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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1941. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: DeCourcy Better Than Byers, Is Coach's Opinion Keith DeCourcy. the 180 pound blaster who riddled Med ford'i forward wall for four touchdown! In The Dallei' 28 to 0 conquest of the loci It last Friday night ii better fullback than Bend's great Jim Byers was last season. In the opinion of Bill Bowerman. "DeCourcy Is quite a bit faster than Byers was," the Tornado mentor said, "and a much shiftier runner and quick er starter. While he might not have the pure straight-ahead power that Byers had. he hits hard enough and I really believe he is a better fullback." BUI had no excuses nor alibis to offer for that lots to the Indians. He admitted that Medford was simply out played and lost to the better team. He had only the high est praise for DeCourcy and his running mate. Benny Hoi comb, left halfback, and for that "big. smart" Indian line, especially Scholtes. left end) May. left tacklei Berwick, right guard and Dick, right end. Outstanding for the Tigers, Bowerman recalled, was Cato Wray, left halfback. "He played a whale of a game, and time after time came clear up from his safety position to make tackles five and six yards be hind his own line. Several of his passes should have been caught, but the ball slipped through the fingers of the re ceivers. A couple of those aerials. If they had been held, would probably have gone for touchdowns." Assistant Coach Russ Ache ton, who turned In another capable announcing Job, was impressed with the defense thrown up by The Dalles. They played a five, six and seven man line against us," Russ ex plained, "and it appeared the Tigers never knew what sort of a defensive setup they would face on any certain play. One time the ends would charge, the next time they would lay back, and the same with the tackles. It was really a tough defense." Incidentally, Coach Chuck Mc Gulnness of the Indians pulled plenty smart maneuver at one stage of the contest. Medford had run a wide sweep across the field and Bill Wall, the left end, had remained In his orig inal position for one of those "sleeper" plays. Quickly the Tornado lined up, Wray re ceived the ball from center and prepared to fire a forward pass to Wall. In the meantime, however, McGuinness had seen Wall across the field, and Immedi ately ordered a substitute off the bench to cover the Med ford end. Wray, seeing Wall covered, didn't throw the pats. The Dalles was penal ised five yards for having 12 men on the field. The Mc Guinness strategy, of courts, was to sacriilce those five yards to save a touchdown being scored against his team. Saw Bob Newland In Eugene Saturday and he Informed us that he had made the 11 -man traveling squad of the Univer sity of Oregon varsity cagers. and would be among those taken on the transcontinental trip to New York City and back . . . Bob Is playing guard for How ard Hobson's caabaites . . . also ran across Bill Morgan and Dutch Shields at the Order of the O luncheon, and Bill told us an Oregon State victory wouldn't be too tough to take, what with the Rose Bowl and 11 . . . Will the general public get a chance to purchase tickets for the Rote BowlT ... the entwer Is yes. according to Athletic Director Percy Locey of OSC . . . Locey has an nounced that Oregon State alumni will be given first preference for choice ducats, with other dtisens of the state In the second clattlfication . . . applications should be mailed to him either at Corvallls or In care of the Rote Bowl ticket office in Patadena . . . tickets range from IS. SO for box teats and 14.40 for grand stand teats, to 13.30 for bleachers ... OSC students will pay f 1.50 ... Klamath Bowler Tops All-Events Division Klamath Falls, Dec. 2 AP) Eddie Wakeman of Klamath Tails replaced Carl Hammer of Grants Pas as leader of the Booster all-events division In the Oregon bowling tournament yes terday. Wakeman scored 924 in singles and 1143 with his part ner, Buxkland, in doubles. Minnesota Again Voted NAMED FIRST BY 84 0F96V0TERS Blue Devils Placed Second In Final Poll of Season Oregon State Twelfth. By Bill Bonl New York, Dec. 2. VP) To the Minnesota football team and lo sports editor Ray Kelly of the New York Times go top honors today in the final Asso ciated Press football ranking poll of the regular 1941 season. The Golden Gophers, as had appeared likely since the sec ond week in November, finish ed in first place to retain the No. 1 position accorded them a year ago, Just as they retained the western conference champ ionship they won in 1940. Of the 96 sports experts through out the country who took part In this week's balloting, 84 plunked for Minnesota and one other split his vote between the Gophers and Duke. As a result the Gophers, with nine second-place votes, another for third and one for fourth, polled a total of 945V4 points out of a perfect 960. Duke's Blue Devils, Rose-bowl bound to meet Oregon State, got 9V4 for first and 72514 points, and Duquesne, only other big-time unbeaten and untied team in the land, 309 2-3 points for eighth. Points were awarded on a basis of 10 for first, nine for second, eight for third, etc. Irish Third In the two biggest bowl games, the voters make Duke a heavy favorite over Oregon State, given only enough points for 12th place while rating the Fordham-Missouri Sugar bowl clash virtually a toss-up. Ford ham got 329 2-3 points in sixth place, Missouri 328 in a seventh Notre Dame, Texas and Mich igan, in third, fourth and fifth, and Texas A. and M. and Navy, in ninth and tenth( completed the first 10. Gone from the 1940 honor roll are Stanford, Boston col lege, Tennessee, Nebraska, Mis sissippi State, Northwestern and Washington. Holdovers, besides Minnesota, are Michigan and Texas A. and M. Kelly, in his ballot, came closest to the week's ranking. He named the f'xst three teams in order, then followed with Missouri, F o r d h a m, Texas, Texas A. and M., Duquesne, Navy and Michigan. PLAY FOR SHRINE Berkeley, Calif., Dec. 2 (AP) Bob Reinhard, California's great senior tackle, said today he had accepted a bid to play for the west in the annual Shrine all-star football game at San Francisco New Year's day, even though his own team meets Georgia Tech here five days be fore. Reinhard was among the first to receive an Invitation from the western coaches, Babe Holllng bery of Washington State and MaJ. Biff Jones of Nebraska, who said they had delayed making their choices until the decision on a Rose Bowl team Indicated what players would be available. The eastern squad, under the direction of Andy Kerr of Col gate, Bernle Blerman of Minne sota and Dude De Groot of Rochester, Is already complete except for one back, a center and a guard. E Ashland. Dec. 2. Spl Coach Jean Kberhart's South ern Oregon College of Educa tion basketball quintet will open Its 1941-42 season here this week-end, meeting Rubensteln's Oregonlans of Eugene Friday right and tangling with the Klamath Falls All-Stars Satur day evening. The Friday gam will start at 7 30, that on Sat urday at 8 00. Probable starting lineup, ac cording to Eoerhart, will find Wes Peters and Joe Spayde at the forwards. Bob Mulder at center and Bobby Hoefs and either Joe Ba.-ry or Bruce Wall at the guards. Others who may see action are Chuck DeAutre mont. Darrell Copeland, Dutch Scheldereiter, Jim Smith, Harry Stallard, Harold Brown, Ted Jantzrr, Dean Jones, Ray Har- tig. Eugene Hayes and Ivan r ' Tl nit iil i ls ul CALM-After years as football coach at the University of Illinois, Bob Zuppke is re Ur ine, and he finds the messa.es from friends a good antidote for the last tame he watched at coach Illinois vs. Northwestern, won by Northwestern. 27-t. 4DUKE PLAYERS VOTED POSTS ON E By Barton Pittie Richmond, Va., Dec. 2. (P) Duke university's Rose bowl bound football squad carried off top honors In the 1941 all-Southern conference team poll con ducted by the Associated Press, the participating sports writers and coaches placing a quartet of Blue Devils on the first team and two more In reserve on the second eleven. Twice-beaten Clemson, 1940 leader which yielded the loop championship this season to Duke, was awarded three first team berths; William and Mary wo, and South Carolina and Wake Forest one each. . Heading the all-star lineup Is repeater Steve Lach, Duke's sen ior wingback from Altoona, Pa. Only one of the 81 ballots re ceived from the Carollnas, Vir ginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia failed to list the 190-pound Lach, regarded as one of the best backs ever pro duced at a school which has turned out such players as Ace Parker, George McAfee and Eric Tipton. The heaviest vote among the linesmen went to Joe Blalock, 180-pound Clemson end from Charleston, S. C, who has held the all-star post for three seas ons. Lining up with Lach In the backfield are Stan Stasica, South Carolina, one of the loop's brightest rookie players; Harvey Johnson, William and Mary's 210-pound Junior from Bridge tun, N. 'J., and Charlie Tim- inons, Clemson 200, from Abbe ville, S. C, who was a member of the 1940 team. Working opposite the six-foot two Blalock on the mythical squad Is Bob Gannt, 210-pound Puke sophomore from Durham, N. C, who stands an inch taller than Blalock. Mike Ikarmazin. Duke, of Er win. Pa., and George Frltts, Clemson, of Lenoir City, Tenn., both seniors weighing around 190, won tackle honors. There was little dispute also over the first guard berts, Gar rard Ramsey, W. it M. of Wal land, Tenn., and Carl Glvler, Wake Forest, of Allentown, Fa . being the popular choices. Bob Garnett, Duke senior from Albany, Ga., was returned to the center position for the second consecutive year. Celebration Still Goes On for Beavers Corvallls, Dec. 2 (APV Cel ebrations for the Rose Bowl bound Oregon State college foot ball team continued here today. Faculty members and Corval lls merchants feted the team and the coaching staff at a break fast. Portland will honor the team at a stag banquet Wednesday night there If you plan to buy er sell let us finance the transaction. s JACKSON COUNTY FEDERAL AVINGS & LOAN ASSOCIATION RELATES HOW HE ill JOB Huey Long Tossed Out Of Oregon Dressing Room, Ex-Local Coach Recalls. By Dean Collins In Oregon Journal At the Multnomah hotel, list ening to the returns on the Army and Navy football game with a post mortem by Prink Calllson, I also heard for the first time from that coach's own lips how he missed becoming football coach for the University of Louisiana. The second time he took Ore gon down to play Louisiana, some six years or so ago, was the time when Huey Long, then at the peak of his career, fired the Louisiana roach. Biff Jones, between halves. After he had finished kicking Biff out of the Louisiana team's dressing room, Huey barged across into the dressing room of the Oregon team. Calllson was giving his between-halved talk to his team, when he looked up and saw a ctranger in the offing. He had never met Huey and didn't rec ognize him at the moment. I thought it was some drunk who had stumbled In, so I yelled at him to get the heck out," says Calllson. He bristled and said. I'm Huey Longl' I hollered right back, 'I don't care If you're the president of the United States! Get out of this dressing room, or I'll throw you out.' Well, he got out, and I went on talking strategy to my team. Later on I met him at the re ception, and as he shook hands with me, he said, 'You know, when I came Into your dressing room and you threw me out I was coming in to hire you to coach Louisiana, in place of Biff Jones'." That shows how close Prink Callison came to being on the faculty of the University of Louisiana. If he had been as lucky as the rest of Huey's ap pointees he might have stayed in Louisiana's university long enough to get Indicted along with the rest of the boys. Incidentally, he told the army and navy men, at the lunch eon, where they gathered to listen to the radio game, that when anyone who played foot ball 20 years ago starts brag ging about what a tough time his old team would have made for a modern football team, don't believe him. 'I've played football later than that," he says, "and when ! see the tough games they put up now, I'm glad I'm in the grandstand Instead of in the field." Fans Pay to Watch Winning Grid Teams; Losers Suffer Drop New York, Dec. 2. VP) All the world loves a lover or a winning football team. The Associated Press' annual survey of football attendance discloses that 'hose teams which had the ability to gather In more touchdowns and victories Also reaped more dollars at the box officers. Unbeaten Duquesne played to 70,788 fans this year In five home games as contrasted with 44.322 a year ago In four con tests; Duke hiked Its total from 37,000 In five games last year to 117.000 in four tilts this fall, and Missouri's aggregate hop ped from 60,383 a year ago to 73,548, with four home games each season. The reverse also was true lr. most cases. Nebraska, good enough to be chosen for the Rose bowl a vear ago but de feated five times In a row this fall, dropped from 144.000 to 126,000; Boston college skidded from 193,000 to 171.000 and Tennessee came down from 112,000 to 80.000. WEATHER Northern California: Occas ional rain tonight; Wednesday showers and cooler, with snow over high mountains; fresh southerly wtnd off coast, strong today north of Monterey, Loans V Homes J 126 LAST maim: Number BOWLING Cliff froetor, rolllac for H-wmn-ton Tire Tread In a Cl 1c league amine last sight, turned tn a 308 to top any previous 1041 tingle game score. Pluhrer's Bakery had a single game score of 1,031 for the beet team aoora of the year. Bulck n re belli beat Pluhrer's, 9 to 1; Hawklnson Tire beat Murraj'i Hald-RIt. a to 1 and Do mestic Laundry beat Foster and Klels. r, 8 to 0. Bcoree follow: F1-hrert Bakery Porterfltld 114 193 let 4B6 Peak 143 1SS 181 611 Campagnooi ISO lot 1ST SS0 Barr l- -31 184 833 Reltama . 193 318 181 883 Totals 808 1031 8833883 Bnlrk fire Balls 18 IS IB 48 178 138 118 433 188 184 184 881 183 170 147 800 . 170 188 178 817 188 188 308 880 Iteed Oreal Sanderson Long Adair Totals 888 841 8883588 ffawkinson Tire Jim Moon 188 178 334 681 D. Maradden 181 188 310 637 S. Btark . ISO 168 188 487 Ron DeVora 170 166 303 828 Cliff Proctor 168 388 141 687 Totals . 81T 816 866 3701 Murrays Maid Rite 17 17 IT 61 W. Prultt 183 161 170 486 Bill Haven 171 183 168 633 Landers 148 176 183 806 M. Bell , 164 147 183 804 Earl Sims 301 173 313 687 Total! 856 887 8333656 Foster r Klelarr 18 18 IB 84 Klcholaon 138 188 173 800 Witter 183 148 151 459 Boone 184 lit 168 480 Corley , 168 181 165 444 Newland 140 168 196 491 To tale 800 750 8483398 Domestic Laundry Oreen 178 303 153 534 Gardner ... , 171 147 175 498 Saylor 303 171 183 836 Runts 169 159 149 477 Eada 333 188 314 825 , 843 869 8843665 BIG ENTRY LIST Los Angeles, Dec. 2. (APV The horse of the year ... the horse of a day . . . the horse of 1939-40 . . . nearly 100 horses looking for gold at the end of the hundred grand gallop have been nominated for the Santa Anita handicap Nominations closed last mid night for the mile and a quarter handicap to be run March 7. The complete list won't be an nounced until Friday morning to allow time for mailed entries to arrive. However, there's no need to wait to assure racing fans that Whirlaway, Bay View, Challe don, Meissen, Mioland and Por ter's Cap, for Instance, were nominated. Whilaway, Warren C. Wright's great winner of nearly every thing offered a 3-year-old, is horse of the year. Bay View, the $118.40 to $2 winner of the $100,000 Anita 'cap last March, is the horse of a day. Owner Tony Pelleted wants to make it two days both hundred granders. HOT 8 EAT Portland. Dee. 2. (Ph-A prisoner at a Multnomah coun ty Jail quarry shoved a quarter of a stick of dynamite In a hole in a rock yesterday, lighted the fuse and sat down on the rock. The blast scattered the rock in all directions, but the prisoner, Ray Kennedy. 17, was unin jured. Deputy Sheriff Oswald Day reported. Your Place In The Sun It at VAH-KI INN. a tmtll dettrt ina and gueM riack id)inlng the ftmeat Ctts Grinds Nttionil Moeu col attr Ceeti-gt, Aritona. VaVKI Inn, sa tour's drlrt from either Paoeait ei Tucwa, etrtrt comfort and coarenitBca to a limited number ef gueua, Speeial coaildcrtiioa U girea to dint. Individual aee-i and wishes. Your aatta oitt roe many fatctnitlni personally conducted ene-di tripe wits tbt Ina tt the tuning point. Tear KtiU THEODORA sad WAtTIR SMITH .Vat ex '- tar ttttltt tU iUa ferri tttdit Jinnf' er f -Ceeelr. fise "vktrt tki H4 Ktll Jisfrrf." VAH-kl JJC00UDGfr I PiniAeizONA. - 1 Grid Duke Boasts Best Five-Year Football Record in Nation By Orlo Robertson New York, Dec. 2.W) The story why Duke, Fordham and the Texas Asgles have dominated the bowl picture the last two years is reflected in their football records for the last half decade. Duke, which made an unsuc cessful visit to the Rose bowl in January, 1939, and has been Invited back again to meet Ore gon State next month, tops the country's major colleges in won and lost records over this stretch with a percentage of .870. The Blue Devils have won 40 games while dropping only six and ty ing one in that period. Minnesota, unbeaten since 1939 but out of the bowl pic ture because of a Big Ten rul ing, is ninth tn the list with eight defeats, one tie and 31 triumphs the last 17 in a row. Fordham, loser to the Texas Aggies in the Cotton bowl last New Year's day and Missouri's opponent in the Sugar bowl this coming January 1, is third with a record of .842, compiled by winning 32, losing six and tying three. The Aggies, headed back to the Cotton bowl for the sec ond straight year, stand fifth with a percentage of .822. Thanks to their unbeaten record In nine games, the Blue Devils vaulted over Tennessee's Vols, who desoite an Indifferent year for them with a record of eight and two, closed out the five-year period with a mark of 865, good for runner-up hon ors. Notre Dame, on the up grade under the direction of Frank Leahy, jumped from eighth with a percentage of .791, to fourth with .833 on the strength of eight victories and a tie In nine games. Santa Clara, winning only six of its nine con tests, dropped from second to sixth. Coffee was discovered In the 15th century by an Arabian goat herder. The Gift the Boy in the Service Will Enjoy Most HOME NEWS MAIL Solve the Gift Problem with a Subscription to the MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE C Team of Fights Last Night (By the Associated Press) New Orleans Leo Rodak. 134, Chicago, outpointed Joe Peralta, 133, Tamaqua, Pa., flO). Chicago Eddie Lander, 134, Chicago, outpointed Vic Trolse, 140V. New York (10). Pittsburgh M alio Bettlna, 183, New York, outpointed Harry Bobo, 204V4, Pittsburgh (10). Baltimore G us Dorazlo, 191V4, Philadelphia, outpointed Buddy Walker, 200V-, Colum bus, Ohio (10). Bridgeport, Conn. Al (Red) Mofett, 147, Devon, Conn., out pointed Frankie Velez, 148, Porto Rico (8). Newark, N. J Johnny Flynn, 194, Rochester. N. Y., won by technical knockout over Wal lace Cross, 203, East Orange, N J. (3). Cleveland Anton Chrlstofor- idls, 163, Cleveland, outpointed Ceferino Garcia, 158, Los Ang eles (10); Joe Maxin, 178, Cleveland, outpointed Clarence, (Red) Burman. 188, Baltimore (10); Fritzie Zlvlc, 143, Pitts burgh, won by technical knock out over Harry Weekly, 142, Alliance, Ohio (8); Joey Pirrone, 143, Cleveland, outpointed Mar cellina Borrado, 133, Mexico City (6). New York Charles (Lulu) Costantino, 127ye, New York, outpointed Joey Fontana, 132, New York (8). Washington, Dec. 2 The senate has confirmed Henry IN THE TRIBUNE t He' bound to be hun gry for news of hi home town . . how the Medford high school teams are do ing . . the latest vord about his old friends . yes there are many things he'd like to know which he can read in the Mail Tribune. Nation W. Anderson as postmaster at Tillamook, Ore. Kerch, seaport between the Black Sea and Sea of Azot. la called Rut. la's "Pompeii because of wealth of ancient tomb and relics found there. 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