Page Eight.
THE REGISTER. GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON
April jJ
Wagner, Lipscomb in Pre-Title Mat MatJ
, fey? - . ,
"UTAHE UP, Joey Boy! The Yankee! are needing you," the alarm clock would ay If It could talk.
W Wednesday Joe DiMagRio accepted the $25,000 annual itlpend offered him Instead of the $40,000
demanded. There will be no more of these lazy mornings as shown In the above picture.
Good Supporting Card
At Armory Tonight
COMPLETE PROGRAM
Main Even:.- George Wagner
vs. Jack Lipscomb.
' Semi'Final: Al Szasz vs.
"Curly" Donchln.
Opener: Gils Johnson vs.
"Flash" Kelly.
Referee: Harry Elliott.
Joe DiMaggio Back With New York Yankees;
San Francisco Slugger Accepts $25,000 Stipend
NEW YORK, April 21. (AP)-So Joe look the $25,000
and Messrs. Joe McCarthy, Jacob Ruppert and Ed Barrow
breathed a collective sigh of relief the like of which hadn't
been heard since the year of the big wind. The Yankees
have Joe DiMaggio again.
Vital Ball
Games Friday
H
IGH
CLIMBER
By DICK STRITE
:;ames Friday
Junction City nt U.,Ji. S.
Eugene at Springagjjjg,.
Sports Through a Knot Hole:
Maury Van VUet, ex-Oregon foot
ball and baseball star and now
coach at University of British Co
lumbia, Is back in Eugene for the
summer. . . The speedy little
halfback, in fine condition, plans
to play with the Riordan-Amato
all-stars against the varsity May
7. . . . The all-stars have been
working out regularly and Ned
Simpson reports sore muscles, but
the loss of several pounds. . . .
Bob Wiltshire announced Wednes
day that he would definitely not
pitch for the Eugene Drakes this
summer. ... It Is rumored Jhat
"Cocky" Brewer harf been retained
as a member of the .Sacramento
club.
Colonel Bill ll&yward wasn't
quite sure last spring when he
Inaugurated a high school re
lay meet, but he's quite posi
tive now that he has some
thing In the annual I lay ward
Relays, J
That there Is a definite place
In the annual prep school
spring sports program for a
relay meet haa . been proved
by the enthusiastic acceptance
of Invitations for the second
annual meet which will fea
ture Eugene's sport program
Saturday afternoon.
Growing from a modest 8.x
Srhool affair In 1937, seventeen
achools will compete on Hay
ward field Saturday afternoon,
starting at 1:30 o'clock. The
field Is so crowded that In
every one of the eight events
the schools have been placed
In heats.
It was decided Wednesday
night at a meeting of relay of
ficials and local sports writ
ers to award places In the va
rious running events accord
ing to times. With 16 teams
entered In the 440-yard relay
the field was divided Into
three heats and the four teams
with the best times will he
given points In the team stand
ings. The meet should be the
most outstanding high school
track event of the season,
outside of the annual state
championships. Teams have
been entered from Braverlon,
Chemawa, i'orvallls. Cottage
irovc. Hill Military of Tort
land, Salem, Mnupln, Rose
burg, Springfield. VemonU,
Lebanon, Eugene, Mllwaukle,
Sweet Home, Molalla, Mtd
ford, and University High.
Perhaps Manager McCarthy
was the most relieved yesterday
afternoon when DiMaggio wired
Business Manager Barrow he had
M nn fi.r hwin T fr 4i University high school's baseball
000 since January 21. ;,,,,. ,nn ,, , ,h n,r
It will be up to McCarthy to ; Willamette Valley, southern divi
Judge Joe's fitness to play. Theison, league Friday afternoon
outfielder, who was the league's ; when the campus nine entertains
imrai wiuuuunui prayer msi sea-1 tnc fast-improving Junction City
"u lcu """ J"" high team,
home runs, arrive in New At the 5ame tlmCi Eugene.s de.
ior omuroay morning una win fending pennant winners, and
be in uniform when the Yankees present league leaders, will meet
J . """"" """"Ji strong Miller squad at Spring-
thnt afternoon. ficld nigh.
Both Joes would like to seej Both games are figured as toss
number "3" go up on the score- ups as in previous meetings both
board when the lineups are given University high and Eugene scor
to the umpires; DiMaggia because cd victories by one-run margins.
It is costing him about $162 a day i Prochnow and Bullion combined
to remain idle, McCarthy because i lo hurl the Tide'rs to a 7-6 victory
his bombers have been futile at over Junction Citv in the first
George Wagner, popular and
handsome Chicago, matman, will
open a campaign at the armory to
night to regain the Pacific coast
middleweight belt, a trophy he
wore for little more than a week.
In opening his drive toward this
honor, Wagner will be picking on
another former title-holder Jack
Lipscomb, much - hated Indiana
meanie. The winner will meet
Champion Bob O'Dowdy in a
championship engagement next
week, either in Portland, Salem or
Eugene.
Supporting the headline attrac
tion, Promoter Herb Owen has
signed a quartet of tbpranking
middleweights. "Curly" Donchin
meets Al Szasz in the 45-minute
semi-final and "Flash" Kelly and
Gus Johnson tangle in the 30-min- !
ute opener. ;
Clean, Scientific
The semi-final match Is sure to
Winner To Meet
Champ O'Dowdy
Almack New
Wildlife Head
The Lane county unit of the
Wildlife Federation today has its
fourth president within the year.
With a pledge to make the
Lane group, representing some
3.000 outdoor enthusiasts, a power
in legislation of the conservation
of natural recreational resources
of the county and state, Malcolm
Almack took office Wednesday
night at the regular meeting of
the unit held at the Cafe Del Rcy.
Almack was unanimously
elected head of the group along
with R. S. Drenner, Cottage
Grove, vice president, and Earl
Neet, Eugene, secretary. The trio
will hold office until pext April.
No immediate plans have been
announced by Almack.
Other former presidents have
been: Perry Thompson, C. G. Carl
and Frank Graham.
A talk on stream pollution was
Wolves Beaten
By Webfoots
Oregon Wins Practice
Game By 16-8 Score
Coach Howard Hobson's Uni
versity of Oregon baseball play-
-13 or them went through
Bob Feller Takes Spotliaht
From Dean with One-Hit Goj
wiin a 20-hit .. -Boston
Bees h.,VVt1
prima donna, but for Bob Feller, n Gne Sw J
the 19-year-old fuzzy-faced Iowa tne bases loaiUi .1
schoolboy who missed baseball's made a 4-run rC1
hall of fame by the narrowest of J"1 mP Brooklyn,
IllcHglllb.
Yesterday was to have been
NEW YORK, April 21. (U.R
Plaster up the 24-sheets, haul out
the headlines and turn on the
mazdas not for Dizzy Dean, the
Chicago Cubs' $250,000 pitching
final practice session under near ; Dean's big day. He was to prove
game conditions Wednesday after-! his arm was sound, that he was
noon on Howe field. The Web-1 baseball's greatest pitcher and
foots, just playing for the fun of worth every cent P. K. Wrigley
it, walloped the Oregon Normal i paid for him. Dean did well
school nine, 16 to 8. They were
forced to get serious minded
late in the game to score eight
runs in tlr? seventh frame to
"take" the Wolves.
As a warm-up for the northern
enough, scoring his first triumph
in easy fashion for the Cubs. But
something happened he hadn't
counted on Bob Feller, without
uttering a single word, stole the
spotlight not only from Dean but
In the Amerir
won its third ir.;.v"f
Athletics. 3-0. h.kN.S
ard's 7-hit pitching.
. Rupert Thompson pi
rn the eighth drove taif"5
which the ChlcTfe1
The
i lie;:
given by W. J. Smith, president refi0" state cllee 4here Fr'
division conference opener against ; f rom every other major league
of the state division of the Wild'
life Federation. The Lane unit
pledged its support to a petition
presented by Smith which de
clares the policy of the state to
preserve the purity of its rivers,
streams and lakes.
day afternoon the contest prob
ably had its value, but If the
fellow within the cashier's cage
accepted a thin dime from any
customer he should make a public
player. He pitched a 1-hit game
for Cleveland against the St. Louis
Browns.
Now 19, wiser, stronger and
more confident, Feller cut down
the hard-hitting Browns with
Portland Drubs
Sacramento 8-5
apology for misrepresenting his dazzling fast ball and a baffling
stock in trade. j change of pace which stamped him
inere were nignngms: ram ; as the foremost young pitcher in
Thunemann, southpaw sophomore ; baseball. .
from Eugene high, went the route Teaming up with Rollie Hems-
jur w.Lsunon me mouna. ne ai-, leVi the catcner the Indians pro-
r" ",u" cured especially to catch Feller,
Hobson he might have an ace In n Blazing Bob gave a masterful ex-
inTnrf p a . coming suiciae- hibition. The only hit made off
""" j-- mm was a bunt by Billy Sullivan,
season. cv.rieimin tnu- !
Wimpy" Quinn, Orcgonyinnin Fp,,P hi ,ir.lrU,j th
bat without the services of the
cannoneer from the coast.
I'm certainly glad DiMaggio Is
coming In," sad McCarthy last
night, "but I'm particularly hap
py he has seen the light for his
own good. He has Just avoided
making the biggest mistake of his
life."
Ruppert 'is relieved and tri
umphant. Not only because the
jovial colonel likes to see his
Yankees win 154 victories a year
wouldn't satisfy him but because
ho has won, hands down, one of
the toughest holdout battles in
recent major league history.
game, limiting the Tigers to seven
hits. Emmons was the batting star,
clouting a single in the seventh
frame to win the game.
L. Jones and Nichols hurled four-
hit bull for the Axemen when the
west-side school defeated Spring
field, 6-5. Lawson limited the
Eugene stickers to five hits.
i : jiuctvv-jiiLLint; uiira-siirKpr. Kiam- , i . . n
ho a Mn i . I rt "Mi-run scoring spree coupiea , - . : . . - ' . ' uaii, ana inrew xo rirsi Baseman
be a clean, scientific struggle with ! ,vith nin,hinnin HonhW. nlnv mcd out the longest hit of the ;Tro,kv Tt .. it.
tne outcome depending on the 1 . ,'j.V season when he belted the horse- v, ,, .. .
hPi,. TUr i , I wiiu unc uui aim mt- uBsus luitaca ... , . ... "' nummpii, an om rtinietics
ff,ht. J?!. ? L Krf eVenJ?' moved the San Francisco Seals , !,ldftsn?.r' ' he centerf.eld fence ! pitcher himseI( makine hjs Amer.
rinnVhin hnWini . iT.hf ' into a lie with Hollywood and :V 7 "" anQ ! ican league debut, called Sullivan
nn,?nS l I 6"ght ,four: Sacramento for second place in Ja'k Gordon on the bags safe. The Indians protested vio.
SZiril8 rI f y 7k h " ' 1 ,hc Padfic Crast baseba11 leaSe. reg" 5 hlgh cIass. , nf lc,d i lently but the umpire has the last
Hungarian opponent. Both are. The SeaIs handed the Hol, ! made three errors, but it wasjword.
fSnri-mnntn! .Z r, , , wood leam its second licking in i "? k uTJ." w sp- Feller fanned six men, and gave
fundamentals of the professional j as many days Wednesday, 11 to "J" bobbles 01 Shortstop Parks up six walks.
As for Dizzy Dean, he scored a
10-4 triumph over Cincinnati with
Bill Bowerman writes from
Mcdford that he is bringing a
complete leam some 21) runners,
jumpers, nnd weiRht men for the
llayward meet. "We're not coming
with the Idea of winning, but for
the experience" Bill writes. The
Black Tornado will be strong in
the mile and three-mile relays and
Bill admits he has a couple of
pretty fair sprinters.
The Mrdford coach, besides be-
Junior Legion Ball
Tryoufs Saturday
Lane county tryouts for the of
ficial American Legion Junior
baseball team for 1938 season will
be held at Eugene high school field
Saturday from 1 to 5 p. m., accord
ing to Director Frank Fassett.
Any boy In the county who was
not 17 years old before March 31,
1038, Is eligible and requested to
try out.
A series of games will be played
each Saturday afternoon until
school Is out. At 1:30 Saturday,
players from the University high
will play a team picked from the
local junior high schools. At 3 p.
players attending Eugene high
will play a team picked from the
county "B" schools.
The official Lane county Junior
American Legion team will not be
named until June 30.
Eugene Juniors defeated Elmiia,
8 to 3, In a 6-inning game played
at Elmlra Wednesday. Lee, El
mlra's ace pitcher, received poor
support.
Score: RUE
Elmirn 3 6 5
Eugene 8 8 2
Lee and Campbell; Shear, Walk
er, Hamer, Robertson nnd Dunn.
Ducks, Pilots
To Meet Friday
"An army may move on its
stomach, but a track team can't
train on its back." Maybe it
wasn't Colonel Bill Hayward who
should be credited for the state
ment, but the veteran Oregon
mentor has the same sentiments.
Faced with Inactivity for two event. Lipscomb and the referee
weeks, Hayward managed to in-1 have always been at daggers ends
duce the University of Portland ! and last Monday in Portland El
cindermen to come to Hayward ' bolt and Szasz won a technical
field Friday afternoon for a dual i decision over Lipscomb and his
meet. The meet is scheduled to 1 wild-eyed Irish partner in a team
: match.
Owen has ordered preparations
made to accommodate a crowd of
some 3000 spectators for this third
meeting between the arch rivals.
mat game.
Kelly and Johnson present a
question mark. The two grapplers
have generally shown cleanie tac
tics but at times have displayed a
slight trend toward the rough-and-tumble
type of workmanship.
But regardless of the type of
maneuvers shown, both supporting
matches are expected to be in con
siderable contrast to the main
event.
There Is no love lost between
the two boys and local railftirds
predict more fireworks than in
either of their recent meetings
which were rated as epics. In the
first of their last two meetings
both title affairs Wagner was
awarded the match on a foul and
gained the coveted belt for 24
hours until the Eugene wrestling
commission reversed Referee Harry
cinoit s decision.
Elliott May Be Target
Wagner scored a clean-cut vic
tory over Lipscomb the following
week and took over the coast mid
dleweight throne room. He lost
the title in his first defense how
ever, by knocking himself out by
plunging into a ring post and los
ing the crown to O'Dowdy.
It also appears inevitable that
Elliott will figure in tonight's main
Portland and Los Angeles re
mained tied for first place. Port
land trimmed Sacramento, 8 to 5,
and Los Angeles measured San
Diego, 6- to t 3, thanks to Joe
Berry's fine relief pitching.
Sacramento's Buster Adams
tried hard to take the game out
of the fire when he accounted
for three of four Solon runs in
the ninth with a homer.
The largest opening day crowd
in six ears, 10,500 fans, saw last-i in the eighth.
of Monmouth who single-handedly
contributed five of the Wolves'
seven bobbles.
All in all it was one of those
things and bits of baseball.
Oregon took the lead in the
first, but fell behind as O. N. S.
tied the count in the second and
went out in front 8-6 in the
fifth. It wasn't until the seventh-inning
eight-run burst that
Oregon displayed superiority and
then added two for good measure
place Oakland defeat Seattle, 5 to
3, in a game marked by home
runs.
Sacramento . . 5 8
Portland 8
Schmidt and Grute: Darrow
Dickey. .
14 4
and
Softball Meeting
At 7:30 Thursday
The Eugene Softball league will
hold an important meeling in the
second-floor editorial office of the
Register-Guard nt 7:30 p. m.,
Thursday.
start nt 2 p. m.
The meet will serve as the
first full length dual test for
both teams. George Philbrook.
Pilot mentor, is expected to bring
his full squad of runners and
field performers.
Oregon entries for the meet are
not definite, Hayward reported.
The main purpose of the meet, he
said, will be to get a line on
leading prospects for future dual
engagements with Washington on
April 30 and Washington State,
May 7.
Oakland 5 8 1
Sentlle 3 9 1
Van Fleet and Conroy; Barrett, Turpln
(81 and Fernandes.
San DleRo 3 6 1
Los Angeles 6 8 0
Craghead, Plllette 13) and Detore;
Jakuckt. Barry 111 and Collins.
Score
R. H. E.
O. N. S 020 150 000 8 8 7
Oregon ...201 030 82x 18 11 4
J. Miller, Mohler and Turpln;
Thunemann and Walden, Beard,
Kelly.
Umpire: Stan Summers.
-ii
Flemin
Frazler t3
Hollywood
San Francisco
Beck. Herrmann 121
and Brenzel; Koupal,
aprinz.
Oregon Golfers Leave
On Northern Jaunt
Ing n former star backfield ace on
Oregon football teams, was one of
Colonel Bill's dependable quarter
mi lers.
Corvallis, Albany
Win League Games
Corvallis and Albany won north
ern division, Greater Willamette
Valley legauc games Wednesday,
the Spartnns taking the measure
of Lebanon, 13 to 4. on the Corval
lis diamond, and the Bulldogs de
feating Sweet Home, 6 to 5, at
Albany In a 10-inning batlle.
Scores: RUE
Lebanon . 4 6 7
Corvallis 13 14 5
Simpson, Messmer and Tuma;
Saunders nnd Beyerlein, Brown.
Art McChesney Wins
Over Downs At Elks
Art McChesney decisioned Bob
Downs in the main event of a 13
ed at the Elks club Wednesday
match amateur boxing card stag
night. Medals were awarded the
winners and runners-up in each
event of the intra-club program
attended by a large group of mem
bers and friends.
Brubaker Wins In
Repeated Comeback
OAKLAND, Cnl April 2i.I.V)
Phil Brubaker of Dinuba, Cnl.,
on a comeback campaign following
his sensational rise and fall in the
heavyweight ranks, holds a second
ten-round decision today over Do
mingo Vallll of Hayward.
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division champions, left here
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Salem, University
High Swimmers Meet
Salem and University high
school swimming teams will meet
at 7:30 n. m. Thursday in a
duaj swimming meet at the men's
pool, according to an announce
ment made by Coach Leonard
Scroggins.
ine capital city mermen are
rated the only outstanding con
tender for the campus swimmers'
state championship.
out extending himself. The Cubs
gave him a 9-run lead in the
second inning, and he coasted un
til taken out in the seventh for
a pinch-hitter. Dizzy permitted
8 hits and 2 runs in 6 innings but
was masterful in the pinches.
were idle.
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