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Pge Twelve. HIGH CLIMBER By DICK STKITI I This Isn't "Old Magailne Week." I We don't cre whether you read t Town Country or W1m Ban-, f but it does so happen that the cur f rent edition of the Saturday Eve i nlng Post has an interesting story ' by Dr. Mai Stevens, present New : York University football coach f and former Yale mentor. Hia story, 1 "Coaches Make Boners, Too" tells ' of many amusing incidents where ' coaching strategy has backfired, or where quarterbacking mistakes have turned to success. The most amusing one Stevens tells on himself while at Yale. In a game against Dartmouth the Yales held a two-touchdown' lead at the half and Stevens sent in his second team, resulting in a 33-33 deadlock something the alums took much to heart The following week the Elis played Princeton and again hold a halftime lead and a committee of alums threat ened to fire Stevens if he used his second team intimating he was the worst Yale coach in history. A conference with his coaching staff revealed the attitude of "To Hell With 'Em," and Stevens used his second team and turned the game into a rout, something like 51-12. The alums came to Stevens after ' the game and told the mentor he was the greatest in Yale history. J. There are other incidents that , weren't too amusing for the coach involved. The article is good, but ' bit on the long side. But there are many points we feel sure col- legiate coaches would like to have ''Quarterbacks" remember. It would be a little too much to . ask for a backfired strategy story ' from a mentor who has Just lost a 1 disappointing game, but Tex Oliver . of Oregon has obliged with the , story of his Arizona quarterback ,'.who went into the game against , Oklahoma A & M In the last two ,. minutes of play with Arizona hold Jng a 15-13 lead. Tex instructed the quarterback to run wide end runs to eat up time and not consider the possibil ity of scoring because the ball ., rested on the Arizona 12-yard j line. . . . The first run was good 'lor 12 yards, the second for eight, ,the third for 84 and the fourth for "four yards and a touchdown as the final gun sounded. ; Tex could probably point to oth er more recent incidents. . . Last ' .year against WSC, although hold ling a 19-point lead, Steve Ander son was Instructed to punt from i the Cougar 34-yard line on fourth , down. . . . Instead he saw an open. ' ing and ran 34 yards for a touch-down. . . . This year against the .Cougars Tommy Roblin scored on ,'. 22-yard run around left end on . play mat cauea lor a rigni-ena weep. , , . The Oregons scored against California last week on a screen pass that was tried with little success for three weeks in v practice, but worked against the , Bears, We remember another Incident that didn't turn out in Oregon's , favor. ... It was back in 1932 at Portland when the Oregons led UCLA 7-8 with only seconds re maining. ... A substitute was sent into the game (we've never quite been sure if under instructions or no) and he called tor a pass play ."from about the Uclan 40. . . . The ;Bruins intercepted on the seven yard line and had time for one more play. . . , And that next play ia still recorded in the conference records as the longest gain on a completed pass In history . . . Mike Frnnkovlch passed to Ran aome Livesay on the 25-yard line and the Bruin receiver galloped 75 additional yards for a touch down and a 12-7 victory a 93 yard scoring play with the gun sounding before the ball crossed the goal line, Lon Stiller of Oregon State con tributes the following yarn In connection with Stevens' story: "Several seasons ago our Orangemen were marching toward the opponents' goal line in the fourth quarter and wo wanted to make a substitution but already had three times out. I Instructed a substitute center to warm up and instructed him to enter the game ns soon as the clock was stopped lor any reaj.on. "In the meantime we had scored and I substituted an entire team, forgetting about the sub center who had already warmed up. Ore Ron State kicked off to the oppos ing team and stopped their running attack com with our 12 men. "Neither I nor the officials were aware of our advantage until Ore gon State gained possession of the ball and ttic two centers started to argue which would snap the ball. The Orange kids knew about It all the time and were getting a big kick out of It but no one else knew, not even the oppon ent." We also recall some Orange coaching strategy that backfired. The Beavers came to Eugene, fresh from a 1S-7 victory over USC and heavily favored to trim the Ore gons. . . . Stlner started his second teem and Oregon scored quickly and then went on to win 13-0. . . . That wai in 1933, the last time the Ducks have been able to shade the Beavers. Evidently Bud Forrester, pub' llclty director for the OSC Beav era, la attempting to promote a bowl game for his Orangemen a though victims of Washington and Stanford so far and tied with USC already this season. . . New Or' leans is lovuly on few Year' Day Jesse James Meets Pete Billy Rayburn Tackles Jackson Clingman, Chick Vie In Other 3-Star Bout COMPLETE PROGRAM Triple Main-Event Opener Otis Clingman vs. Dude Chick. Second Bulldog Jackson vs. Billy Rayburn. Finale Jesse James vs. Pete Belcastro, Referee Elton Owen. There'll be no extra trimmings to Promoter Herb Owen's Thanks giving mat menu at the armory Thursday night it's all white meat. The annual "Turkey Day" professional wrestling show will be a real holiday feast for grappling addicts with six top-flight matmen meeting in three potentially potent 45-minuto matches all headliners. Featuring the three-star show will be a match between Jesse James, sensational undefeated sci entific matman, and Pete "Baby Face" Belcastro, the Italian villain from Klamath Falls. Even the most ardent James fans believe the former world light-heavyweight champion will have the battle of his life to turn back the assault of Belcastro who has been a con sistent winner throughout the northwest whenever anyone is able to persuade the southern Ore- gonian to come out of hibernation. Fifth James Opponent Belcastro will be James' fifth local opponent. Although the pop ular Texas-born mat .artist has disposed of Babe Small, George Kitzmiller, "Strangler Jim" Lewis end Sergeant Bob Kennaston in order, Belcastro has the cunning and ring mastery to at least battle the "uncrowned champion on even terms. The Belcastro-James match will be the finale. The "cocktail" of the Thanks giving menu will be a match be tween Otis Clingman and Dude Chick. Despite the fact that both men are cleanies, the curtain- raiser is almost certain to provide as much "wallop" as any of the other two skirmishes. Both are dynamic grapplers, not speedsters, but real master workmen of the sport. Jackson Confident of Victory Chick, a former world cham pion, and Clingman, an ex-navy titleholdcr, are both angling for a crack at Billy Rayburn's coast championship belt. A victory for either man is expected to go a long way in securing a title test. Bel castro, too, is angling for a match with Rayburn and only a fat guar antee persuaded him to accept Ihursday s booking. The second match on the card will send Bulldog Jackson against Rayburn in a return engagement the first meeting of which ended In a triumph for the mat smoothie after the ring's "premier showman seriously threatened to lift Ray- burn's crown. Jackson, also known as "Yukon Jake" and a beloved character with Lnne county ad dicts, is confident he can take the measure of the champion. "I used to be champion, too. This Rayburn isn't anything but a slssy-kisser. Walt until I really clamp on my hammerlock and watch him squirm," Jackson said in a pre mntoh ultimatum. The opening match is scheduled to start at 8:30 p. m. Reserved seat tickets are on sale at the Club cigar store. Carlson, H&H Pin Team Ties Larsen's Carlson. Hatton & Hnv bowl advanced into a first-place tie with Hart Larsen's for the City league icanersnip Wednesday niRht at the New Deal nllevs. Th C111I quintet, led by Wait Bon- ney, defeated the Willis Small outfit three straight while Lar sen's dropped a 2-1 decision to Scllin's Market. Par-T-Pak, de spite a 2-1 loss to Irlsh-McBroom remained only one game behind the lenders. Scherer Buicks de feated Nehi Beverages 2-1 in the other league match. Chet Lawson of Sellin's estab lished a new series record with an aggregate 602. six pins better than the mark held by Dick Scott. Bob Wetell's single-game record of was threatened bv Schantol of Larsen's with 235, and Lawson with 234. Results: nri uirwn :1 M Mft-atn ryT, .-,ni .nchanlol, Iai-,!'.. 233. High StriM-l.au .on, Stllln'ft, S02. irun-Mrnrnom n m SMJM Par.T-F.lt T1 M, r; ,. High Smflt Ctff1rr, Pr-T-PaX SOI High Srrte Offlm-. Pir-T-Pak." 4M. ' ... n KM ITTS Hlch Rml Anrrrr. Bulrk 195. High ftWrlM Muller, Nil, S70. Ml MI7-71U WIIIU Rtn.ll Co. . .. 7 mi issj7 High Slr,glw. nonn.r. CHfcH. J1K High Serlf-tlfrilrr wtlllt SmU. SSS. International Baseball Series Planned In 1941 WICHITA. Kas., Nov. 21.4 A pan-American semi-pro base ball tournament may be held next September among championship contenders representing Latin American countries, the United States and possibly Canada, Rav Dumont, president of the National Semi-pro Baseball congress, said today. ' frank- miSP. left, nlava nlentv of left end for Pennsylvania's son. rinht, la its hard-hitting fullback. Robertson Is the son of coach. Lightweight College Proves Successful in By HARRY GRAYSON NEA Service Sports Editor NEW YORK The Eastern In tercollegiate Lightweight League offers positive proof that football can still be played for fun. Schools have tried to keep lightweight, or 150-p'ound, foot ball informal ... to protect it from the pressure and ballyhoo which has attached itself to the varsity variety. The little fellows arc not pub licized, but because the idea gives boys too light for the varsity or junior varsity an opportunity to play on regular teams, it has made rapid strides on the At lantic seaboard. Originating in 1931 on an intra mural basis, 150-pound football grew into the Eastern Inter collegiate Lightweight League three years later. Charter mem bers are Yale, Princeton, Penn- 3 New Major Kegling Records Established Three of the four individual and team records in the Major bowling league were shattered Wednesday night at Eugene Rec reation where the idle Coca Cola quintet retained its commanding league leadership. The most impressive record of the evening was established by Stan Short of Johnson Furniture. He rolled a 267 single game, 10 pins better than the previous mark by Rny Brogdon. but his team dropped a 2-1 verdict to Sig wart Electric. Pike of Groceteria led his team to a 3-0 win over Joe Richards with scores of 243-210- 208 in setting a new series record of 659, twelve pins better than Ken Battlcson's previous record, liroceteria also set a new team series mark with an aggregate 309. three pins beter than their own record. Jim the Shoe Doctor defeated Penny-Wise Drugs 3-0 in the only other league match. Results: Rlgwart Elrctrlp ont 11 MO 3S11 Johnnon Furnltur ...S7S loos B.v 2728 High Slrmlo Short, Johnwm'fc 7S7. High Sfrles Short, Jnhnimn'i. N7. OroctwU 10.T7 04A irm vm Jo RtrhiirrW . 877 1XH lOnA 27Sd Minn Kinair nice, nrorrterlii, 34.1. High Srl Pike. GrocelrrU. K9. Jim. Shop Doctor SSS 87 Ms J7S7 PMiny-Wlw Dniri ...BOO K39 9022SS1 High Single White. Shr. Does 22n High Serin J. MtKr. Shoe Does. SSS. Oregon Football Drills Halted Until Saturday Tex Oliver called a halt Wed nesday for University of Oregon football preparations for next week's gridiron finale asrainst Oregon State college at Corvallls. i-raciice nas oeen suspended until Saturday when the Webfoots will return for five consecutive days of scrimmage. Dodgers Pay Off $300,000 Of Debt NEW YORK A Brooklyn trust company executive savs the Dodg ers, since Larry MacPhall was placed in charge, have paid off $300,000 of a $400,000 Brooklyn baseball debt. ARROW SHIRTS The Man's Shop BYROM & KNF.ELAND It R. It THf REGISTER. GUARD. EUGENE. OREGOM Leading Lightweights sylvania, Rutgers and Lafayette. Cornell and Villanova were ad mitted to complete the present seven-club setup. Each outfit plays a full sched ule of six games with the other members of the circuit. More than 100 reported at Pennsylvania this fall ... 75 at Cornell. . Combatants come and go as they wish. There is no squad cut. The boys have regular coaches, but maintain their own training rules. Practice lasts about an hour and a iialf a day, but some of the athletes leave early because of meal jobs, etc. Prac tice is informal. Some come out off and on all season. Players weigh in on the second day prior to each game after practice that day. Those weigh ing in excess of 151 pounds are ineligible. Rival teams weigh in before each game. Anybody then weighing in excess of 154 pounds is ineligible. Periods are of 12 minutes dura- Idaho Vandals, Bend Win In Cross-Country PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 21 (U.R) The University of Idaho suc cessfully defended its Pacific coast intercollegiate cross-country title at Hill Military academy Wednesday. The five Idaho runners covered the four-mile course in near rec ord time, scoring 25 points. Oregon State was second with 49, Wash ington 66; Portland university failed to qualify. Don Vaillencourt, Oregon State, finished first in 20 minutes, 41 sec onds. Idaho ,was fcd in by Phil Liebowitz and followed in order by Dick Dyrgall and Bob White. Bend, Ore., high school won the prep school race with 54 points witli Grant second and Milwaukie third. Leon Devereaux, Bend, took individual honors by covering the two-mile course in 10 minutes, 32 seconds. Harold Calhoun of Molalla took individual honors in the junior high event. Olympics Tie Bombers 3-3 With Late Rally (Associated Press) A beautifully executed three way combination play featuring Dave Downie In the third period gave the Seattle Olympics a 3-3 tie with the Spokane Bombers in a Pacific coast hockey league game in Seattle Wednesday night. Neither team scored in the over time period. WRESTLING EUGENE ARMORY TONIGHT 8:30P.M. TRIPLE MAIN EVENT JESSE JAMES t. PETE BELCASTRO BILLY RAYBURN rt, BULLDOG JACKSON OTIS CLINGMAN vs. DUDE CHICS HERB OWEN. Promoler F.l'GENE WRESTLING COS1M1SSION Belcastro 150-pound team. Charley Robert' Lawson Robertson, famous Olympic Football East tion, but play Is fast because speed is stressed. At first the 150s used cast-off varsity equipment, but now the universities furnish them with new stuff each autumn. Princeton is the defending champion, but Penn and Yale went into their fourth games un beaten and tied for the lead in the current race. Average attendance is between 300 and 600, but as many as 10,- 000 have seen a game at Rutgers. Pennsylvania's star is a sopho more, John Watt, who weighs 192 pounds. A sprinter from Mer cersburg, he scored three touch downs against Villanova and dis tinguished himself in the La fayette fray by his fast running. Charley Robertson, son of Law- son Robertson, the Olympic coach, is a Penn fullback. Frank' Crisp plays plenty of left end for the Quakers? Claude Hart tallied twice for Yale against a deceptive Prince ton combination. He bucked the ball across and skirted left end for a 23-yard touchdown dash. Three interceptions frustrated a Princeton passing attack in the last period. Francis Farr registered for the Tigers in the second period . . . on a forward pass that netted 55 yards. . This is Capt. Carl Becker's third season on the Lafayette team. He is a fullback. Johnny Reoch, a first-year man, is an able half back. The 150-pounders play to win, but mainly they are out for the enjoyment they get from playing football against men their own size. McKee Bakers Beat Eugene Bankers In Practice Tilt, 55-77 SPRINGFIELD, Nov. 21. (Special) The McKee Bakers of Springfield, state "B" AAU cham pions, opened their 1940-41 bas ketball season here Wednesday night, defeating the First Na tional Bankers of Eugene 55-17 in a practice game. Led by Palmer King who scored 14 of his 18 points in the first half, the Bakers took an early lead and held a 26-5 halftime ad vantage. The Bankers never threatened! Summary: McKr.E'S IM) P. King IS . McOeadv 4 h. rox K. King 10 Smith Jone . Koch a Johnson S (17) HAHKKRS T ... s Winters F T HuKord C 3 Bnmton O s Eaton O 1 Bliden S Berg K. Tox S Reteree: Cox. on Armory Mat Toni Harmon Trails 1939 Grid Mark Creighton's Knolla Is Total Offense Leader By GAIL FOWLER SEATTLE. Nov. 21. W A few 1939 football statistical marks have already been goDmea up like today's turkey, but it appears that Michigan's Tom Harmon will have to stage yard-eating feast aeainst Ohio State Saturday if he's going to surpass his perform ance of last year. American Football Statistical Bureau figures released today show 'Harmon ranking eighth as a total offensive threat with 1,059 yards, compared to his . 1939 total of 1,358 which ranked him second to UCLA's Kenny Washington: ' -In rushing Harmon will have to pick .up 160 yards Saturday to draw even with his 1939 total of 868 . which' he . compiled In 129 rushes. He's tried 181 already this year for 708 yards. 1939 Mark Already Surpasied 'Meanwhile, the- irrepressible Johnny Knolla of Creighton, who has been among the leaders the last two - years, had a field day against South Dakota last week and took over first place as the nation's . total offensive . leader with -1,151 yards. This, already surpasses his 1939 mark of, 1,104 yards which earned him seventh place, nationally. A sophomore, Jimmy Reynolds of Oklahoma A. ranks sec ond to Knolla with 1,125 yards, with , his 262 plays establishing him as the country's workhorse. Reynolds 191 rushes set a new record for the bureau's four years of existence, the previous high being 181 rushes by Whizzer White of Colorado in 1937, when White set the high modern rush ing mark of 1,121 yards. Bill Sewell Top Passer This latter figure is hardly en dangered, although Al Ghesquiere of Detroit neeas only 19 more yards Saturday to pass the 1939 mark of 882 rushing yards set by Wake Forest's John Polanski in 10 games. Bill Sewell of Washington State cAlege continues to lead the na tion's forward passers in the num ber of completions, with 65 bulls eyes in 137 atempts. Fifteen were intercepted and he's accounted for 846 aerial yards. Sewell ranks sixth in total offense gains both rushing and passing. Paul Christman of Missouri, the "passingest" of the passers, leads in attempts with 141, and his 964 aerial yards in eight games al ready passes the 1939 mark of 962 set by Kay Eakin of Arkansas in 10 games. Lightweight Title May Change Hands NEW YORK, Nov. 21. (U.B The lightweight title probably will change hands Friday night when Champion Lew Jenkins and Pete Lello tangle, at Madison Square Garden. Moreover, it's one of those rarely genuine "grudge fights." Yet the bout threatens to be held in virtual privacy. In the good old days a light weight championship fight was one of the year's outstanding sports events, because the light weights generally have been ranked right next to the heavies as the No. 2 money division. The Jenkins-Lello lightweieht title brawl has crept up on the public with virtually no fanfare nor publicity. This is singularly unfortunate, both for Promoter Mike Jacobs and the fans to say nothing of the fighters. Because this ' scheduled 15-round . bout shapes up as a mighty attractive melee. Challenger Lello of Gary, Ind aisuxes Champion Jenkins so much he has offered to fight him tor- notning" in a gymnasium, Hence. Lello. at least will not be ' disappointed with Friday night's gate. Lello is sore at Jenkins because he knocked out Texas Lew in their one and only meeting at Chicago In May, 1939, but Jenkins never would give him credit for the kayo. Instead, ac cording to Gar? Pete. Jenkins 'old everyone in New York the Chi cago officials had ganged up on him and stopped the fight In the ninth round because he was oieeamg a Bit from an old eye gasn, FREE ONE FLORSHETM PEN KNIFE With Each Pair of.M.n'i Florsheim Shoes PURCHASED BEFORE CHRISTMAS IDEAL FOR tEY OR WATCH CHAINS ll Ureaon Oumi TL.-i.. . . Add Rnlfimnr- ",U,,IVWI1(I - w s- r in, i The University of Oregon's third annual trans-continental barnstorming basketball tour was completed as far as booking is concerned Wednesday with the announcement by Coach Howard Hobson that his Webfoots would meet Baltimore university at Balt imore, Dec. 19. Oregon defeated Baltimore 45-40 last year. . The Oregons, who play an open ing game here Monday night against a formidable alumni team, starts on Jts cross-country tour uec. o. xne jaunt will be featured by a game against Long Island university at New York City's Madison Square Garden. Other opponents will be Temple. Du- quesne, Bradley Tech and the Uni versity oi UKianoma. - - Cornell-Dartmouth Ruling Explained By BILL BONI JVfcW YORK. Nov. 21M Anxious that revision of the Cor- iicii-uoi unoum score snould not esiaousn a precedent which eonlrl uecome "narmiui to the sport, its piayers ana its officials," CommiS' sioner Asa Bushnell of the F.nst. em Intercollegiate Football asso ciation emphasized today the unique circumstances under which the "fifth down" mixup at Han over occurred. Bushnell pointed out that only when an official reverses his de cision on the last play of a game is it possible to accept such a re versal and permit it to change the score. "In any sport such as football his statement read in part, "where the game unfolds in a consecutive series of inter-related and interde pendent plays, it is manifestly im possible to alter any one of these plays without affecting and per haps altering every one of them which follow . . . thus the Dart' mouth-Cornell game provided the one case in a million in which change could be made without es' tablishing a dangerous precedent, for in it the error which proved decisive came on a scoring play which also was the very last play oi tne linai period." Bushnell praised football offi cials and the high standards of their work, then added that they "do, however, make occasional mistakes, and they are bound to continue to do so in the future. If, when such errors occur as inevi tably they must, there are de mands that decisions and results be set aside, as was done in the 1940 Dartmouth-Cornell game, then a unique example will be so misuse's as to become a precedent harmful to the sport, its players and its officials." v , . . Mary Hardwick Joins Professional Net Tour CHICAGO, Nov. 21. OJJ!) Mary Hardwick, 25, who has represented England in international tennis matches for the last seven years. turned professional Wednesday. She will join Alice Marble, "Big Bill" Tilden and Don Budge on a winter exhibition tour- of 50 cities, making her first professional ap pearance at New York's- Madison Square Garden Jan. 6, Jefferson Threat In Portland Prep League PORTLAND, Nov. J1.0 Grant high school, only unbeaten eleven in the Portland interschol' astic league, faced potent Benson Thursday after second-place Jef ferson continued to menace the Generals by walloping Franklin yesterday, 6-0. In the only other game yester day Roosevelt downed Commerce, 12-0. Jefferson is a half game behind Grant and a half game ahead of Benson in the lea ue standings, The other teams are scattered in the following order: Franklin, Roosevelt, Commerce, Lincoln, Washington. SKIS 2.00 to 28.50 HENDERSHOTg 770 Willamette ( i 1 1 1 at m v run... una Menulit ids, w. iS That was when taction day orVffl date on the cslendal1 schedule mas.- " t For several i I trend has bw'hSJf -.u.j,s, exclusively COnfUS nn ,... .t ' . Thanksgivtag--ft;- BOOK fia uf.11 il . " as football i. " . vuijtcrntti. Ea5ttnrii-"..,,Pal na a resu r th u. willbeFordham'sfr' TVli mial,. 1 . ..e 1Mve QMn - ive entree on he holifa wnen it was scheduW L Rnme M L . 1 ""re-wato us """.m nave won ontri of seven eneaeement. Z , vorof the otferinj has b what impaired. Fans in the Balttamta, battle of a strong little clrl nuigeij ana uie mgfeiai pins of the UniverSrZ lanrl. urhn t,.... . , i game and scored but tit a downs this season. In the Sguth the rpotm be focused on the Southej: ference, which has two pa tap. Virginia Military m4T Tech will keep their mMt iron date while the Unin Richmond Spiders engqt n and Mary. , J The headlinerforfheng country will be the insolj gle between Kansas airiHsf with "Pitchln' Paul" One, making a farewell appetttai the Tigers. . I Undefeated Texas Techtss Louis University cone toes' another leading mid-wtrmi pute. I There will be another aj of games next Thursday states not obserring tofayf holiday celebrate their a giving day. i , Prep Hoop Referee, Coaches MeerMoai I High school basketball and referees will men mour's cafe In Eugene night at o'clock lor a I meeting for the purpose ots) izing an officials assoaalsi Lane county. While the tion is primarily for tbt of officials, the fcrmtag t group is expected to be 1 erable aid to high ichnl ball. 'I Basketbsll officials toJ throughout the county a to attend tte session. ; j 80,000 Fans Expert: At Stanford-Cal Goc SAN FRANCISCO, 0J.PJ A sellout crowd of assured today for the California football keley Memorial stadium W Ten days before the puM Davis, California ncro j -announced that at ta ji tickets had been soio i . run: fg jiriminitlnr. The Gil . next door to B " nr riKAMKO Electric Clesnert-?!. KNOX HATS New Shapn. N" McDomH TfcaterJ' SKI Headquartersl WE ARE READY more Is Let I?S select the njM eqwr-7 See the new Laminated SU Exclusively st "JjJlS The I bio"