i i Duke, Alabama May Set Mark ";. NEW ORLEANS," Dec. 2S-JP)-'The " Duke Blue Devils and Ala bama Crimson Tide two veteran ,,Bowl participants will make Su ar Bowl football history on New Year's day if either wins by more "than-eight points. ..A 7. ; Only one in ten Sugar Bowl . games has a team won .by as much . as eight points. TexasV Christian holds that distinction byX-irtue of a 15-7 verdict oyer Carnegie Tech in , 1939. Twice, teams have won by seven points and three times by a single touchdown. Others , have gone for not more than 2 points, including TClfs 3-2 "who pitched" victory over Louisiana State in 1 936. . - - ' JSinlh Race Ohehed f For Florida Oval f MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 25-(-The Florida Sta'te Racing . commission today approved the running of a ninth race daily at -Tropical park for the benefit of the Horsemen's Benevolent association. ; Gerald Brady, Tropical racing director, said the purse would be subtract ed and the net proceeds which normally go to the track turned over to the horsemen. " 2 jih iMlygSSi Christmas sweepLip: Dispatch from Yakima says that whether the Western International decides to operate or not next summer, the Yakima Junior Chamber of Commerce has decided not to attempt to place a team in the circuit. The JC of C happens to be the No. 1 base ball sponsoring faction in the apply city . . . They give as reason the old reliables: Transportation and draft situation . . . And speaking of the draft situation, the wettest of the wet blankets on the probable WIL reopening' could have been ' tofesed when only last week the sports page headlines 1 clarioned the cracking down on. all profes " sional athletes by Gen. Hershey & Co. Already the nation's hoss race tracks have agreed to close down after January 3 as per request by the government, and what with pro athletes in the 4-F class due for re-examination and probable reclassification, all pay-for-play sports stand to take it on the chin. With horse racing setting such a precedent, it wouldn't be silly to surmise that pro baseball and football, crowd gatherers de luxe in themselves, might undergo a serious change ere long also. Nat urally, such sports "will make ev ery effort to go ahead", as has been their policy: since the war be- gan. But one word from the government asking that they subside, a la hoss racing, Will mean curtains. And from what we've heard and read in the past! there won't be a dissenting voice in the lot. Getting the war won and forgotten is foremost in a sportsman's mind also. . . As or prospects of a WIL reopening next summer, it's harder than ever to predict now. If reclassification of 4-F athletes is undertaken on a large and sweeping scale, those ball clubs in operation will cer rtainly keep close to home all available playing personnel that is, if those ball clubs are permitted operation ... Chances , are when the league directors merge for their pow-wow next month they won't have any more of an idea what to do then than you have now . . . At least the newest move by the government wasn't exactly a Christmas pres ent to be fondled happily by professional athletics and their oper . ators . . . Santy wasn't so nice this year. . . . 'Nother Brother Act at St. Paul High Add sports brother acts: ; The solidrsending St. Paul high quint, unbeaten so far and playing regularly .as if it .won't be this whole season, is successful mostly through the hooping efforts of the Kirk ; brothers, "J" for Jack and "R" for Robert or "Bob", we're told. In all games to date, including their walk-off with the Marion county jamboree at Willamette a few weeks ago, the Kirk duet has turned in f the lion's share of the caging for Lew Urhammer's quint Our in ' former also adds that in Guard Ldu Phillips, who manages to hoop more than his share of the points per game, Coach Urhammer has one jof the "fastest and hardest-driving hoop guards" he's seen in prep franks in years an' years.' Incidentally, we take it the "J. Coleman" i who also plays on the Saint quint is another upcoming son'bf Ross I Coleman, founder of Salem's Junior baseball league. " . Speaking of basketballing in the valley's lesser towns,' we're also '.told that the. trophy won by.Woodburn in the recent Duration league jamboree at Mt. Angel was one of the finest awards ever .taken down f by an Oregon high school. L Twasn't a gold-plated trophy with minia Mure basketballer atop or the "likes, but a hand-carved ' totem-pole bearing figures in representation of all six teams in the circuit. War ; ren 'Lcfty' Wilder, the not-too-old ex-Chemawa -athlete, and coach who has now merged with Harry Hobson in bis Chemawa highway l cutoff sports shop, carved the piece with that only band of his, and they say it's a splendid product ; Along with his coaching at Chemawa, '; "Lefty always did have the reputation of being' an artistic craftsman. 'He taught the art classes at Chemawa also,, before f esigning earlier this year. Incidentally, the hand-painted Christmas card we received ? fromrLef ty" is a dinger also. Looks just like us--blowing our fool head off through a whistle while galleryites bellex in the" background, j "Robber Blind Tom Where's Yer Seeln Eye DaWg? Etc - -4 Ain't it the truth! ' " . , . ' i IIAKY EUTTE, winsome 16-year-old daughter of CoL and Mrs. Lonls ' D. Itstte of Pasadena, has been, chosen Queen of the Tonrnamenl of Hcses and win preside In the royal box at the Rne Bowl game New , Year's D?.r. (AP Wirerolo). . . . . , 1 IN TONIGHT'S ROYAL: Jack KUer, Coast liht heavy mat champ, Is ' one of the contestants In tenight's Holiday Battle Royal at the arm ory starting at 1:10 p.m.' Tony Ross, George Wagner, Ernie Piluso, Back Davidson and MUt Olson are the other biceppers. : ' a . 5 t Ml V : A 'LEFTY WILDER V .3 i I 4 A' Medford Next Tall Tornado Quint Here This Weekend - A step into the win column de servedly theirs after trouncing soundly the visiting Redmond quint last ' week, Salem's Viking basketballers step out to extend that winning streak this weekend with a two-night skirmish against Medford's Black Tornado loop suiters. The contests are booked for Friday and Saturday nights, both to be prelim inaried by battles featuring Frank "Beer's scincilat ing Sophomores' and Herm Schwartzkopf's undefeated Jun iors:.';; r " ". '' -'' .:' According to ' meager advance dope, the Medfords will bring to town one of the tallest point pitching packs in the .state, one which opened its season indeed successfully' with a dual vicitory over North Bend's potent crew. And since the outfit is. under the tutelage of one Al Simpson, who last year guided his Ashland cag ers to a state championship and more recently herded the Tornado footballers to another, the visitors can be expected to-be rugged as a foe. ; ' . Coach Frank Brown's band, over the hump at last after ab sorbing six straight setbacks, dis played classy hooping enough against Redmond to stamp them as tough opposition for any prep quint if they keep it up. , Outside the guard positions on defense, the Brownies left little to be desired of any basketballing bunch in their victory. A two-fisted 'scoring attack was provided by Center Tom Boardman, who hit his stride after two season's of, trying when he counted 19 points. Additional performances such as that turned in by Boardman last week will make the Villa customers forget all about those half-dozen losses. Brown has ordered lengthy drills today and 'tomorrow so as to be in top fettle for the Black Tor nado visitor. s meet Beaverton Five WOODBURN Fresh from their trophy win in the annual Dura tion league jamboree last week, Coach Jiggs , Burnett's Woodburn Bulldogs swing back into pre Duration league play Thursday night here with - a return clash with the Beaverton high quintet. The game is booked . for , Wood burn gym at 7:30, o'clock.' Early last week the Burnett - men trounced Beaverton at Beaverton, 28-13. , : . -:. . ' .Burnett will likely start the same quint which has now won four straight games, including the jamboree, since dropping its open er; to Newberg. " Same would be Hal McKee ind Babe Reed, for wards; Bill .' Austin, center and Charley Sauvain and Curly Matti-on,- guards,. Relays Revived PULLMAN., Dec 5 Ath letic Director J. Fred Bonier of Washington State college, said to day that the Inland Empire relays for high ; schoqls and, colleges would be revived here March 25 after the lapse of a year.. 7 Oregon Staters OREGON STATE COLLEGIA Corvanis, Ded 25 -(Special)-Portland fans will get their first and only look at the 1944-45 Oregon State b asketball team next weekend when the Beavers take on a pair of strong city clnbs at Jeffer- , son high school. -Friday night ti j 0i SERTIC the Orange vriil play Fee's Music Makers and Saturday nfbt the Ti 11 1 miiiaog Byrnes Offers Views on Pro 4-F Rejectees ' Re-Examinalious Alay :' Bring on; Induction ' i WASHINGTON,. Dec 25 r r Physical standards l for i military service have not been lowered, but this does hot necessarily mean than 4-F professional athletes, called up for fe-examination would be again rejected. .. : ..,- ... . ; This question arose today as the result of War Mobilization Direc tor. Byrnes' instructions to selec tive service td review the military qualifications of men in profes sional sports. . v ' j , Byrnes said it was difficult for him and the public to understand how men can be physically unfit for military: service and yet be able to compete with the greatest athletes of the; nation in games de- manding physical fitness. : A sub stantial number of these athletes hold 4-F classifications due prin cipally to- injuries sustained in sports competition. A selective service source point ed out that many of these 4-Fs may be borderline cases, and that local draft boards probably will check their records to spot such cases, v Re-examination may dis close that the physical conditions of some of these borderline 4-Fs have changed for the better since their last examination, ! making them acceptable for induction into service. It is not unusual for selective service to submit such cases. to the army or navy three or four times, the selective service pointed out Alley Sweeps SGGGolf Bee Lawrence "Monk" Alley became champion of the annual Christmas Sweepstakes tournament at Salem golf club Sunday when his net 71, carded Saturday, held up for the two-day jaunt-against pari Alley fired a 76 and used his handicap of five. Three tied for second place in the field of 26, Bud Wat erman, Bill Goodwin and Glen Lengren. All had net 74s, Water man after shooting an 80, Good win after scoring a 79 and Len grert after "tagging a 77. ' The first round, 'in the Winter Slicker tournament playoffs was postponed until next weekend, it was announced. - . . Aussie Racing Also Altered SYDNEY, Australia, Dec. 25- P)-A spokesman for the Austra rlian Jockey . club, . chief racing body in Sydney, said today Aus tralia had placed restrictions on racing for - purposes similar to Washington's decision to close tracks during wartime. In order to save labor and critical mate rials, the spokesman said, Austra lia dropped her race fixtures from a normal 111 annually to 40 at one stage. Recent ' modifications have restored the number to 55.1 South' Stars Stress Passing ' MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dec 25 (JP)- The Southern All-Stars con tinued work on passing plays to day, determined to outflank a formidable Northern line in the annual Blue-Gray football game here Saturday. A ' ; Charlie Trippi, former Georgia university backfield star and sparkplug of the Third Air Force Gremlings, did most of the, pass ing in pre-game workouts but also on -the throwing end were Y. A. Tittle pf Louisiana State and Pete Layden, former Texas star who played this season with Randolph Field. : A--A If h '; The receiving combination wa composed of - Ted' Cook, former Alabama end and one of Trippi's Gremlin receivers; Dewell Rush ing of Florida; Dub Lamb . of Maxwell Field, and Jack Russell of Randolph Field. ' ' Wings Near Lead DETROIT, Dec. 25 The Detroit Red Wings grabbed a 5-2 lead in the second period here tonight, hung on to whip Toronto for the fourth time this season, 6 to '4, and moved within a single point of the national hockey league lead. A holiday throng of 10,907 fans watched the game. Slate Two Portland Quintets This , Oregon Medical school quintet will furnish the opposition. The .Music Makers handed the Beav ers .their only pre-season cam paign defeat on the Corvallis floor by a 43-25 'count last week. However, the Orange were in the middle of a bad slump which has since been, broken with two victories la the Astoria Jamboree. Coach A. T. (Slats) Gill's men are sure they will give the In dependents si much tougher bat tle this time. It .also win be the second meeting of the Orange and the Medical school. In their third Tough ' Tony, Gorgeous Holiday Mat RoyaF Set for Armory Tonight - Matchmaker Elton Owen offers ' his annoal Christmas present te' the village crunch customers te- night In the form of a rassliaV battle ' royal at the armory, the festivities' to start at :30 p. m. And it Isn't a royal of the run-of-" ' the-mill species." Six of the tpp; torso-twisters in Jhe. eircuiC U- eluding the ' three topmost mat-. i ters In the lightheavy flock, afe signed On for the action. ' ; - f Firsthand foremost 1s Jack. Pin-op Boy" Kiser, the reigning ' Coast llghtheavy champion; then In the' same breath since both are rated , equally top, contenders for Riser's title are yniager Tongh v Tony Ross and Gorgeous Georgie Wagner next, Bowlegged Bock Webfoots'Set More Hooping EUGENE, Dec. 25 - (Special) -With 13 victories in 17 regulation games behind them, excluding the Friday-Saturday northern division jamboree dates at Astoria, Uni versity of Oregon's Ducks return o their strenuous 24-game pre league season schedule this week with four more contests. 'Tuesday night . Coach 1 John Warren's youthful but promising cagers meet the Vancouver Ramblers at Vancouver, Wash.; Wednesdays the University of Oregon Medics will be played at Portland and on Thursday Fee's- Music Makers is dated "for' a Portland game also. Saturday night the Ducks play Tillamook Navy at Tillamook to end their pre-season schedule The Webfoots came off ' their week-long barnstorming trip last week with two, top players hob bling. Captain Bob Hamilton and Forward Dick Wilkins, the fore most scorers on the team, receiv ed, leg injuries during the jaunt and . will likely be kept under wraps until the Ducks Open' their conference schedule January 5-6 against Idaho at Moscow. Spaghetti Bowl SPAGHETTI BOWL HEAD QUARTERS, Italy! Dec 25.(Jf) The possible starting lineups for the New Year's day football game between the Fifth army and the Twelfth air force, scheduled in the Spaghetti Bowl at an unan nounced site, are filled with for mer college players. -. The opening array, announced' today, shows the airforce block busters' boasting a backfield av eragin 201 pounds behind a line stacking up at 214. The doughboys will rely on an all -corporal batch of balltoters averaging 197, z op erating behind a forward wall averaging 218. j , The contest will be staged in a stadium . seating somewhere be tween five persons and 25,000". 4; Capt Billy Madden of Buckley, Wash., is at right half for the Twelfth airforce. - lineups Ready Columbia Coach Lou Little Sayt: Football Better Than Ever By Frank Eck NEW YORK Lou Little, vet eran coach of Columbia's Lions, says the difference between pres ent day football the type "night and day. ' "FootbaU play- ers nave the same physical H makeup as those ' of years ago asserts Little J "But the play is Lou little more mversuied and, the game Is more interesting from the specta tor viewpoint." little has had ' some fine 'foot ball talent and some fine t earns during his 15 years at Columbia. There were the Luckmans, Mont gomery s, Governalis, Siegals and Barabas. But the war has taken a heavy toll and during the past two seasons he has been handicap game of the season Oregon State' edged past the Medics,' 35-31. at Corvallis. Sparked by Jim Zim merman, Z former Washington State ace, the Medics have, an outfit capable of giving: the GUI men plenty of competition. , ' Coath Gill. In Us 11th year as head man at Oregon State's bas ketball camp, will show Port land fans a much stronger team than last year's club, which fin ished third in the northern di vision race. The starting combi nation consists of four sopho more lettermen, George Sertlc, forward; Hal Paddy, center; and ?f7- A aod tf .X;r piayea za years I la go is like I J Georgie in Same Ring Again Davidson, not more than a step behind . either , Rosa or Wagner in effectiveness, and bringing, op the rear, Milton Adolphus Olson, the "Tinman football," and .Ernie. Piloso, the popular Portlander. The sextet will open the free-for all at S:30 o'clock. The first pair to fall win be eliminated for the night' The second pair will re- torn to rassle S9-mlnute seml wlndup event, and the last pair will come back for a main, event-, er, two of three falls, one-hoar with the ' ultimate winner prom ised a' crack at Gost Johnson and his: Coast' Junior Heavy weight championship. . Despite such glitter, however, the top plum for the clients of fers Itself Jin the free-for-all' R V 7 A 4 A . $ - . A v- 1 t I v If' X (i' K-UlVA-vt I y s f M v - a - UNHAPPY JOCKS: Arthur Fisher, Billy Nichols1 and Dickie Meade (left to right) were not to happy as they talked over the govern ment request that all race tracks close down by 'Jaaaary t They met between races at Golfs tream track, Miami, Fla. (AP wirepheto). Record Betting Throng Op Brief Tropical Park Program MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 25-tJPi-A big merry start on Its last lap today at Tropical park's inaugural program. There was a surge of optimism at the track as 14,171 brightly-dressed spectators poured through the iuxusuics, ina uarsemen Degan to take .renewed hope that the gov ernment might relent and take some of the sting out of a request that the sport shut down Jan. 3. There was a rumor that Her bert Bayard Swope, chairman of the Tropical's directors and a leading official, would go to Washington in an effort to have the ban modified, perhaps to per mit racing twice r a week, but Swope later declared that he had no such plan. But the spectators, second larg est crowd ever to attend a pro- ped just like most other coaches. f; "About 70 per cent of this year's team consisted of Navy V-12 train ees," says Xltle. "We practiced slightly, more than an . hour a day five days a week' and that's just about less than half the practice necessary to keep a ' team on edge from one game to the next".' Uttle holds the distinction of visiting the Rose Bowl twice, one as a player and once as a coach. He played for Pennsylvania in the 1917 game when the Quakers bowed to Oregon State, . 14-0. His 1934 Columbia, tearn ;. however, fared much better, upsetting Stan ford, 7-0. A" :.;H?.:'rA AA-V ;:: - Though Lou has been, suffering from a vocal condition' the; past two seasons, his voice still is very authoritative when j it comes to suggesting football rule changes. They talk of him as "the smart coach with constructive Ideas to improve the sport." Weekend Bernle McGrath- and Jack (How ltser) Simms, guards; k and a f foot inch varsity reserve from the 1941 club, Forward Ted Henningsen. . Other squad members most likely to see action are Bob Lab hart and Larry West, freshman guards; Dick' Strait and Ed Stagg, freshman forwards, and Johnny Moore, ; varsity . reserve guard from last year's squad. .Only Portland boys on the trav eling squad are : Strait and Moore. Strait did not play high school ball but Moore performed for Washington high. ., , - . -.) when Villager - Ross, and Bath robe Fancier, Wagner find them selves in the sanfe ring with .each other again. They met last night in Portland, bat despite the ver dict It's a cinch either will be hot alter the other In a manner eas ily remembered; by j local i fans. Ross and r Wagner staged ; some of the rippin'est of the Hp- snort ers ever seen- here . f year ago, and now that both ar baek again after the same thing, Riser's crown, any get-together by ; the two promises to be it; top 'attrac tion for the clients. Having Kiser himself Involved wonl hart mat ters. A'j .v . rWi" kM':- A The show appears on paper to be one of the ereaniiest of the crunch offerings. ' i y ; . Va: J A. f i ' t. f. 1 Y.AA ' I ia i xri? ' " . C 71 'st?l ' A - , ' 1 1 - " A ens i Christmas crowd save racine by betting a record sum of $716,718 gram at Tropical, apparently were interested only in getting, downjr few bets before the shutdown. The total wagering on the nine races and the daily double far eiceeded the previous high mark of $629, 038 be on Tropical's closing day last April 8. r Tropical already , had planned today's sparkling inaugural pro gram when -the racing ban was announced Saturday, and decided to go ahead with 'eight days of cing. . , The 29 Victories pitched by Hal . . Newhouser (above) far the De trolt Hgers In the' American 'league pennant chase are rated ' as one of the topmost Individual achievements l Of the year In sports. Newhouser Is a military reJecteeT '.'""y-r.j'- Hubert Bechtol is rated 'one of the best ends that Texas has pro duced,' even outranking the Lone Star state's great All-America of 1943, Joe Parker. 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Assisting BarnhUl - was Herman Hickman, line coach for the Ar my's team at West Point, who is stopping here briefly. He was a Tennessee guard of 12 years ago. Both teams return tomorrow to two drill sessions a day. Horvath Joins 'East' Eleven - IWest' Forward Wall Molded by Mentors SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 25-iJT) Paced by All-America back Les Horvath of Ohio State, Eastern football stars held their best workout today preparatory to the East-West charity contest' hero New Year's day. Horvath, late arrival due to studies; checked in last night and was welcomed by Coaches Andy Kerr, Bernie Bier- man and George Hauser. Around his pass throwing and running ability will be built the East's of fense. , The Eastern boys, drilling at tho University of Santa Clara, went through one long workout before Sitting Sown to Christmas dinner, ' Gold watches, gifts of the Shrin ers' organization sponsoring the game, were passed out. The Western squad had an even, more intense workout. Coaches Orin Hollingbery and Homer Nor ton sent their charges through -a, practice lasting more than three hours. A ' f Tentative lines .today saw- Don Paul, sturdy center from the Uni versity of California at Los An geles, converted into a guard. Thf forward walls 'were manned as follows: . ; ! j i Team A--Ends, Jack Roderick ' University ; of Washington, and Dub Wooten, Oklahoma; tackles, Jack Okland, Utah, and Bob Mc Clure, Nevada; guards. S. J. Rob erts,' San Ftancisco Coast Guard, and Jim Kekeris, Missouri; center, Soger Harding, California. : " ! - Teanv B Ends, Clarence How ell, Texas A & and John West rum, San Francisco Coast Guard; tackles, ' Men te Moncrief, Texas A & M.; and Gobel Bryant,- March Field; guards, Don Paul, UCLA,1 and Ed Schneider, Denver; center, Jack Sachse, University of Texas. The two squads will' resume' two-a-day drills tomorrow. f ' .-::t .. -i. St. Paul Trounces Cervais Quintet : A'"' ' i ' ' . cr dattt Vu,n;.. v.: .... onal record unblemished, St Paul high's basketballers walloped Ger vais 46-13 at Gervais Thursday 1 night The outcome was not in doubt from the start. Center Jim Kirk,' with 17 points, led. the scor ing. In. the Bee game the St. Paula Wfin 11.1(1 Tt was Nnrth Marion County "B" league game. i - " -.; -; ...j -.J ' ' ST. 9AVL W) , . (U) GERVAIS . K. Kirk- .... r.-' (3) rirachwrilef 1 D. Smith 4)' r () Phillip J. Kirk m '. ( Tolley J. Coleman. 4) ' fl IB) Ifannln L. Phillips llfll G ( Jorgetwen St. Paul ub: Don Smith 2, -Casey.. Cervait: i-Patterson 1, Vachter, 2 Brown. Officials: Dick Barklow and Lefty- WUdtr. . .:v , 1 - v Insolation ,.'fira MP TO 33 IX fXTL COSTS Rol FREE ESTIMATE - STORES - t : Phone 1144 Cor. Liberty A Center EL ( Y