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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1954)
Sunday sorties: Cuban Conrado Perez, due with the town Senators any day gamer this season, which could - Be a good omen for the Legisla tors. During his first two semes ters with the Saleras, Connie left his wife and daughter at home in native Cuba. He was quite often a lonesome lad. But this time he's bringing mamma along to spend the season in Salem. If his batting average swells a few dozen points, you'll know why . . . And have you seen the new home uniforms the Senators will sport this year? New York Yan kee style striped flannels, with solid blue cap and socks. Real sharp, and you can. see one in the window of Wicklund's Sport ing Goods emporium . . . Village visitor the other day was George Emigh, who for five years (1946 50) was biz boss of the local ball club. George is now associated with a Portland firm which dis tributes school supplies ranging from athletic bleachers to chalk for the classroom blackboards, and has no less than 14 Oregon counties to solicit and serve. "I've never had it so Eood." is -the way George puts it . . . Portland auto racing enthusiasts will be giving veteran driver Shorty Templeman a sendoff today in the midget racing program at the Portland Speedway. It's to be offici ally "Shorty Templeman Day," honoring the fearless little pilot who then heads for the east and some of the bigger tracks in that area. He'll then land at Indianapolis for the Memorial Day "500" classic and hopes to have a mount in it Shorty will be sponsored by the Bardahl Oil people at Indianapolis, and if he can qualify to race the Northwest will have additional interest in the big event. The wee gent who is the only auto racer we know who defies the "green superstition" has a large following in this area. As for the supersitition. it is taboo in racing circles to even mention the color f green. Most drivers shudder at the sight or sound of it. Yet Templeman purposely has his buzz buggy painted a brilliant green, and wears green colored racing shirt and helmet to boot. In view of his successes as midget racing champion of the Northwest year after year, the superstition works in reverse for him . . . Giants Provide Salem With Choice Plum Our village has its ups and downs as a sport town. That we all know. But what a fine plum it picked for itself when it was announced that the New York professional football Giants will do their 1954 training at Willamette University. Having the pay-for-play boys around, many of them former collegiate All Americans, will add much prestige to ye olde capital city's sports pike. After all, not many cities in the USA can boast of pos sessing a major league athletic team in its training period. When it was learned that the Giants were coming, many of the local pop-offs quipped such as, "Why couldn't it be one of the top outfits like Cleveland, or Detroit, or San Francisco?" These are the same gents who would find something wrong with inheriting a million dollars. The Giants will provide plenty of very interesting events during their McCulloch Stadium sorties, and by some very interesting touchdowners ... The old master of Oregon State basketball, having just com pleted his 27th season as the Beavers' coach, makes a Salem visit Monday morning when he'll address the Salem Breakfast Club gathering at the Senator Hotel. The session is open to the public, and particularly so to that part of it which second guessed Slats so severely during the recent campaign. Not during his entire career at Oregon State had Gill undergone the verbal ridicule by fans as he did this last season. They couldn't figure out why he didn't play Vlastelica more, why he changed his starting lineup so often, why he did this and why he did that. All apparently figured that since he had the 7-3 Halbrook, he should beat everyone he played. Voir' Chance to Have Question Anstcered Slats will no doubt be very glad to answer any questions the Monday visitors care to ask of him. So this is their chance to get the real low-down on Slats' methods, right from Slats him self. They'll be ashamed of themselves when they hear some of the answers ... The Oregon race hoss owners vs. Cecil Edwards rumpus comes to a head Monday when the Oregon Racing Commission holds its hearing to listen to and act upon the beefs the owners have against Steward Edwards. As we see it, said owners have their heads protruding much too far lor their own good, and may lose 'em entirely. They say they want Edwards removed because of his strictness in pohceing the horse racing game in Oregon. Thank goodness a man like Edwards is around to help keep racing in line. Two-thirds of the interested public believe the racing game is crooked the way it is. Edwards' record as a steward speaks for Itself. He's to.ugh with faulty owners, jockeys, etc., and should be. Asking his removal could amount to a confession that they, the owners, don't want a tough cop around who might detect too much. The commission will no doubt stick by Edwards, which is good. And if the hoss owners do as threatened refuse to race their nags said commission might laugh at them and mvitethem to drop around to see the dogs run on the Oregon tracks which used to boast hoss races . . . Midgets Roll At Speed wav PORTLAND (Special) The midget auto racers take over the Portland Speedway Sunday for an afternoon program of speed events, starting with time trials at 1:30 p.m. A 50-lap main event around the half-mile saucer will climax the program. It is to be "Shorty Templeman Day" in honor of the veteran driver who has been Northwest midget racing champ the past couple of years Templeman will soon leave for the East and a number of races there. About 30 of the roaring runts, which can go 90 miles an hour on the half-mile oval, and 14 of them Offenhauser powered, will compete in the inaugural for the midgets here. All the Northwest "name" drivers will'be on hand. Andrade Defeats Percv Bassett WASHINGTON Cisco An drade of Los Angeles, unbeaten in about two years of professional fighting, won a unanimous deci sion over Ptrcy Bassett of Phila delphia, the interim featherweight champion, in a 10-round non-title fight here Saturday night. Bassett weighed 1294, Andrade 133. SERVICE 0!l all makes curITis SERVICE CALL ANY TIME 3133 D Slr..l Ph. J7! to check in for his third campaign now, should be a much happier ball- 1 i v UVJ( SHORTY TEMPLEMAN Has eyes on big 'SOC. j Bearcat Netters Defeat Raiders ASHLAND LP The touring Willamette tennis team racked a 6-1 decision over Southern Oregon Saturday in the first of five matches to be played on a trip to the south. Golden Poles Ski Race Set The 16th annual Golden Poles giant slalom ski races for both class A and B men and women, and sponsored by the Portland Junior Chamber of Commerce, is to be run off today at Tfmber line Lodge on Mt. Hood starting at 1 p.m. The Golden Poles event usual ly provides some of the top ski competition in the Northwest each year. Today's course will be set by Nap Rocque, skiing expert from Salem. He will start at the 8,000-foot level and descend some 2,000 feet to the finish line, which is near the lodge. WE NEED Dodges, Merc's, Old's, Ply., Fords, -(fieri How " Hew '54 Dodge or Ply. STAN BAKER Seven Relays Records Fall f (Cont'd from page 10) j Hlfh IchMl 1M-Dash BtsnlU: 1st race Ron Janssen, Lowell: ; Al lan Vail. Catea; Art Keith. Gate. Time 10.4: Sad race Roger Richard. Canyonville; Duncan. Mora; Robbing. Jefferson: 3rd race Harry Smith. Monroe; Davis. Jefferson: Comb. St. Joseph's (Pendleton). Time 1U: 4th race Fred Charles. Chemawa: Kret ten. CresweU; Secfer. St. Joseph. Time UJ; th race Braun. Vernon ia; Hart. Burns; Rice. LoweQ. Time 10.8; 6th race Franks, Vernonia; Micher. Tart; WiUison, Columbia Prep. Time 11.0; Tth race John Yost; CorvaUis: Brown, Lowell: Rogers. Drain. Time 10.8; Bth race Gene Fi ceJc, Wood bum; Vickerman, Estaca da; Gibson, Burns. Time 11.0; 9th race Don End res, Sacret Heart; Hawser, Burns; Myers. CorvaUis. Time 11.4; 10th race LeMaster. New port; Bowsby. Elmira: Schaefer. Cas cade. 11th race Dick Swenson, Oak ridge: Atchison. Cottage Groce: Hary. Columbia Prep. Time 1U; 13th race Jim Betty. Osweco: Bourland. Newberg: Bessy, Redmond. Time 11.1: ,13th race Terry Smith. Cor vaUis" Machamer. Madras; Williams. Oakridge. Time 11.0; 14th race Don Hayes. Centralia: Skinner. Redmond; Higginbottam. Cottage Grove. Time 11.1; 13th race Jim NorvaL Salem; Crouch. Gresham; Parker, Parkrose. Time 11.2; leth race Hayes, Central ia: Salisbury. Salem: Yost. CorvaUis. Time 10.8: 17th race Scriber. Salem; Dixon. Albany; Kraemer. Wood burn. Time lt.0: 18th race Hillwerti, Beaverton: Warren, Gresham; White. Springfield. Time 11.2: 18th race Brady. Stevenson, Wash.; Hoage. Vancouver; Toyooka, Gresham. Time 10 6. High School High Hurdle Heats: 1st race Stanton. Pilot Rock; May nard. Deaf School; Keppinger, Ger vais. Time 14.4; 2nd race Arhe Brown. Lowell; Joseph, Chemawa; Raymond, Lowell. Time 18.0: 3rd face Kevin Birmingham. Col. Prep; Brown. CorvaUis: Petersen. Corval lis. Time 175; 4th race Dave Mc Kinney, Elmira- Laramore. Elmira; Boseie. Taft. Time 16.5; 5th race Jack Crouch, Days Creek: Kalaer, Cascade: Sroufe, Elmira. Time 18.7; 6th race Bob Calkins. Mt. Shasta: Stendley. Cascade; Gurnsey. Red mond. Time 18.3; 7th race Larry McGuire, Oswego; Robin, Redmond: Cothrell. Cottage Grove. Time 18.3: Bth race Walt Skohede. St. Helens; Bettendorf, Parkrose; Schwarz. Os wego. Time 16.7; 8th race Jack Mur ray, Cottage Grove: Lanz. Parkrose: Kliewer. North Marion. Time 17.5. j 10th race Dick Hoatz, Cottage Grove: Pauley. Beaverton; Marlin. Sherwood. Time 17.4. 11th race Gil Stewart, Salem: Smith, Redmond: Martin, Springfield. Time 18.7; 12th race Ray Kinneman. Centralia; Martinson. Hillsboro: Zeh, Salem. Time 17.5: 13th race Al Lei nan. Hillsboro: Pailthorpe. Milwaukie; Vic Bride. Lebanon. Time 16.6: 14th race Jerry Prosser. Beaverton: Ains worth, Centralia: Ferrier, Spring field. Time 16.9; 15th race Bill Fredericks. Milwaukie: Chase, Salem; Gassier. Springfield. Time 15 8. High School Distance Medley: 1st race Cascade (Anderson, Pap ke. St.-indley. Wilb); Cottage Grove; F.stacada. Time 11 55 5 2nd race Cottage Grove (Jim Patten. Larry Staneley. Charles Coston. Jim Brid ges): Albany: Salem. Time 11:44. Hiah School 441 Sprint Relay: 1st race Moro (Duncan, Miller. Mobley. Sayre); Gervais: Culver. Time 48.1. 2nd race Lowell (Max well. Buston. Brown. Rice): Colum bia Prep: Mt. Shasta. Time 47 J. 3rd race Central (Larry Johnson. Don Owens. Keith Layton. Charlie Sny der); Newport, Cascade. Time 47 1. 4th race Chemawa (Andy Joseph. Reynold Roanhorse. Fred Charles. Carl Brown); St. Helens, Cottage Grove. Time 47.0. 5th race Tie for 1st between Salem (Ken Rawlingi. Neal Scheidel. Terry Salisbury. Del Funk) and Vancouver (Hoage. Wal ler, Keranen. Hampton); Beaverton. Time 46.1 (new record) High School 1-Mile Relay: 1st race Central (Riemer, Man, Peterson. Alsip): Elmira: Burns. Time 9:00. 2nd race Salem (Duane Farmen. Jim Knapp. Bin Rohrer, Ken Martin): Springfield: Milwau kie. Time 8:44.5 (new record). High School 880 Relays' 1st race Culver (Gibson. Fragler. Watson. Dearborn): HiU Military: Gervais. Time 1:42. 2nd race Wood burn (Bob Higgens. Henrv Kraem er. Lynn Anderson. Gene Ficek); Es tacada: Elmira. Time 1:39.7. 3rd race Oswego (Jay Kroeter. John Erber, Jim Belt v. Jerry Schwarz): Central; Lowell. Time 1:39.7. 4th race Beav erton (Garry Altman. Carl Gestring. Jack Chun. Hod Wells): Centralia; Cottage Grove. Time 1:37.2. 5th race Oakridge (John Escham. Dick Svendsen. Pat Jones. Don Lindlan): Salem: Vancouver. Time 1:38.3. High School Sprint Medley Relay: 1st race Sisters (Philios, Warner. Mouser. Raines): Moro: Culver. Time 2:56.8. 2nd race Vernonia (Bin Brown. Speed Lusby, Pat Llovd. Dick Franks): North Marion. Mt. Shasta. Time 2:54. 3rd race Elmira (Don Bowsby, Dave McKinnev. Bob Morningston. Jim Conley): Burns: Central. Time 2:51.5 4th race Red mond (Kirt Skinner. Floyd Bessey, Dale Hartman. Don McClure): Cot tage Grove: Parkrose. Time 2:48.6. 5th race Springfield (Norm Nielson. Frank Sheffold. Dick Brown, Ken McAdams): Lebanon: Pilot Rock. Time 2:48.7. High School 448 Yard Dash: 1st race Dean Cramer. Cottage Grove: Lou Harrison. Clatsksnie: Alez Irwin. North Marion. Time 55.9: ?ud race Dick Kretten. Creswell; ill Machamer. Madras: Harry Smith. Monroe. Time 53.8. 3rd race Walter Croycorft. Salem: Bill Cromwell. Beaverton: Bob Cotner. Salem. Time 55.5: 4th race Dale Litvan. Beaver ton: Marion Thompson. GreshsJm: Morgan Smith. Oaktidee. Time 57.7. 5th race Dick Edwards. Hi'lsboro: Dave Scrafford. HiUsboro: Bob Ben nett. Centralis. Time 54 4. High School 4M Shuttle Hurdle Relay 1st race Gervais (Norm Kepping er, Ron Keppinger. Leroy Kuschnick, Don Reinng): Deaf School: Monroe. Time 1:11. 2nd race Mt. Shasta (Ball. Stiller, Colombero. Calkins): Lowell; Drain. Time 1:08.3. 3rd race Colum bia Prep (Hary. Birmingham. WiUi son. Kneeland): Estacada; Wood- burn. Time 1:07J. 4th race Elmira (Christian, Laramore, Sroupe, Me Kinney): Newport: Central. Time 1:10; 5th race Cottage Grove (Coth rell. Heath. Wilson. Murray); Red mond, Lebanon. Time 1:11. 8th race Salem (Marshall. Stewart, Chase. An derson); Beaverton, Hillsboro. Tim 1 :53. High School Pole Vault: Senior Jerry Lanz, Parkrose: 'm Sheller, Gresham; Jay Wilson. Cot tage Grove. Mark 11. Novice Gregg AUenhaffen. Beaverton: Earl Smith. Redmond: 4-way tie for 3rd; Lee (Cont'd on page 12) USED CARS LET'S DEAL We have cleared the decks and era ready to shoot the works far clean lata model cars. WE NEED Pepper Pot rL PEPPER GOMEZ 'Poppy' his mat target. Pilots Secure Art McLarney PORTLAND OP Portland Uni versity Saturday named Art Mc Larney. 45, former University of Washington coach, to become bas ketball coach here next season. McLarney, former Washington State College athlete, who later played professional baseball, gave up the University of Washington job several years ago because of his health and the pressure of a head coaching job. McLarney took a job as assistant to Jim "Mush" Torson here two years ago. Torson resigned last week. ATTENTION LOGGERS Fire Season Is Here o o o o Outfit Yourself Now With Humidity Gauges, Fire Shovels, Esco Hazel Hoes, Back Pumps, Fire Extinguish er, Fire Pumps and Hose. 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In the final hectic minute of that match Poppen heim was roughing up the fal tering Henning. Sitting at ring side, Gomez suddenly stormed in to the ring and rifled a couple of haymakers at the Prussian. They did little good, for' Pop penheim won over Henning. Gomez had earlier won . a deci sion over Tommy Martindale in their match. Henning will Be back again Tuesday also, going against Mexican Juan Hernandez in the special event. Henning hopes to redeem himself for the loss to Poppenheim in this one, but is up against a big and rugged Mex icano. Martindale faces Chester Wal lick in one of the two single-fall prelims, and in the opener Bust lin Buck Weaver, onetime top favorite in these parts, makes a return to local action against To ronto Roy Wolfe. The veteran Weaver is one of the most clever of the junior heavies. Tickets for the Tuesday card are available at Barb's Sporting Goods Store, directly across from the Elsinore Theater. Hialeah distributed a record $1,823,700 in purses to the horse men during its 40 days of racing this season. Softball Meet Wednesday: An important organizational meeting of local softballers will be held at the Senior High School Wednesday night, starting at S o'clock. City Director Jim Dimit stresses that all sponsors and managers of prospective league teams should try to be on hand for the session. Items of business will include discussion of the makeup of the City and Industrial Leagues this season and starting dates for the campaigns. Ex-Cubs Boss Shines, Drill DALLAS, Tex. OH Phil Cavar retta, the deposed manager of the Chicago Cubs, showed up here Sat urday, worked out with the New York Giants, and drew raves from Giant plot Leo Durocher. "He looked great," enthused the Lip, "just great. He looked in real good shape. I like the guy. I al ways have." Phfl would like to hook on with the Giants as a pinch-hitter ana utility first-baseman. Cavarretta was let go as mana ger of- the Cubs last Monday in a surprise move. He was accused of being a defeatist. "They said I knocked the dub," he said. "I didn't. I just told the truth. I told them we needed some players." Let Us Ride Herd On Your Heating Problem, Podnah Glssht Suits Western Living! Call RADIANT GLASSHEAT OF SALEM 1 540 Fairgrounds Road PHONE 4-6263 At the Monday Statesman, Saltm, Orsw Calgary Okeh For '54 Play (Continued from page 10) before being sold to the Beav ers. Then again, he may decide to play out this season with the Senators. Both Luby and Manager Harr Storey hope that Gene will de cide to return to the Senators, as he was one of the league's top shortstops the past two sea sons. In returning Tanselli, Gener al Manager Bill Garbarino of the Portlands told that Pitcher Joe Nicholas, also sold conditionally to the Coast League club by the Salems, has been looking good enough to warrant a continua tion of his trial with the Beav ers. Luby and Storey hope that the tryout camp for aspirants above high school age will be permis sable today. 'Rain washed out both Friday and Saturday ef forts, and if it continues today, the tryout camp will be held next weekend. A goodly number of kids from Swifskin and Nycar SEATCOVERS Shock Proof (No static electricity Stain Resistant w?tTrclreuMinish) Year 'Round Comfort winter) Better Wearing "XSSfWSSf n.,!,i. Dura (Highly resistant to burns KesiSTS Burns from rinrett m rr How Our Special $ Introductory Offer" "Custom HAND-TAILORED and INSTALLED On Your Car" Com'L Seatcover Co. 930 N. Com1. St., Salem Ph.3-8411 IZAAK WALTON LEAGUE ANNUAL MINI IFTOILBC!! Izoolc Walton Night -April Til? FREE DUTCH LUNCH! FEEMESHS! All Sportsmen, experts and nimrods, and their wives or sweethearts are invited to attend for an evening of fun and frolic. Son. 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