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Briefs fe Y
Hugh TIT
fulUrton, Jr. ,
NEW YORK, April 5 )
Probably you've heard about the
mythical four-minute mile, but
how about the two-minute 220
yard swim. . . . That's one the
swimming coaches argue about,
and what brings it up now is that
Joe Wheatley, a coach whose op
timism is shown by the fact that
he once tried to make a swim
mer out of this columnist, argues
that Ohio State's Billy Smith is
the boy who'll do it. . . . "He has
the stroke to do 2:02 or 2:03,"
says Joe, "and i he keeps on in
competition a few years, I
wouldn't be surprised to see him
do 220 in two minutes."
NO, MO NOSTALGIA
The other day Manager Al
Weill offered Lou Ambers, for
mer lightweight champion, a
free ticket to Friday's Beau Jack
Henry Armstrong fight, and
Coast Guardsman Lou turned it
down flat. . . . "I'd like to seel
Armstrong fight," Ambers ex
plained, "but if he won I'd get
that comeback feeling and you
wouldn't let me try it." . . .
When Lou retired, you remem
ber Weill signed him to a ten-
year contract just to make sure
there wouldn't be any comeback
efforts.
CUSTOMERS TOO
When, and if, Gunder Haegg
gets here next summer Asa Bush
nell has no intention of trying to
match him against Greg Rice in
a revival of the Princeton invita
tion track meet.
Hearing a rumor that he might
try it, Bushnell wisecracked,
"When you have one, you have
to invite a few customers, too."
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Les Goates, Salt Lake City
Desert News: "Trainers in the
northern spring baseball camps
are beginning to realize more
than ever that a" pitcher is .no
stronger than his weakest kink."
SERVICE DEPT.
Lieut. Lewis A. Anderson, for
mer Cornell oarsman reported
killed In action last month, is
safe, according to word his par
ents have received from the war
department. . . . Lieut. Jesse Hill.
former Yankees, Senators and
Athletics outfielder, has been ap
pointed baseball coach at the
navy's Del Monte, Calif., Pre-
light school.
QUICK EXIT
Pvt. , Edwin Meyers, army M.
P., was given a four-day leave to
compete in the AAU swimming
championships. ... He started in
the first heat of the 220, opening
event of the meet, and halfway
down the course 'he lost his
trunks and had to quit racing to
dive for them. . . . "Oh, well," he
commented as he climbed out of
the pool, "it's a change from rid
ing trains and checking up on
passes."
TOP NETMAN
PORTLAND, April 5 (IP)
The Oregon State Tennis asso
ciation Saturday announced
Walter Davis of Portland, now
in the army, was the state's
ranking player in 1942. Monte
Myers, top state junior from
Portland was number two, and
Betty Parker of Portland was
number one woman player.
This Is a sad disappointment.
They (the nazis) cleared out.
This happens so often. Lieut.
Everett Booth on leading first
Americans Into recaptured Gaf
sa. Change of
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iCoMINiTOBpSiON
i KJlXi
Private Joe Dl Maggio, making his first diamond appearance
New York Yankee outfielder for Uncle Sam's olive drab, went
Ana army air base nine defeat
Oregon Sport Notes
By FRED HAMPSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
" Henry the Hammer Arm
strong, an old favorite fighting
his way back up, got the short
end of a hairline decision in his
fight with Beau Jack in Madison
Square Garden which probably
will provoke the ' old chestnut
that they "never come back."
Having watched Henry in one
of his comeback fights, we are
more inclined to a less frequent
but equally true fistic adage that
the first tiling to go is the legs.
Henry ran afoul of what many
comebackers encounter a
youngster on a bicycle. A few
years ago he probably would
have caught up with the Beau
in a couple of heats and knocked
him out. He couldn't quite make
it last Friday.
Dempsey was still a magnifi
cent fighter when he lost to Tun
ney magnificent against any
body who would stand and fight
even a very young man. But
he couldn't call up the old speed
from his legs as Tunney elected
to jab and run. The Beau played
the same game against Arm-
Bob Montgomery
Meets Alvarez
In Philadelphia
PHILADELPHIA, April 5 (IP)
Bob Montgomery risks a title
bout with Lightweight Champion
Beau Jack in meeting Roman Al
varez of New York in a 10
round bout here tonight.
Montgomery, Philadelphia ne
gro who is scheduled to face
Beau Jack for the title on May
21 in New York, tuled a 3 to 1
favorite principally because of a
decisive victory over Lulu Cos
tantino in his last outing.
It is the first Philadelphia ap
pearance for Alvarez, who has
beaten Bobby Ruffin, Terry
Young and Ellis Phillips in scor
ing 11 knockouts and 23 deci
sions in 38 starts.
GRID TILT TO WAIT
PULLMAN, April 5 (IP) The
football game scheduled be
tween Washington State Cou
gars and Michigan State col
lege at East Lansing, Mich.,
Nov. 27, has been indefinitely
postponed. Graduate Manager
Earl Foster announced Satur
day. War travel difficulties
the reason.
Always read the classified ads.
Scenery
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Joe Di Maggio Plays Ball for
Fullerton junior college, 6 to 4,
strong and it is a smart game
against a lac', who can still fight
plenty but not at a full gallop.
We have a notion that if more
of Henry's rivals had fought the
same way, the Armstrong come
back would have been less im
pressive and lucrative.
On the subject of fighters,
Mexican Joe Rivers, one of the
top glovemen of the century, vis
ited Salem the other day and
landed in Al Lightner's column
in the Statesman via Claude Tal
mage, a Statesman printer who
is an old-time fight fan.
Rivers, now 54 and long past
his last professional match, still
stalks a good fight. He related to
Talmage a trick he once used in
what Rivers called his toughest
fight against the almost equally
famous Georgie Dixon.
Dixon was winning easily so
Rivers reached into his bag of
tricks. With three rounds left he
had his seconds get him a hunk
of garlic, chewed it up and when
the next round started mixed in
a little breath-blowing with his
swings, blowing toward Dixon's
eyes.
"The results were good," re
called ,Rivers. "Georgie's eyes
began to run and smart. I won
the last three rounds easily and
took the decision."
Talmage says Rivers com
prised half of the famous 1909
double-knockout fight. Ad Wol
gast was the other half.
Both Wolgast and Rivers con
n e c t e d simultaneously on the
chin and both heard of another
twin kayo.
Pro Gridiron
Prexies Plan
Year's Kickoff
CHICAGO, April 5 (P) Ex
ecutives of the National Foot
ball league meet tomorrow to
plan for the professional game's
opening kickoff of 1943.
The three-day annual meet
ing, probably the most impor
tant in the league's 23-year his
tory because of wartime diffi
culties, will decide for certain
how to carry on this year.
Commissioner Elmer Layden
reiterated confidence that ten
teams will take the field and
that the usual 55 game sched
ule will be played.
Seals Win Two
Baseball Tilts
From Servicemen
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5
UP) Veteran Sam Gibson and
young Bob Joyce limited the
U. S. receiving ship to five hits
as the Coast league San Fran
cisco Seals won an exhibition
game yesterday, 7 to 2.
The Seals nipped the St.
Mary's prcflight cadets 6 to 3
on Saturday, bunching four runs
in the eighth.
TENNIS DATES
CORVALLIS, April 9 (IP)
The northern division, coast con
ference, tennis meet will be held
here May 21-22, Percy Loccy,
Oregon State college athletic di
rector, said Saturday. The meet
was transferred from the Uni
versity of Oregon, where it was
first scheduled, after Oregon
dropped tennis.
OREGON WINS TWO
PORTLAND, April 5 (A') The
University of Oregon look botli
ends of a double header, 12-0
and 13-3, against Portland uni
versity in opening its baseball
season here Saturday.
Oregon took advantage of a
dozen Portland errors and added
24 hits to pile up the lopsided
scores.
Hitler's speech and the re
port of spring's arrival came on
the same day. We can believe
one about as c;lly as we can
believe the other.
the. Army
eince he dolled his uniform as
hitleu at he helped the Santa
at Fullerton. Calif.
Rainier s Hit
Own Pitcher
For 12 Runs
LEWISTON. Idaho, April 5 (IP)
Blasting one of their own pitch
ers, Rodney Sooter, for 12 runs
in the first four innings, the Se
attle Rainiers took their second
straight ball game from the Gei
ger Field Bombers yesterday, 20
3, in seven innings.
The two-hour session was
called in the seventh so the sol
dier ball players could catch a
bus to Spokane.
Seattle's De'moran held the
Bombers to five hits for five inn
ings and Molitor finished the
game, setting the visitors down
without a hit. Al Marshall, sol
dier shortstop, cracked a home
run over the right field fence in
the third inning, scoring one
ahead of him. Sooter was loaned
to the Bombers for the contest.
Seattle won the first game 10
0 in a four and a half inning con
test Friday night.
U. S. Golfers
Outline Year's
Duffer Program
NEW YORK, April 5 (P) Mr.
and Mrs. Joe Duffer, who contri
buted $101,301 to the Red Cross
in a trio of holiday golf events
last year, are going to try and in
crease that amount this season.
The United States Golf asso
ciation has outlined a unified
program of tournaments for its
5400 private and public courses,
specifically urging that the Me
morial and Independence day
weekend meets be held for the
benefit of the Red Cross.
Cash raised on the Labor day
weekend should be earmarked
for the national War Funds, the
USGA suggested. The War Funds
is the name chosen by all the
other war charities and includes
among others, USO, British war
relief, China war relief, United
Seaman's service and the
YMCA's war prisoners aid com
mittee. Cougar Tracksfers
Open 1943 Season
With Idaho Victory
PULLMAN, April 5 (P)Thc
Washington State college track
team opened its 1943 season
Saturday with a 52-43 victory
over the University of Idaho.
Curt Bowers, WSC middle
distance star, headed the Cou
gar drive, piling up 11 'A points
in the indoor meet.
KLAMATH SPORT NOTES
A smoker will be held on April
15 at the city armory with many
outstanding ex-professional and
amateur fighters competing from
the ranks of our soldiers sta
tioned at Camp White, Ore. The
price of admission will be the
purchase of a war bond. A great
treat will be in store as many of
these boys were top-flight fight
ers before entering the service.
Since this will be the first fight
the fans of Klamath Falls have
had the chance to, see in a long
time, we should support to the
fullest extent this worthy cause.
1 Sure signs of spring are In evi
dence. City firemen have started
throwing horse-shoes in the lot
directly across from the city fire
station, and the boys arc limber
ing up their arms in brisk daily
Softball sessions. Horseshoe tour
naments will be held later on,
and a potential Softball team
may be in the offing.
"Chuck" Kujack, former local
fighter, is working for the city
fire department.
Bill Hatch, ex-Bend, Oregon
Slate League baseball pitcher, is
employed In Bend as distributor
of Richfield gasoline and a scr
vico station attendant. .
Paul Bernadou, ex-Pelican
Cullenbine in
Indian Camp
After Cruise
Vagabond Outfielder Hat
Changed Uniforms Threa
Timoi During Last Year
INDIANAPOLIS, lnd., April
5 tfl") Those gusty trade winds
have quit blowing, temporarily
at least, in tlio direction of Roy
Cullenbine, who now is riding
anchor in the Cleveland Indian's
outfield after cruising through
10 different clubs in as many
seasons.
"I've changed uniforms as
regularly as I've shaved," laugh
ed the 28-yeur-old vagabond,
"and I've been in muro deuls
Hum a pawnshop broker. Just
as soon bland still for a while."
Cullenbine was with three
clubs last year. lie played 38
games with the St. Louis
Browns and butted. 193; then
he went to Washington, where
he clipped .280 in 64. The New
York Yankees pounced on him
next in a move to strengthen
their outfield for the coming
world series. He swatted .304
in 21 contests for the m and
starred in the scries as a re
placement for Tom Henrich.
Last winter he went to Cleve
land with Catcher Buddy Rosar
in exchange for Oscar Grimes
und Roy Weatherly.
Ohio Swimmers
Top All Schools
In Tank Honors
NEW YORK. April 5 UP)
Ohio State's swimmers hud the
distinction today of having won
more swimming honors in a sin
gle year than any other college
tank outfit.
The Buckeyes so dominated
the National AAU indoor chnm
pionships they had added that
title to their national collegiate,
Big Ten and AAU outdoor pen
nants even before Saturday's fi
nals were half completed.
Adolph Kiefcr suffered his
first backstroke defeat in eight
years. His defeat by Harry Holi
day of Michigan in the 150-yard
Dorsal event was his first since
the 1935 indoor championships.
Since that time he had won 22
national titles and had nursed
the streak through an estimated
250 races on four continents.
Alameda Airbose'
Beats Oakland Oaks
With One Homerun
OAKLAND, Calif., April 5
Jack Tobin's homer in the elev
enth gave the Alameda naval
airbase a 1-0 win over the Coast
league Oakland Oaks yesterday.
Joe Hattcn allowed only six
hits in going the route for the
navy, and Jack Lotz gave up
11 all the way for Oakland.
Only one error was charged.
The Oaks beat Mather field
of Sacramento 7 to 6 in 12 in
nings Saturday as Outfielder
Gonzales drove in Manager
Johnny Vcrgcz, who played
third base.
HENDY NIPPED
SAN JOSE, Calif April 5 (IP)
Portland's Coast league Base
ball club nipped the Hcndy
Iron Works team, 11-7, at near
by Sunnyvale yesterday, rally
ing four runs, in the seventh in
ning. Each team collected 13
hits.
WALLA WALLA, April 5 (IP)
The Whitman Missionaries and
the Washington State Cougars
split their second double header
in. a row 'here Saturday. State
won the opener, 4-1, and Whit
man countered with a 3-2 victory
in the nightcap.
baseball star, Is In Brooklyn, N.
Y., where he is In the armed
forces.
Mickey Davis, also a Pelican
baseball player and former Pel
ican Bay softball star, Is em
ployed In Portland by Byeroly's
Sporting Goods.
Pacific university Is awarding
seven letters earned during the
past basketball season, Two of
the seven are Klamath Falls
men. They are John Mathls, second-year
award, and Eldrcdgc
Anderson, first-year award. Ma
thls scored 122 points in 15
games, placing second to Ernie
Gcttcl for high scoring honors.
As an added physical fitness
course the physical education
classes at Klamath high school
will be Instructed in swimming
at the natatorium pool. Those
who can't swim will bo taught.
Infra-etas meets and races will
be held between those who can
already swim.
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Beau Jack (right), split the air with a right upporcut thai
mined Honry Armstrong, who drtw back tor a mld-iocllon blow.
This was a bit of action in their 10-round battle at Madison
Square Garden in which Beau Jack won an unpopular but unani
mous decision over the aging Armstrong.
Training Camp Briefs
By The Associated Press
BLOOM INGTON, lnd., April
S UP) Gee Walker, Cincinnati
Red outfielder who didn't sign
his contract until last weekend,
informed Manager Bill McKecM
nlc today that "your worries
about left field are over."
McKcchnle has tried 30 play
ers in the position during the
past four years and recently
expressed concern over Frank
Kelleher's inability to hit curve
ball pitching. Kellcher, a
rookie, was slated fur the Job
this season.
BALTIMORE, Md. Joe Cro
nin told his Boston Red Sox
today that he was pleased ovef
their weekend split with 'the
Brooklyn' Dodgers of the Na
tional league.
Ho was especially pleased
with the work of Mnce Brown,
veteran relief pitcher, who
used a slider for the first time
against the Dodgers. The Sox
came hero from New York for
a three-game series with the
Orioles of the international cir
cuit. WALLINGFORD, Conn. Con
Crccdon, an outfield rookie,
continues to lead the Boston
Braves in hitting practice but
his fielding is unsatisfactory to
Manager Casey Stengel, In yes
terday's camp game he blasted
a terrific home run but lost the
game for his sido with sloppy
fielding.
Stengel says he may retain
the youngster, however, for
pinch hitting purposes.
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo.
Manager Luke Scwcll of the
St. Louis Browns, may don the
catcher's mask again if for no
other reason than to hide his
blushes. Before the Lambert
field fliers arrived for their
doublchcadcr yesterday, Sewcll
offered them the services of
some of his mound talent..
Using their own players, how
ever, the Flies held the Browns
to a total of eight hits for a
split.
CAIRO. III. Walker Cooper,
St. Louis Card catcher, won the
$5 offered by a club follower
for the first homo run hit in
a camp game this season, He
turned the trick yesterday but
his brother, Mort, could have
collected the prize three In
nings earlier if ho had shown
the same speed on the paths
that he displays on the mound,
Mort lashed out a long hit
but jogged only as far as third
base.
FREN1I LICK, lnd. Man
ager Jimmy Dykes is dissatis
fied with the pitching shown
co far this season by his Chi
cago White Sox hopefuls and
intends to give most of his at
tention to the hurlcrs In the
remainder of tho spring drills.
EVANSVILLE, lnd. After
When In Modford
Stay at
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tho weekend series with the
Chicago Cubs, the Detroit Ti
gers settled down today for
their final week of drills here.
Yesterday's gamo was tho 1043
debut of Tommy Bridges and
allowed tho National leaguers
only three hits In four innings.
WILMINGTON, Del. Frankle
Skuff, rookie inflcldcr from Vil
Innovn college, may bo tho sec
ond baseman for tho Philadel
phia Americans for nonio time
to come. He got into yester
day's brush with tho Phillies
because Irving Hull compjulncd
of a soro arm and slapped out
a homer, doublo and single and
handled eight chances without
an error.
FRENCH LICK, lnd. Tho
Chicago Cubs, who defeated the
Detroit Tigers yesterday by a
7 to 5 score on Charllo Gelberl's
fluke three run homer, today
awaited the arrival of tho Cin
cinnati Reds for a gamo on
Tuesday.
Oregon School
Tracksters To
Struggle May 7
PORTLAND, April 5 (Al The
annual Oregon high school truck
meet will be held May 7 at the
University of Oregon.
The Oregon High School Ath
letic association voted hero Sat
urday to limit the meet to one
day because of the housing short
ago in Eugcno.
As a result only first-place
winners In district meets will
qunllfy for tho Eugene meet, cut
ting the number of entrants from
tho usual 208 to 144, Sccrctury
Tom Plgolt said.
District meets are to bo com
pleted by May 1.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 5
(IP) Luther "Slugger" White,
highly-touted Baltlmoro light
weight, climbs through the.
ropes as tho strong favorite to
whip Vcrn Bybcc, U. S, const
guardsman, in a 10-roundcr
hero tonight,
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Arky, Dolph
Join Dodgers
In Training
Loo Happy ai California
Ranchers Tako Train to
Jain Brooklyn Ball Club
By JUDBON BAILEY
BROOKLYN, April 8 (I")
Dolph C a m 1 1 1 1 and Arky
Vaughuii, tho California ranch
erx, a ro st'liediili'd to Join tho
Brooklyn Oodgi'i'S lulu today and
Malinger Leo DnrodnT probably
couldn't bo any happier to seo
them if each brought a siilteaso
filled with Nlrlulii Nteuks. '
After thivo weeks of training
the Dodgers' Infield still Is us
lunch of a ptir..ln as It was the
day tliu club repiirtml. Durochcr
lias known all along, of courso,
that C'anillll and Vmighiin would
bu nvullablti anil would fill two
of tho regular infield rules when
the season opens April 21.
But their uIwikt, even though
nccessury buciuiNo of personal
affairs, lias represented n tre
mendous handicap to any at
tempt to oruanlzu the Brooklyn
inner defense. Tlio lute appear
unco of ViiiikIiiiii, particularly,
has kept threo positions wido '
open.
Arky, who was a shortstop for
ten years at I'lttsburgh, played
third baso for the Dodgers Inst
year. Now ho probably will have
to inovo back to short, filling the
void left by Peowee Recne's en
Ilstmeiit In tho nnvy. This in
volves Second Baseman Hilly
Herman switching to third bu.su
and depends on Alblo Glossop or
Alex Kaiupourls making good at
the keystono position.
Weekend Sports
By Tha Associated Press
NEW YORK Adolph Klefer
defeated In buckstroku for first
tuno In eight years as Ohio
Statu added National AAU swim
championship to Its title list.
SAN MATEO, Cnlif. The
Clrclu S stable's Hysterical won
Muro Island handicap of a mlla
in 1:47 43 to close Hay Mead
ow's three-day charity meeting.
COLUMBUS, Mo. Fordlium
Missouri football series suspend
ed until after war.
EAST LANSING, Mich.
Michigan Slate's 1U-I3 football''
games with Oregon State null
Washington State postponed for
duration. ft,
INDIANAPOLIS Buffalo an
nexed Cnlder cup trophy by de
feating American hockey leugiVu
rivals, Indianapolis Caps, for
third straight time, in finals.
DETROIT Detroit took sec
ond straight decision from Bos
ton, 4 to 3, in Stanley Cup play
offs,
IDAHO VS. WHITMAN
MOSCOW, April 5 (VP) A
stronger University of Idaho
baseball team will meet the
Whitman college missionaries
hero Tuesday and Wednesday,
Coach George Grceno predicted ,
this weekend. T It e Vandals
dropped four straight names to :
Whitman In opening their sea
son, but have been holding In-iTl
tensive drills since.
ilamour Family
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Like mother like dniiRlitor? Actress
Mnricne Dicincn, leit, Is pictured fnr O
the first tlmo with her nttrnctlvo
daughter, Mnrln Mnntnn, nn Marin '
proparo to mnko her film debut la
Hollywood . .,, ;