Cougars Face Rough Chore
In Webfoot-Beaver Series
New York Rangers Stage
Comeback in Ice World
They kick (he lid off the
Northern Division, Pacific Coast
conference, basketball season
this week with the Washington
State college Cougars getting
the brunt of the inaugural fir
ing.
The Pullman quintet hits the
road for the rough four-game
Oregon trek, engaging Oregon
State in Corvallls tomorrow and
Viking Cagers
Return to Work
For Tuesday Game
' Salem high school's cage
team returned to the Vik
Villa Monday morning to pre
pare for the Tuesday night
clash with the Oregon Frosh
in a preliminary go preceding
the Oregon-Columbia game.
After making a better show
ing Friday night against the
Jefferson quint than the Viks
did at Portland, Hauk hopes
is) see his Vikings extend the
dumber of victories to their
credit. At present Salem has
toppled LaGrande, Tigard,
Klamath Falls, Tillamook,
Eugene, Hillsboro and split a
series with Jefferson.
Valetnino Uses
Manager Trouble
As Fight Alibi
San Francisco, Jan. 2 U.R
California Heavyweight Cham
pion Pat Valentino will ignore
an order from the California
stale athletic commission to
fight Turkey Thompson within
90 days as long as the Los An
geles boxer has "trouble with his
manager."
Jack A n d r a d e , Valentino's
manager, said flatly Valentino
wouldn't fight Thompson until
"he straightens himself out with
his manager, and that's that."
At a meeting in Los Angeles
Saturday, the commission gave
Valentino 90 days to defend his
crown. Thompson had asked
the commission to recognize
him as state champion because
Valentino refused a rematch.
Andrade said he is negotiat
ing for Valentino to fight Joe
Kahut of Portland, Ore., at Port
land Feb. 3 for the Pacific coast
heavyweight title. In addition,
"he said Promoter William P.
Kyne is seeking a return match
afi Valentino and Ezzard Charles,
world's heavyweight champion.
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IN 1949-
Calumet Continued Turf
By FRANK ECK
CAP Newfttures Sport Writer)
New York While all of rac
ing continues to worry about
the general betting decline, the
sport in 1949 was noteworthy
for at least three reasons.
They were, in order, the con
tinued success of Warren
Wright's Calumet Farm, the im
posing list of two-year-olds and
Jockey Gordon Glissan.
However, all the good two-year-olds
were not Calumet's.
While the stable won well
over $1,000,000 for the third
straight year to top the money
winning owners, its juvenile
tars, Theory and Re-Armed,
won only one Important stake.
Theory accounted for that,
getting $23,150 first money
itor the Champagne Stakes.
' It remained for Calumet's
three-year-old, Ponder, to do
most of the winning. Surprise
winner of the Kentucky Derby,
Ponder was the champion money
earning thoroughbred of the
year, taking $321,825.
To mention Calumet without
word of its general manager
trainer combination of Plain Ben
Jones and his son Jimmy would
be like mentioning the Ken
tucky Derby without the late
Col. Matt Winn. The colonel
passed away at 88 but lived
long enough to see his 75th
derby won by Ben Jones, who
eaddled Ponder for his fifth
derby success. It was the fourth
derby for Calumet. Preceding
Ponder were Whirlaway, Cita
tion and Pensive, Ponder'g sire,
who died during the year.
Besides the derby, Ponder
won some mighty rich renewals,
including the Jockey Club gold
eup, Arlington Classic and Amer
ican Derby.
Calumet's Coaltown, winner of
the Widener, Arlington and
Washington Park handicaps,
was named "horse of the year."
Oddly enough, Greentree Sta
ble's Capot turned back both
Calumet aces.
Capot. after winning the
freakness (Ponder was an also
ran), scored over Ponder by a
nose in the rich Belmont Stakes.
In the Pimllco Special, Capot
turned back Coaltown by 15
lengUu,
Wednesday and the Ducks of
Oregon at Eugene Friday and
Saturday night.
Idaho comes to Seattle against
Washington in another Friday
Saturday series.
The WSC-Beaver opener is
the only conference play
scheduled the forepart of the
week, but Oregon winds up its
pre-season play tonight and
tomorrow against the tour
ing Columbia Lions.
Nosed out 49-46 by Washing
ton for the second straight night
Saturday, the Lions will be seek
ing to even the score of its north
west invasion against the Ducks.
The opening victor, like the
eventual title winner, is still
pretty much any man's choice.
Pre-season games have provid
ed few chances for comparative
scores against similar oppon
ents. Washington's Huskies, with
East-West Players Desert
Frisco for Bowl Contests
LeBaron Voted Tops as East Wins, 28-6
By JERRY BAULCH
(AMooiate PreM Bportd Writer)
San Francisco, Jan. t VP)
Most of the players in Satur
day's East-West football classic
were in Pasadena today to watch
the Rose Bowl game.
They left by plane after a Sat
urday night dinner-dance that
followed the East's 28 to 6 defeat
of the West.
Three Stanford men and one
University of Hawaii player
flew to Hawaii immediately af
ter the game to play in the Pine
apple bowl today.
Eddie LeBaron, College of
Pacific star, voted the out
standing player in Saturday's
contest, flew with Dick Mc
Kissack of Southern Metho
dist to Dallas. They'll see the
Cotton Bowl game today and
then go on to Jacksonville,
Fla., to participate in the Se
nior Bowl Jan. 7. It was Mc-
Kissack's blocking which was
largely responsible for Le
Baron's big day as a ball car
ter. Le Baron said:
"I simply followed McKIs
sack. Where he went, I went."
At Saturday night's silver
anniversary dinner of the
East-West game, the coaches
agreed the East's one-sided
score didn't tell all the story.
The 63,000 fans who jammed
Kezar stadium got thrill after
thrill from the array of stars,
which included several All-Am
erica players. Most of them were
arrayed with the East and that I
WARREN WRIGHT
His Horses Were Faster
Greentree also tacked a note
worthy setback on Calumet
when Its two-year-old star,
Guillotine, beat Theory in the
rich Belmont Futurity.
Other two-year-olds that
looked great were Oil Capitol,
Middleground, Hill Prinee,
Curtice and Blue Reading.
The latter, claimed by Mr.
and Mrs. C. L. Hlrsch of West
Los Angeles, Calif., for $6500
In September after failing to
win his first four starts, won
his next seven.
The bay colt by Reading II
Blue Alibi, has been the rage on
the west coast. The colt, bred
by Mrs. A, W. Ryan, has shown
a liking for distance.
Like Blue Reading, who was
unheard of last summer, Oil
Capitol only hit the headlines
after winning the Pimlico Fu
turity. The grey son of Mah-
moud, bred by P. A. B. Widen
eis Elmendorf farm, won six of
13 starts and $106,956. He is
the lone horse in the stable of
Thomas Gray of Tulsa and was
acquired at the Keeneland sum
mer sales for $15,000 in 1948.
The long New York season
of 196 days showed a 9.1 per
cent betting decline. Although
the wagering dropped here for
the fourth successive year, the
one two-point loss against Min
nesota as the only blot on the
pre-season record, rate high in
the early figuring.
The Washington reserves
got needed action against Col
umbia Saturday night. Coach
Art McLarney opened with
the subs and didn't insert a
regular starter until the sec
ond half when they quickly
overcame a 21-16 halftime def
icit. A pair of free throws
by Lou Soriano and another
by Duane Enochs pulled the
fat from the fire in the final
seconds after the score had
been knotted at 46-all at the
two-minute mark.
Idaho closed out its pre-season
menu with a 45-35 win over
Gonzaga. Forward Dick Geisler
hit the hoop for IB points to
lead the Vandals.
Gonzaga's scoring ace, Rich
Evans, was held to six.
made the difference.
The boys from the east had
too much talent for the wester
ners.
LeBaron, a 165-pounder
who is a tliree-time Little
All-America quarterback, en
gineered the West's only
touchdown. He gained 95 of
the total net of 111 yards,
made by the westerners. He
also threw four passes that
were intercepted. The East
cashed in on them, going for
touchdowns twice and abrupt
ly stopping West drives the
other two times.
The West scored first. The
touchdown was set up on the
Interception by Lindy Berry,
Texas Christian university ace.
Berry grabbed the pass,
thrown by Army's Arnold Gal-
iffa and raced back 38 yards
to the East's 36. LeBaron be
gan working the ball down
as the quarter ended. Then on
the six yard stripe, Don Paul
of Washington State, raced ac
ross in a flashy bit of razzle
dazzle.
But the East came back and
really went to work under the
smooth T-formation quarter
backing of Galiffa, Pete Dor
set of Cornell and Lynn
Chandnois of Michigan State.
Incidentally, Chandnois was
voted the second best player.
The kickoff and one play lat
er was all it took the easterners
to tie the score. Harry Szulbor-
ski,
the
Purdue halfback, returned
kickoff 22 yards to the
Supremacy
By FRANK ECK
$303,332,958 wagered still is
considerably more than any
thing during the prewar period.
The total attendance of 4,152,-
118, a 5.6 per cent decline, is the
poorest of the last six years.
One of the worst fires In
racing history was the $6,
000,000 blaze which destroyed
Hollywood park's grandstand.
Racing's biggest real of the
year was the sale of Louis B.
Mayer's California breeding
farm for $1,000,000.
Two gallant campaigners,
Stymie and Assault, were re
tired. Stymie, the leading money
winner, quit after running his
earnings to $918,485, while As
sault, fourth in money won with
$6',2,520, went to stud at the
age of six.
Riding to fame with Calu
met's famous devil's red silks
was its contract jockey, Steve
Brooks. Besides winning some
big stakes, Brooks in Septem
ber rode four Calumet winners
on one day at Belmont park
He also was atop Coaltown when
the colt ran a world record mile
of 1:34 at Washington park
Ben Civitello had the best one-
day record, riding six straight
winners at Bowie.
Gllsson might have ridden
300 winners during the year but
for a Jamaica spill in which he
broke his collarbone. He had
249 winners at the time and lost
six weeks of riding. However,
the 19-year-old former dish
washer from Winnsboro, S. C
returned to the sport for winter
racing on the coast and by mid
December had 264 winners.
Ted Atkinson, popular rider
under contract at Greentree
stable, became the fourth of
the modern American riders to
achieve 2000 winners. The
others are Johnny Longden
Johnny Adams and Eddie Ar
caro. Arearo, Incidentally, was
guilty of the worst riding
boner of the year. In the
Pimlico Cup of two and a
half miles he pulled op his
mount, Blue Hills, at one mile
and a half.
"I thought the race was
over," said Arcaro. It was,
as far ai Blue Hills was con
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East's 34. Then Dorset lateralled
to halfback HiUary Chollet of
Cornell, who passed to Leon
Hart, Notre Dame's ail-American
end. The six foot four Inch,
260-pound giant rambled 26
yards to score.
Gordon Soltau, Minnesota
end, put the East ahead with the
first of his four conversions.
The East added another touch
down in the second period and
one each in the other two quar
ters.
Willamette Loop
Opens on Four
Fronts Tuesday
The Willamette Valley lea
gue of eight members, will
stage four games Tuesday
night as the quints return from
their holiday layoff. Four of
the clubs kept up with the
frame during the holidays
through participation in the
Willamette university Invita
tional tournament - Wood
burn, Silverton, Dallas and
Canby.
The schedule for Tuesday
night: Sandy at Molalla, Es
tacada at Canby, Silverton at
Dallas and Mt. Angel at
Woodburn.
Play through the season will
be on each Tuesday and Fri
day night of the week.
Yale Oarsmen Nip
Penn in Regatta
At Palm Beach
Palm Beach, Fla., Jan. 2 VP)
Yale's varsity crew continued
its mastery of the Pennsylvania
crew in the annual regatta of
the Palm Beach yesterday.
It was Yale's third consecutive
victory in the mid-winter row
ing event and the Yale jayvees
defeated the Penn junior var
sity to make the day complete
for the Elis.
Penn's varsity, stroked by
Philadelphia's Jack Kelly, Jr.,
international singles sculls
champion, held the lead for the
first mile but Yale put on a
terrific spurt to wipe out the ad
vantage and win by three feet in
6:42.2 for the 2,000 meter event.
Penn's time was 6:42.8.
Blue-Gray Classic Now
Insured of Annual Test
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 2
VP) The South's slam bang
27 to 13 victory over the
North Saturday definitely put
the annual Blue-Gray classic
on a permanent big time basis.
"Until now," says Champ
Pickens, the man who origin
ated the North-South game,
"there has been some skepti
cism as to whether the Blue
Gray meeting would receive
national support. The enthusi
astic reception of the idea
proves otherwise."
Proceeds from the annual
vent go to charity.
But it wasn't just the
South's victory that Insured
the future success of the good
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("VP!" fflP irlpTh East's
(left), West center of Nebraska, after returning a punt in
the first quarter of the East-West Shrine game at Kezar
stadium in San Francisco. The West's Ken Carpenter of Ore
gon State is sprawled on the ground just behnid Chollet.
Proceeds of the game go to the Shrincrs hospital for crippled
children In San Francisco for the benefit of scores of young
patients. East won 28-6. (Acme Telephoto)
LOCAL UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS AND FEATURES
Salem,
Bearcats to Return to
Basketball Workout Tuesday
Coach Johnny Lewis and his
Willamette university Bearcat
cagers will return to their train
ing chores Tuesday following
the Christmas holidays.
With a record of three wins
as against four losses in pre-con-
ference competition, the 'Cats
will open Northwest loop play
next Friday night against Lin
field at McMinnville. The Wild
cats have one of the strongest
clubs to represent their school
in a number of years and are
considered the club to beat.
Willamette and Linfleld will
play in Salem next Saturday
night.
Injured Boxer
Reported Still
Critical, Better
New York, Jan. 2 J.R)Dr.
Vincent Nardiello reported today
that boxer Carmine Vlngo was
definitely Improved" but still
on the critical list at St. Clare's
hospital.
Young Vingo of the Bronx suf
fered a brain contusion Friday
when knocked out by heavy
weight Rocky Marciano of
Brockton, Mass., at Madison
Square Garden.
Nardiello of the New York
boxing commission's staff said
the paralysis of Vingo's left side
had diminished partially, and
that he was having longer in
tervals of consciousness.
"There's still a slight hem
orrhage on the right side of the
brain," he concluded. "But we
hope that will stop naturally and
cause no complications."
UCLA has carded a 28-game
basketball schedule for the
1949-50 season.
will affair. Top notch playing
by both teams, Individual
ability to buckle down in the
pinches, and unexcelled
sportsmanship did the job. On
ly two five-yard penalties
were assessed during the fra
cas which veteran fans of the
12-game series claim was the
best of the lot.
Last winter, the Yanks won
19 to 13 before an attendance
of about 16,000. This time
about 21,500 persons were
present, a capacity crowd for
Cramton bowl. The score for
the 12 encounters, which in
clude one high school game
during the war, now stands:
South 7, North 4.
1st door south of Ladd It Bush Bank
Hillary Chollet (22) of Cornell
Ore., Monday, January 2, 1950
The Bearcat club, predomi
nantly sophomore, has broken
even with College of Puget
Sound, West em Washington,
Chico State and has lost to Ore
gon College of Education. Two
of the contests have been over
time sessions with Willamette
dropping both.
The Lewis squad will play
Lewis and Clark in Salem Janu
ary 13 and in Portland January
14. The swing through Idaho
and Whitman is scheduled for
January 20-23.
Brazilians Eager to
Switch Soccer to Cage
By HUGn FULLERTON, JR.
New York, Jan. 2 VP) Part
two of the Vadal Paterson re
port on sports In Brazil:
One reason for the popular
ity of basketball, says the Utah
coach, Is that Brazil's one big
sport up to a few years ago was
soccer football . . . "Now," he
says, "they have found a game
they can play with their hands
instead of their feet . . . they're
eager to learn about American
sports, but they're very suspi
cious of Yankees . . .They get
their basketball rules and Inter
pretations from Europe, with
the result they're using the old
1935-1940 rules ... I think we
owe it to them and to the game
to send more teams down there.
They wanted us to return next
year but we can't . . . some other
team could arrange to do It ear
lier in the fall the end of
their winter and the boys
wouldn't lose so much time try
ing to make up their classes . . ."
P.S.: St. Francis of Brooklyn al;
ready is negotiating for just
such a tour next year.
THE BOOTER PART OF
VALOR
The soccer players, Peterson
explains, have learned how to
take care of violent fan reac
tions . . . "We were at one game
in Rio," says Vadal, "when a
player had the ball out of
bounds ... I could just see some
object shining in the sun as it
flew out of the stands and
knocked him cold ... his ten
teammates gathered round and
we could see them pointing up
into the stands ... as they stood
there trying to locate the throw
er, the crowd began opening up
like a big V . . . then the players
started up into the stands and
the V widened out as they
climbed . . . they went up to
where the guy was and really
took him apart; then they drag
ged him down on the field and
beat him some more . . . finally
about 50 police came out and
salvaged the remains and the
PHONE 39161
By JACK CUDDY
(United PreM Sport Writer)
New York, Jan. 2 (U.R) What
seems the most freakish develop
ment of the nation's current in
door sports season is the goofy
but golden renaissance of New
York's ice-hockey Rangers.
Just when New York's long
suffering hockey fans had begun
to give up on the doormats of
the National league, the listless
lads In red-whlte-and-blue uni
forms launched a December
drive that lifted them from last
place to their present tie for
second with the Montreal Cana
dians. Without warning and appar
ently without propelling power,
they staged an upsurge that now
has given them eight victories
in their last 11 games. They
lost two and tied one.
What amazes the experts Is
that the Rangers' climb was
made "backwards" by virtue
of defensive brilliance rather
than by superior attack.
People living In cities where
ice hockey is not played can
not even image what enthusiasm
the rampaging Rangers have
spread in New York, where the
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Oregon Golfers
To Elect, List
1950 Tourneys
Portland, Jan. 2 VP) The Ore
gon Golf association officers will
be elected at the annual meeting
here Jan. 23 when dates for the
1950 tournaments will be i
nounced.
Retiring President Ray Chirg
win said the OGA tournament,
set for Eugene, probably would
be In June. The site and date
for the junior tournament also
will be selected.
players went on with the game
. . . they're building a new foot
ball stadium there which will
seat mora than 100,000 . . . and
they're going to have a 25 foot
moat filled with water between
the field and the stands."
e
DOMESTIC DATA
George Stanich, the UCLA
basketballer who looked so
good here Tuesday flight, has
been offered $30,000 by the
Yankees but wants at least 10
G's more. He's a pitcher with
a terrific fast ball and his
coach, Johnny Wooden, also
predicts Stanich will he the
world's first seven-foot high
jumper . . . Chuck Fonville,
Michigan's sensational shot
putter of two years ago, is
working out daily but it's it's
too early to tell whether his
back injury is completely
healed . . Vincent Richards,
the ex-tennis satr who is Bob
by Locke's American contact
man, figures, Hobby Is trying
to make up his mind whether
to return here next year or
play in Europe, Africa, and
Australia . . . Bobby will be
approved if he apologizes to
the PGA . . . weather permit
ting, Stanford and California
alumni In New England will
will stage a Rose Bowl rally
on the Harvard campus Jan. 2
... it would be quiet a nov
elty to have 'em cheer for a
winning team in the Hahvahd
yahd.
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loyal fans had endured for seven
long years usually the worst
hockey in the National circuit.
During those seven years tho
Rangers finished last five times!
once, fourth; and once, fifth.
And when the current cam
paign opened, it seemed that
the Madison Square Garden cor
poration, which owns the Rang
ers, still hadn't provided Amer
ica'! largest city with a puck-and-stick
team that was any bet
ter than last season's tail-ender.
That dismal fact was too
much even for the durable rink
fans to bear. They were out
raged, and they showed It by
staying home on hockey nights.
For the first time in 23 years,
owners of the Rangers became
genuinely alarmed. The may-hem-on-blades
divertissement al
ways had been so "solid" at the
box office that it often was
called "the sport that paid off
the Garden mortgage."
Under current fire regula
tions, the Garden can accommo
date 15,925 persons for a hockey
game. Although the Rangers
had beaten the Chicago Black
Hawsk at the Garden on De
cember 4, there were only 9174
in the Garden on the night of
December 7 when the star-
spangled skaters again beat the
Hawks, and moved out of the
cellar.
Since then, five games were
played on home ice, and four
of them attracted attendance of
more than 15,000. The gold rush
is onl
Yankees Took Net
Laurels in 1949
New York (U.BRIchard (Pan
cho) Gonzales of Los Angeles
and Ted Schrocder of La Cres
centa, Calif., again led U. S.
tennis forces to a clean sweep
of the world's great tennis
championships In 1949.
The Davis cup, Wrightman
cup and the singles crowns at
Wimbledon and Forest Hills all
were in American hands at tho
year's end.
A series of magnificent tri
umphs at Wimbledon brought
Schroeder the coveted all-England
title and a spectacular
comeback by Gonzales in the
U. S. finals at Forest Hills gave
the scar-faced Mexican youth
of 21 his second straight na
tional title.
Gonzales turned professional
after defeating Schroeder In one
more title match in the Pacific
Southwest championships and
began a long barnstorming tour
with the king of the pros, Jack
Kramer, for a $60,000 guaran
tee. Pancho's smashing game
failed to bother Kramer through
the earlier stages of the tour
and at one point Kramer ran
out a string of 15 straight vic
tories. Splitting the singles assign
ments, Gonzales and Schroeder
led the U. S. to a 4 to 1 vic
tory in the Davis Cup chal
lenge round against Australia,
which had beaten Italy in the
inter-zone final. The veteran
Billy Talbert and Gardnar Mul
loy dropped a five set doubles
duel to Australia's Billy Sid
well and Jack Bromwich.
U. S. women stars, led by
Wimbledon champion Loulso
Brough and U. S. champion Mrs.
Margaret Osborne DuPont, de
feated England in the Wright
man Cup matches at Philadel
phia, 7 to 0.
Gonzales won the U. S. clay
court championship in a final
against Frankie Parker and de
feated Talbert for the U. S. in
door crown. He failed to com
pete In the U. S. hard court
championship, won by Schroe
der against Eric Sturgess of
South Africa. Mrs. Magda
Rurac won the women's clay
court crown and Gertrude Mor
an the U. S. women's Indoor
title.
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