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HERALD AND NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON
August 29, 1944
Leaders
On Lookout
For Hurlers
Whol First Division Seeking
Pitching Talent; Red Sox
Take Second Place
By JACK HAND
Associated Press Sports Writer
World series talk was legiti
mate business in four American
league clubhouses today after a
routine post-season planning ses
sion in Commissioner K. M.
Landis' office but the four con
tenders were more interested in
vacuum-cleaning the bushes,
looking for another starting
pitcher.
If there was a footloose luirlcr
in the Minors who could win in
the big show, operators of the
St. Louis Browns. Boston Kcd
Sox. Now York Yankees and
Detroit Tigers would be very
much interested.
Experiments were the rule,
rather than the exception, as the
clubs battled into the final five
weeks of the season with only
four games separating the Yanks
and Tigers, tied for third, from
the pace-setting Brownies.
Boston tried Rex Cecil from
San Diego with so-so success,
two won and two lost, and was
ready to gamble again today on
Clem Dreisewerd. acquired from
Sacramento at a fancy price tag.
Drcisewerd's first opponent was
to be Floyd (Bill) Bevens. whom
the Yanks had just pulled back
from their Newark farm where
he had won 10 in a row. New
York also had installed Rookie
Mel Queen from Newark as- a
regular starter in the battle royal
windup.
St. Louis went down to the
southern association and back
several years to pick up Willis
Hudlin, the former Cleveland
Indian with his famous "sinker.'
Detroit still looked high and low
for help to bolster Hal New-
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Pitching promises to be the
decisive factor in the stretch
drive when the Browns and Tig
ers will enjoy long home stands.
The St. Louis team, idle yester
day, moved to Cleveland for two
games before heading home 10
tackle Detroit in another vital
series but heard bad news from
the club doctor who said Bob
Muncrief would be lost for a
week or 10 days with a sore
arm.
Boston took over second place
by clubbing the Yanks. 7-4, in
!the only game in ttie Harridgj
I loop yesterday. Red Barrett,
who relieved Yank Terry in the
fourth, picked up his 8th win at
I Rill Zuber's expense. The Red
box pitchers walked l.t men but
lett 14 .xcw oiKcrs stranded in
a S-hit effort. I NEW YORK, Aug. 23 (.Vi
The St. Louis Cardinals, who The recently-revived discussion
have nothing more serious to do ! ol whether match play provides
than get readv for the opening : a true test of golfing ability,
of the series at Sportsman's park, i leaves this coi ner cold. . . The ur-Wedne.-xiav,
October 4. came up gument against match play is
with three" runs in the last of the mat a player can blow a couple
ninth to shade Cincinnati. 3-2. of holes with 7 s or 8 s and still
linn fmwr nntrhi'H hi llllilh win But 111 a 72-hulc medal
I big league triumph and 19th of
i the vear with the help of Kcnnv
! O'Dea's two-run pinch homer,
Harry Gumberl was the Cmcy
Pittsburgh at Chicago, the only
! other scheduled
washed out.
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Hedqe SetS CaStinq
e Sets Casting
Mark of 170 Feet
! In Championship
! PORTLAND. Aug. 29 i.-T'
! Marvin K. Hedge of the Port
land Angling and Casting club
set a new fly casting mark of
170 feet in the national flv and
bait-casting championships at St.
Louis. Mo.. Saturdav. club of-
ficials reported todav. He had
won the distance fly event once
before in 1934.
Two Last Minute
Entries in Tourney
NEW YORK. Au2. 29 iT
Air Cadet Robert ralkcnours
and Sat. Frankie Parker, both
of the army, are last minute en
trie national tennis tourn
ament which sets under way at
the V.'et Side Tennis club in
Forest Hills tomorrow.
They are ranked seventh and
eighth', respectively." on the na- i
tional list for 1943.
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HE'LL WHISTLE FOR IT
tmi Mens, who lakes his mon-
; out of oil and puts it into
i horses, has made such a pet of
- nis Sotj.UuO colt. Pericles, that
the horse follows him around
Kaneocas farm and responds eag
erly when Helis whistles
When Bill was showing off the
horse's tricks to a group of visit
ing newspapermen t h e other
day. one sour scribe wise
cracked: "If he ever wanLs to
w in a race, he 11 have to stand at
the finish line and whistle."
ONE-MINUTE SPORTS PAGE
Blake Harper, concessions
manaaor at Sportsman's rjark. is
moaning about the prospective!
shortage of Doricarn for iho I
world series. . . . What could be
JJ'.or5e '5 an over-supply of pop
. , . navy gria f '" s11'" ............
squad is so strong that Ralph mission sanctioned the a r g u
Elisworth. a recular ai Tpvas n t ment as a coast featherweight
last season, isn't working with
cither of the first two backfields.
Redskins to Meet
Brooklyn Tigers
In Grid Contest
OGDEN, Utah. Aug. 20 W)
Utah will sec its first profession
al football game tonight when
the Washington Redskins meet
Brooklyn's Tigers and some
16. UUU fans arc exDCCtcd to show
up al Ogden stadium to find out
how the play-for-pay boys do it.
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Angels Lead
Coast League
By Big Margin
By Tho Associated Press
The Los Angeles Angels, in
their pennant-bound form of the
1943 season, engaged the weak
pitching Oakland Acorns at Oak
land tonight as the lneifie Coast
league opens the 2-nd week of
its -4-week baseball season.
The Angels surged into a 101
game league lead as the contend
ing Hollywood Stars failed to
stop their onward rush last week.
The Stars dropped into third pos
ition and Portland took over
the second-place spot.
With Los Angeles almost cer
tain to retain the championship,
interest in the eight-club league
, centers on jockeying for position
, in me upper oivision posi-season
J San Francisco, Seattle and Oak-
(land are candidates for the Pres-
ident s Cud series.
Sacramento, in N 7 position
and'last-place'san Diego are out
.u ....i
j of the ruiming.
. San Diego tonight meet
Port-
land; San Francisco
starts its
j runncrup battle at Hollywood:
i and Sacramento opens its last
1944 Pacific northwest visit at
Seattle.
Dolan to Meet
Mike Belloise
For Coast Title
SPOKANE. Wash., Aus.
i.-Pi Jooy Dolan, claimant
the Pacific coast featherweight
;ti ...:u m;t-.. u.11..; ..t
Los Angeles in Spokane's last
outdoor boxing show of the sea-
son September 4. Matchmaker
Bud Oliver said today.
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The fight is scheduled for 10
Dolan
in his last fight, dc-
; feated Joe Robleto of Pasadena.
title battle.
WINS TWO CROWNS
GREAT LAKES. 111., Aug. 20
(.'Pi The diving championship of
the national AAU outdoor
aquatic meet today belonged to
a west coast plunger, Norman
Sper, Jr., of the Beverly Hills,
Calif., Sand and Pool club.
per yesterday added the plat
form diving title to his pprins-
board crown as the 1944 AAU
meet closed here.
AMERICAN Lr.GLE
W. I.
Prt
Sf. Louis 7o M
.5M
Boston W7
N-v York T .7
Oetroil .7
Cleveland fii m
PhiladeiDhla m H7
Chicairo 7 M
Washington 2 71
Boston 7. Lew York 4.
Only ft me achrinler'.
NATIONAL LEAOIE
W. L.
St. Louis . .. DO 30
Pittsburgh 7o 47
Cincinnati H7 SO
New York S B5
Chicapo .'! in
Philadelphia An 70
Bonton 4fl 7rt
Brooklyn 4 77
Oimti Yplfrday
St. Louis 3. Cincinnati 2.
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Meet Bears
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All-Star Grid Classic to
Bo Played at Chicago Be
fore Throng 'of 50,000
EVANSTON. 111., Ann. 2!l (V)
Var-jnstli1. lint still lootbiill'.i
nnt illii.strioiis havliini;er. the
lltli annual all-star fcl'id eontest
tomorrow niKht will pack a ea
paeity tltroiiR of 50.000 into
Northwestern university's Dyehe
stadium to wateh.the ereani of
the eolleiiiale erop tackle the
ChieiiKo Ueurs.
Ueeause they have for Ine oc
casion lOuarteiback Sid Luck
inan, an ens-inn in the luercluuil
marine, ihe llears ltMU inUion
al professional league champions
are favored to dodc defeat
for the fifth time in the all-star
scries.
Whether Luekman matches Ihe
sharp-shootini; of Tulsa's tilenn
Dobbs, whose passes helped the
all-stars scuttle the Washington
Hedskins 27-7 last year, may not
settle the issue as much as the
manner the reserve-shy Bears
can stave off Vie phalanx ol
All-Stars Waldorf can and no
' doubt will-shoot into the fray
I More than hU strons. the
More than fiu strong, the col
legians probably will prance in
a constant parade, while the
IJears with 37 huskies, most of
them unknowns, may have to
feel their way along experiment
ally. Waldorf likely will start his
No. 1 backfiekl of Quarterback
l.ou Saban of Indiana. Halfbacks
Uobbs and George Trippi of
Georgia and Fullback Pete Lay
den of Texas but the Bears plan
to hold out Luekman, guiding
genius of their vaunted 1 -formation,
until a crucial spot.
Instead. Johnny Long, former-K-
r t'nieatn and a graduate of
of'hr Roars' Newark. N. J-. farm.
wlii do the pro master-minding
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jir nt OU1SC1. oiuiiuiK v.iu
! Long probably will be Halfbacks !
! Hay Molting and Doug McFnulty
! and Fullback Gary Famigliclti.
I The pro champions hold a to i
3 edge in the series, with two
rgaines ononis in lies. mi: nia
opened tne scries in imoi who h
scoreless tie and then won 5-n j
in lflJj; 37-13 in 1941. and 21-0 i
in 1942.
Former Klamath Man
Hurls for Service
Nine at Pacific Base
Mrs. Mary Martin of 2200
Wantland, recently received
that hor nenhew. Techni
cian Fourth Grade Howland D.
Young was doing quite a job as
a pitcher on the team of an cvne-
, uatioif ho.spittil of hii advance
oaxc sei vicn luiiiiiidiiu jii
Southwest Pacific.
While rcadins her former
home town pnper from Deer
Park, Wash., she came across an
article dealinc with the exploits
of Young. Mis team has won 18
victories in 23 camcs, taking the
last nine in a row.
.VS ! Younii worked here for about
a year befofe he joined the medi
cal corps, and is well-known. He
was inducted in 1 042 and has
423 leen overseas for 22 months, in
cluding Id months at New Cale
donia. '
SILVEHTON, Auk. 29 (Pt
Pacific coast scouts of the
Brooklyn Dodgers will conduct
a baseball school here August
30-Scptembcr 2.
More than 300,000,000 people
in the world use cocoanuts in
some form every day.
Big Frank
4c j
Horo a mttrino corps picture
of Big Trunk Hamsoy. which
cnmi in a publicity release to
Tho Hern Id and News today.
Trunk is shown inspecting n
pair of "boondockors" nt tho
marine corps bnso at San Diego.
Tho former KUHS football
coach thinks the murino corps
is tho greatest military outfit ol
all timc not excluding any of
t h o s o Quys who fought with
Caesar. Aloxandor, Hannibal or
any other of history's big shots.
Major League
Leaders
By The Associated Press
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Raiting Musial, St. Louis,
.3-t.i.
Ittllis batted in Nicholson.
Chicago, IM.
Homo runs Nicholson. Chi
cago, lilt.
Pitching Wilks. St. Luuis, IJ
1, .911.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Baltim; Durrr, Boston. .32..
Iuns hatted in Stephen?, St
Louis.
Home runs Pnerr and John
son. Hostuti. Stephens, St. Louis
and York. Detroit. IS.
Pitching litiulion, notnu,
18-S. .783. and Newhouscr, De
troil, 21-8. .724.
ISSUES CHALLENGE
Any potential softbull players
in Klamath I'alls will be Kven
an opportunity to display their
prowess on tin1 diamond at an
early date if they wish. Lieut.
HoKan. in ehnrin of the Marine
recreational program, has issued
a challenge for a name between
an all-star Klnmnth learn and the
boys from the Marine Barracks.
If surh a team can be assem
bled please notify the Herald
News and a a am e w 1 1 1 be ar
ranged. Gird your loins, soft
ball players, let's go!
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Nelson Shoots Blaring 69
In Lasr Round; Dudley
Finishes in Second Slot
CHICAGO. Aug. 2! tVi--l.nrtl
Myron Nelson. Ihe big money
man of golf, headed smith today
to pick up more links gold.
The tall Texan win said he
played "Just as well as I could
have, pos-sibly played" to win
SKI, -Ki2.ru) in war bond in (be
A 1 1-American (men ycslcrday.
departed today for Nashville,
Teuu., where be will compete In
the Mo.lliM) tnvltntional open
September 1-4.
In chalking up bis (bird win
iince (iemge S. May maiiKurali'il
his AH American gulf show in
HMI. Nelson posted a 21H) seoiv
for tho 72-hole route, finishing
with a tluee-nnder par It!) to (lis
con ra tie ehallenuers who be-
i lieved l hey had u chance nller
1 the champion turned in a third
round 73,
Kd Dudley, president of the
PCI A, came from far hack In the
paek lo get a linal round !
good for a 2115 tola! and .second
place. The husky PU A prcxy
was a stroke ahead of Pvt. linck
Wliite. who lost a title playoff
a year ago to Harold t.Iugl Me
Spaden. MeSpadcn, who won
the 1!H3 championship with 21)2,
drooped to ninth place with a
(0 tor H!P.
Although the open nnd women
championships were decided yes.
terday, three amateurs Kd Kur
gol of Detroit, Ken lleilemann.
the St. Louis chemist, and Kd
Christiansen, the Kuinng de
leetivc from Miami, Phi. were
involved in an 18-hole playoff
today for the Simon-pure title.
They were deadlocked nt 72
holes with 2!) ft totals.
i Little Hetty Hicks, of Long
' Peach, Calif., won the women's
72-hole championship with a 318
j total, a bare stroke in front of
i Dorothy Germain of 'Phila
delphia.
Nelson's rich fir-d prire in the
open brought hiy total 11)44 cash
earnings to $25,700. topping the
previous record of Slfl.flOO by
Slanimin' Sammy'Snead back in
H3B.
Nelson and many of the other
leading professionals wilt make
their next appenrance nt Nash
ville. Then they'll move onto
the S 13.333 invitational tourna
ment at Dallas. Trxn. Septem
ber 8-10. which will end the sum
mer tour.
After the Dallns tournament.
Lord Byron and McSpnden plan
to make a movie before starting
an exhibition tour along the
west coast.
Bolanos to Meet
Ortiz in Go Tonight
LOS ANGKLKS. Aug. 20 f.Pi
The old question of boxer versus
puncher will be up for settle
ment again tonight when En
rique Bolanos, fleet-footed Mex
ico City boxer undefeated in this
country, meets Bantamweight
Champion Manuel Ortiz, of El
Centro. Calif., in a 10-round non
title match.
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Batting Race in
Final Stretch
NKW YOItK. Aug. 20
Pigut e ftlhei ts sharpened Ihejr
peueil points lor ii loin decimal
point finish as Stan MiiMal of
the Cards led Dixie Walker of
the Doder.s into (he .National
league slreleh wilh a uiaiKin of
.0007 and Hobby Dim-it's Ameri
can league lead was cut to Ihreo
points by Teiunniale Pelo l-'ov ()f
the Hoslon lied Sox. and Dick
Sieberl of tin A's. All riveiftgc
included game-, played Huong It
Sunday.
Musial still was on lop .it 3 t'
to Walker s but there w.ii
no end in sight . V. very thing
pointed lo a rnin:h erumhle rir.lil
down lo the iieiiiber I wire with
New York's Joe Medwick, run.
n i i IK third nt .343, and Johnny
I lopp of St. Louis, foiu th nt .3.(7,
given "dark Juh'su" chances.
Doerr's chal lene I roui Lou '
Bondreau ol Chni-land laded as
Ihe Tribe pilot shullleil tlown to
fifth .giving way to l''o and Sm
hert tietl al 322 to Doerr's lead.
log 32a Hoy Cllllenbtlie of
Clev eland u .is Ihe imlv newcom
er in Ihe top in in either h-agvie.
taking mntli spot in the Ameri
can as K.ilph llodiu (if fhuagt)
dropped down.
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SPItlNUPIKLD. Ma -s. - -Willie
Pep. 12B4, llarlfonl. i'min,, out
pointed Joey Peiiilla, :t5. Tain
atput. Pa . tim-i Iitle l till
HAL'IIMOKK Cb-o Slums.
134. Los Angeles, out'..ided
Vic Crehnau. 132 1. N-w York
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