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Carter Fails in Bid to Re Crown ain Auburn's Shining Light Preppers Ready for Another Heavy 'Football Friday' The numerous high school football teams in the valley area are ready to go again on another game-dotted Friday menu, with league and district play accenting the schedule. On the local front the South Salem Saxons will be in action on Bennett Field, against the Mil waukee Mustangs Friday night The North Salems are to be at Gresham -gainst the highly rank: ed Gophers at the same time. Neither of the games are Dis- 8 A-l counters, but in dis trict Statesman, Salem, Ore., Thursday, Oct. 20, 1955-(Sec. 3-l Arnett High Up . . . . f " College Offense Stars Locked in By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS -Monte Pascoe, a Denver boy who goes to college at Dartmouth, and Don Chandler, an Oklahoma Indian who migrated to Florida for his education, are. the Bew - vidual races in major college football. Wolves After 5th Straight OREGON COLLEGE, Mon mouth (Special) A fifth straight victory of the season will be the target for the unde feated Oregon College Wolves Saturday night when they go against Linfield at McMinnville in an eight o'clock game. Coach John Chamberlain had the Wolf pact going througn a stiff drill Wednesday, one of the heaviest of the practice week as he gets the squad ready for Lin field. - While OCE has won four Straight games this season, Lin field has yet to win in five starts. The Wildcats have lost to South ' era Oregon, Portland State, Col lege of Idaho, Lewis & Clark and Seattle , Ramblers. They . ame close in the last game, losing to s. b9tti inHiwnHni hv a 14.1 the Seattle independents by a 14- 13 margin. , Since the Saturday game will be the feature of Homecoming on the Linfield campus.- Cham berlain has warped .that - the Wildcats will be ' going all out for a victory. Consequently, a full effort by the Wolves will be necessary. Freshman quarterback Bill Brown, from Cascade High, look ed so good in directing the Wolves to their two fourth period touchdowns last week against Eastern Oregon that Chamberlain may give him the starting nod over Charley Harris at Linfield. The Wolves tallied twice in the (Cont'd, next page.) . . This, that, etc. Who'U succeed Pappy Waldorf at California next year? We learn from a source in southern California that, the powerful "Southern &eas Alumni Club of the U ol California" definitely has its sights set ' on none other than Oregon State's Tommy Prothro as the man. The source is the same 'one which provided us with the i assurance that Prothro would be the new OSC mentor a full month before he was hired there ... As for Waldorf, even the dean of Coast Conference mentors, one who put in three straight Rose Bowl appearances" not so long ago (1948-49-50), isn't immune from the howls and bites of the wolves. But then Pappy can grin it off, as he'll be kicked upstairs, so to speak, in the Cal athletic depart ment . . . Let it be a lesson to all who aspire to be big-time football coaches, however. Remember those glowing. tributes paid Wal dorf a few seasons back? He was the man who came west and changed California football from " an insignificant dud into a sharD- fanged giant. They wore themselves out patting the guy on the back, wining and dining him. ..He was the man of the hour. Some of those same "pals" helped hang Waldorf in effigy on the Berkeley bsll boss Pete Newell and baseball skipper George Wolfman came oh so close to being on the airliner which crashed recently in Wjroming, killing 66." . They had attended the Series and were en route home. They had reservations on that flight, but only the night before changed them so as to get home, to Berkeley a bit earlier . . . Both must feel as fortunate as we. The dav after we returned from the 1947 Series a plane crashed inUtah, killing 52. The 66" disaster occurred the day after we returned this month . . Possibilities for the president's chair in the Northwest League, now that Babe Hollingbery is to step down because of his health, are Bill Garbarino who for years was assistant general manager oi me roruana Beavers organization, and Koscoe (Torchv Torrance, who held a high berth in the Seattle Rainiers family. Uncle Hugh Luby is to contact both concerning availability.. Luby and Salem Senators directors are also on the prowl for the right man to take over as president of the local operation a year hence for George Paulus has firmly insisted that this next will positively be his final year at the helm. We'll let "next year" take care of itself, but cer tainly emphasize our thankfulness that the ultra-efficient Mr. P. allowed himself to be argued into staying on this next campaign. The same goes for Walt Zosei and Arnold Kruegerv . . . OCE?s Guard Special'-h'sa Dinger So many football fans in the area have been scratching -their noggins after hearing of OCfTs "guard special" play used . -in coming from behind to spill Eastern Oregon is their big Oregon Collegiate Conference game of last weekend, that we ' believe it may not be a bad idea to explain, again, just how the ' baffler works. We say again, for we detailed the Iay in print i tew seasons back, after the Wolf pack had made it work for' ; an npset wia of that particular campaign. ' ... ... la last week's mix the Wolves were trailing late in" the fourth ( (Continued on aezt page) . " . trict clashes will be Lebanon at Bend and Corvallis at Sweet Home. Albany plays Sprit gfield at Albany ir a non-counter. Perhaps one of the mo: im portant prep outings of the week end, takes place: at Marshfleld where the No. 1 ranked Pirates play host to the Eugene Axemen, who , have won their last three games, including one over South Salem. In the Marion County B League on Friday Amity's undefeated leaders are at Jefferson for an statesman Close Fight leaders in two of the closest indi- When Pascoe caught eight passes against Lafayette last Saturday, he supped ahead ; of Missouri s Hank Burnine in pass reception, NCAA Service Bureau statistics revealed Wednesday. - Chandler's one 50-yard kick against Louisiana State gave him a slightly better season average than Bill Schmitt of Pittsburgh. Pascoe now has caught 21 passes to Burnine's 20. Otherwise they're almost exactly even in the statis tics. Burnine has a slight edge in yardage. 291. to t 278: each has caught eight passes in a single game and two touchdown passes and neither has been on the win ning side this season.Pascoe's re ception have helped make Dart mouth's Bill Beagle the leading major college passer. 47.2-Yard Average Chandler, a senior physical edu cation student, has punted 13 times for an average of 47.2 yards and Schmitt 11 times for an even 47- J . .verase better than 45 vards er 10 average Dier man yaras is lea Konoe ot Kansas, last; week's leader. "v' -', ' , Southern California's Jon Arnett went to the top of the punt run back class . when L he retured two Wisconsin kicks for 62 yards. He has a total of 210 yards on 10 re turns. Arnett also leads in returns of all kicks with 19 for 420 yards. Dale Hohl of Holy Cross is the new pass interception leader with five, but he has returned them only US yards. Pat Levenhagen, Wisconsin, Tony Teresa, San Jose State, Lou Mele, Utah, Aubrey Lewis, Notre Dame, and Sam Wes ley, Oregon State, have stolen four (Continued on next page) : PAUL RILEY He runs 'guard special.'. - - - m- rVr K, afternoon date, Chemawa plays at Mill City Friday night and Philo math is a- Monroe. According to the Sublimity schedule, the Subs play'Scio's Loggers in a Thursday night game on the Stayton High Field. Capital Conference clashes, are to find Serra High's Sabers at ML Angel, North Marion at Stay ton, Woodburn at Silvcton and Gervais at Cascade, a on Friday night 1 The Dallas High Dragons, un defeated so far this season and Champ, Tormentor Exchange 1"'- - (X . V v .. ' ? s ... tzS -' - CIN'CINNATI-Ltghtweight champion Wallace (Bud) Smith, left, exchange sharp jabs during their title fight here Wednesday night. Smith! won the fight on round decision after being staggered several times during the bout by the ex-title holder, Wirephoto). Giants Learn Grier . - . i Fine at Tackle, End By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr. .NEW YORjCt-T") Roosevelt his own weight around as well as New York football Giants finally have found a solid defense- and the U.S. Olympic team is out a potential shotput champion. - Munger Posts Fine Record SAN FRANCISCO W George (Red Munger, Hollywood right hander who celebrated his 37th birthday five days ago, turned in the Pacific Coast League's best pitching in eight years during the 1955 season. Munger's 1.85 earned run aver-! age was the best posted by a PCL pitcher since Tommy Bridges' 1.64 for Portland back in 1947. The Star hurler gave up only 56 earned runs in 272 1-3 innings, according to of ficial figures released Vvednesday night by William J. Weiss, league statistician. ' Elmer Singleton of. Seattle came in with a superlative performance. too. His nine shutouts, represented the best goose-egg pitching since 1942 when Sam Gibson of San Fran cisco wound up with the same to tal. Amazing Performance Singleton's performance is espe cially amazing when you look closer at the- record books. - Only two years ago his 17 defeats earned him the dubious distinction of ty ing with three other hurlers for most games lost in a season. Rex Jones of Sacramento came close to another record. His loss of 11 straight games was only one less than the league record of 12 set in 1937 by Marv Breuer of Oak land. Munger took a couple of other honors besides his sparkling ERA mark. He topped the circuit in vic tories with 23 and his 25 complete games gave him a share of that title with Marino Piere,tti of Sacra mento. Wins 12 Straight Lou Kretlow of Seattle, with a 14-3 record, had the best winning percentage, .824, and also won 12 straight games for another pace setter; Turk Lown of Los Angeles appeared in the most .games 61; Pieretti pitched the most innings. 293; and Bob Garber of Hollywood struck out the most men, 199. On the opposite side of the ledger were these league leaders: Most losses, Garber and Bud Daley of Sacramento, 16; earned runs allowed, Karl Drews of Oak land, 103; hits allowed, Pieretti, 271; home runs allowed, Garber, 23; bases on balls, Johnny Briggs of Sacramento, 118; hit batsmen, Drews, 12, and wild pitches, Briggs, 15. ; Track Meet Slated HUBBARD (Special) North Marion Union High School will sponsor the fifth annual Willam ette Valley Cross Country run Thursday,, Oct. 27. Schools from Portland south to Cottage Grove will participate in the run with IS to 20 schools expected to be represented. out in front in the Willamette Valley League, play what could be a tough date at Estacada Fri day night Other WVL contests put Molalla at Sandy and Canby at Central, the latter on the OCE field. The Salem Academy Crusaders, fresh from their surprisi fly lop sided victor,' over previously un defeated Willamina, play their Yawama Lea&ue game with Banks at Forest Grove Friday night Elsewhere in this circuit. Sheri dan is at Dayton in r- Friday aft Grir is a lad who lives to throw other people's and as a result the Grier, a whale of a college tackle at Penn State, passed up his chance for the Olympics when he turned pro with the Giants last spring. He had won the IC4-A out door shotput and discus champion ships and the indoor shotput title. He was just developing as that kind of a weight thrower. . Rosey, a six-foot, five-inch, 268 pounder, moved right into a regu lar job as defensive tackle with the Giants. Then when t three straight losses called for desperate meas ures, he was tried out at defensive I end against the Chicago Cardinals last Sunday. 20th to Be Tried Rosey was the 20th Giant to be tried at end since the training season started, an indication of how weak the club has been at that position. The move worked. The Cards were blanked, 10-0, and Grier emerged from the mud and slop with two awards as the 'out standing player of the game. ) He'll be at the same position asainst the Pittsburgh Steelers next Sunday and Rosey says, "I think I like end better than tackle.".; Giant coach Jim Lee Howell,; a great end himself 'during his play ing days, refuses to take credit lor this key move in a successful series of defensive shifts.. He says it was suggeted by Tom Landry, the halfback who also coaches the Giants on defense. j Howell Persuaded : j Once he was persuaded, Howell installed Walt Yowarski, an exper ienced castoff who had played for Detroit and Washington, at the other defensive end, Ray Krouse and Rex Boggan at the tackles, and Ray Beck, "one of our truly good ball players" at middle guard That took a lot of pressure off the Giants' comparatively 6mall line backers. But on defense the coach still finds one thing wrong with Grier. "Rosey is a great ball player, but he plays so hard that he gets tired," Howell says. "If I could find someone to spell him occasionally, we would be even better." Sanders Changes Quarterback Duo LOS ANGELES UV-UCLA coach Red Sanders said Wednesday Bnice Ballard will replace Bob Bergdahl as starting' quarterback for the Bruins against the Iowa Hawkeyes Friday night. . j ; Bergdahl has started in the quar terback slot the past two games but, on the basis of workouts this week, Ballard will get the nod this week, the coach added. The Bruins sharpened up their passing offense and defense Wed nesday, with Sam Brown and Doug Bradley lofting some long ones.; The Hawkeyes arrive Thursday afternoon by air and work out I on the Coliseum turf at night. i ernoon biggie, Yamhill is : at Sherwood ant Nestucca is at Wil lamina. " BLMP six-man football games on .Friday call for Fall City to play at St Paul, Alsea at Val sets in the feature game, Eddy ville here at Oregon School for the Deaf and Detroit at Perry dale. . ! . The Salem Junior High League games for 3:30 p.m. Friday put the Parrish Grays at Leslie Blues and the Leslie Golds at Parrish Cards. Sharp Jabs and ex champion Jimmy Carter Beavers, U.O. Working Hard ; CORVALLIS W - Oregon State took its last heavy workout of the Lweekasiit prepared , Wednesday for its homecoming game against Washington' State here Saturday. End Norm Thiel and tackle i I i - j.j Howard Buettgenbach again did not fake! part in contact work, although Thiel, whose ankle is may be ready to play sprained, Saturday. EUGENE J Oregon under went a hard, two-hour-long scrim mage on 'defease Wednesday as the team practiced for its game against Arizona at Tucson Satur day night. ! Everyone got into the action, including tackle Harry Johnson, who has missed the last two games of injuries. because The team will leave for Tucson by chartered plane Friday morn ing. Olympic Fwid Drive to Start NEW YORK () A giant' 6 sport carnival, featuring the top pertormers in the country, will r . ii kick off the United States Olympic fund drive Thursday night in Madi- enn Snnarp flarrfan rr Tracki fencing, weight lifting, figure skating wrestling and gym nastics will be on the program. Most ol the participants willi be trying lor Olympic titles in Mel bourne next year. j The b g attraction will be a mile race wijLh West Santee, America's hope for the 4-minute mile, com peting against a batch of his old rivals, including Fred Dwyer and Horace jAshenfelter.. ' j I The Committee announced one late change in the mile, with Bobby Seama, jUCLA junior, switching to that event from the half mile. Bob by, who has a 4.01.4 mile to his credit, will be making his Garden debut. He had entered the half mile, not knowing of the mile race. Lederman Works With Husky Sjuad SEATTLE UPi With quarter back Sandy Lederman back in good standing, the University! of Washington Huskies honed their passing attack Wednesday night in anticipation of Saturday's Stanford invasion. ' i - Lederman was dropped from the squad last week for "uncoopera tiveness" and was reinstated Mon day. Wednesday, night the south paw passing star from Santa Mon ica, Calif,, was alternating with Steve Roake at quarterback in rough scrimmage session. j j The workout may - have cost Washington the services of sopho more guard Dick Day, who left the field with an injured handJ He was seht to the clinic for x-rays. Also on (he sidelines was halfback Mike Monroe, the team's leading ball carrier. Monroe is nursing a shoulder injury suffered in last weeks dash with Baylor. Champ Wins Bruising Bout Smith Comes 'Back From Bad Mauling By FRITZ HOWELL ' CINCINNATI if) Wallace (Bud) Smith of Cincinnati retained his world lightweight champion ship Wednesday night, winning an unanimous 15-round decision over Jimmy Carter of New York in a bruising brawl in Cincinnati Gar- dent before about 9,000 fans. Smith, who won the title from Carter on June 29 on a split deci sion came back from a terrific 13th round mauling to. win the verdict. . Carter, who had won and lost the 135-pound crown three times, fought . with his right eye closed from the eighth round on. He had suffered a deep cut over the optic in the third. ' Lose Plenty of Weight Each fighter weighed 135 on the nose today as they weighed in nude, but both lost plenty of pound age in the mauling under the lights. The decision was first announced fas a split verdict in favor of Smith the same way he won the laurels in the first title fight with Carter but a recapitulation showed that one judge was confused in his addi tion and actually had given the nod to Smith while his card showed Carter the victor. Judge Willie Purcell, who gave it to Smith by a 143-139 "margin, and judge Joe Nietschze, who gave it to the home town boy by 143-135, were OK on the first count. Several Talks But Judge Joe Blink, after sev eral conferences with referee Tony Warndorf, insisted Carter was the winner by 143 to 139. It was an nounced as a split decision, but a later count r showed Blink's card added up to 143-139 in Smith's fav or the same as Purcells. After 12 rounds of not too . en thusiastic fighting, featured by Carter's body punching and Smith's left hooks to the head, the New York scrapper opened with a flurry in the 13th. He battered Smith all over the ring for at least two minutes. Twice the ropes kept the cham pion from being decked. 'Jab and Move' But, with orders to "jab and move": from his shouting seconds. Smith weathered the storm and was punching merrily away in the next two rounds. There were no knockdowns, but Carter's heavier guns had his foe rubber-legged several times. How ever, his single eye didn't give Carter enough vision for sharp shooting or evading Smith's sweep ing lefts to the head. NFL Slates Early Draft PHILADELPHIA UPi National Football League teams will make their "bonus pick" and select the first three choices from the 1955 college player crop sometime be tween Nov. 14 and Nov. 28, some two months earlier than usual. Commissioner Bert Bell said Wednesday night that there was no secret about this meeting as ex pressed in some quarters. "I sent out a bulletin to club owners informing them of the meeting and specifically stating that an announcement of the early draft would be made to the press at least two weeks before the date of the meeting," Bell said. The commissioner, inviting all and sundry to come to the league office to "see the bulletin, said the only reason he hadn't announced the meeting was because the date wasn't definite. It probably will be Monday, Nov. 28. "I want to hold this thing in conjunction with our eet-tosether to discuss plans for any conference playoffs that may be necessary and j :i t i : i details for the championship game. We can't do that until we have a definite idea of how the races are going to go, that is, who will be involved in the playoffs and-or championship game,". Bell said. The continuing war with Cana dian League motivated the early draft. Usually, the draft is held at the annual meeting in January. Cagey Rickey Set to Retire PITTSBURGH -m . Cagey Branch Rickey,, the guy who built pennant, winners at St. 'Louis and Brooklyn but failed to give pennant-hungry Pittsburgh'- a cham pionship club, definitely is bowing out Nov. l. - ! Rickey, now 74, and with more than 50 years in baseball, reiterat ed Wednesday that he intends to step down as general manager and executive vice president at the termination of bis five-year con tract for a younger man. f "What I. told. The Associated Press August a year ago still goes," asserted Rickey. "I'm not going , to be "general ; manager" or vice president , after Nov. i; I'm not changing my mind, v s S "I intend to stay with the club in some capacity, if permitted to do so. And I think I will be. I hope to devote my time more or less to scouting." j FREE ESTIMATES On Floor Coverings NORRIS-WALKER PAINT CO MP ANT 1711 Front Phono 4-Z27 "v '7 . 0 1 AUBURN, Ala Jimmy (Red) Phillips, 190 pound Alex City, Ala., end for Auburn, was shining light in 14-12 victory over Georgia Tech last Saturday, formerly the nation's fifth ranking team. ; Phillips caught four passes for 55 yards to figure prominently in . both touchdown drives. (AP Wirephoto). v To Arrive on Friday . WSC Football Plans Stay in Salem Washington State College's grid team, some 30 strong, will make its headquarters here at the Senator Hotel for the game Saturday with the OSC Beavers at Corvallis. The team will arrive Friday afternoon, according to WSC officials. 'Soph' Named Top L ineman By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS A sophomore seldom is named lineman of the week, but Jimmy Phillips of Auburn gained the hon or Wednesday. . Phillips, an end, won the award for his stellar performance in help ing Auburn upset Georgia Tech 14-12 last Saturday: He topped the nominations in the weekly Asso ciated Press poll of sportswriters and broadcasters, i Behind 12-7, Auburn drove 80 yards for its winning touchdown in the last period with Phillips catching passes good for gains of 7, 12 and 2l yards despite the frantic eifortf jof Tec defenders. The last catch put the pigskin on the Tech 5 and set up the winning TD. ' PhiHips, hailed fas; the successor to Auburn's famed : Jim Pyburn, was equally good on defense. ' He turned in a tremendous job in harassing Tech's runners. f Jerry Elliott, Auburn's other end, likewise turned in a fine job as did end Ronnie Beagle for Navy against Penn State. Beagle was George Welsh's best receiver as the Middies crushed the Nittany Lions. ' ; Buck Nystrom, Michigan State guard, was. praised for his part in helping MSU upset Notre Dame. So was center Jimmy Jones of North . Carolina who scored his team's only touchdown against Maryland. Other linemen nominated includ ed Fred Robinson, Washington tackle. 'Hitch' Feared In Seal Deal SAN FRANCISCO If) The pos sibility that a hitch may have de veloped in the proposed purchase by Hank Greenberg of the San Francisco Pacific Coast League franchise cropped up late Wednes day. The general manager of the Cleveland Indians failed to call a press conference as promised ; to announce his decision on taking over the financially-harassed club. Instead, the Coast League's pub licity director, Dave Rowe, tele phoned the word that there would be no press conferencer "There may be one tomorrow, Rowe said. To Try Again Greenberg declared after a day of conferences that "you just can't do a thing like this in 24 hours." He promised that "we'll try again tomorrow" for the confer ence and said he might be able to say definitely "yes" or "no" then. ' f Nate Dolin, director of stadium operations for the Indians, said we have to discuss television and radio rights, taxes and other items before a final decision can be made." There was no indication of what the hitch, if any, concerned: As late as Tuesday night Greenberg ha'd ' declared that "we have reached a verbal agreement on the sale." . The proposed" dealwTiicb would (Cont. on Next. Page) ' QIFr I ;EAST in S29 N. High SI Pbe 3-3S1S ,'. rv r The '11 will be after its second. win of the season Saturday when it meets Tommy Prothrb's young Beavfers at 2" p.m. Last year. with quarterback Bob Iverson at the controls, the Cougars rolled over the Oregon Staters 34 to 5 at Pullman, Wash. v Reports from Pullman indicate uidk i Lie Aiijuicu ivciauu jaic covering rapidly from a knee in jury and will see action at Cor vallis. He played some of the time t in the Cougars' winning effort against the Idaho Vandals last Saturday. Meanwhile, WSC head coach Al Kifcher expresses pleasure over his rejuvenated team. "Last week, says he, the club was as ready as it has evef been sincg I've been at WSC." j He praised his defensive line, singling out especially Tom Gun nari, "who.played one of his best games ever," . Vaughn. Hitchcock 5 Jo.t Topped by U.S. NEW YORK Uh Dan Ferris, secretary - treasurer of the AAU, said Wednesday a re-check of points in the. world weighUifting competition at Munich, , Germany, gave the United States the team championship by one point over Russia. ' Coach Bob Hoffman of York, Pa., and members of the team returned by plane Wednesday from Ger many. Ferris1 said Russia had been credited with 29 points, to 25 for the United States, but that offi cials had failed to rive the United States 5 more points for 'winning the physique competition. That was won by Tommy Kono of Sacra1 mento, Calif., and Russia did not score in this event. The AAU- offi cial said Hoffman discovered the omission while making a report en route home. France was second in physique, Canada third. ' Kono won the 181 pound weight lifting class, one of four firsts for the U. S. The U. S. Tiad three sec onds and a third. Points were scored on a 5-3-1 basis. Russia 1 0 0' 1 at At! 1 scorea iour iitsls ana iiuee inuus. 0 'iTit3T.Kv G rV STORES i CENTER AND LIBERTY PHONE 2-2491- Team 0M 't-m