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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. OCTOBER 24. 1939 -.. . : ' ,'"7rT'," . .m i 1 111 - Sport Graphs Billy Hulen says: Tie Forseen For Southern Oregon Conference Title As a result of that u to u tie turned in by Mcdford and Klamath grid teams in ruamoui Falls Friday night, it appears almost a dead certainty the 1939 Southern Oregon conference championship will be divided equally between the Tigers and the Pelicans. Unless the unforseen happens and Grants Pass upsets the Klamathites or Ashland rises up to lick Medford, both Klamath Falls and Mcdford will end the league schedule with two wins, and one tie. As it stands now Medford has beaten Grants Pass and tied Klamath, and has only Ashland to get over on Armistice day to obtain a co-championship. Klamath Falls has beaten Ashland and tied Mcdford, and faces Grants Pass next Friday in what should be a breather. If Jhe remainder of the loop race runs true to form Klamath beats Grants Pass and Medford lakes Ashland the Pelicans and Tigort will be lied for the championship, marking the first time in years and years an undis puted title-holder hasn't been determined. In facl, we can't remember of any previous season the championship was held by Iwo teams. Two years ago Klamath and Medford battled to a scorelosi tie, but Ashland deadlocked the Peli cans the same season, 6 to 6, to give Medford the crown. Ties are always disappointing, especially those of the scoreless variety, and it is no secret that everyone here In Medford fans, players and coaches are not exactly pleased with the out come of the Tiger-Pelican fra cas. Quite a chunk of Medford money was droppend on the encounter, on those one-point ipotwagers, and some of the boys who lost a fin or a ten are rather free with their criti cism of several aspects of the gama. For one thing, there Is dis satisfaction over M e d f o r d's choice of plays when the team reached K 1 a m a t h's five-yard line in the fourth quarter and had four downs in which to score a touchdown. The grand stand quarterbacks are claiming the Tigers should have thrown Saulsberry straight ahead for at least three plays, basing their reasoning on the fact that he had been ripping the Klamath A Gentleman's v V Since 1S6S i f . ? i 6ft . ,1 . , - 1 I oe ef aS- WjH? AUL JONES I line to shreds just prior to New land's forward pass to Piche, which put the ball on the five yard stripe. We are bold to disagree, and to remark that, in our opinion, Quarterback Louie Thurman called the correct plays. On the first play Thurman sent Sauls berry into the middle and the Klamath line, drawn in for the goal line stand, tossed the Med ford fullback for a one-half yard loss. On the next play Thurman called Medford's best offensive maneuver, the play that all year has proved the mightiest ground-gainer the Tigers pos sessed Piche on that reverse around his own left end. This was certainly the log ical play, for it had been tested under fire time after lime and had never before failed. That it did on this occasion for a t h r e e-yard loss doesn't prove it was tho wrong play by any means. So then, with third down and eight and a half yards to go, Newland threw a pass to Piche which gained one yard. On this play, as on the pro ceeding one, what better tac tic was available? Should Medford have sent Saulsberry straight ahead again, with the ball eight and a half yards from the goal line, on third down, and the Klamath line bunched to bailer down just such a. play? We think not. Then, on fourth down and the goal seven and a half yards away, there was only one log ical play, a pass, and it was completed from Orr to Thur man and the latter was brought down on the one-foot line. That ended Medford's big scoring threat. More than one local fan is sincerely certain that Piche scored a touchdown on that for ward pass from Newland; that he didnt' step out of bounds on the five-yard line. Perhaps he did, it was might close and from the press box it looked like he DID score. But Referee Jean Eberhart ruled Piche's foot was off the field at the five-yard marker and that's good enough for us, and also for Coach Bill Bowerman of the Tigers. After the game Bill remarked that, so far as he was concerned, "the officiating was excellent." I. Plckem raised his batting average 46 points to .574 over the week-end, calling eight games correctly, missing throe and seeing one end In a tie Medford-Klamath. The prognos- tlcator is rapidly moving toward the charmed .000 circle and ex pects to make it by 1987. Correct picks were UCLA- Montana, California-Washington State, Idaho-Utah, Tennessee Alabama, Notre Dame-Navy, Northwestern-Wisconsin, Ohio State-Minnesota and Texas A. and M.-Texas Christian. Misses were Oregon State-Washington, Oregon-Gonzaga (who didn't) and New York U.-Carncgie Tech (also, who didn't?). The current average looks like this: Won Lost Ties Pet. 27 20 7 .574 v. rJlf" . u' r Ittff PINT! J V " ; 1 , A r r - ..'III J- 1 W II $ n TENNESSEE VOTED BEST GRID TEAM IN WEEKLY POLL Irish In Second Place, Ore gon State Ranked 14th And Oregon is Also Ran. By Bill White. New York, Oct. 24. (AP) Little Mercer college of Macon. Ga., has one consolation at least it's going to be beaten next Saturday, barring grld- dom's greatest upset, by the best team in the nation, the Volun teers of Tennesee. By a margin as wide as from here to Mars, the Vols stand ac claimed today as the finest col lege football crew in the land. In the second weekly Associated Press national ranking poll, the talented southern juggernaut re ceived 93 first places votes out of a possible 131 to roll up a total of 1203 points. Dominates Picture. Seldom, if ever, has one team so dominated the picture. And not only did the nation s press box experts pile their plaudits on the team, but no less a per sonage than Dr. John Bain (Jock) Sutherland told metro politan football writers yester day he considered the team "one of the most perfect I have ever' seen." He added he didn't think any team in the country could score on Major Bob Neyland's crew, let alone beat them! If there is any team that could beat the Vols, in the opinion of the writers, it would be Notre Dame. The Ramblin' Irish got 13 votes for first place and a total of 923 points for second place in the weekly rank ings. Standings of the teams (points figured on a basis of 10 9-8-7-6-3- 4-3-2-1; first place votes in paren thesis): First Ten. Team Tennesee (93) 1,203 Notre Dame (13) 923 Michigan (8) 777 Ohio State (5) 771 Texas A. & M. (8) 714 Oklahoma (4) 554 Cornell (1) 469 Southern California (0) 393 Tulane (1) 244 Nebraska (0) 164 Second ten: Duquesne 140; North Carolina 132 1-2; Duke 120; Oregon State 95; Missis sippi 90; Pennsylvania 66; Southern Methodist 55; Pitts burgh 48; New York U. 25, and Alabama 20. Also ran: San Jose 17, U.C. L.A. 16, Kentucky 14, Louisiana State 13, Purdue 13, Oregon 11, Yale 8, Minnesota 5, Dartmouth 5, California 4, Carnegie Tech 3. Holy Cross 2. Utah 2, St. Mary's, Texas Christian, Cath- . h bcc Portable Radios Barred From Grid At Northwestern Chicago, Oct. 24. (AP) Portable radio sets were ban ned today from football games at Northwestern university. - Speculators lugged all sorts of funny looking boxes into the stands at the Wisconsin Northwestern game Saturday and listened to blaring de scriptions of races at horse tracks and accounts of other football games, much to the annoyance of nearby fans. Ted Payseur, ticket man ager, received so many squawks that he decided port able sets henceforth must be left at home. BOWLING Classic league bowling results In the Medford alleys last night fol low: Zortc 3, Gates' Ramblers 0; M. and M. 3, Studebaker 0; Mald-Rlte 3, Active club 1. Scores follow: Gates' Ramblers Cannon 160 178 Proctor 147 154 168504 148449 166 473 126472 188564 794 2462 30 90 181511 167 484 186 616 181 497 115 453 850 2551 Oreen 169 138 Oates 18S 164 Reltama 188 188 Totals 846 822 Zorle Cleaners Handicap 30 Bean - 161 Pabrlck 174 30 160 153 Lyons 172 158 Saylor 169 Dixon 169 Totals 876 826 M. and M. Renastorff 154 187 Adair 227 166 Daws 182 177 (Simmons! 172 172 Hemstreet 207 184 Totals 942 886 PtnrielMiker 211552 163556 150509 172516 180571 876 2704 32 96 180471 128421 150 448 177520 175544 812 2498 Handicap 32 Paske 155 Sanderson 154 W. Prultt 161 Stark 157 Eads 173 32 136 150 145 186 196 Totals 811 845 Mald-Rlte Handicap 25 35 Hagen 163 159 Lewis (Dick) 148 170 Oabel 170 168 wiikenson .. 188 140 Bell 186 174 Totals 877 836 Active rinh Moore. Jaa. . 164 166 Larsen 133 177 ; Porterfleld 146 189 DeVore 192 171 Slma (Earl) 189 205 Totals 823 878 25 75 242564 146-462 184522 145473 192551 934 2647 199529 169468 182 487 132 408 178572 850 2551 olie U., Santa Clara and Gonzaga 1 each. GOOD AMEEICAM and V , ij-'"y' Give At Least '" letif One Day's Pay 0 1 . I J ......tow. 'ln l "'" dwtlfmeni ronirlbuicd in the InterMt Chest Headquarters iVA"? ' " ims-wio Mrdiord mmmumtv cht Main Street at fXXliVW Oampaltn b hf PuMl.hers and entire start " i flO' HI Medford Mali Tribune. Central Avenue Ih1I j JiiMiiieeMiliiiiiMii ! ei a mis mMi-L!!!!!!!!!!j BELCASTRO LASTS ONLY 3 MINUTES WITH BIG GERMAN Hans (Hitler) Schulz ran his winning streak to seven straight in the Medford armory last night bv Boston crabbing Pete Bel- i castro into submission in three minutes, the Italian from Weed being unable to continue wres tling after receiving the back breaking hold. As a result of last night's match, a blood-and-thunder af fair while it lasted, the big Ger man has completely exhausted the current competition and stands all alone at the head of southern Oregon's brigade of brawn. With nobody left to wrestle: nobody, that is. who would stand a chance to give- him a battle, Schulz is looking forward to meeting King Kong Clayton of Birmingham, Ala., a 200-pound colored boy rated one of the best in the country. It was an nounced last night that Clayton would positively appear here next week, after a popular vote okayed the "mixed bout" angle. Promoter Lillard said he would try to match the Negro with Scrulz. Belcastra put up a whale of a fight while it lasted, which was quick. He shelled the Nazi with everything in the book for the better part of the three min utes, but finally went down when Schulz landed a crushing haymaker behind the ear and clamped on a crab hold. The match got under way while the boys still were pur portedly listening to Referee Earl Yoakley's instructions. Schulz took a swing at Pete be fore the bell and Belcastro im mediately swung into action, after hurriedly doffing his pretty bathrobe. He attacked Schulz in the latter's corner and gave him the works. The German failed to land a blow for quite a spell as Pete hammered him to the canvas time after time and sent him reeling through the ropes twice. It was the second trip through the hernp that built up the cli max. Pete knocked Schulz out side the ring and as the latter was staggering around on the ring apron Pete got brave and attempted to haul Hans back into the arena. Hans fired his first blow, a terrific clout that caught Pete back of the left ear, and Belcastro hit the carpet. Like a ten-ton tank, Schulz re entered the ring, and when Pete arose Schulz leveled him again, then flipped him over and clamp ed on the crab business. That was all there was to it, as Pete was too far gone to continue. Davie Levin managed to do something few wrestlers have done he recovered sufficiently from a Dude Chick lariat spin to come back for more. How ever, it was a futile gesture, for Chick immediately body slammed Levin for the second fall and the match. Chick grabbed the first tum ble in the fifth round, after both boys had displayed some great grappling. He gave Dave 13 revolutions of the whirl. Dave staggered to his feet as the sixth round opened but lasted only five seconds as Chick picked him up and dumped him to the mat. El Pulpo won the opener from Speed LaRance, two falls to one, taking the first tumble in the first round with a rolling body scissors and the decider la the third with his pet octopus ma neuver. LaRance used a Cana dian grapevine to grab a fall in the second heat. Night Limited ISsi-zSStlt Every Regular Car Air-Conditioned Observation club car, witt louoqa, fountain, baibar, bath, period ioali, caide. Lateit type of tandaid and tourist sleeping cars Deluxe coaches, with lounges lot men and women, deep individu al teats, poiter service, free pillows. RflV pYnrPCC $ LoAVB9 Portland 8:30 a. m. UflJ LAI Gdd Arrive Spokane 6:30 p. m. New, Air-Conditloned Reserved Seat Coach Individual, adjustable seats (50o), observation section, magazines, eto. Cafe economy meals. Noa air-conditioned coach. Scenery of Columbia River and Cascade Range and Bonneville Dam. SPOKANE LOW FARES (from Portland) Coach $ 7.S0 one way $14.23 round-trip Touriat 8.43 one way 16.03 round-trip Standard 11.24 one waj 16.90 xound-trip Aad R..vd Seat Co.ob. BrtA ami ntmtd M4l eJarit addition. Southern Pacific's home agent will sell through tickets la connection with the S. P. & S. Rr. at proportional iarea. Details or Illustrated folders will be furnished on request R. H. CroEier, Gen. Passenger Agent, American Bank Bldg., Portland. Spokane. Portland INJURED BISCUIT T( San Francisco, Oct. 24. (AP) Charles S. Howard's great thor oughbred Seabiscuit was stabled at Tanforan racetrack today to start training' for a comeback which might made him the great est money-winner of all time. The six-year-old stake star, the champion of American turfs last year with his brilliant tri umph over War Admiral, came down with a leg injury last win ter on the eve of the $100,000 added Santa Anita handicap. Seabiscuit likely will be en tered in one of the Tanforan handicaps next month, and if he rounds into shape might be pointed for the 1940 Santa Anita handicap. The son of Hardtack has earn ed $340,880 in his years of racing. The world alphabet is derived from the first two letters of the Greek alphabet,' Alpha and Beta. CHOICE OF S.P.4S. TRAINS DAY OR NIGHT & Seattle Railway ARMSTRONG'S TITLE Los Angeles, Oct. 24. APV "Hammerin' Henry'' Armstrong, a local boy who made good in the big time, puts his welter weight boxing crown up tonight for clever Jimmy Garrison of Kansas City to shoot at. Both were expected to weigh in well under the 147-pound limit Armstrong at about 143 and Garrison at 139. The bout will be 10 rounds. WINDOW GLASS Wa sell window glaas and will replace your broken windows reasonably. Trowbrldgo Cab inet Worfca. WORD oounBorj It- Jl run BITTER S M 1 & 1
