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TEflr.T SHOWS : EMENEQT Game Hard Fought but Boys From SalerrTPunchOver three Touchdowns . Leslie Junior .high, won It? sec ond ' football game .or. tne season Monday. by' defeating the Geryais Wrh lecond learn 20 to 0 in a hard .b-1 titf1. nlirail a fKo CicT vais fields . . - . , -t- w-- ' -C The game was clqselyeontested all .the -waylind a letup at any time would have been fatal to Les lie. Coach Gurnee Flesher. stated that.hls team Is doing better now 'though Of course, it; is not in mid; Aiinn f nrm ai TeL Leslie recovered, -one of Its punts after th Gerrais man had fum bled it, .early in the game to get an advantage. The running attack went well with Hastings making a lot of, yardage and one of Les lie's touchdowns. Mason ana tum ott also scored touchdowns." Mason, Leslie's captain,- plays mart of. the time at end and part of the time at halfback and is do ing well at both-positions. De laney la uoing well for a novice at th game and ,may be a valu able player before the season is over. -' ' Oregon City Will ' Come Here Next Elliott Is going fine at quarter back and converted two out of three attempted field goals In the game. However he Is still a -poor blocker and with hard work would be able to Improve his playing in several respects. Leslie will play Oregon City Junior high here next Friday. Ore gon .City is the team which took Parrish down the line last week and CoacL Flee her 's men will have their work cut out for them in this game. Oliager field will be the scene of this contest if ar rangements can be made.. The men who played against , Gerrais were: Mason and Traiglo, ends, Cottew and Giese tackles, Anderson , and Conger guards, Hobbs center, Hastings fullback. Staple and T DeLaney halfbacks, and Elliott quarterback. Graben horst and Judson substituted at, ends.-' Score by periods: Leslie 7 0 7 6 20 Gervais ,. . o 0 0 " 0 0 sieu;ie back in U WITH WALLOP - WICHITA. Kas., Oct. IS (AP) L. (Young) Stribling, heavyweight title contender In his first fight since his knockout de feat by the champion. Max Schmel Ing in Cleveland last July, knock ed out Salvatore Rugglrello, New xork, in the second round of a ten round bout tonight. Stribling weighed 184, Rugglrello 199. - The big Italian took three trips to the Canvas In the first round without landing a blow. He came up immediat-Iy after the first knockdown, but took a nine count the second time and a count ol five the third. : , , Stribling shot hard overhand rights to Ruggirello's head 'while the Italian tried vainly to cover. The only blow , landed on the Georgian was a weak right to the side of the head as they" came out for the second round. Strib ling countered with a right that ended the bout. FOB ASTORIA GAME Salem high, will not .play ajiy football game this week, but will endeavor to patch up some of the freak spots for the Astoria game to be played there next week. Salem high lost Saturday to the Corvallls l team 11 which scarcely made more than; 25 yards from scrimmage. A i 35 yard pass com pleted from Perrlne to Reed for a 70 yard gain, was not allowed by Referee Coleman .." who ruled that Perrlne was closer than five yards to the line ; of scrimmage. However, the pass was made from a reverse play and afjer going be hind the ; first; pall (receiver. It would be hard ltd avoid being at least five yards back at the time of making the pass.: i i The team will pro bablr scrim mage against the Willamette re-. serves this week to get in condi tion for the game against Astoria. The Fishermen, are going strong mis season ana will give the red ana duck a tough game. - STATERS RETURN CORVALLtSj OreJ Oct. 19 CAP) The Oregon State college football team was allowed to rest iouay siier ineir return from'Palo jio wnere mey lost to Stanford last Saturday. - . ' Coach Sfhtlr t,M h& .. pleased .with the general Im provement his men had shown ex cept that right tackle and right were sua weaK. ! v -Half a dozen men. came back with more or less; seriotis Injuries. Gustafson, reserve fullback, may J out lor the rest of the season. The Orangemen meet Mon- Xuoiith Normal Friday night. GOOD SPIRTS :Mmmm 'mmw;A ;iixutoiswmt Ci rA : mmA ' HALF- ; M i iWl BRILLIANT , FO2WAl2,p-Xl PASSED ANJP BALL - 1931, King Features Syndicate, Inc.. THE three essentials of effec tive backfield offensives in , : American j football are well; personified in j this trio: Purdue's chief .. line - pounder, burly Alex Yunevich; Northwestern's - f or ward -passing - prestidigitator, "Pug" Rentnor; and the Illinois speed ; boyK "Gil" Berry. Each combines considerable of all three ground-gaining essentials and, ton less injury occurs, they should reach the maximum of efficiency ' this season. ' : .-" : Purdue plays Carnegie Tech at Pittsburgh this Saturday and, un less Coach "Wally" Steffens 'achieves a miracle with his Ski boos, the Boilermakers from In dianawell, symbolized by the bull-like Yunevich, hard hitting Ed Risk, et al. should win. That, of It's a big break for the mod est pocketbook, and no mis take. What we refer to Is the price list fori the coming Willamette-College of Idaho foot-: ball game on Sweet land field Friday night.; i . Ordinarily we don't mention, anything so crude as prices in this column or in the news col umns : but this is something so radical that - it Tates an excep tion, j It's actually fixed so a man can take his entire familv for 75 cents provided there are no boys over 12 years old in the family and all: members are will ing to sit out in the bleachers, which is no hardship provided it doesn't rain. ; It's this way; general ad mission Is 75 cents, women are to be admitted free and that . of course includes girls; and I AUSTRALIA'S "TWENTY GRAND" o- y v , . -y , j - - - h . , i , f - ft. t '''HI'1"'"" ' fs' f)M :X xi y'.v"' ' . Ck . yS aJtSn champion race horse of Australia, photographed jn i action during one of his recent victories. Thar Lap" ia reirarded as much of a eaampion of horseflesh by the Auaes at TweGrVnd" .. .,: ! " is respected ia this ' country. ; . i, owerDeception By HARDIN BURNLEY CAI2IEI2. Great Britain rights reserved. course, will not be a "Big Ten" conference game. -i In that ever interestinar .Western Conference group, themost inter esting contest of the day probably will be that of Illinois vs. Michigan at Urbana. The former will have to unveil Berry as another "Red" Grange, it would seem, if Bob Zuppke's pupils are to beat Harry Kipke's. Michigan tied with Northwestern last year for he "Big Ten" title, each winning five con ference 'victories with no defeats. Led by Capt. Roy Hudson, a first class fullback, and featuring Harry Newman, a spectacular passing quarterback, the Wolver ines loomed -stronger - than the Illinl. But should Znppke perfect climax running interference i for the fleet Berry, all form calcula tions will go up in ! smoke aa do boys under 12 years old can go in free too, provided 'they -are accompanied by a parent ; or some adult who will be Ire-1 sponsible for them. But there' an extra charge for the grand stand. " , On a basis like that Willam ette should ' certainly get out a crowd, . whether it makes f any money or not. ." i - 111 Reports hare drifted over from Caldwell that College ; of Idaho is just as strong ra it ever was, but Pacific suddenly began . in Friday night's game . over there to live op to ' its real potentialities, ... which : jit never had done before. Nearly all of last year's Pacific team Is there again bat with Eldon Jenne's complicated system, ! it has'taken a long time .for the boys to master itl ; . '. -i V- Too bad, Salem high. Probab ly it wouldn't i happen again! in years .and years and years; jl.lt Just goes to show how a good team will get off Ion the wrong foot onee In a while. J J , - . We hear some! of the j boys have been complaining that lour "football school" iwas too con servative about 'the; forward pass. o I Speed!! most autumn leaves. - Last year, Michigan beat Illinois, 15-7. i ' In 1930, Northwestern trounced Ohio State, 19-2, and this Satur day, if so moved"Dick" Hanley's Wildcats . should improve upon that score. Without the remark able "Wes" Fesler, who was the star of stars in the "Big Terf' in 1930. Ohio State makes even an old English pound resemble a Rus sian rouble. It will be a tribute to Dr. "Sam" Wfflaman's coaching talent if his boys can keep Han ley 'a harriers from a regular run away. Because: If "Reb? Russell, "Pug" Rent ner and that triphammer line (fea turing Dallas Marvil, the Riley brothers, et ah) get going, Cblns bus, O., will be the scene of the wildest sort of Wildcat spree this Saturday.' ' OdvrUM. USl. S3ac ftatow Sf fflnila. tmt. Well, look what " happened to Washington BUte last Saturday at Portland, to say nothing of Columbia her the night before. The Cougars elected a forvard pass deep In their own territory; result one touchdown for Cali fornia, without which Washing ton State would have: won ae"TY lumbia handed Willamette at least two touchdowns, by passing in its own end of the field. FOOTBALL SCHOOL. The main thing a ball carrier has to learn is that there's only one place it pays to go, and that's toward the enemy's goal. Sounds too simple to mention, but the boys don't always realise It and try to make yardage some other - direction. Yardage , haca ward is especially bad. Hanging oito the ball iai an other : fundamental. MIghl . as well punt as make a . 40 yard gain . and then give the ball to the oDoositlon. .on a zumoie. Studv the proper grip under the arm , where the ball can't be pried out.' . ; L.:-'.- L '.. . - Most runners " nowadays ; are taught to swing their hips away from taeklers. by running in boxes or automobile tires placed so they have to swing them. Next thine is to make it automatic l-The straight-arm la another vain able asset which can he acquirea only by 1 practice even It it's rourh on your team v mates to use it In practice, ' I Outside of those first j two things mentioned, probably speed is the main factor; and you need not only to be capable of speed, but to use it. Most of the big stars you read about are nothing but sprinters with no more than average command of the general football Qualities. But many a lad who is capable of speed nev er learns the necessity, for turn ing It on when he tucks a foot ball under his arm. ' . .' Question rough game? Is football a Foriim o f Y. M. ; Meets Tonight The' -Y" forum, discussion group will meet fffthe Y." M. C. A. at 1:15 o'elock tonight. t H. B. ; Glaysler will be toastmaster for this meeting, -Carle Abramsr critic, and Mrs. Mike PanekJ 1 minute speaker.' All other mem bers will- ' make r five-minute speeches. Rich L. Relman is ; president ot the organisation.' 1 LDUGHRAN WifJS OVER BIG H1SK0 Jabs way to 1 1th Straight ctory - Despite - bad -Hand; Bout Fast v PHITjADELPHIA," Oct. 19 (AP) Tommy Loughran,v Phila delphia heavyweight t jabbed -his way' to " a ten-round . decision' over. Johnny Risk, ; Cleveland ; rubber man,' in' the main go of, the arena card tonight, j , Risko outweighed him 13 pounds. t ;- . -.: v v Loughran stepped j. away to a lead in the first: round and con tinued to jab his left, into Risko's face and body until the final gong. The Philadelphlan sent, his oppon ents head back . sharply . in nearly every round, but Rlsko came ack for more, flaying rights and lefts to the body.- vV;- v'- V.--In the ninth and tenth rounds both men resdrted to heavy body work which began to show effect.' The crowd cheered them on. The bout ended In a fast set-to In the center of the ring with the Phil adelphia, lad, the victor. ; r Both battlers were striving to keep clein a string of victories, Loughran gaining his r eleventh straight whUe Rlsko previously had decisions oyer his , last five opponents. . s- ! - ' Despite an injured left hand, the Philadelphia i "downtown ado nis" kept Rl8ko-:from connecting with many head ! blows, while, he hooked repeatedly to the tip of the Jaw. Risko sought for in fighting while Loughran Insisted on long-range work - and ruled most of the way. V Glory Price Great Avers Swat Sultan r L03 ANGELES, Oct., 19 (AP) The Examiner in a copy righted interview tonight with Babe. Ruth quoted a number of reasons why, the home run king believes be is paying a heavy prlee for glory. - 'I can't go ito movies,-, said Ruth, who Is here on a barn storming ylslt.'"lt might affect my eyes. I haven't seen two shows iu four years and I love shows. ; "I can't dance. They tell' me it's bad for my legs. It's nearly five years since I waltzed. And I love to waltz. , -4 . - y T 'I can't attend a night club. They'd say I was drinking and carousing;..., .p ; ... " "I can't read a book on a train, for it's too hard on my eyes. And I: spend most of my life on trains. "I can't gamble. Not even a few dollars. And 1 1 love to roll dice, play faro,, cards, bet on horses anything. But if I wasjeen with gamblers or in gambling houses, it would start gossip. - '- I can't travel In airplanes, but I'd love to. It's against the rules of my contract., of my insurance policies, of everything I'm con nected with. "I cant shake hands promiscu ously. It's dangerous,' and they tell me I'm making too much money to expose myself in that fashion. There's nothing I despise more than to - refuse to : shake hands with anyone. . ;. , : "1 can't go swimming.' Because I'm told I would be exposing my self to colds, i ? . - "I have a slxteen-cyllnder au tomobile, but I can't speed it. If was hurt while speeding my wages would be stopped during my convalescence. "I can't enjoy a round of golf because I'm followed from tee to ted by persons seeking my auto graph. - "Hang it all, I can't do any thing. Not Just yet. "But wait. In two more years 111 be through with baseball. Then I'm going to break ' loose wide open. Not for long, but for a while." , , - ELEVEN IN WIN OVER VV. SALEM The salem Heights midget foot ball team, composed of grade school boys of the district, defeat ed the West Salem school team 27 to 0 on the West Salem field Friday afternoon. Due to the su perlorlty of the Salem Heights squad only the first half was play ed, the second naif being cut. Capt. Howard Hewitt,: fullback, and Ralph iladdy, end, both of the Helhts, scored two touchdowns each. Hewitt ''rammed; the line for . extra points after three ot the four touchdowns scored. The personnel of the Salem Heights team includes Ray Maddy, Ralph Maddy, George Skeleton, Joe and George Wright, Melrin and. How ard Hewitt, Richard Oraw, Merle Morrison and James Woods.' . -; Last week the Salem Heights squad handed the Liberty , grade team a 18 to C defeat. : i -. .' ' While the school board of the Salem Heights district does not recognize' football as a school sport the boys, all; of school ' age and standing, are playing- under the sponsorship of their coach, Ken neth Dalton, a Salem Heights mer chant. ' Complete uniforms have been furnished the team, much of the1 equipment donated "by "Spec Keene, coach at; Willamette uni versity. C f I ' - ! -v INDEPENDENCE, Oct. 19 Independence ; high school foot ball team F defeated Amity. hgh school team here Friday after noon, by a score of 39 to 0. Am ity had a good team but was; too light weight for Independence. VALIANT EFFORT IK VAIN Arm intertwined. It looks as if the Aiwa uuvivnutcu, iw3 h u ui ww avwwus w.m. w.. t...., get a firm grasp on the pigskin would both be defeated in their pur pose, but Colvin (left), of Leland Stanford, Palo Alto, Calif succeeded in catching the forward pass tossed to him and made a gain against: the University of Minnesota gridders even though Champlin, of the Gopher team, tried to knock the ball from his hands. . Another Min nesota man (right) is endeavoring to mix in the play to break up the -. ;- -: pass. Stanford won on the home grounds, 13-0. j , , Lou Little Works Miracle At Columbia Breaks Own ' Back to Produce a Winner NEW YORK, Oct. 19 (AP) -Lou Little lltterally broke his back to produce the Columbia-varsity that made , foodballv history on Mornlngslde Heights by whipping Dartmouth Saturday. - His home for the past month has been a hospital room because his back is encased In a steel brace and he cannot sleep in any9 other than the raised position j of a hospital , cot, Around his neckls another brace locking his head In an immovable position. Sand bags are his pillows at night. But all this doesn't keep him off the rootball field and It did not prevent 'him . from moulding the eleven that raced out Saturday to . overpower the 'Hanover Indi ans, 19-6, and conquer an ancient foe for the first time since 1889. - Ovep a month ago because tack les, like all-ther material at Co lumbia, were scarce, the big gen ial fellow who as recently as the early post war days, was a great lineman at Pennsylvania, filled in against the yarsity in an early PRELIM THUDSDAY Joe Gardiner of Portland and Prof Newton, speedy middleweight grabblera, will meet in the pre liminary bout ; on Matchmaker Harry Plant's Thursday night wrestling card at the armory. . Jack McCarthy, a 31 5 pound muscle mangier, and Bob Kruse of Oswego will wrestle the main event which promises to be one ot the . best ' held . here - for.' some time. , McCarthy Is larger than Kruse, but the Oswego man . has one of the most . spiteful disposi tions of any grappler In the north west and may '. be able to handle his hefty antagonist. Next.: week Plant will present a fight card and if it meets with public approval, they , will be al ternated with the wrestling bills- from week to weekJ "Cowboy" Busklrt of Pendle ton and Johnny Hanson of Port land, the two who staged such a brilliant preliminary to the Demp-sey-Byrne fight at Eugene,' will be the principals on the card. A SHE SEWS WHILE SON SHINES J1 1. ' While her son, "Pepper" Martin, St. Louis World Champion Cardinals' outfielder, was winning the adulation of the country's baseball fans, his mother, Mrs. . George Washington Martin, was wondering what it was all about in her modest farm home near Oklahoma City, Okla. Mrs. Martin, caught here at her! sewing machine, busily stitching on 1 new dress, told the photographer that, while she was too busy to pay a lot of attention to baseball, she was gratified to know her boy had snaae ; two football players, struggling 1 scrimmage. The youngsters tossed him for a loss. But It wasn't until ten days later, when the injury had been aggravated by neglect, that he discovered that the process of one dorsal; yertebrae was frac tured and the nerves were baa ly inflamed. Little, battling to lift Columbia out of the set-up class, braces, pain discouragement and : all. stuck to his coaching. He must still spend his! nights in the hospit al. He's worried because he must report directly to the Cornell hos pital when the Lions tackle' the big red wave in their second ma jor game a week from Saturday, He must sit up for eight hours in a day. train to get there,, because the doctor's don't , dare lethim ride in a sleeper without"; tne In cline and hU sandbags. 1 But he'd walk to Ithaca, if necessary, he's so happyover' Columbia's return to the football heights."! "If they never win another game this season those boys will have done all right,'' be says. number of the local boys who fought here jast winter will be matched wltbj valley fighters In the preliminary bouts. Jack McCarthy Defeats Allen bostonL Oct. 18 (AP) - Jack McCarthy, Boston light hea vyweight, seconded by Jack Shar key and Ernie Schaaf, bis stable mates, tonight -cored a nine-round technical knockout over Harry Al len, rugged Brockton battler, - In the arena A. A's feature contest. Chimney Blaze Calls Firemen RTot SILVERTON, Oct. 19 - Silver ton lire ngnters . were given a nice early ride Monday morning around 71 o'clock when they were called out to Evans Valley where a chimney fire had alarmed the residents in the Belga Rue home. No harm was1 done to either the house or the fire departmnt. . y r gooo. - ' 'y ' :;:: ::.-. vv '.. SILVER PUnCHASE i HELD TRADE li Restoration of Standard in : Orient 'Urged i Here; by " H Chamber Speaker ;' . ' -J, A xorceiui. pc .--r- - A't"rf with the orient through the purchase ,byjhe United States bf?.00.09MOO to .700.000.000 ounces annually.of sllveror sev eral successiui . years 10, dumping of this", commodity by In dia 'and China' and to restore sll yer as a basis of trade in the or ient, : was I made yesterday ,to the Salem chamber of commerce by I W Hartirian, president"' of the Portland chamber.'- " '. t ''6nr situation on t ha west coast Is! the greatest, economlcone for,, trade in the; United - States If we can develop "the" oriental market, Hartman declared. "The east de mands in I increasiug, degree ,tha comforts and luxuries of the west but a more sound money Is imper ative to make potential trade pos sibie.'! - j ,f .'.;.: :-r,.C:. ' . " .The speaker advocated that the gold-standard nations of the world through, the purchase, of surplus silver, should peg-the internation al price-at 50 cents an ounce and should restore silver as a basis of money In j nations of the orient which until recently have used su rer." He said the purchase ot the hellver would increase trade tre BOQiJ mendously because It would re store confidence in commerce.. Oregon Would Be -. , Benefitted, Claim "There is no overproduction of goods aa far as potential markets are concerned, Hartman averred. "But we must give people In the east money with which to buy. We can only do; this through an in-, ternational conference of nations which will deal with the silver, question. The last-congress mem orialized the president to call such' a conference and one la to be forthcoming ' soon ; I hope for -great things from it." ' ; Hartman painted a glowing pie- j ture of the possibilities of oriental ! trade as far as Oregon is concern-. ed. He said factories would inevit ably come to-the coast to handle the orders for goods which would come once trade, was resumed on a large scale. He urged the devel opment of, hydro-electric power onKv the Columbia river which he char acterized as the cheapest source of . electrical energy in the United States. ' . ' Hartman, who at 35 years of age Is' the youngest president; of the ; Portland fchamber of commerce! . ever to -hold office, was accompan- ' led to Salem , by Consul Navarfo1 of Peru. I Hartman, himself ' broker of commodities la rortlartd, also represents Panama as consul 1 In the Rose City, v : , '. . ' Br OIE POINT infill The Salem Golf club iA-nun team put un stronie " nnnnitlHnn against the Oregon City Country club outfit on the local course Sunday but lost by a margin of one point. 30 to 294. Score were: Salem ' -Walker 3 Eyre 1 . Annunsen Oigon City Latouretto 0 Chrlstenson .2 Zaniker 3 i -MIddlebrook 3 McGabney Hogg 2 Leffler 1 ' Laurs 0 Briggs 0 Mulvey 1 Henderson 0 HafaSins 2 U ' Victor 0 Cline 2 V. Hemenway Gny Smith Hendrie 3 Chambers Cox 2 Lengren 3 Balderee Shelton 1 Kifzmiller 2 J. J. Roberts 14 Thompson Hi McGUchrist Hendry 2 McGirley 0 , Kletlig 0 f Nebergall 2 Cross 14 Hall 3 Bailey 3 Phillip 1 ,. Knofel 1 Brook 1 Spears 1 4 Leslie, Group To Be Represented At Eugene Meei Mrs. V.I H. Griera ami TMr. Hal Hoss I will renresent T.Mn Parent Teachers association Ini the Eugene state P. T. A. confer J ence which commences In Eu gene today. They will attend Wednesday.: The Leslie P: T. A. Tnetln Monday night was presided over by the president. Mrs. Hal Hoss. xaias wero made by Mrs. George Alden on her trio to China tbi summer and by Misa Magnesa who spoke concerning her. work in China as a teacher for five years. j i 4 The 9th 11 rrida wnn tlim ,f. tendance banner for the Mnndav night meeting. Canzoneri Puts Title at Stake In Coming Bout NEW YORK. Oet. 19AP- Por the third time since he won the lightweight boxing champion ship from Al Singer nearfy a year ago Tony Canzoneri will take hia title Into Ulb ring,, meeting Kid nocoiate In Madison Square Gar den November 20. Jimmy Johnson, makinar-. hln debut as director of the GarArn' boxing affairs i closed negotiations for a 15 round match between the two boxers 'oday.. Contracts will be signed Thursday. SAUM BEATEfl -