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one of tin «* tough battles where
each team takas turns ta scoring
runs fin e r play* both ptt.hera
about equal hitting power on both
■Idea and the struggle just went on
with the balance o f power first on
one aide then the other I f only 'B ig
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farther up Ih* ladder a * w ill hava
to agree with film that hi* chancaa
are better elsewhere
W e wish y»*u all the beat of lurk.
Jimmy. an<l h*»pe to aee ymt get as
popular as your friend and mine,
Henry <Hammerin' Hankl A rm
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GOLF CLUB FOBMED
JIMMY IIDOCU
■ «I m . C*JIf"iv*to. w h rio he Intend*
to remain f«ir e m ir lim e
Have you eve* eeen this IHUe fe l
low in action? He ia ae p m » aa
they pome Although he loot In hta
laat a|*fMwran<e her«- to J o e y Dolan
he atlll looked k < mm | and a h o a H hta
gameneaa by atlll trying to go on
With the hotit, which the referee
■topped Jimmy la a fam iliar figure
around theae |>arta, everybody
knowa him, and we have never
heard a word againat thta great
little battler I f there la a »porting
event o f any kind, there you will
find Jimmy. Jimmy waa the loudeat
rooter and the moat rabid fan at
tha Lac 'the Lion i bout. Shouting
aujrgeationa, screaming for Leo to
“ kill him," he could hardly alt atlll
In hta ringside neat, and waa guing
through moat of the motions erf the
ftghtera In the ring. A great little
guy himself, he did not want to aee
his fellow teammate take even a
chance on losing A real sportsman
Jimmy has had lota of experience
In hta young life. Though juat In hla
twenties he haa seen action “ Over
There ’, real action, and he ia the
holder of two decorations, the Pur
ple Heart and the Distinguished
Service Cross, the emblems of
heroes. He was wounded in action
three times and has seen action at
Guadalcanal, Rendova, Munda, and
the Salamaua Islands. All this in
two years of army life, the most of
which was spent overseas.
In his four Portland bouts Jimmy
has come out victor in three and lost
only one. H# fought Eddie Weller
and won the decision although he
was outweighed by several pounds
(This was true o f all his Portland
bouts.) He knocked out Billy Mc
Cann in eight rourds and finished
o ff Jimmy Hogan in the fifth. He
lost his last fight to Joey Dolan. But
Jimmy has fought some top-rank
ing fighters, among them are Lew
Feldman, who decisioned, Cleo
Shans, K.O. 2nd round. Ray Camps
(Mexican champ), K O , Retchie
Shinn (Chinese lightweight champ)
decision. Chick Delaney and others.
In fact, Jimmy was rated the con
tender for the lightweight crown in
pre-war days. He has been feather
weight champ of the New England
states and also California, 1939-
1941. A great little guy.
Jimmy is due to leave Wednes- !
day -of this week. His chances for
bigger and better bouts in Los An-
gales are a lot greater than they are j
here. There are more people there,
and of course a large number of
fight fans, which in turn will mean
more money for the battlers. There
are many more fight fans here than
really come to the Friday night
bouts, but by not coming out they
cause the "gate" to be smaller,
thereby giving the boys smaller
purses and the result is that we
lose some of our best boxers to other !
parts of the country that will sup
port them. Less than two v/eeks ago
another fighter left this area, a
heavyweight, Leroy McQueen. Le
roy left for California for practi
cally the same reason as Jimmy is
Wrmbrr->hlp trprs
T o anyone who can play gulf or
who wants to play golf, an an
nouncement haa been made that
there haa been a club formed among
tha Nagroea o f Portland and mam
berahlp ia open to all At present
there ta no scheduled meetings of
thia club, but you can get your
name on the roster by contacting
any of these men Mr Vernon Gas- nvaes the White Sox always have
klna. President Mr Stephen W right, been a formidable team in the aee
Secretary, Mr W alter Rieka. T reas and half of the season. Kememher
urer; H arry Hardy. Charles Hollins that they started badly Iasi year,
but were finishing so strongly at the
and Mr Hayworvl Kaecomb
end of the season that had the cam
The members o f the yet to be
paign had two more weeks to go.
named club have been playing at they probably would have finished
two g o lf couraea here, they are second.
Broadmoor, located at N E. 33rd
Dykes was forced to devote a
Ave. and Columbia Boulevard, and large part of the first six weeks of
Eadtmoreland Municipal G olf Link*, this season to experimentation In
normal time* these experiments
located at 7000 S. E. 27th Ave.
For further Information contact would have been msde during
epring training.
one o f the officer* or members.
Tor a long time the Indians have
been known as a team well up to
ward the front until midseason.
Then they fell apart.
This season they did their falling
apart earlier than usual. The In
dians should be a better ball club in
the second half of the campaign,
particularly if Ken Keltner and Allie
Reynolds are able to stay around.
The pitching staff Is working Itself
into shape and pitching is likely to
be the determining factor in the
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race.
We grant that It Is doubtful if
OMKHOW the world seemed com
either
team has enough all-around
pletely wrong one recent morn
strength
to take the Hag — but
ing when a quick glance at the
league standings on the sports pages neither of them are as bad as early
showed the New York Yankees tied showings indicate.
PEAKING
s
for seventh place in the American
league
How the mighty had fallen! That
was the first thought. Rut the Initial
blow was softened by the fact that
only 4)4 games separated the flrst-
place St. Louis Browns and the
eighth-place Philadelphia Athletics.
It wasn’ t long ago that Jimmy
Dykes and Lou Boudreau were feud
ing over whether
the White Sox or the
Indians should win
the pennant. Boud
reau. Cleveland In
di an
manager,
m a d e a forcible
statement predict
ing the eventual tri
umph of the Sox.
Dykes, manager of
the latter team, dis
agreed. It was his
stated belief that Jimmy Dykes
the Indians were
the league’ s fair-haired boys.
Following that exchange of com
pliments, the two teams went into
an early-season death struggle to
see who would gain occupancy of
last place. Except for a week or so
in which the Indians took the honor,
the Sox clung to the cellar spot
with a bulldog tenacity. However,
they didn’t stay there. The more de
pendable A’s took over.
24-Hour Positions
As this is being written Cleveland
is in fourth place, Chicago in fifth.
Those positions are not guaranteed
for more than 24 hours. The Ameri
can league is delightfully unpre
dictable. Almost unstable.
While we think the Yankees still
will be the team to beat for the pen
nant—despite St. Louis—we can't ig
nore the Indians and White Sox.
They have too many possibilities.
The records show that under
be tha
■ate
Veteran Hurlers
The Yankees get the nod because
they started with three excellent
veteran pitchers — Hank Borowy,
Ernie Bonham and Atloy Donald.
They also unveiled two fine new
comers—Walt Dubiel and Joe Page.
The present American league
race is something new under the
sun. There is not an outstandingly
good team and there is not an over
whelmingly weak team. There is
likely to be no team in the circuit
capable of far outdistancing the
field.
All this makes the National league
race look like a walkaway. At the
same time the Yankees were tied
for seventh in the junior circuit, St.
Louis was leading the National by a
comfortable margin. The Chicago
Cubs were 14% games out. The
usual situation had been reversed
with a vengeance.
Almost any team in the Ameri
can is capable of a winning streak
—and equally capable of a slump.
Most of them have undergone the
latter. It seems quite possible that
the team which really gets warmed
up in September will be the one to
take the flag.
SPORTS SHORTS
C. Buck Shaw’s coaching contract at
Santa Clara, a school that has aban
doned football for the duration, runs
until 1947.
fi Pete Gray, one-armed outfielder
hitting
approximately
.300 for
Memphis, is more than a duration
player. He worked his w aj into the
high minors long before Pearl Har
bor and stayed oq his merits.
C. The Norfolk naval base is play
ing 130 baseball fam es this season.
C Michigan baseball teams, coached
by Ray Fiaher, have an all-time
average of §94 against Big ten com
petition.
Battenee Searcy and Wharton
W e did not get the other battery.
Colored Merchants
Lose Two Ways
Bill Thompson and Game
Both Lost
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