WELLS CHESTS OF 0U SPORT FAN
"(("combor 31, 1042
Georgia, UCLA Skirmish
For 93,000 Fans Friday
Coaches, Players Set for Battle of
Powerful Attacks in Rose Bowl Tilt
PASADENA, Cnllf., Duo, 31 Wi If thn Georgla-UCLA foot
bull skirmish tomorrow lun't one of thn most exciting in the hal
lowed history of Hie Rose bowl 03,000 persons will feel they hnve
been misled.
Conches, players and thn sideline observers nro agreed It
sliuprs up n bnltlii of powerful attacks. There la strong llknll
hood thn gnmo will turn Into a fro scoring offnlr mid those In
clined to view it ni such also rcgnrd Georgia the winner.
Tha minority stringing along
Ai fnlth In fiint nnd durable
W
Westerners
Ready Pass
Defensive
East Depending an Passing
Prowess of SUM, Daley,
Flllpowlci In East-West Go
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 31 (IP)
Wralerii college H slurs brush
ed up ttmlr puis defense) to
fine point toduy as Iho East put
the finishing touches on the
ttcrlnl strategy It will exhibit be
fore ii crowd of 00,000 or so to
morrow In the Shrine's clh
trenth annual East-West football
Oimo.
It became increasingly evident
that the ensternnrs wuro depend
ing In great measure on the
pass-tosslnit prowess of Paul
fiovcrnull of Columbia, Steve
Klllpowlct of Fordlum, Bert
Stiff of Tcim and Bill Dnlcy of
Minneioln in seeking their first
win over the West slnco 1037.
The West was tinned with an
array of tricky ground plays,
so mo from the T-formnllon and
built around Its apparent edge
in ground power.
Co-coach Orln (Uabe) Holllng
hery of the West conceded that
I he Kusl hns better bnckfleld
biilnnce, power, speed, passing
nod punting, "but then," he
lidded, "they always do look bet-It-r
but who wins the ball
games?"
The. West has, the InM four
Unit's, nnd in euch case the East
jQii the favorite Just as II Is to-
The lineups began lo shape
up like this:
CAST
Dove. Notre Dame, LE
Wiltlung. Minnesota, LT
Alberghini, Holy Cross, LG
Snhasteiinskl, Ford hum. C
llillman, Minnesota, KG
Wlscrt, Michigan, RT
Sehrolncr, Wisconsin, BE
C'elthnml. Michigan, QB
Dnlcy, Minnesota, Lit
llorvnth, Ohio Stato, RH
Fillpowici, Fonlham, FB
WEST
Benls, Snnta Clara, LE
Slamm, Stanford, LT
Flnnduccl, Stanford, LG
Harrison. Washington. C
Taylor, Stanford, RG
Vorry. USC, RT
Suscoff, Wash, Stale, RE
Znpnlac, Tex. A&M, QB
Kennedy, Wash. Stato, LH
OStoubor, Missouri, RH
Roblln, Oregon, FB
PENDLETON EKES WIN
LEWISTON, Ida., Dec. 31 (IP)
Pendleton field's basketball team
Tuesday stood off a determined
last-mlnuto scoring splurge by
Lewlston Normal and walked
off with a 46-44 victory. Chris
tenson, Pendleton center, led
scorers with 25 tallies. Behind
13-24 at half time, Lewlston pull
ed up to a 44-44 deadlock near
the end of tho game. Busich
dropped in tho winning basket.
Ruffing Takes
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'J) Charles (Bed) Ruffing, New York Yankee pitcher, waa X-rayed
T Pvt. Jack Levey during hia physical examination for Induction
Into the army at Los Angeles. The 37-year-old ball player had
been working for Vuliea Aircraft company until called up by his
draft board.
PAGE TIHUTEHN
with tha Bruins generally pluces
lino and tha pltchluK and punting
prowess of Bob Waterfleld. who
led the coast in both depart
ments.
Waterfleld throws accurately
and probably will give tho Bull
dogs e lot of trouble, especially
If tho UCLA ends and backs ever
succeed In shaking the Georgia
secondnry. Georgia a pass de
fense, however, seems to bo
about as effective as its aerial
attack, Judged strictly on the rec
ords. Player of both teams, engag
ing only In light drills, expressed
confidence In tho outcome.
The gamo will bo a long-awaited
homecoming for tho UCLA
coach, Babe Horrell. He and his
five brother wrolo athletic his
tory for Piisadenu high school
and Its football field la named
In their honor. Babe was tho
most famous and captained and
centered the last of Andy
Smith's "wonder teams" at the
University of California.
This is Cooch Wally Bulbr"
second bowl gome. Hi Geor
gians disposed of Texas Chris
tian lost New Year's in the
Orange bowl,
Hero la how the teoms prob
ably will line up for tho klckoff
at 2 p. m., tomorrow:
Oeorgla Pos. UCLA
Poschner .... LE Milt Smilh
Ellenson LT Flnloy
Ruark LG Lcscnullo
Godwin C Dougherty
Kunln.ikl RG Spnrlls
Williams ... . RT Fears (
Van Davis ... RE Wiener
Kouper QB Waterfleld
Slnkwlch ... Lit Solarl
L. Dnvls RH Riddle
McPhee FB Snclllng
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Baker. Ore.. SI. Walla Walla V.
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Central (Spokane) 19.
Roger (Spokane) II. Phewelah S9.
Mnico llilalio) St, St. John 30.
Colfax S3. Oonraga In.
Albion M. Wallace (Idaho) Xt.
Central Vallev u. Snlrlt l.aVa (Idaho) St.
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Oregon-Groomed Baseball
By WILLIAM E. PHIPPS Jr.
PORTLAND, Dec. 31 ll')
Emergency of Oregon-groomed
baseball plnyors to full-blown
glory, Oregon Stato college's
Rose Bowl victory, four new
Amurlciin swimming records by
Multnomah Athletic club girls
and Portland's boxing revival
swelled the chests of tho state's
sport fan during 1042.
Dampening effect of the war
was marked In tho state as else
where, particularly In tho loss
of college and high school
coaches to tho ormcd service
and war Industries, but withal
there were more achievements
with which Oregonlans could
point with pride than usual.
Joe "Flash" Gordon, the New
York Yankco second sucker who
calls Eugono his home, had his
greatest year despite a slump In
tho world sorlo with the St.
Louis Cards. The former Unl
vcrslty of Oregon atar waa named
By FRED HAMPSON
Associated Pron Staff Writer
Short subjects:
Oregon Sluto got caught In a
blast of criticism yesterday for
unnecessary traveling when Wil
liam O. DcWitt, vice president
of tho St. Louis Browns, de
manded how come awing bonds
and basketball teams like OSC
were permitted to travel at will
when baseball clubs were being
pressured lo avoid long spring
practico trips. Howard Hobson
of Oregon abandoned the- Web
foot's annual excursion lo New
York partly for fear of that very
criticlj.ni.
The squabble between Ken
Lindsay and Manuel Ortiz, who
fight In Portland 1'rldoy night
for tho bantamweight champion
ship, over referees was not Just a
gag lo stimulate ticket sales.
Lindsay Is supposed to hove
been Indifferent, willing to take
either Ralph Grumnn or Tom
Louttlt, both recognized as able
ring arbiters. That is until he
learned that Ortiz wonted Gru
man; 'I'hcn ho balked because
Grumnn rclerced many of Dr
ill's fights ns nn amateur. ;
When Henry Armstrong was
In Portland for his recent bout
with Lew Jenkins he said that
"1 never waa really washed up
or near retirement nt any time.
It whs Just a case of eyebrows.
They were being split open in
every fight and half the time I
couldn't see on account of blood.
So 1 quit. The question in my
comeback always has been
had the ciiln healed up? Nothing
more than that. It looks as
though they have."
Portlandcrs who saw that fight
wouldn't know. Master Jenkins
gunned for Henry's eyebrows
often enough but never more
than brushed them.
L. H. Gregory dug up some
information on Clinton R. Morse,
famous University of California
grad, author of the Golden Bear
hymn "Hnll California," which
allies him with Oregon. Morse
was. Willamette university's first
paid football coach, says the
Oregon sports editor. Hia ad
vent inaugurated football on the
Willamotto campus.
Freddie Provo, Vancouver,
Wash., boy, now a University of
Washington backfield hope for
next season, probably won't see
military service because of
colorblindness.
Baseball to
Help Travel
Curtailment
WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 (P)
Major league baseball, through
Commissioner Kcnesaw Moun
tain Lnndis, pledged Its full co
operation today in curtniling
travel Incident to tho 1043 sea
son.
"And that," Landis comment
ed, "is a very small contribution
to tho war effort on our part.
Landis presented his Ideas for
curtailing travel to Joseph B
Eastninn, defense transportation
director, who said ho "heartily
approved" of them.
Both declined, however, to
discuss specific details.
The commissioner said he
would call major league owners
together In the near future for
final action on the transporta
tion problem, but that tho exact
place or time of the meeting had
not been decided upon, remark
lug thnt transportation entered
into that too.
CPS LOSES, 45-41
TACOMA, Dec. 31 (?) The
Fort Lawton service basketball
team defeated the College of
Paget Sound, 43-41, in a game
at the college last night.
Oregon
j Sport Notes j
the American league'i most val
uable pluyer.
Johnny Pesky, the Portland
youngster who played not long
ago with tho Sllverton Red Sox,
had a banner yeor with the Bos
ton Red Sox as a rookie short
stop. He was rated third most
valuable player In the American
loop and acclaimed the rookie of
tho year.
Portland's lowly Beavers of
the Pacific Coast league did
nothing to cross up the experts
who picked them to finish In
the cellar, which made it all the
more remarkable that their pe
drlvlng outfielder Ted Norbert
wound up as the league's batting
champion with a .378 average.
Oregon State's Beavers won
their first Pacific Coast confer
ence gridiron title and went on
to win the transplanted Rose
Bowl clasaic from Duke univer
sity, 2016, at Durham, N. C.
One of the Beaver atara waa Don
Skiers Have Legal Gripe-"
No Men on Spori Star List
IRON MOUNTAIN, Mich., Dec.
31 VP) The boya who built and
run tho biggest "man-made ski
slide in tho world" here contend
they have a first class gripe.
It's with the nation's sports
experts who annually pick the
year's outstanding athletes for
the Associated Press.
Here's the gist of their com
plaint: "They pick 30 athletes, In
clude swimmers, tennis players,
golfers and baseball players
and don't mention a man who
has never been outjumped in
his sport, A man who can travel
by hia own momentum 90 miles
an hour and Jump nearly the
length of a football field Tor
ger Toklc, the greatest ski jump
er of all time.
"Competing in a sport that
takes more nerve than football,
baseball, golf, tennis, and all
others put together, Torger has
not been outjumped since he
came here from Norway nearly
four years ago. Yet he isn't
even mentioned among the 30
best athletes of the year.
"Tho way Torger Jumps a slip
might mean death, yet he never
hcsitntlcs but stretches for it.
Last March at Pine Mountain
slide here, a crowd of 20,000
Beside
The Head pin
IAOYBUO LBAOU(
Black and Whlta
, , , 104 ISO
III 1ST 114
III IN It
ll 14 ll
Orlgca
Trier
llillman
Absentee.
Altfentea
Handicap
107 107 107
lit lit lit
TOTAL - 7I 704 7tt
Modam Baautv Shot
Jforllns ito 145 1S
vormand , , is 1M iss
stonn 101 1S4
7
Kill
. 01 110 1M
At'Rentea
Handicap
1S 1M IH
.11 n n
TOTAL
.711 T? 741 MIS
Lapani DaiMiin
Krpeclr "7 m 100
Kathlanr Ill 111 lit
Hpp lit 114 ISt
Truelora 108 I4T 111
SlfCollum ISO 1 M
Handicap ICS 105 105
TOTAL
7S0 140 m
Daggatt Inaurarwa
Weatherford
-147 ISS 1M
nutler
Baxter
Howard -Prather
-Handicap
-1S5
-151
05 114
1S9 ISO
1(4 1S4 117
l!l US IIS
15J Its 11S S00
.aS3 TSS 111 U74
Town Club
Cheynt
lSt IBS 141
.115 ISO ll
arkea
IVIman 1M 100M SOI
Ahsentea
II! Itl 111 STt
105 105 105 115
Uandlcap .
TOTAL .
773 7 7M tSIt
Faton
100 15S I5J
ltO 135
It? 154 ISS
It AS HI
111 18S. 17
04 4 4
Soderatrom
Urren
Ingold
Poppy
Handicap
77 HI m 1S44
Oummlng't Pur Shop
Milne
V'
169 IS1
114 lit
45S
STS
307
470
4
SM
Mltcbam
Brllottl
Faubrrt .
Date
Handicap
is
.1S4
170 ISS
us let
.111 lit lit
TOTAL - . .SIS '
Hani Beauty (hop
siiorit ! !?! !?!
llanvllt o ! "
Helton 0T lit 1S8
Mnenn 82 " !'
I'einlsotll HT 1S 140
Handicap 00 01 00
TOTAL
097 780 717 tlSI
KILLED WITH KINDNESS
PASADENA. Calif.. Dec. 31
(P) Georgia's football coach,
Wnilv nntts. a bit groggy after
a dizzy whirl of banquets, meet
ing film stars ana atienaing a
radio broadcast where they made
him sing, came up for air last
night with this comment:
"Bov. thev kill vou with kind
ness out here. I think they're
trying to win this game for
UCLA by keeping me on the
banquet circuit."
B "LAOYBUfl"
Players Bloom;
mark of Oregon State"! Wally
Durdan, a sports rarity these
days because he Is a football,
basketball and baseball letter
man, he later waa chosen Ore
gon's outstanding athlete in the
annual award of the state AAU.
Nor did Oregon State atop at
a football championship. The
Beavera retained their northern
division basketball champion
ship but lost the Coast confer
ence playoff to Stanford which
went on fast and defeated Dart
mouth for the NCAA champion
ship. The way Portland's thousands
of war workera went for boxing
waa one for the books. They
laid their dough on the line to
pack the house and that lured
the top-fllghters like NBA Ban
tam Champion Manuel Ortiz,
Turkey Thompson and Lou Nova
of the ranking heavyweights,
and Hammerin' Henry Arm
strong, once the holder of three
came, hoping to see a new Amer
ican record set.
"Torger didn't disappoint them.
He Jumped 289 feet for a new
American record. What the
crowd did not know was that
if he had Jumped five feet long
er Jie probably would have suf
fered serious injuries. He knew
that hill was very dangerous if
you went beyond 285 feet, but
it didn't stop him.
"If Torger's ski Jumping abil
ity was transformed into foot
ball talent, the great 'Sinky'
couldn't carry his shoes!"
Frank "Sinky" Sinkwich, of
Georgia, was named by the ex
perts as the No. 1 athlete of
1842.
Torger is Jumping for the
American army now. He's with
the ski troopers.
Baseball's
Spring Work
Still Chaos
Facts Scarce as Butter,
But Major League Training
Developments in Offing
By HAROLD CLAAS5EN
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (P)
Facts still were as scarce as
grade AA buttter Wednesday in
the confusion surrounding the
major league training season but
developments are expected
shortly.
Commissioner K. M. Landis
was discovered In Washington
and, although the Office of ODT
Director Joseph B. Eastman-said
the baseball leader had no ap
pointment, it is unlikely that
Landis made the trip from his
Chicago home to deliver holiday
greetings.
At about the same time yes
terday that Landis was found in
Washington, the two Chicago
clubs announced they would do
their 1 spring conditioning in
French Lick, Ind., less than 300
miles from their home parks.
The day before, the Boston Red
Sox chose Tufts university as
their training site. -
Even though Landis may not
see Eastman and gain an official
definition of the ODT's recent
request that clubs, curtail SDrlns
training travel, a majority of
baseball leaders expected him to
obtain enough information . to
eliminate most of the confusion
The consensus was that if Lan
dis received any inkling of what
the ODT desired he would call
Joint meeting of major league
owners to relay the Information
and make any needed revisions
m tne schedule.
Boston Coach
Hopes for Free
Scoring Battle
MIAMI, Fla., Dec. 31 (JP) "I
hope the second is 60 to 59
with Boston college winning."
The guy behind the quotes Is
Denny Myers, bluff coach of the
B, C. Eagles and the party on
the short end of the score would
be University of Alabama, which
B. C. meets In Miami's Orange
Bowl tomorrow afternoon.
"Sure," he continues, "I look
for a' free-scoring game, and I
hope we kick those extra points."
Myers Isn't the only one look
ing for a close game. Miami
bookmakers, who always come
out with a profit margin, of
fered odds of 5 to 6 and take
your choice.
Both teams arranged to wind
up practice today with light limbering-up
exercises. Each will
go Into the game virtually at
full strength. Only man in the
Boston college camp unlikely to
be at par was Mickey Connolly,
pass-pitching fullback. Ala
bama's sole casualty was Leon
Fichman, reserve tackle.
OSC Has Rose Bowl Win; Boxing Revives
world crowns at once, who
knocked out Lew Jenkins, for
mer lightweight ruler.
"Cody's Comely Kids," the
Mac swimmers, had a fine year.
They set four records which at
year's end were recognized by
the AAU as new national marks.
Other highlights of the year
in sports: ,
January 31 Frank Brazlll
named manager of the Portland
Beavera.
February 1 M o u n t Angel
won the state Catholic basket
ball championship; 28, Portland
university captured the Oregon
intercollegiate basketball tour
nament, defeating Southern Ore
gon College of Education.
March 3 Idaho's Kay Turner
scored 13 points against Oregon
at Eugene to pile up a total of
192 points, a new northern di
vision basketball scoring record
that eclipsed the six-year-old
Ortiz Has
NBA Title
At Stake
K.sn Lindsay Fights Manuel
For Bantam Title Friday
By FRED HAMPSOIJ
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 31 (JP)
Manuel Ortiz, sharppunching
California Mexican, stakes his
National Boxing association ban
tamweight championship here
tomorrow night in a 10-round
dispute with Ken Lindsay of
Vancouver, B. C. Lindsay is
Canadian champion and a cadet
of the Royal Canadian air
force.
The bout, for which Lindsay
obtained special RCAF permis
sion, will be the first for a title
in modern ring history in Port
land. Until shipyard money inflated
gate receipts about 10 times over,
contests of such calibre were out
of reach of local matchmakers.
Lately the take has run as high
as $16,500 (for Henry Armstrong-
Lew Jenkins). Promoter Joe
Waterman hoped this fight would
do between $15,000 and $18,000
worth of business. '
Odds favored Ortiz by 10-6
but appearance of considerable
Canadian money threatened to
shorten them by ring time. Ortiz
was confident although in two
previous bouts with Lindsay he
did no better than break even,
losing a decision as an amateur,
winning one as a pro. The Cali-
fornian said he had $25,000 in
eastern and California fight of
fers in his pocket and he didn t
intend to let them deteriorate by
losing tomorrow.
Lindsay, busy getting his
weight down to the required 118
pounds (he weighed 1191 last
night), said only that he was so
happy to get the title shot he
would have fought for training
money.
Lindsay, 21, recently enlisted
in the RCAF but has not yet
started military training.
Ortiz, 24, had some weight dif
ficulty, too, but expected to
weigh in at 2 p. m., Friday at
1171.
An argument over referees re
sulted yesterday -In a boxing
commission meeting. Ortiz wants
Ralph Gruman, who handled
many of his amateur bouts.
Lindsay held out for Tom Loult-
tit. Both are veterans of north
west rings: The commission said
it would announce the referee at
fight time. "
All-Spokane Finals
Develop in Gonzaga
Basketball Tourney
SPOKANE, Dec. 31 OP) The
expected all-Spokane final de
veloped on schedule last night as
the John Rogers and Lewis and
Clark high schools both won
semi-finals games and the right
to compete in the finals tonight
in the Gonzaga "physical fit
ness" basketball tournament.
Springing a 27-point scoring
splurge in the second half, Lewis
and Clark overwhelmed North
Central, also Spokane, 42 to 19,
while Rogers won from Chew-
elah, the only out of town semi
finalist, 34-29.
Moscow, Idaho, will meet Col
fax and Albion will play Central
Valley in the consolidation
round in today's filial session.
Koch of Pre-Flight
Fame to Play for
Oregon This Year
EUGENE, Dec. 31 (jP) Bob
Koch, former Oregon fullback
who played for the St. Mary's
Navy Pre-Flight team this year,
is back in school again.
After passing pre-flight train
ing, Koch was given an honor
able discharge when he devel
oped chronic air sickness.
He registered for the winter
term at Oregon, and is expected
to strengthen the Webfoot grid
team considerably next fall.
Palmberg by five digit; 7, the
Bradford Clothiers of Portland
won the state AAU hoop crown;
Butte Falls won the state B lea
gue basketball championship;
14, Astoria high retained Its
state hoop championship by de
feating Corvallis, 34-22; 27, Cor
nelius Warmerdam put the apark
into the Hill relays at Portland
by vaulting over 15 feet for the
17th time but he couldn't crack
hia world indoor mark of 15
feet 71 Inches.
April 14 University of Ore
gon Football Coach Tex Oliver
commissioned in the navy and
appointed football mentor at the
navy's St. Mary's pre-fiight
school; 20, John Warren named
head grid coach at Oregon after
Vaughn Corley followed Oliver
into the navy.
May 16 Medford high ran off
with the state prep track cham
pionship; 30, Edwin J. FitzDat-
rick resigned as Portland uni
Georgia Bulldogs Ready to Bite
ii
It may not be polite to point but these University of Georgia
footballers are certainly pointing for their New Year's day Rom
bowl game against the UCLA Bruins. Coach Wally Butts, eonter,
goes over team plays with, left to right End Brook Pierce, Guard
Jim Lee, Quarterback Walter Maguire, Center Clyde Ehrhaidt.
End Joe Terreshinski, End Clinton Storther, Quarterback Andy
Dldlah and Back Jim Todd.
When Sun Sets on Sun Bowl,
Army Goes After Big Game
EL PASO. Tex., Dec. 31 UP)
When the sun goes down tomor
row in the Sun Bowl, the cor
porals, the sergeants and the
lieutenants who constitute the
bombers of the second air force
will put away their gridiron togs
and go after bigger game on
Uncle Sam's team.
But to Captain William B.
(Red) Reese, their coach, the cur
rent issue of the bombers is
strictly G. I. "A coach's ideal
football club."
'Tor men who" came from dif
ferent schools, men who never
met until gathered in the armed
forces, these boys have the finest
spirit and morale anyone could
hope for," he declared.
That's considerable from
Reese, who as coach at Eastern
College of Education in eleven
seasons won six Washington in
tercollegiate conference cham
pionships,' and just recently top
ped that off with the Pacific
coast service championship with
his undefeated bombers.
It's one of the reasons, too.
why the bombers were favorites
to take the measure of Hardin
Simmons university, undefeated
border conference champions, in
the eighth annual Sun Bowl
game tomorrow.
Bill Sewell, bomber triple-
Stratospheric
Warmerdam Wins
Sullivan Trophy
NEW YORK. Dec. 31 IJP
Step up away up and meet the
1842 winner of the James E. Sul
livan memorial trophy. He's
Stratospheric Cornelius Warmer
dam, the California pole vaulter
who put the world record where
his rivals couldn't reach it with
out the help of a P-38.
The tribunal of 600 outstand
ing sports leaders, polled an
nually to determine the winner
of the award, gave Warmerdam
a total of 1101 votes, nearly twice
as many as his closest rival.
Bill Smith, the Hawaiian
swimming star now attending
Ohio State university, was sec
ond in the balloting with 570
votes. Third went to Ed Hen-
nig, the veteran Cleveland gym
nast, with 317. Joe Smith, North
Medford, Mass., marathon run
ner, placed fourth with 285,
while Mrs. Estelle Lawson Page,
Chapel Hill. N. C, golfer, was
fifth with 184.
BRUIN HOOPMEN WIN
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 31 (VP)-
The Bruins of UCLA took an
early lead and were never head
ed last night in defeating the
Los Alemitos air base baskettball
team, 68 to 43. Leading scorei
was the Bruins Dick West, witr
23. UCLA's half time lead was
43-24.
versity basketball coach; north
ern division baseball race closed
with University of Oregon keep
ing the pennant nailed to it
flagpole.
July 19 Portland Boiler
makers dethroned the Sllverton
Red Sox as Oregon'a semi-pro
baseball champs.
September 1 Al Zimmerman,
Portland, won the Oregon open
golf championship; 3, Butler
Construction of Portland edged
Corvallis, 1-0, for the state soft
ball crown; 20, first professional
football team in the state's hi
tory, the Portland Boilermakers,
made its debut; 22, Blazin' Bee
Hogan, the world's top profes
sional golfer, thrilled state dlvoi
addicts with his mastery on ai
exhibition tour.
November 7 Oregon stopped
the UCLA Bruins, conference
leaders, 14-7, at Eugene in th;
season's greatest football upset
along the coast.
threat halfback is recovering
from a bout with the flu, but
Is expected to get Into the gam.
Hardln-Simmons' squad, 33
strong, arrived late yesterday
from Abilene and today sched
uled a light warm-up session.
All proceeds of the game will
go to service funds to be selected
by the two teams.
WSC Cagers
Fall to NYU
Score Spree
NEW YORK, Dec. 31 (VP) A
terrific scoring burst by Wash
ington State college, stopped
only when Its sparkplug, For
ward Gail Bishop, was removed
from the game after commission
of his fourth personal foul, near
ly upset the New York univer
sity basketball team here last
night.
The New York five finally.
pulled through 66 to 55 after the
Cougars, starting with a 24 point
deficit, had pulled up to within
three points.
Trailing 32 to 18 at the half
and 44 to 20 after five minutes
of the second session, the Paci
fic Coast conference team put on
one of the wildest scoring sprees
ever seen in the garden. In the
next three minutes the Cougars
reduced the lead to 20 points,
49-29 and then really went to
town.
Bishop poked in 12 consecu
tive tallies in six minutes to pull
his team to within three points.
.56-53, with four minutes to play.
At tnat point Bishop left the
game and with him went the
Cougars' drive, the metropolitan
boys pulling away again in the
stretch.
. Jerry Fleishman, sophomore
star, paced the New York of
fense, tallying 22 points as he
set a new regular session field
goal record for the garden with
11 baskets. Bishop and Owen
Hunt led the westerners with
20 and 17 points respectively.
Lefty Grove Talks
Return to Baseball
In Coaching Status
LONACONING, Md., Dec. 31
(VP) You might think anyona
who pitched 411 victories would
have enough of baseball for one
lifetime, but Robert Moses
(Lefty) Grove is beginning to
talk about coming hack.
"Shucks, I know I can still
pitch," says Grove, 300 of whose
wins were achieved in the major
leagues. "This outdoor life has
kept my legs In great shape. But
I have no desire to return to
baseball as an active flayer.