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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 21, 1956)
Hunters, Fishers Bring in Game Worth 9 Million Baaed on current retail mar ket prices, Oregon's wildlife pro vided more than *9,000,000.00 worth of "meat in the pot” to' hunters and fishermen during the 1955 seasons, according to figure:) released by the Oregon Game Commission. Statistics provided by hunter kill records and angler punch cards show that deer provided the most meat poundage follow ed by salmon and steelhead, elk, ducks, pheasants and geese. The total value of the 13,408, 700 pounds of meat provided by 131,087 deer harvested was *5. 303 180 00. Sport fishermen re ported taking 98,800 salmon and 71.333 steelhead for a poundage of 2,078,104 and a meat value of $1,810,827.20. Broken down into their respec tive categories, big game animals provided 15,863,380 pounds of meat valued at 86,340,352.00; up-; land game birds provided 841,-! 705 5 pounds of meat which was valued at $320,882.75; waterfowl provided 1,014,079 pounds valued at $558,073.45; and salmon and steelhead had a value of *1,810, 827.20 from a total poundage of 2.078.104. For all big game ani mals, upland game birds, water fowl, and salmon and steelhead the total value was *9,035,135.10 Poundage figures were obtain ed by applying the average drea-1 sed weight of the animuls. birds; and fish to the total number. Sports Stott Desk Kdltor: Jack Wilson Staff; Jerry Ramsey. Jim l-nri-; more. Boh Trahan, Tom Chap man, Tom Howser. ft FAD KMKKAI.I) WANT AI>S Nationals Show More Balance As World Series Time Nears By MM LA RIMOKE Km**rald Ass’t Sports Editor The contrast between the over all team strength of the National and American leagues Is becom ing more marked each year. The senior circuit is achieving re markable balance with a thrilling, thr.team race highlighting the year, while Yankees have man handled all opposition in the league founded by Ban Johnson. Cincinnati was shot down by the Phils on September 18th. los ing a double-header to drop 4*2 games behind Milwaukee and Brooklyn with nine to play. The Dodgers lead the Braves by one tenth of one percentage point. The Yankees clinched the flag on the same day hy II games, outlasting Chicago X-2 in II innings. It is a poor state of affairs when a team over shadows Its league as New York has done in spite of hitter pitching disappointments. Casey Stengel, who looks wiser than a tree full of owls and is wiser than a whole forest of trees full of owls, counted heavily upon Bob Turley, Don Larsen and Tommy Byrne to back up ace left hander Whltey Ford this year. For insurance he bought Mickey McDermott to add further depth to the pitching staff. Both Turley and McDermott have been complete "busts" this season. McDermott, who doubles as a night club singer in the off season. has added only a few pinch hits and two pitching vic tories. Stengel remorselessly sum med up his feelings about the for mer Bullet Bob Turley by saying, "Turley lives very clean and doesn't smoke or drink — I'd rather have a boozer who could pitch.” The saving grace of the Amer ican league race especially at tendance-wise has been the emergence of Mickey Mantle to the super-star status which has long been predicted for him. Th' 24-year-old Oklahoman stands ready to assume the Mantle of greatness soon to be cast off the aging shoulders of the Splendid Spltter, Theodore Williams. The only teams having a chance to overhaul the Bronx Bombers in the near future are Boston and Detroit. Cleveland is definitely shopworn around the edges and Chicago lacks the power to make them a serious threat. The entire league needs badly the shot in the arm which can only be provided by a real challenge to Vankee domination. The picture in the National league is as different as Kefauver and Nixon. Right now the Braves and Dodgers are fighting it out in a ding-dong battle right down to the wire. The IBO’s James (Oc topus i Norris couldn’t have made a better match in the ring than pitting the world's champion old pros against the hustling, hungry young team of the future. Shortstop Johnny Logan of the Braves commented upon the ref erence by sports writers to the Brooklyn "old pros” by saying that they may be the old pros but we are the "young pros.” Cincinnati, with home run power and the sure-fire Rookie of the Year, Frank Robinson, made a game fight of it and Manager Birdie Tebbets deserves the Man ager of the Year award. The voluble former Red .Sox backstop has gotten consider able mileage from a couple of castoff pitchers. Brooks Law rence (19-10) and Herschel (Buster) Freeman (1S-6 hi re lief). But for the disappointing showing of Joe Nuxhall (11-10) who was the staff’s bellwether in 195.*>, the fled legs would be in first place. It appears that the Dodgers have to win it this year since their magnificent seven-veteran i nucleus headed by Captain Pee Wee Reese and graying Jackie Robinson, both 37, is on the other side of the hill. The Dodgers have not been hitting for average as a club and only the fact that big. scowling Don Newcornbe has car ried the pitching staff all year (24-6) and that 38-year-old Sal (The Barber) Maglie can still fool National league hitters has kept them in title contention. The Braves must reign as the sentimental favorites of fans throughout the country and cer tarnly of their own rabid sup porters in the brewery city. Mil waukeeans don’t ask if the Braves won, they say did we win, and at one point in this crucial race a bartender in Milwaukee, when asked for a refill by a customer, told him to “Shut up!" until the inning was over on the television. Three ace pitchers. Warren Spahn, (17-9), Lew Burdette 09 10) and Bob Buhl 08-9) Jjave paced the Braves as they electri fied the baseball world even1 though the Gene Conley of today ■ is far from the Conley of old. Another trio, this one of solid i sluggers, has led the way at bat. ! Joe Adcock, Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron have supplied plenty j of punch. As for the future, the Braves have come up with two out standing rookies in Bob Trow bridge and Taylor Phillips to add ballast to a pitching staff which was already the greatest In baseball. Brushing sentiment aside, in this corner it looks as if the Brooklyn Dodgers have too much in the stretch for the talented lads from Milwaukee. A sad note appears in that the ’54 world champion New York Giants have aged all at once and slipped all the way in '56. Only recently did the Giants escape the mire of eighth place. Further testimony of the great balance in the National league is added by the Pittsburgh Pirate’s astound ing earl/ season rise to first place. Even the last-place Chicago Cuhs have three outstanding young bonus pitchers in Don Kaiser, Moe Drabowsky and Vito Valitinetti. With the Cardinals also coming on fast, the 1957 pennant race could be even tight er, if possible. PATRONIZE YOUR • ADVERTISERS • fAahl kiiMds WINSTON is the word for flavor! TASTES GOOD! a* LIKE A CIGARETTE SHOULD/ IM ■v ■ No lecture here — just a promise of the full, rich tobacco flavor college smokers want! Try America’s favorite filter smoke. You’ll like the taste. And you’ll like the filter — a filter that does the job so well the flavor really comes through to you. Try Winston for fitter filter smoking. 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