By RON CEMMELL
' Not if league officials had de
cided to use an electric can open
er, a double charge of TNT, a
an deal brotherly lore oration or
a 1000-unlt parade of Hollywood
feminine pulchritude could the
19 3 S Softball season hare been
opened in better fashion than It
was with that 14-inning donny
brook. by Waifs and the Paper
makers Monday night. About the
only thins it lacked was a news
reel, for it bad all the rest.,
A Whole Shoic.
.
It was a double feature In
Itself. For one frame, with as
tounding fielding feats being ,
accomplished, it resembled
nothing no much as a "Pop
. rye' ihort; for another, with
Third Baseman Scale and First
Hacker Adolph. of the Wait's
wangiers, kicking the stuffed
nag's hide about, it presented
plenty of the slapstick a la
Oliver ami Hardy; drama was'
driven home, along with the
winning tally, when Mounds
man Roth mared a mortar shot
into the mlddlepatch and won
his own well-pitched pageant;
and pathos was personified at
those Intervals in which Arbiter
Clark stood staunch on close .
decisions regardless of the gar
ruloas gang that looked down
his throat.
Dunce 1st, Hero 2nd.
While Roth eventually won his
own game by driving in the win
ning tally, it should be pointed
out that he earlier almost threw
It away by balking in the Dealers'
tie tally in the ninth. The inning
opened with Caves going clear to
second when his bounder hopped
past Scales' shoulder at third. He
took third on Garbarino's miff
and scored when Adolph failed to
trap a throw on Bernard Gents
kow's ground smash. Roth forced
both Bill and Dick Gentxkow to
pop out. Brother Bernard mean
time advancing to second on a
wild pitch. Then Schwartz, who
had replaced Keidotz in the sev
enth, singled to score him. Henry
Singer, next up, also singled to
shove Schwartz to third. With the
situation at that stage two away,
runners on first and third and
the "score 5-4 in his favor, Roth
caught an attempted pitch to
D'Arcy on his trouser leg for an
out-and-out balk that automatic
ally advanced the runners and tied
the count. He went on to strike
Out D'Arcy, but the. damage was
done.
A'eit' Setup Snazzy.
If the calibre of ball played
in that opener continues, it
won't be long before Manager
Fleshcr will have to hire a bat
talion of downtown shoe clerks
to put the customers into
Sweetland with shoe horns.
While the opening night crowd
was far below standard, ball
playing as was dished out in .
that 14-inning affair will bring
em In all right, all right. The
new setup at the softball or
chard should also create more
Incentive for folks to spend
r their dimes therein. The new
ly constructed dugouts keep
players off the field except
when they are supposed to be
out there, in the best big league
style, and the humtididdy of aa
electric scoreboard that was do
nated by Dr. F. D. Volgt.adds
its little spasm of appeal.
Excuses Needed. .
Pellmell: I see where congress
men are about ready to adjourn,
providing they can find . excuses
... to take home with em .
Tis reported that Sheriff Andy
Burke snagged a nice mess of
rainbows out of Diamond and
Clear lakes while doing a little
non-political angling on the side
during the state trap shoot at
Bend . . . should his political
angling this fall book true per
haps he can go fishin every day
. . . That guy Dizzy Dean can get
more things wrong with him than
any $185,000 bundle I ever saw
. , . which sufficiently narrow's
the field . . . Billy Sutton, ex-'Cat
second baseman whom the Taper
makers will be missing this sum
mer. Is planning to enter Stan
ford In the fall . . . The way out
fielders were glomming onto tfiose
hard chances in the softball open
ers Monday night would have been
a revelation even to New Jersey's
Hague. i
Guldahl Has Lead
4
In Western Open
ST. LOUIS. June 14-(;p)-The
same deft touch which carved
out a second consecutive national
open golf championship for
Ralph Guldahl last week brought
the bis Madison. N. J., profes
sional a one-stroke - lead at the
end of the first 18 holes of the
72-hole western open golf tour
nament today.
As lata afternoon shadow
streaked the Westwood Country
club course and old man par.
71. stood untouched by the as
sault at more than 100 pros and
amateur, Guldahl came loping
down the home stretch with a
sizzling 34. This was two under
par for the In nine and gave him
a perfect 71 total for his round.
The performance of the cham
plea, who is seeking to defy tra
dition by winning a third straight
western open crown, shattered
what appeared destined to be a
five-way deadlock for the lead at
the Quarter pole.
Earlier Sam Snead. the White
Sulohur Springs. W. Va- Big
Bertha; diminutive Pan! Run ran
of White Plains, If. T.; turay
Toney Penna of Dayton. O.;
Dark Horsa Floyd Farley of
Oklahoma City, and Ray Man
grurn of Dayton. O., all pro, had
come In with 72s.
Voodburn, Stayton Meet
WOODBURN A baseball
tame will be played between
Wood bum and Stayton. at the
Legion .park. Wood bum. Wed
Down J Pirates
To Keep Lead
Schumacher Mmts nut
; Bucs Until They
Rally in 7th
NEW YORK, June 14.-p)Mel
Ott. with his 13th home run and
a single, twice drove in the tying
runs today as the Giants opemsd
a long home stand by turning
back the Pittsburgh Pirates, 5 to
3. The victory kept the National
league champions two games in
front of the Cubs. ; ;,
Hal Schumacher, who gave up
nine hits and .two walks in re
cording his seventh triumph, shut
out the Bucs until the seventh.
Vaughan's single, doubles by Suhr
and Rizzo and Todd's outfield fly
gave them two runs and a 2-1
lead, but Ott 1 tied it up with his
homer in the last half of that
frame. j
Pittsburgh went ahead again in
the first half , of the eighth, get
ting a run j on Paul .Waner's
single and Subr's triple, only to
have the Giants score three more
in their half J on a walk to Bar
tell, singles by Ripple, Ott and
McCarthy, and Bauer's wild thrqw.
Pittsburgh .'...,....3 9 2
New York . .' S 9 1
Bauers and Todd; Schumacher
nd Danning.!
Curt: Davis Wins
PHILADELPHIA. June H.-JP)
-Curt Davis pitched the St. Louis
Cardinals to a 4 to 3 victory over
his former teammates, the Phil
lies, today, j
Davis held the Phils to seven
hits, six of them coming In the
last three innings, and scored the
winning run himself in the eighth
on Slaughter's two-bagger after
two were out.
St. Louis . . 4 12
Philadelphia . , . , .3 7
C. Davis and Oweni- Mulcahy,
Lamaster and Atwood, Clark.
Cubs Beat Bees
BOSTON. (June 14.-p)-The
Chicago Cubs kept chipping away
at Lou Fette's offerings today un
til they had piled up five runs,
enough to beat the Bees. S to 2,
and keep the C u b s within two
games of the National league-
leading Giants.'
Meanwhile Tex Carleton kept
the Bees hitless in all but three
innings, and. shut them out until
the seventh. ; w h e n a single, a
double and! two Infield outs
brought In both Boston runs. It
was Carleton's seventh victory of
the year against four defeats.
Chicago ...i ...5 9 0
Boston . . . . L ...2 7 1
Carleton and Odea; Fette,
Erickson and Mueller.
Cincinnati at Brooklyn post
poned (rain).
Burning Boxing Question
i
NO gat since the secoad
Dempsey-Taxtaey rmbroglio
has arwnaed awch heated
argumenta as the red-hot Louia
Scamelin return ga.
Every oua ha hi vpiakm of how
this scrap will end. and can give yen
apparently eoavincing reason for
hi version ef the outcome. One
thine is a cinch, they cant ail be
right. i .
The burning question seem to be
abont as fallows:
1. How wCl Louis be affected by
the memory of that previous beat
in? 2. Has h perfected, defease
tor the Scbmeuss right handt
Gets 13th Homer
MEL OTT
Priced Pitching j
Blanks Canby 8-0
SILVERTON The Silverton
Red Sox Pitcher Price held the
Canby Firemen nearly hitless for
seven innings as his teammates
scored an 8 to 0 shutout here
Tuesday night In a non-league
game.
A Canby stick touched the
horsehide solidly just once up
till that time. The locals mean
while built up their lead, scoring
three in the eighth. Canby hit
twice both in the eighth and ninth
innings but just couldn't score.
Silverton S 8 1
Canby . 0 S 4
Price and Hauser; Welmer and
Mitchell. Officials: Gardner and
Eastman.
By BURNLEY
V 7
to " :
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rA5T MS IMPROVED j VJ
CHMELWG-
POAICH THAT STARTSO LOQtS GTH ftcWO'to DCTEAT
tASTTlMe ?MASAGT TAKEN tT FROM MOX ?
S. Has Jo improved any since
the first encounter, or is he stOl th
one-track, mechanical poacher of
two year ago?
4. -Can the slow-witted Bomber
solve th puzzling Sehzaeliag crouch
and crafty shell-like defense that
spiked his gun before?
fi. Will Joe lose bis co-ordination
and punching power if he is
nailed by that right aa happened
previously, or has experience taught
aim to stand op under panishment
without going to pieces?
On the Schmeling aide of the
ledger the questions are :
1. Will the ago factor bring
about Max's downfall? He is two
13m
Makers and ait
i Clubs Vie Tonieht
20-30 and Eagles Meet
; in 2nd Contest of
Double Billing
Tonight's Games
Wait's ts. Papermakers.
Twenty-Thirty vs. aglea.
It'll be Roth against Crowfoot j
and Smither or Gilmore against
Kenny Larson tonight as the sec- j
ond night of Summer leagne soft
ball play breaks out on Sweetland.
at 8:30.
; Out of Wait's-Papermakers bat
tle will emerge the league's lead
ing flinger to date, for both Roth
and Crowfoot hung up wins In the
circuit's commencement Monday
night. Roth rapped a roaring sin
gle to win his own ball game in
the 14th stanza of an opener that
had everything but hot biscuits
and honey. The rest of the courses
were all there, basehit appetizers,
soupy infield play on up to Ice
cream - and - cake catches in the
outfield.
"Pinwheel" Percy put his game
on the ice of the record books with
15 strikeouts, his mates mean
while scattering 13 clouts about
the battle ground with utmost
nonchalance.
What the "Numbers" gang will
do to the Eagles, or rice versa,
is a little matter that only the
gussy new electric scoreboard
atop the old grandstand in center
field will tell. An 11 o'clock gan
der in Its direction will probably
reveal the answer providing the
boys don't get cantankerous and
decide to stage another one of
those extra-inning guzzlers of sec
onds, minutes, hours and almost
a whole night.
Prof. Mape's Lads
Meet Dallas Again
Professor Maple and his eager
class in base hits, hook slides,
double plays, and general baseball
fundamentals will make another
attempt to stay the Dallas Legion
nine which they meet under the
lights in Dallas tonight at 8:30.
The Statesman-Legion locals
bowed to the neighboring nine by
a 7-2 score here last week. Pitch
er Kroeker having .;. too much
sweep on his services for the
Maple clan. Tonight they figure
on a different ending.
year alder now, and well past th
anal fighter' prim. '
2-WOl his fec hold np if a
fails to briny; Loai down in an early
round?
j.Will th Teaton fold tip if
Levis land hi crasher first?
4. Was that right that started
Louis on the road to defeat last time
merely a lucky wallop?
6. Can he avoid being cut up by
the Xroois jah if Joe boxes him? Re
member, Joe's jab closed the Ger
man' eye even when the Bomber
was oat on hi feet and fighting in
a daze. .
mi. I
MfTPWIL
Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Morning, Jane
Vitt Puts Indians on Warpath
:J; spi i
s
X
s.
Agl Looking thing over
h
With the Cleveland Indian on the warpath and now leading the
American league, it look a though credit is due that old Medicine
Man Oscar Vitt for their rejuvenated form. Manager Vitt;ia a
hustling, fighting baseball veteran who ha made a rather lethargic
club Into a spirited and determined team. He ha succeeded in
bettering the outfit In nearly every department but hi main con
tribution ha been getting the old drive out of a team notoriously
inclined to fold under pressure. Vitt was born in San Francisco in
1890. started with the home town team in 1910, played with Detroit
nine years and the Boston Red Sox for two. His past two year
were a manager at Newark, N. a team with which he won the
junior world championship last aeason.
League Standings
COAST LKAGUE
(Before Night Games)
W. L.
Pet.
.822
.568
.527
.514
.500
,473
.467
.347
Sacramento ..
.48
.42
28
32
35
38
37
39
40
49
Saa Francisco
San Diego
;i .
;s J .38
i .37
..St
LLos Angeles
Portland
Hollywood J- , 35
Seattle .. .... 35
Oakland . 26
AMERICAN LEAGUE
L. Pet.
19 .604
Cleveland
New York .
Bostoa
Washington
Detroit
Philadelphia
Chicago ..
St. .Louis
NATIONAL LEAGUE
w.
-32
L.
17
Pet.
.653
.608
.532
New York
Chicago
.31 20
.25 22
Cincinnati
Pittsburgh
.24
22 .522
Boston
22 22
21 26
500
447
St. Louis
Brooklyn
-.21
28 .429
Philadelphia
..12 31
.279
Uhlan Gets Down
To Serious Work
SPECULATOR. N. J., June 14
(;P)-Max Schmeling settled down
to real work today and for six
rounds shot his famed straight
right at three sparring partners
In one of his briskest workouts.
Al Albin,: Joe Mack and Butch
Rogers were on the receiving end
as Max went through one of his
stiff est drill in preparation for
his fight with Joe Louis for the
tatter's heavyweight title June
22 at Yankee stadium.
A crowd of more than 2,000
watched the workout today.
POMPTON LAKES, N. J.,
Juno 14 (fl-Joe Louis drilled
impressively for the second
straight time today before near
ly 2,000 fans and two ex-heavy-w
eight champions. Gene Tun
ney and Jim Braddock.
The champion' battered Basher
Dean, Leonard Dixon and Jim
Howell' around the ring, for two
round each and impressed Tun
ney. 'Joe still has .difficulty get
ting away from a right hand.
declared Gene. ,Jbut he is fast
on the counter and patting plen
ty of power behind his Mow.
He has shortened his left hook a
lot sine I last saw him and
ha has Improved a let in his in
fighting. He seem to be tn
a marvelous physical condition."
Tonney raf used to predict a
winner.
Steele Looks Bad
In Beating Solly
SEATTLE. June 14-P)-Mid
dleweight Champion Freddie
Steele of Tacoma won bruising
10-round decision from Solly
Krieger. Iew York city. In a non-
title bout here tonight.
Steele weighed 161 Krieger
164. ' : - .. .
It was Steele's first fight In
tour month and he didn't look
W.
29
? 19 59ft
.. .27 21 .563
; 28 25, .528
25 25 .500
22 26 .458
18 28 .409
J.15 31 .326
like the same fighter who won
15, 193S
Xs .
1 Oscar Vitt j
Angels Drop Oaks
10 to 3 in Slugf st
San Francisco Noses out
Hollywood 7 to 6 in
11 -Inning Game
OAKLAND, Calif.. June ,14-
-Los Angele defeated Oakland.
10 to 3, in their Coast league
baseball game here tonight.
The Angels, after opening the
scoring with two runs in the third
inning, drove Bob Joyce, ace Oak
land hurler, from the mound in
the fourth inning, after reaching
him for five singles and a walk
and a total of three runs. Bittner,
relieving Joyce, let in four more
runs In the same inning before
retiring the Angels. He allowed
only one more run. In the eighth
Inning.
Oakland tallied in the fourth.
fifth and sixth innings.
Los Angeles 10 15 1
Oakland . . 3 8 1
Salreson and Collins; Joyce,
Bittner (4) and Raimondl.
SACRAMENTO. Calif.. June 14
(JP)-Night game score:
san Diego , . .4 10 1
Sacramento 5 13 1
Chaplin. Salvo (7) and Hoean.
Detore (7); Pippen and Franks.
LOS ANGELES. June U-(&)-
mgnt game score (11 Innings):
San Francisco . 7 -10 0
Hollywood ... ..6 11 t
Koupal, Ballou (8). and Wood
all. Sprint; Tost. Nltcholas (8),
Crandall (9) and Brenzel.
Becker Windmills
Hef fner for Win
George Becker, middlewestern
windmill champ, caught up with
Jimmy Heffner after 25 minutes
of gruelling give-and-take wres
tling at the armory last night to
slap on his favorite full-nelsoa
windmill. It not only wrenched a
"nuff" grant out of Heffner In
short order hut put enough of a
kink in his neck that he had to
ask for additional time before
coming back far the second fall.
It was just a matter of time.
Becker soon angling sun-tanned
Heffner Into that murderous
grasp once more, and that was
the bout. Becker got a standing
oration from the e r o w d as he
picked Heffner up bodily and car
ried him out at the condaeioa of
the first fall. Heffner was as limp
as a dinosaurs handshake.
Both opealag bout went to un
precedented time-limit draw
George- Wagner and Harry Elliott
went to a fast no-fall draw In the
curtain-raiser, with Hoosier Het
Shot Jack Lipscomb and Pete
Sherman each gaining a tall in the
4 5-minute event. t
Lipscomb took the first by aoft
entng up Sherman with solid
boot to the groin, another to the
chin and a Boston eab. Sherman
raid Lipscomb low In the second
with body slam and a toe hold.
the middleweight title from Babe
Risko here la 1936.
He tired rapidly in the late
rourds and almost got his head
knocked off by a terrific right
r
just at the final gong.
Gum
PAGE SEVEN
'40 Grid Schedule
Is Left Undecided
Huskies Object to two
Straight Dates at
Los Angeles
SEATTLE. June 14. - (&) - The
spring meeting of Pacific coast
conference athletic officials ad-
ourned late today, after a dead
lock halted efforts to 'draw the
1940 football schedule.
Graduate managers and athlet
ic directors, unable to agree on a
few - disputed dates and places.
postponed preparation of the
schedule until the fall meeting.
University of Washington's 'objec
tions to meeting Southern Califor
nia and University of California
at Los Angeles on consecutive Sat
urdays at Los Angeles was one
cause of the deadlock.
The group formally approved
the 1939 -football schedule, which
was drawn and announced last
fall.
Earlier today the schedule mak
ers aqnelched a move by members
whose identity was not disclosed
to discontinue the "round robin"
grid program, under which each
team meets the other teams of the
conference.
The conference announced a
survey of athletic conditions by
Edwin Atherton. former federal
agent, was extended to June,
1939, when the investigator will
make a detailed report.
Y Swim Olympics
Set for Tonight
Another date change for the
annual junior Y swimming Olym
pics has placed it tonight, begin
ning at 8 o'clock, according to
Y MCA Boys' Director Gus Moore.
Preceding the Olympics, at
7:30, Moore will meet with all
boys -Interested in summer camp
and will outline to them the Y's
camp plans. The boys will hear a
description of the Silver Creek
area, where camping facilities
have been made available by the
federal government.
Ribbons will be awarded for
first, second and third places in
each event of the three age
groups that will compete In the
Olympics. The groups include
cadets, ages 9 to 11; preps, ages
11 to 13; and junior high boys.
Paper Mill Downs
Hansen Nine 7-5
Staging a four-run spree in the
final inning the Papermakers
came from behind to beat Hansen-
Liljequist 7 to S in aa Industrial
league softball game last night.
Paper Mill .. ; ..7 6 4
Hansen-Liljequist 5 5 6
Scott and Fontanini; E. Cottew
and J. Cottew.
Pitching three-hit ball Grimes
led his Kay Mill mates to an 8
to 1 victory over US bank.
Kay Mill . - 8 4
US Bank 1. 1 S 9
Grimes and Burrell; Stockwell
and Bertelson,
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Drop Cleveland 7 to 6
While Yanks Win
at Chicago
" CLEVELAND. June 14- (JP)
The W "a shington Senators
trimmed the Cleveland Indians'
American league lead to half a
game today with a 7 to 6 victory
here while the second place New
YoTk Yankees were winning at.
Chicago. -
Johnny Humphries, young
Cleveland pitcher, was rudely
bumped in his first big league
start. He took the loss when driv
en out during a four-run Wash
ington barrage n the fifth inning
which included two home runs.
Four Cleveland errors helped
kick away the ball game although
Jim Deshong. the winning picher. -kept-
the Indians' eight hits well
scattered -except for their three
run third Inning.
Washington 77 11 0
Cleveland I . .6 8 4
Deshong, Hogsett ( 9 ) & R.
Ferrell; Humphreys, Milnar (5),
Harder (8), Allen (9) & Pytlak.
Yanks Drop Sox
CHICAGO. June 14 - (J) Al
l tough cut-hit, 8 to 7, the New
York Yankees scored seven un
earne " rai . 1 the sixth inning
today to open their western tour
with a 7 to 4 victory over the
White Sox and southpaw Thorn
t n " a, ho beat them five times
last season.
Except for Rip Radcliff's error,
the chanpions .would have been
held scoreless in their big inning.
Instead, with the air of five hita,
two of them singles by Flash Gor
don, and two bases on balls, sev
en men crossed the plate. Big blow
of the inning was Myril Hoag's
triple with the bases loaded.
New York . 7 7 1
Chicago 4 8 I
Chandler, Murphy (6) & Dick
ey; Lee, Gabler (7) & Sewell. ;
A's Hold Tigers
DETROIT. June 14-;P)-The
Philadelphia Athletics defeated
the Detroit Tigers 8 to 2 here to
day, blasting Vernon Kennedy
from the mound in the eighth,
inning with a four-hit, three-run
rally.
Philadelphia .....8 It 0
Detroit . I 2 8 2
Nelson Sc Hayes; Kennedy, Au
ker (8) York. . . .
ST. LOUIS. June 14-;P)-The
Boston Red Sox combined timely
hitting with three pssses in the
seventh and eighth innings today
to defeat the St. Louis Browns S
to 3. Lefty Grove was removed
from the game after the Browns
pushed over two runs In their half
of the seventh.
Boston 9 3
St. Louis .-. .3 T 0
Grove, Wilson (7), McKain (8)
tc Desautels, Peacock (8); New
aom tc Heath. Sullivan (9).
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