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Thi ukegikv srrATissaiAlf SateEU Oregon, Saturday Morning, January g, 1933 PAGE EI G ITT dim sal! einult' MP: 5 I ! it 'I if J -. t i ! 3 9 -. ewers FR0F.1 EXT Ket Quite: the fJack'rabbir Of Babe Ruth's Heyday; : - Officials Confer By EDWARD J. NEIL NEW YORK. Jan. 5. CP) The 1 National league compromised to day with the ' American league a standardization i we oase bU like a husband -who wants t "tjo ' to the mountains com promises with his wUe who want to go to the seashore. ' The National league accepted the speedier American league hall la toto;::"-F". r- - i Presidents John'A. Hey dler and William Harridge. of the two ma jor circuits;" Thomas "S. Shihe. part owner of the'Athletica, and Julian W. Curtlss," beads- of the two - companies that manufacture - the halls, met ? in conference la Philadelphia and carried eat the ' standardisation mandate ' passed - recently at the Joint 'meetings In j .Chicago. ' ":" ; - ' H r' j " While the specifications decid ed open r are those of the - ball i used in the American league last; season, the final "happy ending! of a problem thatt has plagued major league - baseball - for many years was a part triumph for the National league. ' Faster though this aew ball srlll be, ft still is far alower than the "JackTabbit" , pellet the two . leagues used a few. years ago and , to which in theory the American league still clings. After 1130. a-ben Hack Wilson popped, 5 lone runs Into the stands and iven ' tiny Rabbit Maraaville and Hugh!. Critx chased outfielders sut of sight, the National league railed ."time and started remov ing the lightning from within the sorseblde cover. ' '-' While' the American league manafacturer, Tom Shibe, contin ued to build a sphere to suit sluggers' of the Babe Ruth, Jim atfe Foxx and Al Simmons type, lower than the "menace" ball - but still fast, the National league ' thickened its cover, loosened the . winding, and added slightly to . the stitching so that pitchers got a better, grip. . ) The new standard I ball, there fore is actually a sort of me , diam between the . jackrabbit of the American league at its fact , est and the reaction S ball of the . NaUonal league at its slowest. The ' specifications, ; eight la aamber and made public over the 'signatures of the two league .president and the manufacturers after the conference I today, are highly technical and Indicate that there is much more to the mak ing of a baseball than any but those engaged In the trade sus- - peeted. BCIS DEFEAT MONMOUTH, Jan. 5. Oregon Normal school opened its basket ball season here tonight- by de feating Parker's from Salem if to 12. Floor work of the two teams was practically oa a par with Parker's excelling somewhat daring the first half. The normal boys took adraatage of quick breaks under . the basket . to se cure their .points while the visit- ors depended on longer range shooting.' w,l Although Burrell stacked ap 15 points for Parker's and Scales made 12 for his team during the final quarter, the . Salem boys could not check: the lumping push shots of Benjamin, ? who scored 22,-and Averill,, former Astoria high star, who chalked up 20. Lineups: " ' ; ''" Parked v. t! 'vT.:TXT- 0.V. S. Burrell 15' F22 Benjamin Magee JP .2 -Phillips Goodfellow 2 C. ,. ., 20 ATertn BachUer 1 ; , ,: Q-l Kitchen Karr . X '-li,. , JO ..- ... .2 Ashby 'Scales 12 . S , ',, , 8 TsUd . Leonard - ; 5r ivu -48-Li 2 McKay - Referee, v Howard "Maple. ;l Sammbhs Thinks ?Businessyi6ibe &BettemhV1934 Business for If 24 will be some what lmprored, E. - C SammOns. Tlce-presMent of the Iron Fire man company ' of Portland, said yesterday while here' on business, gammons recently returned from an eastern trip for his company. He said he found fto ; startling fear there of monetary Inflation. President Roosevelt. is gradually augmenting the work ' of . his "brain trust", by practical, exper ienced mea who can handle ad mlnlstratlre details, Salomons ar- rile admitted he kad been as far - south yesterday : as t Albany where he conferred with WUlard llarksr , Tlce-chalrman V of ." the board et higher . education, t Mr. ' Sammons did not outline any pol icies which . he felt . the board would follow. 11 did state that . he thought some action on pol icy may be ' taken . January IB when the "board meets . in Port land. Some of -the recommenda tions of the American Association cf Professors will there be con sidered. EE Gome Fistic LAST ' year was one of the worst in history for the fight game. Nearly every division, from the heavyweights down to the flyweights, languished In the dol drums, and the apathy of the public was merely an inevitable conse quence of the inept performances of most of the fighters. The biggest figure, in more ways than one, of the past fistio year was Primo Camera, the altitudinous Italian who climbed to the topmost rung ox the pugiastte ladder when be dropped Jack Sharkey for the eount with one of those "invisible" appercnts which have caused ay far Golf League in After Delay Play in the Salem Golf club In dustrial league is resuming this week, alter a three-weeks halt due to wet weather and then to the holiday period. Matches to be played before Sunday night In clude, the first four teams meet ing each other and Ukewlse the second four. Business Mea, UtttlUes, Pack ers, Printers. Gasoline, Industrial, Medical Dental, Automotive. A number ot players have tak en advantage of recent ideal con ditions on the course to torn in their ; scores for these matches. and some of those not scheduled to play until the following week also hare recorded their scores. . Starting with the matches to be completed by January 14, the schedule will be a little more com pUcated because it will be no long er. possible to find four teams, none of which has played any of the others. However, this is en tirely a matter for the league se cretary to puszle over; all the players have to do is to turn in their mcoth TOHIIilTM LOS ANGELES, Jani I flP) The nation's golfing great will seek to start their new year: off right .tomorrow when a field of 140 answers the starter's caU for the first round of the ninth ani nual Los i Angeles- $5000 open tournamentT ' .:v - And all but one of the winners of this,' one of the first money tournaments : of the west " coast will be amoag those present and accounted for : when the parade across ' the fairways of the- Los Angeles ; Country Club course starts,' , , . :- x' Ot the past champions, (only big Ed Dudley, "winner la 1931, will be missing;; . t : With exceptionally good weath er - conditions ' predicted, - aad . a host of sub-par scores recorded In practice rounds,' there lwas every indication that the cham pionship would ran true to from in demanding " better than per fect figures of the winner. .Only twice in the eight years of the classic has "par won pver the J" 725 - fO) 1 THE LICHTWEISHT VJT-K; W -( Ihx L - ' KlUG, WAS THE TT7,Hv 1 A t Max ; ( T A V BAER HAMMERED THE I i ?i PLODDIAJG SCHMELIAJG 'f'gr-f ' V TOiTrte CAiiVAS IM ( -c! V i-AST YEARS BIGGEST CArtSTO r" Jl -THE TOP FEATURED TUB J jm&W' 0: J933 FISTIC YEAR. feL ' ... If ' ; ' It Active Aga Behind Standouts of By BURNLEY- from fragrant odor to linger over so many of Prime's "battles' in the past. The most sensational ring upset of 1933 was Max Beer's surprising kayo of the game Teuton, Max Schmeling. Although the unanimous ehoice of the experts before the battle, the black-browed German seemed to lose bis punch under the hot arc lights that humid summer night, and gradually wilted to the slag after marchinar steadily for ten rounds into a barrage of right and lef fl hooks delivered by the Jeering Baer. For a while it seemed as if the colorful Mister Baer would be the man to revive interest in the fight game, but M axle's yen for the foot champion and on each of these oc casions torrential rains were his allies. Red Birds Beat Owls, Score 8-2 The Red Birds defeated the Owls, 8-2 in a game played at Parrlsh Friday - noon. Although both teams consisted of football player, there were very few fouls. Red Birds . Owls Siewart 1 T , Doerfler Rowland 5 1 Johnson Sweigert IBrlggs Gottfried Meyers 2 Jones Wataaabe McKay Forest Marines Lose at Gates GATES, Jan. 6 The Gates sec ond town basketball team defeat ed the CCC camp quintet from Hoover here Wednesday night, 25 to IS. O s Columbia Defeats Sta nford in 4" S -o-i.im w In a heavy downpour of rain, Columbia University o f Kew York CUy battled the Stanford University Cardinals la the annual Rose Bowl football classic at Pasadena. CaL .The same was ! spectacular throughout. At the end of the third quarter the Lions led by a score of 7 to 0. Photo shows ataenta of Stanford making s abort sln -laternationa) JUaatrated News Photo. 1933 lights and the Eleig lights seems to have weaned him away from the rough tins; racket at least tempo rarily. Tommy Loughran should be given a world, of credit for his brilliant showing in 1933, when he fought his way back to the top and was re warded with a title shot with Car nera, which will take place next month at Miami. Other leading ring luminaries of the year Just past were Barney Ross, who dethroned Canzone ri as lightweight king; Jimmy McLarnin. who finally won the welter title, and Billy PetroUe, who continued to put up-thrilling battles in spite of his advanced nag age. CarrrUfi. 1M. Ktef rntsm Srvdteate. lac Gates Cagemen meat Mill City By 25 - 23 Score GATES, Jan. I. The Gates and Mill City town teams met Wednesday night en the Gates floor for an exciting game of bas ketball with the Gates team win ner by a smaU margin. The score wis 25-23. At the end of the first bald the score was 13-S in Gates favor. Gates MU City Ball F , , . Kelly CUne F , Morarec Bail.- .C Selmes Wrty1wnrth fl , Wachter Klutke. Baltimore Mason Beam ester , Bowes .8. Catherwood S. Gregory The next scheduled game is with Stayton at Gates January 10. This WiU prove an Interesting game' as Stayton beat Gates at Stayton the first of the season. EARLY 1 1 T But Visitors From Puliman Get Only One Field Goal In Entire Sewhd Half CORVALLIS, Ore., Jan. 5. VP) -The Oregon State college bas ketball team, defending "Pacific coast champion, won its first con ference game o the season by defeating Washington State col lege, 28 to ltV here tonight , Early in the game the Wash ington State Cougars' long range guns boomed for a 11 to 3 lead over the Beavers. Midway in the first half the Orange crew stead led and gradually crept up on the visitors. - - On a fast dribble George Hlb bard moved in for a short shot that brought the defending cham pions a 13 to 12 half time lead. They were never again headed. The Beavers maintained their scoring drive. In the second half and limited . the Cougars to one field goal "and two foul conver sions. ; " Checking farther out on the floor, the Oregon State crew dis rupted the early stream of long shots which threatened to give the game to Washington State. McPhee was the main cog in the Co a gar offensive, scoring seven points. Captain O'ConneU of Oregon State was high scorer of the game with 11 points. Kidder, replacing All-Coast Ed Lewis as the Beaver center this season, showed real promise on offense and got his share of tip offs against Honston, Washington State's sophomore center. Summary: Washington State (10) G. F. Tp. Johnson, It 0 MePhee, rf 2 Houston, c .........0 Scott, lg 1 Will, rg 1 3 1 0 0 2 Totals 5 C 16 Oregon State (28) O. F. Tp. O'ConneU. If ........5 1 11 Taylor, If 0 1 1 Hibbard, rf . .. 3 0 6 Kidder, c 1 1 3 McDonald, lg 1 0 2 Lenchitsky, rg 1 3 5 Totals 11 6 28 Personal fouls: MePhee 3, Johnson, Houston 2, Wills 1, Kid der, O'ConneU 3, McDonald, Len chitsky 2, Taylor 1. Free throws missed: Johnson 4, Houston 2, Scott 1, O'ConneU 3, Lenchitsky 1. Referee, Piluso, Portland; um pire, Adams, Willamette. SEATTLE, Jan. 5. (IP) The University of Washington Hus kies staved off a last -minute rally by the University of Idaho to win the opening game of the northern division Pacific coast conference season for both teams tonight 35 to 29. The Huskies led at the half, 20 to 15. After the second half opened. Washington kept the lead all the way, although Idaho twice came to within one point of tying the score. Coaches Picked For West Team To Oppose Pros SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 5 JP) Ray Flaherty of the New York Giants professional football team and Normal "Red" S trader, as sistant coach at St Mary's college, were named today to coach the Pacific coast eleven which will meet the Chicago Bears, national pro champions, in the Knights of Columbus charity game here Jan uary 21. The announcement was made by Joe O'Connor, director of the game. Flaherty, former Gonsaga end, has been a player and assist ant coach of the Giants for several years. The Bears will arrive here Jan uary 15. . , Great Upset ,4t Conference Bearcats Set Speedy Pace find Give Swedes Trouble But are Dei - The Terrible: Swedes : ran into Just the type of opposition that gives them; the greatest, trouble -the speedy type and they were forced to 1 extend themselves - to defeat the Willamette university Quintet 27 to 22 on the Willam ette floor here .Friday night "be fore the biggest crowd of the sea son to date i; t - Had the Bearcats been a little more accurate in. their, slfootlng. they would have won; they took at least twice as many shots as the ' famous ; visitors. J but the Swedes' shots swished through the hoop ; and . those Jofted by "Spec" Keene's boys.: bounced off the rim a little too often. The fans saw what they came to seeeome ; of - the " Cleverest basketball ever witnessed in Salem.- The star performer was Ole Olson who. lived up. to his advance publicity. He was principally a "feeder" in the game, passing rbaekhanded" around his body or over nis bead with deadly accur acy bat taking few shots at the basket In practice before the game, he shot' baskets in the same novel fashion and - eren bounced them .in off Ibis head. A "temt" basketball gm t m slightly . different natnre from that played at Eugene Wednesday night, was staged the same night at Walla Walla when the Terrible Swedes play ed a picked team of Y. M. C A. players of that city. P. D. Ap. plegate, father of Baddy Apple gate "Jio used to play bob with the Willamette Bearcats on the gridiron, is physical director of the Y. at Walla Walla. He ar ranged the contest and was ref eree, and he anounced before hand that he would practically throw away bis whistle, as far as using it to stop play was concerned. There were no fouls, no brok en dribbles, no traveling with the ban, as far as Applegate was con cerned. A few instances of those violations occurred but they were overlooked. Reports from Walla Walla declare it was a fast clean game with no unfortunate inci dents. The players, all veterans. were of course trying: even a lit tle harder than usual to avoid fouls and other infractions of the rules. Evidently the strain of be ing "on their honor" had its effect on the Swedes, for they made ap for it by ! producing seven foals Of the "slick" va riety here Friday night. Ordin arily they play exceptionally clean ball. At Walla Walla they played one half against Walla Walla high and though fools were caned as nsnaL they made only one. Harold Dimick's boys entered into tb spirit of the occasion aad nuMe only two, - 1 The final conclusion seems to be that basketball players can avoid fouUng the only difficulty Is inducing them to do so when the game Is important and the temptation great Short of chang ing the players' attitude practi cally nobody thinks Ot violating the rules intentionally In tennis or golf the only way to prevent vio lations appears to be strict offi ciating in other words "whistle tooting.'' CL016 SECDflDS Ashland high school's bas- keteers put a great climax on their three - game invasion of the Sa lem district when they scored an exciting last - minute victory over the Willamette freshmen Friday night on the Willamette court, the game being a preliminary to the Willamette Terrible Swede con test : t Baughman, slippery Ashland forward," looped : a medium-long field goal to give 'his team the victory, with fire seconds to . go. The count was knotted at 20-aU just a few moments earlier after the freshmen, who were without the, services of Mosher, . regular guard, had held the lead. Summary f ; Z " Freshmem ' r j. -.Ashland Morley S r ' r v V, :, ,1 4 Hoxie Vagt 4 , ; ' ,F. I Baughman WortPTxiTta, -; n. , 4 Hardy Sutton 7 , -G. Kannotte- Brandon 1 , 1 Jungwlrth Harvey 2, -3. 8 Hess Referee, Clarkf umpire, Rhoda. Pade'sioPIay Portland Team Fade's basketeers wiU go to Portland tonight to play the Bnal Brith Quintet In addition to reg ular members ' of - Pade'a squad who plar to tha City-y. - league, BurreU and ltarr of Parker's and "Doe" Allen of Monmouth' will ba with .the . team tonight, GMeM:M16 teated27to22 The Bearcats made ap -tn speed on. the floor what they lacked in smoothness in comparison to the Swedes; and made it a' tight race throughout the first half. Wil lamette led most of the period but the Swedes went ahead, 14 to 11, at half time. Willamette' pUys looked better than they -ad against cbUeglate f competition. Burdett led in scoring with eight points and Kloostra followed closely with seven; Frants and Hartley took the lead in steaUng the ball from the accurate-passing Swedes, iv - - Grant and HowdysheUV the lat ter remarkably . changed-' in ; ap pearance since hlsformer visit tied for scoring honors at eight points for the Swedes, .. i The Bearcats played a remark ably clean game, beiasr-debited with only one fouL., The - Swedes were detected In seven subtle vi olations. Willamette Swedes Lemmon 1 T... .S Olson Burdett 8 ,, ',, F. -8 Grant Kloostra 7 r HowdysheU Hartley 4 ......... G ,. z. ... 4 Babb Frantz 2 O Richardson Referee, Max Allen. , SCHMELITJB WILL BATTLE LEIISI CHICAGO, Jan. 5. UP) Max Schmeling trading punches with King Levinsky, Chicago's wallop ing ex-fish peddler.. ; Schmeling. returning to Ameri ca In search of additional wealth and another chance at the world's. heavyweight championship, which he once held, will battle Levinsky in the Chicago stadium, Febru ary If. - " The match was virtually clos ed todsy by long distance tele phone, with Joe Jacobs, manager of the German ex - champion. agreeing to the match from New York, and Harold Steinman. one ot Levlnsky's corps of managers. placing his stamp of approval in Chicago. Jacobs agreed to come to Chicago Monday to go over com plete details Of the contest It may be for 19 rounds; but a compromise may be reached on 12 rounds. Joseph Foley, representing the Chicago Stadium Operating com pany, said the prices for the bout would be set so the receipts, in event ot a sell-out. would net 182,000. I! in miii we MIAMI, FUu. Jan. 5 UPl Equalling the eourse record with a sparkling 88, four under par, unaries McAllister of Forest Hills, L. I., led the field of more than ISO golfers at the end of the first 18-hole round to play today In the $2000 Mianl open golf tourna ments McAllister, a pro at the Queens' Valley Country club, carded a pair or lis to tie the course mark hung ap when Johnny Revolts of Menominee, Mich., vwon the title last year. In his blistering round, played after abatement of a high wind that had swept the 8.310-yard ear 70 eourse in the morning, McAllis ter picked up five birdies and 12 pars and played the remaining hole in four, one over regulation figures, two deuces were included on his round In which he chipped 40 feet into a the cup - on two greens. ' Two strokes back of McAllister came WUUe Dow, 48-year old Mi ami pro, who chalked np a pair ot 34a for a 88. He also grabbed oft five birdies and took ten pars. PEUST01KE E Salem wrestling fans will be able to cheer for a home town favorite once-more, it was indi cated Friday ' when Art Perkins. recent arrival from Michigan, an nounced that he intended to make this city bis home from now on. He ; has brought, hia wife and young daughter here and entered the girl in achooL ' " r - Perkins is slated to meet Robla Reed ' at the . armory " Tuesday night Fans were recaUIng Friday the exceptional match these two men r staged here a "couple ef yeara ago. Reed winning but: only by the narrowest ot margins. An other such bout la possibly await ing the fans next Tuesday night Clothing Prices WiU - Be Higher! ; v ;- It Is an accepted tact that j prices will advance : even . more this summer and next tall... '- -. . . , We can still make suits at . the old price. ; : b.:KMbSH-':' 474 Court . - TeL 5401 nun LFf.DS 1 PUSH BEATS OREOQn GITV.5 Score ,31 -22; Prcwn'SLpy Look GqodiWitliXhilds At Top if Scoring Parrlsh Juaior high school's hoOpsters speeded np tn the sec ond half after rather a slow start, to defeat Oregon City Junior tiga 31 to 22 on the parrlsh floor Frf- dayi night. Parrlsh had finally emerged with a II toJ lead at ha t time.' I .1 i Despite Coach , Fra n k Bro v n '$ doubts aa to whether his bos would make much of a shonin? this year, they performed accep tably in this sxcMr with Chillis, Skopin and Hoffert all scoring f re quently. Leatfaerberry. who 1 also a gridiron i star for Onzcrx City, led the rfsttors in scoring with-six; points.! ; The Parrlsh Trojans defeat 1 the Oregon City Midgets 2 t4 li; - : Summaries: Parrifth : Oregon rh y Skopil8..i...Fis. 4 MauMinsj Litwiller 5 . , . ; . , Ebcrly Childs 10 . . . . . . JC . , . ; 5 Cushion Hoffert8......G;... 1 Dickon Henderson ..;..G ( Leatherberry S,.. . . 4 Park 1 - S. .. . 2 Budislio Referee, MasotJ Midgets Trojane Scott 2. . . . -JF. . . . 4 LeBouet SchulU 4 ...... -F .... . Sweigert WeUer2.. C... Walter Stroup ... .G Gardn r AUoTd.2.......iG... . . 4 Drigjrs Cbapinl ..,. 7 Lindstrom - , . - s, . . . .z Farter Referee, Masoii. Six Games on Schedule for Molalla Five MQXJLLLA, Jan, 5. The grade school basketball schedule has Just been completed by Forrest Dunton, principal and coach. It includes six games with three different teams, the first this week with Gladstone. Winners in this first division of the county tournament wiU ithen play to de termine the championship. Mo- lalla's schedule is: January 12 r Oregon City t Oregon-City, '..it..' January 11 Gladstone at Gladstone.. 4 i January 26 Oregon City at Molalla. ; February 2 - Lake Grore it Molalla. February 3 - Lake GroTe at Lake Grove. . The , probable: line-up at the first game will be Ted Kent and James Waller, forwards; Allison Stoars, center; Paul Holman and John Heath, guards, aad Gene Harrey, Robert : Bobbins Robert Qulst aad George Burghardt. sub stitutes. Molalla games will be in the high school 'gymnasium at 7:30 o'clock. MKT WILL BE T01HT Tonight at TJ4J the first swim ming meet of the season here will open at the city jT. tank where the Salem T. . junior team will meet the Junior team from Port land's Northeast! Y and some ot the outstanding swimmers of the Pacific northwest! wUI have a struggle to-maintain their rec-brdsv-'"--' ri'-- ' Representing the Salem Y. will be George Causey, back; Bob Brownell, 40160; relay; Thomas Wlperr back In medley; Bill Sex ton, breast; Howard Elliott medley-relay, 40? Bill Wlrtg, 40. re lay, medley-relay ; Win field Need ham, 220, 100, relay, and Char les Wiper, 220 and relay. John Creech, "former Salem high, Sa lem Y. and University of Oregon aquatic performer,; is coaching the Juniors, .vv: - - , .Bob Hanger Don Armprteet and Bob Ramage will! do the diving for the- local Y. i They hare been coached by JaUan; Burroughs, who some' years; ago starred 1 in that - feat - at t Oregon ' 8tate j and earned 4the right to e n t e r tbe nalg , tryoats - for the Olympics.--.- r,r-;n : ' ' . CHEVROLET ' arid. MODEL AND.,- BODIES FOR SALE Acme 'Auto l& Truck , Wreckers ,--: 1 430 S., Commercial i AQUATIC f 4 1 4 j 1 1 JU1W.