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THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 10. 1945
Sports Blackout
Given Backing of
Touchdown Club
By Ernest Rurcella
(United 1'reu Staff Correspondent)
Washington, Jan. 10' Ui A
'sports world today challenged
President Roosevelt and war mo
bilization Director James F.
Byrnes to "get tougher" with the
home front to wipe out athletics
for the duration if that is neces
sary to speed victory.
. The call for sterner action was
sounded by Dr. H. C. (Curley)
Byrd, president and former foot
ball coach' of the University of
Maryland, last niRht at the annual
banquet of the Washington touch
down club which endorsed Byrnes'
recent crackdown on sports.
Among his 1200 listeners were
.top-ranking military, sports and
government figures, including eco
nomic stabilization Director Fled
M. Vinson. After his "get tough"
appeal, Byrd turned to Vinson
and said:
Gets Instruction
"Take that message back to the
president."
Byrd renewed his plea that the
nation start training boys at the
age of 16. He said one way of do
ing this would be to draft lG-year-olds
with a proviso that they!
could not be sent into combat un
til they became 18.
"It is suicide to send an 18-year-old
boy Into battle with only a few
months of training," ho said,
pointing out that their German
and Japanese adversaries have
been in training for war since
they were 14.
. In a grim prediction that the
war could last another seven
years, he said "we're not going to
win" the way things are being
done now and under present con
ditions. ,
Byrd called upon the nation to
practice greater self-denial, and
said: "When athletics interfere
with' building the armed forces
wo don't want athletics tear
down the athletic system if that
is what we need to do."
-No" Patience
He said he had no patience with
a system under which a man Is
medically discharged from the
armed forces and then is able to
play a full season at fullback on
a football team.
Donald H. Adams, president of
Yhc Touchdown club, said the or
ganization was "100 per cent for
.Byrnes' manpower program" and
'that If wouldVsupport a complete
blackout of sports if such drastic
action was needed to guarantee
speedy victory.
, Four of the nation's foremost
'. football players were given tro
' phies at the dinner.
Glenn Davis, brilliant Army
. back and top collegaite toueh
, down-scorer of 1944, was awardod
the Walter Camp Memorial tro
. phy as the outstanding All-Ameri-:
can football player of tho year.
(ilven Trophy
. Navy tackle Don Whitmlrc was
given the Knule Kockne Memorial
trophy as the outstanding All-
American lineman.
Randolph Field's Lt. Bill Dud-
ley won the Lt. Robert Smith
. Memorial trotihy as the outstand
ing service player, and Roy Zim
merman of the Philadelphia Eag
les was awarded the Touchdown
cup as the No. 1 professional foot
ball player of the year.
Out Our Way
ByJ.RrWillhms
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Dragons, Bears
To Play in Bend
Bend Sergeants
Meet on Leyte
Thousands of miles from home,
ktwo young Bend sergeants, Vern
on Manny and VVeyne .rnsi, met
hu nhnrp nn T.evte island on
The Hood River high school i rhriaa eve. sDent several
basketball team, one of the . nours togetiler and talked about
strongest in its area last year,lnomej it has bperl learned here,
will open its Central Oregon g( Manny, son of Mrs. Doris F.
schedule tomorrow night with a!MaI)ny and S(;t Ernst, son of
game against the Prinevile Cow-!M w H Ernst, both of Bend
boys, and then -will shift to Bendare statjoned on Leyte at points
for the annual week-end series' nly 20 miIes apart and are look
between the Bears and Dragons. - ,orward to other reunions.
Games will be played on the Bend i Botn voun,, sergeants are serv
court Friday and Saturday nights, , ith medicai units. Both
hovs were former members of
The Bulletin force. Vernon Was a
with the main contests set for 8i
o'clock.
VEARC, -too SOON
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COPB. 1946 BY NEA SEBVICf.. INC.
Today s Sport Parade
Rangers Advance
In League Play
(Ht llnltcl rr)
The New York Rangers, press
ing for fourth place in the nation
al hockey league and the auto
matic berth in the Stanley cup
playoffs that goes with that berth,
drew within two points of the
currently fourth place Boston
Bruins last night by defeating
the Toronto Maple Leafs 5 to 4.
The Ranger victory, an uphill
battle all the way, was tbeir first
of the season over Toronto and
was sparked by diminutive At)
nim;iri'n. New ' York wing who
a-rirori iuci unassisted coals andirlhon clerks, office workers, bar
assisted on two others. I bers, etc., who are at the front.
By .lack Cuddy
(United PrenA Blurt Correspondent)
Now York, Jan. 10 (ll'i Major
league baseball clubs will begin
mailing out 1945 contracts this
week. Players receiving those doc
uments will bfl confronted with
the biggest problem of their ca
reers: should they sign for play,
or should they remain in war
plants and on farms?
This is a delicate question, in
view of the sober war situation
and Its attendant ramifications on
the home front. However, spring
training will start in a little more
than two months If It starts
and tho players must make up
their minds soon.
. Trying to make up their minds,
under current conditions, the ath
letes must find themselves in a
welter of uncertainty. Their em
ployers, tho club owners, and the
major league officials apparently
Intend to continue tho game, since,
rro governmental1 red light has
been raised against it. But war
mobilization Director Byrnes and
President Roosevelt are urging
that every available man cither
work or fight, although no con
gressional act has made this man
datory as yet.
The majority of major leaguers
are 4-Fs or service dischargees
who have been tabbed physically
unfit by examining physicians. At
Byrnes' request, most of them will
be re-examineil. Doubtless, most
of these men feel that they have
as much right to return to their
baseball jobs, as any other citi
zen has a right to return to h.s,
after being declared unfit for mil
itary service. Baseball is their
business their means of liveli
hood. Most of them plugged away
in the minors for several years
before reaching the big timeHo-
cause of the proficiency they hnve
attained in their profession, they
naturally make more money
and can maintain their families Id
a better standard of livingthan
If they depended upon wages in
war plants or on farms. In this
respect, they are no different
from singers, musicians, actors,
etc.
But from another angle, there
is a big difference. The 4 l-"s and
dischargees of the diamond make
their living in a caning wnere
widespread publicity is given their
physical prowess. As the war ten
sion tightens, It becomes more
and more difficult for uninformed
skeptics to reconcile their prowess
afield with their apparent Inabil
ity to get into the fight their
tinaoiuiv hi iinn nn- n-rw.iMii, in
Thus far, neither service men
nor civilians have "gone to work"
op tho ball players have sub
jected them to much criticism.
But it must bo remembered that
the European war fronts were for
less fluid during the 1044 baseball
season than they have become
since. Every Intelligent player ap
preciates this fact; also the ac
companying manpower situation
at home. And ho wonders, prob
ably, if tho alleged morale value
of tho game will continue to pre
vent criticism by public and
friends should he play ball this
season, Instead of doing war work.
Hank Borowy, Yankee pitcher,
disclosed today that he Intends re
maining In the war plant in
5 Cards Named
On Star Team
St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 10 (U'l,
Five members of the world cham
pion St. Louis Cardinals' team
were included today on the 1944
all-star squad of the Sporting
News, national baseball weekly.
Martin Marion of the Cardinals
and the Detroit Tigers' Hal New
houser were unanimous choices of
the experts who- drew up the
magazine's annual team. Cardinal
Stan Muslal received all but one
vote for an outfielder's berth.
Morton Cooper of the Cardinals
was named for tho third time,
while Musial, Card catcher Walk
er Cooper and Dick Wakefield of
Last year at Hood River, it will
be recalled locally, the Columbia
basin team drubbed the Bears 37
to 21 and 34 to 18. Favored to
cop the district No. 8 crown, the
Blue Dragons again faced the
Lava Bears when Oregon teams
were battling for the right to enter
the state tournament, and the
Bears won in a great 26 to 22
upset.
So far as known here, the only
regular returning from last
year's great Dragon quintet is
Bud Biggs, six feet two inches
tail and 195 pounds in weight.
Biggs plays center, and he was
the outstanding star in all the
Ilend-Hood River games of last
season. Incidentally, Gibbs will
be recalled by gridiron fans as
the pass snatching end on the
Dragon football club of last fall
carrier and Wayne was carrier
and later office bay.
Cruiser Crosses
U.S. in 6 Hours
Washington, Jan. 10 Hl'i The
nation's transcontinental speed
record was down to six hours and
nine minutes today after an army
Boeing Stratocruiser raced the
2,340 airline miles from Seattle,
Wash., to Washington, D. C, at
an average speed of 380 miles per
hour.
The Stratocruiser is the trans
port counterpart of the B-29 Su-
nnpfni'lroce 'I'hn rpnni'fl - shatter-
Gibbs snared 18 of the 22 passes if , ' "nown by Boeing test
completed by his club against the
Bears.
Not too much is known about
the Dragons' strength this year.
Most recent wins were a 27-24
victory over Hermiston in a dis
trict No. 2 clash, with Gibbs pitch
ing in 15 points for high honors,
andSi 39 to 18 triumph over Park
dale, a strong mid-Columbia "B"
school.
The popular junior high Cubs
of Bend will clash with Gilchrist
in the Friday night preliminary.
Last week, the two clubs put on pcr hour.
a tnrilier, wnn me coins emciKiiiB
on the long end of a 33 to 32 count.
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TONIGHT'S FEOGBAM
5:00 Sam Hayes
5:15 Central Oregon News
5:20 Musical Interlude
5:25 Sport Yarns
5:30 Tom Mix
5:45 Night News Wire
6:00 Gabriel Hcatter
6:15 Real Life Stories
6:30 Cisco Kid
7:00 Merle Pitt's Orchestra
7:15 Lowell Thomas
7:30 Lone Ranger
8:00 Sonny Dunham's
Orchestra
8:30 Bulldog Drummond
9:00 Glenn Hardy News
9:15 Cecil Brown
9:30 Northwest Neighbors
10:00 Fulton Lewis Jr.
10:15 Tommy Dorsey's
Orchestra
oilot Dick l.ierrill and carrying
army and Boeihg officials, took
oft from Seattle yesiernay ui
2:38 p.m. EWT landed here at
8:45 p.m. EWT.
The previous record, six hours
and 57 minutes, was established
last April by the Transcontinental
Western -Airlines' Constellation
Which was flown from Burbank,
Calif., to Washington by film
magnate Howard Hughes and
TWA president Jack Frye at an
average speed of about 331. miles
Bloomfield, N. J., where he has I the Tigers each were included for
been employed during the off
season "unless Washington
gives a definite okay to baseball."
He was originally 3-A In the draft
because of family responsibilities.
!Hlfc.;draft board has given no in
dication of preventihg his return
to baseball.
We wonder how many other
Hank Borowys the contracts will
find when the postman delivers
them.
Oregon Hoopmen
Defeat Cougars
Pullman, Wash., Jan. 10 ill'' -The
University of Oregon, smart
ing from an earlier defeat by the
Cougars, raided for a derisive 47
31 victory over Washington Slate
college last night in a northern
division hoop conference game.
The badly beaten Cougars
slipped to third place in the con
ference, leaving Oregon second
only to the University of Wash
ington. . It was Oregon's game most of
the way, the Ducks grabbing the
lead after four minutes of play
and paced by Jim Bartell's pel led
one-handed shots.
WSC failed to threaten during
the rest of the one-sided contest.
Bartelt Willi 14 and Hansen of
WSC with nine were high point
men.
tho second time. The rest were
newcomers, including the Brook
lyn Dodgers' Fred Walker, a ten
year player.
.Team Named
This wyis the first year slnap
1935 that a New York 'YankeK
player did not place on the all-star
team.
The complete team Is as fol
lows: Outfielders, Musial, Cardinals;
Dick Wakefield, Tigers, and Fred
Walker, Dodgers; Ray Sanders,
Cardinals, first base; Robert
Doerr, Red Sox, second base; Mar
tin Marion, Cardinals, shortstop;
Robert Elliott, Pirates, third base';
Walker Cooper, Cardinals, catch
er; Hal Newhouser, Tigers, Mor
ton Cooper, Cardinals, and Paul
Trout, Tigers, pitchers.
HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALL
(Hy United PremO
Lincoln 31, Grant 22.
Washington 71, Sabin 27.
Roosevelt 25, Commerce 22 (overtime).
Bellingham, Wash., Jan. 10 nr Jeflerson 41, Franklin 35.
The confident, flashy Harlem Albany 22, Salem 20.
globe trotters suffered the first Columbia Prep 44, Hill Mill-
defeat of their season last night Jary l:.
Globe Trotters
Suffer Defeat
at the hands of a hot Fircrest
Dairy quintet, 36-30.
The winners were paced By
fast-stepping Gayle Bishop, form
er Washington State College star
who took high scroing honors
with 16 points.
Central Catholic 45, Estacada
26.
Gresham 27, Sandy 16.
Oregon City 56, Corvallis 22.
Woodburn 27, Molalla 18.
Grant Union (John Day) 49,
Prairie City 12.
THURSDAY, JAN. 11
7:00 News
7:15 Homespun Trio
7:30 Baker's Best Buys
7:45 Morning Melodies
7:55 News
8:00 Swing Orchestra
8:15 Shady Valley Folks
8:30 News
8:45 Today's Bulletin Board
8:50 Organ Treasures
8:55 Glenn Miller
9:00 William Lang & News
9:15 Rationing News
9:20 Old Family Almanac
9:45 Shep Fields
10:00 Glenn Hardy News
10:15 Terry's House Party
10:30 Paula Stone and Phil
Britto'
10:45 Redmond Victory March
11:35 Lady About Town
11:40 News
11:45 Joe Rcichman's Orchestra
12:00 Lum 'n Abner
12:15 Bert Hirsch
12:30 News
12:45 Farmer's Hour
1:00 Assembly of God Church
1:30 Headlines in Harmony
2:00 Handy Man
2:15 Music
2:45 Back to the Bible
3:00 Griffin Reporting
3:15 Service Unlimited
3:30 Musical Matinee
3:45 Johnson Family
4:00 Fulton Lewis. Jr.
4:15 CoUnt Basic's Orchestra
4:30 Mutual Musical
4:45 Coronet Story Teller
4:50 Eaton Boys
5:00 Sam Hayes
5:15 Central Oregon News
5:20 Musical Interlude
5:25 Sport Yarns
5:30 Tom Mix
5:45 Night News Wire
6:00 Gabriel Heatter
6:15 Real Life Stories
6-30 Treasure Hour of Song
7:00 Speak Up F6r DemocracJ
7:15 Lowell i nomas
7:30 Red Ryder
8:00 The Grange Reporter
8:15 Something for the Girls
8:30 True Detective MysterieJ
9:00 Glenn Hardy News
9:15 Rex Miller
9:30 Wings Over the Nation
10:00 Fulton Lewis Jr.
10:15 Sammy Kaye's Orchestr;
X RAY CHECKS GRENADES
Independence, Mo. HJI ThJ
thousands of hand grenades usetl
by U. S. invasion forces in the bit'
ter house-to-house lighting ii
France underwent X-ray examina
tjon in this country before ship
ment overseas, utliclais at th
Lake City ordinance plant nea
here described an automatic X-ra;
machine which was usea lor ai:
accurate check of the prope
amount of powder in hand gren
ade fuses. The machine examine
fuses at the rate of 4,000 an hour
FOR EXCITINO NIWi
SIX DAYS A WEEK!
GORDON
BURKE
5:45 p.m.
Mom. thru Sal
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War Briefs - -
Western Front - Germans flee
east from end of Ar.'u'lines pocket
to escape entrapment by Ameri
can forces crushing in waist of
salient.
1'iu'iric American Invasion
force captures several towns on
Luzon's Lingayen gulf and heads
for Manila, less than UK) mill's
away, as B-29's drop fire bombs
on Tokyo..
Eustern Front Fresh Gorman
pancr divisions beat hack Rus
sian siege lines to within 15 miles
of Budapest.
Italy - Severe weather holds ac
tivity' to patrolling.
KICKS' SHARK AWAY
Dallas, Tex. ill" This Is I.I.
William It. McCIendon's comment
on the 45 hours he six-m in the
Pacific ocean after his ship went
down: "A shark brushed me once,
but I kicked as hard as 1 could,
and he let me be."
National vVar Bonds Now!
FIGH'tf UESI I.TS
Illy United 1'reM)
New York (Broadway arena I
Maxio Berger, MS, Montreal, do
cisioned Solomon Stewart, 11.1,
Providence, R. I. (10).
Jersey City, N. J.- Don Amor
oso, 135, Jersey City, dccisloncd
Joey Peralto, 136, Tamaqua, Pa.
(101.
White Plains,
nataro, 1 II) 3 4,
cisioned Benny
31, New York
N. Y.- Vic Pig
New York, de
Cartagena, 13)-(81.
New Bedford, Mass. Jerry
Xullo, 138, Chelsea, technically
knocked out Norman Sec, 1,C,
Quebec (3).
'Hartford, Conn. -Jimmv ll.it
cher. i:w, Salt City. N. Y., tech
nically knocked out Gciiaro Itojo,
112, Hartford 5i.
Miami, Kin.-- Jack Lanimoi e.
1 10, Miami Reach, Kla.. knocked
out Frankie Conlie, 1 III, Haver
hill,, Mass. ((!).
Los Angeles Ike Blair, V
Los Angeles, drew Joe Keyes,
149, Houston, Texas (Hi.
GHOl T MEETINGS SET
Group meetings of the Women's
council of the Christian chuivh
will be held Thursday at 2 p in.,
with group No. 1 to' meet wiih
Mrs. Geoige St. Onge. 1UU) Fninn,
Mi's. Oliie Reinhart to he the
leader, and group No. 2 will
meet with Mrs. Charles Mori;,
man, 65 Lafayette, with Mrs.
Nellie Johnson as the leader.
i Que gran vida, amigos! ...Have a Coke
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, . .or being ambassadors of good will in Panama
Your American sailor gets around. In Panama, Pearl Harbor, Port Moresby
or Providence, you'll find him always being himself, a friendly, good-natured
American. Have a Cole is his easy-going invitation to share some fun or a song
and refreshment with all comers. It's his way of saying, Relax, let's take it easy.
And that's just what it means when you offer ice-cold Coca-Cola in your own
home. Yes, in many lands, Coca-Cola and the pause that refreshes stand for
friendliness with a good old American accent.
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