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Sport Spwks ( By HON CEMMELL t All reports from that part of the south known up to last Saturday as the San Francisco Bay area (but from about 4:30 ji.m. Saturday known as the Black Bay area) indicate that Dale Gentry, the churn-chested ail-American basketeer of the Cou gars, had himself another all-American football day from his right end position . . . Eye-witness accounts of Washington State's stampede of the Indians by the almost fanatically partisan SF scribes gave gracious acknowledgement of Gentry's part in the Cougars accomplishment. ! Gentry,' writes one of the Mack Bay boys, "was the key mxn la Washington State's first touchdown. On the play. Bill Holmes, the Cougar right half, wept right end on a wide re verse that had twice before keen thrown for bif losses. Bat i this time Gentry got his shoul ; der into Back Fswcett and rode ! the Stanford right half to the i sidelines, Holmes catting inside the block and skipping- 14L ! yards to the 'end sone un touched. Gentry played a defensive halfback and sometimes a full iback in the intricate setup Hol lingbery had devised for this game, and what he and Nick Su s e f f did to the Stanfords shouldn't happen to Stanford" . . . i Another Black Bay observer of the Indians' demise says: "Annoy ing defensive work by Washing ! too State's two great ends, Dale I Gentry and Nick Susoeff, cut i down the accustomed long gain i ers and so rushed Frankie Al bert's passes that the little guy I was throwing a wobbly ball over a fence of arms sticking in his face." Gophers Strengthen First Place Spot, National Grid Poll Texas Ags Second, Duke Third; OSC Moves in Front of Stanford BJLLY SEW ELL Bow to 'The Babe9 Not much has been made of it, what with other features rating the stress, but it wquld seem to ; yours sincerely that Billy Sew ell's alertness in grabbing up the : football on the blocked conversion trial following Washington State's ! first touchdown and running it across for the all-important sev ' enth point merits more than pass ing notice . . . Recalling the situ ation: Milt Vucinich, the Indian fullback, broke through to block Joe Beckman's placement after i Holmes' 14-yard reverse to the with I touchdown, whereupon the head- Messrs. up Sewell scooped up the foot ball and dashed across for the point which ultimately proved to be the Cougars' 14-13 victory margin. Also meriting mention, I think, la the fact that the Coo. gars, fundamentally a passing team in early season 8tanf ord on the ground just as they did Oregon State and Ore gon . . . Sewell, rated the best ' passer in American collegiate football, tossed but two passes all day. of the age-old stiff-arm to get them pasttacklers. A fine bit of sportsmanship on the part of Frits Kramer, Eugene high coach, has been brought to my attention . . . Fritz, who left a sick bed to be with his elub in its losing cause to oar Vikings, messaged Vik Coach Harold Hank to equip his boys with mud cleats as the Eu gene field was in pretty awful condition ... No matter that Hank neglected to pick up his mail before leaving for Eugene and thus missed the message, for it was the gesture that speaks, anyway. Not only were the requests for reinstatement of Oregon's Laddie and Slim Wintermute rejected by the AAU, but also that of big Bill Anton, the ex-Bearcat hooper, who accepted something less than $200 while brewing a cup of cof- By BILL BONI NEW . YORK, Nov. 17. Gaining their strongest support of the season after their best of fensive showing in recent weeks, the Golden Gophers of Minnesota retained top spot in the Associ ated Press football ranking poll Monday by a vote of landslide proportions. A total of 129 ballots from sports editors all over the coun try were received in the sixth of the weekly "elections," and 112 of those had the western conference leaders placed at the Walla Walla Thursday to take head of the list. Thus Bernie 'Whip Whitman' Banquet Set; Nordquist Out Willamette's Bearcats, who are to be entertained at the annual "Whip Whitman" banquet tonight, held their final scrimmage session Monday prior to their invasion of Rate Gridders in League Receive Rose Bowl Support; Ends Gentry, Suseof f Claimed 'Great' Salem, Oregon, Tuesday Morning. Norember 18, 1941 10 Merki One of 7 Nominees, Sullivan Award; Anton W inter mute9Gale Denied on the Whitman Missionaries for the Northwest conference championship. Missing from the scrum was Glen Nordquist, freshman full back, who was out of suit due to a severe knee injury which Coach Spec Keene feared would keep him out for the balance of the season, and Tackle Gar rel Deiner, who rein jured a hand broken earlier in the season. Tonight's banquet, at which.. Registrar Walter Erickson is prin cipal speaker, is scheduled for 5:45 at the Salem high cafeteria. The 'Cats leave Salem at 7 pjn. Wednesday for Walla "Walla. Coast Gridders Begin Work For Next Games Bierman's powerful club, with only Wisconsin to beat on Satur day for its second season without defeat, stands an excellent chance of retaining the mythical national championship it won in the 1940 poll. The Gophers, one of the country's four surviving unde feated and untied major teams, roUed up a total of 1279 points, on a basis of 10 for each first place vote, nine for second, etc. Of the 17 experts who did not rate them tops, 14 gave them second place, two rated them third, and one ballot listed them in fourth position. With Minnesota such a domin ant figure. in the poll, the main race was for runnerup spot a berth left vacant through Texas Christian's 14-7 upset of Texas, Winner in a three-team contest for second was Texas A and M, with five votes for first and 993 points. But the Aggies had a mar gin of only 5Z points over Duke's fee with the Portland Beavers a CORVALLIS, Nov. 17HP)-Ore couple years ago . . . For once g0n State's football team worked I rip rwiis rhikp in turn this department's sympathies are out lightly Monday after being SDite 12 first-nlace vot h'arplv :v I . j. . . , . l - - wiui weicomea nome Dy cneermg siu- Keat 0ut Notre Dame for third. the AAU and not Gale, Wintermute and dents who loudly acclaimed the The totals were 941 for the South Anton, each one of whom knew squad as the west's Rose Bowl exactly what he was doing when representative. he forsook simon-pure ranks for The Beavers, who defeated Cali- short flings with the pros. Zuppke Quits At Illinois, nd just as Says Tribune fornia Saturday, are leading the Coast conference with five wins and two losses. They play Mon tana next Saturday. By SID FEDER PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 1-JP) -There was a lot of behind-the-scenes action, but the threatened election fight on the floor of the Amateur Athletic union conven tion didn't come off on schedule Monday as Lawrence Di Bene detto was reelected national presi dent to wind up the annual conclave. With this detail settled, for a year at least, the governing fa- ers of simon-pure sport approved a final list of seven candidates for the year's Sullivan award, and decided on Florida either Miami, Miami Beach or Hollywood for their 1942 meeting Dec. 11-13. Then they closed out the three day meeting by sending next year's national men's swimming championships to Seattle, Aug. 6-9. The Sullivan award candidates, submitted to the general conven third and fourth vice-presidents, respectively. Of eight athletes applying for amateur eligibility, the request of only one was granted, lie was Earl W. Stewart, Ardmore (Okla.) dockman and boxer. Among those rejected were Ur iel O. Wintermute and Lauren Ilenry Gale of Eugene, Ore., who played basketbaU with the Detroit Professional Eagles, and BasU Anton, Portland (Ore.) chemist. GaKifoimaTScribes Cougars Joest By RUSS NEWLAND Church League Hoopers Set Jam Session Eighteen teams will participate in the YMCA-directed church leagues' basketball jamboree De- tion by the committee in charge cember 3, it was decided Monday of wedding out the long list, were: niht Dy league representatives, I Younglove Okeh SEATTLE, Nov. n--The University of Washington football team, after taking it easy for a week, got down to serious train- CHICAGO. Nov. 17-UP-Trib. une says in a copyright story that mS Monday for Saturday's clash here asainst Oregon, with eood And, in turn, this brings me to ,,, ..-! nf tv, TiT1:eit T1 news from Trainer Click Clark. n.K. , ..,v. j I ...j I . . . . ..... coach-of-the-year acknowledge inent for the beautiful job he has done, through necessity, in chang ing his passing horse for a run nJng horse in mid-stream, as it were . . . When Sewell developed a bad shoulder which hampered his pitching prowess, the Babe, undaunted, shuffled his squad and The paper said Zuppke had expalned to President Arthur C. Willard that he had made his decision for the best Interest of the university. The Tribune story said that Zuppke did not intend to seek em ployment elsewhere as a coach. The famed mentor, who will con- Clark reported optimistically for the first time on the chances of Shifty Earl Younglove being able to resume his end position. The report led Coach Jim Phe lan to sidetrack, at least tem porarily, the possibility of shift ing Tackle Bob Friedman to end. Younglove is the only Husky casualty. ern conference pace-setters to 938 for the . Irish who, in Frank Leahy's first season as head coach, are headed for the best Notre Dame record since Rockne'i day, with only the Army tie to mar their performance. Of the six other teams voted into the first ten, only one, is undefeated Duquesne, which finished its regular season with a smashing victory over Miss issippi State last Saturday and now presumably is awaiting a bowl invitation. The Dukes, who crashed the select list for the first time last week in 10th place, moved up to sixth, a notch behind Michigan. Back of them came Alabama, Southeast conference power house; Missouri, one game from the Big Six title; Texas, rated good for ninth place in spite of its deflation, and Northwestern, beaten three times but apparently voted "in" because of the jiar row margins by which it lost to lurnea to a deceptive running rinH- o0 vnr rf conrirn of T11i ZT hi n noun nois on Saturday when the Illini I Cougars Greeted Idaho and Stanford ononse m!T Minnesota and Notre tli t:or-o. i I "J "tt""c" I iul umy une uicmuti missing, i Dame - i wc if tuuiiigbuu owvc wiicgc iwr and painting. He owns a tract of ball squad started work Monday land 10 miles from Chamnaien. for the Gonzacra eame next Satur- m., the home of the university. day. tive Saturdays The Babe. O Stiff-Armers Good The three stiff -armed Cnlifnr- ala tacklers Don Durdan left in Hagedom Injured ius wane on ms Zl-yard reverse SILVERTON Don Hacedorn. C&mhle to the Rear three.vnrA lina I AvCil.,- i!JjM Kxraeiey saiuraay reminds me in the Pacific Lutheran-Linfield ZZ V.a , Z that I've seen three excellent game at Tacoma. He was brought 1.? Mnnnnentii nf ihj otrrct w w v, e.i.. v 3 Iess Uiere 8 an extreme emerg w - avow uviuv wvuiua ntmc uc wui during this season . . . Durdan of remain until after Thanksgiving. the Bevos, Tommy Roblin of The attending doctor reported a Oregon and Teddy Ogdahl of our I severe sprain with possible chip- Bearcats ail make excellent use 'ping of the ankle bone. The missing member, as the vic tors over Stanford Saturday start ed preparations for the uncertain "Zag" contest, was Stan Doepke, Ttaf s one of the many reasons for EStz 0m Weinhartfsweniite ! 4 WHENEVER YOD ENJOY BEER... Y00 J I S!V1 WILL LIKE CUTZ-WE1NHARD EEST! r x r Q 1 1 1 RliTSlilMD ' - ency. As the Cougars started to practice, Hollingbery reminded them that several times in the past WSC teams had been been beaten by Gonsaga when the Bulldogs were supposed not to "have a chance." Duquesne's season is over, while five other first-tenners will end their regular cam paigns this weekend Minne sota against Wisconsin, Duke against North Carolina State, Notre Dame against Southern California, Michigan against Ohio State in the battle to de cide second place in the West ern conference, and Missouri against Kansas. Texas A and M and Texas will rest until their meeting Novem ber 27, which may settle the Southwest conference race. Ala bama will go up against Vander- bilt in the south's major conflict. while Fordham will take on St, More than 2000 students turned Mary m an attempt to regain out to welcome the team home and to hear Hollingbery say that his team was the "best on, the coast right now" and "already in" if late season strength counted in pick ing the coast Rose Bowl contender. some of the ground lost in its defeat by Pitt ten days ago, The standing of the teams (first-place votes in parentheses, Leslie MacMitchell, the New York university running ace; Cornelius Warmerdam, the San Francisco pole vaulter whose mark of 15 feet, t inches was approved as a new Ame rican record; Bud Ward, nation al amateur golf champion from Spokane ;w Joe Platak, the Chi cagoan who's been winning the national handball crown for seven years; Bill Brown, Louisi ana State's crack broad-jumper; Nancy 'Merki, Portland, (Ore.) swimmer; and Earl Clark, na tional diving champion from Ohio State. These seven names will be sub mitted to a tribunal of 500 ath letes, sportsmen and experts in a mail vote to decide the successor to Greg Rice as winner of the tro phy for amateur sportsmanship, who also named teams which will play in each of the three circuits. League play will begin De cember 8, with the B league leading off in the'Parrish gym. The A league, which will play Wednesdays, will operate on the YMCA floor, while the C league, playing Fridays, will use the Parrlsh floor. Teams include: First Meth odist, First Presbyterian, First Baptist, Mormons, United Breth- ern and Evangelical in the A league; First Christian, Court Street Christian, Mennonites, Presbyterian, Salt Creek Baptist and Congregational in the B league; and First Presbyterian, Calvary Baptist, Evangelical, Jason Lee, Epsicopal and Court Street Christian in the C league, Along with Di Benedetto, the W-i 7f"rf"riTl Vtfkf"C ate elected at the final session i - Hoop Schedule slate also included Fred Steers, Chicago lawyer; Boscoe (Torchy) Tor ranee, Seattle baseball club ex ecuuve; ur. wuiiam miter 01 SILVERTON C. n a r h Gerald Richmond, Va.; and Henry Coit Burnett reports his Silverton high of Buffalo, NY, as first second, basketball schedule has been made out for the season including points figured on 10-9-8-7-6, etc., both the Big 9 schedule and the OAKLAND, Calif., Nov. 17.- -Washington State's vastly im proved football team, its versatile coach. Chin "Babe Hollingbery and the upset win over Stanford were chief topics of discussion Monday at the weekly meeting of the Northern California Foot ball Writers association. Those who watched WSC out play Stanford on offense and out- maneuver Clark Shaughnessy's T-fonnation boys on defense agreed the northern team was the equal if not superior of any In the west at this time. Assistant Coach Jim Lswson, who represented Stanford In the 'absence of Shaughnessy, pictured Washington State as possessor of "the finest ends Tve seen this season. They rushed Frank Albert all after noon. His pass throwing suf fered from it." Lawson's tribute was directed at Dale Gentry and Nick Susoeff, Cougar flankmen. It was all the more flattering inasmuch as Law son was an all-America end at Stanford and coaches that de partment of play. The Stanford mentor took the defeat as a personal matter be cause he had scouted Washing ton State in five games. "Hollinfbery threw so many defenses at' us, it upset the boys," he said. "They'd start with one, switch to another and wind up with a third. We got onto their tricks a little In the second half but it didn't make much difference. We also found oat they can run with the ball Instead of depending on their fine passer, Billy Sewell. "Washington State certainly was the better club for tnat game." Meanwhile at Pullman, HolL ingbery and supporters started a boom to have Washington State named to the Rose bowl. It found support among some writers in the San Francisco bay area who saw the Cougars charge so hard against Stanford the latter had to make four goal line stands, all successful. Hollinfbery was quoted being irked at what he called "alibis" for Stanford's defeat. He telegraphed one of his sports writer friends, "field was per feet, not slow, not wet, 'very fast, also hot sonny day or I wasnt there." Hollingbery was about the most expited person in the stadium. there were some 45,000 on hand, Gull Guard f V -'" $ '4k a It - basis:) FIRST TEN: 1. MinnesoU (112) 2. Texas A and M (5) 3. Duke (12) 4. Notre Dame 5. Michigan . 6. Duquesne 7. Alabama 8. Missouri 9. Texas 10- Northwestern Second ten 11, Fordham, 12, Navy, 117; 13, Pennsylvania, 83; 14, Ohio State, 48; 15, Missis sippi, 46; 16, Oregon State, 31; 17, Stanford, 28; 18, Clemson, 18; 19, Texas Christian, 16; tie for 20, Georgia and Washington, 13 each. Also ran Harvard, 11; Missis sippi State and Tulane, 6 each; Washington State, 5; Santa Clara, 4; Oregon, Pitt, Texas Tech and South Carolina, 3 each; Virginia, 2; .Tennessee, 1. , district 11 schedule, The only team in district 11 who is not 1279 also playing in the league is . 993 I Mount Angel. . 941 Lloyd Reed will be assistant 938 coach and will direct the B squad. (82 The schedule starts December 580 1 5 with a jamboree at Gresham. 415 Scheduled games: December 12 Parkrose, here. " December 18 MolaUa. there. 228 December 19 Gresham, there, ga -January S Canby, here. 196; I January 23 Chemtwt, there. January 90 Mouuia, here. February 3 Mt. Angel, here. February 16 Corbett. there. February 10 Chemawa. here. February 13 Sandy, there. February 17 Mt. Angel, there. February 20 Erlacada, here. February 24 Wood burn, there. John Sevenlcn, guard or the Everett Team whkh plays Sa lem high here Thursday. Hot Stovers Work on Vik, Everett Game Salem's Hot Stovers today noon begin cooking up what they ex pect to be an "over-the-top" ticket sales campaign for the Thanksgiving day football clash here between the Everett Sea gulls and Salem high's Viks. While there is no advance in prices for the game, which is set for 12, noon, Thursday, the Hot Stovers league hopes to assure its financial success with an ad vance sale and at the same time dispose of sufficient tickets to avoid congestion at the gates on game day. League members convene to day noon at the Golden Pheas ant to organise the ticket drive. Everett, but once beaten in two seasons,' is expected to ar rive here Wednesday night. Coach Jim Ennis brings a team rated one of the state of Washington's best prep outfits. It is headed by Larry Hatch, a halfback rated by Washington observers as good as was Jimmy Newquist at Camas. Coach Harold Hauk drilled his twice-defeated, six times victori ous Vikings lightly Monday. AD and probably does not remember 1 hands are expected to be in shapa how he and his assistant, "Buck" to go Thursday, although Tackl Bailey, kicked and squashed the Bay Loter is nursing injuries 50-yard line marker box out of sustained m the Medford clash. shape. The "Babe" is the best AriA-tneft ehMtf ts 4 Via sv avsav aa in addition to being "the coach lfllol8 i Ummel of the year" this season. Wash- ington State victories over Cali- CjOHZ12i 3T0 fornia, Oregon, Oregon State and staniora entitle him to the dis- PORTLAND, Not. 17-V-Port- uuli. una university s zoo wall power Director of Athletics Al Mas- swelled to the season's peak Sun ters said there was mist falling day and the pilots-smothered Gon- Saturday morning. He personally zaga university, 37 to 0. inspected the field Just before I It was the first Pilot win over noon and had to call off an intra- Gonzaga in nine years. mural touch tackle game because Halfback Louis Farnsworth of its slippery condition. scored three touchdowns, the first Coach L. B, "Stab" Ads two on runs of 18 and SI yards and f California described Oregta I the third on a lateral pass- State "a good, tough club," He praised the OSC Use and aid hi team had played Its best game of the far, although It lost. season thus Jayvees Stop Papooses 7-0 CHEMAWA B r u c e Hamilton intercepted a Chemawa pass mid Old Prof Learns W S C Exhausted the Indians By WHITNEY MARTIN T t. NEW YORK. Nov. 17-(Special to The Statesman) -The old way m me first quarter here Mon-I nrofessor waited until his Monday mornintr class of football Jl - A , mm a I oay wiernoon ana ran ' y"0? 1 coaches was seated, then carefully dipped a clap pipe into a , V?"1 ' to ive .the. S816" bowl of soapsuds and blew a large bubble. As it floated down- LLJL: TrZ ward he punctured it with the nail on his forefinger. - - . . . i:ui. KJia proiessor we win open louay wiui a jitue quiz pro- the count for the season, as the Papooses earlier whipped the Jay vees 27 to 0.' Halfback Bland Simmons made the conversion from scrimmage. The remainder of the game was played in midfield with neither I team advancing far toward its op ponent's goal line. DiitriJjaltd by Gideon Stoh Compsny Marion B League Elects Officers v MILL crTY Athletic represen tatives, principals - and coaches, from fourteen. Marion county B high schools met at the Salem YMCA recently and elected of ficers. Elected were: Van Driesche, St. Paul, president; Frank Smith, Mill City, vice president; and Jim Dimit, Mill City, secretary-treas urer. Plans were also made -to hold the annual basketball jam boree at Mt. Angel college, Decem ber 19. Additional Sports On Page 2, gram, gentlemen. Now what does what I have just done represent Think hard, now. A bubble burst ing ... .Class, in unison Texas! Old prof e s s o r That's i right That's ab-so-lu-tely right I'm sor ry our good friend, Mr Dana Bi ble, isntxere to give us the scien tific reason why a bubbe bursts, but maybe Mr. Shaughnessy can hep. He knows something about such things. - Clark Shaughnessy, Stanford Indeed I do, professor. In our ease Washington State was the scientific reason. ' We lost to a great team that deserved to win. Our halfbacks were exhausted, Albert in particular. The whole team was so tired we went work out untn Wednesday. V l Babe ; Hollingbery, Washington State -We had, the key to the Stanford offense and defense. My boys played great .ball to beat a great team. - - Old professor Mr. Waldorf, please - stop pasting that gum around. Dont be so generous. Lynn Waldorf, Northwestern Dont say generous to me. We've been too generous with the other fellow. We made some mechanical errors against Notre Dame whkh the Irish capital ised on, and we dldnt cash in on theirs. 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