Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 30, 1945)
6 i PAGE FOURTEC? I Ttt OREGON STATESIIAlI. Solen, Ortepn, Fridcrr Monanej, Hortxnbtr 33. 1945 i i'-'i :1 i, i i I J il $ .1 J ! I" t ! i i ' ;S 11 Rambling 'round: Vacationer Spee Keene, certainly no out of touch with dally doings la the athletic world even If he la tak ing things easy for ft spell. It one who believe Army's mighty grid machine would make a ter rible mistake if It comes west to play Com. Bill Relnhart'i Fleet City Bluejackets In that victory bond benefit fame being kicked arounoVAnd Spee should know, lie's watched the 'Jacket and their 19 Ail-Americans In action many times this sutitmn. The presence of those 19 biggies, some of 'em toting the "altarofes slonaT tag also, is what prompts Spee to speculate! -Twould bo case of good college team against god prep team, and Army would take -a licking. ... Nine teen All American do sojrta make yon wonder what happen ed to the monopoly law, especi ally when a handful answer to Claude (Buddy) Young. BUI Daddio, Perry Schwartz. Bruiser Kinard. Danny Forte, Steve Jux wik. Harry (Hlppity) Hopp, An- dy LI ram and Lou Zontinl . . . Of the pack, 160 pound ex-Illini Toung draws the Keene super latives. Not like most sprinter footballers who can exhibit, their ' swift only when galloping straight ahead, Toung seems to explode all his :09.5 century , capabilities in broken field ma neuvering the likes of which most humans have never seen. "When yon cap run 20 yards to. a touchdown and leave sprawled on the turf behind you six tack lers who had wide open shots at you but didn't lay a finger en you. you're pretty good." avers Spec. Such was merely one of Youngi" accomplishments for the Jackets . . . mm m still pot to shame an A-l Hal loween spooki - "Why Bolldog Jackson!" ejaculated ; an . eld friend just back from the east "I thought yon were dead, yon 1 eootr ... To which r- Bull dog sneered with a aiT jitter? BelL they're trying to invent something to kill me," . , Re. collecting all he's been through. most of It. Bull have fbeen lucky for a year or two and have a eouple of bad ones coming." . . Imagine that! A guy Wins a state champlonahlp In football last; year and comes in third -in the1, state basketball last winter, and now he's being undressed by the; Medford natives! Yeeeipel . .f Incidentally, th Medfords hadj complete movies taken! of that! Ill-fated fame with Grant, which Is strictly big-time stuff for high school, wet? ... prank CHARLEY PETERSEN It would take a king-sized bomb to do the Job at that . A- J: Crack of the week, rendered by Bulldog Jackson, whose facial expressions when rassling would Football Freddies who have heard that Medford Is the tough est town In the world on football "coaches might like to know this,9 excerpts of a letter from Tor nado Coach AI Simpson: There Is still quite, si bitnl complaining around the townafter that 7-6 loss. I seem to be the target for : The most enlgmatle you've ever heard f?;Rlght now the way the Coast conference Is going about the selection of its Bose Bowling baby takes the elead. That Is, If what 'we read Is true. The PCC, or that second guessablef part of It which gives with the I Pasadena picking, we read, will totally Ignore Wash ington State's right toj take a thumping! from Alabama Jan. 1 despite What happens rathe Southernf Cal-UCLA mix Satur day. In Other words, the WSC's could wind up atop? the PCC, chase if I CLA kayoei USC Sat urday, but same WSCs may not; get the bowl bid. Rose Bowl law! (at present, but apparently sub-! Ject to change v without notice)! reads that top teajn in PCC per centages Is automatically exhibit A In Pasadena New Year's Day. The way It's rumored now. If the likes splatter i El Trojan Saturday; the WSCs take a splat tering too 1100,000 Iworth. If such happens, Phil Sorboe oughts take his troupe to Pasadena Jan. - Si!- County Quints Jam' Tonight - Twelve Tems Ready For WillamelkTDish High (school, basketballing for 141-4 In the village opens with roar --and itH probably be a vwd one --when;- 12 Marlon ouny "B" league quints convene n Willamette ITs gym tonight to -age off their annual Jamboree, rhe preview" party, complete from six abbreviated games to organ izd rooting contests between vis iting student bodies, Is clocked "for 7:45 p. m. Gates open at sev en to accommodate the crowd, however. A drawing held by the coaches last Monday night brought. about the following pairings for to night: 7:45 - - Aumsville vs. Ger vais; 8 p. m. - - Hubbard vs. Sa lem Sophomores; 8:15 --Mill City vs. St 'Paul; 8:30 --Sub- limity vs. Turner; 8:45 --Gates vs. Detroit; 9:00 - Chemawa vs. Jefferson. One game will follow another immediately and sans prelimin ary warmups, according to Direc tor Karl Kahle of Gervais. Teams will do. their warmups in the dressing joom. The team scoring 'the most points will be declared winner of the Jamboree, and the rooting , section which gives with the most audible yelling when its team is in action will be present ed with a trophy. - Games will be limited to the time at which the following game is scheduled. St Paul, winner a year ago and back with -a veter an team, is the favorite. The St. Paul's, winners of the county football title, will be presented with the league trophy during the evening aUo. ' Admission prices will be 50c for adults, 30c for students. 1 to picket the oint r Net! exactly base ball weather, but this we do want to print. Especially so since the star of Uhe piece, former Senators man Charley Petersen, personally bat ted Ifty O'Doul's Seals to the PCL playoff title two years ago and was selected the most out standing . player In those post seaaoners. Thei piece Is offered by iJ D. Gired, public school sysiemer at Richmond school In the village. Writes! Girod: "We happened to bee in San Francisco :r and got to see the a good many ball We were Interested most tchlng Charley Petersen. playoff against Sacramen Seattle he appeared four times as a pinch hitter and got four nita. He also! played one game at second base and got three hits In four times up. This made a total of seven hits In eight times at hat in these two series! The first time he went to bat was In the sixth game of the SecramcB to' series. It was the last of the ninth, two down and Bones Sanders! on! second with the s ;ere 1-9 in favor of Sacra mento. Xn thefirst pitched ball he sn tacked a line drive Into right field. JoJo White 1 took It and a perfect peg f to home caught Sanders by a foot. I believe any other runner eould have faUen dowi twice and stDl have made It He also gotk good hit In the final game of fthe series which put the Seals out in front, where they itayed. lie; played the fourth gam against $eattle at second base and his three hits helped plentjy. r He easpe through with hits tn both of the last games and the Seals won the playoff." . , Now do yon know why Lefty O'Dool said, back ersei can play on any time."? I In 1943, "Pet- my ball club Benefit Mat Card Tonight Extra-special dessert for Mar lon county crunch customers since ft will be the second bleep bee of the week for them, the Disabled American Veterans building benefit mat eard wHl - be presented at the Ferry Street Garden tonight Mayhem cecn moncM at t:J0 pjn. The benefit program lists an always crowd-pleasing ' battle royal featuring six of the top gladiators new In the etrcult Chinese Ju-Jitsu trickster Walt "Sneeze Achiu, dynamic An gello Martinelll, lantern-Jawed Jack Lipscomb, pudgy Earl Ma kmc, lithe Gust Johnson and battered but befriended Bulldog Jackson. All six will start out at once In the all-fer-ene seuf flfng. 1 First two flattened are finished for the night Second two return for the eard's sexal wlndup and the royal finalists will come back to whop eff the main event '. - Of Interest to regular mat eUento Is the fact that Slarttn elll audi, Lipscomb aire la the party. Since he won! Tuesday night's elimination tourney here, popular jAngeUo is to grapple Lipscomb for the latter Coast Junior heavy title belt next Tuesday!, hi Entire (take en tonight's party will be turned over to chapter f, DAY, fdr lU bnlldinl fund, a worthy leause.- Matchmaker : El ton Owen ts . donating services and ' the! grapplers. (Tickets are en sale today at Maple's sports store. Maple :7l Titl&Tussle Set Tuesday As advertised when Angello Martinelll won this week's elim ination tournament at the Ferry Street Garden, next Tuesday night will find the popular bicep per bending "with Mustachioed Jack ' Lipscomb for the latter's bast Junior heavyweight title belt Articles were signed yes terday, reports Matchmaker El ton Owen. Martinelll,1 second .only to ex GI Jo Lynam as the crunch cus tomers' fair haired boy locally. Is fully expected to give unpopular Lipscomb all he wants Tuesday, and maybe more. The supporting card, to consist of , two and possibly three pre lims, will be announced as it Is lined up by Owen. t Hoop Biggies Scrap Tonight CHICAGO, Nov. 2M-Fans who wills view tomorrow night's sixth renewal of the all-star bas ketball game at Chicago stadium . will be treated to what has been called "i'game on stilts." The ' ftami Will bring, together Coach Arthur (Dutch) Lonborg's Colle gians and the Fort Wayne, Ind., Zollners, last year's national bas ketball league, champions. 'Lonborg is expected to trot out the tallest talent in the history of the hardwoodspectacle, including even-oot Bob Kurland of Okla homa A Sc M, 6-foot 9-inch Har ry Boykoff of St John's (Brook lyn) and 8-foot 8-inch Milo Ko menich of Wyoming. Canucks Win - LOS ANGELES, Nov. 2? -frh Vancouver's.' Canucks,' playing Their fourth game in five days, rang up . a 7-5 .victory over the Los Angeles Monarchs -tonight in a Pacific coast league Ice hockey game before 3500 fans. . . c, LoulvBiffs Foes . SACRAMENTO, Nov. 29-- WorldfheaTweight champion Joe Louis staggered two opponents in four rounds of exhibition boxing here tonisht Big Bob Brown, 23 S. Detroit nd Tiny (Robin) Lee. 253. Redwood City, Calif. w e the victims, Louis Weighed Coaqh Invites Doc's Mayhem ANNAPOLIS, Md., Nov. 29.- (AVNavy's head coach may have let the Middies in for additional shocks Saturday by commenting today that Army's superman. "Doc" Blanchard, "is not so hot defensively" made that remark in his last pub lic statement before the Middies left for Philadelphia to collide I head-on with Army's gridiron lo comotive before 102,000 specta tors. l aon t tninx Blanchard Is so hot defensively," the wartime submarine commander said dur- ing a final general going-over of (Continued on page 15) 1: I la Minors After AAA? - : .i COLUMBUS, O., Nof. 29 Fifty-one! proposed amendments to baseball law will b taken up at the annual convention of the National Association '6t Profes sional Baseball Leagues (the min ors) heref Dec. 5-7. 1 . The association, announcing its program I today, said is that the American Association and Inter national Ind Pacific Coast leagues (now class AA) had jj submitted 14 amendments, asking creation of a clasl AAA to embrace themJ Another amendment , would set Dec. 1, 946, as the end of the "duration of the emergency" ln-i sofar as baseball is concerned. Grid Finalists Taper Drills ant, Dragons aet F6r Saturday Biggie TLAND, Nov Ixpedted to be at for i stadium Saturday, Grant's Generals of Portland and the Hood River Blue Dragons of dis 1 1 i I trict one today put the finishing touches oh their -workouts as they readiM to decide 1845's state football ! champiobship. The game is set for 2 p.mj and a throng of 20 -(Special) full strength ieir prep gigantic In Mult- abouti ness hold 10,000 is itxpec ional ted to wit- : r " ' J ' - . - - i , I- ArBiniy January 1 Saturday Pliun .Trojans, Cougars, Ukes 'Bowl' Eligible By Knss Newland 1SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 29-(JPi The Pacific Coast Conference winds up its most sorry football showing in many 'seasons Satur day in a grand finale that will produce the west's Bose Bowl nominee. : Whether it will, be University of Southern California jumping di rectly into the bowl; orj Washing ton State college moving in on a percentage basis, or possibly the University of California at Los Angeles catching the bid through some quirk of the balloting, will not be known until the telegraphic votes are tabulated. That will be announced either Saturday night or sometime Sunday, a Imany event, the team chosen to uphold the honors Of the con ference, will be seconcj choice to Alabama when they line up in the Pasadena . classic before 93,000 fans New y ear s day. - Supporters of UCLA base their hopes on a last minute bid in the fact- an overwhelming decision over USC might influence the voting of the ten facujjy athletic representatives who cjontrol the Rose Bowl nomination! While UCLA and USC battle It out for the biggest grij(fron plum of the season, Oregon) State and Oregon will settle the Second half of their state rivalry at Eugene. Oregon State had the better of the first meeting, 19-6, but this time will face an improved Oregon team that rates pre-game f avorit- j ism. . California concludes Its sched ule with a non-conf ere ice contest with the St Mary's navy pre-flight eleven at Berkeley. With the navy not permitted to use Its various I U ' ' - I - ' ' ' , - ' . - ; ....... . . . . i- , v - Wv;: V o - - y- J I' W I ' I . : Y fir' ' vJ ; -x- whip BIG BILL AUSTIN. Quite a! tackle for Oregon State's Beaver this season despite being a freshman, will bejat his post Saturday tat Eugene when the Beavers and Oregon's Webfoots battle eft their J 1 1 A AI . ml At 1 1 - - i. Kwua chwc hp cxiu kuc luvvuui kuvu in iuc uoruiwnk pered professional players, stands a good chance to win., California ' Barring additional rain, the teams! are likelyi to find the sta dium turf in fair I shape for the dassi:. ;Such would be welcome to both Coach J)m Torson of the Gene-als and Walt. Buettgenbach of the (Dragons j for both stress the iitricacies of T formation in their respective offensive systems 1 Si Grant will be strengthened Satuiday by the return of Full back BUI GabrjelJ who did not play njthe 7-6 fictory over Med ford because of I illness. Gabriel's line smashing is expected to aid the Generals if the going is mudc y4 J Thi teams will line up almost even in weight both averaging near 181 pounds in the line. The Hood River backsj paced by tri-ple-t greater Dqn j OXeary, will Ducks Wiiid Up Grid Worllouts EUGENE, Nov. 29.-(4vrhe Uni versity of Oregon grid team went through final workouts today be fore meeting the Orlegon State college Beavers here Saturday in the second of the yeaifs civil war games. Oregon State won the first 19-6. Even if no more rain falls be fore starting time, Ha Ward field will be muddy and slow. This should be some help tb Oregon State's backfield, which averages 190 pounds to Oregon's 175 A capacity crowd hi 20,500 is expected to see the 2 o'clock kick- off. All 16,000 reserved seats were sold out yesterday, arid 4500 gen eral admissions will go on sale Saturday. . a slight Weight advantage over the light Grant ball carriers. Grant, 7-6 wanner over Med- as a fordJ bjas- been two-touchdown established faVorite. I; Highlighted by Edna McElhani eys three games of 142 each, .the Ladies Ijeagut bowled off their session lit Perfection galleys last night. Winning teams,1 jail. by 2-1 counts, 4ere Sears Roebuck, Mil ler Eurdture, Vincfs Electric and McKillop's InsuranJe. High series shboter was June Lloyd of Keglettei with a 497. t FartHlnl . , 1 , J 1J4 ill McEihny j . 142 , 142 Posfal Xi 134 ISO ( Wtai LJs53 659 MTT.T.FH 154390 142426 158 442 "754 206 TqUk ;s rURNTTURI CO.- ti PouUn , I ,i 149 166 15847? Hubbara - 110 Boyd i i 130 SXARS-sROEBUCK CO,i (2) McNeil Cohen , Roth Allen Thrush 4- 140 : 170 4142 a 126' 121 f 133 16 a 125 . 159 lisa Totals! 737 J.S92 ACXXJjrS BOOTERY Hi) -. Zimmerman 109 ij SI Evans 1 125 145 127437 158428 110364 135429 186479 71S 2139 141241 140410 Beicliiskered Jinx Sfrp U$C Will TF hip Bruins Scitiwday nrvwva vr n JLi " . a rlti- a- At)- LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21 (JP One .of the west coast's most ; persistent Jinxes makes the - Southern California . Trojans strong favorites to whip the UCLA Brains In Saturday's Rose " Bowl trial. Since their series began In 1929 the Trojans have won nine times, the Brains bat once, ahd four games were tied. The Tro jans, aided by 71-0 and f 2-1 seerea fk l2 and 19S0 When the Brains were Just getting started : la coast conference competition, have amassed S50 points to the CCLAJTs 165 In the 11 prevU Ions games. ; ' Four Omes before the T7SC VCLAl closer has decided the coast's 1 Rose representative. In 1938 the Trojans .walloped the Brnmsf 42-1 to earn the. bid ever California. In 1939 ; El Trojan again went to the Bowl by hold ing ULA to 0-1 tie, UCLA's big moment came la 1942 when a 14-1. victory sent jj the Brains Bewlward the' only lime la their athletie career. Srialey i Meyer I i 155 139 120 162 164 141390 1X3-473 130 456 120 -430 QlilSENBXRHY'S I SarUMrj Judson McCrrpU ieir j. Merrittj j - Totals Hard III. 123 7 146 11 S5 i VINCrS ELTCTWC 2) Myer' I Rodakowtkl Bradley loan cner Ttals GOOD Whltwqrth ear I Lou 1 Albrich Lil Albrich . HOUSEKEEPING CO. (1) Peayy j Cooperi Smith I Muclhaupt (tuning . 5 KEG Klrchner Urns ( Ryer Anderacm LJovd i Garbaxiao Totals 090 -751 681 3123 138 175 144 143 121 153 ilt 136 406 126416 6358 137 353 613 737 893 2043 109 123 119 102 144 139 122. 130 123 112 111 360 139384 99348 122347 119375 623 654 819 1898 94 146 134 . 125 152 117 123 .129 137 138 131371 130 3S& 111380 107359 109402 660- 653 , 588 1901 MCKILLOP'S INSURANCE (2 . 125 183 134-443 129 ' 157 - 103389 96-111 141354 137 151 150438 141 119- 138 3S ). 858 '731 "898 2111 isr 139 147 90S 150 TO T14 ITJH5I 151 150-439 : 394 til - ;i 3S2 14 131 497 132 WSC Gridmen Turn to Hoop i PULLMAN, Wash., iNov. 29-ttP) A group of Washington State col lege football players, through with the gridiron inless they should receive an 1 unexpected Rose Bowl bid, have turned to the basketball court $ strengthen a squad which shows' prospects of becoming a leading contender for the northern division Pacific coast conference crown. Coach Jack FrieL starting his 188th year at Washington State, increased his letternjen total to five with . the transfer ' of three letter winners - from football ' to basketballs They are Bill Kellin ger, Spokane, guard; parroll Wal- (Continued on page 15) B & B Coiirlsters Nip Independence B Sc B Bowling cotirtsters took M MS M f A W . iour ci xive games xrqm ue inae pendence duck pinners here Wed nesday night. A return .'match Is due at Independence! next week. 137 188- 111 133 218867 104 150 171 158 177760 127 169 248 158 182762 173 171 147 138 158787 150 203 121, 157 141773 r4eeaaenee Stone Nemchlck , Hathaway Waddle . J. Stone Totals Salem Harrison . Wood Scholz Gauthier . Meyer Totals 691 861 r 744 "858 3848 160 134 52 188 208818 163 161 187 125 219855 180 144 152 17S 152815 126 248 200 175 181930 135 163 80 167 115760 773 850 S71 811 873 417 Longhorn'Cop 20-10 Thriller From Aggies COLLEGE STATION, Tex, Nov. 29-(V-Texas roared back in the final period today to beat fierce fighting Texas A. and M, 20-10, to gain its third southwest confer ence 'football chanlplonship in four years, and receive the auto matic invitation tol the Cotton! BowL No greater thriller has been played In the 52 years of Texas A. and M.-Texaa . gridiron rela tions than this battle! unreeled for 40,000 fans. J 'Cotton9 for 4 Missouri. Texas I r' DrillsTa For Gigantic.;; Fast Curi Probable; . 100,000 to Witness By Ca'yle Talbot PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 29-T Prospects 6 firm footing for Ai my's brilliant ball-carriers help- ed maintain the West Pointers as staunch 27-point favorites over Navy in Saturday's epIcA struggle here as the two undefeated elev ens began converging on the baU tie site tonight ' . . . A two-day - rain which had threatened, to mar the champion ship game . subsided during the afternoon, and the best long-range (Continued on page 15) Tte'pls for Cadet-Victory WEST POINT, N.Y; Nov. 29- (jPHSpeaking by telephone from his hospital bed at White Sulphur Springs, Va., Gen. Dwight D. Ei senhower called upon Army's football team to "beat the navy! tonight a few hours before . the cadet squad was scheduled to de part for Philadelphia to play in Saturday's service lassie- , His words were carried by loudspeaker to the entire corps of cadets, gathered for the an nual pep rally in a : mess hall large enough itself for a football game. . j DALLAS. Nov. 29 -(JFi- The University of Missouri Tigers have accepted an Invitation play the University of Texas Longhorns la the Cotton Bowl game here on Jan. 1, if the. Big Six conference will give Its per mission, Dan D. Eogers, chair man of the Cotton Bowl beard, announced tonight. j Rogers said he had had .a tele phone conversation with Bliss art Athletic Director Don Fan- rot, who said he hoped to know by Friday whether permission weald be granted. The Tigers, alter a slow start la which they lost to Minnesota, Ohio State and Michigan State, hit their stride and went through the Big Six campaign vdtheat a oeieai, replacing uaianoma as the champ Urn. Tucker Still Tlii' Stricken WEST POINT, N.Y, Nov. 29-(fl")-There were increasing signs tonight that Arnold Tucker, Ar my's first string quarterback and a key man in the Cadets' T-for-mation backfield, might not be ready to play against Navy on Saturday in Philadelphia after all. -1 : - Tucker, hospitalized with a mild case of flu since Tuesday, was reported earlier to be ready for release by practice time u.f his temperature had remained normal for 24 hours. But his tem perature began rising again early this afternoon, and officials or dered him kept In the hospital again tonight. Si s Logan to Sub ST. LOUIS, Nov. 29-WVDea- con Nathan Logan, St. Louis negro middleweight, will replace Ray "Sugar" Robinson, New York welterweight star, against CpL Fritzie ivic in a scheduled 19 round bqut at Kansas City Decem ber 7, George Wilamsn, Logan's manager! said tonight. I f te fill S3 1 I 8 I 8 I I X 8 8 ! Skis Ski Poles Binding ; Wax" Caps Golf Balls ., s Head Covers i Bag Boy Golf Carts Basketbal Footballs Volley Balls Soccer Balls Casting Reel rui Salmon Reel! Baseball Gloves Dart Board v Archery Sets Tennis Racquets Badminton Racquets Table Tennis Sots . Shuffle Boards Hunting Clothes Duck Decoys ; . Goose Decoys J Sleeping Bags : Air Mattresses 0 lif 11 li 372 State I FISHING EQUIPMENT SPORTING GOODS Phone 6042