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Salem in See-Saw Game Eue. Mick Beats ene s Extra Points Gherrians Score Twice on -Sustained Drives, Beaten By Two Spectacular Runs By JIM NUTTER HAYWARD FIELD, Eugene, Nov. 11 (Special) Rest ing on a six point lead until Eugene high scored and kicked goal and then resting on a hastily gained five point lead, Salem went down before Coach Fritz Kramer's purple and white horde 14 to 12 in the Armistice day football game played here. Salem's score came on power O plays nd sustained drives while Eugene's came on 15 yard and 55 yard runs. Place kicks for point after touchdown were twice booted ' successfully for points after touchdown by McKitrick and twice the Eugene forward wall mored In to block Sugai's attempted kicks for point. Hard blocking by the Eugene backs and poor tackling by the Salem's on a couple of plays, al lowed the touchdown jaunts to unmolested. Eugene gaineu So scrim- F OJRI COMMENTS CURTIS, firat downs irom mage while Salem made 12, but by blocking the secondary de fense, Eugene was able to stretch several runs for long gains. Jim Reed Dashes To Scoring Zone Late in the first quarter Salem took the ball on its own 25 yard line and began Its drive down the field. Aided by a 15 yard penalty, the Cherrlans moved to the Eugene 20 yard marker by the end of the quarter. On the first play of the second quarter Jim Reed, playing left end, took the ball on a criss cross around right end for a 17 yard gain. From the three yard line Perrine knifed through to the six inch line and the antic ipated line smash was an end run with Sugal going over un touched. Salem high rested on the six point lead and allowed Eugene's guard T. Reed to return the kickoff to the 45 yard stripe at the outset of the second half. Kramer's inspired men pulled a perfect cutback run on the first play from scrimmage with the fullback Biddle going outside Salem's tackle on the left and cutting back to the right. Perfect Interference put him into the open and with the de fensive half "sucked' across, he had only to outrun Perrine, the safety, who touched him with his fingertips on the 10 yard line. McKitrick booted a nice place kick tor the extra point. Salem took the ball on its own 35 and marched to the 19 Where the ball was lost on downs. Bugal soon Intercepted a Eugene pass on the purple and white 25 yard stripe. A first down was made Immediately taking the pigskin to the 15. j Sunderman then hit the line and pivoted twice for a 9 yard gain. On the next play be brought Salem a first down on the three yard line. Lee Weis ger rammed off tackle for the touchdown on the next play. Once more the kick for point was blocked and the score then stood 12 to 7 for Salem. Eugene's following drive was baited, but Chuck Reed, who did - some fine ground gaining .In the same, fumbled and a Eugene man beat Perrine to the ball. From punt formations with McKitrick back, Eugene slashed through the line with sneak plays or witK McKitrick faking end runs and hitting off "tackle for sizeable gains. From the 15 yard line McKitrick, the . triple threat quarterback, faked an end ni and legged it through, tackle for a touchdown, aided by staunch interferers. His kick was also good. Salem could not get " under way following that. Jim Reed and Chuck Reed both played good games and Nicholson made some sice gains. Score by periods: Salem 6 0 Eugene 0 0 Lineups: Salem J. Reed LE. . Bennett. LT. . Fisher LG. . San ford C. . . Earl Otjen GRIZZLIES BEAT -0 BULLDOGS 41 McMinnville Still hot on State Title's Trail; Youngberg Star Yes, sir, a lot of you fans missed a grand spectacle by not nicking the turnstiles at Sweet land field Armistice day. (That about turnstiles is just big time language. There aren't any at Sweetland field, l v We've never seen anything like the fight those Wildcats put up, excepting an equally futile scrap a 1919 Willamette team waged against an armored tank outfit from Multnomah club. About half of the Bearcat regulars went to the hospital that day. It's easy to see that the Lin field boys swear by Coach Lev er. He's a white man and no mistake. Blamed if our sympa thies didn't stray a little. If Wil lamette hadn't needed that game to stay in the race we might have pulled for Lin field a little of course very secretly. Spec Keene says his boys seem to be a little dead on their feet and he's going to give them a vacation from football the rest of the week. Then next Monday he'll start pointing for Whitman, with extremely little attention on the side for Albany which comes here November 20. Albany will be tough, judging from its recent achievements, but it's not in the conference. And by the way. Whitman doesn't play Linfield. That means if Willamette beats Whit man its standing will be bet ter than the Missionaries', even if Rorleske gets past College of Idaho this week. That would still leave Willamette and Pa cific tied if Pacific manages to heat College of Puget Sound. Those are a lot of ifs. The Bearcat casualty list was lengthened Wednesday. Higgins with a bad ankle sprain joins Al len, whose sprain was renewed. Jones took off his plaster cast and went In there but is far from re covered. Same general report ap plies to Lorenz, Johnson and Ma ban as well as Benjamin, the one regular who wasn't called upon to play. Earl, sturdy guard for Salem high, was another victim of the flying wedge on kickoff at Eu gene Wednesday. About three fellows' full weight repulsed his and he was taken from the game. Ucla Downs St. Mary's in Brilliant Passing Game; Its First Major Victory 012 I 714 Eugene . Sprague Jacobson . . T. Reed John Hill RG Brown RT Carson Forn crook Cross RE Perrine Q Nicholson . . . Sugai RH Joe Hill Weisser F Biddle fill VTnnt ln-tTi rcfurcft' I T Q 1 Chapman, umpire; "Chappy" be8t ear story King, bead linesman Jim Reed and Chuck Reed, brothers if you don't know, played good ball at Eugene Wednesday, it is reported. They had several reasons for so doing, one of the more Important being that their mother drove down from Seattle to see them in action. O More than 1500 people saw Eugene nose Salem out, 14 to 12, in the Armistice day game up the river. Hayward field was not over-crowded to handle the assemblage, but It was never theless a colorful affair, with Salem high's 28-piece band playing and the Eugene high 25-piere band doing likewise. O Down in the city of Eugene the prayer of the hour is: "Rain, rain, go away. Come again some other day." Outweighed stupendously In the WOODBURN, Nov. 11 Mc Minnville high school's football team still has an unbroken record; of victories for this season. The Grizzlies journeyed to Woodburn Friday afternoon and proceeded to give the Bulldogs one of the greatest shellackings in their history. The final score was 41 to 0. McMinnville held the advantage throughout the entire game, and the Grizzlies' goal line was never in serious danger. The greater part of the game was played in Woodburn's territory. Scoring was evenly distributed through out the game. Coach Allison's men showed a remarkable knowledge of football tactics, and put them into actualities. The McMinnville line, which had appearances on outweighing the Woodburn boys about 15 pounds to the man, charged, blocked and tackled vi ciously during the entire fray. Wood I) urn Shoved Backward at Start The Grizzlies started backing Woodburn up at the very outset, when Bixler took the oval over the last line into pay dirt. The score came after an unstoppable rush. The Grizzlies' passes went well in the second quarter. A pass to Thurston put the ball on the Woodburn eight-yard line. Bixler took it over. A pass accounted for the extra point. On the kickoff after the touch down the ball came to rest on Woodburn's 22-yard marker. An attempted Bulldog pass nestled into the arms of a McMinnville back, who went for the next six points. A kick made the extra point this time. The Grizzlies again got in scoring position a few minutes later, when the ball was advanced from th 50-yard line to Woodburn's eight. Halter. Woodburn's fullback, kicked out of danger, but almost immediate ly the Grizzlies were ; gain deep in the blue and white territory. A fumble, recovered by Woodburn, prevented an apparently sure score. Bulldogs Tighten In Third Quarter The Bulldogs tightened up no ticeably in the third quarter, but were soon overwhelmed again by McMinnville. Manley Ramsdell, halfback for the Bulldogs, showed up well in this phase of the game, but his efforts were for naught. Woodburn was steadily, but sure ly, backed up. A penalty on Wood burn" for unnecessary roughness put the Grizzlies in scoring posi tion - again, and they came through. A fake kick that turned into an end run made the extra point. An exchange of punts and intercepted Woodburn pass ended up by the Bulldogs battling vain ly in midfleld. Gearin of Wood burn called for a pass, but it was intercepted Thurston, who ran up another six markers. The try for point failed. On the first play of the third period a Grizzly lateral pass net ted the last touchdown. The play was beautifully executed, and went for a good fifty yards. The place kick was good. Nelson in tercepted a McMinnville pass and stopped the Grizzlies' last cam paign. A punting duel was the final feature of the game, with the Bulldogs on" the short end of it. Youngberg is Star Of Holiday Clash McMinnville; with . a perfect record of wins, is a contender for the state football title. The Griz zlies have .victories over Silver tuu, ' Corvallis, Columbia prep, Hillsboro, Tillamook and Wood burn. If George Allison's string of i regulars beats Newberg next Friday, and Beaverton on Thanks giving day, it will have some sort of hold on the state mythical title. Youngberg of McMinnville was the outstanding player Friday. He was shifted from hU regular fl 11 fl ft srK ! Wa V .m i By PAUL ZIMMERMAN OLYMPIC STADIUM. Los An geles, Not. 11 (AP) Unrrer sity of California at Lot Angelea football team, much hounded In fant of the west coast grid aggre gations, cast aside Its swaddling clothes here today by passing Its way to a It to 0 victory over St. Mary's gallant Gaels. Sixty thousand persons gather ed for charity to see Coach Bill Spauldings Bruing display an of fensive, critics have accused them of lacking, to pile up a two touch down lead In the first two periods, and then stave off all of the Mor aga, Calif., marauders' attempts to cross the U. C. L. A. goal. It was the first major victory downs for the navy and clinched the game after a 20-yard field goal in the second period broke the ice. Navy outplayed the army throughout the game and held the soldiers to a single first down. The sailors chalked up 12 first downs. The army never seriously threatened the navy goal line. Fill SALEM IADS ON STAYTON CARD Four Salem fighters will ap pear on the boxing card to be presented at Stayton tonight. Buddy Ambrose will meet K. O. Smith of Eugene in a 10 round main event. French Myers of Salem will meet Red Hayes, well known Stayton fighter. Bobby Ambrose of Salem will meet Cy Landers who has also been training here. Roy Rey nolds, Salem's stolid southpaw, will fight Melvin Serill in a four round bout. Spike Gorman, who is making Salem his home, will not appear on the Stayton card, but has been promised a chance on the next fight card to be presented by Harry Plant. This 19 year old glove pusher lives on a farm and works out regularly. He 6tates he's in earnest and hopes to get places. ever chalked ap by the TJelans In Spaulding's six year regime. Those who had said the Brains didn't know what to do with the ball when they had It, were hush ed to a whisper three minutes af ter the contest opened when Leon ard Bergdahl, quarterback, tossed a semi-flat forward pass of seven yards to Bob Decker. The Bruin halfback crossed without any dif ficulty. Francis Toscani's fumble on St. Mary's 20-yard line had made the deed possible, for Dick Mulhaupt, alert end, pounced up on the ball. St. Mary's attempted to retali ate, but the enthusiastic Bruins, sensing a chance to assert them selves, presented a rugged defense which forced the contest into a punting duel momentarily. Bergdahl broke this up as the second quarter advanced, taking Angel Brovelli's punt on his 36- yard line, the fast Uclan signal caller squirmed and stiff-armed his way to the 39-yard line. The Brnins banged St. Mary's line for a first down on the 28-yard strip, but Duncan lost four yards on an attempted reverse. Then Bergdahl faded back, sending a 24-yard pass to Leon ard Wellendorf. The U. C. L. A. end leaped high over two St. Mary's backs to catch the ball, and then slipped away from them for a seven yard run and the sec ond touchdown. INDEPENDENCE RETCMIUS Victory 12-0 Makes it Four Straight in big Annual Polk County Clash INDEPENDENCE, Nov. 11 Coach H. J. Dixson's gridiron war riors made if four straight victor ies in the annual Independence Dallas high struggle, Polk coun ty's major athletic event of the year, by winning today 12 to 0 be fore a record crpwd which collect ed from all parts of the county. It was a hard fought game with the teams apparently evenly matched In neutral territory, but Independence had the scoring Punch which Dallas seemed to lack. Late in the first period, Independence battled its way to Dallas' 12-yard mark and Henry Walker, quarterback of the local team, dashed across the goal line from there. Not until the closing minutes of the third period did Independence get another scoring opportunity and then Dorman Newton, half back, crashed across on a line buck. Both times the try for ex tra point failed. A third oppor tunity to score was spoiled when the runner fell down as he was about to cross the line. Melvin Kelly at center was an other Independence grldder who stood out for his performance in today's bis Cadla and Pemberton were Dallas' notable performers. Independence lineup: Hanna and Hardman nit. Slya wd Young tackles. F. Walker and Pressler. guards, Kelly center, H. Walker quarter, Newton and Flake halves, Raney fall. Chemawa Loses Upset Game to Hood River High HOOD RIVER, Ore., Nov. 11. (AP) In an unexpected upset, Hood River high school defeated the Chemawa Indians, 20 to 0, In the Armistice day football game here. Boyd returned a punt S3 yards for one Hood River touchdown in the third quarter. The other two scores resulted from passes, Boyd to Kinoshita. Franklin, quarterback, was in jured in the last quarter and was taken to a Portland hospital. and fax . few In return, nei ther fighter did any gTeat amount of damage. There was much clinching in the boat. Dempsey was booed as he left the ring while Wright was cheered. A crowd of 8,000 saw the boat. : . Dempsey Finds Bearcat Wright Real Tough One OMAHA, Neb., Nov. 11 (AP) Jack Dempsey, one-time ruler of the heavyweights, found Bear cat Wright, giant Omaha negro, a hard nut to crack la a four round bout here tonight, but edged out a referee's decision. The bearcat, a great defensive fighter, beat off the best Jack had to offer without a quiver. Oregon Normal Gets Win Oyer Idaho Freshmen YAKIMA, Wash., Not. 11 (AP) A tricky Oregon Normal school football team defeated the University of Idaho freshmen, 21 to 7, here today. Oregon started its scoring drive in the second period when Coach Wolfe sent in five first stringers to replace the subs he started, Idaho tightened in the last half, outplayed the victors, and threatened to score three times. KAZAN J AX WINS PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 11 (AP) Casey Kazanjian, San Francisco, won i two out of three falls from Casqy O'Dale, Colum bus, Ohio, in a wrestling match here tonight. CONTRACTS AWARDED MEDFORD, Ore., Nov. 11. (AP)- -The Jackson county court has awarded contracts for con struction of a new county court house. L. H. Hoffman, Portland, receives the general contract at $192,500. The low bids totaled $260.161. 2S. Grayson Scores Twice to Crush Hopes of Grant PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 11 (AP) Jefferson high school won the Portland interscholastlc league football championship here today, defeating Grant high. 12 to 0. Bob Grayson, quarterback, scored both touchdowns for Jef ferson. Jefferson scored first in the second quarter on a slow but steady march down the field. The second touchdown came in the third period after another steady march that started on the 50 yard line. w iV "C inz for a dry field Saturday when me uuc&s iry wi u'" Beavers. Mrybe the Doctor figures. it will rain and that will be his Grange Line Dwindles to 191-Pounder j grid scores ROOSEVELT WINS Roosevelt Junior high of Eu- eene. still undefeated In its class. won from Wood row Wilson jun ior high of Eugene 19 to 6 In an Armistice day game played there. o o CORVALLIS, Ore., Nov. 11. (AP) Oregon State's much pub licized "200-pound line." which Coach Paul J. Schissler says has never actually existed this year. has shrunk to a IS 1-pound .line lor the university of Oregon game ai uagene Saturday. Coach Schissler today announc ed his probable starting lineup and ue weights or each player: -From left end: K. Davis, 184; Miller. 191; Bergerson, 228; Ham mer,' 199; Cox, 180; Byington, 179; Curtin, 178. The backfield will be occupied by Biancone, 156; Joslin, 186; Moe, 183; Little, 156 The entire-team average is 187 pounds per man. The backfield av erage is 179. , Bergerson, the only, man over 209 pounds, has gained three pounds daring the season. .The h omers nave lost weight. . - nvt uii m mw pounui one wy or Another makes: any difference, bat this Idea of oar.hafcMnntli itn Is last flctlon.'t Schissler said; "I eoald make ap a 200-pound line Just as could most1 other colleges; or even high schools, bat It would 't be as good as this lighter on V hate." - i McKitrick ine- "Doc; Sp,!a" .C,"eAi!: lB th me showed P a veteran bail-toter, although he had never carried the ball before. Manley Ramsdell and Helter were towers of strength on the Wood burn team, as t. vv. tackle. The lineups: Woodburn McMiwille Tresidder LE .....Parson L. i-och LT M. Bixler Pavelek LG Roscoe Thomas C.. Fronk G Koch RG Phelps M,les - RT Sfttnn D. Ramsdell RE.. Versteeg "in Q Youngberg tkler LH Thurston M. Ramsdell RH.. Mar. BixleT HU" - F Shelton Substitutions: McMinnville; Ha lf', W- Pne'PS. Kotts, Acuff. A. Phelps, W. Phelp, Grenfell, Eas on, Mulligan. Woodburn: K. Ev ans, Conyne, Block, Christman, T. onus, mejson and Stevens. Referee, Wilson ; umpire, Bashor. ' The grid wlassic of the year, as far as Woodburn high school fans are concerned, will occur .Novem ber 20 when Woodburn plays Sil rerton high school on the local field. West Coast Gob Eleven Defeats Army Gridsters Perrydale Wins Three Contests In One Evening PERRYDALE, Nov. 11. Perry dale won a triple header at basket ball Tuesday night. The high school girls team defeated the Bethel girls, 19 to 16. Bethel had previously won from the local girls so a third game will be play ed to settle the tie. , The high school boys' team de feated Turner high, 39 to 2. The Perrydale town team won from Amity, 54 to 21. THANKSGIVING ARGAIN ROUND TRIPS! IB St. Mary's 0; University of Cal ifornia at Los Angeles 12. Linfield 6; Willamette 19. Ellensbuig Normal 27, Eastern Oregon Normal 0. Southern Oregon Normal 20, Chico State College 6. High School At Woodburn: Woodburn 0, McMinnville 41. At Portland: Jefferson 12, Grant 0. At Eugene: Salem 12, Eugene 14. At Oakland, Ore.: Reedsport 0, Oakland 12. At Tillamook: Hillsboro 15. Tillamook 13. At Albany: Corvallis 7, Al bany 6. . At Marshfield: North Bend 0, Marshfield 36. At Ashland: Klamath Falls 6. Ashland .0. ; At Hood River: Chemawa In dians O.Hood River 20. -At La Grander Grande 18. Portland $ -90 MEMORIAL STADIUM, : Ber keley, CaL, Nov. ll.-r-(AP) Tbw West COant tibtv mnAoA a Ontario 7, Lai rein or th t m . At Rqseburg: Grants Pass 20. supremacy with a 17-tc-0. victory Roseborg 26. here thU afternoon. . - pndenc: Impendence a daatling passing attack in the u,u" I rinal neriod scored two tourh- .. 3.35 ; 2.95 1.40 ... 9.00 4.85 4.05 16.75 11.55 r.16.75 20.05 5.60 6.15r Seaside Astoria Eugene - Spokane Seattle Tacoma Helena Boise Butte Salt Lake Pendleton Walla Walla... Vancouver, B.TC-... 8.i5 Go Nov. 2425, 26 Return Deel S . Telephone 7127 . F. 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