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. -- , - . 1 i PAGE EIGHT The OREGON STATESMAN. Saltm. Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Jane 24; 1931 Hobo Scrwm&r Bests Schmeling M Mm&Mng. Match at vamp .. . u u j - : : : - . . -I M SHOWS CHBIOjl HON Coast lad Shows up in Camp Broke, Gets Meal, Then Bores Into Maxie CONNEAUT LAKE PARK. Pa.. June 23 (AP) Max Schmeling 'ninnrcd Into his final week '. of tralninz today to receive the sur tirlB of his training campaign. The fireworks were exploded by Natle Brown, a San Francisco heavyweight, who landed In camp . fv dT aeo broke but with a 4trA to firht. They Bent Brown against the world's heavyweight champion m . hi first two rounds of boxing to day ' and be unpleasantly gave Schmeling the best workout the .champion has experienced in m is davs of boxing. - . As a reward for being fed at the scarring partners training ta bl. Brown tore into the cham pion like he was an ordinary four liundrtd - dollar Ilgnier ana . Bunched holes In Schmeting'a" d ... fensflL' He connected .with . left hooks to the head and body at he . pleased, while the plodding uer - man took time' Out . to study Brown's attack." For two rounds ther slurred like a couple of longshoremen, with Brown hav .lng the better of it. - GEAUGA LAKE, Ohio, June 23 (AP) If advance indications mean anything,- Bill Stribling will try to bounce the heavyweight . erown . from Max , Scbmeliag's brow In the Celeyeland municipal stadium July 3 1 with left nan punches of a half dozen varieties . The southern challenger powerful youth and bis straight right hand smash to the head is one of the deadliest wallops In the fisticuffing business. But so far In the training camp grind that Is almost at an end, although the 15 round duel on the shores of Lake Erie is still ten days away, Stribling has done almost all of his punching from the port side. - ' - , - fit the German bobs and weaves as he charges forward, his usual fighting style. Bill will meet him with left hooks to the bodjr and count on his right hand only for short. Jarring "sneak" punches when they are at close quarters. And If Schmeling fights in stand up- fashion on' the night of July 3, 'as he has been doing in his training camp, Stribling will try to set him back on his heels with straight lefts to the head. The .Georgian is a master with both of these punches. THE MASTODON TOPPLES BUNCH ' : ' ' ' s HITS MD WIN Two Each, Fourth, Seventh Enough for Victory in Tight Night Game COAST XXAGTTB vr. i pet. . . w. i. 4S 28 .6Sft Mission 88 39 .500 .547 SMttls 85 S .478 Bu y. .8 ST .518! 8e'to 84 43 .447 Lot A. 38 88 .500 OakL 27.45 .375 HollT. Port I' 4 41 84 PORTLAND, Ore.; June Z3. (AP) Oakland bunched Its hits In "the fourth and seventh Inning I for a 4-to-S victory over Portland herte tonight. i , Portland scored first. '. malting one run in the second, bnt the Acorns snagged Orwoll for two runs and the lead In the fourth when Blaekerby, Hufft and Moore crashed out , successive singles. Oakland 'scored two more in the seventh with Portland scoring one I in their half and another one In the eighth. ":- .; . n h e I Oakland ............. .4 . . 1 Portland ............. .8 0 i Daglia- and McMullen: jOrwoll and Woodalh,. . . . - NAVY CREW UPSETTING REGATTA DOPE J ; - I." .-. .,1 f . : . . . , C.Mt Ammm m-nA vrv mUCU OUC WU n iieojuuuu, UU(g uua "iW when this picture was snapped a moment after Prime Caimera, Ital ian giant. Ukrf flush en opnonent's Xar AlLT. utee and twenxy-iow - Field. Brooklyn. Thirty thousand Jammed the AU to see the two mastodons go T through their ponderous rites, but their show turned eut to be short ana anyuun- niwcci v - sum am g ever on awauctrir v ... CLEVELAND TAKES 10 Fl 10 jOOSTOil I Pet. AlCBSJOAJT ZJBAOtni VT. L. Pe. , i W. PhiUd. 44 15 .T46Beito S3 84 .883 Wh. 49 19 .64j Detroit .23 88 .371 M. Y. SI 25 .654 Si. h. . .368 C1ctL .3 30 .500iChicr 20 86S .357 lOfiTElEfl BREAKS ..--. j - .. . CLEVELAND. June 2S (AP) The Indians handed Boston a double shutout here today, win ning the first game! 13 to 0 and the second 10 to O.i Clint Brown pitched the first game for the In dians and Willis Hudlin hurled the second. : R HE Boston 000 000 000- 0 5 1 Cleve. 000 001 84z-13 19 1 Russell; Durham, Llsenbee, McLaughlin and Berry, Connolly; Brown and Sewell. ; . R II E Boston 00-000 000- 0 1 2 Cleve. ..003 052 00x-10 12. 2 Morris, Lisenbee, Durham and Ruel; Hudlin and My at t. ; - r " the old ball. But forva shaky 75 on nil first rouna ifurze migni have made the new ball look even better as he finished with better than perfect golf, 71-72-71. V . . 1 Burke's performance gave him the lead by five shots over Whir fy Cox of Brooklyn, who led at the end of the first two rounds with a 145. total and then ran into enough trouble to register a 74 and 75 for a grand collec tion of 294 shots.. Craig Wood of Buffalo landed third with a 299, while Densmore Shute of Cleveland, Henry Cuici of Bridgeport, Conn., and Frank Walsh of Chicago tied lor the fourth and last place on Walter Hagen's team with 302's. They will play 18 holes tomor row for the extra spot on me team, which, tackles the English team In the tournament match over Scioto Friday, and Satur day. ' , . :'. ' ' , Stare Draw Crowd - UQB ANQELES, June - 23.. -(AP) Before a crowd that -would do ; Justice to a .world's series game, the Hollywood Stars tonight defeated the Los Angeles baseball team. 7 to 2.; According to offi cials of Wrlgley field, the paid ad mission and women who were ad mitted tree, totaled 14,998. There were more than a thousand ethers In the . stands, too. It was esti mated. -. l WeUel.was given splendid sup- i port by. his team-mates bnt he really didn't need It, since he-held the Angels to three hits. Sher lock knocked a home run in the third, with one on base. R H E Hollywood ......... ...7 11 1 Los Angeles 2-3 0 Wetzel and Bassler; Ballon, Terkes and Schulte. - DEC! LOS ANGELES, June 23 (AP) Jesse Mortensen, former Vhlversity of Southern California all-around athlete, now competing for the Los Angeles Athletic club, today eclipsed the world's record b scoring 8193.29 points to win the decathlon meet of the South ern Pacific A. A. U. today. ' , The present recognized total of 8053.29 was set at the 1928 Olym pic games at- Amsterdam, by Paavo Yrjola of Finland; The former Trojan, football, basket ball -and track star also bettered ; Kenneth Doherty a American re cord of 7784.68 points and the best figures set this- season J by Jim Bausch of .the Kansas City Athletic club when he collected a 7841.22 total in the Kansas re lays. ; : ' , V The ten rents were run over a two day pe fefl in accepted A. A U. style. . Mortense "b narks: 100 met fe--11 seconds. 4 400 metero 51.1 seconds. 1500 meters 4- minutes 52.8 seconds. 110 yard high hurdles 15.fi seconds. Broad Jump 21 feet 3 Inches. Shot put 44.01 feet. High Jump 5.711 feet. Discus throw 130.42 feet. . Pole vault 11.155 feet. Javelin throw 198 feet. Tanks Do Likewise, CHICAGO. June ! 23 (AP) The New York Yankees defeated Chicago in both games of a dou ble header today, winning the sec ond 9 to 4, after a ! ninth Inning rally had brought an 8-0 victory in the first. Ben Chapman stole three bases in the second game bringing his total to 28. R II E N. T. 020 020 004-8 13 1 Chicago ..200 100 021-fi 7 2 Johnson, Weinert, Gomez and Perikns; Lyons, McKain, Cara way, Faber and Tate. j R II E N. .000 511 020-9 12 4 Chicago 0 20 000 011-4 1 Wells and Jorgens: Caraway, Moore. Faber and Grube. REDS MOVE UP AT BRAVES' EXPEHSE VATIONAI. XXAGTTE W. h. Pet. W. Ii. Pet. Bt. I .37 20 .649 Brookl. .29 SO .402 N. Y. 84 22 .607(PhilL 25 82 .439 Obi car a 33 24 .37tPlttib. 2 8 84 .404 Bottoa 30 30 .50OCimeuu 21 40 .844 Error Means Game SAN FRANCISCO. June 23. (AP) An error by Gene Robert son, Mission second baseman, in the eighth Inning allowed Oana to score and the San Francisco Seals defeated the Missions 2 to 1 here tonight. . , The game, otherwise, was a pitching duel between Sam Gib son, who won his 13th game of the season, and Herman Pillette. Both allowed nine bits. The" MIs ! sions made four errors while the Seals fielded perfectely. R H E Missions ............. .1 t San Francisco ....2 9 0 I H. Pillette and Brenxel; Gibson and Baldwin. Sacs Lose to Sods -- SEATTLE. June 23.(AP) A four-run splurge In the fourth Uuch to tho surprise of the thonsands el tpeeta f touted Cornell crew, which finished second, and .V. .C. m. V. XJ-Awt 4 I WuMnrtim RmMM. & tMk third DlaCO Xtk fousrhkeensie. and eemoletely unsettiiisr all the ad- I the samuaTintereollegiate regatta. Syracuse, Call; vanco dope, the Navy varsity shell is shown poking 1 forma, Pennsylvania. Columbia .Wisconsin its nose across the finish line to best the highly H. L T. finiahed in the order named. - - and Inning . of the , opening game against the Sacramento baseball club of the Pacific coast league added to a line counter In the fifth was sufficient to carry Seattle to a s-to-4 victory nere tonignc Sac ramento . out-hit the Indians 14 to 10, but failed to get them when they counted. - . K H E Sacramento 414 0 Seattle 5 10 1 Flynn. Chesterfield, Gllllck and Wirts; Page, Bonnelly and Cox. , i;. .... ' ' "... ' - Oldest Diamond Star Passes on At Seattle; 75 SEATTLE, June 23 (AP) Clarence Crause, better known as "Dad' Cross, 75, the oldest base ball player in the Pacific north west and perhaps the 1 United States, died here today. . "Dad'. Cross played with the old Metropolitan team in New York 50 years ago when that team was in the American asso ciation. He also played with Brooklyn. In 1890 he played third base tor Spokane in the old Northwestern league and later with Peoria, Ills. - Three play-offs, following a tie, were necessary to give F. E. Sour wine the 1931 Kansas pistol title over James Flanagan, Jr. Ren Smith of Springfield, Mo., brother of Horton Smith, Is golf professional at Hollywood Coun try club, Deal; N. J. llif lr. W. A. Simmon, cowmty cbairmam "of America XtegJoa Junior basebalL announced at Tuesday night's meeting of Capital Poet Ko 9 that the Salem team, winner of the county series, would be privi leged to go ahead Into the die- . trict series. ' . - That may not sound like news to some readers, but -It is, for there has been a lot of recrim ination since the final game, and the upshot is that Simmons finds that each of the four Legion posts involved used players who were too old, but did bo inno cently and in good faith, and in view , of that situation Salem is still champion but must purge its team of ineligible players before going further. ' . '-. In respect to the Salem play er who was ruled to be too old, the post athletio . committee had taken trouble to look up birth records, and finding none had relied upon sm affidavit from his parents. . , . It's said other districts are having the ' same . trouble this year, and if Junior baseball Is to survive some new methods of de termining . boys' ages . must- .De found. : If s said that even birth records ' have been ' known to be altered. ... The Legion Jmnlor rales do mot require teams to be certi fied s to age until after Jane SO, so that Dr. Simmons rul ing la strictly in order. - ' WOODBURN. June 23 Rex Bentley manager of the wpoa- burn American Legion junior baseball team, stated today that Woodburn would not claim roe county championship offered to It when all other teams were iounu to hare used ineligible players, it having been discovered that Woodburn also - inadvertently used an ineligible man. Report here Was that Investi gation had disclosed that Leonard Vlvette who pitched for Salem was born February 8, ' 19 13, which would make him more than a. Tear too old. and that Bradv of Sllrerton was also too old. Stayton was said to have had a player, who would be oyer 17 years of age June au.aiso. Until the local Junior baseball managed started checking , up. on his own team today, after being tentatively awarded the cham nionahin bv default, it was thought that all of the local play era were of the proper sge. , "TRADER' HORV ILI .in- LONDON, June 23 p)' Alfred Alorslus Horn. . better known as "Trader . Horn", was critically 111 In a Mercy home at Whitstable today. He was taken ill at the home of his daughter a few days ago. JEfJSEO BEATS WILES EASILY All Spectacular Stuff Left Out and two Falls: are Won In Succession All of the spectacular features of modern wrestling were consplc uous by their absence In Tuesday night's match at ths armory, and Thor Jensen of Olympla also upset tradition by taking two falls in rapid succession and allowing Chet Wiles, Portland's wrestling policeman, none,: ; Many fana were disappointed at the apparent ease with which Jen sen won the match, but that mirht.bave been due to the punt ishing figure four body scissors which he clampea on wues eanj in the bout and held for over five minutes. This is a wind-stopping hold and rendered Wiles almost bors de combat from then on. t ' Jensen took the first fall in 14 minutes with a body press and leg scissors, and grabbed the. second' one In brief .time of two minutes, putting oh tha same deadly flg-j are four.-.. ' - - -.. ; ' . . :.: Art O'RWlly and'Speed" weJt urn staged a bout. with more fire works but not. mucn more reai. action. . Weikum won It when O'Reilly was unable to come back for the third round acter railing victim to Weikum's whip ' wrist-i lock . in six and a half inlnutesj O'Reilly. had won the first fall lni 14 minutes with an arm jstretck FAVORITES (LI I'll t OH BRITISH CDUflTS LONDON. June 23 (AP) Is vading Americans, without an ex ception, swept -through, tneir matches in the Wimbledon tennis championships today. Leading the parade was rrana X. Shields, number one star of the United States Davis cup team, and Mrs. L. A. Harper, number . oao ranking woman player from, the other side. With Shields into the third round went George Lott, Jr., John Van Ryn and. Sidney B. Wood. Jr., while Helen Jacobs. Marjorle Sachs and Mrs, Van Ryn Joined Mrs.. Harper in the second, round of women's play. - - - Keeping step. with the Ameri can youngsters were Jean Borotra , and Christian Boussus of France, H. W. "Bunny Austin, and Fred Perry of Great Britain, and Jiro Satoh of , Japan. Cllll Anssem, Betty Nuthall and Ella de Alvarea won their first round matches easily. : . . t - i And Senators Too DETROIT. June 1 23 (AP) The Senators made a clean sweep of their double header with De troit today, taking the first game, 10 to 3 and the second 4 to 0. The second game went' ten- innings with George Uhle and Fred Mar berry as the opposing pitchers. Wash. Q10 008 01210 IS 0 Detroit ..000 002 100- 3 9 0 Burke, Hadley and Spencer: Hoyt, Herring, Sullivan and Hay-worth. R H B Wash. ..080 000 000 4-4 8 0 Detroit 000 000 000 0-0 8 1 Marberry, Fischer and Spen cer; Uhle and GrabowskL BOSTON, June 23 (AP) The Cincinnati Reds took both games of a double header from the Braves today : 2-0 and 84. The second game was called In the seventh inning on account of I rain, the score reverting to the sixth. " . RHE Cincinnati ..101 000 0002 7 0 Boston .-.. .000 000 000 0 311 Lucas and Sukeforth; Sherd el and Spohrer, Bool. RHE . . .200 033 8 11 0 .. .100 0214 10 0 Benton and Styles: Moss, Me Affee, Cantwell and Cronln, Bool. Cincinnati Boston . . , Chicago at New -York, rain, St. Louis at Philadelphia, rain. Pittsburgh at Brooklyn, rain. - 1 AS in Elks Defeat Legion Lads Score 7 to 3 The Elks baseball team, regain ing its normal strength following the return of several players from the "wars" at Camp Clatsop and; Fort Stevens, defeated the Ameri can Legion Junior team 7 to 3 on Sweetland field Tuesday night in a Commercial league game. The Elks scored one run in each Inning excepting the fourth when they got three. Hank Fabry on one occasion stole second when the bases were loaded but it turn ed out to be a good play as the man on third scored on the throw ,v that was expected to retire Fabry, and that runner got back to first safely. .. 1 Delmer Rnssell blanked the Juniors until "the fourth when they scored one run, then got two more in the fifth. Falst pitched the first three innings for the Juniors and Perrine the last two. The Elks chalked up seven hits. xne Juniors tour.-. . Tonight the Poatoffice and Kay Woolen Mills, leading teams In the Industrial league, will play to nignc. But A's Browns Split ST. LOUIS. June 23 (API The Athletics and:- the Browns split even in-a double header here today, the PblladelDhlans winning the first game 3 to 0, be- maa ierty Grove s two hit pitch ing and the SU Louisans Jthe nightcap, 5 to 4 in 12 innings. . ' ! ' R U E Phlla. A 010 000 002-3 12 0 St, Louis 000 000 000-0 2 1 Grove ' and Cochrane: Collins. Stiles and Young. Crouch. Philadelphia 000 010 102 000 St. Louis ..000 103 000 001 i . r n v. Philadelphia U 4 IK 0 St. Louis K io 3 Mahaffey. McDonald and Her- ing, Palmisano; Blaeholder, Rom mel and Ferrell, Cochrane. BALLOON BALL NOT BAD BURKE FIND 5 COLUMBUS. Ohio, June 23 (AP) Billy Burke; New York professional, .gave the new bal loon ball advocates something to knowledglng defeat TACOMA, June 23. (AP) The- Pacific northwest amateur golf ehampion, Eddie Hogan, Portland, was dethroned In the first round of match play here to day but only after one of the greatest uphill battles ever wit nessed in northwest tournaments. Playing in . another rip-roaring rain storm, George Shaw, veteran Los Angeles linksman, conquered the defending tltlis by the scant margin of one hoie after gaining a fire-bole lead at the 27th of their double-eighteen match. , Recovering ; some of the . good parts of the game he showed last year when, he defeated Johnny Robblns of Portland in th finals of the northwest tournament, Ho gan closed up the gap to within one hole at 35th. Going to the 36th dormle one, the Portland boy had by far the longest drive but his second brushed through a tree as ' he sought to cut the corner cf a dog leg fairway to reach the green and he was short in the rough to the left. Shaw was also short and both were on in threes with Ho gan the farthest away from the cup. The. defending champion's putt stymied shaw but the latter was a cinch to halve the hole in fire from three feet away and Hogan toM him. not to take the iron Die, ana shook Hands- ac- A bridge on the second fairway of the HlUerest golf course. Kan sas City, has been roped sjf r while shout about today i when he fin lshed his 72-hole- tour In 'the struggle for extra berths on the American Ryder cup team with a sizzling 2S, one over par for 'the distance. . i The score turned la despite an adverse wins and broOlnr hot weather, .clipped four strokes off the. 282 that the one and onlv Bobby J ones scored - to ' win the National open erown ' over the This was the only upset of the first day of 8 f -hole match play, the favorites in the other contests grinding out easy victories. . Topeka. In the Western league, baa three outfielders, two pitch ers and two catchers . whose names begin with "H," Amarillo's . 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