Pro Hoop
League In
Dire Fix
By the Associated Press
The Pacific Coast Professional
Basketball league, harassed . .in
iU inaugural year by a lack of
hometown playing (acuities,
moved today to onset a new
worry lack of attendance for
the hometown appearances of
some of its smaller members.
Owner Dan Hay of the Salem
Trailblazers struck the flag yes
terday with the announcement
that tliis Thursday's scheduled
Portland - Salem encounter had
been switched from Salem to
Mt. Angel college at Mt. Angel,
He said present plans call
for cancellation of all future
. home games although he
added there was a possibility
the team would r.turn to Sa
lem later "when wa can bring
in a batter team." Hay is seek
ing soma new players and a
' coach to replace Frank Shona.
. who resigned.
- Tacoma withdrew . from the
league before play opened when
it was unable to scoure suitable
facilities and Spokane has been
similarly handicapped although
it entered the league primarily
as a road team.
Yakima, in its recent home
town inaugural, drew only laU
spectators.
In league play last night the
Vancouver Hornets edged within
a half same of the second-place
Bellingham Fircrests with a sec-ond-half
spurt for a 44-30 tri
umph over Yakima. A ragged
game, neither team possessed its
shooting eye with the winners
hitting only 16 of 60 shots at
the hoop and Yakima connecting
.with nine of 64 attempts.
Doug Peden paced Vancouver
with 11 points with Tom Smith
of Yakima marking up the same
number for the losers.
The schedule shows all teams
idle tonight
Chevs Score
Surprise Win
Over Rickys
In last night's stellar attrac
tion at Altamont gym, the Ash
ley Chevrolet team, 1946 Basin
league champions, surprised a
lot of basketball seers by lop
ping off the heretofore unde
feated Rickys Jewelers, 38 to
34.
It was one of the fastest games
ever to be played on the local
court as both teams went all
out to win.
Lyle Kelstrom and Wayne
Scott had 11 and nine points for
Rickys, while Bob Erlandson
tapped in 10 for Ashley.
The first game of the Alta
mont doubleheader saw the Sons
of Italy squad take a 42-37 de
cision from the American Legion
in another good game. Bob Lowe
had 16 tallies for the Legion and
was outstanding on the floor.
Out in the county the Tule
lake Merchants and Merrill town
team went to a 33-33 deadlock
at the end of the fourth quarter.
In the five-minute overtime the
Townies edged ahead, 37-36.
In the other game at Merrill
the Henley aggregation got by
the Independents 45-35.
At Bonanza the Malin quintet
beat out Langell Valley Beavers
41 to 36 and the Bonanza town
squad took the measure of Chil
oquin, 43-39.
In a single game at Tulelake,
the Associated Flyers drubbed
Beatty, 71 to 33. Dick Crawford
scored 21 points for the Flyers.
Milan Will
Fight Ross
Tommy N i 1 a n, Australian
grappler up here on reverse
lend lease, will tangle with
Tough Tony Ross of Salem in
the opening bout at the armory
Thursday night The tussle is
slated for three 10 -minute
rounds.
Nilan is a small - looking
heavyset man and has proved
very popular in his public ap
pearances in Portland.
The entire card for Thursday
linen up as first class. In the
semiwindup Bucko Lipscomb
will clutch with the man who
soundly trounced him twice in
two recent tag matches Billy
Weidner.
That tilt will be a four
rounder. Main eventing will.be
the masked man of the north
west circuit the Grey Mask, and
his opponent will be Canadian
Frankie Hart in a six-rounder.
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Shirley Eckel, anchor on Toronto's Malvarnatta track team, slides over finish Una after a
tumble, to give her team first place in a 12-lap race, part of an indoor track meat at Philadel
phia, Pa. Legs at left belong to Nell Jackson of Tuskegee Institute who broke the tape but
finished second. AP wirephoto.
Local Pinmen
Place Among
State's Best
SEASIDE, Jan. 28 Husky
Earl Moore, who until recently
was in the roofing business,
nailed down the Oregon state
class A singles bowling cham
pionship for 1947. The Port
lander rolled 193-223-222 638
in the last gasp moments of the
state bowling association tour
ney. Moore, never winner of a
major meet before, dethroned
Johnny DeMott, also of Portland,
whose 634 had withstood all pre
vious assaults of more than 500
entries. DeMott took second.
Other champions for 1947 are:
Class A all-events Bill Mc-
Culloch, Portland, 1788.
Class A five-man teams Hoff
man Radio, Portland.
Class B all-events Men Ing
ham. Grants Pass, 1773.
Class B singles Alert ingnam.
Grants Pass, 628.
Class B doubles Ernie Garba
rino and George Mirich, Salem,
1181.
Class B teams Hudson Dun
can, Roseburg, 2639.
Class C all-events Cim Bax
ter, Klamath Falls, 1643.
Class C singles td Learning,
Medford. 617.
Class C doubles Steve Nyles
and Hiram Parker, Astoria, 1089.
Class C teams Man s bhop.
Portland, 2568.
' Other, official finals gave Cliff
Baxter sixth place in class C
singles kegling, Bill Owens and
Frank Driscoll sixth in class A
doubles, Frank Hall and Cliff
Baxter fourth in class C doubles.
Palmerton Lumber company 10th
in class C teams.
Returns from Astoria show
that Flo Ann Eaton and Pearl
Poppy clinched third spot in
class A doubles with their 993
combined score.
Willamette Head
Mum On Athletics
SALEM. Jan. 28 UP) Dr. G.
Herbert Smith, president of
Willamette university, said to
day he would have no statement
regarding a new athletic director
and football coach until he has
conferred with the athletic com
mittee of the board of trustees.
The job was made vacant by
the resignation of Walter Erick
son, who will become university
director of admissions.
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Free-For-All ...
Riotous Spectators
Form Cage Problem
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 28 MP) Attacks by fans on officials of
high school basketball games and free-for-all fights that some
times follow have increased so greatly this year that they are
worrying High School Athletic association officials throughout
the country.
Betting and 'overcrowding of field houses and gyms are to
blame, in the opinion of L. V. Phillips, commissioner of the In
diana High School Athletic association, who has his own prob
lems with crowds threatening officials and even attacking
players.
Phillips, who recently attended a meeting of the National
Federation of High School Ath
Fluhrer Five
Rolls To Win
Last night in Victory league
basketball play the Fluhrer's
quintet rollered the Lincoln
Street Grocery squad 39 to 13
after holding the Grocers score
less in the first quarter and to
only a pair of points in the entire
first half.
Jim Thornton potted 15 tallies
for Fluhrer's in the game played
on the high school gym floor.
In the second game of the
doubleheader foul shot comple
tions decided a wild contest be
tween Palmerton and Hi-Y, 25-20
for Hi-Y.
The Palmerton squad trailed at
the end of the first two periods
but led 15-lVat the close of the
third quarter.
Milton Thompson counted 13
points for the winners, and Phil
McGilvary had 10 for Palmerton.
Keene Denies
OSC Rumor
SALEM, Jan. 28 UP) Roy S.
Keene. Salem sporting goods
dealer and former athletic direc
tor at Willamette university, said
today he knew nothing of reports
that he would succeed Percy
Locey as Oregon State college
director of. athletics.
"Mr. Locey's resignation came
as a complete surprise to me,"
Keene said. "I have not been
contacted by anyone in regard to
the position. I know nothing
about the position."
Keene had no comment on
whether he would take the job
if it were offered him. He also
fj
letic associations in St. Peters-
burg, Fla., said "the reports a.t
me meeting were all the same
each state reported increasing
trouble with fans who attack
officials and start fight if the
game doesn't go to suit them."
"Spectator participation."
which is Phillips' polite name
for the outbreaks, is due mostly
to jamming more people into
fieldhouses than they can seat,
and to betting, Phillips said.
"If fans are forced to stand
in aisles and along the edge of
the court, they are too close to
the players and the officials and
the general discomfort puts them
in a bad humor.
"As for betting, it's the 'com
munity betting that is worse
than the professional betting in
high school games.
"The father of a player or the
menus or me coach or the high
school patron often respected
businessmen bets and then gets
a little too wrought up when
things go against his team. He
makes a rush for the official or
the player, and the fight is on.
"Professional betting probably
is limited pretty well to parlay
cards, and these players seldom
see the games they bet on," said
Phillips.
is considered a strong candidate
for his old job at Willamette,
which was made vacant by the
registration of Walter Erickson,
director of athletics and football
coach.
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The inevitable crash between
the Klnmath Fulls Pelicans and
the Medford Black Tornado
virtually takes the state prep
school basketball spotlight for
tliis week-end, and there Is every,
reason to believe that a sweep
of the Friday and Saturday ser
ies one way or the other will
determine this district's state
tourney entry, even though the
season is just at the hulfwuy
mark.
Both Klamath and Medford
are undefeated in six conference
games to date and have to all in
tents and purposes left the other
three teams In district 3 fur to
the rour. The Pels and Tortiuuo
have polished off Ashland,
Grants Pass and Ccntrul Point
twice each.
Coach Wayne Scott's Pelicans
are pointed directly toward the
state championship playoff and
have been ever since vlrluully
the samo team was edged from
the tourney on foul shot com
pletions last year.
Dutch French, who mentorcd
the Pels last year, figured that
1947 would be Klamuth's year.
In 16 games through last
week-end, the Pelicans have been
defeated only once, mat oy
Salem in a non-conference tilt.
The Pels have scored 851 points
in the 16 games, to 410 for the
combined opponents.
That figures out approximate
ly 43 points for and 26 points
against for each game.
The Klamath -Medford big scr.
les this week-end will be played
over the hill on the Tornado
court, and begins a long road
game stretch for the Pels who
have only three more engage
ments scheduled on the KUHS
court University of Oregon
Frosh February 7 and the home
series with Medford March 4
and 5. i
Junior High
Awards Made
Klamath Falls junior high's
untied and undefeated football
squad of the past gridiron season
was awarded letters at Fremont
school yesterday.
Boys receiving the letters were
Gaynor Huck, -captain and half
back; Jerry Liable, quarter;
Richard Hofar, Roddy Davis,
Dale Carr and Billy Creswcll,
backs; Alfredo Herrera, fullback
and end; Ray Wilson, Fred Wise
man, Norman Beck. Gerald Ed
wards, Ronnie Dimmick, Glenn
Guyer, Jerry Selby, Jerry Hay
den, Richard Ankeny. Dale Pey
ton. Howard Brown and Lee
Smith, linemen.
Last season the junior high
boys scored 70 points to 18 for
the combined opponents, and
Coach Joe LaCIair says tha( he
has some very good prospects
who will show up in high school
football in a year or two.
Gaynor Huck, he says, will
step right into the place where
Tommy Edwards leaves off as
ball-carrier for the Pelicans.
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Rocky Graziano On Spot1
In Fight- Bribe Probe
Boxer Admits Being Offered $100,000 To Throw
Middleweight Bout With Cowboy Reuben Shank
NEW YORK, Jan. 28 (VP) A slnry of u $100,001) bribe offer which District Attorney Frank
S. llogun Nil Id was told a grand Jury by Middle weight Uoxer Kocky Gruiiuiio Intensified toiluy
an investigation of "fixing" of sports events hero.
llogim suld Grusluiio admits he used a ro buck as an excuse ' to cull off a fight with
Reuben "Cowboy'' Shank of Ui-nver, three days before It was scheduli'il December 27. Tills,
Hogun sulci, coino uftor tluv m-ruppv fighter hud been vlnltod twice In his dressing mom by a
mini offering the $100,000 If Uriizluno would throw the fight a mini whoso iiuma Unuluno suld
he could nut remember. , , .....
"Mind you," llogun tuUI reporters, "I don't think Gruzluno has told me everything he knows.
He could have tnld mo the nuines, I'm sure," ... , .
llogun suld Gruzluno also told him ho had been approached by guinblers befure lilt fight
Questioned
Rocky Graiiano (ibov.). New
York middl.w.ight boxing sen
sation, was questioned by tha
N.w York district attorney's of
fice in connection with cancella
tion of a scheduled D.c.mb.r
27 fight with Cowboy Reuben
Shank in Madison Square Car
dan, tha district attorney's of
fice announced AP wlr.photo.
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KKAI.O NRwa. kUaulk r.Hi. Ors.
with Al (iiumnty) uiivis, wnw
wus sliitn later lust year In a
tavern holdup.
The district uttorney said
Gruziuno repeutcd his story In
tho presence of Edward P. Ea
gun, chalrmm of the New York
statu athletic commission, who
culled u hearing of the coininis
sinn for Friday to consider the
mutter.
The fighter's only comment In
reporters was, "believe me, It's
nil a big Joke."
Sol Straus, acting dlreelor of
the 2l)lli Century Sporting club,
hud announced eurly ymterduy
that Ciriizliuio, rated next In'
Joe 1 .ou Is as a fight gale draw,
would begin training Saturday
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cvllutlon. Dr. S. Sym Newman
of the state boxing commission,
who examined him, said: "I
found a positive sign certain
evidence of a sacroiliac. If Kocky
wos faking, it's news to inc."
Bratton Favored
For Heavy Tilt
CHICAGO. Jan. 28 VP
Johnny llmtton, Chicugo's sen
sational 20-year-old puncher, hux
been' drummed into a hruvy
favorite tmiuy to dethrone N11A
Lightweight Chumnlon Ike Wil
liams when tho two tangle here .
in the Coliseum eurly this spring. 1
Last night Gene Durum, rap- i
Idly Improving New York slug- j
ger, finally cuught up with Wll-1
llunis and outpointed the chum-
plon In a 10. round non-title bout I
In tho Coliseum, The match ,
drew a slim crowd of 2.124 spec-
tutors who contributed 10,8711.70 i
to the gate.
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sion of a yearling deer were
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