Salem High Cagers
Off Eugene, Await
By DAVID t. BLACKMER
talem high school's Viking
Mfe team established a firm
hold on the first place berth of
the Blf Six league and looked
forward to the Bend Lava Bear
tilt ilated for the Vik Villa Sat
urday, aa they racked up their
third eonaeeutive loop vlotory
oyer the Eugene Axemen, 52-39,
at MeArthur court Thursday
alfht.
Paced by Lavton Gllson and
Tim Rock, each with 10 points,
the Vlki took an early lead In
the first period which was nar
rowed to 10-8 at the rest stop.
At the end of the first half
Ralem led 23-18 via four field
f oala canned by Rock and two
field foals by Doug Rogers.
Gllson stepped to the free
throw line for Salem twice
for the other two points.
In the third period, when the
Alumni Funds Are Key
To NCAA 'Pay' Problem
(This la the third of three dispatch.,
a the NCAA lanlty eode. Previous In
stallments cava the opinion! of aupporterl
and opponent! of the eode. Today'! dis
patch delve! Into the eauie of It all
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By STAN OPOTOWSKI
(United Press Sport! Wrllerl
New York, Jan. 20 (U.R)
The reading public gets reams
on the need for controlling
payment of college athletes,
yet nary a word on who gets
and how much
That gives rise to the natural
question: Do football stars act
ually get paid?
A prominent professional
coach agreed to answer the
question if his name was with
held from his college colleagues
who frown on exposes imperiling
their practises.
"The big really big stars
get paid big really big
money," he said.
"I know of one case where a
boy was paid a $10,000 bonus to
go to a certain college. I admit
that Is high the highest I've
known. But I know plenty others
who got bonuses of from $3,000
to $9,000.
"The school does not pay this
money, you understand. Some
times the school does not even
know about it. The money comes
from alumni funds."
Those alumni funds are the
key to the NCAA's problem,
for while this organization can
legislate for the colleges It has
no authority whatever over
the Insurance magnates and
brewery owners who are de
termined that Footfault Tech
go undefeated
Throughout South Carolina
ne finds automobiles bearing
stickers "I pay." Thats no fra
ternity. That means "I pay ten
a year." It Is the Clemson college
members contribute $10 each a
year to the fund which marshals
"needy" boys who can pass or
kick or block.
sometimes these funds are
used for bonuses. Sometimes
they pay the school-term ex
FAN FARE
Sukeforth Sees Dodgers
Capturing 1950 Bunting
(Associated Press Mewafeaturea)
Waldoboro, Me. It will be
the Dodgers again In 1950, wyt
Clyde Sukeforth.
"The Dodgers have a good
around ball club and are just
coming into tneir own, says
Sukey, wintering at his Maine
farm.
The St. Louis Cardinals,
Sukey concedes, "could be
a tough club."
Usually tight-lipped, Sukey
can find words easily in hi:
off-season comments about Dod
ger stars.
Don Newcombe, the tail Ne
gro hurler, he says, will be
great pitcher for a good many
years; Gil Hodges, he labels as
a lot of ball player," and
Preacher Roe, "well, he's more
than a stylish lefthander. The
man's anu artist."
It was from little Waldoboro,
In costal Knox county, that Su
keforth went to Georgetown
University and then to the ma
jors. A top flight catcher, he
hit .354 in 1929 with Cincinnati.
Sukeforth has warm praise
for Burt Shotton, the Dodgers'
manager, who recently renamed
Sukey to his coaching staff, a
lob he's had ainct 1943.
tempo of the game slowed, the
Eugene Axemen overcame a
five-point deficit to tie the score
at 32-all at the end of the third
stanza.
In the final quarter, the Vik
ings came to life again and
pumped in 20 points to Eugene's
9.
At the start of the torrid heat
Gordy Sloan, broke the deadlock
as he canned a gift shot after
three minutes had gone by on
the clock.
Gllson then got Into the act
and flipped a set shot from the
mid court, Rogers followed by
dumping a field goal and Gil
son came through with two
more field goals. Free throws
by Rogers, Wayne, Walling,
Sloan, Gllson, Larry Paulus
and a field' goal by Sloan com
pleted Viking point work In
the final period.
Salem meets the Bend Lava
penses of the athlete.
Seldom does the school itself
have anything to do with the
fund, although the University of
Virginia frankly admits that it
administers the $25,000 its alum
nl have gathered for football
players. However, while the
school disbursing agent doesn't
touch the money, the coach and
the athletic director usually see
that it is spent in the right
manner.
In addition to bonuses for
"signing" the alumni provide
jobs for the athletes. The NCAA
sanity code touches this. It in
sists that the athletes work for
the money that they not be over
paid. But who can draw the line
of abuse?
Bill Alexander of Georgia
Tech tells the anecdote of a
of a Notre Dame star in Knute
Rockne's day. He was promised
aid. He was given the parking
concession at the South Bend
stadium. Notre Dame played all
games away that year, but the
young man still got his pay for
operating the home stadium
parking lot.
With the sanity code, nothing
so obvious as that could happen.
But, Alexander says, "there are
plenty of state highway jobs
lots of 'tire inspectors' as at Ohio
State and gift lobs from the
alumni in town. They're contin
uing under this present sanity
code."
How much do these jobs pay?
not as much as you'd think. The
average is $80 to $125 a month
hardly a princely sum, but
more than enough to survive
campus life.
Time was when most Import
ant of all to a football star was
the alumnus promise of a good
job after graduation. Pro foot
ball has done a lot to eliminate
this, for the really big-time star
already has his career set when
he graduates.
CLYDE SUKEFORTH
"Cards Will Be Tough"
Although he has managed
Montreal of the International
League and briefly held the
helm at Brooklyn, Sukey has
no yearning for the top job.
"That's where the pressure
is really on you," he grins.
A widower, Sukegorth has
an 11-year-old daughter, Helen,
who is an avid ball fan.
Knock
Bears
Bears, who now are tied with
Salem at the top of the league
as they are undefeated in Big
Six play in One start.
Coach Loren Mort's junior
varsity bowed to the Axemen
B's, 28-24, in the, junior Big Six
preliminary preceding the var
sity tilt Thursday night.
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Rumor Arkansas
Coach Invited
For Duck Talks
Little Rock, Ark., Jan. 20
VP) Offers from three west
coast schools one of them
believed to be the University
of Oregon enticed Jimmy
Karam west today.
Karam, coach of the Little
Rock Junior college Little
Rose Bowl football champions,
said he doubted If any of the
three "can make It attractive
enough for me to leave Little
Rock."
None of the schools was
named but speculation Identi
fied them as Oregon, Southern
California and a smaller
school In the San Franlcsco
area. The reported offers In
volved only a job aa backfield
coach.
Four of Karam's star play
ers at Little Rock said they
would accompany him when
he left by plane today.
Viking Tankmen
Prep for Debut
Salem high school's swimming
team, with Vern Persinger at the
helm, is now preparing for their
debut with the. West Linn mer
men Wednesday, January 25 at
the Salem YMCA pool.
The Salem squad, bolstered by
last year's runner-up squad is
expected to make a strong bid
for the state championship which
they lost last year to Benson of
Portland.
Returning lcttermen this year
are seniors Lloyd Hamlin, Dick
Klinefelter, Gerald Ulman, Bob
Hamblln, Don Clark, and Junior
Merlin Nelson and Dale Sher
ician. Following the West Linn meet
the Viking swimmers tangle with
the defending state champion
team Benson of Portland, Monday
January 30.
Hillary Chollet's 37 points
against Syracuse In 1949 is the
highest game point total ever
compiled by a Cornell basket
ball player.
By Walt Ditien
Sports Calendar
JANUARY' SO
Ba.kttbftll:
Satrm high at Eugene: Willamette w.
College of Idaho at Moieow; OrtRon
Washington, Seattle; 03C ti. WSC, Pull
man. Willamette Valley league: 1st acacia at
t. Am el. Silverlon at Sandy. Dallu at
Canby, Molalla at Woodburn.
Marion-Polk league: fleered Haart at In-
dependence. Bible Academy at Stayton.
Marlon Count? B lean tie: Ger vats at
Jefferson, Chemawa at St Paul, Salem
Sophi at OSD. Sublimity at Qaies. Aumi
Tllle at Mill City, Turner at Detroit.
Italia uoiai vt. L.eaue timet, p.m.
JANUARY 11
tlaikelbell:
Bend vi. aalem tilth at Salem. 1:15 p.m.
OSC vs. WSC at Pullman.
Ore (ton va. Washington at Seattle.
Willamette vi. Collate, of Idaho at Cald
well.
Snead Looks Like
Man to Beat in
Long Beach Open
Long Beach, Calif., Jan. 20 IJP)
Sam Snead, sizzling with two
victories in a row in the new
1950 golf wars, looked like the
man to beat today as the better
known professionals headed Into
their first round of the $10,000
Long Beach open.
The lesser knowns launched
Long Beach's second annuali
tournament vesterriav and Vet. !
eran Bob Connolly of Seattle led
the way home with a two under
par 69 for the par 35-36 71
Lakewood Country club course.
HELLO, ( GOOD OUP , "
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Liii
Going Down
Charley Riley
his way to the canvas after being knocked out by world
featherweight champion Willie Pep in fifth round of cham
pionship fight at Kiel auditorium at St. Louis. Although Pep
appears ready to throw another right, Riley tumbled over
backwards before another blow was struck. (AP Wirephoto)
LOCAL UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS AND FEATURES
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Influx of New Players
Makes ChiSox Promising
By JOE REICHLER .
New York, Jan. 20 (P) There's
a new deal cooking at Comiskey
Park, where Frank Lane, aggres
sive general manager, and Jack
Onslow, eapable field manager,
combined their talents to make
the Chicago White Sox the most
improved club in the American
league last year.
For the first time since 1943
chronologists are now kissing the
Sox off with: "They aren't go
ing anywhere and they're a cinch
to finish deep in the second
division."
Under the able direction of
Lane and Onslow, the Sox
climbed from the cellar to
sixth place last year. Made
up largely of pickups from
rival big league clubs and
youngsters fresh from the
minors, the Sox proved an
interesting club to watch.
Pitchers Bill Wight, Randy
Gumpert and Bob Kuzava,
Second Baseman Cass Mich
aels and Outfielder Gus Zer
nial were among those who
sprang into stardom.
The influx of a flock of good-
looking newcomers makes the
White Sox future look even more
promising this year. Strength
ened by a couple of trades that
brought Hank Majeski, hard
hitting third baseman, and Nel
son Fox, young reserve infielder
from the Philadelphia Athletics,
the Sox also will exhibit some
of the minors' best at their Pasa
dena, Calif., spring training
base.
Onslow is confident the team
will be much improved over last
year.
"I think we ve made much
progress toward improving the
ball club for 1950," the 59-year-old
skipper said. "We're deep-
in pitching, we have more
and better catching, we have
added some infield help and
I'm sure Zernial is going to be
all right." (The big outfielder
was out most of the 1949 sea
son because of a broken collar
bone.)
The Sox are deep around
the infield with Charlie Kress
and Gordon Goldsberry at
first base, Michaels and Fox
at second, and veteran Luke
Appling and Alfonso Carras
quel at shortstop and Majeski
and Floyd Baker at third.
While Zernial is the big Sox
hope for batting punch, Onslow
thinks he has a surprise out
fielder in Bill Wilson, purchased
from the Sacramento club of
the Pacific Coast league. Wil
son didn't hit too well last year
but was bothered by a leg in
jury. He has great potential
HARLEM GLOBE TROTTERS
vs.
PAGE WOOLEN MILL
Willamette Gymnasium
MONDAY, JAN. 30, 8 P.M.
Referred Seats
1.50
Sponsored by the
Salem Jr. Chamber of Commerce
eyes closed and his knees buckling,
of St. Louis (right) is on
Salem, Oregon, Friday, January
power.
Other outfield hopes include
Herb Adams, Gerry Scala, Grov
er Bowers, Bill Higdon and Jim
Western Kentucky basketball
&"emjeiBaBaB
who is on the varsity this season.
Young Diddle in Middle
Of Father's Cage Planning
Bowling Green, Ky. ff) Western Kentucky State college has
one of basketball's somewhat rare father-son combinations
"Big Eddie" Diddle the coach and "Little Eddie" the player.
Ed, Sr., is known to his audiences everywhere as the colorful
towel-tossing coach who boasts one of the country s top records.
Big Diddle has been turning oul
winning teams at Western for
28 years. Before the current
term his clubs had copped 488
victories and had lost 163 games,
Now comes "Little Eddie."
Junior is in his junior year at
Western.
His job Is one of the hardest
sportdom son playing for
father and at the same time com
peting with a fine collection of
talent for starting berths. But
that set-up hasn't caused any
hard feelings on the Hilltopper
squad so far.
Ed, Jr., got a break in late
December in the form of a mis
fortune for father. Buddy Cate,
a regular forward, had to be
rushed to a hospital for an ap
pendectomy. That meant Western
lost a valuable player but it
gave "Little Eddie" a real op
portunity to prove his worth to
the team.
Young Diddle stands six feet
two inches tall. He is described
Gen. Adm.
1.20
Boudreau Says Tribe Will
Be Tough if Gordon Signs
By OSCAR FRALEY
(United Press aborts Writer)
New York, Jan. 20 (U.Ri The
major problem facing the Cleve
land Indians this year Is whether
second baseman Joe Gordon de
cides to retire from baseball but
If the slick Infleldcr comes back
the Tribe will be "tough to
beat," Manager Lou Boudreau
Insisted today.
Naming the Boston Red Sox,
Detroit Tigers and his own In
dians as the teams which will
be in the thick of the American
league pennant scramble and
giving the champion New York
Yankees a "nod" Boudreau ad
mitted that his club would be
"hurt badly" if Gordon quit.
"I'm certain that Joe has
a couple of good years left,"
the dark-haired Boudreau
said. "If he signs, we'll be
troublesome. But with Cordon,
we'll have an evenly balanced
ball club and a little work on
our hitting will make us
tough."
Striving to regain the world
championship which his club
won in 1948, Boudreau already
working himself into shape
for a solid return to his old
shortstop post and counting on
Bullet Bob Feller and Gene
Bcarden to recapture their pitch
ing form.
20, 1950
Busby. All have been up for
a look before.
Two newcomers Bill Sal-
keld from the Boston Braves
and Joe Erautt, drafted from
Baltimore will vie for a
catching berth with veterans
Don Wheeler and Ed Malone.
The Sox are well off in pitch
ing. Their nucleus Is Bill Wight.
Billy Pierce, Bob Kuzava and
Randy Gumpert.
coach Ed Diddle and Ed,
in the college brochure as "a
fighting, ball-hawking basketball
player who never gives up or
admits defeat," a characteristic
that comes quite natural from
being a son of Ed Diddle, Sr
Ed, Jr., plays guard as well
as forward. As a sophomore last
season he got into every Hill
topper game and scored 128
points.
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"Banquets killed me during
the last off season," said Lou,
who hit .355 and was the lea
gue's most valuable player In
1948 but dropped to .284 in 1949.
"But now I've knocked off this
banqueting and I'm playing vol
ley ball and working out at the
local high school.
"As for Feller," he added,
"Bob Is long overdue. Injur
ies have stopped him the last
two years and if he is in good
shape he should come back.
He lost some tough games be
cause we couldn't get him the
runs. But he's still too good a
pitcher to be a .500 man."
Bearden, whose knuckler fail
ed to catch the corners last sea
son, also can come back with
hard work, Boudreau argued. A
20-game winner In the 1948
Interest in Track Events
Shows Nationwide Increase
By HUGH FULLERTON, Jr.
New York, Jan. 20 tfP)
Fred Schmertz, Millrose meet
director, exclaims that he
never has senn such Interest in
track as this year. . . . And Dan
(AAU) Ferris supports him In
that. . . . Dan figures it's just
a natural post-war growth,
from the competitive stand
point more boys in schools
and colleges, more interest in
athletics and more who want to
continue competition after
leaving school. . . . "For in
stance, I just heard from a
group in Grand Rapids, Mich.,
who want to form an athletic
club so they can keep on com
peting, and there are a lot of
others like that," Ferris adds.
. . . Schmertz attributes spec
tator interest to close competi
tion without a single standout
performer. . . . He's been trying
to pick a four-man field for the
Millrose 600, has about six
possible starters and can't
eliminate any as a possible
winner. The fans are eager for
a Don Gehrmann-Fred Wilt
duel In the Wanamaker mile,
too, Fred says, but anybody
could win that.
What's that Nickname?
Just before the Rose Bowl
football game, Dick Anderson,
Ohio State fourth-string end,
learned he had inherited $250,-
000. . . . When the news spread,
assistant coach Esko Sarkkinen
told Dick: "You're going to start
the Rose Bowl game; We can't
afford to have a guy worth a
quarter of a million sitting on the
bench." . . . Maybe there's no
connection, but aren't the Ohio
State teams known as the Bucks?
Observation Post ,
We thought the sanity code
furore had simmered down
after last week's NCAA meet
ing refused to do anything. . . .
But in warning the sinful six
Northern Division Action
Centers in Washington
(By the Associated Press)
Northern division basketball
interest centers in Pullman to
night for the second straight
week-end when the defending
champion Oregon State Beavers
tackle Washington State's pre
season favorites to determine
which will stay in the race to
challenge Washington for the
conference diadem.
The Huskies, meanwhile, re
turn to their home floor as fav
orites with nearly everyone but
Oregon to knock off the visit
ing Ducks two straight.
Oregon, which has won on
ly one of three conference
starts, arrived in Seattle last
night but weather delayed
their train and Coach Jim
Warren passed up a scheduled
workout in the Husky pavilion.
fAMOVS S.VCi MM I J
championship year, handsoino
Gene had a poor eight-and-cight
mark In 1949.
"We've a good pitching staff
with those two, along with Bob
Lemon, Al Benton, Mike Garcia,
Early Wynn, Steve Gromek and
Sam Zoldak," Boudreau asser
ted. "We also may get some held
from Hal Saltzman, up from
Portland."
With himself at short and
.Gordon at second, Lou figures
to try Ken Keltner, Ray Boone
or Al Rosen at third, and Luke
Easter, obtained from San Diego,
will get a shot a Mickey Ver
non's first base job.
In the outfield, Lou has Larry
Doby and Dale Mitchell, while
he gives Bob Kennedy and Allie
Clark the inside track for the
right field berth.
that they'll be barred from
championship meets, It seems
that Tug Wilson and Hugh
Willctt are going out of their
way to annoy the southern
bloc. . . . The loudest and ang
riest, complaint, heard, last
week was "they're trying to tell
us what to do."
One Minute Sport Page
Bill Veeck, who hasn't bought
another baseball club yet, is
filling his spare moments work
ing for Abe Saperstein, Harlem
Globe Trotters impressario, ar
ranging special promotions. . . ..
One of these likely wil be a tour
of the Globe Trotters and an all
star college team after the cur
rent season ends. . . . Former GI'i
of the Iceland base command,
one of the most sports-minded
during the war, are planning a
reunion in New York the first
weekend in March. ... Ed Son
gin, the Boston College star who
turned down a $5,000 bonus and
a three-year contract with the
football Yankees just before
amalgamation, now is trying out
with the Boston Bruins as a
hockey player. . . . Jack Gardner,
Kansas State basketball coach,
counted up 26 players in the big
seven who stand six-feet-five or
better. Adds Jack: "I'm sending
out an S. O. S. for a seven-footer
next year."
BASKETBALL
HIGH SCHOOL SCORES
Salem 52, Eugene 38.
Cleveland 38, Lincoln 18 (Both Portland)
Roaeburg 35, Myrtle Creek 27.
COLLEGE SCORER
(By the Associated Prem)
West
Eastern Washington 19. Pacific Luth
eran 51.
East
Canfettu 49, Nlatara 4T.
Midwest
Cincinnati 89. West Virginia .
Detroit US, Mlehluan Normal 39.
Hamline 78, St. Johnn (Minn.) 39.
Indiana State 81, Indiana Central 80..
Southweat
Arizona- State (Tempel 81. Wait Te-
aa 63.
While the Ducks attempt to
knock Washington off the top
perch, the two state colleges will
each be seeking the rubber game
of their season's meetings. They
divided a pair at Corvallis in the
opening series of the season.
The current two-game set
could easily go the same way
but Coach Jack Friel's Cougars
not only are tough on their home
floor but need a sweep to stay
in contention. With a three-three
record another loss would back
them to the wall.
OSC isn't in quite the same
plight with only one loss in
three starts, but with a two
game set at Moscow coming
on the heels of the Pullman in
vasion any cushion would be
handy should the Idaho Van
dals bounce back on their
home floor.