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TUESDAY, NOV. 8, 1947 HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON PACI ELEVEN rpri to) CtnA g) Fighting Irish Get Largest First-Place Vote in History taJ4 l irtt Mlln Gridiron Specialization Pity tlx poor tporta scribe and (ooiball lan ton maybe leas yean I I Iroin now. With Uit rapid rise of specialised football, consider lor a moment what could happen. It will lake logarithms, oulja boards and metal telepathy to aav vy what u going on down between the chalk llnea. Ttie coach who merely h a of frnalve and de fensive umu, In t e r changeable, will be ait old faihlonrd ruddy duddy and the Malumnl will be J fowling for hla sralp. Nut only will they have a pasa apeclallal, round snerlalltt and kicking -i specialist. Jot RED lll'RD lllow will be used for ahort, bullet tari to the flat, there!! be a Jump pau muter, a boy for lone- passes. Off-tackle alanta. end mm 1 atralKht plungea and croaa bucks will be dulrd out at different aa 'iinrnrntv 'Mine will be a apeclal line unit to atop straight-ahead ground playa, one unit that la adept at craahlng through and rushing the paaaer. Shurkt. If Podunk Normal la un fortunate enough to muster only 40 t'layrra on the aquad. they'll have to forget football competition and go In for ping-pong In a big way. Hi-member Die good old dayt when It was unuiual to have more than seven or eight aubatltutlona In a game? A newspaperman covering a game could take time out for a sandwich or a look at hit girl In the stands without missing a flood !of substitutions. ', In ten yrara. he'll have to carry a ataff or workmen. There'll be a .substitution checker with two ai- jtstanta, one for offensive change. one for defensive awltrhei. The statistician won't get along with lust a chart and a pencil. He will have to carry a comptometer. adding machine, tilde rule and two wav radio. The coach won't be able to ttand on the tldellne. The perpetual flow of plavera on and off the field will threaten him with a disastrous trampling underfoot. The mentor will tit In a special eiihbv-hole and prem button" whlrh T will light up an Intricate board on the bench. Indicating the aubatltu tlona. ' A triple-threat back will be looked upon at a freak of gridiron nature, a d consoled by teammatea and fant at an overworked alave In a day of tingle aeaignmenti. One-One Record Many have asked Jut what Bend's league record It. The Lava Bean have played only two league tllta, winning one and loalng one. Medfnrd amackrd Bend 33 to 14 and Bend last week walloped Red mond, a district I weak titter. 28 tn 0. Klamath Path, on the other hand, hat walloped Ashland. Medford and drama Plat In conference garnet. Actually, a win for Bend In ll.e Armistice Day tracat would throw Orantt Pass and Klamath Kails into a tie with one defeat apiece. However, the Pelican win over the Cavemen would virtually assure the Pelican for a thot at the ttate contenders But the Pela will be gunning for a convincing win over Bend, asaur tng the district title, algned, aealrd and delivered. Teamt In district 1 are Burnt, Jjikevlew, Bend. Prlnevellle. Red mond. Klamath rails. Ashland, Med ford and Oranta Past. Redding threw a icare Into the Pelicans laat Friday when they grabbed a first-half lead. Klamath , had to knuckle down and pour on i tome power to finish with a 31 to VU win. It't probably juat at well that the Pellcant were given a few anxloua momenta. It wat a natural let-down. After convincing wlna over Medford. Longvlew and Oranta Past the Pell . ram were riding high, wide and handsome and a rout over Shasta could well havs thrown them Into the Bend game over-confident. Acrordlng to the radio account, the Wolvea were gunning for Oay nor Hurk who got the preaa ravel In the Caveman game on hla spark ing tcampert. But, Indicating the diversified power of Klamath thlt year, Oene Carlson waa turned loose for a tec ond half romp. Vandals' Nurse Seven Injuries MOSCOW, Nov. I m Another acrlmmagelett week faced the Idaho Vandal football aquad today at Coach Dixie Howell counted teven men ttlll on the Injury list. "We can't afford to lose anyone else." Howell declared yesterday. Idaho taket on Stanford at Palo Alio thlt Saturday with only a miracle reckoned to give them a Chance at evening their teaton'a record, Tha Vandali now have won three and lost four garnet. NEW YOllK, Nov. I Ml Nutie Dame It dominating the college football picture thlt year at few tee mi have done In the past. The resourceful fighting Irish, making mincemeat of a man-alted arhedule, held the No. 1 position tm the fifth strain lit week today In tha Associated Presa nationwide poll. They are a near unlveraal choice. The South Bendrra received 137 of ItU Jlrat place votes cast by iportt wrltera and aportacasters. Thlt left only 38 to be distributed among the other powers In the land wltli second-ranked Army getting 13. Oklahoma, No. 3, received nine and California, No. 4. collected three. The lone remaining flrat place vote went to another unbeaten, untied team, Cornell, which took alath place behind the defending Sammy Snead Voted Golfer of the Year CHICAOO, Nov. ( Golfer of the year? You don't need three gueaaet to know It't Sammy Hnead. The Profeaslonal Oolfera Associa tion of America aald today Hnead waa No. 1 In lu annual nation-wide poll Sporta wrltera and sporta castera voted Cary Mlddlecoff runner-up. Mlddlecoff ruined Hnead 's chances of a grand title alam by beating him out of the national oen crown. Johnny Palmer, Tarn O'Hhanter champion, waa third In the bal loting. Snead overcame the putting litters to pott hit finest campaign. He won three big ones, the national POA, Augusta masters and western open, as well aa other champlonshtpa In the Oreenaboro open, Washington Star open and Dapper Dan oiien. He finished In a tie for third or better In eight other meets, includ ing a aecond-tpot deadlock In the national open. A eraglng NM atrokrt In 09 rounds. Hnead It top money winner J. L DEAN Put-lie Accountant and Auditor Offlog al . IN North 1th II . Phone 3ta Irish Snub Bowls CHICAOO, Nov. t mi Harry Rtuhldreher, Wisconsin athletic di rector, It In favor of a compromise In any new big ten-Pacific coast conference Rose Bowl pact that may be algned. The -little general" of Notre Dame't famed four houraemen dayt auggeated at a quarterback club meeting yesterday that a big ten team be permitted to repeat In the Hose Bowl every two yean Instead of three and that tha Pacific coaat conference do the tame. The coast circuit sends Ita cham pion Into Uie bowl. The big ten doea not permit one tram to apiirar In the bowl more than once In three yeara, even If It wlna the title. The pnaaibllliy of Notre Dame go ing to the Rose Bowl or any bowl, waa promptly aplked by Ed "Moote" Krause. Irish athletic director. "Coach Trank Leahy and the school feela that after 10 tough games, our season should be finish ed." he aald. "We will maintain our policy of not playing post-season garnet." with :io.8D3. followed by Mlddlecoff with 124.004. Mlddlecoff! round average la J. Winnings and itroke averaget will not be completed for the 1M9 lea- son until the Miami open December I-1L Ai golfer of the year. Snead will be awarded a plaque at the POA annual meeting In Southern Pines, N. C , beginning November 18. KU Harriers Win Meet The Klamath Union high achool harriera warmed up for the state cross-country run November 19 by walloping Oranta Past and Medford 1 In a field of 38 runnert. 1 Klamath boys to place were Eu- 1 gine Book, second; Tom Thornton, third; Jerry Onrrelt. fourth; Harry ' Lyon, sixth: Jim Thornton, ninth. ' and Ouy Clark, eleventh, for a low- too re total of 36 point, j Medford wat second with 88, Oranta Pata with 84. The win gave KUHS Ibe Southern Oregon conference crosa-country title. Rochester. N. Y. Robert Vile main. IM'i, Prance, outpointed Anton Raadlk, 159',, Estonia (10). Toledo, O, Sandy Saddler, 130'i, New York, outpointed Leroy Wtlllt, 133, Detroit (10). Owls Face Lassen in Reshowing The final Oregon Tech game of the season, earmarked aa a grudge battle, thowt on Modoc field Friday afternoon when the Owla face the Lassen Junior col lege In a re-showlng. The Cougart upset a favored Tech team October 8, by a 39 to 9 count, using a tharp patt ing attack to turn the trick. Owl Halfback Chuck Warren waa benched In the first halt of tha game with a badly gouged eye. It't thlt alleged out-of-bounds, after-the-whlstle "Inci dent" which haa the Owla gun ning for revenge. Dale Daugherty'a charges will try to tnap a four-game losing ttrrak before an Armistice Day crowd. A victory would bring tha Owlle record to 3-6 for the teaton. "Ms' mm mm ! SAMMY SNEAD , , . top golfer. national champion Michigan, twice beaten title year. With the poll broadening each season, Notre Dame command! the heaviest flrat place vote In the 13 year history ef the AP feature. Not even Army, In Ita robust war time daya when loe Hlanehard and t.lenn lavla were rampant, er the Irian, In 1M4-47 when they were tiding high behind Johnny La Jack's buggywhip arm, enjoyed enrh auue national acclaim. All the ahuffllng In the weekly standings occurred In the lower division aa the top five teamt held firm. Cornell moved from arventh to sixth on ttrength of a 33-7 triumph over Syracuse Rice, climbing from eighth, aucceeded to the No. 7 spot after humbling Arkansai 14-0. Aa a demonstration of Notre Dame't Influence, Michigan 8tate climbed from tenth to eighth Just became It gave the Irish a good acre p. loalng 34-31. The laat two placet In the top 10 were filled bv newcomert Minne sota and Virginia as Baylor and Southern Methodist were shoved be low. Minnesota walloped Iowa. 86-7, to win the ninth position. Unbeaten Virginia gained the tenth place by upsetting favored Penn, 26-14. The aecond ten II. Ohio Bute, lag; U. rloathern Methodist. (7; 13 Tessa. N: 14, Kentucky. 79; IS, Bolton t'nlversltr. 66; 18, Louisiana Hist. 44; IT Stanford. 19; 11. Wake Forest. 33; 19. (ollrae of Pacific, 30; 3. Santa Clara. 38. Otheri receiving five er more vote Maryland, 25: Wyoming, 24; Dartmouth, 18; North Carolina, 18; Baylor, 12; Illinois 8; Duke 7; VII lanova and Wisconsin, each 8. "v.-4u r t4 r Ol 1 MM ;. 'A ROSE BOWL BOUND Bob Celeri is running, passing, pitching and piloting Califor nia to the New Year's Day game in Pasodena. Layne Leads Baugh PCL Eyes Big Loop Look-in NICHOLS, DEMETRAKOS DOUBTFUL STARTERS IN FRIDAY'S BEND GAME Halfback Joe Nlchola and Pull- back Joe Demetrakot were nursing brulaea today which may keep them from action In the traditional Ar mistice Day game In Bend Friday. Nlenoli. who auffered a painful hip bruise In the Oranta Pasa game, did not tee action In the Redding tilt and la ttlll far from healed. Demetrakot la limping aa the re sult of a charley-horte and the pow er runner la a doubtful itarter In the Lava Bear game. The Pelicans will ge Into the game odda-an favorites. The Lava Beare have won four and laat five In gamea to date. Only two of theae Sports ROUNDUP vvBy' Hugh Fulftrton were league gamea, victory ever Redmond and a loaa to tha Med ford Black Tornado. The Pelicans, en the other hand, have lost only one game, that to Grant In the aeaaon'a opener, Htnee that defeat, aeven atralght grid foes have fallen to the Pelican power, three ef them conference gamea. The Pelt will outweigh the Bean in the line but scaling will hit about even In the backfield. ' Standout backs for the Lavaa art Pullback Ron Abbott, and Halfbacks Ken Brown, Oene Holllday and Jim Wade. Brown and Wade are break away runnen while Abbott and Hol llday specialize in power blaate. Center Tom Nlebrrgall la tha aparkplug of the Bend line. The T formation It the nucleua of the Bend offense although Caeca Bud Robertson, former University, of Oregon player, uaea a sprinkling of tingle wing formation. Assistant Coach Bill Overman waa at the helm of the Bend grid machine In it week with Robertson nursing a cold. Eight Will Play NEW YORK WV-Thera are eight playing ooachea In the pro National Baaketball association thia yea. There are Cliff Barker, Kentucky; Buddy Jeanette. Baltimore: Howie Bchulze, Anderson ; Ken Bueaena, Sheboygan: Al Cervl, 8yracusa; Bob Feerlck. Washington ; Charley Shlpp, Waterloo, and Jim Darden, Denver. Grudge Battle i District 5 Play-offs OREOON CITY. Nov. t UP) The champion of the Willamette Valley league will meet Mllwau kle Friday for the high achool football cham:tonihlp In dUUIct 5. Tlilt will mean two gamea In four dayt for the league winner. The loop's two top teamt. Wood burn and Estacada, play rlvala tonight Woodbum meett Canbv and Estacada plays Bandy. Wood burn now has a 3-0 league record and a win tonight would cinch the crown. Estacada haa a 6-1 record and can win the right to play Mllwaukle only if Wood burn It upset by Canby while Estnrada dnwnt Bandy. The district final will be played at Mllwaukle. PHILADELPHIA, Nov. 8 (Pv-Ap-parently all a man needs to lead the National Football league In pataing It a good arm and the right to call Texas hit home. The latest NFL statistic! released today disclosed that a Texan by the name of Robert L. Layne has replaced another Texan by the name of 8amurl Adrian Baugh as the top aerial artists. Baugh of Washington, who led the loop in the art of tossing the pigskin last week now trails the adept Layne by a point and a half under the NFL't Inverse system of rating. Crjarley Conerly of the New York Olants rated third and Jchnny Lujack of the Chicago Bears fourth. Layne. the former Texas univer sity flash, pitched hla New York Bulldogs to their first victory of the 1949 season last Sunday 31- 34 win over the New York Olants as he completed 23 of 39 passes for 333 yards. It waa the greatest day of Layne't pro-football career. The Bulldog's T" quarterback now has thrown 183 passes, completed 87 for 1097 yards and four touchdowns. Only four Layne tosses have been Intercepted. Baugh't record now reads 133 at tempt. 77 completions, 1232 yards ana 12 touchdowns. CINCINNATI, Nov. 8 OP) The Pacific Coast league will try again next month to nudge a short step toward Ita long sought recognition as a major league baseball loop. But the effort will be made with out any help from the major league executive council. Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chandler disclosed yesterday that the council last week considered a Pacific Coast proposal that lu play ers be exempt from the major league draft and finally agreed to submit the proposal to major club owners without a recommendation. The Joint meeting of major league teams will be held In New York on De cember 14. At present, the Pacific Coaat loop la In the same class with tha American association and the In ternational league as a class AAA minor league and certain of ita . playera are anbjeot to draft by the major loop teams. Commissioner Chandler east a diasentlng vote but the executive council also voted to recommend that a high achool boy be permitted to sign a profeaslonal contract after he haa been In achool four yeara and after hla class haa been gradu ated. The episting rule aayt a boy may not aign until the day after he graduates or, if he has left school, until the day after his class gradu ates. He also may not sign aa long as he remains in achool. College Outdraws Pros LOS ANOELES. Nov. 8 (PI Col lege games at Los Angeles Coliseum are outdrawing the pro games by some 5000 fans per game although the rah-rah tilts are televised and the proa are not. However, official figures disclosed yesterday by Bill Nicholas, Coll- I scum manager, show that overall i attendance at the pro gamea la up 13 per rent from last season while the college gate has dropped 12 3 per cent. The Los Angeles Rams, one of pro football's wlnnlngeat teams thlt year, show an Increase of 213 per cent. Most of tills gain can be traced to the recent Rams-Chicago Bears game which set a new pro record of. 85.425 attendance (offi cial). Bven the losing Dona are up 3 per cent. League Owners Look For "Once in Life" Baseball Bargains i " w . S..W . HPS FOR YOUR FAVORITE BRANDS OF MENSWEAR Knox Hats McC.rrjnr Sportswear Manhattan Bhlrts Bostonlan Bhore Berkeley Square and Style mart Sulla and Topcoats DON'S ' MENSWEAR 1125 Main 8L 1 I NEW YORK, Nov. 8 (4 Major league club owners will spend over 8100.000 In the annual player draft In Cincinnati next week In hopes of snaring another Hack Wilson, whom the Chicago Cubs acquired for 375O0 back In 1928. History shows that few of the players picked up at basement prices become standouts or even stick In the majors. However, there are exceptions. The Cubs found one when they drafted Wilson from Toledo. Wilson belonged to the New York Giants but a slipup In the Giant office ex posed him to the draft and the alert Cubs claimed hhn. Hark led the National league In home runs In 1928 and four yeara later art the National league home run record of M and the major league runs batted In mark of 190. Wilson's case la outstanding but there have been soma pretty good other buys picked up from the "grab bag." SKIERS! New Winter Ski Equipment Is Arriving .Daily! Recurs year seeds from Klamath'a matt com plete 8kl itore. PREP ARB NOW! The GUN STORE 714 Main St. The Giants drafted a frustrated pitcher turned outfielder. Lefty OTJoul, from San Francisco In 1927. O'Doul hit .319 In 1928. was sold to Philadelphia and led the league In batting in 1929 with a .398 mark. Three years later Lefty copped Jie crown again while with Brooklyn. The same year O'Doul waa draft ed, the Phils picked third Backer Pinky .Whitney and the Cards Catcher Virgil (Spud) Davis. As a rule the draftees don't last long but each year the owners spend considerable time going over the list of eligible players hoping for that "once In a lifetime" bargain. NEW YORK. WV Hollywood Is considering making a movie of the life of Satchell Paige. ... If that goea through, lu a cinch old Batch will have to play the lead him self. . . . they couldn't make up another pair of legs to resemble hit . ... the Braves will eat and sleep In Bradenton. Fla, next spring alter all. . . . Wayne Olas gow, flashy Oklahoma C. basket ball forward, nearly broke his wrist when he slipped in the shower the other dsy. And Coach Bruce Drake nearly had heart failure before or dering non-slip mate. . . . after con sidering 30-year-old 8am Jethrne. Secretary Bill Manley and Publicl tor Harry Simmons of the Inter national league agreed In bestow ing the "most likely to succeed" accolade on Bob Morgan of Mon treal Reason was that Morgan started as a third baseman and there's a place for him at that corner of the Brooklyn Infield. Q notes Collected after recent foot ball gamea: Wallace Wade, after Duke beat Georgia Tech "I guess thia aquad has realized Its potential ities better than any I ever Lave coached". . . , Bernle Bierman, aft er Minnesota lost to Purdue: "We are going to have some fun out of playing now. . . . Frank Leahy, after the Navy runaway when some one asked If Notre Dame waa the best team In the country: "I'd rather wait until the season la over, because If I say such a thing now, It may permeate to the aquad and disintegration would set tn." The 195 American bowling con gress tournament already has been extended seven daya because of the flood of reservation requests. . . . Don Black, who may try a pitch ing comeback next spring, and Frank Papish are working as season-ticket talesmen for the Cleve land Indians this fall Papish took the Job to remain In Cleveland, where hla wife has been hospitalized with polio since last summer. . . . although tha scores ha vent shown It, Nebraska grid followers are cer tain their achool la on the way back under Bill Olassford'a coach ing. . . but what about the recently-revived rumors that Bernle Bierman la thinking of calling It a career at Minnesota?. . . . one Informant, who admits he has given up trying to second-guess the Ooph ers. says he wouldn't be surprised if Bernle did or didn't quit. . . . Wally Moses may manage the Ath letics' Savannah, Ga farm next season. . . . youngest player on the national basketball association list Is 19-year-old Joe Bragoski of the Chicago Stags, who stands 8-10. What'U he be when he grows up? Seven mem ben of Alabama's un beaten 194S football team are In the college coaching field. Most of the others are either coaching high schools or playing pro ball. . . . and Coach Red Drew would like to have them all back. ... the Na tional baseball congress hss printed 15.000 certificates to be' awarded to outstanding sandlot baseballers in 1950. That's about one for each grain of sand. when he heard about the new Michigan rule allow ing fighters 90 seconds' rest be tween rounds, Bill Daly cracked: "If they all adopt that, Lee Oma will still be fighting when he's 92." Lip, Yaqui Kid in Mat Rematch; Buck, LaChappelle Scrap Sneering Jack Lipscomb is expected to pull all the stops Wednesday night when he crawls through the ropes to meet the popular Sonora, Mex.. lad. the Yaqul Kid. The match, billed for the top spot on the regular Wednesday night grappling card, has all the earmarks of a hair-raising mat party. a The kld't manager, Yaqul Joe, agreed to the match on the Lip's 5 Min. from Town H aSfttSS? r X A grand old ( AME M CANADA J V -fid 'Xt AN AMERICAN PRODUCT 335 $010 W 41 aaart t su COItTt IlllgVI gllNtl WHIIKIT 88 MOO" 48 4 ORAM MUTtAl SrMTS Ml SAIOAY A CO. UMTTtO KOgtA, lUNOS ' . BUCK DAVIDSON will tangle with Maurice LaChappelle in the semi-windup of the ar mory wrestling card Wednes day night. Last week. La Chappelle gave Frankie Sto jack many an anxious moment- before the ex-champion won. Davidson lost to Al Szasz in a grueling match two weeks ago in the Klam ath ring. terms, to wit, that the bout be a no-limit scrap with the winner to take noma all the booty. The Kid haa already beaten tha unpopular Lip two weeks ago and also teamed with ol' Joe to trounce Lipscomb and Buck Weaver In team wrestling bout last week In a fracas that had tha fans tear ing up tha upholstery. , There la no love lost between Lipscomb and the well-liked Indian lad. The Kid specializes in tha painful grapevine, the hold he used to win both hla duel with Lips comb and the team affair. Lipscomb features Just plain, any thing -goes grappling. , A topflight bout to also ached nled for the semi-windup. Bock David son will knock off from hla hunting treks is return to the ring agstast Mamies LaChappelle. The Partalaa made a hit with the fans tn Msg a grueling square - ef f to baJdhsg Frankie Stsjsek last week. . Tww weeks age Davidson lost in n fast, vtcioss .match to Al Sxsas, N art av west Junior heavyweight chant ptoa. Both Davidson and LaChappelle will be gunning for their Initial win of the season In the local ling. The spencr will shew elotigatstl Carl Meyers agalnat the Great Atlas, Bed? Beautiful ef Strength and Health mags tine fame. The Davidson - LaChappelle set to la a 45-mlnute, two-out-of -three ftHs event. The opener will go for 30 minutes or one tall. Armory doors open at 7:30, Mutual Agreement ' WASHINGTON, Nov. WV-The Washington Redskins snnounced yesterday the five-year contract of Coach John Whelchel waa can celled by "mutual agreement" Hans Narland Ant Inawrsnea. rhooe 8068. POOLE'S FOB Shotgun Shells It'a Easy to Park at PooJe'e 2zS So. 1th . 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