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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 16, 1954)
For Tradk Toga; This, that, etc: Rasslin' Matchmaker Elton Owen, a determined gent who'd bust his own arm if he thought it would provide palatable Tuesday night brawls for his Armory fans, gets our nomination as the most bruised JACK HEMPHILL bashed about in the rasslin' rincs big birds when he's not getting . . . Harry Eyerly, local racing enthusiast well known for his ability with a speed boat, has now turned to the sports car field. But the boat is still with him, in part. When Eyerly built his own sports car racer, one that he has piloted to numerous wins at Reno, Pebble Beach, Payne Field near Seattle, and Golden Gate Park in San Francisco, he transferred the Crosley motor from his speedboat to the car. The thing gets 23 miles to-thc gallon even in races, will do around 95 miles per hour and weighs only 750 pounds. Eyerly will next enter the big race for sports equipment at Golden Gate Park early in June . . . Wonder what happened to that horse racing war involving Steward Cecil Edwards and the bangtail owners? They were supposed to withdraw their steeds from all Oregon racing if Edwards were retained by the' State Racing commission as chief steward. Yet the Portland Meadows meet, now under way, has its biggest assortment of oat-burners in history and Edwards is still the No. 1 man with the spy-slasses . . . IS'organ Heading for Trouble Long Time The mess George Norgan has himself in with Uncle Samuel, who savs the Portland Beavers and one time Salem Senators baseball clubs' owner has cheated the government out of over S17 million in taxes, doesn't come as much of a surprise. It's been brewing for a number of years. Old Bald Bill Klepper. who had title to the Portlands before the Norcan regime moved in. and who then ran the show for the Vancouver millionaire in 1946 both here and at Portland, first brought N'organ's whiskv dealings to our attention when Bill was expelled from the Beaver organization, and was boiling mad because of it. "Thp governemnt will catch up with him some day, and I can prove it," Klepper used to say. "The man has no right being in baseball. If Commissioner Landis were alive he'd kick him so far out of the game you'd never find him." We used to be terribly irked with N'organ and his Beavers or ganization for some of the strictly stinkeroo ball clubs they shoved off on Salem in the late stages of their ownership here, as you may recall. We couldn't figure how a guy wtih as much money as N'organ supposedly had could be so tight with the few bucks it would have taken to give our village a decent baseball shake. We were even more amazed at a Vancouver hoss rare track one sunnv afternoon a few years ago when we watched the mil lionaire play the ponies He never made more than a $2 show bet all afternoon. Now we're more irked than ever to think that all the while the Canadian was helping to goof things up around Waters Field, he was getting himself into a real jam with this country's government. If guilty as charged, N'organ may find himself talking over baseball with Fred Saigh, the former St. Louis Cardinals owner who was jailed on similar charges and had his ball club taken from him. It's a sorry thing for the game that gents such as that get mixed up in it. And ail the while we'll betcha we know at least one gent who is sporting naught but a wide grin of satisfaction these days. He's Bill Klepper ... Hemphill Once Again With Senators One of our favorite Salem Senators ballgamers, Jack Hemphill, is once more with the locals, following a diary mixup of the past week. Jack was sold to the Lewiston Broncs, and on Wednesday night was in a Lewiston uniform. On Thurs day he was informed by the Lewiston front office that it knew nothing of the deal. That left Jack in a similar position as the man without a country on Thursday night. Larry Barton wanted the righthander, for he needs pitching on the Lewiston club. But somehow or another they couldn't come to the necessary terms and Hemphill was left behind when the Broncs departed after Thursday's game. The Senators learned Friday that Ernie DomenkheHi has an important date with Uncle Sam next week, which opened a berth on the mound staff. Hemphill was still around; and after another talk with the Lewiston management, the local directorship re-hired the sturdy little righthander. He's again welcome. What we like about Jack is his will ingness. He is ready and willing t pitrh at any time, to lead the bench jockeys' rah-rah corps in assaulting an enemy flinger or slugger, to fight at the drop of a misplaced adjective or to join in a brawl in which his pals might be involved. He's proved these points many times. Now all we hope is that the guy can find the groove he was in last year, when he won 15 times for the Senators . . . Mat Prelims Named . . . Starr, Martindale Vie Tuesday in Main Event Ricki Starr, the "Texas Rasslin' sensation" who made his Salem debut last week on the Armory mat, and Tiger Tommy Martindale, who is rapidly turning out to be another Herb Parks in the wres tling ranks, collide Tuesday night in their rematch at the Ferry Street Garden, which win be Matchmaker Elton Owen's main event The two had at it in a wow of a mix last week, one that ended4 with both gladiators bng count ed out after one of Starr's spec tacular flying dropkicljs both kayoed Tiger Tom and sent the Lafayette. Ind.. sharpie thudding to the floor with such an impact that he too was blacked out. Starr and his bag of new tricks, which includes an- astounding backward handspring, made an immediate hit with the fans in his debut appearance. Tuesday's special event will put Pepper Gomex, winner via disqualification over Boris Kam aroff in another wild, riotous mix a week ago, against Bustlin' Buck Weaver, the sly. Indiana trickster. Which should make for another sizzling get-together, v The opening evenvt, at 8 30 o'clock, has the stormy-minded Boris Kamaroff up against Qarl Gray, Mflwaukie veteran In his few appearances here to date the mat maestro in tne business, it wasn't long ago that Owen, who does an occasional spot of refer ecing just to keep in physical shape, got in the way of some meanie's haymaker and suffered a seven-stitch gash over an eye. A short time later another of the muscular culprits grabbed Mr. O., flipped him with a flying mare and almost broke his back. Then last Tuesday night, while arbiting in the Pepper Gomez-Boris Kam aroff feud. Owen again got his curly-thatched noggin in the way, and bad man Boris put a bloody dent in it right between Elton's baby blues "Mebbc I should stick with my turkeys," wails friend Owen, who does try raising the 1 4 'A RICKI STARR He meets Tiger Tm. younger of the Ka'marofis -has proved to be just as tough as Brother Ivan. WW 2vi Five Circuit Records Fall Hitchman Tops Shot Mark; Benson Ties Low Sticks Standard PORTLAND (Special) - Five Northwest Conference marks were shattered and two tied Sat urday as Lewis and Clark's Pio neers captured the loop's 1954 track crown by edging the Whit man Missionaries to 59. Wil lamette's Bearcats came in third with 51 points. Pacific had 354, Linfield 9'n and College of Idaho was last with 6 5 6. Coach Ted Ogdahl's Willam ettes notched three firsts during the action, one being a record cracking effort of 4fi' 5" by Jim Hitchman in the shotput. That tonpeH Hitehrnsn's own mark of 45' 10". set last vear. Dean Ben son of WU wm the high hurdles and at the same time t'ed the conference mark with a :15.0 time and the othc Willamette first was nosted bv Stan Neperud as he arrain wn the iavelin w!th a toss of l&P' "iV to repeat his victorv of 1P53 Flashy Calev Cook sparked the Pioneers to the victory with a reeord-bre?kin' win in the low hurdles and firsts a'so in the bro?d jum" and the centurv. Cook r?n the lows in :?A 3 to brek the o'd mark of :24 5 he'd b'- Linf'pld's Grant SrMewc. The other of L-C' four firsts came when Pat Adams smashed the conference discus mark with a toss of 139' 0" to better the pre vious record of 138' R", made by Bpker of Whitman in 193fl. Whitman snared six firsts. In cluding wins by Harold Parrott in the mile and "half-mil. Par rott tied h; loon rnrk of 1:50.6 in the half. Bijl Klse of the Missionaries set a new standard in the pole vault with a f'ne 12 llxi" try as comnared to the former fieure of W ftK" bv Art Bakke of L-C in 1949 The Whit man relay team also established a new msrk with a 3 25 2 time, toppinf the old record nf 3 ?6.3 by the Whitman team of 1940. Mile Ha-n'rt Par-ntt. Whitman: Cosnr Pacific Mr-rartnVn Whit, nan: mp-v. Willrrr,e'r: K1mr. L & C. Tirr. 4 ?! 440-varri flash C.enrtr Slcuart. Pacific- Jones WillamM- Folir. Whitman: McClrpnan. Pacific: Mav. Whitman. Time. SO . 100-vard dash Calev CooV. T. At C: Wheer. Whitman: Gavtas. Pacific: Neat. L & C; Hopkins. L Ac C Time. :n o Shot put Jim Hitchman. Willam ette: Martin. L Ar C: Adams. L Ac C: Gilmn. Willamette: Compton. Pacif ic. Distance. 4fi feet S inches. (New conference reenrri. Old mark 45-10. set by Jit Hitchman, Willamette, 19521. 120-vard nieh hurdle TJean Ken son. Willamette- Craif Pacific- Klick er. Whitman: Stsndifer Willamette: Tomlinson. L A: C Time 'SO fTies conference record of 15 0 set hv Swan. College of Tdaho. 1935. and Hamlin. Whitman 19371 Bropd lump Cr'ev Cook. T, C: Chiodo. 1. K C: Klirker, Whitman: Small. Linfield- Neal I. Ar C Dis tance. 23 feet 4'2 inches WW-yard run Harold Parrott. Whitman: Poe Whitman: Hovis. Willamette: Kiekel Willamette: Mil ler. Willamefe. Time. l:S9g fTies eonfererrt-e record of 1 S3 S. set hv Harold Parro't. Whitman 195.1). Javelin Stan Nenerud Willamette: Boutin. L A; C: Muel'e- Pacific: Trench. Pacific: Schrr idteall. Lin field. Ditancr. 1W feet 3', inches. 220-yard da?h Dave UUer. Whit man: Honking I. A- c Van Horn Willamette: N-il LAC: Millis. Pa cific. Time. -22 2 Hi(h iumn Al Tarnenninu. Lin field: Chiodo. L C: two-way tie 'or third between Thomnson. Wil lamette, and Srhulze. Willamette: three-wav tie for fifth amonr Gar rison. Linfield: Owens. C of I . and Gengler. L Ac C Heipht. S feet Two-mile Kdcar Parrott. Whit man: Harold Tarrct Whitman: Em rtey. Willamette: Bryan Pacific: Phillips. L & C Time. 10-19 9. 220-vard low h irdles Caley Cook. L A- C KMcker. W'hitman: Owens. C of T. Crai, Pacific: Schroder. L 4 C. Time. 24 3. New conference rec ord Old mark of 25 5. set by Grant Schiewe. Linfield. 1951. Discus Pat Adams. L K C: Miehet sen. L Ac C: Gilson, Willamette: Cul lison. Pacific: Compton. Pacific. Dis tance. 139 feet 9 inches (New con ference record. Old mark 138-g, let bw- Baker. Whitman. 193i Pole vault Bill Kli5-. Whitman: three-wav tie for second among Boyd Crawford. C of L Larry Thom son. Willamette, and Chuck Gentler. L Sc C: two-way tie for fifth be tween Connors. .-ic'fi' 1 K-rt. Willamette. Helpht. 12 feet 114 inches. (Ne-v cor-f-rem-e it'coid. OM mark 12 83. set bv Art Bakke, L & C. 1949. Mile relav Whitman 'Dave WheeT er. Sid Tate Garv Fowler. Bill Mays!: L i C; Pacific: Willamette: Linfield Time 3:25 2 iNew confer ence record. Old mark 3:26 3. set by Whitman Davis, Fairbanks. Norrii. Turner. 1940). Snin Fishermen Slate IWeetine Morwlav Nirrit The regular monthly meeting of the Salem Spin Fishing club will be held Monday evening. May" 17, at b o'clock in the Hollywood Lions Den. Highlight of the evening's en tertainment will be the new color movie "Autumn Holiday." This film was made in the Quetico Superior Wilderness Area where the only access is by boat or canoe. All interested persons are in vited to attend. Tide Table Tides at Taft, Oregon (enmnilwi K tl G fmm jt Geodetic Survey.' Portland, Or.) Rich Waters Low Waters May Tim Height Time Height IS 1J.2S pjn. 4 5.5 aJB. -0.4 11:15 pjn. 4 S:H pjn. 2.5 I? 18 pjn. 4.S 6 31 m -0.1 11:43 pm. J 5:49 pjn. 1.7 IS 14S p m 44 7 -Oi mm 01 t :23 pjn J. 9 19 12:14 ajn. SS 7:41 ajn. -0.9 3:30 pjn. 4.8 56 pjn. 3.0 20 12:47 ajn. 5 :1S ajn. -OS 8:1 pjn. 4 1 7-J4 pjn. 3.1 II 1:23 ajn. 6 4 :S7 ajn. -01 SJS PJR. 4 5 S IS pjn. 3 J Whopper :; T ill ii . ,f 'j--.''rT ITS-r V- if. "V. C": J- ' t f - 1 J g! W a 1 1 y Glhsoa, Keizer resident pose with six-pouad bast which was- but one of many he and party caught in Owyhee Reser voir near Vale recently. Fish reportedly went for plugs with gusto. Softball Play Opens TVlonday The: pre season practice round in Sa,lem City and Industrial Leagues softball play will get under way Monday with three games; two in the City loop. The- Salem Woolen Mills and Salem Used Cars teams are to play at Phillips Field! and Randle Oilers; go against Burkland Lum ber company at Leslie, in the City Leaeue. The! National Guardsmen plav Fire Department in the Industrial League, at Baker Field. All games start at 6 p.m. The; practice round will be com pleted: May 28. after all teams have played at least four games. Elks Finals Slated Today 'Continued from Preceding Page) Brande was close In brilliant in disposing of Myers, boasting a nine-undcj-par card for the 30 holes of action. Alley was even par in; his victory over Hoxie. The Lebanon swinger, who will be seeking his second Elks title today,' gets much greater distance off the tees than docs Alley but at times Jack's hook gets him in troubl?. Brande won the cr"Ti in the first Elks Tourney back in 1946. His adversary finds himself in the finals for the fi: A time. Last year's toga went to Don Spillman, but Spillman wasn't on hand to defend this time. A number of titles already have been decided in lower flights as follows : 2nd4-0. W. Langdoc over Hobart Price 3d Jack Russell over Ho bart Jackson. 4th Hank Landis over Ned Ingram. 6th Floyd Baxter over Vern McMullen. 7th Kent Bauersfeld over J. R. Wood. 8th Fred Anunsen over George Hencken. 9th Vern Miller over Vern Hailaday. 10th Doug Coe over Harold Gillespie. 13th Tod Sloan over Don Hendrie. 15th Frank Snellgrove over Jerry Frei. 18th Steve Tabacchi over John Humphreys. 19th Scotty Man over Fred Rawlins. 24th George Schroeher over Harry Snell. 25th Sid Schectman over Orval lama. 26th John Wilbur over Len Rowan 29th Jerry Williams over Terry Randall. Linfield Tops OGE in Pair MONMOUTH - (Special)-Lin-field's! Wildcats got a pair of hot pitching performances Saturday as they notched a pair of non conference wins over OCE's Wolves by 6-1 and 12-0 counts. Carl Wickham gave the Wolves only three blows in the first tilt and Bob Diller did even better with a. two-hitter while blanking OCE in the finale. Linfield banged six hits off the Wolves' Darrell Davis in the opener. John Sutton and Bob Jolma ; handled OCE hurling duties in the second game. Stan Hayes singled in the third frame of the first contest to knock in the only OCE run of the day. Vern Marshall led the winners' hitting for the two games with a triple and three singles. Linfield 013 020 0 6 6 2 OCE -.001 000 0 1 3 3 Wickham and Olson; Davis and Osborp. Linfield ..-005 043 012 11 1 OCE 000 000 0 0 2 2 Diller and Combs; Sutton, Jolmat (6) and Osborn. 4 ! SUPPORT th SENATORS GO TO THE ; GAME! ; YOU Make A Winning Team Thanks i KGAE Champ Told to Throve Fight .-. : Threat . Causes Elocky's Family to Take Refuge TORONTO (if The Toronto Star said Saturday an anonymous letter sent world heavyweight champion Rocky Marciano, threat ening his wife and baby unless he throws his June 17 fight with Ez zard Charles, caused his wife to take refuge in Ontario. - The newspaper said in a front- Ducks Defeat Staters 9-7, Lead Shared CORVALLIS (iP Oregon de feated Oregon State 9-7 in over time Saturday to throw the North ern Division baseball race into a tie between the two schools. Oregon pitcher Norm Forbes had trouble in the early innings and Oregon State had gained a 7-3 lead at the end of six innings. In the seventh Oregon scored one run. added two more in the eighth and tied it up in the ninth when catcher Niel Marlett and Ron Phillips drew singles off OSC starter Norb Wellman. Pete Williams brought in the tying run with a long fly to centerfield. , In the tenth inning Oregon filled the bases with a walk, an error and a single by Forbes. Dick Schlosstein singled to bgng in the Iwo runs that gave Oregon the vic tory. Forbes contributed to his own cause with five hits, one of them a homer. George Shaw had three for five including two doubles and Phillips had three for four. Chuck Fisk led OSC with two hits in five times at bat including a triple. Oregon 000 210 121 29 19 1 Ore. State 220 102 000 07 10 3 Forbes and Marlett: Wellman, Wilson '9. DeHass 9 Guidotti 10 and Stephenson. Santee Chalks 4:08.4 in Mile COLUMBIA. Mo. 'A The amaz ing Wes Santee eased to a record 4:08.4 mile and had a sizzling quar ter in the mile relay Saturday as (he Kansas Jayhawks walloped Missouri. 88-43 in a track meet. The mechanical Jayhawk runner beat 4:10 for the 24th time in three years as he erased the 4:10.7 meet record set by Missouri's Bill Mc Guire in 1950. UW National Threat . . . Husky Crewmen Easily Top Cal in Annual Race By GENE KRAMER OAKLAND. Calif. Of) Wash ington rowed to an easy 6rt length victory over arch-rival California Saturday to establish the Huskies as the top crew on the West Coast and an important contender for national honors. The impressive varsity win cli maxed a Washington sweep of the freshman and junior varsity races on the Oakland Estuary, each by 13, lengths. It was second straight Husky rout and amounted to re venge for a three-race sweep by California here two years ago. The deep - stroking varsity men from the North rowed the three mile course in 13:21.6, compared to 15:47 for California. As several thousand spectators watched from bridges and both banks of the placid inland water way, the Washington varsity over came a slight California lead at the end of the first half - mile and pulled ahead the rest of the way. 17 LT2 A LD THAT OLD, TIRED WORNOUT NOW NEW BATTERY IN OUR SHOP " 2-YEAR GUARANTEE FREE Generator-regulator Each New CARS CALLED FOR Davidson's Auto Service Open Erery Day 24 Hours Phone 530 3-8935 Chemeketa We Give and Redeem Penny Saver Stamps page story that 23-year-old Mrs. Barbara Marciano and her 17-month-old baby, Mary Anne, ar rived "four days ago to visit some old friends living in Ontario." (At Grossinger, N. Y., manager Al Weill said Mrs. Marciano was visiting friends, in Ontario, that the champion had received a threaten ing fetter and that it had been discarded. A spokesman for the International Boxing Club, promot ing the coming title bout, said, however, that the letter had been turned over to the FBI.) Marciano started training for his coming bout last week and Mrs. Marciano and daughter left the camp at that time. She never remains at the camp during the training sessions.) Rocky Worried The Star gave no clue as to Mrs. Marciano's whereabouts but staff writer Angela Burke quoted her as saying Saturday "she had never seen her husband so concerned be fore over an anonymous letter." "Rocky has received a lot of crank letters and he doesn't get upset easily," Mrs. Marciano was quoted as; saying. "But this is the first time he has ever been sent one in which the baby and I were threatened. It has scared us both to death." The Star story says that where she is now living Mrs. Marciano has handy a revolver "that would be used against any and all intru ders." It added that though there is no armed guard posted near, she "is constantly surrounded by her friends and their servants." The threatening letter to the world champion was made up of words and letters clipped from newspaper type. It was mailed from Philadelphia. Washington Oval Squad Triumphs PULLMAN, Wash. UP Darrold Skartvedt paced the Washington track team to a 68-63 Northern Division win Saturday for the Hus kies' first dual meet victory over the Washington State Cougars in nine years. Skartvedt was the day's high point man with 13 points. He won the broad jump and high jump and placed third in three other events. FROSH. ROOKS TIE CORVALLIS if The Oregon Frosh came from behind Saturday to shade the Oregon State Rooks 63 2-3 to 65 1-3 in a track meet here. Despite the lopsided win. Coach Al Ulbrickson said "I didn't think our kids were rowing so well. They were jerky and unsteady the first 2 miles. California showed more poise at first, but it was natural for them to fall back badly after they had done their best and could not catch up." SURGICAL SUPPORTS Of AU Kinds, Trasses, Abdominal Supports, Elastic Hosiery Expert Fitters Private Fitting Rooms. "Ask Your Doctor" Capital Drug Store 405 State Street Corner of liberty Zr9C Green Stamps Allowance en Any Cable Check with Battery AND DELIVERED Statesman JSaUxn, Or.- Suiu May 18. IBS I (See. lV-7 Blanks Cards 1 1 t' .. ;'' :y- ' BROOKLYN Carl Erskine (above) who hurled Brooklyn's Dodgers to a two-hit 1-0 vic tory over St. Louis' Cards Sat urday. Hurlers Shine In Major Play (Continued from preceding page) Baltimore didn't get a man past second base against the 21-vear-old Clevenger except for the second inning when the Orioles scored both their runs. Coleman was helped out by Marlin Stuart who retired the last three Red Sox in order. Manager Casey Stengel had to use four Yankee pitchers to save tne day after hammering out a four - run lead in the first inning. Whitey Ford. Casey's No. 3 boy. was the winner over Billy Hoeft who had blanked the Yanks on one hit in an abbreviated game on the clubs first Eastern swing. Erskine pitched a powerful game for Brooklyn against the Cards and he needed it to beat Poholskyi The Dodger righthander retired 17 Cards in succession from the third to the eighth. The only hits were doubles by Stan Musial in the first and by Alex Grammas in the third. Hearn and Whitey Lockman hit home runs off the Cubs' Klippstein but Chicago's persistent 11-hit at tack and New York errors made the difference. Hearn's blow was a line driver over the head of center fielder Frank Baumholtz that rolled to the clubhouse for an in side - the - park homer. NAVY STRING GROWS WASHINGTON UR Navy's mag nificent oarsmen ran their winning- THE iRDMOU StyU S296 & II-. v r - L.e . aaW I an I ill Ski r iy Whose famous Bostonians are these? For mawy A6Aoo o coo! rfo6 comfort betted ! r i efaooee a pair ot these famous BOSTONIANS an exelusire combination of DACRON Mended -with -NYLO N end tort gHstening eabL Fftmoos yecbt oeeifner RODERICK STE PHENS, JR. did. Tou'H sj 700 made Only Webfeet licit BeaverSaNab Dual Laurels CORVALLIS OH The Univer sity of Oregon captured the North ern Division dual meet champion ship Friday, defeating Oregon State 80-51 in a track meet! here. Two records were established in the meet 'Oregon's Wayne Reiser ran the two-mile event in min utes, 30.3 seconds. The old j mark of 9:33 wa,s set by Oregon State's Joe Fisher in 1950. f Oregon ; State's Don Chambers ran the low hurdles in 24J sec onds, besting the old mark bf 25.3 set last jear by Ray Pacjkwood of Oregon, ( Chambers also won the 130-yard high hurdles. Oregon's Bruce Sprinsbett who won the 100 and 220-yard dashes was the onlj( other double winner of the day. ; Both schools swept a complete event. Oregon's Fred Jacobs. Gor don Dahlquist and Dave Talbot finished 1-2-3 in the 440. Oregon State's Joe Fulwyler, DavelLund grcn and Skip Wilson swept the discus event. Oregon won eleven first jplaces and outscored the Staters j in all but four events. Cascade to Plav Banks Hi Morida- The Cascade Union High1 Coug ars, champions of the Capital League baseball race with'ian un defeated status again this season, are to play the Banks; High Braves Monday afternoon at Waters Field here for the district championship. Coach Bob Stewart's Cougars are out to repeat their perform ance of a season ago when they swept through the league race, won the ; district title ana" then defeated Eugene's powerful team in a great upset in additional playoffs. ; streak. longest in college history to 26 .Saturday beating fast-finishing Yale i and Penn in a stirring stretch duel at the Potomac Re gatta. I Central U-DrWe 1 Truck Service Corner 12th and Stale Vans, Stakes, P.U. FOR RENT I Phoae 2-9062 I L. SprWg wham rWrn Syiem Umk mU Brmm Co? Trim $!S95 is