Skits and
Scratches
By Fred Ztmmermaa
Capital Journal Spora Editor
I Desirable as a 18-team tour
1 nament would be from the
! standpoint of providing compe-
titlon for a greater number of
'-. boys, the board of control of
; the OHSAA undoubtedly will
have to consider the realities of
; the situation come next March.
Twelve teams were present last
; week and the facilities of the
1 village were taxed to the limit
J If housing conditions are no bet
' ter next spring, some arrange
! ments would have to be made
to take care of the youngsters
! If the number is upped by an
; other 40. That wouldn't be so
'. bad and it probably could be
; figured out. But four more
! teams mean a lot more fans who
J would come here expecting to
i find beds and food. However.
conditions may be different by
- the time a decision has to be
made.
Some new system of stnpplnc
fie contestants during a heated
struggle should be devised. With
the stands In an uproar it Is vir
tually Impossible for the offi
cials on the floor to hear a whis
tle from the scoring bench which
has nothing stronger than lung
power behind It. Placing an
amplified horn on one of the
girders above the court, to be
operated by a button from the
.bench would go a long way to-
ward calling a halt to proceed
i lngs without delay,
i Another need is a more mod
1 em clock. In fact there is need
i for two one in the southwest
' corner and a second diagonally
i opposite. The present tlme
' piece, donated by . Ben Pade,
i State street merchant, had done
yeoman service for a number of
i years. Since Its installation vast
Improvements have been made
i and the modern clock is not
: quite as temperamental as the
one which times the games. A
i big help to the spectators would
be the Identification of the play
ers. Cards with the fapys' names
and numbers could be placed In
a rack. However, these are war
times and many things which
would add to the convenience of
players and customers alike may
have to be held In abeyance.
Dick Strife of the Eugene Register-Guard,
who ducked the
tournament after seeing the
Springfield Millers lose to the
Corvallls Spartans In the first
round, believes Ralph Coleman
made a mistake In accepting the
officiating assignment for that
particular contest. "In the first
place, a Corvallls man had no
business tooting the whistle for
Corvallls high school; In the sec
' ond place Coleman made whnt
i we (from the press box) be-
lleved to be questionable, decl-
slons against the Millers," Strlte
wrote In his High Climber col
i umn. He felt that Coleman
J should have retired In favor of
i one of the other officials al-
though the assignment are
i made out before the tournament
starts on a rotating basis.
"Home town" officials have
! always been the subject of con-
i siderable conversation, some of
! It rather bitter. Here In Salem,
' Tom Drynan, a member of the
! high school faculty worked all
of the Vikings home games. We
! heard no criticism from the out
' side, although a few of the lo-
r cal fans felt Tom leaned over
' backwards at times in trying to
, avoid accusations of being a
1 "home town" official.
We suspect Coleman would
have preferred to have sat out
the Sprlngfield-Corvallls tilt,
; but given the assignment by the
the board, there was little he
could do about It. For that mnt-
ter, Paul Warren and Emll Pll
' uso are from Portland but there
was no criticism because they
I were on the floor when Wash
' Ington was performing. They
I were both officiating when the
Colonials played Corvallls for
', third place.
J It may be In the course of
time, If Salem high Is contin
J ued In It's no host basis, the
capital city will be asked to prn
Jvide one of the tournament rcf
serees. Of course, the best
; should be sought, but if evpry-
thing Is equal we see no reason
J why Portland should monopo-
lize the situation.
longworth New
Golf Champion
J Portland, March 21 fPi Ted
Longworth, Waverley Golf club,
is the state professional golf
champion today.
J Battling slow greens and wind,
i he won the revived Oregon state
j; pro golf tourney on the Port
aland Golf club course yester
Jday with a 73-76 149, five over
par.
J Larry Lamberger, Portland,
placed second with 74-78 152,
'and Joe Morel, pro at Lloyd's,
third, with 74-80154.
Among the first to supple
ment sailing ships with oars
Jwere Mediterranean pirates,
who overhauled becalmed vie-'Urns.
Vikings Plan
10 Grid Games
A 10 game football schedule
for the Salem Vikings is in the
process of being programmed by
Gurnee Flesher, boys physical
director. Several of the dates
are still in the tentative stage
while others have been con
tracted. Inability to close with
Milwaukie for a November 17
tentative date, is holding up
part of the schedule.
In all probability play will
open on September 22 against
a Portland team in Portland.
Klamath Falls will be brought
here September 29, while it is
expected the Vikings will trav
el to Medford Thanksgiving day
unless one or the other is in
volved in a state championship
engagement. Medford will come
here the following year.
The schedule in its present
form:
Sept. 22 Portland there
Sept. 29 Klamath Falls here
Oct. 6 Albany here
Oct. 13 Corvallis there
Oct. 20 Oregon City here
Oct. 27 Bend there
Nov. 3 A3toria here.
Nov. 10 Eugene here
Nov. 17 Milwaukie here
Nov. 24 Medford there
Joseph Gurzenski
Replaces Dickey
Atlantic City, N. J., March 21
(U.R) You won't read his name
in the box score, but Joseph
Gurzenski, a 34-year-old former
miner from the Pennsylvania
coal fields, was expected today
to do the majority of the catch
ing chores for the world cham
pion New York Yankees this
season.
Joseph is better known in the
bat and ball trade as Joe Glenn,
a name he purloined from his
employer when he was a part
time delivery man for a Dick
son City. Pa., baker.
As Joe Glenn, Gurzenski has
his task all cut out for him
filling the oversized brogans of
a guy named Bill Dickey, who
signalled the Yankees' famed
murderer's row to so many pen
nants and world championships
and whose home run at Sports
man's park last fall gave the
Yankees a revenge triumph over
the St. Louis Cards in the 1943
world series.
Semi-Finals of
New York Games
New York, March 21 W It
will be DePaul vs. the Okla
homa Aggies and Kentucky vs.
St. John's In the semi-finals of
the national Invitation basket
ball tourney at Madison Square
Garden tomorrow (Wednesday)
night.
A crowd of 16,273 turned out
at the Garden last night and
watched the Aggies sweep aside
Canisius. of Buffalo, 43 to 29,
and Kentucky overcame a stub
born Utah quintet, 46-38, to
gain their places in the round
of four. In their quarter-final
games last week DePaul
whipped Muhlenberg, 68-45, and
St. John's tripped Bowling
Green, 44-40.
The Aggies were held even
by Canisius for the first 15 min
utes, but after that Bib Bob Kur
lnnd and Floyd Burdette took
charge and the Aggies gradu
ally pulled away, at one time
holding a 30-14 advantage. Kur
land and Burdette together col
lected 31 points.
Salem Leffermen
To Hold Banquet
The annual banquet of the
"S" club, Salem high school let
tcrman organization Is to be
held in the cafeteria at 7:30
Tuesday evening. Fred D. Wolf,
who recently resigned from the
principalship will be guest of
the club as will be Superintend
ent Frank B. Bennett, Walter
Snyder, curriculum coordinator
and several other school offic
ials. Properties Are Sold
Amity Homer L. Fitzgerald
has sold his place In the south
east part of Amity to Mr. and
Mrs. J. N. Mathews of Tillamook
who will take possession this
spring. Mr. Fitzgerald has
bought the F. Chase Thomas
property on south Trade street.
The Thomas family moved to
Portland two years ago. Mr.
Fitzgerald is the local painter
and paper hanger.
Wrestling
SALEM ARMORY
TONIGHT, 8:30
Featuring Some of the
World's Best Light Heavy
weights Salem Wrestling Comm.
6 Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Mar. 21, 1944
Thorpe Recommends Athletic
Program to Cure Delinquency
By Ben H. Cook
Hollywood, March 21 lMt) Jim Thorpe, who was 19 years old
when Glenn S. (Pop) Warner first got him interested in becoming
an athlete, thinks the Amateur Athletic union could develop good,
Pitcher Seeking
Shift Spotlight
Lafayette, Ind., March
21 (U.R) Mike Naymlck,
Giant Cleveland pitcher,
whose size 17 shoes have
photographed oftener than
a Hollywood sweater girl,
hopes the 1944 baseball
season will gain him a
more dignified trademark.
..Naymick speaks of his
newly -developed aldearm
pitch, instead of his over
developed feet.
The six foot, eight inch,
204 pound right hander,
patted his pitching arm
affectionately after the
Cleveland Indians closed a
spring drill at Purdue's
unversity field house, and
said:
"I'm not making any
predictions, but I hope this
is my year. This sidearm
delivery has done wonders
for me, and I'm learning
to control it better all the
time. Maybe I'll have
something to talk about
besides my big feet."
Sarge Harrison
Leading McSpaden
Charlotte, N. C, March 21 M
Sgt. Ed (Dutch) Harrison, for
mer Little Rock, Ark., pro, 14
under par for 54 holes and four
strokes ahead of Harold (Jug)
McSpaden of Philadelphia, was
the choice today to win the $7500
Charlotte golf open.
Harrison, who made a hole-in-one
in the second day of the
meet Saturday, continued his
near-flawless golf yesterday and
played the 18 holes In six under
par for a 54-hole total of 202.
McSpaden, with 206, was four
strokes ahead of Sammy Byrd,
Detroit, both of whom had four
under par 68's, yesterday. Craig
Wood of Mamaroneck, N. Y.,
had a 68 which gave him fourth
place with 211. Jimmy Hines of
Great Neck, N. Y., was fifth
with 212. Byron Nelson, Toledo,
O., had 213, Thurman Edwards,
Winston-Salem, N. C, 214; Bob
Hamilton of Evansville, Ind., the
winner of the north and south
open, 216.
Beavers
Prepare
For Seals Tilt
San Jose. Cal., Mrach 21 U.
The Portland Beavers were
scheduled to hold a hot practice
session today in preparation for
tomorrow night's game against
the San Francisco Seals.
The Beavers will meet the
Alameda coast guard nine Fri
day, the Navy Sea Lions, Satur
day and McClellan Field, Sacra
mento, Sunday.
Manager Marvin Owens said
he was pleased with his new
pitcher, left-hander Joe Sulli
van, who took part in a light
work out yesterday.
Dallas Hi Coach
Wins on Ashland
Dallas With his bets cannily
placed on the Ashland high team
as a winner in the basketball
tournament held last week in
Salem, Coach O. E Anderson of
the Dallas Dragons, pocketed
change over the week-end from
Dallasites whose prognostica
tions were less accurate. Ander
son, whose Dragons made a rec
ord of 16 wins for the season,
with single point losses to Mc
Minnville and Mt. Angel, is now
lining up a baseball team with
games scheduled to start some
time In April.
Am you
CANADA DRY
WATER ,B
post-war American Olympic
champions and
at the same
time keep the country's boys so
busy they won t have time to be
delinquents by sponsoring an
nual junior Olympics.
Otherwise, contends the
husky 55-year-old Indian who
still holds two unofficial Olym
pic games records set at Stock
hold in 1912, the boys will have
nothing to keep their competi
tive spirit alive, and resumption
of the Olympics after the war
might see the end of American
supremacy.
Here's what he recommends:
Events for boys of all ages,
with competitive divisions based
upon age, weight or school year.
Local tryouts, followed by
state-wide competition to select
entrants for the national junior
Olympics "somewhere in the
middle west."
"Everyone realizes that juve
nile delinquency increases in
war time. With summer and
school vacations coming, I be
lieve we can give the kids a
healthy, clean method of occu
pying their time by putting the
junior Olympics plan in motion
now.
"A boy who goes Into training
with the Idea that some day he
may become one of the world's
greatest athletes will have little
time to get into mischief. He
will be thinking too much about
building up that valuable body
of his," Thorpe said.
Kiser and McEuin
In Armory Arena
A rematch between Jack
Kiser and Bill McEuin highlight
Tuesday night's wrestling show
at the armory. The "revote"
was arranged after the old fami
liar mixup with the third man
in the ring last week. The
semi-windup will feature Ernie
Piluso and Buck Davidson In a
30-minute engagement. The ex
hibition will open with Toughie
Porter opposing Milt Olson.
Athletics Go to
Field in Sled
Frederick, Md March 21 U
Another sleigh ride was in
prosDect today for the Phila
delphia Athletics, who were
forced to divide their big squad
and go into separate indoor
training sessions at the local
armory and the' YMCA. Mana
ger Connie Mack hired an old
fashioned sleigh with a team of
horses to transport the players
from their headquarters. Out
fielder Rip Radcliff notified
Mack he would take his pre-in-duction
physical examination
March 2.
Medford, Mass., March 21 (U.R)
Manager Joe Cronin, short
on pitchers, was pleased today
with the work of George Woods,
big right hander who won five
and lost eight for the Boston
Red Sox in 1943.
It is estimated that American
victory gardens will produce 2
billion pounds more food in 1944
than they did last year.
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First Contest
Denver. March 21 U0 Keen
er competition was the keynote
today as the national A. A. U.
basketball tournament moved
into the third day of play.
Play last night was featured
by the successful debut of the
defending champion Phillips
68" Oilers. The Bartlesville,
Okla., five appeared to have dif
ficulty in getting started early
in their game with Old Home
Bread of Sioux City, la., but
after warming up had no trou
ble in taking the contest, 65-43.
Scores in yesterday's play ran
high for the most part, as in the
opening day games. One other
featured game on yesterday's
program was that of Denver's
Ambrose-Legion and the Amer
ican Gear squad of Chicago. The
Legion won by 47-37.
Seeded teams to see action to
day are 20th Century Fox, Dow
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Scores yesterday included:
(first Boundl
Bon Hsrness, Des Moinei, la., 64, Lara
nil. Wyo., Cleaner! 97.
Fort Loian as. Camp Cooke. Cal.. 46.
Esso, Baton Route. La., 64, Omaha Uni
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Cessna Bobcats. Wichita. Kan., 51. Cen
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Allen-Bradltr. Milwaukee. 71. Colorado
Colleie 43
Ambro.e-Letton 47. American Oear,
Chlcaao 37.
Phillips "66" 66. Old Home Bread, Bioux
City. la.. 43.
Eramex caverns. Stanton, Mo.. 40.
Colorado U. Medics 38.
Chinook Salmon
Up Willamette
Oregon City, March 21 UP)
The Chinook salmon run has
started in the Willamette river.
Fishermen report week-end
catches of salmon weighing up
to 28 pounds at the mouth of
the Clackamas river.
An atoll consists of a coral
reef surrounding a central lagoon.
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Football Plans
Of Tri County
Lebanon Coaches, principals
and representatives of the Tri
county league took advantage of
their presence at the state high
school basketball tournament
last Saturday in Salem to elect
officers and draft their 1944
football schedule.
Cecil Davis, Springfield high
principal, and Mel Johnson,
Springfield coach, were elected
president and secretary, respec
tively, replacing Irvin F. Bryan
and Lawrence F. Page, princi
pal and coach both of Lebanon,
in these positions.
At the suggestion of Davis,
the league voted to give his
school $10 toward a trophy for
their championship team of
1943.
The league will again be di
vided into a northern and south
ern division, with three league
games scheduled in each group.
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The championship playoff be
tween north and south will be
November 17 on the southern
team's home field. Howevar,
northern . and southern teajrij
may play each other In non
league contests prior to the
play-off.
Schedule for 1944:
Northern
Oct. 13 University HUth at Junction City
Sweet Home at Lebanon
Oct. 37 Ur.lverslty Hlih at Sweet Home
Junction City ' at Lebanon
Nov. 10-11 Sweet Home at Junction Cltj
Lebanon at University Hlirt
Southern 1
Oct. 13 Roieburr at Cottate Grove
Spr.nifleld at Reedsport
Oct. 31 Rosebura at Sprlndleld
Reedsport at Cottaae Orovt
Nov. 10-11 Sprlnafleld at Cottaae Orova
Reedsport at Rosebura
Nov. 17 Championship playofl in south.
Powers Honored Guest
Falls City Mrs. William
Powers gave a birthday party
honoring her husband, William
Powers, at her home. Cards
were played and refreshments
were served to Mr. and Mrs.
Chester Burbank, Mr. and Mrs,
William Poland, Roy Jones, Mr.
and Mrs. William Powers and
daughter Violet. -f
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