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i ' FOU3TH2I Tt OZEQON STATESMAN. Scdam. OrjoTudaT Morning. December 25, 1S45 7irSainio IinivfioSM 3 USC Peri Defense Seen na Key; ; , Rain, Fluf Toko Toll on Teams , ' L03 ANOIIXS, Dm. lir(f-XUbant tf ntod It poInU Utter 5'aa Southern California for tha Rose Bowl football gun but Coach ff Crarath at the Trojanf figure bia Uam baa a food ehanca to pact tha southerners, if and tt'a 4 Ng If) It defenda wall against Barry Gflmer'a forward passing. '; Apparently Cravath laa't alona la kla conviction that tha Trojana it bold ehanco, avaa though ia Crimson Tida la generally fay rad to do a good Job of passing Vm dizzy. Tha coaching board of strategy has designated Bob Mc- Ntlsh, an expert on pass defense, to perfect tha plana against Ga mer. McNelsh, as a Trojan, had only three passes complata against him In his territory. ; Keith Spalth, a first clasa throw ar who was Ineligible this season, has been throwing lob passes by the hundreds. This sort of busi ness has taken up much of tha Trojans' preparatory work. . Hard rains In recent days has Interferred with practice and In fluenza has made inroads against .both the Trojan and Alabama aquads.r' Coach Frank Thomas will lead ' the visitors Into Alahambra, their 'detraining point, at 9 o'clock Wed- nesday morning, and they will do , their practice work at Occidental college field, not far from Pasa- dena. Christmas day will be a holiday In the Trojan camp. With more rain forecast fof Wednesday, Southern California may be forced to stay Indoors and further study the reports of scouts Cece Hoi lingsworth and Buck Bailey, who saw Alabama. The scouts told Cravath his only chance for vie- tory was In tha strong USC line, which was getting better as the aeason closed. Huskies Near Last Tuneups SEATTLE, Dec. 24. The University of Washington basketball-team, which has kept pace with tha rest of the northern di vision In pts pre season wins and losses, has two more tilts on Its slate before It Jumps Into the 16 game flag race here Jan. 4 and S against Washington State. To date Coach I Hec, Edmundson's .Huskies have won seven games and lost two. Washington plays Alphlne Dairy here Friday and Fort Lewis there .Saturday. No Bowling: Xmas . The Perfection'lAlleys Commer cial league, slated for action last night, and tha Industrial circuit, due for a session tonight, will do no loop bowling until after the holidays, it was announced by Ringmaster Joe Coe. The alleys will be open for public bowling, however. . . Epger Honored PULLMAN, Dec 24.-P-Dean Zggers, 180-pound frosh quarter - back from Walla Walla, has been HAL NEWHOUSER Ace af Amerk loop. Slab Laurels To Newhouser By Jerry Liska CHICAGO, Dec. 24.--Slim Hal Newhouser of Detroit's world champions was far and away the busiest and best pitcher In the American league last season, of fidal 1943 statistics showed to- day. The 24-year-old southpaw. won 25 games and lost nine, for a .735 percentage, and fashioned a su perb earned-run average of 1.81 Bob Muncrief of St Louis actual ly posted the best won-lost per centage, .765, but his 13-4 record was 12 victories behind the tal ented Tiger tosser. In compiling his amazing earned-run average, Newhouser also led the league by toiling a total of 313 innings and facing 1,132 bat ters, while his run-way bag of 212. strikeouts was 83 mora than his closest rival. Only two other 20-game win ners were recorded. Rookie Dave Ferriss of Boston, who also set a I new freshman record by pitching I a stretch of 22 scoreless innings, had 21-10, and Roger Wolff of Washington posted 20-10. Wolff, incidentally, did an amazing turn about after being mauled for a 4-15 record and an earned-run average of 4.99 in 1944. Ferriss yielded the most hits, 263, and Marino Pieretti of Wash' ington the most runs 114. Only no-hitter of the season was turned In by Dick Fowler of Philadelphia against St Louis on Sept 9. named to the all-Phi Delta Theta national honorary football eleven, I an announcement from Menasha, 1 Wis., where the paper is published said today. Riser Jipscomb Go Tops Xmas Mat J5ec, Armory Tonight . Ta fiuslln' Santy Clans visits tao Ferry Street Garden tonight it iaUTcr rlght-down-the-alley . a4yl 'far many Marlon county grappling followers. Tha Ktingle -nyieomes through by bringing back, tight an time. Jack (Pin-up Bay) Xlser, certainly one af the most j papular and v spectacular torse -twisters ever to work up a sweat locally. - ' . . '. . Klaer, absent and sojourning la California bleep bins, many weeks, returns to meet Mostaeh toed Jack Lipscomb la Match Goiizaga Said Ready Tp Resume Football.; SPOKANE, Dec. 24-)-Charles R. Stark, Jr., sports editor, of the Spokesman-Review, said today that Gonzaga university wul re sume Jintercollegiate football com petition in 1946 with Orin E. (Babe) Hollingbery, dean of Pa cmc i coast zootDaii mentors, as head coach. ! Hollingbery, now In San Fran Cisco where he will coach the West All-Stars In the annual ! Shrine New Year day - football ' classic, Notified Joe Alb I, president of Spokane's athletic round table, that he was not seeking the Uni versity of California Job as has been Ireported but that he was in terested only in the spot at Gon zaga,! Stark said. jf j Father Arthur Dussaul V athletic director at Ganzaga, has made no official announcement that the Bulldogs will resume football, dropped at the school at the 1941 campaign. it I . Hcdlingbery's salary will be partly: underwritten by the Ath- letic Bound Table and is. reputed to be S 12,000 a year. Stark said. Ere Winner Golf Turn ii Dave Eyre, 10-handicapped reg ular, grossed a 76 and 40 Roodles points; for his 18-hole round over the -weekend to win the Men's club! Hoodies tournament at Sa lem golf course. Second place in the meet was divided & between eight-handicapped John ! Emlen and ifive-'capped Lawrence Alley. Emleh carded -a gross 75, Alley a 74. Each had 39 Roodles. No special tournament has been announced by the committee for Christmas play today. A S Cdwboys Win Easily LARAMIE, Wyo., Dec; 24.-ff) The t University of Wyoming cag- ers, in their final action i before departing on an eastern f t o u r, swamped Kansas State here to night, 62 to 33, with the first team seeking action little more than half :the time. The victory was the fifth straight of the season for the unbeaten Cowboys. !; aMepoip New'Zag Boss 18--. J maker Elton; Owen's Christmas ! crunch party, main- event frto- ; night The blond adonis is only ; anf af a number ef the remem- j beted oldies . who are- being j beckoned back to the 'circuit to make with - topnetchl matches with the Lynams, . MartlnelUs, Joneses, Stonef sees, etc, i : ; In fact, tonight's main' event winner la already act for a slxe- : able scuffle next Tuesday night. KI$er ar meanie Lipscomb, I the I winner next week tackles fresh- ' ly-returncd i Tough Tony -Jtoss, . himself scarce around these - 1 4 s ft i JACK KISER, one of; the most popular grapplers ever to show la Salem, makes his return to the armory tonight after a long absence to meet Jack Lipscomb la the main event, j j Viiagaram to Enjoy Ducks on Xmas Menu NIAGARA FALLS, Ont, Dec, ! 2.(More . than 1,000 wUd j ducks perished last night and early today when they were ! swept over Niagara Falls dur ing a dense fog, Riverman Wil-' 11am "Red" Hill reported, i He ' explained that during a ( fog ducks landing on the upper riv er In search of food and rest often are carried ever the cat aract before they realise what Is happening. Christmas Skiing OK at Timberline TIMBERLINE LODGE, Ore.. Dec 2HA-Ski tows here will operate Christmas day, lodge officials stated. The snow j now IS 120 Inches deep, four Inches new. Nearly 2,000 skiers flock ed to Mount Hood Sunday. Pelicans Top Quint GRANTS PASS, Dec 24H)- A', honors in the Rogue valley basketball tourney went to Klam ath Falls high, after turning back Grants pass, 50-21. Sharpshooter Clyde DeWitt chalked Up 38 points toj pace Reedspoint, "B winner, to a 69414 .victory over Glendale ' i i - - 1 ' ... . r if II 111 WW - parts for almost a year. "Match maker Owen Is' extending him self with efforts to attract more .and more new ; blood ; to the northwest,-and Kiser and Ross are his first two acquisition. Crunch customers are j in for some mat gigantica from here on, according to the aspiring match maker.' -: . . .r" - " '.j f .The . evening's mainer,' as If the clients couldn't guess, will . be a case of Riser's swift and - cleverness and he haa' plenty of both against; Lipscomb's Shrine learns SAN FRANCISCO,: Dec. 24 -iJPi- Disregarding i pelting .. rain. eastern football players worked out on a soaked Santa, Clara field today in preparation for the East West charity game here New Year's " day. . Inclement , j weather also hit the western squad, train ing at Menlo Junior college. Coaches Andy Kerr j Bernie Bierman and Beattie Feathers of the East-were additionally handi capped when three of their stars, George Saviteky, tackle, from Pennsylvania; B o b Dobelstein, guard from Tennessee, and Mer rill ; Frost, . quarterback from Dartmouth, were unable to suit up due to. colds. ! Co-coaches Orin Hollingbery and Homer Norton put the West erners through : semi-scnmmage, employing both the T-formation and ' the single wing. Halfback Jack Price, Baylor, and Quarter back Bob Stevens, Oregon State, showed good passing form while Bob ' Goode, Texas I A & M, and We haven't seen anything of the 1945 Duration I league foot ball all-league . team and pre sume selection af same isn't to be made. Which Is quite all right for; the simple reason' that too often such star teams ignore de serving kids. But If the Dura tion men do get around to bal loting, they shouldn't 1 overlook one lad, "Kicking CaF' Picard of Chemawa. He's the 6! foot, 135 pounder who did all the punting for "Chief" Thompson's Indians, and what punting! We'll match -these figures against those com piled by any prep footballer and 99 of 100 collere brand In the country: j Average for the season, eight games and all punts measured from the line of scrimmage, punts against SUverton In final game, 49.7 yards. 'Longest boot of season, 79 yards in the air against Dallas! We saw that one. Best kick of season, a 67-yarder . (from line of scrimmage) against Woodburn - that went out of bounds on the Bulldog seven line. We saw that j one, too, and wcauicrou and he ! baa eon- r The semiwindup special pits Sgt. "Babe" , Small; another roughle-taughle of . means, against lithe Gust Johnson, the silent Swede who likes his grap pling on the. orthodox order. .The $& eurtalnraiser sends a pair of ' populars against each other, Angello Martinelli and Portlander Ernie Piluso. Both being aggressive gladiators,, and cleanies, theirs' could '; be a dax aler. . i j - 4 1 ia Liked . . - i ( : i Over Tulsa 11 :.v,.v.:.. . 7 Points oii South j In Oil Bowl Came I HOUSTON, Texj Dec 24 -JP) Tulsa's Golden Hurricane rolls I into town Thursday, preceding by a day the Georgia Bulldoes. as the southwestern land southern football clans gather in Houston for the second Oil Bowl game due to attract a capacity, crowd of 27,000 to Rice stadium. When Henry Ftnka, a Texas boy who has made good in big- time coaching, arrives with ; his Tulsans he will find Georgia: es tablished as a seven-point favor ite. That probably will be good news for Henry, who usually has his team oh the spot! ! The Georgians, coached by Wal lyButts, the Mr. Five-by-Five of football, are being made favor ites because of that tossing, ball toting genius, Charley Trippi, and his famed receiver, Reid Moseley. i t Jake light; Oregon impressed with long, high punts. Both squads will hold brisk workouts Christ mas day. ' j it dang near knocked Jiggs Bur nett's band from! (he undefeat ed ranks. I ' Coach Thompson Is convinced 135-pound Picard's punting rates In the high college caliber index, and little wonder. A lad 'who can foot the football; so astound ingly certainly belongs on any prep all-star elevenj He'd put a real kick in It. j ; Incidentally, Thompson rates Picard as still another of Che mawa's "very good all-around athletes.'' The kid is a high Jumper, pole vaulter and hurd ler in track and Is a high scorer on the basketball team. And Only 18 Yean Old Another youthful comer carv ing quite a niche as a big time operator locally Is Warren (Brownie) Valdex, (Salem high student, outfielder on last sum mer's Legion Junior nine and Just about as good ja bowler as there Is in town.: It's In this pin- nastiness ' aiderable. . Georg . I S j Huge -'Spoinss - " r Prognosticating Editors Vision Comeback as Biggest in History :'.- : Rv Anstin S NEW YORK, Dec. 24HVNow ' ;,jv- W a war-weary woriu, Mm that iiut oversnaaow even may oversnaaow: even writers from coast - -to coasi agreed today in a poll conducted by the Associated Press. I -Asked to sneculate od the ef to fects of the war on sports of the immediate future, toe writers were virtually unanimous in their be lief that the expanr.Dn of the na tion's sports progren will surpass anything ever . seen in , previous years. .' "AV "i V ': Such phrases as 'Ve are cas cading : into the biggest sports boom America has ever known" and "a sports boom the like of which this nation has never ex perience d"-were sprinkled throughout the" ballots. "v ' ! Many" writers were of" the opinion, however, that sports will not return to prewar standards until 1947, although most of them predicted that once the program swings into high gear it will snowball , into amazing propor tions. ' I ' I There were some who pointed out that prewar stars, both ama teur and professional, who jre turned from the armed forces hit their stride immediately despite the layoff. And these suggested that the anticipated boom was al ready under way. j - I As for 1945 itself, the major ity of the writers selected the abundance of money earned as a direct result of the war, wager ed in unprecedented amounts and poured into record gates as the war's principal effect on sports during the year. Of course, there was the short age of playing talent, equipment and transportation which reduc ed the quality of sports again this year. Many noted : that the return of such servicemen as Hank Greenberg, Bob Feller, Ben Hog an and others gave sports a much needed shot in the arm. toppling that Warren Is excelling-. Perfection j Alleys magis trate Joe Coe alms to check with the American Bowling Congress on the good possibility that Valdex Is the supreme i 18-year-old kegler ' of the nation. Possessor of what the bowling bugs bill as a "beautifully work ing ball," Valdex sports a ,183 average in the local major league, a mark identical with those owned by tested and true trundlers Walter (Pappy) Cline and Clayt Foreman. In fact,! the! 183 Is a mere two pins short of Hi Hainan's league-leading 185. Not bad for an 18-year-old and not meaning llama n. J 'Bergie' Quits Baseball i Remember Bob Bergstrom, the John Warren-coached Astoria basketballer who, along with Wally Falmberg, wound up at Oregon State Instead of Ore gon, and then in 1941 whacked a Mi for the town Senators as an outfielder? Bob haa long been a lieutenant In the" navy, but Is now stationed at Corvallis air (Continued on page 15) I Dull tvn l(3 Bealmear that peace hi2 ia tt far a tremendouB tporxa srl,-r . morta ,iitnu,;-. Play I OSCs in 1st Game --1 'Carded Tmn Bffl ; . . . . . - i. ' . - - NEW YORK, Dec. Jt--A pair of teams with the Identical nickname and a third outfit witn . identical twins at the forward posts feature tomorrow's basket- J ball doubleheader in Madison ' Square, Garden. ; In the nignt s iirsi game, Ore gon State and City College of New York are the opponents with the ; Gotham five starting a revamped j lineup. Each club is nicknamed the Beavers. ... f:. - " - 1 Tennessee, with Roy and Troy Gregg slated to do most of tht marksmanship for the Vols, are billed in ! the nightcap against Long Island university. The -vis- ltors are unoeaien uus jesr. said he would start Al'Siegel and Moe Chef ec in t the guard . slots "because I haven't got " anyone taller. Oregon State has us bested physically." The West Coast team never has lost In the Garden. . Yakima to Get WTT'Pow-Wow YAKIMA, Dec 24. -JP)- Th schedule-adopting meeting for the Western International baseball league will be held here Saturday and Sunday, January 5-6, accord ing to Fred Mercy, Jr., holder of the Yakima franchise. Directors of the league's eight clubs and President Robert Abel are expect ed to met. Yakima," Wenatchee, Spokane, Salem, Tacoma, Brem- i tt m.t : eriua, vuueuuver sua vicvura mi league members. The league is scheduled to open April 30 after a three-year lapse. Silverton Sets ame SILVERTON, Dec 24-(Spedal) Silverton high's Silver Foxes, un beaten in Willamette Valley league play, step from circuit com petition here Thursday night to take on the Sweet Home Huskies. The contest, booked for 8 p. m. in the high school gymnasium will be preliminaried at seven by a game between second squads of both schools. The Foxes have also scheduled Central Catholic high for a game here January 30. They return to WVL play January 4 against Mo lalla here. Beavers CGNY Toni TmirsdayG