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PAGE FOtm MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1941 Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: 8eavers, West Get Handicaps On Grid Sheet Interesting, no end, Is the final "yellow sheet" ol the mi football season, which lists and handicaps the flva New Year s Day "bowl games and tht an nual East-West Shrine contest slated for January 3. Only two of tha six tilts are not even. The sheet gives Duke a 13-polnt edge over Oregon State In the Rose Bowl, and the East seven-point handicap over the West in the Shrine affair. Rated aven are Fordham versus Missouri In the Sugar Bowl, Alabama versus Texas Aggies In the Cotton Bowl, Georgia versus Texas Christian in the Orange Bowl and Tulsa versus Texas Tech In the Sun Bowl. Way out of line la that 13 nolnt not handed Oregon State, In this corner's opinion, and as nrnhablv everybody knows by this time. Also, we believe the East-West game should Da even Instead of seven to the West. Hlntorv records that year af ter year the East squad boasts the greater numDer or aii- Americans ana Dig nme, nri vr after year the "star less" West rises up to knock the pants oil their glamorous opponents. As for those other "bowl" battles, they appear tossups. If we had to predict the win ners we would hesitatingly finger Missouri over Ford ham. Texas Aggies over Ala bama, Tulsa over Texas Tech and Georgia over Texas Christian. T r e d "Gunner" Ounnette. captain of Medford high's bas ketballers last season, is enjoy ing considerable easaba success at Sacramento junior college, according to letter received from Ned Kay, coach. Kay writes: "Fred is at pres ent giving tha forwards a battle for a starting position ... Is gaining much needed experience and will be valuable man both this season and next." Gunnette has made the squad and was one of 12 players taken on a six-day barnstorming tour into southern California, Kay writes. The Sacramento coach adds that Fred has plenty of possibilities and is extremely well-liked by his teammates. Skeet O'Connell, whose Cor vallis high Spartans tangle with the Tigers here tonight, calls his new system the "weaving offense" . . . the ex-Ashland mentor has patterned the style of play after that being Inaug urated by Slats Gill at Oregon State college ... It Is designed to combine the best features of both the fast and slow break. . . . Oregon State's two back field aces. Don Durdan and Bob Dethman. both played against Medford's Black Tor nado in their prep school days .... Durdan led the Eureka, (Cel.) high Loggers to a 20 to 12 win oer Medtord in 1937, and Dethman was the big gun when Hood River nicked the locals. 14 to 13. In the same year ... Paul B. Wil.'amson, football rating authority, predicts Duke over Oregon State, Missouri over Fordham, Texas Ags over Alabama, Georgia over Texas Christian, Tulsa over Texas Tech and East over West ... his final national standings find Texas the number one team, Duke second and Minnesota third . . . Oregon State Is 22nd, Oregon 3 1st. Chick Harberl Wins Rich Beaumonl Open Beaumont, Tex., Dec. 30. (JPt Chick llarbert, an unknown who failed even to place among golfdnm's 12 top money winners of 1941, ran away from the vet erans and won the $3,000 Beau mont open with a 276. eight be low par for the 72 holes. The youthful Battle Creek. Mich., pro never was over par. He coasted In yesterday with an even par 71 to win by seven strokes over wee Ben Hogan and Paul Runay. who tied for second place at 283. Cm Mall Tribune tut ads. CARPENTERS SEE THE NEW SKILSAW Mght. Powerful Dependable Medford to Face Corvallis in Basketball 3 SENIORS, ONE i TO START FRACAS Tigers Look Better In Mon day Drill Low Scoring Contest Is Possibility Three seniors, a Junior and one sophomore will take the floor for Medford tonight when the Tigers open their 1041-42 basketball season against Skeet O'Conn ill's Corvallis high Spar tans at the local gym. The pre liminary, between Lost River Dairy and a group of former Medford high and St. Mary's players, will start at 7:30 sharp. Captain Hank Herman, for ward; Bill Wall, center and R. B. Webber, guard, will be the seniors seeing starting action. Balance of the quintet will find Don Fawcett, a Junior, at a guard post, and Dale Nieder meyer, a soph, at a forward po sition. Coach Russ Acheson, dissatis fied with his squad's practice performance last week, said to day they looked better in yes terday's workout and would probably give a good account of themselves against the strong Spartans. "Their passing and shooting seems to have Im proved," Acheson remarked. Cavemen Beaten Corvallis last night defeated Grants Pass, 18 to 13, and the dearth of scoring leads Acheson to believe that O'Connell has developed a potent defensive team. The Tigers themselves spent considerable time on de fense In yesterday s workout. so tonight's battle might pos sibly turn into a low-scoring af fair. Many former Bengal lumin aries will perform in the pre liminary, among them being four players now attending col lege. They are Walter Kresse, University of Oregon; Fred Gunnette, Sacramento Junior college; Billy Piche, Llnfield. and Harold Fawcett, University of Oregon. These four, with Johnny and George Gltzen, will tangle with Lost River Dairy. MISSOURI SLIGHT S New Orelans, Dec. 30. UP) If Canal street had cats on every corner, the uncertainty of where they'd Jump would be no great er than Thursday's Sugar bowl quarrel between Fordham uni versity and Missouri. To New Orleans' curbstone authorities and thousands of football-minded visitors from the east and middle-west, it add ed up to Just one answer: prob ably the wildest, woollest Sugar bowl game ever played In the 73.000-seat stadium. Betting fa vored Missouri by the unpro fitable margin of 6 to 8. Each team Is a specialist, and that specialty is the other's weakness. Missouri, an expon ent of the old battleship strategy of power, has a great .-unnlng attack. Fordham, in the past, has found that sort of power troublesome. TOURNEY LOCALE E Salem, Dec. 30. UP) Troy Walker, secretMry of the Ore gon State High School A.-tlvltles association, met here today with Willamette university officials to discuss whether the high school basketball tournament should be held at the Willam ette gymnasium. The association's boar' of control recently voted t- have the tournament here for the 23rd straight year, but Roy S. Keene, Willamette athletic dir ector, .aid he is not mu'h In terested In whether the tourna ment is held here. Should the members of Wll lamette's athletic board appear as "disinterested" as Keere, it is probable that the high school officials will look for some other place to hold the tournament. SL?7 TERMS Coach Lon Stlner (right) watched with eagle eye as George Peters (58). Oregon State's blocking quarterback, led Fullback Joe Day (52) through a gaping hole during a scrimmage workout on the North Carolina University gridiron in preparation for tha Rose Bowl classic against Duke at Dur ham. N. C New Year's day. 1 MANDIC, VALENTI STAR AS BEAVERS New York, Dee. 30. m Taking the lead midway in the first period, the Oregon State college basketball squad con tinued to pile up counters to defeat Manhattan last night, 47 34, in Madison Square Garden. The Pacific coast team was led by lanky John Mandle and Paul Valentt, with 10 points each but Dick Murphy of Man hattan was high with 11. Halftime score was 23-18 and was increased to 41-24 before substitutions slowed down the tallying. Scores: Ore. State (47) G F PF TP 0 3 3 Dement, f 1 Mulder, t 3 Hall, f 2 Harvey, c 0 Mandle, e 6 Martin, c . 0 Valenti, g 4 Beck, g . 3 McNutt, g 4 0 3 0 2 1 3 1 1 0 1 Jeffries, g 0 Warren, g 0 Totals 22 14 47 PF TP 1 2 Manhattan (34) G Hassett, f 1 D. Murphy, f J. Murphy, f , Weber, c . Reulcy, c Draddy, c Courtney, g Maccabe, g Jordan, g Kebba, g Christie, g Totals 13 8 8 34 Score at half-time: Oregon State 23, Manhattan 13. Free throws missed: Manhat tan D. Murphy 3; Weber 2; Rcilly, Draddy. Oregon State Dement, Mulder, Mandic, Val enti 2, McNutt. Officials: Begovlch and Mai- loy. G0NZAGA NOSES OUT IDAHO FIVE, 34-31 Spokane. Dec. 30. UP) Clinging tenaciously to a small lead, the Gonzaga University basketball tram last night de feated the University of Idaho squad. 34-31, in a close game here. The bulldogs led, 26-19, at halftime. ma Straight K1 Jt 3 1 1 2 2 1 jLXriSi I ' 41 1 Thit V.icih nnalirv m.llftti, f I lTf IL i rr. "in a i Oregon Staters Scrimmage to 3 O'Doul To Coach Gary Cooper In Lou Gehrig Role Hollywood, Dec. 30. UP) To Frank (Lefty) O'Doul, manager of the San Francis co Seals and former New York Giant outfielder, goes the task of coaching Gary Cooper for his role of Lou Gehrig In the film version of the late Yankee first base man'a career. O'Doul, retained by Sam Goldwyn as technical adviser on tha picture, will have as his first assignment teaching Cooper to throw and bat left handed. Babe Ruth has been signed to play himself in the picture and is expected here within two weeks. EfSAN WILL REF E BOWL TILT San Francisco, Dec. 30 UP) Lee Elsan, considered one of tha top football officials in the far west, was en route to Dur ham, N. C, today to act as ref eree in the transplanted Rose Bowl game between Oregon State and Duke. Edwin N. Atherton, Pacific coast conference commissioner assigned Eisan to the contest af ter his original choice, Tom Fltzpatrick of Oakland, had been protested by Percy Loccy. director of athletics of Oregon State. Segura and Schroeder Reach Tennis Finals New Orleans, Dec. 30. UP) Francisco Segura of Ecuador, holder of several South Ameri can championships, and top seeded Ted Schroeder of Glen dale, Calif., were matched today In the finals of the Sugar Bowl tennis tournament Segura, who beat Wayne Sa bin of Portland, Ore., and George Lyttleton-Rogers of Ire land In earlier rounds, ousted Earl Bartlett of New Orleans, 4-8. 7-3, 6-2, 6-4, in the semi finals. Schroeder defeated Card nar Mulloy of Coral Gables, Fla., 4 6, 6 2, 2-6, 7-5, 6-4. A navy captain's special boat It oallwl a tlf- now aged for five years! A full strength product of expert distilling methods in use since 1S9S. Bottled in Bond under the supervision of the U. S. Govt Selling at the samt low puces (-VIA OTMBT VDCT t,1MaTeS"Tr: 4---n V.-: Sullivan Award Goes To Les MacMifchell, Cross Country Star New York, Dec. 30. UP) Leslie MacMitchell, who scored a virtual grand slam In cross country and mile running dur ing 1941, is the winner of the James E. Sullivan award, an nually given the nation's out standing amateur athlete. By a vote of 600 sports critics polled by the amateur athletic union, the New York University senior became the first native of the Empire state and the youngest athlete ever to win the honor. MacMitchell, on a basis of five points for a first place vote, three for a second and one for a third, collected 848. Cornelius Warmer dam, the California pole vaulter, was second with 662. Joe Platak, Chicago's handball expert, was third with 463. Other vote getters: Billy Brown, Louisiana State track, 413; Bud Ward, Spokane, Wash., golf, 378; Nancy Merkl, Port land, Ore., swimming, 351; Earl Clark, Ohio State diver, 253. Gregory Rice, also a track star, was the winner a year ago. LOFTY INDIANS SCORE 60-45 WIN OVER OHIO Berkeley, Cal., Dec. 30. (JP) Stanford university, showing an impenetrable defense with a basketball team averaging six feet three Inches In height, bot tled up Ohio State to win 60 to 45 last night. In the other game of a double header. University of California reserves defeated the Athens club of Oakland, 30-27. JAPAN AND RUSSIA ON FRIENDLY TERMS Tokyo, Dec. 30. (Official Broadcast Recorded by UP) Masayuki Tani, head of the gov ernment information bureau, told a press conference today that negotiations between Japan and the soviet union concerning extension of their fisheries agreement, which expires De cember 31, were continuing at Kuibyshev. Tani asserted that Japan's re lations with Russia continued to be perfectly friendly and that Japan was quite satisfied with them. Relations with Moscow were regulated by the terms of the Japanese-Russian neutrality pact signed at Moscow last April 13, he said. STRAIGHT DEATHS IN 1 941 , LI 'Sand Lot' Fatalities In crease; Few Rule Changes Suggested By Mentors. By Charles Dunkley Detroit, Dec. 30. VP) Not a single death attributed to foot ball occurred In the nation's ranks of 65,690 college players during the 1941 season. It was the first year In an 11 year period that no collegian sacrificed his life, either direct ly or indirectly, because of the gridiron game. This cheerful report was pre sented to the Joint meeting to day of the American Football Coaches association and Nation al Collegiate Athletic associa tion by Dr. Floyd R. Eastwood, of Purdue University's school of physical education for men. Members of the two associations discussed the possible effects of the war on inter-collegiate ath letics and heard addresses on the question. "How can collegi ate athletics best contribute to the national crisis?" Prof. Eastwood's report re vealed that although there were no fatalities among the collegi ans, a alight increase in deaths occurred among so-called "sand lot" athletic club players which brought to 14 the total number of fatalities In all classifications of football deaths during the year. This was compared with a total of 11 last year and 33 in the peak year of 1931 when the survey was begun. Faweat in 10 Years Columbia' Lou Little, chair man of the coaches' rules com mittee, said the fewest sugges tions for changes in the rule book were made sine the body was organized 10 years ago. They Include: (1) The team scored upon by either a touchdown or field goal is to have optional choice of goal. This Is designed to create offensive balance. Little said, particularly when the wind ad vantage Is great (2) Clarification of the substi tution rule to remove the possi bility of the so-called sleeper play. (3) Revision of the lateral pass rule which nullifies a play downfield when the ball is passed forward. The coaches would make this a five-yard penalty from the point of in fraction. Now the ball Is re turned to the line of scrimmage. (4) Placing a penalty for send ing a substitute on the field af ter the offensive team has left the huddle or gone into forma tion. Penalty: Loss of a time out. (5) Revision of the substitu tion rules to permit players to report to any one of the officials. MAKE A "DATE" NOW-TURN BACK THE Let's revive the "good old days" of the Gay '90 s Let's go "all out for fun New Year's Eve at the Ice Arenal Regular Prices, tool MEDFORD ICE ARENA o FUN o ENTERTAINMENT o Prizes for Best Costumes SEE THE OLD YEAR OUT THE NEW YEAR IN AT THE NEW ICE ARENA It' A Opener Duke Coach Fears Southpaw Kicker, Passer of Beavers Br frank B. GUbreth Durham, N. C, Dec. 80 UP) Coach Wallace Wada U doing his best to make sure that the highly polished Duke football machine won't be wrecked in tha Rose bowl Thursday by left-handed monkey wrench, tossed by Oregon State. The westerners have such monkey wrench in Don Durdan, a southpaw who passe left handed and kicks (eft-footed. Lon Stlner, coach of Oregon SVite, bad high hopes that the unorthodox delivery of his star mail carrier would befuddle the Dukes. But Wade, who tries to think of everything, is teaching his boys all he can about left-hand ed backs. George McAfee, per haps the best southpaw triple threat in the country, has been working out with the Blue Devils for the last three days. It may be some comfort to Stiner and his squad to learn that McAfee has had consider able success against the Blue Devils. However, it's hard to tell whether this success should be attributed to the idiosyncrasies of a southpaw or to natural ability. Yesterday, for example, George romped through the varsity with the greatest of ease. Sometimes the big Duke line would crash through and nail him before he got started, but If McAfee danced into the clear nobody could bring him down. Wade, however, seemed fair ly pleased with the work of his regulars. Like most veteran coaches, tha Duke mentor suf fers from the occupational mal ady of understatement When asked whether he thought Mc Afee hadn't trucked through the Duke secondary with a little too much ease. Wade replied: "Well, George Is a good run ner." SPARTANS DEFEAT ,18 T0 13 Grants Pass, Dec. 30 A slow-breaking Corvallis style of play dragged the Grants Pass high school basketeers to a dead stop In the second half here last night and the visiting Spar tans won 18 to 13. The Cave men tallied only one point after leading at halftime 12 to 6. Corvallis plays at Medfrrd to night. Grants Pass (13) (181 Corvallis Lathrop, 3 J..- WHmer. 3 Gray, 2 J" Knoll Martindale, 3 C Ryman, 5 Schrlmpf, 4 Anderson, 8 Havard . Groshong 2 Substitutes: Grants Pass Strowbridge 1, Everton and Clayton; Corvallis Masters. CONSULATE SAFE Washington, Dec. 30, The American consulate at Man ila Is "undamaged" and the en tire diplomatic staff is ' safe and well," the state department an nounced tonight. SPIRIT OF THE GAY 90'S ATTEND THE MASQUERADE PARITY New Year's Eve-at the Party You'll Long Remember Tonight Fights Last Night (By the Associated Prase) Chicago Harry Teaney, 138, Cleveland, outpointed Eddie Lander, 138, Chicago (10). Baltimore Kid Tunero, 160. New York, outpointed Irvln Proctor, 159V4, Baltimore (10); Deacon Johnny Grown, 198V&, Baltimore, and Frankla Wil liams, 1S2V4, Washington, drew (10). Pittsburgh Paul Carrabantee, 145, Chile, outpointed Otto Blackwall, 148, Homestead, N, Y. (10). Newark Jack Kenny, Liv ingston, N. J., knocked out Steve Hostak, 163, Newark Walter Stevens, 141, Newark, knocked out Steve Ozga, 131, Passaic, N. J. (4). Wilmington, D 1. Al Tri buanl, 156V4, Wilmington, out pointed Eddie Finnazzo, 161V4, . Baltimore (8), High School Scores (By the Associated Press) Ashland 51, Chemawa 33. Hood River 3i; Silverton 28. Corvallis 18, Grants Pass It. Use Mall Tribune want ads. POISOli OAK? Try a bottle ol ZEMACOL Too mutt be satuned or rear money totfaj at WESTERN THRIFT, cheerfully nfonilrd. 0t a bottle 3 CALENDAR - IN THE C 0 O 0 o I o o o HANSEN HARDWARE
