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.
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