Push Shot Gives 7est
Cagers Edge Over East
Jack Friel Defends Western Variety
Of Basketball That East Tush Tushes
PULLMAN, Wash,, Jan. 27 (IP) That athletic contortion
known to basketball players as the "push shot" would give the
far west an edge over the far cast it the twain got together In
steady competition, Conch Jack Friel declared flatly today.
Friel, who coached Washington State college to a western
collegiate championship in 1941, bristled to tho defense of his
homeland when he heard that coaches along tho eastern seaboard
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By WES QUDERIAN
PAGE EIGHT
January 27, 1943
J
High Man
While we were wandering
through the maze of a murder
case, the state high school ac
tivities association pulled a
sneaker and changed the hoop
districts throughout Oregon in
cluding Klamath's own.
Though Klamath had no def
inite representation at the as
sociation meet
ing, the change
t has both good
' and bad effects
for the Pelican
hoopsters. One
thine evident is
that the Pelicans
? will stay home
' from the state
tourney unless
Guderian they really have
a hot team that could win.
Previously the Klamath boys
had the easiest district in the
state, which allowed them to
travel to Salem for the meet
without once encountering a
class A team with the exception
of Bond which has always been
more or less of a . push over.
Now the Pelicans have a tough
league. . District seven includes
Grants Pass, Roseburg, Medford
and Ashland which have always
had good teams. It also includes
Marshfield and North Bend
which have previously given
Klamath a great deal of trouble
In the Salem tourney.
At present all plans for a
playoff in our district are be
ing hold in abeyance for word
from the ODT as to what they
intend to do with the state
high school basketball tourney
tentatively scheduled for
March 11-13. If the ODT gives
the nod, the following thing
mkV kRDDBIL
1. District seven may break
up into three sub 'districts
the coast team, the valley
team, and the Klamath teams
and hold a tourney of their
own in the valley to determine
the right to participate In the
Salem meet.
, 2. Klamath may play the.
valley teams in the usual run
of season games to determine
which team Is superior, then
that team may play the top
. team of the coast schools to
determine the best district
team.
At any rate, no change is.
being made in this season's
schedule. All hinges on the
nod from the ODT. If and
when that comes, there will
probably be a meeting of the
district schools to determine
the manner of playoff.
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Let's not forget that Klamath
plays Ashland here this Friday
anrl fiatjirrfsv. . It should bp A
- hot game.
The Business and Professional
Women's club- heard the Rotar
ians bragging of the service club
bowling championship; so they
challenged them to battle. This
world shaking event is scheduled
to come off Friday night, with
Mrs. Charles Henderson manag
ing for the Botarians and Llllie
uaiuy uuui uuiiuia iui uic
BPWites.
Worst of all, they're rolling
it off with the loser stuck.
BASKETBALL
EAST
Washington & Jellerson U, West Vlr
linl 42.
Perm Military 8, Delaware 39.
Indiana (Pa.) Teachrri (B, St, Vincent 31.
SOUTH
Kentucky SB, Vandcrullt S3. .
Duke S3, Wake Forest 41. ' '
MIDWEST
Great Lakes 61, Wisconsin 43.
Indiana Central 37. Huntington 19,
WE8T
Unl. of San Francisco , St. Marjrs Kavy
. tjan Francisco 8tate 57, San Jose State 48.
Arizona C7, Arizona State Teachers (Flag
staff) AM.
College of Pacific 47, Fresno Btate S3.
Coast Guard (Alaiueda) 47, St. Marys 20.
Whitman G7, CoIIcko of Idaho 0.
Central Washington 41, St. Martins 33.
h:ch school
Springfield 81, St. Mary'a (Kugene) 21.
1.08 AKGELE8 Jack Chase, 134, Denver,
knocked out Jackie Byrd, 149, Blytheville,
Ark., (6). .
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Aged Gomez Seeks Fountain
Of Youth at Braves Field
By BILL KING
LEXINGTON, Mass., Jan. 27
(IP) Now that he has recovered
from the shock of being cast
adrift by ; the fabulous New
York Yankees, Vernon (Lefty)
Gomez has high hopes that he,
like many another aging pitcher
before him, will find the "Foun
tain of Youth" that is supposed
to be located within the spacious
boundaries of Braves field.
Gomez, now 32, became in
volved in a major league deal
for the first time in his 12-year
career yesterday when the Yan
kees sold him to the Boston
Braves after all of the other
American league clubs had
waived on him.
"I was surprised, of course,"
the colorful southpaw Baid. "But
I am convinced I still have
enough stuff to be a winning
pitcher arjd I'm looking forward
sajTJss!' , ,
Cadet Joseph Kuhn. 22, of
BeckleyW. Va., establishes a
new record of 3 minutes and 30
seconds for grueling 600-yard
obstacle course at Nary Pre-
Flight school at Athens, Ga.
Hobhy Says
Team Plays
Within Rule
Oregon Hoop Coach Replies
To Edmundson's Protest of
Wiley's High Jump Defense
EUGENE, Ore., Jan. 27 (JP)
Howard Hobson, University of
Oregon basketball coach, said
yesterday his team always at
tempted to play the game within
the rules and would continue to
do so.
Hobson's statement came in
answer to a request from Coach
Hec Edmundson of the Univer
sity of Washington asking Bas
ketball Commissioner Rich Fox
to make an official ruling on in
terference play before the tl:s
kies and the Webfeet meet at
Seattle, Friday and Saturday
night.
'Edmundson protested that
Roger Wiley, 6 foot 7i inch Ore
gon center, acted illegally in a
recent Washington-Oregon series
m batting away Husky goal
shots. He called attention to
that part of the rules which says
a player shall not touch the ball
"while the hand or arm is direct
ly above the opponent's basket."
Hobson said Wiley's under-the-
basket play in the series was en
tirely within the rules.
Central Washington
Wins Fourth Winko
League Victory .
OLYMPIA, Jan. 27 UP) Cen
tral Washington college racked
up, its fourth straight Winko
league basketball victory last
night by defeating St. Martin's
college, 41-33. St. Martin's al
so fell before Central shooters
Monday night.
Halftime score was 21-17 for
the victors. Bob Geston, lanky
St. Martin's center, took scoring
honors with 16 points, followed
by Central's Clipper Carmody
with 15. , -
to working in the Braves' big
park."
Gomez appears to have ample
grounds on which to base his
hopes for a successful term with
the Braves. He recalls the happy
experiences of one of his old
teammates, Deacon Danny Mac
Fayden, enjoyed with . the
Braves after the Yankees cut
him adrift when he reached the
30-year-old stage back in 1935.-
The supposedly washed-up
MacFayden, after winning only
four games during his last year
as a Yankee righthander, turned
ih 17 victories during his first
season as a Brave and then col
lected 14 more in each of the
next two seasons.
Among tlte other recent pitch
ers to drink from this "Foun
tain of Youth" were the then
30-year-oldsters, Milkman- Jim
Turner and Lou Fette, who, dur
ing their freshman seasons, were
20-game winners for the Braves,
vj sports
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Briefs
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (JP)
Cadets at the North Carolina
navy Pre-Flight school will get
some of their exercise next sum.
mer cultivating a 14-acre vic
tory garden under the guidance
of Lieut. Commander Harvey
Harman, the athletic director,
and Ensign Warren Chlvers, for
mer Dartmouth ski star . . ,
And members of the Mid-Atlan
tic Greenkeepers association re
cently were urged to coax golf
club members to do the same
thing by turning the courses in
to huge gardens.
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A HAND FOR HANS
Just after the world series,
Hans Lobert of the Phils
learned that one of his old West
Point baseball pupils, Lieut, Col
Red Reeder, was heading for
Australia so he gave Red a let
ter to General Douglas Mac-
Arthur, who was superinten
dent of the military academy
when Hans was coach . . . The
other day Lobert got a reply
from Reeder, telling how the
letter had been presented by
General Sutherland, brother-in-
law of Bucky Harris . . . "For
25 minutes he (MacArthur)
talked of football, baseball and
you," Reeder said. "When it
was time for me to leave, he
got up and stood staring out a
window. 'Red,' he- said, 'You
tell that old rascal Hans Lobert
that at night when the pressure
is on and it's hard for me to go
to sleep, I'm able to rest only
by thinking of those days at
West Pomt when I was super
intendent and he was our jolly
baseball coach'."
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
John ' P. McFarlane, Pitts
burgh Post-Gazette: "The 'sign
ing of Clark Shaughnessy as
Pitt grid coach will mark the
end of the 'Warner system of
football in this, the territory
where it attained its greatest
eminence. Jock Sutherland fol
lowed the precepts of Pop War
ner. Charley Bowser s methods
were of the same school. So if
anyone has any tears to shed
over the passing of the Warner
football hereabouts, he may pre
pare to shed them now."
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ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
Note on the manpower short
age: The other night in San
Francisco two preliminary boys
each fought twice to fill gaps
on the program. Reuben Marino
and Cupid Gordon each scored
first-round knockouts. Then they
met and Marino won a four
round decision . . ... Trackman
Eulace Peacock does such a
nifty job of putting coast
guardsmen through the gener
ally dull routine of calisthenics
at Manhattan beach that his
class of about 400 broke out in
a spontaneous cheer one day
after a stiff 40-minute session
. '. i The committee to decide
what kind of a baseball will be
used in the majors this season
hasn't reported yet, but Ed Bar
row figures the clubs will pool
their present supplies and have
enough to carry, them well into
the season before they have to
shift to the new one.
. SERVICE DEPT.
' Ensign Phil Bucklew, former
coach of the Columbus Bulls
pro football team who says he
has served on 10 ships since he
joined the navy, had one sunk
under him during the invasion
of North Africa. One of the
sailors who pulled him out was
another Columbus boy, Kenny
Billingsley. -
BASKETBALL DROPS
CHICAGO, Jan." 28 (P) Only
five per cent of the nation's
high schools have dropped bas
ketball, Henry V. Porter, secre
tary of the National High School
Federation, reported today. He
said the figure was based on sur
veys in many states.
FIGHTS
By Ths Associated Press
JKR8KY CI TV. N. J Lou Anaelo. 143.
Bayonee, - outpointed Phil Knzenga, -141,
Baltimore, (10).
NKW YORK Bohby Ruflln, 13(1, New
York, outpointed Harold Green, HOVi, New
York, (S). ,
IN. HIS FATHER'S WAKE
ANN. ARBOR Matt Mann
III, son of Michigan's swimming
coach, recently broke the state
high school record for the 200
yard free style. . He'll go to
Michigan.
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Washington,
Idaho Eye
Manpower
Colleges Expect Worst in
Face of War Department'
Call of Army Reservists
PULLMAN, Jan. 27 (IP)
Washington State college and
the University of Idaho basket
ball officials are expecting the
worst today in the face of a war
department decision to call up
college men in the enlisted re
serve.
Wording of the order makes
the call effective at the end of
the current quarter or semester.
Semesters at Idaho and Wash
ington State end next week.
By application of the same
wording, Oregon, Washington
and Oregon State, other north
ern division teams, apparently
are safe, as current quarters at
these schools do not end until
mid-March, after the close of the
conference race.
Coach Jack Friel of Washing
ton State said he stood to lose
Gail Bishop, starting forward,
'That would wreck us, because
we are weak on reserves," he
said. Other team member are
in branches of the reseive or
ROTC exempt from call.
Coach Babe Brown at Idaho
was pessimistic. "I have a hunch
Bob Ryan and Norm Fredekind
will be called by February 17,'
he said. Other varsity men and
reserves, probably would not be
called, he said.
Five University of Washing
ton hoopsters, Chuck Gilmur,
Bob Bird, Boody Gilbertson,
Bing Dahl and Bob Friendman,
are members of the reserve
corps but apparently will be
able to finish the season.
Dons Impair
P re-Flight
Hoop Team
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27 UP)
The University of San Francisco
Dons have further impaired a
once-virile St. Mary's Naval Pre-
Flighr basketball team in a game
which, to further navy ignomy,
sa Hank Luisetti ejected on
personal fouls. '
The Dons won 48 to 42 last
night.
Luisetti, star ni -y forward,
has left only one other game be
cause of fouls in his basketball
career. That was several years
ago in a Stanford-California
game. Paul Napolitano. Don
forward, led an early-game rally
which brought about a 30-30 tie
and set the stage for victory. He
was high scorer with 22 points.
Whitman College
Splits Series With
College of Idaho
WALLA WALLA: Jan. 27 UP)
Whitman college gained a split
in a two-game northwest bas
ketball conference 'series with
the College of Idaho by coming
from behind here' tonight to
win 57-50. Monday night the
Idaho- team took a' 49-47 over
time victory. 1 .
The coyotes led! 27-23 at the
half but a second drive,-led by
Miller and Williams, put Whit
man safely out in-front.
Landis Passes Up
Florida Vacation
For First Time
CHICAGO, Jan. 27 UP)
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, com
missioner of baseball, is passing
up a Florida vacation for the
first time in 23 years.- -
The boys aren t going to do
their training in the south, ' so
why should I?" he explained
today.
HOOP TILT POSTPONED ,
PORTLAND, Jan. 27 (IP) The
Portland University-Willamette
University basketball game,
scheduled for tonight here, has
been postponed until next Tues
day night, R. L.. Mathews, Pilot
coach, announced today.
When in Medford
Stay at
HOTEL HOLLAND
Thoroughly Moderrr.
Joe and Anne Earley
Proprietors ...
"were tush-tushlns the firehorse-
basketball preferred in these
parts.
Ho snld Coach Jo Lapchtck
of St. John's held that cast coast
basketball was "essentially
sounder" and Coach Howard
Conn of New York university
observed that Washington State
couldn't adjust its offenso and
thereby was trounced 66 to 53
by NYU December 30.
"How do you know it's
sounder?" Jack argued. 'They
have never traveled out of their
own sphere for intcrscctlonal
games." He recalled that Wash
ington trounced NYU by points
last year "with the same un
sound game" and then failed to
win the title in its own confer
ence. Friel held that a Now York
rules interpretation on screen
ing kept his WSC team oft bal
ance on the offset in tho game
at Mndison Square Garden, but
added perhaps the rule was in
terpreted too loosely on the
west coast and too closely in
New York.
He viewed the easterners' de
fensive style, which he called a
"sagging" or "receding" type, as
decidedly inferior and said the
quick, unexpected push shot
would "have plenty to do with
breaking up that type of defense
after a game or two."
The set-shooting favored in
the east is a thing of the past
in the west, where prep hoop
sters have gone "whole hog" on
the one-handed push toss, Friel
said. Western boys dunk those
one-handcrs from all angles and
distances.
State Opens
Drive for
Sports Stuff
PORTLAND, Jan. 27 (P The
campaign to collect sports equip
ment for service men became a
statewide effort today.
Started In Portland, the cam
paign spread with the appoint
ment by Chairman J. J. Rich
ardson of committeemen in 14
other Oregon cities.
These included:
Secretary of State Robert Far
rell Jr., Salem; C. A. Ingalls,
Corvallis; R. R. Cronise, Albany;
Dick Strife, Eugene; Nicl Allen,
Grants Pass; Frank, Ramsey,
Klamath Falls; George Scott,
Baker; T. F. Brumbaugh, The
Dalles; Nolan Skiff, Pendleton.
Douglas Returns
Pendleton Offer,
Stays at Newberg
PENDLETON, Jan. 27 UP)
Loren Douglas, slated to become
Pendleton, high school football
coach and physical education in
structor next fail) has returned
his contract and will remain at
Newberg where his team was
one of the state title claimants
last fall, Pendleton school board
officials announced today.
BOEING" BOMBERS WIN
SEATTLE, "Jan. 27, OP) Boe
ing bombers last night scored a
45-35 victory over the Bremer
ton All-Stars in a Northwest Bas
ketball league game, registering
the major upset of the league
season and knocking the All
Stars out of their first place tie
with Alpine Dairy. It was the
All-Stars first loss. . ' .
. . . Keeping time with
other smart folks who -recognize
and appreciate
good ' food, properly . pre
pared - and pleasingly
; served,
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Bayilde, L. I., Links, a foe
meet train at railroad station.
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Uncle Sam Levies Manpower Tax
But College Athletics Carry On
By HAROLD CLAASSEN
NEW YORK, Jan. 27 (P)
Undo Sam has levied another
manpower tax on tho colleges
but tho "athletic toama will
carry on with new students and
the odds and ends still around,
a survoy by tho Associated Press
today showed.
Few of tho conches or ath
letic directors were ablo to in
terpret tho order from Wash
ington ' which stated that en
listed army reserves would be
ordered up at tho end of the
Tuttle Says
Post-Season
Playoffs Off
LOS ANGELES. Jan. 27 (P)
Tho post-season Shaughnessy
playoffs aro off. .
So says President W. C. Tut
tle of the Pacific coast, adding
that official action only awaits
the lcaguo's meeting, February
15.
"Tho sentiment that prevails
around tho league," Tuttle de
clared yesterday, "Is predomi
nantly anti-playoff. Whether
tho scheme will bo revived after
the war I cannot say."
However, Tuttle stated tho all-
star game, proceeds from which
go to tho Association of Profes
sional Ballplayers of America,
probably will bo retained, If
transportation facilities permit.
Tuttlo proposed that the $10,
000 Shaughnessy prizo money
might be divided among the first
four clubs in tho pennant con
test, or dropped altogether, but
addd he could not speak auth
oritatively on this point.
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Sell tho articles you don't use
through a classified ad.
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course, partly solves transportation problem by having wagon
Horsoi are appropriately named Hook and Slice.
first coltogo term after Decem
ber 31, 11M2.
At Atlanta, Ga,, however,
MJ. Gon. William Dryclon of
tho fourth servlco command,
snld tho regulation didn't mean
"tho reservists will finish tho
term ono dny and step into a
uniform tho next, They will
becomo 'available' at tho com
pletion of a semester or term
and will bo called litter by mime
from Washington."
That Interpretation was a
pleasant ono for basketball
coaches Doug Milts of Illinois,
Phog Allen of Kansas, Howard
Cann of New York university
and Wilbur Johns of University
of California at Los Angeles.
Tho first throo coaches have
top-ranking teams and a blanket
for Immcdlato Induction of re
servists would tako three start
ers from both Illinois and NYU
and four from Kansas. Tho
UCLA quintet Isn't on a par
with them but loss of five eager
reservists would wreck its
Georgia Players
On Pre-Service
Barnstorm Trip
ATHENS, Ga Jan. 27 (IP)
Seven University of Georgia
Rose bowl football stars, led by
Fronklo Slukwlch,- aro on a
barnstorming basketbnlt trip be
fore graduating and entering the
armed services.
Slnkwlch, twice all-America
halfback and the nation's most
publicized football player Inst
season, plays forward on the
cago team.
Other football players appear
ing with Slnkwlch on tho Geor
gia tour aro George Poschncr
and Van Dnvlj, ends, of Geor
gia's grid team; Walter Runrk,
guard; Bill Godwin, center; and
Ken Kcupor and Andy Dudlsh,
backs.
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MAT O0UUU BEER
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chances o f winning Its first
gumo In 42 meetings with South- "
crn California this wockctul.
Complexion of next fall's foot- '
bull outfits will bo changed com
pletely, fiva of Ohio State's best
gridrior being on the army list ,
in addition to the usual grad
uation losses,
"If you know of nny boys
with bod eyes," moaned Conch
Paul Hrown, "send them to mo. ,
I've got to fill the uniforms."
"I always did want to visit
those South Pacific Islands," :
said Conch Ellison Kctchum
after a check showed every one
of Denver university's footlinlsj)
and bnskctball players were In
ono reserve or another,
Although they expressed It In '
different words a majority of
tho commenting conches en
dorsed tho statement of Wnllnco
Butts, whose Goorgln eleven
won the 1043 Rose bowl game. '
"Right now I'm too busy
figuring who Is going and who '
Isn't but tho army Is one outfit
wo'ro not trying to compete
with. Anytime they want any '
of our boys they e a n hove
them."
Wormy Intends
To Pole Vault
To Sixteen Feet
SAN FRANCISCO, Jim. 27
(IP) Cornelius Wormordnm, lhiw
Piedmont, Cullf., school tcnchei
who firmly Intends to vault 16
feet, plans to start Ills 1043 com
petitive campaign In tho Melrose -games
In New York, Fobruory 6.
lio's already topped 19 feet 7
Inches.
Charley Hunter of the Olym
pic club, coach of the world's In
door and outdoor polo vault
champion, said todny arrange- '
mcnts for Warmordam's appear- -anco
In the eastern competition
are practically complote.
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