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By FPANK CAUSE
' Th Pelicans
art tensely wait
mMtlng on the
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hardwood with
tha Eugena Ax
man in Salam
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5 p. m. for tha
results. .
BOB BARRY MATERIAL
A meeting with Red Sanders,
an old timer in baseball history
of Klamath Falls and the man
ager of Mecca Billiards, ended
up in a very interesting confab
on local color of Klamath's his
tory in baseball.
Red kinda wondered where
all of the gang had gone and
that brought to his mind some
vivid memories.
Hank Atkin . . . assistant fix
chief in Klamath Falls . . . here
was a gentleman and a real first
baseman and a dandy hitter . .
Dr. Noel . . . local dentist . Doc
was a smart ball player and a
teams man, and he still loves the
game.
Then there was Ed Clark who
played with many local clubs.
Ed is working for Copco down
by Dunsmuir . . . Gunner Peter
son was another, swell catcher;
Gunner is building defense
plants up north . . . Andy Street
the old under hand chucker, is
principal of Malin high school.
Andy was a good pitcher and
was and still is a real fellow.
Jack Franey is the- deup'y
sheriff . . . Red gava a few da
tails on some embarrassing mo
ments . . . about 20 years ago.
Jack was with his room mate on
a semi-pro ball club in Montana.
They were walking along a dark
street one night when some one
fired a shot gun right near them.
Jack's roomey had a couple of
bad legs and was also a catcher
and could run all day on a dime.
Franey could do a hundred yard
those days in ten seconds . . .
They took off when the gun ex
ploded in their ears . . . when
Jack got home his roomy was in
bed.
- Another day Jack was with a
club playing at a little town in
Montana. All the money in
Jack's town was bet. It was the
11th inning and no runs yet.
Jack tripled in the 12th to drive
home a run. The boys filled a
couple ten gallon hats with
money for him and Jack set
them on the bench. -" '
Last of the 12th the home club
scored two runs. . When Jack
looked for his money, hats and
all were gone.
Bob Barry, head of the big
(how at Camp Newell, would
like to see these boys pitch in
and help with the "equipment
for the soldiers" drive which is
to be held Sunday with the pub
lic invited.
Catholic
Holds Hoop
Tournament
EUGENE, March 11 (IP)
Finalists in the Catholic high
school basketball league will
battle for the state title at Mount
Angel Sunday, Father Francis P.
Leipzig, tournament chairman,
said today.
Sacred Heart of Klamath Falls
and Sacred Heart of Tillamook
have qualified as B class entries.
A play-off this week between
Central Catholic of Portland,
Columbia Prep and St. Marys
of The Dalles will determine one
of the A class finalists. St.
Marys of Eugene and Sacred
Heart of Salem will fight it out
here tomorrow night for the
other position
Nine Swimmers to
Receive Varsity
Letters by Ducks
EUGENE, March 11 (IP) Nine
swimmers have been recom
mended varsity letters by Uni
versity of Oregon coach, Mike
Hoyman. Members of the Oregon
Tank team that won three of
four dual meets and placed sec
ond in the northern division
championships who will receive
varsity awards are: Dick Allen
and Chuck Nelson, both of Port
land; Dick Smith, Jim Gautier
and Ralph Huestis, all of Eu
gene; Bob Prowell, Parkdale;
Herb Hoffman, Salem; Tom
Houston, Burlingame, Calif.;
Jack McAuliffe, Compton, Calif.
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Faculty Approves for
Washington's Entry
In Hoop Race Back East
SEATTLE, March 11 (iP)
Just over the horizon for the
University of Washington Husk
ies if they have what it takes
to beat Southern California
is a chance to play in the west
ern national intercollegiate bas
ketball tournament at' Kansas
City March 26-27.
The faculty athletic commit
tee yesterday approved Wash
ington's entry in the tourna
ment provided the Huskies de
feat the USC Trojans in the Pa
cific Coast conference two-out-of-three
play-off series opening
here tomorrow night.
With this opportunity for na
tional fame in mind, Husky sup
porters concentrated their at
tention on Bill Morris and his
ailing knee, hoping it would be
sufficiently knit since last Sat
urday to carry the star guard
through the whirlwind pace of
a championship series.
Morris took his first workout
yesterday and distinctly favored
the hurt knee, although it didn't
seem to bother him in straight
away running.
U. S. Wants
Baseball
Despite War
SPOKANE, March 11 (IP)
America wants to enjoy its na
tional game despite the war, a
survey of sentiment on the con
tinuation of professional base
ball conducted by the Athletic
Roundtable would seem to show.
The ART has reached 12,000
so far, with more than 95 per
cent voting a loud "aye" for
continuance. Particularly fer
vent are service men. Mass re
sponse favoring pro-baseball has
come from the Pasco naval air
station and the Hastings, Neb.,
ammunition depot. .
: CoL George S. Clarke, Spo
kane, one of the last men to get
safely, off Bataan, wrote from
Atlanta Ga., expressing hope the
game would continue.
Among other supporters was
Bill Zmrzel, former public eolf
links performer now .blind, who
said he could readily understand
the playing of baseball as a
morale builder inasmuch as he
finds it heartening to follow and
play golf since he lost his eye
sight. Blind Man
Grapples
With Best
PHILADELPHIA, March 11
W) The University of Pennsyl
vania's sightless Samson a
blind man who'd rather wrestle
than eat enters the tournament
of champions tomorrow for the
first big test of his so-far sensa
tional career.
Blind Fred Barkovitch, unde
feated in 55 consecutive scholas
tic and intercollegiate bouts,
moves into the two-day, 39th
annual eastern intercollegiate
wrestling tourney, to grapple
with the best men from nine
big-time colleges and try to
prove that Ex-Star Bob Allman,
now a Philadelphia lawyer,
isn't the only Penn man who
can grapple and win in the
eastern without the help of vi
sion. ,
. Barkovitch, a 128 -pounder
who won 48 at the Overbrook
school for the blind and seven
in this, his first collegiate sea
son, had weak vision at birth.
Then, when he was an innocent
bystander in a stone fight dur
ing his ' childhood in Wilkes
Barre, Pa., his right eye was
put out by a stone. He still can
see very dimly from the left,
but has to have his lessons read
to him. Despite his handicap, he
hopes to be a physical instruc
tor and wrestling coach.
Tully Marshall,
Screen Actor, Dies'
At Suburban Home .
HOLLYWOOD, March 11 (IP)
Tully Marshall, 79, screen - char
acter actor, died early today at
his home in suburban Encino.
Marshall, his physician said,
had been confined to bed for 10
days. He was attended by his
wife, Mrs. Marian Marshall.
The veteran actor left the
stage in 1916 to enter motion
pictures under the guidance of
D. W. Griffith.
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PAGE TEN
Meet Farmer
v4 V y. (
Bill (Fiddler) McGee, member of the New York Giants' pitch
ing staff, seated on hit tractor ai he prepares for spring plowing
of his 225-acre farm near Hardin. 111., after notifying the Giants
he would not be able to play baseball this year because all of
his farm help had been inducted.
First Base Woes of New
York Giants Tangled Up
By JUDSON BAILEY
NEW YORK, March 11 (P)
The first base woes of the New
York Giants are getting all
tangled up again like the second
act of a musical comedy.
Johnny Mize, the big St. Louis
clouter whom the Giants obtain
ed last winter from the Cardi
nals, recently was classified 1-A
and yesterday Hank Leiber,
whom Manager Mel Ott was
counting upon as a fill-in at first,
notified the Giants he had re
tired to chicken farming.
; The situation is that the Giants
got both Mize and Leiber a year
ago principally to protect them
selves against the drafting of
Babe Young, their regular first
baseman in 1941.
Young remained with the club
all through the 1942 season, fi
nally finishing in centerfield, but
has since been called to service.
Mize and Leiber both are mar
ried, but have no children. The
former expects to be called for
induction at any time and the
latter has decided to stay on his
Arizona farm and be classified
2-C, essential agriculture.
Tht Giants so far have made
no important move to get a first
baseman, saying that they will
wait until Mize passes his final
physical examination. They
think there is a possibility he
35 Dons Sent to
Join Bill's Gang
Army Air Corps
SAN FRANCISCO, March 11
(P) Bill Telesmanic, end; Dan
ny Fisk, center; and Dante Bcn
edetti, guard, were heroes of the
University of San Francisco
Dons football team of 1938.
Bill died in air action in North
Africa. Danny was killed in a
training crash in the United
States. Dante is missing in the
Pacific. a
"Last week we sent 35 Dons to
Lincoln Neb., to join Bill's gang
the army air force," said Edi
tor Bob Riordan of the USF Fog
horn. "They're grim .... set on
avenging Bill and Danny and
Dante.
Puget Sound Yard
Meets Mare Island
In Coast Hoop Tiff
BREMERTON, March 11 CP)
The Puget Sound navy yard and
the Mare Island basketball
teams will meet tonight in the
second game of their play-off se
ries for the Pacific coast navy
yard apprentice basketball
championship.
Puget Sound won the first
game last night, 56-49, standing
off a last minute Mare Island
rally that brought the count, 51
49. PIOHTS
By The Aiioolatftd Prm
Cr,F.VEI,ANn-Minlky Wrljlil. 131, Tr
Ariuel, knocked out Joey Pirrone, 131,
t'lrvelsnd (3).
OAKLAND, Cnllf.-MiniKl Orll, 117',
Rl Centra, 'topped 1mi Salkn. 116. Hrook.
I.vn (II). (dill bout).
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March 11, 1943
Ball M'Gee
might be rejected because he
bleeds excessively when cut.
On their present roster they
have only one likely substitute,
husky Babe Barna, who played
first base for West Virginia uni
versity before starting his pro
career. Last year he alternated
with Leiber in the outfield and
now, with Leiber gone, as well
as the club's freshman star of a
year ago, Willard Marshall, the
Giants may need him in the out
field as much as they do at first.
Browns May
Come in
This Year
WINTER PARK, Fla., March
11 (P) The St. Louis Browns,
who uncorked one of the biggest
surprises of the 1942 baseball
season by galloping into third
place in the final American
league standings, are apt to do
some more high grade surprising
this year.
So says James Wren (Zack, if
you prefer) Taylor, who is pre
paring to leave his Winter Park
home to join the Browns for his
third year as a coach.
Taylor pointed out the Browns
have suffered less from the man
power shortago or the draft than
either of the two teams (New
York and Boston) which finished
ahead of them last season, and
that is an argument of some
weight these days.
"I have the feeling we'll have
a surprise for the fans this year,"
he said. "Our team is definitely
on the make, and while I won't
say we'll take the pennant, just
wait and see."
Zahories .Wins in
Another Midwinter
Golf Tournament
LOS ANGELES, March 1 1 (VP)
Mrs. Babe Didrikson Zaharlas
has added the Los Angeles mid
winter golf tournament cham
pionship to her long list of ath
letic achievements.
She scored a double eagle yes
terday in defeating Miss Clara
Callender, California women's
champion, in the tournament fi
nals. The 405-yard tenth hole was
the scene of Mrs. Zaharias' three-under-par
performance in the
morning round of the 36-holc
match. She drove 250 yards
over traps, then in the second
shot put the ball on the green's
edge, whence it rolled Into the
cup. Babe took the match 4 and
3 to go.
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Ortiz Takes
Lou Salica
In Eleventh
Little Mexican Clears Up
Bantamweight Title When
Salica Stopped in 11th
OAKLAND, Calif., March 11
(V) There's no disputing Man
uel Ortiz' clear title to the
world bantamweight champion
ship not after the pasting he
gavo Challenger Lou Salica last
night.
The shifty, hnrd-socking little
Mexican from El Centro, Calif.,
cleared up the 116-pound title
question by stopping the ex
chump from Brooklyn In the
lltli round of a 1 5-r minder,-Unit
wus Ortiz' fight from the start.
Ortiz : won the title from
Salica in Hollywood Inst Au
gust, and only the New York
state athletic commission re
fused to recognize him as cham
pion becauso the fight went only
12 rounds instead of 19. Ortiz
had been accepted by the Na
tional Boxing association and
the 47 states it. controls.
Salica, a master boxer, had
to call on his 12 years of ring
experience to savo himself from
a worse beating. Ortiz had the
edge in every round, battering
his aging rival with a fearful
assortment of blows to the mid
section and face. Salica was
groggy from a body belting as
the tenth ended and then it
came. .
Ortiz sent the Brooklyn fight
er down for a nine count with
a terrific right to the body as
the 11th opened. Salica rose on
wobbly legs, clearly unable to
put up an effective defense. His
manager gestured to the rcferco
to stop the bout to save his
fighter from further punish
ment. Oregon
Sport Notes
By FRED HAMPSON
Klamath Falls, whose high
school basketball team's state
tournament luck has been all
bad, dribbles onto the court at
Salem this afternoon to open
the 16th tourney against Eu
gene, hoping for the best and
with fingers crossed.
The Pelicans traditionally play
a hot species of basketball down
in the southern tier of Oregon
and, for that matter, in inter
sectionai games. Over the years
they have been among the state's
most consistent winners but
when it comes to the state tour
nament well, often a brides
maid but never a bride.
Again this year the southern
Oregon metropolis has potent
outfit at Salem in fact most of
the prep critics seem to think
the Pelicans constitute the most
dangerous threat to a third term
for Astoria, a team that won the
title in 1941 and 1942.
Corporal Ross
To Be Honored
By Mayor Kelly
CHICAGO, March 11 (P)
Barney Ross, who on two occa
sions brought back world boxing
titles to Chicago, comes home
again today bearing another ti
tle corporal in the United
States marines after heroic ac
tion at Guadalcanal.
Corp. Ros: will be met at the
municipal airport by a group of
officials headed by Mayor Ed
ward Kelly and by his mother,
Mrs. Sarah Rasofsky. After a
12-hour stopover, Ross will leave
for New York where ho will par
ticipate in a Red Cross benefit
rally at Madison Square garden
Monday. There he also will re
ceive the Edward J. Neil Mem
orial award for having contribut
ed the most to boxing in
1942 although his fighting was
restricted to action with the ma
rines. GIVAN FAVORITE
VICTORIA, B. C, March 11
(IP) Seattle and Port Angeles
golfers are dominating play In
the 15th annual Empress golf
tournament, now at the halfway
mark. Harry Glvan of Seattle,
low handicap player, continued
to be the tourney favorite.
DANCE
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ARMORY
Music by
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Dancing 9 Till I
Regular Admission
Pelicans Meet Eugene
In Salem Hoop Tourney;
Astoria Favored Again
- ... -M iii A ' ' i '-
Sports Ni
Briefs fc V-J
NEW YORK, Morch It (l)
With a Brooklyn outfield squud
composed of 41-ycnr-old Johnny
Cooncy, Puul Wancr, who'll bo
40 before the season starts,
Lloyd Wanor, 39, Dixie Wnlkor,
32, and Joe Mcdwick, 31, Bom
Branch Rickey might bo accused
of trying to work an old Dodger
on the fans . . . It's a littlo dif
ferent with the Indians, who
farmed Tod Sczopkowskl out to
Baltimore so he could finish his
high school courso before being
inducted into the army
Johnny Cooncy's son busted
hand recently, knocking fel
low out. Ho'U novcr bo a Dod
ger if he's that brittle . . , What
price victory? It cost tho NYU
track team two bucks to fill the
IC 4-A trophy with beer so they
could toast last Saturday's tri
umph. IT BURNED HIM UP
When George von Elm, former
national amateur golf champion,
shot a wild one into a trap at Los
Angeles' Lakeside courso recent
ly, he found Ills ball hud rolled
into a paper bag . . . George isn't
used to being in traps, or bags ci
ther, but the situation didn't
stump him ... He merely light
ed a match, burned tho bag and
then played his shot . . . Wonder
if tho match could be counted
as his 15th club?
POSTMAN'S PARAGRAPH
Nealo Patrick, former Rulclgh,
N. C, sports scrlbo turned sailor,
osks how como George Scncsky
of St. Joseph (Philadelphia) got
credit for a basketball scoring
record by beating Stutz Modzcl
ewskl's season mark of 509
points when North Carolina's
George Glamack hlt 578 in 1041.
; . . . This dept. will stond by
Brooms Abramovlc and his 700
odd points for Salem (W. Va.) un
til someone tolls Just how to
draw the line between "big
time" and "small time" basket
ball. TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Paul Mcnton, Baltimore Eve
ning Sun: "The stale senote com
mittee of Arkansas didn't pass a
law making the University of
Arkansas hire a $12,500 football
coach; it simply recommended It.
And there's more to tho recom
mendation. The new coach's Job
Is to produce a skilled, colorful
and victorious team. That's a
tough enough job in the South
west conference in peace time
without tackling it now."
HOME SWEET HOME
Emll von Elllug, who has de
veloped two great mile runners
at New York university In the
past few years, can thank their
parents for the chance. Leslie
MacMltchcll chose NYU because
his mother didn't want him to go
out of town to college and Fronk
Dixon went there because his
dad had the samo idea.
SERVICE DEPT.
Two former All-America line
men from Michigan, Butch
Slauhler and Ralph Helkklncn,
have turned from football coach
ing to teaching aerial navigation
at the University of Virginia
navy flight preparatory school.
Head Coach Frank Murray and
Basketball Tutor Gus Tebcll are
teaching the same subject, which
has nothing to do with forward
passing . . . Holt Rnst,. ex-Aln-bama
end, is MoJ. Gen. Jimmy
Doolittlc's liaison officer In
northern Africa.
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Klamath in First Round
With Axemen at 3 p.m.
Fishermen Get First Test With
Salem This Evening; All Teams Tense
SALKM, March 11 l) The Princelings of the Oregon high
school basketball realm start tholr insurrection today to drive
Astoria from tho throne, but tho odds are that the shnrpshootliK
Fishermen still will bt wearing the crown when the Jousting is
over Saturday night. x
Astoria, the training ground of the hard-running, tlrolcsJ
drlvo thc-liciirt-oiit-of-'cin type of basketball, has produced the pie
tournament favorite for the 24th
annual championships. Th un
defeated fishermen are not a
veteran team this time but they
have with them the tradition of
winning tho tltlo tho last two
years and they have done noth
ing this season to indicate they
won't do it again,
Two of Astoria's biggest
threats tp power como together
this afternoon to open the tour
ney Klamath Falls, the pride
of southern Oregon, and Eugene,
tho ruler of the tough Wlllam
clto valley hoop country. They
meet at 3 o clock.
Pendleton, the best of many
good eastern and central Oregon
teams, goes agalait a sometimes
hot-sometimes cold Oregon City
five at 4:15.
The Fishermen got tholr first
test at 7:30. Their opponents are
tho Salem Vikings who got Into
tho tournament this year not be
cause they scourged tho courts
but because they are the host
team. But that's no reason for
selling them short. Salem has
had a poor season, but the Vik
ing tradition Is to rise to supreme
heights for the tournament. That
they have done beforo and come
out with an unexpected chanr
plonship. That Is their hope this
year.
The final first-round game of
tho streamlined tourney, which
cut the A division from 10 to
eight teams this year because of
war conditions, pits Baker, the
top team in tho northoastern
corner of the state, against St
Helens, the district 3 titllst, at
8:45.
In the B division, moved back
here for tho first time in two
years, Harrisburg tangles with
Union at 3 p. m., and Warrenton
and Powers battlo at 4:15.
If It's a "frozen"
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EONS Lose
Badly 61-24
In Tourney
Eastern Washington Still
In Battle for Top Honors
In East Hoop Tournament
KANSAS CITY, Mo,; March
11 (A1) Eastern Washington col
lege of Cheney and Popperdlna
college of Los Angeles today up
held wsturn hope in the annual
national Intercollegiate basket
ball tuurnament, now In th
quarter finals.
Eastorn Washington today will
meet Cape Girardeau (Mo.)
Teachers and Pepperdlne, which
has hud two narrow squeezes in
its games so far, will engage
Murray (Ky.) State.
Eastorn Oregon college was
defeated yesterday by Maryvill
Teachers, 61-24 In game which
saw tho westerners playing far
below the form they demon
strated in winning th tourney
opener Tuesday.
Eastorn Washington continued
to pluy fast and smart bull In
defeating St. Cloud, Mum.,
Teachers 84 to 41.
Paced by little Irwin Lelfer
of St. John, Wash., with 13
points, Eustern Washington ran
up a halftlmo leud of 2(1-19 and
never was threatened,
Pepperdlne was extended ta
the limit to defeat Luther coU
lege of Decorah, Iowa, 43 to 3)
in an overtime contest.
Other quarter final context!
will find Humline (St. Paul,
Minn.), the defending champions,'
playing North Texas and Mary
vllle battling Appalachian Stat
(Boone, N. C).
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LOGAN, Utah. March 11 (T)
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ries at Provo, found hotels all
filled.
They slept on cots set up In
a church.
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