rordham Loss to Pitt Biggest ports surprise ot ivhi rear I ir ORLO ROBERTSOH HEW YORK, Dec. 22 (JP) Foidham's Ram were rolling Llopg on the wave of five rtriight football victories. The Pittsburgh Panthers had re ceived as many consecutive set backs. Then came Nov. 8, a gloomy day Indeed for the Rams, kori the scoreboard read: Pitts- ttuteh 13, Fordham 0. Fordham snapped back to win its two remaining games and re bel bid to the Sugar bowl vhlle Pittsburgh went on to ake two of its three other kanUs. But the result of that November 8 game goes down in Ihel books as the biggest sur prise of 1941. Only the Texas football Long- riorhs offered tlie Panthers any erious opposition In the opinion' Nation's Top Cagers Touring uring Tinsel, Mistletoe Time I By HAROLD CLAASSEN NEW YORK, Dec. 22 W tnts is the period of tinsel, holly Evrfaths, mistletoe and travel- ng DkSReioau teams. Sam Barry s Hoosier-flavored Southern California squad leaves oday for a cross country junket hat winds up Saturday night in i meeting with Long Island uni versity. From the southwest omes Rice, the Rocky mountain rea contributes Colorado and Vyoraing to the commuters, while Oregon State and Wash ington also head east. Cornell is all set for a holiday! OREGON SPORTS NOTES -.-.- By FRED HAMPSON P ' Associated Press Staff Writer The dismissal of Coach Jimmy Phelan by the University of Vashington has elicited a variety of comment from Oregon and Vashington sports writers. Perhaps one of the most revealing s that of Al Stump of the Vancouver Columbian, a recent Wash ngton undergraduate and a friend of dozens of past and present Vashington players. Sez Al: 'This corner has said again nd again that the cold reserve 'tawny Phelan threw up be- ween himself and his hirea- Land gridders is the fundament al i reason Washington teams laven't performed up to actual trengtb and the reason now vhy J. P. is out in the cold. J, "Cold-Blooded" . . "Phelan chose to view Husky ootball as a cold-blooded busi est proposition, ignoring the luman element. Here is what counle of s a u a d members aid1: Elmer Berg, qb: 'Person- lly. I thought Jim s football as sound and that he knew his tuff ... If there was any weakness it was the failure of he coaching staff to get close the men . . . There was just bit of coolness which made ome of us wonder." An un- amed '41 varsity regular: rhere was something lacking which I believe was com- lete cooperation between caches and players . . . Maybe ,nat was not Jim's fault, but I Ml if we had had a closer un- erstanding we would have won lore games'." Most of the other scribes ally to the defense of the re lated Phelan. Harry Leeding the Oregon Journal points ut ' that Phelan's record since ae round-robin schedules went ito effect was the best in the sague, 29 victories, 14 defeats nd three ties, for a .641 ner- entage. As Leeding says :iat U a terrific record for ound-robinlng. Cantankerous Hit last six teams yielded nly 275 points in 42 league ames, or about 8H per game, nd ranked third in points :ored. Unfortunately (for Phe- m) he spread his winning aver ! I I V lLh"' This highquairty.,'mellow 8SfS K j L pMrjfT. -gjS Straight BourbonWhiskey is L-tJ HjjS ?HM $ i Y ' affity&Cipfii now aged for five years! ililft) s I IjfBBij fsmmg I ! If iS; Jykf3 Bottled in Bond under the 'NtflG?l1 5 1 I Wt, JiSfeMp SuoervisionoftheU.S.Govt. JSS fS 1 i ,V . , swStSut Selling at thesame Ion; prices xsr , J m N poij&fSS o.t pint SSStetfS lifeS 2&nu& Ml1 ot the 84 sports writers partici pating In the Associated Press poll. The Panthers rolled up 144 votes, 114 of which came from 38 first place tallies on the basis of three for first, two for second and one for third. The Long horns, a surprise winning, tying or losing, re ceived 16 first place votes and a total of 84 points. Some of the writers Just called Texas the sur prise of the year, others men tioned the Longhorns 7-7 tie with Baylor, their 14-7 defeat at the hands of Texas Christian and the 71-7 victory over Oregon in the final game of the season. Billy Conn had Joe Louis on the run for 12 rounds in their June title fight and then lost to the brown bomber in the thirteenth. For that gallant trip to the midwest, California entertains a barnstorming Mis souri quintet tonight, Utah charges into the plains country, and Bradley Tech repays the compliment by visiting the moun tains. All in all, the coming two weeks will be ones of time-tables, field goals and free throws for various college students while their non-athletic brethren are at home absorbing mother's cooking. On the west coast either Ore gon State or Washington is ex pected to replace Washington age. He never finished at the bottom and never at the top (barring 1936). One title in a decade wasn't enough for the Husky constituents. Washington has long had a reputation for being cantanker ous, hyper-critical and down right wolfish toward its football coaches. Phelan worked, others point out, in the uncomfortable position of one whose job was always insecure. However, he did last 11 sea sons which Is eons compared to the average tenure in high pressure football. Bagshaw be fore him was hounded constant ly but he lasted and lasted. We have an idea that despite the rather sudden dismissal of Phe lan, the average college football coach would look upon the Washington job, wolves and all, as fairly attractive and reason ably permanent. Sandlot Tourney On Defense Theme WICHITA, Kas., Dec. 22 iJPt Ray Dumont, president of the National Semi-Pro Baseball con gress and a member of the sports advisory board of civilian defense, will run the 1942 sand lot tournament on a defense theme. The winner will get $7500 In defense bonds. Entry fees will be paid in defense stamps. The admission charge Will be in de fense stamps. MARTINOVICH TOPS NEW YORK, Dec. 20 OP) Phil Martinovich of the New York Americans is pro football's leading field-goal kicker for 1942. American league records show that his nine field goals stand, the Pittsburgh Kid was rated third with 3!) points. In cluding four firsts. Bayvlew's unexpected victory in the $100, 000 Santa Anita handicap was good for 21 voters, two more than Vic Ghezzi received for his unexpected triumph In the PGA championship tournament. The ease with which the New York Yankees triumphed In the American league and the short work they made of the Brooklyn Dodgers in the world series, with the help of Mickey Owen's costly ninth-inning muff in the crucial fourth game, came in for 18 tallies. The Yanks topped by three the collapse of the Stanford football team, after going unbeaten in 1940, and by four Buddy Baer's surprise showing against Louis in May at Washington. State while in the Southwest conference Rice and Arkansas are favored for the title the Razorbacks held undisputedly a year ago. In the east Dartmouth seems headed for its fifth straight Ivy league flag. Long Island, Rhode Island State and City college of New York are other eastern powerhouses. Iowa State, defending co champion, looms as the Big Six titlist with Oklahoma and Kan sas always in the running. Ten nessee, as long as it has Bernie Mehen, is the choice in the south western circuit. this season beat by three Clark Hinkle's total for the Green Bay Packers in the National league. Martinovich's longest boot, 44 yards, was a yard better than Hinkle s best. BOND PAYMENT MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 20 (Pi Owners of winning thorough breds will be paid in defense bonds, instead of cash, by Tropi cal park this year. In the process, winners of first money in day-to-day races will get a bonus a $750 bond where the cash winnings would be $700. Payment in bonds will be op tional with the winners, but track officials believe most of them will go along with the idea. BEVOS GET HURLER SPOKANE, Wash., Dec. 22 (UP Bill Ulrich, owner of the Spokane Indians of the Western International league, Saturday sold Bob Kinnaman. 23-year- old pitcher, to Portland's Pa cific Coast League Baseball club for an undisclosed sum. Kinnaman, a former Wash ington State college athlete, be gan his professional career in 1939 with Twin Falls of the pioneer circuit. GRID PRACTICE NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 22 OP) Coach Biff Jones of Nebraska and his western team pulled into New Orleans today and plan to begin practice Tuesday for the Shriners all-star game January 3. The east all-stars got in their first good practice under Coach Andy Kerr of Colgate at Biloxi, Miss., yesterday. Passing com binations featured Bill Dudley of Virginia to Bob Westfall of Mich igan and Bruce Smith of Minne sota to John Rokisky of Du quesne. GUAYAQUIL, Ecuador. Dec. 22 JPi Six United States tennis players arrived during the night for a series of matches Tues day, Wednesday and Thursday with players of this nation. The United States party is made up of Mr. and Mrs. El- wood Cooke, Dorothy Bundy, Katherlne Winthrop, Don Mc Neill and Jack Cramer. Looking Up-Down at a Star V r -f t Testing racquet oeiore exmoition match In Atlanta (are world's shortest and tallest tennis stars, five-foot four-Inch Bitty Grant, left, and six-foot seTen-inch George Lyttieton-Rogeri. Irish champion. Government Bean Causes Big Spend Spree for Sportsmen NEW YORK, Dec. 22 CUP , Metropolitan golf and tennis en-1 thusiasts indulged In arv unpre- cedented buying spree today,' following publication of new, rubber - restruction orders thati may cause virtual extinction of i the pellets they pound on fair-1 ways and court. ! While addicts swarmed! through downtown stores pur-' chasing golf and tennis balls, sports officials, shop keepers: and sporting goods manufac turers were generally agreed the i two pastimes faced the Rrentest' ball shortage in histqry. j At Chicago, for example. L. B. Icely, president of the Wilson Sporting Goods company, said,' "It stands to reason that if the ban on civilian use of rubber re-! mains in effect it will result in the utter cessation of golf and tennis, two of the main sports' enjoyed by the average Ameri can." j Although major league base-! balls have rubber cores, the ; horsehide sphere received little attention, since Ed Barrow, president of the New York Yankees, pointed out recently! V -i -JL A it V J ffi V Robet I'M ( WiA Hond Ba9 J- AGENTS. '4 i, I it, i ' i M 1 1 m. 1 A. f!. manufacturers had provided for a possible emergency in" this sport. But no such condition existed in golf and tennis. It was gener ally estimated that the number of balls on hand before today's rush would represent only about 15 per cent of a year's con sumption. Walter Pate, chairman of the U. S. Lawn Tennis association supplies committee, expressed the belief that the government would not crack down too hard on tennis and golf because of civilian morale Jess Stvcctsrr, former amateur golf champion and treasurer of Healthful winnlh on the chdlittt dsys tpresdiiig to every pact of lha room clean, uniform and eputv. CtU en at for mm mmratt this wlnlr. )N & O Tenpin Topics By John Foster (loalmi ldil INOUITRUU IIAOUI Ibcrrlin m n iu wt Hii.vUia HrrilunJ ..IM IM lit MO 1 :w i; it m ..IM IS) IK I.U :o im IN fit - Ml HO M III) DM M IIM MlTtla ttu iTrt ,a, Roll . . tA i 0lr U tfl 1.U UU llk-kmia it, p. 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