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He'UFace Pilots Tuesday Eve . U ' I "TV'' IS r v V I'" gophomore Doug Logue (abort) : Willamette hoop squad, will be one of -the funs Ceaen jonnny Lewis V; will hurl at tbe Portland PlloU whetf the two crabs clash on the WU floor Tuesday night in a non WU's Await "-: Willamette's Bearcats, all but In throne-room, lay aside their circuit resume rivalry with Portland U's is set for 8 o'clock with a clash between the schools' JV squads to preceed the mainer. The Pilots, under Mush Torson, have enjoyed one of their better age seasons this campaign. They've notched wins over such potent clubs as Nevada, Gonzaga and St. Mary's. Johnny Lewis Cats, though idle, took a big step toward the conference title over the, weekend as the erstwhile second-place Pacific's Badgers were knocked over twice by College of Idaho. The Coyotes and Lewis and Clark, which socked Whitman twice on the weekend, are now tied for' the runnerup slot, with fivo wins, four losses. Willamette has a 7-2 record. $(3A Mum $xm So successful have been the last two amateur fight cards staged by the American Legion that the AL's are seriously plan ning to continue the amateur pro gram on Into the spring. . . . The Legions, Matchmaker Ira Ptlcher and Aide John Crockett ! de serve a full-throated round of cheers for these benefit programs which have given a big boost to the Legion Juvenile and 1 the "March of Dimes" funds. . Who Wa Who? ! Speaking of the amateur fights. rtngsiders swear they've never seen more identical twin than, the Simpson lads oat of Sllverton. Thoughtful Indeed was the gent who equipped one with red socks and tbe other with white ones. ... And people are still talking about the comedy 'Little, Jake" of the Weodburn Boys I school staged Inside the ropes. Whether "Jake" was deliberately trying te clown, we don't know but, "at any rate, he brought down the house. In fact he made a sham bles of it .. . , I Ironmen Non-Expendable An Iron-man quint such as Whitman has fielded this cam paign deserves much in the way of admiration but such an out fit also is destined to run out of gas when one or ' two or three men exit via fouls. That's what hurt the Whits in their losing - battles with Lewis j and Clark over the weekend. . . One of the upsets of tbe year around here would materialise IF the Aums ville Fire Department team Just happened te topple the awesome .Page Woolens In Tuesday night's ' District I AAU finals. Silly? Well 2 the hitherto unknown Aums ' villes weren't supposed te top the pretty capable Burroughs Inn- men cither. . . . And now we have " the, Joker who says that come I next winter they're going to In- - stall a batch of snow shoes In the ' Salem Golf club quarters. . . ; Toolton Ex-WU Acel Earl Toolsoa, the hurler Port- land gets en conditional basis from' Oakland, was tone of the better prospects developed by Spec Keene in his closing days at Willamette. ... Rod Province, who we mentioned as getting a bid from the House of Davids, must be seriously considering the offer. He's starting to crow whis kers. . . The Scandinavian ski ,tars claim tbe reason the U.S. , never rakes in the laurels in the International meets Is because tbe Americans don't start training ; until the snow flies. . . . The' ; Swedes, Norwegians and Finns , don't wait that Ion r. They use the . pine needles of the forests for : ; early slat training. ... Speaking f skiing, nice to see Salem's Bill ; Bowes, now an OSC student, get ting back in stride as he took top honors in the recent college meet rat Mt Hood. ... .;. . . . one ef the key men on this year's - conference fame. Pilot Club the Northwest Conference hoop commitments Tuesday night to Pilots on the WU floor. The tilt We're on Spot Since our mention of the Stop Lite Cafe gal's bowling team as one to watch ta the future we've got a dickens of a raxxing from another set of five sals who .hap pen to cany the title, "States- en their blouses. ... The ISA PILCHEK twe teams are nip-and-tnek rl vals In the Monday night Ladies Office league.' ... Viks Passed the Test That Was the toughest game of the season for the SHS Vikings last Tuesday night at Corvallis and also the' f oulingest The Viks displayed their mettle, however, by grabbing the decision even theufh. three of their key me Jim Reck, Doug Rogers and Lay torn Gllson weren't around at the finish.... We haven't at hand records te check en. but certainly the mark chalked ap by the Salem high- ers so far this seasea (current shewing 18 wins and three lesses) must stand as one of the great performances in Viking cage his tory. Power Pay Dividend - What constitutes value proba bly . wonders, George KelL the Detroit thlrd-sacker who copped the American league hit title last season by a fraction of a point over Ted Williams. Kell recently signed at 837,009 for the coming season while over in the Boston Red. Sex camp Williams pulls down a fantastic 8125,000 pact ... The one thing Kell must con sider Is erowd-pulL Williams, the gaunt guy with the power of a battery of .88 s, drags the custom era Into the parks with his sock Ing prowess. The home run can ever be supplanted as aa argu ment for big money. Ted pounds a freight car-load of tbe long blows each year. ... 'Course, ever In Plttobursh the Pirates Ralph Klaer can say he rapped more circuit clouts than Ted In '49 yet settles for a relatively skimpy 185,900. But Ralp's young yet and, anyhow, the ntte aren't ae rich ae Mr. T Tawkey of the Boeox. . . . ,imm mum, m iiiiiiiumiii . hh.wuiiiiiii. 1 1 -CS. , - - ; . " ? J w . . LeBaron's Tip Celeri Gridders LODL Calif, Feb. 11 -(JPh Ed die LeBaron's all stars scored a 7 to C football victory oyer Bob Celeti's all stars today in a game between former college players. The contest was supposed to decide which of California's two outstanding T-formatlon quarter backs of 1949 Celeri at Califor nia and Le Baron at College of the Pacific is better. Bat the game, played on a rain-softened field, hardly proved an accurate test. Football in February did coax a capacity crowd of , 24,218 to Lodl's Grape bowL Standing room only was sold. Each player will receive be Now or Never for OSC Beavers Await Visit of Vandals OREGON STATE COLLEGE. Feb. 12-(Special)-A rebounding Vandal quintet moves onto the floor for an extremely crucial series wiux xne uregon oiaie couege weavers. The Beavers, all but knocked from northern division contention by Oregon's Ducks, face the big lob of bouncing the Idaho five in both Corvallis encounters. It undoubtedly will be no easy task for the Orange because Coach Chuck Finley's Moscow clan has suddenly got rolling with veng eance. After droping five straight conference tilts, including a pair with the Beavers, the Vandals knocked Oregon into two loops, then proved that was no fluke by knocking off pace-setting Wash ington State college 51-50 in their last outing. Bob Wheeler, Idaho's 8-5 cen ter who worried the Beavers in the first series, will be in the starting lineup for Tuesday night's mix. Other likely starters for the rejuvenated Idahoans will be Dick Geisler and Bob Pritchett at for wards and Dick Reed and Sam Jenkins at the guards. For sure, Oregon State must re cover from the terrible shooting which marked the Oregon game if they are to match the Vandal squad. The Beavers hit a miser able .192 average from the floor in that mix. Salem High's Vikings in a re turn match with the Rooks will furnish a 6:15 p. m. preliminary to the Wednesday night game. The Soung Beavers nicked Salem 47-41 l an earlier meeting of the two clubs on the Viking court. Snow Threat To Shi Meet? ASPEN. Colo- Feb. 12-6?VUn- w an ted and unneeded snow fell on Aspen mountain today as officials of the Federation Internationale de Ski opened the Alpine phase of the world meet. The snow fall, an estimated 12 inches at the top of the mountain but only five inches at the base, brought moans from officials and contestants. For the officials it meant that all the courses for the six-race pro gram that begins tomorrow had to be re-packed. It erased every marker tne ski ers had learned to know during two weeks of practice. The meet begins at approximate ly 9:30 am. (PST) tomorrow with 29 queens from nine nations com peting in the giant slalom. That's race of a mile and a quarter down the manicured side of the mountain. In that distance the contestants will drop 1,200 feet closer to sea level while speeding through 35 gates. CoL N. R. Oestgaard of Norway. president of FIS, replied to Colo rado Gov. Lee Knous' speech of welcome with a plea for interna tional friendship in other phases of life to duplicate that in world athletic events. Prior to the speeches, the ath letes paraded to the Aspen ball park between the, Rifle, Colo., band. Mayor Eugene Robinson of Aspen, also, spoke. Because of World War II infla tion and war-deferred mainten ance programs, many U.S. firms found their financial provisions for depreciation inadequate at the wars' end. Basketball Scores By The Associated Press Ore i em Tech SS. Huakslat Stat Col. We S3 st, Boaavearoro m, Gannon Sfl FOOTBALL LeBaron's All Stars I. Celerrs AB Stars S Heading for Home in San Antonio Handicap Bolero leads the field around the Anita Park, with Citation a length behind. Pender, tbe eventual this stage. Three horses running- abreast of Ponder, from left te Ilerse en nil wiidentified, (AP Wirephoto te Tbe Statesman). tween 8508 and 8608. LeBaron and Celeri each will receive $2, 500. The Le Barons primarily were COP seniors and grads; the Ce leries were Cal seniors and grad uates. The Le Barons scored first. In the opening period, when Brace Orvis went over from the one yard line following recovery of a fumble 24 yards out The Ce leries capitalised en a recovered fumble, on the 28, to score the second. Bill Montague counted from one Inch out. But Sim Cul lom missed two tries for the ty ing point. of Gill coliseum Tuesday night Big Six Title Near VildngsWait Bulldog Quint Salem high's Vikings will seek to notch their eighth straight Big Six league triumph and take another big step toward the crown Tuesday night as they play host to Albany's Bulldogs on the SHS floor. A win for Coach Harold Hauk's crew Tuesday eve would assure them of a tie for the title. The Viks have three games, in cluding the Bulldog battle, left on the Big Six schedule. The only club with a chance to catch 'em now is Bend's Lava Bears who currently have a 4-2 record with four left to play. The Hauks thus far have won 16 of 19 games this season. Wednesday the Viks meet the Oregon State Rooks at Corvallis in a 6:45 prelim to the OSC-Idaho mix. Springfield comes here Fri day night. Snead Leads Money Golf ers SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 12 OTVSam Snead, the sweet swinger from White Sulphur Springs, W.Va., leads in everything there is to offer in professional golf for the year. The 1949 top money-winner is first in total cash earned, first in Ryder Cup points and first in con tention for the Vardon trophy, George Schneiter, tournament manager of the PGA, announced tonight at the conclusion of the Texas Open which Snead won. Sam has a total of $7,558 for the year almost $3,000 more than Jimmie Demaret of Ojai, Calif., the runner-up. Demaret has $4, 582. Third st Fred Haas, Jr., of New Orleans with $3,420 and fourth is Jack Burke, jr., of White Plains, N.Y., with $2,940 while Cary Middlecoff of Ormond Beach, Fla., ranks fifth with $2,682.50. Snead has 224 points to lead the Ryder Cuppers. Demaret is sec ond with 130 V. Snead has a stroke average of 68.05 to top the Vardon trophy leaders. He did' it on 20 rounds. Demaret has averaged 68.70 for second place on 20 rounds. Palmer 69.06 for third place on 16 rounds, Burke 69.30 on 20 rounds for fourth and Ted Ktoll of Philmont, Pa., 69.58 and 12 rounds for fifth. Wolves Slate E0CE Outfit OREGON COLLEGE OF EDU CATION, Monmouth, Feb. 12th (Special) OCE's Wolves down in the Oregon Collegiate Conference hoop standings, will attempt to climb Monday and Tuesday nights as they play host to the Eastern Oregon College Mountaineers. Coach Bob Knox will likely stick with a starting lineup against the EOCE's consisting of Herrall .-.-: last tarn In the rannlnr ef the 150.001 San Antenle Handleae at Santa DDgldl Basketball Season College Quints Seek Title Bids Crusaders Strengthen Top of Nation Ranking . . By Ralph Roden NEW YORK, Feb. 12-i5VThe college basketball season enters its stretch drive this week with the top teams intensifying their drives to gain bids in the sport's world series, the National Invitation and NCAA tournaments in March. At the moment powers under consideration for the 12 team In vitation in New York's Madison Square Garden include, unbeaten Holy Cross, Kentucky, San Fran cisco the defending champs, St. John's, L. I. C. C. N. Y., West ern Kentucky, LaSalle, Bradley, Duquesne, North Carolina State, Kansas State, St. Louis, Toledo, UCLA, Canisius and Niagara. Holy Cross also a Dears a cinrh to gain the NCAA's district' onsA berth. District two is anybody guess with Villanova, Cornell, Columbia, Syracuse, LaSalle and C. C. N. Y. all in contention. Kentucky, last season's NCAA champ or North Carolina State appear to have the inside track on the district three nomination. Ohio State, running away with the Big Ten race, has just about landed the district four slot. District five appears to lie be tween Bradley or Kansas State, assuming they win their confer ence races. Chief opposition for Bradley may be provided bv St. iuis ana Detroit wnne Kansas State may find trouble with Ne braska, Colorado and possibly Kansas. The same situation prevails in district six with Texas A&M of the Southwest conference and Arizona of the Border the con tending forces at the moment. Wyoming looms as the best bet for district seven while its open house in district eight with the winner of the Pacific Coast con ference usually drawing the nod. At the moment both the Northern and Southern division races in the Coast conference are neck and neck affairs. Meanwhile, Holy Cross streng thened its bid to retain its number one slot in the weekly Associated Press poll. The Crusaders tacked three triumphs to their record during the week to boost their un tarnished slate to 20 games. American Loop Fires Tonight The City Basketball loop's American division steams into the no. 2 round of second-half play tonight at Leslie with the Page Woolens favored to notch their seventh consecutive division win as they tangle with the 12th Street Markets at 8 o'clock. Both the Wools and Markets captured the initial second-half mixes last week. The 7 o'clock game tonight throws the Capitol Posts against Warner Motors and at 9 o'clock the Knights of Columbus take on tbe West Salem Merchants. Ep ping Lumber draws a bye. Rally Edges Sacred Heart ASTORIA, Feb. 12 (Special) Star of the Sea of Astoria over came a 14-point deficit in the final three minutes to beat Sacred Heart Academy of Salem 47-45 here today. The Salem Quintet led all the way and into the closing minutes before Star of the Sea shooters caught fire for a blazing finish. Loss of two regulars via personal fouls took the edge of the Cru saders attack in the final minutes. Staudinger with a 15-point af ternoon paced both teams on the scoring end while Kearney bucket ed 13 for the Astorians. Smith and Marv Hiebert at the forwards, Hal Pitcher at center, and Chet Hogan and Chuck Hum ble at the guards. winner, is en tbe extreme outside at right, are Neor, Miche and On Trust. r: l lz 6 The Statesman, Salem, Oregon, Monday February 13, 1950 Hart Signs Pro Contract : - '7? ' Leon Hart, 2L (right) college football's "name" player cf 1949, Inks a three-year pact with Coach Bo McMillin and the. Detroit Lions as Lion President Edwin J. Andersen, (standing-), looks on ap provingly In Detroit. I The big Notre Dame end and co-captain last fall won every major football, honor and Ail-American team selection In leading the Fighting Irish to their fourth consecutive unbeaten season. (AP Wirephoto to The Statesman). Another Record Falls Norwegian Title on 274-foot Leap TPirPWWnOTH WoeVi ToV with steel springs in his legs soared toa new hill record of 274 feet today to win the 19th Annual Leavenworth Ski Jumping tournament. The mark set by Torbjorn Falkanger was one foot farther than the old standard of 273, leaped in 1941 by the late Torger Tokle, a fellow countryman. Falkanger, 1949 winner of tbe famed Holmenkollen and Norwe gian championships, coupled his record Jump with another of 263 feet to score 236.2 points. He fin ished far ahead his nearest rival, Birger Ruud, Norway, whose leaps of 250 and 242 feet earned him 220.4 points. The tournament was run off in a steady snowstorm that 'slowed the big hill, remodeled this year with an eye possible jumps of W0 feet or more. The American rec ord of 297 feet was set last year at Iron Mountain, Mich., by Joe Perrault. Despite the adverse weather, approximately 4,000 spectators flocked to this little Cascade mountain town to watch the sky busters. Ei eh teen foreign and American birdmen competed in the Class A event, while 40 were entered in Class B and four in the senior di vision. Third place in Class A went to Friz Tschannen, of Switzerland, who holds the world distance rec ord of 393.7 feet. His leaps here were 235 and 238 feet, good for 212.6 points. Fourth went to a university oi Idaho exchange student from Nor way, sverre nongsgaara, wno briefly held the American record last year with a 290-foot jump at the Milwaukee Railroad Ski Bowl in the Cascades. His 211.9 point total today come on jumps of 243 and 239 feet The unofficial Leavenworth record of 286 feet cost Art Dev lin, Lake Placid, N. a broken leg in 1947 when he out jumped the hill. The distance did not go into 'the books because he fell on landing. The ancient Egyptians made ice by filling shallow porous pans with water in the early evening and letting them freeze over night. Victor Capitol Colombia Deeea -45 A 33 H" K. P. M. Toe! . Mm Hits Stretch Drive ,' ' i . - - . , '-' ". : 1 y"- ft .y " JI Takco Ski 14Jjnln imn-nsnrul Umhi!i AAU Tourney Spot at Stake There will be a berth In the AAU Basketball tourney at stake when the strong Page Woolen quintet and the surprising Aums ville Firemen tangle" Tuesday night in the Leslie gymnasium. Page Woolen,, sparked by the scoring Johnsons, will go into the game a strong favorite for the spot in the McMinnville playoffs. But the Firemen, upset victors over Burrough's Inn in the semi final, may be able to repeat their surprise win. The finals of the District Six AAU mix will begin at 8 p.m. at Leslie. There will be no admission charge for the recreation pro gram-sponsored encounter. Bogus Currency Plagues School ALLIANCE, Ohio -(flV Eighty years ago Mount Uniqn college had a popular "actual business course." Students, instead of using text books, worked with ledgers and stacks of "currency" imprinted with pictures of the college and its trustees. The funny money still is turn ing up. Recently a couple stopped at the school and wanted to re deem a stack of the currency bills of all denominations from $1 to $1,000. And not long ago some one in Iondonderry, Ireland, wr6te to a local law ffice saying that some bank notes published by the Actual Business School of Mount Union college had been found in a trunk there. i for your SWEETHEART Be She "2" or "82" GIVE HER THE ALBUM SHE'LL TREASURE Whether herj taste runs to classical popular, be-pop, you'll find her fa vorites here. ' ' - WARREN'S 2017 Fairgrounds Read- Blazing Finish Edges Demaret Sammy Clips PGA Kecord with 126 r 7 iaroia v. naiuir SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Feb. 12-V)- Drawling Sam Snead th West Virginia slammer, rolled home with an eight-under-par 63 today to win the Twenty-Third $10,000 Texas Open with a 72 hole card of 265. He thus became the second man in history to take this storied golf tournament twice. Sam first tri umphed in 1948. Snead edged Jimmie ' Demaret of Ojai, Calif. i by one stroke for t"!""" &49k iiajixy. , uemaret won $1,400. The colorful star from White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., bagged the title with a typical Snead finish. In the final 36 holes he had a total score of 126 a new , PGA record for the final two rounds of a tournament, Fred Haas, jr, the New Orleans Thin Man who led at the three quarters mark, took a three-under ' par 68 today to wind up third and get $1,000. - - SZ1 J f ea ... Brackenridge Park course came within a stroke of the comnetitive ' """-t b ihi uvcr Lite o.uuevari course record and his 265 was just one stroke under the tourna ment record set by Ben Hogan in io ana uea by snead In 1948. treorge Schneiter, tournament manager of the PGA, said Snead's , great 126 for the last two rounds bettered the record made bv Sam Byrd here in 1945. . The first man to win this tour-' nament twice was Bill Melhorn, who triumphed to 1928 and 1929. ' Cary Middlecoff of Ormond Beach, Fla.. the "National Onen champion, wound -up fourth with zo and earned $800 while George Fazio of Conshohocken, Pa., -was next with 271 and drew $700. muDS T j. u lung j. ais NEW YORK, Feb. 12 -VP-Lightweight Champion Ike Wil liams and Welterweight King Ray rtoDinson, wno may be defending their crowns in the near future, sharpen up their punches in non title bouts this week, ' Williams steps up one division ta tangle with Bernie Docusen,. the fancy boxing New Orleans welter, in the ten round headliner at Madison Square Garden Fri- uajr iuuv. a lie iiaru-iuiung cnamp from Trenton, N. J, has won his last nine fights. Docusen had a nine-fight win ning string going too until he lost a disputed decision .to Otil Gra ham in Philadelphia a couple of weeks ago. Docusep, who gave Robinson a stiff tussle in a wel ter title fuss in the summer of 1948, hopes to come back at Wil liams' expense. Robinson is combining business with pleasure in Miami' In Flori da for a vacation, the 147-pound boss will make expenses by mix ing with Al Mobley of Newark. N. J., in a scheduled ten Monday night Roland LaStarza, the unbeaten New York heavyweight takes on Joe Dominic in a ten at Holyoke, Mass., Dominic's home town, Mon day night A NORWEGIAN AGAIN EUGENE, Ore., Feb. lZ-JPh An 18-year-old Norwegian recent ly transplanted to the U.S. won the class C men's title of a Pacific Northwest Ski association cross country race at Willamette pass today. Olav Brunsvik led the Tri Pass Ski club of Eugene to vic tory. The team captured four firsf places in the class C races. 7H0BILSAS 6RAND rlel -wwrr l litleWar CANYON ECONOMY