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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1932)
Alb Will Make E Armorj.'Fif Card (BVtSOU ght OW OJTH Horn Bearcats Resume .College i Ball; Columbia Gam! Will Reveal Probable Strength ' INVADER I SWEDES BILLED SCOTTS MILLS TO CQJOW E EP1RRISU S CO frlsl lvk.irUU.INi U 0 SALi n IN NT Heralded as Moses of Mitt Game Here; Supporting Card is Promising r TONIGHTS FIGHT CARD 'Main event Kim Albertson, 1S5, Salem, vs. George Hval, 185, Portland; ten rounds. Semi Flaal Buddy Am brose, 129, Salem, va. Shrimp McDonald, .130, Corvallis; six rounds. 1 Special Spike Gorman, 165, Salem, vs. Hank Brady, 165, 611 vert on; four rounds. Special Bobby Ambrose, 180, Salem, ts. Cy Landreth, 181, Independence; four 'rounds. Curtain Raiser Ray Brown, 150, Salem, ts. Melvln Sorrell, 150, Salem, four rounds. ,, Kim Albertson, Salem's own top-Wotch fighter, will make his first appearance here tonight in the 10 round main event of Matchmaker Harry Plant's. fight card. Albertson will have his ini tial test against George Hval, speedy Portland pugilist. In his last heavy workout ' which was Wednesday aliernoon, Kim demonstrated speed and punching power to the enthusias tic crowd at the Capitol Athletic club gymnasium. Yesterday he skipped speedily and lightly through six rounds to loosen up fully and get In the best of con dition with all his power saved for tonight's contest. George Hval was northwest featherweight champion for three successive years before en tering professional ranks. Since that time he has grown and broke into prominence as a light weight by defeating Pat O'Day, Johnny Garvey and Ted Rock away. He has also fought draws with Roy Ockley. Kim Already Down To Stated Poundage . Hval will be here this after noon and weigh in at 135 the specified poundage and" is . feeling fine. Tommy Thompson is managing Kim and a mother couldn't take better care of her child. Tommy watches him constantly in the gymnasium and gives him thor ough rubdowns after each train ing period. He also gives Kim some road work and states that he follows behind in the car as he is wise to the spare tire trick. Albertson was born In De troit, but his ring encounters have taken him far. The fight most distant from home was in Jersey City, N. J., where he was the headliner. He has also fought tops in Denver, Detroit, San Francisco. Hollywood, Los Ange les , Reno, Seattle, Vancouver, Eureka, California and Portland. The boxing game has been at a low ebb during the past two years, here In Salem. Phil Bayes . was the last fighter here who continued to draw crowds con- sistently. Incidently Phil Bayes is proprietor of the Capitol Athletic club and has been Kim's spar ring partner part of each day's training period. Salem sport followers are looking to Kim as the person to pull the game out of the heap and make boxing popular here, He's been fighting five years and has won 9 out of 115 starts. Twelve , decisions went against him and twice he lost by techni cal knockouts. Only five of his fights have ended in draws as he , Is not the kind of a fighter to aim for an even break. When he fights he goes out and gets tne battle or loses in the attempt, but as his record indicates, be usually wins. Ambrose Twins are Both on Program " A strong preliminary card Is -headed by Buddy Ambrose of Sa lem and Shrimp McDonald of Corvallis. McDonald won a close ue-ision over AniDrose in tneir last meeting here and Buddy be lieves he can even the count. If Buddy forgets the crowd and gets to work he will have a good chance, but McDonald is a classy yo-tnttster and hard to handle. - Spike Gorman is another Sa lem boy who shows great prom , Ise. though he's not had a great number of fights yet. Spike Is matched against Hank Brady of Sllverton. Gorman is a brother of Nails Gorman who has the reputation of being a "hard rock fighter and Spike appears to fol low his style, though he is learn ing to box some too. Bobby Ambrose and Cy Lan dreth will meet in another four round furore which promises to be one of the best on the card, Judging from previous perform ances of the two. Landreth hits bard, but Bobby Is a bit more ex perienced. Ray Brown and Mel Jin Sorrell. both of . Salem and o pound fighters, will meet In v.T rind curtain raiser. This Is only the third fight Ik . ,vnce Ust "miner and oth of the other !?m& 'V6- ' liking. Hos- "v.. fct B:30 tonight. Liberty Girls .. Win But Boys r Lose to Aurora LIBERTY, Jan. 14 The Liber ty boys' lost 17 to 9 while the lo cal girls scored 28 tn t)ii . ponents 3, In the games with Au rora there Wednesday. Th Liberty town team and that of Rosedale met.ln a basketball -r tilt here Wednesday night for an Interesting game and close scor ing. The game ended 25 to 28 for Liber.-" . "Sweet are the uses of adversity, WhUh. like the toad, ugly and V venomous, -Wears yet a precious jewel In his - , head." ; . Shakespeare. Whether the Bard of Avon was right or not, it is still true that Willamette university's hoop ar tists, their ears battered down un ceremoniously by a succession, of Independent aggregations, ap peared to have profited by the va rious lessons as .they engaged In their final workout Thursday af ternoon before resuming intercol legiate competition. Tonight they will engage the Irish of Columbia university at Portland in a non - conference game but one which, nevertheless, will give the first inkling as to how the Bearcats are likely to stack up with conference foes. Tuesday night Columbia defeat ed Pacific 38 to 25, also In Port land. The Irish had previously lost to Linfield by a decisive margin and if Willamette doesn't do as well, its chances of heading . the DIEGEL SETS NEW AGUA CALIENTE, Mexico, Jan. 14 (AP) Led by Leo Die gel, a bunch of the boys were burning It up on the 6838 yard course here today. They played havoc with par, bringing the scores for the first two rounds of the 815,000 Agua Caliente open tournament below anything done in the two previous meetings for the world's richest golf prize. Larrupin' Leo was laying them in close to the pin and sinking putts all over his home course. He went out in 35, ducking one under par, and came back with a 33, three strokes under par, for a 68, a new course record. That figure, coupled with the 70 he EOT e TIRADE WIMPS BLOW IB1 .. m . 1tSkrv It COMlSKE. S tmm S t.. . - -IMt Wrllft SOX' OWAlEfo MAnnr wis wiwm, amd is ieepv IP do Mofen suiAPRAjts- : 13. Kins Featorts Syndicate. c, r.rrat Britain rights reserved. AS usual, a thousand trades have been arranged for the magnates of the major base ball leagues -by members of the "al hot stove league; a thon and, that Is, for every one con i in fact by club owners. Daring the late baseball season it was generally thought that many .important deals hA k- and that announcement of them wa held up to await more favor- aoie publicity conditions, t Then what hannn!f """ 1 LOU Comifikv nA T-nn Vmiw. new president and new manager! respectively, of the White Sox. Bent fitltfiffM RimitU. fielder Kerr to Washington in ex change for pitchers Jones and Hadley and inlielder Hayes. Then, rejuvenating the Chicago American League team, these two enterpris conference or approximating that will look as poor as they . have been forecast. - , Against Turnvereln Wednesday night the'Wlllamette team was to tally helpless in the second' half, but In Thursday's practice the boys "looked like champions' for once, according to Coach "Spec" Keene. A defeat such as that ad ministered by the Germans was calculated to bring out any "fight" the Bearcats possessed and apparently they possess some of that necessary quality. Keene was not certain of 'his starting lineup. It may not be greatly changed from that which went against the gymnasts7 of Turnvereln. Columbia's big ace. is reported to be Hunt, a. forward, whose run ning mate Is Richardson, ex-Lln- hcoln high star. Piskell "and Casey are tne regular guards and Meyer tholen has been holding down the tlpoff position. , The same teams will play here Saturday night. The Willamette Frosh will play Lincoln high in a preliminary game that night. made yesterday, set Diegel two strokes in front of Charles Guest, his nearest competitor for the f 5, 000 first place money. Guest, nicknamed "The Beau," who regiateredtrom Deal, N. J., blasted hUSay to a 69 today for a total of 71 40 strokes for the 36 holes played. -CHURCH TEAM TRAVELS DALLAS, Jan. 14 The boys and girls basketball teams of the Dallas Christian church will go to Carlton next Saturday night to play the teams of the Carlton church. Last Saturday the girls' team won and the boys lost in games at YamhilL PERRYDALE WIXXER PERRYDALE, Jan. 14 Per- rydale girls were victorious In a league basketball game here with Independence Tuesday night with a score of 2 4-J 8. Trading Is Brisk! By HARDIN BURNLEY ing young men sent the massive southpaw, Weiland, to Boston In return, Shand Collins,' Hubsox manager, shipped to Chicago Milt Gaston, who pitched for the Yankees, Browns and Senators be fore going to Boston a few sea sons back. ' Rogers Hornsby, manager of the Chieaara Cubs, wanted to ret rid of Hack : Wilson, who led both leagues in home runs in 1930, but XeU down badly in 1931. At the recent baseball meeting in Chicago the Raiah achieved his traroosa bv trading , the colorful Hack . down the river to the World Champion Cardinals for Burleigh Grimes, hero of the recent World Series. Hornsby had to toss in Lonar Bud Teachout, rookie ; pitcher, to com plete the . deal. ' This trade , has stirred no a hornet's nest of con troversy, which will probably last lonr into the 1932 campaign. r The Cards then sold Wally Woodburn Chances Deemed Slight In View of one Decisive Defeat N WOODBURN, Jan. 14 Wood burn high school's team of ea saba heavers are to play hosts to Salem high school's basketball team here In the local, gymna sium FTiday evening when the two team "meet for the second time this year. In the first game with Salem, played there January 5, tha Bulldogs were completely snowed under. Sine that time Woodburn has been taken by In dependence which earned victory by a one-point margin, and Che- mawa's Indians, who ran up half a Hundred points against wood bum's 11. - James Miller, coaeh of Wood burn's team; . has been holding workouts regularly, hoping, that ne mignc una some combination of players of better caliber than the present first string. Appar ently ho has had little success, because he Is still shifting his players and noting the effects of the combinations. Miller is con fronted With the difficult prob lem of building a good team out of a squad of mediocre Individ ual players who are about on the same level as far as ability is concerned. Friday night's lineup will probably include Pardy at center, Delmer Ramsdell and Nelson, forwards, and Jackson and Man- ley Ramsdell at guard positions. The good game Schwab turned In against Chemawa despite over whelming odds may have won him a berth on the starting line up at guard. Thomas and Evans will probably see service before the game is over, and may pos- sioiy start. There will also be a game be tween the "B" teams of the two schools. The game Is scheduled to start at 8 p, m. Boettger to the Beds. Koettger will feel at home there, having spent most of the 1931 season in the Rhineland. . The Reds, by the way, would like some hitters. Mn whenever they mention the name of one, the opposing owner' always wants Ked. Lucas, . the capable pitcher and pinch hitter of Sidney Weil's out fit. Lucas, the Red owners stoutly refuse to trade. Bill McKechiuVs Braves would like a seasoned third . baseman, but there are very, very few available. ' One might be ac quired for Big Ed Brandt but . the latter is a fast favorite with the Beantown fans. ; There . - are always February trades, however and all baseball men agree that nearly every club will present at least one or two new faces to start the 1931 season, with Connie Mack's high-riding A's the one possible exception to this rule. : -V""- : . ' CfeTli. U33. fcf SOat IVatm SndfaataIa. 'Mt - ma- '. 1 , 7 X s W Leading his country's contingent on its invasion of the United States. T. II. E. Smith Kieland, captain of the Norwegian ski team, is shovrn on arrival at New York. Captain Kieland win take his team to Lake. Placid to put in some preliminary training: over the Olympic course. The Norwegians are favored to win the ski event Kieland is also' representative of - the Norwegian Olympic Committee, and is from Oslo, capital of his country. STRIKES and SPARES Thursday night.- January 21 at Corvallis, George Allen and Sam seem Dock or Salem will start a 20-game home-and-home match with Shamley and Henzler of the college town. The last ten games will be rolled on the Capitol al leys here Sunday, January 24, at 1 p.m. In Statesman lea sue nlav Wed nesday night the Day and Niles men took three games from the pacillc Telephone team. Burt Shrock and Tylman Leasure, two novices at the game, shot high single games for the Niles men. The Day and Niles women won all three games from the Shields team and set a new high series record of 3551 and high single game of 898 for the league this season. Summary: SHIELDS Shields 155 12S. 185 416 Cooley -139 123 128 887 Sehroek 138 !. i?4 ino O. Dmrbia 1T0 187 192 490 A. Ollefon 157 168 152 477 ToUli .754 705 729 2288 DAT JLSD KTXXS LADIES M. Polia 185 171 16a 46 W. Clin . 179 164 153 495 B. Bailey 143 158 218 514 R. Dnrbin 202 177 170 649 L. Hemeavsy 168 140 181 489 Totalt 839 822 890 3551 FAcrno TzxxPHora Collin 1 148 187 , 434 Leffianr 144 138 158 425 LuBdahl .... 108 188 115 859 Howell 185 145 S7S MeMnllen 170 164 155 489 Total ..-665 708 710 3183 OAT AXJ KXLE8 UZS Atkia 170 159 183 511 Tillmaa , .185 141 183 458 Shrock 133 191 213 535 Milan lis 114 105 SSS John ton Total 15T 163 177 497 .761 739 819 3359 BABE REFUSES TO ACCEPT WAGE CUT NEW YORK. Jn 14 fATM Baseball's greatest wage earn er, uane itutn, cast a withering glance today at a contract call ing for 170,000, a reduction of 13 per cent from last year, stuffed It back in his pocket and hurried out - to get in a few rounds of golf. The big fellow Is a holdout again. He doesn't like Colonel Jacob Ruppert's offer for 1932. He's going to stand firm either for 330,000 for one year or $70,- ooo ror a two year contract. "No. sir. I won't aim that thing," said the Base, "I think I'm worth the other $10,000 aft er the season I had. Where da the rt-t n thi. catting?' he demanded. "If they aeep it up, pretty soon the pub lic's roinr to want It nr. tnn Then where'U they be? I haven't neara oi tnem reducing the ad mission prices." T BEATS m LEE Clifford McLean, tha "Bnhh, Grayson" of Portland basketball, was a bir factor In tha dAfnat r the Jason Lee quintet on the T. m. c. A. noor Wednesday night 29 to 19 bv the Greenfield ShA company team of Portland. . GREENFIELD IN McLean, playing for the shoe storo team along with two of his Benson high mates, scored only two points but burned' up the floor with his speed and Klnkela, Holmes and Holllngsworth did the shooting. Greenfield was ahead at half time 22 to 13,. after Jason Lee had led 9; to 7 at the end of the first period before the visitors got the range. Summary: v : " ! Jason Lee Greenfield Lear, 8 .F. , Watson R. Miller, 2 .F 2, McLean Msrcy, - ... : C 7, Holmes C Miller .La 13, Klnkela Magee, 3 ; G Holllngsworth Heseman. 2 ..'."...S ,v T " Referee, Erlckson. - Champion. Traveling Hoop ers to Meet Florsheims On Willamette Floor The aoDearanca of dlson's Ter rible- Swedes, champion traveling basketball team, at the Willam ette university gymnasium next Monaay nigni, January, 18. will be the first for this formidable Quintet In the northwest, accord ing to word received by the Flor- sneuns wno win oppose the big Scandinavians. . The Swedes will nlr At fiattlj the following night and have sev eral games scheduled In the Pa get Sound country next weak. nf list no others in Oregon. They are coming north from California and that Is the reason the Tlnrihmi were able to sign them at a rea sons Die figure. Up to January 4 when the Flor sheims had their latest report on the- pullman car champions, they had won 31 games this season and lOSt two. Both riofnata n administered by Brigham Young university players at Provo, Utah, by scores of 35 to 30 and 35 to 29. Last year they won 107 games ana tost Z7, and In 11 years that this team and Its predecessors have toured, 878 games have been Played with 735 victories and 143 defeats. IS WORKING OUT HERE Jackie Wattenberger, promin ent 114 pound fighter who has appeared here a number of M In the past, has returned to Sa- lem ana is working out at the Capitol Athletic club. Jackie has been in California and has fought in Los Angeles. Tacoma and The Dalles !n fa Inst here. He has a couple of fights- siaiea in Portland and The Dalles and will likely appear on some of me caras nero in the near future. Wattenberg laid off for a while to gain weight, but added only a few pounds and Will rontlntiA to fight at the same approximate weignt. Stayton Meets Jefferson at Home Tonight STAYTON. Jan. 14 Fridnv January 15 will see th Jnffpr son high school team Invading tuieigu icrriiory wnen iney meet Stayton on the local court. Judging from reports the two teams are on nrettv even terms and the game promises to be a regular cyclone. Coach Harold Gordonier, of Stayton has been having his boys take advantage of all nractlee oossible and. al though defeats have been handed tnem by both Gates and Mill City WATTKn BASKETBALL World's Champion Traveling Basketball Team Florsheim Shoe Team ts. Olson's Terrible Swedes of Missouri MONDAY, JAN. 18th, AT WJXIMETTE UNIVERSITY ; GYMNASIUM. ADMISSION 50c CURTIS A friend of ours who Is ac quainted with many Sugene ath letes, cleared up a question which has been bothering us. We had noticed that Mllligan was playing for Eugene high and also for University high of Eugene. It's all true. There are two younger brothers of Sootty Mil ligan, who gained basket ball fame In state circles while go ing to Eugene high and later broke into coast conference fame as a player for the U. of O. Ski "Stew" Mllligan was the next In line and also entered " Eugene high where he has at -least been able to make the bas ketball and football squads. If he isn't quite the star his -older brother was. Enter the youngest Mllligan boy. who is being called John more thin Junior . now, and de cides he'll be different and go to University high, states our infor mant. John is now one of the main hubs of Coach Jean Eber- hart's University high hoop team while "Stew" occupies a corres ponding position on Frits Kram mer's Eugene high team. The brothers will meet at least twice and possibly three times in games this season and Eugene fans will get a rare Insight into brotherly love. Salem high has -no call to crow yet about Its victory over Eugene. It now develops that three of Frita Kramer's first string men won't become elig ible until the) second semester. The Busick family got its share or publicity in yesterday's paper The Busick store had a fairly ser ious fire. Bill was elected a direct. or of the Salem eolf Huh and then there was the regular a that everybody reads whether they like it or not. Bill by the way Is one of the most faithful enlfera In tnn and his. dally stunt on the fair ways, rain or shine, is making a top notch rolfer nf Mm aran though, if our suspicions are cor rect, ne aian t lake up the game in early youth. High Climber of the Register-Guard remarks that if wres tling matches turned out the way the northern division Coast conference basketball games have been going, the public would cry to high heaven of a "frameup.' Northwest conference basket ball has started, with Linfield topping the circuit for the present by virtue of a 44 to 22 victory over Albany college which was making its debut in the game played at Albany. The Pirates of Albany will get In a lot of their conference games early, playing Pacific Saturday night at Forest Grove and Whitman at Walla Walla next week, unless they've changed the original schedule. Gordonier reports his team Is only the more determined to pull out of the slump. 5s niracDtuidloall Sim ftDnns ffMDDQSIHI ED EO mT . if : Bum0r-. f .7. V i f . i ts Parrish Junior, high will meet the -veteran Scotts Mills high bas ketball team here tonight In a Marlon county B league. game. Coach Frank Brown continues to lament the absence of good players, particularly scoring aces, but his team continues to win its games by comfortable' margins. However Brown knows that tougher opposition lies ahead than that which has been van quished and has reason for con cern. . Scotts Mills has a fast team with most of last year's men back and will present a well organised attack. Parrish has been able tq handle the ball fairly well this season, but has missed many ot the scoring opportunities. Wejtftesday night Parrish won from the Woodburn B team 32 to 19. Tonight the Trojans will play the School for the Deaf interme diates In a preliminary game to start at 7 o'clock. NEW YORK, Jan.; 14 (AP Tommy Loughran, knocked down and outpointed a month ago. starts a comeback campaign in Madison Square Garden to morrow night against Steve Ha mas, rugged young Penn State graduate who is Just coming up the fistic trail. In the campaign which had put him back in the forefront of the heavyweight picture Tommy ran into the wild swinging King Levlnsky of Chicago December 18 and was bounced all over the ring. He was practically out on his feet at the final bell. Loughran thinks that was Just an accident and readily accepted the match with Hamas, hard hit ting, unpolished youngster. Ha mas has left a string of groggy opponents behind him In a pro fessional campaign now only a little over a year old. i PICKEO-UP QUINTET MONMOUTH. Jan. 14 rrv gon Normal school hoopers, three complete teams of them, piled up a 66 to 22 victory over a plcked up team from Salem here tonight. Scoring for Oregon. Normal were Phillips 5, Holt 4, Squires 3. Watklns . Scrogglns 9. Pettys 10, Hoekema r. Engebretsen 2, San tee 10, Bachland 4. Ellingsworth Saturday night Oregon Normal plays an undefeated club team from St Helens, reported to be an unusually strong outfit. Coach Wolf will start the same five men that opened tontgnt's game: Phillips and Holt at forwards. Squires center, Watklns and Scrogglns guards. Til LOUGHf TO T F! Y COMEBACK ill WINS