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The OREGON STATESMAN,' Salens, Oresron, Friday Moralflg February. 19. 1932 n: r. , sky roves Sfomfelfe; Bfeck to ... and Tough Youngster MEETS TOUGH MEXICAN TONIGHT I o t ... o Little Men in Sports i By: HARDIN BURNLEY- Chicago Youth Accepts all : Ex-Champ -can Give and J " Returns bit ' M ore : - Fast Preliminaries Signed iac;k EKiirr: P .Bfemi emu Billed Mam Tonight Polk - Bentoni-Lincoln ' Will Li Settle--Championship ' Starting Mar. 2 DALLAS, Feb. 18. A schedule for the District No. 11 tournament was announced this week but is By CHARLES DUNK LEY ' , CHICAGO 8TADIUM. Chicago. Teb. II ( AP)Jack Derapsey's "pugilistic comeback ran into a atone wall tonight. .. ' The u bid Manassa mm l a dropped an unofficial decision, af ter four furious rounds of light ing, to King Lerinsky, the Max well street fish peddler, who was credited with outslugging the for mer heavyweight champloifof the world.1 , " - : Dempsey weighed '1 90 Levin sky: 1S. The matchk billed as a four round exhibition, was 1 a vicious toe to toe battle with Lerinsky, a crude but powerful and fearless walloper, ' hitting . the old cham pion almost whenever he pleased and taking everything that Denip- . sey had to offer in the way of an ' offense. Crowd Agrees With Newspaper Decision , , As the boot was an exhibition with no official decision, a poll of the newspaper experts was ne cessary to determine the winner. They voted in favor of Levinsky and the crowd, too,' thought the reformed ttsh peddler was the vic tor, Judging from the ovation he received -when he left the ring. The confidence that Levinsky displayed! at the start, when he set the pace for the first, round, carried him through, to - victory, Dempsey 's once famous, deadly bobbing and weaving attack, from which heretofore he administered body punches, and launched his terrific right crosses to the head, appeared to be no more than a shuffle tonight. Before the first round was finished the former champion. was breathing heavily and he walked with heavy feet to his corner, whereas Levinsky was strong and fresh' as the 21 -year old. kid that he la. Levinsky, the gamecock of the ring, showed contempt tor Demp sey's famous left hooks to the head and body, although at times be was guilty of holding on at close range to escape a battering Dempsey appeared certain to deal out to him. h lvlnsky Beckons Come on and Fight" - The fourth round was the 'sad dest for the old champion. Levin sky, suddenly stopped in the cen " ter of the ring when Jack began circling around, and scornfully motioned him to "come on and tight." It was a throw back to the famous seventh round of his last cnampionsnip Daiue wun Tunney in Chicago, only mis ume lt was Dempsey who .received the Invitation to come in and slug it out. It was Demnsey this" time whose lees were a bit faltering and weary and whoso brain may have been dazed under the heavy lefts and rights that Levinsky threw at his head. To Dempsey's everlasting crea jt U must ne saia we- oia "R""" spirit was biasing just """Mwhich northwest tournament to as ever. He was always shuffling enter There ,g y M c A in close, bobbing- ana .wi, trying to whin, over a knockout nnnrh The old fighting ' spirit un quenchable, Dempsey lunged for ward every step ot tne way, m an effort to annihilate the "King fish" with one devastating wallop v w" , . Vn h that they continued to wallop each other after the bell sounded, and ii!Tl!"d?y- w ". " v" magnet, drew a recordmashlng attendance of 23.322 paid admis sions with the gate receipts of 174.199.95. This eclipsed all pre vious attendance records tor an indoor boxing show. WOOlll MEETS WEST III 01)1 WOODBURN. Feb. 18Wood burn basketball fans will have a chance to see one of the best teams la this vicinity In action Saturday night, when the Bull does ulav the basketball team .from Wect Linn high v school. Coach Brown's men .from across the Willamette are some of the fastest, small, players. Such men as Warren and Campbell, both speed merchants ot a high type, will show their wares Saturday. West Linn's team Is rated by sports followers as tne most possible contender zor tne state title in that district, ana tne quintet? will. probably beaybe that's- the reason Spec prominent in -1 me state tourna- ment, to be beta la Salem., AUIP'ayers. in the second Paget tnough early In the season thelsan4 game here it looked' as game was scheduled for Fridav I though both coaches would fea night, a change has been made, so mat tne two teams will now play Saturday : night, the game starting at 8 o'clock. , .. ine oiivenon ana wooaburn town teams will also blav here in the Jilgh school : gymnasium Saturday night.--Sllverton's town team is. made np of a number of I good basketeers. rORTLANDERS COMIXa" - Twelve handball experts from the Portland Y. M. C. A. will play the Salem . "Y men In six sets of doubles Saturday on local courts. This will - be .xaatch. . a retUZol fev. ft H -:- . .. ; s ; ' , t t?i -1 ' "TOFFY" Salem Y. Hobpsters Win Stte Championship: Beat Portland by The galem Y. M. C. A. basket- ban team drubbed the Portland Y. outfit 46 to 2.6 on the local Y. -floor Thursday night. Much the same outfit that has formed the. Florshe'.j team played for tne i . witn tne addition of Scales and Kitchen, of late Wil lamette university fame. This made the fourth win over the Portland team and the Salem flve ' Is now- trying to decide tournament at Seattle March 11 and 12 and algo aQ independe nt teams tournament at Portland the same dates. The. Seattle trip would be rather expensive and as Flor- sheims hold wins over every strong independent team in the 8tat' the team 7 enter the Portlan(i tournamentf iTh(, aTna .a la. n.,-m ta biggest walkaway the focals have taken from tha Portland T - S ."" Kitchen and Scales worked in particularly well at forwards Scales was the scoring ae of the BAma with 18 nnlnfa ' CURTIS; Dwight Adams is crettinsr np in the world as a basketball of ficial. We hear he has been elected nmpire for the Oregon-. state-Oregon game at Corral! is Saturday. He'll work a double . shift that day, being referee for the Kook-Frosh game in the afternoon. Speaking of officials, we' also hear Dave Stritmater has been I picked to toot the whistle at Wal I la Walla when Willamette . and waitman clash there next week. neene is planning to take ten I to draft players from the- bleach- 1 9To iimsn the contest. But it'-s I oai lo By tbat th Walla Walla Kmes won't be the knock-down I anairr tney were I wu 'ear Having heard that the game the night before was rough, Dave apparently set out to buf falo both teams and succeeded mighty well. If he had eased np a little after that it would ham ; been one of the best officiating jvds oi tne season. ;r Poor jPuget Soandv It started out or rivine both Whitman anil I Willamettfl tanrh nnnnlltlnn Kn tost to both and now has contln WING 46 to 26 Score Bob Drager "did a good Job of checking the speedy Elkins and held him to one field goal. Cbal fan was high scorer for the vis Itors with 11 points. Scales did not open np until the second half, but in that period he scored six field goals. The score at half time was 21 to 11 for Salem. - Summary: " , Salem (46) FG FT PP Scales, f S 2 Kitchen, f . l 2 Drager, c 3 3 Marr, g. s 2 Foreman, g 3 -l Ross, g o 0 Totals 18 Portland (26) 10 12 cnalfan, f 5 0 ' 0 0 0 2 0 2 1 Elkins, f , Ulrich, c . Buono, g . Anderson, Castle, t . Osgood, f Hockly, c Bartell, g Totals . 8 10 11 Referee, Max Allen. ued to lose to supposedly weaker teams. If Its tour had been start ed the other way around, meet ing Pacific and Albany first, it probably would have done a bit of winning somewhere along the line.. ' Unless Pacific doe the un expected here early next week and knocks the Bearcats off the roost, the Willamette and Whit man boys will go into their an nual series at Walla Walla with clean slates as usual. But unless one of them wins both games, Willamette's second contest with Linfield will be the real championship affair. One of the Willamette players saw the Linfield-Puret Konnd game at McMinnville Tuesdav night and was loud in his praise of Llnfleld's basket shooting. The wildcats lacked only one goal of reaching SO points in the game. "It'a almost impossible' to win from Linfield on its home floor," Btaiea tne Bearcat. . ; Tonghy Wing who i now in good trim to begin his tome ' hack In the fighting ring, has chosen Salem as a training quarter for an obvious reason, states a friend of his. This vet eran of perhaps 250 fights has so many friends ,and acquain tances in Portland that he would be more Inclined to be one of the "bunch" and ferget his training than he woald be Wing has been work In hard and Is out to stop Cadena or be stopped. In Janeuasre that hardly become thla . eolumn. but wnica is uiteiy to be heard from me : resin regions, Toughy de clared that one or the other of For Ring Show; Nelson ' To,0ppose Ambrose TONIGIirS CARD Main Event 10 rounds: Tnffy Wing, iSH, Salem; vs. Ad Cadena, 180, Portland. Semi-final lr rounds i Bud dy Ambrose, , 128, . Salem t vs. ' Louie Nelson, 128,. Portland.. Special four . rounds: Jlm mie Bronssard,. 185, . Staytont vs. Swede Olson, .183, Portland. . Special four rounds: Jack ie Woods, 125, Salem; vs. "Bad Boy' Tompkins, 125, Portland. Four round curtain raiser to to be announced at ringside. - "Tuffy" Wing, tough enough to Butt any fight fan, will meet Ad Cadena, the Portland fistic flash at the armory tonight in a 10 round battle on Matchmaker Har ry Plant's boxing card. Wing in making his comeback effort states that he now feela eight years younger and is in good condition for the fight. He taper ed off. his training Jrtth a light workout at the Capitol Athletic' club Thursday and 'fa' now eagerly i awaiting the gong. Those who have seen Tuffy fight say that' they do not make them any more clever than this scientlflo slugger. When In his prime many wondered how he could lake so many hard punches. but in reality he was not taking them because he could move his bead fast enough to avoid stop ping any of the blows full force. Plans Open Style To Corner Cadena "Tuffy" states that he will use an open style of fighting tonight in order to corner Cadena and battle.it out to the finish. This stance will not permit him to pro tect his own face to any great ex tent, but he will be in position to press the battle all the time and to counter punch when necessary. Cadena is a long armed Mexi can battler who It noted for his cleverness and also for his husky wanop. in nis 38 fights he has scored 15 knockouts, which is much larger than the percentage of knockouts than has been scored in the Salem ring in the past. ' He is one of the flashiest of the northwest lightweights and his manager calls him an "uncrown ed champion who is .bound to rise." Louie Nelson will meet Buddy Ambrose in a six round semi-final which will either be a real battle or a knockout, as Nelson does not compromise with any opponent. Nelson won from Shrimp McDon ald, the classy Corvallls fighter, when the two met here. A new comer to the ring. Nelson shows no hesitancy and has a natural manner of protecting himself and of administering punishment. Jimmle Brbussard, a fighter from Stayton who has the whole town there back of him. will meet Swede Olson of PortlandSin a four round special event. Broussard is a good fighter and Is appearing In third place to help get the fight game started here again. Olson is another of the well trained fight ers from the Baker stable in Port land. A fourth Portland intruder by the name of "Bad Boy" Tompkins will meet Jackie Woods of Salem in a four round snecial With the card almost amounting lu oaiein-roruana contest, Jack ie Woods is determined to uphold his end of the nerform chastise the "Bad Boy" from the big city. A curtain raiser will begin the performance with the principals l" "s announcea at ringside. PACIFIC DEFEATS L06GERS 30 TO 29 FOREST GROVE. Ore . Fh 18 (API Pacifie unlveraitv gained a 50 to 29 victorv or the College of Pnget Sound id a Northwest, conference basketball game nere tnis afternoon; The Badgers led 17 to 9 at the half, racinc was off to a flvlnr start but the Loggers came back successfully In the second half and tied the score at J7-all Just before the end. Paclfio polled away again; however, and clung to its narrow lead. A second game will be played nere tomorrow nignt. ftOEDl TOCQACH MSITS.K Wesley Boeder. Willamette uni versity tennis star, will coach the Salem high achool tennis team this season, and will Issue a call for candidates next week. Two letter- men, Hobson and Corey, are avail able along with Gles, who waa an alternate on last year's squad. " James Beall. tennis manager, has matches arrnged . tentatively with - the - Willamette freshmen. university; high, : Silverton " high, Benson Tech, Jefferson and v Lin coln of Portland, the U. ot O frosh and Milwaukie. v ? ; them would take a seat In the middle of the ring before the fight ended. ' , bg BILL TlLDEMS TOUGHEST FOE WAS H EFT and strength have long been emphasized as .essen tial in those sports where power is demanded. But there are plenty of kittle men, stars in their respective fields, who seem to refute this popular assumption. Their success proves that tuning and precision are just as impor tant as weight and power. In base ball, boxing, tennis, golf and foot ball the truth of this has been demonstrated time and again. Baseball's select circle of home run hitters is populated almost ex clusively by big men. "Babe" Ruth, king of the lot, is a giant of 225 pounds ; Lou Gehrig, his meet con sistent runner-up, mores the beam at over 200; Al Simmons, "Chuck" Klein, "Hack" Wilson, "Lefty" O'Doul and "Gabby" Hartnet, long bitters all, weigh 190 pounds or FALLS CITY GRADE FALLS CITY, Feb. 17. The Falls City grade school claims the championship of Polk county by virtue of three defeats over Dallas grade school and two defeats over Bethel Grade school. If there la any other grade school In the county that has a team, Falls City will be glad to play them. The Falls City regulars are Lyle Goode and Alvln Zuzer, forwards; Kenneth Teal, center? Leon Mur phy and Lawrence Good, guards. The season record is as follows: Falls City 22 Dallas 3 Falls City 10 Dallas 11 Falls City 19 Dallas 10 Falls City 9 Dallas 8 Falls City 21 Dallas Scouts 20 Falls City. 27 Bethel 10 Falls City 18 Dallas Scouts 9 . Falls City 40 Bethel 2 Talis City 24 Indep'nd. Scouts 14 Last year the grade school team took second place, being tied with Dallas at the end of the season and losting the play-off game by two points, Sherman Foster is coach. ' Cuckoos Win in -Tight Hoop Tilt One of the tightest basketball games on record was played at the Parrish Junior high gymna sium Thursday noon when the Cuckoos defeated the Eagles 1 to 0. Summary: -Eagles Cuckoos Stiff. ......... F. I B. Williams Miller. .F. ..... . - Lyons Barrell..... j.. C....1 Lampkln Kydatz. G. . .R.. Williams McDowell ...... Q - Pillette Parrish id Play - At Scottsr Mills The Parrish junior high basketball- team plays Scotts Mills high school - tonight at Scotts Mills. -,v ----.-; . ' . ' 1 V Coach Frank- Brown's ' five Is still undefeated In the northern section of the Marion county B league. .' . ... -v. .- X J X ..A H HAS HONORS I5"o-lb. Home rum slugged hits the ball hatoefs than . MOST 2bO-PoUAJDEr2S, AMD IS CLOSE oAi RUTH'S HEELS 1932. King Fvaliirvs S ndicalc. Incl'.n-nt Urilain rinl'l" vr-M-rvt-rt. more. But into this inner circle of heavy, clouters crashes a compara tively little man Earl Averiil, of Cleveland. In addition to being one of the best outfielders in the game, Averiil, who weighs but a mere 152 pounds, smashed out 30 home runs, 36 doubles and 10 triples last season. Quite a rec ord for a little man in a sport where size and strength seem to count for so much. In boxing we see the startling situation of a man tipping the scales at less than 170 pounds, and another hefting close to 270 striv ing for the same goal the heavy weight ehampionshiD. The two in mind are, of course, Mickey Walk er, former middleweight champion, and Primo Camera, giant Italian. A difference of more, than 100 noun da in weis-ht and a foot in height! But little Mickey held the Whitman Drubs Columbia Again WALLA WALLA, Wash., Feb. 18 (AP) The Whitman college basketball team swept a two game series with Columbia uni versity, of Portland, by again overwhelming the visitors by a 55 to 20 score here tonight. Whitman won last night 44to 18. MISSIONARIES ME Tl E TOYKO, Feb. 18. (AP) On the invitation of the Rational Christian council Toshio Shira tori. head of the Japanese for eign' office's information bureau, explained to. a meeting of Chris tian leaders Japan's aetlon at Shanghai. American missionaries ques tioned him closely on many pha ses of the military operations In Manchuria and at Shanghai but did .not evidence a hostile atti tude. It was learned they had requested, a statement of the gov ernment's viewpoint b ec a a a e their contemporaries a home had cabled to ask how Japan de fended 'herself against charges widely published In America. . The meeting adjourned with out passing any resolutions and Christian leaders' consistently re frained from any aetlon which might be construed as meddling in politics. British Aide of . Gandhi is Given 3 Months Term BOMBAY, Feb. 18. (Thurs day) (AP) Miss Madeline Slade, former London society girl who forsook Mayfalr to .become a disciple of Mahatma Gandhi, was sentenced today to three months Imprisonment for refusing to obey a government order that she leave Bombay. - " .. ' " - ; ' She was arrested last night. The sentence was passed a few hoars after her arrest. - LB JAPAN S SID AVEEILL-Wls Keat Sharkey to a draw and th st Primo could do with the Bos ton Gob was to stay 15 rounds Chalk up another one for a little guy! And, then, what tennis fan will ever forget those hectic court bat tles between Big Bill Tilden and Little Bill Johnston? Here again we see the little man with speed and tuning competing on equal terms with size and power. We, of course, are not implying that Big Bill did not have his share of these essentials, for size alone would never have carried him to the pinnacle of tennis greatness But we are trying to show that the little fellow who has -that gift of timing and spirit to win can reach the heights, too. Well, that's our argument and we're stuck with it CcKJTllht 111. By K1H4 Fnturai lad EVEMT NEXT1EK Salem amateur wrestlers of eight weight-classes will have the opportunity to compete for medals In their respective divi sions at the amateur wrestling championship matches at the T. M. C. A, Wednesday, February 24, at 7:30 o'clock. The match es are under the sponsorship of the Salem Amateur-1 Wrestling club. Pat Hogue is to be the referee of the .matches. The weight classes are 105-pounds; 116 pounds; 125-poands; 135 ponnds; 145-pounds; 158-pounds; 175-pounds and heavyweight. Intercollegiate rules will be nsed allowing for fast and wide open action with such holds as the flying scissors, head scissors, body ecissors, wrist lock, head lock and others. Any amateur In Salem is eligi ble for entrance. It Is expected that the majority of the 30 men who are expected to enter their name In this competition will be from the Salem high school, jun ior high schools, Willamette uni versity, Chemawa school and the Salem T. M. C. A. Defendants Win In Damage Suit Over Car Crash PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 18. (AP) A federal court jury here has returned a verdict la favor of the defendants In the personal Injury damage action brought by Stanley Hatto, of Seattle, against G. O. and David E. Baxter, of Spray, Ore., and Laura F. Os born, of Salem. , Hatto sued for $20,000 dam ages as the result of ar collision between his automobile and a track driven by G. O. Baxter on the -John Day highway between Condon and Arlington last May 12. V' - - ' " The Jury assessed costs against the plaintiff bat. awarded no damages to the defendants upon counterclaims. ' 1 ; HE E still subject to minor changes. The district consists of Polk, Beaton and Lincoln counties with three teams each from Polk and Benton. and two from Lincoln entering the tournament. The tournament will be held in the high school gym at ' Independence March 2, t, 4 and 6. A double elimination system-, will be used so that a team must be beaten twice before It is elim inated. There will be 14 games played, with the possibility of a 15th. A team Winning every game it plays will have to play only four games, while a team losing its first or second game will hare to play six games to win. In ease a team that has been beaten once wins the final game, the tie will be played off later. Officials for the tournament will be Ralph Colettian of Oregon State and Dwigh .Adams of Salem. The schedule is as follows: Wednesday 1. Benton 1st vs. Polk" 2d. 10 a- m. 2. Benton 3d vs. Lincoln 21. 11 a. m. 3. Benton 2d vs. Polk 1st. 2:30 p. m. 5. Loser of 1 vs. loser of 2, 7:30 p. m. 6. Loser ot 3 vs. loser of 4, 8:30 p. m. Thursday 7. Winner of 1 vs. winner of 2, 10 a. m. 8. Winner of 3 vs. winner of 4, 11 a. m. 9. Winner cf S"vs. winner of 6. 7:30 p. m. 10. Loser of 7 vs. loser of 8, 8:30 p. m. Friday 11. Winner of 7 vs. winner of 8, 2:30 p. m. 12. Winner of 9 vs. winner of 10, 3:30 p. m. 13. Loser of 11 vs. winner of 12, 8 p. m. Saturday 14. Winner of 11 vs. winner of 13, 8 !. m. WALTHER IHE'S Conference of State Body To Continue Sunday; 100 are Expected Abont 100 Lutheran workers from all over Oregon will be here Saturday and Sunday for the an nual winter conference of the Ore gon Walther league, to be held at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran church. Opening session will be at 2 o'clock Saturday afternoon with addresses by Rev. E. Becker of Portland and Rev. J. Westendorf of Vancouver. Wash. A song con test will be a special feature. Sunday afternoon at the same hour, addresses will be given by Prof. E. Brandt of Concordia col lege, Portland, and Rev. H. Mes serli of Albany. An oratorical con test will be a .Sunday feature. Business sessions will also be held both days. GetQfee Yost of Portland is pre sident and Miss Frieda Dobberfull ot Salem, secretary of the state body. , Harry Wendland Is presi dent of the host group, and Ber nice Schaffer, recording secretary. The conference banquet will be held at the Presbyterian church dining rooms Saturday night at 7 o'clock with Carl Gross, student at the University and a Salem boy, presiding. NOT ILLEGAL HERE Punchboards In Salem are not allegaL This statement was made by local authorities which claim that there is no city ordinance to atop them. There Is a general anti-gambling ordinance which In most eases is believed not to ap ply. Checkerboard" boards have the protection of a state supreme court opinion which holds that they are not lotteries; hence, are not Illegal. The matter has been np with City Attorney W. H. Trindle and District Attorney John IL Carcon at the hands of Alderman Wat son Townsend, chairman of; the. police committee ot the city eoun ciL - So far, no . method ot ap proach has been found to atop the operation ot the boards, ex cept for several which may be considered lotteries.' Following complaints by some Salem parents, the police depart ment has been Instructed-to in vestigate by the city council. ; j Too Late to Classify Wood row wasber. 4 erele Ca cn 8ln allalitly aL lata trp. Lib eral discount. 2UUk !. Co, . 1J7 Court Street. . i SESSION T BOAIS HELD