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, THURSDAY MORNING, AUGUST 21, 1924 STATESMAN :,PAGE OF; LIVE SPORT' NEWS FROM EVERYWHERE THE OREGON STATESMAN, SALEM, OREGON COAST AND ; Frisco 11; Sacramento 8 ' SACRAMENTO, Aug. 20 The Seals made it two in a row, taking today's game 11 to 8. If was a free biting affair .with the bits about evenly divided. Score . It. H. E. San -Francisco ....... .11 12 0 Sacramento ..'.!'. ...... 8 13 2 Mitchell. Williams and Yelle; Canfield, Peters, James and Koeh ler. ' - Seattle 11; Oakland S SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 20." Seattle batsmen clouted 14 hits off three- Oakland1 pitchers here today and won 11 to 5. The In dians dished up an errorless brand of ball while the Oaks were hobbl ing four. i Score R. II. E. Seattle 4 j ." 11 14 0 Oakland .... 5 12 4 Jones and E. Baldwin; Boehlerj Harris and Read. ' Angels 0: Salt Lake 4 SALT LAKE CITY, Aug. 20. Making two runs in the 14th in ning. Los Angeles today defeated Salt Lake 6 to 4. The winning runs were made on a triple by Durst, an intentional pass for Spencer and a single by ! Krug. Root and Kallio engaged in a duel for il innings. On four different occasions at critical stages . bats men lined into double plays. O'Doul and Jacobs hit homers, each, with one on base. Score R.S H. E. Los Angeles 616 0 Salt .Lake . 4 13 3 Root and Spencer; Kallio, Sin gleton and Peters.; ? ! ' Vernon ; Portland 6 LOS ANGELES. Aug. 20 Ver non hit three pitchers all over the lot and evened the series -with Portland here today by faking the second .contest 9 to 6. Through the Tiger victory Ken Penner, star Vernon twirler, won his 21st game of tb season. The contest was loosel played with the Beavers making . four- errors and Vernon four. j Score ; R. H. E. Portland ...... 6 9 4 Vernon . . . . j . . . . . . . . 9 13 2 - Winters, Gardner. Leveren and Cochrane; Penner and D. Murphy. USS Arizona Crew is I First in Fleet Regatta SEATTLE. I Aug. 20. In: a gruelling two-mile battle, marked by the disqualifying of the USS Mississippi's crew " at the finish. USS Arizona' ftweepsters won the navy championship inter-fleet re gatta on Lake - Washington here today for the second successive year. The time of the winners was 15 minutes 54 seconds. ' The Mississippi sweepsters, al though finishing first, were dis qualified for crossing in front of the , Arizona, the judges announced.- The eleven crews, finishing in the - following order, were the Arizona, Idaho, Tennessee, Cali fornia, New Mexico, : Maryland, Nevada. Seattle, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania. USED 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 Piano and Phonograph SALE 1? MAJOR LEAGUE GAMES ! Brooklyn 3, Pittsburgh 2 NEW YORK, Aug.! 20. (Na tional.) By defeating Pittsburgh for the third time in .succession, while Chicago dropped a double header to Boston, Brooklyn went inio third place in the National league race today. The Robins percentage is now .560 as against the Cubs' .554. The score was 3 to 2 in It innings., J i Brooklyn has won IS out of its last 14 starts and six out of seven on its present road J trip. The Dodger's successful j Invasion of Pittsburgh on the heels of the Giants from wmm the Pirates took a four-game series, and seri ously threatened f the champions' lead had lessened the Cubs' pen nant chances, I - In thus aiding New York. Brooklyn has returned good for evil, for, the Giants have won 13 out of 17 games from the Brook lyn team. ? Score R. H. E. Brooklyn ...... t 1 - 3 102 Pittsburgh .1 . .... 2 6 0 Doak and Taylor; Kremer and Gooch. j it lnU 3.13. lMiiLiilrlnhia 1-10 pi. aciuio, wrt.us. - iu. Ac tional.) -St . Louis, took 7-both games of a doujjjle j header from Philadelphia: today, 3 to 1 and 13 to 10. Excellent pitching by Leo Dickerman supported by bunched hits in the first inning of the first game gave the Cardinals a vic tory. 'Philadelphia's only score was a home runby Cy Williams. There were six dible plays, 1 two by Bottpmley unassisted, i Score (1st game) 1 R. ill. E. Philadelphia 1 8 1 St. Louis .....if.. !t... 3 11 0 . Carlson, Glazner and Henlino; Dickerman and Gonzales. Carlson. Glazner and Henline; Dickerman and Gonzales. Score (2nd game) It. H. E. Philadelphia .... . J ...10 13 4 St. Louis . i 13 10 4 Hubbell. Betts, ; Glazner and Wilson,' Wendell;' Sothoron, Byer, Fowler and Niebergall, Clemens. ' j Boston 3-5, Chicago 4-0 CHICAGO. Aug. I 20. (Na tional. ) "Casey" Stengel return ed ; from la honeymoon today and was largely responsible for the double victory of the Braves over Chicago, 2 to 0 and 5 to 0. He was responsible for,' both runs in the opener and his home run. ac counted for three of the runs in the second game. j ; Score (1st game) R. H. E. Boston!. ... .i .U.!.... 2 11 1 Chicago '. . 0 3 0 " Genewich and; Gibson; Wheeler Bush and O'Farrell. f Score (2nd game) R. H. E. Boston: ....... I'l .'. . . 5 10 2 Chicago .? . ... 0 6 V Barnes and Gibson; Kaufman, Jacobs and Hartnett. i News York-Cincinnati, post- poned; rain. FERGUSON SAYS WIFE TO RETIRE IF CHARGE TRUE Lie Given Story That He Re ' fused to Purchase War Liberty Bonds AMARILLO. Texas, Aug. 20. Replying to a telegram received while on the platform charging Sim with failure to buy liberty bonds during the war. James E Ferguson, in an address here last night in behalf of his wife's can didacy for the democratic nom ination for governor,' branded the charge as a "deliberate lie" and said his wife would withdraw from the race if the records did not show he purchased $2500 worth Of bonds. ': V'U": j ; !f. Thei telegram was from Temple and sent by DeWltt Hobart. It was handed to Ferguson and he read it to the crowd. "Speakers charge you and your, wife did not buy liberty bonds. Important that you answer tonight." 1 No old-time party leader can forgive the j impudent west for having opinions of its own. I CLUB PERCENTAGES I r , PACIFIC COAST J.EAGtrE San Francisco .." Krattf Oakland Vtrnoa Saramento . Salt I.aW 78 60 63 6A 6 71 73 74 75 .. 7 .. 78 .. 71 "1- i-.-i- 65 Pott land Loa An(elea ........... 4 i-- 62 RATIONAL UBAOXTE , . Won Lost Prt. Stw York Pittsburgh 4 U 70 ...... 65 -1- 65 43 47 51 f0 58 65 70 71 Brooklyn Chicago Cincinnati St. Loo is 62 4.-4-- 60 49 42 RMtAn ... UU 42 AltXXICAH ZXAOXTE ) . Won Lost Pet. Nw York . Washington ... ltroit ........... Boston 5; Clveland 4 BOSTON, Aug. 20. (Ameri- can) Boston scored a f to 4 vic tory over Cleveland today. Flag stead was the hero of the game. He made four hits including a dou ble, a triple and was concerned in the scoring of three runs and made a sensational running catch Emerson Hough's Immortal Romance i The cowards never started : The weak died on the way. T I " ' - . ' i " ' i. .,. . I. : "" ;i 1 THE COVERED Will Banion . . Molly Wingate Sam Woodhull Mr. Wingate . . Mrs.1 Wingate . Jackson ...... Bridger . . . . . . Kit Carson . , . led Wingate . . of Hyatt's drive to deep right cen ter In the eighth. 1 Score ,R. II. E. Cleveland . i 4.12 1 Boston .......... '59 0 Smith and Myatt; Elimke and O'Neill. St. Louts at Philadelphia, post poned;, wet grounds- . Only two games schedultd. Some children remain unspoil ed; and' some visit their doting grandmothers every day or two. WAGON" CAST J. Warren Kerrigan ....... . . . . . . . Lois Wilson Alan Hale . . . . . .Charles Ogle; . ..... . . i 1 . k .Kthel Wales ....... i . . Ernest Torrence , . .Tully Marshall .............!, .Guy Oliver i John Fox SENATORS FIGHT FDR STATE TITLE Baseball Game at Oxford Field; Sunday Match for Championship j : : -;: The baseball game between the Salem Senators and the Port of Portland next Sunday on Oxford You'll see hundreds of men, women, children, horses, oxen a two-mile wagon train of pioneer days fleeing for their lives from a raging fire that laid waste nine square miles of prairie. You'll see a thousand real, yelling, painted Indians riding madly to attack in. their famous "cir cle of death" formation, j ; . ! , You'll see a buffalo hunt with the world's only remaining herd of buffalo. You'll see the wagon train ford a turbulent mile-wide torrent. '.'.!'! i . You'll see! the whole spectacle heart-drama of the perilous, glorious days of 49, The story of a man's love and sacrifice for a beautiful girl in the most amazing settings ever photographed. . . i , :t-,- . ; .- ; ' Your most gorgeous screen adventure. : ! - i - j 1 - General Admission 50c Performances Commence Promptly V at !: 2:30 7:15 9:15 P.M. Doors open 30 minutes ! fore starting time be. field will in realty be a battle for the state championship. : Salem has beaten three of the teams : that are participating in the fall baseball tournament in Portland which was to decide the city league championship.; These are the "Knights " of , Columbus whom Salem beat 7 ; to 4, the Cycol club, which was defeated by Salem 8 to 7 and the West Coast team which the Senators defeated 4 to 3. : j The Port of Portland team, which i Salem plays Sunday, is tied with the Nickoll team for how You aafamiff tor (Ml iTMF JUST IMAGINE Afternoon and HAZEL STONE REX AT IU the first honors in the Portland City league. The Port of Port land wis selected as one of the clubs to participate in the fall tournment. but drew out because of financial matters. Wes Winters, who pitched for Salem in the first game with iKelso two weeks ago, pitches for the Port of Portland. Leading Tennis Stars Are Mated for Play BROOKLINE, Mass.j Aug. 20. .Have (THURSDAY) BIGGER THAN A 3-RING CIRCUS THIS Evening Children 25c THE ORGAN o Eight teams were seeded in the draw , for the national mixed doubles championship tuornament which was made today. Mrs. Molla Mallory and William T. Tilden II, national champions, were seeded first and drew a bye to advance to the second round. On the opposite side of the dcaw Miss Helen Wills, national wom en's singles champion, and Vincent Richards were seeded second. Mrs. F. H. Godfrey of Boston and Wal lace Johnson of Philadelphia al3o were seeded. ! X E Y 1 ( 67 66 64 59 54 52 51 50 49 52 53 65 62 63 63 66 St. Ioais . nYelnl Bnsfn .. Chicairo MiUadtlphia 4.-