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Scoring Duel Between Cen
ters, Torson and Cardinal,
j Big Feature
Coach Amory Gill's Oregon
ptate College basketball team de
feated the Willamette university
quintet, 39 to 31 on the Willam
ette floor Wednesday night, but
the. visitors' were forced to extend
themselves to the limit. WiUam
ette was ahead twice, just before
the first half ended and just after
the second half opened. Oregon
State led at half time, 20 to 19.
.The game developed into a
scoring duel between the oppos
ing centers, Torson of O. S. C. and
Cardinal of Willamette. Cardinal
had all the best of it in the first
half, -scoring 11 points to Tor
son's seven, but in the second
half Cardinal was checked closely
and Torson overcame his lead.
This was the deciding point of the
game.
- Of the three Salem players on
the Oregon State squad, John
Drager, towering guard, was the
one who chiefly distinguished
himself. Patterson and Bob Dra
ger each played part of the game.
Another feature was the duel
la floor play between Ilauk of
Willamette and Ballard of the
Staters. Both proved "ball hawks"
of unusual speed and aggressive
ness. Bearcats Off Form
Although the Willamette team
made a good -showing against the
team from the big school at Cor
V all is. Coach "Spec" Keene'3 men
did not display the accuracy in
shooting that was evident against
Portland independent teams be
fore the holidays. It was freely
predicted that If the Bearcats had
been "on" Wednesday night as
Ihey were In those games, they
would have beaten Coach Gill's
outfit-
The Staters exhibited an inter
esting variation of the percentage
play developed by Bob Hager. the
present style being considerably
faster but utilizing the feature of
set "plays" and blocks which Ha
ger taught.
Summary:
Willamette Oregon State
Adams (5) ...F Patterson
Litchfield (1).F... (8) Ballard
Cardinal (13). C... (16) Torson
Scales 6 Y G . . ( 4 ) Wascher
Hauk ) ... .G..(4) J. Drager
Gibson S... (2) Callahan
Led better . . . . S . . . . ( 3 ) Grayson
S. . (2) R. Drager
Referee, Al French.
Frosb Beat Indians
The Willamette freshmen de
feated the Chemawa Indian school
team in a preliminary game. 28
to 15, The Indians rivaled the
first year men in speedy floor
play.: but were uncertain about the
location of the basket. Coach Les
lie Sparks' freshmen were ahead
14 to 6 at half time.
Summary:
Freshmen Chemawa
Faber (10)... F (2) George
Marr 411) . . F (6) Leaski
McBee (1)... .C. ... Peratrovich
Hartley. (1) . . G . Spencer
Bell - G. (4) Prettyman
Engebretsen 3 . S .... (3) Vivette
Referee, Regele.
GEORGIA TECH TEAM
TO GET BIG OVATION
ATLANTA. Jan. 2. -(AP)
Georgia Tech's conquering foot
tall heroes, due home January 8
from their 8 to 7 victory over
California in the Rose bowl at
Pasadena, will find probably the
greatest ovation in the history of
Atlanta awaiting them.
The blare of brass bands and
the cheers of thousands will greet
the Otfldsn Tornado, under plans
started today.
Acting Mayor Claude L. Ashley
disclosed that the probable wel.
come from the city officially would
Include the participation of the
police band, the tire department
and members of the city council.
Hundreds of Tech stndents will
have returned from the holidays
and they wiu lena ciemaing nana
In' making the demonstration one
of riotous color, while thousands
or alumni, friends and followers
of the team; will converge here
from everyJ section of the state
and many- from distant parts of
Dixie to cneer toe team.
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By QU1N HALL.
N the office of the Pittsburgh
Pirates Earl Sheely is dividing
the interest with Santa Claus.
While a lot of the boys who drop
into ths business quarters of the
Pirates are conversationally busy
over the subject of Christmas,
there are fust as many who are
punching the bag over the added
strength Sheely is going to give
the Pittsburgh club when the teams
line up for play next season.
Sheely, acquired from the Sac
ramento club in the Pacific Coast
League, through the draft route
for $7,500, ft already being given
the regular first base assignment
by a lot of the Pirate fans. Almost
anyone will tell you that Sheely
is the most valuable prize plucked
out of the draft grab. Karl did
a great job of covering ths first
base territory during ths season
past, and batted .381, finishing
second in the Pacific circuit in that
respect.
It will be recalled that Owner
Comiskey of the White Sox paid
something like $25,000 for Shee
ly 's release from a minor league
back in 1921. He played first base
in Chicago regularly until ths
Summer of 1327, when Jim Clancy
crowded him out of the job. Hav
ing no further use for Earl. Com
iskey ser.t him te Sacramento,
where he proceeded to make goodTthat a player of ths Sheely type
in no uncertain manner. Clancy,
meanwhile, played a good game,
but did not measure up to Sheely
in hitting the apple.
Now Sheely comes to the Pirates
for a mere 87,500, and the fellows
who follow the pma say that if
Pittsburgh uses ivirl regularly at
the initial corner next season he
will be among tie leading hitters
in the National l oripue.
Paul Waner, ths champion hit
ter of the league In 1927, was
shifted from the outfield to the
initial bag last season and his bat
ting immediately dropped off. Paul
explains this by stntine that in ths
infield a player is forced to use an
underhand throw nnd" that this
causes a muscular reaction in the
arms and shoulders which has a
tendency to tie up his swing at the
plater
The sharps also point to the fact
that Sheely. at first for ths Pi
rates, would give "PI" Tr-ynor
a true target to shoot at. "Fie"
is one of the best hot corner men
in the league but he it so fat at
getting away with his pegs to
first that it takes an experienced
man te handle ths first bass job
at Pittsburgh. Trayncr was said
to have made more w;' hav-? to
first last Summer thn any time
during his career but it ii 'ilceiy
would have saved many of those
erratic pegs.
"Dutch" Reuther, the southpaw
who was cast adrift by the New
York Yankses and finally rigned
with the San Francisco Seals, is
another fellow who. starred on the
Coast last Summer. Dutch just
didn't fit into the Yankee picture,
according to Miller Huggins, but
on the Coast the lefthander is con
sidered one of the best twirlers
in the circuit. He mint certr.inly
won games for the Sea's.
Jolley, the big right fielder of
ths Seals, is another outstanding
star ea ths Coast. He led the
league in batting and when the
Coast baseball writer chose an all
star team for the circuit there
wasn't a ballot east against him
for ths right field job. The make
up of that team was Reuther,
pitcher; Sassier, catcher: Sheely,
first; Kerr, second; McLaughlin,
third; Lary and Lee tied for the
shortstop berth; Johnson, left
field; Averill, center field; Jolley,
right field, snd Thurston, utility.
Not a bad lineup.
And now Sheeley is coming
back to the big top with the
Pirates and the fans will be watch
ing his progress. He looks to be
ss good, if not better, than he ever
was and that i. pretty good.
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CLEVELAND, Jan. 2. (AP)
Myron T. , Herrick, 74, United
g 6 tat es ambassador to France since
'j.912, tonight was suffering from
an attack of asthmatic Influenza
that confined him to his bed at
bis home at Gates Hills, a suburb.
Mr. Herrlck's condition, at first
believed oy relatives ana 11 mum
to be alarming, took a turn for
the better today. At his home It
was said that be was "resting
easily" and was in "high spirits."
Dr. John Phillips, the ambassa
dor's physician, said there was no
Cause for worry unless complications-set
In.
Mr. Herrick became slightly HI
when he caught cold about ten
days ago. Early this morning- Dr.
Phillips was called when Mr. Her
rick had difficulty In breathing
and had a fever; Dr. Phillips took
two tanks of oxygen to the Her
rick home; but found it unneces
sary to use them. - The physician
later said Mr, Herrlck's fever had
Subsided and that his breathing
waa normal.
By NORMAN E. BROWN
Sports Writer for Central Press
and The Statesman
Mr. Tex Rlckard and Mr. Jack
Sharkey are still having the aw
fulest time.
My sakes.
It's all about a suggestion that
Mr. Sharkey fight Mr. Young
Strlbllng in Miami next spring, as
one of the first of a series of
fights to select Gene Tunney's suc
cessor as a fighter, not as e
Shakespearean critic.
First Mr. Rlckard announced
that he was going to hare Mr.
Sharkey meet Mr. Strlbllng. Then
Mr. Sharkey said it was the hooey
and warming up to his subject
called Mr. Rlckard the worst
thing he could think of a man
ager of prize fighters. Mr. Rlck
ard denied that, of course, and
called Mr. Sharkey a polite term. Mr,
meaning loud mouth.
But don't get all het up about
this argument.
This battle of words probably
was in the bag before the an
nouncement of Rickard's inten
tions was made.
Get this.
There had to be some early
publicity on the fight. Strlbltng's
drawing power lies in the fact,
primarily, that he Is a southerner.
His record as a heavy isn't any
hotter than that of a bushel bas
ket of other heavies. Sharkey had
one touch of color that none of
the others had the ability to
shout.
; What was more logical than to
put his under jaw to work the
minute the bout was arranged?
What other idea would have
kept the wires hot with matters
pertaining to the fight over a per
iod of several days? What would
create more general interest in the
fight- and more cash customers
than the thought that Mr: Shar
key Is a bit timid about meeting
Strlbllng?
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STOVE LEAGUE
ARGUES BONER
It's Been a Long, Long Time
Since Football Saw
Such a Play
MORGANTOWN. W. Va.. Jan.
2. (AP) A double "boner" of
the sort produced by Roy Riegels
in the California-Georgia Tech
game, was recalled here today by
football fans.
In 1922, with Rutgers and West
Virginia university as the comba
tants. Dickinson. Rutgers' full
back, recovered a
fumble and set out for His own
goal. After he bad covered 20
yards he was tackled by Joe Set
ron. West Virginia guard who was
on Walter Camp's ail-American
team that year, and Charley How
ard, big Mountaineer tackle.
Riegels Lost Bearings on
Eluded Tackier, He Says
As Reason for His Boner
By VICTOR G. S IDLER
Associated Press. Sports Writer
PASADENA. Calif., Jan. 2.
(AP) The wierd 75 yard run of
Roy Rlegels, California center, to
his own goal line, echoed by the
groans of thousands of Bear fol
lowers who, in the Rose bowl here
yesterday, saw their team go down
to an 8 to 7 defeat before the
Golden Tornado' of Georgia Tech
primarily because of that hapless
blunder, re-echoed today wher
ever gridiron fans gathered.
Everywhere! the luckless mis-
tain-elect, which paved the
By ALAX J GOULD
Associated Press Sports Editor
NEW YORK. Jan. 2. (AP)
Football records become a trifle
hazy with the years. There is no
counter-part of the "Little Rel
Book" of baseball to check on past
performances on the gridiron, but
it has been at least one or two
pale blue moons since anything so
startling has occurred as Roy Rie
gels' now-famous run towaid his
own goal line at Pasadena.
"Such things have happened be
fore U-ut not as a deciding factor
in so big a game." That about
sums up the impression or root-
ball men hereabouts today to
ksfhofn the question of precedent:
for Riegels' dash was put.
There has long been the fa
mous case" of "Snooks", Dowd. one
time major league ball player,
who ran nearly 200 yards for a
touchdown some 70 yards to his
own goal and then, upon discovery
of his error, over 100 yards the
right way for a score, including
the distance across field. But Rie
gels had no such luck.
"I never heard of a player mak
ing so "long a run in the wrong
direction." said Edward K. Hall,
chairman of the football rules
committee, "but I have seen play
ers start the wrong way a number
of times after emerging from a
mlxup with a fumbled ball.
"It was very easy, as I read the
play, for Riegels to go wrong. He
was not accustomed to ball carry
ing and he probably came out of
the mix-up head down, bent sim
ply on moving away. 1 In being
spun around he just lost his sense
of direction, as he says."
Instances of players getting
started the wrong way have been
numerous but they seldom get
very far without discovering their
mistake on being checked," said
Ed Thorp, famous referee. "The
yells of teammates or the crowd
usually will wake a fellow up be
fore he has done much damage,
but I can understand readily bow
It happened to Riegels. It Is very
easy to lose a sense of direction
after being spun around In a mass
of players and it must be remem
bered that California had just
changed goals.
Mr. Rlckard can take a lot of
mean worm, provided the fight
goes over in a financial way.
Fights aren't pleasant things to
stage at best. One vivid recol
lection of the daily visit to Rick
ard's office during the days pre
ceding the last Dempsey-Tunney
fight at Chicago was the incident
of a boy rushing in with two suits
of clothes, fresh from the dry
cleaners, and carting away an
armful of others soiled in the pro
cess of rubbing elbows with prize
fight managers, fighters and so
forth. The Increase in the bank
roil the day after the fight, how
First Stroke of
New Year Marks
Hole in Just One
DALLAS, Tex., Jan. 2.
(AP) It was his first
stroke of the first hole of
his first round on the first
day of the new year. The
result was a hole In one.
George Dexter was the
Llnksman who started
1929 In such auspicious
fashion. The short tenth
hole at the Brockhollow
country club where Dex
ter and his three com pan.
ions chose to start their
round, was the scene.
way
that proved' the ul-
was re
was an
circumstance was
for the safety
tlmate margin of victory
called in detail. That it
unfortunate
generally agreed. None the less,
if. like many other "boners" that
have colored ports history in the
past, likely yill rumble through
the years to tome.
Playerj Not Blamed
Thi3 freak play of modern grid
iron history, j Riegels "long dash
after recovering" Stumpy Thoma
son's fumble in the neighborhood
of the Georgia Tech 25 yard line,
was not the result of "dumbness"
on the part ot tne oionae Bear
player, all agreed. His. team
mates and coach, Clarence "Nibs"
Price, took it for what it proved
to be a "break" that favored
Tech. while the general concensus
was that he was simply befuddled
momentarily when, charging to
wards the Tornado goal line, he
suddenly reversed and headed to
wards his own.
Riegels was broken up today
BEAUTIFUL
HO
over nis Diunaer. He orrerea no
alibis, snd would not talk about
it, choosing rather to forget. Ap
proached after the game yester
day, the tow headed pivot man
denied that he had been hurt and
as a result was unconscious of
what he was doing.
Bearings Completely Lost
"I was running toward the side
lines and when I picked up the
ball I started to turn to my left
toward Tech's goal. Somebody
shoved me and I bounded right off
into a touch tackier. In pivot
ing to get away from him I com
pletely lost my bearings.
"I wasn't out of my head at all.
and I hadn't been hurt. I think I
showed that when I came back In
the second half and played
through."
Riegels. in the second half
olayed brilliantly, erasing part of
the stigma of his previous blun
der with his defensive work,
which included the blocking of a
Tech punt.
Scribes here commend the
southerners for following the bail
and hall Warner Mizell, Georgia
Tech's star halfback for the dash
ing runner he proved himself to
be. but they all revert to the old
gag that the "breaks decided the
game." California got her shar;e
of breaks and took advantage of
therri. In numbers, perhaps, these
nemesis Jot gridiron perfection,
were equally distributed. When
the scribes make that particular
statement, they refer to one
"break" that one tempestuous
sprint of Riegels.
After visiting San Diegr and
Tiajuana. Mexico, . today the
Georgians will return to Pasadenn
tonight, and leave for their home
state tomorrow morning at 11:30
o'clock.
BRIBERYGHARGE
A I R E D JT MEET
Emil Fuchs Says City Coun
cillor Wanted Price for
Official Vote
BOSTON. Jan. 2. ( AP? The
Boston Finance commission, sit
ting as a tribunal to hear charges
of bribery, today heard Emil
Fuchs. president and manager of
the Boston National Baseball
team, testify that William G.
Lynch, Boston city councillor, had
sought a bribe for favorable ac
tion by him to permit Sunday
baseball and other sports in fios
ton. The hearing was on charge
made by Charles F. Adams, vice
president of the club, and owner
of the Boston Bruins team of the
National Hockey league.
Fuch's testimony had to do
mainly with a meeting in his suite
at tho Copley Plaza hotel at which,
he said. Lynch told him he repre
sented a "bloc" in the city coun
cil which could hold up passage of
the Sunday sports bill, recently en
dorsed by a referendum in the
state.
"Lynch told me," Fuchs testi
fied, "that they (the members of
the bloc) had come to the conclu
sion that passage of the bill would
give Adams Sunday baseball and
that they thought they ought to
et something out of it. They rlg
ured, Lynch said, how many Sun
days the Braves would have and
how much the receipts would be.
"Then Lynch said that the
members of the bloc had consid
ered that I could afford to pay $5,
i)00 a man to have the bill
passed." ,
Fuchs said that Lynch had lists
yt those who were In the bloc and
hose who were not.
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MAY NDT BE OPENED
NICE, France, Jan. 2. (AP)
Frank Jay Gould's new $5,000,-
000 casino may become a while
marble elephant on his hands. The
gala opening, widely advertised
for January 1, was called off at
the last moment because the
French government had not Is
sued a license that would allow
the little horses to run. and play
at the baccarat and other tables
to proceed.
Hundreds of persons dressed ill
evening clothes, the women In
their best fineries, waited outside
the gates for several hours while
500 employes. Including waiters,
croupiers, cashiers and managers
stood at their posts within. Then
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celled and after further delay It
was announced that the place was
not ready.
Authority of the w'clty council
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scribed as the most beautiful
European casino, was easily ob
tained. The difficulty apparently
arose with the federal government
in Paris. The situation Is regard
ed as so serious to the welfare of
the city that the mayor of Nice
departed for Paris today to pieaa
that the government grant a
gambling license to Mr. Gould's
establishment.
Cltj. leaders fear failure to open
the casino might create unwilling
ness among other foreign capital
ists to Invest their money in
France.
SALEM HIGH PUYS
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FRIDAY
The high school basketball sea
son in Salem will open Friday
night when Coach Louis Ander
son's Salem high quintet plays
Roosevelt high of Portland In the
local high school gym-
Roosevelt Is reported to have
built up a winning team this year,
and Is expected to f urnlsh the red
and black some tough opposition.
The Salem high team looked
promising in Its pre-season game
with the alumni, and the fans are
looking forward with keen Interest
to this first Interscolastic test.
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