Gotta Slide To Make 'Em Says Cuyler ' ATLANTA, April 5-ff)-"Kikr Cuyler, whose given name (Ha xen) appears only In 'such things as last testaments, baseball ! con . 'tracts and national league records, says hitting the'dirst Is the key to successful base stealing. .-. Cuyler, an accessory before the ,.fact where stolen bases are con cerned. Is a guy who ought to know. He admits being successful ln 40 out of 41 attempts one sea son, and during his tenure with the Pittsburgh- Pirates and , Chi : cago .Cubs, led the league four -'seasons. M "..' : ''v iv'" Cuyler, who obtained a release a Chicago Cub to manage the southern association.. Atlanta ; Crackers .this year,: dismisses his own records, commenting j that "Max Carey (Pittsburgh Pirates) (was the greatest r base - stealer, -consistently, of all times. He once , stole 50 bags in 52 attempts." r. . .. Getting back to the actual ; art tof stealing a base, Cuyler, now in his 25th season of play, says: flci "Naturally, you've got to have fa' good lead,' and it helps a lot to '"study the pitcher's motions, so as to take advantage of every excess move he makes before delivery. But, in the long run, a player who has mastered the slide is the one . whoU steal the most bases." v: Probably' won't develop any new Percy "Windmill" Crofoot (al- - though you probably noticed by now he himself is still around and pitching) or famous batteries such as was the . Henry Singer-Lou Singer combination of a few years ago, but this year's attempt at city ' 1 of tballing should be second to none for sheer fun. When gents like - "Doc" L. E. Barrick, Les Sparks, :Red" Cushing (Keith Brown third sacker in his 19th year of ' softballing) " and . Keith Brown ' himself return to the active list, as they've 'done for this season, believe it or not, to say nothing ; of "Dangerous Don" Hendrie, mirth will be as prevalent as ach ing muscles and creaking, joints. V. . Brown wasn't at his first base post for his outfit in last ''night's openers he must first get over the results of two spills from his favorite horse last Sun day before taking over IB chores. .' . . Also helping to make it old home week in the softy openers -J are comparatively recent old -timers Lou Singer once an all ' state catcher for his Square Deal i Radios and now backstopping for - the Papermakers; Bill Gentzkoff. another all-stater for the Square deals and now an.infielder for mm. Office slinger now to fire for manager of the perennial state i and now pitclung himself for Maple's Sporting Goods, and of course. -Crofoot, still wheeling for Papermakers. Tommy Drynan says .he's sworn on. well see ... With action, about all there's left to do is ' tyno knows, mebbe. the sport will . again . 'r Stranger things have - like a very dull summer on the local sports front . . . TSteelhammer Gets Last Laugh T , He who laughs lastj etc., dept: 'you, especially after no less than .'clipping of your article In regard to Steclhammer, the durationlzed Oregon legislator, ' ex-softballer, hoop ! official, etc "As you will notice," ' located at Camp Beale, Calil, and ' , lieve that the article was correct ! f long and loud while relating the "Steelhammer, MP" story We print j ted the other day) Informed me some time ago in regard to that situ- iation and I was very thankful to him because X often had wondered what had become of the first corporal I had in basic training." (Ap- i vparently the gent who escaped' , v became a corporal in the MPs.) ! x on Pdcher, and despite the letter 1 f don't thing CpL John is trying to i would like to see ail of the old gang and to have coffee with Maple's .-basement commandos." Wants to : 7 counters in his store or "can he j llast of all, we've been assigned the ; Jjy Pilcher." , (Who's laughing now, Ira O.?) ... ' . Hardships for Divot-Diggers y (Goody), I l- The rule set In for the sponsoring Spring Handicap tourney by r . Kuies Committeemen Glen Lengren, Jack Nash and I. L. McLaugh i . lin, wherein linksmen "must play , only on the greens or when an : . , slashed ball" isn't going to make ' py particularly the first part of j "Who have a habit of digging divot , turf are going to find out what It's j t of the trenches we hope. A further hope is that the guilty ones muff : every shot And we've lots of company in hoping so. i Usually it has been permissible to kick the ball to a better lie . providing it wasn't in what is regarded as "the rough", so no one had j ; to whack at his ball in a divot ; all that's changed and players will ; - to replace the divots when they're ; As if It weren't already .tough enough for the whistle-tooters. 1 the convening hoop coaches in -included) whipped off changes j 'easier for the now well-laden lioop "goon"- corallingi rule," or - rio player may bat away a field ; -ward arc will require a jury and ; r ' sther the ball is on a "downward arc" or not, and even then they'll V ,.obably all disagree. Hiking the - will turn already rough-and-tumble games Into wild brawls, and un limited substitutions will tend to scorekeepers and galleryites as I Mebbe the coaches would "we'd like to see. Come to think of guys like Hobson might have to I Try im f Chne rmaie. AmazlBC SUCCESS for oee years la CMn. Sm matter wttn what aiiment yoa art ArrLICT FD diiorden, snaslUs, heart, lunf, llvtr, ..kldy.- stomach t, ' roastipatlon,-- ulcers,- Seti., fever, . temale torn rUUtJ . , C ::3 n:rb Co. s roon " Only . m t4 8t., !j p. i. MSl .. 1 v :.. . .. ti l):2) p. t i. ...2 Grid stars o FRANK SINKWICH (right) and Billy Paschal (center) got their orders from Lt F.lj. Mltko (left) at AtlantaGa- to reoort for .training in the maritime service National pro football stars last lean at George, played with Detroit and Paschal for the New York I Giants. (AP WirephoU) r r s HOWARD HOBSON Keith Browns: Bob Knight, Paper- Golden Pheasant; Bob Keuscher, champion Pade-Barrick gal's team popular favorites like those back In turn on! the Sweetland Field lights. suddenly come to life with a roar happened, and remember, lt looks "I Just couldn't resist writing to five different people sent me a me being an MP," pens big John I am how In Militair Intelligence I am a corpoiraL .Otherwise' 1 be- PUcher: (Ed. note: He who laughed from the feeble minded home and ... So Big Jawn gets the'last Jaugh having been written on April 1, we foot anyone ... He adds he "sure know If Maple has moved out the still squeeze behind them?" . . And job of "protecting" htm from "that 'em as they lie and can change balls ensuing shot may result In a lost or some of the participants very hap- it At last those unpopular gents holes and then fail to replace the like to try and loft a shot from one hole. But with the new tourney rule find out the hard way that it's best accidentally (or otherwise) dug. New York recently (Howard Hobson which definitely don't make it any striped-shirters.- For instance: The goal; tending rule which now says goal try when the ball is on its down- two surveying outfits to determine personal fouls from four to five wear out not only the reis but the welL ; like to do the officiating, too. Tha IV from reports we've heard lately turn to officiating next winter at that Jefferson Nine Tips Tangent by 14-9 Count i JEFFERSON -Coach Pat Beal Jefferson high baseball - team notched ' its second straight .win over Tangent Tuesday, '14-9. The Jef fmen collected 10 , hits. "Red Skelton, v ace t Jeff t pitcher who twirled a . no-hitter against the Tangents last week, was touched tor five blows Tuesday and walk ed 18 men. . ' . ' ', Jefferson 329 412 114 13 Z Tarrant ..212 11 t 1 I 1H) fof Service - : Beaamamisft at Sheepshead Bar. NT. Both were 1 season. Sinkwlch, former All-Amer- Novelty GoM Set for May rJT:r; wiiamm uau iwcr tci ui Goodwin announces first prize in the regular Thursday playvfll go t r.iaw vh L .hot n No. 8 winds up closest to the pin. The flagpole will be 1 marked so that exact distance can be as- mired. ! i I V- t .it t. ii i tnAi- timA I lUfl .SUUV MVfVO WM1 MVVVMVt 1 prize wUl go to the gent turning i h. i I .t Jr. fr h round and full handicaps may be used. War stamps wiH form the rtrize as usual, same to be pur- chased with the entry fees. r ... - ,(rm . Goodwin also reminds aspiring '-1 - 1 day. Since all balls in the tourney ! must be played as they lie, players are urged to practice accordingly. Bowl in Army-Navy Store wept three in a row from Cline's Coffee Shop, Bert's Pros took two of three from Cflyc daanar. and Acme Auto Wreckers took all three from! Ramage's 7-UP In Major league bowling at Perfection last night Don Poulin, leadoff toMn. for the rrvs, ruucu . m act c m v- ture high honors In that depart ment for the ! session His ' mark was three pins better than the 826 tossed by Bud Thrush of the Clean ers. Neither gained high individ ual game with respective perform ances, however. Walt Cline, jr., of it 4hat ,t" ljuvsu wm turn viu; -tnv v wy 600 in the meeting! JkMUX NAVY. (I) Handicap ' S3 13 M 159 1M 178 559 Thede L 17 Krejci - , i -174 182 170 50 17 200-43 189 1B4593 Hoax f. ...... i West ; S -224 Haitian . 177 J00 171-454 Totals 98S ? S70 SOS 2914 CLINE'S COFFEE SHOP () Handicap . t ! .e9 -S9 69 207 181418 156472 149 464 203-601 147-477 Cline. ar. ;,, 173; 162 Klrchncx ; ; 170 Trotter i r , ,' 181 -j. 154 Larson 145 .153 King 166 164 Totals . 860 '872 SOS 2637 BERT'S PROS t) Handicap 87. 227 67 175 192 176 166 67 171 .227629 181654 : 141461 179503 179659 Poulin Friesen Barr .-, . Welch 18i 144 .158 Pag . 147 233 Totals -914 999 964 2877 CITY CLEANERS (1) Handicap :- i 3 t j izn Kertaon -., , .; 200 161 161522 Foreman ' , . . -171.: 185 143499 Perry ' 1,ay 139" 167425 Thruin -178 2 eo Cline. jr. - ,', ,. 146 170 246 562 Totals 892 S76 993 2763 RAMAGE'S 7-UP () Handicap . S 72 72 72 216 Bolton -J62 163 ,136461 Kenyon - 154 134474 DeGulr . 123 - 173 145443 Hart 1 180 178627 Co .149 .; 218 190557 Totals .863 960 853 25781 ACMK WRBCKXRS (3) ttanoicap . , 77 . 77 S9 zis Garfoartno -..198 214 196568 Higglns i 147 - 200 347 Hartwen " : 160160 Talbot " . 126 163487 Dahlberg ( 214 '152 575 Steinboch J44 169 170-483 Totals -973 1000 866 2839 Quality? SPRING SUITS! S & N. Clothier. 4T,$ Ptste is? lYiUamette Golds Salem Aimen, VU Cars Grab Wins in Softball Openers A kaleidoscope of runs, hits, errors,, walks, strikeouts sen sational plays and ol fashioned ; boners , greeted village eustom- . -era on deck for Salem city soft ball league openers on three lo cal fronts -yesterday.' Willamette university's " Cardinals teak winning honors with respective , victories over Golden Pheasant, Keith Brown and Wi Bines, while Maple's ; Sporting Goods wen via forfeit from Paper- ; makers.''' 1 s-- - "' 4 - : Navy V-12er King, Gold hurl er, set 'Manager Jim Sheldon's Pheasants down with' three bits In pitching his team to a 7-1 tri umph on Ollnger field. For six lorsapnng, Contests Tell little - Martin , By WHITNEY MARTIN , : NEW YORK, April S-PhOn? swallow doesn't make a summer, or even robust hiccup,' so maybe the early exhibition baseball games ; inatching major league teams dont tell ua anything ! ex- cept that it wont be long now." If you want to try to read same- thing, into these vtrial-and-error contests you .'.might predict that competition this year will be razor sharp, as five of the six . games played last Saturday and Sunday were decided by one run, one of them going 11 innings. To discourage that line of read ing, however, the Chicago White rates Saturday, 16 to 3, 'and the 2Z'l 4tatter ,leadin P? ?.1Tndee tf ? was a baseball game or Just the announcement of the .correct time, army-navy style, h k , i The . early" games may have more significance than usual this yer the past they uuxa uvuuu mm uu A- - - : c " reservations for last place was Pfble to wind up as champion of the grapefruit league. ; ' was aue to various um were -siv , uur roosuee a iruu, wiu a 101 oi we mtiZ xi-u' 14 to .. ,u kn tt. Y- 1 i: t. Blows and Pete Doakes. This year the lineups still are sprinkled, If not practically satu rated, with Joe Blows and Pete Doakes, but the difference Is that they rare potential regulars now, as there are very few established players lolling on the bench, con fident that when the season starts they'll start too. j J " That is, the managers are trying to field the best possible teams. m i. . - ' c i 1 !"P HOLLYWOOD, April 8 -Wh An eighth inning homer by Infielder Ray oisen gave Hollywood of the I Pacific Coast league a 6 to 5 vie tory today over the Point Hueneme Seabees . -040 000 0105 10 2 Hollywood 1010 040 01 12 : Gillum and Andrus; Embree, Sharp, Treichel and HilL Pitcher Signs Welter; Seeks M ore 1 alent i for balem Lards . The village's newly-born box ing promoter, Ira OV Pilcher, hasn't rigged up his first fight card ret, but he's signed . one capable clouter, Eddie WeDer of Portland, and is on the prwol , for more. In searching for what he himself states, "the best ob tainable" beak bashers, the chef de guerre of Marlon eewt- .ty voltnre No. 153, 40 et 8,Am erlcan Legion, the outfit whose banner hell sail under, Pilcher says the -armory door is open for any and all who think they ' are top fighters. All they must do Is make application to hlm - personally, prTi-they're In ' shape, are not of the ham 'n egg species and hell gladly talk ' V,I i ; ifua-ucsa . . . , , The promoter says: Tm of -the opinion there are -a lot. of good fighters in this community, and' some at Camp Adair who wiH be given an opportunity to Rom where Willie Wells was always fond of fishing: Now ha writes from somewhere overseas: ' wThere,a m. memg the letter aiztsjt goes: Tralse the Lord, we alnt a-goin fLshin'-and I guess lt'a so. Bat yoa know, dad, aosne times I sure wtsh I were back' fishlnj for troct in beward's ' Creek aaln." i ; ; - And I guess that's the way all our soldiers f eeL' They're fht. ir-3 a war-and they mean to' tht It to a finish-till they can corns horaa to the little pleas ures that they've rnisseel so J I h'o. CI efa Zoicf Crrigl, 1744, rreij hdwtrj Tomlam fan Innings King twirled no- hit- no-rnn ball, then saw Bob ZeUer, Howard Elwood - and Dick Hendrie pnneh out singles to the seventh stanza for the on ly ' Pheasant bits' -of the game.' " .King allowed bat 'one man to - reach first nnta the fateful sev enth, Jim Sheldon getting on in the fifth via Shortstop Wolf- :searVe4;f;'p p":,'- :' Salem Ahr Base - defeated Keith . Brown t-2 m an error- . less contest played at Leslie. Ed Gosselin struck out tea . Brownies and held them to six ' : bits, while , the Airmen - were rapping 12 blows. off Meyers i Major Lodguo Baseball Note s TERRE 'HAUTE, IndL, April 5. -(ff)-Paul Trout'yielded his first run In 11 innings and Rudy .York belted a home run as the Tigers defeated tha Rochester Red Wings of the International league 13 to 1 today,'- . . t1 , y rr BLOOMTNGTON, InL, April 5 -)-Manager B 1 1 1 ; McKechnie put two of his ; ace hurlers on "lease-lend", today," as signing them to pitch' for Indianapolis in an exhibition game hastily booked for tomorrow as a substitute for today's game with Chicago's Cubs, cancelled because of cold weather. COLLEGE PARK, Md April 6 --Manager Ossie Bluege today tentatively slated Early Wynn and Roger Wolff for; the pitching chores when the Washington Sen' ators stack up against the Balti more Orioles at Fort Meade, M6L, tomorrow. -1 . . '' ' CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo April 5.-(yP)-The St Louis Browns rap ped three Toledo pitchers for 10 hits today," winning 10 to 2 and evening the series with the Amer ican association Farm club at three-all. They i were'; helped; by five Toledo errors. , - Vi - FREDERICK, Md, April -The Philadelphia Athletics made lt six straight in the exhibition league today by whaling the world champion Yankees 9 to 1 in a game witnessed by 1,500 and called In the last of the eighth because of a snowstorm; Surprises Mex MEXICO CITY, April -(fl3) Jorge' PasqueL ' president of the Vera Cruz club of the Mexican baseball league, said today that he could not understand why ; Rogers Hornsby, Who had been manager of ' the team, resigned today and returned to Fort Worth, Texas." " fWa' had no differences," Pas- quel said. "He must have received some other offer In I the . United States. We don't know yet who will replace Hornsby as manager.' appear on the 40 et S shows If they can prove they are in shape and are willing to put out with the best they have. I have al ready made connections In Portland for the use of capable fighters, bus would' like noth ing better than to find avail able any local fighters. All they have to do is tet In teach with me at the armory." : v In signing Weller, Pilcher has picked himself up one of Joe Waterman's better preliminary boys. - In fact he biffed out a win in the semlwindup spot an Waterman's card last week. Weller has ; provided much of the' punch on a few Portland cards ' in ' corking scraps " with Norm Finch,' another Rose- City battler.' ' ' - .' Pilcher adds he hopes to be able to line up his debut show some time near the end of this month. . I sit Joe Marsh Hornsby "Proiso Iho tcrd Wo Ain't Agoin' Fishin? tf much-the sweet feel of a trout rod . . . pleasant glass of beer with friends . . . the smell of Mom's fresh. balng from the kitchen.; ; - " From where I alt, we folks at home have sut important obliga tionto keep Intact the little .thirds that they' look forward to.;. from the trout rod waiting la the corner to the beer that's cooling in the Ice box, Pont yon asree? . - and BIIckLnham, Keith Brown 1 monndsmen, . Centerflelder Kins' smacked home run' with two aboard In the Airmen's half of ; the fifth, ' . ., The ;Wniametie Cards shel lacked their classmate Bines on ; Sweetland's diamond, 22-7,' In . a wild and wooly fraeas called I by Umpire Jim ! Porter at the end . of f om and a half innings because of, darkness. - -Eleven runs were tallied by the winners ' m the first Inning, In which the " .first -ten batters scored, four of them coming In from third by " t way of walks Issued with the sacks' loaded. Three - Bine Beaver Again ROY HEI.SER, who's bounced In and out of the Coast league al most as regularly as the seasons themselves, Is again a member of the Portland Beavers nine this ' season , after signing his 1944 contract Tuesday. - Helser Joins l i Beaver Staff PORTLAND, Ore., April 3 -(ff) Bill Klepper, general manager of the Portland Beavers, said Tues day night he had obtained Pa cific coast league waivers on Ad Liska, contract - balking sub marine bailer.' . Liska also faces automatic sus pension ' lf he has not accepted terms by opening of the 1944 sea son Saturday, Klepper added. The Beavers' skinny mound staff , was" bolstered Tuesday by the signing of Roy Helser, Port land, who joined the club late last season and blanked the San Francisco Seals in the only two games he worked. Drain Shoemaker 9 SAN FRANCISCO, April 8 -CP) The San . Francisco ; Seals of the Pacific coast league defeated the United: States Naval Receiving Barracks . of I Shoemaker Field I to 2 today.' ,.,". ,; -v-U ' i t- Del Young and Henry Stain backer led the Seal attack. Young getting a triple and Stainbacker collecting two triples. Each drove in two runs. i ; Dominic DiMaggio, former Bos ton Red Sox outfielder, and Phil Rizzuto, former New York Yank ee shortstop, each collected one hit In four trips for the navy. , Shoemaker Field .: t T j San Francisco " ..t 13 2 .- Feimster. t Cla y T and Smith; Werle and OsTodowskl. ; - SELL IT TO US . We'll Get It To Himl For the "high dollar" bring yenr car or truck ta-tit. 1V h-va nil. S - -w , " W WW buvers for our recondi- tlened and renewed vehicles. See vs seon while ear cash prices are still at the peas.' r- : c . , . , . ;. HIGHEST CASH PRICES . fftone or Co.7 far EiUmcS ; .M0T0Ri3. . - . '. S25 Chemeketa . . rhone 4119 checkers dished oat 12 passes to , ' Cardinals during the game. ' j Papermakers failed: to make : an appearance at Ollnger play- -t ground for their scheduled mix .with Maple's Sporting . Goods, . and forfeited the game - -i - Four games are scheduled, for ' - next Wednesday on . Ollnger, Leslie and Sweetland field dia- 1 monds,' and most of the ; clubs - la the circuit , have scheduled .practices for. the latter part of 4 thlS Wtt&:'dh.::.rJJ:H ' ' ' I . Loop President Elton Thomp- . son said the complete playing . schedule will be' announced late 'this week, pending word from I mmmm Lippy to Open 2BPiitioi BEAR MOUNTAIN, NYi April -JJPh- Desnite what . he calls "acorns'' in the region 6f the right elbov Leo Iharocher, ' 38-year-old manager of the Brooklyn Dodgers, intimated today that ; he : would open .the national' league season playing second base. - :. " Durocher announced he planned to participate ' in the remaining spring . exhibition . games and would i play second, in i the . Red Cross game against the Phillies April 13.' He indicated 18-year-old Gene Jdauch would open, the sea son at shortstop. Asked if he would start the campaign as an active player, Durocher replied: might'' Padres Tipped By Sailors 9 SAN DIEGO, Calif- April 5-(ff) The unbeaten naval training sta tion nine whitewashed the San Diego Padres, 4 to 0, today In the Coast leaguers last practice game of the 1944 spring training sea son. A double, a single and i 1 walk produced two rims for the Sailors In the . second Inning. In the fifth, George VIco tripled with two men on base to bring in the other two tallies. San Diego Navy - .000 000 000 0 5 .020 020 00 4 9 0 Johnson, Cecil (5) and Salkeld, Abbott: Jonas, Brysch (7) . and Boon. - ' The STETSON . ;; "Stratoliner" Be Sure 'SWMTS'OM . - . for Easter" li::: nsu styles I:r priZJ ZI3T7 . . Others from Salem's Style nn :r n n :n "rv. r : 1 WUlamette, where many of the school's navy V-12 men are playing on teams and must eon form with Uncle Sam's time schedule. ' WD Cld 0 1 S 7 8 I Geld.jh. J S 2 King and Folquet; - Knight, Clark and Easter, Hendrle. K. Ern. S 1 t 0 1 02 S. A, 1 I t t' M Meyers, Mlckinham and Kempel; Gosselin and . Olshan ski i r;t WU Blues 1 1 2 17 11 WU Cdji 11 1 17 x 22 IS Frick, Wardop and Dicker son; Rosco,' Jacobsen, Hunter and Brownlee. ' , Pitcliiiig Woes Face Red Sox BossGronin -'. ,. " ' ' f I. ' ... . Skipper Enters lOlh Year at Sox Helm T s LAKEWOOD, NJ- April S -) Pitching Is the big headache for Manager Joe Cronin as he heads Into his tenth term as pilot of tht Boston Red Sox with his work cut out for him in trying to im prove on last year's seventh place finish. Cancellation ; of today's scheduled exhibition against the Giants, here further . hampered Joe's efforts to get a line on mound strength.'- i ''. ; v .: ; ' :V;:- V. k- Added power In the person of Indian Bob Johnson and a well balanced vet infield and improvecj catching are counterbalanced by the loss of such mound stalwarts as Tex nugnson, dick iMewsom, Mace Brown and Joe Dobson. 3 Lefty Oscar Judd. who hung an impressive ill and 6 win record in 1943; Yank; Terry, winner of seven, and Mike (one man team) Ryba are the remnants of last year's regular staff. George ."Pinky" . Woods, six foot four-inch, 232 - pounder who won 3 and dropped six in 23 games a year ago,! appears to be the best man for a regular turn. Joe Wood, jr., son of 'Smoky Joe, is' up from Scranton and Vic Johnson,' southpaw, and. Joe Bowman, for mer Giant,' Phil and Pirate fire man, have ;been (moved up from the Louisville farm, i Meet to Be Mulled - -f.., ... .-'jf --.,.- ,' SEATTXE, April S--Decis-ion on whether to hold Padfia Northwest Golf association , men's and . women's links tourney this year will be left tip in the air tmta -April 15 when- PNGA direc tors meet, it was announced today. j Stresnilined comfortable, '. ' 1 Trim looking narrow band. ' Comforttb! j soft but no I "softy'Y It can take "rough ; . lamiinp aplenty, thanks to the exclusive Stetson Vita. . Felt Process. 17.50 MhMMl It's a New 5.00 to 10.00 Center for Men!