Elated Solon Shipper Welcomes Cuban Connie
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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,
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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.
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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
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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.
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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). New
York at Brooklyn Hearn (9-12) or
Maglie (8-9) vs Loes (14-8) or Et
ikine (20-6).
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Places Fourth
Pirates 'A' Champs;
Five Records Fall
EUGENE Uh Medford won
the metropolitan high school title
and Maxshfield was winner of the
class A division in the 17th annual
Hayward Relays which ended here
Saturday.
' Eugene was second in the met
ropolitan division for high schools
with more than 1,000 students
with 39 pdints.
Maxshfield edged runnerup Ash
land 63-59 Vi in the class A com
petition. Other results:
Metropolitan Division Vancou
ver, Wash., 34, Salem 28 Grants
Pass 25 , Roseburg 25 Jeffer
son (Portland) 24. Grant (P) 20.
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.
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