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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 21, 1944)
Skits and Scratches Bj Fred Zimmerman Capital Juurnal Sports Editor It makes a lot of difference whose goose is being plucked. Out at Salem high's North 14th street basketball pavilion the other night when Coach Herm Schwartzkopf's Jayvces were striving mightily to check in their fourth consecutive win at the expense ol inc api iiii.iu. not so dusty. Millers' second , string, the visiting coach became quite a bit pcrlurpca ocr lli- tain portions of the olliciaung It was a ains-uung """, through the second half, and a number of fouls were cauca. no thing unusual about that. How ever, one of the fouls, slapped onto a Miller forward, happened to be the fifth and he was benched. After the hectic contest, which was won by the Jayvces in an overtime session, the Spring field coach, still hot under the collar, approached one of the i D the squad, and seven of the officials and proceeded lo tell ' starting 11, are freshmen, him off. He shook hands with j While program weights give the other who shortly before the : (ne Dixie boys a team average end of the regulation time had , nf 192, they looked considerably called a foul against Salem lighter. The line which Barn which resulted in the overtime ' hill assembled yesterday aver scssion. That particular official ages 197 lo the Trojans' 21. was tops, in the opinion of the ' while the Vol backs average 183 disgruntled coach. The one who I 10 USC's 178. Troy's starting had caught the Springfield kid learn will have a bulge of at was a bum. Carried to its logical ; conclusion, llerm should have taken care of the official who tagged his boy. However, tall, dark and handsome isn't thai kind of a fellow. We still have hopes for Coach Frank Brown's Vikings. If they don't get their dobbcrs down as the result of losing the tough ones, such as the overtime ses sion against Springfield, I hey may yet have a successful sea son. Goodness knows they are working hard enough. Tom Boardman's height gives Ihe Viks a belter chance under the backboards and a little more practice in shooting may add a considerable number of points to the Salem siring. Wonder what happened during the in termission? The Viks just can't seem to get going aflcr the rest period. It might be a good idea to keep them on the floor. The game with Prineville is j Friday night and not Thursday as previously announced. The activity bulletin issued by the superintendent's office got us off on the. wrong foot by listing the contest for Thursday. At tendance for the Springfield game reached a new low for the season, not only for students but also for adults. The approaching holiday season undoubtedly has something to do with it, al- thoiigh five losses in a row lias i EOn Stale basketball plavers left dimmed the enthusiasm of the Corvallis this morning' for Ihe Vik supporters. Prineville proh-j second annual northern divi ahly has a pretty good club. 1 sinn hakeitil lirnhnm 1 mcy lost to Lebanon (be other nigni. 1:1 10 14. and then I.eha-1 nights. non proceeded to wax Corvallis.! The Bp!)vp wi off , A, a rule teams like Prineville i Tila,nook tonight for a return (lent engage in bam-slorniing !,., ?s, wilh tnP Ti,iamook expeditions so far from borne j Nava Air Station five. Gill's unless they feel they have a ' men cefeMed the navv bov. 4 real club or expert t develop i to 31, al Corvallis (wo weeks one before I lie season is very ! aRo. old. ' I - Gill plans lo slick by his reg- Motorists Pay Fines Polk Justice Courts Dallas Raymond Frank Danl, arrested Sunday by state police on a reckless driving charge, was fined S."i(l and SS.R5 rosls when arraigned before Cook in West Salem Monday. Bert Kelly Davis, charged with drunken driving, also ar rested by state police Sundav posted $100 bail pending hear ing in Justice of the Peace Charles P. Gregory's court. "U haf would lie morn n ( rria1 o or nioi o appreciated than a love or beautiful bouquet of add real ( 'lirisluias cheer for your convenience our shop will remain !! jjupen evenings until 9 p.m.: Sundav until J 115 p.m. II 2 7 Volunteers Appear Small Pasadena, Calif., Dec. 21 Wi They may not be big. but they're last and full of fight. That was the impression given by the Tennessee Volun teers in their initial, unlimber ing workout after arriving yes terday for their Rose Bowl clash witli Southern Californias Tro jans. Three hours late in a four- day transcontinental jaunt, the VoJ par(y was grcelcd bv a brasa ba)d and pl.ety la.year. o,d Mary Loujse nuUe, rose een- Mis, nuUe and Billy Bcvjs b,ockjnf! baclt and acling captain for the Vols on New year-s daVi poRed for numerous photographs. Then Coach John IBarnl-.ill whisked his 38 charges away to work off their "train legs." In a two-hour drill, the south erners showed speed and spirit also extreme youth and slim ness. One veteran observer said the Vols appear lo be the I smallest team ever to come to j the Rose Bowl. Twenty-nine least seven pounds per man. Vol heavyweights are Tackle Bo Slewarl, 205, and Guard Bob Dobelslein, 200. USC's tackles, All-America John Fer raro and "Pewee" Pehar, tote 235 and 265, respectively. Jayvees Playing Monmouth Quint Salem hifih's Javees will be seeking their fifth straight win when they enKae Monmouth at Monmouth Thursday evening. Coach Herm Schwartzkopf's boys are bound to drop one soon er or later and the battle ag ainst the Monmouth ''A" string may bring their downfall. The Sophs, who are being directed by Coach Frank Beer, will play Hubbard Friday evening in a pieliminary to the Salem-Prine-ville main event. Coach Beer has been nursing a cold since his visit lo St. Paul and Gurnee Flesher has been filling in. The latlcr however, is about ready (o crawl in bed with Frank. Beavers Making Trip to Astoria Portland. Ore.. Dec. 21 lU.Pi Coach A. T. "Slats" Gill. Man ager Phi! Williams and 1(1 Orp- Astoria Friday and Saturday I ular slarting lineup of Serlic, : Ilonningsen, forwards: Puddy. I center; and McGralh and Simms playa. guards during jamboree Program Set Friday Wheal land The Wheatland school Christmas program un the direction of the teacher. Mrs. Clarence Roy Carr. will be given al the schoolhouse Fri day evening. School will close Friday, wilh classes resuming January 2. y potted plant: flowers. They to ho home. Lions Travel to Turner Friday Jefterson The Lions will travel to Turner Friday night to take on the Turner boys for the second league basketball game of the season. Jefferson will entertain Slayton January 5, following the Christmas vaca tion, the first in four years. The Lions lost to the Salem sopho more team, 43-24, last Tuesday night. Salem Golfers Play and Dine A dinner, which promises to eaual or exceed any similar jevcn in rcccnt years wi fea lure Thursday evening's annual party of the Men's club of the 1 Salem Golf association. Ere Kay and Millard Pekar will be hosts ' for the affair. Ruddles competi tion will precede the dinner. Election of officers will be the principal business considered. fi Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon. Thursday. Dec. 21. 1914 Rickey Shows Interest in Grid Game; Detroit Gets Boys Game By Hugh Fullerton, Jr. New York, Dec. 21 (Pi Branch Rickey, who was showing alarm last winter because of Ihe possibility that pro football might become a rival to baseball, is about ready to join up wilh one of Hie new grid leagues. . . Plans aren't complete yet, but at least his coach (who might be Sid Luckman) wouldn't have lo worry about the boss trying to run tilings from the bench as long as the deacon continued lo remain away from Sunday games. . . . The 1945 Esquire all-American boys baseball game is scheduled to be played in Detroit. . . . Cpl. Billy Conn, writing from northern Italy, Mulligan Sees WIL Resumption Seattle, Dec. 21 W Bill Mulligan, business manager of the Seattle Rainiers of the Pa cific coast league, returned yes terday from the baseball meet ing In New York and said that a revival of the suspended eastern international league in 1945 was not only possible but probable and feasible. Coast league directors, he said, are enthusiastic about the prospects of reopening the W-I league and are confident man power can be made available. Mulligan also said he was confident the new talent acquir ed by the Rainiers will propel Ihe Skiffmen close to the top of the coast league next season. Pedee Farmer Union Officers Retained Pedee A large crowd altend ed Hie annual chicken dinner al Hie Farmers' Union meeting at the school house. During the business meeting the following officers were re-elected: President. Harry Vickers; vice president, Rufus Dodge: secretary-treasurer. Mrs. Sid- , ney Howard; conductress. Mrs. ! Ralph King: cliaplin. Mrs. Ritlie Kerbcr. A program was given 'Consisting of group singing, several accordion numbers by Gus .lahns. two songs by Max inc and Myra Perry. Amnion Grice, state presi dent, gave a short talk, then introduced William Rolfe, Ihe national vice president, who gave a talk on Farmers' Union work in the United Stales. Stanford Grid Rumor Scotched San Francisco, Dec. 21 'Pi There is a report being whisper ed around that Stanford uni versity, a war time football cas ually, will resume the gridiron sport in 1945 and that Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw will be the coach. Rumors mushroom into tre mendous size overnight, so to speak, and are intangibles most difficult to track down but this one was comparatively easy to dissipate merely by telephon- ing Alfred R. Masters, general manager of athletics at Stanford who still carries on despite the sports drought at his school . . . Masters declared: "There is absolutely nothing to the report, We have not even discussed the possibility of resuming football next year." Referring lo the mention of Shaw as a coaching possibility. moans that he hasn't been able lo buy a good dish of spa ghetti there. One-Minute Sports Page Australia, planning to devel op young tennis players for post-war competition, has asked the United States Lawn Ten nis association for copies of its junior development program. . . . Adolph Rupp. Kentucky bas ketball coach who has turned out some good ones, rates 18-year-old Alex Groza. his new center, as one of the best pivot men ever to appear in the southeastern conference. ... In tile past four years, Puerto Ri co's annual appropriation for sporls has increased from $11, 000 lo about a half million. . . . Clinton, Iowa, has two high schools and each finished its football season unbeaten and untied in eight games. . . . The first 15 players on Penn Slate's basketball squad include eight former high school coplains. Only one is a first stringer. The Right Words Mack Creager. who boois all Ihe points after touchdowns for the Oklahoma A. and M. fool ball team that is heading for tile Cotton Bowl, also is a sports writer for the campus paper. ... A couple of years ago Mack was advised to give up football because of a heart murmur. . . . When an Okla home scribe asked him about it this fall. Creager supplied the I details, then suggested: "If you write anything about that, have 'em head it. 'Kicker's Ticker Starts to Flicker.' " . Ch ristmOS Musical i . r . n 1 r j At St. Paul Friday St. Paul The pupils of the St. Paul grade school held a Christmas program and ex change of gifts at Ihe Si. Paul Academy Thursday and Friday evening at 8 o'clock at Ihe com munity hall. The girls' glee club of Ihe St. Paul Union high school will give a Christmas musical under the direction of Mrs. Trunk. How to give a drink Ear- 4h Appeal HtGHBAi.LJt mixd with Canada Drv Water sparkle rut loud. "PIN-POINT CARBONATION" insure a hvtlinMS that 1ts . , . keeps drinks full of zet. Canada Dry Water the world's most popular club soda is preferred in tne finest bars, hotels and clubs. Its special formula points up the fla vor of any tall drink. Serve Canada Dry Water in your home ... it com no more than ordinary mixers. Masters declared, "Buck Is one of the finest coaches in the coun try. He would be an asset to any college. But it should be remem bered that we had what we con sidered a brilliant staff of young coaches, Jim Lawson, Marchie Schwartz and Phil Bengston. "Lawson enlisted in the navy without having served as head coach. Bengston also is in the navy. Schwartz carried on for a season and turned in a splendid job. It is our hope to have these three back as the Stanford coaching staff after the war." Huskies Try Luck With Musicians Portland. Ore., Dec. 21 'U.R) Minus the naval trainees which last year were their strength, the Washington Huskies will in vade Ihe Jefferson high court here tonight lo meet the Fee's Music Makers quintet, one of the outstanding independent teams in the northwest. Appearance of Heck Edmund son's basketeers will signal the beginning of a holiday parade of northern division learns in Portland in pre-couference con tests. Although Washington is with out the services of the naval trainee stars of last year, the veteran Edmundson is expected to trot out some fast-stepping, high-scoring players up from the high school ranks. Norm Carnovale and Joe Crevcling, forwards: Dick Brooks, center; and Dick King and Bob Jorgenson, guards, are slated for slarting positions. Oregonians Win, Wolves Beaten fBy Associated Press) Northern division coast con ference basketball teams con tinued their tune-up campaigns in preparation for the season's opening last night, the Univer sity of Oregon topping western Washington college, 50-45, at Bellingham, and Washington State dropping a 63-42 decision to Fort Lewis as Gail Bishop popped in 28 points against his alma malcr. The Wcbfoots trailed western Washington most of the way but rallied strongly in the clos ing minutes. Bellingham led, 29-19 at the half. Oregon's Hays and Western's Silvcrtson shared scoring honors, St. Paul Hi Plays Gervais Dec. 21 St. Paul The St. Paul Buck eroo basketball team will en gage Gervais on the latter's floor Thursday evening. This will be a Marion county "B" league game. The balance of the schedule: Jan. 4, Chemawa at St. Paul, Jan. 9. Hubbard there; Jan. 12, Sacred Heart there: Jan. 15. Sa lem Sophs there: Jan. 19. Ger vais at St. Paul; Jan. 26, Chem awa there: Feb. 2, Hubbard at St. Paul: Feb. 9," Sacred Heart at St. Paul. Joe Tinker in Orlando Hospital Orlando. Fla., Dec. 21 un Joe Tinker, part of the famous "Tinker to Kvers lo Chance" major league double play com binaiion, now under observa tion at Owens General hospital here, was reported early today to be "resting comfortably." Tinker, now 64. entered the hospital Tuesday for the second time this year. Last January he was critically ill for several weeks and for a time was placed under an oxygen tent, but recovered. BIG B0TIU IM Ml g 1 15e Mir Browns Tagged No. 1 Comeback New York, Dec. 21 The St. Louis Browns already tagged as having furnished the year's biggest sports surprise in win ning the American league flag, landed new laurels today as the No. 1 comeback team of 1944. So decided 87 sports editors participating in the country wide Associated Press poll, 20 of whom pointed the comeback finger at Luke Se well's boys, along with seven other voters who picked 'em for the place or show spots. On a basis of three votes for first place,' two for second and one for third, the Browns piled up 71 points to beat out Sam Sncad, golfer who came back from two years in the navy to win the first tourney in which he played. Snead, with 10 first place votes, had a 56 total. Fifty-two individuals and teams came in for comeback at tention by the scribes, but the Browns, in boosting their 72-80 won-lost percentage of 1943 into an 89-65 pennant winning mark in '44, were clearly a standout. The Browns, after losing the lea gue lead, swept the last four games from New York to nose out Detroit by a single contest. The vote, with first ballots in parentheses: fit. Lou:e Browns, baseball (20) "1 Sam Snead. noil 10 1 Ciiarley Onmm. Chicago Cubs 6) 2 D-.ixc, football 6 I'D Dick Wakefield, baseball 3 j T No; re Dame, football ' 5 17 Hal Newlioti-ser. baseball 1 1) l'i Utah, ba.vtptball, i4i M Fran kip Parker, tennis (2) 11 Tennessee, football M t i3 The largest island on the coast ot Norway is Hindo, about 850 square miles in area. 8-Inch TOP BOOTS .... WESTERN MADE 098 Non-skid tire cord tap sole, leather mainsole. Goodyear welt construc tion. Pliable cowhide uppers. Natural counters: reinforced shank. Sizes 6 to 11 Turner Defeats Gates, 24 to 17 Turner The Turner Tigers played a victorious basketball game ever the Gates high school team. Turner scored 24 to Gates 17. This is the first game ot the season for the Tigers and the lineup for Turner was as follows: Forwards Gaylord Low.-y and Wayne Ackcrscn; center, Edwin Ball; and guards, Calvin Mcschcllc and Dale Yager. Dallas Dragons Defeat Sheridan Dallas Dallas high school's Dragons defeated Sheridan high 28-1 6 in a rough game on the Sheridan floor Tuesday night, j High scorer for Dallas was Pol lers with 11 points. j llallan C.'fO !" Sheridan ; numnini F l-'1'1 j Per era 11 F 8 Hf-rro i Rohr.i C Brown Richard -on nun nimui IC.ihlfr 2 O 2 E!rrat;i Stibr Dalla Nairn. Taylor; Shrridan Nickeron I. Humify. The Dallas B team lost to the Sheridan Bees 15-13 in a game that was lied at the end of regu lar play. Monmouth Wolves Playing Jayvees -Monmouth Monmouth high's Wolves who walloped Perrydale Tuseday night 36 to 11, will try I their basketball skills against ! Salem high's Jayvees Thursday 1 evening on the local court. The j Wolves held Perrydale scoreless in the initial period and were out in front 16-6 at half time. 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