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f tlslbrAs Tackle male ?(Crf Ca&tihainiMiit By 40 to 32; Goiiirit m Tear s ip Sparks By RON GEMMELL Anioiuicement of Dick Weis gerber as one of the six Western International league umpires for this season means the ex Willamette juggernaut means to quit the play-for-pay grid racket V. The Flying Dutch man had to agree "to stay through the WI season, or else. Since there is more of a future to bawling out strikes and balls than collecting pop bottles, it's probably a good thing Judge J, Stanley Webster piped the Jaw to hie Dick . . Pro football is a short-lived occupation, while um nires so on forever unless, of . course, 'the hawkers quit ser vicing dusty throats via the paper cup method. Including Weisy, only three of last year's indicator twirlers return . . The other two are - the large Mr. Amby Moran and the slight Mr. Harvey Nelson. Leo Kallis, one of the three newcomers, Is an ex-Pacific Coast league ump whom, I'm told, rrew too fat for the job. He's reduced now, and Prexy Webster means to see that he and the rest of his hired hands, stay that way. Hrt Pol a th old southnaw. ij could have had his job back but demanded too much folding, 'tis reported ... A bit sorry Bert won't be on deck, as this depart ment rather appraised him as among the better boys behind the platter. O Splashers Do Okeh. Leah Smith and Janet Rogers, Salem's two swimming sweet hearts now- splashing for Mult mah club, both ; did mighty fine In their first meet under the Winged M . . During the state AAU meet last weekend, Janet placed fifth in the 100-meter, while Leah was fourth in the 100 meter freestyle for 14-year-olds, third in the junior women's 100 meter freestyle event . . . Keep cutting the water gals. ' -Len Ratto, Wenatchee short stop of last season, sets an op portunity to take over Gerry Priddy's pasture in the Kansas City American Association line up. . Len may oe aoie to Afield the spot ably enough, bat his .266 hickory mark with the Chiefs doesn't predict too much for him in that department. Art Perry's Medford Mail-Tribune Smudge Pot boils some more: "Upstate hoop prognostica tori still ignore Klamath FaWs as state title threat . On the face of j Salem's showing here, the Pelicans could dismantle them without working up a lively sweat, as they did the cream of thi section's quint. . . They may have two handicaps. . . One is lack of wind and the other is this department's belief they are champions to be." Another handicap, Mr. Perry, . is the fact that the Pelicans are notoriously poor tournament competitors. . Tear after year they arrive in Salem, looking like the best club In the state, play two games and go home. Watch Axemen. - - ' '"!" Fritz Kramer's Eugene Axemen may be included as another team that'll bear watching in the state hooperee. .The Eugene team has Just begun to come along, and in three weeks more is likely to make some others sit up and take notice. Three of Ruby Robert Brown's Capilanos of last sea son 'get shots with the Los An geles . Angels this spring. . . . They Include Sammy, Samham mer, who wrecked our Solons every time he" came to town; -I. f Wellington "Wimpy" Quinn, who swatted across 150 runs last season and improved great ly at the lb stand; and Wally , Carroll, who brewed a cap of coffee with the Caps early In the year. Add another who believes Klamath Falls to be the next state h 6 o p champ: Bill Bowerman, football and track coach at Med ford. . . Bill, incidentally, and Vern Gilmore of the Viks are brewing some track medicine for spring. ' . By the way, when might Sa lem meet the Pelicans In the state show? . . . If they meet. It'll be the afternoon of the sec , ond day in the quarterfinals and '. Salem will , have already conquered the district IS champ While K. Falls will have al- ., - ready victimized : the district 4 champ -' (Ashland, .Medford of Roseburg . Monmouth Enters - 4 . u . - -- ...... . : - - ". WONMOUTH - Friday night Monmouth high "will journey to McMinnville to participate In the B ;,league . district tourney. .They will play the Yamhill ' B league : champs,'-Dayton high. . Kblb, Eberly End Collegiate Caging WU Needs Victory It's the final court canter of the yearTor the Willamette Bearcats tonight when they engage the Pacific U Badgers here at 8:45, and the Salem collegians must post a win to assure them selves of at least a co-championship of the Northwest conference. While College of Puget Sound currently trails the 'Cats by a half game, the Loggers have two yet to play with Linfield at Tacoma Pacific handed the Bearcats a 13 -point drubbing at Hillsboro S tt J -! V i ... - - r:ft-';? r ' " - i JOHNNY KOLB HOWARD EBERLY Cougars Hold Secret Drill For Huskies PULLMAN, Feb. 20-()-T h e Washington State college basket ball team performed before empty seats In a locked gymnasium to day while Graduate Manager Earl Foster was predicting the crowd would have to be tucked in with a shoe horn when State's Cougars and the University of Washington Huskies renew hostil ities tomorrow and S at u r da y nights. Ten thousand people saw each of the two games in Seattle, which the Cougars won. The WSC gym will seat only 5600. s In holding secret practices, Coach Jack Friel was using the same strategy he favored before the Seattle series, when iis nor thern division pace-setter! switch ed from man-to-man to ione de- , , . 1 At T T-. . T iw tumuuuu uie xatjsJiies. Friel said he would jstart his usual varsity, with Kirk Gebert and Capt. Ray Sunquist as guards, Paul Lindeman at center and Vern Butts and Dale Gentry as forwards. Deferment Is Not Asked DETROIT, Feb. 2(H)-Ben O. Shepherd, chairman of local draft board No. 23, said tonight in com menting on a Detroit Free Press story that Hank Greenberg was asking "occupational deferment" from the draft: "That part of it is not true un less he (Greenberg) has done so in the last couple of days." I - - What Ho! Jints Launch Gripe at Training Camp -Thev Sav It's Too. Too Nice By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Feb. 20-P)-A plaintive bleat is heard from the spring headquarters of the New York Giants at Miami, the com plaint leaving "the impression the athletes can't get used to wearing shoes and sleeping on cobless mattresses. : 1 The boys say the hotel is just too darned nice. Shades of your Aunt Ida! Here is bunch of healthy .young, men, living, on the fat of Horace . Stoneham's pocket book, and complaining about It -yet.- They grouse around when they ! don't think they get enough nToney to live in the style to which they'd like " to become accustomed, - and . they grouse around when they are accommodated in a style , to which they" arent j accustomed. JThe major league ball players of today are" a pampered lot Soaost ! thaffi are not long out two weeks ago, 47 to 34, and Happy Howard Maple's gang is eyeing revenge as well as the con ference pennant. x Northwest Conference Standinn W L Pet Pf Pa Willamette S 2 .774 309 307 CPS . 4 t .607 259 241 Llnfif-ld . 3 3 ;50 21 S 209 Pacific 3 4 .42$ 24C 231 Whitman ?. 3 S J75 350 373 C Of Idaho 1 3 JZ54 148 167 Coach Pete Miller's Badgers need victory for a .500 season in the loop, and they, too, are ex pected to shoot the works tonight The game marks the final col legiate basketball competition for Jolting Johnny Kolb, steady guard, and lanky Howard Eberly, tall pivoter who has been ex periencing his worst season in Bearcat livery. Willamette s starting lineup is expected to include Kolb, Eberly, Sum Gallaher, Clint Cameron and Earl Toolson. Probable starters for Pacific will be Slyter, Reed, Johnson, Osburn and Haller. Bowling Scores INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE Rice's Men's Shoes Handicap 95 95 85285 Filler McDowell Pimsner Rice Manser . . 168 130 119417 179 148 202529 192 151 170513 159 189 139487 193 150 182531 Totals Coca Cola ... Handicap Cline, jr. .... Nagel Patterson .... Ecker Bone 896 869 907 2762 83 83 199 137 194 138 157 125 192 140 220 187 83249 202538 134466 101 383 159491 174581 Totals . 1045 810 853 2708 Goldle's Handicap De Guirc Herr Towe Warwick Bill Jones Totals La Roche's Handicap Klinger La Roche .... Koenig White Atkins 125 121 160 139 . 109 122 125 125375 135 131387 166 157483 143 168450 195 159463 170 -184456 770 834 904 2614 120 170 . 130 - 145 152 .. 153 120 120360 111 117398 131 152413 196 151492 124 144 420 176 J50 479 TotaJs 1 870 858 834 2562 Mary-Doc-Nobles Handicap 82 Bud Hart , 189 Coons 179 Cal Groves . 156 Dockins - 173 Dahlberg 149 Tota'-s 928 Bill Davis Handicap 131 Davis 161 Needham 197 Talbot 165 Savage 146 Foster . 143 Totals 843 R2 82246 177 1 54520 152 188519 152 138446 140 144457 156 168473 859 874 2661 131 131393 154 168483 188 122507 155 166 486 114 172 432 120 157420 862 916 2721 State Printers Handicap ..... . 80 90 80270 149 153 168470 Hart Blair 179 161 134474 Unruh : 180 157 183520 Mills, jr. 166 143 153462 Mills, sr. 157 180 178515 Totals 921 884 90S 2711 Woodburn Handicap Austin Hicks Sharey Perd Steele 121 121 121363 141 M45 145 431 161 147 168479 136 178 143457 128 169 - 170465 180 144 183507 Totals 869 904 930 2699 V 83 83249 151 187502 146 115 419 234 185586 131 140432 157 175478 902 889 2666 109 106318 180 174614 187 176508 141 141 213333 203 157498 196 158498 Standard Oil Co. Handicap McAie .. PaLmateer , 83 164 168 Ramp 167 161 146 Loucks Edwards Totals . 879 Hartman Bros. Handicap H. Barr Welch Hartman Tall man 106 160 149 120 139 144 K. Earr Jaskowskl Totals : 814 1017 984 2815 of bush leagues where they play ed all afternoon on freshly plow ed diamonds and sat up all night in hayrack-springed busses, but it's surprising how quickly they can adopt a new mode of life and complain because their T-bone steaks weren't medium rare, for getting there was a time they were complaining because their T-bone steaks Just 'weren't. Consequently, it's something of a surprise to hear that the' ac commodations at Miami are a lit tle too swank. We always thought that nothing was too good ' for a ball player as long as - someone else was picking up the checks, i It's easy to understand why" a rookie from some whistle-stop town might be awed and in at ease when tossed abruptly into boiled-shirt .surrounding. We nearly starred to death our ; selves once -when"; we - didnt bare anybody to watch so we'd the tight fork, Salem, Oregon, Friday Don't Look now, Dodgers . v- -r '4. But here are those pesky Giants, TV ' V PL it -' V V Gabby llartnett, their new coach, throwing a ball while Carl lluD bell looks on. Winter must be over. - Light-Heavyweight Muddle May Get Unraveled Some By SID NEW YORK, Feb. 20 (AP) him into the ring because he was thought fighting was better than night in Madison Square Garden the laughable light-heavyweight The one is Jimmy Webb, 23, cently out of St. -Louis, Houston and, finally, Dallas. When he was 14 his mother figured there wasn't enough heft to his "tummy," and, somehow, decided he ought to try the ring to build himself up. He did. The other is Robert Tucker, who fights under the name of Tommy Tucker." He's the son of a Long Island dentist, but would rather knock teeth out than pull them. They'll tussle for 15 rounds in the first of a series of bouts de signed to have the feuding New York state athletic commission and the National Boxing associa tion kiss and make up on the mat ter of the logical 175-pound boss. The betting men have made Webb a 5 to 7 favorite. This corn er likes him to win. Webb hasn't lost a fight since November 21, 1939. Tucker has lost only three fights out of 63 since 1936. Warm Weather May Greet Skiers By The Associated Press Continued warm weather will prevail ("during the weekend with rain moving into the southern part of Oregon. -Snow will be light in the higher elevations. Timberline Lodge. Ore. Chains advised. Snow has normal pack, 77 Inches depth. Tow lift and chair lift operating. Government Camp, Ore. High way open. Thirteen inches snow, normal pack. Santiam Pass, Ore. Highway open. Breakable crust over - 34 Inches snow. Ground tow lift op erating. Some of the lads aren't awed by anything. It's difficult to Ima gine Pepper Martin with an in feriority complex anywhere, and as late as last summer we saw him in a high-class hotel dining room with tieless shirt open at the throat, a .six-day growth of beard and. the general air of own ing the joint. John McGray used to use good food and lodging as ' a lure ten bring his holdouts into line. At least he did In one instance. That was in the case of a fellow named Scott, who showed up at camp without signing his contract. McGraw ran him right off the reservation, telling him to feed himself until he saw fit to sign. Scott hung around several days, watching his teammates stock up on Juicy steaks and all the trimmings, and day by- day he became- more wan and' emaci ated, until he could stand it no longer, lie signed and made the Morning. February 21, 1941 7 VT1 ? ' - .: -i hard at spring training. Pictured Is FEDER A fellow whose mamma sent "too skinny" and another who pulling teeth tangle tomorrow in the first step toward settling fuss. born in Little Rock, more re Titular Fight Strikes Snag A demand by Farmer John Friend, manager of Oregon Mid dleweight Champion Tony Kahut, that Powder Proctor agree to a return match inside of 30 days if he should win the title from Kahut, may have thrown a mon key wrench into the supposedly signed, sealed and delivered Proc-tor-Kahut session, Promoter Tex Salkeld reported Thursday. Friend's request was immedi ately granted by Proctor, who said that he thought he would beable to beat Kahut either time, but Proctor's father, who man ages him, wanted more time to think it over. Salkeld said he felt certain Fa ther Proctor would accept the terms, and was going ahead with the balance of the card, which is set for March 4. West Salem Wins WEST SALEM Coach Ralph A. Nelson's West Salem grade school hoop team defeated Brooks here Wednesday, 30 to 25. Brooks 25 Ash craft 6 J. Barlow 7 Truxall 8 Monaco 9 B. Barlow 31 West Salem 1 Wright Berth odomen 6 McCoy 17 Tamiyasu Earls Sub for Brooks: J. Ryland 1, dining room in nothing flat. That became known as the dread Scott case., Another complaint of the Gi ants this year is that their hotel is too far from the bright lights, leading to wonder as to just what they are training for. Night base ball, maybe. Anyway, our idea of an ideal training camp,. If the idea was to get the boys into condition and keep their minds on their work, was the one Connie Mack set up at Lake Charles, La. The food was fine at the rambling . old hotel, the evening air undisturbed by anything but the croaking of frogs and the chirping of. crickets. But the Athletics finished sev enth that year.- The National league champion Reds trained at Tampa and the American league champion Yankees at St. Pe tersburg, so maybe this peace and jquiet business can be over done. .- - : f- r - ; - M v i. sT x - W m 1 . t m y - v. - m oower oass To Put Contest Away : - By RON GEMMELL ' ; f " " -. Statesman Sports Editor "I .Don Bower stabbed hemp with two baskets in the final minute to assure Salem high's hustling hoopers a victory over Astoria, 40 to 32, as the 14th and D streets hoopatorium's largest crowd ever look on Thursday night. . It was lithe Don's only dunking of the game, and Salem's sole field goal collection of the quarter, but the two net-trippers -the first a deep corner one-hander and the second off a bril j liant steal ana Iioor-iengxn was warmest. In scoring their second win of the year over the Flying Fisher men, the Viks started moving on Bud Coons' two honeys from far out just before the first quar ter's end, overtook them with 55 seconds of the second quarter played and never again relin quished the lead. The teams go at it again to night at 7:30, with a prelimi nary billed at 6. Salem and As toria scores thus far in the sea son's four-game series: At As toria, Astoria 43, Salem 33, and Salem 31. Astoria 24; at Salem, Salem 40, Astoria 32. Whiie it couldn't hold sweet pitching Roy Seeberg from sink ing 15 points for game's individ ual tops, the Viking defense from midway of the first quarter on was the best exhibited on the Sa lem court this year. . Astoria, with Lowold matching Dutch Simmons' opening basket and with Seeborg, Lowold and Wirkkunen all hitting, held a 11 10 first quarter lead. The score was ' twice more tied during the period, once on Simmons fast break cripple at 4-4 and again on Salstrom's howitter from far out at 6-6. Bud Coons took up in the sec ond quarter where he left off in the first, pumping home the open ing basket on his third successive one-hand pitch without a miss. It hit just 25 seconds after the period's start to give Salem a 12-11 lead, and the Viks stayed on the score's long end the rest of the route. Ilalftime Count 21-14 Salstrom, Simmons and Irish combined to push the count to 21-14 by half time Salstrom net ting a' free throw, Simmons a fast break cripple, Irish a two-pointer on a swing from the. key and then another on a rebound and Sal strom sinking a cripple off a pretty pass by Bud Coons while Seeborg and Moore were getting three points for Astoria. With three minutes of the third quarter played, the Viks had hus tled their margin up to nine points, at 27-18, and boosted it to 10 points just before the per iod's end. Moore cut it down just at the whistle, 34-26, by tanking a rebound. Simmons Gets 13 With Salem showing signs of tiring and with Astoria's reserves playing most of the way, the last quarter slowed down consider ably. Each team tripped in six points, but four of Salem's didn't come until the final minute and the game wasn't cinched until Bower 'flashed in his two baskets. Dutch Simmons, with six field goals and one gifter, scored 13 points to press Seeborg. Two of Simmons' baskets were two-hand ed howitzers that nearly tore .the nets off something new for the Vikings' speed demon. Speed and better backboard control provided t"h e margin Simmons and Salstrom ou tracing the Astoria guards and Irish and Coons controlling backboard play. Wally Palmberg substituted frequently, while Coach Hauk let his varsity five ramble until the final five seconds. Astoria (32) Lowold, f Peterson, f Love, f Hoff, f Parkder, c Moore, c 8 10 3 2 1 0 3 6 12 4 1 Fg 3 0 0 0 0 1 1 6 0 1 Ft Tp 1 0 0 0 0 1 2 3 1 0 7 0 0 0 0 3 4 15 1 2 Wirkkunen, g R. Seeborg, g K. Seeborg, g Mittet, g Totals 42 12 8 32 Salem (40) Salstrom, f Simmons, f Bowersox, f Pearmine, f Irish, c Cutler, c Coons, g " Bower, g Ling, g 18 13 0 0 . 1 0 10 8 0 3 6 0 0 s 0 4 2 0 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 13 0 0 6 0 8 41 0 Totals 60 18 4 40 Personal fouls: Salstrom 3, Sim mons 2, Irish 3, Coons, Bower 2, Love, Peterson, Parker 2, Moore, R. Seeborg. .Millett Free throws missed: Salstrom 3. Coons, Bower, Moore, Wirkkunen 3, R. Seeborg 3, Millet Shooting percentages: Salem .300 Astoria .283. - Officials: B. Wiliams and M. Allen, Salem. . Hubbard Wins HUBBARD The Hubbard hlrfi school basketball team dared their ' last game - of the season Tuesday night, defeating the Mt Angel B team 38 to 30. The sec ond string also defeated the Mt Angel second B string. v . sn rwi : n --Jim jl l wo Dasneis a . . : - oxiDDie came wneu me pressure M v -V1 DON BOWER t .... - v - ii . : - . . "i - LA Ii Zale, Mamakos Mix Creates Excitement in Old Cliidairo CHICAGO, Feb. 20-()-Somet of the hardest hitters in boxing's! middleweight division will blast away at the stadium tomorrow night in the first championship fight card here in three years and the fans are showing an un- usual degree of excitement about M it Tony Zale of Gary, Ind., the Na-i tional Boxing association's- 160-1 pound champion, will risk his crown against Steve Mamakos of Washington, DC, in the top bout of a card which also features a match between Al Hostak, who lost his title to Zale, and George Burnett, negro slugger from Detroit Bill Rand, promoter -of tomor row night's activities, predicts about 12,000 customers will con tribute a gate of some $30,000. Hostak on Card The punching ability of several featured members of the cast has heightened interest in the showJ Mamakos, young soldier-fighter on leave from the District of Colum bia national guard, is a bore-in, two-fisted battler. He lost a deci sion to Zale earlier this year but figures hell do better over the 15 round route tomorrow night Zale, predicts hell win by a knockout before the eighth round. Hostak, one of the game's sharp est hitters who has been handi capped by brittle hands, has a chance to get his comeback at tempt away to a flying start by whipping Burnett in their 10 rounder. The Detroit fighter has a knockout punch of his own and this bout has the bettors guessing. Grid Practice Opens at WU Spring football practice opens at Willamette U next Monday aft ernoon, announced Coach R. S. "Spec" Keene Thursday. The veteran mentor, who is currently on the semi-sick list with a sinus infection, said grid drills would be held daily while the good weather lasts. "We expect several newcom ers out," said Keene, including Al Barrett, former center for Franklin high of Portland." Spring drill became almost a "must" this year in order to get in the necessary work on the new man-in-motion .- offense adopted last fall and to experiment with the new rules changes. ; Practice will continue at least until "state basketball tournament time, Keene said, utilizing . only the good weather days. Monmouth Edges Willamina Five MONMOUTH la a Polk-Yamhill A league game here Tuesday night Monmouth high defeated Willamina high 29-28. Davis dropped in a bucket and a gift shot to give the visitors a lead which they maintained until ten seconds before the final horn, when the game was tied up at 28 alL Williams of. Monmouth,' with two gift shots coming up, caged the first one, then elected to take possession of the ball out of bounds, and played keep-away until the gong. At half time, Wil lamina led 17-13. The Monmouth Bees won 18 to 17. Monmouth 23 23 Willamina Crook 8 . - 2 Brown Tfltoiv 10 - 2 Lawson Williams 8 . 2 Stinson BUSS 5 1 KifnT Peppers .17 Davis Sub for Willamina, Con 4. . .. Referee: Beard, Salem. Jayvees Drop Jefferson 1 1 - - ' i t - f f Salem high's JJayvees, -behind until the final; quarter,' took a 28 to - 22. decision, from. Jefferson highVThursdayt night " j : I Page 'and Jozies canned, baskets after, the score was knotted 22-22 on Ransom's basket ? ' Jefferson 22 .tf Jayvees Wickham 61 - Williams Barna 2 f 1 " ' Crothers Cole 6 j - ' 3 Jones Weir 6 I Haag Henderson f Sederstrom Subs of Jayyees: Svarverud 3, Page 4. Neimeyer 5, Ransom 6. For Jefferson Huber 2. Craigs; uniurl 1st Half Flag Craigs put away the ; Erst-half championship pf ) the City ! Minor basketball loop Thursdays night with a 32 to 30 -victory over the Willamette Bearcubs. jj At wood of the Cubs topped in dividual tosserS with 13, followed by J. Rawlins of Craigs with 9. Craigs 32 HofferT7 Miller 7 Loweiry 3 J. Rawlins 9 Yarnell 6 30 Bearcubs 7 Schaad 6 Kern 13 Atwood I ! Davis 3 Deiner t Denver Slate'd For PGA Meet ! - DENVER, Fib, 20.-OP)-It took only a month'g campaigning, plus a 15,000 guarantee; to land the national PGA golf tournament for Denver next summer. Tom Walsh, president of the Professional Gjolfers association, announced at Miami today that a poll of the tournament committee won approval j for the meet at Cherry Hills hre July 7 to 13. i I if - 4' Xf - i- t ill u y TONY ZALE J i : This will be-the first time the- colorful match "play event for the cash collectors pf the fairways has been staged in '.the mountain sec tion. The first national open ever held in the west was played at Cherry Hills inj 1938.. Ralph Guldail, who hasn't been .doing much in a tiUe-winning way lately, parlayed a liking for Cher ry Hflls greens and a vast confi dence in himself into his second consecutive national open cham pionship that ypar. r befendeirs Ready tor AAU Tourney j PORTLAND. Feb. 20iP)-The class A and B defending cham pions, Rubenstein's Oregonians of Eugene, and McKee Bakers, $pringfield, will be on hand next week for the annual AAU basket ball tournament. Dr. Eurrn Ovm hatV.thtiii eommittee chairman, said they Were among several teams already entered. - - t i yjiuicrs. lnciuaea tugene Aleuio- Class A, Booth Kelley CardinalsT Wendling, and Wooden Box, Bend, in class B. i When Olhers FaUf i aiBC 8CCCSS fr SOOO yr, ia CHLA. KtiBttttr witk vk y art ArilJCTEO dii r4m, siaasitic kmn. luf. lirrr. ki4a7, iMutk Mr catuptlm. lcn. aUabcti avr. aiia. .fa aval c plaigf 1 Charlie Chan Cniaeso Herb Co OtSc Haara Omij Taaa. a4 Eat, ; S av a. to ft, C MS Bra. aa Wa,'t av lt:St a, lrJ If. Ooml m Savkw. Or, i - "Ik.