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Newspaper Page Texti I i "The OHLUON STATESilAN; S5Hv; Oregon, JThursiiy !cnHn Aut 13, 1933 rip" Second Salem' Entry- in - State Softball. Meefy Will . Be Picl I' I t . V J i O i- Cardinals Co "How About Some Pudding, Vein?" N. 7. Athletes Four Clubs to VieNexteek Veterans in the Vanguard To Top Again Get Limelight By BUIUSXEY "7 e t!if cr i - ---- fL BMrj . . . . m ' Wait's Hogg's, Paper Mill and Blan's Shop Slated i to Plav For Honor Two teams will represent Salem in the state softball tournament here August 24 to 29. state soft ball Director .G u rn ee Flesher an nounced yesterday after confer ring with officers of other leagues belonging to the state associa tion. . "- ' Salem was originally entitled to enter only one team and Atwater Kent won that place by going through - the season undefeated, The eecond club was added, with the agreement of all. members of the state association, in order to assure the tourney's financial suc cess. ' Four teams. Waft's. "Paper 'Mill, Hogg Bros, and Man's Shop, will vie for the ri&ht to be Salem's sec ond team in the tournament in. a playoff Monday and Wednesday of next week. The winner of the series is expected to strengthen considerably by signing players from other teams. Radio "Keeps These . Atwater-Kent, which as first team has first choice of league players, announced yesterday that it would probably go into the tournament "as is" except for an additional battery combination and an extra in fielder. . The schedule for the playoff for second position brings the Man's Shop against the Paper Mill and Hogg Bros, against, Wait's In Monday night's games. The two winners will play for the bigjrize in the second game weanesaay following an intercity clash be tween Lebanon, and Atwater-Kent. Flesher announced that there will also be games Thursday and Friday nights.- One of the con tests will be an exhibition game between Atwater-Kent and the team that wins the tournament playoff. Another will be an exhi bition by industrial league teams of ten man softball which, that league adopted. this season. Yankees Win Last Tussle of Series Finally Defeat' Senators; Bridges, Ferrell arid Kennedy Do Well AMERICAN LEAGUE WV'-L. Pet. New York . ......72 Cleveland ........62 Cnicago .... : t . . 6 0 Detroit . 5S Boston ..57 Washington ......54 St. Louis 39 wlilladelpbla .36 36 ,S67 49 ,559 51 .541 51 .532 54 .514 55 .495 70 72 .358 .333 NEW itORK, Aug. 12.-0?)-tfith the II aid of the Yankees' siege gunl. Bump Hadley chalk ed np hia 11th straight pitching Tlctory today as murderers' row downed the Washington Senators 11 to 7 for their only win of the three-game series. - Although the American league's leading pitcher was touched for ten hits, including a homer by Ossie Bluege. he was never threat ened after the fourth when his mates staked him to a 6-1 lead to put the game on ice. The victory, coming at the same time as the setback of the second place Cleveland Indians by the Tigers, boosted the Yanks' league lead back to It1 J games. Washington ........ 7101 New York ....... 11 13 2 Whitehill, Cohen and Millies; Hadley and Glenn. Bridge Wins Again " CLEVELAND, Aug. Tommy Bridges took his fourth straight victory over the Indians today as the Tigers won 7 to 4. It ran his season's total to 15 wins, but Hal Trosky nicked him for a home run in the seventh. with the bases empty. It was the tribe firat baseman's 34th long distance clout of the year. Detroit 7 11 0 Cleveland .......... .4 " 9 0 Br id res aDd Ilayworth; Hudlln, Blaeholder, Lee and SulliTan. Perrell Wins Own BOSTON. Aug. 12.-P-Arter Wea Ferrell belted In a 6-4 vic tory over the Philadelphia with a pair of successive home runs in today's opening game, the- Red Sox failed to follow his batting lead? and were shut out 6-0 by Harry Kelley in the nightcap. The Sor - were outhit! in both contests but Wea gained! his 11th pitching triumph of the season by putting two drives lover the left field wall in the third and fourth frames. Philadelphia .......... 4 S 1 Boston . 6 7 1 J Lisenbee. Flythe and Moss; W Ferrell and R. Ferrell. . Philadelphia 6 10 1 Boston 0 3 3 Kelley and Hayes; Meola, Wil son and Berg. Kennedy Vin 16th CHICAGO. Aug. 12.-m-Ven on Kennedy pitched the Chicago White Sox to an 8 to 3 victory over the St. Louis Browns today to account for his" 16th triumph of th season. St. Louis . ........ .V .3 8 Chicago ............ .8 10 Knott. LeibhardC j Klmberlin and Hensley;xKennedy and Grub. Jifj Defeat Fade? a in Tight League Game V " mir defeated Pade's 1 to 1 In aa Industrial league gam at Leslie playground last night. Pade'a . 1 X mii'a . : .1 1 1 Lindstrom and Grable; Smith- ers and Harmsi V :-"u H v: v Xt .Vi- tfll lT JCAKi (AJ I HE MAJORS IS THE SPARK PLUG OF THE RDS' KID TfAM.t OLD-TIMEKS like Scbmeung, Braddock and Sharkey are monopolizing the fistic spot light, but boxing isn't the only sport in which ancient guys are showing signs of rejuvenation. The well-known national pastime I mean baseball also has its gal livanting grandpopa. It's in the air, and the old boys are all taking a new lease on life, for some reason or other. Teams Arrive For N. W. Junior Final ROSEBURG, Ore., Augj 12.-;p) -The El Rey Roofers of Portland, recruited, "from Jefferson high school, and the Gibson Carpets of Seattle arrived here today to par ticipate in the regional playoffs of the American Legion's Junior league baseball f-erles, with the winner to go to Bismarck, N. D. Thei Oregon-Washington series. to start tomorrow, will be held in conjunction : with the American Legion state convention. Both teams attended a banquet tonight at which the schedule for subsequent games was outlined and 1 hours of practice assigned prior to the initial contest here. Paul Patterson, state junior baseball chairman, said he receiv ed work, from H. L. Challlauk, the Legion's national Americaniz ation commissioner, that eight champions from 16 western states would compete as Bismarck Aug. 23. 24 and 25 for the right to play in the national finals Aug. 29, 31 and Sept. 1, 2 and 3. The finals will be played in the home town of one of the partici pating teams. ! . German Champ Wins NEW YORK, Aug. 12.-(yP)r Gustav Edar, German welter weight champion, knocked out Jimmy Leto of Hartford, Cann., after two minutes of fighting la the ninth round of their 10 round bout at Ebbets field tonight. Ed ar weighed 1464 and Leto 144. Pytlak, Injured, Joe Vosraik 1 X 11 i V ZXrjrL Tt ' ' AMD W M " W 1 . 1 Struck on the jaw by one of Monte Pearson's fast baHa. Frankle Pytlak, No. 1 Indian catcher, is helped fromr the field in Cleveland during an Indian-New York Yankee game. Pytlak auffered three fractures of the Jaw which to expected to keep him out of the lineup for, the rest of the season. Shown helping Pytlak off the field are Joe Vosmlk. Tribe outfielder, left, and Lefty Weisman. trainer, right 5 Manager Steve OTIeUl cf the Tribe can b seen in bAfcground - I f ' reucs, are PLAYERS .'. ' T I SB - SBBk k 'Take Kiki Coyler, for instance a lot of big league pilots wish they could take him. This patriarch of the diamond has been knocking around the bis tent for some four teen Summers, man and boy, and was" thought to have long since out lived his usefulness. However, Kikl refused to read his own baseball obituaries, and at present he is the spark plug of the. Reds' "kid team," and is having a great season. Then there's another relic Gos lin, the Goose that sails on forever. 'R': League Season Winds Up Quietly With Hogg Br osi and Waifs Winning Final Games; Home Runs SOFTBALL STANDING (Final Standings) : W. L. Pet. Atwater-Kent ..7 0 1.000 Hogg Bros . -6 1 : .857 Wait's ' , , ,...,.,;, 4 S .571 Paper Mill 4 Z .571 Eagles - . 2 S . .18 Man's Shop 5 .256 Artisans 2 5 - .286 Master Bread 6 .143 Because nothing was at stake there was not much fanfare and very little shouting aa the regu lar season of the Salem Softball association came to a close last night. Walt's and Hogg Bros, were victors in the two games of the final bill. Hogg Bros, downed the lowly Master Bread nine 8 to 3 and Wait's triumphed over the Man's Shop 7 to 1. A three run rally in the sev enth .inning pat Hogg Bros, oat in front for good after ; Master Bread had knotted the count at three-all in the sixth. Selgmund. Moye, Ted Girod and Salatrom all hit to figure In the scoring and two of the six Master Bread boots helped things along. - Serdotz Needs Relief : Master Bread had one conso lation, however. With four hits that brought three runs before any were oat in the sixth it bat ted Mack Serdots out of the box for the second time of the sea- Out for Season Lefty Wctomaa-lj rranide Pytlak i i St k v -i-. - Detroit's venerable outfielder is making the pitchers quake as of old when he steps to the platter. Jimmy Dykes, hustling boss of the peppery White Sox, is still just about as good a third sacker as youll find around, even though ha should be running the bases in a wheelchair at his age. And what about such hoary centa as Jess Haines, Bob Smith, and Ossie Bluege,, who are still mighty spry for baseball greybeards? CwtUM.lltl.KlarMtaMtnyLlM . Feature Last QasH son. "Sqnee" Kitchen replaced Serdots and held the Bakers hit- less the rest of the game. To make it more decisive the Brothers added another pair "of runs in the ninth. Marv Ritchie held the Man's Shop to four bits in the second game. One of them, however, was a home run by Ike Wlntermute that gave the Man's Shop its only score. " ; Wait's scored two runs in the first inning when Elliott slam med oat a nome run that bounced into the ' old grandstand with Scales on base. As it turned out that was enough to win the ball game but Wait's added one more in the fifth and two each in the sixth and eighth. - There will be no further games Ibis week. Master Bread ...3 S Hogg Bros. 8 14 Heseman and Kellogg; M. Ser dotz. Kitchen and P. McCaffery. Waits's ; 7 1 Man's Shop ' ' 1 4 M. Ritchie and Elliott; Gilmore and Schnuelle. . Sayles Hurls For Winner at Berlin BERLIN, Aug. 12P)-T h largest crowd ever to see a base ball game in Europe or the united States folly 100,000 jammed the Olympic stadium and watchedL two American amateur teams play a demonstration game. The "World Champions" and the Olympics, both' picked from the American Olympic . baseball squad, -played for seven innings, the Champions winning, 6-5. -Only a handful in the Test crowd had any idea wha was play ing or cared -who won. But the Germans .were eager to learn something about the game. Bill Sayles, Portland, Ore., was one ot the pitchers for the "Champs-r Rosalind Winner In Hambletonian GOSHEN, N. Y- Aug. lt.-VFh Rosalind, the story-book filly, carved . out a sensational Tlctory on ' Good Time park's triangular track in the 11th Hambletonian today. "Flying the silks of the 21-year-old Gibson White, of Lexington, and driven by his grey-haired .fa ther, Rosalind won trotting'a rich est stake In' straight heats . and record time before the largest crowd in Hambletonian history estimated at close to 45,000. : She stepped the first mile in 2:01 and then reeled off the second heat -in 2:02U, to erase from the books Greyhound's mark of 2:02 V4 and 2:02 n made last year. , . Their Five Hits Overcome Cubs9 14; Giants and Dodgers Wage Duel NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .606 .598 .574 .509 .486 .472 .389 .364 St. Louis ...... .ti 43 Chicago .64 43 46 52 55 57 66 63 New York .62 .54 .52 Pittsburgh Cincinnati Boston 51 Brooklyn .42 Philadelphia .39 ST. LOUIS. Aug, 12.-VTbe pitching' combination 7 of Larry French and Clay Bryant held the St. Louis Cardinals to five hits to day, but two of them were home runs that sent the Chicago Cabs down to second place in defeat, 6 to 3. - Chicago, led by Frank Demaree with four , hits and Ken O'Dea with three, failed lamentably, to take advantage of 14 safeties off Si Johnson, formerly of Cincin nati and Toronto, making his first start for St. Louis. Chicago : i 14 v 0 St. Louis - 3 5.0 French, Bryant and O'Dea; Johnson and V, Davis. Gabler Giants' Hero BROOKLYN, Aug. . 12.-(JPIv Young Gabby Gabler smashed out triple with two mates on base today to break up a 12-lnning thriller and give himself and the New York Giants a 2 to 1 victory over the luckless Dodgers. For 11 innings, Gabler and Van Mungo pitched scoreless ball. the latter holding the New York ers to five hits. After Grfbby drove in the winning runs, the Dodgers threatened to tie it up in their half of the 12th. bat Carl Hub bell came to Gabler's assistance and pulled the game out ot the fire. New York 1 s 1 Brooklyn - 1 12 2 Gabler and Mancuso; .Mungo and Berree. Rookie Weakens PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 12.-&D -Pete Sivess, the Phillies rookie pitcher from Dickinson college, weakened in the ninth today and the Boston Bees pushed over two rans for a 4 to 2 victory to sweep the three game series. It was the Phils 10th straight defeat. Boston ..4 10 1 Philadelphia 1 8 0 Bush and Lopes; Sivess, Benge and Grace, Wilson. Swift Hurls Hits PITTSBURGH,' Aug. 12.-- Tne six-hit pitching of Bill Swift, who drove in .the first two Pirate run, highlighted Pittsburgh's 6 to " 1 - victory over Cincinnati to day. The Pirates scored four runs in an eighth inning rally after Don Brennan, Cincinnati nurler. re placed Gene Schott, who had made way for a pinch hitter. The Reds scored their lone tally in the sixth on two singles, a sac rifice and an infield out. Cincinnati . 1 6 1 Pittsburgh f 11 Schott. Brennan and Lombard!: Swift and Padden. Douglas of Pacific to Coach at Rainier High RAINIER, Ore., Aug. 12.-jP- Loren .Douglas, who coached at the Shedd school last season, -will become athletic mentor at Rain ier Union high this falL He sue- ceeas buck Hammer, who re signed to accept a coaching po sition In Klamath Falls. Douglas was a four-year let- terman In three sporta at Paci fic university, Forest Grove. . -7 Owens Family I Jew There was rejoicing at the Cleveland home of Henry C Owens when the news cams from the CerUn Olympics that Jesse Owens, Ohio State uni versity Cash,' had scored a grand tUia tj winning tta lCO-mcttr and 2S5-mcter dashes and the bread f - - '-I I i . f i ! - - i 1 t - -- 1 " ( y 1 - , I , , . x ' ' ' -z, :A - i ' v' i ' ' ' ' j ' i : - . t , ', ' y y x I f 1 ' ' ' - CI ' " - 4 . ' i i , L': U ysl i r i v - , r J ' f Hr and; Mrs. Vern Kennedy - Vern Kennedy, star pitchei of the jchicago". White Sox, keeps his pitching arm limbered up by stirring up a dish Of his favorite pud rtijuc in the kitchen of his hoaie in Chicago, as Mrs. Kennedy looks on. ELY FAU U To the rescue of softball ians who didn't know what tbiey's do next week while waiting for the state softball tournament came the announcement y ester day that Salem will have (two teams 1st that melee after) all and that a playoff will be held to pick the other team. That means softball all of next week and the fsas can keep right fa training tor the big event.! ! They'll need that training and it wouldn't do to have themirelax lust a week before the tourna ment. As it is we're afraid the fans aren't in the same top notch condition with which they (have greeted the tournament in prev ious years. There has been! only one extra-inning game and (with the seven-inning' rule toe fans have sat through less softbaU per capita than In any previous (year. Then too there has been thai soft ening effect of comfortable iseats in the new grandstand. ( we are seriously wot about whether the eaa can It. We wonder what will pen when they have to sit through the three full games that are played the first nights of the tournament. j Meanwhile plans for the b I g softball party move right fclong and the entry list, at 15, ilacks only one team of being a full house. Portland's entries are not known for sure yet as the Rose City playoff Is not until next week. Chief contenders erf Ro tary Bread, the state champions. M 4k M Woodworkers, statej runner-ups, Sperry Flour, only team to beat Atwater-Kent this season, and the Log Cabin bakery team. Phil Bell Ifoworried o !r e r whether the big all star football game In which Johnny Oravec may play will be broadcast J mxl wrote a letter to Harvey Wood ruff, eporu scribe of the -Chi cago Tribune, to find out. He ! fried take Pap- 5 Jubilant Over iesses Grand Slam in action j Henry C Alii HAUSE-K got his answer yesterday and earned, much to his joy, that it lev ill be broadcast over both the jN'BC and Columbia networks from 9:80 to 8 o'clock. Pacific time, on Labor day. Local fans can check on the doings of Johnny, providing he gets a irhance to show his stuff. ! Beavers Lose But Suds Beaten Also SAN FRANCISCO. Aug. 12.-P) -The San Francisco Missions pounced on the offerings of three pitchers, Hebert, Salvo and Camp bell, ror 12 hits in defeating the San -Diego Padres here today S to 1L The Missions victory evened the current series, each team having- one win. Wally Beck, on the mound for the locals, had llTtle difficulty suoaumg me southerners, setting them down with six hits. San Diego It 0 Missions , 512 0 J Hebert, Salvo, Campbell and peSautels, Kerr; W. Beck and Sprlnx. Portland ....15 2 Oakland 6 14 1 J Liska, French and Brucker; Douglas and Hershberger. Seattle 5 12 1 Sacramento 10 13 0 I Barrett, Osborn and Splndel; Newsom and Grilk. San Francisco 0 3 Las Angeles 11 17 0 Sheehan and Monto; Prim and BottarinL. Mack Beef Exported CORVALLIS. Ore.. Aur. 12-UP1 tH. A. Lindgren, extension animal husbandman at Oregon State col lege; said today approximately 0 per cent of the beef produced in Oregon is sold outside the state. Oregon Is one of 20 states pro ducing a surplus of beet. Owens and Mrs. Jesse Owens) Jesse's mother examines ! his track shoes Jump. I Its triumph resulted in plans for a civic homecoming celebration at which his parents, llr. and Mrs. 3lenry C Owens, above, and wife. 2.n nle TUith Owens,! to -hom he was married last year. 13;b principals. Washington Husky Crew Is Heat Winner, Metlica Heads Natators BERLIN. Aug. 12.-D-Amer- Ica swept back into the Olympic picture in spectacular fasbion 10 dav as the University of Washing ton cracked the Olympic record for elght-oared crews wide pen. Jack Medlca and Marjorie Gent ring hung up unexpected triumphs In aquatic competition, ana ido basketball and boxing teams chalked up new successes. Surprised by the power in Great Britain's shell, the Huskies from the American far west, stroked by ailing Done Hume, won their trial heat and lowered the Olymp ic record for the 2,000-meter dis tance to 6:00.8. This time compar ed with the Olympic standard of 6:02.2 established by the Unlver- sity.of California at Amsterdam in 1928 and with the Grunau course record ot 8:09 set by the Hungar ians. While Washington thus was qualifying for Friday's finals. other American oarsmen w e r making a dismal showing with th single exception of the Pmladei. phla sculler, Dan Bajrow, who won his consolation heat and qua!- ified for tomorrow's singles semi finals. Fifth place was the fata of three other American entrants, in the pair oared with coxswain, four-oared without coxswain and double sculls event. Medlca Seta Record Medica lowered the OlympU 400 meter free style record to 4:45.5 in scoring an entirely un expected victory over Shumpeluta of Japan while Miss G est ring beat out her team-mates. Katherin Rawls and Dorothy Paynton Hill for springboard diving honors. Meanwhile Alice Bridges and Edith Segal qualified for the wo men's 100-meter backstroke fin als; Adolf Klefer, Tsylor Drys rale and Al Vande Weghe qual ified for the women's 100-metei backstroke semi-finals with Klef er seiting a new Olympic and listed world record with a 1:06.9 and the American girl's 400-metei relay team qualified for the fin als. In basketball, the United States led by Joe Fortenberry and Fran cis Johnson, defeated Philippines. SB to 23. and qualified for thi semi-finals along with Italy, Can ada and Poland. Louis Laurie, Cleveland fly weight. Andy Scrlvani, Chlcagt lightweight, and Jimmy Clark. Jamestown, N. Y.. middleweight, all qualified for the boxing quar. ter-finals but Arthur Oliver of Chicago was eliminated in thi heavyweight division. Sodality Outfit Wilis Top Place MT. ANGEL, Aug. 12. Last night's kitball game decided the Mt. Angel city league champion ship when the Sodality defeated the Foresters S to 1. The gam was close throughout, but the So dality finally edged out a victory fro mthe first division winners. This was the second game of a two out of three playoff. Sodality X S Foresters 1 4 2 May and - Beyer; Wachter and Uselman. In the preliminary game the Beer Barons took the K. C.'s II to 2. Beer Barons 14 14 1 K. C.'s 2 6 2 Hassing and Terhaar; Bean and Schroeder. Softball Trophy Won by Veterans SILVERTON. Aug. 12. The Veterans of -Foreign Wars soft ball team won the trophy in the Sllverton league and will repre sent Silverton in the state tourna ment at Salem beginning August 24. The VFW team had to play three games with Brush Creek in order to win the local title. Ia the first game the VFW team de feated the Brush Creek team 10 te 8; In the second game 11 Innings were played to a 2 to 2 tie, and in the final game the VFW team won I to 4). . Dr. Edgar Wright presented Joe Hopflnger, .manager of the winning team, with the trophy. Curtis French to Coach Cottage Grove Gridmcn Curtis French, for several years coach and physical director at Bandoa high school, has been named to the same position at Cottage Grove. French, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. French of Salem, graduated from Willamette where he played footbalL Paper Finn Reelects PORTLAND, Ore. Aug. 12.HT) -Directors of the Crown Willam ette Paper company reelected all officers and heard reports declar ing a dividend of $1.75 on the first preferred 7 per cent stock, payable October 1 to stockholders of record September 14." BasebaU'o Big 6 By The Associated Press The standings (first three plac es la each league): o ab WMlWlf, 47 204 Hit; Cardinals .St t 0 A Thrill. In4ln 110 44 A n H Pet. SI .337 41 50 7 tS'l .377 Ghrc. Ynks....I09 41) 131 Applmr. W htta 8. M 7 J t. Wr, iirat..IU3 407 Medwick, Crd.10t 4il M 14 4 .: ;i su lo-t ili"