Guys Named Charlie Will Furnish Sparks
NEW YORK. Dec. 30 M A
couple of guys named Charlie
Trippi and Justice should furn
ish most of the individuul fire
works in the major New Year's
Day bowl games off the season
long statistics from the Nation
al Collegiate Athletic bureau.
Trippi, the All-America from
Georgia, gained 1366 yards run
ning and passing for the un
beaten Bulldogs who bump up
against North Carolina in the
Sugar Bowl at New Orleans.
He had the best total offense rec
ord of any major bowl partic
ipant and also intercepted six
passes for 107 yards.
Herman Wedemeyer of St.
Mary's who faces Georgia Tech
in the Oil Bowl at Houston.
Texas, wasn't too far behind
Trippi in the individual yard
gaining chores with Justice tak
ing third place. Justice led in
kickoff returns among the bowl
ers and Wedemeyer had the best
record on punt returns, 397
yards in 26 runs.
Justice depended on rustling
for most of his gains, picking up
943 of his 1213 yards by churn
ing through the line an average
of 7.20 yards per rush. Trippi
divided his work more evenly,
picking up 744 yards along the
ground and 622 through the air.
Oddly enough, the Bowl games
that, usually are loaded with the
Snapp Trains
For 10 Heats
Ursal Snnpp, who will fight
his first 10-round bout here Jan
uary 7, has been training hot
and heavy at the Salvation
Army gym for the past several
days, getting ready to travel a
distance.
In the past the Merrill light
heavy has been limited to five
rounds. His opponent for the
big fight is Joe Woods of Spo
kane, who currently is holding
his workouts in the PAL gym
nasium in Portland.
Orville Johnson, local boy
who has fought Snapp on three
occasions, has been acting as a
sparring partner for Ursal.
The January 7 card will sport
five other bouts in addition to
the mainliner, according to Pro
moter Mack Lillard.
Youngster Clips
Backstroke Time
VICTORIA, B. C, Dec. 30 (CP)
Eric Jubb, 15-year-old Canadian
j u n i o r backstroke champion,
knocked four-tenths seconds off
the recognized Canadian record
time for the junior 50-yard back
stroke in an inter-club gala at
the Crystal garden here Saturday
night between the Victoria and
Seattle YMCA's. Victoria won
the meet 82 points to 11.
Jubb stroked the distance in
30 seconds flat to break the rec
ord for the second time, his pre
vious mark having been recog
nized. Going Formal
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 VP)
Coach Warren Gaer of Pepper
dine college says he'll wear a
tuxedo when his team and Ne
braska Wesleyan meet in the
New Year's Day Will Rogers
Bowl game at Oklahoma City.
Gaer got himself into the going
formal fix by offhandedly say
ing "Okay" in mid-season when
his players asked: "Will you
wear a tuxedo if we get a bow)
bid?"
Solid Growth, Not
Br HALE SCARBROUGH
Klamath Falls and the Klam
ath country had a varied and
fairly respectable sports year in
1946, but nothing compared to
what is expected to blossom in
'47 and years to come. The
growth was solid, not a boom.
We'll just touch on the high
spots of the sports year, in more
or less chronological order:
Back in January the principal
doings were in basketball the
Pelicans had a good team, there
were seven squads operating in
the Basin league, the Marines
had an excellent squad, so did
the various county schools and
the high school Victory league
was operating.
The Pelicans beat everyone
but Medford. Merrill won the
county B title, but lost out to
Bogue River in a district play
off. Ashley Chevrolet took the
Basin league trophy.
About the end of basketball
season the chances of base
beat forward passers in the na
tion, will snow only two of the
top 20 in sciison'rankings. John
Raucli of Georgia had the bent
mark with 48 completions and
Y. A. Tile of the Louisiana stale
team that faces Arkansas in the
Dallas Cotton Bowl was next,
making connections with 45
tosses.
Although he wasn't in the top
20, Ernie Case of UCLA, Illinois
foe in the Pasadena Rose Bowl,
hit his receivers with 42 passes
good for a total of 868 yards.
Case has the fifth best offensive
record among the top bowl stars,
gaining 907 yards in all.
The Jacksonville 'Cater Bowl
should get an cyefull in the
rushing of Oklahoma's Joe Gold.
Hint Of Rain Puts Scare
Into Light West Backfield
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 30 (A)
A fast breaking offense prepared
by the West for the annual
Shrine football game made
weather guesscrs of the team's
backers today, with high hopes
for a hard turf on New Year's
Day.
The East, its attack built on
single and double wing plays run
by heavy, powerful backs, was
less concerned about the weather
Sprinkles in Sunday drills
pointed up West fears. The
weatherman was noncommittal
on prospects for Wednesday,
although his forecast of clear
skies today and tomorrow low
ered Head Coach Homer Nor
ton's blood pressure.
Four passers Norton rates as
"above average" are primed to
loose a pigskin barrage on the
East if the weather is favorable
Mickey McCardle of USC,
Fred Provo of Washington,
Clyde Le Force of Tulsa and Bill
Mackrides of Nevada.
But none of the four, who also
are adept at "scat" running, can
compare in poundage with backs
like the East's 205-pound Paul
Weaver of Penn State, 201-pound
Sugar Ducats
On Barter Mart
NEW ORLEANS, Dec. 30 P)
You can get some Sugar Bowl
football tickets if you can spare
some good whiskey, and you can
get three new automobile tires
for as many tickets.
The city police and U. S. col
lector of Internal revenue liavc
warned against cash scalping of
tickets for the New Year's Day
football contest between Georgia
and North Carolina, but the
tickets have a high value on a
new barter market which doesn't
fit under the ban.
The classified advertisements
of the New Orleans newspapers
are carrying some attractive
swap offers, working both ways.
One man offers a new radio "or
anything" those are his words
for ten ticket.
Field Entered
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 30 (IP)
Ben Hogan, top money-winning
golfer of 1946, and nearly 400
other spoon-swingers have en
tered the $10,000 21st annual
Los Angeles Open at Riviera
Country club January 3-6. Hog
an's Texas pal, the over-golfed
Byron Nelson, was about the
only topnotcher not entered.
Qualifying 36-hoIe rounds at
nine Los Angeles courses De
cember 30 will cut the field to
150.
ball and Softball here became
an issue of news and politics.
Finally, after several weeks
of back-tracking and loop
hole seeking, during which the
offer of a park from the Amer
ican Legion was turned down,
the city council happened to
locate enough money to hang
a few repairs on Recreation
field.
The Sons of Italy lodge spon
sored the local team in the
Northern California loop, and
the Sons drew big gates and fin
ished second behind Weed.
Seven soflball teams played in
the city league, and the outfit
sponsored by Moose lodge won
the soft championship. Up at
KUHS Ed Ryan had a good
team, but had to forfeit all his
games because of the use of an
ineligible pitcher. The Klamath
Packer team organized too late
to get Into a league, but played
several Independent games.
About the time of the baseball
lug and the passing of North
Carolina Stale a Howard (Touch,
down) Turner to End George
Blomquist.
The Rice team that meets rug
ged Tennessee In the Miami
Orange Bowl leans heavily oil
Carl Rush who gained all of his
0110 yards along the ground In
130 rushes.
Rudy (Little Doe) Mobtcy of
the unbeaten Hardin-Sinuiioni
powerhouse boasts perhaps the
most remarkable record of any
player to appuur in any January
1 bowl game, lie led the coun
try in rushing and placed sixth
on total offense without throw
ing a single pass. He'll be seen
in the Alamo Bowl at San An
tonio against Denver,
Larry Bruno of Geneva college
or big Pete Pihos of Indiana.
The West has developed two
backfield casualties to match
Weaver and Ed Allen if Penn
sylvania, both of whom are hand
icapped by gimpy legs but are
expected to play.
Santa Anita
Season Open
ARCADIA. Calif.. Dec. 30 (II
Santa Anita park, off to a rec
ord opening day start, prepared
today for its next turf proitrum
the $50,000 added San Carlos
handicap New Year s Dav.
No racing la scheduled tomor
row. Opening dav drew 57.000
largest inaugural in the track's
history. The betting handle. $2.-
auj.iai. was also the largest,
surpassing the 1045 opening
Play of $2,413,218 from a crowd
of 48.200.
Rolline Hill Farm's Shim Ma.
lone won the $50,000 added
California Breeders' champion
ship in a stretch battle with
Prim Beau, with Stepfather, a
betting favorite, third. The win
was worth $41,085 to Owner
Walter G. McCarty. Time was
iiu lor ine mile.
Cadets, Irish
End Competition
SOUTH BEND. Ind.. Dec. 30
(I1) The Army and Notre Dame
have agreed to suspend tempor
arily their football series after
the 1947 game, the Rev. John J.
Cavamiugh, CSC, president of
Notre Dame announced today.
Father Cavuiuiuglt and Ma).
Gen. Maxwell V. Taylor, super
intendent of West Point, in a
joint statement announced the
temporary suspension of the
series.
The statement gave two rea
sons. The first was the convic
tion of authorities of both
schools thut the game had
grown to such proportions that
it had come to be played under
conditions escaping authorities
of the two schools, some not con
ductive to wholesome Intercol
legiate sports. The second was
Army's desire to schedule more
intersectional games.
Utah Favored
SUN VALLEY, Ida., Dec. 30
(IP) The cross-country event of
the fifth annual intercollegiate
ski meet started today with the
University of Utah favored to re
tain the lead it established in the
two week-end events.
Fluffy Boom, In "46 Sports Year
controversy, track was the major
sport at the various schools. The
Pelicans won their own 16-team
invitational cinder and field
meet, made their mark in state
prep competition, Henley, Muwn
and Merrill had outstanding tlili
clad units.
During the spring and sum
mer fishing was fairly good in
Klamath lakes and streams, and
angling attracted many tourists
to the area. Local sportsmen's
organizations went to bat to have
the salmon and stoelhoad runs
protected and contributed large
ly to the passage of a stcclhcad
law at the last election,
Another conservation and
angling project which, made
strides during the year was the
effort to have Klamath river
reopened to fish runs.
More deer hunters than ever
before took to the woods during
the shortened soason last fall,
but success In the endeavor gen
erally took more hunting than
M. a KIWI. KtoawMl r!U, Or.
Northern Division . . .
Webfoots, Huskies
Loom As Strongest
Br The Associated Press
Four northwest college quintets bid farewell to pre-aeanon
practice contests today unci began leveling toward the opening
of northern division, Coast conference, play this Frlduy,
Initial contests being the defending circuit tltlists, Idaho,
into the University of Washington pavilion, and send Washington
State's Cougars Into Eugene against the strong Oregon Ducks.
Both meetings are two-game Friday Saturday scries, and lit
each the preseason records stamp the hometown five as dr.
elded favorites, Oregon State opens Monday and Tuesday as
host to the Cougars.
Washington set Itself up as a definite title contender with
Its undefeated record In seven warinup contests. Including
sweeps of two-game meellngs-
wltn-Mlnnesnta a tut Ohio hiatal
of the Western conference. Ore
gon's successful road trip, with
its eastern cyc-oenrr win over
New York university, left no
doubt as to the Duck strength.
Idaho's defending tltlists, al
though retaining four of the
starting five pluyers that flush
ed through last year's successes,
didn't show too brilliantly in
losing eight out of nine con
tests on its eastern Invasion,
Washington State, although
meeting with fair success on Its
Rocky mountain tour, dropped
a 40-38 decision to Gouzaga uni
versity in Spokane.
Both Washington and Oregon
carded wins Saturday night
the Huskies coming from a 10
point deficit to score a 72-08
win over Minnesota, and Ore
gon holding Portland's Brunos
to four field goals for a 91-17
triumph.
Bowes Skims
For Ski Win
PORTLAND. Dec. 30 (II
Bill Bowes of Portland's Cas
cade club won the men's class
A tltlo In the Portland Day
trial races at Mount Hood yes
terday before a record crowd
of 6000.
Bowes sped down the four
and a half mile course In 8:10.2
to unseal defending Champion
Bill Dcvccka, Portland (unat
tached), who pluced fifth. Trail
ing Bowes by nine seconds was
Bill llcoly, University of Port
land entry, timed at 8:23.0. Ned
Sioberts of Multnomah Athletic
club was third, with a tuno of
8:34.2.
The women's class A tltlo
went for the third time to Grace
Graham Rowan (unattached),
Portland, who took tho four
mile run in 9:40.0. Jeanne
Schramm of Cascade was sec
ond, time 10:41.4. Margery Rob
ertson was third, time 11:34.4.
Men's class B winners: First
Dick Lewis, Portland, 8:34.8 on
the approximate four-mllo trail;
Jack Pennington, Cascade,
8:50.8; Larry Black, Mac, 8:58.6.
Lewis' victory was his third.
Women's class B winners: Pat
Mcrcereah, Reed college, 8:23.4;
B. Mary Paget, Maznmas, Port
land, second; Dcde Honeyman,
Cascade, third.
Pasco Wins Tourney
THE DALLES. Ore., Dec. 30
(IP) Pasco scored a 36-30 win
over Voncouver to win the three,
day Dalles invitational high
school basketball tournament
here Saturday night. Golden
dale, Wash., was third and the
host five captured fourth
ever before. An 18-point buck
was killed in the Modoc forest.
Football season generated tre
mendous Interest, and the Klam
ath Pelicans emerged with a rec
ord of five wins and four losses,
including a 7-6 loss to Medford.
The Henley Hornets swept
through the county B league,
without difficulty, and went on
to cop the state B gridiron title.
Duck and goose season, - con
siderably shortened, was gen
erally satisfactory to most hunt
ers and also did its bit toward
bringing tourists Into tho basin.
Wrestling, u perennial sports
feature, continued to draw good
crowds weekly, and the armory
was packed on numerous Thurs
day nights. Regular boxing
caxds were instituted on Tues
day nights, developing some
good fighters and always filling
the arena with spectators.
With the return of winter,
Crater lake's ski accommoda
tions were again made available
MONIIAT, In, M, m. Vmw M
Vikings
Handcuff
Pelicans
The KUHS Pelican baskelrers
are back at home today from a
holiday barnstorming trip Into
the Willamette valley, a trip
which was highly successful un
til the final day. '
Saturday nlglil the Pels ran
afoul of a tight Salem Viking
defense and lust, 34 to 20. It was
the first defeat for the Klamath
ites in 10 starts this season.
- On their annual trip the Pell
cans had defeated Albany, 52 22,
and edged Salem In the first
game with the Viks, 34-30.
The loss to Salem winds up the
Klamath varsity carly-m-uson
schedule, and play In southern
Oregon conference comelitton
is slated to begin January 10,
In Saturday night's tilt the
Pels and Viks swapped basket
for basket in tho curly minutes,
but Salem was ahead 14 9 at the
end of the first quarter and went
on to 22-10 at the half.
By the end of the third quarter
the Vikings led 27-22.
Jerry Thorn made all the Pel
points in the final ihtUhI on free
throws, but the Vikings success
fully stalled out tho final Hires
minutes.
Vic Allison sank 12 points for
Salem, and Thorn's six was high
for the Pels.
U. S. Net Squad
Sweeps Match
MELBOURNE, Dec. 30 (II
Jack Kramer and Uurdnar Mill
loy completed tho rout of Aus
tralia's Davis Cup defenders to
day with smashing victories In
tl.o two final singles matches,
thereby giving tho United Stales
a clcnn sweep of the series and
establishing America's suprem
acy in the post-war tennis world,
Kramer, top-ranking member
of the American team, battered
the veteran John Bromwich In
to submission in straight sets,
8-6, 6-4, 6-4, while Mullny
bowled over Dlnny Pail 6-3, 6 3,
6-4.
Ex-Pels Unite
Tonight at 7:30 on the Alia
mont junior high gym floor lh
Ashley Chevrolet team of the
Bnsiti basketball leaguo will play
an exhibition game with a squad
composed of former members of
Klamath Union high school
teams.
to the public, and every week
end now finds a good portion of
tho snow-loving public out on
tho slopes.
Another winter sport bowl
ing Is having a postwar awak
ening now, and soma three
dozen teams are battling It out
in weekly tournament play on
Recreation alleys.
One of the latest sports de
velopments here is the an
nouncement by the American
Legion that It intends to build
a mammoth all-sports arena
Just out of town somothlng
that Klamath needs badly.
The end of the year finds the
athletic whirl right back whero
It started with basketball In
the air. The Klnmoth Pelicans
have Just been defeated after
winning nine straight, 16 teams
are propping for Basin leiigue
play, and Chlloquln looks like
the hoop aggregation to stop in
the county circuit,