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Skits and Scratches By Fred Zimmerman Capital Journal Sports Editor A story that is timely in view of the approaching Governor's cup series of the Pacific Const league is contained in a release issued from the public relations department of the loop. While the release admits the yarn is nine years old, it has never reached the public eye. It has to do with the San Diego Padres who made a clean sweep of the 1037 playoff. "While men mar veled at the achievement, which is embalmed and embossed in the memory of those who wit nessed it, it was not until the recent league meeting in Oak land that Bill Starr revealed the real miracle of the triumph," the article states. "Mr. Starr, lest you forget, is the catcher with a broken leg, who despite this impediment, scaled the lad der to success to become the president of the club for which he once played at a stipend of $350 per month. Bill was in the thick of the 1937 race. "Bill avers that the Padres, when they started that play-off against Sacramento in the latter city, were the most demoralized baseball team in the land something the fans had never suspected during all these years, because with their full' strength they were a good club, and had set the pace a good part of the way. And it was a good club despite the fact that it was not built along authentic baseball architectural lines. Experts pointed the finger of derision at 'Hardpan' Bill Lane because seven of his regulars and one catcher were left hand hitters. Things happened, not all of them visible to the naked eye,, and Bill says that at the moment of starting the play off they were so demoralized mentally that the present day Germany and Japan by com parison would look like sound, well-ordered entities. "The Padres, under Frank Shellenback, went out In front July 16, and stayed there until August 24. Meantime, injuries had shelved George Myatt, Ced ric Durst and Jimmy Reese. The club lost a one-sided series to the Seals, and in the final week of the season lost to the last-place Missions two games to five. This left them reeling along Queer street. Not only that, but dropped them into third place and five games he hind the leading Solons. In juries alone didn't cause this slump. Evils of the bonus sys tem proven even more lethal. Most of the San Diego pitchers were on a bonus basis extra money if they won so many games. A month from the end of the season, 'Big Jim' Chaplin had won his bonus. The other pitchers hadn't. They were begging to work often, pitch out of turn. Under such condi tions It Is hard for a manager to refuse, even against his bet ter judgment. Refusal might completely wreck the staff. Anyway, the club went Into a tallspin. The sum and sub stance of all this was that there was not even a simmer of esprit de corps on the club the day be fore they tackled the Solons in the play-off. "Then, presto, on the night of September 22, they surprised themselves by defeating Tony Frietas, the best money pitch er in the league, and touched up 'Cotton' Pippen after rout ing Tony. Ted Williams, a gangling lad just out of high school, led the assault with a triple and three singles. Ted's titanic efforts in this opening game of the series seemed to re juenate the entire club and from there on we just seemed unbeatable. We were far more surprised than the public," Starr relates. The Padres defeated the lead ing Solons four games straight in the opening round of the play-off, and then took four in a row from Portland in the finals. In the eight gamps the Padres did not make a change in pitchers Chaplin. Dick Ward, Wally Herbert and Man ny Salvo winning two games each without a quiver of an el bow, leaving such competent performers as Howard Crag head, Shellenback, Herman Pil lette, "Junk" Walters and Berle Home on the sidelines with nev er a chance to stick in their oar. The Padres packed away the series with half their regu lar infield on the bench. Skel ly, little more than a sprite of a boy, substituted for Myatt at short, and Joe Berkowitz, a light-hitting utility man, re placed Jimmy Reese at second. Seals Place In Play-off fBy the Associated Pr) The San Francisco Seals are "in" as far as the Pacific Coast league four-team Governor's cup playoffs are concerned. Lefty O'Doul's bay city club clinched fourth place last night by beating the Los Angeles An gels 4-1 as the Oakland Acorns were dropping a twin bill to the Hollywood Stars by identical 4-3 scores. The movietown dou bleheader, scheduled to permit an open date tonight, left the Acorns and Stars with only three games to play and put the fifth spot Oakland outfit five and a half games behind the Seals. One possible change can be made in the standings before the season ends Sunday. San Francisco, trailing Sacramento by a game and a half, has an outside chance to move into third ahead o'f the Solons. Sac ramento was rained out at Port land last night, but will make up the lost contest in a double feature this evening. Seattle's Rainiers, firmly en trenched in the runner-up posi tion, trounced San Diego's Pad res twice, 3-2 and 2-1 Joe Dem oran, Seattle righthander, be came the eighth pitcher in the league to enter the 20-game winner circle through his cur tain raiser victory. Demoran and Glenn Elliott, who tossed Seattle to its double victory over San Diego, met tough mound competition from two Padre rookies, Jerry Worn ack and Jerry Nelson. Womack gave up 11 hits to Demoran's seven in the 3-2 abbreviated curtain raiser, but two San Die go errors aided in Nelson's 2-1 nightcap downfall as the youth limited the Rainiers to six safe ties compared to Elliott's 11. Sun DIbo DM 000 11 7 4 Sesttlh 000 310 X 3 II I Womnck St Bulltneer; lmorn St Flnley. Sun Diero Ofltl 100 flflO 1 II 2 Seattle OOfl 100 Oil 3 6 0 Nelson St Orlm; Elliott St Nlemlller. Castro . Lou Angrles 000 Ml) 000 I 6 0 San Francisco 000 00 00x 4 II fl Lammer. Merkle (4. K Hicks (i ft 8a ml: Jaiuen St Of rodovjlcl. Oakland (Win 000 31 7 0 Hollywood 000 000 44 7 1 Chetkovich St W. Raimondl, Kimball St Hill. Oakland 200 OOfl 0011 2 Hollywood 000 007 0114 ft 1 Otlmore Kearse: LeOault, Marshall Intelkoftr Km use. The Standings Pacific Co ait Lea me W L Pet. I W L Pel Portland 110 08 . 18' Oakland AO 91 .404 Brattle 103 7 .67.1 San Dieco 0 99 .447 Sacram'to 9h 03 .A341 L. Anctlfs 74 10ft .413 San Fran 94 RJt .5351 Hollywood 71 1M .394 Rtanlta Thursday Sacra men to-Portland, rain. San Francisco 4. Los Angeles 1. Hollywood 4-4, Oakland 3-3. Seattle. 3-3. Ban Dleto 2-1. American Learua W L Pet. W t Pet. Detroit M M .6741 Cleveland 70 70 .500 Wash' ton 8S fi .ft6"I Chicago 71 76 .480 St. Lout 78 R .9341 Boaton 70 7ft .470 New York 7ft 70 .5111 Phlladel'la, ftl 85 .340 Results Thursday Detroit 1. Cleveland 9 Washington 1. New York . Philadelphia 0, Boston 3, National League W b Pct.l W L Pet. Chicago VI 55 .4331 New York 78 AO .534 St. Louis 89 57 .810 Boston 84 83 .435 Brooklyn 80 85 .553: Cincinnati 80 85 .414 Plttaburg 80 87 .54 Phlladel'la 44 103 .399 Reaulta Thursday Boston 3. Brooklyn 3. St. Louis 3. Chicago 0. Not a Sunday game was play ed and the four cluhowners lost money, which recalls an inci dent of the series. The Padres took the Solons three straight in Sacramento, and the clubs moved to San Diego for the fourth game on Saturday night. Prior to the game BUI Lane overheard a hanger-on remark: "Well, this Is one game the Padres will lose they figure a capacity house for tomorrow, which is Sunday. If they win tonight, there won't be any Sunday game." The statement roused Lane to fighting pitch and he made the only pep talk of his career. He hobbled to the club house and told his play ers that this was one game they had to win If they never won another. And they won It by beating Tony Frietas a second time. The victory cost Lane around $8,000 in gate receipts and concession profits as Sun day would have seen an over flow crowd. DID YOU KNOW! That pneumatically Installed rock Wool Insulation and Metal Interlocking Weather Stripping will save up to 40 In fuel bills. AMD ALSO Make. Tour home up to 15 deirrees cooler In summer 3 MONTHS TO PAY Free FMlmatea No Obligation Campbell Rock Wool Co. Salem Owned and Salem Represented 1131 Broadway Ph. 49 6 Capital Journal, Salem, Ore., Friday, Sept. 21, 1945 One Armed Pete Gray Believes His Major League Days Ended By Jack Hand New York, Sept. 21 Wt Pete Gray thinks this is his first and last year in the big leagues but is satisfied to have proved to himself that a one-armed man could play baseball in the majors actually appear in the Yankee stadium. "I've done everything Griffith Joins Club on Hunch By Jack Cuddy New York, Sept. 21 UR Without benefit of spectacles, Clark Griffith's greenish-brown eyes blazed at the reporter as he said, "We'll win that pennant yet. Detroit has more games to play than we have so De troit has more games to lose with a tired out pitching staff." Griffith, a sawed-off oldster with bristling gray brows and a mop of white hair, is presi dent of the Washington Sena tors. He will be 76 years old in November. Because of his age, he rarely travels with the club. But he came to New York yes terday "on a hunch" and he will stick with his club until it wins or loses the pennant. When a guy is approaching 76, and he is forced to watch his apple-eye club lose, 6-1, to the Yankees in a crucial game, one might expect to find Grif fith with his feet in a pail of hot water, and with ice packs on his head. Such was not the case with Clark Griffith, when we bearded him in his Hotel New Yorker room. The reporter said, "Even if your club finishes second this year, will you be surprised at its remarkable showing?" Griffith, of the brown-striped suit, marched up and down the room, then looked scornfully at the reporter and said, "I was disappointed last year when my club finished in last place. I believed that club would go to town, but it didn't for various reasons. Naturally, I am not surprised when that same club with a few embellishments does this season what I expect ed of it in 1944. "My only surprise now will be if we do not win the pennant. I will be surprised because I know we have the best team In the American league. And we will win out because I have sud denly joined the club, on a hunch, to sit in on victory. Sure I'll go with the club to Phil adelphia until this thing Is fought out." Softball Tourney Delayed by Rain Cleveland, Sept. 21 W Of ficials of the world's Softball championship tournament were hoping for a smile from the weather man today as the tour ney advanced for a second time into the quarterfinal round of competition. A downpour wiped out last night's schedule after the Tor onto (Ont.) Crofton Girls bunched three hits in one inning to eliminate the Salt Lake City Shamrocks, 5 to 2, in an after noon contest. The Shamrocks made four errors as a three-run fifth inning provided the margin of victory for the Croftons. I ever wanted to do," grinned the highly publicized St. Louis outfielder in the quiet of the Browns' clubhouse after he had been tossed out of a ball game for the first time in the big show following an argument with Umpire Bill McGowan. "Playing in the stadium was always a boyhood goat of mine back in Nanticoke, Pa., some thing I thought would never happen. Probably I'll never play here again," he observed, squeezing some shaving cream out of a tube and shifting to a safety razor with the same easy grace he uses in fielding ground balls. "No use kidding myself, next year will be different," Gray rationalized. "All those young fellows will be coming back from service and Old Pete may not have enough power to keep up with them. "I won't go to Toledo if they sent me there. Only place I would consider would be the Pacific coast league. But then I might quit baseball and go back home. Used to have a pool room there, seven tables, but I gave It up. Maybe I'll try it again. If they want me to play ball, they're going to have to pay me. Next year will be different." Gray disclosed that he had signed to appear in eight ex hibition games on the Pacific caost after the close of the sea son and after that, "well, I'll just hang around and see what happens." Gusfafson First In Golf Meeting Harry Gustafson checked In with a 37 to take first place in Thursday evening's contract tournament at the Salem Golf club, but it was Lawrence Al ley who stole the show with his 5 under par performance of 31. Five birdies and four pars were on his card at the end of the nine holes. He collected 110 points as compared with 115 for Gustafson. Millard P e k a r and Bud Waterman shot 30s and garner ed 55 points each to tie for third position. George Hoffman was beaten 1 up By Floyd Baxter in a han dicap tourney match. Woodburn Golfers To.Play and Eat Woodburn Woodburn golf club members and friends will have another afternoon of play and a no-host supper at the club house Sunday evening, Septem ber 23. There will be a two ball foursome in competitive play and all players are asked to tee off before 5 o'clock in order to complete play by 7 o'clock, when supper will be served. Mrs. Marion Henning and Anton DeJardin of Gervais Red Birds Two Games in Rear By Jack Hand fBr the Associated Press) Detroit may back into the American league pennant by matching Washington loss for loss but the St. Louis Cardi nals are taking care that Chi cago will have to win the Na tional league flag the hard way. Harry (The Cat) Brecheen played with Charlie Grimm's dancing Bruins last night, shut ing them out with only six hits, 2-0, for the Vardinals' 15th victory in 20 starts against the Cubs. Relegated to the scrap heap of also rans after Hank Borowy turned them back in 10 innings Wednesday, the Red Birds again are only two games behind Chi cago with eight to go Two more with the leaders are slat ed next Tuesday and .Wednesday after the Cards entertain Cin cinnati twice while Chicago is at home to Pittsburgh for a three-game set. St. Louis' three night games at Sportsman's park produced three keen pitching duels. Brecheen's decision over Ray (Pop) Prim was most important to Billy Southworth's tattered crew which would have been virtually eliminated, four games behind, if they hadn't won. Despite Brecheen's fancy southpawing. it took sensation al double play engineered by Marty (Mr. Shortstop) Marion in the ninth inning to make it stick. Brecheen, the league leading pitcher, now has won his last six straight, allowing only a total of 29 hits in the six outings. He has gone the route 11 times in his last 12 starts. Phil Cavarretta, Chicago's candidate for the league bat ting title, slammed his first hit of the series, a double in the ninth, while his average shrank to .350, only one point ahead of Boston's Tommy Holmes. Both National league con tenders are idle today with the only action a twi-night double header between Philadelphia and Brooklyn which dropped a 3-2 game to Boston yesterday. Washington missed a chance to go into a virtual tie for the lead and Detroit blew an op portunity to take a command ing lead when the two pennant scrappers dropped respective 6-1 decisions to New York and Cleveland. As a result Steve O'Neill's Bengals retained their one-game advantage. Speed Not Heft, Oliver Reliance Eugene, Ore., Sept. 21 IDB Speed instead of weight will be relied upon by Coach Tex Oliver whose University of Oregon squad meets Washington next week-end. The arrival of Tom Suefert, 200-pound tackle, from Long Beach, Calif., strengthened the squad to more than 60 men. Corvallis, Ore., Sept. 21 (U.B The Oregon State Beavers today continued practice sessions, pre paring for their first game with Camp Beale nine days from now. Dick Gray and Don Lebechuch. from Portland's city champion Roosevelt high team, are new additions to Coach Lon Stiner's squad. will be in charge of serving. A fall victory tournament is underway .and contestants are asked to play 36 holes before Nnvpmhpr 4 when the Annual meeting and dinner of the club will be held and awards given. IMMEDIATE DELIVERY from Portland stock without priority Limited Number of 40 to 120 horsepower CONTINENTAL "RED SEAL" GASOLINE POWER UNITS complete with Twin Disc clutch and power take-off Contractors Equipment Corporation 1215 S. E. Grand Ave. VErmont 4131 Portland 14 fed tut" "For Generations A Gnat Kentucky Whiskey" NATIONAL WSnUBtS MOOUCTS CORPORATION. NEW YORK S. N. Y. . PROOF SI KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY BOURBON WHISKEY -A BLEND 49 GRAIN NEUTRAL SPIRITS Trojans Rated Point Preference Los Angeles, Sept. 21 W.R) University of Southern Califor nia's grid giants were generally rated a seven-point preference over the lean University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles Bruins for the initial battle of the Pacific Coast conference football season tonight at the coliseum. Jeff Cravath's USC Trojans, defending champions, will out weigh their cross-city antagon ists by 20 pounds per man on the forward wall. Triple-threat man Verl Lilly white, backfield boss of the fav orites making their first appear ance in major collegiate games, is pitted against the crafty vet eran, Ernie Case, a portside passer. Galloping Gaels In First Contest Berkeley, Calif., Sept. 21 W) St. Mary's Galloping Gaels, 2V4 to 1 underdogs,' nevertheless en visioned themselves today as the team which will provide the first major grid upset of the season when they meet Califor nia's Golden Bears for the 31st time in Memorial stadium Sat urday afternoon. The outweighed Gaels count on their potent backfield punch, supplied by two transplanted Hawaiian stars, Herman Wede myer and Charles "Spike" Cor deiro, to speed them to victory. - The Bears, under their new coach, L. T. (Buck) Shaw, are an undetermined factor, but have promised something new in razzle-dazzle football with a combined "T" and double wing back formation. Aussie Teams to Tour U. .S in '46 Chicago, Sept. 21 0J.P.) Com missioner Elmer Layden of the National Football league said today that arrangements are be ing made to bring Australian football teams to America next year to play a series of exhibi tion games with N.F.L. teams. Present plans call for one or more Aussie teams to tour the country in 1946, playing N.F.L. teams from coast to coast, Lay den said. The games would be part of the National league's training schedule before the pro teams opened their regular lea gue season in the latter part of September. Viksf Warriors Open Grid Play Tentative Lineups SALRM LEBANON SO Barlow RE 4R Houahtnn IA Rogers R T AS Baldwin 20 Homer ' RG OooM t.VCIoie C ! Fowler M Srleon LG M Marvin 4A Wiper LT .1: Darin 41 Remitter LE M Hamilton 34 Daaeh Q tn Hobba li Rom RR 47 Cox 44 Readr LH 4.1 Ward 48 Cobb F 44 Ingram Time 8 p.m. Place Sweetland field. A contest that is rated fairly even insofar as weight and ex perience are concerned, will ush er in the 1945 pigskin season on Sweetland field Friday night at 8 o'clock. Coach Tom Drynan's Vikings of Salem high and Coach Bud Page's Lebanon Warriors will collide at that hour. The tilt is being looked on as some thing of an experiment in -both camps and it is entirely possible each coach will do a bit of shift ing in his starting lineup during the four quarters of competition as well as next week when the real serious business of building for the season gets under way. The little difference in weight that is in evidence on the rosters handed out by the coaches fav ors the Vikings. However, the North 14th street club is far from being an aggregation of heavy weights since Bob Wiper, a tackle and a junior, is the largest man in suit at 195. Bruce Rog ers, the other tackle, weighs in at 190, Lebanon's pair of tackles, Baldwin and Davis, are 160 and 165 pounders, respectively. Jim Barlow and Allan Bellinger, starting flankers will have a considerable edge on their op ponents. The middle of the Sa lem line, Houser, Close and Nel son, will carry little or no weight advantage. The Viking backs, considered the best prospects in a number of years Dasch, Ross, Ready and Cobb have one year of ex perience among the quartet. The first law school in the U. S. was established in Litchfield, Conn., in 1784. Two Stroke Lead Held by Nelson Spokane, Wash., Sept. 21 (UP) Byron Nelson's two-stroke lead in the $10,000 Esmeralda golf open goes on the firing line for 73 challengers in second-round play over the rolling Indian Canyon course here today. Nelson, Toledo, O., umbrella salesman, blasted a six-under-par 66 through rain and hail squalls yesterday to pace golf dom's greatest masters in the first 18 of a 72-ho!e medal tour ney ending Sunday. He was reported tournament tired. But it didn't look like it. Close behind Nelson, winner of 17 tournaments this year, is 26-year-old Ed Furgon of De troit, who posted a 68, and Jack Cage, newly-turned pro from San Bernardino, Calif., with 69. 7:00 P.M. KOIN CBS COAST-TO -COAST Perry's Drue Store 129 S. Com'l st. i""" Hooker Invited To Beaver Party a Dallas Sheriff T. B. Hooker, who has a record of having been in attendance at every opening game of the Portland : Lucky Beavers baseball club for the past 25 years, received an . invitation Wednesday to attend a banquet in their honor Mon day night at the Multnomah hotel after their clinching of the 1945 Coast league pennant. Hooker will be the guest o( Martin T. Pratt, Multnomah county sheriff. The banquet is to be given by the Portland Chamber of Commerce, with a feature of the evening being the presentation of a watch to each club member. Foxx Will Turn Baking Salesman Boston, Sept. 21 (UP) Jimmy Foxx, one of baseball-greatest-all-time hitting stars, is going to hang up his uniform for good after he finishes the 1945 sea son with the Philadelphia Phil lies, he said today. 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