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Skits and Scratches By Fred Zimmerman Capital Journal Sports Editor The fellow who is handed the assignment of working out a schedule for the western inter national league had better for tify himself with a few tins of aspirin tablets before he settles down to his Job for in all prob ability he will have headaches galore bv the time his magnum opus is completed. There's noth ing complicated about compiling a schedule for eight clubs. In fact, it's a natural. The difficulty arises when two of the league affiliates Vancouver and vic toria are not permitted to play Sunday baseball. About the best that can be worked out of it is a mid-week or Saturday night doubleheader and that cuts down the gate receipts ma- terially. The suggestion has i been made that Vancouver move over to Seattle for Sunday whenever the Rainiers are not ' at home. But, in all probability : the Capilanos and their oppon i ents wouldn't draw flies in i city where they have enjoyed double A ball for a number of : years. . Signing of Glen Wright as ' manager of the Spokane Indians brings back into circulation an : other diamond notable who in 1 addition to considerable exper ience in major league circles, is ; quite well known along the coast. He played and coached ' with Seattle in 1936 and from i 1937 to 1939 was with the Wen- ' atchee Indians, who won the WI I title in 1938. His 44 years i would indicate that he won't do much playing. And George Era i igli, who has become a solid 1 Salem citizen, okchs what Boss I Bill Klcpper says about Tony Patch, the man from the San Francisco Bay area who has ( been entrusted with the job of building a winning Senator com I bination. "He knows how to get along with players and I am i sure the fans will find him en- tirely agreeable," commented ; the business manager. i i Rebuilding of the infield at ; Geo. . waters park was one i of the first jobs undertaken un j der Beaver sponsorship. And I if everything goes along as an- ticipated the time may soon i come when the diamond will be ' brought closer to the fans. When ; Biddy Bishop blueprinted the I stands and field at the 25th ; street park, several argued with I the voluble first manager that ' home base should be as close to 1 the stands as possible. "The ; closer the fans are brought to the i players, the greater the success ' o the game," Biddy was told. But the latter, being a bit old i fashioned, argued right back ! that the proper distance between the stands and the base lines was ; right where he had fixed them . There will be no change this ' season, but when the fence posts , show signs of old age the mov- 1 ing will probably be undertaken ; then. Moving the fence in i would coincide with the shifting of the diamond. In all prob i ability the boxes will not be ! sold on a season-long basis as was the practice under the for- I mer regime. This means that , box seats would be available to i individual purchasers on a night to night plan. , "Ducks Unlimited" may apply i up in Canada and elsewhere in ! these United States, but so far i as local hunters are concerned 1 the supply of quackers has been ! extremely limited to date. It may be the calm before the storm or it is possible the ducks have learned that the boys have been able to lay in a supply of ammunition and just decided the Willamette valley was a poor place to spend a few days. It's illegal to feed the ducks at places where hunting is permit ted but there is nothing in the statute books that forbids plac i ing a bit of grain in the wild ; fowl refuges. Ducks don't nec- I essarily spend all of their time t where the feed is and many of , them are bound to stray off the i reservation. Beavers Prepare For Trip South Corvallls, Ore., Nov. 21 (U.B Their practice field dry for the first time in a week Oregon State's alternate linemen and backs were to receive the at tention today of Coach Lon Stiner in preparation for the game with the USC Trojans at Los Angeles Saturday. Eugene, Ore., Nov. 21 (U.PJ The Oregon Wcbfoots today looked forward to a Thanksgiv ing week-end layoff before a resumption of heavy practice for the season's final game De cember 1 with Oregon State. TURKEYS NICE YOUNG BIRDS SAVING CENTER . Salem and West Salem Open 7:30 a.m. to 9 p.m. Daily Closed Thanksgiving Bruins Stress Speed, Stamina By Bill Becker Los Angeles, Nov. 21 W) The well-coached; well-conditioned UCLA Bruins far from a powerful team have reached the pinnacle of coast football by faithful application to the three S's speed, stamina and spirit. For a big-time college club, the Bruins are amazingly small. Only four members of the squad weigh over 200. UCLA's start ing line usually averages 191, the backfield only 170. But Coach Bert La Brucherie, sacrificing power for quick opening T formation plays, con centrated on speed from the start of the season. Long and frequent wind sprints became a part of the daily routine. Line men learned to get downfield, or else. Hard scrimmages, almost game length, became common place. Bruin tackling and blocking have been sharpened by three long scrums with the El Toro Marines, one of the nation's top service teams. When they learned to stand up to the Marines, the Bruins knew they could take it. Line Coach Ray Richards, one of the best fundamentalists in the west, developed two com plete sets of linemen. No iron men the Bruins were trained to go all-out while they were in the game, secure in the knowl edge the subs were ready. That's the system that wore down St. Mary's. Silverton Plays Chemawa Indians Silverton Silverton's foot ball squad, fresh rrom a 13 to 13 tie with the Duration league champion Woodburn Bulldogs, will wind up the 1945 gridiron season Thursday afternoon. The Foxes will entertain the Chem awa Indians who have won two and lost three league contests. Silverton has a record of two wins, two losses and one tie. The game will start at 2:30. Gray Mask Beats Grappler Jones The "Gray Mask" was de clare dwinner over Rufus Jones in Tuesday night's main event of the weekly grappling show at the armory. Jones took the first fall but failed to keep up with the "Mask" the rest of the way. Bulldog Jackson and "Mysterious Mr. X" drew in one of the preliminaries while Joe Lyman was declared win ner over Jack Lipscomb via the foul route. Gust Johnson and Herb Parks went to a draw. Leslie Soccer Teams Win Three Leslie junior high's soccer teams made a clean sweep pf their play-offs with Parrlslh Tuesday afternoon. Not only did the Missionaries win all three games but they held the Pion eers without a single score. The seventh graders won 4-0, the eighth graders 8-0 and the ninth graders 6-0. Earlier in the day Leslie teams played for the school champion ships with the Cannonballs, the Gobs and Interceptors winning in the three divisions. 6 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Wednesday, Nov. 21, 1945 Bert La Brucherie Selected As Tops in Coaching Field By Carl Lundquist New York, Nov. 21 (U.R) The critics, and they were legion, who said the Pacific Coast conference was too weak to send a first rate team into the Rose Bowl were silent today. One man's long range planning stopped the talk. He's the United Press coach of the week, Bert La Brucherie, whose University of California at Los Angeles Bruins per formed the upset of the year on the west coast by trimming perfect record St. Mary's, 13 to 7. La Brucherie, endowed with SRO Signs Goes Up For Title Game Medford, Nov. 21 (fP) Re serve seats for the Medford Grant high school Thanksgiving day football state semi-final are all gone. Fans gathered as early at 5:30 a.m. at the high school ticket window yesterday and bought out the seats in 35 minutes, of ficials reporting turning away more than a thousand persons. Meanwhile Medford Coach Al Simpson reported Glenn Bost wick, the team's sensational left half benched for two weeks with a shoulder injury, would be in the game tomorrow. Church Basketball Plans Completed Arrangements for opening play in the Senior Church bas ketball league were completed Tuesday night during a confer ence of managrs and officials held at the YMCA. The league has been divided into three sec tions, with six clubs in each and all games will be played on the Leslie junior high school floor. The "A" group plays Monday nights from 7 to 10 o'clock; the "B" clubs Wednesday nights and the "C" teams each Thurs day. No admission will be charged since the league is be ing financd through entrance fees paid by each participating church. The season will open next Monday night. John McConville, Darl Jones and John Gardner were named on a committee to secure refer ees. Waltonians Meet Wednesday Night Members of the Salem chap ter of Izaak Walton league, meeting at the Mayflower Dairy plant Wednesday night, will nominate officers for next year. The election will take place during the December meeting. Folowing the business session there will be a showing of the motion picture "Good Hunting, Brother," as produced by Ducks Unlimited. President Verne E. Robb is urging greater effort in secur ing new members and reminds the group that no one will be admitted to the stag party being arranged by Elmer Church un less at least one new member has been secured. HUBBA! HUBBA! HUBBA! , THE DUNCAN SISTERS WILL BE HERE AT LEONARD'S MONDAY, NOVEMBER 26 DINNERS 50 A Full Course Steak, Chicken or Turkey Dinner Entree, cocktail, soup, salad, relish, dessert and drink Our Dinner Service Starts at 6 P. M. Special Dinner THANKSGIVING DAY Served from 1 P.M. 1 Week of Nov. 19-25 3 RAY GIRLS FLOOR SHOW casbtaarye & Two Shows Nltely RUSTY COLMAN Notice: Due to a percentage arrangement with our book ing agents, Ladies' Night will be discontinued until further notice. DANCING TO THE MUSIC OF ARCHIE THOMAS' ORCHESTRA an PV fT UKUHUSTKA DCPmiOTOqiIXIXDO(II One Block North of Underpass on Road to Portland COMING MONDAY. NOVEMBER 26 The World Famous Ziegfeld Follies' Stars THE DUNCAN SISTERS With Their Sensational Act, "Topsy and Eva" only average material when he moved up from Los Angeles high school to succeed Babe Horrell at UCLA last season, wasn't expected to go far in his first year. And when he lost his key halfback, Speedy Cal Rossi, to the Harvard naval school in October-, it was a blow that might well have wrecked the team. All of the quick-opening plays from the "T" formation were built around Rossi and his speed, but La Brucherie an nounced to the squad that "the team's the thing and we'll show them a thing or two anyway.'.' He couldn't have done a better job against St. Mary's if Jtossi had still been there. He admits that he had a lot of time to think about that big game, since ULCLA had a three week layoff. And the boys took advantage of it by doing their own scouting, the entire squad watching St. Mary's play in the three games in which it was idle. "I think we learned a lot from the game in which St. Mary's beat Southern Califor nia, 26 to 0," he said. '"Some of the boys seemed to notice weakness in St. Mary's pass de fense and in the line at the tackles. They certainly took advantage of what they learned." Back to Minors For Pele Gray Nanticoke, Pa., Nov. 21 VP) One-armed Pete Gray, shipped back to the minors by the St. Louis Browns because he could not hit major league pitching, may quit organized baseball in 1946 if his new bosses "don't pay me enough money." Gray admitted his release to the Toledo Mudhens of the Am erican Association was "kind of expected, but it still caught me by surprise." "I don't feel too bad about it though," he said ."I wasn't sure the Browns would keep me the full season." The skinny outfielder, who lost his right arm when he was six, made the major league grade last year "my lifetime ambi tion," he said when the Browns paid the Memphis Chicks $20,000 for his contract. He was the sen sation of the Southern Associa tion in 1944, batting .333, steal ing 68 bases and winning the league's most valuable player award. Gray was used mainly in pinch-hitting roles in the latter part of the 1945 pennant race. He ended the season with a .223 batting average and reported "the major league pitching sure is tough." Four Team Hoop Circuit in Polk Dallas A new basketball league to be conducted on a home and home basis has been organized by four Polk county high school B teams, with games scheduled to start November 30. Participating schools will be Monmouth, Yalsetz, Perrydale and Falls City. As preliminary features at the games, girls' vol- Vancbuver Whips Portland Eagles Vancouver, B.C., Nov. 21 VP) The Vancouver Canucks marched off the ice with an 8-5 win over the Portland Eagles here last night, as they jumped farther ahead of the northern field in the Pacific coast hockey league standings. The victory was the Canuck's 10th against four losses while the Eagle's loss shoved them deeper into third place Salem Hi Basket Squad Numbers 20 Through a process of gradual eliminations, Salem high school's prospective basketball team, the one that will be in charge of Coach Harold Hauk, has been reduced to 20 mem bers. A further reduction will be forthcoming in all probabil ity next week. The squad as now constituted includs: Allan Bellinger, Bunny Mason, Allan Gemmell, Dick Hendrie, A Chamberlain and Jack Fitzmaurice from last year's first string; La Verne Hei bert, Ken Albers, Del Herman, Don Pickett from the "Bees"; Rod Province, Ken Gibson, Bill Hill, Dick Allison and Roger Dasch from the sophomores; Spagle and Morgall from Par rish; a boy named Miles who has transferred from Bend; Vic Cole, a transfer from southern Oregon, and Beltz from the football squad. ley ball contests are planned. Officers chosen for the new league are Landon Regele of Falls City, president; John Rose of Valsetz, vice president, and Bud Gronquins of Monmouth, secretary-treasurer. County playoffs will be held in Monmouth on the tentative date of February 15, with a double elimination tournament in play. Army Lineman Voted Honors New York, Nov. 21 VP) Army's great line finally land ed a hunk of individual rec ognition this week when De Witt "Tex" Coulter, mountain ous cadet tackle, was chosen by the Associated Press poll of the nation's sports writers as "line man of the week." The hulking 222-pounder, who has played a whale of a game in each of Army's crush ing victories this season, gained the honor in a wild balloting spree in which three of his teammates also were nominat ed as outstanding in the Cadets' 61-0 triumph over Penn at Phil adelphia. The other Cadet forwards who received at least one vote apiece were tackle Al Nemetz, guard Johnny Green and end Hank Foldberg. The fact that so many press box observers were unable to agree on which Army lineman was best gives, perhaps an inkling of what Penn's ball carriers were up against. Outside of the huzzahs for Coulter and company, the loud est drums were beaten for Ohio State's great guard, Warren Amling, a previous recipient of the "lineman" award. Once again the mid-west writers re ported that he was the greatest lineman on the field in the Buckeyes' win over Illinois. When Yanks captured a Ger man typewriter factory they JOHNS6N-SMITH 497 ItMY mm MUM, OUCON Commercial Printing Advertising and Phone 7490 Designing found machines manufactured to write every modern language. That expression "snug as a bug in a rug" must have originated where Shell Heating Oil keeps everyone cozy. Because snug comfort is easy with this clean-burning, dependable fuel. Try it and see how pleased you'll be. Just phone Telephone 3186 2680 Portland Road i , ' American way. 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