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PAGE SEVEtt or League Football Teams Get Into Full Stride Today Nearly Every Grid Squad First Picture of Sharkey-Loughran Fight In United States Cavorts The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning. September 28, 1929 Mai In Early Season Workout By ALLAN GOULD Associated Press Sports Editor NEW YORK, Sept. 27. (AP) With the debate still on over the latest heavyweight punch and the world's series yet in the conversational stage, Old Man Football and most of his boys will leap into action tomorrow further to compli cate the scene for the pop-eyed spectators of the sporting whirl. . It will mark the first general rush of the major teams across the gridirons from coast to coast. Though light skirm ishes are forecast for the most part, the big fellows will have an opportunity to display their stuff in actual combat PREPPERS OPEN E Chemawa Grid Team Clash es With Columbia; Sil verton Slates Game SILVERTOX, Sept. 27 (Spe cial) The Silverton high, school football team opened its season auspiciously today with a 13 to 0 victory over Molalla high on the local gridiron. The local team played consistent football both on offense and defense, considering the fact that this -was the opening game. CHEMAWA. Sent. 27 (Spe cial) The Chemawa Indian school football team, which has made a good showing In two pre vious games In Portland, will open Its home season Saturday with the Columbia university high school team of Portland as oppo sition. The game will start at 2 o'clock. The Redskins go Into this game minus the services of Hart, one of Coach Downje's most promising ball carriers, and the coach, who looks for the Catholics to bring an exceptionally strong squad, Is none too optimistic over the re sult. His lineup will probably include 1vette and Bear, ends; McKay and Jones, tackles; Curley and Charles, guards; Hover, center; Smith, quarter; Meachem, fall; Franklin and McCrlff, halves. HILL AND HILL Horse From Emmert Stables Forges Ahead in Fi nal Quarter Hill and Hill from the C. C. Emmert stables with Richardson up, sprinted ahead In the last quarter to take the one mile event for three-year-olds or older from a field with Cross Bow, Thurs day's winner. Tar Box with Smith up took the five furlongs run and Walpole pounded In ahead In the six furlong run. Guy Frisco under the reins of June won the 2:14 pace on sheer speed In three firsts, with best time 2:09U in the first heat Never threatened seriously, Guy Frisco provided the. thrill of the harness races. Dottle, with Wll bourn in the sulky, iron the 2:20 trot by not breaking into a run In any of the three heats. Cross Bow led for the first lap ot the one mile after dashing at the start to get from the out side to the rail. But the extra fire pounds load proved too much for Bath Parton's extry and the bay failed to place. Hill and Hill fnrred ahead to take the wire with none too much margin. The summary: 2:20 trot; three one-mile heats, every heat a race; purse $50: Dottle (Wilbourn) 1, 1.1; Merry land f Lance) 2. 3, 2; Josie Mont- gomery (Hanson) 3, 2, 4; Galley Vernon (Merrmj . . s; ume: 2:13, 2:16, 2:16. 2:14 pace; three one-mile heats, every . heat a race; parse S500: Guy Frisco (June) 1, 1, 1; nar Walnut (Wright) 2, 2, 3; Nlad (Hanson) 3, 3. 2; Sport (Kasfc) 7. 4. 4; Blffast (Trus- dale) 4. 5, ; Todd Man (Deat le0 6, 5; Stoney Logan (Todd) S dla.; time 2:09; 2:09, 2:10. Running race, about 5 furlongs. for 3-year-olds and older: purse $150: First, Tar Box (Smith); second. Volley (Jennings); third. AcT o Clubs (Rowe); time1 57. Mile run. for 3-year-olds and older; purse $200: First, Hill and Hill ( Richardson): second. Mo- noa (Mclntyre); third, Shasta Lil ly (Cox); time 1:45. Six furlongs, for all ages that have started at this meet, and have not finished first or second; nurse $150: First. Walpole (Rich ardsoa) : second, Carlisle (Jen nings); third, Harcum (Cox); time 1:18. SALEM ITE 1 SfSPKCTKD PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 27 ( AP) Twelre hours after he was struck by a hit-and-run driver, Al Breugger was still unconscious at a hospital here tonight, police said the automobile which struck Breugger was registered to a Sa lem resident. CLE1IENCEAU HAS BIRTHDAY PARIS. Sept. 27 (AP) Georges Clemenceau will be $$ to morrow. The Statesman carries durable, clearly printed cloth signs which will protect your property against hunters and trespassers. I SEASONS WINS ID LE RUN -o'for the first time, with the chance that some of them may find unexpected opposi non irom the little fellows. Such changes as have been made in the football rules for 1929 especially that making all fumbles dead at the points of re covery, have been designed to help the little fellows and elim inate a lot of the '.'breaks." The preliminary tests will be watched with considerable interest. Nearly All Conference Teams to Participate Major conference teams north and south, east and west, will fig ure In tomorrow's play with a few exceptions, Including the old east ern big three. Harvard, Yale and Princeton, and six members of the Big Ten-MichiRan, Ohio State, Northwestern, Chicago, Minnesota and the championship Illinois eleven. These aggregations make their debut next Saturday, Octo ber 5, but the warfare is on a widespread scale otherwise. All the Pacific coast conference teams, all members of the south western conference and 20 of the 23 of the southern conference outfits are slated to play, but the big six of the Missouri valley area, where Nebraska is the pres ent ruler, have another week of practice. Georgia Tech, which had the best claim of any to Na tional championship honors last year, is one of the few southern elevens making a delayed get away. Red Eagle Is Given Chance to Do Start The east had not much prospect of early excitement although there will be Interest in the open ing exploits of the army's All American, Red Cagle, as the ca dets take on Boston university. West Virginia was upset last year by Davis and Klklns, but is not likely to be caught napping again. Syracuse has an eastern innova tion In Its night game with Ho bart. The only southern conference championship game brings to gether Vaaderbilt and the Univer sity of Mississippi at Nashville. There may also be fireworks at New Orleans, where Clark Shaugh- nessey's Loyola team entertains Rice institute from the south western conference group. Michigan to Take On Two Opponents Michigan begins the big ten double header program, playing Mt. Union and Olbion. under the new regime of Harry Kipke. Wis consin, Indiana and Iowa are the only other western conference teams scheduled to play. Three Rocky Mountain confer ence teams the Utah champions, Montana State and Brigham Youag are scheduled against non-conference foes. On the Pa cific coast. Southern California tackles its Los Angeles rival U. C. L. A. for the first time, while Stanford goes agaiast the Olympic club veterans, California meets .the frequently dangerous Santa Clara team, and Washington tackles Whitman. Webfoot Grid Team Starts Season Against Pacific At Eugene Today PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 27. (AP) The University of Oregon will play Its first football game of the season tomorrow while Ore gon State college meets Itj second foe of the season in the Califor nia Aggies at Corvallis. The Eu gene grldders meet Pacific uni versity of Forest Grove. Both con tests are non-conference games. Much interest has been shown in the University of Oregon - Pac ific university contest since at will be the Webfoots only content be fore meeting the powerful Stan ford aggregation at Palo Alto next week. Captain Mason of the university eleven will be out of tomorrow's game and probably will not be in the lineup when Oregon clashes with the Stanford Cardinals. He sprained an ankle, in scrimmage. Coach Crip Toomey arrived at Corvallis with his team today. He said the eleven is suffering from a crippled line, while Coach Paul Schissler of the Staters bemoaned the loss of experienced tackles, guards and ends. The probable lineup for the Oregon State-California Aggies game: California Aggies Oregon State Schmidt, (cpt.) LB Gustafson OREGON I LL OPEN SEASON Robinson LT Leathers LG Stovr C C. Smith RG Borges RT Goodwin RE Finn Q Weir LH Rhyne RH Souza F Larson Cox Oeddes Thompson Stout McGilvray Buerke Sherwood Hughes Gilmora Read the Classified Ads. IjX is - i . ' A : '?- AiZ$S- 7t r v - Ki This picture shows what happened in the third round of the Shar sailor smacked Tommy's profile. From then on It was all a blank for t count of five but he was out on bis feet and the referee halted the con HEILIG KEEPS $205.90 Will Not be Turned Over to Portland Box ing Commission PORTLAND. Ore.. Sept. 27. (AP) Charging that previous payments for charity had been spent by the commission to meet its own bills, Calvin Heilig today refused to turn over to the Port land Boxing commission $205.90, charity's share of the receipts from the Strangler Lewis-Howard Cantonwine match at the public auditorium last night. "They "can sue me for the mon ey if they want to." Heilig de clared. Heilig holds the contract for the use of the public auditor ium with Virgil Hamlin as" promo ter. He Insisted that he wants the money derived from wrestling matches to go to charity as . the law provides and wants to make sure the boxing commission does not get its hands on it to pay its own bills. James Cassell, representing the American legion, sponsored the law which provides for the pay ment of a share of the receipts from wrestling to charity through the medium of the Portland box ing commission. Heilig demanded today that a separate fund be created for char ity's share of the wrestling re ceipts. "I don't want the boxing commission to get its hands on the money," he said. BULLETS VICTIM HOLDS OWN PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 11 (AP) Elmer Jones, 17, negro porter, victim of a bullet from the gun of a rival in love, was report ed to be resting easily at a hos pital here today. Wlnthrop Dela housaye, whom deputy sheriffs said did the shooting, was being held in the county Jail on an open charge. The shooting occurred at a road house near this city last night CHAR TY FUND Pointing for Championship Br7BpsspBBBBBsr WPaWMMMMMM s t - f , . , rT. ,siy t v Head Coach Howard Jones, left, and Captain Nate Barrager, right, f the TJatversity of Sowthersi California are getting their heads to gether early this rear in attempting to repeat their successful season of 1028, when they won tho Pacific Coast honors and made a na tional rep for themselves. . Faced with the prospect of playing CaU fomla, Stanford and Notre Dame on successive week-ends, the team win have to be good. '4 t i la r &LmJtevlmmmmJt f1l'MW -l" 'i rw !....n, .. )' I QOMlXIEMTrS h BY CXJtZ T 1 S The football season opens today in earnest, with teams all over the country springing into action. Seems like the opening of the season is getting earlier each year. Oregon State played last Satur day, and school at the Corvallis institution opens this coming Monday. TJ. of O. starts Its foot ball schedule today, and classes will get under way next week. Well, that's proper. The im portant part of college life gets under way ahead of the inciden tals. Three of the Northwest con ference teams will be In action to day. If our schedule Is correct. Pacific plays Oregon at Eugene, Linfield opens at home against Centralis Junior colleges, and College of Idaho plays Washing, ton State at Pullman. Salem fans may watch their first game today too, if they'll take the trouble to drive ont to Chemawa. The Indians play the Columbia preppers. Two nat ural fighters the Indian and the Irishman. It's been only two years since Chemawa held Willamette to a 6 to 6 tie, and as we recall It, it took a Chemawa graduate to score Willamette's touchdown. But now the Indian school is a full fledged high school, and will stick pretty largely to its own class this year. There's a bigger margin be tween high school and college football nowadays than there used to be. The change, in our pinion, is principally a. speed ing up of college football. More high school boys are going to college, o the colleges have a bigger group to pick from. Eighteen years ago when we were in high school, the particular school we attended had a first team that played other high school teams, and a second team that played the smaller colleges milium I ... J a t 'a " r - " t !: - r - key-Loughran fight at New York Thursday night when the Boston he Philadelphian. Here he is on the canvas. Tommy got np it the test. International newstrel telephoto transmitted by Bell system. and frequently beat them. Be lieve it or not. That school every year had a football squad of from ISO to 17S, and the coaches found some games for all of those lads to play. Looking back on those days, we can't get away from a per sonal impression that high school football, at least in west em Washington, was of a high er class than the game played fai the Willamette valley nowa days. Bat we can attribute that feeling mostly to the rose col. ored glasses of youth. The boys certainly weren't any bigger. A lad weighing 160 pounds was pretty big among high school players. You'll fifnd a good many big ones today. Teams In that neck of the woods were well coached, but no better coached, in view of the de velopment of football at that time, than are those of today; not so well coached, for high school coaches then didn't have the. ben efit of coaching schools such as Knute Rockne and others conduct in all parts of the country each summer. We know for certain that those players weren't taught so many of the fine points of the game as high school players learn now. Tbe truth probably is that those teams looked so good mostly because there was plenty of material. There weren't so many high schools, and what schools there were had mgre students. The one we attended had 2600. High school football in western Washington isn't what It used to be, because school boards In the larger cities banned Intercity games. They did that because of rioting between crowds of root ers from the rival cities. A neces sary move, perhaps, but It killed football as It bad been known. We're against rioting be tween student bodies. later class crapping is great sport, but be tween schools It gets too deadly serious. Competition between schools had better be confined to games which have rules and In which officials hare com- OF THE CLUB? COAST LEAGUE VT. U Prt I Holly. 88 ST .802! San T. W. Jj. Pet 51 43 .548 Miixinns 55 39 .591iOklind 4T 49 .505 Portld 53 40 .570'Sie'to 83 1 .844 Lot A. S3 40 .570;sttl 25 63 .269 HATIOHAX. UAOTO W. h. Pct.l W. U pct. ChlMce 94 50 .653lPliil. 69 10 .459 Plttb. 84 SS .571'Brooktra 87 81 .453 X. T. SI 84 .550 Cincin. 64 83 .436 St. U 75 71 .5 14; Boston 64 94 .365 AKEMCAH LEAGUE W. L. Pct.l W. lu Pet. PltlU. 101 45 .62iWBih. 70 77 .476 X. T. 4 63 .603IDetroit 67 81 .453 78 68 .534tChiraco 56 00 .383 75 71 .51lBotoa 55 95 .367 CUtcL 6t L. Results - COAST LSAOUn Lm AafsUt 4; Sam Franciieo I. SesttU 9; Sscramrato 4. OmkUns S; Portlaa 1. Hollywood ; Miaaiaa 4. VATZOVAZ. LEAGUE 8t Loaia 4; PitUtarth 2. Philadelphia 11; Bsstoa 5. AXEXICAX XJU.GUE Xo rimes played on account of He. ia' Xnaaxal, KIMDING if ti li GETJpTED Opening Guns of Week Ago To be Followed With Big Attack Today SAX FRANCISCO, Sept. 27. (AP) Scattering fire that her alded the opening of the 1929 foot ball season last week will give way to a thunderous salvo to morrow alonr the entire far west ern front. All ten members of the Pacific coast conference will see action while forty or more teams of less er prominence also will start in quest of gridiron honors. Coast conference standings will be involved in but one game, that between Southern California's Trojans and the University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles Bruins. The Trojans, 1928 conference champions, necessarily are favor ites to trample over the IT. C. Ij. A. outfit, playing its second season in "big time" company. Coach Howard Jones has many real and potential stars in uniform, and Southern California's score likely will be determined in size by the number of minutes these men play. Stanford's Cardinals have the hardest assignment of the day. They meet the San Francisco Olympic club eleven, composed ot former college stars. Stanford followers have memories of last year's game when the club team returned home with the long end of the 12-6 score. However, the 1929 Cardinal machine Is more powerful, than at this time last season, as its 45-0 victory over the west coast army team last week, indicates. Some critics fa vor the club team but the main body ot observers are stringing a long with Stanford. California's Bears get under way at Berkeley against their old time opening day rivals Santa Clara's broucoes. Pre-season re ports Indicate Coach "Nibs" Price has moulded a strong team from his material at California and will spring a more open of fensive on opposition. Santa Clara teams usually hare given good accounts of themselves, however, and 45,000 fans are ex pected to turn out. "Clipper" Smith, former Gonzaga coach. Is in charge at Santa Clara this year and has Introduced new plays and shifts. Regarded as the "dark horses" of the conference this season. Washington's Huskies and Ore gon's Web footers , will display their strength for the first time. Washington takes on Whitman college and Oregon meets Pacific in games expected to prove easy workouts. Grid Games Today o o Southern California vs.TJ. C. L. A. at Los Angeles. Stanford vs. Olympic club at Stanford. California vs. Olympic club at Berkeley. Washington vs. Whitman at Se attle. Oregon State vs. California Ag gies at Corvallis. Washington State vs. College of Idaho at Pullman. Oregon vs. Pacific at Eugeae. Idaho vs. Montana State 'at Moscow. Linfield rs. CentraMa Junior College at McMinnvllle. Gonzaga vs. EUensburg Normal at Spokane. Montana vs. Kt. St. Charles at Missoula, tit fu;l r - ' r COAST T I Simple Funeral Service Held For Miller Huggins Manager of N. Y. Yankees By BRIAN BELL Associated Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, Sept. 27. (AP) In a service as simple aa the life Miller Huggrins led, New York this afternoon said its prayer for the manager of the New York Yankees and his body left with an escort of baseball players, officials and writers to rest in the soil of his native Cincinnati. The funeral, held in the Church of the Transfiguration, "the little church around the corner," was attended by a con gregation of fewer than 500 persons, limited by the capacity of the small edifice, but more than 10,000 others stood massed about the corners of 29th street at Madison and Fifth avenues. Police permitted0 only those going to the church to enter the street between the two avenues. After the lines twice had broken out of control. Entire Yankee Team Present at Service More than half the small con gregation was made up of men connected with baseball. All tbe Yankees, from little Eddie Ben nett, the bat-boy, to big Babe Ruth, were there, arriving in a body Just before the service be gan. Eight were pallbearers. Arthur Fletcher, Charles O'Leary, Babe Ruth, Herbert Pennock, Bob Shawkey, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Geh rig and Earle Combs. Ernest S. Barnard, president ot tbe American league; John A Heydler, president of the Nation al league; Thomas S. Shibe, pres ident ot the Athletics; William F. Baker, president ot the Phil lies; Robert Quinn, president of the "Red Sox; Charles A. Stone ham, president of the Giants; Wilbert Robinson, president-manager of Brooklyn, and Emil E. Fuchs, president of the Braves, were among the baseball execu tives present. Led by John J. McGraw, vir tually every member of tbe Gi ants came to the church and a majority of tbe Brooklyn team had places. Tris speaker, who in other days matched baseball wits with Huggins, and dozens of play ers of yesterday's baseball gen eration, such as Hans Lobert and Lube Marquard, were there. Every bat and glove in the American league was Idle today by order of President Barnard as a tribute ot respect to the man ager of the retiring world cham pions. The body of the little manager was taken from the church to a railway station and at 4 o'clock started on its journey west, a pil grimmage Huggins often made at the head ot his all-conquering Yankees. Phillies Get Easy Win in Boston Tilt PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 27. (AP) The Phillies increased their lead for fifth place to one full game by defeating the Braves, 11 to 5 here today, in the first contest of a three game series. Chuch Klein hit his 42nd home rnn in the first Inning, tying Mel vln Ott for the league lead and matching the National league rec ord set by Rogers Hornsby In 1922 and equalled by Ott this week. Boston - 5 10 0 Philadelphia 10 14 2 Leverett, Peery, Delayney and Sjohrer; Koupal and Davis. Cards Win Again ST. LOUIS. Sept. 17. (AP) Getting off to a good start, the Cardinals won their second tsraight game with Pittsburgh, 4 to 2. The Cards bad three runs In the first and one In the second. Frankhouso pitched seven Innings for the Cards, being replaced by Johnson in the eighth. Pittsburgh S T 0 St Louis 4 t 1 Brame and Hemsley; Frank house, Johnson and Jonnard. mi nrj Let-Kennell-Ellis Make Your Cuts, Engravings or Half Tones SEE US ABOUT REDUCED PRICES We Can Save You Money KENNELL-ELLIS Artist Photographers :429 Oregon Building Telephone 95 1 PORTLAND NINE DROPS MOTHER Ducks Slipping Fast as In vaders Win 3-1 in Tight Game PORTLAND, Ore.. Sept. 27 (AP) Oakland evened the series at two all today by winning from" Portland 3 to 1. The visitors count ed once in the first inning and brought two more across in th seventh, after which the Ducka rallied long 'enough to score once. The threatened Portland rally was broken up by Howard Craghead, who substituted on the mound for Edwards. R H H Oakland S 10 0 Portland 1 8 0 Edwards and Lombardi; Walt ers and Rego. Sheiks Wallop Reds SAN FRANCISCO. Sept. 27 (AP) Swamping their rivals with a" five run rally in the ninth inning. Hollywood's Stars defeated the Mission Reds. 8-4, today to take a one game lead over the lo cal team in the race for second half honors of the coast league'a split season. R II B Hollywood 8 1?, 3 Missions 4 11 1 Shellenbaek and Severeid; Mc Quaid and Hoffni;.:i. Tribesmen Win SEATTLE, Sept. 27 (AP) Pounding out 13 hits ofr Tony Freitas, Seattle defeated Sacra mento today 9 to 4. The Indians lead the series, three to one. Three errors by the Sacs contributed to the scoring. The Indians five run in the first two Innings were too hard a handicap for the visitors to overcome. RUE Sacramento 4 7 S Seattle 9 13 4 Frietas and Koehler; Kallio and Borreani. AngeL Heat iSeals LOS ANGELES. Sept. 27 (AP) A bad seventh Inning, which cost the San Francisco hnrler. Jack Knight four hits and threo runs, resulted in the fourth straight victory of the pending series for the Angels today, four fo two. On the other hand Byrl Home, on the mound for Los Angeles, pinched the Seals down to six scat tered hits, and aided his own game with a double and a single the contest stood at one-all then the Angels pounced on Knight for a pair of doubles and two singles. Subr's homer in the eighth came with the bases barren, and failed to materialize into a rally. RUB San Francisco t 6 a Los Angeles 4 8 1 Knight and Penobsky; Horn and Sandberg. FIRES STILL BURNING PORTLAND. Ore., Sept. 27 (AP) Fire fighters In both Ore gon and Washington marked time today as the tew remaining biases still were held under control. 1