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I: CrKCtAtrl The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Saturday Morning, 7, 193 PAGE SEVEtf-' at 180 as i ' V Pa Sets Scoring Record II W W 9m 9m r w .- Tim wm Riggi Wins State Boxing Grown; Knocks Washington Is Victor 39 to 30 Came Is Hot Affair With Lead Shifting Often; Fools Hurt O. S. G SEATTLE. March .-() -The University of Washington Huskies won the northern division Pacific Coast conference basketball cham pionship here tonight by chopping down the threatening Oregon State college Bearers, 39 to 30. hefore at least 10.000 spectators. The halftlme score was: Wash ington. 20; Oregon State. 18. Washington's victory assured the Huskies of a trip south to meet either Southern California or Stanford for the Pacific Coast title. Coach Hec Edmondson's men were able to stop all the Bearers except Wally Palmberg, the sen sational, southpaw, sharpshooter, who rolled up 19 points to smash the all-northern division scoring record by four points. He now has 180 points and one game to go In the IS same conference sched ule. Bobby Galer of Washington held the old record of 176, estab lished two years ago. Lead Shifts Often In th first period, the game raged up and down the floor, with the Huskies taking the lead five times. Oregon State three and the score being tied three times. Earl Conkling. big Beaver cen ter, tied the score as the second half opened. With one of his left-hand flings, Palmberg sent Oregon State into the lead and tied Galer's scoring record. After Wagner. Bishop and Lov erich combined to give Washing ton a 27 to 22 lead, Palmberg hit the basket for a field goal, breaking Galer"s mark. The crowd packing the pavilion raised a cheer. Stalling Successful Six minutes befcre the final gun. Washington, then leading 33 to 24, began stalling and by clever passing kept the Beavers from overcoming the lead. An answer to Washington's vic tory may be found in the fact the Huskies got 51 shots at the bas ket while Oregon State got only 29. Coach "Slats" Gill employed the man-to-man defense tonight gainst the Huskies, instead of the xone system which the Beav ers usually use. The teams play again tomorrow night, hut the result will have no effect on the title. Oregon State lost three men. Palmberg. Conkling and Folen be cause of personal fouls. Washing ton lost Egge. The lineups: Oregon State (30) Fg. Ft. Tp. Palmberg. rf 7 5 19 Tattle, If 2 0 4 Merryman, If 0 0 0 Conkling. c 2 0 4 Folen, rg 0 0 0 Kebbe. rg 0 0 0 Kidder, rg 0 2 2 Kolberg. rg 0 0 0 Bergstrom. lg 0 1 1 Totals 11 S 30 Washington () Wagner, rf 3 4 10 Loverich, If 3 3 9 Bishop, c s 3 15 Egge. rg 0 0 0 Gannon, rg 1 0 2 McKinstry. lg 1 1 3 Totals 14 11 39 Half time score: Washington. 20; Oregon State, 18. Personal fouls: Palmberg. 4; Conkling. 4: Folen, 4; Tuttle. Merryman. Kebbe, Kolberg, Egge, 4; Wagner, 3; McKinstry. 3; Bishop 2. Free throws missed Palmberg, Tuttle. Bergstrom. Kidder, Kol berg. Wagner, 2; Bishop, 2; Lov erich. Officials: Perry Mitchell. Se attle; Archie Buckley, Spokane. Series Divided in Commercial Meet Pacific Telephone company bowlers won two games from Ste vens tc, Brown and Hogg Brothers also took two from Salem Brew ery in commercial league bowling at the Bowlmor last night. racircc texkphohk co rfonnsoa 171 222 183 lj 152 15 147 12 576 482 468 437 513 SS !f 1M Howell 160 Kidwell i 124 Keltocc L. 191 Handirsp j. 12 135 158 118 175 13 840 818 85 STEVTSl a 8K0WV SALEM JUWI1T Coly 121 135 152 0T . 120 135 147 Sewtoa . 151 105 136 Ntdoa . 188 142 139 Hof 178 120 172 408 432 392 469 470 758 657 756 2171 HOOO BIOS. Boalwter 119 149 1J7 Amtai . . 154 161 115 Flemiar . Ill 124 144 HerfcTKr S3 146 1S1 erihil ., IS1 149 15S Eaadicas . 16 IS IS 402 430 S7 4SS 48 623 7(2 6 2661 Walnut Trees Snrrive . NEWBKRG. Oreu. March A survey -today indicated the core mature walait trees la this :Arei withstood the October treeie better thaa those la ether sections f Oregon. Young trees showed the greatest damage. " wall 136 194 197 527 BoH 158 183 153 494 F'Mher 140 138 ISO 408 Wory 147 lgo 173 500 JatkMkl 189 128 138 47J 770 823 811 2404 iff I UsA WmM" ? Cr vow do much ny k X J Hs utu ano Lees ucae s W ftt 1 rvi Hrl BAD'-lUtS SPRMG ue if 1 1 I VERNON GOMEZ, Castilian and screwy moundsman of the N. Y. Yankees, presents a pretty problem for the diamond forecasters this year. Senor Gomez, who is part Hi bernian as well as Spanish, under went an amazing reversal of form last year, thus justifying the pseu- ! dorrym of Goofy, which was fast ened on the eccentric but gallant lefthander by some dastardly base ball scribe several seasons ago. Give a glance at Vernon's record. In 1934, the undernourished side- BY PAUL HAUS&Fn Spring football practice will bo sandwiched in at Willamette this year in spite of conflict with regular spring sports and afternoon classes. After sev eral yean of trying to get around to it"Spec" Keene has finally evolved a plan whereby he can hint spring football and still not neglect his baseball team. O Other schools can go right ahead and have their spring foot ball workouts in the interim be tween basketball and baseball, but that period is taken up at Willamette by the state basket ball tournament and the prepar ations for it. Baseball practice starts right after spring vacation which comes the week following the tournament. There's never been much time for the gridders. But with a ten game ached ,ule that's tough from end to end "Spec" this year Just must have spring practice. So he's decided to work with the grid ders an hoar every day, pos sibly until school Is oat in June. Practice will be from 2 until S o'clock every day. Baseball workouts start at 8 o'clock so Keene Is facing a bunch of busy afternoons. Spec" disagrees with Fielding H. 'Hurry Vp" Yost, who said In a recent Interview that formal spring football practice Isn't ot much use. Yost said that seasonal sports like track and tennis were superior for the development of speed, coordination, fast thinking under pressure and footwork. Calvary Beaten By St. Vincent's Th- St. Vincent's "A" basket ball team defeated the Catrary Baptist quint 37 to 15 at St. Jo seph's hall Thursday night. Wlck- ert. Saints guard, led scoring with 11 points. Lineups: St. Vincent's (S7) (18) Cal. Bap. Serdota 10 ...T 5 Mason Hoffert 8 . . . .F. . . . . a Taylor Doerfler 1 ...,C...., 5 roster Wkkert 12 ...G.... 1 Pickens Thomas S ....Q 2 Miller substitutes: for St. Vincent's, Welsner i;Hlctman 9, ;.. Yankee's Pitching By BURNLEY ISUY SPARING S P1AJ& W 5gl . wheeler was the head man of the American League pitching parade, amassing the elegant hurling rec ord of 26 triumphs as against a mere 5 setback. Then came the deluge. Last year, the Goofy one wasnt able to fool many batters, as the dismal statistics of 12 wins and 15 losses clearly show. Lefty professed to be mystified by his poor showing in 1935. However, baseball sharps claim that the tem peramental Yank southpaw neg lected to do enough fly-shagging and similar "roadwork" last spring, and as a result his wind and lega were Keene agrees with this in part, but holds that spring football practice is the only chance a coach gets to work on anything new. Usually coaches don't want to risk trying out pet ideas dur ing the regular season and the spring practice serves as a labor atory for any experimenting that's to be done. "Spec", who had Lea Sparks scout the Texas Christian Santa Clara game last season cry carefully and as. carefully viewed the Southern Methodist Stanford clash in the Rose Bowl, Is planning to try quite a lot of new staff next year and It is almost imperative that he get a preview of it this spring. Soluble Bullet To Mean End to Duck Poisoning MINNEAPOLIS, March 6.-(JP-Two University ot Minnesota sci entists h-.ve announced they bad evolved a new soluble bullet, de signed to end lead poisoning in ducks and other waterfowl. The form of lead poisoning they seek to end is not to be confused with that pepered Into the fowl by duck hunters. It results from the birds' eating lead shot which has accumulated on the bottoms of lakes and ponds. Dr. R. G. Green and Prof. Ralph Dowdell said the lead ab sorbed in that manner by ducks frequently caused a paralysis which is fatal in from two weeks to three months, reducing the wild fowl population considerab ly. Vancouver Lions Croud Leaders in N. W. Hockey VANCOUVER. March i.-(JP)-Vancourer Lions moved a step closer to a play-off berth In the Northwestern Hockey league to night when they handed the tail end Calgary Tigers a 4-2 defeat. Lions, with one (tme left to Play, are now four oolnta ahal J of Edmonton, with three game I remaining. Lions are. .in. third I place,, a. pointy behind Portland. Puzzle : Goons PUZZLtASG very bad, which weakness was fatal over the nine-inning route in the stretch of the pennant campaign. This spring it behooves the gal lant if goofy Gomez to pay strict attention to training, for his fat 320,000 a year contract expires in 1936, and unless the erstwhile king of American League southpaws re gains his old form, he will be in line for a dire salary slash in 1937. That's why Senor Gomez was down in Florida working out sev eral weeks before the other players arrived for the current spring cam paign. Cnitt. 1111. Klaf rMtarM ldln. Im. Cooper Defeats Campbell, Ring SILVERTON, March Tiny Cooper, 181 pounds, of Hubbard, gained a decision ovre Carl Camp bell. 200. of Portland here Wed nesday night in the main event of the Veterans of Foreign Wars boxing smoker. Even though Cooper was outweighed 19 pounds by Campbell, Cooper took all eight rounds, forcing a fight on Campbell all the time. Campbell could only reach Cooper a very few times. Cooper punished Campbell with straight jabs and right hooks to the head through out. In the semi-final, Thornley, Sil verton. weighing in at 147, gain ed a decision over Paul Guile, 148 pounds ot Salem. One of the fastest and most In teresting bout was that between Eddie Norris and Lou Powers, when Norris hit Powers twice, knocking him down for the count of 7 with a left book to the body, and a left hook to the head, hold ing him down for the 10 counts. Koekl won over Al Smith in the second round by a foul. Strouteberg of Salem, won by a knockout in the fourth round from Harvey Sutton of CCC 11. Jim Reed refereed and J. H. Friend was the matchmaker. The largest crowd Sflverton has had out to a smoker, attended. Albany Not After Athletes Alone ALBANY, Ore., March .--Dean L. C. McAfee of Albany col lege said today "we do not want those in school who come merely to engage in athletics. .. . We cannot harbor students without money, or 'ringers'." In commenting on a new coach, to be chosen to replace Joe Mack, the dean said he must be in sym pathy with Christian ideals, have character above reproach and must not proselyte athletes. Mack resigned when school of ficials decided to lay less stress on outside athletic competition and emphasize Intramural activi ties. V. Basketball Teams Face Two Opponents Salem Y. M. C. A. basketball teams will meet two teams from Dallas and the Leslie junior high quint this morninr. The. WYM Ponies and the Intermediates will play Dallas teams while the jun iors , will face the ., Leslie team. Gaines aUrt at 18; 10 o'clock.'. Out Hayes End Comes in Sixth Stanza Negro Down in Fourth and Twice in Fifth; Brooks ; Boy Stages Upset ; Frank Riggi uncorked a short right on the heels of a looping left to knock out Wes Hayes in the sixth round of their ten round go last night and cover himself with glory and a mythical Oregon heavyweight championship. When Riggi laid the Portland negro, who weighed 184 pounds. among the wildflowers, he finish ed what he had started in the fourth round as well as giving the overflow house of fans that pack ed the armory the biggest upset of the Salem ring season. Riggi was a 2 to 1 underdog when he went into the fight and a lot of wise money said goodbye to its not-so-wise owners after last night's fight. Improves Further The 186-pound Brooks Italian youth, who improves everytime he fights, had more speed and more knowingness in his attack last night as he carried the fight to the negro from the beginning. That he still is far from perfec tion was shown in his inability to finish Hayes after having him al most at his mercy from the fourth round on. Riggi's heavy punching attack first scored in the fourth when he landed a swinging right to stag ger the negro. Riggi let Hayes drape over bis shoulder but drew back to plant a short right behind the ear that sent Hayes to the canvas. The hard-headed negro got up on the count of six but was still groggy as Riggi went after him with a shower ot long rights and lefts that battered Hayes into the ropes. .Riggi didn't know Just what to do with the staggering Hayes and continually held him up instead of letting him fall. Down Twice, Fifth Twice in the fifth round Riggi knocked Hayes down but the ef fort of punching futilely at the negro's head and of holding him up, tired him so that at the end of the round he was breathless and let Hayes revive enough to throw a flurry of short punches to his head. The sixth started slowly but ended fast as Riggi finally found the secret and let Hayes have it in a fast and furious storm. Tny Cooper, 186. Hubbard. knocked out a lumbering giant named Tiny Holden. 194, Port land, in the second round of a scheduled six-round semi - final. Cooper knocked the willing but pitiful behemoth down three times before finishing him. Sprain Spoils Fight Nick Drake, 137, Falls City CCC boy, sprained an ankle in the third round of what started out to be a good fight, making it necessary for Referee McCarthy to award the fight to Jack Curly, 1 Z 4. Port land. Drake was substituting for Eddie Norris, ill with the flu, in a five round special event. Zackle Shell, 145. Gervais. showed nice counterpunching and clever boxing to win a decision over Dick Rose. 14 4, Boise, in a tour round bout. Dick Query, 147, Scio. knocked out Jack Murphy, 145, Portland, in the third round of a scheduled four-rounder. Tiny Larkin, 115, Salem, and John Colem, 114, Salem, two will ing youngsters, gained a draw in the four round opener. The largest crowd to attend a local fight card in years was pre sent at last night's show. Orcutt and Hill Arrive at Final ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla.. March e.-iiSVPatty Berr, golfs great est youngster, fell after a gallant struggle amid the ruins of sty mies in America's oldest city today. Mrs. Opal S. Hill of Kansas City, who taught the 18-year-old Minneapolia girl many of the In side triaks of big-time golf, de feated her one up in the semi final ot the Florida east coast championship. Joining Mrs. HtllHr"the 1S hole final, to be played tomor row, waa Mrs. Maureen Orcutt Crews of Coral Gables, Fla., who defeated Marion Miley of Lexing ton, Ky., 2 and 1. WhenYOUSpend YOUR Money YOU'RE ENTITLED TO THE BEST 'In the West Its s:k v - n is T"i m. I ' taau JFor . Bill Davis, Distributor, Thone 5741 J iPolk E ntrants Tillamook, McMinnville in Finals; Bend Ahead in District Playoff McMINNVILLE. Ore., March 6- (AVMcMlnnvUIe and Tillamook advanced to the finals of the dis trict six basketball tournament to night. McMinnville won from In dependence 39 to 22 and Tilla mook defeated Monmouth 40 to 25. The winners will play tomor row night for the right to enter the state tourney at Salem. BEND, Ore.. March sn-Bend defeated Klamath Falls high 25 to 17 tonight in the first game ot the district three basketball tournament. The teams will play again tomorrow. If Klamath wins, a third game will be necessitated for a playoff. LA GRANDE. Ore., March - (p La' Grande. Baker. Nyssa and Vale entered the semi-finals of the district one basketball tourna ment The teams will compete for the right to enter the state tour ney at Salem. ASHLAND, Ore., March i-iJPf- Four teams paired off here to night for the opportunity to play in the final game at the Southern Oregon Normal invitational "B" league basketball tournament. They were: Merrill, Malin, Powers and Myrtle Creek. Winners of tonight's game will meet tomorrow night for the right to represent district 14 In the state tournament at Salem. The quarter-final scores were: Merrill 30, Butte Falls 22. Malin 20. Phoenix 12. Powers 22, Jacksonville 21. Myrtle Creek 20, Port Orford 16. All -League Prep Team Is Chosen SILVERTON. March 6 Silver- ton has announced its selection for the All-League team of bas ketball players. The local selec tion was made by Roy Mueller, coach, and the Silrerton team. Each team in the district will make a selection and those receiv ing the highest number of nomin ations will form the one all-league team. Silverton's selection Includes Arland Schwab of Silrerton, as forward. Schwab stands first in the league in points. He has been one of the outstanding players throughout the season. On Silverton's list, West Linn furnishes Tour for forward and Stone for center. Cross of Silver- ton, was chosen as one guard and Ried Molalla as the other. On the second string are Rauch of West Linn, forward: Sawyer, Sllverton, forward: Pettyjohn, Silrerton, center; Specht, Silver ton, and Bonney of Woodburn, guard. Honorable mention includes Jenkins, Busch and Thompson of Sllverton; Whitman and Shaw of Woodburn; Kycek and Haworth of Newberg, Plummer of Dallas and Slyter and Dahl of Molalla. Dizzy Anxious to Punch All Three BRADENTOX. Fla.. March 6. -(PJ-DIzxy Dean, holdout Cardi nal pitcher, not only is willing to trade punches with Catcher Virgil Davis, but with Vice-President Branch Rickey and Manager Frankie Frisch also if they want to 'fight. Told tonight that Davis. 200- pound receiver to whom Dean bad said he wouldn't pitch this sea son, had threatened to cave in his face the first time the two met in the Cardinal clubhouse. Dean roared with laughter. Down where I come from. nose punching is a two - sided proposition, he said. -Bring on Davis. All IH have to do is slip him my high hard one. "And that goes for Rickey and Frisch, too. If they want to fight. I'll take 'em on in separate rooms. Vancouver Swimmers to Meet Salem High Here ' The Salem high swimming team will meet the Vancouver high swimmers in the T.M.C.A. pool at 8 o'clock tonight. The Salem swimmers last week won decisive ly from the Portland Sea. Scouts. i - 1st - . ..-.- ity mnie ; j Both Defeated Woman Coach Proves Notable Success Her Port Orford Quintet Losei Few League Tilts - - ' -.!-.- X . Ruth E dark Stresses ! Fundamentals ASHLAND, Ore., March 6 -tfP) -Because Ruth E. Clark learned to play basketball in school, a lot of coaches in Oregon get an an nual headache. The reason? In 14 years of coaching the Port Orford high school team, her boys nave lost only three conference games. "I'm coaching because I like it," said the fashionably dressed Miss Clark, whose team was the sensation of the first round of the Southern Oregon Normal school's annual invitational tournament, which began here yesterday. Her boys set two records for the 30 teams to shoot at. They ran up the highest score, 42 points, and played the best de fense game in holding one team to two points. Need Extra Periods In the second game they had to travel three extra periods to beat Riverton high. 19 to 18. The pack ed gymnasium was in an uproar Camera Defeats Spanish Swinger NEW YORK, March G.-(JP)-Ponderous Primo Camera. Italy's fistic foghorn, blasted out a five round victory tonight over Irxy Gastanaga, wild swinging Span iard, in Madison Square Garden. The huge Italian, scaling 26S4. was awarded a technical knock out when Referee Arthur Dono van stopped the fight because of the condition of Gastanaga's dam aged left eye. The Spaniard scaled 208. After vainly trying to break down Camera's cumbersome de fense with looping body blows, Gastanaga suffered a jagged cut over the eye in the fourth round. It bled profusely and the Span iard weathered a heavy storm of blows for the rest of the round before getting hasty treatment in his corner. Apparently discouraged by this turn of events, Gastanaga made only a few defensive gestures in the fifth round before it became apparent his eye was badly af fected. Donovan stepped in to halt ' the proceedings after 46 seconds had elapsed. Washington State Grabs Third Spot PULLMAN. March 6-JP-Washington State college clinched third place in the northern divi sion Coast conference basketball standings with an impressive 44 to 30 victory ,rer the University of Oregon here tonight. The Cougars opened early with the offensive display which has made them the sensation of the closing conference weeks, and rolled up a 21 to 10 halftlme lead. The winners were masters throughout the game, passing smoothly and breaking under the basket repeatedly with deadly scoring thrusts. Oregon flashed dangerously only in the opening and closing minutes of the second half. Lin field Crapplers to Meet Y. on Wednesday The Linfield college wrestling team will send seven matmen here next Wednesday night to meet the Creative Printing o i III I Jntlng, today, inust not only reflect a knowledge of the mechanical part of print ing, hut of advertising as well. Just' phone 9101 and we will gladly help you plan your printing and advertising. e- Statesman PiiblisLiiig Company Hi; I ; HI; till iip ii I: !i ill III MiiiiHii except for Miss Clark, whose pok er face never changed expression. sue leuura to via-l uuhiui as a student at Pern State Nor mal, in Nebraska. Nearing 4. c be still has the dash and vim of a college co-ed and she swimi with the best. In 122 she came from Wyoming to Port Orford. where she is principal as well as basket ball coach. "We use straight man-to-man defense and fast breaking offense, based on good fundamentals of nlvAtlnr. ahftAtlnr naulnr mlsn dribbling." she said when asked about her system. Her boys call her "a grand per son and the best high school coach In Oregon." They were so deter mined to come to the tournament that most of them climbed oat of bed, where they had been suf fering from influenza four days before the. meet. In six previous tournaments. Miss Clark's teams finished near the top. Salem V. M. C. A. wrestlers on the Y floor; at 8:30 p.m., -according to Gns Moore, physical director here. This will he the first of a home and home series. There will be 126 rounds on the card. Scio Girl Chalks Up 236 Counters SCIO, March 6 Scio girls have totaled 391 points in 14 games played this season under Coach Frances Patterson. Scio was vic torlouj in 12 of the contests. They, have lost once to Turner and once to Harrisburg, the latter being in the Linn county class B league. Scio girls have an edge of 185 points over the opponents' total of 206. Evelyn Palon. diminutive Scio freshman forward, chalked up 236 points more than the total of all the opponents. Velma Palon. jun ior utility player, has made 99 points. She has played at forward and at jumping center for her team. Scio girls will play Harrisburg at Shedd at 7:30 p.m. Saturday to determine the county champion ship. Each team has lost once to the other, but Is otherwise unde feated in the class B league. Salem Juniors in Semi-Final Today WALLA WALLA. March 6--P) -Salem, Ore., Ellensburg and Walla Walla advanced to the semi-finals in the northwest jun ior Y. M. C. A. basketball tour nament through preliminary vic tories here tonight. Eight teams were entered. Scores follow: Salem 28. Portland "A" 1; Ellensburg 27. Boise, Idaho. 26; Walla Walla 43. Yakima 16. Seattle and the Portland "B" team play tomorrow morning in tbe remaining preliminary game. The semi-finals will - follow Im mediately after. Marriage Vows Taken SALT CREEK. March Miss Loraine Taylor, daughter of Mrs. Wilbur Hughes, and Bob Schnl sijn, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. Schulson. all of this community, were married Saturday at the Baptist parsonage in Vancouver, Wash. The young couple- plan to make their home at Woodburn. Pione 9101 .-