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-1- Jt y' - DDI! BW GBP . "5 yM - - Statesman, Salem. Ore.. Webw With Jerry Stone Candidate as one7 of the oldest and most faithful Senator f ol lolowers: Edwin R. Palmeit82-year-oId resident of 670 N. 14th, who has followed the progress of every Waters Park game this season either by being there personally or via Chuck Boice s radio de scriptions . . . Some of the young- er ones need the spirit of Mr. Pal- mcr . . . Bob White, the former WU footballer and mentor at Stayton, works for his masters this winter at Willamette . . . Bob Baltimore, the Mill City whizz named the outstanding West back in the B Shrine game a year ago, is among the freshmen aspirants working under Ted Ogdahl's eye in Bearcat drills ... We grieve for KOCCs Chuck Boice Saturday night when he airs the Willamette-CPS opener at Mc culloch Stadium. And you will too after noting that the Logger line up includes the name of one Lou Grzadzielewski . . . Chuck had best hone up his adenoids for that one ... A bit of commotion in local bowling circles this season, with some of the pin-pelters pulling allegiance away from Uni-Bowl because they figure a rather bad shuffle was handed Frankie Evans when he was ousted as manager early this summer . . . Big Tracks Crack Down Quick If what some certain jockeys got away with at the recent Fair races had been enacted at such bigtime tracks as Santa Anita, said riders might have been suspended for life. That's the opinion of a local man who formerly saw a lot of duty at the big California tracks in an official capacity . . . "Sometimes," he adds, "the veteran jockey is inclined to take liberties at the small track" . . . And perhaps that's also why many of your small track riders aren't booting 'em home at Santa Anita or Hollywood Park ... Larry Oslund, a well known gent in local bowling circles, has just returned from his annual pilgrimage to New York where he studies for his master's and gorges lund saw plenty of the Dodgers and Giants and Yankees and says there's no kidding about that raw Brooklyn power . . . Best pitching performance watched was a one-hitter by the Yanks' Bob Kuzava, the guys that looked the fastest and the Chicago Sox' Virgil Trucks . . . One of the big kicks, says Oslund. was watching Leo Duro cher go through his daily routine at the Polo Grounds ... Most ball players, in bowing to superstition, have their pet Idiosyncracies on the diamond . . . Durocher, as this writer observ ed a year ago,, has an unalterable, procedure while guiding his Gi ants from the third base box ... guy picks up the third baseman's his fists" and kicks twice at the hotcorner sack. Then Leo moves back to the coaches' box and scrapes all the chalk lines away with his foot . . . It's a ritual that never varies ... Leo Retrieved Glove, Homer Won Game Oslund, pointing up how much of a ritual it is, recalls one occasion when the game was tied in the top half of the ninth, with the Giants coming to bat in the bottom half. Third sacker Hank Thomson took his glove into the dugout and thusly when Durocher went out no glove . . . Leo hurried back, got the glove and preceded with his routine. Thomson, the first hitter, then poked a homer to win for the Giants . . . That mast have given Durocher renewed faith in his dilly-dallying but how come the Giants aren't going to finish any higher than the sec ond division? ... One day, relates Oslund, the Dodgers were ready for Leo. They piled four-inches of chalk on the coaching lines at Ebbetts Field to try to snafu the ritual . . . But that ed dirt on top the chalk ... Some rumblings of discontent in semi-pro circles because service teams loaded with drafted major leaguers too often pull in the laurels in the big National tournaments. When is a pro pro and when isn't he?" it's asked . . . Speaking of service teams. Fort Ord has quite a football aggregation. In addition to Don Heinrich, the ex Husky aerial whizz, the lineup includes OUie Mattson, former USF All-America and Pat Canamella, the star SC linebacker ... Ross Cops Hot Mat Mix Over "Arrogant Erie' Tony Ross thrilled an Armory load of wrestling customers last night by winning his big brawl with Eric (The Great) Pederson, in two straight falls. It was a stormy, rough battle all the way and with a climax befitting the heat-filled warfare between the two. Ross got the first fall, quick-like, by wading into the Los An geles blond with a series of backbreakers and a body press. It took about a minute. The inspired Sa- lem grappler had Pederson on the run in No. 2 also .suddenly flip ping him through the ropes and into the crowd. Pederson obviously blew a fuse at this point, and tangled with members of the crowd as Referee Doug Donnan tolled the count. Pederson , was still involved in the wild out-of-the-ring fracas when counted out, giving Ross the match. But just as Donnan raised Tony's hand, in stormed the berserk - Pederson and slammed on a full nelson hold. He refused to break it, and it took a number of other grapplers, Matchmaker Elton Owen and some fans , to finally pry him loose. Owen and Danno McDonald forcibly led Pederson from the premises, and Ross, hurt by the terrific nelson hold, had to be carried out In the semiwindup, a tag team battle, and a wild one, the Luther Lindsey- Johnny Hennihg duet was declared winner, after a re versed decision against Red Vag none and Irish Jack O'Riley. The latter interfered with what was the convincer as Henning had Vagnone in a crab hold. O'Riley, from outside the ring, kicked Henning over, which gave Vag none a chance to pin him. The ref allowed this pin, but when the fans stormed the ring in pro test and Informed Donnan of the Sept. 16, 1953 (Sk. 4) 1 ? ' c LEO DUROCHER Fiithful to His Ritual himself on ball games ... Os were Washington s Bob Porteriield At the start of every inning tne glove, gives it two whacks with didn't stop Leo. He merely pil prank, he reversed the calL A wild few moments then followed as O'Riley and Vagnone teed off on Donnan. It was a wow of a tag mix throughout Danno McDonald looked sharp in dumping The Ram in the pre lim, using a rolling short-arm scissors. Walton Meeting Slated Tonight The Salem Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America is to meet tonight, eight o'clock, at the chapter clubhouse. It will be the final business meeting before the opening of the annual deer hunt ing season in Oregon October 3, and a number of hunting items are up for discussion. Secretary Paul Nicholson urges a full turnout of the membership for the session. Veeck Wants Shift CHICAGO in An American League committee Wednesday will hear President Bill Veeck's latest proposal to shift his St Louis Browns to another city, most likely Baltimore. The four-man group's conclusions are not expected to be made public until a full meeting of club owners. possibly during the World Series. Three-Run Blast in Eighth Ruins Senators, Ends Season By AL LJGHTNER Statesman Sports Editor It's aU over, and they didn't do it The Salem Senators fizzled and fell for the third straight time at Waters Field last night, losing the 1953 Western International League championship to the Spokane Indians. The score was 5 to 2 in the finale with the Tribe scoring three fatal runs in the eighth inning to crack open a 1-1 game. Manager Don Osborn's outfit took the crucial series four games to two. Thus what at one time in July was the greatest baseball season ever known here wound up on a doleful note. The Senators started out poorly, fought their way to the first half title with a tremendous stretch drive, and took out after the second half flag with an equal ly astonishing burst Then suddenly, as Milt Smith was taken from the club and some of Its other members assumed a lackadaisical attitude toward winning both por tions of the race, the Salems grad ually ran out of gas, finishing a poor sixth. They proved in the big series, when the blue chips were down, that they didn't have what it re quired. Last night's windup was anoth er exhibition of ira potency by the Waters Fielders. They got eight hits off three Spokane flingers, but not a one drove in a run. Both Salem tallies were unearned be cause of errors by Shortstop Wil bur Johnson. But then Spokane fielding did as much to shackle the Solons as anything else.. Four times the Tribe infielders checked in mur derous double plays, and on four occasions the fielders were in the right spots when what might have been productive drives were belted by the luckless Solons. One of these, in the ninth inning, was the backbreaker. After Jimmy Deyo had walked, Jerry Ballard poked a liner to ward right-center. Jimmy Brown leaped high, speared the drive with a spectacular catch and doubled Deyo at first base. Les Withers poon then foUowed with a booming triple to right-center which would have meant two runs and the tieing tally on third base with no outs. It was a typical Dave Dahle pitching sortie no runs upon which to work. The southpaw went 1-0 behind in the fifth on a walk, a passed ball and Bill Sheets' ground single through the middle. The Senators, almost helpless against the soft slants of moose-like Virgil Giavononni, fi nally got to the big righthander in the seventh, knotting the score. Connie Perez singled with one out and got to second on Deyo's sacrifice. Connie then scored when Johnson booted Ballard's grounder. When Withers poon shot another single to right, put ting Ballard on third, Osborn jerked Giavononni and hauled in Art Worth, hard-throwing lefty. to pitch to Bob Nelson. Luby countered this strategy by sending up Chuck Essegian to bat for Bob Nelson. Chuck ran up a 3-0 count and then popped out, ending the rally. The hopeful crowd of 1,959 had something to cheer about, for it was again a tie game. But not for long. Dahle got by the first Spokane swinger in the eighth before Stan Palys doubled hard to left-center. Will Hafey, the big Spoke slugger, was next and should have been an out He popped an easy foul off to the left that Don Master- son couldn't find in the lights, a bad break that prolonged Hafey s time at bat He then drilled a single to left, scoring Palys. Adding insult to injury, Carl Bush as next up skied a home run over the right field fence. This made it 4-1 for Spokane. Salem got one back in the eighth as Gene Roenspie, who had replaced Dahle after Bush's homer, was safe on Johnson s error. Gene got to third on a freak hit by Dick Sabatini, one that bounced badly over the mound and eluded Brown's hun gry glove. Roenspie then scored when Luby lined deep to Ed Mur phy in center. i The Spokes picked up then- last run in the ninth on two in field scratches, a sacrifice and a fielder's choice. Taking no chances even after Brown's fine play and Wither- spoon's triple in the ninth, Os born sent in Righthander Bill Franks to pitch to Masterson. Don (lied easily to Murphy, ending everything. While the title chase didn't turn out so good, it did draw welL A total of 15,318 watched the six games, 8,430 at Spokane, 6,888 here. Before the game Luby, Trainer Pete Chinnr and Clubhouse Boy Puhlman were presented with gifts from the Senator players. Jerry Ballard, Connie Perez and Joe Nicholas also accepted the clothing prizes (over $100 worth) from Joe's Upstairs Clothing Shop, won during the last two weeks of the regular season. Four Dallas Archers Have Successful Hunt Statesman News Service DALLAS Four Dallas resi dents, who took part in the bow and arrow hunting at Hart's Mountain in southern Oregon ov er the weekend, returned home Tuesday with a deer apiece. Youngest of the hunter was Milton Choquette, 14. who brought home a 100-pound doe killed with one arrow. Others were Richard Pliler, 215 -pound buck; Donald Siefarth, 125-pound doe, and Milo Nelson, 100-pound two-point buck. O-City Wins Again WATERTOWN. S.D. (A Phy sician Frank Dierickx hurled shut out ball in relief Tnesda; to carry Oregon City. Ore., to an 8-4 vic tory over . Allison, Iowa, in the American Baseball Congress North west Division playoffs. Marion B Grid 'Jam' Tonight At Woodburn The Marion County B League football jamboree, featuring' both 6-man and 11 man touchdowning, is to be held tonight in Legion Park at Woodburn, starting at eight o clock. Two 6-man games, each of 15 minutes in length, will be held first with Detroit, Oregon School for the Deaf and St Paul provid ing me action. Tne 5t Pauls will have two teams. mi - - inree reeuiar li-man nmM. also of 15 minutes in length, wiU nave uervais. Mill City, Sublim lry, jeilerson, Chemawa and 2cio teams going at it Drawings are to be held to de termine opponents. league has ushered in its season via a jamboree of this nature. This is the first time that the Regular season play in the circuit starts Friday, September 25. Sub limity has a game at Mt Angel the coming Friday night, how- eye', n Gervais Ply Estacada at Woodburn. Yost Ousted OKLAHOMA CITY tJF Tor-ro Cole White Plains, N. Y defeat- eu uick xost, Portland, Ore., 1 up Tuesday in second round play of the National Amateur. Finis: Spokane fS) . B HO A Mrphyjn S 3 o Jhnsn.i S 1 J J ComndJ 4 1 a a PaJjnj s 2 0 0 HafeyJ 3 l o o Dnkny.l 10 7 1 BrownJ 3 0 3 5 Sheets.c 4 2 2 0 Gvnoni.p 2 '0 1 0 Buah.l 114 0 Worth j 10 8 0 rrnka.p 0 0 0 0 (2) Salem B HO A SabtiniJ 4 13 0 Luby.2 4 0 2 2 Tnaelllj 4 112 PerezJ 4 113 Dejrojn 2 13 0 BaUrd.l 4 0 6 1 Wtnpn.r 4 2 6 0 Nelson.c 2 0 3 0 Dahle.p 2 2 10 aEegian 1 o 0 0 Matrsn.c 10 11 Rnapie.p 10 0 0 Totfl 36102713 Total 33 827 9 Spokane triVim uui ior r4eison in 7th. Salem IW OlO 031 S 10 3 000 000 110 2 S 4 Winner Worth" lmmr n.v.i. Pitching luminary: Ip Ab H Giavonnonl 61 24 6 Worth 2 8 2 rranka i 1 o Dhle 1i3 jg 7 Roenspie .... li 7 3 R 1 1 0 4 Br 0 0 0 4 So Bb 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 3 0 0 1 1 PB Nelson. LOB Spokane 9. Sa Iem 6. E Luby, Dahle. Ballard, Mur ?y' Jnson ' TanselU. HR Bush. RBI Sheet. Hafey. Bush 2. Luby S Hafey. Deyo. Command. SB Murphy. DP Luby to Ballard; John son to Brown to Donkersly; Brown to Johnson to Donkersly; Johnson to Donkersly; Ballard to Masterson: Brown to Bush. T 2:00. U Van Keuren and Jacobs. A 1.959. National League Philadelphia 020 100 010 4 10 0 Chicago 010 000 100 2 8 2 Roberts and Burgess; Minner. Church 9 and Caragiola. Three night games. New York 020 001 000 3 8 0 Cincinnati 040 000 OO 4 9 0 Gomez and Katt; BaczewskJ and Seminick. Brooklyn .010 001 002 4 8 0 St. Louis 010 001 010 3 8 1 Millikin. Labine 6 and Campanella; Miller and Rice. Pittsburgh ion 003 030 7 12 2 Milwaukee 200 002 001 9 10 0 Triend. Hall f and Naton. Atwell 8: Burdette. Llddle a, Johnson 8 and Crandall. Imported from England ior the Men of the Pacific N or thtvest ... BRITISH BROGUES X 481 State Street Open Friday Nights Spokes Celebrate Their Pennant Victory Manager Don Osborn (holding towel) gets the glad hand from Will Hafey and some of his other happy baseball warriors after clinching the 1953 Western International League pennant last night, with a win over the Salem Senators at Waters Field. Others in the picture are Catcher Bill Sheets Qeft), Pitchers Vh-gil Giavonnonl, Jack Spring and Bill Franks (1-r behind HafeyJ, Carl Bush (making like Tarzan) and Jimmy Brown (with glasses). Osborn wound up his career at Spokane with a pennant, as he has announced his resignation as Indians manager. Hits by Hafey and Bush, the latter a two run homer, wrecked the Senators in the final game last night. Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. 95 46.674 Wshngtn 83 60 .583 Detroit 84 61 .579 Phldpha 79 67 .541 St. Louis WLPct. N. York Clevlnd Chicago Boston 73 71 .507 57 89 .390 54 90 .375 51 94 .352 York 0, Tuesday results: At New Cleveland 1: At Boston 0, Chicago 6. Only games scheduled. NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet. W L Pet. Broklyn 99 46 .683 N. York 66 79 .455 Milwke 86 59 .593 Cincinti 64 81 .441 St. Louis 78 65 .545 Chicago 60 83 .420 Phldpha 78 66 .542 Pttsbrgh 47 99 3X1 Tuesday results: At Chicago 2, Philadelphia 4: At St. Louis 3. Brook lyn 4; At Cincinnati 4. New York 3; At Milwaukee 5. Pittsburgh 7. Vikings Prime For Astorians Salem High's Viks. aiming for their second straight win of the : young grid season at Astoria Fri day night, spent tune on both offensive and defensive depart ments in drills Tuesday at Olinger Field. Coach Lee Gustafson has a high-spirited bunch of lads pranc ing about this week following the opening 21-0 win over Cleveland of Portland, but warns them that Astoria may be a tough one to get over. Play-polishing has been one of the chief points this week and there also has been no neglect ing of fundamentals. The Viks will be in top phy sical shape for the No. 2 test of the season, barring any last min ute practice injuries. American League Chicago .. 020 020 002 8 12 0 Boston 000 000 .000 0 3 1 Keeaan and Lollar: McDcrmott and White. Cleveland 100 000 000-r- 14 0 New York 000 000 000 0 7 2 Lemon and Hecan: Kralv. Gordon and Berra. Genuine Martin's Scotch Grain Leather. Easy Fitting Blucher. Popular "Ski To." Modem Overlay Moc-Toe Styling. Leather Heel Metal Reinforced; Long-Wearing Double Sole. Loathor-Stormwelt. Mad in England. (h;Xfx rra. iOSftf? Tyfv 404.000 Less LOS ANGELES m The Pa cific Coast League drew 404,400 less spectators this year than in 1952, President Clarence Rowland an nounced Tuesday. Los' Angeles and Sacramento were the only clubs showing an increase over last season. San Di ego had the worst setback, with 121,799 less than the year before. The league executives meet here Friday to consider the 1954 sched ule and to thresh out the critical financial situation. President Bob Cobb of the pennant winning Holly wood Stars said he is going to de mand that the league make its stand at once on the long-nurtured 7 , Jnsi in lime for lhe fall season, hunl- ing, football, racing, eic. Only through a direct purchase from an importer are we able to offer top quality, fully guaranteed Prism Binoculars at one half their original selling price. Com pare these glasses with the most expensive pair, . you will not be able to see any difference. All strictly first quality. (i4 O tj Vltw w; Individual Eyo All-around Glass Re?. Price $50.00 NOW Focusing Finest Individual Eyo Plus Field of View Focusing Reg. Price $65.00 p NOW . ZZS I 51 ?nnaD LrLdLaLSo 1405 N. Church $2190 Glass ior talis tes twM YACX) at Coast Games "third major league status. Cobb has told newsmen that he thinks the PCL should fight for big league status now or disband. 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J At St. Louis the Brooklyn Dodgers, won their first game since clinch ing the National League pennanf as Duke Snider hit a two-run pinch; hit homer in the ninth inning fo a 4-3 decision over the ' Cardinals; A four-run second inning which, included four singles and a wall was enough for the Cincinnati Red legs to beat the New York Giants 4-3. Fred Baczewski won his 10th game. I The lowly Pittsburgh Piratel whipped Milwaukee 7-3 with 4 three-run explosion in the eight) inning. Preston Ward and Frank; Thomas hit back to back homl runs for Pittsburgh in the sixth of Lew Burdette. I C il iwo oi tne uiree Boston hits ofj Keegan were singles by Ted Wi hams. Spalin, Lopat j Mound Pacer NEW YORK vn Veteran south! paws Warren Spahn of the Mil waukee Braves and Ed Lopat o the New York Yankees shared earned run laurels in the majoi leagues Tuesday. Statistics compiled by the Asso ciated Press disclose that Spahi tops the National League with I 2.22 average. 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