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' Big Dick WeQgerber hasn't gone into the army as he threat ened to do the last time we saw him after 'all. On his wav through here en route to Wisconsin from the highway job Jn Alaska, Dick told -us he was o. . . reaay lor ; tne army just as soon as he saw the Mrs. In the No Game- -Cats! Given Short Grid Furlough Face Two Tiltless Weeks; Ogdahl Hurt In Practice Heat . '-TTnaKla in nrhA fi vam this I east cut last aunaays tureen weekend lor his Willamette foot Bay Packer vs." Detroit lions bailers, Headman "Spec" Keene professional football gam.9 list- Wednesday suspended practice ed a Wei3gerber again as the sessions for all 'Cat lettermen un startina auarterback. and it's ta next Monday but continued to iUa, crm.. Tv rjrl work with the freshmen on such great football at Willam ette in the 30s, then turned pro with the Packers, and later umpired in the Western Inter national. Evidently that fine shape in which Dick came home from Alaska changed all his plans' about ever going back into pro football, a threat he made last fall. . '. -- Incidentally, the Don Hutson & Co. Packers warped the Dons, 38-7. And Tony Canadeo, ex-Gonzaga grid star was with Weisgerber on the starting eleven, opening at left halL Ah, to be in California an days like these. George Babich, the left hander. who showed so much stuff on the" ball 'while with the Senators this summer pens a hello along with on ac count of a winter league ball game in the fast Sacramento Valley loop. George, who couldnTseem to win in the WTL de- of the scheduled game between spite ins stun, hooked up in a duel with Uiarley bchanz and urc .v-a" rir " L . beat the lacoma righthander, 2-1. They only got two hits of! me gee, I surely must have changed," writes Babich. Johnson Versus Connie. ' A baseball battle looms .next spring between Bob Johnson Tacomas slugging gift to the Philadelphia Athletics and Con nie Mack, bos3 of the perennial ; last-placers, according to the Sporting News. Johnson recently stated that he would never play for 'the A's again. Mack followed that up by retorting that Johnson would play lor the Athletics next season or no one at all. So the battle is on-r-three guesses who will win. Our dough rides, with Mack because the old adage "that once a ball-player signs a contract he's stuck" hasn't changed to our knowledge. ' A if"! i r- AL TJGIITNEIt Statesman Sports Editor Salem, Oregon, Thursday Morning, October 13, 1342 Ex-Vik Out to Bust Broncos DICK WEISGERBER Sweetland field. ' Although the Bearcat mentor tried ; strenuously td -line up competition for this week, ft may be just as well for the Methodists that his efforts were in vain. Cast. Teddy Ogdahl sustained a badly sprained an kle in Tuesday's session and would certainly have been side Used for any came this week. t The injury Is expected to be well healed by October 31, date of the next Willamette came' with College of- Puget Sound on Sweetland. r : Lack of proper transportation facilities has forced cancellation t Charlie Shoemaker, the Willamette U youngster who could n't quite cut it as a first-sacker with the town Legislators this season and joined the marines when he couldn't catch on with some other league member, writes from his station on North Island, Calif., "Haven't played any ball' since becoming a marine," writes hustling Chuck, "but when we get through Jap exterminating-I'm coming back to Willamette and will try out to add strength to the Bearcats' versity at Provo, Utah, on Octo ber 17. The Brigham Young elev en caused a minor football catas trophe last Saturday by upsetting highly favored Uath for their first win over the Utes in history. The condition of Hubert Straesser, reserve fullback in jured seriously In the Linfield game, was reported as improv ed Wednesday night The team physician said that Straesser would be hospitalised for at least. another week and that it will be still another three weeks-before the line, plunger will be able to play again if ever at all, Roy Herr, pre-season casualty, returned to the practice field this week. Addition of the powerful ex-Silverton smasher is expected i r r V- V r . - a j . : i i ' ' ' ' f 1 - Ball Situation Aided by 18-19 Draft - -Barrow Yankee Boss Visions Future, Plans Hunt, Alibis for Bombers By GAYLE TALBOT Nothln But Big One For Hunter Sherman BAKER, Oct 1 HVSber man Allen st IIP was Baker county's champion deer hunter Wednesday. , No Jatmtet had . brought in a buck larger than the 235-pound four-pointer ' ho begged the opening day of the season. LES PEARMINE star end at Salem high school two seasons back who this year as a sophomore at Oregon State college Is a mem ber of Coach Lon Stiners Beavers. Pearmlne wilt be with the Staters when they meet the Santa Clara Broncos this Saturday, October 17, at Multnomah stadium In Portland. Les plays right end. for the Senators again. Only this time I'll make it . i O - Cougars Face Tough Sched . Washington Sterte's unbeaten-bound Cougars, currently the-toast of the Pacific Coast conference and thi3 corner's pre season choice to wind up in the Rose Bowl, doesn't have the annual scrap with UCLA mis fall, thanks to the junking of the 'round-robin," but will have to hustle plenty if they are to achieve an undefeated" status. Starting With the USC game this Sat urday in Los Angeles, ,' Babe Hollingbery's lads then take on Oregon State, Navy Preflight, Michigan State, Idaho, 2nd Air Force, Washington and Texas A & M on" successive Saturdays. "The Idaho and 2nd Air Force games may not cause too much trouble, but the other six hm, hml . Had Oregon State been able to survive UCLA Saturday " and Santa Clara this week what a natural the Beaver-Cougar session would have been on the 24th. 'Ball-less Backfield' Reason For Diiquesne's Grid Success By ARDEN SKIDMORE PITTSBURGH, Oct, iMVAldo "Buff Donelli, whose baf fling Duquesne Dukes boast a 16-game winning streak and 26 triumphs in 23 games, Wednesday credited the Dukes victory sweep to an attack "based on the idea nobody's got the ball." The Dukes, whose football mag ic has befuddled three hapless foes already get one of their hardest tests this Saturday against North Carolina's Tarheel at Chapel Hill, NC, in a game scheduled only Tuesday night - "Everybody thinks we're trying to fool 'em," said Donelli, one time internationally-known soccer star, !but we're not" "We simply use our deception at top speed, with as little motion in the backfield as possible," he explained. "A great many coaches say the soundest deception is in straight-ahead attack. Herr has been out with torn ligaments in i his ankle. Bird Gunners Awaiting 'Go' v PORTLAND, Oct 14-)-Scat-tergunners were gathering at fa vorite upland and migratory fowl haunts throughout - the state Wednesday. s Upland bird seasons are open- patory bird am thr ZttS2EZEff. the state. a Elaborate Farm Systems May Turn Into Headaches Now By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK, Oct. 1 4 -Those nice,"f ertile baseball farm lands whose products brought league championships to the Cardinals and the Yankees this year and which have been eyed jealously by many a rival club may be just one large headache to the parent clubs before long. With the future of minor league ball very much a question, the major clubs own outright minor properties of any consequence are liable to be stuck with their in- Columbia Ace Air Minded Broncs Head North Today SANTA CLARA, Calif., Oct 14 Head Coach Buck Shaw Wednesday selected 28 of his gridmen to make the trip to Port land for a game with Oregon - State Saturday. Shaw said he would use the same start in line-up that opened the game, with the University of California with the exception of Les Palm, who will start at the nurtrhaek Dot in place of Sophomore Pete Davis.: v A light workotft is planned be fore the Broncos -entrain Thurs day afternoon. Two More Gasses On Defense Slated Only two more classes of the war department, civilian protec tion school win be held at -the University of Washington in Se attle, Jerrold Qwen Oregon state civilian defense coordinator, was advised Wednesday. - This school, which more than 100 Oregon citizens have attend ed Is one of seven operated by . the chemical warfare service of the United States army in various - parts" of the United States. The next 10 day class opens KnnrfaT and the final class in . Seattle on November 1. " Owen said Oregon citizens who have planned on attending this school should send In applications at once. , M?i "At Last FerYoOngii Creomulilon rceves promptly be cause it goes riTht to the seat of toe trouble to feet? loosen and expel mm i..wrhiim. and ala nature to soothe and bei raw. tender, in ttAmrd bronchial mucous mem branes. Tell your drv istto szd you e. bottle rf Creomuion with tae un cSerstnxii"? you must L'e the way It cuicklr s,..,ys the co'-rn or you are to have your money tac2. CRGOMULSION for Coughs, Chest CoUs, Cronchitii The state game commission an nounced the following season reg ulations will govern hunters: The apland bird season asual ly lasts for two weeks, east of the mountains, October 15 to November 1, Inclusive. Thre days, only, will be allowed hi Multnomah. Clackamas, Wash ington, Columbia, Yamhill, Polk, Marion, Benton, linn and Lane counties: October 17, It and 1.V'-;V;:'VV. Some exceptions: In Malheur county the seasonodready is open. In Klamath county the season runs from November 15-30, in clusive. Only six days of shoot ing is permitted in Wheeler and Lane counties, October 17, 18, 21, 24, 25, 28. ' ' The season en sooty or Mae grouse is' limited from - October 15 to November 1 in Clatsop, Columbia, Tfflamook, Co try, Lincoln, Coos and part of Lane and Douglas counties west ef Hiffhway 99. In Lincoln. Coos and the parts of Douglas and Lane counties, ruffled M well as sooty or blue grouse may be taken. taxes and watching helpless the physical deterioration of the plants as they stand idle. & v . The Cardinals alone are esti mated to have a minor . league investment of more than $2,000, 000, including such valuable prop erties as the acreages at Colum bus, Houston and Rochester. Should r. many of the minor leagues fan to operate next year it might be a case of some of the major clubs being land poor. slow ball handling, with hand fakes to make the other feUow HtmterS RcSCttC think someone's got the balL aj A 1. 1 CJ1 But it's just the opposite with1 UJUarU OllIU us. we 'utilize every bit of speed in our backfield and base our at tack on the idea that nobody's got the ball. We want opposing linemen to wonder who's got it and not guess. As long as they think we're fooling 'em, we'll win our ball games." Gordon Home, Goes Hunting EUGENE, Oct 14 -VP Joe Gordon. Lou from the baseball battles and not a mite chagrined about what happened to the Yanks in the world series, was en route to eastern Oregon deer hunting grounds Wednesday. The famous New York Ameri can league second sacker returned from the east to his Eugene home Tuesday with his wife, son and dauehter. ''.: As to the series "It was just one of those things, he said. "The Cards were hot we weren't Their mtoi-s cost Uttle. ours cost eames." ' : 1 He said he might apply for i navy physical education commiS' einn if mv draft number -is called." CHICAGO, Oct 14 HPf Co lumbia's Paul Governali is long on passing and short on rushing but he doesn't have to worry about his ground: game. The crinkly haired Lions star has been throw ing - a football ' virtually as far as anyone else propels it by run ning and passing combined. The American football statist! cal bureau reported Wednesday that Governali had gained 74 yards by rushing and 603 by pass ing in three games for a total advance of 677 . yards by far the best offensive showing in the nation.-- r- In fact only two players have surpassed : Governali's - passing yardage through their rushing and aerial efforts combined. They are Bob Ruman of Arizona, with total of 608 yards, and Dick Fisher of Iowa Navy, with 604. Scrap Pile Gains Old Fire Truck JUNCTION CITY, Oct, 14-7 A proud old relic of the gay '90s in this Lane county town went on the scrap heap Wednesday to boost Junction City's tonnase. - It was a 55-year-old horse- j Webf OOtS Refuse drawn fire engine which once hustled to" Springfield aboard a flatcar and helped save that town from a threatening mill fire. ST. JOHN'S, Newfoundland, Oct 14-(rVA. party of hunters, who dropped their sport to ri f-;!f ScHooh of NW closed Wednesday to have . saved all 47 men aboard a ship ' alter it ran aground on the Newfound land coast - Stranded only 30 feet offshore, the ship's crew was barred from safety by high cliffs until the hunters saw the flares and came to their rescue. In a short time they had rigged a line, and the seamen rode to safety across the short stretch of breakers. Schedule Shift May Cancel Meet WALLA WALLA, Oct 14-P- Officers of the Northwest Asso ciation of Secondary- and High er Schools favor postponement of the organization's annual con vention this year and probably for the duration of the war. The leaders of the association that acts as the accrediting agency for 78 colleges and ; 496 high schools in the seven western states. Alaska, Hawaii, the Phil ippine Islands and, prior to the war, in Japan, reached tne ae cision at a conference here Tues- Coeds Harvest Nuts EUGENE, Oct 14-V-Gamma Phi Beta sorority girls at the Uni versity of Oregon turned a hand to harvesting filbert nuts here Tuesday. Connie Averill, with a total of 73 pounds, was top pick er. They will repeat the excur sion Saturday. versity of Oregon's athletic board wm recornmend It to refused Wednesday. to shift the executive committee for a Oregon-Idaho football game from 1X1311 vote. . . . . Saturday, October 24, to the pre- Officers of the association are ceding Friday night, asserting It Dr. Paul T. aiser,ancouver, waTUte now to conveniently Wash, president; Dr. Paul S. Filer, rejected a Willamette university invitation for a game Saturday. The Oregon eleven Is idle this week. and James ML Burgess, Milton- Freewater, Ore treasurer. Remember Every Tuesday & Thursday 473 Court Elreet Zivic Beats Taylor MILWAUKEE, Oct 14-iAP) Pittsburgh's Fritzie Zivic spent most of '10 rounds being kind to , Tito Taylor, Chicago, Wednesday night end topk the unanimous decision with the air of a man who could have won as he pleased and stretch, named the round. , pacer. Uhicraious 7inner .NEW YORK, Oct. 14-3VW. Arnold Hanger's fast-finishin tliree-year-old filly, Ubiquious, won a nose decision over pace- setting Insoclad in the top claim ing event of a featureless card at Keeneland Wednesday. . Johnny Adams rated Ubiquitous along until they reached the two ; lengths behind the NEW YORK, Oct 14-(P-Presi- dent Ed Barrow of the New York Yankees thinks the 18-19 draft might help big - league baseball to some extent in that it promises to provide deferment for some of the older stars who have depend ents, but he says it will knock the blocks from under the . clubs' normal replacement program, y - The elderly magnate was caught oiling up his hunting guns and preparing to spend his annual two weeks thinning out the animals on Tom Yawkeys vast game pre serve on the Georgia coast and generally forgetting about the re cent world series. , ' ;-- Traftinr the youngsters should enable us to keep some, of ear married players for an other season,' he conceded, having finally been draw gent ly away from , the subject of deer so thick yes can hunt them with rocks. "But It also means that a lot of - boys i we had planned to bring In will be gone to the army. It looks to me like about a 50-50 proposition. The Yanks, he pointed out al ready have lost three of their regulars of the past season Tom my Henrich, Phil Rizzuto and Red Rolfe so the question of replace ments is an important one right now. He thinks, though, that the club has a great infield prospect coming up in George Stirnweiss, the former North Carolina foot ball star who played with Newark this summer. Barrow,1 frankly, Is a trifle piqued at the way the sports writ ers went overboard about the Car dinals victory in the series. He claims they got every break go ing in the five games. ; "Too young fellows seemed to forget that the Yankees ever had woa anything. be com plained, mildly. "Yea forgot how many world series we had won before this one, or that we Just had run away from the American league. , - 'f "Sure, , the Cardinals were a hungry bunch of boys and hard fighters, but they got every break, too. Why, we hit eight or ten balls here at the stadium that would have been home runs in the St Louis park or anywhere else. We got a bad break when Buddy Hassett broke his thumb No Alibis as Beavers Prep For Broncos OREGON STATE COLLEGE, CorvaRis, Oct 14-(Special)-Back on the home practice field with minimum of injuries and alibis, the Beavers of Oregon State are working strenuously to get sights set on the Santa Clara game in Portland Saturday. Coach Lon Stiner tnd the boys, apparently intent on forgetting last week end's 30-7 defeat at the hands of UCLA, have been indulging , to stiff workouts. ''"' .".'",-' In regard to the recent en counter with Babe Horrell's Bruins, neither the head mentor nor the players had much to say. All had Uttle but praise for the inspired play of the, Uclans. . "The UCLA team Saturday was Just about the best outfit , we've met tn years,! Stiner commented on the game, add ing, "We were having an off day, but a good ball club should play Its best game every Satur . day in order to be called really good." . Injuries on the trip were slight with End George Zellick and Guard Paul Eversen both receiv ing painful bruises, neither of a serious nature. Trainer Pel All-r man announced that the squad should be in almost 100 per cent shape by game time Saturday, barring . practice injuries during the week. No report was obtained on the condition of Orville Zielas- kowski, injured left guard who did not make the California trip. The Bronco game is being generally looked upon as one of the season's major threats, de Spite the fact that Santa Clara is not a memoer of the coast conference. The contest will be the first between the Broncs and Beavers in the history of the two institutions. Major, Minor 5 League Ball Lists Meeting To Be or Not to Be 1 Of Baseball Will Be Decided in December ' , By CHARLES DUNKLEY CHICAGO. Oct 14 Tho wartime program . for baseball will be mapped at a doubleheader meeting of the major and minor leagues in Chicago starting De- . cember 1. ': - : The separate meetings of the . National and American loaguoa wilt be held December 1 and 2. Kenesaw Mountain Land is, eomaaissioner of baseball. Wed : nesday set December 3 as the date fer the joint meeting of -the two leagues. The- sessions j ' originally scheduled for New York, were switched to Chicago because It is at the hob of the transportation system. . " After the major leagues finish their deliberations, the National ; Association of Professional Base ball leagues the minors will swing into a two-day session De cember 4 and 5 This meeting originally" was scheduled for Min neapolis, but was cancelled month ago by-William G. Bram- , ham, president of the National association. However, develop- -ments enabled Bramham to plan the skeletonized Chicago confer ence, :iJt:. .. ,-;v tV'F- Thus the ruling powers of or- - ganized baseball will be brought together to thresh out their war- . time problems. i The minor leaguers consider themselves particularly fortu nate In being able to attend the series of 'parleys because moat of the smaller circuits and clubs are . boiling up decisions -on next year's operations until they learn what support they ean obtain from the major leagues. '' " I Bombers Work For PU Pilots SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 14-(ff The second air force football team from Fort George Wright Spokane, worked out at the Uni versity of Utah Wednesday in in the second game and we missed preparation for the Saturday Henrich. too. Everything consid- game with Portland university in i Ute stadium. Capt William B. "Red" Reese, Bomber coach, has plenty of big name football players to call on. ered, I think we did all right" Scout Gets Crossed Up 0 . wr . j j Tey include -Corp. Bill SewelL aenwaru vr Mrricu former Washington SUte college ace and captain of the western team in the last East-West all star game at San Francisco. x. T A At - J m.. Tr: "Tf f lane university great who played PALO ALTO, Calit, Oct I4(iiP) Because he has no scout report on the tricky Idaho team, Coach worried about the outcome next Saturday's game. The Stanford coach brought his squad home from its Notre Dame defeat to discover his scouts were crossed up when, Idaho advanced last week's game from Saturday to Friday. The Indians, in their first prac tice since Friday, went right to work on pass defense, their big gest weakness. Last year the major leagues met in Chicago the day after the Japanese attack; on Pearl Harbor and baseball men were consider ably depressed over the prospects of the sport' However after re ceiving the-"go ahead" letter from President Roosevelt and after the success of the 1942 campaigns, of ficials are confident they, will be able to carry on next year. Horrell Tahes No Ch on the college all-star team the Chicago game of 1941. ' in Pheasarits Wouldn't Mind This - Silverton Izaak Waltons to Meet SILVERTON The Silverton chapter , of the Izaak Waltons will hold the season's first meeting here next Monday night Plans for winter programs will be drawn up at that time. President W. Clark Bachman announced that the Silverton chapter would, back the coastal streams referendum bill in the coming election. The referendum is the one which wul I protect steelhead from commer cial fishermen. - , Trojans See Movies But Not Funny Kind LOS ANGELES, Oct 14 -(P) 1 Coach Jeff Cravath Wednesday took his University of Southern i California football team to the ! movies to see a tragedy in four acts. - He showed them films of the 23-12 shellacking handed out last week by Ohio State, which re vealed lack of blocking and poor tackling as USC's major faults. Then Cravath took them out side for the. stiff est workout of the week, a two-hour scrimmage on those fundamentals and against i Washington State plays in prepa ; ration for their contest here Sat urday. .I.;' ' v :.-:': v-'; Giants Buy Hurler ? NEW YORK, Oct 14-(j7-The New York Giants Wednesday an nounced the purchase of Kenneth Trinkle, right-handed pitcher. ! from Baltimore of the Interna tional league. Trinkle won 15 and lost 13 with i the Orioles last season. Pheasant's eye-view of huntress alary Kercier at Sua Vey. Kaha. (Who saU v tea?) Incidentally, lumbla. YamhUt Polk. Beaton, Marlon, I4nm and Lane counties.. Im J" ojMaa mm or mm mmm mQ "FflMboirfl EL D. J::3 tances LOS ; ANGELES, Oct 14 "Light workout" will read the football bulletin board at UCLA Thursday. "A :- .It's not that Coach Babe Hor rell thinks his unpredictable club is sufficiently conditioned for Saturday's jtussle with University of California at Berkeley. ' He doesn't trust the train schedules which .brought Oregon I State into town a half day lata last week before UCLA scored X , surprise 30-7 upset So Thursday morning Horrel is shipping, all equipment include ing uniforms, north to insure ar- rival in plenty of time. The 28- man ! squad follows Friday night and Is scheduled to arrive Satur day morning, but may be lucky to make it by game time. Horrell' put bis squad through hard- two-hour scrimmage against California plays Wednes day. Dallas to Open Grid Campaign DALLAS A brand new coach and this year's first football game for . the Dallas Dragons will take place on Kreason field here Fri day afternoon. Coach O. E. An derson, who Is also director of athletics aC Dallas high, will send his charges against Willamina high starting at 2:30 p. m. Ander-. son comes from the midwest and, replaces Merrill Hagen, Dragon coach for the past two seasons. Armsfrons KOs Zurita v LOS ANGELES, O c t .l 4-P) Henry - Armstrong, former triple boxing champion, knocked out Juan Zurita in 2 minutes, 20 sec onds of the second round of a scheduled 10-round : fight here Wednesday night " . Armstrong ; weighed 142 and Zurita, from llexico City, 135 tj. Linfield Slates PU " ( .McMINNVILLE, Oct I Linfield college and Pacific Uni versity, each bearing ' the scars of recent grid battle, will renew their northwest conference rival ry here Friday afternoon," Paci fic won last year - - NEW FALL COLONS GUAYS, BLUES, TANS AND NUT BROWNS , ' Liberty at, . - w i- Court Smart Clothes for Smart lie v i