The Daily Item from Sunbury, Pennsylvania • 20

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 5, 1940. TWENTIETH PAGE SUNBUItY DAILY ITEM, SUNBURY, PENNSYLVANIA. mpetitibn Start Drills For League Cagers Go Snnbory High Juniors Dominate Team Coached By John Auten Bucknell, Nittany Stars All Eastern Runners-Up 1 -wm WW 1 I flil mUH Starts Third Year Fordham and Len Warner of Penn. One of the east's finest wing-men, Gene Goodreault of Boston College, drops back among the honorable mentions because injuries suffered in the Georgetown game kent him out of the Eagles' important games, with Auburn and Holy Cross. By Herb Baker Associated Press Sports Editor New York, Dec.

5. (AP) Boston College, unofficially champion of the east, places three men on the all-eastern football team compiled today by the Associated Press. I Drawn from the Boston array are Charley O'Rourke, brilliant back; Chet Gladchuk, huge center, and George Kerr, scholarly guard. -v Cornell, although it dropped its last two games and with them the Ivy League title to, Penn, gains two places on the all-star team. The other places are shared by Harvard, Penn, Pitt, Georgetown, Yale and Fordham.

O'Rourke's backfield mates on the mythical team are Walt Ma-tuszczak, Cornell quarterback; Francis Xavier Reagan, sensational Penn star, and line-cracking George Karcum of Pitt. With Gladchuk and Kerr in the line are Loren MacKinney of Harvard and Alan Bartholemy of Yale at the ends; Nick Drahos of Cornell and Joe Ungerer of Fordham at the tackles, and Agastino Kio, Georgetown veteran, teaming up with Kerr at guard. The 1940 team averages 202 pounds in the line and 185 in the backfield, where O'Rourke's 158 pounds cuts sharply into the average. Reagan's place on the team was secure beyond any challenge for the great Penn triple threat stood out head and shoulders beyond any eastern rival for all-around value. But the other backfield nominees all had to withstand real competition.

Matuszszak, husky blocker and play-caller for Cornell, barely beat out another great blocker, Boston College's Henry Tocylowski. O'Rourke, a standout in Boston's vital game with Georgetown when Georgetown's 23-game unbeaten streak was broken, found a half dozen, serious challengers on his heels, among them Andy Tomasic of Temple, Hal McCullough of Cornell, Dave Allerdice of Princeton, Len Esh-mont of Fordham, BUI Busik of Navy and Henry Mazur of Army. Karcum beat out such other fullback aces as Steve Filipowicz, Fordham Sophomore, Mort Lands-berg of Cornell, Jim Castiglia of Georgetown and Walter Zarinsky of Lafayette. Competition over the end posts was sharp all the way. Bartholemy, a fine pass catcher and great defensive player, was Yale's most consistent player all season.

MacKinney, who did most of Harvard's kicking, performed brilliantly, particularly in the closing stages of the season when Harvard began to move. But their edge was small over such rivals as Alva Kelley of Cornell, Hugh Barber and Joe Siegel of Columbia, Vince Dennery and Jim Lansing of CENTRAL PRESS ALL-AMERICAN TEAM, 1940 FIRST TEAM With 13 of the 18 varsity players members of the junior class, the Sunbury high school basketball team this week got down to the business of preparing for its opening game of the season and participation in the busquenanna Basketball League. The Owls open at home Decem ber. 20 with John Shadle's Tress-ler Orphanage team, and then will not see action until they play Northumberland January 3 in a league tilt. However, there is a possibility of an Alumni tilt being scheduled during- the Christmas holidays to keep the players in trim.

Prospects for the season which marks the return of Sunbury to league competition are rather uncertain at the present time, but with definite indications that if the Owls are not championship contenders this year, they will be next season because of the large number of underclassmen on the team. Coach John Auten refuses to make any predictions but states that he expects his charges to make a good showing in the Susquehanna League where they will compete with Northumberland, Selinsgrove, Lewisburg, Mifflin-burg, Milton, Danville, Blooms-burg, and Trevorton. The Owls have been out of league competition since the Keystone League disbanded in 1936, although an unofficial tabulation of a Key League standing was made last year. There are only four seniors on the varsity squad: Al Rothermel, Clyde Kunkle, Dick Gass, and George Thomas. Rothermel broke two toes playing soccer recently and this injury will probably hinder him at the start of the Thomas has been ill with a severe cold since the Haz-leton football game and has not reported for practice as yet, but is expected to be on the squad as he won a letter last year.

Kunkle will become ineligible January 13, which is his 20th birthday. This leaves things pretty much up to the 13 juniors on the team and this group includes 'three boys who reach the six foot mark and other hard working players who have been practicing for almost two months during which they made a creditable showing in exhibition games with the Susquehanna freshman team. However, several of the juniors were on the football team and did not report to the cage squad until this week. Presence of the large number of juniors is in line with a policy of cage developing players which Coach Auten will put into force this year. The varsity squad has been cut to 18 men and three of these will be dropped before the season opens.

The jay vee squad, now numbering around 20- men and coached by Wilbert Bolton, is Composed entirely of sophomores and no upper classmen will be allowed to play on it. Plans are for the jay vee team to be com posed entirely of sophomores in the future with juniors and seniors on the varsity squad. In this way it is hoped to continue the teaching process which has started in the grades. However, the grade school basketball iprogram has not been started this year and there is some doubt over its future due to difficulty In securing a director. The junior high cagers are practicing under Normal Dries.

Members of the varsity "squad are: Seniors, name and heighth: Al Rothermel, 5 ft. 11 ins. Clyde Kunkel, 5 ft. 9 in. Dick Gass, 5 ft.

9 in. George Thomas, 6 ft. Juniors, name, height: John Tressler, 5 8V2 in. Walter Portzline, 5 ft. 7 in.

Paul Martz, 5 ft. 7 in. Ira Clement, 6 ft. Jack Saxton, 5 ft. 10 in.

Bill Zeigler, 5 ft. 8 in. 'Robert Seymour, 6 ft. Dan Renn, 5 ft. 10 in.

Clyde Benner, 6 ft. Huston Broscious, 6 ft. in. Sam Deitrich, 5 ft. 8 in.

James Wright, 5 ft. 9 in. James Burns, 5 ft. 9 in. Sophomores, name, height: Newt Fetter, 5 ft.

8 in. Seniors End Undefeated Soccer Campaign At SHS POSITION- NAME SCHOOL AGE WEIGHT HEIGHT CLASS HOME TOWN End Gene Goodreault Boston College 22 184 5' 10 Senior Haverhill, Mass. Tackle Nick Drahos Cornell 21 212 6' 8" Senior Cedarhurst, N. Y. Guard Marshall Robnett Texas A.

M. 23 205 6 1" Senior Klondike, Tex. Center Rudy Mucha Washington 22 212 6' 2" Senior Chicago, HL Guard Bob Suffridge Tennessee 21 190 6' Senior Knoxville, Tenn. Tackle Urban Odson Minnesota 20 247 6' Junior Clark, S. D.

End Ervin EIrod Miss. State 21 186 6' 1" Senior Memphis, Tenn. Quarter Frank Albert Stanford 20 170 5' 9 Junior Glendale, Cal. Back- Tom Harmon Michigan 21 195 6' Senior Gary, Ind. Back George Franck Minnesota 21 176 5' 11" Senior Davenport, la.

Back John Kimbrough Texas A. M. 22 222 9' 2" Senior Haskell, Tex. FOURTH TEAM Holt Rast, Alabama Fred Hartman, Rice George Kinard, Mississippi Ray Apolskls, Marquette J. W.

Goree, Louisiana State Vlo Sears, Oregon State Jay McDowell, Washington Forrest Evashevski, Michigan Bob Foxx, Tennessee Jim Thomason, Texas A. IH Jim Klsselbulgb, Oregon State CCC CAMPERS ENDANGERED BY HUNTER'S SHOT A youth at the Halfway CCC Camp narrowly missed being shot while at work on the Halfway Dam yesterday and the incident led camp offifncials to threaten prosecution of any hunter found within shooting distance of the camp. The youth was bending over near a tree when a bullet smacked the tree right above his head. Had he been standing the bullet would have undoubtedly struck him in the head and probably killed him. Federal laws prohibit any kind of hunting near CCC camps or projects and Supt.

Thurston Diehl today requested police to see that the law is enforced as he has over 150 men under his direction working on the Halfway Dam. This project was purposely de layed until now so that the men could work in a comparatively open spot and close to the camp buildings during the hunting season. It was felt that it would be too dangerous working in the woods and since the- small game season opened tne dam project has continued. Now deer hunters are crowd ing around the camp and yester day even blocked the camp road shut with parked cars. One per son estimated that there were more automobiles on the Four teen Mile Narrows Road than deer in the adjoining woods.

The re suiting congestion completely stopped the regular movement of traffic near the camp. Water has been drained from the dam and the bottom is being cleared and cleaned after which additional sand will be placed to improve both bathing and fishing conditions. A small pool of water near the diving platform affords protection for the fish and ducks left in the, dam. A large parking place is also being cleared north of the bathing beach. The toughest choice of the lot was at center, Where the east had a banner crop including the 242-pound Leon Gajecki of Penn State, Don Snavely of Columbia, Lou De Filippo of Fordham, Ray Frick of Penn and Frank Finneran of Cornell.

Few could challenge Kerr and Lio at the guard positions, and Drahos and Ungerer were equal standouts at the tackles, where the field was limited to an extraordinary degree. HUNTER LOST FOR TWO DAYS Titusville, Dec. 5. (AP) Plodding through snow more than a foot deep, state motor police and volunteers resumed today a wearisome search for an aged hunter missing for two days and feared dead in the woods north, of here. Relatives of veteran woodsman, Ira Hamilton, Titusville, said they had received no word from him since he left for the Donovan farm region Tuesday, seeking deer.

A son, Hugh Hamilton, who lead searchers, said there was little chance his father could have survived the zero weather here Tuesday night. Other hunters, State police, Boy Scouts and high school students scoured the woods yesterday without success. They were hampered by there to four inches of new snow that covered any A number of other hunters trapped in various sections of the state by heavy snow early this week all made their way back to safety. As hundreds of sportsmen left XI i a uie Dig game aisincis wiin xneir uag KJX UCCl, U1C1C WCJ.C lur further reports of fatalities the death toll remaining at 13. The kill of deer, heavy in the first two days, slackened.

TO MANAGE BILLPORT Spencer Abbott has been selected to manage the Williamsport Grays in 1941. The 63-year-old veteran has managed more minor league clubs than any one else and has won more pennants than any other manager, eleven. He managed Springfield in the Eastern League last year. PENNSYLVANIA'S LARGEST SELLING WHISKEY rfntillid from Groin. 90 Proof.

THE ALL-EASTERN TEAM Position, Player and College Home Town End Loren MacKinney, Harvard Hill, N. Tackle Nick Drahos, Cornell (x) Cedarhurst, N. Y. Guard George Kerr, Boston College Brookline, Mass Center Chet Gladchuk, Boston Conn. Guard Agostino Lio, Georgetown (x) Passaic, N.

Tackle Joe Ungerer, Bethlehem, Pa. End Alan Bartholomy, Yale Portland, Orel Back Walter Matuszczak, Cornell Lowville, N. Back Francis Reagan, Penn Philadelphia DnnV 1 (T 1. T-i. "I 1 HIT 1 1 JOHN AUTEN Starting his third year as varsity basketball coach at Sunbury High School, John Auten is faced with the task of building a team which can plow through a difficult 21-game schedule from a squad composed largely of underclassmen.

Coach Auten is a graduate of Sunbury High School and one of the best athletes ever produced at the local institution. He also starred at Susquehanna University and returned here to teach in the Junior High School where he had unusual success as a basketball coach for eight years. Largely because of the fine record compiled by his junior high cagers he was promoted to the varsity job in 1938. DODGERS SET BUYING PACE Atlanta, Dec. 5.

(AP) The man with the money bags is in town, and if pennants can be purchased, Brooklyn's daffy Dodgers will be in the world series next fall. Larry Macphail has this 39th convention of the minor leagues in a Santa Claus mood. And money talks. Yesterday the Dodgers tossed catcher Gus Mancuso, a rookie pitcher and a wad of cash estimated at from $65,000 to $75,000 on the line in exchange for the St. Louis Cardinals' young catcher, Mickey Owen Today the man with pennant fever was in a huddle with the Pittsburgh Pirates, dickering for outfielder Debbs Garms and willing to be talked to about anything else than can put the Dodgers ahead of the league.

MacPhail's deals now have cost the Brooklyn bankroll more than $300,000 still a good way behind Boston's Tom Yawkey. But where Yawkey tried unsuccessfully to buy a pennant-winner with gold-plated names, Mac-Phail is putting his cash on the line chiefly for young talent. With exception of veteran outfielder Joe Medwick, acquired from the Car dinals for $150,000, his r'eals have gambled on the future $100,000 for the Phillies pitcher, Kirby Higbe and yesterday's Mickey Owen buy. To the Cincinnati Red's swap of shortstop Billy Myers to Chicago for outfielder Jim Gleeson, shortstop Bobby Mattick and an undesignated player was added word of two other negotiations. The Boston Red Sox were reported unofficially near agreement on a straight trade which would send veteran outfielder Roger Cramer to the Chicago White Sox in return for outfielder Mike Keevich.

Manager Bill McKechnie of Cincinnati was believed dickering for another shortstop to understudy Eddie Joost, since Mattick has been an erratic- infielder. For the minors, speculation turned to what baseball commissioner Kennesaw M. Landis will have to say tonight when he makes "a few observations" at the association's annual banquet. Not since the convention in Columbus, eight years ago has baseball's szar addressed the group. The convention concludes tomorrow.

Billy Myers is a native of West Fairview, near Harrisburg, and well known in regional baseball circles. WIN VOLLEYBALL TILTS Juniors continued their first place margin in the Inter-Class Volleyball League at Sunbury High School by defeating the Sophomores this morning. The Juniors, as yet undefeated, registered the match point by taking two of the necessary three games by the scores of 15 to 9 and 15 to 10. To morrow morning at 7:15 o'clock, the Juniors will play the Seniors. BAG DEER IN UNION COUNTY Donald-, Johnson, Lewisburg, and a New York hunter, Mf.

Be-lig, were successful among twenty hunters at Tea Springs Lodge, Union county, in bagging deer. Wm. H. Mitchell, newly appointed clerk of the United States Court at Scranton is among the hunting party. WAX YOUR SKIS Harrisburg, Dec.

5. (UP) Pennsylvania's second annual "Ski championships will be held at State College Feb. 1 and 2 if sufficient snow falls at that time, the Commerce Department said today. If weather conditions force postponement of the event, it will be held there Feb. 8 and 9..

The event will be under sanction of the U. S. Amateur Ski Association. Ski runs over a mountainous, 67-mile course, ski jumping and sla-lorn will feature the event. uacjv kj iuuxn.e, xosion ivias3j Back George Kracum, Pitt Hazleton, Pa.

(x) Chosen for second year in succession. SECOND TEAM I Ends: Hugh Barbar, Columbia, and Alva Kelley, Cornell, tackles Gene Flathmann, Navy, and Bill Collins) Lafavette: cuards: Lou Younc TlflrtmnntVi and Jna xxriAi ner, Army; Center, Leon Gajecki, Penn State; backs, Henry Toczylowski, Boston College, Andy Tomasic, Dave Allerdice, Princeton and Steve Filipowicz, Fordham. Listed for honorable mention are Bessel, center, of Bucknell Larry Eshmont, of Atlas, this county, a star at Fordham and these Penn State players: Chuck Peters, of Shamokin Psvrick, Piatt, Vargo, Mori, Patrella? THIRD TEAM Ed Frutlg, Michigan Abe Shires, Tennessee Ed Molinski, Tennessee Ray Frick, Pennsylvania Harold Lahar, Oklahoma Alf Bauman, Northwestern Rofend Goss, So. Methodist Do Scott, Ohio State Dave Allerdice, Princeton Paul Chrlstman, Missouri Milt Plepul, Notre Dame Sport Parade By HENRY McLKMORE Salt Lake City, Dec. 5.

(UP) Notes by a man who has just driven 750 miles without letting a car pass him, but who was fool enough to pass two police cars: If I don't get a press box ticket for the Notre Dame-Southern California game when I arrive in Los Angeles, I'll surely have enough speed tickets to get me into the best jail so I can listen to the game over the radio. If I am ever forced by admiring friends to run for public office it will be solely on a platform that demands all police cars be painted yellow for daytime, luminous for night and be equipped with loudspeakers which constantly warn: "Cheese it, the cops!" But enough of law and order, let's take this next curve on two wheels and get on to a few sports items. Tip to Clark Shaughnessy and his Stanford team: There is one play you need not build a defense against in preparing for Nebraska in the Rose Bowl. That is the fake placement kick. Biff Jones, Nebraska coach, got enough of that when he was coaching Louisiana State University and the late Huey Long was his self-appointed assistant.

The fake placement kick was the one Huey understood and he loved it not only loved it, but demanded that Biff use it two or three times a game. Biff didn't follow orders, but he got so sick of hearing about it that he wouldn't use it, even to win a bowl game. The next time you see Biff ask him to tell you how the Delta dictator, flanked by two bodyguards, came in the L. S. dressing room between the halves of a game and demanded to talk to the team.

He didn't get to talk, but he got Biffs resignation and pronto. Speaking of bowl games, I sorta envy those boys who'll draw the assignment to cover the Cotton Bowl in Dallas. I came from a state where hospitality is supposed to grow on trees, but the city of Dallas makes all other hospitality seem like a punch on the nose. When you start naming the outstanding sports performers of 1940 how are you going to keep SECOND TEAM Dave Rankin, Purdue Tony Ruffa, Duke Warren Alfson, Nebraska Leon Gajecki, Eenn State Augio Lio, Georgetown Bob Reinhard, California Paul Severin, North Carolina Charlie O'Rourke, Boston Col. Francis Reagan, Pennsylvania Jimmy Nelson, Alabama Norman Standlee, Stanford PLEWAK MAKES ALL-AMERICAN John Plewak, Bucknell's watch-charm guard, has gained honorable mention on the Central Press All-American football team announced today.

His position in the voting which would place him on the eighth team is a tribute to the plucky Bison player who participated in every gams Buck-nell played this year and in every one was the smallest man on the field. Mori of Penn State is also given honorable mention as a guard on the Central Press team which appears elsewhere on this page. Len Echmont of Atlas, playing with Fordham; Chuck Peters of Shamokin, playing with Penn State; George Kracum of Hazle-ton, playing with Pitt; Edgar Jones of Pitt, Tomasic of Temple, and Petrella of State are given honorable mention as backs on this latest All-American team to hit the sports page. Bucknell's Plewak Named On All-Opponent jTeams John Plewak of Bucknell University has been named on all-opponent teams selected by two elevens which the Bisons played during the past grid season. He is selected as first string guard by both Penn State and Albright players.

Priore of Bucknell is place at guard on the second string team selected by Albright while George Boner has been named the best fullback the Lions opposed this year. Penn State gave Morris Bessel of Bucknell honorable mention as center. TYRONE fa PRACTICE Tyrone football team which plays at Shenandoah Saturday in the annual east-west football championship, will practice Friday on the Mt. Carmel gridiron and plans to spend Friday night at Marble Hall hotel there. George KaveL Mt.

Carmel coach, formerly coached at Tyrone. FIND LOST BUCK A small buck deer was found Mondav evening by several boys on South Front street Milton. It had apparently fallen from the car of a party of hunters returning home after a day in the woods. mem i iry the name of Ace Parker' from leading the list? He not only fit-ed himself into a new system under a new coach with the Brooklyn, Dodgers, but he proved himself the outstanding pro football player of the year. And he did it with a fractured ankle! The two games I saw him play he was equipped with a steel brace that a convict trying to get home for Christmas couldn't have walked with.

Word has reached us way out here that the Boston Red Sox have sold two pitchers Denny Galehouse and Fritz Ostermueller and we all agree (and by "we" I mean myself and three cow-puhchers I talked to just outside of Laramie, yesterday) that Boston hasn't any right to sell a pitcher. "Give them Red Sox a few more pitchers," one cow-puncher said just before he headed a posse into a movie for a new Gene Autry picture, "and they'd lasso and brand everything in the American." I climbed into old paint and when I say old paint, I mean it and headed down highway 30. If I don't count sheep in my sleep tonight it will be purely because of strength of character. Utah is full of them and they have the right of way on the highways. And what's more they know it.

I've stared at them and steered around them all May long. The Notre Dame team may justify my season-long confidence in it on Saturday by beating a weak Southern California club that has 12 men in the hospital with flu. If the Irish win, I'll do my best not to point at my critics and cry, "I told you so." Seriously, the real tr6uble with Notre Dame this year is il guards. Elmer Layden feels, and rightly so, that his backfield is one of the best in Notre Dame history, but under the Notre Dame system the guards have to be something extra special, and they aren't Still, this is pretty late in the season for me to he finding that but Doorman, unhitch old paint from that parking lot and let's be off. BOSTON COLLEGE HONORED New York, Dec.

5. (UP) Boston College has been awarded the Lambert memorial symbolic of the Eastern football championship, it was announced today. The high flying Eagles, who will meet Tennessee in the Sugar Bowl on New Year's Day, were named by every one of the 65 eastern football writers and radio commentators who participated in the poll. and Smaltz. 79 Nwtrel Spirit Senior class of Sunbury High School closed its undefeated son in the Inter-Class Soccer League at Sunbury High School Wednesday afternoon by defeating the Sophomores 3 to 0.

The Seniors had previously clinched the title as they held a wide margin over their nearest foe, the Sophomores. Bob Weiser starred as the Seniors went on to victory, scording all goals, and was supported with the all-around fine play of his team mates. The melee was stagr ed on a field covered with ice that caused many spills, but at the same time did not detract much from the fast type of game taught by Coach Alden C. Coder. The Seniors registered eight victories and no defeats, the Sophomores three wins and five losses and th Juniors one win and seven reverses.

Seniors Sophs Weiser LW Wise Janson LI Klose Schaffer Zerbe Fetzer Rl Brown Getkins RW Cecco Barnhart LHB Gamby Osman CHB Miller Burgess RHB Remphrey Hornberger LFB J. Zerbe Wilt 1 RFB Willard Klinger Ross Seniors 0 12 03 Sophs 0 0 0 00 MULCTS PIHVArC Barrimoro, lawroncobwrg, Indiana. Juliut KmsW Distilling C..