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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Wednesday Morning, March 21,1934 TigM Toumamemi Games to Starlt Fursit Bay. PAGE EIGHT 1- 1 ; ' SHilNrS CHANCES EYED The Dalles -Jefferson and Silverton - Klamath are -, -Early Headliners Salem's population swelled ap preciably Tuesday and will gain tni more rapidly this forenoon with the steady arrival of visit ing basketball . teami and their partisans. Incidental to the open Inc of the state high school-bas ketball tournament at 1 p. m. to-J day. in the Willamette university gymnasium. Salem itself meanwhile has be come even more basketball minded than it has been ever since December; speculation as to Ihe fate and championship; pros pects of Tarious teamr has been an almost universal topic of con versation since Sunday -when the tournament lineup became prac tically : complete. A number of fans Invaded the Willamette gym Tuesday afternoon and evening to watch the workouts of various teams and attempt to visualize how they will stack np In the competition. All of them were impressed with the size, speed and cleverness of the Klamath Falls hoopsters. Fast experience of basketball fans who have patronized the state tournament is likely to be confounded in this year's event. With a few outstanding excep tions, the normal course of events has been a series of fairly deci sive games early in the tourna ment as the "unfit" were weeded out, close and exciting semi-final games and then a whirlwind final. Close, Exciting Games To Start First Day The close semifinals and the classic climax are assured this year, bat with at least ten teams - in the race which are real con tenders, the hard battles in which 1 pressurei3 extreme and the out- come momentous, will begin the first day and not wait until eve - nlng either. Outstanding contests, as view ed from the background of sea son performances of the various teams, on the first day's pro gram . will include the third af ternoon game, between The Dalles and Jefferson of Portland at 3 o'clock; the first night contest at 7:30, bringing together Sil verton and Klamath Falls; and the last clash of the day, be tween McMinnville and Jefferson. Those are the spots at which pre - tournament favorites meet; the Dallas-Astoria game at 4 p. m. is of greater sectional in terest than some of the others, and of course the Salem-Pendleton game at 8:30 is the one to ward which Salem fans are look . ing with greatest anticipation and almost as much anxiety. Interest among the home fans lies naturally first and foremost in the fate of the Salem team, and is enhanced, rather - than diminished this year because of Ealem high's strange, not to say eerie, record for the season. The ' word "enigma" is the only one which describes the Salem high Quintet; "puzzle" leaves room for an orderly solution through the . use of Judgment and analysis. Nothing of the sort works In fig uring out this sometimes bril liant, sometimes disappointing Sa lem basketball team. Peters and Roth Back in Harness . Coach Hollis Huntington's boys held their workout on the Wil lamette floor Tuesday afternoon; It was the first time in more than a week that Peters, regu lar center, and Roth, regular for, ward, had been in uniform. Both - appeared to be reasonably well recovered from their ailments; both will need a few strips of tape ; to bolster up some weak spots. The rest of the squad was .pronounced fit and ready to go. Pendleton is considered to be just an ideal trial horse for the red and black; not one of the out " standing favorites, neither a set Bp; Salem has a good chance to lose but if It does there will be no need for tears: there are bound to be tougher teams than Pendleton in this tournament, and Salem might as well start hunting a berth on the consols tion ladder tonight as any time. IMBEliH VENTURA, Cal., March 20.-) One more wrinkle was taken from the managerial brows of the Portland Coast league baseball club as President Tom Turner an noanced today that Bill Lawrence. star outfielder and longtime hold out, had at last agreed to terms. "Lawrence will sign his 1934 contract tomorrow morning," Tur ner said Lawrence.- last of the Beaver holdouts, arrived here yesterday in time to don a uniform and play a few innings in the outfield. . Manager Walter McCredle un loaded some. new bats today and the Beavers went to work to re gain some of their hitting prestige lost In the game with the Chicago vub nere Sunday. Orsatti Holdout Gesture Ceases BRADENTON,-Fla., March 20 WpV-Ernie Orsatti, holdout out fielder and utility first baseman, finally signed a 1934 contract with the St, Louis Cardinals to- far. : i Terms Of the agreement were WITH DUCKS TODAY Figure in 1 . ' ! ( 1 v- j-.. v. . vi. ' hi " ' 4r'-. : I !- C t- - - . i - '' At top, the Ashland high school basketball team which meets Colombia Prep at 2 o'clock this after noon In the second game of the state tournament. Lower row, kneeling. Coach Don Faber, former Willamette university star, and James Yoss, man ager. Top row, from the left, Bob Hardy, Bill Hoxie, Carl Harris, Parker Hess, Bill Hungwirth', John Murphy, Ken Shillings, Hylmar Kanuasto, Hebrick Bo ugh man and Do re Lindsay. Lower picture, Mitchell high, the only 'B" team in the tournament, which plays Coquille in the opening game at 1 o' clock. From the left, R. Woodward, H. McPhetride, P. Cole, S. Quant, G. Folston, Captain L. Howden, H. Jones, B. Monroe and Coach Frank W. Smith. not disclosed, but it was known to be a compromise. Burleigh Grimes, hard - boiled veteran of the baseball wars, has expressed satisfaction with the new ball. AUGUSTA, Ga., March 20.-( Bobby Jones, paired with Ed Dudley, took a sound lacing to day from Paul Runyan, the pro fessional ace of the winter sea son, and H o r t o n Smith. Tne Jones - Dudley combination was beaten six and five. Runyan, regarded as the pro fessionals' leading contender in the Master's Invitation tourna- m e n t starting Thursday, and Smith, New York pro, had 71's, one under par, while Jones and Dudley, Augusta pro, had 76's. The little White Plains, N. Y., star played the second nine in 34 strokes. Jones was even par coming in after straying to a high 40 xn the front nine. Bobby appeared tired and was off line with approaches. He sliced his drive into the woods on the ninth and failed to sink a sizeable putt during the round. Today was the last available for practice rounds, for tomorrow most of the players are entered in the two ball foursomes com petitions, a preliminary attrac tion to the big four-day medal play tournament. Pirates Defeat Chicago Cubs in Tight Ball Game LOS ANGELES, March 20.-UP) -With Darrell Blanton, 25, rookie hurler from the St. Jo seph club of the Western league doing heads up mound work In the pinches, the Pittsburgh Pi rates turned back the Chicago Cubs 7 to 5 at Wrigley Field today. Blanton struck out Chuck Klein, powerhouse of the Cub at tack, with a man on second base and two runs needed to tie the score In the ninth inning. R. H. E. Pittsburgh 7 9 0 Chicago 7 5 11 2 Birkhofer, Blanton and Grace, Veltman; Ward, Tinning and Phelps, Taitt. Chemawa Beats Gervais Tossers CHEMAWA, March 20 Che mawa Indian school's baseball team won its first practice game of the season here this afternoon, defeating Gervais high 4 to 3. The Indians outhlt the visitors but played ' rather spottedly in A the field. Gervais J 3 S 4 Chemawa 4 15 $ Kuhn and Lescher; Spencer and Zundle. Smoker Tonight at Independence INDEPENDENCE, March 20 The annual smoker presented by the Letterman's club of the high school will be held Wednesday. March 21 in the gymnasium. The card will start at 7:30 o'clock. Referees will.be Jack Wattenber ger and Gerald Newton. Time keeper Is Bill Mattlson. 1 BADLY ROUTED First Two Games of Dallas Quint Reminder of 1930 Outfit DALLAS, March 20. Dallas high school's entry in the state basketball tournament, coached by Oramel Shreeve, Is quite simi lar to the midget bunch that Dave Wright took there in 1930. The boys are about the same size and play nearly the same type of ball, but the 1934 team is generally believed to be a better working outfit than the 1930 squad. Two of the players this year are broth ers of players on Wright's mid gets and appear to be out to bet ter their elders' records. Hank Kliever, brother of Frank Kliever of the 1930 team, plays guard and is one of the scrappiest players on the Bquad and also comes in for his share of the points. Burrell Webb doesn't have quite as big an advantage at Jumping center as Dwight had but takes the tip off his share of the t'me and gathers in plenty of points under the basket. Hunter and Jones at the forward posts are rated as the two best ball handlers on the team and have a habit of sinking them from outside without touching How the Teams Will Play in 0:d AM' Trl A AM, Jfaarfcy I IO" AM- l&ck Q:A-M- . li:- AM- Yir 1 A M- P.M. t i This dirgram, pabllshed through tournament will progress, and again because of lack of space. Winning teams Wednesday proceed thereafter to the right, along solid line until once defeated, thereafter along the dotted! lines until defeated a second time which eliminates them. Teams defeated Wednesday proceed to the left and drop oat when defeated again. Eventual winner of the left bracket takes fifth place In the tournament. Teams after for fourth place, those defeated Friday contend thereafter for third place. Second place goes pionship final. Portland "B" Is Tourney -V-"- -. . V. the rim. Fischer at guard com pletes the first team and is a real ball hawk in addition to gathering in the points. The complete season record for the orange and black shows 19 victories against nine defeats for a percentage of .679, with 799 points scored against their oppon ents' 611. The complete record is as follows: Dallas 40, Willamina 10. Dallas 46, Willamina 26. Dallas 26, Falls City 17. Dallas 38, Cbemawa 24. Dallas 31, W. U. Frosh 32. Dallas 16, University high 19. Dallas 15, Corvallis 30. Dallas 29, W. U. Frosh 35. Dallas 17, Eugene 19. Dallas 40, Independence 14. Dallas 22, McMinnville 24. Dallas 34, Monmouth 12. Dallas 25, Falls City 17. Dallas 28, McMinnville 37. Dallas 12, Eugene 33. Dallas 32, University high 28. Dallas 40, Independence 14. Dallas 32, Corvallis 27. Dallas 33, Monmouth 16. Dallas 25, Monmouth 9. Dallas 25, Airlie 19. Dallas 35, Monmouth 18. Dallas 30, W. U. Frosh 25. .Dallas 37, Toledo 22. Dallas 22, Corvallis 27. Dallas 28, Bellfountain 22. Dallas 20, Corvallis 15. Dallas 21, Corvallis 20. COQUIU: (curb) , tf Kin nay ASHLAND (oar.it) vep.2:?M COLUMBA PflEP (oarf6) THE DAILSS weo. 3:J?M. At . . AS7DQJA wed, a? p.m. y DALLAS (ami!) (Mrrso) weo. LA CKAAfO ifisr I) 7Aurrdajy KLAMA7U fit US (oars) WEO. PENDU7DN (Pttrs) WED SALEM (sr.7) MtM0fMVLE (otrra) PORTLANP A (crr&) the courtesy of George Lloyd, tournament program editor, shows the manner in which the state "basketball the time of each game. It should be clipped out for future reference, as it will not appear in The Statesman Jefferson high and Portland A REED DEFEATS COWBOY HEINZ Both Rough but Editor Also Tricky; Curtiss Beats Achiu, Fast Bout Tricky as ever, the eminent Mr. Robin Reed of Reedsport slugged and kicked his way to win over "Cowboy" Heinx In the main event of last night's wrestling show at the armory, after losing the first fall to the long-nosed gentleman from Burns. Practical ly nothing was barred, and the boys kept the crowd hapjy with all the dirt available under the laws of the state. Heinz was not quite as tricky as Mr. Reed, thereby losing the match. Reed kept twisting and pulling the Cowboy's nose, and Heinz couldn't think of anything to match that. Three times both grapplers rolled out of the ring. and Reed once crawled under the platform, whereupon Referee Harry Elliott dragged him out by the heels. Reed and Elliott put on a feud of their own just to make things more exciting, Elliott showing surprising ability at kick ing Reed where it would do the most good. The semi-final was as clean as ine mam event was dirty. Hand some Jack Curtiss coming from behind to take the last two falls from Walter TInkit Achiu. Achiu wouldn't bite on Curtiss' pet rope swing, but the latter got results with sonnenbergs and a Boston Crab. Achiu as usual used his face to help the show along, mim- icamg curtiss' gestures. Both grapplers broke clean, stayed away from hair-pulling and such. and got a big hand when they left tne ring. Stan Crawley took the ODener from Joe Kirk on a foul when the latter punched him too freely aft er they had a fall apiece. Crawley got the first fall with a surfboard, and lost the second when Kirk socked him silly. Kirk and Curtiss issued chal lenges to Reed for a match. Set-Ups Defeat Technocrats in Parrish Tourney The Set-Ups eliminated the Technocrats from further play In the noon league basketball tour nament at Parrish when they de feated the Technocrats 6 to Tuesday noon. Set-lps Technocrats Cross F 2 LeBouef Gutekunst F Nichols Childs 1 C Walters McKay ( Hoffert Upston V, Rudin Wagner 5 8 Suds Win Easily Over Semi-Pros SANTA BARBARA. Calif., March 20.-3)-Behind the pitch Ing of two rookies, Fisch and Hake, who held the Santa Bar bara Cubs to four hits, the Se attle baseball club of the Pacific coast league romped in with 6 to 1 victory in epring training camp here today. Santa Barbara 1 4 Seattle 6 14 Bonetti and Fehrenbacker; Fisch, Hake and Bradbury. 15th Annual State Tournament ' V x V . A is Franklin. V V r V A A New Babe in BaseM JQCHERS Will OUT I ' :" I OVER PUSH FIVE vvV wc&y If v " Pi? f Another distinction seems to be in the offing for Mildred "Babe" Didrik son, noted woman athlete and Olympic star, who may be the first of the "weaker" sex to crash into big league baseball. She is shown getting a few pointers from Burleigh Grimes, of the St. Louis Cardinals, at the all-star baseball school. Hot Springs. Ark. White Sox Head for First Division; Some Uncertain Factors in Team Observed By BRIAN BELL i PASADENA, Cal., March 20.- (-Chicago's hustling White Sox are going somewnere aiong me American league trail hut Just how far may depend on a number of baseball uncertainties Possibly Lew Fonseca's athletes will not reach their first division objective but the manager with the tuneful voice has developed an inspiring spirit in the team and the Sox promise to come out fight ing. They may go down the same way. Henry "Zeke" Bonura, big first sacker from the Texas league, carries more responsibility than most rookies. Since Manager Fon seca, a good first baseman In any league, was hurt last year, the Chicago Americans have been out of first basemen. Then big Zeke brought his heavy bats on from Dallas. If Bonura can hit major league pitching the stock of the Sox will move up. In an active training season Fonseca has spent much of his time watching his young pitchers. The seasoned moundsmen, led by George Earnshaw, will be satis factory but vthey need help from the new crop. Whitlow Wyatt, the former De troit Tiger, has a biasing fast ball and should fulfill the promise he has shown in his brief major league career. Ed Durham Is an other pitcher who should win his share of games. Ted Lyons, Sam Jones and Milton Gaston are vet erans with a lot of good pitching left in their right arms. Inciden tally all the pitching for the Sox will bo done by right handers. Lee Stine, former San Francisco Seal, will get a chance to show his . . . . M.J mm 9tjm . mAJ V?Af AM. defeated Thursday compete there to the defeated team In the cham 4- k. UA wares under fire, and John Pom orskl, up from Montreal, and Phil Gallivan, graduated from Buffalo, may do sometning. Two tall lung ers, Joe Heving and Paul Gregory, may help. Few changes will be made in the Infield and outfield,. Bonura will take over the first base chores with Minter Hayes at second, Luke Appling at short and the ir repressible Jimmy Dykes at third. Al Simmons, Mule Haas and Evar Swanson probably will get the starting call in the outfield but two fast recruits from the Pa cific Coast league, Bernle TJhalt and Stanley "Frenchy" Bordagary, may make some uncomfortable moments for Haas and Swanson At first glance the team seems none top strong behind the bat. Mervin Shea from St. Louis and John Pasek from Detroit are hav ing a mild battle with Morgan Snyder, promoted from Topeka, and Harold "Muddy" Ruel has stepped- into the picture to com plicate it further. Ruel, a great hand with pitchers, will be some thing of a catcher - coach but It would not be surprising to see him do more catching than coaching. Parker's "B" team beat the Y. M. C. A. "B" last night at the Y to hold its lead in the local ping-pong league. Parker's "A" won over the Marion hotel, and the Y. M. C. A. "A" nosed out the Salem mortuary in other games. Summaries: Parker "B" Davis 3 R. Clark 3 R. Blatchford 3 Griffith 3 Bell 2 Parker "A" Perrine Albrich 3 Hendrle 3 Wetzel 2 F. Blatchford 3 Y.M.C.A. "A" F. Smith 3 Wirtz Moore 3 Adams 2 E. Clark 3 Y. M. C A. "B" 1 Hale F. Albrich R. Smith 1 Robertson 3 Moore Marlon Hotel 3 Hagemann Corey Hartley 3 King Saunders Salem Mortuary 2 Headrick 3 Armstrong 1 Lamport 3 Raffety Viesko Healey May Take Mancusos Place MIAMI BEACH. Fla., March 20. -(jT)-Young Francis Healey, can didate for the first string catching job with the New York Giants which was left in an uncertain state by the illness of Gus Man- cuso, came In for a lot of extra coaching today as the world cham pions went through two long drills. Three of Salem Cagers Honored George Scales, Don Magee and John Steelhammer of Parker's Sa lem hoopsters, were named on the all-star quintet selected following the state independent tournament at Eugene which Parker's won. Scales, forward, was chosen as captain. BOYS ARE WINNERS SALEM HEIGHTS. March 20, The Salem Heights boys, kit ball team defeated the Liberty team, on the Liberty field Mon day, 29 to 8. The Liberty girls kit ball team defeated the Salem Heights girls' team on the Salem Heights field, 9 to 8, Monday afternoon. ill : w,o "Hi 1 1 " i FIG TEAM Teachers still hold supremacy over their pupils even if the sports of youth or at any rate the faculty team, otherwise known as the Teachers, City-Y. minor league Quintet, defeated Parrish Junior high school's hoop sters 28 to 23 Monday night on the Parrish floor in the last game of the season toi the junior high hoopsters. It was a tight contest. 14-all at half time and 19 -all at the end of the third period. Parrish reserves took the floor for a few moments at the start of the final quarter, then the regulars were rushed back in but in the Interval the Teachers had gained ground that Parrish could never recover. Chiles led Parrish in scoring and Hauk topped the faculty point getters. To make np for lack of num bers, the Parrish faculty rooters substituted organization: they had a well-drilled rooting section which was something of a dress up affair. After the game the winners were presented with "let ters" which when combined spell ed "Champs!" Vernon Gilmore's letter" waa the exclamation point. Phillies Defeat Cardinals 12 - 7 BRADENTON. Fla., March 20. -) -Jimmy Wilson, erstwhile catcher of the St. Louis Cardinals, today led his Philadelphia na tional league club in a 1 2 to 7 ex hibition game victory over the Redbirds. Paul Dean, young brother of "Dizzy" also a Card right hander. pitched the first three innings for St. Louis and held the Phillies scoreless. COMMENTS CURTISA'S Welcome, champion hoop sters from here and yon! We're glad to greet you to Salem, the city beautiful, the Cherry City, capital of Oregon. Yes, we have weather like this all the time (hope it doesn't turn in and rain cats and dogs before the paper is delivered). We wish you an good luck and an en joyable stay in Salem. Inas much as only eight out of the 128 of you can receive the highest honors Saturday night, we wish to point out that all success is relative ami so is all failure. You are all champions in yonr home districts. You are already successful; any failure now will be the result of striv ing for still higher success. It isn't right all-star teams should be a secondary consider ation even if they merit any no tice whatsoever but even before a tournament starts there is some speculation as to who will be the chosen five. It is therefore appro priate to mention at this time that only one all-state player from the 1933 tournament la return- . ing; Wayne Scott of Silverton. Only seven of the schools that were represented in the 1933 tourney are here again; there are nine new ones this year. The repeaters are The Dalles, Astoria, La Grande, Eu gene, Klamath Falls, Silverton and Salem. Schools that have never been represented before are Mitchell, Coquille and Co lumbia Prep. It used to be that only one bas ketball team coached by a Wil lamette grad, would be in the state tournament each year and that coach usually was Russ Rarey of Tillamook. Last year it mounted to two when Paul Brown's West Linn outfit also came. This year there are two again, but a different pair: Don Faber of Ashland and Hank Hart ley of Coquille. The present gen eration at Willamette knows about Faber but doesn't recall Hartleys who was allowed to grad uate when the profs got tired of seeing him around, in 1927. Hartley Is an older brother of Marshall Hurt ley Who was captain of the Willamette hoop team this year; Hank was cap tain in his senior year, when . the Bearcats missed the confer ence championship by one field goal. Hank was a center In bas ketball and a bruising, fighting tackle during the football sea son. Faber's achievements in basketball and track, and to a slightly less extent in football, are recalled by most of the present Willamette rooters and downtown fans. Jack Routh, who used to circu late quite (reely in Salem but is now sports editor for the Astor- . Ian-Budget at Astoria, must have gone right np in the air when he read that we denied any convic- I tion, after seeing Astoria high play here, that the Fishermen were any better than the Salem high team. Jack offers to bet . anything he owns that- Astoria will win if these teams get togeth er in the tournament, and he de clares furthermore that Astoria would beat Salem five out of six . games if such a series could be arranged. Before taking hlnr np, , we plan to look around and see If the Salem high boys are red be hind the ears this morning after reading , young Mr. Routh's dis paraging remarks.
