Doddering Dodgers Hang
On to Lead Over Raging
Redbirds By 3 to 2 Win
By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
The St. Louis Curdinals may
be the world's champions but the
Brooklyn Dodgers have to be
rated as the most dogged, deter
mined gang of dichards in the
major leagues.
This spring the Cardinals have
sparked and glittered and won
the admiration of all their rivals
Jn the National league.
The Dodgers haven't looked
good, a collection of old geezers
with aches and pains.
Yet 1".e Dodgers have held
first place since the first day of i
the season ana noinmg me carai
nals have been able to do has
been sufficient to dislodge them.
Last night they seemed ready
to fall. The Cardinals had hu
miliated all the Dodgers' strong
est, fastest pitchers and were
within half a same of taking
over the lead. Southworlh had
Max Lanier ready, a southpaw
who had beaten Brooklyn five
times last year and once this
spring.
Leo Durocher had to take a
chance on the only lefthander he
Sports
Briefs ff
; By
Hugh xf",!
Fulluton. JrJ J
NEW YORK, June 3 (IP)
"Speed-up" baseball sounds like
a good idea to a lot of folks, but
Prexy Will Harridge of the
American league doesn't think it
will work very well . . . For one
thing, the umps' can't do much
but hurry the players along be
tween innings and if they try to
cut short the pitchers' antics on
the mound they're liable to hear
a lot of pointed, ear-burning
questions from the managers
about whether they have a date
that night ... As for Billy Evans'
plan of making Ailinger, who I
left on base, go right to the
mound without visiting the!
bench, Will thinks that when the
weather gets really hot, Billy
will find the boys need the
breathing spell . . . Besides, Har
ridge adds, Tve played a night
game In an hour and 29 minutes
recently and the fans didn't get
enough. They had to flick the
lights a few times to start them
moving out."
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ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
Gil Dodds, Boston's triple
threat theologian, has it all fig
ured out that Gunder Haegg al
ready has reached this country
and is "out in the woods some
where training for his races." . . .
Charley Jones, Sammy Angott's
manager, reports that he has six
promising yearlings on his Gosh
en, Ky., hoss farm and one of
them, a son of Johnstown, has
just the same markings as his
pa . . . The next big baseball an
nouncement will come from St.
Louis probably today.
TODAY'S GUEST STAR
Kenneth Jones, Peoria (111.)
Journal - Transcript: "If track
athletes trained as listlessly as
ballplayers, we'd hear more
about the five-minute mile than
the four-minute mile."
.
THE VOICE ON THE WIRE
Jimmy Johnston, (before tak
ing off for Chicago where
"they're all keyed up I don't
know whether it's to bring me in
or keep me out.") ... "A guy
told me I was crazy the other
day when I said I had managed
about 30 champions. Well, I
put them down and I've managed
five men who held eight world
titles, Johnny Dundee, Ted Kid
Lewis. Harrv Rrnh Polo T.tn
and Mike McTigue. Besides that
i ve naa tne holders of 24 British
and empire titles and 19 Italian
and European titles. No such
and so in the world can beat
that."
SERVICE DEPT.
Pvt. . Art Passarella, former
American league umpire who's
now calling them for Camp
Grant, 111., says that GI shoes
are the best things he's ever
found to wear behind the plate
H. E. Hauger
' 1330 Main .
)webuy"i
) we sell
has on his staff, Max Macon,
who couldn't dent a custard pie
at arm's length and who hadn't
pitched a complete ball game all
season.
Macon still hasn't pitched a
complete game, but he beat the
Cardinals last night to even their
four-game series and restored
Brooklyn to a game and a half
lead. Tlc score was 3-2 and the
raging Redbirds who had made
20 hits the day before, who had
obtained Danny Litwhilcr from
the Phillies ami installed him as
cleanup hitter, were limited to i
seven safeties. i
Meanwhile, the American j
league scramble for first place'
became even closer than the Na-
lional as the Chicago White Soxj
whipped the New York Yankees i
2-1 and the Washington Senators j
squelched the Cleveland Indians!
13-1 in a night game. This lump-i
ed the Yanks and Senators in a
virtual tie for the lead, although
New York had the benefit of a
few percentage points, .576 to
.558.
Detroit held onto third place
by beating the Philadelphia Ath
' - TSOA
By FP.ED HAMPSON
Associated Press Staff Writer
The scouts are already prefer
ring contracts to Donald Johnson
of Portland's Jefferson high
school, who turned 16 last win
ter. Johnson is the prep pitcher who
racked up two no-run games this
season, two other shutouts, run
ning his two-year record in high
school to 13 won and three lost.
Johnson, thinks Harry Leed
ing of the Oregon Journal, is
still pretty much in the egg as
a major league prospect. But
with talent getting scarcer by the
hour he may be Induced to take
one of the offers from some club
of lower classification. He has
joined the Albina shipyard team
of the War Industries league,
where the hitting is somewhat
better than in the high school
league. If he runs up a string
of wins and a low enough runs-per-game
record it goes without
saying the scouts will bear down,
regardless of the fellow's tender
years.
The lad could hardly help at
tracting scouts. In addition to
the pitching that the Portland
prep baiters found almost un
hittable, he Is big, strong and
tireless. At 10 he weighs 185
solid pounds and stands six feet,
two inches. He has a fast ball
that whistles and enough of a
curve to fool the schoolboys,
which may not be much of a
curve, but it doesn't worry the
scouts. At 16 akid hasn't really
had time to acquire repertoire;
of any consequence in league i
baseball. Size and strength and
speed are enough. They can
teach him the rest.
Johnson worked 121 innings
during his last two years of high
school during which he was
touched for 66 hits and 23 runs,
quite a few unearned, and ra
tioned the opposition a scant 11
runs per game. He struck out
149 batters.
Leedlng calls him the best
pitcher to come out of Portland
since Eddie Erautt, now pitching
for Hollywood In the Coast lea
gue. Pugct Sound newspapers are
nominating cither Tacoma or
Hey, Rube!
Av u rpooai.l,ejr V ?-Cy
Oregon Sport Notes
letics 7-2 behind five-hit hurling
by Frank (Stubby) Overmire and
the St. Louis Browns and Boston
Red Sox divided another pair of
extra inning games. The Browns
took the first 7-2 in 12 innings
and the Red Sox retaliated in the
nightcap 3-2 in 10 innings with
Yank Terry pitching four-hit
ball. In the four-game series the
two teams played 45 innings.
In the National league Cin
cinnati and Pittsburgh continued
in a- tie for third place. The
Reds walloped the New York
Giants 13-6 with an 18-hlt as
sault on five pitchers after the
Giants themselves had batted
Bucky Walters off the mound
with five runs in the first two
innings.
The Pirates came from behind
in a night game to beat the Bos
ton Braves 3-2 with three runs
in the ninth inning. Two of them
came on a homer by Elbie Flet
cher. The Phillies nosed out the Chi
cago Cubs 6-5 for Schoolboy
Rowe and now have beaten the
Bruins seven times in eight
games.
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CHAIM WWO.HE BEAT
Spokane as successor of Sacra
mento in the Coast league, weak
est club at the gate. To this Al
Lightner of the Salem Statesman
says:
"Spokane, yes, but Tacoma,
hardly. Reports say the San
Francisco Seals dropped some
$200 by playing their exhibition
game with Fort Lewis warriors
in Tacoma recently and with
the city running over with
money-spending war workers,
losing $200 on a game such as
that just isn't one way of invit
ing a coast wheel franchise.
"On the other side of tfce Cas
cades it's entirely different, how
ever. We all know how Spokane
literally held the Western Inter
national league together with her
tremendous drawing power a few
years ago and broke two class B
league attendance records in so
doing. And the fact that a Seattle-Spokane
exhibition game at
twilight drew some 12,000 in
1940 is a concrete example of
how the Inland Empire enthus
iasts would cater to Coast league
ball if they had a team of their
own."
COMMANDO CENTER
SAN FRANCISCO, Calif.,
June 3 (P) The former Tan
foran race track, first an as
sembly center for Japanese being
relocated, and later an army cen
ter specializing in commando
training, is now in the navy's
hands. Beginning Friday, it will
be used for training personnel de
stined for advanced bases,
twelfth naval district headquart
ers said.
!(. CAFE
806 Klamath
Opening Sat. A.M.
Under New Management
Poprletort:
Mr. and Mn, Charles
Foster
PAGE TEN
Russian Dressing
Lou Novikoff, violent holdout,
climbs into Chicago Cub monkey
suit.
Angel Rookie
Leads Coast
Men at Bat
LOS ANGELES, June 3 (P)
Andy Pafko, Los Angeles' sen
sational rookie, has forged into
the batting leadership of the Pa
cific Coast league.
In 44 games Pafko has pound
ed out 75 hits, more than any
other player in the league, and
he also has priven In the most
runs, 48, for a batting average
of .419. Johnny Dickshot, Holly
wood outfielder, is ensconced
in second place with .410. This
pair is far in advance of the rest
of the field. Les Scarsclla of
Oakland is in third place with
.355. George Metkovich, prom
ising San Francisco rookie, is
fourth with .350.
Los Angeles, seven and one
half games in front of the field
in the league race, games to May
31 included, tops the circuit in
team batting with .289 and Holly
wood is second with .275.
By The Associated Press
COAST LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Los Angeles .".....33 11 .50
San Francisco 26 17 .605
S.an Diego 25 21 .543
Oakland 23 21 .523
Hollywood 20 26 .435
Portland 18 26 .409
Sacramento ...16 27 .372
Seattle 16 28 .364
Results Yesterday
San Francisco 6, San Diego 2.
Portland 9, Oakland 2.
Hollywood 9-2, Seattle 4-3.
Sacramento 3, Los Angeles 2.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
Brooklyn 26 14 .650
St. Louis 23 14 .622
Cincinnati 19 18 .514
Pittsburgh 18 17 .514
Philadelphia 18 19 .486
Boston 16 17 .485
New York 15 23 .395
Chicago 12 25 .324
Results Yesterday
Cincinnati 13, New York 6.
Philadelphia 6, Chicago 5,
Brooklyn 3, St. Louis 2.
Pittsburgh 3, Boston 2.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Team W. L. Pet.
New York 19 14 .576
Washington 21 18 .568
Detroit ...18 16 .529
Philadelphia 19 19 .500
Cleveland 18 19 .486
Boston 18 20 .474
Chicago 14 16 .467
St. Louis 12 18 .387
Results Yesterday
Chicago 2, New York 1.
Detroit 7, Philadelphia 2.
St. Louis 7-2, Boston 4-3.
Washington 13, Cleveland 1.
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SKATELAND
615 Klamath Ave.
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Auspices Veterans of Foreign Wan
J u mi 3, 1913
Portlanders
VallopOaks;
Morale High
Beavers Only Three Garnet
Away From Upper Bracket;
Stars, Seattlo Split Tilts
By The Associated Prow
Confident that they can lick
the best of 'em now that a suc
cessful series with Los Angeles
is behind them, the Portland
Beavers continued a powerful
drive toward the first division by
walloping Oakland 9 to 2 yester
day. Portland in sixth place but
only three games away from the
upper set, looked like an authen
tic powerhouse in blasting the of
ferings of three Oakland pitch
ers for 16 hits. The final Beaver
run total might have been even
higher if it had not been for
some great throwing by the
quak outfielder. Jack Dovlncon
zi who threw out three men at
the plate.
Seattle and Hollywood divid
ed a doubleheader, the Stars
winning the first 9 to 4 and Seat
tle taking the seven-inning sec
ond game, 3 to 2, Byron Spcccc,
veteran Rainier pitcher, lost a
shutout "in the second contest
when Kenny Richardson's sixth
inning home run brought in all
the Star runs.
Van Elliott and Bob Molitor
for Seattle gave up 15 hits be
tween them in the first contest,
while rookie Ronnie Smith went
the route for the Stars, scatter
ing nine blows.
Seventh place Sacramento
whittled Los Angeles' league
lead further down to sizo with
a 3 to 2 victory. Pitcher John
ny Pintar won his own game by
laying down a bunt that brought
in the third Solon tally.
San Francisco moved more se
curely into second place by wal
loping third place San Diego 6
to 2, with the hf lp of big George
Metkovich, who drove In five
runs, four of them on a third
inning home run.
Great Grid
Coach, BUI
Ingram Dies
LOS GATOS. Calif., June 3
(William "Navy Bill" In
gram, one of the U. S. naval
academy's greatest football play
ers and a widely known football
coach, is dead.
His death was discovered yes
terday when he failed to rise for
breakfast at his home here. He
was 46. ,
Ingram was a marine corps
major in charge of procurement
in the San Francisco bay area.
Previously he had been a chain
store executive.
Ingram was best known In
football circles, however. Not
only did he play great football
for Annapolis and the Pacific
Fleet teams, but he also was head
football coach at one time or
another for the naval academy,
Indiana and the University of
California. He retired from
coaching in 1935.
Ingram leaves his widow and
three children: William A. Jr.,
17, recently sworn Into the ma
rines by his father; Nancy, 15,
and Anne, 10.
Old Big Leaguer
Hurls Relief for
York White Roses
YORK, Pa., June 3 fP) Lefty
George, 56-year-old former big
league pitcher, returned to ac
tion last night as a relief hurler
for the York While Roses of the
Interstate league.
George retired the first two
batters he faced, ending an in
ning and choking off a rally by
the Allentown Flcelwings, But
the first three men to face him
singled in the next inning and
he was taken out. York won
8 to 6.
When In Medford
Stay at
HOTEL HOLLAND
Thoroughly Modern
Joe and Anne Earley
Proprietors
Mltiourl'i rtmTkbU rtlay
Maurice Alcxandtr and Capt,
California combination four ytart
Hollingbery,
VSC Hope of
Salary Truce
Babe Offered Cut of Fifty
Per Cent Which Ha Thinks
It Little Too Large
PULLMAN, Juno 3 (IP) With
both sides apparently eager
enough to contlnuo their associa
tion, hopes were rising today
that some agreement may be
reached which will keep Orln E.
(Bnbc) Hollingbery in the Wash
ington State college athletic de
partment. The college athletic council
yesterday confirmed the report
that Hollingbery, for 17 years an
integral part of the school's
sports picture, had been offered
a salary of $5000 a year repre
senting a 50 per cent cut.
Hollingbery, one of the best
known und most colorful foot
ball coaches on the Pacific const,
said he recognized that some cut
was necessary in nccorclnncc
with good business practice, but
maintained a 50 per cent cut was
unncccssnrlly large.
The Babe said, however, that
he wanted to remain with the
state college, adding "I am part
of the Institution." .
Tho athletic, council In Its
statement said members were
unanimous In their desiro that
Hollingbery continue his serv
ices with the college.
A salary cut they said was nec
essary, however, In face of pros
pects for "little, If any, football."
COMPETE IN NATIONAL
PORTLAND, June 3 (!)
Fred Winter and Stuart Norenc,
Oregon State college northern
division champions in the pole
vault and the half-mile, will com
pete in the national collegiate
track and field championships at
Northwestern university June
11-12, Percy Loccy, athletic di
rector, said yesterday.
jPkere's
bidwies
THE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS
&,. ami.
Track Fast
team nets oolng. Ltft to right,
Jo Shy. They threaten 440-yard
ago.
By VIRGIL GROSS
According to Bill Hatch, vet
eran pitcher and first baseman
of tho Bend Elks, army officials
at Camp Abbot are very anxi
ous to have the Pelicans enter
the Central Oregon State league.
Camp Abbot, according to pres
ent plans, will have two clubs
entered In tho league and, not
having a homo field, will most
likely piny their "homo" games
at Bond and Klamath Falls.
Tentative entries for tho now
circuit are tho aforomontloncd
two teams from Camp Abbot,
Bend Elks, Redmond alrbnse
and Wnrm Springs Indian agen
cy. League play is expected to
start in two or threo weeks, or
as soon as a sclirdulo and other
details can be worked out. Pete
Lesmelster, acting Pelican busi
ness manager, will endeavor to
learn further particulars on a
trip to Bend this week.
Word from 1'acllc university
state's that John Mnthls, sopho
more from Klnmath Falls, was
awarded the Miller basketball
trophy Thursday at the univer
sity by Coach Oswald D. Gales
following a selection last week.
The trophy, an annual award
established by former Coach
Pete Miller, Is given the athlete
voted of most value to his team
mates. Mnthls played forward
on the Pacific varsity.
This was quite an honor for
John, and furthered achieve
ments of Klamath Falls athletes
In various colleges throughout
the northwest. He also made
his letter in baseball, and played
local baseball here before enter
ing Pacific. Mathis is a gradu
ate of KUHS.
Ed Burkland, ex-local base
ball and City league basketball
star, Is now a lieutenant In the
army air corps. Ed is stationed
somewhere In tho Pacific. i
Aldo Bellottl and Jim Bocclil
looked good In a game played j
against the Pelicans, and they ,
should be on tho Pelican roster j
before the summer Is over.
Tho Pelican baseball tea ml
ust
KLAMATH SPORT NOTES
of the hops
Tii. Bmehr 0 Milwtuln, Ifh, WIRQUQs
Jack Track, Owtn Joggrtt,
rtcord of 40.S itt by Southern
could bo one of the best semi
pro teams In Oregon If a few
of tliu better bull players In this
city and nearby cities would
turn out for the team. Soma of
those who lira not out and who
would undoubtedly strengthen
tho team Include Lou Snuer,
former Medford manager and
a good defensive player; Ernlo
Bishop, last year's Pelican man
ager and a smooth second buse
mun; Goldio Uoldbur, a home
run hitter from Durrls; Homo
Crespi, fast-moving shortstop
from Mt. Shasta, and Frank
Ramsey, high school football
coach and u catcher In baseball.
These buys on the team, which
already consists of at least four
or fivo experienced players,
should mako tho Pelicans ono
of the toughest teams to bent in
the state of Oregon.
Arrungcnionts have been
made for a guno hutweciv the
Klamath Fails Pelicans and the
Bend Elks of the Central Ore
gon league for this coming Sun
day at Bend. Tho Bend Elks
boast such outstanding stars as
Bill Hutch, former Portland uni
versity star, and Jack Gordon,
brother of the Yankco star, Joe
Gordon.
Pelican Munager Marshall
Eycslono wants u large turnout
for practice this Friday night,
as he will pick hli traveling
squad on that day.
01 MAG CAN HIT
SANTA ANA, Calif., June 3
(yp) Joo Dl Magglo, ex-Yankee
outfielder, boosted tils consccu-tlvc-gamo
hitting streak to 13 as
the Santa Ana army base de
feated Los Angeles police 10-3
yesterday. Dl Magglo got a
single In three trips In the plate.-
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