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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1939.
Sport
Graphs
Billy Hulen ayi:
Di Maggio And
NeyUnd Write
To Santa Claut
The Christmas spirit U In the
air and Santa Claut is rapidly
becoming about the most Im
portant guy on earth, not only
with the younger generation but
with sports characters of all
types and descriptions.
Some of these sports person
ages can even write, and those
who can are currently flooding
the mails with letters addressed
to Mr. Santa Claus at the North
Pole. It seems they are heavily
burdened with requests to make
of Mr. Claus this season, and
to give the general public an
idea of what these sports gen
tlemen would like Santa to
leave in their socks on the Yule
tide we are reprinting some of
the letters now on their north
ward journey. .
From time to time, before
Xmas, more of these missives
to "Dear Santa Claus" will be
printed. Following are the first
two to come to our attention:
Knoxville, Tenn.
. Dec. 13, 1939.
Dear Santa Claus:
As you perhaps know, my
football team, the Tonnesee Vol
unteers, has been scheduled to
meet Mr. Howard Jones' South
ern California- Trojans in the
Pasadena Rose Bowl on Janu
ary 1 of this year. Ever since
we signed for the game certain
citizens of Knoxville have been
pressing me to write and ask
you to drop a nice little 13 to 0
victory in my stocking Christ
mas morning. It seems that
these Knoxville citizens are
planning to unfold their folding
money and make It talk to the
good persons of southern Cali
fornia, and In order to feel as
confident as possible they would
like to be certain you will visit
my stocking on Xmas morn.
Now Santa Claus, I do not
want to go against the wishes
of my good friends in Knox
ville, but I have decided to do
o just this once. I am not
going to ask you to leave me a
18 to 0 victory over U.S.C. I
am not even going to request a
victory. You see, Santa Claus,
I have decided that my team
can beat U.S.C. without your
kind help. As for those 13
pointa, to tell you the truth
we expect to score at least
three touchdowns.
There Is only one request I
have to make of you, Santa
Claus. It Is that you leave in
my stocking, strictly for use
next season, a halfback to fill
the shoes of George Cafego. I
have been a good boy all year,
and trust you have been the
aame. Yours truly,
Major Bob Neyland.
San Francisco,
Dec. 13, 1939.
Dear Kris Krlngle:
My requests are very modest
this year, Santa Claus, and as I
have been an excellent child
for the past 12 months (except
to American league pitchers) I
m sure you will be glad to
nil my stocking with the fol
lowing small items:
A million customers for my
eating establishment on Fisher
man's wharf, 81 home-runs for
the 1940 season, a bating aver
age of .425 (wlhch would give
me the modern record over
Hornsby), 63 two-base hits, 35
triples, 230 runs batted In and
at least 20 stolen bases
Also, Dear Snnta, I would
like to put In a good word for
my two brothers, who are too
bashful to write you. If you
find room In my stocking, please
leave Brother Vlnce a regular
spot in that Cincinnati outfield
'a UJng ,vera8e of at least
Sdo. And for Dominic, who Is
S? If '? the B6,,on Red Sox,
kindly leave about 45 pilfered
"r?' of sensational
catches against the centcrfleld
board, and a batting mark the
same as Vlnce's.
Thanking you In advance, t
remain Sincerely yours,
Joe DiMagglo.
WILLAMETTE DEFEATS
ALBANY COLLEGE 48-40
Salem. Dec. 13. (ip) Wil
lamette defeated Albany college
?' Z01' 8. In a rough
basketball game last night
Three men were benched on
personal fouls.
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COLLEGE QUINTET
ALL-STAIUINEUP
Former Prep and College
Players on Dairy Team;
Ingle's, Lewis in Prelim.
Winners of 26 out of 37 games
last year and rated the team to
battle Willamette for this sea
son's Northwest conference
championship, Pacific Univers
ity's Badgers will be In town
tonight to go against Medford's
Lost River Dairy Independents
in the first local basketball clash
of the 1939-40 campaign. The
game will be played in the high
school gym.
The preliminary, which will
start at 7:30, will see Ingle's
Cowboys of Ashland, last year's
Jackson county A. A. U. cham
pions, tangling with the Lewis
Super Service Station team of
Medford. The feature game will
start immediately after comple
tion of the opener.
One Newcomer
Coach Pete Miller of the col
legians will send an 80 per cent
veteran lineup against the
Dairymen. Only Roy McCabe,
guard from Kelso, Wash., will
be a newcomer to the Pacific
starting five.
At the forward positions will
be John Selm and Ed Eilertsen.
both three-year veterans and
both. standing six feet tall. Bob
Cooney, six foot two inch cen
ter, is a one-year regular. Tru
man Osburn, the other guard,
has two years of experience un
der his belt. Seim, Eilertsen and
Cooney were named on the All
Northwest conference second
team last year.
The Badgers employ a fast
moving style of basketball,
sometimes called the "hot pota
to" system, and more than usual
stress Is laid on teamwork fea
turing smooth ball-handling and
lightning-like passes
Harrington To Play
The Lost River quintet, which
held the powerful SOCE team
to a 21 to 19 victory in its only
game so far, will line up with
BUI Hoxle and Darrell Leavens
at the forwards, Paul Lowery
at center and Charlie Warren
and George Harrington at the
guards. Hoxle and Leavens are
former SONS stars, Lowery
played for Medford high last
year, Warren is an ex-Ashland
high luminary and Harrington
performed three years for Lin
field college.
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New Orleans, Dec. 13. (fP)
The national intercollegiate
championship Oregon university
Webfoots showed their worth
last night by defeating the Boga
lusa Gaylords, southern A.A.U.
basketball champions 33-43 be
fore a crowd of 3,500.
The Webfoots' offensive had
difficulty getting started in the
first half but opened up in the
second with Ted Sarpola and
Matt Pavaluns lighting the way
The Gaylords found the shift
ing defense of the visitors as
tight as the Maglnot line during
the first half.
Pavalunas got ten field goals.
Sarpola five.
DEMPSEY DELAY CAUSES
CHANGE IN FIGHT DATE
Manila, Dec. 13. (IP) The
middleweight title fight between
Champion Ceferino Garcia and
Gleen Lee of Nebraska was
moved ahead a week to the
night of the December 23 to
day by Promoter Jess Cortes.
Jack Dempsey, flying to Ma
nila to referee the bout, has
approved the new date, Cortes
announced. The change was
made because it was feared the
former heavyweight champion
might not arrive In time.
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BOWLING
Jn Ladlea league bowling matchoe
In ttai Mediant alleys lut night, city
Cleaners took all four pointa from
City Market. Oilman's Dairy beat
Hunt's lea Cream, S to I and Alley
ettea and Valentine's split the four
talllea. Reorea follow:
City Market
Llttrell 108 138 103341
Hampaon 87 83 33373
(Hlerholzer)
138 138 136V4U
. 108 108 133338
Wallace
Totals 430 468 447 1388
City Cleaners
Wataon 138 133 183403
Oramea 148 108 133377
(Mlkache) 138 138 138 414
Houston 138 107 143878
Handicap 14 . 14 14 43
Total. 863 480 688 1814
Hunta Ice Cream
Semon 78 163
(Prtable) 140 140
DeVore 133 80
Proohnow . 108 133
Handicap 1 1
Totala 460 616
Ollmana Dairy
Mathea .'. 106 188
Boyle 88 111
Harper 83 114
Sherwood 149 163
Totala 436 683
133366
140430
88310
113363
1 3
474 1440
148438
130339
90387
177479
646 1643
Valentine'! Cafe
(O'Brien) 141 141
(Tollelson) 143 143
Swoape 141 163
Carblener 173 163
Totala 697 669
AUeyettea
Lendt 138 184
Payna 87 84
Bateman 140 141
Sims , 143 143
Handicap 78 78
Totala 698 800
141433
143439
181476
133467
698 1784
107399
84378
186 (36
183447
79337
888 1794
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.Last Monday night's feminine
grappling match between Clara
Mortensen, woman lightweight
champion, and Gladys Nolan,
was so well liked by the large
crowd that saw it that Promoter
Mack Lillard tentatively plans
to rematch the two girls on next
week's program, he said today.
Mack explained that Miss No
lan, who put up a great match
only to lose when Miss Morten
sen turned slightly rough, had
requested another crack at the
tltleholder, and that he planned
to get La Mortensen's response
to the idea of a return go. If
Miss Mortensen agrees to again
face the Kansas City blonde,
they will battle on next Monday
eve's card, he said.
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press
New York Maxle Berger,
141, Montreal, outpointed Wes
ley Ramey, 134, Grands Rapids,
Mich., (8).
Los Angeles Jackie Wilson,
136, Los Angeles, outpointed
Tony Chavez, 139, Los Angeles
(10).
New York Tony Harteliano,
139, New York, outpointed Pri
mo Flores. 133, Puerto Rico (8).
White Plains, N. Y. Irish Ed
die Dunne, 144. New York, out
pointed Vlnnle Vines, 142, Sche
nectady, N. Y., (8).
OREGON STATE FIVE
DROPS MULTNOMAH
Portland, Dec. 18. (P) John
Mandlc and Paul Valenti each
caged 13 points as Oregon State
smothered Multnomah Athletic
club last night in a basketball
game, 39-34.
Oregon State led at the half,
31-24.
COUGAR CAGERS WIN
47-32 OVER. MONTANA
Bozeman, Mont., Dec. IS. (fP)
Washington State college, one
of the principal threats to Ore
gon's northern division basket
ball crown, turned back Mon
tana State, 47 to 32, last night.
The victors led 24 to 13 at the
half.
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TWIN CAGE BILLS
TO SWEEP NATION,
Ned Irish Picks Webfoots
To Repeat; Oregon Team
Plays in Garden Saturday
By Bill White
New York, Dec. 13. P
The double feature still may be
a headache to movie magnate,
Hut to college basketball it if
aoout the biggest innovation
since the introduction of level
floors.
And it's a growing young
giant of an idea that may sweep
the country like bingo. So
much so that the graduate man
ager who offers only one game
on a given night is likely to be
as unpopular as a civet cat at a
lawn party, because basketball
fans are demanding twice as
much basketball a night as they
used to get.
That's what Ned Irish, form
er New York sportswriter, who
introduced the highly-successful
double bills at Madison Square
Garden, believes will be one of
1940,s major cage trends.
Success Last Year
And he is in a pretty good
position to know, for his double
offerings last year attracted an
average of 14,000 customers a
night for 14 nights exclusive of
the 50,000 who sat three nights
to watch the Metropolitan Bas
ketball Writers' tournament.
Irish thinks the growth of the
doubleheader will be paralelled
by the retention of sectional
championships by virtually
every one of 1939's pennant
winning teams.
. Irish's associates, who keep a
watchful eye on cage conditions
from coast to coast, think John
Dick and Matt Pavalunas should
spark the N.C.A.A. champion,
Oregon, to another northern di
vision. Pacific Coast title, and
that Ralph Vaughn of South
ern California and Toddy Gian
ninl of Santa Clara, both vying
for the "best player of the west"
title vacated by Stanford's Hank
Luisettl, will make their clubs
powerful.
The Garden impressario has
high hopes for De Paul, Ohio
State, Minnesota, New York U.,
Long Island U., Dartmouth,
Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Tem
ple, Kentucky and Tennessee to
be leading powers again in their
respective sections.
Webfoots Play L. I.
It will be noted that virtually
all those named will appear in
the Garden this winter season
a fact that may have some bear
ing on the Irish enthusiasm, al
though all are undoubtedly fine
teams.
The Garden program opens
Saturday night with Oregon
playing Long Island, winner of
the Writers' 1939 tourney, and
the Oklahoma Aggies meeting
City College of New York.
Spring Burglar Alarm
Clayton, Mo. U.R It's the
cats, says George Baker, St.
Louis county deputy sheriff. He
says they became a nuisance by
setting off an electric eye burg
lar alarm in a grocery ware
house, waking the neighbors
and calling him out on false
alarms "six and seven times a
week.'t
Guards to School.
Columbus, O. (U.R) Ohio
penitentiary guards must go to
school now under rulings of
Warden F. D. Henderson.
Classes will stress uniformity
of performance and increased
efficiency.
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TWO OF A KIND Tops among clay target marksmen
are Jack Lindsay (right), of Okmulgee. Oklz., the 1938 skeet king
who cracked 200 in a row to top Class AA at the Grand American
Trapshoot In Vandalia, -Ohio; and R. A. King, president of the
Amateur Transhoolins association, who broke 200 straight to win
the Class A title. King Is from Wichita Falls. Tex.
TELL FEARSOME
TALES OF VOLS
Los Angeles, Dec. 13. VP)
Southern California scouts who
watched Tennessee play its last
two games have made their re
ports, and the verdict, as South
ern California announces it, is
that the Volunteers should whip
the Men of Troy in the Rose
Bowl at Pasadena January 1.
George Levison, former
Northwestern University quar
terback who has been scouting
Notre Dame for the Trojans,
watched Tennessee clinch the
Rose Bowl bid last week by de
feating Auburn 7-0. His charts,
diagrams and comments are un
der scrutiny by head coach How
ard Jones and his assistants.
Jeff Cravath, one of Jones'
lieutenants, says Levison's re
ports show Tennessee's offense
is built along the general lines
of the Trojans but differs just
enough to worry the S. C. staff
in trying to build a competent
defense.
The Vols use a single wing
back to the right or left, but
from a balanced line and run
reverses and spinners, although
the team does not shift. Like
the Trojans, say the S. C.
coaches, Tennessee has three top
notch ball packers, Cafego, But
ler and Warren. Scouts reported
back that the Tennessee weights
as posted seemed "too low."
Ten Years
Kcndallvllle, Ind. (U.R) For
10 years, Robert Shanower
saved oil cans, piling them in
a nempty room in his garage.
Recently he cleaned the room
and sold-the 45,000 accumulated
cans to a fish bait dealer. The
price for 10 years' saving $5.
Butter Late.
Newton, Kas. (JP) A New
ton restaurant owner decided to
do something to cut down the
dally consumption of butter. So
he delays providing the custom
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Ntxi to Rial to Thratr
ers with knives until after the
soup is served. It keeps them
from putting butter on crackers
and he reports that it "saves a
tidy sum."
Cleopatra's Palace?
Rome. (JP) Italian archeol
ogists believe they have found
the site of the sumptuous palace
occupied by Cleopatra during
her two-year residence in Rome
from 48 to 46 B. C. Excava
tions along the bank of the
Tiber, six miles from Rome,
have uncovered ruins of several
buildings, with frescoes, mosaic
flooring and fragments of statu
ary where the glamorous queen
Is supposed to have entertained
Marc Antony.
Deer Lightens Chagrin
Loma Rica, Cal. (U.R) When
Mr. and Mrs. Clem Farenkamm
went deer hunting, they took
with them, as they had done
on previous occasions, their son
Stanley, aged 12. Stanley was
left to guard the car while they
delved Into the tall timber.
While Stan was waiting, a big
buck came by so he shot it with
a .22 rifle. The parents returned
later sans buck.
Paired
Roanoke. Va. (IP) Statisti
cians calculated it could happen
only once in 54,000 cuttings of
a deck of cards. Six married
couples here, comprising the
Sleepy Hollow Bridge club, met
regularly for 11 years and cut
cards for partners., One night
recently, the cutting paired man
and wife as partners in all six
couples. That's the way they
were paired for the first nana
over a decade ago.
Rome's Busses
Rome (JP) Collapse of Eu
rope's tourist traffic because of
the war has given Romans a
new fast bus service. The Italian
Auto Transit company (S.I.T.A.)
is employing idle luxury busses
to run double-fare lines across
the city at greater speed than
that of the regular busses or
even taxis.
Daath, Anyway
Paris (iP) Prevented by ill
ness from joining his regiment
at the front, Eugene Parmentel.
at, 37-year-old French soldier,
chose suicide by hanging.
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Yankees Top Team of 1939;
Oregon Quintet Ranked 7th
By Sid Fader
vnrb rw 13. (JP The boss always said to put the
news at the top of the story, so
place to tell you the country's
York Yankees of baseball the
Rather, it's the spot to explain
that the experts balloting in the
ninth annual Associated Press
poll had a tough time deciding
whether Iowa's comebacking
football Hawkeyes, or the unde
feated teams of Southern Cali
fornia, Tennessee and Cornell,
rated the No. 2 slot. They final
ly gave it to Iowa with 37 Vi
points to 34 for the Pacific Coast
conference champions; 33 for
the other half of the rose bowl,
Tennessee, and 26 for Cornell.
Yet the combined vote for
these four gridiron powers was
only slightly more than half the
total the Yankees rolled up in
winning recognition as "out
standing team of the year, ama
teur or professional," for the
fourth straight year, just as easi
ly as they sky-rocketed to their
fourth straight world champion
ship with a woeful walloping
of the Cincinnati Reds in Octo
ber.
Sixty-one of the 79 experts
who cast ballots from all parts
of the country picked the Yan
kees as undisputed No. 1 team.
Another split his ticket between
the Yankees and the Hawkeyes.
Thirteen others put the Yankees
in second place. There were on.
ly four who didn't mention
them
Of the 17 first-place selections
in which the Yankees did not
figure this year, seven went to
Iowa s footballers, two to South
ern California, three to Tennes
see, two to Cornell and one
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Tonight
this first paragraph is hardly the
sports experts picked the New
No. 1 team of all 1939 sports.
each to the basketball teams
of Oregon and Ohio State and
to the footballers of Pennsyl
vania State college. The Ore
gon basketball team stood sev
enth with 12 points.
CH1CA60AN SETS NEW-
Chicago, Dec. IS. (IP)
Adolph Keifer, the Chicago
swimmer who has a monopoly
on world and American men's
backstroke records, claimed an
other American one today
1:05.1 minutes for the 110-yard
event.
He set the mark last night in
the Towers Club 75-foot tank
in a special race against Ed Cor
boy of Loyola University. Kei
fer broke his own previous rec
ord of 1:08.2, established in the
central A.A.U. championships
at Detroit in 1936.
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