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o Monday, April 21, 1941 The Capital Journal, Safem, Oregon Seven Russell Ascends to City's Golf Championship Throne I Skits and Scratches By Fred Zimmerman i Capital Journal Sports Editor Baseball Isn't a success from a fl nanolal standpoint at Salem high school, but the cash outlay Isn't considerable either. No effort has been made for a number of years to charge spectators (when such animals show up) and as a result there Is no Income whatsoever. The eport Is financed by an appropria tion of $180 from the school budget This Is supposed to care for all ex penses Incident to the game, travel, meals, etc. The Viking situation bears out the statement by W. A. Alexan der, athletio director of Car negie Tech, that 1100 donation to high school teams by the ma jor club owners would take care of a lot of future diamond per formers. . . Perhaps we have forgotten, but It seems to this correspondent that the brand of high school baseball as played In 1941, Is much Inferior to that of a quarter century ago. If more Interest Isn't taken In the sport by the younger generation, the higher-ups will eventually find themselves without material. NeV' ertheless. It Is probable there are more minor leagues In business than at any time since the national pas time was founded. Whether the brand of ball Is as good Is a debat able question. Jarred Into the realization that It takes talent to win ball games, the Bchefters are busily engaged In scouring the country for baseball players who can win games. Fort land Is a good baseball town but even the Rose City fans are growing tired of backing a persistent loser. Al Llghtner, Salem Senators' first sacker, has quite a chore ahead of him. Sunday, Al and some of his mates were shooting for the left field fence and when they could do nothing better than rattle the boards a bit, they all affirmed the sign "352" feet was an under-statement. Al was so sure of it that he de clared he'd eat all of the grass between home plate and the fence If the distance was not quite a bit more than 352 feet. The grounds-keeper got out his tape and with Al on one end, the third base line clear out to the foul marker was carefully checked. The distance was exactly 349 feet. On, well, It Is said there are a lot of vitamins In grass. Mebby by the time Llghtner chews off a swath i he will have sufficient power to get one over the fence. The small sized riot at the con clusion of the Oregon State-Oregon baseball game at Eugene Saturday Is a good example of what can hap pen when one umpire Is trying to work a close game between two hot rivals. The Beavers won the game but Umpire Spec Burke was the vic tim of Coach Howard Hobson's ire. The play which caused the argu ment occurred In the last of the ninth. With two away and trailing by one run, Dick Whitman hit a hard grounder to Paul Johnson, whose throw to first was a bit wide. Lyle Specht at first caught the ball and Burke called the runner out. Whitman and Hobson claimed Specht failed to tag the runner but Burk stood by his guns and in the mix-up in front of the Oregon bench, Burke hit the turf. Viking Golfers Win at Eugene Eugene, April 21 (P) Salem won a five-way high school golf match here Saturday by scoring 32 points to defeat Albany with 80, Univer sity (Eugene) 27, Eugene 23 and Cor vallia 8. Point scorers for Salem were Bums, (H (78), Sederstrom 844 (77) , Kay 8H (79), Beardsley 8V4 (78) . The census bureau says that al most twice as many people die from motor-vehicle accidents as from the following causes of death put to gether: typhoid and paratyphoid fe ver, measles, scarlet fever, whoop, lng cough, diphtheria, epidemic ear ebrosplnal meningitis, and malaria. OUR BOOTS i3tt I DATE FOR D E R B Y One of the Kentucky derby ellgibles. dated op for the 67th running May I in Louisville, Is Our Boots from the Wood vale Farm stable. Last year this colt won out of I starts, earned 5U51 for Owner S. O. Martin. Utter Loses On Greens in Final Matches Jim Russell took over the golf throne of the city yesterday when he defeated Bob Utter 4 and 3 in the finals of the tournament spon sored by the Active club. Russell succeeds Walter Cllne, Jr., who was eliminated early In the series of matches. With Utter badly off form in his putting, Russell was six up at the end of the first nine. The eventu al loser played his opponent even during the second nine but had cut the margin to three at the end of 27 holes. The turning point In the contest came on the 11th when Utter missed a two foot putt. This made him two down and he was not able to close the gap from there on out. Both men were better than aver age with their Irons, although Ut ter was hooking with his woods. Russell shot a 34 on the first nine as against 39 for Utter. Both scop ed 37s on the second nine. Start ing the afternoon round Utter shot a 34 as compared with 37 tor his opponent. They played par during the fourth nine. Culminating the tournament the Active club will sponsor a "stag" party at the clubhouse Tuesday night at 7 to which all those who participated will be welcome. Flight winners: Second flight: Alley 1 up over Bstey. Third flight: Bates one up over Harvey. Fourth flight: McCrary, 1 and 6 over Moon. Fifth night: Kitsmlller, 1 and over Hauk. Sixth flight: Qlalsyer over Hauk. Seventh flight: Allen, 3 and a over Gardner. Ninth flight: DeSart over Sieg. mund, 1 up. 10th flight: Albert 2 and 1 over Steele. 11th flight: Dyer beat Hoffman, 12th flight: Jensen 1 up over Abst. 13th flight: Olvens, 8 and 5 over Stone. 14th flight: Rogers won. American Standings L Pet. 0 1.000 3 .87 3 .511 :3 -.500 1 .600 4 .333 5 .390 8 .187 I Pet. 1 .8.18 1 .150 3 ,00 3 .71 4 .423 3 .400 4 .333 5 .167 L Pet. 4 .760 4 .793 5 .637 S .fOT t .438 .367 11 .313 11 .397 Bolton 5 Cleveland 4 New York 4 Chicago ...., ,.r 3 ' St. Loulf 1 Philadelphia 1 Detroit 1 Waihlnston ., 1 National W New York 6 Chicago S St. Loulg ,,........,.,, 3 Brooklyn 4 Boston 8 Pittsburgh ' 3 Clnolnnatl 3 Philadelphia 1 Paelfle Coast W Sacramento 13 Seattl 11 San Diego 10 Hollywood 1 Oakland 7 Los Angeles 5 San Francisco 6 Portland 4 Dallas Will Play Amity Tuesday Dallas Coach Hagan and his Dragons travel to Amity Tuesday afternoon for a Y-P league clash and there is every Indication that they will have a Job on their hands to maintain their string of wins In league competition when they come up against the Robbins crew. The batters didn't fatten their average at the expense of Sheridan on Friday as the visitors played a headsup game In the field and robbed the gang of a number of what seemed certain hits. Dick Osuna, diminutive catcher on the Dragon squad, pav ed the way for the Sheridan win when he slapped a double to cen terfleld with runners on second and third. Richardson, ace twlrler of the Dragon mound staff, will like ly be Coach Hagan's choice for the Amity game. . The annual death toll In the United States from leprosy runs around 20, according to the census. Ju&X Major League Results Refute Opinions of Crystal Gazers It , . Washington Varsity Defeats California In the record-shattering time of 14:38 for the three miles, the University of Washington's varsity crew defeated California's shell on the Oakland, Calif., estuary Washington Is shown In the foreground at the finish. Associated Press Photo. Solons Drop 3 Members of Training Club Three men who had been working out with the Salem Senators during their spring maneuvers at George E. Waters park in preparation for the opening of the Western Inter national league season, May 1, were free agents today. Pitcher Ray El liott, Salem boy, asked for and re ceived his release Saturday, while Pitcher Pete Benson and Inflelder Don Jones were handed their dis missal slips yesterday by Manager Bunny Griffiths. The slack In the training squad will be taken up Tuesday when Pit cher Dell Oliver and Inflelder Lanl fero, both owned by San Diego, will be dropped off here as the Padres make their way to Portland for the opening of the Coast league season In the northwest. The Willamette-Salem game ori ginally booked for Tuesday after noon has been moved up to today at 3 In order to permit attendance at the opener In Portland by all who care to go. The Senators will engage In a brief workout early Tuesday. The Senators took a 3 to 2 deci sion over Willamette Saturday af ternoon thanks to a sensational catch by Bob Bergstrom, Solon out fielder, in the ninth. There were two away at the time with Bobby Baggett on second base. George Hochstetler walked to the plate and hit sharply. It looked like a certain hit but Bergstrom hauled it down with a one handed catch. Pete Benson, who was released Sunday, was credited with the win. He had been preceded on the mound by Williams. Bunny Griffiths had lent Lee Falun and Gene renter to the Bearcats, with the latter be ing charged with the defeat. Fallln hit safely both times he was at bat, while Bergstrom hit 3 for 4 for the winners. 1 Willamette 17 1 Senator t T 3 Hanauska, Fallln, renter and Robertson, Adams; Williams, Ben son and Warren. Beavers, Webfoots Even in Baseball Eugene, April 31 VP) University of Oregon and Oregon State stood even In their northern division base ball series today as the result of the Beavers' 4-3 victory here Sat urday. The teams did all their scoring In the first inning, but fireworks con tinued even after the last out of the game. Umpire Spec Burke was knocked to the ground In a dispute that followed Oregon Coach How ard Hobson's protest of a play at first base. Two Oregon errors and four hits, one of them a triple by Leonard Younce, gave the winners their scores. Oregon tallied on a base on balls 'and three errors. Score: Oregon State 4 6 4 Oregon 8 6 3 Shaw and Capka: Beglerles and Calvert, Aumsville Wins Over Turner Aumsville On a marshy field of mud and water the Aumsville Ran gers won over Turner high 4 to 1. Stan Russell, with 3 hits for 3 times up and driving In 3 runs, was the spark plug for the Rangers. This Ls the second win for Aumsville against no defeats In the southern section of Marlon county B league. Aumsvlle 4 6 4 Turner , 13 6 Based on census figures, it is esti mated that from 1930 to 1980 the proportion of the population 60 years of age and over will Increase from 8.5 per cent to 19J per cent. while the proportion of persons un der 30 years of age will show a de crease from 38.8 per cent to 26.1 per cent. " V- Vcfc Si r 1 ilf ft fv. : ,,:&. k ' v )aaBaswwswWaflCLLi!L Klemmer Wins 440 From Littler Grover Klemmer (left), Califor nia, ran the 440-yard dash In 47 seconds at Berkeley, Calif., to reverse the tables on his Nebraska rival, Gene Littler (right), and win by ten feet. Littler won when the two met last year. California won the dual track and field meet from Nebraska, 89-43. Associated Press Photo. Huskies Favored Af Poughkeepsie (Br tha United Press) The University of Washington varsity crew was well established today as the favorite to win the Poughkeepsie regatta on the Hudson river June 35. The smooth-stroking Huskies de feated the University of California by three and two-thirds lengths Sat urday In the fastest race In the his tory of the Pacific coast regatta. Washington's time was 14 min utes and 38 seconds, 18.3 seconds better than the record of 14:46.3 set about half an hour before by the Washington Junior varsity in their length and an eighth victory. Princeton's Tarslty, which opened with a victory over Rutgers two weeks ago, helped Navy open its season and won from the Middles by three-quarters of a length In 9:36 over the mile and three-quarter course on the Severn river. Lindsay, Osborne Mr. Hood Winners Tlmberllne Lodge. April Jl Pi Margaret Lindsay, Portland, and Blanche Osborne, Eugene, carried off all the honors In Oregon's first woman's class B and O ski meet here yesterday. Miss Lindsay won first place In downhill and slalom competition of class B and led the field In com bined totals. Miss Osborne did the same In class C. Hammer Succeeds Snowy Gusrafson Klamath Falls, Ore., April 31 (U.P5 Officials today said Kenneth (Buck) Hammer would succeed Arthur Ous ta'Bon as football coach at Kla math union high school. Gustafson, a reserve army lieutenant, was call ed Into service. Pippins Win Over Twin Falls Yakima, Wash., April 31 (U.R) A triple with two out and two on In the ninth gave the Yakima Pippins of the Western International base ball league a 4-3 win over the Twin Falls Pioneer league team yester day. Wenatchee, Wash., April 31 (U.B The Western International base ball league's Wenatchee Chiefs de feated the University of Washing ton 8-4 and 10-3 Saturday to sweep a three tame Apple Festival awrin. m amy; n1-' v 1 m 11 'i'-Jt i amiPWWiSlWtWIB Stengel to Remain As Bees' Manager Boston, April 31 (U.R) Bob Qulnn, head of the syndicate which pur chased the Boston Bees from O. F. Adams, chain store and horse rac ing executive, said today that Casey Stengel would remain manager. Sale of Adams' 73 percent major ity stock in the Bees to the syndi cate of 14 sportsmen, all but two New England residents, was an nounced last night by Qulnn. The purchase price was reported as between 6350,000 and $400,000. McShain and Efo In Main Event Danny McShain and Tro Eto will take the mat In the main event of next Wednesday night's wrestling entertainment at the armory. It will be a case of one meanle against another and plenty of action seems assured. The program will open at 8:30 with Prince Ilakl and Walter Achiu working over the 30 minute route. Bulldog Jackson and Jack Klser have the 49 minutes semi-final spot. Women will be admitted without charge. West Salem Club Defeats Liberty West Salem The boys' basketball team defeated Liberty on Friday af ternoon by a score of 9 to in a scheduled suburban league gams played on tha Liberty field. A game will be played with Roberts on Wednesday afternoon at Ro berts. The Blue Lake Producers' ball club defeated th- Elfstrom Paint Store team Friday afternoon by a score of T to 1 In the game played on dinger field. WRESTLING LADIES FREE! LADIES FREE! Danny McShain vs. Tra Ito 1 Hoar Bulldog Jackson vs. Jack Riser as Minnas Bneen Achlu re. Prince Ilakl M Mlnalaa Salem Armory Wed., April 23 Latrsr Hear sac . Balcony 4Sa aoatrroS Saaia TSo (No Tail Tickets! Cllrf Parker's and trUoa AasBlees American Loslon Sladcntc toe Br Owons. Malaataakaf Coast League Makes Debut In Northwest (Br tha Associated Press) Coast league baseball makes its 1941 debut In the Pacific northwest tomorrow with the two top teams clashing In Seattle. While the pace setting oaora- mento Senators and the 1940 cham pionship Seattle Rainlers fight it out, the third place San Diego Pn- dres will be in a perfect spot to climb past them Into the lead at the expense of their hosts, tne low ly Portland Beavers. The top trio came tnrougn tne week-end in customary style with two victories to a single defeat to widen the gap between them and the five losing clubs. Julio Bonettl, Los Angeles pitch' ', was responsible for Sacramen to's sole loss when he singled In the ninth and scored the deciding run on Johnny Moore's double to win yesterday's opener 6-4. A walk sandwiched in between a pair oi doubles in the fifth gave the Sen ators the two run margin for a 3-1 decision In the nightcap. The Sacs breezed through the Angels 6-3 Sat urday. Three hits in the 10th, topped by pinch hitter Bill Lawrence's triple, won yesterday's nightcap for Se attle over Oakland 3-1. Three dou ble Plays by the Seattle Infield helped offset the 13 hits Paul Greg ory allowed the Oaks In the opener. The Rainlers won 9-4 to regain their winning stride after losing 1-0 Saturday before the three-nit pltchlns of Jack Salveson. Mel Mazzera's three-bagger plus a sacrifice broke a 9-9 tie in the eighth to give San Diego a 10-9 win over the San Francisco Seals. The Seals put three of their hits to gether In the third inning of the nightcap to win 1-0 while Lefty Mel Marlowe scattered the four Padre hits over the five innings the game lasted. San Diego hammered out 16 safeties to win 10-1 Saturday In their greatest splurge of the season the Portland Beavers won two out of three week-end games from Hollywood to double the num ber of their season's victories. The Beavers won yesterday's opener 7 and then returned to form by drop plnrt the nightcap 11-6. Ad Llska held the Stnrs to four hits Satur day while the Beaver's bunched four In the 10th to win 3-0. The Stnrs entertain Los Angeles this week while Oakland plays at San Francisco. Yesterday's scores: Portlnnd MO 51! 103 7 14 a Hollywood 800 oil 000 5 4 Oonsnles, Jnoobs 9, and Hawkins; Tost, Dasso B. and Brensel. Portlsnd 201 MO 0 11 4 Hollywood 05fl 000 s 11 11 1 8peeoe, Conger I. Orell S. Jncotis s. and Hawkins, Annunzloi Blttner, Joiner S, and Dapper, Seattl 013 031 000 14 Oakland 001 011 001 4 13 a Gregory and Campbell: Corbett, Mulli gan I, narrow S, and Conroy, Seattle 000 100 000 3 ( 0 Oakland 010 000 000 0 I 9 1 Turpln. Johnson B. Brown 10, and Fal lon Plppen and W. Rnlmondl. San Francisco 000 021 330 B 11 1 San Diego 030 030 Jlx 10 15 i Seals, Ballou S, and Otrodowskl: Tbo- mas, Olsen 7. Humphreys 8. and Bauccia. San Francisco 001 00 1 4 1 San Diego 000 00 0 4 0 Called end of 5th Inning by agreement. Marlowe and Bprlna; Malman and De tore. Los Angelea 310 010 001 S 19 9 Sacramento 031 010 000 4 13 3 Bonettl and Collins: Schmldl and Wlec zorek. Gardner S. Los Angeles too 000 S I 4 0 Blind taste tests prove that Barclay's Red Label up with higher-priced blends. Satisfy your taste at a Dopular price. Make the taste test yourself. 1 Salter MVfral1 popular Soirlf BUndt rf ardlou of prlc. O Otvs Mch failing glai a nwribif en bttltom, to cerrttvptnd with ach brand, 9 AUt fftrM t tftti frUndi t ttUcf tint, vend and third errata, with vt thdr bwwkfrg whUfc brand b which. M Yaw &- Mora and for your otlf RadUbaTMahatffagavraa QUID Q GIOIIj) Salem Horse Tops n Portland Show Portland, April 21 VP) A Salem and a Eugene horse were among winners In the 10th annual civic horse allow here Saturday. Ima Chief, owned by Ivor Mor gan, Salem, won first place In the fine harness class, and was tied for second in competition for the Associated Hunt clubs of Oregon trophy, awarded to the show's high point winner. Sally Rand, owned and ridden by Barbara Huntington, Eugene, was third In the five-galted saddle horse class. Salem Defeats Silverfon Club Salem defeated Sllverton, 34H to 10H. In an lnter-city golf match Sunday but medal honors went to one of the visiting club wlelders when Carson, playing against John Varley, came in with a score of 72. Carson and Eastman wete the only members of the visiting .squad of 15 to make a clean sweep over their Salem opponents. Patterson, Painter, Hague, Potts, Waterman, Gustafson, Curtis, No we Is and Woodry each captured three points for the winners, Salem 34 Varter 0 Nash a aitrtrton 10W Carson 3 Chalfan 1 Ooati 0 Schaeffer Ens t man 3 Williams 1 Aim 0 Preston 1 Vorseth 0 Bonner 0 Tucker 0 Leaard 0 Hobbs It Wilson 0 Sohroeder 0 Patterton S Painter 3 Bmlcn 0 Starr 2 Hague 3 Pe)car a Potts Waterman 3 Oust af son 3 Curtis 3 Busted l'i Woodry 3 Nowelt I The Scoreboard Br tha Aasolatcd Press) National Chicago 11, St. Louis 10 (10 lnnlntsl. Cincinnati T, Plttsburth a. Boston T, Philadelphia ft (10 Innlnts). Brooklyn 10, New York 0. American Oloveland 4, Detroit S. Boston 14, Washington 8. New York 10. Philadelphia t. St. Louis at Chloaio, postponed, rain. Coast Seattle -. Oakland t-1. Portland 7-. Holuwood 8-11. Los Anteles S-l, Sacramento 4-S. Ban Diego 10-0. San Francisco 8-1. Exhibition Basehall Yakima (WIL) 4, Whitman Collets 1. Salem (WIL) . Willamette V. . Wenatchee (WIL) 8-10. U. of Washing ton 4-9. Washington state ll-ll. zrt Hardwars, Lcwlston, Ida.. 0-4. Oregon Frosh 7, Lincoln High. Portland. 4. Oregon Frosh 8, Jerrcrson High, Fort- land, 8. Boise (WILt 20. Spokane (WIL) II. Yakima (WIL) 4, Twin Falls (pioneer) 8. College Baseball Oregon state 4, Oregon 8. Track Washington state 01, Ideho 40. Oregon state 8. Oregon 8 (relay meet). Oregon state Frosh 4, Oregon Frosh 1 (relay meet). Tennis Washington State 8, Idaho 1. Census figures show nearly 13B million neckties for men are made each year In American factories Enough to provide two new ones for each male. Sacramento 010 080 a 8 I 8 (T Innings). Thomas and Holm: Mungsr, Floras I, and Wleciorek, Gardner 1. Saturday's results: Loa Antales 8, Sacramento 0! San Francisco 1, San Diego 101 Portland Hollywood 0; Seattle 0, Oakland L IS THE PAY-OFF! $1.75 95c FULL PINT JAS. lAIClAY CO, ITS, DiTCO'rf, MrCVIIOANf PfOllsV, IlllNOU 11 Neutral drain Spirit. flOOF Qd Giants Beaten For 1st Time By Brooklyn By Bill Bonl (Associated Press Sports Writer) This, marking the start of the second week of the major league baseball season, should by rights bring pause for reflection, a check back on the prc-season estimates and how they are holding up under the early firing. In the light of yesterday's de velopments, however, this comer defies anyone to come up with a reasonable, logical analysis. This comer Itself has not yet even come up for air, buried as it ls under base hits and horrible statistics. For those who Insist on analysis, however, here Is the situation: In the National League the New York Giants, who were not supposed to make the first division, are in first place, having lost their first game In six starts to Brooklyn yes terday, 10-9. The Cincinnati Reds, favored to repeat for the pennant, are next to last and attained that eminence only by winning their last two games, Including a 7-3 job on the Pittsburgh Pirates yesterday. In the American league, barring the presence of the scorned Boston Red Sox in first place with a record of five wins and no (none at all) losses, things are not quite so strange. After all the Cleveland In dians and the New York Yankees are figured to run one-two either way you name 'em, and at the mo ment they're running two-three. In the national league there were four games. These produced, says the adding machine, 62 runs, 100 hits, 16 errors and 27 pitchers, or an average of 15 tuns, 25 hits, four errors and seven pitchers per each. There were three games in the American league. These turned up 52 runs, 67 hits, 12 errors and 15 pitchers. Also an average per game of far too many. In both leagues there was only one pitcher able to go nine innings. He was the Yankees' Red Ruffing, who gave the Philadelphia Athletics 10 hits but got such stupendous sup port from his mates he could have pitched 'em underhand. Tins support took In three homers, two by Joe Gordon and one with the bases full by Joe DiMagglo; six straight hits and eight runs In the fifth, and a six-run ninth. The score was 10-5, and the victim Crubby Dean, who had humbled the Yanks In their home opener but lived to regret it. The best pitching, however, was a two-man, six-hit Job by Mel Harder and Joe Hevlng, who heaved the Indians to a 4-2 verdict over the Detroit Tigers. The other American League game was a mauling match which the Red Sox won from the Washington Senators, 14-8. In the senior circuit things were even beter, or worse. The Dodgers and Giants drew a record Polo Grounds crowd of 56,314, and every man got his money's worth, what with five homers, two by Mel Ott; nine pitchers, and the winning run scored from second by Dolph Camllll after the Giants' Babe Young had hit Alex Kampourls In the head while trying to force the Brooklyn Inflelder at second. Cycling for pleasure Is Just de veloping In Colombia. Whiskey stands with Red Label, FULL QUART mm m