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Coug '- ' '-J ' . . " ' - Early Lead of WM JLWfSMPVti: ms TTTY Two -State! Bel fotimtaiin Mi Harry Vardon of Divot Fame Dies , - Untntored Play c r -Who Won 62 Title Only - Rival,Bob Jones jriaces- on rant Webfoots Vain Spectacular Comeback by Washington " -Staters ' . Makes Game Rout PULLMAN. Waste.. March 20- (jpy-Washington state's battling! Cougars won tneir nrsi norinera dirision coast conference' basket ball title here tonight by defeating Oregon, 42 to 25, before 6,000 frenzied fans, largese crowd, ever to see a' hoop game in the inland empire.' - " - Washington State will be host to Stanford, southern division wm ' ner, next week In a three-game series for the Pacific coast -conference championship. - From the . opening of the sec ond half there never was a shred of doubt as rto the outcome. The Cougars unleashed a specatcuiar offensive that bewildered the Ore gonians, while the defense allow ed only two Oregon field goals In the half. ' Although W.S.C. turned the game into a rout, it was an up hill battle Oregon started off in championship form to run up an 11-2 lead while its zone defense baffled, the 'Cougars. Solving the defense, W.S.C. spurted up to tie It at 11-11 and take a half time lead at 16-15 Ivar Nelson, center, and Capt. Bill Dahlke were the brilliant stars for the Cougars in the spectacular second half ! offensive. Nelson scored 16 points for high honors. Dahlke rang in 11 before he went out of the game on personal fouls midway In the second half. : The lineups and summary: W.S.C. (42) 1 G FT1 S. Carlson, If . . .... 1 1 3 Kosich, If . , . . .3 1 7 A. Hooper, rf ......... 0 0 -.0 Johnson, rf j. ......... 1- 0 2 Kerpa, rf ............. 1 0 2 Nelson, c .....5 6 16 Dahlke, lg . . .5 1 11 C. Carlson, Ig ...0 0 0 F. Hooper, rg ..0 0 0 Dolquist, rg .......... 1 1 3 Bishop, rg . . . ..... : . . .00 0 I Totals ............16 10 42 Oregon (23) O F TP1 Lewis, If 2 1 5 Courtney, If .0 0 0 Silver, rf .0 2 2 Jewell, rf 0 0 0 Wintermute, c ....... 1 1 3 Gale, c .0 3 3 Anet, lg .............1 2 4 " Purdy, lg ..2 0 4 Johansen, rg 2 0 4 Totals ...8 9 25 : Personal fouls: s. Carlson 2, Kosich 3, A. Hooper; 'Johnson 2, Nelson 8, Dahlke 4, C. Carlson, Dolquist; Silver 3, Wintermute 2, Gale 3, Anet 2,: Purdy 2, Johan sen. i . com?1 ' Fanny about the etiquette of different sports. Perhaps it's more accurate to. say lack of etiquette in several case, starting at rock bottom wkh wrestling. What a fellow,, can say and do to an opponent in that gamJ Is limited only by ;; the fact that ringside seats are up pretty close to the arena, and sometimes the crowd ia quiet. Boxers can. get away with a little more in the way of insulting conversation, be cause there's always a certain amount of uproar. . ' Baseball players rank a little kigher. What they can say to the umpire Is strictly . limited, and what they .say' to opponents Is gauged upon various factors such ar whether the irksome foe is a pitcher, who has a chance to bean you. or whether he may be a base-runner with sharp spikes, in case you're an lnfield r. There are little niceties of that sort Involved in football conversation too- as well as the fact that footballers need all their wind. Tennis and golf rate at the top. Players of both are - : toriously polite exa pt when among close friends, when they , will unbend and Indulge hi a little good natnred goat-get ting and sarcasm. , . . ; : Getting" around to basketball, which until Monday will still be the principal topic for sport fans hereabouts, we had always classi fied it as one of the polite games until we encountered Lincoln and Franklin high schools of Portland. You might list Frank lin first, but we got a closeup of Lincoln's chatter a couple of years ago and unless a new gen eration has brought a change, Lincoln Is Just as good, or Just as bad depending on how you look at it. The best or worst thing about It is that the coach es, who are otherwise admirable young fellows, encourage It, or maybe coach it. Returning to the subject of gold etiquette, we guess Glen Lengren wished proper eti quette required his opponents to present him with a cake of Ice, the bigger the better, when h approached the fourth bole yesterday. A ft w weeks ago, yon may recall. Glen made a trick carom off the Ice on the lake there for a perfect ap :, proach. Yesterday he did it again, th e times mlau the ice and each time the ball went - plunk" in the . water. He carded a snappy 11 for in " hole, which, he. said, was under his record. Wallace Gets Highest Tally Officials' i Selection Is the . Same as Fans' Choice Upon First Team ALL-STATE TEAM ; Lee Sitton, Lincoln, forward. Don Mabee, McMinnville, for ward. "' ' . . ,' Richard Ke-ler, ; Bellfountain, center. : . ;.-;? ; ' - ( Harrison j Wallace, Bellfoun tain, guard. 1 - Stanley Fisk, McLoughlin, guard. , , j All-State Second T am - -Bob Oliver; Franklin, and Stan ley Buckingham, Bellfountain, forwards; Earl Sandness, Astor ia, center; Doug. Craven, Eugene and Manley Miles, Franklin, guards. ; ! . Honorable Mention Forwards:! Igoe, Eugene; Lee, Ashland; Jones, Athena; Medley, Salem; Plipo, Astoria; Warren, Ashlin and Morris, McLoughlin. Guards: Hill. Salem; Lilly, La Grande; Graer, Chiloquin; Ol shen. Franklin: . F. Bueklnsnam, BellfountalnJ Fowler, Ashland; Stevenson,; Eugene. ALI.-STATK II TEAM Stanley Buckingham, Bellfoun tain, forward. Cliff Larkin, Bellfountain, for ward, i ' Richard Kessler, Bellfountain, center. ' j Harrison I Wallace, Bellfoun tain, guard. ! Bob Grear, Chiloquin, guard. An all-state team which prob ably will be the most popular In years was selected yesterday by coaches, officials and sport writ ers at their annual luncheon at the'bome of, Coach R. S. "Spec" Keene yesterday noon. The surprising thing about the all-state team selected yesterday was that it coincided exactly with an all-state team picked by pop ular vote of tournament fans and announced at yesterday's lunch eon following the compilation of votes for the coaches and sport writers team. Harry Wallace, cool Bellfoun tain guard, was the most" nearly unanimous choice for a position on the all-state first team. Wal lace received 26 Totes for a guard position on the all-state first team. Wallace received 26 votes for a guard position, five more than Lee Sitton, Lincoln forward, who received the sec ond highest count. Richard Kessler of Bellfoun tain beat out Earl Sandness. As toria1 center who broke two tour nament scoring records, for the all-state center position by five votes. Kessler received 17 votes and Sandness 12 for center with no other centers mentioned. Sandness was a unanimous choice for the second string center po sition with 26 votes. Fist Other Guard Stanley Fisk of Mac-Hi who last year missed an all-state po sition by one vote, received 1"6 ballots to join Wallace In the guard positions. Fisk was the only player on last year's first or second all-state teams in this year's tournament. Don Mabee of McMinnville, who was on the second string all-state team two years ago, was the fifth man on the all-state team, receiving 17 votes for a forward position. Stanley Buckingham of Bell fountain, who received eight votes for a first string Job, rated the second all-state team with 14 votes, same number received by Bob Oliver of Franklin. Both are forwards. Sandness was cho sen unanimously for center and Doug Caven of Eugene received a heavy majority, 23 votes, for a guard position. Manley Miles of Franklin beat out Tom Hill of Salem by two votes, 8 to 10, for the other second string guard Job. Four on B Quintet Bellfountain, which took three of the ten all-state positions, al so scored heavily on the all-state B team, gaining, four of the five berths. With the exception of Grear , of Chiloquin, flashy red head who was voted a guard po sition, the first string Bellfoun tain lineup was preserved intact on the all-state B team. Stan Buckingham, Cliff Larkin. Rich ard Kessler j and Harrison Wal lace were all named. . Picked on the fans' second team were Pilpo of Astoria and Stan Buckingham. forwards; Sandness, Astoria, center, and Caven, Eugene, guard. Parker of Astoria and Hill of Salem were tied for the other guard post. , 1 . A viva voce rote for the most popular oflelal produced the an ticipated results . hearty boos from all quarters. Tiger Fox Bests Bigger Opponent NEW YORK, March ' 20-&) Tiger Jack !Fox, Spokane light heavyweight,' spotted Jack Tram mell of Youngstown, O., nearly 20 Ml nds tonlxht and whipped him handily la the 10-round, boot at Rockland Palace. : Scaling 176 to his opponent's 192 14. Fox outpuncnea and out hri-red Trammell from start to fin fah.- remained on the agrressive throughout and showed little con cern when alt by Trammell's hard rights to the jaw la the middle rounds. - i , . . " "' I' 1 n m, I -1 II Vikings Seize Fourth Place ' ' ' 1 '-" i i ' Do Better Than Expected in Tourney; Favored f . Axemen Victims i Salem high, a team the home fans didn't expect to do much, fin ished in fourth place when it stood off a closing Eugene rally for a 25 to 23 win yesterday morning. , The Vikings, whose loss to Lin coln was the only black mark on their tournament record, took a lead in the opening minutes of the game and were never headed by a Eugene team which failed to solve Salem's tight tone defense. Like last year, when Salem was beaten out of fourth place by Ben son's strong finish, the Eugene team threatened to turn the tables in the final minutes with a heavy bombardment of Salem's basket. A field goal in the last' minute would have tied the score and put the game in an overtime but the des perate Axemen couldn't quite cut it and the game ended with Sa lem In possession of the ball. Keep Possession Probably the "fightenest" bunch of ball-hawkers in the tournament, Salem was grabbing the leather of the backboard and kept possession a good share of the time. Eugene, checked out of good scoring range, tried many long shots in the first half and Salem was getting them on the rebound. i The work of Ivan Lowe, start ing for the first time in the tourn ament, and the defensive ability of Al Wickert were big factors in Salem's win. Lowe, who put Salem in the lead with two first period field goals, scored three field goals and four free throws. A field goal by Gallaher on a pass from Tom Hill, Salem's key man under the basket, gave the Vikings a 6 to 1 lead at the close of the first period and they In creased that by one, 12 to I by haittlme. Capitalizing on Its foul shots, Salem added another point to its lead in the third period which closed with the score 20 to 13. Axemen Threaten Two free throws by Wickert nut Salem ahead 22 to 13 before Eu gene opened Its belated rally on a field goal by Stevenson. Then af ter Wickert had dropped in a bas ket Austin ranged in a, field roal. only half matched by Lowe's free throw. Field goals by McNeese. Stevenson and Austin in the clos ing minutes brought Eugene up to the threatening point but Salem stood off the last desperate try of the Axemen. Lineups: Engene(23) (23) galem AustinS F......10 Lowe Igoe 4 ...F....6 Gallaher Hamer 4 ....... C Maeri Steveneon 5 . . . .O. . s Hill Caven 4........ Q.... B Wickert Substitutes: for Eugene. Mc Neese 2, Kllborn 2. Officials: Coleman and Plluso. Denver Saf eways National Champs DENVER, March 20-fl3r-The Denver gateways, the "team that beat the Jinx," won the national A. A. U. basketball championship tonight by defeating the Phillips Oilers of Bartlesville, Okla., 43- 38, before 500 Joy-crazed fans. Beaten back at the quarter fi nals of four previous national meets, the inspired Denver team drove to a beautifully-played tri umph over the star-studded out fit that was rated as the No. 1 tourney favorite. . The battle of two combinations of master cage artists gave bas ketball's blue ribbon event its most spectacular climax since the Wichita Henrys completed their string of three straight titles with a one-point victory over Mary vllle. Mo., Teachers In 1132. The Kansas City Trails i won third place in the tourney by de feating the Hollywood Stars 47 to 42 tonight. Oregon Swimmers Win. Set ; Records SEATTLE, March 20-P)-Led by Jim Hard, who broke Jack Medica's three-year-old' freestyle record, the University of Oregon's swimmers won the northwest dual meet swimming title today by de feating Washington, 39-36. : , Hurd stroked the distance in 54. seconds, shattering the Olym pic champion Medica's time of 55 seconds flat. . Hard also figured in another record-smashing as a member of the 400-yard relay team with Smith. Scrorrins and Sexton. Their time was 3:49-2. The old mark, set by Washington earlier in the year, was 3:64.2. ; Moves to Culver Farm RICKEY, March 20 A. Mass has moved onto the Stella Culver farm. Maas is Interested in milch goats. He and Mrs. Culver, both have large herds and' at present are milking quite a number.' r " ' - br: '1 . j - i. , i . , P The Lincoln Railsplltters of Portland who reached the finals in the state tournament bat couldn't get past little Bellfountain. Back row from left, Urquhart, Hansen, Neill, Bubalo, Masters. Front row, McMahon, Howell, Lebanon, Sitton, Reynolds, Olshen. Riggi and O'Grady Are Headliners On Friday Night Fight Card, First In Months; Norris to Meet Bailey FRANK Riggi, Brooks heavyweight, and Gene O'Grady, Ashland fighter, will meet In the ten-round main event of the first fight card here since before the legislature, next Friday night at the armory. Riggi has beaten O'Grady in two previous fights, here but the Ashland boy has been in heavy training ever since his battle with Wes Hayes, Port - land negro. When Riggi defeated O'Grady here the first time they met the fight was stopped by the referee after Riggi had repeatedly driven O'Grady to the ropes with his powerful punching attacks. O'Grady, who claimed he had only begun to fight, resented the implication that he was beaten and has filed a request with the Salem boxing commission that there be no interference with the coming fight unless one or the other boxer is counted out. Eddie Norris, popular Salem lightweight who is listed as a coming northwest champion, wUl meet Ernie Bailey. 136-pound scrapper from Centralia, in - an eight-round semi-final. Bailey, who fought Buzz Brown tp a draw in Klamath Falls recently, Is rat ed as an outstanding lightweight. Ambrose in Comeback In a special six-round event Buddy Ambrose, a veteran of lo cal fistic wars, will meet Ikle Bostwick of Portland. Ambrose and Bostwick fought In Eugene about a month ago. Butch Llebold, ISO. Ealem, and Charlie McCoy, 134, Independ eace, will meet In a four-round preliminary as will Rocky Per kins, 165, Salem, : and Swede Spina, 149, Portland. Spina Is a brother of : Al Spina. Portland featherweight battler. Carl Lodell Quits Oregon State Job Resignation Effective in July; Insurance. Work Reason, Declares CORVALLIS, Ore., March 20-(iip)-Carl Lodell, In charge of In tercollegiate athletics at Oregon State college for IS years, sud denly resigned today. Lodell, recently chosen track coach in addition to other duties, said he expected to leave the col lege not later than July 1 to enter the insurance business in Port land. He disclosed that he had ten dered a letter of resignation to the Intercollegiate athletic board on February 25 but it had been refused. He said the board would accept a resignation submitted today. Lodell signed as athletic man ager last July for a year nnder a new arrangement made" by the state board of higher education by which athletics were separated from other extra-curricular activ ities. , . I Lodell said he did not wish to remain in athletics longer and wanted to take an opportunity to Join an insurance firm. He was the oldest athletic di rector in point of service on the Pacific coast and had served oe many coast conference commit tees. He began his' career here July 1, 1922, succeeding Clyde W. Hubbard. A Good, Clean, Healthful Sport 1 Alleys Open 10 A. M. Until Midnight' uBowI-Mor Co. 2S Si. Coml 7 TeL' 4821 Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning-, March Bow to Belltouniain's Genius - - " fit i : i O BY rAWL HAUSE-g; McLou.gb.lin high, that pep pory little banch from Milton Freewater, didn't bare their old drive last night against Frank lln. They lost something and there was small wonder for Mc Ixraghlin was the Tictim of one of the worst breaks of aay tournament we can remember. They were a team that, through the failure of a mechanic 1 coring device, thought ti. were in the finals and the a learned dishearteningl that they had played a tie game with Lincoln and must play an over time. It was too much and their pep was gone. j Going into the last two min utes of the game Sitton's field goal tied the score. Stanley Fisk, the brilliant little pilot of the Pioneers, glanced at the mechan ical scoreboard. It read: Mc Loughlin 21, Lincoln 22. Fisk, able general that he Is, signalled to hold that lead, to stall until the final gun gave the Pioneers a place in the finals. So McLough lin stalled until It was too late to get that winning basket. Of course, they might not have got it but the way they had ' been driving the odds were that they would. . After watching the high ' school, lads play basketball all week the Willamette basket ball team took a few pointers as it staged Its long deferred grudge battle between the regu lars and the second string. Charley Versteeg won the game with a very peculiar sort of shot in the fourth overtime period. It made the score 35 to 83, auto matically giving the regulars the game. There were rumors about that Pan! Btargea, keep ing time, had fudged a little on the clock. We hope the second team doesn't hear about that. We didn't see Harold Hauk last night, but we'U bet bis face was burning when Tom Hill, receiving the Salem fourth place trophy, went Into an oration praising the merits of Brother Hank as a coach. ... Bill Lemmon, who did all. right in his first year as a coach, was the envy of all the coaches and the. most handshook guy In the building . . . They'll probably have to build an addi tion" on the Bellfountain school house to house' all the trophies. . . , That boy. Grear from Chilo- CHARLES KEEN vs. NOEL F1IANKLIN . 45 Minutes OTTO LUGER vs. JOHN TH03IAS SO Minutes Salem Armonf, Floor COc BaJeoay 40e, - Students 85c. Ladles Z5e -Tickets, CUff Parker's and Lytle's . Auspices American Legion f Herb Owen. Matchmaker " " 21,-1937 in Finals 1.-. Astoria Winds Up In Fifth Position Gets Consolation in Feat in Breaking Pair of Tourney Records The best Astoria, . many times champion, could do this year was to take fifth place by beating La Grande 63 to 33, but gained con solation from the fact that it suc ceeded in breaking a couple of tournament records. ' - Sandness, Astoria center, scored 18 points in Astoria's overwhelm ing up-from-behlnd victory to set a new tournament scoring record of 68 points for four games. His mark beat the record set last year by Ted Sarpola, also of Astoria, of 69 points in four games as weU as the aU-tlme record set by Ed Lewis of Washington in 1929 of 65 points in five games. Astoria also - bettered by one point the record for total scoring during the tournament of 179 set by Washington in 1929 in five games. ' Behind at Half time With Sandness, Piippo and Parker suddenly hitting the hoop in nearly every shot Astoria had little trouble in overcoming a 25-to-18 half time handicap and going on to a score that hit a new ton. for scoring in this year's tourney. LaGrande, which had been led by Smith to a first-half lead, suf fered the fate of Tillamook, which Astoria came from behind to beat unmercifully In last year's fourth place battle. Lineups: Astoria (53) (S3) LaGrande Piippo. IS F. 14. Smith Anet. 8 F 3, Stitt Sandness. 18 C . 7, McClay Parker, 10 G l, Hogenson McAllister. 2 G , LUlJ Substitutes: for Astoria. Fulton 2; for LaGrande, Tuttle 4. Officials: Coleman and Lead ing. quin must have .felt like a for- elraer anion thnsn fAn . . A O - V V clothed Bellfountain boys on the au state a team. Stanley -JlggV Fisk, who was right along with Kessler ' and Wallace as the individual player most fancied by the fans, made the best speech when he said, "We're sure sorry that we're all seniors and cant work and fight to come back to this swell place. .... It was a big night for Willam ette's fame as a place turning out basketball coaches of ability. While the Bellfountain team, the product of the coaching genius of two Willamette men, . Kenny Litchfield and Bill Lemmoh. was winning the Oregon state basket ball championship, the . Walla Walla team, coached by Harold Dlmlck, a Willamette grad of the Bob Mathews era, won another Washington state championship. When Loren Basler was coaching at Boise, Idaho, he also won sev eral championships. Team Match FRITZ LUDWIG and JACK LIPSCOMB BEN SHERMAN and . HARRY ELLIOTT - 1 Hour ., 8:30 TUESDAY March 23 Reserved Seats 75o (So Tax) 1 ' "' 1 PAGE SEVEN gain FbrMatShow iott and Sherman Will i . : ! Team Against Meanies - Ludwig, Lipscomb ti Harry Elliott and Ben Sherman. a; pair who tried, ex-offlcio and ex ringside to subdue Jack Lipscomb and Frits Ludwig in a whirlwind finale to last week steam wrestl iag match will try to do the same ia legitimate ! style In the main go of Tuesday night's grappling show at the armory. Lipscomb and Ludwig, a win ning team so far In this new form 'of practical suicide called team wrestling, won over Herb Parks and Jack Hagen last week despite the efforts of Referee Elliott and Spectator Ben Sherman. Having resolved that their efforts shall riot be I in vain Elliott and Sher man will try to finish up Tuesday whet they started last Tuesday. i Irked . at Sherman f That Lipscomb and Ludwig will tie kindly to having Sherman in tie ring with them Is sure for tley are both itching to get their hinds on the guy who tormented tftem from outside the ring last week. Sherman also managed to do his i bit on the Inside of the ring, despite the handicaps of ci vQian attire. ' INoel Franklin, Hill Military academy wrestling Instructor, and Coarles Keenj a newcomer, will meet in the 45-minute semi-wind- j fOttOf Lugerj the boy with the siiake In the j satchel, will meet John Thomas, another first timer, inj the opening 3 0-minute event. Lhger chased : both his opponent and the referee out of the ring lafet week with the aid of his eight foot snake of a harmless variety. n mi a liOUDieS A The j Magic of the Supercharger Can Be Summed -Up inThese Words Xo car without a Supercharger can outrun ' out-poll outperformout-accelerate or give as many miles to the gallon of gasoline. "America's Undisputed Champion9 GRAHAM SUPERCHARGER WE IXVTTK YOUR INSPECTION f 445 Center St. Phone. I For Eight Tears Your Graham Sales and Service for Marlon and Polk Cownties I Home of Good Used Cars IkJlHJ : LuJLiJ-KJB u ! go i i QUALITY? U(XR ISERVICE; IQfl WALTER MANAGER LONDON. March -(PHHarry Vardon. who never took a golf lesson In his life yet ranks joint ly with Bobby Jones as one of the two greatest masters the game ever produced, died at his homo In Whetstone, Middlesex, today, at the age of 6. Death resulted from a chill Vardon contracted Wednesday evening while walking around the South Herts golf course which only six years sgo he shot in 7 strokes.. 4 His passing removed the only player whom English and Scot tish adherents of the game 'ever were willing to mention in the same breath with Jones. They still are nndecidei which was the greater. - -Vardon started playing when he was 15 at Grouville, Jersey where he was born. Vardon first played with a rubber ball, and a "club cut from a hedge. He won his first open at Muir fi eld in 1836 with the old gutta ball and repeated In 159S, 1899, 1903, 1911 and 1914. In all he won- 2 first class championships. - Walla Walla Five Wins, Washington SEATTLE, March 2'-0?)-In a dazzling display of last-minute power, .Walla Walla high school won its fourth Washington state high school basketball champion ship .here tonight by defeating the Everett White Ea!e. 49 to 32. The Blue Devflj led, 19 to 17, at halftime. The top basketball teams cf the state's 250 quintets in both A and B divisions, as ranked by outcome of the 14th annual state tournament are, in order: Walla Walla, Everett, Dayton, Bellingham, Aberdeen, W e n a t cbee, Anacortes- Yakima, A six-foot, sil-state forward, Clayton Shaw, led the Blue Devils to their championship. He amass ed a total of 18 points. C1S3- galesa. Ore. O: ZOSEL 91SG Phon
