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Johnny Risko Gets Close Decision Over George Godfrey at Brooklyn X (;4 ? v: tu Y iff a! .? 'JUDBES RULE NEBRO II By EDWARD J. N'KAI. Associated Press Sports Writer EBBETS FIELD, BROOKLYN, June 27 (AP). The black men ace of the hearyweights, huge George Godfrey, of Leiperville, Pa., took on an even darker hue tonight as he battled game John ny RIako, pudgy Clevelander, to a standstill, apparently won the fight and then say the decision go the way of his white riral. By .the official decision of two Judges and the referee. Rlsko was proclaimed the victor after 10 rounds of bruising battling in a fight crammed with action of the kind that delights the onlookers of a dock man's brawl along the - 'waterfront. Many newspapermen at the ringside, however, credited the I massive black man, a tower of humanity compared with the short, stocky Rlsko, with an edge In five rounds, and three for Rls ko and two even. To others, however, it seemed -that the courageous spoiler of hopes In Tex Rlckard's heavy weight elimination tournament again bad burst the bubble of a favorite. Several score cards . credited Risko with a margin in five rounds with four for Godfrey and one even. Riako caught the eyes of the judges and the sympathy of the fans with a stirring rally that won him the last two rounds in the scoring of the Associated Press score card, after gaining an even break in the eighth session. A Risko rally won him the sixth round, but after the even first eesslon, the remainder of the fighting seemed to favor the giant negro. Round One Godfrey, a smiling giant com pared to the equat and pudgy Ris ko, hammered lefts and rights to the Cleveland boy's body. Rlsko bounced his famous left hook off the negro's body and shot two overhand rights to the head. Rls ko stepped around easily around the slow moving ponderous giant, landing easily with his left but there was danger always In the smashing right Godfrey used steadily as a counter. Round Two Rlsko bounced forward Into a flood of left hooks to the head that the negro, growing vicious, smashed accurately to their marks. Under the storm of blows as Godfrey threw everything Into the attack. Risko wilted and the giant negro nearly wrestled him to the floor. Rlsko held for a moment to gain his wind, then flailed into the huge negro with overhand rights that had Godfrey holding at the bell. Round Three Risko tugged and hauled at big George almost pulling himself from his feet as he tried to cut .the huge "black down to his own size with body punches. George took to holding and countering with his right as Johnny stormed into him. throwing caution to the winds. Risko, a pigmy beside "Godfrey's massive bulk, still had the courage to carry the fight to his foe. Godfrey smashed two left hooks to the chin, and a numbing right to the heart as Rls ko missed a wild left hook Just be fore the bell. Round Four Godfrey, a full head taller than his rival, bored in with all his heft to plant lefts and rights on Rlsko's body. Risko pecked with his left and backed away, hurt by Godfrey's tremendous body punch ed. A storm of lefts and rights to Rlsko's body almost knocked the white man from his feet. There was tremendous power behind Godfrey's swings, but the Cleve land rubber man. shot his rJgM to the head and kept everlasting ly trying up to the bell. THE NEW the modern oil for every motorcar A STANDARD OIL PRODUCT Vaii(yi Babe Ruth and The STUDEDMCEIt COMMANDER ISpoo Miles in ' less than 23,000 Minctss , MARION GARAGE CO. Wallace H. Bonesteele Acim from Marion Hotel, Tel S02 Day and Ntaht Service Ml 1 N BOUT ZEROLENE Round Five As Rlsko danced in, more cau tious now, Godfrey smashed his body with lefts and rights that drew grunts heard back in the two dollar seats. Johnny made little impression on the man mountain with his very best blows and God frey's long arms easily reached Johnny's body. Godfrey belted the white boy all around tbe ring with an awful body barrage. John ny was game but mighty tired at the bell. Round Six Godfrey laid back, content to let Slisko carry the burden of attack and hold when Johnny got dan gerous. Risko smashed a . left hook full on Godfrey's chin but big George only smiled. Like a terrier worrying a mastiff, John ny pounded in and right smack to a series of right hits to the head but bounced him backward. John ny beamed to allay tbe fears of bis admirers and came back to his corner smiling at the gong. Round Seven Godfrey nearly floored Risko with a hammering left and right to the chin. Johnny backed clear to the ropes, arms wound about his head, body crctched In pro tection. Godfrey let him go and shot his right to the heart as they came back to the center of the ring. Risko flinched under a left hook to the body but valiantly hooked his left back to Godfrey's1 bald head. They wrestled and mauled about the ring up to the bell with Godfrey's huge arms giving him a tremendsus advant age. Round Eight Godfrey duelled lefts success fully with Risko, mauling and tugging at close quarters, often separated by the referee. Both slugged to the body. Risko hook ed his left clean to the head but they were wrestling again at the bell. Round Nine Risko never stopped trying, pil ing into the negro with left and right swings to the head despite Godfrey's smashes to the body Johnny slugged big George free ly about the head, drove him Into a corner for a slgidy pasting and the crowd roared as they battled like a pair of dock workers. John ny belabored Godfrey with both hands, slugging without defense and absorbed half a dozen right counters without a quivver at the gong. Round Ten Risko swarmed all over the big negro, driving him to the ropes under a cloud of swings that came from all directions. Risko buried his left deep into Godfrey's body and George wilted. Godfrey ral lied swinging Rlsko about the ring with his massive arms and shooting his punches short to the body. Johnny never stopped try ing, swinging both lefts and rights to the negro's head. Very tired, they leaned heads together and pounded each other's ribs while the crowd bellowed encour agement at Rlsko's courageous stand. They were mauling and tugging At the final gong. GIANTS WIN LONE TILT IN NATIONAL NEW YORK. June 27 (AP) The Giants won a see-saw game of heavy hitting from the Phillie3 here today 11 to. 8. Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 8 10 3 New York 11 12 1 Miller, Willoughby, Sweetland. McGraw and Schulte, Lerlan; Ald ridge, Faulkner, Benton and O' Farrell. Several conspicuous lawns need a shave, and the names of the idlers who are neglecting their do mestic duties will be published un less something is done forthwith. Uedford Mail-Tribune. lCME Quality a ii Is a stain and varnish in one With it your wood work can be made to-match your furniture, or vice versa. Varno-Lac imitates the most expensive hard woods at a fraction of their cost. Try a can today at our Special Offer Price. BEAVERS UK TO USE ANOTHER PORTLAND, June 27. (AP). Sacramento defeated the Port leand Beavers 7 to 5 here today in the second game of the series. Both teams hit freely In the first four innings and tbe score was tied 5-5 in the fourth. Score: R. H. E. Sacramento 7 13 3 Portland .5 7. 2 Flynn and Harris; Yerkes, Tomlin and Rego. Stars Win Another LOS ANGELES. June 27. (AP). Hollywood won its sec ond game of the series from the Missions today by the score of 7 to 6. Score: R. H. E. Missions' 6 13 4 Hollywood ...I 11 2 , Krause, Nelson, Hughes and Baldwin; Kinney, Fullerton and Agnew. Seals Blank Angels SAN FRANCISCO, June 27. (AP) Elmer Jacobs was in great form today and given the advant age of a two run lead in the first inning, pitched shutout ball to en able the Seals to defeat Los An geles 2 to 0. Score: R. H. E. Los Angeles 0 5 2 San Francisco 2 5 1 Barfoot, Peters and Sandberg; Jacobs and Sprinz. Indians Crush Oaks SEATTLE. June 27. (AP). Seattle pounded out 11 bits today to defeat the Oakland club 5 to 1 to even the series at one game each. Score: R. H. E. Oakland 1 6 1 Seattle 5 11 1 Sparks and Lombardl; Graham and Borreanl. GRIDDER TO TRY HARVEST FIELDS John Versteeg. husky tackle on the Willamette university football VICK BROTHERS USED CARS 1927 Pontiac Coach - 1927 Chevrolet Coach - - - 1924 Light 6 Studebaker Sedan 1926 Ford Fordor Sedan - 1927 Pontiac Coupe - - - 1925 Ford Coupe - - -1924 Star Touring - 1923 -Overland Touring - 1926 2 HarleyOavidgon Motorcycles priced far below market value. Phone 11841 VICK BROTHERS The House That Varno - Lac Regular vakno-ucm One Pint of Varno-Lac and a Varnish Brush for 87c Salem Hardware 120 N. Commcrclal.St. . ' team for the last two years and viewed as an all-Northwestern conference team candidate next fall, will spend the remainder of the vacation period "training" in U wheat fields of eastern Ore ton. Up to this week Versteeg has been keeping in condition by pick- 'ing cherries and- umpiring twi light league baseball games, but ho thinks the heavy work: in. the grueling eastern Oregon sunshine will be more beneficial. Versteeg kept in trim all las school year by paddling freshmen for violation of campus tradition, as the official "spatter" for the Willamette Cubs. BLITMAN WINNER OVER CANZONERI PHILADELPHIA, June 27. (AP) Harry Blitman, Phlladel phia featherweight, won the deci sion over Tony Canzoneri, of New York, champion' of that division, in a 10 round bout at the Phillies baseball park tonight. Blitman weighed 127 pounds, Canzoneri 128. The title was not at stake O O i Baseball Standings j o PACIFIC COAST W L Pet.l W L Pet. Sao. P. Holly" d L. A afiaaion 54 88 .621 gae'to ...An 41 .819 SI 89 .586iOakland 87 60 .425 .47 40 .540 Portland 85 53 .403 40 41 .528 Seattle ..82 55 .888 NATIONAL W L Pet.l W I Pet St. L.....43 24 .643 Brook' n 85 29 .547 li. T 86 2 .881 Pittab'k 80 83 .476 Chiearo 88 81 .551Boton .20 41 .828 Cincinn. 88 82 .5431 Phi lad. .17 42 .288 AMERICAN W L Pet.l W li Pet. N. T 47 15 .7581 Waah. ..80 85 .462 Philad. . 87 27 .678 Boston .26 83 .441 8t. L. . 85 81 .5741 Chicago 29 88 .406 acTel'd 30 86 .4551 Detroit ..25 41 .979 COAST BCOEES YESTEBDAT At Portland: Sacramento 7; Portland 5. At Loa Angela : Hollywood 7: Mit- aions 8. At San rraneiao: San Francisco 2; Lot Angelec 0. At Seattle: Seattle 6; Oakland 1. HATIONAL SCORES TE 8 TEED AT At New York; New York 11; Phila lphla S. Only one game scheduled In National leafne. AMBKICAN SCORES YESTERDAY At Boston: Boston 4-11; Washington 1-4. At Philadelphia: New York 7; Phil delnhla 4. No other games scheduled in Ameri can league. $675J 495.00 ' 42S.W 350.00 675.00 250.00 150.00 75. 280 South High St. Service Built 1.25 Value Co. TEL. 172 I4TH STREET IES WIN OVER LIW The 14th street baseball teams vanquished two baseball teams from the Lincoln grounds In games played yesterday afternoon and evening. In the afternoon the teams of the smaller boys played to a score of 49-19 'and at 6 o'clock the larger boys played 12-3 score game. Regarding the first game Louie Anderson said, "It was a dandy game till the end of the second inning; the 14th street fellows started hitting then and kept it up. but the first two innings were great." Boys are urged to get to work on their boats as the 'final con test will be held Saturday after noon at 1 o'clock. There will be a prize for the best sailboat and one for the best boat propelled by rubber band, steam or electri city. Any boy from any of the city playgrounds, or any other boy in the city is welcome to enter a boat in this contest. Several more boys have signed up for the horseshoe tournament. The tournament will begin at S o'clock this afternoon, regardless of whether all the boys are on hand or not. In the bop scotch contest yes terday afternoon Delma Poulin won first place and Rose Hoffert won second. Lucy Klein and Wil ma Godsey tied for third place and will settle the affair this af ternoon. Girls will also have swimming races this afternoon. Competition will be In the crawl. side, and free strokes. Adults are reminded that they are welcome to use . the pool in the evenings from 6 till 8. The pool is located at the south end of the high school athletic field or circus grounds. Max Langford, lifeguard, is in attendance at the pool every evening for these two hours. Children should not come In the evening, as they have five hours In the afternoon. FIRST KcT MATCH WIMBLEDON, England, June 27. (AP). Helen Wills, queen of American courts, brought some of her famed California sunshine to Winmbledon today and easily beat back the first challenge of her world singles title. Leading her American compa triots to nine victories in ten matches es the rain of yesterday gave way to bright sunshine. Miss HELEN WILLS WINS WHERE Plan to come to Salem and spend the day. No use to bring your lunch with you Just look over the offerings on this page and you will find what you want. You will con sider it well worth your while to come to Salem for this meal alone. Visit all the stores Look over the Bargains Let us worry about what you'll eat. Bargain Day This ad is good on your pie. BARGAIN LUNCHES EVERY DAY Restaurant offers the best food at the lowest prices in the City of Salem Our Percolated Coffee is as Good as Can Be Had 150 SOUTH LIBERTY Wills called In her skill and pow er to down Miss Elsie A. Gold sack, hard court champion of Eng land by the decisive margin of S-2, S-l. In the day's matches Mrs. Mol la Mallory, former American champion, alone of the Yankee contingent met defeat although Sidney Wood. New York junior, advanced at the expense of a For est Hills (New York) clubmate, Harry C. Brunie. Aside from Miss Wills' clean cut Ylctory, interest on the courts centered around the sterling per formance of Helen Jacobs, anoth er California product, who drop ped only two games in defeating Joan Ridley, one of England's fin est players. Only last week. Mire Ridley won the Queens' club sin gles title. - The scores were 6-0. 6-2. The downfall of "Mrs. Mallory began yesterday, when rain stop ped the match after Miss L. Bick erton had won the first set. was halted for a set today. But the American veteran could not cope with the youth and speed of the English girl, losing the deciding set and nvatch 6-3, 4-6, 6-4. SENATORS DROP TWO TO BOSTON BOSTON. June 27 ( AP) The Red Sox won both ends of a doubleheader from Washington to day .defeating the Senators in the second game 11 to 4. Boston won the first game 4 to 1. Score : R. Washington 1 Boston 4 Burke, Lisenbee and Ruffing and Hoffman. Second game: R Washington 4 Boston 11 H. E 4 0 10 Ruel; H 7 19 E Zachary. Lisenbee and Kenna; Morris and Berry. Yankees Take One PHILADELPHIA, June 27 (AP) The Yankees assaulted Robert Moses Grove for three runs in the first and four more In the 8th to win the opening skir mish of a three game series from the Athletics here today by 7 to 4. Score: R H E New York 7 10 2 Philadelphia 4 5 2 Johnson and Collins; Grove Orwoll and Cochrane. SEEK VEXOM ANTIDOTE TUCSON, Arii., June 27. (AP) An adequate antidote for the bite of a rattle snake will be sought this summer by Univer sity of Arizona biology students in. conjunction with an eastern chemical company. Rattlers and other reptiles will be brought to the laboratory for the final exper BARGAIN DAY Friday and Saturday, June 29-39 Restaurant for an a la mode ADD ANOTHER GENUINE AND Enjoyable To Your List- Family Dinner at 45c Ai?gn RUSSELL BROTHERS BOTH GOOD HEAVERS Krmlt Russell, pitcher for the Salem Senators, will have to loo to his laurels lest his younger brother Del mar should some day show him up." members of Com pany B declared on their return here yesterday. The younger Russell did some spectacular pitching t Camp Clat sop, showing all kiuds of "stuff." but was not equal to a full nine Inning game where it was neces sary to bear down all the time. In one game he struck out the first three men that faced him with 10 pitched ball. The Company B team won the 82nd brigade championship, bul was beaten for the camp cham-j pionshlp Tuesday by a picitea learn from the 249th Coast Artil lery by a 7 to 5 score. Compay B limited its players to members of the company, while Its opponents had the entire regiment to draw from. The Company B team defeated the headquarters company team from Portland 4 to 3, and the fast outfit from Baker 8 to 7. It also won from Company M, handing that unit the first defeat it had suffered in several years. Members of the Company B team were George, catcher; Ker mit ajtd Dolmar Kuwell, pitchers; Steelhammer, first base; Maison, shortstop; Sbepard, first base; Kitchen, third base: Walp. left field; Hill, center field; the Rus sell brothers alternating in right field. ELECTRICIANS GET E E POLYMIEUX. France. June 27. (AP) The old home of Andre Marie Ampere, one of France's electrical wizards, has been bought by Americans and given in to the keeping of the French So ciety of Electricians. Sosthenes Behn, president of the International Telephone com pany, and his brother Hernaud, were the donors who made possi ble the establishment of the home as a peramnent memorial to me man whose name Is used as a unit of measurement in electricity. In keeping:, with the. spirit of this event, there was celebrated simultaneously the inauguration of electrie service in this moun- AMPERE R SDENC D DIN-E Eat your lunch at the Home Restaurant 22a N. Commercial St. Near Court A special lunch, and dinner will be served for 50c The best meal in Salem at any price. All Women Cooks. Family Style Served from 11 and Friday Choice of Four Entrees " Two .Vegetables Soup, Desserts and Drinks. 40c VALLEY GRILL 156V4 South Commercial One half block south of Ladd & Bush Bank New First National Back Building Directory BARCMENT De Loae Boiala Perler Esparto for LaOiea and Geatlea TU&&I&U BATH. MASSAGE Office Telepaae S3 14 Keelteaca Telephone 2SS3 SECOND J" LOOK Coffey's That S.rlce Tel. 703. 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Tonight, weather permitting. the Carpenters and Postoffire iimi in i nt inautuiu Hue win . v a . i . . . i play. 1 a. m. to 2 p.m. Saturday 3