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Sparks By HON GEMMELL 4,Boot Home the Bearcats," is a slogan proposed by Bruce Williams,7 the former Willam ette U publicity agent who is now in training at Sand Point to become a naval flyer, and a good time to start that slogan nercolatins is this very night in Multnomah , ' stadium, Portland, where the Bearcat seeks revenge over the Portland Pilots. . . Williams, who earned the dis--Mnction of becoming the only Bearcat In history to wind the Mavoole four straight years tin addition to his prowess on the football field and ! basketball court and at the typewriter), will arrive In Salem Saturday, Just a hit late for the Portland-WU lamette game. . . . Hell be here a f nr davs on furlough before tre King On UJ i'ensatuia w aaiijou training. ; There's little question In what rets by as a mind for this urveyor that Keene's 'Cats, providing they steer clear of the fuzxy-wuiziness which has a habit of hittinr them In Port iiw,jt it rihM. have what It takes to rip through the Pilots. ... Should they commit the error of! trying to take Matty MathewK men in stride, how ever, HT1 be a whipped Metho dist eleven that'll creep home In the wee hours of Friday morning Actually, the 'Cats have been pointing for the Pilots every day since they first took Sweetland field last September 10. . . . That awful 21-7 beating they suffered from the Cliffdwellers last season has been i thrown at them ever since. . . That incentive, coupl ed with the fact I believe Wil lamette to have the better all around ball, club, especially re serves, V-Ieads me to name the Bearcats as 20 to 7 victors. Take Rpw Joe One Otegonian a hero and an other a near-goat in the world series opener, what with Joe Gor don giving the Yankees their vic tory margin on a home run and . single in two official times to bat, and withJean Curt Davis the los ing pitcher. . . . Old, -Piano Legs" Joe, as we nicknamed him when he was covering all of his short Stop territory and half of the out field for the University of Ore gon, holds a 1.000 batting average as the series goes into its second game this morning. Davis,1 although knocked out of the box and charred with the loss, wasn't the real goat. . . . At least he wasn't to me. . . . ' Chief In that department was Dolph Camilli, the national . league's j leading runs-driven-in batter, -who Ignobly whiffed clean three straight times at bat i 1a ft Ait mat efrandljbtfl All - the lanes. That which makes the Yanks to confounded tough to beat is the ability of any one of them to break up ball games. ... It was Gordon and Dickey in the opener, but it's apt to be DiMaggio, Keller, rfenrich, Rolfe, Strum or Rizzuto who provides the punch today, tomorrow or( the next day. , . . The club has such magnificent balance that even when the big punch boys, DiMaggio and Keller, don't hit," the weaker wallopers are just as likely as not to deliver enough to win the ball game. Viks Pea Green While Oregon City doesn't fig ure to provide Salem's preppers -with much in the way of opposi tion here Friday night, one can never tell what such .an inexper ienced crew as Harold Hauk,' the Vik boss, has under his wing this : season will - do. . i Hauk's line, especially, is pea green from the tackle on one side to the far end with End Roilie Haag, who gives every indication .of developing into college material, the only veteran. , . Thus far, the Viks In a meas ure have made up for lack of experience with pure fight and . aggresslvenew . . Perhaps they 11 'continue to do so, week after week; bat unless they 'do, the Inexperience - is bound to ; cost them a ball game or two - alonr the war. i r V- at present Is for the key fullback berth, where Bob Warren, fresh Scribe, Epitomizing Gordon Before Series . Began, Allowed Joe Might Be Hitting Hero ,.. Editor's note The following story was written by Mr." Gra ham several weeks before the series started. By DILLON GRAHAM ,'eports Editor, AP Feature Service i NEW YORK Guys named Joe have made the Yankees. Others have helped but the Yanks hardly would be in the world series with out Joe McCarthy's' master-minding, Joe DiMaggio's spark-plug hitting and Joe Gordon's spark ling play around second base. ' Gordon's spectacular ' stops have saved many a game for jNTew York hurlers There's an old saying that you can't build a winning ball club without : standout per formers behind the plate, at sec ond and in centerfield. The Yanks have those standouts -in Dickey, DiMaggio and Gordon. -: Joe was a flash with the vet-' eraa Frankle Crwsctti and since JlcCarthy stack Phil Klzzuto la Gordon's Hitting, Ruffing1' Yankees' Just Another One to Bombers; Dressing Room Like Morgue; Dem Bums Still Ooze Optimism By CHARLEY DUNKLEY YANKEE STADIUM, Oct. l.-(AP) Winning a ball game doesn't mean a darn thing to the triumphant New York Yankees. 1 Cocky and defiant, the victorious Yanks took Wednes day's victory as just another ball game. Their dressing room was quiet as a morgue. Grey-haired Arthur Fletcher, one of the coaches, tried to stir up a little enthusiasm by emitting one piercing whoop. But nobody joined him, so he quit. There was no yelling, no hollering, and not even a pat on the back. . Joe McCarthy, the kindly, bespectacled manager of the Yanks, walked over to Red Ruff ing and shook him warmly by the hand and reraised his six-hit pit ching performance. His face was diipping with prespiration, and he looked as if he had just walked a hundred miles. Striking out Dolph Camilli three out bf four times didn't make much of an impression on the red-faced Ruffing. He insisted he threw nothing but fast balls to the Dodger's firstbaseman and clean-up hitter. McCarthy refused to get excited over the victory. Puffing on "a big black cigar. tlwferotund mana SO WHAT? NEW YORK, Oct. l-iJFj-The Brooklyn Eagle world series extra Wednesday carried this eight-column banner: "Yanks win; so what?" ger sat at his desk in the little room that serves as his office and opened telegrams. One fan in Baton Rouge, La., wired him as follows: 1 "Can't get you on the radio here- Hope you lose." "Now ain't that a pip?" Mc Carthy asked. "A manager al ways gets blamed for every thing." The Dodgers were disappointed, but were as optimistic as ever about the series. To a man, they agreed, "the Yanks aren't as tough as we thought they were." Manager Leo Durocher, Ducky Medwick, Pete Reiser, Curt Davis and the others agreed on this. Johnny Allen, the third Dodger el bower Wednesday (he used to be a Yankee himself) made it even more emphatic when he an nounced to the squad: "We're in, fellas. Ruffing Is the only pitching they got and we had him hanging on the ropes. From now on it's just a soft touch." "Davis , pitched a helluva game," Durocher said, "but he made two mistakes. Those hurt. He gave Gordon and Dickey each a low in side pitch and you know what happened. Gordon hit a homer and Dickey doubled to drive in a run. ' "All I can say is that with a break or two going our waj, we'd have won easUy," he went on. "Of course, our hitters didn't hit And we had our one inning when we started to move and then we missed it when Was dell fouled into a double play. You can't win If you don't hit." f Ruffing didn't have a thing aft er the fifth inning. He was Just obbing it up there. They got the first leg on the trophy, but you need four to win it." With Durocher more or less quiet, - the dressing room wasn't any more excited or noisy than a well-run business office as the players went through the motions of showering and dressing , up from Parrish junior high; Bud Coons, triple-threater who has mose or less dilly-dallied with football up to this, his senior year; and Bill Pettit, who won his spurs as a reserve last season, are lighting it out. . ... . warren is probably the hardest, most elusive runner of the trio; Coons much the better passer; and Pettit much the steadiest at short Gordon has seemed even better. His fine play and his coaching have helped t make a star of the young rookie , ' ihortfielder." They form the best second base combination in baseball and may better the American league double play record this year. . ' , . You may get arguments from some quarters but a majority of experts will rank Gordon as the best second ' baseman ' in ' the game .today. . ,: - , ," As ( McCarthy once said: the guy can play anywhere.' , He's a ball player." Joe switched him to first base early this "season and he caught on rapidly. Had not the experiment with Priddy at second failed, Gordon might have finished the year at ; the initial sack. ' j Joe Is just as much of a star at bat He's having a tight battle with Tommy H enrich for No. S Jtanors among (he Yanks, behind 3-2 Verdict in World Series Opener Typical Bums: Miss Signs, Run at Will NEW YORK, Oct l.-Add- ing to the general confusion about the way the Dodgers killed their own biggest threat in the opening world series game, it was learned Wednesday night that Pinch-Hitter Jim Wasdell was given the bunt signal with two on and none out in the seventh inning and then missed the sign. Instead he took a full cut at the ball and sent up a pop foul which promptly resulted in a double play as Red 'Rolfe took the fly and tossed to third base to catch Peewee Reese. Earlier, .Dodger Manager Leo Durocher disclosed Reese had tried to come down from second to third base on the play without getting the sign to do so. Wasdell admitted he missed the bunt sign, and it was discovered Durocher gave hint quite a verbal going-over in the dressing room for blowing it. At the time. Reese was on second, Lew Riggs was on first, there was none out one run was in and the Dodgers were a run behind. YANKEE STADIUM, New York, Oct. l.-P)-Leo Durocher, the Dodgers' manager, revealed after Wednesday's defeat by the Yankees that the base-running by Peewee Reese, which chilled the one big Brooklyn threat in the seventh inning, shouldn't have happened at all. "Reese came down from sec ond without orders on that play," Durocher pointed out "The way I figure it Rolfe had to throw less than 50 feet and Peewee took the chance on run ning on his own. That's just the breaks, however." Biiig Promises Aid to Track SPOKANE, Wash., Oct. lWi Crooner-Sportsman Bing Crosby pledged "nominal" support Wed nesday for a proposed leasing of Playfair racetrack by a Spokane syndicate, the motion picture star's brother, E. J. "Ted" Crosby, announced. The syndicate is headed by I. L. Hildenbrandt former general manager of the track, who said the group intended to revive the Spokane Interstate - Agricultural fair, inoperative for a. decade, In connection with the annual horse racing program. "Ring's financial interest will be nominal, we are financing the project ' locally for Spo kane," Hildenbrandt said. "But his advice and good will and standing In the racing game In California and - throughout - the country will be invaluable." Bids on a 10-year lease will be opened by the city council Thurs day. John J. Jerome is the pres; ent leaseholder. - - - . " . . Bings pledge was received in a radiogram from Buenos Aires, where the actor is vacationing, E. J. Crosby said. the great DiMaggio and stubby Charley Keller, who may be out of the series with an Injured ankle. Gordon has knocked In more than 88 runs and has ham mered out better than 28 hom ers. -. - r ; This is his fourth season In the majors. He was wobbly at first and McCarthy benched him. But when heweht back into the line up that rookie year, he was such a sensation that many 'rated him tops in the league before the sea son, finished He was the batting star of the, world series that fall, with an average of .400. -And In any pre-series calcula tlons Gordon gives the Yanks the edge over any. second base man the National league con tenders may. offer. Gordon can outfield and outhit his position al rival. . . : - : It. wouldn't be surprising " if Gordon turned out to be the bat ting hero of this fall' series. Salem, Oregon Thursday Smacks 5Em i - ; - ' I . - 1 V I I - -- - ' 1 ' - - 4. s. i 1 - .ill M i r -I s' :';svS-: - "'c '- . -.: ' ':.kvk b&X ." :-' . : :: . --y'.v. ; . x . , 1 jaifr.. Rp, I - )- - -- --- - Joe "Flash" Gordon, or "Piano Legs," as he was known while playing for the University of Oregon, supplied the power that enabled the Yankees to take the 1941 world series opener from the Dodgers Wednesday, 3-2. Gordon accounted for two runs with a home run and single. He hit L068 per cent Vik Grid i Strength 1 f Backs Warren, Simmons Said Able to Play All Salem high's grid chillun are well again, Wednesday night announced Coach Harold Hauk, who opens his 1941 home season Friday night by sending them! against Oregon City on Sweetland field. i At least the two lads who have been ' "cripples" throughout the week Halfback Dutch Simmons and Fullback Bob Warren were said to hae recovered sufficiently to be able ; to play. - . Hence ! Simmons will start at his leftj halfback post sald Hauk although Johnny Hoff ert Is certain to see service. War' ren, however, has been eased out at least for this game by Bud Coons. The backfield, said Hauk, will be Owen Garland at ' blocking back, Simmons and Rex Hardy at the wingbjacks and Coons at full back.- In the line, it will-be the vet eran Roilie Haag and rookie Jim Wenger at ends, Ray Loter and Lloyd Griffith at tackles, BilW Lind and Bob - Palmateer at guards, and Bob Sederstrom at center. j Series Isn't Serioiisto British Tars. - " PHILADELPHIA, Oct Three British sailors from the " cruiser Manchester stood among - several hundred baseball fans I watching a . description of the -world series Wednesday on an electric signboard in front of the ' Evening j Bulletin building, r ' . finally, one sailor turned to a civilian and said: - Txcuse me, .sir, could- yen tell what Is upr ; - - . "PiMaggio's . up,". . was the prompt teply, ,r . .. Tm afraid I don't understand,' sir. What's the news aboutf "It's the series the . ball game," explained the American . "Oh, yes, .1 see. Thank yen so- much. Come, yen chaps. And away went the British tan. Morning, October 2. 1941 . 10 . , , S Crew Back for Pioneer Opens Home HAROLD Seek to Limit Smelt Catches - WALDPORT, Oct" l.P)-The South Lincoln Rod and Gun club asked the state fish commission Wednesday to limit smelt catches during the Yachats river run and make regulations to preserve the run. . " , A limit of 25 pounds was asked. The dub. also requested that the north and south forks of the riv er, in the extreme southern . part of Lincoln county, be closed to fishing for five years. - - ' ; : ColuuiLus Blasts Montreal, 133 . COLUMBUS, O, Oct l-(ff)-Co-lumbus blasted ' three Montreal hurlers for - 16 - hits Wednesday night to beat the Royals 13 to S and take a three games to two ad vantage in the little world series wmmmmm 1 .. :, z:i- -71 ( -4 . . ' z - ' v I ' " - ' " tt 1 " - ' eJ Z jCf-Ss'V. :' -.:..v. ....,;;.... 'iw-if S.?;;N Pitching miMjg 'Flash' Accounts Of Runs With Homer, Single; Big Red Hurls Six-Hit BaU By JUDSON YANKEE STADIUM, New magnificent New Pork Yankees harnessed pitching and power Wednesday to turn back before a record crowd of 6840 and send the world series off to a spectacular start, i It was a glorious triumph 36-year-old veteran of 17 years it was a perfect day at the plate for Joe FIaslT Gordon, and most of all it was an impressive display of team co ordination, i 11 Ruffing hurled no-hii ball 68,540 Fans Contribute $265,396 Sum World series facts and figures: By The Associated Press W Brooklyn (National) New York (American) 0 1 : First game: Brooklyn 2 3 6 6 New York : Davis, Casey (6), Allen (7) and Owen, Franks' (7); Ruffing and Dickey. ATTENDANCE, RECEIPTS Paid attendance 68,540 Receipts . $265,396.00 Advisory council share 39,809.40 Players' share 135,351.96 Each club's share 22,558.66 Each league's share 22,558.66 Second game at Yankee stadium, Thursday, October 2; third, fourth and fifth games at Ebbets field, Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Oc tober 3-4 and 5; sixth and seventh games at Yankee stadium, Monday and Wednesday, October 6 and 8. Four Ex-Viks On Rook Squad CORVALLIS, Oct l.-W-Among 69 men turning out for the Oregon State college fresh-? man football team this week, Coach Bill McKalip listed: Les Pearmine, Salem, end; Nor man Sholseth, Salem, tackle; Bill Thompson, Salem, guard; Cecil Huffman, Sweet Home and Charles Domogalla, Salem, backs. to Full Clash Season Friday HAUK Uela Speeds up ForjStanford LOS t ANGELES, Oct .l-(fl-With supporters of. the -. UCLA football ; 'team' nursing ' a " hunch that the Bruins may stage an up set win over Stanford; the team went , through another prolonged workout Wednesday. - Emphasis was placed on speed. The Bruins displayed promise in this department, but reports of the . Stanford-Oregon game indi cated . that Coach Shaughnessy bad bis share of fast running end passing talent, too. More, speed than power, was the way the scout report put it ? .'- between the American Association and International league - cham pions. . ; . t ., Montreal (tt.) S 8 J Columbus (A A) , 1? ie : s Macon, Kehn, Sherer and Howell; Grodzicki and Heath. for Brace BAILEY Tork, Oct. l-(AP) The the Brooklyn Dodgers 3 to 2 for Charley "Red" Ruffing, in the American league and for iA innings and sup pressed the dangerous Dodgers on six safeties, all of them singles ex cept one. The big, powerfully framed righthander had a few lapses in the late innings, possibly symptoms of age, but he never ost control of the; game and the sixth victory of his extended ca reer in these classics of baseball was one of his finest Gordon hit a home run to shoot the Yanks out in front in the second inning and then drove In the deciding counter with a single in the sixth. The Yankees also were held to six ; hits by Curt Davis and two other Brooklyn pitchers, but only some incom parable fielding by the Dodgers kept this check on the bombers. Joe "Muscles" Medwick rob bed Jolting Joe DiMaggio of an almost certain home run in the fourth by making one of the greatest and, most difficult catches ever seen in a world series. DiMaggio drove a whis tling liner straight for the low er stands In left field and Med wick backed up against the four-foot wall just In time to spear the ball with a mighty leap. He was leaning backward over the wall when he made the catch and he tumbled down on the field holding the white ball visible all the while In his out stretched glove. In making the catch, Medwick bruised his back slightly. : ; This catch was not sufficient to keep the Yankees from scoring in the fourth frame, however, be cause Davis promptly walked Charley Keller artd Bill Dickey brought , him . all the Way home with a tremendous double that bounced off the railing of the cen terfield bleachers ; 400 feet from the plate. Gordon was purposely passed then and also waited out a walk in the eighth inning to keep his slate clean for the game. Gordon's single that pushed the winning run home in the sixth also was the blow that drove Davis off the mound. Charley Keller drew a walk after one was out and went to third on a single by Dickey. But Davis had a chance to escape until Gordon reached for an outside pitch and slammed it Into centerfield to bring Keller trotting home. Chubby Hugh Casey, leading relief specialist of the senior' cir cuit, got the next two batters and then was removed for a pinchhit ter. Johnny, Alien, a r former Yankee, finished the game. The struggle dragged along for more than two hours as the aged pitchers used by both clubs la bored deliberately lut the battle never lost Its tenseness for the perspiring crowd that broke all series records for size and re ceipts for a single game. The Dodgers were out-gunned. but they were not out-fought and they made a tight ball game bv scoring single runs in the fifth and seventh stanzas, sparked both tunes by little Peewee Reese, who collected three of the Dodgers' nits. . i , With two out In the fifth he nicked Ruffing for the first hit against the dean of the Yankee staff, a popgun shot into right center Held. Mickey Owen, an other litUe feUow with a sup posedly weak bat foUowed with a triple by slicing a liner be tween DiMaggio; and Keller In .left center.. ' This was enough to bring the Yankee bullpen into action and Joe McCarthy's reserves remained busy , through the later innings although they never were called. In the seventh an error and two singles gave the .Dodgers their oiner run. Cookie Lavagetto led on wun- a snarpi grounder to Shortstop Phil Rizzuto, . who rusned t his .. throw: and let 'go iow loss ina? bounced m front of first base and left Lavagetto gei on. Tnen Reese bounced 1 . M . i, .- ... single in rront or the ; zox and over KUKing's head to put run ners on first and second with none out' . Invalid Hunter Bags Her Deer PORTLAND, Oct.l-tfVNellie Shannon returned : to Portland In her wheel chair Wednesday with a ij-pound mule deer she she in we Ucnoco national forest . auss nannon, a 1 s o an able duck hunter, said she killed the buck with one shot at 83 yards. She has been confined to wheel cnair lor za years, the result o mianuie paralysis. - Sidelights Oh Series j By SID FEDER VATjmric STADIUM, New York, Oct. 1,-W-The score: Rnmbers 3. Bums 2 and there wiU be a flock of hangovers on the banks of the Gowanus Thursday morning. ... The fat guy who piunxeu htmeoif into a box back of the Yankee dugout was no mirage . ; . Babe Ruth, to person. iu uok r-nnnie Mack and Come dian 'joe E. Brown all sat In th. same neighborhood, dui xne that th Rabe DODDed OUt of Joe's mouth the first tjlme he opened it is basely false. Rufus-the-Red Buffing ana, 4 Cnrt-the-Sklnny Davis were couple of the most deliberate pitchers yon ever saw. They were taking their time like the driver of s track loaded witlr dynamite approaching a grade crossing. 1 r;iUarrin chrailda had the law on Dem Bums. Medwick robbed him of a homer and Jteese stole a single from him In tire sixth. "It's out .and out grand larceny," the Yanks insisted. - . v Camilli's three straight strike--oats was nothing to Impress the ; kids with, and it wasn't a rec ord. Nine years age Wednesday, George Piprras whtffed - Ove . times when the Yanks tangled . with the Cubs. Which Is stirring , vp a lot of airJust the right ; thing to do for a day as muggy, . as this. - - Goinff back to the beginning," the Bums took so long coming out of their clubhouse and checking into Their dugout folks were De ginning to ask if they were going to show up at all. Judge Landis threw out the first ball wild pitch. ' Dickey ' had to dive for it like he never had to chase Lefty Gomes sail-' er stuff in his wildest days. Say r Shouldn't This Be 'Early BoicV Instead? NAMPA. Oct WJP-Cheered bv word from Governor Clark that his pass-snngmg arm was in top shape .officials of Nampa's first annual lettuce bowl game Wednes day, pronounced the stage set for the ipaay night event - Gonzaga university of Spokane and ollege, Of Idaho will furnish the gridiron talent for the arc lighted, affair. Governor Clark will throw out the ball. The chief executive, assisted by Lt. Gov. C. C. Gossett of Namna, also will crown a let tuce bowl aueen.J--j-i L Expected to attend the game, sutgea to4 cau attention to one of this section's most Important crops, are Union Pacific railroad and Pacific Fruit Express offi cials. . It will be Gonzasa's third at tempt to break into the win ml. umn j this year, while College oJ iaano, aiter suif ertog a 52-0 drub bing i from Willamette imivmfH last week, will endeavor, to regain the form it showed in 'trouncing uDion atate Normal 20-0 in the season's opener. White Sox Tip Ciibsa4tol 4f CHICAGO ' rw t . M i . "v'ni tuur runs on six nits in the ninth inning to defeat the Nation al league Cubs 4 to 1, in the open- v uic ti iy series. Ilr ur Sox batters In the ninth, Jo. KuheV Lake Ap pUng. Taft Wright and Mike Kreevich, stngled and scored two runs, then Bob Kennedy forced Kreevich, but Ted Lyons, j the Pitcher, singled toeore ' Wright and Bfll Knickerbock J ers single coasted Treshi bits off Lyons, scored their run in vnVi Dom Dallessan stogle. Babe DaWren' All of th W t lis. Box Scores BROOKLYN ur.ii. . Herman, t CanuDi. l Lavagetto, 3 Owen, e Allen, b NKW tOKK (A) B R DiMaggio, m KalUr t IT-"" Dickey, e Gordon, 2 Buffing, p Brooklyn . Ml.. i SIS 109 tam n. Z lot jXs ,.2 11 ii. !; f mt. ' . H O A.M. 2 S ' ..- - Ore.. m a 0 O 7" 4.' y. - o i - f i . . o -O 0 O'-O- tt ik .. 0 t OA.. o o o o . a o i i ; : 0 a n Z I ! ? 0 S I l - J 0 H . I a" o 2. ! -2 " 0 'f O O A k 2 a- a ; y . mn, Gordon. TviH . n. Owen. Two basi nt u18 hit. Cordon to RUzutoV c'f to Riuto Jannlnjf. 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