PAGE TWO THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON, MONDAY. FEB. 12. 1945 Lava Bears Win By Close Margin . Lava Bear hoopmcn were back ; in the race lor the Central Oregon ', hteh school basketball champion' ship today as a result of their 39 i to 36 victory over me nigniy ia ; vored Prineville Cowboys in Bend Saturday night In one of the clos est and most rugged games piayea here this season. The Bend victory followed the loss of seven con secutive contests and followed 32 to 18 defeat by the Cowboys the previous night, on the Prine ville noor. ' Four Player Benched The unusually rough contest restated In Officials Jim Howard and Mure! Nehl Imposing a total of, 46 penalties, greatest number called here in a game tnis season. Of this imposing total, 29 were assessed against the Cowboys and 17 against the Bears. So rugged was the contest tnat piayers on one ocacslon were called Into a huddle by the officials and duly warned, and on another occasion the battling Cowboys received a personal plea from their coach, In a timeout nuaaie, io quiet aown. Ruggedness of the game was largely, attributed to the closeness of play, with the teams at no time separated- by- more than five points. Prineville lost three of Its first stringers, Noble, Thalhofer - and Henry, on penalties, and this . considerably weakened the Crook county squad that had to bear the brunt oi tne nerce Bear auacK in the final minutes of play. Bend lost one of Its starting forwards, Rasmussen, in the first quarter. . Rrinevllle got off to a powerful start and held a 14 to 11 lead over the Bears at the end of the first, quarter, as fans wondered If the lowly Bears were due for another fadeout. But the Bears came pacK ' strong In the second quarter and held a half-time load of 27 to 22. Bend s lead at. tne ena oi tne tnira quarter had been reduced, to one point, 31. to 30. . Score Tied : Several times In the final quar ter the score was tied, but stellar .shots by Moore, Smith and James shoved the Bears ahead on, the vic tory trail. The Bend team that nosed out the Cowboys last night hardly dis played, the teamwork of earlier games, but, tot the first time In weeks, the boys were hitting fhe basket. In 'act, the Bears at times seemed to disregard some of the basic principles of teamwork on ottense ana, just, snot ana tne shots were good when, noeded. Two veterans of state tourna ment play, Doug Wlrtz and Har old Smith, were back In form and accounted for a total of 25 points. Smith made 13 of these and Wirtz accounted for an even dozen. Hen ry won- high point honors for Prineville, with 11. Ho converted five free shots In succession, then dropped three free tosses. Culm WU Again. In the preliminary game Satur day night, the hard-shooting Cubs won from the Prineville Broncos, 36 to 16. Lineups, of the main game follow: Bend (39) Pos. (3fi) Prineville Jam?s (3) F (5) McPhelridge Rasmussen,(2) F (2) Noble Higglns 4) C.... (8) Thalhofer Wlrtz (12) ...G... (11) Henry Smith (13) G (8) Page Substitutions: Bend Murphy (2), Moore (2), Hawes (1). Prine ville AJmack (1), Chalfont (1), Svbouts. Officials: Nehl and Howard. Out Our Way ' ByJHWUIiams BORN3 THlETy VEARS TOO SOOM Today's Sport Parade NATIONAL LEAGUE HOCKEY (Br United Pml Hockey fans predicted a bright future today lor rookie coal ton cler Doug Stevenson, who almost stopped the vaunted Montreal Canadiens In his first big league appearance for the New York Rangers. Stevenson came through with a polished pcrfoiTnance that had the National league leaders stop ped last night until he tired In the third period and yielded goals, which provided, Montreal with a 4, to 3 victory. ; Detroit, paced by Carl Llscombe and Syd Howe, gained Its 14th straight victory over the. Boston Bruins and their eight In a row this season, winning 3 to 2, at Boston. The Chicago Blackhawks play Ing at home, scored two goals In tho final period to defeat Toronto 2 to 1 for the second night in a row, establishing their first two game winning record of the sea son. Tho victory moved the Hawks within a game of the fifth place Rangers. Saturday night Montreal defeat ed Detroit 5 to 2. , Barium chloride, used for salt purification and in tanneries, paper mills and textile factories, is now being made In Brazil, a country that formerly mot its. needs for 1(10 tons a year by Im portation from Germany. By Jack Cuddy (United Pr Suit Correspondent) New York, Feb. 12 ilB We con gratulate the Brooklyn college faculty upon today's sensible and courageous decision to continue participation In "big time" basket ball, despite the recent betting candal Involving five of its play ers. The B. C. faculty will be criti cized roundly by many educators and athletic directors for its stand: But it seems to us that the Brooklyn profs carried out the American tradition of refusing to let scandal halt progress. Our na tion would not be tops today had its leaders in Industry, finance, transportation rind even govern ment done an about-face and gone small time" wncn their enter prises were threatened by dishon esty of any other evil. Brooklyn college s endorsement of the big-time sport, as promoted at Madison Square, Garden and other -large tarenas, will be criti cized by those who have beon cam paigning to take the game away from outside promoters and bring it back to the campus. Leaders In this back-to-the-gymnaslum cam paign. Insist that only such a re turn to the "small time" can cur tall the current widespread bet ting on basketball and prevent crooked gamblers from trying to bribe players to "throw" games. . Whether the back-to-the-campus campaigners are right, we do not know. It must be remembered, In connection with increased basket ball betting, that wagering on all forms of take-a-cimnre zoomed remarkably in the United States during the past 10 years. Betting expanded on baseball, football, boxing; and the "handle" on rac ing hit fabulous figures. Even the theaters and some church-social organizations went In for the bingo. An acompanylng increase in basketball betting was only natural. It is true that wagering on the hoop game may have been stimu lated somewhat by the increased publicity basketball received since it began using Madison Square Garden as a show window 10 years ago. Elimination of the large arenas and their "double header" games uprobably would result in a let-down on publicity; but we doubt that this would de crease the yen for wagering among confirmed basketball bet tors, any more than the current shortage of cigarettes has dulled the desire for smoking among users of the fag. Anyway, the whole argument seems nonsensical to us. It's like a. controversy over whether, acci dents would be eliminated if peo ple quit using automobiles and returned to tho horse and buggy; or. whether banks should be closed because the availability of so much money tempts bank em ployees; or-whether the movie In' dustry should be forced to move out of Hollywood because of. re peated scandals out there. - ina major question Is not: Swedish Runner Misses His Boat New York, Feb. 12 (in Why Gunder Hagg missed the boat re mained a mystery today, that probably will; go unsolved until the gaunt Swedish distance, run ner makes his belated appearance here for a running-tour, sometime within the next two weeks. Hagg and Haakon Lldman, Swedish hurdles, champion, were scheduled to arrive last night by ship from an undisclosed British port, but after sports, writers, Swedish newspapermen and track officials waited several hours; It became apparent that they hadj failed to make connections. , An American Red Cross rep resentative on the ship- said he could not say what-had happened but that an explanation might be forthcoming later. ' j .-1 Mystery Net solved' -t Daniel J. Ferris, secretary I of the amateur athletic -union. 'said he believed the athletes might have gotten another ship and that they would be here wltmn. a lew 21 Bears Receive Football Letters; Twenty-one ' members of the 1944 Lava Bear football squad were awarded letters in a. Bend high school assembly this past week end. Of this group, 12 will be lost to the team by graduation or induction Into the armed forces. Nine of these boys were starters on last falls successful eleven leav ing Bear coaches with only two re turning regulars. The nine players who have played their last game in Bend uniforms included the all senior baokfield of Doug Wirtz, Don Ferguson, Jim Lammers and Phil Brogan. Next fall's baokfield' will have to be built of all green material since only two. reserve backs were barely able to make letters. Line weakened From the line will be gone such stalwarts as Bill Plath, George Murphy, E. B. Hogan, Bill Higglns and Roy Edwards. Also leaving were the players who saw most of the action in reserve roles.. In cluded in this group are Ken Blakely, Norman George and Bob James. With the Bears- laced with a man power shortage last fall, most of these boys were ironmen playing throughout the season without substitution. Most of the returning lettermen that will be on hand next fall will with but a few exceptions be. without ex perience. Regulars Bade, Practically all the experience is centered in the line with reg ulars Don McCauley and Lee Relnhart the only members of this years eleven to return. Both these players were guards. Only others who showed much promise are Gerald 'Hogland and Bob Sut- Therman Gibson Now Champion gf United 1-nml Chicago, Feb. 12 tUTbernian Gibson, 29-year-old Detroit welder, was the new. Peterson individual bowling' champion today, winning $5,100 first prize and" diamond studded medal in the final minutes of- the $43,200 tournament with a. 1615 cluster. Gibson fired his- winning total last ntght on. the next to the last squad to bowl and ousted; Baal): "Buzz" Fazio, of Akron, O, from the top spot Beavers Victors Over Oregon (By United Ems), The University of Oregon's Wd: for the championship of tlus. Pa cific Coast northern division bas ketball conference was, temporar ily stalled when the-Oregon State Beavers handed the leaders a 5-. 51 upset Saturday night.. The Beavers, paced by Bed Ro cha who tanked 18. took a com manding 35-24 halftime lead, and, were threatened only in the clos ing minutes of the game when Oregon closed the gap to .the final, lour points. DlcK wiwins lea me scoring for Oregon with 19 tallies. At- Los Angeles, the University of California at Los Angeles set the stage for a southern division championship wjui southern -ai- lfqrnia next Friday, mgnt py scor ing a 50-44 triumph- over Univerr city, ol. California! Bears. : : , Sprains Ankle The Bears led most of the first- half but wilted when star forward Gus Mota sprained his ankle and was forced to the sidelines, They were unable to, close a 27-24,. half. time margin held by the Bruins. Bear center Jim Farrell tallied 11 points as did Bruin, Hal' Michaels l .i ii i r,u and Grant Clothier, . iuu in uic line aim jruuug iuui, p..ItT1Bn Wash th Wash. Maudlin in the backfleld. Other APu'a.n-"f"-rpturnino- letrprmpn arp Charles . lneton Huskies took their, sixth rv ffi' straight road defeat as. center Bergstralh, Glenn Cook, Chester. vin Hanj.n ,oH ,h Washington -KBND- VWcoof Central Oregon Affiliated With Mutual Don U Broedcaitinq Syrtem 1340 Kilocyclei TONIGHTS FKOGKAM SiOO-nSam Hayes. 5:15 Superman 5:30V-Tom Mix. .. 5:45 Night News Wire 6;00 Gabriel Heatter 6:15 Real Stories from Real Life 6:30 Abe Lincoln's Story 7.00 Soldiers of the Press, 7:15 Lowell Thomas 7:30-Lone Ranger 8:00 Treasury Salute, 8:18 Bob strong's. Orchestra, 8:30 Michael Shane 9:00 Glen Hardy News 9:15; Cecil Brown 9:30-:-Count Basle's Orchestra. Q-dFL VAiii PnaprR1 OrvVipAtril 10:06 Fulton Lewis Jr. 10:15 Sherlqck Holmes iaer Wins North Title Illy Unilnl l'rcu) Gelgor Field, Spokane, Wash., scored a 47-40 victory over the Ephratn, Wash., base basketball team Saturday night lo become fourth air champion of the north and central division and earn the right to meet March field, River side. Cal., in the finals to lie held at Fresno Feb. 15-16-17. Winner of the Uclgrr-March tilt will hold the Fourth alrforce title for Washington, Oregon, Cal ifornia and Nevada and will bo allowed to compete in the national air force championships slated for Madison Square garden. In other games, Tonopah army air base, from Tonoiwh, Nev., ran away from the fourth air force headquarters team from San Francisco 58 to 25.' On Fri day night, Ui-lgcr field defeated Tonopah 4-1 to 43 In a close-fought game while Ephrata turned back the San Franciscans 52 to48. Wood Waste Use To Be Promoted Portland, Ore., Feb. 12 till A new project to Increase the use of wood wastes has been approved by the Western Pine association's board of directors, at a meeting In Portland. The association elected new of ficers for 19-15, Including August J. Stange, head of the Mt. Emily Lumber company, La Grande, as president. R. A. Colgan, Chico, Calif., and Homer II. Jamison, Fresno, Calif., were elected vice presidents. The new treasurer is A. C. Llghthall, of the Oregon Lumber company, Baker, Ore. ' Tho new project will provide research into forest wastes hith erto practically unused. Beetle killed timber which has not been logged and pine slash arc two wastes the possibilities of which will be investigated. Buy . National War Bonds Now! FOUNTAIN SERVICE LUNCHEONS HOME-MADE PIES - - SPORTSMEN'S HEADQUARTERS DOUTHIT'S Shevlin Quality PONDEROSA PINE Lumber and Box Shooks national A. A. U. indoor, meet on Feb. 24, Hagg was committed to run In the three mile at the national event, Ferris said, and he will do so even If he arrives only a.day or so before the meet. If he. arrives In time to get used to indoor tracks, upon which he has never run, he also will go In the mile. Should big-time basketball be I days definitely In time for the abolished to eliminate gambling? The question is: What Is the best method of curtailing betting and crookedness In big-time basket ball? That's the American way of looking at the problem. It Would be violating our traditions to send the sport "back to the sticks," for fear of gamblers. Major league baseball did not send the national pastime back to the sandlots and campuses when the Black Sox scandal rocked the sports world. The baseball people went at the problem in American fashion and took steps to eliminate gamblers not blg-tlme ball. That's why we congratulate the faculty of Brooklyn college. It seems to us they have preserved an American tradition under fire. Portland Eagles Defeat Airmen Portland, Ore., Feb. 12 IT Portland's Eagles of the Pacific coast hockey league returned to their home ice Sunday night from a successful invasion of California to edge the Royal Canadian air force flier team from Jerieo, B. C, 5 to 4, in a non-league contest. Portland won the game in the final period by scoring two goals to the fliers' one, after the two teams had been deadlocked, 3-3, at the end of the middle period. The score was tied three times during the game, which was the fastest and hardest played here this year. Kribs and Jack Aiken A special feature of the awards was the presentation of an award certificate to Don Ferguson, re garded by many coaches to be the standout halfback in the state this year. His certificate listed his selection as team captain on the basis of his qualities of leadership and ability. This little 18 pound star blazed a touchdown trail through most of the major teams of the state and was named, by Med ford state champions as the standout. player the .Tigers faced Lin their season. In nine games "Fergy" scored 14 touchdowns, 8 of them on long runs, and was the inspirational leader of one of the finest Bend teams in recent years. Letters Presented. Awards presented, at the as sembly, also featured by a pro gram in which letterman partici pated, included the following: Three year awards: Phil Bro gan, Don Ferguson and Doug Wlrtz. Two year awards: Bill Plath, Jim Lammers, George Murphy, Norman George, Don McCauley and Lee Reinhart. First award: E. B. Hogan., BUI Higglns, Ken Blakely, Koy Ed wards, Bob James, Bob Sutton, Gerald Hogland, Rich. Maudlin, Charles Bergstralh, Chet Kribs, Glenn Cook, and Jack Aiken. Managers who received letters were Rowan Brick, head manag er, and Dick Nelson, freshman manager. The Bend coaches this season were Claude Cook and Everett Gettman. Motor Boat Ban On Lakes Sought Use of motorboats for fishing on several midstate lakes would be banned under the terms of a bill under consideration today in the state legislature, it was learn ed here. The measure was intro duced by Rep. William Niskanen at the request of the Deschutes County Sportsmen's association. The association contended that the lakes designated in the bill are too small, and that, use of motor boats would Interfere with the fishing of all anglers. The meas ure lists North and South Twin lakes, Three Creeks, Devils and Lucky lakes In Descluites county, and Gold lake in Lane county. Albany Coming This Weekend Local fans, particularly those who hold season tickets, are re minded that the games originally scheduled with Lakeview for to night and Tuesday night were can celled and that the two games played with Redmond on the past two Tuesdays were substituted for them. Posters which were put out at the first of the season still carry the Lakeview games as scheduled for the first of this week. The Bears will play the Albany Bulldogs on the local court this week end In a two game series. Vince Hanson led the Washington State Caugers to a 65-43. victory. It was the second straight win for the Cougars who defeated, the Huskies Friday night 48-34. The Huskies never matched the Caugers' 39-20 half time advan, tage. Hanson's 34. points tied the single-game scoring record of the' northern division, set by Don Mc Milland of Washington on, the Pullman floor last year. Standings. Listed, The standings: Northern division ...... - W, L. Pet. P. O.P. Oregon 8 - 4 .677 602 533 O. S. C. 7 5 .583 538, 501 W.S.C 7 '5 .583 594- .590- Washington 5 7 .497 514i 559 Idaho 1 7 .125 312 367 TUESDAY FEB. 13 7:00 News 7:15 A) vino Rey - 7:30 Maxine Keith, 7:45 Morning Melodies 7:55 News. 8:00 Ranch Boys 8:15 News 8:30 Take It Easy, Time 8:45 Today's Bulletin Board 8:50 Organ Treasures 8:55 Glenn Miller 9:00 William Lang & News , 9:15 Songs. From Morton, Downey. ' 9:30 Rationing News : 9:35 Old Family Almanac 10:00 Glenn Hardy News 10:15 Luncheon- with Lopez lA:30rrPaula8,Stone and Phil Britto, -;lQ:45-Redmond Victory March 11:35 Lady About Town 11:40 News -11:45 Lum 'N Abner 12:00 Eats Waller . 12i lOV-Sporfe Yarns 1: li-Four. PQlHa, Dots . 12:30 News 12:45 Farmer's Hour "' , l:00-Organ- Meditations 1 :30i-Tommy Harris Thne 2:00 Meditations 2:15 Melody Time 2:45 Cote Chorus.' ' V 3:00 Griffin Reporting w 3:15 Hasten the-Day ., a:au Musical. Matinee 3:45 Johnson Family- , 4:00 Fulton Lewis, Jr. ! 4:15 Rex Miller 4:30 Back to the Bible 4:45 Coronet Story Teller 4:50 Musical, Interlude 4:55 Central. Oregon News 5:00 Sam Hayes. 5 : 15 Superman 5:30 Tom Mix 5:45 Night News Wire -6:00 Gabriel Heatter '-. -6:15r-JIpirny. Fldler i a 6:30 American Forum -of-Air l 7:15 Lowell Thomas . - 1 ' 7:30 Red Ryder ' 8:00 Tommy Borseys ' Orchestra 8:30 Mysterious Traveler . 9:00-r;ienn Hardy News 9:15 Rex Miller 9:30 Count Basle's Orchestra 10:00-Fulton Lewis, Jr. , 10:15-i-Lee-Castel's Orchestra Deschutes Roads Receive Repairs A rock point on the Hame Hook road was removed last week u the Deschutes county road crei 1 .L- U .. 1 . ..11 , n McAllister, roadmaster, said to day. Following removal, of, th point roads in the vicinity of Foul Corners were surfaced- with ciiif-; Iders. Sections of roads surface' were uaittsi-, u(s iiiuh, iNeiij on mile; Eagle, one and, one-ha' miles. 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