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PAGE FOUR MEDFOPD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1942 t ' ''13 : r u ii i 4 ; i imssrMw, Th BECAUSE OF WAR, Restr Icted Transportation and Other Curtailments Influence Graduate Heads Br Dan McOulit United Press Correspondent San Francisco, Dec. 15 (U.R) Disbanding of the Pacific Coast conference one of the nation's oldest and most power ful athletic leagues loomed to day after graduate managers of member schools reportedly ten dered faculty representatives a recommendation in favor of such move. Faced by restricted transpor tation facilities and other gen eral curtailment due to wartime exigencies, graduate managers, according to unofficial circles, were in favor of breaking off athletic relationships between the northern conference mem bers Washington, Oregon, Ore gon State, Washington State, Idaho and Montana and the southern group which embraces California, Stanford, Southern California and the University qf aClifornia at Los Angeles. In Conference i Faculty representative! had two lengthy meetings yesterday but refused to disclose topics which had been discussed. Con ference coaches met for a short time and confined the business of the day to footbaU rule Inter pretations which came up during the season Just concluded. Graduate managers of south ern schools reportedly were in favor of a non-conference foot ball schedule for next fall which would Include St. Mary's, Santa Clara, San Francisco, the St. Mary'! Navy Pre-Fllght school and the Navy Pre-Fllght school which soon will be established at Del Monte, famous west coast spa. Queried as to his opinion whether there would be football on the coast next season, one coach replied: Military Games "All I know is that the two Pre-Fllght schools are schedul ing games. That would seem to Indicate that the military will allow both army, navy and mar ine reservists to remain In school until graduation. If so, we will have football undoubtedly on a restricted scale, but football." Faculty repre sentatlvai. coaches and graduate managers also concurred In the matter of donating part of the Rose Bowl receipts to service benefit funds. What percentage of the share re ceived by the conference and the Tournament of Roses commit tee will go to the armed forces remains to be determined. "SINK SINKWICH" IS WATCHWORD OF BRUINS Los Angeles, Dec. 15 (U.R) "Sink Slnkwich" and the Unl versity of Georgia Bulldogs be came the slogan of the UCLA Bruins as Line Coach Ray Rich ards put them through light drill today In preparation for their Rose Bowl game on New Year's day. Coach Babe Horrell la In San Francisco for a confer ence meeting. Richards an nounced that all members of the rquad are In good condition fol lowing their game with USC Sat urday. Cm stall Trtmina Want Mia. Mort Cooper of Cards Tops Official Pitching Averages By Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Dec. 15 U.R Those annual figure filberts the National league's official pitching averages disclosed today that Missouri-born Mort Cooper was the best pitcher in almost ev ery Important mound department in his circuit during 1942 but the concise lines of type do little towards revealing the most Interesting facts about this star of the champion St. Louis Cardinals. Cooper, one year older than . his teammate and catching broth' er. Walker, intrigued us ai far back as 1938 when he came up from .Houston of the Texas league with a reputation of be ing a second Dizzy Dean. The magic of the great Dizzy not only furnished baseballers with countless hectic episodes but kept the Cardinals turnstiles spinning at an exceptionally profitable pace. While Mort has not emulat ed the antics of the elder Dean, he has, like his fabuloui prede cessor, almost single-handedly hauled the Cardinal! to the Na tional league flag and a subse quent world championship. Dad Started Him Cooper, the first citizen of Ath- erton. Mo., still chuckles when he recalls that a "hit or go hun gry" edict from his dad, a rural mailman, started him on the road to a position where he now ranks as the most celebrated hurler since the golden days of Carl Hubbell, the Dean brothers and Bobby Feller. The Cooper boys played on their grade school baseball team and since all the teachers were women, Dad Cooper acted as coach when he wasn t lifting the flags on country mailbox:. One day the team was tied 2-all In the seventh with a neigh boring school, the bases were full of Athertoni and Pitcher Cooper was at the plate. Ai he stepped up. Coach Coop er strolled over to him and asked in a mild manner: "Hungry, ion?" "Dad, .1 could eat steer whole right now," Mort replied. Hit or Co Hungry "Well," came back the sudden answer, "either you hit one on the nose right now or you don't eat tonight.' Mort maced the ball far Into the right field to win the game. Tha was 14 years ago and Coop er now has reached the major league height! but he s still play ing and pitching as if hli meat and potatoes depended on every toss. TAKES FORTIETH Philadelphia, Dee. IS (UR Ray (Sugar) Robinson, New York welterweight, won his 40th straight professional bout last night by scoring a technical knockout over Sailor AI Nettlow, of Detroit, in the third round before 7,868 at Convention hall. Nettlow weathered a hail of punches from Robinson in the first two rounds, but the De troit fighter's manager, AI Weill, asked that the bout be stopped, after the bell sounded ending the third round. Trapshooters got a break In the weather Sunday at the Med ford Gun club and while visi bility was poor and targets hard to pick up as they left the traps and faded into the foggy at mosphere, some creditable scores were made. Medford, Central Point and Camp White were rep resented In the squads both at the skeet and the 16-yard traps. In the 16-yard events, Brown and Jantzer had 25 straights, while 24s were made by Jim Ross In two events, giving him a high 48x50 score. Lemery was high gun in the handicap with a 23 and tied Jantzer and Mc Kinnon with a high score of 23 in the handicap. Unless excessive rains and bad weather next Sunday prevent. the club will hold its annual Christmas turkey shoot. An ef fort is being made for a share- the-ride plan to furnish trans portation to the grounds with the least possible use of cars for next Sunday. - SPORTS TO I Battle of Bowl Contenders TURIELLO IN 4TH San Francisco, Dec. 15 (U.R) Henry Armstrong, the little Los Angeles Negro who once held three world title, today reigned supreme in Pacific c6a.it boxing circles after his four-round tech nical knockout of Saverio Turl- ello of New York, former Euro pean welterweight champion. Still claiming that Harlem's undefeated Ray (Sugar) Robin son Is "afraid" to meet him in an eastern match, Armstrong went out before 7.000 fans at Civic Auditorium here last night and finished off Turiello with his windmill assault. The United Press score sheet gave Turiello the first round by a shade but from then out the points went to Armstrong, who never let up , In his two-fisted body attack on his bewildered opponent. Turiello went down in the third round but got up with out a count, then hit the canvas again In the fourth for a count of nine and Referee Frankie Brown stopped the fight. LITTLE IN NAVY Chicago, Dec. 15 (U.R) Law son Little, former British and American amateur golf cham pion and winner of the 1940 U. S. open, today awaited assign ment to naval officers' training school after enlisting as an ap prentice seaman. Cm Mall TribuM Want ads. BASKETBALL Washington, Dec. 15 U.R) Professional sports are marking time until the manpower situa tion becomes more definite. Right now the men behind major league baseball, profession al football and other sports haven't the slightest Idea of what 1943 holds in store for them. They are hoping for the best, but looking for the worst. Perhaps the best indication of what sports Is up against came yesterday when the National football leaguo voted to post pone until next April a definite decision on whether to try to op erate next season. j The announcement which came out of the meeting of club own ers did not say that, but that is what the action amounted to. The owners voted unanimously to try to continue in 1943 but that was merely for the record. What they actually did was to decide not to make future plans until the April meeting, when, if the manpower situation war rants, they will try to keep going. T PICKED FOR TILT San Francisco, Dec. 15 U.R) Officials of the annual East West Shrine benefit football game on Jan. 1 today announced completion of the West squad. Rounding out the roster were Tackles Bruno Banducci, Stan ford, and Norm Verry, Southern California; Fullback Frank Por to, California, and End "Dub" Lamb of Oklahoma. The squad will meet here Sun day with Coach Babe Holling bery of Washington State, then move to the University of Santa Clara campus until the game. The East will train at Palo Alto. ytjrz: . - ---- ? t f"Vtr ' I- ' .. ... - . f A Ti FOR GOLF STARS Halfback Mickey McCardle of the University of Southern California finds a gaping hole In the U. C. L. A. defense and tears through for a first down in the game to decide the west coast Rosa bowl representative. The game was played In Los Angeles. Washington, Dec. 15 (U.R) The Waves, WAACS, and Spars, unaffected by the order stopping enlistments, are conducting in tensive campaig.is to "get the girls to Join up." The WAACS fell upon a for tunate bit of luck when the air corps had to suspend national advertising for aviation cadets. The army had to fulfill its advertising contract, so it be gan a recruiting campaign for the WAACS, including posters, street car posters, radio shorts, and newspaper and magazine layouts. The "WAACS, with an enroll ment now of 15,000, are seeking. and believe they are getting, about 1,800 recruits a week. They are expected to reach their quota of 150,000 women by April, 1944. PRIORITIES FOR JAPS San Francisco, Dec. 15. (U.R) Irrigation projects at Klam ath, Cal., Minidoka, Ida., and Shoshone, Wyo., have been granted priorities by the Depart ment of Interior, it was an nounced today. All the pro jects will benefit Japanese relo cation centers. IN DRAFT DODGE tied that his draft board accept ed him although he paid Comroe $100 for coaching. Clodni tima tor Clssstned ads a k mw To late to Cliauj 1240 Lo! Angeles, Dee. 15 U.R ; Sgt. George Comroe. charged i with accepting bribe! for ln-i struction In draft evasion, coach-1 ed draft registrants to simulate I chronic alcoholism, witnesses j testified at Comroe's trial. Boris Mitchel Soso. who said . he had met Comroe at a night-: club, testified that Comroe told I him to act as if he were anti social and suffering from al- coholism. Draft board examiners rejected him, but he later enlist-: ed in the air corps. Cromartie-Scott Foulson laid his draft board rejected him; after he paid Comroe $50 fori instructions in simulating al coholism. I Soso's brother, Robert, testl- Camp White FTthange Main Office Excellent Positions For Women and Girls In Cafe Fountain Dept. Camp White Exchange Good working conditions and opportunity for ad vancement. Apply PERSONNEL DEPT. Bldg. 3S82 Any Day between 10:00 a.m. and 30 p.m. SHOP AT WARDS Until 8:30 o'Closk Every Night Until Christina! Come in tonight I Youll find a huge variety of quality gifti ... all at Wards usual down-to-earth prices I Buy all of your gifts and all your holiday need! at . . . U MONTGOMERY WARD Closing time tor Classified ada 9 a. m. To lata to Classify 13:30 P. m. . 1 117 South Central Phone 3930 I New York. Dec. 15 (U.R) A widespread program of matches between all available profession al golfers, with all proceeds go ing to charity, will replace the 1943 PGA title tournament. Fred Corcoran, tournament manager for the Professional Golfers As sociation, said today. Corcoran, currently awaiting a call to go overseas for the Red Cross, said he conferred with President Ed Dudley of the PGA several days ago and they de cided to abandon next year's PGA tourney, chiefly because over 200 members of the asso ciation are in service. New York 73, Montclalr Teach ers 42. Purdue 44, Butler 35. Illinois 51, Missouri 30. Iowa 48. Carleton 43. Indiana 64. Fort Knox 19. Arkansas 57, Pittsburgh State Teachers 48. Marquette 53, Chicago 40. Notre Dame 61, Wisconsin 59. Youngstown 46, Geneva 43. Camp Grant 46, Illinois Wes leyan 42. BOWLING ft 5$ 5 , BE OF GOOD CHEER this Holt Jan Season ! Wr I" . ' W 'lit1 1 N A. 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Secretary of Treasury Henry Morgentiiau, Jr., today an nounced that the treasury was ready to lend-lease silver to United Nations for coinage pur poses, j TEA STRIKE ENDS London. Dec. 13 01.P) Em ployes of the Vlckers-Armstrong munitions plant were back on their Jobs today after a brief work stoppage, but were deter mined as ever to have their traditional morning and after noon tea. FREE LECTURE! Sponsored by the Medford Mail Tribune The Medford Rotary Club and League of Women Voters MEDFORD HIGH SCHOOL AUDITORIUM SAT DEC. 19 HEAR VIRGIL PINKLEY FAMOUS WAR CORRESPONDENT Manager European Division of The United Press JUST BACK FROM A 10 MOUTHS, 68,000 MILE TOUR OF WAR FRONTS Slnee th outbreak ef World War Two. this famous war correspondent he! COVERED MORE FIGHTING FRONTS THAN ANY OTHER AMERICAN CORRESPONDENT He will return to North Africa immediately after Chrlatmaa Hli j. ij..ia. i iiim'..iiii n ' ' ' - Skv ' V Virgil Pinklay watches an aerial "scramble" between British and Axis fighter planes from a fox-hole la the African Desert. He ts shown here tn the uniform of an American corre spondent accredited to the British Mid dle Eastern Command. EVERYONE INVITED! Dont miss this timely discussion ef the war Mr. Pinklay Is an accomplished speaker. Hear his first-hand account of the war YOU are Invited to attend as guests of the Mail Tribune, the Medford Rotary Club, and the League of Women Voters. Uaa aUU TriBu-e wast ads. t 1
