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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1932)
PAGE EIGHT The OREGON STATESMAN, Saleihv Ofegort, Tuesday Mooing, Jurfe 7, 1932 Mi Henry UTAH FEUD IS REVIVED HERE Strong, Tough Matman who Has Beaten Provo King Twice Tries Again Cranium-cracking Art Smerts bf Ea.lt Lake Ctty, Utah will square off with Henry Jones of ProTO, Utah tonight at the armory in what promises to be one of the best matched bouts of the wres tling season. Henry - Jones has held the world's : welterweight wrestling championship belt in the past and bis performances here during the past few years hare been enough to convince any skeptic that he Is as good as any welterweight who has ever stepped into the local Ting. Art Smerts' has never held any -world's championship belts, but he has defeated Jones on two oc casions and believes that he can do it again. Plant scoured the country for s grappler who had won from Henry Jones and finally found one In Jones' back yard, or per haps It is better to say that Jones lives In Smerts' back yard because Salt Lake City is of more prom inence than Provo. It was in Utah that the two first met and now they are carry ing their feud out here. In their last meeting there Smertz won the championship of the inter-mountain district. From all reports he wrestles on the same style as does Jones, but is slightly heavier and strong er. He employs wristlocks and arm bars to perfection and also uses his legs to good advantage, frequently applying head and body scissors. In the preliminary bout Pete Axman, curly haired matman from Walla Walla, will return in a match with Roughneck Edwards of Salt Lake City. Roughneck, Ed wards has apparently earned his monicker, but they don't come too tough for Pete Axman and a great preliminary bout is expected. Ed wards comes from a gpod wres tling section and is a veteran ring man. Time in County Jail Won't Gut Term in Prison The time spent by prisoners in a county Jail prior to their sen tence to the state penitentiary can not be deducted from their sentence. Attorney General Van Winkle held in an opinion hand ed down Monday. The- opinion was requested by Dan Kellehar, state parole officer. The only authority which the prison officers have to release the prisoner is the expiration of his term, after giving him ttiejgood time allowances provided for in the statute, or parole or pardon by the governor, the attorney general stated. Any consideration of time spent in the county jail must be given at the time of the sentence by the circuit court, Van Winkle con cluded. 140 Enroll For Vacation Bible School Opening The daily vacation Bible school of Jason Lee church opened its three weeks session Monday with an Initial enrollment of 140 pu pils, of which 65 were in the Jun ior age group, 45 primary age and 30 kindergarten. The teach ers of the three groups are Mrs. E. W. Cole, Mrs. Frank Grant and Mrs. Fred Lang. They are assisted by a score of helpers in the pro gram of Bible study, worship, drama, recreation and handwork. The school is open to all chil dren of the community from the ages of 4 to 12, and enrollment will be open- during the first week, after which no new pupils will be received. Rev. Hugh B. Fouke, Jr., is the principal of the school, which opens dally at 9 a.m. and closes at noon. W. Uy Harmonists Please Chamber Luncheon Crowd If the applause which Willam ette University's , Philharmonic choir received at the chamber of commerce luncheon yesterday Is Indicative, that group will have an extra-satisfied feeling when it completes its summer tour through Washington, Idaho and Montana. The choir is composed of 20 Willamette students, and is di rected by Professor Cameron Mar shall of the university school of music. The program closed with a sample" .kit given by two stu fenu, of the Barbara Barnes cnool of professional dmin wtising th revue to be given Greater Oregon Meetings Ended Until Next Fall The meeting of the Women's - Greater Oregon association sched uled ;for thtf chamber of com merce for Monday night, June U, will not be held, announces Mrs. W. Carlton Smith, president. Mrs. Smith announce j no far ther meeting will be held until early fall, when, the association will take up active -work In con tinuing the progressive policies which, hare characterised the la bors of the past year. 4 HE'LL HAVE LOTS OF FRIENDS in.'"'. X,- There are a good many fans who would like to see Henry Jones top pled, and they will all be at the armory tonight to see If Art Smertz, who appears above, and who also hails from Utah, la the lad who can turn the trick. DOLLAR m GETS IN BERRY FIELDS WOODBURN, June 6. A local farmer, a new comer in the district, profited considerably, it is generally stated, by an auto mobile accident which occured on the highway by his farm late Sun day, when a car owned by Robert Dollar, Jr., San Franeisco ship ping millioaire. Dollar, his wife, his secretary. H. E. Thompson and two others were traveling to San Francisco in two automomlles after attend ing the funeral at Vancouver, B. C, of Melville Dollar, brother of Robert Dollar. The second Dol lar car, driven by Thompson, skid ded on the wet pavement when third car, between the two, slowed without signalling. The skidding car rolled over twice and landed through the fence and into a patch of strawberles on the newcomer's place. Dollar, when he came back to investi gate, gate the farmer a sub stantial sum, those who were about say, which sum leads them to declare the farmer made high above market figures on his strawberles. Thompson was hurt but little. Dollar stopped in Salem to con fer with state police who investi gated the accident. Flag is Gift to Mrs. Fulkerson Mrs. Mary L. Fulkerson. coun ty superintendent of schools, was greatly pleased yesterday by the present of an Oregon state flag, eiven her by pupils of the Fair- view school. Mrs. Grace Sehon is teacher. The flag was made from a nattern furnished in the Ore- rnn Blue dook. ruDiia iu Brhrtol did the work, and includ ed on the flag a fringe of gold cord. A tassel to be used in hang ing the flag accompanied the gift. Mr. Fulkerson will mourn me flag In her office. o :-r 9 VERSATILE. , r J A By virtue of three victories out of U ten events and a tie for first in University- of Pennsylvania won the Decathlon Title in the Penn Re Jays at Philadelphia, Pa. Monger J hown w,th the Decathlon Cup. J. C. flail of Florida, won second place in the 10-event feature. O O S' -v i ...... w J. CQJDW CONSENTS CURTIS, Out at the Legion Junior game Sunday we sat near some Silverton fans and learned that Silverton really had a better team than Woodburn, only the breaks went the wrong way Sat urday in the opening game. No kidding, it might very weU be. Silverton has a nice, smooth working Infield and a pretty good hitting club, even if Ser dota did mow a few of them down. He's done that to older fellows. O However, we haven't a doubt that those same people went home fully convinced that their team was also better than Salem's and once again we won't quarrel with them. It may be. But Silver- ton didn't deserve to win Sun day's game, either on the basis of "breaks" or earned runs, or giv ing It the benefit of both those considerations. Silverton didn't earn any runs off Serdotz, but "breaks" perhaps robbed it of two. How ever, the breaks were all the other way later on, as they have a habit of being. There's one play that has to be explained, because we don't be lieve many fans got the idea. Sal strom of Salem sacrificed, was thrown out at first without a chance of making it, but the um pire waved blm to take the base. That was because the Silverton catcher had run into Salstrom and pushed him with his hands, and it was the only possible; ruling even though he wouldn't have been safe even though there had been no Interference. We heard some fans saying the junior ball wasn't so high class this year. Before you say that, stop and consider that the last junior ball yon saw was played by all-star county teams, not local teams perhaps only one-fourth as strong. With three strong: teams in the conn ty, high class team will result ! from the consolidation after the county race Is decided. Twilight League Heads Will Meet Managers of teams in the twi light baseball league will meet at the Y. M. C. A. at 8 o'clock to morrow night to discuss a rear rangement of the schedule. Bad weather has held up most of the games. Millinery Shop In New Location Mrs. Laura E. Ramsden has not gone out of the millinery' bus iness, as was erroneously stated in The Statesman Sunday. She has moved hr stock of hats from the Senator hotel building to Lor- ayne's Dress shop, 441 Court, and is conducting business there as usual. Tills will be her perman ent location, Mrs. Ramsden says. STJBLiMrrr beaten -... -... ., . SUBLIMITY, June Tie Sub limity atid-Willamette Valley team was defeated by Stayton Sunday on the Sublimity field in an eight inning gime, cut short due to the rain, the score being 3 to lt balem, Woodburn Serdotz and Mates Humble Silverton 9-5; North End Boys Trounce Stayton 31-4 . Salem and Woodburn American Legion Junior baseball teams em erged on top after the first skir mish in the county series, each with two games won and none lost. One of these teams will have fallen by next Sunday night, as they meet on Ollnger field that af ternoon. Timely hitting, the top-grade Job of hurling turned In by Nick Serdotx and yes, a few breaks gave Salem a t-to-S victory over the capable 811verton team here Sunday afternoon. The aforemen tioned breaks were not all one way, however, and discounting them, Salem would still have won about 4. to' X. Serdots' choice assortment of fast ones and sinkers set down 11 of the Silverton boys on strikes and he allowed no earned runs. However, the fact that one hard hit drive landed In the pit of Milo Harris stomach Instead of some where else, in the first Inning, probably robbed Silverton of a couple of earned runs. On that occasion the bases had been loaded by two hits and a hit batsman, and Scott smaeked a terrific one that Harris caught in the bread-basket with his arms folded over it. Neither he nor the base-runner on third knew for a .moment where the ball was, but Harris recovered first and trotted to the bag for an unassisted dou ble play, retiring the side. Salem Scores Six In First 8 Innings Fluke, Silverton pitcher, allow ed no hits for four innings straight after the third, but in the first he pitched about 10 balls be fore getting two over the plate and the first two men walked. This combined with a hit and an error let in two runs. Salem had a big inning in the third when Steinke, Elliott and Serdots singled, Salstrom was safe when the catcher interfered on his sacrifice, and Nicholson doubled, for a total of four runs, a long fly by Hart to center field also contributing. Silverton didn't score until the sixth when Gorbet was safe on on error and Scott tripled to bring the catcher in. Four more, all un earned, came in the seventh. With two on an two down, an error filled the bases and hits by As boe and Gorbet brought in the runs. With but a one-run lead, it looked bad for Salem, but a walk, an error and hits by Nicholson and Miller brought in three more runs in the eighth. Serdotz fanned three men In succession In the eighth and stopped the visitors af ter Fluke had gotten around to third in the ninth. The score: Silverton AB R H PO A R Marson, s . . 5 0 0 2 4 1 Pettyjohn, 3.511180 Asboe, m...5 1 8 2 1 0 Gorbet, c . . . 8 1 1 8 2 1 Scott, 1 4 0 1 9 0 0 Kuenzi, 1 ... 2 0 0 0 0 McKinley, 1 . 2 0 0 2 0 0 Coomler, r . . 4 0 1 0 0 0 Hanney, 2 .. 2 0 0 8 2 0 Schwab, 2 .. 1 1 0 1 1 1 Fluke, p. ..4 1 2 0 0 0 Totals 37 6 9 24 IS 3 Salem AB R H PO A E Salstrom, s.. 2 2 0 0 8 0 Delaney, 1 . . 3 0 0 7 1 0 Elliott, 1 .... 8 8 1 1 0 0 Nicholson, m. 4 2 2 1 0 0 Hart, c 4 1 114 0 0 Serdotz, p.. 401080 Miller, 2 ... 4 0 1 8 1 8 Harris, 3 ... 2 0 0 2 1 1 Steinke, r .. 3 1 1 0 0 Totals 29 9 7 37 11 4 Silverton ...000 001 40 0 5 Salem .2 04 000 03 z 9 Stolen bases, Gorbet, Nicholson. Sacrifice hit, Salstrom. Bases on balls, off Fluke 4, Serdotx 1. Struck out, by Fluke 4, Serdots 1. Hit batsman, Gorbet by Serdots. Two-base hit, Nicholson. Three base hit, Scott. Double plays, Har ris unassisted, Marson to Hanney to Scott Wild pitch, Serdotz. Earned runs, Salem 4, Silverton 0. Umpires, Mason and Eastman. Zimmerman Wins Over Moe, Gets Chance in Open PORTLAND, Ore., June (AP) Eldred Zimmerman, Co lumbia country elub professional, will represent the Pacific north west district in the national open golf championship at Flushing, N. Y., this month. Zimmerman finished four strokes ahead of Don Moe In the 38-bole qualifying trial here to day, scoring 148, er 4 over par. They were the only two players to file for the open from this section. Kitball Circuit Seeks One Team Kitball league team managers are still looking for a squad to take the place of the Postofflce team which recently withdrew. Last night, scheduled for a game between the Postal batsmen and the State Printers, no game was played. The Wranglers and Meat Chop pers are slated to meet. on Sweet- land field tonight. ' v WOODBURN, June . The Woodburn American Legion Jun ior team still boasts a thousand per cent average, as a result of the game Sunday with Stayton. When the tallies were finally totaled It was found that Wood burn had 21 runs to Stayton's four. The grass field accounted for many of the errors. Wood burn's batting was a feature of the afternoon. Davidson poled out a home run and a three bagger, while Leffler got two hits and a circuit trip. DeGuire started' Lyle Land sem on the mound for Wood burn, and the youngster proved to be master of the situation all the way. He allowed the Stayton crew four scattered hits while Woodburn was getting 23. Ryan took Landsem's place in the ninth and held the Job very effectively. Foster, a southpaw went In for Stayton in the fifth, replacing Carter, a right hander. Woodburn made 23 hits and eight errors while Stayton hit four times safely and made 10 errors. The lineups: Woodburn Eans, 3 b PInett. If Oberst.cf Leffler, rf Shcwab, ss Coleman, 2b Voget, c Stayton Bnoddy, 2b shelton, rf Bell, lb Hankel, If Morgan, If Fitzgerald, cf McRae, 3b Klrby, ss Carter, p Bates, rf Berger, If Kemp, 3b Forster, p Saalfeld. If Landsem, p Naftiger, If Davidson, ef Wengenroht.rf Hershberger, ss Gervais Leading When Game Ends The Salem Pirates were rained out the fourth inning at Gervais Sunday in a Mid-Willamette val ley league game Sunday. Gervais was leading 4 to 1 at the time the game was called. 6 Wild Men 99 of the Big Leagues By HARDIN BURNLEY WBL''HlI(fc3 OF THE pfrcHiMG Mound :sss IwaJ w JS is walks, A. wits N IN A RECENT aJN-Z 3 m? "pmsg&moissm W1 I EN someone says "Wild Man,'' scholars think ef Borneo. But WsebaH bugs react to stimuli much nearer noma. The wild men ef baseball hare leaf had their proper part ta the actional gam. But net in a long Base have they grabbed off the spetUght as they did ta the early vscka ef this current baseball iraxy quilt. Xa one fame, between the Sen ton aad Yankees recently, tbe Washington pitchers handed -eut sixteen base en baUa. This was dismissed by the fans as smart itrategy since the hie guns ef the , Tank attack, Ruth, Gehrig; Dkksy, Lazxeri ana the other had been sitting; everything that had been terved up ta them. ' This was one way to make sure that they get no more than one base at a .time, any way. - : .' ' ! But rn St. Louis, the famous "Wild Bill" Hsllahan, 1931 World Series, luminary, earned the Legion Juniors are on Top SENATORS LOS E Wiltshire, Eugene Pitcher, Has Them Handcuffed; Final Score 5-2 In a mud marred game at Eu gene Sunday the Salem Senators grabbed a two run lead over the Townles in the first inning, but went down to a S to 2 defeat when they failed to decipher Wiltshire's twists and curves. This was the opening day of the new state lea gue. Wilson was a bit wild on the mound and allowed four walks. Harvey was sent in to pitch the last innings, but also failed to stem the Eugene batsmea. In spite of mud, the Eugene outfielders had a great day and turned in a number of dishearten ing circus catches, while several of the Solon outfielders had off days. Next Sunday the Senators will meet the West Side team of Port land, which won from the Bend Elks at Bend Sunday by a 7 to 5 count. Coach Ray Brooks' West Slders touched two pitchers up for 16 hits In the Bend game, while Foulk held the Lava Bears to only eight safeties. Msnager Frank Bashor did not complain about Sunday's game at Eugene, but stated that hard work was ahead for all and particularly tne pitchers. The score: Salem AB H PO Scales, m 3 1 0 Ashby, ss 3 1 1 Erickson, If 3 Gribble, 3b 4 Rogers, rf 2 Kitchen, 2b 3 Adams, lb 3 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 0 0 4 0 2 3 7 7 0 0 0 Bashor, c .3 .2 .1 .1 Wilson, p Moore ... Harvey Totals . Eugene . 28 5 24 AB H PO A Dunn, ss King, 3b 4 10 3 .4102 LEAGUE OPENER mmmmmmm: down's cap and a place in the books by equallinr the record for wild pitches in one inning. No less than three times Biaghamton Bill Beared the pellet far out of reach ef Jimmy Wilson, the Cardinal catcher. Even airtight, extra-inninx games hare been decided this year by wild heaves on the part ef the Sltcfcers. utrtj uiu waixer ex ue Tew York Giants lest a 18-lnning thriller a few weeks. age by the simple expedient ef combining; a wild pitch with a suneequent neave late the stands behind first base. Anabxtnr the statistics with out bothehna to reprint them here it la obvious that the chief of fenders in the matter ef wildness this year hare been left-handers. This conzorms to tee usual notion. Left-handers are supposed to be eccentric oa the field and off. . Yet even here we find contradic tions. ' . - While Lefty Grere and Vernon Gemea, the two outstanding; pitch- 4 -2 1 Gould, rf Pibby, If Husband, lb . Van Duyn, m Bishop, Wiltshire, p . Totals J3 9 27 11 'Batted for Rogers In 9th. Batted for Wilson in 7th. Errors, Wiltshire, Gribble 2, Kitchen. Adams. Struck out, by Wiltshire 7. Wilson 5. Bases on balls, off Wiltshire 3, Wilson 4. Stolen base. King. Three-base hit, Dunn. Two-base hits. Van Duyn. Bishop. Sacrifice, Bishop, Rogers. Don pie plays. Bishop to Husband. King to Russell to Husband. Dunn to Russell to Husband 2. Umpires, Lawson and Carlkln. Time, 1:50. Play in the first tronnd nt th Salem Golf club spring handicao tournament is getting started this week, pairings having been arranged Monday. There were 4 members who Qualified. Those placed in the championship brack et all scored net 74 or less. Pairings for the first round which must be completed by Sat urday night are: Championship flight: Miller vs. Prime, Lengren vs. Bonesteele, C. Smith vs. M. Page, Young vs. Cross, J. D. Sears vs. Annunsen, Second flight: Hilman vs. Cox. Walgren vs. Ohling, Ritner vs. K. Barr, Dr. Hill vs. KleUing, A. Cole vs. Kelley, Willet vs. Ashby. T. M. Barr vs. Endicott, McGinley vs. Qulsenberry. Third flight: Heinlien vs bye. Zobel vs. bye, Hicks vs. Kuhn. S. Page vs. bye, Einzig vs. bye. Wiper vs. Busick, Hulsey vs. bye. McClellan vs. Lytle. WOODBURX LOSES WOODBURN, June . Wood burn golf club's 20 -man team lost its second home-and-home match in four years Sunday at McMinn ville, when their hosts beat them handily on their home course. LIKE southpaws gi20ve was very (Wild uihem he first came up it) 1932, Kit Featarea Syedicate. lac. irtrt Britate riMs ftscnwd. en la the American League, ha practically no control at all wber they came up (being; groomed alone only because they were left banders and therefore supposed tc be wild, anyway) the greatest mas ter ef control m baseball is a left hander, still going strong; af tei about twenty campaigns. The twirler referred to, of course, ir Herb Peanock, the cunning eld Master of the Yankee staff. And Boy Parnulee, whe came up with the Giants a few seasons ago with great hopes, molded hi curves andhis steam with his right hand .and passed out ef the big show last Fall simply because he lacked eontioL lie was even wilder than the southpaws I But the passes dont come so frequently after the hot weather seta in in earnest, and the "wild men" ef April and May, will prob ably be the shutout masters ef June, July, August and September. Tnars the way i zrequently works out. . - , .... f . ; Russell, 2b START FIRST ROUND IN SPK T0W BROOKS LOSES TO Cascade Leadership Seized By North Enders With . 9 to 1 Victory WOODBURN, June By winning over the Brooks Cascade league team by a score of 9 to 1 Sunday morning, Woodburn's team Jumped to the first place in the league standing. Johnny Beck hurled a beautiful game for Woodburn. Woodburn took the lead in the fourth Inning, when three runs were scored. Two more were scored in the sirth and foar in the eighth. T. Glrod , Brooks' shortstop, who made three of his team's er- rors. vindicated himself in the ninth inning when he poked a long one over the left field fence for a home run. Outstanding per formers Sunday for Woodburn were Beck. Norton and K. Man ning. Woodburn made six hits and Brooks five The lineups were: Woodburn Brooks Bomhoff. cf T. Glrod. ss Nehl, 3b p. Glrod. 2b is- wanning, lb l. Glrod. 3b Brassel, rf Steiger, lb Kalama, If L. Gearin, 2b D. Manning, ss H. Gearin. If Beck, p Whitman. 2b Sims, cf Hunt. If Adolph, rf Ramp, cf Bachelor, c Sleegle. p Meaeham, c NEWBERG The Newberg Cascade league baseball team. got 16 hits to eight by Mt. Angel, but won only 8 to 7 here Sunday. Walton kept the locals hits well scattered. R H E Newberg ..8 16 1 Mt. Angel 7 8 2 Winters and Wahlgamuthe Walton aad Watkins. TURNER Lebanon's star hurler Schmltx, struck out 16 men and allowed only seven hits, but errors snd the elements brougat a win for Turner here Sunday. Tne locals were outhlt by Leb anon, but timely hitting brought a one point margin. Each team committed three errors. R H E Turner 5 7 3 Lebanon 4 9 3 Russell and Scbultz: Schmiti and Hassler. Umpires. Kunke and Keith. Phillies Trounce Dodgers in Free Swatting Melee PHILADELPHIA, June 6. (AP) Pounding three pitchers for 21 hits, the Phillies defeated Brooklyn, 15 to 7, in a free hitting- melee here today. Hack Wil son hit two homers for Brooklyn. nis ninth and tenth of the year. R H E Brooklyn . . 7 12 3 Philadelphia ...1...15 21 0 Shaute, Phelps. Helmach. Suke- forth and Picinich; Collins, Benge and V. Davis. Falls City Boys Are Champions Of Polk County FALLS CITY, June The grade school baseball team played the Dallas team on the home dia mond Friday afternoon to decide the championship of Polk county, the locals winning 5 to 3. The game was tied at the end of the seventh inning. The score at the end of the ninth inning was 5 to 3 in favor of the local team there by making them the champion grade school team of the county. Cochet Crowned French Champion AUTEUIL. France, June 6. (AP) Henri Cochet shelled George De Stefan! of Italy, off the courts today to win the French tennis singles, title and lu so doing served notice that he la In top shape for the defense of the Davis cup. The little French ace, playing easily and using all the strokes of which he is mastetr, defeated -De Stefani. C-l. C-4. i t, -J and kept for France a title no for eigner ever has won. Salem High Golf Squad May Play Though school la out. the Salem high golf team, holder of the state championship won la the re cent tournament here, may play one more match. It has Invited the Washington high team of Portland to play here at some date In the near future. Washington high won the Portland city high school title. No Portland schools were entered In the state tonrna ment Annunsen Takes Elks Golf Title Fred Annunsen was crowned golfing king of the Salem Elks Sunday when he defeated Bert Victor 2 and 1 In a 26-hol match on the Salem Golf - club course. The match waa hard fought with Victor gaining a lead , of three holes en the first nine, only to ee it whittled away later.- iOOUI N