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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1940. Sport Graphs . Billy Huleo aays: Bob Smith Get Huge Cheer From East-West Fans . Forced to linger on the bench with a leg injury while his team mates battled the East through the rain of Kezar stadium New Year's day, Bob Smith of Med ford probably hasn t many pleas ant memories of the part he played in this year's big Shrine game and festivities in San Fran. cisco . . . but there Is one thing he won't soon forget, and re calling it he will be compensated for the hard luck that befell him when he hurt his shin in a West team scrimmage session and was subsequently put out of commission for the "greatest football game in America . . . The announcer at Kezas sta' dium, that day of extreme Call. fornia liquid sunshine, naturally introduced all the stars of the two aggregations, and to a man they received the roars of the multitude . . . finally he got around to introducing Bob Smith, and he told the story of Bob's long ambition to be a member of the West Shrine team and of the Injury Bob suffered In practice which kept him out of the battle . . . when this an nouncer was finished, and when he called for a cheer for the boy sitting on the West bench with his ankle encased in a huge cast, you should have heard those 50, 000 grid addicts tear the stadium down . . . the vocal applause Bob received equalled the com bined hullaballoo raised for practically all the other players, and it is something Bob will re member the rest of his life. And speaking further on the subject of the game, it is our opinion thai Bob would have been right In his element thai day ... the West team, coached by Bab Holllngbery and Biff Jones, was tossing the leather around like It was a hot po tato . . . although the ball was wet and slimy the West erners wasted no time In breaking out a spectacular anrlal attack, with Kay Eakln and LeRoy Zimmer man on the pitching end and ....some great receivers on the opposite end . . . Bob, a great forward passer, would prob ably have been one of the game's stars. Received a note from Charles E. Chapman, Pacific coast scout and agent for the Cincinnati Reds baseball organization, with the information that the Reds will hold their annual tryout enmp for young players here on July 10 to 20 next summer . . , this Is an earlier date than usual, in the past the camp has been staged during late September, and Chapman believes it will prove better In that baseball will still be holding full sway and school won't have started, thus enabling more youthful pas timers to attend the free camp. In contrast to the other "bowl" games, which got more than a little rough at times, Clemson and Boston College got along so well that they are negotiating for a return match In Boston next autumn ... it Is reported thot Tennessee officials, etc., en tertained several prep stars when they were In southern California . . . which seems to be a good idea, as Tennessee could use some of those sons of the sunshine ... as a matter of fact. Tennessee could probably have put up a better fight ogainst U. S. C. if they had had a bunch of high school boys performing. To Gerald Iv'csce, a local eagle-eye, goes the honor of being the first to catch this writer in his recent utterment that Jim Kimbrough, the Texas Aggie All-American fullback, played for Clemson ... an empty bottle of suds to you. Gerald soys Art Cohn of the Oakland, fCal.) Tribune: "I hear Ernie I.ombardi's contract calls for a $6000 cut . . . Ernie doesn't mind paying a legitimate price for parking, but ho docs think 8 G's is a bit too stiff for such a hard bed for such a short time." OF LOOP UNTIL 1942 Pullman, Jan. 9. (IP) Earl i V. Foster, graduate manager of! Washington State college. sald! today that because schedules for , the next two years have at-' ready been prepared under the, round-robin system Montana and Idaho rannnt hi, ln,.i,irt4 i In the Pacific Coast conference foolball race until 1942. The conference at Its recent meeting In Los Angeles voted to give Idaho and Montana con ference football recognition. Closing tune for Too Lats to Clss Mi i 1:30 p. m. Webfpbt Quint i NATIONAL CHAMPS! LOOK RAGGED BUT Sarpola Cans 12 Points to Lead Duck Attack Van dal Rally Fails Near End By the Associated Press The University of Oregon basketball team started out on the trail that may lead to an other northern division, Pacific Coast conference championship last night by defeating the Uni versity of Idaho 44-32 in Eu gene. The Webfoots, who among other accomplishments last year won the national crown, were a bit ragged and stumbled fre quently over Idaho's quick set ting defense in their opening conference game. Close At First The game was nip and tuck for the first 13 minutes when the champions began to roll and with Ted Sarpola, McNeely and Townsend getting field goals the Oregonians were out in front at the half 17-10. The Vandals made a real threat in the second half when Itamey shot goals from far and near for Idaho to hold the Web foots to 33-28 six minutes be fore the end of the game. The Webfoots at that nolnt becan to roll again and shot five field goals to lead at the whistle by 12 points. Play Again Tonight Sarpola was high scorer of the evening with 12 points. Tne teams meet again tonight. Oregon meets Oreuon State college, with whom It now shares the top of the heap,. Fri day nignt in Eugene while Ida ho goes to Pullman Saturday night for a Bamo with Wnshlnir- ton State college. The box score: Oregon (44) FG FT PF TP Sarpola F 8 0 0 12 McNeely F 2 0 3 4 Dick C 0 13 1 Pavalunas G 2 3 0 7 Townsend G 3 3 0 9 H, Anderson F 1 0 0 2 Marshlk C 1 13 3 Jackson G 2 2 2 8 Totals 17 10 11 44 Idaho (32) FG FT PF TP Ramey F 4 2 2 10 Mllo Anderson F 0 0 0 0 Hilton C 2 8 2 10 English F 0 12 1 Atkinson G 2 1 15 Hopkins F o n' 2 n Nelson C 0 0 2 0 Merlyn Anderson G 3 0 2 B Lynk G n o n n Totals 11 10 13 32 Score at half: Idaho 10, Ore gon 17. Free throws missed: Mllo An derson. Hilton 2. EnffHsh Mr. lyn Anderson, Atkinson, Sar pola, McNeely. Dick 3. Morshik. Jackson, Officials: A. Bucklov. W S r Luck, W.S.C. PLAGUE SPREAD Honolulu (U.R) A constant battle is being waged in the Ha waiian Islands against rat car riers of plague, which first ap peared In 1809 . and never has been completely stamped out. Thirty-three cases of rat plague and six cases of human plague have been discovered on the island of Mnul since 1931, Maul county sanitary engineer, Louis Hersehler, reported in a recent address before the Maui Lions club at Wailuku. Hersehler said the death rate from plague in the islands is 99 per cent as compared with an average of 75 per cent in other parts of the world. He said sev en of ten persons contracting plague were infected by rat fleas. Phosphorus on bananas, of which 800,000 pieces were planted in fields and elsewhere since the first of the year, is the principal means of elimin ating the rodents. Hersehler said. He pointed out that eradica tion of rats in tho islands is ex tremely difficult since the sugar cane and pineapple fields, and abundance of wild vegetation, furnish the rats Ideal living con ditions. E0CE TRIMS MONMOUTH BASKETEERS, 50 TO 43 La Grande, Jan. 9. liP) Eas tern Oregon College of Educa tion, led by Howard Lyman, turned bock Oregon College of Education basketball team last night. &0-43. It was Lyman's first basketball appeorancc since he returned from two years in Germany us a missionary. Armstrong Wins by Kayo I mm I 4i I lb. JU Henry Armstrong, welterweight boxing champion, stands over his toe, Joe Ghnouly, just after the knockout in the fifth round of their scheduled 15-round fight at St. Louis, in which Armstrong's title was at stake. Billy Conn Eyes Big Boys; Has Plan To Trim Joe Louis By Sid Feder New York, Jan. 9. IP) The big boys in the boxing busi ness may be Interested to learn that be-dimpled Billy Conn has it ail figured out right now how he can be heavyweight champion of the world Just as soon as Manager Johnny Ray OKays a ugnt wun Joe Louis. The Pittsburgh pretty boy, who makes his bow as a full- fledged heavyweight In Madison Square Garden tomorrow night against one Henry Cooper, Is so convinced of this that one fine afternoon within the next six months you are going to read where he has abdicated the light heavyweight championship to go against the big fellows ex clusively. "Those big buys," he pointed out with a goodly portion .of disdain, "are all the same. They tire easy. When you fight one of "em, you just let him wear himself out in the first few rounds. Then you just lean one hand against the top of his head, cock the other and wham! "I lovo to fight those big clowns more than the guys my own size. A guy who can box around with you always gives trouble. But never those stuffed pillows. They're ell the same to me." This Is undoubtedly a large order for the "Fighting Harp" from the smoky city. Just one year1 ago yesterday, he showed up in New York for the first time, unknown and weighing a mere 108. Now he is king of the 175-pounders. After his final workout for tomorrow's tussle, he weighed an even 175, which probably means ho will go in the ring at 176 or 177. "At that rate," he added, "I should be 15 or 190 In another year. I'm going to give up the light-heavyweight title when I can't make the weight any more. That'll be some time in the next few months. If no title fight is arranged before then, I'd like to hand the champion ship over to Gus Losncvlch. He deserves it and maybe he'll buy mo a new shirt for it." A tr r y ' PROTEST Action by the American republics to protect Ihclr neutrality from violation hy r bcllltcrrnts la forecast by Sumner Welles (above), un dersecretary of Hate. Defeats i't'-i Ml AAU CAGE LEAGUE SLATED TO OPEN HERE FRIDAY EVE Jackson county's AAU inde pendent basketball league, com posed of 12 teams split into two divisions of six quintets each, will stage its grand opening next Friday night at the Med ford senior high school gym nasium, with a half-dozen clubs slated to swing into action. Inaugurating the league schedule, which will consist of 10 games for each team, these outfits will collide in the follow ing order, the first game start ing at 7 o'clock and the others following on the hour: Gold Hill Merchants versus Prospect Townies, Central Point Townies versus Jacksonville and Lost River Dairy of Medford versus National Guards of Med ford. Saturday night in Ashland two other loop teams will open their season, when the Little Sons tangle with Medford's First National Bankers in a pre liminary to the SOCE varsity clash. Remainder of the AAU league clubs will start their schedule on January 16. The league was formulated at a meeting in the chamber of commerce last night with the following teams in division A: First National Bank, Lewis Super Service, National Guards and Lost River Dairy of Med ford, and the Little Sons and Ingle's Cowboys, both of Ash land. Division B will consist of Medford's Salvation Army, Southern Pacific of Medford. Central Point, Prospect, Gj:.i Hill, and Jacksonville. Following completion of the schedule, the two top teams in each division will enter a play off for tho title, the winner io represent Jackson county in the state AAU tourney in Portland. Cloln time for Too Lata to Clu 11(7 Ada Ii 1:30 p. m Use Mail Tribune want ads. YickSoHerbCo. Hours 10 a. m. to 6 p. m. Monday. Tuesday. Wcdnos day Only Chtneae herb rem edles are very won- iinrttt ,m. ,,. dropsy, piles, rup- lure, stomach ulcer. V 5' re, stomach ulcer. n$s. heart. ller. mch, kidney. ' ' t adder troubles, Ci". aSsui luns, stomach bl asthma, ices ma. blood, tallstones, yellow fever, ept. "" lepsy, rheumatism Vears and femala com- experience, plaints. Call or write. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. Central and Main. Medlord. Or. Idaho, 44-32, LAWSON LITTLE Champion Wins Los Angeles Open by One Stroke Under Heafner Dutra Next By Robert Myers Los Angeles, Jan. 9. (IP) It may take the staid old Los An geles Country Club a year to recover from the beating it took from the rain, the trooping feet of thousands of golf addicts and Mr. Lawson Little in the 1940 Los Angeles open. A steady downpour had re duced the club's already tough north course to the status of a quagmire, or pig-sty. Galleries had tromped the carefully manicured fairways into a pulp. And then came Lawson Little to hammer par into submission and wreck what had looked like a peaceful finish to the fifteenth annual open and vic tory for a large yeung man from Linville, N. C, Clayton Heafner. First Major Win Little, hungry for laurels he hadn't found in nearly five years of professional campaign ing, began his rampage yester day morning and at the ninth hole signalled his first major tournament triumph since abdi cating his amateur throne when he posted a score of 32, three trokes under par. He ended with a 282, one below Heafner's score. Olin Dutra, Los Angeles, made a belated rally. He went out in 38, three over, but came back in 31, four, under for the 35-3S 70 course, and 285. Back of him and seven shots behind Little were Jimmy Hines of New York and Johnny Dawson of Hollywood, who won the amateur trophy for the second straight year. Guldahl Also-Ran No one else was within rifle shot of the new champion. The rain soaked course was too much for Ralph Guldahl, who had 301; defending champion Demaret of Houston, with 291, and the rest of the fine field. Today the professionals and many leading amateurs head north for the Oakland onen Little carried the L. A. trophy and $1500 .first money with him. Heufner won $900 and Dutra $700, to list the leaders. GLASS B QUITS PE iSlil IUH: Both divisions of the Jack sen county class B high school basketball conference swing in to their second round of com petition tonight. Games are scheduled as follows: Division 1 St. Mary's at Jacksonville, Butte Falls at Eagle Point, Prospect at Talent. Division 2 Gold Hill at Sams Valley, Kerby at Rogue River, Phoenix at Central Point. G0NZAGA DbFEATED BY WHITMAN IN OVERTIME Walla Valla, Jan. 9. (.'Pi Tied at the end of the regular playing time 8-48 the WhUfan Missionaries went on a scor ing spree in au extra sssnon 'ii defeat Gon?nga University's basketball loam 61 to 52 la.l night. DON FABER'S QUINTET BEATEN BY LINFIELD McMinnville, Jan.- 9. (IP) The Linficld Wildcats rallied to defeat Albany college in a bask etba'l game last night, 39-34. NEW LOW PRICE Ready to Use DRY PINE Slabwood Par Load. Heaping Full 300 Cubic Feet. Delivered tn the City Limits. Timber Products Company tV Phone 7 Game Unfinished As Coach Takes Team Off Floor Stephenvllle, Tex., Jan. . (IP) The John Tarleton Daniel Baker college basket oall game had eight minutes to go. Suddenly Coach I. S. Ran som of Daniel Baker and all his players walked off. Spectators gasped. "He is the sorriest referee I ever saw," said Ransom. "That's the sorriest exhibl tion of sportsmanship I ever saw," said Referee Joe A. King. The cash customers used some p r e tt y bewhiskered words because the teams didn't finish the game. Tarle ton was ahead 35 to 26. BOWLING In Classic league bowling games in the Medford alleys last night, Active club beat M. and M., 3 to 1; Gates' Ramblers took all three point from Studebaker and Mald-Rlte beat Zorlc, 3 to 1. Scores follow: Active Club 174 168 233 178 148 179 170 170 19S 188 Totals 030 891 M. and M. Moore Portertleld Larsen DJVore . Sims 148 400 207618 179507 158516 164547 858 2678 173 S33 223579 138479 177462 212544 823 2507 Rengatorff i 203 Adair 108 157 158 Daws 180 161 Hodges 188 147 Sayre 188 148 Totals 005 760 Gates Ramblers Cannon 204 181 160546 Proctor 200 170 169530 Oreen 187 154 160 501 Dates 168 165 172505 (Absentee) 188 183 183 540 Totals 042 853 844 2630 gttidebaker Handicap 14 14 14 42 Paake 121 161 160442 Sanderson 167 116 164438 W. Prultt 160 168 154 482 Stark 168 211 177554 Q. Eada 157 160 183 489 Totals 786 838 822 2403 Zorlc Cleaners Raymond - 168 141 Pabrlck 171 162 Friable 132 126 Saylor 246 215 Dixon 181 144 Totals 878 788 Maid Rite Hagen . 161 173 Lewis 167 157 (Oabel) 173 173 Long 210 171 Bell 178 164 Total 880 838 155 464 209542 1 308 184 645 173478 861 2627 180514 158 482 173519 141522 184506 818 2543 BASKETBALL By Associated Press Yale 40, Wesleyan 39. Alabama 42, Tulane 28. Kansas 40, Loyola (Chicago) 36. Nebraska 44, Iowa State 28. Depaul 56, Kansas State 30. Indiana 45, Iowa 30. Illinois 34, Chicago 33. Michigan 44, Wisconsin 39. Northwestern 46, Minnesota 38. Michigan State 31, Syracuse 29. Purdue 49, Ohio State 32. Utah State 43, California 33. Oregon 44, Idaho 32. Utah 53, St. Mary's (Cal.) 31. Whitman 61, Gonzaga 52. Oregon high, school basket ball: McMinnville 31, Newberg 20. O.S.C. Rooks 45, Franklin of Portland 28. Oregon Frosh 74, Lincoln of Portland 24. Fights Last Night By tha Associated Press Pittsburgh Teddy Yarosz, 170. Pittsburgh, former middle weight champion, outpointed Nate Bolden, 161, Chicago (10). Chicago Johnny Barbara 155V4, South Bend, Ind., out pointed Joey Sutka, 16014, De troit (6). - ,..li oataoN End North Caniral QV in Loop MEHALIKIS BEATS CHICK IN YEAR'S OPENING GRAPPLE With near-capacity crowd of ladies and their escorts on hand for the 1940 wrestling op ener in the Medford armory last night, Prince Mehalikls of Arabia made his first appear ance here in three years a suc cessful one by taking two out of three falls from Cowboy Dude Chick in a clean but tough and hard-fought main event. The Prince, long a favorite with local clients, proved that he has lost none of the class which has made him one of the most respected legitimate grap plers in the country. He was forced to come from behind to win, for Chick, also in top form, grabbed the inaugural fall after less than eight minutes of activity. Undismayed by the fact that he was trailing right off the bat, the colorful Prince battered his way to two straight tumbles to hand Chick one of the few defeats the latter has suffered in the local ring. Two terrific flying mares, which lifted Mehalikis ten feet high and dumped him flat on his back, followed by a body press, gave Chick the initial fall. Prior to this Chick scored with hammerlocks and a full nelson. The Prince brought into play his famous camel lock to dead lock the match three minutes later, and from then on he out wrestled the Wyoming cowboy except for a brief period just before the match was ended. Unable to hoist the Prince aloft for a lariat spin, Chick started firing flying mares again. Two of them put the Prince In an apparent bad way, but as Chick rushed in for the "kill" the Prince let go a re sounding sonnenberg that flat tened Dude, who was immedi ately pinned for the third and deciding fall. Polish Palooka Joe Smollnski ran true to form in the middle A wide selection of smart patterns, shade and sizes. See our windows. SALE OF FAMOUS FEATURED DURING OUR BIG JANUARY SALE Regular $2 Values Regular $2.50 Values cm The TOGGERY Mae Mackenna 34 Opener encounter. He got tough, then got his ears knocked off. This time it was by King Kong Clay ton, the ebony-hued favorite, who grabbed two straight falls from the guy who hasn't won a match here since before pro hibition. As per usual Smolinski op ened up with a dirty attack, but it didn't last long as Clayton gave him a couple of noggin crackers and pinned him with a body press. This occurred to the first heat. Smolinski again went off his bean in the fourth round, but the Negro flash quickly put halt to such goings-on with two well-aimed dropkicks which landed flush on Smolinskl's but ton. Then, Clayton pressed Joe's shoulders to the mat with a body slam and that was that. Zim Zimovich, a big hand some Finnish grappler who ii certain to become a prime fav orite hereabouts, dropped his first Medford match in the op ener to Bob Montgomery of Georgia, who usually is clean but who didn't show It against the newcomer. Montgomery, when the going got rocky in the fourth round, turned villainous, with the re sult that he was able to whip the popular Finn. With the falls standing one apiece, Montgom ery unwound several punches with doubled fists. Zimovich came off the floor and attemp ted to sonnenberg, but he missed and struck the ropes, falling back onto the canvas in a daeed condition. There, he was easy prey for Montgomery, .' who pinned him w;th a .body press. "-. -"' A Boston crab gave Monty the first tumble in the first round, but Zimovich came back to equalize the match in the third with a series of neat drop kicks and a press. Three Dodo's In 15 Days by Woman Chapel Hill, N. C, Jan 9. OP) Three holes-m-one within 15 days such is the feat of Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page, of Chapel Hill, former national women's golf champion. The three aces were all scored on her home course here the first December 22 last, the second on December 29, and the third last Saturday. SHIRTS $1.9$ ON SALE! Our Finest NUNN-BUSH and EDGERTON SHOES S5.50 Values $4.45 S8.75 Values $7.65 S10.00 Values $8.95 $10.35 Values $9.45 No, Central Art Hess i