Ezzard Charles Defeats
Gus Lesnevich In 7 Rounds
Battered Eyes
Compel Loser
To Quit Fight
Ntgro Still Champion
lut Falls To Convinet
Thar Ht's Top Qualify
By JACK HAND
NEW YORK, Aug. ll.-P
Ezzard Charles has sold himself
to New York as the best ot
poor lot ot heavyweights.
The lean Clnclnnatf Negro still
lacks New York state recognition
as world heavyweight champion
but he rules the 47 states under
the N.B.A. Most of the 16,6.(0
sweltering fans who saw him
make Gus Lesnevich surrender
at the end of seven rounds last
night at Yankee stadium, seemed
willing to accept him. The next
move is up to Eddie Kagan, chair
man of the State Athletic com
mission. Maybe It's best to hold off un
til 28-year-old Charles meets the
winner of the oft-postponed and
still vague Bruce Woodcock-Lee
Savold "title" fight In London.
That's what Eagan plans to do.
But for all practical purposes,
Charlies Is the champ.
The doubting Thomases who
still hold out are looking for an
other Joe Louis. Brother, there
Just ain't another Joe Louis
around. You might as well get
used to Ezzy, for he may be with
you for a long, long time.
Club Loses Money
It is hard to criticize Charles
6 Tht News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Thur., Aug. 11, 1949
for his performance In stopping
Lesnevich. Certainly, he was hit
and hurt when durable Gus shot
his bolt In his only flurry of the
fight in the sixth round. But
Charles lMght back gamely un
der fire. At the end of the next
round, Gus' manager, Joe Vella,
asked Referee Ruby Goldstein to
stop It.
The International Boxing club,
promoting its first New York
fight since buying out Mike
Jacobs, must have dropped a
bundle on the show which gross
ed only $75,832 plus $17,500 for
radio rights,
Lesnevich took such a slash
ing around the eyes that it may
well have been his last fight.
The fight went just as it fig
ured, with Charles absorbing
early punishment but opening the
old scar tissue around Gus' eyes.
Charles met Lesnevich's llrt
round rush with a sustained at
tack that made Gus' knees buck
le. It was the same story In the
next three rounds.
The fighters suffered from the
intense heat of the hottest day
of New York's hottest summer.
Most everybody, including the
judges, had Charles out front,
6-1. in rounds at the end.
Charles weighed ISO, Lesne
vich 182.
Jos Louis Comments
Joe Louis watched his hand
picked successor defend the
heavyweight title for the first
time and then declared again
that he has no plans to come out
Softball Playoff
Starts Tonight
City Softball league play enters
Its final phase tonight at Kinlay
field with Umpqua Plywood and
Schemer Squirts set to battle for
the city crown and the right U
represent Roscburg at the district
tournament.
Tonight's game Is the first of
a scheduled two-out-of-three play
off series. It will be a regular nine
inning affair and start at 7:30
o'clo?k.
For the Squirts, Swede Vang is
expected to start on the mound,
while Plywood may solicit the
pitching services of Roy Baugh
man, who In 10 league games, has
dropped only two.
of retirement.
Still moving with a panther
like grace, the retired champ
drew the biggest hand of the
night as he walked around the
ring last night before the battle.
He wished good luck first to
Charles and then to Lesnevich.
Then the big fellow took an end
seat nec.r a neutral corner,
Joe's opinion? "It was a good
fight until he (Charles) got to
the eyes. Then it was just a
matter of time."
Did he think he could lick
them both?
"Naw, I'm too old." And he
broke Into what for him was a
pretty pood grin.
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Football Practlct Will
Begin Aug. 24; Mtdford
Will Bo First Opponent
By DAN MINDOLOV1CH
N.w.-ltavi.w Snort Wrtl.r
Visions of crisp autumn air and
crunchy, frost-covered earth are
not the easiest to conjure with
the midday August sun beating
on one's brow, but two weeks
hence, half a hundred lads from
the high school are expected to
assemble at Finlay field to start
training for the number one sport
of the fall and winter season.
With the baseball season nearly
over, sports fans will substitute
the thud of leather armor crash
ing against more leather armor
for the diamond and the familiar
crack of the bat, as an object of
spectator appeal.
School colors, yell queens and
water buckets will replace the
peanut, popcorn ana ice-coia soda
pop comes the football season.
Ceoe Sherwood, head football
coach at Senior High, announced
football uniforms will be Issued
to candidates of the 1949 Indian
varsity team Tuesday, August 23.
Practice Start Oat.d
Practice will start Wednesday,
August 24. This year, the Oregon
Athletic association set up a new
practice schedule, advancing the
date one week, to give high
schools an extra week of football
before quarter finals play.
The quarter final entry will be
decided on the field rather than
In the office of the high school
athletic boards this year. Hereto
fore, a team may have failed o
make the quarter-finals due to
early season reverses, then after
the district selection was made
by the board, this same team
may have forged ahead of the
"picked" winner.
The practice will be avoided
this year, as the season starts
early enough so that the district
entry may be picked on the basis
of competitive results on the grid
iron, rather than by speculation
of the district athletic board.
Indians Face Start
The Roseburg Indians start th
season this year with a tough op
ponent In the Medford Black Tor
nado, to be played at Finlay field
Friday night, Sept. 16.
Sherwood sees a difficult season
In store for the Indians, with 16
lettermen lost from last year's
varsity. Returning lettermen In
clude halfbacks Dale Bonebrake
and Bill Van Horn, fullback Bob
Scott, end Dale Blanck, tackles
Glen Schofield and Chet Rowe,
guards George Parker and John
Rauschert and center Don Parr.
With the graduation of Bobby
Sanders, the quarterback position
remains wide open for new can
didates. Tentative prosoects for
this position are Ron Strickling,
Bob Barrows and Mickey Coen,
up from junior varsity ranks.
Sherwood Indicated this year's
team will be started from
"scratch." Ray Brown will coach
the new Indian group from the
line of scrimmage, while Norm
West will mentor the jayvees.
Roseburg's league schedule will
Include the following teams: Co
quille. Myrtle Point, Reedsport,
Marshfield and North Bend. Non
league games are scheduled with
Ashland, Grants Pass and Cot
tage Grove, In addition to Med
ford. Assisting Sherwood prior to the
start of school this fall will be
Frank Purdy, Hod Turner and
Ed Wyatt. The latter trio will
coach the junior high school foot
hall' team after school starts.
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LOS ANGELES, Aug. 11 UP)
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have the Los Angeles Don In
their hip pocket
The San Francisco all-America
conference entry posted itseighih
win over the Dons In nine starts
last night with a 28-7 exhibi
tion victory before 81,272 fans.
The huge crowd, one of the
largest ever to see a pro grid
game here, saw Krankle Albert,
the 49era' smooth field general,
exercise his usual mastery, Al
bert drove his speedy mate 65
and 66 yards on the ground for
early scores, then pitched a 62
yard scorer to Jim Cason.
John Strzykalsky bucked three
yards for one score, Ed Carr raced
16 for another and Verl Lillv-
whlte ran 15 with an intercepted
pass for a third touchdown.
Joe Veterano booted all four
conversions.
The Dons, playing without their
ace Olenn Dobbs, had to rely on
rookie George Taliaferro. The
former Indiana star did nobly in
the pinch, running for 37 yards
and passing for 51, despite only
one day's practice with his mates.
Taliaferro passed 13 and 15
yards to Dick Wilklns, then
skirted end five yards for the
Dons' only tally in the third
quarter. Ben. Agajanlan con
verted. The big turnout contrasted
sharply with that of another ex
hibition Involving all-America
teams. Buffalo and Baltimore at
tracted only 2.953 fans in their
game at Wilmington, Del., last
night. Baltimore won, 28 to 7.
Jensen Again Big
Gun As Oakland
Defeats Rainiers
By JIM BACON
Associated Press Sports Writer.
Jackie Jensen is fast becoming
as big a hero on the baseball
diamond as he was on the grid
iron. The former University of Cali
fornia grid star was poison again
Wednesday night to the Seattle
Rainiers as the Oakland Oaks
scored seven runs in the tenth
Inning to win, 11 to ,
Jensen, those grand slam hom
er broke up the ball game the
previous night, poled another cir
cuit clout and his tenth-inning sin
gle put the Acorns ahead lor
the first time.
The Oaks sent 11 batters to the
plate In the hectic 10th. Earl
Rapp, ex-Rainier, smacked two
doubles in the frame.
Orv Grove threw a four-hitter
at the hapless Los Angeles An
gels as his bacramenlo colons
took a 10-to-O decision.
The San Diego Padres took a
pair from San Francisco, 3 to 2
and 4 to 1. Tom Kipp, Padre
southpaw, hurled five-hit ball In
the opener. Al Kosens two-run
homer paced the second game as
sault for the Padres.
Frank Kelleher's 22nd homer
of the year a two-run blast en
abled the Pacific Coast league
leading Hollywood stars to shade
Portland 3 to 1. Portland, a team
which appeared to be going
nlaces a few weeks ago, now has
scored only six runs In its last
five starts.
Page's Relief
Job For Yanks
Downs Bosox
Browns Edgt Cleveland;
Cardinals-Brooks Tit
Continues In 4th Day
By JOE REICHLER
AwocUud Pre. Sport. writer
By all the laws of baseball
statistics, the Boston Red Sox,
not the New York Yankees,
should be leading the American
league today.
The Red oox own the circuit's
top batier in Ted Williams. They
possess the league's "winnin?
est" pitcher In Mel Parnell. In
Williams and Vein Stephens,
they have the one-two leaders
In home runs and runs batted
In.
In addition, they lead In team
batting and slugging, and ranx
third compared to the Yankees'
seventh In team fielding. Should
n't tha' rate them the No. 1
spot In the standings?
Yet the Red Sox find them
selves in third place, six and
a half (jamei behind the front
running Yankees, who also own
a five-and-a-half game bulge ovr
the runner-up Cleveland Indians.
There is only one answer for
this strange, and, for Boston,
sad state of affairs. The Red
Sox don't have Joe Page and the
Yankees do. It's as simole as
that
Pag Again Saves Yankees
Take yesterday's Important
game octween the Yankees and
Red Sox in Boston.
A three-run rally In the top
of the seventh, highlighted oy
Hank Bauer's two-run single,
had given the Yankees a 3-1 edge
over Joe Dobson. Stephens clip
ped Yankee starter Ed Lopat for
his 28 1. homer in the last half
of the lnnning to make it 3-2.
After Lopat survived a shaky
seventh inning. Manager Casey
Stengel excused his lefty for the
cay and summoned his trouble
shooter Page.
Joe retired the dangerous Sox
with only one harmless infield
single in the eighth an I ninth
to preserve the Yankee victory.
It marked his 36th relief ap
pearance and the 20th game he's
saved, rage's record is 10-4, but
he's saved seven others for an
other Yankee starter, Allie Rey
nolds, ana two lor Tommy Byrne.
Page has been in only 11 losine
Yankee games.
Other Results
The Indians lost ground when
they were edged out. 5-4. by the
lowly St. Louis Browns. Dick
Kokos, former Indian chattel, j
homered In the ninth off Bob
Lemon to snap a 4-4 tie.
Washington's Senators and Chi- j
cago's White Sox pulled a couple
of upsets. The Nats shaded the
Philadelphia Athletics, 8-7, and
the Chisox topped the Detroit
Tigers, 6-3, In 10 innings.
faherry Kobertson s grand slam
homer in the fourth, and six I
Washington double plays won the 1
game for the Nats. Hits by j
Chiefs, Powers
Billed Friday
Roseburg's Umpqua Chiefs are
scheduled lo go nine Innings with
Powers Athletic club Friday night
at F'nlay field, starting at 8:30
o'clock.
Manager Earl Sargent Indi
cated either Vic Lewis or Wally
Richardson may pitch for the
CWtatm T act v.Br Pnuj.n rkjlt the
Chiefs! 5-3, and the visitors are
reportedly Dent on turning in a
repeat performance.
Sundav, the Chiefs travel to
Central Point for a Southern Ore
gon league game. The Chiefs
were defeated, 12-6, by Central
Point in a game here June 19.
Canyonville Amateur
Boxing Bouts Slated
The Canyonville Lions club Is
sponsoring its third amateur box
ing match at tne canyonville com
munity hall Saturday, August 13.
Matchmaker Henry Ford said
any boy interested in participating
should contact him at Ford's
camp, Canyonville.
Reliance Edges Banks
In Semi-Pro Playoff
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JReliance system of Portland snuff-
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! night to edge Banks, 6 to 4, and
1 force the Oregon semi-pro base
ball title series into an extra
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I The two trams will meet to
I night to determine the champion
iand the berth in the regional
tournament in Bremerton, Wash,
this weekend.
Banks was shut out until the
final frame, and chalked up lis
first loss in the double elimination
reries.
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Charlie Kress, Eddie Malone and
Herb Adams, plus a wild pitch
by Dizzy Trout, gave the White
Sox threelOth inning runs and
a win for Mickey Haefner.
Deadlock Continues
The Brooklyn Dodgers and St.
Louis Cardinals remained dead
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National league for the fourth
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Thr Cards, behind the six-hit
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