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Newspaper Page TextTHE " REGISTER-GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON Pag ' Sight: . x a-L, BiiuiaitB-uuAimi m " I Lou Gehrig Suffering From Chronic Infantile Paralysis, is Diagnos May Never Play Again, Reported Record-Holder-Remains With New York Club NEW YORK, June 21 W Ed Barrow, president of. the New York Yankees, announced today Lou Gehrig - is suffering from chronic infantile paralysis and will ''probably " never play ' base ball again. . " V ' Barrow's statement came after Gehrig had turned "oyer ; to him the formal report made by Mayo clinic experts. Gehfig hadspent several days in the clinic in order to have a thorough check rriade of his physical condition. ;The one-time great .first basei rrian had been worried about his conditibn all year. After making a bad showing in the field and at bat during the early part 6f the season, Gehrig voluntarily benched himself May ' 2, - thus ending his consecutive game streak at 2,130 games. ' ' Benched Hlnuelf, .,..., , , He sat oh the bench , for sever al weeks but could . not . regain his strength. Finally he decided to put Himself in fhe .hands' of experts- to, determipe- just wliy he had' lost. his .baseball form so suddenly. His trip to the clinic followed.- - - - - Barrow said Gehrig -apparently had been suffering from the ail ment for1 two years and 6nly his reTriaTkaBle'physique ""had" en abled him 'to play. ' . ;The ; veteran - will- be 'continued on the Yankee . payroll for the rest -of ' the season at least arid will -remain ;as non-playing- team captain: After his -conference with' BarMiw, Gehrig left for th clubhouse-to don his 'uniform. Gehrlr 3 Monday ' iBarrow Said he understood irom the physicians -reports' the diseaee - could -be ? checked-and - in any event it probably would not get" worse'.' " :""V' "'" ;The Yankee leader obviously was broken up as he made the announcement. Gehrig '.long has been on of . his favorite players. Barrow, siid , the first baseman would - not play again; this year but irtdiicted there - was an out side possibility he c6uld return to the . game . eventually.. Gehrig was 36 years old Monday. Bucky Walters Gets 10th Win 01 Season If':" , ' f HERE Is Frank "Frankenstein" Wolff demonstrating one of his many Illegal 'wrestling- tricks on a helpless brother grappler. Wolff will meet Dan Savich in the 30-mlnute opener of Promoter Herb Owen's double main-event at the armory Thursday night. W resiling Program Completed For Show at Armory Thursday Promoter Herb Owen completed his Thursday professional wrestl ing show Wednesday with the iifcning of Charlie Carr, fiery lit tle grander, as referee and Dan Savich and Frank "Frankenstein" Wolff as principals of the 30-min-ute opening attraction. Unable to break Harry Elliott out of retirement and getting a blank refusal from his son, Elton Owen, the local promoter believes he has a capable Official in Carr. The signing of Savich and Wolff By "BILL WHITE ' (Associated Press Sports .Writer) , Maybe it - was just a coinci dence, but the day Bucky Walters of the Cincinnati Reds became the first National league pitcher this season to win 10 games the New York Yankees went on one of . their most lucrative batting sprees. . ThAt deserves more than pass ing mention since 1 along about October 4, if you're watching the first - game . of the world series you probably will see Walters and the. Yankees hook up. in a clash that may be as stirring an open er as Avr nroHnrM.' . Bucky, the string bean right hander, won No. 10 with a smart 4-2 victory over the Brooklyn Dodgers. . - That elbowing moved the Reds up 66 games in front of the St. Louis Cardinals whose clash with the Phillies Tuesday was' rained Out. The Dodgers, by their loss and the Chicago Cubs' 3-1 win over the Boston Bees, plummeted down into th second division; Claude Passeau was the blgnolse in the Cub win, hurling a five hitter. . : '. In the .American league that Yankee uprising that must have sounded unpleasant to Walters, though he was miles away, kept the Chicago -While Sox strictly in the Yankees' "cousin" class. The 13-3 win wa,s the seventh over the sox. ,"''. Tuesday's tussle started . out very creditably,' the .Yanks out in front Only by 6-3 going Int6 the seventh.1 ' But- coming out was different. The champs, blew Vic Franer out of the box arid were n't much kinder to Ed Smith, hi successor. They gathered eight consecutive hiti, after two were out, and coupled that blast with some wierd sox. fielding to score seven runs. The Boston Red Sox, with Joe Vosmlk having a perfect day at the plate, blew down the Browns, 8-1 to ruin Harry Kimberlln's major, league pitching debut. The Senators lost, 4-3 in 12 innings to the Cleveland Indians. In the league's Only night game. Tommy Bridges shut out the Athletics and the Tiger coast ed; a 5-0 victory. Earl Aver ill'e homer with a mate aboard was the strongest blow struck in the victors' favor. Pro Fails to Score Ace In 1,817 Tries On $25 Wager " BEVERLY SHORES COUNTRY tLUB, MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., June 21 (U.W A slender young professional, shot with weariness and painful blisters, pounded his 1,817th golf ball at a flickering candle light marking .the tenth hole early today and decided that luck, not science, breeds a hole- in-one. After 16 hours of driving, on a $25 bet with Duffer Bill Voltz, who scored an ace on the same 136-yard hole a week ago, Pro fessional Harry Gonder, 25, fi nally was forced to quit. He had hit the pin dozens of times, once as late as his 1,758th shot, but at 2 a. m. (CST) he admitted his blistered left hand was too painful to continue. Joe Gordon EUGENE MIRROR 8 GLASS CO. J25 Oak Phone 121 Auto Glatt Replacements , Shatterproof Safety Glaai 1 Plate or Crystal Sheet All Slzei Installed While You Walt. WHAT BE DID TUESDAY AB RBI H PO 5 3 3-3 2 dnublM. Il-I(il niR SEASON'S RECORD Dlltlni RBI H 41 to AB 1M Fltldtnt PO 130 A 1M C 10 Pel. .317 gives the program a potent open ing tempo a battle between two so-called savages. The Utah punch er has established himself as one of the toughest gents in these parts with his unethical tactics. Wolff, the rubber-necked phantom, was slight disappointment last week, but will have a chance to be re stored in the good graces of the wrestling public by defeating Savich. Although he has the card com pleted, Owen was just a bit wor ried regarding the $500 guarantee he was forced to post to get Jack son to return to Eugene for a title match. Jackson will likely find un usual opposition when he meets Roberts, Oklahoma stylist. The title match, althougti the headliner in the minds of local mat followers, will vie for main-event honors with the one-hour match between Wild Red Berry and Mar shall Carter, Berry, former world light-heavyweight champion, re fused to appear in a preliminary spot and forced Owen into agree ing to flip a coin to determine which match will take the final spotlight. Beavers Drop Angels, 5-4 Barrett Beats Seals 3-0 With Two-Hitter COAST W L Los Angeles 48 34 Seattle 4? 34 San Francisco 42 36 Oakland 40 41 ' San Diego - 36 42 Sacramento -.34 42 Hollywood 36 45 Portland J2 41 Seattle 3, San Francisco 0. Portland S. Los Angeles 4. Oaktang 4,' San Diego 3. Hollywood 4. Sacramento 3. (10 Ptt. .585 .580 .538 .494 .462 .447 .444 .438 Inn) (By The Associated Press) Although mired deep in the Pa cific coast league baseball base ment, Portland's bedraggled Beav ers were heroes in their home town today after knocking over the mighty league-leading Los Angeles Angels, 5 to 4,. Tuesday night. The Beavers started the scoring with four runs in the fourth, and after Los Angeles had tied the count at 4-all in the first half of the ninth, pushed over the win ning tally as Frankie Hawkins doubled to score Harry Rosenberg, who had singled. Portland's win trimmed the Los Angeles lead to a half game, as Seattle edged up by beating the San Francisco Seals at Seattle, 3 to 0. Dick "Kewpie" Barrett, diminu tive Seattle right-hander, turned in a brilliant pitching performance, allowing only two hits in blank ing the Seals, as his mates poled seven off Bill Shores. It was Barrett's 13th win of the season against six losses. A home run in the lutn inning by Chalmers Cissell gave Holly wood a 4-to-3 decision over Sac ramento, when George "Pooch Quccinelli, Hollywood outfielder, slammed a homer over the left field wall. Oakland strengthened its grip on fourth place by beating San Diego's Padres, 6 to 3. It was Oak land's third straight victory over Howard Craghead, Padre pitcher. San Francisco 0O0 000 000 0 2 3 Seattle 010 010 Olx 3 7 0 Shores and S'prinz; Barrett and Camp bell. R H E Sacramento 100 200 OOO 0 3 5 0 Hollywood 000 201 000 1 4 10 I Seats and Ogrodowski; Bittner and Brenzel. R H E Los Angeles 000 001 0?1 4 13 1 Portland 000 400 001 5 12 2 Prim and Collins'. Thomas and Moozo. R H E San Diego Oil 000 010 3 8 0 Oakland -121 000 02x 6 13 1 Craghead and Starr; Buxton and Conroy. Scappoose, Portland Semi-Pro Clubs Win SILVERTON, June 21 Scappoose and the Portland Red men won semi-pro pre-tourna-ment baseball games last night. Scappoose walloped Forest Grove, 9-6. Portland beat Canby, 6-1. Scores: R II E Scappoose 9 10 3 Forest Grove 6 8 6 Coan, Evans and LaMear; H. Zimmerman, Sahnow and B. Mc-Irvin. Portland 6 10 1 Canby 1 9 4 Reisbeck and Peccia; Anto and Mize. 'Billies, Babes To Open New Series Hills Creek's scrappy Hillbil lies will launch their second half State league baseball campaign at Swimmers' Delight Sunday af ternoon, when they play host to the strengthened Portland Babes. The Hillbillies, still locked in a tie with Tole.do for the first half lead, are out to cop both halves and avoid a playoff. This will be their last regularly sched uled game prior to their competi Hon in the state semi-pro tourna ment at Silverton, though last Sunday's postponed game with Bend has tentatively been set for either July 9 or 16 at Swimmer's Delight. The Bitbcs, with Dick Bishop catching and young Gene F'enter ptiching standout ball, have tak en a new lease on life in recent weeks and are expected to give the Hillbillies a stiff fight. Hills turned back the Portlanders in a first half encounter and will de pend upon the sturdy left arm of Bun Kelfay to duplicate the trick Sunday. Softball to Open Friday City league Softball teams will go into chips-down action for the first time Friday night, when two games are scheduled at the Lane county fairgrounds. The opening date of the night league, originally Wednesday, has been put off two days because of improvements being made upon the field. The clubs will this sum mer play under a battery of 22 lights, compared to 12 last year, and other improvements have also been made. Manager Burton- Boroughs has announced that play will be on a four-nights-a-week basis, as last year, with American league dou bleheaders on Tuesdays and Fri days and National . league triple headers on Mondays and. Wednes days. A total of 72 games are slat ed, in addition to the playoffs. : Friday's opening ceremonies will see all players of all 13 teams in uniform at the field. Rubenstein's, defending city champions, will meet a drawn American league opponent in one tilt on the opening slate, and the two National league teams selling the most season tick ets will clash in the other contest. Teams in the American league are Fenn's Tire shop, Rubenstein's, Sterling Furniture, Hewitt's Ser vice station, S. P. Shops and Wend- In the National circuit are Army and Navy, Williams' Bakery, Chase Gardens, Western States grocery, Woolach Bros., Knights of Colum bus and Coburg. Pete Igoe To Hurl Against Mud Hens pro- Pete Igoe, a Eugene high duct who now pitches for the Uni versity of Oregon varsity, will toe the mound for the Eugene Athlet ics when they face Toledo at the Lane county fairgrounds Sunday, and the Athletics are determined to make Pete's 1939 State league debut as a starter successful. It will be Igoe's second State league start. Last season he was beat here by the Portland Babes. Ten days ago he did a relief stint against Hills Creek and showed such great stuff that five of the Hillbilly sluggers struck out in two innings. Manager Ed Brauner and the Athletics reason that they have every chance to upset Toledo, even though the Mud Hens are tied for the league top with Hills Creek. Eugene lost to Toledo only 2 to 0 in the season opener in the coast city. Coast Solons Set Grid Start Lee Orre Made Eligible But Hamilton Studied MOUNT HOOD, Ore., June 21 (p) The Pacific Coast Confer ence voted at its annual meeting at Timberline Lodge yesterday to start football practice on Thurs day, Sept. 7, giving teams a little more than two weeks to drill for early games. The get-away date last year was Thursday, September 8. Frosh teams were granted the right to start practice the first day of registration but must finish their schedules the second Satur day before Thanksgiving. South ern division frosh teams were authorized to schedule as many as six games, but northern division yearlings can play only three. The 10 conference ' delegates granted Lee Orr, Washington State track captain, another year of com petition although he participated in a preliminary, non-conference meet in this, his senior year. He was injured in the meet. The solons delayed action on a similar case affecting Hampton Pctol, Stan ford football player. There was no mention of Ed ward N. Atherton's survey on conference athletic conditions, particularly proselyting, athletic scholarships, and like topics yes terday, although the delegates ad mitted spending most of Monday night thumbing through the 700 page report. Atherton, a former federal investigator, was hired by the conference to ferret out facts on athletic set-ups and practices at the 10 schools. C. V. Ruzek, Oregon State col lege, conference president, said the delegates would have some thing to say about the Atherton data later in the week. Baseball AMERICAN W L New York 42 11 Boston 30 21 Cleveland 29 23 Chicago 28 28 Detroit 30 27 Philadelphia 21 33 Washington i 22 35 St. Louis 15 39 New York 13. Chicago 3. Boston 8. St. Louis 1. Cleveland 4. Washington 3 Detroit 5, Philadelphia 0. NATIONAL W L Cincinnati 37 18 St. Louis 29 23 New York 29 26 Chicago ?8 23 Brooklyn 28 27 Pittsburgh 24 28 Boston 22 31 Philadelphia 18 32 Cincinnati 4. Brooklyn 2. Chicago 3. Boston 1. Pel. .792 .5!8 .537 .519 .526 .359 .3J9 .278 Pel. .673 .558 .527 .500 .401 .4?2 .415 .360 Big-10 Coaches Gi coast Two Firs BERKELEY, Cal., June 21 U.R At twilight tonight ath letes of the Big Ten conference will attempt to prove that it was just an accident that Pacific coast teams made a runaway race of the N.C.A.A. track meet at Los Angeles last Saturday. The occasion is the third an nual meeting of teams represent ing, the Big Ten and the Pacific coast. It appears that the coast Black PNA Medalist With 5 Under Par VICTORIA, B. C, June 21. (Pl Thirty-two golfers, survivors of a two-day qualifying round, teed off today in the first match play of the Pacific Northwest Amateur golf tournament on the Royal Colwood course. Heading the list is Kenny Black, Vancouver, who set a dazzling pace yesterday to win medal hon ors with a total score of 135, five under par for Colwood's 70 par course. Black followed up his first day's 68 score with a 67 yes terday. He was far in front of the field. Scotty Campbell, Seattle, was his nearest rival with a 142. Don Thompson, Portland, was a third with a 146. Defending Champion Jack Westland posted a 152. Westland started good on the opening day, coming in with a 69, but he encountered trouble on his last nine yesterday and ended with an 83. Defending Champion Marian McDougall led a field of 14 into another round of the champion ship flight on the Uplands' course today. The championship flight which survived yesterday's match play, includes, besides Miss McDougall, two more from Portland. again will Comp ,. . by a h , 'omlh BltT Ton n-i.- the "m." h.? a- Bob Peoples, Southern,! or Boyd R,,, im Ca!I javelin. " The mile run looks to stand-out race of the d r Zampenni of Southern c may be forced to a r record by Waiter Mehfc consmand Mel Trutt of 5 . uunmvest elude: 880-yard entrii Oregon. run Kirman Local Fisherman Identifies 'Swallow-Tail Channel Cat' You may stump Lane county fishermen on an unusual fish question but not for long. Requests from the chamber of commerce office last week as to the identity of "swallow-tailed channel cats" were answered just as soon as fishermen who had ever been in the mid-western and central part of the United States remembered that this was just an other name for the "barbed trout" of Kansas. Dick Allen, an ex-resident of Kansas, showed the April, 1933, issue of Outdoor Life, which gave complete information on the fish in question. They are a distant relative of the western mud-cats, but so "stream-lined" as to be un recognizable. The channel cats, which are considered a game fish in Kansas, inhabit cold pools or stream wat ers and are upon occasion "very gamey and edible," according to the magazine. ' m 7 yr" DODGE MATCHES ITS TRUCK CAPACITIES (! to 3-TON) WITH 7 DIFFERENT ENGINES FOR O HUSKY, POWERFUL PERFORMANCE IN EVERY MODEL 0 ROCK-BOTTOM FUEL ECONOMY IN EVERY MODEL twrm yrrrrnpo SIGLOH-SAWYER CO., 1056 Pearl St. The channel caf has a barbed tail fin, which accounts for the "swallow-tail" part of his name. The article said that they could be taken with a fly at times, and maintained that they are "as beau tiful as any trout." The orginal request for channel cats came from a Nevada county clerk, who wished to get a supply for stream-stocking. The fish are not found west of the great plains, the sluggish mud-cat being the outstanding member of the catfish family in this territory. Druggists, Dentists, Doctors Golf Thursday The first annual Eugene Druggists-Dentists-Doctors golf tour nament will be played over the Eugene Country club course, starting at 1 p. m. Thursday. A dinner, in the club house, will follow the fairway feud. BRADDOCK DUE SATURDAY SEATTLE, June 21 (U.R) For mer Heavyweight Champion James J. Braddoek, who will referee the middleweight cham pionship boxing bout here June 27 between titlist Solly Krieger, Brooklyn, and Seattle's Al Hos tak, will arrive in Seattle Satur day by plane, Promoter Nate Druxman said today. HIGHER LEARNING LOS ANGELES Ralph Metcalfe, former Marquette sprint ace on leave of absence from Xavier University of New Orleans where he is track coach, is getting his master's degree nt Southern California. Pole "-aiiiir. Oregon. Javelin Bovd R,., ' , : - 1 Snodgrass Retain Big-6 Baiting leal owning leasers in the j idSuc suuerea reversals mg Sunday game last w, but Infielder SnnHp Junction City Red Sox n we leaaersinp despite a 62 percentage points to average. Johnson of JunctiorJ inuveu into second place .lis average when Por oresweu dropped from .375 and tied for sixth "Peewee" Uttinger of J Lily holds down third followed by Bilderback of coia with .387 and K. D: Alvadore with .379. Bilderback. the slunhJ cola first-baseman, is lead league in hits with 12, il oy jjrew and K. Sanborn adore, each with 11, League hitters oatting better are: c. ... GAi anoaiii, uresweu 1 j Curtis, Junction City "l i B. Nice, Mohawk j f union. Mohawk i ; Snodgrass. Junction City ..5 15 A. Johnson. Junction City 3 1( Uttinger. Junction City 7 Allen. Junction City w 2 5 Bilderback, Marcola 7 31 K. Drew. Alvadore 7 2S J. Smith, Marcola 3 i Porter, Creswell 4' 8 Hendrickson. Junction 6 21 K. Sanborn, Alvadore .-$3C Seavey, Mohawk 5 :! J. Farthing. Junction City 5 li J. Stanley, coburg 3 a. Haker. Marcoia. 1 6 Allen, Alvadore 1, 3 Amherst Tops Will In Old Baseball Feu (By NEA Service) AMHERST. Since .185) they played the first collegi ball game, Amherst and Wi have met 154 times, yet thl only a single decision be) them. By winning this year' test, Amherst went into a same lead in the series, T with one game having enrM a tie. i I BYROMEELArTO - X , : S A Al;5 longer I smoke Dcminos th. 'Wi 'VS 1 T better I like 'em. I like the fee HrjLr "1 Vl ' TurkiA-nddomtietoba hS:WJ H genuine Champagne cigarette pap r. 1 the firm-rolling that acts like a filW- lt$&L 4ff & and cools the smoke. I like th. ay JL S they've been vacuum-cleaned-to fid'Ax ifV k move tobacco particle, Best of a- M "vtng-astheyea-by. You Grow Sweeter As The Years Go By wijlMf rr y v jfj Words and Music by Johnny Mercer I 1 I I 1 I I F k WSffltlllr-. tYoij grow swtet-er as llie " 1 1 1 1 1 j 1 i- .SQi, sweet-tr is the twi-lights fly jff jf 0'fi Copyright,, m, 'GJt M n ,