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Page 18 . Eugene Register-Guard, Thursday, Dee. 21, 1944 Webfoots Come From Behind To Whip Vikings Oregon Ekes Out 50-45 Victory Highclimber By DICK STRITE n . mpw qtbttp BELUXGHAM. Dec. 20 One of Washington asking that he re By DICK. bXKUL the rree(era Bt the victoria dock! view the case. Th ITntvrsitv nf Oreeon B ' i i-- nn i " " utMimaj "in vra.awu . l.lJ IT rU .In..' Irnnui ..n An rmlA In Vnnnntll'Dr was one oi me iinest ainieies m Webfoot history Flight Officer I George "Porky" Andrews. Porky Shrine Teams ;VolS Light But Hold Workout r i 1 it ..a - rdMAna luuyn when they're licked. For the third consecutive night, coach John We received an iuterestinf let ter from Ace PUth, EM 2-c, before entraining on this jaunt. Ace writes from the Atlantic: "If you ever got the idea a jeep was rough riding you should spend a couple days out here on this sea going cork. We do ail the tricks of a band of air circus pilots could think of. The toughest part of it is to watch a new guy get used to it. But you can see I am still happy, at least you are sup posed to be when you can find something to beef about. "The sports world here is sure contusing. There seasons are al ways one ahead of the states or one behind. Not very long ago the basketball season came to its Warren's Oregon five came fromii.- stationed at Pat Bay and is behind In the closing minutes of playing basketball with the RCAF , . . . thic quintet, me au uc wiv tv play to hang up a victory, this from hjj home tQwn Wnen time over the Western Washing- not playing basketball. Porky flies ton college Vikings by a 50-45 1 a twin-engine bomber and he is count played before 1500 , specta-1 nerf ninT' tors here Wednesday night. , Andrew, played basketball at The Webfoots had every rea- i Oregon for several seasons, finish son to lose, missing the train in ling about 1941 when Oregon fin- ,. i ih mnrn-'ished third place in the northern Vancouver earlier in the morn idivision whe wsc won the title ing and reaching here just in time , and de(eated Stanford two straight for a short warmup before the for the coast title. . . . Vic Town opening whistle. TaKing the end i send, the scoring champion that oi atrocious ofliciatiag by a season, was a forward on that couple of "homers" with whistles , team. Others were Warren Tay-i ena. us ciassy oaii mey piay holainE the "advantage for only lor and Paul Jackson-all in the here too. You get one guy from as UotuSlZ, j sen-ice now ; far a distant state as possible and , ! Porky did not compete in any j wnen you have five guys with five 1," j i ii,. Urh,,. ,, i other varsity sport, but scored pne . styles you see the eighth wonder. Monday night the Webioots ue- u.u.i u h. n.,i v...j n .,ju, i ieated ''v"'" of B itisli -- I Sigma Delta Psi (athletic honor- j on one way to play, as individuals; " u. aryj tesis. nt wouia nave occu a tiley were okay final two minutes, fuesaay night I great basebaiIer, gridder and track ; M one time tliey deleatea me inunaerunua man. 63-59 after being on the short Andrews wasn't the only Oregon end of the score with only three , athlete that came to Eugene from and one half minutes remaining. 1 Canada. A sure-fire all-American The Oregons demonstrated here fullback was Paul Rowe, the kid Wednesday night the courage of a that would have been the greatest Champion by ssoging a comeback quick-kicker in collegiate football after trailing by 15 points late in had he remained in college . . f, .,, i h.i? . and still another was Hank Rowe, "rHofiine, the game leg- I -jklng hoopto. but ged freshman from MarsMield I "oreUteto Pa tied the count at 43-43 in the ttnal !season as a freshman before con. four minutes of play with a long i ditions at home forced him to quit Hush shot on Which lie Was also r . .,, nlvini hsislrelhnll with . . ,,,'n ' " o .Hf a iiciiiciiaiii. uui i. wua unaj charged with a foul. With three army team at Vancouver, and 'though, 'cause it was Harry Lock nnnutes to go, Jim Bartelt, an-; dolng very well despite shrapnel fhart and x told him how it mei other yearling, canned one of two wounds suffered while serving , . h t . Q t hj Washington boys. He was as nice SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 (JPl Twenty-three of the best civilian football players east of the Mississippi, rested after a wearyinr train trip, lin ed up under rlooniy skies today for their first real workout In preparation for the Shrine East-West charity game here New Year' day. Coaches Bernie Bierpian, George Hauser and Andy K Tr put the squad through a brltk drill late yesterday upon their arrival, mainly to Iron out travel kinks. A longer one was on today's program. Les Iforvath of Ohio State, all-American halfback, was the only player missing. He remain ed behind to catch up on his studies and will join the outfit here shortly after Christmas. The West squad went through its initial workout yesterday under the eyes of coaches Hom er Norton, Texas A. & M., and Orin (Babe) Holllngbery, form er Washington State college mentor. At one time all the sweeps here were going to have a team. Ii was okay for awhile until this ship and that ship went to sea. Trying to keen a team toKether ' proved too much so no basketball for an- I Tony Ross and Jack Kiser have Ross, Kiser Will Trade Holds, Groans PASADENA, Calif., Dec. 21 W) They may not be big, but they're fast and full of fight. That was the impression given by the Tennessee Volunteers in their initial, unlimbering workout after arriving yesterday for their Rose Bowl clash with Southern California's Trojans. Three hours late in a four-day trans-continental jaunt, the Vol party was greeted by a brass band and pretty 16-year-old Mary Louise Rutte, Rose queen. Miss Rutte and Billy Bevis, blocking back and acting captain for the Vols on New Year's day, posed for numerous photographs. Then Coach John Barnhill whisked his 38 charges away to work off their "train legs." In a two-hour drill, the South erners showed speed and spirit also extreme youth and slimness. One veteran observer said the Vols appear to be the smallest team ever to come to the Rose Bowl. Twenty-nine of the squad, and seven of the starting 11, arc freshmen. South Light While program weights give, the Dixie boys a team average of 192, they lookea considerably lighter, other season. About 6 of us did 1 been signed by Matchmaker Don j The Uno which Barnhill assembled mess around and played another owen in a special 30-minute . yesterday averages ii to tne nu sweep quite often. One guy was plenty all right and we were always under the impression he was one of the crew. Naturally an argument came up and I had to be in it. How would you feel cuss ing a lieutenant out? It was okay free throws (with Captain bod : with the Canadian army in r ranee. Hamilton giving the casaba a , Hank, incidentally, has been lucky kiss) for Oregon's first ad- i awarded one of the highest combat vantage since Hamilton's basket ' decorations given by the British . .. - ffnvpmmpnt. . . . Porkv. hv the Se Webfoo a momentary Tead. . way, reports that he has averaged I runs into some one else from Eu the Webfoots a momenuiy lean. about J8 fe a game tQ date.gene and here it seems t am onlv one ever to uphold the name. ins old uregon guard position, x ne match, for the weekly wrestling 1 jans' 211, while the Vol backs show at the Pearl street arena.! average 183 to USC's 178. Troy's Owen also said that the Gust starting team will have a bulge oi Johnson - Ernie Piluso m a t c h j at least seven pounds per man, would also be limited to 30 min utcs, and that both these matches have the same billinF. The completion of the card puts two champions of the bill, and all the rest are potential chal-: spectively. lengcrs. I The 'lennessee backfield !n Vol heavyweights are tackle Bo Stewart, 205, and guard Bob Dob elstein, 200. USC's tackles, all American John Ferraro and "Pee wee" Pehar, tote 235 and 265, re- a guy personally as he was a play er. "All over tills globe some guy omore center who salted the game ; RCAF quintet won the Canadian championship two years ago, but since that time the government has placed a restriction on service athletics that allows only an ex- away. With the partisan fans call ing on the.r hoopsters for a vic tory, Hays tipped in a baskett30 seconds after Bartelt's gifter. And with one minute of play remain- ine the 6-foot 7-inch pivot man i hibition schedule. scored again from close in to make (MAIL A BUCK) the count 48-43. Oregon, with I There's certainly been a big i Hamilton in command, froze the turnover In the Oregon basketball i ball and refused one tree inrow squad during the past year. On ill I -J before one of the many violations this trip there are only four la- : Wfi5lfim L00D Im3V charged against the Webfoots gave ' miliar faces Bnb Hamilton, Ed, "W"1" fcvwji ih the Vikings the bsll long enough Allen, K.en Hays (who took the, tulli. final J pre-season trips last year) ana KGIiCW LAIICIIIC It's no easy task with a Texan around either. He has just about convinced me the states are a part of Texas instead of the way they teach it in. school. But it's guys like him that keep things from be coming dull although, Texas can't be that good." fir .Urn fltlrlnv in srnrA a basket on a howitzer. ' Nick Weddle, the all-American ( Roy Wark tied the score for 22 manager in his freshman year. ..... ... . trim-on m amharo nf lncr vac for WWC after Hamilton's initial Eleven members of last year's ,nt r.llrtv'S irtft-r Du. squaa are missing, eigni oi em m ?i.r Th... ' the service. ... All-American W al- Tiie complete card lines up now as George Wagner and Buck Davidson in the main-event, and the other two aformentioned matches to precede it. And the Wagner-Davidson feud is still brewing to the point that it ought to reach red-hot rivalry by match-time Saturday night. It all started over Davidson calling, Wagner a fancy-dan. Wagner be came so incensed over this that fans should not be too alarmed if he appears in the ring with nothing but h,is wrestling tights on. But Wagner, a stickler for appearance, ie dead sure- that Davidson will have to eat his words when they go at it. eluded Buster Stephens and Mark Major, rugged frosh, and a pair of 24-year-old juniors the "old men" of the team Bevis and Casey Stephenson. Trojan Coach Jeff Cravath put his squad through another defen sive drill, using reserve tackles Jackie Musick and Clark Higginn at guard to get even more weight in the line. Beavers, Huskies Make Road Trips PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 21. (U.B SPEARHEAD of the Oregon attack Is that bounding forward Bob Hamilton who km the forecourt about two jumps ahead of opponents. Bob Is lemling scorer of the Oregon taSTi Uni-Ki Cagers Drop Redmond Fi 45-50 In Hard. ought Home Froco ve By DICK SCHIMBERG The Golden Tide of University High defeated the Redmond Pan thers 45-40 in a thriller at Mc Arthur court Wednesday night. The Panthers played on almost equal terms with the Tide the first quarter but could not quite keep up with the pace set by them. The rest of the game proved to be a stalemate until the last of the third quarter when University lengthened their lead six points and kept it for the rest of the game. Honors for first pohits went to the Vikings ahead 3-2. They re tained this advantage until Bar-! "telt's free throw in the fading minutes of the nightmarish skir mish. ' After the Vikings had taken a commanding 20-10 lead in the opening 10 minutes of the game, coach "Doc" Lappenbusch order ed his publicized "front line" de fense. The close checking normal school hoopsters had the Oregons bewildered and they rushed into a 29-14 lead with only four min utes of the half remaining. With Kotnik, who joined the squad here after missing the Canadian jaunt leading the of fensive, Oregon narrowed the margin to 30-26 in the first 90 seconas or tnc sccuna nan. iuc V1KS rainea, nuftcver. ly Borrevik and George Bray are both in the merchant marine. Luke Bacceleri, Ernie Danner and Norm Hen wood are in the navy (Henwood playing for the Gon zaga basketball team this season as a V-12 trainee). Bill Phillips is in the marines and Lee Wimberly in the army air corps. Bob Cavi ness and Barney Kocn are now professionals, the two 4-F's enter ing organized baseball last spring, Caviness with Birmingham and Koch with the Brooklyn Dodgers. Bill Maythcr is also a pro, hav ing played football with the Port land Rockets last fall! Dick Hum phreys is now associated with the First Christian church. (MAIL A BUCK) We talked to Orlando J. Hollis and went ' about Humphreys last week and eight points in front, Kotnik, Bar- ! " university president .ii ,-ri i nnlil I and faculty representative to the succession to close the gap to 30- ast , conference reports that Si with less than 13 minutes of.J" throu" as B r- p1'- . , , . , , Dick, who would help John Oregon was scheduled to play WalTen-s Webfoots considerably SEATTLE, Dec. 21 OP) Bill Mulligan, business manager of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific coast league, returned yesterday from the baseball meeting in New York and said that a revival of the suspended Western Interna tional league in 1945 was not only possible but probable and feasible. Coast league directors, he said, are enthusiastic about the pros pects of reopening the W-I league and are confident manpower can be made available. Mulligan also said he was con fident the new talent acquired by the Rainiers will propel , the Skiffmen close to the top of the coast league next season. McKenzie Sets Down Bulldog Five, 31-15 McKenzie high school defeated the Creswell Bulldoes 31-15 in a loosely played "B" league game j Tuesday night. The winners, with j Liske leading the attack with 7 j points, led all the way and were i ahead 15-7 at the half. Art Hol- man made his coaching debut at The Ross-Kiser match is due l to attrat-t consirierahln attention Coach A. T. "Slats" Gill, Mana itself. Kiser, the Pacific Coast ! ger Phil Williams and 10 Oregon Light-heavyweight champion, has j State basketball players left Cor not been forced into a title go vallis this morning for the second for some time. On the other hand, annual northern division basket ever since his return here has . ball jamboree at Astoria Friday been after Johnson's junior-! and Saturday nights. heavyweight belt, and likely will I The Beavers will stop off In Til- Thursday night before moving to freshniall ye. The next year he . McKenzie auspiciously as his team the Astoria lamborec. ninvwri w ii, th ivrorti,wct ihr c . . . . :, the Astoria jamboree. Summary: orcuox rn Wllklm. f 4 Smith, i 1 H'j. e Kotnlrlc. f 3 Hamilton. ' g S Hartelt, t 3 Uo.Ilr.t. i 1 w.sn. .19 FT '. '. 1 n PF TP 1 4 9 TOTALS WF.STIIRS Cllday. f fy, f . Silvoruon. t Chapman, g Wark. g Graham, c -Pavllcck. t Barklund, g TOTALS Hal.'timc 29. Oreson 19, Free throw:, m!ed: Western Wash. tiiton ray. Slvertwrn, Chuuinitn X Warlr, played with the Northwest Chris- j tian college in the Eugene City ! T' AAU league, costing a year of eli- i 3 1 gibility. The next season lie j n played with NCC in the Eugene ; Church league and there is the ; J ' point of argument. j a Hollis informs that any Oregon j j player' could compete with ai church team, but not with any ! other team in a church league , took advantage of the Creswell five's seeming lack of coordina tion. MrKcnale (31) !& Crtwcll Harblck f2 F '21 Joiner Ltka (71 F 3l Hoover Harrta i2 C (11 Harney Thomson i3) O i2t stott Powers i6 G (ft Anderson Subftt!tutlnn: McKenr.te Pruilt (6), Hall III. Creswell Reed H). Official: Krosne'kl. " Humphreys claims that the NCC:U-DOWl DOWlinq ,o ileum represented the Christian! cilngmans defeated the White o i church mid therefore he should Palace n.j in the women.s bowl o n,ot,,1,OEe If I ,f eligibility. ! ing , matches at the uBovli , Hollis said Humphrey s case was ; . . . . not taken tin at the last confer- W nesday. Daisy Northam got coie: western Washington ' ence meeting, but he questioned senes "'Bn SB- the -hase several representatives who were "IB "ut.cn uin kck- tinfavorabie in their opinion re- forsee just as must promise in getting a crack at belt that now adorns Kiser's mid-section. If Ross should win this go, a cham pionship match the next week would almost be inevitable. Northern Jamboree Schedule Disclosed ASTORIA, Dec. 21. OW Schedules were announced for play in Astoria's second annual university basketball jamboree here Friday night. At 7:30 p.m., Oregon and Washington will start the first half of the game, and Oregon ' state and Washington state will complete the full game by play ing a half. In the second game, Oregon state tackles Washing ton, and Oregon finishes against Washington state. Play will be speeded up by elimination of the delay be tween halves and games. ' lamook tonight for a return con test with the Tillamook naval air station five. Gill's men defeated the navy boys 49 to 31 at Corvallis two weeks ago. Minus the naval trainees which last year were their strength, the Washington Huskies will invade the Jefferson high court here to night to meet the Fee's Music Makers quintet, one of the out standing independent teams in the northwest. Appearance of Hec Edmundson's basketeers will signal the begin ning of a holiday parade of north ern division teams in Portland in pie-conference contests. LAST GAME BRENHAM, Tex., Dec. 21 M Capt. Joe Routt, All-American football guard in 1936 and 1937 while at Texas A. & M., was killed in action in Europe Dec. 10, his wife has been notified. Routt was commander of an in fantry company. Snavely Takes Post As Tarheel Coach CHAPEL HILL, N. C, Dec. 21. (U.R) Carl G. Snavely, who was re leased earlier today from his coaching contract at Cornell uni versity, Wednesday accepted a five year contract to coach the tar heels of the University of North Caro lina at an "estimated" salary of $8,500 a year. Snavely's appointment is sub ject to ratification by the univer sity board of trustees at their meeting in January. Eugene Recreation The U. S. army engineers meas- tired the Beeson keglers 2-1 at the 1 Eugene bowling alleys Thursday, : while the Pik 'n Pak outfit was I taking care of the Medo-Land ! squad, also 2rl. In other games ! the Morrison-Henning league; leaajers proved up to form by trouncing the McDonald Candy pin-topplers 2-1 and the Eugene ' Farmers whitewashed Snappy , Service 3-0. 1 Ronnie MacDonald, star forward of the Panthers, who tipped in the first four and scored one more free throw to make five at the quarter. Both Jim Connell and Dud Scroggie of University dropped them in that frame to top Redmond's quarter score of 12-14. The second quarter proved to be Redmond's with Hagman scor ing four goals, which helped put the Tide ahead at intermission 21-18. University High's first string boys went in at the half 'and really put on the pressure. Chuck Gillanders, Tide forward, was really on the rest of the half, for he sank baskets from all over the court With both Doc Sar gent and Julian Hultgren sinking them the Tide took over for the rest of the game with point lead at the thmjJ . marie, increasing It slowlj The University High "C" J beat Woodrow wll imiJI in a speedy pre-varsity tat J UnlTeriltT 145) 1 Scroggie ie, F (, ,2I Purcell (2) r i,7a Brown 121 C III I.hl Haley (11 0 1) nl Connell (3) g I!) til Substitutions: UnlvertltT-Guil (11). Comeleius l), Cliuun ill mil fill U,.l,a.-. . r.m,, 1 ger (21. Salt Re- :-Kla (X.jl Officials: Small and Siecnusd. Cards Top Ballhandlers Of 1944 National Race By JACK HAND i NSW YORK, Dec. 21 UP) De fensive skills of the St. Louis Cardinals, painfully obvious to I the Browns in the World Series, were officially recognized today in the National league fielding records showing the champions set two major league team records and swept four of seven j individual titles, lers in three close matches 2-1,1 Billv Southworth's " Red Birds Graham s. Paviitek. Oregon wiikins ; garding the case. and the Pik n Pak outfit took the 1 established a new mark for both 1 lloftir.e. K'""' ' ""ml""' I Dick hasn't give up. however. 1 measure of the Royal Crown Cola i leagues with a .982 percentage omciaii:' Brjan Lewis and Earl jew-' and has written the president of girls 2-1 with A. Harvey winning ; and, by committing only 112 er- ine uonierence a proiessor at i series nigh Willi 505. ed out Eddie Miller of the Reds by one marker at .972, Kurowski's .985 gave him a wide edge over Steve Mesner of the Reds and Hopp showed the way among the regular outfielders with .997, four ahead of the Giants' Joe Mcdwick. Williams' nearest rival was Emil Verban of the Cards but the winner had a three-point edge at .971 and Walters was one of 20 pitchers appearing in 10 or more games to field 1.000. Lopez made only 7 errors in his .984 average while he tied Browns Voted 1944 Bombshell .y FRITZ HOWELL NEW YORK, Dec. 21. C4) The St. Louis Browns already tagged as having furnished the year's biggest sports surprise in winning the American league flag, landed new laurels today as the No, 1 comeback team of 1944. So decided 87 sports editors participating in the country-wide Associated Press poll, 20 of whom pointed the comeback finger at Luke Sen-ell's boys, along with seven other voters who picked 'em for the place or show spots. On a basis of three votes for first place, two for second and one for third, the Browns plied up 71 points to beat out Sam Snead, golfer who came back from two years in the navy to win the first tourney in which he played. Snead, with 10 first place votes, had a 56 total. Fifty-two individuals and teams came in for comeback attention I rors, eased the old standard hung the mnrL- helH h r..hh. ui.,, up by Cincinnati in 1940. It was0, ,he Cubs for catching i00 or their third successive fielding title ; more games in the National for to back up three straight pen- j 12 years, nants. 0-.. ,..n ,i . by the scribes, but the Browns, to take the Hcisman award as the i Ray Sanders at first base. Marty camp- co.holder 0 u bi in boosting their 72-80 won-lost country's top gridder. I Marion at shortstop, Whitey Kur- i standard for catchine endurance norrontniTi. nf 1!U1 t,,t., o oqki; ft,. r-t.-.t... I rm-slel at. thlrr! hgA onH Jnhnnv I .. .. enau"nce n ...... ...... .. i..c ninurj ui iiniii-titicaHO - dv wnrtcinff n l 15 nt hit, inn,'- ,VZP, ' ih"- IZi Z , :,mes' bettering the former mark pennant winning mark in '44, Cubs combination took third were clearly a standout. The olace with 27 vntpq fnr finlihino m the iirst division after losing Browns, after losing the league lead, swept the last four games from New York to nose out De troit by a single contest, llorvalh Ignored Oddly enough, only single third-place votes went to two of the year's outstanding individuals. Bob Montgomery, who suffered Madison Square Garden's quick est knockout, 63 seconds at the hands of Al Davis, and came back two weeks later to win the New York version of the light weight fistic laurels, was one of the almost-ignored duo. The oth er was Leslie Horvath, Ohio State's great back, who returned after a year's layoff to make the All-American, to become the Big Tent most valuable player, and the first 13 games of ttie National league campaign, and Duke's foot- ball team won fourth for its late- I season spin t winch landed the ' Blue Devils in the Sugar Bowl, j The vote, with first place bal- : lots in parentheses: St. Uulls Browns (bacbelll 120) 71 - Sam Snead igolfi MO Charley tirlmmChlcago Cubs t 27 rjuke ifootballl ml -o ' nick Wakefield ibasrballl (3) 111 Notre Dame ifootballl i5) 17 Hal Kewhouser (baseball! it) 15 Utah ibatketuatlt i 14 Frankle Parker (tennist (2) 14 Tennefieo ifiwtball) 14) . IS The sevorrl ten: Navy. footbaM Jt 12: Detroit Ttgers. baseball 121 S: Patty Berg, golf il) 8: Ben Chapman, baseball ID 7; Denny Gatehouse, basehal: ill 7; Ken Strong, football II) t: Philadelphia r.ig:es. football Ml t; Nelson Potter, baseball 'li g: Henry Arnturorg, bor ing Ml). Kleavico, betbeli til i. w. Geore Gibson of the . " T Pirates in 1909. Counting a hold as best fielding second baseman j Woody Williams and pitcher Bucky Walters of Cincinnati and catcher Al Lope, of Pittsburgh. Leadership ' in all positions, ex cept pitcher, was based on playing 100 or more games. Mcl'ormlck Nosed Out Sanders' .994 mark was just two points better than Frank Mc Cormick of the Reds. Marion nos- ! over string of 62 from 1943, Muel ler now has caught 217 successive championship battles. 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