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.
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Volunteers
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
Perrydale (II) i.'Hit .Monmmitrt
Kev.er 7 F 4 Partlon-
rtolande F 6 Pei:y
Rr:mrr 3 C II M,F.::r.y
Mart in o 6
Vandrrhoiif 1 O 6 Fresh
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Vikings Bow to
Older Court Aces
A squad of former Vil
court greats, including "Sco
Sebern, U.S. marine, Sgt. Butl
Coons, Ensign Don Bower, Don
Cutler and Bill Ransom, showed
a bit too much finesse for this
year's crop of maple board
pounders Wednesday. The game,
a full length scrimmage affair,
resulted in a 43-23 win for the
service men. Sebern recently
came home from the South Seas.
He paced the winners with 12
points, while Cutler was a close
second with 11.
Vikings ::(
Dracon 4
He'.mliout fi
Boardman 1
M.i.-on
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Shrine Gridders
Reach West Coasfy
San Francisco, Dec. 21 iPi
Twenty-three of the best civil
ian football players cast of the
Mississippi, rested after a weary
ing train trip, lined up under t
gloomy skies today for their first
real workout in preparation for ,
Ihe Shrine East-West charity
game here New Year's day.
Coaches Bernie Bicrman, Geo.
Hauser and -Andy Kerr put the
squad through a brisk drill late
yesterday upon their arrival,
mainly to iron out travel kinks.l
A longer one was on today's pro
gram. Lcs Horvath of Ohio Stale,
All-American halfback, was the.
only player missing. He remain-'",
ed behind lo catch up on his
studies and will join the outfit
here shortly after Christmas.
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