A,
frowv
FLY BOY
I. lent. Wllllnin II. Cummlnns,
onilwhllo lVllnin 1)111 of thin
portion of Hi" spurting puge,
Iwiltuil briefly Iiito I'rldny night
CO rouio oiiun iu riiiwipr ih-mi
ni-ur SBorunii'nlo iifl-r n short
'hrliitroiot leiivit with Ills fnm-
rfly In Griinto I'iihh.
He's piloting (or riuvlgiillon
ntutliMitH (it Miillii'i' nnd M us
much In the dark nn you nnd
1 about future moves ho might
innko.
FltOZEN WATER ALL
AROUND
Mara It la Saturday lifter
week's contlnuoua cold wave
nnd but for marginal natural
freezes nil of Klamath Full
hasn't had an opportunity to use
those now leu aluiles which Han
ta Cliiua brought thin Chrlalmas
nnd luat.
The planned double duty
lea link and yucht harbor
blaatod from th lower and of
Uppor Klamath Inka lin't
atroion anough for lata skat
ing, tha lowar portion of tha
laka la aa dangaroua aa it avar
- - .1 trirla mnA I 'I r
'orcod lo back
on ine narrow, roc, sirewn
conflnaa of tha Irrigation
canal.
To thli correspondent, who
wuj reared In the f lut and
Iriijld roldweat and Murted skill
mu at thii Innocent nun of It), it
ii a ahumo that something more
cannot bo done for Klninuth
sknlera when the Cuat la ao lit
tle and the preparations
mnnll.
With nkntinu linpoasiule on
the floi.'-chokid allure waiters of
-like Michigan, li waa uciiivvca ,
through the medium of column
ruty flooded rlnka aprend ov
1
n i
tolf courses, tennia courts and
city nurks. Similar rlnka cu
he miiliufiu-lured hero within 24
houra.
Tha procedure waa almple.
It Involved the work of one
or two men In throwing up a
alx to eight-Inch dike of either
oil or packed anow around
a oivan area. Fire hoaee were
unu ig nvvu iitm iivivm
pit vi lanu in uun ruji inh
ere no more than an inch at
a time. Within 12 houra a
auitable, aervlceable aurfaca
waa available for tripping the
winter terpalchore. Uucceed
Ing layera made the Ice even
better.
At each community rink a
portable aheller was moved in
to place for changing from
ahui-j Into akutca.
. Each night following the cloae
'of skating chipped lea wot
scraped from the aurfneo and
lwu or three new coats of ap
proximately one-eighth inch In
thickness wera aprayed on tile
J-lnk. Snowfall waa removed by
the umo proceaa before too
great depth waa reached.
The coat of euch an outlay
I here would be amall. While
J moat mldweatern rlnka wera
; fitted with flood lights for
j nighttime akatlng. inaamuch
as an annual six-weeks sea
J aon could be counted on. it
'would not be vital In Klam
! ath Falls.
J' This column suggests either
j Klamath Falls Union high
; school practice field or the
i unturfed play area adjoining
the Moore park tennis courts
as potentialities for a Klanv
J ath rink development. Or
thara's the Mills school play-
ground. Recreation park, and
' others. Flooding will not In
. jura the ground lor its regu
; lar summertime use.
i Immcdlato action at any one
of the mentioned sites early in
the week would have meant
cenurnl skating by Christmas.
One such attempt made by a
South Sixth street restaurateur
several y e a r a ago springs to
mind. The gontlemnn's orror,
however, lay in pouring nenrly
a foot of water In his diked
patch during one ovcnlnC and
then waiting for it to frcezo.
Next morning, we understand,
there was nothing there but the
imo old field,
The wotor had obviously run
Into the ground. Layer-by-lnyer
flooding takes core of that situa
tion. Looking for Bargains? Turn
to the Classified page.
Stiner Confident That His
'Bunch of Kids' Are Ready
Injured
I Trad
; bladon
Parry, formar Wlnv
champ, dlilocatad hla
right arm
rrlday night aa tha
' Alaxla
Thompaon pro nat
troupe bagan tour,
Rookies Whip
, .
Pro Netters
In Debuts
NEW YORK. Dec. 27 (IT)
The opening performance by
Alexis Thompson's new tennis
trotipo at Madison Square gar
den last night apparently proved
two thlnga: (1) That the rookies,
Uobhy Rlggs and Frank Kovacs,
run hold their own In fast pro
company, and (2) that Kovacs
is, as amateur officials have con
tended, a bad Influence on
tennis.
Fred Perry, a hcndllner for
yeora, didn't Intend to let Kovacs
stenl tho spotlight with his her
olded clown act. Fred put on a
good show, too, but when he
tried to revive his old stunt of
going after an out-of reach ball,
falling and somersaulting to his
feet, ho was carted off to the
hospital with a painfully Injured
arm.
Up to the time of the spill.
Perry nnd Rlggs had maneuv
ered through almost three sets
of clever but unexciting tennis.
When the Briton had to default,
Rlggs was lending 8-3, 4-6, 3-4.
For tho 11,237 spectators who
paid 528,404.75 to see tho per
formance, the real show was
Kovacs' 8-4, 2-8, 8-4 triumph over
Don Budgo.
SCARED
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 OP)
The 1042 national figure skating
championships, originally
awarded to tha St. Moritz Ice
Skntlng club of Berkeley, Calif.,
luivo been transferred to Chi
cago, It wns announced today
by Joseph K. Savage, chairman
of the U. S. Figure Skating
association competitions com
mittee. The rcluctanco of parents
of possible competitors to let
their children visit the Poclfic
Coast was the reason given. The
dates remained unchanged, Feb.
10, 20 and 21.
KELLER'S COUNTED
NEW YORK Charley Kel
ler's 33 home runs for the
Yankees last season scored 83
runs. Ted Williams' 37 for the
Red Sox accounted for 63.
CRAIN TOP SCORER
AUSTIN Jack Craln great
Texas halfback, led 1041 South
west Conference scorers with
11 touchdowns, 23 conversions
and one flold goal for 02 points.
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Mentor
Praises
OSC Boys
'No Team Going to Make
The Kids Look Bad' Lon
By FRANK B. GILBRETH
CHAPEL MILL, N. C Doc. 27
(T) A drizzle was falling on the
practice field, but the huskV fel
low with tho thinning black hair
and tho dead pun face didn't
seem to notice it.
He was discussing his favorite
subject the "bunch of kids"
from Oregon State who will
meet Duko In the transplanted
Rose bowl game at Durham on
Now Ycar'a duy.
Lon Stiner is an entirely new
species of coach to North Caro
lina sports writers. He fairly
exudes confidence. He breaks
all the rules by admitting pub
licly that his team Is underrated.
His confidence has permeated
his entire ball club and Is even
having an effect on the Ur heel
faithful.
"I've heard about Duke's be
ing an oddon favorite," Stiner
told u bunch of sports writers
who had just watched tho Bea
vers look like a million dollars
In a practlco session. "And 1
even read a piece about how all
Duke would have to do to win
the game was to throw eleven
headgears onto the field.
"Well, all I can say Is that
I'll back a bunch of kids who
fought their way up to the top
against awful tough competition.
"Sure, I'll admit I'd be sing
ing the blues if my boys were
being billed as favorites, but
they're such a fine bunch of kids
that I don't like to see them un
derrated, cither."
And the Oregon State coach
really has faith In that "bunch of
kids." He's said time and again
that no team is going to make his
"kids" look bad.
Further, the sports writers
who watched the practice session
hero yesterday at tho University
of North Carolina were inclined
to agree. You never saw a squad
work harder. The players knew
that the long train ride from
the west hadn't done their wind
any good, and they seemed deter
mined to get Into shape.
The admittedly prejudiced
consensus of the North Carolina
sports writers seemed to be that
Duke would win but, like Lon
said, nobody could make those
"kids" look bnd.
HE SHOULD KNOW
GREEN BAY, Wis. Don Hut
son, star end of Green Bay Pack
ers, believes pass receiving is 00
per cent faking and 10 per cent
catching.
LAFAYETTE HOPEFUL
EASTON, Pa. Unless the ser
vices step in, prospects for the
1042 football season arc bright
at Lafayette. Nineteen of this
year's squad, including 12 regu
lars, are scheduled to be back.
Idaho "Orphan" Cagers Start on
Long Pacific Coast Comeback
(Editor's note: This is tho last
of a scries of stories on northern
division Pacific Coast conference
basketball prospects.)
By GAIL FOWLER
MOSCOW, Ida., Dec. 27 VP)
The branch is now the main tree
in the University of Idaho bas
ketball setup.
Guy Wicks, tho Vandal coach
who succeeded Forrie Twogood,
put in 10 successful years at Ida
ho'a southern branch in Pocatel
lo before taking command here,
and one of his mainstays is Ray
Turner, six-foot, four-inch center
who used to play under Wicks
at the southern branch.
Turner, who packed up 113
points for last season's tall-end
aggregation, has been as hot on
offense in pre-season games this
year as the offense turned loose
by that other Moscow halfway
around the globe.
He's a good backboard man
who played forward last year.
He's a southpaw when it comes
to the one-handcrs.
The Vandals have won seven
out of eight pre-season games.
They lost only to eastern Wash
ington at Cheney, but came back
to trounce tho Savages last Fri
day night. They lay off until the
day after Christmas when they
go back into practice, and tholr
next games are with Gonzoga at
Spokano next Monday and at
Coeur D' Aleno next Tuesday.
Besides Turner, here are some
of the other Vandals who hope
to pull the school out of the cel
lar It has occupied for the last
three years in northern division
Pacific Coast conference play:
Stan Jones, six-one, senior
from Boise, and Norm Frede
kind, five-ten, soph from Coeur
D' Alone, are scrapping for one
forward berth, with the edge ly
ing with Frcdckind. ,
There's no argument at the
other forward spot where Ted
Sportsman
Award to
Bud Ward
SPOKANE, Doc. 27 (At The
athletic round table today se
lected its own Marvin if. (Bud)
Ward, national amateur golf
champion and club secretary
until he enlisted in the army air
force this week to receive its
annual award for the year's out
standing contribution to sports
manship, Officials of the fun club an
nounced Ward was selected for
his Impressive victories in tha
national amateur and western
amateur tournaments, and for his
courageous and uncomplaining
play before a hostile gallery at
Omaha during the national.
Joe Albi, round table presi
dent, said the choice of one of its
own officers was so unusual that
tho opinions of 47 sports writers
In as many cities were solicited
These men agreed "practically
to a man" that Ward was the
logical choice, Albi said.
Fans Welcome
Bearcat Team
Home From War
SALEM, Dec. 27 UP Willam
ette university's football play
ers, who left a month ago for a
game in Honolulu and ran Into
a war, were welcomed homo yes
terday by a thousand fans.
The grinning players said they
had not expected to get back
until next spring, but on Dec.
18 word came that they could
sail for San Francisco, if they
get aboard ship in an hour.
Halfback Buddy Rcnolds told
friends, "You don't know how
happy we were when we sailed
under the Golden Gate bridge
Christmas day."
BIG BEN LENGTHENED
NORTH CONWAY, N. H.
Big Ben ski trail has been con
tinued from the long traverse at
the halfway station of the skimo
bile to the base of Cranmorc
mountain. It now measures more
than two miles.
ARMY STAYS IN LOOP
WEST POIINT Army's hock
ey team will play only Williams,
Colgate and Cornell, aside from
home-and-homc Pentagonal lea
gue series with Yale, Princeton,
Harvard and Dartmouth,
FORDHAM END FLIES
NEW YORK Sugor Bowl
game with Missouri in New Or
leans, Jan. 1, will be last for
Jim Lansing, Fordham's junior
end, for duration of war. Lans
ing signed for instruction as a
cadet in tho Naval Air Service.
EASTERN BASKETBALL
NEW YORK Forty-two-gomc
schedule of Eastern Intercolleg
iate Basketball league opens
Jan. 0, when Cornell tackles
Harvard in Cambridge.
Thompson, the best shot on the
squad, who played guard last
year, is oft to a fine start. He,
Turner and Fredekind may well
be the main offensive guns.
Thompson, five-eleven, is from
Spokane.
Von Hopkins, five-ten, junior
from Buhl, Is a letterman guard,
and Cliff Hcnson, five-eleven,
soph from Troy, is a diamond In
the rough with fine possibilities.
A couple of sophs also fighting
for guard jobs are Jack Newell,
"Happy birthday to yon. Happy
, day, dear Ziyltlnkovich.
West 11
Boosts
Indian
Jack Jacobs Expected to
Lead Team in Shrine Game
BATON ROUGE, La., Dec. 27
(lt There will be seven All
Americas on the field January 3
In the Shrinors' onnual Eost
West all-star game In New Or
leans but an "original" Ameri
can is likely to steal the show
from them.
The western team, trainlru?
here for the game transplanted
from San Francisco because of
tho war, is looking for great
things from Oklahoma's sensa
tional Indian halfback, Jack Ja
cobs. His forward passes which trav
el almost as straight, far and
fast as his grandfather's arrows
have come in for much attention
in practice sessions and might
form a major part of tho west
erners' offensive plans.
"He is a magnificent long-dis
tance kicker, an expert handler
of punts and a sharp-shooting
passer," said Coach Babe Hol-
lingbery of Washington State,
I co-coach of the west team. "He
I dors everything in great style."
Other backs on the field will in
elude Frankie Albert, Stanford's
two-time All-America; Bill Dud
ley of Virginia, the nation's high
est scorer, and Bruce Smith of
Minnesota, winner of the Heis
man "Player of the Year" tro
phy. The 103-pound Jacobs figures
to complete many a toss with
such receivers as Dale Gentry
of Washington State and Earl
Younglove of Washington.
Harrison Leads in
Beaumont Open Golf
BEAUMONT. Tex., Dec. 27
(UP) A hot putter once sink
ing a 32-foot shot brought E. J.
(Dutch) Harrison of Little Rock
a four under par 67 Friday and
a first round lead in the $5000
Beaumont open golf tpurnament,
last of 1041's major meets.
Par got the better of most of
the 223 entrants who trudged
over the pine banked Beaumont
Country club course.
Besides Harrison, less than 10
of the nation's top golfers were
able to better par figures on
the narrow, tree-lined course.
Herman Kizer of Akron, O., had
a 68 for second place.
WILDCATS WILLING
EVANSTON Northwestern
opens Its 1042 football season
with Texas. The Purple tackles
Notre Dame as usual, as well as
the strongest teams in the Big
n i n e, including Minnesota,
Michigan and Ohio State.
PHELPS RIGHT AT HOME
PITTSBURGH Babe Phelps'
favorite park always was
Forbes Field, which is one rea
son why the big catcher should
be contented in Pittsburgh.
SALESMAN HEIN
NEW YORK Following his
11th season with the New York
professional football Giants,
Center Mel Hein will resume
activities in California as a dis
trict salesman for an oil com
pany. six-footer from Glenns Ferry,
and Ernie Craner, five-eleven,
from Burley.
There's a chance the new
blood, new coaching staff and
new spirit may pull Idaho out of
the ruck this winter. They've
been trouble makers the last few
years, but seemed to get discour
aged too easily. Maybe, with
their successful pre-season bom
bardment, they will make that
"V" stand for "Victory" as well
as "Vandal."
birthday to you, Oh, happy blrtli
Happy birthday to you."
Heart
&2- 3sM&
In Durham, N, C, the Dukeaters live amid surroundings such as those pictured above. Hat
are shown the great Duke cathedral-chapel and some of its neighboring buildings. Duke's campus
waa erected outright beginning in 1927 at a cost of $23,000,000. It is featured by its modern lab
oratory, library, dormitories and classroom structures.
Spec Keene Not Interested
In Prep Cage Tournament
SALEM, Dec. 27 (IP) Roy S. J'Spec" Keene, Willamette uni
versity athletic director, said last night "It might be just as well
if the State High School Athletic association took the basketball
tournament elsewhere."
The tournament has been held at Willamette nearly 20 years,
but the university athletic board did not invite the high school
association to stage the tournament there in 1042.
The association, however, after considering offers from The
Dalles, Baker and other cities, asked Willamette to hold the
tourney again. The Willamette athletic board is expected to de
cide on the invitation soon.
Keene said he was not interested unless "good feeling and
harmony which prevailed so many years can be restored."
He complained that Willamette was subjected to abuse and
criticism for its handling of the tournoment, which, he said, was
accommodated only as a means of promoting sportsmanship and
good will.
December 27, 1941
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 (Wide
World) In time of war, Amer
ica's sports fans should feel grat
ified to know that their country
can produce such an event as
today's Blue-Gray football game
at Montgomery, Ala. . . . It's a
real symbol of national unity
when a bunch of boys, some of
whose grandfathers wore the
blue and gray uniforms 80 years
ago, can get out on the gridiron
and whale the tar out of one an
other for 60 minutes and come
out of it as the best of pals.
.
BLOCKS OF GRANITE
If any of you Missouri foot
ballers think the Fordham boys
aren't tough too, listen to this
. . . Ed Franco and Nat Pierce,
Fordham assistant coaches who
were two of the "Seven Blocks of
Granite" a few years ago, got
themselves locked in their hotel
room at Bay St. Louis, Miss., a
couple of days ago . . . Instead
of calling a locksmith, Franco
Just lowered his head and boom
new hinges.
ODDS AND SOME ENDS
Report via Milwaukee (of all
places) says Carl Snavely, the
Cornell coach, is eyeing a job in
the Big Ten . . . Manager Chris
Dundee has bought the contract
of Izzy Jannazzo, world welter
weight champion in Maryland.
for $1000.
CLEANING THE CUFF
Francis E. Stan of the Wash
ington Star suggests that the
most important American sport
these days is, or should be, rifle
shooting ... He points out that
250,000 marksmen are registered
with the National Rifle associa
tion and many of them are ready
and able to give instruction if
they get the go-ahead from the
1
Sports ''10. '
Briefs :p !
By I '(' $ 4 1
Hu3h 1 V.1 i
Fullerton, Jr.
1 ,,jtiffasJ
of Duke's Gothic Campus
PAGE NINE
proper authorities ... In other
words, don't trifle with rifles
. . . Notre Dame and Tulane have
been eyeing Doch Blanchard, 17-
year-old 200-pound halfback from
St. Stanislaus school at Bay St.
Louis, Miss., but with Fordham
training there, those schools may
have a job trying to get the bet
ter of silver-tongued Jim Crow
ley . . . Larry MacPhail says the
Dodgers are two deep in every
position except the catcher .
That's where they should have
been two deep a certain after
noon last October.
MASHED POTATO MARTYR
"Chatauqua Bill" Boelter, Syr
acuse U. gridiron lecturer, has
made some 50 appearances with
his movies and his entertaining
spiel since the season ended . .
He's so busy that he has to have
three assistants and sometimes
makes two banquets a night.
BIERMAN NAMED
PHOENIX. Ariz.. Dee. 27 (Pi
Coach Bernie Bierman of the
University of Minnesota has
been named a member of the
national football mtles mmmit.
tee, succeeding Bob Zuppke of
Illinois.
BOMBER RESTS
GREENWOOD LAKE, N. Y..
Dec. 27 (P) Joe Louis, training
for his January 9 title bout with
Buddy Baer, plans to celebrate
Christmas day by resting.
At Lakewood, N. J., Baer in
dicated he would continue his
training routine.
LINDELL LEADS
NEW YORK Johnny Luidell
led International league pitch
ers with an earned run average
of 2.05 and the highest percent
age, .852. He won 23 and lost
four for Newark to earn another
chance with the Yankees.
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Win Streak
NEW YORK, Dec. 27 OP) A
pair o f basketball winning
streaks are placed in Jeopardy
tonight at Madison Square gar
den where Southern California
opposes Long Island university,
winner of 22 straight; and Ford
ham takes on Rice, unbeaten In'
its last 12 starts.
The twin bill Is the first of
three Christmas holiday double
headers in a four-day stretch.
Southern California's all-vet
eran aggregation boasts two play
ers who came east In 1939 and
whipped Clair Bee's Blackbirds,
57 to 49, after they had won 42
in a row. . Bob Ormsby, forward.
and Guard John Luber are the
holdovers from Sam Barry's
squad of that invasion. . ;
Monday night Wyoming,
champion of the Big Seven,
tangles with City College of
New York, and Oregon State, one
of the west coast favorites,
tussles with Manhattan. Tues
day it is Colorado vs. St. John's
and the University of Washing
ton against New York unlver
sity. . .. -
INDIAN PURCHASED
PORTLAND, Dec. 27 UP)
Rollie Schefter, business, man
ager of the Portland Pacific
Coast league baseball team, yes
terday announced the purchase
of Levi McCormick, 25-year-old
Nez Perce Indian outfielder cf
the Spokane Western Interna
tional league team. ; The price
was not disclosed.
YOUTHFUL UNCLE ,
COLUMBIA, Mo. Bob Steu
ber, star Missouri back, is 20
years old and 20 times an uncle.
He has five brothers and live
sisters who are married.
BASKETBALL SCORES
Indiana ao, Pittsburgh 41. 1
Loyola (Chicago) M, UCLA U.
OKLAHOMA CITY TOURNAMINT
Baylor 14, Colorado Stata 44.
Southaaatam (Ohla.) atata 41, SprinsflaM
(Mo.) Toachora 19,
Taiaa Taeh 41, Waihingttn (St. Lo-jk) IT,
Taias 49, Oklahoma City U. 12.
Woat Taaaa 70, Eait Cantral (Okla.) ttala
17,
Southern Mathodlst 47, Colorado Mlnaa S7.
Plttaburg (Kaa.) Tnohart tl, Now Mailt
M.
ArlianMO 44, Warranaburg (Mo.) Taaehors
u.
Oklahoma A ami M at, Taiaa Christian W,
Baylor U, Southaaatam (Okla.) atata II.
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