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Sixth Brooks Youth .. .. .5 . . ;. Looks Better Sons Nose Out Veterans at Democratic Caucus Oregon Barely Winter Sports in Spotlight By BURNLEY 1 - 29-27; Orange Holds Lead t at Halftime But Rally Staged by Webfoots Gaining Ring Generalship; Hubbard Fighter Gos Out in 2nd Round Score 23-21 Though W.U. Leads 13-7 at Half; Rally Is Speedy Knocks Out Mayes Beats Cooper I . J Bests v . 1 W JK. 1 f i i Frank Riggi used a short left to the jaw last night to prove to Earl Beebe that if anybody Is go ing to claim the heavyweight championship of Oregon it won't be Beebe. Riggi, the 186 pound Italian fighter from Brooks, climaxed a main event that was his all the way by letting Beebe, 190 pound er from Woodland, Wash., have a final taste of powerful left that was good for a decisive knockout in the sixth round. Beebe had had the left on his chin and bad ly cauliflowered ear plenty be fore that hut Riggi put all his body in the punch that finally fold the stocky Washington boy among the daisies. He stayed among the daisies about fire min utes before he groggily came to. Riggi, showing greatly improv ed ring generalship and punching heavily, rarely sw'nging, with hard rights and lefts, carried the fight right to Beebe's door right from the start. Knockdowns' Frequent The first round -was only a shade in Riggi's favor as ihe two heavies felt each other out but in the second the Italian opened up a fast and furious attack that had Beebe on bis knees once in every round but one after that. Raining right and left hooks to Beebe's head and throwing in an occasional- uppercut in tue clinch es Riggi had the Washington fighter breathless and groggy in the fourth. He had difficulty in putting him in cold storage im mediately, however, as Beebe showed a tremendous ability to stand up under Riggi's power house blows. In the fifth Beebe started a short lived comeback and got in a lew good blows Defore Riggi backed away and let him have it some more. The sixth was short and snappy, Riggi going to work with a purpose and pounding Beebe about the ring with a shower of blows before pulling out the left jab ticketed for the knockout. Hayes Stops Cooper wes Hayes, 180 pound negro boxer from xOrtland, showed speed and cleverness in winning the first section of the double main event with a knockout blow in -the second round of. his fight with Tiny Cooper, 181 pound Hubbard fighter. The punch that put Cooper out for the count was so fast many fans didn't see any thing but Cooper falling to the canvas with a thud. The blow that the Hubbard boy walked into was a right cross, following uP a hard left to the head. Kid Thornier, 134. Silverton, took a decision from Melvin Sor relL 138, Salem, in the sixth round semi-final. Thornley- was the aggressor most of the time in a fight that aw lots of leather thrown. Fans booed when the referee, confusing the names of the two fighters, first announced the decision of the judges as for Sorrell. Prelims Are Fast Bobby Ribbons, 131. Albany, knoeked out Charley White, 138. Portland, ia the second round of a four round preliminary. Gib bons, showing speed and heavy punching power, did the work with a right to the heart. Leonard Wolfer, 133, Hubbard, and- Little Rufus, 123, Portland, took a ..draw after a fast fight that saw much leather traded. Alva Anderson, 144, Scio, gain ed a technical knockout over Har ry Kenyon, 147, Portland ,in the second round . of a fast op ener. One of the largest crowds ever to attend a boxing show here saw the card. Curley Feldtman's next ring presentation is scehduled for Friday, January 31. Gridiron Scoring .Changes Opposed NEW YORK; Jan. 17.-GP)-A rousing chorus of "noes" today greeted the proposal for a new football scoring system involving the abolishment of the try for ex tra point, the award of a point for each first down and a live minute overtime period to break ties. Football coaches in all parts of the country, polled by the Asso ciated Press, vetoed' the idea with emphasis and by a 9 to 1 margin. Their opposition to other propos ed rules changes, including re turn ot the goal post to the goal line was less pronounced. Judging from current reaction, there is no chance whatever that the rales-makers win tinker with the scoring system when they go Into annual session at Palm Springs. California, February 14. Coaches for the most part rid lculed the scoring proposal and Insisted it would rob the game of Us present-day thrills by putting emphasis again on the old "rock 'em and sock 'em" style of play. msr- Wr5lF5 A igL. - lit Waster v V: flkTTFfM UlJCtS SAMS' UJfJTBff. 7jt s aAjeroF rue ees-rw u s. OLYMPIC ' HtsroZrr: r. ASHLAND, Or., Jan. 17-(flV A last-half spurt gave the South era Oregon Normal .quintet a 23 to 21 victory over Willamette unlr versity of Salem here tonight. The Northwest conference visit ors were out in front 13 to 7 at halftime but close checking and an avalanche of baskets allowed the Normal five to chalk up the win. Willamette took the lead early, maintained it at to 6 in the middle of the first halt when the Sons mentor sent in a new aggre gation, and kept It throughout the first period. Brandon's basket to bring the score to 1J ended the first half. Mullen's free throw placed the score at 14 to 7 at the start of thesecond period but a Normal rally put the hometeam ahead a few minutes later. The Sons ran the score to 18 before Willamette scored again. Hardy, Leavens, Walton and Schopf contributing to the spurt. Two last-minute bas kets by Anton and a free throw by Manning were not quite enough to give the visitors the victory. The teams will play here again H tomorrow. Lineups: Willamette 21 23 Sons Weaver 2 F 3 Walton Gastineau 2....F....4 Scroggins Anton 6 C 4 Hardy Versteeg G 1 Ager Erickson 2 G 5 Schopf Substitutes: Willamette-Mosh- er, Manning 3. iseara z. uranaon 3. Mullen 1; Normal Patterson, Harris, Hoxie 1, Reeder, Leav ens 4, Winkle 1. Referee: Croxdale, Medford; umpire, Atchison, Medford. ; 7rrrz v; ; . t & ' I s VR i t - iff f A - f - - ' f '"- v w , , i t , : " Js? XT VflSBtr McAJaoL VI tf 1 1 Vie Pr.;U C.r..rll 1 II I- w r HjTV MM - mmmrm m v . iv, 1 1' ..mi Seaater McAdoo Woodburn F. F. A. Whips Silverton Betting Scandal ete Fizzle NEW YORK, Jan. 17,-Vrhe betting "scandal" which' for tour days has rocked the New York ' state athletic commission, blew up with a bang today. Nat. Fleischer, editor of The Ring, a boxing magazine, admit- , ted at a hearing he could not pro duce proof of &is accusations that Louie Beck, chief inspector for the commission, had associated , with gamblers in New York, fight clubs. The commission promptly ex ' enerated And reinstated -Beck and bob d'-th .investlgatioa jreald dronoed. WITH the winter Olympic games scheduled for the middle of next month and the big league hockey season in full swing, there is plenty of ice and snow on the current sport menu. The winter Olympics will see a sterling band of American compe titors, sure to give Finnish, Cana dian and Scandinavian athletes a real tussle for supremacy, despite the fact that snow and ice are the natural habitat of the last-named nationalities. Uncle Sam's figure skating cham pions, Robin Lee and Maribel Vin son, may not capture Olympic hon ors when faced with such supreme stars as Karl Schaefer and Sonja Heme, but they are sure to give a grand account of themselves and must be conceded a real chance for championship honors. Speed skating, in which United States athletes have always done well, will feature such flashing skaters as Eddie Schroeder, Allen Potts, Del Lamb, Bob Peterson and Leo Freisinger. Schroeder, espe cially, will be a real-threat fox Olympic honors. The American Olympic hockey team has quite a few supporters among qualified critics, who believe that the United States amateur ice men have improvedto the point where they can end Canadian hockey supremacy in the forthcom ing games. Anyway, Old Man Winter will really occupy the center of the sport stage lor the next month or so, and those of us who are lucky enoueh to bask in the sunny climes of Flor ida or California during the cold season can read about the icy sports without shivering. CapTrtcM. II If. XlBt rwtara fcHKttate lac SILVERTON, Jan. 17 Wood- burn Senior high Future Farmers of America defeated the Silverton senior F. F. A. team here Wed nesday night 27 to 19 with Ray mond -Specht as referee. -Summary: Woodbura 27 10 Silverton. Funrue 9 F....S Kaufman Weatherall 2 . . . F .5 Skfiler Stiber 5 C 9 Seeley Harris 3 G ..... .3 Schultz Dunlgan G 4 Arney The -Silverton F.F.A. juniors defeated the Woodburn team 8 to 6. William Dunigan acted as referee. Ruggerillo Kayoed PHILADELPHIA. Jan. 17- Leroy Haynes, Los Angeles ne gro heavyweight, knocked out Salvatore Ruggerillo,; of New York, in the second round of their scheduled ten-round bout tonight. Aims for Lewis 4- V - , f - 4 4 - Nevers to Coach Lafayette Squad E ASTON, Pa., Jan. nHfl")- Ernie Nevers, the former Stanford-All-American fullback, takes over the football coaching reins at LaFayette college in March with what shapes up as the best ma roon squad in five years. But despite that pleasant pros pect, the bjonde husky from the coast faces the toughest schedule LaFayette has laid out in seven seasons. ' Henry W. "Eskie" Clark, who came irom warvara on xxew Year's day to the Lafayette athlet ic directorship, announced -today the selection of Nevers from a field of 100 candidates seeking the Lafayette coaching job. In meeting such teams as Penn, Colgate. New York university Washington and Jefferson, and Retzlaff Delights Customers With Courage But Lasts Only Minute and 25 Seconds in Ring With Joe Louis Xll7Airl STVSt CHICAGO, Jan. 17. (AP) Charley Retzlaff, rawbonetj cut out for him in whipping his . X' rV ;V,-r1 vintr Mo aid hi suuau law wmuwg torui. mi iiui vii ia&uui iaw,uu, iuuaii(,u vu uw ' x i n ii giassy eyes staring at me ring ugius, exacny une nuw ute and 25 seconds after he raised his hands for his sched uled 15-round fight with jolting Joe Louis in the Chicago Stadium tonight. Thus, Louis, most murderousO puncher since the days of Jack Dempsey, scored his 23d knock out. Retzlaff had to be helped to his corner. Retzlaff walked fearlessly into Louis as the bell rang and threw the first punch, a light left to the head that missed. Louis stuck a light left to the face and then the lanky North Dakotan landed the first hard punch, cracking Louis with a right to the head as he came tearing in. The blow just missed the chin and caused a sneer to creep over Louis' otherwise "dead pan." Keeps Boring In The crowd was in a tremen dous uproar at the courage dis played by Retzlaff. Louis drove a right to the head that was high, and then Retzlaff drove three rightsto the body. The bold Retz laff continued the attack, driving two rights to the head, forcing Louis to the ropes. As Louis moved to Ahe center of the ring, he apparently had decided to take no chances. He drilled a smashing left hook to the chin that floored Retzlaff. The North Dakotan started to get up at the count of three and then fell back. He got to his feet at the count of seven, but his legs were rubbery and he was badly hurt. LrXs, seeing his toe In dis tress, tore after him in a terrific attack to the head and body. Retzlaff backed Into the ropes, but could not escape the terrific punches of the relentless Louis, Tries to Get L'p Retzlaff withered cuickly un der the merciless punishment. His 1 six foot three inch frame virtu ally paralyzed by the punches ab sorbed, sank to the floor. Louis was waved to a neutral corner, as Retzlaff gamely attempted to struggle to his feet. Get ud. Charley," screamed the ringside spectators. Retzlaff tolled off the count ot nine he futilely tried to draw his wobbly legs under him. On his haunches, he settled and then rolled over on his side. The attendance was somewhat dlsaDnointing nossiblv due to a snowstorm of blizzard propor tions. The gross gate receipts reached $72,341.68. ;-v...j;V'. Latest "white hope" b Tommy Os borne (above), , CuwUn, - whose remarkable record m mateur in winning: Irish-America A. A. heavyweight title, the .province of Quebec title foT-tlmea and Canadian cham- pioBship twice, baa drawn mnch tteaUaa. Huskies Win Over Puget Sound Five TACOMA, Jan. 17.-(3)-TJniver-sity of Washington defeated Col lege of Puget Sound, here tonight in a wild scoring basketball game that ended with a total of 92 points registered. The final score was S2 to 40. , Loverich, Washington forward. and Tolletson, Paget Sound for- t T . wara, snarea scoring nonors wiin 12 points each. Stoeffel. the oth er Puget Sound winger, totaled 12. I Washington started Its scoring with the first whistle and kept its lead ' throughout the - game. At half time, the score waa 24 to 14 Puget Sound dropped further be hind as the second period opened but crept closer to the Seattle team as Coach Hee Edmundsoa began .substituting freely. Elliott-Chambers Bout Signed Here Harry Elliott, blond mat arbiter and grappler, will meet the vil lainous Cliff Chambers in the main event of the American Le gion wrestling show at the arm ory Tuesday night it was an nounced yesterday. It is expected to be rough but the rules will be in force again after taking a hoi iday this week. Jack Curtis will meet Bud Lip scomb in the 45 minute semi windup event while Otis Clingman and Dick Costello will tangle in the opner. Philadelphia was selected as the site' of the national Democratic con vention in June when party chieftains met in caucus atTVashington where veterans William Gibbs McAdoo, senator from California, and John N. Garner, vice president, were snapped at a conference of. their own during a lull in the main business session.. Monmouth Downs Dallas Hoopsters Score 21-17 in Hard Game Featured by Late Rally Which Cuts Lead Parish, Midgets Win League Tilts Leslie and Sacred Heart Wind Up in Tie With No Time to Finish DALLAS. Jan. 17. The Mon mouth Wolverines won the Polk county league opener here tonight when they downed Coach Dwight Adam's Dallas quint 21 to 17 aft er a hard battle. The Orange men rallied in the last period to cut down a Monmouth seven point lead but the end saw the home team losing but again. Monmouth led 6 to 4 at the end of the first period and increased it to 1 to 8 by half time. Blod- gett and Riney went to work for Monmouth in the third period to work up a sizeable lead and keep the Wolverines out in front de spite a determined Dallas offens ive. Bob Woodman, Dallas guard. led scoring with eight Points. The Monmouth reserves defeat ed the Dallas "B" team 22 to 15 in a preliminary tilt. Buss of the Monmouth team was high scorer with 11 points. Lineups: Monmouth (21) (17) Dallas Johnson 3 F ... 3 Plummer Murdock 3 P ... Burrelback Blodgett6 C .. 4 McCubbins Miller 4 G .. 2 Woodman Riney 5 G . . 2 Robinette Referee, Bill Rob bins, Lebanon, PerrycUde Team Wins In Last Second of Play RICKREALL. Jan. 17. The RickreaJl town team played a hard - fought basketball game against Perrydale's town team Wednesday night. The local boys were one point ahead near the close of ihe game, when a lucky long shot by Beyerly ot Perry- dale made the final score 24-23. Badgers Top Shoe Men FOREST GROVE, Ore.. Jan. 1 -P) Pacific university's basket eers defeated Reliable Shoe of Portland here tonight 34 to 31. Mansion Occupied by Lindberghs in Wales .is"-: uE H-o a i rrr . -r 1 - f l -IL' - 4 r V4T i ' ' m iir; ,r h l! ! : : I i a . mii- I,. i ii i I I LtadWgfc Uaae hi WaUsl ; I ? " ryalde) I An historic mansion at Cardiff Wales, top. lormerjy the home ef Aabxey Moxsaa, brother-in-law of Anne Lindbergh, la the present home ! of CoL jmd Un. Charles liniberth and their son, Jon, who are shown below as thejf entered their ! antomobne v for m drrve trgf the eountryside, adopted as their home when they fled United State because ef kidnap - threati against Jon. - EUGENE, Ore., Jan. n(JP- The' University of Oregon Web foots edged out a 29 to 27 victory -tonight over Oregon State college, champions of the northern divi sion of the Pacific Coast basket ball conference. The defeat was Oregon State's first of the 1136 conference aeason. The victory left Oregon in pos session of the tcrp rung In the northern division for the current schedule. Both teams previously defeated the University of Idaho twice In their only other confer ence starts. An attendance of 75 14 persons, the largest crowd to witness a basketball game in this city, was recorded at tonight's contest. Miss Early Shots The tall Webfoots, doped to lose a close one, missed many shots early' In the game and trailed at half-time 17 to 14. The Beavers fed the ball to Folen un der the basket for frequent; tal lies but later In the game 'the Webfoots covered up to halt the close-in play. Frequent fouls featured the hard-fought battle. Neither team was more than two points ahead during most of the latter half and the outcome was in doubt to the final gun. Folen, Beaver guard, was high scorer with 14- points. Howell. Webf&ot forward, was high for the winners with 9 points. Ore gon State tossed in more field goals than Oregon but lost on free-throw points. Parrish and the Midgets quints were winners in interscholastic league basketball games yesterday while Leslie and Sacred Heart produced a basketball rarity, in leaving their game knotted, at 23- 23. The Midgets, as yet undefeat ed, downed the Future Craftsmen 19 to 10 with Steiubock leading scoring with six points. Parrish won over the school for the deaf quint 19 to 14. Babcock, Sllents center, led scoring with eight points. Tne i-esile-sacred Heart game ended in a tie when there was not time enough for an extra period Alley, Sacred Heart forward, was high point man with 12 counters! Leslie (23 (23) Sacred Heart Rein wold 4 F 12 Alley Hastings 3 . F 2 Hazelton Colman 4 C... 9 Hickman Espers 8 G A. Renner Schwiegen 4.:....G K. Renner Referee. Harold Hauk. Midgets 10 10 Future Craftnen Steinbock 6 F 3 Causey Keidatz 5 . F 1 Comstock Davis 2 C 5 Lutz Miller G Fontanini Papkoff 3 G Kerber Referee. Gilmore. Schl. for Deaf 14 10 Parrish Blakeley F.. Litwiller Stortz F & Maynard Babcock 8 C Van Woert Blaylock 2 G..2 Quackenbush Cochran 4 G Osbourne Substitutes: For Parrish, Se bum 6; Taylor 2; McRae 4. Referee, Gilmore. Brewery, Phone Pinmen Prevail The Salem Brewery team won three straight games irom Stevens & Brown in commercial league bowling at the Bowlmor last night. Pacific Telephone also took three in a row from Hogg Brothers. Gribble of the brewery team rolled 207 for high game while Higgins of the telephone team had high series with S29. Salem Brcwarr Bonlester 13 1.m Aimtin . 12S 160 Park 12 Herberger 127 Gribble .. ir.' Handicap - 58 99 129 207 38 140 433 141 429 14 37S 122 378 173 003 58 174 697 610 783- 293 Training School Cagers Defeat Woodburn Cub$, Overcoming Early Lead WOODBURN. Jan. 17. The Woodburn Cubs basketball team was defeated by the Oregon State training school team Monday night, 27 to 19. The game was played on the training school floor, the Cubs taking the-lead in the first quarter. However, the boys from the school, who had been coached by Ron Gemmell, were too strong and quickly gain ed a lead, which they kept throughout the rest of the game. Harrison was high point man for the training school with 15 points while Williams for the Cubs was high with 7. Lineups: OJS.T.S. (27) Kelly 3 Jameson 3 Honey fi Siler ! F F C G S (10) Cubs S Little 2 Clark Diekeinson 7 Williams 4 Howe Referee, Harold Scheil. Bongiovanni Is Firtt to Sign Portland Contract PORTLAND. Ore.. Jan. 17-(JP)- EJ J. Schefter, president of the Portland baseball club, said today the contract of Anthony "Kid Bongy' Bongiovanni was the first to be signed and returned for the 1936 Coast league season. "Bongy" Is a left-handed center fielder. Ruth Starrett Named Head of Girls League lUodWeWvkit thowet Ruth Starrett was elected pres ident of the all-girl organization at i Salem high school Friday, the Grlls league. The other success ful candidates were: Bather Vehra. vice urea I dent; Joy Cooler, secretary; and Natalie Neer. trea aurer. They will be installed a week from this coming Tuesday. 1t ' ""i Stanford Beats Bears PLO ALTO. CHf.. Jasu t7.- -The Stanford University basket ball team opened a scoring drive in the last minute of play to de feat University of California 41 to 38 in a touthern division Paci fic coast conference game here? to- nigau h . ft v J Jj - ! 4. - Whit. .. Boaell Starrett . Fisher .. Jaskoki Handicap Johnson KellogK - Howell Lnndahl Higgins Stevenj k Br' n 89 1.10 143 127 108 127 162 125 131 124 140 379 129 89S 147 382 114 401 141 396 633 653 670 195S Pacific Telephone 8 111 149 138 185 181 8 169 141 133 168 1G3 8 24 120 400 154 444 159 430 154 50T 185 529 772 762 780 23S4 Coolej Self Xewton . OarMeuen Nadoo HogX Brof. 131 1 145 163 121 171 9 139 185 142 154 731 758 157 427 144 428 182 510 143 40 130 455 22 2 6 Rooks Win Over Salem High Five Bv 36-23 Score CORVALLIS. Ore., Jan. 17.- (Fz-Oregon State's freshman bas ketball team ran up a 36-to-22 victory over the Salem high school t..-;ntet here tonight. The frosh, led by Bob Rias- man, former Astoria star, led at half-time 17, to 7 and never were headed after taking the lead soon after Salem's initial basket of tbe- game. in Rissman led 14 points. Summary: Salem (22) Skopil 7 Salstrom 5 Wagner 6 Luther Williams 1 Substitutes: Albrich. Quessich Hill: freshmen -F scoring with (30) Rooks 6 A. Sandoz 4 McCarthy 14 Rissman i Kuvallis Boiler Salem Freeman, 3, Chambers. Sandox 4, Fo- F F C G G gal 2, Bretx, Meyer. Birch. Referee, Ralph Coleman. Baptists Defeat Hinson Memorial ; The First Baptist basketball team ef Salem defeated the Hin son Memorial quint ot Portland 43 to 23 at Portland Thursday night. Roth with 16 points end Robertson with 14 led scoring for the Salem team. Lineups: First Baptfot 43 23 Hinson Mem. Robertson. 14 .F 3 Rydeo Roth 16 F Money Broer 6 -C..S H. Fleshman Curry 4 G Tompkins Clark 3 G. 2 Marvin Substitutes: for Hinson. Du lls 2. L. Fleshman 4, Candit 3. Boyce 1. Indians Swamped t By Astoria Quint i ASTORIA. Ore.. Jan. 17.H&3)- The Astoria high school basket ball team, defending state cham pions, swamped the Ckemawa In dians tonight CI to 19. ! Ted Sarpola. aH-tate forward, scored 24 of his team's points. Kokko. Astoria guard, scored 17. Chemawa- put up a game f!ght but couldn't find the basket coa- silently. .- --