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PAGE SEVEN Dizzy Dean and Goof ly Gomez to Tangle: at Start of Big Game Slugging Power Features American "All-Stars" for Big Game Hogg's Winner Ilingman Gets Moran' Title League Baseball Opening Round WESTERN INTERNATIONAL (End First Halt) W. L. Pet. .603 .665 .549 .$07 .465 .303 Wenatchee. - ...... -.41 Spokane ...3 1 27f 30 32 33 3ft 46 Walk on Wait's in Finale Flying Tackles Work for Yakima .39 .34 .33 .20 and Man's Shop Beats Gladstone Outfit Yancouver The OREGON STATESMAN, Salem. Oregon, Wednesday Morning, July 7, 1937 Popular Gob; Tussles Unusually Brief Otis Cllngman took whatever Tacoma Lewiston League Stars Vie for Keeps Capacity Crowd Promised; Grove and Hubbell to Do Some Pitching Br ALAN GOULD WASHINGTON, July 6-(!P)-The national capital -will take a base ball holiday tomorrow while the major leagues put on their fifth annual all-star show before Pres ident Roosevelt and an expected capacity crowd of nearly 32,000 ' fans. Hand-picked by the riral pilots, Bill Terry of the New York Giants " and Joe McCarthy of the New York Yankees, the opposing bat ' tie lines featured an opening pich " era duel between the unpredlct ' able Jerome Herman "Ditty" Dean, ace righthander of the St. Louis Cardinals, and Vernon ' "Goofy" Gomez of the Yankees. Dean, who flew In from St. Louis ' tonight, drew his second straight starting assignment for the all-star game. Gomez, one of fire members of the world champion Yankees con centrated In the Americans' line up, will tee off In the box for the fourth time In five seasons.. For the first time since the in . ter-league "dream game" became a reality at Chicago in 1933, the S.R.O. sign will be out. Pitching casualties affected the plans of both league camps, caus ing managers to send calls for re placements. The rival forces, picked without running the risks of any popular polls this year, are strictly "playing for keeps." Mungo Is on Shelf The Nationals suffered a blow when big Van Lingle Mungo, flre ; ball righthander of the Brooklyn Dodgers, came up with a sore ack. He was Terry's original tholce to share the pitching job vlth Dean and Carl Hubbell, the Slants' screwball master. Terry tonight decided to call on lis star young Tighthander, Cly lell Castleman, if needed. Mungo arrived later In the eve ilng and announced he would be eady for work if Terry desired to ise him. Castleman also was en route and Terry elected to wait intil gimetime tomorrow before letinltely deciding which would loin the Nationals' staff. Meantime Terry Indicated he would use Lee Grissom of the : Reds as, third f linger. He also has 5y Blanton of the pirates and Bucky Walters of the Phillies on lis pitching roster. Monty Stratum, ace White Sox righthander, was declared out of the. Americans'- lineup with a wrist Injury. McCarthy selected one of his own men, Johnny Mur phy, as' a replacement. Betting Is Even .With both sides presenting -their strongest arrays at the put set, the betting fraternity quoted 6 to 5, and take your choice. . The Nationals relied heavily "on their big batting guns, featuring three Cardinal and three Cub cloutera, to find the range while Dean and Hubbell hold off the Yankee dominated attack. The return of Joe Cronin, Red Sox manager and shortstop, to the American lineup in a park where he led a championship club in 1933; shared interest with the sophomore appearance of Joe Di MaggJo in the all-star show. The young Yankee slugger, "Goat" of the Americans defeat last, year In Boston, hoped to make amends with his big bat tomorrow. McCarthy Is expected to have Lefty Grove, veteran .Red Sox portslder, primed for one of the three-Inning- pitching tricks. Mel Harder of the Indians or Tommy Bridges of the Tigers was slated for the other. Fair weather was predicted but the big league sponsors took out rain insurance, anyway, sufficient to cover expenses, amounting to about $12,000. If there Is a post ponement, the game will be set back to 11 a.m. Thursday. Net proceeds of the game go to the ball players' national benevolent fund. The batting order: Nationals P. Waner, Pirates, rf ; Herman, Cubs. 2b; Vaughn, Pirates, 3b; Medwlck, Cardinals, If; Demaree. Cubs, cf: Mize, Cardinals, lb; Hartnett, Cubs, e; Bartell, Giants, Rg ; J. Dean, Cardinals, p. Americans Rolfe, Yankees, 3b; Gehrlnger, Tigers, 3b; DIMaggto, Yankees, cf : Gehrig, Yankees, lb; Averill, Indians, rf; Cronin, Red Sox. ss; Dickey, Yankees, c; Bell, Browns, If; Gomez, Yankees, 4. Diamond Funeral Held For Baseball Official LOS ANGELES, July S.-KP)-The "home plate" was the goal of Russ Hall a greater part of his life, and so when funeral serv ices were held today for the for mer baseball player and secretary of the professional ball, players of America they were conducted before 1,000 friends at the home plate in Wrlgley field. w. I Hi ' ,. J. - 'WWt iit'x I v.! ;;7;;vv:::;., r IJlmmyFoxxIr ' S 'J Lon Gehrig jX, , V ""Oi ' - X " ' 1 ; ' - ' x 9 , , I I ' - s ' 1 Charley Oehrtnger ;- ,. rf J- Five veterans of all five All-Star major league baseball games are included among those' who were chosen to represent the American league in the 1937 classic at Griffith stadium in Washington, July 7. They are Bill Dickey, Yankee catcher; Lefty Gomez. Yankee pitcher; Charley Gehrlnger. Tiger second baseman; Jimmy Foxx, Boston first t Bill Dtckeylk baseman,. and Lou Gehrig, Yankee first baseman who Is leading the league in hitting. They were picked by Manager Joe McCarthy of the world champion New York Yankees who pilots the American league outfit by virtue of having led his team to a league victory last year. OF Diz Lucky in Tolerant Bosses They Show Him Errors of Ways; Star Convinced Against Refusal By PAUL MICKELSON WASHINGTON, July MVBy far the luckiest thing that ever happened to the adventuresome Dizzy Dean Is that he hitched his blinking baseball star to the coat tails of Sam Breadon and Branch Rickey. . Diz has called his tolerant ben efactors almost everything from bum sports to tightwads. His re bellions, holdouts, antics and pop offs have given them a thousand headaches', but the St. Louis Cardinal bosses have, steered him from the whirlpools. It is doubtful if any other base ball magnates, many of whom think no more of selling a player than you do of swapping in your "old car, would have stood for one fraction of the abuse Rickey and Breadon have absorbed from the great Dean. Courted Disgrace Except for Breadon and pos sibly Rickey the great Dean would hare fallen into permanent baseball disgrace if he had stuck by his avowed intention, and refus ed to play in the all-star game. Many baseball leaders, awed and dismayed at Diz audacity, pre dicted he would have been boy cotted in every ; city town and cillage where the game is played because the contest here is for charity broken down ball play ersand even Dean can't get gay with charity. ; But Breadon calmed Diz down, pointed out the almost certain re percussions and got him to change his mind. Diz can thank Sam Breadon for that one, even if he forgets the other good deeds and advice. And chances are that Diz will hurl a great game for ; the Na tional leaguers tomorrow, arising out of the ashes of disgrace to he roic heights. That's his way and his luck. Restaurant Team Defeats Fordmen Golden Pheasant defeated Val ley Motor 9 to 3 in a junior league softball contest last night which featured many errors - on both sides, the margin lying in the heavy hitting of the restaurant squad. K. Larsen, who went in for the Pheasants In the sixth, fanned 7 out of 9, to halt a late rally by Valley Motor. The score: . Golden Pheasant 9 10 6 Valley Motor 3 4. S R. Gentzkow, K. Larsen and Al ley, B. Larsen; Kuescher, Long and Kelso; Yada. American Red Cross "SWIM WEEK July 6 to July 16 Name .Class Address Boy .Age .Girl. .Woman. Parent's signature for children '. ! This registration blank mast be turned in not later than five o'clock Thursday, July, in the main office at the pool where instruction is to be received. ; Northwest Title Belt on Display; At Issue Monday The belt which the Woodburn American Legion post has hung up for the northwest heavyweight championship 'and for which "Tiny" Cooper and Chuck Ntek ason will contest in a main event fight in Woodburn next Monday night, is on display at Cliff Par ker's sport goods store here. The belt is not patterned after the huge ornamental but imprac tical ones usually posted for such honors, but Is of standard size so that it may be worn regularly by the possessor. Kay Mills Beats Lumber Workers In a free-hitting test In which 29 blows were about evenly di vided, the Kay Mills industrial softball team won out over Han- sen-Liljequist 6 to 3 on Olinger field last night. Hansen-Liljequist got one more hit than the victors but failed to bunch them where they counted. Hansen-Liljequist s IS 1 Kay's 5 14 0 Batdorf and Getero; Alford and Hastings. Sliumway Winner Of Holiday Figlit BAKER, July f Roily Shumway of John Day, ISO-pound Golden Gloves champion in 1936, knocked out Walter Blackwell, 139, of Baker In eight rounds here last night. Dal Bennett, 160, La Grande, knocked out Ken Draper, 168. Baker, In the first round, tand Sammy Blackwell, 117. Baker, won from Tiger Sprout, 110, of Nampa. Idaho, by a knockout la the second round. Baseball School To Reopen Today Special Treat Is in Store for Players, Hinted by Director RYMapld r Horton Smith Repeats Record Round To Lead Qualifiers; Four Americans Right Behind Him to Score Monopoly CARNOUSTIE, Scotland, July 6. (AP) Dubbed "happy face" by. the Scots since his arrival in Carnoustie, Horlon bmith, the big, blond Missouri boy by way of Chicago, tonight had proved himself a serious contender for the Brit ish open golf championship. , ! He shot his second straight 69 today to lead 141 quali fiers by three strokes and empha-O ' ' size the American monopoly that! obtained throughout the 36-hole elimination. Smith posted a total score of 138, four under par, three shots! ahead of Gene Sararen and four better than the 142 scored by By ron Nelson, Sam Snead and the! inevitable Walter Hagen. Only after these five American stalwarts had stuck their names atop the scoreboard wag Britain able to place a man. Alastair Mc Leod, blond, 30-year-old member of a famous Glasgow golfing fam ily, and Max Faulknor, son and assistant of a Berkshirt profes sional, managed to sneak in at 143 before the United States,- South Africa and Ireland shoved the home-breds out again. j Topping the list of 144 shoot ers was the veteran Joe Kirk wood, the Australian-born Ameri4 can trick shot 'specialist, who well-nigh insulted these proud Carnoustie folk by toomlng over the adjoining Burnside links in 67, four under par and ten under his first-round score over the championship course, which wUl be used exclusively when the 72 hole championship proper gets under way tomorrow. Tied with him were Ed Dudley of Philadelphia and U. S. open champion Ralph Guldahl; Bobby Locke, sensational 19-year-old South African amateur; Paddy Mahon from Dublin and three Englishmen, Walter Smlthers, "W. C. Hancock and Stanley Stone-house. Howard Maple and his school of youngsters learning baseball through the cooperation of the Statesman and the Legion- will resume operations today after nearly a month's layoff. Rain, which disorganized the last week of the school, and Maple's occupation with moving from Corvallis to Salem, where he took over new duties &n assist ant coach at Willamette July 1, made necessary the delay in com pletion of the course of baseball training offered. To make up for the lost time Maple will offer extra free in struction to the nearly 100 boys who took part in the school. Other boys, who did not take the earlier training but would like to learn Inside baseball, may also report when Maple holds his first class of the second session at X o'clock today at Olinger field. Announcement of a special treat for members of the Statesman- Legion school only will be made at today s session. Maple has an nounced, 's Ulbrickson Aides Get Eastern Bids SEATTLE, July .-(P-Al 13 brickson. coach of the University of Washington crews,; said today he "understood" Bobby Moch, Montesano, and Walt Ralney, Se attle, his assistants, "have been approached" by Princeton. "However," he added, they have not discussed the matter with me: hence I am in no posi tion to say whether they will or won't be here next year. Princeton, he said, definitely is looking for a new coach, and Co lumbia possibly will change coach es this year. Strikeout Expert Sent to Syracuse v CINCINNATI. July Johnny Yandermeer. the 22-year- old strikeout king of the minor leagues last year, went to Syra cuse of the International league today under a 24-hour recall. The Cincinnati Reds, for whom he won three games while losing four, sent Yandermeer to Syra cuse from whom they recalled Jake Mooty, a 2 2 -year-old tight hander who was with the Reds during the closing weeks ot the 1)936 season. Like righthand Rookie Lloyd Moore, Yandermeer was sent to the minors with Instructions to work on mastery ot control. Grid Rules Chief Called Suddenly ANNAPOLIS, Md.. Jaly .-JPl -Capt. Paul N. DashleU, U. S. N retired, chairman of the national football rules committee for ISh years, died unexpectedly In the navy hopsital here today. He would hare been 70 July IS. He had been in the .hospital for ye treatments. , He suffered a heart attack late today. Louis-Farr Scrap Handed Approval 15-Rounder in Gotham Is Forecast; chmeling I& Ignored Again NEW YORK. July 6-Fi-The New York: state athletic commis sion today formally approved a heavyweight title match between Joe Louis and Tommy Farr, Brit ish empire tltleholder. In a sud den move that apparently left Max Schmeling once more on the out side looking in. The fight, at 15 rounds, will be held In the Yankee stadium. Pro moter Mike Jacobs said, but the date Is uncertain. Louis., who won the title by Knocking out Jimmy Braddock at Chicago last month, will defer his proposed trip to .England un til after Ufa match will Farr, Ja cobs said. Ted' Broadrlbb, manager of Farr, said the British champion will not go through with a eched uled ; tussle with Schmeling in London at least until after Farr has clashed with the Detroit ne gro. , " - Explaining the commission's ac tlon. Chairman John P. Phelan said ha cabled Schmeling the com mission could not recognize the proposed Farr-Schmeling bout as a championship engagement. At the same time, Phelan said, the commission informed Schmeling that Louis wanted to defend the championship in September and that he (Schmeling) was regard' ed as the outstanding challenger. When no reply was received from the German boxer, Phelan said, the commission decided to ap prove the Louis-Farr match. : Hogg Bros, took the first round championship of the Salem Softball association season by de featlng an uninspired Wait's squad 9 to 0 last night on Sweet- land field. , Roth, pitching tor Hogg's, let the losers down with only three hits, and those were scattered in separate innings. The furniture men opened with a rusn, scoring tour runs on as many blows In the first, aided by three costly bobbles by Wait's. No further scoring came until the fifth, when three more were push ed across, and a seven-inning vic tory came when 2 more were add ed in that frame. Serdots doubled In the first and Roth helped win his own game by a double in the seventh. Wait's five errors, including some overthrows to first, were re sponsible for many extra bases for the Hogg boys, who hobbled only once. In the opener, which ran for 9 Innings, a team from Gladstone, near Portland, was puzzled by the speedy delivery of "Bus" Haugh for the Man's Shop, and went down under a 7 to 0 shutout. Haugh, a stocky lefthander who is guest pitcher for the clothiers while on a visit from Kansas, nev er was in trouble as his . team mates hit heavily. A homer by Harold Hauk In the third helped matters along for the Salem team. Hogg. Bros. 9 Walt's 0 Roth and McCaffery; and Beard. i Gladstone ....j 0 Man's Shop ..J..... 1 Smith audi Davidson; and L. Girod. Texas Is Pleased With Oregon Lads Manning and Bevans Make Exceptional Showing . on El Paso Club 13 S Riches 2 9 Haugh I Berger Beats Wolgast I NEW YORK, July .-CP-Max le Berger, 136, of New York, de feated Midget Wolgast, 136, Phil adelphia; in an eight-round bout before .a crowd of 3,000 at the Coney Island Yelodrome tonight. Gabby Street out As St. Paul Boss ST. PAUL, July 6.-(iip)-Charles "Gabby" Street, who piloted the St. Louis Cardinals to two pen nants and one world series title, resigned today as manager of the St. Paul American association club he led to second place last season. He gave 111 health caused by worry over his club now In last nlace after eight consecutive losses as the reason. Phil Todt. brilliant first base man who filled In at the pilot post for a month at the end of the 1933 campaign, was named to carry on in Street's place. Scout Training of Older Brother Saves Boy's Life After Ducking in Umpqua ROSEBURG, July 6.-(P)-The Bov Scout training of an older brother saved the life of Edward Hiney, 9,' yesterday. A heavy sack of sand rolled the yqungster Into the Umpqua river. James Hiney dove into the stream and pulled his unconscious brother from ten feet of water, He revived him before the fire de partment arrived with an inhala tor. , Alps Haven't Anything On Oregon's Mountains Cfiniber of Both Avers ! GOVERNMENT CAMP, July -(ff)-Sam Thomas of New York, -1 whn hn BPAlnd the Ainu, flndi No. 1 for Tigers A - , Prince Keaeyv Recently elected captain of the Princeton golt team. Prince Furni taJui Konoye, son of the sew Japanese premier, is No. 1 man . en the Tiger links outfit. who has scaled the Alps, finds Oregon's mountains a paradise for the climber. He scaled thai south and north sides of Mt. Hood last week for the second time In two years and plans to return to the state soon to challenge the rugged slopes of the Mt. Jefferson area Caves Visitors on 4th Break AllTime Record No major league games Tues day."' SILVERTON, July 6. "The town of El Paso Is crasy about those hustling kids," said Bob Coltrin, New York Yankee scout, who has been a constant spectator at the Oregon semi-pro tourna ment, concerning the Oregon boys who went south this' season to play ball. "This is the first year in pro esslonal ball for every one of the players, and they won the first half championship. They were In second place when they went on the road, and won eight out of 11 games to take the lead. "The kids are hustling all the time, and coin showers are fre quent. Manning Just a youngster, is the oldest man on the squad He is playing a great game, and has hit over .320 all season. "Bill Bevans is the leading strikeout pitcher in the league. ana nasn t pitcued a bad game yet. "Bobby Baer, Hop Gold second baseman I signed from last year's state tournament, Is one of the scrappiest rookies they ever had there, according to Manager Jim my Zinn. May Go Higher Soon "All of the team will be kept at El Paso all year for seasoning, because they learn more playing there than they would substitut ing elsewhere. After one good year in a league like that some players1 Jump up several grades in one season and are all ready to go." - Bevans and Manning were scouted both at the Oregon semis pro tournament in Portland last year and In the Yankee baseball school - at Salem. However, , there won t be any such school this year, "We find the state tournaments are better places to scout than at baseball schools, now that most states are holding them. At the schools we had to take every thing, good players and country greenhorns, whereas most -of the players in the tournaments are good ball players and we don have to waste time on those in whom we are hot interested.' claim Sailor Moran held on the . Pacific coast middleweight wres tling title away from him in work manlike fashion at the armory Tuesday night, much to the de light of the cash customers. Moran's slugging tactics, em ployed to the accompaniment of the usual chorus of boos, enabled him to win the second tall but Cllngman took the first and then: the deciding round, each time with Sonnenbergs. The bout lasted only a little over 17 min utes, Cllngman leveling his foe in 3:45 in the last round, as the slim attendance apparently pre vented any Inspired antics. The earlier bouts, which in, eluded an extra one not on the bill, also were brief. Marshall Carter took a one-fall victory over Kiytoshi Uno, a Japanese, using a crab hold. ., Panther Wins Quickly The Black Panther utilised an overly-strenuous whip wristlocl and body press to subdue Danny Russo, and ; the latter was not able to continue after losing the first fall. Bobby Burns and Bob Cum- mings arrived at no settlement. Cummings winning the first fall and Burns the second. In the four remaining minutes neither able to cash in. Keasey Is Oregon Archery Champion CORVALLIS, July 6.-P)Gil-man Keasey lot Corvallis, national archery champion, won the Ore gon title today by defeating Mer- ton Bixler of Portland at the an nual state tournament. Bixler led until near the end of the three-day event. The win ner, defending his titles of 193 S and 1936, scored 2017 points, Bixler tallied 1946 points and Pat Chambers of Portland finished third with 1816. Portland won the team title and Corvallis placed second. Mrs. Pat Chambers of Port land took first place in the women's division. Mrs. Henry Hewitt, Portland, captured the women's flight distance shoot. sending her arrow 357 yards. The association elected V. D McCauley, Eugene, president, and selected Eugene for next year' meeting place. An effort will be made . to bring , the national tournament to Portland or Cor vallis in 1938. was Klepper Cracking Down on Players SEATTLE, July 6.-(aVHarlin Pool, Seattle outfielder, was sus pended without pay until he gets Into shape to play. Pres. William F. Klepper of the coast league ball club, announced late today. He said Pool's failure to hit was one lactor in the Indians' recent slump, and he threatened there would be other suspensions unless the team snapped out ot it. Klepper also said he had asked waivers on five Seattle gayer. Home Run Hitter. To Wed Thursday SEATTLE, July .-JP)-Arthur L. "Mike" Hunt, Seattle outfield er who leads the league in home run clouting with 23; and Miss Charlotte Axelson, former Wash ington State college co-ed, ob tained a marriage license today. - " They will be married at the home plate here Thursday night preceding the game with Sacra mento. i " Ranger Is Chosen For Cup Defense - ' -i : NEWPORT. R. I., July 6.-iiP:-, Ranger, Harold S. Vanderblifs yacht, tonight was named as the defender of the America's cup against Endeavor II, T. O. M. Sopwith's second British chal lenger. The assignment to defend the famous trophy, the third time it has been entrusted to Yander bllt. was given him on his 64th birthday. Red Grange j Will Retain Same Job CHICAGO, July .--Turnlng down two offters from national professional football league clubs, and another from a college, Har old "Red" Grange signed today as assistant coach to George' Halas of the Chicago Bears. It will be the famed "galloping ghost's" third season as backfield coach with the Bears. GRANTS PASS, July 6.-P)-The 2555 persons exploring the Oregon Caves during the July Fourth holiday set a new record, officials at the national monu ment announced today. Guides conducted 1143 visitors through the caves on Sunday alone. To date, visitors are IS per cent more than a year ago. Boy of Eight Drowned In SiusUnc; Find Body EUGENE, July 6 .-(P-Th row ing a pall of garbage Into the Stu slaw river proved fatal to Gilbert D. Severy, 8, son of Walter D. Severy of Mapleton. The family located his body In the river after becoming alarmed when he failed to return from the errand Sunday night. To Inspect Highway Members of the highway com mission and the state board of eontrol will today Inspect part of the Wolf creek highway which, when, completed, will save SO miles between Portland and Sea side. The completed portion, from Sunset camp to Bear creek, la part of the 1 7-mile Wolf creek section. The party will leave Port land this morning. 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