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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning,' November 22, 1931 Temple and Mik WeMeet to 13 to 6 TROJANS SEIZE HEWIATGH FIGHT I PAGE TWELVE SMC CHAMPIONSHIP TT OP ulak Lead Victory BADGERS TILT LOOKING UP! HE'S NEXT TO BE TUESDAY i BY 256 COUNT SET THURSDAY E Oregon Power is Winning Factor; Uclan's Chances Muffed; Varnell Travels By PAUL ZIMMERMAN OLYMPIC STADIUM, Los Angeles, Nov. 21 (AP) Two green garbed ghosts of the gridiron, Mark Temple and Mike Mikulak, swung the' pendulum of victory to Oregon 13 to 6 today after a stirring struggle with the University of California at Los Angeles. Fifteen thousand persons, the smallest crowd to witness II AT T y Puts Willamette, Whitman Back as Finalists for Third Straight Year N. W. CONFERENCE Willamette Whitman Pacific Coll of Idaho Paget Sound Linfleld W. L. Pet. 3 1 .750 2 1 .67 3 2 .600 2 2 .500 2 3 .400 0 3 000 College of Puget Sound's oyer -whelming defeat of Pacific Satur day at Forest GroTe, 25 to ft, re garded by many followers of the Northwest conference race as the climax of this season's lengthy series of shocking upset, put El- don Jenne's Badgers out of the B. championship running and , res tores the campaign to the same status that has prevailed for in all major sports for the last three season A Willamette - Whitman duel. ATThe same, time it heightens Interest in the Willamette-Whitman game scheduled for'Thanks glring day at Walla' Walla; Pacific's defeat means this com ing game will settle the champion ship without any question. Wil lamette has the slight advantage that would win the champion ship on a percentage basis in case of a tie game The Bearcats were out for prac tice bright and early Saturday I morning after beating Albany col- J lege by a narow margin Friday night. The showing of players, who hare not been first string men in that game, indicates that several of them will see con siderable action at Walla Walla. Baker's Place Kick Beats Notreame First Time In Three Seasons V. Borleske, the "old fox" of the Northwest conference, whose Missionaries' await the invasion of Willamette's Bear cats at Walla Walla Thanksgiv fng day. Due to recent npseta, this game will decide the con ference championship without nay question. ctuiEir ENTS CURTIS FOREST GROVE, Ore., Nov. 21 (AP) College of Puget Sound scored, a 25 to 6 football victory over Pacific university here today and eliminated Pacific from the northwest conference championship race. A fist fight late in the second Out at the Salem Golf clnb the members are now provided with large score cards conven iently placed on their lockers, whereon they may record their scores immediately after com ing in from the course It's ex pected to be a big help In re cording enough scores so that handicaps may be arrived at fairly. By PAUL. MICKELSON SOUTH BEND, Ind., Nov. 21 (AP) Notre Dame's mighty for tress of football, impregnaDie against 26 assaults In almost three years of gridiron warfare, fell at last today. . Fluttering over It tonight flew the maroon and gold battle flag of the roaring Trojans from Southern California, who thrilled the world of football with one 15 minute rush In the last period Df battle today to win by a margin of 16 to 14. The final drive came just when it looked as if the big Notre Dame guns, Marcny Schwarts and Steve Banas, seem ed certain of winning the day. Trailing by two touchdowns they entered the final period, the Trojans could not be denied as they smashed the Irish wall. They dashed and passed their way to one touchdown in four minutes, rushed over another one to come within a point of tying the battle and then triumphed as the fren zied crowd of 52,000 spectators, treated to one of the greatest struggles in the lore of football, watched Johnny Baker, Trojan left guard, arch a perfect place ment kick through the uprights. Trojans Were Last To Beat Ramblers Baker's kick, coming with but one minute of play remaining was an ironic touch for old Notre Dame which has witnessed its fighting army march through 25 victories in 26 starts. The kick beat Notre Dame as the "fighting (Irish" had three times defeated the Trojans. More ironical was it that the kick enabled the Tro jans to be the first and the last to defeat Notre Dame, as it was the same invader from the west who conquered Notre Dame's football army back in 192$. Of course all golfers are hon- if ever a football team deserved est about their scores, but we I to win, it was Coach Howard wonder if some aren t a bit I Jones and his cardinal and gold period cost each team one of its a. t - . , . , vvvUUd la, cuuic saaaa ar piayers ana n inspire ""re ,, now and then. But if shirted giants from the west to- a wnian rna i viirirarw srms-saai i a .- one should haDDen to forget a 1 day. They rocked the ?otre counle of strokes now and then I Dame citidel recklessly and con to imnress his associates with his sistently. i nree times tney skill, he would be hurting his threatened before success came handicap at the same time. in which the Loggers scored three touchdowns in the second half toppled Pacific. The first half ended 6 to 6 but Pacific was still the favorite, hav ing made nine first downs to nd forst downs for the Loggers. Puget Sound's touchdown came on the first play of the game. En nls, left half, took the Pacific kickoff on his own 15 and raced 85 yards, protected by a perfect wedge of interference, to the Pa cific goal line. Sterling missed the try for point Pacific warmed up quickly and Al Weinel got away for 26 yards and a touchdown. They missed the goal point. ' Pacific marched the ball to Pa- - get Sound's one-yard line again There Weinel fumbled and recov ered but the Loggers held for downs. As Puget Sound punted from behind her goal line, Albert Lem- cke. Pacific tackle, and Ennis en And now we have the- new ball, all official and every-' thing. But if anybody wants to keep on using the 1031 ball, he can because only the maxi mum weight Is prescribed, ac cording to the wording of the new P. G. A. A. rule. That will please the "world's worst golf er" whom we quoted a while back. In the first period, they smash ed their way to Notre Dame s three yard line only to lose their precious chance for the first score on Jimmy Musick's fumble. Two minutes later, they rammed to the enemy eleven yard line only to be stopped by inches and once again, in the third period, they found themselves beaten back with 10 yards to go. But what looked like the saddest break of all came af ter they had scored their first touchdown when Baker s kick tor gaged in a hot but short fist fight ers at the beach courses between and both were sent off the grid iron. Lemcke had been the backbone of the Badgers' attack and'defense and after his loss they were un able to hold the Loggers. The Loggers opened the third period with a 70-rard march to the goal line. Sterling kicked roaL The Loggers scored twice in the fourth, once when Brusch inter cepted a Pacific pass and raced I 23 yards and again when John- eon intercepted a pass on the 1 Pacific 35. The plays put the ball over. Graham Sharkey came back tra Pp A,0fB,V m a recent tour of Oregon they couldn ' b denled after that Bears Smash Out Victory Over Indians from a recent tour of Oregon coast golf courses with word that the game is growing in patron age by leaps and bounds down there. It hadn't been, up to the time of his visit, wet enough to handicap play. Most of the play- Devil's Lake and Agate live in the Willamette from Salem to Eugene. Beach valley Independent Grid Squads Clash Today The Salem Heights independent football team, an eleven composed mostly of former high school play ers, will tangle with the Chemawa Indian stars on the latter's field this afternoon. ,.Two .weeks .ago - the Chemawa athlete took a 14 to 13.. victory from the local squad in a. game lb at was played -in a heavy rain ,on a field covered with mud. The fiery little Indians well deserved their victory because they were i outweighed considerably; and withstood a merciless pounding - from the heavy Salem backs. Wayne Blaco former Salem nigh baek field ace, will be the principal, ball carrier for the Sa lem' Heights team in today's game. He will. bo supported in the backfield .by Clyde Landry, ex LaGrande high player, at the oth er half. Kenneth "Swede" Lewis ' will play fullback while Kenneth Dalton will do the quarterback ing. On the Salem Heights line will be Eldon Jory and Toney Shoen beckler at tackles, Roy Hunt and Bob ' Carpenter, ends, Carl Trick and Blaine Chapman, guards, and Duke Maestretti, center. There was a thin scum of ice on the lake at the Salem course Saturday, and ft it freezes over solid, we plan to go out and play the fourth In par. O The Willamette griddets were mostly at Forest Grove Saturday, watching Puget Sound and Pa cific play. Foolish question No. 134693: Whom were they pull ing for? The report we get is that Pacific was pretty cocky be-! fore the game. But we're not as surprised as some people appear to be, at the outcome. During, the first quarter of. the Albany game Friday night, Olson, massive Bearcat full back, bit through the line 15 yards before any one touched him And then went five more after he was tackled. Several similar plays during the game proved that the reserve line can rip holes In the opposing forward wall. LIBERTY LOSES S LIBERTY, Nov.j 21. -The Ub- eriy scnooi boys, who have been practicing:: basketball only two .weeks. Journeyed to Stayton" Frl . day afternoon for their first same and did very well, losing by only : an eight-point mara-in . 1 n a- Mr. Meyers, who is coaching the uwa, ua so lar not made p his first team, but expects to have a gooa one arte aiore practice. The showing by the Willamette line was Indeed creditable as the v irates' forward wall was the heavier,. Albany made only three first downs from scrimmapA By RUSSELL NEWLAND STANFORD STADIUM, Palo Alto, Cal., Nov. 21 (AP) While 90,000 fans thrilled to a titanic struggle, California's Bears humbled an ancient gridiron foe today, with a brilliant 6-0 victory over Stanford that ended the sev en-year reign of the Indians in this classic of the west Led by stocky Hank Schaldach, the -Bears smashed over a touch down in the second period and threatened on two other occasions that saw the ball lost on downs within the shadow of the goal line. Gridiron strategy that marked the play of earlier California teams, namely, "kick and wait for the breaks," worked to the advan tage of the 1931 Bears. In the first quarter Schaldach booted the oval with such place ment and weight that Stanford's safety man. Hardy, was dropped In his tracks on his own three yard line, Rantala got off a bad punt and California put the, ball In play on Stanford's 36-yard line. The game turned into the second quarter. Schaldach punched at the line four times in A row for a total gain of 12 yards and then passed to Waterbury for another dozen through: those scrappy eaerves. 1 J1"0" I0J otner aoxen The starting crew realized ita Inn- i t". ... . - ' portunity to show its stuff and made the most of it. One of the gratifying tea turea or that game waa the work: of Bill here heralded star, Ross has felt a little "un necesarj" aa injuries prevent ed him from showing much of anything until the Albany game. mark it was Schaldach five and one and five and over. His dropkick on the try for point was blocked natlng in a line plunging spree made possible Oregon's second touchdown. The pair seemed un stoppable, and while Temple's pass to Orville Bailey was good for 17 yards to the forty-yard stripe, it was sheer power which brought the score. Mikulak crashed through from the one- yard line and Temple converted with a placement. a facinc coast conierence garner here this season, saw these two ! Webfooted backs pound their way through a rugged Bruin line in the first and third periods to shut their opponents out of the win column In their third season as members of the conference. Twenty penatlies marred the game, and gave George Varnell, the referee from Seattle, the largest individual yardage of the way. He stepped off 109 yards at the expense of the beaten Bru ins and 75 yards against Coach Clarence Spears' eleven. Temple scored in the opening quarter on the third opportunity presented the Webfeet. Charles Wlshard, Oregon end, rushed in to block Bobby Decker's punt on the 45 yard line. The ball rolled to the edge of the field and Wlshard picked it up to race to the 9 yard line before he was tackled. A five yard penalty for offside, after Temple had cracked center for two yards put the ball on the two yard line, and the half back plunged through on the next play. His kick was wide. Fumble Paves way For Cclans' Score Lloyd McMillan paved the way for the Bruins' only score in the second period when he recovered Don Watts' fumble on the Ore gon 35 yard line. Two tries at the line and a 16 yard penalty for unnecessary roughness made it first down on the Web foot 10 yard line. Two crashes at center put the ball on the five yard strip, from which point Captain Norman Duncan passed to Dick Mulhaupt over the goal line for the score. Duncan's placement was wide. A 74 yard drive in 13 plays with Temple and Mikulak alter- Booth Kicks For Victory In Last Tilt CAMBRIDGE, Mass.. Nov. 21 (AP) Alble Booth. Yale's Lit tie Boy Blue, broke the Crimson spell today and drop-kicked the Ell's to a spectacular victory over Harvard, 3 to 0, in his last game against the Crimson. The climax to a bitterly waxed battle, scoreless for 57 minutes as each team lost golden opportuni ties to break through, came with barely three minutes to go. It was fourth down, three to do, on Har vard s four-yard line. Once before, in the second quarter, Booth had tried a drop-kick under similar circumstances and missed by narrow margin. Here was the last big chance for Little Boy Blue and ha re sponded with a beautiful boot. When two Clovis. N. M., golf teams met for 18 holes of play the total scores were 2626 and 2627 for the 54 men and 10 women par ticipating. Catching Ova! Tossed From Airplane Will be Stunt Just Before Game Unique and comprehensive prep arations are under way to make tne Thanksgitvng day football game here between Salem high and Chemawa the most colorful athletic event ever held between me iwo scnoois. Vernon Gllmore. track and "B basketball coach of Salem high,. win attempt to catch a football tossed from an airplane to Olinger field Just before the start of the game. Aa far as is known here. this stunt has never keen tried be fore any place in the United States. The game is called for 2 o'clock. Just before that time an Eyerly plane will cut Its droning motor for a swoop to within 30 feet of the ground. Amid cries of down, Gllmore, down," Verne n will attaempt to ensnare the lowly pigskin which had such a high catling. Gllmore was a track man at Oregon State college and is also a great soccer player. Any work which he might have had In astronomy while he was in school will also come to his assistance. At any rate he will make a real effort to keep that aforemention ed pigskin from returning directly to its original habitat, the dirt. Movies of Attempt May be Filmed Fletcher Johnson, manager of Salem high athletics, is arranging the details and states that perhaps a Fox movietone recorder may be here from Portland to record the unique performance. However, this point will not be settled def initely until Monday, said John son. The Salem high band will play at the game and special prepara tion for organized rooting will be made. It Is expected that the freshmen will build a bonfire on Olinger field for a Wednesday night rally. The Chemawa game is a real story book climax to Salem's me- Alps vs. Andes ta Crash!! By HARDIN BURNLEY ross. coming Nebraska Wins a. a probable . Big six l iue The turnout of Salem people ai me aaiem-Aibany game Sat MEMORIAL STADIUM, - LIN COLN, Neb., Not. 21 (AP) Flashing an offense marked by both power and versatiality the university of Nebraska trounced the cyclones of Iowa State Col urday was little short nf au- iae cclone 101r Blw grace'. .15 JiVi. VZ V t0 Vt0 WlD Albany rooters than bom. pepYe SK, The cornhusker victory was a ' complete rout for the Iowans. 4 We mentioned on blance of the Cherriana to No tre Dame's eleven yesterday. Pete McCaffery, who bobbed up aa a dark horse star in that game. Is another. Except that the "Irish" don't appear to nave any fighting Irishmen in their backfield. . mm -THE giants wBmkmSim0k I BABE HUAJT f i lMPEL(TAIO 1 I .camera.. " J c3) ! 1 y WLm,,i vsVS " .,mr. " ' v'rf. -fA --..J, - i . i-.j.-f-.' J. . " .vjt : . - j c -. - .- - ' r- ' Hanson and Buskirk Seeking To Settle old Quarrel In Armory Arena VERNON GILMORB diocre season, as it will likely be the toughest contest of the year for the Cherriana. Last year Sa lem high won 24 to 0, but as far as actual playing was concerned, the teams were as even as could be imagined. One Indian dropped a pasB which was right in his hands when he was behind the Salem safety and in the open. On another play Chemawa lack ed Inches of making first and goal on the fourth down, while Salem made it by inches on a similar occasion and a score resulted. Cougar Revert To Power, Beat Gonzaga Eleven SPOKANE. Nov. 21 (AP) Washington State College, beaten In an aerial attack by Goniaga University's Crafty grldmen, went back to its 1930 championship system today, and steam rollered a 13 to 6 victory. Mike Pecarovich's Gonzagans took the cougars for an air line ride, beating them in the pass at tack of the first three periods. The desperate Cougars finally quit the trick stuff, clawed across a touchdown, dug in and held un til the final gun. I O- GR1D SCORES Johnny Hanson, the Portland newsboy, will meet Brownie Bus kirk. the Pendleton Cowboy In a rematch at the armory Tuesday n'ght on Promoter Harry Plant's fight card. Hanson is one of the classiest sluggers seen here. While Bus kirk can not be called classy or finished, he is one of the most ag gressive sluggers ever to perform here and more wallops were ex changed in the brief time he and Hanson fought, tian are often seen in a 10 round mix which goes the : full route. Kid Nelson of Portland will be here to engage Buddy Ambrose in a six round semi-windup. Buddy is one of the promising young pu gilists of Salem and won his last match here by a knockout. How ever he was not then fighting Nelson, but a substitute who re placed him because the Portland boy's ,hand - was , broken. . Ambrose-McDonald ( Clash of Interest Bobby Ambrose will have a four round go with Shrimp McDonald, the sturdy Corvallls boxer who has won 27 starts by knockouts.' Bobby has not won a great many fights by that route, but has won a number of decisions and is a heady fighter. Spike Gorman, a newcomer to Salem who plans to make this his home, will meet Bill Poole, the pride of Stayton in a four round match. Poole was formerly a Sa lem; fighter and appeared in a six round semi-windup the last time he fought here. Gorman lives in Salem now with his parents who have a farm at Liberty. His trainer Phil Bayes has great hopes for him and states that Gorman is in the pink of con dition. Spike is a brother of Naila Gorman, a fighter well known in the northwest. This will be the first fight in Salem for Spike, but he has been here for about two months. D Football relatione between Iowa State and the University, of Mis souri have been more frequent and continuous than between any oth er two schools in the Big Six. - A cat owned by U B. Cady of Orena, Nov., has . nursed - a wild? rabbit and several fox puppies. Cleveland -Indian managers axe expecting Steve Sundra, recruit from the sandlot champions, to prove as well with Cincinnati as did Joe Vosttlk thia yean r--- READNAUGHTS Xos. 1 and 1 in "Old Roman" Mol doon's new category, of ring mammoths are scheduled to battle each other for fifteen rounds in New York City Friday night. It looks now like the hottest heavy card in years with Prhao Camera and Vittorio Campolo staking their all en the outcome of this pictur esque Combat of the High C's. Sapristi, but the Vast Venetian and the Arcentine Italian should pack 'em in to suffocation point despite the times. The very thought x a 4? whas saA4w'sV rRftV-WAwi Pwma va, Mra wAwyif"vt a v v srv uu a iuuv exchanging. .wallops with the 6-foot-7, 240-pound "Vic" is enough to stir even the most unemotional of fight fans. , , . "Cams" is xnnnosed . ta have vttkening sock in his right. As te "Preem," if he cant take it, neither can the Marines! Further more, Camera will be shooting at a target even taller than he Is, this time, and not at the much smaller and masterly Sharkey or the ring wise and mobile Maloney. "Preem" had to punch down at those fel lows. This time, he can aim straight or up at the towering gaucho and the latter has the same advantare. n-itner or oota ought to he dropped hardnot enee but several, usrea. If "Camn' eomes tearinr Into Carnera aa he did against Tommy Loughran he may tumble Treem" harder than Sharkey did, but If he fails to score an carry iL O- the Ambling Alp' battering ram .left should level the tall. son of the Andes about the middle of the bout aa Ernie Schaaf did in the seventh last Jnlyi For the Impression la strong that Campolo lacks some what in stsmina, whereas Carnera Droved in loainr hia first fifteen- round boot te Sharkey, who was at his best, that he can absorb pun ishment in extraordinary fashion. ."Freem" has worked hard te perfect a right uppercut. That. too. is one ef the Argentine'! best weapons, if it becomes a test of those chin-lifting smashes,' there snouid be so much-faction the fans!! think. Friday nirht. that Popeye has transplanted his "sweet peas" specialty from the eemie pages te Madison -Square, Garden. Even If it should become a mere mauling match, . the 2 size and strength of the arincipals should . provide more than routine thrills. ; Pacific Coast Oregon 13; U. C. L. A. C. California 6. Stanford 0. W. S. C. 13, Gontaga San Francisco 40, Nevada 0. Puget Sound 25, Pacific . Southern Oregon Normal 20 Columbia 7. Oregon Normal 37. Eastern Oregon Normal 6. Eastern Yale 3. Harvard 0. . Army 54, Ursinus . Southern Methodist 13, Navy C Brown 19, New Hampshire 13 Columbia 0, Syracuse 0. Bucknel 14. Fordham 13. Wash. & Jeff. 27. Western Re serve 7. Dickinson 14, Muhlenberg C. Boston College 18, Boston U. Lafayette 13, Lehigh 7. Holy Cross 16, Loyola 14. St. Joseph 20, Washington 0. Massachusetts Aggies 7. Tufts 7 W. Va. Wesleyan 38, Alleghe ny t. Georgetown 13, illanova . Hobart 13, Rochester 7. Springfield1 78, Vermont 0. St. Johns 13, Lynchburg 0. Catholic U. 13, Providence . Delaware 31, Haverford 0. Mlddlewest U. S. C. 1, Notre Dame 14. Michigan I, Minnesota 0. Northwestern 19, Iowa 0. Wisconsin 12, Chicago 7. Ohio State 40, Illinois 0. Detroit 20, Michigan State 19. Detroit C.!C. 0, Wilmington 0. Wooster. 12, Dennlson 0. Duquesne 13, North' Dakota 7. Kent 7,'Hiram 0. Haskell 31, Oglethorpe . Wittenberg 21, Dayton t. Kansas State 19, N. Dakota 1 State ft. Marquette 7, Creighton 0. North Central 14, Kalamazoo 7. Purdue 19, Indiana 0. Nebraska 23, Iowa State 0. ML Union 32, Oberlin . .DePauw 13, Wabash 7. Drake C, Grlnnell 0. Kansas 14, Missouri 0. Oklahoma Aggies 14, Wichita 6. Monmouth 19, Galesburg 0. Southern Tulane 40, Sewanee 0. West Virginia 19, Penn State 0. Georgia 12, Auburn ff. v Duke 0, North Carolina I. Maryland 113, Wash, ft Lee 7. Western Maryland 20, ML St. Marys 0. Randolph Macon 21, Ameri can 0. S. 'Carolina 21, No Carolina State 0. " Tuskegee 32, Alabama Tech 7. Wilberforce 14, Lincoln I. Georgia Tech 23, Florida 0. Southwestern 54, Union IS. Howard 7, Birmingham South ern t. I Centre 75, Louisville 0. Rocky Mountain Temple 18, Denver. 0. Colorado 17. Colorado Col lege 7. Santa Clara ft, Wyoming ft. - Southwest - Rice 2 ft, Arkansas 12. Texas Christian 19, Baylor ft. High School Salem 21, Albany ft. : Vancouver ft, Olympia ft. ' : 'l Northern Arizona Teaeh'ersj Frosh ft. New Mexico Frosh 19. MacLoughlln ft, Baker ft. , North, Bend 13, Reedsport t. . Hill MUita-ty 0, Astoria If. . . Parrish Junior high (Salem) 0, Roosevelt Junior high It. " Ashland Normal Beats Columbia (AP) The southern Oregon nor mal school of Ashland defeated Columbia University, Portland, 2 o to 7, in a football game today. The game was rough and mar red by frequent dispute over the referee's decisions. t51 CARLA OF SALEM SAVS your be many a A. r 4 -Good:dcka4. Lrooa v-ieall msrosy- LUMCHtCfSED TO BS TH RUU"!- J. NOW MN FOR A Bit of Cmndy " 3USAKT TIUT mmi'sb AH AD WSITCR FOQ The Market Drug . 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