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Dallas Bennett Headliner On Boxing Card Local Ring Veteran To Take On Sonny Orrock In One Of 2 Main Events Something new in fight pro grams is scheduled for the Fri day, May 27, fight card at the Roseburg Armory. Promoters Ernie Nazelrod and Sandy San ders are billing a double main event, with a host of talent set to throw leather for a scheduled 26 rounds. Douglas County boxing eifthu siasts will be interested to note that Dallas Bennett, Douglas County deputy sheriff, will head the card in a comeback fight with Sonny Orrock of Spokane. The fighting deputy is extreme ly popular with the local ring ad dicts, and many have wondered if he had hung up his gloves for good. But Orrock challenged Bennett to a ring tussle recently. and the tax collector couldn't pass up the opportunity to show he still has plenty of steam In the mitts. Bennett last fought here near ly a year ago, with George Ek stein, Grants Pass police officer as his opponent. Ekstein, former hampion of Minnesota, nounded Tl?it a hard-fought decision over Bennett, in a main event labeled "The Battle of the Cops." Ben nett was a member of the Rose burg Police force at that time. The Douglas County deputy sheriff has been working out vig orously ever since Orrock threw the challenge at him. Promoter Nazelrod, an ex-fighter himself, said Bennett is coming along fine in drills at the Armory train ing quarters. Orrock, who usually mixes a clown act with his boxing, said he would get down to business in the coming tussle. "I know Bennett is a rugged puncher," Or rock said, "but I think I can cool him." Bennett was asked "what are the chances for a Bennet admin istered KO?" He stopped punch ing the bag long enough to turn around and wink significantly. Washington State Wins Northern Division Title Standings W Washington State 12 Oregon 9 Oregon State 8 L 3 4 6 9 Pet. .800 .692 .571 .400 .067 Washington 6 Idaho 1 14 Yesterday's Results Washington State 17, Idaho 1. Oregon State at Oregon, post poned, rain. (By The Associated Press) For the third straight year Washington State College will carry the Northern Division's colors into the Pacific Coast. Con ference championship baseball ' playoff. The Cougars wrapped up the northern bunting by crushing Idaho, 17-1, at Pullman yester day for their 12th win in 15 starts. The two teams will tangle again today at Moscow, Idaho, in a game that will have no bear ing on the title. 7lunner-up Oregon had to sit by while WSC was clinching the crown. Rain at Eugene washed out the Wedfoots' game with Ore gon State. KLAMATH WINNER CENTRAL POINT, May 21. (JP) Klamath Falls nosed out Grants Pass here yesterday, 5-4, to win the Southern Oregon Con ference baseball -title and qualify for the State High School Tour nament at Portland next week. Last Pulpwood Supply Alaska is one of the greatest remaining pulpwood acreages. J. N. Boor Outboard Motors 924 Gdn. Vally. Rd. 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Two preliminaries will round out the card. (Picture by Photo Lab.! Barney Koch, Former Major Leaguer, To Direct Jr. Legion, Pewee Baseball In Roseburg Barney Koch, baseball coach and assistant football and basket ball coach at Tigard High School, has been procured by Lockwood Motors and Umpqua Post American Legion, sponsors to head peewee and Junior Legion ball here this summer. Koch played right field and third base on the University of Oregon team in 1943, hitting around .333. Later, he was op tioned ou't to the Montreal club, by the Brooklyn Dodgers. In 1944, Koch finished out the vear with Brooklyn's own Bums, playing 39 games altogether. The Dodgers were tnen in seventn place in National League stand ings. Back at the University of Ore gon in 1945, Koch helped coach the junior varsity team and in his final year there (1947), he was coaching the frosh team. He is still property of the Mon treal club. Recently he was placed on the retired list. Koch was born in Campbell, Neb., in 1923. While playing infield with the Millers of the Cascade League last year, Koch hit at a terrific pace of .416. The new peewee and Junior Legion coach will live in Rose burg this summer and will play with the Roseburg Chiefs to the extent that he is available from peewee and Junior Legion coach ing. While Koch is finishing out the school vear at Tigard, Coaches George Erickson and Norm West will keep things going locally un til Koch arrives the latter part of the month. Koch urges all youths interest ed in playing either peewee or Junior Legion ball to contact either Erickson or West to de termine if they are qualified to participate. Practice will be held at Finlay Field regularly and one game a week is tentatively scheduled to RJ The Builder Floed A Mill Sts. ita ci wa-ia-Ea ea MM vWYf. If 34 n--. ' 1 be played. June 4. League play starts Angels And Sacs Split; Portland Game Rained Out By GRAHAM BERRY (Associated Press Sports Writer! Two long losing streaks ended as Los Angeles and Sacramento rained out for three nights, final ly launched their Pacific Coast League series. First, they split a doublehead er last night, the Solons annex ing the opener 3 0 and dropping the nightcap 3-2. The curtain-raiser victory end ed a seven-game losing streak for Sacramento. And the finale provided Hurler Red Lynn with his first win since the second day of the season. Since then he has dropped -six in a row. Frankie Dasso held the An gels to two hits in fashioning the Solons' first shutout of the campaign. He also whiffed eight. Homer Spoils Record Lynn had a goose-egg in the making in the nightcap until Joe Grace homered with one aboard in the ninth. Johnny Ostrowski's 14lh round-tripper of the season provided the winning Angel run. Guy Fletcher stagge.-ed through his eighth straight win as Seat tle set back the loop-leading Hol lywood Stars 7-6, squaring their series at two each. Fletcher had lo be lifted in the ninth during a three-run Star uprising. The Rainiers had one big in ning, the fourth, clicking off three counters on four walks off Pinky Woods and a single. manager fled Haney of the Stars was chased by umpire Al Muttart in the fourth over a dis puted called ball. The San Francisco Seals beat second place San Diego at its own game, uulslugging the Pad res 13-3. Homers by Frank Shof ner and Mickey Rocco paced the Seal attack. Shofner's four-master came during a five -run eighth-inning blast. Left hander Steve Magy scat tered nine hits and scored three runs himself. All the Padre tal lies came in the eighth frame. The Padres lead the series, two games to one. The Oakland game at Port land was postponed because of rain. Crowds were 13.0R9 at San Francisco, 8,210 at Seattle and 3,852 at Los Angeles. 1 1y 7f We're fV? Y - of choice plants all to be sold at ' fj rntt ft v ROSEBURG 100 Spruce St. Kennedy Hurls Giants Into Top Position Shuts Out Cincinnati; Pittsburgh Noses Braves; Dodgers Turned Back Associated Press Sportswriter The New York Giants are be ginning to reap some dividends from the 525,000 they shelled out to Richmond for Pitcher Montia Kennedy in 19-16. After years of frustration Ken nedy is making the 25 grand price tag look cheap with some of the niftiest pitching by a Giant left hander since the memorable days of King Carl Hubbell. Well poised and still possessing the stuff that had the Giants and opposition buzzing three years ago, Kennedy has turned In four victories, one more than he re corded for the Giants all last year. Hurls Shutout Kennedy pitched the Giants Into undisputed possession of first place In the National Leapue yes terday with the finest perform ance of his career, a 5-0 two-hit triumph over the ambitious Cin cinnati Reds. The 27-year-old native of Ame lia, Va., faced only 29 batters, walked none, fanned two and re tired the last 14 Reds in order. Ted Kluzewski beat out a drib bler in the third inning and Jim my Bloodworth singled to left in the fifth for the only Cincinnati hits. Pittsburgh helped the Giants at tain the lead by nosing out the Boston Braves, 21, under the lights at Pittsburgh. Rookie Bill Werle, outpitched recruit Bob Hall up from Seat tle; to post his third victory for the Pirates and doubled home Ed Bockman with what turned out to be the winning run in the fourth inning. Cards Beat Dodgers The St. Louis Cardinals turned back the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-2, behind the steady nine-hit pitch ing of Red Munger to halt their three-game losing streak. Munger and Dodger Rookie Morris Martin were all squared at 2-2 going into the sixth when the Cards scored once and drove Martin out. The Red Birds as sured themselves of the decision in the seventh when Enos Slaugh ter cracked a three-run double off Don Newcombe, rookie Negro righthander, who was making his major league bow. Philadelphia crept to within a half game of the American League's second place Detroit Tigers as Joe Coleman bested the Tigers' Hal Newhouser, 2-1, in a ten inning duel in a night game at Shibe Park. Ferris Fain singled home Ed die Joost with one out in the ex tra inning to give Coleman his fifth victory of the year. Joost socked his sixth homer in the opening Inning. Al Papai's knuckle ball was no puzzle to the Washington Sen ators who pounded his offerings for six hits and five runs in three innings in beating the St. Louis Browns, 5-3 in an after dark game at Washington. The scheduled games between the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees, the Cleveland In dians and the Boston Red Sox and the Philadelphia Phillies and the Chicago Cubs were postponed because of rain. Angler Finds His Yard Full Of Fish And Crabs OLYMPI A, May 21. (Pi Bill Wilkening got up early .'riday, planning to go fish ing. He changed his mind when he stepped into his yard, how ever. The fish had come to him. Salmon and crabs by the hundreds were scattered in his park-like front yard. They were hanging from trees and hiding in rose bushes. "There were more fish than I ever saw before in my life," said Wilkening. "I certainly couldn't have caught that many." A truck loaded with the fish went out of control and piled into Wilkening's yard Just as he had prepared to take off on his fishing trip. Bobby Locke Said Irked By U.S. Pro Golf Snub PHILADELPHIA. Mnv 21 im Bobby Locke set out 'today to nrnun ha lo thn kn.t npnfnn.in.l golfer not Invited to the P.G.A. tournament. The big, soft-spoken South AfHran uaen't .iiflnn n.,i.,v. - . .lujlll HIULIinitUUl what his friends consider a snub ny ine unnea states Professional Golf Associalion in banning him from playing in the PFA next week at Richmond, Va. But the signs were pretty apparent he was burned to a dark brown crisp and he wpnt so far as to say, for publication, that he con sidered I he decision "vprv riio. courteous." Bargains Galore to Vi Off on Flower and Vegetable Plants Shrubs and Trees overstocked with thousonds NOW AT THE NURSERY At Foot of Washington St. "1 RUNS MILE TODAY Ervin Stritike, Roseburg'j long dis tance runner, will compete against a field 'of top milers from over the state at the Ore gon state track meet today at Bell Field, Oregon State College campus. Stritike has turned in an enviable record of distance runnina durina the 1949 track season, and Coach Newby will depend on the speedy miler tor a win today. Other trackmen from Roseburg attending the meet are Bob Sconce, lavalin man, and Don Hubbard, captain of the team. Coach Newby ac companied the lads. (Rod New land picture.) Rod And Gun Club Plans Recreation Site Acquisition Plans to cooperate with the Douglas County Court in acqui sition of public recreational lands were laid Friday night by the Umpqua Basin Conservation Coun cil. Expressing appreciation for the action of the county budget committee which, at the coun cil's request, included an item of $10,000 in the budget for the frrthcoming year to be used in buying recreational sites, the council directed each of its mem ber clubs to appoint committees immediately to prepare an in ventory of sites which should be obtained. Chairmen of the local com mittees will make up a county- wide advisory board available to the county court, it desired, to assist in setting up an acquisi tion program. Member clubs in clude Drain, Yoncalla, Oakland, Sutherlin, Roseburg and Canyon ville. A newly organized club at Myrtle Creek Is expected lo Join the council. The Lower Umpqua Sportsmen's club, representing Reedsport, Gardiner, Scottsburg, Winchester Bay and Loon Lake, affiliated with the Southwestern Oregon Sportsmen's Association, will be invited to appoint a mem ber on the county advisory com mittee to aid in the land acqui sition program. Council members, meeting at the clubhouse of the Roseburg Rod and Gun club, heard a re port from Ross Newcomb, field agent of the state game depart ment, who said he had investi gated complaints made about ob structions in Canyon Creek and other county streams. One of the Canyon Creek dams has been removed, he said, and a passage way for migratory fish will he provided over another. He prom ised to investigate reports of rock crushers dumping silt Into streams in the northern part of the county. He also was informed that Winchester creek, flowing into Winchester Bay has been blocked by logging debris and slated an investigation would be made. Attending the meeting were officers of the newly organized Myrtle Rod and Gun Club, form ed' at Myrtle Creek. Officers are Ira Dumont, president; J. R. Bond, vice-president; Wm. Bow den, financial secretary; Francis Bickle, recording secretary, and Gus Johnson, master-at-arms. The officers signified their Intention to affiliate with the council, the coordinating agency for sports clubs of the central part of the county. JOINS AIKEN3 STAFF EUGENE, May 21. '!') Jerry Lillie, who coached Grant (Port land) High football forces to the state title in 10-13 and Willamette University to the Northwest Con ference crown in 1017, will be come the first alumni assistant on Jim Aiken's University of Ore gon football staff. Athletic Di rector Leo Harris this morning confirmed Lillie's appointment after the ex-Webfoot had asked for his release as athletic director and football coach at Willamette yesterday. Alaskan Purchase Alaska was purchased from Russia in 1867-82 years ago. Excellent River Loam Top Soil Immediate Deliveries Also Shale Rock & Fill Dirt Phone 443-L or 483J4 Umpqua Chiefs Win Out Over North Benders Visitors Outhit Local Team But Bobble Ball; Thomas Scatters Hits By ROD NEWLAND Although North Bend outhit Roseburg 10 to 6, the Umpqua Chiefs defeated North Bend in a game played on Finlay Field Friday night by the score of 10 to 4. The game was threatened by rain during the day result ing in a sparse crowd to witness the contest. The game was literally hand ed to the Chiefs by North Bend In the bottom half'of the eighth Inning, because the two North Bend pitchers walked four men, hit another, and the infield bungled the ball three times to allow Roseburg to score 7 runs without collecting a single hiU Koseburg s Hurler Thomas re ceived credit for the win by scat tering 10 hits over the nine in ning rouie except for four in the top half of the 6lh, and show ing much better control than his opponents. North Bends young pitcher, Warren Hunt, tossed a good hall with hooks well mixed with his other pitches to hold the Chiefs to six well scattered hits, but his wildness was his downfall. When Castella relieved him, he issued several walks including the clinch ing run before he finally settled down and put Roseburg back out in the field. In the hit department, North Bend's Roundtree was outstand ing with two hits in three offi cial times at bat. For Roseburg, Roy Long was the only man to get two hits, while Virg Sanders, Norm West, Jerry Hugging and Harold Edgar each hit once. The Chiefs will leave Sunday morning at 8:30 for Prospect to play their second league game. summary: Roseburi:. Player AB R H R. hone, lb 3 0 2 V. Sunders, .lb 4 2 1 u banders, ss u West, lb 4 2 1 HuRKins. c -.4 1 1 Kduar. if .301 Sehofleld. 2b 2 1 0 S. L,onK. rf .1 i Thomas. D . 2 1 0 Seherner. If 2 0 0 Hill, 1 u u 111 10 0 Batted for Sehofleld In 8th. North Bend. Plaver AB R H Young. 3b 5 0 2 Smith. Jb 5 0 1 Newark ef 4 0 0 Arlctl, lb J 2 1 Curran. ss 4 2 2 Laws, c i " Roundtree, rf 3 0 2 O'Dell If 2 0 1 Hunt, p 0 1 Ilazzard, c 1 0 C Castella. p North Bend, nits Runs: Roseburg: Hits: ...... 110 224 000 10 000 202 000 4 , 112 110 00x 0 Runs: litis: no in" MA. .002 nil) (17X 1U North Bend Hunt. Castella III', Laws, llazzard Hi. Hit by pitcher: Thomas. V. Sanders, Error: C. Landers I2i, Edgar, Albany Baseball Player Cracks Broadjump Mark CORVALLIS. May 21 P Crowds came to the Annual State High School Track Meet here to day to see a baseball player. He Is no ordinary baseball player. He is George "Junior" Simons, the Albany flreballer, who took a crack at broad-Jumping yesterday and set a state record. Then he went to Springfield, put on his baseball suit, and pitched a no-hit, no-run game. It was a scoreless tie until he blasted a three-run homer in the lifth Inning. While Simons struck out 14, Albany won, 80, and gained entry to the state diamond tourney at Portland next week. Coach Rex Hunsacker said it was the fifth non-hitter he has pitched. Bob Sconce, Roseburg high school, qualified for the javelin event in the state high school track and field meet at Cor vallis. Sconce, who hurled the spear 159 feet, 8 Inches, will be up against tough competition In the finals, however, as indi cated by the fact that Joe Ca routhers, Grants Pass, set a mark of 168 feet, 5 78 Inches, to lead the qualifiers. Simons, a 6-foot 2-Inch senior who weighs 180 pounds, will be tryirtg torlay to break the broad jump record he set at 22 feet 8 Inches yesterday. His leap topped the mark of 22 feet 64 Inches set In 1935 by Jim Burdette, Sandy. Simons, also a basket bnll slar; attempted broad-jumping for the first time this spring. In a dis trict meet he leaped a half-Inch r CLEAN-UP DAY at Civil Bend Cemetery May 25-26 tw A is DON Douglas County Phone 565-R Sat., May 21, 1949 Th News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. 3 - Jl) v , v- t ' ' ... NEW COACH TO ARRIVE SOON Barney Koch, baseball coach at Tigard High School, will coach peewea and Junior Legion baseball in Roseburg this summer. This summer activity is being sponsored locally by Lockwood Motors and Umpqua Post, Ameri can Legion. Koch will also play with the Roseburg Umpqua Chiefs, when coaching duties permit. Seven Wrestling Bouts Will Entertain Addicts Tonight; Winner Gets SfivAn wrActlinn mAtrhpc will Armory tonight when an eight-man, will provide the winner with a coniracr tor a coasr (unior neavyweignr cnampionsnip marcn against Frank Stojack. The first of four first-round matches will get under way at 8:30 p. m., followed by two semifinal and one championship tilt. All will be over a 15-minute or one-fall route with three ringside, judges handing down any necessary decisions. Principals include two highly-touted favorites A! Siass, the Hungarian who has scored the only championship victory over Stojack in the last year and Pierre La Belle, French-Canadian, who is making his first appearance in the Northwest in more than a year. Others are Rene La Belle, who hails from the seme section of Canada as Pierre but is not related; Herb Parks, Do minion titlist from Vancouver; Tony Ross, the Salem sadist; Billy Woidner, the airplane spin expert from Bostanj Tony Filletti, the tough Italian from Brooklyn, and Del Wayne, a newcomer from Detroit. farther than he went yesterday. Albany is not expected, how ever, to be In the running for the class A track title. Medford is the favorite lo repeat there, although there will be some stiff competi tion from Washington of Port land and Klamath Falls. Mulford (nullified a relay team and six men in six other events. Washington qualified a relay team and four men for four events. Klamath Falls qualified four men in four events. Union became an unexpected favorite In the Class B meet by qualifying ten men in eight events for today's finals. Henley, ine deiending champion, quail- tied six men in six events; jci ferson City six in four eyents. Eagerly awaited was the ex pected sprint duel between Mer vin Brock of Washington and Dick Klggs of Medford. Kiggs won In previous encounters, but WINDOWS DOORS FRAMES Priced Right PAGE LUMBER & FUEL 104 E. 2nd Ave. S. Phone 242 MOTORCYCLISTS There will be open house at the new home of the new Indian Motorcycle, Saturday and Sunday, May 21 and 22. Located on the widest and newest street in Roseburg, E. 2nd Ave. South (Dixonville Road). We will sell new Indians and also do service and re pair work on all other makes. Parts, accessories and oil. OWNED AND OPERATED BY BRUCE PRIEST THREE SCORE AND TEN . . . rw,i nnwfldavn live beyond the wise man makes sure that he ,lfc retirement policy will give you a guaranteed Income as long as you live. Start avlng today. Sun Life Assurance Company of Canada FORBES State Bank Bldg. Res. 859 Crack At Title Ka ctAnArl t triA Rntarjura single-elimination tournament $200 purse, a gold trophy and a Brock turned In the fastest times In heats yesterday. Brock ran the 100-yard dash In 10.1 seconds. Rlggs did it in 10.2. Brock whhzed through the 220 In 22.6; Rlggs In 22.8. The Class B schools achieved two records and tied an old one. Wayne Gober, Henley hurdler, cracked his own mark of 16 sec onds in the 120-yard high hurdles by stepping the distance In 15.8. Bob Lilly of Union tied the 100 yard dash mark of 10.6 seconds that Merlin Rodman, Madras, achieved last year. Small Radio Receiver Now on sale is a radio receiver weighing but five ounces, com plete with batteries. WANTED Apprentice Meot Cutter Good working conditions APPLY SAFEWAY STORES Roseburg Biblical span of 70 years. The will outlive his Income. A Sun