Ducks Take
Close Win
From Idaho
46-45 Victory Opens
..Conference Play For
: University Of Oregon
By The Anoclittd Prats
Northwest conference basket
ball got off to a 1946 start for
two teams last night, with the
Webfoots of the university of
Oregon taking a close game from
the Idaho Vandals, 46-45, and
Whitman defeating the College
of Idaho, 40-20.
At Eugene, Ore., the Web
foots, playing their northern di
vision Pacific Coast league open
er, barely edged out ahead of the
invading Idaho five, as both
teams battled score for score un
til the very last.
With Regulars Dick Wilkins
and Bob Hamilton off the court.
the Oregon scoring laurels went
to Seeborg and Williamson, both
back from service after 1943
.. playing for the Ducks
At Walla Walla, the Whitman
quintet outclassed and far out
scored the College of Idaho
squad, banging up a 21 to 9 lead
at the half. Hobbs, Missionary
captain canned 13 points.
In other non - conference
sames. the Corvallis Naval Hos
pital team won a close 32-31 vie-!
tory over Portland university in i
their meet at Portland. Thej
nose wiy squaa jiiayca mij- mcu
star periormer. Big Jim mamun.
Over at Farragut, Idaho, the
Sand Point naval air station
team came from behind in the
second half to defeat the Farra
gut Bluejackets 67-58. Bob
Svendsen topped the scoring
. with 24 points for Farragut.
Fast Action
Slated For
Armory Card
Tonight's card, starting with a
. six-man rassle royal and ending
with a trio of three-canto bouts,
. is slated to start the grapple year
off with an explosion and is not
' able for the return of Brutal
Jack Lipscomb to Klamath ring
; wars.
Surly Jack U even more surly
now that he no longer sports
the Pacific coast junior heavy
crown, the diadem having been
lifted from his well-muscled
head by able-bodied Joe Lynam
in a recent Portland scuffle.
Lipscomb will be tossed into
the communal ring with' Weed's
pride and joy, Pete Belcastro,
Angelo Martinelli, Herbie Parks,
Earl Malone and Gloomy Gust
Johnson to try his luck from
there. - .? .
All tiffs after the mass muscle
will be of three 10-minute rounds
' duration but the financial, re
turns for the grapplers 'scaled
on a main-event, semi-windup
'and curtain-raiser basis.
In other- words, the first two
men thrown in the roundup
come back for three rounds at
prelim pay, next duo have three
cantoes with semi-final bracket
pay and the- two most- hardy
fight the main go.
This business is something
new to Lipscomb, who refused
to fight anything but beadliners
while he had the coast title.
Herbie Parks also has a title be
hind his name, a Canadian
c.-own, but he is easy to Bet
along with and doesn't - object
to taking part in lesser bouts.
Tuesday night was selected for
tonight's rassfing and for all
bouts this year because the old
Friday night date conflicted with
high school and other athletic
events almost every week.
The scuffling tonight is slated
to start at 8:30 in the armory,
with Waljy Moss as referee.
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Reluctant Elk Harem Moved
To New Home In Wilderness
SEATTLE, Jan. 8 (&) Nine
reluctant elk were barged off an
island in a river, trucked 70
miles and turned loose in a wild
and isolated valley of northwest
Washington after an arduous
day-long struKKle by a crew of
state game department men last
weekend.
Game Director Don Clarke
gave this account:
The elk. on 80-acre Snominl
mie island in the Snoqualmie
river, had been problems for
years. It was necessary to bury
2U of me animals, wnicn nan not
survived last winter. A recent
count showed 12 elk one bull,
two calves and nine cows.
A corral was built and stocked
with food. Nine elk went Into
the corral: the other three nosed
about dubiously outside. An
Walker Cooper, star pre
war and wartime catcher of
the St. Louis Cardinals, who
has been swapped off to the
New York Giants for a bag
of currency reported to con
tain $175,000, at present is
earning some $54 a month
swabbing decks at Lambert
field where he is stationed
in the navy as a seaman. (AP
wirephoto).
TAKES OFFICE
PORTLAND, Jan. 8 M)
Henry L. Hess, La Grande at
torney, was sworn into office as
United. States attorney here yes
terday in the court of Judge
James Alger Fee.
Hess succeeds Carl C. Don-
augh, who served three terms.
Tony Zale KOs
Bobby Giles In
Four Rounds
KANSAS CITY, Jan. 8 (P)
Tony Zale was successfully past
his first tuneup fight today in
his conditioning campaign lead
ing to the defense of his NBA
world's middleweight boxing
title.
The sturdy 162 M -pound ex
sailor from Gary, Ind., in his
first fight since February, 1942,
ended a scheduled 10-round
overweight bout here last night
with lean Bobby Giles, 162 Mi.
Buffalo, N. Y., Negro, in 1:33
minutes of the fourth stanza.
Some 4000 fans saw the fight.
Zale absorbed several sharp
rights from Giles before he
turned on the power. His tim
ing appeared none too good,
but he had the kick to rack up
knockout No 31 in his profes
sional career dating back to
1934.
A hard right and close-in left
to the head put Giles away
after he already had hit the
canvas twice once without a
count and again for nine short
ly after the fourth opening bell.
Leathernecks
Scalp Bakers
At Chiloquin
The Leathernecks from the
Marine Barracks scalped Chilo
quin s An Bakery quintet in a
game at Chiloquin last night, 71
50, although top scoring honors
went to one of the Bakers.
Huff, playing guard for Chilo
quin, hit 21 points. Hatfield of
the Bakers and Doc Zautcke of
the Marines each had 18 tallies.
Chiloquin opened the scoring
with a free toss granted by the
first of 28 Marine fouls, but
zautcke counted a long shot and
the Marines were off to the
races. The Marines led 32-21 at
the half.
The under-the-basket play of
Marine center J-iambert was a
highlight of the game. The win
was the seventh in 10 games for
uie leathernecks.
Stromberg - Carlson B a d i o s.
Derby's Music Co.
employe closed the gate, and
last Saturday the elk were
shunted into trucks "a nasty,
sweaty, loud-cussing job."
A barue had been borrowed
from a timber company. and the
elk trucks were ferried across
along a cable, the trips being de
layed several times by snagging
uy aeaaneaas. .
"We took the elk to the wild
headwaters of the south fork of
the Nooksack river in Whatcom
county, beyond the Lymiin Tin
ber company camp. When we
koi mem mere n was nark, and
they refused to budge out of the
trucks. So we scattered some
forage around and left. We re
turned next morning and found
they'd gone with the dawn.
"They should prosper in that
area and should provide good
hunting a few seasons hence."
The other three? "We're going
back and get 'cm."
THE FATTED CALF
GALESBURG, Kas., Jan. 8 W)
The fatted . calf actually was
killed for PFC. George Penning
ton's homecoming from the Pa
cific wars.
His father. Arch Pennington,
had invited all service men and
ex-service men to a barbecue,
featuring a plump calf and a 250
pound hog, to greet George back
on the farm but bad roads held
attendance to 200.
"We can do it all over again
next year," said the father, who
announced George had re-enlisted
for a one year hitch.
KING'S FOOT AS MEASURE
In ancient times, it was com
mon to take the king's foot
length as a unit of measure.
When a new king was crowned,
it usually meant a new standard
of length.
Nelson
Cops LA
Tourney
IlOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (A)
Mr. Big of Golf Byron Nelson,
that Is is off a-wliiMlng on the
1946 tournament trail.
Lord Byron, as automatic as
ever, won the 20th annual Los
Angeles Open yesterday with
2R4 for the 72-holc tour of the
Riviera .course. And as the
golfing fraternity picked up
sticks and loft for the San Fran
cisco Open, which sturts tomor
row, the burning question was:
Who's gonna stop him?
His 71-69-72-7i added up five
strokes better than Benny
Hogan's 289, and nobody threat
ened Nelson after Sam Sncad,
defending champion, and Jim
Ferrier, Chicago, faded after
trailing by bnly two strokes at
the end of 54 holes.
Nelson's first p r I z e wos
$2666.67 In Victory bonds, Hogan
took $18(36.67 for second place.
iNctson, me roieno, u., um
brella salesman, posted the same
score, 284, as ho did last year
when Sncad beat him by one
stroke. Snead took a 78 on the
final 18 yesterday and finished
with 292 tied for 10th.
Nelson now has won 20 of his
last 25 major tournaments.
A CAT FISH
DENVER, Jan. 8 (IP) They
had to fish McGce, the cat, out
of an apartment house chimney
today.
Prowling on the roof, he fell
into the chimney and stuck 15
feet down.
It took the fire department,
William B. Qwhccler of the state
humane bureau and T. E. Bel
cher, whose son and daughter
own McGce, hours to fish him
out with a 16-foot pole with a
hook attached.
NO WORK NO EAT
The busy beaver has a good
reason for keeping busy. If he
stops using his chisel-like teeth
lor very long, they grow to such
lengths that eating is impossible.
Tuesday, Jan. I, 1S4
HERALD AND NEWS TWO
Harridge Sees Baseball Boom,
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Prtild.pt, American League
CHICAGO. Jan. 8 M Tim
most Interesting chapter In base-
Dan History win ue written into
the 11)4(1 records,
Tho return of scores of former
stars, the bid for recognition of
new players, the re-establishment
of tho all-star game, the
homo-coming of millions of fans
who havo been In servlco will
combine to got our national gumo
off to a flying start in lis first
reacctime pennant race slnco
941.
The four wartime seasons
which ended with tho 1945
world's series themselves wore
notable in many ways. Millions
of fans loyally supported every
major league club, all of which
were decidedly off in calibre of
play. Yet, battles for the pen-
Lakeview
Quint Takes
Twin Bill
LAKEVIEW Lakeview high
school took a double-header
from Cedarvtlle, Calif., on tho
local court last Frldoy evening,
the B team winning 26 to 10,
and the first stringers trounc
ing tho visiting Californlans 42
to 16.
Moss, Lasatcr and Barry
paced the winning B squad with
six points each, while Ash
bucketed five points .for the
losers. .
In the main event, the Honk
ers took an early lead and con
1 1 n u e d to pile up the score
against a weak defense. Miles
and Bagley paced the winners
with 13 and 10 points, with
Johnstone and Mclntlre getting
five and four points for the los
ers. It was Lakeviow's fifth win
of the season.
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nanlu weru close, games ware
hard fought and scores of oltler
niuyers inul yoiinuslars did
Nplondld jobs of filling In for
tno BiaiHioiit purcormei'g in tno
armeu rorces.
Yet, there Is no real substitute
Tor "class" In baseball. The re
turn of such stars us Jos DIMug
glo und Joe Gordon, Johnny
l'osky. Bob Feller, llarnov Mc-
Cosky, Ted Williams and Walter
Jiiclnlcti, to mention a few, will
inject new vigor Into the game.
Add to that group the many
younger performers wo know
are coming out of tho servlco and
baseball will havo hud a start
toward a fine season,
The American league already
tins listed on Its uclive rosier
the names of 110 players who
served In the armed forces.
Many of them had fine minor
league records when they
answered the call to tho colors,
and many are now rvodv ! -
tie for regular Jobs. I foresee
tno Keenest fight or pontoons
In tho American league's history
when tho spring camps open in
February.
Throughout tho war, baseball
went overseas to our fighting
men through many mediums.
Tremendous Interests In base-
ouii among soldiers, mil I on and
marines In all purls of the world
whs the greatest single factor In
biiMebuU's ability to keep going
through the seasons of 1042-411.
That interest, 1 am sure, has
mnd thousands of new funs for
our nutlonal sport,
Skiing Excellent
At Fort Klamath
Almost perfect ski conditions
were reported over tho week
end in the Sun mountain and
Camp Wilson vicinity near Fort
Klamath, and soma m0 snow
lovers canto out to negotiate
tho slopes.
Tho slides were covered with
about 20 Inches of now powder
snow which has fallen since
last Wednesday and moro snow
fell up there yesterday.
Brisk. bright weather
brought the skiers out. Some
20 members of the Sun Moun
tain Ski club made, use of tin
warm-up shacks creeled lust
week.
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