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Pitchers Bo -Olseti a .Senators, Sport Sparks Salem. Oregon, Thundery Morning. June 2S, 1941 8 Kings of Collegiate Rowing Once More Pippins Divide 'Double A- By RON GEMMFXL 'Bill; f - Sale of $15,000 worth of ball players last season meant the difference between, a loss of $12,000 and a profit of $3000 to the Yakima Western Inter national league bosses, who can thank Goldie ' Desmond Holt, the little guy with the big cigar who, manages the Pips ". . G. Desmond sold Nanny Fernandei to San Francisco for reportedly, an all-time WI top of 6000; sold Hub Kittle for a reported $5000; and got $4000 for Charlie Schanz. , This year Holt, an ardent be liever in procuring ball players young, teaching them lots and getting his price for 'em, has al ready sold Johnny Stamper for $2500 and has what he thinks is - at least $10,000 worth of ivory in Outfielder Bill Johnson and Pitch er Lefty Lien . . . "However," says G. Desmond, "I'm not going to sell either for other than 1941 deliver, and whoever buys 'em is going to have to pay for them!" Holt rates Johnson, who Is but 20 years old. as the WI's best, hitter and allows that Lien could win in the Coast league right now . . . "For that matter, says Holt, "there's only one class AA club In the Coast league Sac ramento" . . Goldie would rate , San Francisco, Seattle and San Diego as about class A'or class A-l, and would rate Portland, Los Angeles, Iloliywood and Oakland at not much better than the WI's best Likes 'Em Youn "If I'd have been named to that Portland job," says Goldie, who was seriously considered for the Beaver skippership until Uncle Oz Vitt-hove into the picture, "I'd 'have had some young ball play ers, and maybe you think I wouldn't have had!" . .' . Right now Goldie doesn't have a single op tioned ball player. on , his Pippin roster, and if things go as he thinks they will hell make enough sales to show his, bosses, a profit for the second straight year something they never had before ; Goldie took over. Pitching success Jn the WI (or any other league, for that mat ter) Is purely a case of control, says Holt . . . "Any pitcher who can get the ball over the plate can win in this league," he says, and points to the wildness of Spokane pitchers for the - last two weeks as an example of what happens when a hurling staff gets scatter-anned. The five-game series in which the Pips took over the WI league lead from Spokane was as wild- and-woolly as they come . . .105 runs scored (Yakima 55, Spokane 50), 145 base hits (Yakima 72. Spokane 73) and, in number of appearances made, 25 " pitchers used (Yakima 13, Spokane 12) ... Spokane won Friday and Saturday by scores of 13-10 and 12-11, both 10-inning games, the Pips won Thursday 9-4 and took Sunday's double bill 13-10 and 12-11. O San Juan Leslie? Swallows and not the kind that interfere with your flutter kick are gaining the Leslie swim ming hole a reputation that may in time rival San Juan Capistrano . . . liach session for the past four, Swallows have returned to nest in the Leslie bathhouse entering through a knothole in the board ed bathhouse iwindow. Sportster Bob Woods of the Wenatchee Dally World brands Col. Charles L. Stark's recent statement that the Wenatchee team might play some of Its home games in Lewiston as "Stark madness"... Woods, who accuses Stark of "insidious persecution" of Wenatchee, says there's "absolutely no indication that such a thing might happen." - Woods lists May attendance fig ures in the WI which purports to how that Wenatche averaged but 200 or 300 fewer paid custo mers per game than other league . towns, as an argument in rebuttal to what he terms a brash state ment by Col. Stark ... Be that as it may, this corner happens to know that league directors are far from satisfied with the Wenatchee situation at present and that some of them believe something will have to be done to help it Steers Fly inn To AAU Meet PORTLAND, Ore., June 25-) ters, who lucked the world's high jump mark up to S feet 11 Inches this spring, will fly to Philadelphia for the na tional AAU track and field cham pionshipa this weekend. 'i The sensational University of Oregon jumper learned Wednes day that his draft board had giv en: him deferment because of his employment In a Portland ship yard. Freed of the : necessity of remaining here for a call to ser vice, he immediately reversed his decision not to compete in the eastern meet He will Jump under the colors of the Olympic club pf San Fran' cisco." -; : rV., Lcaguo Bricoball ;IOVFFR LEAGUE nHn 4. Iriiha Falls 3. Si.it Ltke 5. Twin FaUs U F'ocateilo I, Boise J. AMKXICAM ASSOCIATION . , t Kansa-City 5,- St. Pul 4. - Toledo 13, . IrMi;rpoJi a.. . UJwauke 1, Minneapolis a. - : v - . V : w- --.V-c : -I -yr -HSr-.-: ' ' - , : V : ' " " - - ' ' " V' Y ' ' V- i-'.- . .- --- . . - Washington U's Huskies, who Wednesday once more swept to victory rowing, the Pournkeepsie Regatta. From left: Coxswain Vie Fomo. Stroke Ted Garhart, Tom Taylor, Walter Wallace, Charles Jackson, Doyle Fowler, William Neill, Paul Sindars and John Bracken Those Huskies Cop Poughkeep Beat Bears by Two Lengths; Cornell Five Gaps Behind POUGHKEEPSIE, NY, June 25-The western breed of rowing supermen ruled the Hudson river again Wednesday night. ' The varsity crew from the University of Washington retained its four-mile intercollegiate championship with incredible ease, and the Huskies and second-place California made a mockery of their eastern contention. Washington, paced by blond, powerful Ted Garhart in his third winning races at Poughkeepsie, whipped California by two lengths "in -18 minutes 53.3 sec onds. Tjiis was no surprise, for these same Huskies had beaten the Bears by an even greater margin two months ago, when they smashed all records for the Oakland (Calif) estuary three mile course. What was almost unbeliev able abput this race was the vast gap between the two west erners, who among them have won this race eight times In the last nine years, and the best the east could offer. By the end of the first mile and a half the two boats from the Pacific coast, then locked In a bow-and-bow duel, already had length of open water on Cor nell. At the finish three lengths separated the Ithacans, first of the eastern eights to' finish, from California, California's . time In second place was 19:02.3. Back of them the order . was Cornell, 19:14.6; Syracuse, 19:18.9; Princeton, 19:23.4; 'Wisconsin, making a surprisingly fine showing for the lightest boat on the river, 19: 29.4; Rutgers, racing here 'for the first time and also giving a hand some account itself, 19:29.8; Mass achusetts Tech, 19:32.8, and Co lumbia, whose No. 2 man col lapsed in the last quarter-mile and was "out" in the boat as it crossed the line, 19:35.5. - From the first few yards of the racing start It was obvious there were only two crews in the ' race, and from the way Washington was keeping even or better with California while rowing- at a lower beat it also seemed a safe bet the Huskies could win wenever Garhart called on a little extra power. It was Washington by a shade after the first half-mile. The two shells, rowing on opposite . sides of the nine-boat field, were vir tually on a line at the mile mark. and then it was Washington by a matter of mere feet through the next mile and a half. Going under the railroad bridge and into the last mile, rowing a conservative 30 to California's Neophyte Newsman Wants $30,000 to Sign, A La Wakefield f By WHITNEY MARTIN NEW YORK,, June 25-(Special to The Statesman)-We know a young fellow who we think will develop into a crackerjack news paperman. , He is alert, energetic, doesn t split Infinitives . beyond repair, doesn't bit a a low curve -outside with a publicity spin on it and can pound a typewriter for extra bases.' ,. ' : He wants (30,000 to sign up with some big league paper, but we think a $25,000 offer will get him. Of course, he's had no pro fessional experience, having worked only . school paper, but Shucks, .that shouldn't make' any difference. Everybody says he's a cinch to go great guns In' the big leagues. - . v f .; What's so funny' about that, you editors? Didn't Dick Wake field just agree U sign to play basebaU with the Detroit Tigers for .some JM5,90e? Do ' they know, lielf.be a crackerjack '. major league player? They f think h wDl," nre, but w : minx our, young . newspaper v sapling will- develop into a sturdy c oak. to. lie's had as - much big-league experience - as , .Wakefield. And what's mere. sie 35, the Huskies already had pull ed away to a three-quarter length margin, and they just kept on drawing away from there to the finish line. Needing to hit no more than 33 strokes to the min ute in the final 440 yards, they powered their way, past the judges a good two lengths in front and were over by the west bank, kidding with the spectators in the observation train, while the other eight boats still were try ing to recover from their four mile haul. After Washington beat Cali fornia in April, Coach Al Ul brickson had called them the " finest crew he ever had. But all during their training on the .Hudson the coach complained about having his men made such outstanding choices to re peat The west, with no crew entered in the freshman race, had to be content with two-thirds of the spoils. California's junior varsity beat Washington by a length and a half in 14:40.4 with Cornell third and Columbia fourth and last over the three miles. Cornell's boat scored an unex pected victory in the freshmen two-mile pull, in which undefeat ed Syracuse and MIT, had been expected to fight Wisconsin for top honors. The Ithacans, never worse than third, , still were in that spot going into the last half-mile but came up like a splintery streak to beat Wiscon sin by a good length in 9:57.7. Back of the Badgers came Syra cuse, Princeton, MIT and once again,. Columbia. The crowd was the smallest in years. The observation train had only 10 cars, the fleet of specta tor boats was small, and in all probability about 25,000 saw the regatta. , In contrast to a year ago, when weather conditions were horrible, they were perfect for all three of today's races. There was very little wind and the ripples on the course were nothing to worry this sort of river men. With Detroit Tigers there Isn't nearly as much 1 chance that he .will come up with cracked fingers or a broken leg, as he doesn't come sliding into his typewriter We've tried to convince our young friend that maybe he should try to wrangle at $20-a- week Job, or maybe work for nothing for a few weeks just to prove he has what it takes, but he's a , stubborn cuss, and . just says: - . ,-'. , "If Wakefield can get a bonus for signing to go to work, why shouldn't I? Why is baseball any different than anything . else? He has something there, at that : It poor, downtrodden ball players, who have only a $65,000- a-year man to see th a t they aren't reduced to slavery by the club - owners,- can -command as high as $45,000 just to promise to try to ' play high-class baseball maybe we have been wasting a lot of sympathy on poor down trodden ball players. . .. Offhand, we cant think ef another' branch of human en " deavr I where ' m prospective ' employe, with no real experi . ence, rets a lt"9-sized fortune fr it agreeing to tnrv Pro football ' sometimes pays . bo nuses, bat the - pro footballers In the Kentucky Derby of college A gain Lar( To Over Dodgers NATIONAL LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet W L Pet St. Louis 45 21 .682 Chicago 30 35 .462 Brookyn 44 21 .677 Pittsburg 24 32 .429 New Yk 34 29 .540 Boston 22 36 .379 Cincinat 34 31 23 Philadel 18 48 .281 ST. LOUIS, June 25-P)-St. Louis' Cardinals had to win Wed nesday or lose the National league lead to Brooklyn so they pounced on Boston again, this time 6 to 2, and kept that half-game margin. Boston - 2 7 1 St. Louis 5 10 1 Hutchins, Johnson (2) and Ber res, Masi (3); White and Padgett Jints Down Cubs CHICAGO, June 25--The New York Giants punched across three runs in the first inning Wednesday and beat the Chicago Cubs 4 to 1 for Rookie Bob Car center's fifth victory against one defeat. " : New York . L.4 6 1 Chicago 1 8 1 Carptenter and Danning; Lee, Page (8) and McCullough, Schef fling (7). Reds Cop Double CINCINNATI, June 2S-(JP)-Masterful hurling by youngster and veteran, a glimpse of power house hitting and errors by the opposition combined Wednesday to give Cincinnati's Reds both ends of a twin bill with tail-end Philadelphia, 8 to 3 and 5 to 1 First game: Philadelphia 3 11 1 Cincinnati 8 13 0 Podgajny, Johnson (6), Melton (7) and Livingston, Harmon (7); E. Riddle and LombardL Second game: Philadelphia 15 2 Cincinnati . 5 5 1 Grissom, Harmon (8) and War ren; Pearson and J. Riddle. Bucs Nosed out ? PITTSBURGH, June 25-(JP)- The Brooklyn Dodgers nosed out the Pittsburgh Pirates 5 to 4 Wed nesday to sweep their three-game series and stay within touching distance of the National league lead. Brooklyn .!-. 5 9 Pittsburgh J 4 10 Casey, Higbe (7) and Owen; Heintzelman and Lopez. nsnally have ' a pretty good line on what their man will be able to do, and dont have to worry about whether he can hit a carve ball or go to his right ; V - '': You can't criticize Dick Wake field. You can only envy him and wonder if some day all business will be conducted along i the same lines so that a fellow who succeeded in fixing the tap in his sink will be able to get a bonus from the plumbers1 union , for signing up to learn to be' a jour neyman sink fixer. -. - " . " You also wonder if male stu dents at the University of Michi gan won't be in a quandary as to whether to major in football or baseball, what with Tom Har mon cashing in plenty as a re sult of his gridiron fame and Wakefield capitalizing immedi ately on his diamond prowess. Education, jfs wonderful: Lrerang back to our . young friend, he's, open to offers, and be doesn't ' expect to be fanned out for mternship with some cross-roads weekly. Thirty-thou and is his price, and if he wont take less we know, a-fellow-who wilL In fact ; we might sign up . AAA AAA ' ' - - Any Takers?. . 1 Via asuinff o - Slim Edge Spokane Trims Tigers Pair; Chiefs Nab Win WESTEKX INTERNATIONAL " W t, Pet - W L Pet Yakima 30 IS .12Tacoma 24 28 .42 Spokane M 20 .600 Salem 23 27 .449 Vancouv 28 28 l)Wcnatch. 20 M .367 SPOKANE, June 25-iiP)-The Spokane ' Indians took a long stride on their return jaunt to ward the Western International league top spot Wednesday night crushing Tacoma in a double header by scores of 9 to 4 and 11 to 0. " The twin triumph left the In dians half a game behind YaH ma, which split a double ses sion. Bob Kinnaman, more familiar in a relief role, gave Tacoma only two hits in six of the nightcap's seven innings, granting two more in the seventh. His mates, mean while, collected nine off Porter, including Pete Hughes' 17th home run of the season, poled with one man of base. Spokane backed up A. Murray OTlynn's fair pitching with a six-run outburst in the fifth frame of the opener to erase Tacoma's one-run lead. There were three triples in the inning, including one by Hughes good for a pair of tallies. First game: Tacoma 4 10 1 Spokane 9 9 1 Cabinha and Cardoza; O'Flynne and Myers. Second game: Tacoma 0 4 3 Spokane - . 11 9 0 Porter and Stoeber; Kinnaman and Myers. Chiefs Stop Losses - WENATCHEE, June 15-JP)-The Wenatchee Chiefs gave their win-hungry fans something to shout about by defeating the Van couver Capillanos 12 to 11 in a Western International league game here Wednesday night The victory broke an eight game los ing streak. The game was close throughout with extra base hits in order. Wenatchee got three two baggers and two triples. Vancouver got three doubles, a triple and home runs by Wright and Jolley. Al Ramondi, Wenatchee hurler, made over into an outfielder, hit a dou ble and a triple. Vancouver , 11 14 : Wenatchee 12 11 - Goldman, Jonas (7) and Bren her; Weller, Libke (4) and FarreU. CoxsivainFomo Gets Dunking; Easy Win, Say POUGHKEEPSIE, June 25-(JP) Coxswain Vic Fomo got his dunk ing in the Hudson from his Wash ington rowing mates along about dusk Wednesday night just as everyone expected he would. The Huskies were three to five to win the Intercollegiate rowing regatta, and eame in like a one to ten shot as Coach Al Ulbrickson called this set of sweep swingers "as great a crew as I ever had." ' - The three length victory didn't cause any undue excitement among the eight oar pullers. They acted just like a confident collec tion of Huskies who knew all along they were going to win and did. "Yes," Ulbrickson pointed out "but this erew is better In many ways than my 1936 Olympic winning erew. They've rowed . . faster over the Olympic dis tance." 'Stroke Ted Garhard came close to giggles when someone asked if he had any difficulty getting the oarsmen to boost their beat a mile or so from the finish. "Hellt I had trouble holding 'em down, he said, f '"To which Fomo, drying himself after receiving the traditional toss into the river always awarded the cox of the winning crew, added: -We were hitting a 3C beat at ; the finish, and Vre could have gone vp to 40. Only one earlier La the race did I ask them U pour it on a little. -And they did." - --v - I tUt' . i wl v. : Yaks- Greer Hurls 2-1 Win, Salem's Oliver Elbows a 3-1 - " ' By RON GEMMELL ': , " ''. .:'''..'.. Statesman 'Sports Editor ; "'..--fV J " Servers set the pattern at ; Geo. E. ' Waters . ball ; orchard Wednesday night as our. Senators split a -Western International league double session with the loop leading Yakima Pippins by taking the full-length afterpiece,-3 to 1, after dropping the seven Stanza opener, 2-1. - :. ' - Only 17 safeties were registered in the two - tilts and but one of 'em was for extra bases. Even it should have been caught " The Pips' Chuck. Greer let 'our lads have but two blows as he bested Duke Windsor in the opener, and he wasn't responsible for the lone tally. Dell Oliver elbowed six-hit ball in edging the Yaks' Chuck Eisenmann in the nightcap, and while the lone counter registered off him goes down officially as an earned run, a fielding mis take produced it Eisenmann gave up only four singles, but was the victim of his own wild ness, misplays behind him and the fact that the Solons bunched three of their four hits. The Little Skipper, Bunny Grif fiths, batted home all three of the Solons second game counters his long fly scoring Lightner in the second after Eisenmann issued three straight passes, his infield out tallying -Bates in the fourth after Charlie had walked and gone to third on two boots by Third Baseman Walt Bliss, and his single in the sixth scoring Bates, who had bingled and advanced on Bergstrom's one-base knock. Yakima scored first in the after piece, getting the lone tally in the second when Lightner mis judged Roy Younker's long lash, with the result that it went for three bases.. Younker legged it home on Bill Reese's fly to Charlie Petersen, although Pete's rifle throw came close to nipping him at the plate. xne Legislators jumped into a. one-run lead in the second inning of first game when Charlie Bates walked, stole second, took third on Greer's wild pitch and tallied on Catcher Hal Sueme's wild heave at third after retrieving the wild pitch. Goldie Holt s hustlers knotted the count In the third on con secutive sinrles by Koskl and Sueme and Madrid's long- lash to center, that Charles Baldy Pet ersen snared after legging half-,. way across ine utergardens. Charlie boy got a big and well deserved hand from the 1067 customers. The Holtmen put the game away in the sixth on Bill Reese's very blooperish bingle into right, that followed Bliss' life on Griffiths' error, and his stolen base. Reese was thumbed from the game by Umpire Amby Moran in the fourth; heat of the afterpiece. Big Bill booted a bit of Willamette valleyc sod on the second base alter Charlie Bates completed a double play to Lanifero that nipped Reese. Bates took Hal Johnson's hard smash right on a hit-and-run play, stepped on first and pegged to Lanifero to get Reese. The Yakima series ends tonight with a single game at 8:15. Spo kane comes in for single games Friday and Saturday nights, a double bill Sunday night and a make-up single Monday night Business Manager Howard Maple reported he is today signing Vincent Marak, a 21-year-old, C-foot-2 lefthanded pitcher from Oregon City. Marak was recently released by Muskegon of the Michigan State league, where he had won three and lost one. Maple also said Outfielder Ed Coleman is scheduled to be la suit Satur day niffht (Box Scores on Page I) Liudstrom Wins For Soldiers FORT- STEVENS, June 25- ( Special )-Bob Lindstrom,' Head quarters Battery,- Second Battal ion, Monday , night hurled his matesof the Second Battalion to a 6-3 Softball conquest over an entry in the Astoria City league, Obrien-Gram. ' The Second Battalion team is composed mainly of former Salem players, including Sgt Thure Lindstrom,' Corp. Ed Weisner, Corp- Al Wickert, Priv. 1st Class Jack Causey, Corp. Ollie Wfl llarns, Priv. Larry Pendergrass, Priv. Jud Comstock, Priv. Virgil Teems, Corp. Bob Lindstrom. Iwhcro smcrt men thep for fina, ndionc!!y advertised Victdrv Spokane Draws Heavy Fines SPOKANE, June ZS-OJPfc-Um- pire Harvey Nelson, who couldn't throw an owner from his own ball park, had the last laugh Wednes day when the Spokane .Western International league team was fined $25 as the result of an ar gument June 15. Manager Kay Jacobs was fined $15 and catcher Ken My ers $5 for their part In the drama, which eame In the sixth Inning of a game here with Yakima. Myers watched three straight strikes sail by and then protested oudly and long when. Nelson waved him out The umpire quick ly thumbed him from the game and gave Jacobs the same thumb when the manager toox up Myer s case. ' Nelson pursued the still arguing pair to the Spokane dugout and was met there by owner Bill Ul- Sport Oxfords CROSBY1 SQUARE, "spectator oxfords, white bucko with an tique brown trim. Wing tip or straight tip, ideal for slacks. Rodney Court KEDSimns Natural green and brown basket weave fabric, extra heavy Jumbo cork rubber covered sole. WORK SHOES ond OXFORDS For cannery, farm or where good rough shoe service is needed . see them at Miller's today! AIRMMM'S C SE. 50 2 up 5ps45 up New Shoe Department . 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