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Bj RON liKMHKl.L You have to hand Clarence Hcc" EdiMUudson the year-in and year-out handful of posies when It comes to putting out boop teams. Just when yon . think'the Huskies have loot all their power via the sheepakin route, - np bobs II ec with a bunch of 'guys , won run like flock of gazelles and bomb enemy baskets with the deadly eye of Two-Gbb Pete. Take the present season, fr instance, (one are C hock Wagner, Bob Kgge and Kd Loverlch from the Husky boop horde -ch f the trio baring been ac corded all-coast honor during his college career, llee. In his usual pessimistic uanie r , doesn't give bis team a ghost of a chance to go any place in't this year's northern division ltasketball race. But what nave those Huskies done- already? Nothing more than derisively beaten Nibs Price's California Bears two nigbts hand run ning. The scores of those vic tories were 43-34 the first . night, and 4-3S the second. They'll Be "in There." And the heck of it is, Hec does it all the time with mate rial that trickles -to him from right in and around Seattle material h ar d 1 y anyone ever hears of before it dons the purple and gold ot Washington to win championships. It is a pretty well-known fact that very little proselyting or subsidizing takes place in Washington hoop circles. Seattle and neighboring: high schools provide the Husky hoop hopes, and invariably they tnrn out under Edmnndson's tutor ship to be a apod deal more than "hopes." You might just as well mark' it down in your fa vorite bonnet that this year, alla samee as usual, Hee's Huskies will be giving a good account of themselves r l g h t straight through the season and. will be laying down the basketball law to a majority of northern divi sion touUd tossers. Can Do. Don't believe there ever was a basketball aggregation that was entirely Invincible. There are games in the lives ot roost basket errs when seemingly all that is necessary i to heave the ball in the general direc tion of the basket and . "ssswlssh" it goes through. V h e n . a supposedly impreg nable outfit runs up against one or : two individual oppo nents who are having their nifhts," it's just too bad. While Coach Howard Maple, " or Batterball as he's affec tionately nlckmonickered by the 'Cat gang, doesn't expect to whip-th Webfoot here De cember .28, it is entirely in the cards for just such to happen. Firing "Near Even. It'll be just another ball game for Hobson's high-standing, high geared hoop haranguers, while a handful of feathers from the Ducks will mean something to the 'Cats. ; A little ' more' firing accuracy and' the Bearcat court artists will be tough for any quint , to handle. To late their shooting average hasn't been much to get up in the night and write home about. Figures to be around .222 for the, six frays. Anyone of the 'Cats is-likely to break out in a scoring rash, how ever, the scoring among them so far being well distributed. Beard, Anton and White .all hover around the 35-point mark for the sli tiffs, and Weaver and Nunnenkamp tre within ten points of them. Phillips to Fight? A little good-natured banter was afloat t'other day in re gard to the amateur fistic fray that the Central Youth Or i sanitation is staging at the amiorjr January 6. Bert -Ford and Dick Ross were bandying round most of the cracks, and Pert figure that, to make the fbmv a "howling success, Bill Phil tips should take on the winner. Suspect Bill's adver tised appearance on the card would not only make the turn stiles click, but also make 'em whirl as the crowd left. Opening Is Staged By County 'B'ers' HUBBARD The big opening of the north Marlon county high school B" league was held Tues day night at Mt. Angel, with the college gym crowded witn inter ested rooters. v . Cervais won' the trophy for having the largest number of looters present. The financial re turns were good. The east team, consisting of lit. Angel, Turner and Scotts Mills, won over the west teams Gervais, St. Paul and Hubbard ' bv score of 35-26. . Hubbard was. drawn to play Scotts Mills and came out ahead by a score of 16 to 13. Turner defeated Gervais, 10 to 6; Mt. Angel won over St, Paul, 12 to 4 All-Day Practice Given East-West SAN FRANCISCO, Dee. 23-(;p) -Football stars who will fight it out here New Tear's day ia the annual east-west charity game chalked up morning and after noon practices today. The double daty program was rounded out hr a luncheon attended by several hundred members of the Shrine organization, sponsor of the con Each squad bad an Injured man on the aide lines. The east tem- norarilv lost the services of Don llean . heavy hitting halfback from Northwestern. Hugh Wolfe, University of Texas back, was the western casualty. Each suffered nniied tendons in workouts -yes terday. They'll be back for duty in a eouple of days. Top Financiers By Nine Points Harvey and Willis Stage Scoring Duel; Brooks and Indians Win Don Hendrie's CYO court' can nonaders did just what they boasted they'd do walk into the win column of the major division of the city Y league at the ex pense of the General Finance quint last night at OldhL They didn't just barely do it. either, but by a decisive, 32-to-21 score playing good basketball all the way while the Financiers did about everything with the ball but play basketball. Harvey, CTO forward led the tiring on the Financiers, collect ing six from the floor for 12 points. Willis., his running mate. was close behind with 11. and Gordon Gemmell led the Finance- men with 10. Ia the opening game the L league's leading scorer. Jack Cau sey of the Clothiers, kept the bas ket full most of the Brooks-Frosh game to chalk up 21 points and lead the Clothiers to a 41 to 30 victory over the Sparksmen. The night's final tiff found un expectedly tough sledding for the Chemawa Racers, the Indians barely nosing out Safeway 27 to 24. Sam Shoulderblade parked three two-pointers and two gift throws squarely in the net to tie Driggs of Safeway for the game's high scorer. Summaries: Brooks (41) (30) XV Frosh Causey. 21 F 10. JA Jones H. Kelly. 11 F ...8, Maerz C Kelly. C 2, Eberly J.Kelly, 4 G 3, Kolb Gwynn. 2 G 3. B. Jones Morley, 3 S. 4, McKown CYO (32) (21) Gen. Finance Harvey. 12 F 4. Scales Willis. 11 F 6. Manning Bahlburg, 1 C 1, Steelhammer Herberger, 6 G R. Gemmell Hendrie G....10. Gemmell Gleason, 2 S Cheinawa (27) (24) Safeway Sh'lderblade, 8 ..F 8, Driggs mera. 6 F 3. Morgan Redeagle, 3 C... 5, Allison Adams ...G 6. Singer L. Bighorn. 6 G .2, Foregard A. Bighorn, 4 S . Referee, Ron Brandon. Mack Is Honored On 75th Birthday Old-Timers Who Had Part in Winning Pennants Hold big Reunion PHILADELPHIA. Dec. 23-;p)- Connie Mack's "baseball family," stretching back to 1902 and his first pennant-winner, gathered round the grand old man in Shioe Park today, and celebrated his 75th birthday on the spot he made famous with champions. Still somewhat weak from the illness that confined him to his home for several weeks, but de termined to carry on "as long as the motor.keeps running" the lean leader entertained with a lunch eon for baseball writers, umpires. officials and players who perform ed for him during his 37-year term as manager of the Athletics. Grey - hatred, gnarled - fingered men who were once great names on Mack's Athletics teams of 10, 20 and SO years ago were in the gathering ot 100 or more around Mack in the" visiting team's quar ters of Shibe Park. Heading the "veteran veterans were Harry Davis, big-shouldered first baseman ot Mack's first pennant-winner; Chief Bender, the pitching "brave" who came out of the Carlisle Indian school to make diamond history; Fanner Whitey Witt, one-time outfielder of the A's and New York Yankees; Herb Pennock. of the smooth pitching motion; Catcher Bin Reliefer and Outfielder Rube Oldring. Webfoots? Flashing Finn - I A f . f : . Bob Anct, junior guard for the University of Oregon's high-geared crew that win oppose the Bearcats here in the "big gaaae" of the year, Tuesday night, December 28. Upsets City M Pilots Eighth Victim of U0 Gale Runs Wild at Start; Beavers Top Whitman, Decisive Margin PORTLAND, Dec. ZS.-WVA small but scrappy University of Portland basketball team became the eighth victim of the Uni versity of Oregon squad's pre season winning streak tonight. losing 43 to 24. The Webfoots had the game on ice almost from the start. Laddie Gale scoring, 12 points 4n the first 10 minutes of play. He added two more for the night's scoring honors. Bili O'Donnell of the Pilots proved the principle obstacle to the university team, with annoy ing interceptions and a point total of 10. The Webfoots led, ?3 to 9, at halftime. Jefferson high school defeated the Portland university fresh men 30 to 18, in a preliminary game. WALLA WALLA, Dec. 23.- Oregon State's Beavers used their height to good advantage here tonight in defeating the Whitman college basketball squad for the second time in as many evenings, 39 to 27. Whitman led only once, 14 to 13. midway in the first half. spending the rest of the eve ning trying to overcome varying margins. It was from the foul line the visitors displayed their best ef forts. Nineteen times Oregon Staters stepped up to the free throw line and 15 times the ball fell through the hoop. Whitman fetaot seven out of 20. Merle Kruger, who shot five for five at the foul line, was high scorer for the contest with Santa Clara Has Rough Scrimmage Four Cripples Result as Broncos Prepare for Sugar Bowl Game SANTA ' CLARA, Calif.. Dec. 23. (JP) Apparently not satisfied with- the mental attitude of his squad for their second Sugar Bowl Invasion in as many years. Coach Buck Shaw drove his Santa Clara Broncos through a torrid three hour scrimmage to day, winding up the drill with four cripples on the sidelines as they engaged in their bast hard contact work before the Louisi ana State game on New Year's day. . . Brown, ace end and claimant of ail-American honors, suffered two badly bruised ribs, and was the most serious of the injured. The extent of Brown's injury had not been ascertained as yet, but it was feared .he might have cracked rib. A short morning drill is scheduled for tomorrow, after which the squad will be allowed to leave for a Christmas holiday. BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 23. -(p)-Coaeh Bernie Moore gave Louisiana State's football squad its first peek at Santa Clara plays today in a light dummy scrimmage. Third string players simulated Santa Clara ground and pass plays as Moore directed methods LSU will employ in the Sugar Bewl game at New Orleans in an effort to stop the Broncos. The Tigers wound up their drill with a review of their own running plays. i - s 4 ' , Salem, Oregon, Links -RALPH- W: 'HILE the top rankinr golf stars are embarked on their nnual winter treasure hunt, we will look over their 1937 records and nominate the links leaders of the year. We must rate Ralph Guldahl first, for his victory in the national open, if nothing else. The high waisted sartorial eye-opener first caused a splurge by burning up the winter circuit in the early part of last winter. Ralph then disproved the theorv that winter phenoms fizzle in the heat of national title Dead Ball not to Bar 'Flukes', Held SARASOTA, Fla.. Dec. 23-,ip) -Paul Wanner, Pittsburgh out fielder and one of the league's top-rung swatters, said today the National league's new "dead" ball should pull down batting av erages but won't eliminate "fluke" hits. "Fluke hits." he declared, "are Just as much a part of the game they do to the ball they won't they do to theball they won't eliminate them. As a matter of fact. I get as much kick out of bouncing flukes over the Infield as I do knocking the ball out of the lot." Waner said the ball he under stands will be used next year was given a tryout during several of the Pirates' exhibition games last season without the players know ing anything about it. He de clared he failed to notice any dif ference as base hits rained all over the lot. "However, over the course of a season it is bound to maae a difference," he added. Champs of 1936 Defeat Grocers MONMOUTH Accepting a challenge from Barney's grocery hoop squad, the Polk county champions of last season Mon mouth high players of last year took Barney's group for a ride to the tune ot 29-19 Monday night. The half ended 14-14. In the alumni group were Sni der, Buss, Wienert, Plert, Miller and Mnrdock. (The last two named are home on furlough from Hamilton Field, Calif.) Barney's lineup: - Crook, RIddell, Wlnegar, Part ridge, Moreland and Bailer. Ref eree: Egelston. Orange Bowl Will Be High -Scoring GAINESVILLE, Fla., Dec 23-(Ay-Coach. Charley Bachman indi cated today his Michigan State football team win concentrate on making touchdowns, instead of setting up a strong defense, fH Its Orange Bowl tussle with Aub urn at Miami. . Bachman said he plans to hold only on practice daily beginning tomorrow until the team leaves for Miami Sunday. ' Jl 'Golf- jL i?w , xsSriS stir Vx X y7 k H I ikC CLEANED ""oSS Saa Johnny. . & " - Goodmam - nOaT ?m 7 SHOWED THE WAV Ib tH StAXOAJ V V-T feXJRXwJ I m , PURE " VpW oopLea ' : statesman Friday Morning, December Leaders of By BURNLEY- ULDAHL- play by pulling the championship out of the fire with a Garrison finish. - Sammy Snead, another 1937 win ter wonder, was nosed oat by Gul dahl in golfs blue ribbon erect Sammy was hailed as the greatest prospect of all time by many links experts last spring, but didn't fare so well in the Ryder Cup team's British invasion. Sluggin' Sam's work on the winter trek will be worth watching. Heading the amateur brigade Is the man who really rates the No. H oop Scores Amity 14, Independence 19. Pacific U frosh St. Hood River 39. Jefferson (Portland) 32, Van couver, Wash., 33. Nehalem 27, Warrenton "B" 34. College Basketball Pacific U 45, Hood River All-Stars 38. U ot Utah 39, U of Idaho 31. OSC 39, Whitman 27. Oregon 43, Portland U 24. Four Salem Men High in Shooting PORTLAND, Dec. tl.-JP)-ClT pigeons suffered last season before the guns of 27 Oregon trapshoot ers who registered 90 per cent or better on 1000 or more targets. First was Frank Troeh, Port land, with .977 C. Ray Glass, Eu gene, was second with .696. Other high guns Included S. G. Mendenhall, Medford; C. G. Ro bertson, Salem: Jess Troeh, Eu gene; Jehn Tomlin, Medford: Hank Croisant. Medford; Cliff Dunn, Klamath Falls; E. Harden brook. Klamath Falls; Clarence Townsend, Salem; Gordon Hull.' Salem, and W. H. Wolf, Salem. . mm sw v. j i?evofa Believes in Santa Now -I , f - -- M Johnny Rerolta's belief la Santa Clans was considerably bolstered when the star golfer from Chicago was presented with a check tot 1300 as first prize 4n the 310.000 Mianii-BUtmore golf tourney Presentation was made by Ned Eberhart. right, club pro at the course at Coral Gables. Fla, and Mrs; Henry U Dohcrty, wilt er ... th tourney's sponsor. 24; 1937 1937 SUlpm, A 1337 UWtB. WlM THE" 1 spot, Johnny Goodman. Johnny has been the best simon pure swinger since Lawson Little turned pro and is probably a better all around player than Lawson ever was. However, it took the fair haired Omaha boy a long time to finally capture the amateur crown. Denny Shute reigns as P. G. A. champ, having won the pro crown twice in a row; while Harry Cooper led the money winners in 1937. Will any of these champs held their titles in 1938? Caprrifkk HIT. I KtaK Mm Sratota. Im. Government Camp Is Ski Paradise A five-inch snowfall at Govern ment Camp Wednesday night brought the snow depth there to 21 inches with skiing conditions reported excellent. Wednesday'; fall was dry snow, of the type that makes skiing enthusiasts grin from ear to ear. Reports from Claudia Benson, local AAA secretary, are to the effect that while ltt Inches of snow fell on the Mt. Heod high way, most of that has . been scraped off. Sun Bowl Football Squads on Ground EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 23-(;p-El Paso's university of West Virginia alumni turned out in full force here tonight for the arrival of the Mountaineers, who will play Texas Tech's Red Raiders in the Sun Bowl football game New Tear's day. The Red Raiders on "vacation" will not put in an appearance un til next Thursday. ; 1 - tit A ir gue Champs ESI i'AGE SEVEN Alabama Team Arrives Today Will Work out, Occidental Gridiron ; Bears Are Winding up Work PASADENA. Calif.. Dec. 23- (P)-The pre-game roar of the an nual Rose Bowl game gets offi cially under way tomorrow, with Alabama arriving as the first team to reach the scene of New Year's day's action. The Alabama squad will go im mediately to its Pasadena head quarters. The first workout will be in the afternoon at nearby Occiden tal college, with newspaper and newsreel cameramen invited to be on hand for "picture day." California's Golden Bears will reassemble here next Monday. BERKELEY. Calif., Dec. 23- (1P) Defense against passes Cali fornia s only serious weakness during the last football season was the order of the day today as the Bears neared completion of home field practice for their Rose Bowl date with Alabama. Setups against every type of aerial thrust expected from the Alabamans were tested during a stiff session. The team will disband after to- row's practice with squad mem bers living in the southern part of the state returning home for Christmas. The rest will entrain for Pasadena Sunday. ABOARD CRIMSON TIDE SPE CIAL, EN ROUTE TO ROSE BOWL, Dec. 23-UP)-The casual ties ot a practice session at San Antonio Capt. L e r o y Monsky and-Lew Bostick got in a good limbering up workout at Tucson, Ariz., today. The University of Alabama squad spent more than an hour on the Arizona football field at Tucson before again boarding the special for Pasadena. Indications were the train would arrive at 9:30 a. m., tomorrow. Farr Avers Title His by September Welshman Sayi He'll Lick Braddock, Baer, Then Louis or Maxie By EDDIE BRIETZ NEW YORK, Dee. 25-P)-Tom-my Farr expects to fight for the world's heavyweight title next September. Furthermore, he pre dicts hell win it from Joe Louis. The surprising Welshman, who lasted 15 rounds wifh. Louis last August, came back to New York today for a campaign designed to add the world title to the Brit ish empire championship he al ready holds. His first start will be against James J. Braddock in Madison Square Garden January Zl. Braddock, Then Baer "III lick Braddock and then 111 whip Max Baer," said Tommy. "Then who's to stop me. from fighting the Louis-Max Schmeling wmneTi "And itll be Louis," he added. "I think he'll knock Schmeling coiaer than a turkey." Farr, who has been glvinr box Ing lessons in England and Wales, weighs 210, six more than he scaled for Louis. He'll begin work next week at a training camp not yet selected. Lebanon Quintets Beat Sweet Home LEBANON With M o r a a n. Lebanon center, leading the way with" 11 points, the Berrypickers romped over Sweet Home here Tuesday night by a 27 to 6 score The Lebanonites were also suc cessful in a preliminary, second team game over Sweet Home. Lineups: Lebanon (27) (5) Sweet Home B. Simpson, 7F .1, Wells Tama F. Sherwood Morgan. 11 C.: 1, Summers Forbis,9 G.,.2, Woodcock Christ G 1, Lutton Substitutes: for Lebanon, C. Simpson 2. Referee, J. Summers. Series of Ham, Bacon Shoots of Gun Club to Open on New Year's Day SILVERTON -The Silver Falls Gun club wiU begin a series of Ham and Bacon ; shoots on New Year's day. The shoots will be held on the gun club grounds off the Hobart road. In charge of the shoots will be E. B. Johnson, Sab Oster and A. J. Titus. The committee reports it will have at. least one shoot a month. Utah Beats Vandals Again SALT LAKE CITY, Dec 23-y University of Utah humbled the Vandal basketball team of the I- University of Idaho for the secoa J time tonight, winning 39 to 31. Ths halt-time score was 21-17. S. Home Ties With Guldahl Three Under Par; Snead, Champ Close , Behind in Miami Tussle . MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 23-(jpy-Stan-ley Home. Canadian PGA champ ion from Ottawa, came In with tbe twilight shadows and a three un-der-par 47 today to tie Ralph Guldahl, national open champion, for the first round, lead in the 12500 Miami open golf tourna ment. Guldahl, acclaimed for his re turn to form, had gone home acd was having dinner when Home, virtually ignored, came in with a bag of six birdies to tie his 67. Sam Snead. from White Sulphur Spring, W. Va., scored a 48 along with young Frank Champ of Terre Haute, Ind. Snead set the pace in the recent $10,000 Miami Biltmore open for two rounds, won the Nassau open last Monday after shooting an opening 66, and seemed headed for the top spot today up to the 17th hole. There he hooked his second shot, after playing a soft wood off the tee to avoid a canal 320 yards out, and took a five, his only bogey of the round. Six other golfers, including an amateur Earl Christiansen, Mi ami policeman broke par with 69's. The pros were Denny ShufV PGA champion, Horton Smith of Chicago, Jack Patron! of Shaw nee. Pa.. Jim Fogertey of Boston and Albert Marsher or Miami. Independence Is Finally Defeated Amity Turns Trick; Mort Is Presented Trophy, Pen by Gridders INDEPENDENCE The In dependence high school basket ball team bowed to Amity high 34 to 19 on the local court Wed nesday night. This was the first defeat for the Hopsters. who have won from Amity at Amity, Falls City there and here and Wlllamlna here. Coach Loren Mort's team will not go into the Willamette Valley league play until Tuesday. Janu ary 4, when they travel to meet the fast Woodburn quintet. During the intermission . Wed nesday night. Delbert Taylor, senior class president, called Coach Loren Mort and the 193S senior football boys to the center of the floor, where the boys then presented Mort with a football trophy and pen. ' Engraved on the trophy- was "From the 1938 football boys on the undefeated, unscored on and untied football team of the Wil lamette Valley league Squad members presenting this were: Harold Engblom, Bad Linn, BiU Stryker. Keith Peter son, Jim Brown, Charles Brown, Glenn Bnrch, Delbert Taylor, Mel Jones. Kenneth Hausley and Earl Purvis. Lineups: Independence 10 S4 Amity Hartraan 7 -F 7 Giesy Wilson F... 2 Kidd Linn 9 C t Moddemeyer Engblom 2 G I Lee Burch 1 G S Wlldt Substitutes: for Amity, Shields S, Peterson 1. Referee, Dunekel. Mae West's Name Is Banned by NBC Order Involves Adam and Eve Sketch Objected to . . by Listeners NEW YORK, Dec. JS-?3)-Word went out from the National Broadcasting company today to keep the name of Mae West out of all programs over which it has control. Issued privately to 16 stations in 12 cities, the order was de signed to forestall any joking ref erence that might be made to the widely discussed "Adam' and Eve" sketch broadcast from Hol lywood December 12. Although not made public. It was understood the interstate' communique aaid in effect: "Please watch scripts for mention of Mae West's name and keep, it out." An exception probably would be made in the event Miss West figured in a news broadcast. 1 Criticism Follows The sketch, in which the bux om actress made one of her in-' frequent radio appearances, aroused a storm of criticism, par- : ticularly from religious groups. ' and provoked talk In congress of tighter radio regulations. , Public apologies were issued by ' President Lenox R. Lohr ot NBC. , by the coffee company which ' sponsored the program, and by the sponsor's advertising agents, to anyone who might have taken " offense at the fervor with which Miss West read her lines. .' Efforts to reach Miss West at her Hollywood apartment brought the statement from a friend that she. "isn't speaking to anyone , about that" BENEFIT DANCE TONIGHT Salem Culinary Alliance Ladies Free Until 9:20 LABOR TEBIPLE