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PAGE SEVEIX TTT77o 77 77 0 L r - 77-17777;- . -7T - - . '77 , 71 T L 7T1 -77 . 771 Jlj-'n. w mi . mtiXPut i&moM-iumscomio) -mat- i mme Momm . Tia 0?kEGO:i STATESMAN, Balers Oregon, Tuesday Mon-ias, December 8, 1S3S Arbiter, r Rivals Ask No Interference Piluso and Claybprn Meet With Actual Wrestling Expected of Them : Harry Elliott, blond menace to nieanles, will desert bis usual role as an arbiter tonight to at ttmnt the tamine of Sneer ing Jack Lipscomb, the Indiana ruf fian, in the main erent of the weekly wrestling shindig . at the armory. . With neither wishing to bo bothered .with a. third man in the ring they . hare asked that jthe match be conducted without bene fit of clergy and with, the referee on the outside of the ring. Walter Tinktt Achiu. who will referee, will enter the ring only to award tails, It la popularly supposed. , Lipscomb defeated. Dick Trout In a 30-mlnut erent last week, Cieanlea Clash j. I - Some clerer and skillful i wrest ling should develop in the 45-mln-ufre erent in which Ernie Piluso, Portland whirlwind, ' meets -Jack Clayborn, the smiling negro wrestler from the deep sou f. Pi luso last week wiped up the mat with Glen Westcoff. New Hamp shire rillaln. in short order, r" Bb Castle, ruffianly wrestler from Detroit, will meet Billy Da ris. a newcomer, in .the 30-minute opener. 1 i ' ' Wolves to Meet Beavers at Home Celebrated Centers of 1936 -By BURNLEY Game Slated Wednesday 'Night in New Gym; Have 4 Vets MONMOUTH. Dec. 7 .-Contrary to erroneous earlier reports, the Wolres of Oregon Normal school will play their first record game of basketball this season, Wednes day night, here, with Oregon State college Beavers.' The, contest will take place la the new; physical ed ucation building which Baa one of the finest basketball courts In Oregon.' Special, features of the court include exceptional . over head spacing, the celling being carried by arch truss supports, eliminating all cross beam's. The Wolres quintet; according to Coach AI Cox, will be minus the service or Jumping Jack But terworth, last year's scoring ace renter; - also . that - diminutive, speedy guard," Dare OsbQrn--who could loop baskets from -practically any angle, and who required two men. aa a rule, to keep. track of his morements. Rlakko. last ear'a scoring forward for the Wolres, has cast his lot with Ore gon State this season; and But terworth and Osborn are attend ing George Washington unlrerslty In Washington. D. C. ... . Four Lettermen Back . ... Pour lettermen are back on the Wolres team: . Elmer Borden, stellar guard; John Sellwood. ex Washington high school star, who takes the other guard position. Earl Kidd. another ex-Washing-.ton high and Multnomah club ace player; i and Doug Botbwell, all state high school center from The Dalles, will hold down the for ward locales. Ralph Mohrer. cen ter on the Wolves football squad this season, wil be at pirot posi tion oa the loop. Red O'Connell. a sharp-shooter from Odell who held down a for ward post In the later games of last season, soon will " Join the team. Other players. In the near spotlight, are George Gulst, ex Olympta high star; Bud and Dick Cronquist. who formerly played with the Pacific Packards inPort land; Bruce EcknrSh. Oordon Kal, Homer Parke.; Lester Wheeler. Jim Daily Chuck Smith, Rh ToneY. B. Erandon. Bob Cody, Ralph Dunckel. Clifford Baxter and. Kenneth Lunday. - n i 7' i - Valley Motor and ShrockVWinOut Valley Motor, paced hy Bert Victor and E. i Poulin, won over whit' hm1 ears and Shrock beat out Otto J. Wilson In auto- motlTe league ' bowling at me Bdwl-Mot last night. Victor bowled both high game, SIS pins, and high series, f2S. Poulin with 52 S was only two pins behind him In the series. ntt J. Wilaon w us i at 164 J..kn.kr' L .12 1S 122410 Mu.i.1 ...148 1ST 183 467 iul. " ma 1H 142493 . ""IBS J 72 187504 r psasaj tdsRe XaZ . t- tha Minnesota Put At Top of List L. S. U. Fraction Ahead of Pittsburgh and Husky - Fourth' in Rating Big League Pilots at Montreal CHAMPAIGN, I1L, Dee. IMJPi t Minnesota's mighty ' eleren was ranked today at the nation's most powerful college football team by Prof. - Frank G. Dickinson of the Unlrerslty ot Illinois, originator of the rating system bearing his : name. ' : :-;--- Although the Golden Gophers were defeated by Northwestern, Prof. Dickinson's figures gare them a rating of 23.77 points for a margin ot more than a point orer Louisiana State unirerslty's unde feated. i onee-tied eleren. The Ti- ;ers oi me sou in were raiea at 22.69, an edge of less than a point orer Pittsburgh's Rose Bowl nom inee which gained 22.28 points. Prof. Dickinson explained that i M in n e s ota's lntersectlonal trl- i umphs- orer Washington and Ne braska were mere than sufficient to offset the defeat by Northwest ern. Louisiana . State's cause 'suf fered through a 6-6 tie with the Unlrerslty of Texas, a second di- ! risioa team in the southwest eon fere nee which was overwhelmed by Minnesota, v The. national ratings: W L JS9 91 SMI Bwrielgm Grtmee! Jimmy Wilson : While rumors were rife that trades involving: such baseball stars as Dixay Dean were on the fire two National league managers. Bur- ' lelgh Grimes, leftof the Dodgers, and Jimmy Wilson, right, of the Phillies sought to bolster their dubs at the mlnos league convention - '; j :,- .:".;- r ; ; ax Montreal, ahove, ;- .i-.- - z .; Minnesota ....... 7 Louisiana State ... 9 Pittsburgh Washington . . Alabama . . . . 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Pa cific coast conference. -rYtVtf OF AND C Santa Clara, the only undefeat ed, Jintied major eleven in the country, would be dropped from I the first 11 it it shonld lose to Tex- iss unrtstian Saturday, in sucn a I ise, Duquesne, lone conqueror of I Pittsburch. wnnM t orer enth ' place with Nebraska. Penn- sylrania and Duke each moving up a position. Him on in Bout With 1 Curley on Friday THAT the center is the Key stone of a football team's line l . is an obrious fact, and it should be equally obrious that no eleven can approach greatness with out a high-class pirot in the center of the forward wall. . i With the balance of; football power more equally dirided this year than erer before, it is not sur prising that the 193S season pro duced a bumper crop of phenomenal pivots. , Two of the beet were Herwig and Hanxe. Boh Herwig, a straw- tched riant, was an Homeric fig-: tare even in California's distressing early season showings, and ne was probably the most important factor in the Golden Bear's great closing Irtish. I Red Jim liauxe, Penn's stormy center, was the real leader of the Quaker's 1934 return to the top.- Er ratic, bat with flashes of inspired Sener to let down, at times in 1935, hot during the season just past, this strawberry blond waa dynamic and devastating for, sixty . minutes of every cne. ' Listing some of the other leading centers of 1936, we find high-class snapper-backs exceedingly numer ous. In Dixieland, they point out . Louisiana State's Stewart, Auburn's Gilbert and Kentucky's Myers as AH-Ameriean pivots. Wo jciehowica of Fordham, Bay of Dartmouth, Basrah of Duquesna, Bell of Purdue, Smith of Washington State., and Chavoor of U. C L. A. are only a few of the other "centers of attention.- : iM8.kr l Guldahl Wins Out In Riltmore Open Opens Gate With Over-Par Round, Nobody: Enters ; ' Hort Smith Second next - Tall Bearcat First qtring to Use "Push 'Em Up and Push 'Em In" Idea This Year Says Keene After Glance . i" i COACH R.' S. "Spec" Keene o Willamette university took his first look at his Bearcat hoop squad yesterday and announced they theyswoukSf use a "push 'cm up and push 'em in" system this season. Gastineau and Lawrence Nunnnkamp, forwards; Bill An- center. and Walt Weaver ton. and "Chuck" Versteeg, guards. going. to town for his benefit, Keene; had a basis for stating that, the Bearcats should ahow plenty of speed this year. "We'll use a fast break witTTI a pusn 'em up ana pusn rm m finish," Keene said. Keeping the ball in their pos session practically all the ume and rarely making a bad pass, the first string combination, aU veterans of last year's squad. gave a secona ouim m afternoon. i Working against them was a combination composed of BUI Beard, Harry " Mosher and Jobn Keilr of last rear's squad and Ernie M osier and Jack Alton of last year's freshman team. Others who participated in the Willamette boopsters first super vised scrimmage of the . season ere Verdell Ragsdale, Neil Shaffer and Dale Crabtree. 18 YiMrigs Named For Letter Award Coach Harold Hauk annonuced yesterday that letters for compe tition in football will be given to 18 member of thla year's Salem high football squad. ; Of the IS receiving letters 12 will return next year. Lettermen graduating j are Bruce Jones, Bruce Spencer, Howard Damon. Victor Gibson,' Ed Maerx and Jer ry Cottew. ' " U Lettermen who will be back next season are: ends. Earl Lit wllrer and Tom Hill; tackles. Art Miller and Ed Gottfried; guards. Tom King and J a e k Hansell; backs, Stuart Nelson, Carl Chap man, Darrell Haabrook, Bill Smith, Jerry j Moore v and : Pete Hoffert. . .. 1 . , Bob Brady 'win be awarded a manager letter. Rickey Still Out To Peddle Dizzy NEW YORK Dec. 1-JP)- ranch Rickey strode through the baseball market place today pre dicting that "the club that buys Dizzy Dean will win the national league 1 pennant next year. but after . a day of endless babbling there were no takers. 1 Cornered between sessions with ether club officials. Rickey said nly three clubs In the league have enough, players to deal ; for Dean.. Presumably he meant the Giants, Cubs and Pirates. Rickey said Dean had been of fered to the Giants but had been turned down. Philip K. Wrlgley. -president ot the Cubs, tola ; the Associated Press I don't want Dean on my ball club," and War- en Giles, general manager of tho Cincinnati Reds, I who offered $200,000 in Tcash for Dizzy, ad knitted today he was sure "Dean going somewhere else. f. r WKitman Beaten, First Hoop Game MOSCOW, Idaho. Dec. 7WPV-A Second-halt rally gave the Univer sity of Idaho a 41 to 36 victory Orer Whitman college here to night in .the opening 193C basket ball game for both teams, i Whitman jumped Into an early 9-to-l lead, but tho Vandals caught ap at 13-13 and made ft a . nlp-and-tuck , race to the half, hen Whitman ;led. 22-21. ? 4 Second-half i scoring started slowly before : Johnson ' led the Tandals into their victory march. Willi Bohman. Idaho center. scored IS points tor high honors. Arrld Anderson's for Whitman. 10 wera high Salem Ad Club P. O. Box 165, Salem, Ore. Enter my name in the 11936 Christmas Outdoor Illumination Contest. I wish4 to participate in the prize contest. . Name - . - c Address I . Large Jiouse. Small house. The Willamette football team, which will be feted December 16 by the chamber of commerce, loaded itself rap ; with turkey Sunday t the expense of Kail Xahle and family. Karl had the entire squad oat to his home in Sherwood and the fatted torn was slaba for the occasion. Karl, who this week won national rec ognition by being mentioned-in the Literary Digest for hie egg eating feats, led the scorings , O : There will be no further Im provements to Sweetland field at present. It seems. The money that was supposed to be sufficient to provide for moving the grid closer to the new grandstand i, and i the building of a good track petered out. No funds are at present avail able but, with a good start now, we hope Willamette will soon build itself a first class athletic plant. While speaking of needed in, provementa we remember that Salem Is still without a baseball park. AI Bechet, president of the Salem Senators, and a few oth ers have been considering var ious plans by which a park could . b built. If baseball is to go in Salens an enclosed park is a ne cessity. ;- j , . j . Olinger field, as has been point ed out many times, is entirely un desirable. It cannot bo enclosed with a fence because of the adja cent playgrounds and the high school. The grandstand Is in a poor location and Salem high's cinder track : cuts i right through the middle of the outfield. i '. In the Fordham-X. T. V. game . On Thanksgiving there was a forward-lateral pass play from Woitkowskt to Jacnnskl to WoJ- ciehowicx. Heaven help the ra dio announcers on a play like tnat.. - t ., CORAL GABLES, Fla., Dee. 7 -in-Rugged Ralph Guldahl - of SU Louis walked off with the $2,- 500 top check in the Miami But more's seventh, annual golf topen today.. Leading at the end of 64 holes, ha opened the gate wide with his first over-par round ot the four day tournament. Nobody . else walked in. Horton Smith, Chicago, collect ed the $1,250 second prize with 28S. shooting a par 71 on the fin al 18 holes. He had led the field with 8 and CS the first two days bat cracked upon a windy Sun day with 77. Sarasea Jtut Misses Tha veteran Gene Sarasen, New York, and Harold "Jug" Mc Spaden. Winchester. Mass.. tied one stroke back of Smith and split third and fourth money totaling $1,7 SO. Saraxen, in a threesome with Smith and Jimmy Demaret, could hare tied- the Chicagoan it he had not been too heavy with a chin shot on the back nine." Guldahl shot 74 today and the tournaent - committee penalized him two more -strokes, on a' pro test bv bis playing mates, W: Law son Little, San Francisco, and Denny Shute of the home course, that he parted the grass over his ball in a hazard. That made his total 283. Eddie Norrls ; wants another crack at AI Spina, the fast port land featherweight, so he will be giving all he's got when he meets jack Curley, Portland i light weight. In the six-round semi-fin al of the Vets' fight card Friday night. . r Asa Baker, ' manager of Spina and Curley, has agreed . to a re match of Spina and Norrls should the Salem fighter post a decisive win over Curley Friday night. Curler, one oftha elaverost lightweights to annear her iwith'. in tho last few years.-fought to a draw with Norrls in a nrevious fight. Norris. who In 6 a flehts uas nerer xauea to even no a draw with a win, in confident he will be able to- win over the Port land lighter and gain another go with the ranrv Spina. i bpina won a close decision over norris m a main event here a month ago. It was Norrls first loss since his first fight and he is eager to even things up with (no rorciana ace. While the Norris-Curler flsht will bo second fa interest to tha main-event clash between Frank Kiggi ana Younr Firno. the fdahA heavyweight, it will be no lea of a fight. Both Norria and Curler speeay ana .clever. BJtggl, who In Flrpo Is meeting his " first big-time opponent, is training heavily: for his ten-round bout Friday night and expects to be In top condition. England Leads 433 to 234, Midway of Second ' inning. Cricket Match BRISBANE, Australia, Dee. 7 (AVDismisslng Australia f o r a Freslimen Win Over Bulldogs Hagedorn and Quessetk of. W. U. Yearlin-8 Set Speed jfv Pace ' With "Cec" Quesseth and -Bua- s kV Haredorn sotting the pace. the Willamette , freshmen opened their basketball season last night by sweepings over Coach Elaon Cone's Woodbnrn Bulldogs 29 to Playing a fast-passing game ana controlling the tip-off from - the start the Bearkittens gained a 12- to-0 lead in the first quarter ana were never headed. , Tha freshmen held a 29-to-i4 advantage at half-time.-Hagedorn led ; Bearkltten scoring with 12 points -while' Evenden with six was Woodburn's top scorer. j Play of both teams was ragged. I Lineups -.;!-. ' Woodbnrn (14) - (29) Froh Whitmans ....F....7 Quesseth Anonby ...... .F. . 12 Hagedorn Evenden 6 .... .C. .... 4 Wagner Anderson2 ,...a... JlcKIbbon Clark. . ;v. . . .O. ...... . . Kle i Substitute: for Woodburn, Shaw J ' Referee: George Erickson. total of 234 runs; England. gUned a first Innings' lead ot 124 runs today In the Initial cricket test match between the two countries. Batting a . second time," tho mother country had made 75 for two wickets when play closed for the day. At their first attempt the tourists made 358. , Jimmy Receives 0' I EUGENE, Dec. 7-P)-JImmt NlchoUon, fleet halfback from Salem was among the 25 Oregon Webfoot football, players receiv ing letter awards for the season Just closed. l- ; , w u. e s tzr iL.nira Achiu Will Referee Alain Event From Ringside Hariy Jilliott Jack Lipscomb , - l-Uour JACK CLABORN ERNIE PILUSO 45 MInutea BOB CASTLE vs. BILLY DAVIS SO Minutes . , I Salem Armory, TONIGHT 0:30 Lower floor 60c, Ilalcony 40c, Kescrred Scats ISc (No Tas ti t .s - Students S5c' Ladies 85e -I" Ttcketa, Cliff Parker's and LytleV- Aswpicea Amertcaa fuegtou I Herb Owen. Matchmaker I Leach to Address Hunters, Anglers Charles H. Leach, chairman of the game committee of the house of representatives, will speak be fore tho Salem Hunters and An glers club when it meets at Ken nedy's ' cleaning establishment. 1S4S State, at 7:10 o'clock to- nlcht. Members of the club, interest: -ed In making the steelhead a' game fish, are expected to query Leacn regarding- game legislation to come ap at the 193T session of the legislature. A dutch lunch will be served. Demand For Bowl Tickets Best Yet PASADENA. Calif.. Dec. -The demand. for Washington- Pittsburgh Rose Bowl football tickets today "exceeded last year's opening man.? Roy Rosenthal de clared. --W;, : r: iu:? Rosenthal estimated that np to noon between 4,00 and 5,00t per sona applied to his office which opened for business at a. m. There waa a five foot high stack of mail applications In -addition. ' Last year'a game between Stan ford and Southern Methodist was a sellout" Buckaroos Lead In Hockey Loop 'PORTLAND. Dec! 7 --Portland's Buckaroos were once more the top team in the Pacific coast ice hockey league with a 2 to 2 victory-over the Vancouver Lions. The Portlanders with five wins and three losses held a onfrpolnt lead over Seattle. The Seahawks. winning - f oar. losing , four and deadlocking In another, -had f points.' -.i; r ;v- J J , Slate Seal Sale - WOODBURN, Dec. T Woodburn Rural club will meet Wednesday afternoon at the home of tho president, Mra.tUaroIdaoa A potluek lunch will be served followed by a progtanw Christina seals will he sold by the dab at thla meetingvl S'h'':'"!iy-' J'. mm? f ll I ' $. V" r' "Jk - -in Hum-- ' ' ! 1 . ti: i- YOUR WANTS SATISFIED BY READING CLASSIFIED COIiUIHNS Wy,.Ji$ Speedy Basketball Team re shaping Up at Sjliterion With Five Lettermen Out SH .VERTON. Doe. 7 Basket ball fast, replacing tha interest tn-f . .''all la the Silverton high schoof. Early tndieations are that Silverton will have a speedy team. Last year basketball at Silverton drew. record crowds.!-r.i Five of last year'a, lettermen are back, Charles Cross. Vic Jenk ins. Lylo Pettyjohn, Lyle Specl and. 'Jim Bosch. 1- -:r i ' i' Trapahoolcrs to ZXeet - The Salem J Trapshootlng 1 clab will meet at : Pa r k o ts Mtt : t9 o'clock tonight. A dutch lunch will be served, . MAKE A SELECTED LIST BEFORE 1 YQU START OUT s Willi OOP classified page to guide you, fhiding wnat yon want , is easy and pleasant I Easily elaes If ed f o r your quick reference. 7