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; I- ! ; 1 (Sac 2 Statesman. Salem, Orf Thun. Ian. 7. 1954 Capfip 'Kaee .Dpeiiis f pay Pennant Race if - l ooms Close ' : I j - Both Academy Quints In Road Conimencers i The six-tean. Capitol League basketball romp gits under way Friday night -with! all six mem bers going postward for the eight o'clock commencer&i Salem Aca demy will be at Stayton, Sacred H-rt at Central and Philomath at Cascade in the openers. Whr.t with Stayton, Cascade. Sacred Heart and; Central all bo-sting reputable j teams, pros pects fcr a s!rvn title scramble are evident Also,; Salem Aca demy could bounce into the championship picture if the Cru saders continue to improve as they did in December. AH but two of: the teams' go into the openers f with a pre league" record of more wins than defeats. OnW John Newman's Ph'1oir.2ts have failed to win at h:nst ts many as they've lost to date. if Varren Schuer$ Central Hi Panthers have a 44 record, with victories over such' team as Day ton, Sheridan and Forest Grove included. f Leo Grosjacques Sacre4 Heart Cardinals have posted five wins against three looses, the victories irclud;n "Woodhiirn, Mt. Angel rrd Siivertcn of; the Willamette Valley League. 1 J The Crusaders,: mentored by Bob Funk, have I won three and lost three. Waldport and Taft . are among ttieir victims. Cascade High' iCougars own a 5-3 mark, and Lyle King's crew has defeated Silverton, Sheridan, Jefferson and North Marion. The Stayton Eagles sport a snappy 6-3 record, with two of the losses having i occured in the Linfield Old Grads Tournament in December. The Eagles include among their victims Silverton, Dallas, Sheridan .'and Mill City, the latter the class of the Marion County B League to date. College Comments . . By TOM YATES i Tomorrow night's game between the Willamette Bearcats and the Whitman Missionaries in the 'Cat gym will be one of three to usher in the Northwest Conference 1954 basketball derby. Pacific and Lewis and Clark will have a home and home pair Friday and Saturday and College of Idaho will debut at Linfield. Both the Wildcats and Bearcats will be hosting the same opponents again on Saturday, and will twitch foes for Monday night mixes. With four of last years All-Star quintet back in action the Conference race looms as a high quality free-for-all with very little chance for a runaway by any one team. The return in; honor men are equally split up between four schools, with only Willamette and Linfield being minus a Star holdover. The Becrcat's Die!: Ma?e is the lone missing topnotcher from . r '53 mythical five, aadithey may well wish they had the rubber-legged forward before this season's over. ! Tops in talent are the Missionaries, who will be starting four lettermen along with All-Conference Dick Fain. Sharp shooting Don Robinson will provide the Whits with enough points in any game to make them a threat. Robinson didn't join the team until the spring semester last year, and they won 9 of their last 12 games. The Walla Wallans had an overall record of 13 and 12..: This corner is forced to pick Coach Bob Burgess' Mission aries as cumber one title contenders for '54. The Fain-Robinson combine has already dumped Gonzaga (including Jerry Ver million). This weekend's play should tell the story pretty well, for the Whits have had their troubles getting points in the State Street gym in recent years. So if they can handle the always rugged John Lewis coached 'Cats they'll be on their way. Willamette potentially is a contender, and as long as Lewis is calling the shots they can be dangerous. But they've appeared too slow in recent -games to be tabbed championship calibre. In attempt ing to slow down opponents offensive thrusts the 'Cats have fre quently employed a fine zone defense. But it's been the Methodist's own inability to drive the ball inside the enemy defenses that has cost them ball games. The Linfield-C of I Coyote tussles should once more prove the Idahoan's R. C. Owens is the best in the loop when it comes to stuffing the ball through the hoop. Linfield looks to be the weakest link in the conference, depending on Dave Sanford for most of its scoring punch. The Coyotes ought to be about on par with Willamette. Lewis and Clark, and Pacific. Pacific, with Norm Hubert, and the L & C Pioneers, with Ken Servas, are the remaining two teams with returning Star hoopers Lewis and Clark has hfld trouble getting started this season, and while the defending champs won't give up the top spot without a fight, the company is mighty rough this year. The Badgers draw our vote as the most likely darkhorse in the rzce. The defeat handed Portland U. by Coach Harvey Roloff's hustlers should be an alarm in ghint to his brother coaches to watch out for the Forest Grove team. Pacific and Willamette tied for second last season, one game behind the Pioneers. Power A'Plenlv With Allstate When You Can Have Guaranteed Fdclory fresli BaSlenes lor Any Car in Top! Halbrook Top Beaver Scorer OREGON STATE COLLEGE ( Special )-Maintaining a. 23.7 av erage per game! Wade (Swede) Halbrook, the 7-3 center, leads Oregon State basketball scoring to date with 237 points in 10 games. The young giant is far ahead of TonlVlastelica in sec ond place, who has scored 87 points for a 9.1 average. The Beavers I are now busily preparing for i their conference openers here Friday and Satur day nights with Idaho. For their first 10 garner, seven of which have been wins for OSC. the Beavers hive averaged 69.2 points, to 60.9 for the opposition. The scoring: ; fga tg pet. ft pf tp ave.' Halbrook 180 81 .450 75 32 237 23.7 Vlastelica 120 38 .317 11 20 87 9.7 Whttemaa .... 85 g3 .384 16 22 82 8.2 Toole 67 U .358 27 33 75 7.5 Jarboe 65 SI .323 22 29 64 6.4 RomanoU 57 22 .38? 8 24 52 5.2 Robins 77 4 8 .234 13 19 Paulus 13 3 .231 8 20 Halligan 121 2 .167 7 6 Dean 15 1 3 .200 4 4 Crimmins 121 3 .250 1 3 fundingsland 8; 2 .250 0 9 Gonzaga Ace's Average Tops In Northwest; OSC Giant 2nd SEATTLE (iP Jerry Vermillion of Gonzaga is the deadeye of the Northwest's collegiate basketball players as the 1954 chase begins. The Bulldog star was averaging 24.7 points per tussle after eight 49 54 14 2.0 11 is 10 1.3 7 2.3 4 1.0 Hogail Named Top Athlete (Continued from preceding page) Hogan lay 'near death after complications; j:set in, but he re covered after; delicate two-hour abdominal operation. By mid summer he was back hobbling ' around the Slinks on crutches. They said hed never reach his tournament form again. But Ben of the iron nerves and persistent practice amazed the golf world by winning the U. S. Open in 1950 at Merion, Pa. He repeated at Birmingham, Mich., in 1951, and did it again at Oakmont last summer. Then he was off to Carnoustie, Scotland, to tackle his first Brit ish Open. Hogan had been taunt ed by criticsfwho said "you can't play that other kind of golf" the Scottish kind in the strong sea winds, cold and rain. Hogan trailed two Britons by two strokes going into the final day, chilled and near exhaustion from influenza. But the Hogan spirit brought him his greatest golfing triumph. He toured Car ' noustie's 7,2 00-yard "terror on his final round in 68, breaking the competitive course record. His su perb game placed him alongside Bobby Jones at the . peak of all golfdom. if His reward was $1,400 and world-wide showers of praise. He played in only six major tour naments during 1953 won five, plus $17,800. A great performance, great," said Bobby Jones in New York. Basket Slate Heavy Friday (Con'd from preceding page.) Roosevelt High, a team the Viks nosed out by 'our points here at the start of the season. Leb anon High is at Sweet Home Friday night, a district game for both teams. And although not league en counters, other Friday nighters will include Falls City at Eddy ville, Perrydale at Colton and Valsetz at Siletz. The collegiates are to be a busy lot Friday and Saturday nights also. The Northwest Con ference starts play with Whit man playing Willamette here, College of Idaho at Linfield and Pacific University at Lewis & Clark, all two-game series. The OCE Wolves go to Ashland for Friday, Saturday nighters with Southern Oregon. Idaho and Oregon State collide at; Corval lis both nights in what could be very crucial Coast Conference clashes for both, and Washing ton opens its league season at Pullman in a weekend pair with Washington State. j games, just one point more than Oregon State's 7 foot 3 inch Wade Halbrook. The O.S.C. pinnacle had a bulge on the field in total points, how ever, stacking up 237 counters in 10 games. In third place on a bas is of per-game average all totals being considered through Satur day's games is another high guy; Joe Pehanick of Seattle University. Joe's average was 21.1 for 10 tus sles. Players averaging 15 or more points per game: G Pts. Ave. Vermillion, Gonzaga 8 198 24.7 Halbrook. O.S.C. 10 237 Pehanick, S.U. 10 211 Keefe, So. Ore. 11 216 Bennink, W.S.C. 10 186 Parsons. Wash. 8 146 Glowaski, S. U. 10 180 Edwards, E.W.C. 9 152 23.7 21.1 19.6 18.6 18.2 18.0 16.9 ZARILLA RELEASED BOSTON m Veteran outfield er Al Zarilla Wednesday was given his outright! release by the Boston Red Sox. ft Zarilla, 33, was used mainly as pinch hitter last season, compil ing a .194 average while appear ing in 57 jgames. GermaiiLicked By Buccerpni MILWAUKEE W - ! Philadel phia's Dan Bucceroni, giving al most 28 pounds pummeled effec tively at short range for a unani mous 10-round heavyweight deci sion over Germany's Hein Ten Hoff Tuesday night Philadelphia Dan, scoring his 46th victory against only three de feats, was shooting for a possible February date against j champion Rocky Marciano in Miaqai. j : . Beavers Release Willie Ramsdell PORTLAND. Ore. t The Portland Pacific Coast League baseball club Wednesday, an nounced the rel se Of WiHard Ramsdell, veteran khujckleballer who once pitched for Brooklyn and Cincinnati in the National League. Portland signed Ramsdell last season after his release by Los Angeles. He pitched Only a few innings for Portland. ; Aussie Doubles Team Winner ADELAIDE, Australia 1 Tony Trabert carried America's hopes in the semi-finals of the South Australian singles champion ships Thursday as the "I -told-you-so" tennis fans had the last word in the disputed doubles in the recent Davis Cup challenge round. Trabert, of Cincinnati, meets Aussie Ken Rosewall in one of Thursday's semi - final matches while the other is an all-Australian match between Lewis Hoad and Rex Hartwig. The doubles controversy had new fuel to work on as a result of the semi-finals Wednesday .in the South Australian championships. Rose wall, who was removed from the Aussie doubles combination in Davis Cup play after which the American pair blasted Hoad and Hartwig fori a vital point, teamed agam with Hoad here. A crowd of 5,500 watched as the 19-year-old Australians got back to gether and defeated Trabert and Seixas, 6-3, ; 6-3, 6-3. Tide Table FASTEST KIIOWII RELIEF FOR GAS Oil STOMACH TH ANK nZAVKNSI Mart attacka are add tndlctsUon. When M ctrlkaa Uka Ball-ana tobteUL Thy centaia tha fastest-aetina ana04csfias kaawai ta aactoa fac tna ffalwf or aeartbunt' an caa. Wnt rrimm by Beit-ana. uranceiMirg, n. r. if not aaiis ftad. Gat BaUaai to day. AU anwjisU. lit Old Shoes Look Like New After -i V A Trip -.to i Jim's Shoe Service 175 N. High Salem Tides for Taft, Oregon January. 1954 (compiled by U.S. Coast & Geo detic survey. Portland, ore.) HIGH WATERS IX) W WATERS Time Ht. 2:31 ajn. 5.8 1:23 p.m. 7J 3:06 a Jit. 6.0 2:14 p.m. . 3:43 ajn. 6J 3:11 p.m. 63 4:23 a.m. 6.6 4:15 pjn. 5.5 5:07 a.m. 6.9 3:31 p.m. 4 9" S:54 ajn. 7.1 7:01 pjn. 4J Jan. 7 10 Time : Ht 7:34 ajn.: 3.0 8:29 pjru -0.5 89 SJIU 2.7 9.-08 pjn. -0.1 9:29 ajn. 2.4 9:46 pjn; 0.3 10:36 ajn. 2.0 1027 pjn. i 1.1 11:49 ajn. IM 11:13 pjn; ; 1J 1:05 pjn! U White Star f.' TDIIA S(. Sic . M 2. 45c i SAVING CENTER MARKETS -j 1 ' : Unwanted Hair; Permanently ) I Removed K i From th Fact) .f j , . 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