The Capital Journal, Salem.
Skits and
Scratches
- Br Fred Zimmerman
Capital Journal Spurts Editor
Induction Into the armed ervice
of the country of athletic directors
who have not advanced beyond the
middle aged spread point of life,
Is bringing back Into news print
some of the older generation. De
parture of Tex Oliver from Oregon
brought letters from a few gentle
men who the publio had been led
to believe had retired for good from
the Held of athletics. One of these,
Jim Thorpe, brings to mind
achievements of more than a quar
ter century ago of this Indian who
was one of the outstanding athletes
of the century.
Our apologies to Del Shroer,
the fire foot five shorUlop of
the Salem Senator squad. The
reason his throws have not been
reachinr first with a lot of ilp
can be charged to a sore flipper.
It's nothing but what a bit of
warm weather will remedy.
Horses that are favorites In the
winter books are the ones to lay
off of when it comes to shoving
your cash through the windows. At
any rate that's the conclusion one
can reach by perusing 23 years of
racing at Louisville, Ky. Only three
times during the past 23 years has
the dpenlng favorite won the derby,
In 1925 he finished -12th In a field
of 20 starters and In 1918 he fin
ished 10th In a field of 12. Other
favorites have finished from second
to eighth or failed to start.
Winter book favorites to win the
derby since 1919, according to the
records Include Morvlcti In 1922,
Relgh Count In 192S and Gallant
Fox In 1630. Last years favorite
at 3-1, Our Boots, finished eighth.
Whlrlaway, the winner, opened at
8-1 and closed at 3-1 In the winter
books, ' ,
One of the finest catches of
trout to be brought to the city
alnce the opening of the present
season was snaked out of Kllek-
i Itat lake by H. S. Carter, pho
tographer and gentleman farm
er of the Rosedalo district.
Klickitat lake Is a hard-to-reach
body of water In the Coast
range and while Carter earn
back with the fish, he had to
take time out to extricate his
car from the two ruts through
the hills which are improperly
termed ft road.
Mike Stelnbock; another of the
first-day fishermen, drove a lot
farther and came back . with less.
He visited Sluslaw first and found
every rock between the divide and
Florence occupied. A six mile hike
up Smith river to where bettor
fishing conditions were reported
didn't appeal to Mike so he turned
around and came home with his
high forehead nicely burned.
Winter has come and gone while
spring Is well advanced but the
Portland Beavers are right where
they were when operations in the
Coast league ceased last fall In the
cellar. They will be "welcomed
home" tonight at the Vaughn street
park and the fans In the bleachers
may be expected to be a bit con
fused as to whether the 1941 sea
son Is still in effect. "How could
our Beavers fall so low In such a
short space of time?"
Probably the principal reason
John Warren wasn't named to take
over the head football coaching Job
at Oregon before was the fact they
were working down through the list
In alphabetical order. John was un
fortunate enough to be at the tall
end of the list. We venture the
opinion that what few Wcbfoota are
left for gridiron campaigning when
the army, navy and the marines get
through calling the roll, will be In
for the most severe conditioning
they have ever experienced. If they
survive the routine Honest John will
set up for them they most assured
ly will bo In condition lor any
branch of the armed services. May
be he has mellowed a bit with the
years, but Warren, while coaching
at Astoria and In his first years as
head of the yearlings at Oregon
ran the boys until their tongues
Room and Board .
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Fred Zimmerman,
SOME CHANC E From Calumet Farm comes this chestnut
colt. Some Chance, to point for the Derby at Churchill Downs. -In
1941 he finished In (he money 10 out of 14 times, earning,
$81,265 for Warren Wright. Jockey Wendall Eads Is up.
War Holds
Slaughters
Bv William
Seattle, April 21 (fP) Yesterday they. sold the pelt of
Al the Seal; but Japan will have to wait a while lor her J5
per cent of the proceeds or take it in bombs. Al is more exact
ly Alescanus, the fur seal; and the
truth Is that he may be part Jap
anese.
In St. Louis yesterday, the Uni
ted States government wildlife ser
vice auctioned pelts taken by gov-
eminent hunters In the Prlbliof is
lands last summer. The pelts, which
Alescanus relatives formerly oc
cupied, brought prices of $28 and
up.
But thereby hangs a tale which
goes back a ways. Sealing in the
Prlbliof Islands was virtually unre
stricted In the early days of Uni
ted States' control over Alaska. The
fur seals, which Inhabited the rocky
islands by the millions, staggered
under the blows of the Island seal
ers.
So the United States signed
treaty. It- provided that pelagic
sealing should be outlawed, that the
United States should kill selected
year-old males each summer In the
United States owned Prlbllofs, and
that the United States government
should get 70 per cent of the pro
ceeds, Canada and Japan each 15
per cent. '
The herd Increased annually,
Each year, while they migrated from
the coast of California to the Alas
kan Islands, United States coast
guard cutters went along,
In an official statement, Japanese
scientists conveniently declared that
not all the Prlbliof herd migrated
south. Some of them, said the
Tokyo professors, went to Japan
and ate Japanese fish all winter.
The Japanese government was de-
lighter. The 1915 treaty, It said,
was unfair. Just a little more than
a year ago, It served official no
tice of abrogation. Japanese pe
lagic sealing boats were prepared
to sail,
This spring would have been the
bad season. There seemed to be no
great diplomatic hope of prevent
ing the slaughter, although the Uni
ted States wildlife service had pre
pared a scientific expedition which
expected to disprove the Japanese
theory about where seals go when
they're not home. The proof was
to be involved and would have taken
several years to prepare.
The expedition would have sailed
last December 7 from Seattle. Only
It did not.
were sticking out a foot. We be
lieve Warren will do a good Job in
the top posltiom
By Gene A hern
Sparta Editor
Up Seal
by Japs
L. Worden
Chinning Comes
Back at U of W
Seattle, April 21 (P) Re
member the old' boyhood
"chinning" contests (as dif
ferentiated from the adult
cracker barrel variety) ? They
're going to be the style again
for University of Washington
upper classmen.
Prof. Henry Foster, director
of men's physical education,
announced today faculty ap
proval of a program 'of phy
sical fitness for all men stu
dents. All upper classmen,
heretofore exempt from phy
sical education, must prove
their muscular fitness each
quarter by passing a medical
examination and doing a spe
cified number of chinning and
push-up exercises.
Students who fall to pass
the exercise test must take a
prescribed course in chinning,
rope climbing,, Jumping and
running. Additional physical
training hours will be added
for sophomores and freshmen.
The new program starts next
fall.
Atherton Starts
Check at Eugene
Eugene, Ore., April 21 (U.B Paci
fic Coast Conference Commissioner
Edwin Atherton today started his
annual check-up on University of
Oregon athletics.
After a week in Eugene, he will
visit Oregon State, Washington,
Washington State, Idaho and Mon
tana,
Aumsville Hi .
Defeats Stayton
Aumsville The Aumsville Rang
ers, defending county B champs,
took another step towards another
title when they won over the pre
viously undefeated Stayton nine on
the Aumsville diamond. The Rang
ers combined five hits with three
Stayton errors to score nine runs.
Both pitchers tossed a good game
but Nlchol kept Stayton's hits scat
tered while his teammates made
only one error.
Aumsville ......9 S 1
Stayton 2 4 3
Nlchol and Hayes; McMannan,
Schults and Larmier.
Folnom Sella Store . .
Lincoln E. A. Folsom, propri
etor of the Lincoln store, has sold
old his Interest to Robert Yungen
of North Spring Valley, who has
taken possession. Yungen formerly
operated a filling station about
two miles below Lincoln on the
highway.
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Tuesday, April 21, 1942
Senators and
Bearcats Mix
Wednesday Eve
Taking advantage of better wea
ther conditions the Salem Senators
are putting in their best licks at
spring training. They will Indulge
In a bit of "twilight" baseball
Wednesday evening at Geo. E. Wa
ters park when they collide with
Coach Spec Keene's Bearcats at
7:30. The 'Cats have provided a lot
of spring training for the opposi
tion this year, getting little else
but experience out of the efforts.
But, while they have been consist
ent in their losing, with few ex
ceptions their defeats have been by
narrow margins.
The Senators shoved a couple of
hopeful pitchers onto the mound
yesterday afternoon against the
state prison nine and came out of
the session oh the short end of a
19-5 score. Howard and Neubauer
did the chicking for the Solons. The
former asked for a workout and
mast assuredly got it as well as his
mates who were kept busy shagging
balls all over the park. Crosswhlte,
veteran prison pitcher, held Char
He's Petersen's gang to nine blows.
Prison 19 21 3
Salem 5 9 3
Crosswhlte and Puller; Howard,
Neubauer and Warren, Robertson,
Softball Play
Opens May 4
A Softball program involving 12
teams and opening May 4 was ten
tatively set up last night when a
number of persons interested in
keeping the popular pastime alive
met for a round table discussion.
Teams already within the fold are
Papermakers, Bam ages, Golden
Pheasant, Bin Lake, Postoffice,
Keith Brown, Paper Office. Paper
Machine, Sears - Roebuck, Waits,
Presbyterians and Evangelicals.
Cahrlle Davis, Bob Barnett, Carl
Greider and Gurnee Flesher were
named on a nominating committee
to present a slate of officers for the
1942 league. An election will be held
next week, '
f
According to the plan adopted last
night, the 12 teams will comprise
one league.
Stanford Beaten
By Bruins, 71-60
Palo Alto, Calif., April 31 Wi
lt was no world-beater of a track
meet when you consider times and
distances but the competition was
close and i there was plenty of
straining at the tape as- the Uni
versity of California at Los Angeles
Bruins beat Stanford, 71 to 60, here
yesterday. '
UCLA won seven firsts and the
relay. Two of the firsts were taken
by Mode Perry, In the half-mile
and one-mile runs. UCLA swept the
440, and ran one-two In the two
mile. In addition Therry, UCLA had
another star. He was Hubert Duke
who won the 220-yard low hurdles,
tied for first In the 100-yard dash
In 10 seconds flat, and was second
In the 220-yard dash.
Alsab Shows Up
At Louisville
Louisville, ICy., April 21 (U.fil Un
predictable Alsab who hasn't won
a race since last November was
scheduled to arrive on the scene of
the Kentucky Derby today, heavily
favored by sportswrlters and the
nation's future book operators to
win the 68th running of the blue
grass country's biggest race.
The 1941 Juvenile champion took
his sixth defeat of the 1942 season
on Saturday at Havre De Orace but
a, semi-final callover In the betting
established him as a solid favorite
at 4-1 for the $76,000 classic to be
run May 2.
Power Line Extended '
Stayton The Mountain States
Power Company Is constructing a
new power line extension west of
here and will serve L, S. Lambert,
Nora Taylor, Prank Studnlck, Otto
Burson, Ambrose Docler, Ward
Rueck, John Docler and Paul Dos
ler. The line Is now under construc
tion and will be completed In about
two weeks, according to Harry J.
Rowe, local manager.
Dodgers and
Sox Provide
2 Questions
By Georre Klrksey
New York, April 21 U.R Along
the baseball front today the two
Important questions under discus
sion were
1. Are the Brooklyn Dodgers more
formidable than rated?
2. Can the Boston Red Sox give
the Yankees ft battle?
After a week of play, the Dodgers
are riding the National league crest
again, and their ace of aces, Whit
Wyatt, hasn't been out of the start
er's gate,
Meantime, the Dodgers are rock
ing along lit ft merry .714 clip. True
they have been bowling over, sec
ond division opposition, the Giants,
Phils and Braves, but they are put
ting the pressure on the Cardinals,
Reds and other pretenders early.
The Red Sox threw ft fright into
the Yanks over the week-end by
taking a series from the champions
at Yankee ' stadium. They had six
pitchers in a row go the route al
most unheard of for the Red Sox
but yesterday Joe Dobson, who hurl
ed a six-hitter In his first start,
was plastered out of the box by the
supposedly weak-hitting Senators'.
Nevertheless, the Red Sox still
lead the league and have shown
enough all-around strength to make
Manager Joe McCarthy consider
shaking up the Yankee lineup.
Jack Wilson, an old Red Sox hand,
exacted revenge on his former
teammates yesterday when he hurl
ed Washington to a 10-4 triumph
over Boston. Rookie Harry Sketch
ley's first Inning double with two
mates on enabled the White Sox
to defeat the Tigers 3-1.
Cleveland rode to ft 4-3 victory
over the Browns on the hitting of
Rookie outfielder oris Hockett, who
singled, doubled and tripled.
With Kirby Hlgbe winning his
first game, the Dodgers thumped
the Braves 9 to 2. Hlgbe gave up
seven hits. I
Scoring six runs In the eighth off
Max Butcher and Hank Gornicki,
the Chicago Cubs waylaid the Pir
ates, 8-2.
A homer by A ban Clossop, Giant
castoff, with the bases loaded en-,
abled the Phils to down the Giants
6 to 3.
Nearly half the motor vehicles
now registered In all Argentina are
hi or near Buenos Aires.
Hopes and Rookies
For Spokane Champs
By Jack Ifewins
Spokane, April 21 (IP) The champs are going into the
1942 Western International league baseball season with a
hatful of hopes and a roster full of rookies. The Spokane In
dians sold the majority 01 their
talent to Portland's Coast league
Beavers before the first yawn of
spring, retaining only their "grand
old 'man," a youthful first base
man, a few chuckers, a roly-poly
catcher and Manager Ray Jacobs.
The grand old man Isn't old at
all, but Dwight Aden (he's 27)
has been In the league since Its
inception and can lay ft strong
claim to seniority rights. The fleet,
Ilosebnll
Scores
(Br th. Associated Press)
fatlonal
Philadelphia 9, New York
Chlcnito 8. Pittsburgh a.
Brooklyn a, Boston 2.
Only tames scheduled.
American
olevelond 4. at, Louis 3.
Ohlcaso 3. Detroit 1.
Washlnston 10. Boston 4.
New York at Philadelphia, postponed.
Pacino Coast leasjia Idle, . t
Grizzlies Win ,
Over Yankees
The Oilulles won over the Yan
kees, 31 to 18, last week when
Englewood grade school officially
opened the softb&ll season. Ap
propriate opening ceremonies had
a part in the program with Mrs.
Daugherty pitching the first ball.
Miss Wlkberg was the catcher and
Mrs. Wood the first batter. Carlos
Houck struck out seven and Dar
win Kerber three. Lowell Aplet hit
a home run.
Grizzlies 22 19
Yankees 17 19 5
Carlos Houck, Kenneth Helbert
Walter Moore, Bruce Boatman, Dar
win Kerber and Bobby Hoblltt.
Mrs. Pickett- Honored
Sllverton Mrs. Lon Jennings en
tertained at noon dinner at her
Eureka avenue home In compliment
to Mrs. Una Pickett on her 82nd
birthday anniversary. Mrs. Pickett
is In excellent health and makes
her home alone near the Jennings
residence.
COOD LUCK TO YOU ! Lou Boudreau, boy-manarer
of the Cleveland Indians who signed a two-year contract last No
vember he was 24 at the lime wishes his mirrored Image a good
season. This youngest manager In major league history succeeds
. , Roger Pecklnpaugh. who's now general manager, . -
Better-Equipment
Improves Oarsmen
By Gall Fowler
Seattle, April 21 (P) Are today's oarsmen superior to
the crop which produced Al. Ulbrickson dack in the 1920-30
decade? Nope. Man for man they may be about the same.
But aslc ulbrickson or that sage of
rowing, George Pocock, the shell
builder, and they'll tell you the
difference is In advanced rowing
technique and equipment.
That accounts for Washington
shattering three records In lacing
California here last Saturday. And
two of the losing Bear crews also
undershot the old marks. .
The records existing up to Sat
urday were set on the old Leschl
Madison park course which hasn't
been rowed since 1930. That's why
a 20-year-old record was on the
books, as well as a couple 14 years
old.
There have been plenty of refine
ments in shell construction during
the past 12 years and undoubtedly
If the old-timers had the same
equipment they might have been
turning In better times in the pre
depression days. And Ulbrickson
has added some new wrinkles In ap
plication of body power which oars
men of his time didn't know about.
steady-hitting centerfielder .is the
nucleus of the Tribe's offensive
punch. "
The catcher is Kenny Myers, slow
afoot but excellent on defense and
dangerous at bat. Making the
catching assignment a family af
fair is ' Ernie Polster, a rangy
youth who is Myers' cousin.
Young Vic Buccola rates as a vet
eran despite his 18 years and moves
Into the first string first base spot.
He's built on the skinny lines of
Aden and hits much like him, rap
ping the ball to left or center from
the left side of the plate. .
A. Murray O'Plynne, the clowning
Irishman, Bill Lanning and Damon
Hayes, all- right handerx, are the
mound veterans. Again the In
dians open with only one southpaw,
a lad named Jerry North, who took
Washington State into camp April
15. A promising right-hander Is
Jimmy Hicks, an Ellensburg boy
with lots of power.
'Around the horn from first the
Infield Is all rookie. Sid Buckman,
a Los Angeleno, is at second; Ed
die Pullins, an Arizona boy, at
short, and Red Fitzpatrlck, a 200
pound speedball, at third. Skip Ev
art, a veteran, also may be back
for the third-base spot.
Aden, at center, is flanked by
Gordy Cockroft in left field and
Bob Daley in right. Daley, biggest
man on a big squad, weighs 210
pounds.
The Indians open April 35 against
Vancouver and play 12 games be
fore hitting the road.
KENTUCKY'S, Ft
Tkc trisitraatl railditu of Jimel E. Pepper
his nude this fiae Keaticiy boitboa t symbol
of gracious litieg iron eaefttrsa to geaeritn.
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6 proof. Jti. . .
John Warren
Twin Bill for
Mat Program
A double main event will be dish
ed up tonight at the armory for
those fans who indulge in profes
sional wrestling. Mickey McGulre
and Bulldog Jackson have drawn
one of the two top spots while Buck
Davidson and Tex Hager will per
form in the other. McGuire is re
turning to the armory arena fol
lowing an absence of many months.
The 8:30 preliminary will bring
together Milt Olsen and Emil Kal-
Uo.
Washington Noses
Out Tacoma, 3-2
Seattle, April 21 (fl) Hefty Doug
Ford had the Tacoma Tigers of the
Western International league at his
mercy yesterday, fanning 10 as the
University of Washington chalked
up a 3-2 victory In an exhibition
baseball game. He allowed the Tig
ers only six hits.
The score:
Tacoma 2 t 4
Washington 3 6 1
Bob Montgomery
Tops Peralta
Philadelphia, April 21 (U.B Bob
Montgomery, local negro lightweight
title contender, won a 10-round de
clslon over Joe Peralta, flashy Mexi
can, last night In a desultory bout.
Montgomery had no difficulty
witn Peralta but failed to display
any of his usual slashing attack.
Montgomery weighed 137 14 and
Peralta 134i.
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Warren Gels
Head Coaching
Job at Oregon
Eugene, Ore., April 21 WV-John
Warren, ft local boy who made good,
loaay 100a over uio juu v wuiu,,.
the University of Oregon football
souad.
, His tenure, the Oregon Athletio
board hopes, win be longer, than
the , last mentor's, which was ta
hours.
The last one was Vaughn Corley,
Oregon line coach, who was elevated
when Head Coach Gerald "Tex" Ol
iver was commissioned In the navy,
but who resigned within a few
days to accept ft navy commission
himself.
Warren Is a safer bet to .tick
around. He tried to enlist, but the
navy turned him down because of
his avoirdupois.
That is considered break for
Oregon football. Warren, an Ore
gon graduate who made an Im
pressive record coaching an Oregon
high school and the university
freshmen, was selected by the ath
letic board last night from a string
of candidates including Jim Thorpe,
famed Indian athlete, and Claude
"Tiny" Thornhlll, former Stanford i
coach.
Warren was seven years at As
toria, Ore., high school, and his
football teams there won 58 of 70
games, going undefeated In three
seasons. In seven years as fresh
man coach here, his teams have
won 18, lost 10 and tied 3.
Warren, Incidentally, has an ev
en more impressive record at bas
ketball, and at the rate coaches are
going off to the armed forces, his
hoop knowledge . might come In
handy. His Astoria basketball teams
won 304 of 340 games and his Ore
gon frosh teams S3 of 111 games.
The football team's spring prac
tice, Interrupted by the rapid change
of coaches, was resumed today ,at
Warren's call.
Vik Athletes
Given Awarrk
vaawii r n Ml M
More than a half hundred Salem
high school athletes, participants In
basketball, wrestling and swimming
received recognition during . an
award assembly held in the audi
torium Monday.
Swimming letters were wareded
to Stan Welborn, Bob Schunke,
Al Dahlen, Curt Reucker, Bob Lind
ley, Carl Hultenberg, Wes Miller,
Paul Pettlt, Jack Lachelle, Frank
Carruth, Jim Gilbertson, Bob Nie
meyer, Dave Berger,
Wrestling Bill Maude, Henry
Henderson, Lyle Dlerks, Henry Yo
shikal, Otis Wilson, Mas Kyono,
Don Thompson, Fred 'Frees,- Jim
Lyons, Don Brower, Byron Riley,
Lawrence Pohle, Ray Schless, Al
Miller, Ray Loter, Leonard Lawless
and Manager Marlon Femau.
Basketball Bun Coons. Tforraut
Simmons, Rex Hardy, Don Cutler,
uounney jones, uoray McMorrls,
Wally Gemmell, Martin Svarverud,
Bill Ransom and Manager Jos
Yada.
Junior basketball Louis Hough,
John Johnson, Keith Morris,
Charles Whlttemore, Bob Warren,
Bill Reinhart, Don Chapman, John
Dowd, Bruce Hamilton, Travis
Cross and Bill Close, manager.
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Lood mealy leathers give them a
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48t Stale SI.