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Browns Named Comeback
Team of Year in AP Poll
Slammin' Sam Snead In Second Slot
As 87 Sports Editors Cast Ballots
By FRITZ HOWELL
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 VP)
The St. Louis Browns already
tagged as having furnished the
year's biggest sports surprise in
winning the American league
flag, landed new laurels today as
the No. 1 comeback team of
1944.
So decided 87 sports editors
participating in the country-wide
Associated Press poll, 20 of
whom pointed the comeback
finger at Luke Sewell's boys,
along with seven other voters
who picked 'em for the place or
show spots.
On a basis of three votes for
first place, two for" second and
one for third, the Browns piled
up 71 points to beat out Sam
Snead, golfer who came back
from two vears in the navy to
win the first tourney in which he
played. Snead with 10 first
place votes, had a 56 total.
Fifty-two individuals and
teams came in for comeback at
tention by the scribes, but the
Browns, in boosting their 72-80
-T front
HIBPIiLD
By PAUL HAINES
STILL NEEDED
ilie Marine Corps league has
again made an appeal to the
public for more winter sports
equipment for the 3000 marines
at the Marine Barracks here.
Ray B. Powers of Portland has
reported a fat collection of balls
and bats in the drive, but practi
cally none of the needed, ice
skates, skis, ski poles and sleds
have been received as yet. "
We have no intention of run
ning this thing into the
ground, but it does seem to us
that the donation of one item
of athletic gear will not be
missed very much by the ma-
J'ority of persons in Klamath
alls. .
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GRUNTS AND GROANS
Gorgeous George Wagner, the
gaudy gladiator, will attempt to
redeem himself Friday night in
the Klamath arena for his miser
able showing against Bulldog
Jackson here last week.
Georgie should be all smiles
as he is booked as the top at
traction Friday eve and will
have to take a back seat to no
one unless it be his opponent,
Ernie Piluso. Ernie is no
body's fool when it comes to
crunching craniums and bend
ing beaks and will give Wag
ner of the body beautiful a
lively time.
George, of course, has nothing
but disdain for his rival and
loftily pronounces that he will
take the bout in short order
with two straight falls.
After George's showing last
week we doubt if he could
throw Mickey Mouse in two
straight flops, especially if
Mickey has just had a round
or two with his arch enemy,
Pegleg Pete, to get him in con
dition. In any event, Gorgeous will no
doubt sport another one of his
new robes Friday night, and that
is worth the admission alone, as
the ohs and ahs from the wim
men fans are reminiscent of a
Saks Fifth Avenue style show.
All-American Guard
Killed In Action
BRENHAM, Tex., Dec. 21 UP)
C a p t. Joe Routt, all-America
football guard in 1936 and 1937
while at Texas A & M college,
was killed in action in Europe
December 10, his wife has been
notified.
Routt was commander of an
Infantry company. -
won-lost percentage of 1943 into
an 89-65 pennant winning mark
in '44, were clearly a standout.
Hie Browns, after losing tne
league lead, swept the last four
games from New York to nose
out Detroit by a single contest.
Oddly enough, only single
third-place votes went to two
of the year's outstanding indi
viduals. Bob Montgomery, who
suffered Madison Square Gard
en's quickest knockout, 63 sec
onds at the hands of Al Davis,
and came back two weeks later
to win the New York version of
the light-weight fistic laurels,
was one of the almost-ignored
duo. The other was Leslie Hor
vath, Ohio State's great back,
who returned after a year's lay
off to make the All-America, to
become the Big Ten's most valu
able player, and to take the
Heisman award as the country's
top gridder.
The Charley Grimm-Chicago
Cubs combination took third
place with 27 votes for finish
ing in the first division after
losing the first 13 games of the
National league campaign, and
Duke's football team won fourth
for its late-sea on spurt which
landed the Blue Devils in the
Sugar Bowl.
The vote, with first place bal
lots in parentheses:
St. Louis Drowns (baseball) (30) 71
Sam Snead (Eolfl 1" - -M
Charley Grlmm-Chlcago Cubs 161 37
Duke ,rootlall
Hal Newhouser tbasebaUl 14) 15
Utah (basketball) l-l M
Frankle Parker (tennis) (2) M
Tennessee ifoutballt t4i ...13
The second ten: Navy, foot
ball (2) 12; Detroit Tigers, base
ball (2) 9; Patty Berg, golf w
8; Ben Chapnfan, baseball (1) 7;
Dennv Galehouse, baseball (1)
7: Ken Strong, football (1) 7;
Philadelphia Eagles, football (1)
6: Nelson Potter, baseball (1) 6;
Henry Armstrong, boxing 6;
Mike Kreevich, baseball (1) 5.
Single first place votes went
to Pitcher Dizzy Trout, Wiscon
sin's football team, Babe Dahl
gren; General Manager Bob Tar
leton of St. Paul's baseball club;
George Stirnweiss; Jeep Mehaf
fey of Michigan's football team;
Don Gutteridgegn Lew Jenkins,
Navy Coach Oscar Hagberg,
Brooklyn's Dixie Walker, and
the Yale and Army football
teams.
Partial Lineups
For Frost Bowl
Game Announced
SEATTLE, Dec. 21 (VP) Par
tial lineups were announced
yesterday for Seattle's annual
Frost Bowl baseball game on
Christmas Day. '
Sponsored by Seattle's 3 and
0 club, the game will feature
top-rank Coast league and semi
pro stars.
The North lineup includes:
Spencer Harris, Portland,
first base and outfield; Al
Kretchmar, ex-Seattle Rainier
now in the coast guard, short
s t o p; Bill McNamee, former
Rainier, catcher; Johnny Penso,
Rainiers, third base; Chet John
son, San Diego Padre sold to
the St. Louis Browns, first base;
Clarence Federmeyer, Portland
Beaver, pitcher; Hal Spindel,
Rainiers, sold to the Philadel
phia Nationals, catcher. Chet
Johnson also will be used as a
pitcher.
South lineup: Dick Gyselman,
Rainier sold to San Diego, third;
Marvin Rickert, former West
ern International league sold to
Tulsa, right field; Morry Abbott,
San Diego, left field; Frank Tin
cup, Seattle and San Diego,
pitcher; Joe Demoran, Seattle
pitcher.
The remainder of the lineups
will be drawn from semi-pro
ranks.
- OAKLAND, Calif. Chester
Slider, 149, Fresno, Calif., deci
sioned Paul Lewis, 158, Oakland
(10).
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Gorgeous Goorge Wagner resorts to the unique trick of twisting Bulldog Jackson's knee
bandage in their bout last weok at the armory. This is one that Roforoo Wally Mon mined, but
the camera caught. This Friday night Wagner will butt bicops with Ernie Plluio in the main
event and Gust Johnson will tangle with "Blood and Guts" Davidson in the eml-windup. Tony
Ross will slug it out with Bulldog Jackson in the curtain raiior.
East Grid Squad
Begins Workouts
For Shrine Game
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21
(P) Twenty-three of the best
civilian football players east
.of the Mississippi, rested after
a wearying train trip, lined up
under gloomy skies today for
their first real workout in pre
paration for the Shrine East
West charity game here New
Year's Day.
Coaches Bernie Bierman,
George Hauser and Andy Kerr
put the squad through a brisk
drill late yesterday upon their
arrival, mainly to iron out
travel kinks. A longer one
was on today's program.
Les Horvath of Ohio State,
All-American halfback, was
the only player missing. Ha
remained behind to catch up
on his studies and will join
the outfit hero shortly after
Christmas.
The West squad went
through its initial workout
yesterday under the eyes of
Coaches Homer Norton, Texas
A. & M.. and Orin (Babe) Hoi
lingbery, former Washington
State college mentor.
The teams take permanent
quarters today, the East at the
University of Santa Clara, 50
miles south of San Francisco,
and the West at Menlo junior
college, not far away.
Willamette Valley
Colleges Organize
New Basketball Loop
NEWBERG, Dec. 21 VP)
rftirnktntinn nt a npw hnskpt-
ball league by five Willamette
colleges was announced ivion
day. Members are Lewis and Clark
college, Portland; Pacific uni
versity, Forest Grove; Reed col
lege, Portland; Linfield college,
McMinnville, and Pacific col
lege, Newberg.
Schedules are being drawn;
with play to start shortly after
January 1.
MERRY CHRISTMAS1
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20 OP)
Joe Hardy, legless news vendor,
was horrified when a patrolman
shouted "Come on! You're head
ed for jail!"
Later, back at his stand, he
was a. happier and warmer man.
Police gave him a leather jack
et a Christmas gift from the
department.
Stanford May Resume Football
By RUSS NEWLAND
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21
(Pj There is a report being
whispered around that Stanford
university, a war-time football
casualty, will resume the grid
iron sport in 1945 and that
Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw will
be the coach.
Rumors mushroom Into tre
mendous size overnight, so to
speak, and are intangibles most
difficult to track down but this
one was comparatively easy to
dissipate, merely by telephon
ing Alfred R. Masters, general
manager of athletics at Stan
ford who still carries on despite
the sports drought at his school.
Masters declared "there is ab
solutely nothing to the report.
We have not even discussed the
possibility of resuming football
next yearj"
Referring to the mention of
Shaw as a coaching possibility.
Masters declared, "Buck is one
of the finest coaches in the
country. He would bo an asset
to any college. But it should be
remembered that we had what
we considered a brilliant staff
of young coaches, Jim Lawson,
Marchie Schwartz and Phil
Bengston.
"Lawson enlisted in the navy
without having served as head
coach. Bengstrom also is in the
navy. Schwartz carried on for
a season and turned in a splen
did job. It is our hope to have
these three back as the Stan
ford coaching staff after the
war."
Shaw, incidentally, already
is committed and will coach the
San Francisco club in the nil
American conference when that
new professional football league
begins operations, presumably
after the war.
Shaw's new coaching affilia
tion was announced last sum
mer in Chicago when the loaguo
was formed.
Stanford's former head coach,
Lawson, by the way, a lieuten
ant commander, is hospitalized
on a South Pacific island with
an arthritic condition aftor par
ticipating in the invasion of
Leyte. His former assistant,
who - became head coach,
Schwartz, now holds an execu
tive position with an oil drill
ing company headquartered in
Wichita, Kas.
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St. Louis Cardinals Set
2 Major Loop Team Marks;
Sweep 4 Individual Titles
By JACK HAND
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (De
fensive skills of the St. Louis
Cardinals, painfully obvious to
the Browns in the world scries,
were officially recognized today
in the National league fielding
records showing the champions
set two major league team rec
ords and swept four of seven in
dividual titles.
Billy Southworth's Red Birds
established a new mark for both
leagues with a .982 percentage
and, by committing only 112 er
rors, eased the old standard
hung up by Cincinnati in 1940.
It was their third successive
fielding title to back up three
straight pennants.
Ray Sanders at first base,
Marty Marion at shortstop,
Whitey Kurowskl at third base
and Johnny Hopp in the outfield
Pat Bay Gremlins
Roll Over Seattle
All-Stars, 47-37
VICTORIA, B. a, Dec. 21
(IP) Piling up an early lead,
the Pat Bay Gremlins, western
Canadian basketball champions,
defeated an all-star Seattle team
47-37.
Led by George (Porky) An
drews, former University of
Oregon star, the Gremlins built
an 18-6 lead at the end of the
first quarter. From then on
play was virtually even but the
gap was too wide for the Seattle
club to close.
Andrews and Norman Baker
paced the Gremlins with 14 and
16 points respectively, with Bob
Graf and Don Adams carrying
the Seattle offensive load.
IN THE SADDLE
LEYTE, Philippines, Dec. 5
(Delayed) VP) PFC Marion
West, former cowboy and rodeo
star of Weed, N. M., wrangled
himself a captured Japanese
horse to become the first mount
ed military policeman on Leyte.
West, on a looted saddle, now
gallops past jeeps and other me
chanized equipment to unjam
traffic jams.
HOISTEH
PORTLAND, Ore., Dec. 20 (IP)
Commissioner Fred Peterson,
who played Santa Claus at an
orphans' party, had a good ex
cuse when, he staggered home,
worn out.
After he had hoisted one four-year-old
up in his arms, the oth
er 95 orphans refused to leave
until they had been lifted, too.
showed the way In their divi
sions, leaving to "outsiders"
such scattered laurels as best
fielding Second Baseman Woody
Williams and Pitcher Bucky
Walters of Cincinnati and Catch
er Al Lopez of Pittsburgh. Lead
ership in all positions, except
pitcher, was based on playing
100 or more games.
Sanders' .994 mark was Just
two points better than Frank
McCormick of tho Reds. Marlon
nosed out Eddie Miller of the
Reds by one marker at .972, Ku
rowskS's .985 gave him a wide
edge over Steve Mcsncr of the
Reds and Hopp showed tho way
among the regular outfielders
wun .buy, four anead ot tne Ul
ants' Joe Medwick.
Williams' nearest rival was
Emit Vcrban of tho Cards but
the winner had a three-point
edge at .971 and Walters was
one of 26 pitchers appearing in
10 or more games to field 1.000
out ne nad most cnanccs, 70.
Lopez made only 7 errors In
his .984 average while ho tied
tne mark held by Gabby Hart
nett of the Cubs for catching
100 or more games In the Nu
tion for 12 years.
Ray Mueller of the Reds be
came co-holder of tho bin leasuc
standard for catching endurance
ny working all 155 of his team's
games, bettering the former
mark set by Georgo Gibson of
the Pirates in 1909. Counting n
holdover string of 62 from 1943,
Mueller now has caught 217 suc
cessive championship battles.
Damon Phillips of the Braves
established n modern third base
record for both circuits by mak
ing 11 assists against the Giants,
August 29, and Roy Hughes of
the Cubs tied the old figure for
third basemen by accepting 13
chances against the Pirates the
same day.
In addition to hanging up two
major league all-tlme-hlghs, tho
Cards made most double plays,
162, left most on base 1200, and
tied a National league mark by
completing two triple plays,
Brooklyn committed the most
errors, 197, and completed tho
fewest twin killings, 112.
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Tennessee Vols Appear Liqht-
But They re Plenty Speedy
Western League
May Be Revived,
Says Mulligan
SEATTLE, Doc. 21 (l')- Bill
Mulligan, bu.sitie.vs malinger of
thn Seattle Italnlers of the I'll
elflc Coast league, relumed yes
terday from (he l)Uclnll nuetlnt!
ill Now York and wild Unit a re
vival of the .ni.-.pi'iHled Western
luterniitloiial Irimtio In 11)1.1 was
not only possible but probable
and feasible.
Const league directors, ho Mild,
are enthusiastic about the pros
pects of reopening the W-t league
and are confident manpower can
be mude available,
Mulligan also said he was con
fident tint new lalent iienulieil
by the Rainier will propel the
sklffmen close to the tup of the
coast league next season.
Prominent aiming tho new
faces which will grace the Iliilu
ler roster in I94S uro First Ilase
innn Georgo McDonald, acquired
from Sim Diego at the cost of
Dick Gyselman: Third Sucker
Aleno from Cincinnati and slug
ging Joe Norbeit, outfielder
from Milwaukee,
Mulllgim said a deal with Cin
cinnati Is expected to bring to
gether u sliurtstiip or a second
slicker to round out the Joe Dob
bins, Bub Gorbmilcl, Aleuo com
bination. GoruouUI can play
cither second or short.
Dick Ileniii of Kansas City
was added to the pitching stiuf
In a 'deal with the New York
Yankees and John Uablch,
scheduled as a starting hmler In
104.1, became outright properly
of Scuttle. Another pitcher is
expected from Philadelphia,
where the Halnlers aciuii"l
Catcher Bob Flnley who will
share the behind tho plutu work
with Hal Sueme.
BASKETBALL
By Th Associated Proti
EAST
Yale 80, Marshall 42.
Muhlenberg 34, Columbia 33.
Penn State 32. Uucknell 30.
Syracuse 63, SI. Lawrence 37.
LuFayctlo 52, LiiSullu (l'hllu)
45.
Temple 42. Princeton 23.
SOUTH
South Carolina 51, 300th In
fantry 13.
North Carolina Navy Pre
Flight 49. Fort Bragg 44.
Duke 5.1, Laiiriuburg-Maxlon
Army Air Base 411.
MIDDLE WEST
Wisconsin 51, Iowa Prc-Fllght
43.
Great Lakes 52. Illinois 45.
' Chicago Naval Radio Training
Station 4.1, Chicago 43.
SOUTHWEST
Corpus Chri.stl Naval Air Base
63, Texas A and M 20.
WEST
Second Air Force 42, Pueblo
Army Air Base 3.
Oregon 50, Western Washing
ton 45.
Fort Lewis Warriors 63, Wash
ington State 42.
OREGON PREP
University High (Eugene) 43,
Redmond 40,
Former Baseball Star
In Florida Hospital
ORLANDO, Fla Dec. 21 (,V)
Joe Tinker, part of the famous
"Tinker to Evers to Chance"
major league double play com
bination, now under observation
nt Owens General hospital here,
was reported enrly today to be
"resting comfortably."
Tinker, now 04, entered thn
hospital Tuesday for the second
time this year. Last Junuary ho
was critically ill for several
weeks and for a time was
placed under an oxygen tout,
but recovered.
Classified Arts Bring Results.
PASADENA. Calif.. Dec. 21
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they're last and full of flghl,
Thai was tliu linpi'essluu giv
en by the Tennessee Volunteers
In their Initial, tinllmln-niig
workout after arriving yester
day (or their Itnse Howl clash
with Southern California's Tiu
Jaiis. Three liiiurs Into in a four
day transcoiilliienlal Jaunt, the
Vol part y wun gi eetml by u
brass burnt mid pretty 10-year-old
Mury Louise Uulte, ruse
(liieen. Miss Untie and Billy
llevls, blocking back and ucting
cuptiiln (or the Vula on Nuw
Year n Day, posed lor numerous
iiliutograplis. Then Coach John
llanihill whisked his 3U charges
awuy to work o(f their "train
legs."
in a two-hour drill, the south
erners showed sliced ami spirit
also cxlreinu yuuth and slim,
ness. Onu veteran observer said
the Vols appear tu bo the smal
lest teiini ever to coino to tho
Hose Howl. Twenty-nine uf the
squad and seven of the sliirtlng
II, are (lesluuvn,
While program weights give
the Dixie boys it team uvcrugsj
in ii, uiey looked considerably
lighter, The lino which Barn
hill iisseinbled yesterday aver
ages 1U7 to the Trojans' 211,
while the Vol harks average
1711 to USC's HI3. Troy's start
ing team will have a bulge of
at leu.it seven pounds per until.
Vol heavyweights uru Titckle
Bo Slewurt, 20,1, and Guard Dob
Dubelsteln, 200. USC's dickies,
All-Anierita John Ferrarti and
"I'eewee" I'ehar, lolo 233 untl
205. respectively.
The Tennessee baekfield In
cluded Busier Stephens and
Mark Major, ruggetl (rush, and
a pair uf 2-l-ycar-old Juultirs
the "old men" of the leani
llevls and Casclt Stephenson.
Trtijuu Coach Ji-lf Cravatli
put his squad through another
defensive drill, using Reserve
Tackles Jackie Mustek and
Clark lllgglua at guard In gel
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