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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 17, 1954)
n n Btfeig lFhlrLOgrD hmt Waters Field Site of Game ! Booth Salems Eye 2nd Straight Win The Sooth Salem High Saxons, who made their prep football debut last wc"L vith a rousing 33-0 coih quest of Washington of Portland, shoot for a second straight victory tonight at Waters Field where they play the Albany Bulldogs in a dis trict . b?Ule. j j ' t KicWf will be at 8 p.m. l j Coach Lee Gustafson's j talented sovad ?! exoect no easv time of it to":"ht. for the Bijlldogs, a hefty oi'tf:t with a' first unit made up p'T-o't "ntirely of jlettermen, are a nr-H toucher outfit than were t r-, The Brlldoss. coached by Bud Gibbs, dropped a 6-0 nod to a sharp Prineville eleven last week . as a starter. They can expect be "up" for tonight's fray, as a j Salen team is a favorite opponent for A'bany souads. in any i soo1. La.'t year the Bulldogs had powerful Vikings oh the ropes ne the end of the game here. Then Mike Campbell broke loore for two Ion- runs, turnin" what appeared to be a certain defeat into a, nar row victory. ' 1 1 Manv of the same players who participated for Albany in that ;:ame will be back in action to night, including End Ted Abersonj Tackle Jack Scott and Don Smal ler. Guards Ralph Wilcox and Blaine Faulkner,? Center Dick Kropp, Quarterback Dave , Ludlow, Halfbacks Bob Amble and Denny Rantaand Fullback Bruce , Ridin ger. . : : '-.!'. ' An injury has hobbled (the 180 pound Ridinger thus far this sea- . son, and he may not be ready for full-scale duties, tonight Both Albany tackles are big, Scott weighing 240 and Smalley 203. Both guards weigh around 185. i : ; t-: Probable offensive starters for the Saxons will be Herb Juran at quarter. Neil Scheidel and Jim Anderson at halfbacks, LeMoyne Mapes at fullback; GQ Stewart at center, Larry Newsome 'and Rod McClellan at guards, Bob Griffin and Jerry Walling at Tackles and Phil Burkland and Ed Keech at ends. I . If the Saxons start out on the defense, Lee Rosen and Keech will be at the wings, Griffin and Burk land at tackles. Walling and,New - some at guards and Gerry Estun and Bob Smith will be in as line- backers. . -. K . j . , Both squads use the T-formation offensive system mostly. .( ; WU Team Off For California A thirty-one player Willamette University football squad leaves early today for Areata, Calif, for their season opener against a strong Humbolt State College elev en Saturday night, It will be the first meeting for the Bearcats with the Humboldt team, rated this year as power-plus and led by Little All American Roy Mechals at quarterback. . j Ogdahl said Thursday night he would probably start Harvey Nef fendorf, the pass) wielding sopho more, at quarterback, Windy Se queira and Lou Lofland at ths halves and George Bardsley in ths fullback role. In front will be Desn Benson - and Phil McCallister at the ends, Bob Dyer and Andy George .at the guards,: and Ken Cooper at center, Dave "Anderson and either Sam Haina or Dale Greenlee at the tackles. Completing the traveling squad which will leave Salem at 6 a.m. for the California city win be Low ell Nichols. Tom Carr, Vernon Coates, Chuch Colling. Bob Zoelch, Larry Ebner, Volney Sigmund, Bruce Harding. Steve Zwicker, Bob Heddon, Norm Dversdd. Jerry Kangas, Jerry McCallister, Gordon Chang, Mike Hovis. John Kent. Skip Alexander, Chuck McOure, John Carson, Charley Nathan. Accompanying the squad will be Head Coach Ogdahl, and assist ants Jerry Fret and Leslie Sparks. Hess to Captain Vandals Saturday MOSCOW, Idaho (Ji The Idaho Vandals had their last full-time workout Thursday for j their, foot ball game with Oregon,1 and at the end of the session elected Burdette Hess as captain for the 1954 season. Hess, veteran lineman from Shelley Idaho, first earned his letter when freshmen wire eligible, in 1950. He was switched this year from tackle to guard and will back up the line on defense, He is rated as one of the top linemen on the Coast - i- ..f ' .vi Argentines Honors J. - Dempsey, "Moore BUENOS AIRES WV-Jack Demp iey and Archie Moore. Thursday were given Peronista Party medals and gold watches engraved with President Peron's signature. - The President made the presen tation at a luncheon in his resi dene. toil thel 1 k. a Rugged Saxon Line Set 1J The South Salem High defensive 4 M ft ma i li -1... i i - If v 1 Washington High to 26 rushing yards and a lone first down last week, and tonight aims to do as well in the Waters Field clash with Albany's Bulldogs at eight o'clock. From left to right in front 17 Face Spartans Tonight !.!; : : Assistant Coach Ken Brophy, right, gives last-minute instructions to two non-lettered North Salem High Vikings1 who were standouts in last week's with Jefferson and who will see plenty of action to : night in the district game at Cervallis. Kneeling is Tackle Fred Stephens. Standing is Fallback Don Kronser, who did a fine job in filling in for the iajured Terry Salisbury. Salisbury's ankle in jury may give Kronser another busy chore tonight j . ' V national League ' , W 1. Pet. W LPct. New York 92 5 Si Philadel 68 76 .472 Brooklyn 88 58 .603 StLoius 67 77 .465 MUwiuk M SO 383 Chicago 60 86 .411 Cincinn 70 76 .479 Pittsbfb 51MJ53 i At New York 6-6. Milwaukee 2-2: at Brooklyn' 3. Cincinnati 9; only games. scheduled. : AMERICAN LEAGCK : W L Pet. W LPct. Clevelnd 105 40 .724 Boston 63 81.438 NewYork 97 48 .669 Wshgtn 61 83 .424 Chicago t 91 53 .623 Baltmre SO 96 .342 Detroit 64 81 .441 Philadel 49 96 ,338 At. Detroit 2. New York 4; (only fame scheduled.) Yost, Gctchell In Tournament PEBBLE ' BEACH. Calif. Uh Pairings were announced Thursday fori the fifth annual Morse Cup team . matches, pitting California against the Pacific Northwest, at the. Cypress Point Golf Course Sat urday and Sunday. .- H ! Here is the schedule for two-ball foursome play Saturday, California teams listed first: ! ? i Charles Seaver, Fresno, and Cy Pennelt Palo Alto, vs. Dick Yost, Portland, Ore , and Phil GetchelL Medford, Ore. . i ; ? - John W. Dawson, Los Angeles, and Bruce: McCormick, Temple City, vs. Erv Parent, Seattle, and Roy Weston. Spokane. Wash. ! ; Dr. F. A. Taylor, Pomona.. and Ted Richards. Los Angeles.; vs. Bruce Cudd, Portland, and Eddie Draper." Seattle. ; .. -. Harvie Ward Jr., San Francisco, and Daniel J Silvestri, Daly City, vs, Bobby Fehning. ViriaisBrirtWilhelm nosed out Dr. Robert Fox and Lyle Crawford, Vancouver, B, C. ; Sunday's singles matches scheduler-' ' ": : - ' 1 I Seaver and Weston, PenneH and GetchelL - McCormick and Yost. Dawson and Parent, Richards and Crawford. Tavlof and Draper. Sil vestri and Fleming, Ward and Cudi- , - . - :4 - '- i V 1 ; -' . . "-. ': ; i . - forward wall, pictured above, held . -bL& v- With Taf t Hi The Salem Academy Crusaders open their football season this aft ernoon in a 2 p.m. same on the Academy field with Taft High. Coach Bob Funk will select his starting lineup from Backs Glen Hodges, Larry1 Ediger, Jon Knaupp, Dave Phillips, ' Jim Wal lace, Hershel McCarey, r Thurman Krater, Ron Fadenrecht and Rhodes Pringle, . and Linemen Bruce Dalke, Ken McClain, Del Warkentin. Wayne Chambers, Vir gil Rodgers, Vonley Jeffers, Glen Pfau, Larry Dyole, Darrel Buhler, Decker Halstead, Tom Retmer, Richard Voth, LeRoy Wall, Tom Penrod and Vernon Drung, . Taft will be favored for the win over the young and mostly inex perienced Crusaders club. i Next game for the ' Crusaders will be with Serra High on Friday or Saturday, September 24-25, at Waters Field. Price Upsets Tourney PORTLAND 1 Hobart Price, 3S-year -old Salem left-hander, scored the biggest upset of the annual Oregon Senior Golf Assn. tournament by defeating Dr. O. F. Willing, Portland, 2 and 1, .Thurs day.. :. '". j" ; Price will meet Marty LeptTch, Portland, in the semi - finals for men under 60 Friday. Dr. Millard Rosenblatt and Marvin Park, both of Portland, will meet in the other semi-final match. 5 Rudie Wilhelra will play Ward Cummings, Roseburg, for the championship among men over 60 Friday. Cummings defeated A. G. Sieberts, 4 and 3, Thursday, while on the 20th hole. HUSKIES READY : ! - SEATTLE to WashingtQn'i Huskies began taperinf off prac tice sessions Thursday as Coach Johnny Cherberz ' said they had tbe hay in the barn" for their season's football .opener against Utah here Saturday. : " " ': ' Academy Open Flay for Albany Test I irrx hi? are End Lee Rosen, Tackle Bob Guard Jerry Waning, Tackle Phil linebackers are (I-r) Garry Elstun 1 v' Salisbury (Doubtful North Salems Eye Win M Corvollis Tonight If!' ! - Vl... Toppled 18-13 last week in their opener with Jefferson of! Port. land, after having the win within North Salem Kigh Vikings tonight aim to get their district erid competition under way with a victory in the eight o'clock clash at sIMart Play Tonight At Mt. Ansel -,. I -: ' ' The Serra High Sabers make their initial' football appearance tonight when Coach ' Leo Gros jacques takes his former Sacred HeartASKteuiy ttew -to Mt Angel for an S o clock clash wita the Mt. Angel Preps. i The game" is to be .played" at Ebher Field in Tit AngeL ; Starting lineup for the Saber will be Jeff Elliott, Ed Dougherty or Dave Guzman at ends, Mike Skaling,-Pete Meyer, Arbie Mac Donald, CarrRStter or Ron Kud na at tackles. Dennis Alley, Bob Stebner, Charles Schmitz or Greg Steiner at! guards, Bernard John son or Dale Rock at center, Don Forcier" oc Larry Hamilton at quarterback,' Captain Don Endres, Billy Joseph, Bob Sommer, Don Lucero, ; Cass T- Hershfelt, Craig Fear . or - Dave Timm as other backs. i . i .-: !- : .: ' Coach Ray Utz of the Preps has had to rebuild nearly all of his team this season, and has only seven lettermen. They are Backs Al Meisner. Jim Carroll, Max Ruef and Jim Gros jacques. End John Boschler, Tackle Len Wisenf els and Guard Mike Carroll. Other prob able starters are Halfbacks Morrie Sauser and Martin Provst, Center Paul Sowa and End Chub Fessler. NW Schools Action By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS i Oregon Collegiate Conference and the Northwest Conference . Schools open their football season on widely-scattered sectors Saturday, -ia non-conference games. i , Oregon Institute of; Technology will go to Boise, Ida., Junior Col lege, Southern Oregon College. of Education to' McMinnville to play Linfield, and Eastern Oregon Col lege of Education to Hermiston to play Wenatchee Junior College.' Oregon College of Education, the defending OCC champion, and Port land State , are idle. ' -, ' r Among-; i Northwest . Conference teams, Lewis It Clark , entertains Montana State College in Portland, Willamette, travels to Areata, Calif., to meet Humboldt State, and College of Idaho meets Idaho State at Pocatello. Whitman and Pacific are not scheduled.! Stephens Ponders Giving Up Baseball BALTIMORE mVin Stephens. veteran third baseman of the Bal timore Orioles, quit playing for the season Thursday because of an in jured ankle and during the winter will think about : giving it up for good. I-'. :1 - -'.I-." At 54, Stephens has 14 years of major league baseball behind him with the St Louis Browns. Boston Red Sox and Chicago White Sox in addition to the Orioles. Stephens wrenched an ankle on Sept. 3 and hasa t played since. Although he also missed some time during the season . with slipped vertebrae." Stephens leads the Orioles with 46 runs batted in Tonight i t w. 1 1 I -. I Griffin, Guard Larry Newsome, Burkland and End Ed Keech. The and Bob Smith. their grasp late in the going, the Corvallis. It won't be easy, however,, for the Spartans, annually one of Sa lem s foremost gridiron foes, have a squad which ' Is expected to make a. sizeable mark; in prep play this season . Arvjd Niemi. former Oregon Stater ii the new Corvallis mentor, and is assisted by Ralph Carr. t The Spartans have such backs as Jim stinnette at full, Larry Doty, Dennis Gave, Don Wirth end Dean Smith at halfbacks and Jim Griffin, . John Graham, Bob McCutcheon - and Gary Yarbor oujh at quarter. - I A stout line, headed. by numer ous holdovers, 'is also v Corvallis asset. . '." t ' .. I Starting for the .Vikings tonight will be Nick Error and Del Funk et ends. Bill Jacobsonr and 'Jim Coates at tackles,- Jim 1 Gordon and Teuton Lockenbur at guards Dave Baker at center, Barry San- tee et quarter. Bob Comer and Jin Norval at .halfbacks and either Don Kronser or Terry Salis bury at fulL Salisbury was injured early In the Jeff game last week and saw little action. He has been ham pered by the ankle .wound through out the week oc practice and nis full part in tonight's fray is ques tionable. Kronser turned in a bang-up job as Salisbury:, replacement against Jeff, however, and is ready to go again tonight a seed be Tackle. Fred Stephens also checked-in a fine game at Jeffer son, and will see plenty oc the action tonight- t ' Duct Starters Set for Idaho EUGENE UR Coach Len Casa nova Thursday said only two new comers would ne in me uregon starting lineup for the opening foot ball : game against Idaho at Mos cow Saturday. .1 One is Jasper' McGee,' the pro mising sophomore fullback, the oth er Jerry Nelson, 202-pound, junior guard who missed most of last season because of a leg injury. The others are regulars from last year s squads: Ends Hal Reeve and Dick Mobley; tackles, Keith Trucker and Lon Stiner: guard. Jack Petera; center, Ron Pheist- er; quarterback, George Shaw halfbacks. Dick James j and Walt Gaffney. A A '. The team will leave by plane for Idaho early Friday. j EYES HAWAII SWIM , I HONOLULU l Distance swim mer Florence Chadwick said Thursday she may swim the Molo kai Channel, turbulent 23 - mile stretch between the Hawaiian Is lands of Oahu and MolokaL : American lpajnie New York - Detroit Grim and' Wilson, it T 30O 000 1004 9 106 eio 0002 Brr; Zuverink and National llje&sme Milwaukee New York . . ooo ooo 020 a .301 020 10 t Spahn. Johnson 5), Buhl (7) and CrmndaU; comes ana wtstrum. Second came: Milwaukee 100 001 0001 1 New York . 100 613 ! 11 Burdette. Jolly (6). Koslo (6) Crone (7 and CrandaH; Grissom, Wilhelm (I) and Westrum. Cincinnati 0!J OSS 100 t 13 Brooklyn -100 020 ooo a 10 3 - NuxhaU and Seminick:1 ErsUne, Lahme (3i. Darnell 6). Meyer (7). Lasorda (I) and Cannpanena. Slatosman, Salem. Ore. Friday, Rain Still Champion Fight tor World Cronn Rescheduled Tonight By JACK HAND ! NEW YORK on-The Rocky Mar- ciano-Ezzard Charles heavy-weight title match was postponed because of rain for the second time Thurs day and rescheduled for 11 p.m. EDT) Friday night at Yankee j Stadium. ; : ' ' The new starting time, a half hour later than originally planned, was the result of a conflict with a New York Giants - Philadelphia Phillies night baseball game across the Harlem River at the Polo Grounds. ; " . , these iinnpoirts oneveir 'I before V, . 1 Sept. 17. 1854 (Sec 3) 1 4 For a time there was a chance that a no-conflict agreement , be tween the Yanks, Giants and pro moting International Boxing Club might cause a major hitch. Jim Norris, IBC president, set the new date without realizing there was a conflict with a night, game. . -' ; After much telephoning and sev eral conferences, it was announced the Giants had given their "reluc tant consent" to the fight at a later hour. If it should rain out the show a i Continued on Page 3.) r - f i f traditionally our lowest prn ; ; " ... . . ; i - . -r - c - sold - uirsidleir 1 X . life on SEARS Giants Edge i Near Pennant ; " Twin Defeats Bury i Milwaukee Chances . i NEW YORK UP! The New York Giants buried Milwaukee's , pen nant hopes in the mud of the Polo Grounds Thursday and took a com manding 4M ganie lead over the second place Brooklyn Dodgers. The Giants beat the third place Braves twice by .the same score, 6-2, and . pushed the Milwaukee club 7' i games behind with only 10 kft to play. The New Yorkers also added a length and a half to their margin over the Dodgers who bowed to Cincinnati 9-3. The season ends a week from Sunday and any combination 1 oi five New York victories and Brook lyn losses will clinch the flag for the Giants. . The only other major league ac tion Thursday saw the New York Yankees keep alive their mathe matical chances in the American League by beating Detroit 4-2. The Yanks trail Cleveland by eight-with . nine to play. : ! ! Ruben Gomez checked the Braves on eight hits in the opener for his 16th victory and his fourth in succession. Monte Irvin drove m four runs with a double, a singl and a sacrifice fly. ; i (Continued on Page 2) t j tr-ri - il .; ! $5 Sears Posture-Fit 1 ' ' 1 . . t I Ta i I o red-To-Mea su re o $20 EXTRA ANNIVERSARY. SAVINGS' Use Scars Easy Payment Plan - imported fabrics ' loomed by ; the world's finest mills! The time is now, yes right now to enjoy the greatest savings of your new Fall suits individually j tailored for you and you alone. You choose from T5 fabulous fabrics . . . all pure.wool, all imports. We'll custom make a suit in the ; style you want. But hurry, now's the time to come in end save as never before! fibrenes, sharkskins, gabardines, -flannels , . in every wanted shade including popular Charcoal Tones! Phono 3-9191 550 11 Capitol