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to CuS'&OGifl to Msqbd too TFraMi Willamette Camp Site Picked; 3 Northwest Pro Tilts Slated x By AL LIGHTNER , .Statesman Sports Editor The big question many have been asking since they left here .ast August "Will the New York Football Giants return to Salem for their 1955 training?" was answered Sunday in the form of a pecial delivery letter from Bob Daley, the National Football Open By Middlecof f Hebert Places 2nd . At St. Petersburg ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. The iron nerve and know-how of a veteran paid off in the stretch Sun day as Cary Middlecoff overcame 8 five-stroke deficit to clip youthful Jay Hebert for the chanroionshio of the $12,500 St. Petersburg Open Golf Tournament. ; Five' blows behind at the start of the last 18 hole round, Middle coff fired a five-under par 67 to catch Hebert five holes from home and beat him by two strokes with a 72-hole total of 274. Wilting under the pressure ap plied by Middlecoff, who played with him in the same threesome, the 32-year-old Hebert Chopped out 74 for 276. It was the third tournament He bert had blown in the final show down during the winter tour. He almost fell victim, too, to a great last-day rally by Art Wall Jr. who shot the day's best round of 66 to move up from 11th place into third with 277 just one stroke back of Hebert Smith, Lesser In Golf Finals PINEHURST N. C. Wiffi Smith, 18-year-old LaCanada, Calif, redhead, birdied the first four holes of the back nine Sunday to trounce National Amateur champion Bar bara ,Romack 6 and 5 to gain the iinals""of the North and South Am ateur Golf Tournament. Wiffi will meet Pat Lesser of v Seattle, 2 and 1 winner over Mary Ann Downey, in Monday's 18-hole finals. Wiffi, sharpest shooter in the field since match play began Thursday, finished with four threes in the last five boles for some of the finest golf in the, history of this 53-year-old event. The smooth-swinging freckled 155-pounder who has made the tour in the trailer of fellow California golfer Gloria Armstrong, was two under par for the 13 holes. Miss Lesser, former intercolle giate champion who is a Seattle University senior, had the better putter in her match with Mary Ann Downey of Baltimore. OAKS BOW TO SEALS BRAWLEY, Calif. JH Two vet eran moundsmen, Eddie Chandler and Steve Nagy, pitched the San Francisco Seals to a hotly con tested 3-2 triumph over the Oak land Acorns in a Desert League game here Sunday. ,, , By DON The continued cold weather fishing and the salmon fishing was a new -run of" steelhead in Captured Dr. Max . Denton caught it. The fish was a nice 12 pounder taken from the lower river. It is the first steelie, by the way, that we have heard of in some time. Nothing much goes on at present in the Wil lamette or theSlough near Portland as far as Chinook fishing is concerned. Very few fish were reported all last week and it appears that it will take some warming up of the water to improve conditions to a point where it pays to get up in the morning. If the smelt chasers are tired of waiting they can begin to set up camp on the banks of the Sandy. The elusive little eulachon are now in the Cowlitz and they may be in the Sandy in a few days. On second thought, the odds are only about 6 to 1 that they'll show at alL What with all of the seeming craze and claimed advantages in derbies it is extremely surprising that some group has not set up a sweepstakes deal on the smelt runs. A sweepstakes similar to that held in Alaska on the annual break-up of the ice. - Commission Could Sicell Treasury In fact the Oregon Game Commission could swell its treasury by selling sweepstakes tickets on the arrival time of the smelt or whether or not they will arrive at alL First prize could be a bag cf smelt or a can of sardines. Talk about not being worth getting up in the morning. TVe should never have fallen out of bed yesterday nor should we have taken our racing drg eat of bed. He did, as usual, real well at the informal trial held at Camp Adair. We entered him in both the derby and qualifying stakes. This is.rdone for a purpose. "We feel that running around like a frightened gazelle in the derby will calm him down enough so that he will be steadier in the following qualifying stake. Well, with all of his training school period he still broke like a dropped saucer on the first bird. He was out yonder and got the bird in a hurry and then came back with it by way of Browns ville, Lebanon and points east , Deek Wins Out Oter Guns On the second series the guns missed a bird or nearly missed it It finally hit the grass just short of Independence. Deek was sent after that one by the judges. One of the guns also started out to pick it up and had a 100 yard head start. Deek won. - ' - la the qualifying we were number 1 on the line. A long and short bird were to be shot. Again ever our dc the long bird was missed. Deck held steady and we were told to pick him np for a later call back. We grabbed his collar and in the excitement-he slipped the collar and was gone. But we still got our call back after a few other dos. On the line again and Deek was steady now. The string had busted on us however, ana the guns missed iiother bird. By the time we got a third call back Deek figured this was a bum deal. He held steady on the long bird but the short bird was too much and he broke. Can't say that we blame him what with all of the goings on. The one thing we're certain of is that he'd come close to beating the rabbit at the Portland dog track. 4 . League teams Dublicity director. Daley revealed that arrange ments have been made with Wil lamette University Pres. Dr. G. Herbert Smith, and that the lat ter will announce shortly that the Giants will be back . again, setting up headquarters at the university just as they did last year,e To Starfuly 25 "Well probably start . camp July 25," Daley adds. "We have three ! gamer set in the North west, with the Green Bay Pack ers at Spokane August 13, with the San Francisco 49'ers at Se attle August 20 and with the Los Angeles Rams at Portland Aug ust 28. Wc will probably also play in Little Rock, Ark., De troit, Mich., an one other mid western city, but the dates have not yet jeen set." The 60-.nan Giants squad train ed in : Salem for the first time last year, and the news that Head Coach Jim Lee Howell is bringing the outfit back again will meet Vth the approval of thousands of Salem-area football fans, coaches and both city and university officials. At Baxter Hal! The squad will set up head quarters at Baxter Hall on the WU campus and will engage in daily drills for some six weeks in and adjacent to McCulloch Stadium. . Few figured the Giants would make much of a mark in the NFL last season, since the squad was considered young and inex perienced. But Howell directed the team to tht top of the stand ings heap for much of the cam paign and it finished only a step behind the champion Cleveland Browns of the Eastern Division. When informed Sunday that the Giants had scheduled their necessary three games in the Northwest, Pres. Smith of "Wil lamette said that he was pleased with the arr. ngements and would be glad to welcome back the New York team. "We are looking forward to the return of the Giants," said Dr. Smith. "They not only made a good impression. at Willamette but on all of Salem as welL" Portland Homers Drub Hollywood's 'B' Team ANAHEIM, Calif. UFi Ron Jackson and Don Eggert hit home runs for Portland Sunday " as the Beavers swamped the Hollywood Stars "B" team 8-1 in a Pacific Coast League exhibition. Carl Scheib and Dick Waibel shared hurling duty for the Beav ers and scattered nine hits. Port land collected 12 off a trio of Hol lywood hurlers. Portland 100 222 001 12 1 Hollywood "B" 010 000 0001 9 4 Scheib, Waibel 5) and R. Bot tler; O'Donnel!, Wolfe (6), Salas (8) and Schneider. IIARGER and cold water has the steelhead practically at a standstill. There the Santiam on last Friday, but - I Doa Hargtr Statesman, Salem, Or., Monday, Giants Trip Tribe .... Bedleg . Sluggers EDrub Chisox; Irbottlyn Wins By. The Associated Press The power-packed Cincinnati pected to begin clobbering National League pitchers right at the start of the baseball season next month, is getting warmed up to that task under the Florida sun. Werner Breaks Siding Record STOWE, Vt. in Sandy haired Buddy Werner, 19-year-old Univer sity of Denver freshman, thrilled an international crowd of ace ski ers Sunday by setting a downhill record on Mt. Mansfield's steep Nosedive Trail. The Steamboat Springs, Col. youth beat the top skiers of Europe and America as he smashed the 1952 hill record for the American international races in the fast time of 2:07.5. The old mark of 2:16.7 was set by Ernie McCulloch of Canada. In the woman's downhill, Andrea Mead Lawrence winner of the sla lom races on Friday and Saturday was tied by Madeleine Berthod of Switzerland. Their time was 2:08.7. Martin Strolz, Austria, finished behind Werner in 2:12.2, and And erl Molterer of Austria, who won both men's slalom events, was third in 2:12.5. Short Route Used Werner, whose first name is Wal- lard, weighs 145 pounds. He cut the famous seven turns of the up per Nosedrive Trail in the shortest possible route. He said at the fin ish line: "I hit the first high, al most in the trees, and just kept on down straight." Over the slower mid-section of the trail unlike the other racers he kept to one side, almost within a few feet of the spectators who lined the course from top to bot tom. He apparently found faster snow there. Russell Voted NCAA's MVP KANSAS CITY 11 Towering Bill Russell Sunday was voted the most valuable player in the Na tional Collegiate Athletic Assn. tourney. But his teammate on the championship San Fran. Cisco squad, K.C. Jones, was pegged a ranking hero. The 6-10 Russell set a new five game scoring record of 118 points for the NCAA tourney as he helped carry the Dons, No. 1. ranked in the national Associated Press poll. to a title triumph over defending champion LaSalle 77-63, Saturday night. However, San Francisco Coach Phil Woolpert said Jones' "great job of stopping Tom Gola, La Salle's All-America player, with only six field goals, was perhaps the deciding factor in our team's great defensive effort." The all-tournament team, select ed after ' San Francisco pasted LaSalle and Big Seven champion Colorado beat Big Ten champion Iowa .75-54, included: Russell and Gola, as unanimous choices: Iowa's Carl Cain: Jones; and Colorado's Jim Ranglos. Cartls Hold Hope Of Raschi Return ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. UB St. Louis Cardinal officials are going along with veteran pitcher Vic Raschi in his hopes a four-week rest will cure his ailing back, amid reports Raschi is "believed through with baseball" because of a slipped spinal disc. The Cardinals announced that X-ray pictures of Raschi'j back were ''inconclusive" and Dr. L C. Middleman, the club physician, in sisted the ex-New York Yankee "has shown improvement since Thursday," when he was ordered to rest. Raschi said Middleman told him that complete rest and medication will make him "as good as new" after four weeks. But J. Roy Stockton, sports edi tor of The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, reported in a story from the dub's soring training base that the Car dinal brass "declined to make a frank statement." McCaU Skier Victor In Numbers Cup Race BOISE (A David Butts of Mc CaU zig zagged through the Bogus Basin slalom course in two runs of 144.4 seconds Sunday to win the first annual Numbers Cup. The race has been established in memory of Murray "Muddy" Numbers of McCall. a University of Idaho skier who lost his life in an auto accident near McCall last November. John Zapp of Boise finished sec ond in 148 seconds, and Eddie Ward of Boise was third with 143 2. March 21; 1955 (Sac 2) 1 Redlegs lineup, which is ex Sunday. Ted KluszewskL Gus Bell and Co. came up with a four run rally in the ninth inning to defeat the Chicago White Sox 7-3, Wally Post, a lesser-known mem ber of the Reds' "murderers row" hit two home runs. Rookie Jim Pearch was credited with the vic tory. The loser was Bob Chakales. Brooklyn, the New York Giants and Milwaukee, three of the Na tional League clubs rated ahead of Cincinnati in pre-season calcu lations, also came through with victories. Dodgers Top Yankees The Dodgers knocked off the New York Yankees. 9-8. in 10 innings, the Braves whipped the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-4, and the Giants beat the Cleveland Indians, 7-3. In other major league exhibition games, the Pittsburgh Pirates de feated Washington, 4-2, in 13 in nings; the Boston Red Sox crushed Detroit. 10-3 and Kansas City edged Baltimore, 3-2. Three safeties by rookie infield er Chico Fernandez highlighted the Brooklyn victory. Fernandez pro duced a double in the vital 10th frame and Sandy Amoros' single got the winning tally across. Joe Adcock's home run over the left field fence in the eighth inning broke a 4-4 deadlock for Milwau kee. Hank Aaron also hit for the circuit for the Braves, who man aged the deciding tally off Cardinal rookie George Schultz. Rhodes, Kiner Homer The Giants jumped on Bob Fell er for single runs in each of the first two innings then rallied for five more in the seventh, two of them coming on a pinch-hit homer by Dusty Rhodes. Johnny Anton elli pitched five scoreless frames for New York; Rajph Kiner hom ered for,- tht Indians.. -. Pittsburgh clipped Pedro Ramos, rookie Cuban righthander, for two runs in the 13th inning on singles by Dick Groat and Preston Ward, a sacrifice and a two-bagger by Roberto Clemente. Ron Kline, Nel son King and Bob Garber held Washington to eight hits. Towering Frank Sullivan shut out Detroit with one hit in five innings the longest stint for any Boston pitcher this year. The soph omore righthander has not allowed an earned run in 11 innings. Billy Goodman paced the Sox', attack with four hits in five trips. Leroy Wheat and Ed Burtschy combined to hold Baltimore to sev en hits while Kansas City picked up nine from the offerings of Jim McDonald and Saul Rogovin. A single by Jack Littrell scored Hec tor Lopez for the payoff run for the A's. Hollywood Bowl's First Race Slated : Racing season . at the Holly wood Bowl will get underway April 24 when the Capitol Racing Assn. will put on a Sunday after noon show. A full racing pro gram is- planned with the fea tured addition of a six car de struction derby. Members of the Capitol Racing group, car owners and drivers, are reminded of the special club meeting Tuesday night at 8 p.m. at the Hollywood Bowl club house. An accounting of cars and drivers must be made Tues day in order to go ahead with arrangements of the first racing card. It's 'Let's Play Ball9 Week . Senators Name 50 More Fans Who Have Purchased Tickets The Salem Senators Baseball Club and Boosters Organization, going all out this "Let's Play Ball" Week to reach the goal in the sale of season tickets for 1953 Senators games, in Northwest League play, Sunday released the names of 50 more fans who have purchased the ducats. Over 500 names of those who have bought the $23, $13, and $10 ! Family Plan season tickets have now been printed, at 50 at a time, in The Statesman. All those who purchase tickets - during the re mainder of the drive will also be published from time to time. Tickets can be secured from any member of the Senators board of directors, the boosters, at Wickhmd Sporting Goods Store at 372 State St . or at the mobile ticket both on the "Salem Senators Boosters Bandwagon" which is appearing daily in the various business and residential districts in the com munity. The Senators must sell over 2,000 of the season tickets in order to' insure the opration of the ball dub during tbt entire ceason. f Visitors -::mmsms p. jm : :- v--:-:-'.:.- Visitors are shown looking over came to a close Sunday at the ment were shown at tne display (Statesman photo.) SBG to Salute Baseball Week Monday morning's meeting of the Salem Breakfast Club will be a salute to National Baseball Week, with the emphasis being placed on the Salem Senators club. The session has been labeled "Let's Play Ball Day." Program for the meeting which gets under way at 7:30 a.m. at the Senator Hotel will be handled by the Senators club officials, with General Manager Hugh Luby in charge. A report on the Senators 1955 prospects and a discussion on the Solons' ticket drive are included on the program. Monday morning's meeting is open to all male sports fans who wish to attend. U.S. Olympic Skiers Named STOWE. Vtv W The U. S. Olympics ski games committee Sunday night '-selected an eight man arid "five-girl team to" repre sent this country in the 1956 Olym pics in Italy. Included in the group are An drea Mead Lawrence, 22, now ski ing for the Aspen, Colo., Ski Club and a two-time gold medal winner in the 1952 Olympics, and Brooks Dodge, of the U. S. Army and Pinkham Notch, N. H., who also raced in the last Olympics. The men's squad, selected after a seven-hour meeting following the American-International races on Mt. Mansfield: Dodge; Ralph Miller, 22, nation al slalom champion, of Hanover, N. H. now stationed with the Ar my at Camp Hale, Colo.; Marvin Melville, of Salt Lake, Utah; Tom Corcoran of the U. S. Navy and St. Jovite, Que.; Les Streeter of the Middlebury College ski squad and Northfield. Vt.; Dick Mitchell of the U. S. Air Force, and Ogden, Utah; Buddy Werner, 19-year-old freshman at the University of Den ver who won the downhill race here Sunday in record-breaking time, and Marvin Moriarty of Stowe, Vt., a 16-year-old high school student. i Besides Mrs. Lawrence, the girls' squad consists of Katy Ro dolph of the Reno, Nev., Ski Gub; Gladys "Skeeter" Werner broth er of Buddy of Steamboat Springs Colo., and the ' Aspen Ski Club; Dorothy Modense of Seattle, Wash. who cracked up Sunday, in the downhill race, and 16-year-old Bet sy Snite of Norwich, Vt., a high school girl at Hanover, N. H., near the Vermont line. Only one filly, Delta, has been named for the Florida Derby at Gulf stream Park. All other 76 nominees are colts or geldings. . The Northwest League campaign starts April 26, with Eugene play ing here. The Senators are slated to open spring training at Napa, Cal., April 6. v Today's 50 names: John E. Wood. John R. Wood, Donald E. Woodry. Wiley N. ; Young, Walter Zosel. William L. Allen, Robert A. Ball, Gretchen Bartels, L. L. Beard, E. S. Benja min, R. W. Beutler, Lee Bown, Louis Briggs, P. H. Brydon, Brad ley Burkland, Rudy Calaba, Ches ter I. Chase, J. M. Clark, Henry V. Compton, Leslie E. Davis, Roy E. Davis, D. L. Downing, Bill Duf fus, Robert Ebersole,. Harold El bert, Jerry Frei, Marjorie Gabriel, Earland Gettis. Stanley Grove Jack Gorman, William Hammond, Joe Himmel. E. E. Hite. T. R. Hobart, George B. Hoffman, Jessie Hohweisner, .Joan Hoover, H. M. Howard Jr., H. C. Jackimsen, Hol ly Jackson, Lillie January, Mary January, Gladys Jones, William D Jones Jr., Bob Judson, E. W. Kay. R. H. Kendall. J. Allen Kinj, Lome (Squee) Kitchen. Scan Boat Shotv scjne of the prize display pieces Salem Cascade Mercantile Co. Boats of all kinds and fishing equip in the store and in a large I Strikes By BROWNIE VALDEZ Walt "Pappy" Gardner found the alleys to his liking Friday night at Capitol and mauled the maples for a solid 631. Pappy had grmes of 217-223-191. John Willett had little trouble during tne same session witn olo on f games of 221-174 and 221. . Or ville Towe of the Wolgamotts five posted the high game of the night with. 229 ... Top series of the state house loop was rolled by the smooth throwing Wayne Straw with a dandy 531. . The hook bailer rolled games of 194-199 and 206. George LeTourneux took runner- up honors with 5&J based on a solid 243 game ... Couple of good shots were turned in by George Landers and Flo Wattier: George picked up the tough 6-7-9-10 split while the Blonde Bombshell converted the rough 3-6-7-8-10 ... Capitol Lanes have come up with a handicap sweeper that- is held after the Commercial loops have finished on Monday nieht. pants, twenty in number. Winning the first one held last week was the blaster ball artist Al Russell with a solid 668 score. Other winners were Rich Staudinger 650, Ed Logan 626, Bob Ryan 619 and Al Burgess with 603 ... Youthful roller Forest Logan fared very well, throwing a 525 with the new ball that he won a week ago in the Capitol sweeper. Forest rolled games of 158-174 and 193 in gaining his good score. . . Racking the pins for top score in mixed doubles at Capitol with 1229 was the duo of Louise and Barney Schuley. The Olneys, Jack and Dot, copped second place with 1183. Third and fourth was a tie between the teams of Flo-Al Wattier and Ted-Zona Rutherford with a 1174 . . . Don Hatterberg of the Gbldies team from Silverton had more than his share of tough luck with the pins last Monday. Don left the 7-9-10 split in ore frame only to come back with a better hit in the next leaving the 5-7-10 jewel ... This qualifies Don to membership in the 5-7-10 club. But we still need the answer; as to, "Where did the ball go? ... One of the novice bowlers had just missed the ten pin. He (Continued on next page) NCAA Finals to Change Site; Rule Makers Start Meetings KANSAS CITY (yp) With the disclosure that next year's National Collegiate Athletic Assn. basketball tourney will move out of Kansas City, the college forces Sunday left the scene and the game's rule-makers moved in. The national basketball commit tee Sunday night opened a two day session to devise the 1956 play ing code. Arthur (Dutch Lonborg, U. of Kansas athletic director and chair man of the NCAA tourney com mittee, said his group is certain to begin a rotation of meet sites beginning next year, favoring cam pus play. ; Lonborg, however, said he did not know yet what school or possible non-campus site - would get the 1956 tourney. Insocction Slated The committee will inspect vari ous playing arenas with a view toward picking a site within a month, Lonborg said. The tourney has been held at Kansas City's Municipal Auditori um the past three years. Since 1939, when the first NCAA meet was held at Northwestern University, a college site has been host only four times, including Washington in 1949 and 1952 and Minnesota in 1951. Seven meets were conducted in Madison Square Garden and six in Kansas City. The rules-making national bas ketball committee is expected to wrestle hardest with two items, the bonus free throw rule and stall ing. 1 -Coaches Give Views The . main recommendations of the National College Basketball Coaches' Assn., which met last weekend, were directed at those two items. The colleges have nine members on the 20-member basketball rules committee. The other representa tion is divided among high schools, the AAU, YMCA, and Canadian groups.' Lie the college group, the na tional committee comes armed with results of a nation-wide sur vey for 'guidance in arranging the 1956 code. The meeting will be an execu tive session without announcement on any action likely before late Moodav - Display at the three-day boat show which circus tent adjacent to. the store. MiwMMMaa ! tvastaasMasmswsj BOB (JUNIOR) RYAN Rolls new loop high There is a limit to the partici- PADRES DUMP STARS SAN DIEGO. Calif. I San Diego beat Hollywood 10-8 to sweep a three-game Pacific Coast League exhibition series, after pitcher Bill Thomason's timely single for two runs brought the home team from behind in the sixth inning Sunday. MILLIOI-DOLLAI Fill! enng ' Spares '7M U Sea our big selection of Outboard Cruisers, Run abouts and Fishing Boats. Low, low down payment, easy bank terms Open Evenings 'til 9 Yanks Sweep Swim Crowns Rowing Medals "Won In Pan-Am Games By TED SMITS MEXICO CITY Uft Jimmy McLane, veteran of two Olympics, and Wanda Lee Werner, a ninth grade student from Bethesda, Md., swept to upset swimming victories Sunday to let loose another cas cade of gold medals for the United States in the Pan-American Games. McLane, former Yale University star now in the Army, put on a tremendous surge in the final yards to beat the favored Oscar Kramer or Argentina in the 1,500 meters free style finals. He was clocked in 20 minutes four seconds for the distance. 120 yards short of a mile. Miss Werner, just 14, captured hte 200 meter women's free style in 2:32.5, beating out Liliana Gon xalez of Argentina and Gilda Aran da of Mexico, who had recorded the fastest time in the preliminar ies. Susan Gray of Washington, D. C, was fourth. At Xochimilco,' Jack Kelly Jr. of Philadelphia in the single sculls, a double sculls team from Detroit and Philadelphia's Vesper Club heavyweight eight won rowing titles. The U.S. was outscored in the finals, however, by Argentina, winning four of the seven. Art Larsen of San Leandro, Calif., preserved North America's faltering tennis prestige by win ning the men's singles title. The lone remaining U.S. contestant, the lefthander turned back giant En rique Morea of Argentina in a tough match, 4-6, 9-7, 6-4. 6-2. The United States suffered a hard blow when its baseball team bowed to the Dominican Republic, 10-7, and virtually lost its hopes of the championship. The third defeat put the U. S. in a tie for third at 3-3 behind the Dominican Republic, leading with 5-2, and Mexico, 4-3. The U. S. has two games left, the others one. In other swimming and diving events, -Joaquin Capilla of Mexico retained his three-meter diving crown with a clear-cut victory over a trio of U.S. servicemen. 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