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Fieldingfons Established ers Robinson, Marshall Enter Record Books NEW YORK, Dec 20-OTWadti Robinson of Brooklyn and WITlard Marshall of Boston fielded their way into the record books with brilliant 195 performances at second base and in the outfield, according to official figures re leased today. Robinson shattered a National league fielding mark for second basemen when he posted a spec tacular J92 percentage while play ing 150 games. The 32-year-old defensive flash committed a record low of only seven errors while ac cepting S32 chances. The old standard of .987 was set by Al (Red) Schoendienst of St Louis. Oddly enough, the Cardinal second sacker last season also bettered that figure with a .990 mark. Marshall had a perfect season in right field, accepting 231 chances without an error. This tied the ma jor league record held by Danny Litwhiler of the 1942 Phillies who went 151 games without an error. Marshall played 136 games last season. Robinson and First Baseman Gil Hodges of the Dodgers also broke their own league double play rec ords. Robby took part in 137 twin killings, besting his own mark by four. Hodges participated in 171 double plays, a dozen more than he took part in 1950. Hodses yielded first base field ing honors, however, to Cincin nati's Ted Kluszewski, who post ed a .997 mark for 154 games. Billy Johnson of the Cards topped the third basemen with .976 and Redleg Virgil Stallcup won short stops honors with .969. Wes Westrum, for the second straight year, led the catchers with .987 and his New York Giants battery mate, Sal Maglie, handled the most chances by a pitcher without an error, 76. Hodges, by playing in 158 games (including three playoff tilts) equalled a record held by three other first basemen. Richie Ashburn, fleet - footed flychaser of the Phillies, was the busiest outfielder in the league. He accepted 560 chances, including 538 putouts, 15 assists and seven errors. The record of 566 chances is held by Taylor Douthit, the old Cardinals centerfielder. DouthiW made a major league record num ber of 547 putouts, had 10 assists and nine errors in 1928. The best arm in the league last season belonged to Brooklyn's Carl Furillo, who threw out 24 ambit ious base-runners. Hoss Wagering Shows Upswing NEW YORK, Dec. 20-;P)-Horse racing fans shoved $1,629,239,777 through the pari-mutuel windows last season, and reports from P nr ida and Louisiana indicate the na tion's tracks can look for another big year in f952. In some states racing officials indicated the government drive against bookmakers had resulted in more customers visiting the tracks. Whatever the reason, un official figures compiled by the Associated Press showed wager ing jumped 17.01 per certf during 1951 as compared with too prev ious year. The 24 states where pari-mutuel betting on the horses is legal prof ited to the tune of $99,927,423 a revenue record. This was 17.63 per cent above the 1950 revenue total of 184,909,382. Wagering increased in every one of the 24 states last season. and the nationwide attendance jumped 6.01 per cent over 1950. Topped by New York's attend ance, of 4,386,315, the nation's tracks had 24,302,000 customers during the season, compared with 22,924,517 in 1950. In 1950, the wagering total was $1,392,032,740. Table of Coastal Tides Tides for Taft. Oregon December. 1931 (compiled by V. Coast and Geo deUo Survey. Portland. Or.) Pacific Standard Time Bv Z r lav v v HIGH WATERS LOW WATERS Dec Time Ht. Time Ht. II :17 am. 6.1 12:4 pjn. 1.S 5:54 p m. 4M 11:5 pjrn. 1.1 SS :M a.m. 6 5 1:54 p.m. I S 7:23 p.m. 4J S3 71 ajn. 6.S 13:44 ajn. SJ S:Mp.ra. 4J tS2 pjn. IS 14 SIS mm. 7.1 1:25 a.m. X.7 10 JO pjn. 4.5 3:44 pjn. OJI SS ajn. 7.S 1:2S un. 3S 11:1 pjn. 4J) 4:33 pjn. - t 9:41 ajn. 7 S:3S ajn. 3.1 8:20 p.m. -1.1 tT 13:0 a.m. 50 4:23 ajn. 3J 10:35 ajn. pjn. -IS SS 12:56 ajn. 53 S:17 a.m. 3 J 11:24 ajn. SJ 6:54 pjn. -1.7 SS 1:43 ajn. S3 6:13 a.m. 3.3 12:13 pjn. 8 J 7:41 pjn. 1J By Ray Until Den Harger la able to we hope this win be very aeon), we will attempt to keep aporta men posted as to fishing and huUag eandittons throagheat the state. . Daek banting tn general threagneat the valley ia Pelk, Beatea and Marion coon ties has been geed. aceerdiag te informs tiast gtrea by the state police. The sleaghs and ponds along the Willamette river have aeedaeed well far those willing te brave the eeM aad wes. Many geese have been seen en the hillsides and fields ia the Perrydale and KlckreaU areas, bat the hunters repert only fair sheet lag. Best reports have come front Beaten county, aeuth e the Ce allis airport, with saany alee bags taken. If the weather forecast Is for rata or cloudy 'conditions this weekend the haatiag sheali remaia Steelhead fishing ea the Coast are atarky and high but a few are ta alet, sandy holes. There are extremely good soon as the rivers clear. The aleelhesW reported very good daring the clear weather recently, state) aettee. TheyTl iDo It Every ItTUhJSES? KEPT o-iVrl GDMES.il MER rni P-TRyAr Auotguat owl ours- 7 heS lr. l fc uxm i M vvrc I I . 11 LQ) Series Slated On Duck Floor UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Dec. 20 -(Special) The tall, rug ged and nationally rated Univer sity of Wyoming Cowboys Invade McArthur court Friday and Sat urday nights for a basketball se ries with the University of Oregon Webfoots. The games are to start at eight o'clock each night, fol lowing preliminary games featur ing the Oregon Jayvees. Coach Everett Sheltons Cow boys are a two-platoon outfit, one using the fast-break style of play and the other the slow, ball-control style. Height is sufficient on either unit, what with such giants as 6-8 Vi Joe . Orschanski. 6-8 Bob Clements, 6-7 John Hughes, 6-7 Ron Rivers, 6-5 Dan Blevins, 6-4 Dick Haag and 6-3 Nick Sliopulos to choose from. Morris Samuelson at 6-2 and Moe Radovich at 6-0 are other Cowboy sharpies. Wyoming is pegged to cop the Skyline conference title with ease this season. Probable starters for Coach Bill Borcher's Webfoots in the open ing game Friday will be Chet Noe at center. Bob Peterson and either Keith Faroam or Mel Streeter at forwards and Ken Hunt and Ron Bottler at guards. Series to Yield League Favorite DENVER, Dec. 20-(;p-The first straw in the wind that may reveal the relative merits of Utah and Wyoming, the preseason favorites in the Skyline conference, will blow out of Oregon this weekend. Wyoming's Cowboys, beaten on ly by Indiana, 55-57, play tomor row and Saturday nights against the University of Oregon at Eu gene. Utah's Redskins nipped Ore gon 63-58 and 64-62 in a twin bill at Eugene two weeks ago. Wonder if the Duck Was Inside th Fish? CALDWELL, Idaho, Dec. 26 C$VGene Odle says this hap pened the last day of dock hunt Ins seasea. Odle snot s teal dock while hunting along the Boise river near here. He sent his deg. a spaniel, Into the water te retrieve the duck. Back came the animal In record time. But at Odle's feet the eg laid. not a dock, but a flopping 11 inch long fish. Gorky, Parks In Mat Battle Sold at (Big Russian) Gorky and Herb (Perpetual Motion) Parks re the next main eventers on the armory mat. Promoter Elton Owen announced Thursday. They'll make with the topmost mayhem on Tuesday night, M. Owen's annual "Christmas Production" inasmuch as Tuesday falls on Christmas night. Qorky came storming back into tht Northwest this week after an Stose resame bis regular weekly eolamn Is only fair at fivers being taken by "atfl a lot ef fish tn and tt Time n , Teaouns Igd 4ftBu ntoaoofldl Tall Cowpoke EUGENEr Dee. 2S Bb Clements, above, six-foot, eight-tneh Jun ior from Seattle will be in the startling lineup far the Wyoming Cowboys when they open their two-ram series with the U of Oregon here Friday night. The tall Cowboys axe favored to top the Webfoots. absence and spilled younger Bill Parks with his Siberian wolf hop here Tuesday night. Herbie im mediately wanted a scuffle with the burley Soldat, and Owen wast ed little time getting it signed. "Should be a whale of a brawl if I know my wrestling,' Owen admits. The balance of the card is to be added later. Owen plans mak ing it as solid as possible, coin ciding with the Christmas theme. s ' 'I zw r 1 i w'" i y :. - ' ' ; . MAKING PORT IN COT HA U.xuiiaa cadets wave freaa the rtrJae; f taetr trstitnc aaisv Cae 1 saw Us Tib aaicUaa they arrive ta Kew Tern eat leg ef a lt.m ins tiaan. By" Jimmy Hario Race Picking Up Momentum Marion County B league bas ketball teams romp Into fourth round action tonight with three games on the menu, Chemawa at Mill City, Gates at St. Paul and Jefferson at Detroit. The Gervais Sublimity clash, a battle for un disputed first place in the stand ings, was to have been played last night at Gervais. Tonight's fare, as the league derby picks up steam, finds the stronger quints opposing the weaker entries. Mill City has two wins and one loss while the Che ma wans have yet to win. Gates is even with the board in two games and is heavily favored over win less St. Paul. And although Jef ferson has been able to win but once in three tries, the Lions rate as favorites over victory hungry Detroit in their clash. Detroit has lost three in a row. The Oregon School for the Deaf quint draws the bye tonight. Following tonight's round the league will go idle until January 4. Inasmuch as there has been some unannounced changes in the playing schedule the past week, and some games were not report ed, individual scoring and the standings will be held up until all returns are properly submitted. Look and Learn By A. C Gordon 1. What is meant by "biblio mancy"? 2. On what continent are found the largest tropical trees? 3. What economic law governs all buying and selling in business? 4. In Great Britain, what is the head official in charge of naval affairs called? 5. What is a synod? ANSWERS 1. The act or art of foretelling the future by means of books. especially the Bible. It is usually done by opening the book and choosing a passage at random. The passage is regarded as an augury, 2. South America. 3. The law of supply and de mand. 4. The First Lord of the Ad miralty. 5. An ecclesiastical council. mm Has Cheater Doll Of Work Than Ever Before The Oregon state highway, commission activities in 1931 win represent a greater dollar volume than any preceding year, the com mission reported this week. Income of the commission for the calendar year 1951 was ap proximately $3S miTHon; its disbursements, exclusive of bond fund income totauea 140 minion in rouaa rigures. Gross revenues from road sources (gasoline taxes etc) are expected to total $4400,000, or $1,700,000 in excess of the year 1S50. Of this sum $8,500,000 will have been paid to counties for county roads; $4,350,000 to dties for city streets; $1,060,00 to the State Police department, thus leaving approximately $30,300,000 to the Highway commission for it share. Added to this latter figure the Highway commission will re ceive during 1951 $7 million from the Federal Government for use in highway construction work plus $1,600,000 from other sources bringing the final total income ap proximately to $38,900,000. Maintenance Cost Hage During 1951 highway mainten ance has cost approximately $11, 100,000, due in large part to the great increase in heavier and fast er commercial hauling. Highway construction, exclusive of rights of way costs, has cost $19,900,000. Rights of way purchases have taken $3,400,000; capital outlays $1,600,000 and operating expense (including park operation, travel information, debt service and bridge-and ferry operation) $4 million; grand total $40 million. Approximately 70 per cent of the construction program for the year was federally aided, which means 60 per cent of the cost ex clusive of rights of way is furn ished by the federal bureau of roads and 40 per cent by the high way commission. This federal aid mounted to $7,450,000. Both fed eral and state funds will finance an annual construction program of approximately $12,900,000. The record shows that 96 per cent of the 1950-51 program ($18,900,000) and 47 per cent of the 1952-53 pro gram ($25,800,000) either is com pleted or under contract as of December 31, 1951, with Oregon standing in first place among all the states In the Union in percent age of available federal aid com pleted or under contract. Bridge Major Project In supplement of current high way revenues, acting under the bonding act of 1951 legislature, the commission has awarded construc tion contracts totalling $11,600,000 of which $1,200,000 presently has been expended for work done; this out of the initial annual bond al lotment of $15,000,000. To relieve the congestion at the Willamette river crossing at Sa lem, the Highway commission has undertaken the contraction of a bridge on Marion street to serve westbound traffic. On completion of this bridge, the existing bridge on Center street, one block to the south, will be reconstructed to eliminate an existing railway grade crossing and will then be used to serve the eastbound traf fic. Work on the Marion street bridge was commenced in June, 1950. Construction of concrete piers for the main spans is com pleted. A contract for the steel spans was awarded during Sep tember, 1950, but because of the shortage of structural steel, con struction has not yet commenced. The third contract to be let on this project was the concrete ap proaches which is now well under way but connot be completed un til 1 structural steel is obtained and the main river span completed. The completed structure will have a length of 2,560 feet and its cost will total approximately $1,500, 000 It is expected that steel de liveries will permit completion of the project by the fall of 1952. Santlam Has Big Job Other projects involving costs in excess of $200,000, completed or constructed in major part during 1951, included Stout Creek-Mill city, grade, North Santiam high way in Marion county, $331,000. Other projects involving expen ditures in excess of $200,000, par tially constructed in 1951 and scheduled for completion in 1952, include Little North Santiam Riv er bridge, North Santiam highway in Marion county, $217,000. Forest Highway projects involv ing costs in excess of $200,000, completed or constructed in major part in 1951, under the supervision of the Bureau of Public roads, in clude Brei ten bush river-Dry creek, clearing, grade and surface. North Santiam highway in Marion coun ty, $338,000. KISS PENALTY MANILA, P. I. -(INS)-A stolen kiss cost a J 0-year-old man 10 days in jail recently. And because he resisted arrest after an angry woman reported the act to a po liceman, the court also slapped him with a 30-day prison term. IJEW SEUHIG Phone 2-G762 For Free) Home DesBonatrallon THE IDEAL niC ffffffUUI' Balance) LaUU caxur a ALSO USED CIMiB? CHY ELES7QIC 339 Chemeketa Opem Thursday, Friday end Saturday Til Nine raw tuommision '. D I ArM OND-DECKED Pat Barrage 'wears a lung's ransom la diamonds at the open ing ef the Jewelers' Shew ta New York City. Gem total an to $17 carats and $ZJSZiM. Loan Company Reports 49 Savings Gain Total savings at First Federal Savings and Loan association gained 49 per cent in the past year, it was reported Thursday in fig ures prepared for the local fi nancial Institution's annual state ment. Fred B. Keeler, secretary and vice president of the association, said savings now stand at $3,065, 958, compared with $2,059,630 a year ago. The figure is an all time high for the association, as is the figure for total assets, $3 -385,412. The statement also showed a net gain in home loans of more than $900,000. In reviewing the year's activi ties, Keeler pointed out that in creased personal savings are one of the principal ways to fight in flation, and that the net gain of over a million dollars last year In savings invested in the asso ciation represented that sum with drawn from immediate spending, thus helping in the fight against inflation. Cooperation of the association with the voluntary credit re straint program of the federal re serve system was cited in the in stitution's report as was the care which the association exercises with regard to down payments. "Real estate prices and building costs are at doilars-and-cents lev els which have not been seen be fore in our memory," he said. "Sound real estate lending in such an era depends on good personal risks for borrowers as well as on the property." Keeler said that the families who want to build the more ex pensive houses may face some de lay or even postponement this coming year, because of stringen cies in critical materials, but that 1952 should see a substantial amount of modest home building all over the country. Paulson to Edit Annual at OTI KLAMATH FALLS. Dee. 20-P William Paulson. Salem, has been named editor of the school annual at Oregon Technical Institute for the second half of this school year. T.vl Rari Cnrvallis. was elect ed president; Robert Hewbill, Red mond, vice president; Opal Baty, Bly, secretary; Leroy Pettitt, Wal ton treasurer, and Patsy Ruth Miller, Klamath Falls, newspaper editor. In the fall when freen chloro phyll ceases to be dominant in trees, red, orange, and yellow pig ments have their chance to show ROYAL rOACHIIIES As Low As $13.50 Down Easy Terms MACH Two Women Hnrt In Anto Collision " ' ' Minor injuries were sustained by two . people fa an automobile accident at Portland road and Pine street Thursday mornings They .were Mrs. Lyman A. Shepherd of Orpbia, and Mrs. Kate Ingie, boot paiariip n in a car driven be- Urc. ""b.nfiai r. husband. There were two othersi in the car. Wallace- H. 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