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The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morninsr, June 12, 1935 Hoffman and Baer VYani Referee Brought From Honolulu PAGE EIGHT II mwm Braddock Camp Insists on Man Who Can Count 10; Battlers Resting 5TTT a T T T XT TP IT . NEW YORK, June ll.-(The Inevitable holler about referees broke out today to spice the pre liminary maneuvering and inci dentally kept interest alive in Max Baer's heavyweight title de fence against Jimmy Braddock on Madison Square Garden's bowl on Long Island Thursday night. An old situation in a new set ting, Ancil Hoffman, manager of the champion, tore into the New York state athletic commission today and demanded that one of his list of five eligibles be named. - With equal speed and no little uproar the commission promptly sat him down. There was a very definite tongue - in - the - cheek aspect to Hoffman's nominees,, for his first choice was George Blake of Los Angeles, who happens to be sev eral thousand miles away in Hon olulu at the moment, considerable of a hurdle to overcome in 48 hours. The second was Gene Tunney, former heavyweight champion, who has no referee's license. Another was Lieutenant Jack' Kennedy, another Pacific coast ar biter who is with the navy's Pa cific battle fleet, and likewise might have trouble getting here. The other pair were Ed Dicker son of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Lieutenant Commander Jess Ken worthy, naval officer stationed at Washington, D. C Will Re Gothnmite Sternly the commission told Hoffman that a New Yorker would referee, and that if he had any specific objections to any man, the complaints should be filed after the weighing in at the commission offices Thursday aft ernoon. Hoffman is certain to bar -Arthur Donovan, who refer eed the night Baer won the title on an. 11 round teehincal knock out of Primo Camera a year ago. While Hoffman has forgotten that Donovan twice stopped Baer from hitting Camera while the Italian was down thus keeping Max from losing automatically on a foul the referee's score card had five rounds scored for each man at the end of the 10th. Hoff man insists Baer won every round. "If Donovan is in the ring," Eaer said as he rested at Asbury Fark, taking only the lightest exercises. "I'll walk right out of there.' There will be no fight." Hoffman," more composed, said he didn't know what he would do if Donovan was named. Joe Gould, manager of Brad dock, whose workout consisted only of a rubdown, said anybody who could count ten would suit him as referee. Compromise Upon Tipoff Is Proposed SEATTLE, June ll.-)-Nor-thern division coaches and gradu ate managers meeting here today preliminary to the Pacific coast conference session, voted to rec ommend a compromise change in the basketball rules to the south ern division. The annual two day meeting of the conference, which will be at tended by faculty leaders, gradu ate managers and coaches, will open tomorrow. The northern division officials voted to suggest putting the ball in play out-of-bounds after a converted free throw, but return ing to center for the tipoff after a field goal. ' During the last basketball ses sion the southern division used an out - of - bounds play after all scores, and the northern division used the regulation tip-off sys tem. 'v Under a rule adopted by the northern graduate managers, no northern, division baseball team "will be permitted to play any touring team without first obtain ing the sanction of the A. A. U. The meeting starting tomorrow will include delegates from Stan ford, California, JJ. S. C. and U. C. L. A. of the southern sec tion, and Washington Slate, Ida ho, Montana, Oregon, Oregon State and Washington of this re gion. . Legion Juniors ? Practice Today - The Salem American Legion junior baseball club will practice on dinger field at 2:30 o'clock this afternoon. T - team will also practice at $:30 o'clock Saturday morning. The next game for the nine will be against the Mt. Angel Juniors at Mt. Angel Sunday af ternoon at 2:30. Salem has been defeated three times and Sunday's game will be its last. DinkTempleton Faces Operation STANFORD UNIVERSITY, Cal., June ll.-WVR. Lv "Dink" Tem pleton, ailing track and field coach of Stanford, will enter the Palo Alto hospital tomorrow morning for an operation for an Internal disorder, it was announc ed today. Dr. Frits Roth, univer sity physician, will perform the operation. , FINICKY T Will British Tennis Bubble Burst? : Br BURNLEY . tmmmm 5- mtymm B 'iMJiijuiiii iiiMiwii'i i mm m fW -d r red 1 iSy (i MSf" carries bp.itiws imsF Jf Afifl :jk 'ilB cup Hopes om His shoulders Sf V .ifL H5 UAS3ADiy OVR.. I . Si ItN ! j X& LtMBLEDoAJ ITUILL M i V VLA BOOST THZno&KLiroF l v r .s TUE CUP $e:FHDGS.. I M i t'J Title- &j f ia -v-V ' aaski Ktfif Fetuin Sjncxtx, Inc. Gttmt SiiUm nha IN English tennis circles they are beginning to worry a little over prospects of keeping the Davis Cup in the tight little isle for an other year. With the cup defense loeming nearer, the poor playing of Bunny Austin and the erratic work of the great Fred Perry are giving British net followers plenty to think about. Perry, in particular, is somewhat on the spot at present. He was very much overtennissed during his tour of the United States and Aus tralia, losing quite consistently to the Anzac netmen. He is unpopu lar with the-British tennis iublic Caustic c ames on Having got off to a close and dramatic start the Salem softball season will continue today and many days to come along the even (no Oh Yeah's, please) tenor of its ways. The twa baby teams of the league, drafted to fill out the eight required by law, will per form tonight. The Eagles, who were tops In the "B" division of the spring league, will meet Wait's. The Oregon Pulp & Pa per company nine (hereinafter inferred to as the Papermakers) will play Master Bread. The Eagles lost a good many of the heavy hitters (the lead er, Frank Haley, was pound ing the apple at a .637 clip) it had in the spring league but has drafted a lot of new talent. The Papermakers are horses of another color and a very dark color at that. Since they did not play in the spring lea gue little is known of their ability at gaining base hits. C tMTERNATiONAt. HUlSTQATED NtVS UAmc IEI6ER Hank Leiber, the Arizona Adonis, .who turned down a movie career for chance with the Giants, is the serious sincere baH player who is letting the tempo for ail the Giant hitters. He may wird up as the best right-handed slugyjr in the game, ..Ok V rcservtd. because of his rather blustering ways, which don't conform to the English ideal of sportsmanlike be havior. Then, too, Fred did quite a bit of flirting with professional of fers last Winter, and the constant rumors that he was about to turn pro couldn't have helped his popu larity with his fellow-countrymen. Reports that that good-looking Britisher had "gone Hollywood" during his stay in the film capital brought about a break between Fred and his fiancee, which resulted in more unfavorable publicity for the net king in England. All these things cannot have helped Perry's state of mind, and it Baby teams of league will take up softball campaign tonight; Woodburn on way to another J. L. title. However, if they can hit as well as they sold tickets to the opening night they ought to cause any pitcher trouble. They came close to being one of the teams on the opening program with a ticket sale total that came very close to that obtained by Parker's. O Woodburn's Junior legion baseball team seems to be well on its way to another Marion county championship and pos sibly another chance at the na tional championship. Wood burn and Mt. Angel are both undefeated yet, much to Sa lem's expense. After today there will be only one undefeated Jayell team in the county for Woodbvrn and Mt. Angel meet at Mt. Angel today. Salem, with three defeats, is out of the race but has a game with ML Angel Sunday at Mt. Angel. Helen Moody Less Serious About Tennis LONDON, June ll.-()-Helen Wills Moody hasn't dropped a match In her tennis comeback campaign yet but she's In Immi nent danger of losing her old nickname, "Poker Face". In the course of a brilliant -3, 6-1 victory over Ermyntrude Hil day Harvey in the second round of the Kent championships today, the Californian smiled three times and once almost laughed aloud as a high wind played unexpected pranks with the ball. Helen appears to be taking the game much less seriously than she used to. She thoroughly enjoys every point and grins apprecia tively at the crowd's near-idolatrous applause. Although known principally . as a first-rate doubles player, Miss Harvey, a veteran of four British Wightman cup teams from 1925 to 1930, had been expected to give Mrs. Moody a much closer battle. The Englishwoman started well, but folded" up when the former world's champion began hitting with greater severity. Miss Harvey, who won the Am erican doubles championship with Mrs. L. A. Godfree in 1927 and captured three of the four dou bles matches she played In Wight- man cup competition, never real ljr had a chance. Mrs. Moody figures to have small trouble with Nancy Lyie, 25-year old English girl tomor row, but on Thursday she prob ably will be called upon to face Katherine Stammers, ranked No. 3 in Great Britain. will be interesting to see how he performs at Wimbledon later this month. If Perry and Austin go down to defeat in this historic tourney, Brit ish Davis Cup hopes will be dealt a stunning blow. On the other hand, if the reigning No. 1 man of the courts shows his former near invincibility, at Wimbledon, it should prove a tonic to bolster up the rather shaky morale of the de fenders of the Davis Cup. Meanwhile reports persist that whether or not the British retain the trophy, Perry will turn profes sional next Fall. Copyright, 1IJ5. Elm Feature) SrnArite, Ire. Whole Town Will Parade For Juniors MT. ANGEL, June 11. At Its luncheon meeting in the hotel Monday, the Business Men's club decided to make the opening game of the Junior Legion base ball league at Mt. Angel Wednes day a memorable one. All business houses In town will be closed from 2 to 5 p. m. At 3 o'clock a parade will form at the city hall, and members of the Mt. Angel band, fire depart ment, Legion and Business Men's club and citizens will march to the Ebner ball park and give the youngsters a rousing good-will demonstration in their first home game. Paul Schwab is chairman of the committee in charge. The Mt. Angel Legion Junior team gave a good account of it self In its game with the Salem Legion Juniors a week ago Sun day and the game with Wood- burn Wednesday promises to be interesting. Chamber Kitball Team Still Tops League Players INDEPENDENCE, June 11. The Independence Chamber of Commerce kitball team still holds the league lead, defeating the Safeway team Monday night, 9 to 1. Harwood and Mort comprised the battery for the Chamber; Dunckel, Burch and DeCoster for Safeway. - ; : ; t - ft i't, I " "it Vr- -'H- r t. ' i, ,r. " . y ......a ' i - & - S ..I' 1 Kelly Petillo of Los Angeles won the Memorial Day Indianapolis speedway automobile classic at the record-shattering average speed of 106.210 nOles an hour as a crowd of 150,000 watched. This picture shows the finish of the race, with Petlllo's rar just about to cross the finish line. Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis was second. Bill Cu minings, 1034 winner, third, and Floyd Roberta of Lo Angeles, fourth. International Illustrated Kcws Photo. , 111 DETROJTTIICE Athletics and Yankees Win Both Ends of Bargain Days in American AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 30 18 Chicago 25 19 Cleveland 24 21 Boston ... 25 22 Detroit .... 24 22 Washington 22 25 Philadelphia 19 25 St. Louis 13 30 Pet. .625 .568 .533 .532 .522 .468 .432 .302 DETROIT, June 11. - (-The Boston Red Sox turned in some snappy fielding and timely hit ting behind Robert "Lefty" Grove and Wesley Ferrell this afternoon to take both ends of a double header from Detroit, 3 to 1 in the opener, and 5 to 2 in the tightcap. Grove, the old "fireball-' pit cher, turned in a five hit per formance in the first game to beat Lefty Joe Sullivan, and his teammate Ferrell pitched another five hitter In the afternoon to get the decision over Alvin Crow der. Boston 3 6 1 Detroit 1 6 0 Grove and R. Ferrell; Sulli van, Auker ana Hayworth. Boston 5 8 1 Detroit 2 5 3 W. Ferrell and R. Ferrell; Crowder, Hogsett and Cochrane. Athletics Win Two CLEVELAND, June 11. - (P)- The Philadelphia Athletics walk ed off with both games of a double header with tho Indians today, winning the first 4 to 2, and the second 5 to 1. Johnson's homer scored three of the five Philadelphia runs in the second game. Philadelphia '. 4 11 0 Cleveland 2 11 1 Blaeholder, Benton and Rich ards; Hudlin and Pytlak. Philadelphia 5 12 0 Cleveland 1 7 0 Mahaffey and Berry; C. Brown. Pearson, Lee and Brenzel, Pytlak. Simmons Regains V.ye CHICAGO, June ll.-(P)-The White Sox divided a double head er with Washington before 10, 000 fans today, winning the sec ond game 9 to 3, after losing the frec-hittlng opener, 9 to 8. Al Simmons, the White Sox' $27,500-a-year outfielder, snap ped out of the protracted slump that had tumbled his average to .250, to lead the Chicagoans' clouting with five hits, including a homer with the bases filled in the first game and a homer with two on In the second game. Washington 9 15 1 Chicago S 8 2 Linke, Burke, Bean and Hol brook; Fischer, Tietje and Sewell. Washington 3 7 1 Chicago 9 14 0 Coppola, Burke and Bolton; Phelps and Sewell. Yankees Win Both ST. LOUIS, June ll.--The New York Yankees swept both games of today's double header with the St. Louis Browns, tak ing tho nightcap 9 to 3 with Tito TamulU turning in his sixth victory of the season after they won the opener 7 to 4. New York 1 12 0 St. Louis ' 3 Ruffing and Dickey; Knott, Andrews and Hemsley. New York 9 H 0 St. Louis 3 8 0 Tamulis and Dickey; Van Atta. Andrews, Weiland, Cain, Thoraas and Hemsley, Heath. Specht Is Hero Of Artisan Win Over Druggists SILVERTON, June 11. The Artisans made it three games in a row by defeating Steelhammer's Monday night, 7 to 5. Raymond Specht of the Artisans made four hits out of 5 times at bat; Ben nett, catcher for Steelhammer's. knocked a home run in the third with two men on. Batteries Artisans, A. Canoy and L. Specht; Steelhammer's', G. Wills and Bennett. Umpire, Norman Eastman. Petillo Wins 500-Mile Mat Antics Rougher, Crowd Likes It; Elliott Defeats Jackson at His Own Game SALEM wrestling fans appetite for action, .evidenced by the capacity crowd after last week's thriller, was whet ted last night in the wildest and wooliest mat exhibition stag ed here in years. Littlecould the fans tell whether it was wrestling or alley fighting but the reaction was terrific. Harry Elliott's victory over Jackson last week, when the Grand avenue caveman wasO beaten to the canvas by a bar rage of chairs hurled by irate fans, was demonstrated to be no fluke as the former University of Oregon grappling coach grabbed the deciding fall in last night's tussle. Jackson took the first fall with a choke hold which Referee Noel Franklin was unable to break before Elliott gave up. The second was over quickly however when Elliott won with a series of Sonnenbergs. The former Oregon mat tutor grabbed the third toss when he employed Jackson's favorite ham merlock and stomped on the in jured arm. Jackson conceded de feat. The main go, regardless of its wildness, was forced to take sec ond honors for action by the semi-windup between Dish Face Powers and Dorrio Detton. The actions of Powers in the battle, won him the right to compete with Jackson in the main event next week. Powers came here highly touted as a bad man and has gone far to rrove his conten tion that he can grab the meanie eha'mpionship from Jackson, who has been hailed as the grand pappy of all the ruffians. Detton won the semi-final go by outsmarting the rough boy from Vancouver, R. C. Powers won the first fall in 8 minutes but Detton took the second with a Boston crab in 25 peronds and followed to take the decision in the final toss. The openirg battle between Earl Lambert and Larry Tillman was a good curtain raiser tmr a card of action. Lambert took the second fall after Tillman had ta ken the opener. Tillman was awarded the decisioi when Lam bert refused to heed the referee's warning against foul t: .tics. EUGENE, Ore., June ll.-(V Coach Bill Reinhart toay blushingly revealed why his Uni versity of Oregon baseball team won the northern division Coast conference championship. He named seven of his players to an all-star conference crew of 12 which he announced' today. Harry McCall, first base; Ray Koch, second; Joe Gordon, short; John Lewis, third, but named utility infielder; Ralph Amato and Maury Van Vliet, outfield ers, and Don McFadden, pitcher, were the selections Reinhart made before he tore his feasting eyes from his championship lineup. Then he looked afield and found Jack Daly, University of Washington southpaw pitcher; Ed Loverich. University of Wash ington, utility outfielder; Bill Katsilometes, University of Ida ho, right field; Bob Bergstrom, Oregon State college, third sack er, and Ed Godard, Washington State, catcher. Birthday Shower Honors Helpers' Charter Member BRUSH COLLEGE, June 11. Mrs. Mary Smith of Sfflem, who was responsible for organ izing the Brush College Helpers and Is a charter member, was honored with a birthday handker chief shower, her birthday being Saturday, by the Helpers at their annual picnic in the community grove Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Mary Sehon, who has just resigned as teacher at Brush College after having taught there for eight years, was presented with gifts from her graduating class and the Brush College Helpers. The Statesman has made a steady and constant gain in net paid circulation since 1928. The gain since 1931 has been 1512. Member Audit Bureau of Circulations. REINHART PICKS 7 IF HIS Dl BOYS Race at Indianapolis PIRATES MOVE ALONGSIDE CARDS NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York 29 13 .690 St. Louis ..... 27 18 .600 Pittsburgh ... 30 20 .600 Brooklyn 23 21 .523 Chicago 21 21 :500 Cincinnati 19 26 .422 Philadelphia 15 26 .366 Boston .V-- 11 30 .268 BROOKLYN, June HW-The Pittsburgh Pirates moved into a tie with the idle Cardinals for sec ond place in the -National league today as they defeated the Brook lyn Dodgers 4 to 0 behind the seven-hit pitching of Guy Bush. Pittsburgh 8 2 Brooklyn 0 7 1 Bush and Padden; Zachary, Clark and Lopez, Phelps. Phillies Beat Cubs PHILADELPHIA, June H.-tPT -Scoring seven runs in the first two innings, the Phillies today hung up a 10 to 4 triumph ovtr the Chicago Cubs in the initial tilt of a six-game series., Johnson was the winning pitch er although ticketed for 10 safe ties, including two home runs by Galan and one by Hartnett. Chicago 4 10 1 Philadelphia 10 15 2 Henshaw, Casey, Root and Hartnett; Johnson and Wilson. Giants Lose Twice NEW YORK. June ll.-vP)-The Cincinnati Reds turned back the N'ew York Giants twice today, de feating the league leaders 3 to 1 behind the five hit pitching of Le roy Herrmann in the nightcap af ter taking the opening contest 4 to 1 with Tony Freitas pitching. Cincinnati 4 10 2 New York . . 1 7 3 Freitas and Lombardi; Castle man. Smith and Mancuso. Cincinnati 3 9 0 New York 1 5 0 Herrmann and Campbell; Fitz simmons, Chagnon and Mancuso. St. Louis at Boston postponed, rain. I S EKES CASE OF ALABAMA PITTS CHICAGO, June ll.-(y!P)-Kene-saw Mountain Landis, the one man supreme court of organized baseball, today opened an investi gation into the case of Edwin "Alabama" Titts, former Sing Sing prison athlete, who has been barred from the game by a minor league ruling. Literally besieged by protests, denials and appeals in the case that already has developed into a national sports controversy, the commissioner, confined to his bed with a bad cold and high blood pressure, ordered all facts brought before him so he could study the appeal made to him by Pitts. When he will render his decision is not known. The commissioner started his action in the case today by wiring to Warren Giles of Rochester, N. Y., chairman of the executive committee of the minor leagues, which turned down Pitts' plea for admission yesterday, asking for all records in the case. Townies to Play K. o.C. Sunday WOODBURN, .Tune 11. The Woodburn Townies, who defeated Mt. Angel Sunday 5 to 3 to stay at top of the heap In, the Mid Willamette league, will play the Salem K. of C. team at the Le gion park here next Sunday afternoon. 1 BEAVERS LOSE I I TT E Wade and Garland Stingy; Douglas of Oakland Wins Own Game LOS ANGELES, June 11.--Los Angeles defeated Portland 3 to 1 in the opening game of their series here tonight. It was chiefly a pitching battle between Lou Garland, who allow ed "six hits, and Jake Wade, who granted seven to the Angels. Los Angeles opened with a pair of runs in the first inning. Statz walked, Gudat was safe when Wade muffed his slow roller, Lil lard sacrificed and then Oglesby singled to score Statz and Gudat. The Beavers got their run in the sixth when Cissell walked and English doubled. The Angels also scored in that inning. Lillard slapped out a two bagger and was brought home by Oglesby's sin gle. Portland , 1 6 1 Los Angeles 3 7 0 Wade and Cronin; Garland and GoebeL Oakland Xoses Out OAKLAND, Calif., June U.-(JF) -Oakland edged out Hollywood 2 to 1 today in an airtight pitchers' battle between Wells of the visit ors and Douglas. Douglas won his own game with a single in the ninth. Handed a one run lead in the third on singles by Durst and Jol ley and Doerr's sacrifice, Wells held the Oaks to two hits for six innings. Hollywood 1 8 0 Oakland 2 5 0 Wells and Desautels; Douglas and Kies. Seattle 4 14 4 Sacramento 8 8 0 Barrett and Barterini; Zinn, Flynn and Salkeld. Jesse Owens Is Hot After Dash Record LOS ANGELES, June U.-(JP)-Jesse Owens, who has shattered almost every other world's mark within reach of his sturdy legs, arrived in Southern California to day with the admission on his lips that he will try to break the 100 yard dash record of 9.4 seconds held by one of the local native sons Frank Wykoff. The Ohio State sophomore who cracked the furlong, low hurdles, and broad Jump marks wide open in one large afternoon several weeks ago is here with a dozen Buckeye teammates to meet the University of Southern California in a dual meet on the fast Olym pic games course at Memorial Col iseum Saturday. "I'll try to break Wykoff's rec ord," said Owens, as he mapped a campaign which will take nim to the national collegiate, champion ships at Berkeley a week from Saturday and probably the South ern Pacific A. A. U. meet at San Diego before his return to the middlewest. j "Of course," continued Owens, "my competition may have some thing to do with that. I believe in running against an opponent, not the watch. But if you do that, the records usually take care of them selves. Incidentally, Owens does not be lieve a 9 second flat hundred yard dash mark is possible at the pres ent time. "Some fellow might come along ad do it," he admitted, "but I think he'll have to be a combina tion of the greatest sprinters of all-time," SDH TO HAVE IT DALLAS, June 11. Play" in the city baseball league has been suspended for the next two weeks as many of the players are mem bers of the national guard and will be In camp for that period. The diamond has been turned over to the softball league and softball games, beginning Tues day, will be played every night with the possible exception of Saturday. Regular league games will be played Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday of this week and on Mon day, Wednesday and Friday of next week. The open dates have been turned over to the K. P.'s, the Merchants and the Evangeli cal church for games with out-of-town teams. The schedule for the next two weeks is: June 11 K. P. vs. Merchants. June 12 Legion vs. Evan. June 14 K. P. ts. Merchants. June 17 Legion vs. K. P. June 19 Evan. vs. Merchants. June 21 Legion vs. Merch. Schoolboy Rowe Proud Papa Now DETROIT, . June . ll.-()-Lyn-wood "Schoolboy" Rowe, Detroit Tigers big right-hander, hurried away from the -. Detroit - Boston double header at Navln field this afternoon to get a glimpse of his newly , arrived " four-pound son, born to Mrs. Edna Skinner Rowe at "Woman's hospital. . , Dr. Roy C. Kingswood, the at tending physician,- said the in fant was being placed in an in cubator in tho premature nur sery, . -". i II