MONDAY, JAN. 26, 1948
PACE EIGHT
Idle Beavers
Drop Back As
Huskies Roar
Washington Clips
Oregon Again For
Lead In Division
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6EATTLE, Jan. 26 iP) Back in
the northern division Pacific Coast
conference basketbi.ll lead, the Uni
versity of Washington Huskies swing
Into Oregon this week-end to open
season festivities with the challeng
ing Oregon State Beavers at Cor
vallis. Defending division and conference
tltllsts, the Beavers were idle over
the week-end and fell a half-game
behind the Huskies as Coach Art
McLarney'a quintet swept pair
from Uie Oregon Ducks on the Seat
tle floor.
Washington ranks as a slight fav
orite, despite the Staters' home floor
advantage, largely on the basis of
Ita three-for-four mark against Ore
gon. The Ducks had nipped the State
college Beavers In their only meet
ing. OUT OF CELLAR
Washington State, which swept a
rough pair from Idaho to climb
from the cellar to third place,
tackles the Idahoans again this
week In a single game Saturday
sight at Pullman.
Both of the Saturday windup
clashes ranked In the rough class
WSC and Idaho setting a new north
ern division record with 69 Infrac
tions, and two players Washing
ton's Don Millikan and Oregon's Bob
Lavey being thumbed out of the
Husky-Duck fray for over-enthusiasm.
Washington clipped Oregon 56-39
and Washington State humbled Ida
ho 58-34 In the Saturday contests.
Outstanding center play domin
ated both contests. Washington's big
Jack Nichols tallied 23 points to run
his conference scoring to 105 points
in six games while checking big Rog
Wiley to four point's. Idaho chal
lenge . the Cougars only so long as
It had the 6-foot, 9-inch Jack Phoe
nix. The Vandals trailed only 22-18
when Phoenix was thumbed out
early In the second half. In five
minutes WSC whipped the count to
37-25 and it was all over. Lanky
Vince Hanson, the nation's leading
collegiate scorer two seasons back,
led the Cougars with 15 points.
New High
Posted At
716 Pins
SALEM, Jan. 26 IJfy-Martin Sev
erson of Astoria rolled a total 716
three game series here yesterday to
win me class A singles and post a
new record In the Oregon Bowling
association tournament.
His scores of 255, 226 and 235
broke a nine year standing record
of W. W. Southwell of Klamath
Falls, who rolled 681 in the tourna
ment In 1939.
Arnold Dingley, The Dalles,
scored 628 to win the class B sin
gles and move ahead of Doug Still,
Roseburg, whose 619 gave him sec
ond place.
Morley Madden. Bend, took class
C honors with 677.
A Portland couple. Earl Moore
and Sam Piazza, won the class A
doubles with 1203. followed by Char
ley Booth and Harry Bray, Klam
ath Palls, who rolled 1201.
Prank Stepanek and company,
Portland, were first in class A team
competition, with 2871. Two Eugene
teams placed second and third
Keith Brown, Eugene, 2803; Snell
strom, Eugene, 2769.
The class B team honors went to
Seaside skating rink with 2850. The
Klamath Falls Moose lodge team
was second with 2731.
Other scores Included:
DOUBLES
Frank Hall-Cliff Baxter, Klamath
Falls, 990.
Loren Palmerton-Ralph Ovgard,
Klamath Falls, 970.
Ernie Taylor - Bruce Braaten.
Klamath Falls, 825.
Lee Bonney-Ray Hoffman, Eu
gene, 1003.
C. D. Quinn-Don Siegle, Eugene,
1054.
Ossie McPherson - Frank Stod
dard, Eugene, 1053.
Ollie Mercer-Virgil Jones, Eugene,
1106.
Bill MandicJ-George Drinkwater,
Eugene, 1041.
Bob Wiltshire-Ed Stillwell, Eu
gene, 1070.
Chet George-L. E. Hcnzler, Eu
gene, 1023.
Atterbury-M. E. Hcnzler, Eugene,
1023.
SINGLES
Frank Hall, 487: Cliff Baxter,
466; Loren Palmerton, 458; Ralph
Ovgard. 470: Ernie Taylor, 470;
Bruce Braaten, 448, all of Klamath
Falls.
Benefit For Dimes
BLY, Jan. 26 The Bly town learn
of the Basin Basketball league will
play a "March of Dimes" benefit
game with the Malln Townies to
night on the local court, starting at
t o'clock. A preliminary tilt will
match two junior high squads.
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Name Contest
For Ball Club
Ending Today
The 'name the baseball club' con
test being sponsored for Klamath
Baseball Inc. will come to an end to
night at 6 o'clock, and the name
chosen for Klamath Falls' entry in
the Far West Professional Baseball
league will be announced Wednes
day evening during a banquet at
the Wlllard.
Don Neal. chairman of the mime
contest committee, has lined up
J, A. Mahoncy, Joe Peak and Clyde
Carlstxom as judges, and they will
get to work perusing the suggested
names tomorrow.
The baseball banquet, which will
feature the appearance of several
prominent figures in the sport, will
start at 7:30 p. m. Wednesday, and
tickets are not being sold for that
event. A crowd of about 200 per
sons is expected.
Meanwhile, directors of Klamath
Baseball Inc. have a scheduled
meeting Tuesday night at 7:30 in
the oftice of the Palmerton Lum
ber company on Pine street.
Briefs
McKeever
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CHICAGO, Jan. 26 av-Youihful I
Ed McKeever. football's nomad who !
has coached at five different schools i
in a dozen years, declared todav i
that his three-year contract as new !
skipper of the Chicago Rockets i
makes me the highest paid coach
in professional football." i
"What is more." he beamed, "the i
money covering the three years is j
in the bank." i
McKeever s statement, made in !
San Francisco, indicates he will be
drawing upwards of S25.000 per sea
son and probably more irom the
Rockets' new backers, who so far
have not been revealed.
The Detroit Lions' new owners
recently were reported to have of
fered Frank Leahy $35,000 annuallv ! ..
to win him from Notre Dame, which
he refused.
The 37-year-old Texas Tech grad
uate, who resigned from the Univer
sity of San Francisco after leading
the school to its best season in his
tory with seven wins and three
losses, becomes the third pilot of the
hapless Rockets which have been a
financial bust in their two years of
operation.
Lujack On Paper
CHICAGO, Jan. 26 P Johnny
Lujack, Notre Dame quarterback
who was voted the "athlete of the
year- In 1947, signed a four-year
contract with the Chicago Bears
Saturday at a reported S18.000 an
nual salary.
Lujack was reported to have re
ceived a S5000 bonus for his agree
ment to play professional football
with the National league team.
George Ha las, owner and coach
of the Bears, also announced to
day that George Connor, Notre
Dame tackle and All-America
choice in the 1946 Associated
Press poU, signed with the Bears
for three years
Kuharich To SF
SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 26 tft
The University of San Francisco,
which has had four football coaches
In the last five years, entrusted its
1948 grid destiny today to 32-vear-old
Joe Kuharich, ex-Notre Dame
and professional star.
He was promoted from line coach
to head man yesterday by the ath
letic board and telephoned his ac
ceptance from Pittsburgh. He is ex
pected here In a few days to sign a
one-year contract for an unan
nounced salary.
'Gator Man
Plans Show
Tuffy Truesdale and his alligator
foe and companion, Rodney, will
appear here Friday nlfeht as an
added attraction to the weekly
wrestling show at the armorv.
Truesdale. a Floridian and 'gator
specialist, will give an educational
talk on the ousiness of handling the
big lizards commercially capturing
them for zoos, and the like then
will attempt to show how Its done.
If he can flip Rodney on his back,
the Job is done, because a 'gator is
more or less hors de combat when
he is up-ended.
Rodney Is not a trained perform
er. Truesdale says its Impossible to
educate an alligator like you would
a dog or horse, and he will resent
being mauled around even though
Truesdale is his handler.
Since he has been on his nation
wide tour, Truesdale has had to get
replacements In the 'gator depart
ment several times because the
beasts are subject to a variety of
ills, particularly in cold climates,
and frequently go to their own par
ticular Valhalla by way of pneu
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Ex-Brook Manager
Expects Dodgers
To Win Flag Early
NEW YORK. Jan. 26 iNEAl Up
from his Barlow, Fla., home to be
given the credit lie so richly de
serves by the New York baseball
writers, Burt Shotton solved the
St miky - Robinson problem for
Messrs. Rickey and Durocher.
All they have to do is listen to
the veteran who led the Dodgers
to the National league pennant
and. with no pitching to speak of,
carried the vaunted Yankees to the
seventh game of the world series.
President Rickey, you know, has
indicated that he would like to see
Jackie Robinson at second base, his
"natural'" position. After the
world series, the Mahatma re
marked that the Brooks had the
best second baseman in baseball,
but had to play him at first.
Farm Director Shotton solves the I
problem by simply declaring that I
one doesn't exist. j
The kindly gentleman denies that I
Robinson still had fielding flaws at
first base at the season's end. ,
KNOWS WAY AROUND
"Robby had become a fine field- i
inp first Haeninn ' h itvticrpri j
"Of course, I'm just a guy on the
outside looking in.
'idcd ?, Durochfr' 1
?on ,h' 'Ms lke P""" !
a"d John CRn " ,he j
at ,,rit oase'
"They tell me 'you should see
Robinson at second base.' but they
forget that such a change would
mean benching a great competition
1,ke Eddie ,?,ank'r; so1 ca,l t !C
an' over-all benefit through such
a move "
iL T' . , ..
pie anything when he said Robin
son's true test would come in tills
his second year. That's true of
eery sophomore. The pitchers are
much better acquainted with them.
Last season was a tough one
for Jackie,'' explained Shotton.
There was a lot of pressure on the
boy. He was fully aware of the ex
traordinary situation, and he react
ed admirably. He has wonderful
natural ability that was fully
brought out because of his willing
ness to listen to those people who
j had his best interests at heart.
HUMAN ELEMENT
"The big danger would be the hu
man inclination to stop listening to
those people, to say to himself:
'I've met my test. Now I'm a suc
cess. Now I'm on my own.'
"If that were to happen, all the
good of last year would be lost.
"From what I know of the boy,
however. I'd say he's Intelligent
enough to follow the right course."
Burt Shotton praised Durocher,
but rather put The Lip on the spot
with. "If he gets half the breaks I
got, he'll wrap up the pennant by
July," and "I don't like to say this,
with Giant representatives here,
but I'm afraid they'll have to wait
until we get through winning pen
nants." That certainly is giving the new
Leo Durocher his assignment.
Late Cage
Scores
High School '
Hillsboro 61, Sherwood 38.
Astoria 43, The Dalles 34.
Myrtle Point 39, North Bend 29.
Roseburg 55, Reedsport 35.
La Grande 37. Nyssa 34.
Prineville 55, Hood River 54.
Medford 35. Central Point 28.
Baker 32, Pendleton 31.
Grants Pass 46, Oregon Frosh 44.
Collegiate
Washington 56, Oregon 39.
Washington State 58, Idaho 34.
Southern Oregon 51, Humboldt
State 36.
Eastern Washington 48, Central
Washington 46.
Pacific Lutheran 65, Western
Washington 40.
Seattle Pacific 79, Pacific College
46.
Centralia J. C. 72, Olympic J. C.
63.
Linfield 58, St. Martin's 45.
Seattle College 49, British Colum
bia 42.
North Idaho 68, Whitworth 60.
Portland 52, College Puget Sound
34.
Wenatchee J. C. 47, Grays Harbor
J. C. 44.
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Ike Williams
Liked Over
Fred Dawson
PI1ILADKI.P1I1A. Jim. im
l.ightwelght Champion Ike Williams
in a heavy favorite to whip Freddy
Dawson, of Chicago, tonight In their
10-round non-title fight but he mav
b glad his title is tun on the line
before his third encore agulust the
Windy City mlttman Is over.
Dawson hits won eight straight
bouts the last four by knockouts
and he's been no shrinking violet
in predicting openly he'll set the
champion up for a lullaby.
The last time the two fighters
! met on January 28. 1946, Dawson
held Williams to a draw in a bit -I
terly fought battle. Recently the
Chicago negro has whipped Vic Pat
rick, Australian lightweight tltllst
In 12 rounds: mowed down Eddie
Miller, top down-under feather in
two. and polished off Dave Andrews
In two and Candy McDaniels In five.
Coos Bay
Gal Takes
Keg Title
CORVALLIS. Jan. 26 iA'i Ber
nice Elliot of Coos Bay won the
class A women's singles bowling
championship yesterday with a rec
ord tying 584 in the State Women's
Bowling association tournament.
Jean Bradle of Portland. 574. was
second and Reba Kargnian, Red
mond, 558. was third.
Julia Wlngert. Grants Pass, won
class B title with a 519 and Lucille
Walker. Albanv, won class C with
512.
Tile class A doubles crown went to
Brownie M.itheson and Peggy Prln
gle. Albany, with a 1060. The B
doubles was won by Norma Smith
and Hazel White. Eugene. 964. and
the C doubles by Edith McKlnncy
and Margaret Mead. Seaside, 888.
Harold Kelly's Appliance. Port
land, won class A tenm honors with
2351: Dahl's Drugs. Redmond, class
B with 2355 a score that broke
the 1941 record: and Herb's Asso-
ciated. Corvallis. class C with 2104.
Final standings included
Class B single; Edith Baln-
Class C singles Dena Backes. !
Klamath Falls. 482. third place.
Class A doubles Florence Mc-Cullough-Anlta
Young. Eugene, 985,
third place. Flo Ann Eaton, Klam
ath Falls, and Cleo Kuski. Albany,
930. 12th place.
Class B doubles Betty Dunn
Mildred Eaton, Eugene. 955. second
place. Clarice Hopkins-Betty Van
Orden. Eugene. 944. third place.
Class B teams Clingman's. Eu
gene. 2239. third. Miller Lumber.
Eugene. 2098. ninth. Joe Gorcieti
Hardware. Eugene. 2075, eleventh.
U-bowi. Eugene. 2068. twelfth.
Bobby Locke
Takes $2000
Phoenix Pay
PHOENIX. Ariz.. Jan. 26 .,tv-As
stiff a golfing test as any he has
faced was behind South Africa's
Bobby Locke today as he departed
from Phoenix on the winter golf
tour with the $2000 first prize
money from the Phoenix Open
i tournament in his. pocket.
The cool headed visitor from Jo
hannesburg yesterday went around
the 6578-yard Phoenix Country club
course in 67-67 In the final 36 holes
of the 72-hole test for $10,000 In
prize money and earn the nod by a
stroke over Smiling Jim Demaret
of Ojal. Calif.
Locke's 72-hole total of 268 clipped
two strokes off the previous mark
for the tournament held by last
year's winner, Ben Hogan of Hcr
shey. Pa., who finished well back
of the leaders this year. Demaret,
last year's leading money winner
on the PGA tour, made $1400 while
the $1000 third place prize was
taken by Lloyd Mangrum who stuck
close to the other two stars
throughout.
Pels Lose At SOCE
ASHLAND. Jan. 26 (Pi The visit
ing Klamath Falls Pelicans dropped
a 58-30 decision here Saturday night I
to the Southern Oregon college
punlor varsity basketball team, a
preliminary tilt to the Southern
Oregon-Humboldt State contest
which ended 61-36 for the Red I
Raiders.
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College Grid
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Little Schools Can
Still Throw Weight
Around on Hardwood
NEW YOllK. Jan. 26 i.IV-A roll
call of the nation's top college bas
ketball trams today would find few
of the recent football powerhouses
answering "present" proving the
little guy ran still throw his weight
around In the rage sport.
Of the Institutions that made up
college football's first ten in the
Associated Press' final poll Decem
ber 9 only two Texas mid North
Carolina nie still around enloylng
the fresh air of the upper strata
b.isketbull.
Texas, fifth In the football rank
ing, shures the southwest conference
cage lead with Arkansas and Baylor
on a perfect record i3-0 and boasts
one of the season's best overall
marks 13 victories In 14 games.
TAKlTlrl.S HOT
North Carolina. No. 9 In the grid
lineup, has five .itrulght vrrdict.iv
without a srtback to occupy the
southern confeiein-e top rung with
N. C. state. The Tarheels have a
season record of 13-2.
The other football top-flightera
are basketball also rails while the
cage campaign's dwindling list of
unbeaten powers carries these
names: New York U. (12-U. Du
quesne ia-0'. Columbia ill-ui and
Fordham ll-0.
Notre Dame and Michigan, toils
on the gridiron, have dropped four
games apiece on the hardwood and
are out of the national siHitlkght.
Others of the football fust ten arc
j struggling along with mediocre
niuiKS CKHiinrrn .mcukkum iw-o',
Penn State i5-4. Alabama '8-5',
Pennsylvania i46. Southern Cali
fornia 1 6-7 and Georgia Tech 4-7i.
On tile other hand, Kansas State,
wlnless In more than 20 games in
football, has captured 13 to 14 sturts
in the soft-shoe siiort ami Is un
beaten in Big Seven competition
to share the league lead with
Kansas.
Other topflight basketball records
are owned by Western Kentucky
il3-l, LaSalle ilI-H. Kentucky
1 17-1, Oklahoma A .V- M (13-l.
Bradley 19-1. Illinois (11-21, North
Carolina
State U5-2). St. Louis
10-1). Bowling
Green 1 18-21 and
Depaul (12-3i.
Pels Carry
Mat Punch
Klamath Union high school grap
plers packed a little too much ex
perience for the Grants Pass Cave
men Inst Friday, w hen the Pels won
their dual meet on the Grunts Pass
mat 45-5.
The score Is not an Indicator of
the true atreimth of the Caveman
wrestling team, because several of Y
the better Klamath boys had diffi
culty In turning In their wins. Bill
Mosby and Vern Erlcks, two sen
iors, especially hnd a hard time.
On the other hand. little Ken
Karnes of the 95-pound class
dropped Pat Niles in the unbeliev
able time of 13 seconds. Dion
Davey beat Jim Turner In 19 sec
onds; Charles Shell needed only 17
to dump Lewis Hngan, and Melvln
Brown defeated Dick Slegnian In
20
The only Pel to lose a bout was
La mom Wilson, who tumbled before
Wilbert Lenhart in the 165-pound
division.
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I .OS ANUKI.F.S, Jail. 26 t,1'i-Twii
controversial topics are listed on the
agenda for directors of the Pacific
Coast llaseball league who open
their Hireling here today.
One Involves the change In owner
ship of 53 ier cent of the Hurra
nieutu stock mid tint other is the
recent "popofrs" by some rliib own
ers on the IVL major league status
controversy.
Oscar KalriiKcr, former owner of
the Milwaukee Brewers, recently
purchased the majority stink of the
Sacramento club and the sale mint
be approved by the league. Clarence
tBiicki Laws has Ihrriilenrd to
block the deal In order to keep the
Solona home-owned.
Other Items expected to be dis
cussed re the annual all-star game
and schedule revisions. President
Clarence. Rowland wild.
Vincent Pesky
In Yankee Claim
PORTLAND, Jan. 28 on-Vlm-enl
Pesky, University of Portland mound
stalwart and younger brother of
Johnny Pesky of the Boston Ucd
Sox. probably will hurl for the Vic
toria Athletics during Western In
ternational league play this season.
Sylvester Johnson. Oregou-Wash-Ington
scout for the New York Yan
kees, said today.
Johnson said the 2:i-year-old
Portland boy had signed with Ding
liamlon. N. Y of the class A
Eastern league, a Yank affiliate,
but probably would start the season
with Victoria, also u Yankee farm.
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OK'd By Commission
PORTLAND. Jan. 26 tTi-The III4H anglUm nuulallons for Oregon
have been adopted by the stale game .oiniiilwlon with sportsmen winning
their demand for multiple spinner mill double honked plug lures.
Petitions asking the commission to revise the lenliitlvo rules, which
banned the multiple spinner hue. were filed by spoil" good deulera who
mud die rule was unnecessary when I'litt h linilta lire imposed.
The lro.,1 season will rmi , t!llw,lll0 ,lke, will b.
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the Columbia river below HI. Hel
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Hum 20 during the year.
Jack salmon bag limit, which hud
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day anil not more than 20 In pos
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however, tho bug for Jack salmon Is
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Strelheud fishing In the Wlllu
melte and Its liibitlaiirn above
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