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Newspaper Page Text'Viday, January 1, 1943 THE REGISTER. QUARD. EUGENE, OREGON Page Fivw npower Loss to Sports re Of Football Gloomy Outlook' CONTINUED FROM COVER PAGE irt from the way the sports jn began 1942. re will be basketball, bowl lockey, track, golf, tennis, racing, baseball, boxing, 11 and all the other sports ey won't be on a pre-Pearl r basis, , porta Drew Well closest to the old thing 3ly will be baseball, but in port, too, there are plenty blems coming up. There will certain amount of curtail but probably not as much st of the other branches of ics. while the prospects for may be a little cloudy now, most closely connected with there are a number of good t is the attendance in 1942. wartime transportation ims and other difficulties, sports enjoyed successful is. Attendance held up much than expected, the only de- if note being in college loot Baseball attendance was off and the others were little ed. Horse racing actually more people than in 1841 e total betting also higher. snd is the Eastman letter ; indirectly gave baseball the liaht to start trie ma sea' rhere probably will be less 10 minor leagues operating with the majors. Spring iff will be curtailed, sched. will be designed ' to keep Ins at a minimum, the sea jay be shortened and other es mav becomes necessary, . looks as if baseball has the nance to survive, i Wants Sport rd is the attitude of the gen ..uii. irtiiMi Vise shnwed VT .... " md again since Pearl Harbor t still wantsits sports. Added it is the general feeling that branches of snorts go lar in g to the physical develop of the untold thousands df es who are manning war ns all over the world ana sports contributed its share ceipts to the over-all war npower looms as the most i ' jig problem. The number of es in the armed services will ise daily and professional I ' i will have to draw on ter and older men. That; make for quamy, dui ii wiu the game alive. i first curtailment of the j sports season is likely to . indoor games. In the East ieating situation may force losing on certain days and i I of sports arenas, ice nocitey in doomed because of the of manpower, and profes 1 football is going to be in ime category next fall, far the only outright casual f the war have been automo fccing, boating and the Pan ican games. Other sports, ly golf, haven't been the , Golf, as a matter of fact, iy is on a different plane, extensive tournament sched as been eliminated and' the is going to be back on. a iy club basis, ll's Outlook Poor I sport likely to suffer most 43 is college football. Aside the hundreds of coaches it to the services it did less any other sport for the War While all other branches raising money for service or relief agencies, college foot vent on its merry way. haps an indication of what store for college football from Washington when it ated that tickets for the games like the Army-Navy at Annapolis be confined ose living in the immediate Snead Wins Only Major Golf Title; Ben Hogan Money Winner p..ji..i.'jl.jllliil,iiiiiiiiB,i .,.,. . ,..t m in )iiim urn nnn ami i I. mm i... niitjy.im.OJ . i..wii.wi ini "I '""(' ill aim ( v ' , .w . : , t j M quo rrlf (:fetef 1 dinals Win 1942 World Series Yanks Upset in Annual Classic HOCAN'S 10-UNDER-PAR DRAWS FAN S Admirers crowd around Ben Hot an as he shot 10-under-par olf to win Hale America tourney at Chicago. He's a leading money winner. (By the Associated Press) NEW YORK. Slammin' Sam my Snead finally got out from behind golf's eight-ball this year. The handsome ex-hillbilly from West Virginia, who blew the Na tional open three summers ago, slammed his long-time jinx to earn his first major title. He beat Corp. Jim Tumesa 2 and 1 for the Profesional Golfers' crown. That was the, only national tournament on the links in 1942, all others having been cancelled because of the war. But the year had its golfing high-lights, such as Ben Hogan's triumph in the patriotic Hale America tourney that served as an unofficial open championship, Byron Nelson's victory in Chicago's Tarn O' Shanter open that was threatened briefly by a sit-down strike, and Betty Jameson's continued dom ination of the girls' competitions. Snead's march to the PGA throne surprised many, but it was a popular conquest. Sammy, who came over the mountains a half dozen years ago to gain quick recognition as golf's best shot maker, had never won a national title. 1 But at Atlantic City, he showed he had what it takes. Three down after the first round, Sammy be gan pounding out those whistling drives and on the 35th hole he closed out Corporal Jim. There was an unscheduled an gle to the Tarn O'Shanter Open at C h i c a g o the professionals re belled when ordered to wear numbers on their backs. After a session of verbal fireworks, the show went on. Byron Nelson beat Clayton Heafner in a playoff. Sol dier Marvin (Bud) Ward won the amateur division just as he had topped the simon pures earlier in the Hale America. : What amateur honors there were went to Ward, Soldier Pat Abbott and John Kraft of Denver. Abbott won the Western amateur and Kraft took the Trans-Missis sippi. The intercollegiate title went to Frank Tatum, . Jr., of Stanford. Betty Jameson of San Antonio was again the standout among. the sirls. Hogan won the North . and South at Pinehurst, N. C, with a Schroeder, Segura Top Netmen ersectlonal football games sven the usual sectional con may be out for the duration, t's a safe bet that there will llege football, even if it is ned to state or city rivals; may come to the same thing ser sports. ' major factor In the outlook status of the war. As the joes so will sports go as our es of winning increase so the chances that sports will ve increase. It also would i the other way. Gordon And Cooper Voted 'Most Valuable' By the Associated Pnl NEW YORK. This was the year a speedy, sharp-hitting gang of St. Louis Cardinals did the job of breaking up the Yankees, The New Yorkers were, as us ual, king of the walk in their own league but in the world series, the Cardinals turned loose such a fast, crippling attack that the Yankees at the finish, beaten four games to one, were all but stumbling around like dazed sandlotters. This triumph came almost as an anti-climax to the Cardinals' great stretch drive to slice away a ! game Brooklyn lead and win the National league pennant in a stir ring duel that lasted right down to the last day. Far behind the Brooklyn Dodgers, who. in early August appeared to have the flag all but wrapped up, Billy South worth's swift youngsters won 47 out of their last 57 games to over haul the Flatbush Fusileers and grab the bunting in an almost photo finish. New York Wins Pennant The Yanks, who made a run away of their loop race, and clinched their sixth pennant in seven years on Sept. 14, were ser ies favorites and it looked- like an other Yankee sweep in the first game as Red Ruffing set a new series record by holding St. Louis hitless for seven and two-thirds innings. From there on. out, it was all St. Louis, with the Cardinals daz zling the Yankees with their speed to win four straight games. Rookie Johnny Beazley outpitched the Yankee ace, Tiny Bonham, to win tne second game on Rookie Stan Musial's late single. Lefty Ernie White shut out the New Yorkers 2-0 in the third game, the Cards put on a late batting splurge to take the next 9-6 and , Beazley came back to win his second game in the finale, which was decided by a ninth-inning home run by another rookie. Third Baseman i Whitey Kurowskl. Ted Williams was the standout batter of the majors, winning the American league hitting triple and pacing the Boston Red .Sox into second place, ahead of ' the sur prisingly strong St. Louis Browns. me won the batting crown with a .356 average, knocked 36 homers and batted in 137 runs. Boston had another young star in Rookie Shortstop Johnny Pesky, who led the majors in hits, 205. Lombardl Batting Champion Bulky Ernie Lombard! of the Braves won the senior circuit bat ting championship with a .331 av erage while Mel Ott, who did a fine job of managing the Giants into third place, led in homers with an on1 .Tnhnnv MWa nf tho Toledo and Notre Dame, al-1 Riant, lcnrvkert in nn nms. Bnn- though neither was 'awarded any : ham of tne Yankees won 21 games midwestern conference . crowns, as did Beazlev whila Mort Coooer record 271 and, after a fine rtlly to tie . Nelson over the regular route, lost the Augusta Masters' in a playoff. Craig- Wood won the Canadian Open and Herman Bar ron copped the Western Open to score his first triumph in 13 years of campaigning. N, Cralg Wood's Ryder Cup squad beat Walter Hagen's "Challen gers" 10-5.' ' Basketball Booms Despite Handicaps NEW YORK U.R Basketball, the country's most popular sport, celebrated its Golden Jubilee in 1942 by playing to approximately 100 million spectators and despite tire and gasoline shortages and difficulties of transportation, will carry on in 1943 Top attendance laurels for 1942 went to the Metropolitan hotbed of the sport Madison-; Square Garden which drew a total of 358,000 fans to its annual pro gram of intersections!, intercol legiate double-headers, drawing upwards of 70,000 fans alone to the four-night Writers' Invita tion Tournament which wound up the season; West Virginia, seeded last in this tourney, won one of the na tion's coveted cage titles by bat tling its way through to the final and a vicory over seventh-seeded Western Kentucky to take the championship. Stanford Wins In N.C.A.A. Stanford, which won the south ern division crown in the Pacific coast conference and then took sole possession of far western laurels by beating Oregon State, northern division titleholders, in two out of three games, went on to win the N.C.A.A. tournament at Kansas City from Dartmouth, champions of the Eastern inter collegiate league, $ ' "i''"5jr " -i.ib.': t yjc' "i.ICm .A.'iwi..-t mi i .'iwJ CARDS CELEBRATE WORLD SERIES VICTOR Y judge Kenneuw Mountain -Landls, baseball commissioner, sits on shoulders-of St. Louis Cardinals as they celebrated defeating Yankees for World Series victory. Left to right: Cardinal batboy, National League President Ford Frlck -(hat before face), Harry Walker, Max Lanier (behind Walker), Enos Slaughter (next to Frlck), Sam Nsrron (towel in hand), Landls, Manager Billy Southworth, Whitey Kurowskl (hand on Landls' bead), Slats Marlon (behind Kurowskl), and Coach Buny Ware (bent over box in front).. Warmerdam Leading American Trackman Louis, Other Champs Divorce Boxing Ranks For Armed Service SCHROEDER LEADS U. S. TENNIS - Fred Schroeder, Jr. (right) holds trophy beside Frank Parker whom he defeated to win the national men's singles tennis championship at Forest Hills, N. Y. Parker holds runner-up trophy. NEW YORK A talkative, two-' fisted little Ecuadorean, Francis co VPancho" Segura, furnished most of the color tennis offered this year but a home-bred smash er from California won the na tional singles championship. Young Ted Schroeder of Glen dale, Calif., whose reputation had largely been made 'in doubles, breezed through a single field that .had been denuded of many of its stars by military and proiessionai calls, to whip Frankie Parker in the finals. The women's championship provided a surprise as Louise Brough, husky Beverly Hills, Calif., girl, who had won almost every major tournament of the summer, lost to Pauline Betz. A shot in the arm to tennis, after the loss of such standouts as Bobby Riggs and Frank Kovacs, Segura pulled 'em in at the. gate as he won six of his first ten tournaments, including the Long wood and Eastern Clay courts singles, . With the caliber of the field be low par, this shaped up -as Frankie Parker's year. The ope time Milwaukee prodigy, a chal lenger and ranking star for a decade, appeared too steady and experienced for the others. . Miss Brough and Margaret Os borne of San Francisco beat Miss Betz and Doris Hart of Miami in doubles, 2-6; 7-5; 6-0 while Lt. Gardner Mulloy, of Miami,, and Billy Talbert of Cincinnati whip ped Schroeder and Sidney Wood In the men's doubles, 9-7; 7-5; 6-1. Seymour Greenberg, Chicago southpaw, took the national clay courts crown, and Don Budge, Oakland, Calif., won the profes sional championship, beating Bobby Riggs of Chicago, 8-2; 6-2; 6-2. liirlaway 'Horse Of The Year'; Shatters biscuit's All-Time Money-WinMark fBy lh Anoclatri Pren) W YORK This was the year Whirlaway broke Seablscuit's me money-winning record of 730 and skyrocketed right on the half-million dollar mark, y winding up with $560,911 Is three seasons of galloping, was the year of the fanciest, lg figures the turf has ever . the year that Alsab and Out staged a dizzy duel for ir-old honors and Whirly and put on a tight race for le of the year" title before laway finally won it. lit Out was the early leader ic 3-year-olds with triumphs i Kentucky Derby and Bel . Stakes, which established as Equipoise's best son. But Sab, beaten in the derby and ont, knocked oft Shut Out Preakness. And when Shut went sour in the fall, Alsab i back from a summer Injury On tht ground be bad iot and more. Shut Out, through his wins in the big spring heats, led all horses in money won with $238,972 whUe Alsab had $234,565. The 2-year-olds sprang one sur prise after another. Occupation and Devil's Thumb appeared to have the championship sewed up between them by September only to have Count Fleet flash by both. Most spectacular of the year's RUNNERS MAKE LETTERS EAST LANSING, Mich. 'An Two cross-country runners earned their major letter at Michigan State college by placing in the IC4-A and the NCAA champion ships. Jerry Page of Rockland made the grade at New York City in the former by placing 20th and five days later, Captain Ralph Monroe of Indianapolis, Ind., did likewise by placing 20th in the latter run over the Spartans' borne course. competitive doings was the series of races in which Alsab whipped Whirlaway two out of three times. The first meeting came in a $25.- 000 match race at Narragansett, with The Sab hanging It on Mr. Big Tail by half-a-lip in a thriller diller. Two weeks later Whirlv knocked off Alsab in the Jockey Club Gold Cup and a fortnight later Alsab triumphed again in the New York Handicap. Yet, in spite of Alsab's edge In their meetings, Whirly turned in a more impressive record. Of 22 outings, he won 12, was second in eight, and third in two as he add ed $211,250 to his earnings. Vagrancy, winning 11 of 21 races for $84,380, topped t h e 3 year-old fillies, while Good Morn ing, Askmenow and Fair Weather were the best among the 2-year-old fillies. Johnny Adams, a lop Jockey five years ago, came back to win riding honors, were the outstanding teams in their section. Big ,Ten laurels were won by Illinois while Ok lahoma and Creighton, which has since discontinued the sport for the duration,' finished in a tie for the Big Six crown. Colorado won honors in the Rocky Mountain Conference and Kansas took the Missouri Valley title. Duke, Kentucky. Rice and Ar kansas rated as the top teams in the Southern cage circle. Duke won top place in the Southern Conference. Kentucky garnered the Southeastern crown and Rice and Arkansas shared first place in the Southwestern circuit. Revise Schedules for '43 West Texas State, a visitor to Madison Square Garden for the first time last season, spread eagled to its section to win the Border Conference title with ease while Rhode Island State's speedy, high-scoring outfit won New England honors. s In independent circles, 20th Century Fox of Hollywood and the Denver Safeways garnered the most cage distinction. Twenti eth Century won the Golden Ju bilee tournament held at Madi son Square Garden to open the local season while the Safeways won the A. A. U. crown. Only definite contribution to service relief was a charity bill staged at Madison Square Garden which netted approximately $7500 for the army. of the Cards, who couldn't win either of his series starts, topped the National pitchers with 22 tri umphs. Cooper and Joe Gordon won the most valuable player, awards The Americans scored a 3-1 tri umph in the All-Star game and then shut out a service team man aged by Mickey Cochrane 5-0, Rogers Hornsby was named to the Hall of Fame. ' With benefit Barnes during the season and a large slice of world series proceeds, baseball contrib uted nearly a million dollars to war relief funds. . Rocky Road Seen For Rocky Mountain Grid LARAMIE, Wyo. (U.R) F. Elton Davis, graduate manager or ath letics at the University of Wyo- ming, predicts that college football may. be "thrown overboard" in Rocky Mountain schools in 1943. Davis said the long distances the teams had to travel in the region, coupled with Increasing transportation difficulties, made the immediate future of sports in the area "very shaky. (By the Associated Press) NEW YORK Sports, like ev ery other American activity, felt the impact of the war in 1942. I Early In the year all national 1 golf championships, except the P.G.A. were cancelled. Later victims of the conflict were the Indianapolis 500-mile automobile classic, Santa Anita race meet ing, the Poughkeepsie regatta, the various polo championships , and almost all motorboating con-! tests. '.- . I , Ring competition faded badly as many boxers, including cham pions Joe Louis, Gus Lesnevich, Tony Zale and Freddie Cochrane, j entered military service. ' . Snorts did Its part to help.1 horse racing tracks raised around , $2,500,000 ' and baseball around a j million dollars for war relief , agencies at special benefit games and the World Series gate. Ma jor league attendance was off 8 per cent and more than a dozen small minor leagues were forced to fold up. Large war relief sums came from boxing, and oth er sports. Haegg, a little known .athlete, began in July a series of record shattering performances such as track has not known since the days of Paavo Nurml in the mid 20 s. In the space of 83 days Haegg broke 10 world records in distances from the mile to 5000 meters. And broke them badly his 13:32.4 for three miles shaved a full 17 seconds off the old time. Top American performer prob ably was slim Cornelius Warmer dam of California who kept boosting the world pole vault record until he got it up to 15 feet 1V4 inches indoors, and 13 feet 6 7-8 inches outdoors. Leslie MacMitchell, N.Y.U., was America's most consistent mller. Barney Ewell of Penn State won a triple 100 and 220 yards and broad jump for the third straight year. Al Blozls of Georgetown finished his college career unbeaten in the shot put and set a world Indoor record ot 57 feet, 3A inches. Bill Smith, 18-year-old son of a Hawaiian policeman of Irish ancestry, won three A.A.U. swim' ming championships, the 440 in 4:39.6 and the 880 in 9:54.6, both new world records, and the 220 in 2:10.7, a new American record. AAU basketball championships went to the Denv.er American Le gion and the Davenport, la., Women's A.I.C. IjfewBiMM ArfMtrilft MMtVEir WL UNBEATEN Ray "Sugar" Robinson (above), unbeaten and with 140 victories, amateur and professional, to his credit, Is 1942's top welterweight boxer. Mew York Is his home.. Newport Gypsy Tour Only Motorcycle Event Motorcycling as a sport was sharply curbed during the past year due to the war. However, a gypsy tour was held in Newport on Labor day. This constituted the only major activity of the Eugene Motorcycle club, the others being confined to attending meetings which are still being held each Wednesday night at the club house in Eugene. Of the original 32 club mem bers, 22 are now in the service or have gone to work in vital de fense Industries. The remainder have enrolled In the Oregon civil reserves as motorcycle dispatch bearers. (By the Anedated Preaa) NEW YORK With Heavy weight Joe Louis and thre other champions enrolled to do their passed through its quietest year in many moons. In military service with Louis, who earned his sergeant's tripes, were light-heavyweight champion, Gus Lesnevich, middleweight rul er Tony Zale and welterweight chamDion Freddie Cochrane, along with dozens of pugilists, including Billy Conn. ... Manuel Ortiz was declared the National Boxing association's ban tamweight champion nut tne new York commission refused to sanc tion him because his triumph over Lou Sallca was at 12 rounds rath er than the 15-round distance this state demands. In November, Willie Pep of Hartford, Conn., out pointed Chalky Wright for New York's featherweight crown. Thi NBA ruler is Jackie Wilson. . . A third split came in December after Sammy Angott had retired as lightweight champion. The NBA called for an elimination tourney but New York recognized the winner of the Beau Jack Tippy Larkln fight, won by Jack. Louis and Conn figured In an explosive affair late in the year. The war department agreed to let them fight Oct. 12 for th heavyweight championship. Later, when Secretary Stimson discov ered the fighters had been prom ised they would be given $135,451 of the gate receipts to pay off per sonal debts, he ordered the fight cancelled. Ray Robinson, a lightweight and perhaps the classiest fighter of the year, ran his string of vic tories to 39 straight He hasn't been stretching back to 1940. been beaten in a professional ea Among his victims was champion Sammy Angott in a non-title bout. Bivins, the Cleveland negro, whipped Maurlello, Soose, Lesne vich and Lee Savold and won and lost with Bob Pastor. After his defeat by Bivins, Pastor retired. no PRIORITY NECESSARY On Taking PICTURES of Sporit Events! - e We have) what It takes . . . fast films, filters and ac cessories for' all conditions. 31 BA,lfl, FOR HEALTH JDOW1. FOR SPORT Get the gang together several nights a week and come bowling it's not only lots of fun but good healthy exercise that is roluvenating after a hard day. EUGENE'S MOST MODERN ALLEYS Every modern facility, and eucellent equipment, has been Installed for your convenience at the U-BOWL alleys. Why not bowl a line tonight? tr? ? 29 WEST 11TH WALLING BLDG. Exclusively at Miller's . 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