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About Southern Oregon miner. (Ashland, Or.) 1935-1946 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 13, 1939)
Friday, Oct. 13, 193« SOUTHERN OREGON MINER their way. An Ashland team, under th«- present set up, must make up with determination mid guts for what they liu-k In other mlviintagi-s. It Is to their everlasting ' -| gT credit that ' they do their liest, In the an- miai iiicetings with Medford mid Klamath Falls to place their lit Idei 1rs III the field on a competitive basis. ’/ice-President Garner— Will He Respond to Call As Presidential Candidate? 0 Mar garrì tlau’kt While John Nance Garner presiding over destinies ot United States Senate. HINDSIGHT ON SPORTS 111 By I TOI.D YOU HO for<l high school has a state chain- plonahtp eleven, then the Pear city pigskin warriors must be at least half as gms I as they think ti>< v are Already there la talk In Medford of "cancelling” the Ashland-Medford game scheduled for Armistice day on the M<-dford field in favor of some "more wor thy competition Past history has lliustnitcd the stupidity of such Medford claims, three years ago the Pear Pickers being exceedingly fortunate to es cape with a B-0 tic after pooh- ptxihlng Ashland as fitting foes The following year Medford found the going rough enough, wllh Ash land taking an early lead and last year, after dominating three quar ters of the game, the Black Tor nado got pushc«! buck onto its heels in a surprise offensive by Ashland which took over for a touchdown and started down the field for another ns the gun ended the game Although the Bed and « Black machine easily was entitled to the honors, last five minutes of the twill game took all the fun out of triumph for a bunch of bewildered, thoroughly routed top dogs. Uhu know» . . . jioaacsaing special gifts for pig skin scheming. In Ashland we have a most cap able couch in Skcct O'Connell, but we have only one of him. Which, at least In competitive athletics, is not enough Although O'Connell first in a basketball coach and the beat In the southern Oregon con ference, he has been able to do well in football. Odds against the O( \>nnellmcn are great, with the preponderance of materia), coach ing staff and equipment In-longing to Medford ami, ditto, to Klam ath Falls and Grants Puss. The local player* not only have to lick II well-picked opponents In their conference games, but also they must overcome coaching iidviuit- iiges, proM-lytlng activities mid other hurdles pluced In MESCAL IKE », s L The will to win lx juxt ax strong here on the part ot players, school officials and townspeople ax it is in other schools where teams are showered with every possible ad vantage. But we haven’t been backing our boys on u par with their competitiors. In effect, we tell our players to get along with less coaching, poorer equipment und fewer resreves but to go out there regardless and make us proud of them. Wouldn’t it be feasible to aug ment the local foottiall coaching staff, at least to a limited ex tent? Although we do not know whether xuch an offer would ire welcomed by Bernie Hughes, the possibility exists that Ashland could secure Hughes' services ax assistant coach. What Bernie could do for the Ashland line would be worth whistling about, Hughes, a three-year college star ami for five years the best center in professional football and be sides that one of the squarest and most (ropular young men in south ern Oregon, has a wealth of ex perience and know-how that could be an important ad«iition to the coaching staff here. (Understand, however, that all this lx merely conjecture on the part of Hindsight neither O’Con- nell nor Hughes has been con- suited.) Bernie at the present time is selling flivvers in Medford, an oc- cupation which could easily lend itself to part-time attenUon to coaching here evenings. We have a hunch that Hughes might be in terested in such a proposition and it is an established fact that local bins would Ilk«- to sc«- th.-ir foot trail teams placed on a more nearly «-qu.il footing with Medford and other surrounding schools. The Orizxlien got one Im portant break this year in the form of new and entirely ade quate equipment which is a|>- prec la led troth by the boys mid t<rwn»|M-opie. Now we should go even further. One mentor, no matter how good a job he may be doing, can't give his boys the Individual attention, the time and the detailed instruction that two or three can give. Ix-t's hear from some idea—dorsi of you ? Page 3 of the fans on this It "take” with any ('oach AI Himpson's Ashland Juniors traveled to Grants Pass Saturday afternoon and took a 19-0 thumping at the hands of the Frosh there. Facing a larger ami more experienced team, it was to be expected that the green A.JHS eleven would bite the G-P sawdust, but to an observer the defeat was entirely unnecessary i 'Die Axhlaml laris could have j held the Babes to an approximate tie by trying reasonably hard All | of the Ashland players as first- year men haven’t yet learned that the difference between victory and defeat is just a small amount of extra effort an added determina tion that turns the tide against the opposing team. Time and' again the Ashland Juniors could have broken up touchdown plays if two or three of the linesmen ha«l quit playing like grade school ers and had put out Instead of standing with hands-on-hips after the initial charge. Once a Grants Pass fumble lay unattended on the ground ready to be picked up and galloper! towar«! the goal line. An Ashland linesman had pene trated the Babe wall and was standing there, useless-like, watch ing to see what would happen in stead of driving right on through to the ball carrier. Had he been hustling he would have scooped up the ball and been off for a long gain or a touchdown. His little brother could have done it, it wax that easy. Coach Simpson must find little consolation in the fact that his tiny backfield is trying to make up for the loafing on the part of some of the other players. "Everybody's Talking" “There’s nothin’ rough about smooth-tast ing Old King Cole Beer!” A-ONE BREWING COMPANY Medford, Oregon ASHLAND’S NEW RENDEZVOUS! OUR ADJOINING ROOM WITH BOOTHS AND TABLES FOR LADIES A-ONE DRAFT DEER FEATURING The entire squad—siibsti- tutea and all—are a fine bunch of lads and by next year they will shape into a successful squad. But they could go a lot farther this season if they’d use a little more spunk and play harder. They are ca|>tibie of a better performance than they have been turning in. Perhaps if they can once score they'll ts^ gin to feel their strength and then really become a ball club. Tonight, in a return game with Granta Paas Cavemen Babes on the local field they will have a chance to redeem themselves be fore the eyes of their home folks. The boys promise things will be different. ------------ •------------ • Subscribe for The Miner today. 5C per glass Fines* Quality Brew in Generous 6-Ox. Glass! BOHEMIAN CLUB AL BKOWEK, Proprietor So That’» Started Again—Has It? HUNTLkY ■n-es EMGAct Due TO |M-rbaps again this year Ashland's 'way down tinders might rise to great heights and make u ball game of It for the Great Ones from Medford. Ashland's boys usually do, and the local lads like nothing better than to |H*imd humility Into eleven swelled heads. f Co or rig ht. S’MATTER POP— Oops! Sound Sleeper! L. Huntloy. Trad« Mark Ret U. b pal Offlca) By C. M. PAYNE Aside from the annual commun ity rivalry, which get« hotter than the under aide of a Medford fan'« collar «luring defeat, A ah land en thusiasts will have to admit, be grudgingly enough, that the city to the north is far superior in gridiron athletics for very obvious reasons First. the Medford ath letic generals are encouraged to comb the county for material a practice which may he cricket enough, if you choose to defend it, but which Is not being followed by Ashland Secondly, the Miil- ford football machine has the ad vantage of full-time attentions of three athletic coaches, all of them • B«U Syndicat*.— WNU S«rvie*. THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER $>«f r 113 Jy /3 j ^ ti A «CDüChbG excßcists, EH9 IT ShûCfc LAS’ try » 8€G a ) (A New Tune Each Day By Vincent Lopez« j AT (S oop ! ìost reec AQM- FN 0COÜS HAVE ROCCE —A*30 STikSfc! it ’ s dûüg ne . £ iùénerTBtQ, I V ai ?. HOU USA.K I u»s7 TOO ÜVAK ID DO fcTKIAKi! _____ 7- _____________ >------- THEM DAYS ARE GONE FOREVER!
