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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1939)
npqn? npnnna U Bl KON LJ OSUMJCLl, No cinch tor Salem's number one berth la the state Softball tourney Is the Square Deal out - tit. bat the pressure is now defi nitely upon the rest of the circuit The doughty Dealers are back in front and hare but four same left to play, -while Wafts, Schoens and the Pheasants each hare five to go. . y': '.I-'' ' The Dealers are at this writing a halt gam In front of Waits, a full tilt in front of Schoens and: a game and a half ahead of the Pheasants. These advantages, to add to the fact they have one less game to play, puts the per centage rery much, with them for the-title and right to represent Salem in. the number one sioU Three of the four games they have left, however, are with oppo nents who have , dumped them. The Dealers' losses have been at the- hands of Schoens, the Paper makers and the Pheasants, by 1-0. 5-3 and 6-1 scores,, respect ively, while Walts have given up all j three of their losses to ' the Dealers and do not hare to meet their three - times conquerors again. .. Accumulative scoring la the Waits-Dealer feud gives the Ra . diosters a wide margin - and ' Hurlin'-Hlttin' Bank Singer even a wider one. The scores were 8-1, 21, 4-2, or an ac rnmulatlve total of- 14 for tl Dealers and 4 for Waits. In thrice beating 1 the Meatmen Singer allowed a total of 14 ' hits in 28 innings and bat three -. earned runs for an earned ran average of .963. Tom Tosses One. Wit 'saves many a ' scisaorbill from chagrin and embarrassment, and T. Thomas Drynan's answer to a Softball . fan yesterday was a prime example. The fan, ad dressing Tommy: "I was at Sweet land Monday night and saw a fel low strike out with the bases full, taking a third cut at a ball fully six feet over his head." Drynan's droll reply: "Yes, I aaw that- I was Just coming in the gate. Tommy had a tough night against the Dealers, being charged with the only boot of the ball game a bobble on Hank Singer's aecond-lnning hit that allowed a score, and going hitless in four times including the whiff out with the bags bulging. Yes, Bill Anton was legally pil fering those bases in the Pheasant-Dealer mix last Saturday night, according to an official rul ing obtained by Softball Manager Gurnee Flesber . yesterday, and that was ruled legal by State Di rector Dwight Adams previously. The question sent the national Softball rules committee was: J'Runner leaves second legally after a pitch, then stops. On catch er's throwback to pitcher, the runner advances to third. No play on the runner. Can runner ad vance?" , Harry Wilson, chief official and rules Interpreter of the na tional softball roles committee, wired back: "Yes. Runner can advance if pitcher is not on the rubber and is not in position to receive the ball, Blondie a Workhorse. Young "Blondie" Applegate, of the Pheasants, is doing' a pert Job of tossing the softball agate for a 17-year-old youngster, and gives every indication that be may become a leading hurler in the lo cal circuit. He at least has oppor tunity to so do if he isn't worked to death as is now. the case. Last Friday Applegate worked nine frames against a Corvallls club, which he beat out, 12 to 6; Saturday night he hurled nine in nings against Square Deal, win ning I. to 1; Monday 'night he toiled six Innings of twilight In dustrial loop ball and finished np the day with 8 innings against the Papermakers, winning 8 to 7. That's a total of 33 innings in four days, or about two full games too. many. J.l Applegate's various managers might take a leaf from the local boxing commission's official ac tion on the Powder Proctor-Larry Trambltas fight for next Wed nesday night here.' Chairman Par ry Levy yesterday announced' his commission would not allow the two. 17-year-olds to fight the cus tomary three-minute rounds, but that their fight would be of the two-minute rounds variety or "not at all.-;: v'-"' Trambltas and Proctor, the yoangsters whs staged .the whirlwind ' preliminary s round scrap on the Turner-Peterson card. " have agreed to fight two extra rounds if the' referee Isn't able to decide. the ; winner at the end of six heats, however. . . . "Lovely" Lassies Coming. Information as to how many of 'em are" married Isn't yet avail able, pals, but Pade-Barrick Man ager Bob Keuacher says the spif- fy Sparling club of Vancouver, BC, which comes for a double header here Saturday night. Is made up of some of the most beautiful areatures he ever - saw off the screen. (P. S. Bob's mar ried, too.) - ' Though they beat the Spar lings, 11 to. 9, at Vancouver, the Pade - Harriets : unanimously de clared It was' the toughest com petition they - had ever been np against. Incidentally,! the Pade Barricks currently have a team batting average of right at .400, and are taking no back seats In the softball parade of pulchritude themselves." . rv In winning the Oregon semi pro baseball title Silverton's Red Sox scored 33 runs t six against them. They blanked two opponents, Jack & Jill and St. Paul, beat the Babes S to 2, Toledo S to 1 and Albany 11 to 3. . - : Raimondi's Season Over OAKLAND, Calif., July 25-) -Ernie Ralmondi, San Francisco Seals third baseman, is apparent ly out of baseball for the season, It was learned todav. He will be -operated on here tomorrow for ap-j pendlcltis. - Silverton "i i v ' - Red Sox Take Bearded Club House of David Defeated 3 to 2 With Susee Beards' Hurler v. I SILVERTON They turned 'em away at the gates of McGinn is' ball orchard here Tuesday night, but fully 5000 squeezed in to wit ness the Red Sox trim the bearded House of David nine, 3 to 2. The Sox won off a former Sil verton and Woodburn Legion tw trier, Larry Susee. whose home is Brooks, Oregon. They won with a squeeze play in the ninth, after the bearded boys,: who played in dead earnest, tied the score in the eighth. i Ken Heist, In the role of a pinch-hitter, squeezed Sylvester in from third with the winning coun ter after Sylvester had singled and been batted around to scor ing territory. The Sox, warming up for their opening game with the Washing ton semi-pro champion here Wed nesday night, scored once in each of the first and second innigns. The House of David tallied in the seventh and eighth to knot the score. Bob White gave the Davidmen but seven blows. House. of David ....2 7 0 Red Sox I... 3 10 1 Susee and Miner; White and Hauser, Erautt. Owen Loses Shirt But Retains Poise Ernie Piluso Over Babe Given Nod Small in Mat Antics i Referee Elton Owen lost his shirt but never command of the sinful situations at the armory last night, so Ernie Piluso pound ed out a two-reund raselin deci sion that left, his victim, behemoth Babe Small whining "we wuz robbed." Piluso. as popular as ever, used an old fashioned piled river to mash Small's large shoulders to the mat for the Initial fall, and Referee Owen awarded him the second and match. Before hoist ing Piluso's duke aloft Owen in dulged himself in a little handi work on Small's countenance, in an attempt to discipline the hea thenish husky. Dopey Dean, the chunky villain from Arizona dunked nimble Jack Kiser In the sandwiched bout, taking the second and third sessions. Kiser won the first with a well executed alligator clutch. Dean the second with: a headlock. and Dean the deciding fall with a full Boston crab. ; Rod Fenton, recently returned from England, went to a draw with Eddie Roberts in the open er, Fenton falling Roberts in 7:20 and Roberts dropping Fenton in 17:40. FSA Is Assailed By Yamhill Lead er McMINNVILLE. JUlv 25-V7PV- The farm security administration was condemned by E. C. Apperson, McMinnville businessman, today for "spending -11.000,000 too much" to create the Yamhill re settlement project on the poorest land in the country. Herbert Peet, assistant regional FSA administrator, said last week "unauthorized statements' charg ing; the project In Yamhill, Wash ington and Polk county, embrac ing 105 farms, was mismanared and collected excessive rents were erroneous. . Apperson, claiming the govern ment's investment was larsrelv "wasted. remarked,"! doubt if xamkiii county win ever be prop erly reimbursed by the govern ment for lands taken off the tax rolls. The courthouse revealed the project paid for district school and road fund items last year In Yamhill county where there are S 4 resettlement. units. . . Logging Problems Will Be Discussed EUGENE, July 2S(flVThe newly-formed Willamette Valley logging conference will; disfuss forest Industries at Its first ses sion here August IS and 16, H. J Cox, secretary-manager of the Willamette Valley Lumbermen's association, said today. . The conference was expected to attract lumbermen : and loggers from all parts of the northwest. Such problems as sustained yield logging, modern hgih way trans port and home building will be discussed. . I Former Gov. Charles H. Martin will be made an "honorary life logger, Cox said. I - Commercial League U. S. Bank 1 4 14 f Pete's Service I 4 11 t StockweU and Gustafson; Os- terman, Morgan,! Hartman and Day. y Industrial League ! Paper Mill Office - 2 Postof f ice .-.4-.8 R. Maddy, Savage and W. Middy: Shedeck and Thompson. Paper Mill MachineI 3 - 13 - 2 Pohle-Staver . 3 6 t Scott and Carter; Stevens and Softball Leagues nriakley. Keep Up . With the 8Uvertoa semi. pro baseball tourney with The Statesman; d 1 1 j coverage. Hubbell Downs Cards 6 to 3 Meal Ticket Looks Good as He Wins His Third - Tilt of Season ' ST. LOUIS, July 25.-(P)-Homs runs by Frank Demaree and Mel Ott.ln the 13th Inning off Lon Warneke drove across three runs and enabled the veteran Carl Hubbell to score his third victory of the year at the expense of the Cardinals, 0 to 3. It broke a string of nine straight defeats for the Giants. Hubbell, whose great left arm has been slow to recover from an operation last winter, looked like, his old self as he ontpitched four Red Bird moundsmen. New York -w IS 3 SL Louis , 3 10 0 Hubbell and Odea; Cooper, MeGee, Warneke, S h o. a n and Owen. Wild Pitch Tragic PITTSBURGH. July 25.-;P)-A wild pitch by relief hurler Hugh Mulcahy in the tenth inning, with the bases loaded and two out, gave the Pirates two' runs and a 6-4 victory over the Phils today. Philadelphia 4 10 0 Pittsburgh 1 .5 10 1 Pearson, Mulcahy and Davis; Tobin, Sewell, Klinger and Berres Dodgers Win Twice CHICAGO. July 25.-VThe Brooklyn Dodgers, with Manager Leo Durocher playing a leading role, jumped twice on the unsus pecting Cubs today, 8 to 6 and 3 to 1., Brooklyn ...8 14 0 Chicago . ..6 7 2 Hamlin, Evans, Pressnell and Phelps, Hay worth: Root, J. Rus sell. Passes u, French and Hart nett. Brooklyn . .....3 10 0 Chicago .1 6 1 Casey and Phelps; Page.' French and Mancuso. Reds Ten Ahead CINCINNATI, July 25.-OP)- Harry Craft hit his eighth homer of the season with a man on in the seventh tonight to give Cin cinnati a 2 lo 1 victory over the Boston Bees before 28,682 fans. It was Bucky Walters' 17 th win of the year and his sixth straight and put the Reds 10 games in front of the field. Boston .'. 1 3 0 Cincinnati L...Z 7 0 Posedel and Lopez; Walters and Lombardl. McMinnville Asks Log Exports Ban McMINNVILLE, Ore. July 25.- (JFHThe Oregon congressional delegation was asked by the Mc lllnnville chamber of commerce today to favor the senate-accepted bill to prohibit export of peeler logs used In plywood manufacture. The Pacific Plywood corpora tion officers, Ernest Went jar. manager, and Arnold Kautonen. superintendent, previously had re ported construction progress on the company's half-million dollar WJllamina plant. . fWentJar said the plywood In dustry in the United States would be harmed Immeasurably if such logs were sent to Japan and other countries to be manufactured by cheap labor and marketed here at prices lower than charged for .the domestic product. .The manager said the Willa mlna plant would be the largest in the world, with floor space in the main building covering tour and a half acres. Operations will be started about September 15. he said..' - ' ' NATIONAL LEAGUE ACE ''frniffc1'! )r:;H' Bmmmt uMU 4ua m c an i tie xees iAtM uw ost-se oorsrva ip mnB tt RON GEMMELL Erftfor Salem, Oregon, Wednesday Pastor and Louis to Battle Joe Louis John Joe Louis, heavyweight champion of the world, shakes hands with Bob Pastor after the two signed for a bout set tor Sept. 20 in the champ's home town, Detroit. The contract tor a 20-round battle was signed in Detroit in the presence of John J. Heltche, center, member of the Michigan boxing commission. Youth Is Served as Four Youngsters Even for Medal Scores in National Public Links Tourney at Baltimore BALTIMORE, July 25. (AP) Youth was served to day in the 18th national public links golf championship today as four youngsters with an average age of 20 years finished two days and 36 holes of golf over the back-breaking Mount Pleasant Park course tied for medalist honors with 144 strokes. Charles V. Rainwater, of Pensacola, Fla., chairman of - - ' othe U. S. Golf association's pnblic Hobson's Pay up, Hayward's Slashed PORTLAND, July 25-(P)-Young Howard Hobson, Oregon's basket ball coach, reaped the rewards of a national championship today when the state board of higher education stepped np his salary to $5000 a year. Col. Bill Hay ward, veteran Ore gon trainer and track coach who has been a member of many Unit ed States Olympic staffs, was cut from $4637 to $3053. He will coach track - exclusively, dropping his duties as football team trainer. Hobson, whose teams won two successive northern division hoop titles, captured the coast confer ence pennant and the national collegiate title last wniter. He was receiving $3800 as basketball and baseball mentor. Oregon State coaches also came in for raises. James Dixon, assist ant feotball tutor, . was boosted from $2700 to $3000 and Hal Hoe, another assistant, will re ceive $2700 Instead of $2400. Name of Comiskey Stays in Baseball CHICAGO. July 25 - (JP) - The name of Comiskey which for two generations helped build the sport will continue in baseball. Filing of the will of J. Louis Comiskey, who died a week ago, disclosed that the Chicago White Sox base ball club was left to the widow and three children, with Its affairs to be controlled and directed by the First National bank of Chicago. All the shares in the hall club, except 50, were owned by Com- -. ! J s3 - - te LOOXS UX. UHXAHZ BUT 1 &W.IW.rMiii iil(i riM tm. , Monitor, July 26, 1939 Bench Boh Pastor links committee, decided there would be no playoff and that all four men would . be awarded medals. The four leaders In the race for 64 places in match play, which starts tomorrow with two 18-hole rounds, represented as many dif ferent sections. There was the deep south, with 19-year-old Luke Barnes "of Atlanta, fresh out of high school; the middle west, with Chunky Jack Tanlman, - 22-year-old champion of Columbus, Ind.: the Pacific northwest, with 18-year-old Gerry Bert, Jr., a 210 pouuder from Seattle who will enter the University of Washing ton in the fall, and the territory of Hawaii, with 21-year-old Art Armstrong, shipping clerk in .the Honolulu office of a steamship line. These lads, two of them (Bert and Taulman) playing in their first national championship, stood up admirably under varying de grees of pressure. Armstrong, first of them to come home, toured the course in his second succes sive 72, even par. Taulman came racing home over the back nine in a two-under-par 34 for a 70. euqal to the best round of the tournament and only the third turned in inlwo days. Barnes, the long-bitting Atlan tan who was second yesterday with a 71, improved from a stag gering outgoing 38 to a fine in coming 35. Bert, last of the four to come up to the home green. blew out a deep r.lgh of relief when he sank a two-footer that gave him a 74 for his 144. He had been the first-day leader with a 70. iskey, whose father, Charles A. Comiskey, founded the team al most 40 years ago after a bril liant playlng-managing career. By JackSords 4 Homer- In the Statesman sports page: borne sports news . comes first In nil ways.. , PAGE NINE Hutch Starts But Is Loser Alley Donald Runs - List of Straight Wins to Even Dozen - ' WASHINGTON. July 25-(iP)- Freddle Hutchinson of Detroit, making his first start since re turning to the American league from Toledo, bumped np against the ' veteran . knuckieballer, Dutch Leonard, today and lost a i to 3 decision to the Washington Sena tors. The Tigers' high-price fresh man gave up seven walks and 10 hits, four of them by George Case. Detroit 3 7 2 Washington 5 10 1 Hutchinson and York. Leonard and Guiliani. Donald Wins 12th NEW YORK, July 25-()-The Yankees' record-breaking fresh man star, Atley Donald, rang up his 12th ' consecutive victory against no defeats today as the run-away champions squelched the St. Louis Browns, 5 to 1, in Stadium. - St. Louis 1 S 1 New York 5 7 6 Harris, Mills and Glenn. Donald and Dickey. in a Chisox Lose Twice BOSTON. July 25-(flJ)-Support- ed by plenty of home-run slug ging, the Red Sox toppled the hard-pressing Chicago White Sox twice, 3-2, and 6-5, today before a 20,000 crowd. The second game went 10 innings. (First game) Chicago ..2 8 0 Boston 3 12 2 Knott, Brown and Tresh. GroTe and Desautels. (Second game 10 innings) Chicago S 1 Boston 6 14 2 Marcum, Brown, and Tresh, Schluetter. Gatehouse, Heving, Dickman and Peacock. Tribe Downs Phils PHILADELPHIA. July 25-(JP) Cleveland and Philadelphia saved most of their thundr for the ninth inning, but the Indians' bats spoke loudest, netting them nine runs to five for the Athletics and a 12 to 8 victory for the first of their three-game series. Cleveland .12 20 2 Philadelphia 8 13 0 Harder, Hemsley, Dobson and Sewell. Beckman, Joyce and Hayes. Marcus Troupers Have Tough Trip Dock at Vancouver After Some Chorines Slept on Ship's Deck VICTORIA, July 25-(CP)-SIx-ty two United States troupers, re fused permission to land in Japan, arrived here today .aboard the Empress of Japan, bound for Se attle with their manager, A. P. Marcus,: and his wife. The actors and actresses disem barked from the trans-Pacific liner here, preparatory to board ing a coastal steamship for Se attle. The Marcus group, after leav ing the United States, stopped briefly in Heng Kong, then sailed to Yokohama Intending to con tinue on to Tokyo. The Yokohama police, however, refused to let them land, on grounds they had insufficient money to keep them and had no definite engagements to filL In the end, they stayed aboard the Empress, and their unexpect ed addition to the passenger list caused complications. Most of them were given third class ac commodation, but 14 girls had to be assigned to the first class gym nasium where they slept on matt resses laid on the floor. ; They couldn't go to bed until the first class passengers left the gym and they had to get up at daybreak so early-risers in the ca bin class could take their setting up exercises in priracy. i . Chicago Man Lost In Ontario Woods INTERNATIONAL FALLS. Minn., July 25-P-Volunteer searchers, aided by a Canadian government airplane, tonight scoured the vrlld Manitou country of Ontario, 50 miles north of here, for F. C. Lambert of Chicago, missing since Sunday. ' Operators of the camp on Lake Manitou, where Lambert . was staying, reported D. K. MoMillen, also of Chicago, came in Sunday with an aecount of missing Lam bert as the two returned from a fishing trip. , , , j .'' Mapes Alade Head i For Milk Control I PORTLAND, July 2S-(ffH. H. Mapes became milk control board administrator today, ' succeeding Paul C Adams, director since 1935.. Mapes had been employed by the board for two years. . Adams, who established ; pro ducers pools at Portland, Eugene and Salem and developed a grade A milk, supply for remote settle ments and camps, resigned to ear (or personal ( business. . ;. t - rm o ILoni Leagu Baseball . Coast League - - (Before Night Games) W. I Seattle 71 46 Los Angeles . 7 SO San Francisco . l..5 54 Sacramento ..56 54 San Diego ; 52 1 Oakland 5 C4 Portland ..At tt Hollywood SO 6 Pet. .412 .573 .522 .60S .460 .453 .431 .431 Rational League W. L. Pet. Cincinnati . . 54 30 .643 St. Louis 44 40 .524 Pittsburgh 43 39 .524 Chicago 46 43 .517 Brooklyn . 42 41 .506 New York 42 43 .494 Boston .. 40 45 .471 Philadelphia .25 54 .316 American League W. L. PcL ...63 25 .716 ...54 30 .643 ...49 39 .557 ...45 40 .529 .4S 45 .489 .J7 54 .407 .33 52 .388 24 '63 .276 New York Boston - Chicago Cleveland Detroit Washington Philadelphia St. Louis Dealers to Meet Papermen Tonight Schoens Battle Kennedys in Opener as 4 Clubs Go Down Stretch Sweetland softball action inten sifies nightly as tour teams battle down the home stretch for the two state tournament spots, and to night's struggles are likely to be as hard-fought as if the state championship were dependent on their outcome. It's Schoen's Bakers against the Kennedy Kids In the first, at 8 o'clock, and Square Deal against the Papermakers in the nightcap. Neither the Bakers or Dealers can afford setbacks, but both the Kids and 'Makers are primed to pull down both if possible. The 'Ma kers remember they were the first team to trip the Dealers, and be lieve it not impossible to repeat that performance. A league meeting has been call ed for today noon at the Golden Pheasant, to iron out the remain ing schedule, it was announced yesterday by Manager Gurnee Flesher. In order to leave ample time for playoffs at the close of the regular season It will be nece ssary to schedule games every night, he indicated. Anti-British Acts Continue in China SHANGHAI, July 25-i!p)-Brit-aln's agreement to recognize Ja pan's right of way in occupied Chinese areas failed to halt the spreading anti-British campaign in north China today. New British - Japanese friction developed in Shanghai. Orders went out from the Japanese-sponsored political party at Peiping to branches in Shansi, Shantung, Hopeh and Honan prov inces to widen anti-British boy cotts through the use of theatres, moving pictures, posters and car toons. Announcing the agreement in the house of commons yesterday, British .Foreign Secretary Lord Halifax said it was expected to halt anti-British demonstratoins in China., 9 Distribated by fif 1 .5- i ) 5 NfI. ml Regional Title Series Starts Dale Milk of St. Paul Is Acquired by Red Sox as Chncker SILV-ERTON It is expected Dale Mills, St. Paul chucker chos on the Outstanding player at the conclusion of the Oregon state . semi-pro baseball tournament last week, and Glen "Spec- Elliott, southpaw strikeout sensation from Albany's Oaks, will be wearing ' Silverton Red Sox uniforms when , the latter open battle for the re gional semi-pro title here at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday night. The Sox, Oregon champs, will meet the Seattle Glasera la a three-of-five game series for the , right to represent the Oregon Washington area in the national semi-pro championships at Wich ita, Kansas. The Seattle nine cap tured the Washington crown by winning a 10-inning battle with the Walla Walla Jaycees at Walla Walla Sunday night. 6 to 5, after winning a 12-inningi afternoon struggle, 7 to 4. Red Sox Bat High A check over the semi-pro state tournament which ended Saturday night showed that the Red Sox batting average was .421, seven -Red Sox men batting over .300. George Racette of Woodburn had the highest batting of the tournament with an average of .715. In the tournament games Silver ton Red Sox garnered 33 runs and allowed their opponents only six. The Red Sox made only three er rors, and hit 55 against their op ponents' 26 hits. Those batting .500 or over dur ing the tournament were Racette, Woodburn. .715; Bourbannais, Woodburn, .667; Smith and Mice, Milwaukie! .667; Oster, Wood burn, .571; Stetter, Silverton Bees. .538; Mills, St. Paul. .633; Pesky, Red Sox, .527; Harney, Red Sox. .500; Erautt,; .500; Bu balo. Red Sox. .500; Mauney, Hills Creek, .500; N. Kember, Ver boort, .500; Raugh, Jack ft Jill, .500; Hammell. Portland Babes, .500; Adams, .500; Reed. Sirrer ton Bees, .500; Cereghino, Sell wood, .500; Dunn. Scappoose, .500; LaMear, Scappoose, .500; Miller, Woodburn, .500. Kid Clouters Get Main Event Jobs Kid clouters who corraled cus tomers' plaudits in a preliminary struggle on the Peterson-Turner card last Wednesday will hold the main event spotlight on the arm ory card of August 2, it was an nounced yesterday by the local Veterans of Foreign Wars boxing club. They're Powder Prpctor and Larry Trambitas; the 17-year-olds who punched each other dizzy and were awarded a popular draw. They'll go to work over the six round route, with the provision that they'll be granted : two extra heats it they're even at the end of six. In giving the kids a main event break the local boxing commis sion forced the VFW to cut the round duration to two minutes instead of the customary three because of their youth. Managers heartily endorsed the- shortened rounds, saing they didn't wish to take chances of burning out their youthful proteges. . Two more slx-rounders and three four-round battles, all to be announced later, will make up the fistic dish, the Vets said. ... IIM 1 m dsnn Gideon Stolz Co.