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i: Skits and Scratches By Fred Zimmerman Capital Journal Sports Editor Sam Breadon, St. Louis Car dinal owner, may be in the same category with the fellow who expected 15 chicks from a clutch of as many eggs, but at least he cannot be accused of not being forehanded in connection with this year's World Series. Ac cording to a yarn in the Sporting News, Breadon says there is a possibility that there may be no public sale of tickets for the annual classic, that is if the Car dinals repeat their performance of last year. The way the Card boss figures it, only approxi mately 3000 series tickets will be available for general distri bution and the job of passing them' around to a clamoring public would be accompanied with so many headaches he may not put them on the market at all. The St. Louis park has ac commodations or 23,000 re served seat customers, but Breadon's system of selling season tickets for the regular Rational league schedule en Jtars prominently into the pic ture. Holders of two such season tickets are entitled to purchase a reserved seat for the fall classic and since 20, 000 of them will have passed, into the hands of the public by the end of the month that means 10,000 of the highly prized pasteboards will be off the market. "Then," explains Breadon, "the holders of 2000 box seats and 2500 reserved seats for the season have the privilege fit buying those same seats for the series, and they always do." Another 5000 are used up In taking care of re quests from the commissioner's office, the opposing club, tickets which players and baseball writers are permitted to buy , , . But then, perhaps the Cardinals will not repeat. Most men who have reached the four score and four mark would be content to turn the chores of the world over to the younger generation. Not so Amos Alonzo Stagg. Coach Stagg at 84, relieved of his head coach ing job at College of the Pacific. took a position at Susquehanna university in Pennsylvania where, as an assistant to his son, he will continue to teach wide open football and school youngsters on how to stop it lien the opposition tries the tame thing. Stagg declines to put a time limit on the length of his coaching other than to tay that "I have no ambitions to live to a certain age. I want to live so long as I am useful Like the cowboy who dies with his boots on, I want to die in the thick of action doing things I want to do . From Alonzo Stagg, Jr., himself 47 and a coach for more than two de cades, one gains an insight into the father's ability to stay with a job that has killed many younger men. "First, he lives cleanly," the son points out. "There are no excesses. He gets plenty of sleep, trying for tVi hours dally. He watches his eating. He does not smoke and he does not drink. Then, he comes from a line of people who are noted for longevity. Then he has the happy faculty of dis missing any care or worries from his mind once the day's work is done." The elder Stagg has another theory on , how to stay young. It's to have young thoughts and young thoughts don't deal with the past. Stagg refuses to live in retrospect. He lives in . the future. He won't even look back and tell you whom he thinks was the greatest foot ball player of all time, what was the greatest team or who was the greatest coach. "What's next?" his blue eyes ask you. If any further evidence was needed by way for indicating Ithat organized baseball has little sentiment in its system. the waving out of the American league of Hank Greenberg should fill in the gap. Green berg signed with the Detroit Fluorescent-, Commercial and Industrial Lighting Fixtures For Immediate Delivery Salem Lighting and Appliance Co. Temporary Location, 255 N. Liberty, Salem, Ore. Phone 9412 Mill City Retail Lumber Co. LUMBER . SHINGLES Phone Mill City 304 In Big Six Basket Mix The Albany Bulldogs, winners of 10 games out of 13 starts and co-holders of the topmost slot in Big Six league standings, invade the local high school basketball pavilion Tuesday night to meet the Salem Vikings. A win for Coach Rex Hunsaker's blue and gold 'Dogs would give them undisputed possession of the loop ladder's top rung, and a loss would drop them into third I place, and elevate Salem to a first-place tie with Bend. Klamath Falls, Bend and Leb anon have been the only con querors of the Bulldogs this sea son. Albany has registered wins over Lebanon, Redmond, Grants Pass, Myrtle Point, Taft, Eugene, Sweet Home, Toledo and two victories over Springfield. The probable starting line up for the visitors includes Earl Kelty and Dave Hobbs, forwards, Norman Saylor, six foot two center, and Guards Paul Heins and Allen Ed wards. Salem will probably floor Forwards Hugh Bellinger and Cub Houck, Center Bill Hill and Guards Dick Allison and Dick Hendrie as the game gets under way at 8 o'clock. A preliminary between the Jayvee teams from each school opens at 6:43. Sophs Travel To Lebanon Coach Elroy Jensen's Salem high Sophs travel to Lebanon Tuesday night for a contest with the Lebanon "B" outfit. Leb anon's varsity Warriors take on the Oregon State Rooks Tues day, and the local Sophs per form in the preliminary tilt. Due to crowded conditions in the Salem high gymnasium, the Sophomores have been working out under Coach Jen sen at 7 o'clock every school day morning. Both an "A" and "B" sophomore teams are currently operating, though only the "A" crew will be taken to Lebanon. Belcastro and Hart Featured It'll be Frankie Hart versus Pete Belcastro in the feature event of Tuesday night's armory wrestling card. Two prelum naries, the first scheduled for 8:30, will precede the main bat tle. In the evening's opener, Bill Wiedner faces popular Bil ly Fox, and immediately fol lowing that match Tommy Ni- lon and the Gray Mask tangle. PGA THREATENS Charlotte, N.C., Jan. 21 (U.R) Complaining that they had no guarantee that big-name professional golfers would play as scheduled, local offi cials threatened today to call off the $10,000 Charlotte P.G.A. golf tournament sched uled for March 27-30. Tigers immediately after gradu ation from high school and spent 14 years with them. Detroit figures Greenberg's days of top notch performance are about over and cast him aside. Organ ized baseball Is strictly a busi ness proposition and if a player. has no dividends in his system, he is quickly moved on. SPECIALS Outboard Motors 4.2 Horsepower Coleman Lanterns 2-Burner Portable Radios Battery and Electric . . . . Room Heaters Electric Irons Radio-Phono Combination OC flfl Table Model UJaVV Battery Radios QO CC ' 4 Tubes aOmmfJ r$ THRIFTY tr'S CONVENIENT BUY WHAT YOU BUDGET PLAN 198 South Commercial Phone 9156 sat. g mm r rage s, cits Bag Triumphs CITY LEAGUE STAND1NGB W. L. Pet. Inlem Steel 3 0 1000 Elfstrom's 2 0 1.000 Pane Woolens 3 0 1.000 WU Frosh 1 1 .500 w urner Motor 1 1 -sou Master Bread 0 1 .000 Valiey Motor 0 1 -uuu Knights of Columbus 0 2 .000 Talbot Mintmen 0 2 .000 Monday results Pare woolens 55. val ley Motor 38, Ellstrom's 38. Knights of Columbus 34. Salem Steel, Elfstrom's and Page Woolens are all perched at the top of City league standings with two wins and no losses each. The Elfs and Woolmen tacked on their latest wins dur ing loop play at Leslie Monday night, Valley Motor Bowing to the Pagers, 55-28, and Knights of Columbus dropping a 28-24 closie to the Elfstrom crew. Eddie Salstrom and Gordon Gemmell, with 18 and 14 points respectively, paced the Wool outfit to its win, but the V-8'ers threw a big scare into the Ray Page-managed outfit until the Woolens began to pull ahead midway in the third quarter. With four min utes of that period gone, the Motormen closed the gap to 23-21 on a free throw by Phil lips, but Page came right back with a cripple shot to put his club into a 25-21 lead, and the eventual winners perked steadily from then on. The Elfstrom-KC game was a spectator's dream. The winners led at the end of the first quar ter, 8-2, then faded in the sec ond canto to trail 16-15 at the half. Elfstrom's could manage but a single field goal in the third period, and as the final period opened the Knights were leading 22-17. Only three and a half minutes remained in the contest when the score was deadlocked at 24-all, then Van- dervoort sunk one out of two free throws resulting from Haef ner's foul to put the Elfs ahead 25-24. Vandervoort added a field goal and Herberger hit a foul toss for the winners before the final whistle. Only three players were credited with Elf strom's scores. Herberger tal lied 16 counters, while Gordy McMorris and Vandervoort each dunked six. Fare Woolens (53) Valley Motor Salstrom 18 F I Sheltdon Page 9 Fa Phillips o. Oemmell 14 O 6 Morris Llnd 2 o Fttsslmmons Wolf 12 ' 1 O 10 O. Mason Page subs Jones. W. Oemmell. Valley Motor subs volk, H. Mason 1. Clark- 1. Elfstrom's (38) (24) Knights of Col McMorris 6 F 4 Gentzkow Herberger 18 F 7 Parton Gregg O 3 Haener Woundedeye O 8 Alley Hobbs O Meier Elfstrom subs Vandervoort 8. Spralcer. Knights of Columbus subs Epplng 4 Welsner, Colleran 1, Logan. Officials Geddes and French. Academy Faces Canby Sacred Heart academy, aft er bowing 28 to 25 to Central - .Catholic's second string in Portland Sunday, will take on the Canby Cougars in St. Jo seph's hall Tuesday evening. The preliminary will start at 7 o'clock. 129.00 9.45 49.35 7.45 10.95 NEED MASSE SHOT DEMONSTRATED Billiard Champion Willie Hoppe (right) dem onstrates a masse shot for the University of Michigan Science and Research Club in Detroit, where; Prof. A. D. Moore presented a paper on mathematical research into the game. Jayvees Seek 14th Victory Coach Loren Mort and his Salem Jayvee basketballers will be seeking their 14th consecu tive victory of the so-far-un-blemished JV hoop record when they face the Albany Bullpups on the Salem high floor at 6:45 Tuesday night. The fracas is a preliminary to the Vik-Bulldog feature of the evening. Tuesday's contest will be the first "game" outing for the local Jayvee crew since its narrow 41-40 escape when meeting the Valley Motor five of the City league last Wed nesday. Bearkittens Nip Monmouth Monmouth high school's cag ers proved no match for Wil lamette'! Jayvee court crew Monday night and' the latter scored fn easy 64 to 33 win, just about duplicating the count of the Willamette-Whitman con test that followed. Jarveci (64) (S3) Monmouth Bryant 4 T 5 Bagein Johnson 7 F 10 Patterson Cllne 12 OS McParland Graham 7 G 6 Karajwen Bates 3 O 6 Hufford Scorinu subs: Jayvees. Lakle 12, Rus sold 2, Hames 9, Kunke 5, Burnett 3. Referee, Buddy Reynolds. - - t Sty t& U yM Basketball (By the United Press) Willamette 63. Whitman 32. Wisconsin 58, Michigan State 48. Kentucky 70, Georgia Tech 47. Buckncll 43, N. Y. State Maritime 37. Purdue 52, Iowa 46. Virginia State College 57. Howard 53. Murray Teachers 45, Eastern Kentucky 43. Marshall 86, Concord College 47. James Milllkin 52. Carbondale Teach ers 47. Gettysburg College 47, Franklin and Marshall 40. Loras 64, St. Joseph's 51. Louisiana State 44, Loyola (South) 43. John Marshall 78, Bergen J. O. 45. Carroll 62, Lake Forest 51. Macomb Teachers 53, Jacksonville (111.) College. 51. Pittsburgh 51, Ohio State 41. Cornell 38, Dartmouth 35. Iowa State 61, Nebraska 44. Arkansas 55, University of Mexico 37. Gonzaga 56, Pacific Lutheran 37. Breadtneri Rap Arnett Quint Fabian "S q u e e k Nelson dumped in a short shot on a well - engineered set-up play with exactly one minute and fifty seconds left to play to give the Master Bread City leaguers a 26-24 victory over Arnett's of Albany on Leslie's floor Monday night. No more than three points had separated the two clubs throughout the fi nal period. Master Bread (30) (31) Arnett' Nelson 4 P 10 Morris Hartley P ' 2 Korblc B. Klllinser 4 C 8 Willis B. Straw 10 O 4 Arthur J. KUDnaer 8 G 3 Oallowar Master Bread subs Svarverud 4, C. stiav, Wilkinson 4. Arnett subs Marbry. tee "'.in 111 ;fettt&6 '".o-rtV for YOlf OU you, n'try. V? 5 Mobil T. I Dm '"""stry. 7;. for ,.. ; - en """T7oubUc ypdfh course" iTLublic lyPi.wur." Canby Mat Men Winners Canby high school's wrestling team scored a 38-15 victory over a less-experienced Salem Viking grappling squad at the local high school last night. Members of Coach Hank Juran's Salem crew posting wins were Sus milch. Wolfer and Williams. Re sults: 95 pounds Riven, O, pinned Rath: 104 pounds Frederlkson, C, drew with Hage man; 111 pounds Herman, C, pinned Sills; 115 pounds Perman. C, outpointed Collins; 131 pounds Vargara, C. outpoint ed Beals; 130 pounds Swearingen, C pinned Younsblood; 136 pounds 8 us milch, S, outpointed Kee; 134 pounds Welder hold, C, drew with Thorn; 132 pounds Dilles, C, outpointed Anderson; 137 pounds Wolfer, S, outpointed Rlchster: 145 pounds Koenig , K), won by default from Kifbishta, who dislocated elbow; 146 pounds Williams, S. pinned Lenhardt; 158 pounds Von, C, pinned Howard. Church Leagues Presbyterian No. 2 dumped Brethren Presbyterian No. 2 hoopers 29-23, First Baptist downed Itosedale Friends 26-20 and First Methodist rolled over Nazarene 40-9 in "B" church basketball league play on the Deaf school court Monday night. Chicago, Jan. 21 VP) The Chi cago Bears of National Football league today signed Bob Feni- more, fleet Oklahoma A. & M. back, to a three-year contract. 1 ti!.OtV Yxelft xTHetV y0;Ati ... "a!.""?" DUU. ... tt. coWn;d'your car. g,?"u incentive Tf? j " Mobil Tin, I ' "Signed x. " " Prod... w0,, Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Tuesday, Jan. 21, 1947 5 'Cat Cagers Trip Whits Coach Elmer Schaake's Wil lamette university Bearcats ad ministered the worst beating since 1939 to Whitman college's cagers Monday night. The score was 63 to 32 and the game had many aspects of a rout during the final minutes of competition as the 'Cats dominated in all de partments. The two quints will meet again at 8 o'clock Tuesday night and in all probability the Missionaries, pretty much crest fallen over their showing, will do a much better job of it. Back in '39 Willamette took a pair from the Whits, 61 to 27 and 83 to 41. Using a fast break and going to work before the 'Cats had time to become fully organiz ed. Whitman caged two bas kets in the early moments and appeared on their way. But two gifters and a basket by Ron Riinyan pulled Willam ette up even and a moment later Runyan hove in another, duplicated by Frank Page and from then on Whitman trailed. With fifteen minutes played they were behind 22-10 and during the interval to half time Alan McRae potted five markers, Bob Medley four and Fred Perry two. Half time found Willamette out In front, 33 to 17. The second half was prtty much a repetition of the first 20 minutes, only this time it was Don Barnick, a pre-war campaigner who got hot in the final minutes, caging four bas kets as fast as his mates could feed him the ball. Coach Schaake started Wcs Saxon, Milt Baum, Frank Page, Duane. Ragsdale and Ron Runyan and then counter ed mid-way of the first half with Marshall Barbour, Mc Rae, Barnick, Perry and Al Fedge. The process of run ning the Whits Into the floor was repeated during the sec ond half. Willamette (OS) Fn Ft PI Saxton f 3 0 5 Baum f 3 0 2 Paaec 10 1 Rngsdale g 0 0 0 Runyan a 4 2 1 Whitman (32) Fg Ft pr Portch f Anderson ( EXstrade 0 Wall 8 Pennington g Mitchell f Cochran g Soper g 1 0 Barbour f McRnt f Medley t Perry g Fedje t Barnick g 0 10 s a ii 0 II 0 ll 0 i Totals 29 I 141 Totals II S Free throws missed Barbour. Baum, McRae, Page 3. Raasdale, Perry 3, Portch 2, Savage 3, Anderson, Wall 3, Cochran. Shooting percentages' Willamette .360; Whitman .147. 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