Capital journal., May 21, 1945, Image 3

'Skits and
Scratches
By Fred Zimmerman
Capital Journal Sports Editor
Apparently the board of con
trol of the Oregon High School
Activities association doesn't ex
pect to be caught with a second
big headache without an ample
supply of aspirin as was the
case last fall when there were
too many divisional contenders
for the football championship,
judging by the revamped type
of play adopted for next No
vember. With the single ex
ception of the two sub-divisions
in District No. 3, there will be
no play-offs and the teams will
be selected on their seasonal
performance. In case of ties the
decision will be based on first
downs and if necessary on yard
age. So it behooves those teams
that figure they have a champ
ionship squad to start their
bookkeeping early in the sea
son. What method will be adopt
ed to prevent fudging hasn't
been announced. Probably one
' man from each school to trace
the first downs and yardage
on a cooperative basis.
The system adopted by OH
SAA hasn't eliminated all of
the bugs by any means, but
through trial and error a plan
will emerge which will come as
close to satisfying all concerned
as is humanly possible. It Is
obvious that the 21 teams list
ed in the southern division of
District 3 will not be able to
meet each other during a single
season. In fact most of them arc
tied up in separate leagues, some
weaker than others. If it hap
pens that a member of a known
weak loop his a better seasonal
record than the top place club
of a strong circuit, then the fat
will be In the fire without bene
fit ration points.
Ira Pilcher and Packey Mc
Farland were well pleased with
their amateur flailing party the
other night and are working on
a second. They want it perfect
ly understood that the program
is open to all amateurs in the
valley and any kid who would
like to join in the festivities
only has to write to the boxing
promoter in care of the Salem
armory. Every effort will be
made to match the contenders
on an equal basis, although
where the talent is unknown
and untried this may be a dif
ficult matter to arrange. Most
of what happened Friday night
in the ring was hearsay insofar
as Pilch is concerned. He was
so busy in the basement match
ing and rema tching the contend
ers he had little opportunity to
get close to ringside. As always
happens some of the boys who
promised to show up failed to
make good while others did
n't care to get Into the arena
with opponents who had been
selected. .So there was a lot of
jockeying to take care of. Con
sidering it was the first venture,
the program was unusually suc
cessful. The boxers were all
taken out for chicken dinner
after the gloves had been hung
up.
McKeer Woodburn,
On All-Star Club
Portland, May 21 W) Out
city players who will meet the
Portland league all-stars in the
Ail-American boys' baseball
game here Decoration day will
report here for practice May 28.
The player list:
Catchers Robert Watson of
Medford, and Don Allen, Al
'b'any. Pitchers Les Palmer, Mil
walkie; Rollle Ott, Canby, and
Harold Walker, Eugene.
Infielders Don Dibble, Pay
ette, Idaho; Hal McKee, Wood
burn; Leo Keppinger, Central
Catholic, Portland; Donovan
Kimball, Pleasant Hill; Fred
Owens, Gresham.
Outfielders Don Ellis, Leba
iion; Carl Davis, Tigard; Rod
'ney Jaimson, Milwaukie, and
Joe Brock, Molalla.
Because players who will be
18 years old by September 30
are ineligible, some of the 50
boys considered were eliminat
ted, including: Dick Rodiger,
Eugene; Orville Ohling, Albany;
Jack Shelton, Jefferson, and
Don Reed, Woodburn.
West Salem Wins
Four Straight
West Salem The West Salem
school's A Softball team chalked
up its fourth straight win of the
season Friday afternoon when
it defeated the Dallas nine at
Dallas. There will be a return
game with Dallas on the day of
the school's final picnic. Mc
Clendon's Softball lirteup in
cludes Wayne Lathrop, Ronnie
VanderVeer, Clarence Haugen,
Dwaine Stalanker, George Stou
tenberg, Dean Lyman, Ronald
Phillips, Lester Miller, Bob Pat
son, Jimmie Benson and Don
Brown.
-fLThe team has not suffered de
feat this season, having won
from Hayesville 8-6, from Keiz
er B-2, and at Keizer 17-10.
Angels Smear
Beavers Twice
(By th Associated Press
Gloom hovered over Beaver
town today after a disastrous
week-end knocked 2 full games
off Portland's lead in the Pa
cific Coast league.
The Beavers' triple loss to
Los Angeles dropped them with
in four and a half games of Se
attle, which took two out of
three from San Francisco. Oak
land and San Diego remained
half a game apart in third and
fourth place as both clubs were
defeated twice in three games
with Sacramento and Holly
wood respectively.
Portland will meet the An
gels in a single game at 8:30
tonight, while Seattle takes on
the Seals in a doubleheader
starting at 7:30. The Monday
night engagements have been
scheduled to make up for tilts
postponed last week by rain and
travel delays.
The Pacific northwest teams
shift opponents Tuesday.
The Beavers lost to the An
gels 2-5 Saturday, and repeated
5-12 and 0-6 Sunday to put
them on the short end of a 3-2
series standing. Lou Novikoff,
Los Angeles outfielder, was the
big noise in the Sunday games
as he got on base nine times.
Don Osborn limited Portland to
three hits in the nightcap.
Seattle, which has won three
out of four from the Seals,
dropped its one game of the
series Saturday, 3-9, but came
back Sunday to cop a twin bill
10-3 and 9-1. The Rainiers scor
ed all of their 10 runs in the
fifth inning of the opener, four
of them being accounted for by
Ted Norbert's homer with the
bases loaded. Alex Palica regis
tered his sixth victory of the
season against one defeat in the
tailender.
Sacramento wound up with
a 4-3 series margin over Oak
land, losing 1-3 Saturday and
coming back Sunday to take a
doubleheader, 5-4 and 16-1. The
Solons clinched the first game
with a four-run rally in the 8th
and pounded four Acorn hurlers
at will in the nightcap.
Although San Diego shaded
Hollywood 4-3 in the week's
series, the Padres were able to
salvage only one game over the
week-end. The Stars won 8-6
Saturday and then split Sun
day's pair 0-3 and 10-1. Carl
Dumler, who won his first eight
games for the Padres and then
suffered four consecutive de
feats, finally posted victory No.
9 in the Sunday opener. Three
San Diego moundsmen were un
able to check the Stars in, the
windup.
LOK Angeles ' - 000 000 12 0013 13 2
Portland . . 200 000, 2 01 6 11 3
Cuoller, Phlpps (7). Merkle (7), and
Kreltner: Tlslng, Federmeyer 7i, Carr
(7, Dleriekx (8) and Adams. Souza (8)
Los Angeles 002 003 18 11 0
Portland 000 000 00 3 0
Ofiborn and Greene; Mooly, Moaser
(6), Ounnaraon (7) and Adams.
8an Francisco 200 0 0 1 000 3 8 2
Seattle 000 0 10 0 OOx 10 U 1
Orelia. Ehrman 4). Pierce; (4) and
Sprlnz: Turpln and Plnley.
San Francisco 010 000 0 1 5 1
Seattle 520 002 X 9 10 0
Miller. Enrman (1) and Spring; Palica
and Sueme.
San Diego 020 001 0003 8 1
Hollywood 000 000 000 0 3 0
Dumler and Bellinger; Williams, Intle
kofer 9l and Hill.
San Diego 000 000 1 1 5 1
Hollywood 024 211 X 10 14 0
Wenslotf, Tincup (31. Trahd (4), and
Balllnger: Sharp and Krause.
Sacramento 000 010 040 6 6 0
Oakland 210 001 000 4 8 a
Wood and Marcuccl (6). Schlueter;
Hayes and Raunondl, Fenech 2i.
Sacramento 400 5 04 316 16 0
Oakland 000 001 0 1 8 3
McCarthy and Marcuccl; Mann. Gibson
lj, Ayala (4), Munzo 16) and Fenech.
Major League
Leaders
By the A&sociated Press)
American League
Batting Cucclnello. Chicago, .356; Case,
Washington, and Stephens. St. Lpula .333.
Runs Stirnwelss, New York, and Ste
phens, St. Louis, 18.
Runs batted in Stephens 10; Derry and
Etten, New York. 18.
Home runs Stephens 7. Derrr 4. R.
Johnson. Boston. 4.
Pitching Ferriss. Boston 4-0: Benton.
Detroit. Borowy. New York, and Lee of
Chicago. 6-1 .833.
National .League
Batting Holmes, Boston, .426; Ott.
New York. .402.
Runs Ott 28; Holmes 27.
Runs batted In Lombard!. Hew York.
25: Nieman. Boston. 24.
Home runs Ott. Welntraub and Lom
bard!, all New York. 7.
Pitching Volselle. New York. 8-0: Burk
hardt, St. Louis, and Karl, Philadelphia.
3-0.
Lind Pomeroy
Softies Win
Vancouver, B. . C, May 21
(CP) Lind Pomeroy (Port
land) women's softball team de
feated the Vancouver AllStars
4-0 here Saturday. Betty Evans
of the Portland team registered
11 strikeouts.
Game Attendance
Hits High Peak
New York, May 21 0J.B
Baseball attendance hit
a new 1945 high yester
day when 187,399 specta
tors paid their way into
eight parks, with the 46,
575 cash customers at the
Giant-Pirate game in New
York a high mark for in
dividual games.
The best previous atten
dance at Sunday double
headers was on April 29,
when 174,162 fans were
on hand. The four Na
tional league double-headers
outdrew the quartet
of American league twin
bills, 116,197 to 71,202.
Capital Journal, Salem, Oregon, Monday, May 21, 1945 3
Here's How Game will Proceed
When Players Retain Lawyers
By Hugh Fullerton, Jr.
New York, May 21 W) News item: Mort Cooper is to be
represented by a lawyer in tomorrow's conference about his
salary dispute with the Cardinals. . , . That may be okay in this
case, but think what could hap
pen if ball players made it
habit , . . like this immaginary
scene at home plate:
Umpire: "Stee-rike three, yer
out."
Batter: "Why, yuh blind ba
boon, that was a foot wide."
Batter's lawyer (appearing
from nowhere): "Let me handle
this. Mr. Umpire, what evi
dence have you that my client
is out? Can you prove that
ball was over the plate? Can
you produce a college degree or
other qualified evidence that
you can count to three? And
Where's your corpus delicti?"
Ump (bewildered): "One
more word from you . . ."
Lawyer: "Objection. My cli
ent hasn't said anything; you
can't intimidate a witness."
Catcher: "He's out; let's get
on with the game.
Catcher's lawyer and pitch
ers lawyer (appearing simul
taneously from a pink cloud just
above the horizon): "Don't say
anything unless you consult us
first. Mr. Umpire, this witness
has never been sworn in. His
testimony is incompetent, irrele
vant and incomprehensible."
Batter: "Why you . . ." Ump:
"Yer outa the game."
At this point the managers,
each accompanied by an attor
ney, appear from the dugouts.
Home team's lawyer: "Mr.
CBy the A-wocmed Press)
Pacific Coast Leacne
W L Pet. W L Pet.
Portland 32 16 .887 Sac ram' to 24 25 .490
Seattle 28 19 .578 L. Anne les 24 25 .490
Oakland 36 24 .520 San Fran 21 26 .447
San Diego 28 25 .510 Hollywood 15 34 .306
Week-end Reanlti
Los Aniele 5-12-6. Portland 3-5-0.
Seattle 3-10-9, San Francisco 9-3-1.
Oakland 3-4-1, Sacramento 1-5-16,
Hollywood 8-0-10, Sin Diego 6-3-1.
Serlea Standing!
Sacramento 4. Oakland 3.
San DleRo 4. Hollywood 3.
Seattle 3. San Francisco 1.
Los Angeles 3, Portland 2.
Monday fisrati
San Francisco-Seattle 7:30 p.m. 2 rame
Los An g files -Portland 8:30 p.m.
American League
W L Jet. W L Pet.
Chicago 15 7 .682 Wivsh'ton 12 14 .462
Detroit 13- 9 .591" Philadel'la 10 15 .400
St. LouUt 13 9 .591 Cleveland 9 14 .391
New York 13 11 .542 Boat-on 9 lb .375
Sunday' Reanlti
Washington 1-1, Detroit 4-0.
Philadelphia 8-2, Cleveland 2-4.
New York 1-2. St. Louis 10-5.
Boston 2-2. Chicago 4-8.
National Leaarue
W L Pet.
New York 21 6 .778 Boston
Brooklyn 17 9 .854 Pittsburff
W L Pet
11 13 .45F
11 14 ,440
St. LouU 13 13 .500 Cincinnati 10 13 .435
Chicago 12 13 .460 Philadel'it 7 31 .250
Sunday'! Resulti . .
Chicago 4-4, Brooklyn 2-1.
Chlncinnati 10-4. Boston 8-9.
Pittsburgh 1-4, New York 5-0.
St. Louis 6-6, Philadelphia. 3-7.
Vikings to Play
Four Ball Games
Four basebal games, three of
them this week, have been sche
duled by Gurnee Flesher, phys
ical director for boys, for the
Salem Vikings. The first game
is to be played Monday after
noon at 3:30 at Geo. E. Waters
park, with Albany providing
the competition. Tuesday after
noon the Dallas Dragons will be
entertained while the Milwau
kie Maroons will be on hand
Friday. Monday of next week
the Eugene Axemen will put in
an appearance.
Juniors Complete
Athletic Program
This week will wind up jun
ior high school competition for
the year and, if it doesn't rain it
will be a full one. Two track
meets are scheduled. The one
Tuesday afternoon pits varsity
squads of Leslie and Parrish
against each other. While the
one booked for Wednesday af
ternoon features boys who are
taking part in the intramural
program. Both meets are sched
uled for Olinger field.
Three ball games are listed,
all on Olinger field and each
one starting at 3:45. The games
are booked for Monday, Thurs
day and Friday. So far, Parrish
has made a clean sweep of the
series. If rain interferes with
any of the events of the week,
no effort will be made to take
care of them later.
Stacey First
Sweepstakes Play
Bill Stacey placed first in the
18 hole sweepstakes golf tourn
ament Sunday. Stacey turned in
a gross of 72 which netted him
a 66. Three tied for second place
Bill Shatter, 77-869; George
Scales, 75-6 69, and Bud Wat
erman, 76-7 69. Participation
was held below 20 due to the
fact that many golfers followed
the Cline-Lengren champion
ship match.
TheU
Standings
Umpire. In the case of Duro
cher vs. Magerkurth, fifth vol
ume Brooklyn, 1941 ..."
Visiting team's lawyer: "The
precedent established in the
matter of Dykes vs. Passarel
la . . ."
Batter: "I'm just as competent
as any left-handed pitcher in
the league."
Batter's lawyer: "I'll appeal
this to the supreme court."
Pitcher: "It was a slow
curve."
Pitcher's lawyer: "I demand a
dismissal on the ground that ft
hasn't been proved my client
missed the plate."
Umpire: "Get someone up
here to bat."
Trio of lawyers representing
the two league presidents and
the baseball commissioner:
"Game called, darkness, high
wind or something."
THIS is the time for America to really pour out her'
might in War Bonds.
Every single man and woman on the far-flung bat
tle fronts is being asked to fight harder and harder,
even at the sacrifice of life. You are being asked to
lend, not give, more and more of your money, even
at the sacrifice of a few comforts of life.
Is this too much to ask of any person who says "I
am an American"? Hardly.
Remember, by this time last year you were twice
called upon to buy extra War Bonds. This is the first
time your country has called upon you in 1945. That's
oGEQBGED
Tiit
Browns Trail
By Single Tilt
(By the Associated Pressl
If the St. Louis Browns retain
the American league champion
ship, they may have their anci
ent nemesis the New York
Yankees to thank.
In capturing bolh ends of a
doubleheader from the Bronx
Bombers yesterday, 10-1 and
5-2, the Browns jumped right
into the thick of the flag fight,
tied with Detroit for second
place, only a game behind the
league-leading Chicago White
Sox.
The twin triumph was the 8th
and 9th in succession over the
Yankees in a carryover streak
from last season. Their victory
on the final day last October 1
gave the Browns their first Am
erican league pennant.
Nelson Potter and Bob Mun
crief were the Yankees spoilers
yesterday. Each won his third
game, Potter yielding only four
hits and Muncrief spacing nine
hits effectively in the nightcap.
St. Louis won the opener in
the first inning, scoring seven
runs against Atley Donald. A 2
run homer by opposing pitcher,
Walter Dubiel prevented Mun
crief from hurling a shutout.
Pete Gray of the Browns was
the hitting star of the day with
four safeties, three in the op
ener. The White Sox protected their
first-place berth by defeating
Boston twice, 4-2 and 8-2, to
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I drop the Red Sox into the cel
lar. Pitching continued to be the
White Sox' forte as Thornton
Lee and Orval Grove went the
route for Chicago's 15th and
complete game in 22 contests.
The largest crowd of the ma
jor league season, 51,340, of
which 46,575 paid, saws the Na
tional league-leading New York
Giants divide a twin-bill with
the Pittsburgh Pirates at the
Polo Grounds. The Giants won
the opener 5-1 as Bill Voiselle
gained his eighth straight tri
umph without a defeat. Preach
er Roe handed the New Yorkers
their first shutout of the sea
son, 4-0, in the nightcap on fuor
hits.
The Chicago Cubs treed the
Brooklyn Dodgers twice, 4-2 and
4-1, before 33,708 paid custom
ers, to move into fourth place
in the National league. Paul
Derringer won his fifth game in
the opener and Hank Wyse his
fourth triumph in the nightcap.
After Stubby Overmire, De
troit's lefty, had beaten Wash
ington in the opener, 4-1, for
his initial victory of the season,
Marino Pieretti pitched the Sen
ators to a 1-0 triumph over Al
Benton. The rookie rightander
yielded only three hits for Ben
ton's first loss against five vic
tories. Bucky Walters baited rather
than pitched his way to his first
victory of the year as Cincin
nati split with Boston, the Reds
winning the opener 10-8 and
dropping the second 9-4. Wal
ters hit two homers to account
for the winning markers in the
first game.
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days. In helping your country, you are also helping
yourself!
Cline Retains
Golfing Throne
Walt Cline, Jr., defeated Glen
Lengren, 4 and 3 Sunday to re
tain the city open golf cham
pionship. Interest was high in
the match and a good sized gal
lery followed the men both dur
ing the forenoon and afternoon
rounds of competition. In addi
tion, the Salem golf club tele
phone jangled all afternoon as
persons downtown sought to
learn the result.
The pair played the best golf
of the day during the forenoon
and when the men knocked off
for lunch Cline had polished off
a 71, one under par. Lengren
had a 73 and was two down.
Lengren was one down at the
end of the first nine, pulled up
even on the 11th and went one
up on the 12th as he birdied
those two holes. He lost the
advantage on the 13th and then
dropped the 15th and 18th.
The champion left the gate
wide open during the outbound
nine of the afternoon round as
he was over par on the second,
third and fourth holes. How
ever, Lengren was just as wild
and while he picked up a point
on the second after losing the
first he dropped the sixth and
nine to start the inbound nine
four down. Glen took the 10th
and 11th to cut the margin to
two points, but he lost the 13th
and the match ended on the 15th
.. ARID MORE m
when he dropped that one too.
The cards:
Fnrftwon
Out: Cline 4SS43363 5 36
Lengren 54444363 537
In: Cline 44345349 435
Lengren 43365345 8 3a
Afternoon
Out: Cline 55454353 539
Lengren 64454454 541
In: Cline 5 5 2 4 4 222
Lengren 4 4 2 5 4 322
Other flight results:
First, Mason over Wise, 1 up;
second, Bonesteele over Graham
on 20th; third, Fisher over Nash,
2 up; fourth, Gillespie over
Fraiola, and 2-1; fifth, Haman
over Ingram, 1 up; sixth, Glais
yer over Filler, 3-2; seventh,
Wood over Johnson on 19th;
eighth, Kletzing over Hunter,
2-1; ninth. Pike over Harden,
4-3; 10th, Thomas over Witten
berger, 2-1.
The tournament was under
the sponsorship of the Elks
lodge which provided $275 in
war bonds and a trophy for dis
tribution among the winners.
Seattle Tourney
Due May 11-14
Seattle, May 21 (JP) Seattle's
$10,000 open golf tourney will
be held October 11-14, Harry
Givan, president of the Seattle
open committee announced Sat
urday. He said he had received dates
from Fred Corcoran, tourney
manager of the Professional
Golfers' association, who also
set September 20-23 for an open
in Spokane and Oct. 4-7 for Ta
coma. Portland's dates are Septem
ber 27-30 and Vancouver, B.C.,
October 18-21.
YM
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