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Sport Sparks na L&eer Over By HON CLAIM ELL A iherto Me - t, w . ; CHOC SHELTON Grain Canters As South Tops North 16 to 0 By ROMNEY WHEELER MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec. 27 -iP)-Razzle-daz2le football paid off at 16-0 Saturday as a daring team of southerners whipped the heavier northern All-Stars in the fourth annual Blue-Gray game before 15,571 specators. Jackrabbit Jack Crain of -Texas, ail in? all week with a heavy cold, left illness in his locker and ran, passed and kicked the Yankees into fits. Little Junle Hovious of Missis sippi and Boss Pritchard of Virginia Military added an em broidery of swift thrills. Held in the first quarter, the favored southerners grabbed an accident-insurance lead in the Oregon State is the most beaten pre-game football team in the history of the sport. . . For 10 days, now, every football writer east of the Rockies has had Duke adrninistering gargan tuan beatings to our Staters. . . A cartoonist would probably picture the pre-game dope thusly: Eleven satanic Blue Devils, replete with horns growing from their skulls, mammoth forks in their hands, fire shooting from their eyes and tails waving behind their chairs-r-all sitting around a banquet table on which rested a well-cooked Beaver on an immense platter, marked off like a gridiron. . . Those Devils would be gorging them selves on Beaver meat, cooked with the fur on, and washing it down with great draughts of Beaver blood. . . It'd be a gory sight, if portrayed as the east em football writers have writ ten. Why, to read the reams of stuff coming from back there you'd think our Orangemen from county Benson, city Cor vallis didn't have the chance of a rifleman in front of tank. . . You'd think Stiner & Co. were lambs who'd become crazy enough from eating Ore gon loco weed that they were actually invading a wolves' den. . . You'd think the only foot ball the Beavers ever saw was in the movies. . . You couldn't. bv anv strrtch of thp imagination, believe thev were chamoions second when North Carolina's of the Pacific Coast conference-one of the toughest football Harry-Dunkle booted a field goal lpacriips in thf wnrlrl And, on the other hand, you'd think this Duke team is in " pust seven minutes and possession of some sort of secret weapon, the likes of which " m 7t the football world has never before seen. . . Some kind of ray, lirgt toucndown- crain, running perhaps, which would enable the Dukes to stop the Beavers in tne Yankee flanks like' a scared their tracks when the Beavers have the ball (if, indeed, they raDbit, worked the ball from the ever get hold of it), and would allow the Dukes, when they North 35 to the 19 after a partly have the ball (which, it seems, will be 99 and 99100 per cent blocked punt left the Yankees in of the time), to run through the Beavers like we are the Japs a hole. one of these days. You'd think all this, wouldn't you? o Oregon State Very Much Underrated Team Oregon State, I think, is the most underrated team since Washington and his hatchet. . . True, the Beavers lost two games, but I'd venture a guess that Duke would have lost at least a pair, too, if the Devils had been playing in this Coast conference this season. . . Actually, I think, a number of those teams Duke ran over this season like Wake Forest, Maryland, Davidson and home the final touchdown in the North Carolina State don't even compare to such teams out fourth period after George Fritts here as Idaho and Montana, a couple of outfits Oregon State ran 01 Sanson, soutnern guard, re over with the greatest of ease. That Beaver team which meets Duke Thursday is just the best tackling and blocking team in the west, that's all, and it doesn't depend on single weapons. . . It has balance, the best balance of any team on the coast this season, and it can't be stopped by knocking out a key man or two. While emphasis has been placed on the left-handed Don Dur- der and stepped four yards over dan and the right-handed Bob Dethman as the manufacturers the goal line. Crain's placekick of the Boavcrs' offensive, is this entirely true? . . . These half- was good backs, going each way, as they do, with the threat of a run or The razzle-dazzle promised by pass off every play, are mighty good, all right, but the Beavers Matty Bell of Southern Methodist have much more than that .. . Many times this season, for in- and his coaching colleagues, stance. I've seen the opposition concentrating on stooping Dur- Frank Howard of Clemson and rfan anH rWhman nnlv tn have Chnr RVieltnh or .Top Dav mm Dawson Of Tulane, produced rarim nn thn miriril for nlPnlv of varHaPP 25 Passes by southerners. Sords' Review of the Year 'JUNE Twice Crain tried passes, and twice they failed. Then Hovious came in, whipped a seven-yar-der to Preston Johnston of Southern Methodist, bucked six over right tackle and then passed again to Johnston for the touchdown. Johnston's placekick went wide. The Confederates hammered covered Andy Tomasic's fumble on the North 37. Hovious and Crain took the ! ball to the Yankee 18 in four plays, and then Crain flipped a 14-yarder to the little Mississipian i who took it over his right shoul- '"PP NS. "xvTS XJbe Louis. , ) J2a Successfully -feJXSr veeAoeo Mis 4eaW- V3Sa?fH3i359k WgiGUT TITLE SBStilSk 6lU"ia Three in Tie For Lead in Golf Tourney PC Conference Czar Savs-OSC Is 'Uppity' RgGATTA - UvMC r Salem, Oregon, Sunday Morning. December 28. 1941 Beavers Best 'Sonnies' In 1st Eastern Contest BUFFALO, NY, Dec. 27-(yP)-The Oregon State basketball team opened an eastern invasion here by defeating St. Bonaven ture, of Alleghany, 38-33, before 5250 spectators Saturday night The Beavers ran up a 16-6 advantage midway through the first half on spectacular one-handed shooting by George McNutt and Paul Valenti, but the Bonnies rallied to trail by 21-15 at halftime. The Pacific coast team Friel Figures His Cougars tft up tne miaaie lor plenty or yaraage. -- " - r V " . T1T711 "TOT O The Beavers have plenty of speed at the flanks and in the fefSS6?.?? ! 2 m Will Will SoUlU kur.u iV,.:.- . ; i a "le 111 a ' oui oi it in vcai.fwit.u, wktjt w gui vjaaauig gaiuit: ai iu vicuiiauic Ruining, oiiu, after all, they're the best tackling and blocking outfit in. the west. . . To beat them, the Blue Devils will have to out-block and out-tackle them something only one team, Washington . State, was able to do out here this season. If Oregon State plays the game it did against Stanford or Ucla, especially, it'll whip Duke. . . If the Beavers play no better the second. The North tried only one pass in the first half, saining 9 yards. Later the Yankees opened up and pitched 10, com pleting four for 45 yards. PULLMAN, Wash., Dec. 27-() -Jack Friel, the quiet, cautious coach whose Washington State college Cougars went hurricaning through the Coast conference Standouts in line play for the basketbaU schedule and into the than their worst dav out here, which was against Washington State, they still won't get tromped on. . . They've never yet old Kungmichael of Texas, while national fmals last vear said Sat been demoralized, and I don't think they will be January 1. Vance Banonis of Detroit and Al jurday Ws current team would O Demao of Duquesne starred in riay ed 'Game' Both Off and On Gridiron the North forward wall. V... , , . . , , lU . , Tomasic of Temple, Jim Car Did Spec Keene have anything to say about the Bearcats' rier of Wesieyan (Conn) college game with the University of Hawaii-December 6? . . . Well, an(j jackie Hunt of Marshall frankly, your correspondent had almost forgotten the Bearcats toted the 'offensive load for the went to Hawaii to play a football game, what with all the in- Yanks. terest centered in that sneak play by the Japs. . . Probably The victory for the southerns- evened the four-year series at ' wouldn't have mentioned the game at all, but a bystander spoke up, asking: "How about the game, Spec?" Keene said: "The boys played good ball for the condition they were in. They drove deep into Hawaiian territory four win a few games. This bit of Friel enthusiasm capped the team's 10-game pre -Christmas schedule, in which the only loss wa3 a 38-35 defeat by Whitman. In a return game the Friel crew of youngsters he lost all but one of his starters via gradu ation washed away the Whit man stain, 57 to 41. His sharpshooters averaged 52 NORTH (8) Friedland, Mich. St., left end. Moeling, Penna., left tackle. Wolff, Cornell, left guard. Banonis, Detroit, center. Zorich. Northwestern, right guard. Cohen, Penna.. right tackle. Squires, Duquesne, right end. Hallabrin, Ohio State, quarterback. Tomasic. Temple, left half. Chambers. Northwestern, right half. carrier, wesieyan, xuiiDacK. score was run up against Miss ouri, which State defeated, 62 to 23. The team has one more pre pulled away again in the second half, with Frank Zabvski lead ing another Bonnie drive in the closing minute.. Zabowski and McNutt shared scoring honors with 11 points each. It was the first defeat for St. Bonaventure. Oregon State O F Ff Tp Mulder, f 2 4 2 8 Dement, f 2 0 3 4 McNutt, f 5 1 0 11 Mandic, c 2 13 5 Valenti, g 3 0 0 6 Beck, g 12 0 4 Hall, g 0 0 3 0 Totals 15 8 11 38 St. Bonaventure G F Pf Tp Denio, f 2 0 3 4 Rokoski, f 2 10 6 McCarthy, f 10 3 2 Binetti. f 0 2 2 2 Tyndall, c 2 2 2 6 McDonald, c - 0 0 0 0 Comerford, g 1113 Zabowski, g 5 1 1 11 Quinn. g 0 0 0 0 Totals 13 7 12 33 BEAUMONT, Tex., Dec. 27-(iP) -Paul Runyon of White Plains, NY, a pre-tournament favorite, and two dark horses, Chick Har bert of Battle Creek, Mich, and Jim Turnesa of Elmsford, NY, whipped par by three strokes on the tree-studded country, club course Saturday to take the 38 hole lead in the $5000 Beaumont golf open. Each added a 68 to his open ing round of 70 yesterday to to into Sunday's final 36 holes with low 138's. The field of 223, largest in the history of the Professional Golf ers association, was narrowed Saturday to the 53 low profes sionals and 13 low amateurs. One stroke behind the leading threesome is Herman Keiser of Akron, Ohio, who was even par 1 today after taking a 69 in his initial effort Knotted at 140 are five promi nent performers, including E. J, Dutch" Harrison of Little Rock, Friday's leader with 67, who slip ped to a 73. Bracketed with Har rison are Ray Hill of Mamaro- neck, NY, Byron Nelson of Tole do, Tony Penna of Dayton, and Lloyd Mangrum of Monterey, Calif. Nelson unreeled his best golf, firing a blazing four-under-par 31 on the back nine after going out in 38. Standing alone at 141 was Hen ry Picard of Oklahoma City, who had a 70 his second round. Two Texans, Jimmie Gauntt of Longview. and Jack Burke. sr., of Houston, comprise the 142 bracket, Gauntt taking a 72 and Burke a 70 today. Favored Ben Hogan of Her- shey, Pa., who discovered the toughness of the wooded layout Friday by taking a 33-42 75, was two under par his second trial for a 36-hole aggregate of 144. Bobby Riegel of Houston, semlfinalist in the national amateur tournament tnls year, was low amateur at the half way mark with a 145. He had a one-under-par 70 today. Filzpatrick Refuses 'Come Ahead' Wire by Bevos' Graduate Manager Fritts, Clemson. left tackle. Kungmichael. Texas, left guard. Gude, Vandy, center. TitUe. Tulane, right guard. Dufour, Tulane, right tackle. Goss. SMU. right end. Cheatham, Auburn, quarterback. Hovious, Mississippi, left half. Johnston, SMU, right half. Thibeaut, Tulane, fullback. two wins each for North and South. The Yankpps wprp onarhpH Ko- points a came while holding the times in the first half, in addition to their one scoring sally, and nlTcl," opposition to 36.4. The highest u., i 5 tu; . I UU'"J .. : nviuu iiovc oi-uicu inu ui mice uivic uiiico 11 uicii passing al I of Cornell tack had been clicking. . . . Spec, deeply tanned from contact tyith the famous Hawaiian sun, said the Bearcats, weakened by seasickness on the voyage over, folded somewhat in the second half. The Willamette chief, And Mrs. Keene, were prouder over the manner in which the Bearcat boys conducted themselves after the bombing than if they'd woat the football game. , . The 'Cat kids carried out the assignment, given them, both on the island and during the vovaee home, in1 the same meticulous man- 41 i-. i . i x i n i j j. u.. I SOUTH (16) jrer wicy weie utugm iu uu un me luuiuan neiu, acuuruuig to Flanagan, Texas, left end not only Mr. and Mrs. Keene, but also other members of the Hawaii party. Halfback Gene Stewart returned to learn he had been caught in the professional football draft, with the Philadelphia Eagles, while Quarterback Jim Burgess expects to be called into the army before long. . . The new draft law will probably catch many others of the Bearcat band, for the squad is generously sprinkled with 20 and 21 -year-olds. . . All of them have already ?J?j had a taste of what it is to pack an army rifle, for all carried 4,,4.. ;n i ,,1,, r ' Ai r South wn e."" xuwviiuiu. . . .x uancu even -tft Hnvi,1K. ,jt ,,l,rt,Vr 1 nHtr manaoor ,'r. Iho i,,ilH i i : : u: .1 : u i..i I I , l oj . ... uu w.v.aivii i urn ius mcjr aa.y m uic oimy, uui tran uor jonnsion , (placemen; . uat .i;-. WuHIit'c! Knut neia eoai uumue uor cneainam. i F - wiui xne negro cnampion last xaay 28 in Washington, DC. Donovan disqualified a battered and groggy Baer for refusing to come out for the seventh round, whereas Hoffman thought it should have been the other way around Louis disqualified and. Buddy pro claimed the titleholder. Remem ber? Baer had been smashed down twice by terrific rights to the jaw. The second time the UU Calif ornian barely rot to his feet, weaving like a willow In the wind, as Donovan tolled "10." Louis launched himself at his helpless antagonist, and an other right whistled toward Baer's Jaw. Undoubtedly the bell ending Halftime score: Oregon State, 21; St St. Bonaventure, 15. Free throws missed: Oregon Stat Dement 1, Mandic 1, Beck 3, McNutt 1 St. Bonaventure Denio 1, Rokoski McCarthy 1, Referee: Vince McNamara (Buffalo) season tilt with Eastern Washington here January 2 before it opens the Coast con ference slate January 9 against Oregon. SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 27-OTVEdwin Atherton, ParifW Coast conference commissioner, deeply stung over the attitude of Percy Locey, Oregon State athletic director, in the assignment of Tom Fitzpatrick as referee of the Oregon Stater Duke football game at Durham, NC, January 1, plans to carry me matter xo the next meeting of the conference. - Atherton, before boarding a train for Detroit for the NCAA meeting, said he does not blame Fitzpatrick for refusing Looey's "come ahead" wire following the Oregon State official's protest on the grounds that he (Locey) was not consulted on the referee's selection. "I dont know what we shall do for a referee," Atherton as serted. "I east blame Fitzpat rick If he's persona non (rata. Locey tsnt running this con ference yet. He and Oregon State seem to be getting a little unreasonable since landing; the Rose Bowl rune. "I probably will take the entire matter to the conference at it's next meeting. Either I am the commissioner or I'm not, but I'm going to ask a showdown." Fitzpatrick, center of the new est coast grid storm, canceled his transportation tickets and un packed his traveling bags, de spite Locey's beckoning telegram to "come on and referee the game, m explain everything when you arrive." A !s jg PERCY LOCEY 2 : 7yS.- i, . J, V ''V'" ' ' 'J' Trick Plays S May Get Call In Rose Bowl Rams Bow to East In Practice Game By FRANK B. GILBRETH DURHAM, NC, Dec. 27 -PH Because the Rose Bowl coaches gave their scouts honor that they wouldn't scout each other, the emphasis may be on trick plays when Duke and Oregon State I meet here on New Year's day. At least that's the theory of big Lon Stiner of Oregon State, a fellow who would like to see scooting abolished for all games. "The way it is on the west coast," said Stiner, "we scout the teams so thoroughly that a coach usually knows everything there is to know about his opponents. "Why. some of the coachs out A McMinnville team that trad- the even can tell vou whJ-n ed basket for basket with the Sa- one of mv back, h,s dandruff lem high hoopers until the Viks jfo kidding. took command in the last five "Tn mv r.ninion this cmntins EDWIN ATHERTON (Vikings Slate McMinnville Tuesday Night BAY ST. LOUIS, Miss., Dec. 27 -iff)- Coach Jim Crowley of Fordham smiled broadly Satur day although his Rams were tak ing it on the nose 13 to 6 from the eastern All-Stars in a long minutes of a game played at Mc- business is bad because it means hard practice scrimmage in raw, Minnville Friday night, comes to that there are fewer Sunday plays. gloomy weather. Jsalem luesday nignt lor a return a Sunday play, you know, is one This and Friday's extended clash. drill with the easterners helped The Grizzlies are scheduled to put his team into good condition bring both their varsity and sec tor the Sugar Bowl meeting next ond team outfits. inursaay witn Missouri, erasing ItH be the seventh session of the overweight he detected on th wiun for th vik. who have won fonr and lost two and who have been looking a little better each time out. Friday night of this week, the scouting, you could use that play Viks tangle with Grant hieh of ,1e or 6,x umes coring me sea- ...... - . ,., r,,,-4i .u - u Portland in the second came of a -"m""j, uitic wuuiu arrival earlier in the week. Rangers Win, 4-2 MONTREAL, Dec. 21-(P)- New York came through with of those tricky jobs designed to catch the opposition flat-footed. "Well, with all the scooting that's going on, a Sunday play can be used lost one time La some one game. After that, its about as obsolete as the flying wedge. 'But if there weren't any eoals in the third Deriod Satnr- day night to send Montreal down doubleheader program here. The mor f" to its fourth straight defeat, 4-2. " P. Dwight Adams' f0 l?d m0r tu i : j i t-. i Ainanv iam n pa i nil Knnvvr i xnc vitiuiv wuu&uuuaieu uie xvau-I " I t m . gers' hold on third place in the nin OI oruano. national hockev league standing while the Canadians remain in BeaVer StlltldltS me ceiiar. i Make Souvenirs Donovan Won't Be Around for Louis, Baer Battle This Time; Buddy Won't Be Scared Basketball Scores By GAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Special to The Statesman) Two things that may be said with a fair degree of certainty about the approaching title fight here between Joe Louis and Buddy Baer are that Arthur Donovan, the world's most famous referee, will not be the third man in the ring, and that this particular member of the Baer family will not be el scared of Louis. t 3 716 Donovan won the undying en- scoring: Touchdowns John- ' """'""'i a ' jt was just a shcftvhi the dark. (placement). Alabama, Texas Aggies Rated Even Bet in Cotton Bowl Mix Skiing Better Over Oregons Winter Areas DALLAS, Dec, 27-(tff)-Alabama's Crimson Tide will roll into town Monday to find itself an even bet against Texas A & M in ' the sixth annual Cotton Bowl football game. PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 21-(JP)- ' At least that's the way money talks in Dallas. It's one and p? weather bureau announced one half points and take your choice. V Which means the Tide and the Aggies are considered more evenly matched than any teams ever to appear before in the classic. - The ticket sale is booming. ' Only about 6000 remain to be Mid to fill the bftwl to Its 45, ; 507 capacity. , Alabama's squad of 41 players, five coaches and two trainers will arrive at 1:50 p. m. and after the usual parade through the down- ' town .district arid welcoming re marks from OMayoriWoodall Rod gers, the Crimson! will hie-Itself to the Dallas high school stadium for a workout YV-rC ' r From J 200 to 1500 ; fans are ' expected to follow the team, mak ing its sixth bowl appearance in ,17 years. The other five Were in the Rose Bowl. . . , fht Aggies arrive Tuesday skiing conditions at winter sports areas Saturday. Timberline lodge Two-way traffic, chains mandatory. Sixty inches of snow with two inches powdery over grandular surface.' Chair lift and tow lift operating. Tollfate Chains not needed. Thirty inches of snow with ten the sixth round rang before tfce uiiureajmpie common Mow KtniHr hut x7rt If , Vari heard it Louis could not have re- afternoon and will receive a similar greeting. The squad will use the Southern Metho dist university stadium for its workouts. As Alabama turned toward inches Dallas, word came that Coach crust. Two , lifts operating. Frank Thomas still was worried Santiam Pass Thirty-one Led the punch. actoui ms pass uexeiiae, wmcn, miincnes OX snow Wltn tnree incnesl Buddv mimnlwl ao ain ,;- jr. T I -n..-r ru i: . I - o t itvviivi uug nM . ojyuit MC Mnnoaq Open r lO Inftrht stauon. irteen mcnes l - Buddva handior moA tn snow with three inches powdery hoist his 237V, rounds nd At9 Alabama has .had nine touch- oyer common ''oust Snow stable. ; him back to his stooL and then tney . cnarged on Referee Dono- something to give a lot of thought I ranger to. , . KA,Z;M:u: downs scored against it this sea-"Sknng good. son, eight either ou passes or the result of them. ' : In fact the two games lost by the Tide were because of passes., The, Arties, dropped one game, but It wasn't so much because of passes against them. - That was once Derace- Sloser, the Southwest confer ence's top pitcher, was rushed to much he eouldnt connect. vani demanding Louis' disqualifl- I cation tor having bopped '.. their man after the bell. Donovan grunted, a positive no, and told them to get to work on Buddy; BUDDY BAER Hoffman formally claimed the title, but the District of Co lumbia fight commission ruled him out of order and upheld Referee Donovan. That how ever, will not help Arthur's cause when they start choosing an official for the return tussle on January 9. Hoffman still thinks he was robbed, and they will put Donovan in there again only over, his dead and indig nant body. Of Bowl Tickets CORVALLIS, Dec tl-iJPj- Oreron State college students who bought Pasadena Rose Bowl tickets at the special $1.65 rate are holding onto them as souvenirs, rather than exchang ing them for cash. Whether a general sale of the returned ducats to raise money for the Red Cross and other war purposes will be held, is to be decided by a conference be tween OSC and Pasadena offi cials, Percy Locey has tele graphed from Duke university. The souvenir sale proposal was first made by Lee CbJl- berg, Portland, in a letter to Gov. Charles A. Sprarne. COLLEGE Long Island It, Southern Cat 45. Oreron State 38, St Bonaven ture S3. Washington C4, Temple SI. HIGH SCHOOL Grants Pan 38,-Chemawa It. Oklahoma, Texas Take Hoop Wins I They only yelled the louder; When period. the bell rang to start the seventh round, and Baer showed no signs of coming to life, Donovan raised the champ's glove. Donovan contended - then, and still does, that the bell ending the sixth found clanged just as Louis sloughed Buddy for the last time not before. At any rate, he was dead right in his assertion that he would have been forced to halt the bout anyway, even if the final swat had not landed. Baer was helpless, too far gone, to have recuperated- in the minute rest OKLAHOMA CITY. Dec. 27- ISK-m Th fmulvn; ('marc r, -V The mother matter, concerning lahnTa a r, r hrct;ma Buddy's lack of fear of Louis, is pions o aU-CoUege basketball a " " tournament throttled Baylor's "yuuic rZ c ne high-scoring Bears 40 to 29 Sat was chosen to fight the champion rght to go into the semi- again in uic luruicummg navai i finals. r"lY. . uc- Ane. 018 . I Texas university's Lonehorna mougni ne was gomg to Deat BfflmrwdM intn tho TT,;ni.- v- Louis the first time they met and overpowering the Red Raiders of ,1C " posiuve ne can cui woe Texas Tech, 55 to 45. uuwn. No one quite knows where Buddy got this obsession. 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