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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 194L
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Trammel. ft former contfwiar for
the world's hrywlght twine cham
pionship. U now th Iradlnit candi
date for ft TouM-town polio Job.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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i John Burnett Wilson, Ed Young,
Sr.
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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.
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