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Newspaper Page Textpage II, Register-Guard, Eugene, Ore., Wed., July M, 1948 "They Treated Us Like Preppers" US Team Miffed at Care By LEO H. PETEKSEN SOUTHAMPTON, Eng., July JI-jCU.R) Two hundred and six ty member! of the United States Olympic team, tome of them a mite annoyed by the strict ship board discipline of the last week, were at last on the soli of Eng land Wednesday. Tho group, comprising the bulk of the American squad for the games that start July 29, debarked from the S. S. America Wednesday morning at 7 a. m after a smooth and somewhat dull six-and-a-half day voyage from New York. The America arrived In port an hour before midnight Tues day night, an hour ahead of schedule, but the athletes waited unto this morning before marching down the gangplanks Into buses and a special train that took them to training camps near London. Their morale gen erally was good, but slightly low as a result of what some members called "too strict disci pline." While aboard the America, Olympic officials "leaned back ward" to avoid any incident such as marred the 1938 crossing to the games at Berlin. Chaperones followed the wo men team members and walked the decks nightly. All the ath letes had to be In their state rooms by 10 p. m. each night. One battle-scarred war vet eran commented bitterly, "they treated us like prep school kids." The athletes also thought that the preliminary training pro gram was a little too stiff, which may have inspired Track Coaoh Dean Cromwell's decree that nothing but limbering up would be done for the first two days ashore. "If I see anyone putting on speed, 111 get a fungo bat and take care of them for ft," said Cromwell. Avery Brundage, president of the U. 8. Olympio Committee, repeated his shipboard state ment that this was his last year as head of the committee, a non paying post which he said cost him "a conservative $20,000 each year." The Americans drew a round of applause when they stepped down the gangplank attired in their natty blue and gray uni forms with the seal of the United States on their hats. HIGHGLIMBER By DICK 8 TRITE Honeymoonln' Art Lltchraan has apparently been getting in some publicity licks In the Los Angeles area while spending most of the time with his Liz on the beach and in the music spots . . . xne Ore gon publicity chief takes time out to write a note, reporting that the writers in southern California are still waiting to be convinced that the Webfoots will have a great football team. They believe Ore gon has a good club coming, but not sold the whole way ... By the Urns Oregon reaches Los Angeles (playing UCLA the night of Nov ember 12 at the Coliseum) it will be definitely known whether or not Jim Aiken has a title contender. Oregon will have played Santa Barbara, Stanford, Michigan, Idaho, USC (In Portland), WSU, St. Mary's and Washington in that order. There has been no chance In the travel orders for the Webfoots on the trip to Ann Arbor, despite rumors that have the Webfoots flying from Palo Alto to Ann Arbor and returning by train to Moscow for the Idaho game. Oreeon will travel to Palo Alto bv train, arriving in time for a Frl day workout. The Webfoots leave Palo Alto Saturday night and will remain on the campus until Thursday morning, flying to Ann Arbor and arriving there Thursday night, In time for a Friday prac tice .... The squad files back to augene sunaay, arriving nere sun dav nlEht and will remain here until Thursday when the sciuad en trains for Moscow, working out there Friday and remaining on the train that night. There Is a Cascade League ruling that prohibits a player changing from one club to another after the start of second-half play and Bow we understand that at least two players who have been out of ac tion Tor well over a month are Interested in signing with other clubs .... It is rumored that Ranny Smith, who hit .417 while playing short tor Hills Creek In the first four games of the season, is being sought by the Snellstrom Braves .... Bill Moye, veteran Albany infielder who has played for the Miller Lumbermen for several years, is in terested In returning to league action .... The State League season Is scheduled to close next Sunday .... The league rule wasn't designed for cases like the above, but it will require action by the board of directors to permit fellows like Smith and Moye to Join other clubs for the remainder of the season .... The board may take the stand that both players had the opportunity to make the ohange before the start of the second half. Looks Ilka Joe Gordon gave Pat Seerey some good tips on home-run hlMJnr before the ex-Cleveland outfielder joined the Chicago White Sox .... Those four homers In one game Sunday would indicate that .... Seerey has always been a long hitter, but his fault has been that hi fans more often than he connects .... As for Joe, he Is far and away ahead of his record for this time last season. The value of a slugger can be measured by the number of runs batted in, and Joe now has 75 as compared to 34 at this time lut vnr He has 18 homers as eomnared to 15 this time last year. and his batting average is .261 as compared to .240 at this time last year .... In his last 12 games Joe has nit at a .' cup wnue oat tins in IS runs .... Jim Aiken will soon leave for the east and will attend the summer training oamp of the Cleveland Browns at Bowling Oreen, Ohio, at the special invitation of coaca raui grown. Miller Juniors Top Huskies SPRINGFIELD, July SI The Springfield Junior Legion defeated Sweet Home, 8-4 in an eight-inning tilt here Tuesday night. The win put Springfield into a tie with Eugene for third place in the district standings, having a ehance to surpass the Eugene team with one more game yet to play. Sweet Home spotted Springfield a run lead in the third then came baok with a four run outburst in the fourth. Springfield kept plug ling away till they had it tied up t the end of seventh. Sweet Home loaded the bases In the eighth, but Pitcher Ted John ton bore down and struck out three Huskies In a row to end the threat In Springfield's half of the Inning, Lyman walked, stole sec end, and scored on Felkner's dou ble. Felkner scored the game-winning run on Lefty Martin's hit. Score: ana WMt Roma . . 000 400 004 S 3 prtnBfleld 001 110 1J S Banncnt and Hall! Johnson and Black-mon. Drain Juniors fo Host Eugene Legion DRAIN, July 21 Coach Tom my Cox's Drain baseball Juniors have scheduled a week of games, leading off Wednesday night against Eugene Jr. Legion base ball team, while Friday night they host a visiting nine from Reeds port. Saturday nlht Roseburg meets the local dtamondeera and Sunday Albany's Cummlng's Movers clash with Drain in connection with the cities dedication of their new war memorial athletic grounds. ' Baseball Miller's, HC Meet Tonight Manager Don Klrsch's high riding Miller Lumbermen, rated in some circles as the best semi-pro baseball club ever assembled in Oregon, can take a strangle hold on the second-half Cascade League pennant this week if their pitching holds up and their batting con tinues at the present potent pace. The Lumbermen meet the al ways-dangerous Hills Creek Bil lies at Civic Stadium Wednesday, starting at 8:15 p.m., and will clash with the league - leading Snell strom Brives Friday night. Two triumphs would boost the Lunv bermen into undisputed league lead. Whitey Lokan, who is expected to be Manager Norv Llbby's mouna cnoice, will be faced with a stern assignment The last time he faced "murders' row" he was shelled out In 4 innings as the Lumbermen won 8-3. Libby may aeciae on uuke Windsor, who dropped a one-run heartbreaker to the Braves Sunday. Lokan has a z-i record and Windsor's is 8-4, Pitching for the Lumbermen is almost as undecided, although either Frank Dlerickx, with a 1-1 record, or Bud Brewer, with a 4-0 marK, are certain to atari. One wiu Da neia over for the game against ine Braves Friday. The Lumbermen boast the league-leading batter in Third baseman Barney Koch, who is hit ung .ao. Bin camey Is hitting uonnny uuDaio .410, Al Co. hen .868, Bill Hamel .367, Eddie Adamg .351, and Hal Zurchar .303. Thlrdbaseman Don Kimball is the leading Billy hitter with a .364 mark. Homer Parks at .816 and Kay Stratton at .804 are the only other "800" hitters, although Grover Kelsay, alternate catcher and utility infielder, is batting .000. Probable starting lineups follow: BILLS ORIBK Mlckalson, ri Parks, If Barlla, 1 Roelandt. e Kimball, a Fajsatt, I Senators Top Tribe To Reduce AL Lead (ASSOCIATED PRESS) The Brooklyn Dodgers are mak ing the pennant talk of their Pres ident, Branch Rickey, and their new manager, Bjurt Shotton, sound like something more than idle chatter. In last place a little more than two weeks ago and apparently hopelessly out of the National League pennant race, the revived Dodgers Wednesday are right back in the thick of the pennant fight, trailing only the front-running Boston Braves. Barney Hurls Shutout Their 5-0 victory over the Cubs in Chicago yesterday together with Boston's 9-6 loss to the Reds In Cincinnati advanced the Brooks to within six and a half games of the Braves. ' The Pittsburgh Pirates virtually share second place with Brooklyn, but the Dodgers possess a .0004 of a percentage point lead over the Bucs. Brooklyn has won 41 and lost 38 for .5189 while the Pirates have won 42 and lost 39 for .5185. Rex Barney, the strong-armed righthander, pitched the first shut out of his major league career in blanking the Cubs with seven hits. The joy of Brooklyn's victory was dampened somewhat by an injury to Centerfielder Carl Fur- illo in batting practice. Furlllo's nose was broken when he was hit by a line drive from the bat of Dowdy, jOl 'lean, HILLEB't i. B. Kooh ss, Cohen U, Carney 1. Bubalo c, Adams rf, Hamel of, Zurchar 9, W. Klrsoh p, Blerlckx """ ; " 1 fc if 1 ' , IBen White, 74, only four-time winner of the rich Hamblo tooian Stake, hopes to make it ive e uooa Time Track, Go- , w. i., Aug. 11, with Ade- iianover, owned bv T. J. NATIONAL W Boston . AO Brooklyn -. 41 Pittsburgh 41 St. Louis i 4 New York 40 Philadelphia 40 Cincinnati $0 Chicago SS AMERICAN W Cleveland - Bo Philadelphia B3 New York 47 Boston 40 Detroit , 41 Washington . 80 St. Louis 10 Chicago IT COAST W Oakland AS 04 m 53 San Diego San Francisco Los Anseles Seattle Hollywood - Portland - Sacramento WTL Tacoma Bremerton - Victoria Vancouver . Spokane - saiem W . M . 83 . 40 L S4 3D 90 h 3S as 41 4T SI S3 L 40 SI 00 01 IT 06 04 as L se 40 43 43 40 04 Pel. .m .916 .016 .BIS .906 .471 .400 .413 Pet. .017 .900 .973 .001 .900 .434 .903 .138 Pel. .780 .807 .994 .477 .477 .438 .410 .383 Pel .909 .870 .833 .117 .810 .443 .443 JOS 18 Walks Give B-K 9-4 Softball Win SPRINGFIELD. Julv Jl Booth-Kelly scored seven runs on 18 walks and four errors and no hits in the first three innings here Tuesday night to register a 9-4 Softball league victory over VFW. Wendy King's homer in the seventh was the first Booth-Kelly blow. Lorres Fountain's homer paced Arnold-Powell to a 9-4 viotory over Thurston, and the Methodists blasted out an 11-1 victory over the Scouts In other league tilts. Scores: Bojth-Keuy 141 goo JS J 4 w"" 10 OUU 14 Popp and Larson: Sedros. Rev in mh dling. Nordling. Thurston 000 031 0-5 7 3 Amold-Powell 014 013 x 0 A a McCready and Chase; D. Scrogglna, N. Scrogglna (91 and Reynold!. a h scouts 100 000 0 1 S 6 1 U l " x ,! 14 0 r.oicuer mo JvenoncKi joranger and Long. Brooklyn Moves Up t o Second Place in Win Over Cubsr Reds Beat Bucs Millers' Dierickx Leads Cascade Loop in Pitching Bud "Coekv" Brewer, former 20-eame winner for Salem in the WIL, continues to dominate pitchers in the Cascade League with four wins against no losses and an enviable earned-run average of 1.56. Frank Dierickx, a mound mate of Brewer's with the Miller Lumber men, lacks only an Inning and a fraction In figuring for the league leading pitcher who is required to have the lowest earned-run aver age among hurlers who have worked at least one quarter of his team's total innings. Dierickx has an average of 1.29, but has worked only 21 Innings. Still another Lumberman, Lefty DeWayne Johnson, is second to Brewer in the win-loss column, with two victories against no defeats. Stu Fredrlcks, Snellstrom Braves righthander, has the only other per fect record with a victory in his only start and a zero earned-run average. Bill Hanauska of the Braves holds most of the other pitching marks. He has toiled 78 23 innings, with Duke Windsor of Hills Creek second with 61. He also has the most victories with six and the most strike outs with 42. His strikeout average of 4.8 per game trails Whitey Lo kan of Hills Creek with 8.3, Dierickx with 7.3, and Johnson witn o.o. Cliff "Lefty" Mortensen of the Giustina Indians has allowed the most walks, 23 for 43 1.3 Innings. Records of pitchers with decisions still regular members of the va rious mound staffs follow: Additional Sports ON PAGE is Coach Ray Blades. He Is expected to be out for about a week. The Pirates crushed the Phil- adelphia Phils, 11-2, In a night game in Pittsburgh. The Pirates clinched the game in the eighth with six runs, three of them com ing on Ed Fitzgerald's first home run of the season. Home runs by Johnny Wyrostek, Ted KluszewskI and Danny Lit- whiler accounted for six Cincin nati runs and gave the Reds a 9-6 victory over the Braves. Bosox Move Up The scheduled game between the Giants and Cardinals in St. Louis was postponed because of rain. The idleness caused the Cards to drop from a three-way tie for second place to fourth. Joe McCarthy's fourth place Boston Red Sox defeated the St, Louis Browns, 8-3, to move with a game of the third place Yankees. The Yankees bowed to Detroit, 2-1, the same score by which Washington knocked off the first place Indians. The cellar-dwelling Chicago White Sox defeated the runner-up Athletics 5-2. The In dians now enjoy a one game bulge over the A's, lead the Yankees by tnree and a half games and the Ked sox By four and a half. Hessell, Kiserfo Fight in Semi-Final Overshadowed by the main event "grudge" between the Phantom and Rufus Jones, but nonetheless Just as sterling a match wiu De the semi-final of this week's wrestling show at the armory Saturday night. Meeting win oe uoraon Hessell and Jack Kiser, a couple of sterling, clean grapplers. Hessell, quite marked from a recent cut during a match, will be locking holds with a Kiser who hag been looking stunningly great 01 recent. The match, in itself, would make a fine main event were it not for the heated Issues involved between the two head butting bullies. Matchmaker Don Owen an- nouncea a special match to eo along with tne card. Meeting will oe i;nster Hayes, Stockton, Cali fornia newcomer, and Scotchman Danno MacDonald. Hayes, let go with an old fashioned slugging bee in his appearance here last week so is apt to make things rough for MacDonald. The match is apt to steal some of the thunder from the headliner. Fredericks. Braves Dierickx, Miller's Brederlcks, Braves Brewer, Miller's Lokan, Billies Windsor, Billies : Johnson, Miller's - ... Mortensen, Indiana Hanauska, Bravea Gay, Indians ;. Reed. Miller's Wright, Indians Esping, Indians a. ip. 1 0 a 31 1 s 8 40 1-8 4 34 3 01 I 81-8 . S 431-3 5 781-3 33 10 8 9 2-3 U Pel. B. 0 1.000 0 .300 10 1.000 0 1.000 8 .007 13 .429 37 1.000 T .330 14 .097 37 .000 11 .900 11 .000 0 .000 19 B. SO. BB.ERA. 4 8 0 0.00 11 1 a 4 6 0 30 30 a 17 31 11 40 J7 0 9 6 9 40 11 33 84 41 IS 39 4 0 17 10 8 8 4 B OLD MANAGER DIES BURBANK, Cel., July 21 J,RV Joe Egan, 77, who managed heavy weight Champion Jim Jeffries and 1 I ! 1 1 18 4 10 10.08 Rickey Calls Shotton A Gent. Likes Braves CHARLESTON, W. Va., July 21 VP) Branch Rickey, president of the Brooklyn Dodgers, describ ed Leo Durocher Wednesday as a "good manager." He said Burt Shotton is a good manager and gentleman." Rickey, in a brief interview here, was reluctant to discuss the circumstances under which Dur ocher left his manager's spot with the Dodgers to take over the helm of the New York Giants with Shotton returning to pilot the club he led to the pennant last year. "It looks like Boston to snare the National League pennant," Rickey conceded. He based the outcome on the Braves big lead at this stage of the race bu said the New York Giants and his own Dodgers were not to be overlooked. Famed Hesitation Pitch Said Illegal WASHINGTON. Julv S1(U.BV Lou Boudreau, manager of the Cleveland Indians, said Wednes day that Npffrn Pitr-ho .Qatl Paige has been forbidden, by the American League to throw his favorite "hesitation pitch." The Washington Senators squawked to League President Will Harridge after facing Paige's tricky delivery In a night game on Monday. Bfudreau said he was notified hv tplOTthnnA Tiid.j. . r uuaj that Harridge declared the pitch Illegal. The delivery uses a "hitch," or momentary rjauas. urhtrth , v. batters off their timing. The Sen ators complained that it consti tuted a balk with men on base. Diamond Dusters JOB GORDON (Cleveland Indians! AB EDI H PO A B 3 0 2 4 1 0 BOBBT DOEBR (Boston Bed tea) ' 1 ro A B rORD MULLEN (Portland-Beavers) I AB RBI H PO A I 1 0 0 0 0 A SEASON'S RECORDS j Gordon 283 75 74 .301 160 2t 12 '076 Dperr 301 SO 81 .369 207 297 7 2 Mullen 138 0 35 .173 04 71 6 0O4 Whitman 146 1 8 30 .257 75 1 ? SS! 8 2, . r TcU B H 80 BB 4 4 .900 78 111 40 29 Willie Bean Wins I LOS ANGELES, July 21 flJ.R) ' Twentv-venr-nlrt Willi. n I 204-pound ex-marine, Wednesday! iioiu a respeciea place among California's ranking heavyweights! bv virtue nf til. j i - ----- duhm-iuuhu TKO of Veteran Jerry McSwalnj at mympic Aucutorlum Tuesdays Louis Insists He's Retired NEW YORK, July 21 (W) Joe Louis insisted Wednesday he meant "positively" when he stepped down as heavyweight champion but the ring world buzzed excitedly over reports he may come out of moth balls to defend his title again In September. Nat Fleischer, editor of Ring magazne, said in s copyrighted article the Brown Bomber would meet Light Heavyweight Champion Gus Lesenevich in Yankee Stadium Sept. 22. Fleischer added he came to this conclusion after an Inter view with the tired champion In which Louis told him: "Maybe I should meet Leg nevich. I can beat him. I still will be able to retire unbeaten like Gene Tunney." But in Detroit late Tuesday, caught just as he was finishing a round of golf, Louis drove another spike into the comeback talk. "I don't know where those rumors come from," he said. "I've retired and that's all there is to it." Lesnivich is now in London where he will defend his 175 pound crown against Freddie Mills July 26. Enter your child now In Ken nell Ellis Studios Most Attrac tive Child Contest. Fox Corvallis STAMPEDE World Champlonahlp Cowboys 0 Doable Arena Donble Show JULY 24-25 Corvallii, Oregon 2 Ml. West of Corvallis On Hlway Admission Adults $1.25 Children ... ..... .75 Incl. Tax 40 43 wenstchs 4J Yakima It Ray Folsom Tops Novice Trapshooters Ray rolsom, with strings of 11 and 10 straight and a 21-29, top ped the small field in the iint of a series of novice trapshootlng events at the Eugene Gun Club Tuesday evening. Other scores were Dr. C. D. Donahue 17, Dr. Fosom 17, Phil Tillman IS, Dick Strife 21, Leo Regan 11, Jim Don ahue 20, and Vern Meyer 17. 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