Image provided by: University of Oregon Libraries; Eugene, OR
About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 31, 1941)
PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 31, 1941. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: 1941 Filled With Tingling Moments In Sports Field People will start using pretty, new calendar! tomorrow ai 1041 panel into hiitory. From a local i port standpoint, 11 1942 provides as many hair-raising thrills as the year Just ended, Mr. and Mrs John Q. Fanatic won't have any squawks com ing. There were heart-stopping mo ments galore during the past dozen months incidents on the field of battle that jerked you right out of your chair and yanked hysterical screams from your raw throats. It was as good a year for ex citement and drama as any in the past decade, and here's hoping 1942 follows suit and produces another big batch of spine-tingling happenings. Some of the more gaudy "breath-takers" of 1941 are hereby recalled. Remember? The scene Is the Grants Pass high school gymnasium, a tiny affair Jammed to the rafters with wildly partisan Medford and Roseburg basketball sup porters. The Tigers and the giant Indians are battling it out for the district 4 championship nd right to enter the state tournament, and It's been a ter rific struggle. Right now the score Is 29 to 27 in favor of Roseburg. Three minutes and 15 seconds earlier the Indians had appeared cinch winners, what with a 28 to 21 lead and only five minutes to play. But the Bengals, fight ing desperately, had chopped down that margin to a point where hope Is burning white hot In the hearts of all Medford rooters. It's 29 to 27 for the Indians, minute and 4$ seconds to play. Down the floor come Roseburg's pachyderms, the biggest team in the state. They pass the ball around. look ing for a chance to break through the Tiger defense. Suddenly, darting out from the Medford setup. Is Harold Fawcett. He steals the ball la mid-floor and races for the basket. While everybody In the place stops breathing the Tiger forward calmly tosses the basket from underneath, and It's 29-28. All Hades breaks loose. That was basketball's biggest thrill of the year, despite the fact Roseburg's Jim Finlay got - three points for the Indians al most Immediately following to give his team the crown. The scene is the fairgrounds ball park, where Sllverton'a Red Sox and the Medford Cra ters are locked in a bitter strug gle for the state league's second-half championship. The stands are nearly packed, and the customers are already hoarse for they have watched almost IS Innings of superb semi-pro baseball. Right now It's the last half of the 13th frame, the score is tied at fl-fl and Bobby Chuirhlll, third baseman for the locals, is prancing around on second base with two gone. Silverton, going into Its half of the ninth, had whaled across three runs to deadlock the count, and from then the clubs had fougnt on without scoring a run. Husky Al (Wray) Llghtner. the Craters' leftfielder, Is up there hitting left-handed against Silverton's brilliant rlghthand er. Earl Toolson. Al hasn't been too consistent In getting his base knocks this season, but he is dangerous, nevertheless. Toolson pitches once, a ball, than fires a biasing last ball down the inilde corner about hip high. Llghtner lashes out with everything he has. there Is the sharp report ol ash smacking against horsehide. and like a rifle-shot the ball whistles down the right Held line. Almost to the fence It flashes, no more than 10-teet high, and Churchill speeds across the plate with the win ning run and the second-half pennant The scene is Klamath Falls' Modoc field, on a brisk October evening. Medford's Black Tor nado and the Klamath Pelicans are facing off in the ennual Southern Oregon conference football gigantic. Some 0,000 customers are present. Thrill plies upon thrill as the two teams stage the wildest scor ing spectacle In their long his tory. Klamath hits pay dirt In the first period on a Love to Mayfield aerial, but the Torna do ties It at fl-8 when Orr takes a Wall pass and runs 80 yards to the goal line. Klamath goes ahead, 13 to 6 when Foster catches a punt on his own one-yard line and goes 99 crazy yards to score, but the Tigers again knot it on a Wray to Orr forward pass. In the third heat Christensen of the Pell cans breaks loose for 21 yard Beavers, E II Durham Jammed By Grid Crazy Patrons Schools To Net About $75,003 By Frank B. Gllbreth Durham, N. C, Dec. 31 VP) The Rose Bowl practice grind Is gone with 1941. Now riding with the New Year's fates are the , hopes of a middle-aged coach climbing toward the top, and of a battle-scarred veteran fighting to stay up there. For Lon Stiner, who Is only 38 years old, the Rose Bowl will be an opportunity of a lifetime. He is one of the youngest coaches ever to produce a Rose Bowl team, and if his underdog Oregon State squad should beat the undefeated and untied Dukes, Lon would emerge as one of the nation's greatest foot ball tacticians. The game tomorrow will be an old story for Wallace Wade of Duke. The 49-year-old mentor has coached four other Rose Bowl teams, and he also played in the bowl when he was a guard at Brown in 1918. Book ies here think his 1941 Dukes will win by two touchdowns. Limbering up drills will be held this afternoon by the rival squads, but the sweat of actual preparation ended yesterday. Both clubs are in good condi tion. Both coaches are confident. There will be no alibis. Hotels Overflowing Every hotel and most of the boarding houses In this city that tobacco built have been over flowing for several days, but still the crowds continue to pour in. Wooden bleachers have blos somed like petals from the fringes of the transplanted Rose Bowl which In reality is Duke stadium. All seats have been sold for weeks, and approxi mately 85,000 persons will see the classic. Scalpers already are asking $13 apiece for tickets. After Uncle Sam and the state of North Carolina get their cuts, Duke and Oregon State will di vide a $200,000 melon. Part of this, of course, will go for ex penses but each school should net about $73,000. It's been estimated unofficial ly that 75,000 additional tickets could have been sold if there had been any way of getting the customers into the stadium. That should give you an idea of how football-whacky this section has become. It also may give someone an idea to try promot ing an annual New Year's day bowl game In these parts. TIGERS TOPPLED nu nnnimiip DI uUKVHLLIO II IE, 22-20 Stocky, red-haired Jason Wid- mer, Corvallis guard, sank Just one field goal during 32 mln utes of rip-roaring basketball ac tion, but that one basket was enough to give his team a 22 to 20 victory over the Medford high Tigers as the locals opened their 1941-42 season before a small gathering here last night. Widmep's payoff field goal came with only 18 seconds of the overtime period remaining. after the two qi'tnts had ended the regular plny.ng time dead locked at 20-21). The little fel low cast off from beyond the foul circle and the leather swished through to wind up a hard'fmight, tight-defensive con test. The Tigers couldn't do much the first half and trailed by a 3 to 10 count at the Inti-rmls slon. Bill Wall and Lee Ri-yn olds hit field buckets and Cap tain Henry Herman canned a free throw durinR the iirst 16 and a touchdown for a 19-13 Klamath lead, but in the fourth period Wray shoots a 19-yard pass to Wall that again ties the score at 19 all. Then, the very next time the Tornado gets Its hands on the leather. Clift Jones explodes through the center ol the line on a T-lormatlon play and goes 49 yards for the touch down that gives Medford the lead for the first time and builds up to the ultimate 32 21 Tornado victory. Those were 1941s big 'ports thrills, ol a local character. Can you mntch them, 1942? And, a happy New Year to everybody. Duke Both in Great Shape for Rose Bowl Game minutes, while for Corvallis Anderson was scoring twice and Reiman and Groshong once each from the field. In the second half, however, the locals pulled themselves to gether and started to travel, with R. B. Webber sinking one from the center, Don Fawcett dropping In a gift toss and Dar rell Monteith plugging a long one to tie the score at 10-all midway through the third per iod. Reiman put the Spartans Into the lead again with free throw on Wall's foul, and Sprlck caged a field goal to extend the bulge to 13 to 10. After Mon teith scored from the field for Medford, Knoll hit with one hander to make it 15 to 12, Cor vallis, Just before the third quarter ended. Reiman canned a free throw on Wall's fourth personal as the fourth heat opened, but Faw cett sank one from the center for the Tigers to make it 18 to 14, Corvallis. Groshong added two points for the visitors, but Herman and Jack Kresse, on fast breaks, canned two field goals in rapid succession to tie the score at 18-18 with four and a half minutes to play. With a minute left, Monteith dropped a long shot through the hoop to give the Tigers the lead for the first time, 20 to 18, but just before the affair ended Anderson looped one In to tie it at 20-20 and make the over time period necessary. Both clubs had several shots during the overtime, but none of them rang the gong until Widmer cast off from 30 feet. The Tigers looked much bet ter than they did In the Jam boree, their passing being con siderably Improved, as well as their general floor activity. Monteith's three field goals for six points led the locals, while forward Anderson for Skeet O'Connell's club nabbed the same number of tallies. In the preliminary, the group of former Medford high stars defeated Lost River Dairy, 34 to 18, with Harold Fawcett scor ing 10 points for the winners. Lineups: Medford (20) Corvallis (22) Herman 3 J Groshong 5 Niedermeyer .J Anderson 6 Wall 2 C. Rieman 5 Fawcett 3 G Widmer 2 Webber 2 G .. Masters Subs: M e d f o r d Kresse 2, Reynolds 2, Monteith 8; Cor vallis Sprlck 2, Knoll 2. Of ficials: George and Ivan Har rington. WILLAMETTE GETS CAGE MEET AGAIN Salem, Dec 31. (JP) Wil lamette university officials agreed yesterday to hold the 23d annual Oregon state high school basketball tournament here March 11-14, while the high school officers announced there would be no changes in districts unless Portland high schools should enter. m Roy S. Keene, Willamette di rector of athletics, had said he was not interested, because of criticism directed by some high school coaches against Willam ette and the city of Salem. But yesterday, Keene announced that he and the coaches are In complete accord. Salem high school, as has been the case for many years, will be the host team, and will enter the tournament without having to play In district com petition. EAST-WEST CLASH New Orleans, Dec. 31. P New Orleans with Its dense pop ulation of football fans, has rolled up Its civic shirt-sleeves to attack whole-heartedly the task of making a success of the annual East-West all-star foot ball game for the benefit of crippled children. The latest step In the earn painn to stage a major game and fill a 73.000-seat stadium on three weeks' notice was an official proclamation today by Mayor Robert S. Maestri, de claring a half-holiday Saturday so workers could attend. The game was transferred from San Francisco because of the war. Fights Last Night (By the Associated Press) Whi'e Plains, N. Y. Randy Drown, 1M4, Mt Vernon. N. Y., outpointed Jerry FloreUo, 149, Brooklyn. N. Y. (8). New York Chester Rico, 132'4. Ne York, outpointed Hurry Hurst, 138, Montreal (81. I Brooklyn. N. Y. Pete Scalro, j 131V New York, outpointed Mickey Farbex, 134, New iYork (8). r im unmr WELL KNOWN IN Denny Edge, Successor To Sparky Bourque, As Man ager Medford Ice Arena. Of interest to southern Ore gon and northern California Ice skating fans is the arrival of Denny Edge, new manager of the Medford Ice Arena who comes to the popular southern Oregon rink with twenty years of ice arena and ice hockey ex perience. Mr. Edge took over the duties of manager today after the resignation of "Sparky" Bourque had been accepted. Mr. Bourque enlisted In the army and left today for active duty. The new manager arrived Sunday from Tacoma, Wash., where he has been engaged as manager of the Lakewood Ice Arena. Prior to his employment at Tacoma he managed the arena in Spokane for four years. Edge has an equally import ant background with ice hockey as he has in arena management. In Spokane he coached the Gon zaga hockey team, recognized as one of the country's greatest amateur hockey clubs. Last year at Tacoma he owned and coach ed the Spokane Bombers, pro fessional hockey team which won the 1941 Pacific Coast Hockey league pennant. Other experience with hockey clubs date back to his association as business manager for Bobby Rowe, owner of the Portland Buckaroos, professional hockey team with a wide reputation as one of the best on the coast. Mr. Edge, who started his skating career -In western Can ada at the age of seven, says, "skating in Canada is like foot ball in this country. Here, when a son Is born, the father brings home a football. In Canada he brings home a pair of skates." Edge played professional hockey with the Regina "Pats" club in 1921 and 1922, when they were Junior world cham pions. He Is very proud of a gold watch he carries Inscribed, To D. Edge from the Pats , and dated 1921-22. He also wears a solid gold ring, a gift from the club. Mrs. Edge and their two chil dren, Ruth, aged 16, and Sally, aged 7, accompanied the new manager and will make their home here. Ruth, an accomplish ed skater, will enter Pacific coast competitions In the spring. She has already passed the third test In figure skating competi tion. Arrival of Mr. Edge should prove of special Interest to hockey fans, because with his past experiences In handling hockey clubs, he should produce some real and thrilling enter tainment for players and on lookers as well. Skaters are urged to meet Mr. Edge this evening at the Med ford Ice Arena's New Year's eve costume party. Prizes are being awarded. EUGENE MAY GET CUSS B TOURNEY Eugene, Dec. St. UP) The second annual Oregon high school state "B" baskHball : tournament Is expected ?o be held here next March, accord i Ing to Information received here . today from usually reliable source. The tournament held at 1 Ashland in Its inaugural season In 1941, is expected to be alter nated between Eugene and Cor j vallis In future years to be I held at McArthur Court at the I University of Oregon in Eugene I and In the men's gym at Oregon State college In Corvallis. I Troy D. Walker sccietary of the Oregon high school activl- ties association, was here Turs May to confer with Anson B. i Cornell, Oregon graduate man- ager, regarding the staging of , the tournament here. It was said 1 that arrangements had been I enmnleted. hut Walker A-miM await official action of his ccm Unittee before making a definite I announcement Tennessee Finally Halts Long Island New Orleans. Dec. 31. (TV The University of Tennessee's basketball team upset Long is land university 36 to 33 In the annual Sugar bowl game last night and ended the easterners' victory streak at 23 games. Long Island, national Intercol legiate champions, led 24 to 16 at the half, but wilted under a great second half splurge by Tennessee, Southeastern confer ence title holders. PALLS AS HUSKY New York, Dec 11 -(lP) Two new Madison Square Gar den scoring records were hung up last night by the University of Washington basketball squad as It trampled all over a touted New York university quintet to win, 72-38. The Husky first string rolled up a 20-2 lead in the first 10 minutes of play and then turned the game over to the reserves who finished the half leading 36-21. Resuming play in the sec ond half the first squad retired after building up a 58-29 advan tage. The previous Madison Square Garden scoring record of 71 points held by St. John s and the 31-field goal mark of Seton Hall both fell In the final sec ond of play when Wally Leask dropped in his only score of the evening for Washington's 32nd field goal. The game was viewed by 12,- 968 wildly cheering spectators who urged the squad on when it became apparent the scoring record might fall and at the con clusion of the game gave it a tremendous ovation. Scoring honors went to Nor man Dalthorp with 15 points. followed by Bob Lindh with 12 and Chuck Gilmur and Bob Bird with 10 each. The Huskies exhibited a n unprecedented scoring eye, sinking better than one-third of their 90 shots, most of them fired on the dead run. GOING TO SPOKANE Mr. and Mrs. Don Cruikshank, residents of this city for the past six years, are leaving the first of the year for Spokane where they plan to make their hotne for an indefinite period. Mr. Cruikshank has had the agency for the Underwood Elliott Fish er Products and other office equipment in this city, having his office In the Holly building, 230 West Sixth street. Mr. Cruikshank said today that the office has been moved to the Commercial Printing com pany building and is being op erated by Guy Phetteplace. The same personnel will be contin ued in the office as at the old location. The shop will be known as the Medford Office Equipment company. The Cruikshanks have resided at 1702 West Main street and report that they have enjoyed their stay here and hope to re turn. Vandals Even Series With Gonzaga, 38-35 Coeur' d'Alene, Idaho, Dec. 31. (P Sparked by the 20 point performance of center Ray Turner, the University of Idaho Vandals staged a comeback last night and defeated Gonzaga of Spokane, 38-35. The Zags won from the Vandals Monday night, 34-31. The Vandals took the lead early In the game and were ahead at halftime, 20-13. CATHOLIC TOURNAMENT AWARDED THE DALLES Eugene, Dec. 31 (.-TV-The seventh annual Oregon Catholic high school basketball tourna ment will be held at The Dalles. Father Francis P. Leipzig, St. Mary's (Eugene) Catholic church pastor and committee chairman, announced here this morning. Dates for the annual event will be January 30, 31 and Feb ruary 1. High School Scores (By the Associated Press) Ashland 42, Chemawa 39. Cloalnf tlm for Classified Ads t a. to -Too Late to Classify 13:30 p. m. CARPENTERS SEE THE NEW SKILSAW Light Powerful Dependable HANSEN J2 E NCE Orange, Cotton Bowl Games Expected To Produce Big Scores Sun Bowl Even. New Orleans, Dec St. UP) Fordham wound up training to day for Its Sugar bowl engage ment with Missouri and the largest Items in Jim Crowley's duffle bag were sharp words of warning. The Fordham coach applied them generously to his able but easy-going squad, telling the boys bluntly: "Don't think you can be blase Just because you live in New York. These country boys from Missouri are playing for keeps. They'll give you a football les son down there In the Sugar bowl if you don't watch out." ORANGE BOWL Miami, Fla., Dec. 31.- It's not making touchdowns, but keeping the other fellow from scoring too many, that worries the Orange bowl football teams on the eve of their big game. Both Texas Christian and Georgia pack mighty wallops, and a touchdown parade seems in store tomorrow for the sell out crowd of 35,000 unless the rival coaches have figured out a good way to parry. Christian's Dutch Meyer has had a squad busy on plans for shackling all-America Frankie Sinkwich, while Wally Butts has worked the Georgians over time on a defense against T.C.U.'s potent aerial game. COTTON BOWL Dallas, Dec. 31. VP) To morrow's Cotton bowl game be tween the pass-happy Texas Ag gies and Alabama's rippling Crimson Tide appears to have simmered down to the question of the last team with the ball. High scoring games are like that and the coaches and critics are pretty well agreed It will be a battle of touchdowns and many. And never before have two teams been as evenly matched according to the bettings odds. In five previous Cotton bowl games you could get some points one way or the other but along betting row today they clung to 6 and 3 and take your choice. SUN BOWL El Paso, Tex., Dec. 31. UP A western welcome was on tap today for the Golden Hurricane of Tulsa university, champions of the Missouri Valley confer ence, who meet Texas Tech in the Sun bowl tomorrow. A posse of rancheros gun totin' horsemen who lend a hand to the sheriff's office in a pinch planned elaborate "how dy, gents" ceremonies for Coach Henry Franka's squad. The Red Raiders, border conference host team in the bowl, arrived yes terday. It appeared that odds of 6 to 5 would prevail, with the instal lation of a favorite dependent upon playing conditions. Pros pects for a dry, hard field fav ored the Texans and their tricky style of play. LOCAL MILLS TO E The Medford Corporation and Timber Products plants will both close down tomorrow, it was reported today, to enable then workers to observe the New Year's holiday. The Timber Products company will resume operations Friday. The Medford Corporation will remain Idle Friday and Satur day, and resume Monday morn ing, It was planned. FLYING BOAT FALLS Victoria, B. C. Dec. 31. (CP) Western air command of the Royal Canadian Air Force an nounced today four men are missing and four are injured slightly following the crash of a large flying boat at Ucluelet on the west coast of Vancouver I island this morning. TERMS iitH- HARDWARE Colleges Launch Great Mass Sports Program for Fitness By Charles Dunkley Detroit, Dec. 31. UP) The greatest mass athletic program in American college history was launched today in the Interest of physical fitness and wartime morale. The intensive program was i demanded of the nation's foot ball coaches and athletic lead ers by Elwood A. Geiges of Phil-; adelphia, newly appointed exec-l utive to John B. Kelly, United States director of physical fit ness. Geiges Jolted the athletic leaders into action by declaring that the physical condition of the nation's men was deplor able; that 50 per cent of those examined for military service could not be accepted because of their subnormal condition, and that it was time the colleges and universities realized the import ance of "compulsory competitive and non-competitive activities." "Unless the deplorable physic al defects are corrected," Geiges warned, "our military and naval forces will be unnecessarily ham pered in the creation of an ef ficient fighting machine." Geiges' demand was for com pulsory physical education and athletics for all students so they would be prepared for the rigors of military duty, when and if called. Geiges carried his demand to the college physical education association, which is meeting here concurrently with the na tional collegiate athletic associ ation and the American football coaches association. His plans calls for expansion rather than abridgement of college athletics. In response, the athletic lead ers who came to Detroit with a wartime question program of "what will the government ex pect us to do?" pledged whole heartedly to plunge immediate ly into an expansion of athletics and physical education, with emphasis on mass participation rather than spectator intereut. There will be no curtailment of football schedules next fall, or baseball next spring or of any other sports. Last Troops Leave Seized Plane Plant Bendix, N. J., Dec. 81 (IP) The 60 days of army occupa tion of Air Associates, Inc., are ended and the aviation equip ment plant, scene of nearly a half year of bitter labor dispute, is once again under private man agement. Seventy troops, last of 2,000 who seized the plant and grounds October 31 under pres idential proclamation to end the third strike in three months at Air Associates, clambered into trucks and rolled out of the area yesterday. Use Mall Trlbuna want ads. HOSPITALITY In the HEART of PORTLAND Connlnra Courtaay The Newly Remodeled PARK AVENUE HOTEL 623 S. W. Park. Portland pttarhf bath 1141 to KM. Wltn bate S1.71 to U-OO. wita Botb touts roBTLA.ND BEN O. CRIMSON Manager LOCAL FLIERS AT HEAD OF OREGON CIVIL AIR PATROL Portland, Dec. 31 UP) The Oregon wing of the civil air patrol named Floyd Hart, Med ford, executive officer yester day. Other officers: W. H. Fluhrer, Medford, wing adjutant; Lee U. Byerly, Salem, training and op erations. - The 200 privately owned planes In the state are expected to be organized into 17 groups, each of two to five squadrons. The air patrol Is part of the national civilian defense set-up. The idea is for the private planes to help patrol the sky ways if necessary. Mr. Hart, president of Timber Products company, was an army flier in the first World war and has been a member of the state board of aeronautics for several years. Mr. Fluhrer, head of the bakery chain bearing his name, has piloted planes in his busi ness for several years, having been a flier since 1928. Application blanks for enroll ment in the civil air patrol may be obtained from Thomas A. Culbertson, Jr., superintendent of Medford municipal airport. Only those with a private pilot's certificate or higher rating are eligible, Mr. Culbertson said There are eight private plane at the airport here. ORDER, IS JAILED Pendleton, Ore., Dec. 81. (IP) Frank Hoshino, 66, was in the city jail today pending arrival of federal officers to investigate his failure to turn In guns, a radio and cameras to city or county officials before expira tion of the deadline last night Officers seized the articles an hour after the deadline at the Hoshino truck farm near here. No charge has been filed. Ho shino teld officers he came her about 1907 and officers said he is an alien. attractive HOTEL CORNELIUS (21 S. W. Park. Portland tMtaehe bath tl.oe to UM bate me to locate la Uia my HEART Or doae to ah opt an theatres i
