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MEDFOPD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 15, 1942
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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-
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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
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READY TO LEND
Washington, Dec. 15. (U.t?
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.
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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
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"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
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