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.
That league disbanded following
the 1951 season, after Eugene
had operated a club for two
seasons.
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