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Newspaper Page Textodgers Gain as Braves Trip Giants Palmer Triumphs I ' mil wfi " ' IHIi , OREGON IN THE ORIENT Coach Bill Borchcr's Ore gon Ducks have moved past the halfway mark in their 21-game tour of seven Far Eastern countries. The Wei foot coach reported the squad was being treated royally, the weather was hot, the interest in the trip was ex tremely high on the part of the fans in the area, and the officials called only four or five fouls per team each game. In the upper left picture, Max Anderson (15) tips the ball to Gary McManus (partially hidden) in a game against the Korean Marines which the Ducks won 54-42. Ken Wegncr (8) starts his break up the court with the tip. Capt. Wegner has the ball on a fast break against Chosen Christian University in Seoul as 7,000 fans jam the bleachers for an afternoon game on an outdoor court. In the lower picture the Ducks are honored by a presen tation from Korean school children at the civic reception at the Seoul city hall which 4,000 people attended. The Ducks are (1 to r) Coach Bill Borcher, Ray Bell, Gary McManus, Orville Lindstrom (behind players), Howard Page, Barney Holland, Kent Dorwin, Bob Hawes, Max Anderson, Jerry Ross, Capt. Wegncr and Mayor Tai Sun Kim of Seoul who greeted the party. lers Win 36-14 JPitrSteelers ."djSBURGH On With quar i Tobin Eote passing bril ls and Fred Cone kicking I teld goals, the Green Bay f rode to an easy 36-14 fover the Pittsburgh Steel " iirday night in a National II League exhibition. is Green Bay's first pre f triumph in three tries, fcclerj have yet to crack fin column after three SPORTS CLASSIFIED UNI COUNTY xvatti HOHt HKWSPAPE SECTION C EUGENE, OREGON, SUNDAY, AUGUST 29, 1954 Eugene LDS Bows The Eugene Latter Day Saints Softball team bowed from the na tional tournament in Salt Lake City by bowing 13-5 to Layton, Utah, in a Friday consolation contest. IGHCLIMBER Padres, Stars, Beavers Win By Dick Strife ke coming school year marks the second of a three- Ir trial period for the grant-in-aid program that is sup- ti provide the University of Oregon with snfficient athletic el to keep the Webfoots in stride with other Pacific Coast knee schools . . i Ically the program is to provide a four-year college edu ho about 100 athletes (70 football, 20 basketball, the bal- fack and baseball). The -larantce to the athletes be payment of all fees, - pbs that would pay as $75 per month. The however, must show ;" k to perform to the best . ability and to keep his -un sufficiently to show t k lite advancement toward nwtual degree. ... f ftt "f such a program is ' J" $90 annually, more than of which must come ' a fund derived from the fens of alumni and friends " i university. Last year the athletic department did not full quota of athletes and the $52,000 sought and col zas sufficient. . . . This year the athletic department has Wed itself to the full quota $55,000 from donors and I from gate receipts. . . . fee is a reserve fund available and this will have to be I into this year because the Oregon grant-in-aid fund is 15,000 short of the budget despite a thorough campaign ted under the leadership of Bill Bowerman, assistant di- f' f athletics. . . . lumber strike has taken some toll, but we understand hist bank accounts are just as fat and solid as ever, but jurface economic conditions are being used by some who Jually "not hurting." . . . After all there is very little corn Ion to donate $50 or $500 to the fund other than the e of purchasing two choice tickets to Oregon athletic jfor each $50 donated I Oregon athletic department will continue its grant-in-aid as planned, including accepting its obligations to invited p. but there is a very definite danger that the plan could Jarded following the 1955-56 school year if the donors provide the $55,000 annually If there is anther $15,000 te next years, the reserve fund will be in such shape that flther plan will have to be devised to finance Oregon's ? "social" standing in the Pacific Coast Conference. Overman, who doubles as Oregon track coach, was re impressed with England's showing in the British Empire t Vancouver, B. C, than any single thing. . . . Four years New Zealand, England was virtually humiliated and the pnien returned home with determination, returning four ter to Vancouver and astounding the others, especially in nd field t England did was to organize track-and-field teams d village teams with the best members advancing to the t teams, in turn joining the district teams and then the na 4 am. . . . There was competition in all classifications with . rather than coaches, hired by the government . . . were also freelance lecturers who would visit the towns "ages and set up clinics that would provide a medium for of his books and movie films. . . .-Bowerman is acquainted e of the lecturers Guy Butler, who has written at least Wmphlets in track, "The Art of Pace Judgment" and J Wooderson." . . . Butler was official photographer for frmpic Games in London in 1948, too. kd Ridings, who is rather close to the New York ts picture in view of hij position with Columbia Univer I (Continued on Page 3 C) COAST LEAGUE W Hollywood .91 san mego i Oakland 76 San Francisco 76 Seattle 70 Sacramento 65 Los Angeles 64 Portland 60 Pet .607 .607 .510 .510 .483 .436 .435 14V4 IVh 18Va 24 V4 25t4 29V4 By UNITED PRESS The Hollywood Stars and San Diego Padres maintained their neck-and-neck race in the Pacific Coast League baseball race as both clubs squeaked to 4-3 vic tories Saturday afternoon. The Stars nipped San Francisco by that score in 10 innings, while the Padres edged Seattle. Los Angeles rapped Oakland 5-2 and Portland trimmed Sacra mento 7-1 in other Saturday games. Chuck Stevens' two-out, three run homer in the ninth enabled the Seals to tie Hollywood. But Jack Phillips hit a two-out single in the 10th, plating Dick Smith who beat out a bunt and was sacrificed to second. Bill Wight hurled his 15th San Diego victory against three de feats, while Harry Elliott blasted a three-run homer to spark the Padre triumph. Elliott's blow extended his bitting streak to 20 games and brought his RBI total to 101. ) Bob Alexander hurled a nifty three-hitter for Portland and col lected two hits himself to bat in two runs. Nanny Fernandez' homer in the eighth ruined his shutout, while Frankie Austin homered for the Beavers. Three home runs, Fred Rich ards' 22nud and 23rd and one by Gene Mauch, provided Los An geles with its decision. R II E Portland 001 015 000 7 13 2 Sacramento 000 000 010 1 3 0 Alexander and Rossi; rieretti, rif rick (6), Schanz (6) and Rltchey. R H F. San Francisco 000 000 003 0 3 9 0 Hollywood 100 020 000 1 i 11 1 Holcomne, Aiuncriet ui, ronce oi and Tornay, Tleslera (9)1; Donoso, Walsh (9), Queen (10) and Malone, Manean 161. R H F. Seattle . 100 000 110 3 2 2 San Diego 003 001 OOx 4 6 2 Byrne and orlelg; wigni ana sana- lcl1- R H E Los Angelea 000 012 002 5 9 1 Oakland 000 000 200 2 6 1 Splcer and Evans; Bamberger, At kins (8) and Ncal. Nashua Romps SARATOGA SPRINGS, N. Y. OfV-Nashua came through with a terrific performance Saturday in the $78,750 Hopeful Stakes to give 80-year-old Sunny Jim Fitz Simmons, jockey Eddie Arcaro and the. Bclair Stud their first victory in the 50th running of the famous race for 2-year-olds, Nashua led all the way and grab bed the decision by a bare neck over Mrs. Russell A. Firestone's Summer Tan. Industrial Play May Substitute For Low Minors ST. LOUIS tm Sporting News reported Saturday that organized baseball is thinking about substi- tuing some industrial leagues for Class C and D minor leagues. J. G. Taylor Spink, publisher of the weekly sports newspaper, said in the article that because the lower class leagues have been hard-hit financially by dwindling attendance they are unable to compete with the industrial leagues in salaries to players. The article said that under a proposed plan the industrial teams would be paid for any players taken into the higher minor leagues. Another part of the plan, the newspaper said, would be an agreement with the National Col legiate Athletic Association which would protect college base ball players from recruiting until graduation. Eagles Score 24-21 Decision Over Bears LITTLE ROCK, Ark. WV-A sparkling ground attack and an alert defense paid off Saturday night for the Philadelphia Eagles as the Birds twice came from behind to defeat the Chicago Bears 24-21 in an exhibition pro fessional football game here Sat urday night. It was a defensive back, Roy Barnie. picked up by Philadel- phia as free agent, who cinched the victory. Barnie picked up a fumble by Chicago halfback Don Kind and raced 87 yards un touched to score. Philadelphia's ground attack was the difference between the two clubs. Dom Mosselle, Neil Worden, Hal Giancanelli, Jerry Williams and Don Johnson time and again scooted for long gains to give the Eagles a net of 147 vards gained rushing. In con trast, Chicago picked up only 13 yards on the ground. Henry Wins Doubles As Trapshoor Closes VANDALIA, O. (Ill Maynard Henry, Los Angeles attorney who earlier this week was elected president of the the American Transhooting Association, won the North American doubles championship Saturday by break ing 99 out of 100 clay targets. The last day crown insured Henry getting the all-around championship, which included his shooting in Tuesday s champion ship of America event and Fri day's Grand American. He broke 389 out of 400 targets in the three events. The 100-target Vandalia Open handicap was won by Franklin Westover of Centerville, Ind., with a 98 score. Florists Edge Shamrocks 2-0 Erv Lind Florists of Portland edged the Salt Lake City Sham rocks, 2-0, in a women's Softball exhibition game before a rain- reduced crowd of 200 Saturday night at Bethel Park. The National Softball Congress defending champions tallied one run in the first and another in the fifth, while Thelma Carlson limited the Shamrocks to three hits in. nine innings. The Florists collected half of their six hits off two Shamrock hurlers in the first frame as singles by Robbie Mulkey, Lois Williams and Bev Wadsworth produced the first run. Wilma Freston, Salt Lake City's starting hurler, blanked the Lind club until the fifth, when Mulkey tripled to right center and scored on a flyout. The losers threatened in the top of the ninth with runners on third and second after one out. but the next two batters went down without damage. unly MulKey managed more than one hit in the' fray, while Carlson collected nine strikeouts. R H E Shamrocks 000 000 000 0 3 3 Florists 100 OtO OOx 2 6 1 Freston, Kovorn (6), and Forney; Carlson and Williams. GORDON PERFORMS SACRAMENTO, Calif, im Joe Marty hit a home run be hind Joe Gordon's triple Sat urday night to give the Sacra mento "Old Timers" a 7-5 vic tory over the San Francisco oldsters in a three-inning ex hibition baseball game. Sweeny Loses Amateur Title DETROIT UV-Youth, grit and a late-warming putter carried Ar nold Palmer of Cleveland to the 54th National Amateur Golf Championship Saturday with a 1 up comeback victory over tiring Robert Sweeny. Behind most of the day after watching the stylish Sweeny ring in three successive putts of 20 to 38 feet on the opening holes, Palmer, holding on doggedly, went ahead for the first time on the 32nd hole and clinched the match on the final green where Sweeny conceded to a rou tine par. Sweeny, tall and handsome in ternational socialite of 43, Oxford educated, and winner of the Bri tish Amateur 17 years ago, saw his impeccable game deteriorate in the afternoon apparently as the result of sheer exhaustion. The wealthy investment bank , who registers from Port Wash ington, N.Y., but with addresses London, Fans, Palm Beach and wherever the international set gathers, had played himself down to a thin point in this ex hausting week-long tournament and was 16 pounds underweight. The finals were staged in mug gy temperatures and under threatening skies at the swank Country Club of Detroit before a disappointing crowd of about 3,000. Palmer, 24, son of a LaTrobc, Pa., professional and now a Cleve land salesman, won the 32nd with a four after Sweeny missed the green, and then Palmer sank a vital 10-footer on the 33rd to go two holes ahead. For the young Pennsylvanian this was a badly-needed clutch putt, one of the three good ones he sank all day. It put him two holes ahead going down to the final three holes making up Heartbreak Hill. The 34th, a short 185-yarder, was halved in threes and Palm er's fickle putter failed him on the 35th, where he took three nudges from 50 feet to lose to a par four, but it didn't matter. On the 36th, the lean and weary Sweeny pushed his tee shot into the rough behind two trees and, desperate at this point lashed a three-iron shot into the rough to the right of the green He hit his third to within seven feet of the pin but Palmer, mean- while, had boomed one down the middle of the broad fairway and had flown a four-iron shot to the Ereen. 30 feet from home. Palmer putted and the ball glided uphill to within two feet of the cup. Sweeny saw-it and picked up. Both were given fours Sweeny, possessed with a swing that's the envy of the pros and a putting stroke that is like money in the bank, fired an even par 70 on the morning round, AMERICAN W L Pet. CB Cleveland 91 36 .717 New York 88 40 .688 3V Chicago 85 46 .649 8 Boston 56' 69 .448 34 Detroit 55 72 .433 .18 Washington 52 73 .416 38 Philadelphia 42 95 .331 49 Baltimore - 40 88. .313 511- Saturday's Results: Cleveland 5, Washington 2. New York 4, Detroit 2. Chicago 5, Philadelphia 2. Boston 3, Baltimore 2. Young Scores KO Over Joe Taylor SYRACUSE Of) Middleweight Paddy Young of New York City, trailing on points at the end of nine rounds, knocked out gentle man Joe Taylor of Binghamton Saturday night at 1:27 of the 10th round in their nationally tele vised bout at War Memorial Au ditorium. A crowd of about 2,000 saw Young drop Taylor three times with left hooks in the 10th round after the Binghamton boxer had kept Paddy'at bay for the greater part of the fight. Young's left hooks floored Taylor twice for counts of nine and referee Pete Scalzo halted the bout when Tay lor went down for the third time. NATIONAL W I, New York 79 46 Brooklyn 77 49 Milwaukee 72 52 Cincinnati 61 66 St. Louis 59 67 Philadelphia 58 66 Chicago 51 76 Pittsburgh - 46 81 Saturday's itesuns: Milwaukee 5, New York 2. Brooklyn 7, St. Louis 3. Chicago 5, Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 2, Pittsburgh 1. Prt. .632 .611 .581 .480 .466 .468 .402 .362 GB 2 ',4 19 20 V4 201j 29 34 Oregon Cagers Check In, Win 4 More Games SINGAPORE OH The Uni versity of Oregon basketball team swept four of its games played this week against Sing apore and Hong Kong teams. They first whipped the Chi nese newspaper Nanyang Siang Pau five, Singapore League champions, 68-53 and then took the measure tf an all-star Sing apore team 81-58. They next defeated the Amoy Canning team from Hong Kong 74-62 and Friday night trounced the all-Malaya outfit 88-61. The report was the first on the barnstorming Oregon cag ers since last Monday. The four victories gave Coach Bill Bor- cher's team a record of 12 vic tories in 13 games. West Shrine Wins 14-13 PENDLETON OB The West All-Stars. -staving off a desperate drive in the final quarter, edged an All-Star East squad 14-13 Sat urday in the third annual Oregon class B high school Shrine bene fit football game here. West, paced by Rudy Herr, 185 pound Brownsville star who was voted most valuable player, scor ed first and held the lead all the way. Herr climaxed a 72-yard march from the opening kickoff with a one-yard plunge to give West its first touchdown. He also added the extra point. Early in the last quarter, Herr, after advancing within inches of the end zone on a 14-yard break, plunged over again. His conver sion also was good. The deciding point was missed by East early in the third quar ter when Duane Baker of lone got off a bad kick on the try point after he had pushed over for the first East touchdown, Larry Sayrs of Moro, who later was picked most valuable in the East backfield, touched off a drive in the fourth quarter that scored his team 10 plays later. After a long return by Phil Krig baum, East's Sayrs led the ground attack and Stanfield's El- roy Sutton scored on a pass play. Sayrs was injured and carried off the field in the final minute of the game. East had moved from its 44 to West's 24 and was lining up for a field goal try when the game ended. JUNIOR TOURNEY BRIDGEPORT, Pa. W A field of 64 girls, ranging in age from 11 to 17, open competition Mon day in the sixth U. S. girls' Jun ior Golf Championship at the Gulph Mills Country Club. Indians Hold American Lead NEW YORK OPI Milwaukee' persistent Braves slimmed New York's lead to 2V4 games Satur day with four eighth-inning runs that beat the Giants 5-2 while Brooklyn's second place Dodgers swept their final 1954 series in St. Louis by defeating the Card inals 7-3. The victory, which gave third place Milwaukee a split In the final two-game appearance of the Giants in County Stadium this season, moved the Braves to within 614 games of the leaders. The American League leading Cleveland Indians retained their 3'2-game edge over the New York Yankees with three runs on two singles in the eighth in ning lor a 5-2 victory over Wash ington. The Yanks kept pace with a 4-2 decision over Detroit. Chicago's White Sox kept their dim hopes alive with a 5-2 suc cess over the Philadelphia Ath letics. The third place Sox are eight lengths back of the Indians. BOSTON TRIUMPHS Boston increased its fourth place margin over Detroit to two games with a 3-2, 11-inning vic tory over the Baltimore Orioles. The Chicago Cubs handed the Philadelphia Phils their fifth straight defeat 5-2 and Cincin nati knocked off the Pittsburgh Pirates '2-1. Warren Spahn, Milwaukee's lefty ace, was locked in a 1-1 duel with the Giants' Ruben Gomez until two were out in the eighth. Singles by ex-Giant Bobby Thomson, who drove in the Braves' first run in the third, Del Crandall and Johnny Logan made it 3-1 and Spahn's two- run single nailed down his 16th triumph. Hank Thompson, who lifted a sacrifice fly to score the final New York run in the ninth, eras ed Milwaukee's early lead with his 21st homer in the fifth. Carl Furillo, who earlier had slammed his 15th homer off loser Vic Raschi, provided the clincher for Brooklyn with a two-run single that made it 4-2 in the sixth. Johnny Podres was cred ited with his first victory since June 13 with some help by Jim Hughes, who came on in the eighth. Rip Repulski hit his 17th homer off Hughes in the ninth. KLUSZEWSKI CONNECTS Ted Kluszewski doubled in the tying run in the sixth and con tinued on home with the winning marker on two long flies for Cincinnati's slim edge over the Pirates. Corky Valentine, nicked for Pittsburgh's lone run in the first, was the winner with Paul LaPalme the loser. 1 The Cubs manaced onlv six hits off four Philadelphia hurl ers, but managed a four-run fourth. Dick Cole was the winner. Cleveland again had trouble with the Senators, who dumped the tribe Frnday night, but took advantage of three walks and an error to score the eighth-inning clinchers for Mike Garcia's 16th victory. Chuck Stobbs, who hadn't issued a walk up to the eighth, entered the frame with a 2-1 lead. The Yanks had trouble trio. but managed a 3-2 sixth-inning lead against Detroit's Al Aber and then called in Allie Reynolds to replace a tiring Harry Byrd. Reynolds faced just nine men, v thanks to a doubleplav. while al lowing one hit. Bob Neiman hit his eiehth homer for Detroit's second run in the sixth. Former Washington State Star Conley May Succeed Roberts By WARREN C. PRICE MILWAUKEE, Wis. Two leading Milwaukee sports writers forecast this week that within a few years young Gene Conley will be the successor to Robin Roberts as the boss right-handed pitcher in the National League. This may be so, for the gangling Conley, who came out of the Pacific Northwest, is hanging up an astounding record as a fresh man pitcher for the Braves, To talk to Conley, however, is to get an impression that here is only a good-natured young man of 23, who knows he has enormous ability, but who enjoys pitching and enjoys his life with an amazing team. Gene, to whom I talked for nearly a half-hour in the Braves dugout before the opening of the recent Phillies se ries, was as eager to recall his early career at Washington State College and in Washington- Oregon semi-pro leagues as to make any guesses about Mil waukee's catching the Giants. Conley told how, when he pitched in 1950 for Buck Bailey's team at Washington State, he had an easy time winning from Ida ho and the University of Wash ington. But did he face the Uni versity of Oregon? he was asked. Yes, Gene did, once, in a game at Eugene. The young Brave was a bit fuzzy on details (maybe he didn't care to remem ber too clearly), but he said that Oregon clobbered him out of the box along about the fifth in ning with five runs or so. Gene hastened to add that Washington State tied the score later and went on to win in extra innings. He thinks the score was 6-5. That was a long four years ago. Instead of being chased by college hitters, Gene Conley to day stands second in earncd-run average (2.92) among Milwau kee's regular pitchers. The team is so loaded on the mound that Charlie Grimm can farm out to Toledo men good enough to be starters on any other team in the National League. BEATS PRISON TEAM Conley told how, after leaving Washington State, he played some semi-pro ball for an outfit named the Richland Villagers up in Richland, Wash. That is where Gcno makes his home. "They really called us the 'Richland Or phans'," Conley added. "The team never had any money." However, through 1950 Con ley hurled against semi-pro teams in Pendleton, Baker, and Hermis ton among other spots in Eastern Oregon. Once he pitched against a prison team from Walla Walla, Wash. He beat em. 'What was the score?" I asked Gene. 'Oh, 17-1, I guess," he said. "They got about four hits." Surprisingly, for all his base ball success, Conley thinks that if anyone on the West Coast re members him as a rising sports star, it must be because of bas ketball. Thats what he played most while with Washington State. The baseball didn't come until later, when he went out for it in spring because "there wasn't much else to do." The reporter disputed with Gene on this. Maybe, I said, those out in Washington and Oregon do remember that Conley started in basketball, but after all the pitching honors he has won (twice being the outstanding minor league pitcher of the year) its baseball that they 11 asso ciate with him now. BASKETBALL MEMORIES "No," Gene replied, "it was mostly basketball out there, and baseball didn't count too Much then." We left it at that, and I said that perhaps wo ought to conduct a West Coast poll on Conley to find out which of us was right. The exchange certainly shows how unassuming this young man is when considering his own ex ploits. Now let's get to Gene Conley the rising pitcher of the Braves who's ahead of the mighty War ren Spahn both in won-loss and earned-run averages. He stands 13-7 in games to Spahn's 15-10 and 2.97 in ERA to Spahn's 3.09. Gene pitched for Hartford in the Eastern League in 1951. and it was there that he won his first minor league honors. In it was there that he won his first minor league honors. In 1952 he spent half the season with the then hatchetless Boston Braves before being farmed out to the Milwau kee Brewers of the American Association. With the Brewers he won 12 and lost 4, and the last of Milwaukee minor league teams won the Association pennant. A year ago Conley remained "farmed out," but then he was in Toledo, where the Brewers had been shuttled after the Braves came to Milwaukee. So In 1953 Conley won 23 games for Toledo, lost 9, and led the league In (Continued on Page 3-C)