Vaterfield Sparks Rams
To Pro Football Crown
Cleveland, O., Dec. 17 (U.R)
Professional football s most val
uable contract a three-year
claim on the services of Bob
Waterfield went into the safe
by owner Dan Reeves of the
Cleveland Rams today, while his
champion team disbanded for the
season.
Waterfield did everything but
heat bricks for the feet of 32,148
spectators who sat in near-zero
weather to watch the Rams bat
tle through to a 15 to 14 victory
over the Washington Redskins in
the National League playoff. He
thrjw two touchdown passes,
kicked one conversion, called his
plays perfectly, and on at least
two occasions came up with de
fensive plays which averted
Washington touchdowns,
t, Rams Get Breaks
But the Rams still needed two
. big breaks to win their first
league championship. Sammy
Baugh, trying to pass from be
hind his own goal in the first
period, hit the goal-post for an
automatic safety and two points
for Cleveland, and in the second
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period Waterfield's conversion
was partially blocked, hit the
crossbar and bounced over.
Cleveland needed those three
points, because Frank Filchock
of the Redskins matched Water
field's two touchdown passes,
and Joe Aguirre kicked both
conversions.
Washington tried 2 desperate
field goals in the last quarter,
but Aguirre wasn't even close.
Waterfield Pay High
Immediately after the. game
Reeves announced that Water
field had signed for three years
at a salary which would make
him "the highest paid football
player in the world." It was be
lieved the figure was near $20,
000 a year.
The crowd paid a record $164,
542, and each Ram will get Sl,
469. The losers' share was $902
per man.
Los Angeles, Dec. 17 (U.R)
The Cleveland Rams, who yes
terday won the National Profes
sional football league champion
ship, will appear in Los Angeles
coliseum against the Washington
Redskins next Sept. 6, it was
learned today.
Both teams are expected to do
their summer training in the
west, with the Redskins already
booked for training in southern
California.
Bric-A-Brac Sold
For Top Price On
California Record
Los Angeles, Dec. 17 (U.R)
Bric-a-brac, fleet footed son of
War Admiral, today had two
new owners who bought him for
$50,000, the highest price ever
paid for a race horse in Califor
nia. Horse Dealer Walter E.
Wilkes, and Trainer Tom Taylor
paid the record price to Sam
Freeman and George Church
for Bric-a-brac, which won the
$50,000 San Juan Capistrano
handicap at Santa Anita last
summer. The horse already had
paid his former owners $60,000
in purses this year. .
Wilkes, just out of the navy,
and Taylor, who trained such
speed kings as Victorian, Head
Play and Can't Wait, were wor
rying today over the possibility
that they could not get a nom
ination for Bric-a-brac in the
Santa Anita handicap March 9.
The horse has no stall at Santa
Anita and the nomintion may
be refused, they said.
Cornbelt League
To Open In 1947
Rock Island, 111., Dec. 17
(U.R) Opening of the proposed
cornbelt Class C baseball league
will be postponed until 1947 in
the hope that it can begin with
eight strong teams, league spon
sors said today.
Representatives of baseball
clubs at Moline, 111., Hannibal,
Mo., and Clinton and Keokuk.
Ia., announced the postpone
ment at the conclusion of a
meeting here last night.
NEGRO TOPS WEEK'S
PRIZE RING PROGRAM
New York, Dec. 17 (U.R)
Billy Fox, sensational young ne
gro light heavyweight who has
registered 35 consecutive knock
outs, receives his first major test
tonight against Georgie Kochan
of Akron, O., at Philadelphia in
a 10-round bout that features
this week's National boxing
schedule.
According to an ancient Chi
nese superstition, swallowing the
eyeballs of night-dwelling ani
mals would improve one's sight.
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FIRST MONEY IN
FT.
Fort Worth, Tex., Dec. 17
(U.R) Byron Nelson pocketed $2,
000 first money today for his
victory in the Fort Worth open,
but he said the pleasure of win
ning the tournament yesterday
on the course where he started
as a caddy was worth even more.
Nelson's victory, coming after
a two-month rest, was a decisive
eight-stroke triumph over a star
field, which scattered today for
Christmas holidays at home be
fore resuming the winter circuit
at Los Angeles Jan. 4-7.
Nelson carded an 11-under-par
273, and his rounds included
a Glen Garden course record 65,
six under par. Harold (Jug) Mc
Spaden, Sanford, Me., tied this
record on his final round yester
day to pull into third place with
282, one stroke behind second
place Jimmy Demaret of Hous
ton. Playing in near-freezing tem
peratures and against a high
wind, Nelson coasted to victory
after taking a nine-stroke lead
at the end of Sunday's morning
round, on which he carded a 66,
and finished the final 18 holes
with a one-under-par 70.
pointersTace
gold hill five
Central Point, Dec. 17 Gun
ning for their initial prep win
of the season, the local high
school cagers meet Gold Hill
here at 4 p. m. tomorrow.
Although Coach Boner is still
experimenting to uncover his
best combination, Bill Saxbury
and Del Hartman, forwards,
Bob Kincaid, center, and Tom
Colley and Don Holland,
guards, will probably be called
upon to open the fracas. Others
slated to see action are Hargus
Colley, Mel Anhorn, and Jim
Anders.
The tilt is the third of the
season for the Pointers who lost
to Jacksonville and downed the
Camp White navy five in games
last week.
FIRST FIDDLE SIGNED
Arcadia, Calif., Dec. 17 U.FT
First Fiddle, greatest money
winning horse now in training,
will be a definite starter in the
$25,000 added San Carlos nan-,
dicap on New Year's day, it was
announced today.
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Wedemeyer Lands Place On
Writers' All-American Team
Des Moines, la., Dec 17 (U.R)
Four members of Army's unde
feated team were named to the
AU-America team selected by the
Football Writers Association of
America, it was announced to
day by Bert McGrane, secretary.
Felix (Doc) Blanchard, storm
ing fullback of the West Point
team, was the front man in the
player parade of 1945, in the
opinion of the nation's football
writers. The hard-running cadet
polled 96.6 per cent of the vote,
114 of the 120 writers from coast
to coast selecting him on the
All-America. It was the highest
percentage of the total vote ever
accorded a player by the football
writers.
Davit Polls 110
Blanchard's bid for Individual
supremacy was challenged only
by two of his teammates, Glenn
Davis, high scoring halfback,
who polled 110, and Dewitt
Coulter, tackle, 106. The other
Army man selected was John
Green, guard.
Players from eight schools
earned places on the writers All
America, with army placing
four. Navy, Indiana, Ohio State,
Herb Parks Chosen
As Thursday Night
Foe For Gray Mask
Herb Parks, Canadian light
heavyweight champion and one
of the cleverest grapplers ever
to step through the ropes of the
Medford armory wrestling ring,
has been signed by Promoter
Mack Lillard to face the Gray
Mask in the lower half of a
double main event Thursday
night.
The program will be topped
by the return engagement be
tween Pete Belcastro and Rough
Rufus Jones, who put on a tor
rid match last week before Bel
castro lost on a foul when he re
fused to relinquish his deadly
surfboard hold. Lillard said a
new referee will be signed at
Belcastro's lnsistance.
Angelo Martinelll and Ben
Sherman have been rematched
at the request of fans for the
8:30 opener.
BOSTON BRUINS THIRD
IN ICE HOCKEY LEAGUE
By United Press
Boston's Bruins moved past
Detroit into third place in the
National hockey league last
night by tying Toronto, 3 to 3,
while Chicago was beating De
troit, 6 to 4.
Montreal held its lead in easy
fashion, coasting to a 4 to 2 vic
tory over last-place New York.
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Pennsylvania, Alabama, Okla
homa A & M and St. Mary's one
each.
There were three repeaters,
Bob Fenimore of Oklahoma A
& M, Davis and Blanchard of
Army having been selected on
the 1944 football writers AU
America. Personnel
First team: Dick Duden, Navy,
and Bob Ravensberg, Indiana,
ends; Dewitt Coulter, Army, and
George Savltsky, Penn, tackles;
Warren Amling, Ohio State, and
John Green, Army, guards;
Vaughn Mancha, Alabama, cen
ter; and Herman Wedemeyer, St.
Mary's, Bob Fenimore, Okla
homa A & M, Glenn Davis,
Army, and Felix (Doc) Blanch
ard, Army, backfield.
Second team: Hubert Bechton,
Texas, and Max Morris, North
western, ' ends; Albert Nemetz,
Army, and Tom Hughes, Purdue,
tackles; John Mastrangelo, Notre
Dame, and James Carrington,
Navy, guards; Richard Scott,
Navy, center; and Harry Gilmer,
Alabama, Pete Pihos, Indiana,
Frank Dancewicz, Notre Dame,
Ollie Cline, Ohio State, back-field.
Scoring Barrage
Downs Eagles In
Coast Hockey Go
By United Press
The New Westminster, B. C,
Royals downed the Portland
Eagles 4-3 in a Pacific Coast ice
hockey league contest last night
that saw all the scoring in the
final 15 minutes of the third
period.
In other league games, the
Seattle Ironmen defeated the
Vancouver Canucks 4-3 and the
San Diego Skyhawks outscored
the San Francisco Shamrocks
3-2 In a triple-overtime contest.
Trailing 1-3 with only 10 min
utes remaining in the game, the
Royals shoved three successive
goals through Portland goalie
Doug Webb to win their 14th
game In 22 starts. It was Port
land's fifth consecutive defeat.
10,000 VETS DUE
Los Angeles, Dec. 17 (U.R)
Ten thousand veterans were due
to arrive in Los Angeles harbor
today, adding to the 5,000 forced
to stay aboard their ships last
night for lack of handling facili
ties ashore. The battleship West
Virginia with 1,000 men aboard,
the cruiser Minneapolis with 1,
000, two troopships with a total
of 3,500, and 16 other ships were
expected to add to the horde
that had already stalled the
army's facilities for moving the
men to their homes.
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New York, Dee. 17 (U.R)
The college basketball spotlight
shifted today to the midwest,
where at least two major teams
were sure to suffer their first
blot Saturday as four unbeaten
fives clash Purdue vs. Notre
Dame and Indiana vs. Michigan.
Other mldwestern highlights
were Friday's Oregon State-Pe-Paul
game at Chicago and Iowa's
opening game In defense of its
big 10 crown against Illinois.
New York university, pnly un
beaten metropolitan team, plays
Rochester Saturday In half of
the Madison Square Garden
doublcheader. Ohio university
meets St. John's in the other
game.
Undefeated DcPaul, a top con
tender for national honors since
its defeat of Oklahoma A. & M., I
trampled Indiana State by a 74
to 56 score in winning the De
Paul invitational last Saturday
Washington trimmed Oregon. 44
to 41, in the consolation game.
Oregon moves to New York to
play Long Island university at
Madison Square Garden Wed
nesday as part of a doubleheader
which also matches City College
and Oklahoma. Oregon comes
back to the midwest Saturday to
play Ohio State at Columbus.
Daily Weather Report
FORECASTS
Medford find vicinity: Pnrtty cloudy
tonight nnd Tuesday with morning
fog. Colder tonU'ht.
Oregon: Partly cloudy tonight and
Tuesday with morning fog in vallevs
of west portion. Colder tonight south
west portion. Gentle to moderate
southeast winds off const.
LOCAL, DATA
Temperature a year ago today:
Hichest 49; Lowest 2fi.
Total monthly precipitation 1.06
Inches.
Deficiency for the month .43 inches.
Total precipitation since Septem
ber 1. 1045. S 12 Inches.
Excess for the season 2.23 Inches.
Relative humidity at 4:30 p. m. yes
terday 83; 4-30 today 08.
Tomorrow
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