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HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON
THURSDAY, JAN. 8, 19-48
Sanity Code
Approval Is
Almost Sure
Many Coaches See
Prompt Failure For
Rules Minus Teeth
NEW YORK, Jan. 8 T The
NCAA's "sanity code" starts through
the final mill today with athletic
chieftains freely predicting Its ap
proval but many of them foreseeing
failure In the accomplishment of its
alms.
"You can't enforce It," one promt
nent coach said. "Many will vote for
the code while figuring out ways to
beat it."
Such expressions as "just a scrap
of paper" and "rules without -ecth
were bandied about as the National
Collegiate Athletic association's ex
ecutive committee prepared to dig
Into the code today.
The code, a group of proposed
constitutional amendments de
signed to curb athletic subsidiza
tion, will be placed before the entire
NCAA membership Saturday. Indi
cations are It will meet only scat
tered resistance.
Representatives of the soutlicast,
southwest and . southern confer
ences, where the loudest protests
were expected, said last night they
expected the new standard of con
duct to be approved "without
trouble."
GRANTS-IN-AID
The code permits grants to ath
letes, under certain conditions and
allows Institutions to contact play
ers as long as they keep their sales
talk within catalogued bounds.
The NCAA plan calls for enforce
ment through special committees.
In the major meeting yesterday
the rules committee of the Ameri
can Football Coaches association,
heald by Coach Lou Little of
Columbia, suggested two minor al
terations In rules: (1) After a sec
ond successive out of bounds kick'
off, the ball goes to the receiving
team ten yards In front of the kick
Instead of on the kickers 0; (2)
When a player is Injured after the
fourth time out In a half, only the
Injured player can be substituted
for without a penalty.
The coaches turned down pro
posals for elimination of the extra
point, abolition of the free substitU'
tlon rule and making the T-forma-tion
quarterback eligible for a pass
when he s not a yard behind the
Una of scrimmage.
Other developments of the NCAA
enclave:
(1) The National Collegiate Track
Coaches association recommended
that a straight Olympic program be
adopted for the 1948 meet at Min
neapolis June 18-19 and be staged
under the metric system.
BASEBALL IN OLYMPICS
(2) The American Association of
College Baseball Coaches voted to
petition the NCAA to recognize
their association as the only or
ganlzation to promote U. S. baseball
participation in the Olympics, and
to ask that the sport be placed on
the 1952 Olympic program.
(3) Ford Frick, national league
president, told the baseball coaches
the proposed major-college agree
ment which would forbid the sign
Ins of college players to pro con
tracts Is unsatisfactory because col
leges don't have a standard form of
eligibility.
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Defenses Not
Coping With T
NEW YOKK. Jan. S tNEAi Coaches of the modem T with man-In
motion laugh at the Idea Hint the defense is catching up with It.
The Chicago Bears, barely missing their eighth National league
championship, broke their own record with a total of 1)052 yards gained
iii KiMiira niiu iru wie circuit wun oj loucnaowns.
"I hoiw that all the other teams return to the single wing aiui
leave me I to us, owncr-coacn uconte Hulas to d Hed ctraniia. "We'l
manage to struggle along with It.
T men see their football becoming more potent each fall.
That's why Frank Leahy, who had the most to hue. awlu-lml lo
ii at noire uame louowing an unbeaten season.
"I would not have chnnged had I not been convinced that Knute
nocKiie wouia nave done so.' Leahy told his first Irish quarterbacK
Harry Wright, currently drilling Aquinas Institute, a hlah ..-h,! it,
charge ol the Baslllan Fathers which played to 12.000 persons winning
ac,i-t u, gmora mi mx-uesirr a ncu ing oiaauilll.
As a matter of fact, the Immortal Rockne was drifting Into the
modern T. without calling it that, at the nine of his untimely death.
Kock was the originator of the brush block
vuivuiiiicu tu gu Nil UlC Vilty.
Ewell Blackwell, stringbean pitch
er for the Cincinnati Reds, has
signed his 1!M8 contract callinf for
at least $25,000, mavbe more, putting
him In the higher baseball pay
bracket.
Antlers Have
Pair Of Tilts
BONANZA, Jan. 8 The Bonanza
Antlers will play a two-game bas
ketball schedule this week-end, en
tertaining the Sacred Heart Tro
jans Friday night and traveling
across the mountain Saturday for a
return game with the Talent high
Bulldogs.
Coach Hal McAbee indicates his
boys are gradually working back
Into shape after the disastrous flur
ry of pre-Christmas flu and mumps
that plagued the squad for a month.
Dennis Davis, Ted Pepple and
Martin Gift, all recently ill, are
back on the team.
The Sacred Heart game will onen
the county class B schedule for the
Antlers. The Trojans defeated
.Bonanza in a pre-season contest
George Bray's Talent Bulldogs also
hold a victory over the Antlers.
Portland Pro
Hoopers See
Twelfth Loss
By The Associated Press
Bellingham's Fire rests changed
places with the Vancouver Hornets
In the Pacific Coast professional
basketball circuit today, after the
erstwhile runner-up Canadian
quintet dropped a 60-44 decision to
Seattle and Bellingham squeezed
past Tacoma by a 51-48 margin in
last night's encounters.
Astoria hung a 49-45 defeat on
the Portland Indians in the night's
other clash.
It was nip-and-tuck everywhere
but In Seattle where the Athletics
took a 24-14 halftime margin anu
coasted to victory on Bernie Price's
24 tallies. The win increased the
Seattle lead to two full games.
Tacoma led Bellingham 13-3 at
the end of the first quarter but le'l
behind by 28-24 a; halftime. With
the victors' Gale Bishop swishitig
three quick buckets at the start ol
the period, Bellinghaoi tpd Its lead
to 30-24 and Tacoma njvtr caught
up. 3isliop picked up 20 roints for
his night's labor, tvree more than
Tacoma s Johnny Kati.-.i.
Portland, trying futilely to avoid
its 12th consecutive loss, deadlocked
Astoria four times In the final per
iod before the Royal Chinooks broke
a 43-43 knot with three minutes re
maining. Rod Rodrigues, Portland
guard, collected 22 points league
high for the night; Howard led
Astoria with 17. Portland has won
two games of 21.
All six teams see action again to
night, Astoria invading Seattle,
Portland challenging Tacoma, and
Vancouver entertaining Bellini-
ham.
Crisler Holds Single Wing
Frits Crisler perhaps gets more legerdemain than any other ex
poneiu oi me single wing, yet nis line Michigan varsity of 1943 couldn
come close to coping with Leahy's modern Notre Dame T.
It was then that Crisler said he couldn't believe a college team
coum get me l aown mat line.
"to many schools are now using the T that coaches are pressing
uieinscives to create new variations ana players to master them," any:
Aquinas' Wright, one of the brighter young drill-masters.
"Mighty few of the name coaches were exposed to the current T as
players. A lot of them arc just beginning to get It through their heads
in a complete sense, as young men coached In the T go on to become
coaches and expend their original thoughts and Ideas, It will be even
more poweriui.
"There are hundreds of variations of the T.
Scoreess Ties Less Often
"Outscoring It Is the only way to beat the T. for It can t be stopped,
"bcoreiess yes were more or less common when practically every
body played the single wing. Recall the scoreless ties between Pitts
burgh and Fordham.
"A scoreless Ue between T teams Is the exception that proves the
rule, the one between Army and Notre Dame In 1946. for example. The
reason for that one was that the coaches refused to gamble. Had either
side taken a single chance and scored, it would have thrown the game
wide open, and the teams would have given the fans what they like
to see running and passing action.
"A shift in the single wing necessarily puts most of the attacking
team's strength either left or right, and a good tackle can play havoc
wun mat son oi an alignment.
"The greatest pass patterns come out of the T.
"The T team gets four deep receivers with only three deep men
covermg, ana mere is always me danger or tne shortened button hook.
Passer Better Protected
"T teams are able to protect the passer much belter than those
using the single wing.
"One entire side of the line can be released for downfield bumping.
"Regardless of how good a runner Is from the single wing he un
consciously freezes for a second as he takes a direct pass from the
center.
"The T back starts like a trackman. The ball Is handed to him
while he is under full steam.
"Seeing a flaw In the defense, a T quarterback can check signals
at the last second, and strike at the weakest point.
"Perhaps the biggest advantage of the T Is that It works better
against a smart club, and most teams are intelligent. A dumb guy
wont fall for a fake. He won't even see It."
Man-ln-Motion Explained
"Even if the man-in-motlon only takes a man with him." says Red
Grange, "he Is accomplishing something. It's as good as a block, and
wiui less eiiort.
"The man-in-motion can go deep, take a pass out in the flat, pass,
take a lateral, button hook or stop-and-go."
It was the veteran Ralph. Jones, now of Lake Forest of Illinois,
coaching the Bears in 1930, who put the offensive ends out, loosening
up the tackles and moving the defensive backs out of position.
This and the man-ln-motion owned un the came, and mrf th
x woat it is tooay.
Jewelers Clout
Link River Five
Rickys Jewelers of the Klamath
Basin league city division kept on a
par with the league lead with four
straight wins, last night defeating
Crater Lake Dairy 86 to 44 on the
Altamont court.
Rickys and Oregon Woolen, ap
parently the two strongest squads
in the division, are staging a race
to keep in the lead, with the Wools
having played one less game than
the Jewelers.
In last night's other game the
Bluejays, another good outfit,
topped Link River Motors 43-37.
Schedule for tonight at the OVS
gym has Hal's Sports playing the
Eagles and OVS taking on the
American Legion. Game time for
the first contest is 7 p. m.
PHIL SAMPSON PAIRED
WITH FRISCO WELTER
PORTLAND. Jan. 8 Little Phil
Sampson. Klamath Falls and Reno
welterweight, has been offered a
bout with Sal Perea of San Francis
co, one of the better Mexican
welters, on a National Boxing club
card here January 13.
Sampson pleased local fight fans
Hockey Moguls
Slate Confab
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. t Ifl -
Directors of the Pacific Coast Ice
Hockey league meet here Tuesday
to discuss playoffs and draft a pre'
liminary schedule for next season.
League President Al Leader said
divisional playoffs would be held
after the Tegular schedule ends
March 14 to determine a league
champion to play an eastern winner
for the national amateur crown in
April. The title competition will be
held on the Pacific Coast.
NAME THE BALL CLUB
Contest
Open to All Pick a Name
Klamath Falls holds a franchise for a professional
baseball team in the class D For West league and the
ownership, organization, Klamath Baseball, Inc., wants the
fans to choose the name for the club. Suitable and
valuable prizes will be awarded the person suggesting the
name which is accepted by the judges and who writes the
best conclusion, in 50 words or less, to the sentence:
"Professional baseball has a place in Klamath Falls be
cause "
Write the name of your choice and your contest
sentence on a postal card and mail to:
Don Neal, radio station KFLW,
or
Hale Scarbrough, The Herald and News.
Canucks Obtain
Three New Faces
VANCOUVER, B. C, Jan. 8 fCP)
Vancouver s sagging Canucks in tne
; Pacific Coast Hockey league today
i had the promise of three new
pucksters to bolster their ranks.
Boss Coley Hall announced Leo
Richard, released yesterday by Port
land Eagles, will be swinging Into
action here against Tacoma Rockets
Friday night. Two others, a dc
fenseman and a winger, are ex
pected later this week. Owner Hall
did not release their names.
New Year's Day when he declsloncd
the well-thought-of Buford Ran
som In six heats, so he Is being
stepped up the pugilistic ladder to
the 10-round bracket
Only once before has Sampson
been listed for a 10 rounder, that in
Klamath Falls when he received his
sole setback to date at the hands
of Jerry Ramsey of Vallejo. Calif.
Joey Clemo. Portland feather
weight, is tabbed for the other 10
stanza match In the double main
event, paired off with Aaron Josh
ua, a Jewish 120-pounder who halls
from Calcutta, India, originally, but
who makes his home In California.
Chuck Brown and Hal Robblns
are down for a rematch for six
rounds, and Joey Ortega of Vanport
and Joe Valez of Seattle, feather
weights, are also scheduled for six.
Bruins Finish
Early Practice
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 8 (Pi
UCLA's Bruins, defending cage
champions in the Pacific coast con
ference southern division, put the
finishing touches today on their
drills for the 1948 campaign opener
against California's highly-touted
Bears tomorrow night.
Southern California's Trojans
meet Stanford's Indians In the pre
liminary of the double-barreled
opener. Saturday, UCLA meets
Stanford, with USC taking on Cali
fornia. The Bears have been established
as favorites to wrest the southern
division crown from the Bruins.
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Orangemen On Cage Trip To Pullman
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UNIVERSITY OP OltEClON.
Eugene, Jan. g Two traditional
racehorse rivals. Washington's Hus
kies and Oregon's Ducks, clash at
McArthur court this Friday and
Saturday nights In the opening of
the 1948 northern division ,cr.go
race.
Washington, bossed by Art Mc
Lamey, has been firmly Installed
as the favorite In the coming pen
nant chase. The Huskies have a
brilliant array of talent In the
starting lineup and have begun to
turn up reserves with talent to round
out a potent squad. In prcscuson
play, the Washington five racked
up nine wins In U games.
Coach John Warren's Ducks
have been spotty nil tltruush the
eurly games. The Orrimi record
also reads nine and three, but the
competition has not been as
strong as that faced by the Hus
kies. Warren, as Is MrLarnry. la
making his first start as head
coach and faces a tremendous
problem In building a front line to
rope with the favorites.
Ill lion - conference competition
the Ducks, particularly at forward.
have been hot and cold. The play
of Roger Wiley at center has Im
proved steadily and the Duck
guards have been reasonably con
sistent. But at forward, It has been
all or nothing.
The front line picked up addi
tional strength early this week when
Dick Wllklns. high scoring veteran
of three Northern division seasons,
returned to the squad. He missed all
of the non-conference affairs due
to Ineligibility. To bolster the spot.
Warren moved Reedy Berg, a steady
performer for three seasons at
guard, to forward early this week.
Washington will pin Its hopes
on the steady performances of
Jack Nichols at renter. Hob Jor
gensen and Bill Taylor al guard
and Sammy White at forward.
All are veterans, all can score.
Bill Vandenburgh will round out
the storting five.
Warren will open with Roger
Wiley at center, Mary Rasmussen
and Jim Bartlctt at forward and
Stan Williamson and Al Poplck at
guard. The second unit will have
Bob Amacher at center, Dick Wll
klns and Reedy Berg at forward
and Bob Lavey and Ken Seeborg
at guard.
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swimmer, as soon as he obtains a divorce from his present wife. Aliens
lives In Santa Monica. Al Wlrrphulu.
Pels At Grants Pass
For District Starter
Seals1 Owner
Would Break
From Majors
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 8 iP
President Charles Graham of the
San Francisco baseball club, still
hot about the turndown given Paci
fic Coast league hopes for major
league recognition, wants the circuit
to set Itself up as a virtual Independent.
Graham would make It tougher
for the majors, who recently turned
cold shoulder to the Coast league's
major hopes, to draft Its players.
If they object, "then we will defy
them completely." the Seals presi
dent said today. He declared his
club also favored breaking the
league's major-minor agreement In
such case.
Graham said the question will be
discussed at a league meeting In
Los Angeles January 36-27.
His view Is that a Coast league
club should not accept a draft lor
player unless he has played In the
league at least six years and a board
arbitration should decide the
draft price.
The board would have one mem
ber selected by the majors, one by
the Coast league and Commissioner
B. Chandler as chairman.
FKtllTS LAST NIGHT
By The Associated Press
OAKLAND Enrique Bolanos,
1354, Mexico City, outpointed John
Davis, 134, Richmond, Calif., 10.
Tomorrow night the Klamath
Union high school Pelicans will see
whether their non-conference rec
ord of nine basketball wins against
three losses Is as good as It sounds.
The Pels Jump off Into district
4 competition against the highly
rated Grants Pass Cavemen. Friday
and Saturday night games to be
played 111 the Grants Pass gymnas
ium.
Medtord's Black Tornado and the
Ashland Grizzlies tangle in a sot
divided between the two cities for
the other conterence play.
Unless the current Hoods do
something drastic lo travel between
here and Grams Pass, the Pels will
make tlio trip by bus tomorrow
morning, Willi the Junior vanity
coming over Saiurd.iy for a pre
liminary game that night.
In their one dozen games to date,
most of which have been played on
tlie home floor, the Pelicans have
defeated Redding. Astoria. Oregon
City, Grant, Salem twice, Lakevlew
twice and Albany, while dropping
single contests to Redding. Albany
snd a team composed of Klamath
alumni.
The twelve games have given the
Klamath team Ml tola! points, ail
average per game of almost i'i. while
the opponents have been held to
3S3 total for about 33 per game
average.
. Although winning fairly con
sistently, the Pelicans have not
Kramer Goes Up
On Bobby Riggs
HERSIIEY, Pa.. Jan. 8 0"y Jack
Kramer has forged ahead of Bobby
Rlggs In their 10-day-old pro
fessional tennis series.
Kramer took a 5-4 edge last night
b turning back the world's pro
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with the memury of last season's
star-studded team flesh In the
minds of their followers. At limes
when the Pels have won by 10
points or nioro spectators have
shoo!. Uielr heads and wondered
how.
In his usual style. Coach Wayne
Scott has been using two complete
teams In every game, but tho first
string has had the bulk of the work
thus tar. Last season the two
strings divided time on the Hour
more or less cquully.
The first team has been composed
of Jack Kcunelt and Bob' Uarnrs,
forwards; Jack Lust, center; Don
.arosiiukl and Gary Dawra. guards.
That lineup Is siieeily and not very
tall.
The second quintet Is comxed
of Maurice Durman, Tommy Ed
wards, Charles Itrlghtman, Wilbur
Elliott and Ed Whitney, a rough
combination.
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slule, will open thn defrnse of Its
northern division championship
ugiilnst highly regarded Washing-
toll Htalo at I'ullmun Frliluy and
Halurduy. Fiom Pullman the
heavers will move lo iirnlby Mos
cow for a two-game series against
Idaho nest Monday and Tuesday,
The Heavers will mako the In
land Empire Jaunt by ulr. leav
ing Portland by Northwest Airlines
Thursday morning, the rlub will
arrive In I'ullmun thut noon. He
lm n f Unlit will be mnde nest
Wednesday morning, bringing the
squad home In time for three davs'
prai'tli-a before the Oregon game
jieie January 17.
I'aarli Hlals Gill's rebuilt Irani
gained a great deal of valuable
eiperlrnre III posting II victories
III 17 starts asalnsl lap fllilit
competition nutshle (he confer
ence In the pre-srasun campaign.
Highlights cit the Drrrinbrr war
fare were two victories over the
Oakland liitinns, ruuners-up for
the national A All title last winter;
ami single wins over Cuulslus, east
ern Hiwer, and University of C'all-
lorula.
With Forward Cliff Crandall the
only returning regular from last
year's champions, luck of exitrrl-
em-e wns the biggest problem fac
ing the llravera al the start of this
seusnn. but this has bern partially
olfset by the tough practice game
schedule. However, most nf the
Oruugemrn have yet to test their
abilities against northern division
opposition.
Crandall. the brilliant veteran
who racked up 'J'.'a points In pre
nrnsou cnnlrsts, and Norm Carer,
senior Irltrrmau who has looked
very good In recent games, are Just
about sure to start at the forwards
against WHC.
Al renter will be Ktn Htorry or
Paul Mlper, bath willing but In
esperlrnrrd sophomores. Kuptio
mura Irtternian Dan Torrey la
Just about sure to start al on
guard with the other guard atul
probably going la Jim Callerall,
sophomore, or Frank Koelandl,
Junior Irtternian.
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