Jeff Today
At i$r ts
Filty poundi heavier than
when he knocked out Bob Fiti
simmons lo win world cham
pionship. June 9. 1899. James
J. Jeffries meets 68th birthday
with a big smile and good cigar.
Boilermaker Jim keeps busy on
Burbank, Calif., farm, where he
stages amateur fights in barn.
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Attendance
Skyrockets
Pacific Baseball Throngs
Laid to Pennant Prospects,
Good Weather, More Pay
By FRANK KUEST :
LOS ANGELES, May 5 VP)
More spending money on the
west coast than since the days
of '49. good weather and pros-
pects of a wide-open pennant
race are booming attendance in
the Pacific Coast league parks.
More than 88,000 attended the
first week of baseball on the
Pacific coast, says President W,
C. Tuttle, despite the fact that
dimout regulations killed night
baseball which used to operate
five times a week, Saturday's
and Sundays excepted, and pro
vide the bulk of the revenue.
That first week of prosperity
topped last season s by more
than 25,000. And last week's
paid admissions nudged the 80,-
000 mark, topped by an b-K-u
crowd of 11,200 at Hollywood,
11,000 at Oakland, 8000 at San
Diego and 5000 at Sacramento.
San Francisco's ball park has
held the largest crowd, 15,422.
Portland and Seattle will ap
pear at their home' parks for the
first time today and there is no
reason to suspect slack attend
ance in those two war-boomed
towns.
Girls' PE Classes
To Hold Play-Day
Thursday afternoon at 2:30
p. m., the girl's physical educa-
tion classes of the city grade
schools will hold a softball play.
day at Roosevelt school. One
hundred and eighty. girls will
participate and they will be
divided into groups A and B
with each teain. representing a
different color. This play day
tournament will be under the di
rection of Mrs. Luela Sanders of
Roosevelt and Mrs. Frieda Kem-
nitzer of Riverside. Assisting
them will be other physical edu
cation teachers in other grade
schools throughout the city.
Willamette Tops
Northwest Baseball
Championship Race
SALEM, Ore., May 5 (IP)
Willamette university today is at
the top of the heap in the race
for the northwest conference
baseball title, chalking up "two"
in the win column yesterday by
playing only one game.
Pacific university arrived late
for a scheduled doubleheadcr
and forfeited the first game.
Willamette pounded out a 13-1
decision in the second. Wil
lamette Is defending league
champion
Harvard Gridders
Play High School
In Spring Battle
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., May 8
(VP) Because there is no col
legiate opposition available
and not because of last fall's
record of two victories in nine
lames Harvard's football squad
will close seven weeks of spring
practice Friday by playing Med
ford high school. The Preps, un
defeated eastern Massachusetts
lltlcholders last fall, have been
drilling tile past two months.'-
Sports '"j
Briefs F
Hugh
Fullarton, JrA Ji jF
, t.y mM ttmrmM
NEW YORK, May 5 (VP) The
new major league baseball,
which will be distributed to the
clubs in a few days, is about as
lively as the one the Southern
association uses . . . And the
Southern league always has in
sisted on plenty of pep in the
pills so there'd be plenty of guys
with big batting averages to sen
at the end of each season
Lou Coleman of Spalding's says
that the production line will be
rolling by today so that there's
no danger of a shortage the rest
of the season. '
CONFESSION
When Ex-Heavyweight Champ
Chalky Wright, who always
thought training was getting
aboard a train, turned up at the
gym yesterday for the first time
m seven weeks, Mike Belloise
greeted him: "What are you do
ing here, Chalky? Are you
sick?" . ,"No," admitted Chalky
gravely, "I'm just hungry."
CONSOLING THOUGHT
When Burnt Cork struggled
home last in the Kentucky der
by, his owner, Rochester (who
probably was the only person
there watching the nag) remark- j
ed: "He's sure tired, ain't he."
, And a friend offered this bit
of consolation: "Don't you wor
ry, Rochester. They s been more
money lost here today on Burnt
Cork than was won on Count
Fleet."
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SHORTS AND SHELLS
A couple of baseball's prize
off-season jobs are held by
Braves' rookies. Connie Creedon
is a detective and Ben Geraghty
is superintendent of a cemetery,
. . They both-want it under
stood that they don't work at
those jobs during the summer.
The New York boxing commis
sion won t name a favored con
tender for-Willie Pep's feather
weight title until May 20. '
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Alex Shults, Seattle (Wash.)
Times:" "Gosh, perhaps the um
pires have some friends, after
all . . . After insuring its players
against accidents or injuries, the
Shipyards Baseball league is in
vestigating the prospects of tak
ing out policies on its arbiters,
too."
SERVICE DEPT.
Broadway Charley Wagner.
who owned as many as 42 suits
when he played for the Red Sox,
gets along with three suits of
blues and one of dungarees at
the Norfolk naval training sta
tion . . . Coast Guardsman Henry
Bingham, rated as the best mid
dleweight prospect to appear in
Baltimore in a long tune, learned
boxing in Lieut. Jack Dempsey's
classes at Manhattan Beach .
Add confusion: Colonel Mills
(better known as Buster when
he was a big league outfielder)
now is a lieutenant. But don't
call him Lieut. Colonel Mills.
Oregon Leads All
In War Production
Training Classes
PORTLAND, May 5 P Ore
gon leads the nation in the war
production training . Droeram
with slightly more than 10 per
cent oi tne state's population en
rolled in classes.
fao reported Director O. T.
Paulson to the Oregon advisory
wuuiuiiee nere. tie said total
enrollment is 113.000. Washing
ton is second among states with
8 per cent of the population .en
rolled.
x n e committee announced
new training programs in min
ing, transportation and lnmhr.
ing, including courses for fallers
and buckers. Job instni ptnr
classes nave been expanded and
now include Roseburg, Medford,
Klamath Falls, Grants Pass, Pen-
meion ana Tne Dalles.
KUHS Trackmen
Ready for State
Meet This Weekend
Two track men, 'Jim Bocchl
and Dick Vaillancour will rep
resent KUHS at the state high
school track meet at Eugene this
naay, may v. uoach Deller,
Frank Ramsey, Joe Peak and
"Baldy" Foster will make the
trip and are leaving Thursday
night. Preliminaries are to be
held Friday morning at 11 a. m.,
with the regular meet starting
promptly at 2 p. m. the same
day. ; , .
The high school bnxlnff nnrl
wrestling team has finished a
highly successful year under the
instructing of Coach Front
Ramsey.
The last track meet of th
current year will be held Friday,
May 14, at Bend, under tho 11.
lights at the high school field.
LINFIELD BEATEN '
McMINNVILLE. Ore.. Mov n
(IP) The University of Portland
converted four hits Into three
runs yesterday to defeat Linfietd
college's baseball team 3. to 1.
Linfield got five hits.
Lyons
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Ted Lyons, (left, foreground)
his hand with a bayonet in a drill with Capt. Dick Hyland (right), former Stanford university
football star at Navy pier In Chicago. Enlisted personnel gets some pointers from the two officers.
Lyons went on active duty at the pier with the marine detachment here after being assigned to
Chicago from Quantico, Va. '
Mad Russian
As Season Goes on Without Him
By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The most interested non-par
ticipating observer of the goings-
on in the major leagues these
days must be Louis Novikoff,
fuming on the front porch of his
hacienda at South Gate, Cali
fornia. The Mad Russian is a holdout
and he's mad. More precisely:
He is angry, not crazy--at least
not to the extent of overlooking
the Chicago Cubs scraping bot
tom in the standings of the Na
tional league today.
The Cubs introduced last
year's ball to Chicago for the
first time yesterday and 3908
fans, the biggest crowd of the
day, saw a game in which there
were 25 hits for a total of 36
bases and 14 runs. But fortun
ately from the Chicago stand
point, 15 of the hits, including a
home run by Whitey Kurowski.-l
were made by the St. Louis
Cardinals, who won 11-3.
The Mad Russian probably
rushed madly to answer the tele
phone every time it rang last
night -expecting the operator to
say long- distance Chicago call
ing."
The call seems bound to come
soon. Novikoff was one of eight
hitters who averaged .300 or bet
ter in the National league last
year. He was reported to have
been paid $5500 and to have
been offered a boost of $500 this
season. He asked for $10,000
and so far General Manager Jim
Gallagher has refused to com
promise, insisting that the Cubs
could get along without the col
orful clouter.
The vacancy filled by the Cubs
Balls May Be
From Baiting
NEW YORK, May 5 UP)
Comparison of the batting aver
ages of the National and Ameri
can leagues may or may not re
flect the difference between the
1942 official baseball now being
used in the former and the new
balata ball with which clubs in
the latter loop are playing.
But it remains that the hitters
in the National league, who in
previous seasons usually have
trailed the marks set by the slug
gers in the junior circuit, -now
have better marks than those in
the American league.
The leading hitter In the ma
jor leagues at the moment is lit
Fairview Drops Pelican to
Win B Ball Championship
The class B grade school
championship was decided last
night when Fairview defeated
Pelican 15 to 5. The first inning
spelled disaster for Pelican as
Fairview scored 7 runs. Out
side of this spasm a close game
was played by both sides. Lead
ing hitters for Fairview were
Smith, Ossiandcr, T. Thornton
and Scott, with each getting two
safeties. Pelican's leading hitter
was Simons, who drove out a
home run in the fifth, for Fair-
view, i
The lineups:
Pelican AB R, H.
Russell 4 11
Hotchkin 4 0 0
Clark 4 0 0
Hawkins 3 1 1
Coats 3 0 0
Nunez ...... . 3 1 1
Rose 3 1 1
Muskopf 3 0 0
Bacon 3 0 0
Simons 2 1,1
'-,;:;.'.-:; 32 4 '"' 5
Tries Pitching With
former White Sox pitcher now
Gets Madder,
and the Giants In the National
league basement was left by the
Philadelphia Phillies, who vault
ed pretentiously into sixth place
by beating the Brooklyn Dodgers
3-1 in a twilight game.
Jack Kraus, the rookie south
paw whom the Dodgers sent to
the Phillies a few weeks ago.
pitched five-hit ball for his sec
ond -success against Brooklyn
In rebuttal Rube Melton, the
former Philly ace, pitched a no
hitter for six stanzas, but Earl
Naylor spoiled it with a home
run, his second of the season, to
open the seventh.
The Giants were shipped 5-3
by the Boston Braves as Jim
Tobin pitched six-hit ball and
batted in three runs with a pair
of singles. Rookie Charley Work
man helped out with a two-run
homer.
Pittsburgh was outhit by Cin
cinnati 13-9, but nevertheless
beat the Reds 8-3 as Rookie
Xavler Rescigno worked his way
out of continual jams. Vince
Di Maggio contributed a home
run with one on.
In the American league the
New York Yankees kept half a
step ahead of Cleveland by beat
ing the Boston Red Sox 4-3.
Spud Chandler allowed only six
hits and one earned run for his
second win.
: The Indians squeezed out a
2-1 decision over the White Sox
in a tight game for Jim Bagby's
third triumph. He allowed just
five hits and no scoring after the
first frame.
Virgil Trucks of Detroit also
achieved his third victory with
out a defeat as the.Tigers stopped
Compared
Averages
tle Lonnie Frey of the Cincinnati
Reds with an average of .467.
His lifetime mark in 10 years in
the National league before this
season is .272.
Danny Litwhller of the Phil
lies, with .409, anoClyde Kluttz
of the Boston Braves are also in
the .400 class among players who
have been at bat 20 or more
times. Kluttz' average is
even .400.
Top man In the American Is
Vernon Stephens of the St. Louis
Browns with .448 and the only
other hitter in the .400 bracket
Is Pinky Higglns of Detroit, with
.414.
Fairview , AB R. H.
Bowers 2 1 1
Schoentheler 4 2 1
Smith 5 2 2
Joplin 4 2 2
Ossiander 5 2 2
Whitney 5 2 1
T. Thornton, 3 2-2
J. Thornton ................ 4 2 1
W. Scott 3 0 2
Ring- 10 0
Meyers 0 0 0
34 15 13
Box score:
Fairview 7 0 3 1 4 0 015
Pelican 0 2 10 1105
Tonight on the high school
field, Roosevelt will play Fair
view for the championship of
class A division, t
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a lieutenant In the marines, tries
Madder.
the St. Louis Browns 4-3, but he
had to have hitless rescue work
for 1 23 innings by Dizzy Trout
to weather a belated offensive
by the Browns.
The Philadelphia Athletics
matched the Phils and also
climbed to sixth place, the Mack
men defeating the Washington
Senators, 3 to 1, behind the
three-hit pitching of their Mex
ican rookie, Jesse Flores. Flores
now has worked 32 23 innings
and allowed only 11 blows and
three runs.
OSC Track
Team Meets
Washington
CORVALLIS, May 5 (P)
Oregon State college's 1943
track team, victor over Oregon
6 to 2 in the annual relays two
weeks ago, will meet the Wash
ington cindermon here Saturday
in the first regulation dual meet
for OSC.
Best race is expected to be the
880-yard canter which will pit
Gene Swanzey, husky captain
and defending coast champion
against OSC's Bill Shinn and
Stu Norene. Shinn is a junior
lctterman who was outstanding
as a sophomore last spring. Nor
ene is a sophomore from last
years rook squad. -
Chief threat of the Beavers Is
Capt. Don Findlay, Coast confer
ence broadjump champ. Last
year he won both the broad and
high jump in the Washington
meet. He also may run the 100-
yard dash.
By The Associated Press
PACIFIC COAST
W L Pet.
Los Angeles 11 3 .786
San Diego 11 9 .688
Portland 8 7 .533
San Francisco .... 8 7 .533
Oakland 7 9 .438
Seattle 5 9 .357
Hollywood 5 10 .333
Sacramento 5 10 .333
Yesterday's Results
Oakland 5, Sacramento 2.
Hollywood 10, San Diego 9.
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W'
L
3
4
3
5
6
6
8
,8
Pet.
Brooklyn '. . 9
.750
.636
.625
.583
.500
.333
.273
.273
St. Louis 7
Boston .. 5
Pittsburgh 7
Cincinnati 6
Philadelphia 3
Chicago 3
New York 3
Yesterday's Results
Philadelphia 3, Brooklyn 1
St. Louis 11, Chicago 3.
Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 3.
Boston 5, New York 3.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
W L Pet.
Now York 8 3 .727
Cleveland 7 3 .700
Detroit 6 4 .600
Washington 7 6 .538
St. Louis 4 5 .444
Philadelphia 5 8 .385
Boston 4 7 .364
Chicago 2 7 .222
Yesterday's Results
New York 4, Boston 3.
Cleveland 2, Chicago 1.
Philadelphia 3, Washington 1.
Detroit 4, St. Louis 3.
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Teams Open
Home Stand
Portland, Soattlo Ploy
Today; Ducks Rido Third
Place; Chances Good
By The Associated Press
' Portland and Seattle will open
their first homo stands toduy in
the young Pacific Const leuguo
season, and for northern funs
tho piutui'o seems considerably
askew.
Portland, not ovcrflush with
baseball prosperity In season's
past, Is riding serenely along In
third place with a great chimco
to Improve tholr position, before
tho homo town fans, against thu
league lending Angols.
Howover tho ftalnlors, for
many seasons right in the discus
sion when tho championship was
being argued, are clear down In
sixth plnco and a not too secure
sixth place at that.
Manager Bill Skiff of Soattlo
will send Joe Dcmornn to tho
mound today against tho San
Francisco Seals and the rod-hot
Rainier fans aro praying tho
newcomer can start tho club on
tho long trail back up.
Demoran lost three straight
games In tho south by one run
margins, while turning In the
team's best earned run perform
ance. Ills defeats were a plain
case- of tho Rulntors not being
uble to get those base hits when
they meant runs. Ray Hurrell
will start for tho Seals and spe
cial guests in the stands will be
tho governor general of Can
ada, the Earl of Athlone, and his
wife, Princess Alice.
At Portland, Jack Wilson who
pitched for tho Boston Red Sox
last year, will be on the mound
In on attempt to keep the Beav
ers baseball fortunes riding
high. Against him tho Angels
will pit Paul Gehrman.
In games yesterday Hollywood
defeated San Diego 10 to 9 to
give the idle Angels a full game
lead. A triple by pinch hitter
Babe Herman in tho last of the
ninth gave the Stars their vic
tory. . . ,'
Sacramento, in the only other
game, sank into a tie for cellar
honors with Hollywood by drop
ping a 5-2 decision to Oakland.
GRANT EKES WIN
PORTLAND, May S (IP)
Franklin high school's long
string of victories ended yester
day as Grant high eked out a 3-2
baseball win to take over the lead
of the Portland Intcrscholostlc
league. Franklin's consecutive
wins included 7 In football, 16
in basketball and 20 In baseball.
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every time
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NORTHERN DIVISION
W.
Oregon : 7
Oregon Stnto ...10
Washington 4
Wash, Stnto 2
Idaho 0
The University of Oregon
opens It.i I'lilou.to Hills northern
division baseball campaign to
day 0Kaln.it Washington State
and tho Webfoots havo some
thing to shoot at in tho record
of the Oregon Stnto Beavers who
yesterday left for Seattle with
four straight victories ovor
WSC and Idaho.
Oregon lakes on tho Cougnrs
today and tomorrow and meets
Idaho Friday and Saturday. Ore
gon State closes out its northern
trip against Washington tomor
row, and Oregon can afford no
slips on Its northern excursion
In withstanding tho challenge of
the rampaging Delivers, who yes
terday downed Idaho, 5 to 4,
Every Oregon Stater got at
least one hit, but tho runs were
sprend over four Innings. Tho
only extra bnso blows were
doubles by Roclnndt of Oregon
Stnto and Pyno of Idaho. Frnzer
limited Idaho to six lilts and was
ahead all the way, striking out
the final Idaho bntler In the
ninth with tho tying run on second.
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Cubs, 6-0. Cub catcher will be
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