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Nova and Army Rap Publicity for Fight By Hugh Fullerton, Jr. (Wldt World Sports columnist) ' New York, May 20 Lou -Nova and the army Just about wrecked the ballyhoo for the Nova-Lee Savold navy relief fight in Washington' tomorrow . . . First Lou announced he had laid aside all nis cociteyea yugo r cosmic punch nonsense! then the word came out that the army didn't Intend to let Joe Louis fight for profit. . . That left the tub thumpers with nothing to work on but Savold. . . The Dod gers already had sold most of the seats In good locations for all 14:nlght games when that black out order came along Monday. . . Mn-'hal (Biggie) Goldberg, voted TFt likely to succeed by his Chicago Cardinal teammates, has nj;r made assistant super intendent, of a Chicago machine tool i:rm and placed in charge of the company's defense plant at West Pullman, 111.: general su perintendent for the firm's Chi cago plant is Sollle Sherman, retired Bears' quarterback, Pat 'n Mike If this story sounds too perfect to be true, we'll admit we heard It from a publicity guy. . . Seems that a couple of years ago Mrs. Payne Whitney was listening to a broadcast of the Dodgers' game and thinking of names for erne colts. When she heard Hea Barber say "It's a shut out," she picked the tag for a colt whose dam was Goose Egg. . . And last spring when she was talking over derby prospects with her trainer, the Dodgers were on the air again and came up with an other shut out, so she decided to enter the colt along with Devil Diver. . . Apparently she decid ed the mike was pat. Today's Guest Star Tommy Tucker, Cleveland News: "A fellow In St.' Peters burg has announced he'll turn his 18-hole golf course into a cow pasture for the duration. Par for the course, It is under stood, will be two quarts of grade A and pound of butter." Major League , Leaders (Br the Associated Ptmi) American Uwai Batting Bpence, Washington, : .410! Doerr, Boiton, .400. Rub Willi eras, Boiton, tSi Heath. Cleveland, 31. Home rune York, Detroit, t; William, Boiton, and J. DiU actio, New York, B. Pltchlnt Bonhatn, Vtrw York, 5-0; Har iri end Dean, Cleveland, 8-0. National Uuw 1 - Battlnt Lamanno, ' Cincinnati, .4i; Holier. Brooklyn. .S3B. . Runa-Ott, New, York, Mt Mtulal. It, Home run F. MeOormlek, Oiae'tnnaM, nrf Oam 1111. SMOklvn. 1. PiteWni Head, Brooklyn, B-Oj 'French, Brooklyn, 1-0., Northwest Golf ' Tourney, i, Everett Everett, May 20 W) A strong field of professionals and ama teurs is being lined up for the Pacific Northwest open golf tournament to be held at the Ev erett Golf and Country club Sat urday and Sunday. Al Zimmerman of Portland will be defending his title, and there will be plenty of the northwest's money, golfers on hand seeking the $700 in cash and war bonds going to the top- rankers. There was a possibility that National Amateur Champion Bud Ward, now an air force cor poral, might be able to come over from Spokane. And the Sand Point-naval air station can contribute such stars as Lt. Jack Westland, three-time winner of the Northwest Amateur; Scotty Campbell, three-time winner of the Washington State Amateur; and Ken Tucker, who was the ' professional it the Everett course until he entered the navy a few months ago. Fairview School Closes with Picnic Fairview The Fairview . school closed Friday and an all day picnic was held Saturday, Mrs. Henry Knoche, the teach er, expects to make a visit with relatives In Kansas. She will be the primary teacher at Union- vale for the 1942-'43 term, and Mrs. J. W. Versteeg will be the Fairview teacher. Mr. and Mrs. John Mattle of Portland and brother and sister-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mattie of Soudan, Minn., were Thursday guests of their cousins, Mr. and Mrs. Toivo Bantsar! Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mattie are close neighbors of John Bant sarl, eldest brother of Toi vo, and they came west to visit their son-in-law and daughter at Spokane, Wash., because the son-in-law is in army training and expects to leave soon for overseas service. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Ste phens are guests' for a week at the home of their son and daugh ter-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Clif ford Stephens, at Seattle, Wash Clifford Is employed at Boeing 7! Yank Terry, 29-year-old recruit from the Pacific Coast loop, a member of the Boston Red Sox pitching staff. Root Handing Out Misery By Robert Myers Hollywood, May 20 ff) Char ley Root through? Hardly. The old Chicago Cub star is still pitching baseball. Ask Pacific Coast, league hitters. The old boy Is handing them nothing but misery. Old Charley is going after his eighth win of the season tonight for Hollywood against Pepper Martin's Sacramento club. You remember Pepper, of course. He is Sacramento's manager. And Oscar Vitt pilots Hollywood. But back to Charley Root. He's been beaten once this year since kissing the Cubs and his major league career good bye. Portland, the tall end club, sneaked In to a 4.-3 win, but lt took 'em 14 innings. Sure, old Charley" wal in there at the fin ish. He's finished every game he's started '.this' season. He's also beaten every club In the circuit. Root claims to be 43. He did not make an understatement of the point. This is his 22nd year In organized baseball. He pitch ed for Chicago for 16 years be fore coming to Hollywood this season, To date, Root has' pitched to 286 batters. They are hitting him for a .210 average, and scoring on him with a 2.07 earn ed run average, He's walked 13 and fanned 30. No Name Playoff Held Up by Rain Albany A wet and sloppy diamond caused the cancella tion of the No Name league base ball tournament here Tuesday, and the games were postponed until Wednesday if weather per mits, lt was announced by Coach Dwlght Adams of Albany. Behind the three-hit pitching of Bruce Hamilton, the Salem Vikings beat the Oregon City Pioneers Monday and won the right to meet Milwaukie in the first game. Albany will meet Corvallls In the second game. Tournament plans call for four games the first day at 1:30 and 3:30, then at 7 and 9 p.m., the afternoon losers to meet In the first night game and the after noon losers in the second, Californians Resume Rowing Rivalry Berkeley, Cel., May 20 (U.B After a lapse of 22 years, Cali fornia and Stanford will resume their rowing rivalry Saturday morning on the Stanford home course at Redwood City. The last California-Stanford crew race was held In 1020. Cal ifornia won that year and the previous season, but from 1807 to 1919 Stanford dominated the competition. Smith in Australia Lincoln The last three mess ages Mrs. Richard Smith receiv ed from her husband, Sergeant mcnard smith, were from Aus tralia. When he reached there In February and on their wedding anniversary, May 8, and Moth er's day, he sent her cablegrams, Sgt. and Mrs. Smith have two young children, Julie Marlann The; Capital Joarnal, 8Jem, Ore. m gimmemnn. aperu mt . 1 War to Change Grid Tactics, Little Says By Jack Guenther . : New York, May 20 (U.fi) The best dressed -and possibly the best versed of the college coach es peered through his pince-nez into the future today and there detected a subtle but definite link between the strategy of the battlefield and that of the grid iron. The . war, predicted Lou Little, will substantially alter the tactics and psychology of football. Primarily, the balance of pow er will shift to the offense. An old warrior himself he served as a captain in World war I the Sage of Morningside Heights explains his contention simply. In the past six months, he emphasizes, people have be come offense minded. Individ ual exploits and daring have been stressed everywhere. Boys particularly are thinking in terms of commandos, pursuit pilots and parachutists. Little believes that the key word of football will be attack. He isn't saying that coaches will lust give the boys a ball and tell them to toss lt wildly. But he does think that the. stress of rock-ribbed tackles and stone wall guards will be relaxed gradually. Not that the center buck or the off-tackle smash will be abandoned; they will be used less frequently. The accent will be switched to daring, to deception and to Individual brain work. Football will remain a tough game but lt will become a smarter game'. The material will be selected with a view to Increased poten tialities of attack and the boys themselves will provide more action by taking more chances. A tie will no longer be a moral victory, it will be a defeat. Final Effort To Play Ball Whether the Spokane Indians will return to their home base without taking a bat off their collective shoulders will be de termined by the gent who rules the weather. The Indians, who arrived in the city early Monday for a three game series with the Senators at Geo. E. Waters park were forced to remain idle last night since art efforts to sop up the accumulation of water prov ed futile. An effort will be made at 8 o'clock tonight to salvage at least one contest of the series with Ken Clow scheduled to take over the pitching chores for the Sen ators. Following tonight's engage- ment( if played) the Solons will shove off for ' Spokane where they will engage the Indians in a series extending through next Monday. They will then head for Vancouver for a joust with the Capllanos. The Salem club will then return to the home base June 2 for the second round ag alnst Spokane. Walla Walla Meet Draws Bearcats A squad of nine Willamette university trackmen, including Paul Cookingham, who acts as coach .while not actually particl pattng in the various events, will leave for Walla Walla Thursday where they will take part In the annual Northwest confer ence championships. Although Whitman was soundly beaten by Portland university last week, the Missionaries are favored to collect the most points in the two-day conference competition Making the trip with Cooking- ham are John Macy, Elmer Abel, Ken Lilly, Ronald Runyan, Keith Nash, Glenn Nordqulst, Don Burton and Bob Bailey. Linn Health Officer Compliments Hospital Sclo Dr. A. Edward Bostrom or Albany, Linn county health officer, who was In Sclo on offi cial business, complimented highly the set-up of the Sclo aux iliary hospital, In charge of a civilian defense committee head ed by Dr. A. G. Prill of this city Dr. Prill accepted an Invitation to speak Tuesday night at a com mittee meeting In Albany having charge of establishment of an emergency war hospital in the Tom Hamilton Urges Competitive Sports Washington, May 20 (Pi The last thing that colleges and universities should be doing at this time is curtail their athletic programs because of the war, says Lleut.-Commander Tom Hamil ton, head of the navy's new avia tion physical training program 'It's exactly what we don t want them to do," said the big, dark man who once made three drop-kicks to tie the Army and who coached the navy football team with marked success in 1934-36. "For some of them it is just a convenient out because they think they might lose mon ey. 'I can't say too forcibly that Skits and Scratches By. Fred Zimmerman Capital Journal Sporta Editor Since Walla Walla appears to be the only point In the North west conference capable or will ing to finance baseball cham pionships, the Whitman Mission aries are entitled to whatever advantage may arise from per forming in familiar surround ings. Baseball, track and tennis competition will be combined in one big athletic event later this week in the Palouse country. Spec Keene and his Bear cat, diamond aces left this morning for the scene of battle Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Coach Nig Borleske, after being ousted ' from the play-offs last year, is back with a stronger club than ever and Is favored to take the series although Earl Toolson, Bill Hanauska, Am man Adams and Jack Rich ards may give the Mission ary batters a bit of trouble. Paul Cookingham will direct the Bearcat track and field squad of nine contestants, including himself. Last spring Willamette, along with other conference schools, made the trip to Walla Walla only to encounter a cloud burst. It was so wet they called off everything except water polo and that was cancelled because the boys left their suits at home. And speaking of baseball, what a friend of the sport is Wm. L. McGinnis, general superin tendent of the Silver Falls Tim ber company of Silverton. When Coach Spec Keene needed a dia mond Monday on which to stage a doubleheader between Willam ette and Portland, he got Mc Ginnis on the phone and asked permission to play on the field named for the Silverton man. W. L. not only made the Bearcat mentor and his boys welcome, but made every effort to make matters comfortable for all con cerned, even though he had but three hours' notice. McGinnis field at Silverton is an excellent example of what a community can do for itself when there is cooperation. Sil verton needed a baseball dla mond a few years back. Did the citizens seek assistance from the WPA or any of the several fed eral agencies? They did not, Boys from the big mill there do hated labor while the owners of the lumber concern provided the material. Together, they con structed one of the finest plants in the valley. With three gallons of gas a week to work on, the question of who la head of the family will be aired in many households In the near future. Whether the liquid - is to be consumed by the male member as he makes his way to and from his fa vorite golf course, or whe ther the missus Is to squan der a big portion of lt in gadding around to the var ious eating parties may be expected to be the cause cel ebre In many a squabble. If the previous motor fuel gets to scarce, Salm Golf club divot takers might ar range with the Oregon Eleo trio for a couple of hand cars. But as one "athlete" put lt, "by the time I pump ed one of those things that - far I would, be In no shape to play golf." Bridge Club Elects Mill City The last meeting of the year for the bridge club was held at the home of the presi dent, Mrs, C. E, Mason. The election of officers for next year resulted In Mrs. Chas. Porter being elected president, and Mrs. C. M. Cllne as secretary. Mrs, W. L. Quinn held high score for the year, and Mrs. Mason sec it is absolutely essential to the armed services that competitive sports continue in the schools, despite financial losses; that kids be brought up in competi tive athletics. The problem we face right now our having to add five months to our training period in order to whip our boys Into top physical shape never would have arisen if there had been more hard competitive sports in the last 20 years." The commander, himself, is a striking example of the benefit of athletics. At 36 he looks like he still might play 60 minutes of football, and the enforced oc cupancy of a desk chair while n war is going on is about to get him down. 'Flying Is my business," he grumbled. "I've had 13 years of training and I've asked them to let me go as soon as the four pru flight training schools are run ning smoothly, and I think they will." Bayless Agrees New York, May 20 (U.R) Ellm- ination of competitive athletics by many colleges was condemn ed by Lieut. Walter B. Bayless as a blow at the conditioning of 30,000 cadets in the naval air corps. "Those kind of sports are the breath of life to any kind of ser vice, particularly the air corps, and that's why we are inaug urating a national program, starting May 28, to harden our air cadets by a complete layout of sports," he said. Sand Traps fail to' bother Gene Sarazen to any great extent for the reason he gets plenty of practice in them between tournaments. Submarine Sailor : Has Distant Friends Woodburn Mrs. T. K. San derson, whose son, Wesley Kocher, has been serving on an American submarine since the outbreak of the war, has re ceived two letters from women In western Australia Jn whose homes Wesley has recently been a guest. The following paragraph Is taken from one of the letters "My son got to know him (Wesley) in town and brought him home and we 'were de lighted to meet his as we feel we can't do enough for these boys that have come to fight for us and are verybrave." A snap-shot of Wesley was Inclosed In one of the letters which shows him to be in the best of health. It seems his home port is near the place from which the letters were written and the people were ex pecting him to make another visit and were very happy to be entertaining an American sailor. Girl Athletes Elect Woodburn New officers of the GAA recently elected at Woodburn high school are All een Waymlre, president; Doro thy Johnson, vice-president and Juanita Sebern, secretary-treasurer. Sports managers have not P Or- 6 . s x i Orrell Elbows Beavers to Win Over Angels ' (Br the Associated Press) The Portland Beavers, who re cently landed in the basement after a Pacific Coast league base ball tour, celebrated their home coming last night with a' spec tacular 3 to 0 win from the first- place Los Angeles Angels. Joe Orrell, Beaver fireball art ist, spaced seven hits as his of ferings baffled the Angel bats men, who top the league in base hits. And it was Orrell who sin gled at the opening of the fifth inning to start a four-hit rally which netted the Beavers their three runs. San Francisco and Seattle were idle last night. Oakland slipped further to wards a spot In the lower di vision in dropping a game to the third-place San Diego Pardes; who combined two hits with an Oak error to score twice in the fourth and win 2 to 1. . Jack Salveson pitched craft ily in an attempt to protect the slim lead the Oaks gave him in the third and allowed only six hits to seven yielded by the win ning hurler, Frankle Dasso. The Padre hold on the upper division spot was further streng thened by the 6 to 5 win Hol lywood blasted out in collecting 14 hits off Sacramento hurlers, Tony Freitas and Bill Schmidt. The game was tied at five runs each in . the eighth when Joe Hoover tripled and Babe Her man slammed a long fly to bring in Hoover for the winning tally. Short score: San Diego 000 030 000 z 6 1 Oakland 010 000 0001 7 1 Dasso and Salkeld; Salveson and Ral mondl. Los Angeles 000 000 000 0 7 1 Portland 000 030 OOx 3 7 1 Lynn and Todd; orrell and Leovlch. Sacramento 001 103 000 5 10 3 Bollrwood . . .' 000 10 Olx 1! 1 Preltas, Schmidt s, and Mueller; Joiner, Blttner 0, and Atwood. . Wl Clubs Idle Tuesday Night. (Br the United Press) No games were played in the Western International baseball league Tuesday night. Tacoma still holds its first place position, with 17 games won . and eight lost. Vancouver is second with 13 won and 10 lost. Salem and Spokane are in third and fourth positions, re spectively. . Nelson Favorite In PGA Tourney Absecon, N.J., May 20 (P)--Byron Nelson, hotter than a July sun In his native Texas, is one of the favorites and not with out reason in the National Pro Golf association tourney that gets under way on the Seaview course Monday. Nelson, winner of the 1942( masters at Augusta, Ga.,eand a finalist the last three years in the PGA, was mechanically perfect Sunday as he won the second annual Massachusetts Big Eight tourney with a five under par 139, The big Texan, now laying out of Toledo, O., is paired with Bruce Coltart of Atlantic City, and Jimmy Hlnes of Lakeville, Long Island, through the 36-hole qualifying test which will oc cupy the4ll6 play-for-pay shot makers on Monday and Tues day. One of his chief threats, Lit tle Ben Hogan of Hershey, Pa., will play the two rounds with Herman Barron of White Plains, N.Y., and Harold (Jug) Mc Spaden of Philadelphia, accord ing to the pairings released to day by Fred Corcoran, PGA tournament manager. Birthday Surprise For Mrs. Fairbrooks , Aurora The home of Mrs. Clara Ziegler at Barlow was the scene of a birthday surprise Monday afternoon, honoring Mrs Arnold Fairbrooks, with Mrs. Ziegler as hostess. Assisting hos tess was Mrs. Arthur Anderson. Invited guests were Mrs. R, W. Zimmerman, Mrs. H. G. Zieg ler, Mrs. L. L. Grlbble, Mrs, Ju dith Yoder, Mrs. Mike Slefer, Mrs. Frank Shoerer, Mrs. George W. Askin, Mrs. Arthur Ander son, and Mrs. Fairbrooks. necTAL rrcn eased fiat Write CutJcur, Dept. 69, Maiden, Mm, for FREE (ample. CVTiamAMnn Yanks and Indians Snarled at Loop Top By Judson Bailey g ' (Associated Press SporU Writer) af Out In the middle west where there is no gasoline rationing the New York Yankees and Cleveland Indians have managed to get themselves in a traffic tangle at tne top oi tne American league. The world champions Cliff Dapper, above is one of the reasons why Manager Leo Durocher of Brooklyn has few worries in the catching department. Dap per, up from Los Angeles, works with Mickey Owen and Billy Sullivan. Bearcats to Get Letters Willamette university will conduct an athletic award assem bly Friday of this week, although most of the coaches and several of those who have earned letters will be absent. Baseball, track and tennis championships being held at Walla Walla will take several athletes across the moun tains. According to a list prepared by R. S. Keene, director of phys ical education, who said there might be a few changes, the fol lowing athletes have earned let ters: Baseball Bob Bennett, Earl Toolson, Bill Hanauska, Amman Adams, Jack Richards, Bob Dag gett, Orville Ragsdale, Bob Per ry, Ward Walker, Joe Murray, Don Barnick, Ben Schaad and Bob Walker. Basketball Jim Robertson, Earl Toolson, Ken Lilly, Joe Murray, Sumner Gallaher, Bob Medley, Bob Daggett, Don Bar- nick, Arnold Des Jardin, Orville Ragsdale, Don Wagner, manager, Tennis Bud Gilmore, Sumner Gallaher, Ken Jacobsen, Hume Downs. Track John Macy, Paul Cookingham, Donald Tasker, El mer Abel, Ken Lilly, Ronny Runyan, Keith Nash, Earl Tool- son, Glenn Nordqulst, Don Weg- ner. Football Marshall Barbour, Al Barrett, Martin Barstad, Jim Burgess, Cecil Conner, George Constable, Paul Cookingham, J. Fitzgerald, Tony Fraiola, Chuck Furno, Marvin Goodman, Earl Hampton, Ken Jacobsen, Bob Bennett, David Kelly, Neil Mor ley, Gordon Moore, Glenn Nord- quist, Ted Ogdahl, Wally Olson, Bill Reder, Buddy Reynolds, An drew Rogers, Gene Stewart, Al Walden, Pat White, Garrell Dei ner, Dick Kern, manager. Brooklyn to Try Twilight Ball. New York, May 20 (U.R)As a substitute for night games ban ned by dim-out rules In the met ropolitan area, the Brooklyn Dodgers planned today to ex periment with twilight tilts starting next Monday against the Philadelphia Phils. There was a possibility, it was said, that authorities would per mit arc lights to be used briefly it necessary to finish the game, Mickey's Needs 30 More Customers to Eat CORNED BEEF & CABBAGE "Irish Chicken" New Cabbage. Boiled Pota toes, Hard Roll and mm- Butter JSC At Mickey's Tuesday and Thursday Fresh Corned Beef Hash Wednesday.. DC 479 COURT ST. have been stalled for almost two weeks, the weather and sched ule combining to keep them idle on nine of the last 13 days, and meanwhile the Indians have won eight out of nine games to cre ate the worst congestion of the season around first place. . Today the Yanks still are two percentage points ahead, but the tribe is half a game in front on won;lost reckoning. The stand ings show: New York 20 9 .690 Cleveland 22 10 .688 The Indians ambushed the Philadelphia Athletics again yes terday for a 4-1 triumph on the four-hit hurling of slim, red haired Charles Embree, rookie from Wilkes-Barre making his first start. He had the help of home runs by Oris Hockett and Jeff Heath. In the only other Amerlq league game the Detroit TlgM trounced the Boston Red Sox 5-2 with Hal Newhouser pitching a six-hit ball game. He had a no hitter for six frames and was given a send-off by Rip Radcliff with a three-run homer in- the first inning. The Brooklyn Dodgers con tinued to sweep aside all oppo sition in the National league by tagging the Chicago Cubs 6-1 for the pace-makers' eighth succes sive victory. Curt Davis pitched six-hit ball and for the second straight day the only run scored against Brooklyn was a homer this one by Phil Cavaretta in the eighth. Philadelphia staged a twilight game for army and navy relief funds and 3366 persons paid $3732.20 to see the Phils beat the Pittsburgh Pirates 5-4 and knock the Bucaneers out of thjQ place. Uofteboll Scores (By the Associated Press) Natlonftt Leirue Chicago 1, Brooklyn 9. 8t. Louis 8, New York 4. Pittsburgh 4, Philadelphia, 8. Cincinnati 1, Boston a. American Leatue ' Boston 2, Detroit 5. Philadelphia 1, Cleveland 4. - (Only games), Paclfio Coast Los Angeles 0. Portland I. Ban Diego a, Oakland 1. I Sacramento 6, Hollywood ' a. Pioneer League Salt Lake i, Twin Fall! 9. Pocateilo a, Boise 0. Ogden 2, Idaho Falls t, . Huskies Still in c Baseball Race Seattle, May 20 Wl The Uni versity of Washington Huskies continued their desperate home stretch bid for northern divis ion baseball honors yesterday when big Doug Ford pitched and batted the team to a 5-2 victory over Oregon State college In rare shape yesterday, Ford held the Beavers hitless until the sixth inning, although they scored their only tallies in the fifth. The Husky hurler walked Norm Peters, then threw wild to second on Amacher's bunt. With two out, Al Den McRae lined a roller tHrough Third Baseman Bob Bird's legs to permit a dou ble score. The Huskies came back to ti the score in tho sixth on a sin gle, a triple and an outfield fly. Forced into overtime, Ford dou bled and scored in the tenth on Bird's single to take ihe game. The short score: Ore. St.. 000 020 000 02 Wash. . 000 002 000 13 Elliott and Amacher; and Constantino. 3 2 Ford Aircraft. and Richard, Jr county seat. ond. been announced.
