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Elated Solon Shipper Welcomes Cuban Connie 4 (0)2' Tanselli Signs; McFarlane Sharp In Hill Stint; Second Tilt Today By AL LIGHTNER Statesman Sports Editor Good news blossomed as prettily as an Easter lily Saturday at Waters Field. First off, the resident Senators won a ball game, blanking the Yakima Bears 4-0. Also, Shortstop Gene Tanselli has come to terms with the Solons, Cuban Connie Perez took over left field in the lineup, Lefty Bob M.-Fariane, the clever little Garfield, Utah, flioger obtained from Salt Lake City jerked up an impressive seven innings against the potent Bruins and GENE TANSELLI He'll Resume Senator Role Tonight Set As Deadline In Elks Meet i The field for the ninth annual Elks Mid-Willamette Valley Golf Tournament numbered 210 swing ers through Saturday and officials anticipate an entry total of around 225 by tonight's registration dead line. When the list is completed, the task will begin of distributing the big field into various flights ac cording to qualifying scores and handicaps. Flight pairings for the first round of action are expected to be an nounced early in the week. All first round matches must be com pleted by next Sunday night. Sixteen men gained the cham pionship flight in last Sunday's qualifying action and 37 others, who didn't make it, will be assign ed to the next hifhest flights. All flights will be comprised of 16 di voters, meaning that there will be around 14 flights on the program. First round losers will drop down to form new "sudden death" flights. Last-minute entries can register any time today at Salem Golf Club and they must either submit an es tablished handicap or else turn in an 18-hole qualifying card. Early favorites in the champion ship flight field are such aces as Bob Prall, the Salem High School whizz who copped medal honors last week with a 69; Jack Brande, the long-belting Lebanon man and a former Elks king; Jim Sheldon, a former SGC club king; Bob Burns, also an ex-club champion and Bob Sederstrom, also winner of several titles in the local ranks. Glove-Carrying Rule to Applv In WIL-s Ranks KEN'N'EWICK ur The Western International League is going to have to abide by the new baseball rule requiring all players to carry their gloves off the field every time their team is at bat. Robert Abel of Tacoma. WIL president, had told the 10 clubs of the Class A league they would not be required to observe the rule unless instructed to do so by George Trautman, boss of the mi nor leagues. Trautman laid down the law this week, and Abel sent an accom panying letter to all WIL clubs to carry out his instructions. The Tri City Braves received their copy here Saturday. The rule was ordered so the play ing fields will be kept clear of all obstructions at all times. To Play Senator Rookie Slashes Out Bfel Krause, impressive Salem Senators rookie was caught by the cameramaa Saturday at Waters Field as he cracked et a long triple te right-tentei ia the seventh inning to drive in a nuu Kranse later sewed a wild pitch, helping te Soloes blaak Yakima 4-t. Catcher la, the photo is Lonnie Sammers, regalar with Saa Diego Iat seasoa aad bow with Yakima. Vmp Is Ollie Wil liams. Yakima aad Salem play here agaia today at 2 aja. (Tommy Wright Photo) Ijjjlgl if aces Mel Krause, the ex-U of Oregon rookie, turned in another encour aging performance both afield and at bat, this time as a third baseman. The win brought the Salem Yakima series to 2-1, still in favor of Lou Stringer's hirelings. It also brought to an even 3-3 the "Grapefruit" record for the Solons, and broke a Yakima win ning skein of five games. The two foes go at it again today, starting at 2 p.m. Jack Hemphill, who looked so good against the Bears at Yakima on Thursday after relieving Larry Borst, will open for the Salems in today s sortie. What with Tanselli, Perez, Bob Kellogg and Krause now on hand, and with Pete Estrada and the two young pitchers from Sac ramento due to check in today, it begins to look like the start of serious spring training for the Salems. Not a hard-throwing southpaw, McFarland nonetheless showed an assortment of slants along with the impression that he knows how to pitch. It was a very encouraging performance in Boss Harv Storey's opinion, for the chief js woefully shy on mound strength. McFarland gave only two sin gles in his seven innings, one to Len Noren in the fourth inning and the other to Lonnie Sum mers, the huge Negro catcher, in the seventh. He issued two walks and hit a batter. A double play nullified the walk in the second. Yak Threat Dies The youngster was in a real jam in the fourth when an error, Noren's single and a walk loaded the bases, with Summers at bat. But McFarlane was up to it, however, and got the big veteran on a long, foul flv to Perez in left. Chunky Bill Castell twirled the last two innings for Salem, giv ing two singles, whiffing two and walking one. So the grand total for the Yak (Continued on next page) UO Trackmen Upset Huskies EUGENE JTi The University of Oregon, showing unexpected strength in hurdles, distance races and field events, upset the Wash ington Huskies 74-57 in Saturday's Northern Division track opener here. Bill Sorsby of Oregon was the high individual scorer with 11 points. He was first in the low hurdles and second in the high hurdles and 100-yard dash. Bruce Springbett, Oregon, was the only double winner of the day. He took firsts in both sprints. Denny Meyer of Washington set the only meet record, running the two-mile in 9:22.9 aearly four seconds better than the mark he established two years ago. Oregon's Bob Faucett posted an upset victory in the high jump when he cleared 6 feet, 4 inches to defeat his teammate Emery Barnes and Washington's Darrold Skarvedt. Oregon won firsts in 10 events. 28nw lbylryyr Sports hj614pps 17 Caps Down Braves KENNEWICK UH Bill Franks and Bob Roberts combined Satur day to give the Vancouver Capi Lanos a 6-2 victory over the Tri City Braves in the opener of a two-game exhibition baseball ser ies between the two Western Inter national League teams. Franks pitched no-hit ball in the five innings he worked. Roberts held the Braves scoreless until the ninth when they shoved over their pair of runs. if yd. When Connie Perez, a mainstay of the Salem Senalors in recent seasons, finally showed up at Waters Park Saturday he was given a royal welcome by beaming Manager Harvey Storey, left above. Perez once again was delayed by immigration red tape in trying to leave his native Cuba for Senator spring training duties, but did arrive earlier this season than he did last year. The popular Connie will be in the Salem lineup when the Senators close out their exhibition series with Yak- ! ima this afternoon, 2 o'clock, at Waters Park.t (Statesman Sports Photo) 'Cats effeati L-C Twice WU's Pennant Hopes Boosted Willamette University's base ballers took a big stride toward their second straight Northwest Conference flag Saturday as they took a pair of games from the Lewis and Clark Pioneers. Coach John Lewis' men won the ten inning opener 6-5 on a clutch blow by first baseman Pete Reed and then snared the seven-inning nightcap 10-6 with the help of a six-run second inning. The extreme oddity about the opening mix Saturday centered on Lefty Ray Hyde of , the Port landers who lost the ball game despite fanning 17 WU hitters. On top of that the Pioneers out- hit the Bearcats 10-6 and com mitted only two errors to the five made by Willamette. But Reed's timely blow offset all of these factors, the hit coming be hind Gary Shuearts, who hit in field and stole second to get in scoring position. Andy George, ace of the WU staff, went the distance in the first game as did Hyde. Andy struck out ten and walked, four and would have had an easier chore but for some dismal sup port. In the sixth L-C scored three times with the help of three miscues. Gary Shugarts, the freshman left fielder, got the Bearcats off to a fast start with a two-run homer in the first inning over the 315-foot center field fence WU scored three times in the fourth when Hyde dished up three walks to go with two er rors and a single by George. (Contd. on Page 8) SOCE Granted Slot in 0CC PORTLAND on The admis sion of Southern Oregon to the Oregon Collegiate Conference was announced Saturday by the confer ence president. Stephen Epler. He jsaid Southern Oregon's ap licatiwti was approved by the other four teams in the conference Portland State, Oregon Tech, East ern Oregon and Oregon College of Education. Southern Oregon will begin con ference play next September, meeting all members in football and basketball if schedule ar rangements can be completed. Long Triple .Of , WW, 8 (Sec. 1) Statesman, Salem. Ore.. Sun.. April 18. 1954 StatesmanC(ipitol Deadline Next Sunday For Doubles Pin Meet Bowlers of Salem and the mid-Willamette Valley area are re minded that they have until Sunday, April 25 to enter the third annual Statesman-Capitol Alleys Handicap Doubles Tournament. The big tourney, boasting lots of attractive prizes plus trophies. Win Notched By Determine SAN MATEO, Calif. OB Deter mine, the "Grey Ghost" of Califor nia racing, sounded a stirring chal lenge to other Kentucky derby nominees Saturday with a smash ing five length win in his final ap pearance at Bay Meadows. He was timed in 1:49 1-5 for the mile and one-eighth derby. His stablemate, Allied, raced second while Fault Free was third. Ranked second choice in the Ken tucky Derby future book. Deter mine is said to be the only 3-year-old in the country who has packed the Kentucky Derby weight of 126 pounds this year. Reed Splashers Tops in Meet BAYTONA BEACH, Fla. For the third straight day, Shelley Mann and the other teen-agers of the Walter Reed Hospital Swim Club of Washington, D.C., made record-smashing sweep through the National AAU Women's Indoor Swimming and Diving Champion ships Saturday. Miss Mann, a 16-year-old Arling ton. Va.. high school girl, ran away with the individual title on victories in three events. The Walter Reed team scored 94 points in the 12 events. La fayette, Ind., Swim Club was sec ond with 42, Indianapolis A. C. third with 31 and Chicago Com munity builders fourth with 24. Multnomah Club of Portland, Ore., was far down the list with S points. Andy Seminick of Cincinnati batted .279 and hit 14 home runs against southpaw pitching in 1953. Patton Puts on AUGUSTA, Ga. Ofi Billy Joe Patton the sensational amateur who almost won the Masters Tour nament played red hot golf with President Eisenhower Saturday, carding six birdies over 18 holes and scoring a five-under-par 31 for one nine. ' They played the back nine first, starting on the 10th hole to avoid the crowd. The 31-year-oM Patton put on an-' other show of wizardry at the Au gusta National Course after the President had implored him at the outset . of the match: "Now, be merciful." I ' Patton responded with a blazing round firing six birdies.! On the back nine the Morganton, TISK V.I RAN RANDU -in 1i Tit- I n "!-" I . - . . Tourney Set has become one of the feature kegling events on the local calen dar and includes both men's and women's divisions. Duane Cushman of Capitol Al leys, director of the tourney, an nounced that 15 doubles combina tions had signed up as of Satur day. By next week's deadline the entries in the men's department are expected to number well over the 50 mark. The tourney includes three rounds of elimination play plus the finals. The first round deadline is next Sunday night, the second round finish is set for Sunday, May 2 and the third will be com pleted on May 9th. Finals are slated for May 16th. Entries can fire their first rounders at their convenience as long as they card their three games before the deadline. The low third in the first round in both men's and women's divi sions will be eliminated and the high two-thirds go on to the sec ond round. The process will be continued in the third round and the high 12 men and top six wom en then will go into the finals. Top scorers in each round will get cash prizes and the finalists also will shoot for prizes plus handsome trophies. Registrations can be made any time in the next week at Capitol Alleys. First to roll in the 1954 tourna ment were Orval Mull and Bruce WUberg. ' They came in with an 1185 score. Aberdeen Team Tops ABC Firing SEATTLE un The importance of a solitary pin was manifested here Saturday for the Commerical Bar booster team of Aberdeen, Wash., in American Bowling Con gress competition. The Aberdeen squad rolled a 2817 score in its ABC debut and thereby moved into first place in Show for Ike N. C, lumberman picked up on the 13th hole one of the two holes which cost him the cham pionship in the Masters Tourna ment last week-end. With a "courtesy" seven on that hole Saturday in match play, Pat ton, carded a 37 on his first nine, which together with his five-under-par 31 for the second gave him a match play total of 68. Par for the course is 72. The record is held by Lloyd Mangrum, who once fired a 64, Eisenhower, who like Patton had one pickup, had an 88. He scored a 47 on the first nine, then whit tled six strokes on the second nine for a 41. - , ; ' J n m 11-7 Licking For Portland Bevos, Sacs, Oaks Now Share Top Spot SAN DIEGO. Calif, l San Diego defeated Portland, 11-7, Sat urday for its second straight vic tory over the Beavers and took a 3-2 lead in its Pacific Coast League series. Bill Thorn ason, young righthand er, was the winning pitcher, al though he had to have help from Lloyd Dickey and Johnny Herrera. Portland jumped on ThomaSon for two runs in the first inning. Frankie Austin's triple, singles by Granville Gladstone and Walt Jud nich am, Don Eggert's fly did the damage. San Diego tied the count in its half on a pair of singles, a walk and two infield outs. Portland made it 5-2 in the third when Judnich walked. Hank Arft tripled, Eggert walked and Padre shortstop Buddy Peterson muffed Jim Gladd's roller. Fiedler Shelled The Padres shelled Dick Fied ler, Beaver starter, from the mound in their half with four runs to go ahead, 6-5. Harry Elliott's double, Earl Rapp's triple, and successive singles by Fick Faber and John M e r s o n sandwiched around a walk and an error ac counted for the tallies. After Portland tied it again in the fifth. The Padres went ahead, 8-6, pushing over two runs after two were out. Dick Waibel took the mound for Portland in the seventh and San Diego shelled him for three insur ance runs in the eighth. Four sin gles and a long fly accounted for the tallies. The high flying Oakland Oaks again smashed Hollywood 14-5 Sat urday to go into a three-way tie with Portland and Sacramento. The Acorns belted 21 hits off five Hollywood pitchers. Hank Schent homered with two out in the tenth inning to give Sacramento a 3-2 decision over Seattle. It was the sixth win in a row for the Solons. San Francisco's Seals edged the Los Angeles Angels 6-5 in ten innings. Portland (7) (11) San Dtega B H O A FedrhfJ 3 0 3 1 B H OA 2 2 Austin j Resteli.l Gdstnjn Judnchj Arft.l Reich. 1 Eggert .3 Bsnskljt Gladd.c Fiedlr.p Anthy.p a-Kolwy Waibel.p b-Robbe Petrsnj Sisler.l H.EliotJ Rapp.r Faber.m Merson.3 4 Aylwd.c 4 Tmasn.p 3 Dickey.p 1 Herera.p 0 Totals 39 14 34 15 Totals 33 14 27 8 a Singled for Anthony in 7th. b Struck out for Waibel in 9th. Portland 203 010 001 7 San Diego 204 020 03' 11 Pitcher IP AB R H ER BB SO Thomason 5' 25 6 10 4 4 3 Dickey 2, 11 1 4 Herrera 1 3 0 0 Fielder 2f 12 5 5 Anthony 4 14 3 4 w,iKl . 2 9 3 5 W Thomason. L Anthony. E Gladstone. Fielder. Peterson. Rapp. WP Thomason. LOB Port land 12. San Diego 10. 2B Austin. H. Elliott. Judnich. Peterson. 3B Austin. Rapp. Eggert. SH Eggert. Merson. Avlward. RBI Eggert. H. Elliott 2. Rapp 4. Basinski 2. Fied ler, Faber 2. Gladd. Petereson. Mer son. DP Peterson and Sisler: Federoff. Peterson and Sisler. T -r 2:45. U Pelekoudas. Ford and Ia covetti. A 2.515. Seattle 001 000 001 6 2 5 1 Sacramento . .. 000 010 100 1 3 9 0 Kindsfather. V. Fletcehr (8) and Orteig. Pieretti. Yaylan (9). Can dini (9) and Sheely. Hollywood 000 320 000 3 9 2 Oakland 500 010 62' 14 21 2 Hall. Hittle 4). PetUt (6). Fisher (7). Corelta (8) and Dorton: Botlho. Broglio (4), Nicholas (6) and Neal. San Francisco 000 3O0 200 1 6 6 1 Los Angeles 010 201 Olft 0 5 14 1 Hiller, Muncrief (3). Zahala (9) and Tiesiera, Tornay (7); Hinchman and Evans. booster standings by just one point. They pushed ahead of Firs, Tacoma, which took over the top spot March 25 with a 2816. Standout player for the Commer cials was Paul Randich, who ran a 215-210-224649 series. We Can't Put Out a Fire . . but..; We'll Never Start One! Glassheat Is FIRE SAFE! Call RADIANT GLASSHEAT OF SALEM 1540 Fairgrounds Road Phone 4-623 IT r i PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W L Pet. W L Pet. Portland S 4 .667 S DlefO 7 531! Oakland 4 .667 Seattle S .500 Scrmnto S 4 .667 Sn Fran 3 S .254 L Angla 7 6 .336 HoUywd 10 .167 Saturday results: At San Diego 11. Portland 7; at Sacramento 3, Seattl 3: at Oakland 14, HoUywood 5; at Los Angeles S, Saa Francisco 6. AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. W L Pel. Detroit 3 1 .750 Boston 1 1 .500 N York 3 1 .667 Philadel 1 1 .500 ClevUnd 2 3 .SOff Wshngtn 1 3 .333 Baltimr 3 3 .500 Chicago 1 3 .250 Saturuday results: At Baltimore 0. Detroit 1; at Cleveland 1. Chicago 8. At New York-Washington, rain; at Boston-Philadelphia, rain. NATIONAL LEAGUE W L -"ot. W L Pet. Cincnati 3 1 .667 Chicago 2 1 .667 Brookln 3 1 .667 N York 1 3 M3 Milwkee 3 1 .667 Pitsburg 1 3 .333 Philadel 3 1 .667 St Louis 0 3 .OT Saturday results: At Chicago 33, St. Louis 13: at Milwaukee 3. Cin cinnati 1. At 'Brooklyn-New York, rain; at Philadelphia-Pittsburgh, rain. Basilio Winner Over Frenchman SYRACUSE, N. Y. UPi Carmen Basilio. minus his tonsils and look ing like a new fighter, got angry often but paced himself and took a unanimous decision from Pierre Langlois of France in their 10-round middleweight fight here , Saturday night. Basilio weighed 151, Lang lois 1554. Today'sfi Pitchers AMERICAN LEAGUE: Washington at New York McDermott (18-1) vs Grim (010). Philadelphia at Boston (2) Trice (2-1) and Portocarrero (0-0) vs Brewer (0-0) and Hudson (6-9). Chicago at Cleveland (2) Pierce (18-12) and Harshman (0-0) vs Wynn (17-12) and Lemon (21-15.) Detroit at Baltimore Gromek (7-9) vs Larsen (7-12). NATIONAL LEAGUE: St. Louis at Chicago (2) (Raschi) 13- nnd Miller (7-9) or Presko -13) vs Min ner (12-15) and Rusrf (1-14). Cincin nati at Milwaukee (2): Judson (0-1) and Podbielan (-l) vs Nichols (0-0) and Buhl (13-8). Pittsburgh at Phil adelphia (2) Friend (8-11) and Hogue (1-1) vs Roberts (23-16) and Simmons (18-13) or Miller (8-9). 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Roosevelt (P) 20, Franklin (P) 204, Klamath Falls 10. Lin coln (P) 9. Benson (P) 3, Springfield 2, Cleveland and Washington (P) 1. Class -A North Bend 43, Bend 3t; Cottage Grove 27, Corvallis 21 Vt, Albany 20. Redmond 17 , Lebanon 18. Sweet Home and Myr tle Point 9. Prineville 7. Salem 2 M lien First Salem competitors placed this way in the Metropolitan division: The Salem two-mile relay team won first place in a time of 8: 28.7. Team members were Duane Farmen, Ken Martin, Bill Roher and Jim Knapp. Ray Taylor of the Vikings was third in the discus and second in the javelin. The Salem 440 yard relay team tied for second with Vancouver, Wash., Medford and Jefferson of Portland. Mem bers of the Vik 440 crew were Jim Anderson, Warren Scriber, Del Funk and Terry Salisbury. The Viking shotput relay crew of Ray Taylor, Jim Person and Terry Salisbury finished third. Ed Keech tied for third in the pole vaut competition. The Sa lem mile relay unit of Gary Du Bois, Jim Knapp, Dave Kromer and Walter Craycroft placed fifth. Class' A results included: Leb anon fifth in shotput relay, fourth in 440 relay, second in shuttle hurdles, fourth in mile relay. The horse Silver Queen cost $54,000 yet never won a race. Style 1601 Orange Softee Style 1603 Smoked Elk Softee NORSE Style 196k Viking Squad is casual "at home" 54 Jaimls!