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i i . i ; Thr OREGON STATESMAN, Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, March 24, 1937 PAGE SEVEN cm$C Witt Win Flags, rmv - 77 Sporty Writers Giants Ranked Third in Loop Tigers to Be Runners-Up in American, Cubs in National, Verdict ST. LOUIS, March 23H?P)-A poll of baseball writers conducted by the Sporting - News disclosed . today overwhelming support for the New York Yankees and St. Lob is Cardinals In the 1937 ma jor league pennant races. , The Yankees were picked to re peat their American league tri--uniph by 148 out of 197 experts. The Cardinals were the choice of 141 In the National league, with the champion New York Giants rated to finish no better than third. The forecast on the order of finish in each league, ased on the writers' follows; ; American league New York. Detroit. Cleveland, Boston, Chica go. ; Washington, St. Louis and Philadelphia. National league St. Louis Chi cago, New York, Pittsburgh. Cin cinnati, Boston, Brooklyn and Philadelphia. ' . " Cards Win on 6 Hits LEESBURG, Fla., March 23 (P) The St. Louis Cardinals made only six hits today but took ad vantage of bases on balls and errors to defeat Rochester of the International league, 4 to 0. Yanks Best Dodgers ST. PETERSBURG, Fla.. March 23-i!p)-The New York Yankees got back on the winning side in the "Grapefruit league" today by walloping Fred Frankhouse and Rookie George Jeff coat to beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 9 to 6. Indians Bunch 'Em NEW ORLEANS. March 23-P) The Cleveland Indians bunched four and six runs in the seventh and eighth innings today to gain a 10 to 10 tie with the New Or leans Pelicans Jn the fifth game of their exhibition series. Red Hose Beat .Reds SARASOTA. Fla., March ZZJP) Errors afield and inability to cash in on their greatest hitting spree to date, tumbled the Cin cinnati Reds to a 7 to 4 defeat today at the hands of the Boston Red Sox in an" exhibition game. ClineY and Acme Win, City League Cllne's bowlers won three games from Willamette Valley Transfer and Acme Auto won two from -Karr's in city league bowling Tuesday night. Walt Cline had high game, 213, and Walker of Acme high series, 561. Willamette Valley Transfer Handicap Kail7 Jahnsoa Iinditrand 22 52 22 63 160 162 15 481 .11 149 16S 133 .193 170. 161 524 Putnam Victor . .173 193 149 311 .179 158 . 119486 843 853 803 2504 Cllne's L.150 187 178 515 213 174 159 548 179 191 ' 131 521 134 170 183487 183 160 158 501 859 Bii 829 2570 Barr Clin D. I'aolia O. Smith. . Yonnf Handicap 10 44 Whit ISO 181 301 K. Poulin , J. Huler , Karr rs ; .165 " 178 181 524 .108 169 148 423 .169 148 153 470 .149 153 160 462 739 773 833 2350 Acme Auto Wrecker Hartwell DnBaia lxxkebach RtinVock Watkar .186 175 158 519 .117 185 138 418 .159 174 140 478 .125 137 138400 .200 158 303 561 vT87 80 T75 3371 Perry to Tackle Bill Tilden Next NEW YORK, March Before another prospective sell out crowd, the pro tennis troopers' will return to the Madison Square Garden court tomorrow night with I one important change In the cast i of leading characters. When Fred Perry made his commercial debut last January, he was matched with Ellsworth Vines. Tomorrow his opponent will be Bill Tilden, 44-year-old Per ennial of the courts. - Chief speculation about the match, first of a series of five. revolves about Tilden and his ability to stand, up under the strain of a five-set encounter with the British player who last year was the world's ankihg amateur. "If Perry thinks that they're going to have to bring me on the court In a wheel chair after the first two sets, I may surprise him," said the old master. North and South Golf Meet Opens PINEHURST. N. C, March 23. (.'P)-The professional brigade took' advantage today of rare golfing in the first round of the north and south open golf tourna ment to give the famous Pine hurst course Its worst lacing in many moons. The gale-like blows customary here in .spring gave way to a calm summer-like day, and the salaried shooters grabbed the opportunity to bombard par thoroughly, as Denny Shute and Horton Smith hung up a new competitive course record of 67; five better than per fect figures. Karr'a , 24 10 12 . : ' - - - - i Rise in the Sock Market - i v .' " ' ; -.. - t -1 t . - : j By BURNLEY - 1 TtVN-'WVM-'M.ini1 fin i-if tti,i-iii.ti i " "'" -'i-T fT-"" iifti j. rtrf- - jtT w i- ,-.- , -. - , . mmimummmm-jfmmmmmammKm. fi.zl n"'J ife-v AiS 1 EQ STEELE 800M IN 7fi SOGK. I -V AVARkTET- FfiZEVDfE IS L-AZWG $7$ ii lr. m 4ILDMSS-BACK PoPULARlty J j aa- mm m a ar-a rm w ar S - m u m r . -i.-..- a.' - - -- -.. iS m:' w SINCE Freddie Steele, smooth boxing Tacoma walloper, as cended the middleweight throne, the 160 lb. stock has been definitely on the upgrade for the "first time since Mickey Walker ruled the roost. Steele, who was an extremely popular . fighter on the Coast even before winning the crown, has added to his national reputation since lick Lodell to Remain Till End of Year CORVALLIS. March '23-P)- Oregon State college officials said today there would be no interrup tion in the spring sports program due to the resignation at Carl Lo dell, veteran graduate manager and director of intercollegiate athletics. Lodell will coach the track team, and continue other duties until successor is named at the end of the spring term, they In dicated. He is the oldest graduate manager In the Pacific conference in point of service. .Coach "Slata" -Gill planned to open baseball practice this week, and Lon Stelner, grid mentor, is preparing for annual spring foot ball drill. Ambers Wins Handily FLINT, Mich.,1 March Lon Ambers, of New York, world lightweight champion, easily out pointed Roger Bernard, of Flint, in t 10-round bout here tonight. Ambers took seven of the rounds. Both weighed 13$ U pounds. Two Tigers Indulge in Horseplay Gerald Walker 'VVP'.3 ' 'j I - V i"- J f' ' 3 f - - f , "! w, ' f X v 1 v - "s 'V tMT " IV'. . i i X-" -XX , ' 1 . Judging by this photo taken at the Detroit Tigers training camp at Lakeland, Fla Jo-Jo White must have found his workout overly strenuous because his fellow outfielder, Gerald Walker, seems to be vesdering first aid, despite protests of the patient. ing Babe Risko in N. Y. and kayoing Paul Pirrone in Philly. The middleweight ranks have suf fered a definite eclipse in recent years, and reached a new low when Yarosz and Risko held the crown. Shades of Stanley Ketchell Even after the immortal Steve, brilliant performers like the marvelous Greb, the whirlwind Flowers and the courageous Walker kept interest high in the 160 lb. division. After Mickey, there was a terrific letdown, however. Vince Dundee, Lou Brouil- Head-Oii Collision Act Spells Defeat Of Meanies in Team Mat Contest as Hot Cigar Treatment Wasted on Foes WITH full speed ahead and tracks clear. Harry Elliott and Ben Sherman last night won their team wrestling match at the armory by engineering a couple of head-on colli sions that left Fritz Ludwig and Jack Lipscomb holding their heads on the floor. The "cleanies' T 1. came uaco. first faU after a series of blocks and blows on Sherman and a body press on Elliott. The teams spent the major portion of their time chasing each other out of the ring, with Referee Joe Gunther dividing his aocklngs between the two teams. The second fall was won by Elliott and Sherman with the use of the head-on rush, with their opponents helpless as they ca romed into each other with a cracking of heads. The "meanies' pnt their foes In a fit of misery before the last fall by using a cigar stub as a blinding agent and included' the referee in their eye treatment. The decision came after Ludwig and Lipscomb at tempted a head-on act with lard, Marcel Thfl, Babe Risko, Teddy Yarosz not a sock in a carload, Now we have the handsome Fred die Steele a clever boxer who can really punch 1 Sine bis ascend ency, even the old ex-champs, Brouil lard, Yarosz, and Risko have taken Ott new leases on life, while new comers like Apostoli, Overlin, Krie ger, and Balsamo are adding fire works to the middleweight picturev There's a real Steele boom in the cauliflower market. CsanttM. tut. kf Klaf raatana Syadleat. la it U ft X 1 it tuier me meaines iajuk uis O - Elliott and Sherman, had It turned on them, and Gunther gave the match to the cleanles to the delight pf the fall home of fans. Charles Keen divided falls with Noel Franklin and then won his match on the referee's deci sion after Franklin had tried to clean up both the referee and Keen among the ringside seats. The snake charmer. Otto Ls ger, went to defeat by two falls to three after winning: the first with a Boston crab. John Thomas won his two falls with whip wristlocks. Reed's Badminton Team Due Tonight I The Salem Y.M.C.A. badminton team will meet representatives of Reed college on the looal courts tonight at t o'clock. Com petition will include men and women's singles, doubles and mixed doubles. ; Wee Boeder will play No. 1 po sition for the men, followed by Gus Moore and French Hage mann. Alice Young, Rachael Yo com and Beatrice Moore hold the upper brackets for the women. Y.M.C.A. doubles teams will con sist of Hagemann and Moore, Nor man Wlnslow and Bud Brandon; women's doubles: Young and Yo com, Florence Foster and Esther Arnold. Mixed doubles, Boeder and Yocom. Moore and Moore. (Three Champions At Spokane Meet SPOKANE, Wash., March IS-r (lp)-ColIeglate athletes began ar riving tonight for the inland em pire's first indoor A.A.U. track meet at the Spokane armory to morrow night against a field head eel by one national and two world champions. , : Glenn Cunningham, world mile record holder, will run an exhibi tion half mile. Cornelius Johnson, world high jump champion, and Norman Bright, national S.009 meter champion, are scheduled to appear. Bright will run the mile. I - , Ootid d'Or Winner : 8 AN FRANCISCO, March 23. (iip Cloud D'or, the favorite, won the Oakland handicap, f 1.000 added, on a muddy track at Tan toran today. Happy Knot was second, and Manners Man third. Time for the six furlongs was 1:14 1-5. First Round Is Won by Champ Braddock Dodges Order in Miami; Schmeling Heads for Berlin NEW YORK. March 23 -P)-Heavyweight Champion , James J. Braddock wasnt in a receptive mood today. Through his man ager, Joe Gould, the tHleholder definitely rejected Max Schmel- ing's $350,000 offer for a fight In Berlin. Meantime, sought on court order in Miami, Florida. Braddock was disclosed by his manager to be secretly en 'route to Chicago, .where the champion plans to fight Joe Louis June" 22 in spite of all attempts to frus trate this objective. The Berlin fight offer, under stood to have bona fide backing from the German government. disappeared whence it came. Schmeling announced it was with drawn when the time limit ex pired, at noon, without any fur ther show of - interest by Gould or' Braddock. The German chal lenger; still on the outside look ing in, leaves for home tomor row. Braddock sidestepped service of a circuit court order n Miami. The order was obtained by an attorney for Madison Square gar den and was designed to compel Braddock to show why he should not be legally restrained from fighting Louis in Chicago, with out first fulfilling his contract to meet Schmeling In New York, under the garden's direction. June 3. Denies Jim Running "Braddock never ran away from nuthin'," shouted Gould. "He's Just going to the scene of action. That's all I've got to say except ft looks like we outpoint ed the garden in the first round." Gould and Mike Jacobs. New York promoters' who engineered the Braddock - Louis arrange ments for Chicago, plan to Jo'.n the champion Uiere later . in the week. Jacobs intimated today he expects a quick Bhowdown. He reiterated his confidence that nothing can stop the Chicago bout.- Schmeling, still much mysti fied by Braddock's refusal to ac cept a cash guarantee of $350.- 000, plans to return to New York late In April. He will then go Into training to fulfill his part of the contract to fight Braddock here." "Our contract is with the gar den, not with Braddock," said Joe Jacobs. Sehmellng'a Ameri can agent. "If the garden can't produce Braddock on June 3, then we will decide what action, If any, to take." Bethel Residents Will See Comedy on Thursday And Friday, Thie Week BETHEL, March 23 A cast selected from the membership of the community club will put on the three-act comedy "Wild Gin ger" at the school Thursday and Friday nights. The title role will be played by Emaleen Williams. Thursday the entertainment between acts will be given by the Pactfle Studios of Music, Friday night the regular meeting of the community club will be held pre ceding the play, and the Mitchell entertainers will provide tne members between acta. A small charge for admission will be made. LabUh Center Boys Arm Defeated, 5-4 by Brooks LABISH CENTER, March It. -The Labish Center grade school softball team defeated the Brooks team I to 4 la a practice game Monday afternoon. The local team was defeated by North Howell last Friday by a score of T to S. Bowlers of On these alleys in the 2;2th Arm- ery In New ; York, some 22,000 bowlers are firing- away for a Sharria the $140,000 prize money tn the annual American Bowling Congress tournament. The tour ney. which opened March 10, ego Unues for mors than SO days. Two of the veterans entered are Mort Lindsey. left, and Joe Fal- " caro, right, world's chsmplop. ?. . ... .. . - i i. . . - . . t, , ":':'J"" xn 0'Grady Seeks Revenge Here Lost Twice Previously to Riggi But Claims One Stopped Too Soon Seeking revenge for two defeats already suffered. Gene O'Grady will again take on Frank Rlggi, Brooks onion grower, in the round main event next Friday. The card will mark the resumption of box ing at the armory under the di rection of Curley Feldtman after several months layoff. J Though one of t h e j previous matches was stopped shortly after Rlggi had landed one of ; his man killing punches, O'Grady has re fused to admit that he wa licked in the bout. As a special event Eddie Norris, who has appeared on a number of cards here, will re tarn to meet Ernie Bailey of Central!. In the six round bout Buddy Ambrose will take on Ikey Bostwick of Portland. The card will be rounded out with two tour round bouts be tyeen Butch Lebold, Salem, and Charlie McCoy, Independence; and Rocky Perkins, Salem, and Swede Spina. Portland, t ' Health Group to Convene The annual meeting of the Mar lon County Public Health associa tion will be held Thursday night. April 1. at the Golden Pheasant, with Mrs. Saidie Orr Dunbar of the state tuberculosis association to be Invited as guest speaker. Members of the executive board, meeting late yesterday af ternoon, named Don Upjohn, pre sident of the Marion county as sociation, and Mrs. George R. K. Moorhead, executive secretary, as delegates to the state tuberculo sis association annual conference. to be held In Portland Tuesday and Wednesday, March 30 and 31. The county health group yester day voted an additional $100 for the x-ray fund for use in combating tuberculosis in Marion county. - Named on the committee to nominate officers tor the county neaitn association for the new year were Genevieve i Morgan. chairman, Mrs. Gladys Shields of Jefferson, Mrs. C. W. Stacey of Liberty, Mrs. Paul Hendricks of Salem and Dr. R. E. Kleiasorge of Silverton. j Strikes Delaying Postoffice Work Strikes are playing an import ant part in delaying building op erations of the Salem postoffice, it was reported yesterday. Claude H. Post, superintendent I of con struction, said steel for the struc ture probably would not arrive for 30 days. Granite and marble are also delayed. No disposition of the old build ing has yet been made by the Hoffman Construction company. Post reported. Veterans of For eign Wars have considered mov ing the building to . use It as a meeting place tor themselves and affiliated organizations. George Foster and Wife In Hospital as Result Of Automobile Mishap PLEASANTDALS. March 21 Mr. and Mrs. George Foster ot the Pleasantdale locality are la a McMinnvUle hospital following an automobile accident near Hlllsboro at 1 p.m. Sunday when a car coming from a side road collided wltn the Charles Addi son oar of Newberg, la which, they were riding. - Foster has dislocated knee and Mrs. Foster cuts oa her face. Addison la brother of Mrs. Fos ter. Nation Stage Their lvff wi egje v: y I I I V start lindsey April On Eight Card : o Eddie Norris, popular scrapper, who meets Ernie Bailey of Gen traJja! oa Friday night's fight card In a special event. Rat Making Work Daily For Garage Men at Lakeview LAEVIEW, March, 23-)- George itsgeraid. local creamery manager, is still laying for the rat that disabled his car on four con secutive! nights, but Is about out of ideas i The; rodent which nightly eats the insulation from the wires of Fitzgerald's car, causing a short circuit, escaped after spring a trap set fojr lhim Friday and Saturday nighta. Also 'he ate through the tape whichf coTered previous damage to tneswiresi i I ! I 1 i -, i Into Blast Is - . At! School Closed (Continued from page 1) consolidated school's grounds to test sibsoiljfor possible gas seep age. , s Rigid Inspection of everv rural school in the east Texas oil area was ekpectejd as a precaution. In the military inquiry it was testi fied escaping gas was found in a nearby 1 school building. Several schools) were closed for a day to permit a thbrotfgh inspection. State! Senator Joe Hill said he would recommend tightening building inspection regulations ana requiring tne placing of a malodorous i substance m gas so leaks would: be noticeable. . The 3ed j Cross disaster relief officials said today their casualty list snowed 455 dead and S3 in jured.f Forty-nine of the injured still were in hospifkls, many ot tnem critically hurt. Jeah Hawkins io Take Federal Job Miss Jean Hawkins, daughter of Mr land Mrs. Ben Hawkins ot the Auburn! community, left last night for Washington, D. C, "fol lowing j, receipt of appointment Monday to a stenographic post In the federal ! forestry service. Her rating; In the Junior stenography civil service examination taken last Jtly was a 97. Mlsl Hawkins was graduated from Salem high school in June, "1934, find was employed la the Salem? ;scnool system . for more than two years before taking a position' a month ago in the office of CIA. Howard, stats superin tendent ot publie instruction. She will report for duty la the national capital April I. I! Own Strike f.-:'t t,,. ' s .-:: aad f ee lalcare t s -I '.-1 ; ! SmaU Rifle's Money Maker Albany Man Earns $96 in 2 Days' Hunt; Crushers ' - Start Season ALBANY. March 23 Two days' hunting will net Jack. Rc berts of the -Quartrrille district, as much as many men make in a whole month these days. From the office of the Linn county clerk. Roberts collected 336 In bounties and from the state will receive 360 more, making total of $96 for the short hunt. And what is more he earned it with a .22 calibre rifle. j Roberts killed three bobcats for which he -received 32 each and three cougar pelts, which netted him 910 apiece from the county. In addition he will receive 320 for each cougar pelt from the state. Roberts said his dogs treed two cougars in one tree, and he shot one of the cougars, and a few . minutes later got the second one. Then the- dogs cornered a third one. which he killed. Two were yearlings but the last one was a full grown cat, probably 12 years old , and which he esti mated to weigh 200 pounds. It is one-of the largest upon which bounty has been paid on in Linn county. - Rock Crushers Operating ALBANY, March 23 With, the work of repairing damage to county roads, caused by the win ter freeze, well nnder-way, atten tion of the county court is being turned to newer projects, and rock crushers all over the county are grinding out rock for building new roads as well as xor toe re surfacing of present ones. The county court has returned to Al bany from Portland where they had been to- make arrangements with tho owner ot gravel-bearing property in the Dever disrict, rel ative to the immediate operation of a crusher. This crusher will furnish gravel -and crushed rock for roads in the northwestern part , of the county. The crusher at Weasel Flat started crushing Friday and the one at Sanderson's bridge is also operating. Operation of the Lebanon crusn- er will be resumed in the near future for the purpose of furnish ing rock .for the roads in that section, including he Lebanon Crabtree road. Present plans call for the completion of the surfac ing of -this road this year. County Engineer Larsen has a crew of surreyors working on the proposed' new Lebanon-Brownsville road. This road wben com pleted is designed to extend the Lebanon trade territory. ALBANY.-March- 23 Passion week is ' being observed at the Evangelical church here with spe cial meeting each night with Dr. J. Graves of Indianapolis, Ind.. assisting the pastor. Rev. E. C. Hicks. Dr. Graves has been con ducting a aeries of pre-Easter ser vices in Salem. New Store Manager ALBANY, March 23 Gordon L. Hodgson, who has acted as as sistant manager of the local Mont romerr & Ward store for the past several months has received word of the promotion to the position of assistant manager of Montgom ery Ward store in Everett,-Wash. He leaves early this week to take up his new duties. - Succeeding Mr. Hodgson In the Albany store will be W. T. Ely of Longview. Wash., according to an announcement made by J. B. Tay lor, manager ot the store. TJelans Beat Stanford l LOS ANGELES. March 2S-gP -The University of California at Los . Angeles Bruins sprang a baseball upset today when they defeated Staaford's previously un beaten Indians. S to S. NOTICE OF ALLEY VACATION Notice is hereby given that the Common Council of the City . of Salem, Oregon.' by resolution duly and regularly adopted and filed oa March IS, 1937, has declared its Intention to vacate, and has in itiated proceedings to vacate, the Alley running East and West through Kroshu's Addition to the City ot Salem, Marion County, Oregon, said alley being more par ticularly described as follows, to wit: That certain alley running east and west through Kroshu's Ad dition to the City of Salem, from Twenty-first Street to Twenty , third Street, in the City of Sa- - Iem, Marion County, Oregon: and the 19th day or April. 1937. at the hour ot 7:30 p.m., in the coun cil chambers of the City Hall of and In the said City ot Salem, has been fixed as the. time and place tor consideration of such vacation and for hearing any objections or remonstrances thereto. Objections, if any, to such vacation must be filed, in -writing, with the under signed prior to the time herein fixed for hearing the same. A. WARREN, JONES, - City Recorder, . Salem, Oregon. M. 17-24-. 31; A. .T-14. BIDS ON FTRK TRUCK REQUESTED - The undersigned will - receive sealed bids until 7:30 p.m., April S, 1937. tor the following: One 60S gallon Fire Pump, one or two stage ' centrifugal bronze pump. ISO gallon water tank with or without auxiliary pump (bidder may bid either or both but must specify) 125 or 170 horse-power motor or with a motor with suf ficient power to properly operate pump and engine and the follow ing equipment one roof ladder -one 14-ft- extension ladder two 3-gaIlon fire extinguishers and usual tools and equipment. ; A. WARREN JONES, City Recorder, . .. . : Salem, Oregon. M. 24.