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Joe "Piano-legs" Gordon, who ts- nearly a cinch to step Into Tony Lazzeri's keystone position with the Tank next year. Is one of the best all-around -athletes we hare erer had the pleasure to know. While Joe-Joe confined , his var sity ..competition to baseball at Oregon, he could have been one f the best backfleld men the Webf oots ever paraded if he'd denned the moleskins. In fact, we happen to know that Mr. Callison literally begged Joe to 'come bat for. the football team. -Using his own intelligence, of which he has ne dearth, and listening to Cagy Billy Reinhart. Joe refused to risk -burtfng his "career arm" on the gridiron. i ' j . o GQrdon vs. Montague. For natural athletic prowess, although not as highly' publi cized, Joe could compare favor . ably with the mystery man of the hour, John Jlontague. One of the beat tumbler ana kjtii nasts ever to perform on Web foot mats and parallel bars, .; Gordon - could, and ' probably Y still can, tee-off on roost any body's golf lot and give their posted par a good race. Put him in a squared circle with a pair or pauoea miu w dm dukes, and he'd make It Inter esting for any amateur his weight. Easy, Yet Firm. ? Beautifully coordinated. Joe has the temperament and person ality to go with his ability. Na to rally good natured and easy-going. Joe nevertheless would be the first to offer to slug it out if he thought an opponent was carrying man-for-man tactics too far. Re member an incident that happen ed when we were playing Idaho in Moscow in '34. Double-jointed Harry McCall. playing first base for Oregon in his own clowning, talkative style, had been "verbally baiting liftle Wally Geraghty. Ida ho shortstop. Geraghty, who: play ed a potent batch of both -baseball and basketball for Idaho during his three years of varsity compe tition, was always a rather cocky little squirt, and McCall was merely "riding" him. During the course of the game Geraghty got a nice bingle that resulted in a close play at first". When he struck the sack, in stride, Mc Call's foot was in the exact posi tion that ' Geraghty's spikes hit. Whether It was intentional or not would be unfair to say, but in ' Tlew of the heated verbal battle that had been in progress all day, two gents. Gordon and McCall were convinced that the spiking wasn't entirely accidental. It so liamunor that HorflrhtV attemDt- ed to steal second on the -next jM 1 1 , II1U J u7 wan wiuu6 Mm taking the throw at the keystone sack. When the dust of the slide cleared away Geraghty had to be packed off the field. It's OK, McCarthy. Just why the Tank's-master minds have concerted Joe from - a hort-Datcher into second baseman. Is a little hard for s - to understand. Both while in achool and with Oakland in the Pacific Coast league, Gordon - worked the shortstop position 'In a long way. We say in long way as Joe played about the deepest of any ss we have ever seen, ; The depth that he . played, coupled with his speed and strong right arm, cut off a lot of hard-hit horsehlde pellets lint would go for clean base knocks against most short stops. Of coarse, we don't mean to criticize Mr. McCarthy and the rest of the Yankee brain ; trust for we are fully, aware that his and their records show that lie and they know pretty well what they're doing back there in little old Xoo Tank. Switching Joe from the right side of the middle sack to the left aide was of .course done with the -knowledge in mind that Tony "Poosh-'emmp" Laz seri bad about run his race. Nevertheless, we can't help but feel that shortstop is Joe's na tural position. Monmouth High, to Meet Stayton at Home Friday ' wnvffTTTH Monmouth high knai ariri niavers. aroused over I tkelr one-sided defeat from Hub-1 bard high at Hubbard last Friday, :'r arm in r with a vengeance fori their coming tilt with Stayton high here on Butler Held Friday i afternoon. " Bowling -.Salem Cleaners won three games from Bud's Place and the Bluebell Fetsto Chips team won two from Nash Furrftare In Commercial league bowling Wednesday night at -the Bowl-Mor. Blatchford of Salem Cleaners had high series of S3 and Nash rolled high game, 303. XTO'a tUkCS Ha4iep . 2 Xilrhea .. 147-. 15 Hralf. 15? WK - US 151 HiH - . V0 Hart'. 143 in 187400 124420 138 402 139 421 1584111 SS4 718 74S 3148 IUaiictp SO 5 100 rtrmmt 'IT.. 10 148411 IfMiSrw -108 193 150431 AIIKMVtll mi nil .... - . Pfrrj , 105 120 22S UiffKiBS 17 ; . ..-"111 -. x, k 117. : -117 690 - 821 770 2381 mr TrrT T. VATITO CWTPS . n til 141 158 4591 PeUriM 158 167 180 600 TMr , 154 141 67 P r , 138 1 468 twlMNii 147 153 17S 474 791 757 819 23C7 wasw rrnunriTss co. '8ft4feM- : 3 ' 2 2 ,. KitcbB 130 122 ISO 0 Xitk 132 '203 - 1S6 71 p ' t 113 1 50401 - King I?" 172 148 47 arr 129- 177 122428 81 188 708 3153 LL U UALLyU UVLXVL UALtf U Grizzlies' Have Strong Record ITie With Eugene Is Hint lot Power; Game at 8, Sweetland Field TENTATIVE LINFXPS Grizzlies Vikings Heinie . LE Gottfried... LT King LG Rollins .....C - Maloney .. Taylor Loop .... CUne . Gubser Prater Versteeg Hansel. RQ - Miller RT Hill .....RE Myers Q Mead Chapman.. LH Kreider Wlckert - RH Wible Nelson F Sitton Game time: 8 -o'clock Past performances of the two clubs who will appease Salem's gridiron palate tonight cm Sweet- land field indicate a high scoring fray, as a total of 122 points have decked the scoreboards used for their last. three engagements. If history was any criterion of nresent potentialities, however, a guy named Noah would be hang inr around somewhere with a mouth full of spikes and a hand full of hammer, building another ark. Any aggregation that can hold the Eugene Axemen, cited as poa sible repeaters for state honors, to a 6-6 tie has something on the oval besides the porker's hide in which it comes wrapped, and that is what the Grizzlies accomplished some three weeks back. Without the services of Don Mabee, now slinging passes from the portside for the Oregon Duck lings, Red Bailey's team doesn't add up to be as full of punch as it was a year ago, but his elevens are noted for offensive ability. so the Vikings on their guard- will have to be -literally and fig- uratively. Hauk's aggregation, that sent a highly touted Albany Bulldog home with dejected ears and tongue hanging out from a 32 to 0 whipping, is intact for the Mc Minnville go. If they field the same fire as well as the' same personalities, it should make a conflagration hard for the Griz zlies to "paw" out however sharp their claws may be. California's Crew To Invade Oregon CORVALLIS. Oct. 20 -JPf- Ky Ebright's famed California crew will Invade Corvallis again this fall, meeting Oregon State college oarsmen on the Willamette river November 13. Ed Stevens, JDrange crew coach, announced itluay. Stevens said 170 candidates have turned out for berths on var sity and freshman crews. At Victory Dinner for Yanks ::::-:.x;.:.:A::-y; : i J1 4 K, fV 7S f - . , :- ' ,. . v ' r j , After taking the fifth game of the hip, the New York Yankees their boss, CoL Jake Ruppert. Vernos Gomex, star southpaw who " won two games for the Yankees, was givea mm extra reward by his : pretty wife, top, in the presence of cmtrmr and guest celebri - tie, including, left. to right, below, John Montague, golf wizard awaiting -trial oa robbery charge; George Baft, screen star, and Joe DiMaggMt sensational outfielder. ' Gates Locked For Webf oots Graybeal Returns-; Three Orange Linemen Hurt, May Play Saturday EUGENE, Ore., Oct. 20-(fl)-Uni-verslty of Oregon grldsters resort ed to secret practice for the first time in more than two years to day as Coach Prink Callison pre sumably sought new offensive plays to spring on Oregon State college in the homecoming game here Saturday. Little Jay Graybeal. the Web foots' sparkplug, appeared in uni form for the first time since his injury in the USC game last week. The Webfoot followers sensed new plays in the making for the ver satile Graybcal-Smith passing combination. CORVALLIS, Ore., Oct 20-(ip)-The hard luck which haunted Coach Lon Stiner of Oregon State college early in the season return ed today to remove three of his linemen in the face of Saturday's game with the University of Ore gon at Eugene. The smile worn by Stiner since the Washington and UCLA games dimmed when Prescott Hutchins, guard, and Leon Sterling and War ren Gillis, tackles, were benched with injuries. Campus fans were cheered by word the trio might be in shape to play Saturday. They will miss the rest of the week's drill, however. Stiner placed Jay Mercer with his star backfield trio of Gray, Kolberg and Duncan today, with Holly Holcomb, Johnny Alexander, Hal Higgins and John E tiers groups in an alternate combina tion. Rumor That Game Is Sellout Denied EUGENE, Oct. 20-(Py-Rumors that there is a complete sellout of tickets for the Oregon-Oregon State game here Saturday are un founded. University bf Oregon de partment of athletics officials an nounced today. Although all reserved seats are gone, there are still available about 3500 general admission seats, it was said. , - world aeries to clinch the champion. were tendered a victory dinner by FDuel Baltimore's Bantam Boss By BURNLEY ' - "title boijy wfiw sncm -hf YV )0 ESCOBAR. FOfZ. f t J 1 T V ) TttAiv rypracr V II I v. !i I SB -l iSi Vi A,J" rv. ji Ar 4i C-J:- . , 10-2 A HUMAN embodiment of the . idea of determination, little JL JL Harry Jeffra baa finally attained the goal -fe set for himself a number of years ago. Jeffra, a poor kid Txrrn In Balti more of Italian and Irish parents, rowed at an early age that he would make himself financially independ ent. Although a frail boy and small of stature, he was athletically In clined, with a natural bent for golf and fighting. Not that Harry wu a. onnacioua sort, but being amaHer than other kids of his own Oscar Vitt Will Replace S. O'Neill As Cleveland Manager; Success With Newark Paves Way for big Time Job CLEVELAND, Oct. 20 (AP) The Cleveland Indians today named Oscar Vitt to replace Steve O'Neill as manager and gave the Newark International league club pilot his first managerial opportunity in major league baseball.- Club Pres. Alva Bradley under a two-year contract, terms of which were undisclosed. Bradley said O'Neill had been ot tered a post as a Cleveland scout. "This is one thing I don't like about being in baseball," Bradley said. "But the show must go on." The 47-year-old Calif ornian said at his home in Lakeland that the- appointment climaxed an am bition he cherished ever since his major league playing career end in 1921. Vitt broke In with De troit in 1912 and wound up his big time third, base chores with the Boston Red Sox. O'Neill, on the receiving end of some of baseball's most noted bat teries, piloted the Indians since August, 1135, when he succeeded Walter Johnson. . The new tribe chleftlan, whose Newark club thlt year wound up 25 games ahead of Montreal for the International Pennant and then knocked off Columbus, O., in the little world series, started his , playing career on the west coast. " . Before Vitt went to Newark, he managed Salt Lake City, Holly wood and Oakland of the Pacific Coast league, the latter club In 1935. He won pennants in 1929 and 1930 with Hollywood. Rowdy Dow to See Action, Frosh Tilt 'CORVALLIS, Oct, SO-MVKen "Rowdy" Dow, whose passing and ball carrying were the sensation of the first - "little civil war" of the season in Portland, Is being groomed for key man of the Ore gon State Rooks offense against the University of Oregon Frosh here Friday. . Jake Hergert, former Portland prep star, held the edge in prac tice today over Pick Mehlhof of Medford for the blocking back post. EUGENE. Oct lO-iM- de injury sustained in practice may keep Chet Hiliaki. crack blocking back of the University of Ore gon Frosh football team, eat of Friday's -game with the Oregon State college Rooks, Coach "Hon n t Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, October .SSVS ft age, be had to be handy with his dukes of else! Harry never had a chance to work at his golf enough to become a professional, though he shoots a fine game now and still talks of be coming a links pro when his ring day are over. Instead, his clever fists have brought him fame and what, to htm, must seem a fortune. Jeffra'g determination to reach the top, in whatever he made his field of endeavor, can be seen in his difficult climb to the top of the ban tamweight heap. announced Vitt s appointment est John" Warren said today. Either Bill Hawke or Gene Schults will start in his place if the former Portland all-city ace is unable to play, Warren said. Logger Knows His Bees, Gets Profit TILLAMOOK, Oct 20-ifVLoS- gers at the Connie Dye camp had a lively time and honey for their hot cakes when a bee tree fell victim to the fallera' axes. Remov ing the wire rope "chokers" with which the losr was snaked Droved especially hazardous. Jack Brissy corralled and claim ed the bees, which he said were a tame, Italian variety. Shifty Rhymer Cv :;::-. . ; :':' ' 4 Ed Nichols, uncanny hole picker .outer- for Coach Newman's . Whittier Poets, who wUT at tempt to make It two in a row . ever the Bearcats Friday night. ' Bio runs and kicks from a balf- - back postttosv. . . JL 21, 1937 6AM1XM KlAJO.. HE GAMBLED AMD MOM J Hme zxajder-dog IA THE BE7TIAJG, ME SOBBED ESCOBAR. silly Always the underdog in his im portant fights, ho was conceded lit tle chance to win the -title even after he had whipped the champion, Escobar, twice in overweight bouts. With the crown on the block, Sixto was supposed to be a demon with thunder in his mitts, 'but Jeffra made him look like a chump instead of a champ. Now Baltimore boasts of another, ring champion following in the footsteps of Kid Williams and Joe Dundee. CajfTitfet ItST. to Kins rattan S radial, faa. Backs Give Away All Plays, Claim Nebraska's Brock Charges Potential Ball Packer Is Easy to Judge LINCOLN, Neb., Oct. 20-(JP)- Charley Brock, Nebraska's con tribution to the fall discussions on "how to play football," advised the nation's backs today they aire not so hot. "I never saw a back yet that didn't give away a play somehow,' said .Charley, who sees plenty of opposition ball carriers from hla pott at roving center and ought to know. Most backs, he said, give away plays by looking at the hole, by wiping off their hands before pass, by digging their feet In for a starting lump, by looking at the man to whom they are to give the ball on reverses, or some other little thing. "It Just takes a few plays to. get on to it and then it's- pretty easy,1 added Charley. "Of course, there are some backs who get on to you too, and they start crossing up gay but soon you can get on to that, too.- Western Reserve Wilis 27 Straight NEW YORK. Oct, 2H)-In one of college football's greatest winning streaks. Western Reserve of v Cleveland , has played 27 straight games without a defeat and without a tumble around the football-mad land. Several points such as Cornell university, - hare "discovered" the Red Cats from Lake Erie but most of the na tion's fans have an. idea they rep-, resent a naval school somewhere in- Kansas.""-'-:-". i Western Reserve actually is one' of the world's largest uni versities. Located In Cleveland, it was founded in 132 c. Its -football history dates back to 1890. . Over their 27-game streak, the Red Cats scored 13 shutouts, com piling 769 points as against 123 for the opposition, an, average vic tory of-23 to 4.7 points. They've done their job so convincingly they haven't won a game by the .margin of one point. . . .; rrr oni PAGE NINE Bearcats Hold Aviation Drill ierial Attack Indicated for Whittier Contest Here Friday Night Expecting to both hurl a few iial slants and knock some down is evidently Coach Keene'S prescription for. Friday night's homecoming tiff with the bards Trom Whittier. Knock some down was the outstanding item the Kcarcats failed to do last week end against San Jose, and conse- uently were badly trounced. Last night's practice session found second and third string pass slingers whipping the oval to teammates out in the flat while Messrs. Weisgerber, Bur nett. Baird and Gallon ran them selves breathless in attempts to keep them from connecting. Weakness Evident That the first string backfield is soniewnat weaK in the pass- oreaking-np department has been evident all season. Last nisht'a practice proved no exception with Bennett and Kelly both con necting with receivers time and again In spite of determined ef forts on the part of Keene's start ing backfield quartet. Little is known of the type of offense featured by the this year's Whittier eleven but the Bearcat coaches, remembering the aerial attack featured by the Calif orni ans in their 21-18 victorv Ust year, don't figure to be caught napping. The Poets have not designated the time of their arrival in Salem, Dut it is hoped they will be on time for Coach Wallace Newman to participate in Breakfast club festivities at the Quelle tomorrow morning. Softball Tourney Profit Announced State Association Plana to Continue Program of Boosting Game Figures released yesterdav bv Harry V. Collins, president of the state Softball association, show that the 1937 atate Softball tourn ament held here August 24-29 netted 3439.94 profit. Add to. that the g371.CS taken in by the as sociation in membership fees and district tournament percentages. ana the organization has a total of 3811.59 for use in coming years. iast year a nroaram. sponsored by the staje association, of intro ducing the game in as many local ities in the state as possible, will be continued next year. saidNMr. Colltns. Acting in the role of W. ucatlonal promotor. Dwight AdV ams, state director, toured the state at the start of the season this year, and will repeat next. Unlversitv Gets Share Of he total receipts from the tournament, 3217S.55. Willamette university was pai-J 2 7 . per cent or lis s. a 8 after the other ex pendltures, amounting to $1,- 9.sz. were deducted. Expenses were: Travel. 3783.50 umpires. 3200: balls and tronhiea 3117.72; lights. 350.91; and gate- men, 75. various other expenses, not detailed, which Included tickets, maintenance of rron&tfs. policing, programs, etc., made up me oaiance. The "take" by' evening wna Monday. 3254.5; Tuesday JZ74.45; Wednesday, 3287.701 Thursday. 3273.45; Friday &&3.60; and Saturday, 3294.05 season ticket sales brought 3207.50, and the grandstand con cession brought in 320. Benson Tech Impressive In 37-0 Commerce Win PORTLAND. Oct. 20-6TVBen son Tech made a strong bid to op pose the defending champions of jenerson high school in the city prep Armistice day playoff, de- L f eating . Commerce high 37-to today. Dlstrfbuted by I" - VI, V - ' ;r:,: nifriii ' j. Vnnisewi " uuHuuuaBHuufMa4BUsutssavs A A - - - - - . mm. I reanaa . Pirates, Wolves To Clash Friday Independence Hop Bowl to Be Scene of Battle; -List Lineup r , MONMOUTH Coach . Don Fa bers Albany college Pirates will come to the Independence Hop Bowl Friday night for a clash with the Oregon Normal Wolves. Faber's ball squad this season Is the strongest one he has pro duced at Albany. He will use the same starting lineup that he used to crumble Multnomah college at Albany Sat urday night. 19-6: Willetts. and Garland, ends; Peterson and Cros ton. tackles; Merritt and Dalfon so, guards; Manning, center; Pete, quarter; Carpenter and Batchley, halfbacks; Faucette, full. Getting Hard Workout Following their surprising vic tory over the Linfield Wildcats which possibly generated over confidence Coach Al Cox's Teachers went into a light moult and had a real job on their hands to tie the score with the Oregon State Rooks on Kreason field, Dallas, Friday night. Their one touchdown came late in the final quarter. Cox is driving his squad hard to bring them out of their slump. Although the Wolves have emerged victors against the Pi rates in previous contests, an in spired visiting club catching the home squad in a too nonchalant frame of mind, might easily re verse the meter. Students staged a pep rally here Tuesday night to stimulate the squad. Distance Men of Salem Top Canby Score 51-54 With Jahn in First Place; Contest Extremely Close If the fact that the Salem bUh cross-country squad defeated the Canby team yesterday by the score of Salem 51. Canby 54, with Amos Jahn piling up a total of one point for first place while M. Con- vuroy, Canby, got 14 points tor 14th place sounds odd, it's merely the way the score Is kept. While Coach Vern Gilmore took 15 harriers with him.- the meet was, run on a 7 -man team basis. Points scored in the open field event count against a team Instead of for. Salem's seven men finish ed in the following orderr Captain Amos Jahn. first covering the course in 10 minutes, 35 sec onds; Bob Ewing, second, LeRoy Pettle, seventh, Don- Woodtn eighth. Campbell. 10th. Lyle Lee. 11th. Marvin O'Brien 12th. Canby has a crack team accord ing to Gilmore. finished with Bane Yoder third. Ed Daniels fourth, Ted Shepard fifth, Paul Stengels sixth. Walter 'Colvin ninth. Art Wallace 13th wnd M. Con vuroy 14th. Whitney. McGilchrist, Sumner. Pound, Solera. James, Hill and Tool, the other eight men com prising the Salem squad, ran but were not credited, or rather dis credited, with any points. Paulman Is TaEen On Seattle Jaunt PALO ALTO. Calif.. Oct. 20-(ff")-Bill Paulman, Stanford quar terbeck, will leave with his team mates tomorrow for Seattle. Stanford's gridders meet Wash ington Saturday and the chances " are that Paulman, still suffering from a shoulder injury received tn the tUt with Oregon October 2, may play briefly. Coach Tiny Thornhill said Paul man will be used If the Indians get In atight spot where place kicking or reliable punting la need ed. In no event will the doughty ' quarterback be allowed to do any blocking, said Thornhill. Noted Golfer Dies. NEW YORK, pet 20-P)-Hen-ry Graff Trevor, 72, broker and sportsman, the first lefthanded golfer to enter a national tourna ment and the man responsible for introducing French poodles to America, died today, after a brief illness. Henry Wetahard started his first brewery in Portland, Oregon ia 1C5S and ia 1862 moved to the : identical site that is now thefaoaf - ' of the BUbWaiahaxd Company,- r. ' DM ifC- ULjLjLji Gidcoa Stols Co. Q -1-
