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THE REGISTER. GUARD, EUGENE, OREGON Page Fourteen. - k a Kansas City Monarchs, Eugene Athletics Vie at jtadiumMonj ' . .. mm m . II mm World Negro Champs Favored Manager Dick Bishop To Show Revamped Lineup The Kansas City Monarchs, world champion negro baseball club that meets the Eugene Ath letics re-vamped State league club at the Civic Stadium field Monday night, has always won its share of games in the Negro American lea gue. But Player-Manager Newt Joseph considers his 1941 club the strongest ever assembled. Joseph who does his share of catching with John Dawson, says, "They're the best bunch of boys I've seen for several years." Manager Dick Bishop of the A's will introduce his new Athletic lineup to the baseball public Mon day night a lineup he promises will be the strongest since early in the season. Starting time of the game will be 8:30 p. m. Manages Cab Company, Tooo Until a couple of years ago Manager Joseph played third base for the Monarchs, and for a dozen or more seasons was recognized as the outstanding hot-corner guardian in the Negro American league, as well as in baseball. But Joseph doesn't confine his liveli hood to baseball alone. He is sole owner of the Monarch Cab company in Kansas City, Mo., and employs at least a dozen cab drivers. But baseball is his first love, and each summer finds Jos eph reporting to the officials of the club, eager for the season to start. In addition to his executive duties of his cab company, Joseph some times takes his turn behind the wheel of a cab. Baseball fans everywhere have enjoyed his an tics. Manager Joseph's hurling staff is composed of Booker T. McDan iels, John Hill, Bob Dean, Hay Thomas and Lefty Mitchell, and they're all equally good pitchers. McDaniels is a big righthander who can fog the ball in there with plenty of zip on it; Hill also re lies on a fast ball; Dean mixes a fast one with plenty of curves; Thomas has an assortment of pitches and Mitchell is the south paw of the corps. He's one of those rare lefties who possesses control something few lefthanders have. In the well-rounded outfield there is Len Young In left; Bill Ford in right; Fred McDaniels, center. voung, a big strapping type player, gets every ounce of power in his home run drives and la the "Babe Ruth" of negro base ball. Fans will enjoy watching ms mighty swings, especially when he connects. iniiera nest in History The infield, too, Is one of the best in the history of the Mon archs. Archie Ware, big and powerful lefthander, is the first Backer; Syl Snead, second base; Bonnie Sorrell, shortstop, and Herb Cyrus, third base. Snead is the comedian on the club, but all the while he is clowning he knows every move the other team is mak ing. Sorrell has been playing the best ball of his career and can go to either side to make hard grounders look easy. He scoops them up and takes advantage of - his powerful arm by tossing out runners with comparative ease. In Crosley field recently, the the Monarchs tackled the Ethiop ian Clowns in a twin bill before 10,000 fans. The two teams split even. The Monarchs were so im pressive that Warren Giles, gen- . eral-manager of the Reds, re quested the officials of the team ; to bring them back to Cincinnati for a return engagement. Every where the Monarchs play, they prove to be popular, because they play the game hard and clean, giv ing fans some real entertainment. While the Athletics are given only an outside chance for vic tory, Bishop's new combination promises to give an excellent ac count of itself. Jo-Jo Spencer, work-horse hurl- er, will be on the mound with Ray Cranston catching. Bishop, still suffering a shoulder injury, will hold down the initial sack and move big Nig Mebesius to short, Barney Koch, recovered from a recent knee injury, will be at sec ond, and Bill Hamel will hold down the third-base position. Don Kirsch, the sure-hitting University of Oregon infielder, will be in center field. The other two outfielders will be selected from Lloyd Mattison, Howard Robertson and Charlie DeAutie- mont. . Eugene Golfers To Vie In Bend Match Sunday Ed SicRmund will captain . favored Eugene Country club team in a dual match against the Bend Country club at Bend Sun day. The Willamette Valley Golf ' association champions will be favored to repeat the victory registered here earlier in the season, A 25-man team is e pected to make the jaunt. : Laurelwood Golfers To Vie At Roseburg Sunday A 14-mnn golf team, led by 1 Clarence Sutton, will carry the ..torch for Eugene's Laurelwood course in a dual match at Rose , burg Sunday. The Laurelwood team will be meeting the Rose ; burg Country club contingent in . the first of a home-and-home genes, r1;- v M FRANK KOVACS comes to net and defies opponent to ace him. Humorous Hungarian takes it out on racquet when touch goes wrong, then expresses boredom with whole thing. Kovacs Could Win National Net Singles If Serious; Clowning Relieves Tension NEA Service Staff Correspondent NEW YORK All Francis Louis Kovacs II has to do to win the national singles championship, they say, is pay strict attention to business. Frank Kovacs has "settled down" to be funnier than ever. The 6-foot, ZVt inch, 180-pound bronzed Hungarian out of Oak land, Calif., still insists upon play ing tennis for the sport of it. His explanation is that he tightens up when deathly serious. Byrom-Kneeland Golf Meet Ends Thursday The Byrom & Kneeland sweep stakes, the "clothes-horse" 72- hole medal-play golf tournament, will be concluded Thursday after noon at the Eugene Country club where members will stage their second stage party of the season. Don Leal is the current leader with an aggregate 212 for 54 holes m the handicap event. He has posted scores of 72, 89 and 71. Al Fries and Sam Tyler are second, four strokes off the pace with 216's. Fries' scores have been 79, 71 and 66; Tyler has 80, 70 and 66. Lewis Roadman, winner of the first 18 holes of the event, Is fourth with 217, by virtue of scores of 71, 77 and 69. The four golfers, along with a dozen or more still in the run ning, will compete for a Palm Beach suit, offered the player posting the lowest net 72-hole score. There will be many other attractive prizes for low scores and other golfing feats In the final 18 holes of play. A dinner will be served at the Club house following the golf play. Umpqua Archery Club Shifts Shoot From July 75 fo July 20 L. L. "Flight" Daily of Eugene, official of the southern Oregon archery association, announced here Saturday that the scheduled "six gold" invitational archery meet scheduled for Umpqua, Ore., has been shifted from July 15 to July 20. The tournament will be an of ficial event and outstanding scores will be recognized by the national association. Competition will in clude clout shoots for both men and women, double American round for men, and double Co lumbis for women. The Umpqua Archery club will act as host for the meet. Kovacs' delightful antics have made him the most magnetic at traction in the game, so he re mains a headache and a lifesaver to the staid officials of the United States Lawn Tennis association. Kovacs' antics so annoyed the brass hats in the nationals at Forest Hills last summer that in an early round they had the tall Callfornian and his opponent play on an obscure court. But Kovacs' crowd appeal is such that the out-of-the-way court quickly became the main one. Kovacs' clowning so upset Joe Hunt in the quarter-finals that the midshipman sat down on the court So Kovacs found a nice, shady spot, and flopped down, too. There they were on a sit down strike. Kovacs chats with spectators, linesmen and ball boys. He laughs at the man In the chair and linesmen when they make mistakes that go against him, and in such a way rouses Heath, Williams Slump In Hitting NEW YORK, July 12. VP) A sharp slump by Jeff Heath of the Cleveland Indians, continued climbing by Roy Cullenbine of the St. Louis Browns and the Yankees Joe DiMaggio, and a descent from the "stratosphere" by Ted Wil liams of the Boston Red Sox mark ed the American league batting race this week. Pete Reiser of Brooklyn and Johnny Mize of St. Louis contin ued to slug it out in the National. Williams, stopped cold by the Detroit Tigers' Buck Newsom yes terday, finally dropped below .400, though only to .398. Biggest turn' ble was taken by Heath, who skidded from .380 to .366, yielding second place to Cullenbine and further endangered by having Di Maggio and Cecil Travis of the Washington Senators only a point acK ot him. Cullenbine climbed three points from .368 to .371. Biggest increase among the leaders, though, was DIMaggio's. The Yankee ace, run. ning his hitting streak to 50 straight games, bagged 12 safeties in live contests to zoom from .348 to .365. Reiser of the Dodgers and Slaughter of the Cardinals each slumped a bit. A week ago it took a fourth decimal to SDlit them. with Reiser at .3552 and Slaughter at .jaoo. As of yesterday s games, it was Reiser still out front at .351 and the Cardinal first baseman second at .349. National Public Links Golf Meet Opens at Spokane Monday By COLLIE SMALL United Press Staff Correspondent SPOKANE, Wash., July 12. (U.R) The cream of eolfdom's nav- as-you-play fraternity the public links players swarmed over the rugged, twisting Indian Canyon course today, shooting their prec ious practice rounds for the Na tional amateur public links tourn ament starting Monday. From every part of the United States and Hawaii, 192 survivors of an original record-breaking field of 2,824 would-be qualifiers lev elled their sights for the work ing man's shot at golf fame and the Standish cup. In addition, three-man teams from 29 cities prepared to battle for the inter city championship currently held by San Francisco. A dearth of past-performance statistics threw the favorite's man tle over the shoulders of five ex-champions Charles Ferrcra, two-time winner from San Fran cisco; Andrew Szwedko. Pitts burgh; Al Leach, Cleveland; David j Mitchell, Atlanta, Ga.; and Rob ert Clark, last year's titlist from at. Haul, Minn. The number-one darkhorse an peared to be Lanky Walter Tebaldi of Alameda, Cal., who fashioned a sizzling five-under-par 67 today while most of the other entrants were toiling under a hot sun for scores generally in the middle sev enties. The experts were remem. bering the long-hitting Tebaldi's amazing round in California two weeks ago when he had 17 straight puns ior Diraics. Players and practice scores both attested to the difficulty of the hilly course, carved from a bluff perched high above the Spokane river. Indian Canyon's rolling, terraced greens, criticized earlier in the week for failure to hold pucn shots, were takins the "hite' today, and the rest of the fi.291- yard course appeared in excellent snape. On Monday, the first of the two 18-hole ciualifvinff rounds will he played with match plav starting Wednesday. Players predicted a score of 150 or better would be neeaea to qualify, while the club nouse golfers were betting 155 their ire. He guffaws when rivals become put out at officials or themselves. He comes to the net and defies an adversary to ace him. He pats himself on the back when he gets off a good shot and often hits the ball behind his back. He stops matches to have a soft drink, often consumes three or four bottles of it in a match. A natural comedian and mimic. a wrestler s number is included in his repertoire. Once when he found long trous ers too warm, he had the ball boy cut them off above the knees. During the University of Miami tournament last winter, he vowed he wouldn't shave until he won the national title. He had a three weeks' growth, had commenced to look like a member of the House of David, when, as he explained, he fell asleep in a barber's chair. In east-west matches a year ago, a prominent money man be hind them ankled into the club house and asked: "Anything I can do for you?" "Yeah," yeahed Kovacs, "get me $25." The moneyed man did. Kovacs, who has beaten Bobby Riggs five times and Don Mc Neill twice this year, the latter without losing a set, started the winter tour after working on his volleying net game and ground strokes. He has an improved forehand, has shortened the backswing and lengthened the follow through. He takes the ball a bit earlier. He hits very hard from either side. It is not easy to get Kovacs out of position with a drop shot. Where other sluggers experience difficulty with soft retrievers such as Riggs and Bitsy Grant, Frothy Frank shellacks them. He is a powerhouse who com bines variety with speed. If Kovacs maintains his present gait and game, and doesn't let his exuberance get the best of him, he could parade through the major tournaments leading up to and win the national singles, Aug. 30-Sept. 6. The only thing predictable about the delightful Frank Ko vacs, however, is that he'll have a good time doing whatever he does. Giusfina, Lewis Battle Sunday ClO-Vaughn, Veneta-" Springfield Tilts Slated The leading Glustina Red Sox and Spring-Ply C. I. O. teams will be favored to retain their top positions in the Cascade league Sunday when tnree contests win be on deck. Ohistina. undefeated first-half league titlist, will travel to Swim mers' Delight to meet a dangerous Lewis Lumber nine. Spring-Ply invades Vauehn to meet an equally potent Vaughn club, still a pennant contender. The lowly Veneta and Spring field Townies will meet at Spring field in the other league test. Sweet Home will be idle. The Red Sox are almost cer tain to throw Frank Kendall at the Lewis Lumbermen with a supporting "cast" that includes the league's two top, hitters- Outfielders Ed Wellnitz and How ard Robertson. The Lumbermen will have Bud Mauney on the mound and a slugger who ranks among the leaders in the outfield Erwln Barnum. Walt Peerson will be on the mound for CIO, a team that boasts a flock of heavy sluggers in Fisher, White and Pavlich besides Peerson who is hitting a neat .350, Vaughn has three good pitchers in Howard Fox, Farthing and Rankin and heavy hitters in Holland. Fox and Hartman. Johnson will be on the mound for the Springfield Townies with Cady the likely veneta nuner. Veneta's top hitters are Huston and Lietzman with McKibben and Voss the leading Springfield slug gers. All games are scheduled to start at 2:15 p. m. Bushman and Moore Golf Title Favorites Mrs. John Bushman, a low handicapper, and Mrs. Grace Moore, playing with a 28-stroke handicap, loom as the 6dds-on fav orites to battle it out for the hand some Spreckels trophy when wo men members of the Eugene Coun try club vie Monday in the third 18-hole test of the 72-hole handi cap medal tournament. Finals will be played Wednesday. Mrs. Bushman, who was only four strokes over ladies' par of 79 with an 83 Friday holds an ag gregate total of 159 at the halfway mark. But Mrs. Moore, with a net 74 Friday, moved three strokes into the lead with an aggregate 156. Mrs. Carl Phetteplace holds down third place in the tourney with a total of 165, nine strokes off the lead. Fifteen golfers will vie In third round matches Monday, the pair ings as follow: Mrs. Dennis Abel and Mrs. David B. Evans. Mrs. Joseph Koke and Mrs. Moore. Mrs. A. W. Stien and Mrs. Ed Siegmund. Mrs. Phette place and Mrs. S. C. Endicott. Mrs. Carl Field, Mrs. Max Rietman and Mrs. Lewis Roadman. Mrs. Bush man and Mrs. Wendell Wood. Mrs. Belden Babb and Mrs. L. B. Sig wart. Donkey Softball Will Return Here In August After an absence of several years, donkey Softball will return to Eugene next month, according to an announcement made Satur day by Burton Boroughs, man ager of the Eugene Softball league. A new traveling troupe from California, featuring many new angles to the game, will appear here at Civic Stadium field Sun day, ' August 10, and Monday August 11. Walls Wins Softball Slugi Title; Playoff Starts WedW Th. Diamond "A" Canners will be favored to annex the Shaughn essy playoff title of the Eugene softball league mis ween. the four teams compete In a "sudden death" single-eleminatlon tourney. The playoff has no nearing an the city champtonsmp, aireaoy won by the Canners, or the en trance in the proposed i-oos-Douglas-Lane district playoff. A special trophy will be presented the winner of Friday night's championship game. Preliminaries will be played COMER Fresh out of the Uni versity of Michigan where he was a sensational batting star, Dick Wakefield (above), 20, has signed with the Detroit Tigers for a re ported bonus of $40,000. He's a promising candidate for the Tiger outfield. ' FRITZIE ZIVIC. welterweight champion, receives congratulations from e ght-year-old son, Freddie, who saw his father Bunch Al Davis Into Ubmlulnit In l.nlh ...-A . H.1. nm J- 'rSXX - "XM" lvhmu Rt juy, WVIMlHi, , 'Billies at Bend Sunday The second-half State league pennant race will be resumed on two fronts Sunday with the Hills Creek Hillbillies traveling to Bend and Toledo invading southern Ore gon seeking its first league vic tory in a game against Medford's strong title contenders. Eugene, scheduled to make a home appearance against Albany, has postponed league action until the following week in preparing for Monday's game here against the Kansas City Monarchs. Sunday will be the first meeting between the Hillbillies and the Bend Elks. A first-half league game at Swimmers' Delight was rained out and last year the two teams split even in a four-game series. Bend winning two at home and the 'Billies taking two on their home diamond. Bun Kelsay, veteran southpaw, will start on the mound for HIUs Creek with Brother Grover Kel say catching. The remainder of the lineup is expected to find Earle Bleile on first. Frank Plouff at second, Len Stelzer at short, and Manager Monty Dean at third. The outfielders will likely be Homer and Howard Parks and Jack Pow ers. Bend will have a strong lineup that includes Johnny Bubalo at first and Jack Gordon at third. The pitchers, well worked in the semi pro tournament at Albany and S1I verton last week, may be softened enough to provide the Hillbillies better than the usual even chance in the thin-air country. Turpin is expectea to De on the mound. ClO-Vaughn Game Protest Allowed The executive board of the Cas cade baseball league. meetin Fri. day night at the home of President Art McChesney of Springfield, or dered the ClO-Vaughn first-half league game replayed. CIO won the contest, June 26 at Civic Stad ium neia, u-io and Vaughn pro. tested several questionable ieel sions. The league officials also accent. ed the resignation of Umpire Ray Weiss and moved E. E. Ford, re serve umpire, into the regular scneauie. Tiny Hall Slated For J. C. Position ; SALINAS, Cal., July 12 M" A canvass of school board mem bers disclosed today that Marion "Tinv" Hall, ousted coach of Sal inas Union High school, will be named new coach of Salinas Jun ior colleee to succeed Lloyd "Bud" Winter, who was signed last week as head track coach oi an jose State college. Hall's high school contract was not renewed this year, assertedly for "failing to co-operate" with his superiors, and students staged a three-day strike in his Denan. During the past school year Coach Hall developed championship teams in football, basketball and track. Although the high school board of trustees has jurisdiction over junior college administration, elec tion of two new members since Hall's ouster has changed the sit uation so that three of the five trustees favor the former Univer sity of Oregon grid star and Springfield high coach for the new post, the unofficial canvass revealed. The old school board declined to renew his high school contract by a 4-1 vote. Hall has been recommended for the junior college post by Richard J. Werner, J. C. president. Troeh's Display Old Rifles And Pistols One of the most interesting firearms exhibition ever to be shown here is on display in the windows of the Troeh sporting goods store. Besides rifles, pistols, powder horns and bullets of every de. scription, the display also features antique clothing, scrap books (one belonging to Captain Robert Wil liams), tools, game traps and even a blanket used by a Civil War soldierj From a sportsman's angle the firearms display is far and away the most interesting. Included are bootleg pistols, a Colt dragoon, a double-barrel coach pistol, a pistol with four and another with five barrels. There are also a series of pistols fore-runners to the Luger. Among the rifles is a 127-year-old blunderbuss with a 26-Inch brass barrel, believed to be the only one in the United States; a 90-year-old target rifle with a barrel the size of a miniature cannon and weighing 26 pounds. Among the other odds and ends Is a Japanese match-lock rifle, a rme usea Dy maian Scout C. Rossman, and a 50 calibre flint lock boremg machine that- came around the Horn in 1837 be longing to L. J. Birch Chinese beheading knives, slightly out of place among the relics displayed in connection with me Oregon Trail pageant, also shown. DISTRIBUTED POWER DETROIT W Buck Freeman hit 20 doubles, 26 triples and 25 homers in 1899 to set a record that has never been matched for near-equal distribution of extra base hits. Wednesday with DlJ meeting C. I. 0. m1 opening game at , jgl rick's Dancer. ... l tangle in the right!1,! nesday games jh .1 lumnium Com..!.". admission pries. vrL' calls for the title H with the two loj'd consolation game game of the doubkO Hamer, official show that Wayne bKJ of the circuit. The outfielder finish, 3 playing in all six leatnJ an nvAfsffA f.t Bin ..A the most hits. 11. ... Catcher Doc Taylor. id n.m. ... " '?1 f lajcio lUllUWi Flayer. Team Walls, Diamond "A" Kenney, CIO Chrlstenaen, C. Col B. Wilson, Dla. "A" C. Wilson. CIO Hale, Merrick's D. Taylor. Diamond Russell. Diamond A. Plath, Merrick Chrlstensen. Dia. "A Berfcey, CIO Gardner. Merrlck'c P. Taylor, Dla. "A" Edwards, Coca-Cola Brlsa-s. CIO DeAutremont, Dia. "A" 5 j icia, vuva-om Mitchell. Coca-Cola Trunnell, Merrlck'a Simmons, Merrick's Mlckelion, CIO J. Dunn, Diamond Albino, CIO Aysrs. cio McClellen, C. Cola M. Dunn, Merrick's Sutton, Coca-Cola Johnson. Coca-Cola Adams, Diamond Nikkei. CIO Jaeobaon, CIO) Baokman. CIO Toman, Diamond "A" Marshall, Coca-Cola Harttell, Merrick's Carlson, CIO J. Jones, Merrick's Foot, CIO H. Jones, Merrick's Manstll, Merrick's Mattison, Diamond "A Biatcniy, Merrick's Sullivan, Coca-Cola Olson. Coca-Cola MUly, Coca-Cola Akers, Coca-Cola Norton, Coca-Cola Button, Coca-Cola Goggln, Merrick's Saunders, CIO Holmes, CIO Balloting Started All-Star Grid Conl CHICAGO, July 1W season for all-star foottq intf opened today wlEl nouncement that fans it until July 29 to name 1 J team to oppose ctuctra prochampions, in the tin ity game at Soldier riou The r.hicatfo Tribune.! the game, is conducting & wide poll with the cocw 260 newspapers ananwi in 44 states and the Dim lumbla. Lipscomb Gets Another Chance in l itle Match with McEuin The Pacific coast lloM-V... weight title will again be at stake Thursday night at the fairgrounds arena when Billy McEuin defends his championship against Jack Lipscomb. It was with more than the usual wrestler-confidence that McEuin accepted the match under any conditions. The Texan has twice been the victim of the Hoosier's il legal tactics and last Thursday night the Eugene wrestling com mission tied up Lipscomb's purse when it was discovered he was wearing a steel plate in one shoe. Herb Parks, who became angry because Lipscomb was given a title match despite a contract call ing for the Canadian to meet Mc Euin, was the one who revealed Lipscomb's secret. But after re moving Lipscomb's shoe in the ring last week and tossing the Iron plate to the mat, Parks left Eugene for his home in Canada. Lipscomb will be held under1 strict rules by the commission and will receive hli "back pay" onlv under the condition that he con-i ducts himself In a satisfactory manner. Rough tactics will not be barred, but Lipscom's activities Will be def n tel r...i...J 1 8 U "A11 1 Kut Jj to get feat guy. & on i i S 1 1 1 1 I II 1 1 s a i ID I I ( I I 1 I S 11 I n I u i i I li I I ii I ii ( ii B I I "A" 5 I 1 4 I I I there. That's all I ask, title or no title," McEuin said Saturday. Owen plans a supporting card equally as entertaining as last weeks' colorful program. The re mamder of the matches will be an nounced later in the week. ARROW SHIRTS wJS?. Man' Shop BYROM & KNEELAND w a. i WANTED LOANS Construction Loans Remodeling Loans Purchase Loans Eugene's FIRST FEDERAU SAVINGS & LOAN ASSN. 248 Miner BUIg. Phone 1217 FLORSHI SHOES A1cmmiiii flyteH $ 95 u.a cu, suit h1 $Q45 $Q ar an v Don't mlis ht helm sole innuwj .jj. i.ni4i dn but reduction Jj Flonhelm quollfy-"! SHOES Also oa "Krf $4.95 and 9
