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
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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.
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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
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Loop
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Prater
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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
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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.
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world aeries to clinch the champion.
were tendered a victory dinner by
FDuel
Baltimore's Bantam Boss
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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
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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. . .
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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. . . .;
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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.
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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.
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