Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-03-18
TO IGNORE
PORTLAND
PROTESTS
High School Officials
Talk Shop at Dinner;
Future Tournaments
Here Assured


cultural college will not attempt
to shift the annual state inter-
scholastic basketball tournament
from willamette university to
either of the state institutions,
and an understanding that all at
tempets of the Portland high
schools to break into state high
school championship contests
would be ignored until the Port
land schools saw iE TO JOIN tne
Oregon State High School Ath-
letic association, were the out
standing developments at the din
ner given for the visiting coaches
and other tournament guests from
out of town by Hauser Bros, and
The Capital Journal, at the Mar
ion hotel last evening.
The dinner was arranged as a
forum meeting and acquaintance
affair for the visitors to allow
them to talk shop and discuss
their mutual problems. T. E. Nc
Croskey, former manager OF the
Salem Commercial club, presided
as toastmaster.
Oregon to Keep Hands Off.
Roy Boiler, basketball director
at the University of Oregon, drop
ped the first live bomb in the dis
cussion when he announced that,
despite reports that Oregon and
o. A. G. would probably ask re-
peal Of the Pacific coast confer
ence ruling preventing them from
staging interscholastic tourna-
ments on their campuses, the Uni
versity of Oregon would not be a
party to movement to take the
basketball tournament away from
Willamette.
$50 long as l am in charge of
basketball at Oregon there will be
no attempt on the part of the uni
versity to deprive Willamette of
the basketball tournament" Bob
Ter said. Years ago Oregon used
to stage the tournament, but they
got into trouble over it and had
to give 1t up. Willamette then
took hold of 1t and built it up to
its present perfection and deserves
to keep it."
Hager Speaks for o. A. G.
Coach Hager, of o. A. c., echoed
the sentiment expressed by Boiler
and asserted that the Aggies would
make no attempt TO rob William
ette of the honor of staging the
annual contest.
Speaking as a member Of the
board Of control of the state high
school association, under the di-
rection of which the basketball
tournament is held, George Hug,
superintendent of the Salem
schools, opened the discussion and
sounded the sentiment of the high
school coaches present on the
question of what attitude should
be taken toward the protest of
jefferson high school of Portland,
against the association proclaim
ing its tournament state cham
pionship contest without admit
ting the Portland city champions
Unto the play. Mr.. Hug called at
lention to the eleventh hour an
nouncement of the Jefferson au-
thorities that they would chal-
lenge the team winning the
tournament here to a game for the
state title sometime next week,
and If the challenge was not ac-
cepted would claim the champion
ship of default.
Portland Schools Scored.
Pointing out that jefferson
high school, as well as the other
high schools of Portland, had re-
peatedly refused to accept the
rules of the association and be-
come members of it, Mr.. Hug de-
clared that he did not see where
jefferson had any grounds upon
which to base protest, or why
any claim they might make for
recognition in determining the
state championship should be con-
sidered.
so long as I am a member of
the board of control will not con-
sent to any team representing a
member school of the association
playing a post-season game, or
any other contest with a Portland
high school until the Portland
schools join the association" Mr..
Hug declared.
I'VE are tired of having the
Portland schools play dog in the
manger,'" was the way Dick
Handley, coach of the Pendelton
high school team, expressed the
attitude of the Roundup city
school officials toward the Port
land protest. "If my team should
be lucky enough to win the cham
pionship in this tournament, you
can rest assured that we will not
play a post-season game with JEFF
ferson."
Visitors Well Pleased.
All OF the coaches present at the
dinner last evening were warm in
their praise of the treatment af-
them and their teams by
the Willamette students and the
people of Salem, and united in
of the manner in
which the tournament has been