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WHO'i WHO, POSSIBLY
',. If Pelican baseball backers are
worried over the coming sum
mer's league status of the Klam
ath club, player troubles should
not add too much to their sleep
lessness, A wandering gander over the
potential roster reveals a sub
stantial kernel around which to
build a 1842 squad.
Topping the list are rubber
limbed Paul Crapo. the out
standing first sacker who
earned a trial with San Fran
cisco's Seals last month, and
polished Ernie Bishop. 1941
manager and second baseman
who's again slated for the job.
Both are certain to return.
Bishop last rear was voted the
outstanding iniielder in the
Oregon State circuit.
For hurlers, the Pelicans can
count definitely on Clyde Carl
strom, veteran ln-and-outer, who
is terrifically good when he's
hot and equally terrific when
he's not. Bill Hanauska, husky
young fireballer who flung his
right arm into an enforced lay
off last summer. Is back at Wil
lamette U. and reportedly ready
to cavort again for the Pelicans.
Steve Janaso, another staffer
last season, is still in town and
will be until the army catches
up.
Shortstop and third are cur
rently problems. Jack Lloyd
who surprised the town, as
sorted Pelicans, and himself
by turning in a sparkling season-long
Job at short, has re
turned to his home in San
Diego and dropped out of
sight. Russ Marshall, an ex
Klamath player of several sea
sons back, will try for the
post.
One Harper, first tag un
known, is rumored to be "a hot
corner artist of rare ability" and
may take over at third.
In the outer patches big Norm
Peters and Marshall Eyestone
are possibilities. Eyestone has
been teaching school at Algoma
all winter; his health has im
proved, and Pelican backers
hope hell return to the form
which two years ago earned him
a trial with the Spokane In
dians. Peters, OSC Beaver grid
der and baseball er, is engaged
to: a Klamath girl which will
at least bring him into negotiat
ing distance with the Bigbills.
: Catching is where the only
real trouble lies. Warren
Wanner baa been drafted and
Virgil Ooross is back at Whit
man . college from where he
might jump in any direction
only one of which is Klamath
Falls.-
However, both Hanauska and
Peters have said they'll try to
coax some Willamette or Beaver
talent down this way. One of
them might fill the spot
The player situation, then,
looks more promising than other
phases of the Pelican setup
among which are back bills, and
quite a number.
But directors and backers feel
confident that if affiliation with
the' state loop can be secured,
finances will take care of their
second-year selves. If it's nec
essary to play Independent ball,
the' boys aren't sure.
Apparently raullng is the
only so-called sports endeavor
which can thrive aimlessly.
High school basketball at
KUHS has never drawn very
well, primarily because the
Pelicans each year are virtu
ally cinches for the district
crown and don't give the fans
a chance to worry.
Directors fear a pointless base
ball schedule ' would probably
play before a jampacked field
full of empty seats. -
' ROOKIE READY
TAMPA, Fla. Ray Starr, 35-year-old
rookie who ntteheri ai-r
innings for the Cincinnati Reds
in yesterday's exhibition with
the Boston Red Sox. heard Mom
ager Bill McKechnia complain
mat ne might not have a pitch
er for Saturday's game.
"I'll be ready," said Ray. "All
I need is 12 hours sleep and I'm
always ready.
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CllffiMn, X. J., (10) (non-title.) Jon Maxim.
181. Clefrlind, knocked out Herble Kntg,
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Sure sign of spring, along with bussing bees and the budding
trees full practice session of a major league team as the Pitts
burgh Pirates limber up at San Bernardino. Calif,
PAGE EIGHT
Lopez, Williams Grapple
In Tuesday's Top Struggle
What will possibly go down as
one of the most vicious bouts In
local armory mat history Thurs
day was announced today as
scheduled to top next Tuesday's
armory grapple program.
Promoter Mack Lillard Thurs
day revealed that Cy Williams,
the torso-busting Florida engi
neer, will tangle with mammoth
Vincent Lopez, ex-world's cham
pion., in the feature event Both
Boston Red Sox Relieved Over
Williams Outcome--So Is Ted
By GAYLE TALBOT
SARASOTA, Fla., March 12
(ff) Everybody around the Bos
ton Red Sox camp is vastly re
lieved that Ted Williams' case
has reached a temporary breath
ing spell so they can get -on with
the main business of preparing
for the American league base
ball race.
" For a couple of days the hotel
lobby looked like a convention
of professional pallbearers, with
a whispering group beside every
pillar and all eyes glued on the
front door, waiting for the re
mains to be hauled in. Every
body was wondering how the
lone, unhappy kid whose draft
status was deferred by the pres
ident's board would conduct
himself. There was little talk
of anything else.
Now, happily, the tension has
snapped and Manager Joe Cron
in is going about the business of
training his team with new pur
pose and pep. Williams, one of
the game's greatest batters, has
thrown himself into the condi
tioning program and his team
mates are making a point of
showing him they arc on his
side.
Williams, object of a contro
versy that had been nationwide
for a week, made a dramatical
ly good impression upon the
crowd of newspapermen that
surrounded him and peppered
him with questions after he
drove in from Minneapolis. Sev
eral who frankly had been criti
cal of Ted's apparent reluctance
to rush in the army said they
had changed their opinion after
hearing him give his side of it.
ine one mat got mem was
when Ted said with obvious
emotion: "Fellows, do you think
ix I didn't feel I was beine ab
solutely honest that I would face
what I'm going to have to go
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March 12, 1942
rasslers have never been accused
of clean mauling.
The Mexican in his first ap
pearance last Tuesday hammered
Chief Thunderbird into com
plete submission with a series
of crunching elbow smashes.
Williams piled up an unen
viable list of victories before a
recent injury in Vancouver, B. C
Also on the card will be Pedro
Brazil, Andre Adoree and Jim
Casey.
through? Why, if there's a crowd
of 30,000 in the park and one
man is riding me, he's the one I
always hear.
"I wouldn't try to face it if I
didn't feel I was right. It's the
toughest decision I'll ever have
to make. But anyone who knows
the true facts won't condemn
me."
The chief point Williams
stressed was that he did not ask
for deferment in the draft. He
bogged down somewhat trying
to explain the complicated mach
inations of the Minneapolis
board, but was positive of the
White, Antler
Enlists in Naval
Departure of the first Klamath county B league coach for
service in the armed forces was revealed Friday with the an
nouncement that Carl S. White, Bonanza high school football
and basketball mentor, will leave this weekend for active service
with the navy. . ' -
White, serving his first year as tutor of Antler atmeucs, re
cently climaxed a successful cage campaign by coaching the
Bonanzans into the
into the Klamath-'
Lake B loop championship, the
first crown they ve copped in a
number of basketball years. The
Antlers then went on to earn
second place in last week's
Southern Oregon College of Edu
cation invitational tourney in
Ashland.
White's grid team last fall
won four games, lost two and
tied one to finish high in B cir
cuit standings.
The Bonanza pilot Is a gradu
ate of Pacific university, where
he played on the football and
baseball teams for one year.
Prior to that he attended Oregon
State and Oregon State College
of Education, participating in
football and baseball at, each
school.
Pacific Coast Fives
Headline AAU Meet
DENVER, March 12 (VP) The
national AAU basketball tourna
ment opening Sunday, an event
in which Pacific coast teams
showed great durability last
year, Is attracting at least a
dozen coast teams this year, In
cluding the title-holding Twen
tieth Century-Fox team from
Holiywood.
The entry list stood at 45 at
the deadline last midnight, but
mall entries posted before that
When in Medford
Stay at
HOTEL HOLLAND
' Thoroughly Modern
Joe and Anne Earlay
roprUtors
Shag Out
Of Yale
Picture
Stanford Coach Sayi Ha
May Go last Not to III
LOS ANGELES, March 12 W)
Count Clark Shaughnessy out of
the, Yale football picture.
Stanford's great proponent of
the "T" formation isn't having
any of Eli's ivy traditions or
alumni factional squabbles, next
fall or any time.
He made that plain, and em
phatically, as he returned from
the east, where he conferred
with Yale alumni.
Shaughnessy may go east
but . . . get set for a shock.
The coach who led Stanford
to a Rose bowl championship in
his first year on the west coast
and just missed with an injury
riddled squad last fall may
transfer to a university with lit
tle or no football reputation.
Shaughnessy's two chief rea
sons for coming west from Chi
cago were opportunity and s
curity. He has an optional con
tract which insures him of three
more years at Stanford although
it's understood he can check out
any time he chooses.
However, the war haa robbed
him of much of his opportunity.
Grid prospects along the Pacific
coast are uncertain. Many stars
and likely prospects have gone
into the armed forces.
CUB JOBS OPEN
AVALON. Calif. Aside from
pitching, says Manager Jimmy
Wilson, there are two wide open
jobs with the Chicago Cubs
left field and shortstop. Cur
rently Rookie Harry Lowrey has
first call in left field, teaming
with Charley Gilbert and Bill
Nicholson. Bob Sturgeon is the
No. 1 shortstop now, but is be
ing pressed by Len Merullo.
BCFTALO. X. T. Km Omlln. Its.
Washington. D. C. oatpolntad PauII Mn-
Honr. 107 HnriaJo. dm.
main point: That ha consented
to a re-hearing of his case did
not request it.
"AU I want to do Is play this
season," he explained., 'Then
my mother will be provided for
and I'll do anything they say.
Right now I haven't a cent ex
cept $6000 tied up in an annuity,
and I'll lose that unless I pay
it out this year. All I want to
do is provide for my mother,
and I don't think there's any
thing wrong with that Furth
ermore, I'll pay about $17,000
income tax, so it isn't as though
I won't be doing something to
help."
Cage Pilot,
Service
hour will be accepted and may
run the field to 80. There were
49 contestants last year.
Oregon's contenders are Brad
ford Clothier and Signal Oil,
both of Portland, and Washing
ton will be represented by the
Seattle Alpines and Washington
State college All-Stars.. ,
BASEBALL
TODAY'S OS.MIS
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Waahlniton (A) Tf. Cltr.Unrl (A).
St. Ionia (N) ra. Cincinnati IS).
Read the Classified page.
THIS WHISKEY IS
5 YEARS OLD
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Beavers Open
Playoff With
Stanford Five
: CHICAGO, March 12 W
Completion of the field of eight
for the National Collegiate Ath
letic association basketball tour
nament today awaited two play
offs between Oklahoma A. and
M. and Kansas for district five
honors and between Stanford
and Oregon State for district
eight
The Pacific coast teams will
begin their playoff tonight over
a three-game route. Kansas and
Oklahoma A. and M. will engage
in a single game playoff Tues
day.
H. G. Olsen, chairman of the
NCAA tournament committee,
said the playoff winners would
compete with Rico and Colorado
in Kansas City, March 20-21, to
determine the western divi
sion's entry against the east.
Eastern contenders Dart
mouth, Penn State, Kentucky
and Illinois will decide their
champion in New Orleans on the
same dates. The division win-
J-ners then will clash for the
NCAA title in a single game
March 28 in Kansas City.
Tulelake To
Tangle With
Bonanzans
i
TULELAKE It looks like a
red-hot contest next Friday night
between the Tulelake Honkers'
and the Klamath county B lea
gue champs. Bonanza. Both quin
tets have met before and the out
come was even-Stephen with
both of them winning a contest.
In the first meeting' Bonanza
nosed out the Honkers 28 to 28
and the second tilt was won by
Tulelake 35 to 33. Both close
cuts. The tilt will be played on
the Honkers' floor.
Tulelake Is northern district
champion in Siskiyou county.
The Dorris Bulldogs fell head
over heels to Tulelake last week
end. Final counting was 87 to
21. In the B game the little Hon
ker squad slipped through with
a 21 to 18 win.
On March 20 the Honkers will
play Fort Jones for the East
West championship and the win
ner of that clash will tangle
with either Dunsmulr or Weed
for the championship.
Standing score for the Tule
lake q-iintet Is 12 wins and 4
losses.
Jim Bivins
Licks Gus
Lesnevich
CLEVELAND, March 12 (UP)
Young Jimmy Bivins of Cleve
land sprung one of the boxing
surprises of the season Wednes
day night in the Cleveland arena
by making a punching bag out of
Gus Lesnevich to whip the light
heavyweight champion decisive
ly in a 10-round non-title bout.
Only the oaken heart and
stout legs which the stolid New
Jersey Pole brought Into the
ring saved him from a knockout
In at least two rounds of the
brawling fight.
Bivins, rated 8 to 5 under
dog in the betting, walloped the
champion as never a champion
had been beaten before in the
Cleveland arena.
From the third round on Les-
nevich's eyes swelled and almost
closed. He bled freely from the
nose.
. Bivins took command from
the 'Opening bell and smashed
Lesnevich against the ropes with
a short right that started a nose
bleed. In the second round
Bivins again connected with a
short right that sent Lesnevich
to a sitting position on the can'
vas but the champion got up
before a count.
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Love's 21 Points
Tops Pelican Effort
SALEM, March 11 (Special) The Klamath Falls Pelicans
bowed out of the championship running In the annual itnto
basketball tournament here lust night by falling to a red-hot Me
Mlnnville quintet, 60-40, in tho first gume for both teams.
As a result of their upset de-
feat, the Pelicans dropped into
the consolation round and will
face Etigcno at 2 p. m. Thursday
Nover were the Pelicans In a
position to threaten the Grizzlies,
District 8 champions. They trail
ed 12 to 3 at the end of the first
period, :i0 to 13 at half time and
48 to 27 at the third quarter
mark. Kl math had a decided
height advantage, but couldn't
cope with Iho McMinnville speed
and uncanny shooting.
The two bright spots In
Klamath's performance was tho
ploy of Captain Eugene Love,
who made 21 points, and Cox,
who canned 12.
Tho winners were out In front
30-13 nt the half, and hold tho
Mount Angfl M. Vala 49.
(ortalll, Halrm it.
Mrilfor.l 31. Mtlu-n Kr..4tr II.
Hllt.lM.ri, sr. HI. Il.lrn, SI.
North llvml 54. Culutnhl 'rr-p If.
luk.r 4. tirva-m City 31.
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OAM TODAY
ClMmplonnhlp Rnund Two
Mount Afttfrl v. Corralll. S:l& p. m.
Mrilfor.t t. lllllahoro, 4 p. m.
North h-nd . tlakrr, 7:30 n. m.
Ailorla MrMmittlll.. a 13 p. m.
Ooaaolatlona
Vala Salrnt. 9 a. m.
Mae 111 SI. luirnt I0 M a. m.
C.Utimlila lrrp v. lirrcort ('Mr. 11:10 a.
Kui.nn yt. Klamath tall. I p. m.
edge tl.roughout the gumo.
The total of 109 points sols
the game down as the heaviest
scoring spree in tournament
history.
Astoria's defending champions
opened tlmir 1B42 state high
school basketball title conquest
tonight with an Impressive 40 to
29 victory over Eugene.
The halftime score stood 24
9 in favor of the Fishermen, and
they were ahtad 41-20 at the
third period.
Williamson, forward, led the
Astoria scoring with 10 points
and Cain was high for Eugene
with nine.
Baker defeated Oregon City
48-37, North Bend turned bock
Columbia Prep of Portlond 38
18, Medford downed Milton-
Freewater 31-28 and Hillsboro
bent St. Helens 37-24.
They went Into the second
round along with Corvallis
which last night beat Salem 19
11, and Mt. Angel which de
fected Vale 55-49.
BREWED WITH PACIFIC
NORTHWEST HOPS'ond BARLEY
Bakor held a 24-10 halftime
advantage over Oregon City
while North Bond, today's other
afternoon winner, was ahead n(
Columbia Prep Kl 0 at the half
Holinan was high scorer for
Baker with 12 points, and Koop
look scoring honors for Oregon
City with 7.
Wlgant, center, led the North
Dend scoring with 13 points.
In tho forenoon games, Med
ford was ahead of Milton Free
water 1512 at tho half, and
Hillsboro held a hulftlnio ndvant
age of 1 01 5 over St. Helens.
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Unknowns Capture
Four-Ball Crown
CORAL GABLES, Fla.. March
12 (UP) A modest pair of un
knowns who had never rarned
a major golf prize won the $3000
International four-ball cham
pionship Wednesday In the tour
nament's biggest upset In 18
years.
Brawny Herman Kelser, of
Akron, O.. whose putts seldom
miss the cup, and Chandler Har
per of Portsmouth, O., whose
skill hold good when Kelser's
didn't, won $1000 each on the
33rd hole with a 4-and-3 victory
over Jack Grout of West Pitts
ton, Pa., and Ben Loving of Long
Meodow, Mass., another team
overlooked In pre-tournament
calculations.
Sometimes a girl's diary
turns out to be a scrap book.
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Experts wade In the bubbling
Pacific ocean for all-westere
url casting tournament at Long
Bosch. Calif.
Pelican Bascballcrs
Meet Friday Night
Directors of the Klamath Peli
cans, city baseball team, Thure
day asked all persons Interested
In playing for, managing or aid
tug tho 1942 team to meet Frt
day nlaht In the council cham
bers of the city hall at 7:30.
Tele Lrsmelster, holdover dl
rector, said that discussion would
center on the club's affiliation
with a league for the cominf
summer. He said that plans tl
Join the Northern Callfornli
loop have been droped but that
the possibility of re-entrance ia
the Oregon Stalo leaguo would
be taken up.
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