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o o G 0 Q 0 O 0 Report Boxing Under Investigation By FBI Detroit tU.R) Professional boxing today was reported un der investigation by the FBI and the Department of Justice anti trust division. The investigations were re ported for the first time Monday by George A. Barton in a report to the National Boxing Associa tion convention which concludes here today. . Barton, a former president of the NBA.made the disclosure after the convention unanimous ly adopted a resolution calling for a federal probe of racketeer ing in the ring world. The Justice Department anti trust division entered the in vestigation in June, Barton, said. "At that time," he said, "I received a letter from Stanley N. Barnes, assistant attorney general of the anti-trust division. Barnes asked that I make avail ableto an FBI agent my files." Burton said he was visited by SIPdDIETrS 80-Day Season for Ducks, Geese in Pacific Flyway; States Set Specific Dates Washington (U.R) The Irish and Wildlife service today granted American hunters 10 to 15 days additional shooting days thj season in three flyways. Bumper numbers of wild ducks and geese are expected from (their Canadian breeding grounds. The service said flights on all byways are expected to be the (bt since 1952 The new basic regulations, ap- Bfoved by Undersecretary of In lArior Clarence A. Davis, set the fcuntinff season within a general (Jramework of Oct. 1-Jan. 15 Specific dates for each state will be selected by state game admin istrators. The federal regulations iOecify the length of the shoot ing season by flyways, bag and possession limits, and shooting hours. Study Planned The service later will study thi effect of the later season on the take of . birds. lie Pacific flyway, which was the only flyway to get an in crease five days last year, retains the same 80-day season this year because the number of available ducks will be about the same s a year ago. Standings NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Brooklyn 77 37 Pet. GB .675 .542 15 .526 17 .496 20 i .479 22 2 .475 23 .447 26 .364 36 Mltvauke 64 54 New York 61 55 60 63 62 63 75 Philadelphia 59 Chicago .... 58 Cincinnati - 56 Si. Louis 51 Pittsburgh. 43 Monday's Results Milwaukee 12. St. Louis 1 Only game scheduled. Tuesday's Probable Pitchers Brooklyn at New York (night) Podres (8-6 vs. Gomez (7-6). Philadelphia at Pittsburgh (night) Wehmeier (8-9) vs. Friend (9-6). Chicago at Cincinnati (night) Da (7Vi (6-7) vs. Black (5-2). w Milwaukee at St. Louis (night) Nichols (8-6) vs. Haddix (9-11). Wednesday's Games Brooklyn at New York, night , Philadelphia at Cincinnati, night w Milwaukee at St. Louis, night AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 71 46 Cleveland 70 46 Chicago 67 43 Boston -67 49 Detroit ..... 60 53 Pet. GB .607 .603 V .598 l'j .578 3 .522 10 .410 23 .360 281,2 .319 33 Kansas City 48 69 Washington 41 73 36 77 Baltimore Monday's Results New York 5. Baltimore 4 (1st) New York 12. Baltimore 6 12nd) Boston 8. Washington 4 (night) Only fames scheduled. Tuesday's Probable Pitchers New York at Boston (night) Lar sen (4-1) vs. Sullivan (14-10). Baltimore-, at Washington (night) Falica (3-9-Vs. Schmitz (6-6). Cleveland at Detroit (night) Wynn (TI4-7) vs. Hoeft (11-6) or Bunning 12-3). Kansis City at Chicago (night) Kellner (8-7) vs. Johnson 15-1). Wednesday's Games Baltimore at Washington, night New York at Boston, night Cleveland at Detroit. G . w. L. Pet. .658 .543 .515 .515 .500 GB 3'i 7j 72 9'2 Seattle "9 Hollywood 76 CSan Diego 75 60 64 66 66 70 75 79 79 Portland 70 CLos Angeles rSacramento -.70 .65 -.62 -.62 .464 14 iz .440 18 .440 18 (-Oakland San Francisco Monday's Results f) Hollywood 8. Los Angeles 4 (Pnly games scheduled. How Series Stand Hollywood 1. Los Angeles 0 O Oakland 5. San Francisco 0 Portland 0. Seattle 0 San Diego 0. Sacramento 0 Tuesday's Probable Pitchers Oakland (Chris Van Cuyk 5-7) at San Francisco (Gene Bearden 14-9). San Diego (Steve Ridzik 0-1) at Sacramento (Bud Daley 17-12). Portland (Dick Waibel 9-6) at Se attle (Ewell Blackwell 3-5). 1 Los Angeles (Jim Brosnan 12-8) at Hollywood (Red Munger 18-7). NORTHWEST LEAGUE W. L. 17 16 18 20 20 24 28 Pet. .585 .560 .560 .500 .500 .414 .377 Eugene Lewiston Wenatchee ' Jri-City Salem 24 22 23 20 20 Spokane ..17 Yakima 17 U r- flfrnday's Results . " Spokane 4. Salem 2 Yakima 3. Tri-City 2 (10 innings). Only games scheduled. an agent later and gave him all the details he had about tne operations of the International Boxing Club and the Interna tional Boxing Manager's Guild. He said he expects to testify before a Senate investigating committee in Washington about "mobster influence" in boxing later and has a pledge that Julius Helfand, crusading chair man of the New York Athletic Commission, also will testify. In Washington neither the FBI nor-Barnes would comment on Barton's statements. Barton said the- federal au thorities were needed in an in vestigation of boxing scandals because it was too difficult a task for the NBA to handle alone. "Gaining evidence is just about as simple as picking up a bag of quicksilver with a base ball catcher's glove," he said. "It is too big a job for the NBA alone." Split seasons were offered again as options to the states, with the same 10 per cent pen alty in effect as last year. This year the states are permitted to select split season of unequal periods. The ban on baiting remains in effect. General shooting hours will be from one-half hour before sun- rise to sunset except in the Boise. Idaho (U.R) West ern states wildlife leaders met here loday to discuss dates for the migratory waterfowl hunt ing this fall. ' An 80-day season has been set for the Pacific flyway, which includes' Arizona, Cali fornia, Idaho, Nevada, Ore gon, Utah and Washington. William Silva, chairman of the California State Fish ' and Game Commission, said re sults of the session and dates for California waterfowl hunt ing will be announced at a commission meeting in Los Angeles Aug. 25. Mississippi flyway where shoot ing will cease one-half hour be fore sunset. Summary of shooting regula tions by flyways include: Pacific flyway: For ducks, geese and coots the states in this flyway of Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah and Washington will continue to have an 80-day consecutive sea son or split periods of equal or unequal lengths. Optipnal Bag Limit As last year, all states in this flyway will have an option to choose a bag limit of ducks con sisting of 7 a day or in posses sion, or 6 daily with 12 in pos session, which may be increased to 10 a day or in possession, or 9 daily with 15 in possession, by including three "depredating birds" pintails or widgeons or three in the aggregate of both kinds. Bag and possession limits for geese remain at 6 birds, but such limit shall not include more than three of the dark species. The bag limit on Canadas will be re duced to two birds in the' coun ties of Yuma and Mojave, in Ari zona; the entire state of Utah; the counties of Bear Lake, Cari bou, and Bonneville, in Idaho; and the counties of Yamhill, Polk, Benton, Linn, and Lane, in Oregon. In California, in fish and game district 22 as defined in the California code, the limit on Canada geese will be one bird. The brant season in this fly way, in Oregon, California, and Washington, will remain the same as last year, with bag and possession limits of three birds. The 15-day Jacksnipe season remains unchanged, with bag and possession limits of 8 and 8. Bag and possession limits for coots in this flyway remain at 25. Bag limits on wood ducks remain unchanged. Fight Results New York Neal Rivers. 156. Nia gara Falls N.Y., outpointed Jimmy King. 154i3, Birmingham. Ala. (10). Progress Exposition Scheduled at Portland Portland (U.R) An Expo sition' of Progress, honoring the 150th anniversary of the Lewis and Clark expedition, will be held in conjunction with the Pa cific International Livestock ex position this year. Exposition officials said the industrial and institutional com memorative event will be spon sored jointly by the Pacific In ternational Livestock association and the Portland Downtown Op-. Umists club. Net Star Recovers From Injury Chestnut Hill, Mass. U.R) U.S. Davis Cup Captain Billy Talbert, encouraged by the per formance of team kingpin Tony Trabert in opening play of the National tennis doubles, served notice on Australia today that the U. S. meant to keep the cup, Trabert wiped away virtually all the anxiety about his ability to rebound with his performance in his first test Monday. The Cincinnati, Ohio, player had been sidelined three weeks with sprained shoulder. He and teammate Vic Seixas, the two top American tennis players and defending champ ions in the tourney, made quick work of Talbert and Junior Da vis Cupper Maxwell Brown, downing them 6-0, 6-3, 6-3. Philadelphia (U.R) The man with the fastest service in the world meets the steadiest baseline player in the world to day as Australia, already assur red of victory in the interzone finals of Davis Cup tennis, meets Italy in the final two singles, Six-foot, 7-inch Orlando Sirola of Italy has the fastest service of any player in the opinion of famed tennis coach Mercer Bea- sley. Sirola will meet Ken Rose wall of Australia in the match at the Germantown Cricket club today, and. Rosewall has the finest ground stroke from the baseline of any amateur in the world. Sirola was the star Monday a? Australia clinched the series with a 7-5, 13-11, 7-5 victory in doubles, which gave the Aussies a 3-0 lead in a best of five series and moved them into the chal lenge round against America at Forest Hills, Aug. 26-28. Metro Team One Of Best In Years Gustafson Says Portland (U.R) Coach Lee Gustafson of the State all-star football team quickly put the damper today on those who would make his team the favor ite over the Metro eleven in Saturday night's annual Shrine game here. "I think, this year's Metro politan team is one of the best in years," he said. Gustafson said! the Metro line would be larger and praised backs Ted Miller of Milwaukie and Duane Marshall of St. Hel ens, who will perform in the Metro backfield.- Kretlow Leads . PCL Hurling San Francisco (U.R) Lou Kretlow, Seattle pitcher, and George Metkovich, Oakland out fielder, a pair of former big leaguers, are leading the hitting and hurling departments of the Pacific Coast League. Kretlow has pitched 12 straight ' victories since joining the Rainiers and hasn't been de feated. Metkovich is clouting at a .333 rate for the Oaks. Bob Garber and George Mun ger of Hollywood lead in mound victories with 18 each. Garber tops the loop in strikeouts with 161. In the batting department, Nippy Jones, Sacramento, has the most hits, 160; Steve Bilko, Los Angeles, most homers, 31; Earl Rapp, San Diego, most runs-batted-in, 119. OSC Site For NCAA Playoff Chicago (U.R) The 1956 NCAA basketball championship tournament will be held at Northwestern University's Mc Gaw Memorial Fieldhouse, the National Collegiate 'Athletic as sociation has announced. The Northwesttern fieldhouse seats 15,000 and was the scene of the 1955 NCAA Midwest region al tournament. Walter Byers, NCAA execu tive director, said the 1956 re gional tournaments will be played at the University of Penn sylvania in the East, the Univer sity of Iowa in the Midwest, the University of Kansas in the West and Oregon State college in the Far West. Portland Shoe Clerks Considering Strike Portland (U.R) An estima ted 170 shoe clerks "might" strike Portland shoe stores Fri day, Fred Dixon, secretary of the retail clerks union, said last night. Dixon told the Portland Cen tral Labor council the clerks had been negotiating with 27 spec ialty she stores since last Nov ember with no success. The union asks a $3 across-the-board weekly raise and com mission and vacation pay adjust ments. Quemoy Defense Planned Taipeh, Formosa (U.R) Plans for defense against possible Communist air attack on Que moy have been completed, it was reported today. A military spokesman said a constant flow of U.S. military aid into the island has improved its defenses. Two Tie For JC Jr. Golf Lead Columbus, Ga. (U.R) U. S. junior champion Billy Dunn of Duncan, Okla., and John Liechty of Iowa City, la., led the field into the second qualifying round of the 10th International Jaycee Junior Golf Championship today with first round scores of 69. Tied for second at 71, one stroke under par, were Jack Nicklaus of Columbus, O., and Robert Boughner of Bell Gar den, Calif. Today's competition will trim the field to the low 100 scorers and ties for the start of the 72 hole medal play championship tournament tomorrow. It also will conclude the battle for the team championship, in which Georgia held the first round lead with a score of 303 fol lowed by California and Okla homa at 304. Lumberjacks Drop Game To San Francisco, 3-2 North Bend, Ore. (U.R) The San Francisco Seals defeated the Coos Bay-North Bend semi-pro Lumberjacks 3-2 in an exhibi tion baseball game here last night on the hitting of Ted Beard. 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But the British girls believe the age factor is on their side, because the oldest player on their improving team was only 26 while all. of the American players were over 30. And they believe that their lone victory, in which Angela Mortimer upset U. S. champion Doris Hart, is proof that the tide is swinging. The blond Miss Brough, bid ding at 32 to regain the top spot among the world's feminine net stars, was the big show for the U.S. team as she racked up two singles wins and shared in a doubles triumph. The Beverly Hills, Calif., star won the ciip clinching match Monday by downing Miss Mortimer, the British ace, easily, 6-0, 6-2. Dorothy Head Knode, 30, of New York,' added a singles vic tory over Angela Buxton, 6-3, 6- 3; Miss Hart 30 of Coral Gables, Fla., defeated Shirley Bloomer, 7- 5, 6-3, then Miss Hart teamed with Shirley Fry of St. Peters burg, Fla., in a doubles triumph against Miss Mortimer and Miss Buxton, 3-6, 6-2, 7-5. 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