.Salem, Oregon, Wednesday, September 12, 1956 THE CAPITAL JOURNAL Section 4 Page-1 W ashington Senator Move to California in SF Rumored s ports By CHUCK BOICE proSfnX. N hh L.S. Ange'eS' CI,Uck Esscgian' the lP hitti"S Sge or invito 7 "vost league considering average, power, altitude, age or anything else, said his baseball future was in the hands of the tip CIIUCi: ESSEGIAN -. at a crossroaj .. ,. , , ma vim: we roaas nave a mucn better look than for most He can continue what is now a very promising baseball career or he can go 7. "-""" uiiviuy uaving a lour-year degree in biology in his pocket, Actually, he could do both for awhile. meres anotner possibility and as a iryoui lung at it wouldn t bother his schooling. That's profes sional football. Rams Would Probably Like to See Him Los Angeles holds his draft rights and we've a hunch the Rams would be very happy to have him show up tor a tryout. They may hesitate with some alter four autumns away from the game but here's an athlete who has remained in sports and is of the non-smoking, non-drinking, alwavs-in-shnne Ivne. Doubtless there are many football players who would hesitate taking up that rugged game after such a layoff but that part of it ia just iiuc wiui jLsfgian. ne wouiu love to givje it a try. As for his original decision of baseball over football, he thinks he probably made the right move no. matter whaf his future in the game. "Of course you can second-guess umiK you snouia. men mere s still a possibility of some pro football." As for bis tryouts in the Coast league with Sacramento, Essegian, typically, has no complaints. He docs make it clear, however, that spring training and couple of games during the regular sea son isn't enough to let one know whether or not he really can hack the PCL. Esscgian'.T athletic career dates back to L.A.'s Fairfax high, in the shadow of the Hollywood Stars' Gilmnre Field, where he played baseball and football the latter as a tailback in the single wing. '51 and the Rose Bowl From there it was Mcnlo JC and Stanford. The big football year was '51 when Stanford won the title and went to the Rosp Bowl. The team included Gary Kerkorian, Bill McColl and Bob Mathias, the decathaldn wonder whom Chuck terms . . . fan athlete good at anything after just a couple of workouts." While thumped by IUinojs in the x-aavgiau won i give a uig euge 10 Dig len iooiDau. , "We beat their next best outfits, Michigan and Ohio State, that year. When Gary (Kerkorian) was injured in the Rose Bowl we'd had It. I think on another day we might have beaten them." His Stanford athletic career wound up on a high note as he led the Stanford team to t he '5.1 Coast title. Essegian expressed considerable appreciation to the Salem fans, Hugh Luby and his teammates for helping him have what he modestly termed "one of those good years." As for the "bean bails" , Essegian just shrugs them off. No gripes there or anything else ... in baseball, lhat is. In football he's ready and willing to take the stand for the PCC athletes recently penalized by the conference fathers after they had been permitted by the schools to live under a system for which the athlete was made to share the most blame. Esscgian may be aiming for some (rlple-A left field fence next year. He may be with the Senators after school Is out. It may be just school or even a July tryout with the Rams. Whatever the future is, the big guy has had quite a year ... and he's quite a gap. Whitman Next for the Ems? Sure to get a big play for the managerial job with Eugene Em eralds, from which Cliff Dapper was just booted, is Dick Whitman. He's currently manager ot the third place San Jose Red Sox in the Cal State league and formerly with Portland, Brooklyn, Philadel phia. Montreal and St. Paul. The former Wondburn Legion star not only attended the Uni versity of Oregon but wintered in Eugene much of his baseball career. The 36-year-old outfielder very possibly wilt lead his league In hitting and not only was named as an all-star outfielder, but was selected as the most valuable player In the league. , . ' He probably has a couple of good years left in the outfield, al though he's not the speedster of yesteryear. . s The decision of Jon Arnett to play the first five games on the USC schedule and sit out the last five as a guilty senior in PCC will disappoint many football fans in the state who hoped to see him in action in Multnomah Stadium in November. He was a cinch All-Amcrican ... in fact had been the number one "back-of-thc-year" choice for many. His absence likely will not disappoint the Oregon Ducks, the other half of the Nov. 17 game. Two years ago, as a second-string sophomore the same Arnett went into the lineup against Oregon In Portland before a large crowd and a national TV audience. When the afternoon was over, he had run the hall 19 yards, passed lor .19 more, won the na tional "back of the week" competition and knocked Oregon com pletely out of the Rose Bowl picture. Owens Will Re Absent This Fall R. C. Owens won't be with College of Idaho when the Coyotes oppose Willamette at McCulloch stadium this fall. Apparently the flashy bas ketball center and football end will skip football-this season and join the Buchan Bakers, the Seattc AAU basketball team, for a European jaunt. Owens was to return for a fifth year after, missing last season because of injuries. Northwest coaches would just as soon he would return as the flock of former Icttermcn and transfers on hand at Caldwell. Back after missing at least last season are Chuck Ruby, the fine 6-2, Z(IO-pound guard from OrcRon City: Jim Kilgallen, same size tackle ,j the Chicago crew, and huge Hal Gcach, 6-4 and 210. Among olhers are Dick Jlaegard, over from the University oi laano. Chicago fullback who spent last season ai amornia s uimpiun .i.i-. Torrance, Calif., also is very well represented among the freshmen again. Sounds like Fresno Stave won't coming to town. . You know . . . they de-emphasized at C. of I couple of years ago . . . JOE PALOOKA OTH TEAMS ABE 6C0RK.ESS AFTER 7 INNINGS.' BUT LEEMY HAS RST1REP 21 WEN W CflDE...JERRV !S PITCHING A PEOPECT GAME SO FAR.' Report saicm Senators. "They bought me and they own me, I'm very happy to say," the big fellow said. "Wherever I play next season ... or if I play , , , it will be through them." All of which would sound as if the Senators might have some very good property on their 'hands. However, we suspect that it will have fa be a pretty good shake with a good league to temporarily pry Essegian loose from his grad uate studies at UCLA which may lead to a career in dentistry. Whatever the Senators had to shell out for him, they got It back and more. Certainly they couldn't have asked for any more at the plate, In hustle and determination or as an Indivi dual. To inscribe new names on the record book are worth a good deal to a team. And the batting title (we hope!) and a club home run record are the very best in this respect. Essegian is at a crossroad that 'aces many bait players but, in it's not too remnle inasmuch yourself on anything but I don't Rose Bowl. All-Coast linebacker a 200-pound back who transferred ana to auran, a lugniy raicu be the only loaded ball club J?S- VER. V- ". "-S-' -l I JERRT IS AMAIING.' HE S O.Nv F : '' i THE INNING'S OVER. , , , , " I OUT.' I PITCHING KOTHINS BUT iC vTC ' nf C HE'S COMIU& THIS J I t V, y fA- "JUNK'ANO THEY CAN'T yfeN- e & C WAV... I CAN i 1 7 l - i'fP - 7 GET A HIT v AfSrCy SHOOT... r 12 - MJ- ( Sr?Ty ANOTHER "OUT:.. fVvfr.AS NOW (fflSSfk? T idttfftQ-- mgxjszxx mtViW VStfO-i-ji? '$, INNING.. N-NO... fW-fjWi ? P -' 'Baseball t World Buzzing' Griffith" Fiick 'Ready for Action' SAN FRANCISCO HI Curlev iiricve. sports editor of The San Francisco Examiner, said in an article Wednesday the "baseball underground is buzzing with the report that the Washington club oi the American League will be shifted to California next year." "The grapevine says that Calvin R. Griffith, who recently spent two weeKs in ian francisco and Los Angeles conducting his own personal survey, is waiting only for the curtain to drop, on the current campaign before making his move," Grieve wrote. "It is said that Commissioner Ford Frick is familiar with Grif fith s plans and is quietly pre paring the ground for swift ac tion. "Ever since the Boston Red Sox purchased the San Francisco franchise the rumor has gone the rounds that it was done mostly to give the American League a foothold on the coast and espe cially lo find a home for the fi nancially troubled Washington club ..." Saxton Set For Welter Defense Go Saxton Confident of Beating Carmen Basilio SYRACUSE, N.Y. Ul Welter weight champion .Johnny Saxton, determined to prove his right to wear the crown, boldly predicted that Carmen Basilio was heading "for a world of trouble" tonight when they clash in a return title bout at War Memorial Auditor ium. The 26-year-old New Yorker flew in from his Summit, N.J., camp breathing fire. "Man, I'm like a hungry dog guarding his bone," said the cocky champion. -"If anyone tries to take it from him, he'll bite his l and. That's the' way I feel about the title now that I've gotten it back Man, he's in for a world of trouble." Basilio Grim, Anxious Basilio, who finished up his training on his home grounds here, was grimmer and more anxious than ever to whip Saxtnn, the man who snatched the title away from him on a controversial decision in Chicago March 14. "I'm going to win," he said confidently. "I don't know if it will be by points or a knockout but I'm going to win. I'm out to give it to him good. I still say I deserved the decision in Chicago and I'm going to prove it." SYRACUSE, N.Y. tffl Welter weight champion Johnny Saxton weighed MS'i pounds and chal lenger Carmen Basilio 146Vi at the weigh-in Wednesday for their re turn 15-round title fight Wednes day night. baxlon, 26-year-old New YorK- cr, weighed 146X on .March 14 when he won the crown from Ba silio in Chicago. Basilio. who hails from neighboring Chittcnango, weighed 146 at that time. CanbytoPlay North Marion CANBY (Special) The Canby cougars, Dcaieij o-u ny ociipjiuiiM: their season opener, try for I (U; tir-t ...in frMqil in an P. p.m. game at North Marion. The Cougars, fifth place finish ers in the Willamette Valley league last year, have only five lettcr men back this year. The biggest man on the team is D. Hess, a 270-pound tackle with one year experience. The schedule: Sept. 8 Scappoose Sept. 14 At North Marion Sept. 21 ... . At Sherwood Sept. 25 .. Jamboree at Monmouth Oct. 5 At Estacada Sandy 0ct At Dallas 0c( Nov. 2 Central; i RASERALL BROOKLYN The Milwaukee: Braves extended Manager Fred Haney's contract through 1937. i Aloha Boys Give Mutual Three football players from the Hawaiian Islands, regulars on Ihc Willamette university team and all three three-year lettcrmen, help each other with the. strings on their shoulder pads be fore practice yesterday. They arc all who are THE SCHEDULES North Salem At Corvallis At Prineville Sweet Home At Lebanon Gresham Date September 14 September 21 September 28 October 5 October 12 October 19 October 20 October 26 November 2 Bend At Albany South Salem Andy George Is , Hired at OCE As Line Coach OREGON COLLEGE OF EDU CATION, Monmouth Andy George, Willamette university graduate, has been hired to as sist in conchiiig the line for the 1956 Oregon College of Educa tion football team. Dr. William McArthur, head coach, made the announcement today. Gcotrge will help Ken Cumiskey.with the line and Jim Hall, a college senior, will coach the backfield. Cumiskcy was track coach last year. George, a perennial Northwest conference all-star guard, also rated Ihc first team Little All Northwest In 1954, the same year he was placed on the second team Little Ail-Coast picked by the United Press. Ill professional baseball with the Salem Senators. George pitched 15 victories in the Class B Northwest league as a rookie. North Marion Has 16 Bad, NORTH MARION HIGH SCHOOL ISpecial) The North Marion Huskies of the Capital Conference arc preparing for Friday's football opener with Canby on the North Marion field. The Huskies have 16 boys back from last year's club which won seven and lost two. but coach Jim Hale is faced with a small turn out and a lightweight team. Eight of the boys have three years' experience quarterback Wayne I,owrie, fullback Lyle Klic wer, halfback Jerry Nybcrg. end Roger Moore, end Gordon Jones, tackle Ray Lambert, guard Tom Smith, and center Bob Rappe. The schedule: Sept. 14 Canby Sept. 21 Jamboree at Stayton ' 1 " At Silvertnn At Cascade " Oct. 12 ... Gervais Oct. 19 At Woodburn Oct. 26 Serra Nov. 2 At Ml. Angel Nov. 9 Stayton 100-Lapper Slated Here Auto racing returns to the Holly wood Bowl Saturday night with the late model stock car champinn- smP faces slated for the quartcr- Vnlalla!m"e -Paveo iracn. The feature race of the evening is the loo-lap title race matching referee and Andre Drapp in the joined in Ihc punching of the Prus Ihc best stock car pilots in the third fall. jsian, who finally retreated to his area. I Here's how it happened. Pop-! dressing room, muttering to him- Thc lime trials start at 7:43 wilh penheim picked up Bastien Irom sell. the regular racing card -beginning at 8:30. -By Ham Fisher left of six Ilnwailans on last year's squad. Left to right are Windy Scquelra, halfback; Benny Holt, quarterback; and Chuck Koanl, fullback. (Capital Journal Photo) , South Salem Albany At Sweet Home At Bend. Eugene At Lebanon Corvallis North Salem WiUaminaWill Host Stayton WILLAMINA -(Special) The Willamina Bulldogs will be looking for their second straight win of the young football season here Fri day night when they tangle with Stayton. The Bulldogs scored a 27-6 win over Taft in their opener last week and look like they could be one of the teams to beat In the Ya wama league. Coach Tom Cowan has ten let tcrmen back from the 1955 team which won five and lost- four. The lettcrmen are halfbacks Marion Pond and Doug Littlejohn. quarterback Bob Fowler, ends Jim Heed and Jerry I'ontl, lacKles Jerry Spencer and George Pond, guards Marv Trohcr and Don Wright, and center Steve Yoasl. The schedule: Sept. 7 .- At Tail Sept. 14 Slaylon Sept. 21 At Central Sept. 20 Banks Oct. 5 Salem Academy Oct. 19 At Yamhill Oct. 26 Dayton Nov. 2 At Sherwood ( ) At Sheridan SBC Changes To Evenings The Salem Breakfast club, alter meeting for years on Monday morning, will switch to once monthly night meetings this year. The move, to make it possible for more to attend Ihc meetings, will include 7 p.m. meetings each month at the Senator hotel. ' The first meeting has been set for Sept. 19 wilh Harry Glickman, president of Oregon Sports Attrac tions, and Bert Rose, publicity chief for the Los Angeles Rams, the speakers. For Ihc same meeting the coaches of North and South Salem high, Scrra. Snlem Academy, and the two junior highs will be guests ol the SRC. Poppenhcim's Rough Tactics Bring 4No Contest' Decision Kurt Von Poppcnheim was too! This brought help from the .... .nrnrnn iUn Dnnarnntlif Hirln'l tOP mean for his own gooa at tne Salem Armory last night, as his match wilh Red Bastien was de clarcd "no contest by referee Krenrhv I.aChannelle. Poppcnheim, the loud Prussian, brought it on himself when he got too nastv and wound up fight-; ing three in the ring Bastien, Ihc behind and set him up on a corner j post. When Rastien hooked his leei under ine ropis in uriiut: mm- self, Poppcnheim pulled him over backwards, then stepped on his face. i League Season Is Here! We have team spots available for men's, women's and mixed teams. Also openings for two 8 10 or 12 team leagues at choice hours on Mondays and Thursdays. CAPITOL BOWLING LANES 468 Ferry St. - Support Salem Elevens Face Rugged Practice Drills Saxons Set Bulldogs Here; Vikings ' At Cot'vullis North and South Salem high teams drill hard again this after noon as the two teams near their first .district football games Friday nignt. - South Salem faces the real 'toughic" of the two games as the Saxons are faced with a game with district-favorite Albany on the south Salem field. At Corvallis, the Vikings will tangle with tho Corvallis Spartans. representatives of this district In the state playoffs last year. Saxons Lack Experience Viking head coach Mel Fox ap parently has his team at top strength with but one player on the sidelines with an Iniurv. tackle Dick West. Fox made his North Salem coaching debut last Friday wilh a 26-13 tvin over Franklin at Portland. Corvallis lacks Icttermcn and experience but always manages to come up with a good club. The Spartans have always been trouble for Salem football teams. Cor vallis lost ils opener 20-0 to Eu gene. The toughest chore falls on the Saxons as llicy are faced with a team which is probably one of the finest elevens in the state this year. The Bulldogs rolled over Central Catholic 39-7 last week wilh Gary Grill and John Wilson carrying much of Ihc scoring load. At the same lime the Saxons were losing 19 0 to Beavcrlon. Two South Salem players are hurl, halfback Ted Foxley and end Claude Layton, but Steve Bcrglund, lelterman end who injured his fingers in an accident this sum mer, may be ready to play. Gauer Gets Position HERSHEY, Pa. (UP) Charley Gauer, an assistant to former Philadelphia Eagles Coach Joe Trimble last year, has been named to Ihc Eagles coaching staff for the forthcoming National Football League season. Gauer, 41, played collegiate ball at Colgate and spent three years in the NFL as a player with the Eagles. ' "'" -pf"" ; r." . the torture as he tried to free Bastion's logs, so into the ring iumDCd Andre Drapp. a French- man Irom a prelim match. He alternate v s ugged Poppcnheim and worked on Bastion's entangled feel. LaChappcllc then signalled for the bell lo end the mayhem and I he seminnat saw ueniieman Ed Francis make his debut with a miiiikiii ihii win uvi-i iu-kki .im.'. The special event ended in a vic- tnry (or Andre Drapp over Tony Bourne. Phone 3-357S Indian Standout Suffers Knee Injury in Practice Ducks' Osborne Faces Knee Si uirfirerv By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS Stanford suffered Its first costly injury Tuesday, as West Coast college teams eased up on foot ball practice. . Guard Don Manoukian ot Reno, a standout last season, wrenched a knee. Coach Chuck Taylor said the 220-pound lineman will be out tor two weeks. Taylor scheduled a scrimmage Wednesday in preparation for Stanford's Sept. 22 opener against Washington State at Spokane. At Los Angeles, tho UCLA Bru ins reduced practice to .one work out because of minor injuries and registration Jot classes. Coach Red Sanders said first ' stringers Jerry Tenner and Oscar Harris and sophomores Dennis Dressel and Clint Whitfield looked sharp in a defense scrimmage. Best Morale', of Ycnr 1 Washington worked out on a soggy field at Seattle. Coach Dar rell Royal said the players ex hibited the best "effort and mo rale", ot the year. Royal tried out junior . end Jim Dougherty of Klnmaih Falls, Ore., " as a pas sible substitute for injured center Marv Bergmarin and said he was pleased with Dougherty's per formance. Bergmann is expected to be out two weeks with a knee injury. At Berkeley. California's Coach Lynn (Pappy) Waldorf worl-od out sophomore tackles Don Pihl Charlie. Johnson in his quest for a new center. Waldorf said he is considering a shift in the Bear line because of the scholas tic ineligibility ot 210-pound soph omore center Frank Doretll. Beaver Sophs Noted Sophomores also got most of the attention at Corvallis. Three sec ond-year players broke into the fiisl-string Oregon Stale lineup ar.fi may be starters in the Beav ers' opener against Missouri. Sept. 22. The three are tackle Ted Bates of Los Angeles, guard Jim Brackins of Rcdlands, Calif., and fullback Nub Bcamer of Rose- burg, Ore. i - At Pullman, Coach, Jim Suther land indicated ' his Washington State squad may tr to outdo Stanford's famed quarterback Jon Brodie in tho opener with the In dians. Sutherland has concen trated on passing, Brodic's chief mm ' PI :"' lis fertEf' i SIS r - weapon, and with notable success. The passing of junior Bunny Ald rich and sophomore Bob Newman has highlighted almost every Cougar scrimmage. Ducks. Stress Defense At Eugene, Oregon concentrated on pass defense in preparation for Salem Contributes 7 Gridders to OCE MeArlhur Greets 51 Prospects, 13 Lettermen OREGON COLLEGE OF EDU CATION, Monmouth (Special) Oregon Collego of Education opened football drills here Mon day with 51 candidates on hand (or the 1956 season. Conch Bill McArthur, who re ceived' his doctor's degree j last spring at Oregon State, has only 1(1 practice days to get his Wolf pack ready for the season's open ing game against Lower Colum bia College at Longvicw on Sep tember 22. . . , Of the 51 turnouts for the squad, only 13 are lettcrmen.-Six of these were regulars last sea son and the other seven saw con siderable action. McArthur will undoubtedly build his squad around these returnees. Six Lettermen In Backfield Six of the returning lettcrmen are backs. This list includes half backs George McGrccr, Don Lumgair, Larry Buss and Wy- man Gcrnhart, fullback F.rvin Garrison and quarterback Harry Santee. , : Linemen returning are ends Gleason Eakin and Murvel Stone, tackles Barry Adams and Wayne Osborn, guard Jim Atkins and centers Pat McManus and Lenny Brcucr. Two other letterman linemen may return to the fold before the week is out. , , McArthur probably wilt field a more "wide open" type of of fensive ball club this year than he has In the past. He indicated that tho Wolves will adopt split-T offense patterned after the Los Angeles Rams' offense to go with McArthur's normal tight T operation. ' McArthur spent considerable time in the Rams' training camp Special ... choice Tailored - suits mm -J - Reg. 87.50 luxury imports save up to 35 Reg. 79.50 fine domestics save up to 35 the Sept. 22 opener against Colo rado at Boulder. Senior letterman Chuck Osborne of Turlcck, Calif., a halfback candidate, appeared headed for a knee cartilage op eration which could sideline him for the season. , He injured the knee in practice. ' ' ; this summer, boning up on the split-T offense. . -.-' The genial McArthur summed up his club's prospects for the year after Monday's two work outs: Needs Linemen "We need help in the line an3 we need to find a quarterback who can handle the. split-T of fense. If we can come up wifh four or five good linemen out of our freshman crop and if Harry Santee can handle the quarter back for us, we could do all right." Salem is well represented on the Wolfpack squad this season. Line candidates Owen Stockard, Wayne Osborn, Ray Comstock, Gary Elstun and Charles Winger all hail from Salem, as do backs Santee and Joel Blaco. ; . ' . OCE Rights GotoKSLM OREGON COLLEGE OF EDU CATION, Monmouth Dr. Rov E. Lieuallen. president ot Oroeon Col. lege of Education, announced here tins week that OCE had granted exclusive broadcasting rights for an woupacK lootball games for the 1956 season to radio station KSLM of Salem. t .... Sieve Brody, veteran sportscast er for the Salem station, will han dle the play-by-play description ol OCE home games. Games awav win De picuca up from originating stations lor live presentation in this area. - -, The first broadcast will be o! the OCE-Lowep Columbia Junior Col lege title at Longview September 22. me broadcast will be heard immediately following the Notre Dame-bouthern Methodist game. 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