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" THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, OREGON. TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1 945
Landis Secretary
Gets Notice as
Possible tzar
By Walter Byers
(United 1'retw Staff. Correspondent)
Chicago, March 20 .UK Base-
ball, preparing for Its toughest
season, searched everywhere for
a new commissioner today except
in the commissioner's office
where a former lawyer is hand!
lng the job with quiet efficiency,
He is Leslie M. O'Connor, one
' time secretary to the late commis-
. sioner Kenesaw M. Landis. Since
Landis' death last November,
O'Connor has been handling the
commissioner s duties competent
. ly while major league baseball
beats the bushes for a likely sue-
cessor to Landis and has even dis
patched a four-man special com-
mittee to examine possible can
, didatcs.
Czar Held Needed
Now the big leagues are in the
midst of their 60th training season
and their need for a commissioner
seldom has been greater. Prob
ably not since Pop Anson led his
Chicago Colts to Hot Springs,
Ark., in 1866 has the big leagues
future seemed so bleak.
But while baseball hunts for
! commissioner, the man best quail
fied lor the job is helping Amerl
, ca's favorite pastime through
troubled waters.
O'Connor, as chairman o fthe
major leacue's temporary advis
ory council, has handed down
7 several decisions, advised various
club owners on their problems
' and run the commissioner's office
since Landis' death.
He steadfastly refuses to com
ment on whether he would accept
the commissionershlp If offered It,
Unknown Figure
O'Connor, 56, father of a son
and four daughters, has been an
unknown figure in baseballs spot
light existence.
For 24 years, he served as sec-
' retary : to Landis. During the
Judge's last few years, O'Connor,
a shrewd lawyer, wrote most of
the decisions Landis signed and
handled the office routine.
When Landis went south for
long winter vacations, which be
came longer and longer as the
judge became older, O'Connor ran
the office. When Landis took'the
commissionershlp, he selected O'
Connor as his assistant and he re
lied oh his "protege" with full con
fidence. O'COnnor has many of the fam-
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Coasting Along in the Sport World
By Kolterl Welde
(United Prs. Staff Correspondent)
Los Angeles, March 20 tin The
Dickings are slim out Univ. of
South. Cal. way this season, but
cagey Dean Cromwell, the maker
of champions, figures he can
round up a track team that will
ike the measure of any collegiate
outfit in the country.
I ve only got one boy who
could make a Trojan team in
peacetime." the venerable Dean
pined, "but some of those teen
aged kids are showing the stuff
takes and they 11 do all right.
The Dean's critics have been
saying for years that any coach
who gets the material that floats
Cromwell's way could turn out a
championship team every year.
This'll be the foxy mentor's
chance to show his stuff.
Not that the Dean has to. In his
35 years as track coach at South
ern California he's won the NCAA
meet 12 times, the ICAA contest
ne times and turned out 12
Olympic champions who won 15
Olympic crowns.
To top this phenomenal record
he hasn't bowed to a collegiate foe
since 1932 when colorful "Dink"
Templeton of Stanford beat him
for the last time.
The 64-year-old Dean's success
secret is his phychological ap
proach. He's the world's champion
flatterer. Every boy on the team
Is "Champ." Pretty soon an ath
lete, who a week ago was a medio
cre performer, begins to believe
it and before long he's making
sports headlines.
Cromwell's training methods
are unique too. He never tries to
change a man's style and seldom
lectures him on eating.
But he's a bug on speed. Bovard
field rail sitters are still amazed
when they see 15 or so athletes
sprinting and practicing quick
getaways from the starting line.
Probably only one or two of them
will be sprinters, the others being
everything from shot putters to
pole vaulters.
"It's speed In a track athlete
that counts," says Cromwell. "A
pole vaulter needs It in his run:
A shot putter lias to have It in
his short run before heaving the
pellet." -
So the man who coached Frank
Wykoff, Earle Meadows, Charlie
Paddock and Kenneth Carpenter
to Olympic titles finds himself
with an A-l Job to do this spring.
The only sure thing he's got on
hand is bulky Earl Audet, the
two-time AAU shot put king,
who's capable of flirting with the
55-foot mark.
But everyone expects him to
pull his usual miracle and come
up with several national champs.
He's just the guy to do it too.
it!
Millions Say When
William
ed Landis characteristics. He Is
straightforward, fearless and
dignified. He Is quiet and mild
mannered, and is popular with
club owners, several of whom he
has helped since Landis' death.
Baseball s pace has been slow In
Its attempt to find a commission
er, and it appears that the major
league s 1945 season will open
with O'Connor guiding the game.
Baseball Briefs
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(By United Prone)
Cape Girardeau, Mo., March 20
(U'i The St. Louis Browns anxi
ously awaited clearing skies to
day after 48 hours of comparative
inactivity because of rain.
The American league champs
worked out bmelly indoors yes
terday and Pitchers Nelson Pot
ter, Johnny Miller and Tex Shirley
began to bear down with full
speed. All are in excellent shape,
Billy Southworth, killed In a
bomber crash there recently,
Wilmington, Del., March 20 U)
Manager Freddy Fitzsimmons,
who expects to put emphasis on
youth this season, focused his at
tention on three new arrivals to
day. They are pitchers William
Porter, a 22-year old semi-m-o
from Kansas Citv. Mo.: T.elnnrl
McCrory, recently discharged
from the army, and catcher Andy
Seminick, who was with the team
oneny last year before being
farmed to Buffalo. All are con
sidered good prospects.
Pitcher All Gerheauser still was
a holdout but was in camp and
working out.
Snead and Nelson
Meet in Playoff
Charolette, N. C, March 1 20
itpi Sammy Snead, who missed
clear-cut victory in the $10,000
Charlotte golf open by an Inch,
hoped his putts would have more
"oomph" today when he meets
Byron Nelson in an 18-hole play
off for first money. . ,
Snead missed holding a 15 foot
putt on the 18th green by an inch
Iowa University
Gets Clem Crowe
South Bend, Ind., March 20 (IP)
Clem "Crowe, head basketball
and assisant football coach at
Notre Dame, has signed a con
tract as head grid coach at the
University of Iowa.
Crowe, on leave of absence
from Xavier university, Cincin
nati, will replace Edward P. (Slip)
Madigan, who served with the
Hawkeye team for the past two
years in tne aosen.ee of Maj. Ed
ward Anderson, now with a medi
cal detachment overseas.
Crowe said he would assume
his new coaching duties ADril 1.
and hoped to hold two weeks of
spring practice before completion
oi tne current semester.
Although neither Crowe nor of
ficials at the university would
disclose the length of the contract
or salary terms, it has been re
liably reported that the position
nas a iwo-year tenure.
Is Third Coach
The new Hawkeye mentor be
comes the third coach to fill in
for Anderson since he entered the
army. When Anderson left after
the 1942 season, line coach Jim
Harris was appointed to the post.
Harris was drafted shortly there
after and Madigan, former St.
Mary's coach, was named as "du
ration" coach.
Madigan, after coaching the
western conference team last sea
son, said he planned to return to
"private business" on the west
coast. i
Notre Dame has lost four mem
bers of its football coaching staff
since the close of the -1944 season,
three of them taking head coach
ing Jobs at other universities.
As Irish basketball coach.
Crowe guided Notre Dame to one
of its most successful seasons.
with his team breaking all previ
ous school scoring records.
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T. Loree ...:....179
Al. Bright 145
P. Loree .....147
152
145
158
169500
145435
196501
Totals
749 785 915 2449
Bowling Notes
Medo-Land keglers shot high
sprips. 2H.V2. Ann rpan npH first
yesterday and had to settle for a place last night in Industrial
72-hole tie of 272 with Nelson, league play on the Bend Recrea
necessitating an 18-hole playoff , tion alleys in defeating the Bend-
for first money of $2,000.
The West Virginidn, who came
out of the navy to become the
year's top golfer, is bidding for
his seventh victory In 12 tourna
ments. He had a two-under-par
70 yesterday. Nelson was a shade
better, finishing with a 68 to pick
up the two strokes he needed for
a tie. , ' i
Klines Trails
Seven strokes behind in third
place was - Gene Kunes of Holly
wood, Fla.j whose final round of
69 gave him a total of 279. Sammy
Byrd of Detroit was next with a
total of 280 after a final round of
69.
Harold (Jug) McSpaden, the
San ford, Me., veteran, who was
tied with Nelson In second place
yesterday, blew sky-high with a
five over par 77 and finished with
281.
Nelson went out In 35, one under
par, and came home in 33. He
made three birdies and missed
several more by inches on the
back nine.
Snead, hitting his shots almost
perfectly off the tee, ran into
trouble on the fall-ways and oc
casionally on the greens, missing
several putts that would have
clinched victory. Ho went out
and back with 35's.
Portland truckmen two out of
three games. E. Brown' of the
truckmen had high . individual
total, 582. In other matches, Bend
Recreation won two from Piland's
market. Gateway lunch won a
pair from The Bulletin keglers
and Pepsi-Cola won two from Su
perior cafe. Results of the match
es follow:
Bend Recreation
G. Norcott 156 172 177505
P. Barfknecht 153 164 130447
F. Smith 160 190 149499
B. Fields ..(..136 142 164442
L. Gales 180 168 161529
Totals 792 863 798 2453
Peters to Battle ;
Turner on Friday
Portland, Ore.,' March 20 (IP)
Paulie Peters and his. manager,
Joe Herman, arrive in Portland
from San Francisco today, giving
promoter Joe Waterman the en
tire cast for his Friday night's
boxing show.
Peters will meet Leo (The Lion)
Turner in the 10-round main
event, while the six-round semi
final spot is reserved for "Moose".
Kennedy, giant negro boxer, and
Dave Johnston. Winner of the
Kennedy-Johnston go probably
will get a shot at Navy Joe Kahut.
the next time he gets a leave to
visit Portland.
Other bouts:
Eddie Wharton, Portland, will
battle Jimmy Hogan, Seattle.
Both are welterweights. Norm:
Finch, Vancouver, Wash., and Lil':
Abner, Vanport City, will meet in
a four-round bout. Leo Sherlock
and Glenn King are slated to
battle in the four-round opener.'
Piland's Market,
O. Alt ,.129
B. Rice ".-. 122
B. Hatch 109
J. Chabot 119
B. Koller 150
165
146
161
127
175
136-430
146-414
165-435
161407
171496
Totals 665 810 815 2290
Cairo, 111., March 20 (111 The
squad with which the St. Louis
Cardinals hope to win their
fourth straight National league
pennant began to take shape to
day. Although there were only
six regulars among the 17 who
reported for the opening of spring
training yesterday. Coach Mike
Gonzales said he expected most
of the others short ly.
The regulars on hand were in-
fielders George Kurowskl, Kmil
Verban and Ray Sanders, outfield
er Debs Garms, pitcher Max
Uinlor, and catcher Walker Coop
er. Cooper said lie expected to be
around only until shortly after
the start of the season when he
is slated for another military
draft examination.
Manager Billy Southworth slill
was in New York attending to
personal affairs of his son. Major
Terre Haute, Ind., March 20 (111
Spring training is a little hard
on rookie catchers, at least In the
Chicago White Sox camp, it was
evident today. Two young back
stops, Paris Thaxton, who has a
split finger and Art Michalski,
laid up with a charley-horsn, are
the only ailing members in camp.
BUI Nagel, a .307 hitter with
Milwauee last year, reported yes
terday and started working out
at third base, the job he is ex
pected to land as a regular. The
Sox now have 20 players in camp.
Lafayette, Ind., March 20 (ll'i -The
Cleevland Indians made prep
arations today to got along with
out infielder Ken Kelt tier, who is
scheduled to take his nre-liitliu-.
tion physical examination at Mil
waukee. Keltner, who lrft a war plant
jon lasi year to play baseball "be
cause it Is my profession and that
Is where I belong." is 2S years
old and has two children. If the
Indians lose the brilliant third
baseman, it will be their most
serious vacancy since pitcher Bob
reiier ennsiea in the navy before
the 1912 season.
Beaver Regulars
Defeat Rookies
San Jose, March 19 (IP The
Portland Beaver regulars yester-
daay defeated the Rookies 8-4 in
a nine-inning intra-squad game
featured by the long-distance
clouting of veteran Ted Gullic.
Gullic gave the regulars then
first run in the second Inning with
a homer over left field fence. He
also hit a double and a triple in
three times at bat.
Syd Cohen went the distance on
the mound for the regulars. Jack
Tising and Charlie Sousa both
pitched for the Rookies.
The Beavers play the Roma
Wine team of Fresno hero tonight.
nmiT KKsri.Ts
(By I'llitfll I'rDMl
San Francisco Joe Keyes,
M9'i, Los Angeles, outpointed
Kenny LaSalle, 154. Los Angeles
(101; Pedro .limine., 154, Vallcjo,
outpointed Charlie Calos. 163,
Oakland Ki); Al McDonald, 153 '.a,
l.os Angeles, outpointed. Billy
Mayfiold, 151, Oakland (41.
H. Rice
M. Sutherland 144
A. Kaufman ....170
E. Fenton 136
B. Benson 155
Handicap 27
Bend Bulletin
,...137 154 1 139 430
154 158456
147 160477
149 167452
198 159512
27 27 81
Totals 769 829 810 2408
Gateway Lunch
G. McLennan ..128
G. Hiley 123
L. Naff 160
L. Smith 148
H. Barfknecht 166
Handicap 47
126
112
147
155
157
47
167-421
113348
150-457
161474
188511
47141
Totals 772 744 826 2342
Medo-Land
B. Douglass ....172 162 145479
L. Potts 180 181 156517
M. Nehl 156 189 154499
D. Lay 173 200 192565
S. Blucher 211 203 149563
Handicap 3 3 3 9
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Cochrane Dead
Lake Forest, 111., March 20 IP ,
Pvt. Gordon Cochrane, Jr., son
of Lt. Cmdr. Gordon (Mickey)!
Cochrane, former manager of the
Detroit Tigers, died of wounds
Feb. 25 in the European theater,
the war department has informed
his mother.
Pvt. Cochrane was a student
at Iowa State college before en
tering the service in January,
1944. He was sent overseas last
October.
"Mickey" Cochrane is on duty
in the Pacific.
Radioactive zirconium, a metal
lic element, is being tried experi
mentally in the treatment of can
cer, with encouraging results.
Totals
895 938 799 2632
C. Piland
L. McConnell
W. Jossy
Absentee
E. Brown
Bend-Portland
134
.151
.166
.145
.202
210
164
169
145
167
129473
168483
187522
145-43."j
213582
Totals 798 855 842 2495
Pepsi-C'ula
T r t-..i -i it?
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IMusgrave 157 160
! Parks 136 153
Lewerenz 179 188
W. Douglass ISO 161
157469
136 -453
128417
159526
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