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S Thm Slg1.man. Rnl.m. Origan, l&m&nmiAaT, March 1. Mi : Airmnioiry on Prelim Action On Fast Side Both of the main event bouts en .- Matchmaker - Tex Salkeld's armory ring excursion : tonight might easily end in knockouts, for all four lads involved in' the scheduled 16 rounds aren't all strangers to the ways and means of a quick win. Jimmy Gooding and Monty (Chief) Montgomery, who will collide in the top eight- round feature, are two-mted 130- ran doh L Tooifeltoti WouldJFlatten Monty Tonight Monty - (Chief) Mentsemery, through bis manarer Charley Yost has posted $50 with Match maker Tex Salkeld that will be forfeited If Montgomery does not make 111 pounds or less to day daring- weirh-ln with Jimmy Ooodmc at t p.m. pounders who have leveled many an opponent in their brief careers. Heavyweights John L. Sullivan and Bobby Ford, who will make with the other eight-round head liner, carry the necessary sleep- producing weapons also. Good in e and Montgomery, pair of the more highly prized fistic orizes In the northwest neither one is old enough to vote - will be adding a chapter to their private feud. It is quite evident around the Portland drill halls they don't think much of one another personally, conse- ouently. a number of ticket reser vations have been made from Portland. They met here once be fore, some time ago. and Gooding won a disputable six-rouna deci sion. Both have improved greatly since then, however, and that loss was the only one Montgomery ever had here. The Sullivan-Ford mix will be their third straight. In the prev ious two Sullivan clouted out a win over the big negro, only to have the heavy-hitting Bobby come back for the verdict in the second session, a slam-bang bat tle last week. At 189 pounds Ford will have a 10-pound weight edge on the more experienced Sullivan. The trio of four-round prelims, all booked with the idea of speed In mind by Salkeld, stack up thusly: Al Cliff, Portland vs. Don Kennedy, Portland, middleweight!; Jimmy Proctor, Portland vs. Les Webb, Portland featherweights, and Davey Ball, Bakersfield vs. Eddie Johan, Klamath Falls, mid-dleweiahts. The first bout starts ,'et S:3H o'clock. If the whole show is . i - - i j "y - r- - s - f: ) - - f -r i Jimmy Gooding! (above), highly-rated Portland featherweight weald gladly flatten!! Menty (Chief) Montgomery la their portion of the doable main event on tonight's armory fistic program. Gooding and Montgomery are personal rivals, which adds more fael to their argument. Heavies Bobby Ford and John L. Sullivan meet la the 4 Bevos Head East Today CORVALLiS. Ore- March lS-PV-The Coast Conference basket ball champions I head eastward tomorrow morning for their second try at a western regional NCAA title. Coach Slat! Gill ran the Oregon State Beavers through a limber ing exercise today and thehn recessed until departure time at f :15 a. m. The regular Varsity squad of tt men will board an airplane In Port land at S:fo" a. m. (PST) for the flight to Kansas City. Two years go, after capturing the conference 1947 crown also from UCLA the Beavers lost in their opening round of the Kansas City regional The best they eould salvage from that trip was carrying home the consolation honors. Gill said th opponent In the playoff is not known here. The only varsity player missing the trip is Glen Kinney, who suffered a broken leg in the Oregon series. All-Division Team Picked LOS ANGELES, March 15 (Special) The 27 th annual All-Northern Division basket ball team, selected by the eaaehes themselves, list one player from each school. Unaa Imeaaly selected were Ed Gay da of Washington State. Cliff Craadan of Oregon State. Sam my White of Washington and Keger Wiley ef Oregon. Lack ing only one vote for smanlmona honors himself as fifth mem ber of the first team wae Pres toa Brtmhalll ef Idaho. The second team lines bp with Bill Vaadenbnrgh ef Washington. George Hamilton of Washington State. Bill Har per of Oregon State and Bob Prltehett and Nick Stallworth of Idaho. Honorable mention went to Fan! Sowers and Will Urban of Oregon, Glenn Kin ney of OSC. Bob Elliott of WSO and Alex Peterson ef OSC. anything close I to the last two Salkeld has had) in the local swat hallit win be!! a dandy. He has had two straight smash hits. Red Province, the tall ex Salem high horler with two years of pre chucking under his belt, is new a free agent and waiting any offers that may come along. Bed was slated to join the mound corps of Okla homa City again this season but what the local lad wanted la way ef salary and what the Ok lahemans wanted to pay resulted la Red requesting the free agen cy. And Mr. Province manners that he wouldn't mind at all tossing for the Senators this year that Is If the dough end of it suits him monumental sstteranee for Mike to make and a bit apart from his supposedly money-loving mature. Another Louis; title boat weald have meant dough, lots of it, la the Jacobs satchel. Too, Mike doubtless knew that when the Bomber quit he weald be plung ing late the promotion business la direct competition with Jac ob's tOth Century outfit. As Mike saJd: -Joe, Vm advising yea to quit. We've been together toe long for me to give yea a phoney steer.";! Pats Jacobs far a kindly light doesn't It . Lots of gays In the coaching (or managing) business mast be looking aghast at Beaver Skip per Bill Sweeney and the words of sweet optimism he's been sputtering forth recently. Men tors and ball managers seldom Ceviate from the common pat tern ei near pessimism, ih t more tears the better the lack 1 . . . i i f . wm A r mail pernapo weir duki. su not Irish BUT. That broad grin ef his isn't merely a mask. He's a cheery gent and be no doubt firmly believes : his Bevos this year will be jolly well up there In the thick of thingseven hooch a number of people won der what Bill's going to use for material. Sweeney's philosophy can't be rightly criticised. Why, fret and fume before the bead aches arrive . . . Earl Brackef. the' 193' Pert land catcher and what a belter . ' ; h . . ,.. .. i r Now that Slats Gill and his Oregon Staters have disposed of the invading UCLA's they face . a rut gcd session at Kansas City the last of the week in the west ern regional NCAA finals. Pre vailing opinion is that the OSCs 'won't be able to cut the custard against the competition Wyem . Ing, Arkansas and either Nebras ka or 'Oklahoma A A M wiU of fer. If the Orangemen do get . through this grueling test they . might well find themselves smack against . awesome Ken tucky In the national finals ksr la the month. It would be aa Interesting- lesson la tactics to i see what type of barricade Gill, a master ef defense, eould rig against the Wildcats and their famed fast break. Bat it's long read yet for the Bevos and, for that matter, Kentucky Isn't a cinch to make it either. Not after . that upset la the NIT flattie . . . BILL Ml WEENET H , Joe Louis avers in Look that Mike Jacobs advised him to re tire. If so, that was quite a he was has a six foot. tlS pound son who Is considered a whale ef a mound prospect. Earl, sr., has been a coach for the Philadelphia A's for a number of years now land naturally the Athletics are the ones to whom the Junior; Brpcker has tied, his loyalty. But lit ain't sentiment alone. A I30,0tt bonus helped lure the kid L . . Speaking of bonuses, thesl elabs which dish oat fantastic perns to premising bat green kids take a wicked gamble. Say jj Johnny Whis Is aaaded 94 stand ae belt after striking oat everybody In his high school leagaef He comes ap to the "lucky" jj major daband maybe he's rt what it takes to win la the big time and then agala maybe! he's lacking by quite a margin. If be hasn't what It takes jilt's too bad for the particular e dab since a trip to the minors aptomatically severs the dab's hold on the poet . I if 500 Off Ida! O. II. L. Tonlfht, 8:30 P. ; Sdcn Ilcrcch vx-Ecjcza Ljcdnirji v. ,.. i.- ' Reserve Seat Tickets '- . fl.e! - On sale at Howard Maple's Sportlag Oe : Vit n. capttoi. SALEii ice nnnrill Stojack Mat Victor on Foul Mat fireworks in profusion broke out in the armory arena last night, as Frank Stojack col lected a $50 bonus from Match make Elton Owen for handing glowering Bulldog Clements his first local setback. And the same Mr. Clements and his' teacher. Bulldog Jackson, this morning are possibly in a meaner mood than normally. , Stojack,. his Coast junior heavy title not at stake, took the meas ure of Clements after the meanie was disqualified by Referee Ben Sherman for choking. Each rival had a faU at that point This set the stage for a uproarious ses sion. While Clements was argu ing with Sherman over the dis qualification Maestro J a e k s o n climbed to take a punch at Sto jack. Frankle picked the ancient Bulldog up in an airplane spin and during the spiral Jackson's foot cracked a tooth out of protege Clements. Stojack dumped Jack son on the wounded matman and vacated. Newcomer Bill Sledge took a faU from Jack O'Reilly in the semi-windup and Rene LaBell and Jack Lipscomb battled to a draw with one fall each in the curtain-raiser. Big-6 'Stars' Named for '49 EUGENE, March IS -(Soecial) Salem and Albany landed two po sitions each on the 1949 All-Big Six league basketball team. Bend got the other berth. The Salems, who tied with Bend for the title, landed Keith Farnam. forward and Art (Bud) Duval, guard. Al bany placed Center George (Jun ior) Simons and Guard Bob Heins. Bends selectee is Forward Bob Hawes. On the second team are Ben Pitzer of Salem. Jack and Dean Parsons of Eugene, Gary Babcock of Corvallis and Doug Hoglund of Bend. Third teamers are Ted Johnson of Springfield, Tom Pau- lus and Darrell Girod of Salem and Al Christensen and Mickey Sullivan of Bend. The six league coaches made the selections. Final Individual scoring for the season finds Albany's Heins atop the heap with 137 points in his 10 games. Farnam of Salem had 138 and Simons of Albany 138. Benny Pitzer is fourth with 105, and rounding out the "100" group is Johnson of Springfield, with 102. Duval had 65 and Paulus 57 for Salem. The Viking Jayvees copped their league race with nine wins, one loss. Springfield and Eugene tied for second with 6-3 records. Evashevski Due At OSC Soon CORVALLIS. Ore, March 13 (JPy- Forrest Evashevski, former Michigan football star and now backfiold coach at Michigan Stot college, is due on the Oregon State campus this week to talk about the gridiron Job here. Athletic Director R. S. Keene. Just returned from a coach-hunting trip to the midwest, said Eva shevski coached at Hamilton and Pittsburgh after a standout per formance at Michigan. He was a blocker for All-America Tommy Harmon in 1938-39. The head football post here has been vacated by the resignation of Lon Stiner. Church League Title Game Set The championship game in the 1949 "A" Church league season wiU be played tonight, starting at nine o clock, on the YMCA court between the First Presby terians, champs of the first half in regular season play, and the First Christians, titlists In the second half. The one game will decide the crown. 'Bev' Wad in Debut with Sox PASADENA, Calif., March 13 VPy- The Chicago White Sox un corked three runs in the .eighth inning to defeat the Pittsburgh Pirates 6-4 today. Pitcher Bill Bevens, on trial from the Yankees, made his Sox debut for three I innings. He al lowed only three blows, but he walked six and tossed in a wild pitch as the Pirates collected three runs. LOS ANGELES. March IS AP) Ken Woods homer In the second Inn ing provided the St. Louts Browns with their onhr run today m the Chi cane Cubs, becked by fine pitching, hoisted a 4-1 victory, their first in four exhibitions. PHOENIX. Arix.. March IS (API Catcher Ray Murray exploded a 10th inn in( home run to give the Cleveland Indians a to S victory over the New York Giants today In the fourth ex hibition duel between the two stubs. CLEARWATER. Bia., March IS : (AP) The Detroit Tigers snapped the Philadelphia Phillies three-game winning streak today S-7 although Richie Ashburn hit two home runs and Dick Staler another. ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.. March 19 (AP) After losing three straight, the St. Louis Cardinals won their first exhibition game ef the spring training eeeon today when they walloped the New York Yankees. S-l. before a crowd of tjxa. If yean ago this month: Prime) Camera defeated Tom my Leeghran la IS revnds to retain his heavyweight UUcv-The fight drew one of the smallest crowds aad emallos gate SMea) l heavyweight ehamofteewbio history. Camera entered the ring a S to 1 favorite, end to the svrprise ef everyone, defeated Levghraa sot oh his pawning power aa expected hat by egthoolnr wne as a master oexer nimanr. i at1 mm I si A) T7 ifjia; smb. TdfcDs TF WSCs CLOT C RANDALL Oregon State n a .:-.' '" V : c It : v A, t . 9 i - - f ' The AU-NortherrtDivision Team for 1949 - IAMMT " Jf WashinxUn - ' - ' . ED GAYDA Washington State SOGER WILEY Oregon isros id TMESTDH BRIMHALL Idaho Johnsons on NW Team SEATTLE, March 15 - CP) Northwest conference All -8 tar basketball teams were anneanced tonight by Ralph Fisher, confer ence publicity director, on the basis ef a compilation of ail opponent teams picked by the six coaches. They are: First team forwards: Dean Sempert, Lewis and Clark, ef a possible It votes; and Bob Johnson, Willamette, f) center: Bob Pollard, Lewie and Clark, S, and Jim Johnson, Willamette, 7; rnarda: Lores Bllckenstaff, Whitman, t, and Jack Heron, Whitman, 7. ....Second team forwards: Ted Loder. Willamette, , and Bob Jensen, College of Idaho, g; center: Ed Rooney, Pacific, SVi: guards: Red Downey, Lewis and Clark, S, and Ted Johnson, Wil lamette. SH. BOUT OFT"" - - NEW YORK. March IS -(fP Lightweight champion Ike Wil liams sprained a muscle In his right shoulder today and his scheduled Friday bout with Kid Gavilan was postponed unitl April 1. Stations List Beaver 'Gist Tidewater Associated Advertis ing Director Harold Deal wired from San Francisco Tuesday to announce that radio stations KRUL, Corvallis; KWJJ, Port land, and KASH, Eugene will car- Sr the play-by-play report of regon State's first game in the NCAA basketball playoffs at Kan sas City Friday night. Starting time will be announced later. Jack Shaw, formerly of Port land, will do the broadcasting. If OSC plays the first game Friday night the broadcast over the local stations will be at 6 pm. (PST). If the Beavers play the second game, the 'cast will start around 7:43 p.m. Last Minute i Basket Fatal Macs' Defeat BucLs As. State Show Open By Al Llghtner V McARTHUR COURT, Eugenjs, March 15-(Special)-Salem's top seeded . Vikings were knocked from the 31st annual state prfp basketball tournament tonight when dusky Jerry Garrelt wijh 11 seconds left piled in a field goal to give the Roosevelt Rouih Riders of . Portland a 52 to M victory. Near bedlam had broken loose in one of the top thrillers of any of these cage clasxfcs whfn Garrett, one of . the Roosevelt standouts throughout the ganje, took a pass deep In a corner, drove through the Salem defence and laid up the points that se$d Salem into the 8:30 a.m. open 1 rig consolation game with Pendletin Thursdav mnrnln I Pendleton dropped the fint of tonight's opening double bill Ho McMinnviUe, 49 to 42. -The r ulin by Coach Orile Robblns Grizzles throw them int oa three o'clotk game with Roosevelt Thursday afternoon. 'I There may have been- rncre thrilling games In the past thin was the Salem-Roosevelt battle tonight, but old timers hereabouts take a long time remembering any. Both sides spent the bight fighting back from behind with terrific rallies. It just happened to be Roosevelt's turn in the final moment, and muscular Garrett, a reasonable facsimile to a ba y tank, took command. 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