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MIAMI, Fla, Dec. 25-C-If
Iloly Cross loses to Miami in the
Oranf t Bowl hert on New Year's
day. Coach John (Ox) Grosa
could blame It . on the weather,
but he wont - Forced to practice
- Indoors on their home grounds
because of deep snow and low
temperatures, the Holy Cross
Cru.aders worked out in near
10-degree weather today.
"I'm not going to use the weath-
er as an alibi if we lose," Grosa
said. "We're going in to win this
game, and hot or cold my team is
going to do its darndest to win.'
The Holy Cross coach spoke i
few minutes after he had finished
. ' secret drill.
Hughie Miller Dies
ST. LOUIS, Dec. 25-FV-Hugh
Stanley "I!ughien Miller, It, for
mer first baseman of the Phila
delphia Phillies died last night.
He was a native of St Louis.
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' Westerners Handed Favorites Role in Shrine Battle .i
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By Kass KewLusd - - -SAN
FRANCISCO, Dee, tS-T)
For 21 yean new rival eeaches
f the East-West charity football
game hare tried to outxoaneuver
each other In the psychological
field of lining up aa "underdog" .
In the big New Tear's day en-"
counter. , It Is a swell selling
point, certain' to fire op the
players. : - ;.:.JrXSi'
Come January 1, the Western
All-Stars will take the field-as
the favorites, no matter how co
coaches Homer Norton of Texas
A A M and Orta ilollingbery
ex-Washington State, feel about
the matter: The Westerners will
line up with more weight, more
- power and will have the asaur
lance of greater experience than
. their Eastern rivals. Andy Kerr
of Colgate will chortle and make
capital of the fact the East, for big both in the T-formatlon and
uMkIi 'Ii. juu.Vul . t ' 1rU wlnr follow! "
.
- i.n v.,CTfn
poinded through two h.rs T
tn foil uniform, nevertheless. The Ushed. With the T-fermition is
West's coaches eamo Bp with two -attacking thret, the
iji.i vvnl . AMnU ; -.-4.-h-fnr duties WW... be
CAiruiunHHH - - ; 4 -
which he has coached so long.
will be the short-ender. -.
I Bis . colleagues, Bernle Bier-
man of Minnesota and Seattle
; Feathers of North Carolina State
; will help fling the verbal barbs,
; even If the West Is favorite hot
' by a single digit In the odds.
Before -. celebrating . Christmas,
the two squads went through
'. workouts today, the East at San
- ta Clara and the West at Menlo
i Junior college.. Wet fields greeted
the players again. The Western-
Tem A Quar' tvback, Jack
Price, Baylor university; left half
Jake Leicht, U. of Oregon; Bight
half. Ted F field. JJ. of 'Cali
fornia; fnllbactL, - Lloyd' Bode,
Nevada. TeamB Quarterback
Bob Stevens, Oregon SUte;" left
half, Doak Walker, Southern
Methodist; right half. Bob Goode,
Texas A M; fullback, Walt
Schllnkman, Texas Tech." Gay
Adelt, U. of Utah, alternated at
left half, with Walker.
Cornell, and Merrill Frost, Dart- -month.
Roger Boblnson. :rr- .
cuse, and Bob Evamv Te?l '.
vanla, are alternate left half
backs , with Dick Fisher, Ohio
State and Paul CopoidosMar- T
quette, slated for right halfback ;
service-Jck Brcslta, .Michigan -SUte,
has earned a combination v
right . half-fuUbaek ' Job, ... while ,
straight fullbacklng has been as-sJjTdtoWaltTtoJajiowskLCon-
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neeticut,- and . Charles -Drasene-.vkh,
Penm State. V.Vr -
ALL-AMERICANS MEET: When Alabama's Crimson Tide and St. Mary's Gaels met in New Orleans
en route to respective' New Tear's Day bowl games, this trio of All-Amerlcans got together. Harry
Gilmer, brilliant Bama back. Is at left; Herman Wedemeyer of the Gaels Is in the center and
Vaughn Mancha, Alabama center, ta at rfcht. (AP Wirephoto) "
StMaryJs ill' iregom Stae Cainidledl 43-2
Beavers
In East Drill
loisnte'S:
Perkins of Fee's
r Standout Center
Sportle sorties: From the looks
f what the UBC Thunderbirds
have been doing to such as bas
ketballing Huskies and Cougars
of late, such as basketballing
Bearcats had best put a lid on
the enemy goal the nights of Jan
uary 4-5 at WU. Those are- the
evenings the British Columbians
come to town to do Northwest
conference caging with Les
Sparks' lads . . . And we still don't
see how the UBC's get by with
using their sharpshooting "San
dy" Robertson at forward. A very
good friend of his told us only the
other day that Robertson has
definitely signed a pro ball con
tract with the Boston Red Sox.
NW conference eligibility rules
may be noted for their elasticity,
but they certainly don't stretch so
far as to let a professional com
pete. Or do they? . . .- Speaking of
hotshot basketballers, about as
nice a center as we've seen Is this
Warren Perkins of the Fee's Rol
lerdromers. Definitely no storkie,
(he's only about six-fee-two),
this former Tulane Frosh player
(so we're told) made one six-foot
six-inch Ted Hennlngsen and an
other six-foot eight-inch Red Ro
eha look' like a couple of grade
schoolers in both the Oregon
State-Fee's tilts at CorvalSs. He
scored 24 points the second game
and at least two-thirds of 'em
were made right from under the
Hennlngsen ' and Rocha noses.
Slats Gill was seen -to drool when
he learned Perkins has played but
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Lanifero No War
Loss After All
closest tree when he needs more
than two taps on a green.
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FREDDIE LANEFERO
one year of intercollegiate bas
ketball . . . Par-shooter with Per
kins is Claude (Red) O'ConneU,
the carrot-topped Fee's forward
who will be remembered as both
a hoop whiz at Monmouth Nor
mal a few years back and as an
outergardener with the town Sen
ators In '42. Red carries the tag,
as -good-a-basketballer-as-there
ls-in-the-Northwest, and that, tag
doesn t fib . . .
Byron Nelson 1945's athlete of
the year? , Much second-guessing
being done about it since the an
nouncement, but we think so and
voted for him in the national poll.
Many sports bugs, including L. H.
Gregory of. the Oregoman, we
read, can't see Nelson for either
"Doc" Blanchard, the booming
Army fullback, or Hal Newhous-
er, the great Detroit lefthander.
We still picked Nelson over both,
and here's why:
Blanchard, good as he must be.
had 10 other guys helping him to
be good every Saturday: New-
houser had eight on his side. Nel
son, winner of 19 golf tourna
ments, Including the biggie of the
pack, the - PGA, was : alone in
every one. Nobody, to block open
the holes 'for his putts and no
body to catch his hooked or" sliced
anves xor mm. Too, there is no
sport in our book which applies
more pressure to an individual
than professional 'golf. One bad
shoteven a mis-blown blade of
grass or a sudden gust of wind
can cost the topnotch pro a cou
ple thousand bucks! Yet the . guy
was good enough In the face, of
such pressure to win 19 tourna
ments, all by himself. ...
Our, vote is still for Nelson
even if the " guy does blow his
cork and aims his putter at the
Pleasant surprise: . The PCL
baseball bulletin, a monthly stack
of facts and figures on the Coast
leaguers compiled by Secretary
Harry A. Williams, Informs: "San
Diego is plenty pleasedto get Fred
Lanifero back from the armed
service. He is rated as the best
pivot man on double plays at sec
ond base seen in many a year."
Which means the ultra-popular
little Senator keystoner of 1941
wasn't a war casualty after all.
as reported almost two years ago.
And incidentally, should the Pa-j tice from the sidelines.
Phelan Pleased With
Condition of Gaels
: EDGEWATER PARK, Miss.,
Dec. 25-(ff-The St Mary's Gaels
took it easy here today, confining
themselves to kicking practice,
setting up exercises and pass
eatcning as tney prepared xor a
New Year's day meeting in New
Orlean's Sugar Bowl with Okla
homa A and M.
Coach Jim Phelan said the
practice pace would get tougher
by the day, until full-scale
scrimmage would occupy the
Gaels. As a starter, however, to
day's practice, was confined to
condition work and running of
signals.
Two of the Gaels were not tn
uniform starting Quarterback
Dennis O'Connor . and Ed Hous
ton, a reserve tackle. Both are
Influenza victims. O'Connor is
recovering, and watched the prac-
In Garden Go
dres need convincing on Just how
smooth Lannie's pivoting is, they
need only to inquire locally. What
sweet combination Freddie and
Shortstopper Bunny Griffiths
made. -
Other did-you-k n o w -1 h a t s
gleaned from the bulletin: Mar-
and ; third sacker for nennant-1
winning Portland, fielded Mi,
an all-time high for hot corner
guardians in the PCL . . . with 844
chances accepted, Johnny O'Neill
of Portland topped the shortstops
for the second consecutive season
in that respect . . . Billy Holm,
who goes to Portland -m 1946,
holds the top fielding mark for
catchers when with the Angels in
1943 he handled S4S putouts and
57 assists in the 93. games he
cought that year without making
an error . .. .......
Phelan tonight seemed pleased
with his boys, and said they ap
peared, to be rounding into shape
after the long trip from the west
coast and the Christmas festivi
ties of last night and this morn
ing. - . ' ' " '
North' Beats
'South' Nine
1945 Defense Records Prove
Amerta 'Good Field, No Hit'
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By Jerry Liska
CHICAGO, Dec 25.-()-The American league, to quote Mike
Gonzales, was "good field, not hit" in 1945. Defensive records officially
unveiled today showed the Cleveland Indians, fifth in the pennant
race, whipped up a neat .977 field-
ing average, three points better
than the 1944 winning mark of
J74 shared by the Tribe and New
York.
The league fielding average also
wps improved over last year at
.973, compared'with .971 in 1944.
Contrasted with this defensive
upgrade are the Junior circuit's
recently-releaid batting statistics
which revealed an eight point
slump by the top-hitting club-
Chicago's .262 average compared
with Boston's 1944 best of .270
and a five-point skid, .260 to .255,
in league clouting.
Although the world champion
Detroit Tigers placed third In
team fielding with .975, a point
behind second-place St. Louis, four
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350 Coaches
Pick 'AIT 11
PHILADELPHIA, Dec. 25
The American Football Coaches
association announced today Its
first all-star team.
Ray Morrison, coach at Temple
university and president of the
organization, ' said the selection
was made by some 350 members
of the association who delayed
their choice In order to see as
many games and as many players
as possible before making their
final choice. The team: '
Mayer - Pot. CoDcgt
Richard Ouden T Navy
DeWltt Coulter T . Army
Warren Amlinc G Ohio State
Richard scon ' nvy
John Green - G i Army
George Svitaky T Pennsylvania
Max Moms e iv onn western
Lipscomb Wins
Main Mat Go
Lantern-Jawed Jack Lipscomb,
popularly unljked from mustache
tto matadoring, last night sneaked
over a main event mat win at the
! armory to qualify for the top go
next week against Tough Tony
4 Ross. A slender Christmas riight
1 crowd of about S00 watched Lips
comb outmaneuver Jack (Pin-up
Boy) Kiser for the victory.
Llp.comb will meet freshly re
turned Ross next Tuesday night
In tn top go on Matchmaker El
ton Owen's special New Year's
night card.
The Indiana meanie gained the
first fall last night after 18 mln
utes of gruelling grappling, using
a cross arm bar and a pin hold.
Kiser, out-roughing the roughie
toughie, gained the second fall in
nine minutes with a rap to the
whiskers and a diving body press.
The popular adonis was en route
to the winning fall with a liege
of spectacular stuff when .' he
slipped into a crab-hold at the
1:33 mark.
. Win or lose, the Kiser classy
exhibited plenty of his remem
bered repertoire-crowd pleasing
holds from start to finish.
The semi wind up, ' a much-better-than-expec
ted brawl between
Gust Johnson and Babe Small,
went to a fall-apiece draw in 30
minutes. Both put out plentifully.
So did the curtain raiser gents.
Angello Martinelll and Ernie Pil
uso. Martinelll grabbed this one,
two falls to one after taking up
24 minutes of the 30 allotted for
the scuffle.
Vikings Eye Road Jaunt
Coach narold naak and his
up-and-coming Salem High hoop '.
squad close the year's basket
balling here Saturday night;
against the sharpshooting Alum! '
quint, and then open a new year
by taking a long road Jaunt to the ;
south. ,
The naukmen, a sharp outfit
n waxing Oregon . City, 43-21,
last week, loss their 2-1 record
aralnst Seottle Sebern, Frankle
Page, Eddie Salstrom, Don Bow
er, Bob McKee, Roger Qvaeken
bush A Co. Saturday in an eight
o'clock at the Villa. Jefferson
high's Lions play the Sophs in
the prelim. '
The Vikings then swing south
for dates with Medf ord and Ash
land en January 4-5 before re
turning to SHS and No-Name
league play for a chase with the
power-laden Cervallis Spartans
January S.
Hank' has heavy workouts slat
ed for the balance ef this week
a as to have his hopefuls ready
for the Alums and the road trip.
City Scoring
Race In Tie
Idling through a two-week
breathing spell, the City basket
ball league scoring parade Is cur
rently tied up between two cagers,
one In each division of the circuit.
Frankle Page of the Page Wool
ens is out In front of the Ameri
can division derby by an eyelash
over Lou Kotnik of the Minters.
Page has 40 markers In three
games, Kotnik 39. Joe Herberger
of the Curios matches Page's 40
for the National division and is
followed closely by Otto Skopil of
Maple's with 36. '
The league swings back Into
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Alabama Team
SEATTLE, Dec, 25-f)-lti St
attic's ' third annual Christmas
day baseball game today, a
"north", squad defeated a "south"
team 1 to 0. behind the four-hit
pitching of Clarence Federmeyer
of Portland of the Pacific Coast
league. Federmeyer struck out 14.
The teams were made up of pro
fessional and semi - professional
players wintering in1 this area.
Leading , the north attack was
Earl Johnson,' first r baseman for
the Boston . Red Sox and Chet
Bob Fenlmort
I Glenn Davis
Hermn Wedemeyer B
reux siancnara M-
OUa. A & M
Army
Army
St Mary's
, Toronto Licked
DETROIT, Dec 25-UFO-The De
troit Red Wings ended Toronto's
National Hockey league winning
ways here tonight, scoring early
and maintaining the lead through
out to down the Maple Leafs, 6-3
Hi TO I Qllfvtitril U0111. pitcher for the Seattle
111 id VJalllUl Ilia Rainiers last year and now the
National Aces
Cop 11-5 Win
HONOLULU, Dec 25--The
National league baseball all-stars
concluded a mid-Pacific tour to
day by walloping the Army Olym
pics team 11 to 5. Forty-two hun
dred spectators saw the game, the
professionals' fourth win in seven
tries. . . . '- vv'vi
They took an early lead, scoring
eight runs on nine hits off the
army's Bill Carruth in the first
two innings. Al.Gerheauser, for
mer Philly, gave nine scattered
hits, 'but three all-star misplays
aided the soldiers, Who racked up
five runs.
PASADENA, Calif , Dec. 25-JP)
Alabama's crimson tide crossed
the golden state boundary tonight,
headed for its sixth Rose Bowl
appearance on New Year's day.
Coach . Frank Thomas and . his
southern charges, victorious in
nine gridiron games this year, are
due at nearby Alhambra tomor
row..". After pitching camp at a hotel
here, they plan a light workout
tomorrow afternoon on Occidental
college's Patterson field in subur
ban Eagle Rock.
Meantime their opponents in the
New Year's game, the University
of Southern California Trojans,
took a Christmas holiday from the
gridiron today and rested. They
will resume training tomorrow.
property of the St Louis Browns.
George McDonald, Seattle first
baseman, was the leading "name'
player, on the south squad.
CHECKS IN EARLY
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec 23-V-
This city's first Christmas day ba
by, the" 7-pound 6-ounce son of
Mr. and Mrs. Claude Dunavan, ar
rived exactly one minute after
I midnight
lineup Eludes
Aggie Mentor
BILOXI, Miss., Dec 25 A
week before the Sugar bowl foot
ball clash with St Mary's, Coach
Jim Lookabaugh of the Oklahoma
A. and M. eleven still can't name
his starting lineup. Six players
are in the running for the opening
assignments at three positions, and
their showings this week will de
cide who gets the calls. .
J. D. Cheek and Terry -Monroe
are the contenders for the left
tackle post, while Jim Reynolds
and Jim Palmer are the rival can
didates f os fullback. Cecil Hankins
is having .competition from Bill
Grimes for the right halfback spot
Flop
NEW YORK," Dec 25-aV-City
College held Oregon State to only
11 field goals- a new oeiensre
mark for Madison Square Garden
this season to defeat the tall
Beavers from the far west 43-27
in the opening game of tonight's
Christmas day doubleheader.
Missing with equal consistency
from the' floor as well as from thf
foul line, Oregon State could con
nect only three times from the'
floor and twice in nine tries from
the foul line In the first half to
trail 12-8 at intermission. 1 -
favored Oregonians In ' the slop-
puy piayea nrsr narv nuuung
only four buckets and adding the
same number of free throws.
Ephraim (Red) Rocha, the her
alded six-foot-eight-inch Hono
lulu center of-the visitors, who
was close to a total loss in the
first 20 minutes, finally began to
make use of his height advantage
and tapped In a couple of off -the-
backboard shots to pull the visit
ors .even with City early, in the
second halt But the little Beav- -
ers, paced .by , Ralph Schmones
and Sonny Jameson, registered 13
straight points in' the next fiv
minutes to make a rout out of the
contest
" Schmones . took i high scoring
than Rocha tallied.
Orecoa State CH) ' WO FT PF TP
Henninrsen. T 1 " t S 4
Kraxve. T 6 t ,
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jonnson, M -
Rocha, C 4 1 S 9
MeGrath. G . I "1
Kane. G O - e T
Kynn. G 0 .0:
Moore, G 0 , , J.
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Totals "
C C NT -Schmones,
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Klein. 1"
Jameson, F
Reiruso, F
Scbeer,: C
Siegal. G
BreenDerg, G
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Diesenhouse, G
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house. ' Chefec, Scheer. ' Jameson S,
Schmones 2. OreKon State. Moore. Me
Grath. Sertic, Krfv 4. Bennigsen S,
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Omaha Tips Tulsa
TULSA, Okla Dec S5-ff)-Scor-lng
two clinching goals in the last
five minutes, - Omaha's , speedy
Knights tonight won a thrill
packed - United States - Hockey
I league skirmish before a capacity
crowd of 4380 spectators, 7 to 4,
snapping a three-game" winning
streak of Tulsa's Ice Oilers. .
A
Foxes Battle
Sweet Homers
SILVERTON, Dec. 23 (Speci
. al) Silverton high Silver Foxes
enliven a dull holiday basketball
program here Thursday night by
tackling the Sweet Home Huskies
in a non-Willamette Valley league
game on the high school court
The .eight o'clock contest will be
prclimlnaried " by a Bee squad
clash at seven. . '
Silverton has gone undefeated
In two league games and in the
1 yp Jamboree to date this season.
Coach Ray Doe has a tall team
tt:jicnted by Dale Bennett, ene
cf the top scorers in valley
the past two seasons. ,
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