. He cut that lead one on the next hole and then tied Gigantic Reduction of Prices on All Used ONLY lightly Damaged by Smoke and Fire WEDNESDAY MORNING, JANUARY 4, 1928 Cooper on the fifteenth with 4 putt of 10 feet, j JThe II holes found htm three strokes to the good. He had gained one on each of the last three. ' The other outstanding events of the month were the defense by Mickey Walker Of his middle weight title In England and the victory of Columbia's crew in the Poughkeepsle ' regatta. Mickey was the first champion to risk his title in England since Ritchie lost his lightweight title to Freddy Welsh there In 1913. Walker took Tommy MUligan, rec ognised as the most promising fighter in Europe, and European middleweight champ. The invad ing champ dropped Milltgan for the full count in the tenth round. The victory was well received by British experts and raised Walk er's stock In America. The other ring event of note was the defeat of Pete Latro, welter weight king and the man who had knocked Walker off the welter weight perch. to, whose worth as a champ had been questioned. was defeated decisively by Joe Dundee in a 15-round bout in New York. Jack Dempsey and Jack Sharkey signed articles for their bout which took place later In the sum mer. Baseball fans had two trades to fan over In addition to the run away race in the American League and the close fight in the National. First the Cubs traded Jimmy Cooney and Tony Kaufmann to Our Surplus the lowly Phillies for pitcher Har old Carlson. Philadelphia fans raised such a howl that the club triod in call off the deal and even asked Judte Land is' aid. claim ing that Kanfmann was not In con dition to pitch, David Harnm tac tics and '.inresDonsIblllty of tne messenger boy who delivered the telegrams. The trade stuck and Carson proceeded to help lift the Cubs within shouting distance of the pennant for a time. John McGraw traded pitchers McQuillan and Greenfield and shortstop Eddie Farrell to the Braves for Benton, Catcher Taylor and lnfielder Thomas. Farrell proved to be the one bright spot in the Brave machine. McGraw drew thirteen crates of selected raspberries. Whiskery, Kentucky Derby win ner, was forced to taste the dust of Buddy Bauer's heels In the rich Fairmount Derby and at East St. Louis, 111. Bill Tilden, whose play abroad had been one of the sensations of the season, continued to point himself for the Cup matches, de feating Henri Cochet in the semi finals of the hard court tourney at St. Cloud. Then he faced La Coste. Their contest will live long in tennis history. La Coste won in a contest that went five sets the last of which went to 20 games. La Coste winning 11-9. Helen Wills announced her re turn to form, after a part season layoff, by trouncing Miss Billie Trapscott, South African star, In two love sets in 18 minutes at Stopk Destroyed By Monday's Fire uVlALL PART OF RsckonhRm. England. A few days later Betty Nuthall, .inwAo--nii nritish girl, star tled the tennis world by defeating Mrs. Molla Bjurstedt Mallory in the opening play, of the Wimble don tourney. ' T7M,.HAth nvan. sister Californ- tan of Helen, added to the interest in the tourney by defeating Mrs. Kitty McKane Godfrey, considered England's greatest net star since Ryan's return to tne u. o. Great Britain's Invasion of the U. S. in quest In the Kyaer cup, golf prize, was a dismal failure. George Duncan saved his fellow from suffering a com plete route by defeating Joe Turn- esa with a beautiful putt ior a birdie three on the 36th hole of I hereby nominate for Better-Homes Expositions "Miss Salem" Contest Name Address - Telephone Number GOOD FOR 5000 VOTES. Fill out and mail to Con test department; "Better-Homes" Exposition Office, Chamber of Commerce Bid. if match ' Bill MelhOTB WOD aeMlnr match of the series " . earlier In the play by beating Archie compston. r.K:Mn In ' Thompson's America First! Foundation costs ten dollars a seaa. is not re klr that therel be anything in the head. The New Yorker. - STOCKHOLDERS MEETING stockholders of the Gold CreeK , tn ri will hi Mining ana - - held in the room, of tlu . Capita Business uouege, ." V Salem. Oregon, on Monday. Jan o. 1828 at 7:30 p. m. By orae. of tnJ pre-iLnt. Geo. W. Shand Attest. W. I. Staler. Secretary AS f w nli.' :' iiiiiiaHii'inwi""""1 '"' """"" "' i J"'V is zyrKi Ui it (WVii A.' r -