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it PACE EIGHT e$oMu not on BEST HURLER T CUE CHAMP Track Heroes of 1932 -By BURNLEY- E oowall Decline Says I MILL G TY TILT I 4 Grave Ills Cited; Lowered Attendance Held due to Depression Solely - NEW YORK. Jan. 4 (AP) College football is not on the de cline, merely because It Is one of the victims of the business de pression, the president's research committee on social trends be lieves, but It faces the possibil ity that "public Interest may even- tuafly shift from college to pro fessional football because of the superior skill of the latter." "If this should happen," writes Dr. J. P. Stejner. professor of so ciology at the University of Washington, who contributed the chapter on sports and recreation to the national committee report,' "college football may follow col lege baseball and decline as a public spectacle, becoming a game of no more than local interest. "That grave ills have resulted from the stress and struggle to win football championships there can be no doubt," Dr. Steiner's re Dort concludes. "A few of the leading colleges and universities already hare attempted to reor ganise their athletics more in ac cord with general student welfare and educational ideals." The section on sports in the sur rey conducted by the president's committee, in its football feat ures, follows somewhat the lines of the famous "bulletin 23" of the Carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching, publish ed In October, 1929. The new sur vey, so far as its statistics are concerned, covers only the period up to and including 1930. It points out that college foot ball, because of Its tremendous Investments in stadia, which must be paid for in future years, estab lishes the sport as something more than a "passing whim.' Moreover, "since neither the curve of attendance nor the curve of receipts showed any tendency to flatten out previous to 1930, there Is reason to assume that hard times, rather than declining Interest, is responsible for the de creased size of football crowds." Dr. Stelner writes that 49 col leges and universities replying to a survey "reported that attend ance more than doubled between 1921 and 1930, the increase be-! Ing 119 per cent." "Football receipts, as reported by 65 institutions, grew from S2,- C96.345 to $8,363,674, a gain of 210 per cent. Both attendance and receipts increased with con siderable regularity during the first nine years of this period, with a sharp falling off in 1930, the decline over the preceding year amounting to 9 per cent in me case or admissions and 9 per cent in receipts." Since- then Associated Press surveys have indicated a decline for 1931-32 of approximately 25 . per cent in college football at tendance, with a greater percent age of decrease in gate receipts. The report notes further: "The total attendance at all football games in 1930, estimated from reports received from 129 institutions, was approximately 10,300,000. The total receipts, computed In a similar way from data furnished by 129 institu tions, could not have been less than $21,(00,000. TURnER IS WINNER OVER SCIO QUINTET TURNER, Jan. 4 Turner de feated Sclo 32 to 23 here tonight In a mid-Willamette Valley Bas ketball association game. Mc Donald of Sclo topped the scoring with IS points and Tong of Tur ner led the local team with 10. , Friday nignt mere will be a triple-header on the local floor. the high school team playing Gates high, the high school girls meeting tne alumni and the town team engaging the Jason Lee church quintet from Salem. Summary: Turner . Sclo McCulley C F..15 McDonald Tong 10 F Parrish Fletcher C 7; Rennle Cox 5 a , Johnson" Martin 1 S. Gath 4 Denyer S . Given, 2 . S S S Referee, Plerson. Miller 4-3 Long GE A RADIO ' m 1 1 Bill aAERS Willamette First Year men Overtop Visitors, Take 27 to 15 Victory Willamette university's fresh man basketball team proved en tirely too much for the smaller ! Hubbard high quintet and won 37 to 15 on the Willamette floor Wednesday night. It was the first game of the season for Coach Howard Maple's first year men. who did a lot of efficient ball hawking, but were rather ragged on offense. Eckman, center, poked -In field goals with great rapidity, mostly 'cripples' gained by hard flght- lng under the basket, to amass 12 points. Hendry with five lea Coach Eugene Silke's Hubbard quintet. The freshmen will play the sehool for the deaf Friday night at 6:15 fn a preliminary to the Willamette varsity's game with the Gladstone Black Hawks. Summary: Freshmen Hubbard Hagemann 2 F 2 McKee Quiring 6 F Higginbotham McKerrow 6 Pemberton Williams 4 ... Eckman 12 . Anderson 4 .. Gies 1 Stockwell 2 . C 2 Carl .G 5 Hendry .G 2 Hershberger .S .S .S ...S Referee, Northrup. -WAS THE TCACK. OF THE OLYMPIC YEAR BalDh Greenleaf. of Bozeman. Md who, for the 12th time won the bil liard championship of the world at New York recently. Besides retain ing a diamond medal, emblematic of the championship, Greenleaf won a cash prise of $5,000 and a 15 per cent share of the tournament gate receipts. Speedy Visitors Prevail by - 30-21 Score in Spite of ; : Second Half Rally V : Parrish Junior high school' basketball team lost Its first home game, of the season to a smooth working Mill ""City., high school quintet Wednesday night, 30 to 31. . The visitors had a considerable edge on size, except at center, and excelled in accuracy of passing and shooting. Parrish was not at its best due to ravages of the "flu," but made a spirited come back in the second half, outseor ing Mill City by one point. Mill City led at half time 20 to 10, and held a wider margin than that early in the third period. Phil Salstrom led the home squad in scoring with 12 points but was topped by Moravec, Mill City center, who scored' 14. Ruda, small but fast, also did some ex cellent work- for the visitors, ' es pecially on follow-up shots. Summary: Mill City ..F 7 Ruda ...F 2 Mnson C 14 Moravec G 2 Wallace G 3 Klrby S Carter Referee, Manning. Parrish Salstrom 12 Quesseth 2 Brown 6 Johnson Curry 1 last Year's 4oo-metes. sewsatioaj may compete", im the srsiwts.this season T-HE Olympic Games were of I course the feature of the 1932 X, track and field activities, and the Lie hero of the tames was little AUUIO AUisa, wiuuci Ul uuui ayiuin S vents, wbo took tne leading piace eside those other Olympic double champions, Babe Didnkson and Helene Madison, tne swimming star, both of whom captured two titles. Eddie's victory over Ralph Met calfe in the 100 meters was widely nnestioned. most of the spectators being of tne opinion tnat xaetcaiie was the winner. The moving pic tures of the finish failed to settle the disnute. but Tolan was officially called the winner and you can't take his laurels away from him. The ehunky Midnight Express ran away from Metcalfe m the zou meters to win this event decisively, and there ean be no doubt that Eddie is a worthy champion. The Olympic track and field events produced many heroes, but space permits tne mention ox only a few. The greatest all-around ath lete of 1932 was Jim Bausch, the big boy who copped the gruelling Olympic Decathlon events. Not content with athletic versatility. Big Jim at last reports was nursing ambitions to become a radio croon er, and probably will challenge Rudy Vallec and Bing Crosby to a crooning decathlon before long. Perhaps the most brilliant single race of the 1932 track year was the record-breaking victory of little Bill Carr in the Olympic 400 meter race Carr beat back a desperate bid for victory on the part of Big Ben Eastman, to establish his undis puted supremacy over the blond Stanford flash on the 400-meter route, and his great performance stamps him as the best of all time at that distance. It is rumored, bv the wav. that Carr will turn to sprinting this year, as it is known that Lawson Robertson thinks that Carr la po tentially as great a sprinter as he is a quarter-miler. Other remarkable track and field performances of 1932 which must be mentioned in anv summary of Leo Sexton's record-bustmr Olvm- pic shot-put heaves. Babe Didrik- son's remarkable track and field triumphs, Kusocinski's neat dis tance running, Zabala's Olympic marathon triumph and Hampson's 800-meter victory. Then there was that memorable finish of the Olympic 5.000-meter race when Ralph Hill unsuccess fully tried to get past the zig-zag- -Ll! t m era? ijenunen in a neck-ana-neck duel, which resulted in a disputed victory lor the Finnish runner. bnrttU. '111. XJot rufama I rod lr u Faa. COMMENTS Tuesday night mere were three leading sport attractions 1b as many different auditori ums In Salem; basketball la the high school and Willamette . gymnasiums and wrestling at the armory. Now we don't like that because we didn't get to see all of those attractions. Bnt seriously, there are only about so many sport fans in Salem, and dividing up the crowd in that manner doesn't help the finances of any of the Institu tions involved. O Tuesday is a favorite night for basketball teams because it allows one practice after the week-end layoff and before the game, and SWAT KING Wranglers Win Over Kay Mills The Kay Woolen Mills" basket Dau team met defeat; at the hands of Cadwell's Wranglers early this week on the Y. M. C A. floor. 37 to 12. Summary: Wranglers Woolen Mills W. Hergerger i.F. . 1 Hutchens J. Herberger 1 0 . F . . . . Willson N. Gleason 2. ,. ,C 4 Page Hendrie ?...... G 1 Smith Gardner 2 . . . . . . G . . 2 Antrlcan Arnsmeier 10. . .8. . . . 2 Picken3 - - Percy Locey to . Behest Coach SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 4. (AP) -Percy Locey, Denver uni . versify football; coach, was named today by the Sa!n,Franelaco Shrine . to the post pt eo-coach of the West " In next year; East-West grid clas sic At the same time Orln Hoi lingbery of Washington State was reappointed , a, the other West ' roach. j . t ' j- ' T : ' '. , ''" r'- ' then several days to recuperate and practice before the week-end games. But Tuesday night Is also wrestling night. If Parrish starts playing tt ball game on Tuesday nights also, that will divide the crowd up Into still thinner slices. And there Is also something of a pile-up of games Friday nights. Ia some cases, the trouble could be eliminated by playing double headers, though Salem high has Its B team and Willamette Its freshmen, and even at Parrish there are the Trojans, so that double headers are already the rule. Salem high hoopers didn't look so gSod against Corvallis as they did against the alumni, though they won from Corvallis and lost to the grads. But we suspected much of the relatively poor show ing against the Benton county team was due to crowd fright, a jumpy feeling that will wear off with more competition. Hollis Huntington hasn't, so far, anybody with that seem ingly simple faculty of waltzing calmly up to the basket and de positing the oval therein. Mor ley showed some tendencies that way, but so far he hasn't demonstrated that he can stand the pace. The rest of the boys were all shooting from a little too far away, except that a few fast breaks carried the ball all the way in. GRANGERS DEFEAT BAPTIST QUINTET Say Pop Was Stand-offish With Scrubs STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Palo Alto, Cel., Jan. 4.(AP) Glenn S. "Pop Warner, veteran Stanford football eoach, who recently re signed to go to Temple university in Pennsylvania, tonight was ac cused of "laxity" In making the acquaintance of members of his freshman and reserve football squads by Frank Guerena, alumni member and chairman of the staff committee of Stanford's board of athletic control. Guerena s statement came at a meeting of the committee to night, when the subject of a suc cessor to Warner came up for dis cussion. "Mr. Warner," Guerena said, "was lax at Stanford In making the acquaintance of players on his freshmen and reserve squads. He never went to a freshman game and the only time he saw the re serves was when they scrimmaged the varsity." No definite recommendation was made tonight for a successor to Warner. Tomorrow night the board of athletic control will meet as a whole for the announced pur pose of selecting a. head coach. Candidates under consideration are C. E. "Tiny" Thornhill, form er assistant coach under Warner, and Clipper Smith, coach of Santa Clara university. Thornhill is be lieved to have the stronger back ing among alumni and others bearing Influence in the selection. MULTNOMAH CLUB n to COM E Multnomah Athletic club of Portland will send its basketball team to Salem Saturday night to meet the Willamette Bearcats, it was announced Wednesday. This is the team which hand ed the Southern Oregon Normal quintet, twice conqueror of Uni versity of Oregon, its first de feat. Previously the Winged M squad had lost to Oregon State, but Its personnel was strengthen ed for the Normal school clash. Friday night the Bearcats will play the Gladstone Black Hawks, a team reported to be so far un defeated this season. Coach Burke Released by Yankee Club NEW YORK. Jan. 4. (AP) The New York Yankees announced today the unconditional release of Coach Jimmy "Sunset" Burke and a roster of 33 players who will make a trek to the world cham pions' spring training camp at St. Petersburg, Fla., in two detach ments March 1 and 8. The release of Burke, long a lieutenant of Manager Joe Mc Carthy, came as a surprise. He Joined the Chicago Cubs as coach in 1925 when McCarthy took over the management. Burke's place was taken on the roster by Paul Krichell, listed also as a Yankee scout. The roster revealed that "Red" Robert Moses Grove, better known as "Lefty," southpaw pitcher of the Philadelphia Athletics, who, for the fourth consecutive year, has been named the champion hurler of the American League. Lefty was awarded the champion ship because of his low eamed-ruB average. He allowed only 2.84 runs per nine-inning game in 1932. Rolfe, former Dartmouth short stop star who played sensational ball with Newark on the Interna tional league Yankee "farm." would not go south with the team. The names of Ed Wells, veteran southpaw, and George Selkirk, young outfielder, also were ex cluded, the assumption being all three will spend the summer in Newark. Besides the "coaches and Mana ger McCarthy, the roster listed 14 pitchers, nine infielders, seven outfielders and three catchers. Five recruit pitchers who will report to the camp March 1 are Right Handera Don Brennan and Pete Jablonowski, both from New ark; Jimmy Deshong, Sacramen to; Russell Van Atta, SL Paul, and Marvin Duke, Erie, both south HOOP SCORES Colgate 18, Cornell 35. Princeton 42, Rutgers 26. Detroit university 81, Toledo St. Johns 23. Marietta 19, Ohio university 41. Stanford 14, Wyoming 41. Last Year's Ring Stars By BURNLEY. LIBERTY, Jan. 4 The Liberty Grangers won here 42 to 25 from the Salem Baptist church Monday night. The lineups: Liberty Baptists S. Vlasick 25. .F S York F. Vlasick 18. . F 8 Tucker Judd 2 C 2 Chapel Seegar G Dick Gurgurich G 5 Gryson Hrubets 2 S Sweet S The school team lost to the Parrish Trojans, 34 to 19. The local boys will play the Hubbard school team here Thursday night. SKATE KING Dale Alexander, of the Boston Bed Sox, who finished first In the race for the 1932 batting honors ia the American League. Alexander won first place with an average of .267, Dosing out Jimmy Foxx, of the Philadelphia Athletics, by a slim margin. Foxx'- average was Lou Gehrig, of the New York lackees. JOM ttt4 ith 9ilt J Watch out for that Corvallis outfit when tournament time rolls around that is of course if there isn't some dark horse In the Ban-ton-Polk-LIncoln district able to shove "Mush" Torson's crew out of the race. Those boys from the college town exhibited a phenom enal ability to think on a basket ball floor; and "Mush" has them firing the ball across the court, In close to the basket, in a man ner that Is disconcerting to say the least. The Corvallis boys' weakness was that they got so Interested in heaving the spheroid around that they neglected to notice when they were open for shots. Independence -Meets Monroe There Friday DMDEPENDENOE, Jan. 4V In their first basketball game aft er a two weeks' vacation, the In dependence team will meet Mon roe team at Monroe,' Friday. The locals were beaten quite badly by Monroe on the homer floor, but feel that they are much stronger at the present time, - A - V:;. ; ... M'i : . ;, ? I Jf The.TMree fistic STAMD-OUTS of 1932 "WHAT DOES HOLD TfsJ STORE FOPi THEM - OLD MEET T WOODBURN, Jan. 4 Conceded little chance of winning. Wood burn high school's basketeers tangle with Silverton, their tradi tional rivals, Friday night on the local high school floor. Silverton is considered the best team in the Willamette Interscholastlc con ference this year, having rolled up a score of over 60 points re cently In the game with West Linn. Scott, Pettyjohn, Kolln and several other Sllvertonlans are veteran players and performers above average. Wood burn starting lineup will probably be the same as the first game of the year, with Jackson, only veteran of the team, at cen ter, Kraus and Boyle at forwards and Skiller and Halter, guards. There will be both first and sec ond string games. Plans are under way for a stu dents' dance after the game, to be given in the gymnasium. Silverton students will be special guests. Lavola Sinram has charge of arrangements. max a' Hi BETHEL WILL PLAY BETHEL, Jan. 4 The Beth el high school basketeers of Polk county will go into action Friday night against Grana Konde on the home floor in the third league game of the season. Grand Ronde boasts an ex ceptionally strong team this year and has already broken even in a pair of games with the Willa- j mina quint, last year's Yamhill county . champions and district runner-ups. Bethel - tops the county league at present with two wins and no defeats. Perrydale Is second with l a: win and a loss. Falls City and ! Rickreall have played only one ' R.m. AAA,. 1 , (.11. M HIS KAYO OF WALKER AMD tTKE cowmovERsy ovek. THE SHARKEY DECISION MADE SCHMEUMG A, POPULAR WERO-WIU-HE fiEGAlAJ HIS TITLE (M IS33 ? r f m SJ 5 rv ::- CHMELIMS- ANZOMEBI- -OLTrSTAMDlMC FlSTlC CHAMPIOM OF 193E-HE SHOULD (2ELAlM Wis Title this O' Howard Nicholson, celebrated American skating champion, exe cute! one of his remarkable soaring Grand Ronde, the other contes tant oa the ice at St. Moritz, Swit xerland, where the fashionable Win ter colony is assembled for the holi day season. Nicholson's spectacular stunts never fail to draw a largs international gallery. unts, . have not played league ames. x . Friday night the local team beat Dayton here 47 to 18, and tne local town team won 10-82 from Dayton town $eam F THE thousands of ring warriors who traded leather inside of the hempen strands last year, only three really ranked high in the estimation of the fight public because of their perform ances in 1932. Lightweight cham pion Tony Canzoneri and the two Maxes, Schmeling and Baer, were about the only stand-outs of one of the dullest years the fight game has ever known. Fight fans are hoping that 1933 , will provide more ring thrills than its dreary predecessor was able to produce, and the three aforemen tioned ring stars are expected to figure in some spectacular battles during the next twelve months. No matter how you look at ft, 1932 was a miserable year for box ing. The heavyweight ehampion shia changed hands on a disnuted decision after Sharkey and Schmel Inr had waltzed thrown fifteen of the dullest rounds ever seen in a heavyweight title bout. Many peo ple uougnt tne uerman had been: robbed of his title, and as a result of this widespread indignation over the decision, Schmeling became much more popular ia defeat than he had been while champion. uur in the year Max increased his prestige still more by belting out Mickey Walker in eight heats, giving little Michael quite a going over while the butchery lasted. Joe Jacobs is now saying that Schmeling. intends to fight Baer next summer, leaving the return match with Sharkey for the fall. On the records, Baer was actually the best heavyweight of 1932, and many shrewd fight critics think that he can whip Max Schmeling right now. Jack Eearns. who by the way is very anxious to get Baer under his managerial wing, said recently that he thought the Livermors Lar niDer was the best of the nreaent crop ef heavyweights, and that be has the makings of, a truly great Bgnser ,. . . . Incidentally. Baer seems to be dodging a meeting with the giant ramo earners, who is very anxious to ret a shot at the California clouter. Mark my words, the boys are going to have a very tough time getting rid of the enormous Primo. who keeps right on winning and really can furht a bit. In enita of aD the adverse criticism that has been levelled at him. Tony Canzone rL who was nnonea- tionably the greatest fistic cham pion ox 183Z, has just about cleaned up the lightweight division, and un less some promising youngster like this Barney Ross of Chicago devel ops into a formidable contender, it looks as if Tony will have to try bis race wiia u welterweights Jim my MeLarnin in particular being the welter that Canzoneri would like to get in there -with. If Canzoneri and MeLarnin meet this year, they should draw one of the biggest crowds in quits soma time, since both have tremendous foUowingsj ' . Jw' r il a j. ; i v. i ii Vi 11 !' v a ! 1 r. -ft J