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PAGE EIGHT Yhe OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Saturday Morning, April 6, 1935 League Openers dire ' Today; Fan Interest Greater DUCKS PLAY IN OAKLAND PARK Split Week Series, Tighter Race in Prospect Will Lure, Customers By RUSSELL J. NEWLAND SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.-(P) -Bolstered by new players, split week series and added bleacher accommodations, all calculated to arouse interest in a baseball fan dom dropsy for several years, ' the Pacific Coast league will cel ebrate its 33d opening! tomorrow. The class AA circuit, one of the first if not the first in or : ganized baseball to get under way, will start the; turnstiles clicking in four California cities, as customary. Opening series will find Hol lywood at Los Angeles, Portland at Oakland, Seattle at Sacramen to and the Missions and Seals, home town rivals, at San Fran cisco: Shortened series, of three and four games each week, will be played for tbe first time since the league was established in 1903. With two visiting teams each week, directors of the loop -confidently believe interest in the national pastime will reach a new high. The mid-winter trading marts provided, many new faces; tie-ups with big league clubs contributed others and the sand lots produced enough youngsters to enable the eight teams to present sharply remodeled squads this season. Five New Managers Will Be Introduced Five clubs will introduce five - new managers, officially. Frank "Lefty" O'Doul, former; big league star, returns to the club he start ed with in 1917 as pilot of the seals. Ray Shellenback. veteran spitball pitcher of Hollywood, .steps up as manager of his club, while his predecessor, Oscar Vitt, who played with Detroit in the days of Ty Cobb, takes charge at Oakland. "Buddy" Ryan, out of baseball several seasons but for mer manager of Sacramento, re turns as head of the Portland team. Elwood "Kettle" Wirts, Sacramento catcher, has been pro moted to leadership status. Jack Lelivelt of Los Angeles, "Dutch" Ruether of Seattle and Gabby Street of the San Fran , cisco Missions are holdover man agers who do not intend to be 6hunted into the background. While Los Angeles is generally favored to win its third straight pennant, the race shapes up as an airtight affair for the 24 weeks. Los Angeles lost several stars while most of the- other clubs have strengthened their v rosters. Probable First Day Batteries Listed The usual opening day cere monies will be held with Gover nor Frank Merriam slated to pitch the first ball at Sacramento. Probable opening day batter ies: Hollywood at Los Angeles Campbell and Desautels; Garland and Veltman. Seattle at Sacramento Pillette and Splndel or Bottarinl; Her ring and Beres. Portland at Oakland Bryan and Cronln; Tobin and McMul lenT Missions at San Francisco Beck and Outen; Cole and Wood-alL t - - I Picard Leads; Bobby Shines For One Nine By ALAN GOULD AUGUSTA, Ga., April 5. For little more than an hour to 4 day the tun penetrated the low hanging clouds and the great Bob . Jones' projected a flash-back of his one-time championship skin V ; against the gray hack-drop of the; ; Augusta National Golf club's $$. . 000 invitational tounrnament be fore yielding the low scoring hon . : . ors for the second straight day to Henry G. Picard of Hershey, Pa. ' i For the first time since he re ' tired as champion of the world five years ago, the 33-year-old Atlanta lawyer shot the kind of golf that made him famous. Ne , gotiatlng the outward nine In 33, - three under par, Jones flung a be lated challenge to the! all-star Oeld. j . Jones faltered on the home stretch and was overtaken by an other sudden attack of tha put ling Jitters. He struggled in fin ally with a par 72 but he had dis sipated his hard-won advantage. Ruefully he admitted he was "Just a nine-holf golfer". With total of 146 for 36 holes, the halfway stage of the tournament, Jones was tied for ' 18th place in a field of 65. He .was exactly 11 strokes behind Pi . card, the tall, youthful pro who added a 8, four under par, to his previous day's record score of 67 and took a strangle-hold on first place with the amazing total of ' ; 135. - Picard finished today; with a tour-stroke lead over the field, His nearest rivals were RayMan grum,, slim Texan who Dow lives in Los Angeles, and stocky Gene Sarazen, former open king.. . MRS. LIFUR CHAMP SAN FRANCISCO, April 5.- -In a surprising upset, Mrs. Greg Lifur of Los Angeles won the state women's' golf championship today by defeating Mise! Dorothy Traung, San Francisco,! 1 up in the 36 hole finals. ' Too Late to Classify Lady wishes housework or. hour Woric. 54 Kearney Street. Caustic c 0. S. C. ; state tennis league is aiTICS Oil promising idea. By CAUSTIC Well, all the students down at Oregon State needed was a little prodding to come through with their five dollars-for stu dent body tickets. Threat of suspension of baseball, track, tennis, golf and the campus daily made the boys and girls flock to the graduate manag er's office to save the day nd keep the reputation of O. Si C. bright and shining. O Somebody up at University of Portland (gosh darn, we can't get over thinking of that place as Columbia) got a bright idea when they thought up the scheme of an Oregon state collegiate tennis league. Graduate "managers and tennis coaches from eight Oregon schools will meet there today. If the plans go through, and they Reed Ready; Is Billed to Oppose Hall Robin Reed, reported to be now fully recovered from ail ments that caused him to miss a series of mat engagements, will meet Stacey Hall in the main event of Tuesday night's American Legion wrestling exhibition at the armory. Hall, who defeated Lightning Rod Fenton last week, has been building up his grappling repu tation by leaps and bounds and other football tactics. ' Both Reed and Hall are for mer college amateur champions, Reed at Oregon State and Hall at Ohio State. Hall is also an adept at the fisticuffing art, hav ing once held an amateur boxing championship. There will be a 45 -minute semL-windup and a 30 - minute opener on the card. Whitman Takes Idaho Vandals For Two Rides WALLA WALLA, Wash., April 5.-0P)-The Whitman Missionaries followed up their opening game baseball victory over the Univer sity of Idaho Vandals by taking a doubleheader, 4-1, 5-4, from the Idaho nine today. Webb, stocky Indian twirler, in the box for Whitman, held "the Vandals to five hits and one run in the first tilt and helped win his own game by batting 1.000, in cluding a three-bagger in his stick performance. Whitman won yes terday to 1. Lazzari Drives' Five Men Home BIRMINGHAM. Ala., April 5. VP) Tony Lazzeri drove in five runs today as the New York Yan kees came, from behind to tie the score in the ninth and then count five times in the tenth to defeat the Birmingham Barons 12 to 7. Lazzeri sent two runs across the plate in the first with a sin gle, another in the fifth with a triple and two more in the ninth with another one-bagger to knot the count. Mule Resigns as Spalding Mentor PEORIA, m., April MiR-John A. Noppenberger, a lineman on the famous "four horsemen" team at Notre Dame, today resigned as coach at Spalding Institute where he has had extraordinary success in football and basketball during the past seven years. He, said he plans to make other coaching connections. Read. ..Come, ..to Iff BISHOP'S Great Style Revue Spring Also gg iillllllilii "Or else" methods, result in salvation of activities at probably will, It will give the rac queteers something, to work for. Tennis among the smaller colleges has heretofore been somewhat haphazard. The . Northwest con ference had its annual meet but there wasn't any organized com petition among the Oregon colleg es alone. Willamette plays the peni tentiary team today. As usual the game will be played within walls. Long-continued efforts to get a home and home ar rangement have failed. Tbe prisoners' team has always been in favor of Outfielders chasing balls as far as they go on the theory that over the fence is out. News about the prison ball club doesn't filter ont very readily so we haven't much advance information. Ball Carrier Being Sought For Webf eet EUGENE, Ore., April S-Jt)-Spring football practice at Uni versity of Oregon has brought out a dozen candidates for ball carrying berths, Coach Prink Cal lison announced today. In quest of someone to replace Van Vliet who. was lost by gradu ation, a number of transfers are being groomed. Bob Braddock from Southern Oregon Normal, Fred Petterson from Eastern Oregon Normal, Bobby King from Glendale junior college and Bud Simpson from Santa Monica Jun ior college are newcomers. Back. Reischman, Patrick and Lopez are returning veterans while Goodin, LaSalle, William son and Browning are up from the freshmen. Transfers also have swelled the ranks of tackle candidates to 11. Portland U. Will Open Its Season Monday, Pacific PORTLAND, Ore., April 5.-JP) -With big Bill "Lefty" Hatch on the mound, the University of Port land opens a 20-game baseball schedule, against Pacific univers ity at Forest Grove Monday. Last year Hatch won all his starts. Coach Gene Murphy be lieves this year's team will be stronger than his team last year which lost only to Willamette un iversity and Oregon State college. One of the most promising new comers is "Fat" House, 260 pound first socker who bit .475 last season in the Tri-County league of southwest Washington. Crackers Mean To Lefty Grove ATLANTA, Ga., April 5.-(fP)-Bob "Lefty" Grove, the Boston Red Sox' major pitching problem, received harsh treatment today from the Atlanta Crackers, who gained a 4-2 victory in a six-inning game that was shortened by rain and darkness. Grove worked but two innings and the Crackers belted him for six hits. Service Station Softballers Win The Pete's Place softball nine made a merry-go-round of the Woolen Mills diamond yesterday to wallop the newly organized Ladd & Bush team 20 to 7. 'Stub" Dracy frnd- Mlckenham each gained a circuit clout for Pete'a jeutHt, The batteries were: Pete's -. Place, Mlckenham and Kelley Ladd Bush, Cave and McCune. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT Featuring s Smartest Styles for "Kenny" Allen Salem's Wonder ELSINORE THEATRE MONDAY N1TE 8:30 MEDICA TIES AQUATIC TITLE Swims 200-Yard Free Style in 2:10.8, Best Time in Competition NEW YORK, April 5-(fl")-Jack Medica, 20 - year - old Seattle streak, dethroned Walter Spence of New York as national A. A. U. 200-yard free style champion to night. Hailed as the country's fore most free-style swimmer, Medica was pushed all the way, first by young Johnny Macionis of Yale and then by Jimmy Gilhula of the University of Southern Cali fornia, and was clocked in the re markably fast time of two min utes 10.8 seconds, fastest 200 ever made in competition. ' Medica's time was 1.8 seconds slower than Johnny Weismuller's world record of 2:09 flat but A. A. U. officials hailed it as an even greater performance, since Weismuller's record was hung up from a flying start in a solo time trial. Gilhula, after a slow start, fin ished in whirlwind style to take second place with Macionis third, Ralph Flanagan of Miami fourth and Spence fifth. While Walter Spence thus was losing his second title in as many nights, the Spence family other wise dominated tonight's finals. L e o n a r d Spence came within three-tenths of a second of his own world record in retaining the 220-yard breast stroke cham pionship in 2:43.8 with Jack Hig gins of Providence second and Jack Kasley of Michigan third. TO Mill CITY ROAD SUVER, April 6 The Car nett Lumber company shipped a car load of dressed lumber Tues day to Mill City to be used there in construction work on the rail road. Mrs. Johnson who recently purchased the Larson property occupied by C. D. Richie and family has opened a general store In the old postoffice building. The late Mr. Larson operated a store for some time in the build ing and was also postmaster. Mrs. W. J. Kerr's mother, Mrs. Anna Brown has been ill and confined to her bed the last five days. Mrs. Laura Hurd returned home late Tuesday afternoon from Elkton where she had accom panied her daughter, Mrs. Addle Harden for a two weeks visit. Mrs. Miles Davis is confined to her bed again for a week on doc tor's orders. She has been ill the past three months with heart trouble. Miss Vivian Cartier, teacher, re ports a new pupil in the 8th grade, Howard Johnson, whose parents recently moved Into this com munity. Molalla Barely Defeats Indians MOLALLA, Ore., April 5.--The Molalla Buckaroos won a slugfest from the Chemawa Indian school baseball team 14 to 12 here yesterday. In the ninth Erland tripled with two on to end the game. AT GRANGES MEET FAIRFIELD, April 6. The fol lowing grangers from Fairfield attended the Grange Council at Chemawa Wednesday. They are Mrs. Ward Lunday, Mrs, C. E. Al lenback, Mrs. M. J. Mahoney, Mrs. B. C. Hall and Mrs. Allyn Nusom; During the last' few years in which government trappers have operated In ? Pecos county, Tex. 8,759 coyotes and 1,220 bobcats have been removed. LUMBER IS SIPPED u4i Men y Tenor fjj '2SSS8SS88SSSSS.-: f College .Basketball is Kept Safe for Tall Men; Keyhole Limit Change Recommended By PAUL MICKELSON CHICAGO, April 5. - () - Col lege basketball was kept safe and open for the towering cen ters today although action was started to apply the brakes to their scoring rampages under the basket from the pivot post posi tion. By the surprisingly narrow margin of five votes, 32 to 27, delegates to the National Associ ation of Basketball Coaches' con vention voted down the Califor nia proposal to eliminate the cen ter jump except at the start of games, the second half and at the beginning of overtime. A few minutes later, the dele gates capped a tormy debate by T SMflW Auto racing, which thrilled thousands of Oregon fans last summer will again be offered to speed enthusiasts with the open ing of the 1935 season slated for the Speed Bowl near Portland, Sunday, April 7. Bobby Rowe, under whose direction the races are held, will offer a sparkling list of racing kings for the initial meet. Many of the finest car pilots In the northwest and California have either arrived In Portland or sent in signed entry blanks. Drivers In trial spins at the Speed Bowl track, located a short distance north of Gresham and just south of Base Line road, have pronounced the track In perfect condition. Several of the favorites of the 1934 racing session will be driv ing in the races Sunday including such well known pilots as Armand Mlllen, Bob Scoville. Jimmy Wil burn, Bob Strong, Del Valentine, Devon Smith and the spectacular Steve Sahllnger. The opening races of the sum mer series are to start promptly at 1:30 with the initial event, the time, trials, heading the program iiiiie Shoe Ready to STIR Featuring All New York Styles voting to recommend to the na tional rules committee that a rule be enacted whereby no of fensive player, with or without the ball, may remain for more than three successive seconds within the free throw area of his opponent, except to pursue a loose ball. The recommendation, aimed strictly at the big men who hold the pivot post positions, was expected to be made a hardwood law by the rulesc ommittee, which meets in New York Sunday and Monday. Except for a recommendation that technical fouls be called against players who step across the Jump circle (an Imaginary circle) on a jump ball, no other changes were suggested. LYON MID FAMILY MOVE FROM LYONS LYONS, April 5. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lyon and family, who have spent the past two years on the small farm belonging to Mrs. Charles Ransom of Aumsville, are moving to Mill City next week. Mr. Lyon has part time work at the mill in Mill City and the children attend high school there. The Lyons grange met at the I. O. O. F. hall for its regular meeting Wednesday night. A good attendance of members and several visitors were present. A delegation from the Lyons M. E. church attended a church bus iness meeting at the Stayton church Wednesday evening. Rev. George Cole is pastor for both churches, with residence in Stay ton. A number of the women from Lyons and vicinity drove to the Albert Julian home and surprised Mrs. Julian. A pleasant social time was enjoyed. Clarence Jungwirth went to Jordan Monday to take a young horse to Sam Jungwirth. Mr. Jungwirth purchased the fine an imal from Mr. May who lives on the Carl McGhee farm east of Ly ons. F5V lrnce Go's Wear Shoes and Hose Monday at the ssinore Uliieafore Kennie Allen and Band IdberhT BIFF JONES WILL NORMAN, Okla., April S-OTV Out of a snarl of war department red tape, the University of Okla homa plucked today a famous football coach Capt. Lawrence "Biff" Jones. The long-awaited formal an nouncement of the change came from the war department in Washington. In Oklahoma City, the university board of regents voted unanimously for the em ployment of Jones, who comment ed in Baton Rouge, "I am glad of the opportunity offered by the transfer." Captain Jones will be trans ferred at once from Louisiana State, where he tired of the dic tatorial tactics of Senator Huey Long. When the former Army mentor takes over the football reins next fall, he will find a wealth of soph omore material, described by the retiring coach, Lewis Hardage, as the "best I ever saw." HOLDS SEWING BEE BROOKS, April 5. Mrs. Wayne Gibson was honored with a handkerchief shower Thursday afternoon at the regular meeting of the Ladies' Aid society, the oc casion being her birthday. The afternoon was spent sewing and in social conversation. Refreshments were served to Mrs. A. E. Harris and Mrs. S. A. Harris. Tbe next meeting will be held in the church April 11. Mrs. James Riggl. who suffer ed a stroke of paralysis a week ago Is Improving satisfactorily, and will be able to be up in a few days. Frank Ramp who fell and Injured his hip about two weeks ago is improving slowly. Mrs. Kate Lincoln of Pipestone, Minn., is visiting her sister, Mrs. Robert Crawford and Mrs. A. B. Harris. Mrs. Lincoln and Mrs. Harris were neighbors In Minne sota. The W. C. T. U. will meet In the Brooks Methodist church Tuesday afternoon. Everybody i3 Invited. BROOKS TS . HAZEL GREEN, April 5. The English class gate program m the school Wednesday afternoon, in charge of Ward Miles, chair man; Edward Tada and Frank Miles. The numbers were: Pi ano solo, Marian Wampler; read ing, Carolyne Kasper; play, "Thrift Week"; duet, Ward and Frank Miles; piano solo, Hilda Slattum; reading, Donald Dunni gan; an Indian play,"The Tribe Shall Pass"; group singing by the school. The casts for the jlays were: Thrift Week', Maxine Wolf, Helen Zielinskl, Lillie Yoshikal, Shirley Johnson, Rose and Mary Ziebart, Celia Kasper, Dorthy and Harritt Dunnlgan, Geneva Van Cleave, Leona Earl; "The Tribes Shall Pass," in costume. Chief. Black Heron, Edward Yada; Silver Reed, Yoshie Yoshikai; the Medicine Man, LaRoy Duda; Gedona, a young Indian brave, Waldo Gil bert; warriors, Archie Rutherford, Sandford Mio, Hubert Asplnwall, Donald Zielinskl, Clinton Wamp ler. Mrs. Ross Miles furnished music tor the play. REDS WIN MOUND DUEL SAVANNAH, Ga., April 5.-JF) -Pulling out of numerous holes with the aid of snappy fielding Si Johnson pitched the Cincinnati Reds to a 1 to 0 victory over the Detroit Tigers in an exhibition game here today. SOX6WAT PIRATES FORafTWORTH, ex., April 5.-(P)-BonTbarding the Pittsburgh slabmen for 21 hits, the Chicago White Sox today lambasted the Pirates 14 to 5. Vern Washing ton led the Chicago artillery with four hits. OPENER RAIXED OUT EUGENE, Ore., April &.-JP)-The baseball game scheduled for today between University of Ore gon and Linfield college was post poned because of wet grounds. A double header was set for here to morrow. Enthusiasm for polo at Dun can, Okla., has resultal in con struction of a new field on which a dozen players with 30 ponies practice regularly. 2V n 'ft! ma si PRESENT PROGHAM