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Work Progressing RapMlg On High. "' ; ' ' . ... -" " : - f .r '- i - BRlDIRQiJ LOCATIDfl IliLUUHIIUl WILL BE CHANGED Stont iron posts standing In straight lines around the big pb- i.tiAnl a.thletie field on North 14th street, waiting to be tamped inin niar. tell the storr of the first tn tt taken in Salem to proTlde the schools, particularly the high school, wltn an aaequaie. enclosed field for holding outdoor 4r.trohtlaatlc BDOrtS. On these posts will be fastened & hTT woTcn wire, with three standards of barb wire at the top eo that access to the field except th rates, will be more difficult than It would be with I board enclosure. Aa soon as the fence is complet ed, the second step will be start ed; laying out and improving me nart of the field wmen win in elude the high school gridiron. 440 yard running track, and baseoaii illamnnil. The old grandstand will not be In nrnfwtr noaition for this ar rangement, but it is dilapidated and practically worthless anyway. The roof is practically gone, and the seats rickety. For the coming football season, temporary bleachers will be in stalled, and arrangements will be made for building a grandstand later. It is expected that the high school, with its own enclosed field, will be able to make a profit on athletics in the future and be able to finance improvements gradual ly. - At the north end of the en closure will be a separate field for the Parrlsh Junior high. Plans for the field aleo Include Install ing two tennis courts in the grove at the southeast corner, and later two more on the west side of the field, beyond the running track. The first courts will be principal ly for use in connection with the playground. Another plan is to build, at rone future date, a dam la Mill creek beside the field, so that a swimmlnc dooI adequate for use of grown people' as well as the children patronizing the play ground will be provided. Physical Director Louis Ander son of the high school, who Is now In charge of this playground, WESTERN OPEN TO BE FREE-FOR-ALL I - - . : Walter Hagen's decision to enter the Canadian open. July 25- n D I n a t Jnf.illlii Via nTiilarn Dniin rnwn lk B m A date leaves he field in tie latter event open to American stars of various rank. Including Chick Evans (Inset), the only amateur to watching progress on the improve ments with a great deal of satls- the faction, as it was he who present d the reanest to the school board that the preliminary steps II n pro viding an enclosed neia f ne n nanced temporarily by the district The athletic nrorram lof the ishigh school has always beenhamp- ( SALEM) EFFECTIVE JULY 22, 1928 Oregon Stages System Red Top Coaches Leave Salem daily for Portland, 4:10 a, m., 7:00, 7:p0, hourly on the hour 9:00 a. m. to 7:00 p. m., trfen 9:00,11:55 p.m. Silverton 9:00 a. m., 3:00, 7:00 p. m. Independence and Monmouth 7:30, 9:10 a. m., 12:10, 3:10, 5:10 p. m. also 8:00 p. m. Sundays dfid Holidays. Dallas 9:10, 11:10 a. m., 1:10, 4:05, 5:50 p. m. Falls City 9:10 a. m., 1:10, 5:50 p. m. McMinnville, Newberjr, Forest Grove and Hillsboro 9 :10 a. m., 1 :10, 4 :05, 5 :50p. m. Jillamook and Beach Points 9:10 a. m., 1 :10, 5:50 p.! Stage Depot, Senator Hotel PHONE 696 m. rut hv rh lack of an enclosure which would make it financially possible to hold high school games on the high school grounds, and it is expected that the present pro gram will be successful in over comlnsr the handicap. The main entrance to the field will be at the north end. where new street has been ooened up, the old nlatted street which cut off part, of the fiefd having been va cated. BEB IB E TO MB li OAKLAND. Cal., Joly 19. (AP) Timely hitting by Meusel. Read and Larr cave Oakland a third successive victory over Port land today by a 7-3 score. 8c re: R H E Portland , 10 2 Oakland 7 10 1 Terkes and Ainsmltb; Dumo- vich and Reed. Bells Whip Ange Is SAN FRANCISCO. July 19. (AP) Ernie Nevers, Mission twirler, held Los Angeles to eight hits today and the San Francisco team bunched Its own to defeat the southerners 13 to 4. Two cir cuit blows by Nevers and one by Swanaon. Mission infielder, helped bury the Angels under a landslide. Score: R HE Los Angeles 4 8 1 Missions -..13 21 1 Bar foot. Wright. Weathersby, Chesley and Warren; Nevers and Baldwin, Sypher. ..Indians Going Down SACRAMENTO. Calif., July 19. - (AP) Sacramento hitters drove out 18 hits off three Seattle pitchers here today and took their third straight game from the In dians 13 to 2. Vinci toiled easily for the winners, and was beaten out of a shutout by Pitcher Nance's home run. Score: R H E Seattle 2 9 0 Sacramento 13 18 2 Graham. House, Nance and Bor reanl, Cox; Vinci and Severeid. ARMOUR RETAINS LEAD IN TOURNEY WESTFIELD. N. J., July 19. (AP) Eight under par for the first thirty-six holes. Tommy Ar mour of the congressional coun try club, Washington, D. C, re tained the lead by scoring a 70 at the Shackamaxson country club today in the second round of the metropolitan open golf champion ship. For the two days play Ar mour totaled 136. Leo Diegel 138 and Bill Mehlhorn 139. Diegel, whose 67 was one shot behind Armour yesterday, had a 71 today. Mehlhorn moved up to third place by scoring the day's low round 67. Johnny Farrell, national open champion, returned a 68 today, his total of 143 putting him in fourth place. The final thirty-six holes for the title, now held by Farrel, will be played tomorrow. Stars Whip Seals LOS ANGELES. July 19. (AP) Gordon Rhodes had the best of a pitching duel with Wal ter Mails and the Hollywood Stars made it three straight over the San Francisco Seals by taking to day s game 4 to 2. Score: R H E San Francisco . 2 6 0 Hollywood 4 6 1 Mails and Sprinz; Rhodes and Bassler. BROOKLYN HALTS PITTSBUTRGH 3-0 Old Feud Revived When -Tilden Put Off Net Team PARIS. July 19. (AP). -The American tennis house that Big Bill Tilden built for 1928. just reaching the upper stories.- sud denly crashed to the ground today when the architect was deposed. Charged with violation of the amateur rule of the United States Lawn Tennis association through the writing of newspaper articles "covering" the English champion ships at Wimbledon, Tilden was removed from the American Da vis cup forces today on the eve of the inter-zone finals with Italy, by President Samuel H. Collom, of the association. And so. like a pasteboard struc ture, tumbled the hopes and or ganization Big Bill had bnilded with painstaking care for the re capture from France of the his toric trophy, lost last year in a bitter series at Germantown, Pa. For the first time in Davis cup history of the past nine years Tilden's famous smashes and ed ucated slice will be missing from the competition. One sensation stumbled over another throughout the course of a day that rocked European and! American tennis circles alike. i Coupled with the announcement lhat the lanky American, in whose fiery racquet rested more than half of his country'shope of fin al victory, had been booted from the sauad came the declaration of Joseph W. Wear, of Philadelphia, chairman of the American Davis cup committee, that he would re sign his office effective upon- the team's return to the United States. French tennis officials, at first inclined to keep their bands off the entire matter, drafted a cable to the United States Lawn Tennis association late this evening ask ing that Tilden be permitted to compete against Italy, and then, principally through the soothing advices of Big Bill himself, a threatened strike of the remain der of the American Davis cup forces was averted. George Lott, the young Chica goan originally slated for singles play with Tilden but now nomin ated only for the doubles play UMBO WW I f0g TWO MORE HDNIEHS with John Hennessey, of Indiana polis, led the revolt that was halt ed only when Tilden took him aside and said: Personalities do not count NEW YORK, July 19. (AP). Babe Ruth's 37th and 38th tnlhnma runs, each coming with this affair. Let's go to work tolEarle Combs on base, gave tne try to win the Davis cup 6ac Yankees anotner victory over me personal i white Sox nere loaay. in is time hv core of .6 ta . I ne tmov a first.. We will matters later on settle Thus it was settled that Ameri-J J6th nosed out the visitors yes- ca, with Big Bill acting as an an official coach from the sidelines. I series. 9 to 8 will flgnt tnrougn me imei uuuc score: fin.i with itair nt ferine Francis chimro T. Hunter and Hennessey In theUjew York singles with Hennessey and Lott fm th doubles. But tne genera opinion is that their chances have been wrecked. Never in victory or defeat on a Thnmii and Berg: Mand Grabowskl. Rl Sox' Win 3-2 Tf-c-rfI Tnlv 19 ( AP) Ed European tennis courts has Tilden Morris won his 13th victory of the . . V A 1 . . i .w D rA Gat r ranee ur I season toaay wmn mo " defeated Cleveiana, a io , in been as ponular in is tonight. Baron de Morpurgo ace of the Italian Davis cup innings forces who almost single handed has carried his country Into Inter-zone finals, made no pre tense at biding his feelings. He waa thn first to rush to Tilden whon thn decteion eliminating the u0Vnff American irgoi mo vlmJ wo an nounced and promptly ne cnai- lenged Big Bill to a "friendly Set." 'Let's have one set anyhow. he pleaded. ' Sqwa laatuf manv Vfar . w - J I CUUB Ul strangely enough we never have rjTai8 2 to mei on me couris. ino I nlriKS Sinr' K. li. Cj. the Cleveland , 2 8 2 Boston a Ai (11 innings). Shaute and Sewell; Morris and Athletics Clinch Tlace PHILADELPHIA, July 19 (AP). Athletics repelled the j i k c T iilo nrnvni on Our tennis careers gecond place today by taking both "fcends ot a aouoicneiuei uum 0 and 4 to 3, li m- our disputing a match this yearst t,ouis no lot 'a nlav an unofficial set. Right then and there it was ar ranged and the tall American, who was to have faced the Italian nobleman in the principal singles engagement tomorrow, hastened with de Mornurso to the stadium for perhaps the most momentous match either ever has played. Both men were tremendously nervous but the ease with which Tilden disposed of the Italian ace In three., straight sets sent snua ders through the Americans pres ent and murmurs of "what might have been." Big Bill trimmed the Baron 6-4 in the first set and at the Italian's insistence that they make it a "regular matcn" weni ahead to swamp him 6-0, and 6-1 PhilnrJolnhia ...... Gray and Schang; Walberg and Cochrane. Second game: R- St. Louis 3 Philadelphia (11 innings). Blaeholder and Manion; Lnell and Fox. Lawn Tennis Explains Association . Tilden Action PITTSBURGH. July 19. (AP) -Brooklyn broke Pittsburgh's winning streak by defeating thej Pirates here today, 3 to 0. Score: R. H. E. Brooklyn 3 10 2 Pittsburgh 0 9 0 McWeeny and Deberry; Fussell and Hargreaves. President Coolidgp will attend services during his vacation con ducted by a blind preacher, which seems to offer excellent oppor tunity for 40 winks now and then. Norfolk Ledger-Dispatch. . Remember the Larmer Transfer and Storage has mov ing vans and good supply of blankets and pads for furni ture handlers. ; ; 1 y'i-?: r-.-.;-.. .. ' - Have just completed our newj three story concrete warehouse and are now well prepared to handle best of furniture and pianos. : I Fuel Oil In Bulk - Any quantity delivered in your Tank 2 SeeUsBefofeYouWrer . When ready call 930 and let us serve you. nil i! f . rr v. SAtEMOREGON Braves Take Opener CINCINNATI, July 19. (AP). -The Boston Braves battered four Cincinnati pitchers for 13 blows to beat the Redlegs 9 to 4 in the first game of the series to day. Score: R. II. E. Boston 9 13 3 Cincinnati 4 8 1 Greenfield. Delaney and Tay lor: Jablonowski, Edwards. Beck- man and Hargrave, Sukeforth. Cards Win ST. LOUIS. July 19. (AP). The St. Louis Cardinals won the opening game from Philadelphia here today 6 to 5. Hafey, Har per and Hurst each made their twelfth home runs. Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 5 10 0 St. Louis 6 9 0 Benge, McGraw and Lerian; Sherdel, Johnson and Smith. ELIZABETH RYAN WINS 3 MATCHES DUSSELDORF. Germany, July 19. (AP) Elizabeth Ryan, vet eran Californian won three match es today as the international ten nis tournament got under way. In the women's singles. Miss Ryan defeated Fran Lang 6-1. 6-2. Paired with Ronald Boyd of Ar gentina, she advanced in the mixed doubles by eliminating Frau Bergarts and Menzel, 6-3, 6-3, and the women's doubles she and Cecilie Aussem of Germany, defeated Frau Wlllroth and Frau Krush, 6-0, 6-0. V. Prosperity! The United States produces more than two-thirds of the world's oil, and three-fourths of the world's oil scan da ls. Multnomah Press. NEW YORK. July 19. (AP) A 2,000 word statement Irom tne United States Lawn Tennis asso ciation today in explanation of its action in dropping William T. Til den from the Davis cup team fail ed to offer any loophole by which Big Bill could possibly be rein stated in time for play in the cru cial battles abroad. While varying degrees ot in credulity, amazement and dismay swept over the tennis world, the association stood pat, taking the position that Tilden apparently wilfullv.violated its amateur play er-writing rule which he himself helped to frame and had promised in writing to obey. - Not even at the cabled request of the French Tennis Federation will the U. S. L. T. A. recede from this position, it was announced un officially, although the association was prepared to give such a re quest due and courteous consider ation. The statement pointed out that this was not the first time Tilden had been charged with .violating the section of the amateur rule which forbids "writing for pay or a consideration current newspaper articles covering a tournament or match in which he is a competitor." In August 1925. six months af ter the rule was made with Til den's own assistance, the state ment said, he was accused of vio lating it and the association agreed to impose no penalty ""only after he had promised not to write current articles "to appear earlier than the third day following the completion of the event." The writing on which the pres ent charges against Tilden are based, the statement revealed. were first brought to the atten tion of the U. S. L. T. A. by Dr. Sumner Hardy of San Francisco, president of the California asso ciation. It was Dr. Harriv who at the beginning of the American zone uavis cup campaign, de nounced the system of tryouts for the team under Tilden's captain cy as tending to "make bums out of tennis players." Upon seeing an article in the San Francisco Chronicle of July 3. which bore Tilden's signature and the heading: "Tilden reviews first week's play on the tennis courts at Wim bledon," Dr. Hardy sent this tele gram to Holcombe Ward of New York, president of the amateur rule committee of the U. S. L. T A. "No matter how much we may admire Big Bill's courage and nerve, I believe he does the game more harm than good. Bill tries to keep just within the law. Now he apparently defies the amateur committee. Am sending you air mall today current article on Wimbledon published July 3 San Francisco Chronicle, under his name. "If amateur rule is meant to be enforced why not have the courage of our convictions and bar him at once from Davis cup and all tour nament play?" LIONS LINE UP SPEEDY OUTFIT Ball tossers representing the In dependence Lions club axe in for a tough time when they meet the Salem Lions at Rickreall Park this evening, judging from the ag gregation of stars that the local roaring fraternity has lined up. The positions and batting order haven't been announced definite ly, but the following Salem Lions will probably constitute the team: Morley, Olson, Zosel. Kletzing. Paulson, Oh ling, Reynolds; Wil- II Are you Going Away? If You Are Let THE STATESMAN Follow You . When you leave the city for a vacation or on a busi ness trip, why not have The Statesman sent to you while away? The Statesman will be like a letter from home; it will keep you posted about affairs in Salem and 7 the Willamette Valley generally. A-Xhe subscription rate is 60c a month and you may pay in advance or on your return. . Telephone 583 or mail a post card and transfer will be 'made promptly -Address V " " r r' - '- . - The Oregon Statesman 215 South Commercial Street - -' . ; Salem, Oregon . , . Hams and Fitzgerald. In addition to the ball game, an inter-club horseshoe pitching contest is planned. The Lions and their families from Salem and Independence' will gather at Rickreall Park at 4:30 o'clock this afternoon for the Joint picnic. The dinner will be served at :30. KID ROY ONLY AWARDED DRAW MONTREAL, July 19. (AP) "Kid" Roy. of Montreal. featherweight champion "of Cana da, barely retained his title last Bight by holding Vie Foley of Vancouver to a draw In a nip-and-tuck ten round battle. Foley gave a better boxing display but Roy made up the difference by his aggressiveness. How many men who long for the good old days could eat through six inches ot moustache? rButler Eagle. - KILL HILL', i it ' Uii fig 7 I terday in, the first game of the R. H. E. .4 13 .1 .6 8 2 Pennock r First game: R. .0 .2 H. 2 4 H. 7 7 Rom- Ponbleheader 'Split WASHINGTON. July 19 (AP) Wnahlnrton and Detroit divided a doubleheader here today, the Tigers taking the first game 9 to 3 and the Senators tne secona, t to 2. First game: Detroit Washintgon ......... Carroll and Woodall; Rntwn Ru rke and Ruel Second game: R- H. E. Detroit 2 8 0 Washington ....7 12 0 Stoner and Hargrave; oasion and Kenna. R. H. E. .9 12 2 .3 8 3 Zachary. PUN MORE MEETS FOR OLYMPIC MEN y ALAN J. GOULD Associated Press Spors Editor PLYMOUTH. England. July 19. (AP) The stamp of official approval was placed on two Inter national meets for members of the American Olympic track and field team as the President Roosevelt, bearing the American squad, reached European land for the first time at Plymouth today. One of the meets will be against a team representing the' British Empire at Stamford Bridge, and the other against a German team at Cologne, both meets will take place after the conclusion of the Olympic games. A squad of about 40 men prob ably will be selected to compete against the British. Fourteen events will be on the program, including five relays, one team race and eight individual compe titions. The Germans are espec ially eager to have the American sprinters appear against their stars, Koernig and Houben. prob ably eight or nine of the American squad will compete in the meet at Cologne. The official entry list for the American team was completed to day with the addition of William Agee, soldier marathon runner from Baltimore, to the list of en tries for the 10,000 meter event. The entry of Agee brings the en tries for the 10.000 meters up to the limit of four and presents a solid front for the American team In all events. 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Dai n Talap'aoao 11S loci UNO S U "St COMING AUGUST 13 One of the'biggest baseball at tractions ever billed in Salem w.i--announed yesterday by Manaj . r Leo Edwards of the Senators l. :i he stated that a contract had Ik . n closed with the University of linois team for a game here M aay. August, 13. it win be pun at 5:45 o'clock in the evening accommodate a maximum mum of fans. ' I The University of Illinois t. ., one of the fastest in the nii.l wtst, will come through Salei,, its way to the orient, sailing f:. San Francisco late in August. Edwards also signed oti T) .. day a contract with the .leti: team for a game August li at M ford, In connection with the :' American Legion convention. Much interest is being rnaniN -t-ed In the benefit dance for !. Senators which has been arran-il for next Tuesday. July 24. at : Mellow Moon. Fans who sini.i thize with he Senator! in Wif.r efforts to uphold Salem's up 1'. tion as a baseball town despiti poor , gate receipts this year. .. expected to patronize tliis ! i in great numbers. I FIGHTS PUT OFF DUE TO SHOWER NHH6 NEW MENTOR STUFF UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. En gent. July 19. (Special.) One is never too wise to learn, believes William J. Reinbart. -head base ball and basketball coach, and head freshman football coach. Hence. William i. packed his grips nd departed for Superior, Wis consin, where he la entered In the coaching school of the Wisconsin normal. Among the tutors there are William Roper, football coach at Princeton; Doe William Spear, football coach at Minnesota; How ard Jones, football coach at South ern California; A. McDermott, bas ketball coach of University of Oklahoma., and Archie Hahn, track coach, at Michigan. y Rcinhart Is probably the most - : 1 succewrui 01 an yonng coacnes in PROOF RESTS WITH PATIENTS tl,,n',?a8t fTfn&laC9 I r-T-T 11-if r.mri Mil ilitiism sf nitn Jr f took charge of basketball here r riinodfcm rFRgBQOK live years ago. uregon naa won ff aFttlJmd.(iomiiml.'ltl two northern conference cham mOm aajrilcllwSod oi traat. pionshlps. was rnnner. np on two KfA r. f ?: otner occasions and finished third !i5sV iilrWjtfTTENNAssURANCK hi flr8t Tear here. .The baseball to eliminate piles Ok team won tne nortnem conference FEB RtrvN Dtu. t title last BBrtnr . hv ri.f..tln. Washington State college In s three game series. As for football. the 1927 freshman team trounced DETROIT. July 1!.- Ai' The Johnny Hlsko-Johiiiiy Scjuii- heavyweight boxing march, si h-. uled for tonight, was jio-rjii- i late today until Friday nihr. A downpour of rain made neees-; ,v the postponement of the bo. if which was jto have Ween an oiit-ft door show. Jack Dempsey an-" nounced he will remain in Detroit tn rofr ih hont although he had made Arrangements to lenro tomorrow. CHICAGO, Jnly 19. AP The ten round fight between J"1 Medill and Mike Dundee, sclif-.l-nled for tonight, was postponed until tomorrow night when rain started falling this .afternoon. In accordance with our custom of printing on every rainy day. some trade occurence, we an-j nonnce that John Blaha of Orot ha. Neb., is a saxaphone player. Rosebnrg News-Review. r ; ! . I Baseball Standings 1 Hally'd Sac ' to Ia A. San F. St. V. S. Y. -Chicaco Cinrioa. ACiriO COAST W IJ Prt r 14 4 .S24 Miction 15 4 .722 Oak'.an4 .50O!8anl .4441 Port Ian 4 "t ii vr i. i T 11 -. 13 r. ' KATIOXAX. 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