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It's 01' Hank Gree nberg Back at Bat Grand PITA To Club This Trapshoot .-i .4, Gun Year - Mighty nice gesture Willam ette IT Athletic Director 'SpecM Keene will give out with Fri day our, boys in uniform sta tioned in these parts will be ad mitted absolutely ; free . to t h e Bearcat-Oregon State baseball game at George E. Waters Park, and if enough of. the civilian . folk Will --shell out to" see' the game and cover the bare expenses of same alone, the boys in khaki - will be admitted free to the - double-header between Oregon's " Ducks and Willamette Saturday, too. ;v Considering that the university - athletic funds take a licking along with a lot of other things In these times, it is truly a fine contribu tion." It's up to the community's paying ball fans to offset the slight expense .of staging the game if the soldier boys are to see the rest of 'em for free hi the future. " e r j Come on gang, let's give. Takes 1Em Down Again . Preof that they may hang ' 'em up, but always return la some way, shape or form is borne out. once more In a letter from "The Little Skipper," Bon ny Griffiths. Off the hook he hang 'em up on comes "Griffs shortstopplng glove and spikes for another whirl at herding a ball ctab; this one Rome, New. York, la the Canadian-American league. Bonny had gone to the rack this' year, preferring his defense job In an eastern shipyard to the uncertainty of managing a' baseball nine, bat ays that the Philadelphia Phil lies made him soch an attractive offer, to guide their fledglings that he finally "broke down." i Follows up with "Rome is about 300 miles from here, (Camden) , and that makes it nice for me. The training season starts on the 28th of April and continues for two weeks. The schedule calls for 128 games, closing on Labor day." Waylayt at OSC : Bad chat with Pere Locey down at the home of the Rose Bowl champs Monday, and ac cording to the soft-spoken ath letie director, the war Is reap ing no less than four of State's key coaches and athletic heads "before lone." Jim Dixon and Hal Sloe, Lon Stiner's chief 'aides, Bill McKalip, Rook men tor, and "Doc" Langton, one of ' the outstanding physical educa tion men in the country, are the ones who will be miss , tag all are in line for positions In the country's service. Stiner was using Bob Dethman, ace Beaver right half, as his as sistant , In Monday's spring grid practice, but Dethman himself stated that he was "Navy bound this summer. ,. , .... , "Slats? Gill had just returned from the east where he attended the basketball rules sessions, and some of the championship hoop games at Kansas City, and now takes up duties as Rook baseball coach. .-.. While talking over the recent Oregon State-Stanford confer ence title games, "Slats said that the defense the champs threw at his crew in that first game was a complicated man to man and sone combination that the Beavers couldn't quite fa thom until the next night. They found the key then, adapting an offense that shifted with the de ' f ense. The final game was strictly a case of the Indians Setting sizzling hot alonr with their "really out to get as" at tack. - Va-v"' Don Durdan, the real Rose Bowl hero, turned out for Coach Ralph Coleman's ball club for the first time Monday afternoon, but his : action was limited to pre-game practice. He' was a regular out fielder in '41. , . J ohtt Mandic. Paul Valenti and Lew Beck, OSC basketball greats, . -turned out", for baseball too, but only In their Baseball Fundamen tals Class. They were playing -Durn-out with each other on the sidelines of the Wffiamette- State game, and if Valenti could comb his hair the next morning, It would have been aulte an achievement. He was trying to become a Bob Feller in one lesson. Don Bower, ex-Salem high second-baseman and basketball star, was working very smooth ly at shortstop in the Rook base- ball practice. Norm Peters, broad-shouldered - Beaver football great, played right field for State in the game, rapping cue of Earl Toolson's fast ones for a well slashed double to deep left Junior 'IN' too Walt Cline. Jr younger half , of the. , bowline and golfing Clines, Is ready to be Indocted r with the next group come April C. The once City golf champion v has been working for "Pappy" la his Senator hotel beanery as well as rolling 'cm for "Pappy's ten-pin topplers daring the wia- :' ter months.- 7 . ' - -i LL ' : ' ' ' -' - Buca Wax White Sox EL CENTRO, Calif, March 31 (Jfycm Dietrich blanked Pitts burgh on one hit for fire Inn- ; Inrs , Tuesday, bat : the Pirates nicked - his -. successor, Orval Grove, for eight to defeat Chi- - csros White Sox for the fifth: straight time. The score was S to L , ; Dietrich, . , Grove and. Tresh; Ctrincevich, Klinger, Tanning and tcpez, Phelps, Baker. , . . . ' - - . ' S . . -. .... - : Sgt. Hank Greenberg, foimer Detroit Tigers' slugger and now a soldier at MacDill field near Tampa, Fla, knocks a long Uner, good for three bases on his first time at bat and en the first pitch of the base ball game between the MacDill Fllen and Tampa U. The Tampa Catcher Is Stranb. Coast League Is For Take-Off Thursday Angels, Seattle, Sacs, Oaks Picked on Eve of Precarious Season Sail By RUSS NEWLAND SAN FRANCISCO, March 31-()-The Pacific Coast league, always the first to touch off the baseball season, gets under way Thursday. , Where it is going and when it will get there is something as vague as me present weatner reports, of which there ain't any just now. The progress of the war will determine the fate of the Coast as well as the rest of the leagues. On the assumption the sched ule will be played off, we hast en in with our annual fearless picks. The 1942 pennant win ner, in this future book, will be the Los Ang-eles club. It is an almost completely made over unit, from the presidential chair In which sits Clarence Row land, down through the playing personnel. One exception is irre pressible Arnold Statz, manager. Los Angeles finished seventh last year bat bounces Into the favored spot on the strength of a wealth of new talent and the promise of additional help from the parent Chicago Cobs organ ization. Loo Novikoffj the minor league slui-finr phenom bat major league bast ap to date, may be turned over to the An gels. If Novikoff comes back. Los Angeles could easily breeze in for the flag. The big Russian led the Coast league In hitting in 1940, as well as in home runs, and in fact he has topped every minor loop in which he has played. If it isn't Novikoff. the Aneels mav get Dominic Dallesandro, the lit tle outfielder who was a big riot with San Diego a couple of sea sons ago. The . revamped Los Anseles team numbers . only seven hold overs. Only its pitching depart ment appears a bit doubtful. Ed Heusser. newcomer from Atlanta. should top the hurling corps. Seattle, winner of the cham pionship the last three years, gets second call bat could take it all. It lost one of the best defensive outfielders in baseball in Bill Lawrence, nlus a stout 'utility infielder In Boze Berger and two good pitchers, Les Webber and Ed Cole. Sacramento, pegged " for third position, probably will turn up with the best pitching staff in the league. If it acquires Eddie Lake, shortstop who refused to report to the parent St Louis Cardinals, it can run to first place without trouble. Manager "Pepper' Mar tin is half the battle. - ' W- The best balanced outfit at this time appears to be Oakland and If Manager Johnny Verges can stick it oat at third base, . as ho plans, the Oaks figure to make things hot la the first di vision. The Acorns will grow with Verges. Here is the league's paper size-up: 1 Los Angeles: Supercharged. 1 Seattle: Can repeat. S Sacramento: Certain con tender. 4 Oakland: Looks good. 5 Hollywood: May surprise. - C San Diego: Lacks power. 7 San Francisco: Infield weak. -- 8 Portland; Sore trailer;' ? . Hudson Holds Gncy " .ORLANDO, Fla, March SHff) Sid Hudson and Alejandro Car rasquel checked the Cincinnati Reds' with five hits Tuesdar a the Nats snapped two-game los ing streak with a 4-2 victory.. Cincinnati (N) 2 B 4 Washington (A) . 4 9 1 StanyvandeT Meer (7) and La- manno: Hudson. Carrasauel f8 and Early, Evans (2). . - J Coaches Bach Home Again, Laud NW 5s SEATTLE, March 31-;P)-Two Pacific northwest basketball coaches came home Tuesday from the mid-west and southern hoop circle with a high opinion of northern division competition and a report that the Washing ton State college quintet would make its first appearance next winter in Madison Square Gar den. Coach Howard Hobson of Ore gon, who returned with Coach Hec Edmundson of Washington from New Orleans and tho na tional collegiate playoff at Kan sas City, observed: "None of the eastern final ists Dartmouth, Penn State or Illinois would have won more than half their games if they had played in the Pacific Coast conference northern division.": tamundson said WSC was slated definitely for a New York appearance, but said his own team would not repeat the past season's trip -east. . ; He announced, however, that two teams would be Invited for an early season appearance In the pavilion here. He said they would be stronger than the Missouri and - Kansas Stats quintets that were bested by Washington and WSC hero last , December. : - ..- - .... Bettina Beats Giis Dorazio PHILADELPHIA. M a rc h 21 (flVOiffing his opponent around in ine last round with a two-fisted attack. Heavyweight M e 1 i o Bettina won a 10-round disinn over the veteran Gus Dorazio be fore a capacity crowd of 9000 at the arena Tuesday night Until the last stanza, the fight was virtually even. At the end Dorazio, Philadel phia Italian who at 1st oat weighed tho former light heavy weight champion from Beacon, NY, by five pounds, was stum 1 bling around the ring, missing wfld swings, while Bettina stung him with lefts and rights. The decision was unanimous. It was Melio's ninth straight triumph as a f eavyweight He hasn't dropped a bout yet since climbing a class. Vik Interclass Track Meel Today. The annua! Interclass t r a A meet Tor Salem high will be run and Jumped today on the Olinger oval,-weather permitting. Sopho mores, Juniors and senior will participate In the class rivalrr. but no cross-country or track let lerman is eligible to compete. Should the meet h ranrn1 today It will be held Thursday, said Athletic Director Vera Gil more, who Is in charge of the ses sion.- ; ' .' v.; . ' ' , All Set Buck Davidson Wins Armory Main Event Buck Davidson, mean Montana miner, took the third and winning fall from Ernie Piluso, Portland, In Tuesday night's wrestling main event at the armory. Not content with winning the match Davidson continued punishing the fallen Pi luso and wound up in a brawl with Referee Elton Owens. Piluso survived, and between he and the referee ran the Montanan to the showers as part of the howling crowd joined in. Davidson won the first fall after applying severe leg stomp ers, using the ropes for leverage. Piluso feinted injury In the sec ond heat, maneuvered the big miner Into position and cut loose with a series 'of flying Sonnenbergs. He followed up with the same hold that cost him the first fall, drawing aa oncle" from Davidson. Much to the large crowd's de light, the well ired grapplers op ened up in the third round with Sonnenbergs and leg stompers, Davidson flattening the injured iuso. rnen came the riot A real treat of absolutely clean wrestling opened the show, ending In a draw between Tex Hager, CressweU, Ore, and . Jack Riser, St Johns, after both had taken a fait Both were us Ing lightning drop-kicks when the bell sounded. Milt 01sen.-St Paul Swede. two of the three, falls from Emil match also ended ud in Kallio In the seml-windup. This what of a riot, plenty of action uuung place, alter the. final fall. .- Tho matches were well re ceived by the audience, one of the largest of the year. Plenty of action prevailed in all three boots. Workers Will See Fox Ball Games. SILVERTON Mill w n r v . will have an opportunity to wit- ucaa ouvenon nign DSSeD&JJ this season , according to plans an nounced ' Tuesday. 1 Local games will be played at 4:15 pjn. when ever possible to arrange games for wai tune. ......- First home tossle'wM bowith" Chemawa on McGtnnta field at 4:15 next Tuesday, April 7. Mo lalla comes here on April It, same time. , , The Silver Fox eolfer wm in augurate their season Tuesday at r nose. Fox track men trek to Wood bora for a meet oa Wednesday. April . Klamath Possible Site For College Football KA:TI1 FALLS- Ore., March 31-tVThe noshflit .- VVAACJLC JI.ILIMII rSTT10 TA V1.M.1L Falls, which is outside military Zone No. 1. was i,AiA m. j- yj . kmu una Bureau, f If army rfr)4i. u.-i . .vu uaui loot- vu.ui4 coueges might con sider Modoc; eM 1 It was believed. r nofrcafling . and Tire Repairing; . ; ... Factory Plant at Center & Liberty Phone 9144 Local Trappers Awarded Meet Held Here in 1939; Regarded As Nation's Ip. 2 BangSession ' By AL LIGHTNER - i 1 . L , T ' ' ' - 8Utearaaa Sports Edltor'I 5TV J". Culminating requests by the Salem Gun club and its secre tary, Clarence Townserid, the t12tll annual Grand Pacific Inter national Trapshooters association handicap will be shot off .over the Salem club traps next July. The handicap, largest of its kind west of the Mississippi, ranks sec ond only to the Grand American handicap held annually in Ohio,. which. Is regarded the "daddy" of all shotgun Jamborees. . . The July meet will mark the second appearance of the Grand Pacific, It having been . held la Salem In the middle of .; July, 1939. At that time upwards of 25s of the west's best scatter run artists competed. Trigger-pullers like Frank Troeh (who Won the champion ship In 1939), Earl Colson. J. O. Co tan t, Charles Dockendorf, C. G. Robertson. C G. Hiltl brand, Archie Parrott, D. M. Hull, Don Fish, Ray Glass, J. W. Shaw, Clarence Townsend and O. S. Sniffer all big names la the trapshooters manual competed then. Townsend wrote Charles Dock endorf, secretary-treasurer of the Pacific International Trapshooters association, requesting that the The Salem Gon club will hold a merchandise and Hiltibrand handicap shoot on . the local ranre beginning at 11:30 aja. next Sunday, April 5. Three events will constitute the day's firing 59-bird preliminary han dicap, 50-bird Hiltibrand han dicap and the Welty trophy will be up on the first 25 birds. annual meet be held in Salem this year and forwarded the program for same. After due consideration, Dock endorf informed F. G. Mauser, PITA president, that the shoot ers festival had been awarded Salem and to contact officers of the association to plan accord ingly. Townsend stated that the meet will take place during; the third week of July. Toronto-Detroit Meet in Finals TORONTO, March 31-(P-The Toronto Maple Leaks advanced to tho final round of the National hockey league's Stanley cup play offs Tuesday night by defeating and eliminating the New York Rangers, league champions, S to 2. It was the fiurth victory in six games for the Leafs. DETROIT, March 31-;p)-Th e Detroit Red Wings entered the fi- r v- -. - "iiWrtM1"-' . . ' .. . f'.- The brculng process nialics tho difference! s-i-o-u; No short cuts 3 ) Top Trapper : . :.- I t2 1 Clarence Townsend, secretary of Salem Gun club, who has shat- tered 299 oat of 300. registered targets in competition . to date this year.' Townsend also led the move by the local club which - brings tho grand PITA meet to Salem again la July. Tho grand PITA was held here for the first time In 1939, attracting ever 250 of the leading trigser-pullers of the nation and Canada. nals of the Stanley cup National hockey league playoffs Tuesday night with a S to 1 victory over the defending champion Boston Bruins in the second game of the best-out-of-three semifinals se ries before 13,525. t nw? O ST 'J UuWuuitJiss. BRinncED CRcaino... for Blitz-Weinbard! -Cartful andthZt. consuming blending regulates and stabilizes Blitz VTeinbard's famous flavor, . . p cio-rssiusnivDdQBLE-ran5ii process... . Brewed not once, but twice. to bring out all the rich, ; natural goodness of tht choice hops and grain. t ccnmoiiED tiisnatTcn... Painstaking check and double-cheth, frequent tests and ' samples, ; assure Blitz-VTeinharft full-bodied character. Mi'KMsrd ttUt tit fa mXo Ch4ICs CsmtttSst!sfyt$! - - VUUUiiill.J cr.Ti:rri:;a OiiiMMvBWwM ccooo to ojuwhb Distributed by Giiecn Stclz Corapanji Toivrisend Big Gun in Annual Aurora: Slioot AURORA' Clarence Town- send, Salem Gun club trapshoot- er - and secretary, was ; high guq in the 16-yard event of the an nual ;Aurora X Registered shoot here Sunday. Townsend shatter ed 99 registered targets , to run his total so. far this- year to 299 out of : 300 in-registered. shoots. D. Fish was runner-up,: blasting 50-48 for a 98 totaL B. E n n 1 s won the handicap event, scoring 93 hits, and C G. MUtbrant ; and M. Hinkle tied in the doubles competition with 22 each. Scores: : 16-yard Hdkp. Doubles D, Chezem . 88 : Roy Love , 83 . - : Percy , Will ..... 90 D, Beemer -.87 Ted Welty 95 a Leith 93 D. Fish 98 75 79 89 91 87 73 19 21 18 13 R. Turner .93 N. Stemler 95 H. W. Eggers -.96 41-50 A. Fish 84 71 J. A. Jossy 82 70 Marc Conway 89 . C. FeUer ..88 80 Walt Nusom 93 81 Bob Iliff .92 83 C G. MUtbrant 85 84 C Townsend 99 88 J. Crane .92 85 MISiddell ...96 82 A. Schneider ...89 D. . Coleman 86 S. H. Kane 91 89 Seth Miller 93 83 J. W. Shaw 96 86 M Hinkle 92 70s. W. Redmond 85 RT S. Smith 77 B. Ennis 93 20 22 21 4 18 15 22 11 Silverton Wins 2 Ball Games SILVERTON Coach Guy De Lay's Silver Foxes took two non league games here during the weekend, defeating Aumsville, 5-0, and ML AngeL 7-5. Big John Day, Silverton south paw, stopped Aumsville with four hits, whiffing 20. Shortstop See ley led the attack against Mt An gel smashing two singles, a dou ble and a triple In five times. t Silverton aoes to Canto Fri day for its second league game. The first was played at Wood burn Tuesday. B. H. E. Aumsville o 4 1 Silverton 5 8 1 Nichols, Lewis and McMan man; Day and Simmons. Mt Angel . 5 4 2 Silverton .7 9 3 A Sprauer, Aman and Lulay; Burr, DahL Anderson and Sim mons. -V ; "l 1 I - USX? C!it2AYcinhardl$notrh2d3byn:ie . Of thumb. Each painstaking step "in the brewing is planned tach operation checked. For tt Bha-Wcmhard famous brewine ' process that distinguisncs this fine BecV from : : all others. This S-LO-W, careful brewing t process produces a beer . , . . ."$o good ita . , Guaranteed Sarisfying' lJvP ;-:p ' . tUrt-TWllMIIAtp COMPANY , , 1 V r?'' ( . MUTUNS, tRtttS ' f ' ' City Grapple Meet Friday Night at Y .:. The city wrestling tournament sponsored , again this yearly tht YMCA will be held at the Y Fri day night beginning at 8.-00 o'clock. Interscholastic rules will be used and welghts'will range i from M.. pounds to unlimited. .. . 1 Weighings will be made at the YMCA rrm office between J and S o'clock Friday afternoon, and the drawing for the matches 1 will follow Immediately. ; t Contestants of city-wide recog nition will participate in the meet included,! representatives of war lamette university. State Blind school, YMCA,1 senior high school, Leslie Junior high school and Che mawa Indian school. . ; Applications most be filed by I p. m. tonight at the Y. Carl Grelder, physical director, will be in charge of the meet, and Don Hendrie, ex-WSC matman, will referee. " Vik Baseball Sched Ready The Salem high baseball schedule for the 19 4 2 season -was announced Tuesday. Coach -Harold Hank's VIks open play, against the Willamette univer sity Kappa Gamma Rho fra ternity team here, tomorrow, April 2. No-Name league competition 1 begins April 7, the VIks meet ing Albany at Salem oa that date. . The annual league play-offs will take place May 18-23. April 2 Kappa Gamma Rho, Salem 7 Albany, Salem 10 Oregon City, Oregon City 14 Kappa Gamma Rho, Salem 18 OSC Rooks, Salem 21 Kappa Gamma Rho, Salem 24 Milwaukie, Mflwankle 28 OSC Rooks, Corvallls 30 AlbanT. A1hnv May 5 Corvallls, doable-header, tarvauis " 8 MOwaukle, Salem " 11 Oregon CIty;vSalem' " 15 Open - 18-23 No-Name League Playoff - LIBERAL TERMS R. N. Nason Paints Kelly Tires Tubes WiOard Batteries Stocks Are Gmnnlet . U D. T7csdrow Co. 894 N. Church St. Phone 9000 v1