The Capital Journal, Salem,
Skits and
Scratches
By Pied Zimmerman '
Capital Journal Spuria editor
"Spring sports Slants," a mi
meographed pamphlet bound In
blue and maise, edited and publish
ed by Whitman college, and dropped
on thlB writer's desk by the post
man, points out that "Whitman's
baseball team has won the North
west conference championship nine
times In the 16 years since the cir
cuit was organized, Whitman has
won the baseball title four times
In the last five years, and hals fail
ed to qualify for the championship
only once In the last 14 years. Whit
man has won Bix consecutive cham
pionship series from Willamette,
not losing to the Bearcats since
1031, although Willamette won its
last title in 1940, when Whitman
did not qualify for the series."
i We do not have the records to
check the statements which the
brochure sets forth with so much
pride. Undoubtedly they are true
for Nig Borleske and his Mission
aries haw turned out some fine col
lege baseball clubs. Climatic condi
tions around Walla Walla permit
the playing of baseball far earlier
than is the case in the Willamette
valley. That, In our humble opinion,
.' Is the reason the Walla Waljans
have dominated the conference.
A point In this connection is
contained in the pamphlet:
"Whitman's greatest team In
1038 won 44 games, lost 10,
compiled separate winning
streaks of 9, 1 and 10 games In
a row, and won two out of three
against Yakima, Western In
ternational champions that
year." Fifty-four games in a
single season! Up at Willam
ette lf Spec Keene and his
Bearcats get at 25 games they
feel they are doing well. And
, even if the weather permitted,
they would have used up their
; allotment of baseballs long be
fore the half century mark
. could be reached. :
"Whitman doesn't need to worry
" much about us this year," .Coach
Keene declares. "Linfield should
have the talent west of the Cas
cades and therefore will probably
make the trip to Walla Walla." The
Bearcat mentor may feel that way
about the situation but nobody ex
pects he will not try hard to make
himself a poor prophet.. - ' : -
''There has long been a feeling
by the university group who follow
the tournaments and by many Sa
lemltes that the local high school
'student body and. its athletic teams
have been entirely too cocky over
their 'achievements, and display a
far too 'superlpr' air towards other
teams in tne staxe. as a result, uie
setback to their morale received by
the vaunted Viks during the course
of the tournament proved much to
the delight of John Q, Pan who
by nature likes to see the underdog
: come out on top," writes Gil Leiser
in his Sport Lights column in the
latest ' edition of the Willamette
Collegian.
" Gil Is just about as correct In
his deductions as he was In his
broadcasting over the publio ad
dress system during the state
tournament 25 per cent to be
real generous. That the average
fan pulls for the under dog,
there Is 'no denying. But when
Gil claims that "many Salem
Ites" feel that the Vikings are
too cocky, he ventures beyond
the boundaries of truth,
But, granted the Viks and their
follpwers are "cocky,'1 this writer
believes any. athletic outfit that has
gone undefeated through No Name
. league competition, has won the
state championship no less than a
half dozen times and has turned in
similar accomplishments, has a
right to "tell the world." Person
ally, we prefer a student body that
has a bit of life and pep to one
which has consistently had an ap
proximate 10 per cent attendance
at basketball games a situation
which existed at an institution not
very far from the pioneer atop the
state capltol building,
For a column that is headed
"Sport Lights," the author thereof
seems to have been groping In the
dark when he admits that he "can'
not find out from officials Just
how positions of entries are decid
ed" in connection with state tourn
ament participation, Gil, for four
days sat within arm's length of two
gentlemen who could have explained
the manner In which the teams are
grouped. He Intimates that there
was some under cover work because
North Bend found Itself in the
lower bracket' along with Astoria
and Baker. Troy Walker, secretary
of the OHSAA or Frank Gianelll,
Oergonlan sports writer could have
Informed Lteser that 16 numbers
are placed In a hat and the pairings
of the various teams result from
their extraction,
Wood Contract Let
Sclo The Scio school board has
contracted with Oliver Beard and
Angus Leffler for 65 cords of 4-foot
wood for the local schools for the
1942-43 school year, Price to be paid
is 16 per cord delivered on or be
fore August It, - ,
Ore.
Fred Zimmerman,
Shaughnessy Quits
As Stanford Mentor
Stanford University, Calif., March, 21 (U.R) Clark D.
Shaughnessy, pilot of the old model T, quits his post as head
football coach at Stanfod university today to go to the Uni
versity of Maryland. Shaughnessy's
resignation will be placed in the
hands of the board of athletic con
trol. Dr. Ray Altman Wilbur,
chancellor of the university, has
announced Stanford authorities
will not hold the veteran coach to
his contract, which still has three
years to run. '
Confirmation , of Shaunghnessy's
resignation came from his son,
Clark, Jr., who made the announce
ment In the Santa Paula Chronicle,
of which the youth is sports editor.
Appointment of Jim Lawson, all
Amerlcan end. at Stanford In 1924
and assistant coach there for 15
years, as head coach was under
stood to be "in the bag."
Shaughnessy will leave the Pa
ficic coast with a top-hole record.
He came to Stanford In 1940 after
a disastrous season at Chicago,
where football was dropped because
of lack of enthusiasm.
In his first year as pilot of the
Indians he brought Stanford the
conference title and the Rose Bowl
crown, with 10 straight victories.
According to Clark, Jr., Shaugh
nessy . will become Maryland's di
rector of athletics and physical ed
ucation and head football coach at
a reputed salary of (10,000 a year
under a 10-year contract. He will
report at College Park April 1.
The prospect of lean football
years on the Pacific coast was be
lieved to have promoted Shaugh
nessy to seek other fields.
"Football coaching for the next
few years won't be much of a Job,"
Shaughnessy was quoted by his
son. "A job of dlrecjor of athletics
is mucn sater ana mucn more m
tune with the times.
Molalla First,
In Track Meet
Woodburn Molalla high by tak
ing 71 1-8 points, won first place
In a . three-way track meet here
Friday afternoon with Woodburn
and Ohemawa. Woodburn placed
second with 50 1-6, while Ohemawa
trailed with .30 2-3. ,
The results:. -' ,
Hih hurdles Shields. tJl. first! Kaiiff-
man, M. second; Domett, M, third- : 16-4.
100 yard danh Peltz, W, first; Halter,
W, second; Shields,, M-. third. :10,8.,
Mile r tin Calhoun. M, first; Bell amy,
W, second; Karskadon, W, third. 4:50.
440 yard dash Dickey, M, first; Cor
ns tt, M. second: Maxwell, C. third. :S.8.
300 yard low hurdles Kauffman, M,
first; Halter, W. second Beckford, W,
third. ;36.3.
330 yard dash Peltf. W. first; Dickey,
M, second! Wood,' M, third. , ;34.
980 yard run Younaman, O, first;
Sorenson, W, second; Calhoun, M, third.
3:13.
Pole vault Shields, M, first; Williams,
O, second; Tom Shields, third. 11 feet.
High jump Edflen, c, first; Olson, M,
second; Williams. O, third. 5-2.
Broad Jump Peltz, w, first; Shields,
M, second; Halter, W, Walter, O, tied lor
third. M-fltt.
Shotput Hepler, M, first; Duncan, W,
second: Whitford, C, third. 43-1.
Discus Duncan, W, first; Hepler, M.
second; Beaudry. O. third. 12IM0H.
javelin Duncan, w, first; Williams, c
secona; wnitman, h, intra, isb-io.
Relay Molalla (Dickey, Olson, Wood,
Dayton Back in
Baseball Fold
, Dayton Baseball will be enjoyed
by Dayton fans again after an ab'
sence of five years. Through the ef.
forts of the Dayton American Le.
glon and school board new suits
and new equipment have been pur
chased.
Coach Ted Hlppl announced that
about 20 boys are turning out regu
larly and that he hopes to have
nine hopefuls chosen by the time
the league opens.
Principal Rex Kaaeber announo
ed the Dayton baseball schedule as
follows: i ,
April lo-Dayton here; April 14
Oarlton there; April 17 Yamhill
here; April 24 Lafayette there; Ap
ril 28 Dundee there; May 1, Carl
ton here; May 6, Yamhill there; May
12 Lafayette here,
Foxx' Broken Toe
Now on Mend
Sarasota, Fla., March 21' (Pi
X-ray pictures today showed that
Jimmy Foxx broken toe was heal
ing and Indicated that the Boston
Red Sox slugger would be back In
action with in a week. Ted Wil
liams' hip Injury also Is improving
but his return to the lineup still Is
a few days off.
Lakeland, Fla., March 21 VP,
Hal White's performance against
the Cincinnati Reds yesterday vir
tually ' clinched the righthander a
Job with the Detroit Tigers. He re.
tired 12 Red batters In order In tie
four innings he worked.
Volunteers Wanted
For Air Observing
Sclo More volunteers are needed
for duty at (he major aircraft warn
ing station In the Sclo vicinity, ac
cording to P, W. Schrunk, who Is
locally In charge of the work under
army supervision. Four hours a day
for one week, with two weeks off
duty, Is the current schedule. Per
sons available for this service are
urged to report Immediately to
Schrunk or Bea Oooch. .
8 porta Editor
Relaxation plays a big part in
swinging a gun onto the target
in trapshootlng. Fred R. Etch
en, noted Instructor is shown
above in what he considers the
proper position. The gun is
high on the shoulder, cheek
resting on top of the stock and
the gun barrel directly in line
with the eyes. ,
Warmerdam Fails
In Record Attempt
Chicago, March 21 (U.R) Freddie
Wolcott of Rice flashed his Jack
rabbit heels at the field in three
hurdle events at the sixth annual
Chicago relays to better one world's
record and equal two others.
Stealing the spotlight from Cor.
nelius Warmerdam, who broke the
meet record but failed to better his
own world's record in the pole
vault, Wolcott made a sweep of the
hurdle races before a crowd of 18,000
at the midwest's outstanding track
carnival last night.
The lanky Texan established a
new world's Indoor mark in the 40
yard high hurdles when he went
over the timbers in five seconds,
flat, to break a mark set here in
1939 by Alan Tolmich of Wayne
university. He equalled his own
world's records of 6.1 seconds in
the 60 yard high hurdles and 7.2
seconds In the 60 yard highs.
Warmerdam, angular California
school teacher, established a new
meet record when he won the pole
vault with a leap of 16 feet two
Inches,
Officers Elected
By Grade Pupils
Jefferson The fifth and sixth
grades of the local grade school,
taught by Mrs, Clifford Rich, elect
ed officers to serve during the
spring term. Junior Wickcrsham
was named president; Donna Lee
Bruce, vice president; Betty Jean
Black, secretary-treasurer; Dolores
Underwood, reporter,
The fifth and sixth grades en
Joyed a party Friday afternoon in
honor of the birthday anniversary
of Teddy McKee. Mrs. H, E. Mo
Kee served refreshments, assisted
by Mrs. Clifford Rich, teacher,
Stanley Miller and Shirley Oil-
mour, representing the Junior class,
attended the Willamette University
citizenship institute Tuesday. Miss
Josephine Getchell, social science
Instructor, accompanied them.
Pat Beal, superintendent of the
local schools, will attend the Ore
gon state teachers' convention In
Portland next Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, a delegate of the
Marion county division of the O. S.
T. A.
Dr. Oroelng, of Llnfield college,
talked to the seniors- Wednesday
morning at 9 o clock.
Pastor Buys Bikes
Monmouth The rationing of gas
and shortage of tires are problems
which Rev. and Mrs, Victor Ballan
tyne, Jr., solved by buying two bi
cycles which they will use for the
duration. Rev. Ballantyne Is pas
tor of Zlon Evangelical church, Mon
mouth,
Saturday, March 21, 1942
Pollard Leads
Stanford to
Win Over Rice
(Br the Associated Press)
Illinois and Colorado, which had
been favored to meet in Kansas
City next week-end for the National
Collegiate basketball title, had var
ied success last night in a pair of
contests that ended with Identical
scores.
The sophomore sensations of the
Big Ten were spilled by Kentucky,
champions of the southeast confer
ence, 46 to 44, in the eastern play
offs at New Orleans while Colorado
sneaked by Kansas in the western
meeting at Kansas City by the same
two points.
Dartmouth's eastern league cham
pions subdued Penn State, district
No. 2 representatives, 44 to 39, In
the other game at New Orleans and
Stanford eliminated Rice, 83 to 47,
in the opener at Kansas City.
Tonight's program pits the New
Hampshire Indians against the Blue
Shirts of Kentucky in the feature
event at New Orleans with Stan
ford and Colorado tangling in the
western meet. The two winners will
collide" next Saturday in Kansas
City for the NCAA crown.
Elimination of Illinois, the Big
Ten champion, so early in the com
petition was the shock of the first
night's play.
Pollard, the Stanford sophomore,
poured in 26 points on 12 baskets
and a pair of free throws.
The smooth-passing Stanford out
fit, which has great height and
knows how to use It, commanded a
12-point lead over Rice at halftlme
in the opening western playoff
game. But;- for seven minutes in
the last period the Indians were
.scoreless while the Houston, Tex.,
club, buoyed by stocky Ohet Palm
er, crashed into a breath-taking
lead.
Stanford won, but not until Pol
lard came to the rescue with an
eight-point barrage in the last min
utes. ,
Letters Issued
Jefferson High
Jefferso n Basketball letters
were Issued at a special assembly
in the high school Thursday to the
following: Don Gilmour, 3rd year;
Gary Barna,. 3rd ., year; Jimmie
Henderson, 3rd year; Earl Marcum,
2nd year; Robert Bruce, 1st year;
Monte Weddle, 1st year; Arthur
Harris, 1st year.
Yell leader letters were awarded
to Mattie Lou PUcher and Ruth
Overholser.
Song queen letter was awarded
to Mickie Thurston,
Baseball practice opened Wednes
day with 31 boys out for the team.
Three positions, catcher, pitcher,
and first base, have to be filled as
a result of graduation last spring,
Over Night Camping
Trip Occupies Club
Aurora ' Members of the Aurora
Squirrels forestry club attended the
Marion county forestry trip recent
ly. The trip was spent at Silver Falls
recreation area, which was an over
night camping trip, spent in the in
terest of, completing their projects,
Those attending from here included
Richard Von, Wayne Russell, Bob
by Ezzelli Edward Koenig, Oreta
Brown, Warren Ingalls, Helen Clark
and Charles Diller, accompanied by
their leader, Mrs. Ruby Schantz,
The identification contest result
ed in a four-way tie for first place.
Charles Diller and Edward Koenig
from the local school and two boys
from Marlon each getting 15 soeel
mens, and Wayne Russell, also of
Aurora, receiving 14, All Aurora
members placed high in the con
test. .
The return trip from the recrea-
tlonal area was devoted to a wiener
roast at the South Falls.
Fox, Resigns
McLoughlin High
Mllton-Freewater, March 21 ()
Rufus Fox, McLoughlin high school
basketball coach for five years, an
nounced yesterday he would reBlgn
at the end of the school year, He
did not disclose future plans,
Mare Island Wins .
5-Game Series
Vallejo, Calif,, Jarch 21 (U.R)
The Mare Island navy yard appren
tice basketball team won Its annual
three-game series with the Puget
Sound navy yard apprentices by
defeating the visitors, 43 to 37, in
the deciding game last night.
Puget Sound won the opener
Wednesday night and Mare Island
evened the series Thursday night,
Mare Island led at half-time, 19
16, in last night's game. Coke Mor
rison and Ken Harrison shared
high honors for the winners. Each
with 17 points, Puget Sound guard
A. Jensen led the losers with 12
points,
Forests of pine and spruce cover
more than half the area of Swe
den. ,
Running Up the
IlijjKWSiKMa COUPLE - TZna
;i WAT'S a WHtN 60AL
High Score
Make Hit with Fans
By Hugh Fullerton, Jr,
' (Wide World Sports Columnist),
New York, March 21 You may argue that it isn't bas
ketball, but this two-points-minute stuff really gets the fans.
. . . At the Garden the other night a guy who would walk out
of a 2-0 ball game in the seventh
inning saw Toledo bust the scoring
record, then said: "Let's stick
around and watch Rhode Island do
it, too." . . , William (T-bone) Ma
honey, Notre Dame's youthful track
coach, Is the son of an old-time
Arizona gold prospector. They say
Lebanon Plays
Sweet Home Nine
Lebanon Lebanon high school
will open its 1942 baseball season
Monday afternoon in a contest with
Sweet Home. The game will be
played on the local diamond, start-
lng about 2:30, Coach Roy Helser
announced.
While little has been learned here
as to the quality of Sweet Home's
aggregation, the Lebanon nine
should be able to take care of Itself
with several veterans in the lineup.
The still untried position is pit
cher, where only Joe Mangold has
had any experience with the first
string. He, along with Ted Manela
and Ted Dally, who pitched In Jun
lor high, will probably share mound
duties. Arnold Ryder and Richard
De Kuyper are also trying for the
post.
Letterman Bob Thoma will prob
ably .handle the major portion of
the catching duties, with Kenny
Christ substituting.
Three players, Clinton Smith,
Bud Throm and Wendell Cook are
competing for first base, Alvin
Jennings seems assured of second,
and Chuck Long at short stop, with
Chuck Ensley a strong threat for
the latter two posts.
Captain Bill "Porky"'Reeves looks
best on third, according to Helser,
and in the outfield Calvin Jennings
and Clinton Smith, unless assigned
to first base, will be at two outfield
positions, and Bill Heyne and Don
Ellis competing for the other fly
catching Job,
Altogether a string of 25 players
are turning out, including Kenneth
Rountry, Stan Sylvester, Clifford
Ensley, Reld Merrltt, Roland King,
Jim Irvine, Walter Haven, Roy
Ayres, John Elliott and Robert
Erlckson.
Stiner Prepares
For Spring Drill
Corvalils, Ore., March 21 (U,R
The Oregon State college football
team, Pacific Coast conference and
Rose Bowl champion, will begin
spring practice Tuesday regardless
of any action taken at the confer
ence meeting in Portland, Coach
Lon Stiner announced today.
Stiner said he did not know what
players will report next fall but
announced he would drill each line
man and backflcld man to play
every position in the line and back
field to safeguard against being
caught with Inexperienced start
ers. He Issued a blanket invitation
to the 2800 men at Oregon State to
report for the 30-day spring prac
tice, Why
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Today's Guest Star
Bob Phillips, Birmingham
(Ala.) Age Heralds "It's nice, If
a trifle unethical, that a talent
ed baseball player should be
financed through college by a
professional team, especially if
the player is genuinely Interest
ed In getting an education
whatever that means, Few
schools lay It on the line in fees,
board, books, laundry and ex
tras for baseball players like
they do for football players."
Hoop-La
The gals seem to have it over the
boys In setting basketball records.
. . Reports arriving in the past few
days show (1) that the Borger
(Tex.) Redbirds, state high school
champs, won 32 of 33 games this
year the last 27 in a row; (2) that
the Oaklyn (N. J.) Junior high
girls have chalked up 112 victories
against two defeats and a tie in 10
years and have a current winning
stream of 78; and (3) that the Ayr
(N, Dj , girls have won 103 games In
a row and five state titles in five
seasons.
Short Sport Story
Jack Carberry of the Denver
Post reports that when the na
tional anthem was played be
fore the A.A.TJ. basketball tour
nament opened, the only play
ers who knew the words and
sang them were the Chicago
Clippers Stanley Aimudzhl,
Marion Padraza, Walter S. Ry
blckl, Edward Bogdanskl, Caai
mur Kllllan, Joseph Padraza,
John Kardzlonsk, Joseph P.
Prawdzlk, Dick Stargyk and
Manager Frank Cajewskl, 1
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War Causes Unusual
Turnover in Coaches ?
By Jack Ouenther
New York, March 21 (U.R) At Fordham university to
day a couple of engravers went to work on a glass panelled
door bearing the title "Head Coach" and the minor operation
they performed was thickly crusted m
with significance for the town's
football enthusiasts. They care
fully scratched out the name of
James Crowley and in its place let
tered that of Earl Walsh.
With minor variations the same
ceremony will be repeated a dozen
times between now and September
at other major football colleges
places luce Minnesota, Duke, Tulane,
Navy, Southern California and Ne
braska. Crowley Isn't the only couch
off to the wars, The mentors are
Joining up on all sides. The year
Is still new, but already the turn
over is unprecedented.
The Fordham switch Is but one
of many, yet it is notable, the rea
son Is Earl Walsh, After almost a
quarter century as a career football
man this one-time running mate of
George Olpp and discoverer of
Frank Leahy has finally come into
his own,
A Notre Dame product, this fel
low has been working as backfleld
coach at Fordham for nine years.
He never received his share of pub
licity because in football season he
wasn't available. He never saw
Fordham play.. Every week-end he
was out of town carrying on his
subversive activities as a football
espionage agent ,
For nine years Walsh has been
America's foremost football scout,
hopping planes for Texas or North
Carolina or Indiana and spying on
forthcoming Ram opponents, LaEt
year he traveled 20,000 miles and
saw 20 different teams. More than
one of Fordham's olose triumphs
were won the week before they were
played. Walsh won theft In stadi
ums 1,000 miles away.
He is an unusually apt observer
and he didn't come by his talent
suddenly. He has been in football
all his life. He played halfback for
three years at Notre Dame and in
1910 and 1020 he shared backfleld
honors with Gipp.
Coaches Suggest
New Court Rules
New Orleans, March 21 (U.R) The
National Association of Basketball
Coaches recommended to its rules
committees today that rectangular
backboards and stitched basket
balls be recognized as standard of
ficial equipment for universities
and colleges.
The backboard recommendation,
made at yesterday's meeting, would
eliminate fan-shaped boards used
,by many colleges.
The coaches also recommended
that time be called on a "held" ball
at the referee's whistle and not be
started until the ball had been tip
ped on a Jump; that a fifth personal
foul be allowed any player legally
In a game in an overtime period,
and that where possible a four-foot
margin be instituted on court boun
daries back of goals,
Gill Assigned
Rook Baseball
Corvalils, March 21 (ff) Oregon
State college named Amory T.
"Slats" Gill, basketball coach, to
take on the , freshman baseball
coaching job yesterday, replacing
J. W. Forrester, who resigned re
cently. GUI was varsity baseball
coach for several years.
Ray Robinson
Stops Rubio 2
New York, March 21 UP) Ray
Robinson, the welterweight walloper
from Harlem, owns the longest
streak In boxing today but he had
to unllmber all the artillery at his
command to stop Norman Rubio
and keep his record clean in last
night's punching party at Madison
Square Garden, '
For six rounds the crowding,
crouching Rubio took everything
Robinson had to offer and recip
rocated with an equal dose of dy
namite, although he Injured his
left hand In the opening frame and
an X-ray examination later dis
closed a fractured metacarpal bone,
Then came the seventh, and Ray
burled the Albany, N. Y., clouter
under a barrage of lefts and rights
that sent him down for a count of
nine, He was staggered again by
a terrific left hook a split second
before the end of the round and
the bout was stopped.
' The victory was the 29th In a row
for Robinson since he turned pro
after winning all of his 89 fights as
an amateur. It was his 23rd knock
out as a professional.
3 New Faces in
Coach Confab
Portland, Maroh 21 (IP) There
were three new faces today as Pa
cific coast conference football
coaches met with Commissioner Ed
win Atherton as a prelude to the
vital meeting of conference bigwigs
which opens Sunday. !
Newcomers were Ralph "Pest"
Welch, who succeeded his old boss
Jimmy Phelan at Washington; Jeff
Cravath, who returned to his alma
mater to succeed Sam Barry . as
head coach at southern California,
and Jim Lawson, who apparently .is
the heir-apparent at Stanford.
Welch an Cravath were among
those present at a hotel lobby fan
ning bee last night when word
came along from Palo Alto that
Lawson was slated to succeed Clark
"T Formation" Shaughnessy, who
was ticketed to accept a coaching
Job at Maryland.
The newcomers, as well as some of
the more veteran mentors such as
Tex Oliver of Oregon and Babe
Horrell of U.O.L.A., immediately
extended hairy paws in congratula
tion, but Lawson shrugged and de
clared "It hasn't happened yet."''
Then he disclosed that Shaugh
nessy's move came as no surprise
to him, and that if he did receive
the head coaching Job he would be
faced with the problem of 'obtaining
additional assistants.
"We have Harry Shlpkey as frosh
coach, and if the conference de
clines to permit frosh to play varsity
ball, Shlpkey will have to stay -at
that Job," Lawson said. "Marchio
Schwartz will be back, too, although
he's now In a cast from a recent
back operation, and Phil Bengston
just left us to Join the navy."