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SECTION TWO
SPORTS
GENERAL NEWS
CENTRAL OREGON'S DAILY NEWSPAPER
Volume LIU
THE BEND BULLETIN, BEND, DESCHUTES COUNTY, OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 24, 1945
White Sox Only
Unbeaten Team
In Big Leagues
By Walter Byers
(United Press Staff Currenpondent)
Chicago, April 24 IT The
White Sox, a blend of eight old
men and a 19-year-old Infielder,
were the unexpected darlings of
Chicago today.
As major league baseball heads
into the second week of the 1945
season, the Sox are the only un
defeated team in the big leagues
with five straight victories. To
turn the trick, manager Jimmie
Dykes' gang of castoffs have be
came hitting terrors and Chicago
loves 'em.
All "Old Men"
The Sox, even with 19-year-old
Cass Michaels' at shortstop, av
erage more than 30 years of age.
In pre-season ratings, experts
labeled them a faltering second
division team. Even the eloquent
Dykes, chewing hard on a cigar,
said, "we'll probably finish where
we did last year seventh."
But the Sox have been runn
ing wild. They, opened against
Cleveland and won two games
there before returning to Chicago
and taking three straight from
the St. Louis Browns, American
league champions. Players who
usually hit in the .200 circle are
hitting above .400. An infield
which Dykes admitted had several
holes has been impregnable. The
weary arms of an old men's pitch
ing corps suddenly have came to
life.. : v .
Big Crowd Out
Sunday's doubleheader with the
Browns, almost cancelled because
of inclement weather, drew 13,
781 fans in 50-degree temperature.
Dyke's hardy gang goes after
victory No. 6 today against the
Tigers and an "exceptional Tues
day crowd" is forecast by vice
president Harry Grabiner.
The team is hitting .352 and the
outfield is blasting the ball at a
.420 clip.
The odds are sky high but there
Is always the possibility that the
Sox could be the rags-to-riches
gang of 1945, just as the Browns
were-last year...'-
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Chief Bob Feller
Back on Mound
Evanston, 111., April 24 (IB
Chief Specialist Bob Feller, coach
of the Great Lakes baseball team,
pitches his first ball in two years
in the continental U. S. today in
a practice game with Northwest
ern University.
.The former Cleveland Indian
star will appear for Great Lakes
with a least three other major
leaguers Johnny Gorscia, for
mer Detroit Tigers' pitcher, Pinky
Higgins, also of Detroit, and Ken
Keltner, a former teammate at
.-Cleveland.- ;;
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9
Beavers to Face
Tough Contests
(By United Press)
Six Pacific coast .league base
ball teams swing back into ac
tion tonight in pursuit of the
elusive league leadership.
Portland, currently in front,
and Seattle have monopolized
the top-place honors through
most of the first four weeks of
play and appear in no . danger of
losing .that honors for. at, least
two weeks;
The Beavers take on Oakland
tonight; .Seattle meets Holly
wood, and San Francisco enter
tains San" Diego. Sacramento
plays Los Angeles this week, but
the two teams start off with a
double-header on Wednesday.
Manager Bill Skiff's Rainier
sluggers fell off considerably
against good Oakland pitching
over the past week and the Oaks
annexed a tough 4-3 series and
knocked the northerners out of
the top rung.
Tough Gaines Faced
The high-spot Beavers won't
find the pickings quite so easy
against the Oakland aggrega
tion, with Manager Dolph Cam
illi ever a threat as a pinch
hitter (he hit a homer in that
role Sunday) and young Vic PI-
cetti sparking the club with his
sensational play, the Acorns have
become one of the finest all
around clubs in the loop.
The very surprising San Diego
Padres, tied with the Oaks for
third place and only four games
out of first, win be gunning for
another series win over the
Seals. Manager Pepper Martin's
outfit, which downed Los Angeles
last week, 4-3, is hot stuff.
The Sacramento Solons can be
classed as one of the harder-hitting
outfits. But their pitching
hasn't been anything to brag
about and that appears to be
keeping them
division.
out of the first
Taylor to Meet
Johnny Suarez
Portland-, Ore., April 24 (IPl A
virtual newcomer to the ring
wars will meet a veteran tonight
in Portland at the national box
ing club show when Johnny
Suarez, Portland, and Irish John
ny Taylor, of California, battle in
the featured 10-round event.
Both are well-known to Port
land boxing fans.
Suarez started here" four
months ago as a prelim fighter,
but in six consecutive victories
he has established himself as a
favorite. Taylor is a vet who
has fought the best of the welter
weights, but he has retained the
reputation of being the handsom-'
est and gamest fighter in the
business.
Taylor is proud of (he fact that
he is president of the "t was kay
oed by Henry Armstrong" club.
However, he will rank a. slight
favorite in tonight's bout because
of his six-pound weight advantage
and his edge in height, reach and
experience.
Joe Waterman has lined up a
card which wilt also feature
Martine Gates vs. "Powder" Proc
tor in the six-round seml-windup.
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Central Oregon
Track Meet Set
For Bend Field
Trackmen from Redmond and
Prineville will invade Bend Fri
day afternoon to participate in a
Central Oregon meet, the first
held in several years on the local
field. The winning team will be
crowned Central Oregon Track
champions and will be awarded
the last of the three major sports
trophies for which the three
schools have competed this year.
Bend won the football award,
Prineville the basketball cup and
Redmond seems most likely to
win the track trophy.
Redmond will boast the best
rounded team with probable point
winners in every event. Prine
ville should capture the majority
of the first places but is weak in
some events. Bend has on out
side chance to win but every
possible point winner must come
through. Much is dependent on
George Rasmussen's ailing leg.
This rangy Bear star who captur
ed four firsts in an earlier meet
ing between the schools is nurs
ing a pulled muscle which is a
keeping him out of practice this
week. He also will be limited
by meet rules to Just three events.
This will cut off another possible
five points for the Bears.
Favorites Listed -
Favorites in the different events
will be Brown of Redmond and
Durkee of Prineville In the 100,
Chalfant o fPrineville in the 220
and 440, McDaniels of Redmond
in the 880, and Maudlin of Bend
and McDaniels in the mile. Ras
mussen should win both high and
low hurdles if his injury permits
his participation. Prineville relay
team seems to be tops. In the
field events Prineville should
dominate by winning the high
jump, discus and broad Jump.
Redmond boasts the best In the
shot and javelin. Bend's Rasmus
sen and Sheffold should dominate
the pole vault.
On the basis of camparative
times and performances to date
Redmond should score about 58
points to Prineville's 56 and Bend's
Today's Sport Parade
By Gene Friedman
(United Pres. Staff Corrmiramlent)
Los Angeles, April 24 (UB So
far this year baseball attendance
at the Los Angeles and Holly
wood ball parks, particularly on
Sunday, the "money" day for
both teams, has shown an in
crease over 1944, but if the in
crease Is to continue or even to
hold, there will have to be some
changes made.
tans, even dyed in the wool
baseball fans, are not going to nav
admission much longer to see ex
hibitions like the Angel's double
loss bunday to San Diego by
scores of 12 to 1 and 9 to 4, or
Hollywood's double trouncing the
previous Sunday by Seattle 10
to 3 and 14 to 4.
The fact that tiro Angels, last
year's champions, and the Stars,
among the early favorites for
this year's bunting, are ocupying
seventh and eighth place, respec
tively, in the Pacific Coast league
is not likely to Increaso the
drawing power.
While the Angels have un
doubtedly issued plaintive, but so
far vain, calls to the parent Chi
cago Cubs, the Stars have no
where to look.
In their first 23 games the An
gels scored 98 runs, slightly
more than four a game, which
Is not too bad a performance,
but they have yielded 130 to
their opponents, just short of
six per game. .
Hollywood, however, is In even
worse shape. The Stars have
likewise scored 98 runs in their
23 games, but have permitted
the staggering total of 150 to
the opposition, well over six per
game. The mound staff has been
victim of a 21-run outburst, a
16-run rout, a 14 run splurge,
two 10 run defeats, a pair of nine
run wallopings and two eight run
setbacks. . .
like Frlck, Is a leading candidate
for the Job although he has ex
pressed unwillingness to accept
it. Frlck, on the other hand, has
campaigned for it actively, -
Fight Results
(By United tru
DETROIT Charlie Smith. 133.
Newark, N. J., outpointed Leon
Spencer, Detroit, (10); Pete Bc-
ios, 124, Detroit, outpointed Ku
ko Ortiz, 122, Mexico City (6).
HOLYOKE. Mass. Llee Drew.
148, Springfield, Mass., outpoint
ed Henry Jordan, 144 V&, Philadel
phia (10).
PHILADELPHIA Johnny
Carter, 161, Philadelphia, out
pointed Maria Ochoa, 163, Hava
na tlO).
BALTIMORE Archie Moore.
1G8, St. Louis, stopped Teddy
Randolph, 182, New York (9).
NEWARK, N. J. Charles
(Cabey) Lewis, 129. Havana, out
pointed Goergle Cooper, 129,
Baltimore (10).
49. All in all it promises to be
close meet with the winner
having to battle all the way.
16 Club Owners
Still Seek Czar
Cleveland, April 24 P Major
league baseball begins its own
"San Francisco" conference today
when the 16 club owners begin
deliberating again in an effort-to
select a high commissioner who
may rule the destiny of the sport
for many years after the war
is ended.
They met considerably less
hopeful of accomplishing their
purpose than the world diplomats
who will begin their momentous
conference tomorrow at San Fran
cisco.
May Delay Selection
Chances of agreement upon one
man who can muster the 12 votes
necessary to elect a commissioner
hinged upon a last minute com
promise Failing in that, the own
ers are almost certain to delay
the selection of a successor to the league, and Leslie J,
late Judge Kenesaw M. Landis secretary to Landls.
until after the war.
There were two distinct fac
tions, both equally reluctant to
relax their demands. One, led by
Col. Larry MacPhall, new head
of the Yankee organization of
New York, wants no further de
lay In the selection of a man.
MacPhall and his adherents
publicly have acclaimed Ford
Frick, president of the national
league, as the top choice, although
they probably would settle for
former postmaster general James
A. Farley, now a soft-drink conv
pany executive.
would Table Action
The other group led by Clark
Griffith, head of the Washington
Senators, and having most of its
strength In the American league,
wants to table action until after
the war when a dominant m-
tional figure, possibly a return
ing war hero or an outstanding
statesman, would be available.
Failing to elect a commissioner,
the majors will remain under the
direction of the three man com
mission which has ruled the game
since Landis died last Nov. 25.
It consists of Frick, William Har-
ridge, president of the .American
o Connor,
O'Connor,
The underlying theory on which
the Bessemer process of produc
ing steel was developed was that
after the metal was melted no
further fuel was needed because
the heat developed by the union
of the air with the carbon in the
steel would accomplish refining
and decarbonization.
Rats Introduced on the Polvne-
slan islands do much damage to
growing coconuts.
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Picking up overseas mail
"...on the fly"
Nothing is quite so precious to a fighting man as a
letter from a loved one back homo nothing more
miserable than "sweating out" mail call for the
letter that doesn't come.
Picking up mail "on tho fly" at small stations, as
shown here, is one way Southern Pacific and other
railroads see to it that your letters are handled
quickly.
Another example of fast, efficient mail service
was Southern Pacific's handling of Christmas mail
to the men overseas.
All mail to the Pacific fighting fronts is first rout
ed to Army and Fleet Post Offices in San Francisco.
During the last Christmas season, 2,931 carloads of
overseas mail rolled into Oakland and San Fran
cisco rail terminals! If the mail bags in these cars
were placed end to end they would have formed a
continuous column from San Francisco to Seattle.
To getthis unprecedented volume of mail through
on time loading, transporting, switching, handling,
and trucking problems wore worked out well in ad
vance. Many solid trains of mail were run across
the countrythousands of freight cars were
"drafted" for mail service. Everything possible was
done to assure your fighting man a letter or pack
age from home on Christmas.
We want you to know that mail for fighting men
comes first with us. It is never put aside for other
traffic. You know how letters help the morale of
men and women at the front. So, won't you write
more letters? Whether it' V-mail or regular mail,
write often.
The friendly
Southern Pacific