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By RON G EMM ELL
Feeling lazy hke a house dog and making no bones about
it, we today turn over this space to Ethan Grant, Salem au
thor, who has spun me the story of The Third Dean. Take it
away, Ethan :
"Here, in a nutshell, is the story of that elder Dean
brother we were talking about last week. The first I ever
heard of him was from Charlie Ward, sports editor of the Detroit
ree Press. That was during the summer Ward rode roughshod over
Bueky Harris, which riding culminated In Bucky's being tossed from
vne taaaie in ravor of Mickey
Cochrane.
"Both Dizzy and Daffy Dean
had Wen graduated from the St.
Louis Cardinals' farm at Houston.
Texas. The Houston fans were
howling for another Dean. Charlie
Barrett, a Cardinal scout signed
Elmer simply because he hap
pened to be a brother of the other
two.
"He was corralled at Houston,
where he became the ungainly
hero or butt of a thousand base
liall Kories. During the early part
of that season, the old cry at the
Houston orchard was. 'We want
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"But to go back to the beginning, it really started while Diz
with Houston. Everybody was raring about what a wonderful
Dis was. He admitted he was good but added. 'You ought to see my
brother Paul.' So the Cards sent scouts out to look Brother Paul over.
He looked all right, so they signed him and sent him to Columbus.
"The success of Dizzy and Paul caused the Cardinal management
to become Dean conscious. When the Houston club came up for the
1933 training season without a Dean the officials immediately went
into a huddle.
" 'What! No Dean?' they asked each other. A Dean! A Dean!
Our kingdom for a Dean!'
"So they sent out scouts to see if Dizzy had any more brothers.
That is how they happened to sign Elmer.
"One glance at Elmer was enough to convince anybody that
truth is stranger than fiction. He was a real life Jack Keefe except
that he had a few qualities that Ring Lardner, creator of the rookie
of fiction, didn't give Jack Keefe. Also he had a few exploits to his
credit that no author would dare assign to a character of fiction.
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Lost: Beyond Red Light.
"Th scouts had already learned from Dizzy that he had anoth
er brother. But the lad they sought couldn't be located. He'd been
missing around four years.
"Dizzy said Pa Dean and Elmer had been picking cotton on an
Arkansas plantation. On the way home one night. Elmer driving the
family pickup and Pa the flivver behind. Elmer went through an In
tersection red liht and that was the last they'd ever seen of him.
"While the scouts were searching the world over for the miss
ing Elmer, it seems that he found himself. He didn't know he was a
brother of tbe now famous Dizzy. Somewhere In a small Arkansas
town he butted into a cracker barrel conversation, saw a picture of
l)izy in the p4per and said:
" 'That's my brother. Diz.'
"When he refused to be lauehed off, newspapermen investigated,
found he was speaking the truth and thus returned him to the Dean
fireside
"When this news spread, there was uild excitement in the flat
Did city of Houstou. The regular playing season had started, so on the
'lay the new Dean was to be exhibited Houston fans packed the park
and Immediately set up that chant,
" 'We want Elmer!'
" Could Swat Apple, but Oh My!
Well, they got Elmer. He didn't have the appearance or actions
of a ball player not even a poor one. But he got by, simply because
he was Elmer. He wasn't much more eccentric than Diz or Paul, but
he was decidedly more ungainly.
"Ue did everything wrong. Most people run on their toes, or on
the balls of their feet. But not Elmer; he ran on his heels. He re
minded one of a fellow on skis through water cress up to his hips.
He couldn't catch a fly ball In a sack of shavings. I didn't see him,
but Charlie Ward said he'd spread his arms and swoop down on the
hall like a duck coming into the decoys.
"Nor conld he throw. He had a schoolgirl ( not Pade-Barrlck.
perhaps) motion. But one thing he could do was bat. He could hit that
old pill a mile, and that waa his only Dean characteristic save daf
fines. of course.
"They kept him most of that season, but he was seldom used,
despite that continual, 'We want Elmer!' You can readily imagine the
problem his presence created for the management. He took himself
and his following seriously and couldn't understand why. when all
the fans wanted him, that he wasn't used. Each day at game time he'd
confront the manager with the same statement 'I'm fitter'n a fid
dle and ready to go now. How 'bout It? But each day he'd sit on the
bench, eating his heart out with longing to get in there.
"I don't know what finally became of him. Ward says the last
he heard he was selling goobers at the Houston ball park."
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Come to yon first to The
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Salem, Oregon. Sunday Morning, February 4. 1940
PAGE SEVEN
MACs Bobby Volk Tops Figbt Card
Billed by Salem Elks Here Friday
Bobby Volk, fast-stepping Mult
nomah club of Portland light
weight, generally conceded second
only to his schoolmate. Tommy
.Mover, in northwest amateur
ranks, U billed to tangle with Jim
my PfelffeT. Eugene Elks, in one
half of a dc :ble main event ama
teur card that goes on under spon-
Prineville Jockey
In Great Demand
SEATTLE. Feb. 3-;P)-The
Post-Intelligencer will say to
morrow that a $10,000 offer has
been made for the riding contract
of Arprentlce Jockey Douglas
Podson, of Prineville, Ore.
Dodson's contract is owned
by Frank Brewster and the Need
more stable. Seattle. The news
paper will say the identity of the
stable attempting to secure it is
not definitely known, although
some track followers believe the
Koxcatcher stable, operated by
William Dupont. Delaware sports
man, is in the market for the
boy.
Dodson rode Fairy Chant to
victory for the Foxcatcher sta
bles today in the 110,000 Santa
Margarita handicap at Santa
Anita.
sorship of the Salem Elks here
Friday night of this week.
The other half of the top attrac
tion will find Eugene's Wayne
Dillingham, thrice conqueror of
Salem's Zeb Smith, meeting Mult
nomah club's Marvin Splawn. Both
top bouts are scheduled for the
five-round distance.
Of particular interest to local
fans is the semifinal scrap, which
rita Chemawa's Kendall Van Pelt,
the lad who displayed a knockout
punch with either hand on the last
simon-pure card here, against
either Harry Hansen or Jerry
Buckley, both MAC scrappers of
ncte.
According to the Elks manage
ment, four other bouts, all of the
popular three-round variety, will
fill out the card. Fighters from
the local club, Chemawa, Eugene
and Portland will show.
Cougars Best
Idaho Vandals
Third Triumph of Season
Is Scored Raggedly ;
Jennings Clicks
PULLMAN, Wash.. Feb. i-(JP)
The Washington State college
Cougars turned their basketball
parties with the University of
Idaho Vandals into a monotony
of triumphs tonight by marking
np a 4 5 to 37 victory in a Pa
cific Coast conference, northern
division game.
The Cougars took a 19-13 lead
at the half in building up to their
third win of the season over
Idaho.
The game was loosely played
and rough, and two Staters and
one Idahoan were thumbed to
the sidelines on personal fouls.
Idaho cracked the scoring ice
for a 1-0 lead. Its only advantage
of the game, although it pulled
up to a 5-all ti after four min
utes of play.
Jack Jennings, Cougar center,
personally conducted' the first
half drive that kept his team
ahead, and the 11 points he tal
lied in the period topped the Cou
gar scoring. With but two min
utes left in the stanza the count
favored WSC, 19 to 10.
Rallies Prove Vain
Then Otis "Rook" Hilton, Ida
ho center, bucketed three of the
nine free throws that, with his
two field goals, boosted him into
the scoring lead for the evening.
The nine pushed to 15 his string
of consecutive conversions.
Idaho rallied twice in the final
period, both spurts led by For
ward Ron Harris and both fail
ing to develop into serious bids.
The decision was Washington
State's fifth conference victory of
the season and Idaho's ninth
straight defeat.
CAPITAL CHARACTERS
By Hal Allen
Seahawks in Lead
Beatiii" Portland
SEATTLE, Feb. 3-;p)-Seattle
stepped into first place in the Pa
cific Coast Hockey league tonight
by defeating Portland, 7 to 4,
with a first-period splurge of
goals that buried the visiting
Portlanders. The victory gave Se
attle a one-point lead.
Belcastro, Parks
In Titular Tiff
Coast Light-Heavy weight
Crown at Stake; Belt
Is on Display
The Pacific coast light heavy
weight championship goes on the
block in Salem's armory arena
Tuesday night, with Champion
Pete Belcastro called upon to de
fend the hardware he won from
Ernie Piluso against Herb Parks,
generally considered the best
"old school" grappler in the di
vision. Promotor Herb Owen yester
day announced the match, and
stated Belcastro's belt, which Is
in the hands of the Salem Box
ing commission, will be on dis
play today and tomorrow at Par
ker's sporting goods store.
The veteran promotor again
stated each woman accompanied
by one male admission would be
admitted free to the matches.
Belcastro will be making his
first title defense since he gave
PIluso a chance to regain the
crown six weeks sgo.
A newcomer, Mesnie Bob Mont
gomery from Atlanta, Georgia,
will make his debut In the semi
final, meeting popular Ernie
PUuro
Zim Zimonich, the South Am
erican who made his first ap
pearance here last week, is book
ed sgalnst King Kong Clayton,
the bull-necked Negro, in the
opener.
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The "Biddy" business above begins a new Statesman sports feature that is the work of a Statesman
youngster, Harold Allen. But 20, Harold is just starting on an art career. The son of W. G. Allen, of
the Allen Fruit company, and brother of Kenny Alien, currently doing solo vocal Work with the Roy
al Hawaiian band, Harold has opened an art studio here. He was graduated from Salem high in 1037,
went to art school in Portland, studied in the Disney school, worked in an advertising service in Ijos
Angeles and in tbe summer of 1938 painted murals in Boise, Idaho. Watch for "Hal's" stuff in The
Statesman. Another sample is in today's issue.
'Cats Sked Double Dunking Bill
WREST L DM
Pacific Coast Light Hearyweiffbt Championship
Pels lielcasiro
TS.
Herb Parks
1 Hoar
Bob Ilcnlgonery
Ernie Piluso
45 Minute
Zin Zincnidi vs. King Kong Clayicn
SO Minutes
One tody Free with Each Male Admission
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Uclans Win First
In About 3 Years
BERKELEY, Calif., Feb. Z-&)
-Uplverslty of California at Los
Angeles won its first coast con
ference basketball game in near
ly three years tonight by scor
ing a 34 to 32 victory over the
University of California.
It was the Bruins' first victory
in 31 conference games. They
won no conference games last
year or the year before, losing
12 straight each season. They also
lost their last two games in 1937.
Packard's, Zulus
Are Tuesday Foes
Happy Howard Plans to
Use two Teams; Colored
Club Wears Skirts
A double dose of de luxe bas
ketball is on Willamette TJ's hoop
menu for Tuesday night of this
Lweek. the Bearcats playing a dou-
bleheader against the famous zuiu
Kings and the Portland Packards.
Happy Howard Maple, the Bear
cat boss, plans to use two teams
in the double bill, sending in his
shock troops against the colored,
grass-skirted Zulus In the 7:30
opener, and keeping his varsity
out to throw against the Packard
pointsters at 8:30.
The Zulus will come with a rec
ord of 82 wins in their last 83
starts, plus a record of crowd-
pleasing antics. They play in Zulu
war regalia, with grass skirts and
painted bodies.
"The Zulus guarantee a niiar
ious .show, win, lose or draw,"
Maple reported in announcing the
tilt.
A third conference game is also
on tan for the Willamettes, who
have won two straight and head
the loop, this week. They move to
Rnrst Ornve Fridav for a return
go with Pacific Badgers, whom
they downed, 33-24, nere 1 a s 1
week.
Gal Jockeys Ride
In Caliente Race
AGUA CALIENTE, Mex., Feb.
3 .-(TThlrteen girl Jockeys are
expected to ride tomorrow in a
revival of the Coronado town
plate, six furlong gallop for a
$S00 purse.
Some of the girls have ridden
in the Agua Caliente Turf club
event before, including:
Babe Defreest of Brea, Calif.,
twice a winner, who has doubled
for several movie stars In hard
riding westerns: Anna Lee Wiley,
Idaho ranch girl who finished sec
ond last year; Ruth Wood of
Hollywood, champion bronco ri
der; Audrey Scott, now a trick
rider for the movies, and Joyce
Hartley of Vancouver, BC
Loggers Vanquish
Missionary Again
WALLA WALLA, Feb. Z-iJFr-College
of Puget Sound swept its
series with Whitman college, win
ning 46-39 tonight after a 48-44
victory Friday night. The visitors
pulled away in the final minutes
when Whitman shot frequently
without success.
Walker, visiting center, tallied
22 points, eight-from free throws.
Bullock led Whitman with IS.
1 Here, 1 Away
On Viking Sked
One away and one here, is the
slate for Salem high's fast-mushing
mapleboarders this week. The
Vikings travel to McMinnville for
a return engagement with the
Grizzlies Tuesday night, and re
turn here to take on Milwaukie's
Maroons Thursday night.
The Vikings are currently in
second spot in the No Name cir
cuit, with six won and one lost.
The sole loss was to Tillamook,
via an overtime session after the
locals had led throughout the
game. Tillamook Is in first spot,
with seven won and one lost.
Tillamook's Piper took over the
individual scoring lead last week,
pushing McMInnville's M e t x 1 e r
into second place. Piper has 79
points and Metxler 74, while Sa
lem's Satter is in third spot with
49.
A newcomer will try out for the
Viking- squad Monday, it was
learned yesterday. Simmons, a
nephew of Roy Simmons, recently
moved to Salem from Brookings,
South Dakota, where he was a star
forward on the high school team.
Riding 'em Rapid
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Salem Hunters & Anglers Release
1,147,000 Fish During 1939; Club
Reports Heavy Rainbow Plantings
Over 1,147,000 fish from two to six inches long were
planted in streams and lakes during 1939 by the Salem Hunt
ers and Anglers club, according to a report released by Rex
Sanford, club president. Approximately 90 per cent entered
the water in good condition at the designated spots, reported
members who accompanied the game commission driver on
Oeach planting.
The Santiam river received the
highest number, about 790,000
Rainbow trout. Of these, 285,000
were from four to six inches in
length, while the rest measured
two to three inches.
The tributaries were given 230,
000; Breitenbush river, 60,000;
Humbug creek, 20,000; Little
North fork, 50,000; Butte creek,
50,000; Abiqua creek, 50,000.
Four loads of four-Inch cut
throat, 60,000, were put in Rick
reall and Luckiamute creeks in
Polk county.
Lake Plantings High
Lake plantings totaled 51,600
Eastern Brook and 6100 Rainbow
trout.
Included were Eastern Brook
for Elk. 20,000; Dunlap, 1000;
Leone, 3600; Enoma, 5000; Slide,
5000; Bruno, 1000; First, 1000;
and Rainbows for Fay, 4000, and
Frog, 2400.
In May 2000 ten-inch trout were
placed in the mill race at Turner.
These have been fed fy a number
of people and now average over
20 inches in length.
A holding pond in Mill creek
was stocked with 10,000 fish.
which were turned Into the creek
last fall when six inches long.
Plans are to maintain this hold
ing pond and to annually replen
ish the stock in Mill creek.
The club's fish committee, meet
ing Friday night, decided to re
quest 1,156,500 Eastern Brook
and Rainbow trout for streams
and lakes during 1940.
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Here's Wes Roeder, Salem high
ski instructor, as he'll be dem
onstrating slat-riding technique
to some 40 Viking students on
the Hood today.
Molalla's Bucks
To Meet Hopsters
MOLALLA Molalla high's bas
ketball team, after suffering two
defeats in the Willamette VaUey
league, have trained their sights
on a victory Tuesday night when
they meet the Independence Hop
sters here.
Coach Mike Dellar's Bucks witf
be ready for action 100 per cent.
Four seniors and one junior con
stitute the starting lineup, includ
ing "Hex" Helno, leading scorer,
and Art Jaatinen at forwards, Red
Schiewe and Harold Wood at
guards and Earl Hampton, the
junior, at center.
Hoodoo Bowl Due
For Opqner Today
BEND, Feb. 3.-(yP)-H o o d o o
Bowl, Oregon's newest winter
playground, nestling on the Cas
cade divide near the Santiam
highway, will be dedicated by sev
en outdoor clubs tomorrow.
The new three-story ski lodge
and ski lift will be turned over to
the Cascade Ski Council clubs by
J. R. Bruckhart, supervisor of the
Willamette national forest, and
Fred W. Cleator, the north Pacif
ic forest region recreation chief.
Clubs participating in the cere
monies will include Albany, Leb
anon, Corrallls, Salem, Bend and
two from Eugene. Portland will J
send a ski team. ,
Reems Scores 31
For Lion Tamers
Virgil Reems scored SI points
last night as the Lion Tamers de
feated the Gashouse Tigers 39 to
8 in a Youth Center basketball
game. The Aces nosed out the
Bone Crushers 17-16.
IJon Tamers 89 8 Gashouse
Causey 4 Foxz
Randall 2 2 Dunham
Hochstetler t 2 Ireland
Reems 31
McQuire
Aces 17
Trlcker S
Keuscher
McKay 7
Clark
D. Allport 2
4 Allport
Olson
10 Bone Crashers
Frants
1 Riley
6 Parton
8 Bailey
Knedler
Subs, for Aces, Olson S.
UO Mermen Beat
Orangemen, 62-13
EUGENE, Ore., Feb. 3.-VP)-The
University of Oregon's un
defeated swimming team scored
a 62 to 13 victory over Oregon
State mermen today, winning all
first places.
In three events record times
for the pacific coast conference
were set.
The 300-yard medley team of
Wetraore, Backstroke, Dallas,
breast stroke, MacDonald, free
style, clipped 6.8 seconds off the
record held by Stanford. Dallas
also was under the old maark
of 1:10.5 for the 100-yard breast
stroke race with 1:05.3. Wet
more swam the 100-yard back
stroke in 1:02, two and 810
seconds better than the record
set by Tebbetts of Stanford In
1933. He was crowded by Steve
Eyman of Oregon State whose
time of 1:05.8 also waa under
the old record.
Hito Tech Wins, 35-14
HUBBARD Hlto Tech basket
ball team of Hubbard won over
the Woodburn town team here
Wednesday night, 35 to 14.
Charles Knight, a graduate of
Hubbard high, was high scorer
with 17 points.
Action Packed Into
Last Three Minutes
Shaw Scores From Mid-Floor to Save Day, Dick
Misses Gift Shot After Final Gun;
First Half Slow
CORVALLIS, Ore., Feb. 3. (AP) Oregon State college
increased its lead in the northern division of the Pacific
Coast basketball conference to three games tonight bv de
feating the University of Oregon, defending national cham
pion, 28 to 27.
John Dick, Oregon ace scorer, missed a free throw after
?the final gun.
All of the excitement and most
'Moose' Gets Nod
From K. M. Landis
Clabaugh's Reinstatement
Effective now; May Try
for Senator Job
Moose Clabaugh, fence-busting
outfielder of the Portland Beavers
who is employed here in the con
struction of the George E. Waters
park, yesterday received word
from Baseball Commissioner Lan- !
dis that he has been reinstated to
baseball's active list.
Clabaugh has been under sus
pension for allegedly playing in
an outlaw Canadian league last
summer.
Landis' telegram read: "You
are reinstated to the active list
effective Immediately."
Clabaugh, the property of Port
land in the Pacific Coast league,
said he would confer with Biddy
Bishop, business manager of the
Salem Senators, tonight in Port
land, and would also talk turkey
of the action was crammed into
the last three minutes of play.
Oregon fought its way from a
24-19 deficit to a 25-24 lead which
the Wehfoots held tenaciously
while Clayton Shaw and Hunter
missed three free throws and al
most two minutes of time was
consumed.
In the twinkling of an eye scor
ing started with Shaw bolting
through the Oregon defense for
a short shot that put Oregon State
ahead, 26-25. But Anderson came
back for Oregon, sinking one front
the keyhole and putting the
Ducks up, 27-26, with 15 seconds
left.
Shaw saved the day by letting
fly from mid-floor. The ball
dropped through. Dick grabbed
the ball and started for the other
basket but the gun barked too.
soon. The overjoyed Beaver parti
sans flooded onto the floor before
Referee Emil Piluso could inform
them he had called a foul on
Frank Mandic. It took 10 min
utes to clear the floor and give
Dick his chance to tie the score.
The Webfoot veteran missed the
shot fractionally.
Play on Slow Bell
The teams played on slow bell
with the Portland management. ) in the first half. Oregon took a
He was unable to contact Bishop I 9-7 lead with four minutes to go
here yesterday, as the - Senator
manager was in Portland com
pleting plans for the Old Timers'
banquet there last night.
It is known here that Clabaugh
would consider an offer from the
Salem club for the managerial
post.
Runyan Gets Lead
By Three Strokes
PHOENIX, Arii., Feb. 3--Paul
Runyan of White Plains, N.
Y., shooting with the same deadly
accuracy that twice won him the
PGA championship, took a
three-stroke lead today In the 23,
000 Phoenix open golf tourna
ment by scoring a six below par
5 for tbe first 18 holes.
While Runyan was gunning
his drive straight down the cen
ter of the fairways and dropping
his putts consistently, some of
the highly favored pros were col
lapsing and others less regarded
were moving within striking dis
tance of the leader.
Bunched in second place and
threats for tomorrow's 36 holes
were Sam Byrd, the former base
ball player from Philadelphia, E.
J. Harrison of Little Rock, Ark.,
and Stanley Horne of Montreal,
Que., each with 68.
and almost stalled out thee period,
Dick once -holding the ball for a
minute and a half without mov-
jing. John Mandic stole the leather
in the last 10 seconds and tifd
the score at 9-9 when they re
cessed. Oregon State forged ahead 15
10 at the start of the second half
and stayed in front until a rally
by Anderson and Jackson closed
the gap and Andrews' basket put
the Ducks ahead.
The box score:
Oregon (27)
FG FT PF TP
Anderson, f 4
Marshik, f . 1
Dick, c 1
Andrews, g 1
Townsend, g ...4
Jackson, g 1
Totals
.12
Oregon State (2M)
F. Mandic, f 0
Romano, f . 1
J. Mandic, c 5
Hunter, g 2
Valentl. g 2
Shaw, g ,, , ..2
Totals 12
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Score at half: Oregon 9, Oregon
State 9.
Free throws missed: Anderson,
Dick 3, Andrews, Townsend, Hunt
er 2, Valentl, Shaw 2.
Officials: Piluso, Portland; Nel
son, Moscow, Idaho.
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