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If Sparks Say:9alt HipHurrali! 11 F: o or By RON GE5DIELL ' ' ' - - J . J 1 'ITT q , Q pciay I An undefeated season for Willamette UTv. . At least an undefeated season in the Unit ed States of America? . . . Well, If you have any faith in these national " football rating : - sys tems, that's , the portent . One of the better known of . these rates an of Willamette's re maining opponents. with the ex ception of the UniTersitor of Ha waii, below the Bearcat. - Wfflamette is spotted in 115th Winn nmnnir the nation s C 1 1 d I teams, while Idaho at IS 1st is 18 places below, Whittier at 2401st Is I 85 places below. Pacific at 35 1st I is 238 places below, CPS at 325th is 210 places below and Whitman at 313th is 198 below, . v; Only Hawaii of the remaining oppon ents, at ilO 1st. rates in front of I the Bearcats. Of course, these ratines eome from the same . fellow who placed California at the top of the pack at season's outset, bat who since has dropped the Golden Bear clear down te 77 th. . . They eome from the game system which ' also rates Washington 14 places below Minnesota despite the fact the Huskies Tave the Gophers as rood a battle as they'll hare. probably, aU season. Maybe Willamette will prove to be better .than Whittier tomorrow night, better than Idaho ' next week, and so on, but just how the Bearcats, "whose games thus far have been against pure unadul terated pushovers, can at this time be rated 18 places better than Idaho, for instance, is Just a bit unfathomable. . . In fact, they can't. - , He Wasn't Ready! It was , a scorching nine holes Kenny Potts, the policy man, put together for hjs five-under-par 31 on the front nine of Salem's swing-and-cuss pasture Sunday, Kenny's card read 5-3-4-4-3-1-4 2-5 31, a par on number one, a bird on two, a slip on three, a bird on five, a hole-in-one on the par three number six. a bird on sev en, a bird on eight and a par on nine. : . - - His dodo, second he has banged home on the Salem lay- oat, was a fade shot that trick led right into the can, plonkt . His birdie on umber eight came on a chip shot from off the green and his bird on num- ' ber two came on a 48-foot putt ever nuT and date. . .' Ken cut at his 11 on . the first . nine after first firing a SI oa the back nine civinr hint a twe- vnder-71 for the round. . . And to think ho was the fellow who dldnt think he was quite In condition to play his fl 1 g h t match that dayt The dub tournament ends Sun day in what promises to be a lulu of a titular match between the defending champ, Walter McKln ley Cline, Jr., and Wiff Needham. When! both are at the top of their games, : Needham is a . wee bit longer hitter but Cline has better control of ''his woods and long irons. V.- It should be a sizzling hot match. ' t,ni . imiuji. u.m. m. i ii . wiiii.) L I. .pmww-M'm wm ; w , ' t . -- $. v 1 " - r ; - l f - i . tf 'v. . r-:y: rz, 1 ' 7,t . .' y - v. . V i y-y : j y j - 1 Wx - ' ' , ' r-' ' " :;. - ' -' f ;: l- -'v : - ,;; ? . . , : (.': J i .r -; ?;-v ' I ' f , ...j, , kJ'f ' --" - 1 --- ' - ' - - - - Medford Meets Scrum Reveals Defensive K. Falls in Strength; Qgdahl, White Prep Classic, Nursing Severe Bruises Friday night in a game that pits together undefeated Medlord and Klamath Tails. - ; Medford, the T - formation teasa, has marched to three straight victories and s southern Oregon conference leadership tie with Klamath Falls, a power team of the old school that has , won fire games. Winner of the . fray probably will coast to the conference title, and will be one of the favorites for the state The r 11 be stepping Ugh for the Bearcats of Willamette Friday night, will these majorettes. They'll bo leading the band for the Bearcat band which opposes the Foots of Whittier hi a football game at Sweetland. - Members of this perky loursomo, mm ion, are: Barnara rati, sophomore from Canby; Donna Belle Savage, freshman from Salem; Margy Smith, freshman from Camas; and Virginia Loop, freshman frm Brownsville- Statesman photo. ' -' ': :.-. : - ' :': 1 ' -' Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, October II. 1941 Simmons Works At Fullback ForViliaub Coach Harold Hauk had his star ball-carrier, Dutch Simmons, the regular left halfback, learn ing fullback chores in Wednes day's drill of the Salem high Viks. "We may use Simmons at full back in case Bob Warren, who has taken over there since Bud Coons was injured, also goes on, the In jured list,r said Hauk. 2'5-t Simmons turned his ankle daring the proceedings, bat Hauk said he didn't believe the fleet halfback would be handi capped for Saturday -night's game with the big CorvaUls team here. Should Simmons be shifted to fullback. Johnny Hof f ert would take over at left wingback, The Vik mentor had words of praise for Don " Page. 140-pound "watch-charm guard,' whom he said may make the regulars hus tle fori their jobs. Farm System Pay , That Salem's intramural sports system pays dividends in a mea sure is proved by the fact that no less than 29- out of the 32 PORTRAIT OF A FOOT AT REST A college man's foot is style-coa-sctois, but it never forgives a shv that sacrifices comfort to loos Stick to Bostoniana and joujll get both. Bradrurm, above, Is a quarter brogue selected by college men forooUege feet. In tan rugged, glove-soft tweed kathen ; C30 : . UNIVI1SITT STT110 Bostontans- Re Give SJLH Green Stamps Ij3cfi7;& D:'J ! SS7 Court St. . Hufky Win Should Have Been 16-13, Is Paper's Qaim SPOKANE Oct 15-(V The Spokesman-Review said Wednesday the second touch down scored by Washington In the WSC game at Pullman 8at arday should not have been counted and the final , score should have been IS-13 hi Washington's favor. The- article said motion pic tures of the game- showed that Barrett, Washington halfback, stepped eat of bounds en the 25-yard line during his gallop to the touchdown. The , "play was almost In front of the WSC bench,1 the article adds, and yet drew no. protest from State coUege play ers or officials. members of t h I syeass Viking varsity played, either sophomore or Junior high football, or both, prior to making , the varsity. Also, 12 of them played on the Jayvee outfit which couldn't win a' game last season. Furthermore, only three members of the 1S41 first team didn't play on one of the sopho more outfits that, for the most part, look pretty futile each season. . . Duteh Simmons, a transfer, had no opportunity to play with the sophs, while Owen Garland and Jus Wenger came right up from junior, high to the varsity, Although they took a drubbing from Medford in their season' opener, the Corvallis Spartans who play our Viks here Saturday night have since boomed -back to whin McMInnvule and score within one touchdown of as many points against Oregon City as did Salem in beating the Pioneers u 0. . i Frank Ramsey's team, which, because of its proximity thereto, may have taken on some of the fighting spirit of the Oregon State club, is pointing for the Viks; but hard...- k ' .. . '. - - -The iia scored vpon Salems at this wriUag loom as the team to beat for the No Name league championship. ... In f set. If the Viks can vanquish the Smartass, tier!! be but one more sw? away from" the title for they'll have only Ear ene left to play in . learce comret-i'an. - Bowling-Scores MAJOB LEAGUE Aeat Ant wreckers Handicap - 11 Coe i . . 183 Top i&3 MuraocK 14V Masser . 1 16S Stein bock : 199 Total SSS Copetand Tares Handles d Thrust Foreman Patterson Kertson . Haman - Total 4 1M ISO 143 239 in 977 U SOS 183 IBS 180 179 941 4S SSS 189 SOS 170 17S 1024 IS 26 sis too 190 896 164 501 166 814 .164 932 9102739 92 92 221 169 177 146 , 163 100 .163 193 179 171 Sewanee De-Emphasizes, Then Wins Two Straight By ESCAR THOMPSON SEWANEE, Term, Oct. 15 -JPh They "de-emphasized" ootball at the . University of the South (Sewanee), but it didn't take. , Tired of being shoved around like a stepchild year after year by their larger and mora ambitious colleagues in the South eastern conference, Sewanee withdrew from the league a year tgo a n d decided to take on schools of an equal size as an independent ' . v. , And new look what's happened j f Sewanee Is among the na-; tlon's unbeaten, untied teams, conqueror ef Washington Jk Lee, Jt0-1, and Davidson, 7-9, both ef the Southern confer ence, and Is looking ahead to its must successful season In years. The man behind this sudden upsurge in the Tigers gridiron stock is Coach Jenks Gillem, but large assist should be credited to the Rev. George A. Hall, Se wanee chaplain who was drafted for coaching service after Gil lem's two assistants, Lex Ful b right and Joel Eaves, were sum moned for army duty. Gillem and Hall, a former guard at Sewanee, are the whole works, i Sewanee his been famed for years as a team long on spirit and short on! material," and the same situation! obtains this falL "Spirit hvJlie thing' that has done It," says GOIem of the Users' unblemished r e c e r d. "The . beys want to play foot ball, and they're getting away from their defeatist complex. When they get a bad break they dost seem to let it bother them. They're willing, and that will make up for what we lack In manpower part ef the time." Runyan Races To New Mark Floyd Runyan, transfer from a Montana high school set a new course record in winning the Ivan Fruit cross-country run at Sa lem high Wednesday. Runyan, a senior, legged the mue-and-a-half course x in eight minutes and 19 seconds, lowering by eight seconds the record of 827 set by Jerry Mulkey in 1939 Wesley Miller, a junior, was second and Bud Carver, a junior, third. . . Jerk Wants r rship of Portland Bevos , PORTLAND. O e t. 1S-(AVA mas who signed himself Edwin Eeemert and said he was . a 1 Norfolk, Neb, soda Jerker, ap plied Tuesday night for the job of managing the Portland Paci fic Coast league baseball club. :r President E. J. Schefter ef the c3ab said Eeemert assured him .In a letter that he was "sure -of being a sueeessful manager and premised to "use only the best players. Oscar VItt recently resigned as Beaver manager. Uclans On LOS ANGELES, Oct. VHFy Thirty-six strong, but with at least three cripples - aboard, the UCLA football squad left Wednes day night for Seattle to meet the Washington Huskies. , y WLmtt Handicap Kay Barr Milter i Kellogg rage Total . O linger C. Foreman Perry Aooipn Young Total Cline'i Coffee Shop Handicap z HartweU ..,,,., 139 CUne. sr. , , , 19 SuUivan .-, ., .,.,. SOS Cline, jr. 163 Pauline , .,, ., 223 - Total 973 PrlescBS Handican 75 Friesen , 17S Nufer . 14 Marr . .n Kerr , . , ... 157 Grant -- , , 14S Total S4S S65 SSS 33 33 . Sll 346 . 15S 168 . ltt 163 184 184 . SIS 177 S38 S71 LADIES LEAGUE BakkarS Motor Handicap CretcheU Boyd Hubbard ,. PiUfMa Meyers Total Coca Cola McCarroU . Garbarlno . Lloyd . Foreman Kennedy... Total ' ss 153 123 149 137 128 757 154 Ht 134 143 119 SSS McKay C evrolet Mathews DoerQer , ' v--, 1 , Cak-hlno ' Ficklin . McEUuuiejr -, Total Keelettes - Handicap Bowhiby Anderson Mills Ryer . Weisgerber Totals 139 114 130 10S 119 ..S9S 13 143 -ITS 118 130 68 863 39 160 160 174 323 188 933 79 316 181 111 136 141 870 14S 170 i 131 12S 178 817 138 176 141 146 143 143 144 127 106 129 134 639 138 156 886 176 841 139 489 159 564 168 923 8402841 82198 157 943 179 502 190 821 214 890 204 845 9962817 33 99 168 625 174 498 187 493 181 849 129 818 873 2681 29 87 187506 lie see 166 841 203888 200 813 9952901 75223 179 564 167 543 137 440 148 441 157 446 853 2668 68 204 179 476 144437 169 449 140 411 SOS 809 9122466 171 462 186 479 1SZ 437 149 438 139297 808-2213 141 420 irT 368 106 341 87 321 US 307 8791817 13 i 13 39 166 i 150 467 vis -127 i 105 108 839 129 417 109 354 92327 164 360 8881984 CaUal WoSSiag Paulin Clark y , Horntsr M ,.- N Welty Barnica ... Total Uoyal Desserts Handicap DeMarais Lindley Cooper , Trick - Hokanson ., , , Total 14S . 146 126 . 112 , 203 732 4T 107 ri65 119 122 ; 114 . 874 141 157 152 110 129 47 135 117 : 90 22 127 S3S 158 444 188 489 124 402 130 242 123 435 7212132 47141 124 366 105387 115 324 149 39 116 357 652 1964 Silverton Works For Parkrose Blix SILVERTON Clocking practice holds the limelight in Silverton high football drills this week in preparation for Friday night's Big Nine league game at Park- rose. "'."'. . An Injury to Bill Duncan, reg ular right halfback, has made necessary a shift in the lineup. Burt Burr and Leon Peavy have been assigned new positions, Coach Jiggs Burmrtt stated, i. Detroit Tops Offensively, Nation's 11s ! By MATT l-HAllER ' Associated Press Staff Writer After an hour-long acri-n-O-gs' during which his" varsity was able to score but once and his second team not at alL Caach Oregon high schools first big I Snec Keene Wednesday nieht decided his Willamette foothall.ri test 01 T-formation football comes are definitely rearlv fnr hiV Tri.-r VaMl. h- 4fc. ----. v- .- -J 95U1 WSDMW UV1 W VVM UiV Poets of Whittier. . - , l The veteran Methodist mentor was somewhat worried about the. health of two of his regulars, however. While both Halfback Tedd Ogdahl and Center Pat White are scheduled to start against tne roets. neither In another southern Oregon fray, Myrtle Point, a high-scoring T-formation outfit and. the coast al area's last unbeaten team, in vades Grants Pass. The Cavemen, getting stronger every week, may provide more opposition than the Bulldogs expect In western Oregon Corvallis, which showed unexpected power in drubbing Oregon City, 40-0, last week, journeys to Salem to meet the unscored-on VDdngs. Al appeared in Wednesday's scrum and -the ex tent of ' their usefulness in the for-keeps combat Friday appear ed problematical. Ogdahl Is suffering from a severe braise and. a cold, while. White, who was eat el the Lb-field game, I else Is nursing painful braise. Keene said his starting back- field probably would consist of Ken Jacobsen at, quarter. Gene Stewart at left half, either Og dahl or Chuck Furno at right half and Al WaMen at fullback. While Bill Reder and Marvin Goodman are slated to open at the wings, Dave KeHey and Mar shall Barbour are pressing them closely, said Keene. Martin Bar stad and Neil Morely are ticketed and Gordon Moore at the guards and either Pat White or Al Bar- The Poets are doe into Sa lem at 1:15 Friday - morning and will remain in their ear en the siding unto after breakfast. bany,. which has lost only to Sa-at the tackle slots, Tony Fralola lem, wilt play Tillamook, North Bend will meet Coquille. Univer sity high wfll play Roseburg and rett at center. Bandon will tangle with Marsh- field. M 1 1 1 e n Freewater, eastern Oregon's only nnbeaten eleven, faces Clarkston. a power In southeastern Washington. Pen dleton will attempt to hold see- 1A-k I I k H1A 4 t M w ywv. MVWIMUI lm conference Jn a game against laCKle JLJaVIS la Grande, ana Baker wul lore- go cenrerenee nuy for a trip to I CHEMAWA "i- Tackle Preston Caldwell. Idaho. r- 1 .1 Davis will be out of the f!hpmawa Undefeated Hood River plays I lineim whn It ovum a oaf net RanAw to an in-and-out Astoria I at Sand Frldav niaht r? h Chemawa Loses - By GAIL FOWLER SIATTLE, Oct 15-MV-Detroit on total offense; Tulane In total defense. ry,-:, Those are the principal team leaders in this week's American football statistical bureau rank inirs. .' " Detroit,a wlnnlixgr a H-7 vie tory over Indiana, then slaughter ing Wayne and Central, averaged 410 yards per game from rushes and passes. . . Tulane despite Its lt-t de feat by Rice last week, ranks high as a defensive elab against rashes and passes, holding three foea,te 48.7 yards per game. 1 Iafhe case of both ' leaders, other schools could rank ahead of them, "but , both schools, Georgia and Vanderbilt, had not turned in results of their last game play ed. For two games. ' Georgia had a total offense figure of 448.S yards per game; and a defensive mark of 11.5 yards yielded. Van derbilt had yielded 42.5 yards in its first two games. s With Georgia's 363.5 yards rush ing drawing a king's X because of insufficient returns, Ike Arm strong's T formation Utah eleven gets the week's rushing leadership with 350-3 yards rolled up as an average for two games. The Klmbro-gh-Iess Texas Aggtes, Jaat year principally a rnshing elab, hold a big lead as the nation's best forward pass lag outfit, having completed 49 of 15 passes for 221 yards aver age per game in three tilts. Nebraska, giving up 15.5 yards per game on the ground; tops the country in - rushing defense, al though Georgia allowed but- a minus ,27 yards" in those games reported. , v - Vanderbilt has allowed enemy passes only 10 'yards per game, with one game unreported, while Boston university yielded. 13 yards. . Maybe It's the altitude, but Colorado, year in and year out great punting team, leads that classification with a 44.14-yard average per punt . host squad while unbeaten The Dalles rests. Bend will travel to Red mond. Other games: Reedsport at Sweet Home, New- berg at Beaverton, Tigard at For est Grove, Cottage Grove at Springfield, Heppner at Arling ton, St Helens at Clatskanle, Es- tacada at Canby, Woodburn at Gresham, Independence at Willa-j mine, Lebanon at McMinnville, Chemawa at Sandy, Silverton at Parkrose, Newport at Taft, Amity I at Dallas, Toledo at Junction City, Union at Enterprise, Sherwood at Hillsboro, Crane at John Day, On tario at Adrian, Hill Military (Portland) at Rainier, Halfway at Richland, Prairie City at Prine- ville, Lakeview at Burns, Scap poose at White Salmon, Candon at Hermiston. Doug Olds reported Wednesday. He sustained a shoulder injury in practice this week. George Walters will probably replace Davis in the stsrting eleven, said Olds. Y Brings Poets x ... Coach Wallace "ChltT Newmaa, who brings his Whittier FoeU to Salem Friday night if Damage Sought By Percy Locey. WOODLAND, Calit, Oct 15-(Jpy-A $429 damage suit was filed in': superior court Wednesday by Percy Locey, Oregon State col lege athletic director. It stemmed from an automobile accident" in 1939 In which Locey and Wash ington State College Coach Orin Hollingbery jwere injured. Locey charges Frank Hawkins, -Woodland, operated an automo bile negligently and was respon sible for the collision. Line Worries Northwestern EVANSTON, HL, Oct 150P The big puzzle surrounding Mich igan's battle with Northwestern at Dyche stadium Saturday is the strength ' of the Northwestern line -and it's as much of an enig ma to Burting Wersen as it is to any Wildcat fan. The Northwestern line coach, one of the nation's best eon vtncingiy says he doesn't knew hew good his first string for wards are. lie says he's as mach in the dark new n that point as he was. after the ansaa State game and after last Sat vrday's rent of Wisconsin. He's cert-ln, however that hell knew eone Saturday nicht "Our line is as much a mystery to me now as it was last month,' said Ingwersen. "I know It's im proving but I also know it's not up there yet not up. where I'd like to see it I know what it will hire to be against Michigan, Ohio State and Minesota. Satur day's game will tell me whether it will reach that standard." Bishop's Bth Anniversary Brings You America s Finest Shoe for Men The FLODSEJEIirJ Duck Season Opens Today The Oregon game department estimated Wednesday that 35,000 hopeful hunters would be in blinds throughout the state in time for the opening of the duck season at daylight 'Thursday. The bag limit remains unchang ed at 10 duck per day per gun and shooting ends at 4 pan., daily. Each hunter Is allowed net more than three ef either or both redheads and htuTieheads. A previous limit en canvas backs apparently has beeaf re moved and banters can fill their daily bag with then- Due k s , particularly locally hatched mallards, are plentiful in Oregon and a considerable flight of widgeons has been reported. Geese, are . fairly abundant but have a way of leaving a day or! two before the season's opening. Whirly Takes ItEasyNoiv LEXINGTON, Ky, Oct l5-(ff) -Whirlaway, at three years of age the third biggest money winner in the history of racing, now Is leading the life of an. ordinary saddle horse. . . : . i "He's out of training at present and we're going to : give him couple . of months of rest he won't race any more before 1942,' Trainer Ben Jones said Wednes day. .- .. "' -We're treating him just like a saddle horse. Hell get a let of ordinary riding to keep him legged ' up, bat he woat be breesed for eenple ef months yet- Jones insists " that Whirly "shows no' effects'' from his strenuous second year of turf campaigns, in which he tucked away : the triple crown . by win ning the Kentucky , Derby, the Belmont and the Preakness, among other "races; 1 ' ;' 'tot," ' ' i .' ' .... . ' .:. ' : . Froglt Breaks Jaw EUGENE, O e t 15-(W-ke Prince, 19, University of Oregon freshman football player from Al bany, suffered a broken jaw Wed nesdaynot on the gridiron but in a friendly scuffle at his quar ters. " " '! - lie was slated for a right guard berth on the frosh team but may be benched for the season. . 1 1 IF i 2 OH EMI Florsheim captures the rich! j sged i look of well-polished leather! Hsndopolishing adds a trans-' parent finish to finer clfrH"s ''. "tones them p without ob scurlo their -Lawless chancier. ' X7ear these handsome Florsheims . . and get set for compliments! 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