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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
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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."
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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.
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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
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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.
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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).
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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
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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.
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