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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Friday Morning, May 17. 1935 ies ; Opees. Here' Todays at 3i3 saom Favorites Come fhrough as Biedalists in State H.$. GoU L Tourney PAGE TWELVE Divi GliampioiisHp Willamette Needs Both of ; Games for Title; Burch to Start First One If , the grim gods that hold the packer strings, of the rain bags cit . tight, j, and smile Willamette and College of Puget Sound base ball team will -meet on Olinger field at 3:30 o'clock today in the first game of a two-game championship series. The cham pionship at stake is of the west ern division of the Northwest conference. The winner will play Whitman, winner of the eastern division, next week at Walla Wal la for the conference crown. ; Loss of one game would drop the Bearcats from the champion ship race so the Willamette nine will approach the plate today and , tomorrow with dogged determin ation to blast the Logger hurlers from the mound. Puget Sound; which has played more games than Willamette, could drop one without affecting its chances for the Walla Walla jaunt. i Both the Bearcats and the Loggers boast this year of out standing teams. Coach Sandberg's team, besides winning from University of Washington and Washington State, took three out of four from Whitman. Willam ette is undefeated in the con ference and has lost only one game, that an extra-inning con test to the University of Oregon. Burch Starts Opener Don Burch, veteran Bearcat right-hander, will start on the mound for the Bearcats in to day's game. Burch has been putting- good stuff on the ball this season, losing only one game. He has started or gone in in a re lief role in all but two of the games this season. George Er ickson, who has lately been show ing some of the stuff that made him and Andy Peterson an un- beatable mound staff several years ago, will probably see ac tion. Coach Roy Sandberg has a pitching staff of five right-handers from which to choose his starting hurler. While StapleB, Logger "iron man," has been re ported as out with injuries, he may be seen in one of the games. Kagan. a sensational freshman, may start today. Burch can rely on excellent support, as the Bearcats have cut down errors to a minimum. In the last three games only three bobbles have been chalked up against the Willamette nine. The infield, which "Spec" Keene believes compares with any he has ever had, is adept at turning hits into easy outs. Willamette's batting has had an upward swing in the last games. Against Pacific last Fri day the Bearcats boomed out 14 bits. Manning. Aden and Ora rec lead in hitting. Independence Polk County Track Champ MONMOUTH, May 16. Inde - pendence high school won the Polk county track and field meet here yesterday, scoring 54 points. Dallas was second with 374, Monmouth third with 30, and Falls City fourth with 9. Inde pendence won six first places and Dallas fire. County trophies for the school year were presented by County Superintendent Josiah Wills fol lowing the meet. Dallas received the Softball and basketball tro phies, Monmouth) the baseball award and Falls City the cup for "B" league basketball. Summary: , 50-yard dash Won by McCuis ton. Falls City; Moreland, Man mouth; .Pomeroy, Independence; 5.8. 100-yard dash Won by Were line. Independence; Tung, Inde pendence; Pomeroy, Indepen dence; 10.7. 220-yard dash Won by Wood man, Dallas; Pomeroy, Indepen dence; Rlddell, Monmouth; 25.1. 440-yard dash Won by Cox, Independence;' Voth, Dallas; Par ' ker, Monmouth; 57.2. 880-yard run Won by Wood man, Dallas; -McGee, Monmouth; Cox, Independence; 2:16.5. 120 high hurdles Won by Johnson, Monmouth; Blanchard, D a 1 1 as; Tung, Independence; - 220 low hurdles Won by Yung, Independence; Cox, Inde pendence; Constant, Indepen dence, and Blanchard. Dallas, tied for third; 29.1. Pole vault Won by Burelback, Dallas; Woodman, Dallas; Corn stock, Monmouth. Height, 9 feet. ; High Jump Haener, Indepen dence, and Johnson, Monmouth, tied for first; Comstock, Monmouth,- and Newton, Indepen dence, tied for second; 5 feet 2M Inches. - Broad jump Won by John son, Monmouth; Woodman, Dal- las; ' Moreland, Monmouth; 18 feet 8 Inches. Shot put Won by Haener, In dependence; Harris, Dallas; Rld dell, Monmouth; 38 feet 8 inches. Discus Won by Joslln, Dallas; Syrerson, Independence; McCuis ton. Falls City; 94 feet 11 inches. Javelin Won by Syrerson, In dependence; Brown, Falls City; Joslin, Dallas; 131 feet. Relay Won by Independence. Time, 1:42. - - Will Southpaws Scuttle Pirates? -By BURNLEY-- ftfJ-t If l V A t L l J iff JIW J MAMY LETT HANDED till I -AV HlTTEfS-Wiu. THE Scarcity UJ Jl Tfj i OF RSHr HANDED BATTERS' (AS sJS C N TWE PIRATE LlAiE-UP MAKE THEM si JZf?ge E"AS roR- SOUTHPAW PiTCHERs ? ILs VKc may cop iOK Jkm -WE AI-L. BATDAIG KlMfJ-AWo7?R PITTSBURGH POfZTSlDE 19)). Kin rintura SrnUcut, hi. Cm kiuua BOSS PIE TRAYNOR of the bold bad Pirate crew hopes to have the pennant flag as well as the Jolly Roger flying from the masthead of the good ship Pitts burgh next September, but accord ing to baseball sharps, the Bucca neers have one fatal flaw that may scuttle their flag hopes. This is the overwhelming predom inance of left-handed stick wielders in the Smoky City batting order, which figures to make them duck soup for those elbowers who toss them np from the wrong side. It's a cinch that there is a lot of truth in the theory that left-handed hitters are under a handicap when Caustic c arries on By CAUSTIC Football and basketball coach es "point" their teams for games against traditional rivals or teams known to be hard to beat. The Willamette golf team has been "pointing" toward its match with Puget Sound. It was all it could point to for the match is the sole divot dual on the Bearcat sched ule this season. When Bob Utter, captain of the Willamette mashie swingers, broke his ankle all bets and matches were called off ex cept the set-to with Puget Sound. Freaks Have Slim Chance Coach Avers BERKELEY. Cal.. May lS.-P) Athletic freaks, except in rare Instances, will never fit into the track and field picture, Coach Brutus Hamilton of the Univer sity of California predicted to day, because he thinks this class of competition is for average built, ordinary humans. "The law of physiological com pensation takes -care of the ath letic freaks," he said. "If they excel in one phase they usually are weak in another. "The case of Jack Torrance is a slight exception. He weighs 300 pounds and is of extraordi nary strength, factors which have enabled him to set the world's shotput record. But it be had the form and coordination of John Lyman, the former Stan ford boy, he should be able to break 60 feet every time he tried. "I, am inclined to think the shotput is the least developed of all events and when and If the record Is broken it will be by a fellow weighing between 190 and 220 pounds. "Praetkally all of the record holders are average humans so far as physical makeup goes." An athlete of this mold wiU break the present 100-yard dash record of 9.4, Hamilton believes. A sprinter seven feet talL cap able of taking 12-foot strides, would stand less chance of crack ing the record than an ordinary Individual, he says, because: "The whole science of sprinting Is to have reasonably long strides and minimum period of suspension. A runner must not be In the air too long. Yon can't jump as fast as you can run SUATSflTH" nflaa niinit. facing southpaw slingers, and the National League master minds will fire many a forkhander at that southpaw batting order of the Pi rates. Both the Waners, Babe Herman, Arky Vaughan and Gus Suhr hit 'em from the south side, and Boss Pie Traynor is about the only dan gerous right-handed batsman in the line-up. Traynor in&ists that he is not worried by the repeated doses of left-handed pitching to which the Pirates are being treated, and ! he points out that there are only a few cockeyes who are really to be feared in the National loop. Pie's chief worry, of coutsb, is W. U. divoteers pointing all season for Logger contest, only one; big league scouts watching wrong collegians. Utter's ankle is now fully able to perform without benefit of crut ches and the Sounders are in the offing. The Bearcat lone match will be played Saturday on the Sa lem golf club course. A Portland chain letter brok er sadly discovered after he was closed up that le was ont DO dollars. A case where the brok er was broker. The suckers, however, were still Backers. We would like to inquire of Steve Stone of the Capital Journal if the Maxburg from which George W. Scramlin, baseball lover extraordinary hails is the same Macksburg (or Maxsburg) that has been troubling the orth ographlc department of The Statesman for many moons. Whe ther the burg belonged to Mack or Max has been a moot point. We finally gave the place a Scottish origin and settled on Mack, but it still might be Teutonic and be the property of Max. This Just to even things up because Max al ready had a' villa in Wallowa county, so it was Maxville of Wal lowa and Macksburg of Clacka mas. In a pure spirit of scientific, inquiry we would like to know. A fellow In Astoria got bitten on the nose when he tried to kiss a girl. Some fellows have kissed a girl and bad their ear chewed for the rest of their born days. College baseball that is baseball will be seen today. If it doesn't rain, when the Bearcats attempt to shiver the timbers of the Log gers. A look at the record, a la Al Smith, will convince most anyone that these two teams, Willamette and Puget Sound, are Just about as good college teams as the Northwest has turned out this year. The big league scouts that watched Oregon and Washington play the other day wouldn't be wasting time if they took in this series. - Polk and Yamhill Champs to Clash MONMOUTH, May 1 6. Coach Egelston will take his baseball team, champions of Polk county. to Amity Friday to play Amity high, the Yamhill county champs. Monmouth went through the sea son undefeated, but In taking on Amity Is biting oft the stlf fest com'vtition of the spring. Carl Hubbell, premier forkhander of the league, and a bad man to right-handed hitters as well as those who hit 'em from the left side. Another hurler who may be a thorn in the side of the Pirates before the season ends is Dutch Brandt, Braves' lefty, who has plenty of stuff and knows what to do with it. However, the Reds have no dtnger ous southpaw, and Pittsburgh doesn't fear Bill Hallahan and Bill Walker of the Cards. It will be interesting to figure up at the end of the season just what the Pirates won and lost average is against southpaw hurling opposi tion. CapTrUM, llli. tint rutura BjvdlaU. lac I TO PLAY BEARCATS McMINNVILLE, Ore., May 18. (JP) Coach Henry Lever today announced that Linfield college, which recently patched up severed athletic relations with Willamette university, has attempted to schedule Willamette in baseball this spring. Willamette and College of Pu get Sound are leading the west ern division of the Northwest conference baseball race with un defeated records. Linfield offered to play the Bearcats on any date convenient to Willamette, and either here or in Salem. Athletic teams from the schools have not met since last football season when the rupture In rela tions occurred. Coach "Spec" Keene of Wil lamette, who received a letter from Coach Lever of Linfield on Thursday suggesting a game, stat ed he would be glad to play if a date could be arranged but point ed out that only a few days re main of the college ball season and the Bearcat schedule for that period is quite crowded. Parrish Retains Unbeaten Honor, Softball League JUNIOR HIGH SOFTBALL W. L. Pet. Parrish ., 5 0 1 3 4 4 1.000 .800 .400 .200 Parrish Sophs .... 4 Leslie 2 Sacred Heart 1 Leslie Sophs 0 .000 Hitting freely the Parrish Jun ior high Softball team retained its undefeated standing by defeating the Secred Heart team 12 to 3 Wednesday. Numerous errors were chalked np against the Aca demy team. The Parrish Sophs, with Litwiller hurling one-hit ball, blanked the Leslie team 6 to 0. MONMOUTH TEAM WINS INDEPENDENCE, May 15. The Monmouth cooperative cream ery softball team defeated the In dependence chamber of commerce nine t to 4 in a league game play ed here last night. Batteries were Harwood, Ashby and Walker tor Independence; Wilson and Wilson for Monmouth. James "wairidge, aged 97, of Ccmpton Dunden; F gland, learn ed to read by studying letters on tombs. - . r RECORDS ILL FALL IN MEET Strongest Array of Track Athletes Ever, to Vie in State Contest EUGENE, Ore., May 16. -Jfj-Tho most talented array of prep track and field stars ever to as semble in Oregon will strain and sweat tomorrow and Saturday as they seek new records in the state high school meet. One of the most dazzling of the potential record breakers is Bob Leslie, 155-pound Klamath Falls lad whose blinding speed carried him through the 100-yard dash in 9.6 seconds in competition this year. One timer caught him in 9.5, but the slower mark was made official. Leslie is co-holder of the state record of 9.9 in the century. While th warm spring weather has moderated, Leslie will 1 have chances in both the preliminar ies and the finals to try for a new mark. Two competitors may enter each event from each district of the state. Preliminary heats will cut contestants to six for the fin als. The athlete with perhaps the best chance to ring up two new reeords is Stand Anderson, 210 pound giant from Roosevelt high in Portland. In competition this year he has put the shot con sistently near 52 feet, more than a foot better than the state re cord, and the discus more than 130 feet, well above the record. Lee Carey of Washington high in Portland hasn't been pressed this year, but at the state meet was expected to better his pole vault record. A number of good distance and middle distance runners from eastern Oregon and other sections promised to make the long races anything but dull. Colonel Bill Hayward, Univers ity of Oregon track coach and veteran Olympic games trainer, is in charge of the meet. He has planned opening ceremonies pat terned after the openings of Olym pic games. PHH RELEASE In Ohio, instead of releasing thousands of young pheasants and other game birds annually just be fore the open season to fall be fore the guns of the greedy sportsmen, these game birds are released after the close of the hunting season, and are thereby carried over for natural propaga tion and given a chance to in crease their numbers before the next hunting season opens, ac cording to word received by W. C. Conner, editor of the Northwest Poultry Journal, Salem. Every county in Ohio receives its pro-rata of game fowl annu ally and the last consignment of young birds released by the Ohio division of conservation included 4050 hen pheasants and 3650 cock birds, a total of 7700. This policy has met with pop ular acclaim among both farmers and sportsmen In Ohio. When game is liberated before the bunt ing season a large percentage is lost for propagation purposes. Ohio also recently released 600 raccoons and 2000 rabbits for pro pagation on the game preserves. Two Actions for Divorce Started DALLAS, May 16. Two suits for divorce have been filed with the county clerk this week. Ola Jonas seeks a complete decree of divorce from V. W. Jonas, custody of two minor children and $40 per month maintenance. She charges him with cruel and inhu man treatment. They were mar ried at Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, Sep tember, 1920. Theresa Lee seeks a divorce from Frank Lee to whom she was married October, 1932, in Mis souri. He deserted her at Inde pendence in September, 1934, the complaint says. There are no property rights of children involved. Hi DIFFERENT They'll Throw Horsehide at Bearcat Batsmen a ' ' - - Mound staff of the College of Puget Sound Loggers. One of the five will start today at 3:30 against the Willamette Bearcats; probably Larry Ilagan, frosh phenom, who fa on the left. The others, reading away from him, are the veteran Jess Brooks who blanked University of .: Washington S to 0; Jack Strickland, frosh from Bremerton; Iron Man Staples, of double header fame, and Otto Smith, another veteran. All are right handers t , Hot Contest Forecast With Qualifying Scores of Seven Teams Close; Eugene Low PROMISES of some hot golf dueling before the state high school golf championship is decided were seen yesterday when seven of the eight teams qualifying, came through with relatively close scores. Eugene's four man team turned in the medal performance of the starting round with a team score of 314 for the 18 holes. O Following Eugene closely was Yankees Hot Though Fans And Day Cool AMERICAN LEAGUE W. 15 : 1 3 L. 6 7 9 10 12 12 14 15 Pet. .714 .650 .571 .565 .478 .478 .263 .250 Chicago . Cleveland Boston ... New York 12 Washington ii Detroit 11 St. Louis '. 5 Philadelphia 5 NEW YORK, May l6.-()-The Yankees came home from the west today to a chilly reception from both the weather and 5.000 fans. They were red-hot themselves, though, as the young lefty, Vito Tamrlis, held the second place Cleveland Indians helpless while the rest of the Yanks belted them around, 10 to 0. The victory provided a nice welcome for Manager Joe McCar thy, who returned to the Yankee bench after a siege of influenza which put him out of action May 1, just before the Yanks started their western trip. Willis Hudlin, Thornton Lee, Clint Brown 'all looked alike to the Yankee club boys who've been struggling for base hits ever since the season started. Bill Dickey led the way with four, two of them doubles, another a triple, in the 15 hit assault. Ben Chapman got a homer and a double, Tony Laz zeri, Myril Hoag, and Earle Combs a couple of hits each, as the Yanks began to look them selves once more. It was young Tamulis third straight victory against no de feats. Cleveland 0 7 1 New York 10 15 0 Hudlin, Lee, C. Brown and Pyt lak; Tamulis and Dickey. Tigers Achieve Tie WASHINGTON. May 1G.-(JP)-Tommy Bridges pitched the De troit Tigers into a tie with Wash ington for fifth place in the Am erican league standing today, holding the Senators to six hits to win, 7 to 2. It was the Tigers' tenth victory in their last 13 games. Washington tossed the game away as early as the second in ning, when three of the six Sen atorial errors gave Detroit a pair of runs. Further misplays con tributed to the scoring of a run in the seventh and two more in the eighth. Detroit 7 8 0 Washington 2 6 6 Bridges and Cochrane; Hadley and Bolton. Hubbard's Grade Ball Team Takes Seventh Victory HUBBARD. May 16. The grade school baseball team defeat ed the St. Benedicts school of Woodburn, 8 to 5, here Wednes day. The game was well played and quite even throughout, but Hub bard managed to pull ahead with the aid of a home run by Ralph Gant. This makes seven victories and no defeats for the Hubbard team this season. ELEVATOR OUT Elevator service will not be available at the courthouse to day. Replacing of the cables used in the elevator since it was in stalled five years ago has been ordered. The work will be han dled by the Otis company which put in the original elevator. Thieves who cut out part of a store window in Wick, Scotland, took the glass with them. Parkrose, the undefeated team that dopesters choose to fight it out with Eugene for the state crown, with a 319. Salem was 8ixth"on the list with a 428 score but its showing was better than the score indicates. The low mark was the result of had luck one player had in losing three balls on the same hole, stroke and dis tance being added for each hall substituted. Other qualifying scores were Milwaukle 325, University high 327, Corvallis 327, Oregon City 330 and McMinville 386.' A drizzling rain that at times turned into a downpour fell con tinually on the Salem golf club course while the qualifying rounds, were being played. As a result scores were considerably lower than they would have been in good golfing weather. "Doc" Neer, Eugene's phenomenal youngster, held individual honors with a 76. Roger Williams, Cor vallis, Byron Jackson", Eugene, Neal Myers, Milwaukie, and Bill Rosson, University hig"-, all broke even with 77s. Salem will meet tough compe tition in the first round match play this morning at 9 o'clock when it is pitted against the strong Parkrose team. Other matches this morninp: are Eugene and Corvallis, Oregon City and Milwaukie, and Uni ersity high and McMinnville. The winners of the morning matches will play in the semi-finals at 2 o'clock this afternoon. Losers will play in i. consolation round. Finals will be played Sat urday morning. mm DEFERTS IT, If ID DUEL NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. New York 13 - 7 Brooklyn 16 9 Chicago 13 8 St. Louis 13 11 Pittsburgh 13 14 Cincinnati 9 13 Boston 6 14 Philadelphia 5 15 Pet. .650 .640 .619 .542 .481 .409 .300 .250 PITTSBURGH. May 16 Tom Zachary, the canny Brooklyn left hander, got the- better of Waite Hoyt in an overtime mound duel between a pair of veterans today and the second-place Brook lyn Dodgers emerged with a 13 inning 2 to 0 triumph over the Pirates. The two old timers, both of whom once pitched for the New York Yankees, put on a great dis play of elbowing over the long route. ' The Pirates had a 12-9 edge in the hitting but after weathering trouble In Ihe first inning, Zach ary didn't allow the Buccos to put together two hits in one in ning until the 12th. His decep tive slants had the Pirates Plas terers, who slammed out 20 runs against the Phillies, lunging and groaning without effect all after noon. Hoyt was even better until an error by Arky Vaughan started the Stengel clan oft on its win ning rally in the 13th. Brooklyn 2 9 0 Pittsburgh .......... 0 12 2 Zachary and Lopez; Hoyt and Padden. Merchants Win Twilight Clash DALLAS, May.6 Ray Boyd ston and his crew of -Merchants defeated Crider's in a regular city league basebaU game Wednesday by a score of 4 to 2. Boydston sent Shelton to the mound to sub due Crider's with John Friesen behind the bat, McCann, at the helm for Crider's ha Witcraft and Goode as his . battery. The Mill and the Merchants -will meet Friday night. 0f I 1 B0UTE?D BLOWS Score 14 to 9 Victory as Five Seal Moundsmen Fail to Stop Them COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Oakland 27 9 .750 Los Angeles 26 14 .650 San Francisco -.20 17 .541 Hollywood : 18 20 .474 Portland 16 21 .432 Sacramento -16 23 .410 Seattle - : -14 22 .389 Missions 14 25 .259 SAN FRANCISCO. May 16.-B) -Portland bludgeoned out a 14 to 9 victory over the San Francisco Seals today in a free hitting af fair that saw the locals call on three right handed pitchers and two southpaws to try to stem the tide. Each put on five run rallies in the second and the visitors went into the lead in the next frame, never to be headed. "Hobo" Car son had to go to the relief of Ed Bryan in the second Inning but while the Seals hit him freely his teammates gave him substantial help in making runs. Portland scored three runs in the seventh after two outs when Steve Barath lost a ball In the sun. Two tallies came over on the bobble and a hit brought in the third. Chalmer Cissell led the visit ors hitting attack with five straight singles. Portland 14 20 1 San Francisco 9 "14 1 Bryan, Carson and Doerr; New kirk. R. Cole, Stutz. Mails, Shee han and Woodall, Monzo. Oaks Clinch Series OAKLAND, Calif., May 1G.-(JF) -Faced with the possibility of los ing their first series of the sea son, the league leading Oakland team went on a batting spree here today to defeat the Mission Reds 10 to 2 and cinch the series. LeRoy Anton. Oak first base man, led the attack with a home run, triple and three singles in five times at bat to make it seven consecutive hits. Stanley Keyes also had honors at batting collecting two home runs over the left field fence and a double. Muller also homed for the Oaks. Missions 2 9 0 Oakland 10 14 2 Nicholas and Outen; Douglas and Raimondi. Angels Bang Ball LOS ANGELES, May 16.-(JP)-A vicious hitting assault which. started out in the first Inning and continued on through the eighth gave Los Angeles the de ciding game of its series with Se attle here today, 13 to 4. The Angels won the contest in the first inning when singles by Marvin Gudat, Gene Lillard, Carl Dittmar and Roy Joiner were coupled with an error, a wild pitch and two walks to score five runs at the expense of Herman Pillette. Seattle 4 15 1 Los Angeles 13 lj 1 Pillette, Henderson, Shea and Bottarini; Joiner and Goebel. Stars Win Tight One SACRAMENTO, May 16. Hollywood defeated Sacramento 3 to 1 here today to take the three game series by the odd game. Paul Gregory lost the game in the eighth when he issued two walks, followed by an infield hit and two outs for the winning' runs. oiwiriM- TO LEAVE Oil TOUIt CORVALLIS. Ore., May -The heavy hitting Oregon State college baseball team left here to night for an eight-day, six-game invasion of Washington and Ida ho, with its conference leadership dangling in the balance. The Beavers meet Washington State at Pullman tomorrow and Saturday, then University of Ida ho Monday and Tuesday at Mos cow and at Seattle University of Washington Thursday and Fri day. The Beavers won six and lost only two in the first half of the schedule. Big bats have been re sponsible for most of the victories. Third Baseman Bob Bergstrom 1 the leading hitter with a .472 av erage. Others who use the willow vi ciously are Ed Creider, first Back er, hitting .441; Dan Mitola. ri ant outfielderwho plays a 338 per cent average with his over sixe bat and Captain George Hib bard, shortstop who Is hitting 387. Bruce Invited to Address Seniors '.DALLAS. ; May 16. For the third successive year. Dr. George W. Bruce of the Mthodist Episco pal church will deliver the bac-' calaureate sermon to the Dallas high school graduating class. The service will be held in the school auKtorlnm, Sunday evening. May 28, at 8 o'clock. The Methodist choir, under direction of Miss Ida ..Miller, will furnish music for -- ui, sruc oas se lected as the topic for his address. I Dare Ton", , ,