16 Capital Journal, Salem, Ora, Wednesday, Feb. 15, 1950
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L.J.' 'H wi?
Papa
Proud
I Gerry Coleman, New York Yankee second
1 baseman voted Rookie of the Year in 1949,
points with pride ai he look! at his newborn daughter, Diane
Louise, held by nurse at Children's hospital in Ban Francisco.
(Acme Telephoto)
American League's 1950
Red Book fs Released
Chicago, Feb. IS m Winter
'winds may be howling-, but the
American baseball league today
released Its annual messenger
of spring, the 1950 Red Book,
a 53-page manual Jammed with
junior circuit facts and figures,
. The statistical reference book,
authored by publicltor Earl Hil-
ligan, lists 294 players 123 of
-them rookies on the rosters of
the eight American loop clubs
St Louis has the biggest
rookie crop, 20, followed by
Chicago and Cleveland with 17
each. All other clubs have 14
newcomers each, excepting
Washington, which has 13.
Bucky Harris' return to
Washington as Senator man
; ager long has been given pro
, per notice, but the Red Book
also points out that nine
; coaches will be In new jobs
this season.
' Cleveland has no fewer than
three coaching changes, includ
ing Oscar Melillo, Muddy Ruel
and Al Simmons, the latter a
transfer from Philadelphia.
Other new coaches arc John
Corrlden with Chicago; Rick
Terrell, switching from Wash
ington to Detroit; Mickey Coch
rane and Bing Miller with Phila
delphia (Miller was with Chi
cago last year); Earl Brucker,
shifted from Philadelphia to St.
Louis; and George Myatt with
Washington.
The freshman crop of 1Z3
players Includes 56 pitchers
1 on Boston's well-populated
hurling staff of 21. Nine
newcomers are catchers, 33 In
fielders and 25 outfielders.
Detroit's outstanding recruit,
however, isn't exactly a bona fide
rookie. He s first sacker Dick
Kryhoskl, who hit .294 for the
Yankees and .328 for Oakland
last season.
Cleveland has high hopes for
Luke Easter, 240-pound slugger
from San Diego, and Herb Con
yen, Texas league batting cham
pion with .335 for Oklahoma
City. A first sacker like Con-
yers, Easter has to prove he
has recovered from a 1949 knee
injury.
Boston's Tommy Wright will
bring to the Red Sox the Amer
ican association batting crown
he won last season with .368
St Louis has a pair of impres
sive minor league pitching pros
pects, Al Wijmar, who won 22
for Baltimore, and Ed Albrecht,
29-game winner for Pine
Bluff, Ark.
SCORES in the ALLEYS
University Alleys
" LADntS CLASSIC LEA (MTV
lata FlerUI ( B. LtndMr 411, J. CTtaa
84, r. Lull 408, H. Mirk 417, O. Upn
ten 44S. AntU Ikm 4 II. MeXHn
tel IU. J. Unoa too. B. Cmr Of, A.
ffhompioa 433, Dave 0.
I Etarluifli Inwli (4) H. BlMit Ml.
V. Hall 406, B. aUlDhard Mt. U. PtM
146, I. Fleck 491, Flank Ca. () M.
Dank 180, M. BUfr S3, B. Schroder 414.
! OaodhoniekMPlnf (4) W. Clark 41, A.
Olbb 40B, M. Join W. X. Oilier 46ft, O.
0arbtr.no 831. AUiatnUra Mwatori 0
M. Merrill 405, P. Mock 414, V. Hohl
tnan 410, W. Tannir 394, D. JohMW 111.
Hifh team Mrlw and lama: AolU Ohm
1400 and no.
i Hlfh lndividnal surlat and f aau: 31. Mi
panleU, MB and 934.
f MKBOANTILI NO. t
) Tanatnal ha 3-anUa Ml. MeDon-
mA 1A0. Wuton 416. Thronabcrrr 434.
Bouea 499. Malmi Chetron Station (D
Malm 400, Wengar 440. Roaka 403, Keppin
er 364, Owen 370. Standard Stations (3)
Knuth 467. Reddlni 391, BpntiX 377,
KopUchke 618, Purdy 463. PaastMk CUaa
cri (0) Bonner 4M, Kran 6,13, Bawrtr 431,
C. Sawyer 416, Aleiander 444.
Mack A Llnd (0) Und 118, Polk 419,
Wilson 387. arr 364, Morton 480. Bark
land! LnmW (3 H. Wabb 403, B.
Burkland 413, Rankin 498, F. Wabb 434, D.
Burkland 374.
Salem Heallnv A thaal Metal dl
Tapp 43B, Low u 441. oieoow aw, Kniai
Ins 443, Crana 466. Baaalniton Baad (1)
Colbura 493, Johnion 440, Raoin
Mini field 434, Or la well 43T7
Hlah Individual aaraa: Jim Owana. 111.
HlBh Individual Jtrfcui: OrUwall. 814. Hlfh
team aeHan: Balem Ileatina Aj sbatt
Metal, 1034.
Duck Pin
470, Jarnlran 803, HUlarleh 663, Boun
464. Snatwre (0Haaianaon 499, R. Ale.
hire 496. MerraU 400. D. Aluahltw Ml
MelVell 63T.
Cal Fak Nl-Lanu 663. ttoan 401.
Relnka 804, Warbowakl 388. Bcheldener
466. Bark'e tiUaa Gooaa 3) InlU
490, Braucht 463, Oinr 807, Olodt 610,
Oraary 683.
Carlrl (11 Wriarht 400 Pnlk BRA Vnllr
886, Bdlund 473. MlDer 609. Salem Fallee
n)-mMM 47, Matnerj 438, Homer
643, flelpp 488, Main 646.
BMk A Wadaworttt WadsiwnrtH ia
Andtrion 803. Low-man 436. Sherman 5B.
Irland 403. Bellywoad FlnanM 3t OeddrB
4M, Kircnnar 411, Albrlch 460, Jonea 600,
Olney 418.
Hlfh Individual a am a and aarlaa: J. Ol.
Dy Sr., 334 and 419. Hlih team aama and
aene; Keiui Brown, 968 and 3663,
INDUSTRIAL LEAGUE WO. fl
Ma (3) Kralct 609. Main MS. Hl1r
530, Denamore 498, Schrunk 466. Salem
a ue. ur uoutnerir 4S, William;
La DOUX 413. Dunniaan 433. D.
Douvherty 470.
alaaa HaaTT Baallna (31 BuUman
49T. J. Craeroft 436. Wilder 400. Parley
oi, a. uraycron tov. mcKay'a Uhevroiel
(1) Olbb 449, Thorn paon 450. Mltltn-
oon i7i, snurtien w, Anderson 4)4.
MaftlloU (0) Foremsn 533. Pruett 373.
jMkoskl 377. Buckley 430. W. Pruett 449.
Raasaaand Bdv Shoo 111 La r Ann 604.
xurner m, uaranar 613, Hcauira 044,
nam moan n.
Tallay Farm Slora lot Bu rt 469.
tVhmldt 411, a ray 491, Morrla 397, SjiiU-
Tn innn niriti tar t;ruipn oo,
Irani 3H, VUtooe 474, Craycrolt 434,
Watte 468.
Wklttaktn 1 Blwood 836. Lawleu
431, wniuaker 443. WUlard 4S8. Cher-
rlniton 603. Lodar Broi. (11 Downft 4R3.
wnaaarun an, aurratt 49 1, Ktldall 399,
MTXED DOUBLB1 LAAGrTE
O. K. stabbtr Waldara (I) Eddie Har-
rtaon 360. Dottla Caapall 184, BUI Oau
thler 636. Terry Kemp 303. MtrUa Ma
ten (D Bert Eahelman 438, Louisa Tria
ble 343, Bud Trlbble 407. By 380.
Oryala lirnd Care (0 Bill Lapechte
463, Almadean Lapaehlaa 811, Oharlaa
Laiwohles 340, Katly Lapaehlei 894, Oaai
oral Flnanee (4) Franela Miller 400, Mar
tha Ft its 391, Alma Fenny 463, Xmll
Scholi 486.
CmT Seat Oavar Co. (8) Oaral Cappa
433, Opal Cappa 894, Lucy Allen 498, Ar
nle Merer 436. Lloyi'i Aato Famt (11
Harold Duncan 993. Blllle Duncan 380,
Oladya Wood 361, Tom Wood 638.
OapM Vied Can ( 1 Bddla Renial 484.
Jan Batch 361, Wyetta Cappa 403, LeaUr
Oappa 440.
Hirh team aeries: Oaneral Finanoa, 1766.
XUh team gama: Oappa Died Cars. 616.
Hlah IndlTldual eariu: Bddle Rarrtioai
fO, K. Rubber) 660. Hlfh Individual ama:
Wyetta Oappa (Cappa Uaad Gars) 306.
Avalanche of Votes Rates
'Babe' Top of Half Century
By TED SMIT8
New York, Feb. IS WV-For
twenty years a slender Ameri
can girl of Norwegian blood has
dominated women's sports inter
nationally. So it was to be ex
pected that Babe Didrlckson
Zaharias would be overwhelm
ingly selected as the gratest fe
male athlete of the first half of
the twentieth century.
Eleventh and last of the sports
titans chosen in the Asociated
Press mid-century poU, the Babe
is unchallenged in versatility.
She won world fame at the
1932 Olympic games by taking
two gold medals and losing a
third on a technicality. In 1947
she became the first American
to win the British women's golf
championship.
She was noted even before
1932; she has gone right on
winning after 1947. Out of
361 first place votes cast by
the nation's sports writers and
sportscasters, she received 319.
Only 34 rated her in second
place, and five in third.
On the basis of three points
for first, two for second, and
one for third, the Babe amassed
total of 1,030. Helen Wills
Moody, the tennis Immortal, was
second with 394; Stella Walsh
the track star, was third with
138, followed by the Dutch
Olympian, Fanny Blankers-
Koon, with 107.
Babe Didrickson came along at
the close of the fabulous twen
ties, and she is still a top golf
contender one of the few direct
competitive links with the de
cade called the "Golden Era'
of American sports.
Four times previously she
has won AP polls, being
chosen as outstanding woman
athlete In 1932, 194S, 1946,
and 1947, the only quadruple
winner.
It was Mrs. Zaharias versa
tility that lifted her to a niche
alongside Jim Thorpe, voted the
greatest male athlete of the past
SO years. A true great in track
and golf, she also played a
superb game of basketball and
baseball.
After the 1932 Olympics,
Granlland Rice, a sports ob
server not given to gushing,
said of the Babe that she was
"without question the athletic
phenomenon of all time, man
or woman."
That, mind you was before
she had ever competed in golf
(her first was in 1934) or had
even dreamed about setting the
amazing record of winning 17
consecutive amateur golf tournaments.
Mildred Ella Didrlckson was
born June 26, 1912, in Port
Arthur, Texas the sixth in a
family of seven. Her father.
Ole, a carpenter, had migrated
from Norway.
Her family started calling her
"Baby" but switched to "Babe"
when she hit so many home runs
in school games a bow in the
direction of Babe Ruth, the base
ball winner in the AP's mid-
century poll.
By 1930 the Babe was a sen
sation in Texas in basketball
and track, winning 92 medals
in the latter sport in two years.
She was the individual star of
the 1932 Olympics at Los An
geles a flaming competitor
with stringy hair and a con
spiclous indifference to cosmetics
or seductive clothes.
Through the years, however,
the Babe has blossomed out
as a woman of considerable
personal charm, mighty handy
with a mouth organ and at
singing blue ballads, and de
voted to her mammoth hus
band, George Zaharias, whom
she married in 1938. Zaharias,
an ex-wrestler, now is a promoter.
She is currently competing
in Florida, not quite so success
fully as a few years ago, but with
all that terrific drive that has
characterized her amazing ca
reer. In October of last year
she was signed as the full-time
professional of the Sky Crest
Country club at Chicago, the
first of her sex to be given a job
at a big club,
It is significant that of the
three women athletes who re
ceived enough votes to be term
ed in the competition with Mrs.
Zaharias, the second place win
ner Helen Wills Moody, came
out of the golden twenties. She
was considered by many as the
greatest of aU women tennis
players.
Fifth place In the poll went
to Gertrude Ederle, the channel
swimmer, with 76 points, fol
lowed by Suzanne Lenglen,
French tennis star, 62; Alice
Marble, tennis player, 47, and
Ann Curtis, swimmer, 31.
New Tiger Happy to Be
Traded from Yank Stable
leonla, N. J., Feb. IS (U.FS
Great to be a Yankee? Not
always. "It has it's drawbacks,
too," declared Detroit's Dick
Kryhoskl today.
"I didn t have much of a fu
ture with the Yankees," said the
Tigers' new brash, blond first
baseman at his home. "It a kind
of tough bucking Tommy Hen-
rich, who is just about the best
first baseman In the game."
Traded by the Yankees to De
troit for Dick Wakefield last
December Kryhoskl said he had
no regrets whatsoever" over
his transfer to Detroit.
"I was tickled when I got
the news," he pointed ont.
"A sports writer called me
up to tell me about It and I
remember saying, 'Holy mack
eral, Mama, they traded me
to the Tigers!
"My mother was glad for
me, too."
The 24 - year - old Kryhoski
beat out four other Yankee first
base candidates last spring and
was off to a brilliant start when
the regular season opened.
Sporting a creditable .294 aver
age in 54 games, he suddenly
was optioned to Oakland of the
Pacific Coast league in midsummer.
"It was a tremendous disap
pointment, he recalled. "Joe
Btuh 4T1.
Hlih Individual f.m: LtrMii. S. Hlih
IndlTldual atrlea: icreuti. ao. nun warn
fame and aerlas: Sclo, 936 and 3S28.
Page had relieved several days
in a row at the time and the
Yankees needed someone to help
him out. So they got Ralph
Buxton from Oakland. That
meant one of us had to go. I
guess I was the logical one.
Casey (Stengel) was very
nice about it. I think a lot of
him and all the other Yankee
players. They're a great bunch
of guys.
"Henrich Is one of the nic
est .. . but playing behind him
Is another story. There's no
future In it. He'll probably
be around for a few more
years."
Vandal Coach to
Keep 'Em in Trim
Spokane, Feb. 15 UP) Idaho
boxers will lose none of their
physical fineness en route to
Madison, Wise, if Coach
Frank Young has his way.
A railroad baggage ear
equipped with punching bags,
medicine balls and other train
ing gear will be attached to
the train. Road work will be
taken on station platforms
along the way.
George D. Widener, owner-
breeder and president of the
Westchester Racing association
which operates Belmont Park,
is the fifth chairman in the his
tory of the Jockey club.
School to Teach Coaches
How to Handle the Press
By OSCAR FRALEY
(United Pra B porta Writer)
New York, Feb. 15 (UJ9 The
University of 'Vichita today an
nounced the greatest advance in
journalism since Horace Gree
ley solved the problem of too
many reporters by telling them
to "go west" without setting a
destination limit.
Wichita will open a curricu
lum for coaches called "public
relations for athletic programs,
What it will do is teach coaches
how to handle the press or blow
their horns loudly with no os
tentation.
The course will Include such
intriguing subjects as:
1. Game coverage helps.
DllPPn Pretty Lee McCon
uuccii neU (boYe) of Gar.
den City, N. Y., seated on her
throne, presides over the an
nual Dartmouth winter carni
val at Hanover, New Hampshire.
The Pittsburgh Pirate spring
roster includes five inflelders
formerly connected with Brook
lyn Romanus . Basgall, Johnny
Hopp, Stan Rojek, Henry Schenz
and Ed Stevens.
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Al Kenlleld 44. Paul nueeell 4)4, ut
Ruiaall 40a, Keith Kara 4U, Bre 44.
! u. Newaian ( earn Pox 311, Sart
lihelmen 100. Renter Tot m. Bill Kel
merer 490. Delmer Relman UI; Safteel
Deaeta l Korel pawlar 444. B. P. Ce.h
lni 403. Cliff Reed 403, Duaa. Cbretlaa
00. Art Pinner 41T.
, Mleee Slra Step (II Art Reraehkaek
44. Bill aload 404, Hubert Jecefeef 3tt.
Bre M. Br. 413; PMtr Oteea (l Tom
Wood 4e, Bddle Karrleon 4M. Btoll
Vhola 414, BUI Oauthler 411, Aral. Merer
''oeaae Heed Cera (I) Bill Campbell 441,
leter Cappi 14, Howard eenltb 411, leo
tard Cappa let, Sddle Rental 444, BIHte
Hrlro Inn (f Duana Prank 3 IT, Oearga
Reed 341, Wapot Frank 4M, John Ralaa
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2. Interviews.
3. Columnist contacts.
4. Winning the parents.
5. Downtown quarterbacks.
6. Handling of minor scan
dals in athletics.
7. Alibi-itis and its cures.
That first one now game cov
erage helps long has been a
greatly overlooked factor. As
suggestion to Professor Bob
Glazier, there are a number of
considerations. A really pro
gressive institution should pro
vide each reporter with the pro
per seat companions (blondes
preferred even if we aren't con
sidered complete gentlemen); a
wee drap (a fifth will do nice
ly, unless it's very cold) and
somebody with a typewriter
which spells to write the clean
up lead.
That brings us to "Inter
views," although this factor
is a trifle late to assist Coach
Charlie Conacher of the Chi
cago Black Hawks, who last
week lowered the boom on a
Detroit sportswriter. 0 1 d
Fearless is interested in this
because it might get to be a
habit.
"uoiumnist contacts" are very
important to any coach. With
the right kind of touch he could
take over completely and some
of us might wind up with a
raise.
Wichita's announcement was a
bit vague on the business of
"Winning the parents." It was
whispered that a prominent Kan
sas banker would be the chief
lecturer during this section of
the forum.
The handling of downtown
quarterbacks poses a real
problem. It would take a
Siamese contortionist to kiss
one alumnus without expos
ing -his back to another.
Should' be very Interesting
Then there's the part about
handling "minor scandals." Even
those words are frightening, be
cause I never met a college of
ficial yet. who would admit
there was such a word unless it
was In connection with another
campus.
Cougar Cager Is Proof
Stars Are Made, Not Born
By PETER HATES
(United Prase Sport Writer)
Cheney, Wash., Feb. 15 (UJ0
It takes a heckuva lot more than
just a father's ambition and a
kid's determination to make a
good basketball player.
Especially when the kid looks
like a walking ovaltine ad to
start with.
But if yon consider the story
of Dick Eicher, yon can take
that theory and toss it out the
window. How 6-foot, 4-inch
Dick Eicher blossomed out in
to a score-crasy center this
year Is one of the big reasons
why the Eastern Washington
College basketball team is
currently leading the Ever
green conference.
Eicher's basketball career be
gan in 1941 on a farm near Wolf
Point, Montana. His father, a
crack gymnast himself, decided
that his puny, hollow-chested
11-year-old son would learn how
to handle himself on athletic
field and floor
That's when C. Emory Eicher
nailed a hoop to the side of the
barn, bought a basketball and
proceeded to show the boy how
to use it. But young Dick was
awkward. He had about as much
coordination as a newly-foaled
colt And those legsl Pipe
cleaners would be more like it.
The next year the Eicher fam
ily pulled up stakes and headed
for Palouse, Wash. Pretty soon
Dick, a spindly 87-pound, 5-foot,
8-inch freshman, was playing
with the bigger boys.
Gawky young Dick Eicher
began to improve. He starred
in his favorite sport, basket
ball, and with his father's en
couragement, even played a
little football.
By then Dick had decided
he wanted to be a coach. And
because Eastern's Red Reese has
probably turned out more prep
coaches than anybody else in the
Northwest, Eicher enrolled at
EWTIE.
By this time Dick had 155
pounds sparsely scattered over
a 6-foot, 2-inch frame. But
Reese could see the lad's poten
tial and had him put in long
hours skipping rope to build up
his coordination.
As a freshman he played JV
ball. Last year he made the sec
ond five and tallied 157 points
in 26 games. But he still was
the gangling, clumsy kid who
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had a hard time keeping his legs
from getting tangled up.
This year Dick finally hit his
stride. He put on an extra 10
pounds to bring him up to 175;
ne cane up with a deadly left
handed hook-shot; and as a tip-
in specialist he was the Savages'
man of the hour.
"He's a real fighter and a
workhorse," says Coach Reese.
"If only he had a pair of legs
he'd be the best pivot man in
the northwest. He's got every
thing else hands, eye, know
how." So that's the story of how a
skinny kid made the varsity.
Chalk It up to guts, good coach
ing and a father who wanted
like everything to see his son
become a star.
You think Dad Eicher is
proud of his boy? He sure is.
But there's a twist of irony
in this story. Emory Eicher's
eyesight began to fall when
Dick was in his teens. He's
never seen his boy play a game
of collegiate basketball.
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