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nponi npnniiD tJ By RON fcj GEMMLELL Gridologically, "Spec Keene has nothing to fear from the Loggers tonight in his 13th homecoming appearance with the Bearcats. Psychologically, jOtt hare something eh again and it isn't pork chops. On . Uraight pigln points this trhlpper-ontcr of sports spasms fronld say, even should the Log gers come fully equipped with pike poles, Lausanne hall's ' ping-pong paladins could proba bly subdue the Sounders. They Jnst don't figure to. be much . shucks in what is commonly re- . .ferred to as football. 'Cats 20, Superstition 27. Even with the . mosta-of-the-besta of his Bearcat brigade wrap ped op. In adhesive tape and drag ging crutches. Keene should, on straight-from-the - shoulder dope, breeze under the conference wire with some 30 to 40 points to the Rood. But, even Maude, the mal behaved mule of destiny, doesn't like her oats straight. Therefore, so you idollzers of gridantics won't choke on the straight sins, we offer you the cold dope tinc tured with a bit of "13" super stition, in more matter-of-fact wordage.. we'll swallow the "13" superstition to the extent that we'll call the Bearcats to win 20-0 instead of the 47-0 we would ra tionally call. That's giving away 27 points to superstition enough points to feather the. nests of sev eral dozen humming birds, the den of a lynx and the lefthanded stall of Demo donkey. Proficient Paddlers. Tim a matter of- historical re cording that the Viking dis covered America, or a portion thereof, long before the Tio neers sat up their pup tents in the.- hinterlands. History will. we think, repeat Itnrlf many fold tonight. The Vikings, those red-and-blark ones of Salem high, will discover the promis ed land up Oregon City way long. long before the Pioneers get their calked boots Into that portion of the Varth's surface most conducive to making the ' score board beller. In fact. It Is -. onr specific opinion that the Vikings will row their arid hip Into the coveted territory no less than three Cmes while the Pioneers, meantime, will .not have had time to get their oxen hitched up. Allowing the usual .aftermath credit for such dls 'coverles. the score will probably 0 sjauotJTS I!A North to Lick South. Though last year the Leslies rose tin to nudge the therefore Impregnable Parrlshers on the football button, this happens to be a year later. "Which means . enough water has run under th bridge to wash all the feet of all the armies this side of the Great Divide. It also means Leslie., wa left without as many experienced -youngsters as was Parrlsh. It looks to be a return of the north erners to supremacy, with the srore in this, the first of two clashes billed, being about 13-0 for. Parrlsh. In the other half of the: Intramural loon the Reds should win, but only after a hard fight, about 6-0- " Pins-Pons? No Sechl That buttons up the tests and measurements on Mr. Prog nostication for the day. We'll now take you by the car, lead t you Indoors and pass on this In- formation: Never, under any circumstances refer to the -art of whamming a celluloid pellet bark and forth across a net. stretched the width of a waist .- high table, as ping-pong. Should you, by a slip of the tongue, so desecrate , the game of table tennis In the presence of a batch of adherents, you will without doubt immediately be- come a prime subject for mur ; - der. Ping-pong Is as out as the Csechs, table tennis as in as Hitler. Sol. there! Hubbard-Stayton Gridders to Vie MARION' COrXTTT "B" LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Hubbard Aumsville St. Paul . Stayton .. 2 ..2 1 0 1.000 .666 .500 .500 .000 1 1 1 Mill City . 0 3 Games last Friday: Hubbard 20. St. Paul 0; Aumsville 20, Mill City 6. Games this Friday: Stayton at Hubbard; Aumsville at St. Paul Mill City. bye. ... , HUBBARD The Hubbard high school football team Is set for its homecoming game against Stay ton here Friday. Coach Beal will start the same lineup that has rolled np 127 pts to opponents 6 In four games. This will Include: Scheller and Hatcher. ends Van Winkle and Stevenson, tack les: O'Brien and Vredenburg guards; Stauffer, center; Bizan Quarter: Smith, and Lemen, half backs; and Brown, fullback. 30 Beavers Away For Bear Contest - CORVALLIS, Ore., Oct, 27.-05 -A squad of 30 Oregon State Bea vers, with Holly Holcomb appar ently sure of ousting Jay Mercer at quarterback, palled out today for Berkeley to meet California Saturday. - Holcomb, -who spotted Mercer IS pounds in weight and won on his nass-recelTing Qualities, was named team captain for the game Although the Bearers w 1 1 reach Berkeley Friday, Coach Lon Sttner said he would not work his men on the Golden Bear's grid m eevte Alums Guests At Grid Feud Bearcats .' Heavy " Favorite to Gain Homecoming Win No. 12 PBOBABLE 8TAETXNO UKETTTS Wt. WllUiaatta Foe. CPS Wt 55 Unirni , 'LEK..;.. Smith 176 195 Kahls ... I.TR Hannalar 15 1S T. Willlai. XG1L-, Marsle !& 202 Biaka...i. . O lJ 170 809 HoIIabI BOL.;,., ... BhIH 16s SOS Siralo . i BTL. BartaoU ISO 180 Kola ... , , KEJa W of lor ISO 190 Gallon. 4 McLaUfOiin 15 147 Bannett LHB Madden 175 72 McKael , B.HJ. , Mayer 170 1 VTUIJ -I , UJ i I U 2024 Gams tins t o'clock .1920 It's "Home to Honor Keene" tonight on Sweetland for several hundred Willamette alumni and all of Salem, as Mentor "Spec" Kecne sends his 13th Bearcat grid crew against the College of Puget Sound Loggers In the 1938 home coming clash. The Bearcats, with a line out weighing the visitors 14 pounds to the man, are odds on favorites to do their part in honoring their KEEN ITS 13-YEAR RECORD W. i. T. Pet. Conference Ib V. 4 li a .768 All guiei . 62 38 3 .02 Worn defeat: Br w art man, o-o, mzB Largett -art: Over Whitman, 75-0, 1934 coach by giving him his 12th con secutive homecoming victory and bis 26th straight Northwest con ference win. Headed by their new coach, Leo J.' Frank a coach far from new to the conference, the Loggers are expected to shoot the works. Coach Frank spent nine years at Pacific university, prior to his de parture for the east, where he ac quired a master's degree at Co lumbia and later coached lor six years at Parsons college in Iowa. Despite injuries having taken heavy toll, Keene will call upon but tm o rookies to till out his starting lineup. Larry McKeei, at right half, replaces the hard-run ning Justin Weakley, out with' an injured back. At left end little 'Horse" Lonergan takes over in place of Art Baird, who sustained broken leg in the College of Idaho mix. Nevaiia U Regents Back up Dashiell RENO.! Nev.. Oct. 27.-UP)-A request by members of the Uni versity of Nevada football squad that Head Coach Dong Dashiell and Duane Keller, an assistance. be relieved of their duties was denied by the executive committee of the university board of regents today. ! " , ' The regents asked the football equad to ; proceed to play the re mainder of the games scheduled for the 1938 season and, in their resolution, made no mention of the students' request that J. E. Martie, director of athletics, be asked to resign. Drawing the Alumni association Into the. controversy, the univer sity 'officials also asked that the association's executive committee make a thorough investigation of the causes which led up to the team's revolt against the coaching staff. ! ' Rule: Never Punt Ball to Windward KLAMATH FALLS, Ore., Oct. 21-iPy-lt -ias an 111 wind that blew Merrill high school's foot ball team no good. .- A Merrill punter stood on his own goal line and booted a high one Into the teeth of a gale. The ball flew back over the goal line and referee Fred Flock ruled it a safety! for Malin. Merrill lost, 0-2. . YOUTHFUL COACH w VocKksesr cogues jfMMi ... ''; tteSiUAOoPA ! " - - - .y '-'.yr:-- I major tWVeRtrry "--- : " I yiiktii - . r; : : Vbor auu - " 1 t- ( wer-rcRfi, ) . -tr'.. ' " JlCoACA. -U- . ,' --Wp A I -Veujvmy if - - ;;:-:, r- jji- .Yirc vkQ riuiseiF etiece iftKy ; l8?f - runlets JL :. A WMiAleui Mis fifesf f r I W vOt-T He wye bikings Through the Line for Temple i t - tr: . A fightinr Temple eleven that ref used to be beaten eame surgm back in a thrilling fourth-period rally with a 51-yard aerial to tie undefeated Boston College, 26-28, in Philadelphia. Jack Berrier, Temple L. H. B, is pictared going through the line on an off-tackle play. Wolves All Set For Another Win Over Sons Today MONMOUTH The Wolves of Oregon Normal will journey to Ashland this weekend for a re turn game with the SONS. In their meet last weekend at K rea son field, Dallas, the Wolves maintained their three-year lead over the SONS with a score of 19-6. , . Kl :' g The SONS are perfecting ; plays whereby they ; may be j able to withstand the Wolves' ; line on slaught and break np their aerial attack. The SONS' lone score last Fri day night was made after Coach Cox sent In the tail-end of his re servi string, so the Wolves ere not Indulging in any worries about the SONS back field star, big Frank De Sordik. Allison Says Line Is Below Normal BERKELEY, Calif... Oct. 27-(JPr-While the Golden Bears went through practice today. Coach "Stub" - Allison weighed Univer sity of California's prospects of defeating the Oregon State. Beav ers in a football game here Sat urday. , The Beavers, he said, will find a .Bear, eleven which last week went through a bruising tilt with the Washington Huskies ' and which faces another hard battle when they play .Southern Califor nia. Allison, figures the.UC line will be 25 per cent below normal because of the loss of right tackle Bill Stoll and left end Will Dol man. " SEAStwJ AS VEK fOOT&JU coaoi at nag fJbWeesrry APEaIVAaIv. Invade. s Junior Highs Tangle Today Unbeaten Parrish, Leslie Meet at 3:45; Greens to Play Reds Starting Uncaps Leslie Pos. Parrlsh Lappin LE... D. Cutler Hathaway LT... Burright Rund Haag ..... Mahrt ... Cox ...... Whlttemoro LG....H. -Baker C....... Miller . .G.Van Buskirk ,RT. . i . .Bennett .SB. . . '. ; Buren .Q... McFarlane Applegate VanLydegraf Dunham. . . . Purcell " . . . . LH...H. Cutler .RH. . . . Hoffert ,.F Holt Both undefeated although Leslie's record is marred by tie Leslie and Parrlsh Junior high school elevens move against each other this afternoon at 3:45 on .the Leslie grid. Outweighed and out-experienced ' the Leslie light brigade has the underdog rating. However, Coach Girod, In commenting on the game, said: "If the boys ex hibit the fire they did in Wed nesday nieht's nractice, we stand a chance to win." The other half of theT city In tramural circuit, the sophomore Reds and Greens, mix on the Olineer erld at noon for cellar honors. Dayton Boys Win ' DAYTON The Dayton union high school football team won from the Gervals team here Fri day, 13 to 0. V By Jack Sords CDrVKIGRr. fftf, KMC FEATURES TOfcKATt. la . mmmmtmm mm - Salem, Oregon, Friday Morning, October Oregon City Gridiron Salem Seeks 6th Victory Pioneers Rated Strongest Team on Salem Slate This Season Bent on bringing home their sixth consecutive grid victory of the current season, their 14 th In two years, their fourth "No- Name" league win of the 1938 campaign and the ninth in two seasons. Coach Harold Hauk and 27 of his Vikings move down the ralley to Oregon City tonight. The Pioneers, who last week held Milwaukie to a 7-0 win, are probably as strong a "No-Name league team as the Vikings will meet this year. .- Starters Named . Named by Hauk to start to night are:. Butte and Hannaman, ends; Williams and Wlckham. tackles; Wadsworth and Janrls, guards; Thompson, center; Duke, quarter; Waller and Bates, half backs; and Captain Butch Nelson, fullback. Making the trip also, and al most certain to see action are: Traglio, Tandy, Pearmine and McRae, ends; Paulson, tackle; Yada and DeLapp, guards; Gott fried, ce n t e r ; Quackenbush, Straw, Owen, LaRosa, Evans, Douglas, Biles and Carroll, backs. -IT' j; . (By the Associated Press) '-i While the Portland prep foot dsu elevens recessed this week, leading teams of other sections of the state prepared to advance their bids for sectional and state championships. unbeaten, untied Salem hlzh. the Willamette valley's most po- leni contender for the state all rerware, meets a sturdy opponent in Oregon City at Oregon City x riuay. Mac-Hi Takes Rest Mac-Hi of Milton-Freewater, the giant of the Blue mountain country and the east-side's strong est state title hunter, takes a two week mid-season vacation. Mac HI's next game is with The Dalles' "Giant v Killers" Nov. 4. The Dalles, a team that knock ed Bend out of the undefeated category, bumps into Hood River Friday. Hood River tied Med ford, the team that beat Klam ath Falls' copious scorers. Medford, still gleeful over their big day against the Pelicans, will motor up to Bend to take on the once-beaten Lava Bears. A north-south game that will draw more than passing interest Is Friday's skirmish between Pen dleton and Klamath 1 Falls at Klamath Falls. The Pelicans hope to regain their scoring stride after the Medford misfortune at the expense of By Haines' green but willing-. Buckaroos One of the Willamette valley's traditional rivalries will burn again Friday when Corvallis in- vauea .ugene high's ward their annual scuff. fdr Revamp Dragons To Meet Indians DALLAS The Dallas Dragons play the Chemawa Redskins at Kreason rield, Dallas, Friday night. Coach Adams has been spending the past week moving the linemen and putting in new men. He is starting to build a team for next year and for this reason only one man in the line will be at his old position. Darryll Ross will be at his oia end position, dams is fill ing the line with sonhomores and juniors. With all these new men In new oositions aStuma feels that the team will have a strong forward w- l when they go up against the Redskins. He is not shifting the backfleld ex ceptor the shift, made in the Molalla game. Carter to quarter back and Williams to fullback. Alpha Pais Lead Passball League WTJ PASSBALL STANDINGS W L T Pet.' Alpha Psf , g o l 1.000 Sigma Tau 2 - 1 2 .967 Kappa : 1 2 i .353 Independents , , . , ft 5 0 .000 The Alpha Psis continued their march toward another Willam ette Intramural oassball latnii pennant this week, Fravel scoring a touchdown to beat the Kannu 6-0. The Independents forfeited a 1-0 game to the Sigma Taus. Salem Ping-Pong pquad Is Winner Salem table tennis players , de feated a ' Portland team . fire matches to two last night Re sults: ? ' ' : . ". -:J -Vaughiu. Portland, beat -Al brich, Salem 3-1; LaMear, Port land, beat Schnuelle, Salem. 3-1; Gwynn, Salem, heat . Brad en. Portland, 3-1: Davis. Salem, beat Charles, Portland, 8-0; Hoffman. Salem, beat Tichenor. Portland. 3-2; Voigt, Salem, beat Isaacs. Fortlaaut, 2-0; Hendrie. Salem, beat LaMear, Portland, 2-0." Ready for 28, 1938 Panther With Sharpened Claws Marshall GoMberg Many of the Pittsburgh football Panthers have sharp claws, for Jock Sutherland's team Is one of the best in the nation, None, how ever, can equal the keen mitt of Marshall Goldberg;, an AS-American back, whose line plunging and open field runs stamp him as one of the finest ball carriers in Pitt history. bwling DOUBLES LEAGUE In doubles league bowling' at the Perfection alleys last night Woodry and Austin won two games from Hobbs and vallerux; Nash and Coe won two from Hart and Karr; Steinbock and Kertson won two from Hartwell and Hig glna; Poulia and Swan won two from Cllne and DuBaln; White and Young won three from Pick ens and Barnica. Woodry 175 ..210 199 181 380 212 169 . 159 533 168 557 325 1090 174 546 Hi 493 Austin . Totala .335 .160 -179 Hobb YaUeroi Totala .339 381 31 1039 .156 153 166480 .159 100 200519 Xaafc Cm Totala .315 318 63 999 Pickeni .175 .153 202 123 143520 143419 Barnica . Totala Whita .323 325 28S ' 939 .135 .178 190 223 160 535 164 565 Touas . Totala .363 418 324 1100 Hartwell -189 ..164 190 154 170 549 168 48S Higgtiia Totala . .353 344 339 1035 Steinbock Kertson .178 -157 180 168 147 503 207 532 Totals .333 848 854 1085 Hart Kerr .144 .159 158 178 147 449 190 527 Totala .303 836 337 976 CUna DuBain . -221 -160 195 119 159 3T5 147 42 Total .381 314 306 1001 Poulia Bwan .190 .168 168 Sll 148 508 223 602 Totala .358 379 371 1108 Notre Dame Noses 0 ut Carnegie Tech, 7-0 vi. .4- , A hard-fighting CansegJe Tech team held the annted Xotre Dame eleven scoreless for three quarters of the contest at Sooth Bead, bt lost the match in the last quarter, 7 to O. Tech's right halfback, George Slaha, is shown crashing throngt the Notre Dame iinef or a fire-yard sain. PAGE SEVENTEEN Z, w . Scores LADIES LEAGUE High game. B. Kurtz (168). High series, B. Kurtz (481). BAKE PLUMB ESS Jo Barr 93 111 174378 U. tlbrien. 107 94 "104305 T. A 1 brick & 92 119 134--345 Z. Kitchen 76 96 100 272 C. Both 153 125 141419 Totala .; 21 545 BUD'S PLACE 653 1719 P. Williams B. Aer.U 123 103 153379 IAS 1CI 165 471 Parker 84 121 156 361 A. Noter 143 94 135377 U Mocdr .164 121 137 422 Totala " . 664 600 746 2010 CAPITAL BEDDING CO. Handicap 21 21 21 63 11. Ponlin :12l O. Jai.aa , 129 W. Warren 116 PutiAm .1 96 Barnica -119 138 157 120 90 103 108 367 119405 83324 130 316 83 305 Totala .581 608 ,538 1727 QUELLE CAFE D. Moor ..132 86 " 94312 K. Thompson . 110 99 103 312 A. XI id wood ; .4101 132 158 391 B. Kcrtx . 137 176 168 481 Rao Yocnm 145 -29 122 396 Totala 625 1r23 645 1892 GOLDEN PHEASANT It. Moody 126 137 162 425 108 430 130360 O. Borch Naak - -1G8 .127 .127 .140 164 103 117 112 Farmer 135379 12 375 Bean Totala 688 623 658 1969 BEX KIT AN BEAuTT SHOP Handicap . .. ,. 85 85 85 255 Chapler . 141 117 106 864 Anderson 87 129 111 32T Brennan 115 110 07 332 H. Cobb - 91 . 98 107296 Rosa laa 147 102391 Totala .661 686 618 1965 Who's Interested In an "Owl" league, to play in the afternoon. for night workers The States-. man has a bowling team and is in - terested in forming such a league. V? f " 4- . I " - - -x, V i ? X -a, ',-. Lowers 37 Reims and Pitt Resume Series Annual "Goose - Ess" Tilt i May See End of Zero -Score Contests L PITTSBURGH, Oct.1 27-JP)- Two injury -free powerhouses. Fordham and Pitt, polished off to day in drills for Saturday's kick off in Pitt stadium and resump tion of the "goose egg series. From New York came reports that the first string Ram eleven was ready to go. And for Pitt, the same eleven strong men who started all five games this season will line up. For a time it was feared that the Pitt right tackle, Walter Ras kowskl, whose foot was Injured in last week's game with South- , era Methodist, would break the starting charm but he worked out with the squad today and was pro nounced fit. Rams Drill in Air At Rose Hill, Fordham put In the final licks on a pass offense with Ed Danowski. former Ford ham ace pass f linger now In the professional ranks, . supervising the throwing. Pitt's steel-like durability is at tested fry the fact that rarely dur ing a game is a Pittsburgh player stretched out on the green-swart. Yet they hit just as hard or hard er than their opponents. Coach Jock Sutherland conced ed that the whims of Lady Lack played its part in his freedom from the Injury jinx but pointed out that he had a team which "takes good care of itself. Boys Ready-Trained As an illustration, he empha sised that a number of his first stringers reported tor the initial practice session this fall under their playing weight and did not have to train down. Johnny Chic kerneo, quarterback of the "flying- four" in the backfield, who ordinarily -weighs 210, balanced' the scales at 188. With an attendance of 75.867. an all-time record for Pitt stadi um, assured for Saturday, the stage was all set for the smashing of the "goose egg" into some kind of omelet. Pitt has lost only one game in its last 31 starts and Fordham. which arrives tomorrow, dropped one i'i the last 26. The last three meetings of the clubs resulted in scoreless ties.. ' "Mad Marshall" Goldberg scampered across the goal in New York last year with what he thought was six points for Pitt but an official ruled Tony Matisl, Pitt Tackle, was holding and void ed the play. Returning Hunter Refuses to Show Hunting License MEDFORD, Oct. 2 7-(;p)-Clair Walsh, Medford. says he has the jaw on his side, and has been granted until Tuesday to prove it Walsh was asked by a game warden to show his hunting li cense. He refused on the grounds he was not hunting was return ing from a hunt and that state law does not require a man to show his license under such cir cumstances. A Medford justice said he didn't know and gave Walsh time to look up the claimed statute. ; Oliver Predicts Ducks Will Plav ' Best of Season EUGENE,. Ore.. Oct. 27.-(JP)-The Oregon Webfoots may not win, but Coach Tex Oliver predict ed today his football team would play its best game of the season against Southern California at Portland Saturday. Oliver said the Webfoots, vic tims of a long-standing USC jinx, had been pointing for the game all season. In preparation, he J shifted Fullback Bob Smith to J right half and - Right Halfback .Ted Gebhardt to left half. 4 1 Iron before game time.