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teamwork Wins For Locals;
Showing at Times Poor;
Crown Jams Gym
Salem . high, looking at times
like a bunch of dubs and at times
like' the old Salem high .class
Cot over its first hurdle in the
state basketball tournament yes
terday when tt defeated LaGrande
S3 to 15.
The Vikings will continue in
, the championship series by meet
ing Columbia Prep at 3 o'clock
this afternoon. La Grande drops
In the consolation series where it
meets Marshfield at 9 o'clock this
morning.
The game wasv the opener --of
the 16th annual state high school
basketball tournament. Although
there were vacant spaces in the
bleachers when Salem and La
Grande started to play, before the
afternoon was over the Willam
ette gymnasium was jammed with
a near capacity crowd.
Salstrom-Cater Duo
."Worked, Fast Passing
It was smooth teamwork
; against a shoot as catch can pol
icy that gave Salem high its win
over Coach Ida Woodie's La
Grande Tigers yesterday after
noon. Playing a fast passing game
which worked Salstrom and Ca
ter, the two midget forwards, into
scoring position time after time,
Salem easily outclassed the east
ern Oregon team. LaGrande
seemed to have very little team
work, each player casting off
whenever he got his hands on
the ball. Such a system would
have been effective, perhaps, but
LaGrande couldn't hit the basket.
There was one exception, however,
In Don Stitt, forward, who totaled
10 points to be high man of the
game.
Salem started out up in the
clouds so far that most of its
passes went in the bleachers. The
Vikings soon settled down, how
ever, and gave an exhibition of
swift passing basketball.
LaGrands Approaches
Salem, 4-3, at Start
Luther opened the scoring with
a field goal and Salem scored two
more points before DeBoies drop
ped In a field goal and a free
throw to make it 4 to 3. It was
the closest LaGrande ever got to
the Vikings and Salem held a 12
to 4 lead at the end of the first
period.
Salem kept widening the gap
and led 17 to 8 at half time, 29
to 13 at the end of the third
quarter.
Salstrom and Luther tied for
Viking high point honors, each
with nine points. Cater, dead
eye forward, collected eight.
Brown, Salem's big center, looked
good assisting Cater and Salstrom
with accurate passes.
Summary:
LaGrande (15) (33) Salem
Stitt, 10 F . 9 Salstrom
DeBoies, 3 F..... B Cater
Bean. C 4 Brown
Marshall G.......... 9 Luther
Hansen, 2 G 3 Waddell
Referee, Piluso; umpire, Leed
Ing. Invitation
To Ham Club
Is General
, When coaches, officials and
sport writers of- the state basket
ball tournament are guests of the
Salem Breakfast club in the Mar
loa hotel dining room at 7:30 to
morrow morning every member is
expected to be present as well as
any other Salem man who 'wish
es to join in giving a welcome to
the teams,. Henry Collins, presi
dent of the club, said yesterday.
Special Breakfast club commit
tees, have been working during
the week on making tomorrow's
session of the club bigger and
better than ever. An attendance
of 200 is expected,
j Added to the guest list of
i coaches, officials and sport re
porters have been "Slats" Gill and
his Northwest championship bas
ketball team from Oregon State.
Gill assured . President Collins
that he and bis team would be
present.
I The 1 fun-making committee,
headed by Don Upjohn, has put
the finishing touches on what is
described as the most riotous skit
of the year. Music will be furn
ished by a 12 piece orchestra.
: It is planned to run the meet
ing off in short order with some
thing going on every minute.
President Collins hops to keep
the meeting within the club's us
nal one-hour limit.
SALEM RESERVISTS :
L SHOOT
Salem officers won first place
in the four-cornered valley re
serve officers association pistol
competition Tuesday night at Cor
vallis, shooting 786 out of a pos
sible 1000. Lieutenant K. W.
Dalton, Salem, was in charge ot
the match, in which other plac
ing rere: Eugene, 770; Corral
lis, 766; Albany, 524.
Highest individual score went
to Captain Frank Agule of Eu
gene shooting 189 out of possi
ble 200. Lieutenant W. A. Ha
elwooi Salem, was second with
167; and Captain H. A. Cooney, of
Corrallis, third with 164.
Mill
Umapine,
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Umapine high school's plucky district 13 champs who lost to Jefferson high of Portland in one of the
afternoon state tournament games yesterday. Left to right: Front row, Groth, Jontle Hoskins, Bill
Givens, Caldwell, Le in bach; back row, Decker, coach; Ho6klns, Earl Glvens, Baker, Elsley, BUI
Givens.
Quint from Gai-diner high school representing district 14, which lost to Oakridge last night. Left to
right: Front row, Sornes, Abbott, Warren, captain; Lewis, Paull; back row, Harry Brower, princi
pal; Johnson, Landwehr, Lamb and Cook, coach.
Caustic
c
arries on
By CAUSTIC
The glad time of the year it
was yesterday when tourney
fans showed up en masse for
the opening of the annual hoop
festivities. There were sur
prises and plenty of thrills. . . .
and scares for Astoria which
woke up at the end of a fight.V
ing fir half to find little 3 till
City ahead of the mighty fish
ing Finns.
Back doing business at the
same old stand was Emil Piluso,
the official who has added a
touch of romantic zest to many a
tournament game. Trim Mr. Pil
uso went through his usual machine-like
motions but seemed a
trifle toned down. He wise
cracked plenty with the press bos
boys, though.
John L. Gary, secretary of
the state high school athletic
association, was present in all
his beaming self. Missing was
Dick Godfrey, who has kept the
Oregonian informed on tourna
ment happenings for quite some
years. In his place Bud For
rester, late of Oregon State.
Salem is going to have to do
some tall looking out for a young
Mick called O'Donnell. The Prep
star, who comes, from a long line
of athletes, scored more points
last year thana ny other young
basketeer in Oregon's greatest
basketball event. This year they
are going to have a hard ! time
stopping him from doing the same
thing. O'Donnell hails from Bend.
His uncle, Barney O'Donnell was
a famous minor league catcher.
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Observations snatched at
half-times - Gardner Knapp
having his usual trouble with
the Master Bread line. .....
Representative Romeo Gouley
refusing to take off his over
coat On the other side
of the gymn Representative
Police Commissioner Walter
Fuhrer refusing to take off his
hat. .... Rolley Sonthwich,
Officers for the matches were:
Lieutenant Hutchings, range of
ficer at Corvallis; Lieutenant Joe
DeLaney, recorder; Sergeant A.
Edwards, scorer.
The Salem. Eugene and Corval
lis teams scored as follows:
Salem
Lieutenant Hazelwood ....167
Lieutenant K. W. Dalton .J...163
Lieutenant L. B. Schoel ..163
Lieutenant Van Winkle .....152
Lieutenant H. L. Siegmund4-.141
Eugene
Captain Agule ;...169
Lieutenant H. D. Xeely :.160
Captain C. S. Pettee .158
Lieutenant R. H. Vincent ..142
Lieutenant Colonel Carl Rob
bins .141
Corvallis
Captain H. A. Cooney 164
Lieutenant Iran Bronton 160
Lieutenant P. A. Canfield 159
Lieutenant H. L. Wilkes wl51
Lieutenant H. B. Enoner ........132
' PHILLIES DEFEAT TIGERS
WINTER HAVEN, Fla., March
20-()-The Phillies finally found
their collective batting eye today
and hammered two young Detroit
Tiger pitchers, Larkln and Wade,
for a 9 to 8 victory their first
of the "grapefruit" season.
City Puts
Gardiner Lose in First Round
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Thrills, surprises mark open
ing: day of Oregon's No. 1
basketball event ; O'Donnell
man to watch.
America's guest, easing his way
"Slats'; Gill and the Mrs. won
dering how many ot the boys can
be signed up for a college educa
tion or something. . . . Wade Wil
liams, brother of Fred Williams,
A
I AST year's heartbreaking set
. back, when the Giants had
the pennant snatched out of
their grasp in the last few days of
the campaign, may yet prove to be
boon to the Terry outfit.
Too much success usually has a
bad effect on professional athletes,
and that humiliating finish of the
1934 season was the very best treat
ment for any enlarged craniunu
among the Giant prima donnas.
All of the Giant players have
been going through their Spring
training chores with a grim inten
sity that at least presages plenty of
trouble for those chesty Cardinals
daring the coming pennant chase.
It is also distinctly noticeable that
. t . . Giants' pilot r t jMmmmfmMm
HAS LOST HIS FORMER. I,? ll5fWWW
.BRUSQUEAJESS.AAJD AJOW i-OiVBS
, ACTUAU.V Goes OUT OF His il rWto EtoolvSi
WAY ttJBS AJICSTO REPORTERS. If ' " WM$Wk 6T,LL Wwe
Scare Into Fisher men but Loses
and the Lincoln high basketball
team looking on. These are the
boys we picked to come and they
felt they'd have to show up some
how. Paul T. Jackson, president of
the 8. H. S. A. A. talking things
over in the press box. . . . Note
to coaches It would keep
storekeepers and members of
the press happy if coaches
would remember the numbers
of their players along with
their names.
Changed Man
-By BURNLEY-
the once "Terrible' Terry, the bane
of baseball writers last year, is now
transformed into a veritable Sweet
William who actually goes out of his
way to be nice to the lowly scribes.
The loss of the 1934 pennant has
apparently had a chastening effect
upon Bad Bill, who became exceed
ingly unpopular last season because
of his unfortunate talent for saying
and doing the wrong thing at the
wrong time.
It'a a cinch that Terry will make
no more cracks like the one that
drew down the wrath of the gods
(gallery) on his headin the historic
1934 campaign. Meaning, of course,
that query about whether Brooklyn
was still in the league. Casey Sten
gel's doughty but goofy warriors
SOWS
STRENGTH LUTE
Jefferson Defeats Scrappy
Umapine Outfit 39-16,
Scarcely Threatened
Astoria's Fishermen took the
measure of Mill City's "B" league
team, 37 to 24, late yesterday af
ternoon, but not until the Loggers
had given the down-river boys a
scare which sent the partisan Sa
lem audience into stitches over
the threatened defeat of the 1934
champions. -
The underdog in all the dope
sters' predictions, Mill City came
back from a five-point lead As
toria piled up the first quarter,
to pile up six quick points and to
lead at the end of the first half,
12 to 11.
Seim's Shooting Sends
Mill City Ahead
Then she clung to a small lead
through the early part of the third
quarter, Scim's fast-breaking shot
under the -basket putting her
ahead 16 to 14.
Not until the- last portion of
the third quarter came did Astor
ia's strength assert itself. Three
baskets by Johansen and another
by Astoria's tall center, Kokko,
gave the Fishermen a six-point
lead at the end of the third per
iod. Sarpola, ace forward for John
Warren, came to life In the fi
nal quarter and gathered three
field goals, the only times he
scored from the floor during the
game. Mill City's hopes for vic
tory went west as McAuley. her
logger center, was sent from the
floor with only three more min
utes of the game left, having had
four fouls chalked against him.
Little Scim at forward continued
to bang the rim this period and
added two field goals for the quin
tet from Mill City but Astoria, at
last was clicking, and ran through
her floor plays smoothly. With
out her center Mill City was ob
viously weakened and could not
keep up the pace which had dis
tinguished her play the first half
of the game.
Smith at guard for Mill City
was high point man for the Mar
ion county team with four field
goals and a foul to his credit. For
Astoria Johansen distinguished
himself with six field goals. Anet
played a good defensive game for
Astoria but scored only once from
the floor.
The lineup:
Astoria (37) (24) Mill City
Sarpola 6 F Allen
Johansen 12 . . F 8 Scim
certainly made Wild William eat his
words, syllable for syllable, when
they exploded the Giants pennant
hopes by crushing them in that last
crucial series of the season.
Anyway, Mr. Terry is now a
changed man, and counts up to ten
or maybe a hundred before he gives
his opinion on anything whatsoever.
He has finally succeeded in checking
his unruly tongue, and is also quite
polite to the newspaper boys, ac
tually holding daily press confer
ences. Incidentally, Bill says he is In the
best shape of his career, and expects
to have his greatest playing season
during the coming pennant siege.
Cvwricfat. HI. Kim tmtmm SmBofe la
ASTORIA
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Grizzlies' Cup Hopes Gleam
As They Skim Away to Win
Narro wly From Portland A's
COACH DON FABER'S Ashland high Grizzlies sounded a
warning to all other teams that they, were hot on the
trail of the state championship cup when they defeated Ben
son, champion of the Portland interscholastic league 20 to
18 yesterday afternoon. -The
game developed into the hottest of yesterday after-
Kokko 7
Nllsen 6
Anet 6 .
C. . . 4 McAuley
G 9 Smith
.... G . . 3 Catherwood
S Walker
S Herron
Leeding; umpire, Pil-
Referee,
uso.
Jefferson high's bean-pole cen
ter and forward plus the stiffer
competition the Portlanders had
been accustomed to, showed to ad
vantage yesterday afternoon when
the metropolitan boys downed
Umapine 39 to 16 in the initial
round of the state basketball
tournament here.
Never-Say-Die Spirit
Displayed by Umapine
Umapine, a scrappy, never-say-die
quintet, kept up the fight
throughout the four quarters but
never seriously threatened the
Portland quintet.
Hergert at forward, Baughhman
at' center and Selberg at guard for
Jefferson hit the basket time and
time again to run up an 18 to 10
lead at the half. In the second
half the eastern Oregon boys were
unable to stand the pace the Port
landers set and rolled in only six
points while Jefferson was mak
ing 21.
Sunback, a scrappy, sharp-eyed
guard, starred for Umapine, bang
ing in the majority of the team's
field goals.
Umapine did not wait to work
the ball under the basket, prefer
ring to take long loop shots and
thus to avoid the hard job of
working the ball through the Jef
ferson defense.
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SAN BERNARDINO, Calif.,
March 20-s()-The Pittsburgh Pi
rates rang up their fifth straight
victory this afternoon as they de
feated the Portland Beavers, 8 to
1.
Moose Clabaugh walloped a ho
mer in the fifth inning to make
the only score for the Beavers.
LOS ANGELES, March 20-(P)
Vernon George Washington, roo
kie outfielder, led an assault on
the Hollywood ball club of the
Pacific Coast league today to give
the Chicago White Sox a 10 to
5 victory.
Washington hit a triple and a
home run, showing little effect
of his finger injury of several
days ago. Tho White Sox scored
six runs in the eighth off Cano,
a right hand(T.
MODESTO, Calif., March 20-(iP)-The
Oakland ball club made
merry at the expense of three
Chicago Cub pitchers here today,
winning an easy 8 to 3 victory.
The Cubs got only two scratch
hits off Jimmy Tobin in five in
nings and two others off Jimmy
Rego in the sixth, when they
scored their runs.
Frankie Hawkins, Oak rookie
third sacker, started the scoring
when he tripled in the first, and
his single figured in a second
inning three-run attack. Anton
hit two doubles and a triple for
the Oaks.
Hutchinson
Bests Sons,
A.AJJ. Play
DENVER, March 20.-;P)-The
Utah State Aggies, sorely need
ing their disabled captain, Cleo
Petty, were knocked out of the
National A. A. U., basketball tour
nament here tonight by Italian
Athletic club of Seattle, 34 to 28,
In the first . major upset of the
annual maple court classic.
DENVER,, March SO.--The
top-seeded Universal pictures
team from California and equal
ly favored globe refiners of Mc
pherson, Kas., rode into the quarter-finals
of the National A. A. U.
basketball tournament here today
without a challenge.
Wilh surprising ease, the Hut
chinson, Kas., transits gained the
quarter finals by beating Southern
Oregon Normal, 51 to 29. The
Transits meet Universal tomorrow
night
Cunnigham Sets
Canadian Track
Record Indoors
HAMILTON, Ont., March 20.-(P)-Glenn
Cunningham, the Kan
sas miler, established a new Ca
nadian indoor record for the mile
run tonight In the 93d Highland
ers' meet when he was clocked in
4:1..
The time was eigfft seconds
slower than his world Indoor rec
ord but- good enough to give him
the decision over Gene " Venike
of the University of Pennsylvania,
his leading rival of this winter's
campaign. It was the Kansan's
19th triumph over Venxke in 20
meetings. Wi Daly of' the Uni
versity of Detroit finished third.
The former Canadian record
was 4:18.
PRATES
TROUNCE
-OB0n 8 Plav when Benson put on a
desperate head of steam in the fi
nal period in a valiant but vain ef
fort to topple the Ashland lead.
Benson trailed 11 to 18 at the
close of the third period but made
a gallant stand in the final quar
ter as the Portland champs at
tempted to stay in the running.
Ashland will meet Jefferson,
second in the Portland standings,
this afternoon at 4 o'clock. Ben
son plays Umapine in the conso
lation bracket at 10 o'clock this
morning.
Benson fans sighed wearily as
Ashland scored four points before
Marchi, Tech forward, dropped in
a field goal and then sighed some
more as Ashland worked up an 8
to 2 quarter lead which soon wid
ened into an 11 to 2 lead. Dono
van, sparky Benson forward,
dropped in a field goal followed
by one by Marchi to make the
half time score 14 to 6.
In the third quarter the Ash
land scoring team of Hardy, Hox
le and Hess was checked a little
better by the Benson team. Hoxie
was able to score two field goals
but Benson, suddenly beginning
to fight for a rapidly vanishing
chance at a title, added- five points
to their column for an 18 to 11
halftime score.
The final period was a thriller.
Gregg hit the Ashland loop for a
field goal. Then Hess sank one
for Ashland. A foul Was called on
Jungwirth and Marchi added an
other precious point to Benson's
total. Marchi sank a field goal to
cut the lead to a mere four points.
Soon after Burns let fly with a
long one that, found the hoop.
Benson was only two points be
hind. Time out was called with
seven seconds to play. Woltrlng
took a long shot but it was no
good and bounced off the back
board as the gun ended the game.
Hardy scored eight points for
Ashland while Donovan, Benson
guard, scored seven.
Summary: ,
Ashland (20) (18) Benson
Hoxie 4 F 2 Gregg
Hess 3 .....F 5 Marchi
Hardy 8 C 2 Woltring
Jungwirth G 7 Donovan
Kanasto 3 G 2 Burns
Referee, ; Umpire, Pi
luso.
Columbia Preps March to
28 to 23 Victory in. Opener
With Marshfield Quintet
Bill O'Donnell, tall young Irish
man from Columbia Prep was
last year high individual scorer in
the state tourHament, bid to main
tain his point-garnering record
this year when he scored 21 points
to give his team of green-shirted
Preps a 28 to 23 victory over
Marshfield yesterday.
The vfctory kept the Preps in
the running in the championship
series and they will meet Salem
high at 3 o'clock today. Marsh
field will meet LaGrande in a
consolation series contest at 9
o'clock tonight.
O'Donnell Sure Shot
O'Donnell was a fighting Irish
man yesterday and the Preps may
thank their lucky stars that he
wasn't born a Ginsberg. As pretty
a floor worker as he is a sure
shot O'Donnell was the whole Co
lumbia team. He scored all the
field goals for Columbia.
Marshfield started out in fine
fettle as McCarthy scored a field
goal in the first second. But
O'Donnell and his close checking
Irish got on the trail and the quar
ter ended with the teams tied at
4-all.
Rackleff and McCarthy were
the Marshfield aces who sank
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DIZZY BAFFLES
BABE 1ST DUEL
Bambino's Two Gestures
Are Futile; Held Hitless;
Cards Win, 5-4
By ALAN GOULD
ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., Mar. h
20.-(yP)-Two magnificent but fu
tile gestures today by Babe Ruth
marked the occasion of his first
duel with the .renowned Dizjy
Dean under circumstances unpre
cedented in the annals of Flor
ida's spring "grapefruit league."
For the benefit of a record
breaking exhibition game crowd
of 6,467 fans, who overflowed the
capacity of Waterfront park eiid
made ground rules necessary, -the
big Bambino cracked out two line
drives that would have been home
runs in many major league
grounds. On his first turn at bat
against Dean. Ruth chased Gtce
Moorevto the spectators in dttp
center, then after fouling out
against Dizzy in the fourth, Le
craeked one of wild Bill Halla
han's curves to the ground nn-r
the left field fence. Red Wortt
ington was playing deep enough to
bag that shot and Ruth" then re
tired for the afternoon.
Babe Riding New
Boom, Belief
The fact that the world chtrn
pion St. Louis Cardinals, who hae
been in a slump and harassed by
injuries, finally nosed out tbe
Boston Braves. 5 to 4, was en
tirely subordinate to the first
spring showing of the Ruth-Dan
rivalry. The crowd's enthusiasm
testified to the exceptional inter
est generated by these two nation
al league personalities and club
owners accepted the evidence
proof that the Babe is riding a
new baseball boom.
Dean held the Babe hitless and
the Braves runless for the five tu
nings he worked but he was out
pitched by Huck B.etts, Boston
right hander, who yielded only
one hit, Joe Medwick's double,
while Dizzy was being touched
for three sane blows.
Cincy Reds Force
Yanks. 13 Innings
TAMPA. Fla., March 20.-p)-After
building up a long lead in
the first three Innings, the Xew
York Yankees were forced to vo
13 innings to defeat the Cincin
nati Reds 13. to 11 today in ta.
exhibition game that took three
hours and eleven minutes to pJ-y.
field goals and free throws in the
second period to give the Piraus
a slight lead during most of it.
Then O'Donnell was away to the
races for a field goal and seconds
later dropped in another to make
the half time score even tip at
13-13.
O'Donnell sank three In a row
soon after the third period had
opened to give the Preps a six
point lead and they led 22 to 18
at the end of the third quarter.
Fouls Numerous
Juntena. Marshfield guar !,
sank a basket early in the final
period to bring Marshfield within
two points of the galloping Irish.
It was the closest Marshfield ever
got and the last part of the game
degenerated into a series of fouls.
McCarthy, who scored 10 points,
was the outstanding Marshfield
player.
Summary:
Marshfield (22) (28) Col. Twp
Smith 4 F J. Healy
Rackleff 5 F 1 O'Neal
Conrad C 21 O'Donnell
Ring 2 G W. Healy
McCarthy 10 .. .G '3 Globen
S 3 Hoffman
Juntena f S
Referee, Leeding; umpire, Piluso.
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