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NEW YORK, Dec. 21 VP) It
might be a humorous (In some
quarters) development if some of
the baseball club owners who
are busy finding new training
quarters because of transporta
tion difficulties, etc., should
learn that those long, expensive
Jaunts weren't necessary at all
... There have been complaints
at times that training under
hot Florida or California sun and
then coming back to major
league territory in mid-April
didn't always produce the best
results . . .and it isn't violating
the censorship to point out that
northern April weather often
isn't fit for man or beast, much
less baseball ... So it might be
that the players would have
fewer sore muscles if they didn't
have to undergo such a complete
change.
TIME TO DUCK
Ray (World Telly) Trullingcr
tells this one about a Connecti
cut duck hunter who invited
three friends to spend a day on
Long Island sound. They hard
ly had set out their decoys when
a patrol boat approached . . .
"Better get out your coast guard
identification cards," suggested
the host , . . "Never heard of
'em," chorused the guests . . .
Just then a coast guardsman
let go a pistol shot not at the
hunters but at the decoys . . .
It was his turn to apologize
when the hunters suddenly ap
peared. v
' TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Frank Quinn, Butte (Mont.)
Post:- "Another of war's treatest
'coises' The proposed comeback
of ,two-ton Tony Galento. As
long as the 'Joisey' barkeep isn't
interested in the money angle
and Just craves a fight, we sug
. gest he join Barney Ross, a
1 champion of champions, in the
, marines."
MONDAY MATINEE
Tulsa U. officials may ask to
have their early Missouri Valley
basketball games re-scheduled
because most of their cagers will
be playing football in the Sugar
Bowl . . . New York baseball
writers plan to hold their an
nual dinner February " 7, but
' they're not expecting as big an
out-of-town attendance as last
winter, when they turned over
$2500 profit to the Red Cross.
SERVICE DEPT. j
Petey- Sarron, former NBA
featherweight champ, stumbled I
over mathematics in the army i
. officers' school at Miami. That's
not hard to understand. As a
boxer, he never heard 'em count j
ten over him but once . . . Corn.
: Walter Scott, former crack New
York amateur golfer, says- the
army has corrected his worst
golfing weakness. He never
could make a chip shot right un
til he started using the smooth,
sweeping stroke he learned
wielding a broom in camp.
Goldfish are merely a domes
ticated variety of Chinese carp.
FOR HIS CHRISTMAS
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Wilson Brothers
or
B. V. D.
PAJAMAS
Flannel, Broadcloth or ' Silk
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Learning to man 6-inch gun under direction of Chief Gunner's Mate Anton Novak are Wilbur
Schumacher, left, and Bob Diets, former Butler players with Great Lakes basketball team.
Simmons Vs.
Bombers, a
Tough Battle
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 (iP)
Folks in El Paso, Tex'., are going
to see one of the best teams in
the entire west New Year's day.
They 11 be watching the sec
ond Air Force Bombers of Spo
kane, Wash., against Hardin
Simmons' Texas cowboys. The
Bombers yesterday won the west
coast army grid title by trounc
ing Capt. Paul Schissler's March
field Fliers, 26 to 13. They won
10 games this season and are un
beaten.
March field had lost only one
game and had won seven
straight. Among its victims were
two professional teams. Against
the northwest Bombers March
field was outclassed. There were
too many good backs and ends
pouring in and out of the Bomb
er lineup Hal Van Every and
Vic Spadacinni of Minnesota:
Johnny Holmes and Billy Sewell
of W a s h in g t o n State, for in
stance. All can pass and -Van
Every and Sewell are longdis
tance kickers.
It doesn't look like a very
happy day for Hardin-Simmons.
The Bombers are one of the best
teams to play here all season.
They have a stout line and their
end play, with Bill Hornick and
Al Bodney of Tulane, is a reve
lation, i '
3ewell fired one touchdown
pass to Holmes, Van Every
tossed him another. Hornick and
Bodney also managed to sneak
behind the Fliers' interference
for touchdown passes.
The Second Rir Force team
leaves here today for Tucson,
Ariz., to get in some conditioning
licks and plans to reach El Paso
about December 29.
BASKETBALL
SCORES
EAST
St. Johns 51. Oklahoma is.
Duqutsn . Muskingum u.
Peons? Irani 3.S. fort Mead so.
lrornster Tech u, Boston Cnir.rsity
jj (overtimf).
Rochester M, Cornell n (orertime).
SOUTH
Krnlucky . w.-lim-.on University K.
Tennessee 51. Duke 53.
. Arkansas 44, Ouachita ??.
MIDWEST
Ohio 51, Cincinnati 3;.
N'otra name 4. Purdue is.
Minnesota 50. Xorth. Dakota 8tat 54.
Wisconsin 50. Marquette .15,
, Illinois 57. Oreat Lakes 53.
- Nebraska 52. Iowa 43.
Crelghton 62. South Hnkota M.
WEST
Iowa 31. Whitman 19.
California 42, Saval Reserve of Alameda
Texas Tech 41, South Plains Armr Flying
School 27.
Utah 47. Idaho Southern HO.
I'CXA Sfl. IT. of San Francisco 37.
Texas Christian s. Duncan Field 2S.
Texas Kaval Air Station 35. L". of Texas
50.
Wyoming S3. Fort Warren All-Stara 40.
Washington S3. Vancouver 33.
Oregon 37, Astoria All-Stars SO.
HIGH SCHOOL
noseburcr .17. Marshri.ld 34.
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Great Lakes Hoopsters Learn Guns
Huskies
Loom as
Top Team
Husky Cagers Team to Beat
For North Division Title
SPOKANE, Dec 21 (IP) Conch
Hec Edmundson's latest model
Washington basketball team
loomed as the team to beat in
the Northern Division conference
race today, after two wins over
tho Vancouver, Wash., Ramblers,
strong independent outfit. Wash
ington meets Gonzaga here to
night. The Huskies hung their sec
ond straight defeat on the Ramb
lcms, a team which includes the
trio who sparked Oregon State
to the Northern division title last
year, by a 39 to 38 score at Port
land Saturday night. The Ramb
lers trounced Oregon 45 to 39 on
the Eugene floor earlier this sea
son. "
Washington dominated play
all game, leading 22-15 at half-
time. In the final eight minutes,
Vancouver greeted Washington
Reserves with a flurry which cut
the Washington lead to three
points, but the Washington first j
string was rushed in
John Mandic, Oregon State
center last year, was high with
16 points and Chuck Gilmur, his
rival at center, held to four
points by the Ramblers the night
before, led Washington with 14.
Washington won Friday night at
Vancouver 45 to 39.
Gonzaga has dropped two
games this year to the strong
eastern Washington college five.
Washington State and Oregon
State have eastern tours before
the start of Northern Division
conference play but the present i
five-eamp trin ic Wachinotnn'e '
main pre-season preparation. To- i
morrow night they meet the Pas-'
co Fliers, who won from the i
Pendleton air base Saturday 55 ! One hundred fifty boys gath
to 47, at Pasco and the next night j ered in the high school gymna
play Central Washington college j sium Saturday afternoon to bat-
at Ellensburg.
Georgia Takes Lay
Off Afeer Full
Week of Practice
ATLANTA, Dec. 21 (p)With
a full week of intensive practice
already chalked off in preparing
for their Cotton Bowl clash with
the Texas Longhorns, the
Georgia Tech Yellowjackets will
undergo light workouts today
and tomorrow and then enjoy a
layoff until they reach Dallas.
Three of the Jackets, Clint
Caslleberry, Pat McHugh and
Ralph Plaster, are on the ailing
list nut all should recover in
time to enter the fray New
Year s day.
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Sports Great
Surprise Is
By Cardinals
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 VP) '
The sports world furnished its
share of the surprises this year,
but the biggest one of all came
in the world scries, wncn the
St. Louis Cardinals bounced
back from defeat in the opener
and whipped the highly favored
iNew York Yankees in four
straight games.
That achievement, coining aft
er the Cardinals had nosed out
the Brooklyn Dodgers for tnc
National league pennant, was
listed as the year s No. 1 sur
prise today by 39 of the 87
sports editors who voted in tnc
annual poll of the Associated
Press.
Twenty-two other voters
placed tne Cardinals second and
13 named tnem as third choice,
giving the Red Birds a total oi
174 points on the basis of three
for lirst, two tor second and
one for third.
Close behind the Cardinals in
the voting came the Holy Cross
football team's 55-12 upset over
Boston college team that hud
romped througn the rest of its
schedule with a perfect record.
Auburn's fooiball upset of
Georgia drew only four first
place votes but landed in third
position in the final tabulation,
ahead of the Washington Red
skins, who dethroned; the Chi-
ca6 Bears as kings of profes
sional football in the National
league playoff.
Grade School
Volley Ball
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CUIIIJ UUIIlw
tie it our for honors in the grade
school volley ball jamboree.
Roosevelt and Mills schools won
the right to battle for the A title
in Fairview gymnasium Tuesday
and Roosevelt and Fremont B
teams will struggle for the B
title.
In the consolation playoffs
Fairview' dropped tho Pelican
grade school volleyballers in the
A league, 15-7, 15-7. Riverside
beat Mills in the B league 15-9,
15-1.
Results of other games played
in the A league elimination
rounds are: Riverside dropped
Fairview, 15-3, 16-14; Roosevelt
beat Fremont, 15-2, 15-9, and
Mills dropped Pelican 13-15,
15-6, 15-12.
In the A league semi-finals,
Roosevelt dumped Riverside 15
12, 15-12; and Mills won from
Conger 8-15, 15-11, 15-1.
A league consolation games
saw Fairview defeat Fremont
15-7, 10-15, 16-14, and Pelican
defeat Conger 15-9, 15-13.
B league elimination rounds
saw Roosevelt drop Pelican 15-1,
15-8; Fairview beat Riverside
15-1, 13-15, 15-6; Fremont de
feated Mills 15-11, 15-5. Roose
velt beat Fairview 15-10 and 18
16 for the right to meet Fremont
who drew a bye for the title
game. In the consolation rounds,
Riversido dropped Pelican 15-5
and 15-6. The winner met Mills
who drew a bye in the consola
tion finals.
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Williams Gets American
League Hitting Honors
Ted Williams Socks 36 Homers, Bats
In 137 to Make 338 Bases, 141 Runs
CHICAGO, Dee, 21 (l') Cornering most of tho Amoncim
league 1942 hitting honors, lean 'IVd Williams, the 24.ytw.old
Boston Red Sox outfielder who now Is tRklng a course In naval
aviation and is considered out of baseball for tho duration of tho
war, became the eighth player In the lcoytuu's history to win tho
batting championship moro than once.
Williams officially was tabbed today as cluimplon with a
.356 a 50 point drop from his winning .400 in 1941. Ills mark
topped the .330 Ernie Lombardi of tho Boston Braves posted to
win the 1942 National league
batting title.
Williams also led In these de
partments: 36 home runs, 137
runs batted In, 338 total buses
and 141 runs. Clicl Limbs ot
the St, Louis Browns was sec
ond best in homers with 27,
Official figures showed a con
siderable let-down in batting
this year. In 1941 three men
exceeded Williams' new .336
mark, and 16 finished with
.300 or better, whereas only sev
en regulars made this group In
1942.
Aggregate team batting drop
ped irom .266 in 1941 to .2ji'.
i'he Red Sox, powered by Wil
liams and Johnny Pesky took
the title for tho third straight
year with .276 seven points
shy of their 1941 percentage.
Although Joe Di Maggie's
seventh place hitting mark of
.305 was accented by only 21
homers, nine less than he club
bed a year ago, the New York
Yankees totalled 108 four-ply
blows. For 23 years now tney
have been tops in this particu
lar feature and have gone
through 21 seasons with a home,
run output of 100 or , bettor.
Charlie Keller aided the cause
this year by matching Di Mug
gio's production.
The Yanks were second in
team batting with .269, follow
ed by the Browns with .239 and
the Washington Senators witli
.258.
Idaho Wins by
Virtue of Fred
Quinn, 31-19
WALLA WALLA, Dec. 21 (VP)
The Idaho-Whitman basketball
game here Saturday night start
ed out like a Whitman vs. Fred
Quinn, Idaho center, contest.
Quinn tossed in each of his
team's first 16 points.
Then he let up somewhat, but
he counted 22 points altogether
as Idaho won 31 to 19. The game
was stopped five minutes before
tbe end so Idaho could catch a
train. Whitman took a 7 to 6
lead but Idaho led at the half,
20 to 10.
Quinn scored 10 field goals.
The 18 other players- in the
game got 13 all told between
them.
Leaders Quizzed
On Men To Get
Sullivan Trophy
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 Pl
The 600 sports leaders who com
prise the tribunal for the James
E. Sullivan Memorial trophy
were being polled today by Sec
retary Dan Ferris of the AAU
for votes on the five candidates
for the 1942 award to the na
tion's outstanding amateur ath
lete. The 'successor to Leslie Mac
mltchell will come from among
Ed Hcnnig of Cleveland, veteran
rymnast; Mrs. Estcllc Lawsdn
Page of Chapel Hill, N. C, for
mer golf champion; Bill Smith,
Hawaii's swimming ace; Joe
Smith, former national mn ra
th on champ, and Cornelius War
merdam, the world's only' 15
foot pole vaulter.
LIEUTENANT LYONS
CHICAGO Ted Lyons, veter
an rlht-handcr of the Chicago
White Sox, has been commis
sioned a lieutenant in the ma
rind corps.
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Hit Cavemen
For Double
Pelicans Dump Grants Pass
Hoopmon 34-2S for Socond
Doublo-Hoador Series Win
Wayne Scott's Pelicans again
(lumped tho Giants Pass Cave
men Saturday nlghl on the local
Hour by a score of 34-23, lor
their second victory in the dou
ble header hoop series.
The Klamath hoopsters were
ahead all the way, though, the
Cavemen, playing the Pelleun's
own type of game, held tnem
to a two point loud at the end
of the first quarter which end
ed U-7.
Tne local team forged ahead
In tne second nmrter with Boc
chl making most of the tallies,
and held Grunts Puss to no
;iiln. The Pelicans made 12
points in this quarter to end the
naif 21-7.
Grants Pass made a valiant
rally in the second half to cut
down tho Pelican lead from 14
points. Groy of Grunts Pass
caged nine points in this period
and the gu,ne ended wiln the
Pelicans a, lend 34-23.
Gray of tne Cavemen was the
high point man for the game
with 14 points to his credit.
Uocchi anu Welch tied for hon
ors on the Pelicans with 12 each,
and tall Jim Cox, center, play
ed an outstanding game in bacK
guard recoveries.
In the preliminary tilt, the
Wildcats dropped Keno, 20-15.
Schortgcn, Suva, and Ringstead
vied for top score honors on the
Wildcats, bchorlgen made clgnt
points, Siivu and Ringstead tied
with six. Pritchard of Keno was
the game's high point man with
nine tallies.
Friday night saw tho Pelican
defeat Grants Pass in the first
double-header struggle by a
I score of 42-36.
In the prelimi
nary tilt tho Wildcats dropped
Dorris 30-16.
Willie Pep Meets
Mexican Joe Siiva
In Ten Rounder
JACKSONVILLE, Fla Dec.
21 (P) Willie Pep of Hartford,
Conn., who recently earned the
New York version of the world's
featherweight championship, will
tangle with Mexican Joey Silva
of Los Angeles in a 10-round
bout here tonight.
Pep is a hands-down favorite
to boost his straight wins to 56.
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Getting Ready for
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Ken Snelling of the University of California at Los Angeles,
who has n record of 18 conversions in 22 tries, Umbered up hit
kicking foot with tho aid of Ev Riddle as the Bruins got down
to hard work In preparation for their Rose Bowl clash with
Georgia.
I'AGE TWO
Florida Sees
Horse Racing
Trial Today
MIAMI. Flu., Dec. 21 (VP)
Tropical park offered a gilt-
edged program today to open
its gamble on tho success of
horse racing in a resort area
turned Into a military training
center.
Horsemen looked to the open
ing day attendance and betting
for the first real clue to the fu
ture of the sport In Florida this
winter.
In deciding to operate, Tropi
cal wax betting that race goers
would huvc enough gasoline to
reach tho track by sharing rides,
and that the Miami area would
not need many tourists to help
support racing.
The track puts its best foot
forward with fields of sprinters
fleet enough to challenge speed
records entered for both sec
tions of the six furlong inaug
ural handicap. Tropical spilt
tho event because of an over
flowing entry box, and offered
the original $2000 purse for
each division.
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Oregon Hoopsters
To Return Tilt
With Ramblers
PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (P)
The Unlvorslly of Oregon basket
ball tram will play a return
game with tho Vancouver Ram
blers here tonight.
Tho Ramblers previously de
feated Oregon at Eugeno, 35-37.
It will bo the final Portland
appearance of the season for the
Ducks.
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