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MigShow
Baseball's to Be or Not to Be
Balances as 'Play Ball' Sounds
Ruffing Opens for Yanks at Washington;
Brooklyn's Bums in 'No Alan's Land9
Against Hated Giants; Crowds Expected
By JUDSON BAILEY
NEW YORK, April 14 -JPh Baseball will get its first real
test of the public's attitude toward the sport in wartime today
when the major leagues open their 1942 campaign.
All indications have been that
national pastime in
war as in
peace and if the weather is suit
able a turnout of ZOO.Ouu is ex
pected in the eight cities where
inaugurals are scheduled. -
Suitable ceremonies - flac
raisincs and first ball pltchiag
are planned for all the games
In both the National and Amer
ican leagues although it Is not
known whether President
.'Roosevelt wQl officiate at
' Washington's debut or call for
a pinch pitcher.
In any event the two contests
sure to receive the greatest pub
lic attention are world champion
New York Yankees' bow against
the Senators in the nation's cap
ital and the clash here of the
Brooklyn Dodgers, defending Na
tional league champions, and their
familiar feudists, the New York
Giants. .
The .polo grounds is ready for
n 50,001 crowd, perhaps larger,
for what seemed certain to be
the biggest throng of the day.
Besides the long enmity of the
two crosstown rivals, there is
much to make this contest a super
attraction for the metropolis.
There is some question whether
the Dodgers can repeat their spec
tacular conquest of last year and
the hard-bitten Brooklyn fans na
turally want to see for themselves.
The addition of Arky Vaughan at
third base has met with wide
spread approval and curiosity.
On the other side of the picture
the Giants are making their first
start under the managership of
Mel Ott, the veteran rightfielder
. who has been called "Master Mel-
vin" ever since John McGraw
brought him up from New Orleans
at the age of 16, seventeen years
ago. They also have added Johnny
Mize and many other stars.
. Carl Hubhell, "old longpants
. who has - been pitching the
Giants openers for-years, will
- officiate again with the veteran
Cart Davis opposing him.
There-also will be a sen time n-
. tal touch about the Yankees' first
; pitcher. Manager Joe McMarthy
announced a surprise choice Mon
day, naming Charley (Red) Buf
fing, to face Sid Hudson-, of the
Senators ' in the important tussle
at Washington.
" ,'A crowd of 30,000, virtually ca
pacity, is expected.
Crosley field at Cincinnati
has long been sold out for the
' fracas between tho Reds and
1 rittsburrh Pirates. 29,000 Is
, expected.
Fifteen thousand are expected
to -turn out for the Cardinal
Chicago Cub battle. The Boston
Braves and Phillies hope for
10,000.
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the fans are favorable to the
pects to have 15,000 for the
Cleveland-Detroit opener. The
Boston Red Sox open against
Connie Mack's Athletics and
25,000 re-expected to sit in.
The Chicago White Sox tangle
with the Brownies of St. Louis
at Chicago. 15,000 are expected.
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Senator Spring
Camp Holes
Alf Cailteaux and Eddie
George at third, Del Schroer at
short. Art "Curly" Le in inter and
Johnny Granato at second and
Clint Cameron at first rounded
out the Infield during Monday's
practice . . . Although It was the
first day out Leininger looked
particularly adept at bouncing
around the keystone sack . . .
Eddie George served notice that
he was coins for the long ones
this year by slamming a battinc
practice pitch over the distant
left field wait It was really
well kissed . . . Jack Warner also
rapped 'em long and hard and
was firing that ball around dur
ing infield practice like it was
mid-season. Jack's really bear
ing down this year as he up and
got himself married during the
Christmas holidays . .... Appears
that Joe Gonzales knows how to
handle Joe Gensales in that out-
field he scoots around right
pertly . . . Tat" Patterson and
El wood Moore, rookie pitchers.
the former an ex-Salem high
hurler, look like they've got
more than Just the cover and a
prayer on their respective serves.
.-. Del Schroer and Leininger,
not to mention Johnny Granato,
remind one of an edition of
-Singer's Midgets" out: around
-the 2B, but they can scamper.
How - They
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COAST LEAGUE
(No . games - Monday; ' teams
.traveling.)
W L Pet.
Seattle - 6 1 ; .857
Oakland 6 5 .600
Los Angeles 4 S .571
Hollywood .': ' ' 6 5 345
Portland - 5 6 ; .455
San Francisco . . , , 3
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Sacramento
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Sunday's results:
At. Los Angeles 5-2, Portland
4-6V -
At San Diego, 0-0. Seattle 2-5.
At Oakland 7-3, San Francisco
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At Sacramento . 1-7, , Hollywood
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This week's games:
Portland at Oakland, Seattle at
Hollywood, Lot Angeles at San
I Diego, Sacramento at San Fran
'Cisco.
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nlteher, ont of uniform because of
of the Penitentiary Greys. Petersen uses the "chasms roller
method of retting his. athletes In
April 25. (Statesman photo.) .
Pitched Today
Forrest "Dutch" Simmons,
hizh. now pursues new laurels in
won't be playing center field on
he's out for the golf team. And if
the gridiron and the basketball
court the Dutchman should have
little trouble adding a fourth
sport letter to his collection.
Not only, has Dutch been a
shining star in football, basket
ball and baseball in seasons
past, co-captaining the grid
team, but Is Just as brilliant a
star in the classrooms. He's a
member of the National - Honor
Society which4 requires straight
A grades president of Salem's
chapter of the National Athletic
Honor Society president of the
Vik Senior class president of
the "S" club former Hi-Y ser-geant-at-arms,
and also an hon-
o rary member of the anlapon
club.
One can dig deeply into the
files of any prep school and find
very few student-athletes who
can boast such high school achieve
ments as the "Dunkin Dutchman"
of Salem high. And the beauty of
it is, Simmons just ain't the boast
in' kind. He's one of those like
able cusses who, despite his en
viable assets, hasn't got an enemy
of any sort, and knows what size
hat he should wear.
'Reus' Should Help
Big Conrad "Con" or "Rass"
Rasmussen, now the property of
our Senators, should do the
club a heap of . good. He's a
shortarmer from down under
style and his fast one Is alive,
as the player-lingo would have
it He can break off a mean
curve. Is always willing to work
and would probably pitch every
day If asked. In fact during the
latter part of the Pioneer league
season, "Rass" did And himself
wheeling Just about every day
as he and two others were all
the hurlers left on the outfit as
the campaign's end neared.
There's somewhat of a mystery
connected with Salem's coming up
with Rasmussen, who was defin
itely in the good graces of the
Twin Falls club. In changing busi
ness managers, playing managers,
etc., the "Cowboy" club overlooked
sending him a contract ; Baseball
law says players must receive con
tracts by March I, oc else
Judge Bramham nodded to Con's
application for free agency and
Salem immediately beckoned.
There's a little quip connected
with the Kirkland, WaslW worki
horse, too another one of those
basebaUplayers who "hung 'em
up for good at the dose of last
Farmer Hal Turpin Hurls, Bill
Beard Catches No-Run No-Hitter
HOLLYWOOD. A D r 1 1 11-fJPi
1 Modest Hal .Turpin., of the Seattle
baseball clan's , crack pitching
staff ducked out of sight and re-
I mained out of sight Mrnina whn
the Rainier arrived in town.
.Hero of a no-hit. no-run" tri-
lumnh . over San. T5f Stinriv
Turpin' blushed at th fu maH
over him and dismissed it with:
I ." "I Inst cot lackr. that's in"
He doesnt like all the com.
Ipliments. chimed in Manager
Bill Skiff. Turoin disaDDeared
around a palm tree in the hotel
hobby. "But Hal did a sensational
- Mob. and it's too bad he couldn't
nave been completely, perfect
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an Injury, and. Ed Kennedy, coach
shape for the WIL opener on
v-'-4ysyLnnojfij
the Flyin Dutchman of Salem
the Vikine athletic field. Dutch
the baseball nine this year
he tours the links like he does
season only to succumb to the itch
and come back all fired and fumin'
at the start of this.
Twin Falls wound up the sea
son at Ogden and "Rass" had
hurled to a 2-1 defeat. Not un
like any other moundsman when
a close one Is lost. Con felt low.
He must have been feeling lower
than low as he proceeded to
make 'a young bat boy the hap1
plest kid In Ogden that night by
giving him all his toiling gear
glove, spikes, sweatshirts and
blessings. Take 'em," said
"Rass" woefully; "111 not need
'em any more. I couldn't beat
Mollie Puts and her Hoopskirt
ers I quit." (The game was the
ninth one-runner he had lost for
the season.)
"Rass" hit town Sunday and the
first thing - he wistfully said.
"Where's the sporting goods store
in this town I quit last year re
member?"
Broze Fist in
Silver Shis
At Mt. Rainier
PARADISE VALLEY, Mount
Rainier, April 13. - (P) - Matt
Broze, 30-year-old Seattle fire
man, won the eighth annual run
ning of the Silver Skis Sunday,
dynamiting down the 3.16 mile
downhill course on Mount Rain
ier's icy slopes in four minutes
and 57 seconds, only three sec
onds over the record set by Pete
Radacher of Austria in 1938.
Walter Prager, former Dart
mouth ski coach and now a
member of United States moun
tain troops, was second with
time of 4 minutes 59JS seconds.
Martin Fopp, national open
downhill champion from Tim
ber line lodge, Or was third
with, a time of 5 minutes L2
seconds. J,
Broze, a member of the Seat
tie Ski club, lost his chance to set
a new record when he took
spill on Panorama ridge, one of
steepest and fastest stretehes on
the course, which finds contest
ants dropping 5000 feet in five
minutes. Broze lost three or four
seconds on the spill. .-
Behind Fopp, the next three
finishers were:
C Say ZoberskL United States
army, 5 minutes 104 seconds.
nobody to reach first base.
'' Skiff taid he felt that Tmr
pin should nave received credit
for a strike-oat on Flnea-hltter- -Manager
' Cedrie ' Dwsi, who
.came op to bat In the "ninth In
ning with two out, .
"Hal pvt in what looked like
beaoty to me. with the count ,
3-2. bat Umpire BUI - Doran ;
eaPed It ball and Durst walk
edJPFhy, ? Durst .; was all bti
beading tor the dngent, think
ing K.was a strike." .
' If Turpin was anxious as the
innings rolled by, listen to Rookie
Catcher Bill Beard:
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Twenty in CampMonday;
Reese Quits; Cameron,
George, Rasmussen Here
" By AL LIGHTNER ,
. Statesman Sports Editor
Spring training began in earnest, for "tho Salem Senators
Monday out at George E. Waters park as Manager Charlie Peter
sen paced twenty-odd Solons and hopefuls through a stiff three
hour workout. The Senator field boss started the gang off with
the perennial setting-up exercises and tapered the session off
with rounds of batting, infield
Among those present at Mon
day's 'workout were -Pitchers
Conrad "Con" Rasmussen, who
has signed a Salem pact, Kenny
Clow, ex-BIsbee of the Arktena
Texas league righthander. Bill
Kelly, with the club last season,
Clarence Neubsner, rookie, and
El wood Moore, Tillamook rook
ie; Catchers Jack Warren and
Jimmy Kobertsos; Infielden
Alf Canteamz, Art , "Curly"
Letnlnger, Del Schroer, Clint
Cameron, Eddie George and
Johnny . .Granato: Outfielders
Petersen, Joe Gouzales and a
number . of hustling rookies
among whom were George Hos
tettler, Silyerton outfielder, and
Pat Patterson, ex-Salem high
lefthanded hurler.
Business Manager 'Howard Ma
ple returned from the league
The official Western Interna
tional schedule will appear In
Wednesday morning's States
man. Our Senators open up at
Tacoma on April Z5 and re
turn to Salem" to open the
season here against Tacoma on
May I. The Solons have 65
homo games, 77 on the road;
Spokane SO and 2; Vancouver
71 and 74, and Tacoma 77 and
68.
meeting at Tacoma late Sunday
and announced that the WI league
schedule would be released short
ly.
Maple also brought cheerful
news to tho Senator camp with
the announcement that Bin
Johnson, slugging outfielder
picked up In the Yakima-We-
natchee player draw, would
probably be returned to Salem.
Maple talked with Roy Youn
ker, catcher who also was
drawn from Yakima and who
has recently been farmed to
Tacoma by Hollywood, and
Younker stated that since Babe
Herman and "Rosy" Rosenberg
have agreed to Hollywood
terms; Johnson was due to be
sent back to the Senators. He
Indicated that if such should
happen he would report if
agreeable terms could be reach
ed with the local club.
The bustling business manager
talked with Bill Reese, another
drawee and crack first baseman,
but Reese has decided to hang
em up for keeps. Says he is not
holdout but has had enough
playing in class B ball and had
too good a Job in the shipyards
to give up.
But Eddie Adams. No. 1 Solon
receiver last season, is still a hold
out in his Portland . home, and
nothing has been heard from Chet
Simpson, pitcher. Eddie George,
fiery third sacker, has agreed to
terms.
Burton Swepe, tiny "stuff"
pitcher who recently asked for
another whack at a mound Job,
to due in today. Pitcher Ron
Smith arrived late Monday.
Maple said that strings are out
for more help which would prob
ably be forthcoming before the
season opens. ."- - -
First spring game action for
the . Solons " will take place
Thursday of this week when an
admission free exhibition game
takes place at the park. A dou
ble header between " Pete's
Punchers and Coach Spee
Keene's Willamette Bearcats Is
slated - for Saturday and ' the
Portland Bradfords semi-pros
come to town Sunday to round
out the weekend games. -
Charles B, McLane, United
States army, 5 minutes 15.1
seconds.
Olaf Redegard, United States
army, I minutes, 25 seconds.
Boy, I was so nervens the
last con pie of Innings I was
seared to death. Bat Hat was
Jost'1as"eool as a cucumber ont
. there and lie was snro sending
some, swell stnf f np to the plate.
I actually think I got as mneb
kick ont of It as oP Tnrp did."
. Turpin, 35, a farmer, of Yon
colla, -Orv has spent ' more than
a decade 4n the Coast league and
ranks as a consistent mainstay.
year in and out, for Seattle. He'i
due to make his next appearance
on the mound Friday night in the
upcoming series here with Holly
wood. ' ' ' '
and outfield work.
Nelson Master
Of Masters
After Playoff
Game but Unlucky
Blazin9 Ben Bows
To Super Shooting
By ROMNEY WHEELER
AUGUSTA, Ga April UHJf)
-Anything can happen on Mon
day, the 13th of April, and it did
Monday on the Augusta national
golf course as tall Byron Nelson
of Toledo, beat hard-luck Ben
Hogan for the matters' golf
championship in a bitter 18-hole
playoff.
Nelson shot a three-under par
69 to Hogan's 70.
A gallery of L50t pop - eyed
fans saw Nelson win the hard
way, with left-handed golf, an
eagle-three on a hidden hole,
and a tremendous rally In
which ho shot six-under-par In
eight holes, starting on the
sixth.
It was that eagle on the 510-
yard, uphill eighth which broke
little Ben and gave -Lord Byron
his margin. Coming up one stroke
back of Hogan, after whittling
two from Hogan's lead on the
short sixth, he whipped a perfect
spoon shot uphill and to rest a
bare six feet beyond the flag. He
was down with one putt while
Hogan chipped to the green over
a mound and took two putts for
regulation five.
They t turned the first nine
with Nelson one stroke ahead,
and the man whose colleagues
picked him to win the masters'
never lost the initiative. He ran
the margin to three strokes on
the back nine, saw it out to two
and finally to one stroke as
Hogan fought gamely all the
way to the last pin.
They finished just as the tour
ing golf pros predicted they
would in a ballot two weeks ago
Nelson .first and Hogan second
for the second consecutive
year. In 1940 the pros picked
Craig Wood to win and he did,
beating Nelson over 72 holes by
three strokes. Nelson now joins
Horton Smith as the only two
time winners in the masters'
nine-year history.
He also, maintained unbroken
his record of having beaten Ho
gan every time they have met in
tournament play. He won by a
stroke in a double nine-hole
playoff' for a caddie club-cham
pionship, won again in 1940's
playoff for the Texas open, and a
third time in match play when
Hogan met him in the 1941 PGA
tournament,
- Hogan gained a spectacular
lead on' the first hole Monday
when Nelson sliced his tee shot
into the woods and took six
strokes to Hogan's four' before
holing out. He gained another ,
on ; tho -long, dog leg - fourth
when Nelson drove Into a trap.
It was on the fifth hole, which
they halved with 4's that Nelson
felt his game come back, he said
Monday night.
"On the first four holes, he
oboervedVthe breaks all went
against me. When I got to the
sixth I could fed I was In the
groove again. It was hitting
the ball true, every time,"
LA Third, but
LOS ANGELES, April 13 -JPh-
Los Angeles, with a record of four
games won and three lost leads
the Pacific Coast baseball league
in team batting honors for the
new 1942 season to date,
The Angels batted for an ave
rage of .312, with Seattle runner
up with .294 and Oakland third
at .269.-.. ' r,.-,
Individual leaders were Kalph
Hodgln, San Fraaclseo, with
.474 fat five games, and veteran
Johnny Moore of Los Angeles
with .458 in
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BULLDOG JACKSON
Bulldog Jackson.- Hager
Rematch Tops Tonight's
Grapp le Card At Armory
It's Bulldog Jackson, the Kid from the Klondike, and Tex
Hager, Creswell Crusher, in a rematch main event on Promoter
Don Owen's wrestling card tonight at the armory. Jackson and
Hager brought the house down last, week in a hot tussle, the
Bulldog taking the third and,
winning fall after tricking Hager
into breaking a twisting leg hold.
Hager asked for the rematch and
will -probably give Jhg biting,
scratching, slugging but colorful
Jackson plenty of going over
with his drop-kicks and flying
tackles. The headliner is routed
for the best two of three falls, .
one-hour time limit
Hated Bnck Davidson, the
mean Montana miner, returns
to take up his rough stuff from
where he left off last week
this time against speedy Jack
Klzer, St. Johns dockworker.
In last week's first main-event,
Davidson lost to Ernie Piluso,
the latter crowning dirty Bnck
with a ringside chair which
sent Piluso toward the winning
faU. The semi is slated for best
two of three falls.
The burly Montanan is a firm
believer in the "haymaker" hold,
seasoned with various choking
and kicking punishment; so the
semi-windup should have plenty
of action, too, as Kizer mixes
plenty of Sonnenbergs and drop
kicks with his speed.
The curtain-raiser at 8:30 p. m!
brings ..together popular Milt Ol-
sen, St. Paul Swede, and Noel
Franklin, ex-wrestling instructor
at Hill Military Academy of
Portland, in a best two of three
fall, 30-minute limit bout 01-
gen s clean style or grappling nas
made him many grappling
friends in Salem since he has
been appearing here this year.
Olsen and Kizer battled to a
30-minute draw last week in one
of the cleanest matches seen here
this season.
Toniht's card promises, to
another of the series of noth
ing bas scUon bills staged here
by Owen in his efforts to give
Salem mat fans the best wres
tling entertainment posible In
the northwest
Tickets may be purchased at
Cliff Parker's Sporting Goods
store or at the scene of activi
ties. . .
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Statesman Snorts Editor
Morning. April 14, 1942
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BUCK DAVIDSON
Ruth Is Okeh;
Picks Pirates,
Yanks to Win
HOLLYWOOD, April 13-P)
Babe Ruth got out of his hospital
bed long enough Monday to re
ceive a few visitors and voice two
predictions about the 1942 major
league baseball campaign one of
them a surprise.
The big Bambino, rounding
back into shape after a pneu
monia attack, said he figured
his old team, the New York
Yankees, would again capture
the American league pennant
And the surprise?
1 klnda like Pittsburgh in
the National league. Looks to -me
like Frankie Frisch's Pi
rates might upset the dope this
year," said Roth.
"Sore," he continued. "I know
most of the boys are , picking .
'em to finish fourth or even
fifth, but I think Pittsburgh is
going to be a big surprise. I
still like 'em."
The' mighty Babe, taken T sick
last week during the production
of a motion picture based on tho
life of his ex-teammate, the late-
Lou Gehrig, said he hoped to
leave the hospital in mid-week,
and possibly return to his home la
New York in another week or so.
Vikings-SHA
In Practice Tilt
Salem high's baseball Vikings
entertain the Sacred Heart
Academy nine today In a prae-
Uce tilt on Ollnger field.' The
Viks tangle n with tho Oregon
State Rooks Saturday afternoon.
After two successive No-Name
league defeats, one a divisional
loop contest the Red and Blacks
-now rest as far as circuit com
petition Is concerned until April
24 when they travel te MII
waukie for their first game with
" the Maroons. ;
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