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WacMesP19S0 Skier Crawls : I To Slalom Win Sport Events Noted in Poll NEW YORK, Jan. 6 -OP)- Gather around the hof stove, friends, and we'll tell you about the wackiest events in sports during the past year. j There were plenty of them, too. But the most outstanding in the minds of sports writers and : sportscasters were the big bliz- j , - - a . zard, the great fox hunt in Yan- ; I otoliriQ VV kee Stadium, and the longest mile i Vcllclllllcl ff UIl run in histor'. ! The experts who took part in ! -wr T the Associated Press' year-end j Kr Y fllll HflWT poll found . many .other oddities J J A VF 11 AlUOS, to lighten up a grim year. J They didn't chuckle at Ohio I GoetZ Colt Cracks State, however, over the great j . blizzard. Thirteen inches of snow : Santa Alllta KeCOrd had piled up on the huge Ohioj Stadium before the climactic j ARCADIA, Calif., J a n. 6 -(Jf)-game with Michigan. A snow j Your Host, an even money favor .tnrm ramvt a ?S-nile an hour i ite, broke the track record for a wind lashed the field, and the gridders performed in biting, ten degree cold. And oddly enough, and may be that's not the proper word, 50. 503 fanatics tried to watch the ghostlike figures maneuver. Not a single first down was made by Michigan, which won, 9-3, to capture the Big Ten ti tle and a trip to the Rose BowL The weather was almost as bad m other sections of the country. Punts were booted straight up in the air, In some parts gales swept the kicks back, and players, un able to distinguish their team mates, tackled their own run ners. The most elusive runner since the days of Red Grange, how ever, showed up In the Yankee Stadium. It was Reynard, the fox. a gaunt little critter about three feet long and weighing about 15 pounds. Reynard first was spotted by watchmen the night before the Army-Michigan football game af ter a truckload of tarpaulins had been brought in. Some wags said the fox had been there all throuph the base ball season and had mapped out all .of the strange ships cooked up by, Casey Stengel. Casey, who won two' straight world championShiDS, hastily de nied any collaboration with Ry nard, saying he got his inspira tion from the same little boy who helped Irving Berlin write his song hits. They finally pot Revnarci one dark night in December. There was no baying of hounds, no scarlet-clad hunters. Reynard was blasted by a shotgun in the dimly lit catacombs under the stands. He was at the nd of his rope when it happened, anyway, learr and starved looking. Reynard has been stuffed and mounted In the Stadium press room, a permanent reminder to Yankee base stealers to make that bag. The world's record for the mile run is 4:01.4. The world's record for the mile run is 4:01.4. The slowest? The S14 days, 12 hours and 23 minutes It took for Don Gehrmann of Wis consin to win the Wanamaker mile. Gehrmann was declared the winner on Jan; 28 when he fin ished the mile in Madison Square Garden in 4:09.3, a breath ahead of Fred Wilt. Four judges were evenly divided on the outcome and chief judge Asa Bushell declared for Gehrmann. After that follow ed a series of squabbles that would- have mystified a Philadelphia law yer with Wilt declared the win ner and then Gehrmann. The dis pute raged for months. Finally on Dec. 9, the AAU, at its annual convention, decided once and for all that Gehrmann was the victor. Pomeroy Gets Warner Award PALO ALTO, Calif., Jan. Russ Pomeroy. Stanford lineback ine ace, todav was named winner of the Glenn (Pop Warner award: as the most valuable senior foot-; ball player on the Pacific coast at the c'ub's annual banquet sched during the past season. The 20.W uled for January 30. pound All-Coast AP lineman will La.-t year. Eddie Le Baron of the receive a gold wr-M witch and a College of Pacific Timers won the regulation size gold football trophy first edition of the award. s D&a & 1 g$ ibi q p s a T iKoiT (Continued from piece'Ung page) rest of the members of the National Collegiate Athletic association do some de-emphr.izing of their ov.r.. the PCC will be the laughing stock of the footb .il side of the naT;o:; every September to December. One might iay in rebuttal. "Notre Dame. Army and Navv do not believe in post-season frames, and they seem to d oketa." Very true. But then those teams have a backlog of non-participation after the close of the regular season, which the PCC doesn't have. Like mary other who have stopped to study the whole thine, we can appreciate the Coast's anxiousness to put some kind of stopper to the outrageous cost of big time football. But darned if we can understand why she left herself so wide open with the an nouncement at this particular time. . . Jim Thorpe .ill Amrican' Soon Coming Soon to be released for the public consumption is the film, "Jim Thorpe All American." No, Jim himself won't be playing," the lead despite the fact that he lives near Hollywood these days But the Warner Bros, organization went to great lengths to give the public as realistic a history as possible on the feats of the greatest athlete of the 1900-50 half-century. For example, the film company ordered exact replicas of the football uniforms worn by the Carlisle Indian school. Harvard, Army, Penn and other colleges between 11907 and 1912. Thorpe himself is played by Burt Lancaster, whose measure ments are exact with the Thorpe of those years six feet, tivo inches tall, 186 pounds, size 44 shirt, 31 pants. No. 10 shoes and 7b hat. Grease paint and dyed hair for Lancaster has him looking the part of an Indian. 1 The veteran Charles Bickford plays Coach "Pop" Warner in film, and they do resemble one another. The 64 -year-old Thorp himself acted a technical adviser for the film, and such sports - prominents as Jess Hill, USC track coach; Mickey Mc Cardie, former Trojan football treat; Bin Spauldinr, ex-UCLA grid mentor, and Mushy Callahan of prize firht fame were assigned chorea by the technical department so that authenticity mlxht not be suffering. The story deals with Thorpe's life from boyhood to about 1933. Actor Lancaster, a former athlete himself at New York U, spent two months getting into proper shape for the rugged athletic scenes that required 11 weeks of shooting. Should be quite a picture, and we rather Imagine ana of Cat first in line for a ticket when It comes U Salem will b young Dick Thorpe, son of the great mile and one-eighth today by out running nine rivals in Santa Ani ta's $50,000 Santa Catalina handi cap. Clearly the class horse in the field of California breds, the Willi am Goetz colt carried high weight of 130 pounds and reeled off the distance in 1:48-15. The clocking trimmed two-fifths of a second off the mark set by Double Jay in July, 1949. Jockey Eric Guerin, riding in place of the injured Johnny Gil bert held Your Host under re straint for the first five eighths, brought him to the front at the top of the stretch, and beat out Moonrush by half a length. Your Host returned $4.00, $3.20. and $2.20 across the board. Moon rush, with Eddie Arcaro, paid $5. 70 and $2.80, while Vino Fino, the show horse, returned $2.20. City Leaguers In More Tilts CITY LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet. W CamDbell 4 0 1 OOO'FDoinir .. 1 Woolens 3 1 .T.iOMap!? J 12th St. 2 1 .667!Knihts -0 (National Division) W L Pet. W Newsmen 4 0 l.wo: -Office 1 Wolgamt 3 1 .750 Sophs 1 Bus. Coi. 2 2 .500 N'avals ...1 Pc-t .250 .000 Pet .2S0 ! .2.i .230 Fifth round action confronts City league basketball teams this week, with the American divi sioners going at it Monday night and the Nationals Wednesday night at Leslie. Races in both divisions have respective, undefeated leaders. The Campbell Insulators are out in front with a 4-0 mark in the American division and the Salem News Agency enjoys a similar role in the National. The Page Woolens are a game behind the former and the Wolgamott Ser vice Stations are ditto in arrears of the Agents. Monday games: Maple Dairy vs. Epplng Lumber at seven. "Page Woolens vs. 12th Street Food Mar ket at eight. Campbell Insulators will meet Wolgamott Service sta tion of the National loop at nine in an exhibition. Wednesday games: Salem Sophomores vs. Wolgamott's at seven. Capitol Business Colleee vs. Salem News Agency at eight and Post Office vs. Naval Reserve at nine. Table of Coastal Tides TIDES FOR TAFT, ORE. (Compiled by U S Coast Geodetic Survey. Portland. Ore.) PACIFIC STANDARD TIME January. 1351 High Waters T-me Ht Low Waters . Time Ht ! 7 12 42 a .m. J 4 11 13 a.m. 8.2 8 1 28 am. S6 12 04 p m. 8 1 9 2 11 a m. 5 8 12 55 p m. 7 8 10 2 54 a.m. 6 0 1 4fi p m. 7 3 11 3 34 a m. 6 2 2 p m. 6.6 12 4 13 a m. 6.4 3 30 p m. 5 9 13 4 51 a m. 6 5 5:09 a.m. 3.3 6 41 p m. -16 6 07 a.m. 3.2 7:27 p m. -1.5 7:04 a m. 30 8 11 p m. -1.2 8:01 .m. 2.9 8 51 p m. -0.8 9 00 a.m. 2.8 9 29 p m. -0.1 10:03 a m. 2.6 10 :07 p m. 11:09 a.m. 10:45 p.m. 12 :18 p m. 11 24 p.m. 1:29 a.m. 06 2.3 1.3 2.0 2.0 1.6 4:30 p.m. 5.2 5 31 a m. 6 6 5 41 p in. 4 5 ij 13 a.m. 6 6 7 C9 p.m. 4.2 14 15 athlete who la sow a sop if fV "V"- 'N v - S5 t - V; X - ' LOS ANGELES Jeff Cravath (right) who recently resigned under pressure as USC grid coach, works at his new Job as a patrol Judge at the Santa Anita race track at Arcadia, Cat His new duties earn him $50 a day. Jim Tnnney (left), also a Judxe, ia another former football star. (AP Wirephoto.) SneacFs Game Goes ansom Lead in By Bob Myers LOS ANGELES, Jan. 6-4P)-Henry Ransom, a veteran of the pro fessional ranks, moved into a commanding lead at the midway mark of the S 15,000 Los Angeles open today as pace setting, favored Sam Snead fell back in quest of his second straight triumph here. Ransom, who plays out of St. Andrews, 111., shot a five under par 66 after a first round 70 yes- j terday to post a total score of 136 j at the end of 36 holes of the 71- j hole tournament. ! Snead, whose 67 led the field ; yesterday, slumped back to 75 ' blows and a score of 142, six val uable strokes behind Ransom. Sandwiched in between were four other contenders for the top money, who will move into the third round tomorrow and the fi nal 18 holes Monday. Play is at Riviera Country club, familiar scene for the past seven years of the Los Angeles open. Par for the 7,020-yard test is 35 3871. Joe Kirkwood, jr., the tall, hand some "Joe Palooka" of the movies and a pro golfing son of a famous j golfing father of yesteryear, fin-! ished the 36 holes with 69-71 140, four shots off the pace in sec ond place. j Tied at 141 were Felice Torza, 1 St. Charles, III., with a 69 today; I Ed Furgol, Royal Oak. Mich., with a 71, and Doug Ford of Briarcliff, N Y., who had a 72. j Bracketed at 143 were Lloyd , Mangrum of Chicago, and Cary j Middlecoff, Memphis, with 70's; Amateur Bud Holscher of Santa Monica, Calif., playing his home course, with a 71, and Jimmy Clark, pro from Laguna Beach, Calif., with a 69. Chuck Congdon, Tacoma, who had a 72 yesterday, fired a 78 to day for a 150 total and slipped from the list of leaders. Ed Oliver, Seattle, had a 78-74 152. Snead apparently was hamper ed by an injured left hand. He hurt it originally in Miami two weeks ago, and complained that it troubled him yesterday. Souths Snare Senior Fray CCor.tinued from preceding page) his second touchdown catch came on a 16 yard toss from Salem, after a 54-yard heave from the Alabama All America passing ace put the ball in position for the score. Curtis got a valuable assist from Missouri's Ed Stephens on the second touchdown catch. Ste phens' arm deflected the ball to the Vandy star, who was sitting or. the turf when the ball landed in his lap. Actually, a conversion by Ken tucky's All-America Bob Gain provided the victory margin. It came after the South's third touchdown, and was the only ex tra point of the game. Georgia's Billy Mixon scored the South's third touchdown at the start of the second quarter on a four yard sweep around end. Oklahoma's powerhouse, Leon Heath, and killer Kyle Rote of SMU counted two of the North's scores to wind up long ground drives. A 15-yard toss from Nagle to rangy Wilkinson brought Bo McMillin's North forces their third score. Rote missed all three tries at conversions. For Benl Trucks ana. Stakes; Plckirpa D Tew On nmity, Rava Vi racking Pads and Rand Furnished. Ceslrd U-Drivo Trcdr Servico Ccc Ferry end Liberty . - ' , . ' '-" - 1 1 I - ' ' K . ' ! . " x . ' . 1 iL .-"... Awry Zooms into Big LA Open Meet Kittens Face Rook Joust The Willamette Bearkittens. mentored by Sam Yokes, chalk ed up their third win in six starts Friday night as they whipped the Tillamook high Cheesemakera, 59-37, on the preppers' floor and with that win under their belts the WU Frosh immediately set eyes en Wednesday nifht's big: clash with the strong OSC Rooks on the local floor. The Rook mix Is set for an g o'clock start and among: the men the Vokes crew will have to worry about are Daryl Glrod, the former Salem high AH Stater and Ron Fundingsland, also an all-stater at Portland's Jefferson high last season. Included in the Bearkitien cast are I -ay ton Gilson, a team mate of Girod's last year; Rick Bingham, the football quarter back; Kent Myers, another Sa lem high product; and Jerry Al drich, who also cavorted on the grid. Gilson led the Kittens' win over Tillamook with 16 points and Aldrich was close behind with 15. Sid Dope By the Associated Press Timberline Lodge: Road clear, need chains, ample parking; 105 inches snow, none new; powder and packed; the three tows will operate: skung good. Forecast: a few high clouds Sunday; light easterly wind: daytime tempera- tures below freezing. Government Camp: Road clear, the Oregon State Game commis need chains; ample parking; 40 sion's Portland office Friday, Jan. inches snow, none new; powder1 12, at 10 ajn. Recommendations and light crust; Summit and Mul-, from all interested parties will torpor tows will operate: skiing I be heard, but the game commis good. Forecast same as Timber- sion requests that important facts line except daytime temperature and statements be submitted in at or slightly above freezing. j writing. Santiam Pass: Road wide, chains : Tentative angling regulations should be carried; parking ample; will be announced after the hear 54 inches snow, 3 inches new; ing. The commission will recon powdery, dry: rope tows to Hoo-j vene Jan. 26, make any changes doo Butte w ill operate Sunday; I deemed necessary, and set the night skiing started Saturday night j final 1951 angling regulations. The and continue through the season; ! commission's Portland headquar skiing excellent. Forecast: same as ! ters is located at 1634 S. W. Alder Government Camp. ' street. GET A Mut'l What Wo I Kmiwy front wtU and inspect 2 Ctoon, Impact and rep nth bearings. 4 Check 5 Adput brake OCT WITH Carafirftytaot Center and N. Liberty 1? I lanadian Miminary 1st, National Meet ALTA, Utah, Uan. -(P)-Ernle McCullouch, Canadian ski ace from Sun Valley, Idaho, upset at the finish line today, but slid and crawled to a snow-down-his-neck victory in the national giant slalom. Suzy Harris Rytting, comely Salt Lake City part-time house wife, flashed through the gates at the end of the mile and one half course to take the women's division crown. ' " McCulloch's spectacular spill came near the end of the treach erous course down Wildcat run, but he bounced and clawed the few remaining yards to the fin ish, posting an impressive time of 1:41.4. Mrs. Rytting, the only Utah entry In the women's division, turned in a time of 2:05.3 and became the first Utahan ever to win this behemoth of slalom 'races. But she barely edged Betty Weir of Omaha, Nebraska, skiing for Sun Valley. Her time was half a second slower than Mrs. Rytting's 2:05.8. McCulloch nearly lost the race to Gordy Wren of Steamboat Springs, Colo. Wren, in his first race since the U. S. Olympic try outs three years ago, gave his competitors enough of a lesson to cop second with 1:43.0. Mrs. Rytting's finish was story bookish in that she was the first of the females to traverse the 45-gate course. Third in the male division went to Jack Reddish of Salt Lake City in 1:43.1. Jim Griffith of Ketch um, Idaho, was fourth at 1:44.8, and Steve Knowlton of Aspen, Colo., placed fifth at 1:46.8. Third in the women's division was Elaine Holmstad, another Sun Valley lass, in 2:10.2. She won the Peruvian cup women's division at Alta last month. Spills by the contestants were a dime a dozen, and only the very skilled completed the course with out a fancy "sitzmark. Eight entrants encountered dif ficulty negotiating the gates, and thus were disqualified. Guttorm Berge and Luis de Rider both flunked out in this manner. Berge, a Norwegian, Is a student at Whit man college in Walla Walla, Wash. De Rider, an Argentinian, is en rolled in the Univr?ity of Utah. Reese Stevenr of trie Mult i noma Athletic c3 Portland, was ' 16th in the men's event. His time was 1:53.1. Boxing Party At Silverton Coliseum Dedication, Series With Huskies SILVERTON. Jan. 6-(Special)-The Silverton Police Athletic dub will present its first amateur box ing show of the season in the Sil verton armory Saturday night, January 13, starting at 8:30 o'clock. : Proceeds of the show will go to the I Athletic club's boys' program. I A number of bouts are to- be lined up for the show. The main ' event and semiwindup already i have been announced. In the for I mer, a five-rounder, Harold Kot I tre, 148, Mt. Angel, will meet Jim ! my Puscas, 144, Eugene, the state j lightweight champion. The semi l windup will pit Sylvester Kottre, I 125, Mt Angel, and Ray Hoskins, ; 125, Albany. Participants In other bouts will be announced later. Admission for the benefit show will be $1 for adults and 50c for students. Commish Sets Fish Hearing PORTLAND, Jan. 6 -(Special) j Public hearing on angling regu- lations for 1951 will be held in Reg.450Voluej Do - Dniag. ANY MAKE 3 CAR STORES St. Phont 2-2491 'VFi ' Parks-Gorky The billing for Matchmaker El ton Owen's Tuesday night mat show at the armory is now com plete and, from its appearances the muscles maestro has again gone to lengths to - produce a Grade-A party for his customers. First off there is of course the re match mainer involving Herb (Perpetual Motion) Parks and Sol dat (Big Russian) Gorky, a gem carried over from last week when these two installed a real ripsnort er here. Only this time there is to be a "no disqualification" rule gov erning the match, meaning that Herbie and bearded Soldat can go at it just as hot and heavy as they like. Owen has secured a real head liner for his special feature Tues day also. Back again after too long an absence in these parts will be Frank Stojack, the ex-WSC foot ball Ail-American and one of the best all-around matadors in the Confab Due Today Waltons to Formulate Legislative Policies A special meeting of the board of directors and the legislative committee of the Oregon division of the Izaac Walton league will be held at the Salem chapter's clubhouse today at 12 noon, announces David B. Charlton, president of the State division. The meeting, at which all state chapters will have representation, is designed to formulate policies of legislative action to be pursued by the group in the pending legis lative session. All Salem chapter members are urged to attend today's meeting. Rex Sanford, president of the Salem chapter, also announces a meeting Monday night, 7:30, at the clubhouse, of the newly created committee on chairmen. At the Monday night meeting yearly chairmanship appointments will be made for the 23 commit tees functioning in the local chap ter. 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The road into Hoodoo Bowl Is open and the highway is in good condition with packed snow on the surface. Chains should te carried. Ample parkin- space is available. The new chair lift is expected to be in operation Sunday and tows are running at both Hoodoo Bowl and Santiam Lodge. tive the organization In our Salem chapter. WW BROWN'S J A Ki GD A E V LL SALES FINAL NO REFUNDS Makes 13 Off 7 Regular 3.75 Regular 2.25 Regular 5.90 - Regular 6.75 - Regular 13.75 Regular 35 Regular 1.90 - Regular 3.10 Regular 3.35- THAT CONVENIENT LOCATION Front end Court Whoro Parking Is No Problem win occupy one of the two one fan prelim ! spots. Jack (Tiger) Kiser and Leo (Pile Driver) Wai- Hck. And In the other single fal- ler it win be the likeable Cowboy Carlson . against George O'Hara, the latter the Amarillo, Tex, oper ator who learned his ABC's of grappling from the late Joe Lyn am.. Again in the midst of referee troubles, Owen is bringing in none other than Buck Davidson to third -man the Tuesday card. Always a popular as well as rugged grappler here during years gone by, Bucko is now the top referee in the south ern part of the state. Owen feels hell need a non-biased and ultra capable ref to handle the mainer, for there is much bad blood be tween Parks and Gorky. Fact is, Gorky whacked open a bad gash under Herb's left eye last week, which caused Parks to go beserk and get himself disqualified. Zaharias Leads Women's Meet PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla, Jan. 6-CPV-Babe Zaharias prac tically nailed down another top golf prize today when she pulled away from the field in the second round of the $3,000 Ponte Vedra club open. The Babe shot a steady 38-36 74 for a 38-hole total of 149. Her one-over-par round put her fourstrokes ahead of 17-year-old Marlene Bauer. They tied with 75 in yesterday's opening 18 holes but the younger of the two Bauer sis ters from Midland, Texas, had putting trouble today and used up 78 strokes over the par 37-38 73 Oceanside course. Patty Berg of Minneapolis went around the 6,715-yard layout in 38-38 76 and moved within a stroke of Marlene at 154. . HUSKY FROSH GET 183 SEATTLE, Jan. 6 (P-The Uni versity of Washington freshman basketball team set a new scoring standard tonight with a 103-28 victory over the pier 91 naval re ceiving station five. The former high-scoring frpsh mark was a 90 63 triumph over Fort Lawton last year. Wood Chisels Reg. 1.15. Reg, 1.60, Sale K Complete Door Hardware For average 5-room House. AQ50 Reg. 43.25, Sale XmO s.i. 2.49 Sal. 1.45 Sale 3.95 Sale 4.95 Sale 9.19 Sale .21 . Sale .98 1.89 Sale 2.25 ieotBouer. ana a pretty good on, at eary ttZZl