Here Are 1943 Champions of Two Hoop Loops
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By FRANK CAUSE
' District 7 tourney will be
know that. But to tell you who
it Is too early yet to untangle the mixup. Klamath Falls is the
fourth entry. We know that, too. ,
The district meet shall have four entries and the winner and
the runner-up shall have a crack at the state title which is to be
held In Salem. :
In the Coos county area the tournament went something like
this. Coquille and Myrtle Point played the first game with
Coquille losing. Then Marshfield battled with North Bend and
r u - in' This left North Bend and Myrtle Point to
vj fight it out for the winner. North Bend won.
I Marshfield and Coquille played for third and
xounn. raarsniieia was crawnra iiura ana vu
quille was out.
Now the winner and the runner-up shall
play the winner and runner-up from district two,
which is Grants Pass and Medford. for a tourney
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I berth,
1 Y AJ Wayne Scott
Callie night for practice and giving them all of the
pointers on how to play in a tournament. Scott will leave the
latter pert of the week with hit team and venture over the hill
and into Ashland's green valley.
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When the county B league played at Altamont a couple of
weeks ago, Chiloquin drew two games in one day and Malin
drew a bye and only one game in the evening with Chiloquin,
because of the nine uneven teams.
In the first games Chiloquin walloped Bly and then rested
up to take on the strong Malin outfit. Chiloquin lost to the fresh
Malin team by only a small margin of three points. But neverthe
less, tossed Chiloquin out of the running. Malin went on to win
the tournament but lost the first outside game with Central Point
mostly for the reason they had no tournament experience.
Members of Chiloquin's team have that experience and pos
sibly could have taken Central Point and started for the state
hoop title. La Clair. Malin coach, claims that any of the upper
four teams that participated in the B league tournament could
have won over Central Point. La Clair's outstanding man on the
maplewood is In George Draxil. Draxil usually never fails to
bring home the points and plenty of them, too. But this time
La Clair said that even when he was wide open and nobody
around him he would fall down as if he were stiff as a board.
Drasil showed a little improvement in the last quarter, but he
only made one free throw to complete his one total point.
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After basketball season comes the other sports such as track
and baseball. It won't be long before local teams will be getting
together on fields and have a few fast innings of baseball. Track
will soon begin to take place and the champions in the making
will get into shape. Such as Jim Bocchi in the high jump affair
for Klamath Union, and lanky Gordon McKay tossing the discus
and running the relay for Henley high school.
We bade farewell to Ursal Snapp last night Snapp will be
in San Francisco and will venture to Lincoln, Neb., as Cadet
Snapp. This makes Mrs. Snapp a four star mother. Ursal was the
fourth to leave and now Charles, who is around the 18 mark, is
making plans to leave, too. Mrs. Snapp will soon be a proud
mother of five stars, and all of them are athletes. Charles played
for the Merrill Huskies and will graduate soon out of high
school. Hats off to the Snappsl
A call from Dave Bridge reveals that he is adding progress
to the new boys' club. The main purpose of the club is to stress
physical fitness for the young boys of Klamath Falls. And the
way things are panning out Dave Bridge is doing it the right way.
. "- In his other boys' club; Dave
a table tennis and a reading room.-The boys all went for it in a
big way and if this plan of Dave's goes through, Dave Bridge
will really be respected by the
- Boxing will be promoted and so will wrestling. Mats are
on their way to Klamath Falls for the wrestlers and tumbling
will be added to the program. Basketball will be played all sea'
son, too. Weight lifting will be
claims that weight lifting will
body builder exercises.
Punching bags will be added
be there, badminton, volleyball,
such will be set up in the new
program to be.
Another thing Dave stressed
They have the lot at Mills addition
The age will be about the same
league basketball team. Soft and
Shotguns Was
Have you any shotguns? The
drive is over in Klamath Falls. Rex Hiatt said that 67 mighty
good guns were turned in by loyal sportsmen. ' Although they
hated to. turn them in, they did anyhow. Hiatt took them over
to Medford yesterday, and they were really pleased at the co
operation ot the sportsmen. If the drive had been sooner they
would have expected more. Hiatt would take more guns in now,
but Medford won't take any more and he has had to turn them
down as badly as he hates to.
Football
There still is an argument on what the football enthusiast
will do for next year. Anse Cornell, publicity man for the Uni
versity of Oregon, claims that they will pick on the freshmen
to give the public a show. It will be a lighter team than usual
but it will serve the purpose. They are talking very strongly on
calling the army reserve and only the brilliant heads will be
left on the campus. Maybe a few good gridiron men will be
left, too.
There will be more service
but the service men don't get the
the college men do, because they
spare time.
Talking to Tex Oliver last fall in Portland and he reported
that most of his cadets had to make up all time lost traveling
and the ensigns and other officers taught classes besides putting
their extra time on the field.
But whatever comes of it we
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played In Ashland March 5-6. We
plays who and what Is what
Is having hit boys out every
only had a couple of pool tables,
community.
featured for the boys. Dave
be one of the most important
for the boxers, pool tables will
hand ball, and many things as
location for the physical fitness
was baseball for the youngsters,
and it should take form soon.
as participated with the Victory
hard ball will both be played
the Question
army wanted to know this. The
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teams next year than this year.
practice on the gridiron that
have to do most of it in their
will make the best of it . ; ,
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Malin turned the heat on to
high school recently to win the trophy for the Klamath county B league championship. In the
back row, left to right. Joe La Clair, coach, Spolek, C. Duncan. Draiil and Lee Petraiek, man-
ager. In the front row, left to right, Ottoman. Woodley, K. Duncan and Irvine.
War Breeds Fighters;
Army Needs Boxing
Good Fighters Mean Fans and
Quality and Quantity Spell Boom
By BILLY ROCHE
Famous Referee and Manager
War means fight and fight
means fighters.
With the knockout of Hitler
and Hirohito boxing can't miss
enjoying the boom it exper
ienced following World War I.
Again millions of kids are hav
ing gloves laced on their hands
for the first time. Many of
them will like boxing and take a
whirl at it professionally. Fine
prospects are now getting the
idea, as did Gene Tunney, for
example, the first trip.
Good fighters mean fans, and
quality and quantity and demand
liven up any business.
I'd like to see the government
supervise boxing when the last
shot has been fired. The army
could well take it over, and use
it for recruiting purposes.
The national guard will have
to be rebuilt, and I speak from
experience-when I say boxing
was one of its biggest assets
when I put the sport in New
York armories as the Walker
law went into effect in 1020.
Soon there were a dozen ar
mories depending on boxing as
a stimulus for enlistments and
to provide athletic and recrea
tion funds. A boy had to join up
and drill regularly to be eligible.
Paul Berlenbach, who went on
to the light-heavyweight leader
ship, and Joe Glick, lightweight,
were among topnotchers who
came out of New York armories.
I found it necessary to drop
out a year or so after establish
ing armory boxing, and it wasn't
long until the game was suffering
from its usual ailment shenan
igans. It was so successful, however,
that it was not quietly dropped
until 1036.
WAR AND MONOPOLY
There are only seven clubs op
erating under the New York
Boxing commission at the mo
ment, where there once were 24.
There has been a proportionate
decline throughout the country.
The war may be given as a
reason for this. No sport has
contributed as high a percentage
proportionately to the military.
Boxers start in their teens, so
are caught in the draft before
the window is opened.
War isn't alone responsible for
the scant number of clubs
throughout the nation, however,
for the condition existed before
selective service went into ef
fect.
Promoter Mike Jacobs' mono
poly hasn't exactly been a tonic.
Tying up stars, Jacobs made
It impossible for many major
clubs outside of New York to
operate. He even went out of
his way to block their matches.
Small clubs, the incubators of
boxing, go out with the big ones.
Managers have outsmarted
themselves, too. Handlers of pre
liminary boys have in later years I
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overpower the Chiloquin quintet
demanded what famous fighters
once were paid. ,
That is another reason why
the flood of talent will be wel
come following the war. Young
sters eager to make names for
themselves won't quibble about
terms and one promoter will not
be able to accommodate all of
them.
ENTERTAIN THEMSELVES
A tip for the USO. Give the
boys boxing equipment and less
show business and dancing. Give
them the equipment and they'll
entertain themselves.
Pay boys who box for the en
tertainment of thousands, as the
Knights of Columbus did in
France and Germany during and
after World War I. We gave
them 200 francs for four rounds,
as many as 500 for 10.
Because we gave the men the
real thing, we played to tremen
dous crowds outdoors, packed 15
and 20,000 into hangars and
packed halls in Occupied Ger
many. The Germans, who knew noth
ing of boxing then, would stand
in the background, and say:
"Look at them. The war is over
and they're still fighting."
There were lifting weights in
every German beer garden, and
our kids would stand around
there, and remark: "Look at
those crazy Heinies breaking
their backs."
Undefeated
Astoria in
Spotlight
By The Associated Press
Pendleton and Bend advanced
Monday night in continuing high
school basketball playoffs that
will see undefeated Astoria, the
defending Oregon champion,
take over the spotlight in to
night's games.
The Fishermen, winners of 17
consecutive games, can become
the first team to win entry to the
state tournament by defeating
Newberg at Astoria. The Astor
ians won the first district 5 play
off game, 44-25.
In district 2, Pendleton nosed
out Hood River, 35-33, to reach
the finals. Hood River held a
six-point lead through most of
the game, but lost three men on
fouls in the third quarter and
faded in the closing minutes.
Bend eliminated Redmond, 38
35, to qualify for a contest
against Prineville tonight for the
right to meet Pendleton in the fi
nals. Two other games are sched
uled tonight.
St. Helens will travel to Bca
verton for the first game of the
district 3 finals, and Myrtle
Point will journey to Medford
to compete for a berth in the dis
trict 7 tournament, which opens
at Ashland Friday.
in a fray at the Altamont lunlor
Oregon
I Sport Notes
The northern division of the
Pacific Coast Baseball confer
ence, if it operates this spring,
ain't gonna be the same without
Washington State's Buck Bailey.
Bellowing Bailey has gone Into
the services and turned his work
over to Jack Frlel, the Cougar's
basketball coach. Friel is a mild
chap who keeps his feelings un
der his skin whereas Buck broad
cast his every emotion with gesr
turcs.
Bailey sort of ran to tradition
of WSC coaches Fricl being the
principal exception. His side
line exhibitions were recognized
as something very special in
baseball sideshows and it will be
strange to have Washington
oiaie Dascoau attention con
fined to the diamond itself.
Consistent followers of the di
vision baseball races say Bail
ey s ouiDursts compared very
favorably with Coach Babe Hol
lingbery's sashays along the
gridiron sideline and Babe can
play the emotional scale a couple
.octaves above high C.
Bailey's withdrawal leaves
Tubby Graves of Washington as
tne only topflight sidelincr in
the league and Tubby never real
ly was in Buck's class.
The mid-season loss of Don
Durdan to Oregon State base
ball by illness and injury grows
larger daily.
With Durdan and Erland An
derson in drvdock. Orpirnn
State dropped three out of its
iourgamcs on the inland emnire
trip including a humiliation
loss to Idaho, the only victory
for the Vandals this yeor in the
conierence. it even that one
could have been salvaged the
Beavers could enter the final se
ries with Washington next week
end on even footing. As it is,
they must win two from the
hiEh-nowercd Huskies on the
Washington floor to get a tie.
The exnerience of the Unive-r.
sity of Oregon this year doesn't
aaa mucn emphasis to a favorite
theme in college sports that
sophomores are too uncertain,
unseasoned and inexperienced
for varsity play.
Coach Howard Hobson fash
ioned throe-fifth of his team not
from sophomores but from
freshmen (the lid being off) and
was in the fight for the flag all
the way.
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First National Bank team ran over the Junior Pelicans for the Victory league championship,
Members of the championship team are as lollown In the back row. l.lt to right, Cllne, Blihop,
Maytield and Patske. In the front row, left to right. Hunter and Foulan.
PAGE TEN
Track Season Sure for
Pelicans; Runners Busy
Canal Bank Furnishes Dry Ground
For Activity; Pentathlon Planned
Klamath Union high school's
spring track got underway Mon
day evening when a score of
men turned out In rcsponso to
Coach Paul Dollor's coll for
miters, half-mllcrs and quarter
milcrs. . . . -
These lads, running up and
down the dry road on top the
canal bank near the high school,
provided the final answer as to
whether the war was going to
stop this year's track program.
KUHS is going to have track,
and Coach Dcller Is working
along several lines to provide
amplo competition for the sea
son. The canal bank was chosen as
a temporary track because the
Modoc field oval is still pretty
wet.
Coach Dcller expressed him
self as well satisfied with the
first day's turnout. Armed forces
have cut his supply of veterans,
but some of the experienced men
arc back, including Jim Bocchi,
state champion high jumper.
Coach Dcller said transporta
tion difficulties may prevent the
Pelican trackstcrs from going
out of tho basin, but one way
or another,', competitive events
will be arranged. Decision as to
state track meets, such as the
Hayward relays, will bo made at
a meeting at the state basketball
tourney in Salem.
Dcller has served notice the
Pelicans will enter the quad
rangular met to bo held in lute
April. Teams in this event will
be Ashland, Grants Poss. Med
ford and Klamath Falls. Klam
ath also will enter tho district
meet at Medford about May 10.
Tho regular meet will be held
here, but it may be confined
pretty much to teams in the
county or the Klamath basin.
Paul has a new idea for this
year a pentathlon. This will be
a 5-evcnt meet, and each entrant
must finish every event for his
score to qualify. Competition
will bo for individual and team
honors.
Dcller is organizing a B track
squad, and working with the jun-
FROM THE GAY 90'S...
March 2, 1943
lor high school trackstr
pects to provide activity lu.
..ic
youngsters.
Track, said Dcller, will start
full blast at the Pelican Institu
tion on March 22. Current ac
tivities, he said, are In the na
ture of preliminaries.
Faulkerson Loses to
Volk in Amateur Go
PORTLAND, March 2 (F)
Bobby Volk of tho Portland
Multnomah club won tho feature
bout of tho Rambler club am
ateur smoker here last night
from L'd Faulkerson of the
Pendleton air base. He scored
a knockdown In the second
round.
Denny Qulnn of Eugene won a
slugging match from Wayne Rig
gins of Minnesota but Rlggins,
although defeated, won a dia
mond ring trophy for tho best
performance of the evening.
Spring Drill Slated .
For Washington Soon
SEATTLE, March 2 (!)
Coach Ralph (Pest) Welsh called
on University of Washington
football men to report Monday,
March 20, for six weeks of spring
drill.
"The manpower situation, as
it affects college football next
fall, is a question no one can
answer at the moment," he said.
"Therefore 1 figure wo can bo
on the safe side by holding spring
drills as plunncd.
Both Washington State college
and the University of Idaho have
called off spring training. .
P When in Mediord
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Assured
Hoop Berth
Klamath Falls, Grants
Past and North Bend Are
Assured Tourney Berth
GRANTS PASS, March J-)
(Special) When Grants Pass
won both Friday's and Satur
day's game from Roscburg high
the Cavemen not only won the
Southern Oregon conference bas
ketball championship for the
first time In history, but they
also handed second-plnce In the
conference race to Medford high
school, which beat Ashland on
Friday night, 34 to 30.
According to plans for the
newly-formed district 7, Med
ford will meet Myrtle Point, runner-up
In the Coos Bay league
tournamont, In a playoff game
March 2 to determine which
team Is to enter the tournament
to bo held on the Southern Ore
gon College of Education floor
at Ashland, March 8 and 8.
The three teams that ere al
ready slated to enter the AthJ
land tournament are Klamath -Falls,
Grants Pass and North
Bend, each team being the win
ner of the old district which they
represent.
Tho finalists will meet Satur
day night to vie for the right to
bo tho southern Oregon entry In
tho stato tournament at Salem,
March 11, 12 and 13. The two
losers in the Friday games will
play the preliminary gome Sot
urdiiy night for third place In
the district 7 tournament.
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