Heading Off
Len Merullo. Chicago Cub shortstop (left), arrives at second
base just in time to stab a line throw from Heins Becker. Cub
lirst baseman, who was trying to get Ken O'Dea (16), Cardinal
catcher, on a force play. O'Dea was going to second on a ground
er to Becker by Card Outfielder Harry Walker in the seventh
inning of -a game at Chicago. The throw was too late to get
O'Dea. The Cubs won. 5 to 1.
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Briefs ft - j
Hugh fjf
Fullerton, Jt. I
NEW YORK, May 12 m
One of the choicer bits of sports
nonsense is the "war" going on
in the Pacific Coast conference
over next fall's football program
. . . Graduate managers of the
four southern schools decided
they'd piay a double round-robin
schedule and let the six north
ern teams shift for themselves.
The northern schools didn't like
being shoved out of the big
dough sector and they let every
body know it . . . What makes it
especially silly is that there's
nothing official about the plan
and there can't be until the ten
faculty representatives meet
June 14, and there's no telling
what they'll decide.
, LONG RANGE VIEW
From this distance, even 500
miles looks like a heck of a dis
tance to travel for a football
game, no matter how much mile
age they save . . . Being safe
from brickbats, we respectfully
suggest they all look into some
real backyard schedules, even if
XJSC has to play the San Diego
Bombers and California the St
Mary's pre-flight school every
Saturday. . '
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WHICH WAY?
Prexy Ray Dumont of the na
tional semi-pro baseball con
gress, who gets complimentary
passes from sandlot teams all
over the country, doesn't think
he'll make use of the one that
was sent him from Madison, la.,
the other day ... It came from
Warden Percy A. Lainson of the
Iowa state penitentiary, and it
didn't say whether it was to get
in for games or to get out.
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Art M c G i n l e y, Hartford
(Conn.) Times: "A man could
have done all right with the fur
coat concession for April in our
baseball parks."
SERVICE DEPT.
Lieut. Col. Larry MacPhail re
cently substituted for Under
Secretary of War Patterson on a
visit to Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to
review the WAACs. Larry had
better training for the job . . .
Big League Lingo
Fif0 Sunt'
"Bean Ball"
Putt Master
Convinced of
Army Value
MIAMI BEACH, Fla., May 12
OP) Horton Smith, master of the
putt and the winner of more
than 100,000 in tournament
prizes, is convinced that his
army training will add 10 years
to his golfing career.
The lanky "Joplin Ghost" now
is in the air forces officer can
didate school at Miami Beach.
He will be graduated May 28
with the rank of second lieu
tenant.
At 35, Smith has reached the
age when most competitive golf
ers begin to look around for a
good club connection where
there's a living to be made by
giving lessons and selling equip
ment. But Soldier Smith has
other ideas.
"For the past year or so I felt
myself weakening," he said. "I
always planned to go down to
one oi me atruetic clubs for a
bit of exercise. But I . never
seemed to get around to it. Golf
ing, tournaments, lecturing and
other business took up all my
time.
"When I enlisted in the army
last November at Jefferson bar
racks. Mo.. I felt that-1 would
never be able to play a sub-par
game again. I was under the
impression that army life would
ruin my game for keeps.
- "They sure proved me wrong.
The training I have received, es
pecially here at the beach, has
revived me. It will help me re
tain my stamina and competi
tive power for another 10 years.
It will also help my timing and
coordination."
TENNIS SWEEP
PORTLAND. Ma 12 im
Lincoln high school's tennis
team won all its matches in a
meet yesterday with Roosevelt
high, taking the meet 3-0.
The all-officer baseball team of
the army school for special serv
ice at Washington and Lee U.,
played two ball tamps last week
and won them both. Lieut. Dave
Zinkoff. former Philadelphia
sports announcer, modestly
claims credit he was nnnlre . . .
Another reason for the shortage
of snorts news: The Peoria. Ill .
Journal-Transcript is the second
paper we ve heard of that has
contributed nine members of its
sports staff to the armed forces.
-TIAr6 AN EPPOP, 800-
Oregonians
In Baseball
Dead Heat
Webfeet Moke It Two In
Row Over Huskies to Tie
Beaver for League Lead
By The Associated Press
Oregon and Oregon State will
open the final series in their
northern division Pacific Coast
conference baseball schedules in
a dead heat for the title. -,
Oregon yesterday made it two
in a row over the Washington
Huskies, wining 13-4. for a sec
ond at this point or 11 games
won and 3 lost, identical with
Oregon State s. The two will
fight it out for the title in games
May 15 and 17.
Washington is in third - place
and can slip lower should the
final Husky series against Idaho
and Washington State prove dis
astrous. Idaho, of course, has
prior rights to the cellar, with
no victories so far.
The Oregon nine yesterday
capitalized on six Washington
errors in converting 10 hits into
13 runs. Washington got off to
a 3-2 lead in the first three in-nings,-
but Oregon took control
with three in the fourth.
With little to choose between
the teams in the hitting depart
ment, it was the Washington in
field which came open at the
seams, that brought on the
Husky downfall.
Oregon Tennis
Men Tune Up
For Title Go
CORVALLIS, May 12 (TO To
tune up for the northern divis
ion championships here May 21
and 22, Oregon State's tennis
team will meet an unofficial
team from the University of Ore
gon here Saturday. Tennis has
been suspended for the duration
at Oregon but the players or-gani-.i
an informal team.
The Beaver netmen absorbed a
6 to 1 licking from the defend
ing champion Washington club
at Corvallis last Saturday morn
ing. Lone Orange win was hung
up by Hal Bagby and Bob
Downie, number two doubles
team, who beat Hugh Oswald
and Walt Olson of the Huskies
in three sets..
DICKSON OUT
EUGENE, May 12 (VP) Ray
Dickson, only two-event winner
for Oregon in the dual meet with
Washington State last week will
not be with the Webfoots Satur
day for the annual meet with
OSC. The broad-jumper and
hurdler has entrained for the
east coast to report to the mar
ine corps.
The war has mnrfa most
Americans realize that obstacles I
are merely something to make i
them get busy.
By VIRGIL GROSS
A baseball meeting was held
last night at the city hall and
an enthusiastic crowd attended.
The fate of City league baseball
has been' decided and Klamath
Falls will have one team this
summer with the same name as
last year Pelicans.
Practice sessions are to start
this Sunday, May 16. High
school boys are urged to turn
out as well as old-timers. There
are still a few players left from
last year's squad and a., large
turnout is expected.
A potential game has been
scheduled with a Camp White
service outfit for Sunday, May
23. Games' will also be sched
uled with Medford town team,
Bend service teams and town
team, Camp Newell and possi
bly the Japi at Tulelake.
Old Time Baseball Player W.
K. (Lefty) Harmon of Klamath
Falls, wrote a very Interesting
letter to Gregory of the Oregon
ian telling of five old-timers,
Bill Devereaux, Happy Hogan,
Phil Nadeau, Charlie Schaeffer,
and his old side-kick Ed (Dea
con) Van Buren. Lefty depicted
in this letter the coaching an
tics of Hogan and Devereaux
and how they used to tickle the
fans. Also in his letter he spoke
of Charlie Schaeffer and said,
"I played in the old Virginia
league when Charlie Schaeffer
coached the Richmond club. He
was a delightful moaner. I have
seen him stretch himself on the
bench, clawing at his hair, when
one of the players pulled a
boner and groan, 'I get 'cm
from the north, the south, the
east and the west and nothing
but solid bonel' He would run
and hide, holding his arms, as
if buzzards waved over the
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Danny Murtaugh of Phillie slides home safely palms down to
complete double steal with Ron Norlhey as Brooklyn Dodgers win.
4-2, at Shibe park. Mickey Owen's dance makes it obvious that
Alby Glosaop's throw is high. Babe Pinelll is umpire.
Giants Patch Up Hubbeli's
Left Arm, Play Him Again
By HAROLD CLAASEN
NEW YORK, May 12 (&)
Despite the war, the New York
Giants have found enough wire
to bind together the creaking
lett arm Carl Owen Hubbell
and -''Old Square Pants" will
open his sixteenth major league
campaign today.
Hubbell, whose 40th birthday
is June 22, will be trying for
his 250th victory a goal both
Ted Lyons of the Chicago White
Sox and Charles Ruffing of the
New York Yankees reached last
summer. Both are now in the
armed forces and if Hubbell
makes the grade today he will
be the only active major league
twirler with that record.
The southpaw has been kept
on the bench until warm weath
er in recent years, but the Giants
of today are doing so poorly
that Manager Mel Ott, in deepest
desperation, is starting the meal
ticket against the Chicago Cubs.
In addition, Ernie Lombardi
will go behind the bat for the
first full game since being ac
quired by the Giants from the
Boston Braves.
Despite his late starts In re
cent years the Meeker, Okla.,
resident has won 11 games in
each of the past four seasons.
- And, . although his arm has
CLOSE BATTLE
PORTLAND, May 12 (P)
Columbia Prep and Beavcrton
high school track performers ran
neck-and-ncck in every event
yesterday to a final score of:
Columbia Prep 56 23 Beaverton
56 13.
park." It really got a rise from
the fans. Harmon wondered if
the game is more serious now
than in years gone by.
Coach Ramsey has also
coached baseball. Ramsey han
dled the kids in the Junior
American Legion team at Cor
vallis several years ago, and a
fine squad he had, too.
They say that Hank Akin, ex
local and old time baseball
player, really smacked that ap
ple. "Red" Sanders recalls a
time when they were playing
together for the local team.
Hank was worried about left
handed pitchers, (he was a left
handed hitter) and in a series
in the valley he met nothing
but southpaws. Hank only hit
.390 in that series and was wait
ing patiently for right-handed
pitchers so he could start hit
ting. Speaking of moaners In base
ball, Wade Williams of Lincoln
high in Portland, and Buck
Bailey, formerly of WSC, are
tops. Wade during a champion
ship high school game broke at
least a half dozen new bats
pounding them diligently on the
dugout floor, and held up games
from 10 to 15 minutes with his
moaning and crabbing at the
umpires. Bailey, In a game at
Whitman college broke a toe
as a result of kicking a water
bucket in an exciting moment.
He also knocked himself cold
as a cucumber In a game played
at Pullman, when he got excit
ed over a boner and cracked
his cranium on the roof of the
low-hanging dugout. Neverthe
less, they are two of the most
outstanding coaches In the
northwest. They both got results
with their tactics.
When in Medford
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Down
lost some of the cunning It had
back in 1934 when Hubbell
whiffed five American lengucrs
in a row during the all-star game
last year after Cliff Melton was
lost to. the club because of an
army injury. .
Melton, who again is being
troubled with a soro elbow, re
joined the club after a brief so
journ with the doctors and told
Ott the Joint was sound, but the
manager decided not to delay
Hubbeli's 1943 unveiling.
CLASSIC LEAGUE
Individual bowling Wednes
day evening saw Eli Ross roll
high 3-game series with 560. Bill
Kienas came next with 557 and
Walt Schendcl rolled 548.
High single game went to P.
Floetko with 225, Eli Ross sec
ond with 222 and Walt Schendcl
with 215.
Team sprlne unnf in mil t-...i
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Associated with 2770 and high
single game to Hardy's Man's
Store with 961.
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Fowling
Angels Rout
Seattle, Top
List by Six
Lot Angolci Team Garners
Twelfth Win in Row After
Bashing Seattlo 13 to 0
By The Aiioclnted Preii
Tha Los AiiRcles Angels,
heading straight for the struto
splHTo. stretched their lend in
tlio Pacific Const leiiguo to six
full guines today after routing
Scuttle 13 to 0 in n series opener.
Hot mid hard to handle, the
Angola run up their twelfth coiv
secutive win by smashing tho at-
forings of throe Setittlo pitchers
for 1U binglcs whllo Jim Lyon
held the Rniiilers to throe hits,
Onklnnd cliimbered Into third
place with a 9 to 4 win over Sim
Diego while Portland wrote
finis to a seven game losing
streak by shutting out tho Sun
Francisco Seals 1 to 0.
ritchlng honors for tho duy
wont to the lanky Angel pitch
er, Jim Lynn. It was his sixth
straight win of tho season. In
top form, Lynn didn't walk n
man although ho doled out thrco
scattered hits.
Tho hard luck pitcher whs Bob
Joyce of the Souls who allowed
Portland only four hits only to
have two of them bunched in tho
eighth. Wilson's sacrifice bunt
advanced inflclder Bill Krueger
to third and shortstop Johnny
O'Neill's line drive brought him
In for the winning Portlnnd run.
The Hollywood Stars thrust
Sacramento deeper into the cel
lar with an 8 to 3 victory in the
opening game of their series.
Three Sacramento pltchors, Bud
Bycrly, Herm Plllctto and Clem
Dreisewerd, were tumble to stem
a Hollywood hitting spree.
BUNCHED HITS PAY
CORVALLIS, Ore., May 12 (IT)
Bunching their 11 hits to good
effect, the Camp Adair Timber
Wolves defeated Oregon State's
baseball team 8 to 4 hero yester
day. The collcgiansiulso rapped
out 11 hits but could not convert
them into needed runs. Arm
strong of the Timber Wolves
drovo in four runs with a triple
and a home run. Second Base
man Don Bower led tho Beavers'
hitting with a double and two
singles.
WINS NW TITLE
SALEM, Ore., May 12 (P)
Willamette university took title
to the western division of the
Northwest Conference Baseball
league "yesterday by dcfentlng
Linfield college In a doublehcnd
cr, 3-1 and 8-0. Willamette now
will play the winner of tho
eastern half of the league for tho
conference title.
...You can spot it
every time
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I'AlilC WIGHT
East-Vest Play Starts
In Major League Loop
National League Eyes Cardinals,
Dodgers as Pennant Possibilities
By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
Tha major league souson Is three weeks old, but there Ii en
evident widespread feeling Mint the games played thus far have
proved very llttlo about tho ultlmnte slrongtli of the various
tennis.
Two tennis In each loop the Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louli
Cardinals in the National, and the New York Yankee- and Clove
lnnd Indians in the American have established themselves as
peniinnt possibilities, nut thry were ruled ns such before the
season started and nothing they have clone In their enrly gamri
bus been pnrticulnrly dlntln-1
gUltitlillg,
Kor this renrion tho start of
cast-west piny today In tho two
circuits wns looked forwnrd to
cugerly.
New York's roud trip will bo
opened ngnlnst the weukllng
White Sox nt Chlcngo, which
should help the Yanks becnuao
tho Indiuns will bo on tho de
fense at Cleveland against a
strong, fourth-place Washington
club. They piny a night game
tonight.
Another question to be an
swered Is whether the Boston
Red Sox nre really ns pitiable
us their present plnco in the
American league cellar indi
cates. Boston opens nt St. Louis to
day and the Philadelphia Ath
letics will be at Detroit. '
In the National league Brook
lyn and St. Louis will bo up
against about equal opposition
for the start of the Intersection
al struggle, tho Dodgers piny
ing the Pittsburgh Pirates in a
twilight gunie mid the Cardinals
invading Boston.
To data the Dodgers have ap
peared slow, light hitting and
uncertain In their pitching. It
has not been as good a bnll club
as it looked in spring training.
Although leading tho lcaguo by
two games, the club Is not ns
fur in front ns its admirers hnd
predicted when the Dodgers set
out to feast on tho Phillies,
Braves and Giants.
The Cardinals, lacking their
full strength nt tho start, have
had tho expected bitter battles
with their western rivals, Chi
cago and Cincinnati. Now, for
tho first tlmo they will bo moot
ing the kind of opposition pre
viously fneed by Brooklyn.
Tho Cincinnati Reds, still an
unknown quantity, open their
soft drink that way
Coca-Cola has. A
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things In their Uvea, our fighting forces ovoracai are
to often delighted to find In fiir-off places nn old familiar
friend... Coca.CoIn...bcln bottled In Allied Natlonj
all over the globe, Just as it It at home.
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May 12, 1048
eastern Junket nt Philadelphia
and the Chlcngo Cubs visit the
New York Giants nt the Polo
Grounds. Like tho Red Sox in
the American league, the Cubs
figured to be higher. They're
hoping that it is trim that the
canton) clubs nro not as tough
as tho ones they'vo been moot
ing In tho west.
ROTC Regulations
Campus Best Beaver
Trackmen Saturday
CORVALLIS, Ore., Muy 1
()') Regulations of tho ROTC
will keep four of Oregon State's
best track performers on the
campus Saturday and unable to
compote In the dual meet with
the University of Oregon at Eu
gene, Coach Grant Swnn dis
closed yesterday.
The men 'lire Cnptnln Don
Flndlny, Coast conference broad
Jump champion nnd a high Jump
er; Len Moyer, 440 nnd relay
runner; Bill Waterman, mller.
and Al Klnke, twomller. The
quartet scored 21 points In the
meet with Washington last
week.
COAST LEAGUE
W. L. Pet
Lai Angeles 18 3 .857
Sun Diego 13 10 .B05
Oakland 12 11 .822
San Francisco 11 U .MOO
Hollywood 10 12 .4.1,1
Portland B 13 .400
Seattlo 8 13 .381
Sacramento 7 18 .318
RESULTS YESTERDAY
Los Angeles 13, Seattle 0,
Onklnnd S, Snn Diego 4.
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