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By RON G EMM ELL I on .201 waa the low. st team batting average 1a the local Softball loop. This yr. at the conclusion of second-round play last week, the highest wn .259 and lowest .191. Twenty- Tnlrty was hitting at the .25 elip. and but one other club was over the .200 mrk, being Square Deal with .218. Why this letdown In hitting power? Bet ter pitching? Better fielding? Different ball? Faster Fielding. Yea,, the fielding la better, despite many or thoee boots oat there that drive fandora, farWu. Last season two trams were , fielding nnder n JOOO clip, whereas 30H la the lowest team fielding average so. far this year. Walt's, consistently winning ball games with meagre hitting power, have , done so by playlag 'em close to the belly defensively. The Papermakers, hitting bat one percent point above Wait's, at .109, nevertheless have the league gonfalon almost tacked to the smokestack of their pa per mill. Reason: The team is 0 fielding at a .KM clip. Hurling No Better Pitching, mechanically peak ing. Isn't any better. In fact, all around it Is doubtful whether it Is as good. Crowfootf and his windmill delivery, for instance. Isn't as unfathomable now that the newness has worn off. Don't mistake me there, for j Mr. Pin wheel Percy still stirs Up a stiff breeze with his strikeout ball, but there are times when the lads really lean into his offer ings. As for the ball, lit should be productive of more base hits than the one formerly usad. It Is harder, and should travel far ther and faster. It is entirely seamless, and therefore tougher for pitchers to -pat "stuff on it. Therefore, the lower team bat ting marks revert right back to better fielding especially by the weaker clubs lnhe clrc.it. Look at Diz! j Do you . realise the mono' mental work Dlny Dean ao rompllshed la setting down the Boston Been and New York Gi ants with one run each In a space of eight days after be ing shelved with a $183,000 sore arm since Slay S? Maybe tbJs'It - help yon to rnltoome realisation t Against Boston he threw only 10O balls, allowed four hits and. walked not one, officially facing bat SI Bos. tonlans In a minimum of 27. That waa merely a wsrm-np. for against New York be heaved plateward bat 88 balls, allowed five hits, walked one and again faced bat SI batters. Throws 188 in 18. The guy whom everyone, (in cluding Mont Lisa, the Pied Pip er and Statue of Liberty), waa not over two weeks ago relegat ing to the baseball Junk heap, came through In such style as to not : only place stringent strangulation on such undue rel egating bat also came nigh onto establishing a record for the bora to shoot at. While books at our command do not carry the record of the least number of balls thrown by a pitcher in nine Innings. Ditty must have let one over the consecutive 18-lnning route at least. He threw but 118 balls In IS consecutive ' Innings, about the number thrown by a chucker in an ordinary nine-inning -game. In strict baseball parlance that is what Is known as "turnin' 'em away,, or "mow- In em down. Claims "No Motive." By golly, though be says he haa no 'ulterior motive la sending the following clipping from the editorial page of San day's Oregon Journal.-1 think , Dr. Brace Baxter had several twinkles In his eye when he " mailed It. Here His: "The Nasi press recently ran a photo of the University of Oregon foot ball team nnder the caption: ThT Can Neither Bead Nor Write. It'a n nasty Nazi libel, that's what It Is. -Still and all. who cares? Just so the boys derstand signals." Juniors to Meet Estacada Outfit In Second Game WOODBURN -The Woodburn American Legion Junior base ball team will play its second, and perhaps final, game , of Its sectional championship aeries with Estacada Juniors at Esta cada Thursday at 2:30 p.m. Should the Woodburn Juniors defeat the Estacada team they would be sectional champions and would gain a place tn the state championship aeries to be held at Legion park August 6 and T. If Estacada wins the two teams will play another game next Sunday. Woodbvra handed Estacada a 5-1 loss la the first game and Is picked to make It two la a row although. Rehberg.i Estacada pitcher, may make It a tough afternoon for Woodburn.. Doug lass will be his battery mate. Tony Jell will be on the hill for Woods urn with the. veteran Clyde Reed catching. ; A largo number of local fans will eee the game. Pade Girls Swamp Dallas Team 19-1 Four home runt bf Fade-Bar-rlck misses proved too much for the Dallas girls team as they went down to defeat 1 to 1 last night. . Morgan. Nelson. Sweet and Annansen all clouted homer. Pade-Barrlck 1 1 Dallas X 4 I Tecum And Welch; Roweil, Larson, and McDonald. 1 Too Late to Classify LOST m. classes, rtmlta. In Mar io Bruar TrWty night. lUward. Sa m Watch Stop, 211 V. Com! Makers Victors By 2 - 0 Score Clark's Decision, at Third Signal ; for : Uprising by WaitV Club j , " - Tonight s Games' Eagles vs. - Square DeaL 8:15 Pheasants vs. 20-SO, 9:13 While: no "blood was spilled on Sweetland 1 last night there were buckets of it tn the collective eyes of the Wart's team over an um pire's decision In the eighth inn ing that a p a e t , its equilibrium even more-than the Papermakers upset Waifa. The 'Makers, behind Crowfoot's two-hit hurling, bested Walt's 2 to 0, In a game made even more exhillrating by the uninspiring tilt that preceded it, iofjwhich 20-30 landed on the Eaglrl for a 10 to 4 win. . j Ahead 1-0 going Into the first of the eighth, by dint of Serdotz towering triple and . a perfectly executed squeeze by"" Kelley, the riot broke out. Schnuelle, first np. singled sharply to 'center. Crowfoot beat out an infield hit to short, shoving Schnuelle to second. Rth spun an outside pitch td Dunn, next np, which got partially by Catcher McCaffery. As McCaffery tumbled it. Schnuelle tere for third. 3 Clark Shoved Around McCaffery's toss reached the bag almost simultaneously with Schnuelle, and it was up to Base Umpire Clark to call the play. "Sate." aald Clark. "Wow.v was the concerted . outbreak from Walt's, with three or four of them shoving Ump Clark unceremoni ously about the infield. Umpire Welsgerber rushed 'to his assist ance, . banishing four or f!e Walt's I infielders temporarily from the tilt. With but nine men in suit. Manager Foreman felt he was no match for the 'Makers with half them on the bench. The umpires reconsidered and ban ished Shortstop Garbarino only. Schnuelle eventually scored, crossing after Girod's throw on Dunn's fly got a may from McCaf fery at the plate. Wait's never -got a man past first , base all night, and only three that far. Girod In the fifth, and Kitchen inthe sixth, each poled good singles after two were away to reach the initial sack, and Garbarino got the sole walk .issued by Crowfoot in the seventh.. Two were away. The win gave the Papermakers the championship in their three game aeries with Wait's. an put them so far In front of, the stand ings only j a miracle could now halt their progress into the seeded spot of the state . tourney. " It was" a ragged op e n e r in which 20-39 converted seven hits and five Eagle errors Into 10 rnns. Otto Skopil. with three-for-four, was the hitting star for 20- 30. Harrison, getting a single, triple and double in. four appear ances for the Eagles. Bodacious base-running assist ed the "Numbers" gang even more than Its own power at bat. 20-so (to) R 2 2 1 1 0 2 2 0 0 H 0 1 1 1 0 1 3 0 0 7 II 0 0 1 0 1 1 3 0 2 0 s Dry nan. -m .T 4 Slegmund.'l Gilmore. P - Comstock.! r .. Kellogg, c 4 4 3 4 3 4 4 3 Hauk. 1 Skopil, s 1 Marr, 3 Steinke. 2 .. Totals Eagles (4 Evans, r Plllette. c Fllsinger. .33 10 B S 2 6 R 0 0 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 0. 4 m Herberger, 2 4 4 3 4 Weller, 1 U Quesseth, s . Harrison, 3 Lowe, 1 ..I.... Cotten. p i Wilkinson, p Totals 4 3 1 35 Errors, Harrison, rilmore,. Sko pil. Quesseth 2. Cotten, Lowe, S hits t runs off Cotten In 7: 1 and 1 off Wilkinson In 1st; S and 4 off GUmore In 9th; winning pitch er. Gilmore. Losing pitcher. Cot ten. Runs responsible for, Cotten 4. Gilmore 4. Wilkinson 1. Struck out. by Gilmore 6. Cotten 2. Wil kinson 1. Baaes on balls, off Gil more S. off Cotten 3. oft Wilfin son 2. Three base- hit. Harrison. Two bsse hit. Harrison. Runs batted In. Comstock 2. Lowe. Cot ten 2, Stetnka 2. Skopil. Harrison. Wild pitch, Cotten t. Wilkinson. 1. Gilmore 1. Passed ball. .Plllette. Time of game 1 hour. IS minutes. Umpires Clark and Welsgerber. Paper Mill (2) B 4 4 . R 9 0 0 e l 0 0 -1 0 . 2 R 0 0 0 0 0 0 H 1 0 1 1 1 1 1 1 7 n 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 e 2 Dunn, s ...... Parrtah, . French, r .... .4 . . 4 . '4 .. 3 . 3 . 3 .3 -32 B . 4 . 4 Nicholson. ; m Serdotc. 1 . Dick. 2 JL Kelley. 2 U Schnuelle, e -Crowfoot, p Totals VC six's (0) ' Kitchen, 2 . Foreman, m Beard. U Scales, r . 3 . 2 .3 . 3 .3 . 3 .2 Garbartno.! a Qirod. r McCaffery, c Adolph, 1 j Roto, p . 0 0 TeUls Errors. Garbarino. McCatfery: bits. 2 runs oft Roth In 9th; 2 sod .off Crowfoot In tth. Wln- ntnsr r'ch..-. CroTlzct. Losing pitcher. ; Roth. Rnns responsible far. Rota I. Struck out. by Crow foot 7. Reth 2. Bases on balls, oft Crowfoot 1. off Roth 1. Tare base hit. Seriate. Dick. Sacrifice. Kelley. Runs batted in. fieuey. Wild pitch. Roth. Passed ball, Mc Caffery. Time of same. 1 hour, 10 minx tea. Umpires, Welsgerber and Clark. . " " " " Young's Bats in Four Cards Shutout Giants by 7-0 as Lon Warneke Hurls 4-Hittcr; PHILADELPHIA, July 27-P) -Floyd Young batted Pittsburgh to a 4 to 2 victory over the bil lies today, the Pirate second Backer driving In all tour runs with a single, homer and infield out.. - ; J 5 Young drove In the first Pi rate in the second when he singled, after Vaughan had walk ed and stole second. -In the fourth, he slammed his round tripper Into the left field stands after Todd had beat out an in field hit. ; In the ninth he came up with. Vaughan on third by virtue of a walk.' Infield out and a stolen base, and knocked in the last Pirate run with a hard drive to Mueller at second. Vaughan beat Mueller's throw to the plate. Pittsburgh ....... 4 6 0 Philadelphia 2 4 1 Bauers and Todd; Hallahan, Mulcahy and V. Davis. Cards 7, Giants O NEW YORK, July 27-(i!p)-The St. Louis Gardinals combined a timely attack with a pair of en emy errors in a big sixth in ning splurge today to wallop the Giants, 7 to 0, behind Long Lon nie Warneke's four-hit pitching. It was the Giants' fifth straight setback, and left them five games behind the national league-leading . Pittsburgh Pirates. , f St. Louis 7 -11 1 New York 0 4 3 Warneke and Bremer: Castle man, Lohrman. Coftman, Man euso and Danning. Cubs 2, Dodgers S BROOKLYN. July t1-tAt-ter being blanked for eight In nings, the Dodgers landed on Clay Bryant for three rnns in the ninth tonight to -nose out the Chicago Cubs, 3 to 2. ending the Cuba four-game winning streak. ; Chicago ' 2 8 2 Brooklyn ..... . 3 7 1 Bryant and O'Dea; Posedel, Tamulis and Campbell. "- Reds, Bees Split BOSTON, July 27-OVWith Danny MaeFayden and Lou Fette Bitchln five-hit ball in their re- spective games. Casey Stengel a Boston Bees today stepped out of the jinx column, winning a doubleh'eader over the Cincinnati Reds. 1-0 and 5-1. Cincinnati .... 5 1 Boston 1 t 7 0 Weaver. Schott and Hershberg er: MaeFayden and Lopez, j Cincinnati 1 6 3 Boston . . 5 ! 8 t 0 Walters and Lombardl; Fette and Mueller., , ; Builders Winners Over H-L Though outb.lt nearly double. Building Supply last night at Les lie scored a 11 to 10 Indnstrial league victory over Hansen-Lilje-quist. t i Building Supply 11 5 Hansen-Lilieqalst .10 15 4 Ritchie and Taylor; Bahlburg and DeGeer. i t Undefeated St. Joseph's pinned a 11 to 5 defeat on the Paper MU1 Mechanics, despite errorless ball by the latter. St. Joseph's u:...ii 12 r PM Machine . 5 .8 O Shedeck and Miller; Scott and Reed. League Standings COAST LEAGUE , (Before Night Games) - , W. L. Los Angeles 1-89 50 Sacramento Sf 61 Seattle 62 56 San Diego : 63 67 San Francisco ...... 61 59 PortUnd . : 56 62 Hollywood .. 55 - 65 Oakland 43 77 5 Pet. .580 .571 .525 .525 .509 .475 .468 .35S AMERICAN UKAGUE ' r W. L. New York ' i, 53 29 Cleveland . . : ,81 30 Boston , 4S 33 Washington 46 44 Detroit -....;.43 4 S ' Pet. .646 .630 .593 .511 .477 .473 .392 .roi Chicago ......35 39 Philadelphia 31 48 St. Louis .. ....:....25 68 NATIONAL LKAGUJS . - " i . w. ;. 1. Pet. AZS .573 .568 .64 .466 .455 .435 .319 Pittsborgh 51 31 38 38 40 47 45 48 New York , 51 Chicago -.' . ,. ,. .. 50 Cincinnati . Brooklyn Boston St. Louts Philadelphia WESTERN INTT. LEAGUE Wenatchee 2, Spokane 3. ; Vancouver 1, Yakima 4. Bal . BriMHg: Pirates O : -. . ' ' U lk0fF O? MOf&TAAM CattfBACK.lHe -.x IstiW , C? COevRICHT. I9M. KING FEATURES SVNOKATB. It. ' SUDDtlLf "TDRaJiAJS" Svimmirig, Diving 'Xx- Title Meet Nears August 12 Set as Date of City-Wide Competition at Leslie Pool '. August 12 hag been set as the date for the city-wide swimming and diving championships, to be held at Leslie pool beginning at 2:30. Entrants must file their names by August 10. and no late filings will be accepted. ' Each entrant will be limited to three events. ' diving Included. The meet will be run off in four age. groups, separate groups for boys and girls but events iden tical. Ribbons will be giren for first, second : and third places In each group. 12 and nnder 50 meter free atyle; SO meter breaststroke ; 50 meter backstroke. . 14 and under 50 meter free style; 50 meter breaststroke; 50 meter backstroke; 100 meter freestyle; diving. 16 and under Same as 14 and under. 16 and over Same as 14 and under. Softball League To Open Friday New Organization Formed by Churches, Firemen and West Salem Organized and presided over by Keith Clark In conjunction with the city playgrounds setup, a new four-team Softball league will be gin play Friday night of this week and continue through August 26. The league, composed of Knight Memorial c h a r e h. Jason Lee church, the City Firemen and West Salem, will be known as the National league. It will use Salem Softball association rules, play nine men and all games will start promptly at 6 o'clock on dinger's two diamonds. Diamond No. 1 Is In the southeast: corner and dia mond No.' 2 In the northwest part of the field. , Schedule: ; July 29 K. Memorial ts. W. Salem. No. 1 ; Firemen ts. Jason Lee. No. 2. - Aug. 5 Jason Lee vs. W. Sa lem. No. 1; K. Memorial vs. Fire men. No. 2. Aug. 12 Jason , Lee ys. K. Memorial. No. 1; Firemen ts. W. Salem. No. 2. Aug. 19 Firemen ts. Jason Lee. No. 1: K. Memorial vs.5 W. Salem, No. 2. Aug. 24 Firemen vs. K. Mem orial, No. 1; Jason Lee ts..W. Sa lem. No. t.' Aug. "26 Firemen va, W. Sa lem. No. 1; Jason Lee ts. K. Mem orial, No. 2. . . ' Mu Angel Lasses ; Gout Salem Bees The Salem Bee Softball' sisters dropped a 10 to, 3 Willamette Val ley league decision to ML Angel last night on Ollnger, Angel Pit- cner weiron aiaing ner own cause with a circuit clout. - . Mt. Angel 10 8 4 Salem Bees . 3 4 If Wslton, Sconetx and Hessing; Vickera. Huntington and Galla gher. Vikers. -. .:....;..: .:. ra. tl t n i r Salem, Oregon, Thursdaj Morning;, July "Hostile" Hostak Itching Already For Another Championship Battle SEATTLE. July 27.-i!p)-Al Hostak of Seattfe, the hew world's middleweight champion, was itching, for another scrap today. "I want to be a fighting champion. I like to fight. The sooner I get back in the ring the better I will like it j These were Hostak's words and he meant what he said. - His beaming manager, Eddie Marino. -Who nursed him to ring heights from a gangling, overalledo kid. chipped in: "I don't believe in boxers lying idle and taking long rests between bouts. They- get ring-stale and lose their stuff. It's worse than fighting too often." Promoter Nate Druxman, who has option on Hostak's -services foY another -fight, already was buzzing with plans. He hopes, he said, to arrange for a bout August 30. Fred Apostoli, San Francisco, who gave Steele a terrible larrup ing in New York, and young Cor bett III, of Fresno, Calif., recog nized In California as the cham pion before last night were possible opponents. Both of these fighters sat at the ringside last night. ' ' Fans saw little chance, how ever, of luring Apostoli into a Se attle ring with Hostak, because he is nnder contract to Mike Ja cobs, New : York matchmaker. ' The new champion who plans to take his regular shift pumping gasoline at a station Al and his brothers operate, crowded tour explosive . knockdowns Into one minute and 43 seconds last night to dethrone Freddie Steele, Taco ma, after a two-year reign. 4 Steele had something like a $35,000 headache today. He in tended to take a rest in his new Seattle home before deciding fu ture plans. 1 .! : utchBest Hurler in Coast LOS ANGELES. July 2 7-JPH Freddy Hutchinson. 18-year-old Seattle t wirier, is the outstanding- pitcher of the Pacific coast league to date, on the basis of figures 'made public today. He IS credited with 16 Tictoriea against only five defeats, for a percent age of .762. . ' The youngster has pitched 190 Innings and allowed but 48 earned runs for an average ; of 2.27, and has done mound - duty through 18 complete games. Win Ballon." San - Francisco, x. t. 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Charles (Dutch) Lleber of Los Angeles, has deven" victories and two' de feats. 2 I de PAGE SEVEN Win Silverton Wins 2nd Series Tilt Sox Drop "Medical Lakers by 5-1; Need Only one Win for Title V SILVERTON The "Silverton Red Sox made it two tn a row here last night orer Medical Lake, Washington semi-pro ehampa, in their five game series for the lnter-state championship and right to go to Wichita for the national - semi-pro congress tournament..! me suverton team, winners 13 to 2 in the first game, won 5 to 1 last night behind four-hit pitching. Only one more win is needed for the Red Sox to clinch the series. ' Bonney'a triple in the second started Silverton off.' Cameron "aqueezed" Bonney home and then Roy Heiser singled to drive in Cameron." . Salstrom's single and two in field outs brought another run in the third; Koch's single scored Baker in the fourth and singles by Pesky and Bonney brought another in the eighth. Roy Heiser pitched one-hit ball for five innings but was re lieved by Brewer when a little wildness cropped out. The two pitchers nearly - gained a shut out but the Lakers pushed across a run in the final Inning on a pair of 'singles. The two clubs meet again to night In what may . be the final game of the series. , " Silverton 5 8 3 Medical Lake ..... 14 1 Heiser, Brewer and Moe; Har ris and Dahlen - Nationals Win in. Park Field Meet WOODBURN The "Nationals" under the direction of Leslie Erb walked off, with most of the places in the field meet .held at Legion park Tuesday afternoon. Pete De Guire was in charge of the "Am ericans." 1 .The meet ' opened with sack races and a tug 'o war and was climaxed with a five Inning base ball game which was won by the Nationals" by a score of 12-4. The "American" Juniors defeated the "National" Juniors 12-3 in a three-inning Softball game. Every day's news has some sort of wexf raw you don't want to miss! Be sure of knowing all the goings-on," by writ ingjor phoning us your vacation ad dress. Ave 11 be glad to forward aper every day, all summer. Just dial 9101, or drop in at Tlie Statesman office, 21S S. Commercial, and we'll do the rest. NO EXTRA CHARGE FOR VACAHOKI RATES Wccli Only 25c Oregon Stctesman Rookie Leads Yanks to Win 1 ' Steve Snndra Saves Tilt With Pitching, Hitting for 7-5 Victory 'ST. LOUIS, July 27-,)-Rook!e Steve Sundra, who has been pret ty much in - "bust" all season, came through In a large way to day and personally led the New York Yankees to a 7 to 5 vic tory over the Browns. Rushed into the game In the sixth Inning,- when the Brownies had the score tied, one out and the bases loaded on young Joe Vance. Sundra tossed hit less ball over the last 3 2-3 innings. Then he hit a homer in the seventh to break: the tie, and in the ninth he singled to drive in the final run. Lou Gehrig also hit a homer his 16 th of the year. New York ........... .7 11 0 St. Louis 5 IS ' 3 Vance, Sundra (6) and Dickey; Johnson and Heath. ' Greenberg Gets 83d . DETROIT, July 27-(P)-Hank Greenberg. big Detroit first base man got his thirty-second and thirty-third home runs today.; to lead the Tigers to a 9 to 4 vic tory -over the Washington Sena tors. ' ' . .. . Green berg's present circuit clout pace is ahead of Babe Ruth's when he set bis record of 60 in 1927. Ruth made his thirty-third four-bagger that year in the ninty-tift1! game of the season. Green berg's thirty-third came - in the Tigers' eighty-eighth game of the current campaign. ' ' Washington .......... 4 9- ' 1 Detroit.... ....Ml 3 Weaver. Appleton (2), Kra kauskas (6). Kelley (8) and R. Ferrell, Giulani (6); Lawson and Tebbetts. Indians Win Slug f est CLEVELAND, July 27-P)-Cleveland's second place Indians stayed a game and a half behind the New York Yankees by outlast ing Connie Mack's Philadelphia Athletics in a wild slugfest today, 12 to 11. The teams made a to tal of 25 hits, 13 by Cleveland. Philadelphia ........ .11 12 3 Cleveland 12 13 2 Ross, Thomas (6), Potter (7) and Hayes; Hudlin, Zuber (1), Humphries (7), Milnar (7), Har der (9) and Pytlak. Cutler's Shutout Parrish Nine 10-0 Casper ft Cutler continued Its unchecked - swath through " the Playground .league by last night lambasting Parrish Market 1 0 to 0 behind Cutler's one-hit pitch ing. Casper ft Cutler 10 11 2 Parrtah Market 0 1 1 Cutler and Harms; Yarnell, Warren an Warren. Yarnell. : your