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11 The Ski I 1 Salem. Oregon. Friday. March 11. 1947 True'? Phoo! OSCs Lew Beck Wuz Robbed! By Al Lightaer Tn magazine this week blos somed forth with the "official" 194C-47 All-American basketball team, first. mmiU and third versions. Coaches of the nation's race squads, th blurb uri, did th balloting. Nothing waa said concerning whether or net th annul n ie-taoa lug effort was a closed corporation. It must have been, far were the beep skippers of the Caaatal region given a say -so. first, second and third degree robbery would be the final tally. Of the IS boop anitera aeleeted to the "all teams only one. L'CLA Center Dan Barksdale waa recognised f ram the Coast, and be an the third tea The high-scoring Barksdale, augmented by the glittering ae caladea given him by the south ern Calif era ia writers, was a fin player aver the season. Bnt in his twa game at Carnal lis with Orecaa State, the twa that had the blae chips in the middle far the Caast crtwn, Barksdale was Individually defeated by the Beavers' Ked Rocha. The Tall Palm fram Hlle wasn't sa mneh aa honorably mentiened fat the "all" picks, nar is he classed as Oregon's No. 1 player. That knightly merit belongs U Pen dletan's Lew Beck wba. in the words of every coach in the northern division af the confer ence, and certainly af I'CLA Coach YYUbar Johns, "is the best basketball player to come out of the northern division In years." Bat not even Lew sained aa mneh aa honorable mention. Which leads one to believe that votes cast by the PCC coaches were either lest en rente to the mar's tabulating roam, or that final tabulations were made by someone who still is convinced the West holds naught bat buf falo and Injuns and holes np in cellars when the Becler beys are an the lease. What to do about such pain ful snubbery? It waas apposed to have been done this winter. Ceaches and writers In the northwest were pledged to con centrate their efforts an Beck whoa time came far the "all" casting came. They concen trated, but true AIl-Amerieaa Beck still Is just another bas ketball player so far aa national prominence in the True mag is concerned. Lew was plainly and simply robbed, "true" enough. But then he has company. They do ap pretty fair Job on the northwest's footballers every fall, and sans sing- a run. too! 1: Brother, how we da hope that Beck, Rocha Co. tangles with some of those honorable All Amerieans back east in the next week and plays the pants aff 'em! And we've a bit af pany in that desire, also. mmmm Not only did Jim Aiken talk a disgusted Jake Leicht into staying at Oregan for his final year af college footballing, but he also con vinced Jimmy Newquist he too should stick around. Both Leicht and Newquist were set to fly the Web foot coop. Now Aiken has them tuning up In what he calls T fonnatlon school." What a per sonality Mr. A. does have, and how he sells himself to his play ers! . . . He has been gaing to hang up his coaching spurs for the last three or four years, but al ways Silverton's Guy (Pap) De-I-ay managed to come bark, be It In baseball, football or basketball. This time, however. Pop is posi tively through, and perhaps re luctantly so. The compulsory re tirement law which goes Into ef fect this summer has caught up with the pride of the Silverton coaching corps for the last 21 years. Two years before that Pop was at Gervais. Now beyond the 5 years the law allows. Or I. ay goes to the rack at the end af the GUY (POP) DeLAY school year. During his 21 years at Silverton the anly thing Pop hasn't coached Is track. Baseball Is his pet sport, and more than Just a few sharp Silver Fox nines have been reared by him over the years. It Just won't seem like Silverton without Pop around . . . The Portland Beavers were afraid to take a chance on him. as they were concerned over reasons why Clint Cameron, after receiv ing a fat bonus far signing with the Boston Braves was released out right after performing ane season for their Evansville. Ind.. farm Hob. But the Hollywood Stars grabbed the former Willamette ath lete and he is now catching his share of the spring ramp games for the Twinkles. Should Clint not hack It with the Hollies, he will likely be farmed to the Yakimas . . . Speaking of Bearcat athletes, there will be no Paul Cooklngham on the WU track team this time. Which Is unusual, for it seems that Paul has been putting the shot and spin ning the discus for the Cats ever since they took up track. His four years of eligibility. Interrupted by the war. have been spent . Actire Club Won't Sjtonsor 1918 Tournament One year of It was enough for the Eugene Active club. That hus tling clan, guilty of sponsoring the finest prep basketball tournament la history, took on too many headaches In dealing with the Oregon High Schools Activities association on tourney matters, so Is chucking j the Idea of backing the classic again next March. The task of produ- ; ring the 194S party will fall on the U of Oregon In entirety, and at a much healthier fee. The Actives, incidentally, wanted no profit for their superb part in this year's extravagania . . . The tournament drew over 3.oe paid admissions into the huge MrArthur court. Bnt It is with a good deal of satisfaction that we report the reactions of many of the OHSAA officers and other guiding hands - - that if Mt Arthur court were located In Salem the tournament would have drawn many more than 3.0A0. Oh for a magic carpet, one that would carry a 7Ht capacity basketball pavilion! . . . Wagner May Try it Again Xext Fall His postwar debut a dismal flop simply because he wasn't In the proper physical shi.pe. Keller Wagner has decided to quit the prize ring, and perhaps for good. There Is a possibility he may spend the nest few months hardening up. however, and will in the fall take i another whirl at It. Wagner is now bartending In a local pub. What he could have done to that Bomber Daniels had he been In shape! ; Keller punched like a champion In the first round and would have kayoed the negro easily had he been able to keep it up. But lo. that first heat was It for Wagner. From then on his softness stood out more and more with every round until the surprised negro knocked him out ... At 25 Wagner Isn't too old to keep going. But he has much conditioning to do between now and autumn If he Intends try ing It again . . . We hope he does . . . Rest Stateness Pray it Doesn't Hit Beros The Boston Red Sox wailed last autumn aver the lapse of time betfeen the end of the American league season and the start of the , world series, insisting the long rest ruined their sharpness. It has been IS days since Oregon State played Its last opponent. I'CLA. Please don't let It happen here . . . Silverton's Don Hatteburg. prom ising bush league third sacker In these parts the past few years and a member of the "all-slate" prep team following a tournament In 141 Is now playing the hot corner for the Camp Pendleton marines j at Oceanside. Cal. What's more, he's leadoff batter . . . Good news: , Southpaw Kenny Wyatt has signed his 1947 contract with the Senators and Intends squeezing In mound chores with the Solons this summer, along with commitments on his turkey farm In Polk county . . . Salem 5s Open Golden Ball Firing With Wins Two Salem quintets opened firing in the annual Golden Ball tour ney in Portland last night and indicated that local clubs might con tinue right on where they left off last year by sweeping a couple of contests with Rose City outfits sion. Elroy Jensen's Salem high Sophs had no trouble at all down ing the Vanport Cards. 53-34 at the Peninsula Park gym, while Bob Keuscher's Intermediates - -in the 15 and under class - - were equally effective in trouncing the Nu Mu Xi quint from Grant high, 39-17, at the Jefferson floor. The wins shot the locals into second round tilts Monday night, with the Intermediates meeting the McMinnville JVs at 8 o'clock on the Jeff boards and the Sophs tangling with the Portland Bartels in a 6 o'clock fray at Peninsula Park. Tonight the Salem high JVs and Bob Metzger's Juniors make their tourney debuts. Loren Mort's un defeated JVs taking on the Jeffer son Optimists at 6 o'clock at tt.e Peninsula Park gym. with the Juniors -- 14 and under --going against the Roosevelt Cubs in an 8 o'clock go at Jefferson Intermediate ) Anunstn i2) F Bacon (81 F Rogers 7 . C 7 Adams Noiton 1 4 1 G . i4 Harris Blakely G 2 Wright Subs Interirwdiatrs: Moore (2. Sodeman 2i. Deen ill, Frederickson (7, Arnold tl). J4) Vanport i 101 Jollie Mi Sandcrn 2i Scott IS) Witalo . 171 Brovtn 4i. Sprncr i3. Var.port In the 16 years arid under divi- Oiraonge Open AgaioDstt Soomeirs TomiDglhit On NCAA Meet; Wisconsin Suffers (Upset (17) No M XI prized waist 141 Wrbftrr . jnfr) action. 10) souinvkonn Mat Title Tilt Next, Armory Terre Haute's Buck Weaver Is at long last to get his deserved crack at one of the elusive coast mat title belt. Undefeated in the Salem ring since his arrival in the northwest "league." Weaver was last night signed by Matchmaker Elton Owen to tangle with Bill (Bull) Weidner In a coast Junior heavy belt whirl next Tuesday night at the armory. Weidner, the strongie with the big airplane spins, won the title from Pete Belcastro last week. Belcastro had been ducking Weaver for weeks, and just as soon as Weid ner came into possession of the piece Owen went - . . . Oklaliomans Rated Favorites Over Gill Crew; Navv Also Eliminated KANSAS CITY, March 20 -(.-P,-All four entrants In the Western NCAA play-offs, starting tomorrow night arrived in town today tnd lost no time heading for the municipal auditorium to get acquainted with the floor which might start one of them off to a date in Madison Square Garden Tuesday night against the eastern winner. Slats Gill gave his Pacific coast champion Oregon Staters a brisk eight minute workout and the lads felt reasonably familiar wfth the court after the session. The Oregonians find themselves rated the underdogs In their opening round tussle with Oklahoma, but aren't letting that fact worry them any. One advantage the Oklahoma ns seem to hold at present is that they have already played a number of contests on the auditorium boards. Gill will stick to a starting line-up of Cliff Crandall and Er land Anderson, forward; Red Rocha, center, and Lew Beck and Morrie Silver, guards. Texas and Wyoming vie in the other contest tomorrow night. NEW YORK, March 20 -CP)- A spectacular comeback in the sec ond half carried City College of DENVER. March 20 -P- Three New York to a 70-56 triumph powerhouses of the American ! over Wisconsin tonight and lar.d basketball Jeague and a clever, ' ed the scrappy Beavers in the Seattle AAU Semi-finalist HONOLI LI'. March 10.-V-SPRING TRAINING HAS ITS PRETTY MOMENTS find these New York Giants as they are welcomed by a hula dancer here today after arriving for some exhibition games with San Francisco Seals. (AP VYirephoto to The Statesman). F F r G G Paul us Soph (S3) McDonald 4 Famum 1 4 1 K-llv iS PiUer 110) . Duval i9 Subs Sophs Error 1 2 . Lawrence i2 Jicobwn i3i. Doran i3'. Figures Out j On Vik Jaunt ! Salem's four-game venture In the recent state basketball tourna ment, in statistical form, was com piled and released by Coach Har- ' old Hauk yesterday. The Vikings, who fini.-hed fourth in the classic, hit for a .231 percentage all told 70 field goals in 303 tries. The statistics for all nine players who saw tournament action: Weaver, one of the hottest and trickiest of grapplin gents to hit town in months, has been bowl ing over opponents right and left in recent local appearances. Last Tuesday night he flattened the Gray Mask. Twice he has tussled to time-limited draws here with Weidner. ' Three supporting matches will be added to the Tuesday card by Owen later. One will feature the return of "Gorilla Poggi, the Argentine roughie-toughie who has been absent from these parts for many months. S G PF E TP SA Charr.berlain . 3 1 3 t 2 333 Bellinger 16 5 10 10 312 Hill 49 15 I 3 34 3 Mas 24 7 11 7 15 291 Dasch 45 13 13 22 30 2811 Hendn 63 18 12 t 38 206 Houck 27 6 14 6 14 185 Allison 26 4 10 12 153 Shootin Match Heltl The Salem Rifle and Pistol club trimmed the local Army Recruit ing staff. 738 to 641 in a rifle shoot held at the armory range last night. H. Beauchamp and H Eyerly paced the winners with 129 scores. T Sgt. Paul White topped the Armys with 112, with M Sgt. Thomas Massey close be hind with 109. The two outfits have slated a pistol shoot next Thursday night. County B Ball Schedule Set TOTALS 303 70 M SO 180 231 (Code :. S shots taken. G goals made PF personal fouls. E Errors such as bad pa-ses. broken dribbles, etc. TP total points. SA shooting average ) WVLBaseball Nines Prepare ! WOODBURN, March 20 (Spec ial) Willamette Valley league baseball teams are currently pre- I paring for their 38-game round robin season which opens on Wed nesday. March 26. All nine mem ber schools will field teams this season, and strong pennant con- J tenders are expected to bloom at . Silverton, Molalla and Mt. Angel. ! All three have a number of re turning veterans. The first round of play finds Molalla at Estacada. Silverton at Sandy, Canby at Woodbum and j Dallas at Mt. Angel. Stayton draws 1 the bye. j Hail Barney! He's Cured LEXINGTON. Ky.. March 20 iP- Barney Ros. former light weight antr welterweight boxing champion, was declared finally cured of drug addiction today by the United States public health service hospital. Dr. Victor H. Vogel. medical officer in charge, said Roes was in "excellent health" shortly after he was discharged after a three day observation period. i Ross, w ho developed the nar- i cotic habit while fighting mi graine headaches resulting from malaria fever, completed four ' months of voluntary treatment at i the hospital Jan. 13 and had been on leave of absence until he re turned for observation. i Racing Laws Given Teeth NEW YORK, March 20 -(X) Racing's big league, the Thor oughbred Racing associations, which began a clean-up cam paign a year ago by setting up the turfs own "FBI." Wednes day gave this police force a club to swing a set of laws for the sport, chief of which calls for mandatory finger printing of all horsemen. Pointed directly as elimina tion of "undesirable practices and elements, " "illegal activi ties," and bookmakers, the "code of standards" was adopt ed by the TRA's 35 member tracks which include virtually every major racing- strip In the country, and goes into effect April 1. And the code stipu lates flatly that any violation can be punishable by "suspen sion or expulsion" of the guilty track from the TRA. Eagles Lead Ice Playoffs ! PORTLAND. Ore , March 20-OP) The Portland Eagles, making the . winning goal off a substitute af ter the Seattle goalie was injured, defeated the Seattle Ironmen, 3-2, in the northern diision Pacific Coast Hockey league playoffs to night. The victory gave Portland a 2-1 edge In the 4 out of 7 series. The next game will be at Seattle Sunday. methodical darkhorse team from Seattle, Wash., were the surviv ors of tonight's quarterfinal play in the national AAU basketball tournament. In the final game on the pro gram, and the only close one of the night, the Seattle club (Al pine Dairy) defeated Los Ange les (Carroll-Shamrocks) 34-31 in a see-saw struggle in which the lead changed hands almost every minute of the last half. Earlier the national champions from Bartlesville, Okla., (Phil- lips 66) swamped Golden, Colo..' (Coors) 66-26; Oakland's sharp- T Oil till Gottt Bllt Oh shooting crew (Burners) over whelmed Dallas. Tex., (Majors & Majors) 74-42, and the Den ver Nuggets knocked out Holly wood (20th Century-Fox) 65-58. finals cf the eastern regional NCAA basketball playoffs here Saturday night agairut Holy Cross. Holy CreM reached the finals by stopping Navy 55-45 in tho first game of tonight's double header at Madison Square Gar den where a sellout crowd of 18,472 watched the collegiate quintets open the eastern half of the eliminations leading to the title held the past two years by Oklahoma A and M. What a Sure Winner - COl'GAR CI T SET PULLMAN, Wash., March 20-ijT-Coach Buck Bailey said today he would cut his Washington , State college baseball squad to-1 Bevos, Patlres Meet SAN BERNARDINO. Calif.' Match 20-ii The San Diego Padres meet the Portland Bea vers tomorrow in the firt of seven consecutive exhibition games leading up to the Pacific Coast league opener against Ouk- land in San Diego April 1. j morrow from 100 to 60 candidates to facilitate preparations for the ' opening game next week against ; Whitman college. LEEDS, England. March 20. (A Come snow or high water, the Kiplingootes derbr always W run on the third Thursday of March. It's England's oldest horse rare a steeplechase over more than four miles and It's been run eery year since 1519. Frederick Stephenson. 36-year old farmer, and his seven year old horse were the only entries today and Stephenson said "I hao to dismount twice and lead my horse on foot because of the snow." piled as high as four feet in spots. But he finished the coure. The price the equivalent of S21.50 and the continuous tradition. Ingram Takes Roodle Honors Twenty five Salem Golf club bers snapped off a nine-hole R oodles tourney last night as a feature of the weekly Men's club session. To Ned Ingram went top laurels as he carded a 34-22. good for 22 'j Roodles. Knotted for second were Glenn Burright. 38-4-20, and BUI Goodwin. 30-2-20. Walcott Hands Joe Challenge PATERSON. N. J.. March 20-yip-Abe J. Greene, president of the National Boxing association, announced tonight that a formal challenge for Heavyweight Cham pion Joe Louis' title had been filed with him by the managers of Jer sey Joe Walcott. Greene said the NBA will accept Walcott as a "proper challenger" because "he is among the top contenders for the title." Marshall Miles, one of Louis" managers, announced on Monday that the champion had signed to defend his title in Yankee Sta dium. New York. June 26, and in dicated at the time that he would prefer a match with the survivor of the Bruce Woodcock-Joe Baksi fight which is scheduled for April 15 in London. GERVAIS, March 20-(Special) The Marion County B league base ball schedule for 1947, involving eight teams, has been announced by Paul Reiling of Gervais high, league secretary. The 28-game schedule opens with four tilts on April 4. The complete schedule is as follows: April 4 Turner at Hubbard. Sub limity at Jefferson. Chemawa at Ger vais and Aumsville at St. Paul. April 11 Turner at Sublimity. Hubbard at Jefferton, Aumsville at Chemawa and St. Haul at Gervais April IS Jeffer son at Turner. Hubbard at Sublimity. Gerais at Aumsville. St. Paul at Che mawa April 25 Turner at Gervais. Chemawa at Hubbard. Aumsville at Sublimity and Jefferson at St. Paul. May 2 Turner at Aumsville. Ger vais at Hubbard. Jefferson at Chemawa and Sublimity at St. Paul May S Che mawa at Turner. St. Paul at Hubbard. Sublimity a. Gervais. Aumsville at Jefferson. May 16 Turner at St. Paul. Hubbard at Aumsville. Chemawa at Sublimity and Gervais at Jefferson. Abney Picked For AAU Trip JEFFERSON, March 20.-Spec- ial)-The AAU boxing committee! at Portland has selected Dean Ab- ; ney. 147-pound fighter from Jef ferson to represent that class at the AAU tournament In Boston, April 7-9. Abney, a senior at Jef- j fcrson high school, won two and j lost one bout in Portland. The ' rrm m 1 1 1 rtiflrcwH Ahnv HtfAtlc or his outstanding appearance in the tournament. He is a brother to Salem's middleweight Dick Abney. Red Rocha to Play With W et All-Stars NEW YORK. March' 20 -(P The West team In the second annual all-star basketball game for the Tribune Fresh Air Fund. Inc., waa completed to day with the naming of Eph riam (Red) Rocha of Oregon SUte, Ray Ramsey of Bradley Tech. and Francis Curran of Notre Dame. The game is scheduled for Madison Square Garden on March 29. Zale Applies KO To Charles MEMPHIS. Tenn.. March 20 Py World middleweight champion Tony Zale knocked out Tommy Charles of Indianapolis in the fourth round of a scheduled ten round non-title bout here tonicht. Zale weighed 162; Charles, 167. I The former Gary. Ind.. steel j worker kayoed Charles with a ' short right, followed by a left hook j to the head, and the fight ended ' in one minute and 44 seconds of the fourth round. Y Handballers Trek Nine Salem handball per formers trek to Portland to day for the Northwest YMCA Area Handball Championships. The meet ends tomorrows Lo cal entrants Include: B Singles Indians to Add Baker, Andrews j PORTLAND, March 20-(-If tho Portland Indians, champions of the Pacific coast professional j basketball league, enter the na tional tournament at Chicago next month they will seek to add Norm ; Baker and George Andrews of the j Vancouver Hornets. Co-owner Ray ' Clark said no decision had been made on accepting the tournament bid, but that three of the Indians' regular squad covild not make the ' trip. They are BilV Taitt, Mike i Hafenecker and Don Durdan. ! Henry Singer. Lee Shinn: B Doubles Bob Smith-Fred Hag eman: C Singles Don Duncan; C Doubles Joe Devers-Coburn Grabenhorst, Leo Margosian Bob Parks. Odds Didn't Scare This Card Mound Prospect ANGELS TOP RAIN IE RS VISALIA. Calif , March 21-;p-The Los Angeles Angels out slugged the Seattle Rainiers 9-7 today in a Pacific Coast league exhibition baseball game. John Ostrowski and Cece Garriott homered for the Angels, who hammered John Orphal for six runs in five innings and Jim Hop per for four in three. ST. PETERSBURG. Flau. March 2 P One of baseball's best war stories Is a bespec tacled kid named Eddie Blake who Is fighting an uphill balUc for a uitchlnr Job with the World Chamuioa St. Louis Car dinals. Army doctors almost ampu tated 21-year-old Eddie' right leg after be had been nan aver by mm alligator tank during the lauding at Panay ba th Philip pine islands. Both legs were broken and there was doubt that the East SL Louis bay would sarriTC Eddie Mt nlj fooled tho doctors but returned to baseball, bis burning life-long ambition, as a 16-game winner for Columbus. Ga In the Class A Sally league la 14. Now he Is a Cardinal, trying to show Manager Eddie Dyer be belongs with the parent team. After the doctors finally de cided Mt to amputate, Blake was sent back to a hospital at Leyte where for three months be made a painfully slow recovery. "I used to play catch la a wheel chair at Leyte.' Blake re lated. -There was a little clear ing La the jungle near the hos pital and a ward boy la the hos pital used to wheel me out there. I'd throw the ball to bim and he'd throw It back. That ward boy, whom I never before had seen, turned out to be a neigh bor of mine from across the river at St. Louis. Mo. That ward boy is here to day," be said, pointing toward center field. "He was Charley Dieriaa. now a rookie Like nae la the Cardinal training camp. I think mm helped my morale more than anything else. Just throwing and catching that bascbalL' Ilodel 59 Package-Kar The Model 59 Package-Kar is espedaUy designed ior delivery sorvico. It La fast and flexible, and has all the utility of a small truck. LODER BROS. Salem, Ore., have fust sold 2 of these to Messenger and Delivery Dial 2-6665 Bonded Service I A. M. to 9 P. M. Daily MESSAGES PARCELS LUGGAGE Prompt Courteous Service L. W. (Cotton) Cornelius (Rear Door) 358 Stale SL s s ( C r- P-Y J & I Wards Gives You the Best in MEN'S PAJAMAS for the Lowest Price 49 Yes, we eai 1 "the lX? and here's wh! The fabric ia mer cerized cotton poplin smooth; long-Hearing. Their vat-dyed colors absolutely refuse to fade. 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