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Ml erp Barney ; Ross Artive4. ; Home, Plants Kiss on Soil Star of Guadalcanal Fireworks Show Comes Back, Relates Harrowing Experiences ; : " SAN DIEGO, Calif v Feb. 25P)Aided by a' natiye-'made caneZwith a head -adorned .ith real Jap teeth; boxing's "hian of the, year,", CorpV Barney, Ross, knelbd .huinbly.. on American Ma and kissed the ground Thursday, as.he came home, from heroic fighting on Guadalcanal. T?nc ' mmm,ndl for standing guard over three wounded marine comrades at a Guadalcanal 19, outDdst last November 19, was the first to leave the big hospital ship which brought him to -' his homeland. As he - walked down, the gangplank, .he gave the -smile and wave oi. nanus wmcu cuu- ed him to ringsiders. for-years. " As Ross knelt to kiss !the' ground, he said: '- fThis I vowed to .do if. ever : I saw American soil - again sometimes .est there we're not so sure-we shaH. : - - - :,, . The : 32-year-old ' Chicago cor poral watched -his buddies walk- ship, and remarked: . : The night I spent in that shell hole with five" wounded : leathernecks and two soldiers -was by all odds the toughest round I've ever slagged thronrh. f I thought the hell would never " sound." - - :- It r was . this "round" that brought Ross commendation from -1 , i CPU BARNEY ROSS his company commander, Capt. O. K. "Le Blanc of Abbey ville, La and recommendation for the navy cross or the army distinguished service cross. . r7 " LT. BOB DUFFY . Lt. 'Bob Duffy, athletic officer for: Camp " Adair's 104th division as well as manager, coach and player of " the Timber . .Wolves . basketball outfit which, incidentally, copped the camp championship, is now in the mjdst of preliminary arrangements lor fielding an A-l, double A plus baseball team to represent the howling wolf men. Duffy, now a first lieutenant since be ing hiked from a second, says he's got the material in the di vision to make one helluva good bail club. "Important an nouncement forthcoming soon on same," says the : ex-California -Bear ace hoopster . . . The Timber Wolves will at least riQUA rtA V11 r1?iV rViiVt have to worry about whether its players are 1-A or 4-F any way . . . Spokane's athletic round table, whose promotional and sponsorial activities are known throughout the land particularly in congress since the lawmakers got the "birds" have now completed a strenuous poll to find out just what the poured in from all over the country and amounted to an 8 to 1 margin. for the "ayes." , , . Ball Bat or Bayonet for. 3-A Players? Baseball's "bible" The Sporting News is also conductinr a similar poll and leaves it directly up to John Public by asking answers to the point-blank questions, "Should S-A ballplayers be given draft deferment,' and, "Is baseball sufficiently important -to morale to justify continuinr 3-A draft deferments for baseball players with dependents?" . In case you're interested enough to want to answer that ques tion, send your ballot to The Sporting News, 10th and Olive, St. Louis. Manpower Commissioner Paul McNutt will; undoubtedly be the re cipient of the final and off icial count. " Not? that it will bring about a definite pro or con decision from McNult,.- since he would place himself directly on the spot, so to speak, were he to answer one way or the other, but the poll will at least tend to show just whether or not the stay-at-home public wants the 3-A ballplayer g, to wield baseball bat or bayonet. " We wouldn't believe it if we hadn't actually seen it, but the . winners of the Parrish intramural basketball learues are supposed to play the winners of the Leslie learues. Maybe the weather has tended to soften up the hard hearts of the city's school system fathers. Sprinr can be blamed for i lot of lovely things, you know. The Statesman's offer of a trophy of some sort to the "A" division champion in a Leslie vs. Parrish title game or series , still stands. " Statistics on Bearcat Hoopsters Now that Willamette has wound up her hoop schedule, here's bow the hoop-'Cats made out statistically this season: - ; In the first place the Methodists were a lousy road club. They won 11 and lost nine altogether nine wins and two losses at home and only two wins arainst seven setbacks on the road. In the matter of total points for the 20 tames the 'Cats meshed 805 in all to top the 776 scored against 'em. Most one-sided --- " lununi jraciiic nere. norsi walloping taken was dished out by Linfield Wednesday nicht, : 50-2S, when the Methodists were forced to play ' without the services of forward Jack Vaughn and Guard Don Baraick, both Bow hobbling about on crutches due to broken feet. - Best scorer on the squad for the season was freshman center Gene Schmidt He had a total of 133 points. Second was spark-plugger Irv Miller with 116, third was Vaughn with 103, fourth wound up a tie between Wes Saxton and Boh Pmv u.-itH 7 i seventh, eighth and ninth went' to Duane Ragsdale, Don Barnick . Bob Weaver and Dave Kelly, with 51, 43, 38 and 33 points respectively! Kelly played only about hatt the season since he was called into military service. ' . The fact that Schmidt, "Vaughn. Saxton and Ragsdale are " all freshmen would ordinarily make Headman Keene smile from ' naur till Ki h u.-9 r u.ll wmwt. "Four .of. us ,were carrying the fifth .'marine '.Out", when we .were cut' off "from our "outfit by on rushlng Japs," Ross, related. "We'd been expecting army .units mo mentarily. ; Three, ,of , the . four stretcher bearers were wounded si ightly also, . and I was the only. one unhurt. -We. dived for a pair of shell holes about 10 feet apart. "It was about 4 p. m. and In , the shell hole with them was. an Indian named ; Private ' Monak. , My best buddy,-Pvt. R. C. At kins of Rome, Ga who ; was former golf professional at the Santa. Fe course In Hollywood, . was in. the other hole with two other marines. That night two soldiers wriggled Into my shell hole." f Ross said the shooting went on until 7 a. m. The three marines in the other shell hole were hit again during the night. Ross said he crawled around collecting am munition and grenades inasmuch as' the other men were unable to fire. " ' 'In all I threw 21 hand gre nades, fired 100' rounds 7 of M-I rifle ammunition Jand at least 80 rounds from iny. Sprihgfield,'? Barney continued. "Against; us the Japs were pouring :in ma chine gun and mortar lire. But we kept them at bay, in their corner, and they didn't get a tell ing punch in on our little group, . "Sometime during the night I got a leg and arm full of shrapnel but by colly I can't tell you when it was I was just too busy to notice. I had -malaria at the time, too." As daylight approached anoth er marine. Freeman Atkins, sug gested to Barney that they crawl from the hole. "I crawled to him, lifted him on my shoulder when, looking up, I beheld what looked like angels from Heaven coming toward us," said Ross. "It was Captain Le Blanc, Lt. John Murdock of Bos ton and enough others to make us realize that round was over" Ross was busy on the ' phone soon after leaving the ship. He first telephoned his wife, Kaye, at Hollywood, ," then his older brother, who - operates - Barney's cocktail lounge, in Chicago, so the news could be broken gently to his aged mother. Barney also told of the boxing exhibition he was forced into with a huge South Sea island cham pion. The battle occurred in Sa moa. "Well, it was sort of forced on me," Ross explained. "This bruiser weighs 215 pounds and is one tough, hard, mean cookie. He's whipped -every mother's son on Apia and the other islands thereabouts. "Scuttlebutt (marine rumor) had it I might fight him and the marines betting on me found ready takers among the natives, I understood some SZU00 was wagered. "But this Jo wants to fight barefisted, which is alright with me, but Lt. Murdock wouldn't hold still for it, so we put on 16 ounce gloves and had a three round tussle. "It was murderous, make no mistake about that. We fought under Marquis of Queensbury rules, but this baby didn't mess around, and I was sort of out of practice. Nevertheless, sci ence did the trick and 'he went to sleep on the deck. (Marine language for the floor.) Once I got back to my sack (bed) I didn't get up myself for two hours I just couldn't. The old legs were too wobbly." Ross said the funny part of the deal was that the native who held all the stakes refereed the bout ,but turned the money over to a platoon sergeant who divided it among marines, S : ALLIGHTNER I la teaman -Sports ' Editor Sc&naf OroconV Friday Morning. Fabruary 26. 1943 Keehe Curbs : 9Cat-Linfield; Playoff Game Claims Metbodists Much Too Banged Up . There'll be no : playoff game between Willamette and Linfield for the Northwest conference bas ketball title this week, or at any time it appears. At least not if 'Cat Coach : Spec Keene doesn't change his mind. 5 ; "In the . first , place." said Keene Thursday, "I wasn't ap proached by linfield - in the matter of a playoff game.' And In the second place, since two, of my players are - bow on crutches -with a. broken " foot . apiece . and. another three , are expecting military calls In the' next mail, I can't see " where ' we'd be able to fully defend ourselves la such a game." -" "As far as Willamette is con cerned, her basketball season is over," Keene added. The Bearcats, beaten by Linfield 50-28 Wednesday night, throwing the Northwest - conference into a deadlock between the two schools. were forced to play that game minus the services of key men Jack Vaughn and Don Barnick, both of whom are now on the crutches. In regard to the Eastern Ore gon college challenge to the Northwest conference champion for a game to determine which ' team should go to Kansas City' Keene said he didn't see how ' any western Oregon team could aceept that challenge now. "We broke, even in our series with Portland university as well as Finfield, and some kind of playoff should "be held to de termine which one of us should play Eastern Oregon," stated Keene. "And as we are in no position to enter such a playoff. I don't know how they're going to determine a champion." s Mack and Cox: Get Together PHILADELPHIA, Feb. 25-JP) Big league baseball's oldest and youngest magnates, 80-year-old Connie Mack of the Athletics, and 33-year-old Bill Cox, new owner of the Phils, met Thursday for the first time. Cox described the visit with baseball's "Grand Old Gentleman? as "One of the big moments of my life." They met in Connie's tower of fice at Ehibe park. Connie com plimented Cox on his selection of Bucky Harris as manager for the Phils, then conducted Cox on a totrr of the park. The Phils lease Shibe park for their home games. It was the first time Cox had seen the diamond. Vikings in'Fitle Go : -.. ; :- With Maroon Five -' ' ' " - But SHS Hoopsters Have Little' j ; Chance to Cop Northern Honors 7 j ; ' Salem high's up and down courtsters, at present and for the past three games farther down than Mussolihi'p navy,, find out tonight whether they; or Milwaukie's Maroons are to repre sent the northern division of the No-Name league in that circuit! final, playoffs March 2, 3 and 6.- Redshin Chis'f Golfer's Li&Toiigh? ! f ' ;1 r-:f Famed golfer Craig Wood and Mrs. Wood rest at Miami, Fla to cure his back ailment. (Oh, for the life of a golfer.) ; . Nationwide Boxing Programs To Raise Funds for Soldiers ' NEW YORK, Feb. 25-P)-Plans for a nationwide program of boxing bouts to raise money to provide ring equipment for military camps were made Thursday at an organizational meet ing of Boxing Service's Athletic Fund. " ' Mike Jacobs, president of Parrish Wolves Meet Leslie 5 Paced by Noel "Tex" Worley and diminutive Allen Gemmell, the Wolves defeated the Beavers, 25-22, in their final playoff game for the ninth grade championship at Parrish yesterday. The Wolves will now meet ; the ninth grade winner at Leslie junior high for the city championship. Yesterday's game was a thriller all the way, but Worley and Gem mell always managed to connect for a basket when it was needed. Worley led the scorers with 14 points. Kephart's eight for the Beavers was second high. W1tci (2S) Wenger 0) Boyle (J) Worley (14) Bunnell (J Gemmell (7) ..r ..F C ,.G G (ZZ Beavers .. (0) Lambert ( Cupp i - () " NUt (4 Hnnmn (S) Kephart Monmouth Hi Cagers Feted MONMOUTH The local high school hoop team was feted Mon day when Mrs. Barbara Egelston and her domestic science classes served a steak dinner in the team's honor at the school. Later the team was guest of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Jensen at a chicken noodle dinner. Norman Jensen, their son, is a guard on the quint. Dudley Still Gains Ground PITTSBURGH, Feb. 25-(JP) Bill Dudley, football's favorite son, is gaining as. much ground With the army as he did on the pro football ; gridiron lie's still leading the league. c ' ex-American and currently all pro halfback, will be just as "hot as an army flier as he was -; as Hn. athlete. i " -r -bucks Paddle at WSC EUGEIE, Fefi. 25.-()tU n i .Vrsity of Oregon's swimming Wm left Thursday for Pullman io paddle against Washington Ctate college in a northern divi tion Coast conference 'meet; Fri- "I'sy and Saturc'jy. Ort g on is conceded little chance Ij take the Staters . Sacred Heart Meets Dayton DAYTON The undefeated Dayton j Pirates basketball team, B league champions of Polk and Yamhill : counties - since waxinf Monmouth .here, 52-10, take on the Sacred Heart Academy five of Salem, champs of Marion and Clackamas counties, here tonight. His drill instructor, SgL George represent the four county district in the regional B tournament at Linfield college on March 5. Tonight's crucial game is listed as a tossup since the Sacred Heart i , i. vuuu r f recora 1 almost spotless as Dayton's. as Giant Pair Ink Pact NEW YORK, Feb. 25.-;p)-The New .York Giants " announced Thursday . night the receipt of signed f contnrtts from Catcher Gus Mancuso and Infielder Con nie Ryan. ; '. ' ' "I think- every one, of them 4 craTr2) " came to me later and oiiered me a share what guys. ; : , Ducks, Eagles Tied In Parrish 8th Play The eighth grade Ducks evened their, series with the seventh grade Eagles Thursday night in Parrish intramural hoop play, winning 15-13. The Eagles won 12-10 Wednesday. The two teams play again today to determine the eighth grade champion at Par rish and the winner will also play Leslie's eighth graders. Dacki (IS) . 113) Eac lec Pettit, 5 . Bacon (3) Brown. (0).. ... F . . (3) Chamberlain F 3 Girod C. 3 Houclt . G . 4 Day G (0) Shafer Yea; Pepperdine--And You'll Hear More of Pete Fogo, Too LOS ANGELES, Feb. 2S.-JP)-So you never heard of Pete Fogo, eh? ; . . r ; : : ' Well, you're likely to, just ; as you heard a lot last week about little Pepperdine college, not even very well known locally, when its basketball team defeated USC's mighty Trojans, 56-51, in the sea son" most amazing upset. ' .To say Fogo sparked the Pep perdine offensive is to put it too mildly. He practically set it afire as he. tossed in 25 points in that Pepperdine- victory which snap- i ped Troy's 15-game winning streak. Only the night before Pete had tallied 28 markers when Pep perdine . downed . San;. Jose State college, c: J , ,i : . ' - ! Since " he ; was 10 ; years ; old, 'Pete's been playing basketball. And you really should have heard something about bim: on his .Gary, Ind high school team, he was twice selected "all-state, for ward in 1938 and .1939. He spent a. year at Indiana, then came to fios 'Angeles and' Pepperdine. - He'ss v be headed for ; Kansas City March 4, when Pepperdine's squad leaves for the NCAA meet there March 8 to 13. Better watch both Pepperdine and Fogo. Anything can happen. Woodburn Vies With Silver ton I MT. ANGEL Silverton and Woodburn high school units wind up their district 11 argument her,e tonight The Woodburn five, champs of the Duration league, nosed' out Chemawa here last Monday . night and Silverton crushed .Mt Angel which assured both winning quints berths in the new district four tournament at Oregon City next week. .Tonight's tussle is merely for the purpose of determining which quint wins the bid district 11 title. j Chemawa and Mt-1 Afel, al ready eliminated Monday, will al so play tonight in a consolation game. .The Chemawa-Mt. Angel fray ; will start off at 7 o'clock with the Woodburn - Silverton clash , following immediately. I Padre Manager.. Named Saturday SAN DIEGO, Calif., Feb. 25 , (P)-Selection of a 1943 manager for the San Diego Padres prob ably will be announced Satur day, Major Charles Lott club president, said Thursday. Lott reported there , were , six candidates for the job and that Cedric Durst manager the last four years, was one of them. Oth er leading - aspirants for the job were Bill Salkeld, veteran Padre catcher, and Goldie Holt, " former Los Angeles player. Taunt Traipses In NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 25.-(P) Taunt a four-year-old filly fly mg the colors of w-L ranch or H. M. Warner and Merviri Leroy, surprised a crowd -of some 3,500 fans Thursday by winning the featured City park purse. Jeff Plays Cates JEFFERSON--Coach Pat Beal's Jefferson cagers travel to Gates tonight to wind up their. South Marion . county B league basket ball schedule. Jeff tripped Gates earlier in the season. City 'Mural Hoop Scores Thuradar results at Parrlah: -A division: Klrnhart 1J M) Keeves Wilka I) T :.,' ) Reeves Thompson (8)-.. F (10) Palmateer Rienhart C " (S) Sesforth White - G - (0) Ricker Buftick ). .-G. 7 Lawson , "B". division : - -r - -- Carrew (J -.; B'; Carrow 112) -TJ; (0 Brjrie Armpriest (S) -F..-,. .- M'U Brant 4101 --i C 0 Baker Dake (I- G , ('Coom I-ucas. (6) .G ( Masy 'Cr- division the 20th Century Sporting club and flfht promoter for Madison' Square Garden, was elected president of the fond. . He said the officers of the fund hoped every boxing club would be able to stage a program for the benefit of the fund before the end of April. " All sUtes . participating, will, operate through the fund, with aetaal control vested In the various commissioners of box in r. McMorris Condition Said to Be 'Better' ; Gordy McMorris, Salem hich basketball ' cnard, ' was said to be In "better" condition last night In . Deaconess hospital, where he is confined with pnea menia. It ' was learned only Tharsday . that . McMorris has been In the hospital since Mon day. It was believed he was til at home with an ear Infection. His- condition earlier this week was regarded as serious. The Viks are knotted at the top of the northern ebase with ' Milwaukle, both having two wins and one 1 s. Tonlcht -they-meet in JLIil waukle - to de-.: cide : the division's representa-'. tlve. ... - . - . ' 'Coach Frank Brown's Red and Blacks had . one - of their . better nights when- the Maroon' tried 'em here, recently,' Salem sharing a 31-28 win. j Since then, : how ever, fate . has ' dealt the Viks a few very low" punches and left 'em about as full of punch as a glass of water. Three Vlk first-stringers, are nursinr wounds serious enourh to perhaps keep 'ens on. the sidelines tonight Guards Gor dy McMorris and Don hap- man . and Center ' C on r t n c y Jones, are the unlucky lads V McMorris hospitalized with pneumonia It has bee re-' vealed, and Crapman and Jones hobbling about with bad ankles. -Just now, much those, players are . missed . was probably shown In the Viks' last two games. They were routed in both with the worst defeats' they've taken all season. - ' All In all. Vlk chances for a victory tonicht are about as re mote as the Phillies chances of winning the National league; pennant next summer. But Brown says his reserves will, be in there pitching anyway. Should the Viks fail tonight, their season will be completed until state tournament play un less Athletic Director . Gurnee FJesher schedules another, game or two between now and March 11 as a measure of keeping the Salems In playing fettle. ' L V ARTHUR J. ' "DUTCn". BERG MAN, former Catholic -U foot ball coach. He'll now boos the Washington Kedskin proa, " Gousars Slasli Spring Crid Sugar Mixes WitkLaMotta DETROIT, Feb. 25 - JP) - Ray "Sugar" Robinson, an uncrowned welterweight, and Jacob La Mot ta, an unranked middleweight collide Friday night in a ten round showdown match that has aroused the Detroit fight public into putting more money on the line than Joe Louis drew for his sole 'home' town indoor heavy weight title defense." ' "With a sellout of Olympiasta- dium expected "almost hourly. Matchmaker Nick Londes visioned an $80,000 gate for the third meeting of the two New Yorkers, WASHINGTON STATE COL LEGE. Pullman, Feb. 23.-(Spe-cial)-MThere will be no spring football at Washington State this year," Drr'J. Fred Bobier head of the men's physical education department announced Thursday, "Out of 50 some freshmen and 32 varsity men turning out for the gridiron sport last fall, not one will be back in school next year," he added. v Coach Babe HoIllnrVerr has already taken over the meti tor ship of the Congar track team. opening practices last Monday. Hoop Coach Jack Friel will handle the WSC basetaXl team In the absence of "Buck" Bai ley, now In the navy. Hollingbery Is taking Over the duties of Bill ' Ellingtoa. former Stanford mentor who coached the WSC cindcrmen last yer. nVe will go ahead at usual In our athletic p rot ram and will wait until the time eomes before we cut down," ohler stated. Basketball Scores (Mountain Five conferesce cham ionahip playoffl Wyoming S3. 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