Mel OH Fails
To Make Diamond
Hall of Fame
New York, Feb. 17 VP) Mel
Ott, former New York Giants
slugger, failed by 11 votes to
make baseball's hall of fame.
At that, the left-handed power
hitting outfielder came closest
this year to joining the list of
diamond greats already named
to the shrine at Cooperstown,
N. Y. None made the grade.
In the annual voting of the
Baseball Writers Association of
America, Ott drew 115 votes
from the 167 participating.
Seventy-five per cent of the to
tal vote 126 votes, in this case
is needed.
Last year Charlie Gehringer,
Detroit Tigers second baseman,
was chosen by the writers.
Marion County B Loop
Starts Tourney Friday
A double elimination tourna
ment for the top three teams in
the northern division and as
many more from the southern
district of the Marion County B
league will get under way on
Willamette's gym floor at 7:30
Friday night, when Sublimity
I plays Chemawa. The second
' game will bring together Jef
ferson and Aumsville.
The tourney is a double elim
ination affair, with contests
slated for February 17, 18, 22
and 23.
Gervais, top team in the
northern district as the result
of seasonal competition, will
meet Mill City, southern half
champs, Saturday night In a
separate bracket for the coun
ty championship and runner
up positions.
Winners of the Friday night
games will clash Saturday night
as will the losers.
At the end of the .tournament
teams placing first, second,
third and fourth will be entered
Frisco Goober
Find Victory Is
San Francisco, Feb. 17 (U.R)
The goober gobblers rejoiced
today. Victory was in the bag.
Paul Fagan, the multi-millionaire
owner of the San
Francisco baseball team, said
yesterday that no more pea
nuts would be sold in his sta
dium because it cost too much
to sweep up the shells. But
Fagan couldn't stand the
wrath of his public very long.
So he surrendered.
"I give up . . . Mr. Peanut
wins," Fagan announced, cow
ering In his stadium office.
"It's the first time in my
life I've been beaten, and It
had to be by a peanut."
No sooner had Fagan Issued
his ban on the peanut that he
was shelled with outraged pro
tests. He was almost afraid to
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Subsidies Would Kill
Sports, UW
New Tork, Feb 17 m Dr.
Raymond B. Allen, president of
the University of Washington,
VId today that "Intercollegiate
sports will ultimately disappear"
if there is unchecked subsidisa
tion of college athletics.
Responding to an Associated
Press questionnaire on subsidiza
tion in college athletics, Dr.
Allen was asked this question
among others:
"If subsidization, either open
er sub rosa, continues uncheck
ed what future do you predict
for American college sports?"
His response was:
"The question presupposes
current and continued subsidiza
tion If this assumption is cor
rect, I would say that intercol
legiate sports will ultimately
disappear and that the field of
amateur athletics will be left al
most exclusively to the high
schools and sandlots, who would
then become the next victim of
professionalism,
"This, It seems to me, Is one
f the most Important single
problems in Intercollegiate re
lations today, and It goes to
to the ethical problems
that face our society.
It is part and parcel of the
materialism that threatens
out society on many fronts.
I cannot help contrasting the
threatened state of amateur
athletic competition today
with the glory it achieved in
ths scheme of ths ancient
Bearcats Face Final Loop
Hurdle with Badger Cagers
Two and a half games out in
front In the Northwest confer
ence basketball chase, the Wil
lamette Bearcats will play their
only league contest of the week
Saturday night against Pacific
at Forest Grove.
Taking advantage of three
home games, the College of Ida
ho Coyotes won all of them to
move into undisputed possession
of second place. They are at
home Friday night to the Whit
man Missionaries.
Lewis Sc Clark, which won
two out of three on the road,
has a pair of games with Lin
field Friday and Saturday.
in the district games to be staged
at Monmouth in early March.
Bill Bowers, president of the
Marion County B league, will
have charge of the local tournament.
Surprising 'Cats Play
Better Away Lewis Says
Coach Johnny Lewis of the
Willamette university Bearcats
made no predictions concerning
the outcome of the Northwest
conference race as he addressed
the Salem Breakfast club Fri
day morning, but he expressed
a bit of surprise that his cagers
played a better game away from
home than on the familiar sur
roundings of their own court.
In view of the fact that four
of the remaining conference
games are home affairs, Lewis
expressed the hope that his soph-
Gobblers
in Bag
appear in public. The phone
jangled at the ball park, at
his uptown office, at his home.
The telegrams poured In.
Newspapers denounced him.
Across San Francisco bay
the Oakland Acorns, a Pacific
Coast league rival of the San
Francisco team, urged all red
blooded Americans to patron
ize a stadium that respected
civil rights.
"It was awful," Fagan said.
"In 24 hours I got complaints
from the Peanut Vendors' un
ion, the Peanut Pickers' asso
ciation, the Peanut Growers'
association and peanut bag
companies."
"I quit. The peanut can
come back and he's welcome."
Any more nutty ideas, Mr.
Fagan?
Head Says
Greeks, who valued athletic
competition for its own sake,
just as they valued other
achieinents."
Dr. Allen and Dr. Fred D.
Flagg, Jr., president of the Uni
vcrsity of Southern California,
both affirmed support of the
N.C.A.A.'s "sanity code." Both
Washington and Southern Cali
fornia are prominent members
of the Pacific Coast conference.
Last fall Washington won three
football games and lost seven.
while Southern California won
five, lost three and tied one.
The question on the future of
college sports under unchecker
subsidization was number three
on a list of four submitted to
both presidents. Dr. Allen's re
plies to the other three, togeth
er with the questions, follows:
"1. Does the University of
Washington subsidize athletes
and if so to what extent in what
sports?
"The University of Wash
ington does not subsidise ath
letics in any sport. Under the
rules of the Pacific Coast con
ference, on-campus employ
ment at the rate of $1.5 per
hour but not exceeding $75.
per month, Is provided. Al
though the bulk of these
Jobs are held by members of
squads, they are not restricted
to these groups, and a num
ber of athletes from the other
sports do participate. In addi
tion, a limited a am bar of
Ed Rooney of Pacific took over
first place in the individual scor
ing race when he ran his total
up to 176 points in 12 contests.
Charles Anderson of Whitman
has 167 in 11 games, Bob Pol
lard of Lewis and Clark 153 in
10 and Ted Loder of Willamette,
140 in nine, Loder has the best
average 15.5 as compared with
Pollard's 15.3.
The standings:
PH. Pta.
Pet. For Agat.
.777 005 468
.800 531 517
.500 557 545
.454 882 598
.417 594 588
.300 512 562
W L
Willamette 7 2
College of Idaho 6 4
Lewli at Clark 8
Whitman 5 8
Pacific 5 1
Llnfleld 3 1
Sports Calendar
FEBRUARY 17
Bftikctbftll
flprlni field hlih V Salem high it Stlwn,
8:16 p.m.
IdRho n Oregon t Buieni.
Willamette Valley league: Mt. Anctl at
Estacada, Sandy at Sllverton, Canbr at
Dallai, Molalla at Woodburn.
FEBRUARY IS
Basketball
Willamette y Pacific at Forest Orovt,
Idaho vi Oregon at Eugene.
Calumet farm's hope for a
third straight Kentucky Derby
victory, Theory, is going along
steadily in training at Hialeah.
omore-studded club would I
verse the usual procedure.
In reviewing the season to
date, Lewis said it appeared to
boil down to the fact that the
boys are too young to be consis
tent. ' Three of his starting five
are 19, one is 20 and the other
21.
Harold Hauk, Salem high
coach, predicted tighter com
petition In the forthcoming
district 11 tournament, point
ing to Sacred Heart's 90 points
against Star of the Sea as a
good example of what may be
expected.
Al Loucks, president of the
Breakfast club, said plans were
in the making to select the out
standing senior high school ath
lete of the year in Marion and
Polk counties. Additional In
formation is expected to be
available next Friday morning.
Angels Sure of VVL Tie
As League Faces Finals
By DAVID BLACKMEB
Salem high school's 1949-50
hoop campaign draws to a close
next week following tilts with
Springfield, Lebanon, and Bend
in that order.
At the beginning of the sea
son Coach Harold Hauk lost
sleep over the unknown scoring
potential of his green team. But,
as the season goes into the final
By Walt Ditxen
"grants-in-aid," providing for
the payment of student fees in
excess of $65.00 per year, are
permitted by the conference
in cases where, in the opinion
of a faculty committee, finan
cial need has been established.
"2. Do your alumni subsidize
athletes privately and if so is
this with or without the know
ledge of the university?
: 'While I cannot state categorl
cally that there is no subsidiza
tion of athletes by our alumni,
I can say in all sincerity that, to
the best of my knowledge, there
is no such, activity on the part
of our graduates. I can say also
that we have made every ef
fort to assure that there is no
subsidization by alumni.
4. Do you subscribe to the
N.C.A.A. "sanity code"?
"Yes. While it may not be
ideal, it is a worthwhile and
substantial effort to establish
a uniform standard of prac
tice throughout the nation.
Even though it may be diffi
cult to enforce, the mere fact
that we have at least succeed
ed in setting a common mini
mum standard is without
doubt an important step for
ward" Dr. Fagg's reply to the four
questions follows in full:
"1. The Paclmic Coast confer
ence and the NCAA provide
rules on this subpect, to which
we adhere.
"2. Not to my knowledge.
"3. 1 believe that the men who
supervise athletics in our col
leges and universities will not
permit competitive sports to be
destroyed by professionalism.
"4. Yes. Incidentally, our fac
ulty representative is chairman
of the NCAA committee on com
mittees."
IndiTldual leorlnt:
Oamei ft ft of to
Ed Roomr, Po 12 1 1(38 176
unaa. Anaeraon, wmi ....11 S3 41 28 187
Bob Pollard, L&C 10 85 43 39 1S3
Ted Loder, WlllaniaU. .... BO 40 33 40
Lloyd Neville, Idaho 10 40 48 21140
Dick Morgan, Pacific 13 40 3 19 111
Carlo! Wall, Whitman ....11 49 10 31 108
Byron Iglehart. Whitman. .11 40 25 39 105
Bill Green. Whitman 11 29 40 28 104
Kd Reld, LSC 10 31 26 13 87
Doug Logue. Willamette .. 9 33 19 19 85
Rod Downey, UeC 10 35 13 27 83
Bob Rammond. Llnfleld ...10 34 12 20 80
Neal Abrahamaon, Llnfleld 10 34 10 27 78
Lew Keyee, Idaho 10 28 24 34 78
Dick Brouwer, wlUamette 9 28 19 29 75
LOCAL UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATED PRESS NEWS AND FEATURES
Club Schedules
Crow Shoot for
Mill Creek Work
The Salem Fur, Fin and Feath
1 club, sponsored by Barb's
Sporting Goods for the promo
tion of wild life in Oregon, will
engage in a crow shoot March
1-April 30, with proceeds of the
shoot going toward the fund
being raised to improve Mill
creek.
The club's membership is from
Salem senior high school. It
meets every Thursday night at
the club house, 320 East Ewald
street. The president is Dick
.Wyatt and the adviser Clark
Lethin.
Favorites Trail
In Texas Tourney
Harlingen, Tex., Feb. 17 ff
The $10,000 Bio Grande Valley
open golf tournament slashed
into its second round today with
jovial little George Fazio out
front by one stroke.
While the galleries followed
the co-favorites, flashy Jimmie
Demaret and handsome Cary
Middlecoff, the lightly regarded
Fazio slipped in with a seven-
under-par 64 yesterday to top
the field of crack shots.
stages, Hauk's problems seem
to have been solved.
This fact is proved by ths
season record of 17 wins and
four losses with only the three
games, and the district tour
ney remaining on the agenda
for the Vikings, who are the
logical choice for district hon
ors and a berth in the state
tournament.
Layton Gilson has firmly cap
tured the honor of being the
most improved player with his
spectacular climb from the third
string at the beginning of the
season to earn himself a slot in
the starting quint as center. ,
Hauk's 6 - foot 3 - backboard
twins, Jim Rock and Doug Rog-
have given all Vik oppon
ent? a big headache in getting
the ball on the rebound. This
double post position play has
been a vital factor in the team's
success.
Salem's guard positions are
in the capable hands of Cap
tain Daryl Girod and scrappy
little Larry Chamberlain.
Both stand at the 5-foot 10
mark. Girod has set up hun
dreds of scoring plays to help
ace the Viking assaults.
Meanwhile, he has showed a
potent scoring punch on his
own from the field as well
as the foul circle.
Wayne Walling, Salem's six-and-a-half
foot sky-scraping
center has been holding a steady
job in the changeable lineup.
Better known as "Moe," Wall
ing is only a junior this year.
Reserve Dick Norton played
a position in Hauk's version of
the weave this year which
wasn't used to a great extent.
He is a senior.
Subs Lawrence Baggett and
Deb Davis, juniors, have played
well in their reserve roles.
Gordy Sloan, Gene Garver
and Dick Deen, also subs, have
been on the scene ready to go
Into action at the sign from
Coach Hauk.
.Salem's Larry Paulus and
Don McKenzie, sophomores, both
have been seeing a lot of action
this year.
Jack Nelson has taken care of
the mangerial chores while Don
Reidal has been club statistician.
SPORT SHORTS
Jamestown, winner of the
1930 Belmont Futurity, now
stands at stud at George D. Wid-
ener's Old Kinney Farm in Ken
tucky. The firm of Tobey, Tobey,
Tobey and Midgley handles
Brown university's two-mile re
lay business. Jon and Josh
Tobey are twins, Joel is a young
er brother.
Hogan Signs for
Filmland Story
Hollywood, Feb. 17 (U.R) Ben
Hogan, the Texan bantam who
staged one of the greatest come
backs in sports annals, has sign
ed a contract with 20th Century
Fox for the studio to produce a
picture based on the golfer's
life.
Hogan nearly lost his life in
an auto-bus collision a year ago
and doctors believed his bril
liant career at an end.
Hogan said the film studio
has not decided who will play
his role in the movie.
Salem, Oregon, Friday, February 17, 1950
ProW Pri7PC Far Fin and Feather club members: First
VI UH I I IliV 4 Ma (till Rlanlf Rill P.mrin. Think W
second row, Denis Sherard, Roger DeBaure, Lythle; third
row Bob Inglis, Jack Olney, Dave Christie.adviser Clark
, Lethin. . Prizes indicated are in connection with a crow shoot
March 1.
VFW Fight Card Books
Wolfe-Ball
The Veterans of . Foreign
Wars will start their delayed
professional boxing program
for the 1950 season at the ar
mory the night of February
22. ' '
The main event will feature
Dick Wolfe of Portland, claim
ant of the state welterweight
title, and Davey Ball, a rugged
scrapper, over the 10-round
route., Wolfe insists that Ball
weigh in at ringside no heavier
than 160 pounds. Even at that
weight, Wolfe claims he will
be spotting his opponent at
least eight pounds.
Wolfe and Ball have met
three times. The first time
Wolfe won In the ninth via the
Wisconsin Track
Star to Appeal
Reverse Decision
Madison, Wis., Feb. 17 U.R
Track Star Don Gehrmann said
Thursday that a New York
friend will appeal the New
York metropolitan AAU ruling
which took away his first place
in the Wanamaker mile and gave
it to Fred Wilt.
Gehrmann said the protest
probably would be filed in New
York today.
The trophy originally was
handed to Gehrmann after a
close finish and it still Is at the
University of Wisconsin.
SICKS'
Brewing Co.
Extends Its appreciation
to the members of the
United States Hop Grow
ers Association for their
response to the invitation
to visit our plant during
the state convention.
February 9-10-1 1,1950
SICKS'
Brewing Co.
Salem, Oregon
"Oregon's Extra Pale"
Vikings Face Millers in
Chance to Win Loop Title
The Viking cagers of Salem
high hope to put their stamp on
the 1949-50 Big Six league title
Friday night when they tangle
with the Springfield Millers at
8:15.
The favored Viks can take the
title with a victory over the Mil
lers, despite the fact that they
still have to meet Bend a week
from today in the Lava Bear
lair. A loss to the Millers would
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10-Rounder
TKO route when Ball broke a
hand. Their second clash was
considered the best 10 rounder
ever staged in Eugene with
two judges voting for a draw.
The referee gave the nod to
Wolfe.
Rematched for a third time,
Wolfe won a split decision.
A six round semi-final and
three four rounders will com
plete the show. Seats will go
on sale at Maple's, February
20.
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still leave them sure of at least
tie for league honors.
In the initial tussle between
the two teams, the Viks collect
ed a 57-41 win.
The Viks will risk their un
tarnished Big Six record of
eight wins in the mix. Coach
Stan Williamson's Millers
have not been as fortunate as
the Viks in the win column.
Williamson's quint is much
shorter than that of Coach Har
old Hauk's crew. In the Millers'
starting lineup will be Bob
Johnson and Jim Harper in the
forward positions, Jim Fort at
center, Lloyd Felkner and Jim
Fink will fill in at the guard
North Division Weekend
Crucial f or WSC and OSC
It could be all over but the
shouting in the northern division
basketball race after this week
end. Could be, that Is Wash
ington and Oregon State think
and hope otherwise.
Boasting a full game lead
over both the runnersup, Wash
ington State college takes its
high-powered quintet into Hec
Edmundson Fieldhouse tonight
intent on administering the coup
de grace to the title chances of
Coach Art McLamey's Huskies
A sweep would do it and
virtually knock Oregon State
out of the picture at the same
time. Fvf after Washington,
WSC has only a pair with
Idaho and, with the Huskies
eliminated, would need only
to divide with the Vandals to
gain a tie for the crown.
A split would send all three
down to the finish line with five
losses and a possible three-way
title knot in the making.
A Washington sweep would
put the Huskies In the driver's
seat.
The week-end Seattle series
is the plum of division activ
ity which also finds Idaho
moving into Eugene for a
game with Oregon to decide
which Isn't going to end the
year In the cellar. Idaho pull
ed two wins out of the bag at
Moscow and Oregon would
like to do the same at home.
Both McLarney and WSC's
Jack Friel will be shooting the
works tonight and tomorrow for
the title, the edification of
packed house and a television
audience. The capacity booking
brought a relaxation of Athletic
Director Harvey CasslU's recent
Pilots Confirm Settlement
Of Grid Coaching Contract
Portland, Ore., Feb. 17 (U.R)
The University of Portland to
day confirmed a statement made
to United Press earlier this week
by Harry C. Wright that the head
football coach had made, a
friendly settlement with the
school on the remaining two
years of his three-year contract.
Portland announced suspen
sion of intercollegiate football
last Saturday because its cost
had been too much for the
school's expansion plans in the
field of education.
Rev. Robert H. Sweeney, vice
president and chairman of the
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Hauk will again use Doug
Rogers and Jim Rock at for
wards, Layton Gilson at cen
ter. Larry Chamberlain and
Captain Daryl Girod are slat-'
ed to start in the guard slots.
Coach Loren Mort's junior
varsity will clash with the Mill
er "B" squad in a 6:45 p.m. pre
liminary. Following the Springfield
tussle the Vikings have only a
game with Lebanon, one of the
few teams that can claim vic
tory over the Viks, and a Big
Six contest with Bend left on
the 1949-50 hoop campaign
schedule.
ban on the video outlet.
Big Gene Conley, leading con
ference scorer with 174 points
in 12 games, and Ed Gayda no
small shucks as a shotmaker
himself will be pacing the
Cougar attack. Abetting them
in the starting lineup will be
Bob Gambold, Ted Tappe and
Leon Mangis.
McLarney also will be shoot
ing with his regulars the sama
five men who went the distance
last Saturday in nosing out
Wyoming: La Don Henson, Jack
Ward, Duane Enochs, Louis So
riano and Frank Guisness. '
WSC arrived last night and got
in a few practice licks at the
Washington floor before retir
ing.
Austrian Skier
Nears Sweep of :
Internationals
Aspen, Colo., Feb. 17 WT-5
Dagmar Rom, the graceful
blonde Austrian, is just one hur
die away from recognition as
one of the greatest women skier
in history.
The final test for the say, II-
year-old university student, will
come today on Aspen mountain's
treacherous downhill course. A
victory would give her a clean
sweep of the women s Alpine
events in the world meet spon
sored by the Federation Inter
nationale de Ski (FIS).
Miss Rom, a natural athlete
who maneuvers with almost ef
fortless ease, added the world
slalom crown Wednesday to the
giant slalom championship she
had captured two days earlier.
athletic board, said Wright would
remain on the campus until he
could clear up his work In the
athletic department
Part of Wright's remaining
work includes the possible sign
ing of several big name eastern
basketball teams for the uni
versity for next year.
. Father Sweeney said:
"Although our alumni are dis
appointed with the dropping of
intercollegiate football, the uni
versity has been assured that
the alumni will support our
plan of concentrating upon be
coming a major power in bas
ketball. WHISKEY,
A