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.
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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.
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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.
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man typewriter factory they
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