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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1941)
Volley Mows Bowe1 FreBS port f . " 1: parks Wiini Eai: I w lii I 1 By RON GEMMELL They Thrilled Themselves and Cheering Crowd r ly - Perhaps it comes under the definition ot sacrilege to speak of baseball in the middle of the state hoop show,' but our cur rent ''unusual weathlr, the news, trickling in from major and Coast league camps, plus the old itch to" hear the sound of willow on horsehide again, moves your correspondent to ask how you' would , like to see a, Salem Senator batting- order" something like this: ' ' -' ';!""! -' . Babe Schwab, 2b. Eddie Adams, le.1"- - Herm Reich, lb. Bill Harris, rf. Charley Peterson, mf. Bob Bergstrom, If. Lee Shinn, 3b. Bonny Griffiths, ss. Roy Helser, p. No, it isn't. in the bag, nor is it yet even probable. But since both Portland and San Diego have signified intention of assisting our Senators, and since news from those camps doesn't at this time indicate the above mentioned boys will have much chance of sticking where they are, it is high ly possible. Add to the phantom nine list ed; Catcher Cliff Barker and Pit chers Dell Oliver, Gene Fenter, Lee Fallin, possibly Bud Brewer and another righthander such as, say, Swope j of the Beavers, i O JVo Authority. Even should Oscar Vitt of the Bevos and Cedric Durst of the Padres at this time know exactly whom they have available for Sa lem, baseball law does not allow them to release the- information. Nor does it allow the Senators to even surmise whom they . may be able 'to obtain. Players under contract, says the Landis-enforced baseball leg islation, most be riven opportun ity to make the club durinr the training season before tbey can be optioned oat. Hence your correspondent has no authority for the mythical line up herein listed, but he is at lib erty to suggest possibilities from the rosters of the teams that have designated their willingness to as sist the Scions. Although the situation may Chance before the Coast learners to into action in April, right now It doesn't appear there will be any place in the Portland lineup for Berrstrom, Reich, Adams and Schwab, and while the Padres may want to keep younr Oliver, it Is more than likely they would rather send him out for another year of class B experience. O Need Lefty Hitters. Potential .300 hitters -on this mythical batting order Jnelude Bergstrom, who h i t .289 with Portland in his first year of pro fessional play; Reich, who batted only .230 for Portland last sea son but who hit over .300 for Ta- ( coma in the Western Internation al two years ago; Adams, who went down to .213 for Portland but who whaled the ball well above the .300 mark in the Pio neer wheel before he was recalled by the Beavers; Shinn, who fin ished with .340 last season; Har ris, who has never finished under .300; Peterson, who ended with .297 last year; and likewise Hel ser, with .297. Birrest bur in this lineup is the shortage of leftside hitters, with Harris the only one. Ideally, the Solons should have at least one more southpaw swatter, proba bly at the second base stand, while two more wouldn't hurt. It la to be remebered that the 1940 Senators were at their best when Wilson. Clabangh, Baer and Har ris, all leftside hitters, were in the lineup. The through - the - middle de fense of this mythical club would leave little to be asked; Schwab, ever, a smart fielder but never too heavy with the stick, would team with the Little Skipper in a pretty slick keystone combina tion; Adams would provide the behind-the - plate headwork lack ing last season; and Peterson, with his powerful, accurate arm would add something that wasn't there even with Wilson patrol ing the middle patch in, the 1940 season. Cougars Set For Stanford PULLMAN, Wash., March 12-(Jfy-The Washington State college basketball team will be at top strength for its Pacific coast con ference championship' series against . Stanford Friday and Saturday, Coach JackFriel said Wednesday night. Vern Butts, big senior forward who missed the Washington series an&$at out. the final Oregon State game because of a touch of influ- Tiny ThornhilL Coach Seeks Job at Idaho t MOSCOW, Idaho, March -(a-Claude E. (Tiny) Thornhill, former Stanford university football coach, has aDDlied for a .similar post at the University of reiusea use 01 nis name, saia Wednesday. The position was vacated with the dismissal this winter of Ted Bank, ' athletic director and head coa.ch. ' ; ' : The university official said he had no information other than ' that Thornhill was "interested enough. to apply" for the post. ' He added that he "understood" I iff!' 1 . f 'Jr ! ; ' 7 Here's action plus, as caught by The Statesman photographer in Wednesday's openinr r o a n d games of the state hoop parade. Above photo shows Klamath Falls and Roseburr, the tour ney's tallest tossers, roinr at it nnder the Roseburr basket. Klamath Falls took the deci sion, 31 to 18. In the photo: Roseburr's Schrimpf (26) and Hughes (24), and Klamath Falls' Reglnato, Erlandson and Bocchi. At the left, Salem's Don Cutler (4) roes up in a held ball with C o 1 n m b 1 a Prep's Morrison, while Salem's Eddie Salstrom (12) and the Preps' Lair stand ready to grab the ball. Salem won, 41 to 32. Sammy Crow Record in Klamath Pelicans Bolt Roseburg W ! TI77 1 rtl J IrtO Indians With 61 Sunny Sammy Crowell, huskjy "North new one-game individual scordirjg record high school record books Wednesday aftjernoon as he tanked 31 points in leading his team to in the 1941 meet's fourth game. CroweH's assault on the nets, Bowling Scores CITY LEAGUE Acme Auto Wreckers Handicap a 50 142 199 142 190 168 50150 144462 166511 180513 184-525 143471 Tope 176 146 Gage Masser Coe -.. Steinbock .... Totals P.-irkers Handicap .. Friesen McCarroll Koen Donnelly Kertson Totalc 191 ..... J 51 160 874 891 867 2632 225 214 619 111469 190620 194 211 211 147 196 234 146 151 162 160468 199 171521 973 1028 921 2922 N-"Oi Furniture Handicap Hogland ... Putnam Hart .. 243 164 472 169500 148453 141466 165 549 150 158 185 146 146 159 162 163 199 185 Woodry -Kitchen . .. Totals Keeno Lunch Cooley i Lloyd Weltch Barnlca . Nufer Totals Copeland Yards Handicap - dine, jr Foreman Patterson Murdock Thrush i 923 898 868 2683 -!. 200 170 199569 145 190 140475 166 118 174458 . 198 215 168581 183 146 192521 . 980 927 901 2808 v 168 179581 199584 192587 163643 169583 . 159 243 174 211 ..... 18 215 267 213 201 213 Totals Karrs Handicap Miller 1037 1151 958 3146 L. 56 56 135 135 ..... 177 15 56168 186456 159 486 165 606 202633 156519 II. Barr Lee Tallman 194 247 188 243 ISO 183 S r.n Page Totals 930 1014 924 2868 enza, is "feeling perk," the coach said. Friel considers the big back courter his best all-around player. State's starters for the Friday night battle will be the veteran combination of -Butts and Dale Gentry, forwards; Paul Lindeman, center, and Cap. Ray -Sundquist and Kirk Gebert, guards. Ex-Stanford Idaho, a university official who' Thornhill would be in Boise Thursday, to talk with 'Walter York,' president of the Idaho Alu mni association, and member of ah alumni-faculty-student committee named to help in selection of a successor to Bank. r4 t 0 ' v VA 1 ' in I i I. mi. 1 1 i 'in i..uwnMj;r , i hk2. 11 Breaks Scoring No, th Bend's Win to lis score Bend forward,; put a m the Oregon state a 57 to 26jvictory over Parkrose which broke the five-year mark df 27 points scored by Astoria's "ed Sarp la against Myrtle Point iji 1936, s loved his team into the Second rc und against the rugged Klamath Falls Pelicans who dropped Rpseburg by a 31 to 18 Count in th previous game. Klamatft Falls and North Bend meclt at 4 p.m. today, and the winner Is expected by tour nament sldeliners to barge on into the jfinals. Parkrose and Roseburg-1 tangle in consolation play at 14 o'clock this morning. Crowell jmade his record with out any semblance of ari attempt to feed hii i by his mates. If any thing, it wi is the other way around, jfor Crowe 1 fed in for a number of baskets he might have made himself if he had elected to try for them. The blbnde, smooth-working youngster pit 12 field goals in 21 attempts, a -523 averagef and lift ed in sev m of eight tfpe throw attempts. Ul of his baskets came from in cl :e to the hodp or from the corners, on one-haijders with either har d. He owns a beautiful fake and ome amazing muscular coordinate n . w h i 1 e Mi twisting through tl e air off the floor. While CroweH's 31 points were more than were scored by the en tire Park: ose club, he iisn't, the only ball player on the smooth North Ben d team. Snidow, a shasp shooting little guard, gathered in 11 points, while Fox, Rtippe and Wigant ontributed some nice floor worl :. Rosebu -g's rafter-bumptng In dians were outsped and outshot by Klan ath Falls In the day's roughest contest. The Pelicans took the lead on Moses open ing basl ;ets and never relln nlshe4 It, although Roseburg tied the score at If -16 midway through the third quarter. Bocchi, wljo bagged' 11' points for scoring . honors, teamed with Love, Htjghes, Moses and Swan son to sefctl the Pelicans firmly in front dur ng-the last quarter drive, after an 18-16 third -quarter ad vantage lad been posjted. T Bocchi bucketed seven of his total of ill in the final quarter. hitting tSree field flips and a free toss. , I -v-r , -t-f : - Tbe Indians lost their 6-foot-7 center. Royal Denton, shortly after the final! period opened, fand with him majt of their scoring punch and baciboard work. Denton and Finlay siored all but two of Rose burg's tptal, getting I eight points each. - j.' ..- . r . . 4-Run Homer By Harry Craft Wins for Cincy ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., March 12-(i;P)-Harry Craft's sixth in ning home run with the bases loaded was the most important of five hits made by the world champion Cincinnati Reds in de feating the St. Louis Cardinals in an exhibition baseball game Wednesday, 6 to 4. Cincinnati (N) 6 5 2 St. Louis (N) 4 7 2 Walters, Riddle (4), Logan (7) and West; Grodzicki, White (4), Lyons (7), Hutchinson- (8) and Mancuso, W. Cooper (7). SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 12-MPr-Elden Auker, the subma rine hurler of the St Louis Browns, picked up Wednesday where he left off last season by helping pitch the Brownies to a 9 to 1 victory over the Boston Bees. Boston (N) ...1 ii i St. Louis (A) 9 13 1 Ferrell, Erickson (4), Barnicle (7) and Berres, Masi (6); Auker, Lawson (6) and Swift At Orlando, Fla. New York (N) 4 Washington (A) . l Schumacher, Carpenter 7 6 (4), Lohrman (7) and Hartnett Odea (4); Hudson, Chase (4), Anderson (7) and Evans, Early (7). ORLANDO, Fla., March 12.-iJP) -The New York Giants bunched their hits in the right places Wed nesday to whip the Washington Senators 4 to J for a sweep of Three Hot Tempers, Hired HelpX oses, Says MACON, Ga., March 12-P)-Van Lingle Mungo, having learned "every time I open my mouth somebody with the right amount of authority steps right into it," says he has de cided to keep it shut for a while. .'--! . a The unpredictable - Brooklyn pitcher, who was fined $200 and banished from the Dodgers' train ing camp at Havana last Sunday for drinking, told Foy Evans, Ma con news sports editor, in an in terview Wednesday that hell "sur prise everybody,? by J doing just exactly what the Dodgers' man agement ordered him to do. ; Mungo said last Sunday he re ceived a note from Club Secretary John McDonald which advised him you ; are being furnished transportation from Havana , to Macon. You are to leave j the Dodgers camp tonight ; V The fiery fireballer did, and silentlymuch-to the surprise of many who may have expected a Mazerian Fouls Out to Rattan; Referee Tough Mazerian, the "wild , Armen ian" ,Wednesday night at the Armory ''pushed" out. of .the ring, , through, the ; aisles, -andJ down the stairs by . Harry - El liot, referee wh he refused to leave after losing the final lau to Silent Rattan on a fouL Punchy es to the midsection, . rope chok ing, and out! of the ring kicking caused the disqualification. . The Armenian won the first fall by a half Boston crb but lost the second to Rattan in an aerial attack of flying head scissors that finally g r o an d e d him for the count. Swooping down under Bulldog Jackson in the first period of the 45 minute event, Prince llakl lift ed Jackson: to his shoulders for an airplane spin and a slam which netted him the first fall. The air-minded Prince was not so fortunate when he attempted the same trick again and found his spin stopped in mid-air by Jackson who cut off his pilot's power by strangling his arms, and put him to the point of saying "uncle" or going into a nose dive. The third fall went to the Yukon grappler, who stompedvthe Arab ian's strangled arms until the referee at the request of the dam aged Ilaki, gave Jackson the mo tion. "Sneeze" Achui and Billy Mc Cuin went to a draw in the opener, the Irishman winning the first with a Boston crab and the Chin ese the second with a body scis sors spin. . AAU Hoopster Tilts Near ! DENVER, March 12-P)-The ! entry list for the 34th renewal of the national AAU basketball championships, opening Sunday, stood Wednesday at 44 teams from 24 states. Willard N. Greim of Denver, national AAU. basketball chair man, said "it looks as though we're a cinch to go over 50." Last year 50 teams from 26 states com peted in the week-long cage ma rathon. The defending champion Phil lips 66 Oilers of Bartlesville, Okla., will be back to bid for an other title. No team has won two in a row since the Tulsa Oilers triumphed in 1933-34. Entrants this year will come from widely scattered sections of the country the Naval Air Sta tion team at Pensacola, Fla., the Seattle Savidges, the New York Ohrbachs, the Los Angeles Lock heed Aircraft the Minneapolis Ascension club and Dallas Wil sons. So far only seven college teams are entered. The Dallas Wilsons, however, include most of this season's Southern Methodist play ers from the strong Southwest conference. Only four college 4 e a m s ever have won the national title and the last one was Washburn of Topeka, Kas., in 1925. The campus outfits so far in the fold : include Southwestern Teachers of Weatherford, Okla.; Adams State Teachers of Colo rado, Boise, Idaho, Junior college, Phillips university of Enid, Okla.f Regis of Denver, Ouachita of Ar kansas and Greeley, Colo., State, Rocky Mountain conference cham pion. ; Pirates Fined SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., March 12(P)-Pilot Frankie Frisch of the Pittsburgh Pirates disclosed today he fined one of his players $250 for failing to take training rules seriously. He declined to identify the offender. their two-game exhibition series. Hal Schumacher, Bob Carpen ter and Bill Lohrman held the Nationals I to six - scattered hits while then New York teammates were making seven, count heavily. Mungo blast from him against the Brook lyn front office, which ordered him to Macon to train with Mont real, Dodgers' International league farm clubj i - : " "That's why I eamo here," he ; said with a grin. "Everybody ex .' pected me to go to my Pageland,' SC. home and sulk. Well, I'm not doing thai. I'm doing- just what they told me to do at Havana." . Oddly, Mungo doesn't blame anyone except ; himself at least publicly for ; his banishment "It was just a case of three hot temp ers (General Manager Larry Mc Phail, Manager Leo Durocher and himself) at cross' purposes, and I just happen to be the hired help," he said. "You know who won. Host &lub,i Safis Cen ten ' in t-m to 32; Though displaying little of their regular season's drive, Salem's host team scored a 41 ! to 32 win;over Columbia Prep to open the 22nd annual state -high school hoop tournament Wednesday afternoon, and advanced into the second round, where the Viks tangle with tfieir No Name league brethern, McMinn ville, at 3 p. m. today. . ; v V McMinnville made the' grade with an easy 40 to 22 victory over Beaverton, the first Washington county team ever in the tourney. ; ; The Viks took a 4-2 lead on Bud Coons keyhole cast with three minutes played," and : were never again headed although Paul OToole kept the Irishers in the ball game right up to the final minutes. . ', Coons and Salstrom, who played the steadiest ball for the Viks, worked with Dutch Sim mons to push the first Quarter count to 12-7, while Bower, Salstrom and Cutler combined to bring It to 18-10 by half time. The Viks played with their regular center. Bob Irish, on the sidelines due to a severe cold. The Preps, with OToole doing the major tossing, cut the margin to 29-20 at the third quarter and were within eight points with but two minutes of the game left at 38-30, but Cutler and Bower each bagged a-bucket in the 'final min ute while OToole was getting one for the Preps. Salem lost Coons, who did a nice, job of checking OToole de spite that -smooth ball handler's 15 points, when he left the ball game on personal fouls with two and a half minutes left while Salstrom, who was Salem's chief scorer with 11 points, was ejected three minutes before. Columbia Preps' -only lead was in the first minute and a half of the game, when OToole tanked one gifter and Curran another be fore Salstrom and Coons hit field flips to put Salem 1 in front The Preps punched in Jbut one field goal in the first quarter. ' Gene Peterson and Maurice Prater paced the iMcMinnville offensive that enabled the Grix xlies to run away from Beaver ton after the first five minutes. Peterson one-handed six field goals Into the net While Prater added a free throw with his six. McMinnville, with B- Caviness, Prater and Peterson all hitting, held a 15-9 first quarter lead and raised it to 25-13 by halftime. Both teams were terrible at the free throw line, Beaverton miss ing 15 of 19 and McMinnville caging but two of nine! The Grizzlies were hot from the floor, however, pumping, in 19 of 61 for a .311 shooting average. Play Tie Game POLK STATION The Polk Station school baseball team played a 7 to 7 tie with Buell here Friday. IB B UB, Bishop's Presents America's Foremost Hat for Spring sir :& Hit of the Avenue! The Stetson "Playboy V fash loned for Ixty Spring days Salem, Oregon, Thursday Astoria Flying Fishermen Top Hot Vale Five in Final Tides Of Clock; Seeborg Shines No hotter hooping jean take place in the championship game of this 22nd, annual state tournament than was displayed in TIT !' 3 . ' , 1 - 1 a A . vm ot. . - rr cuiieaudj uici uuuu a iuuuc, ui waiui nsiui till r lying . r isn ermen, pre-rtouyney favorites, had the fight of their lives to edge out a gallant, hard-charging Vale 1 outfit by a 41 to 35 score. The win,' which came, alter Vale had held a lead through out a major portion of the clash, sends Astoria into the second round against the win ner of the Eugene - Corvallis game at 7:3 d tonight, and drops the swift charging Vales Into the consolation round against the loser of the .'same game. . Astoria held a 31-25 lead going into the final quarter, and in creased it 32-25 on Lovvold's free toss of Sproul's infraction, " but SprouL Atkins, Wilcox and Keele began banging the hoop from all angles to draw Vale j in to a 34. to 32 lead with but three minutes and 45 seconds remaining in the game. Roy Seeborg, enly returning all-stater from the 1949 selec tion, paired with Peterson to send Astoria to the; fore, 39-35, with a minute and 15 seconds remaining, and then Seeborg hit a final basket just at the gun to give the Fishermen a six-point victory, margin. See Stetson Styled the "Playboy" for Today and Tomorrow! ...for week your warm fort. tS90 Your Stetson Store Griffith Breaks Hank's Mark BUCKHANNON, W. Va March 12.-JP)KeAr Griffith lanky Al derson ; Broaddus,' forward, who broke Hank Luisetti's scoring rec ord for four years of "college bas ketball January 30, closed his col lege career Wednesday: night . with a total of 1941 points. . - : This exceeds by 345 points th mark of 1596 set by LiuisettLthe former Stanford star, several years ago- t - . Morning. March 13, 1941 borg scored 15 points. First quarter of the board burning ' contest ended in a -6 tie. Vale went into an 18-17 half time score, and then Astoria barged into a 31-25 lead at third quarter's end. i Sproul and Wilcox were Vale's istering '13 and the latter 10. - Wbodbiirn Slates Y( LeUerman Smoker WOODBURN At the last meet ing of the Lettermen's club of Woodburn high school, April 5 was the date decided upon for the Lettermen's smoker. The committee for advertising consists of Tony Pavlicek, Marlin Hammond, Kenneth Schiel and Charles Filbin. They also chose resolution committee to- add a new clause to me constitution, it includes Carl Gustafson, Bill Er wert and Leston Dunton. iiBBBBB-Birrninm-r - end play... for - weather com i v l 1
