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Local Baseball Group Formed Emerald Empire ijW SCORES WITH A RIGHT Kd Gavilan lands a right to the face of Johnny , to the fourteenth round of their welterweight title fight in Convention Hail jadclphia Wednesday night. Saxton took the title from Gavilan by a unanimous n,ln a dull, uninteresting encounter. However, virtually all boxing writers at imiuv 1'univu uavnttii mi; winner. xton Wrests Welter own from Kid Gavilan IDELPHIA Wl Johnny ran the welterweight title id Gavilan Wednesday bursday, with cries of from the Gavilan ioing around him, Sax it into court to face a IMav sentence, no is with 12 traffic violations. L. the judge will give me said the Z4-year-oia tier. insisted he got no Wednesday night when a controversial unanimous decision relieved him of ound crown he had worn f'MS. referee and two rtre in accord and had li champion by the 12th jrring a knockout, 20 of writers at the ringside Mm the winner in what be the worst fight of his i, alternately crying and ig and alternately retir unretiring, sobbed after rnilN'G STEENK' Ue don't talk for nothing. from the first round on Binot win. The referee he uton everything his way. lorf Pleased Cal's Showing KELEY, Calif. (IP) A optimistic Coach Lynn maldorf says his Univer- Cauforma Bears will be My for their tussle with Trojans in Los Angeles In, who's not noted for iround compliments, his squad go through a notice session Wednes- 1, i asiounaea all by re- tat he was "real pleased k team as a whole, and ly the defense." I no want to fight no more. I give my left hand I give my right hand to the Pennsylvania commission. Everything steenk." "The Keed, he is robbed," screamed his manager, Angel Lopez. 'The Keed, he is jobbed. I know he have to win big but after he take last three rounds I figure for sure they must give him the decision. I say to the Keed, 'They cannot take it away from you.' I am wrong. I give you the Pennsylvania commis sion. They can take the cham pionship and keep it." "It was a lousy, stinking fight," said Chairman Frank Wiener of the Pennsylvania Athletic Com mission, "If Gavilan fought like I've seen him in the past, Saxton wouldn't have won." He made that statement to Frank "Blinky" Palermo, man ager of the champion, and Jim Norris, president of the Interna tional Boxing Club in Saxton's dressing room. Later, Wiener said, "If Gavi lan's handlers are still crying robbers, crooks and fix after they have had time to cool off, it will cost them. Both Gavilan and Saxton stunk out the house. Let Saxton take his title to Syracuse and fight Carmen Basilio, and let Gavilan fight anywhere but in Philadelphia." DRESSING ROOM There was more" action and confusion in Gavilan's dressing room, including a fist fight, than there was in the "fight." Wiener frowns on return bout lr Makes Changes pi Lineup lAlLIS, Ore. Wl Coach lr says he will probably e lineup changes on his Slate squad to help stop erful ground game of the s Saturday. Marsh, an improving Item Lower Columbia 'Hose, Will nrnhahlv start P, and Dick Mason has Nk into the starting left Sophomore Bob From- F1 Boved up to the start ;r position. contracts and there was none re corded with the commission. However, Lopez, in between say ing tne Keed was through fight ing and then mavbe not. insisted he had an ironclad contract for a return bout in New York City witmn so days. Palermo, who had told reporters that Lopez was cor rect, reversed his held. He said Saxton might face Basilio, the No. 1 contender, first, with the winner to Eject Gavilan. Then he said it's up to Norris. Norris said, "We'll see what happens. I think Gavilan should fight as a middleweight." Meanwhile, Saxton, bewildered but happy, said, "I fought the fight like I planned to win. I had him puzzled." FIGHTERS BOOED What Wiener said about the dull, listless, clinch-filled fiasco undoubtedly goes double for the innocent 7,909 fans who shelled out $37,121. The customers booed through most of the activity. This observer had Gavilan in front, 8-4-3. The officials voted for Saxton this way: Referee Pete Panteleo, 9-6; Judge Jimmy Mina, 7-6-2, and Judge Nat Lopin son, 8-6-1. They all gave Gavilan the last three rounds. When they didn't pose and wait for the other to lead, the boxers huffed and puffed at close range. There were no knockdown, nat urally, and few solid blows were landed. Gavilan weighed 145'j, Saxton 14614. Association To Seek Club Formation of a skeleton organ ization known as the Emerald Empire Baseball Assn., meeting Wednesday night, took a bold step forward in re-establishing organized baseball for the Em erald Empire and Eugene. The home-owned community enterprise will have four repre sentatives at a meeting at the Commercial Hotel in Yakima, Wash., Saturday a meeting call ed by Babe Hollingbery of Yaki ma to study the possibility of or ganizing a new northwest base ball league among the clubs that remained in the disbanded West ern International League at the close of the past season. Representing Eugene will be Donald Husband, Jim Huser, Dick Richards, former business manager and part-owner of the Tri-City club, and George Clark, former general manager of the Wenatchee club, both of the WIL. All four are presently solid business and professional men in the Emerald Empire area. Clubs remaining in the WIL are Tri-City, Yakima, Lewiston, Wenatchee, Salem and Van couver, B. C, the latter, however, is believed angling for a Pacific Coast franchise. Most likely com munities to seek franchises are Spokane, Tacoma and Eugene Also expected to be represented are Pendleton, Coos Bay and Longview, Wash. Eugene's representatives will study the league structure care fully and the present organiza tion will make two recommenda tions that may decide the issue as far as Eugene is concerned B classification instead of the class A under which the WIL op crated; the home club to take all home gate receipts while paying its .own expenses on the road without a guarantee. The Emerald Empire Assn., would be organized on a partner ship basis, with the members as suming all bills and com mitments. There would be no sale of stock, but the entire Em erald Empire would be asked to assist in making the venture community enterprise, including considerable volunteer work and sale of season tickets which the organization feels would be the difference between success and failure of the operation. The group of local business men who acquired the Bethel Park from a sheriff's sale and have about $50,000 invested in the venture to "assure Eugene of baseball facilities," appears to be willing to make the park avail able to the new organization and SECTION D THURSDAY, OCTOBER HIGHCLIMBER Battle Royal Booked At Armory Thursday A six-man Battle Royal and Henry Lenz, Luis Martinez and a special bout will feature the i nick Torio. The six matmen en- .weekly wrestling show at thcter ,he ring simuiianeously and 1 1954 'Armory arena-Thursday, starting!. ... , . . i, !'..' " battle until only two remain. The Principals in the free-for-all finalists clash for a $20 purs,e will be Boris and Ivan Kameroff The special match books Angelo against the field Luigi Maccra, Poffo against Steve Gob. By Dick Strite k Vei n Sterling. Oregon's line coach, is the champion prognosticatnr for the 1954 football season, unless someone tops his mark during the next five weeks like Bill Hammer will attempt to do this weekend of the nation's gridirons. . . . Ster ling picked 24 out of 27 winners for an amazing .889 percentage, but Johnny McKay claims blocking honors for the victory. . . . Major Amos Hooplc, who had an unusual record (for him), col lected 15 out of 25 and still trails our guest pickers by a con siderable margin. . , . The record to date: Guests: 79-38 .675; Hoople: 51-50 .505. ... For some strange reason, the NEA News Service which pro vides the Hoople feature, has not come through with predictions from the old Yale AU-American, so we have asked Hammer to do the entire job of picking the winners because of his knowl edge of coast-to-coast football, having been at WSC and Tulsa as a player and at Springfield (Mass.) College and the United States Coast Guard Academy as a coach. Here are Bill's picks for the coming weekend: PACIFIC COAST USC over Cal, UCLA over OSC, WSC over Idaho, Oregon over San Jose, Washington over Stanford, Fresno State over Santa Barbara, Texas Tech over COP. ROCKY MOUNTAIN Montana over BYU, Utah State over Colorado A & M, Wichita over Denver, Wyoming over Utah. MID WEST Illinois over Syracuse, Iowa over Indiana, Minne sota over Michigan, Michigan State over Purdue, Wisconsin over Ohio State, Marquette over Fordham, Cincinnati over Xavier, Colorado over Nebraska, Missouri over Iowa State, Detroit over Tulsa. EAST Northwestern over Pitt, Army over Columbia, Boston College over Springfield, Boston U over Holy Cross, Lafayette over Bucknell, Carnegie Tech over Edinboto, Yale over Colgate, Rutgers over Lehigh, Navy over Penn, Brown over Temple, Houston over Villanova, Princeton over Cornell, Dartmouth over Harvard. ; SOUTH Mississippi over Arkansas, Georgia Tech over Ken tucky, Tennessee over Dayton, South Carolina over Clemson, Duke over North Carolina State, Maryland over Miami, Wake For est over North Carolina, Virginia over VPI, Presbyterian over Citadel, Davidson over Furman, William St Mary over George Washington, Richmond over Washington & Lac, West Virginia over VMI, Auburn over Florida Stale, Alabama over Mississippi State, Florida over LSU, Georgia over Tulane. SOUTHWEST Oklahoma over Kansas State, Arizona over New Mexico, Penn State over TCU, Baylor over Texas A & M, Texas over Rice, SMU over Kansas, Oklahoma A & M over Hardin-Simmons. Word has just been received from New Haven that Hoople has passed this week because of last weekend's reunion of the class of 1889 and the report is that the Major was not the full back who gave Yale a 6-0 victory over Harvard in that year and that the Old Boy was third assistant manager-glorified waterboy. (Continued on Page 2 D) re build the stands that burned last summer. A number of im provements would also be made. Should the Emerald Empire Baseball Assn., feel that the new northwest league is a sound or eanization. it would give the area its first organized baseball since the unhappy experience with class D Far West League ball. 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