12 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore Friday, February 17, 1950
Fast Climbing Irishman
Hopes For Shot at Pep
By OSCAR FRALEY
I United press Sporu Alitor)
J New York, Feb. 17 U The
Irish are fighters and dreamers,
ao little Jimmy Rooney was
I angling today for a title ro with
featherweight champion Willie
iPep a bout his mind told htm
he couldn't win but his fighting
) Irish heart told him he might.
! Little Jimmy goes against
, George La Falgio at Madison
Square Garden on Friday
1 night and if he wins the hustling
Hibernian is expected to get
i shot at Pep. That's moving fast
J for a young fellow with only 38
, guts unuci ma ucib, uuiri fwu'
ney, his round, baby face eri
J ous, explained:
"Okay, maybe I'm not
J ready for the likes of Pep.
But I'll fight anybody and
if I can hit him, I can win it."
1 That's enough for the fight-
J lng orphan from Bridgeport,
Conn, And his record of 21
j knockouts in those 38 fights in-
ik.ucaie mat una izo-pouna zi
j' year-old Just might lay a cllnch-
cr on me elusive rep ounon,
Jimmy, despite his compara
4 tlvely few bouts, is no novice.
j He has been fighting ever since
, lie can rememDer ana inose in
which he engaged "for the fun
I of it" and ruined his dream of
' becoming a jockey don't show
I on the record. Not on the box-
lng record, anyhow.
Orphaned as a baby, Jimmy
pent bis youth In Norwalk,
Conn., county home. As a
youngster he was sent to vari
ous farms to work and six
farmers in a row fired blm
swiftly.
2 "Too many fights," Rooney
- laughs.
2 Rooney's swift rise In the
featherweight ranks points up
J the comeback of the clouting
.Celts and brings back memories
Jot the old days when the Irish
.ruled the ring. Not all of the
present crop possess the punch
ling prowess of the five-foot.
six-Inch Jimmy but for the first
itlme in years the Irish are mak
ing a respectable overall show
ting. 4. Among the featherweights,
b addition to Rooney, yon
have such sons of the old sod
as Glen Flanagan and Tommy
4. Collins. Rlnty Monaghan of
Ireland is the flyweight king
and the chief challenger for
bantamweight honors Is Dan-
sty O'Snlllvan.
t. Moving up in the heavier di
visions, lightweight standouts
Include Dennis Pat Brady, Jim
my Warren and Del Flanagan.
Among the leading welters are
Billy Graham, Jackie Keough
and Paddy Young, and the mid
dleweight have such sharp
shooters as Jimmy Flood, Jim
my Herring and Roger Dona-
ghue. Even the heavyweight di
vision is bringing forward wear
ers of the green In Bob Murphy
of San Diego; Rex Layne, out of
Utah, and Curt
Wichita, Kans.
Kennedy of
Baseball Season
Opens March 24
For WV League
The Willamette Valley lea
sue, comprising Dallas, Wood
burn, Canby, Silverton, Molalla
Sandy, Mt. Angel and Estacada
high schools will open the 1950
baseball season March 24, ac
cording to a schedule released
Friday.
The season will consist of nine
rounds of competition with two
clubs drawing byes for each
round to permit of play with
non-league schools.
The March 24 games include;
Sandy at Dallas, Mt. Angel at
Woodburn, Estacada at Canby,
Silverton and Molalla byes.
The 1950 football season
schedule has been compiled for
the W. V. L. with the first games
slated for September 22. The
season will end Nov. 3.
Williams Expects
Mild Workout in
Non-Title Clash
New York, Feb.; 17 MB
Lightweight Ike Williams ex
pects little more than a ( mild
workout in his 10-round non-
title bout tonight . with Sonny
Boy West of Washington, D
C, at Madison Square Garden
West is substituting for Bern
ard Docusen, New Orleans wel
terweight who is bed - ridden
with influenza.
The odds are definitely against
West, who will be making his
first Mew York appearance.
Bookies were offering as high
as B to 1 on the champion from
Trenton, If. J.
West, regarded as a fair punch
er, has lost only four times in
42 bouts. However, he was ex
pected to be at the mercy of
the hard-hitting, more-experi
enced Williams.
t Swiss Ski Winner Calls
I Yank Course School boyish
i Aspen, Colo, Feb. 17 iF)
Good-looking Georges Schneider
23s a man of utmost confidence in
his skiing ability, but he is not
boasting about the world slalom
championship he won here yes
terday. "The course was much too
easy," the blond Swiss athlete
complained through an Interpre
ter. "In Europe, our small
schoolboys would run such a
course. I am accustomed to
something more difficult."
- There were 40 gates on the
steep, 3,000-foot Aspen mountain
run where 60 men from 30 na
tions competed for the world's
slalom title. In Schneider's
opinion, this was an unthink
ably small number.
"In Switzerland," he explain
ed, "we would have SO, maybe
65, and It would be much harder.
"We had courses like this one
in Switzerland 10 years ago un
til they became too simple for
all but our schoolboys. Then we
began making them more diffi
cult We do not like them so
easy."
Aspen mountain itself, Sch
neider said, offers as stem i
challenge as anything in Eu
rope. If there had been more
gates on the slalom course,
and sharper turns, he declared,
!t would have given the Euro
peans a delightful test.
The confident Schneider, who
negotiated the slalom Journey
twice in a combined time of two
minutes, 0.4 seconds to beat out
favored Zeno Colo of Italy for
the world championship, said he
knew all along that he would
win. . !
"If the course had been hard
er," he grinned, "I would have
won by more seconds."
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SCORES in the ALLEYS
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Capitol Alleys
BEAKS HEN'S LEAGUE
Harmony Hoase () PILftor 433. Daver
4M. Hill 440. Paulson 401. Craftsmen (0)
Kraua 378, Barker 400, Klein 338, Morris
388.
Kenmora (1) Werner 438. Adam, 306,
Carver 478, Jenson 398. Coldspot (8)
sevens 470, eautrom 47B, eierp 380, os
lund 635.
Homart (2 Forbes B31. Roach 658.
Cooper 474, Cook 585. All State (1) Mc
Oulre 300, Clark 451, Rich I 560, Olisar 600.
Pllirlm (1) Ooush 463, Chrlstensen
303, Letofsky 633, Porstram 441. Coldspot
) Drye 466. Quesnell 460. HaUer 468.
Patton 340.
Hifn team icnu, Homart 3138. High
team game, Homart 735. High Individual
aerlw. Cook 685, High Individual game,
Roach 333.
Duck Pin
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE
O.H.C. Truck Co. 8) Darby Sermon
333, John Fullenwlder 436. Joe Brooks
356, Darwin Sermon 33T, Hilt Thorn aa 446.
A, L. Cummlnc'i lleatlnr (1) Mac Lar-
oon 377, LeMer Woods 380, Tom Klulah
381, Bob Rateeburg 337, Dave Spauldlng
457.
Qaalitr uied Can (4) Rotu Pawler
468, Bill Campbell 616. B. B. Snelcrome
361,- Mose Van Dell 486, Emll Schols 453.
Willamette Valley Bank (0) Carroll Meats
376, Keith Kaye 436. Bob Jungllng 370,
carnei weiatng 3io, ai fiicxer soi.
Willamette Amsiement C. () Clar
ence Apple ate 440, Roy Robinson 400,
Wilfred Wilier 361, Eddie Goertxen 433,
bye 480. Tweedle Oil (4) Carl Flood 373.
Harry Scharf 339, Ira Short 407, Vein
sun sii, Al Ken field 536.
B, A R. Wholesale (0) AI Hakanson
4itf, Ario Young 448, Bob Griffith 399,
Wm Goodrich 437. John Wood 300. Olea-
ona Bakery (4) Tom Wood 814, Bill
Moad 409, Harold Bonner 431. Marlon
Oleason 615, . Wulff 333.
man warn senea. Tweedle 2275. High
team same. Quality Used Cars 805. High
individual series and game, Al Kenlleld
(Tweedle) 656 and 337.
University Alleys
COMMERCIAL LEAGUE NO. 1
TFW ) White 413, Miller 381. Parkes
418, Vatican 380, Wodeewoda 421; Jndson's
Flumblnr It) AngOVe 442, Bronson 388, B.
Judson 320, Little 428, Jeffries 386.
Cushlnr's Union Ber. (1) Pease 837.
Farley 541, Stone 363, Scott 840, Comstock
513; Yeater Appl. Co. (8 Frank 477, R.
Bell 463, Mohlman 485, Hlllerlcb 480, A.
Bell 47.
Naval Air Fao. (X)-Haworth 441, Rob
erta 483, Baal 473, J. Knedler 410, Brown
444: Pumllite Elwood 417. Bolser 409.
Sheridan 350, Kelley 439, Duncan 608.
western Paper Con v. Co. (l) Oftdacn
14, Andersen 307, J. Kuebler 411, Luke
446, L. Kuebler 470; SAN Clotblers S
Ricks 505. Barker 496. Pekar 522. Kane ski
439, Nagley 467. i
1st Nat Bank (t) Drlggi 443, Kottke
477, Marr 403, Marshall 348, A. Morris
490; Interstate Tractor Co. (2) Morris
452, Robinson 411, Sbackman 802, Tanque
ry 404. Pearl 454.
Dyer A Sons Ins. (1) Sehroeher 465,
Cherrlngton 486, Brought 486, Plauti 433,
Perm an 431; Eagles (3) Peterson 667,
Reld 467, Rltaman 470, Pero 801, Knedler
B. 417.
High lnd. tarn. Peaat, 914; high Ind.
series, Peterson, Eagles, 687; high team
game. Eagles, 740; high team series, Yea
ter AppL, 3768.
WILLAMETTE U. INTRAMURAL LEAGUE
Baxter Hall No. 1 (4) R. HaUlday 466,
O. Halliday 455. Jole 430. Stauffer 413.
Smith 404; Independents (0) Slmonsen
336, Shannon 422, Pederson 343, Stratton
396, Oalbraith 336.
Slrma Chi No. 3 (8) Mallory 420, Pear
son 401, Ross 330, Hartley 453. Bolton 328:
Sigma Alpha Epsllon No. 8 !) Skim as
441. OlSOn 457. DUVall 309. DeBord 370.
Gunther 173, Dummy 230.
Baxter Hall No. S 3 Collier 457, Mal
agamba 405, Gordon 378, Payne 340, Booth
by 418; Phi Delta Theta No. 1 (1) Col
lins 435, Phillips 449, Card 306, Ryan 340,
Adams 469.
Sigma Alpha Epsllon No. S 8) Law
rence 362. Nelson 302. Edward 398. Fnit-
chett 412, Shangle 428; Sigma Chi No. 1
(1) Olsen 457, Southworth 431, Maudlin
423, Lafky 448, Joseph 364.
Sigma Aloha Evsilsn No. 1 t) Lorenx
408, Norvell 426, Kerr 417, Coen 493, Val
dea 670; Beta Theta PI (2) Harris 402,
Straumfjord 386, Gusey 422, Hedeen 438,
Washburn 410.
Baxter Hall No. t Davies 420. Ste
vens 368, Paddock 378, Johnson 405, Gra
ham 353; Phi Delta Theta No, 2 S
MacOregor 464, Patterson 370, Merrlam
403, Hllmer 409, Hearn 378.
tiign (earn series, oigma Aipna Epsllon
o. 1, 3573: htsh team game. Phi Delta
Theta No. 3, 915; high lnd. series, Blackle
Vsldei 670; high lnd. same Shoes Olson
310.
Boxing Game Bragging Is
Sign Louis Quit for Good
By HUGH FCLLERTON, Jr.
New York, Feb. 17 P) Judg
ing from the sounds, the guys In
the fight mob must be pretty
certain Joe Louis is going to stay
retired . . . Jake Mintz, Eizard
Charles' manager, has been hol
lering that Joe owes It to boxing,
to the public, and to Ezzard to
come out of retirement and give
the NBA champ a chance to show
how good he is . . . Now Joey
Maxim is back from England
with the light heavyweight title
and (he has) a burning desire to
fight Louis rather than Charles
. If those guys aren't careful
they may get Joe mad enough to
go into serious training and belt
their ears off . . . And, speaking
seriously, it doesn't make
Charles and Maxim look any too
god when they proclaim loudly
they can't attract a big enough
crowd for a real payday without
Louis to help them.
Quote, Unquote
George Sauer. new Baylor
football coach: "As soon as
spring practice is over, I'm going
to havb a picture of myself made
and give it to my wife. Then I'm
going to take off for 40 days and
meet all the alumni I can find."
One-Minute Sports Page
After listening to a certain
number o f wails about
"Homer" officiating, National
Basketball association statis
ticians checked up. Results of
363 games show the home
teams incurred 49.5 per cent
of the fouls and won 67.5 per
cent of the games. In nine of
of the 17 cities, the home clubs
averaged more fouls than the
visitors . . . Johnny Vander
Meer finally broke down and
bought a house in Tampa, Fla.,
Cincinnati's training base, this
winter. So, of coarse, a short
tune later he was shipped to
the Cubs, who train in Cali
fornia . . .-That loud cheer
from Texas Tuesday night was
raised by McMurray College
basketball fans when their
team beat Southwestern. 44-
40, after losing 20 straight
games ; . . Iowa folks say Len
Raffensberger Inherited the
best football material Iowa
IT. has had in 25 years from
Dr. Eddie Anderson. A soph
back named Bill Reichardt is
the subject of special raves.
Round Trip
Bill Chambers, who'll play
tackle for the N. Y. Bulldogs
next fall, started his higher edu
cation at Alabama before the
war. Then he went to Georgia
Tech as a naval trainee and fin
ished his undergraduate work at
U. C. L. A. after hostilities ceas
ed. He played for the Yankees
a couple of seasons, and now
he's back at U. C. L. A. work
ing for a master's degree, nine
years after he entered Alabama.
City Loop Scores
CHURCH LEAGUE
'C Dlrliloa
III Hilhodlit (M) (H) l,t Baptist
Hall 13 T Htlna
KlmbaU 5 P 7 Wll.on
Cocklna s c 1 B. Loveland
Caraten O Owlna
Oreen 4 o Bothman
subs: lat Methodlat Ooddard 1.
lat rraabrtariaa (17) (St) Deaf Seha.1
Bteaans I P 5 McOann
Ramp s r 11 rehlman
Bower 7 0 3 Wella
McCarablttfl O t Ebeiutelner
Olbbenj o 7 Walker
Suba: lat Presbyterian Coltan 3: Deaf
School Uayard 3, Hyatt 1.
Cal. Baptist (I) .
Bishop a
Wollf 3
Thompson
Wells
Merrill
(52) Knliht Mem.
. 10 Holt
. P Huihes
. C Brown
.O Edwards
..O t rule
Physical Culture Dept.
Communique from Bogota,
Colombia, reports that only
5,000 customers turned out for
a bullfight on a recent Sun
day but 12,000 attended a
wrestling show In the same
bullring on Wednesday . . .
"Wrestling is the same as in
the states," our informants
adds, "except the wrestlers
carry terrifying Spanish names
and grunt and groan with an
accent . . . And the advertise
ment reads: "Wrestling the
cultural sport preferred by
ladies."
BASKETBALL
COLLEGE SCORES
(Br the Associated Press)
Sastern Washington 18, Whltworth II.
Pacific Lutheran 38. Central Washing
ton 34.
Pepnerdlne M. Fresno Stat 88.
Eastern Montana 81. Western llosiitana
ov.
Ricks 55, Southern Idaho 50.
Duquesne 80, Long Island 53
Niagara 68, CCNY 61.
Vanderbltt 80, Mississippi 4T.
Western Kentucky 83, Miami (Pit) 47.
William and Marr 70. Washington and
Lee 57.
Virginia 71, Virginia UlUtarr
Chicago Loyola 65, Western Michigan Tl.
Indiana State Tl. Canterbury 88.
West Texas 70, New Mexico U
HIGH SCHOOL SCORES
(By the Associated Press)
Grants Past 48. Southern Orea-on CoDetra
Prosh 41.
Jaekeon Cty "B" TeanMyt
itogu Hiver jq, aoia nut 21.
Butte Palls 37, Jacksonville 31.
Talent 43, St. Mary's (Medford) II.
Phoenix 53. Prosnect 33.
Linn-Benton "B' Toarneyt
Alsea 43, Shedd 33.
Harrlsburg 58, Sclo 34.
Brownsville 53. Halsev 61.
Lane Coanty "B" Toarnvyi
uoniwt o, ijoweii jj.
Coburg 83, McKenila St.
Lorane 40, Crow 38.
Pleasant RU1 66, Triangle Lake 3t.
Subs: Calvary Baptist Payne 8.
B' Division
HI. Mark (60) (14) L.D.S.
Stewart 13 P 2 K. Brown
Rc P Stock
Zenske 17 0 C. Vetlto
Oenteman S 0 1 Hall
Brown 11 0 Murphy
Subs: St, Mark Walker 10, Hohnquist
3: L.D.S. B. Brown 7. L. Vetlto 3. John.
son a.
Plrat Christian forfeited to Presbyteri
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