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miemm:MBadY .' -k.-,. .int. -'t -v.. mt - M i. 771 wo tt tk. arvl . .Cve-s - , A -communique from .Harold McDaniel of th Coot Bay Harbor, in reply to the bleacher babblings oi this writer In sec ond guessing the casaba carnival heartily agrees that the North Benders did have a bad night when Baker bowled them over. And finishing fourth in the-state hoop tourney didn't pacify the Benders ' one bit--theyrre already pointing toward next .year's .night " i "I saw every game Excepting is McDaniel," Vyou didn't mis, sends off a bit in the Baker gazne-Budy Ruppe was especially disap- the'toumey; so w were sort of expecting it again he didn't play . his usual "game until he took that : terrific fall early in the ML Angel ; Same. (That was the one in which ; Ruppe leveled out horizontally after, a mighty leap and descend ed, to the floor flat on his back . with .hi head striking first - It . shook him up considerably . enough so that he 'proceeded to . swish 23 point in the 83-32 win.) r He's; a. world-beater down in' his league, but just a two 'o'clock - hitter" in the -tournament' "." - "Dent see how they can keep Nerth Bend frem making the - trip again next year the team will be larger and the only big problem will be In replacing .Wayne Fax. We were eertain- ly. tickled to see him make all- state--he haant had a peer game ' all season." Add another campaigner to the "Reiman of Corvallix for all-state" - move McDaniel " also ' pens ' his '"Reiman got gypped.'' In talking oyer the touraa r . spent with "Happy -V Howard' Maple. Willamette's basketball i eoaeh, the happy one said that he weald pick this same Ruppe . aa the "most ready for college" prospect of the whole horde of hoopers here last week. -', OSCs Star of Stars . . Don Durdan, the baby-faced super athlete of Oregon State, now turns to the Beaver baseball nine again after having participated as one of the outstanding stars in three OSC championship snorts. The left-hander led the Orange to the football title and the Duke dunking, in the transplanted Rose Bowl, played a lot of bang-up - guard on Slats Gill's northern di vision . casaba kings, and was a hard-hitting outfielder on Ralph Coleman's , conference champ Beaver nine last season. Danger ous Don will be in the lineup n -cone's' crew tangles with Spec JKeene's Cats here on March 31. ; ,-, gpeaklnr of the In Bowl game, wt reviewed the play-by-play film shown by Coach Lon Stlner at the Elks temple Thursday night, and are con vinced that, those who wanted to knew where Dmrdan's name was on the All-America list certainly .knew what they were talking about what a game he did play! Maple Now Pitching ..That well worn saying "the best way to get anything done is to do it yourself might be aDDlied o Boss-Man Maple's latest efforts in obtaining hurlers for our Sena tors. Happy Howard was toiling m mid-season form, (although his midriff is a little out of form yet), out on the batting practice slab at WU the other day. Could be he's getting into shape to take his turn n me, senator hill this summer. Shortage of players can cause a lot, of odd things to happen, you ufuw, , Grounders and Pickups Charlie Peterson was la town Friday brought Clint Cameron with him frem Portland, where Clint Is helping build ships. Last we heard, Cameron still likes -. the 71 backs per week he's get-; ting si a shlpfltter better than Inking his 8enator pact this spring. That's a lot of lettuce at that . '. , Haydn Walker, vocifer ous owner of the Boise Pilots fat the Pioneer loop, was a visitor Friday. Attempted to, make a player deal with Maple. Haydn needs a catcher badly since Cliff Barker wont be with him any ' more . . , Jimmy Robertson, ex- Bearcat catcher now awaiting . oprtng training : with the- Sena tors, Is so proud - of Jus new livery , he's been wearing tt dar ing the workeat" sessions for the Freshman lee pageant at the school . tonight Jimmy's Men dividing his afternoons between, conditioning' with Spec -Scene's 'Cats and Glee, practice, and doesn't have time to change Into respective attire , , , Better - be checking those lines and gear, men, as the old flshin season Is near at hand April 18th and she takes eft, " .'. ' Tryisrof CTW: rente;' n Anur.f- gTJCCi-ov. for 8..,t"lf m tlmBt you r AliIJCI ,. I a t. mcert, unu .j, - heart, . luV liver, r ' y, stouica. Kit, eons;.;: v tJcers, C Se v fever, s, j, female . com t 'C r-rb '.Co.' CT.V Only i , i tw . ri. tJ S r e4 t x. cs x ti't . s, Cr. ' ."-".i i the two played Tuesday night, when you stated the boys Were Enlists P L GENE STEWART ' Gene Stewart Enlists in Army Air Corps Gene Stewart ex-Willamette university football -star and 'more recently basketball coach at Che mawa Indian school, enlisted in the US army air corps at Port land Friday. Stewart is now awaiting call to training as a fly ing cadet in the service, having passed his' preliminary and phy sical examinations after- signing in. . . For the past four football sea sons Stewart has been one of Coach Spec Keene's ace half - backs, and was with the Bear eat grid squad In Hawaii when the bombing of Pearl Harbor took place. He did not say when he was to be stationed for training. Silverton V Ball Outlook Like WeatheBright SILVERTON Coach Guy De Lay is putting his Silver Fox baseball tossers through their paces during the cooperative weather this week in preparation for the Big-9 league opener at Woodburn on March 21. Prospects for a go o"d season look encouraging for the Silver Foxes with nine lettermen return ing and several promising trans fers also out , ; . Included among the return ing letter-earners last-season are Big John Day, All-State aee left handed hurler; Chock Sim mons, catcherp also AO-State last year; Lee - Boeder, first sacker,who played m the out field n year ago; Floyd Langs lev, - sab second baseman last season who has first call at that spot now; and Don Hatte burg and John Seeley, at third base and shortstop respectively. The outfield so far looks like three lettermen Juniors Jim Roe, Norris Anderson and Bert . Burr..'. . Sflvefton's first home game will be played at McGinnis field against Ch'emawa on April 7. The last scheduled game is at Molalla on April 28. Winners of the north half of the Big-9 loop will meet the winners of the south half in a champion ship game here on May 1. Nothing Definite Yet On Silverton Red Sox SILVERTON Although nothing definite has been heard from Manager W. L. McGinnis, Saver ton Red Sox fans will more than likely have the opportunity of see ing their . favorite semi-pro team in action this summer, No prac tices have ' been started yet as exact state league arrangements and schedule are still being settled, the Red Sox boss said this week, Redlin Ski Winner ALTA, Utah, March 2(HAVBfll Redlin of Alta Ski club raced down the precipitous Wildcat" course at thisJVasatch mountain resort of 59.3 seconds Friday to win the downhill event at the annual Alta ski races. .. - dditlec , . ,in the Netcs BALTIMORE-i&V-Since its es tablishment In 1914 the state in dustrial accident commission has made'- hundreds, of awards ; to workmen who brake their legs. . Recently : It reported the first award to a workman who broke his artificial leg. He was reim bursed .for the repair cost and for time missed fHra woii ENGLEWOOD,' NJ-Fh-His ac cent was heavy and he obviously was. i stranger to the; ways of the income- tax, so a deputy collector stationed - here ' explained . to him that he could pay, a ; quarter,' a half or all of It at this time. - , The man nodded, stuck hu his pocket a return, .that , called - for payment of several hundred dol? lars, and walked out': " . A few minutes later he returned with a money order for 23 cents. Substantial Rejports. SayXlark ymTuTninJobataOA.M. For "Atttaetiye Marylani0ffer3 "" SAN FRANCISCO," March 20-TheEumuher;t: "barring a last minute unexpected, switch In plans,!,,; Clark Shaughnessy would resign as Stanford university's football'coach Saturday to become athletic director 'arid football coach at the w v oa j vk yum j m. Jim Lawson. nresent assistant football ' coach at Stanford, will succeed Shaugnessy, the newspa per declared. ...i. S This is not official," wrote Curley Grieve, Examiner sports writer, "but It probably will, be - shortly after 19 a.m, 8aturda; when the Stanford board of athletic control holds' an emer- gency meeting.'. v -- President Ray Gorman Wilbur of Stanford said Lawson would be appointed to the Job' if Shauglw nessy left ... ..v. ' Although .offering no contract the newspaper 'sal a,'' Maryland has promised Shaughnessy secut liy as a member of the regular faculty a status he would enjoy as director of athletics and phy sical .education. '. This prospect of security made the'strongest appeal to the Stan ford coach who has been dubious about the future of football on the west coast during the war, the - paper declared. " - Maryland's salary offer was un derstood to equal Shaughnessy's present pay $9000 a year. - - Shaughnessy, who was called a "miracle man a couple of, seasons ago when his T for- ' matlon pat Stanford fat the Rose Bowl, was reluctant to comment upon developments. President Wilbur said frank ly he thought Shaoghnessy would take the reported Mary-, land offer, and he was sorry ' in prospect Wilbur described Lawson, all America end and captain of the 1924 Stanford team, as "the most logical choice" to succeed Shaugh nessy. Lawson is in Portland to attend the important Pacific Coast con ference meeting which will strug gle with the schedule and eligi bility problems arising out of the war time restrictions on crowds and other regulations. la addition to the Shaaghnes- i sy problem, the Stanford board . expected to review the univer sity's entire athletic situation. ; "We're "going to do what every body else will have to do and what should have been done two or three months ago," said L. R. Weinmann, Oakland member o the board. . "The colleges have been negli gent and so has the conference in reshaping policies to conform to wartime conditions and de mands. "Speaking Individually, X be lieve that athletics should be ore- served In every way possible, but u is Highly negligible not to face the situation the way it is now. "There will be football games around here,' service - games and. good ones, but the traveling sit uation may be so changed , that schedules of the kind played dur ing the past years may not be practicable." PORTLAND, Ore, March 29 (JPj-Jim Lawson, mentioned as the probable successor to Clark Shaoghnessy, SJanford football coach, tt the latter accepts a Maryland contract said Friday night "We had hoped Clark weald decide to stay at Stan ford." Lawson, Stanford lino eoaeh, added, "Of coarse for me It would be teed news to be named head coach at my own alma mater." He told a reporter he would keep the T formation - It ad vanced to the Jiead coaching Job. . . . , 110-Year Old Coqney, Demaree, P. Waner Could Be Stengel's Outfield for Braves By WHITNEY MARTIN ; Wide World Sports Columnist NEW YORK, March 20-Casey Stengel 1 can put a 110-year-old outfield into the field this year, and that doesn't mean that's how the boys feel or perform some days, or that he will play all three positions h 1 m s e 1 f. Casey's fin rowed brow hints he is carrying around, 110 - years of worries, - at that :s : 1. v , . v The 119 years are the sum of the ages of Johnny Cooney, Paul Waner and Frank DeMaree, the latter an upstart of 2L Cooney had his 40th birthday a couple of days ago, and Waner will be. 33 next month. - . ; : 1 In ' case anyone gets the Idea that the Boston Brave -pilot Is col lecting first editions of ball play ers it might be hastily mentioned that none of his pitching candi dates has 'reached, the 30-year mark, and the other players would have to be tucked in t farmhouse attic for awhiW and have artificial worm holes bcred in them before they could pang as. antiques. ; ; It's odd that two of basehaH's most remarkable performers should be trying for outbid jobs t,J'wmmmmmmmwmmmvimmmmmmmwmmmwmmm -. . : - - :-J-.-'V : ' V I- - - t '':" - '! v '.? ' , r X f CLARK SHAUGHNESSY SneadyWelirle IadinPro Amateur Meet -. ST. AUGUSTINE, Fla., March 20 - () - Defending Champions Sammy Snead of Hot Springs, Va, and WOford Wehrle of Racine. Wis, paced a select., quartet of teams into the semi-finals of the $3000 national amateur - profes sional best tall coif tournament Friday in two round of match play. . Sammy was bitting the ball far and . true " and Wehrle was steady aa a reck In the after noon round as they triumphed,; 4 and 2, over Jimmy Hlnea of' Great Neck, NT, - and Arnold . Mmkley, veteran Chicago ama teur. Mlnkley, smaHy almost on a par with the best of the pros, was off form Friday and cost his side two holes by miss ing short potts. m Stanford Wins Way to Finals KANSAS CITY. March ZOjH Stanford won its way into the finals - of ' the western division NCAA basketball playoffs Friday night with a 58-47 victory over Rico Institute of Houston. The Calif ornians Saturday night meet the winner of Friday night's second game between the univer sities of Kansas and Colorado. Stanford led, S3 to 21 at the half. KANSAS CITY. March 20-OP1 Colorado checked a wild last half rally scoring surge- by Kansas Friday night to win, 46-44, and enter the final of the western NCAA basketball playoff against Stanford university. NEW ORLEANS. March 20-VP) Tall Jim Olson led Dartmouth's green clad Indians to a 44-39 vic tory over Fenn State's Nittany Lions Friday night in the semi finals of the NCAA basketball championship playoff. , i 'Slats' Gill Will Coach Frosh Baseball CORVALLIS. Ore. March 20 UPV-Amory T. "Slats" GilL basket ball coach also became freshman baseball coach at Oregon State col lege Friday, replacing J. W. For - rester, who resigned recently. GUI formerly was varsitv basehjin I . . . . - - m . I on the same team. Remarkable In that, they are worthy performers at an age when most players long since have been speaking of their future in the past tense. . . Cooney Is the perennial aopho nsore. For years now Stengel has been counting him eat an nually, bat Its like predicting when Niagara ' Falls will stop falling. "We recall Casey seated In the clubhouse shade down south three years ago, watching his squad at batting practice. Cooney came to the plate. - - r "Watch him,", the marveling . eaaey - urged, fwhen ho gets -4hrugh hitting heU go oat and . ' shag-balls. Ton think he should be throogh, and start , flgnrtng on someone else, but you cant keep him out of the llnecp." - Sure enough, when Johnny fin ished hitting he grabbed a glove and galloped into the outfield like a frisky colt That was the tip off on his prolonged baseball ca reer. Work, and condition, and never allowing his legs to tighten up. That's why he could hit 419 last year and field - Waner is a 39-year wonder. The little guy never cared par - j Sugar9 Robinson Win Stredk Over By SID NWYOJIK; March SOrRay Robinson raaJiia long vh; ning streak as a professional campaigner to 29 straight by stop ping Norman' Rubio' in seven rounds at Madison Square Garden Friday night,' but only after having the toughest battle he has ever encounter ea Robinson weighed 143, Rubio 144. . I The' finish game ht the minute1 rest period between the seventh' and eighth rounds after Robio had been floored and his right eye cot fat the seventh. But Ruble wanted to continue and Referee Arthur Donovan ended It only becanse; Gen. John J.' . Phelan, chairman of the New , York' state athletic commission,' ' stood op In his ringside seat and ordered the arbiter to. halt the. proceedings. - His decision , was greeted by-a storm, of boos from ' the . criwd which half-filled - the Garden to see the Skinny Harlem Hammer, ?oinP" f '- -dls-No.; lAfdrW SI P T display. The. guns . were plentygood enough to put the Albany, boy. on the Coor twice during the" eve ning, but- could not keep him there. V v.- " In fact on the Associated Press score card, Robinson had only four and Rubio three rounds. A total ef 1L274 ef the faith ful contributed to a- areas, gate of 122,999 to sit In on the tussle. Despite this narrow margin on the score card,-Robinson gave a convincing display of how he has run through 89 amateur opponents and 29 pro rivals to post the long est winning atreak any fighter in the -ring boasts today. . . Robio took the tint round simply . boring for nod Irinilng . away at the body, bat the Bar-; less Msugarbey' went to work' in the second and third, dancing away from Norman's charges, spearing the shorter Sable with long- lefte and.bounelns; riant. In the feoetk a right staggered, the Albany bey and a right crosg. dropped him near the ropes just, v as the beH sounded. Norman came back somewhat in the fifth and sixth but the-Negfo came out winning in the, seventh and floored Rubio In his own cor ner with a smashing hook for a nine count Norman got to his feet and met a barrage. One left hook tore his eye open, a right sent him reeling across the ring. Still he fought back until the bell rang. Then Donovan and Phelan did what Robinson couldn't do. After -the fight Ray ArceL Rubio's trainer, said the gash In us cnarge's eye wetdd require three stitches. Homers. Galore, aav , Pirates Pop Sox LOS ANGELES, March 2(HJP) The Pittsburgh Pirates broke loose Friday with a six-run sixth frame rally, featured by a olnch-hit homer by Vince DiMaggio with one on base, and beat Chicago's White Sox, 10 to a, Pete Coscarart and Maurice Van Robays also hit. homers for the Baca, while Taft Wright got one In the' third for the-Sox. sending homo two mates ahead of hlnv Wally Moses also got a foor-bagger' for Chicago. Chicago (AL) S 11 10 13 Pittsburgh (NL) Wetland, Ross, Grove and Ttfrir? omirH JimM.i. nuf i J wwmwv,; and Phelps. ticularly about training rules. He's one of these ageless gents, wiry and tough, with a dead pan ex pression and dropping eyelids over vague, apparently unseeing eyes. - His eyes, incidentally, have been rated unique, with a rare photog raphic quality. Of late it's taken a - little longer to develop the plates,- as his average of .267 last year wm the lowest of his, career, but he still' is anything but a dopey Joe up there at the plate. ' His weight hasnt varied . a vpound in years, and. despite his apparent casual attitude toward conditioning, he has taken care of nia Jegs; or rather, haa let --his Jegs-take. care of themselves. - He's never had hli leri rutted 1 down. . s. v. Maybe"." neither - Cooney : nor Waner will make the grade this year, although we'd hate o bet on Cooney being left out- Latest reports are that" Stengel Is fig uring more on youngsters, such as Chet Ross and Tommy Holmes, ' But if he does have to use them, and team them up with Jhe com parative ' young ' Demaree, hell have an outfield that can travel with' most of them. A man Is as old as he-feels, isn't he7 to 29 FEDER Rice Half-Laps Dodds to Win :i 8:53 Two-Mile ;-, t-- . ' v -- ' . . v r i ' - . - ; .Warmerdam . Vaults ; With Ba at 15-9 ; ' CHICAGO, March 20-iflP)-Littlle -! , 1 ..racing by morerthan half a lap a. he won the event in the Chicago re lays with a time of 8 minutes 53- seconds. ' v - i . - Dodds, who has consistently ' pressed,, but; never - conquered: Rice, was badly outclassed a sM 'ressmsed his doe with the' ; former Notre Dame star after competing In the mile for the past three weeks, with three and a half laps left to go. Rice started polling away and kept stretching his advantage until the finish. - Anticipating a new world rec ord, the crowd of 16,000 'persons in the Chicago stadium stood on their seats and roared encourage ment to Rice as he sped around the final circuit of the track. " One world record was bet tered . and three others were : eq nailed In the sixth annual af. - fair, one of the closing meets of the Indoor season. Freddie Wolcott ef Houston, Texas, far successfully defending his bar- die oertosc rhompionsMm clipped a tenth of s second off the nsark for the 49-yard higher with a If irtaoil pnrfnisasuia - . -Wolcott also equalled the world records in the SO .and 60-yard races aa ha ilrlmmfd nvf tft barriers in 6.1 and 1J2 seconds. Herbert Thompson of Jersey City took the sprint series with vic tories in all .three races arid equalled the 4.4 second record es tablished by Ben Johnson In the 40-yard dash here In 1938." - Thompson also bettered the re lays record for. the 50-yard dash as no sped down the boards In 8 Ji seconds. Cornelias Warmerdam, who wffl jump la the Hill relays In . Portland en March 97, also set a new relays standard with a leap ef IS feet t inches In the : pole vault The San Ptanclseor: aee failed In three attempt fee" a new world . record with the- bar at. 13- feet 9 Inches, but barely missed the final jump -and the crowd roared aa the bar hobbled en the standards before fatting. Campbell Kane of Indiana won his second consecutive bankers mile, defeating John Borlcan and Walter Mehl, but the time was comparatively, glow at 4 minutes, 20.4 seconds. Exhibition Baseball At Clearwater, Fla. Bostonr (N) , V 4 18 n Cleveland (A) ' : I S i ' Donovan, Wallace (S), - Spahn (8) and Klutz, Mas! (6);. Kra kauskas, Heving (6), Gromek (8) and Hegan, Desautels . (6). . At Sarasota, Fla. St Louis (N) Boston (A) ' 7 3 5 6 Surkont Munger (2), White (5), Hutchinson (7) Odea (6); Newsome, Potter (7) Butland and Conroy. At Delaad. Fla. Brooklyn N) B" 1 8 7 11 St Louis (Al Fitzsimmons, . Drake (4) and Howell; . Auker, - Harris (6) and Estride, Hayworth (6). . Basketball Scores National AAU Basketball ' Tour naaezt at Denver. '(Semi-finals) - Denver r American Legion 23, Hollywood 20th Century II. - Bartlesvnie, Okla. Phillips Oil ers 43, Oalland Calif- Golden State 22, . ...-', Western j NCAA . Playoff Betdt Ilnal at Cshsas City T Stanford 82, Rice '47. " - .. , - . - . XJahe State XSgh School Tourney - Lewiston 43, Preston 28 (sezil final). : . " "... " ;; s ' : Boise 45, Midway 22. 1 FocaUIlo 42, rriest rJver S3, . Rubio imtn ,'' . - 1 I i . . . . fkilem,' Oregon. Ccrturdar Atherton Says Football Will Continue Of. Conference , 1 PORTLAND idarch , 2 0-()-E d w i n ,N. Atherton, Pacifia Coast conference commissioner, football would continue next falL . 1 "Even if crowds are limited football, but there will be a dif ferent kind of schedule man we've been having. The 'matter Is en tirely in the hands of the mili tary authorities, ,- however, and they're not talking football right now, ne said. 1 - - - , One of the first arrivals for the ceiifeieriee 'discussion begin ning Saturday on wartime prob. lems, r Atherton told : an , inter viewer that he believed the conference members did not fa .vor freshman coinpetiUon' '. "The schools may ' have 7 to' change their minds though, he added, "as so many of them are going en a three-year basis.'' . Jim Lawson, S t a n f o r d end coach, Interposed that his school favored freshman- competition, i Jeff Cravath, recently-appointed eoaeh at University ef Southern California; backed op Atherton. think the average freshman wouldn't do 'eoaeh any good until the last two or three games ef the season. he said. . Cravath foresaw a lot of travel- lng for his squad. We have games with Notre Dame and Tulane scheduled, for Los Angeles, but if the crowds are limited to 5000 I think arrange menu can be made to transfer these games easti And well "play Ohio State in Columbus this: fall, too," he said. . . Atherton had hopes of return ing the Rose Bowl game to Pasadena. "It all depends on where we have the Japs by that time," be said. "X think the sit-: Uou. i& the 'Pacific will be greatly Improved this summer,' and by next New Tears day ' -we'll -have 'om whtio-wo -jwani Mac Mi Hoop Coach Quits- , , MTLTON-FREEWATER, Ore. March tt-p-Rafos Fox, Bas ketball ' coach atrMcLoughiin high school hero for five years, announced his resignation Fri day, effective tt the end ef the school year. Fox did not dis close future plans- D tuns-Get Revenge : Rou t Tanks 12-4 . ST. PETERSBURG. Fla, March ta--Sncccedlug where they failed In the 1941 world series, the Brooklyn Dodgers crashed the New York Yankees, 12-4, Friday In the first meet ing ef the major teagne cham pions since the October classic. . The Dodgers , teed off en Johnny Lindell, Rugger Ardlsola. and Johnny Murphy for 19 hits, Including a home ran and three doubles, for a total of Z5 bases. Brooklyn (N) 'JL, L.12 19 4 New York (A) Z 4 8 0 Allen, T. Kimball (S), and Dapper; Lindell, Ardizoia (S), Murphy (8) and Sears. York Homes, Tig'i Win LAKELAND, Fla, March 20 (ffrrRudy York hit the Tigers first home run this spring as De troit shut out the Cincinnati Reds Friday, 1 to 0, for their second victory In eight starts In the Grapefruit league. The Reds got only one runner as far as third base and made only four harmless singles," all "toff Al Benton In the first five innings, c Cincinnati (N)000 000 0004) 4 1 Detroit (A) 100 001 OOx 2 4 2 Wade, Beggs (4) Riddle (7) and Hemsley; Benton, White (6) and Parsons. ' In compliance with government rezulaiions which' require that gasoline shall not be sold more than 72 hours each week, onr GASOLINE DEPAItT ; MENT WILL OPERATE EACH WEEK DAY FROM 7 A, tL TO 7 P. M. AND WILL NOT OPERATE An cf cir cthtVdc-artacsta tzi ctrvlcc3 will ccntlnae' td be operated on si continuous 24 hour, niht and day, seven slaysj a .week ' MASTER SERVICE STATION " ; ' N. Con, gt Center Phone 4164 Solera, Orcca 5 ; AL UGHTTiEir , " SUtesman Cports Editor :7 . - i ' v Momlncj, I'rrch 11; ltfJ . ! : ! on Eve predicted Friday that west coast - , ' ;r to . 5000, I think we will have Back in Action WALLY BERGER - , Wally Berger Back iii Game For US Navy ; SAN DIEGO, Calit, March 20 JPy-Thm batting power of the na val training station baseball team received an added punch Friday as Wally ' Berger, .former major league star, reported for outfield and coaching duty. . For osoro than IS yean Serv er cavorted fat the. outfield for? the Boston .Braves, New York Giants,' Cincinnati Reds and I-oo Angelosr ef thcPacmc -Coast -league. He Joined the" navy February 22 and his Indoctrina tion completed, became a cox swain, w- .. . - Berger ' ' ' Said' 'regular hours, good substantial food - and the daily routine of navy' life had placed him-in the best physical condition of his life. - Garden Hoop Record Broken in Tourney NEW YORK, March 20-tfV Breaking all Madison Square Gar den scoring records, Toledo beai Rhode Island State at its run and shoot style of ball Thursday night winning 82 to 71, before a crowd of 1760, te enter the semi-fin sis of the National Invitation basket ball tournament A'g Shut Out Cubs . i ..... i HOLLWOOD, Calif , March 20 (A9) -The Philadelphia Athletics ended a five-game losing streak today by shutting out the Chicago Cubs, 8 to 0, behind the five-hit' pitching of Veteran Bill Beckman and Rookie Fred Caligiuri. Paul Erickson stopped the A'a for three innings, but In the fourth Ken mchardson. rookie first sack. er, hit a homer with Bob Johnson on base for enough runs to win the game.r tv-i;;: -i . Chicago (N)i.O00 000 0000 - 8 Phfla. (A)-L000210 41x-8 12 1 Erickson," PresneU and Scheff. ing; Backman, Caligiuri and Wag ner, ;-:-:::, ;-.;v - : , Si and Cy Shut Out Nati' MIAMI BEACH. FhC March 20 Wr-Si Johnson and Cr Blanton teamed up Friday to shut out the Washington Senators, 1 to 0, as the Phils won their fourth straight exhibition game. -.,. Wash. (A-L) 000 000 000-0 8 2 Phila. N)000 000 02x2 7 1 Hudson. Carrasauel (6) and Early; Si Johnson, Blanton (6) and Warren. Session ; -:-.-wr r "- 'y i mii.immimmummmwmwmwmnwmmmmwmmmmmmmmmM
