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PORTLAND INQUIRER
number of cars are being taken off
nor leaguers and collegian head OPA Director Renews
BASEBALL COMICS
liners.
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EN TER TAIN CROWD
Plea for Car Pooling the road -n this state. Coupled with
TURNER GAINS SEMI
WINDUP
Leo (The Lion) Turner, Oregon
middleweight champion, returns to
the fistic wars August 25, when he
meets Kenny LaSalle, Los Angeles
belter, in the semi-windup to the
Joe Kahut-Vern Earling light-
heavyweight 15-round bout at
Multnomah Civic Stadium.
Leo lost his bout with Joe Kahut,
but is definitely not letting that
get him down.
The Harlem Globetrotters and
Bearded Davidites, America’^ two
greatest road baseball teams of the
present day, clashed at the Vaughn
Street Park in Portland, Oregon in
a night game on August 9th and
10th, starting at 8:30 o’clock.
Even in an era when road teams
were far more numerous than they
are today, these teams would hold
their own with the best and prob
ably surpass all in the point of
showmanship. It’s more than a
showdown o f baseball skill when
they clash. Each tried to outdo the
other in comedy and novelty stunts
and the fans reaped the benefit of
a grand evening of entertainment.
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RUFUS HATTEN
Catcher, Harlem Globetrotters
SOFT BALL
Colored Merchants meet W-B-99
Tavern Friday night, Buckman
Field, at 8:45 p m. Be sure to at
tend and see a thrilling game.
After leading the teams to get a
crack at the state tourney, the
Merchants lost Sunday night, Aug.
14, to the Islanders, a tough team.
Score was 3 to 0, favor of Island
ers, which proves the Colored Mer
chants played a great game of ball.
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type and shade and very handy
articles for the “ hidden ball trick.’’
The Davidites carry a real clown
in Ed Hamann, whose complete
routine of circus antics provide
plenty of laughs.
The Globetrotters, an offspring
of the wonder basketball aggrega-
LEAMAN JOHNSON
Third Baseman, Harlem Globe
trotters.
The Davidites have a reputation
of long standing. The current edi
tion surpasses its predecessors in
playing ability with a personnel
comprising former major and mi
An urgent call for greater car
sharing, especially on the part of
the non-war-workers, who are not
covered by plant transportation
committees, was sounded today by
McDannell Brown, Portland district
OPA director.
“ Every day a few more automo
biles are going o ff the road,”
Brown declared. “ At the beginning
of the war, 27 million passenger
cars rolled on the highways. Today,
in the middle of the third year of
the war, this number has dropped
to 24 million, and more than half
of these cars are seven years old
or more. In the opinion of many
transportation specialists, when the
number of cars in operation drops
to 20 million, a breakdown in es
sential transportation can be ex
pected.”
Here in Oregon, the post office
reports that the number of five-
dollar federal use tax stamps sold
tion of that name, are touring for so far this year is 6,700 less than
the first time and living up to the during the same period last year,
reputation of their kin both as a thus indicating that a substantial
playing unit and as showmen. Fans
watched them handle a baseball
with the same magic-like precision
and “ sleight-of-hand’’ as their
namesakes of basketball have done
for 16 years. In forming the Globe
trotters for this coast-to-coast tour,
one o f America’s greatest Negro
nines— the topnotch St. Louis Stars
—were taken over intact and a
number of headline players added
to it, so zealous was owner A. M.
Saperstein in protecting the highly-
set reputation of his wonder cage
team.
The Globetrotters won both
games.
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the huge population increase, the
situation is double serious.
Even more important to the di
rect prosecution of the war are
gasoline requirements.
“ Shipbuilders in the Portland
area are well aware that tankers
now rate top priorities in the navy
construction program,” Brown ex
plained. “ The war in the Pacific is
going far faster than originally ex
pected. As a result the huge gas re
quirements that go with vast mili
tary operations are coming much
sooner than originally anticipated.”
“ For the most part,” Brown con
tinued, “ this huge military demand
has to be satisfied by cutting down
on gasoline consumption here at
home. This limited amount of gaso
line that is left must be distributed
fairly and used wisely. Needless to
say, a car owner driving without
passengers is not using his coun
try’s gasoline wisely. The best way
a motorist has of using his gasoline
wisely is to pool his car. Gasoline
thus saved could be ued to increase
rations for driving necessary to
further the war effort.
TINY BRADSHAW AND HIS ORCHESTRA
COMING SOON. W A T C H FOR DATE