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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1936)
July is, ldno PAGE TWO THE EVENING HERALD, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON Caseys, Old Fort Score Softball Victories No Room for Argument American, Nations! Lesgut Baseballs Identical. Poor Hurling Boosts Hitting Aver, ages in Junior Circuit. Baseballs used In the two major leagues ara Identical, do spite arguments still being ad vanced that the Amerloau loague apple is livelier. Sunny Jim Bottomley, lu the American this season after X4 years In tho National, Is the lat est to expreBs the belief that there Is more Jackrabbit In the junior loop pellet. Bottomley falls to take Amer ican league pitching and power Into consideration. Bill Dick ey, the Yankee catcher. Is right when he asserts that poor pitch ing is mainly to blame for the heavier hitting and preponder ance of home runs in the Har rldge wheel. Scores and pitch ing records support his conten tion. National league pitching ex celling that of the American In the all-star game was not an accident. The older clroult la much better fixed Id skillful handcuff kings. Strong-armed sons of the American might experience a little more difficulty in the Na tional, but It is not hard to ima gine Lou Gehrig, Jimmy Foil, Earl Averlll, Hal Trosky, Dick ey, Charley Qehrlnger, Joe Di Maggio, Goose Goslin, Bob John son, Al Simmons, and Zeke Bon ura as a group outslugging one composed of the pick of the eld er league's distance hitters. The National need not apolo gise for Gussle Suhr, Paul Wait er, Ernie Lombard!, Mel Ott, Dolph Camilli, Ripper Collins, Joe Medwlck, Gabby Hartnett, Wally Berger, Chuck Klein, and Ival Goodman, but the Ameri can definitely has a bulging margin In heavy artillery, e Getting back to the ball, all are made In the same Philadel phia factory. The only differ ence Is the eolor of the stitching and the lettering. The same condition existed some years back when the powers decided to change the apeed of the ball aa a means of creating synthe tic Babe Ruths. The pill was made more resilient for all banc's. Tiie doubting Thomases point to the fact that American league outfielders play closer to the fences than do National league fly chasers. ..They apeak of American league shortstops playing closer to the plate than do those In the parent organisation. ' iriti why they do not play deeper when the bases are un occupied, Joe Cronln, manager of the Red Sox, explains that If they played back on the edge of ibe grass, sharply smacked grounders would curve away from them, and more often than not they would be unable to field the swerving ball. Trie Speaker, daddy of all outfielders at going back for a ball, cannot understand either the current American league ahortstopplng or outfielding theory. ' . , "If It Is true that the ball Is faster, why should the short stop play closer In?" asks Spoke. "On my club, he'd play farther back and have more time to get to the ball, "American league outfielders have roamed too deep for years. The percentage is in favor of the ball being in front of them. Yet they aeldom catch a ball In front of them nowadays. "The number of base hits that fall between Intlelders and out fielders Is sickening. Several drooping liners or Texas Lea guers drop In front of an out ' fielder for every three-base hit he cuts off by laying back against the boards. The place . for him Is from 20 to 40 feet closer In except when an extra-babe bit will do a lot of damage. "What good Is he propped up against the wall? When a ball is hit that far It usually bounces off the fence anyway. "The ball travels faster than It did In my day, for which reason I don't say that I could play In aa close now as I once did, but I'd play In a lot closer than the outfielders of today. . "Nearly all outfielders can go back, and fungo hitting practice would teach those who can't." : It is too bud that motion pic tures of Tristram Speaker In action were not preserved. They would open the eyes of the cur rent crop. Sunday Games Houlhrrn Oregon Red Sox at Grants Pass. Glendale at Klamath Pelicans, Modoc field. Basin LenRuo Big Lakes nt Eastside-Ewauna. Dnrris at Malln. Tulelnke at Merrill. ' Critter Lnko League Southern Pacific at Modoc Point. Chiloquln at Pelican'' Bay.' Algmna at Sprague River. THREE OUTFITS TIED FOR LEAD Smoke, Lost River Lose Contests Under Lights Friday . Night SOFTBALL LKAGl'R W. L. Pot. Weyerhaeuser 1 Old Fort .... .., 1 Caseys ............ 1 Smoke ...,.... 1 Lost River .... 0 Elks ... 0 Lowell's 0 Klamath Billiards 0 0 1.000 0 1.000 0 1.000 .600 .000 .000 .000 .000 Gsmes Monday night Lost River vs, Klamath Blllards; Elks vs. Weyerhaeuser. Three teams Weyerhaeuser, Old Fort and the Knights of Co lumbus stood undefeated at the top of the Softball league this weekend at the close of the first round of competition. Smoke, a winner in the open ing doubleheadar last Monday evening, dropped i II to I con- teat with Old Fort at Modoo field Friday night. The Knights of Columbus, ap parently one of the strongest clubs In the organisation, scor ed a walkaway victory against Lost River, 16 to 0. A slight reorganisation of the schedule occurred Friday eve ning to permit tha entrance of another team, the Klamath Bll lards. The addition now makes eight clubs In the championship drive. The summaries of Friday night games: LOST RIVER AB Kerr, e 1 Clow, p 3 J. Cavanaugh, 1 3 Ashworth, 3 3 Mayhew, 1 3 Dick, ss 3 B. Cavanaugh, rf.. 2 Skaugs, If 2 Hogan, ct 2 White, rf 2 KNIGHTS Larson, e Enders, p Towey, p McDonell, 1 Duracha, sf Bernadou, 2 Wheeler, ss Brooks, 3 R. Williams, rt C. Mahoney, st 49 28 22 0 Lost River .,..000 000 0 0 K. C. .. ....600 8S X 24 Struck ont By Enders, 4 Bases on balls off Clow, 1 2 base hits urooxa, i; Asn- worth: 3 base hits R. Williams. Home runs Enaers, Bernacou, Wheeler. Williams, Brooks 2. Double plays Wheeler to Ber nadou to Williams. Hits off Enders, 5 in 4 Innings. Winning pitcher Enders. Umpires, Ward and Pickett. OLD FORT AB Perry, ss 5 Housten, sf ....... 4 Robertson, 3 6 Hodge, 1 . 6 L. Pastega, rf .. 5 Pastega, t . 5 Barr, e 4 Wakeman, p, ct 6 ' Kennerly, ef - 1 Quinn, If Remus, p C. Oakes, sf 45 19 19 SMOKE AB Pape, ss 2 Palmer, 2 4 Olson, 1 4 Peterson, e ............ 4 Van Dor en, 3 3 D. Houston, If .......... 4 Oarlch. cf ... 1 G. Kenneth, cf 3 Lear, rf 1 Jefferson, sf Pera, p, rf Drlscoll, p .. A. Lavenlk .. 2 .... 3 .... 2 .... 0 34 9 8 Ran for Peterson In 5th. Old Fort 132 810 419 Smoke - 230 012 1 9 Struck out. By Pera 1; by Drlscoll 1; by Remus 9, Bases on balls oil uemus 3; on Pera 1 i off Dricoll 1. 2 base hits, Houston, Peterson, Hous ton, Pera. 3 base lilts rerry. Home runs L. Pastega, Wake- man, Palmer, Hodge ?., J. Pas tega 3, Hits off Pera 5 in z innings! off Wakeman 1 in 1. Wtnnlnc Ditcher Remus. Los ing pitcher Drlscoll, Umpires Pickett and ward. HAY ACTIS WINS SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., July 18. (A) Ray Actls, regarded as the hardest hitting middleweight developed in San Francisco since the days of the late Stanley Kotchel, hud another victory written In his record today, Ho scored a decisive 10 round vlo tory over Carmen Barth of Cleveland, Ohio, here last night. 2 0 ( OF COLUMBUS AB R H 5 12 ill 11 0 3 0 1 111 5 3 1 5 5 4 6 4 4 5 4 4 Molatore, If S O 0 Derrah, et . 6 11 Beard, rt . - 2 11 2 12 HEAT? NO, Members resorted to strange weapons as the Youghioglieny Country Club, McKceiport, Pa., doctored up its golf course In celebrating its 25th anniversary. Upper left, Mrs. H. E Crosby holes out with a cue. Upper right. Dr. J. B. Stewart shoots the second hole with a ennnon. Lower loft, E. T. Stewart drives with one foot on a bucket. Lower right, Ed DeNlnno tecs off with a giant slingshot Five Coast League Outfits Continue Close Battle By The Associated Press The drum-tight battle between five Coast league teams for pen nant honors became more com plicated aa Seattle's leading mar gin was narrowed and other con tenders held their own or gained In the standings. Dutch Ruether's Indians were flattened by the San Francisco Missions, 3-2, while Oakland broke even In a doubleheader with Los Angeles by scores of 8-9 and 2-1 to draw within a game of tne leaders. Ducks Defeat Padres Portland brought Its current road trip average, to .600 by winning the week's second series opener from San Diego, 4-2, and tbe Sacramento-San ' Francisco Seal double bill ended In a draw. The Solons won tbe first, 1-0 and dropped the finale. 1-2. Portland maintained Its repu tation as the' league's best road club by capturing the fifth game of Its current two-week Jaunt. Three Padre . pitchers held the Beavers to six hits, but one was Moose Clabaugh's homes with a man on, and it proved enough of a margin for Bill Posedel. who spaced nine San Diego hits judi ciously. It was Portlond's Yankee Homicide Squad Sets Detroit in Fourth Place nj mo Aaautuuea ireu r While the relative slugging! merits of the 1927 Yankees and tne current murderers' row re main a choice point for argu ment, no one can deny that the present pounding outfit comes close to being as great as tbe previous collection. In a day that saw headline de velopments on nearly every big eague diamond, the 1938 homl clde squad equalled an American league home run record and set an assortment of other marks Friday with a 9-4 conquest of the Tigers, which sent the world's champions down to fourth place In the American league. Bottomley to Retire In other big league sectors, the New York Giants also did some record equalling; the St. Louis Browns In particular and the baseball world In general learned that-"Sunny Jlra" Bot tomley planned to retire In a few days with a strained hack; Rookie Stu Martin of the Card inals and veteran Al Simmons of the Tigers were laid up with stomach ailments. Ditiy Dean, with only 24 hours' rest from his last pitch' ing assignment and not yet re. covered from a week-old Injury, saved the Cardinals from their third straight defeat, stopping the Phillies cold 6-3. The gold plated Boston Red Sox moved into third place in the American league by dropping the St, Louis Browns 2-1. Three Homers Hit Red Rolfe, Lou Gehrig and Bill Dickey poled out homers in the third inning of the Yanks Tigers game to equal the league record for homers In one Inning, set by the Senators In 1902 hut equalled several times since. Joe Moore, Mel Ott, - Hank Leiber and Ed Mayo of the Giants belted three-baggers in the first Inning against the Pi rates to deadlock the National league mark for triples In one frame, defeated the Pirates 6-0, as Carl Huhbell, in top-flight form for the first lime in a month, allowed only five hits, The Dodgers gave Van Mungo perfect fielding sud batting sup- ITS JUST GOOFY GOLF - lb. 7 A a - , J fourth victory In a row. and San Diego's third consecutive loss. Walter Beck gave evidence of old-time effectiveness when he hurled a five hit game to beat the Indians. Roy Mort doubled home the winning run In the ninth, after Seattle tied the score iu Its half of the- chukktr. Hroak Knolls Shutout Ray Prim, Angel ace, came to the rescue in the first game to throttle the Acorns, but Juck Larocca, the spoedhall artist, avenged a first-game pasting by coming back in the second to beat the Seraphs. Larocca was blasted off the hill by a five run sortie In the first two In nings of the opening game. Dick Xewsome of the Sacra mento team stood the Seals on their heads In both games Fri day night, and but for a touch break would have won each by a shutout While his teammates seared one run, Newsome blanked the Seals in the first game, and felt so good he contlnuod pitch ing In the short contest. He had the game tucked away until the lounrj inning, when Catcher Nar- non dropped a pop fly which would have retired the side. The geals made their two runs there after. port, ana tneir right-hand ace ,Bt the Rert down with seven nus ior a 5-3 HrooKlyn victory. The Bees finally found in Curt Davis a Chicago Cub pitcher they couin nit m a o-l decision. The Cleveland Indians chalk ed up their seventh straight vic tory, taking over the Athletics 5-1 while the clubbing White Sox swept their serins with the Senators, winding up with an 18-blt, K-6 triumph. Standings By the Associated Press COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .55!) .560 .627 .624 .504 .482 .473 .382 Beattle Oakland ....... Missions Portland , 62 60 69 49 49 63 60 66 68 59 68 66 Los Angeles ........ 57 San Diego 54 San Francisco .... 53 Sacramento 42 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. .630 .614 .530 .518 .612 .476 .390 .337 Chicago .. Rt. Louis Pittsburgh 61 61 44 41 30 32 39 Cincinnati Now York 43 Boston 40 Philadelphia 32 Brooklyn 28 41 44 60 66 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. New York 66 28 .667 Cleveland 47 38 .563 Boston 47 40 .640 Detroit .., 45 39 .536 Washington 44 40 .624 Chicago 42 40 .612 Philadelphia 28 53 .348 St. Loula 25 68 .209 CHALLENGES BOSS LOS ANGELES, July 18, (IP) George ParnaBsas, wily little manager of Ceferlno Garcia, challenged welterweight champ Ion Barney Ross today for a tltlo fight with Ills crnck Fill rjlnn. who last night knocked out Kid Aztcca, Mexico City, in the fifth round Movie Stars Play Bang-up Game of Ball LOS ANGELES, July 18. OP) Moiiywooii screen stars took over Wrlgloy field todny for per haps the dafflest game of base ball the park ever beheld. Staged annually for charity, the affair tbis year gave of ficials more than their usual quota of problems. For one thing, Georgle Jessal wanted to Install a telephone at third ' base to keep his friends nt home advised of bow things were going. And George Burns demanded field rules to keep Grade A Urn off the coaching line. The other side wanted her for the other side. The "leading men's" team, re membering a 17 or was It 27 run rally In the second Inning of last year's game, thought It would be a good Idea to play the Innings by clock, allowing each side, say 10 minutes at turn at plate yesterday and prov- bat. Bing Crosby took a practice eu lie can smack the nail as well as he does a golf pellet, hut being a little overweight around the girth, suggested he might ride one of bis race horses around the bases. The Idea met no opposition, most of the boys remembering how Ding's horses ran at Santa Anita last winter. Several of the performers ran play a fair brand of ball, how ever, John nolee pitched for Univorslty of Texas In his col lege dnys. and can still keep the ball down the groove If the groove Is wide enough. Song wrltor Hurry Ruby used to work out with the Washington Sen ators down at niloxl, Miss., each spring, but switched to the Chi cago Cubs this year. He said the Scnntors didn't mind. Vlnce Harnett revealed he has a "hidden ball' play all worked out. He tried it yesterday and ft, worked. They haven't found the' ball yet. Maior League Bat Averages Undergo Shift NEW YORK, July 18. (P) Another shakeup featured tho major loague batting races this week, with only the leaders, Lou Gehrig of the Yanks and Paul Waner of the Pirates, escaping the turnover In both loops, Gehrig, found his American league lead endangered for the first time In weeks. He was unable to get more than five safe blows rn 23 times at bat, to lose 18 percentage -points and drop to -.877, while Rip Rad cllff of the Whlto Sox came up from fourth with .875. '' Waner hit at a near .600 paco, getting a dozen safeties In 26 times up to increase his lead with a .864 average. Ducky Medwlck, Cardinal clou tor; came back and took second place with .358. Don't Forget the TOWNSEND i DANCE Tonight, July 18, K. C. Hall Cake and Ice Cream Everybody Welcome LEAGUE TITLE BATTLE LOOMS Rod Sox, Merchants Will Break Deadlock ; Glendale Here HOl'TIIKUX OHIUION LKAtllH W, L. l'o.t Grants Pass 0 3 .57 Hex Sox 8 3 "' Ulondalo 5 .65 Pelicans 1 3 .111 (nine Niniilny Ited Sox at Grants Pass. Glendale at Pollcuus, Modoc field. With probuhly the 1936 South ern Oregon league pennant al stake, Grants l'aaa' .Merchants and the Hod Sox from Klamath Falls will battle It out at the Josephine county fuirgrnumla, Humluy, While the two league leaders are meeting In the fea ture game, tho (ilondule Loiigrra will Journey to Klamath Falls for a rovenge crack at the sur prising Pollcans, who upset al) dope last Sunday to hang up a 6-3 win over the Loggers lu the lalter's own back yard. One game In front of Glendttlo, Grants I'iim and tho lied Sox will. throw their Sunday punches ut each other lu an effort to lengthen that hIIiii ninrgln over tho second place team. The win ner of the flrat really crucial buttle of tho yeur will hold the undisputed tup spot while the loHor will drop Into second place, tied with (lli'iidulo If the Log gers get their reivciiKo from the l'cllcaus. or all alone If tint I'i-II- enns repeat their dopo ' bucket kickfng-over act. Lanky young Huh llurdy, who received his first detent of tho year at the tin nils of the Red box last Sunday, will again be In the box for the Merchants, and Clyde t'arlstrom. the boy who bested Hardy, will again try to turn the trick. Undoubtedly the two bent hurlers In the circuit. Hardy and C'nrlstrom will probably provide an expected record crowd with the sweetest pitchers' bnltlo seen all year. Both boys were hit rather hard last week In the Ited Sox' 9-8, lU-lnnlng victory, but the strong wind sweeping over .Modoc field played huvoc with halls which should havo been tay putouta. At Klamath Falls, Lowell Brown will be on the rubber for the Pelicans, while .Merle J0I111 snn will do the'Logger hurling. By their sensational win ovor the powerful Loggers lust week, Jack Gove's collarltes served notice on the three top eluhs that from now on the muchly-defeated Pelicans were going to be plenty salty. It was tiie first dofout suffered by Glenilalo on their own grounds all year, and they will try desperately to keep In the pennant raco Sunday by, a vic tory over the Pollcans. Another defeat would practically ollniluute tlieni from the race. Miss McDougall Defends Oregon Golfing Title PORTLAND, Ore., July 1' r) It was still Champion Ian McDougall today. Miss McDnugnll, dofendlng tltllst In tho Oregon women's golf tourney, ronipod through to repent her horwirs here with a smashing S and 7 victory over Florence H' liars In the 1936 finals. Tho victory gave Miss McDou gall possession of three titles the Pacific northwest, Oregon State and Oregon women's open. It was only three weeks ago that Miss Sellers gave the cham pion her hardest fight In the Pacific northwest tourney at Van couver, It. C, before dropping the match 1-iip. NEW FLOOR SHOW NEW MUSIC GREYS SISTERS DANCING BEAUTIES FROM HOLLYWOOD Four Floor Shows Nightly Beginning; Saturday Dine and Dance MID-WAYi INN I 2254 S. 6tl St. Phone 394, You'll Have a Good Time Discovery Ills talents discovered In a preliminary match, Jimmy Lott. young athlete from Alnniiniu, guts Into his flr.it Klnmnth Fulls main ,eveul Tueduy night when he impels l.e Wolfe of Texas at the armory, The powerful south erner la given an outainiidlng chance to win. Moth main evenl ers look for victory to put them In line for a match. Willi unde feated Cowboy Dude Chick. In other matches Tuesday night, Hob Montgomery nt Georgia meets llohby Chirk of Wyoming and Charlie Carr, MlaUslp'l. tackles Prince Mlhalakls. aaMaaBBMaasassi Good Weather Aboard Ship Aids Athletes AIIOARI) S. 8. MANHATTAN. En Itouto to Berlin, July 18. (At Slowly but steadily the con glomeration of 383 llcrlln bound American athletes Is Inking 011 tho aspect of a reul Olympic team. Aided by good weather, the athletes ara getting lu their practice sessions. They have needed tbe admonitions of of ficials to keep the rigid training schedules laid out tor them and discipline and organisation la making Itself felt. Busiest of the athletes on hoard are tbe boxers and wrewt lers, who sit 111 have to deielde two or more places on each team. Alternates ran still will the regular berths In any weight It they're Rood and in some cases It's still considered a toss up which of two men will be the actual contestant. The shipboard workouts are expected to aettle the dhuutes between heavyweights Howell Scobey of lehlith end Roy Dunn of Oklahoma A. M . on the mat team and between Itay ( lem ons of Oklahoma Central Teach-J ers and Charles Mianle of In' dlana university in the light heavywolght division. On the boxing tenm the hoavy weights and mlddlewelghts may not settle their ranking until they reach Berlin. Track and field officials, with most of their other problems un der control are busy deciding upon the lineups of the two re lay teams. WRESTLING Iy the Associated l'roas CINCINNATI Rverolt Marsh all, Colorado, 225, tossed Krnle Homer, Sherman, Texas, iso, 36 m 1 11 u es of one fall match. Revision Made in Softball Loop Schedule lleciiuse of tbu Inclusion of Ihu Kiuiunth minimis, n revision bus been iiindn noeessiiry In Ihu sche dule of the Soflbull league. ' Tho llow schedule loniph'tod Friday night by Polo l.ewimilsier Is us follows; July 13 SiiKiku va Kthit, won by Kliloke; Weyei luu'iln-i' va Lowell's, won by Woyorhueiiser. July 17 Lost Itlvor va Knights of Columbus, won by Knlglna of Columbus; (lid Kmi vs Smoko, won by (Hd Foil. July 20- Lost River vs Khun ath minimis; F.lks vs Weyor hnouitor. July !t Lowell's vs Knight of CiiIuiiiIius; Old Fort Vs Klam ath Milliards. ' July 27 - Lost Itlver vs Old Fort; Klamnlli Milliards vs Siintkn. July 31 WVyorhui'MHer v Knights of Columbus; Klk vs Lowell's. August J Klks vs Lost Itlver; Lowell's vs Kluiunlh Mllllnrdn. August T -Smoke v Weyer hseuser; Kulglita of t'oluinhiis vs Old Fori. k August in- Lowell's vs Lust Jk Itlver; Old Fort v Weye'rhneiiser. "1 A he lint II - Klamnlli llilllnnls vs Klks; Smoke vs Knights of Coin tubus. Aneimt 17- Klamath llllllnrils v WeyerlinctiHcr; Lost Itlver vs Smoke. August 31 -Knlglil of Colum bus va Klnmnth lllllnnl; Klks va Old Fori. AllCllfit 31 I.ont Itlvrr vs Wey,rhaiisnr; L o w 0 1 l's vs Smoke. August SS Klks vs Knights of Columbus; Lowell's vs Old Fort. Throo Roata Fiph Itecc Over Pacific HONOLULU. T. II., July Is. (,Tk-- The Saiitana. font schooner owned y v. pti-w-art, Jr., of Los Angeles arrived at tiJg a. m. (Honolulu time) lodoy, ihlnl of the ?J rutr!s In the 3240 mile ('nllforiila-lliiiio-lulti yacht rnce tu finish. The schooner was far behind the liorudo and Clrco, first two entries to flnlih the classic. The Dnrnde. San Fniurlacn j owned by Jnm.s finoil of San Francisco and sklnnercd by Myron Kpnuldlug, whipped across the line at 4:69 p. 111. yesterday Willi the firce only : mlnnt behind. Tho firce. a 61 fnot cutler Is owned by Hay Cook of Seattle. 6 1 ENGINE FROM .THE Class ft 'BE 1 ' i'arac was at; sasr.rs ifiD (it w CCD u a U'lBED atl' sUaT3l ssi Motor Co. Muln and Esplanade 101, 1 i
