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
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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.
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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 ?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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