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Mobley Streaks to
Gridiron History
Texas Comet Jeopardizes Record
Made by Whizzer White in 1937
, CHICAGO, Nov. 6 (JP) There's a comet down In Texas
streaking along the ground to football history.
He is Rudolph (Little Doc) Mobley, 155-pound Hardin-Slmmons
sophomore the first fellow who has breezed along since 1937
, to Jeopardize Whizzer White's great rushing record.
: White's mark of 1121 yards in eight games with Colorado
university was expected to survive for years to come. But the
B-foot-10-lnch Mobley has uprooted 882 yards in five games an
average of 178 In each, com-
pared with White's 140.
The Comet burnea up 275
yards last week in the Arizona
game to add to his collection
against such opposition as Bay
lor and Southern Methodist. A
similar burst against West Texas
State this Saturday might well
boost hlmNover White's total.
The Paducah, Tex., wraith,
averaging nearly nine yards a
play, Is seventh in total offense,
solely because of his running.
He has done no passing.
The American football sta
tistical bureau, ranking Hardin
Slmmons first in team rushing,
gave a teammate of Mobley's,
Freshman Camp Wilson, 190
pound fullback, credit for 427
yards. Thus, the freshman-sophomore
duo has accounted for
all but 314 yards of the team's
totaV
Bob Steuber of Missouri was
second in rushing with 689, fol
lowed by Gene Fekete of Ohio
State, 615; Elroy Hirsch of Wis
consin 612, and Roy McKay of
Texas, 569. Three of the top
five are sophomores.
Frankie Sinkwich, the Geor
gia peach, was passing and run
ning away in the race for total
offense honors. In seven games
he had plucked 956 yards from
the air and dug up 480 along
the ground for 1436305 more
than Columbia's second place
Paul Governall had produced in
six games. So close was the race
last fall, four players were
grouped within 150 yards of
each other in the fight for the
lead.
FOOTBALL
BRIEFS
NEW YORK Maybe some of
the college football players who
sweat and grumble through
long practice sessions five days
a week will want to tell their
coaches about this:
Mill MacMichael, who start
ed at tackle for Columbia last
Saturday against Cornell, and
played a bang-up game, gets up
to Baker field for practice just
once a week for two hours.
His engineering schedule keeps
him busy the rest of the time,
EVANSTON, 111. Coach
Lynn Waldorf of Northwestern
says "never before. in 18 years
of coaching has one of my
teams lost four games in a
row." ;
"Northwestern has been
ahead only about four minutes
all season," the big coach re
calls with 'a rueful grin, "that
was near the end of the Texas
game and for two plays against
the Seahawks."
Texas is the only team North
western has beaten, winning 3
to 0, on a field goal kicked by
a substitute guard.
SOUTH BEND, Ind. UP)
Hank Mazur of Army once was
rated by Frank Leahy, Notre
Dame coach, as the ' best pros
pective all-around back he had
ever seen.
Leahy bad Mazur as a fresh
man at Boston college. Mazur
will try to live up to Leahy's
praise when Army and the Irish
tangle in New York Saturday,
COMMERCE, Tex., Nov. 5
(P) 3t pays to hang around
home. Lone Star conference
football figures prove it.
Twenty games have been
played so far; 19 of them have
been won by the home team,
MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov,
6 (P) "It's a small world,"
opines the Alabama Journal.
"A halfback from Ohio
(Frankie Sinkwich) throws some
passes to another Ohio product
(George Poschner), thus over
coming a 10-point lead that was
engineered by a halfback from
West Virginia (Russ Craft) and
a place kicker from Illinois
(George Hecht), and Georgia
defeats Alabama."
WILDCATS BEAT BONANZA
In a hard plunging close game
Wednesday afternoon on Modoc
field, the Klamath Union high
school Wildcats defeated the Bo
nanza high football team by a
score of 14 to 12. Claude Hill
fullback, made both touchdowns
for the Wildcats on hard buck
ing lino pljjys. ' v
November 6, 1942
sports w-;7t?' $
Briefs k'yj
By 11 -'
Hugh ffeW
Full.rtoa. fc.SwX
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 UP)
Herb (How I tried to get that
kid) Kopf, Manhattan's football
coach, puts forth what sounds
like a sensible explanation for
all the grid upsets this season . . .
Herb claims that the mental atti
tude of the players is respon
sible for 90 per cent of such sur
prises; that a team gets just the
incentive it needs to win when
its in a position to gain the glory
that goes with knocking off a
favorite and that a ' break" early
in a game can affect the out
come a lot more than most peo
ple think . . . This year. Kopf
reasons, "upsets" are mora like
ly to occur than usual because
of the youth of the players
Squads are loaded up with soph
omores and freshmen, who are
more easily affected than players
who have been through the mill.
HEADLINE HEADLINER
When the Cardinals' Whitey
Kurowski made a political
speech in New Britain, Conn.,
the other night, Sports Ed. Bill
Harding of the New Haven Jour
nal-Courier scribbled off this
head: "Kurowski Fattens Blat-
ting Average."
SERVICE DEPT.
The arm V won't have in wnrrv
about Pvt. Bill Gerlach ot La
peer, Mich., and Camp Elanding,
Fla., remaining cool when he
eeu unrier firi A nrnMr
bowler, Pvt. Bill, was rolling a
matcn against rt. A. Manassa at
siarice, t la., recently. After he
had hit 270 for ninn frames
Manassa announced to the crowd
Hint Gerlach was trying for a
perfect game, and Bill came
ritrbt throueh with thiw.
strikes Looks as if the Cin
cinnati Reds' farm clubs were all
at sea. Frank T.anp nhn nn.
ated the chain, went into the
navy last spring and now his
successor, Freddie Fleig, has re
ceived a naw lieiltpnant'e nnm.
mission . . . From Quantico, Va.,
Marine Lieut. Jim "All America"
Hackett reports that Lieut. Dick
Fishell, "hero" of the Dartmouth-
corneu rive downs incident a
few years ago,- finds some dif
ference between football and
war ,. . . "They give you onlv
one down here," says Dick, "and
they don't want 10 yards. They
want a touchdown."
TODAY'S GUEST STAB
Tommv FitzeeralH T.ni,i11o
Courier-Journal: "In reading
-Heavyweight Bob Pastor's an
nouncement that he has retired
from the rine. one wonders if
the bicycle shortage had any
thing to ao with it."
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CLEANING THE CUFF
Although the American Pro
Basketball league has lost a
hock oi players . and two audi
toriums because of the war nffl.
Cials hoDe to keen the lnnn onina
unless transportation troubles
lOOK too DIE. Harrisbure Pa
Providence. R. I.. Hartfnrrf
Conn., Springfield, Mass., and
Camden, N. J., are looking for
Places in the lnnn alone with
me surviving Philadelphia, Wil
mington, uei.. ana Trenton,
N. J., clubs . . . Canadian boxing
fans figure that Fiehter-Promn-
ter Pat Gordon got an even
break on his amateur fight show
at Toronto the other night. He
won the main bout but took
beating at the gate .... When
Com. Frank Strafack the nma
teur golf ace. sent a boomerang
from Australia for the Sound
View club to use as a tourna
ment troDhv. the weannn npr
formed according to custom. The
club decided to send the tourna
ment entry fees right back to
rrankie for a Christmas gift.
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QUOTE, UNQUOTE
Vern Miller, the Harvard
tackle who turned reporter be
cause he was too big for the
armed services, interviewed Tins-
ton college's Gil Bouley the oth
er day. Vern asked if Gil re
membered any. funny incidents
in recent games, and Bouley sol
emnly replied: "When we play
games it's a pictty serious battle.
Wins Most Valuable Award
Morton Cooper, wlnnsr of the
player award. Is war behind with
sandwich In a day between war bond sales appearances. He s
shown at his farm home with Pepper, 6-month-old setter.
Upward and Outward
Force Neutralizes
Pressure on Throat
By LIEUT. ED DON GEORGE
Coach of Rou?h and Tumble,
U. S. Navy Pro-Flight Schools
Assailant backs you against a
wall, chokes you (1).
You counter by exerting up
ward and outward force on his
elbows.
This surprisingly neutralizes
all pressure on your throat.
As he tries harder, he comes
closer.
That leaves him open for your
knee to the groin (2).
ROBINSON FAVORITE
NEW YORK, Nov. 5 UP) Al
though he will be giving away a
10-pound weight edge, Ray Rob
inson is a 5 to 12 favorite to
hang up his 38th consecutive pro
fessional victory when he fights
Vic Dellicurti at Madison Square
garden tomorrow night. The
odds-makers figure Ray's speed,
hitting power and boxing will be
too much for Vic, although Del
licurti's forcing style may give
Ray some trouble.
TOKEN TAKER
KANSAS CITY (JP)C. L.
Smith, who collects Missouri
state sales tax tokens, said the
thief must be a husky who
doesn't mind manual' labor.
Stolen from his car were:
Four 36-pound sacks of one-
mill tokens.
One one-pound sack of five-
mill tokens.
Value: $122.93.
There's no time for comedy and
no chance for by-play. We play
ball to win."
And Still Talking Baseball
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Kenesaw Mountain Landis (left), commissioner of baseball,
and Connie Mack (right), manager of the Philadelphia Athletics,
have been talking baseball a good many years, but there's still
material for a serious huddle as they met at the annual baseball
draft meeting iiy Landis' Chicago office.
iiuniiw.iinmiuMini' . ii
National league most valuable
his hunting, but managed to
Washington Squad
En Route South
SEATTLE, Nov. 5 (P) Wash
ington's 28-man football squad
was en route south today for
Saturday's game with Stanford,
a clash the Huskies have to win
to retain their slim Pacific Coast
conference title hopes.
Coach Ralph (Pest) Welch said
he might send the players
through a body contact session
tomorrow because they had only
cne hard scrimmage session this
week. Welch disclosed that the
Husky coaching staff had
evolved a special shifting de
fense against the T-formation
that is going to give Stanford
"something to think about."
Top School
Teams Take
Week-End
By MATT KRAMER
Associated Pren Stall Writer
Tlio ton Oreeon hlah school
fnnthnll teams will take this
weekend off, saving up their en
ergies for traditional Armistice
day contests.
Onlv ono undefeated and un
tied eleven, West Linn, will be
in action. The Lions, winners
of five consecutive gomes Jour
ney to Sherwood.
A few others will compete both
this weekend nnd next Tuesday.
Corvallis will play Oregon City
Friday and Albany on Armistice-
rtnv. Rnlem will DlOV Milwullklo
Saturday and Eugene Tuesday.
Myrtle Point will meet Koofls
nort and then Cooulllc and In
dependence will tangle with Wil
lamina and then Dallas.
Other weekend names: Cottage
Grove at University. Eugene;
Junction City at Sweet Homo;
Chemawa at Silverton; Bcavcr-
ton at Forest Grove.
WSC Tries
Pass Defense
For Michigan
PULLMAN. Wash.. Nov. 8 MP)
Pass defense against tho type of
aerial wizardry employed by
Halfback Dick Kleppe is claim
ing the full attention this week
of the Washington State college
football team In its preparations
for Saturday's clash with Mich
igan State in Spokane.
Tho Michigan Stato squad will
reach Spokane tonight and
work out tomorrow at bonzaga
stadium, scene of the game.
Washington Stato will complete
its nrnctice schedule here, going
to Spokane Saturday morning.
WSC has been holding lis
workouts behind closed doors In
the colleee ficldhouse. with all
reports coming out via grape
vine or tersely phrased official
notices. -
Sugar Bowl
Talk Centers
On Georgia
NEW ORLEANS, Nov. 8 (P)
Early talk about Sugar Bowl
teams, riding in on the first
blasts of winter, centered mostly
today around Georgia and Boston
college.
The nations top ranking Bull
dogs and the eastern leader
would be a natural in the New
Year's day classic, the hot stove
leaguers say, but they are not
overlooking such teams as Geor
gia Tech, Alabama, Texas, Bay
lor and Tulsa.
Sugar Bowl officials are too
busy with ticket sales to give
early team speculation a tumble.
The advance sale is progressing
satisfactorily, they declare, but
distant followers are worried
with transportation problems,
There are enough football fans
nearby, however, to assure a
full Sugar Bowl for the ninth
renewal.
Coast Guard Claims
Lew Jenkins' Time
PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 8 JP)
The coast guard comes first, so
Lew Jenkins won't fill his two
fight dates on the west coast.
Jenkins, who became a coast-
guardsmen last month and now
is awaiting the call for active
service, had a November u
bout. He was to have met the
winner of Friday's fight between
Al Spina and Andrea Sarilla.
Also dropped was a proposed
bout matching Jenkins with
Henry Armstrong, one-time own
er of three world's boxing cham
pionships. Bad Bruise Outs
Idaho's Crowley
MOSCOW, Idaho, Nov. S (IP)
Henry Crowley, center and game
captain during Idaho s 21 to 0
victory over Montana Saturday,
was missing from the ranks to
day as the University of1 Idaho
began practice for its football
game with Washington State
here November 14.
Crowley was severely bruised
by a blow on the spine during
the tilt and was recuperating
at the University hospital to
day. Sophomore Jack Dana
took over the pivot work pond
ing Crowley's return to action.
The Amazon river is the wid
est in the world.
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Armv nuriult ollots relax from tension of duty by enloylna
Guinea. Leit to rlghti Lieut. Curtan L. Jones, Columbia. S. C.i
and Lleuts. George A, Parker,
J.Jacobs
Pro Punt
Champion
CHICAGO. Nov. S (IP) Rook
ie Jack Jacobs of Cleveland, tho
slim Indian from Oklahoma,
stayed In the National football
league just long enough to dis
place Sammy Baugh of Wash
ington as the champion punter.
Jacobs averaged 46.6 yards on
six kicks aRtilnst Brooklyn last
Sunday, leaving after the gamo
to report to tho naval air corps.
He averaged 42.3 yards on 33
punts during his term with the
Rams.
Bill Dudley, the league's best
ground gainer, was top man In
kick-returns. The Pittsburgh
Rookie's runback of 14 punts
totaled 173 yards, 37 mors than
Brooklyn's Morlyn Condlt. Con
dit also had handled 14 punts.
Dudley had returned nine
klckoffs, one for 84 yards nnd a
touchdown, for tho best action In
this phase of the game.
Condlt, Bulldog Turner of the
Chicago Bears and Charlie Brock
of tho Green Bay Packers
moved Into a thrce-woy tie for
the lead in pass interceptions,
each with five. Condlt, however,
had picked up 114 yards on run
backs onca going for a touch
down while Turner had made
only 03 and Brock 17.
"Seabees" Navy's
Base-Builders
When the navy needs a base
for operations in some far-flung
corner of the world, the Scabccs
get there' first. With dynamite,
bulldozers, dredges, hammers,
saws, axes, wrenches and scores
of other implements they clear
out the jungle, level the ground,
build airfields, roads, docks,
shelter-huts, set up water puri
fiers and otherwise put things in
readiness for the troops who arc
to follow.
A. R. Triplctt, Y2c, USNR and
volunteer navy recruiter states
that men 21 to 50 with some
specialized skill or experience
prior to their enlistment are Sea
bees material.
Before Pearl Harbor the navy
was planing only a singlo con
struction regiment totaling 3300
officers and men, every one a
specialist trained to check on
work done for the navy by civil
ian contractors. Now, with the
tremendous expansion of the
fighting forces, the navy is on
listing -nearly 100,000 Scnbccs
for 90 construction battalions
and training is going forward
rapidly at Camps Allen and
Bradford, units of naval con
struction training center, Nor
folk, Virginia. Electricians, dril
lers, blacksmiths, carpenters,
welders, divers, riggers, tele
phone men, truck drivers, pipe
fitters, draftsmen, steel workers,
laborers and men of somo SO
other trades make up a Seabees'
regiment.
Men interested in serving their
country in the navy's Seabees
may learn more about this con
struction work by seeing A. R.
Triplett, volunteer navy recruit
er, evenings between 7 and S at
Eighth and Klamath, or see your
local navy recruiting station.
Men who have received their
induction notice from the selec
tive boards can still join the
navy. Choose your job while
you have a chance, and earn up
to $126 month.
Trappers Attention
We have been the largest buyers of raw furs in and around
Klamath Falls. Due to tire and gas restrictions It will be
hard to travel and get around. So ship your furs to
Seattle Raw Fur Co.
1008 Western Ave,, Room 311
' Soattle- Wash.
New Guinea Sportsmen
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Riverside, Colli., end Ralph Martin,
"Gridiron Basketball" Gets
Chance With New York Fans
NEW YORK. Nov. 8 (Pi
New York football fans, Inclined
in tho past to scorn teams thnt
built their attacks on passing ns
mero players of "gridiron bas
ketball," are In tho midst of a
red hot argument over passing.
Anl they'll get a chance to de
cide for themselves this weekend
when Notro Damo plays Army
and Columbia faces Colgate.
Tho dlsputo over tho relative
By HARRY 8TUHLDREHER
Head Coach. University of
Wisconsin
A fnk hni lt and a nnss to the
rluht nnd wns a Notro Dame
favorite In 1022. Especially was
It used In scoring territory.
Trnlllna Gcorula Tech. 3-0,
Notre Dame put on a march, set
tho stage for this r-iormauon
pass. Gcno Mayl, the right end,
cnt hlmxel f In Dcrfcct position
ond I fired the boll toward him.
Fullback Paul Caatncr was
supposed to block. Castnor's
m.. AMn't eomo throunh.' how
ever, so he decided to put him
self In position lor pass recep
tion. Caslncr came from nowncro to
"I really have nothing else to no-"
make tho completion and score
the first touchdown.
It Is a question whether Moyle
could hove caught tho boll.
Knuto Rockno liked the set
nn nt this nlnv much better.
It wos a pet of the T-formatlon
In tho Notre Damo offense lor
years.
Tho 1922 Notre Dame team
was composed mostly of sopho
mores. I would say thot tho success
of this unscheduled play against
Red Barron Be Co. In our first
important game had moro than
any other one thing to do witn
starting Notre Dame off to a
fine season and enabling us to
carry on tho following two years,
Undefeated Cowboys
May Play Air Team
ABILENE, Tex., Nov. 8 (!)
Hardin-Simmons university's as
yet untied, undefeated Cowboys
may play tho second air force
team from Fort George Wright,
Wash., In El Paso early in De
cember. Gib Sandefcr, Hardln-SIm
mons gradunto manager of ath
letics, said today , negotiations
for tho gamo aro undorwoy.
The Airmen already have
scheduled a December 6 game
with Arizona university at Tuc-
Whon in Medford
Stay at
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Thoroughly Modern
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Proprietors
game of badminton In New
Ma). Jack W. Borry, Albany, Ore.,
Detroit.
passing ability of Notre Dame's
Angalo Bertolll and Columbia's
Paul Governall aroso a few days
ago when an Army coach told
tho local scribes that Army con
sidered Bertolll tho best passer
In the country far better than
Govvrnult, Ha made out a good
cn.io on Angvlo's ability to toss
them long or short and hit his
receivers, but Coach Lou Little
ot Columbia took exception.
' I in saying Uertelll isu t the
best," said Lou, "but If he's bet
ter than Governall I'd bo greatly
surprised." Little also has some
figures to back up his contention.
In six games, pitching Paul has
tried 111 passes and completed
30 for a .803 average and total
In of 1024 yards. And he's
dono this with a Una that doesn't
afford him much protection.
Bertclll, much better pro
tected, has gained only 621 yards
on 40 completions out of 80 at
tempted pusses for a pitching
overnga of ,469.
That Isn't all the story, of
course, for Little adds that ho
considers Govcrniill a better
passer than Sid Luckman was at
tho sumo stogo of his career. Ho
compares him with Sammy
uaugh for polso and balance and
ability to toss while running and
without gottlng set.
Merrill Huskies
Lose Lost Chance
At B Championship
MERRILL Merrill high
school Huskies sow chances for
a look In tit the Klumath county
B loaguo football titlo go glim
mering last weekend when the
Malln team on Malln ground
scored two touchdowns to hold
Merrill in the cellar for a nc
scoro gome.
Both squads played unspectac
ular ball, showing lack of condi
tioning and practlco following
tho month long vacation period
that this year is upsetting the
pigskin applecart. With the
clipped schcdulo tha result of the
first round practically eliminates
Merrill's 1941 hold on the county
crown.
Weak line bucking led to
round end plays for yardage and
tho 7-0 scoro that held until tho
end of tho last quarter when tha
second touchdown was scored,
Malln ploys Bonanza at Bo
nanza this weekend and tho
Henley Hornets tocklo Merrill
here.
Deer Herd Waits
Georgia Archers
ATLANTA, Nov. 8 (Pi A
deer herd, numbering about 1000
awaits bow and arrow and rifle
hunters in tho Bltio Rldgo area
of tho Chattahoochco national
forest In northeast Georgia,
Archers will try their luck
from November 10 to November
14. Groups of riflemen will fol
low from November 16 to No
vember 21.
Armistice
Dance
November 11th
Klamath Falls
ARMORY
9 P.M. to 1A.M.
BALDY EVANS
BAND Admission $1.00 (Inc. Tax)
Ladios Frool
All Boys In Uniform
Half Prlcol
Sponsored by
Amorlcan Legion and
Auxiliary
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