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Bunk CaF E 19 m Meciam Moves IBweM Ml ' Cart Mecham (25), Oregon halfback, carrying toe ball for Oregon's print around California'! right end on a "naked" reverse play In California center, missed the tackle after rettinr partly blocked by Oregon won, lf-7. International niustrated News, special service Sport Sparks By RON GEMMELL No, I don't know what or by whom, but SOMETHING has io be done about the football stadium (or rather, the gruesome ack thereof) in Salem city. . . I know, I know this department ias been harping on this subject so long even it is sick and tired of it, but definitely. . . Nonetheless, facilities for staging a 1..1L.11 i r . tXr?M J- 1 .. -4 fcrV 1 J it - J X TONY FRAIOLA It's s0 bad fans exit the place talking of splinters, lack of comfort, inability to see because of poor lighting and the fact the stands are too far from the field gnd poor handling of the public instead of about the slick Wil lamette or Salem high team they just saw in action. Whatever may be the answer for Willamette in some way to obtain the necessary funds to completely renovize Sweetland, for the school district to build up dinger field or for Willam ette, the school district and the city to cooperate on a municipal project I don't know. . . But I do know that if something isn't done soon the college and high school will lose what few foot ball friends they have and won't replace them with new ones right soon. . Sweetland field not only is the ideal location because of its accessabilitybut it also could be a splendid layout if plans for its modernization came out of the talk stage into actual produc tion. . . These include a new, covered grandstand with a seating capacity of 5000 to be situated just across the areaway and parallel to Lausanne hall; switching of the gridiron from east west to north-south; tearing out of the old grandstand and cut ting the bank on the north side back as far as possible; moving the so-called -new" grandstand; and turfing the whole Sweet land area so that practice fields would be available. O Question: Can Vandals Stop 'Em? Although Willamette didn't "get there fustest with the most est," there really wasn't any contest from the Whittiers who bowed 33-7 Friday night, and now it's up to the Pacific Coast conrence Idaho Vandals to provide a real test for Spec Keene's "best team in history" ... The Vandals, whom the 'Cats meet at Moscow next Saturday while Oregon State is playing Wash ington State just nine miles away in Pullman, will be the first Coast conference team to oppose the Methodists since they went off the Oregon State schedule in 1938. ' , And this corner isn't so certain the heavier, headier Vandals can stop the Bearcats. . . They can. sure, if the Willamettes make as many physical and mental mistakes as they made in the first half against the Poets' seven-man line, diamond back field defense, or if a. few of the 'Cats keep on forgetting their assignments, but if Willamette plays the game of which it is capable, you never can tell. . Messrs. Tony Fra tola, the tough little guard, and Waltzin' Al Walden, the exploding fullback, didn't hurt their little all Americari bids in the Poet push. . . Fraiola, who wasn't seriously hurt when knocked cold by a kick on the temple late in the fame, knifed through to spill plays in his usual aggressive smart manner, and Walden, despite two almost inexcusable "fumbles, humped his stumpy little frame 130 yards in 19 carries. But the best all-around back on the field Friday night in this observer's opinion, was Teddy Ogdahl, the man-in-motion mister. . . Teddy, in addition to scampering 66 yards on seven carries and making as pretty a catch of Conner's touchdown toss as you'll ever see, played his usual bang-up defensive game Those 66 yards, which gave him an average of almost 8V4 yards per carry, don't include the 25-yard touchdown run after re ceiving Reynold's strike to the left flat, either. . . For that mat ter, Ogdahl's successor at right half diminutive Churnin' Chuck Furno wasn't exactly standing still while in the ball game. Vnscored Upon Record Goes Flooey For all that, I'm peeved at those Willamettes. . . Here I was 11 set to concoct a pretty little piece about how they were one of but three unscored upon teams among the country's major outfits, and then they let a team score on 'em which had no business doing so at all, at all. , , Up to this weekend only Cornell, Mississippi State, Nebraska and Willamette held upscored upon records, and when Cornell fell out of that class Saturday it ' would have left the 'Cats up there with but two others in the nation if they hadn't made two mistakes in succession a fumble to give Whittier the ball and a defensive error to allow the Poets to complete their touchdown pass. First venture of Salem's Hot Stove league was far from futile, for Les Sparks, Willamette graduate manager, reports the advance ticket sale for the Whittier game was the heaviest since 1930, when Willamette's all-time record crowd of 3500 packed Sweetland for the .Whitman game. .- The Hot Stovers 1 disposed of about 600 ducats, assisting to boost Friday night's attendance to between 2500 and 2800, Happy Howard Maple, the man of many jobs, faces a pre dicament. .- . The roly-poly one, just placed on a diet he ex pects will pare some 50 pounds off his ample anatomy; won a pair of steak dinners from Headman Spec Keene on the Whittier game. ; ; ; Of course, no one who knows the Happy One expects him to forego the steaks In favor of the diet V ; ; Back visiting in his home town is Roy Okerburg, one of Oregon's all-time basketball greats and no lame duck with the tennis racquet. .The angular 'gent, who had U have his razor like knees and elbows padded to keep them from slashing op ponents to ribbons while he was hooping it up for the Webfoots, professes a desire to get into the coaching business. . Nothing mtc SKmz ior neiaacnc. r capital city ARE so abomi nable they actually amaze high school and college teams which come in here to play- amaze them with their antiq uity, their resemblance to a cow pasture, their gross neg lect of the paying public and their inferiority to anything these teams have ever seen outside of a six-man league and unless something is done to remedy the situation, Sa lem's reputation is to continue to suffer accordingly. Willamette's Sweetland field, which could be a beauty spot if finances were available to give it a 100 oer cent faee- j lifting, instead is a disgrace to first touchdown after a 35-yard the first Quarter. Tom Mason (66), Elliott Wilson (47), Oregon center. to The Statesman. Vandals Blast Utah State by 16 to 0 Score By OTIS J. PUSEY LOGAN, Utah, . Oct 18-)-Idaho . university's rejuvenated Vandals battered Utah State Ag ricultural college's slippery-fingered footballers into submission Saturday, 16 to 0. Coach Francis Schmidt's eleven, displaying a diversified attack and a defense that stopped the Aggies cold In Idaho territory, tallied a field goal and two touchdowns. The Farmers' lone threat barred down on the five-yard line. Numerous fumbles stopped the Aeries' other sv stained drives. ) The hard-charging Vandals sent several Aggies limping to the side lines, vicious tackling and streaks of brilliant blocking featured the winners' play. Outweighed 10 pounds per man, the Farmers tot- terea tnrougn the final period un der the terrific pounding. After a first period punting duel netted little, the Vandals began the second quarter by moving from their 20 to the Aggies' 15 on a pass, Ray Davis to Pete Hecom ovich, and a first down run by Bill Micklich. When the Aggies braced, End Milo Anderson footed a field goal. Start inr from the Idaho 35 In the third, Idaho marched down the field In a half doien plays, Earl skirtlnr his left end for the final 1 yards. IDAHO (IS) M. Anderson Konopka JL Lockey '. Crowley () UTAH STATK LE. Axelgard L T Sondueir LG Sorenson c. Mauehan Rowe RO. RT. RE.. Q Merrill J. Piedmont . Berllus Moore Putnik Bell Manning Allen Whitesides 3 11 9 e Hecomovich Davis ..LH. Chandler ..RH Mickuch F.. . Idah Utah Stale Idaho scoring Touchdown fhnnrt ler, Micklich. Point after touchdown, Anderson (placement); field goal. An derson (placement). Georgia Bops Columbia, 7-3 NEW YORK. Oct. 18-UPWA red-jerseyed ball of fire from way down south in Youngstown, Ohio, red a University of Georgia foot ball team to a 7-3 triumph over Columbia Saturday, to eliminate Lou Little's Lions from the ranks of the nation's unbeaten elevens. It was Frankie Sinkwich, brok en jaw and all, who lived up to his press notices handsomely In making a very personal show of the southerners' touchdown drive. That march covered 45 yards and required nine plays. Sinkwich handled the ball on every one of the nine, and on the last' one af ter sucking in the Columbia line men by faking a pass, he scooted back and over the Lion left side for nine yards and the score. i Middies Drop Cornell, 14-0 BALTIMORE, Oct. 18-P)--Pushed all over the lot the first SO minutes of play. Navy's power ful football squad finally gathered itself in the second half to cap italize on two scoring opportun ities and hand Cornell its first de feat of the season, 1 to 0, before crowd of 43,000 in Municipal stadium. t i Baraacle Bill Bnsfk, re-entered the rime In the third per iod after the Cornell boys had been worn down by weirht ef Navy man power, enjrineered the two seorinr drlees, sllpplng the ball on a reverse to Sammy Boothe who scampered IS yards for a tonehdown la the third smarter and planrnf e r s from the one-yard mark for the second score two mlnntes before the rime's end. Lettermen Elect At Woodburn Hi i WOODBURN A meeting of the Lettermen's club of Woodburn high school was held recently for the purpose of electing officers for the year. ' Those elected were: Eugene Peltz, president; Carl Gustafson, vice- president; Jack Sorenson, secretary. Conversion Is Trojan Margin Over WSC, 7-6 By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES, Oct 18-(4-Southem California's Trojans crept slowly but successfully out of the football doldrums Saturday, defeating a stubborn Washington State eleven, 7-8, in a game that kept 40,000 fans on uneasy street for the full game. Led by two brilliant back field players, Bobby Robertson and Sophomore P a n 1 Taylor, the Trojans tied the score in the second Quarter and booted the conversion a point that meant victory and the differ ence between remaining In the Pacific Coast - conference title race and complete obUrlon. Billy SewelV Washington state's one-man attack, fired the one touchdown strike for his team in the first period, sending it to GAME STATISTICS WSC ViC First flowBt S 19 Yds. gained, .rashiaf (act) S3 22 Passes attempted . S4 14 Passes completed , , 9 Yds. falaed, passes in Yds. lost, passes . t Passes Intercepted by 1 Yds. sained, ransack passes It Pant aTeraf e, serlsamai it S M S 4 V Total yds- kicks returned 41 SI Opponents' fnmbles recer. t Yds lost y penalties S 14 Includes pants and klckotfs. Halfback Felix Fletcher for the needed eight yards, and then played an amazing Duntins and passing game for most of the re maining minutes to keep the Cou gars in the contest Southern Cat stonDed cold for four downs' Inside the two-yard stripe, came back on another drive from midfield and succeeded on the second scoring trh. with Sophomore Taylor the big gun in the march. Taylor, halted on the first Invasion, made it sood this time from the two-yard line, and Bobby Jones, his exceptionally fine end, booted the winning ex tra point The win gave Troy two tri umphs against one defeat in the conference standings, and sent Washington State to the cellar with three setbacks. The Conrars drew a hare hand with their staunch goal line stand, and SeweU kept the crowd in an nproar and the Trojans in hot waterin the closing mlnntes with a passing attack that swept deep into ene my ground. It ended, however, when Robertson, perhaps the best all-around man on the field, intercepted a touchdown labelled throw. Troy's vastly superior running attack proved too much for the visitors. Robertson ripped off huge gains one for 48 yards and Taylor added further generous slices of yardage. wgc () ; . T 7) use Susoeff a .LE Heywood Wooddy . ; LT Wilier waru lg Thomas Remington r. Green uramgan Beekman RG... RE.. Verry Aguirre Jones Robertson Bundv Gentry . small SeweU .LH. rietcher Kennedy .RH... L. Bledsoe R. Mustek 4 0-4 T 4 O 7 WSC . 4 use t -. . WMt.v A WUU1 down, Fletcher. USC Touchdown. Tay lor (for R Mucirlri 1niri mtiar tn.,-1. State Touch- down, Jones. NW Bowling Meet Set at Spokane SPOKANE, Oct. 18-VThe Pa cific northwest handicap bowling tournament, inaugurated last year, win be held November 27 to De cember 7, Frank McBride of the tourney committee announced Saturday. V McBride said entries were ex pected from Idaho, Oregon and Washington. Bob Nelson, Seattle, is tourney president 'Miss Zamantliia Deals That May By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Oct 19.-(Special to The Statesman)-Some of our more prominent baseball 1 figures are going to find themselves with more addresses than a mauman If all the rumors of deals, and mis deals, materialize. " Ova rumor department is out to lunch, but here are' just a few that haven't been filed yet They usually are filed under three clas sifications, to wit 1, 2 and 3. This avoids confusion, as when you look in file No. 1 and a rumor isn't there you know it must be In eith er No, 2 or No. 3. If you can't find it at all you know it's still 'float ing around the corner cigar store and you've beat it to the office. Anyway, here's t the wagging tongues output: " ' ' 1 Roger P e e k 1 n p augh is through at Cleveland and will be succeeded by Bill Terry. - 2 Bm Terry is through with the Giants and will be succeed ed by (a) Lefty ODomi, tb) Gabby Hartnett :- 3 The Phfls w!3 sell Danny XJtwbJler to the Dodgers. ? 4 n&nk Greenberg wW g9 t the Boston Red Soy. S Doe Pro thro win be suc ceeded by Cans Lobert as Phfl. lie Pilot C Lake Hamlin k through . with the Dodgers First Oregon Teai Ever to Bp 'Em, USC in Same Year Mechani,Hohlin-Team,to Easily Outscore Ineffectual Berkeley Oub; Punting Feature of Day By RON GEMMELL Statesman Sports Editor r MULTNOMAH STADIUM, Portland, Oct. 18 (Special) Was a time when it was considered news when a boy took a bite-out of a bow-wow. No more. Not since the large, lumpy lads from Oregon U buried California's impotent Golden, Bears, 19 to 7, on Multno mah's greasy, gridiron here this soggy Saturday afternoon. Reason: It made the first time in his tory an Oregon team has defeat ed both USC and California in the same season, let alone on consecutive Saturdays. Brother, that's news! Furthermore, these huge Ore gong whipped the Bears equally as easily as they did the Trojans last week, and kept their Rose GAME STATISTICS Cat Or. Flrrt downs 4 4 Yds. gained, rushing (net) SI Passes attempted ' 14 Passes completed - ft 34 Yds. gained, passes Yds. lost, passes , ,. 14 Passes intercepted hy , " 4 Yds. gained, ransack passes 4 Punting arerate SS.S Total yds. kicks returned fl lit Opponents fumbles recT X S Yds. lost ay penalties 44 41 Includes pants and Mekoffs. Bowl hopes burning high while completely quenchintf any such aspirations the Berkeley boys might have held. It . was the let ters' second conference setback and third straight loss of the year. The Ducks drove to their victory here on two quick first quarter touchdowns, the first on a 35-yard reverse ramble by Curtis Mecham and the second on two power sports after re covery of a California fumble on the Bears' seven-yard line, pins a fourth ciuarter touch down that came en Kgjnblln Tommy Roblin's beautiful 42 yard racebaek of a punt ' California's lone touchdown was posted late in the 'second quar ter, coming on a nicely executed seven-yard pass from Hank Za charias to Walt Gordon aftet the Bears recovered Fullback Bill Dunlap's fumble on the Oregon 10. Actually, the Ducks and Bears traded two touchdowns via fumbles -the Oregons getting their second and the Califomians their only one chiefly bv that method and hence the score might easily have been 13-0. Played In a steady rain, the game started out as a punting duel between Oregon's left-footed Mecham and California's right- footed Bob Reinhard and, except for the brief scoring sorties, con tinued as such throughout. Me cham, getting an average of 40 yards per kick on 12 boots, out kicked . Reinhard, who had one blocked, who cot but two yards on another and who lost 20 yards of his best effort 71-yard thump, when it went over the goal line. Meeham's goal-crossing me ander came with nine minutes f the game played and cli maxed an Oregon march which started on the California 47. He scored on the identical nude ro vers play on which ho tallied (Turn to Page 7, CoL 6) Rumor' Slates (or May not) 7 The Dodgers are through with Lake Hamlin. t The Cardinals wfll put Johnny Mixe on the block. Most of these ? are by-products of rubber-band imaginations and were floated to steal a little apace from football on column three of the third sports page. " Likewise, most of them are reversible and can be used just as freely by in serting a ot" However, that makes them not rumors, and no body is particularly Interested in a rumor that is not a rumor. ' Taking the rumors in order here are a few personal opinions as to their worth: ; , 1 J " : Peckinpaugh probably will be managing Cleveland next year, and if he isn't his successor's name won't be Bill Terry. - Terry will be back with the Gi ants. The Phils may sell Danny" Lit whiler, and to the Dodgers. -Hank Greenberg will be back with l)etrolt1;-';;r;-; Doe Prothre may be succeed ed by Bans Lobert' Bans ran : the club this, year the latter part of the season. t Luke Hamlin la through with the Dodgers, and vice versa. Positively. Ee has seniority rights is Maephan's doghouse. The Cardinals may put Johnny Huskies Find Ukes Stubborn, Win 14-7 Only By GAIL FOWLER SEATTLE, Oct 18.-aVThe University of Washington Hus kies' Saturday pulled the rain blankets, off their offense in the second quarter for two touch downs which were good enough to defeat an ever-threatening Uni versity of California at Los An geles eleven, 14-7, before 18,000 drenched patrons. A 54 -yard drive which start ed near the end of the first quarter culminated with Full back Jack Stackpool slicing in side right end front the one-foot line for the first Washington touchdown. It was the first play of the second quarter. Subquar ter Elmer Berg kicked the pout Later Halfback Ernie Steele hurled a fourth-down, 21 - y a r d pass to sub end Bill Sloan who was waiting all alone for it on the GAME STATISTICS , UCLA Wash. Psrst downs ii , it Yds. gained, rushing (not) 41 T' Si) Passes attempted 24 ' s Passes completed . S ' 1 Yds. gained, passes . Its Zl Yds. lost, passes - . 4 Passes intercepted fey S t Yds. gala, ransack passes t4 tt Punting average 411 37.! Total yds., kicks returned 14T . Opponents' rankles recer. 4 3 Yds. lost ky penalties SI U Includes punts and UckoHs. Uke 5. He strolled across for the touchdown and Berg again con verted. A roughing penalty put the Ukes on the husky one-yard line midway of the third quarter, but a fumble by Quarterback Bob Wa- terfield was recovered on the one yard line by Guard Ray Frank- owslu ' of ; Washington. The Huskies bunted out to the 28. Two plays were set back to the 36 where Waterfield hurled a 33- yard pass to End Herb Wiener which put the Ukes oh the Husky three-yard line. Then Halfback Leo Cantor boomed three yards for the touchdown. Ken SneUins. sub halfback kicked his fourth conversion of the season in four attempts. UCLA 0 I4) Wash. Younglove wiener ... McKenzie Coiuey Lescoulie Frankowski Armstrong Harrison De Francisco Fears Holmes Simpson Falk Olson Means Waterfield Cantor Forbes Curti UCLA .LH.. Steele Barrett -SI -F. Stackpool T 41 4 Wash. 14 4 414 UCLA scoring Touchdowns. Cantor: point after touchdown, Snelling (sub for Curti) (placckick). Washington s e o r 1 n g Touchdowns. Stackpool. Sloan (sub for Olson): point after touchdown. Berg S (sub for Means). (pUceklcks). Rams Ramble, 27-0 NEW YORK.Ort 1-JJiTfc. Fordnam Rams, gridiron Goliaths with -the unpronouncable names, galloped to an impressive 27 to 0 victory over the West Virginia mountaineers Saturday to con vince 12,500 rain-chilled fans in the Polo Grounds ther have a right to be among the undefeated football powers of the land. Baseball Be Cooking Mize on the block, he has power, but doesn't fit in so well with the policy of speed and dash. Johnny Hopp can play first base well enough. , " The basis of the rumors "usually is roundhouse reasoning whereby the author figures what a team needs or doesn't need and tries to solve the problem to the best of his ability, For -instance, Terry and Peck inpaugh didn't have 'very - good seasons, charitably speaking, and the .natural reaction is that the club owners will include them out next year.: The Dodgers could use another good hitting outfielder, and Litwhiler is such a man, and Gerry Nugent is . known, to be known to be quite a salesman. A slugger : like Greenberg would look fine teamed with Ted Wil liams in the Red Sox outfield, so a rumor puts him there. t Sometimes the fact that a gent happens to be in a certain place at a : certain time draws a rumor, such as the presence of ODoul in New York during the world aeries. ; Only morons repeat sack Idle gossip. Cat say, ill yov hear the latest? We got it straight from a fellow who's eousla got It from a. policeman who was talking to a gay who heard tt from a friend.' . Xt: c RE Q Rambles 62 - V ' " i ? i h j - v v-i Tommy Roblin, who ran back a California punt 2 yards for one of Oregon's three touchdowns against the Golden Bears Saturday. Salem. Oregon, Sunday Morning, October 19. 1841 Pag t Stanford Downs Dions In Scorefest, By P. D. ELDREO PALO ALTO, Calif., Oct. 18-;p)-Stanford,s . high scoring first team, with Frankie Albert at the helm, roared up and down the field Saturday for four fast touchdowns against th Uni versity of San Francisco and : - At m placing ine inaian regulars, went on to overwhelm the lighter Dons, 42 to "26. : r ; . -'1. ' f. While Coach ' Clark Shauehnessv'a starting (m urn 4n there, the Dons never had a chance to t?ain or even mnv int ouuuwa temiory out, as soon as o&. . 1 . . Albert's hard-running crew had settled any question of who was going to win, the Indians turned the game Into- a workout to give second ; and. third string substi tutes badly ne3M game exper- ictivc .1-:-' It was only after the Stanford lineup was packed with re serves that USF began scoring." By throwing passes' through the shaky Stanford defense in the last three periods, the Dons scored four spectacular touch .downs, most of them on long runs. ' Approximately 10,000 specta tors saw Stanford, within four minutes of the opening kickoff, drive 74 yards from their own 26 to the first score. Left Halfback Vucinich cracked his left guard for, the touchdown and Albert place-kicked the extra point ' .. Another offensive a few min utes later was good for 65 -yards and a second touchdown. Sheller went over and Albert again place kicked the extra point - ... 'Just before the first period ended the Indians got the ball on the USF 34 when Faweett intercepted a pass. Five plays put the ball an the Don's six as the .period tiie d. ; Sheller smashed ever from bis left tackle and Durham plaeecicked the extra P o I n t A 71-yard thrust a moment later pnt the Indians In scenug position again and Hamntett went over center. Durham plaeekieked the extra pout and Stanford led, 21 to I. Gophers Maul Pitt, 39-0 MINNEAPOLIS, Oct. 18-r)-Minnesota mauled. Pittsburgh's punch-drunk Panthers, 39 to 0, today but the Golden Gophers' crack captain, Bruce Smith,, was knocked out of the ball gamp. He joined an ominous casualty list including the squad's best tackle. Urban Odson, and its top backfield blocker, Bob Sweiger, as the team got set for its tre mendous test next week against Michigan. .c-; ; T- - j ; Stay tori Defeats ; BiiUpups, 27-0 STAYTON S t a y t o n ' high's Beanpickers boat the Woodburn Bees 27-0 here Friday. The Stay&n lineup is fullback, C. Mielke; right half, C Hughes; left halt B. O'Connor, quarter back, B. Fair, who is also captain of the team; right end, V. Schu etx; right tackle, W. Richardson; right guard, B. Thomas; center, Carl Reed; left guard, D.' Butts; left tackle, ,H Fehlen; left end, Dick O'Connor. Ydids to Score '2- ' .r::'3 42 to 26 then, with a horde of reserves re- . . - Montana Tips Gonzaga 13-6 MISSOULA, Mont, Oct li.-(JP) -Montana's Grizzlies rallied with a smashing power attack to score" two touchdowns in the third quar ter Saturday to defeat the stub born Gonzaga Bulldogs, 13 to 8. Scherger tossed a 13-yard pass to Gerstenberger for Gonzaga'g score after a quick kick and a pass interception had set the Grizzlies back on their heels in the opening period. Taking the second half kick off, Montana powered down the field to score In eight line plays, with Flake diving ever from the t tone-yard . line. Reagan con- verted,"' Jones, Reagan and Fiske ran for gains of 19, 20 and 13 yards in a second drive, which Fiske finished with a dash through center for 15 yards. Jefferson Wins JEFFERSONMarlon county's first six-man football game re sulted in a 19 to 12 victory for Coach Pat Beal'a Jefferson team over Turner high at Turner Fri day. --The teams play a return game at Jefferson Friday of this week.' Listen to : ETighl ; Qcarlsrfocli ; hslei Every Monday Niht t 745 . Sponsored by SCiII CLGIHEE3 s cut, . ; . . Tlondav Ir