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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 21, 1937)
FRIDAY, MAY 21. 1937 AMERICAN L EAGUE CLUBS GROUPED IN TIGHT RACE THE CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON LEADERS LESS THAN 5 GAMES AHEAD BROWNS B the Auoci iMd Press) The whole tiling doesn't make as much sence as an insane asylum, but the figures show the American lea gue is off to a closer and more com pleiely unloosed for start than It ha been in years. By the end of the first month last year, five games separated first and fourth place. Tim season, the race was regarded as New York, Detroit, Cleveland and nothing much else. But io far it's been as tight as a mus tard plaster so close in fact, that only 42 games separate the leaders of the moment, Cleveland s Indians, from the cellar riding St. Louis Browns. And most astonishing of all Is that the longest of tlie long shots, Connie Mack's mystifying Athletics, are in second place, leading both the Yan kees and the Tigers. They were on top until yesterday, but the Indians licked Die tar out of the Boston Red Sox, 16-5, while the As dropped 3-2 decision to the Tigers, which gave the Tribe the pace by a percentage margin. Hottest of all right now are the reviving Washington Senators and their sudden form reversal is Jus! as explainable as the rest of the leu- gue's ways. Although their pitching still is in a sorry state, the Nats are starting to hit, and on this strength alone have won their last four to climb from eighth to fifth place. It took two twirlers and 12 innings be fore they finally overcame the Browns yesterday 5 to 4 on Ossie Bluege'n timely single. Thursday's games: National Pittsburgh 5, Philadel phia 2; Boston 4, Cincinnati 1; Chi cago 6, Brooklyn 1; New York 7, St Louis 4. American Cleveland 16. Boston 5; Washington 5. St. Louis 4 (12 innings); Detroit 3, Philadelphia 2; Chicago 3, New York 1. WALTONIANS MOVE TO BEND COUNTRY Portland, May 21 tJPi More than 100 members of the Portland Izaak Walton League travel Into the cen tral Oregon "fishing belt" this week end to test the reputation of the Deschutes country as one of the most famous sport centers of the west. The "mass movement" of anglers represents the largest outing of the season. Special curs will take the Portlanders to Deschutes River Sat urday morning. They return Sunday. The weekly fishing bulletins from the state game commission office listed conditions this week-end as "only fair." The reports Included: Lane county High water and melting snow has reduced prospects in the eastern part of the county. Spinners are bringing a few catches on the McKcnzie. Fair bags taken with salmon eggs on Winbery creek. Week-end outlook fair on lower Mc Kenzle and Willamette if cool wea ther holds out. Siuslaw good, Tri angle lake and Lake creek fair. Yamhill county Good catches of crappies and perch reported from Carlton lake. SALEM HI TENNIS MEN WIN MATCHES Portland, May 21 W) Twenty-two competing teams In the annual Reed College state hiith school tennis tour- nament was reduced to eight it each division as quarter-finals mat ches opened the second day's play Salem. Eugene. Grants Pass and Washington. Franklin. Grant, Lin coin and Columbia schools of Port land remained In the singles, with Salem, Grants Pas. Corvallls, S! Mary's. Grant, Lincoln, Washington and Columbia fighting It out In the doubles. Yesterday's results Included: Singles First round: Beall. Sa lem, defeated Bcrman. Corvallis. 8-2 6-0. Doubles First round: Beall and Butekunst, Salem, defeated Hawordi and Tate. Ncwbein. 6-2. o-O. Sad Sam Adds Eighth Straight Win; Beavers Win Over Senators, 7-4 By Astocitud Press) Sad Sam Gibson dolefully added another shut-out to his record to run his season's wins to eiht straight, the best showing1 any Pacific coast league pitcher could boast today. The aging nurier. wno na&n t crack- ed a fetmle on public for years and years, limited the Los Angeles to five singles, t&bued one pass and fanned three as the San Francisco Seals won A to 0 to take a firmer Sport Stunts By PAP9 A pair of ball games do not make a AeaMm But In the case of Cliff Melton, the New York Giants' rook ie lefthander, two games were enough to make the lanky hurler the most-discussed new pitcher In the National league. In his first two starts as a Giant, Melton fanned 22 Boston Bees. He lost the first gme by a slim mar gin to Guy Bu&h. then turned the tables on the jame hurler In the second battle. Giant Catchrr Gua MancuM Insists the mighty man from Black Mountain. N. C, is the fastest lefthander in the senior circuit since BUI Hallahan's fireball smouldered out. Gus should know. He caught Ilalla han when Wild Bill was hottest with the Cardinals. Giant bench chatter brums out great variety of opinion. Melton' has supporters who feci certain he has as much speed as Van Mungo of Brooklyn. Even those not will ing to concede Cliff has as much speed as the leagues fastest ad mlt the rookie has the makings of a real mound star. Melton reminds one of Lefly Grove, when Grove first came up to the Athletics from Balti more, Grove was a fireball pitcher then. If anything. Mel ton haa a bit mora control than Grove showed In his early games for Connie Mack. Melton, 24 yaers old, started his career with Asheville in 1931. Bal timore purchased him before the end of the season. He was usually an Oriole for the next five years, with side trips to Erie, the Yan kees, Newark and Blnghampton. His work showed steady improvement. Last season he turned in 20 vic tories for Baltimore. Albany High Loses To Lebanon, 6 to 4 Albany Albany high school's base ball nine lost iis first game of the fieaon Tuesday when they were beaten by the Lebanon high Berry pickers 6 to 4. Albany had previously beaten the Lebanon lads. The game was played here. Albany took a lead In the second ranto when four runs were piled up Lebanon tallied twice in the third nd In the next three innings neither team scored. In the first half of uw seventh stanza the Berrypickers rounted the tying and winning runs. La Fond. Lebanon left-fielder, reach ed first on an error. Baker, center fielder, was issued a pass and both scored on Helmerdlnger's double. Pitcher Shannon was safe on a fum ble and Pinch-hitter Crist was hit by a pitched ball, filling the bases Helmerdlnger and Crist scored on a fielder's choice when ForbU hit. Summary: Ft H E Lebanon 6 ft 2 Albany 4 7 3 HUSKIES ROUT TWO BEAVER PITCHERS Seattle. May 21 IJPi The Husky baseball team of the University of Washington ended a two-game scr ies with Oregon State college with second victory over the Orange men, routing two pitchers and win ning 13 to 3. The Huskies landed on Kalibak. Beaver moundsman, for two runs In the first and four more In the third. Penger, who relieved Kahbak, had no better luck, giving way to Younce after yielding four hits and three walks which let In six more counters. The St-aters scored two In the sixth and another in the ninth. Orocon Stale 3 7 1 hold on the league leadership yes terday. Sad Sam's pitching was so good for an old man (he's 36), Manager Truck Hannah of the Angels altered his line-up in a vain effort to get some run producing hits. Arnold Stntz. lead off man for the Angels since the season started, was janked from centerfleld In the seventh inn ing and Cleo Carlyle moved from right to center. Chunky Murray Howell went into rlghtfleld. Steve Mesner. Just returned from Chicago, was put on third and Fred McWil liams took over Ed Holt's Job at second base. Pacific coast league'pitching was surprisingly above the 1937 average yesterday. Otho Nitcholas of the Missions kept the slugging Oakland Acorns under control at the Reds scored an easy 6 to 1 victory In their cellar series. Seattle reversed Wednesday's .5 to 0 score when Dick (Kewpie) Bar rett limited the San. Diego Padres to six hits, fanned eight and his teammates reached three San Diego pitchers for ten hits, including a three-bagger by Alan strange. Portland nicked two Sacramento pitchers for 13 bingles, including four doubles to win, 7 to 4. Ad Llska allowed the Solons nine hits, three In the last inning when they scored all of their runs. Thursdays results: Portland 7 13 0 Sacramento 4 9 1 Llska and Cronin; Newsome, Seats 61, and Clark. Seattle 5 10 0 San Diego 0 6 2 Barrett and Basslcr; Hebeit, Pil- lette 2i, Chaplin (8) and Starr. Los Angeles 0 5 2 San Francisco 6 10 1 Prim and Collins; Gibson and Monzo. Missions 6 11 0 Oakland 1 0 1 Nitcholas and Sprlnz; Breucr, Olds 9 and Baker. SILVER FALLS PLAYS EUGENE Sllverton On Sunday, May 23 the Silver Falls baseball team will travel to Eugene to meet the Drakes, the oldest members of the Oregon State league. Sliver Falls won from the Sweet Home team. 10 to 5, coming from behind to score 7 runs in the ftth and 9th innings, while Eugene lost to Bend. 6 to 5. Silver Falls plans to reinforce its team with a number of last year's players, including Orren and Moe of Wulamete and Jerry Gas tlneau formerly of Willamette. Sll verton hopes to have Bonney and A. Schwab who have been playing great ball for the O.S.C. rooks. The probable line-up for Silver Falls Sunday will be Brady If. John son ss. Sears 2b. A. Schwab lb, Bon ney cf. O. Schwab rf, Orren 3b, Moe c, Burch p. Utility men are Bourbannais and Gastlneau, pitchers; Wattier. Reed, outfield: Williams. Osier and F. Sears. Infield, and Buckman eith. infield or outfield. Silverton's first home game will be May 30. Decoration day, when Silver Falls will meet Hills Creek BISHOP'S OFFERING PRIZES FOR TROUT Three prizes with a combined value of $20 will be awarded by BLshop s for the three boys be tween the ages of 7 to 16 who catch the largest trout from May 22 to July l. The first prize will be a $10 sport coat; second, $6 leather jack et, and the third a $4 pair of sport oxfords. To be eligible to take part in the competition, boys must eiuier reg ister personally at Bishop's or must mail in their names and addresses. All of the trout entered must be weighed at Bishop's store. Feller to Remain On Bench Balance Trip Through East Washington, May 21 (Pi Man ager JStcve O'Neill announced to day that Bob Feller, the ( 'eve land Indians' youthful strikeout king, would do no further pitch ing on the club's current eastern trip which ends May 27. O'Neill's announcement came after Feller reported his "million dollar" right arm felt weak and that some trace of soreness re mained. The Iowa youth has made only one appearance lnce he suffer ed the injury In his first Ameri can league start of the season, at Cleveland April 24. Against the Boston Bed Sox Tuesday in a relief role he walked a batter on five pi Ith en and was replaced Immediately. WEBFOOTS TURN IN WIN OVER IDAHO Washington 13 11 4 Kalibak, Fenger, Younce and Sol- ler: Budnlck and Marlowe. Moscow, Idaho, May 21 (P Scor ing in all but two innings, the Uni versity of Oregon baseball team mov ed nearer the northern division title with a 10 to 7 victory over the Uni versity of Idaho here Thursday. Mullen, Webfoot third baseman, accounted for four of his team's 13 hits with a triple, a double and two singles in five times up. The Vandals gathered steam as they went along, scoring three in the seventh and two In the ninth, but failed to overcome the command ing lead granted the Oregonians ear. ly in the game. Score: Oregon 10 13 4 Idaho 7 9 4 Lewis and McLean; Jenkins, Broadhead and Baldwin. Parker's Beaten by Fade's, 2 to 1 Score Padea defeated Parker's 2 to 1 and St. Joseph's outscored Alpha Psi B to 3 in junior division soft ball games on Bweetland field. The ftrt game went nine innings before the deadlock was broken, fit. Jo seph's pushed over five runs in their half of the seventh, taking advantage of several Alpha Psi errors. Parker's 13 2 Pane's 2 4 2 Smither and Taylor; Comstock, Guthrie and Hastings. Alpha Psi 3 8 3 St. Joseph's S 11 0 Moses and Quesseth; K. Larson and B. Larson. BEARCATS LOSE 1ST GAME, 13-0 Walla Walla. May 21 (A, Ham mering Walt Weaver, aoe Bearcat pitcher, from the mound In less than three innings, the hitman col lege baseball team blanked Willam ette university 13 to 0 In the first game of the Northwest conference championship series. Jonas, for the Missionaries, al lowed but four scattered hits. Willamette will depend upon Jerry Castineau today to even the count and keep the Bearcats In the run ning for the title they won last year. Schneidmlller will pitch for Whitman, Score: Willamette 0 4 8 Whitman 13 11 1 Weaver, Nunnenkamp, Sutton, Beard and Weisgerber; Jonas and Edwards. DALLAS WINS Independence The Dallas high school baseball nine cleaned up on the local team here Wednesday evening by a score of 7-5. Kirk pitched the entire game and showed good form except in a little "flare- up" in the eighth Inning when Inde pendence ran up three talleys. Crabtree was drawn out of the game at the 7th innings and replac ed by Housley a pitcher. He held them for no further runs through- I out the eighth and ninth innings. TOWNIES PLAY HILLS CREEK Woodbura The Woodbum Town iea will play the Hills Creek Lumber company team of Eugene at Woog burn Sunday afternoon In the second Stale league game, beginning at 2 30. Manager BomhofI states he is perfectly satisfied with the showing made last Sunday by the Townws and will start practically the same lineup for this Sundays game. The team bitting average for the first game was 368 with but two err ors, which was very good consider ing the dampish weather and the fact that no team practice was held prior to the game. Claud Cant, first baseman, was particularly effective at bat, getting 3 for 4 including two two-base hits. The keystone' combi nation of Salstrom and Cody shows promise of a strong defense. Heine' Zimmerman pitched very effective ball with little exertion and will be on the mound again witn Voget. peppery catcher, on the re ceiving end. STAYTON JUNIORS PRACTICE SUNDAY Stayton Candidates for the lo cal Amercian Legion Junior base ball team will go through their first drill of the year at i p. m. Sunday at the Stayton ball field in preparation for the season's cam paign which they hope will carry them to the county title. The com mittee directing the junior baseball stars this year is headed by Leon ard Jordan. The Stayton team will present a tighter Infield and an Improved list of hitters this year over the club last season, according to Indi cations. Two hurlers are being groomed to handle the mound work for the campaign. The first contest of the season has been slated for a week from Sunday with Sllverton, always a strong county entry, presenting the opposition. This is the second win for Dallas this week over Independence. Idaho Issues Free License to Blind Boise, Idaho. May 21 Wj Blind Charles W. Merkle of Filer, went flshlne: today with a free license first Issued In Idaho under a ne statute which exempts the sightless from paying the regular (2 lee. An air mail and passenger sen Ice will connect Tokyo, Japan, and Peiplng. China i n - Paul Jarboe, who for 28 years has had charge of storing Glenmore whiskey, says: "Corrugated iron warehouses is the old-fashioned way but the difference sure does tell in the taste" "Warehousing whiskry on open ricks, so the air can circulate all 'round the barrels, cobts morebut we couldn't produce that wonderful tuste any other way." Mint Springs Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskry is made from the bame high quality American grains by the same processes as Cknmore's finest, most expensive brands. 90 PROOF in a u 1SS Pints Glen mure Distilleries Co., Incorporated LuuiaviUe OwcosIjoio, Keotucky Code No. 137C 65c QUARTS 1C Code No. 157 A 9X.A-9 QjM!aiaiiTB Pacific and Normal Divide Ball Games Forest Grove, Ore., May 21 lfP)- Pacific university and Oregon Nor mal school finished all even in a baseball double-header here, the vis iting Wolves losing to the Badgers, 5 to 4, in the opener and winning the nightcap 3 to 2. The Badgers bunched their hits in the sixth to score all their runs In the first game, Diericks holding the Wolves to six hits. A ninth-inning run brought vic tory to the visitors in the finale, which was tied up at the end of the ."scheduled seven stanzas. . BtGOEsr dounns lUonm WHAT YOU GIT WITH STOP-WEAR LUBRICATION Complf l Chauii, Motor and Body Lubrication Body Bolls Tijhlcncd Batter,- Checked Tarminall Cleaned Tint Checked Interior Cleaned All Window, Cleaned Lights, Homi, ic, Checked Tianiminlon Differential Checked -And mr arttr apaciaf aaniceif Open! orlsl to Ml a alf Hut picnic nnovr IN CAR LUBRICATION! The Stop-Wear boy, are proud of (he doIlarVworth they Rive. And richily too. Each one u an expert. He uses only Union friction-proof lubricants of the correct grade. The right kind, in the right amounts, in the tight place. His equipment i, complete, modern. He works according to the car manufacturer', recommendation for jourctt. There's no gueuwork, nothing overlooked. 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