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Reteiiis Top pap .RakfagiinL (Grid Foil V By RON G E. IS 1 ELL Long Ramble Aids Indians : InTaldng of Cougar? Scalps ma There la a vulgar rumor run nine around the countryside that the Oregon v State football team was in Seattle last Saturday . . . We don't know who started It, as one never .knows whence these omnlous whis pering campaigns originate, but we an assure ' you there is absolute lj no truth in It. At . least we Pat O'Brlea can assure It "wasn't the Ore gon ' State football team for which we predicted a 7-0 victory. . . . That team, or Its spirit, was left at home, and the outfit" Lon Btiner Introduced to a gooey mud bath on the Husky field waa com prised of stand-ins.- u- These stand-ins, -well versed la the art of fumbling, may hare photographed . well . but they were poor substitutes for the guy who swarmed. Idaho, played a scoreless tie with USO and won. as theey. wished from Portland U . . . They even sot' fooled by a play with a beard. Too Many Coaches. It must of course be related that these stand-ins were up against a pretty potent coaching combina tion, ... The Huskies not only had the advantage of their own James M. Phelan, who studied under the great Rockne. but they also had the great. "Rock, as exemplified by Pat 0!Brien, the movie mime, to advise them. . 1, Actor O'Brien. 10 years ago a third string Quarterback for Mar tuette, takes his Rockne charae terlxatlon seriously, so of course gave Friend Prolan some Taluable coaching Information ... Rockne that is. Pat. O'Brien took in the game, along with his wife, who are on a vacation. Anyway, Fbelaa and Xante (pronounced Kah-aute) were too much strategy board for 8ti- -aer's stand-ins . . . We doubt, howerer, that even this combin ation would hare been able to beat the Oregon State team w hich tied USCX Oregon "Wonder" Teams. It la now pretty erident we hare two 'wonder members of the Pa cific Coast conference in - Oregon ... At leaat everybody's "wonder ing It either Is ever going to core a point tn conference com petition ... One has been to bat twice and the other thrice, " and neither has a , single tally, al though we'll admit that single tallies are' rather difficult to man ufacture In football. The Oregona, who. by the way played the better game Saturday, haTe been goose-egged by Stan ford. Washington and USC In that order, while the bearers hare been whitewashed by USC and Washington ... Well, Oregon begins with an O. The Ducks hare beea stopped . so many times within their p , poaenU. 10-yard line that by this time tbey probably are la boring under the delusion that a football field is only 90 yards long ... As for the Oregon State, from now on they'll probably aalate every time they see the lady with the scales and torch.. O Loggers Tough, Said. That Willamette has a battle on its hands this Saturday night, when the College of. Puget Sound Loggers roll In. Is the emphatic erdlcU of Scout Happy Howard Maple and Witness Sam Gillette, both of whom saw the Timber TAnn,n iaw iIawii H Wkltmn. last Friday night at Tacoma . Gillette, very much Impressed with the wide-open game played by the Loggers, .yesterday In formed your cor espondent that the Bearcats could look forward to a beating ft they didn't put out ail taey nave. Maple, who has twice scouted the Loggers, brought back some thing more than the usual scout's dread of an opponent.. . . This boy Remsoa (who pitched the Loggers to a 11-0' shellacking of Whitman) can really throw that ball,; says Maple, "md he func tions behind a . mighty skookura line." -: In recalling; last year's game, which Willamette wo 42-oV Mapje say the 'Cats that day did i everything Just exactly ' right . . . What he fears this Saturday is that the Salem' col leglaas will have a letdown after the Ifartae cam . . . 1f so, he aays,. they're la for drubbing. I , I- . -. V....,. ,1,.,; Gillette believes the game will be made- to order for spectators. what with both teams employing wide-open offensives that empha size forward passing . . . "If ever a game drew here, he says, "this one should. -:" - - We never knew what hlao Monday waa wnUl we started predicting football guaoa . . ' , . By WHITNEY MARTIN -.?NEW YORK. Oct. tl-Vty-Th old professor was tardy and his breath came la short pant as he hustled la to face kls Monday morning class of football coaches. Old Professor Pardan me. pardon me, gentlemen. I've lust been trying to run dowa a rumor. Got It by the UI2 once, but It got away. I Just Heard tliere was a coach who was satisfied with his team. Caa that be 'true t ' : . 1 : Berala TCSessa&n, E:ia- ' Wen, yea. I sua. X? reny showed improvement strains . Ohio Stat over . oar , form . SMminst " semrasKa. v e ; uiuur . " got a break csiast tlwh Dack eyes ,oa that t3 pan froim center, but we liad wi shai-o of bad oaes, Inclads two yrol- 1 This SO-yard romp by Pete Kmetovie (17) aided the Stanford Indians . in keeping their record as the only major college undefeated, untied . eleven on the coast intact at Pullman. Kmetovie elades a state tackier la the first period to gallop SO yards and setup a smbse- Ca ts-9 Viks Prepare for WU 11 to Meet GPS Saturday Cornea out of Marine Mix Without Injury; Maple Warns of Loggers "He who hits the hardest never gets hurt" has long been a stand ard teaching among football coaches. Willamette's Bearcats, who yesterday went into training for their 1940 Northwest conference debut against the top-sailing Col lege oftPjaget Sound Loggers here Saturday night, came out of their sparkling, although losing, clash with the Marines unscathed. Form your own conclusions. That the 'Cats can't rest upou the laurels gained in the Leather neck ramble, however. Is the word brought back from Tacoma by Happy Howard Maple, who saw the CPS-Whitman fracas In the role of scout, and by 'other Salem citizens who stopped over for the tilt on their way to the Waah-Ington-Oregoa State mix. "They've a1 flue ball club, sparked by this fellow Remsoa. who can really pass a football," said Scout Maple upon his return here.- All of which would indicate, In view of the fine pitching done by Buddy Reynolds of the 'Cats here last Friday night, a Remson Reynolds hurling duel this- Satur day night. And. la turn, that would Indicate a wide-open, breath-taking football exhibition. The only Bearcat who sus tained anything that resembles an Injury in the Marine mix was Bill Redef, the brilliant freshman end. who . slightly sprained an ankle. He la expected -to be tn top shape by game time this week. Reveille Arouses Ducks Bit Early; Confuses Hunters ' ' ., v ': K'M ' ; ' f- '.' -A- ' ASTORIA, i bet. Sl-(i"fy-Tbe reveille gam a Gamp Clatsop: : has the duck banting situatJoav ia this county somewhat con fused, b 'I,-".; i j' ' -, 'U: Hunters aage : have beea limited by flight of the ducks each morning as the gun has -sounded. Mere than that, some hunters Jumped the sea- ; soa the first day on the as sumption that' the gun signal ized sunrise whereas H waa 19 minutes before dawn. Here's oar blae note for today: Only a .OOO batting average last week, calling the turn pa six of 10 games along the coast, TJda, Oregon State, WSO aad Whitman tamed as down, flat, while the Vfks. the Marine .. (although wo hate to take that on), rac. Goautaga. St. Mary's aad Padfie oamo taromgh for rvnn able touchdowns nullified by fumbles. ' jTrancis Schmidt, Ohio SUte Oueas we doat lira tight. We made one bad break for ourselves and had others, but Minnesota is one of the best teams we'll meet. That Bruce Smith la hard to stop. Don Scott and Charley Anderson loosed good tor as. r Old professor Ilea, you eeem pleased, Mr. AlUsoa. s . ' ' Stub AUlsoa, Callfomla Our team t fa betUr than 1 thought it was. ' Oar . lecoad itrlEteri im proved and we'll be gtroager for Washington next Saturday. 4 .; - Babe notrrell, TJCLA- ourth down . a yard to ge for wlaailmst toahdosra . . wo tiled a tlae track . . Td !vo called the same plsy myself., , v ' Sateen, Orogon. Tuosdar Bowling COnTnTKKOIAX. lEAOUl Saastar Barker Bhop roll tint 1M la Uu uriaa aad kih aiaU 99f is Coamarcial laaroa kewUaX at tks Perfactlon allaya last nigkt. 8tal of Baawa. 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I said we would know after our third game how good we are, bat Georgia Tech and Carnegie Tech both were crippled for us. so I still don't know.- Maybe we do have It this year." , , V Dr. Eddie Baker, Carnegie Tech I played against -Notre Dame at Pitt in It 10, the year it took the national title. But this Is the best Notre Dame team: I ever saw. I doat see how Plepul csa fail to make all-America. He's great. - Old Professor Anylng to say la your; defease, Mr. Holllng berryT , t ;. Babe UoIUagberry, Waahing ton 8tate No,, hot .about our defease I will say that yew ouent touchdown ta the rame woa players aro Dick Palmer (87), guard, and Ken Robeaky (4a), guar Waabingtoa State players running end, aad Tdllford Collins (90), guard. c n Morning, October 22. It43 Skrack's TJsaa Cards ITS 1S 134483 183 148 SOt) S84 "i 103 1T0 850 108 188. 183 487 t18 ITS . 148458 Ksca Hums . Hicsias Skrack . 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The team coach Is Pat BoaL Jsffersoa will conduct an later class cross country run Thursday morning at 11:41. over the local two-mile course. Each clans will nave five runners. Senior captain. Bob Cole; Junior captain. Laddie Eulrlch: sophomore s a p t a 1 a. Wayne Losler; freshmaa captain. Jerrold Oldenburg. -Y ' These runs are to eeaat la ta terclasu rivalry standing for a tro phy at end of the school year. play darfeaoe to wta foet raautea. StaafonTs hotms dldat fool aa. but U Od- ban have too mack speed. Clark Shaagbaessy, Stanford Babe has a great team., We had to play hard for our victory. ' ' Old Professor Proud. Mr. CrtslerT Frits Crlaler; li leaf rsa -Tea slreav My ' boys ware sharp out there. Whoa Illinois spread out for Harmon. Westfall smacked then right la the mJiile. . Bob Zuppks.. Illinois Where did this 'guy WeattaJl come from, anyway T The Wolverines are the beat we've seen, definitely J su perior to Southern California. Bat don't worry, there are teams just as good as Michigan. by Stanford 4-14, Other Stanford into the play aro Dale Gentry (49), Games Cheiiiawa Next On Salem Sked Pl7 Friday Night EUej Still out of Fullback Spot Tills Week Preparations for meeting the challenge of the Chemawa In dians here Friday night went for ward la the Salem high Viking football camp yesterday with Blm Elsey, number one fullback, still sidelined 'With the leg Injury which kept him out of the Cor ral lis. game last wsek. . .Elsey, who sustained wfeaohed knee and pulled leg muscles In a scrimmage seesloa last week, 1s not expected to see service against the Braves. Both varsity wlngmen, Rollle Haagand Les Pearmine, sustained minor injuries' In the Spartan clash but Coach Harold Hauk ex pect both to bo In shape by Fri day night. Haag suffered a char- ley horse 'aad Pearmine a hip bruise. ' ' The Ylks soent vestardav scrlmmaglag. first against the re serve varsity, ana tnea against tae jayveeo, woe meet the Sll- vorton noes on u linger at I p. m. today. ' Coach Hauk warned the Ylks not to take the Chemawa game Iigatiy. Grid Grist CORYAIXJS. Oct. !l(P-KJiee trouble continued to play havoe with the Oregon State collage xootoau team today as the Bea vers started uraetlea far Ikali game with UCLA Saturday la Los Aagelea. Glenn Brington, tight tackle, and Leonard Younce. right guard, both went to the sidelines with knee injuries. Backs too Fast PTJLLMAJT, Waste. Oct, Sl (ffK a 1 1 a r o ot Waabingtoa State's right halfbacks to cover ap oa paae def eaao was givea by Coatch Babe HoOlagbery to day ae a major reasoa for the 18 U 14 trlaualng his boys took froan the Stanford Indians Saturday. That aad the fact the 8taa ford backs wore J est too fast.1 Holliagbery pat his squad through- a loag sessioa today aad said the entire week would bo . concentrated oa play, particularly ta the lag ZngsSavo SPOKANE. Oct. ll-C-Ras- sjo-aaasie piays taatt were worked up for the University of Portland game yesterday aad thea aban doned because ot the mad aad rata oa the coast, will bo used against the Uairersity of Mon tana Grlxxllee Saturday at Butte. Gonxaga' Coach . Puggy Huaton said today. , 1 aaav a A. Herbal remedies for ailment ot stomach, liver, kidney, akia. blood, glands aad urinary sys tem off tnea aad womsa, IS rears la service. Naturopathic raysteiaaa, Aak your . neigh bors aOOUt COAA.LAM. ri cnnii tin Chinese tiCDiaNC co. 341 W. XAartr. uaatafcrs raru Oaa arat 10ar4a Ca. Otrtes asan Taaaaaa 4 arsaar aalr. 19 ajn. 1 .av. it U 7 u. CaaaaltatSaa. Ua raa- saa nrtns taata an tra at cWta. V tiaaa, a. aV 1 Stanfords Set ForElTrojari To Throw Yei7thing but Rcf; Husky Conilict : Scarea Allison, By RUSSELL NEWLAND ' - OAKLAND. Califs OcC 11-CB Stanford's , football team plans to throw everything but the ref eree at Southern California's Tro jans In the all Important football game at Palo Alto Saturday." Phil Bengston. Una coach, rep resented the Indians at the week ly meeting today of the Football Writers association. He disclosed Stanford's strategy would be baaed on the workable theory that n terrlfle offense, is the best de fense. Bengstoa scouted the Trojans earlier la the season aad hi re port to Head Coach Clark Shaugh nessy was summed , up tersely as follows: Trojans to Score "It is unlikely-. we. -can - atop Southern California's running at tack. The Trojans are bound to score.- Jim Lawson, another assistant, brought back a similar report after watching Southern Califor nia knock over Oregon last week. Coach Shaugnessy Is so con cerned over the game he left the train at 'Portland, en route back from the victory over Washington SUte, and returned by plane to begin mapping the plays to be fired at the Trojans. Stanford supporters look for him to toss some new rati la daule stuff at the Southern Callfornians. Al Wesson. USC publicity chief, disclosed that Bob Jones, right end Injured la the Illinois game, would be la harness against Sun ford. He said the Trojan passing stuck waa "punk and also told another tunny story. Allisoa Feels UJ Coach Leonard "Stub Allison of California waa not exactly cheerful over the outlook for the game with Washington In Seattle this weekend. He said he lost his appetite whoa he learned that Dean McAdams. star Washington back, could punt . as well la the mud as oa a dry field. . His scouU returned with re porU that the Washington team. undefeated la the conference and the pre-aeasoa championship choice, was as strong a had been suspected. Jesse James, No Robber, tg Show Body beautiful parades at Sa lem s armory Wedaesday night under the name of Jeaae James, who Is guaranteed by Rassle Pro moter Hsrb Owen as no robber. James, a Greek Adonis, makes his Salem grapple debut against big George KlUmlller. the rough, tough meanle from Portland. Bob Kruse and Dude Chick come together la a strictly scien tific bout In the semifinal, while Tro Eto and Jack Klser measure each other la the opener. Atherton Visits OSC CORVALLIS. Ore., Oct. ll-tfV Edwin Atherton. coast conference athletic commissioner, began a routine investigation ot Oregon t a a s :- ;:. CUT IX lZZXGZ,i&e-9t-: . - V ' . .' 4-aJl 1tJ..J I - i L J L 1 . , ' . ,( . . ;.. OF POaiLAWD 8 a riniAi iioiit iNtaiind oioitio8 nini Big Redls Challenged By Irish; Aggies Th ird ; By BILL BONI1 1 NEW YORK Oct 21 fAPi-rncn's football team. still riding: high asthe country's No. 1 eleven in the eyes of the experts, was challenged from a new Quarter today in the second Associated Press ranking poll of the season. Texas A and Mr top team a year ago and runner-op last week, 'rave way to Notre Dame as the Irish! off their si-o, sT-man romp over carnegie- Tech, sooraed from sixth place In to second. While Cornell again hogged better than half the first- place votes 81 out of 111 El mer Layden's crew, possibly one of the finest teams Notre Dame has had. scored heavily la the lower brackets" to total 1111 points to the Big Red's winning uts. ' ;. 1 If any further proof were need ed that Michigan against Perm at Ann Arbor -will "be next Satur day's major attraction, the poll supplied It, For the nation's sports editors placed both of these all-winning teams la the first ten, keeping Mich Iran in third place In It first-place votes and 101 polnU aad moving Pena up - a notch to eighth- with 11. Stanford Moves ap There was no change In the makeup of the top ten, but there was considerable reshuffling. The Texas Aggies went from second to fourth, with 1017 polnU; Ten nessee retained fifth place, oa 810; Minnesota, winner over Washington. Nebraska and Ohio SUts. climbed to sixth with -817; Northwestern slid from fourth to seventh. Ill, and - SUnford. up from Unth to ninth oa ISO polnU, changed places with Boston college,- which got Sit. Cornell should get 1U biggest mid-season test this weekend, when Ohio SUU. beaten twice but "hopped up to get revenge tor that 111 trimming, comes to Ithaca. Stanford will face a major ob stacle to 1U Coast conference hopes in comebacking Southern California. The raakinga (polnU figured on 10-0-8-7, etc. basis, first-place votes la parenthesis): 1. OormeU (tHf) 1,4 TS a. Kotro Daano (80) 1,101 a. Michigan (IS) 1.04O 4. Texas A aad X CIS) 1,057 &. Teaaraeeo. (0) SSO 6. Mlnmveeotn (8) S17 T. KorUi western 80- 8. Peaut . 589 0. Stanford SSO 10. Boston. coTiego - 834 Second tea 11. Fordham 104; 11. Texas 107; IS. Clemsoa (1) 88; 14. Mississippi (1) 80; 18. Georgetown St; 18. Washington 28; 17. Southern California IS: 18. Nebraska 12; 19 Southern MethodiC11:"Z0. Columbia. 8;- Also-raa Penn SUte 8. Ohio SUU aad Detroit S each, Baylor, Duke and Navy 4 each. California S. Mississippi SUte. Georgia Tech. Texas. Tech and Wake Forest 2 each. Missouri and Colorado 1 each. JVs, SilYerton Bees Meet Salem high's wlnless Jayvee football team tries once more as It entertains the 8 11 vert ton Bees la a rematch here this aftsraooa at I o'clock. The two teams played a f-l tie at SUrertoa three weeks ego. SUte college freshmaa football players today. iot7 Cost Financing Baifds Banfi Credit - - - ....... m a a a .- . - ycur czzzr ccc-j Fans Think ND Is Unbeatable Jiah Held InYiuciblo by Thousands, but Lay den Worries a Little By EARL HTLLXGAN (JP)-Notre Dame's football for tunes appear to be headed this tall for the game's big "Jackpot -aa undefeated aad untied sea son. Thousands of fans who watched the Irish - Juggernaut roll over Carnegie Tech. 81 to t. last Sat urday left Memorial stadium con vinced that ao team will stop the Elmer Laydea eleven this cam paign, aad that the 1940 Dish machine will take 1U place as oae ot the great combinations la the school's gridiron history. But Coach Laydea Isn't that optimistic, at least on the surface. He Indicated after the Carnegie rout, la which he used every player on his bench In an honest effort to keep dowa the score, that he would have liked more opposition, 'not only from Tech but from the two previous Irish victims. Georgia Tech and College of the Pacific Laydea Worries It worries me a little that sky first stringers, particularly my firrt back fie Id ot Bob Har grave. Stove Juswtk. Bob Saggau and Milt Plepul, aren't getting ulU enough actual game work to stay la top shape. he said. Against Georgia Tech. which' the Irish turned back. 28 to 20. the first stringers were used about li minutes. Last Saturday the first team backfleld played only the last seven minutes of the opening period and the second quarter, never seeing action la the last half. While Carnegie didn't offer much opposition, the Irish reserves performed well. In dicating that Layden's pre seaeoa worries about replacements hare just about vanished. One writer remarked: "Before this season Is over this team will make you forget all about those great Rockne machines." Hopslers to Play Amity 11 Friday INDEPENDENCE The lade pendence Hopsters will meet the Amity high football squad ta the Hop Bowl Friday night. This will bo the second league game for the Hopmea. The first was with Monmouth high, which the local team won IS to 0. A tough battle Is anticipated aa Amity walked over Dallas high la last week's game. in