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PAOT? TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1941. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: SporU Poll In Esquire Favor Retention Of PAT , One of the most interesting sports polls we have seen Is con tained in the December Esquire, in which sports editors and Just plain fans throughout the coun try have voted on 10 questions pertinent to everybody who fol lows athletics. The annual controversy over the point-after-touchdown in football received a favorable de cision in the poll .with 76.8 per cent of the balloters favoring its retention. , . Approximately nine out of ten voters marked "no" to the poll question, "do you believe professional football will dis place college football In public interest as professional baseball has displaced college baseball?" The percentage was 91.4. Another question, "do you be lieve that sport stars should be given special consideration by the draft boards? drew a nega tive 78.7 per cent. The increased presence of women at the bowling alleys has stimulated men's interest in ' the game. It was shown in the poll, with 69.1 per cent of the voters saying "yes to the ques tion. Slxty-flr par cent of the voters said they believed ath letes of the 1931-41 decade were as colorful as their pre decessors, such as Babe Ruth, Bill Tilden. Red Grange. Bob by Jones and Jack Dempsey. The sixth question was: "has radio broadcasting of sports events reduced the times of your attendance at these events?" The answer was "no", by 77.5 per cent. "Bowl" football games were considered primarily significant ports events by a slim margin, U per cent To the question, "at what per centage of honesty would you rate running horse racing at all the nation's tracks?" the voters aid 60.33 per cent. "Do you believe the physical demands made by prevailing basketball rules are too severe for college players?" drew a negative vote of 68.1 per cent. And, 89.3 per cent of the vot ers said "no" to the question: "do you believe that newspaper and radio publicity on 'specta tor' sports events has diminish ed Americans' personal partici pation in sports?" Well, It finally happened. Pro fessor I. Pickem's "batting aver age", slipping rapidly the past few weeks, finally skidded be low .700. Not much to be sure, .699 to be exact, but below Just the same. The peerless prognostlcator bit six and missed six of the week-end's dosen, and the old figure dropped 38 points from .737. He missed on Astoria beating Ashland, the Cougars clawing Staniord, Montana mopping Idaho. Notre Dame Budging Northwestern. Texas Christian toppling Texas and Princeton pounding Yale. Right calls were Medford over Salem, Oregon State over Cali fornia, Penn over Army, Harv ard over Brown, Texas Aggies over Rise and Minnesota over Iowa. The season's record: ' Games Won Lost Tied Pet. 96 65 28 3 .609 N E GAELS, 35 T0 13 San Francisco, Nov. 17. (IP) Touchdowns In every period and a safety in the third gave Santa Clara university a 33-13 victory over St. Mary's yester day and a measure of consola tion for defeat In Its three pre ceding names. St. Mary's scored on a pass from Left Half Johnny Podcsto to End Ray Curry shortly after the kickoff, but it was 7-7 by the time the quarter ended and 21-7 for the Broncos at the half St. Mary's left last night for New York to play Fordham next Saturday. Santa Clara, which had lost successively to Oklahoma, Stanford and Ore gon, meets UCLA at Los An geles the same day. SOCE PLEDCES Southern Oregon College of Education, Ashland, Nov. 17. (Spl.) Lambda Chi. the literary club at the Southern Oregon Col lege of Education has pledgedg the following students for the coming year: Gloria Hartley of Bonanza; Gloria Ranlele of Lang lcis: Pat McMartin of Red Bluff. Calif., and France Brobcrt of Bend. Oregon BEAVERS, CARDS j AND WASHINGTON TIED FOR FIRST Victories Over Montana And Oregon Would Give Stat ers Bid To Pasadena. By Ruts Newland . San Francisco, Nov. 17. (AP) Pigskin preview: Dizzy as a roller skating derby, the Pacific Coast Conference football cham pionship race was knotted three ways today and getting nowhere at a brisk pace. Until the returns of Nov. 29 games are in and tabulated, the league's Rose Bowl nominee will not be known, if it is then. The faculty athletic representatives whose votes put the team in the New Year's day classic at Pasa dena may even wait until South ern California and the Univer sity of California at Los Angeles have played their game, Decem ber 6. It is the last conference contest of the season. Pending any clarification of the title chase, Oregon State, Stanford and Washington share the lead In the matter of defeats, each with two.. Oregon State leads In victories with five, com pared to four for its rivals. Oregon State moved into the most favorable position when league leading Stanford was stopped flat by Washington State in one of the stunning upsets of last Saturday's calendar. It Just about wrecked Stanford's Rose Bowl hopes. The score was 14-13 and a failure to convert an extra point after touchdown possibly booed a fat chunk of money out of reach of the Indians. Pot of Cold ' . Stanford made something like $37,000 out of its Rose Bowl venture last New Year's day and until the conference changed the set-up to give all ten teams a slice of the western team's take, the big post-season game was worth approximately $90,000. The best bet for the Rose Bowl now seems to be Oregon State, conqueror of California, 6 to 0, last. week. If it wins from Mon tana this Saturday and from Ore gon the following week-end, the conference heads undoubtedly will name It as the representa tive. The Beavers already hold wins over their chief rivals, Washington and Stanford. Oregon and Washington meet this week In the outstanding game and the outcome, even if it Is a tie, will serve to clear up some of the confusion. Oregon State figures to turn In a win ning Job on Montana. Disap pointed Stanford lays off a week and will wind up its conference program with California Nov. 29. The team that has turned In the most amazing record of the season, Washington State, meets Gonzaga and the letter's unim pressive record causes no fear. W. S. C. wound up its conference schedule with the upset win over Stanford and previously polished off Oregon State, Oregon and California. Santa Clara, defeated by Ore gon last week, takes on U.C.L.A. this Saturday. It is a non-conference game. Idaho, beaten by Montana. 18 0, meets Montana State and may win a game after three suc cessive setbacks. Cal Idle California, completely out of the running with four confer ence losses, is Idle while prepar ing for Stanford a week later. Sun Jose State college and vastly Improved University of San Francisco hook up in the only gridiron attraction In this section. San Francisco. Nov. 17. (AP) Football standings of the Pa cific coast conference: Op W OSC 8 Stanford .. 4 L 3 2 2 3 3 3 4 4 2 4 T Pts Pts 0 84 26 91 84 98 82 26 Wash 4 WSC 5 Oregon .. 3 USC 2 UCLA. 3 California 2 Montana 1 Idaho 0 49 113 60 3R 23 33 7 96 robin Do not play round schedule. (Standings of Oregon State, Washington State and Oregon In clude victory over Idaho; of Washington and U.C.L.A., vic tory over Montana.) Mac Hi Quits Oregon For Washington Loop Lewlston, Idaho, Nov. 17. (AP) McLaughlin high of Mil-ton-Freewater Joined the Tri State league here Saturday, suc ceeding Colfax, Wash., with drawn. Mac HI has been a member of the Blue Mountain conference of Oregon. State Favored She Becomes p- g, gH - St& o Q -vi5S Twenty-year-old Elisabeth Hicks Newell, who won the women's -itlonal amateur championship in September, showed she was mighty serious when she decided to become a golf profess'onal. She's learning the business as an assistant at Recreation Park, Long Beach, Calif., her home town. Here she is giving a lesson to Jimmy McCambridge. PREXY CANDIDACY CAUSES AAU RIFT By Sid Feder Philadelphia. Nov. 17. (VP) After two days of beer and skittles, during which the con vention program sailed along as merrily as you please, the Amateur Athletic union spit wide open today on the candi dacy of Lawrence Dl Benedetto for his second full term as presi dent. The New Orleans prexy was the choice of the convention caucus to succeed himself and beating a caucus candidate in the past has been about as rare as buying a drink in this citv on a Sunday. Yet, the Metro politan (New York district) As sociation of the A. A. U. oppose'! the choice so strongly it was prepared to nominate James M. Roche, a New Haven (Conn.) Insurance man, for the Job when the 400 delegates got together to elect officers at the final business meeting. TEXAN STILL TOP . New York, Nov. 17. (P) Ben Collins, the West Texas State whirlwind, kept his lead last week as the nation's best collegiate manufacturer of foot ball points, but his title Is being Jeopardized by Bill Dudley, of the University of Virginia. Collins collected 10 points as his mates downed Texas Mines, while Dudley picked up 22 of his club's 34 In the rout of Lehigh. The Texan now has 132 to 112 for Dudley with each having another chance to add to his total. Marvel Harshman of Pacific Lutheran led small Pacific coajt colleges with 68 points while ESO Naranche of Montana led the Coast conference with 30. J'VILLE NOTCHES The Jacksonville high Red skins captured their 22nd straight victory over a three-year period and their seventh In a row this year by defeating Myrtle Creek, 14 to 12, at Myrtle Creek Saturday In a six-man football game played In a sea of mud. Myrtle Creek holds the Douglas cointy championship. As a result of their victory, the Redskins will Issue a chal lenge to Pilot Rock, Warrenton or Marcola, all unbeaten for a game to decide the mythical Ore gon six-man grid title. Jacksonville scored lt two touchdowns In the first half. BUI Hyde talleld on a short buck in the first period and then snsgged a pass from Bob Smith for the extra point. In the second quar tet Smith passed to Marion Hardy for a touchdown and then pKched to LeKoy for the extra point. Myrtle Creek's touchdowns came In the third and fourth quarters, with Rust carrying the ball o ex for both score. Working Pro Portland, Ore., Nov. 17. (AP) Washington State's Cougars, who ended their coast conference schedule with a brilliant 14-to-13 victory over Stanford, should be In the Rose Bowl New Year's day. So said Coach Babe Holllng bery yesterday as he squired a Jubilant Washington State foot ball squad back to the Pullman, Wash., campus. "They'd be a good bowl team. They're colorful and they can play sensational ball. In the last four weeks they've beaten Ore gon State, Oregon, Idaho and Stanford," he said. The Cougars have games re maining against Gonzaga and un defeated and untied Texas A. & M. "Sure, we're going to win our next two games, but why not ask us who we intend to invite to the Rose Bowl?" Hollingbery inquired. Asked that, he refused to talk further. E Seattle, Nov. 17. (,P) Earl , ... xrt i - t Vmmiflnv. An..1n. of I the University of Washineton football team, was the only man of the squad not considered in good physical condition today as the Huskies got down to busi ness in a long and exhaustive workout in preparation for Sat urday's game with Oregon. The need for alterations of hta m i n rl mttmrt ku Pa.aI. T , . . ..... t wvw. ,vaLt, uuiiiuy Phelan when he scouted Oregon in Portland last week resulted in adoption of new offensive tricks in a wnrknnt npnfnet Or gon formations. Plitlan plans no naru scrimmages, empnasizing mainly getting acquainted with Oregon plays and polishing up his own offensive. BOWLING In an Ilks club bo.lnj tourna mtnt mtch Friday nljht, the Puu; Cat took til tour point from the Wildcat. Sews follow: Fny fall Buchanan Ml 1S1 ISO 453 Newbury Tollefatn Boomer Lewis Handicap Totals - Van Mt Hecltara . Ptrans McKay -onard , Handicap toi 101 101 sen 1M 141 157 484 ' , toa toe id s4 145 143 IJft 446 35 US 336 TT4 1B 3J 1J J7S3 ; nna rata i ISO 1T8 154 490 ' 84 M SS 358 130 130 130 S 104 104 104 S13 111 104 1S 375 331 331 331 733 , ToUli 843 831 8843578 , ra alall mnuw want a?, WATER WELL DRILLING MW til mt. Mil IIIM MimmttK rains ROB t BURNS Tsleohone 243 L at. 8. lb 887. nraitta raaa, Pacific Hlahaar to Receive Rose ANCIENT RIVALS WILL BATTLE IN GAISf WEEK By Harold Claassea New York, Nov. 17. (API Football rivalries that grandpa helped Inaugurate back in the days of quilted uniforms and handlebar mustaches present their 1941 editions this week end, which Is stretched to three days by the first of this year's Thanksgiving days. Top honors in prestige and age probably go to the Yale-Harvard meeting Saturday at Cambridge. Other series to be extended are Southern Callfornia-Nctre Dame, St. Mary's-Fordham, Ohio State Michigan, Kansas-Missouri, Ala-bama-Vanderbilt and Oregon Washington. Of that lot, not a team Is un beaten and untied, although Notre Dame has only a 0 to 0 deadlock with army against it. The list of "perfect teams" was cut to 13 last week, with four major powers Minnesota, Duke, Texas A & M and Duquesne still among those present. Only Wisconsin stands be tween Mninesota and a second straight unbeaten seaso'.t and re tention of the Big Ten title. Duke, hopeful of a bowl bid, must surmount North Carolina State, while Duquesne finished its season with a terrific 16 to 0 triumph over Mississippi State. Texas A & M has yet to play deflated Texas, November 27, and also has a meeting Decem ber 6 with Washington State. PILOTS WALLOP GONZAGA, 37-0 Portland, Ore., Nov. 17. (AP) Rebuffed nine times in as many years, the University of Portland Pilots turned on the power yesterday to wallop the Gonzaga Bulldogs, 37 to 0. Led by Halfback Louie Farns worth, the Pilots bulled their way to three first-period touch downs, then added a score in each succeeding quarter for their first victory since the teams first met in 1933. Farnsworth tallied the first two touchdowns on runs of 18 and 31 yards and carried a lat eral 24 yards for a third-period score. He also added the only extra point of the day on an end run. Montana Back Leads Conference Scorers San Francisco, Nov. 17. (AP) University of Montana won't get to the Rose Bowl this season, but It seemed fairly certain to day to produce the leading Indi vidual scorer of the Pacific coast conference for 1941. The Grizzlies husky fullback, Eso Naranche, was setting a brisk pace with 50 points in eight games. He put on a one-man show Saturday, to score 10 tal lies in the win over Idaho. It Included a touchdown, field goal and point after touchdown. VoiMnn;3 Enstthrough FOrfNofl EXTIaSaiI FARE! JON THE THOUSANDS who go East through sunny California--through rooiintic Sin Francisco and glamoroiu Los Angeles. On round trip tickets to New York, Chicago and most other cutero cities, you can go this way fox doc lc extra rail fart. Southern California All-Winter Sun Festival! WHEN T08 (0 EAST through California, you can see torn of (ha 300 rvttin of Southern Ctlifurnia'i All-Winter Sua Featl TaL From now until ilanh, there'll be something doing ovry dav in the land of palm tree and mortc nan. For fret liit of Sua FejtiTal evaota, tee your S. P. atent or write J. A. Ormandr, 623 Padnc Building, Portland, Oregon. S-P The Friendly Southern Pacific See F. C. Morris, Agent. Phone 2390 or write J. A. ORMAN'DY, CP A., 622 Pacific Bldg .Portland, Ore. Stanford Loss Aids Sugar Bowl in Blue Devil Quest By Mortimer Kreeger New Orleans, Nov. 17. AP) Through muddling of the Rose Bowl picture by Washington State's defeat of Stanford Sat urday has caused almost a complete brightening of the Sugar Bowl outlook especially In the direction of the Duke Blue Devils. It's been known that Duke leaned toward the Rose Bowl, with the prestige of antiquity and also a greater cash return. But if the question involves prestige, the local crowd Is now in a fine bargaining position. They might suggest that there isn't much glory in facing a team that has been beaten twice, as have all Pacific Coast conference teams, one of which plays host in the Rose Bowl. As for the cash the Sugar Bowlers have long contended their $73,000 would be more to a southern team than the Rose Bowl's $90,000 or so because of the added expense of traveling to California. And maybe Coach Wallaee Wade would like to pit his Blue Devils against his old team, Alabama, which he took to many a bowl game. Alabama, always eager for an extra football game, impressed the Sugar Bowlers by stomping Tulane before their very eyes. A Dec. 6 engagement between Texas A. and M. and Washington State presents a problem but for that, the Sugar Bowlers probably would be waiting in the Aggies' dressing room Nov. 23 with an Invitation for them to be pre sented If they beat Texas that day. 15 Teams Remain On Unbeaten and Untied List; 7 All Through New York, Nov. 17. (AP) Fifteen elevens, Including such widely-known outfits as Minne sota, Texas A & M, Duke and Duquesne, retain unblemished records as the football season heads into the final fortnight. Miami university and Trinity were the week-end's casualties, Trinity being spilled in its final game by Wesleyan. Florida con quered Miami. Of the "perfect" elevens, those which have completed their sea sons are Midland Teachers, Du quesne, Kerney Teachers, Milli kin, Rose Poly, Thiel and St. Cloud Teachers. The unbeaten teams, showing games played, points scored and points scored against. Midland, Neb., Teachers 9 198 58 Duquesne 8 143 23 Kearney, Neb., Teachers . 8 204 13 Millikin . 8 257 10 Duke 8 256 35 Texas A & M 8 253 23 Bradley Tech . 8 203 19 Rose Poly 7 229 35 West. Michigan. 7 150 13 Minnesota 7 145 32 Case 7 157 45 Pacific Lutheran. 7 171 32 Thiel 7 147 7 St. Cloud, Minn., Teachers 7 108 21 Colorado College. 6 146 33 Radio programs are made available to remote districts ot the Philippines through re ceivers in public places. Next time, try the train 4 frfflt -n frn Bowl Invitation Communications War Referendumf No. To the editor: Aside from its first paragraph, your editorial, Nov. 14th, seems open to seri ous objections. You have often stressed the fact that we are in this war, and have been for sev eral months. Well, after I have given some one a left punch in the eye, and landed a heavy right on his jaw, is a poor time to ask myself whether I had better fight him? We have proclaimed to the world our determination to de stroy Hitlerism, Nazism. We are spending billions arming those who fight Hitler. Now we have laid aside even the semblance of neutrality. Such a referendum now, would surely be interpret ed by the world as a panicky backing down before the axis threats. Last spring, in this column, we urged convoying supplies to England, let Hitler stop us if he can. We still do. And heretofore your editorial position has seem ed uniform, consistent, and, we think, wise. Why this change of tactics? You base it on your confi dence in an overwhelming vote for war. But your arguments de stroy each other. If that close congressional vote resulted from congressmen knowing and vot ing the sentiments of their con stituents, what becomes of your overwhelming popular vote for war? If one view Is correct, the other cannot be. And if that ref erendum also should result In a close vote, we would be in a worse muddle than we now are. Every fifth columnist would get doubly busy. If two wars suddenly burst upon us soon, let us not be self shackled, in the tedious process of a referendum, waiting for the popular vote. Our constitution neither authorizes the people to declare war, nor authorizes con gress to submit that matter to the people. This is a Republic. This writer does not recommend a declaration of war, but a dem onstratlon of our Independence, by delivering our goods to Eng land. Let Hitler declare war if he chooses. But war should be declared at once, on our gravest menace; the labor racketeers. They have American labor shackled and O FOR USE MAIL TRIBUNE CLASSIFIED ADS! helpless. The administration's appeasement of these racketeers, has failed as dismally as Hen derson's appeasement ot Hitler. Labor must be rescued at once from its fifth column bosses, if this is to remain the land of the free, and the home of the brave. EDWIN DEACON. Talent, Ore., Nov. 13, 1941. Ed Note: There Is nothing Il logical in the belief that con. gressmen voted against neutral ity repeal because they believed a majority of their constituents desired them to do so, but if a war referendum were held they would realize their error, and probably only a plebiscite on the issue would so convince them in time to do the country any good. On Saluting the Flag To the editor: Permit me to call the public's attention to what I consider a gross injustice to our country and the ex-service man that is committed every Armistice Day parade that ia held in Medford and perhaps the same holds true in many other cities of the western states but not in our eastern states so noticeably. That is our failure to salute or pay honor to our flag. I have marched in several parades In Medford and observe that there are very, very few people who take off their hats or salute the flag when passing by, unfurled and at the head of various groups. Our flag does not repre sent a deity but rather a princi pal of liberty and freedom. Also those ex-service men following our flag are entitled to the hon or of seeing that, flag honored. They were willing only a short time ago to give their all; their fife; their hardships and suffer ing that that flag should be held aloft that the freedom for which it stands should be recognized by the world. Then why can't we be willing to still honor our flag and render to it this tribute. An Ex-Service Man. (Name on file.) Drunk Driver Held in Death of 9 Aboard Bus Rushvllle, Ind., Nov. 17. () James Cooper, Rush county prosecuting attorney, prepared evidence today for a special grand Jury summoned to Inves tigate a Greyhound bus wreck Saturday night in which nine persons were killed and 10 in jured. The prosecutor ordered Paul T. Connell, 39-year-old farmer whose automobile was Involved in the accident, held in the county Jail pending the grand jury's report. Connell was arrested o n charges of drunkenness and driving while under the influ ence of Intoxicating liquor. Cm kail mouua want ada. SUIT
