Skits and
Scratches
By Fred Zimmerman
Capital Journal Sports Editor
Coach Walter Erickson came
back from Eugene late Tuesday
firmly convinced that they (the
Webfoot baseball club) "will be
hard to get out of there." They
have a powerful hitting club and
on top of that they can field,'
Erickson commented. He offered
no comparison between Oregon
and Oregon State, but the rec
ords of the four games in which
Willamette participated would
indicate Coach Howard Hob
son's squad has the edge. Ability
of the Oregon pitching staff to
cope with the bats of the op
position will probably decide the
issue. Failure to hit in the
clutch and sparkling fielding on
the part of the Webfoots kept
the Bearcats from denting the
home plate with greater fre
quency. Thirteen men left on
base needs no footnotes. There
is a possibility that Oregon may
come here next week for an
other round with Willamette, al
though nothing definite in this
connection has been announced.
Nothing ii!:e having support
at home. Coach Erickson over
heard one of his youngsters com
menting about the games with
Oregon. "They heat us but Dad
dy's team outplayed them," the
boy boasted as he stood up for
the Bearcats, Quite a bit of
loyalty there In view of the 21
to 0 score. This same boy, over
hearing Walt discuss the possi
bility of playing Oregon April
26 was quick to remind his dad
that "that is the first day of the
fishing season." Since the Bear
cat coach is quite an ardent fish
erman in his own right, pros
pects for a baseball game that
day may be considered quite re
mote. . This year's Western Interna
tional schedule at Waters field
will operate similarly to that
of last season. In other words
all night games during the week
will start at 8 p.m. and until
June 8 Sunday doublcheaders
will get under way at 1:30. Be
ginning with the first Bremer
ton series. June 8. Sunday and
holiday doublcheaders will start
at 7 p.m. The Sunday night
doublchcadcr was inaugurated
late In the 1946 season and
proved quite satisfactory to the
business office, for altendane
Jumped considerably over the
Sunday afternoon twin bill. The
schedule calls for three appear
ances afr Waters field of every
team in the loop with Bremer
ton winding up the home season
September 5, 6, and 7.
The championship flight ot
the Elks club-sponsored golf
tournament hps all the earmarks
of being a title affair In every
respect. This is particularly true
of the lower half of the bracket.
(No crLlicIsm of the ability of
the contestants in the upper
half implied). And, if one ex
pert's predictions prove correct,
the championship lies between
three men Walter Cline, Jr.,
Jack Russell and Jack Brande.
The latter is the defending
champion. However, in a con
test of this sort, the participant
cannot afford to have an "off
day," for his opponent will be
right there to take advantage
of every slip. The lower bracket
contains golfers like Jim Shel
don, who held medalist honors
for a number cf days during the
qualifying rounds: Glenn Len
gren. an old campaigner; "Wif"
Necrihiim, one of the younger
generation; Tony Painter, Leo
Esley and Floyd Baxter any
one of whom will provide first
class opposition for Russell or
Brande, the men who have been
given the nod by those who
know their golf.
Vancouver Tips Tigers
Walla Walla, April 17 T)
Holding their punch until the
final innings, the Vancouver
Capilanos pushed over 13 tal
lies in the eighth and ninth
frames last night to down the
Tacoma Tigers 13-6 in their final
Western International league
exhibition tilt. Tacoma's Stan
Gibson had a 6-0 lead going into
the eighth and had given up but
two hits in the preceding seven
Innings. An error and four con
secutive hits pushed over a quar
tet of tallies to set the stage for
the nine-run ninth inning
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Few Patrons Watch
As Abney,
It seems to Tie a rule that when
ringside seats the boys do their
that was the case at the armory Wednesday night when Dick
Abney disposed of Sonny Jackson in a little more than two minutes
of the third round of their eight
Rain Threats
Solon Opener
Rain, nemesis of all baseball
managers and game hungry
fans, cast a shadow over pre
liminaries as the Salem Sena
tors sought to prepare for the
opening contest at Waters field
Friday night at 8 o'clock. In
spite of threatening weather,
Business Manager George Emigh
is proceeding with his original
plans to accommodate a capacity
crowd of 5000 spectators, while
Jack Wilson, boss of the players,
hoped for a final preview of his
men during a practice session
under the lights Thursday eve
ning. In any event he had just
about decided upon Ken Wyatt,
15-gamc winner of last season,
to face the Capilanos. Wyatt
reports he is ready to go, having
recovered from a sore arm. His
battery mate will probably be
Bill Beard, who was turned over
to the club after spring training
with the Seattle Rainicrs.
The usual pre-game prelimin
aries are being arranged by the
booster club while reserved
scats for the grandstand remain
on sale at Maples. General ad
mission seats will be sold at the
ball park.
Districts for
Prep Playoffs
Portland, Ore., April 14
P)-
The second annual state high
school baseball championship
playoff will be held at the Uni
versity of Portland here May
22-24.
Twelve teams will be in ac
tion eight in class A and four
in class B divisions with the
contestants coming from the
same districts that were set up
last year, when Jefferson of
Portland won the title. District
winners will be selected by com
mittees with entries to be posted
at the University of Portland by
May 17.
The class A districts;
District 1, fnatrrn Oreiion On team
from Union. Wallowa, Baker, Malheur,
Umatllln, Morrow, Gilliam, Sherman, Hood
Rivrr, Waaco, Wheeler, Grant and Harney
count irs.
District 2. southern OrfBon One team
from Jcnerson, Crook, Deachuten, Lake.
Klamath, DoukIhs, Coos, Curry, Josephine
and Jncksnn counties.
District 3, northern subdivision of north
western OrcRon Three teams from Tilla
mook, Forest Grove. Hillsboro. Beaverlon,
Tldfird, West Linn, Newbcr. McMlnnville,
Dallas. Astoria, Seaside, Vernonla, Rainier,
St. Helens, Scappoose, Columbia Prep,
Pnrkrose, Central Catholic. Hill Military,
Orrsham. Milwaukie, Oregon City and
Sandy. The rlcht to send three teams al
ternates yearly between northern and
southern subdivisions or district i.
District 3, southern subdivision Two
teams from Corvallts. Albany. Lebanon.
Sweet Home. Cottage Grove, Springfield.
versity High. Eugene. Junction Clt.
Toledo, Salem, Est acacia. Canby. Molalla.
Sllverton, Woodburn and Ml. Angel.
District 4 One team from the Port
land schools.
The class B districts: District 1. the
same, ax class A; dlr'rlcl 2, the same as
class A: district 3, one team from Tilla
mook, Washington. Clackamas. Yamhill,
Polk. Clatsop. Columbia and Multnomah
counties; district 4. one team from Ben
ton, Lane, Linn, Lincoln and Marion
counties.
Monmouth vs. Fallers
Monmouth Monmouth High
school's baseball team and girl's
volleyball team are to meet the
Fall City teams at Fall City
Friday. Both boys and girls
teams won over Perrydalc Mon
day, and the baseball team lost
to Ainily Wednesday.
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Snap Win
there are wide open spaces in the
best job of leather tossing. And
round engagement, frior to thai
'S'gory battle, Jack Snap, Klamath
Falls' contribution to fistic en-
tertainment, took a technical
knockout decision over Ray
Garcia. Garcia didn't like Ref
eree Packey McFarland's action
in calling a half a little bit, pro
testing vociferously and almost
physically and then came back
between fights to issue a chal
lenge over the public address
system for another shot at the
smooth punching Snap.
Abney apparently had elim
inated the word "retreat" from
his vocabulary as he sailed into
his dusky opponent, but few ex
pected the sudden termination
of the scrap. Early in the third
Abney hit Jackson with a ter
rific right and the latter fell
forward on his face. He got up
at nine and repeated the per
formance a moment later but
the third time he stayed down.
Snap gave all the appearance
of a finished fighter during the
time he was tossing straight
punches at the willing Garcia.
He remained calm during the
Mexican's rushes and in the
third when Garcia tried to trade
punches the latter came out a
bad second best as he took a
nine count.
Garcia clearly was in no con
dition to continue when McFar
land stopped the punishment.
Bill Boatman's terrific right
slopped Nick Burley at 1:35 in
the second round of one of the
preliminaries. Hal Fries, one of
Sam Duncan's boys, launched a
two-fisted attack that proved too
much for Frank Duane in the
second round. Paul Kennedy,
a well built Negro, decisioned
Ralph Ayres in four heats. Ayers
spent the entire four rounds
looking for an opportunity that
never came.
WIL Veterans Dot Capilano
Lineup; Some Rookies, Too
Vancouver, B.C., April 17 (P) The kid brother of Rudy York
one of the tall timbermcn of the Boston Red Sox, as you very
well know is following In the first base footsteps of Rudy and
this year he'll stamp on the initial sack for Vancouver's Capilanos
in the Western International baseball league. Vancouver opens
its season opposite the Salem:
Senators at Salem tomorrow
night.
And Lavis York, hopes all
Vancouver, will be a carbon
copy of Rudy and knock down
all the league fences a thing
he has given promise of doing
in training camp contests. Lavis,
for instance, hit one 387-foot
round tripper out of the Yakima
park.
Manager Bill Brenner, who
took over the reins in the mid
dle of last season and will han
dle the catching, has a veteran
club with a sprinkling of new
comers. Pitching appears espe
cially strong and the outfield is
potent, on training camp per
formance. Young Bob Stumpfl
will understudy Brenner behind
the plate.
Back this year are four pitch
ing veterans Ron Bryant, Hunk
Anderson, Jim Hedgecock nd
Bob Snyder. Bryant, bothered
last year with arm trouble, has
shown plenty of power and abil
ity in pre-season workouts. Sny
der was unimpressive through
much of last season but caught
fire near the close of the sched
ule to win a return engagement.
Hedgecock is the only "wrong-
hander" of the quartet.
Among the Rookie flingers.
Jack Meister of Seattle has
plucked a starting berth and
Sandy Robertson, a Vancouver
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Erautt Loses
Major Debut
As Cards Win
(By ths Associated Press)
Stan Musial's batting lessons
to Marty Marion have paid off
with the first St. Louis Cardinals
victory of the season.
Coming up in the eighth in
ning of yesterday's only big
league game, with the world
champs sporting a slender 2-1
advantage over Cincinnati, Mar
ion poled a two-run homer that
assured George (Red) Munger
of his first win.
It has been a long time since
Marion went 4 for 4 like he did
yesterday off Cincinnati's rookie
pitcher, Ed Erautt, when he
bunched three singls with his
clinching homer.
Erautt, from Portland, Ore.
appeared on his way to a shutout
in his first major league start
with a 1-0 lead on Eddie Miller's
fifth inning home run. One was
out when the Pacific Coast lea
gue strikeout king ran into trou
ble.
Musial tied the score with his
first hit of the year, a homer into
the right field bleachers. Enos
Slaughter's double followed by
Whitey Kurowski's single broke
the tie. After Dick Sisler forced
Kurowski, Marion came through
with his clout to provide the
clincher, 4-1. That blow flat
tened Erautt and Clyde Shoun
came on to lefthand the Cards
into submission the rest of the
way.
All other games in both major
leagues were postponed because
of, bad weather.
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Pacific
vs.
Willamette university's base
ball club wfll engage in its
first northwest conference
competition of the season Fri
day afternoon at Forest Grove
playing the Pacific Badgers.
It is probable Coach Walter
Erickson will send John Slan
chik, his first string pitcher,
to the mound. The following
Tuesday afternoon Willamette
will entertain Lewis and
Clark of Portland at Waters
field.
- f
boy, will work in home games.
He is studying to be a mechani
cal draftsman and the Red Sox,
who holds his contract, optioned
him to Vancouver so he could
remain here and continue his
studies. Other new tossers are
Slim Burke, Bill Reynolds and
Bill Emerson, the latter a south
paw. Leon Mohr, owned by the Se
attle Rainiers, will be in camp
soon to handle second base. Busi
ness Manager Bob Brown says
th" little Californian is so fast,
"he can bunt .300 in this
league." Jimmy Estrada returns
to his shortstop position, but is
getting competition for the job
from young Buddy Hjclma. At
third base the struggle is be
tween Len Tran and Herb Pa-
showski, with Tran likely to get
the call and Pashowski to be
held as a utility outfielder.
Those outer gardens will be
patrolled by Bill Wright, who
hit .412 while playing the latter
part of the season with the Caps
last year; Frank Mullens, a star
in the middle field defensive
and a good hitter, and Charlie
Mead, formerly of the New York
Giants, who also played part of
last year with the Caps.
"We'll have," says Brenner,
"plenty of hustle and will give
all the teams a run for their
money." '
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Bevos Defeat Seals,
1-0, in Home Opener
(By the Associated Press)
It was left-handed day In the Pacific 'northwest yesterday and
Portland's southpaw Roy Helser side-slanted the Beavers to a
1-0 win over the San Francisco Seals while Seattle's wrong
hander, Charley Ripple, fell 3-1 victim to the portside tossings
of Los Angeles' and Bellingham's Cliff Chambers. The Portland
Salem Enters
Eugene Relay
Among the 700 high school
athletes expected to be drawn to
the Hayward relays at Eugene
this week-end are 25 members
of Coach Vern Gilmore's Salem
Viking thin-clad squad.
The Salem team has gone un
defeated in early-season meets,
but competition at the Univer
sity of Oregon event will be
considerably tougher than the
Viks have encountered to date
A tentative list of Salem en
tries: 440 relay Ron Hall, Bud Michaels, Ted
Covalt. Ken Fischer; 880 relay Jim Jen
sen, Frank BrownelJ, Fischer, Ed Posset.;
two-mile relay Ron. Sheets, Walt West
linn, Jim McDonald, Al Tusstne; distance
medley Gordon Hamelt 440, Dick More
house 880, Jim Wilson 1320, Lowell Wce.se.
mile; mile relay Al HaaelbftcJc, Jensen,
Brownell, Wayne Trowbrldste; pole vault
Fischer; discus Boo Howard; broad
mp relay Brownell, Posschl, Bill Arm
strong; shot put relay Bob CraiK. Boob
Wiper. Jim Jeffries; hlth jump relay Bill
Hill, Dave Chamberlain, Covalt.
Vikings Defeat
j
ayvees, 12-0
Dick Allison slapped out a
double and two singles on Ol-
inger field Wednesday after
noon to lead the hitting attack
of Salem high school's Vikings
as the prepsters defeated Wil
lamette university's Junior Var
sity, 12-0. Bud Craig limited
the Jayvees to six hits and was
still going strong in the last in
ning when he struck out the
only three batters to face him in
that frame.
Salem pushed across seven
runs in the fourth inning on
Brownie Valdez' double to cen
ter, infield hits by Allison and
Fleming and five collegian
errors.
Roger Dasch entered the ex
tra-base hit column by blasting
out a double in the first inning,
and added a single his next time
at bat.
The victory was the fourth
straight for Coach Harold
Hauk's undefeated Vikings, who
clash with the Oregon State col
lege Jayvees at Corvallis Satur
day morning.
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Kooertson, Medley u. Stocks (a) and
Walker; CraiK and Allison.
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triumph dropped the Seals out
of the first place position they
hold for a day, and boosted the
slugging San Diego Padres back
into the top spit. San Diego
drubbed Hollywood 10-4.
The cellar-dwelling Oakland
Oaks stiffened up behind the
seven-hit pitching of Charley
Gassaway to squelch the upper
division Sacramento Solons 3-1
and square their series at a
game each.
The Beaver -eal encounter
was a hurling duel between Hel
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Chesnes, with the latter giving
up but three hits. The game's
lone tally came in the seventh
after two were walked, and Dan
ny Escobar lined out a hit to
score Joe Dobbins.
Ripple and Chambers were
freer with the baseknocks In
the Seattle-Los Angeles go but
tight pitching in the clinches left
the runners stranded. The An
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dry, and Seattle 9.
San Francisco : Portland
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2 OlEscobar.r
1 O'Btorey.3
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Portland 000 000 lOx 1
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Two-base hit. White. Stolen bases. Trow
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Bases on balls, off Helser 2, Chesnes 9.
Struck out by Helser 2. Chesnes 4. Hit
off Helser 4. runs 0, S'.'a lnnlnns: Llska 0,
runs 0, two-thirds Innings. .Wild pitch,
Chesnes 1. Winning pitcher, Helser; los
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Smith, 21-7, 21-18 in the class
A singles division. Hagemann
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night. The latter eliminated
Norman Winslow, 21-18, 21-10.
In the upper half of the bracket,
Emerson Teague downed Chet
Goodman 21-14, 21-6, while
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