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Friday, September 21, 1945
Washington, Detroit
Back Toward Flag
By CARL LUNDQUIST
r NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP)
The "turtle derby" for the Amer
ican league pennant lacked only
the strains of slow music today
with the Detroit Tigers and Wash
ington Senators funeral - march
ing along as if to their doom in
stead of to fat money payoff of
the world series.
" The bedraggled ball clubs, find
ing it hard to regain the sizzling
pace that made them contenders
in the first place, were doing u
fine job of backing into the pen
nant after their "all-out" series
at Washington over the weekend.
Lose Five
', The Senators looked like "nine
old men" in losing their fifth
straight game at Yankee stadium
to New York, fl to 1, yesterday,
blaying with their eyes on the
scoreboard to sec whether the
Tigers were faring any better at
Cleveland.
,' They weren't. The Indians made
it two straight over Detroit, also
by a 8 to 1 score. All of their
runs came along with a deluge
of rain in the eighth inning.
' The Tigers salvaged more out
of their defeat than the Senators,
because they now can clinch the
pennant on any combination of
five victories or defeats. They
need to win five of their six re-
Nelson Takes Two
Stroke Lead in
Spokane Open
SPOKANE, Wash., Sept. 21
(UP) Byron Nelson's two
stroke lead In the $10,000 Esmer
alda golf open goes on the firing
line for 73 challengers in second
round play over the rolling In
dian Canyon course here today.
; Nelson, Toledo, O., umbrella
salesman, blasted a six-under-par
00 throughi rain and hail
squalls yesterday to pace golf
dom's greatest masters in the
first 18 of a 72-hole medal tour
ney ending Sunday.
Close behind Nelson, winner of
17 tournaments this year, is 20-year-old
Ed Furgon of Detroit,
who posted a OH, and Jack Cage,
newly-turned pro from Sun Ber
nardino, Calif., with 0D.
Bunched at 70 at the end of the
first round were Ben Hogan of
Hershcy, Pa.; Harold (Jug) Mc
Spuden, San ford, Mo.; Newt
Bassler, Carmel, Calif.; Joe Hunt
er, Santa Anita, Calif.; Fred
Wood, Vancouver, B. C. and
Marsh Hammond, Spokane ama
teur. Slammin' Sammy Snead, who
coasted to easy victoiies in the
last two big shows at Dallas and
Tulsa, got off to a shaky start
with a 73, one over par. Snead
had trouble on the fust, sloping
green, needing 37 pulls In his
first round.
.Among the 10 others whe
scored better than pro-tourney
favorite Snead were Leonard
Doson, Kansas City, and Al Zim
merman, Portland, with 71s, and
Jimmy Hines, Chicago! George
Fazio, Sun Francisco, and Hurry
Glvan, Seattle nmutcur und de
fending champion.
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maining games to take the flag
if Washington wins all of its four
contests. Each Washington de
feat makes it necessary for De
troit to win one less game.
Cut Lead
The Cardinals tightened up the
National league race again as
Harry Brcchccn pitched a 2 to 0,
six-hit shutout over the Cubs for
his sixth straight victory. That
reduced Chicago's lead to two
games with eight more for each
team of play.
The Cards made three of their
10 hits off Ray Prim in the first
Inning to take a 1 to 0 lead. Ray
Sanders drove in Buster Adams
with a scratch single. Three more
singles in the seventh produced
the other tally with Al Schoen
dienst scoring Marty Marion. The
Cubs threatened in the ninth.
Can't Win
Senator Manager Ossic Blucge,
who thinks the Nats will win the
flag because "I don't believe De
troit can win any more ball
games," said ho would go today
with John Miggcling, although
Roger Wolff is rested and ready.
The Yankees scored twice off
Nat starter Mickey Haefner in
the first. George Stirnwciss add
ed another run with a third-inning
hornet to counter a tally by
Washington. After that Joe Page,
the Yankee lefty, closed the scor
ing gate of listless Capitolians,
although he had men on base in
every inning.
Alton Benton, going into the
eighth with n 1 tii 0 lead for the
Tigers saw it low up in his face
when his mates made three er
rors behind him.
Rain delayed the inning near
ly an hour and the Tigers were
unable to accomplish anything in
their final time at bat.
The Boston Braves defeated the
Dodgers at Brooklyn, 3 to 2, in
the National with Bob Logan out
pitching Hal Gregg. Randy Hef
lin of the Red Sox shut out the
Athletics at Boston, 2 to 0, in the
American.
Traditional Big
Games Scheduled
Across Country
By WILLIAM TUCKER
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP)
Pigskin pandemonium breaks
loose across the country this
weekend, starting tonight in Lo3
Angeles when 110,000 fans arc ex
pected to watch the Southern
California Trojans open against
their bitter cross-town rival, U. C.
L. A.
Tonight's classic headlines a
curd of 11 major games and a
score of lesser struggles from
coast to coast that may attract
a total of 500,000 cash and victory-flushed
fans to the first big
postwar football show.
East Syracuse vs. Cornell of
Syracuc, N. Y. (18,000); Bucknell
vs. Villunovu at Lewisburg, Pa.
(10,000).
South Duke vs. South Caro
line at Durham, N. C. (20,000);
Mississippi vs. Kentucky at Mem
phis, Tcnn. (15,000).
Midwest Michigan vs. In
diana ut Ann Arbor, Mich. (30,
U00); Purdue vs. Marquette ut La
fayette, Ind. (10,000); Northwest
ern vs. Iowa Slate at Evanston,
111. (35,000); Illinois vs. Pitts
burgh ut Champaign, 111. (20,000).
Far west Southern Califor-nia-U.
C. L. A. (80,0001; Califor
nia vs. St. Mary's at Berkeley,
Cul (40,000).
San Francisco
Cinches Fourth
As Acorns Lose
By United Press
San Francisco Seals sewed up
their fourth place position in the
Pacific coast league standings
Thursday night by stopping Los
Angeles, 4-1, while the Oakland
Acorns, who had been a poten
tial threat to the bay city team,
dropped two games to Hollywood,
both by 4-3 scores.
The Seals whittled the gap be
tween themselves and third-place
Sacramento to l'4 games as the
Solons' contest with pennant
winning Portland was cancelled
because of wet grounds.
Seattle stood at 7(4 games be
hind Portland after dumping San
Diego twice, 3-2 and 4-1.
San Francisco scored four runs
In the fuorth inning as they rout
ed Paul Lammers, who was re
placed by Bud Merkle. Los An
geles scored its one run in the
fourth, also.
Jerry Nelson, 17-year-old San
Diego pitcher, met Seattle's Glen
Elliott in a mound duel, and was
charged with the defeat in their
nightcap although he held the
Rainiers to six while his team
mutes were pounding 11 off El
liott. Baseball Standings
Held petjun Ag
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Detroit 85 03 .574
Wushineton 85 65 .507
St. Louis 78 88 .534
New York 75 70 .61'
Cleveland 70 70 .500
Chicago 71 75 .480
Boston 7M .iiu
Philadelphia 51 05 .340
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago ...k 91 55 .023
St. Louis 8!) 57 .uio
Brooklyn- 80 05 .552
Pittsburgh 80 07 .544
New York 70 09 .524
Boston 04 83 .435
Cincinnati 00 85 .414
Philadelphia 44 103 .209
PACIFIC COAST
Portland 110 68 .018
Seattle 103 76 .575
Sacramento 95 83 .534
San Francisco 94 85 .525
Oakland 89 91 .494
San Diego 80 99 .447
Los Angeles 73 105 .410
Hollywood 71 109 .304
TODAY
ITvPARAI
By JACK CUDDY
United Press Correspondent
NEW YORK, Sept. 21 (UP)
Without benefit of spectacles,
Clark Griffith's greenish - brown
eyes blazed ut the reporter as he
suid, "We'll win the pennunt yet.
Detroit hus more games to play
than we have so Detroit has
more games to lose with a
tired out pitching staff."
Griffith, a sawed - off oldster
with bristling gray brows and a
mop of white hair, is president of
the Washington Senators. He will
be 70 years old in November. Be
cause of his age, he rarely travels
with the club. But he came to
New York yesterday "on a
hunch" and he will stick with his
club until it wins or losses the
American league pennunt.
Not Surprised
When a guy is approaching 70,
and he is forced to watch his club
lose, 6-1, to the Yankees in a
crucial game, one might expect
to find Griffith with his feet in
a pail of hot water, and with ice
packs on his heud. Such wus not
the case with Clark Griffith,
when we bearded him in his
Hotel New Yorker room, to
which he hurried after the Senators-Yankee
gume.
The repoiter suid, "Even it
your club finishes second this
year, will you be surprised at its
remarkable showing?"
Griffith, of the brown-striped
suit, murched up and down the
room, then looked scornfully at
the repoiter and said, "I was dis
appointed last year when my
club finished in last place. I be
lieved that club would go to
town, but it didn't for various
reasons. Naturally, I am not sur
prised when that same club
with u few embellishments dins
this seuson what I expected of it
in 1944.
Will Be Surprised
"My only surprise now will be
if we do not win the pennant. 1
will bo surptised because I know
we have the best team In the
American league. And we will
win out because I havo suddenly
joined the club, on u hunch, to sit
in on victory. Sure I'll go with
the club to Philadelphia until
this thing is fought out."
Maybe they cast the oldtimers
in a tough mould. Yet investi
gation discloses Clark Griffith
was a sickly kid in the log cabin
at Clear Crock, Mo., where he
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SEES NEW YORK FROM WHEELCHAIR Jerry Wrinn. eight-year-old
victim of muscular dystrophy a disease almost always
falal, thai has baffled sciencesits in a wheelchair upon arri'al
in New York City, from Miami, Fla., where he has flown with
his mother, Mrs. Frank Wrlnn (right), for treatment.
O Your GI Rights
Problems of Men
In Service
WASHINGTON (NEA) Here
are some general questions from
veterans and their relatives:
Q. My husband has been in the
army four years. He was drafted
out of college. I want him to go
back and finish with government
aid but he says we won't get
enough to live on and support
our three children. Won't we get
an allotment for him to go to
school at least as much as we
have been getting while he was
in service?
A. No. The maximum you will
get is $75 according to the pres
ent law. There arc several bills
pending in congress, however,
which may provide more for liv
ing expenses.
Q. They tell me that the Gov
ernment is only hiring veterans
and that is the best place to get
a good steady job for as long as
you want to keep it. I want to he
sure about what I am getting
into, however. Where can I get
all the available information?
A. Write to the United Slates
Civil Service Commission, Wash
ington 25, D. C. State your prob
lem and they will give you all
the necessary information.
Q. Was a serviceman required
to file a federal income tax re
turn for 1944?
A. If he had a gross income of
$500 or more for 1944, he should
have filed a return regardless of
whether he was single or mar
ried, a minor or an adult. In com
puting gross income, he may dis
regard lax-exempt receipts.
Q. Is the amount paid to Iho
beneficiary of a deceased officer
or enlisted man representing six
month's gratuity pay, taxable in
come to the beneficiary?
A. No. This amount represents
a gift by the United States and
need not be included in income.
Q. May a relative who is actu
ally dependent upon a missing
serviceman or servicewoman ob
tain an allotment of pay?
A. Yes, if actually dependent
and a relative within the recog
nized degree.
Q. Following official announce
ment of death of a man in serv
ice, what benefits begin for a
dependent?
A. Death gratuities ami insur
ance payments begin immediate
ly.
w as born. But he apparently un-
parently became calloused and
tough the firebrand of profes
sional baseball as he fought
his way up from bat boy to semi
pro, to minor leagues, to big
leagues, to manager, to magnate,
lie was a pitcher who had noth
ing on the ball except his finger
prints and his cunning. But thai
combination was so potent they
called him "Old Fox." Now, tlu
OKI Fox has come out of His
Washington lair to watch his
knuckle-bulling club back into
the American league pennant
he hopes.
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Six of Navy's Air
Stations Will be
Declared Surplus
WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (UP)
Six of the navy's air stations
in the northwest will be declared
surplus during the last quarter
of this year, assistant secretary
of the navy for air John L. Sul
livan said.
Full operations will be main
tained at the Astoria, Ore., and
Widby island, Wash., air stations,
he said. Future status of the As
toria air station will be decided
soon.
Tillamook air station will be
placed in caretaker operation sta
tus, Sullivan disclosed.
Stations to be released by the
navy are:
1. Naval auxiliary air station
at Corvallis.
2. Naval air station at Klamath
Falls.
3. Naval air station at Lake
view. 4. Naval auxiliary air station
at North Bend.
5. Naval auxiliary air station
at Quillayutc, Wash.
6. Naval auxiliary air station
at Shelton, Wash.
Layden Says U. S.
Football Teams
To Play Aussies
' CHICAGO, Sept. 21 (UP)
Commissioner Elmer Layden of
the national football league said
today arrangements are being
made to bring Australian foot
ball teams to America next year
to play a series of exhibition
games with N. F. L. teams. The
games would be part of the Na
tional league's training schedule
before the pro teams opened
their regular league season. Lay
den also wants to study the pos
sibility of putting the games on
an annual home-and-homc basis.
WINTER VISIT
MEDFORD, Sept. 21 (UP)
Visitors may be allowed to visit
Crater Lake National park this
winter, Superintendent E. P.
Lcavitt disclosed today.
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yeoman second class, USNR, 503
M avenue, and Dallas D. Legore,
seaman first class, USNR, 1415 V.
ave., serve aboard the famous
old battleship USS West Virgin
it, which went safely through
many months of a campaign in
the Pacific, then suffered her first
combat casualties on the day of
the Okinawa invasion when she
was struck by a Japanese suicide
plane. The plane was in a forma
tion of four aircraft that flew
over the Okinawa transport anch
orage at dusk, 12 hours after the
first U. S. troops had gone ashore.
One plane was shot down by the
West Virginia's gunners, but an
other penetrated the antiaircraft
fire, reached a position above the
big ship, and came down in an
almost vertical dive.
George Decker,
who has been serving with a med
ical detachment in France' and
Germany, is enroute to his home
here. His wife, the former Ann
Stange, and their small child live
here.
Sgt. Al Mackin,
local business man before enter
ing the army three and one-half
years ago, yesterday called La
Grande stating that he was leav
ing today for Fort Lewis to re
ceive an honorable discharge. He
has been overseas two years with
the signal corps of the 12th air
force in north Africa and Italy.
Eivin King,
infantry, stationed at Camp Hood,
Texas, who has spent the past 12
days here on furlough visiting
his wife and three sons, and his
mother, Mrs. Helen King, has re
ceived a four day extension to
await sotne word from his father
Fred King. The elder King has
been held prisoner by the Jap
anese since the fall of Wake Is
land, where he was employed by
a civilian construction company,
and word is expected from him
any day. When he leaves here
the younger King will report to
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SALEM, Sept.' 21 (UP) Stote
Treasurer Leslie M. Scott will
deposit with the state's fiscal
agency in New York $1,767,560.40
with which to pay principal and
interest on state highway, vete
rans' aid and district interest
bonds, it was announced today.
The deposit will be made Oct. 1.
Payments will be as follows:
state highway bonds, $664,000
principal, $105,076.99 interest; vet
erans' aid bonds, $700,000 prin
cipal, and $255,056.25 interest;
district interest bonds, $42,750
principal and $677.16 interest. .
During October the state treas
urer will pay at his office $29,000
in principal and $12,027.50 in in
terest on bonds issued by the
state board of higher education.
The principal payments will
reduce to $5,053,000 outstanding
highway bonds; the veterans' aid
bonds to $11,275,000, district in
terest bonds, to $1,198,590, and to
$1,257,000 the outstanding bonds
of the state board of higher ed
ucation. On Oct. 1, the total state gen
eral obligation bonded debt will
stand at $17,517,590. The net gen
eral bonded debt of the state on
Oct. 1 will be approximately $3,
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PORTLAND, Sept. 21 (UP)
The Wenatchee national forest,
closed since July 12 because of
fire hazards, was reopened to the
public Thursday the Forest Serv
ice announced today.
Camp Adair, Corullis, and is
scheduled for the army of occu
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