Stort Salem. Oregon. To day, Ancjnst 9. 1943 ii Ssillemm MM TrUnn(Bcmtt dC ILnsnmgI ennsntti&ir 1 .'I By Al Llghtaer Statesman SporU Editor Salen awoke Monday morninr face U. face with the seriots threat Of loeinr 1U franchise sn the Western International base ball league. Lack of attendance daring recent fames at Waters field was given as the reason by SIem Senators Business Manag er Georfe Emit h, after he bad talked at lenfth with Bill Mnlll fan, general manager of both the Portland Beavers and Senators. Daring their recent one-week home stand with the Victoria and. VancooveTTWb. the Senators attracted- only 277t paid admis sions for to of the fames. They have drawn 55,019 fans' for 69 ' home fames so far this season. Emigh made known the news that 'MoIIig an Is contemplating seriously one of two things: (1) Moving, the franchise to another location or (2) selllnf it. alonf with Waters field. Emlght said that Euf ene and Wenatchee are two possibilities in mind for": a tnoVe. The present .Wenatchee elob is to move U the Tri-etty group in southeastern Washing ton next season, which will leave Wenatchee open for professional baseball. It Is also known that the Bremerton club will move some where else If possible next sea son. . .if A number of attempts by local men have been made to purchase the Senator club, but all have failed, mostly because the. price i: Mullif an has placed on the park and franchise is considered far too much by those Interested. Mulligan I has stated that price as $125,000, with added provi sion such as the rlf ht to send players here for development. The ball club and park were purchased from Mrs. Georfe; E. Waters, a former owner,' for a urn! slifhtly over $30,001 In 1941 when BUI Klepper was general manaf er of the Beaver-Salem clubs. According to Emif h. there would be two possibilities for the purchase of the Senators. The Salem school board has at times Indicated it was Interested Inj tho C500 capacity park as a possibil ity j for athletic contests for the hi n and junior hlfh football teams. Emifh has suggested that the board contact Mullif an con cerning the. purchase of the prop erty, and that the groups of local men who are Interested In buy inf the franchise also meet with him to. discuss a deaL Emj&h did not say what price Mulligan has placed on the park and franchise j separately, but emphasised that "moving the club from Salem is quite possi ble! tf It Isn't sold locally." 1 Vndcr the Portland retime for the first time in 1940, the first postwar baseball year In tho Western International league, Salem attracted well over 100,-,. t0 fans for the season. The club was in ; first place most of the campaign and finished a solid second. Again in 1947 the 100. 00 mark oras approached even though ; much bad weather was experienced. The 1947 team was a pennant contender most of the season and only in the final days of the race faded to. fourth place. Last year's clubsecond divi sion In the standings much of the way. drew only 77,697. Emigh admitted that the Senators "made money In 1940 and 1947. but lost money last year and are losing much more this season.' Former General Manager Klepper has reported that tho Salem team made a profit of "around S , 000' In 1946. The start of the exodus this season came early. Bad weather kept the attendance down during the first weeks when j the club was in the first division. Then when a twenty-five cent ear parking charge was made by the management here, establishing a precedent,, many fans voiced openly they would attend no more games. Another howl by the fans went up when A) Spaeter, a popular second baseman with the club last season, was traded to Tacoma for a player who fail ed to help the Salems! and who was later released. j The intensity grew much worse when Dick Sinovie ws sold to Vancouver for a reported S500. Sinovie In 1948 led the Senators in hitting and was the most pop-, alar player to perform, for the Salem team In years. Since Join ing Vancouver Sinovie has been hitting far over .350, and In his past two series against Salem has hit well over .400. which has ta eluded some costly home runs. He drove In 12 runs in five games here last week and hit one of the longest home runs ever seen in Waters field: Another homer against his former mates came with the bases loaded. The Sinovie move was follow ed by another by the Portlands which took Ray McNuIty. the Senators' leading pitcher, up to the varsity club about three weeks ago. And ever since the deals made on Sinovie and Me Nulty there has been a notice able decrease in attendance and a great Increase In the complaints directed by the Senator fans at the Portland-Salem policies. The club has fallen to seventh place since then also. Mulligan both last year and this stood before the Salem Sen ators Boosters organization and premised them they would be sent a hustling ball club and one that would be a contender for the WIL pennant. The club of 1941 1 hustled alright. , but was not a contender. And when Manager Jack Wilson's dozens of plans for player help were denied last sea son be finally resigned in dis gust. Wilson the season before (1947), had been unanimously se lected ; around the league as its "manager of the year for his ability to make a threat out of what was considered an Inferior ball dub. This year a few of the Sena tor players at times have not hus tled. On one occasion three reg ulars arrived at the park here for a game in an intoxicated condi tion. All three were allowed lo play and through their errors partly the game, much of it re . sembling a farce, was lost. The attendance fell off after this ex- hibition also and many of tho few fans who now attend tho .games spend much of their time voicing oft-nasty remarks; at the players. I c '., . According to EnTigh, General Manager Mulligan has at times stated that he didn't mind losing money on the Salem club If he could realize a player now and then from it for the parent Port lands. Since 1946 the Senators have sent to the Beavers sack, players as George Vlco, ? Dick Wenner, Hal Saltzman. Ed Barf, Bill Burgher. Ray McNutty. Cat Mclrvin. Ed Kowaiski and Sino vie, all of whom have been Bea ver players or have been involv ed in deals designed to help the Beavers. Spokesman Emigh did not say Just when the contemplated move would be made, but added that "something may be popping later on this week.' i r 0 Th OmJlli IFfflMseafl. '' S ..!-'. ft . I . W JBsallll I- Druggists Nab Crucial, 2-1 . Mootry's Druggists took over sole possession of the top spot in' the City Softball race and took a big step toward the title as they edged out a 2-1 derision over the Papermakers in a thrilling -duel i waged before 1,200 fans at Leslie last night. The result left the Druggists one full game up on the 'Makers, previously co-holders of first place. A second City league tilt saw the KC's-top the Golden Pheas ants, 2-1,. in another thrillaroo which went 11 innings. In Indus trial loop action Maple Dairy socked Interstate TVattor, 8-0. on the ohe-bit hwrling of "Hi" llil fiker. , Mootry's got but one hit off Bob Knight of the PM's but that one j blow came at an opportune time for the victors in the first frame I when the Druggists scored their I two tallies. Johnny Hoffert start l ed the frame with a walk and : then Squeak Nelson delivered a single to right. The rightfielder muffed' the ball long enough for Hoffert to register, then sent Nel son across the dish via a wild heave into the bleachers. A tremendous homer in the fourth off Jim Rawlins was all the 'Makers could do' in the scoring department. They totalled three hits off Rawlins. Rawlins whiffed 10 over the route and Knight fan ned five. A single by Al Alley followed by a triple, off the bat of Pitcher Bob Parton put a period to the KC-Pheasant overtime battle. Both Parton and Warren Miller of of the G-Ps gave up six blows. The huge 1.200 crowd was the largest turnout for a local soft ball program since the peak days of the early '3 0 s. , Tonight's. City circuit slate has Randle Oil meeting Campbell Rock Wool at 8 o'clock and 12th St, Market going against the Marines at 9. In the Industrial loop It's Paper Mill against Naval Re serve at 0:30. Mootrys ' . fTTOO ooo o i i o lakors -.. 000 1 00 0-1 S 3 Rawlins and Heneiy; Knight, and -McCaffery. ' Phessants 000 010 000 00 1 I S KC's 010 000 000 01 J f 3 Miller and Waters; Parton and Alley. TO SitsnDoaMoDgs Tiev Found Blue : tVV? m J - . -i ,.-4 Backs Biting : - t . X, r : ; Y A . Wm ft V w I' n " " -- 1X 0 I ft v : - I '.. . if' k Mr. and Mrs. Jay McNeil, 610 N. Commercial, took a Jaunt down to the Big westucca river in the vicinity of tne Burns resort over we weekend and found the blue backs at .their hungriest (sea lice and all). Tho pair are shown;; above with their catch of eight which ranged from 12 to 10' inches long and from one to t pounds. Model A ford fender lures did the trick. Stojack, Williams Set to Go Iractors 000 00-0 1 alryt 230 3- I 1 Desart and Butts; Milriker and Etcig-or. 3 Prospects Ink Giant Contracts DALLAS, Auf. 8-(Special)-Three young prospects, two of them pitchers, have been signed by the, New York Giants follow ing the try-out camp which was conducted here Saturday and Sun day by Giant . Scouts Hughie Day and Mickey Shader. The trio, all of whom will be sent to Giant farm clubs next sea son, are: Ed Thompson of Sheri dan and Ken Schroeder of In dependence, both pitchers; and Tote Kruger of Corvallis, a catcher. A total of 43 hopefuls from all over the state attended the try-out camp. . " ' Thompson and Schroeder have been assigned to Idaho Falls of the Class C Pioneer loop and Kruger is slated for an Arizona club. ARMT MEET OPENS SAN ANTONIO, Tex., Auf t-W-ririt Lt. Willard M. Mann of the Second army, defending army-wide golf champion, turned In the. only par 71 score today as the 1049 tournament got under way. Heavy ains yesterday post poned the army meet a day. Defending Team Champion Fourth army grabbed the lead In this division with five-man to tal of 173. The Second army bad 184 and the Third .army 390. Mat fireworks, aplenty are in store for fans tonight at the armory; aa a determined Frank Stojack, erstwhile Coast Junior heavy king, steps out against an equally; deter mined Al Wil liams. J the ta- tooed ruffian in a o n e - h o u r main event scrap, i The! bout Is part of Match maker! Elton Owens elimina tion tourney to uncover a wor- thy foe forj Vancouver B. AL szasz C's Jack McLooghlln. who snatched tho title from Stojack recently. I . I I i Stojack naturally wants badly to get the crown back, and Wil liams gained the mainer spot with him after last week step ping it off impressively against Tough Tony Ross. ; Ross beat WU Ilams after.: burly Al was dis qualifiedbut Williams was the better man in that one and Owen figured the ta tooed terror would give Stojack a better go of 11 i The decision to give Williams the crack at Stojack didn't put Ross in a JoUy mood and he's expected to try to vent some of his wrath on Al Ssasz in tonight's special event. .The 8:30 opener tonight sends Ffenehle LaBeU i opposite Billy MfEuin. Both prelims will be t-et-S falls or a 30 minute limit and tho mainer Z-of-3 or one hour. ; Steelers Stay Ahead Of Oilers in 'B' Race Unbeaten Salem Steel held onto its narrow lead at the top of the Junior "C" league standings last night with a 3-1 victory over the Four Corners crew. It was jthe Steels sixth straight win but they're only one-half game ahead of the Keizer Truax Oilers who notched their sixth decision in seven starts by stopping the Midget Markets, 7-e. :i . i . t - The losses handed the title hopes of the "Corners "and Midgets a severe Jolt Four Corners now has 5-2 record and the Midgets have a 4-2 inark. '9 . f , Whittaker on the mound for the Steels, (set the 'Corners-1 down with two .hits, while Barfell of the losers was giving four. A two run burst In the fifth and last frame gave the Steels their mar gin. Those pair of tallies came on a couple of errors and Gregg's double. . Three runs in thef fifth ?fram provided the Oilers with;: their margin over the Midgets; Two walks and Bob Newton's hit did lt Jerry Kippinger held the Midg ets to four blows. ii Tonight tho "B" leaguers presume play with the leading West: Salem Lumbermen tangling with j Salem Height! at Ollnger, Mayflower meeting Salem Laundry at Leslie and Salem Realtors mixing with the Keizer Merchants at Keizer, All are six o'clock games. MicgeU ,-J 220 014 4 S Oilers ...L. 011 337 t Feller and Osborn; Kippinger and Newton. Salem Steel , ,. 4 Corners - Whtttaker and Stryffler; Bartell and v 001 01 J OOO 101 Undberf. - . LOCAL SHOEMEN WIN ! The Oak Street Horseshow club of Salem team grabbed a close win over? Shaw shoe-tossers Sunday at Olinger field. ; Alvin Richard son and Ivan Lowe led the Salem crew and Howard Gilbert and Clarence Priddy topped the Shaw outfit lans Complete for jWTL Post-Season Playoffs YAKIMA. Aug. 8 - UP) - Tho Western InteraaUostaJ league playoffs for 14,000 In bonus mon ey will start Wednesday, Sep tember T. two days after tho close oc sate regolar season, among the top four finishers In the 1140 W-I campaign. League Prealdont Robert Abel announc ed hero today. In the , first round the pennaiit winnlng clsb will play the third . place toaan and Mao second place team wlU engage taefeurtls plaeo club. Tit two survivors then will engage la final series for 0 sooner of IUM. L Tho first eotiea will he tho host throe games out of five, as will also the finals. Previously It had been planned to limit tho first round to three games. Here Is how tho playoff money will bo divided: :j : Winner, 11,500; second place team, tLOOO; two clubs eliminat ed ta tho first round. $750 each. All the money will go to the players and they also Will re ceive regular salaries throughout tho series. : if '.Abel anneuneed the I playoff frangexnents following a con ference ! with President Dewey fJortano j of tho Taktma Bears. Abel oaano hero to ooampUto tho arrangements Inasmuch aa the Yakima club is eat in front la the pennant race. Abel confer red With heads of the other W-I clubs before coming hero Sunday to complete plans. The first round will open at the j parks ef the teams which win the pennant and finish sec ond. After two games, the clubs will shift to the home parks ef the rival clubs for the third and fourth games, then return for the fifth game should the series go the: limit ' The ; final series will epea la the city ef the surviving club which finished highest ia the W-I WESTFaN INTERNATIONAL W L Pet. WLPct. Yakima 7S 0 .2 Victoria S3 S .444 Vancouvr 71 44 .618 Bremerton 50 63 .434 Spokane S3 53 .532 Salem 4 69 .413 Wenachee 59 58 J00 Tacoma 43 71 .403 Last niKht's results: At Vancouver 4. Wenatchee 3: at Victoria 6. Spo kane a. Only games scheduled. AMEBIC AN LEAGTJK WLPct. WLPct. New York 63 37 .637 Detroit 37 49 JS3 Vleveland 60 43 -583Chicfo 44 60.423 Boston 59 44 373 Washngtn 37 64 J6 Philadelp 58 47 .552 St. LouU 34 70 .327 No games scheduled Monday. . COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. W L Pet. Hollywod 78 59 J69 Seattle ' 69 68 J04 Sacrmnto 72 64 J&36 Portland 67 69 .493 Oakland 72 65 J26 5an rran 62 74.436 San Diego 69 6JllLo Angls 97 SI .417 No games scheduled Monday. NATIONAL LEAGUE I WLPct. WLPct. Brooklyn 64 39 .651 Philadetph 53 52 J05 St. - Louis 64 39 .621 Pittsburgh 46 56 .451 New York 53 50 J15irincinnaU 43 62 .410 Boston 53 52 .506 Chicago: 40 66 .377 Monday results: At Brooklyn 2. New York 1: at St Louis 9. Cincinnati 3. At Sacramento 14. Los 1 Angeles 2. Only game scheduled. Sagging Solons Open Series at Bremerton Salem's sagging Solons, a bare l'i games out of the Western International league basement and glad to end a disastrous home stand which saw them lose nine out of eleven starts, left Monday for Bremerton where they will tonight open a three-game series with the Bluejackets. The Salems currently are 20 games under the .500 mars:, games back of the sixth-place Brems and 10', 4 games away irom the first division. If the Senators can by-chance sweep their set witn Bremerton they can move up one notch at least After the Brem series the Solons move over to Tacoma lor lour contests. They return home Tues day, Aug. 16 for another session with the Bluejackets. Jim Olson or Cal Mclrvin will have the opening pitching chores against the Brems tonight. Elsewhere in the league Vic toria plays host to Spokane (they opened last night), Wenatchee has an engagement at Vancouver a gainst the red-hot Capilanos and die league-leading Yakimas, now sxi i t t v residing six (auics ui uvut v Caps, go to Tacoma. Bevos Travel To Hollywood Portland's Beavers, not the hot club ther were two weeks ago, but still only 2Vi games away from the Coast League's first ; division, take to the road this week. The Bevos i meet loop-leading Holly wood in a seven-game set starting tonight in the southern xity and then return home next Tweek to play host to Seattles Rainiers. lommy onuges or ucuttt talent will probably be Manager Bill Sweeney's hill choice for tonight s opener. Hollywood enjoys a comiortaDie six tame lead at tne top over tne second-place Oakland Acorns who this week travel to Seattle. Elsewhere it's third-place Sac-; ramenia against Los Angeles on the Seto lot and fotrth-place San Diego I at San Francisco. mm n Leadln- batsmen (three I leaders in each league) : 1 . G AB R R Pet. Robinson. Dodgers. 103 410 66 149 .364 Dillinger. Browns 94 371 51 128 J45 Williams. Red Sox. 105 383 104 132 J45 PiMaggio, Red Sax. 95 391 86 134 .343 Slaughter. Cards 99 363 52 120 .331 Marshall. Giants 92 317 60 101 J19 Home runs American league: Stephens, Red Sox. 27; Williams. Red Sox. 27; Joost. Athletics, 21. National league: Kiner. Pirates. 29; Cordon, Gi ants. 34: Sauer cuds. 24. Runs batted in American lea Stenhena. Red Sox. 112: Williams, Sox. 109: Wertz. Tigers. 92. National league: Robinson. Dodgers. 89; Hodges, Dodgers. S3; Cordon. Giants. 76. ague: Red BroughiAdvances, ToThird Round s MANCHESTER, Mass., Aug. 8-(AP)-Louise Brough of Los Ange les, 1947 U. S. queen and current Wimbledon champion,' was the only player In a field of 46 to reach third round brackets in to day's opening play in j the Essex county club women's tournament. The top-seeded Miss Brough drew a first round bye and then drew nothing more than a work out in her second -round match when she polished off Charlotte Ailing of New Haven, 8-0, 6-0. The 14 other matches played were all in the first round . and everything went to form. Byerly's Tips Vale Legions ALBANY, Aug. S-(Special ) Byerly's of Portland eliminated Vale from the State Junior American Legion tourney tot night with a thrilling 12-inning 5-4 victory. The win puts the Byerly's in against Hillsboro Tuesday night at 7:30, with the Hillsboro club needing only a win ia that one to clinch the title. If; the Fort land crew wins the teams will square off immediately after ward in a payoff clash. Byerly's winning run tonight In the 12th came as Vale Pit cher MUt Hickey walked in the decider. The bases had been loaded osi a single, a j walk and an error. e Kay Hyde went the distance for the Portlands, fanning 23 men and allowing four blows. Vale 000 100 021 A00 4 4 4 Byerly's 120 000 100 0015 S 8 Borneo. Hiekey (3) and Shaf fleld. Willis (3); Hyde and Da vis. " j AIcos Ousted From Tourney PORTLAND, Aug. j 8-CP)-RelI-ance and Albino ptrsted quarter final wins tonight and will meet tomorrow night for he right to play against Banks In the state semi-pro baseball title game. Albany and Reedspdrt fell from the series. Bob Signer pitched 'one-hit ball for nine innings to hold off Reeds port until the Reliance System batsmen could score ; one run in the second extra innmg to win, 1 to 0. In the second game, the Port land Albina team ousted the de fending champions from Albany, 8 to 0, by bunching hits in two in-' nings of a five inning game. Two runs came in the first and Albany then fell apart in the fourth and the Portlanders scored six runs. Banks vaulted to the final game due Wednesday nights by Winning a fifth straight game last night for an unmarred record in the double elimination series. lom-Cairdl Toe -.Unbroken. Eukoiigo'iLflinn) Ups dTara' Lead Reliance Reeds port Signer and son. Albany . Albina Snyder. 000 000 0011 0 000 000 0000 1 1 Adams; Burt and Alli- 000 000 200 6- Spancler t4t land Roelandt: Meskel and Barker. ExMLilion Baseball At Pittsburgh: Philadelphia (A) . 000 902 0009 13 Pittsburgh N) 000 000 1001 6 S Marchudon. McRabb (7) and As troth; Post. Sewell (I) and Titxger-ald. BKEADON LEFT $1441412 ST. LOUIS, , Aug. 8 The estate of Sam Breadon, former owner of the St Louis Cardinals, was valued at $1,941,112 in an in ventory filed in probate court to day. - . ... - Breadon died last May 10. Bulk of his real estate was left in trust for his widow and two daughters. On Your Vacation TlAYElf 1 I Coast-To-Coasf I o .- FOR AS LfTTU AS !Sf As& Te4 fitaxek Leaders Beat Giants, Reds NEW YORK, Aug. 8-VThe Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals remained knotted in the mad-cap National League race Monday as both came through with triumphs. The Dodgers had a tough'' time getting by the New York Giants, 2-1, while the Cardinals didn't have any trouble Fubdueing the Cincinnati Reds, 9-3. Don Newcombe was the lad who kept the Bums on top. The big negro righthander allowed the hard-hitting men of Leo Durocher only four hits and had them shut out until the ninth inning. The Brooks touched Dave Koslo for seven blows, getting a tally off him in the second and adding the clincher in the eighth. The Card-Cincy tilt was an odd ity in that the Red Birds picked up only five hits in getting their nine tallies, Wildness on the part of four Red hurlers contributed materially to the Cardinal scoring. Meanwhile Cincinnati clouted 12 hits off Howie Pollett but the slender southpaw . staggered through, y" New York 000 000 001 J 4 1 Brooklyn 010 000 01 2 7 0 Koslo and R. Mueller. Westrum ): Newcombe and Campanella. Links Leader at s ... o: a 4 t Cincinnati St LouU 000 120 0003 12 112 500 00 9 5 P.t.nan Iti,rkhr4 lit rmA.4Al. M Tox 8 "and Cooper, 'pnrmu' 4?) Pollet and D. Rice. 6 W T 4- . J " $ ofosssa i Snead's Title I Hopes Blasted f CHICAGO, Aug. M-Slarn-min Sammy Snead collapsed foT a two-over par 74 today as Pace-setter Lloyd Mangrum plodded along with a second straight 70 and a 54 hole lead of four strokes? in the $20,000 all-American professional golf tourney. Mangrum 's H-70-70 (Continued on Page 1) LLOYD MANGRI M After Tam" Repeat. Libia Is the ancient Greek name for Africa. 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