THURSDAY. JAN. 8. 1948
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THE EAGLE. VERNONIA, OREGON
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ROY FRANK, Sporta Editor
LOGGERS GIRD
FOR RAINIER
A rough and tough court battle
is to be staged on the local floor
this Friday night, January 9 when
the Vernonia Loggers meet the
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first league game.
Ball is considered the main
threat to the Loggers again this
year. He performed exceptionally
well at the Invitational Tourn
ament held at The Dalles earlier
this year and was really on the
“ball” when he tallied 45 points
against the Vancouver team. It
was said that a player would total
a score like tht once in a lifetime
—but who knows, maybe Ball will
be extra hot regain Friday night
and throw thg Loggers for a loss.
It’s hard to tell. It will be worth
watching this game as it promises
to be an exciting affair.
Coach Jake Hergert stated that
his intentions were to put Alvin
Tapp guarding Ball and possibly
let Jack Frank try his luck too.
If things start to get rough, he
might use both of them at the
same time to hold Ball down.
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VETERANS WIN Foul Âÿ*
FROM LOGGERS
The Veterans of Foreign Wars
town basketball team won again
from the Vernonia Loggers. 45-
27 was the final result of the
game played Monday night, Jan
uary 5.
Jack Nance walked away with
the evenings’ scoring honors by
tallying more than all the Logger
squad put together. He totaled 28
points. Bill Sword was high scorer
for the high school, making 10
. points.
The VFW team led scoring all
the way. Quarter scores were:
12-10, 19-13, 35-16 and 45-27, all
in favor of the Veterans.
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Lineups were:
VFW
VERNONIA
4 Sturdevant
Williams 3
f
Mullins
Graham
f
2 Bauersfeld
Cline 9
c
28 Nance
Sword 10
g
7 Crawford
Thompson 2
g
Subs: Vernonia—DeHart, Roberts
3, Crowston, Brown. VFW—East,
Galloway 4, Curl, Parker.
PRELIMLOST
TO TOPPERS
In the preliminary game played
last Monday night, the Washing
ton grade school “Toppers” topped
the score of the Vernonia “B”
team to put out and won 18-11.
Gordon Crowston stole the show
in this court event. The tall grade
school lad scored 17 of the 18
points. The other lone point was
made by Middleton.
The high school team was ahead
3-0 at the end of the first period,
but the graders pulled ahead in
the remaining quarters, 8-3, 13-5,
18-11.
Lineups were:
GRADERS
HI SCHOOL “B”
g
Tapp
Frank
Middleton 1
f
3 Chalmers
Usher
c
4 La Follette
Crowston 17
g
2 Wantland
Mills
g
2 Wail
SubB: Graders—Gamer. “B” —
Nightwine, Sawyer.
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Every elk hunter, regardless of
whether or not he killed an elk, is
required by law to file a report
with the state game commission
within 30 days after the close of the
season, C. A. Lockwood, state
game supervisor, advises. Under
the new law passed by the last
legislature, the commission is
authorized to refuse to issue an
elk tag the succeeding season to
any hunter who fails to make such
a report. A card for this pur
pose was attached to each elk
tag sold.
Information obtained
from these cards is considered es
sential in the management of Ore
gon’s herds.
To date, 8,000 returns have been
filed and a hunter success ratio of
20 per cent is indicated. However,
this ratio may be somewhat lower
when all the reports have been re
corded since unsucessful hunters
are the larger portion of those
slow in reporting.
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FIRST CONFERENCE
GAME COMING FRI.
Coach Paul Gordon and his
Washington gTade school “Top
pers” will play their first confer
ence game this season at St.
Helens. This battle is coming up
Friday afternoon, January 9,
against the John Gumm squad.
Gordon stated late last week
that he has great hopes for his
squad this year and that his boys
are farther advanced than last
years’ team was at this time. He
also added that they have pros
pects of producing a better team
this season than the grade school
put out last year. “Most teams,”
Gordon said “are fearing the War
ren squad but I’m not afraid of
them. They are supposed to have
an outstanding team, but I believe
we can beat them,” he concluded.
Warren just came into the con
ference this year and they asked
to be admitted only on a tem
porary basis, with the provision
that they can withdraw when they
see fit. It looks like they only
want to play in the conference
when they have a good team and
then drop out when they can v
produce a winning squad. The
Vernonia-Warren game will be the
final one for both teams and should
really be an exciting battle.
The Toppers have four regulars
back from last year. Their main
player, as it looks now, will be
Gordon Crowston who took one
of the “All-Conference” titles in
1947. He is improving and should
be a strong contender for that
title again this year. The other
regulars are George Middleton,
Loren Mills and Jim Frank. There
are also prospects battling for the
fifth position on the first string
and Gordon can’t make ap his
mind who should get that spot.
They are Larry Garner, Bill Usher
and Bill Fulton.
Also there are prospects of good
years to come for the Washington
ians. The second string is com
prised mostly of sixth and seventh
graders from which in one or two
years strong teams are likely to
be formed. Second string con
tenders are: Ricky Fulton, Ken
neth Nanson, Albert Fuller, M.C.
Brewer, Dickie Gwin and Billy
Wells.
Here’s wishing the Washington
Toppers a successful season and
may they, with Coach Gordon,
fight through and come out with
the title of “State Champs.”
VERNONIA CAPABLE OF
WINNING FRIDAY NIGHT
The Loggers are capable of
overpowering the Columbians to
morrow night if they play as good
a defensive game as they have
shown they can by the previous
games. Vernonia hasn’t been a
very good scorer ,as a rule, but
seems to have the knack to keep
the other teams from doing much
either. If they keep this up
chances are they will be victors.
In the Vancouver-Rainier game
in which Ball scored 45 points, it
is said he almost wore out a pair
of shoes and had blisters on his
feet for a week. That just goes
to show that he is always on the
move. He never stops. The fans
should take particular notice Fri
day night of Ball. He is always
moving in one directon or the
other, which shows that he is
in good shape and will prove a
tough hinderance to Vernonia.
Someone said that if Vernonia
could stop Ball, they could win the
game. Maybe so, but Rainier has
plenty of other good ball players
that can step in and do some scor
ing in case Ball is checked.
Another hindrance to Vernonia
is that Frank and Tapp aren’t in
as good shape as they should be.
Frank just got over the flu and
Tapp has a bad cold, but they
are hoping to be able to clamp
down on Ball with their full
strength.
Donnie Cline, Vernonia center,
has been inconsistent with his
scoring. In two games, he didn’t
score at all the first half, but
came to life during the second
half and made some points. Cline
should at least total from 15-20
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points each game and probably
more. He has the size and abil
ity to do all of that. Most of his
fault is attributed to not keeping
his eye on the basket when shoot
ing and hurrying his shots. He is
a beautiful faker and knows ex
ceptionally well how to throw his
man off balance.
Sylvester Williams
probably
hasn’t fully put out what the
people expected of him this year
but he is improving on man-to-man
defense and in the Tillamook
game exhibited beautiful defen
sive ball.
Jack Frank, one of Hergert’s
main defensive players this year,
just can’t seem to hit the
basket. He has had a lot of bad
luck along this line. He is capable
of being a high scorer, with that
nice left-handed shot of his.
Bill Sword would be a top
scorer if he would shoot oftener
but instead usually gets rid of it
to one of his team mates. Al
though he is small, he is a good
player and next year should
really go places. He showed a
sample of what he can do in the
VFW game.
It looks as though Vernonia,
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PRE-SEASON GAMES OVER
The Vernonia Loggers ended
their pre-season games this week
with a game with the Banks
Braves. Of eight games played,
Vernonia was victor in five. The
Loggers tallied 214 points to their
opponent’s 209.
Both Beaverton and Tillamook
fell twice to the Loggers and Wil
lamina was the other Logger de
feat. Vernonia has not been de
feated by any high school so far
this year. They were defeated
twice by VFW and once by the
Pacific U Frosh.
This data and figures do not
include the Jamboree or the Banks
game which was played too late
for this week’s edition.
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hope that he will receive the same consideration
I received.
Again may I say, thank you very much!
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