Capital journal., February 21, 1944, Image 3

, Tke QcabCtocase
By Jim Hutchegon
(Associated Press Sports Writer)
Seattle The shot in the arm
needed by minor leagues, says
one of the minors' most success
ful owners, is a dash of about
one part "Brooklyn" along with
nine parts baseball.
The reference to the arm, of
course, is of the variety that
reaches out of the boxoffice to
rake in the cash.
The suggestions of "Brooklyn-
Dodds Too Good
lor Opponents
I By Harold Claassen
1 New York, Feb. 21 W If Gil
TJodds, Boston's plank pounding
.pjU-son, fails to wipe out the
World indoor mile mark of
k:07.4 this winter It will be be
cause he is too good.
There hasn't been a race this
winter in which the theology
student hasn't killed off all riv
als in the first half mile and has
been forced to travel the re
mainder of the way suffering
from lonesomeness.
It was the same way Saturday
night at the Diamond Jubilee
meet of the New York A.C
where Dodds won the Baxter
mile in 4:08.
He spun through the first 440
jyards in 58.6 seconds and got to
Ithe half mile post in 1:59.7
easily the fastest first half of a
major mile race on record and
speedy enough to win the 800-
yard event in many college
meets.
He carried the same tempo
through the next 440 yards, be
ing only a quarter of a mile
frira home in 3:03.3, another
record for big time milers. Then
his love of companionship got
the better of him and he spent
64.7 seconds looking for the
tape, Rudy Simms and Jim Rat
ferty. Dodds simply was too
good for his own good.
Independence and
Monmouth Clash
Monmouth By beating the
Independence Hopsters, 23 to
19, Saturday night, Monmouth
high's cagers forced the Polk
county hoop tournament into an
extra session. Independence
and Monmouth, both beaten
once, will meet Monday night
at 7:30 to decide the issue.
, W" Monmouth beat Perrydale
i Saturday forenoon, 26-17. to
win the consolation title and
then went out Monday night to
keep Independence from taking
the championship bracket.
Hancock Puckmen
Win In Seattle
Seattle, Feb. 21 flJ.B The
Hancock Oilers of Portland de
feated the Boeing Bombers 4-1
in a Northwest Hockey league
game last night, climbing from
last place to third and eliminat
ing the Bombers from the lea
gue playoff.
The Bombers got their lone
goal in the third period after the
Oilers scored in each of the first
two stanzas. The Portland sextet
added two more tallies in the
last five minutes to complete the
rout.
Movies Appeal
To Brenda Helser
Portland, Feb. 21 W) Brenda
Helser, one of the famed "Cody
Kids," is considering three
movie contracts, says Jack
Cody, coach of the Multnomah
; club's nationally ranking wo
men's swimming team
Skiing to Work WPj A 5-lnch snowfall which mantled Detroit,
tich., Feb. 11 and produced many traffic snarls caused these
Hudson Motor Co. riveters to take to their skiis. The girls,
Marie Norwood (left) and Marie Dillon (right) approach the
plant to go to work.
izing" the game with apologies
to the sensitive refers to show-
m a n s h i p in
general, not to
the raucous
chorus: "Trow
de bum out!"
Emil Sick,
whose regime
ji "l 17' brought a flair
i of showman-
S Jt 1 ship to Seat-
I I V-i I tie's Pacific
L imJmJ Coast League
imil Sick assurfj
that he would
want nothing introduced which
would cheapen the game or put
it on a vaudeville level, but:
"The turnstile success of the
Dodgers in recent years b a s
proved that baseball needs
something in addition to the
game to provide entertainment
for the fans who might not be
interested in the technical phas
es of the game.
'Looking at the diamond pic
ture with less technical eyes, I
believe that baseball is primar
ily a show. We can use more
special nights, more bands, more
hoopla to add to the excitement.
And, as far as I am concerned,
Seattle will have that kind of
baseball entertainment from
now on."
Sick, a leading brewery op
erator and past president of the
Chamber of Commerce, was
looking through a pair of those
"less technical eyes" when he
bought the Seattle franchise in
1938. He didn't know much
about the game.
Sick really doesn't have to
look toward Brooklyn as a pay
off example for showmanship.
He could point out to Sick's Sta
dium, the $500,000 "house that
Emil built."
The stadium is a neat layout
for the minors, but it doesn't
have any appeal to Dixie Walk
er, the Brooklyn outfielder.
When Dixie was in Seattle re
cently with a baseball troupe en
route to Alaska to entertain the
boys in khaki, Stan Musial sug
gested he'd like to take a peek
at the ball park.
"Not for me, Broth ah,"
drawled the guy from Georgia,
"Ah'm not lookln' at the inside
of these minah league ball pa'ks
befo' Ah have to. They give me
the willies. You get to see 'em
too soon as It is."
Sick's team drew half a mil
lion customers through the sta
dium in 1940 for a Pacific Coast
league record. Resumption of
night play is expected to bring
prosperity again this year.
In six years, Sick's Seattle
teams have won three league ti
tles and never finished below
third.
For a season or two, the Rain-
lers were known as "show
boats." Their lineup included
such show-offs as JoJo White,
now with the Philadelphia Ath
letics; Bill Schuster, now with
the Chicago Cubs, and Dick Bar
rett, now with the Phillies. They
were crowd pleasers.
Seattle believes It is the only
ball town where they have group
singing at the games. The sta
dium echoes to "take me out to
the ball game" during the sev
enth inning stretch. 1
That's just i little addition to
the color out at Sick's place,
along with special nights for the
manager, for Al Schacht come
dy or for a favorite player. East
ern visitors often have praised
these special nights.
Which leads Business Mana
ger Bill Mulligan to remark:
"Brooklyn better take a page
from our book."
Dairy cattle were first
brought to Canada in about
1608 when Champlain estab
lished a small herd in Quebec.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon,
California Abandons Judges;
Thurston May Get Tacoma Job
By Ed Emery
San Francisco, Feb. 21 U.PJ Sports shorts:
The state athletic commission's decision to discard the use of
judges in all California prize
referee's judgment, should clar-
ify the state ring situation.
Southern California had been
using the New York judge sys
tem for cirtually all matches,
while the north had invoked it
only for top bouts. . . .
Promoter Joe Lynch s request
for approval of a 15-round
championship bout between
Manuel Ortiz of El Centro, ban
tamweight title holder,-and Phil
Vikings Face
Crucial Test
The ball games, one "off the
record" insofar as the district
title is concerned, and the other
vitally important to the Salem
Vikings, are on the schedule for
the week. The Viks will head
for the land of the Cheesemak
ers late Tuesday and will en
gage Tillamook on their own
floor that evening. Next Thurs
day night they meet the Dallas
Dragons in a sudden death af
fair on Willamette's court. It
will be curtains insofar as dis
trict competition is concerned
for the quint that loses the
Thursday night engagement.
The winner will go on to meet
the victor in Wednesday eve
ning's clash between Silverton
and Mt. Angel.
Coach Frank Brown's quint
is expected to be at full strength
against the Cheesemakers,
whom they defeated, 22 to 13,
last December. Travis Cross, out
of the Albany tilt with a tender
foot as the result of the removal
of callouses, will be ready for
both games this week.
The Corvallis Spartans,
champions of the southern part
of the district, will take matters
easy until the time comes to
take on the northern title hold
er in a best two out of three
series.
Dallas
Wallops
Air Base Quint
Dallas The Dallas Dragons
trounced a Salem air base bas
ketball quint 50-12 here Friday
night to win their 13th grame in
14 starts this Reason. In trip lead
all the way, Dallas held a 24-8 I
advantage at the half.
Dallas (50) (12) Army Air Base
Prescott 9 P 2 Cardwell
Hiebert 12 P 2 Hammer
Rohrs c 3 King
Courier 0 Q S GosKehn
Rlchard'on 19 O 1 Kpib
Subs: Dalle. Osunt 10: AAB Wortman 2.
4. " .
Skeet Shooting is the finest
form of shotgun training says
Lt. George Dayoe (right) who
is showing Chief C. D. North of
Lynchburg, Va., how to get a
lead on the clay birds. Skeet
shooting is used in training pros
pective aerial gunners.
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Monday, Feb. 21, 19443
fights, and rely solely upon the
Terranova of New Orleans,
weatherweight titleholder, for
the featherweight championship,
was tabled by the commission
until its next meeting in Los
Angeles, Lynch's home town.
Tacoma reports that Hollis
(Sloppy) Thurston, 4Vyear-old
former manager of the Tacoma
Western International league
ball club and one time major
league pitcher, probably will
be offered the management of
Tacoma's Pacific Coast league
team, provided Sacramento's
franchise wings its way north.
Pacific Coast conference dis
approval of the proposed Cal
ifornia - Washington basketball
championship playoff evidently
was based on the supposition
that the Bears should not take
up valuable train space travel
ing to Seattle. . . . Graduate
Manager Clint Evans of Cali
fornia had cleared his players
with navy authorities before the
unfavorable conference vote. . .
Coach Stub Allison of Cali
fornia will start his spring foot
ball practice some time in late
April or May, two months be
yond the usual time. . , . Year
round classes and sanction of
summer practice makes the later
dates possible.
Bruins Celebrate
Defeat of Troy
Los Angeles, Feb. 21 (U.R)
The UCLA Bruins today cele
brated their first basketball
series victory over University
of Southern California since
1932, after defeating the Tro
jans, 40-32, Saturday night to
take three out of four games in
the cross-town series.
The win gave UCLA second
place in the Pacific coast con
ference southern division race,
with three wins and three losses,
while the Trojans ended in the
cellar with one win and five
losses.
Capt. Dick West of the Bruins
scored 17 points to tie the indi
vidual scoring record set earlier
this season by Wayne Hooper
of California, and get a tie with
Bob Howard of USC for division
seasonal scoring honors at 48
points.
Baseball Magnates
May OK Transfer
Los Angeles, Feb. 21 (U.R) Di
rectors of the Pacific Coast Base
ball league will meet here to
day to approve or reject trans
fer of the Sacramento club fran
chise to Tacoma, Wash., inter
ests which have purchased the
club rights from the St. Louis
Cardinals.
The Sacramento Chamber of
Commerce still hoped to find fi
nancial backers for a movement
to retain the club in the capital
city, but indications were that
the Sacramento bid would fail,
and that the directors would ap
prove transfer of the club to
Tacoma.
Mill City Loses
To Stayton High
After winning two games the
previous week, the Mill City
Timberwolves were defeated
Wednesday night on the local
floor by the Stayton high school
basketball squad by a score of
30-18.
Mill City (18) (30) Stayton
Davis 4
4 Dombrosxr
Peters 2
Toman 7
Poole 2
Tathaway 1
Referee Shelton.
8 Freele
2 Nellson
10 Johnson
Ocll
Committeeman Change
Mill City CIO, No. 5-2804,
met Friday night in the fire
hall. Vern Clark and Ed Chance
were elected as committeemen
for the Mill City Manufactur
ing company plant to serve al
ternately, replacing William
Best, who is now employed else
where. Factory
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INSURANCE1
Shirley Fry, 16-year-old Ak
ron, Ohio, girl, holder of the na
tional indoor girls' singles and
doubles tennis championship.
Simmons Against
Comeback Trials
Little Rock. Ark., Feb,. 21 (U.R)
Al Simmons, speaking from
experience, supported Connie
Mack, manager of the Philadel
phia Athletics, in his belief that
old-timers should not attempt
comebacks in the major leagues
even in this war year.
Simmons, one of the greatest
slugging outfielders the game
has ever known when he was
with the Philadelphia Athletics,
said he had tried a comeback
last season with the Boston Red
Sox and couldn't make the
grade.
"I was in the best condition
I've been in for 10 years, too,"
Al said. "No man ever worked
harder but I just didn't make it."
Simmons said the American
people loved their baseball too
much for the game to be called
off this year despite the calibre
of play that may be presented.
Three
Way
Tie
For
Cage
Title
Aumsville The Aumsville
Rangers won their game from
Turner by a score of 16 to 15.
However it was anybody's game
until the whistle blew. The
teams seemed to be very evenly
matched and Aumsville missed
Lane who was injured last week
in the Jefferson game.
The Aumsville girls team won
their game also by a score of
36 to 27 in a fine game.
With the defeat of Stayton
Friday night the B league cham
pions have a three way tie
which will be played off on a
neutral floor. Aumsville, Jef
ferson and Stayton have 9 wins
and 2 losses apiece. Gates is at
the bottom of the league to date
having lost all games.
"Sulfa,
A WOUNDED AMERICAN BOY lies on jungle trail In New
Guinea. A companion stoops over him. "What can I do, fella?"
"Sulfa, please. They got me pretty bad." And into the stricken
man's wound goes the wonder drug that will fight off infection.
Few American women know that the same user rooking lata
they save in their kitchens to provide this boy with shells and
bullets also help to make sulfa drugs, varcines and scores of
other battle-field essentials. No material of war that you can
help provide means more in terms of his life or death. Are you
saving your used cooking fats? Even the blackest fat yields
crystal-clear glycerine. America desperately needs them. Save
them in any kind of a tin can. nnt in glass. Rush them to your
meat dealer. Start doing it today!
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Davis And Pep Expected Take
Over After Jack's Induction
By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.
New York, Feb. 21 W If there's any loose change left around
the boxing world after Beau Jack goes into the army, "Boomy"
Davis and Willie Pep likely will split it up. , . , The Beau likely
will pile up a big income tax bill 2 -
fir-htino Rr,h Mnntzomerv. Da- I navy. llkc'y w 'n' mre
vis and Sammy Angott in a
three-weeks stretch, March 3 to
24 and after that he shouldn't
have to worry about the rigors
of basic training. . . . After that
quick kayo over Montgomery,
Davis is the big attraction now,
but Pep, just discharged from
Huskies Need
2 More Wins
(Br the Associated Press)
The University of Washington
Huskies, undefeated in 10 north
ern division games, will open
their final basketball series of
the season in Seattle against the
University of Idaho's third place
Vandals tonight.
Washington, three games
ahead of second place Oregon
needs victories both tonight and
tomorrow night to clinch the
title.
In the only conference action
of the week-end, the Oregon
Webfoots finished up a clean
sweep of the Oregon State
Beavers, winning their final
game of the season at Corvallis
Saturday night by a score of
42-39.
The victory, which gave Ore
gon a certain second place in the
final standings, was tight all the
way, with the Beavers holding a
two-point, 21-19 advantage at
the half. The lead had changed
hands three times during the
opening period.
In the second half, the taller
Webfoots found their shooting
eyes, while the Beavers lost
theirs. In the first minute the
Oregonians plunked through
three baskets to jump into a
25-21 lead and the Beavers
never recovered, although they
managed to get within three
points of a tie on several occa
sions. Both Idaho and Washington
were idle, Insofar as conference
play is concerned over the week
end, but Washington scored one
of its major victories of the sea
son in downing non-conference
Gonzaga, 53-40.
The Huskies played one of
their best games of the season to
defeat the top-notch Gonzaga
team after taking a trimming
from the Zags in three previous
starts.
The Washington State Cou
gars, who bowed to the Fort
Lewis reception center team,
46-38, Saturday night at Pull
man will make its final road
trip of the year this year, meet
ing Oregon at Eugene Tuesday
and Wednesday and Oregon
State at Corvallis Friday and
Saturday. The games will close
the season for the Oregon
schools.
Mexican Champion
On Portland Card
Portland, Feb. 21 W) Greg
orio Escalona, Obregon, Mex.
featherweight champion o f
Mexico, will be rematched with
Joey Dolan, Portland, in a 10
round bout March 3, says Pro
moter Joe Waterman. They
1 drew here February 4.
Please!"
Board, Ptid lor by Induilrj.
good opposition.
Monday Matinee
H. Hurricane Mitchell, who
stirred up breezes comparable
to his name at Illinois without
staying around long enough to
play football, is back on the
campus after getting a medical
discharge from the army. . . .
John Tener, former National
league president, who'll be hon
ored at a dinner it Pittsburgh
soon, had a couple of baseball
debuts that old-timers still re
member. In his first game for
Baltimore he had three outfield
chances and bobbled them all;
and in his National league pitch
ing debut in 1888 he took a 14-0
licking from Indianapolis.
Service Dept.
Marcel Cerdan of France, who
cleaned up in the army boxing
championship at Algiers, is tab
bed as middleweight champion
of Europe by the International
Boxing Union, although the Bri
tish board recognizes him only
as French champ. American mitt
experts who have seen Marcel
perform say he's as good a 160
pounder as there is in the world
today. , . . Elbie Fletcher, i
Pirate first baseman, probably
won't remain at the Bainbridge
naval training station long en
ough to play ball this spring. He
and golfer Jimmy Demaret, who
entered the physical instructors'
school at the same time, likely
will be sent to advanced bases.
Oldsters Boost
Diamond Game
Pitlsburgh, Feb. 21 UP) Base
ball's oldest active old-timers
turned back the pages of sport
to the gas-light era and decided
there's nothing wrong with the
national game after all.
Connie Mack, Honus Wagner
and John K. Tener, all of whom
played major league baseball
long before the turn of the cen
tury, told nearly 1,000 fans
gathered for the annual sports
roundup of the baseball writers'
association last night the spot
can look forward to its greatest
years both now and after the
war.
Mack caught for the Pitts
burgh Pirates before he went
over to the American league to
manage the Philadelphia Ath
letlcs.
Wagner, with Mack was
among the first of baseball's old
timers to be elected to the
sport's hall of fame.
Dayton Defeats
Sheridan, 31-19
Dayton The Dayton Union
high school boys basketball
team won a 31 to 19 score league
game from Sheridan here Fri
day evening.
The Dayton second team lost
to Sheridan's second team, 16
to 10.
The Dayton grades team won
from St. Paul grades team.
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Troubles?-NO! I
The list on our Honor Roll i
growing. First a .single plaque; then
another section; tomorrow a third
will take iU place alongside. And
the end is not yet. Well now
these are valuable men these
names inscribed on plaques. They
helped build our business we miss
them terribly . . . God speed you
guys! If you'll do as good a job for
your bigger "Bobs" aa you did
for us we'll be so proud of youl
Troubles? We haven t made a drop
of whiskey since October, 1942.
The whiskey in the merchandise
that we are now apportioning
equitably, without favor, to our
wholesalers and State Store pur
chasers, was made in peacetime.
We don't know when we can re
place this merchandise, because
we don't know how long this war
will last.
But we are not idle! We began
making alcohol for our Govern
ment when conditions became criti
cal , before Pearl Harbor. Aa
promptly, as technically possible,
we converted all of our whiskey
manufacturing facilities to war
production. Every grain distillery
we possess is working, gratefully,
24 hours a day, 7 days a week,
making precious alcohol for war
time needs. Troubles? Day and
night . . . wholesalers and retailers
are pleading with us for more mer
chandise. We can't blame them.
Many of them have their life's
savings invested in their business
and they want to stay in busi
ness. And we want to help our
wholesaler distribute fairly to his
retailers, the merchandise he buya
from us. And we'd like to have
every retailer supplied with as
many of our products as he'd like
to buy. Troubles?
What can we (do about It? Far
better to give a half loaf, or even a
quarter loaf than none. Because if
we and other distillers would im
moderately dispose of all our
stocks, all of us in the alcoholic
beverage industry would be out of
business, in a comparatively short
time. And then when the war is
over we'd have nothing of quality
to sell; quality that we have been
building for years; quality that
f;ave us the courage to invest mil
ions of dollars in advertising to
the American consumer . . . the
most discriminating in the world!
Troubles? There is a most criti
cal shortage of glass containers and
paper cartons. This alone prevents
us from shipping as much merchan
dise as we would like. And carriers
are now needed for the transpor
tation of much more necessary
materials for our armed forces.
Much more important now today
than our business.
Ours Is a luxury product. The
American people, under their
standard of living, are not satisfied
to work merely for subsistence
they must have some luxuries. But
is it such a great hardship on us to
place a little extra emphasis on
quality rather than quantity; to
curtail our luxury appetites when
there is so much at stake? Trou
bles? A lot more of them. But . . .
Did you say you had troubles?
Any other time we'd call them
TROUBLES. NOT NOW!
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