raw)
'V - ' . SAME LOSS
Tht sudden tragic death of
Art Thrash, for the past two
yesrs secretary of the Klamath
Sportsmen's association, Js a blow
to . outdoor loven of the area.
No more earnest nor devoted
worker In the cause of the sports
men could be found among the
membership of the . association.
Art Thrash by his loyalty to the
organization and hit constant ad
vocation of sports perpetuation
through game management earn
ed, the respect and admiration of
all . Klamath anglers and nim
rods. His passing will be felt by all
sportsmen. , ,
Klamath sports activities,
blacked out not by war but by
the brighter lights of holiday
gayety, resume next week on
three fronts. .. -
i Bowling, halted Wednesday
and Thursday nights, was to be
gin again Friday night. There'll
be no kegling next Thursday,
New -Year" day, however.
Commercial and Church., lea
gue basketball will re-start Mon
day and Tuesday evenings. ,
. Next tilt for Dutch French's
surging Klamath Pelicans will
be January 2 against Grants Pass
on the valley floor.
" Meantime Joe Spectator haf a
chance. Continued cold weather
should afford ice. skating this
weekend and skiing, which an
nually bounced upward after the
holidays, is expected to increase
Sunday. .
-
, PARDON, PLEASE
,' In the excitement of blackout
and basketball Friday night, Dec.
12, this department -overlooked
mention of the Willard hotel's
gracious gesture in entertaining
the entire 1941 Klamath Pelican
football team at a banquet that
evening.
It was staged by Gene Larson
m the Willard blue room.
:"' ' CASUALTY '
i Sleepy Jim Crowley of Ford
hsm's Sugar Bowl Rams, sees a
war-caused decline facing east
ern football teams for, the dura
tion. Midwestern elevens, with
bigger squads which can better
stand Uncle Sam's shoulder-tap,
will dominate the national grid
picture, James avers.
He pointed out that a dozen
of his players had already signed
PP with the navy air corps and
were awaiting call. Several
others are within draft age.
" "That makes a big difference
In a squad of 40," he went on.
"It looks like this year is our
last near the top for a while."
1 "We'll have football but some
f us will be hurt." .
" Midwest schools; Sleepy Jim
said, have squads of 80 or more
and can afford to lose a few
players. "Notre Dame should
till be outstanding. They can
call out 250 good football play.
The far west, he asserted, has
everal large institutions and
with many gridders but the mili
tary situation is uncertain. :
If war conditions become so
tense as compel nightly black
outs west of the Cascades in
Southern Oregon, you can look
for either an entire home slate
for the KUHS Pelicans or a
switchover to day games for val
ley, teams. .. .
1 ; TEBBETTS STUDIES
DURHAM, N. H Birdie Teb
fcetts, Detroit catcher, is taking
an agricultural course at the
University of New Hampshire.
Magic Carpetbagger
' v '"Coach call this his cosmic approach to a .,'. -v.e baskM."
Confidence Prevails As
Duke, OSC Resume Drill
Stiner, Chores Refuse to Accept N
Underdog Role for 'Tobacco' Tilt
By FRANK B. GILBRETH
DURHAM, N. C Dec. 26 (A?) A rosy confidence prevailed
at the two Rose bowl football camps today as Duke and Oregon
State players tucked away their Christmas presents and resumed
drills for the transplanted classic to be played here before 59,000
fans on New Year's day.
Although twice beaten Oregon State is on the short end of
2-to-l odds in Durham, both Coach Lon Stiner and Captain Martin
Chaves refuse to accept the underdog role.
Kerr Finds
21 Kickers
On East 1 1
NEW ORLEANS. Dec. 26 (JP)
There are- liable to be a lot of
footballs kicked between -the
goal posts when the eastern and
western All-Stars meet January
3, but one thing is certain four
bowl' outfits plan to. be here for
the occasion.
Coach Andy Kerr of the east
ern aggregation has learned that
he has 21 place-kickers on his
squad, while one of the other
two members is a drop-kick er,
Ford ham and Missouri, which
dash in the New Year's day
Sugar Bowl here, will remain
for the charity event, shifted
from California. .
Coach Kerr discovered the
kicking talent on his squad dur
ing a practice session when 21
gridiron greats stepped up and
booted the ball between the up
rights, one after another. Jim
Daniell, Ohio State tackle, told
him' he preferred drop-kicking.
Both of the All-Star squads
and . the Fordham and Missouri
Sugar Bowlers buckle down to
hard work again today after a
letup for Christmas celebrations.
Really, Fellas,
It's a Golf
Tournament
LOS ANGELE8, Dec 26 (JP)
The program proclaims it
the Woodland Hills open golf
tournament. But just take a
gander at these entries:
Charley Corbett. Jackie
Westrope and. Buddy Haas,
Jockeys.
Jerry Prlddy. Newt Kimball
and Wally Berger; baseball
stars. ,. . . , . ,. . ,-.,.
'. Ernie Never.'' Aubrey De
vine . and Marsh Duffiold.
former ace football players.
. Mickey Rooney of the films
and orchestra leader. Bob
Crosby.. .
There actually-will be some
golfers shooting for the S1000
prise money,, however. They
include Denny Shute, Harry
Cooper, Jimmy Thomson. Olin
Dutra. Fy C o 1 m a n and
Willie Hunter.
The tourney, a runeup - for
the $10,000 Los Angeles open
.Jan. 9-12, starts today. .
NO INTERFERENCE '
LONG BEACH, Calif.. Dec 26
(JP) Commodore Emerson Spear
is taking no chances on enemy
submarines interfering with the
annual midwinter yacht regatta
next February. '
The 16-mile course for the
races will be plotted inside the
Los. Angeles harbor breakwater
protected by steel submarine
nets.
- The event usually is run in the
channel outside the breakwater.
MEADE'S MOLARS MEND
MIAMI Don Meade, the na
tion' leading Jockey, . under
went an extensive dental opera
tion, but it is reported that he
has recovered and will be seen
under silks at Tropical Park.
''I don t know anything about
Duke's team, - but I do know
something about my boys," said
Stiner. "Nobody managed to
score more than two touchdowns
against us in 1941 and we don't
intend to start the new year on
the wrong foot."
Chaves, who will enter' the
U. S. air corps shortly after the
game, was even more outspoken.
Pushover?
"We feel." he said, "that a lot
of people around here are going
to be ' mighty surprised. Ever
since we hit North Carolina last
Wednesday, people have been
telling us about how tough Duke
is supposed to be.
"All right so they talk. But
what are we supposed to be?
Pushovers? We've met tough
teams before and we were tough
er than most of them. '
- "We figure Duke has a fine
team. So .have we. We figure
Duke is going to have to play
eleven men at a time not supermen.-We'll
have eleven guys
in there, too."
Serious Practice
The Beavers were entertained
here yesterday at a Christmas
party at which they received
gifts of.North Carolina products
They seemed rested from their
long trip from the west coast.
Stiner Slid, "we'll get down
to serious practice today."
After a five-day holiday, Duke
also will return to the practice
grind with all men in top shape
except Moffat Storer, a member
of the No. 2 backfield. Storer,
who-runs the 100-yard dash In
less than 10 seconds, has an in
jured knee which may keep him
out of the game.
. Coach Wallace Wade of Duke
Isn't doing much talking, but
Captain Bob Barnett, Blue Devil
center, said, "We're not cocky;
we're just confident."
Oregon
Soorts Notes
' By FRED HAMPSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
' As Harry Leeding sets forth
in the -Oregon Journal, It will
not set' well with the football
people if the Santa Anita racing
meet is permitted by-4he mili
tary which cancelled the Rose
bowl and Shrine hospital games.
And at current writings it
looks as though the horse crowd
will get their race meet which
draw daily crowds comparable
to those of either of the blacked
out football games.
- Leeding wonders if a little
pressure, might not have been
applied on behalf of . the nags
because of the fact that Califor
nia cuts in for three per cent of
the Anita handle, which isn't
hay in any sense of the word and
may be worth a little extra air
raid danger. .
Leeding calls attention, how
ever, to Lt.-Gen. John DeWitt's
explanation that the Anita races
can go on if by January 15, or
any other date, the situation is
alleviated. -
'
, Coach Bill Reinhart, late of
the University of Oregon but
now at George Washington uni
versity, told George Bertz of
the Oregon Journal that Duke's
opponents during the past foot
ball season were of pretty low
karat.
- Bertz talked with the former
Webfoot basketball chieftain at
Washington, D. C, when the
Rose bowl (at Durham) bound
OSC team stopped over , for a
workout. '.'
The opposition upon which
Duke waxed fat could not have
held it head up in the Pacific
Coast conference, said Reinhart.
He doesn t think most.' of
Duke' rivals could have beaten
Idaho or Montana. By infer
ence, he opines that OSC prob
ably could have mopped up on
them too and emerged from the
season without defeat or tie and
with a flossy scoring record.
"The two real strong teams the
Blue Devils played this year
were Colgate and Tennessee,"
said. Reinhart, "and neither of
those teams were considered
among the' top elevens of the
south- this season. Colgate had
them on the short end of the
score for a long time. They,
caught Pitt ' before ' that ' team
started- clicking." '
. MORE NIGHT GAMES
ST. LOUIS Donald '. Barnes,
president - of the' Brown,' still
hopes to get 14 night games.
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Harvard. John Welsh of Pennsylvania and Thornley Wood of Columbia. The game was trans
ferred from San Francisco due to war conditions.
Grid Scoring Jump Voted Biggest
Sports Trend of Year in AP Poll
By ORLO ROBERTSON
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 W) A year ago the football fathers
wrote into the code book two new rules, both designed to step
up scoring and answer the offense's call for help.
The two rules, one calling for unlimited substitutions and the
other permitting fourth down passes inside the 20-yard line with
out danger of the ball going back to 20 if the aerial was incom
plete, served their purpose well. In fact they did it so well that
the increase in scoring in col
lege football was considered the
outstanding trend of the year by
sports writers participating in
The Associated Press poll.
No fewer than 15 writers con
sidered the rise of the offense
over the defense as the most im
portant development of 1941
while other phases of the grid
iron sport also came In for
strong consideration to give foot
ball dominance over all other
sports. Ten writers considered
the swing to the T-formation,
brought to the front in 1940 by
Stanford, Chicago Bears and
Boston College, as the most im
portant trend.
Six pointed out the greater
interest in professional football,
especially In. the mid-west, and
four the leveling off of college
football power as shown by the
few unbeaten major schools.
Old Santa Claus Decks
Out Holiday Sports Map
By JACK CUDDY
NEW YORK, Dec. 26 (UP
Good old Santa certainly decked
the holiday sports tree with a
lavish hand.
Starting tomorrow with the
re-opening of the New Orleans
fair grounds racetrack after a
year's lapse the holiday pro
gram includes a flock of post
season football classics (college
and professional); banner bas
ketball contests, professional ten
nis, track and field, the usual
ice hockey, and preparations for
a world heavyweight title bout.
Football will command most
interest, with its slate of eight
important encounters headed by
the Rose Bowl and Sugar Bowl
extravaganzas. These two clas
sics and three other bowl games
will be staged on New Year's
day.
The Rose Bowl collision be
tween Oregon State, Pacific
coast champion, and Duke, king
of the southeastern conference.
will attract unprecedented Inter
est because of its war-caused
shift from Pasadena, Calif.,
cradle of bowl games, to Dur
ham, N. C, Duke's hometown.
Approximately 55,000 fans will
attend. Duke will be a heavy
favorite.
Many experts believe that the
best game will be staged In the
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans,
where . the powerful Fordham
Ram tangle with formidable
Missouri. More than 73,000 are
expected.
The other bowl game match
Georgia and Texas Christian In
the Orange Bowl at Miami, Fia.;
Alabama and the Texas Aggies
in the. Cotton Bowl at Dallas,
Tex., and Tulsa and Texa Tech
In the Sun Bowl at El . Paso,
Texas.
Meanwhile, on Saturday,, the
annual tilt between 'all-star col
legiate teams of the north and
south will be held at Montgom
ery, Ala., and the next Satur
day, Pan. 3, finds the annual
Shrine game usually staged at
San Francisco at New Orleans,
with western all-star collegians
tackling eastern all-stars.
The professionals, too, have a
post-season . game, . with the
mighty Chicago Bears, champion
of the National Football league,
lacing a team of all-stars collect-
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Also mentioned were such foot
ball trends as, general increase
in attendance; the Syracuse Y
formation with its reverse cen
ter; quieting of demands for re
forms in conduct of the sport;
accuracy of passing and more
aerials in college competition;
faster game as the result of the
new rules; more good backs; in
creased Interest in night games;
coaches master minding from
the bench via the new substitu
tion rule; steady decline of field
goals, especially drop kicking;
use of more power plays to
score; development of defensive
and offensive specialists; the de
cline of Pacific Coast football
and increased interest despite it;
rise of southern teams and good
showings of Big Nine and south
west elevens.
ed from other clubs In the league
at the New York Polo grounds
on Sunday, Jan. 4. This game
also was shifted from Los An
geles at the request of U. S.
army officers.
The Santa Anita, Calif., race
track, scheduled to open Dec.
31, still hopes to get Its meeting
under way on Jan. 15, although
permission from the army has
yet to be obtained. However, the
Gee-Gees will be galloping at the
New Orleans fair grounds and
at Miami's Tropical park .
North, South
Gridders Practice
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Dee.
26 (P) Brief, sharpening-up
drills were arranged today for
northern and southern gridders
here for the annual Blue-Gray
match tomorrow.
An outbreak of colds has been
bothering the two rival camps,
but only two players were
forced to miss practice. The
pair of backs. Jack Craln of
the University of Texas, and
John Hallabrin of Ohio State,
are expected to be In shape by
game time, however.
The squads completed heavy
workouts Wednesday.
"IF"
MIAMI, Fla Dec. 26 (IF)
Jockey Eddie Arcaro got a swell
Christmas present, but inside the
wrapping was a great big "If."
"This I Ben A. Jones, Eddie,"
said the voice on long distance.
"We want you to come out to
ride Whlrlaway in the $100,000
Santa Anita on March 7. Can
you make it?"
"Sure, I'll be there," Arcaro
replied.
The "If" is that racing men
may not be successful in their
efforts to get the turf program,
already cancelled, approved by
defense officials in California
this winter. Arcaro rode Whirl
away to victory in the Kentucky
derby, the Pimllco Preakness
and the Belmont stakes.
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Say, what sport season Is this,
anyway? ... We've become
toughened to football running
up 'to New Year's day and bas
ketball reaching a mld-scason
peak for the holidays, but now
we find tennis crowding In
while the ski melsters are com
plaining about the lock of snow
. . . Folks hereabouts have been
uncertain about the drawing
power of Bobby Riggs and
Frank Kovacs, who make their
pro debut at the Garden to
night, but the way Alexis
Thompson has worked things
out the tour may make money
Lex bought up more than $8000
worth of seats for tonight's
show, including all the $7.70
ducats, to sell to his friends
. . . As for the possibility that
the boys will make a deal
among themselves that would
spoil h 1 s play-for-percentage
Idea, all Thompson would say
was: "After all you can't tell
what one horse says to another
in the starting gate. All I can
do Is wave that stuff in front of
them."
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Gene Korzclius, Buffalo Eve
ning Npws: "Pittsburgh Field
club has an escalator taking the
players from the 17th green to
the 18th tee. More than one club
should provide such a lift from
the ISth hole to the locker
POSTMAN'S PARAGRAPH
G. H. Miller of Sallna, Kas..
wants to know what does a ball
player have to do to be the
most valuable in the American
league besides being the first
player since Rogers Homsby to
bat over .400, take most of the
other Important batting marks
and break up the all-star game,
He ask the same question In
connection with the most out
standing athlete of 1S41 . . .
Seems the second question
should answer the first . . . The
guys who compared candidates
DIMaggio and Williams In per
son picked Joe on the basis of
those things that don't show In
the figures . . , Don't forget that
Joe's batting streak was the
spark that set off the Yanks'
world championship eonflagra'
tlon.
BIRTHDAY
SANTA BARBARA, Calif..'
Dec.- 26. W) Flying Ebony, sur
prise winner of the 1025 Ken
tucky derby, will be 20 years old
January I.
Horsemen at the Charles E
Perkins Alisal ranch are plan
ning a birthday party for him;
To Jan. 1,' 1941, Flying Ebony's
registered foals had won ' 056
race worth $008,168. .
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PAGE EIGHT . Docombar 26, 1941
McCormick Tops N. L
1941 First Sackers
Frey Paces Second Basemen, Cooney
Best Outfielder in Senior Circuit
By PAUL SCHErrELS
NEW YORK. Dec. 26 (UP)-It was back In 1M5 1 that frankr
McCormick, then a hu.ky young man ttom i Nw Yrk C''
ceived a letter from Bill Terry who had Just taken over John
McGraw's spot as manager of the dlnnls. said In part. It you
have a good Job. keep It and forget about baseball. But Frank,
then only 19, Ignored Terry's advice so compl'-toly that official
average rcliosed today clawiflfd him as the National league
leading first baseman for the third straight year.
McCormick. who was cnosen-
s the most valuable player in
the league in 1940. turned In a
fielding percentage of Mi for
154 games. Ho mndfl MB4 put
outs and accepted 1564 chances.
He committed only eight errors.
He led In '40 with .095 and In
'39 with .906. Johnny Mlie of
St. Louis finished second, one
point lower.
It was a close race among
the second basemen, with Lon
nio Frey of the Reds nosing out
Burgess Whitehead of New York
for top honors. Frey registered
.9698 In 145 games and White
head, .9695 In 104 games.
Merrill May of Philadelphia
ran away with third-basing
laurels, finishing at tho top with
an average of .972 In 140 con
tests. Jimmy Brown of St. Louli
bagged second place with .905
In 123 gomes.
Youthful Eddie Miller of Bos
ton for the second consecutive
year set the pace for the short
stops In 154 games with an av
erage of .906. Billy Jurges,
Giants, turned In a mark of
.957 for 134 contests.
The veteran Johnny Cooney,
who finished second In the bat
ting race, topped the outfielders
with a .996 average for 111
games. Dom Dallessandro of
Chicago and Terry Moor of
St. Louis came next with .987
and .984 respectively.
Ray Berres of Boston led the
catchers with .9952 to the .9049
of ' Brooklyn' Mickey Owen.
Twenty-eight pitchers fielded
1.000 with the leader's spot go
ing to Max Butcher of Pitts
burgh with 65 chance.
Georgia Bulldogs
Head for Bowl
MIAMI, Flu., Dec. 26 (JP)
Led by Head Coach Wallace
Butts, 45 members of the Uni
versity of Georgia' Bulldogs
rod toward Miami today for
their New Year day engage
ment with Texas Christian uni
versity in the Orange bowl.
They planned an Immediate
workout after arrival of their
special train here In the after
noon. The Georgians are relying
heavily upon All-America Halt
back Frankie Stnkwich, Wing
back Lamar Davi and Fullback
Ken Keuper In their battle with
the Texans.
Portland Day Ski
Race Organized
PORTLAND, Dec. 26 (UP)
A program was being organized
today for the Portland day ski
trail race to be held January
4 on Mt. Hood, between timber
line and Government camp.
Second major event on the
winter's sport program, the
race was designed for the novice
skier as well as the expert.
Location of the race will be
determined by the depth and
condition of tha snow.
EVANSTON Bobby Jake,
Northwestern' sophomore bas
ketball forward, holds the Wis
consin Junior and senior tennis
single championships. He went
to the final In the national
Junior doubles.
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NEW YORK. Dec. 26 (TV
Four strictly professional tennis
pltyers nd an amittur promoter
will set out tonight to prospect
for gold In them thar tennis
hills.
There Is every Indication that
the four players Don Budget
Fred Terry, Bobby Rlggs and
Frank Kovars will make out
all right, Alexis Thompson,
wealthy young New York sports
man who operates thriving
drug business and a major lea
guo pro football club, ha prom
ised them $100,000 for the tour
and there 1 no doubt about his
ability to pay.
Thompson may com out with
a profit, too. He insist he went
Into the think to make money,
and he ha arranged a schedule
on which It seems that It will
be hard to lose much.
There aren't any long trip
between exhibitions and In most
of the 80 cities where the troupe
will perform between now and
next May Thompson will collect
guarantee that run well above
expenses.
Denver Quits
Big Seven
Conference
DENVER. Dec. 26 (P)
mountain -spanning Big Seven
Athletic conference was look
ing for a new name today, mlnu
the company of It largest col
lector of gate receipts, Denver
university.
Harry Carlson, dean of men
and athletics director of Color
ado university. Indicated after
the metroDolilan school'a sur
prise withdrawal that the con
ference will continue operation
as a six-team league.
He Mid the liv ' CenmAf
Utah, Brlgham Young. Wyoming,
loiorado state and Utah State,
would confer shortly to determ
ine the conference's attitude to
ward Denver's exit.
Denver plan to play Its 1942
conference football schedule, butt
next year's basketball agenda '
has not been approved.
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