' l Mm, SPORT SECTION RADIO NEWS V7 SECTION THREE PAGES 1 TO 4 WAY BETTER THAN LAST YEAR i i1 SALEM, OREGON, SUNDAY. MORNING, JANUARY 22, 1928 PRICE FIVE CENTS Urn i KEENE S MEN CIS BUY RIGHTS HOLD i COLUMBIA i SCORELESS SECOND HALM T I 0 ROCHESTER CLUB Division of High Schools Into Two Leagues Favored NKW YORK. Jan. 21. AP) Sale of the franchise and play ers f the Rochester club of the International league to the St. Louis Cardinals announced today. presages an end to the trouble Vii-riirh whir h the club has , W i - M Q - passed in the last few years. The price was $120,000. John I.. Hicks, one of the. former own ers said. The troubles of the club were for the most part financial and were characterized by attempts of tbe several owners to put the club on a paying basis. Hicks and his assistant. Wil liam Gilbert, consummated the ioai wHh the Cardinals after Walter Hagea failed in a six weeks' attempt to. raL-,e $130,000 v rnmnleta his purchase of the club. Hagen. who found his goll strategy of little avail in pulling a alrlr h11 Club "OUt of' th rough" paid $20,000 for an op tlon. He finally stepped out. WALTON LEAGUERS HE OBI FISUlI By Victor O. Carlson '' "If this group wants to do some-; hing worth while, let it go on record for a solution of the un equality between large and small high schools in athletics. Rome was not built in a day and It takes a long time to perfect a plan." With these wordsSesyvtary Roy Cannon, of the state' high cbool athletic association. insoired a scant material. Mathews build up some great Willamette teams. The Bearkittens, Lestle Sparks' freshmen hoopsters. are going good this season, and have a stronger offensive than any rock team since the year "Shadder" Riedel centered for the outfit. Tbe Portland schools are playing bet tor hasketball than last year, and m Oil THWEST CI RACE TO BE CLOSE McGRAW TO BUILD NEW TEAM AROUND INFIELD resolution at the recent conference! the champion of the Portland lea The Pacific coast salmon are to receive the attention of the Izaak Walton League of America, pow erful nation-wide sportsmen's as sociation, it was learned here to day through a letter to the Salem Rod and Gun club from Fred H. Doeliner. Chicago, general man ager of the league. Unregulated or poorly regulat ed methods of taking the salmon must inevitably result in loss of inmmit from this source, and loss of sport for anglers. Mr. Doeliner pointed out. "Let the present toll continue unguided. and without measures to maintain the supply this source of tremendous Income will soon be lost. No words are needed to ex press the feelings of the sports men on this subject. The hundreds oT letters that have come to na tional headquarters of the league tell the story," he said. The principal strength of the league Is in the middle west and oast according to .Mr. Doeliner, but its activities are entirely na t i f n n 1 and it strikes the need where it is most evident. "To league members, distance p nbi'o mfans little as lonz as a vitmtlnii cries for its help," iit said, "and that Is why it ha: thrown its whole strength recent ly into a campaign, now well un dcr way. to save the western duck from wholesale death by alkal poisoning, and that is why it now in:enri tn interest itself in th salmon situation." The league has state organize tions in California, Washington. Mid Oregon, and has considerable strength iu all other western state.?. of high school students in Eugene advocating division of the state into two leagues, one for small and one for larger schools to de cide the bafketball championship of the state fairly. This la but another round of the agitation which has been preva lent since the association was formed. The small schools con tend that they are discriminated against by their larger brothers and the big schools see in the small school majority a danger to their rights. Secretary Cannon has" not indi cated any specific plan, but it has been suggested that the high schools be placed in two divisions. One division would number those schools which have en enrollment of 100 or more boys and the other an enrollment of less than 100 boys. The districts would remain Northwest Conference Won Willamette Whitman Unfield Pacific Puget Sound College of Idaho Standings Lost Pet 0 1.000 1.000 1.000 .000 .000 .000 0 0 3 0 0 gue may also be state champion. Yet, the freshmen have held Wash ington, Lincoln, Benson, and Grant to low scores and divided games with Dallas high school. None of the men are outstanding stars, but play well together. Since the var sity will remain practically intact next year. Coach Sparks plans to nlv this combination together for another season, after which he be-J lieves the men will be varsity i ruber. Four more games are on the schedule against Portland schools. Commerce and Hill Military, next Wednesday in Portland, and Lin coln and Benson here Saturday. The Lincoln game will be prelim inary to the varsity-Linfield clash. Sparks also has scheduled a game with McMinnville February 21, and with Woodburn, February 4, and'S. Conference games this week: Wilamette vs. Linfield at Salem, Saturday, January 28. If Willamette hoopsters fail to as they are and two champions . - J.i.. rv- drop Whitman and Puget Sound veariv. one rer eacn ainsiuu. iuci - logical result would be, in the case of basketball, a two division ournament. At present, there are ibout 50 high schools which do not maintain membership in the association, but might bring new life to their athletics if they could compete on even terms with schools of their own class. Some such plan doubtless will be considered at a future associa tion meeting. In the meantime, the state board of control might well peruse the plans used in oth . ST 1 er states, sucn as maiana, anu propose one which will best fit the needs in Oregon. to win the conference title tms year, they should do so next Bea ton. None of Coach Keene's stare will graduate. Cardinal, De Poe, and Glass are freshmen; Ashby and Minto are sophomores in the law school; Hauk is a sophomore in liberal arts; and Led better and Litchfield are juniors in law. Flesher is the only senior and he has insufficient credit hours for graduation. He will be eligible for another season. Whitman loses practically its entire team by grad uation. Willamette university joined Whitman and Linfield at the top of the northwest conference heap by turning in a 34 to 24 victory J over Pacific university Friday. Whitman and Linfield gained their n laces likewise at the ex pense of the Badgers. The only conference game scheduled this week is at Salem between Linfield and Willamette on Saturday. The Wildcats have won- five straight games and ap pear to be more formidable than in any previous year. An interesting development of the conference race will be forth coming, February 1 and 2, when the Puget Sound Loggers play the Whitman Missionaries two games on the Walla Walla floor. These two strong teams appear to be evenly matched. Puget Sound holds a victory over University of Washington. Whitman lost to the Huskies by two points, and won by one point from the University of Oregon. Whether the Bearcats can riBel to heights and defeat these two teams is an interesting specula tion. Observers point out that Wil lamette developed slowly last year and yet when Whitman came to Salem with victories over leading coast conference teams, the Bear cats won the first game by a ten point margin, and dropped the second by a single point. i - .ew r sa.. . . . jt v -..-.. .... uwr v . & wr a. i ;tc AMY M wM cortii , ftl '-'tr bill tTrMv BEflHCATS P 37 T0 10 VICTORY Five Bearcats clapped each4 y f other on the back, went Into thi f game agalrnst Columbia "unlver-".- v sity last night with tea.m worki. ? such as has not been evidenced In : any previous game this season, and swamped the CI iff dwellers,' 37 to io. ;' viVs The Willamette men held Co- V. luiubla scoreless in the second . half, something quite unusual la a major game. fc Dennis Heenan. former Salf m v high star, roamed the floor, nia neuvoring for scoring position'. I but passes from his team males . went wild, and when he did grab x the spheroid near the , goal, f ' Bearcat usually grabbed with him : ; He tried several long ones in the second frame but his aim was in accurate. The team was tiullt ; - i around this man. and when ha - -failed the team failed. j , J AH the Willamette men playeo . " great basketball, but the perform- -ance of Flesher and Hank way- ": outstanding. Flesher. especially. was In a basketball mood.. . He .. .. covered the Columbia forwardp4. completely, and five times broke-w' Y through for goals. Cardinal had - Since winning his last pennant Mon he laid that year with three 3,.,,.t, rf tint the iounda- 1 hard luck under the basket eon-. f; f ,v 8 frtlng only e Central Point high school, in outhern Oregon, Is raising a lowl because Medford high school lecllnes to schedule basketball Tames with that school. Central Point has romped on all schools )f its class to win by top-heavy scores and now aspires to the dis irict title, but the doughty Med- ordites are apparently dis-inclin-jd to risk their laurels. The state oard of control may be asked to :aVe a hand. To stimulate interest in basket ball among the smaller southern Oregon high schools. Ashland formal school is arranging to hold i Division tr tournament in r?u- uary. EUGENE. Jan. 21. (AP) jwas in doubt throughout. The University of Oregon opened! At half time the score was 1 1 to CANT GET DIXON FOR NEXT SCRAP Georgie Dixon, the Portland negro, is not available for a bout here next week against Battling Slim, Promoter Plant announced vesterdav. The colored boy has already been signed to appear on a Portland card a week from Tues day. He will be available two weeks later and may be signed for a bout here then. Plant last nigh twired Willie Gordon regarding terms for an ap pearance here against Phil Bayes. Wednesday, February 1. Bayes stock was considerably boosted by his victory over Hellnian, and a big fight is in prospect wheat he gets into the ring with Gordon. Scores in Conference Games Whitman 57 Pacific 2 Willamette 84 Pacific 24 Linfield 28 Pacific 21 its Pacific j coast conference bas-l ketball season here tonight by de feating the invading Idaho Van jlals, 29 to 23, in a game which was exciting from first to last though not particularly fast at any time. The teams were evenly matched and except for the last two or three minutes of each half the score was not separated b y more than the distance of one or two b askets. Oregon played a fast breaking 11 in favor of Oregon, but at the beginning of the final period Ida ho staged a rally which brought the count within one point of Ore gon, 22 to 21, and which threat ened to engulf last season's north ern section champions. Summary: Idaho (23) FG WEST LINN CAPTA!" ,TE .tJoach "Spec Keene ued h.rt, .nd Freddy Lln-Utrom tWri 0lii.ti.M tv7U . " : - ''-ilL! .SSJLE Oregon Quintet Opens Season Beating Idaho sight out of 88 tries. man of the frame ., ht entire squad In the tilt, but frequent changes failed , slow .fttreclabIy-,ta"'-"wi, DOT IB Stowell, f . Carrine, f . . McMillan, f Burgher, c . offensive style of game, which was;Thornhlll, c . KILEEN ON CARD MILL CITY SOON Bob Mathews will resign iiu? k- sition as coach at St. Louis uni versity this year, according fo Hip-po" Watson, 1912- Bearcat The league west of the Rockies football star, who was in Salem ; v vuntsllv anHi ' . . . . . . has been growing rapidly, ana sportsmen and lovers of the out doors maintain that here, as in more eastern points, it will be come a powerful body devoted to tha interests of the outdoors, with the strength behind it to remedy unfavorable conditions and work for. the increased propagation of game and fish and outdoor recre ation generally. ecently. Mathews is eyeing tue rar west again. Mathews was coach at Willamette university from the fall of 1914 to the spring of 1921. He went first to University of Washington as freshman coach and then was elected by Univer sity of Idaho as head coach, leav ing there two years ago. With LLOYD HAIIX WINS Terry Kileen, the fighting Inde pendence school boy, will headline the Mill City boxing card, Febru ary 14. He has been matched with Frankie Birnell, of Portland. Both boys weigh 155 pounds. Si Flook will mix with someone yet to be selected in the semi- windup. Eddie Graham will box a pre liminary with Kid Fergesen of Portland. Matchmaker Boggess is lining up two otner gooa preliminaries for his customers. NEW YORK. Jan. 21. (AP)- Llovd Hahn. Boston A. A. middle distance star won an easy victory in the Blooklyn college track thou sand at the fourteenth annual Brooklyn college games tonight. His time was 2:17 1-5, more than fnnr seconds slower than the world's record he set last year Lea Larrivee of the Chicago A. A was second, forty yards behind him. in direct contrast to that played by Idaho. The Vandals used a variation of the percentage sys- ;em, which was made famous on :he Pacific coast by the OrejgoniChastain Aggies. Many long shots featured the attack of Idaho. After the first few minutes, .when Oregon played an almost invincible brand of ball, the outcome of the game .1 .3 2 0 1 1 1 Greene, g Jacoby, g Totals 9 Oregon (29) f 2 Ridings, f 6 Milligan. c 2 Epps, g 0 Bally, g 1 Totals 11 FT 0 0 0 0 1 0 4 5 2 2 0 2 1 PF 3 1 3 0 1 2 0 10 0 1 2 1 1 5 BOWLERS TO MEET PORTLANDERS TODAY! WILDCATS LEAD VALLEY CIRCUIT ROD & GUN CLUB BANQUET FRIDAY The Salem Rod and Gun club will hold its annual banquet next practicing regularly at the Winter r-riday evening ai me nucei Garden runways. have been show- ion. The Linfield Wildcats, who play Willamette university here next Saturday, are leading the Willam ette valley conference by virtue of defeating Albany college, 20 to 13, and Pacific colege, 35 to 23. The Wildcats have won four this year, losing only to first clash between bowlers of the'he Oregon Aggies by a score or M5 to eariy in me teasuu. pa cific university and Reed college Fifteen Salem pin smashers comprising tnree teams win en gage a similar number of quintets in Portland this afternoon in the games Alva Cranor, captain and scor ing ace center for the West Linn high school basketball team, has quit the squad and left school, ac cording to a report reaching here yesterday. If this player is not in the West Linn line-up when that school plays Salem the games which de cide the district title, the chances for Salem to defeat the team and get into the state tournament are much bettered. West Linn, to date, has had a remarkably good season, defeating among other teams, Dallas, Eu gene, and Albany. Salem high's next game is against Independence here, next Tuesday. It is a game which counts toward the district title. hut one which the Red ana mac . .. .... nvnoi-latinn nf will-1 1 1 (I V t' CC1J r jy ' ling, as Independence has a poor team tins season. Two tough games are in pros pect for the Salem team when it meets the O. S. C. rooks at Cor vallis. Fridav. and the Oregon Freshmen in Salem. January 31. The latter game will be played as a preliminary to the Oregon-Willamette game. iwo cities. The Salem men, who have been Governor I. L. Patterson. Sec- etarv of State T. B. Kay. and the ;tate game warden have been in vited to attend. TWO FAMILIES RELATED, TOO HAVE B.B. TEAMS iu frosh defeat n HIGH 1 rnnrh Lestle Snarks' Bearkit tens overcame Grant high Bchool last night to win 22 to 18 after a enirlted rally to reverse the 12-8 tha Pnrtlanders held at the iau end of the first half. Eaton, chubby little forward for the freshman, goaled some pretty throws for high point honore and his team's victory. He tossed four baskets in the second half. Thf came marked the fresh men's first victory over a Port land school this season. Several have been lost bv one and two point margins and the Bearkittens were pretty well discouragea Snappy passing won for them last night. ' - . . Grant high school used ten men In the znma in an, endeavor to stay the freshman rash. Summary: ' . Grant (18) Willamette,1 Froeh 22 Gabler 2 ....F.. De Harport 4 -Roth 4 F Eaton 11 Stahl 16 C Waddell 1 Kirk 2 G TTxel 4 Gleason G Marsters Substitutions for Grant Watts Bale (4) Grant, Hansen, Brown hill. For freshmen Harmon (2) Carlson. - - i t h v.j pt tc? 't' '"M . ,. t : l l !.! t torn familiB ftf Hh . i im hm Ljmiea vkCB . j - are its other victims. Willamette valley standings are: conference Chandler each cOii.i . ' I basket-. Flesher and Car4maT"TTl tied the score two minutes "latefvV and from then on Willamette 'bet' gan to build up the lead,. At the. "J half It stood 17 to 10. .p The Cliff dwellers blew up la the face of the Bearcats' cloW checking In the second half. They heaved wild pasees. tossed for the basket from . tne V'rr "1 floor, and pther: a Ing game. '"jttS 't lamettea'nosseaUeiL m ' A.a m ' "rs- nme in xaw irsm.v ""m:" Statistics: ;i ' : t N'ame. Litchfield Glass . . . , fte Poe . . Minto ... Cardinal , Flesher . . Hauk .... Tries. Conversion 10 2 ':. fi 2 j. 4 1 i -;. 10 5 10 0 f 81 16 ' ' Columbia made four out of 49. " - Summary: Willamette (37K Columbia (10) '' Litchfield (4) F... (4) Heenan V l)e Poe (1) . . . F. Cardinal (U) V,C. (2) CosgrcA'e (t Chandlery, Y VOLLEY TEAM BEATS CHEM AW A ing some fine scores the past few weeks. Some of the bowlers have Averages which promise to make it warm for the Portland rollers. Virgil Stoiliker, who has na tional reputation as a tenpln ce lebrity, and George Van Welder will lead the Salem men. van Wieder is leader of the city lea gue with an average of Other men who will play are Clem " Kertson, Don Poulin, Bert Vicker, Ercel Kay, Doc Hussey, Ed Pratt,: Charley Munson, Jim McMullin. Wayne Kantola. Al Ti tus, Bill Hunrick, Montle Mohr, and -Ray Lucas. l The Kelly's Olympians, Western Dairy Products, and thrMammy's Shack; five will oppose the Salem playera. These teams were recruit ed for the most part from mem bers of the Portland city league, j Salem will stage a match against Portland In Salem a week from today. Substantial purses are bing of fered for winners of the competi tion, i Virgil Stoliker, proprietor of tbe Winter Garden here is a pin smasher of unusual ability. In the New Ycrk state tournament in 1923,i Stoliker established a rec ord when he bowled a perfect score of 300, and won the singles championship from a field com prising the best of the sharpshoot ers in that section. Linfield Pacific College Albany Monmouth ' . . . W. 2 0 0 0 L. 0 1 1 0 Pet. 1.000 .000 .000 .000 A volley ball team from the Salem Y. M. C. A. defeated Chem Indian school Friday night in the first of a series of games to be played with surrounding . i communities. The Salem line up was Phillips, Page and Lane, spikers; and Page. Jr Litweiler, and Moore, set-up men. Silverton. WToodburnMt. Angel Amity, and Independence witt-take 1 4rt... matit in Ji 1 " Til - nan l ii h luii i litwin-nw HEADING LEAGUE later this spring. ! Multnomah club plays Salem's SUNDAY SCHOOL LLAGl K , flrgt team next Friday on the lo- BUNGALOW QUINT- mini iip VVHDnil The only "rood will envoys we ever receive are the meter read- era, nd thoe ioys areJust am- A;n TIL. cerhaps is me oiujr ' - . . .. ,an.r. the elder son . wwf - ' m - - - AnBif(c in emeu cue vuc iuici "" o - - Yetb.ll pUyen, .iSZmuin the team, attract large crowds.- John as coach, while the Toanaonare pUyers Lusch tcara above, is made up of the Lwch manages one teain SUey tiawiey Een bottom row ohn Jr Robert, John, Sr. La-1'T ,T,n. - , . ' ' ' . iTrboSom StanTej, CharleV Albert. Bungalow Christian Jason Lee First Christian Presbyterian Leslie Methodist First Methodist W 2 2 1 1 0 0 Pet. 1000 1000 500 600 000 000 ical Y. M. C. A. floor. Both, teams jhave been practicing hard for this event, and it should be worth watching. Bungalow Christian church Sun day school and Jason LeeSunday school are tied for leadership in the city Sunday school league. DALLAS DEFEATS INDEPENDENCE HI ASTORIA, Jan. 21. (AP) Southwest storm warnings were posted here tonight after a day of intermittent rains and a cold wind. WIXS BY TALKING CHICAGO (AP) Jack Brit ton, once, worlds' welterweight champion,1 is in his twenty-fifth year as a boxer. He says the -se cret f his success is his ability to oat-talk his opponents, keeping them I rattled so: they miss ihelr puncnes. K v INDEPENDENCE, Ore., Jan. 21. (Special) Independence nign school last night lost to Dallas high school 16 to 11. At the end of the. first half the score stood 12 to 3 in favor of Dallas. Inde pendence plays Salem high next Tuesday night. McBRIDE TO HELP 'BIG TRAIN' 3. CHICAGO (AP) George Mc Bride, former shortstop, and man ager of the Washington Senators, and 1926 coach of the Tigers, will aid Walter Johnson In the man agement of; the Newark Bears of the International league next sea son. McBride and Johnson were teammates on the . Senator" or years and ronlyhls -friendship for the" VBlk . Train" moved JicBrlde , to re-enter the, gam STORMS THREATEN WILL HOO 5HO0CL, 1 rjJ- Fleshertf -I'i.tlU icVt; Haukf5H;lk 1 ft SubsUt siow. uea Duer M - For- Columbia Sullivan- f2--r Milan. Davis. Referee: Mason. D. DF W. DEFEATS lOTH't r.T- SEATTLE, Jatt.i-JAPA brilliant last mlntrte rally brought a 26 to 13 victory to the TJ Diver sity of Washington basketball team over Washington State cpl- V lege in the first conference game here this season. i , The university jumped Into a 7 ,' to 0 lead shortly after the opening -' of the game but W. S. C.resorted. v to long shots with success. At half - time tbe tally stotfu 9-au. . : In the second half the score -was tied twice. Faced with a critical ' situation, the university succeed-i ed In breaking up the effective W., C. five man defense through stalling tactics. And in the last four minutes of play; the Huskies, ', . mm . . a , i & aroma htm iieia rai x to win. - - . .. V. spectacular victory over tLtirat -ern Washington rivals.' ; " M The score : Washtngton (26) TQ . IT ' PF Snider, f ' 3- 2 Bolstad, f 0 9. 9 . Dalquest, c ...... 0 . Bernson, g. ...... 2 ' J ' 2 James, g ..... 1 2 0 Brobst. t ........ 2 X 4 2 Totals .........10 9 . 9. w. s. c. (is) .; Bohwer. , 0 o - Buckley, f 1 1 Brumbley. c 0 0 GUleland. g 1 0 J McDoweU, g 2 ' Totals 3 . w Referee, Bill Mulligan. ; rj .."' : -t l ' JACKSON'S TAX CCt- ""t ...... . 'jr" ' MEDFQlfD -J"-" I. r(AF-r . The fax Atxf iitii&T and state fc Jackiou -co'tinty.'ln high'-scboc . dlstrlctV 7 -mm sr - otttslde higttBChool districti,l& sitlla" according tiy-the -tfountt sessor'.ThUU 4.6 mills leA C s ; baasadors At the gas bill, .