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Complete Local Reports
Tuesday, June 2fi, 1915
Pase 8
Standing Switches
Loom as Coasters
Open New Series
By United Press
The Pacific coast league's 1945
baseball campaign ncared the
half-way mark Tuesday with the
Portland Heavers still well up in
front,
Manager Marv Owen's club has
hud its losing streaks, but some
how always has managed to re
cover enough to retain an advan
tage. This has varied from a full
six games to a fraction of a point.
At present it stands at four-and-a-half
games.
This week tha Beavers travel
to Sacramento to open a seven
game series tonight. The fourth
place Solons just finished knock
ing off Sent) k-, runner-up in the
league standings, twice Sunday,
and arc out for blood.
There is plenty of room for ma
jor changes in the standings of
the third, fourth, fifth and sixth
place clubs. Only three' games
separate sixth place San Diego
from the third place Seals. In
between are Oakland and Sac
ramento, lied for fourth at a
game behind San Francisco,
closely pressed by Los Angeles,
a gnme-and-a-balf behind the
Seals. ,
The cellar-dwolling Hollywood
Stars, under new management,
paradoxically may turn to to be
rough hosts to Oakland, und it
may not he all beer and skittles
for the Rainiels at San Diego.
The Uis Angeles Angels make
their first appearance of the sea
son in San Francisco in what
promises to !; one of the liveli
est scries of the week.
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GIs in Europe
May See Baseball
Stars In Action
PARIS, June 20 (UP) There
was mounting evidence today
that the annual American major
league all-star game may be
brought to the European theater
by air transportation to be play
ed before more than 100,000 serv
ice men.
Col. Kenneth E. Field of Bos
ton, director of the European
theater athletic program, said in
revealing a huge slate of sports
for war-weary G. I.'s that Frank
McCorniick of Minneapolis, the
former dir.'clor, had gone to the
United States in an attempt In
gel the all-star baseball game
transferred to Europe.
Because of the increased rail
transportation burden in the
stales, the all-star game, sched
uled for Boston on July U, was
cancelled.
The game would he played in
Germany's Nuernberg Nazi party
stadium, which has a seating ca
pacity of more than 100.000 and
which is centrally located for
most of the soldiers in occupa
tion armies.
The football program would he
climaxed this fall in a game be
tween men picked from the third
and seventh armies in the Nuern
berg stadium.
Baseball competition is broken
up into leagues with nine divi
sions of the seventh army having
selected teams for games In he
played in various Bavarian parks,
lteprcsctitativcs of track and
fi.'ld competition, golf, tennis,
and swimming are being selected
in every unit.
NEW BELT LINE You'll
probably gel a big bolt out of
the latest thing to hold up your
trousers. Sported and prob
ably first-worn by the Duke
of Windsor, above, duri.ig a
business-golf trip to Cleveland,
Ohio, it is a rope affair with a
couple of nautical loots. By
the way, that middlo is getting
rather mlddUvaged.
Baseball Results
By United Press
National League
Cincinnati at Boston, post
poned, rain.
No other games scheduled.
Perry
rEBUY (Special) Harold Car
son, Harold Green and Mrs.
James Walker were re-elected to
the board of the Perry school dis
trict at the recent election. Mrs.
Dorothy Fowler was re-elected
clerk of the board.
The board adopted the budget
for the year, and engaged Mrs.
Mary Kail as toucher for the next
school year.
Mr. and Mrs. Adin Sloan and
son, Donald, are visiting relatives
in Pendleton.
Mrs. Kenneth Hound and small
son of Monument are guests in
the Harold Fowler home.
Kenny Buhl of Walla Walla is
visiting his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. C!ns Fowler.
Mrs. Jess Vermillion was called
to Boise by the illness of her
aunt, Mrs. William Anderson.
Mrs. James Walker is recover
ing from a recent illness.
Mrs. Ilo.sic Mathson returned
.Sunday froi-. Portland where she
has been visiting reu' rives.
NOVA IS KNOCKED OUT
BOSTON. June 2H (UP) Tami
Maui iello of New York wondered
today whether he had delivered
the blow to end the career of
California heavyweight Lou Nova.
whom he knocked out in one
round last night.
So tiny are some of the parts
of precision instruments used in
linmliers (hat microscopes are
used to inspect them.
What Cioes Up Must Come Down
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New Batting Stars
Rise on Horizon
Of Major Leagues
i, NEW YORK. June 20 (UP)
Uneasy lies the head that wears
the crown at least as far as the
various major league baseball
champions of 1944 ore concerned.
With the current season draw
ing close to the half-way mark
today, most of last year's indi
vidual leaders were bogged down
while new and sometimes sur
prising gentlemen have risen to
lake their places.
Swinging a bat with plenV of
hits in it, Tommy Holmes of the
Boston Braves indicates that he
means business in his efforts to
annex the mujor league butting
championship. And as far as last
year's champ, Fred (Dixie) Walk
er of the Brooklyn Dodgers is
concerned, Holmes apparently
doesn't need to worry. The Bos
ton outfielder has a .31)0 average
while Walker is 2'Jth among Na
tional league regulars with a
puny mark of .278.
Boudreau Drops Behind
Lou Boudreau, Cleveland Indi
ans' manager and 1944 American
league leader, is little better off.
Replacing him is the amazing
Tony Cuccinello of the Chicago
White Sox. Cuccinello has a ..'142
mark and Boudreau is 24th
among Amcrian league regulais
with a .2C5 figure.
One of the few likely to suc
ceed himself is Hal Ncwhouser,
crafty Tiger southpaw, who is
ahead of his 1044 pitching time
table with 11 victories and four
defeats. Going at that pace he
will win more than 30 games
whereas in 1944 he picked up 29
wins while losing nine times.
Russ Christopher, the one-nuin
pitching staff for Philadelphia's
white e';?phant Athletics, has
won 11 while losing only two and
rookie Dave (Boo) Ferriss of the
Boston Red Sox lops Ncwhouser
in percentage with 10 triumphs
and t-wo losses.
Mori Cooper Leads
III the National league Ted
Wilks of the Cards, who won 17
and lost four, has equalled his
1944 record on the losing side
with four defeats, but he has
mustered up only four wins to
Bo with them. His ex-team mate,
Morton Cooper, now of the
Braves, is the current National
league leader with six triumphs
and one loss, but that is a long
way from big Mort's 1944 total
of 22 and 7.
Then of course there are the
Browns and Cjards. The 1944
in sixth place and secon respec
pennant winners, they now are
lively in their currnt campaigns.
There were no major league
games in either league yesterday.
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VERSATILE Charles W. Bidwell, manager of Chicago Bluebirds
of National Girls' Softball league, gives last-minute instructions
to pitcher Agnes Schleuler, of St. Louis (right), and catcher Betty
Moczynski, of Milwaukee, his Bluebird battery. Bidwell also
owns Chicago Cardinals pro football team, five dog racing strips
in Florida and is director of Hawthorne race track. Otherwise
he's a man of leisure.
Today's Sport Parade
By JACK CUDDY
UP Staff Correspondent
Eddie Leishman to
Coach Acorn Nine
OAKLAND, Cal., June 26 (UP)
There is a strong possibility
that general manager Vic DLvin
cenzi of the Oakland Acorns has
scored another ten-strike.
The big poobah of the Oaks has
signed Eddie Leishman as a full
time coach and scout. Eddie is
rated by many to possess one of
the keenest baseball minds in the
major leagues.
Leishman has inked a contract
as a "full time, year-around"
scout and coach with the Oak
land entry in the Pacific coast
league for the remainder of the
jvar, officially joining the family
July 1.
Eddie in his day was one of
the finest infielders in the land,
but he never could hit the size
of his hat and despite his fine
fielding and baseball instinct, he
languished in the minors all
through his career except, as he
says, "for a cup of coffee" with
the New York Yankees in l!VM.
His way-stops, all in the Yan
kee farm chain, included El Paso
in the Arizona-Texas league:
Erie. Penn.. in the Central league:
Binghamplon, N. Y., in the East
ern; Newark in the Internation
al; St. Paul in the American, and
Seattle and Oakland in the Pa
r i fie coast.
By JACK CUDDY
UP Staff Correspondent
NEW YORK June 26 (UP) Brooklyn, that beautiful borough of
churches and chowder houses, a paradise of its natives and a para
dox to the rest of the world, provided baseball today with what
could be one of the greatest diamond mysteries of all lime "dom
breaih-laki'ig bums, the Dodgers."
There always is something new and different in Brooklyn never
a dull moment but the evolution of Manager Leo Durocher's sev
enth place "dodderers" of 1944 to the current crew of dandies who
are threatening to steal the National league pennant lakes every
slice of cake on the place.
Always before the team Jiascbfll I School lo
supposed to be good and the Eb-, ,, . . .
bets field raithtul went to the;- " ' n 'J"!Jl "
park to swear at and not by the EUGENE, Ore., June 2(i (UP)
players when they failed to live j Tryouts in an annual baseball
up to expectations. This year , school held here by the Cincin
the whole thing is in reverse. The : nati Rods of the National league
baseball experts, viewing the j is expected to attract a number
Dodgers in spring training at ; of boys and young men from all
Bear Mountain. N. Y., shook their parts of the state, Ed Brauner,
heads sadly and said that the ' Linnnnati representative and di
fans would have to "wait 'til next
year
Court Order Halts
Ward Case Action
CHICAGO, June 28 (UP)
Montgomery Ward A: Co.'s feud
with the government over labor
p.iliein assumed a s.V-tus quo
position today after the U. S. cir
cuit court of appeals stayed a
mandate reversing a lower court
ruling that government seizure
of Ward's was illegal.
The stay was ordered "until
further notice" while the com
pany appeals to the supreme
court. The mandate instructed
Judge Philip L. Sullivan to issue
a judgment upholding federal
seizure of Ward property.
So what has happened? With
only scattered change's, few of
which were supposed to have
been for the bettor, "dem bums"
rise to heights sublime. They
have been in first place for nine
days now.
In the recent set of games with
their eastern rivals they won 16
out of 19 games, a pennant pace
in anybody's league. During that
time they had winning streaks
of eight games and seven games,
but ol course both of those were
"small stuff" for this year's Dodg
ers. Earlier in the season they
ran up an 11-game string, and
though they have had their los
ing lapses, the most they have
lost is a skein of six games on
teir last western junket.
Goody Rosen, who wasn't even
a regular last year, is leading the
hitters with a .366 mark and the
help of Luis Olmo at driving in
runs can't be overlooked. IL-'s
leading the league in that im
portant department with fi-l.
Yet the Dodgers have only
lluee regulars, Rosen, Olmo, and
infielder Eddie Basinski bitting
above .3110. The tipoff. though,
move be in the fact that collec
tively the club now leads the
league in batting with a .2i'.
mark.
Afield, however, they still are
the Dodgers, seventh in team
fielding with only the Jaybird
Phillies outranking them in mak
ing errors.
The pitching, which was sup
posed to have been collapsible
and may be the team's "Achilles
heel" is made up on a staff th.it
is "very old" at one end and
"very young' at the other. Key
men are oldster Curt Davis, who
has won six and lost six and
youngster Hal Gregg, who hi,
won niiv and loi four, but the
miseries ill his back prevent nun
from being at his best.
j l'jctov of the school, said today
Tne school, which will be held
at Civic stadium in Eugene next
Monday and Tjuesday, will be
limited to those from Hi to 23
years of age. Baseball hopefuls
must pay their own traveling and
living expenses and furnish per
sonal equipment.
EOUT IS POSTPONED
PHILADELPHIA, June 26
(UP) The 10-round bout be
tween Ike Williams and Gene
Burton, scheduled for the outdoor
arena tonight, was off indefinite
ly today because of injuries suf
fered by Williams in his recent
defeat bv Willie Jovce in New
Yolk.
First biography to be printed
in English was that of Sir Thom
as Moore, executed in tlie reign
ot Homy VIII.
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Enjoy the best vacAtIiqn
YOU'VE EVER HAD!
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OuR NATION fces, these .
next few months, a cross -country
transportation job of magnitude
unprecedented in all history. Present
battle nlans require that our armies be transferred
.1,. r par;r within 10 months. This means civilian
travel slashed to a trickle! President Truman himself recently
asked that no one take summer trip tht ye.
Naturally, this does not mean uo vacation!. It wi -.mean the best
vacation you've had in the best of all possible places'. . . right here. in our
own Pacific Northwest. Start planning your vacation at home with
as much care as you ordinarily plan a vacation trip . . .
and see the fun you can havej
There't your garden ' :1' '
Up to now you've only bad time to work In it. Now take the time
to enjoy lis beauty I
And your ear... ' s . . t
give it break! Spend a Utile time walking, waxing and ppliihingl
Don't forger the odds and end around the hdUie '
Thoie countleii little thing that you've never had nine' to do , .'i
oiling squeaky doon, refrigerator motors, pulling up Krecni, paint
. ing. It's lots of fun to putter.
Cet acquainted with your family "
Iveryone hai been io busy these last few years It's high time yoti
slowed down and took a good look around you. The kids are
growing up . . . and they're developing 'into p'reliy swell people.
Your wife's been working hard she'll welcome your help around
the house and your company, too! , ;
And you'll find that your neighbors are pretty grand
citizen! ',
Wien you get to know them. i f
Ye, there are lota of interesting things here to do
at home
.When you stop lo think about it. How long has it been since yoii
picnicked in one of the parks, visited the public library, or did the
scores of interesting things there are to do right in your own home
town.
After all, what it a vacation but a rest and a change
and a happy mental attitude! ALL OF THAT you
can get right here ... in your own home town . . .
in your own home.
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