The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem Oregon, Wednesday Morning, March 21,1934
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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-
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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defeated Thursday compete there
to the defeated team In the cham
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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
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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.
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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.