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Protest, Seek Action
Spokane () The Spokane
Indians Friday accused an Ors-
f oa semi-pro baacball league of
-rawing- top piajreta from the
Western .International "with
fabalous offen" and proposed
an emergency wa meeting to
onion ,
"This Is Just as serious as It
wasfor the major leagues
when their star players were
lumping their contracts and
playing In Mexico," said Don
Osbom, general manager of
the Spokane club.
He didn't identfy the semi
pro league but said its teams
are sponsored by lumber com
panies which "sit like -vultures"
waiting to pick off pro
fessional players with offers
that even the pros can't matehi
1 The Southwestern Oregon
semi-pro league has been re
ferred to a "the sawdust
league,"- boeaase of 1 amber
' company sponsors.
Osbom maae hi comments
in' a letter to Bob Brown, presi
dent of .the WIL. A copy was
sent to George Trautman, pres
, idont of the National Associa
tion of Baseball Leagues the
minors and another copy was
given the press, : . .. . v
: Ofborn, who Is also Spo
kane's field manager, mention
ed specifically the case of Cal
Mclrvin, a pitcher-intielder
obtained from Portland who
was expected to be a key man
in tin Indians' 1953 plans. -Mclrvin
baa said he will
not report to Spokane this
' year but has accepted an of
fer to joint the Bandon, Ore,
. semi-pro team instead. On
bora said his decision will
, sort the IndUas f5,0.
Mclrvin was to bo the last
Installment on a player deal
that sent Joe Rossi to Portland
of the Pacific Coast League in
. 1950. ' v . . -
"This league ia costing
" WIL owners ' thousands of
dollars," Osbora said. : He "
eialmed that probably every .
team in the WIL has been af
fected by the semi-pro
league la the last few years.
Osbora said organized base
ball spends "thousands of dol
lars" developing a player and
that the semi-pros step in when
the players are ready to be
old to a AAA league or the
majors.
"There Is no legislation la
organised ball to protect this
investment," he said. "The
WIL owners should not let
this go en. Some legislation
shoald bo made such as tho
majors did when their play
era were tntieed into Mexl-
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Major league clivers wha
"jumped" to the hlah-navinff
jnextcan league alter the war
drew five-year suspensions
from U. fj. leagues.
Olborn said Ward Bockev. a
former Spokane pitcher, quit
the WIL several seasons ago
for tho semi-pros and that he
has information the Oregon
league is seeking two other
Spokane players.
Of Commerce
Hosts Dragons
Dallas Friday the Cham
ber of Commerce play host to
the Dallas High school basket
ball team, its coaches, and its
managers..!' .- . .
The enthusiasm felt by the
entire town over , the showing
the local team made in the state
tournament is increased by re
ports from travelers returning
from other parts of the state
stating that the team is a state
wide topic of conversation.
As a special attraction for
Friday's meeting chamber
president Kenneth Shetterly
has arranged to have John
Lewis, Willamette University
basketball coach, attend. j
I NrlrlAM V.
Accusations Nonsense
Bandon i Bill Burgher,
manager of the Bandon team
In the Southwestern Oregon
Semi-Pro Baseball league, said
Friday that talk of luring play
era from organised ball
through "final oas salaries" was
' Commenting on a complaint
by Don Ofborn, general man
ager of Spokane in tho West-
ern International league, that
uua was tne case and that Spo
kane had lost Cal Mclrvin to
Bandon, Burgher ssid security,
not pay, was tne lure.
. "Mclrvin is here now.t he
said, "and he's getting the
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LOCAL y UNITED HESS ASSOCIATED PRESS jf NEWS AND FIXTURES
Salem, Oregon, Friday, March 27, 1953 Page 15
SolonsS
ign
But Lose Catcher Th
Caliatoga, Calif. (Special
to the Capital Journal) Tho
Salem Senators have added a
rookie pitcher to their roster,
Manager Hngh Lnby report
ed here Friday.
Jim Metiee, a Richmond,
Calif, youth, comes to the
Salem team ea recommenda
tion of Bernie deVivelros,
seout for tho Detroit Tigers
and asgood personal friend of
Lnby. , ,
McGee will report to the
I Senators when they open
. their spring training at t h e
Napa county fairgrounds m
Caliatoga Monday.
Salem Team Loses Opener
In National YliiCA Tourney
Houbregs Is
Named Captain
Western Team
New York W) The Western
all-star squad slated to meet
Eastern all-stars in the Herald
Tribune Fresh Air Fund col
lege basketball game in Madi
son Square Garden Saturdav
has elected Bob' Houbregs of
tne university of Washington
captain.
All-America Houbregs, Joe
Clpriano, also of Washington,
and Chet Noe of Oregon are
Pacific Nprthwesterners on the
Western squad. 1
High Point, N.'"C. m A
rally In the closing minutes
gave Hoboken, N. J., a (75-6S
victory over Salem, Ore., In the
opening round of the national
YMCA basketball toarnament
Thursday night
The Hoboken spurt, led by
Maurice Sylvester, who scored
18 points, broke a tie with
three minutes to go. High
scorer for the game was Bill
Smith of Salem with 24 points.
. That advanced Hoboken to a
semi-final game Friday night
against High Point. The High
Point team defeated Chatta
nooga, 121-59. In other games
Butler, Pa., defeated Kannapo
lis, N. C, 80-58, and Philadel
phia downed Buffalo, N. Y,
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Another of those popular kickoff luncheons for the
M) stifl. ppq eq mi, uobbsu jisqaesq jotiuag ui9ig
never could figure out why they call a BASEBALL luncB
eon a KICKOFF.) Anyhow, the affair is scheduled for
noon, April 23, at the armory. Jim Mosolf, manager of
the Salem Sears store and a former major league base
baller, is handling arrangements. A huge welcome for
the Senators and an hour of baseball fun is promised.
The Senators open their Western International league
season, against Edmonton, at Waters park the following
afternoon, April 24. By then, many Salem fans will have
already seen their favorite team in action twice. The
Senators play Silverton's Red Sox at Silverton April 19,
and meet San Diego of the Coast league in an exhibiton
game here April 20., . . , . , . ;
Product of the World
If he starts in the Kentucky Derby May 2 the eolt
- Nicholas should wear the United Nations flag as his
racing silks. Nicholas was bred by an Irishman,
comes from an English sire line, had a Swede as an
attendant when he was foaled, is named for a Russian
czar, owned by a German, and trained by a Negro.
Kahut Beating Bushes
Joe Kahut, claimed by Woodburn but actually a resi
dent of Beaverton, is keeping his promise of passing up
the big cities temporarily and doing his boxing in upstate
Oregon rings. Kahut recently fought in Klamath Falls.
Now he is scheduled to meet Chnck Ross, Tacoma heavy
weight, in a 10-round main event at Medford Saturday
night . Ross was one of Kahut's sparring partners when
Kahut worked out at the old Washington school in Sil
verton in training for his Portland bout with Bzzard
Charles last year. With Kahut beating the bushes, and
With Promoter Tex Salkeld still interested in bringing
professional boxing back to Salem, it looks more and more
like KaUut will be boxing in the Ferry street armory
oon,
97-54. The winners play Fri-
oay mgnt. ; i
In consolation games Salem
will meet - Chattanooga and
Buffalo will play Kannapolis.
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WhUs the Solona were
gaining a pitcher, they were
losing a catcher in another
development -Art Thrasher,
Salem'a No. I catcher last
year, told Luby in a letter
that he was staying out of
baseball, at least until mid
summer, fat order to- go to
college. ". ,
That leaves the Salem team
completely minus a catcher,
unless Sacramento returns
Bob Nelson, who was sold to
the 8aca on a look-see basis
by Salem. Luby expects Nel
son to be returned soon.
' Meanwhile,'' the Senator
akipper is shopping around
for a catcher, and he needs
one pronto. It would be
kind of tough, he reasons, to
open spring training without
. one. '-1-
The weather at Caliatoga
Is warm, and the playing
field at Napa county fair
grounds la In good condition.
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The National CreosraDhlc So.
ciety says a hippopotamus can
stay under water as long as
nine minutes. ,.,
Different Sports Vary
Opinions of 'Amateur'
By WILL GRIMSLEY .
New York W") What is an
amateur?
He's a tennis player who can
accept $19 a day for expenses.
But if, as a track man, he pays
$3.25 for a meal he's a pro.
tie s a goner who must nay
his own tournament freight at
ail times except in rare instanc
es when he's playing for Uncle
sam on tne walker Cud team
or in an intercollegiate meet
xor ma college.
. He's a trapahooter who can
accept an unlimited eaah
prise, as an amateur; can't
take anything If he's a pro
fessional. ' He's a tennis player who can
be equipped with a half-dozen
racquets and a drawer full of
strings ell for free y a
sporting goods firm. But if
he does the same as a golfer
the USGA throws him out on
his ear. .
He's a track man who can't
spend more than $10 a day for
room and board but if he hap
pens to be adept at hitting a
lennia oau he can go $5 higher.
: An amateur is a crack
football halfback who can ac
cept a college scholarship
plus a grant-in-ald-slde mon
ey for books and board '
without jeopardizing his simon-pure
standing.
' An amateur ia a tennis nlaver
who can travel around the lush
play spots of the world on an
unending expense account but,
it ne tries it in golf, he gets
the back of the USGA 'i hand. .
The inconsistency of Ameri
ca's amateur code was empha
sized this week when Billy
maxwell, mai. .National Ama
teur champion, and seven mem
bers of the North Texas State
College golf team at Denton,
Tex., were stripped of their am
ateur standing some for tak
ing expense money for a ven
ture to Mexico City, others for
accepting fees for teaching fel
low students.'
The golf code is by far the
strictest of American sports.
A player can't accept expense
money, can't get free equip
ment and can't receive a
scholarship for golf ability
alone.
I Tennis restrictions are lib
eral and getting higher Play
ers are allowed first class air
travel and $15 a day for an un
limited number of tournaments
but they ask and get- more.
The Amateur Athletic Union
put a ceiling of first class rail
ticket and $10 a day expenses
on its track and swim stars and
specifies that no more than $3
shall be paid for any one meal.
Trapshooters have the un
ique arrangement which per
mits only amateurs to accept
prize money en eh as the
$5,008 to grand American
champion at Vandallia, Ohio
but the pros, who work for
Shotgun concerns, aren't per
mitted to take a penny.
- The most realistic attitude is
held by the ke hockey peo
ple in Canada, who pay their
simon-pure athletes $500 a
year and up. Highest paid per
former in Canada probably Is
Jean Paul Belleveau of the
Quebec Senior Hockey League
team, who is reported to draw
$2,000 a year.
Belleveau has to turn pro
this year or be drafted by Mon
treal in the pro National Hock
ey League. Tough luck. It'll
mean a 60 percent cut in sal
ary. Exhibition Baseball
(Br Ttu AllOClltod PrtH)
Boiton (A) 4, Wuhiniton (A) I. '
Cltmuid (A) I, Ctllewo (A) 4.
at. Louis (N) 10, m rork (Ai I.
Bt. Louli (A) , Mow York (M) .
Mllwiuktt (H) id, clnelnnttl IN) I.
Brooklyn (R) S, FhUWMphls (N) T.
PMIadelpnls (A) u. Atunto. fHAl
etncillcd.
Pliuborth (K0 vt. etibts SMri
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, regular scale in the anill."
' Tho Bandon team ia spon
sored by the Moore lumber
mill. MiU officials declined to
comment for publication but
called on Burgher to speak
m mem. , .. .
- Burgher, former ' Portland.
Salem and Texas League play
er, said the whole trouble was
low pay in professional baU
for playera "who aren't going
anywnere.
"They dont offer enough
to live on," he said, amend
ing that later la commenting
en his own diseasaioM with
the Salem Western Interna
sional League team that they
fersd "hardly eaostgh" to
live oa.
"I have a family, two ehil-
dren," he mid. . "I have to
think of 12 months in the
year." .
Most Bandon players, he
said, are college students who
work in the mill from 7 a.m. to
s:s p.m., practice baseball
from i to 6, play two games a
week, all for the regular mill
Py... . -; -,...'-
He said they work on stack.
lng or on the green chain or
elsewhere and have to do the
Job or they dont stay, r .
Viking Baseball
Team Opens , j
Season Today
The 'Salem high school base
ball team travels to McMinn
ville today for it first game
of the season.. Coach Harold
Hauk has five returning let
termen back along .with a
large group of Salem Ameri
can Legion playera who did
so well last summer.:
Returning lettermen ' in
dude Phil Jantxe, first base;
Wayne Osbom, catcher; Low
ell Pearce, pitcher; Larry
Sprniger, shortstop, and Jim
Rice, second base.
'light varsity' Playera were
first string on the Legion team
last year. JThey are Osbora,
Pearce, Springer, , Jantze,
Mike Campbell, Jerry Gregg,
tun jantze, - and - "Twink1
Pederson. ... it i .
Track Mett Cancelled
Forest Grove W A muddy
track forced cancellation
Thursday of a track meet be
tween Pacific and Linfleld
Colleges, scheduled as a non.
conference test.
Villcm:m llinj
Plays Prii:n:rs
In Scascn 0p:.-::r
The 15 Willamette TJnl
realty baseball team asakes
Its season's debat aiarday
altera soa with a trip inside
the wall of the Rtat Foal
teattary for a scrap with the
Prlsoa Greys. .
. The tut will be the first
f a 21-game schedule fee
Coach John Lewis' meat..
Lewis plant to use most of
his pitching staff in the
opener, that Ineludiag Andy
George, Benny Holt, Mickey
Coea and Dave Gray.
' The eatehlag will be han
dled by Harvey Keepf and
Lea Akeo. . . , .
: Dave Fertman, a tbxee
year letterman, la a certain
ty for the aeeoad bate posi
tion and Elmer- Haagea will
be at shortstop barring a call
by the draft. ---
A pair of freshmen, Tea
Hrkendall and Jack Seriv
eas, are la the fight for the
third base post, while first
base still is a question mark
with half a doaea men bid
ding for the berth.
Daane Shield and Denny
Ilaaser are top outfield pos
sibilities and other eandi
dates are Bob Platenberg,
Chuck Lewis, Charlie Naone
and Mike Mans. '
AH for Two Dollars
Minor Leagues .
Increase Staff
Of Ump Checkers
Columbus. . O. , Cn -U The
minor baseball leagues Friday
increasea xrom -tour . to. six
their. staff of umpire' auner-
visors. '.-..' , " ; v : . ..
George M. Trautman. nreai.
dent of the National Associa
tion of Professional Baseball
Leagues, announced the ap
pointment of Pat Padden and
Jack Powell for the 1953 sea
son. They will loin veterans
George H. Johnson. Geerm
W." Pipgrass, James F. Tobin
and Hal Weafer. '
Paddenj, who beaan umnlr.
lng in 1037, has been with the
American : Association since
1944.- Powell started in 1922
and has 24 years of service
witn the Pacific coast loon,
. xoe supervisors soend th
season visiting the Class A. B.
C and D leagues where they
observe the work of the um
pires with special attention to
we less experienced men.
They submit daily renorts
to the minor leaoue aasocla.
tion office, help league presi
dent build competent umpir
ing staffs, and work with in
dividual arbiters to improve
weir teenruques.
" Leagues which will be hn.
died this year include: -. ..,.
Powell Arixone-Te x a a.
uuuornia, Pioneer and West
ern International. ,
Wiaaiag fa the laeky holders at
two dollar daily eoabls tteketa
at Tsjilona la San Berae, Calif, are Maskegea (top) la
the first raee and TJrekia (bottom) la the seeectd rsee. '
The lacky bettors eoUeeted l!II.it for their tkket. : VT
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Only 20 Derby Nominees
Have Tried Track Before
Louisville, Ky., March Z6
Only twenty of the 137 horses
that have been nominated for
the 19SS Kentucky Derby
know what it la like to race
over the Churchill Downs
track where the blc event will
be decided Saturday, May z.
xne nrenty which have started
at the local track include the
winners of all the two-year.
old stakes - events raced at
Louisville last year.
Greentree Stable's Straight
Face, champion of the Florida
racing season, won the rich
Kentucky Jockey Club Stakes
here last fail. In the Derby he
will have to travel only a
quarter-mile farther than he
ran to win the ' Jockey Club
suites.
Mrs. T. M. Daniel's Ace De
stroyer and Sam E. Wilson Jr.'s
Royal Flavor, winners of the
dividend .Bashford .Manor
Stakes last spring, are 1953
Derby candidates. The distance
of the Bashford Manor is five
furlongs as against ten that
must be raced in the Derby.
Bubbler, winner of the
Debutante Stakes for fillies
last Derby Day, also Is a
Derby eligible. The last two-year-old
to race on Derby
Day aa a two-year-old and
start In the Derby the fol
lowing year was. Jet Pilot
The Maine Chance Farm colt
won his first race on Derby
Day In 1946, took the Derby
the following year.
See the New 1953
Johnson Outboard
Motor Line
Also
Beck Bryant Westerner Boat
Ont Beard repairs. Boats and Motors Is eur bntlness net a
siaeline Bsnk Terms.
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SALEM BOAT HOUSE
let Chemekate
Fheae ttUt
Correspondent, chief hope of
California in the Derby this
year, also raced at Churchill
Downs last spring. He
panied Arrox to Kentucky for
we jailers start in the Derby.
Correspondent was second on
the opening day program; a
week later hla stablemate fin
ished sixth in the Derby.
- Other Kentucky Derby can
didates which hare already rac
ed over the Churchill Downs
track include Spy Defense,
second to Straight Face in the
Jockey Club Stakes; Bill
Burke, Berseem. Doe Wolfe.
Happy Carrier, Guy, Money
Broker, King Pin, Julians Joy,
Prince Marque, Paytu, Smack
over, Sir Mango, Warless, and
Thaxter.
;:i By OICAB FBALF.T r
New York. U Thirty-
even longahota are ready for
the . worlds toughest horse
race; a galloping ga m b 1 a
known aa the Grand National.
They'll run it tomorrow at
Aintree, a suburb of. battered
Liverpool, and the winner will
be the year's fittest, and luck
iest .horse., . j
". For this undoubtedly is the
most gruelling raee of them all.
i Imagine a four and one-half
mile race over 80 lumps,- with
some of the fences well -over
five feet high. A long and haz
ardous Journey when you con
sider the obstacles and tho fact
that some of . these gallant
steeds are asked; to eerry ss
t. . -. j .. ,. r 1
xnucn as. aio pounds.
: Tve seen the Kentucky
Derby and a lot of 'other
great horse races.. But for
danger and sustained drama,
nothing on the turf ever has
touched the ay Jn , 19S9 I
watched Freebooter hurl his
muscular .cneetaut body . to
victory ever those awesome
Jumps. J i,.:---.
It was a mad race all the
way, from tho moment a field
of 40 horses cut loose- from
the wire and lunged in a tight
pacK toward the first fence a
quarter of a mile away, It was
the charge of the Light
ungsae all over again, and
the .results were almost the
same when one of the. leading
norsee ucKea the top of the
fence and carried a half dosen
other horses down' with him.
Some of ' the' riders re
mounted. Others lay there..
amoving, while . riderless
horses scrambled " to - their
feet and ran wild, into the
massive : Infield .. while a
crowd of 190,000 roared tta
frensy to the sky. .
The nestt fence claimed still
others and then there were
other bawds to the home
stretch where dead in front of
the stands to the final obstacle,
lo-ioot wauv jump. - - i-
With all that behind them.
they started out to dn H ell
over again.. "
Freebooter was running sec
ond all the way until, on the
second time around, the royal
entry stumbled. Then H waa
Freebooter all the way. I
A long raee and a savage
one, which explahu why so
many long-shot wtaw aad
why the odds are against a
horse even finishing. .
. Yet only one ' locker .' baa
been killed in the 116-year -
usury of this race, although
numerous horses have been
killed or so badly injured that
they had to be destroyed. 1
This is the race on which
they pay off the Irish hospital
sweepstakes-- '
Fish Screen . '
Installations J
Under Way V
1 The' annuel " icvtaUatlon ot
rotary ilsh 'sereeBS ia corn. ,
mendng throughout the stata.
by game ' commission : erews.;
The . screens,- numbering over
B00, have, been , credited with
saving thousands of fish each
year by diverting them back,
into the main streams of the
',-.' ' V.
' This prevents a tremendous .
Iocs' through Irrigation ditches
and other water diversions. The -
sereene are removed each year
to make ditch cleaning easier .
and also to prevent flood dam-
age to the mechanical part. '
In addition to the regular
reinstallations, the game com
mission's program of 80 new
screens per year is scheduled
to continue. The recently an
nounced screening of the John
Day river system is a separata
project included in the. lower
UMumoia river development
program , for restoration and
protection of migratory fish, i
Over 300 sereene are Involved
in this plan. . :,';'..
The ' eoosvuetion ; of 'new '
screen boxes Is generally Hmit '
ed to the fan months of the
year when the various diver
sions being screened can be '
dried up and the eonerete oour
ed. During the summer months,
maintenance aad inspection -of
all operating screens is aecee-
sary for continued operation of ' '
each mlt. i ';
A pontoon bridge carries .
treifie acroa sine harbor ,of
Willernstad,, Curacao, Dutch '
Weetlndlea. - -
ftr luxury taste
atareasonablepriee
(6 a great wh
' ' $A35
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