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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 194L Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Mythical Gifts Given To People In Sports World If, by some miracle, we sud denly sprouted long white beard tonight and found our selves charging down from the North Pole behind a frisky team of reindeer, with the sled loaded with Xmas presents for deserv ing sports persons, we would not forget to fill the stockings of these citizens with appropriate gifts: Lonnle Stiner: five, fat, juicy touchdowns against Duke In the Rose Bowl, for his "miracle job" of coaching the Oregon Staters to the Pacific Coast conference championship. Ted Williams: the "most valu able player" award for 1942, for batting .406 last season and still missing that coveted honor be cause of Joe DiMaggio. And. we would toss In a nice salary boost for the Boston Red Sox star outfielder. Frank Kovscsi fortune in pro tennis ranks, for having to "Insldes" to tell off the pompous U. S. L. T. A. in no uncertain language. Russ Acheson: a state cham pionship for his Tiger cagers, for taking the hard knocks and bad breaks of the last two bas ketball seasons without whim per. Joe Louis: three dozen filed chicken dinners for being always a fighting champion and a credit to a game that could use more like him. Mickey Owen: aoythlng he wants, to erase the memory of that fatal muffed third strike In the world series. Craig Wood, a second conse cutive U. S. open golf champion ship, for winning his first at the age of 39 after long years of futile trying. Billy Conn: the heavyweight championship, for his amazing battle against bigger, harder hitting Brown Bomber. Curt Mecham: a lucrative pro fessional football contract, to make up for his being so stupid ly Ignored when the West Shrine team was selected. Bill Bowerman: rapid promo tion In the U. S. army (when and If called), for fashioning one of the state's best prep coaching records during his seven-year tenure at the local institution. OHSAAi a bag oi straw, for refuting to permit The Dalles grldders to travel to Memphis, Teruu, for a "national cham pionship" game, which would have brought grand publicity to Oregon, and lor many other absurdities. Sparky Bourqua: a successful Ice hockey league, for his untir ing work in forming same. Mel Ott: three 20-vlctory pit chers and a half-dozen .400 hit ters for his New York Giants, for his lengthy and brilliant per formance for the Polo Ground ers, culminating In his being made manager. Jimmy Phclan: good coach ing position, for the mental suf fering he receipted for at the hands of University of Washing ton "wolves," befora being canned. Bob Newland: a first string post on the Webfoot varsity, for being the only Medford youth currently playing major college basketball. All Jap baseball players: plenty of hell, for adopting our national pastime and then dis gracing its very name. Seattle Quint Bows To Cougars, 45-37 Longvlew. Dec. 34. (T) Battling furiously most of the way, the Washington State col lege basketball team defeated the Seattle Savldges. 4.V37, here last night for their second rtralght victory In the Long view Elk's annual charity series. Hal Schllcting of the Savldges was high scorer with 11 points while Al Aklns. Gall Bishop and Owen Hunt of the Cougars ac counted for 10 each. Baker. On. (UP) A Baker wmrun Mrs J. Roeeoe Lee his btm the mother, sweetheart and newspaper of man than 60 young Baker men eerv lns the innH forces. Mrs. Ir sends IX full typewritten petes crammed with local new each month. ROLLER SKATING SKATING HOURS Tues., Thura., 8un., 7 to 10 p. in. Saturday 7:30 p. m. to 11 p. m. Admission 30s Ashland Rink Cleveland Indians Voted Biggest Sports DOUBTFUL HONOR EARNED BY DROP 10 FOURTH PLACE Scribes Name Lou Nova Second Biggest 'Bust' Mention Buck Newsom By Orlo Robertson New York. Dec. 24. OP) The doubtful honor of being dubbed the No. 1 disappointment of the year goes to the Cleveland In dians without much of an argu ment. By a margin of almost two to one, the Indians beat out Lou Nova of the cosmls punch In the opinion of 85 sports writers par ticipating In the Associated Press' annual poll. Thirty-one of the experts said the Tribe's slide into a tie for fourth place, 26 games back of the champion Yankees of the American league, after finishing only a game out of the top spot In 1940, was proof that Roger Peckinpaugh's boys deserve the distinction. Lou Nova, who after a great buildup was knocked out in the sixth round by Champion Joe Louis last summer, received 16 votes. One writer split his bal lot between Nova the Vogi and the Indians. Texas Flops The remaining votes were scattered among 16 athletes and teams. Louis Norman Newsom, the big Detroit pitcher, better known as Bo Bo, was the No. 1 failure in the opinion of eight writers. Newsom won only 12 and lost 20 games and his earned-run average slipped to 4.61 last season after he pitched the Tigers to the American league pennant In 1940 with a 21-9 record and an earned-run mark of 2.83. Texas' football Longhoms, al ready mentioned as one of the biggest surprises of the year either In winning, tying or los ing, also were considered the top disappointment by seven writers. They based their deci sion on the Longhoms' defeat by Texas Christian and tie by Bay lor after being voted one of the nation's two top-ranking elevens. Right behind the Longhoms with six votes trailed Stanford's football team, which lost three games after having gone unde feated and winning the Rose Bowl game the previous season. Lou Novlkoff, the the majors most publicized rookie, who failed to make good with the Cubs, and Tulane's up-and-down football team were the only others to receive more than one vote. They got two each. FANTASTIC SUM BET ON HORSES New York, Dec. 24. WV- The sum of $517,3K2,1Q7 enough to build a flotallla of five battleships and B0 destroy ers was bet on horse races dur ing 1941 in the 18 states re porting to the Associated Press in Its annual survey. The almost fantastic sum is approximately $10 0,000 000 more than the previou year New York, with total bets of $133,082,374. led the various states for the second straight year. The mutuels have been in operation in the state for only that time. Of that sum approximately $7,500,000 went to the state in fees, licenses and breakage. The same 18 states reported their take of the 1941 amount was $20.883.946.67 more than five million dollars greater than It was in 1940. High School Scores By the Associated Press Walla Walla 23, MKton-Free-water 23. Sa'.em 47, Marshfleld 29. Astoria 33. Kelso 12. Central Catholic (Portland") 30. Mllwatikle 23. Molalla 20, Woodburn 19. roArnr.ai -M.nr rtrr Maiden. Maia. rp Two wild deer were killed by an unidentified hunter In woods near a residential aectlon despite a law which prohibits shoot lni aitnin the cty limits Police found the carcass of one of the animals under a tree the other where It had crawled or been draated In Police Commissioner Burt Dewar'i garage. POISON OAK? Trr bottU el ZCMACOL Voa matt b Mtitflrd foot mono? tftdat ! RMTFRtt THRIFT. cbMifulIf feiuodffl. ot fcoilM Amateur Golf i n V-: v. ih . zM . vp J0- mm c'V 'fyy r,l Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, Wash., national amateur golf champion, discussed his intelligence test with Lieut. J. C. Rollins (right), army recruiting officer at Spokane as Ward enlisted. Cub Skipper Calls Novikoff "Dizzier" Than Dizzy Dean By Ted Meier Philadelphia, Dec 24. () Lou Novikoff, outfielder for the Chicago Cubs, is dixzier than That's what Jimmy Wilson, manager of the Cubs, said here on a visit And he ought to know. For Wilson was a team mate of Ol' Dlz on the St. Louis Cardinals and last year man aged Novikoff, known as the Mad Russian." Novikoff was the leading slugger in the Pacific Coast league in 1940. He came up to the Cubs with a lot of fanfare last spring. But his hitting was virtually nil and his fielding worse. He was farmed out to Milwaukee where his clouting earned him another chance. 1 don't know whether he will make the grade or not," Wilson declared. "He Is still caught off stride and fooled by a change of pace outside, hits in front of the ball and beats It into the dirt, although on some days he knocks the pill out of the park without half trying. ' "Still, he's quite a guy," Wil son went on. "He's given me a lot of laughs and I can't stay mad at him." "During the spring (Novikoff was hitting a mere .190) when he was going bad I asked him 'Have I hurt you in any way' He thought a moment 'Yes, you broke my heart 'What,' I said In surprise! 'What did I do?' You took me out for a pinch hitter,' he replied." Bearcals End Gage Tour With Victory Caldwell, Idaho, Dec. 24. (JP) Willamette University's Bearcats trounced the College of Idaho basketball team, 41 to 27, last night, closing k tour of the lntermountaln region with three victories and three losses. Sumner Gallaher, Willamette forward, scored 14 points to lead the Bearcats. All the games were non-conference. UTAH STATE DEFEATS LA GRANDE, FIVE 55-44 La Grande, Ore., Dec. 24. W) A hard driving, fast and rough Utah State basketball team last night returned to the win column with a 83-44 vic tory over the Eastern Oregon College of Education despite the 23 point performance of East ern's forward Don Andrews. c o. rur phivatb Chemite Held. IU. (UP1 Prt. Wal ter O. Boedecser waa faced with a transportation problem when he re called word of his father 'a death at rtatoma. Kaa, Col. R. . Orlelll. hit commanding officer, flew him Im mediately in an Arm? plane to Fort Riley, Kaa., near Matorna. TO JOIN POl trR Tonn(rnt3n. O. ( VT ) L. F. Jick) Trammel. ft former contfwiar for the world's hrywlght twine cham pionship. U now th Iradlnit candi date for ft TouM-town polio Job. TrmmH tvoml hVthMt amnrg do0t ppllca.nti.ln cMl rswrrlr ami nation. j IMIIITLAMI'S i distinrthc hotel the iiEsn A nroadwaj at Oak Bt. J Uss King Enlists was Dizzy Dean at his prime. BY T! F Durham, N. C, Dec. 24. W) A travel-weary Oregon State football team arrived here to day to begin preparation for the transplanted "Rose Bowl" game with the Duke Blue Devils New Year's day. Two thousand spectators and the Durham high school band were at the station hen the Beavers' train pulled in. After a breakfast at a down town hotel at which Coach Lon Stiner of the Beavers, Cosch Wallace Wade of the Blue Dev ils, Dr. R. L. Flowers, president of Duke, and other notables and the Oregon State footballers were introduced the visitors mo tored to nearby Chapel Hill where they will bivouac. Stiner said that his hoys were unusually tired after the long trip from Corvallis, Ore., but tnat a practice session was sched uled this afternoon at the Uni versity of North Carolina's Ke nan stadium. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press White Plains. N. Y. Al Hart, 232, Washington. D. C. outpoint ed Earl Lowman, 20i'.i, New York (8). New York Ernie Vigh, 163'4 New York, outpointed Augie Arellano, 182Va. Houston, Tex. (8). Brooklyn Maxie Shapiro. 133, New York knocked out Ted Christie, 129. New York (21. Jersey City Tommy Roman. 144, Bayonne, N. J., outpointed Mike Plskln, 147, Freehold N. J., (8). Eau Claire, Wis Cha-ley Burley, 133. Pittsburch. knocked out Jerry Hayes, 160. Milwau kee (4). Los Angeles John Thomas. 130. Los Angeles, won decision from Jimmy Florila, 131, Ma nila (10). at AMERICA'S TALLEST HOTEL MORRISON HOTEL CHICAGO LEONARD HICKS Ajumx? Director u. BIG SEVEN LOOP; TO FINISH SLATE Denver, Dec. 24. () The mountain-spanning Big Seven athletics conference was looking for a new name today, minus the company of its largest col lector of gate receipts, Denver university. Harry Carlson, dean of men and athletics director of Colo rado university, indicated after the metropolitan school's sur prise withdrawal last night that the conference will continue operations as a six-team league. He said the six, Colorado, Utah, Brigham Young, Wyom ing, Colorado State and Utah State, would confer shortly to determine the conference's atti tude toward Denver's exit. Denver plans to play its 1942 conference football schedule, but next year's basketball agen da has not been approved. Lengthy contention between Denver and Colorado over home playing schedules, partic ularly In football, came to a head with the sudden announce ment by Chancellor Caleb F. Gates, Jr., of Denver that D. U. was quitting, effective the end of next May. HAGEN LEADS IN In Lamports' open singles bowling championship tourna ment now being conducted at the Medford alleys, Bill Hagen alone remains undefeated. He has beaten Green, Pruitt, Runtz and Eads. Those having one loss are Eads, Runtz, Gardner, Porter field, Adair and Moore. Two de feats means elimination. Hawkinson Tire Tread cap tured the first-half champion ship of the Classic league, with 29 victories and 16 defeats. Fol lowing in order were Murray's Maid-Rite, Fluhrer's Bakery, Buick Fireballs, Domestic Laun dry and Foster and Kleiser. Um Mall Trlbuna want ads. This Christoas and (Every Christmas I ? be just 63 GLENN H. Civilian Defense Set-Up Explained by Coordinator The following Is the third of a eerlee of Informational articles on drtl lan defeat prepared by Frank Hall, coordinator of the Jaekaoa County Council of Defense: EVACUATION Plans have been completed, signs have been constructed and are ready to be erected to evacu ate the people from th large metropolitan areas of the state of Oregon. These signs will In dicate the roads on. which evacuees will be moved and as the military roads will be needed by the armed forces you can see the importance of this action. Thousands of men and women have already been instructed how to proceed. These instruc tions will come in Jackson coun ty to the public through mem bers of the protection division and precinct wardens. TRANSPORTATION It is absolutely necessary that trucks hauling defense materials such as food, munitions, steel, iron, or whatever may be needed by the armed forces must be kept rolling. The instructions from the army are that this supercedes all traffic except movement of the armed forces themselves. Uniform instruc tions on all civilian defense acti vities will soon be ready. ' FOOD The council of defense has been informed of the plans for and the necessity of raising food and that food is as important as munitions. Plans are also ready for the harvesting of these essential foods by the civilian population. It can without re servation be stated that eggs, milk, fruit and vegetables can. win the war. Those in a position to know realize that the Pacific coast can and probably will be attacked. Our Job as civilians is to follow instructions and do the Job for our own protection and, further assist the armed forces. THREE-FLOOR FALL Albuquerque. N, M. (UP) Police officers walking along an Albuquer que street were amased when 8am Lee. 21-year -old Indian, feu to the sidewalk In front of them from a third-story window. They helped him to nil feet, found him unhurt and accompanied him to hit hotel room. Lee entered the room and promptly started a fight with two Mends thin. Pouce aald the trio bad been drink ing. TJae Hall Tribune want ads. We look forward to ending you our tin cr good wishes for happy Holiday. It it a pleasure to us be cause it gives us an opportunity to thank you for all you have done for this firm. Your have been liberal In your patronage, your friendship and good will the com bination of which spells progress for any organisation. You have been good to us may Santa as good to you. UTZ for Suits! Disappointment E ISLAND OF WAKE Grants Pass, Dee. 24. (Spl.) The names of 59 men are known in Grants Pass as naval base laborers who left here for Wake Island and in all proba bility were still there when the Japanese first attacked. Details are known here of the fortifications and the usual mar ine garrison on the island, but such information is withheld as of possible advantage to the enemy. Names of the local men on Wake island follow: Zane Becker, Gold Hill; Delos Brown, Fate Beleganis, George A. Buttler, Martin Junior Chris tiansen, Palo Alto; Richard S. Crenshaw, Francis Campbell, Rogue River; David S. Chamb ers, Bob Curphey, Hugh Cur phey, Everett Dolman, Melvin Davidson, W. F. Foote, Claude Green, Fred Hall,- Eugene Har gis, Burdette Harvey, Eldon F. Hargis, Theron J. Harris, John K. (Worth) Hamilton, Jack M. Hancock, Gold Hill; Lester Har beck, Lome Higgins, Kenneth Hopkins, Richard C. Johns, Mor ton T. Kelly, Johnny Kirk. Buren Clayton Kennedy, Rogue River; Herb Lee, George W. McPherran, George Maiden, Ezra Cecil Matthews, Charles Moe, Wes McCullough, Riddle; Lloyd Nelson, Harry F. Norbury, James E. Quigley, Alfred Ram sey, James Revelle, Cave Junc tion; Walter Roberts, William H. Rice, C. A. Riebel, Thomas San ford, Williams; Harold E. Smith, C. E. Serry, Robert Sporer, Roseburg; Marshal Sturtevant, John A. Schiefersteln, Walter Shamel, Charles Seeley, Lewis Smith, Rogue Riven Wayne Stringer, Walter T. Thompson, Earl E. Tucker, between Rogue River and Gold Hill; Hans Whit- UTZ I ney. Wood row W. Whittenberg, i John Burnett Wilson, Ed Young, Sr. TO FOIL DQGNAPER Pittsburgh. U.B While hlg master Is fingerprinted for iden tification purposes, Rover now is noseprinted. And where the federal bureau of investigation catalogues hunv an fingerprints, the national noseprint bureau does the sama for the canine world. Acting on the generally-accepted fact that noseprintir.g is the only positive method of identifying dogs, the bureau has offices throughout the country and keeps records of all regist ered dogs. ' According to U. S. Madden, unit director for the Pittsburgh area, the bureau's system of nose printing has been effective In settling numerous court rases involving stolen dogs, in betray ing "dognapers." and in return of strayed dogs to their rightful owners. The national noseprint bureau works in close collaboration with veterinarians, the Humane society and organizations like the Animal Rescue league. Closing time for Classified Ads a. m. Too Late to Classify 1340 p. m. 1 VvJZ.rH on NEW LOW PRICE, i- - rr Phone 2119 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime) Lewis Super Service
