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Br
Hugh
FulWrton, Jr.,
NEW YORK, March 26 (IP)
The hotel where the Yankees
are staying during the spring
training at Asbury Park, N. J.,
Is constructed largely of materl
al salvaged from the New York
world's fair . . . The club is be
. Ing constructed mainly ot mate
rial salvaged from the Cleveland
Indians . . . Needless to say,
neither is a finished product
yet . . . And, incidentally, an
other deal to buy the Yankees
is supposed to be cooking with
an entirely new bunch of names
listed as prospective purchasers
. . . Only hint we can give is
that it might be appropriate, if
these guys do get the Yanks, for
them to swap with Tom Yaw
key, who lives in New York but
owns a Boston club.
ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
Instead of just the. winning
club, all eight teams competing
in the national collegiate A. A.
basketball tourney this year will
get prize watches . . . The dif
ference probably la that the
winners' clocks will tick . . .
The western conference, which
forbids its football officials to
hobnob with the pros, has -offered
Referee Roland Gibbs a
full schedule of basketball
games in addition to grid as
sienment When Henry Arm
strong visits the Garden tonight
it will be his first view of Cleo
Shans in action since he man
aged Cleo a couple of years ago
... As manager, Henry never
booked any fights that would
bring in the $12,000 or so Shans
will collect for his tussle with
Greco the Wrecko.
TODAY'S GUEST STAR .
Don Donaghey, Philadelphia
Evening Bulletin: "For many
springs Wilmington fans have
stood on their railroad station
platform and envied the Pull
man porters on the streamliners
as they whizzed into the deep
south laden with big league ball
clubs ... Now that they have
the A's in their laps, they're due
to discover that speed 'and dis
tance lend enchantment to a
tail-ender in March."
SERVICE' DEPT.
Bow Tie Jimmy Bronson, who
used to manage Gene.Tunney,
has just heard from his two sol
dier sons, learning that one is
in Australia and the other in
Ireland.
' Ensign Willie Turnesa, nation
al amateur golf champion in
1938, is in the new officer in
doctrination class at the North
Carolina pre-flight school, but
didn't take time off to go over
to Pinehurst for the north and
south tournament.
HOME AGAIN
When the army sent Tech.
Sgt Wilbur Young, one of Fort
Worth's better bowlers, to the
Pacific coast 10 months ago,
Young found the game wasn't
the same without his old bowl
ing pals . . . After a couple of
games, the sarge just quit try
ing and turned his attention to
soldiering . . . Recently Young,
home on furlough,' dropped in
at the alleys and decided to
bowl a couple of games for old
time's sake , . . The first turned
up a fair score, then on the sec
ond game Young tossed an even
dozen strikes for the first per
fect game in his career . . .
Well, maybe practice isn't
everything. , "
License Unnecessary
To Fish for Mullet
Mullets are not game fish,
and there is no need for. fishing
license to angle for them, is the
text of a letter by F. B. Wire,
. state game supervisor; received
recently by John Davis, 1738
Summers lane.
- Mullets in. Klamath county
are caught principally in . the
Williamson river and Upper
Klamath lake.
No Manpower Worries for Cochrane of
Great Lakes Training Baseball Team
By CHARLES DUNKLEY
GREAT -LAKES, 111., March
26 VP) The most envied man
ager in baseball should be Lieut.
Gordon "Mickey"! Cochrane, one
time scrappy pilot of the Detroit
Tigers. ,
While other managers are wor
rying about placing nine reason
ably agile men on the playing
. field and keeping them through
the 1943 season, Cochrane, with
smiles of satisfaction, today sur
veyed a squad of 80 reporting
for positions on the Great Lakes
naval training station team.
Lieut. Cochrane has less than
a month to rebuild his team be
fore the opening game. Loss of
ex big leaguers John Rigney,
Don Padgett, Benny McCoy,
Johnny Lucadello, Frankie Pyt
lak, along with others on the
1942 roster forces Cochrane to
make complete overhaul. These
veterans of last season have left
Great Lakes, except Rigney and
Lucadello who are awaiting
Duel of Stars Expected
In West Cage Playoffs
Wyoming Plays Oklahoma, Huskies to
Meet Texas in First Round Tonight
KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 28 (P) The team championship
is the major item, but basketball addicts In this hot-bed of the
cage sport are looking forward to the duel of individual stars in
the NCAA western regional playoff openers tonight.
Wyoming plays Oklahoma and the University of Washington
meets Texas in the first round tonight, with the winners tangling
tomorrow for the right to tackle
Little Giant
Of Fairways
Now in Army
Man of Golfdom's Golden
Trail Once Made $100,000
Now Makes $50 Per Month
Br HAROLD V. RATLIFF
DALLAS. March 26 (P) The
little giant of the fairways la
conic Ben Hogan, who followed
golfdom's colden trail for earn
ings of almost $100,000 in six
years is in the army at a salary
of $50 a month.
But Ben commented with
grin that 50 bucks a month was
a lot more than he had been
making since his last tournament
the Rochester, N. Y., open last
August.
"I played a lot of golf but it
was for war relief and I ended
up losing money, Hogan said
He was auick to add, however,
that "I was glad to do it if I
could help my country."
The 30-year-old Hogan was in
ducted into the army yesterday.
Ben went to Tulsa, Okla., sev
eral months ago to take air pilot
training and with 125 hours in
the air had only a month and a
half more of work before quali
fying as an instructor when his
draft board ordered him to re
port for army Induction.
Ben wasn't sure if he would
play any more golf for the dura
tion. "Uncle Sam tells me what
to do now," said the man who
for three years won the Vardon
trophy high accolade of golf
and was the nation's top money
earner two years in a row, cli
maxing his career last year by
taking the Hale America at uni
cagov Pitchers Are
Connie's Big
Bali Problem
Bv JUDSON BAILEY
WILMINGTON, Del., March
26 (.IP) White-haired Connie
Mack, gazing benignly at his
Philadelphia Athletics in train
ing here, says the biggest prou
lem he has this year is pitching.
The total hurling staff listed
on the club's roster is seven men,
so even if they were all good
men and true, this shortage of
throwers would menace the
team's chances.
"We only have three pitchers
left from last year," 80-year-old
Connie explained. "Phil Mar
childon, who won 17 games for
us, is in the Canadian army and
Fowler and Besse are also gone.
The three pitchers from last
years squad are Roger Wolff,
Russ Christopher and Luman
Harris, who jointly accounted
for 27 victories in 1942. How
ever, Wolff is a childless mar
ried man who may be called
for the draft at any time, so that
the A's future looks even more
desperate. Except for Jesse
Flores, a 14-game winner at Los
Angeles, the rest of the A's staff
is made up of recruits from class
B leagues.
PORTLAND FIGHTS
PORTLAND, March 26 (IP)
Bowie Butle?, Portland, and Dal
las Bennett, La Grande, heavy
weights, will meet tonight in the
10-round main event of a nation
al boxing club card.
transfer to another base and did
not report for baseball.
Reporting today were 21 pitch
ers, Including Vern Olsen and
Johnny Scimtz of the Chicago
Cubs; Tom Ferrick of the Cleve
land Indians; Bob Harris of the
Philadelphia A's and Frank Bis
can of the St. Louis Browns.
Among the nine catching can
didates are George Dickey of the
Chicago White Sox and Marv
Felderman, Chicago Cubs.
Infield candidates include
First Baseman Vern Freiburger
and Third Baseman Carl Fiorc,
Cleveland farmhands: Second
Baseman Johnny Lipon, Detroit
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Georgetown, the eastern chain-
pion, for the national champion
ship in New York.
The western clubs are oddson
choices to win tonight, but in
the matter of individual bril
liance the honors may go to an
Oklahoman or Texan.
Brightest of the Oklahoma
stars is Gerald Tucker, 6-foot
4-inch center, a lad who does
workmanlike job sans show
manship. The big sooner wreck
ed all scoring records in the
Big Six, averaging 17.5 points
per game and setting a one-
game mark of 38 points.
The boy with the most clip
pings, though, is Kenny Sailors,
the Wyoming forward who
played a major role as the Cow
boys rolled to 27 victories in 29
starts. Sailors is a Rocky moun
tain all-star and was named on
the national AAU all-star quia
tet at Denver last week. .
One of his rivals for individu
al honors will be a teammate,
6-foot 7-inch Milo Komenich
from Gary, Ind.
The skyscraper center is Wy
oming s leading scorer ano ne
may pass the 500-point mark
during tournament play. His
total for 29 games is 483, com
pared to Sailors' 449.
Washington boasts no stand
out according to coast reports,
every man is a potential 20
point getter. The Huskies' five
starters finished among tne ii
hieh scores of the northern di
vision. However. Capt. Walt
Leask is not with the team, hav
ing received a call to the armed
forces.
Seattle Ball
Player Sold
To Portland
LEWISTON, Idaho, March 26
iff) Spencer Harris, big out
fielder for the Seattle Rainiers
of the Pacific Coast league, has
been sold outright to the Port
land Beavers, Business Manager
Bill Mulligan announced last
night.
Seattle was "heavy on out
fielders," Mulligan said in telling
of the deal.
With a warm sun and clear
skies aiding and abetting, the
Rainiers took their second light
workout of the spring training
season yesterday. An exhibition
game April 2 with a team from
Geiger field, Spokane, will be
one of the high points of the
training period.
New arrivals in camp yester
day were Bill Lawrence, veteran
outfielder, and John Marshall,
swelling the roster to 14. The
full camp complement will be
25.
Little Greg Rice
Goes After 64th
Straight Victory
CLEVELAND, March 26 (IP)
Little Greg Rice, the former
Notre Dame track star, will be
after his 64th straight victory
tonight when he competes in the
Columbian two-mile, the feature
event of the third annual Knights
of Columbus carnival at the
arena.
The holder of four world in
door records, Rice has won the
last nine national championships
in which he has competed.
Among those who will attempt
to snap Rice's winning streak
are Glenn Masten of Colgate,
the new Indoor Intercollegiate
champion, Dave Williams of
Georgetown and Ernie Leonardl
of Michigan.
Tigers, and Shortstop Eddie Pel
lagrin! of the Louisville Col
onels. Among outfield prospects are
"Paul Zubok of Toledo; George
Lerchen, Detroit farmhand, and
Earl Bolyard and Joe Grace,
members of the Great Lakes 1942
squad. -
Hailed as champions of the
armed forces last season, Great
Lakes will again play virtually
every major league club in con
tests before the thousands of
bluejackets at Great Lakes, sev
eral American association clubs,
and leading service, industrial
and Independent teams. .
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Sox, toiiei hand grenades at Quantlco. (U. S. Marine Corps Official Photo from NEA)
Hunters Ask
Ammunition
Be Released
Negotiations Under Way to
Get Sufficient- Materials
For Powder for Coming Year
CHICAGO, March 26 (IP)
Seth Gordon, executive director
of the Pennsylvania game com
mission, declared today that ne
gotiations are under way seeking
to release sufficient materials to
make available a reasonable sup
ply of hunting ammunition for
next fall.
Gordon, however, said that the
nation's sportsmen would not
want "a single shotgun shell or
rifle cartridge produced for ci
vilian use if it will delay the
end of the war one day."
In an address prepared for de
livery to the 21st annual conven
tion of the Izaak Walton league
of America, Gordon said that
"authorities tell us that there is
no shortage of powder or shot. . .
Those of us who have been close
to this problem really believe
the federal authorities will see
the wisdom of permitting the
production of civilian ammuni
tion." Wild game taken by the coun
try's sportsmen last year, Gor
don said, was more than one
quarter billion pounds, including
60,000,000 pounds of venison; 9,
000,000 pounds of elk meat, and
68,700,000 pounds of wild ducks
and geese taken last fall
enough to provide 700,000 sol
diers with one pound daily for
one year.
Weekend
Fishing
Prospects
PORTLAND, March 26 (IP)
The Rogue and Willamette rivers
will offer good salmon fishing
this weekend, the state game
commission indicated today.
Here are the county reports in
its weekly bulletin.
Clackamas Willamette yield
ing salmon from Portland to Ore
gon City.
Coos Catches of Steelhead
and large trout reported from
Coquille river but most other
streams offer poor fishing. Ten
Mile lake yielding large trout.
Bass fishing only fair.
Curry Salmon weighing over
30 pounds taken from Rogue. No
reports from other streams.
Lincoln Few Steelhead taken
from Salmon river and Cut
throat trout caught occasionally
in other streams.
Clatsop and Columbia Poor
fishing. -
'rom where I sit...
&t Joe Marsh
Sam Abernethy always said:
"Curiosity may kill a cat -but
I'm no cat," Which is Sam's way
of saying that when he's curious
about something he goes out
and gets the facts.
Seems our government feels
the same way. After hearing ru
mors about our soldiers drink
ing too much-government peo
ple went after the facts. They
got the evidence on what our
boys drink . , . and don't drink.
The government found ont
our Army's the best behaved in
No. 54 of a Series
Every Pitch a Fireball
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Klamath High Tracksters
Prepare for Short Season
By VIRGIL GROSS
Klamath high Track Coach
Paul Dcllcr and a largo squad of
cindcrmcn n.o preparing for one
of the shortest track schedules
on record. Daily workouts on Mo
doc field are slowly rounding
the boys into shape for their
opening meet in April. Eleven
lettcrmen and approximately for
ty lower classmen comprise the
1943 Pelican track team.
The loss of several outstand
ing men from last year will be
badly felt, and replacements for
them will be hard to find. Among
those missing this year are Phil
Blohm, Bob Masters, Al Stew
ard, Ernest and Glen Kennedy
to mention a few.
This year's squad will wol
come the return of senior Jim
Bocchi, a versatile high-jump
and weight man. Bocchi cap
tured first place In the high
jump last year at the Oregon
State meet, and will undoubtedly
be out to better his 6 foot state
mark. Other weight men besides
Bocchi Include Verne Yank, Pat
Patzke and Dick Hunter.
Dick Vaillancour and "Baldy"
Foster are showing the way in
the sprints with Al Davis, Steve
Kessler, and Dave Moccobcc
coming up fast.
Up and coming milcrs Voglcr,
Cada and Cascbicr are expected
to provide stiff competition for
opposing distance men.
Relay material is plentiful re
ports Coach Dcllcr and he ex
presses high hopes for a great
relay team this year. Those on
the relay team who have shown
much promise to date are Dale
Constans, Elwyn Silva, Dave
Hcnthorn, Dave Persing and Rex
Young.
Although Coach Dcllcr loses
many outstanding tracksters
from last year's squad he is opti
mistic, and predicts a fair track
team with hopes of a successful
1943 season.
The soassn opens with a dual
practice meet March 31, and
ends with the state meet May 7.
Track Schedule
March 31, April 1, 2, Dual In
ter-class Meet at Klamath Falls.
Oregon, Washington
Fish Commissions
Set Columbia Season
PORTLAND, Ore., March 26
OP) Opening of the commercial
fishing season on Royal Chinook
salmon In the Columbia river
has been set for 6 a. m., April 30,
by the Oregon and Washington
fish commissions.
The season will remain open
until noon, May 20, close until
noon, June 10, and then reopen
until noon, August 26.
The board also established a
weekend closure of 30 hours,
from noon Saturdays until 6 p.
m. Sundays.
If you want to sell it phone
The Herald and News "want
ads," 2124
history. More'n half of 'cm drink
beer-nothing stronger. And the
government fonnd that selling
3.2 beer In Army camps In one
reason why our Army is so tem
perate. From where I sit, there Isn't
much cause to worry about our
men In the Army. Looks like
they can take care o' themselves
-and take care o' the Nazis and
the Japs, too.
Copyright, 1943, Brewing Industry Foundation
Now
April 9, Rogue River Relays
(open date).
April 16, Medford Quadran
gular Meet.
April 23, Invitational Meet at
Klamath F.-lls.
May 1, District No. 3 Meet at
Medford.
May 6, 7, Oregon State Meet
at Eugene, Oregon.
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Baseball Flowers Bloom in
Spring, Fade in Fall
EVANSVILLE. Ind., March 28
(I1) Sieve O'Nuil hus been hi
baseball long enough to know all
about morning glories Hint bloom
in April and fndo in July, but
hn doesn't think Dlvk Wakefield
and Jno Hoover aro that variety
Wakefield and lluover aro
rookies slated to be in the De
troit Tiger lineup for the Amor-
lean lengun season oponnr next
month at Cleveland, and O Nclll
is utterly confident that they
won't be riding tho bench some
six weeks later.
Y o u remember Wakefield.
Ho's tho collcgn boy the Tigers
lured off the University of Mich
igan campus for n $32,000 bonus
two years ago, In his first full
season in organized ball, Wake
field captured tho Texas league
batting titlo at .34,1 mid likewise
was voted the circuit's most
valuable player.
After half a dozen looks at
him, O'Neill declared that Hoov
er, purchased from Hollywood
of the Pacific Coast lengun, prob
ably could field with anyone In
tho league. Dig Steve dldnt
OSC GAME SET UP
C0RVALI.IS, Ore., March 26
(V) The Oregon Stalc-Wlllam-ctto
basketball game, originally
scheduled for Saturday, will be
played at 4 p. in, tills afternoon,
it was announced by Athletic Di
rector Percy Locey.
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mention any iiiiine.-i, hut he ob
viously wasn't excluding slick
fielding Lou Houdreau of Clevo
land, whoso apprenticeship cunia
under O'Neill.
Pacific Pro
Golfers Get
Tourney Bid ij
TACOMA, March 20 (IP)
John II. Anderson, president of
tho Tacoma Golf association, said
today the IV.eiflc northwest sec
tion of Hut professional golfer
of America had been Invited to
hold Its annual northwest pro
amateur tournament In conjunc
tion with the Tacoinn open on
May in.
Anderson pointed out that tho
PGA group has not yet reached
a decision on whether to hold the
pro-amateur in KM.') and that
staging Hie affair simultaneously
with tho tournament hero might
remove possible objections to the
continued existence of tho north
west event,
Tho Tacoinn open, A ono-day
affair consisting of 30 holes ot
medal play, has been held an
nually since 103-1, and Is tho louo
major tournament In the north
west which has been definitely
scheduled this yeur.
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