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DID HE FALLt
Billy Hulen, Medford Mall
Tribune iporU editor, posed
queitlon in his column o( yes
terdty which could hav start
cd a controversy of mammoth
dimensions had the Klamaths
won last Friday night
' Billy, present at the combat,
aid this:.
."Did Ralph Foster go to
one knea on the five-yard line
on that magnificent 99-yard
touchdown run in the Med-iord-Klamath
fantasy Friday
nlghtr .
"Several local fanatics have
expressed the opinion that he
did, that after he caught BUI
Walla booming punt on his
own one-yard stripe and start
ad back up the field he was
driven to one knee by Med
ford' Bob Mitchell. They
claim, therefore, that the ball
should have been declared
dead at that point and Foster
called back, nullifying the
run.
, ."From the press box it was
not. apparent that Foster's
kaea touched the ground, and
neither waa it noticed, if it
happened, from the Medford
bench. ,
"Bill Bowerman had this to
say concerning tne run: 11
looked to ma like Foster, hit
hard on about the five-yard
line, was spun halfway
around and staggered, and
. that his hand touched the turf
' as he regained bis balance. I
. definitely didn't see, and
don't think, that his knee
touched the ground.
: "One of the local fans who
claimed that Foster's knee
, contacted grass explained that
he was right in line, with the
play, and distinctly ssw the
knee and ground meet. We
admit the possibility that this
fan. sitting on the five-yard
line, might have had a better
view of the situation in ques
tion then press box or Med
ford bench personnel, but
. here is what we can't under
stand: '
:. "Why," ' In heaven's name,
make an issue out of it at allT
Or if not an issue, why even
mention it other than in pass
ing fashion? After all. Med
ford won the game fair and
squirt; that 99-yard run had
absolutely no bearing on the
outcome of the tilt. So why
not forget It; whether Fos
ter's knee actually touched
the ground or whether it was
only his band doesn't matter
one little bit.
" It was a great run,' Bow
v armea said, 'and Foster de
serves all the credit he can
get.'" ' ' ' - '
: Which is Just the way this
correspondent feels, about it.
Personally we thought Baldy
ws all through when two Tiger
tackier hit him after he bad
run- toward the center of the
field. - ... .
But we thought he spun out
of it without falling, although
he was close to the sod..
: Further, Billy goes on to say:
" "The run, incidentally, was
a perfect example of how
the football fates sometimes
turn horrible mental blunders
v Into brilliant accomplishment.
The bespectacled Klamath kid
should never have caught that
punt. on the one-yard line. It
was early in the second quar
ter with the score tied. 64;
not the time to make such a
desperate gamble. Every fan
knows that Foster should have
let the punt cross the goal
line to give Klamath the bell
on the 20-yard line."
Of which there can be no
doubt.
However, the gamble angle
is Indisputable. Friday, as it
always is in Tiger-Pelican
clashes, player pitch in the first
minute was keyed to a point
usually found only in the clos
ing seconds of a normal ball
game. Foster, - as well as the
fans, didn't have a ghost of an
- - -.-'- ..w0- w " .. i
idea that the thing would turn
into a scoring saturnalia and to I
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PAGE SIX
Stanford T
Via Injury Route?
Loss of Key Men Hampering Indians
Chances for Rose Bowl Repeater
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 81
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 20
(UP) Stanford university's foot
ball luck, which was all good
in the all-winning 1940 rags to
riches season, is all bad now.
and it is beginning to appear
doubtful the Indians can retain
their Pacific coast conference
title.
While the T-party boys coach
ed by Clark
Shaughnessy
may not slide all
the way back
from riches to
'? J I rags again, they
I n ! ( A vivMlhl
in future games
7- 1 because of injur
ies to key men.
Different Story
Shaughne s s y
went through
aawaaaawawawawaa-Ci 1840 without a
Shaiiganess single serious in
jury to a Varsity man. That help
ed the march to the Rose Bowl.
This year it's a different story,
and one that may mean a Stan
ford setback next Saturday
when the Indians meet the dang
erous Washington Huskies at
Seattle. .
Pete Kmetovic, ace halfback,
was injured in the Oregon State
game and was on the "doubtful"
list today as far as participation
against Washington was con
cerned. Ray Hammett, under
Biddy Bishop, Old Time Boxer,
Dies of Heart Attack at S. F.
' SAN FRANCISCO, - Oct . 21 cP) George F. (Biddy) Bishop
whose connection with boxing dated back to the 1890 s, is dead.
Bishop suffered a fatal heart attack last Saturday, but it was
not until last night that he was identified as a former boxing
promoter in Seattle and Cincinnati,- and one-time sports editor of
a Tacoma, Wash., newspaper.
The veteran sportsman, about
and boxed both as an amateur
and a professional.
In the early part of this cen
tury ha managed such fighters
him any touchdown might have
been the last
And if that one had been the
last yippee- '
Hulen tosses several orchids
at Buss Acheson in his last par
agraph for ."hi really grand
play-by-play description." (Russ,
assistant Medford grid coach
and chief cage pilot handled
the game from the field for
KMED, Medford radio station).
At least a dozen stay-at-homes,
Bill said, have told him
that Acheson's broadcast of the
thriller was the best they had
ever heard, including the major
college games.'
This column was sitting but
two paces from Russ and we'll
add our congratulations to
Billy's. It was a calm,' compe
tent, top-of-the-play job.. .
Yanks Get $199,157.51 Series
Share; Brooks' Cut $132,771.68
CHICAGO, Oct 21 (U.R) Victory to the Yankees in the 1941-
wona series meant a difference
players' share, according to the official figures released Monday
by the office of Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw M. Landis.
The Yankees' share of the series' receipts amounted to $199,-
197.51, wnile the losing Dodgers
Leslie M. O'Connor, secretary-
treasurer of the commissioner's
office, announced 26 members
of the Yankee squad will re
ceive top shares of $5943.31
apiece, and 11 others will get
lesser shares. The individual
Dodger shares, O'Connor said,
would not be known until the
end of the week.
The players' share of the se
ries take totaled $474,184.54, of
which the two participants Yan
kees and Dodgers, respectively,
received 60 and 40 per cent
w . i v. . .mov uiviaiin uuub 111 Ulir
American and National leagues
will get 30 per cent of the play-
OLD OSCAR
PEPPER
October 21. 1941
Slipping
study to busy little Frankte Al
bert ,was a new one on the cas
ualty list on which Hank Nor
berg and Meiners, good ends, are
prominent .
Stanford was something less
than terrific against little USF
Saturday as Shaughnessy jug
gled backfield combinations try
ing to find a new quartet. Two
fullbacks were on the starting
four, Vuclnlch and Sheller. The
setup had power but lacked the
deception and speed which made
the Stanford T the football toast
of last year. And the reserve
strength behind the first 11 was
weak. USF scored four touch-J
downs, one on the varsity. The
final score was 42-26. '
Weaker Foes
With- Stanford and Washing
ton battling among themselves,
two other possibilities for. the
conference title engage weaker
foes. Oregon State, rested a week
after its Stanford win, defies the
jinx of Palouse - In battling
Washington State at Pullman.
Oregon, conference leaders on
the basis of three wins and one
setbacks, takes on UCLA at
Los Angeles.
In a fourth conference game
this week California, beaten 19-6
by Oregon Saturday, for its third
straight setback, battles on
about even terms at Berkeley
against USC. The Trojans beat
Washington State by a whisker,
7-6. in their last out
73, was bom In San Francisco
as young Peter Jackson. Al
Neill, then Pacific coast middle
weight champion; Toby Irwin,
now a prominent fight referee,
and Aurelio Herrera. He also
trained Kid Lavigne of Saga
more, Minn., former world's
lightweight champion. In later
years he managed Wildcat Car
ter of Everett Wash.
Bishop was a stereo typer by
trade, and worked on the old
San Francisco Bulletin. At one
time he was sports editor of the
Tacoma News. He also promot
ed boxing in Seattle and Cincin
nati, and his sports record in
cluded a spell as umpire in the
Texas baseball league.
In recent, years he edited a
publication for the association
for prevention of dishonest box
ing. The largest foreign market for
American motion pictures is the
United Kin gdom. Argentina
ranks second and Spain third.
of S66.385.83 in the combined
earned S132.771.68
era' pool or an aggregate sum
of $142,255.36..
Receipts from five games
amounted to $1,007,762, the of
ficial figures showed, with an
additional . $100,000 accruing
from broadcasting fees.
Because a top share for 31
players involved a fraction of a
cent, five Yankees received one
cent less than their teammates.
Those Yankees granted a full
share of $5943.31 are: Manager
McCarthy, Players Bonham,
Bordagaray, Branch, Breuer,
Chandler, Crosetti, Dickey, Dl
Maggio,' Donald, Gomez, Gor
don, Helnrich, Keller, Murphy,
Prlddy, Rizzuto, Rolfe, Ruffing,
Russo, Selkirk, Stanceu, Sturm,
and . Coaches - Fletcher and
Combs. . . " '
Players to receive one cent
less than . a full share or
$5943.30, are: Silvestri, Schulte,
Schreiber,' Peek and Painter.
Roth and Weygant will get
$4457.48 apiece, and Sharkey,
Sullivan, Logan and Owen will
get $1500.
Other teams shared as fol
lows: For second place. 50 per cent
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Ouch --That One Hurt
v
This action shot was taken
Johnston caught sluggln' Del McDonald In last Tuesday's armory
matches. As one can see Del was about to land a roundhouse
right to Orvllle's chin. Next week McDonald will meet frowning
Chuck Kujack in one of the top events. The mln event has also
been signed. It will be between two heavyweights, Ora Splcher
and Harry Choate, both hard slugging lads.
Simon Falls
Before Lem
No. 2 Contender for Louis' Crown
Badly Beaten by Cleveland Negro
CLEVELAND, Oct. 21 (UP)
Lammln' Lem Franklin, Cleve
land negro heavyweight, Monday
night smashed and battered Abe
Simon into a helpless hulk in
less than half the time it took
Joe Louis to score a technical
knockout over the gigantic New
Yorker in the fifth round of their
10-round fight tonight at the
Cleveland arena.
Simon, rated the No. 2 heavy
weight contender for Louis
heavyweight crown, was lolling
helplessly against the ropes from
a bruising avalanche of rights to
the head when Referee Joe
Smedley called a halt at one min
utes and 33 seconds of the fifth
round.
Franklin, giving away . 54
pounds to Simon, who came in
at 255 pounds, shot a straight
right to Simon's head midway
in the first round and knocked
the massive heavyweight to the
canvas for a nine count.
Again in the second the ex
plosive right of Franklin found
its mark and almost knocked
Simon through the ropes. He fell
inward onto the canvas, how
ever, and took a nine count.
Simon recovered slightly in
the third and managed to score
with several lefts to the mid-section
while Franklin regained his
strength from his hitting spree.
End Comes
Franklin set Simon up for the
kill by battering him from rope
of $142,255.36 or $35,563.84
apiece to Boston in the Ameri
can league and St. Louis in the
National.
For third place, 33 1-3 per
cent or $23,709.23 apiece to Chi
cago in the American and Cin
cinnati in the National league.
For fourth place, 16 2-3 per
cent or a total of $23,709.23, of
which $11,854.61 went to Pitts
burgh of the National and
$5927.31 apiece to Cleveland
and Detroit. ,
Navy Tabbed '
Nation's Top
Grid Team
' LOS ANGELES, Oct. 21 U.R
Navy today was tabbed the top
football team in the nation for
the season thus far by Deke
Houlgatc, Pacific coast gridiron
expert, under his system of rat
ing national football leaders.
Just back of the Middies and
in a tie for second place came
Duke's Blue Devils and the
Michigan Wolverines, with the
only undefeated Pacific coast
team, Sfnta Clara, In fourth
place.
Houlgatc ' rated Temple as
fifth in the nation, with Van
derbilt a surprise sixth, fol
lowed by Ohio State In seventh
place. Tied for eighth, he had
Fordham, Minnesota, Pennsyl
vania and Texas.
The football expert admitted
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just the big left fist of Orvllle
in 5th
Franklin
to rope in the fourth. Simon
went down from a straight right
just before the bell as the capac
ity crowd roared. The count
reached nine before the beli
rang.
The end came quickly In the
fifth as Franklin smashed in
right after right to Simon's head
and sent him reeling into the
ropes. Simon lay over the ropes
with Franklin hitting him at will
when the referee stopped it. -
Gopher-Wolve Feud for Little
Brown Jug Tops Weekend Card
By HAROLD CLAASBEW ,
NEW YORK, Oct. 21 P) You might suspect that when two
football teams from the same conference collide, even with the
league leadership and possible title at stake, the game would be
one of sectional Interest only. -..,-
But not the Minnesota-Michigan feud at Ann Arbor Saturday.
The nation's sports writers in their second poll of the young
gridiron season have decreed
that the battle for the "Little
Brown Jug", shall be one for
the country's .mythical title as
well.
The Golden Gophers of Min
nesota retained their first-place
rating of a week ago with 1169
points while Michigan jumped
all the way from sixth to third
on the strength of its 14 to 7
triumph over Northwestern.
Sixty-nine of the voters
thought Minnesota was the best
Medford Jr. High
Coach Accepts Job
MEDFORD, Oct. 21 (UP)
Reynolds Cook, Medford junior
high school coach, will resign at
the end of the football season to
coach at Benson Polytechnic
High In Portland, it was an
nounced Monday.
SOXINO
By Tha Ataoelatau FrcM
CJ.KVKI,AXD Urn franklin, (01, Chi
cno, won by technical' knockout bver Alia
Simon. New York (&); Jtmmta Reevea,
IM, Clcreland. otitpolntH Jacob Lareotta,
IM, New York (10); Sammy Scer.tt, 144.
PlttHlinrah, outpolntril Maxl H.rger, 144,
New York (10).
RorllKMTKIt Nick Penza. Cleveland
featherweight, knocked out Jimmy Thomaa,
Bll'f!ll, (1).
NEWARK Bob Paitor. US. Saratoga
Rprlng.. N. Y.. outpointed Irlih Johnny
riynn. IK. Rochester (10).
BALTIMORE Jlmmr Hatcher. 1M14.
Charlotte, s. (?., outpointed Bllty Speary,
12" i. Wllke IIrre, ra. (101.
MIAMI IIBACII. Fla. Yucatan Kid. 140.
M-xlco I'ftv, knocked out Joey Ttaymond,
1.19 Tampa (). ' .
that many would place the four
teams he has in eighth place at
the top of the pile but Houlgate
rates his teams on a mathemati
cal basis evolved from points
scored by and against each 'team
and under that system Navy
emerged on top.
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Clash Tops Armory Ring Card;
McDonald Faces Chuck Kujack
The first hoavy weight
not lnmuntod. fiasco twixt rumbling, cumuoraonie llomoo
Sanchez and awkward Red Rritton tops Promoter Mack
Ullard's weekly boxing card 'hi the armory tonight and
the customers are expected to recognize it by turning
out in greater droves than thoy have sinco that Sanclioz-
Brltton thing
Tonight it's Ora Splcher ver
sus Harry Choate, two guys
about whom nobody ' knows
nothin' other than Choate is an
ex-Oregon State battler and
Draft Board
Presses for
lag Gridder
SAN FRANCISCO. Oct. 21
(UP) Local draft board No. 1
of Silver - Bow county, . Mont.
Monday carried to the U. S. cir
cuit court of appears its legal
fight to draft Peter Connors, Bo
nanza university, football player,
into the army.
Conners asked for deferment.
He contended he should bo per
mitted to finish his collogo foot
ball career because he Intended
to. enter professional football
and a football star shines
brightest in his senior year."
During Monday's arguments.
Conners' attorneys - contended
the draft board "arrived at tho
cast iron rule that he (Conners)
is a liberal arts student and
therefore shouldn't receive con
sideration." . ,
"He was never permitted to
appeal to the discretion of the
draft board, nor could he ever
ask why he shouldn't be given
deferment," the defense argued.
The draft board originally re
jected Conners' plea for defer
ment. Conners carried his case to
the Montana federal district
court and won a preliminary In
junction from Judge James Bald
win. The draft board argued that
Baldwin had no jurisdiction in
the case and hsJ made a "gross
error" In upholding Conners'
plea for deferment.
The circuit court took the
draft board's appeal under sub
mission. . . - .
eleven. In the land while only
seven, gave the Wolverines that
much credit. Michigan collect
ed a total of 906 votes. ,
Texas, easy victor over four
foes, slipped between ' the pair
of Big Ten behemoths with
1096 tallies,' less than 100 below
the Gophers. The Longhoms are
paired this week with Rice,
stunned last Saturday by LSU.
Duke, which fluttered down
a notch to make room for Mich
igan's abrupt climb, harvested
758 points and this week has
the chance of bowling over
Pittsburgh, . a dominant figure
In the editors' poll in years
gone by.
Navy, Fordham, Notre Dame,
Santa Clara, ' Texas ' A ' and M
and Tulane complete the fl.st
ten but the Minnesota-Michigan
fracas is the only ' one which
pits two of the leaders against
one another.
The Middles, with three first
team votes and a total of 614
tallies, is paired against Har
vard; Fordham's mighty array
has 800 votes with a crippled
Texas Christian aggregation as
Its next foe; Notre Dame (304)
tangles with.. Illinois; Santa
Clara (2S2) goes into the south
west for a meeting with Okla-
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main event since the Into btit
both are amateurs. The aniu
teur angle .is sufficient lo vir
tually assure a tenacious buttle
and the. fact they're reputed to
be sluggers Indicates one of the
better main events slnco the loss
of Urgent Ursal Snnpp,
Last week a llttle-hcraltlcd
card, rather thrown together at
the last minute, developed Into
the best In recent armory ring
history. Tonight Llllard has
contrived to duplicate It .with
the same type of hoys.
Del McDonald, dancing, lung
ing negro middleweight who ap
peared to be on the rise until a
kayo last week by Orvllle
Johnston, faces Chuck Kujack
In the scml-wlndup. Kujack, a
poised, picture boxer, is a gym
nasium slugger of the better
sort but somewhat lacking when
the chips are down. He carries
a blasting right hand but hasn't
yet been able to uncork It on
Tuesday nights.
Clayton Fields, stocky Med-
Refs Leave Job
To Spectators
TAUNTON. Mass., Oct. 21
Wi The "kill the refereo"
chant heard so frequently at
sports contests bounced bark
' today at those follows with
the megaphone voices In the
stands.
En mane, referees of iho
Taunton Soccer league handed
. in their resignations and rec
ommended that the jobs go
to the "grandstand or sideline
referees" . who havo been
criticizing their work.
. League Secretary Manuel
Amaral said applications
would be welcome at the reg
ular rate $1 for officiating
In this city i and $1.50 for
games in nearby Attloboro or
Stoughton.
The first day brought no
response.
homa; Texas A and M (243)
stays within the southwest con
ference for a meeting with Bay
lor, and Tulane ' (220) arguos
with Mississippi.- s '
Members of the second ten
are: Ohio State 208, Penn 139,
Northwestern 96, Clemson 70,
Vanderbilt 62, Oregon 83, Tem
ple 51, Oregon State 46, Villa
nova and Stanford 24 each.
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cW mh.lm Olatllllei Ca, Int., Uulivllla, K.nhjtty
at ;
ford welterwrlghl, faces ' Lyli
Wcstbpuok of Klamath rails li
(he evening's No. 3 bout. Th
valley boy' last week dropped I
olono rematch to red-hcadai
Larry Roy. Westbrook endearcl
himself- to spectators by dncl
sinning Oiie-I'iinch John Miller
a roundly dlnllkcd votcran mid
dlewelght, "
The No. 2 mix will pit Jim
my Adams, blood-turn victim k
Loulo Welgurd via a TKO la,
week, against one Nell Duncan'
a newcomer. . Adams,, subblnj
last Tuesday for Billy Thunder
has bron training for the firs'
lime during the past week. ,
Francis t'iotild, a Maker, Ore.
slugger, will collide wltt
"Coca" Snow of Klamath Falli
In the opener. Both weigh 160
A curtain-raiser will open l
at 8:30.
Betide
The Headpin
f "IAOTSUS"
It's dark gasse for Junior .
this Thursday If the new uni
forms keep showing up. Nice
going Swan Confectionery. Jun
ior's been snoopln' around try-.'
Ing to find out who will turn
out with what for this week, ,
but I guru the gals are keeping '
It a secret.
In buritng back and forth wa
were a bit mixed on the sched
ule last week. Just a week (head
so It's still a battle between Roy
al Crown Cola and Lorens Co.,
the Swan Confectionery and
Cummlngs Fur Shop, the Town '
Shop and Eddie's Place, O.' It.
Transfer and Daggett Insurant. '
The Town Shop It-am are lead'
eni In the league with nine wins'
and three louses, Daggett Insur
ance cloae second with eight
wins and four losses. High team
series in the league aoea to Ed
die's Place, while the. Royal
Crown Cola team leads In high
single game. Doris Cheyne still
holds her lead in high average.
Pilot Times Ducks
Going 80 M. P. H.
SEATTLE. Oct. 21 WA
Northwest Airlines pilot an
swered today th questions
that has plagued many a de
feated hunter How fast dos
a gees fly?
Capt. Dudley Cox ssld . h
overtook a formation of gs .
flying abov th Cascades and
timed them at approximately
0 miles an hour. He said th
g.ese had to plerc a 2500
loot deep fog bank to rash
their flying l.r.l.
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