page 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:
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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,
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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!.
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scouts 100 000 0 1 S 6
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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
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OLD MANAGER DIES
BURBANK, Cel., July 21 J,RV
Joe Egan, 77, who managed heavy
weight Champion Jim Jeffries and
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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!
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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
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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.
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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.
Grover Wilson, manager of the
club, announced that Informal
shoots will be held everv Tues
day for novice and beginner trap
shooters. Shooting starts at 7 p.m.
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