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Stanford Wins Western NCAA Athletic Stars Who Now Shine tor Uncle Sam Casaba Crown ? V s; ) Consternation connected with just what anglers are going to be allowed to do with those outboard motors and other self- propelled vessels of, 100 feet or under during , the war, is en lightened to a great extent by reports from the Portland division of the United States coast guard. It has been believed that all such craft would be "grounded" due to the war, but data com piled from the coast guard reports emporium, and the April issue of anglers wfll be allowed useage of restrictions of course.- - and operators from this particu lar naval district headquarters of the coast guard at 1930 NW Front avenue. . Portland. ADollcations avenue, c roruand. applications for the proper license and Identi fication card necessary to operate must be filed with the Portland headquarters. ' After the proper applications have been made, a card taming a photograph, finger- prints, personal description, li cense Bomber, expiration date, etc., wtn be Issued beat owners and operators. Only said owner or operator needs an Identifi cation card--his passengers do not, although he is responsible for them. - ' . - The special license will apply for all such boats operating at sea or in navigable streams. It will not be necessary to obtain a li cense for operations in inland lakes unless said lakes are in a defense area, All self-propelled vessels of 100 feet and ander in length are required to have a license, and all operators aa Identifica tion card. The special license will cany a description of the beat, the pnrposo fori 'and wa ters in which It wffl he oper ated, and will be goed smUl there la a change of ownership fat the. hoat. Each vessel issued a license will provide itself with a white Identi fication board with the license number painted av. black block letters not less than six inches in . height This board shall be v exhibited upon approaching any coast guard vessel or military guard, and when passing through draws or bridges. . The operation of all vessels is also immediately restricted to the h' . : of daylight, sunrise to sun set, unless one Is engaged in fish lng for a livelihood, towing, com merce, or some business necessi tating night operation. The license Is good only for operation in the naval district in which it is issued additional licenses must be ob tained to operate in other naval districts. Operations will not be allowed within 100 feet of any navy yard, sh'r building plant, power, plant, oil terminal, marine terminal, mu nition plant, military or naval arsenal or depot, warehouse or . freight pier, except on legitimate business. -- Still Directing The mystery ef Ike many aeries. "What's Biddy Bishop doinx newt? has been solved. Bubblln' Biddy is still direct ing things, although this time tfs traffic 1st a Portland ship yard. The ex-Senator business manager Is a shipyard eep In the Rose City works, and la right at home among a lot of his ball- r: er eniea, anch as Big Ed Coleman, Jim Keesey, Clint Cameron; Jack Warren, and Kay Elliott. Reports are that Biddy .weald like to form a shipyard team which wonld be "good , enough to lick any dab en the coast" - Wander If he'd do the pitch ing he's stffl got that "spUter , . yon know. . A Solution Tommy Drynan, football coach at Parrish, as well as basketball official and ex-softball player In and around our town, comes up I with a solution for the possible : player shortage the Senators face. Tommy thinks they should switch over into softball in the WI, "so that some of us old guys can Play.? ? " - . .. ' The baseball weather we had last week mast hawe given Dry nan, Jimmy Nicholson .and Big. John Stoelhammer the 'Itch J as they were caught fondly, reminiscing the galden era ef softball - here, and re-play ing some of the rip-roaring clashes with the vim and vigor ef 10 year elds. Troubles no End -All is not rosy in the wrestling promoting business if you dont pfatnf AT-rfc Made think so, ask OoaOw.n.PSr- yr ht ul maestro of Salem, -f Eu gene and Portland matches. : Tm having a little tough luck with the b o y s." writes Dob; "Bulldog Jacksen got a knee full of broken glass from that auto wreck and win bo laid ap for a month, Johnson went be able t walk for another week re sult of getting torn Ugamente in a match, Berb Parks can't get across the Canadian border and Sockeye McDonald bad his Try sh of Cl!e rmd imtli, SUCCESS for Mt (tin tm CHINA. No SUf Wltft h.t tlarai ar AFFIICT- CD 4isrtn, somstti. beart. taag, liver. Moneys. steaMea. mm- uMiiaatloa. tlcers. ela- atia. fares, skla. tmmi mr lalats Zhzslh Clzzf Chinese Herb Co Cfries Bamrs Oaly Taea. Sat, m n to S :. aa Sea,' n ".. ' mjsu tm UZt Jsw L 3 ::. c:t. zu cct ct. to Cliff Parker at his sports Field & Stream, point out that motor boats, but under certain I I Anm Flint mi AC A CCllil If Id 1AI1C3 Head Grapple Card Tuesday A sizzling team match will headline Promoter' Don Owens' Tuesday night grapple card at the armory, slated for the best "two of three fall one hour limit route. Another one-hour match is slated to open the grunt and groan card at 8:30 pjn. The team match will be be tween newcomer Bock David son, miner from Montana, and partner George KitxmUler, Portland, against popular Wal ter -Saeesle" Achat. Canton. Ohio, and mate Milt Olsen, an other new arrival in northwest wrestling Tanks, who halls from St Paul, Minnesota. Davidson brings with him a reputation as one of the most un orthodox "meanies" In the game. and will have a likely partner in Kitzmfller, who is well known here for his "dirty" tactics, and has been disqualified for fouling as much as any wrestler- ever grappling here. v ' On the "cleanle" side. Olsea. reputed one of the fastest and cleverest ma tinea to come out of the midwest will team with Achat who palled the big aaeet last Tuesday whea he wrestled the hated Sockeye McDonald to aa action-filled draw m one of the hottest matches seen ia Sa lem. The Hooded Hawk returns to do opening battle with Speedball Jack Kiser of St Johns. The Hawk is still irked at the flop ping he got from Achui three weeks ago here, which ended a long string of victories for him. Hell be bearing down in , this match for the right to get another shot at "Sneezie." Kiser. well known to Salem fans, has been going great in matches in Port land and -Eugene, and will also be out to gain himself a topnotch berth in later bouts. Roles of the team match will start all four grapplers at once. If one man Is pinned, his part ner mast continue alone antil either he throws both bis op ponents or tt flopped by them. The team which throws both grapplers of -the opposing team wins a fait and the match fct scheduled for best two-ef-three falls. iCorvallis Hoop Banquet Set COkVALXIS The Cervallls high school basketball team, raaaer-ap to Astoria high ta the recent state basketball tour nament at Salem, will be hon ored at a Dad's club banquet at the high school Tuesday night March 24, at ( pjn. Principal speaker at the baa- qaet will be Al Ligbtner, sports editor of the Salem Oregon Statesman. Approximately 250 people are expected to attend the baaaaet, after which the members of the am and Coach Frank Ramsey wffl be presented with gold bas ketball emblems. . State League Will Decide on Southern Team Status Today ALBANY. March 21--Ore- gon State Baseball league mu agent wQl decide here Sunday whether to eliminate Medford and Klamath Falls from the cir cuit thla year because of travel restrictions. Elimination of the two teams would red ace ' the league to Bead and Willamette Valley en trants. ' TAMPA. Pla, March 21H-A new world's mark for rapid-fire shooting with a .45-calibre pistol was set here Saturday by Francis O'Connor, Kansas City policeman, who made 10 buHseyes in 20 shots for a score of 29S out of a possible 300 points, in the national mid winter pistol matches. - shoulder knocked eat of joint Wtdav alrbt and will bo oat ml actloa for three weeks. -But ni keep trying, and 1TJ Kv noma good' matches tt Salem regardless.- .Incidentally, Den's team nle-s, slated for Tuesday night at the armory, win have two new lmportaUons to local mat fans Duck Davidson. Sleav . Una miner, and SSlt Olsen, St T'Ian whirlwind. Bota a vd recently In the north west and were neadllners la re spective borne areas. The team matches need no in trodactlr- to f MU(t per formanees have shewn that tley are t?ra tst Cswnriit ac and Cu-Ok Will Meet Dartmouth, Eastern Victor, in Battle for National KANSAS CITY, March Stanford's Giants put up a punc ture - proof defense Saturday night mastr Colorado's high scoring mountain coys, to 10 w, ana win the western NCAA basketball championship before 6000 specta tors. The Pacific eoast club will face Dartmouth, winner over eatacky ta the eastern NCAA title game, here next Saturday far the national crown. Phog Alien's Kansas Jayhawks, ate through a six-point disadvan tage at the half to nick Rice In stitute 55-53 for third place in the western sets. Colorado, who came to the tour nament with the best offensive record of the field, froze for a seven minute interval in the first half and Stanford shot to a 19-7 lead. Ed Voss and Sophomore Jim Pollard, who worked smooth ly and effectively, fused for a dozen points to push the Indians into that wide, margin. The Bulls never caught up thereafter as the towering Cal if ornians commanded the scoring zones under the backboards, keep ing Frosty Cox's outfit firing from long distances. Stanford led 22-15 at the half. Seldom has sach s velvet-ae- tioned (earn sach aa Stanford beea seen oa the inland maples of this big auditorium. Passing, particularly aader the ho spa. was flawless and the Annua ta which they manipulated their height to all advantages i surpass wd. Tne Indians ployed a baffling man-for defease which switched into a ae and then agaia lata a mod ified maa-for-maa with 21- Jewel precision. The Coloradoans, with their Big Seven scoring champ, Pete Mc Cloud, throttled with only one field goal and a single free throw by the fine tagging of Bill Cow den, seldom had the ball in their hands long enough to make a good acquaintance. , NEW ORLEANS. March 21 (Ay-Dartmoath's big Green In dlans trailed for seven minutes and then eomnletely dominated the Keatacky Wildcats Satur day night to win the eastern division NCAA basketball championship by the lop-sided score of 47 to 20. The Ivy league champions thus won the right to play Stanford in Kansas City next week for the national title. There was no comparison be tween the two clubs as they played Saturday night Ken tucky's usually accurate goal shooting, which carried the Southeastern conference title holders to victory Over Illinois in the semi-finals Friday night was notably missing. Slim George Maaroe was the evening's hero, sinking nine field goals' from all angles and adding a couple ef free throws to top the score with 20 points. Ia the consolation match be tween Friday night's losers, Peaa State walloped Illinois, 41-24. White Sox Wax Chicago Cubs ' LOS ANGELES. March 21-iff) Three Chicago White Sox pitch ers held the Chicago Cubs to five hits Saturday as the American leaguers won the third game in the exhibition series between the two teams, t to 2. The Sox now! hold a 2 to 1 advantage in the intra-city battles. Chicago (N) 000 000 0202 5 2 Chicago (A) 00211101x 6 9 I W. Lee, Schauta (6) and Mc- Cullough; Lyons, Humphries (4), E. Smith (7) and Turner. Play lor Keeps Joe Gordon. New Yerk Yankees' - 1 nrtnr training camp at Sarasota, tia leapea mie ua air to iwm i j spiking John TTelaJ. Boston Eed Sex ranaer. T7elal an outfielder, j w&S forced out at seeend ta tse secona nuung oi a ga i which the xanss wen iwiuii sums. r-y r . Atherton's Job Hangs In Balance as Holds Vital ; By GAIL PORTLAND, March 21-MVWhafi to be done about Ather- ton? - -. : Perhaps nobody wants to know the answer to that question more than Edwin Atherton, Pacific Coast conference athletic Denver Legion Larrups Oilers For AAU Title DENVER. March 21-P Towering Bob Graeaig. most dangeroas scorer ia AAU bas ketball.' powered .the Denver American Legion team to the national championship Saturday night by routing Phillips M Oil ers of Oklahoma. 45 to 22. . More than 7000 spectators jammed in flag-decked city audi torium almost tore off the rafters as the home t own favorites smashed out one of the most de cisive victories they have ever scored over their, oldest and live liest rival Legion has beea the "hot" team of the 25th national tour nament but few expected their .hot shooting streak would carry them to sach aa explosive tri umph over the powerful Oilers fram Bartlesville. Denver won because it had such a marvelous scorer as Gruenig, the grasshopper-like veteran cen ter from Chicago, and a defensive player of such talents as Jack McCracken, poker-faced guard for Oklahoma ' who Saturday night completed play in his 12th na tional tournament Gruenig was unstoppable, pour ing eight field goals through the netting, chiefly with his uncanny hook shot and tacking on four free throws for a great night's work of 20 points. At the same time the best, the opposing cen-H ter, John Frieperger from Arkan sas, could do was two lonesome baskets. McCracken backed Gruenig ap beautifully with a perform ance on defense ana reDoana retrieving en a par with his yoanger and supposedly better days. That Hatfields and the McCoys of AAU basketball they've been feuding since -1937 played a tor rid first half when the lead was trailed half a dozen times. Den ver went ahead 19-17 at half time. Hank LuisetU. Phillips cap tain from Stanford, who won the most valuable award at the 1041 tournament was not hit ting his shots Saturday night and when he was taken eat with seven minutes to play he had made only four points. ' Oakland Golden State upset the Hollywood 20th Century, 1941 champion, 45-43 in. a thrilling overtime battle for consolation third place preceding the cham pionship game. Salem -Y Loses YAKIMA, March 2M-Yakl. ma eliminated Salem from the northwest YMCA basketball tournament 55-37 Saturday. Walla Walla upset Hoquiam 43- 25. Even in Spring second baseman, oa his first day. to AL LIGHTNER Statesman Sports Editor Conference Meeting j - C7 FOWLER . -V y . commissioned, and Atherton said Saturday he intended to pop the question at the conference faculty' meeting opening Sunday. The faculty representatives of the 10 schools,- comprising in ef fect a supreme court on athletic policy, will have to wrestle with co-related problems while figur ing out an answer for Atherton. For instance, If schedules are should it be decided net to con tinae football If the army's baa oa crowds of more than 5,tt9 Is net relaxed, the -conference' nabobs ; will have to I decide whether to continue the annual $20,00e appropriation for Ather ton and his office. Ainenon receives zio.ooo a year,, an additional 210,000 to operate his office. His present contract terminates December 31, 1942. Atherton will be sitting in with! the faculty reDresentatives. meet- ing in one group, and looking in I on the graduate managers and athletic directors, meeting in an other group, staring Sunday aft ernoon. Among matters to be discussed, and possibly settled, inasmuch as this meeting is supposed to but ton up the- unfinished business of last December's meeting and to take, care of items which other wise would have been put over to the June meeting, are: L Whether to make eligible f varsity athletics. 2. Whether to split the fereaee Into northern and south ern divisions for the football 2. Whether to continue the round robin, which this fall Includes-Idaho aad Mont sua oa a foil partidpatton basis, t: 4. Bow - to revise schedules to taclade games ; with service .teams. Ia this respect It Is understood Washington. Oregon and Stanford tentatively have arranged lor service games. probably with the new naval air training station being es tablished at St Mary's. Saturday the coaches and Ath erton had long discussions over selection of football officials. Ath erton said no decisions were forth' prim in at the mnrnin and nvin. day sessions, but that recom - mendations might be drafted later. It was understood a system would be installed which would remove much of the bickering that cropped out last falL Coaches likely will retain their right to "blackball" officials or recom-j mend others to work their games, k,. ahm4mi j .n vk5ij will retain the final say. After a five-hoar afteraooa cation, coaches decided to dace the nnmber ef challenges of officials from II to t coach. They also that ao coach or athletic official of any member mstitutloa be al lowed to recommend any ap plicant as aa offlelaL iommissioner Ainenon nence- t i a a. a. a forth win act on applications and will carry on the research neces sary into the would-be officials' background. Then he will submit his findings and recommendations to the coaches for approval or ve to. ... ; In the matter of challenges or blackballs, as they sometimes, are caned a football coach now, may challenge no more than two sug gested referees, two head lines men, two umpires and two field Judges per season. Attitude of the commissioners office would be not to assign the challenged official to any games in , which the challenging coach's team figures. ' . f Various local officials dations will be questioned by Atherton's of regarding quali fications of t - icanbx : Coaches - Saturday night com pleted assignment of officials for 1S42 games. Basketball Scores NCAA at Kansas City - (Championship game.) t Stanford 48, Colorado 33. Kansas 55, Rice 53 (for third place). AAU Tourney at Deaver - (Championship game.) Denver Legion 45, Phillips Ofl ers 22- 1 -rJ, . (Consolation) Oakland, Calit; Golden Stetes 45. Hollywood 20th Century 43 (overtime). NCAA Eastera Division Basketball Championship At New Orleans, Dartmouth 43, ... fContolatioox Perm State 41, Illinois 2L Natieaal Eackey League rUyafX Toronto 2, New York L Maay figures that have made athletic history over the United States eonsnpaw to a cunereat Kind of history fliers for Uncle Sam. From the maay, here are four na tional figures as they stepped eat across Kelly Field's huge pilot replacement center. Left to right: Football's Ken Kavanaagh, All-American end at Louisiana State and late of the world ehampioa Chicago Bears; Lea Croucher. three-year basketball lettermaa at the University ef Texas, who oatt m mid-season to enter flight training; tammy Sheeaaa, Detroit and Notre Dame golf star, and hold er ef the qualify mg record m the National Amateur, and baseball's Fete Laydea, aa All-Amerieaa at the national semi-pro meet last year and aa AU-Amerteaa football star at Texas aalventty as weO. Junior Volley Title Seattle YMCA won the class B northwest volleyball champion hiP downing Y teams of Port- na saiem at the local Y Saturday, Salem drew a bye In the first round while Portland and Seattle played. Seattle won the first game, 15-7, and the second, 15-12, but lost the third to the Rose City team, 15-11. Salem and Seattle then en gaged ta a three-game series, the former winning the first game, 15-12, bat losing the next two, 15-7 aad 15-13, putting the locals "into three games with Portland. The ' atese City boys won the first 15-1 bat lost the last two. 10-14 and 15-5. The championship .series was then played between Seattle and Salem, the locals winning the first game, 15-12, but losing the next three In a row, 15-13, 15-12, and 15-5. Players participating far Sa lem were ZeUer, Pettieord, Doaris, Murray, Page Schrank, Lisle aad Sederstrom. McLean Wins Giant Slaloms ALTA, Utah, March 21-(A) Barney McLean of Denver won the giant slalom event of the Alta cup races Saturday, finishing the 1 steeP Wildcat gulch course in 1:31, Juat two-tenths of a second ahead of Dick Durrance of Alta. Third place went . to Gordon Wren of Steamboat Springs, Colo. in 1:32 and fourth to Jimmy Huidekoper of .Sun Valley, Idaho, in 120 Bin Redlin of Alta. who won the downhill event Friday ahead Ul Aut a. auvCf taaa. a.axraw auu tr a took a spill Saturday and failed to finish, putting him out of con sideration for the individual championship. Concluding slalom events will be run off Sunday morning oh the Collins gulch course. ! . i I Baseball Returns to in . r "V SJyiun -Jicr irars DAYTON Baseball wHl be en joyed; by Dayton fans again this season after an absence of five years. Through the efforts of the Dayton American Legion and the school board, new suite and equip ment has been purchased for the athletes. Coach Ted Hlppl that about 29 boys are taralng oat regularly for the team, and that he hopes to have nine chosen by the time the season starts. Principal Bex Kaseberg announced the schedule aa fol lows: April It, Daadee here; April 14, Carlton there: April 17. Yamhill here; April 24, La fayette there; April 28. Daadee there; May 1, Caritoa here; May 5, Yamhill there; May 12, La fayette hero. Sid Dope PORTLAND, Ore, March 21 -The weather bureau said Sat urday that skiing conditions con tinued good in northwest winter sports areas... The following reports were is sued: J rife-te- : fvrf :t V : TtmberUae Lodge, Ore. Dry, powdery sarfaco. total depth 122 laches. - Cascade Sammlf, Ore. Four Inches powdery snow- ever un breakable eommoa crust, total depth 54 inches. Crater Lake, Ore. Two Inches dry snow over normal pack, some breakable crust, to tal depth 25 inches at head quarters, 182 Inches at ski bowL Paradise K a a g e r Station. Yva&a. Cresxaue crust : over 'eommoa pack, snow stable, to tal depth 115 inches. Wins Shaugh riessy Formation to Maryland To o; Lawson at Stanford PALO ALTO, Calif, March i 21-(-Southern conference ootball Saturday was. promised an early introduction to the T formation. ' ? Clark D. Shaughnessy announced he was transferring to the University of Maryland that football system of his own device which, coupled with coaching mastery, helped lift Stanford Snead-Wehrle Still Lead in Pro-Amateur ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla March ll-i,F)Thtt defending champion team of Sam Snead, Hot Springs, Va, and WiLford Wehrle, Racine, Wi advanced to the finals of the national amateur-professional golf championship Saturday when they defeated Chandler Harper, Portsmouth, Va, and Sam Bates, Virginia Beach, Va, one up. Ia the other semi-final brack et Bill Nary. Kaacbe Santa Fo, Calif and his amateur partner, Freddie Baas, New Orleans, de feated the aaedalist team of Al Broseh, Farmmgdale, NY, and Fla. . . j . - Nary and Haas won one up in a match that carried 37 holes. Snead and Wehrle led two ap at the end of the 18-bole morn ing round, while Nary and Haas were even with their opponents at the tarn. The finals of II holes wttl be played Sunday. First money for the winning pro in .the final round will be $1000. The pro of the losing team win get 1500. Harper and'Brosch received $200 each for reaching the semi-finals. Mt. Angel Slates First Ball Came MT. ANGEL Mb Angel college has started practice baseball prac tice, and two tentative games with Linfield has been listed thus far, the first to be played here Mon day. The return, game wfll be played at Linfield May 1. Scheduling plans have been up set by transportation problems. the tire shortage forming the big obstacle. MAC has a choice of three returning pitchers for mound duties tab) year Veteraa Frank YanDriesche, Balph Lulay aad Jena Tramm. Paul KeHlng wul be relied oa for catching duties, while candidates for other posi tions are Bert Bernards, Pat (DeJardin. Leonard NeaL Jerry Barte, OrvQlo Lalay aad Mi chael MeClure. - Mt, Angerr Preps lest most of their baseball veteraaa to gradaatioa. aad have only Boh Holland, Frank Grosjacques, Cyril - Walker. Henry Spraaer aad Walter Dada returning from last yearn team. EJdDirncisi In compliance with covernment regulations which require that gasoline shall not be sold more than 72 hoars each week, our GASOLINE DEPART MENT WILL OPERATE EACH WEEK DAY FROM 7 A, M. TO 7 P. M, AND WILL NOT OPERATE ON SUNDAYS. ". V . K3TE! AH cf ocr other departments and gerrices will -continue to be operated on a continuous 24 hocr, ni;ht aad day, seven days s week basis as heretofore. EB A HE D 0 0 L I Y. T L E MASTER SERVICE STATION N. Cczl gt Center Phone 4164 Salea, Ort-ca the last few years march now to to Take 'T? university from the depths of the Pacific Coast conference to a Rose Bowl championship in a yearn time. Shaaghaesay .goes to Mary land not oaly as bead football coach his only capacity at StanfoHl but also as director of the department of health aad physical education. He wUI bo succeeded at the Palo Alto school by Jim Lawson, assistant coach since 1223. The broader character of his new job, Shaughnessy indicated, was primarily what Induced him to accept the Maryland offer. "I would never leave Stan ford Just to coach another foot- . ball team," be said. The chief collegiate exponent of the T formation said his salary- at Maryland would be about the Stanford provided. That has been authoritatively estimated at around $9,000 a year. Shaughnessy will be free to hand pick whatever corps of aides he chooses in his new coaching post, the eastern university not being under compulsion to retain either of the assistants to Jack Fa ber, its football mentor the past three years. At Stanford, on the hand, Lawson already Is i of having Marshy Sehwarta, another Shaughnessy aeahffaat, and Harry Shlpfcey, erstwhile freshman coach, as the stays of his staff. Coscarart Homes as Pittsburgh Pops A's HOLLYWOOD, Calit, March 21 (P)-The Pittsburgh Pirates de feated the Philadelphia A's, T-2, here Saturday, paced by Pete Cos carart's home run in the fourth with the bases loaded. The circuit clout was made off Newman Shirley.: Vince Di Maggio connected for a homer for the Pirates off Lumen Harris In the fifth. - Jim CastigUa, hired as a bai ting practice catcher for the A's. eaaght the full alne innings aad . drove la both rans with a dou ble aad a single. Pittsbgh. (N)010 410 001 7 t 0 Phila. (A)010 000 100 9 1 Heintzelman, Butcher (4), Sul-. livan (8) and Baker; Shirley, Har ris (5) and CastigUa. Senior Oarsmen Win f SEATTLE March 21-P)-Sen-ior oarsmen won the annual Unl-1 versity of Washington mterclass crew race today In a performance " which Coach Al TJlbrickson de-1 scribed as an indication of spotty, conditioning of the regulars. " The, sophomores were second and the freshmen slipped In ahead of the juniors for third in the aaue ' and a half event v