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in 1 JUrs 8?tFP?eP it -;f - - By RON GE3IMELL Sparks Gather . -'round, here we go fagain.' despite blooming bad inck that last week enabled us to boot '-home but six winner in nine "amed (although two ot: those Most .were ties) , Right last week werej'tbe nods to the Vlks .over Chemawa, tbe' Bearcats oyer CPS. Oregon State' over Ajela. Stanford over' USC. Washington over , California: and Pacific, over . Whitman ; wrong: wsu over ' Oregon " (tie)'.' Santa Clara 'over i Michigan ' State (tie) and Ford i-ham over St.; Mary's t upset).. i FiraV: up or "consideration , be r. lore. Judge Prog -is . tne - saiem - Aetoria gaJJop. tonight, in whicfc old , Cy Psychology is 'chief coun .' eef for Ithe Fishermen . V. The reason is," evident:, ,Asjtqria,v.,with . one loss, 7 Is coming' up -to" the capital city In a self, styled giant 7 kiUer.'role.Twhile undefeated Sa- ; lem Is very Ypt to attempt to rest on laurels already gained. . . " : The .Vlks are certain to meet i the toughest, defensive oatflt i they're-encountered, and at the 4',- same time will have their own !;; defense tested as It never, be-i"'- fore this year has been. f.' We're all going to learn more ' a boot the: potency of - Coach Harold Hank's team tonight, : bot until we've been shown dif ferently we're going- to stick with It. Call. ft 1 Vlks 1, Aa rt torfa O. i -. . r Common Sense Wins:-. First - reaction- after , watching the -physical whaling given ; the Marine! and CP3 Lumberjacks by ur Willamettes Is to name tnem probable, winners over anything ' they, miaht Dlav. . .. The kind of football they put together In - those two games would at first blush warrant such nomination. Common sense reasoning, how ever, not only calls a halt to any brash thought of Willamette shov ing the burly Gonzagas around as they did the Leathernecks and Lumberjacks. . . The Bearcats, If they play the same type of game they did against CPS, will . give Gonzaga much more of a scare than Puggv Hunton's lads are looking for. but to name the 'Cats winners would be like, nam ing the Marines victors over any Pacific Coast conference entry, f 7 We sincerely hope Sir keene'a . charges prove us wrong, bnt until they do we'll have to string along : with old man common sense, who declares the 'Cats tomorrow are going jnst a little too far out of their . class. . . Make It: Gonzaga 20, Willamette O. Bevo, Indian Duck. . r It is to be hoped that . Lon Btiner reads the San Francisco papers to his .Beaver ,boys for down In the bay area they are freely predicting a victory by the very mad Calif ornlas when the Bears and Bevos clash at Berke ley tomorrow. We also foresee a ; whale , of a battle for the Orange, but must give them the edge. . . It's . Oregon State 13, California 7. ' . .' Biggest upset that could oc 1 nr in coast conference play : woaM be for the five-times de- feated Uclas to knock over the ' : fi ve-t tmes victorious Stanf ords . . Nothing's impossible, bnt . who's going to call It that way? I . Our nod: Stanford 21, tela 0. - , i . ',: Oregon Ducks are due to get In gear for the first time this season as they play rough host to Doug Fessen den's Montanans, at Eu- gene tomorrow. ; . While the Webfoots were extremely lucky .to tie WSC last week; there will be no luck to their 'ramble over the Grizzlies, r. . Here 'tis: Ore gon 19,' Montana 0. - Pacific and-Whitman. j -1 r. At Moscow, it'll Just be a case f how much of a score Babe Hol lingbery wants to run up on the Idaho;. . . Inasmuch as the Babe and .Ted Banks are n friendly terms, and Inasmuch as , Bank Is already facing the alumni firing squad, l we have an Idea the Babe will ba content with a win. . Let It be: WSC 14, Idahtf 0. WitH all due respect, to Matty tlathenrs, who recently wa qnot- d as saying his boys "nave a thanee against St. Mary's In Port land.. Kunday, we aren't able . to see where It ; is. i . St. - Mary's 17; Portland U 0. . . The Santa Clara' 'Broncs should .ride over San Francisco's Dons In the other Sunday sashay, 21 to 7. " . In the two Northwest eon f fereace clashes schednled, ' pa fclfie and Whitman ahonld post : wins.'. . We favor Pacific over I CIS on two counts: (1) Be- causo ef .Len Gllman, and (2)' because of the terrible physical : beat Lag the Loggers took here I last week. . i The nominctlosts: r Pacific 7, CPS O; Whitman 15, Uafield 7. --j Jefferson Bills -? Harrier-Meeting 7 JEFFERSON A eross-eountry tua over the Jefferson two-mile course : 1 scheduled :r for Novem ber II, . with Invitations in the mail to Salem, Chemawa and Mt. 'Angel of the -A division schools and to, Hubbard.' Gervais and Tar ter ct'the B division. 77, ? Coach Pat Beat is la . charge f tbameet, which will be divided into: three runs. The first will be a run by all competitors and the Ifcrri and tiird run will be by tii 9 two classes. ' Ji'irson .will alo titer tie e.; rreet at Portland November : . .e A. 12. KIXTO.V TAPJI 1 tiles T.st oi' fctsytoa 2Zs.tl.et llOTa v ' r . r, llwr. 3 - .' Dutch Simmons, swift rambling - ' lngs, cocks his arm for a forward eral of them tonight when tbe straight victory at the expense .- man photo. . - . j 1 i 1 - Salem. Oregon. Friday Morning. Noromber 1. 1910 Statistics Back up Haraon's i Rating of Nation's Top Back 1 By GAIL FOWLER SEATTLE, Oct. 31(APA pep-asus in the air. a Man o War on the ground And a Percheron for work that's Tom Harmon. Michigan s great halfback, as reflected in American football statistical bureau figures released .today. ? ' For, the second straight week Harmon leads the nation a foot ball 1 total offense leaders in gains from both . rushing and passing. He's run the ball .180 yards and passed It 2(3 yards In five games for a total of 833 yards. He's figured In 14 plays, which makes him the work horse c this week's ton ten.-The 1039 work horse at this stage was Ernie Lain of Rice with: 130 plays. Addi tionally, Harmon averaged 166.8 yards per game and 5.08 per play In rushing onjy, Harmon jumped from third to first, and oddly enough, the figures-show his teammate. Bob West fall, has figured in two more rushing plays than Harmon 116 to 114. West fall ranks fourth as a rusher. AUerdlce Top Tosser Dave AUerdlce of Princeton continues to head the passers In the number of completions, the classification by which the bureau ranks the airmen, having hit his target 45 times In 36 attempts. But he shares honors In some of the other passing departments. Pitching Paul Chrlstman 01 Missouri has thrown the ball more than anybody else, .38 times, and has gained the most aerial yards, 616. And one reason for Cornell s fine team" showing may be found in the figures for Halfback Hal McCulIough. . He's, completed 24 out of 36 for the highest listed percentage .667, and his aver age gain ' per attempt- leads all others, his tosses being good for 13.31 ysrds per pitch. The leaders: Total offense (gains rushing and passing) After Harmon comes Jack Jacobs, Oklahoma, 7S7 yards in four games; Al Ghee- quiere,- Detroit, 714 In five games; Johnny .Knolls", Creighton. 680 In five games; ' James Richardson, Mara. uette, 672. In four. games'; Gil Salcedo, Texas Mines, 664 la six 'games; ; Christman, Missouri, tu 11 live games; : cut uuaiey, Virginia, 641 in- four games, with figures unavailable on : his fifth game; Bill Sewell. ' Washington State.: 451' in five 'games,- and Owen Price,- Texas' Mines, 62 K In six games. - - . Sewell Is Close ' i " Rushing offense After Har mon, with 680 yards, cames Ghes qulere, Detroit, 678; Tony Gai lo vich, . Wak e Forest, first last week, 131: WestfaU, Michigan, 401; and Knolla, Creighton,"478. . Forward-passing - offense -Following AUerdlce are Sewell . of Washington State with 30 com pletions la SO tries; Christmas, Missouri, 36 of 38; Jacobs,' Okla homa. 86 of 54. and Dudley, Vir ginia SO of 64. . -i ;-. -. Punting Owen Price, Texas Mines. 47.19; Glenn Dobbs, Tulsa, who, booted a 70 yards out of bounds en Texas Christian's oae yard line last. week. 44.32; Dick McGowea, Auburn; fifth in -1930, 43.04; McClung, Colorado, 42.13, and Norman Standlee, Stxaford, 41.71. . ; Pass receiving Jack Jennings, Oklahoma, leada with-16 catches, followed by Humbert, Richmond, 14; O'Connor, Draks, 13; and White, Virginia, and Phil Roaeh. Texas Christian, 12 apiece. 7oIves to Play Reed 11 1I0NM0UT.H The Oregon Col lege of Education .Wolves will go to Portland Saturday afternoon for a return game with Reed col ore. Tie Tfclves defeated Pacific eollese at f'ewberg last Friday, 20-0. No Jetiermea r53rU!l.t game.. - r. . : . Z.-r- left winghack of Salem high's Vik pass. He hopes to complete sev Vlks attempt to bag tbelr sixtb of the Astoria Msheiieju---States- - j - . . ; : ; Grizzly Guard ywwssnyyjq 'v-- ; 1 "47 Hugh Edwards, stellar gnard af the Montana State anlverslty Grizzlies, who meet the Oregoat Ducks In Eugene Batarday. MISSISSIPPI MITE ?0r 1 7 : ; ( f6 v' :77Hpyib;!. 7.7. k 'J !'.-. -r fjjoTiJAU iJCt : i'r, 7 - A ) :: - , r ",v T-v m:7: -ryT : - :.;V ' A loT CP . Fislierme 11 Eve Role; Game ; . ' PROBABLE, LINEUPS . ; Name. ; " Pos. ' - Name ; , .Pearmine r .-; '." T.F.R ; - WfrVVunPw Thompson T ," TTR parker . No. Wt 34, 181, : 24: 186 17 - 162 23 184 c Cleveland ' ' "T;R Paitnn Boardman 16 168 220 - Wilson - " Rf!T; Jasper 35 20 ShnlsPth RTf. '- TfnnrA 210 121 175Haag. 13 1Z : . 145 . Hardy 10.- 155 7. Klspy , - Game Time': 8 p. ; . Astoria's Flying Fishermen tonight storm Salem high's 'j grid citadel with but one object in mind to lower the -Vlks among the once" defeated in . Oregon's high school pigskin parade.". " ": 7.- . . 7 " '.'7 ;;. , r.-.7.-- ... ,:7 The Astorias, headed by Coach Norville May. hone to earn the name of giant Jailer , ....... Coastal Grid; Camps Report Montanans on Way to UO; Ukcs Drill Privately; 'Stanford Ready MISSOULA. MotnC Oct.' Sl-UP) Montana State . university's grid squad, minns . one . backf leld ace, was enroute tonight to, Eugene, Ore., for Its - meeting with the University of Oregon Saturday. - William Jones, .fast . Montana halfback, punter and safety man. was left at home today with ,a swollen and bruised leg resulting from the Gonzaga game last week. Coach Douglas Fessenden said the Montana line was In excellent condition, but he was hoping for a dry field. Oregon will outweigh the Grlstlies more than 10 pounds to the man, he said. Uclas A11 Alone -LOS ANGELES, Oct. SlfV UCLA rooters left the Brnlm football sqnad drill In private today, while the coaching staff sent the team through a final hard practice for the Stanford Invasion.' . - Coach Babe Horrell, pleased over the spirit v shown by the appearance of ' the band "and cheering ' aectloa nit practice yesterday, decided to make to day's sesalon private, and set about adding' towchee t what he hope will be potent -f fease. . - Robesky to Start' .- PALO ALTO. Calif., Oct. 81 (yp-Ken Robesky will start at lsft guard In place of Injured Chuck Taylor against UCLA Saturday, Coach Clark Shaughnessy said to night as he and 40 members of the nndefeated, untied Stanford team boarded a Los - Angeles bound train. -Taylor Injured his ankle play ing against USC last week. Chemawa Is Ready For Indep Fracas CHEMAWA Coach , Bunny Bennett reports the Chemawa grid team's blocklnc and taekllnr has Improved 100 per cent, this week and' It should look consid erably better against Indepen dence Friday night. His announced starting lineup for the game includes Gardlpee and Jackson at ends, Adrian and Saluskln at tackles, George and P. Davis at guards. H. Halalre at center, Berger at quarter, - La Roeque and Desautel at halfbacks and Joseph at fulL 1 Giant IGller Begins at 8 P.M. Wt. No. .160. 14 i ;165 i;.22 lf5- 19 -145 "1 -165 -13 C - Pauldanis Q : - " McCallister 140 v 6 m. - - MbIpti ; 145 3 Mnnra-.viiR 12 m. -. by squelching a team that has thus far this season rolled relent- lessly over five opponents "and which baa hunr.no ltl .aolnti" to 21 scored against it. - . - .. umy.once aeieaiea memseives, ana mas Bj a sienaer -s margin by Hood River, the Fisherman feel taer are catchinr the vik just right to knock them . from Aeir pedestal where they cling, alo,Dg, W.U5 LJP M th onJT sUte. Coach 'May's announced start !ng lineup shows a line some-nine pounds . to the man lighter, than the yiks. .If. published weights are correct, and. a backfield .that gives away, about three pounds to the man.. .; Headman Harold. Hank, of the Vlks, said his only lineup ehange from r that which started arainst Chemawa last, week would be at the fullback spot; where Blm Elsey returns to lake up his duties. He was out of the CorvalUs and Che mawa games with a wrenched leg.. ' Last year the Astorias downed the Vlks 12-3. In 1938 the score wss 19-14 In favor of the Vlks. and It was 26-14 In favor of the Salem preppers in 1937. .In 1936, first year of a Hauk coached Sa lem high team. It was a scoreless tie, .making the Salem mentor's record with Astoria teams read: Won 2, lost 1, tied 1. BeUoise-Overlin Is Billed 2f-T,' iSfKUlXPZ I Stere Bellolse. a local boy with a knockout punch bat vsrr Uttle polish, will attempt to blast Ken Overun loose from that position of the middleweight title which the Washington star holds In a lS-rounder tomorrow nlxht at Madison Square Garden. Overun has been recognised as 110-pound ehamp by the New York state athletic : commission since he slapped and smarted his way 10 a surprise victory . over Cefertno Garcia last summer. Bel lolse since then also has given the veteran rillplno a bad tea tin. and that mainly Is how he quali fied for this shot, at what some call the "muddlewelght" crown. Overlin quite properly Is the favorite, his backers -laying odds of g to E aralnat B-llnl... ..Mn. the verdict However, the latter'; supporters think their man has a good chance of tagging ' Overlin with- one . . of his trip-hammer rights, and they are laying 1 against I . that the champ lsnt around at the finish. TTjvnn lr.n.. Tm I Hoop Manager to Meet., ' All churches who plan to enter I teams In the senior church basket ball league are asked to have their managers present at a meeting In the T MCA Monday night at 8 o'clock. Physical ' Director . Carlton Grelder announced last night. By JackSordsl Scrap Trio of Gonzagans the 'Cats Vill Have to Stop BOB JONES End 7 lAghi Drill, -. upeniy fleiifirntea at the 1 rh&rvp rfpnnrtprl tKpmPlvP xr 7 t. i t" vceiic jrcaiciuy ici. wicm than a light signal drill and a Features . .The Keene fellow, although loathe to admit it, is endowed with the belief his boys are going to hamstring the mighty BuUdogs of Gonxaga In the little - that has been arranged through the wholesome 'conniving of the Longvlew, Wash., ' service clubs. Happy Howard Maple did 'the heavy work in 'yesterday's chalk eree. wielding,' the crayon ; fault lessly as he pointed out to the Bearcats what' they may expect from the Zags In the way of of fensive and defensive tactics; The Maple scouted Hunton's huskies when they slew the Pilot of Port land U, which had already romped on the Bearcats. Olsen Singled ont Keene. bsppy , over the high spirits of his entire ball' club. singled Wally Olsen out tor spe cial mention. The big Junior, who has been doing understudy work at the pivot slot for the last two years.' has been moved to guard, where he looks to be much. more at home. Or at war. In this ease. Outside of the sprained wrist being nursed .by - End Johnny Kolb. the squad Is almost free from Injuries. Joe Holland, -the little all-Amerlcan guard, suf fered a bruised alp In Wednes day's scrimmage, but Is expected to be ready Saturday night. - ; : i Leave at 2: SO p. m. : -The team, probably 35 strong. Satnrday afternoon. A stop will will, lea vs. here via bus at 2:30 be made In Portland for -victuals at 4 p:m.', and the Longvlew ar rival la slated at 6 p. m. Just In time to get on the parapher nalia and take to the grid. The student excursion leaves the campus at 10:30 Saturday morning. Students and band are to meet at the Montlcello'hotel at 4 p. m., from which point a. rally parade of the town will start. Wildcat, Gopher flux Spotlighted XVANSTON, ni., Oct. 11-P- . a V e - ..I a . f owwau s naiioiiai cnampionsnip l!Jht?l fVX. vision .in Dyche stadium Saturday Minnesota's. Goldeh Gophers and North western's Wildcats, both un defeated and . untied, will come together before a capacity crowd of 48.000. The full glare of 'the game's Intercollegiate spotlight Will IOCUS Ott tBlS bStUe. for It ranks as the day's No. 1 dueL Furthermore, the result will make or break the national title hopes of one or both elevens and likely will have' some effect on the rat ings of other leading teams. In addition, this battle should play a big- part in the final dis position of the Westsrn confer ence title. Intramural Loop Begins 3rd Round Second round of the four-team I City Intramural, grid loop gets ndsr.way on two fronts this af tsrnoon. with the thrice victor ious Parrish Ploaeers playinc the second place Reds at Olinger and Leslie's three-times defeated- el even host to the. third Place Greens at Leslie. ' Both aames are' scheduled to begin at 4 p.m. Bearcat Athletes To Get Training Two Willamette athletes. Tackle Georga Conittbls el the fdd dab land. Catcher Jimmy Robsrtson.of the : baseball nine, have been named among the tea stadeats se lected for clriliaa aeronautics pi lot training.- ' Bob Illnman. Willamette wing man oa the'1119 club, who is now studying law, was also among the ten,; ' ' . ' ' '. Turk Shoot Aire Billed BILVERTON Silver Falls Gun club is announcing a series of four tukey shoots at the grounds. The series will open November 8. There wiil.be sheets on both No vember 10 and November 11. Th final of this series has been set tor November 17. ; - f ' 8 V i "' Trr'.w lirrtrg TJ OtU l f trips rrtiB4 -Tw 4.f tut a. Cottf CECIL. HARE - Full back . . Heavy Talk Practice way his Willamette U. Bearcat in WAfinocHav'o untm fVioh il: m wxi wiui uuuiiiig mure aruuug heavier chalk talk. Zags Take Final ,; Muddy Scrimmage ' SPOKANE. 7 Oct, ll-MFVThe uonxaga university football aquad played It rough In a long, wind up scrimmage session tonight. - but ankle-deep mad was a cushion for the pile-ups and the last heavy workout for the Willamette game Saturday in Longvlew ended with out a casualty. , ' With Cecil Hare ooeratinr In tne right half position. Coach Pnggy Hunton experimented with two sophomores In Hare's fullback spot. One was Francis McBreen. expected earlier la the week to take over, the Job without opposi tion, and the other was Pete Pnpo, who developed: a sudden liking for the position and threat ened to edge McBreen off the starting lineup. i '.! s . ' Bullock Gets Ace,1: - Oak Knoll Course v ; . . . Third dodo cf.the season was registered on the Oak Knoll golf course. Jast Sub Jay when Earl Bullock f Salem, playing with Delmer Dewey and Al Cox, dean of men and coach at Oregon Col lege of Education, 'dropped his tee shot on the 118-yard number three. Bullock, using a number seven Cat at JavsonQ HARDIVEAVE Toke yoor eppecronce up a Hep. Select your " Kart!I??Jf tottitm for FoS., They rut the comvt cf stripes In every voriery. Interesting plold end chetk treatmenH; J Vtwia cor effects, herrins- bon thorbkin one! tw3 weoves. Every one ' odginol and erected axdwivefy for Harceove I i ond fhot means there w3 bt no more 7,1 7 , y OT Cc- Better sTvesrlgata fcoyt 7;' . JIAYSONO : DON DAVISSON Gnard Jaretz Given Splash Honors Dominate All-Am eri caif, - Swim Team; Teammata . 7 Kiefer Is Next - NEW TORK, Oct. tl-iVtte Jaretx, the heavyweight power- house ' sprinter from the Chicago. Towers club, dominates . the all America' swimming team, " an nounced today through "Tha Amateur . Athleter by Clyde 7 Swendsen of Los Angeles, . chair man of the AAU selection com-' mlttee. - The national indoor and' out-. door champion - was awarded five places the - 100 and 200-yard free style. Individual berths and key positions on ' three - relay teams. Ranked Just back of him was his teammate, Adolph Kiefer, 1936 Olympic back-stroke title- holder. ; Beet Medley Also . In addition to being named the best dorsal swimmer of the year. Kiefer was. selected as the out standing medley swimmer, listed for the backstroke leg on the medley relay team and as a free style performer on the 880-yard relay cuartet. The only repeaters from last year. In addition to Kiefer, were : Kyoeht Kakama of .Hawaii. Dick Hough of Princeton, Steve and Woxnlak of the - Buffalo TMCA and Al Patnik and Earl Clark. Ohio State divers. Iron, wag true to the green with his loft and It trickled straight into the cup. : . Previously this year. the num ber three hole has been need, as has also, number eight. VOUCMVGtT $3750 a. J as aw WORSTEDS v.. ; 1