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Zero Hour Approaches For Prep Grid Titles Grant Against Jefferson, Hood River Versus The Dalles Crucial Contests By A. R. BURNS Associated Proii Staff Writer The battle for district prep Scro hour this weekend, with a fsther par of crucial decisions. ;'. The unbeaten, untied Hood palles tomorrow (Friday) to battle their chief contender for the Jaurels of district 1. In Portland's district 4, Grant's Generals, with six straight No Miracles Expected Bj Southworth Poor Way Of Getting In Condition For Bout With Heavyweight King l ; imiii iiBuTTwsiiim ninu t BOSTON. Nov. 8 t&i The Boston Braves needed a baseball miracle to win their last Nation al league pennant in 1914 but, Billy Southworth, their new manager, vows, they'll be able to thank hard work for their riext one. "Pennant . winners can't be tfuilt overnight and I can't work miracles," Southworth said as he signed a three-year contract that provided him with "the oppor tunity that comes to a baseball manager only once in his ca reer." ! "I have my work cut out for me here but I'll be on the job 24 hours a day and I'm confident that eventually we'll reach our goal," continued he who was one of the most successful managers in major league history during his five full seasons with the St. Louis Cardinals. "The Braves have plenty of weak spots to be sure, but the club also has many fine players and every effort possible will be made to gain added strength," Southworth added, rm-.Tpr. i While announcing thcS .i,mirk of Southworth to a threVVear contract. reported to be forVs $30,000 annual safcry. President Lou Perini of th Braves, said mai money wouidTae no object in we searcn for tucn-needed playing talent. He intimated that he and his stockholders, also wealthy con tractors, were prepared, to startle baseball again and again with six-figure deals equal in magnitude to the one that got them Pitcher Mort Cooper from the Cardinals last season. Familiar with most of the Braves' current players, South worth enthused about the even tual return of Connie Ryan, whom he described ax the Na. tional league's best second base man, Johnny McCarthy, a first baseman, and Outfielder Maxie West from the armed services. He also paid tribute to Catcher Phil Masi and hard-slugging Tommy ' Holmes, whom the Cardinals "couldn't get out.". Fights Last Night By The Associated Press, KANSAS CITY Billy Conn, 194, Pittsburgh, boxed Bearcat Jones, 190, Pittsburgh (three round exhibition). Lee Sa void, 199, Des Moines, knocked out Sunny Jim Williams, 185, To ledo, .3. Pat Comiskey, 219, Paterson,' N. J., knocked out Dan Merritt, 200, Cleveland, 3. BANGOR, Me. Paul Fre chette (the blond tiger) 126, Lowell, Mass., outpointed Don Hernandez, 1341, Los Angeles, 8. Mickey O'Brien, 146, Ban gor, TKO Tommy Lawless, 147, Portland, Me., 4. PATERSON, N. J. Freddie Russo, 131, Rahway, outpointed Pat Demers, 133, Brockton, Mass., 10. Freddie Patterson, 1481, Rochester, outpointed Buddy Jackson. 151, Newark. We have lust received our first postwar shipment of the pipe you nave neen wailing tor.. ine genuine ftiratenl Our supply of these coot sweet- raruv umiiea, so nurryl TbeKlrstenismorelhana J fane pipe... it is a perfect moke! Each puffin pre- cooiea . . . irritaung tars ana ous are condensed and trapped in the big raaiator. iou get only the natural flavor of tobacco when yon moke Kiraten ripe. coob CHAN) SWEET SMOKING NOW AVAILABLE ' AT "Klamath Billiard Co. Agents .' 630 Main Phone 8167 THE Ml 1U-IT gridiron titles approaches the pair of crucial contests and an River Dragons will travel to The -loop wins, and Jefferson, with live victories and a tic, win roll out to a contest deciding tne ais- trict crown. Thi district 2 picturt houldn't chang much, with Mediord's powerful Black Tor nado due to roll up another victory against Ashland, and perfect-record North Bend ex pected to stay that way over weak Marshfield. The title, barring an upset this weekend, will be decided by playoff next week. Crucial decisions are coming up in district 3 but by ballots. not pigskin. In that northwest- em Orecon reeinn sn thirklv i . : . . ;r. . . . ' r populated it s split into two divr siuus ine uuisis oi uie uonn ern and southern divisions will be chosen by vote to play off for me district crown. Schools from the northern division will convene at Forest Grove Monday to ballot on the crown. McMinnville, idle this weekend, is the only unbeaten. untied team in the section. Co lumbia prep, undefeated but with one tie, entertains Seaside tomorrow. Ballots on the tangled south cm division race are due to be counted in Salem Sunday. Two squads boast perfect records Cottage Grove, which entertains Springfield tomorrow and hasn't lost a game for two years; and Woodburn, which goes to Silver ton tomorrow heading for - its third straight year without a loss in duration league play. Corvallis claims a perfect record in that region for dis trict play, but has lost one out of district game and was held last Friday to a tie with weak Redmond. . T h e Redmond squad had previously been de viated by Lebanon, another southern division contender which lost its first within-dis-trict game last week. ' Weekend prep games scat tered from Friday to Monday be cause of the Armistice holiday will end two upstate loop sea sons. Asmand s trip to Medford winds up the Southern Oregon conference. The see-sawine chamDionshin of the Blue Mountain conference' will also be settled, with holiday clashes of Baker at La Grande and Mac Hi at Pendleton. Swede Larson, Naval Academy Coach, Dies ATLANTA, Nov. 8 (IP) Colonel Emery Ellsworth "Swede" Larson, famous foot ball figure and veteran of two wars, is dead. The passing of the 46-year-old colonel of marines here yester day stunned grid fans who had loiiowea nis career, first as a player and later as coach of the U. S. Naval Academy at Annapo lis. The end came after the third of a series of heart attacks. He was first stricken about two weeks ago and removed to the U. S. Naval Air Station hospital. Mrs. Larson, the former Mar garet Ross of Long Beach, Calif., was with him.. . SUPERMEN SANTA MONICA, Calif., Nov. 8 OP) Surveying six grave stones overturned by vandals, J. C. Browder, superintendent of the municipal Woodlawn cemetery, said "This must have been a contest to see who could upset the largest stone." The smallest weighed 600 pounds, the largest 3000. Brace Of Ducks' Per Hunter J Wit) fif (q Syr Ai&xiti&iSttoiJbJlkt These four Dianas proudly display their luck, bagged on the shores of Upper Klamath lake. Mrs. Harold Andrew, Mrs. L. Jewell, Mrs. Robert Dalton and Mrs. Paul Stanza are all from Los Angeles. . ' Evergreen studio. RADIO REPAIR By Expert Technicians GOOD STOCK OF AVAILABLE TUBES-PARTS-AERIALS For All Makes of Radios ZEMAN'S We are now taking orders for New Radios. 116 N. 9h ohone 7522 : Across From Montgomery Ward on North 9tk Going, Going ..... rae jsM Avjgjk Maynard Hunter seems to be having his own troubles trying to stay aboard wildly bucking Eagle in 20th annual world's cham pionship rodeo at Madison Square Garden. A second after pic ture was snapped Maynard had GONE. Pel Reserves Replace Bonanza In Jamboree Now that the Bonanza grid team has pulled out of Satur day's football jamboree, the Pelicans are going to have to rush back from Bend early Sat urday morning to be here in time to make up the eighth team in the afternoon community scrap on Modoc field. Pelican reserves will be used, in place of the Bonanza outfit, which decided against the trip following yesterday's snow storm. . The Lava Bear gam. tomor row night under the floodlights at Bend finishes off the KUHS varsity schedule and also ends the high school playing careers of seniors Chuck Thurman, Rog Vanderhoff, Scott Reed, Jim Pope, Bill Sari, Dee Nelson, Har old Wirth and others. .Thirty Pels will make the Bend journey, going up by bus tomorrow morning. Dick Foust who hurt his knee in the Axemen game last week and still is getting about with a Track Stars Labelled Pro By Sweden STOCKHOLM, Nov. 8 (IP) Arne Andersson and Uunder Haegg, world - record holding Swedish runners, and 13 other top-ranking bweaish track stars, were declared professionals to day by the Swedish Athletic as sociation, the newspaper Ex pressen said. There was no official an nouncement as yet from the as sociation, which has been con ducting a sweeping investigation into the entire Swedish track setup. Earlier the association an nounced a finding that payments of fees to- top Swedish track stars by leading sports clubs con stituted a breach of amateur regulations and indicated there would be disciplinary measures against both clubs and perform ers. The association did not name the individuals involved, and had announced it would not do so until completion of the na tionwide inquiry. A finding that Andersson is professional would cancel his projected trip to the United States for the indoor season this winter. limp, won't go along, and neither will Herb Barker, who has been out since the Eureka tilt with a leg injury. Fred Gerbino. reserve center, failed to make passing grades in school and is put on tne ineligi ble list. The past couple of evenings Jfeive been almost too cold for practice, but slightly better weather has been reported from Bend. At least there was no snow on the field up there Wed nesday. . Klamath holds a slight edge ov.r th. Lava B.ars going in, based mainly on th. s.ason's rec ords two wins and fiv. loss, for us, on win and fiv. losses for B.nd and on what Med ford did to each t.am 51-0 her. and 78-0 at B.nd. Our starting lineup will prob ably be about the same as last week, with Redkey, Sari, Ed wards and Coleman in the back field, Selby, Wirth, Reed, Van derhoff, Eastman, Pope in the line and Rose in at tackle replac ing Foust. No lineup of Pelicans has been announced for the football Jam boree Saturday, but reserves will probably be used throughout their quarter. The other seven outfits scheduled to participate include Henley, Sacred Heart the Wildcats, Dorris.'-Tulelakc, Merrill and Malm, L. A. Pug May Fight Lightheavy Winner LOS ANGELES, Nov. 8 (JP) Hilton (Fitzy) Fitzpatrick, has been offered a scrap with the winner of the lightheavyweight title match between Champion Gus Lesnevitch and Joe Kahut in Portland ne-t January, Joe Waterman, Portland promoter said yesterday. Kahut recently outpointed Fitzpatrick in a Portland bout. BATHTUB NIGHTMARE KANSAS CITY, Mo., Nov. 7 (IP) Vincent Totta, aged two and a half, was an interested specta tor at the Shrine circus here. Someone previously had giv en him a box of soap, each cake shaped like a miniature ele phant. When real elephants pa raded into the arena, Vincent's grandmother, Mrs. W. E. Urqu hart, said: look, Vincent, what is that?" Vincent took one glance and answered seriously: "Soap." There is no hope of construct ing world peace without the cordial and confident coopera tion of Russia, particularly with out a sincere understanding be tween the British and Russian governments. Leon Blum, for mer premier of France. When in M.dford Stay at HOTEL HOLLAND Thoroughly Modern Jo. and Ann. Earl.y Propri.tors ARMORY NEXT WED. r AfVflflDfLG STARS OF STAGS SCREEN and RAVI0 Conn Beefs On Fighting Exhibitions New Manager Confident Braves Will Finally Becomo Pennant Winner KANSAS CITY, Nov. 8 (IP- Billy Conn, the fancy boxing irishman rrom i'lttsburgh, says he l.i convinced that exhibition lighting is a necK ot n poor way to gut in conauiun ror his championship bout Willi Heavy weight King Joo Louis next June, That's why. he said after a 3-round appearance here Inst night, he is quitting "show off" stuff in favor of serious training for a return engagement with the Brown Bomber. "You can tell th. world I'm through with exhibitions." th. handsom. ex-army cor poral declared. He had Just trudged through a slow prac tice s.ssion with B.arcat Jon.s, a sparring specialist from Pittsburgh. "Fans don't realize it's only an exhibition, Conn explained "They expect me to show the same boxing skill I used that night in 1941 when 1 boxed rings around Louis for twelve rounds before I got careless.' Overweight and not up to his usual speed, uonn threw a lew fast hooks at the Bearcat In tho last minute of the exhibition, but he admitted that he had a "long way to go" before he's ready for Louis. "I'm going to spend some time on road work at Hot Springs, Ark.," Conn said, "then I m go ing to return to Pittsburgh and start mixing it with good spar ring partners. I'm certain I can lick Louis this time I don't plan to spoil my chances run ning around the country showing off"' Should Kahut Win, New York Re-Match Set PORTLAND, Nov. 8 '(Pi Promoter Joe Waterman, who contracted the Joe Kahut-Gus Lesncvich bout in New York last month arrived hero today, and said that everything was in the bag. "All details have been agreed upon," he said. "The contract to be signed here about Decem ber 15 merely is a protective one giving Lesnevich a return bout with Kahut in Madison Square Garden within 90 days after the Portland fight, should Kahut win." The bout will be the first light heavyweight championship match ever staged here, it win give a Woodburn, Ore., farmer boy his chance at tho crown. Navy Mentor Gets Pro Coaching Bid BALTIMORE, Nov. 8 (IP) Edgar E. "Rip" Miller, former Notre Dame football grcf.t and long a fixture on the Navy coaching staff, is the owner's choice to be head coach of the Baltimore team An the All- America Football conference, a new professional football lea gue, scheduled to start opera tions in 1946. R. Bruce Livie. Baltimore in dustrialist and owner of the Bobanet stable of race horses, said last night that Miller, now Navy's line coach, was his se lection for the job. Miller said: "I have not talked about this position with the franchise owner. Until I do. I have no statement to make." Sheriff's Posse To Hold Meeting The Sheriff's Posse will have a meeting and dinner at the Wil- lard hotel inday evening at 7 o'clock. AH members of the posse are urged to attend. Stromberg Carlson Radios. Derby's Music Co. DEVELOPING ENLARGING PRINTINC PHOTO SERVICE ' 111 Underwood Bldg. I V " ill W w: J VByHLCBROUH;- Huskies May Be Champs, But Not Best Right about now the yearly beefs from buck cust ai'o coming in regarding tho way tho Pacific Const conference opera les tho Rose Bowl, claiming that not every year Is tho const vhiinip one ot me best grid loams in tno country or even tho best team on the const. And this year tho registered howls have plenty ot basis in fact. The Huskies will prob ably bo the host eleven al tho Tournament of Ruses, but Washington's primary claim to con ference - leadership is bused on a win over Southern Cal. But there arc plenty of people, Including my self, who will insist that St. Mary's, lit Ton) Marines, Fleet City Bluejackets, possibly Simla Clara mid a few other assorted coast elevens can whip both Washington and Southern Cal, Somcono has suggested over my shoulder that Medford bo added to tho list. However, regardless of who plays what brand of football at Pasadena January 1. the iolnt will bo sold out. We hope Alabama gets Washington's bid, nit look for the Huskies to grab a tartar no matter which of (ho eligible and willing eastern teams they invite out. Unsung Hero Of Wildcats A youngster you've probably never heard about has boon helping Joe LaClalr coach tho Wildcats nil season. Ho Is 1'1'C Gleu Mullettc of tho Marine Barracks, who has been coining down to the field every afternoon, dressing out with tho team and taking part in scrimmages and drills. Ho gets right into the fray, showing tho boys how to put Into practice Coach LnClnlr devices. Mall.tt. Is 20 years old. a resident of Elmira, N, Y and will b. heading back ther. as soon as th. Wildcats finish th.ir part of the football Jamboree Saturday. H. gets dis charged today. Gl.n played halfback two seasons in high, school b.for. Joining th. marln.s, and now plans to go on to college, majoring in physical education with an y. to a g.n.ral coaching car.er. Soldiers Should Get By Notre Dame In my book undefeated Army figures to still be undefeated through Saturday afternoon at Yankee stadium, though Notre Dame, unbeaten but once tied, is getting a huge play from east ern sportswritcrs. .One expert places the odds at 6 to 8 and take your choice, while others nrc spotting the soldiers up to three touchdowns. Army and th. Irish ar. one-two among th. nation's top teems. Alabama, third-ranking outfit, takes a vacation Satur day, th. Idea b.lng to allow Harry Gilmer and company tlm. out to attend a few class.s and possibly tak. an ex em or so. An Alabama custom quaint in th. Southern conference. ' Other pigskin selections: RICE over Arkansas . . . AUBURN over Southwestern ... TEXAS over Bavlor . . . YALE over Brown . . . SOUTHERN CAL over California . . CORNELL over Colgate , TON over Dartmouth . . GEORGIA over Florida , ILLINOIS over Iowa . . HOMA over Iowa State . . . KENTUCKY over West Virginia ct.lA MTAMT nver Smith Carolina TENNESSEE over Mississippi . . . NORTHWESTERN over Wisconsin . . . OHIO STATE over Pitt . . . OKLAHOMA A&M over Tulsa . . . PURDUE over Iowa Pre-Fllght . . . ST. MARY S over Fresno State . . . TEXAS AAM over Southern Methodist TCU over Texas Tech . . . OREGON over Washington State and WASHINGTON over Oregon Slate. 17 -Year-Old Huskies Into SEATTLE. Nov. 8 (IP) A streak of purple football light ning quartcrbneked by a 17-yeiir-old is lnshing at the gates of the Rose Bowl and the man who keeps the bnttcry charged con fided around the back of his hand todav it was about 50 per cent luck and the other half pure sled dog determination. Coach Ralph "Pest" Welch ad mittcd. however, "that Isn't quite the whole story" behind the surge of his University of Wash ington Huskies to the top spot In the Pacific Coast conference scramble. Right now the affable conch, who spends six days each week recuperating from Saturday's tortures (he said "We've kicked away at least 10 touchdowns"), refuses to talk about the Rose Bowl or listen to all the hapny clamor of fans and alumni. He has three games ahead, and Welch is a worrier. This weak th. menu Is dally practic. in secret to pr.par. for th. homecoming brush Saturday with Oregon State, a 13 to 0 Husky victim earlier in th. year. The team has lost Just one game in six starts, a 27 to 14 defeat by California, and the thought that such a nightmnrc could happen again keeps the coach In a dither. The boys, he FRIDAY - NIGHT ARMORY ARENA Thursday, Nov. , ISO HOLY i:nuba over L.oa.n uumn . . . . . PENN over Columbia . . . PniNCE DUKE over North Carolina Stale . . . . . GEORGIA TECH over Tulanc . . . INDIANA over Minnesota . . . OKLA- . NEBRASKA over KansBS Siaie LSU over Mississippi NAVY over Michigan Leading Pasadena recalled sadly, could do nothing right that afternoon. Joo Stone. 17, quarterbacks the club. It s a tough Job, es neeliillv sn due to Welch s strat egy of switching bnck and forth t between T formation and the j noire uamc uox. jgc is ini from being the only freshman in the lineup Welch started seven first year men In each of his last two games. Air Conditioned DANCING 9 P. M. to I A, M. SATURDAY NITE Auspices V.F.W. DANCELAND SIS Klamath At. Music by Pappy Gordon's Oregon Hillbillies Adm. 60c each parson, incl. tax. " fr HERALD AND NEWS TWELVE Army Dentist Takes Spot In Golf Meet PINEIIURST, N. C. Nov. (!) Itolliud Fred Corcoran, totii'iin. nient innnagei' fur Hie Profes sloiiul Golfers association, wore a broad smile today, 11 was a smile fostered by an unheralded 24-year old amateur from Mem phis, Teiiii., who was In th. driver's seat as the final Mil holes of the $.10110 North mid South Open tournament begun. Scoring a dnt.llug (III in which he needed only 1 1 pulls on each nine. 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