TEN HERALD AND NEWS
Thursday, Ftb. 8. 1S4S
(-Men Meet Undefeated
Medf ord Over Weekend
Pelicans Primed to Upset Powerful
Black Tornado In Two-Game Series
Br PAUL HAINES
A squad of 11 Klamath Peli
can cagers will leave tomorrow
noon for Medford where they
will take on the rampaging
Black Tornado of Medford in a
two-game return series, Friday
and Saturday nights.
Coach Marble Cook is plan
ning to carry his full squad, in
cluding Jim Palmer, Larry
White, Jerry Thome, Jim Nor
een, Bud Biehn, Joe Zarosinski,
Bus Bussman, Dean Mason, Don
Noel. Bob Redkev and Bill Alex
ander. The boys have looked
By PAUL HAINES
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HAINES
WHY CHANGE?
We can see no real point in
the rule changes proposed for
basketball by Howard Hobson,
Oregon coach, and Julian Rice,
New lorK cage ,
fan. The sug-F ; "
gestion calls forf
n different me-S
thod
with field goals
scored from be
yond a 21-foot
arc counting
three points, an
increase in
width of the foul
zone from 6 to
13 feet, and the
choice of trying
frtr a frpp thrnw
from the usual 15-foot mark for
one point or trying for two
points from 21 feet out.
The main thing we have
against the proposed changes
is that they would increase
scoring in a game already high
in the points department. Too,
basketball is already a fairly
complicated game and further
rule changes would only serve
to complicate it more. As
things stand now. some scores
run in the 80' and 90's and if
these changes in the scoring
system were adopted, games
would run as high as ISO to
20Q points scored.
Basketball has been getting
along fine for a good many years
as it is and we honestly can see
no point in making renovations
in the game. The idea of the
whole thing, as we see it, is to
eliminate the great advantage
enjoyed by exceptionally tall
teams.
As Whitney Martin stated
recently, if they want to fig
uratively saw the tall guys off
to eliminate their height ad
vantage, the simplest method
would be to raise the baskets
to 12 feet, as suggested by
Phog Allen, University of Kan
sas coach.
This, to us, seems far more
lensible and would not make a
glorified dart game out of bas
ketball with points awarded
from where the shot is fired.
When you start making the point
value in proportion to the diffi
culty or easiness of the shot, you
might as well mark the floor off
in squares like a checkerboard,
with shots from king's row
counting one point and the value
' of the points increasing with
every outward square.
No, we think Hobson had a
slight brainstorm on this or
dreamed it ud in a nightmare
resembling Dante's Infernol
good In practice all week and
are set to offer the Medford five
stiffer competition than it has
been up against in its last few
games.
Cook will use a straight man
for-man defense against the
rancv Medford lads with the us
ual tast break offense. In their
two games here earlier in the
season, the Tornado used a loose
man-for-man combined with
shifting zone that the Pelicans
were totally unable to solve,
This week Cook has been drill
ing the K-men in ball handling
ana accurate passing in an euori
to make up for tne height aomi'
nation of their rivals.
The addition of Thome will
aid the Pelicans' cause, as he is
just about the only man on the
Klamath five tall enough to
work under the backboard on re
bounds. In their previous clash
here, Medford captured nine re
bounds out of lu, ana it mere
is one thine sure, it is that
team cannot score unless it has
the ball.
In these important frays with
the undefeated Tornado. Cook
will start his usual five, consist
ing of Palmer and White at the
forward berths, Thome at the
keyhole slot, and Noreen and
Biehn at the backcourt positions.
The Pelicans have plenty of
spirit and are grimly deter
mined to give the Medford lads
a run for their money. The
Black Tornado is, of course, fa
vored to cop the bunting on
their perfect record alone, but
the scrappy Klamath Pelicans
are not beyond upsetting the old
applecart and providing tne ma
jor cage upset of the year.
"Grey Mask" Pours It On
Jug McSpaden Will
Try to Beat Jinx
In New Orleans Open
NEW ORLEANS, Feb! 8 (IP)
In the 1945 tourney starting
nere lomorrow goner Harold
(Jug) McSpaden is again going
to try to beat the jinx that has
always kept him from winning
the New Orleans Open.
McSpaden has been right on
the heels of the winner four
times since the tournament be
gan in 1938. His toughest blow
came in 1940 when Jimmy Dem
aret beat him by one stroke af
ter two of Jug's tee shots on the
17th went into a lagoon.
Jimmy Foxx
May Aitempt
Comeback
PHILADELPHIA. Feb. 8 UP)
Jimmy Foxx, one of the greatest
home run hitters of all time,
plans a serious comeback effort
this year at the age of 37.
And it may be with the Na
tional league Phillies.
Within 10 pounds of his best
playing weight and imbued
with the same enthusiasm he
had 20 years ago when he first
reported to the Athletics, Foxx
stopped off at the Phillies' office
yesterday and asked General
Manager Herb Pennock whether
ne d be interested in him as a
good first or third baseman.
They had a lona conference.
behind locked doors.
When it ended, Pennock re
fused to comment, but Foxx said
he wanted a last crack at the
majors and declared himself con
fident that he would be about as
good as ever.
- "I'm not through," he said.
Foxx, with two broken ribs
and a torn back muscle suffered
in a batting practice accident,
was shifted from Boston to the
Chicago Cubs to bat only .200
last year. : He sat on the bench
half the season, then was sent
out to manage a Piedmont league
club. The Cubs listed him as a
coach and scout this year, then
released -him - when he said he
wanted to play again.
"My legs are as good as ever
now," Foxx said here, "and my
ribs and back are comoletely
healed. They have been the rea
sons why J couldn't swing a bat
freely and why many thought I
was through.
"When I lolned the Cubs. I
told Jimmy Wilson I wouldn't be
able to helD him because of the
accident, but we got short
handed and he had to stick me
in. I'm really ready only now."
The present - day "softbal!"
Ditchers, he said, should be just
his speed.
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Mr. Stoneface is shown above takinn a fall from Tough Tony
Ross with a half-crab in their qreat bout last week at the Klamath
bicep bin. Tony came back to take a fall and the match was de
clared a draw. This Friday. Promoter Mack Llllard has rematched
these two musclemen by popular demand in tne main event, ret
Belcastro will crunch craniumt with Jomn jacK ivuer in tne
ssmi-winduo and "Blood and Guts" Davidson will twist tonoi
with "Silent" Rattan, deal mute grappier, in tne curiain-rautr.
Opinion Split on Success
Of New Basketball Rules
By JACK HAND
NEW YORK. Feb. 8 (IP)
Opinion was divided today on
the success of the experimental
basketball game played last
night between Columbia and
Fordham and in which the
value of field and foul goals in
creased with the distance of the
shot.
Oddly enough. Columbia
which won the game under the
new rules, 73-58, also would
have won under the standard
regulations by 15 points, 59-44.
The effect of tne experiment
was to add 14 points to the
score of each team.
Coach Elmer Ripley of the
Lions wasn t too enthusiastic,
the rules were all right, he
said. "But give me the old game.
Nat Holman, City college men
tor, followed the same reason
ing but admitted he was "glad
to see the defense loosened up
a bit."
Ned Irish, acting president of
Madison Square Garden, saw
possibilities in widening the foul
ane from six to 12 feet thus
Our Boarding House
CAGE TEAM HELPS VETS
PHOENIXVILLE, Pa., Feb. 8
(Pi The "biggest morale factor"
at the army's huge Valley Forgp
General hospital for wounded
veterans is its top-flight basket
ball team, a consistent winner,
staff physicians agree. Their
comments were reported by
Forge, hospital publication.
Shaw Declines
Job as UCLA
Football Coach
LOS ANGELES. Feb. 8 (IP)
UCLA is still seeking a football
coach but Lawrence (Buck)
Shaw has been eliminated from
the field.
The former Santa Clara uni
versity mentor declined the job
yesterday in a message to UCLA
Graduate Manager William C.
Ackerman. Shaw said business
commitments prevented him
from considering the post.
Shaw had been considered
one of the favorites for the job
vacated by the resignation of
Babe Horrell. Ray Richards,
UCLA line coach, and Bert La
brucherie, Los Angeles high
school coach, are now rated the
leading contenders.
Three World Series
Raise Over Million
Dollars For Relief
CHICAGO, Feb. 8 (IP) The
last three world series have
raised $1,062,918 of the $2,630,
460 contributed to war relief by
baseball's Major leagues in three
wartime seasons, Earl Hilligan,
of the American League Service
bureau, disclosed yesterday.
Last season the Ail-Star game
In Pittsburgh yielded $81,275 to
the fund for supplying service
teams with baseball equipment
to which was added $25,000
from the two leagues and the
commissioner's office and the
$25,000 radio fee.
In the three-year span, Hilli
gan said, the American league
raised $595,384 while the Na
tional league contributed $565,-784.
limiting the value of height un
der the basket because of the
three-second rule.
"But the 3-point field goal
and the 2-point foul shot .don't
look like improvements," Irish
commented. "They cut down
floor play too much."
Coach Howard Hobson of Ore
gon had suggested the field goal
change permitting three points
for a shot outside the 21-foot
line. Another regulation gave
two points for a foul if a player
exercised the option of shooting
from the same 21-foot line.
The slightly bewildered spec
tators joined the Fordham play
ers in approval of the innova
tions, especially the widened
foul lane.
March Field's
Fliers All Set
For Title Game
MARCH FIELD. Calif., Feb. 8
(IP) March fields high-flying
basketball team today stood
ready to meet a northern divi
sion team for the championship
qi me rounn army air lorce.
The Fliers won the southern
division title by trouncing Le
moore field last night, 63-31.
The winners took a 23-0 lead in
the first quarter.
The northern section winner
will be determined Friday and
Saturday in games at Spokane,
Wash. The championship three
game series between the two
division winners has been set for
February 15-17 in Fresno.
Babe Ruth Recalls
51st Circuit Clout
On 51st Birthday
NEW YORK. Feb. 8 (Pi-
Babe Ruth celebrated his 51st
birthday yesterday, recalling
how he hit home run No. 51 off
Willis Hudlin in Cleveland in
1927. the year he set the record
of 60 circuit clouts.
The Babe weighs 260 pounds
now and is worried about his
lack of exercise because he
hasn't been able to do much
since an operation on his knee
eight months ago.
Stagg Nicknamed Bert Criiler
After Famous Violinist
ANN ARBOR, Mich. Herb
ert O. Crisler. Michigan grid
mentor and athletic director.
had the nickname Fritz pinned
on him back in his football
days by A. A. Stagg. One night
they met Fritz Kreislcr, famous
violinist, who, learning the
player's favorite song was "Lon
donderry Air," played it for
him.
The next afternoon while di
recting practice, Stagg momen
tarily forgetting Crislcr's name
but remembering the violinist,
called his end Fritz.
The monicker stuck.
Baseball
Needs Czar,
Says Connie
r.OS ANGELES. Feb. 8 OP)
The 82-year-old boss of the Phila
delphia Athletics, Coimtu Muck,
is regarded as a conservative
member of the old school of base
ball, but ho believes tho advent
Into the American league of the
flamboyant Larry niacPliau is a
stroke of good hick.
MacPhail. snvs Connie. Is go
ing to keep tho rest of tho league
on its toes.
"I'm b great admlror of Col.
MucPhail," tho veteran tacticlun
said during a funning bee witli a
group of baseball men. "lie did
a great job at Cincinnati and at
Brooklyn. I'm glnd to see him
in with tho Yankees. Ho can
keep Interest in baseball at
white hot pitch. Ho really put
night baseball across, Ha lias
bruins, pep and color, and so do
Connie said he was sorry to
sec his old friend, Ed Barrow,
step aside in tho Yankee organ!'
lotion.
Mack said he Is completely In
accord with the major leagues
decision to retain the com mis-
siniipr KVctem.
"By all means, baseball needs
commissioner and one with
plenty of power, too." Connie
elaborated. "But I don t think
we should be in too much of a
hurry to pick him. There are
any number of men, both in and
out of baseball, well-fitted for
tho position, but if wc take our
time we should find just the
right man."
Ho declined to mention any
names, howovcr, as possible can
didates. The fanning bee got around to
the annual question of when
Mack was going to retire.
"Wny should 17 ho asked.
I'm looking forward to baseball
fter the war. We'll all have
good players then and revived
Interest in tho gnme, Then too.
it has been a long time since we
won a pennant in Philadelphia.
Maybe it'll be our turn pretty
soon, and I shouldn t want to
miss that."
On Points
With Major Hoopla Out Our Way
Service Boxing
Bouts Scheduled
At Sand Point
SEATTLE, Feb. 8 (P) North
west service boxing matches are
scheduled at Sand Point naval
station Frldoy and Saturday,
with title winners becoming
eligible to compete In the
Golden Gloves tourney here
February 27-28.
Dominion elimination bouts
for entrance in the Golden
Gloves event will be held in Van
couver, February 16-17.
The little fellows are looked
to to provide the fastest action
in the service show at . Sand
Point.
In the featherweight match,
Harvey Wicker of Fort Lewis,
who kayoed Bobby Parker of
Vancouver Monday, will meet
Benny Jerome of the Pasco na
val air station. Jerome is a for
mer professional.
Other top-interest performers
will include Don Sauer, light
weight, Seattle naval hospital;
former Diamond belt and Golden
Gloves boxer from Boston, and
Elroy Malanado, Bremerton sta
tion bantamweight.
SINGING VAULTER TOO
BUSY TO COMPETE
COLUMBUS, O. This is to
notify officials of tho Millrosc
Games that Johnny Schmidt
will bo unable to accept their
invitation. Schmidt, tho nation's
No. 1 collegiate pole vaulter, on
the night of Feb. 3. when the
meet is booked for Madison
Square Garden, will be playing
the lead in the operetta, "The
Red Mill," to be given by a
group of Columbus amateurs. In
addition to being a pole vaulter
and captain of the Ohio State
track team, a baritone, an ac
complished pianist and master
of ceremonies, the 133-pound
Schmidt is the news announcer
over the university's radio sta
tion. He has a medical discharge
from the armed forces, in which
he spent a year. Asked what
he docs in his spare time, he re
plies: "I love to sleep."
NO PROTRACTED SLUMPS
' ST. LOUIS The Cardinals1
haven t lost six consecutive
gomes since 1940. When they
aroppoa five in a row to the Pi
rates last September it was their
longest slump since 1941.
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ISi;t. Tom Clement, of Sarnnac.
IN, v., in cnare oi oki look"
Lake l'l.icid Club, where U. S.
Armv ground and rervieo forces
mo Vent for recreation before
redistribution, is shown about to
oxecuto a lip-turn on ski.
Clement was Willi u. A. OKI
.Troops for two years.;
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Whitman Hoopsters
Have Strenuous Day
MISSOULA, Mont.. Feb. 8 UP)
Basketball out west is comiiiu
double dipped the.se days.
Whitman college's basketball
team is maimed by sailors, and
navy regulations don t permit
athletic teams to stay uwav for
more than 48 hours. So whit
man did two days' work In one
day. It walloped Montana Mate
71-51 In ail afternoon name, men
came back mid dropped a 4-oD
nlKht contest.
men the ttous nurricmy set
sail for their homo port at
Walla Wullu, Wash.
EAGLES RAP MONARCHS
LOS ANGELES. Feb. B (Pi-
After a tiKht (1-1) fir.it period,
tho Portland KiirIcs, leaders of
the Pacific Coa.it leu Hockey
leniiucs northern division,
swarmed all over tho Los Anne
les Monarchs to win an easy U-2
exhibition victory lust nlnht.
ORTIZ IN BIG FIGHT
CAMP ROBERTS, Calif., Feb.
8 (.!') Manuel V. Ortiz, 29,
world's chumnlon bantinnwiviiiM
boxer from El Centro, Calif., ar
rived here today for trainlnc as
an infantryman.
Flaherty, a Gonzmta graduate
and former New York Giants
football star, couched the Wash
ington Redskins to two cham
pionships before Joining the
navy to help train men for the !
fleet.
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By HUGH FULLERTON Jr.
NEW Y01IK, Feb. II (l')-U
tho National Football luuuuc
wants to get riu ur a few weak
clubs, Chick Meehnn would be
glad to havo llieiu. , , , Ap
parently idiut out of Yankee xtu
diuin with bin Tran.vAinerlea
league, Chick has been looking
for new fields and listening to
two questions: (U That there
still In room fur another major
grid leaguo and C!) That the 1 1
cluh National leaguo Is unwieldy
. , . , A solution would bn for
tho National to whittle ltttlf
down to eight clubs and give
tho overflow to Meeliau to com
bine with his best five. , , , That
wtmld virtually shut out all
other rivals, cnnbla each cir
cuit to pay a lioinc-iiiid hume
schedulo with a real "world
uerles" ut tho end and iiiuka (ur
more profitable- exhibitions. . . .
"If tliu National league wauls to
appoint a committee to stabilize
pro football, I'll talk It over unit
tako any clubs they name," suy
Chick. "lint that solution Is Just
too sensible to bo considered."
ONE MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
Sid Mcrehcr, dean of the New
York baseball writing clan, is
dangerously III. . . . sign of
spring: Tho national baseball
congress report tho organiza
tion of a nix-club saudlot league
around Stockton, Calif., and that
an ludiaiituwn Gup, I'll., soldier
team already has filed Its entry
for tho statu tourney next July.
. . . When Jimmy Johnston read
Promoter Hebu McCoy's Uncut
to suu Leo Uiiiii "for breach ot
promise, or something" If Lee
pulls out of a California bout
Willi Fltzy FlUpulrlck Jimmy
wired offering Lou Nova us sub
stitute. "For $1U,0U0." expluin.
cd Jimmy, "thoso lions hi the
park would look Interesting."
. . . And when I'rei. Lew bun
ion ( tho fight managers'
"guilt" was asked what would
happen if one member chose to
disregard tho wishes of tho ma-
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