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(jolting stnrtod on things whin
tlm nrmy took over . . But
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kolbnll toiirnoment hold at Be
lom with Klamath Falls taking
tha crown Ic
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Hurry l)HM-l)iill ti'iiiti lluil in
rliiilid every vittfran from
Kluiiuilli county . . . Including
Uipuly Sheriff Jmk t'runuy.
Hut miow tell on Unit Sundiiy
in if I left Hurry shivering by tho
firi-pliicn Willi Dr. Cimtlcmun
clieerliitf lilm up , , ,
Don't forgot Wayne Scott, tha
Kliimath Union hoop coach. Ha
really broke up that Jinx in
tinlem In a hurry and a good
fob, tool
Hi'ini mbiT tlm II league lour
iiiiiiicnl when Mulln alolo the
title uwiiy (rum Chlluquln, and
Jo LuCliilr, Mulln couch, was
d I a ii p p o I n I e d when Mulln
couldn't pluy 1'owen, Ills homo
town ti'iim, from Iho result of
u liuuiiciiii) by Central l'otnl.
WATCH HIM
A person to wntcli In Klam
nth nl Is la "Hud" Helm who Is
studying wcliilitllfllng under
Jnck Teebler. Helm is in Ilia
hciivywiHghl (livi.siciii and was
going ut lull lilt when his urm
broke. Now ho Is sturtinii ill
over uiiulu unci his lionl Is the
henvywoiglit champion weight
lifter of tlm world.
CLIKF DALTON
Cliff Dallon, that dashing
young champion lea skater, re
ceived a challenge by Harley
Hull Saturday but there "ain't"
no Ice no the both of them will
iuve to wait till next winter or
try it on roller skates.
JUST WALKING .
Wiilkitiii down the street, we
run into three huge athletes,
iji.ui ii i lit Jeuu, tho 223 twins,
.mil lliuir little brother Gor
don McKay who only towers
six-scvcu.
The McKuy brothers pluyed
fouthiill Hi Henley u fuw years
hiiek. Dciiii and J can pluyed
Ilio guuid spot uiul little broth
er Cordon took tho backfield
ul full. Unit year Henley romp
ed over every team in sight and
clmmcd thu mytlucul Ii league
cliumpioii.ship,
Deuu then ventured to Ore
gon uud pluyed a frosh ball
unci Jean Joined tho army. Gor
don Is still in high school and
is enrolled at Henley,
Soe you after tha warl
COLLEGIATE BOXING
PULLMAN. March 22 (IP)
Two Wellington State college
boxers Mike Nelson, 135, and
David Knight, 133, are en route
to Mudl.iuu, Wis,, to take pari
In tho nntionnl collcgiiito box
Iiir rhuiuplonslilps. Tho two,
who nro the first WSC entries
In the nntionnl tournament in
two years, letl here Saturday.
War
"It kcopa ilium on their toes. Three track records this week."
Portland
Girls Take
Swim Titles
Suxanno Zimmerman,
Nancy Mtrkl Gained Two
Mora Swimming Tltlos
PORTLAND GIlVLS 336 8PTS
PORTLAND, March 22 (fl'l
Suzanne Zimmerman and Nancy
Mcrkl of Portland gained two
more national womon's swim
ming titles for the Multnomah
Athletic club last weekend.
Miss Zimmerman, national wo
men's sprint champion, captured
the Junior medley championship,
spluslilng the lU-yurd courso In
1:33.1 minutes to better the rec
ord of 1:38.3 set by Patty Aspln
all of Indianapolis.
Miss Merki, who holds sev
eral middle dlxlanco titles, added
the lUO-ynrd Junior breaststroke
title, swimming the distance In
1:21 minutes, several seconds off
tho record time.
In lieu of a nutlouul meet, the
events wore held horo In con
nection with Iho unmiul Oregon
swimming meet. Miss Zlinmer
mini and Miss Mcrkl also won
two titles each In state contests.
Miss Zimmerman earned hers
In the 100-yurd backstroke, and
100-yard frcestylo for women.
Miss Merki was tops in the 220
yard freestyle and 400-yard freestyle.
Weekend Sports
By Tha Associated Press
CHICAGO Ensign Cornelius
Warmcrd. m shattered all exist
ing pole vaults records by clear
ing IS feet " Inches at Chicago
Indoor relays; Frank Nixon, New
York university freshman, who
reports for active duly with U. S.
army Thursday, finished third to
Gill Dodds In 4:08.3 mile; Herb
Thompson equalled world 40'
yard dash murk of :04.4 and Greg
H I co won 03rd straight race by
taking two-mile,
LOS ANG'iLES Los Angeles
of Pacific coast league purchased
Glen (Alp) Russell, first baseman,
from Chicago Cubs and sold con'
tract of Shortalop Billy Meyers,
former major leaguer, to Boston
Braves.
PHILADELPHIA Syndicate,
headed by Lumberman William
D. Cox of New York, took for
mal possession of Philadelphia
Phillies bujioball club.
NEW OHLEANS Mrs. Payne
Whitney's Noonday Sun won
Fort Livingston handicap by a
head from Ben F. Whitakcr'i
Pops Pick with E. D. Shaffer's
reaping Glo , Third. The winner
traveled six furlongs on Sloppy
Track In 1:13 3-3 and paid $18.80
for S2.
DENVER Phillips Oilers of
Bartlcsvllle, Oklu., won national
AAU basketball title by duthron
lug Denver American Legion, 37-
40.
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. Gene
Rogers of Columbia, and Ed Hall
of Massachusetts State, won dou
bles in eastern intercollegiate
Individual swimming champion
ships. Rogers took 220-yard free
style in 2:13.3 and 440 in 4:53.4
Hall triumphed In 50-yard free
stylo in :23.B and 100-yard in
:S2.8.
NEW YORK National Box
ing association calls for Beau
Jack-Sammy Angott bout to
clear up lightweight muddle
Jack already signed to defend
his New York version of title
against Bob Montgomery on May
21.
PHILADELPHIA Outfield
er Box Johnson traded by Con
nie Mack to Washington for
Shortstop Jimmy Pofahl and
OuUlcldcr-Inficldcr Bobby Esta
lclla.
Effort
SAM'S
S1AUOTCT0USE
HOQSES
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Sports ijZ&sl
Briefs fejr;
fullerton, Jr.j iJh f
NEW YORK, March 22 (IP)
Greg Rice, who has no equal at
picking 'em up and laying 'em
down In track meets, puts a lot
of store by the mentul aspects
of foot racing ... At least, ha
admits that the reason he doesn't
try conclusions with the mllers
Is "mostly menial" he doesn't
know how well he can do at a
mile and therefore wouldn't feel
so sure of himself as he does at
two miles , . . And when he's
shooting for a rocord, as he
llkoly will be In tomorrow's Chi
cago relays, he doesn't "really
try" until he sees how the first
half mile goes . . . The slow first
quarter, he says, ruined last
week's bid for a now two-mile
mark, but he muy set his sights
on an 8:50 record tomorrow . , .
It was on the Chicago track that
Greg set tho current two-mllo
record, Incidentally working In
a 4:16 mile as he did It.
NEW GAME
The most popular game among
the New York Glunls down at
Lakewood, N. J., where they're
supposedly training for the base
ball season. Is table tennis . . .
But since there are only two
paddles at Brannick Arms
they've had to Invent a new kind
of doubles In which each team
uses one paddle, passing it back
and forth between two players
... To make it more confusing,
Manager Mel Ott, a southpaw
hitter, and Cliff Melton, a left
hand pitcher, both play right
handed. 8HORTS AND SHELLS
Elmer Layden, the pro foot
ball boss, has Just received a let
ter from one of his old quarter
backs at Columbia (la.) college,
Capt. Al Entrlnger of tho med
ical corps In New Guinea, ask
ing if there's any truth to that
rumor floating around the South
Pacific that the Rcdskina beat
the Bears ... If National league
baseball games are called for any
reason but the weather Sunday
curfews, catching trains, etc.
this year, they'll be regarded as
"suspended" games and must bo
completed when the teams get
together again.
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
James E. Doyle, Cleveland
Plain Dealer: "None of Cleve
land's Indians has seen action
yet on any war front, but their
infield is half shot, even so."
SERVICE DEPT.
When Jack Jacobs, former
Oklahoma halfback, was washed
out by tho army air corps be
cause of four crippled toes on
one foot, Harold Keith, the
sooned drumbeatcr, suggested
they got that way when Jack
punted a wet football 86 yards
against Santa Clara . . . The
Pasco, Wash., naval air base,
which had a top-drawer baseball
team last year, has been told
there won't be any team at all
this season, leaving a number of
former Pacific Coast leaguers
wondering what they'll do.
HUSKIES PRACTICE
SEATTLE. March 22 (IP)
Their winter quarter examina
tions behind them, members of
the University of Washington
basketball squad will resume
practice today for the western
collegiate tournament at Kansas
City. The squad will leave for
the midwest Sunday.
BUTLER VS. BENNETT
PORTLAND, March 22 (IP)
Dallas Bennett, LaGrande
heavyweight, will box Bowie
Butler, Portland colored ship
yard worker, in the main event
of a boxing card here March 26,
Matchmaker Joe Waterman an
nounced today. The bout will be
a 10-roundcr.
COLLINS OUT
SEATTLE, March 22 (IP) Bob
Collins, first string catcher of the
Seattle Ralniers of the Pacific
Coast league, informed tha club
management that ho would
rather stick to his present job as
a railway fireman at Pittsburgh
than play baseball.
Ho was the only veteran catch
er on the. squad. 4
GAINESVILLE, Fla., March
22 (!') All intercollegiate sports
are being abandoned at the Uni
versity of Florida for the dura
tion of the war. Florida is the
first southeastern cont r a n e
school to take such action.
The entire coaching staff will
be retained to carry out an Intra
mural program of sports, Includ
ing football, baseball, basketball,
track, tennis, golf, boxing and
swimming.
Whan In Medford
Stay at
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Bed Frosi Is Out of the Ground, But
Baseball Clubs Turn to Field Houses
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start spring training outdoors at Lakewood, N. J.
By HARRY GRAYSON
NEA Sports Editor
NEW YORK, March 22 Base
ball training in the north ob
tained a terrific break In the
weather at the outset. The ther
mometer was at 70 degrees, for
example, when the New York
Giants reported at Lakewood,
N. J.
Baseball managers have little
faith in northern weather at this
time of the year, however, and
thoso fortunate enough to have
school field houses at their dis
posal immediately looked in that
direction. Those without field
houses commenced to talk about
the local high school gymna
sium, etc.
When the Brooklyns arrived at
Bear Mountain, they found a log
fire burning brightly on the first
base line. An attendant informed
them that the bed frost was out
of the ground of the fields at the
bottom of the toboggan and ski
hills.
But Leo Durochcr at once in
quired about the distance to the
huge field house of the United
States military academy, as
skiers stood around yapping at
ball players disturbing their sea
son. YANKEES UNNOTICED
No one paid the slightest at
tention to the once proud Yank
ees checking in at Asbury Park,
N. J. Just so many more blokes
on the board walk.
Joe McCarthy doubted that
the American League champions
would be able to work outdoors
because of the wetness caused by
the recent snow, remarked as
how Bill Smith, physical in
structor of the local high school,
had been good enough to offer
his services as a leader of calis
thenics in the gym.
Bill McKcchnie spoke of the
bulge the Cincinnati Reds had in
Indiana's field house, talked
about normal routine. That's
easy when a club has a two-lane
batting cage and a Joint large
enough to permit a complete in
field workout to go on during
batting practice and running ex
ercises. Fungo hitting, which is the
business of someone batting flics
to the outfield, is out for dura
tion. Ball players have suddenly
discovered that they can run
without having to chase a ball.
FILLING THE RANKS
While pilots are concerned
about condition, the main idea at
the moment is to assemble
squads. Daily the ranks are fur
ther depleted by reclassification
and war work.
Some contend the teams will
come out of northern training in
bettor condition than was ever
attained in the south. Others say
the opposite. Some say the pitch
ers will have the edge in the
championship season's early
games, others assert that the bat
ters will have a margin.
All of this is pure speculation,
of course. Nobody can speak
with any degree of authority on
the subject, because it still has to
undergo the trial.
Even after the season starts,
there will be speculation and
more argument, because there
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By The Associated Press
BEAR MOUNTAIN, N. Y.
Curt David, who suffered a brok
en left thumb in an early prac
tice, caught throws with his bare
hands in yesterday's workout
and participated in a regular
pitching warm-up with his
Brooklyn Dodger mates.
.
FRENCH LICK, Ind. Book
ies are taking bets on which of
the two diamonds, one to be used
by the Chicago Cubs and the
other by the Chicago White Sox,
becomes playable first. Right
now both are under water.
The White Sox have been here
since the middle of last week
while the Cubs hold their initial
workout today.
ASBURY PARK, N. J. Ken
Sears, young catcher, may be
having trouble with his diet and
poundage but there is nothing
wrong with the way he handles
a bat. He was the only New York
Yankee able to drive the ball in
to the center field lake in yes
terday's hitting drill.
LAFAYETTE, Ind. With Roy
Cullenbine in camp. Outfielder
Jeff Heath now is the only ab
sent Indian. Pitcher Allie Rey
nolds, former Oklahoma A & M
athlete, is a strong candidate to
represent tho club in Saturday's
special ball player's race at the
Purdue relays.
WALLINGFORD, Conrt. Ar
rival of Eddie Joosl's trunks was
seen by Manager' Casey Stengel
of the Boston Braves as a sure in
dication the former Cincinnati
Vandals Turn Our
For Baseball Drill
With Two Pitchers
MOSCOW, Idaho. March 22
(IP) The University, of Idaho
held its first baseball practice
of the season in the field house
Saturday with two veteran
pitchers reporting the first day.
Besides the two Vic Berllus
and Jack Newell Coach George
Green said he expected Charles
Plastino, an outfielder and
pitcher, Tom Woods and Rich
Gardner, a freshman, all would
be available for Idaho mound
duties.
SAN F R A N C I S C O Bay
Meadows denied request for ad
ditional 25 days of racing by
state commission.
will be some pitchers who will
get off well, and some batters
who will open by knocking the
cover off the ball.
You have to go all the way
back to Ed Barrow's days with
the Toronto Muple Leafs to get
any kind of a slant on training in
the north, and times and men
have changed since Uncle Egbert
parked himself on the bench.
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clean - up mon as New York Giants
One-Arm Player
With his purchase by Toron
to, Pole Gray, first one-armed
player to crash organised base
ball, also becomes first to make
AA circuit. A product of tha
Pennsylvania coal country. Out
fielder Gray led the Canadian
American League In batting
last season with an average of
red lnfielder expected to reach
an agreement with his new club
soon on salary terms.
CAIRO, 111. Pitcher Howard
Krist and Catcher Ken O'Dea,
two of the four unsigned St. Lou
is Cardinals, arrived today and
indicated they would reach an
early agreement with owner
Sam Breadon.
O'Dea said he and his children
had been ill and that his arrival
was delayed on that account.
WAGNOR DIES
NEW ROCHELLE, N. Y
March 1 (IP) Charles (Heinie)
Wagner, former Boston Red Sox
shortstop and manager of the
club in 1930, died Saturday at
his home.
Wagner, 81, started his major
league career with the New York
Giants in 1902.
PORTLAND, Ore., March 22
W) Suzanne Zimmerman of
Portland, National Women's
Spring champion, bettered the
Women's National Junior Med
ley swim record today by splash
ing the 150-yard course in 1:53.1
minutes.
The old record for the medley.
comprised of 50 yards each of
free style, breaststroke and back
stroke, was 1:58.3, held by Patty
Aspinall of Indianapolis.
Always read the classified ads.
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March 22, 1943
Dairy Squad
Takes NW
Hoop Champ
SEATTLE, March 22 (IP) For
the fifth straight year the Al
pine Dairy team of Seattle holds
the independent basketball cham
pionship of the northwest.
The veteran dairy squad claim
ed its flfth-in-a-row Saturday
night by defeating Fircrcst Dairy
of Bellingham, 29-25, in the final
game of the northwest Inde
pendent basketball tournament.
The Alpines led by a single
point, 12-11, at the half and
then dropped behind 25-20, the
largest margin of the game, when
the visitors spurted in the sec
ond half. A rally In the last
six minutes gave the Alpines
nine points and the victory.
In the final consolation game,
Lohrer's Sport Shop of Seattle
won third place, defeating the
Royal Canadian Army, 32-18,
and avenging a defeat by the
Canadians in the opening game
of the tourney.
Lohrer's led 17-13 at the half.
Oregon
Sport Notes
By FRED HAMPSON
Associated Frass Staff Writer
The sportswriters around Ore
gon also most of the prep
coaches and basketball player:
still wonder" when the Oregon
high school activities association
will put a stop to the practice of
picking the all-state team before
the tournament final at Salem,
Somebody always gets left out
in the cold.
This year it was that super
heated Pelican, Jim Bocchi. Aft
er being snubbed by the all-state
pickers at a luncheon the after
noon before the final, James
went out and doggone near won
the state championship single-
handed.
He scored 20 points against a
Baker team and led the Klamath
Falls charge that gave the Peli
cans the title in a walk. It's to be
pointed out that Baker was a
tough ball club and many an op
ponent this year had difficulty
aggregating ?.0 points against the
Bulldogs with five or more
players.
". . . The plan will never be
successful as long as the all-staters
are selected before the cham
pionship games. ... It is in these
contests that the true competi
tive spirit of individuals shows
best, or worst when the chips
are down. It isn't fair to be
youngsters by a long shot. Most
of the current beef is the absence
of Jim Bocchi of Klamath Falls
from the all-state team, but there
have been many others before
the Pelican star.
"The point-makers aren't al
ways the stars, and observers
said that Bocchi and Jim Cox did
considerable feeding for the new
state titlists in all games."
Strife thinks the OHSAA
should pattern itself after the
Lane county B tournament in all
state selections. The Lane people
wait until the deciding game is
played, then pick eight players
as all-stars.
"The OHSAA might follow the
same plan," continues the Eu
gene sports editor, "making an
nouncement for a Sunday or
Monday news release which
would appear with a round-up
story of tournament results. . . .
We suggest eight players because
there is liable to be less chance
for a miscarriage than in naming
five men.
"Another plan that Is worthy
of consideration is the elimina
tion of the selections by position
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Oilers Take
AAU Crown
From Denver,
Legion Team Dropped by
Strong Phillips 66 in
Final AAU Hoop Round
DENVER, March 22 (IP) Skill
in backboard defense that cornea
with years of gruelling play in
stiff independent competition
still is the factor that makes a
national AAU basketball cham
pion. The Phillips 68 Oilers of Bar
tlcsvllle, Okla., with a line-up of
AAU-cxperienced men, proved
this theory in defeating the Den
ver American Legion, with a
line-up of mostly college-experienced
players, 37-40 for the 1943
title Saturday night.
Bob (Ace) Gruenig, the Legion
player-coach and the only AAU
veteran on the Denver team, was
wise to the Phillips defense and
scored 21 points. One of the college-trained
Legions scored nine
points, two others made four
each, and another made two,
which-was not penetrating very
often through the Oilers' bar
riers. The battle for third place be
tween two college teams, Wyom
ing and Denver, was won by Wy
oming 58-45. Wyoming, a high
scoring five which has lost only
two games in 29 played this sea
son, will get another test of
strength when It runs Into pow
erwful college teams in the re
gional NCAA meet at Kansas
City Friday and Saturday.
Two Wyoming men, Forward
Kenny Sailors and Center Milo
Komenich, tied for high point
honors of the AAU tournament
at 84 in five games.
Gail Bishop of the Fort Lewis,
Wash., reception center team set
a new tournament high in indi
vidual scoring in one game at
50-23 field goals and four free
throws. Clarence Ellis of Denver
Legion hung up a new distance
record for AAU tournament
shooting in Denver with a field
goal from 59 feet out.
Two Cinder Meets
Scheduled for
Vandals, Cougars V
PULLMAN, March 22 (IP)
Washington State college and
University of Idaho will stage
a pair of pre-schedule tune-up
track meets here April 3 and
10 Coach Orin E. Holllngbery
announced Saturday.
The first meet, indoors, will
cover all events, while the sea
ond outside, will be a 13-event
relay contest.
Hollingbery said four mora
track veterans, Capt. Pat Haley,
Larry Brown, Scott Witt and
Bill Zimmerman, had turned
out.
(now that positions, other than
center, have virtually no mean
ing in modern basketball). In
other words the players receiv
ing the most votes would be
named on the all-state team.
"A couple years ago Charley
de Autremont of University high
of Eugene received more votes
than several other first-team
members, but was shunted to tha
second team because he was a
guard and two guards received
more votes for those positions."
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