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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1942)
Lkit and By Fred Zimmermen Capital Journal Spoils Writer A rugged, hard driving basketball squad is in prospect at Willamette. The type of an outfit fans like to see-on. Tthat"oars up and down the floor, yet has a pretty good idea of what thev iicully confronting Coach Spec Keeno is the problem of man power. His team may be intact after the Christmas vacation per iod and scattered to the four winds a week later. It would be Spec's luck to have all of the makings in sight and then have the mixture blow up in his face. .'' Quite a bit of uncertainty ' has been injected into inter collegiate athletics by rea son of the decision of the Shrine Squads Intact Hard Work Booked San Francisco, Dec. 21 (U.R) The entire personnel of the east and west grid huskies, signed for the Shrine New Year's day all-star game, today was expect ed to be gathered to respective folds by nightfall in preparation for opening workouts. During the last few days the clcated gentry have been strag gling into town and today they were practically all accounted for. This included Don Faurot, Missouri's c h a m p i o n-builder coach, who arrived yesterday to collaborate with Babe Holling bery of Washington State in whipping the formidable west squad into shape. Expected at any moment were Coaches Andy Kerr of Colgate . and Dr. George Hauser of Min nesota, who will master mind the cast squad. Coaches and players of both teams were invited to the shrine club's public luncheon at the Palace Hotel today and then they were whisked off to rug ged business of conditioning and mapping of - strategy for the benefit grid classic at Kezar New Year s day. . : Faurot, who coached Missouri to the Big Six Conference title this season, showed up shortly after three proteges hit' down. The three, largely instrumental in the Tiger title drive, were Bob Steubcr, 195-pound, back: Don Recce, 225-pound blocking Dack, and Mike Fitzgerald, 205 pound guard. Spok ane Bombers Deep in Texas Los Angeles, Dec. 21 W) Folks in El Paso, Tex., are going to see one of the best teams in the entire west New Year's day. They'll be watching the sec ond a.ir force bombers of Spo kane, , Wish.,' against Hardin Simmons' Texas Cowboys. The Bombers yesterday won the west coast army grid title by trounc ing Capt. Paul Schissler's March Field Fliers, 26 to 13. They won 10 games this season and are un beaten. March Field had lost only one game and had won seven straight. . . Among its victims were two professional teams. Against the northwest Bombers March Field was outclassed. There were too many good backs and ends pouring in and out of the bomber lineup Hal Van Every and Vic Spadacinni of Minnesota; Johnny Holmes and Billy Sewell of Washington State, for instance. All can pass and Van Every .and Sewell are long distance kickers. Expensive Training Trips May be Passe By Hugh Fullerton, Jr. New York, Dec. 21 VP) It might, be a humorous (in some quarters) development if some of the baseball club owners who are busy finding new training quarters because of transportation difficulties, etc., should learn that those long, expensive jaunts weren't necessary at all . . . There have been complaints at times that training under a hot Florida or California sun and then coming back to major lea gue territory in mid-April did n't always produce the best re sults . . . And it isn't violating the censorship to point out that northern April weather often isn't fit for man or beast, much less baseball . . .' . So it might be that the players would have fewer sore muscles if they did n't have to undergo such a complete change. Time to Duck Ray (World Telly) Trullinger lolls this one about a Connecti cut duck hunter who invited three friends to spend a day on ! Long Island Sound. They hard- ly had set out their decoys when CETa(U:Efc government to chance the educational program for men eligible for combat duty. The situation may be cleared by the first of the year and it is the wish of all concerned that all may know where they stand without more delay than is abso lutely necessary. , Wally Palmberg, who became a papa recently while he was on the sidelines watching his As toria Fishermen perform, claims he is through with basketball as a personal competitor. He played with the Astoria All-Stars Friday night, garnering" seven points. When he walked off the floor he said it was his last performance. - When Wally first took over the Fishermen a few seasons back, he was as Jumpy as a champjon jitterbug and most fans got more fun but of watch ing his emotional conduct than they secured from observing his floor-burning courtsters. No doubt about Palmberg being one of the greatest basket perform ers to come out of Oregon State. A Christmas greeting and note via Uncle Sam's mail this morning from Tats Yada, ' ex-Willamette uni versity honor student and Bearcat, footballer. "It is now nearlng six months' since ' our . departure . from ' that dear old city of Salem . and how we' miss it!" writes Tats. "Sometimes I won der and daydream of how things may have changed and friends with whom' we may have visited but its all to be awaited.' - Being a burden of the government is no way of living, especially when you are able . to do more outside the relocation' . center. .. "On my arrival here I was dir ector of athletics for the entire center, organizing (Various acti vities. In mid-September with the opening of the high school within the center, I accepted the position as director of physical education,. .as few teachers could be obtained. With the enroll ment of ;2, 400 students in the junior and.senior high it was-a big job, as I took charge of both the boys and girls 'Classes. I also set up the curriculum for physical education - 'thanks to Spec Kecne and Lea Sparks for the college notes which I had kept. As far as I can say, it should be a typical Willamette taught high school course. ' , "The .end of October saw me going to eastern Oregon to the call of the sugar beets and it was really fine. I just returned last week, but now I want to go again where the air is clean and the hospitality next to Salem. If unable to secure employment in eastern Oregon, where ' El- don Cone, former Pacific U foot ball player and later coach at Woodburn high, is U. S. employ ment man, I will most likely head for Lincoln, Neb., where my brother is working now and plans to attend the University of Nebraska next term." ' Yada, during his four years at Willamette, where he was a member of the Bearcat football team, was one of the most popu lar boys on the squad. And it was not due to the fact that he was one of the few young men during the times of depression who had- coin to jingle in his pockets and was always" willing to share his good fortune with his mates. a patrol boat approached. "Better get out your coast guard identification cards," suggested the host . . . "Never heard of 'em," chorused the guests . . . Just then a coast guardsman let go a pistol shot not at the hunt ers but at the decoys . . . It was his turn to apologize when the hunters suddenly appeared. . Monday Matinee Tulsa U. officials may ask to have 'their early Missouri val ley basketball games re-sche duled because most of their cag ers will be playing football in the Sugar Bowl . . New York baseball writers plan to hold their annual dinner February 7. but 'they're not expecting as big an out-of-town attendance as last winter, when they turned over $2,500 profit to the Red Cross. The Capital Journal, Salem, Ore. Husky Quint Looms As Northern Champs Spokane, Dec. 21 (P) Coach Hec Edmundson's latest model Washington basketball team loomed as the team to beat in the northern division conference race today, after two wins over the Vancouver, Wash., Ramblers, strong independent outfit. Wash ington meets Gonzaga here to night. The Huskies hung their sec ond straight defeat on the Ramb lers,, a team which includes the trio which sparked Oregon State to the northern division title last year'by a 39 to 38 score at Portland Saturday night. The Ramblers trounced Oregon 45 to 39 on the Eugene floor earlier this season. - Washington dominated play all during the game, leading 22-15 at halftime. In the final eight minutes, Vancouver greet ed Washington reserves with a flurry which cut the Washington lead to three points, but the Washington first string was rush ed In. .John Mandic, Oregon Slate center last year, was high with 16 points, and Chuck Gilmur, his rival at center, held to four points by the Ramblers the night before, led Washington with 14. Washington won Friday night at Vancouver, 45 to 39. Gonzaga has dropped two games this year to the strong eastern Washington college five. Washington State and Oregon State have eastern tours before the start of northern division conference play but the present five-game trip is Washington's main pre-season preparation. Tomorrow night they meet the Pasco Fliers, who won from the Pendleton air base Saturday, 55 to 47, at Pasco and the next night play Central Washington! college at Ellensburg. Beaver Cagers Bound for Gotham Oregon State College, Corval lis, Dec. 21 Oregon State's bas ketball team left on its second annual road trip to the east Sat urday night. The Beavers will play five.of the strongest teams in the east and midwest before returning to Corvallis early in January. -iS-' . First game on the road is with City College of New York in the Madison Square Gar den, December 26. City College usually has one of the strongest teams in the region. From New York the Beavers will travel to Detroit where they will play Wayne university, December 28. The next night, December 29, Oregon State will be in East Lansing, Mich., for a game with Michigan State.. Powerful Brad ley Tech will be host to the Beavers in Peoria. January 1. Winding up the road trip sche dule will be a game with Wash ington university of St. Louis in-bt. Louis, January 2. Coach Slats Gill will take the following men on this trip: Glen Warrerf, Mickey Brophy, Don Cecil and Bob Howard, for wards; Erland Anderson and Bob Harvey, centers; and Don Dur- dan, Lewis Beck, Fred Winter and Howard Jeffries, guards. Student Manager Vince Jessup will also make the trip. Hubbard Rockets Defeat St. Paul Hubbard The Hubbard Rock ets defeated the St. Paul Pan thers, 19-18, in a league basket ball game played here last Fri day night. ( Lineups: St. Paul Smith, Kirk, Al Smith, Trent, Williams, Ernest, Phillips, Coleman, Don Smith. Hubbard Bower, Scha fer, Moore, Ostrum, Garren, Bravec, O'Brien, Morgan. Cagers Take Turn Letter Writing Cleveland, Dec. 21 (P) Once a week, during the regular practice period, the Collinwood high school basketball 'squad lines up at a table to work out with pen, paper and ink. Letter-writing seems to have no place in cage prac tice, but Coach Harry New man isn't forgetting the boys in the armed forces who made up his teams in other years. Sixty-four let termen are on Collinwood's honor roll. That's why Newman calls time out every week, huddles his present satel lites around the table and tells them to start pitching words to the school's alum ni in the service.' . Monday, December 21, 1942 Williams Paces American Loop .356 Average By Paul Scheffels New York, Dec. 21 (U.R) Ted Williams, husky Boston Red Sox outfielder who went into the naval air corps, finished his baseball career for the duration by winning the American league triple crown, official averages disclosed today. Williams, classed as one of the greatest hitters since the days of Cobb, Speaker and Ruth, led the circuit last season in batting, runs-batted-in and homers. " ' . Last year he became the first hitter in more than a decade to bat over .400 and although he dropped 50 points from his 1941 mark in the past season, Wil liams spread-eagled the field to lead by points with 'an average of ';356 for 150 games. He won the coveted triplicate title by hitting 36 homers and checking in with the most runs batted in, 137. Williams was the man. of the year in two other departments. In total bases, he piled up 338. Williams paced the runs scored department with 141 to 123 for DiMaggio. Top one-man per formance In this' division last season was the league-record deed of Rudy York of Detroit who scored five times against the Chicago White Sox on May 24 to equal the best previous total. There were only seven play ers among 100-game perform ers who batted .300 or. better. Johnny Pesky, Williams' team mate on the field and in the air corps, finished 25 points down the line with a first-year average of .331 for 147 games. Others' to gain hat select cir cle were Stan Spence, Washing ton, .323; Joe Gordon, Yankees, .322; George Case, Washington, .320; Walt Judhich, St. Louis, 313; and Joe DiMaggio, Yankees, .305. .. .. Runner-up mark in homers was compiled by Chet Laabs of St. Louis with 27. Charlie Keller and DiMaggio, of the Yankees, hit 26 and 21, respec tively, i Spence led in three-base hits with 15 followed by DiMaggio of the Yanks and Jeff Heath of Cleveland, with 13 each. The St. Louis Browns paced the teams with 62. I Dayton Schedules Nine Cage Games Dayton Dayton high school has a schedule which calls for nine games between December. 23 and February 19. Amity high, Yamhill-Polk county league champs of last season have been added to the Yamhill loop. Dec. 23 Amity at Amity., Dec. 30 Lafayette at Lafay ette.. . Jan. 8 Dundee at Dayton. Jan. 15 Carlton at Carlton. Jan. 22 Yamhill at Yamhill. Jan. 29 Amity at Dayton. Feb. 5 Lafayette at Dayton. . Feb. 12 Dundee at Dundee. Feb. 19 Carlton at Carlton. Vandals Trim Whitman, 31-19 Walla Walla, Dec. 21 m The Idaho-Whitman basketball game here Saturday night started out like a Whitman vs. Fred Quinn, Idaho center, contest. Quinn tossed in each of his team's first 16 points. Then he let up somewhat, but he counted 22 points altogther as Idaho won 31 to 19. The game was stopped five minutes be fore the end so Idaho could catch a train. Whitman took a 7 to 6 lead but Idaho left- at the half, 20 to 10. : , Quinn scored 10 field goals. The other players in the game got 13 all told between them. Dayton Union High Edges Yamhill Dayton Dayton Union high school basketball team won the first league game of the season, played here Friday evening with Yamhill. The score was 18 to 17. U.S. Secures Corner On Best Racing Stock By Jack Cuddy New York, Dec. 21 (U.R) When the war is over we can expect a tremendous demand from turf men in other countries for Amer ican thoroughbreds. Because of the nar, we have virtually corner ed the thoroughbred breeding market. Even the British have shipped a large portion of their choice stock to this country. There are now approximately 1,000 farms in 40 states with a total of almost 1,000 stallions and 12,000 mares, many of them gathered from all parts of Eur ope, Australia and South Am erica. Youth is having its fling on the Boston Bruins, pace-setters of the National Hockey league. Behind the club's astonishing success this season is the kid line composed of Billy Shill, Don Gallinger and Bep Guidolin. It is the youngest and most effec tive rookie combination seen in the league in many years a combination that has inspired the squad's older players to sur prising efforts. "Two-Ton" Tony Galcnlo, for mer heavyweight champion chal lenger, who is grooming for a comeback, trained all last week at Bey's Camp, Summit, N. J. This week he expects to shift his conditioning quarters to Still man's gym in New York. He plans to return, in about six weeks. , The Rose Bowl committee Is slated to convene soon and vote a portion of the UCLA-Georgia game profits to war relief. How ever, we understand that the Sugar Bowlers of New Orleans can't follow suit because of clauses preventing any money from being given to charity un- til the Sugar Bowl bond issue is redeemed. Sgt. Jackie Wilson, welter - weight contender, writes us: Wolves Boast Clean Slate The Wolves, Ducks, Falcons and Blacks lead the four basket ball leagues at Parrish junior high after two weeks of play. The Wolves have the only un beaten slate in the fast ninth grade loop. The Ducks and Fal cons have similar records in the eighth grade "A" and "B" leagues, and the Blacks lop the seventh grade circuit. Games this week will wind up the first quarter of (he cage schedules, in all leagues. The Wolves, paced by tall Bill Worley at center and clever dribbling Allen Gcmmell, have three wins and a draw and need only to beat the fifth place Hus kies this week to wind up the first trip around the circuit un beaten. Close, on their heels are the Badgers with three wins and loss and the Bears with two wins, a loss, and a tie.' Big Bill Gash and Bobby Hagedorn have paced the Badgers thus far, while Alton Chamberlain and Bud Campbell have led the Bears. The Badgers play the fourth place Beavers and the Bears take on the Wildcats this week. Five top scorers in the league are Worley with 43, Gash 31, Hagedorn 28, Burt Kaphart, Beavers, 24, and Fred Welsh, Wildcats, 23. The Ducks racked up three straight wins in the first round of play in the eighth grade "A" loop and the second place Hawks have won two of three starts. Dick Hendrle paces the circuit with 34 points, 21 of which he scored in one game. Captain Dick Allison of the Ducks is second with 24. Walter Foster's Falcons have won both their starts in the "B" eighth grade league and Teddy Covalt's Blacks have won their first two games in the seventh grade circuit. Both face crucial games this week when the Fal cons take on the second place Wrens in their loop and the Blacks play the second best seventh grade outfit, the Blues. Bruce Baggett has 14 points to head the former league, while Davey Chamberlain is tops In the seventh grade with 20. West Salem and Baptists Winners West Salem and First Baptist quints were winners Saturday night in the second scries of games being played by the A division of the church basketball league. West Salem thumped First Methodist, 26 to 18, while First Baptist won over Dallas, 32 to 21. A third game resulted In a 48 to 44 win for Calvary Baptist over First Presbyterian although the losers had but three men on the floor against four for Calvary. REMEMBER?! MICKY'S CORNED BEEF and CABBAGE Tuesday and Thursdays 47 Court St. "I see in the papers that Ray Robinson refused a match with Henry Armstrong, claiming that he didn't want to hurt Henry. 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