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Page Six. II IGH CLIMBER By DICK STCUTB Brace Hamby'f University of Oreron "Duck Dope" went Into the malls today a little later than the California, Stanford and Ore son State mimeographed parti' phlets, but a well gotten-up print ed 16-page 1940 football prospec tus. The cover, a four-color lob, shows John "Buck" Berry in typ ical ball-packing pose. While Hamby's product isn't as complete in detail as some of the others, the booklet is very read able and includes all the vital facts regarding the team (vital farts up to and including spring practice, at least). It certainly Isn't necessary for Hamby like some or the otner publixt men to evade the issue as to how Oregon stacks up wun other conference teams, because he tells in his own words that Tex Oliver has only two returning starters Jim Stuart, tackle, and Hymie Harris, end. Bruce's lead story reads: "Many new faces and new personalities will be presented by the Univer sity. . . ." But in the third graph he gets a little bolder by saying that at the conclusion of the spring practice season Tex came up "with a light and ex tremely mobile unit which In the final spring exhibition contest ap peared well fitted to capably per form the colorful and wide-open 'Oliver Twist' brand of football." He also makes note of that fact that while Stuart and Dick Ash com, probable starter at right tackle are the only 200-pound-plus linemen rated as probable starters, the team should prove as stubborn defensively as the 1939 club that was ranked the second strongest defensive team in the league, next to Southern California's Rose Bowl champions (rated by the American Football Statistical Bureau). The prospectus gives the follow ing probable starting lineup (also based on spring practice): Harris and Bill Regner at ends, Stuart and Ashcom, tackles; Ray Segale and Val Culwell, guards; Erling Jacohsen, center; Chct Hallski, quarter; Berry and Len Isberg, halfbacks, and Marsh Stenstrom, fullback. But there's a long time between spring practice and the opening of the followinr season, and changes appear inevitable. Just ns an example, Jack McCarty, KORE sportscaster, returned from his vacation in southern California this week with the rumor that Paul Sedor, a Wyoming boy who played at Santa Ana Junior col lege last year, will come to Ore gon. . , . The lad, who weighs around 240 pounds and plays tackle, was reported virtually wrapped up and delivered to the Trojan campus. . . . There have been other such rumors and there will be more before practice starts September 12 and some of them will materialize. Then again, on a SO-man squad it's almost certain that a few men will develop be yond expectation and replace like ly starters. Dick Home and Jim Harris are both corking good ends, Frank Boyd is the best punter on the squad and may move into a start ing halfback berth, the critics pre dict that "Butch" Nelson, -a Salem boy from the Frosh ranks, may give Stenstrom a contest at full back, and Roy Ell, another yearl ing may contest Hallski'a right to the quarterback post despite the fact that he weighs only 178 to Chefs 198. And so on down the line. Just what i Oregon has to give to Its football followers will not be known until the tost under flrc. The Injury sustained by our Buck Buchwaeh at the dog races In Portland (no the dor didn't think he was the rabbit) is more serious than first believed. , . . In fact, the water on the elbow may curb Buck's literary talents for some time. , . , He planned to "summer" at Rockaway until srhool starts, but must remain in Eugene and have the arm treated. . , . Buck. Incidentally, in formed us that Morrle Jacobs, sponsor of Inst year's champion ship Softball team, caught a beau tiful snlmon during his vacation on Puget Sound. . . , Buck saw Die fish. . . . Don Kirsch, Ore gon's promising Inlielcler, attended the Eugene-Albany game here last Sunday. ... He reports the torn shoulder muscle suffered playing with the Silverlon Red Sox is well on the way to recovery. , , . Jean Kberhnrt, director of ath letics at Southern Oregon College of Education gets an outstanding associate In Stephen Edaurd Ep lcr. inventor of six-man football. , . . Epler will become dean of men and 'instructor of educational administration and sociology at the Ashland school. , , , Tom Colnsuonno, former Mohawk high mentor who retired from the coaching field after the past school year, has passed entrance exam inations for the aviation unit of the United States navy and will report to the Sand Point, Wash ington, school immediately. The Brooklyn Dodgers are pulling another circus stunt (one that may prove valuable to major league baseball clubs in the fu turee) by making their western ( swing by air. , . . We make an enr!y football prediction that 11. S. C. will lick Washington Slate, and Oregon State will not so through its season undefeated . . . With our record of football prognosticating, both could be wrong. . . . We close with Ed ' die BrieU's "It's Just Thought:" "I wonder If the Yanks went ' stale Prom drinking too much Rup rjert's ale." Disputed Prexy Wilhelm Says No Contest A's To Play Sunday Afternoon At Albany George Wilhelm, president of the Oregon State baseball Lea gue, today announced that the first game of the Eugene-Albany State League playoff was no con test and must be played over. The game was won by Albany by a 4-3 score was protested by Eugene Manager Monroe Dean when Um pire Buzz Nonken reversed his decision on a play at the plate which gave the Alcos the winning run. After a triangular communica tion between Wilhelm, Business Manager Frank Fassett of Eugene and Manager "Mac" McReynolds of Albany, the contest was defini tely scheduled to be played at Albany Sunday afternoon, starting at 2:30 p. m. Richards and Elliott Again No doubt Eugene's young left-! hander and Albany's youthful port- sider. Jack Richards and Glenn Elliott, respectively, will hook up in another pitching duel. In the protested game Richards almost had a well earned victory already in his pocket until Jimmy Robert son drove in the tieing run with a double in the last half of the ninth. The disputed play was in the last half of the final Inning when Albany nghtfielder Carl Shoots tried to steal home with the win ning run. Eugene pitcher Jack Richards continued his wind-up and pitched to Catcher Norval Libby who touched Shoots out at plate. A loud and long protest arose from the Albany dug-out when Umpire Nonken raised his hand indicating that the runner was out. But the Albany protest was nothing compared to the out burst . from the Eugene dugout when the decision was changed and the run allowed to count. wnneim announced that two Portland umpires, with "Spec" Burke as umplre-in-chief, would officiate the contest. He explained that the action of Umpire Buzz Nonken in last Saturday's game was in violation of rule 56 which gives the umpire right to change his decision after a protest has been filed by either the offended teams manager or captain. Nonken, according to Wilhelm. admitted that he . was confused and wasn't quite sure what had happened. The league president said that Nonken, after calling the runner out, failed to make any motion to the contrary and that too much time had elapsed (that he didn't change his verdict until charged by the Albany players and management) between the time he first called Shoots out at the plate and then allowed the run to count. Alcos Hold Lead The Alcos have a one game lead in the playoff by virtue of last Sunday's 10-2 victory over the Athletics In Eugene. Another vic tory will give them the crown while a victory for the Athletics will necessitate another game. There was no doubt about the Albany victory Sunday. The big Albany bats shelled three Eugene pitchers for 14 hits while Oscar "Red" Miller was limiting the Eu geneans to seven hits. Pat Comiskey-Baer Battle Announced NEWARK. N. J . Aug. 21 (4) Clowning Maxic Bacr and poker-faced Pat Comiskcy strap ping young Patcrson heavyweight, will tangle in Jersey City next inonlh for the right to fight'chnm- pion Joe Louis "sometime next summer." The bout was announced In San Francisco last night by Jack icarns. Grouse Season Opens In I hree Counties PORTLAND. Aug. 21. (U.R The Oregon State Game commis sion Tuesday announced the ca. son for Rooty or Blue Grouse will open In Wallowa, Union and Baker counties next Sunday. Aug. 25. 1 lie commission said the season will be open until Aug. 31 and that the bag limit will be four birds In any one day, but not more than eight in any seven consecutive days. Bob 'Bullet-head' Kennaston To Meet Jack Hagen Thursday Sergeant Bob Kennaston's bullet head is expected to present a definite problem for Jack "Head- lock Hagen when the Louisiana grappler meets the tough ex marine In the 30-minute opener of Promoter Herb Owen's profes sional mnt show at the armory Thursday nlRht. The famous head lock expert failed to win his re turn appearance here last week when he was held to a draw by Joe Lyman, sensational Redmond, Ore., youngster. Hagen asked Owen to sign him against the most formidable avail able opponent and the local pro moter couldn't have found a rougher rival in the lantern-jawed Kennaston. In the meantime Owen was Eugene WmmmJP ILL x -r2S , T'r-- &m. ... -, PORTLAND'S MULTNOMAH ATHLETIC CLUB got off to a good start in the women's National A. A. U. swimming meet in that city when Brenda Helser, right, and Joyce MacRae. both representing the club, came In one-two in the 110-yard free style race. 65 Year Old Texan Wins Grand American Clay Target Crown By FRITZ HOWELL VANDALIA, O., Aug. 21 C Sportsdom will travel a long way before it finds another champion with the background, color and "heart" boasted by trapshooting's new North American clay target king 65-year-old Forest McNeir of Houston, Tex. Lela Hull, the charming house wife from Strasburg, Mo., won her fifth North American feminine crown yesterday at the 41st Grand American and Fred Tomlin, . of Jockey Dew Breaks Earning Records By JOSEPH MORTON CLEVELAND, Aug. 21. The diminutive lad with the slick ed back hair picked up a pencil and scratched around a bit: after a few minutes he chuckled and jot ted down "$20,000," exclaiming: "I'll bet a lot of big ball play ers don't make that much." The scratcher, tender in years but strong at the finish wire, was 19-year-old Jockey Earl John Dew. A 65-race winner at Thistledown, he was credited by track officials today with shattering all records lor a single summer race meeting. Dew leathered home two win ners yesterday, Thistledown's next to last day, bringing to 148 his sea son's total. Racing records placed him second for the year, being led only by W. Lloyd Taylor, currently riding at Rockingham With a string of 167. The youthful horseman "Butch" at the track doped out his year's earnings on the basis of $10 a mount plus S155 per winner. Add ing in bonuses and his share of stake winnings, compensation; for 44 dnys at Thistledown came to about $8,000. Then he figured in Santa Anita and one or two other tracks and decided "It'll be about $20,000. Not bad for a guy my age and size." His employer, Californian Earl Beczlcy, agreed. Baseball NATIONAL Ctnrtnnillt .. Prwklvn ... Nrw York .. SI. I.ouls .. ChlcaKO in 41 All M 47 Pimburgh m .son Hrflon Philadelphia . ..44 7 .,37 69 AMKRITAN W I, Cleveland . .7t 49 Detroil tn t Boston ttt M Chicago . . Aft M New York . S9 si Washington 4ft us St. lotiM 4ft (W Philadelphia . ...44 (WJ COAST w 1, Seattle ... M S I. An net ( an w Oakland an 67 San Diego . 74 72 Sacramento ... t 74 Hollywood . . II72 74 San Francisco . n R3 Portland 4s 101 preparing to accommodate one of the largest crowds in local mat history a larger attendance than last week's near-capacity gather ing. He has ordered the "big set up" of seats, the ropes tightened and had extended an Invitation to all women fans to be the guests of Pete Bctcnstro reserved scats excepted. Feature attractions of the show will be a pair of one-hour skirm ishes, billed as a double main event. Belcastrn will meet Otis Clingman in a return engagement a possible repetition of last week's knock-down and drag-out affair. The other headline bout will match George Wagner, pop ular ex-coast champion, Against Mike Nuzarrian, Armenian villain. THE TIEQISTER-GU ARD. EUGENE. OREGON - Albany Glassboro, N. J., grabbed his fifth professional title, but all the talk today around the big cartridge carnival was about McNeir. The Texan, wearing a high-stiffly-starchcd collar, paid no at tention to the high wind as he cracked 200 straight to beat the best in the land for trapdom's toughest title. It was the only per fect count of the day, and it gave McNeir a championship he had tied for in 1920 and 1935, only to lose in shootoffs. But today he wore the royal robes, and the trapshooting world will tell you he won 'em the hard way. Four years ago he fell from a building in Houston, suffering a broken back and a crushed left arm. His left hand was amputated at the wrist, but when McNeir re gained consciousness he had the hand sewed back on. The fingers failed to function, and two inches of flesh and bone are missing from the arm, but he asks no odds of anyone. Surgeons told him he probably would never shoot again, but two years after his accident he was back at the "Roaring Grand" with a caddy to carry and load his gun. He fired the entire program. Joe Gordon . . . WHAT HE DID TUESDAY AB RBI H PO 4 0 2 2 Second came. AB RBI H PO 3 0 13 HIS SEASON'S RKCOttD Hitting AB RBI H 432 70 127 PO A r. o4 , Sjjp E 0 P--t. .2m Pel. .976 35-Year-Old Corbet III Wins Decision FRESNO, Cul., Aug. 21. (U.B There's lite in the old boy yet, even if Young Corbctt ill, former world welterweight champion, is approaching the age of 36 when he will automatically be barred from California's rings. "Young" Corbctt mauled Sheik Rancck, a 21-year-old middle weight, for 10 rounds to win a de cision from Referee Fred Bottaro before 7500 fans in an outdoor fight here last night. Additiona Seagram's Kins Arthur Dittilled London I Sports li BYROM & KNEELAND III OiSA. C J a h f wMtV 1 super-smooth cocktails vtA jr - t' tTT tU. K1'! data Neutral Spmu, Scaiwu-DwtoUwt Corp., Executive Office; New York Playoff Diamond Canners Topped By Bonneville Expert Pitching Tops State Softball Play ' By DICK STRITE SWEF.TLAND FIELD. Salem, Ore., Aug. 21. (Special) Eu gene's 1.140 state softball tourna ment entrant had a shorter life than usual, by at least several min utes as Hie Diamond "A" Canners fell before the Bonneville Army Engineers here Tuesday night in (he second night of first-round tourney clashes. Several thousand spectators were still on hand for the last of four night contests and watched "Biff" Georgesen shutout the local aggregation, 7 to 0, In ex actly 55 minutes. Georgesen, a tournament vet eran, virtually handcuffed the Eu gene city titleholders and Lane-Douglass-Coos district representa tives. And the former Portlander had the second no-hit, no-run game of the evening within his grasp. With two away in the final inning, Wayne Phillips. Eugene center fielder, bounced one down the third-base line and beat out the infield bingle. for the only hit of the game. Bill Jones Hit Hard Earlier in the evneing, Harvey Griffin, Pendleton wrist-whipping twirler, hurled a no-no game in giving his Elk teammates a 2-0 triumph over Kennedy's Kids, Sa lem's No. 2 entrant In other first- round games Tuesday. Oregon City pounded out - 13 hits oft Bill "Speedball" Jones to wallop Mc Minnville 9-5 after the Firemen had taken a 4-0 lead in the first two frames. Salem's champions. Square Deal, romped through Woodburn's weak club by an 8 to 1 count. Oregon City advanced into the second round and will meet Pen dleton while Square Deal will play Bonneville in the next series of tournament tests. Griffin's no-hitter was well- earned while a hitless perform ance by Georgesen would have been handed him on a "golden platter." Even his one-hit pitching was as unearned as six o the seven runs his teammates gathered off Basil Wilson and Verne Adams, Eugene chuckers. The Bonneville moundsman had poor control, walking five batters, but played the Eugene "sluggers" for a gang of suckers for his change-of-pace pitches. - It was a pitiful thing to see players who had batted in the 400's in city competition "kill" a nothing ball. The Canners did no worse than several other Eugene state tourna ment entrants, making the usual number of misplays as the one earned Bonneville run indicates. Phillips Gets Only Hit While Diamond "A" had a man on second in both the first and second innings, it wasn't until the final frame that they seriously threatened. With one out, Court ney Towne drew a walk. Ed Well nitz popped out to second, but it was then that Phillips came through with Eugene's only hit of the game. Herb Hamer pounded a high fly .to center field to retire the side and leave two runners stranded. Bonneville scored one run In the first canto when Schlafle hit -a blooper off the bat handle a bin gle that went for two b."ses. Strem ick beat out a bunt to first and the Engineers had "ducks on." Danielson walked to fill the bases and then Rcimer grounded out to Drv Clin on Pmrtr ni.fi Him fmm inn SEE SOFTBALL STORY VSL ' W W ltA PAGE 1, iOTf I ARROW III rftfA WM 3flk i - shirts --;:swsE 11 3f Y7) w" 111 Th Man', fihnn II Cli PUTICUS. lltV III I ' .: .. Game Must be RepUyc "A" Blanked With One! Zale, Soose Bout Tonight By TOM SILER CHICAGO, Aug. 21 W Tony Zale, hard-punching product of the Gary, Ind., steel mills, is put ting everything but his middle weight title on the line tonight in a 10-round outdoor battle with Billy Soose, Scranton, Pa. The fight will be Zale's first ring appearance since he knock ed out Al Hostak, the National Boxing Association's champion, in Seattle a month ago. Soose out pointed Ken Overlin, recognized in New York as the champion, in his last bout. Although Zale cannot lose his N. B. A. title tonight, he stands to lose a tremendous amount of prestige and see his string of straight victories broken if Soose wins. The former Penn State col lege champion rates as a smooth boxer and sharp puncher. Zale is a crowding battler who totes a terrific body punch. The Gary youth is a 7-to-5 fa vorite to win and an even money choice to end the bout in less than 10 rounds. - A victory tonight for Zale would set the stage for a battle with Overlin with the outcome clearing up the muddled middle weight division title situation. Helser Pitches Well But Loses (Associated Press) Frank Volpi's two homers in a free hitting game gave the Wen atchee Chiefs a 13-11 victory ii their Western International lea gue contest with the Vancouver Capilanos in Wenatchee Tuesday. Volpl hit a circuit clout in the sixth inning to tie the count and hammered out another in the eighth with one aboard to assure victory. In another free hitting game the Yakima Pippins defeated the lea gue leading Spokane Indians 18-14 in Spokane. Both teams used three pitchers. Johnny Stamper led the Yak ima sluggers with five singles in seven trips to the platter. George Farrell's homer with two out in the last of the ninth gave the Tacoma Tigers a 1-0 victory over the Salem Senators in Ta coma. ..... It was a brilliant mound duel between Roy Helser, Salem south paw, and Ray Medeghini, a right hander, until Farrell's blow. Med eghini gave up only three hits and Helser six. Creswell Registers . ' Shutout In Groves Softball. CRESWELL, Aug. ' 21 (Spe cial) In the soft ball games play ed Monday night at Kelly field, Eagles upset the Knickerbockers, 8 to 6. This Is the second league game that Knickerbockers have lost. In the night cap game Cres well walloped McCoys 16 to 0. This Is the first shut-out game in League play. Leaders Gain In Major Loops Second Place Teams Lose Doubleheaders By BILL WHITE Associated Press Sports Writer A lot of experting has been done to show how the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Detroit Tigers can win the big league pennants. But the fact remains that Cincinnati and Cleve. land still are getting ready to en tertain the World series crowds. s The ability to win when a vic tory is. most needed seems to be the strong point of both teams and it was never better demon strated than Tuesday. The Reds were faced with the red-hot (for a day) Giants and the Dodgers were willing nay, anxious to whittle the St. Louis Laras down twice and thus get within 2'k games of the Rhine landers. But today's standings will show the Brooks are 5 games back, thanks to the Reds' stirring finish over the Giants in a 3-2 thriller and the Brooks' double loss to the Cards, 3-0, and 4-3. Finch Hitters Hit The Jints' bill Lohrman had his 10th victory practically in his pocket when the Reds unleashed a four-hit, ninth-inning attack that went like this: Pinch hitter Lew Riggs doubled and scored Linus Frey's single. Frey advanc ed on Ival Goodman's double and they both rode home on Frank McCormick's long single to left. The victory thus went to Junior Thompson his 12th of the cam paign. After the Dodgers bowed to Clyde Shoun's six hit pitching in the first game at St. Louis, Hugh Casey came apart at the seams and cost them the second game. The nightcap was tied at 3-all, thanks to a pair of Dodger homers by Pete Coscara.rt and Dolph Camilli and there was one out in the Cards' half of the eighth. Then Johnny Mize singled, Enos Slaughter walk ed, Joe Orengo made the second out, and then on eight straight balls pinch hitters Lon Padgett and Stu Martin walked to force in the winning run. Claude Passeau racked up his 15th win of the season by pitch ing the Cubs to a 4-0 decision over the Phillies. He gave up only three hits and issued no walks for one of the day's best performances. Dick Lanahan wasn't quite as effective but he hurled the Pirates to a 6-3 decision over the Boston Bees, to end a six-game losing streak, as Deb Garms continued his sensational hitting getting three blows to boost his average for the I last 27 games to .419. Keltner Good at Boston If the Indians want to clinch the American league pennant quickly, they ought to play the rest of their games at Boston s Fenway park where Ken Keltner is usually good j for a batting spree. He had one yesterday in leading the leaders to an 11-6 victory over the Sox. His round tripper with the bases load ed was the lustiest blow in the game that gave Bobby Feller his : il Rainfen L a t AssocUted w " nme run !, C 1 '5 games aheaT Coast league field tM Pinch-Hitter I eighth taniny Uie champfon RainSj hind to beat th.i. IN 'ma to beat their J 1 r. Lo, a" 1 ? reak and let PiffiSLl rett run hi leL.'.T,1 total to 21 """111 The Angel, clung iL same grin on hL ever, because th, ikTJ Oakland Acorn, JW way toaSMdetaTiHCj of HollywocKi. !,H San Diesn .L . battle for fou the Caboose club, PorLl " """'yHebertaW Beavers seven hit. H Sacramento. iyir- the Padres fr apla spasrm nl,.,.r '"I featlirn ...ilk ,l. . l San Francisco SeaL, v3 ooener 12 to 0 and dtm3 linale 3 to 1. The seals, alwa,, M 'n one mninj of a, game played with mi .i. Not until one Senator hXJ edout was It discovered thud ,c "w MOMer wild the clubhouse. The Sacs cot 19 w. J oiuiz wnue me Seals m mitting five errors. Th i apparent reason the Bj.r., buckled down to errortasbJ me soon second pat 4 Frankie Dasso held the Sd iu mx saieues. 22nd victory, thougbhe dtU isn. The Yanks climbed lulu. J place tie with the Chiopl Sox by earning a dojbkJ victory over the Detroit Tita ana i-i. uia uiarler md young Ernie Bonham hmUil of very good games. ThitW Tigers i'.i games backolU dians. The White Sox had Irabk the Athletics, winning ttf game 6-1 with a five-run iu the ninth but losing the staid in the tenth when WaOj stole home with the wumt The Browns' Elden Aute marined the Senators to iH feat the fifth straight seta Washington. . The dairy cow is acmSW1 leading all other animals al ing the most efficient list flt it consumes. PABST BEER Case o, Jjlflf 12 Cam ' J Ed's Wine Dt?( Openls.B-K'iV
