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TlfgS ETgKK. THE. REGISTER-GUARD,. EUGENE. OREGON HIGHCLIMBER By DICK STKITE f!E!!r 1937. 32 Web foot Gridders Leave For Southern Invasimj Never have I turned down the opportunity to make predictions n unvthlna as long as I'm not farced to back the prognostica tions with the stuff it takes to pay the rent We won't mention the things missed, but let me point to a few two to be exact that have turned out to potential fi nancial gains. Even though I picked Columbia to beat Stanford in the 1934 Rose Bowl game a 10-to-l break and Braddock to beat Baer for the world heavy weight crown another 10-to-l slam. But in the past two years the wags up and down Willamette street have been making all the dough on my predictions betting the other way. And so take my differences with the football ex perts along the Pacific slope as you may. The boys who have stuck their heads into the records of past seasons considered up coming material, traditional rival ry and even predicted on weather conditions come Thanksgiving Day, pick California to capture the Pa cific Coast conference title. South ern California rates second and Washington's defending champions third, followed in order by Oregon State, U.C.L.A., S'inford, Wash ington State, and trailed by Ore gon. Please let me present, even though it may only provide a lanfh, the final outcome of the conference standings: W. L. T. Pel. California 5 Washington 5 ! U.S.C 4 Oregon 4 Oregon State ..2 Wash. State 2 . U.CX.A 2 Stanford 2 .833 .714 .667 .571 .333 .333 .286 .286 The Bruins of Los Angeles are Ull talking of that 93-yard pass and run play that beat Oregon at Multnomah stadium, Portland, in the last five seconds of the game the Uclans won, 12-7. It was in ihe 1932 season that Oregon, lead ing 7-8 in the last few seconds, hurled a pass deep into Bruin ter ritory the pass was intercepted nd . downed on the seven-yard line. On the next play, the last of the game, Mike Frankovlch faded back and chucked a scoring pass to Ransom Liyesay. The Bruins, however, seem to have forgotten a memorable Oregon victory in the same stadium two years later when the Webfoots walloped the Californlans, 26 to 3. : Placed under the heading of things I'd like to see: Har ry Elliott, wrestling referee, meet either Bob Castle or Sailor Moran In a match. . . . Oregon's Webfoots lick the California football jinx. . . . ' Prink Callison pass conference opponents dizzy. . . . Tony Amato grow another beard. ... Bob Pastor knock out Joe Louis, as he says he can. ... Jim Watts make a go of It at Roseburg high. . . . Eu gene high fill one of its open dates with a Portland high school eleven. . . . Lane coun- ' ty "B" high schools eliminate girls basketball from Its an nual tournament. ... A foot ball team coached exclusively ' by Eugene's downtown men- tors. , . . The Oregon alumni realizing that high school youths must be sold on a school . . . that they won't come to Oregon just because It's the University of Oregon. . . . The Eugene chamber of . commerce actually do some thing constructive along pro motional lines . . . Ihe Oregon-Stanford game, as an ex-amole. Henry Nilscn and Ernest Robert- . Sports - through - a - knot-hole: sn, quarterbacks; Steve Ander English sports writers, after see-j son, Ted Gebhnrdt, Jay Graybeal. ing movies of the Farr-Louis j Don Kennedy, Dale Lasselle, Jim fight, accused Referee Art Dono- Nicholson, Bill Rack and Bob van of hindering Farr's infighting. I Smith, halfbacks; Arleigh Bentley. . . . Sports history shows thnt the Frank F.mmons and Paul Rowe. largest number of "cuff" fans on fullbacks, and Manager Leo Mar record for a major boxing bout , Inntes. was when 5.069 pass-holders saw OREGON ELEVEN TO MEET U. C. LA. TIT Thirty-two University of Oregon football players will start on their first of two invasions of southern California early Thursday morning when the Webfoot rolling stock heads for Los Angeles. The Ore gon eleven, sprinkled with untried but potentially brilliant sopho more talent will lift the lid of the Pacific coast conference football season at Los Angeles' Coliseum Friday night against University of California at Los Angeles. The Uclans, victors over the Oregonians for the past two years will be heavy favorites among southern supporters who believe Coach Bill Spaulding has the great est array of backfield aces m U. C. L. A. history. With a question able line, the Westwood team is rated a definite darkhorse title contender. Rousing Send-Off Eugene townspeople, headed by the Eugene Radiators and the American Legion drum and bugle corps, and university students al ready on hand were scheduled to give the Ducks a rousing sendoff at 9 p. m. Tuesday at the S. P. depot. Oregon supporters, just as confi dent as their southern rivals, look toward a return of gridiron for tunes to the east-side campus. Dur ing the less than two weeks of pre paration, the Webfooters have shown potential gridiron power. But Monday afternoon's scrimmage session was the payoff as the ol fense tossed around everything but the water buckets, scoring on end runs, cut-DacKs, Knues inrougn tackle and forwards, laterals and even triple laterals. Dale Lasselle, potentially great left halfback, broke through the "questionably strong" opposing team Monday for three scores. He displayed a running and driving stride never seen by the Portland lad since he was a freshman. Don Kennedy, right half; Hank Nilsen, quarterback; Steve Anderson, left half; Arleigh Bentley and Paul Rowe, fullbacks, shared in the smashing attack which Prink Cal lison hopes will carry the lemon yellow and green to victory in the majority of its conference con tests. In Los Angeles Thursday A final workout was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon, the last drill until the Webfoots stretch out under the lights in Los Angeles Thursday night. While the players will entrain between 9 and 10 p. m. Tuesday, the train will not leave Eugene un til 1:50 a. m. Wednesday, arriving in Los Angeles early Thursday morning. Accompanying the team will be Head Coach Callison, Line Coach Gene Shields, Trainer Bill Hay ward, Athletic Manager Anson B. Cornell, and Dick Strite, sports editor of the Register-Guard. Callison said he would not pick the traveling squad until after the Tuesday practice session. The prob able squad is: Denny Broaid, Erling Jacobsen and Vern Moore, centers; Captain Tony Amato, Chan Berry, Nello Giovanini, Ronald Husk, Joe Hus ton and Cecil Wnlden, guards; Charles Bracher, Bill Estes, Bill Foskett, Ellroy Jensen, Cliff Mor I ris, tackles; Larry Lance, Lenonard iRobertson, Vic Reginati, Rod Spectzcn and John Yerby, ends; Who's Who on Oregon Gridiron CAN YOU PICK THE STARTING ELEVEN? Win Ducats to Stanford-Webfoot Game, October 2 ""S1" wln ti,"7- Lewis will vacate the light-heavy-weight title '""rkPy,, throne to enier Alike Ja- h. P ? a ' W,h bs' fight tournament. . .. Coach has won the P, G. A. crown for i j t t . the last two years, has been ,e,'I' ' ,lR"'e: ....sayf' ' j standardized with no section hav- I TT" " . I This is one of a series of inform ative stories regarding the football $; ' prowess of candidates for the 1937 Oregon football team. With the information gained in these yarns, local Monday morning quarter backs will be given an opportunity to pick the starting Webfoot line up against U. C. L. A. September 24. The "coach" who chooses the nearest correct starting lineup to the one Prink Callison fields at Los Angeles, and the one who gives the most logical reasons for his selections in a short letter fol lowing the completion of this series, will be awarded a pair of , - "V ducats to Oregon's initial home l.,4!! noma on.r'nct Cf.nfnNt U Jg V ThB series will hn cnmnWeH I Wednesday, September 22, and all entries must be delivered to the Register-Guard office or post marked before 3 p. m. Friday, Sept. 24. ARLEIGH BENTLEY, fullback and halfback, weighing 185 pounds, standing 6 feet 1 inch, 22 years of age and a senior. Arleigh play ed his first varsity ball last fall after transferring from Glcndale, Cal., junior college where he play ed fullback for two years. His home is also Glcndale where he played three years with Herbert Hoover high, one each at half, quarter and fullback. He also handled the weights on the prep track team. Bentley is as sure a starter as any of the horde of backfield men at Prink Callison's disposal. Probably his best per formance last year was against Stanford. "I'm not making any predictions regarding our team, but I'll say that it's going to be plenty tough for any team to come through the season undefeated. And any team that is unbeaten will deserve the Rose Bowl," Arleigh said. DETORE CAPTURES SLUGGING CROWN SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 21. (U.R) George Detore, catcher for the San Diego Padres, won the 1937 Pacific Coast league batting championship by collecting 145 hits in 434 trips to the plate, final figures showed today. Detore batted .33410, beating by four-tenths of a point Harlan Pool, Seattle outfielder who got 153 hits in 458 tries. Pool's percentage was .33406. Sam Gibson, San Francisco Seals' veteran, again was leading pitcher with a .704 average, representing 19 wins and 8 defeats. Mike Hunt, Seattle, led home run hitters with 39, nine more than he collected in winning the same title last year. Runners-up In hitting averages were Marvin Gudat, Los Angeles; Harry Rosenberg and Max West, Missions; Dado Lodigiani, Oak land, and Art Garibaldi, Sacra mento. Runners-up in pitching averages were Jack Larocca, Oakland; Fay Thomas, Los Angeles; Tony Frei tas, Sacramento, and Bill Posedcl, Portland. signed as pro at the Miami Bilt more Country Club in Miami, Fla. . . . The Reds and Giants were so sore at each other in 1919 that when Cincinnati play ers visited the Polo Grounds they brought their own supply of bottled drinking water. . . . Baron Gottfried von Cramm during the Nationals at Forest Hills said: "There isn't enough money is America to lure me into pro ten nis!" . . . Notre Dame's fall sui cide march reads like this: Drake, Illinois. Carnegie. Navy, Minne sota, Pitt, Army. Northwestern and Southern California. If the Irish take the last five they'll automatically be conceded "the national championships for 1037, 38, '39 and '40. , . . John Henry ing a monopoly teams." on the best Guldahl First to Win U. S., Western Opens CLEVELAND, Sept. 21. W Ralph Guldahl, the 25-year-old Chicagoan, occupied today a new niche in golfdom's hall of fame as the first in history to win the Na tional Open and the Western Open championships in the same year. He also was the fourth golfer in all history to successfully defend his Western Open championship, ranking with Willie Anderson, "Long Jim" Barnes, and Walter Hagen. Piluso io Meet Fenton in Homecoming Wrestling Match Thursday at Armory Willamette Alumni , To Honor Roy Keene ' PORTLAND, Sept. 21 im The alumni and fathers of Willamette university students will pav their respects to Roy S. "Speck" Keene, Bearcat football coach, at a buffet supper here (Imperial hotel) next Tuesday evening. Allan B y n o n, ex-Willamette football and track athlete, will head the event as chairman. This year Keene. whose teams have won the Northwest confer ence title for three seasons in a row, starts his 12th coaching sea-top. Ernie Piluso has been picked by rromotcr Herb Owen as the "best available" opponent to greet "Lightning Rod" Fenton in the armory ring Thursday night when the Canadian villain makes his "homecoming" appearance, the first for many months. Fenton will have plenty of com pany with such meanics as Sailor Moran, Bob Castle and Tctsura Iligami appealing on the same card. It won't be the first time Piluso and Fenton have met, but Rod will find Ernie a tougher op ponent than ever before. Piluso has been cutting a fancy figure since his return three weeks ago with consecutive victories over Bob Cummings and Tetsura Hi gami and last week's "fluke" de feat at the hands of Moran. Fen ton returns from an invasion of eastern Canada and the Atlantic states. The Fenton-Piluso match, how ever, is only a supporting match to the headline attraction-a re match between Champk; Otis Clingman and Challenger Sailor Moran for the Pacific coast middle weight belt. Temperamental Mr. Moran, one of the greatest middleweights in the business as far as gate power is concerned Monday refused to appear in a team match with Bob Castle against Tetsura Higami and Don Sugiii, undefeated Japanese team match. Monday night Owen destroyed the former contract and signed him to meet Clingman in a title go. The two grapplers with Moran as champion and Clingman as challenger staged one of the most brilliant matches ever seen here. The bout, fought here several weeks ago, attracted a record crowd of nearly 3000 fans. The preliminary match will be announced Wednesday. , t. jig,. Tribe, Bassler Stage Annual Battle SEATTLE, Sept. 21. (Se attle's Coast league baseball play ers were still "in there pitching" today, although the regular season was at an end. The post-season war is one be tween the Indian athletes and Wil liam H. Klepper, Seattle presi dent. Johnny Bassler, manager, was "fired" by Klepper for what the president insisted on calling in subordination. Bassler allowed Dick Barrett to hurl both games of Sunday's doubleheader. Barrett won both games and earned a $500 bonus, $250 for win ning 19 games and $250 more for winning 20 games. Klepper told Bassler to pitch Rookie Marion Oppelt in the second game. Bassler was reported to have shoved Klep per from the clubhouse. A Seattle paper said the presi dent suffered a discolored eye as the result of a brush with one of his players. It was also reported Er Lloyd Nelson, businessman, stepped into the picture by paying back salaries and taking over con tracts of four players as collateral. SEATTLE 11-5 TACOMA, Wash., Sept. 21. (U.R) Tacoma's Tigers, Western Inter national league champions, out-hit a Seattle Indian Pacific Coast lea gue team wearing Wenatchee uni forms, 11 to 5, to win an exhibition game last night. William H. Klepper, president of the Seattle Baseball club, refused to let the Indians wear their reg ular uniforms for the game. Suits were borrowed from Wenatchee, also a Western International loop club. San Jose Tramples Idaho Coyotes 59-0 SAN JOSE, Cal., Sept. 21. OP) San Jose State buried College of Idaho under an avalanche of touchdowns here last night as they christened their new arc light sys tem with a 59-0 victory. A hard charging line and great downfield blocking paved the way for nine touchdowns. Pat Page's invading Idaho eleven boasted little more than a unique signal calling system in which the entire team barked out the num bers in unison. The Coyotes never passed the fifty-yard line. ERNIE PILUSO Defeats Bob Castle Eric Merrell Cmthe, tor Men and Boys PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 21. UP) Bob Castle, 168, Kansas City, middleweight, lost to Ernie Piluso, 167, Portland mat favorite here last night. Bobby Burns, 161, Flor ida, won on a foul from Rod Fen ton, 165, Canada, in the semi-final. J USE CHINESE HERBS WHEN OTHERS FAIL Charlla Chin Chines Herbs Remedies are non poison ous, their healing virtue hat been tested hundred! ear In following chronlo ailments: sinusitis, catarrh, aathmr, ehronlo cough, stomach, gall atone, co litis, constipation, diabetes, kid neys, bladder, heart, blood, nerve, neuralgia, rheumatism, high blood pressure, gland, kln ores, male, female and children disorder. 8. B. Fong, 8 year practice In China. Herb Specialist, give re lief after other fall. 708 Wll matte St.. Eugene, Ore. Office hour 1:30 to 6:30 Sunday and Wednesday only. S. B. Fong nose, throat ears, lungs. BOB SMITH, halfback, weigh ing 185 pounds, standing 6 feet, 21 years of age and a sophomore. Bob fills a long-felt need in the Ore gon offense a southpaw pigskin pitcher. His long, floating passes were sensational last season when the Frosh went through a tough schedule undefeated. He is just another halfback, however, and may or may not be a starter. Bob comes from Medford where he was a three-year letterman in football, basketball and baseball. Bob is probably the best-liked member of the Oregon squad and should see plenty of action during the 1937 campaign. 'Its pretty hard to tell what kind of season we will have, never having played conference ball, but I m sure we all have lots of confi dence," Bob said. Baseball Standings By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS , NATIONAL W L New York 85 53 Chicago 84 57 St. Louis 75 64 Pittsburgh 75 66 Boston 70 70 Brooklyn 61 80 Philadelphia 55 85 Cincinnati 54 84 AMERICAN W L New York 94 45 Detroit 83 57 Chicago 78 62 Cleveland 74 66 Boston 72 64 Washington 67 73 Philadelphia - 47 91 St. Louis 42 99 Pet. .616 .596 .540 .532 .500 .433 .393 .383 Pet. .676 .593 .557 .529 .529 .479 .341 .298 Plans Completed For Oregon Field Trials . HARRISBURG, Sept. 21. (Spe cial). A representative from the Oregon Field Trial association was here a few days ago laying out courses for the field meet and mak ing other preliminary arrange ments for Friday and Saturday. The association has liberated be tween 300 and 400 birds on the grounds and is planning to free more ' soon. The association ex tends a welcome to all visitors who wish to attend. It will be possible for visitors to drive to the ground in their cars, park in the road and sit in their cars and watch the whole field-meet. They can thus see the dogs perform almost as well as if they were on a stage. 8-TEAR-OLD Hurt On Sandldt Grid OREGON CITY, Sept. 21. CP) Verne Cross, 8, suffered a basal skull fracture and ruptured ear drum in Oregon City's first "sand lot" football injury of the season when he fell on a "pavement. VITJIL THREE E L NEW YORK, Sept. 21. The National league pennant race approaches a climax Tuesday in Chicago, where the league-leading Giants open a 3-game series against the second-place Cubs. With a 2 '2 game lead the Giants can't drop back unless they lose three straight to the Cubs. In that event the Cubs would be on top by .001. All the Giants need to keep on their pennant course is to take one game in Chicago. Subway Series With only 10 games left for Chi cago after the New York series, the odds will be heavily against them overtaking the Giants unless they can sweep the current series. A sweep for New York would clinch another . "subway" world series. The Giants slugged their way yesterday to their second straight win over the Cardinals,-10-3, coir lecting 17 hits and driving Bob Weiland to cover in the first in ning. The Cubs had a close call with Brooklyn, winning, 5-4, after stop ping a Dodger rally one run short of tying the game in the ninth. " Yankees Need 4 The New York Yankees need only four more victories to clinch the American league pennant. Lefty Gomez won his 20th game when he held the Detroit Tigers to four hits for his sixth shutout, 5-0. The Boston Red Sox dropped into a fourth place tie with Cleve land by dividing a doubleheader with St. Louis Browns. St. Louis won the opener, 8-6, while Bobby Doerr's homer with a man on en abled the Red Sox to win the sec ond game, 7-5. No other games were scheduled. COAST LEAGUE III PLAYOFF SERIES By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Four teams, Pacific Coast base ball league leaders, sought heavy money and the 1937 circuit cham pionship today in opening games of the Shaughnessy playoffs. Sacramento's Senators, winners of first place and $2,500 in the regular season's schedule, enter tained third-place . San ' Diego. Portland's Beavers, 1936 cham pions, who barely squeezed into the first division by winning a doubleheader Sunday, opposed sec ond-place San Francisco-Seals at San Francisco. Victory by Sacramento in both semi-finals and finals will give players of the team $5,500 to di vide including the $2,500 already won. The most any other club can win will be $3,000 while any team getting into the finals, .win or lose, will get at least $2,000. After playing three games, the Beavers and Seals go to Portland and the Padres and Senators move to San Diego. The winners of the semi-finals play seven games or less for the title. 5 Oregon Elevens ViV For Independent TitlJ (Bv The A,'.i.j - Five good-sized schools battle this vefr f- First Mule, Black . Tail Deer Reported It didn't take Ed Baldwin long to bag his first deer of the season. The Eugene hunter packed in a 150-pound black-tail at 3 p. m. Monday afternoon. The dressed animal, shot nine miles from Co burg, was brought to the Troeh sporting goods store. One hour later Charles Gray reported to the Troeh store with the first mule deer of the season, a 162-pounder from the Ochoco country. AUSTRAL NEW ZEALAND Exceptionally low round trip fires ire now effective on the "Sunibme Raiu" to the land of the Southern Croj...cruise to Austrilii and New Zealand, the world of chinge, where the seisons ire reversed. See the wonderful 150th Anniversary Celebrations which will tike plice during Australii's summer, from Jinuuy to April. Sail from Vancouver or Victorii, B. C, on the modernized Atranii or the Siaiara, First, Cabin or Third Class. Stop at Hiwaii....and Suva, in the Fiii islands, enroute. Ask your own Travel Aeent about AU-txptw i ours, and all details. ..or out local offices W H CVicon. Gen'f A Piu'f Der . H26S. Broad-!, Am Bnk. Bid. BR. 06)7, Portland m1 w TT 1 t lusn. t IrpOVin XT... State, Oregon St , H Perhaps Eastern OreVmSL'f! Lmfield ventures to?0 SJ pendent lists ,,, ... ' r,,"18 aid pects" since Henry Lev, m coach. Thi,-t !ver 'Kan orthefi;srwid7w schedule includes Chen., St Martin's, Oregonfi' UK Lutheran, vZ. odn rrancisco State a.J Bellineham. le Kl ioiot. Z.u.n . .'" year lor th ij. . wiampionsrup ol Oregon. Not nn """Wndent less important because no conference title i, .?gards thTb,?d Linfield Colleee. form-- Zui. Ve..ls " stake. ' joins the independent shuffle gon Normal school, Eastern Oregon Normal ,lMivsity.v. iNormai. southern fW The Portland Pilots, rapidly extendinE their . Catholic institutions, take the T field thTsSeaSon ,ation "Wib of Coach R. L. "Matty" Mathews, former menL n?e,r, fte and elsewhere. The pilots bite off sLTtouTh cnm ' K' university Willamottn -i-..! ii . luSn COmpetlt nn i nTM lege of Puget Sound, San Francio,' Gonial YUng' a aacK 01 Daciuieia material out an abundance of linemen charac terized the opening practice with a squad of 40 men. Paul McGinnis, quarterback, and Dan Crowley, halfback, are the regulars return ing to ball carrier combinations. There is a veteran available for virtually every line job. Pilots Wide Open Looking back over Mathews' reputation, Portland will be a pass ing, open-playing eleven. Coach Bob Quinn's Eastern Ore gon men at La Grande don't know their own strength yet because practice didn't start until last Thursday. They open against Ore gon Tech on Sept. 24 and then find lots of competition from the Idaho country meeting Gooding college, Albion Normal, College of Idaho, Whitworth college, Oregon freshmen, Lewiston and Boise jun ior college. Coach Al Cox, Oregon Normal, Monmouth; expects nine lettermen and 21 new men to go through a tough schedule successfully. The team tackles Pacific university, Humboldt State college, Linfield, the Oregon State Rooks, Albany, Southern Oregon "Normal, Pacific Lutheran, Ellensburg and St. Mar tin's. Linfield Makes Bid Although several stars have moved to the big time in the Coast conference, Coach Cox will find power in Harold Lewis, end; Ted Walberg and Joe Buckley, tackles; Ray Corbett, guard; Jayson Miller, center; Dave Howard and Raymond Corbett, halves, and Floyd Mc Glinn, fullback. The Corbett boys are twins. Practice didn't open at Southern Oregon, Ashland, until Monday but Coach Jean Eberhart looks to ten lettermen to give him an effec tive first string. The coach expects some good high school talent to en roll from Klamath Falls, Med ford, Ashland and Eugene. The guards and the center offer prob lems and only two lettermen re turn to the backfield. Ashland plays Albany; Humboldt, Oregon KAY STHMMER5 NET UPSET II! LOS ANGELES. SeDt21f. Play in the 11th annual Paci3 southwest tennis tournament ml ed into the third round tnHa. .J most of the seeded stars loofcl ----- w,11HclluW uian onsen' eis leu, iney a get. Top seeded in the men's smjl J iuu Duugc ana Baron Uottttid von Cramm of Germany, hsadJ into comparatively easv mstrtd and the same seemed true in til women s singles. The face of England's Kay Sto mers was missing from the sing:! play. Comely Kay went out in i upset yesterday before Los Aj geles' own comely entry, Mrs. Rub r:-u r,:..i , n a dauup Di.xier, 0-i, -0, 0-Z, Portland Frosh Book Eight-Game Schedull PORTLAND, Ore., Sept. 21. Ml Plans for eight games were aid nounced here by George Philbrooij newly appointed Portland fresh man football mentor. Philbrook said games ere b ed with Oregon State Rooks, Hull nomah college and Vancouvi Barracks. FOUR MONTH WORLD CRUISE FROM NEW YORK JANUARY 8, 1934 II PORTS COUNTRIES Goes South With The . DUCKSl O Dick Strite, sport editor of the Eugene Register-Guard entrains with the Univer sity of Oregon football team and will accompany them to Los Angeles. He will send back his person al observations of the Stanford, U.C.L.A., U.S.C. and California teams. Read these informative articles starting Wednesday, in the
