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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.
Beard drove in all three San
Francisco runs with three hits,
including a homer.
Munich, West Germany (U.R)
Budge Patty of Los Angeles
and Paris, who has indicated dis
interest in trying out for the
U.S. Davis Cup team, scored an
other impressive victory yester
day by beating former . U.S.
champion Art Larsen of San
Leandro, Calif., 6-3, 6-3, 6-3, in
the final round of the Bavarian
International Tennis tournament.
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States by a 6-1 score as 32-year-old
Wimbledon champion Louise
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British hope.
But the British girls believe
the age factor is on their side,
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their improving team was only
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stars, was the big show for the
U.S. team as she racked up two
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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
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6- 3; Miss Hart 30 of Coral Gables,
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