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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1941.
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Graphs
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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
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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
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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.
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Seattle, Nov. 17. (,P) Earl
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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