" " j , , j. i: ' ' By RUN CKMMKI.L Clear the decks, unites, for the sixth annual Ktate softball tourney that'll be t a in i n g round the bend tomorrow. ... Take ft from Mk. Prexy Harry Collins and Director Dwlght Adams, to wit: "'It'll be the biggest, best and most closely contested tourney In the history of the state softball as fcOcUtkm by Prcxy Collins; "ltll be the Most coety con test e-d, best and biggest in the .state softball a&Mx-iittloa's his tory , by "Director Adams , . . . These two hard-working ktate o ft ball associat ion liraUs base their predictions on first-hand knowledge of the brand ot ball that has been dish e d up throughout the state during the regular season - ... They point out that while Fort land and Sa lem teams have heretofore dominated tourney play, teams front Astoria, Klamath Falls and Cugone this ear sire trotnise of being outstanding contenders for the 193H gon falon ... . Kr instance: Med- ford Imported a Los Angeles checker, Carle Keade, who kept -the Pearpickcrs up there during the. regular season but the Klamath Falls team came along in the playoff to knock eni off S to 2 ... . O Locals Drcav Toughies. Luck of the draw, i.e. "bad" luck, pits Salem s two clubs against two of the toughest in the state in the first round .... Eu gene's Rubes, wbo twice knocked off the Papermakers during the; regular season, and on the latter's .home grounds to boot, tee off the tourney at 7:39 tomorrow night against those self same Rubes. , ,,, As if that weren't headache enough for, the treasary-minded tourney officials. Salem's No. 2 team. Square Deal, meets what all the boys axe-calling a plenty tough ootfi t , the Astoria East erns, in the first game Tuesday night . ... Astoria, you remem ber gentle customers, was the club knocked out of the tourney by those awful skunking scores of 21-0 in '34, 20-0 in '35, 10-O in 36 and 9 to 0 last year .... Bat the Easterns hare blood in their eyes this year . ... pitching for them is the same Harry Stela bock, but a "greatly Improved chucker 'tis claimed .... Percy No-No King. Tall, -gentle-mannered Percy Crofoot,-' pin wheel ' proponent ' deluxe, will have , two titles to defend .... He's the sole auth or of the only no-hit, no-run piece of pitching prose in the history of the tourney .... The a nder banding sinker ball si Lag er signed his name to that fame - against Hlllsboro last year, . missing a perfect game by but three walks ... - He climaxed that performance by being vot ed, unanimously, the outstand ing player-aad sportsman of the '37 tourney . . . . Did yon know k that Flash Gordon, Yankee sec ond baseman who is currently ' the leading big league rookie of the year, once played In the state softball tourney? . ... Yep, in 1034 the Flash was in a Eu gene uni, playing first base. ... The defending champs Will be back en toto, Rotary Bread of Portland .... Remember bow they lit on veteran Mickey Ber lant of M M's Woodworkers for IO hits awd a 13 to O shel lacking in the championship -game last year? Yes, and M Jk M will be back this year, but flying different colors . . . . boasting almost the identical MAM lineup, but parading the Rosin i Wines banner .... "Kitch" Top"Star." ", Lome "Sqnee" Kitchen is the only man to hare been chosen on the all-state team in every year of the tonrney'a history . . , .". "Kitch" made It at second base. for Fade's in '34 and '35, for Hogg Bros, in 36, and as utility infielder for Wait's last year.. Mickey Berlant, 37-year-old twlrl er; has placed on the all-state team three times, missing only last year . . . . Bob Dunn, Paper maker shortstop, made the covet ed mythical club for Eugene In '34 and for the 'Makers last year .... Eleven of last year's 13 of ficial all-state players will be back to defend themselves . . . includ ing Rotary Bread's foursome of "Biff" Georgeson, Vesper Brown, Harry Meleher and Harold Bar ry; Paper Mill's Percy Crofoot, Bob Dunn and Sqnee Kitchen; M& M's (now Rosini Wines) El lis Endicott, Mike Bisaccio and Chuck Houston; and Eugene's Chuck Christensen . . . missing will be Rotary Bread's Baden Ru pert and Paper Mill's Billy Sut ton . . . Permanent Possessors? Should Rotary Bread annex the championship again this year, the scrumptious B. P. John trophy will be : in the Doughboys permanent posses sion . . . . for they were state champs in '33 and S7 . . . . DI . rector Adams will not confine his dutie: to directing . . . . he'll . also be flinging for the Dallas All-Stars, who boast an all-state outfielder of '36 in Jay Pleasant .... The Papermak ers will go into the tourney minus the services of their stel lar and dependable backstop, Dutch Schnuelle .... who'll be on the sidelines wit ft a broken finger .... The 'Makers have added to their tournament ros ter: Billy Beard, Ted Glrod, George -Scales, "'tJeorge Roth, Squee Kitchen and Pete Me - Caff cry of Walt's and Tommy '' Dry nan of 20-30 . . .which ; means they'll probably face the Rubes with Crofoot in the box. Beard behind the plate, Steel hammer, Dick, Dunn and Scales in the infield and Nicholson, Drynan, Girod or Parrish in the outfeild .... Square Deal has added Jack Causey, Weller, Gil more, Elsiminger and Garba rino . . And, my fine-feathered frans, a humtiddy new press box is being installed Just back of the screen back of home ' plate, in a gala - decorated grandstand . Til be scein you there j Adioa- ksnussaas I Rubes, Makers In First Game - : i r i . : " " 16 Teams Begin Play for State Title Monday Night at 7:30 31onday: ; V , '. Eugene's Rubes Vs. Salem's 'Makers, 7:30 Forest Grove Vs. Klamath Kails. 8:30 Albaiuy Vs. Kola j-y Bread. 9:50 Dallas Vs. Bend. 10:30 Tuesdajy: - Astoria Eastern's Vs. Salem S. Teal, t:30 Bakr Vs. Mt. Angel, 8:30 Rosihi "W'iues Vs. Milwaukie 9:30 - : Boneeville Vs. McMinnville. 10:30 j Kin softball invades Salem and its Sweet land field for the sixth consecutive year when be ginning Monday night IS teams --the cream tf the state's top tossers, begin play for the 1938 championships. From the time the local asso ciation nnmoer one club, the Pa per makers. ; iee off the meet against; : Eugene's Rubenstein's Monday night at 7:30 until one club from each of the two eight- team brackets emeVges victorious over three opponents to the championship fray Saturday night at 9 o'clock. Salem will be a seething softball -hotbed. Portland, Salem Challenged Advance pabllclty indicates s.t least t&ree clubs Eugene, Klam ath Falls and Astoria, will chal lenge domination of the meet by Salem ;and Portland teams. If they or any other team outside ot Portland succeed- in packing home the big chunk of hardware. it willi be the first time tt has happened since this first state championship game in 1933. At that time the Veterans of For eign Wars of Oregon City de feated 1 Parker's of Salem , 5 to 3 for the title. The records, since 1933: 1934 Pade's of Salem de feated ; Enke Dye of Portland, 2 to 0. 1935 Rotary Tread of Port land defeated M & M Woodwork ers of Portland, 1 to : . 1936i M & to Woodworkers of Portland defeated Hogg Bros, of Salem, 6 to 5. 19 37 Rotary Bread of Port land j defeated M & M Wood workers ot Portland, 15 to 0. Fiotary Twice Winners So it is that Rotarv Bread has twice; won the state tiara while M &. M has had hands on the B. P.f John trophy once and was iunner-up for that honor twice. Should the Breadboys cop it again this year they automatical ly become permanent possessors. The M & M personnel this year is playing under the Rosini Wines banner so a win for It wosld constitute but one leg up on the trophy despite the clnb bein rom posed of almost the identical roster which took the championship in '36. Both Salem clabs have, in ac cordance with association rules, strengthened th?ir rosters for the tourney. The Papermakers have signed fire ot the players who carried Wait's to second place during the regular season, and Square Deal has signed four other league members. j Salem Rosters Paper Mill tourney roster: Billy; Beard and Pete McCaffery. catchers; Percy Crofoot and George Roth, pitchers: John Steelhammer. first base; Bill Dick, second base; Bob Dunn, shortstop; George Scales, third base; Squee Kitchen, utility In fielder; Jim Nicholson. Tommy Drynan. Lloyd Glrod, Liston Par rish, Nick . Serdota and Robert French, outfielders. Square Deal . tourney roster: Lou Singer, catcher; Verne Gil more and Henry Singer, pitchers; Lyle I Cnves and Ed Weller, first base I William Gentskow. third basef Ernie Garbarino, utility In fielder: Bob D'Arcy. Ed Weisner. Dan iKeidats, Ike Eisiminger and Jack- Causey, outfielders. Rube Slugger s 4 V i Ed Wellnits, whose prowess with the softball hickory is one of the chief reasons his team, the " Eugene Rubensteins made its way into the state softball tour ney which begins here Monday night. Hell be waving the " wood at Pinwheel Percy Cro f oot's offerings as the Rubes - aud Papermakers initiate the sixth-annual meet at .7: SO. -1 Set Gehrig Slump Seems atEnd Iron Hoss Slams Doubles, Populated Homer as Yanks Drop A's PHILADELPHIA; Aug. 2&-P -Iron Hoss Lou Gehrig, who's on the up from the batting doldrums, hit a homer with the bases loaded and a two-run double' today and generally was a large ball of fire as the New York Yankees wal loped the Athletics 11 to 3. The Bix runs he batted in made it a cinch for Monte Marcellus Pearson to chalk up his eighth win in a row and his 11th of the year. Monte gave up eight hits altogether, but four of these came in the second inning when the A's did all their scoring. The Yanks fired 13 hits at Buck Ross, Almon Williams and Dave Smith. Every pne In the iineup except Pearson hit safely at least once. By the victory, the Yanks main tained their 10-game edge over the American league race. . New York 11 13 3 Philadelphia 3 8 1 Pearson and Dickey; Ross, Wil liams (8), D. Smith (9) and Hayes. Red Sox Win BOSTON. Aug. 29-(P)-Boston's Red Sox made it fire in a row today, by trimming Washington IS to 7 in a free-hitting game. Zeke Bon urn led the Senators' attack with two doubles, a single and a nome run, his 14th of the year. Washington 7 IS Boston ..1 12 1 Deshong, Hogsett (8) and Fer rell, Giuliani (); McKain, Chase (4), Baker (6), Harris (8) and Desautels. Harder Checks Chisox CLEVELAND, Aug. 20 Mel Harder held Chicago's White Sox to seven hits today and regis tered his 11th victory ot the sea son for the Cleveland Indians, 8-2. ;. Chicago 12 7 4 Cleveland ' - 12 3 Stratton and Reasa; Harder and Hemsley. Tigers Win Sixth DETROIT, Aug. 29-JP)-RxAf York's 2 6th and 27th home runs of the season paced the Detroit Tigers to their sixth consecutive Tictory today, a 6 to 4 conquest of the St. Louis Browns. The two blows scored, four of the Tigers' six runs. St. Louis i.. 4 7 0 Detroit . S 0 Cox, Tie'je 3) and Sullivan; Laws on and York. Nazi Tennis Team Return Requested "Request" From Germany Surprise to Players, Beaten by Aussies BROOKLINE, Mass Aug. 28 (iPJ-Badly beaten by Australia in the first three matches of the Davis Cup intersone final, Ger many's four-man tennis team to day was "requested" to cut short its American tonr and return home for a -rest." A cablegram from Capt. E. C. Schoeborn, president of the Ger man tenuis federation reached F. O. Uhl. non-playing captain of the German team, shortly be fore Henner Henkel and Georg von Metaxa. the German singles playerd, took the court against Adrian Quist and ' Jack : Brom wich, respectively, in the final tw matches ot the playoff. Botn German players were stunned by the news. They had been counting on playing in the United States National doubles championships starting ' here on Monday, in the national singles at Forest Hills in September, and In ether tournaments on the Pacific coast later. The ailing Henkel took the court and ' merely went through the motions as he took a 6-2, t-1, 8-6 blasting from : Quist. Metaxa was little better as Brom- wich polished him oft at 6-3, 6-2, 6-1 to provide the Austral ians with the clean sweep of the series that their coach, George M. Loft, had predicted. They had clinched the right to meet the United States fcr the cup by winning the doubles yesterday. Hubbell to Have Operation on Arm S MEMPHIS, Tenn, lug; A bone specialist ordered an op eration today for. Carl Hubbell, depriving the New- York Giants' of their ace hurler in the thick of the fight for the National league pennant. , : - The specialist. Dr. J. Spencer Speed, Bald the operation, to be performed Monday should greatly improve the screw Ball pitcher's ailing : left arm. Whether the southpaw star will be ; able to pitch again this season remained in doubt. : There is a chance, the surgeon said, that Hubbell will be able to take the mound again before the flag chase ends, but as Hubbell expressed it "the season probably will be about ended." r There is a loose piece of bone in the Joint of the left elbow. for XS&1 US 6l Uto ertXitiGr ' : . - i fttlf AlAtkXAL UAGUe- PrfcAZRS ARC hKSeO OA Olg 1iuto AOoJf LaatOAPI TMAY Ht League Standings COAST LEAGUE (Before Night Games) Los Angeles Sacramento .. San Francisco Seattle : San Diego, Portland Hollywood ... Oakland NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .623 .568 .655 .126 .486 .477 .449 .211 Pittsburgh 6 6 New York 63 Cincinnati 1 Chicago 5 Boston , ... 52 Brooklyn 52 SC Louis 48 Philadelphia SS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 72 34 Pet. .682 !S55 Cleveland 62 42 Boston ,, , so 44 Washington 56 56 Detroit 55 55 Chicago 44 ST Philadelphia S8 C8 St. Louis . 2 6t Six Regulars Lost To 0SC Gridiron CORVALLIS, Ore., Aug. 20-(iip)-Sli Tarslty frontliners will be among the missing when Lon S li ner starts Oregon State football rehearsals Sept. 8. Gone will be Joe Gray, halt back; Kolberg, fullback; Duncan, quarter; Watts and Nihil, tackles, and the massive Prank Ramsey, guard. The depredations that gradu ation worked on the Bearer line causes Stlner less anxiety than the toll taken from the backfield. Recruits from the 1937 Frosh t,am, returning veterans and re serves will give the Beavers a starting line of Coast calibre though shy In capable subs. The backfield reconstruction job will require use of at least three sophomores, Stiner said. which will make Oregon State an unpredictable entry. w W. L. Pet. 84 60 .582 80 64 .656 76 68 .528 74 68 .521 ia - 7a .si i.. 68 77 .469 67 77 .465 SS f2 .266 4S Minutes "WHISKERS" ADAMS vs. NOEL FRANKLYN ; 80 Minntes yCi2ni L -AU 1 AUG. 23 UalUU Lower Floor SOc, Balcooy40c, Reserved Seats 75c (No Tax) Students 23c. Ladles S5 Tickets, Cliff Parker's and Lytle's - Aqsplces American Legion - Herb Owes, Matchmaker - ' f : r " State c regontatesmau Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning, August m - w . - wv coeYtiCMT. mt. kmc ratums swocAtt. War A(Imiral Wins Race at Saratoga Victory Is Third in Three Starts for Riddle's Great Racehorse . . 4-4 . . SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. T.. Aug. 10.-iJPyWtLT Admiral, the little brown horse from Samuel D. Riddle's barns, turned in an other of his machine-like perform ances today to chalk np bis third victory in as many races at Sara toga. Han 0' War's great son outran two rivals over the mile and a Quarter distance ot the Whitney stake and won by a length, never In serious danger at any stage of the Journey. William Ziegler, Jrn veteran mare, Esposa. failed for the third time to beat the Admiral, but she ran a remarkably good race to finish a length behind. William Woodward's three-year-old. Fight ing Fox, completed the field, 10 lengths away. War Admiral was a 1 to S favorite la this weight-for-age affair and picked np a purse of 2,725 to boost his all-time earn ings to $251,700. Under his 126 pounds, be sped the distance in 2:03 46, fastest time made '1 the 11 runnings of the ftxture. The Admiral's sire, Man O'War, and Sir Barton are co-holders of the track record of 2:01 45. Third Sindes Won By Alice Marble MANCHESTER. Mass.. Aug 20HV-Allce Marble, America's tcp-ranking woman tennis star. today won her third successive singles t" of the year and then teamed with Sarah Palfrey Fab yan ot Cambridge to win the doubles title at the Hi annual Essex county women's Invitation tournament. Both victories came at the ex pense of hard-hitting Australians Miss Marble turned back the sen sational 21-year-old Nancy Wynne, 6-1. 6-3, to add the Essex singles crown to her recent vic tories at Seabright and Rye. The Americans beat Miss Wynne and Dorothy Stevenson in the doubles. Team Match PAT OTJOWDY and SAILOR MORAN ERNIE PILUSO and "SNEEZE'.' ACHIU Mala Event ; ELTON OLIVER JIM PORTER Soft 21, 1938 ATAJbRrre.-6fWiSrlAi' teASdg BA"Prtf- KR K53A PI aygrouna League INDUSTRIAL. LEAGUE "W. L. Pet. Bldg. Supply 6 0 1.000 Paper Office! 2 St. Joseph j 2 Hansen's ! 2 Kay MU1 2 .760 .600 .400 .400 .400 .400 .200 Paper Machine 4 .2 US Bank 2 Foresters - : 1 Leading HKtees Marranlcs, For.. 38 22 .S7S M. Richie, BS 30 II .404 Walker, BS 20 18 .462 Shedeck, St. Jo 26 14 .400 LwU, PO 44 17 .584 Craig, Hansen.-. 42 16 .281 Koenig, St. Jo.....25 12 .271 Duncan, PM . 2S 12 .271 Johnson, For. 44 16 .264 F. Nichols, Kay 42 15 .257 Bertelson, Bank 30 12 .232 Fenton, Han...42 14 .232 Lange, Bank 3 6 12 .232 Stripling, PO 27 12 .224 P. Hall. For 37 12 .224 CLScfxixi! ipuc Lin ioUr ;Q UALITYf X98 h VAILSEQ EI. ball Play PAGE SEVEN Seals Trounc Portland 9-3 Oakland Drops Stars 4-3; Angels Blank Padres; Suds Whip Saes '(By the Associated Press) Saa Francisco's Bests scored fire runs on six hits and one error in the ninth Inning Satur day to swamp the Portland Bsv ers. t to 2, in the Pacific Coast league. At Oakland. Bob Joyce. Oak land's ace moundsman. pitched his team to It first victory of the current series with Holly wood, 4 to 2, wLile at Los An geles, the leading Aagels won ia rollicking fashion, 9 to , from 6a a Diego. . " Seattle pUyad Sacramento j is a night game. Results of Saturday's games did not materially change club standings. - ; The Reals got three runs off! Radonits In the first inning wltb TIMaggio's double. Jennlng's in field single. Holder's single and Hawkins' homier. DiMax bomered In the second. - J Portland scored twice la the second and once la the third. The) tally stood at that level usti the ninth. The Los Angeles victory move them fonr ganes ahead of th second-i-lace Sacramento clnb. San Francisco a.... 9 ! Portland t IS Fraxier, Herrmaa and Spring Radonits. Darrow and Dickey. San Diego 0 6 Los Angeles 14 Chsplin, Sbellenbach and tore; Prim and Collins. Hollywood 2 7 Oakland ....... 4 2 Osborne, Hutchinson aad Ao- nunzlo; Joyce and Conroy. Sacramento 2 7 Seattle 10 12 Newsome. Humphries aad Grebe; Barrett aad FernandesJ Budge and Mako Win at Newport NEWPORT, L. L, Aug. 20( Two members of the US Davis cup team, Don Budge and Gene Mako, Indicated today they were prepared tor any Immediate as signment when they dominated final play in the 22nd Newport Casino tennis tournament. Badge retired the Csslno's huge bowl In the morning by de testing a former international teammate and ex-Wimbledon winner. Sydney Wood ot New York, 6-3, 6-3. -2. Several hodrs later, he snd Make swept through Wllmer Allison and Johnny Van Ryn, tbe Austin. Tex. veterans, 7-5. 7-5, 6-2. In the doubles fi nal. Leave for Camp Perry - i , SILVERTON Rudy Scheftk and Harlan Anderson left this week for Camp Perry, Ohio, las members of the 12-man ON'O state rifle team. This Is Schenk 's second trip aad Anderson's first. NO liSiiaunis I ft o- Pirates Chase One Diz Dean Thereby Extending Lead to 5 V Games as Cubs Co Down 5 to 2 CHICAGO. Aug. t0.-P)-Th Pittsbursh Plrstrs exlcndsd their Natlonsl leacue lesd to five and ione-hajf games today ' ,feal loc the Clilc- i, 5 to t. while the New York Giants were bowing to the Philadelphia Phil lies. Althtucli P' ' vetrras ped Lucas, thefr only pMcher wlo had gon nine Inniprs aitstnst the Cubs this year, failed to ito the route, todsv, the lenvii Iea1r drove Dtssy Dean from the mound. It, was Dean's first toss his purchase by Ihe Cubs. A. though he has been rredlfetl with six vletorles. It was the sixth time In nine starts he has fsiled to ere nine Innings. Pittsburgh , 6 11 f Chicago 2 6 f Lucas, Swift Snd Todd: Dean, Pace, Preach and Odea. Phillies Break Ire NEW YORK. Aug. 20.-aVAr the first time this year, the Phil lies wos s ball game Is tbe Pole groosds today, sipping tbe Giants t to 7 la a slugging match te drop the New Yorkers gsaes behind Pittsburgh in tbe National lesgse race. Philadelphia .8 16 0 New York 7 12 1 Mulcaby, Hollingswerth snd Atwood; Schumacher. Brown, Coffman'and Danalng. Deacon Danny Handy BROOKLYN. Aug. 20.-;rv-Deacon Danny MacFayden pitched the Boston Bees back Into sols possession ef fifth place la the National league today, giving up eight hits to trounce the Dodgers 2 to 2. Boston ..2 13 1 Brooklyn 2 8 0 MacFayden and Lopet; Ham lin, Mango snd Campbell. Wla for Kach ST. LOUIS, Aug. 20.-TVTIie Cincinnati Reds who are scrap ping to get Into first place and tha Cardinals, just scrapping, split an exciting doublaheader today. The Reds won the opener. 4 to 2, and Lon Warneke pitched the Cards to a 5-4 victory la the nightcap for his twelfth win of the year. Cincinnati ...4 0 0 St. Louis ... 2 1 Grlasom and Herahberger; Ma con, Henshaw and Bremer. Cincinnati 5 10 t St. Lonis t 10 0 - R. Davis, Csscsrella and Lom bard! ; Warneke and Owen. West Salem Wins In National Loop In National laague softball games played Friday, West Salem beat Kntght Memorial 12 to 4 and Jason Lee defeated the Firemen 7 to . K. 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