EIGHT HERALD AND MEWS
iidir, Fab. 27. 1945
Six Oregon Hoop Squads Win
District Basketball Laurels
J... By The Associated Press
.Six Oregon 'hoop squads,
working through the weekend to
district laurel wreaths, began
aiming today at the next step
up a berth in the March 15-17
state basketball tournament at
Salem.
Added to the champion roster
of the big schools in a competi
tion are Medford, titlist of dis
trict 4; Oregon City, district 12;
and Vernonia, district 14.
A whirlwind week of tourneys
for the baby B schools wound up
with Arlington in district 8,
Grant Union of John Day in dis
trict 7, and Enterprise in district
8 clinging to official titles.
The expected victory of the
powerful Medford Tigers in a
weekend tournament at Ashland
made it certain that the state's
defending hoop champions won't
be back at the Salem tourney.
Medford. which already has one
season championship football
in its pocket, walloped defending
i Sports K
I Briefs
Hush -C
rulltrton, Jr.R
NEW YORK, Feb. 27 (&) '
The Army and Navy are co
favorites to win the IC 4-A track
meet Saturday, and the Army
Navy basketball tussle likely
will be the best of the eastern
season . . . But did you ever
sfbp to think that these teams
are both by-products of the 1944
football squads? . . . The track
teams, without Max Minor, Dos
Blanchard, Ben Martin and Hal
Bamberg (Navy) would be good
but wouldn't dominate the field
. i. . Footballer Dick Duden is
the 'sparkplug of Navy's cage
te"am while Army's incluaes
Cfienn Davis, Doug Kenna, Dale
Hall, Bobby Dobbs and Ed
Rafalko . . . So, can you blame
tne athletic departments if
they're out looking up more
good football material?
6NE MINUTE SPORT PAGE
Lou Bloom, freshman basket
bailer at St. Mary's high school,
Katonah, N. Y., has scored 479
points in 20 games so far and
Westchester county cage fans
think it must be a record . . .
Returning his 1945 contract un
signed, Ted Wilks, Cardinal's
pitcher, remarked, : "I thought I
wfes a major league success until
I looked at the terms." . . . Memo
to!" college football coaches who
think they might find a soft
touch in the pro business: 23 of
24 National league sectional
titles have gone to coaches who
graduated from pro ranks.
Potsy Clark won the other at
Detroit after he had been in the
league six years . . . The Tor
nado Hockey club, advertised to
night's game with Chicago by
quoting sports writer's comments
on a previous tilt, which the
Leafs lost. Sample: "The worst
exhibition given by a Maple
Leaf team in three seasons" . . .
What if the Dodgers should take
up that idea?
Three More Schools
Accept Invitation
To Cage Tournament
KANSAS CITY, Feb. 27 OP)
George Pepperdine college, Los
Angeles; Eastern Washington of
Cheney. Wash., and West Texas
State of Canyon, Tex., have ac
cepted invitations to play in the
National Intercollegiate basket
ball tournament at Kansas City,
March 1Z-17, Emil Liston, di
rector, announced today.
Eastern Washington boasts a
record ot n wins and three loss
es and is expected to be one of
the stronger tourney entries,
juiston saia.
Jack Perrault. Eastern Wash
ington guard, with an average
of almost 17 points per game, is
among tne nation s top scorers.
champion Ashland, 46-33, in the
district final.
Vernonia took the district
title by percentage with a 43-28
defeat of St. Helens, breaking a
three-way tie between Vernonia,
St. Helens, and Scappoose.
The Oregon City Pioneers
clinched the district champion
ship also decided on a per
centage basis with a 39-30 vic
tory over west ivinn.
Over in the Blue Mountain
area, two more' district crowns
are hanging in the balance this
week. Pendleton defeated Mil-
ton-Freewater. 46-25, to win the
east-end half of district 2. The
Pendleton Buckaroos now play
off with Hood River victor in
a three-game series over The
Dalles for the district title.
Baker, a half-district winner
in district 1, will also battle for
the title asainst the eastern win
ner in a three-game series this
week: Wednesday at Baker,
Friday at the opponent's home
field, with a third game if nec
essary at Weiser, Idaho.
McMinnvnie moved into a
Dreferred seat for the March 2-3
district 8 tournament by break
ing a lona-standing tie in tne
Tualatin-Yamhill Valley league
with a victory over Newberg.
McMinnville, Newberg, and uai
las the latter not in the league
play for the district title at
Llnfield college.
Four other A squads Eugene,
Myrtle Point, Gresham, and
Washington of Portland al
ready hold district laurels: but
the big hurdle lies ahead. The
16A district musts ana tne oa
titlists must nlay off the 8A
and the 4B berths in the state
tourney.
First of the inter-district play
offs is set to begin Friday night
at Eugene, with the first of a
three-game series between Eu
gene and Myrtle Point. Washing
ton, which as Portland league au
tomatically gets the tourney
berth of districts 15-16, is the
only school with an already writ
ten ticKet to saiem.
Unset of the veek occurred in
B league play, when powerful
Union classed as a cinch for
champion of district 8 col
lapsed in the first round ot an
eieht-team tourney at North
Powder. Little Enterprise, which
upset Union at the start, raced
on to the championship with a
41-19 victory over North Pow
der in the final.
Grant Union of John uay
steamrollered Crane. 45-17, to
capture the district 7B title in a
tournament at John Day. Echo
defeated Umatilla, 34-24, for
third place.
In district 6B, Arlington, host
team, walked off with the title
via a 53-37 victory over Odell at
the end of an eight-team tourney
Titlists In other B districts
will be selected this week. Pow
erful Reedsport confirmed pre-
Georges Dusette
To Butt Biceps
With Jack Kiser
In the semi-final tiff on the
crunch card Friday night at the
Klamath bleep bin, Georges Du
sette. the French strongman.
will bop beaks with Joltin' Jack
liiser, Pacific coast iignt-neavy-weight
champ.
Dusette has been rassling
opening bouts here until he be
came acclimated to the high alti
tude, but now feels that he is
ready to go over a longer route.
Kiser is one of the finest grap
piers on the circuit and it should
be a four-star show when these
two musclers tangle.
Dusette specializes in a power
ful full-Nelson that all but
breaks his opponent's neck,
while Kiser prefers to use his
famed "alligator clutch."
Promoter Mack Lillard is
seeking the services of Billy Mc-
fcuin in the opener against an
as yet unnamed opponent.
VOLS SKEO GRID TILTS
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Feb. 27
W) vinanova, Nortn Carolina
and Georgia Pre-Flight are new
comers this year to Tennessee's
football schedule. Other teams
lined up so far are University of
Chattanooga, Alabama, Missis
sippi, and Kentucky, There are
two open dates.
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SCHENIEY DISTIUERS CORPORATION, NEW YORK CITY'
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dictions by defeating Glcndalc,
84-43, for the Douglas county
title and a spot in tne district 4
playoff this weekend. Glcndale
and Myrtle Creek will play to
morrow, for another spot in the
playoff.
onusKanie ovcrwncunca nnap-pa-Svensen,
29-13, for a playoff
Friday at Seaside for the district
1 title. The district 2 crown will
be awarded this weekend. Pleas
ant Hill won the Lane county B
title with a 34-28 victory over
Oakridge, and will compete in a
March 1-3 tourney at Junction
City for the district 3 title.
Rosuc River overwhelmed
Central Point, 36-24, for the right
to play off against tne Klamath
countv champion Friday for the
district 5 title.
Dempsey
Names 10
Tos Men
By RUSS NEWLAND
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 27 ffl
Puffing a bie cisar. Dausintr oc
casionally for rapid-fire com
ment, Commander Jack Demp
sey said: "I'll name you the
Dest in men l fought. They may
not be the best boxine has turned
out but they would have licked a
lot of the so-called tOD heavy
weights and maybe some of our
past champions."
ine old Manassa Mauler, him
self one of the real champs, was
in San Francisco, his one time
stamping grounds, en route to
the South Pacific on a tour of
duty as head of physical educa
tion and recreation for the U. S.
coast guard. That's his job now,
nisi ana iasi. utner matters
are secondary, such as his ring
exploits, but the question of the
10 best men he fought intrigued
him.
Quoting DemDsev: "The best
man? Why Gene Tunney, of
course. He won the title from
me in 1936 and defended it suc
cessfully against me the next
year. Incidentally, he was a
good right hand puncher, better
man ne was given credit for.
"After Tunnev. thev came
this way. Tom Gibbons, Georges
Carpentier, Luis Firpo, Bill
Brennan, Jess Willard, Gunboat
Smith, Billy Miske, Fred Fulton
and Battling Levinsky. They are
IJ1 I1T51 1U.
"You had some good ones
around here from 1915 to 1918
who made things miserable for
me. They were Willie lleehan,
Bob McAllister, Jack Downey,
Al Norton and Charley Miller. It
was durine the four round acre
The fights would be about over
oetore 1 could get started. Mee
han beat me five out of six
times. I think, and Downey
boxed my ears off.
The hardest hitters I met
were Firpo, Smith, Carpentier,
Tunney, Brennan and Fulton.
Firpo could Dunch stiffer than
Gunboat Smith because he was
a much bigger man. The Gunner
hit me so hard on the chin in
1917 I didn't know what I was
doing until I was walking down
the street after the fight. I
didn t even know I had won the
fight, a four round decision."
Northwest Golden
Gloves Boxing Bee
To Get Underway
SEATTLE, Feb. 27 fP) The
tenth annual Northwest AAU
Golden .Gloves boxine tourna
ment, opening its colorful two
day program this evening, boasts
an entry list of more than80 bat-
tiers ot an sizes, witn Vancouver,
B. C, sending the greatest num
ber. Fourteen Vancouver scrappers
were on deck. Others are here
from Portland, Tacoma, Everett,
Yakima, Vancouver,-Wash., Fort
Lewis, Aberdeen, Renton and
Longview, and Seattle has sever
al teams.
"Bucko" Does About
Face In Hockey Play
NEW YORK, Feb.' 27 fP)
Wilfred "Bucko" McDonald,
known for a decade of National
Hockey league competition as a
rough, tough body checker, has
turned up tins season as a lead
ing candidate for the Lady Byng
trophy, awarded to the player
who best combines "effective
ness and clean play." Playing
virtually every game, McDonald
has not been charged with a sin
gle penalty this season and ten
year record shows an average of
only 20 minutes in penalties a
season.
Joe Kahut to Return
To Ring Wars Friday
In 10-Round Bout
POHTT.ANn TToh 01 tori
Joe Kahut. the farmer-fighter
from Woodburn, will come back
to the ring here Friday night
with a in.nim Un,,t aitoin
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Jack Huber, heavyweight coast
guardsman. Kahut, now in the service, re
ported his weight has gone up
io ioo pounds, tiuoer weighs
NEW YORK William Tal-
bert, of Indianapolis and Wil
mington, Del., won eastern in
door tennis championship by
beating Herbert Bowman, 6-2,
6-1, 6 0.
WORK SHIRTS
Tans and Blues
Sizes 14 U to 17
OREGON WOO! FN STORE
800 Main
First Sign of Spring
Secret Meeting to Select
Baseball Czar Postponed
Two Victory League
Tiffs Set Tonight
Two Victory league tiffs
will be played on the KUHS
maple tonight with the Her
ald and News Trotters collid
ing with Hardy'i Man's store
in the National league at 8
o'clock and Jerry ' Delivery
will clash with the powerful
Army-Navy store at 7v-p. m..
in the American circuit.
Minors
Seek More
Power
CHICAGO, Feb. 27 (P) There
was a definite "either or else"
tendency apparent today as
representatives of baseball's
minor leagues went ahead with
their plans for revision of the
major-minor league agreement.
A committee of 10 officials
from the National Association of
Professional Baseball Leagues,
which includes all the minors,
definitely were on the offensive
as they went into the second day
of their sessions, seeking to
broaden their powers insofar as
matters of baseball policy are
concerned.'
The committee in a resolution
yesterday demanded a voice in
selection of a commissioner to
succeed the late Kenesaw Moun
tain Landis, better protection
against invasion of minor league
territory by the majors, and in
a statement threatened abroga
tion of the major-minor agree
ment in event their demands
are not satisfied.
Recommendations by the com.
mittee, called into session to Dro-
pose changes in the pact which
expires next January, will have
to be passed upon at a meeting
of the National association next
December. Then an agreement
will have to be reached at a joint
session witn tne major leagues.
Phillies Acquire
Four Discharged
Vets Over Weekend
fpHTT.AnTTT.-DWTA Vau ov tnyi
The Philadelphia 'Athletics
aren t waning until alter tne
war to build up a winning team
fmm !innio.nf tho AiefhamaA not.
erans they acquired four over
Coach Earl Mack announced
tho sionlncf nt mil ni.,W..l
merly of Lenoir Rhyne college
of North Carolina, Kenton Horn
er, a former Kansan now re
siding here, Frank McMillan of
Winston-Salem, N. C and Eu
gene Conway of Philadelphia, all
Ironmen Add Two
Newcomers to Lineup
SEATTLE. Fr.lv 97 lm T,i,
newcomers will be in the Seattle
Ironmen lineup when the league
leaaers meei me Vancouver,
Wash,, Vanguards in a coast
league hockey clash this Sun
day. They are Frank Sullivan and
Bernard Strongman, both promi
nent Canadian amateur forwards.
ACE GOLFER INDUCTED
NEW ORLEANS, Feb. 27 (IP)
Golfer Bnh Hamilton nf Ven,.
ville, Ind., took his pre-induction
pnysicai yesterday and passed
satisfactorily, but will likely get
in finmo mnrn itrf a, EalnnfL.fl
service officials said his induc
tion notice mignt be as far off
as 00 days.
ST. LOUIS, Mo., Feb. 27 (IP)
Mystery surrounded baseball's
next move to find a new com
missioner today, following an in
definite postponement of what
was to have been the first nor
mal meeting of a four-man com
mittee considering possible can
didates. A secret meeting scheduled
here for today became known
publicly three days ago. Yester
day, Sam Breadon, St. Louis
Cardinals' owner, - announced
postponement.
Breadon has indicated many
times that he felt the work of
the committee himself, P. K.
Wrigley, Chicago Cubs; - Don
Barnes, St. Louis Browns, and
Alva Bradley, Cleveland Indians
should be private. On-the-scenes
observers were certain
that premature announcement
of today's session figures in its
postponement.
Vf'nce Hansen
Sets New Top
Scoring Mark
By The Associated Press
Elongated Vince Hanson . of
Washington State college, the
pivot shot expert whose scoring
rush has put his Cougar mates in
a favorable position for a peek
at the northern division, Pacific
coast conference championship,
has a new division scoring rec
ord sewed up and all but tucked
away.
Bucketing 16 points Saturday
night as WSC brushed aside the
Washington Huskies, Hanson
ran his total for the conference
schedule to 224, equalling the
record set In 1943 by another
Cougar, Gale Bishop, now the
nation's top tally maker with
the Fort Lewis Warriors. Han
son has two games to play. '
Second in the division scoring
chase and with one game ahead
is Ephrum (Red) Rocha of Ore
gon State at 209 points, and Dick
Wilkins of Oregon, long the cir
cuit pace setter, has slipped far
back to third with 196. For the
first time this year, Idaho has a
man among the top 10, Len Pyne
taking over 10th spot with 112.
Up until this week, Idaho lagged
behind the other teams in the
number of games played, ,
The scoring leaders:
... o rorrrrMpr tp
Hanson.. W.S.C. .14 SO M 32 33 224
Bochu, O.S.C. IS 80 31 22 40 300
Wllklni. Ore. 13 83 , 39 2J 41 M
Jorgensen. Wash. 16 72 ' 36 30 19 180
Hayi. Ore. 18 64 17 20 28 149
Hamilton, Ore. .15 98 27 16 37 143
King. Wash. 16 SO 18 5 28 lie
Hamilton, W.S.C. 14 50 18 7 27 . 118
Smith, Ore. IS 30 37 23 53 119
Pyne, Idaho 14 49 22 17 33 113
Second ten: Bartelt, Ore., 107;
Carbaugh, Idaho, 108; McGrath.
OSC, 102; Labhart, OSC; 91;
O'Connor, Idaho, 90; McMillan,
Wash., 88; Taylor, Idaho, 85;
Vandenburgh, Wash., 84; Carrio'
vale, Wash., 82.
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A Ratty Trick!
SALT LAKE CITY, Feb. 27
VP) In variation on the
hickory.diekory.dock them;
an unwiie mouse scampered
acrots a bowling alley and de
flected Sully Frants' oncom
ing ball just enough to pro
duce a strike two in fact,
since the mouse was killed.
Sully figured It was a ratiy
lrick, however, as he was
headed for an all-spare game
for which lhe house offers a
prise.
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Marines
Book Two
More Tilts
Leathernecks Tangle With
Tulolake MP's Wodnoiday;
Moct PAAB Saturday Night
The marine hoopstcrs will
Journey to Merrill Weilnesdiiy
evening, February 28, to timglo
with the MP's from Tuleliiko In
the Leathernecks 25th nmo of
the season.
This contest 'will bu high
lighted by the scoring duel be
tween Gilbert and Domllrovlch.
After tho weekend games with
the Coast Guard Pilots. Gllbt-rl
still remains on top with 2011
points. Domllrovlch, with 20U
markers, has been closing the
gap steadily tho Inst conplo of
weeks and may pass tho hard
fighting center.
On Siiturdiiy night tho Bar
racks cngcrs return to their home
court to ftico possibly thu tough
est aggregation they've met thin
season, the Portland nrniy ulr
base. The soldiers from the
big city, winners over bofh Shan
non's and Fen's, top American
Legion Independent teams, may
have a surprise up their pleoves
In a couplo of burrowed sharp
shooters from local clubs. Klum
ath basketball funs will remem
ber ono of theso men, towering
6' 8" Bill Ousterhnu.i, Shannon s
star center, who gave the mu
rines plenty ot headaches with
his outstanding backboard piny
In the March of Dimes event at
the high school last month.
John Cox, outstanding guard
and ball hnndlcr for the murines,
who suffered a wrist and hip in
Jury in Saturday night's game
with tho Pilots, is not expected
to play against tho Tuleluko
quintet Wednesday. With proper
treatment, however, ho will be
ready to ,go Saturday night.
Civilians from town are In
vited to attend these games at
the Barracks and muy pus
through tho gates unescorted.
Triangular Track
Meet Being Planned
SEATTLE, Feb. 27 (II A trl-'
angular track meet among the
University of Washington, Wash
ington State college and Iduho
is being planned for Pullmnn
late in Muy, Al Ulbrlckson, Uni
versity of Washington athletic
director, declared today.
The former crew mentor said
it is open to Invito athletes from
other schools to compolo wher
ever feasible.
CATCHES RECORD FISH
MIAMI, Fla., Feb. 27 (P) E.
R. Rlggs, of Belmont. Mass., reg
istered the longest' saltfish in the
ten-year history of the Metropol
itan fishing tournament eight
feet, two inches. The fish, caught
off Miami Beach, weiuhed 78
pounds.
C Bv PAUL MAlNrn -5VJ
"B" Tournament
Tho Kltimitth county "H" basketball imi . I
the Allaimmt Junior high school gymnasium vv T.i p,,Wiil
conducted as any wo have seen In a long tlttic. DomiiUl" e
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ill ill v. .......... u iiiwih inn n
fine Job of officiating tho games and tho scatinu
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The nportsiniilisliii) of thu competing tennis
was also an outstanding feature unit the caliber
of bnsketbull plnyed attests to tho nhlllty o( t
conches and lliu plnyora ot lltcso smaller schools
Throughout lhe cage season wo tiro pretty
much wrapped up In tho games played by the
Pelicans and the Leathernecks from the Marine
Biutik'Iin. Consequently, wo woro only able t0
he on hand fur about 13 minutes of the Gil.
ehrist-Kono tusslu Friday afternoon. Wo had no
fours on Hut covrrugo nf the tournament, how.
ever, n.i .limn Larson, nigit school student iimo
elated with tho KUUS Kraler, had kindly con
,untn
HAInV
svuU'd to luindlu this assignment for us. John did a k.
and wo wish to express our sincere appreciation to ut
work right now. 10 ""Moil
r.m it in in hi inns ami to mo merr it iinuM
ouniaiiHMit, and a bouquot lo each comnellno '.? hi
Gilchrist. Keno. Mnlln. lltmley, Chlloqiiln, fcnered Z , Sl
and the conquering champion, Merrill. Mnv ii.. "'1
bring tho state crown back to Klamath county In the forik "l
Uly.
district playoff and state tournament,
Collegiate Cage Teams
Bye Postseason Tourneys
victory over n ulron. New
fered their firs tdch J"
68-60 after wlnnlnj E?
Iowa. Big Ten tcmZ
lender. rni..,l wi .t"
for the Ilnwkcyc4' K
on the Badgers1 floor ta n 5
t was tho Hnwkeye.-nintn'S
.,. v .-Miiien'iico Barnes, (W
Mnlo piled up the WiitjtSj
By JOE REICHLER
NEW YOKK, Feb. XI (VI
With tho cnllcgluto basketball
season nenring nu end, Interest
hus shifted to the NCAA., the
New York National Invitational
and other post-season tournaments-.
North Carolina became the
latest conference chnmplons,
downing Duke's di-fontllng cham
pions, -Itl-ail before 40IIU fans at
itult'lgh, N. C, lo capture the
Southern conference crown. The
game climaxed a three-day mill
ing by eight teams In the annual
tournament and reversed Inst
year's final when the Dukes out
pointed tho Tar Heels for the
title.
Other league and conference
champions are Rice, unbeaten In
ull 12 Southwest conference
games, UCLA In the southern
division of the Pacific Const con
ference and Pennsylvania in the
Eastern Intercollegiate league.
Tho Southwest conference
race ended Inst week with Ar
kanstis sweeping u two-game sc
ries with Texas AA-M, lo clinch
second place. Arknnsas and
Oklahoma A&M, a midwest In
dependent have accepted bids lo
piny In tho western NCAA re
gional tournament at Kansas
City next month. Rice declined
a bid due to its navnl trainees
being unable to stay away from
the campus long enough,
The mythical enstorn cham
pionship will be at stnke when
the Army nnd Nnvy clash at An
nnpolis Saturday. Tho Cadets,
who hud their 27-gume streak
snnnneil hv Pcmi last week, re
bounded Saturday with a 84-31
of the conference kZ w
nll-tlmo tram high uhtl
eyes poured it on ladlim, Jm
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? ctf one nme wjl
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monjinin. Inwi kii ... al, I
homu out of lhe raccwilhiJlji
triumph to stay i Mi
TftllnPMPrl n A Vi..l
- vi nciiujrni
wound up the Southeutera tJ
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10111 nniiieni nt Louisville, Kj u
decide the chamDlonihln. 1
In the other seetloiu.
leads the Big Seven dlrea
while Oregon ind OrejonSn
ore tied In tho Pacific ttai
northern division with Wutat
ton Slnte one-half game bctad
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