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About The Evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 21, 1941)
clash THE TOMGOT $500 Extra At Stake in Coast Final Junior Heavyweight Boff ftaes to Winnori 1000 Gtn oral Admission Seats Held With an extra oiih award el ISOO on tli block, Jut James nd Dan McShetn bu ll tonight t the armory ior the Pacific coast Junior heavy weight championship. The two finalists, bulh form er world Junior heavyweight rhumpi, will como together In crap which climaxes art 1 a-week tournament. They fought their way Into tha title braw4 through n field of more than 40 outstand ing contestants. Presentation of the champion hip belt, an ornnto silver girdle with it large Inscribed buckle, will bo mucle fllwiiig the natch by Thomas Towey, chulr miin ot the Klumittli Falls box ing commission. The bout will bs a finish af fair, with the title going to the first grappler who wins two out of three fulls. E, G. Garrison, official referee for the Northern Ctilifornla Wreatlinf association, sponsors of the belt, will be third man hi the ring, ile I ranked one of the beat referees on the count. , Promoter Mack Lillard an- nouncad that reserved aat tickets have bsan told out in two of tha downtown ticket cantata, but that a block of 1000 oanaral admission aaata are being held until 7 p. m., an hour and a half before flaht time. The card will gel underway at the usual 8:30 starling time, with two preliminaries, one of them serving as a consolation bout, preceding the main event. Extra seats have been Installed at the armory to handle a huge throng. The card Is expected to draw the largest attendance In the history of Klamath mat pro grams. Jamas Farorad Speculation as to the outcome of the bout was equally divided in Klamath Falls wrestling cir cles Tuesday. The two grapplcra will come together on about ev en terms, although Jesse James, one of the best-liked wrestlers Tin the business, -will probably draw the support of a large ma jority of fans. Ile has been a strong tournament favorite alnco his sensational performances in early rounds. The two grapplera employ ex actly' opposite methods In the ring. James, lightning fast and extremoly supple, is a scientific . master, while McSholn uses un orthodox tactics, specializing. In a hidden uppcrcut with which he attempts to dnr.e his oppon ents. His favorite finisher is tho devastating pile-drJver. Pliuio Meats Nsiorlsn James uses a number of spec tacular maneuvers, chief of which are the alligator clutch and a variety of pinning holds in which ho uses his legs to great advantage. In tonight's semi-final bout Ernie Piluso, popular Klamath arapplcr, will meet Mike Nora- nan, the mad Armenian, in a tournament consolation, bout. Both were eliminated in semi final matches. This bout is being heralded as match entirely worthy of a semi-final spot on tho champion ship card. Both are exceeding ly able grapplers. In the openor Bob Krusc, col orful broccoli farmer from Os wego, will grapple nod Lyons, bull-shouldered Joplln Ghost. Veterans Tied In Cue Playoff CHICAGO, Jan. 21 (UP) Al len Hall, Otto Reislct, and Jay Bozeman, three veterans with distinguished records, climbed ?nto a tie In the $20,000 round robin tournament for the world three-cushion billiards champion ship Monday night with their fourth consecutive victories. HbII, a Chlcagoan, defeated Paul Lewin, Chicago, SO to 3? in 44 Innings, Bozemnn, of Val lejo, Calif., who ranks as the fastest player in tho gnmc, dis posed of Irving Crano, Livonia, N. Y 80 to 26 in 4? innings. Relalet defeated Herbert Peter- sen, St. Louis, SO to 26 in S3 innings. WRItTLtNQ Sy Tftt Atieotatttf Prm CAMDEN, N. J. - Krnlt Buws, KIT, ftfimhs, dsfftfttrd Vvon llohtrt, SOt, Tor nntn, two of Ihrnt fnlU. Seek Title -ByffM"ffasi !4sh) Hi, " :r. J l A f" 'Hi;, A"''- i ..5lr, V.i 7 Dangerous Dan M c 8 h a 1 n (above, who once lost the world Junior heavyweight champion' ship to Jesse James (below), faces the supple Greek wrestler tonight at the armory for the coast title. Both are shown with the world belt they once owned. The bout climaxes an IS-week tournament. . . Cooke Toppled From Net Play fin? AKtlrt Ct n T Of f T, ... ' Don McNeill of Oklahoma City and Frankle Kovacs of San Francisco were to meet Tuesday In the finals of the Florida slate tennis tournament. McNeill reached the top brack et by toppling Elwood Cooke of Portland, Ore., 10-8, 6 3, 6-3, while Kovacs advanced by de feating Jack Kramer, Rollins college student, 6-4, 6-4, 7-5. Tho doubles finals matched McNeill and Frank Guernsey of Orlando against Kramer and Hal Surface of Kansas City. Mrs. Sarah Palfrey Cooke of Portland, Ore., won the wom en's singles title, defeating Doris Hnrt of Miami, 6-3, 6-3. What an Umpire I: . " . u J1 1 i( ' Georga, Plpgras, member of tha American League umpiring staff, keeps his eye in condition for calling bBils and strikes by training his bird dog near St, Petersburg, Fla. Bank KUHS Meets Lakeview Friday Eve First Sub-dftlrfct Gome Set Hero; Oregon Froth Ploy Pelicans Saturday Two home basketball games are scheduled for the Klamath Union high school gym Friday and Saturday nights of this week. In the first sub-dlstrlct con test of the year, Lakeview's Honkers will invade the local courts Friday eve, and on Satur day night the Pelicans will meet tho strong University of Oregon frosh. Both games wilt be the main events of double-header pro grams. Coach Earle Vossena Lake view quint will give the Kiam athitcs their first district eom-j petition of the season. This game will be the first of a two-out-of-three series, the otfier two con tests being scheduled at Lake view February 14 Bnd 15. Free 'Clinic' Wednesday Winner of this playoff will meet the champions of north ern half of district No. 5 usu ally Bend for the district title and the right to enter the state tournament. The invasion of the Oregon Frosh will bring to Klamath one of the strongest quints who will oppose the Pelicans ell year. The game Is expected to draw a large crowd. The Pelicans will engage In a free basketball clinic at the KUHS gym Wednesday night st 7:30, purpose of the exhibition being to acquaint Klamath bas ketball fans with technicalities of the sport and various meth ods of play now in use at high schools and colleges. 'I Am Leaders Aeaaitted in L. A LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 White-garbed followers of the "I Am" movement Monday cHrtnltA fhfttr HtPfislnffS UnOn a... ' judge and jury in a fedra! court- room where three leaders of the nationwide religious oraer were) acquitted on mail fraud charges ,h ory fBHrf to nach , i verdict in the cases ot six other defendants. Since Thursday, when Judge Leon H. Vankwlch turned the case over to the jury of 12 men, the "1 Am" followers have sat pntlently awaiting the outcome of the seven-week trial while the Jurors' tried to como to some agreement on tho guilt or inno cence of the nine persona charg ed with defrauding these and other believers in the ascended masters of the "I Am move ment of $3,000,000. When the jury was polled shortly after the lunch hour and revealed further deliberation would bo useless, a wild demon stration ensued. Does in Winter Mill III I W . I T.' ,1 iiM.V "Ml -1 , IS Quint iSietcs'lieraid January 2lt 1941 Boxing Commission Turns Over Funds City Council Wiii Divide $H50 Among Veh' Group; Local Charities; $! 400.44 on Hand Annual allotment ot funds by the Klamath Falls boxing com mission to the city council for aid to veterans and charitable purposes was made st c meeting of the commission Tuesday night. Chairman Thomaa J. Towey announced that $iI50 waa turned Death Takes Rainier Boss Jock Lstivelr Dies Sud denly After Seeing Gomo SEATTLE, Jan. 21 OP John Frank "Jack." Leliveit, 53, reput ed to have been one of the high est paid managers in minor league baseball, died Monday night two hours after he was stricken with a heart attack while watching a basketball game. Leliveit, who piloted the Se attle Pacific Coast League Base ball club to two successive pen nants and was preparing to bid for a third the coming season, seemed in good health when he went to the game. But before play had ended, he bee&mi ill snrf was iTtirt hv Rnt. coe Torrance, vice president oil the Maimers, to the Washington! Athletic club for first aid. He was then removed to a hospital where he died. His widow, in southern Cali fornia, was notified immediate ly by Emil Sick, president of the 4 Seattle Baseball ciub. Leliveit arrived here two days ago from their three-acre estate in the San Fernando valley to send out player contracts mark- nhu vu poc. .tf(.at.a ' I tne start of his fourth i n as manager of the Hamiers. MOVE MADE TO BAN APPELLANTS' COSTS CAPITOL, Oiympis, Jan. 21 P) Appeal without cost to the appellant, from rulings made by any government agency was asked of congress in a senate Joint memorial Introduced Mon day by Sen. Joseph Drumbeller, (D-Spokane), conservative demo cratic whip. He urged congress to take cog nizance of "conditions tending to weaken and undertake the de mocracy we are striving to per petuate." Taking not of "the tendency on the part of congress to enact laws creating and giving arbi trary administrations! and jur isdictional powers" to govern ment agencies, Drumheller asked that appeal to competent courts from rulings by these agencies be made available without cost to any appellant. "It should be borne in mind that a democracy can exist only so long as those who govern do so by consent of the governed," the joint memorial said. . FARE ENOUGH NEW YORK, James Sny der, a Jobless clerk, kept a sub way train waiting several min utes while he searched the tracks for a nickel he had dropped. "You'd do it, too," waa the explanation that won him a sus pended sentence, "if you'd lost your last nickel. 'Wildcat' Grid Contests Decried By Giants1 Coach By ROBERT MYERS LOS ANGELES, Jan. 21 Big Steve Owen was talking straight from the shoulder, and this hefty coach of the New York Giants professional football team has very large and very wide shoulders. "As long as you have such disgraceful 'wildcat' games as you had Sunday, you a sever see major league pro football In Los Angeles or California,' he declared in an Interview. Owen, preparing to shove off for New York, referred to a belBted grid engagement be tween the Los Angeles Bulldogs and a hastily recruited, rapidly drilled squad made up largely of college seniors who but a few weeks ago were the toast of their scattered football worlds. The promotion, financially speaking, waa hardly a success. 'It was a shame." continued Owen, "to tee those kids ex ploited out there, taking ail kinds of bodily rlsks and for $10 a head. Yes, that's what Upset PAGE SEVEN over to the city council, 80 per cent of which will be divided among local veterans' organiza tions Veterans of Foreign Wars, the American Legion, Spanish War Veterans, and the OAR. This amount will be ap portioned on a basis of mem bership. The other 40 per cent will be used for local charitafaie purposes at the discretion of the city council. The boxing commission put $250.44 in 8 sinking fund, it was shown In the annual report. The total on hand is $1400.44. Mack Lillard was reinstalled by the commission as promoter for Klamath Falls. Mayor John Houston suggest ed st the council meeting that the boxing commission provide passes for one or two bouts per year for members of city com- Feller Signs 1941 Contract Por- 20 000 CLEVELAND, Jan. 21 iPl Bob Feller paid Cleveland a one- day visit Tuesday to sign his 1841 contract with the Cleve land Indiana at a salary expect ed.by everyone to be about S30,' 000, making him the highest paid pitcher in the history of baseball. Feller came in by airplane: early this morning and expected! to return to his Van Meter, Ia.,i home after this afternoon's dot-i ted line formalities. The boy wonder, a baseball veteran at the age of 22 years,: never has been difficult for Vice! President C. C. Slapnicka to sign, j His salary has been raised every i year. Last season Fetter's salary was ; estimated variously from 525,000: to $27,000. His performance of: 2? victories led American league i pitchers. CINCINNATI, Jan. it CP) I Five weeks before pitchers and: catchers are called out the world champion Heds have signed al most half their players ior 191. Centerflelder Mike McCor mick and a half dozen rookies turned in papers Monday with their signatures on the dotted lines, bringing to 17 the number .signed, sealed and ready to de liver, BURGLARS' OVERSIGHT MT. CARMEL, 111., m Ssy Kaerrlcher went treasure hunt ing and wound up with $200 of his own money. Object of his search was a safe containing $400 which burg lars carted away from his store a few days ago. When he found it, on a creek bank, he discovered that the thieves had overlooked $208 in cash and checks in -a money box. About 100 Canadian training planes are being delivered a month. More then half the SOS are completed. soma of the boys told me they got after the game was over. A million dollars worth of tal ent promoted and sold for 10 bucks a head." The All-Star Collegians In cluded several lads who took the banners ot the University of Southern California into the Rose bowl two years In succes sion. One was At Krueger, the rangy end who was a hero when he caught the pass that beat staunch Duke in the clos ing seconds of that 1933 battle. Big Jim Kisselburgh of Ore gon State, one of tho best full backs in tha coast conference, was another. 29 - 26 Vakeman High Point Man With 15 Junior Pageant Come from Uhi4 to S3? Out 2432 Victory Over SsptbH Weyerhseusei TSmbennes nabbed a basketball tussle from First National Bank eager last night on the Klamsth armory court by a 28-28 score, upset ting the favored bank quintet which defeated them, 22-53, dur ing first half play. The game marked the opening contest for Commercial league teams in sec ond half competition. Eddie Wakeman, veteran of seven seasons in local independ ent hoop circles, sparked the Weyerhaeuser five to victory with a 15-point performance that gave high honors for the eve ning. The scrappy, fart-stepping guard for the winners waa all over the floor, especially during the first half when be looped in six baskets to account for a ma jority of his team's total in that session. The Timberroen led, 38-11, at the intermission. Only other game played at the local basketball pavilion Monday night saw the Junior Pelicans come from behind to edge the Baptists, 34-32, in a Church league encounter. The Baptist Quint enjoyed a nine point margin over their oppon ents at the half, 20-1 J, but the Pelicans began to click in the second period and soon were several points tip on the Bap tists. George CemeH, forward, and Clarence Johnson, guard, led the way in the last half with six and seven points, respective ly. Meanwhile the Baptist of fense was held to standstill, counting only four baskets in IS minutes of play. The win ners outscored the church team. ; 23-12, in this final period, Summary: Jotter rvHwn H Pa. S H!M form!, t V .c ii, r. siitssx Btrot, S O 3, BsSSinI Stria 9 S. 9fmibtrt WiytriiiMMT OSS r, os mat KUfwwt Iwrrtft ? M. Sirtrast Stnm,. i 9 S. XiixKtf HMitoHh. i c , a&a wkf!i. a a . Kfiito: 5tJf. S O B-MMttt; BaA!li, 4 -S S. Stj FtJSs. I S . r: Gorman Nationals ! Sail for Japan SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. Si (UP) Fourteen German nation als left the United States Mon day aboard the Japanese liner Nitta Maru returning to their homeland. Some of them were sorry to leave, and only one' was "glad to get out" because it has become "insuf f erable ,for Germans" here. Otto Ergenzinger, a resident of New York for 14 years and owner of s milk delivery com pany, expressed a dislike for the United States government. He said he procured his "first papers" in 1S31 but with the rise of Hitler to power he changed his mind and now was "gald to get out." "1 wanted to be an Ameri can," said Karl Meyer, New York, "but I didn't get my pa pers Quick enough. I must go home now because Germans are not wanted." He added he lost a job recently because hit em ployer felt his nationality was bad for the business. Two field for Abduction of Portland Girl PORTLAND, Jan. SI (U,fS -Two men, one an ex-eonvlct, were being Questioned by fed eral agents today in connect fion with the abducting of an 16-year-old girl from a down town Portland intersection at midnight Sunday night. The two men gave the names of Frank Christopher . Killer, 88, and Frank Hill Conner, 31, an ex-convict from Oregon state prison. . Kathleen Polster, the abduct ed girt, totd police that she was standing with her two sisters at a downtown corner awaiting their mother when tho two men drove up in an automobile and invited them to ride.. When th OXFORD swnr mw tarn n a mm 0t .C9r t9 saaa Istaa aaaVssi AtS4. Ll&HT AWWj&Hr CROW A&Atmt IESNEVCH CUFPSIDS PARK, M4S WISP Bi AS SCCMZ OA& 8iLY com Vandal Quint Disgusted Over Coaching Squabble By FRED HAMPSOS . Asssciaiad Btaif Writs The mysterious resignation of Forrest Twogood, poplar Vni veraity of Idaho basketball coaca, brings no echo of approval from the Vandal basketball team. The Idaho cage proctor la -' tops-with his boys. L. H. Gregory of ine Oregonias teamed during hi basketball girl refused, Miss Polster said, the men forced her into the car and drove away. Five youths in Vancouver, Wash-, who saw a girl strug gling in an automobile as it sped past, followed the car en til it stopped and then rescued her. The youths caught Killer but Conner escaped. . - ' Unl. High Job Filled By Two EUGENE, Jan. 21 m An drew A. "Andy"' Hurney, former John Bay, Ore., high school coach, and Lincoln H. McCJel lan, former- intramural director at Logan, Utah, have been ap pointed to fill the position left vacant by Hay Hendrickson, Uni versity CEugene) high coach- Hurney, former Oregon foot ball and baseball star, will coach basketball, track and baseball, McClellan will direct the phy sical education program and teach health education. Both are graduate students in tha school of physical education at the University of Oregon. Hendriekson, first lieutenant in the reserves, will return to nit coaching here after a year's active service in the army at Fort Benning, Georgia. FIRST CATCH TILLAMOOK. Jan. 21 m This area's first spring Chinook salmon catctt a 12 pounder was made in the Trask river yes terday by Guy Smith of Tilla mook, Fishermen said the sea son's heaviest sieelhead run en tered the Trask and Wilson rivers last weekend and many limit catches were reported. Fltg day I bought my first bmh ef Cohort "Spsaal", I fawnd $f why mllihns pnht it U my tjflftr whiskey tthtor . : . It v .-5C5i - - " " fmm m m zl BttNUEU THiSKiY Ctfottt "JocE"t Ptoof Neutral Spiiau Civt Qisttutrs Onjoratkn, New Yosi ur CtVUW m -CmtSTO'S CNT . S5r s etE - rambunga around tha northern ep that the Vandal player ' are downright dlf gutted. On of them aaia; "For the rest ei tha season we're not playing basketball for - Idaho were playing a for Twogood and for ourselves, and we're going to have fun." In- -dignatioa if not mutiny, ' Comments Gregi "There' no . doubt that the baske&all jlsy- iera want Twogood and are bit terly resentful of th political methods used to fore him out- Ironically the ousting, ef fective la July, eemts jast when he seems to istxm Si makings of much his best team since taking charge, ia 'iS" That isn't suite the way s ; Washington: sportster feetred it. however. A3 Stump writes ia the Vancouver Columbian that Twogood might have put up a successful fight against removal but that he was siek and tired; of the Idaho billet vrfth its fe creasing faculty pressure' and decided to quit before he went autetiy crazy," - .... . . toxiga. , 85 The ftMMgftftd ay caieAoo s 8aa, a. ss&&t t!- S.MiSOSB, !wS. ifjrtfa, sac, SEW YUKK Mostjr KjmSbw, m, Btt. Stent City, H, , SEW YOKE fV M4!Kafc tt, Kv Toft, IM, KSAMf, f!. SSmm iff SCiSritw. USszmn. sss(. Ifcifco. - "Clay PUi" British authorHica once ai tempted to persuade the peopla to substitute clay for pastry in tha bottom crust ot pies, because of the wheat scarcity between 1753 end 3814. IsjriHaai jjjgsjgyw K -S.KX 1
