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THE BEND BULLETIN. BEND, OREGON," FRIDAY, MARCH 9.J945
Baseball s Future
Still Uncertain
As Spring Nears
By Walter Byers
. (United Pram Staff Corrapondent)
Chicago, March 9 HP Base
ball's determined vow to "play
baseball as long as we have nine
men on the field" came echoing
back today as the grand old Amer
ican game felt the manpower
pinch where it least expected,
At least six players who were
counted on for full-season duty In
the majors this season even con
sidering the service draft have
either threatened to drop out of
baseball or already have done so
during the past three days.
The various clubs expected to
lose many of the borderline cases,
such as 1-A's, reclassified 4-F's or
even ball players who were Deing
deferred because of warplant jobs.
But the management when it
made its vow hoped that the men
who were available would all
come back. ,
' To Hold Job
Typical of the present tendency
is Hal Trosky, veteran Chicago
White Sox first baseman, who an
nounced that he is going to hold
his Job with a refrigerator com
pany near his Norway, la., home
for the duration. Trosky, hard
hitting star of 10 major league
seasons, was counted on for first
' base duty this year by a Sox man
agement which is fraught with
player trouble.
Trosky's decision heaped sor
row on woe, for the Sox already
number Wally Moses, veteran out
fielder, and pitcher Bill Dietrich
among players who have said they J
will wait until they hear irom
their draft boards before report
ing for spring workouts.
The Sox have signed only two
' regulars and expect only 12 play
ers to open spring training Mon
day at Terre Haute, Ind.
Headache Feared '
Holdouts, transportation prob
lems and flooded diamonds are all
back to give baseball a splitting
headache, but this latest blow
hurls.
Cleveland felt the same misery
yesterday with the announcement
: that Jim Bagbv. Jr., lanky pitch-
Ing star, has signed his contract
with the reservation that "I'm go
ing to wait and see what the gov
' ernment action is toward baseball
before reporting."
- Another player .who temporar
ily has abandoned baseball Is
' Mayo Smith, '30-year-old Buffalo
outfielder and International
; league batting champion, who an
nounced his retirement from the
"game for 1945. He was slated for
outfield duty with the Philadel
phia Athletics.
Is Sure Starter T '
'Howie Schultz, youthful first
base star of the Brooklyn Dodg
ers, was considered a sure starter,
but the lanky Hamline university
student was accepted for military
service. He had been rejected be
fore because he Is 6-fect, 7-inches
tall.
. During the past few days, base
ball's ranks also have been paired
sharply by the service draft. The
St. Louis Browns, American
league champions, lost their
fourth player since Inst season
when pitcher Ellis Kinder, bril
liant rookie prospect, was accept
ed for duty; the Philadelphia Phil
lies lost first baseman Tony Lu
' plen to the navy and the Washing
ton Senators lost shortstop John
ny Sullivan.
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Coasting Along in the Sport World
By Jack Cuddy
(United I'rciw Stuff Corretiiondent)
New York, March 9 (IB During
the next three weeks college
baseball will accentuate the posi
tive in post season play, staging
three tourneys designed to de
termine three "national cham
pions." (Wrestlers take note.)
This post-season hoop-whoopee
eliminates the negative in many
colleges which forbid their foot
ball teams to play in grid classics
after the season ends, but do per
mit their basketeers to carry on
after ' schedules are completed.
For example, Ohio State is a
prominent performer in one of
the dribble dribbles, although the
buckeye Institution rejected a
post-season Rose howl bid after
its football team won the big ten
title.
Listed in the order of their get
away, the three tournaments are:
(1) The national intercollegiate,
which opens Monday at Kansas
City i (2). the) national Invitation,
which beginsuit Madison Square
gariUto 'on MaYch IT; (3) the na
tional collegiate athletic associa
tion (,NCAA) tourney, which
stages Its eastern play-offs- at
Madison Square garden, March
23, and Its western play-offs at
Kansas City; March 24; with the
play-off winners to battle it out
at Madison Square garden, March
27.
Out of these three tourneys will
emerge three "national cnam
plons;" (1) national intercollegi
ate, (2) national invitation, and
(3) NCAA. However, the invita
tion 12) champ and the NCAA
(3) champ meet In a Red Cross
game at Madison Square garden,
March 29. Naturally, the victor
In that Red Cross contest will
claim "the" national crown a
claim that will be snickered at
bv the intercollegiate (1) champ,
If you are not well confused
now bv these three national
tourneys, you probably will br
before thev complete play. Pra-
Baseball Briefs
strange twist like last year. Re-
member? The Utah utes were
eliminated from the invitation (2)
tourney In the first round. After
this they filled a last-minute va
cancy in the western play-offs
of the NCAA U) tourney at Kan-
sis City. They filled in because
another team had withdrawn after
a tragic bus accident. Substitute
Utah swept the Kansas City play
offs, and came east to beat Dart
mouth in the NCAA final at the
garden. Then Utah went into the
concluding Red Cross game, meet
ing St. John's winner of the in
vitation (2) tourney, from which
Utah had been eliminated in the
first round. The, surprising Utes
gave heavily-favored St. John's a
thorough trouncing, and claimed
"the" national title. Fortunately,
the national intercollegiate (1)
tourney was not held last year,
because of the war conditions.
Otherwise there would have been
some robust counter-claiming
from the Inter-collegiate victor.
The national intercollegiate fel
lers are mighty proud of their
prowess. Their tourney Includes
generally the smaller colleges
that do not belong to the big con
ferences nor play in metropolitan
arenas. Their national tourney
was organized in 1938 by Emil S.
Liston of Baldwin City, Kan.,
upon the logical premise that
smaller schools cn turn out Just
as good basketball teams as the
big colleges.
The national collegiate athletic
association tourney is restricted to
members of the NCAA. Virtually
all participants are so-called "big
time" schools. Meanwhile, the In
vitation tourney is the brain child
of promoter Ned Irish at Madi
son Square garden. He invites
eight of the nation's "cream'
teams to the garden to play for
the national title and dear old
Alma Turnstile. It is merely co
incidental that the promoter's
name is Irish and that tnc in
to Joe Varveth for a goal. '
In the other Naatlonal league
game played the Montreal Ca
nadiens, already assured of the
league title, defeated the fourth
place Boston Bruins, 3' to 2.
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Over Prineville ,:
By 59-18 Score
' 'By Dick Scott
' (United Jreaa Staff Correspondent):
Here are the four fours of the
Oregon "A" high school basket
ball situation, which is gradually
clearing up preparatory to the
spptlight being thrown on next
week's state tournament at
Salem'. ",
Four teams are assured of
berths in the tourney and like
wise the four officials are signed
ana r.eaay; tour other clubs hold
inside tracks . to next week's af
fair while four others are dog
gedly clinging to outside chances
in inter-district play.
iigers Break Loose J Seattle, March 9 (IP) Outplay-
' ,c "J1""- nappeiiqn ing the lavored Portland agles
Oregon May Lose
Ken Hays, Star
Eugene, Ore.,' March 9 (IP)
Things were pretty much on the
downhearted side on the Univer
sity of Oregon campus today as
word was received that Ken Hays,
Oregon centor, may not start
against the Washington State
Cougars in the first basketball
game in their northern division
playoff series at Pullman, Satur
day night.
The big 6-foot, 7-Inch Webfoot
pivot man was Oregon's defensive
"key" in the playoff series with
his all-Important assignment of
trying to stop Vince Hansen, who
set a new conference scoring rec
ord tms season.
The Webfoots entrained in Eu
gene yesterday afternoon and
were slated for a workout on the
Pullman floor this afternoon.
The second and third games of
the series, which will not only de
cide the division champion but the
coast's representative in the N.C.
A.A: playoffs at Kansas City, will
be played at Eugene.
Portland Eagles.
Lose to Seattle
tlcularly if they are given a vitation opens on March 17.
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Boyes Springs, Cal., March 9 li !
Tom Haley, former St. Louis
Browns and Washington Nation
, als outfielder, today reported to
the Oakland Acorns for spring
training.
San Francisco, March 9 U''
Dick Elliott, lanky 175-pound
hurler from San Fnfacl, Cal., to
day was signed by the San Fran
cisco Seals for his first profes
sional contract.
San Jose, Cal., March 9 mi
Rookie Pitcher Charlie Souza, of
Alameda, Cal., hurled a three-hit
game in seven innings of Port
land Beaver intra-squtul play yes
terday. Owing to errors, coupled with
the few hits he allowed, the game 'against
. ended in a 5-5 lie. Veterans Frank
. Demaree, Sencor Harris, Johnny
, Gill and Mel N uncs turned in dou
' bles while Rookie Frank Lucchcsi
tripled.
, Richardson Springs, Cal., March
,9 tin Pitcher Larry Kemp today
; asked Manager Earl Sheely for a
first base position with the Sacra
mento Solons.
The six-foot-four player said lie
had played the spol In his salad j
clays, bneeiy ns no inner expert- j
enccd men for first base.
Port Hueneme, Cal., March !) 'in
The Los Angeles Angels, wilh
a 6 to 3 win over the Port llucne-,-me
Seabees under their bells, set
tied down for another lyml work--'
out today before squaring off
' against the naval air station ba.se
ballcrs at Long Beach, Cal., to
morrow. rnnada has almost doubled her
lard' production in the past in
years: much lard Is used In Can
ada for snoritMHHK, ns """ """'
try produces almost no cdibli
vegetable olb.
Nelson, McSpaden
Face Golf Stars
Miami, Fla., March 9 (in- By
ron Nelson of Toledo, O., and
Harold (Jug) McSpaden of San
ford, Me., the favored team in the
International four-hall golf tourn
ament here, leed off today against
Lt. Ben ilogan, the mighty mite
from Texas, and Ed Dudley of
Atlantic Cily, N. J., In what was
expected to be the day's best com
pel it ion.
Nelson and McSpaden advanced
to the second round of the four
day tourney with an easy victory
In yesterdays opening round
Willie Klein and Otey
tournament, however, as he and
his partner, P.G.A. champion Bob
Hamilton of Evansville, Ind.,
eliminated the team of Stanley
Home and Jules Khout on the
127th hole, 10 and 9. Carding a best
ball of 64 on the morning round,
they made the turn four up and
won six of the next nine. Snead
got birdies on the eighth and ninth
holes to sew up the match.
Snead and Hamilton play the
team of Craig Wood, Mamaro
neck, N. Y., and Tony Penna, Day
ton, O., in today's round.
In the shaping of hoop affaire in
the state was the breaking loose
of a Black Tornado In the form-ef
the Medford Tigers. The Medford
team the only unbeaten one in
the state rang the bell with a
59-18 victory over Prineville in the
first game of the district 3-4 play
off at Medford last night.
The Tigers were a little slow
in teeing off as Prineville gar
nered the first field goal but after
taking the lead, in a slow first
period, the Tornado kept the
hoop humming as they racked up
51 points in the last three periods.
Tonight shapes up as a possible
tell-tale affair in three inter-dis-
piayons. i
The previously unheralded
Hood River team, which knocked
off Baker, 52-4-1, Wednesday
night, can wrap up the district
1-2 title by repeating on the Baker
floor tonight. i
Games Listed '
Oregon Cily will entertain
woojiourn in the second game, the 16th annual northwest A.A.U.
ul "-' uimhl-i il-iz oatl o nnri
Ciisman of Miami. The winners.
with a best hall of tSfi on the first
IS holes, defeated Klein and Otey,
(i mid 5.
NATIONAL l.KAGl E HOC KEY
tltjr iJnliwl J'rou)
The Detroit Red Wings added
considerable difficulty to the New
I York Rangers' hopes of gaining a
btanlry l up playolf berth last
night when they downed the last
place New Yorkers, 7 to 3, in a
free-scoring game which saw Syd
Howe establish a new National
League point scoring record.
Howe, one ot the games great
in all departments, the Seattle
Stars walloped the Oregon sextet,
7-1, in the opening play of the
Northwest Hockey league semi
final playoffs last night.
It was a bitterly fought game
that culminated in a fistic brawl
between Manager Roger Jenkins
of the StarBand Art Shurrian of
the Eaglet.' Both were banished
for major penalties. 1
Each team scored" once in the
first period, with the Stars bang
ing in a trio of goals In each of
the last two sessions. Red Carr,
taking a pass from Eddie Sharn
lockn scored the only Eagle tally
of the evening.
Bowling Notes
can win a tleKet to the state
tourney by repeating Its Wednes
day night 49-41 triumph. ,
The third crucial game will pit
Newberg against Lebanon with
the former team in the driver's
seat by virtue of a 32-27 victory
in the Initial game of the series
which will decide the district 7r8
playoff winner.
Already with tournament tick-
Leading Quintets
Ready for Tourndy
Seattle, March 9 (til Four of
the top hoop teams, of the north
west will clash here tonight as
basketball tournament gets under
way.
The opening games will find
Fee's Music Makers of Portland
crossing swords with the coast
guard repairs of Seattle, and the
title-holding Alpine Dairy will
tangle with the Tacoma Cam
mcranos. Spotted as leading the Tacoma
attack was 6-fcet, 8-inch Murrav
I Buchanan, formerly with the Se-
Piltit Butte 'IniT kdglers scored
high series, 2631, in Independent
league play last night on the
Bend Recreation 'alleys as they
won three straight games; from
the Elks. Grlndle shot high ln
dividual total. With a 601 series,
as his team, Superior cafe, won
two from Piggly-Wiggly. Franks'
service team was unable to bowl
last night, and will make up its
match with Franks' tavern later
this Week. Results of the matches
follow: ,
The Elks
Norcott ......145 124 160429
Steldl 135 169 186--490
Mahoney ...148 151 130-429
Hoover 178 200 166544
C, Piland ........161 195 176532
Handicap .... 14 14 1442
Total 781 853 852 2486
Pilot Butte Inn
B. Douglass ....187 140 188515
W. Douglass ..173 208 164545
D. Day 171 170 188529
S. Blucher 160 151 180491
L. Gale ..150. 224 v 168 542
Handicap .... 3 3 39
Total, .y.....i..&l , 896, ,91.2631
: Prank's Tivern -
F. Soarks 146 211 157514
B. Cerveny ....159 164 213536
L. Houk :..156 136 150442
L, Redifer 211 180 145536
J. Kargman ....180 193 182555
Total 852 " 884 847 2583
Frank's Service
Will bowl later.
riggiy-wiggiy
Koller 150 180 185515
Chabot 143 150 156-449
Absentee 136 136 136408
Lewerenz 175 142 167484
Benson 143 165 176484
Handicap 45 45 45135
Total ...:.792 818 865 2475
Superior Cafe
Mirich 149 173 162-484
Nedrow .137 175 179491
Howard 158 139 141438
Grindle 199 211 191601
Brown ...215 183 147545
Total 858 881 820 2559
Body of Woman "
Found oh Coast
Ocean Lake, Ore., March 9 UK
Funeral services will be held at
Canby on Saturday for Mrs. Ada
Bumgardner, 47, whose body was
found near Taft, Ore., by fisher
men. Mrs. Bumgardner was one of
two beach visitors who drowned
when a huge wave broke and en
gulfed a party walking on the
Fight Results
ets in hand are the Washington attic Boeing squad. Another giant
Colonla s, Portland league win- on the maple wood will be Lloyd
tier with the district 1516 ducat; Jackson, also 6 feet, 8 inches, of
I lillsboio's Spartans, district 9-10
tournament winner; Vernonia, the
migiuy mite of stale ranks, with
district 13-14 representation; and
Eugene, holder of two straight
triumphs over Myrtle Point in the
district 56 playoffs.
in yes the officials slated to
the Portland five.
CARS ARB TAGGED
Various violations of the traffic
ordinance today had resulted In
the tagging of four more automo
biles, -officers reported today. The
Sammy Snead, the West Vir- est play-makers suroasscd tin; 514
ginia mountaineer, played the point record ot Nel Stewart late
best Individual golf In the $7,500 In the third period when he passed
Emil Plluso, Chappy King, Carl
rvuiigei ami nai eaisus.
see action in the tournament are cars were registered to John Su-
sae, Bend; W. V. Hamhy, 223
South Helena street; William N.
Hash, Crescent, and Fae Jewell,
Rt., 2, Box 42.
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vlnc, 152, Brooklyn, knocked out
Lou Perez, 153, New York (4).
Philadelphia Billy Nixon,
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Falco, 147, Philadelphia (1).
Camden, N. J. Pedro Firpo,
129, Camden, decisioncd Bob
Smith, 130, Philadelphia 10).
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