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' By HON CEMMELL
Just between us kids and the ol' swimmin' hole, it appears
minor league baseball is in for much more trouble from defense
industries than from Uncle Sam's draft regulations. A minor loop
-like the Western International, wherein the salary limit is an
average of $150 per month, can't hope to compete with, for in
stance the aviation and ship building industries, where the. pay
for even the least skilled laborer hits close to the $1 per hour
rate.
Take the cases of Wild William Harris and Charles Baldy
Petersen, both of whom are scheduled for outfield patrols with
our Senators providing they wish cut their own financial throats
to take the jobs.
Harris, an experienced workman for North American Avia
tion company, is reported to be
receivinr S1.10 an hour, 10 hours
day, six days a week, which
adds up to $66 a 4 week or about
(360 per month more than twice
the sum he would receive for wal-
lopinr the baseball for the Sena
tara far onlr five months of the
year.
Jn addition, Wild William un
doubtedly receives a nominal sum
for hammering the horsehide for
the aviation team, which he is re
ported to do with the same gusto
h employed while wearing Solon
livery last season.
How, please, eould Harris be
expected to give up a Job worth
$4500 a year to come here to play
ball for five months for $875?
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Dark Future.
While Charles Baldy doesn't yet
have a job in a defense industry,
he has pretty fair opportunity to
land one. Inasmuch as he is mar
ried and expects to become a fa
ther about the time the WI season
winds- up next autumn, it be
hooves him to be even more chary
of personal finances than it does
the carefree Wild William
In addition to the .financial an
gle, there enters the fact that, as
employes of defense industries,
they are automatically deferred
from the draft.
Too, can be added the fact that
neither has much of a chance to
ever hit baseball's big time, the
major leagues, and they therefore
are more or less wasting years
which might be much more prof
itably spent in learning trades
that would bring them bread and
butter long after their baseball
careers will have ended.
Frankly, it all adds up to a dark
future for minor league baseball,
for the minorsare chuck full of
Harrises and Petersens.
Backbone a Wizzard.
Taller, more rugged hoopers
have been witnessed in action by
your correspondent, including
Stanford's Hank: Luisetti, Ore
gon's Laddie Gale and Slim Win
termute, Oregon State's Wally
Palmberg, Washington's "Goose"
Galer and many others, but no
where has he ever seen a smooth
er, cleverer casaba operator than
Frank Backbone, the Cjhemawan.
At 5 - foot - 10 he doesn't ap
proach the height required by
most present-day coaches, and he
doesn't heft an ounce over 150,
but if I was ahoop mentor I'd a
darned sight ralherj have the nim
ble Indian playing for flue than
for the other guy. j j
Backbone, who has been hoop
ing for the Chemawa All-Stars
this season while; finishing his
high school requirements, not only
is a beautiful shot but also a wiz
ard ball-handler and feeder, and
knows the value of defense.
Such deceptive basketball bud
dies as North Bend's Sammy
Ct swell and Colombia Preps'
OToole, the talks; of the recent
state high school hoop show, are
very ordinary . basketeers when
compared to the ghostlike ability
f Backbone. ' r
Lloyd Resigns
PORTLAND, March 27-(V
The board of education announc
ed today that Henry A. Lloyd,
football and ; track coach at
Roosevelt high school, had sub
mitted '.: his resignation effective
at the end of spring term. LJoyd
said he would enter private busi
ness. , - -
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Seniors Take
Silverton Meet
SILVERTON Seniors took
honors in the interclass track
meet held here Thursday after
noon, scoring 56 points against
44 for the juniors and 26 for the
sophomores.
Kenneth Anderson broke pre
vious school records in the high
jump with five feet and four
inches. The old record was five
feet and three inches. The relay
runners also broke the 'former
record of the school and Roy Herr
set a new school record in the
javelin throw, making 141 feet,
eight inches against 141 of former
years.
Silverton's track team will go
to Canby on April 4.
Wst Salem Team
Plays 1st Game
WEST SALEM The West Sa
lem grade school softball team,
coached by Ralph A. Nelson,
plays its first game Friday, going
to Salem Heights -
Boys playing on the team in
clude Catcher Dale Parnell, Pitch
er Jack Truxall, First "Baseman
Glenn Lewis, Second Baseman
Warlyn Asheraft, Third Baseman
James Monaco, Shortstop Frank
Micheel, Outfielders Lewis Nich
ols, Fred Trumbly and Lawrence
PeLapp, Roving Fielder Darwin
Peterson and Substitutes Ken
neth Lathrop, John Phillips, Ed
die Lawrence, Merle Winchester
and Donald Thurman.
Gervais Graders '
Play Baseball
Tot its first year to be repre
sented in the north Marion coun
ty baseball league, Gervais grade
school will contest with Wood
burn, Mt. Angel, Hubbard and
St Luke's.
For the past several years they
have played softball and last
year" won the county champion
ship. The season i opens March 23
with - Gervais and St. Luke's
crossing bats on the Woodburn
diamond.
The girls have organized a soft
ball team and will play the first
league game Friday afternoon
with Ct Luke's.'
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Sked Biff hhbot
A three-event Pacific Interna
tional Trapshooters' association
registered shoot is scheduled by
t$e Salem Trapshooters clib for
Sunday, April 6.
I Events include 100 16-yard tar
gets in four classes, 50 handicap
targets and 12 pairs of ddubles.
Money division in the 16-yard
event will be 50-30-20 on each 25
targets in A and B classes and
315-30-20-15 on each 25 jtargets
in C and D classes.
jln the handicap event inoney
wall be divided 30-30-20-20 on
eacn 25 targets, and 50-30-20 in
the doubles.
National Champs
Tangle in
Badminton Meet
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ISEATTLE. March 27-MTtB
sejdom you get a couple ff na
tional champions competing in a
stMe tournament, but that's just
wiiats going to happen in the
Washington state badminton! tour
ney opening in the new armory
nere tomorrow night.
The defending state titiist i
Jdhnny Samis of Vancouver, BC,
wno also is the Canadian nation
al) "champion, j
Because of his status as de
fending titleholder, he 1 ranks
ahead of young Dave Freeman,
thje blond bombshell fromiPasa
ddna, Calif., who has woh the
United States title the last two
years. f
Ijound: Another
One Throws
j By WHTTNEY MARTIN
f Associated Press Sports Writer
pTAMPA, Fla March 2i-W)
Lfty Gomez just pitched with one
hand, but there is, another Gomez
down here who pitches with two
hajnds, and so far they've! been
having trouble lining up anybody
wlo can catch him for mora Jjhan
a ouple"of innings. 1
His name is Tommv Hnmo?
and he's a heavyweight prize
fighter whom the good citizens of
Tahipa suspect might som day
chase Joe Louis clear back to
Alabama. j
He's just 20 years oldi and
right now is in Uncle Sam'sjarmy
at tamp Blanding. He's onlv been
fighting 18 months, and he makes
more errors in there than a 10
tmjmbed shortstop. - j
jBnt he can punch. j
lie's greener than spinach, and
most of his fifhts have been so
brief and against such 10420-30
competition that nobody knows
what he could ' do against a
re&ly good guy, or how high he
coma bounce ix dipped.
But he can punch.
; JumDins jellybeans. - he! can
punch! He can punch with the
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the left hand.' He can tear aj head
offJ with a long overhand right,
Score Books Give 33 to 32
Decision Over Ghemawans
Simmons ! Insurance shotmakers retained their City Major
hoop crown Thursday
33 to 32 in a clash that was a scorcher until officials added score
books to learn, that, instead of a tie finish for regular playing
time, Simmons had won by one point.
With 30 seconds to go, the official scorer announced the.tally
to be 33-30 in! Simmons favor. The Insurancemen promptly went
into a stall, but Irving Dowd intercepted a bad pass and dashed
Bears Favored
Over Huskies
In Track Meet
SEATTLE, March 27-(P)-Coach
Brutus Hamilton's University of
California track squad was due
to learn on arrival here tonight
that the Bears have been in
stalled as wide iavorites to win
tomorrow night's indoor meet
with the University of Washing'
ton. !
The Bears are reported in bet
ter condition, land their feat in
trimming Stanford in the recent
California-Stanford relay meet
has stamped them as one of the
most powerful track aggrega
tions ever musltered by Hamilton
California was conceded a
chance to equal or smash six
Washington pavilion records,
while a couple of Washington
sprinters may do likewise in the
dashes.
Regulation standards and jump
ing pit were whipped into shape
today so that Oregon's Les Steers
will be able to hang up an official
high jump mark when he com
petes as a special entry. He's
done seven feet in practice, while
the world record is six feet, nine
and three-fourths inches.
Washington officials said they
would seek to j have Steers mark
made official should he top the
world figure, j
Anglers Plan
Social Night
Celebration of the passage of
the bill to protect steelhead trout
in coast streams is the principal
order of business for the Salem
Hunters and Anglers club next
Wednesday night, when it con
venes in its quarters at the Eagles
hall.
A full social night of cards and
entertainment, plus a "Swaperee,"
is scheduled, according to the an
nouncement of Junior . Eckley,
member of the entertainment
committee.
Members will bring hunting
or fishing equipment they desire
to swap for something else.
Lunch will be served.
Silverton Wins
First Ball Game
SILVERTON--SUverton high
won its first baseball game of the
season here Wednesday, defeat
ing Mt Angel 6 to 2 in a non
league game. Kehoe and Walker
formed the visitors battery and
Day and Simmons the locals'.
Silverton reserves defeated
Stayton 2 to 0.
Silverton will play Mt. Angel
there Monday, j
Gomezi Who Can Pitch: This
With Either Hand
or drill holes with six-inch thun
derbolts. j
We were pretty well softened
up by the sales' talks of the na
tives before we ever saw this two
fisted torpedo, if you mentioned
that the Cincinnati Beds looked
pretty good, you'd get something
Jike thisi-
"Yea, but have yon seen Tom
my Gomes?" i
We met him one night, socially,
of course. He's a clean cut, pleas
ant, intelligent and serious lad. In
street clothes or soldier's uniform
he looks like many other medium
sized, well setup young men. Only
his fists betray his power. They
look like, car-couplers.
He explained his fighting style,
told of his hopes and dreams. He
didn't boast. On! the contrary, he
appreciates his 'shortcomings, as
well as "do his severest critics.
But he has confidence in his
ability, and when he said: "If I
once hit a man, I know he's mine,"
you had to believe him.
We saw him! in action the
other night. Ills opponent was a
rather flabby, .pale, pretty , boy
named Ernie FetratM who didn't
looV like much of a fighter, yet
wasn't afraid and he had two
t arms, two legs and the usual
, number, of eyes."
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night,-defeating the Chemawa All-Stars
down the Door to lay home what
was presumed to be the tying
basket in the last five seconds.1
Referees Billy Beard and Don
Ilendrie checked all available
scorebooks, however, to find
Simons still in the lead by one
point, 33-32. Each book checked
at that figure. (
The hard-battling teams ended
the first quarter knotted at 11-H,
the Chemawans went into a 17
16 half time lead and Simmons
drew up even again at third quar
ters end, 25-25.
Again Dick Parker and Frankie
Page divided scoring honors for
the champs,' Parker with 12 and
Page with 10, but the game's top
tosser was Tony Van Pelt of the
All-Stars with 14. Frank Back
bone, Chemawa ace, was held to
nine points by Sammy Shoulder
blade, Simmons guard.
Backbone left the game on
fouls with three and one half
minutes left to play, sorely
hurting Chemawa's chances.
Simmons 33
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Parker 12
Murray 5
Shoulderblade
Burrell 2
32 Chemawa
9 Backbone
14 Van Pelt
3 Woundedeye
4 Lodge
2 Dowd
Subs for Simmons: Hobbs 1
For Chemawa: Bearcloud.
Officials: Beard and Hendrie.
Swan Continues
Atop Statesman
Bowling Meet
Ninety-four of the 132-man
starting field had turned in first
round scores in The Statesman's
first-annual all-singles bowling
tournament by Thursday night,
leaving but 38 to roll first-round
scores by midnight tonight.
Pete Swan continued to hold
down first place, which pays $10,
while Goldie Bentson clung to
third place, which pays $5.
Second round bowling starts
Sunday noon.
Scores:
Swan
648
639
633
630
629
625
McDowell
Murdock .
Masser
Dahlberg .
Hill
567
565
565
565
564
561
560
Bentson
Hobbs
Payne
Chappel
Mapes .
Cooke
Garbarino 622
Parker 617
Woelke 617
J. Cherrtng'n 614
Barnica 613
Poulin 613
Young- 608
R. Welty 608
Berg 606
Page 604
Cross 602
Fully 595
Cline. sr. 595
Zahare 594
McClary
White
560
F. McCarroll 559
Kenyon 556
Thrush 555
A. CoUings'th 554
Sundin 554
Hansen 550
C. CoUings'th 548
Bosler 548
Marr 544
Pascual 543
Lloyd 540
Steinbock 539
Evans ., 537
T. Foreman 594
Kirchner 591 Friesen 537
Hartwell 590 Hart 533
Peterson 589 King 532
W. Straw 588 C. Thompson 532
K. Clark 587 Lindley 529
Burch 587 Carkins . 527
Woodman 586 Grant 525
Hendrie 585 Jaskoskl 525
C. Parker 581 Lindstrand 521
English 580 Shrock 518
Coon 579 Adolf 515
Krech 579 Kitchen 511
Rosa 578 Ricketts 510
Greene 577 Harrington 510
Kleinke
577 Perry 505
576 F. Rice 504
576 Barker 498
Pugh
Tallman
Tow
575 Koch 495
G. Cherring'n 574
P. Thompson 489
Cline. Jr. ,- 478
J. Clark 470
Doc kins 461
Patterson Default
Woodry Default
Koeing 574
Day 572
Nufer 572
Johnson 569
Scales - 568
B. Straw 567
and Can Hit!
.. Gomez took off his crimson
bathj-obe to show a superb phy
sique. At the bell he put his
hands up alongside his head,
hunched his shoulders and ad
vanced with a weaving style.
There was a brief flurry and a
noise like a firecracker in a rain
barrel. Petratti was down for
nine. It was a left hook.
In- the second round. Gomes
unfolded that overhand right.
Petrattl bounced a couple of
times and was quite still as
they carried him to his corner.
Gomes apologized for his show
ing. He had been ill for a
month, and his timing was off,
he said. His tuning off! Then so'
Is the master clock.
Gomez is managed by Joe Leto.
The ' Leto boys grew up in a
gymnasium. One brother, Tony,
was a good featherweight a' dozen
years ago. Another, Johnny, is a
ranking welter now. Still another,
Pete, joined the army just to be
near Gomez and train him. Joe
Leto has no written contract with
Gomez, but Gomez says he is
going to stick to him no matter
what happens.
The kid may never go far. . So
many fine-looking bubbles burst
before they touch the celling. But
he's a clean-living, straight-thinking
lad. - . - v'
And ho can punch.
Duck Hoopers J
Hawaii Bound
, - EUGENE, March 27-S-The
University of Oregon basketball
squad was enroute - for Hawaii
via San Francisco tonight for a
series of games against .. island
teams, v . ' . '. , '
Angelo "Hank" Luisetti, former
all-America collegian and. recent
ly named AAU ail-American, will
leave on the Matsonia with the
Oregon boys, but will play against
them with island teams. i
Pullman
WiU Bag
Student Hegira
Sets out for
Scene of Game
PULLMAN, Wash,-March 27-
(Jpy-The home folks are getting
out the bunting, the frosh have
shined up the victory bell and the
band has brightened all its brass,
because their Washington State
Cougars already are national col
legiate basketball champions al
though that title game with Wis
consin still is two days off.
And a casual remark to the
contrary will get you anything
from a kick on the shins to a
lynching In this home town of a
hoop team the prognosticators
couldn't see in January and
couldn't believe in March.
Spring vacation doesn't start
until April 4 at Washington State,
but college jalopies are sneaking
noisily out of town at all hours,
loaded to the gunwales and bound
for Kansas City, where the Cougar
Kings of western basketball await
the coming of Wisconsin.
Aboard one was Chuck Dosskey,
the 12th member of. the squad.
Coach Jack Friel took 11 men to
Kansas City for the National Col
legiate AA western division tour
ney. Dosskey, unable to stand the
suspense, after WSC won the
western crown last week, packed
his togs and joined the hegira of
students.
The most popular stay-at-home
is Prof. Henry BeucheL economics
instructor who saw Wisconsin play
this season and states the local
conviction that the Cougars are
"In".
To back up his opinion, Beuchel
quotes a Stanford player who used
a different word to describe the
Cougars. The word" was "exas
perating."
This is what Professor Beuchel
says he heard from a Stanford
man:
"We'd work the ball down the
floor, using smooth passing, fast
feints and blocks, and In two
minutes we'd have a nice lay-in
shot. As soon as we'd start down
the floor on defense we'd hear
a thundering sound and here
they'd come, like a herd of
stampeding buffalo. In 10 sec
onds they'd have an equalizer
and we'd have to do It all over
again.
"They're the most exasperating
club I've ever played against."
Pullman, dead sure Wisconsin
also will find its Cougars exas
perating, waits without worry for
the Saturday evening flash from
Kansas City.
East Nips West
In Slalom Event .
SUN VALLEY, Idaho, March
27-(P)-An eastern women's ski
team defeated western represen
tatives 643 to 660.4 in the .second
annual running of the east-west
slalom event here today.
Individual honors, however,
went to blonde Clarita Heath of
Pasadena, Calif who flashed
down the mile and a quarter
Baldy mountain course - in 2:18,
to take first place.
Overlih "Wins
BARRE, Vt, March 27-UP)-
Ken Overlin, 162, of Washington,
world middleweight boxing
champion, icdred a technical
knockout" o v edr Larry Kellum,
164-pound Montanan, tonight in
the fourth round of a scheduled
10-round non-title bout.
TRY
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The Kght boor with the fuD flavor
protected by ttt famous daHt botlte. .
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This eould be a preview of the 1941 world series for both the Yankees
and the St. Louis Cardinals are among, the favorites for. the pen
nenants In the major leagues this rear. At left Is Manager Joe Me-
s Carthy of the Yanks, and right, Billy Southworth, Cardinal manager.
Bekd
Certain! Cougars
College Cage Crown
Salem. Oregon. Friday
Training Camps
SAN FRANCISCO, March 27-
(i$VCombining timely hitting and
tight early season pitching, the
Pacific Coast league San Fran
cisco Seals defeated the Phila
delphia Athletics of the Ameri
can league 7 to 4 today in the
first of a four-game exhibition
series.
Philadelphia (A) . 4 6 3
San Francisco (PCL) 7 10 . 0
Bablch, Ferrick (4) and Hayes;
Stutz, Cadinha (9) and Ogrodow
ski. MIAMI. Fix March Z1-(JP)-Failore
to hit when it counted
cost the Cincinnati Reds an
other ball game today, with
Kins, Carl HabbefL Rookie ace
Adams,- and the New Tork
Giants elbowing them aside,
6 to 3.
Cincinnati (N) 3 10
New York (N) 6 12 X
Thompson. Beggs (7) and
Baker; Hnbbell, Adams (7) and
ODea.
HOLLYWOOD, CaL, March 27
-iJP)r Rookie Alf Anderson from
Atlanta, planted his picture more
firmly in the mind of Manager
Frankie Frisch today by clouting
a ninth inning homer with two
mates on base to give Pittsburgh's
Pirates a 6 to 5 victory over the
Chicago Americans 6 to Z.
Chicago (A) S 11 0
Pittsburgh N) 6 8, 2
Lee, Umstead (4), Haynes (7),
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and Tresh; Bowman, Klinger (4),
Lanahan (7) and Schultz.
LAKELAND, Flai March 27-(A-Hank
Greenberg blasted
two home tuns and Rudy Tork
one today to give the Detroit
Tigers a II to 9 exhibition vic
tory over the Brooklyn Dodg
ers second stringers.
Brooklyn (N) . 13
Detroit (A) 1 16 1
nam! in, Macon (8) and Rach
unok (9) and Franks; Newsom,
Gorsica (6) and Sullivan.
LOS ANGELES, CaL, March 27
HSVChicago's Cubs, who lost to
their Los Angeles Farm club yes
terday by a single run, had to go
11 innings today to win, 10 to 9,
and even the two game series.
Chicago (N) 10 17 S
Los Angeles (PC) 8 11 S
(Eleven innings).
French, Pressnell (4), Erickson
(11) and McCullough, Todd; Coff
man, Stein (7) and Holm, Col
lins. SAN ANTONIO, Tex, March
27-0F)-Flrst Baseman Babe
Dahlgren' was the batting; hero
once again today as the Boston
Bees evened their exhibition
game standing with the Minne
apolis Millers of the American
association with a 7-6 ten-Inning
victory.
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Season Opens April I2lh
CASTING ROD 98 C
Enan. Fly Line . . . 39c
Assorted Flies 3 for 25 C
8 lb. Test Gnl Leader ..5c
Single Tronl Spinners 5 C
Telescope Fly Beds 98 C
Snelled Hooks t B card t5 C
Single Egg LTcoks 4 for Sc
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Salem, Oregon