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f 10 The. Statesman. Salem, Oregon. Tu day. May 27, 1947 " - - W t V - SOIjON TALLIES: The Senators split their Sunday pair with Spokane to snatch the series. 1-1. atWa- ters park and the two cents nuMtly responsible for the serfes-elinchlnr win are shown above seorfat Salen ruts. At left Mel Nones heads plateward as Spokane Catcher Georre BafOap and Ump Amby Moran stand by. Nanes rapped a three-ran triple In the ninth to win the opening- (imt; At rlht Joe Skeber Is ronrratalated by Bnd Inning- of the openerJThe Solons tonight open a three-game series o'clock. (Don Dill Photos; The Statesman). Senators Ope j ofl 'ifliiJi ni van A May edition of The Statesman offered: "Salem high's baseball Vlkinr. because of their tenderness In experience and age may not .make mnch noise In the state prep whirl this spring, but Gurnee Flesher has an all - sophomore -team which in a year or two should be among those present when state titles are discussed. Yearlings such as Roger Dasch, Bad Craig. Rod Province, Dick Allison. Dick Mase and Dick Hen drie will by then develop enough to give the SHS'ers a nucleus with a eapiUl "X." At least one of our predictions came true, at long last. The hot rod races In Portland nave been packing in the custom ers this spring --it's nothing at all for 5009 to cram the Rose City stands for the thrill-filled pro grams -.-and the rod herders do their dangerous chores en an as phalt runway. What they'll do Kk (hv hit the more receptive dirt of the fairgrounds track next RONNIE SMITH Friday has even Maestro Jimmie Ryan giving with the oohs. It seems the auto pilots have what they call "more fun" when they can uh their buss buggies faster en the dirt tracks. And the same will go for the midgets when they begin circling Otto Kletl's Myrtle Bowl Friday night. June . Capitol Potter on Future Book Side Speaking of predictions up above, here's another: Blessed with more youth than experience. Paul Reiling's Capitol Posters will be fortunate If they can get to the state Lesion ball tourney herein August. Bnt look out for the same lads in 1948. As for Reiling. If it's to be gotten at all. hell get It The guy Is a good coach ... Re membered Ronnie Smith, the 15 game winner for tho town Sen ators in 1942 who sold to the Hol lywood Stars has been cut loose by that club despite his 5-won, 2 lost record this semester. One of the likeables who certainly prov ed he was no "wartime" pitcher in the Coast league. Ronnie eame p with a dead arm after win ning his fifth game and when the flipper Ignored- treatment the Twlnk management sacked the former Milwaukie fastballer ... The lights are almost ready for Juice at Otto Klctt's new arena atad all appears to be rosy for the grand Inaugural next Friday night between the Caps and the barnstorming Oakland Colored Giants . ." Fries Deserve Shot This easy - to - watch welter weight Dean Abney may be a (Teen pea In the pro fistic bis. What with but two pay-for-punch utings under his belt, but he at least has the background despite his youthfolness. Dean .was the northwest s welter hopn . last month who went to Boston to fight In the National AAU tour nament. He gave si good account f himself there before being el iminated. And if he keeps on shacking away In his future ar mory excursions as he has In his first two. hell continue to give the same sort of account . As for Ralph Ayers. the jumping Jack welter with tho peculiar style, he vowed after losing his four-rounder last week that It was his last pro fight - - he was hanging 'era up . . . And while on fights, surely M. Tex Salkeld needs no one to tell him that Fea therweight Hal Fries Is the lad who is deserving of that north west title shot at Bobby Richards here June 11. It's a 5-1 shot that Matchmaker Tex Is now trying to . Ane up that 15-rounder. too-. . . Final Contest, For Pop Delay SILVERTON Guy "Pop" De Lay coached his final high school baseball game Saturday when the locals lost. 7-5. to the Corvallis Jayvees at Corvallis. Silverton collected seven hits from the rtronger team while Wickham al lowed 10. DeLay retires from tesching at the close of this year. SUverton , 5 7 4 ' Corvallis ' 7 10 S Silverton: Wickam and Roth; Cor vallis and Gabriel. otKE BY KO PHILADELPHIA, May Zt-iPy Ike Williams, 135 '4, share hold er in the lightweight-boxing title, let loose with a powerful right to the jaw in the fourth round to night to knock out Juste Fon taine, 140 Milwaukee. ,0 ... Peterson after the former had belted Split Sunday Pair,' . 1 n With Yaks Mere Tonight Flies Legion Blasts Newberg, 22-0 Coach Paul Reiling's Capitol post No. 9 American Legion base ball team Sunday walloped the Newberg entry in the sub-district league opener at Newberg, 22-0. Lefty Bob Funk and Jim Rock divided pitching scores and limit ed the Newberg to one hit, that a bloop single off Funk in the third inning. Del Kleen, Ray Cummings, . Frank Osborne and Mike Glenn were the big stickers for Salem, collecting 9 of the 17 hits registered. Salem has a game tentatively scheduled with Gresham here next Friday morning at Waters park. Salem S54 J34 122 17 2 Newberg 000 000 O 0 1 7 Funk. Rock 7) and Houck. Cum mings. Sundborg: Johnson. Billings. R anion and Bloom. ' Valsetirand Bend In Opening Wins , Valsetz downed McElroy's of Portland, 8-7, at Falls City and Bend tripped McMinnville, 9-4, at Bend in Sunday's opening play in the State league. Dan Bower's 3-for-3 hitting led the Valsetz win and Paul Gehrman's hurling stood out for Bend. McElroy 022 102 000-7 12 3 Valictz . 003 023 00 10 2 Fredericks. Sweeney and Wittke; Johnson and Hufford. McMinnvlllo T000 000 3104 5 1 Bend 201 320 10 14 3 Hagedorn. Peterson and Burr; Gerh tnan. Farmer and McConneU. Angels Smash . Willamette 9 WILLAMETTE - Special - Mt. Angel walloped Willamette. 16-2, here Sunday in a Willamette Val ley league baseball fray. The Angels belted two hurlers for 18 Lhits while Bourbonnais was hold ing the losers to eight blows. Beyer hit, a four-run homer for the Angels in the 3rd inning. 3dFor'Bev' Salem's Bill Bevens racked up his third win of the season Sunday as be tossed the New York Yankees to a 17-2- vic tory over the Boston Red Sox. "Bev" permitted the Sox but four hits and whiffed six. He has lost four games. Oregonians In the Majors B R H O A E RBI Gordon. Indians .3001 30 Pesky, Red Sox .0 0 3 4 1 0 1 Ooerr, Red Sox .311300 , ; V 1 , I-, r' i --: '' i ' v. s -.- if - ' r . as, a home run to lead off the ninth at the park with Yakima at 8:15 Mossor to Face Foe in Opener A 3-1 series winner over Spo kane after dividing Sunday's du et with the Indians at Waters park, Salem's fourth-place Sena tors, tonight open a three-game stand with the Yakima Stars at 8:15 o'clock. Starting time has been set back 15 minutes to avoid conflict with the twi-night sky. Lefty Wandell Mossor who downed the Yaks last week while on the road, and whiffed 14 of them in so doing, will tonight be Mgr. Jack Wilson's ' hill choice. Skipper Harlond Clift will likely counter with Fritz Romple, ace' of his mound corps. Cliffs nine is the one which includes such remembered operators as Charley Petersen, S pence Harris, and Ted dy Kerr. Yakima took three of four from Salem last week. Salem up and banged across four runs in the last of the ninth in the first game Sunday to win another Frank Merriweller, 12 to fl. Joe Skeber'g first local home run and Mel Nunes ensuing three-run triple to right - center won the game before 1900 custo mers. But in the nightcap the Spokes jumped on Dick Sinovic for jiine hits and a 6-3 verdict. Salem, although handed 13 free tickets to first base, could do little with the truer offerings of two Spokane pitchers and had only three hits in the nightcap. The loss was but No. 4 as against 15 wins in the home park for the J. Wilsons. Nunes with four hits, Bud Pet erson with four more and Ske ber with two led the 14-bingle at tack in the opener. And 1 Skipper Wilson himself, in a relief role for the final three heats was cre dited with the pitching win, his first of the semester. ' 1 Following Sunday's pair it was announced that Dick O'Boyle, re lief hurler with the locals had been given his outright release, a measure to bring the Salem roster down to 18 active players. New 'Cat Coach On Campus Today John Lewis, Willamette's newly-named basketball and baseball mentor, will be on the campus to day to get acquainted with his new position. The present Roose velt high of Portland coach will be introduced at the 10 o'clock chapel period and also will be presented at the Kiwanis club noon luncheon by Walt Erickson, Bearcat director, of athletics. Spring Softball ' Campbell's Rock-Wools nosed Papermakers. 1-0. in 11 Inning last night at Leslie with Miller edging Knight in a mound duel, though the winners were outhit, 3-4. Salem Navigation topped Master Bread, 3-2. RUNYON BOUT SET , ! NEW YORK. May 26.-VP)-A committee- of 15 boxing writers - - one from each local newspaper and from each wire news service --was formed today to serve as advisers in the promotion of a fight in Ebbets field, Brooklyn, on July 30, for the benefit of the Da mon Runyon memorial fund to fight cancer. Monmouth Wins r MONMOUTH -(Special)- Mon mouth high's baseball club upset Salem Academy, 13-9, Triday to end a successful season. Charley Howard's homer in the 7th cinch ed the contest. Salem. Corvallis Squads Split The old home grounds proved Incky Sunday as Salem and Cor vallis golfers swung into the first half of their home and home series. The 23-man Salem No. 1 squad belted out a 53-26 tri umph over Corvallis pokers on the South river road ' lay-out. while the local No. 2s, 26 strong Journeyed to the Benton' county links to bow, 31-47. Composite totals rave the Salem swingers 74-73 lead at the halfway mark with final firing slated for next Sunday, at which time the squads reverse their sites of play. Jack Russell took medalist ho- V nor l-Nov 1 pUy-with a 7L (Salem point scoring) Team Weaver-Kneilsen Clash Tops Bonncmr Back Weaver, the bicepper with the backward fly ing marc and A-l following In his northwest faces one of his more Im portant,, strag gles tonight In Matchmak mat matches, er Elton . Owen's Ferry ?r -Street Garden'. main even t Hot on the r , ' ' e om e b a e k " . trail after being laid low for a month with a back injury. Weaver tonight tackles the tattooed tough guy from Ten nessee, Stockey Kneilsen. And a first-rate prise Back will get Locals Nab Pin Wins Salem rollers nabbed a major share of the laurels as the first annual Northwest Duck Pin championships finished up at BAB Bowling courts Sunday. Junior Chiser, Tacoman. was the only out-of-towner to collar No. I honors as he whipped off a 923 to take the Men's singles, with Hank Williams, Salem, a close sec ond with 917. All events tltlist was Mike Merrill. Salem, with 2613. four pins better than the total piled up by Pat Cole. Aberdeen star. Klunder Hardware, Salem, pocketed the team championship via a snappy 4097, the local Eisner Motors being rnnner-ups with 4055. The Men's doubles gonfalon went to the duo of Al Menfield and Eddie Hensel who smashed- out an 1770 score. Just four pins above the figure chalked by another local twosome, W. Miller and N. Williams. In ladies play, Peacock Cleaners gained the team title with 3735. Ethyle Williams monopolized the remaining events, her 816 taking the singles, and her 2512 the all-events crown. She teamed with Gertie Cox for 1600 and the doubles title. Caps Open With Win, Play Here on Friday ALBANY, May 26.-(Special)-Salem's hard-hitting Capitols Sun day spoiled the State league opener, for the Albany Alcos by taking an 11-7 win here before a large crowd. The game was enlivened in the ninth by a near riot when Salem players vigorously protested a State Sjioot Circus Ends The annual Oregon state trap shoot extravaganza wound up Sunday on the Salem gun range with a couple of trigger gents from Eugene and Forest Grove snaring trophies in the climactic state singles and state handicap but it remained for out-of-staters to hit most of the ceiling scores, though not eligible for any cups. In the singles it was Oscar Sniffer, Forest Grove, who carted off top state honors as he smash ed 98 birds Sunday, which with his 98 in the first half firing Saturday, gave him high count of 196. Cal Ray, Eugene, won second place after a shoot-off with four others J. H. Mc Crady, Portland, Merle Henkle, Portland, Marshall Leach. Flor ence, and E. E. Driscoll, Klamath Falls all of whom hit 194s. Those pert "foreigners," Joe Co tant, Poeatello, Ida., and Earl Colson, Tacoma, whammed the highest totals, however, with 198s. The Oregon state handicap truly belonged to an Oregonian as Gordon Miller, Eugene, slam med through with a supreme 96x100, belting from 19 yards out. McCrady, also a 19-yard man, killed 95, and Clara Ray, Salem woman ace, was third with 93. Mrs. Ray grabbed the ladies' title on the strength of that last effort. High-over-all laurels for state men went to Cal Ray, Eugene, who clouted 657x700 through the four day meet, Merle Henkle, Portland, being close behind with 656. Those scores were topped, however, by Cotant, who chalked 669, and by Colson with 668. Mervyn Gleason was crowned junior champ Friday. BETZ DEFEATED CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va.. May 26.-(iip-Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke defeated Miss Pauline Betz 6-4, 4-6, 7-5 in the seventh match of their world-wide exhibition ten nis tour at Farmington Country club near here today, putting the match score at four for Miss Betz and three for Mrs. Cooke. SENATORSWAT (Up to date) B H Pet. B H Jct. Beard 10S 39 J61 Sinovic 30 t .21 Moor 100 39 J50 Spaeter 106 43 .353 Skeber 13 4 J33t Wilson 4 1 .2SO Kubtak 129 39 .302j Bart 90 2 1 J33 Mossor 11 S.294 Cook 22 4.182 Summers 111 31 .279 Gunnarsn 23 3 .130 Peterson 124 34 Wyatt 29 3.120 Kruf 134 36 .269 Lazor 13 1 .067 Nunes 123 33 .264 Spore r 1 0 .000 Pitching: t -S t SO W L SO Wilson :i 0 3 Lazor 3 3 24 Wyatt S 3 48 Sinovic 3 41 Mossor S 3 53 Sporer 1 4 10 Gunnarson 3 1 33 1 No. 1 Estey 1H. Russell 3, Victor 3, Painter 0, Sheldon 3. Miklia 2i, Goodwin H. Pekar 3, Wise 3, Ingram 1, King Hi. Hug 6. Baxter 0, Emlen 3, Wa terman 3, Sehafer 214, Eyre 214. Wahlgren tH, Hendrie 9, Ben nett 3, Wood t, Bonesteele 3, McCrarey 2. ' No. 2 Medford 1H. Klet ting 2 Li, Price t, Fish Col lins 0, Baldock , Graham V. Burrizht 8). Kline 1. Franxwa 114. KlmmeU W, Hoffman 1. Harris 3, Gustafson 3, Coppock t, McNeil 14. Warren li. Parker 3. Varley 214, Skelley t. McLaughlin 14. Haman 4, J. ' Hay Dyer , McAllister H. Ramsey , if he can twist an "ancle" from the bearded hillbilly with his pet hold, the double neck stretch after the flying mare. Match maker Owen has promised the aspiring Terre Haute trickster a full-fledged crack at Herb Parks' Coast junior heavyweight tiUe belt for a win. admitting he will force Parks to put up the belt In such event. Parks has openly refused to grapple Wea ver for the title. The burly Kneilsen character Is In for his share of future plums also should he come through for the win tonight. He too Is after, a shot at one of the coveted belts and can hardly be turned down If he beats a gent series of close decisions by the umpires. Bill Hanauska had the Albany team well in hand when he was hit by a pitched ball and had to retire in the seventh. Lee Fallin, minus a warmup yielded five i-yns before an Albany rally was stopped. Woody Salmon, with two mighty home runs and two sin gles and Al Lightner, with a dou ble and two singles led the 12-hit Salem attack.' Anderson of Albany homered off Hanauska. Salem's next two games are due for the new Salem park next Fri day and Sunday night. On Friday night the Salems play the Oak land Colored Giants barnstorming team in an exhibition inaugural and on Sunday take on McMinn ville in a league game. Salem'. 400 211 10111 12 4 Albany . . 001 010 500 1 11 2 Hanauska. fallin (7) and Salmon; Simpson, Fisk (7) and Ward. Beavers Play Rainiers Next By the Assaciated Press The Portland Beavers, winners of only one of their last seven games open a Coast league base ball series Tuesday night in Port land with the- red hot Seattle Rainiers who in the last week jumped from- last place to sixth in the PCL" pennant race. The Beavers are now in fourth place. Elsewhere on Tuesday Sacramen to plays at San Diego, San Ki;m cisco at Los Angeles and Holly wood at Oakland. Portland lost six in a row to Hollywood before taking the sec ond game of Sunday's double bill, 8 to 1. Hollywood won Sunday's opener, 12-2. Vince DiBiasi won the second game for Portland. In other Sunday games Seattle and San Diego split their two, Oak land took two from San Francis co and Sacramento and Los An geles split Vandals Licked MOSCOW, Idaho. May 26-UP) The northern division champion Washington State Cougars closed out their 1947 baseball campaign today by clubbing three Idaho pitqhers for 19 hits and a 13 to 2 victory. Evelyn Benz is Winner Of High School Honor FOUR CORNERS Evelyn Benz, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Benz, received the highest ; w- t... it,. -; -1. t - i r ! club at Salem high school, at the annual banquet Friday. She was chosen to have her name en- graved on the Letter club plaque as the most outstanding student. Verlaine Walker, daughter of Mr." and Mrs. E. E. Walker, and Barbara Rickman, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Rickman, re ceived honor pins from the same group. The three girls will be graduated from Salem high school this year. They finished Rickey in 1943. CRIES WE ARE NOW CONTRACTING Royal Ann & Black Cherries FOR BRINING PURPOSES Kelley, Farquhar & Co. Phono 24133 or 6486 (These cherries mast be dusted for fruit fly centrL) Armory Bee of Weaver's ability. Parks himself will appear In the semlwlndup special event with newcomer Lou Sovoldo of Oklahoma who Is reportedly a rough and tough gent par excel lence. He'll have his hands full with the clever Canadian whether be be mean or dean. The 8:30 opener brings back an other old favorite. Affable Al Ssasz. who will do the curtain- raking chores with Bearded Benny Trudell. the Quebec nasty. Ssass has Just returned from his native haunts around St. Louis, Mo., and when last seen In these parts was one of the better operators on the Pa clfie Coast WIL STANDINGS W L Pet. W L Pet. Bremertn 26 13 .667 Tacoma 21 19 J25 Spokane 22 17 .564 Vancouver 18 18 .500 Victoria 22 18 .550 Yakima 11 23 -36 Salem 22 19 J37 Wenachee II 29 .275 Sunday result: at Salem 11-3. Spo kane 10-6. At Tacoma 10-2. Victoria 4-0. At Yakima 4-8. Wenatchee 6-6. (Only games.) Monday results: At Spokane 3. We natchee 2 (only game scheduled). COAST LEAGUE STANDINGS W L Pet. W L Pet. Los Angls 32 24 .571 San Diego 25 2S .472 San Fran 31 25 .554 Seattle 26 30 .44 Oakland 30 28 .536 Sacra mnto 26 30 .464 Portland 26 28 .481 Hollywod 25 30 .455 Sunday results: At Hollywood 12-1. Portland 2-8. At Sacramento 1-10, Los Angeles 2-9. At San Francisco 11-4. Oakland 12-6. At Seattle 3-3, San Di ego 10-0. NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. W L Pet. New York 17 12 .586 Pittsburgh 15 14 .517 Chicago 18 14 .563 Phtladelph 16 18 .471 Brooklyn 17 14 .548 Cincinnati 14 20.412 Boston 17 15 .531 St. Louis 13 20.394 Yesterday s results: At Cincinnati I. Pittsburgh 5; at St. Louis 3. Chicago 1. (Only games scheduled). AMERICAN LEAGUE WLPct. WLPct. Detroit 21 12 .636 Chicago 17 18 .486 New York 17 14 .548 Philadelph 15 17 .469 Cleveland 13 12 .520 Washingtn 13 16 .448 Boston 17 16 .515 St. Louis 11 19 J67 Yesterday's results: At Detroit 1. Cleveland 0: at New York 9. Boston 3. (Only games scheduled). Leslie Takes 'Mural Title Leslie softball clubs swept all three grade playoffs with Parrish Monday afternoon and m so do ing rocked up a number of ac complishments. The sweep cin ched the intramural competition between the two rivals for the year. Leslie now having won 19 matches to 15 for the Pioneers with only the three grade track clashes left; it gave Leslie the 'mural title for the third straight year and a 3-2 lead over Parrish in the five years of the competi tion. The Leslie 9th graders beat Parrish 12 to 4 behind Gene Gar ver's. 9 strikeout hurling, the Les lie 8th graders won 14 to 8, and the seventh graders won in an ex tra inning. 8 to 4. Silverton Lions Hear Of Teen Age Problems SILVERTON Velma Fields. Lawrence Habart and Robert Howell, high school students, were guests of the Lions club Wednesday. They presented a symposium on problems facing present-day teenage groups. . Named as the Lions committee for co-sponsoring the drive for the new police cars were Frank Powell. Dr. A. J. McCanneL Clif ford Almquist and Morris Van Someren. Annual election of officers will be June 4. installation jointly with the auxiliary June 11. Bob McEwen, Bill Bloch and Dale Lamarr and Dr. A. L. V. Smith are the installation committee. j walker. Phillies . so 10? is i jai ! McQum'n. Yankees 28 loo 13 39 Jo j Mulim . Tigers - 31 m 41 .sso jnize, uiidii . " w Dillinger. Browns. 30 130 19 46 .354 Lamanno. Reds . . 22 74 10 26 J31 Runs batted In: National league Torgeson. Braves. 33; Mize. Giants. 20: Marshall. Giants. 25. American league Williams. Red Sox. 28: Keller. Yankees. 26: Kennedy. White Sox, 23; Mulhn. Tigers. 23. Home runs: National league Miz. Giants. 12: torgeson. Braves. 0: Miller. Reds. S. American league Williams. Red Sox. 11: Keller. Yankees. 10; Mul im, Tigers. 8. WANTE Baseball's en siM YanEts Take:-:iFourth In loiv From JBosox Record 74,747 Watch Gotham. tes Gain 2d Place; Tiges, Cards Win Amerks Grab 1st Rounders British Amateur Classic Uniler Way CARNOUSTIE Scotland, May 26 (Al The sun finally shone on America's invading golfers in the British amateur championship to day after a beginning in which their opopnents were w threat ening as the weathe AH the Yanks who were scheduled to play a dozen of them including seven members of the triumphant Walker Cup team came success fully through the opening day's play in sodden weather. Ten of them won their first round matches, some only after close squeaks; two advanced by defaults; one failed to appear and three more were given a day's delay by the schedule. Winners of two of. the day's closest matches were National Champion Ted Bishop of South Natick, Mass and Francis Out met, 54-year-old non-playing captain of the United States Walker Cup team. Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spo kane, Wash., advanced easily with an opening 4 and 3 win over D. Russell. Racers Prep For Classic INDIANAPOLIS, May 26-UP-The garages at Indianapolis Mo tor Speedway bulged with race cars today, but only three more qualifiers were squeezed out. filling 15 positions of the 33-car starting lineup for the 500-mile Memorial day race. Settlement of the Speedway's prize-money dispute with the American - Society of Professional Automobile Racers had brought 13 post-entries in addition to the original 35, but belated motor tuneups and a stiff cross-wind kept most of the cars in their stalls. The first of the ASPAR cars, one of the dependable old Offen hauser Fours owned by Ed Walsh of St Louis, was the fast est of todays' three qualifiers. George Connor of Los Angeles, veteran Speedway driver, ran the 10-mile test at an average of 124.874 miles an hour. Chinese Eyes BantamTitle HONOLULU. May Z&WAVAm bilious to become the first world boxing; champ ion of his race. Da vid Knl Kong Yeans;, a fall- blooded Chinese native of the Hawaiian Islands, is working hU heart at in training: far hla that at the bantamweight title May 30. I he champ, Manuel Ortiz, beat Young in the seveaft round f a non-title fight last July 12, but the cUulinr Chinese wa a 10 round deeUion from Ortis In 193S, years before the Californian took the 118-pound title from Lu Salica. Union Hill Women Elect New Officers UNION HILL Mrs. Roy King entertained the Union Hill Wom an's club Thursday at the Roy Phillips summer home on the Lit tle North Fork of the Santiam river above Mehama New officers for the doming year are: Mrs. Henry Tate, pres ident; Mrs. Rollin Heater, sec retary: Mrs. Belvia Johnston, treasurer. Committees for next year are: Program. Mrs. Henry Peters, Mrs. W. M. Tate and Mrs. John Rollow; flower, Mrs. A. L. Kostenborder and Mrs. Dolph Heater; telephone, Mrs. W. M. Tate, Mrs. Adolph Heater, Mrs. Roy King; Red Cross, Mrs. Ralph Mollet Mrs. Belvia Johnston will en tertain in October. Atthof.lore rriTrirr LLLUNI U h - m m - m m mm I - zf 1 I ilVM III II I II III I . sickt sarviis ct, ! ' By the Assaciated Press A suddenly slam-bang gang of -New York Yankees, lately dis playing the punch that has made their name famous, pounded out a 9-3 win over the slipping Bostosf Red Sox last night - - their fourth, in a row over the American lea gue champions - -and with the triumph vaulted into second place, three games behind the Detroit Tigers. The ' largest single-game crowd in baseball history, 74.747 persons, filled Yankee stadium for the encounter. The Tigers maintained their margin as they dropped the Cleveland Indians, 1-0, behind the six-hit hurling of Stubby O verm ire. In the National loop Harry (The Cat) Brecheen pitched th St Louis Cardinals to a 3-1 de cision over the Chicago Cubs, preventing the Cifbs from taking over first place from the idle New York Giants. Kirby Higbe and Art Herring combined to hurl the Pittsburgh Pirates to a three-hit 5-1 win over the Cincinnati Reds. No other major tilts were sched-, uled. Asaerfca I-ete Cleveland 000 ewO 00 Detroit . 000 01 00 1 1 1 Black. Wolff 8) and Lopes; Over mire and Wagner. ' Boston . : 111 000 0003 S 8 New York 010 1 03 0 II Dobson. E. Johnson 8. Klinger 7i. Murphy lit and Partee; Shea, Pa 3 and Robinson. National League Pittsburgh 000 311 000 5 t 1 Cincinnati 00 000 0101 I Hlgbe. Herring ill and Khittz: Wal ter?. Hetkt ii). Lively Beggs t and Mueller. Chicago St. Louis 000 000 0011 S 3 CO 200 ! a s Schmitz. Erickson 7 and Scheffina. Livingston tl); Brecheen and JUce. Indians Gain ;; Second Place By the Assaciated Press I The Spokane Indians climbed into the Western International league's second place slot last night, one-half game above the Victoria Athletics, as they tipped the last-place Wenatchee Chiefs, 5-2, in the only loop tilt played during the evening. The Bremer ton Bluejackets top the circuit by four full games. A four-run eighth inning iced the game for the Spokes as they put together walk, an error and three hits. Wenatchee j 0C 100 001 J Spokane 00 WO 4 5 1 Condon and Pesut; Launo and IH Maria. Delayed Vote on V '' " r ' Tax Slash Barreil WASHINGTON. May Zt-iJPh Hard-pressed Republicans cleared the way today for possible senate approval' this week of a bill ot slash individual income taxes July 1 by beating down, 48 to 44, a Democratic motion to delay action until June 10. Senators Morse (R.-Ore.) and Wilson (R.-Iowa), the only mem bers to cross party lines, voted with the Democrats to delay ac tion. ' - Tme are two sides TO EVERV QUtJTlON hep side and the wrong side;. GucIurJvc Pieces i i