As
lenators' Win First Round Subway "Series
That Man's In Town Again
Kelley Goes Route "to Beat Spokame., 10 to 6
-7
Loose 13 -Hit As tault to Warren Enters
Stay Clear of Basement; Servce Today
: ' . a. Salem Senator outfielder Jacl
Johnson Swipes 4 Sacks
By All' LIGHTNERV - Spokane (6) Ab
What we've all been waiting I .,. -
t !-h?! Gerff Cameron. 3b 4
w... - w h jt in rK ihst " " " ' i in i
Buccola, lb .
A. Murray OTlynn, who needs no Introduction to Western Interna
tional learne fans In Salem, b back In town this week with his
Spokane Indians to do battle with our Salem Senators at Geo. E.
. Waters nark. The bit richthander. effective hnrler that he is,
bringsralonr with him a wide assortment of clownish cut-ups which
he tarns loose during the course of the rme mach to the crowds'
delight- Hell no doubt pitch one or two fames for the Tribe during
the week, spending the in between times in the coaching boxes.
u
AL LIGHTNER
Statesman Sports Editor
Salem, Oregon Tuesday Morning, July 21. 1942
I. From the what?
You wouldn't think that just the difference between one day
of rain or one day of fair weather would make a faltering base
ball league fold up, but had it rained in Vancouver last Saturday,
causing postponement of both those games we played up there,
the good ol' WIL would have been minus the Caps. And you
can't keep a league going on three clubs.
Ruby Robert Brown, Capilano chancellor who has been
plagued by extremely bad weather
all season (who hasn't?) which
in, turn brought out insufficient
crowds, put it flatly and assuredly
Friday night; "If we're rained out
of either of our two games Sat
urday, I'm through."
.The business end of the Sen
ator cluby, from Mrs. George E.
Waters on down, was in attend
ance : when . Ruby . Robert issued
his statement, but luckily enough,
Saturday was a beautiful day and
Ihe night crowd was a beauty
beautiful ' e n-o ugh to change
Brown's picture from one of gloom
to one of beauty "at least till we
see how things go in the Vancou-ver-Tacoma
series this week."
All Losing Money
It's no mystery that all four
clubs are losing money and are
in torn battling desperately for
m way to finish oat the season
so as to protect respective fran
chises until the war is over. It's
been a struggle all year and will
probably bo just as much of an-
other on out.
If " it isn't the . rotten weather
it's the draft and loss of players.
It it isn't the draft it's injuries,
and when those are remedied it's
something else all of which add
up to Salem, for instance, with at
one time the best looking club in
the league, playing hide and seek
with Spokane for the uncherished
bottom sport. - -
Nothin9 but Trouble
. Th beef Spokane Manager Ray
Jacobs and Pitcher Molitor got
into with John Nenezich up in Ta
coma last week will probably keep
Salem fans from seeing much of
"Jake" here this week, his suspen
sion being , but definite. League
President Bob Abel phoned in'
structions- that Jacobs is to stay
out of uniform and away from
the Spokane bench penalty if he
doesn't, "Call a cop."
Grounder & Pickups
' Frances Ann Cailteaux U the
direct reason Papa Alfie didn't
. play bat one game In Vancouver
last week she was born Sun
day morning, as expected, hero
In Salem and Al left for home
Friday. Frances Ann b also the
reason your correspondent's ev
ery muscular move Is a painful
one and yon can say that
ksrtin . . . Aid when yon speak
cf "war craxy" places,' please
iat exclude the Canadian me-
"trcrolls. One good reason why.
our Salem "Road Dodgers" can't
win in Vancouver is because
they can't set any rest at niaht.
It was Just a question of time
each night for the riots to start
in the hotel, and they came Just
as regularly as clock-work.
Ton couldn't sleep: so all there
was left to do was get up and
watch the shows put on by the
drunken brawlists. The Sena
tors stayed quite near the hotel
too, as to leave meant to miss
something. Wotta town . . ,
See where "Duke" Windsor and
three other1 ex-Senators. Cliff
Barker, Bobby Baer and Eddie
George, did themselves rlgh
proud in Ray Brooks' state
semi-pro tourney, snatching the
title Sunday night at Silverton
'Two others, Johnny Kolb and
Roy Helser,- were on the run
ner-np Silver-Sox nine ...
Waters park last night Wild
Bill Kelly went the full nine
innings to beat the Spokane In
dians, 10 to 6, in the opening
game of an eight-tilt series, and
didn't look at all bad in doing it
Wild Bill , had it to do, however,
because If he hadn't the Tribes
men would have swapped places
with our town Senators, leaving
them' smack on the bottom of the
WI league standings.
Kelly faltered badly In but two
innings, the third, when three.
Spokane hits, an error and three
walks gave the enemy a brief
to 1 . lead, and again in - the
ninth when two more hits and
couple more of those : pesky
passes, plus another bobble, gave
the Injuns their other two runs.
Outside that Wild Willie exper
enced very little trouble in rack
ing up his long sought third win
of the season. - ,v;i.-j-,v?v-
He was hit considerably' hard
and it took some sparkling plays
by AM Cailteanx, (celebrating
the arrival of a brand new baby
daughter Sunday morning, and
getting . three hits, too,) and a
f Ine running catch by Sam
Taormlna, to pull him out of
some spots that were' on the
verge of becoming bad ones.
But all in all, despite his two
bad innings, Kelly had the small
gathering behind him all the way
and didn't let them down.
On the other hand, Spokane's
Hank Bushman was being treated
quite harshly by the victory hun
gry Pete-men. Bushman got our
side out 1-2-3 in the first inning,
but from there on got into at
least a little trouble every heat.
The Senators touched him for
a single tally in the second on.
hits by Johnson and Callteaux.
two more in the third on two
walks and more hits by John
son and Eddie Adams and four
big ones in the fifth, those com
ing on three hits, an error, a
balk and a stolen base. Inciden
tally, the stolen base was . pil
fered by the flying feet of John
Son, and was his second of four
for the night, - .!!
Taormina poppped up to start
the heat off but Johnson lined
his third straight hit into ieft and
promptly swiped second. He was.
on his way to third for another
attempt but Manager Pete sing
led to center on the pitch and
Bill scored. Adams' hard, smash
at Pull ins was fielded but Call
teaux walked and "Curly'
Daley, rf .
Russo, If
Miers, c
Pullins, ss
Bushman, p
Aden
Total
Salem 10)
Leininger, rf
Richards, lb
TaonniriaV'lf
Johnson, 3b
Petersen, cf
Adams, c ......
Cailteaux,' 2b
Robbe, ss
Kelly, p
4
5
3
4
4
, 3
0
.34
4
Z 3
- 4
R
1
1
1
1
0
0
0
0
0
H PbA
.1
2
2
11
2
2
2
2
0
0
8 24 12
0
2
1
3
1
1
3
1
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2
8
0
0
0
0
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0
3
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Total"
..35 10 13 27 11
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3
Jack
Warren reported for duty to the
United States coast guard In
Portland this morning after
joining that department , of the
service last week. It was be-.
lieved that Warren would re
turn to his outfield post wiLh
the baseball dab until called
to duty some time In the future,
but he was called four days
after his enlistment
Warren was leading the club'
In hitting with a .312 average
and was on the verge of being
sold to one of a number of In
terested AA and major league
organizations. The Salem front
office has had a few. offers for
his future services. . Since , his
departure he hag been placed
on the military ' retired list
along with Jlmmie Robertson,
who Joined the naval air corps
last month.
Batted for Bushman in 9th.
Spokane 004 000 002 6
Hits .,: M03 002 002 8
Salem ,r' 012 041 11 10
Hits . 022 132 21 13
Left on bases Salem 12; Spo
kane 8. Two-base bits Bushman,
Daley 2, Cailteaux. Runs batted
in Cailteaux, Cameron 2, Daley
3, , Johnson, Adams, Petersen 3,
Kelly 3, Leininger, Buccola. Sac
rifice Leininger, Kelly. Stolen
bases Johnson 4, Cailteaux,
Daley.
Time; 2:10. Umpires Regele and
Drynan.
French Flips
Bums to 5-0
Win Over Bucs
PITTSBURGH, July 20 -(JP)
Southpaw Larry French won his
11th game of the season here
Monday night, allowing but five
hits as the Brooklyn Dodgers de
feated the Pittsburgh Pirates,
3 tp 0. Beaten his last time out,
French had his new pet pitch,
the knuckleball, working to per
fection in Monday night's game.
The game was a tight battle
for four innings, Bill Lanning
holding his own for the Bucs.
But the National league leaders
hopped on him for a single
tally in the fifth, two in the
seventh and two more In the
eighth, touching him for ten
hits in all.
How They
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
Vtncouvr 47 3 JisejSalem , 33 44 .443
Tcom 48 38 J558 SDOkina , 3 r 459
MMday's Reran
At Salem 10, Spokane .
At Vancouver H, Tscoma S,
COAST LKAGVC
WtPrt. WLPrt
Lew An 4 67 39 .6321 San Diego 56 54 .809
Sacrmto 65 43 .6021 Holly wd 47 64 .423
San Fran 53 51 JSlO'Oakland 45 62 421
Seattle 54 52 .J09, Portland 41 63 JS4
At Portland l-s, Hollywood 7-8.
At Los Angelea 3-4. San. Diego 1-1.
A ?in Franf?0 .V. Sacramento
4-11. (1st came 11 innings.!
At Seattle 3-4. Oakland 2-3.
IN games Monday.)
AMERICAN. LEAGUE C
. WLPct WLPct
New York 61 M 4851 Detroit 46 47 .495
Boston SO 37 JS75 Chicago 36 46.439
Cleveland 51 40-.S60;Philadel 37 SB .385
St. Louis 47 44 416 Washngtn 34 56 21
ins games Mcnaay.)
NATIONAL LEAGUE
WLPct. WLPct
Brooklyn 62 27 .607 'Pittsburgh 41 49 .477
St. Louis 54 32 .628: Chicago 44 48 .478
CincinnaU 47 41 ,&34 Boston
New York 46 43 J17,Philaiel
Ma4ay Btesotts
Brooklyn 5. Pittsburgh 0.
(Only games.)
The winran the Dodger lead
Robbe, lover the idle St. Louis Cardinals
making his regular player debut to six and a half games.
at short, loaded the bases when Brooklyn 000 010 220-5 10 0
Pullins threw low to Buccola af-1 Pittsburgh 000 000 000-0 8 2
ter scooping his roller. French and Owen; Lanning and
Bushman got his foot tangled I Lopez.
witn the rubber on, a pitcn to
Kelly which balked m another Oa-ll
run, and Wild Willie bashed a JjOrUOIl 31111
single to center to coum me omer
two before it was over.
Not content with those, the
Solons got single runs in each
of the last three innings, hits by
Richards, Cailteaux and Taormina
and two more stolen sacks by
Johnson figuring in the count.
The Tribe could have made
things considerably rougher for
Kelly in the ninth had It not
been for a heads-up play be
tween Adams and Richards.
Buccola had Just driven in Spo
kane's second tally of the inn
ing with an infield hit and was
perched on the first of three
loaded sacks with one out. But
he didn't stay close enough to
the bag, and a quick peg, Eddie
to Jack, caught him for the sec
ond out. Kelly took care of the
rest, fanning big -Bob Daley to
retire the side.
The two clubs swing away, at
each other again tonight at 8:00
p. m., again Thursday night, a
doubleheader on Friday night
starting at 7:00 p. m., another
single game Saturday night and
wind 'er up with another twin
bill Sunday.
Newcomer George Babich,
lefthander picked up in Van
couver, will do tonight's duties
for the Solons and will prob
ably be . faced by A. Murray
O'Flynn for the Spokes.
37 56 J98
24 63 476
Sabin Takes Oveiv
SEATTIJEV'July 20.-(flVWayne
Sabin, who ' went from " Portland
to the top ranks of amateur and
professional tennis, arrived here
Monday . at : assume . his duties . as
Paces Hitters
CHICAGO, July 20.-1)-Joe
Gordon of the New York Yankees
held the top spot "among Ameri
can league batters Monday, but
the Boston Red Sox had several
competitors in a position to chal
lenge him if and when they en
joy a slugging spree.
Gordon, lone Tank on the list
of the ten foremost swatters.
picked up six points In the
standings' through Sunday's
games to push his average to
ML Ted Williams of Boston
slumped seven points to .337,
and his teammate. Bobby Doerr,
dropped, five to .331. However,
another Bostonian, John Pesky,
moved up two points to .328.
The others in order, were: Les
Fleming, Cleveland Indians, .327;
Stan Spence, Washington Sena
tors, .320; Dom DiMaggio, Boston,
and ' Ned Harris, Detroit, .302
apiece; George Case, Washington,
.298: vera Stephens, St. Louis
Browns, .293. - :
Case supplanted Lou Boudreau,
the Cleveland manager. In the
roster of the leaders.
Norbert Climbs
In PCL Bat Bee
LOS ANGELES, July 20.-UP)
Los Angeles' Johnny Moore con
tinued to hold his lead in the Pa
games played through Sunday.
Moore's tally stands at .360
on the basis of 272 times at bat
Norbert of Portland, 234 times
at bat, marked up a .355 aver
age. Eddie Waitkus of Los An
geles ' continued la third j spot
with .337 in 427 times at bat.
In team . batting, : Sacramento
led the pack with .2798 percentage
while Los Angeles pressed close
behind with .2788. Hollywood was
third with .267, only one percent
age point ahead of San Fran
cisco.
ployed in shipyards.
professional at the Seattle Tennis
club. - . . "
Announces
Tune In National Tat1 Wave
Station C B. A C. .
(Corned Beef and Cabbage)
Every Tucs. & Thurs. qrm
ii a. m. to 8 p. m:qZ2
Closed all day Wednesday to
conform with the Salem Res
taurant Assn. cooperative plan.
i9 tutai sr.
'Papa9 Rosar to Rejoin
Yankees. Today; Fined
$250 by Joe McCarthy
BUFFALO, NY, July iO--Buddy Rosar father of a new
8 pound baby boy, said Monday night he would report to the
New York Yankees Tuesday night at Cleveland after Joe Mc
Carthy, manager of the world's champions, announced" he had
fined the Yankee catcher $250 for
leaving the club without permis
sion. McCarthy, who was at nisi
home in Buffalo on a day off
for a "good rest," .said he had
fined Bosar and decided "he
will be indefinitely suspended'
if he fails to report for Tues
day night's g a m e w 1 1 h the
, Cleveland Indians. The Yank
ees' manager said Rosar had not
mentioned the . expected birth
of a second child before leav
ing. ..
Rosar, insistent in denying he
had "quit the team and left the
boys fiat,' said he had talked with
McCarthy Monday and declared
he had given the manager ad
vance . notice of big intention to
come to Buffalo to. take a civil
service examination for appoint
ment to the police force. , ; .
Portland Archers High
PORTLAND, ; Jul J X (HIP)
Major honors in the annual Pad
fic northwest archery tourna
ment went to Portland -bowmen
Reiser Not
Badly Hurt
: PITTSBURGH, jJ U 1 jr 1 20.-i)
Pete Reiser, Brooklyn Dodgers
batting' star whwai hurt Sunday
at- SC Louis, wiiT be' discharged .
from ' a" St Loulj hospital and
leave for Brooklyn Tuesday, Man
ager Leo Durocher ' announced
Monday night "
: Durocher said Dr. Robert Hy
land, St-. Louis Cards' physician,
informed him Reiser suffered a
slight brain concussion and was 4
badly shaken up when he crashed -Into
the wall going after Enos
Slaughter's game-winning homer
Inside the park. -
Durocher said Reiser would not
return to the Brooklyn lineup for
several days."., , vj-: -
Sunday. DeWitt Hawkins scored
2084 points to Win the men's title
and Harriett. Warnlck, piled up
1881. to capture the women's.
Boilermakers May Pass
Up National Tourney
SILVERTON, July 2Q-(JPy-1he
Portland boilermakers ruled Ore
gon's semi-pro baseball empire to
day but it looked as if they would
let it go at Jhat v-;
The boilermakers, - who de
throned Silverton's Red Sox Sun
day night doubted they would
participate in the national semi-
Cific Coast league hattin rr in " "i reus
i. r, c" j virtually Uie entire team Is em-
Tie
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