2 CSc 2 Statesman, Sal am, Orw WcL Sept. 23. 1953 ( - Champ Backed By 4-1 Odds Most Think LaStarza Won't Go 15 Rounds By JACK HAND NEW YORK iff) Heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano and challenger Roland LaStarza breezed through final training ses sions Tuesday with the Brockton blockbuster a solid 4 to 1 favorite to retain his title Thursday night at the Polo Grounds. Despite the recent upsets of Ez zard Charles and Kid Gavilan's Blackout! NEW YORK UFi With no home television or radio for the Rocky Marciano-Roland LaStarza heavy weight title fight Thursday at the Polo Grounds, the International Boxing Club said Tuesday blow-by-blow descriptions from ringside would be limited to newspaper pub lication only. Jim Norris, IBC president, said these restrictions had to be en forced out of fairness to Theater Network Television, which is of fering the fight on theater screens simultaneously in 45 theaters in 33 cities from coast to coast. close call with Carmen Basilio. few of the experts gave the 26-year-old New Yorker much chance to escape the numbing punches of the swarthy champion. According to odds quoted by one source, it was 12 to S that LaStarza would not go the IS rounds and even money he wouldn't survive eight. They made it 8 to 1 that Marciano would not be knocked out. Jim Norris. International Boxing Club , president, reported an ad vance sale of 1223.000. He said the sales 'should reach $300,000 before the office is moved to the ball park j Thursday The 15-round match will not be carried on radio, or home televi sion. Norris said theater-TV carried a guarantee of $100,000 with a priv ilege of $1.00 per admission if more than 100.000 turn out. Both fighters will share in the theater-TV receipts and the gate with Marciano getting i2Vt per cent and LaStarza 17V4. Tom Fool Slated For Saturday Go NEW YORK I John Gaver. trainer for the Greentree Stable, said Tuesday Tom Fool would start in the $50,000 Sysonby Mile Saturday at Belmont Park "under any kind of track conditions." Gaver said recently the handi cap champion would not run on a sloppy. or muddy track, as the 4 year old son of Menow is not at his best under those conditions. BRUINS EYE KANSAS LOS ANGELES Ufi Practice aimed at improving a spotty pass ing attack and the defense occu pied the UCLA football squad Tuesday, with the trio of Brain left halfbacks on the firing line. UCLA was none too impressive In the air in walloping Oregon State last week and Coach Red Sanders hopes to see improvement Friday night against Kansas. Tide Table Tides for Taft, Oregon. September, 1953 (complied by U.S. Coast & Geo detic Survey. Portland. Ore.). HIGH WATERS LOW WATERS Sept. 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Earlier in the season, when the Tigers floun dered in last place, there were rumors that this would be Hutch's last season. After a dismal start, the team pulled itself together and moved out of the cellar and into sixth place. The 34-year-old Hutchinson, who got his baseball start in his native Seattle, took over the Tiger reins July 5. 1952. from Red Rolfe, who was fired. The Tigers finished last that season for the first time in history. It looked as though Detroit would finish last again this year. But after acquiring third baseman Ray Boone from the Cleveland Indians the oluK rvorL-ftl nrt onH noccH Knlh the SL Browns and p. adelphia A's to take sixth place. With only four games of the sea son to go, Detroit is six full games ahead of the Browns. Hutch, in an effort to help his team, reinstated himself on the active player list in the middle of the season and pitched relief' ball on several occasions. Vikings Play Albany Friday (Continued from preceding page) guard. Jack Scott at tackle, Blaine Faulkner at center and Dennis Ranta, Ray Derrah and Dave Cox at the halfback spots. Albany was out in front of Leb anon in the game of last weekend, but finally succumbed 25-18 to a Warriors rally. In their first two trips post ward this season the Salems have blanked Cleveland of Portland 21 0, and Astoria 40-0. While Albany and Salem are getting in their District 8 licks here Friday, other district teams will be occupied as follows the same night: Corvallis at Lebanon. Look and Learn By A. C GORDON i. During C3 administration t U. S. President's was the Panama Canal built? 2. How much does a cubic foot of water weigh? 3. Which is the most important of the Hawaiian Islands? 4. Who said, "Nothing is cer tain but death and taxes"? 5. What .language furnishes nearly all the expressions jised in music? ANSWERS 1. Theodore Roosevelt 2. It weighs 62V pounds. 3. Oahu. 4. Benjamin Franklin. 5. Italian. ri-grewiny inin without cost or obligation. .. Age. State. Zone. working hours Be Foes . . jured his knee and probably won't be able to play, coach- Kip Taylor reported. Right half Ken Brown. OSCs leading grounding' gainer against UCLA last weekend, continued to shine in Tuesday's practice. Tay lor said he might use him as a regular ahead of veteran Ralph Carr and Jack Pinion. EUGENE Oft Larry Rose, a sophomore fullback may replace Cece Hodges when the University of Oregon football team meets Stanford at Palo Alto next Satur day. Coach Len Casanova reported Tuesday that the extent of the neck injury Hodges suffered 'last week end in Oregon's 20-12 upset vic tory over Nebraska has not been determined. Hodges appeared for cractice Tuesday in sweat clothes. Brooks Equal Home Record Continued from Preceding Page) coasting to a 9-3 decision over the New York Giants. The Phils blast ed out Larry Jansen in the first game 4-1 on a three-run against inning with a four-run attack and continued to pound Dave Koslo. Hoyt Wilhelm and Sal Maglie for a total of 13 hits. The Cleveland Indians moved a game closer to clinching second place in the American League by whipping Chicago. 8-3. Al Rosen hit his 41st homer for the Indians and Bobby Feller registered his loth victory. Satchel Paige gave only one hit in seven innings as the St. Louis Browns trimmed Detroit. 7-3. Paige celebrating what he said was his 46th birthday, weakened slightly in toe eighth and got help from Don Larsen. Huskies Sweat SEATTLE m The Washington football squad had its hardest workout of the season Tuesday as it concentrated on defense against Michigan plays. ' Coach John Cherberg put his charges through several hours of slam-bang work, then shifted to de fense against punt returns one of the weakest spots in the Husky game when it went down to a 21 20 defeat last Saturday against Colorado. SUSPENSION FOR TRACK ALBANY. N. Y. iffi The State Harness Racing Commission sus pended the license of Yonkers Raceway Tuesday and Gov. Dewey took steps to wipe out what he called "racketeering" at all har ness racing tracks in the state. DECKER HURT LOS ANGELES UP Sophomore halfback Jim Decker continued to limp on an injured leg Tuesday and is a doubtful participant for Southern California against Minne sota here Saturday. OlISH PLATER SWITCHED SOUTH BEND, Ind. W) Dick Szymanski, 225-pound regular line backer last season, was switched to center Tuesday as Notre Dame's footballers began polishing off for their season opener at Oklahoma Saturday. Rollirv (Continued from preceding page) humiliation at the hands of COP ... It is doubtful that the Web foots can be as high for this one as for the Nebraska mix . . . Cal's Bears were not the enfy ones to look silly as Baylor tacked 'em with that 25-0 upset ... A Bay Area sports section, in a pre-game story, cautioned the fans against leaving before the game was over, adding that these Texas teams are noted for their last-ditch rallies ... The fans probably left early anyway bat for reasons the reverse of what the scribe anticipated ... Blackest villains of the week (of many weeks): The Interna tional Boxing Club for its complete blackout of the Marciano-La-Starza. Thursday title fight, other than for special TV in picked theaters . . . What do those guys want, gold dust on top the frost ing? ... A mass of folk in the outlands are downright mad about this shenannigan, and they're wondering, too, how in heck throttl ing 'casts to these extreme parts could in any way harm the gate at the Polo Grounds Thursday night . . . IBC Tactic Discourage Ring Interest Since TV came in, the policy in many instances has been te blackout the immediate area at the fight 'scene and permit the rest ef the land's citizenry te cozy np te their sets for a half hoar ef parlor pugilistics . . . The logical answer; bat no, the IBC thinks otherwise and in the process does ne great good . for the build np ef further and much-needed boxing interest eat in the provinces . . . Still on that Thursday night crown bout, when the confident LaStarza gets in all those nasty verbal digs at Marciano, he might take a lesson from the expericence of Max Schmeling . . . Back in 1938 Nazi-nourished Max said some uncomplimentary things about Joe Louis on pie eve of the pair's return bout The German had a confidence stemming from the knockout win over Joe in the first scrap between the two, just as LaStarza is oozing optimisms in his belief that he should have had a decision win over Rocky three years ago ... Schmeling, with his remarks, made the sad mistake ef get ting the usually tacitiurn Louis mad mad as blazes. And, Jee came dose to literally killing Max in that seeend boat. It weald . seem less than wise for LaSUrxa to have Marciane at the bett ing; point Thursday night ... GET YOUR WORLD SERIES SPECIAL AT Hard Tops Set Final Program Here Saturday The stock cars having buttoned up their 1853 programs in Salem last weekend, the hard tops move in next Saturday night at Holly wood Bowl for their final 1953 appearance. They'll roll in a special program being arranged by the Valley Sports racing offi cials. The track directors hope to run off the hard top champion ship finale with a nair of 50-lap elimination races, followed by a 20-lap contest featuring the top finishers in the two "fifties.' If okehed by the Oregon Hard Top Racing Association, this would provide bowl fans with 120 laps of chamnionshin racing, on a survival of the fittest basis. Valley Sports officials are seek ing that okeh. Time trials for. the Saturday card will get under way at 7:30 p. m. Saturday. Driving rosters and text of the racing program itself will be announced later in the week, after ' final arrange ments have been made. The stock cars closed out their bowl meetings last Saturday night with Pat Diviny upsetting the favorites to win the 100-lao championship finale in a 1952 Oldsmobile. 'Cat Casualty e List Reduced There is good news in the foot ball camp of the Willamette Bearcats, with the return to ac tion of Eldridge (Windy) Se quira, the highly promising freshman halfback from Hawaii Sequira, out several days with a fractured hand bone, has look ed very good carrying the ball in drills designed to prepare Coach Ted Ogdahl's men for their second contest of the season Sat urday night at Bellingham against Western Washington's Vikings. Another bit of cheery news for the Bearcats is an X-ray report disclosing that the hand Soph End Dean Benson injured in the opening CPS game was not frac tured. Two other 'Cats, Linemen Bob Dyer and Norm DversdaL also are on the disabled list Dyer is given little chance of seeing any action against West ern Washington because of a knee injury, but Dversdal probably will be ready in spite of a bad leg. Ogdahl and Line Mentor Jer ry Frei have put emphasis on both offense and defense in the early drills this week to remove some of the faults in the 14-0 loss to CPS. Western Washington indicated it rates plenty of respect after tieing well-regarded Pacific Uni versity 12-12 in the opener last weekend. BANTSARI TO MARINES AMITY (Special) Vernon Matthew Bantsari, son of Mr. and Mrs. Isaac S. Bantsari, Box 118, Amity, and former Amity High School football star who played in the recent East-West Shrine Hos pital benefit football game at Pen dleton, has enlisted in the Marine Corps and will report for enlist ment next Monday. His brother, Herman Dean Bantsari, is a for mer marine. 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