Bearcat Cagers Travel Today Willamette's Bearcat" hoopsters, a Christmas holiday respite under their belts, will try to improve their fortunes this week as they leave today on a three- jame road trip to the south. The Willamettes meet SOCITs Red Raiders at Ash land Wednesday night, then cross the California line for a pair with - the Chi co State Wildcats, j Coach Johnny Lewis' men clash with the Wildcats at Chico, Calif., Thursday night and the two teams tattle again at Redding. Calif., on Friday evening. . - i Following the southern trip, the Methodists, Northwest conference defending kings, return and pre- nare to open the Conference cam. paign against Whitman at Walla walla Jan. 5th and 6th. ; Lewis hints of a shakeup in his lineup in an effort to break his crew from the rut "of five losses In their initial six games. Larry Smith, one of the most improved men on the squad, seems assured of the center post and Ted Loder and Doug Logue, the squad's two top scorers, will be in at the for wards on the southern trip. The suard positions pose more of question. Hugh Bellinger and Lou Scrivens have . been the regulars up to now but there is a chance that any one of such men as Claude Nordhill. Dan Montae. Dick Brou- wer or freshman Ken Benshoof may move into a starting slot. Chuck Robinson, who relin . quished his starting center Job to Smith last week, also may pos sibly move into the' lineup at an other position if Lewis chooses to better his height situation. He's on Thing Called rJC i . i 1 ilillBllilJ lilp Prep Cagers Stand By for Pos t-HoKdays Run tin Schedules By Al Llghtner porta Editor, The SUtetman Their Christmas dinners behind them, along with the accompany ing rest, prep basketball bands in this area are now peering forth to the schedules that will carry some Into league and district championships and, the biggest prize of alL the state tournament at Eugene In March. Most quints in the valley have had half a dozen or more "tuneup" clashes. But the big battles on their respective schedules are yet to come. Some won't get with it until af ter the New Year Is born. Others go back to work this week. There will be no counting action In tht Big Six, Willamette Valley, Mar lon-Polk, Yawama and Marion B circuits until after the first of the year. A few games have been played In the Big Six, WVL and Marion B wheels, but neither the Marion-Polk or Yawama have yet waded Into league schedules. The Marion-Polk Jamboree, involving Sacred Heart, Salem Academy, Cascade and Stayton, is set for the Cascade gym January 3. Yawama play commences the same night with Willamina at Amity, Sheri dan at Dayton, North Marion at Sherwood and Yamhill at Banks. When the Marlon B loop gets rolling again January 8, Detroit will b at Chemawa, Mill City at Jefferson, Gates at Sublimity and Cervais at St. PauL This league Is now led by Gates and Gervals, each with 3-0 records. Only one counting game has been registered in the WVL, and in that one Sandy nipped Canby. ML Angel and Molalla played also, but this game was scrapped when it was voted that an errant scoreboard clock might have caused the clash to go into two overtime periods. Mt. Angel won the game eventu ally, but since then It has been canceled. The WVL'ers are scheduled for a full round January S with Xlolal-' la at Sandy. Canby at Ectacada, Dallas at SUverton and Wood burn at ML AngeL In the Big Six loop thus far Bend has divided a pair with both Eugene and Spring field, Eugrne has downed Albany and Corvallla has licked Spring field. Salem starts Big Six play with Springfield January IX. According to their schedules next games are to be played as follows, other than those already mentioned: December 27: New berg at Sa lem, Rainier at Molalla. Decem ber 28: Taft at Dayton, Lincoln at Molalla, Grant Pass at Lebanon, December. 21-29: Tournament at Start o Involving Btarton, VL3 City. Sublimity and Cascade. De cember IS: Grants Pass at AS bany, Canby at North Marion, Sherwood at Beavtrton, MocUpa, warn, at Banks. Taft at Salem Academy. Silvcrton at Svret Home. December 29-10: Tourna ment at Redmond In vol ring Bend. Redmond. Washington and Benson of Portland; also Dallas at The Dalles both lghta. December 25: Grants Pass at CorralUa. Janu ary 2: Spting&eld at Eugrne, Sa lem Academy at Sacred Heart Academy and Cascade at Central. Twin Main Event Caps Owen Bicep Meeting Tonight A two-pronged main event. Installed as his annual holiday feature, caps tonight's mat menu at the armory, produced by Match maker Elton Owen. The muscles maestro yearly attempts to splurge with an all-star show at the popular Ferry Street Garden during the holiday season, and from the looks Although It Isn't visible In the picture, U of Washington Basketball Coach "Tippy" Dye Is squatting squarely on the "X" that la also known aa the "spot" Pre-season "experts" have pointed out Dye'i Huskies aa the outfit to beat for the northern division championship. Bevo Soccer Team's Flavor International CORVALLIS, Ore., Dec. 25-M- Foreign nationals enrolled at Ore gon State college give the school s socceT team an international flavor that fans of the sport believe is potenL . The game Is one that Americans rarely flock out to watch, but fields in countries across the At lantic and Pacific are crowded with spectators. This may mean OSC's club has the makings of a title winner. The 23 student players of OSC's cosmopolitan soccer club hail from 16 countries. Only three art U. S. citizens. Mansur Ferdows of Iran, a soph omore in agriculture. Is playing captain and Ahmed Abd El-Samie of Egypt is team manager. Octave Levenspiel of Poland is the co ordinator of the club. With a roster that reads like a United Nations assembly member ship list, the college team may After looking over the relatively poor gatherings that took in the intersectional cage duet between bis Beavers and the Pitt Panth ers over the weekend, OSC Athletic Director Spec Kene allowd as how he learned something the hard way never again schedule a - costly intersectional set so close to Christmas."Guess everybody's broke, or fast getting there with their Christmas Lshopping," sur veyed Mr. K. asi he looked over the 2000 customers in the 10,000 capacity Coliseum. . . . Customer who has .a bet . wants to know , which outfit has played In the Rose Bowl more often, Washing ton or Washington State. Whoever has the moola on the Huskies wins that one. They've been four times, to twice for the Cougars. The Huskies tied Navy 14-14 in 1924, lost to Alabama 20-19 in 1926, lost to Pittsburgh 21-C in 1937 and to Southern Cal 29-0 in 1944. The Cougars in their two tries beat TERRY COONEY Brown 14-0 in 1916 and were whacked by Alabama 24-0 in 1931. ... This will be the 37th Rose Bowl classic coming up,i the first stir up more than usual interest In one having been played in 1902 between Michigan and Stanford, this year's Portland soccer league A lapse of 13 years followed that one, after which WSC and Brown championship series, sometime played in 1916. The Rose Bowler has been an annual occasion ever next month. since. . . . Certainly the daddy of all bowl games In number of years In existence, the 36 previous Pasadena pitches far outnumber the three other "big" bowl games, the Sugar, Cotton and Orange. The Sugar at New Orleans got started in 1935, the Cotton at Dallas in 1937 and the Orange in Miami in 1933. It will be No. 17 for the Sugar Bowl come Jan. 1, No. IS for the Cotton Bowl and No. 19 for the Orange. ... The Dope on Those Basketball Phone Calls Along with more than oar share of nice things for Xmas, we were recipient of a phone call reading us off for not having the box score In last Saturday morning's effert on the Sacred Heart vs. Columbia Prep basketball game In Portland. As we explained to the exceedingly Irked gentleman who called, no forgetf illness, malice, prejudice,, etc., were intended. It was merely a ease of one of our dozens of so-called reporters ap parently thinking of Santa Clans instead of his pledged duty to telephone us right after the game with the box score. As we further explained to our critic, here is how we are set up In the sports division concerning the reporting of both football and basketball engagements: We contact coaches of all schools In the area at the start of the season and not only ask, but beg and plead that they appoint someone, preferably their team managers to call us, collect, following each home game and those on the road with teams that are not in this particular area. We pay that kid for every game he calls in, a practice we might add that isn't fol lowed by any other, paper in this area. During the course of the I season we write dozens of letters, reminding the coaches and their appointed correspondents to keep on the ball with the call-ins. Most schools give us no trouble at all. Their caller-inners are Johnny-on-the-spot. Others are strictly hit-and-miss despite our (Con'd. Next Page) of the billing tonight has sue ceeded for 1950. In one of the mainers will be Andy Tremaine, recognized as the world lighthcavy champion, against Leo Wallick, th .bronze bully who holds the Coast junior heavy belt. Neither belt will be at stake, of course, because of the difference in weights of the two matadors. The other mainer brings the blond sensation Cowboy Carlson his toughest assignment to date, a brawl with Soldat Gorky, eldes and nastier of the two bearded Russian brothers. Carlson has been after Owen to give him this match for some time, and although hell be giving away weight also. he feels that his swiftness and agility will more than offset it. Main events occupy the prelim spots also. In the opener at 8:30 o'clock Maurice LaChapelle tan' gles with Glenn Detton, the new est credit to the well known wrestling Detton family. The No 2 prelim has Jack (Tiger) Klser, for years a topnotcher here and one of the game's most spectacular operators going against Herb (Per petual Motion) Parks, who needs no Introduction in these parts. Parks is just as tough as they can come at his weighL Wallick will have a considerable weight bulge over Tremaine, but Handy Andy Is exceptionally fast and tricky. Which could cause the heftier Wallick and his pile driver no end of trouble. Gust Johnson will referee Victoria Snaps Portland Jinx VICTORIA, B. C Dec. 25 (CP)-Victoria Cougars this after- Sooners Arrive On Drill Site BILOXI, Miss., Dec. 25 -JP)- Oklahoma, the nation's top foot ball team, will arrive here tomor row for Its pre-Sugar Bowl drills, but there will be no sneak pre noon snapped the long jinx of th view of Sooner might for Missis Portland Eagles by turning the linnin Shoemaker Moves Up on Cuban In Race for '50 Jockey Honors s & Huskies to Seek Big Track Shoic MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 25-flP)-Jockey Willie Shoemaker closed ground on Joe Culmone today and trailed by only two winners in their race for riding honors of the year. Shoemaker had four winners in eight races at fair grounds in New Orleans while the best Cul mone could do was two winners in seven mounts at Tropical Park in Miami. . - - Culmone now has 373 winners to Shoemaker's 371. Shoemaker plans to fly to Agua Caliente, Mexico, Sunday to finish eut the year there and could over haul the slender Sicilian at the finish. Culmone said he would end the campaign Saturday at Tropi cal and would not go to Agua Caliente Sunday, when U. S. tracks are idle. ' Walter Miller rode only 1,384 mounts in 1906, finishing in the money 887 times. Culmone has been in the money 861 times in 1,628 attempts while Shoemaker had 1,586 mounts and was in the money 847 times. The score: , Mts. lsta 2nda Srda Culmone 1,628 373 279 209 Shoemaker ..1,586 371 253 221 Miller (06) .1,384 388 300 199 Eagles 6-3 at the Memorial arena here before over 3,000 fans. It was the Cougars first win over Portland In more than 18 games in a streak going back to last January. Eddie Dorohoy, Cougars top scorer, paced his club with three goals all in the second period and one assist in the fourth period. Cougar Practice Sched Near End PULLMAN. Dec. 25-(Snecial)- Nt,w Pr!S?S Pfifiimmtf a Uaa I VSKiaJ VIIUUU15 W UiVU UVU1U VVU1 following a 7,000 mile road trio. Coach Jack Friel's Washington State Cougars will tangle in a two-game series with CWCE Thursday and Friday nights. The series will mark the final two home practice games for the Cougars. One other ure-season contest with EWCE at Cheney Dec 30th will wind up a 15-game session rior to the start of Northern ivision play for the Cougars. ine comerence season opens at Bonier gym January 5 and 6 as the Cougars play host to Oregon State. Oklahoma is expected to arrive on a special flight at Keesler air force base at 4:30 p.m. (CST). Oklahoma Coach Bud Wilkin son said that it would be Impossi ble to arrange a practice session here. "Time Is too short and Ken tucky too tough," he said. He backed up his comment by ordering practices to begin Wed nesday morning on a twlce-a-day schedule that will last until Sun day, when the team starts out for leans. Oklahoma's third straight trip to the Sugar Bowl and in both previous- appearances the team won after holding its pre bowl workouts here. But Wilkin son knows Kentucky will be hard to handle and is capable of ending his team's victory streak. Yipee! "7T r Somitilhis7 Capture 3.4-9 Voctoiry ffromra 'Norths Tilt Decided, Last Minute iea- 8 Thm Statesman, Salem Ore. Tuesday December 28. 1850 Triumphant European Tour Ends Fully Intending to put the riding fork to Soldat (Russian) Gorky In their portion of the double mainer tonight at the armory la Cowboy Carlson (above), who has been advancing to the local mat fore by leaps and bounds since first showing here. The ether mainer tonight has Andy Tremaine opposing Lee Wallick. Robinson Chalks Kayo Over Germany s Sfretz FRANKFURT, Germany, Dec. 25-(AVWelter eight Chiraploo Ray Robinson closed out a triumphant tour of Europe tonight by knocking out Hans Stretz, former middleweight champion of Ger many, m uie min rouna 01 a non-uue ten round bout. It was sugar Ray's fifth victory Blackbirds Ti ID Vandals 59-57 NEW YORK, Dec. 25-UP-Leroy Smith's layup after his steal and dribble down the length of the court gave undefeated Long Is land university a 39-37 victory over a stubborn Idaho quintet In the feature of tonight's basket ball doubleheader before 8.126 Madison Square Garden fans. CCNY downed Brooklyn college. 64-40 In the opener. LIU had to come from behind to register its sixth straight vic tory. Trailing 35-28 at halfUme, the iky scraping Long Islanders rallied to tie. 45-45. midway in the second half. The Vandals, con tinuing to hit sensationally with long one handers from near mid court, regained their lead and clung to it until a minute from the end. A hook shot by high-scoring Sherman White, who had been held without a basket during the first half, tied the score at 57-57 Smith then stole the ball from Nick Stallworth to drpp in the clincher. i Idaho hit with 25 buckets to the Blackbirds' 18. However. LIU made good on 28 free throws to only seven for Idahoj The 6-7 White dunked II free throws to take scoring honors with 17 points. Stallworth was Idaho's high man with 11. lour of them by knockouts in less than a month of European touring. The great 80-year-old champ ion kayoed Jean Stock in Paris, stopped Luo Van Dam in Brus sels, outpointed Jean Walzack-in Geneva and halted Robert Ville- main In Paris last Friday. The 22-year-old German was no match for the cool hard-hitting American. Robinson floored him' six times in -the first four rounds and then dropped him for keeps early in the fifth. It was the first time a reigning boxing king ever had fought in a German ring and Sugar Ray gave the fans a show. Stretz. eager to make good be fore the home folks, charged after the champion at the bell with a flurry of blws. Robinson parried the thrusts. cooly measured bis rival, and then knocked him to the canvas. That hapened five times up to the doee of the fourth. A few seconds before that round ended, Robinson decked Hans for the sixth time with a right to the Groza Offsets Graham Fumble It's Boy for Rote PALO ALTO. Calif, Dec 25- AP)-Kyle Rote. Southern Metho dist backf ield aca. waa beaming today when he said "it's the fin est Christina present anybody reuld have." He waa advised by telephone from Dallas that he had become the father of a baby bey. Bete, training at nearby Stan ford with the western football squad for the East-West game aext Saturday, had been expeet- tajr tae event geme.ntaruy SUBLIMITY WINS SUBLIMITY -(Special)- The Sublimity Hawks gained a 7-36 victory over the Aumsville town team here Friday. The Hawk sec onds won the prelim 34-32. Night ingale and Albus led Sublimity SEATTLE, Dec. 23 -VP)- The W1 Pnts ac m KiUinger University af Washington will bid for the 1951 National Collegiate Athletic association track and field meet. Athletic Director Harvey Cassill said tonight The Invita tion will be submitted at the NCAA annual convention in Dal las, Tex., next month. Washington Track Coach Heo and Russell were high for Aums ville with 11 apiece. Edmundson, who will accompany Cassill to Dallas, said his squad has been bolstered by the addition of George Weidenfelt, who won tne bwedlsh decathlon champion ship last summer. Weidenfelt is a Swedish exchange student. CLEVELAND, Dee. 25-AV Handseme Otto Graham, who led the Cleveland Browns to the Na tional football league champion ship, admitted today that he thought their last chance had gone when he fumbled In the final three minutes ef play. "I wanted to crawl late a hole and die," the six-foot-one, 198 pound quarterback said. I wouldn't have given anything for ear chances at that time. The Browns were trailing 28 27 when the ball slipped from Graham's fingers en Los Angeles Rams 17-yard line yesterday. The Brawns came back In the last 20 seeends ef play te win the contest 20-21 en Lea Grose's field geaL Graham has been the Browns Eugene Eyes Liska, Mails EUGENE. Dee. 25-CP-Ad Lfeka. veteran ef the Portland Beavers. and Walter Mails may move IbU the Eugene Larks dab la the Far West leagme te bolster the eetfH financial wees. This was Indicated teday by Art Hadler. dab president, wbe said the dab's beard may art en the plan Jan. 16. Jast new LUka and Mails win figure la the aw plan waa net explained. EtONMEN WHIP CANX'CKS SEATTLE, Dec 25-WVBuilet Joe Bell cut loose with Seattle first three-goal hat trick, then added a fourth for good measure aa the Ironmen came from behind to whip the Vancouver Canucks 5-3 tonight. Ford'a Arriala VUy Dig Part in Jon.it Jaw. The bell rang with the Ger man (Continued on next part) By Ga MIAMI. Fla, Dec 23 A fighting South team came from behind and smashed over a touchdown in the last 41 seconds tonight to beat the North 14 to in the Shrine's third annual chari ty football game before 22.122 spectators in the Orange bowL Dean Davidson of VanderbCt climaxed as thrilling a game aa the stadium ever saw when he burst through right guard for the touchdown that put the South ahead after the North had forred In frost. 9-8, with a third penod outburst. Pat Field of Georgia tried for the conversion but failed. It waa blocked by Herb Agocs of Pmn. The -Re beli" coached by Mia mi s Andy Gusiaxson and oeor gia Tech's Bobby Dodd, rode te victory on John (Model T) Ford's accurate paging. Ford, of Har din - Simmons, hurled needle threading passes into the arms of Duke's C P. Touma&a, Missis si ppi's BUI Stribllng and Mis souri's Crene Ackermann. The Army backfield of Jack Martin. Jim Cain and Gil Steph en mjo put the North back Into the twll game in the third period. Jim Janowk of Purdue blocked Fields punt and the ban rolled tnto the end zone for a safety. Then the Army becks went into action and smaihed over for a touchdown. Martin taking It across on the fourth down. That tied the score st t-t and Dick Steere of Drake converted for the North to put the Yankees in front. 9-a. The South threatened early la the fourth but was halted on the one yard line. Carl TaaefX of John Carroll punted out on the North's 44 and Bishop Strickland of South Carolina passed to Youmane who made a beautiful catch on the North's five Two plays later Davidson rammed ever tor the score that won the came. outstanding player since the team was organised la the AIl-Ameri ca conference In 1946. Be con nected yesterday with 22 ef 22 aerials for 291 yards and fear touchdowns, "Boy, what a great team these Rams are, he said. "I wouldn't want te play them very often. I can assure yen ef that They were definitely up for the game and had a tremendous desire te win." "Antomatle Otto" also had high praise for his passing rlraL Beb Wsterfleld. whe completed II ef 21 peases for SU yards and one teaehdewn. "He's a wonderful ball play er, one ef the best I hare seen,' Graham observed. Neville Carries Coyote Hopes CALDWELL. Idaho. Dec. 25-UP! As long as Coach Clem Par berry has men like Lloyd Neville head ing his point-production depart ment, nobody in Northwest Con ference basketball circles will take College of Idaho lightly. Graduation made a deep gash in the Coyote hide but Neville and Larry "Nig Larson are back from tne starting five of last season to give Par berry a foundation to build upon. And it'a quite a foundation. : Neville waa one of the north west leading scorers through much of last season. Just barely missing tne top ten at the finish Larson, playing his third season as a first stringer, moves from guard to forward this term to make better use of his 6 feet S inches of height ca the boards. Height Is not a plentiful com- j modity around the Coyote campus and Parberry hopes that Jack Baker, 6 feet 8, will develop Into a starting center. Dave Hawks, five Inches shorter, is the pivot man atp resent. Another center candidate is Dick Weist who is 6-3 and a Junior. The team has three transfers, among them Don Mads en. He moved in from Weber Junior col lege in Utah, which ranked fifth nationally among the Jaycee fives last season. Bill Bever, who at 29 may be the Northwest Confer ence's oldest player, is a rugged guard. College of Idaho opens its lea gue schedule Januarr 5 at home against Linfield after a pre-season sonocnue oz ii games. never used such fine fuel, . . of courtof CAPITOL LDIIBEn GO. Pheae s-tsis er 1-4411 N. Cherry Ave. Oregon o o o Now in its One Hundredth Year of publication The Oregon Statesman enjoys high prestige among papers of the Northwest. With Us roots In pioneer day Tie SJafrjrruin has been a great constructive force in the develop ment of the Oregon country. Its character as a re liable netcspaper is universally recognized. Gener ations of children have learned their letters from its headlines. Generations of Oregonlans hav been guided in their thinking by its editorial pronouncements. o o o The Statesman of 1950 does not coast on the laurels of its near-century of publication. Its young, alert staff are diligent In making it a better paper, rendering better service to readers and odverthert than ever before. The Statesman is now a Seven-Day paper, pub llshed every morning of the year, the only paper printed and delivered throughout Ut area the day of publication. Only The Statesman givtt complete and fresh neic coverage Every Day of the Year.