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Army Can Save College
Football, Says Weiss
Congressman Argues for Playing of
130,000 Trainees at Various Schools
WASHINGTON. July 6 HV
Only the army can save college
football from folding up, Sam
my Weiss, congressman from
Pennsylvania, professional grid
referee and former Duquesne
star, declared today.
"At this late date, there is only
one thing that can save the sport
and that is for the army to give
its trainees the go-ahead sign,"
said Rep. Weiss in an interview.
The army has 130,000 young
men in colleges undergoing
special training as engineers,
medical officers, and in other
technical pursuits. However,
army oficials said, only last week
that the schedule set for these
soldiers simply doesn't allow
enough time for football, much
as they'd like to arrange it.
Seals Gain
Two Games
On Angels
Coast Leaders Collect
Lorsa Hits, Runs But
Only One Holiday Game
By The Associated Press
Los Angeles closed out the In
dependence holidays and a nine
game series yesterday by col
lecting sixteen hits and 17 runs
yet captured only one game of
the concluding Pacific Coast
league baseball double header
with Seattle. The Rainiers
lashed back in the seven inning
nightcap, with Pitchers Glenn
Elliott and Carl Fischer limiting
the Angels to two hits. One of
these was John Ostowski's 14th
home run of the year he now
leads the league in this depart
ment and the final score was
2 to 1. Angel Pitcher James
(Red) Lynn limited the Suds to
six hits in the opener and won
16 to 2.
Runnerup San Francisco
gained two games on the Angels
during the week shellacking the
Portland Beavers twice Monday
for a seven to two edge in the
series and now trail by only nine
and. a half games. Both closing
encounters were pitching duels.
Tom Seats pitched eight hit ball
for the Seals in the opener
against seven safe blows allowed
by Forrest Orrell and the home
team came ahead 3 to 2. Al Lien
allowed only three hits in pitch
ing a 2 to 1 nightcap victory over
Bid (six hit) Cohen.
Frankie Dasso, league strike
put king, boosted his string to
121 when he whiffed five Oak
land boys in the opener and
went on to win for San Diego
10 to 1. The Padres also took
the second game 4 to 2.
The last place Sacramento
Solons turned on Hollywood
and swept the doubleheader 3
to 0 and 3 to 2. Johnny Pintar
limited the Stars to four hits in
the opener.
r Heads
Schoolboy
Umpire
July 6, 1943
Their reaction came when the
University of Maryland carded
an eight-game schedule, express
ing hope some of its soldiers
would be allowed to join the
squad.
Weiss, chairman of an in
formal committee that has been
urging the war department to
allow army college trainees to
participate in intercollegiate
games, was gloomy about the
outlook.
"1 hear that when the de
cision is made, it may not be
favorable to football," Weiss
said
"I have discussed that time
factor with numerous army of
ficers and they say the boys
could devote an hour or two a
day to football without inter
fering with class room work. In
fact, the boys are the most con
cerned of all about giving up
the game.
West Point officials have de
clared their enthusiasm for con
tinuing the sport, and the cadets
will play a schedule this autumn.
"What I can t understand is
how West Point and Annapolis
and Navy Pre-Flight and navy
trainees can play, yet the army
trainees can't, as yet," Weiss
said.
By The Associated Press
COAST LEAGUE
W. L.
Los Angeles 57 23
San Francisco 47 32
Pet.
.713
.595
San Diego 41 40 .506
Portland 36 40 .474
Hollywood 37 44 .457
Oakland 36 44 .450
Seattle ... 35 44 .443
Sacramento -...27 49 .355
Results Yesterday
Los Angeles 16-1, Seattle 2-2.
San Francisco 3-2, Portland
2-1 (second game eight innings.)
San Diego 10-4, Oakland 1-2.
Sacramento 3-3, Hollywood
0-2.
. AMERICAN LEAGUE
. W. L. Pet.
New York 37 29 .561
Washington 37 33 .529
Detroit 33 32 .508
Chicago 33 32 .508
Boston :.34 34 .500
Cleveland 32 35 .478
St. Louis 31 34 .477
Philadelphia 32 40 .444
Results Yesterday
New York 3-8, St. Louis 2-5.
Detroit 10-4, Washington 3-8.
Philadelphia 2-7, Cleveland
1-0.
Chicago 4-1, Boston 2-6.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
W. L. Pet.
St Louis 43 24 .642
Brooklyn 44 31 .587
Pittsburgh 36 32 .529
Cincinnati . 33 34 .493
Philadelphia 33 36 .478
Boston 30 35 .462
Chicago 29 41 .414
New York 28 43 .394
Results Yesterday
Philadelphia 15-3, St. Louis
2-4.
Brooklyn 6-8, Chicago 3-2.
Pittsburgh 8-0, New York 4-9.
, Cincinnati at Boston, post
poned.
Class
Off Deep End
't . . .
(USMC lphotofrom NEA)
Mixing business with plea
sure. United States marines
make 45-foot leap from cliff
overlooking Guantanamo bay.
Cuba. They obtain practice in
"abandon ship" tactics while n
joying cooling dip.
Races Lure
Independence
Day Crowds
NEW YORK, July 6 W) The
jingle, jangle jingle b the mut-
uel machines substituted for the
fireworks of yesteryear in the
1943 celebration of July Fourth.
Saturday and Monday's rac
ing programs at New York, Chi
cago, Boston and Detroit lured
218.851 spectators through the
turnstiles and once inside, the
throng wagered a two-day total
of $10,228,499.
Almost hair of that dollar de
luge was registered in New
York where a national seven
race record of $2,232,285 was
established Saturday as Mrs.
Barclay Douglas' Chop Chop
ran off with the $25,000 Empire
City handicap.
That mark lasted only -until
Monday when $2,564,124
splashed through the machines
while William Woodward's
Threat o" Gold annexed the
Demoiselle at odds of $18.60,
and Mrs. Edward Mulrennan's
First Fiddle rewarded his back
ers with $18.90 in the ques
tionnaire. Chicago's Stars and Stripes
handicap betting total oi
$1,300,000 was the highest total
behind the two staggering New
York amounts.
Profits of both the New York
and Chicago programs went to
war charities. The New York
donation was estimated at be
tween $100,000 and $125,000.
Ortiz, Robleto
Work Out in New
Rainier Gymnasium
kpattLE. Julv 6 (IP) Ban-
itmaweight Champion Manuel Or
tiz and Challenger Joe Kometo
of Pasadena, Calif., both will
work out today in the new gym
nasium of the Rainier Athletic
club in preparation for their 15
round title bout here July 12.
Ortiz arrived yesterday. Robelto
has been here since Sunday.
Their battle will headline the
first card of the new club, re
cently organized with Bill Mul
ligan, business manager of the
Seattle Rainiers of the Pacific
Coast Baseball league, as presi
dent. WSC Grid Prospects
Looking Better
For Hpllingbery
PULLMAN, July 6 (IP) A
few 4-F's "healthy enough to
play and the prospective enroll
ment of some promising 17-year-olds
brought an admission yes
terday from Coach Babe Holling
bery that Washington State col
lege football prospects were
looking up although not very
far up.
Hollingbery, after settlement
of a salary controversy, will be
starting his 18th season with the
Cougar gridders. His record
stands at 93 victories, 53 losses
and 14 ties.
Jap-Hunting Now
Game Like Football
PHILADELPHIA, July 6 (IP)
United States troops in the Solo
mon islands turned Jap-hunting
into a game like baseball, reports
Pvt. Anthony Coan Jr., just back
from the South Pacific.
"We play it when we go out on
patrol," he said. "Each man is
given a team name such as the
Phillies or the Dodgers. Each
Jap killed counts as a run.
"We had lots of high-scoring
games, too!"
Holiday Play of Major
Leaguers Forecasts Hot
Battle in All-Star Game
By JUDSON BAILEY
Associated Press Sports Writer
Now that baseball's booming
Fourth of July bombardment is
over, the major leagues can turn
their attention toward next Tues
day's annual AU-Stnr game and
some of the stars already liavo.
In tho holiday eclcbrntion yes
terday no fewer than 10 of the
sluggers selected for the dream
game at Philadelphia fired home
run rockets.
The most spectacular fire
works was set off by Augic Gnl
an of the Brooklyn Dodgers. He
pulled the Dodgers out of a five
game losing streak by hitting a
triple with the bases loaded in
the first game and a grand slam
homer in the second for a double
victory over the Chicago Cubs,
6-3 and 8-2.
Bill Nichol.son of the Cubs,
Stan Musial of St. Louis, Mel Ott
of New York and Vincc Di Mug
gio of Pittsburgh were other Na
tional league all-star nominees
who punched round-trippers.
NEW YORK, July 6 (iP) Ford
Frick, National league prexy,
wisely refuses to make any com
ment on Bill Cox's latest blast
. . . The Phillies' attendance fig
ures show that Bill knows what
he's doing and Frick also knows
what Cox is doing . . . And if
the Phillies really refuse to have
anything to do with protests, for
or against, it's one less headache
for the guy who has to rule on
them . . . Although the Army
Navy football game may be an
other small-time affair at West
Point next fall. New York will
have a big-time version of the
same thing when Army plays
Notre Dame, as usual . . . The
Irish figure to have a good team
as a gift from the Navy and
Marines.
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TILLIE THE TOILER'
Last December, the Rev.
Garis Long of Ashland, Ky.,
went for a quail hunt near Spar
tanburg, S. C. . . . While he was
hunting, his favorite bird dog,
Tillie, was lost and when all
efforts to locate her failed, the
Rev. Mr. Long had to go home
dogless . . . Last Saturday the
minister took his family for a
picnic near Ashland and who
should turn up but Tillie, a bit
lean and leg-weary after six
months of wandering through
the Carolinas, Virginia, Ten
nessee and Kentucky to get
home.
SCRAP COLLECTION
As proof that Mickey Owen
doesn't have "rabbit ears," when
the Cards staged a huddle on
strategy after Joe Mcdwick
reached third in Sunday's game,
Mickey became fidgety and
wandered from the batter's box
down to join the crowd. And
apparently he didn't hear much,
for the Cards diagnosed the
squeeze play attempt and caught
Medwick between third and
home . . . Local track writers
are calling Arne Anderson, the
record-breaking m i 1 e r, the
"Svenska Vcnzke" because he
used to chase Gundcr Haegg just
like Gene Venzke always trailed
Glenn Cunningham . . . Incident
ally, Anderson will be welcomed
Sports
Briefs fr'f?
Hugh '
Fulltrton, Jr. . Jj jfi
I i
Back With Birdies
SP2 -' &
Patty Berg, right, tells Elizabeth Hicks how pleased she Is to
bt golfing again for the first time since her knee was smashed
in automobile accident 18 months ago. Minneapolis miss equallod
par at Chicago's Glen Oak with 76 to win medal in women's
westera open. i-u. ..... '
Musitil's blow In tho seventh
Inning decided the second game
of a doubleheader at Philadel
phia in the Cardinals' favor 4-3
and gave Howard Krist his sev
enth victory against ono defeat
after the world champions hud
been shellacked 15-2 in tho open
ing contest.
In the day's other National
league shows Pittsburgh bunch
ed six runs in the third inning
to bent tho New York Giants 8-4
and then was shutout 00 by
Lefty Ken Chase on six hits in
the nightcap.
Cincinnati at Boston was post
poned because of the weather.
In the American league the
New York Yankees reinforced
their grasp on first place by
sweeping two games ut St. Louis
3-2 and 8-5, but tho first affair
was not won until Joe Gordon
smacked his ninth homer in the
11th inning.
Gordon also made three hits
in the second game, and Nick Et-
hero for tho Indoor track season
If he can get transportation
SERVICE DEPT.
Seeing the other side: War
rant Officer Bob Oiin, former
light-heavyweight champ, is
matchmaker for tho weekly box
ing shows at the Shecpshcnd
Bay, N. Y., maritime service
station. His assistant is Sonny
Home, who also was on the re
ceiving end of the matchmakers'
services until recently . . . And
Petty Officer Raymond Pierce
of the Seabees, former Cor
nell tackle and couch at Batavia,
N. Y., high school, now directs
weekly smokers, featuring box
ing, for the marines at a South
Pacific outpost . . . Sgt. Charley
Whitehead, New Jersey stale
golf champion, earned his stripes
I before he learned to drill be
cause he's a radar expert . . .
Now if he'd only adapt that
device to locate lost golf balls.
Bivins Best
Heavyweight
Says Louis
PITTSBURGH. July 6 OP)
Jimmy Bivins of Cleveland, In
the eyes of Sergeant Joe Louis,
is the best of the heavyweight
fighters active today.
But the negro champion still
considers Billy Conn, the hand
some Pittsburghcr who almost
licked him in 1941, as his No. 1
challenger and declares, "He's
the first fellow I want to meet
when the war's over." He rates
23-year-old Tami Mauricllo, of
New York, No. 3 among the
men who would like to lift his
crown.
Joe looked In perfect fight
ing trim, despite his 220 pounds,
as he climbed into the ring here
to referee three rounds of ama
teur boxing, with more than
10,000 persons lured to the bouts
by his magic name.
Informed that Conn now
weighed 210 pounds, about 35
pounds more than he did for
their memorable scrap, the
champion snapped: "That ain't
gonna help him. Conn's not the
kind of fighter to carry that
much weight. His style is based
on speed and he'll lose that
speed with extra weight and
it won't improve his punch any.
WINS FIRST ROUND .
PORTLAND, July 6 (IP)
Hugh Findlay of Portland de
feated Jim Oran, formerly of
Springfield, 6-0, 6-0, in a first
round match in the junior singles
of the state tennis tournament
yesterday. .
ten batted In four runs, ono o
homer.
Besides Gordon, Cliet Laahs
and Vernon Stephens of St. Lou
is, Rudy York of Detroit and Bob
Johnson of Washington, a 1 1
American league all-stars hit
homers.
York's blow with two on fig
ured in Detroit's 10-3 triumph
over the second place Senators in
a morning game played before
10,514 fans at Detroit. John
son's, with one on, provided tho
margin of Washington's 6 4 vic
tory in a twilight gamo played
for 20,019.
The Chicago White Sox split
two with the Boston Red Sox,
beating Tex Hughson 4 2 in the
opener, then losing the second
6-1 on six-hit hurling by Yank
Terry,
A pair of four-hit pitching per
formances by Don Black and
Luimin Harris gave the Philadel
phia Athletics twin triumphs
over tho Cleveland Indians 2-1
and 7-0.
Utah's Open
Golf Tourney
Looks Good
SALT LAKE CITY, Julv 6 (IP)
Sid Illinium of Walla Walla.
Wash., was on hand today for
Utah's $1000 open golf tourna
ment beginning Friday and indi
cations were tho number of en
tries would compare favorably
with pre-war meets.
Tourney officials said they had
received assurances that Al Zim
merman of Portland, Ore., also
would play.
Harman and Zimmerman have
been gallery favorites at tourna
ments in past years and many
golfers expressed satisfaction
that they would be on hand this
year.
Qualifying rounds are sched
uled for Friday with tho tourney
slated to conclude Sunday.
By RUSS NEWLAND
SAN FRANCISCO, July 6 (A3)
Wancr the Wonder: Manager
Pitcher Charley Root of the
Hollywood club, who twirled 16
years for the Chicago Cubs and
thinks ho could go back and do
a good day's chores in the maj
ors, names Paul Wantcr as the
greatest "Eagle Eye" batsman
he ever faced . , .
With tongue in check, Rout
says Waner must havo had an
extra eye in his bat . . . It
wasn't quite that but the silent
little guy from Oklahoma is a
tough one at the plato . . . Some
oldsters bracket him with Ty
Cobb and some patriarchs liken
Nation Has Low
Death To on
Holiday Weekend
By The Associated Press
Accidents over the three-day
Fourth of July weekend were
taking one of the smallest death
tolls in history on the nation's
home front, restricted by and
busy with the war.
As the holiday weekend on
tercd its last day today, violent
deaths from all causes in the
United States, according to an
Associated Press survey.
mounted to only 100. The total
included 74 fatalities from traf
fic accidents; 55 from drown
ings, and 61 from miscellaneous
causes.
The low death rate was cred
ited to war preparations and re
strictions, such as .work as
usual schedules in many war
plants and gasoline rationing.
Not a single fatality was report
ed from fireworks, the sale of
which has been banned in many
states and the manufacture of
which has been virtually halted
by the war.
Flyer's Body Found
In Clear Lake Crash
SAN RAFAEL, Calif., July 6
(IP) Hamilton field authorities
announced today that the body of
Second Lieut. Donald M, Spegcr,
23, of Frcdonia, N. Y., had been
recovered from Clear lake, into
which his pursuit piano crashed
yesterday.- Spcger was alone In
the plane, which had been based
at Santa. Rose airdrome.
Coos Bay Company to
Give Retroactive Pay
WASHINGTON, July '6 (IP)
The Coos Bay Logging company.
North Bend, Ore., must grant its
approximately 400 employes re
troactive pay from September 1,
1942, to January 1, 1943.
The war labor board Saturday
sustained a ruling by the West
Coast Lumber commission nam
ing the company as a party to
tho commission's decision In the
"Big Fir" cases and ordering the
back pay.
jWetem
Hits the Spot
bibmmS . . Waft' it- M
Navy ollicers In tick bay lnUt that Holen Trabolo. their dieti
cian, hits spot with chow. She li Jutt at adopt in hitting bullseye
with bow and arrow.
Heavy Suggers Jam Top
In Major Batting Averages
NEW YOnK, July 0 (A') The
congestion on the trains and
buses over the weekend could
hardly hove been worse than
the Jam in the butting uvcriie.es
at tho top of the two major
leagues today.
Out of the crowd emerged
two new hitting le aders. Frank
McCormick of the Cincinnati
Reds In the Nntlonnl leuguo anil
Rookie Guy C'urtright of the
Chicago White Sox in the Amer
ican, but their margins over
the paremnkers of previous
weeks. Babe Dahlgren and Ver
non Stephens, was as close as
two persons going through u
train door at the same time.
McCormick moved Into first
place with a .329 average after
him to the Immortal Willie
Kecler . . .
In Root's book, Wancr this
year has become a modern Moses
to the old men of the game , . .
Paul hus slid over the 40-year
mark but Is blithely Ignoring the
law of averuges . . . Whereas.
he should by all established pre- ,
cedents be dreaming of slippers i
and tho comforts of on easy '
chair, he is currently aiding the ,
Brooklyn Dodgers make 11 siz-
zling battle of it for the National
league pennant ... j
Root Joined the Cubs In 19211
. . . In those days ho was blessed
with blinding speed . . . Gusslo '
Suhr. the ex-Pirate, describes
Churley's smoker as "a wicked
fast ball with a baffling hup." ; .
With this in his favor, Root
looked every batter In the eye
and pitched to him without fear
. . , During those sixteen years
all sorts and sizes of hitters faced
big chested Root , . , The ono
who gave him the most trouble
was willowy little Paul Waner , .
"I never could fool Paul, not
once. I never found a batting
weakness in him and I don't
think anybody else did. He was
the toughest batter I ever
pitched against from either big
league."
This appraisal Is from a fel
low who led the national circuit
in 1927, won 201 games and lost
165 with tho Cubs and now at
the ripe age of 44, Is hurling
impressive winning Coust league
baseball . , .
And who threw to such bull
busters as Bubo Ruth, Joe DI
Magglo, Gcorgo Dickey, Lou
Gehrig, Ernie Lombard!, Lefty
O'Doul, Bill Terry, Dolph Ca
mllll and Mcl Ott, to name a
few , , .
DRUMMOND WINS
PORTLAND, July 6 (Pj Bill
Drummond, Portland, upset Ned
Jungok, Seattle, formor Wash
ington State junior chumpion,
8-6 and 6-2, as Oregon's annual
state tennis championships got
underway hero yesterday.
1 .
PAPER SUSPENDED
LONDON. Julv 6 fI'i Fleht.
ing French headquarters said
today the ministry of Informa
tion hud suspended the French
weekly nowspuper Miirseillume
printed in London, The reuson
was not stated.
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yesterday's guinea, Jual one
point hi tter than Dulilgren, the
i'lilllics' star who slumped from
.115 1 to .:-!! Ill 11 week. McCor
mick, nlllmuiili snugging the
lead, skidded Irnm a .336 over
nge lust week. Close behind this
pair, Hilly Herman of Hrook
lyn and Stun M 11 s I n I of
Louis were lied al .324.
In t h e Amcrlciui league
Stephens, star nhnrtstop of the
St. I.mil.i llriiwns. slipped from
:.U2 to .:i.U and second place to
yield the lead to Curtrigh!. The,
White Sox outfielder skyrock
eted Into the lend lute lust week
on the crest of a 2t) gume hlU
ling strenk that lifted hll bat
ting uveruite to ,:ttl2 lust Thur.
day. Hut since then he, too, col
lapsed and today had a com
paratively mndest murk of .337,
Oris llnckett of Cleveland,
who a week ago was tied with
Stephens at .3-12, dropped to
.327 and third place.
Ail-Around Cowboy
Honors to Nelson
In St. Paul Rodeo
o
ST. PAUL. July 6 (,T) All-
around cowboy honors III the
eighth annual St.- Paul rodeo
which ended lust night went to
George Nelson, WAMIC, with
a first place in Ihu wild horso
race and second places In wild
eow milking, brouc riding and
bullilnggiiig.
Other first place winners: Red
Allen, Miles City, Mont., calf
roping; Harney Willis. Whit
Salmon, W a s !., buildogglng;
Stub nartleniuy, Arlington,
bronc riding: Oregon Mounted
Posse of Sulcm, western drill
loam.
Private to Captain
In Ten Months New
Speed Record
SAN FRANCISCO. July 6 (T
From private to cnptaln In lf3
months that's the wartlms
story of Clifford P. "Biff" Hoff
man, who blazed a brilliant ath
letic record at Stanford univer
sity nearly two cleendes ago.
Promotion .of tho 40-ycar-otd
Hoffman was announced today
by the U. S. marine corps. Ho I
stationed here as assistant offi
cer in charge for offlco procure
ment nnd murine corps women'
reserve, western procurement
Coliseum Readied t
For Haegg Trip
LOS ANGELES, July 6 (IP)
They reddled the coliseum
cinders for Guilder Hnegg's first
sirhtseeing trip In southern Call-,
forniu tnduy,
Tho Swedish flcetfoot meg-'
snged ahead that, upon his arriv
ul he wanted to sec the collscuifj
before going to Lake Arrowhead,
In tho neurhy Sun Bernardino
mountains, to trnin for his two.
miln nice Saturday afternoon"
with Gil Dodds.
Dice have been found In tha'i
tombs of ancient Egypt by arch
coIoglst. II 0. Hoeuger
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