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Sof iball's 11th Season Opener Vieived by 1500 Sparks Dy RON GOLMELL Woolere, Brow Schoens Bag - i Eleventh season of under-the-lights softball broke open on Sweetland field Monday night? where 26 teams took part in cere monies which followed a downtown parade and preceded a tri- Silly sports spawns: - , estimated 1500 sprawled through" the stands about the , J-WrTn ! to lhnit the number which procured the pre-opener tickets that are finan lOCiatlOnS decision tO limit ine Wili;", softball Wr,rra . finrn lasticitv ol golf balls. 2. Ouster of non-physical ed ucation degree holders from coaching positions in the Port land high school circuit , What is the USGA trying to do take - away the only pleasure that 80 percent of all golfers de rive from their fairway frolics? What is the Portland prep league trying to do cut ofX its nose to spite its face? j us i oecause a uauuiu w yiv fesslonals are able to take most of the country's golf courses apart surely isn't any reason why the USGA should kill the game for thousands of duffers whose sole thrill in playing the game comes from smacking tho gutta percha pellet out arpund that 200-yard mark. And just because a man doesn't have a piece of paper which says he's completed sufficient physical education requirements for a de gree surely isn't sufficient reason to kick that man out of a posi tion in which he has been a stand out for years, t Yet these silly things are hap pening. The USGA the other day announced that henceforth the "carry" or elasticity of the ball would be limited, and at about the same time the Portland Prep loop "accepted" the resignation of Wade Williams, the gent who has been an A-No. 1 coach at Lincoln for 12 years. e . ! Flatter Duffers Buyers of golf balls are the masses, the John Citizens who feel that just one 250-yard poke down the middle entirely washes away those seven-stroke par-four holes find that eoshawful 90-odd score. and not the pros. Therefore manufacturers should give their cing .this year s "recreationalized softball program. .. Gurnee Flesher, manager of the Salem Softball association said a com- Heads Mentors r 7 STUB ALLISON Idaho-Montana Issue Before Coast Coaches By GAIL FOWLER SEATTLE, June 9-(ip)-Resem bling a three-ring circus, the Pa cific Coast conference spring meeting opened its heavy busi tips? jspssinn Mnndavj with tint luu considerauon to us, the people, much news of consequence trick msteaa oi mem, me nign mucKi- Vmg Trom thet hpi Oration rham- mucks, who get most of their golf balls free anyway. v f Like Ere Kay, majordomo of the Salem club, this department "thinks the USGA should flatter 'and cajole the duffers and to hell with the pros. If the manufacturers in time devise a ball even I could belt 300 yards . (which 111 admit would take quite some devising) why not? ' It will please many more play ers than it will offend. 1 As for the Portland high school situation, which interests this corner only in that it is as cor rvspondingly senseless as the USGA's move Jo de-power the golf ball, it is to be wondered how iong it will be before lighten ing lops off a limb higher up. - j Modern education has come to a pretty pass if it condones such a bers. 1 The Idaho-Montana issue on whether those schools would be restored to full conference football status was to come up Tuesday. A year ago they re ceived this status, effective la 1942. Now some of the other conference schools are I repre sented as being wary of the proposal and may require Ida ho and Montana- to meet full conference financial guaran tees. f Undoubtedly it will go beyond the discussion stage," one source said. Conference Commissioner Ed win Atherton, spokesman for the faculty group, said the afternoon meeting decided on the following: " Thes rules were relaxed to per mit endowed scholarships to foot' MIGHTY MITE - - By Jack Sords TUESDAY SCHEDULE p.m. Pheasant Jr. t. Jr. 'Maker -1 p.m. Four Corner vs. Pioneers. S pjn. Brass Docks vs. Richfield, t pjn. Elfuroms vs. Klwanis. - plete check of ticket sales could not be made until sometime to day. He estimated between 1500 and 2000 had been sold, lacking at least 1000 of the number be- lieved necessary to finance the program. State and local association of ficials took part an the ceremon ies, including Director Dwight Adams of the state association, President Tom Hill of the Salem association and Harry Collins, member-at-large of the state as sociation. Winners in the first night stand of the 1941 season were Page Woolens of the City league, Keith Brown of the In dustrial and Schoens Juniors of the Junior circuit. Joe Herberger's Woolen team, still sans uniforms, took the Square Dealers into camp, 8 to 2. From the time Cec Quesseth clouted for the circuit as the circuit as the first man up until Pitcher Art Siebens connected for his second hit of the night, one of which was a two run hom er, the Woolers hammered away on George Roth, Dealer hurler. The Page aggregation scored one run in the first, three in the sec ond, two in the third and one in the fifth. Last year's champs scored two tallies in the first and one each of the fifth and sixth. Whitney led the hitters with two doubles and a single in four appearances. Marv Ritchie, Keith Brown pitcher, shutout the Unemploy ment Commission with two blows, both of which were of the fluke variety, while his teammates rot 10 runs on nine hits. The score was 10 to 0. The Commission was charged with seven errors during the contest and but two of Keith Brown's runs were earned. Ritchie struckout nine. schoens Juniors whitewashed the Parrish Juniors in the five inning nightcap 17 to 0, with Eu gene "Jeep" Lowe tossing two hit ball. Parrish kicked in with 11 errors to help run the score up. Score; Schoens . ., n g Parrish ....... .o 2 1 Lowe and Wolfe; Innocenti, Monaco and Zeeb, Kephart. policy as that which removed ball j players - in their senior year, Wade Williams and other tried provided their - grades i are above hd true coaches from the Port- the minimum average. This was lind system just because they to accommodate the Andy Smith didn't have a little piece of paper scholarships at the University of which vouched for their comple- California. '"'- tion of enough scholastic hours to Students will be permitted to merit a physical education degree. I compete on outside - teams in If Wail Williams In hi. 12 4 . ; years of handling boys In four sports, hasn't learned- more boat practical physical edu cation tftan 101 per cent of the bright young fellows who step out of college with the Ink not yet dry on their degrees, yours ' sincerely Is ! a sadly mistaken 7 character. " V -o-Ptot Excusable I Realizing professional baseball is a couch of thornes 1000 times to every time it is a bed of roses, your correspondent tries to take an understanding attitude toward the Individuals whose shortcomings are evident. Seldom, if ever, has i t t i this department been guilty of vJlUrcll Loop UiVed . placing a ball player on the'pan' SILVERTON Efforts are un .--although I deem that every I der way to form a church softball sports writer's prerogative inas- league at Silverton. A number of much as .it is the sports writers churches have already signified who also in a large measure ele vate a player to popularity. , I There is one thing, however, i for which yours sincerely can' find an excuse. That Is failure i to hustle. Without mentloninr ; any names, suffice It to say that , there are one or two members i of the current Salem Senator sports not recognized ! as Inter collegiate sports by his institu- . tion.' r Mid-year high school graduates will be permitted to play for club teams, etc., without being charged with? freshman competition. Atherton submitted his report oni the 22 freshmen declared in eligible at Stanford; Oregon, Washington State, Oregon State and Washington, and it was indi jted the faculty men were tak ing up the ineligibilities for dis cussion one by one. Outcome of the report won't be announced until : it has all been digested by tne faculty, Atherton said. .Highway RorrM b ononis Open: Agaiiist llald Attempts To Measure Jack Lipscomb Scheduled Double Bill To Open, 6: 1 5 Tonight Prince Ilaki, the Arabian aris- By.KON GEMMELL SUtesman Sports ditor - , '. . Those highway horrible but home handsome Salem Sen- tocrat who spends his spare time ators are home again so the w. side of their record should, on a composing literary. v gems and of performance, thus fair this season, begin a much, needed pounding out finger rings," " at- ascension. I . - r . ' tempts to eat out a rasslin vie- v, : legislators, who succeeded in dropping three of four to S1: Wenatchee over the weekend to thus maintain one of the worst TheX and the Hoosier oad records smce apoleqn's Moscow meander open a six-day Hotshot gouge over the full hour home stand ftere lonignt m nguuiwiwuCT wun me supterranean route at the : top of an , American Tiiirfnn mat Trrtrram which tn. wrmv IVTFRV ATIONAL 23 11 .676 Wenatcn i zi .w 19 14 76 Salem 14 20 .412 final and Billy McCuin against vncouv 20 is Jias Tacoma i zi Walter Sneeze Achiu in an 8:30 Tacoma Tigers. It starts at 6:15, opener. with Dell Oliver slated to pitch Lipscomb, heralded as the hor-; the orener land Roy Helser at- ror of matd?m upon his return, tempting to bag his 1 s eventh has twice gone down to Ignoble straight in the nightcap. Spokes Spank MteriTY Mrr&- tfefifeWtUVrllf Mis Clinej Patterson, Painter Qualify in Oregon Amateur PORTIaAND, Ore., June 9.-(P-Lou Jennings, Portland, de fending champion, paced the field in the qualifying round of the Oregon amateur golf championship Monday. . ' Jennings! fired a par 71 over the Oswego Lake Country club course. His fellow townsman, Harold Salvador, was two strokes back with a -73. - . . defeat. He therefore expects to make Ilaki his first victim in the Salem arena.! The Hoosif r Hotshot's attempt to break into the win column may be overshadowed by the Jackson- Parks fray, however, as the Bull dog is seeking vengeance for his Our Senators, who lost to Wenatchee 8-5 and 6-5 Sunday, own own the rancid road rec ord of 18 losses to three wins, while their home mark Is a booming 11 wins and two losses. ' Frankie Dierickx was the Sun day davlicht victim at Wenat i 1- j aay aayiiEni vicuui u?c" ?J chee. losing his game in the last wncm ino kii nnc? coa v m van tra. 1 ance it is generally something to see. of the 12th . after LitUe Skipper Griffiths had given him a one run lead in the Salem half by doubling home Antelope Al Light ner to send the Solons into a 5-4 lead. Two home runs, one by I Hank Bonetti with none on and the other by Pitcher Alex Weldon DALLAS-f Falls City defeated With two on. did the damage. the Statesman nine 6 to 3 here! Duke Windsor, -experiencing one Monday night in the Twilight bad inning the five-run fourth Falls City Nips Statesman, 6-3 baseball league. Falls City Statesman Howe. Injnan and I Doraa and Fournier. 5 3 Mat Hatala,' Portland, turned in a 74, and Marty Leptick, Bob Ho ler and Bob McReyonlds, all Port land, and Dick Hanen, University of Oregon, had 75s. , Mrs. Mary Mozel Wagner, Port land, Pacific northwest champion, rlookr women's! medal honors with an 80, nosing out Sissy Green, Portland, last! year's medalist by one stroke. The defending cham pion, Marian i McDougail, Port land, had an 8,4. Other scores included: Wal ter Cllne jrj S3, Pat Patterson 88, Tony Painter 86, all of Sa lem. Ray Farmer, Salem, picked P- ! ! Square Deal 4 n Page Woolens . 12 1 Roth and Singer: Siebens and Bulkley. Keith Brown 10 9 2 UCC ;. j--- 0 2 7 Ritchie and Lansing: Thunne- man and Miller. . Herman Paces PCLBat Race . LOS ANGELES, June 9 (A- The veteran Babe Herman, Holly wood first baseman, is still show ing the way to Coast league bat ters with an average of .394. In 50 games the Babe has slammed out 61 hits, nine of them home runs, to keep his .manager, Bill Sweeney, sitting on the bench. Sacramento is leading in team batting with v .309. The figures show that Manager Pepper Mar tin's club leads the league stand ings by the simple expedient of scoring the most runs 369. their willingness to join in the move which originated in the Christian church. Racquet King Takes, Bride 13 Alcos Unbeaten In State Loop By The Associated Press The Albany Alcos kept their string of baseball victories un broken Sunday by edging past Silverton which was making its initial state league appearance, 4 to 3. . " j Silverton hitters pounded out two homers for three runs in the first inning, but Red Miller's of ferings were baffling from then on. Albany coupled timely hits with Silverton, errors for the win ning runs. i Medford had a big sixth inning to defeat Hills Creek 5-2. Klamath Falls took the meas ure of the Eugene Athletics 9-5 after winning; a non-league exhi bition game from the same nine the previous hight, 12-9. . Bend scored seven runs in the fourth inning against Toledo and won , 14-2. , jj Silverton L......3 3 2 Albany i 4 71 Toolson and Robertson; Miller and Amacher Eugene .... .54.... 9 12 4 Klamath Falls; .:..L..12 13 3 Ankerberg, ! Hurney and Bish op; Davis andfWarner Eugene d ' ....5-10 1 Klamath Falls; . 9 10. 1 Wiltshire, .Spencer and Bishop; Hanauska and 'Davis. : Medford 5 7 0 Hills Creek .t..4 ...2 9 0 Fox and Calvert; B. Kelsay and G. Kelsay,'- f S . Toledo il 2 6 4 Bend 14 19 1 . Eagleson. L. . . Anderson : and Ball ; Hatch and Kremers. " ' A took the whipping in the noctur nal fray. In the only other Western In- Gardner; ternatlonal conflicts S n n d a y. Yakima and Tacoma split a double bilL The Pips pounded to a 7-1 verdict in the first and the Tires blanked the Yaks 5-0 in the second. As the Solon-Tiger series opens. the Salems are found to be but a half game in front of the cellar- dwelling Tacoma?. Its j a base ment series. The Tigers are here through Thursday night, playing two to night and one each Wednesday and Thursday. Then come the high-flying Vancouver Caps Fri day, to begin a four-game skein that ends Sunday. The Solons en tertain the San Francisco Seals of the Coast . wheel here Monday night - Yakima .-..J .7 10 Tacoma . .. 1 10 McConnell and Sueme; Porter and Stoeber. Yakima ..........0 3 4 Tacoma 5 9 ( Barkelew and Evans, Sueme Cadinha and Cardoza. Caps, 7 to I; Increase Lead SPOKANE, June 9.-(P)-The Spokane Indians took a tighter grip. on the top of the Western International baseball league Monday night by trouncing the Vancouver Capilanos 7 to J be hind the two-hit pitching of Da mon Hayes. The Caps scored their only run of the game in the third inning when Pete Jonas doubled, ad vanced to third on a fielder's choice and then went on home on long fly! 1 Spokane scored seven runs on six hits and a Vancouver error. starting right off with two in the first when Centerfielder Dwight Aden and Frank "Sweet" Milani, first baseman, hit consecutive triples. Milani led the Spokane batters with a triple and a double in four times at bat ill - ; 4 f" "'' Sunday's Box Scores First frame: SALEM (5) Xaniiero. 2 Cameron, 3 , Petersen, m Lightner. r, Bergstrom, 1 . Bate. 1 ...... Griffiths, a ; Adams, c ... Dierickx, p . ToUls B R H O A 3 2 2 9 4 O 0 1 2 114 0 10 2 0 13 5 0 0 2 2 0 12 2 0 0 2"! S 10 33 12 3 S . 4 WENATCHEE (I) . Knobles; 1 Endress, 3 Cox, 2 . Wilaon, r Bonetti. m , Marionetti. U- Farrell. c Torgerson. .1 Weldon, p ToUla B R H C O 2 0 14 0 0 3 0 1 3 2 2 3 2 2 4 12 8 2 1 S 1 2 0 O A 3 0 0 1 0 0 1 .1 o 3 S 13 30 12 . Donald Budge, former world's tennis king, W pictured in New York with his recent bride. Badge also has a newf nose and chin, the re sult of some plastic surgery. . j -! ! Salem Wenatchee 002 011 000 0015 ooi 003 ooo 004 a 10 13 Turner- Proctor Bout Reset June 19 Runs batted in. Endress. Bergstrom, 2. Petersen 2. Torgerson. weraon Bonetti. Two base hits. Farrell. Home runs. Petersen. Bergstrom, Weldon, Ronettl. Stolen bases. Bates, LanUero 2. Petersen. Double plays. GrUfiths to Lamlero to sates, utericxx to sates to Lanifero to Bates. Utn on case, Silnii 12. Wenatchee 11. Bases on balls, off Dierickx . Wal a a. struckout by Dierickx 4. Wei Hon a. Wild Ditch. Dierickx. Passed ball. Farrell. Umpires, Enger and Nel son. Tune, 2:4a Second game:. SALEM (S) In order not to conflict with the Joe Louis-Billy Conn cham t i I aAun r pionship battle June 18, the Leo Turner-Powder Proctor sock session for the Oregon middleweight title has been moved up to June 19, it was announced Monday by Promoter Tex Salkeld for the Veterans of Foreign Wars Boxing club.) - l nave never seen two iignt- B R H OA E 4 1 2 2 6 0 l Skippers of Baseball CluBs Take the By WHITNEY MARTIN Rap squad who are, In these eyes, guilty of drawing money far work undone. " NEW YORK, June 1 8. -(Special to The Statesman)-Fred Haney, manager, -naturally was tne as guy on . the end of the line and the first to go tumbling head over Explicitly, in the last home appetite when the St Louis series a certain Solon twice in one Brown bosses decided to play '' game walked every step of the crack-the-whip to gloss over their way back from first base after own failures and salve the ' he was thrown out there, sulk- wounded pride of th; fans, both Ing all the way.' He was and is of them. tn a terrific batting slump, yes. It's always the manager. If a Cut that is something excusable. -340 hitter begins to hit at a $1.88 .'The fact that he allows this slumn clip it's the manager' fault If a Jo reflect on his general attitude pitcher throws a fat one which is something else again. rides out of the park, he manager -h Frankly, It Is something for is to blame. If player breaks a which a manager could very well levy a stiff fine and yet not be subject to criticism. Lumberman Dies at 88 "I PORTLAND, June Louis Gcrlinger, 8, retired Pa cific northwest lumberman' and railroad owner, died here Mon- t?,ay alter a long illness of bron- , hial pneumonia. i' ," shaft sliding into second, the man ager shouldn't have - sent him down. About all a manager doesn't get blamed for is winning. Connie .Mack has the ideal system. As manager and own er he's his own boss, and it's difficult to imagine Owner Con nie Mack calling Manager Con nie Mack en the Carpet and giving him . the ldt heave-ho, although there possibly , have been times Mr. Mack considered 1 the idea, at that. . If a' race chart showed a horse finishing consistently where the Athletics have finished in recent years the animal would be given a nice early-morning job on a milk cart The placing of the A's since 1934 reads - like this: 8th, 8th, 7th, 8th, 7th, 8th. Fred Haney last year urged the Browns up to sixth place, their highest finishing spot since .1934. They started this year with a run of tough luck, so Haney is shoved out the rear door as Luke Sewell enters the front door. Connie Mack is getting plagues and special days. Haney s biggest er ror seems to have been in not owning the club. We thought Haney was doing pretty good Job with the material with which he had to work, and, less than a month ' ago he told us a story of in juries and training disappoint ments that would have wrung tears from totem pole. He explained why the Erown ... .. .. I Luke sewell pitching staff is made up largely of f ellows 'who had been sent out to pasture by other clubs,' and how : he and Johnny Bassler worked to uncover a few more winning games in arms that no longer were slingshots. Just shot "The Browns couldn't bid against the wealthier clubs in the, open market for star minor league prospects, he said, . and there seemed less of a gamble in get ting some experienced pitcher and trying to squeeze out victories that might cave Deen ovtnuu. However, we re not carrying the flag for Haney, although we do think he was doing a good job under the circumstances, and we like the way he took his dis missal. It's merely that the whole sys tem seems wrong when managers invariably take the fall for - a team's poor showing. Sometimes they are to blame, and a change works out for the better. We think Sewell will do all right with the Browns, but we also think Haney would have done all right with a little more .time. It still takes good ball players to play winning baseball, and the front office supplies the ball players. The managers have a ready-made answer to all queries: "I don't know. I Just work here I hope." Petersen. M Lightner, x . Bates. 1 Bergstrom. X Griffiths, a -Adams, c Windsor, p - Totals r ers working so hard," reported Salkeld. Ton would think the world's title was at stake. Proc tor is confident he can repeat his former win over Turner and many bets have been made by his family that he will do so. . , Turner J - on the other hand, claims , he Wasn't in shape when he was outpointed by Proctor be fore, but that it's going to be dif ferent this time. The . guyJ has Wenatchee coracreu niost ui uie sparring . 3 . 4 . S . S . 3 . 3 . 3 2 .28 5 10 24 14 Vancouver Spokane . 2 6 Tate, Goldman (5) and Lingua: HayeS and Myers. - i r. Silverton. Wins First Game of i Legion Playoff SILVERTON Halting a 'ninth- inning Woodburn rally that net ted eiffht nin th Silvprtnn jun ior Legion baseball nine scored a 12 to 1 1 1 win in the first of a three-game series for the Marion county title here Sunday? . i Coach DeLay's kids held a nine-run lead going into the final frame, but Woodburn all but closed the gap.- i Woodburn scored three in the first but Silverton came right back with a pair and then took the lead with two more in the third. They went on to tally once -in the fifth, two in the sixth, two in the seventh iand three in the .... i ' eigmn. , . . Four .singles, two errors and a pair of walks gave Woodburn the eight ninth-inning tallies. - Woodburn Silverton 11 10 .J2 6 Stevens and Bentley; Mellbye, Seeley and Simmons. . ' . '- WENATCHEE () Knobles, 1 Endress, 1, 3 COX, 2 ., I,!'.! Wilson, r BonetU. M Marionetti, s Mayer, c Torgerson, 1 Libke. p -Farrell. .3 Totals B K H O A E 4 0 2 0 0 0 4 1110 1 4 i i-t a 4. 1 S l a A - 4 0 0 S 0 O - 4 12 3 3 2 4 12 2 a , , - 3 1 111 0 1 3 0 1 0 4 0 o o a t 34 12 27 10 4 Salem 100 102 0015 000 510 00 10 12 inu Kt.wt tn. Rrifflthfl. Wilson. partners id Portland. He has 10 I Marionetti. Mayer, Ubke 2. Lanifero 2. days to get in shape but is work-1 1 b S'5'- ing like, the fight was tomorrow." Windsor 2 Double plays. Cox to Mar- - KeUer Wagner, the Salem hea- ionetto to Torgeson. Windsor to Lani- vyweight Vho has a .sensational wlnateh " lU string of five straight knockouts Bases on balls, off Windsor 1. Libke to his credit since he turned pro- wufK wiibiePa fes&ional, is Slated to meet an Un- ball. Adams. Umpires, Nelson and announced opponent in a six- E"gcr- rime' iM ' round semifinal. Rumor has . it that his adversary will be tough iffjpTfll SnfOnOQC Dallas Bennett, the former state middleweight king who hails from LaGrande.' Get Relief New lory Way . Sit In Comfort Dont sjetWet Rear taw Broken spots anoB4 rectum. Few plaeea are sa liable to inacuoBv A uirk aVpcodabie rdieTer of rectal tensui is Ira Ur mom BectaL Brten soothing Kut af rooafort npoa contact, tonus protecting fiba aver sort area, kelps destroy infectious renaa, aids Nature seal sp raw, brokra tiMues. No ail ao grease to staia elothin. mm awaey back rnar. Saturday. He claimed the Pacific nOl oTTrlr 'r coast professional middleweight ULAi.y J lsa.CTAL wrestling championship in 1938. "Fred Meyer Drug Section Ex-Champ Dies SEASIDE, June -(!rVFuneral services for Alvin M. Keiley, 36. log truck driver killed in an acci dent Wednesday, were held here QjlOJUJiLO LofoMiSI CtAHA-- V OMtbcOrf.Jn -gone to . . . ' 387 Court SU "Every ttilng is sure to pan out right for me" clcdmed George as he made a rush to McEENDRY & BELL to get his pick of NEW STRAW HATS priced from $l.S5up.v ' - 1