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4 COAST PLAYERS
CHOSEN IN DRAFT
BY BIGLEAGUES
Luby, Schanz, Carnett, Ep
perly Are Selected Bid
ding is Lackadaisical.
By Tommy Devine
(United Press Correspondent)
Chicago, Nov. 2. (U.R) Major
league baseball club owners to
day showed a reluctance to take
long range gamble on playing
talent for the 1944 season.
The annual "draft" meeting
with Commissioner Kenesaw M.
Landis yesterday failed to de
velop the expected wide-open
. bidding for athletes to pad the
majors' rosters against military
service calls. A total of 15 play
ers were selected by eight clubs.
A year ago at the meeting 20
players were taken and in 1941
there were 17 called.
While admittedly the quality
of players on the selection list
of the nine minor leagues that
ooperated last season was below
par, most observers thought the
majors would welcome a chance
to add new faces at bargain
"prices.
Club owners apparently did
not wish to gamble on the un
certainty of players reporting
next spring and general hazards
that surround the game's war
time continuance.
Giants Taka Four
The New York Giants were
the .llvllest bidder in the draft
mart, selecting four players.
The Giants, who finished In the
cellar last season fo the first
time since 1915, stated their
re-building by selecting First
Baseman Phil Welntraub from
Toledo; Hugh Luby, a second
baseman from Oakland; Ewald
Pyle, southpaw pitcher from
Minneapolis, and George Haus
man, New Orleans inflelder.
The Philadelphia Phil, the
Boston Braves, the. Detroit Tig
era and the Chicago White Sox
each selected two players, while
ingle selections were made by
the Boston Red Sox, the St.
Louis Browns and the Brooklyn
Dodgers.
TKa Phil. tisrsV Pitcher Charles
Chanz from San Diego and Sec
ond Baseman cnanea Licnas
from Toronto; the Braves, Out
fielder Chet Wleczprek from
Columbus and Pitcher Ira Hut
chinson from . Rochester; the
Tigers, Inflelder Eddie Mayo
from Louisville and Joe Orengo
from St. Paul; the White Sox,
Outfielder Eddie Carnett from
Seattle and Pitcher Al Epperly
from San Francisco; the Browns,
Catcher Henry Helf of Milwau
kee; tho Red Sox, Pitcher
Clemens Hausman of Kansas
City, and the Dodgers, Inflelder
Oil English of Indianapolis.
The 14 players drafted from
the double A clubs cost $7,500
aach and the one from a class A
league, $6,000. . The total out
lay for talent was $111,000.
Nine of the 15 'J chosen
are former majo; srs com
ing back for anotner chance In
the big show. .
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Ned Irish Forced To Reduce
Garden Slate To 16 Nights
Br Jek Cuddf
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Nov. 2 U.R Ned Irish, acting president of Mad
ison Square Garden, today reproached the calendar for limit
ing him to IS basketball dates during the approaching season,
which, he predicts, will be the
Irish, sometimes known as
"Mr. Basketball," deplored his
lack of dates, after making bis
first announcement of the cam
Havana team would play at the
Havana tea mwould play at the
Garden on Christmas day.
The 38-year-old prexy said:
"Everything points, to unprece
dented basketball activity and
enthusiasm throughout the coun
try this season. And here am I
with a calendar into which I
can squeeze only 16 dates. Last
season, I managed to get In 19.
But Sonja Heine's Ice show Is
taking an extra week this time,
and the dog show and other at
tractions extended their stays.
There Just aren't enough days
on the calendar."
Why does Irish expect, such
activity in the hoop game, when
other sports like college foot
ball and college baseball have
been curtailed because of the
war?
The falr-sklnned, baldlah Im
presario of the dribble diver
tissement explained, "Only a
few colleges have given up bas
ketball. Take our metropolitan
area for example. Normally
there are 10 colleges playing the
game in the New York sector.
Only two of them have quit for
the duration. Meanwhile, there
will be more service teams than
before and more teams repre
senting war plants and clubs.
"Colleges generally continue
to play basketball because it re
quires far less manpower than
football and a minimum of
equipment. Squads of nine or
ten men are sufficient in basket
ball, whereas about 35 are nor
mal m football. Moreover.
there's not much of a problem in
transportation for the small
basketball squads. Meanwhile
the game in high schools is be
ing encouraged by the govern
ment because It is an excellent
conditioner, for . future service
men."
COAST BALL LOOP
Oakland, Cal.. Nov. 2. fU.Fn
The Pacific Coast league will
run for 32 weeks, from April IS
to Sept. 17, next season under
the plan adopted yesterday by
league directors holding their
winter meeting here.
The schedule calls for 169
games, compared with the 1S5
games played this season. The
two-week extension was made
on anticipation of increased busi
ness by club officials.
The Shaughnessy playoffs will
be continued, with the playoff
money for the first four clubs to
be maintained at $12,500.
All members of the league.
except San Francisco, indicated
they would play baseball every
night except Saturdays and Sun
days as a result of the lifting of
dimout regulations.
BOWLING
In City league games Monday
night Office Boys defeated M
and M, 3 to 0 (O. Barr 587, O.
Barr 220), Signal OH defeated
Medford MDlworkers, 2 to 1
(C. Proctor 3B0, C. Proctor 209),
Murray's Maid-Rite defeated Do
mestic l aundry, 2 to 1 (E. Sims
551, E. Suns 217).
BACK TO PRISON
San Quentln, Cel., Nov. 2
(U.PJ Gabriel Marcias, 19, San
Francisco, was back In custody
today after his escape from San
Qucntln prison Sunday with
Albert Wells, 28, Alameda. Mar
cias was captured in an Oak
land, Cal., theater late yester
day. Wells still was at large.
TIMES SQUARE BROWN
New York. Nov. 2 IU.RI
Times square glowed with about
40 per cent of Its prewar bril
liance last night as the nation s
coastal areas switched from
their antisubmarine dimout to a
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AGAIN NEXT YEAR
Eugene, Ore.,- Nov. 2 U.R)
Second Baseman Joe Gordon of
the world champion New York
Yankees is ready to play ball
again next year but he doesn't
like the idea of going back east
for spring training.
Coming home from a long
hunting trip in eastern Oregon,
Joe said reports he planned to
quit big league ball and stay
on the west coast were misinter
preted, although he confirmed
his quoted remarks upon return
ing from the world series that
he doubted there would be
spring training next year,
Joe pointed out that the
draft was getting tougher and
he doubted organized baseball
would survive if fathers were
taken in large numbers. And
If there Is baseball, he hopes
he won't have to Join the Yanks
at frigid Asbury Park, N. J.
"I can get In better condition
here at home and be ready to
go when the season opens," he
said. -
Joe was ' pretty pessimistic
when he got home from the
series two weeks ago, but a
good hunting trip put him back
In fine fettle. He shot a big
buck, got the limit of ducks and
geese, and wasn't too disappoint
ed at- missing out on good
pheasant hunting.
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Kansas City, Mo., Nov. 2.
(U.R) Barring unforeseen cir
cumstances, it appeared today
that the Big Six 1843 football
championship will be settled
about 4 p. m., Nov. 13 at Colum
bia, Mo.
Missouri and. Oklahoma meet
that afternoon, both are unde
feated In two conference games.
Missouri plays Iowa State Sat
urday at Ames and Oklahoma
Is host to the Kansas Jayhawk
ers at Norman, in the third con
ference . game this week-end.
Nebras meets Kansas State at
Manhattan. ,
Football Briefs
Los Angeles, Nov. 2. (U.R)
The University . of Southern
California Trojans welcomed
Fullback Jerry Shlpkey, nephew
of the famous Shipkey brothers
of Stanford fame, at today's
practice for the San Diego Naval
Training Station encounter Sat
urday. -
Scout Shelby Calhoun said
yesterday that Troy's unbeaten
and untied record would be In
great danger Saturday and de
scribed the San Diego eleven as
"the most rugged" Cravath's
boys have met, t
Los Angeles, Novi 2. (U.R)
The UCLA defense received new
strength today when Don Bor
den, former Santa Ana Jaysee
backfleld ace, Joined the Bruins.
Although Borden can pass,
run and kick, Coach Babe Hor-
rell may use him primarily as
defense against the powerful Del
Monte Fre-Flighters next Satur
day.
Berkeley, Cal., Nov. J. U.R)
Coach Stub Allison's hopes for
his University of California
eleven Saturday against the
University of San Francisco
were bolstered today with the
arrival of several new players,
George Elckstaedt, end, who
played last season, reported with
other marine trainees, and Louis
Avery and John Wind, former
Stanford players showed up.
HEAKD
DRY
BERTELLI SHOES
TO BE FILLED BY
Johnny Lujack to Direct Irish
In Army Game Saturday
To Handle "T."
By Bob Meyer
United Press Correspondent
Chicago, Nov. 2 U.R) An 18-
year-old sophomore fell heir to
the toughest Job in collegiate
football today.
When Angelo BertelU ended
his career at Notre Dame by
tossing the Irish to a decisive
victory over Navy, he left the
quarterbacking chores for the
unbeaten Irish to Johnny Lu
jack. And when Lujack assumes
full direction of the team Sat
urday against Army at New
York, he goes on the , gridiron
"hot spot.
If the Irish continue to roll
on to the national championship.
Lujack merely will be perform
ing as expected. Should the
team be stopped, critics will say
that "BertelU would have car
ried them through."
Triple Threat
Lujack is a 180-pound young
ster .from Connellsvllle, Pa.
He's a triple threat man who
have proved himself an adept
performer at both quarterback
and halfback this fall. However,
the burden of directing the team
In tight spots has not yet been
his responsibility.
After one of Notre Dames
early contests, a coach who had
seen his squad submerged by
BertelU's magic ball-handling
and accurate passes, said:
-wnen Bertelll leaves, the
team will . lose approximately
30 per cent of its offensive effi
ciency."
That's not a generally-held
opinion. Ray Eliot of Illinois,
for example, believes Lujack
will keep the Irish at their peak.
"BertelU's . a great quarter
back and passer," Eliot said,
but the team s entirely too
strong to fall apart simply be
cause he's gone. I think Lujack
will step Into his spot perfectly.
He certainly looked the part of
a great field general and passer
when they defeated us."
Lujack a most Important task
wUl be to keep Coach Frank
Leahy's VT' formation clicking.
wun Benein nandling the ball,
the precision of. the backfield's
timing was clock-like and dead
ly. The big question how ap
pears to be whether Halfbacks
Crelghton Miller and Julius
Rykovlch and Fullback Jim Mel-
lo can operate as effectively
from scrimmage with Lujack
flipping the ball.
Even if Lujack is unable to
match BertelU's amazing pass
ing mark of 25 completions in
36 attempts, he ean become an
ace-ln-the-bole star If he keeps
the Irish' ground attack func
tioning. ::. :;
.Not inexperienced
The youngster will- not so
into the army game "cold." An
ticipating- the loss . of BertelU
via Navy transfers, Leahy has
given Lujack plenty of playing
experience in early-season games
alter the Irish have run up
astronomic iigures over oppo
nents. . .
But he assumes control as
the Irish enter the hardest, part
of their schedule, with Army,
Northwestern, Iowa Pre-flight
and Great Lakes remaining.
Two other undefeated, untied
elevens will resume action this
Weekend. Purdue, weakened by
loss of Tony Butkovich and
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OREGON, TUESDAY,
Trojans Remain Unbeaten
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Bob Frisbee, Golden Bear halfbaek. takes to the air to evade
Trojan tackier, halfback Eddie
were to no avail as the unbeaten
fornians won. 13 to 0. over the
their Los Angeles Coliseum struggle.
eight other players, plays at
Minnesota, and Iowa Fraflight
meets Marquette at Milwaukee
Sunday.
Other contests involving mid-
western schools: Indiana at Mich
igan, lUinois at Iowa, North
western at Wisconsin, Camp
Grant at Great Lakes and Ohio
State at Pittsburgh.
Amee McPherson
Suffers Relapse
Los Angeles, Nov. 2 (U.R)
Mrs. Aimee Semple McPherson,
evangelist, has suffered a recur
rence of tropical fever, forcing
her to cancel all public appear
ances, a co-worker announced
today.
Dr. Giles Knight, business
manager of her Angelus temple,
said from the pulpit that "Sis
ter Aimee" would not preach
for at least several Weeks be
cause of recurrence of the fever
which she contracted in Mexico
last year.
Badoglio Suggests v
Dictator Sideshow
Naples, Nov. 2. (U.R) Mar
shal Pietro Badoglio thinks the
Allies should put Adolf Hitler
and Benito Mussolini In a cage
and exhibit them throughout
Europe after the war.
It would not only make them
suffer on account of their pride,
but the admissions would pay
off the war debt," Badoglio said.
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Headquarters, Alaska Depart
ment,. Nov. 2. (U.R) Declaring
that the way Is now open for of
fense operations based on Alas
ka, Lt. . Gen. Simon Bolivar
Buckner, Jr., took over today
hisf new command of a separate
theater of operations the Alas
ka department formerly the
Alaska defense command.
"I'm highly pleased to be rid
of that word 'defense'," the 57-year-old
veteran of the Aleutian
campaign said.
"With our military bases now
reaching from Seattle to Attu,
the way is now open here for
offense. There was a time at
the beginning of the war in the
Aleutians when we didn't know
where the Japs might strike
next. But now the shoe is on
the other foot. '
BOMBER COMMAND
Mitchel Field, N. Y., Nov. 2
Brig. Gen. Caleb V. Haynes,
who organized the India air task
force and the Assam American
air base command, has assumed
charge of the First bomber com
mand, a unit of the First air
force, with headquarters here,
lt was announced today.
FOR FAMILY EMERGENCIES
.MOTHER UNEXPECTED EXPENSES
LIGHTS OF NAPLES
SHINE FIRST TIME
SINCE LEFT
Half Million Evacuated While
Power Switohed On as
Booby Trap Is Suspected.
By Reynolds Packard
(United Press Correspondent)
Naples, Nov. 2. (U.PJ A half
million people were evacuated
from Naples for four hours to
day while Allied army engi
neers, risking the possibility
that the Germans might have
wired a mammoth booby trap
to the power Unes, restored elec
tric service to the stricken city.
Light and power were turned
on again in homes and shops
throughout half the big seaport
exactly one month after the first
Allied troops entered the city,
and every precaution was taken
to avoid another mine disaster
snrh n wrpr-ked the Dostoffice
early in the Allied occupation,
killing more tnan iuu people,
Raidv Far Emeraancv
T aHa 4hmitffh th center of
the city in a jeep and found
American soldiers, Italian cara
blnieri firemen and American
ambulances stationed at strate
gic points throughout the danger
area, ready for any eventuality.
But the master switches were
thrown in, section by section,
sending power back into fashion
able residential districts and
tenement areas without touch
ing off the half-expected ex
plosion. When the people were permit
ted to return to their homes at
2 p. m. there had been no ex
plosion, but the fire and ambul
ance squads were kept on the
alert against the possibility that
time bombs might have been
started by - the restoration of
power.
The Neapolitans, who had to
close down their shops during
the Interval, made a picnic of
the occasion, trekking out to the
hills overlooking Naples where
they could watch comfortably if
their homes and stores should
blow up.
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SMITHS LEAD ALL
IN OREGON BIRTH
STATISTIC LIST
The Smiths, the Johnsons aad
the Millers are collectively do
ing more to forestall race sui
cide in Oregon than ell other
persons. This fact came to light
recently in statistical studies on
Oregon birth .records made by
Deward E. Waggoner, assistant
state registrar of vital statistics.
New-born infants surnamed
"Smith" registered Hi Oregon
from 1931 to 1940 inclusive to
taled 1,629 and comprised 1.12
per cent of all births In the
period. The Johnsons accounted
for 1,327 births, or .92 per cent
of the total; and the Miller for
960 births, or .66 per cent of
the total. - .
Others among the leading "
name groups were: Brown, with
802 births; Anderson, with 709;
Jones, with 766; Davis, with
688; Williams, with 617; Wilson,
with 600; Thompson, with 469;
Taylor, with 457; and Clark with
451.
In all 145,042 live births were
registered in the state during
the ten-year period.
Ex-Show Girl Sues
Millionaire Mate
New York, Nov. 2. (U.R)
Martha (Mickey) Divine Dodge,
former Vanities showgirl, filed
suit for separation In supreme
court today against Horace El
gin Dodge, multl millionaire
motor and speedboat manufac
turer, and aftked alimrmv of
$100,000 annually. -J
uoage nas trust tunas ana
other 'assets amounting to more
than $100,000,000 and an annual
income of $300,000, Mrs. Dodge
said in her petition. She alleged
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FLIER DROWNS
Santa Barbara, Calif., Nov, 2
(U.PJ 2nd Lt. Francis Marion Cot-
trell,' USMCR, Kahuna, Wash.
drowned Saturday when he
parachuted from his disabled
plane into the ocean near Point
Concepcion, marine air station
officials annouced today.
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