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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 29, 1928)
.... TOE OREGON $TATESSlA iLESf rOREGON, "tTEDNESbAT MORNiNG iRuXkif ei9Z3 " . .... ;,. .-si r-T .- J .1 ... , ,. ; jaayesj.m locnii' fob mm fins ' f A '-77 77 AM -7rr A3 1 Arm::" TOXIGHTS FIGHT CARD a- Mats' threat . - -Pb.U Bayes," Salem, 128 pounds TV Sailor Willie Gordon, Seattle. 2C pounds; 10 rounds. Preliminaries Four Roaad Special Event Eddie Graham. Salem. 122 pounds Ti. Lloyd "Farmer, V f& gene, 122 pounds. Foar Round Special Event Frankle Monroe, Salem. "143 pounds, rs Burs Raimley," Eugene 122 pounds. " Four Roand Special Exeat SI Flook. M1H City. Ill pounds, ts. "Fighting" Phillip Palezo, In dependence, 112 pounds. Curtain Raiser Guy Hickman, Salem, ts Harry Savage Albany, four rounds. ' MEETS WILLIE GORDON TONIGHT Ry Kick Zylstra They're all set to go. Tonight at the armory, Phil Hayes, local fighter will excnange blows with Sailor Willie Gordon of Seattle in a 10 roand main event. Tis the fight all Salem has been talking about for sometime and every fight fan can hardly wait for the moment when the two leather pushers meet in the ring. It is said that Willie is doubly anxious to be n victor over BayesIn order;, to regain, what prestige be lost when Carter hand ed him a knockout punch in the first round i at Tacoma sometime ago. , v Phil Is determined to feed his 20th "8leepg pill to Gordon and hare the visiting battier kiss the canvas .before the record break ing crowd. On every street corner In town fans ran be hparrt Hlsrnmiinr lh fight, asking onejinother who they Phil Bayes,' Salem's most popular fighter, who faces the predict to win. some say Bayes, j toughest opposition of his career this evening in the armory others predict Gordon. Another when he matches blows with Sailor Willie Gordon, question is "Will It last tent rounds?" Iranmil MPPED BY DIXOII PORTLAND. Feb. 28. (AP) In a slam-bang slugging match, which for unadulterated fury has seldom been equalled in a Port land ring, Georgle Dixon, local ne gro middleweight, scored a knock out over Herman Auerbach, Salt Lake City, in the fifth round of their scheduled 10 round battle. As Auerbach hit the floor his sec onds, for no apparent reason, toss ed a towel into the ring. Auerbach went to the mat unconscious under a terrific shower of rights to the chin. The bout was as sensational as the unexpected knockout Each battler had been credited with two rounds when the end came. Dixon took the first and second rounds, and ringsiders gave Auerbach the third and fourth. Volleys of terrific rights and barrages of shocking lefts were poured from the fists of the two middleweights as they stood toe to toe, slamming each other with nei ther gaining an appreciable advan tage. Dixon weighed 15S pounds; Auerbach 153. In a six round preliminary, Jim my Dolan of Los Angeles won a decision over Eddie Cartwrlght, Portland, in a clever exhibition of mitt-work. They are 150 pounders. Joe Mancillas, Los Angeles 130 pounder, scored a technical knock out over Bobby Mclntyre, Salem, in the final round of their scned uled four round go. Bayes has a knockout punch which he has let loose on 19 different occasions. His last knockout was scored in his mix with Carter. Word has been received from Joe Waterman, manager for Willie Gordon, that he and the fighter had arrived in Portland at 4:00 o'clock yesterday and would leave for Sa'em today by stage, arriving here at about 1 o'clock. Motion pictures will be taken of Match maker Harry Plant meeting' the pugilist and manager at the stage depot. Bayes will be doing road work on the street tomorrow which will also be filmed. y. Gordon fought in Vancouver last ; Saturday night where he knocked out the British featherweight champion, which -, Indicates that Bayes will have his hands full when he tackles the visiting pugil ist. Ticket sale is going good and there is every reason to believe that there will be a record break ing crowd in attendance. There will be room for everyone as the peating capacity in the armory will be Increased to accommodate ex pected crowd. Ma ten maker Plant urges everyone to purchase their tickets early, in the day to avoid the rush at .the office tomorrow evening. " J - Motion pictures will be taken of the entire fight. Including the pre liminaries and of the crowds as they leave the armory. These pic tures will be shown in the Capitol theater within the next two weeks, This is the first time that a fight has ever been filmed In this city. Both fighters will be weighed In at 2 o'clock this afternoon at 126 pounds. It has cost Matchmaker Plant a sum of money to stage this bat tle in Salem, a battle that will give every fan a treat, and it Is no more than. fair that lie expect everyone to attend. No better match could SALEM HIGH PLAYS WESTLIITOHT being played bar and one In Port land. Nothing definite will he an nounced an to this tiirunUUale today. . ' - ',' . IKE BOONE LATE AT BEAVER CAMP ANAHEIM. Cal., Feb. 28. (AP). Ike Boone, hard hitting Portland outfielder, will be late in arriving at the Beavers' spring training camp here because of an injury to his head, according to word received today by Manager Ernie Johnson. Boone, who has been winter ing on a farm somewhere in Ala bama, wired Johnson that he was on his way to the railroad some 14 miles from his home when he fell off his horse and sustained a severe gash about the head. Sev eral stitches were needed to close the wound and he will be unable to put on the training harness for several days. v Y TEAM ENTERS - DISTRICT EVENT PUSH DEFEATS i.i i i i ii ' . - . V The local Y. M. C. A. volleyball team will participate in the district championship tournament Satur day. The Salem team captured second plaee in last year's meet. and is much stronger this year. Five other teams will compete in the tournament. These are Astoria, Portland, Eugene, Baker, and Lon'gview. Men representing Salem are Captain L. Gregg, O. J. Hill, Rev. C. E. Ward, Nile Hilborne. R. Ritchey, Leon Gleason, Paul Ac ton, E. Hill, C. Lee, and B. Boise. The tournament will start at 2 o'clock. Parrish Junior high school bas ketball team added another vic tory to their 'win column by de feating the Gervals high school basketeers by a 37 to 22 count on the local floor last night, Never during the, entire game did the visiting cagemen threaten the lo cal five scoring machine. Pettlt. guard on the local team was high point man for the winners, scor ing 11 points, and .Manning, for ward on the Gervals five was high point man in this tilf with 12 markers. Many substitutes were given a chance to play in the Parrish line up, and they showed up well. Individual scores are as follows: Parrish (37) KG FT PF Samford, f Klchen. f 1 1 James, f ......... Parker, f 1 Deitz. c 3 Satchlier. g ...... 4 1 Pettit, g 5 1 Perren, f . . Gervals (22 TO FT Manning, f 0 Stokx, f ..." 1 2 E. Tooley, c 1 G. Seeley, g 1 1 G. Tooley, g Kaucb, s 1 PHANTOMS GOING TO McMINNVILLE The Salem high school basket ball team Is scheduled to meet the fast West Linn hoopsters on the local high school floor tonight. Both institutions are rated as hav ing strong quintets and it is be lieved that the game will be hard fought from beginning to end. The winner of this tilt will repre sent this district In the state bas ketball tournament here March 16. 16 and 17. The contest will start promptly at 7:30 o'clock. Arrangements are new under way by the Salem school for sched uling two games will Hill Military academy of Portland, one game On Friday night Fred Hage- man'a Phantoms will migrate to McMlnnville where they are sched uled to play the McMlnnville hoop sters. Last Wednesday evening the Phantom five defeated the strong Chemawa Indian high school basketeers by a 19 to 17 count. Players composing the Phantom team are Hageman and Darby, forwards; Kafoury and Myers, guards; and Heise, center. Devers is "substitute. 4 2 2 PF 1 1 1 1 punlshmer right over a git? a few das ;DeUneyV training ; I7 where he wiU New York ft ceremonies" t Meanwhile Garden reportea" was heading toward with a gate approxim. 000 in prospect. Victory ther contender by the , ku route probably will mean as. at Tunney's crown in Jnnef the winner of the Jack She Johnny Risko match schedule March 12. held in reserve September opponent for the C pioh. irardv KRACHE KNOCKS , ART FRANCIS OU1 . SEATTLE, Feb. 28 (AP)t 0n? S Ted Krache, 149 plunder of Ho quiam, Wash., knocked out Art M0R$ SfU HEENEY, DELANEY ALL READY TO GO NEW YORK, Feb. 28. (AP)- Tom Heeney, burly blacksmith from New Zealand hung up his training gloves today after nine rounds of work and declared him self "top fible fit" for his 15 rounds heavyweight elimination struggle with Jack Delaney in Madison Square' Garden Thursday night. The sturdy British sub ject scaled 195 pounds. The weight indicated Heeney will have an advantage of at least 20 pounds on the former light heavy weight champion when they touch gloves in a tussle that may decide Gene Tunney's next title chal lenger. Delaney scaled 17b v yesterday. 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