By RON GEMMELL
They'll tell yon It's going to
be quite & soft ball season, will
those fella who hare been atop
the Spring
league that
concluded C?rl-
d a y n I f),h t
There laaJ a
nlnvcr niana-
" T i ger or sponsor
of any of the
lx teams which
will tee off a
, week from- to
morrow nignt
In the ntne
weeks Summer
league but
what will walk
up to you, wig-
rlA m flnvA .
s
ROM GEVUEIX .
and spit out: "Son. shea' going
to be a tough circuit this year!"
By "tough," they'll go on to tell
you, they mean competition is
going to be seTere, savage, some
pumpkins and to say the mosta,
ne plus ultra.
Point to Pitchers.
If you press em, they'll even
go further ami tabulate a few
potent reasons Just .why the
league is going to be so much
tougher thJ year than itr has
- for everal Reasons back. In
variably they'll begin whisper
ing, in hoarse, throaty jvhis
pers, about this or that young
pitcher who lias been showing
more "tuff in Spring league
play than a good many of thp
oldsters can adrguately handle.
They'll lead off with a two
stanza, yodel concerning Ken
ay Lren, whose been whip- -ping
em across for the Eagles,
and will wind up by giving you
an earful of Smither, O-30's
youthful underhander. Larsen,
who pitched In . the Junior
league laot summer, needs but
a little more experience, they
say, and hell be rougher titan
a politician's shell.
"PinwheeTnot so Potent.
While statistics compilers for
Spring league play didn't figure
the earned run averages, there is
little question but what Henry
Singer, who, won nine and lost
one, finished the course with the
best honors. "Pinwheel" Percy
Crowfoot, whose windmill deliv
ery last year had the boys badly
baffled, hasn't been quite so po
tent so far this. True, his 80
strikeouts in the Spring were 19
- more than his nearest competitor,
but the boys figure he'll be much
easier "had" thia season. Smither,
whose forte is a raise ball that
' also sweeps to the outside of the
plate to a rlghthand hitter, was
second only to Crowfoot In the
number of gents sent down swing
ing. Smither tallied 1 "K's" for
the season; Roth, Waits flinger
who is also no slouch with the
stick, got 36; Larsen, Eagles. 58;
Singer, Square Deal, 41; and Ser-
dots, Golden Pheasant, 31.
No Soft Spots.
But It Is not alone the sud
den rise of some promising
yoang twirlers that makes soft
ball addicts advance- on you
' with a fanatical gleam in theh
eyes. While pitching is, and al
ways will be In softball the out
standing element, they'll tell
you that, disregarding pitch
ers, all six clubs are-more even
ly matched than they have been
for three years. Xo, sir, one
manager was heard to remark,
there Isn't a soft spot 1st the
circuit this year. More espe
cially, there won't be when the
season tees off next Monday
night, for the weaker dabs al
ready have Irons la the fire
with which to brand some addi
tional strength. Twenty-Thirty,
the ambers" gang that flav
ished last in Spring league
play," has already signed Hauk
and Gilmore, and has designs
on some others. A few colle
gian aoftballers wilt be romp
ing borne this week in time to
get into the thick of it, includ
ing Jimmy Nicholson, who it
is understood is ready to don a
Paper-makers uni.
Trek to Fight.
VA group of Salem folks left this
morning for the eastern seaboard
and the Lottis-Schmeling fight
June 22. They were Mr. and Mrs.
George Orey, Mr. and Mrs. Rupert
Magee and Mrs. Varley. Mrs. Orey
has a sister In New York; Mrs.
Magee has an old friend la Chi
cago; Mrs. Varley has a nephew
and sister-in-law in New York;
and from the way they were talk
ing when they left here, Orey and
Magee are relatives of Louis.
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League Standings
COAST LEAGUE
r Before Nlcht Game)
W. L. Pet.
Sacramento ......38 27 .S85
San Francisco . ...3( 28 .55 8
Portland ...2 31 .522
San Diero 34 31 .523
Seattle ....... ..'.33 33 .500
Hollvwood 32 33 . .4$2
Los Angeles ......30 33 .476
Oakland .........23 43 -348
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
Cleveland ...27 13 .75
New York ....;.. 15 .605
Washington ......25 1 .568
Boston i..22 - 17 : .564
netroit i..lt 22 ..463
Philadelphia .....16 22 .421
Chicazo ......... 12 2 .352
st. Tenuis ........11 25 .206
NATIONAL LEAGUE
- W. L. Pet.
New York .......25 14 .641
rhlraro ...26 15 .61J
Boston ...20 16 .571
Pittsburgh ...a... 20 18 .526
Cincinnati ..zi z
St. Louis ........17, 21 .447
Brooklyn ,.16 21 .172
Philadelphia H
WESTERN INTL LEAGUE
Beillnghm 6, Wenatcheo 4.
Tacoma 5, Spokane 2.
Yakima 10, Vacouver I.
Legion J
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Woodburn Will
Play Silverton
Defending Champs Show
Promise; Cascade
Game Follows
WOODBURN The Woodburn
American' Legion junior baseball
team will play its first game of
the Marion county championship
series at j Legion park here" this
afternoon with the Silverton Le
gion team as opponent.
Woodburn, defending county'
champion, looked like a cham
pionship club in its opening game
of the season last Monday against
a team of -Salem and Woodburn
all-stars, j Three excellent pitch
ers, Hanauska. Miles and Jell,
are on the Woodburn roster to
give the ( local club a well bal
anced mound staff.
Reed Behind Plate
Clyde illeed, who caught for
last season's Junior team and also
for the local high school team for
the past two years, is back for
another great season behind the
plate. Wally Lee of Donald and
Duane Hatcher, Hubbard star,
turned la great games at second
and third base, respectively, and
with Fink at first and Pat De
Jardin covering the short patch,
the Woodburn team shows prom
ise of another great infield.
Ilalteri Donnelly and Pienett
looked good in the outfield and
will probably start there today.
Garfield iVoget, coach of the local
nine, has been working the team
regularly during the last two
weeks and it should be in top
shape for the opening champion
ship game.
Firemen, Kc's to Play
Immediately following the Le
gion contest, the Woodburn Fire
men and the Salem Kaysees will
take the field in a Cascade league
game that promises to be a give
and take affair. Both teams hold
championship aspirations and are
well balanced clubs. The Firemen
hold first place in the circuit and
are undefeated with four con
secutive! wins. The Kaysees have
only one loss against three wins
and, if they can dump the Fire
men, will be back in a tie for the
loop lead. Harold Bourbonnais,
the hurler with the stellar right
arm that has carried tHj Firemen
to all their wins, will be bn tha
hill for the local team. Reiling
will again be behind the plate.
Garfield Voget, who received a
broken finger two. weeks ago In
the game with Lone Elder, is still
out of the lineup but the Injury
is healing rapidly and the fiery
little catcher hopes to be back
In harness soon.
Ray Elliott, who formerly
pitched for the Woodburn Amer
ican Legion club several years
ago, will be on the mound for
the Salem team. Elliott has run
up an enviable record of strike
outs and the local hitters will
undoubtedly be looking at wide
assortment of carve balls in their
game today.
Entire gate receipts will be
turned over to the American Le
gion baseball fund, the Firemen
ro ting to donate their share for
the aid of the local team.
Indians Lambaste
Senators, 11 to 4
Feller Goes Wild in 4th;
Grove, Foxx Team to
Win for Red Sox
WASHINGTON, June l-UPy-
The league-leading Cleveland In
dians walloped tne Senator: 11 to
4 today.
Let down without a hit during
the first three Innings, the In
dians hopped on Elon Horsett in
the fourth and scored S runs.
Bob i Feller who started for
the tribe became wild a the
game progressed and was lifted
In the fourth with nobody out.
R; H. E
Cleveland ..11 11 1
Washington ....... 4 7 1
Feller. Galehou-e (4) and Pyt-
lak: Horsett, Weaver (4). Kel
ley (), Krakau-kas (7) and
FerrelL
ftrove. Vox Steal Show
BOSTON. Jnna WjJVThoie
old renames, ' tierty urove anu
Jimmy Fort. weTe Just - about
the whole "works" today as. the
Red Sox trounced the Detroit
Tigers, 5 to 3.
Grove, although tarred for 10
hits, blanked the Timers fo eight
innings ' and fanned nine in
chalking-up his ninth wla of the
Tear aralnst one defeat.
. Foxx, driving In four oi the
Sox' five runs, hit lili 17th and
13 th homers of the yer off
Tommy Bridges, ana aaaea . a
slnaie : before he wound up.
!. R. H E.
Detroit ' 3 10
Rnitnn .' 5 9 1
Bridges, Coffman (8) and
York; Grove and Desautel.
i TThlte Rax rownel
PHILADELPHIA June 4-(P-
Phliadeiphin downed tne tmcigo
Nationals, to 4, today in a
fce-w-hlttlne- contest.
R. H E.
Chicago 4 15 1
Philadelphia I 2 4 2
Lvons. Gabler ;f5). Ccx (7)
and Sewell; Caster and Br acker.
!
St. ' Louis at New York, post
poned (rain).
Indian Broom Wins
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.-;p)
-Indian Broom won the $15,000
added Marchbank handicap to
day, i defeating his stablemate.
Wichcee, by a nose in photo
finish in the closing program of
the Tanforan spring meeting,
SUr ! Shadow, the favorite, was
third.
Ducks Repeat
Indians' Rout
weeney Defies Doctor
Again, Gets Single,
Scoring Later
PORTLAND, June 4.--The
Portland Beavers bunched their
hits on Eddie Serventl today
while the best Seattle could do
with 11 blows off Joe Hare was
two runs, so : the Beavers won.
4 to 2. The game put the Poft-
landers Jiack into a tie for third
place. I' : '
Mgr. Bill Sweeney, playing in
the Portland lineup against doc
tors orders, regained his batting
eye with a single in the sixth that
became a run on Frederick's
double, and in the eighth poled
a home run into the left field
bleachers.
Joe Hare was often? in diffi
culty, but his mates played error
less ball behind him and in the
pinches the Rainiers could sel
dom produce the needed hit.
Seattle . 2 11 0
Portland -.4 8 0
Servant! and Spindel; Hare
and Dickey.
Sacs Tighten Lead 1
SAN DIEGO, Calif., June 4.-
(JP) Shortstop Joe Oengo's big bat
and Henry "Cotton" Pippen's ef
fective pitching combined to' give
Sacramento a 5 to 2 victory over
the San Diego Padres here today.
The Solons tightened their grip
on the-Coast league lead and took
a three to two edge in the seven-
game series. ; ' i ' !
Sacramento J..-L.. ; .5 7 1
San Diego . 2 6 2
Pippen and Grube; Humphreys,
Salvo and Hogan. !
Seals. Angels Split .'
SAN FRANCISCO, June 4.-i?P)
-Los Angeles and San Francisco
divided a Pacific Coast baseball
league twin bill today, the Angels
winning the first encounter, 5 to
2, and the Seals the second. 11
to 10.
Los Angeles 5 7 1
San Francisco 2 8 ; 2
Salveson and Sueme; Shores
and Sprinx. -
Los Angeles ...10 ; 1
San Francisco .. 11 16 8
Thomas, Berry and Collins;
Miller, Mann, Ballou and Wood-
all. . ; ..- t '
Star- Batter Oaks i
LOS ANGELES. June 4.-UP-
Hollywood trimmed Oakland 1 2
to 7 today in a game that started
with e scoring splurge resulting
in 10 runs In the first inning.
Babich managed to last the
route for the Stars, tightening up
as he went, while his mates ham
mered four Oakland pitchers.
Oakland . - 7 7 8
Hollywood 12 14 1
Van Fleet, Olds, Moore, Pyl
and Ralmondi; Babich and Bren
WSC Refuses Bid
For 0SC Playoff
PULLMAN, June -VG'adu
ate Manager Earl Foster an
nounced today Washington State
college had : declined an Oregon
State college invitation to play off
their tie for the northern division
pacific coast conference baseball
title. j
Leading by a half game, WSC
was dropped into a tie with OSC
by dropping the final game of the
season to Idaho two days ago.
"Our final examinations begin
Monday," Foster explained, "and
we feel it inadvisable to Interrupt
the student work of our players.
Immediately after examinations
several players leave for summer
work.
We believe under the circum
stances that the proper thing to
do is to leave the situation as It
is."
Kaysees to Play
Woodburn I Today
CASCADE LEAGUE :
' W. L. Pet.
Woodburn .........4 0 1.000
Salem KC ..........3 1, .750
Stayton .....2 1 .750
Lone Elder .1 3 .250
Sublimity .1 3 .250
Aumsvllle .........0 4 .000
As the first-half of the Cascade
circuit draws to a close today, Sa
lem's Kaysees will be battling the
league-leaders in their own bail!
wick. Though scheduled to be
played here, the : Kaysee-Wood-bnrn
and will follow the junior
game between Silverton , and
Woodburn that is also being play
ed there. ; ,
Other games today: Lone Elder
at Aumsvllle and Stayton at Su
blimlty. . , ,
Pasteurized Wins
7 t J
Belmont's Stakes
NEW YORK, Jane 4.-y-The
three-year-old championship pic
ture was turned topsy-turvy to
day when Dauber, winner of the
Preakness and second in the Ken
tacky derby, bowed to the flying
hooves of Mrs. W. Plunket Stew
art's Pasteurized In the 70th run
ning of the classic Belmont
stakes.
Town send B. Martin's Cravat
was third. Winning time tor the
mile and a half was 2:21 25.
mmior StaH Today ?
Salem,
Armstrong Out
mi
A crowd estimated at 40,000 saw
weight Champion Barney Ross to
son Square Garden bowl. Ross
Armstrong, who rained punches
up in the tenth round as Hammering Henry swings another punch.
Reds Continue
Giant Killing
Cut NY's Lead to Half
Game; Cubs Climb;
Cards Defeated
CINCINNATI, June 4-UPY-
Even King Carl Hubbell, the old
meal ticket, couldn't stop the
Giants' losing slide today, and
the New Yorkers had their Na
lonal league lead cut to a slim
half-game by dropping -an 11 to
2 decision to the Reds.
R. H. .. E.
New York 2 1 1
Cincinnati 11 18 1
Hubbell, Coffman f4). Georgy
(8) and Danning; Weaver and
Lombard!.
Cubs Approach Leaders
CHICAGO. June 4-AV-ChI-
cago's Cubs elimbed within a
half-game of first place In the
National league today when
Larry French turned in, a six
hit, 5 to 1 victory over the Phil
adelphia Phils as the l&ague
leadlnr New York Giants towed
before Cincinnati's Rsds.
R. H. E.
Philadelphia ....... 1' 2
Chicago . . .- 5 8 0
Passeau, Hallahan (8) and At
wood; French and Hartnett, Odea
(?).
Bscs Get Breaks
PITTSBURGH. June 4-fl)-A
tough break for Freddy Fits-
simmons proved a lucky one for
the Pirates today, and the Bucs
nosed out the Brooklyn Dcdgers,
4 to 8, in 11 innings.
After holding the Pirates to
six hits and two unearned runs
for eight innings. Fits hurt his
hand in fielding a ball in the
eighth, and had to retire, with
the Dodgers leading .3-2.
R. xx. - i-A'
Brooklyn ......... 8 7 3
Pittsburgh 4 11 0
Flt-simmons. TamulUt (8).
Pressnell and Phelps; Tobin,
Brown (4), Swift (9) and Todd.
Turner Holds Cards
ST. LOUIS. Jane 4-65V-Jim
Turner." one of the finds oi the
1937 season, held the Carainais
to 7 hits, today as the Boston
Bees took the first or a xour
game series by a score of 8 to 5.
Fltchi and Di Marx'O hit
homers for rthe Bees; Padgett
and Medwick for the Cards.
R. H. E-
Boston ............ H 1
St. Louis 5 7 4
Turner and Mueller; McGee.
Lanier (7), Shoun (8) and Owen.
Five Stars Will
Represent Oregon
; EUGENE. June l-VPr-Th Uni
versity of Oregon will be repre
sented by five track and field
stars In the National Collegiate
Athletic association champion
ships at Minneapolis June 17 and
18, Coach Bill Hayward an
nounced today.
Webfoots making the trip will
be "Mack Robinson and Jim Buck,
sprinters; George Varoft, pole
vault; Leonard Holland, discus,
and KIrman Storli, half mller.
Buck, Holland and Storli will
travel east on "their own, while
Robinson and Varoff have been
officially entered by the univer
sity. - : ... .
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BUCK'S
BARBER SHOP
175 S. Commercial
Oregon, Sunday Morning:, Jane
- Punches Ross to Annex New Title
Featherweight Champion Henry Armstrong slug it out with Welter
win the decision and welterweight,
fought gamely but vainly against
on the champ throughout the fight.
"Just any day now," we are
advised by Herberger Jk Son,
the fellows who keep grt-ens
and fairways under control at
the Salem Golf clpb course,
work : will be started on the
long-projected reconstruction
of the fourth green.' What is
now the lower level of that
tricky two-terraced green will
become the apron, and a new
green will extend back fron. it.
involving removal of most of
the present high bank at the
rcr. The new green will slope
at about the angle of the 12th
green nearby.
The fourth green has always
been a tough one to keep In de
cent playing condition, princi
pally ' because it doesn't get
enough sunshine. That difficulty
wm be remedied when the new
one is built.
Tne change will make the
hole longer, but the average
golfer may find it easier.
Here's how. The average golf
er will wgo for the green ,
across the water hole if be gets
SOO-yard drive; If he doem't
he will "baby up." If he gets
a bare 200-yarder, he'll use
m spoon, and If he hits 11 any
where nenr cleanly, will have
no trouble getting ther?, but
he may get a little too far.
Moving, the green back a little
will nuke that shot come out
Just about right, and the pres
ent of an apron will gtvj him
leeway for a slight roll onto
the green. The player who
goes . for It -with an iron may
have to use a little longer, one
but he also will hare that
margin of safety.
For a little while after con
struction starts, : the old green
will bo used "as Is" without In
terfering with the work; later
the lower level will be used as a
temporary green with - a rcreen
at the back.
O '
The Oregon City Country
clnb brings ita team Iier to
day, and in view of the wal
loping the local boys ook at
Oregon City m month or so
ago, they are in rome d&nger
of losing their , first home
match In several years. Firing
begins promptly at 9 a. m
V E E . G
'COOT
JIMMY HEFFNER vs. GENE BLAKELY
Jj r - M Minute ' -.:-
Salem Armory, TB 0:30
Lower Floor 60c, Balcony 40c, Reserved Seats 73 (Na Tax)
Students 23c, Ladies 25
rtcketa. Cliff Parker and Lytle'a - Auspices American Legion
Herb Owen, ftlalchmaker
Matearoau
5, 1938
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title in a 15-round bout at Madi
the perpetual motion machine.
Ross is pictured trying to cover
Atlantic Star
To Meet Beany
Becker Making Debut at
Armory Ex-Holder of
Pro, Amateur Belts
George Becker, for five years
amateur middleweight champion
of the Atlantic coast and present
holder of the Atlantic coast pro
fessional belt, will make his Salem
debut at the armory Tuesday in
the main event of Promoter Herb
Owen's weekly card.
Becker will meet Beany Dean,
who lost a close one to George
Wagner last week, and if the sen
sational, newcomer disposes o
Dean Salem fans may be in for
one of the greatest mat "naturals
in history.
A victory for the newcomer
would put him first In line for the
Pacific coast best held by Wagner,
and the resulting about, if It were
arranged, would see the cham
pions of the far-flung coastlines
against each other the first time
In mat history such a tussle has
ever loomed.
Dean No Setup
Dean.bowever. will be no setup
for the newcomer, and if Becker
defeats the bush-faced bnllwhack
er, he will have more than proved
his mettle.
In support of the main event go
Owen has booked two supporting
bouts, the semifinal pitting Bill
Kenna, muscular ex-Oregon State
"iron man and Pete Sherman,
the flashy mid-westerner who
completes Owen's coast-to-coast
championship assembly.
.The '80-mlnute opener brings
together tough Jimmy Heffner
and Gene Blakeley.
Al Szass will referee.
CANOES - BOATS
MOTORS
For Sale or Rent -Evinrnd
and Elto Motors
Small Down Payment .
Boats Made to Order
. Salem Boat House
; W. L. Haln, Prop.
Foot of Chemeketa on River
IT IL E N
George Becker
Beany Dean
1 Hoar
BILL KENNA
PETE SHERMAN
45 Minutea
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Trojans Grab
ICAAAA Grown
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Double Scored
By ALAN COULD
NEW YORK, June 4-UP)-Rain
and records, a rare track and field
combination, fell , in large quan
tities today-as Southern Califor
nia's invincible Trojans spread-
eagled . the field, in the 62nd in
tercollegiate AAAA championship
meet at Randalls Island stadium.-
Three meet marks were shat
tered, among them the classic
one-mile record that has stood for
25 years.
Bears Run Third
Southern California tallied 47
points. Michigan State 24 and the
University of California 2 2 to
make it 1-2-S for the Invading
forces from the' west. Pittsburgh,
1937 victor, led the eastern bri
gade by finishing fourth with
20 hi points. Manhattan was
filth with 15 points. Harvard
sixth with 12 points, with the
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Portland Youngsters to
Give Locals Battle,
McGinnis Park
SILVERTON The hustling
Portland Babes, winners In their
first two league" starts, present a
noteatial stumbling block to the
Oregon State baseball leaguo
championship hones of Silvem
in its game at Mccttnnis Park Sun
day. Bend and Toledo fans a 1 1 k e
started to give the merry old raz
soo to the flock of high school
stars assembled by Manager Ray
Brooks. In both cities the fans
capitulated completely, however,
and cheered lustily as the spirited
youngsters made one sensational
play" after another.
"The team of Portland high
school stars that Brooks brought
here yesterday lived up to all ad
vance notices." wrote the Bend
Bulletin after the Babes took tho
defending champions into camp
on their home field.
"Tue Babes' outfield played
flawless ball and the Jnfield work
was the flashiest seen here in sev
eral seasons.
Rend Batsmen Baffled
"It was the fast work of the
Babes' infield and Pitcher Day's
slow-c u r v e s that ruined the
chances-of a Bend victory. Day
fanned only one Bend batter, but
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