'
Home Bun Hitter Gets 'Warm' Reception Eddie Miller (7), Boston Braves' shortstop,
gets an indifferent reception from his teammates as he trots into the dugout after hit
ting a home run with one of his mates on base in the fourth inning of a game with the.
Giants at New York. New York led, 6 to 0, at the time, and won the game, 10 to 2.
(Associated Press Photo.)
Skits and
Scratches
By Fred Zimmerman
Capital Journal Sportt Editor
Those fans who had their hopes
built up of seeing a world series
baseball game without the neces
sity of traveling across the con
tinent might as well give up the
Idea. For there is little likeli
hood that the annual classic will
get outside the confines of Man
hattan island this year. Perhaps
it is just as well that the cham
plonship games are not to be put
'on wheels. To this writer such
an arrangement would cheap
en the affair, even though a cut
of the gate for war relief pur
poses might provide a good peg
upon which to hang it.
It is not entirely too silly
to suggest that this year's
classic may be the last for
the duration. Gene Tunncy's
suggestion that we really
get down to the business of
fighting and veer away from
the route to "wonderful
nonsense" ;may be well
worth heeding. Sports have
a place In the scheme of war
preparation for their moralo
building effect, but promot
ers who would tie their
kites to "benctjt" schemes
will bear watching. ;
Intimation tjiat inter-School
basketball for the Klamath Falls
Pelicans may not materialize this
coming winter is made by Bob
Leonard of the KF Herald-News.
There will be no buses for haul
ing athletes this year, while op
erators of private cars will not
be in favor of donating rubber
to the cause. KInmathMs in an
unfavorable geographical condi
tion in connection with its op
position Insofar as rail trans
portation Is concerned. To make
the trip to Mcdford by rail the
Pelicans would cither have to
travel south to Black Butte,
Calif., and take the old Shasta
route north from there, or trav
el to Eugene and then double
back to the southern Oregon
metropolis.
Just what will happen to the
Viking program has not been
determined. So far, however,
there has been no public Indica
tion that cither basketball or
football will be curtailed. The
No Name loop is quite a com
pact affair and with the excep
tion of Corvallis, rail transpor
tatlon could be used by all mom
bers. However, it would prob
ably be necessary to make over
night stops in several Instances
thereby Increasing the cost of
operations.
it mother nature depended up
on coaches, athletes and sports
directors to reproduce themselv
es, it would soon be a feminine
world. The latest arrival Is little
Callle Jean, eight-pounds plus
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Al
Llghtner. It is understood the
Senator business manager was
so sure that a male baby would
arrive at the Salem General hos
pital he wagered a hat on the
occurrence. So Al lines up with
Spec Keene and Leslie Sparks
in the matter of keeping the
world populated with girl ba
bies. She might make an cxcel
len first baseman at that prob
ably wouldn't squawk when the
scorers gave her an error on an
easy chance at the initial bag.
Slravens In Astralia
Gervals Private Clarence
Stravens writes his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. Frank Stravens. He
spent his Fourth out nl sea, had
a wonderful trip. But he
misses Oregon's summer and
fruit. Also he has moved since
arriving In Austialia to a new
address.
College Football Asks
Financial Assistance
By Harold Classen
New York, Aug. 21 (IP) College football, which one coach
said made its -biggest war contribution "in turning out well-conditioned
young men for the country's armed forces, " also intends
to help financially. Already
the University of Oklahoma has
dipped into its athletic funds
for a $50,000 war bond, Ohio
State has promised $25,000 and
the military and naval academ
ies have sold the broadcast
rights for their game for $100,
000 with the sum going to the
two services' relief funds, as As
sociated Press survey discloses.
; The Ohio State contribution is
to be a part of the Big Ten
plan in which the nine football
playing members of that cir
cuit have promised to earmark
all receipts above expenses for
overseas touchdowns. Ohio State
later announced that no matter
how small its grk. profits might
be, its check would be for at
least $25,000.
Virtually every school is
planning to aid financially,
somehow, although none knows
if the sport; will be played in
1943, and everyone knows that
football, in most cases, supports
the entire collegiate sports pro
gram.
Georgetown and George
Washington, both located in
Washington, have combined on
a plan of sending 2,500 tickets
to a different camp for each
home game and consigning an
other 1,000 to the capital city
USO.
Duquesne and Fordhain have
announced that a 25 cent war
stamp must be purchased before
the person with a pass will be
allowed to enter the stadium,
a plan which probably will be
come nation-wide.
Another practice which will
be almost nation-wide is that of
letting uniformed men obtain
scats at cut rates. Almost all
schools have set 50 cents as the
price for a ticket to service
men.
Salem Softball
Opens Playoff
Golden Pheasant and Keith
Brown teams of the Salem soft
ball loop will open the play
off series at 6:30 this evening
on Sweetland field. Harold
Smither and Bob Freeman are
expected to do the chucking" for
their respective teams.
Winner of this evening's en
gagement will meet the Paper
Mill Office club Monday night
for the right to clash with the
Papermakers in a two out of
three series. The club that
comes out on top will be en
tered in the state tournament to
be held at Corvallis.
Long Hauls for
Athletes Probed
Washington, Aug. 21 (U.R)
Undersecretary of War Robert
P. Patterson warns that sporting
events which entail long-distance
travel by a large number of
spectators must eventually be
curbed because of the strain they
place on the nation's transpor-
tafion system.
"As the pressure of war be
comes stronger, it Is obvious that
our normal recreations and
sporting events must be re-ex
amlned," Patterson said.
"The whole problem revolves
around the question of transpor
tatlon and is now under the
study of Joseph B. Eastman, di
rector of the office of defense
transportation."
The Capital Journal, Salem. Ore. Fred zimro.rmn, sport. Editor - Friday, August 21, 1942
Labor Backs Baseball Tilt
Salem-Spokane
Tilt Due to
Start at 6:15
Tonight's union labor
program at George E. Wa
ter's baseball park will be
in two parts: first, the West
ern International baseball
game between the Salem
Senators and the Spokane
Indians at 6:15. With that
affair concluded, the vocal
and instrumental music, the
speaking and the comedy
turn of A. Murray O'Flynne
of Spokane will be present
ed. ' .
The largest crowd of tHe sea
son is anticipated and a portion
of the net receipts will be turn
ed over to service men's organ
izations.
Twilight Ball Fails
To Draw Coast Fans .
San Francisdo, Aug. 21 (IP) The war-decreed inauguration of
twilight baseball in the Pacific Coast league brought a light turnout-
in more ways than one. Out went the lights last night in
One hundred thousand acres
in Northern Ireland will be de
voted to flax growing next year.
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The Vancouver Capilanos
strengthened their hold on the
Western International baseball
league top spot last night with
an 11-4 victory over the failing
Tacoma Tigers as Roy Bryant
pitched a five-hit farewell ap
pearance for the Caps at Vancouver.
The Canadian batsmen pound
ed Tacoma's Del Holmes for 15
hits, bunching most of them in
the seventh inning for six runs,
while the Tigers enjoyed only
one good inning, the third, off
Bryant. The Cap pitcher left
the team today preparatory to
joining the United States army
air corps. ,
At Spokane, the in-and-out
Indians bounced back into the
win column with a 6-1 trouncing
of the Salem Senators to even
the series there at two each.
A. Murray O'Flynn allowed
Salem 10 hits but only three of
them were bunched, in the first
inning, to produce the Oregoni-
an's lone tally. Spokane scored
single runs in the first, second
and fourth innings and topped it
off with three tallies in the fifth,
although they hit safely only
nine times.
O'Flynn aided his own cause
when his fifth inning double
scored a man.
Sntem (1) AB R II TO A E
Robbr, ss 6 1 3 1 2 3
Taorminl, If 0 1 1 0 0
San 'Francisco's Seals stadium
on the first pitch of the eighth
inning. And out went thous
ands of fans to other spots than
the ball parks everywhere a
league game was played.
Seattle, which beat Portland
8-5 and the apprqach of dark
ness by an even closer margin
at Seattle, had the only hope
ful explanation. Only 1,601
fans, many of whom ate cold
box suppers, were in the stands
in contrast with 3,233 at the
last night game. But club offi
cial pointed out there was a
special army relief program at
nearby Longacres race track.
In San Francisco, where fans
vainly have been going to night
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Chicago Grid
Ace Injured
. Evanston, 111., Aug. 21 (U.B
Bill Decorrevont's hopes of re
turning to -football stardom on
the same gridiron where he
rocketed to unparalleled heights
as a high school performer were
crushed today when a knee in
jury forced him to withdraw
from practice with the college
all-stars.
The Northwestern university
halfback suffered the injury
during a drill for the all-stars
game - with the Chicago Bears
August 28 and immediately was
withdrawn from a list of avail
able performers by head Coach
Bob Zuppke.
"The knee looks pretty bad
right now," Decorrevont said,
"I'll not only miss a chance to
play against the Boars, but likely
will be forced to take things easy
for at least three weeks with
it."
The all-star contest with the
Bears is at Soldiers Field and
as a senior at Chicago's Austin
high school Decorrevont was
the magnet that attracted 100,'
00Q fans to the giant stadium for
a scholastic title game.
llAell9
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Champion Plow Girl Miss Patricia Altrec (above), 17,
who opcrales a 70-acre farm near La Center, Wash.,
defeated nine male competitors in a three-state regional
plowing contest at Beaverton, Oregon. The attractive
high school miss took over operation of the farm when
her father took a Job in a war Industry. .(Associated
Press Photo.) ,
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Snlem 100 000 0001 10
Spokan 110 130 00X 0 0 4
Runs bnttpd In, Lelnlnirer. Buccolfl,
Stamper. Aden 2. O'Flynn. Two base hits,
O'Flynn, Myers. Three base hit. Camer
on. Stolen bases, Cameron, Cockroft, Pul-
11ns 3, callteattx. Btlccnla 3, Myers. Dou
ble playa, stamper to Pttlllns to Buccola,
Left on bases, Salem 13, Spokane 11. Bas
es on balls, oft Moore 5. off o Flynn 2.
Struck otll, by Moore 5. O'Flynn 4. Passed
balls, Elliott. Time of name 2:03. Urn
plres, Reaele and Moran.
Short scores: .
Taeoma 031 000 000 ..'4 5 '
Vancouver 130 010 60x 11 15 1
Bryant and Stieme: Holmes and 81akk.
Adams to Report
For Navy Training
Albany, Aug. 21 (U.R) Dwight
Adams, Albany high school
coach and physical education di
rector, has received instructions
to report at the Chapel Hill, U,
C. naval pre-flight training
school next Thursday for indoc
trtnation as a lieutenant, junior
grade. Adams, who also is state
softba". association tournament
director, will be unable to at
tend the tournament starting at
Corvallis Sunday.
Adams, a WlllamcUe univer
sity graduate( was coach at Dal
las before coming to Albany.
Whilo here he co-ched basket
ball and baseball and was to
have filled the football post
this yar, the job having been
vacated last winter when the
army cRllcd Tommy Swanson, a
reserve officer, into active ser
vice. .
Luncheon Cliiblests
Monmouth The Monmouth
Luncheon club, which meets
weekly on Tuesday at Mon
mouth hotel has adjourned to
Tuesday noon, September 22.
The date coincides with the fall
opening of tho Oregon College
of Education.
Consumer expenditures for
commodities during 1P42 Is esti
mated by the department of
cohimerce at $52 billion.
(By the Associated Press)
Pioneer Leaaue
Boise 7-13. Oxden 6-6.
Pocatello 7. Twin Fnlls 3.
Salt -Lake 14. Idaho Falls 1.
Taeifle Coasl
Sacramento fl. Los Anr.eles 4.
Oakland 7. Hollywood 1. ,
Seattle 8, Portland 5.
Western International
Vancouver 11. Tacoma 4.
Spokane 6, Salem 1.
American Learue ,
Ohlcano 6, St. Louts 5.
Boston 7, New York 4.
Philadelphia 9-6. Washington 2-1
name 13 Innlnas),
National Leattie
Olnclnnatt 5. Plttsburi-h 3.
Brooklyn 2, New York 1. -
games this week for a sight of
the Seals licking Los Angeles,
Just that happened 9-4 but only
1,007 customers saw it. The
night before a San Francisco
defeat was witnessed by what
sports writers called "a slim
crowd of 2,500." Lights, re
quired at yesterday's twilight
affair after the sixth inning,
went off 'so abruptly in the
eighth under dimout require
ments that few fans knew what
the final score was.
The appearance of only 594
twilight fans at Hollywood io
see Oakland. win 7-1 so jarred
club officials that they called
off today's game while they
swallowed headache tablets and
pondered whether to stage any
more twilight encounters.
San Diego and Sacramento
were idle. They are scheduled
to play a twilight game today
at the Solons' park,
Short scores:
Portland 001 110 020 5 10 2
Seattle 042 000 llx 8 IS 3
Osborne, Schubel 2, Fltzke 3, Stlne 0,
hiiu jjeuvicn; riscner ana itearse.
Los Anneles 201 000 014 12
San Francisco 000 304 3x 9 15 1
(Called at end of 8th account darkness)
Rarfensberfter, Mallory 6. Dobernlc 7,
Lynn 7, Davis 7. and Todd: Beats. Epperly
. nna uarooowsKI,
Oakland 100 010 1047 13 I
Hollywood : . . 100 000 0001 5 i
Salveson and Ralmondl; Thomas Sev
ens 9, and Brenze), Atwood 9,
Standinas
Western International W
Vnncouver 71
THcoma ,, 64
Salem 51
Spokane 52
Pacific Cnmt W
Los Annelfs 80
Sacramento 81
Seattle 78
San Diego 73 .
San Francisco fiB
Oakland 66 -
Hollywood 84 '
Portland 51
Nntinnal Learn W
Brooklyn 81
St. Louis 74
New York ' 65
Ctnclnnrftl ' 5
Pittsburtrh 54
Chicano 54
Boston 48
Philadelphia 32
American Lea tun W
New York 78
Boston 67
Cleveland , 62
St. Louis ' 63
Detroit 60' .
CnlcAfto 50
Washington 47
Phlludelphia 48
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Taormina 171
O'Cohnell 90
Gaflteaux 419
Petersen ..' 380 r
Leinlnner v 437
Salstrom 130
RobbR 157
Soderburg 89
Moore 63
Smith 96
Bablch 42
Erautt 21
Clow 64
Elliott 12
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Relief Hurler
Seeks Chance
As Regular
By Jack Cuddy
New York, Aug. 21 (U.BArc
Adams of the New York Giants.
is the unsung pitching hero of
the 1942 basebal) season andj
as usual there's a bit of pathos
in his unrecognized success.
Adams, a chunky, fair-skinned
brown-haired guy from Iron
City, Ga., is like most indispens
able ogs in any typically Am
erican organization. He's such a
great and dependable relief pit
cher that his value in that posl
prevents him from being raised
to a starter a major league
starter the goal of every fling
er in organized baseball,
Ace Adams is certain to make
the headlines this year as the
greatest workhorse in modern
major league history. It appears
now that he will play in more
than 56 games, breaking the
joint record held by Christy
Mathewson (1908) and Hugh
Mulcahy (1937).
Last night Adams made his
49th appearance of the season,
taking the mound in the eighth
inning of the Giants-Dodgers
game at Ebbets field, And the
Giants still have 35 games to
play with their lamentably im-
Adams, who has the modified
drawl of a Georgia cracker dip
ped lengthwise in metropolitan
milk, isn't much interested in
this workhorse record. But when
we mentioned the word "start
er" in the Giants' oven-hot
dressing room at Ebbets field,
he snapped at it like a hungry
turtle. - .
. "Sure, I'd like to be a starter,"
he replied eagerly. "That's the
real job," Adams' brown eyes
glistened as he pictured himself
a regular starter, with four or
five days of rest between mound
assignments. Then his eyes dull
ed, and he said:
"1 guess I won't be a starter
for some time, because they need
me to work the way I am do
ing. And if that's the way I can
help the club most, it's okay
with me," he added.
.
Air Mechanics to
Drop Grid Game
Washington, Aug. 21 (IP) All
competitive football scheduled
at army schools were air corps
mechanics get their training
have been canceled in an order
possibly presaging further cuts
in the widespread military sports
program.
Major General Walter R. Wea
ver, commanding general, wrote
the school heads under his com
mand that inter-school or Inter
camp football would interfere
to much with the urgent train
ing' of technicians needed for the
air forces.
Wyall Misses
Hall of Fame "
By One Blow
By Paul Scheffels
New York, Aug. 21 (U.R)-Vet-eran
Whitlow Wyatt, the "Rock
of Chickamauga," . was just a
pebble in the path of the Yan
kees in the last world series. Bui
if his current pitching is any
indication he may prove to be
an irresistable force should the
Dodgers play the New Yorkers
again in the October classic.
The 32-year old Georgia-born
righthanders had kicked around
in organized baseball from 1928
to 1938, when he was called to
Brooklyn from Milwaukee after
winning 23 games.
Since then he has become ina
creasingly valuable to the DodJ
ers, especially last season when
he won 22 games to lead the
National league. Yet, at no time
was his worth more clearly dem
onstrated than when he held
the Giants to one hit to bring
Brooklyn a 2-1 triumph at Eb
bets field yesterday. .
Wyatt missed the pitchers' hall
of fame by the margin of 'Johnny
Mize's homer as the Dodgers
edged the Giants in the opener
of a four-game series. The blow
came in the second inning and
was the 20th for Long John. The
victory gave Wyatt 15 victories
against only four defeats.
Cincinnati broke a six-game
losing streak with a 5-3 victory
over the Pirates in the only oth
er National league game sched
uled. Johnny Vander Meer pitch
ed his 14th victory as he held
the Pirates to six hits.
Jim Tabor's third home in tvJy
days, this one with two on, cli
maxed a six-run rally in the
fifth inning that enabled the Red
Sox to whip the Yankees 7-4,
and take the series, 3 to 1,
Albany Dickering
For Lewis Club
Albany Decision to cooper
ate with Camp Adair in bring
ing lo Albany the Fort Lewis
Major leaguers for a baseball
benefit game August 29, was
reached at a meeting here
Thursday, under the leadership
of James W. Jenks, acting pres
ident of the Oregon State base
ball league.
At the meeting it was disclos
ed .that the recreation division
at Camp Adair is willing to as
sume most of the financial risks,
on condition that a game is s-0
ranged for Salem, Sunday, Au
gust 30.
At Thursday's meeting it was
disclosed that as an additional
attraction the Camp Adair sol
diers will draw upon their own
talent for a floor show which in
itself, it was agreed, would at
tract a crowd.
All net proceeds will be used
to purchase athletic equipment
for Camp Adair soldiers, who
are in dire need of much more
such facilities than are now
available, Chairman Jenks said.
Major League
Leaders
(By the Associated Press)
American Learua
Battine Williams, Boston, .351; Gordon.
New York, .337.
Runs Williams, Boston, 103; DiMalo,
Now York. 93,
Home runs Williams, Boston, 30;
Laabs, St, Louis, 22.
Pitching Borowy, New York. 11-20
HuRhson, Boston, 16-3. W
National Leurua
Batting Reiser. Brooklyn, ,338; Lom
bard), Boston, .335.
Runs Ott, Nflw York, 88: Relsnr, Brook
lyn, 78,
Home runs ott, New York, 31! MIzb,
New York, and Camllll, Brooklyn, 30.
Pitching French, Brooklyn, IS-t; Wy
att, Brooklyn, 1S-4.
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