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Leathernecks in Top
Shape for Benefit Tilt
. "March of Dimes" Contest to Get
Underway Saturday On KUHS Hardwood
By PAUL HAINES
Tickets will be available at
Ihe box office in the Klamath
Union high school gymnasium
for the crack "March of Dimes
.m.ntur hptwppn Shannon's of
Portland and the Leathernecks
from the Marine earracKs Sat
urday night on the KUHS hard
wood. The marines are practicing
tsrenuously in anticipation of a
tough battle with the Shannon
cagers and Coach Les Israel an
nounced Thursday that he would
use a man-for-man defense Sat
urday, along with the usual last
break attack used by the Leath
ernecks, in an effort to cross up
the classy Shannon five.
The starting marine five to
Nelson Liked
To Capture
Texas Open
By HAROLD V. RATLIFF
SAN ANTONIO, Texas, Jan.
26 (PJ A bulky field moved
out today in the first 18 holes
of a Texas Open expected to
turn into another triumph for
golf dom's automation laconic
Byron Nelson.
The tall, sandy-haired profes
sional from Toledo, who has
stuffed his strong box with war
bonds along the tournament
trail, had 65 pros and 104 ama-
teurs after him as he pushed
for his third victory of the
winter tour.
If practice rounds mean any
thing and they usually do in
he case of Nelson the big ex
Texan will be the pace-setter.
Twice he has put the hot-foot to
par on Brackenridge course, his
first time out being a 64 and
his last in yesterday's pro
amateur producing a 66 de
spite a drive into the San An
tonio river on hole 16.
. There have been plenty of
par-shattering rounds in' the
warm-ups but none has ap
proached those turned in by
Nelson.
Yesterday, Joe Zarhardt of
Morristown, Fa., and Lieut. B.
M. Smith of Bergstrom Field,
Texas, and the combination of
George Shafer of Anderson,
Ind., and Shelley Mayfield, Se
quin, Texas, turned in best ball
62's to split first and second
money in the pro-amateur. But
only Smith bettered par. He
shot a 70.
Nelson was in a combination
that had a best ball of 64 and
thus was out of the money.
Other good individual rounds
turned in were a 68 by Ky Laf
foon of Chicago and a 69 by
Mike Turnesa of White Plains,
n. y.
Nelson, Sam Byrd, Craig
Wood and Harold (Jug) Mc
Spaden were considered the top
four in the Texas Open scram
ble. These are members of the
group of 22 pros following the
winter tournament trail arid
who are in today's field.
Eighteen holes will be clayed
tomorrow after which the 50
low men among the pros and
the ten low amateurs will be
bracketed for the final 36 holes
Sunday.
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The Lansdowne
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take the maple against the Port
land club will consist of Bill
Mills and Leonard Burkland at
the forward berths, Kea uh
bert in the keyhole slot, and
Joe Domitrovich and John Cox
at the backcourt positions.
Robert "Red" Gilbert, prob
ably the outstanding eager on
the marine quintet, is 6 feet, 21
inches tall and performed four
vears for Los Angeles high
school: He was selected as all
citv material while in high
school and gained further play
ing experience with the Los An
geles Diablos, one of the top
semi-pro outfits on the west
coast.
Bill Mills stands 6 feet, 3
inches and played four years of
prep school basketball at Hobles
high school at Cliff, N. M. He
later looped 'em in for the Uni
versity of New Mexico and was
a standout ball player.
The other forward, Leonard
Burkland, is 6 feet, 1 inch in
height and picked up his play
ing experience at North Park
high school and North Park col
lege in Chicago. Burkland is
a clever ball handler and one
of the best shots on the Leather
neck squad. He specializes on
close in under-the-bucket pivot
shots and is a-hard man to stop.
Joe Domitrovich, who patrols
one of the backcourt slots for
the boys from the barracks, is a
southpaw push shot artist and
shoots a peculiar 'dead" ball. In
this type of shot the ball does
not spin or revolve but finds
the bucket nevertheless when let
go by Joe's capable left hand.
The other starting guard is
John Cox, who stands an even
6 feet. Cox played four years
at Charleston high in West
Virginia and is a top defensive
man. After finishing high
school, he had six years exper
ience playing independent ball.
This, then, is the Leatherneck
five that will take the floor Sat
urday night against Shannon's,
top independent outfit in Port
land, who are currently tied at
the top of the Portland league
standings with Fee's Music
Makers, a club that bounced the
University of Oregon Webf oots
twice.
The big "March, of Dimes"
game will get underway at 8
p. m. and will dovetail nicely
with the benefit dance to be
held at the armory afterwards.
The firing will be hot and heavy
on the KUHS maple when these
two top teams collide and ducats
for the fray are now on sale at
Dick Reeder's, Matt Finnigan's,
Klamath Billiards, Hibbs Cloth
ing company, and The Herald
ana Mews. As stated above the
box office at the gym will also
be open the night of the same
for the convenience of persons
una Die 10 purcnase tneir tickets
in advance.
This tilt will be one of the
finest exhibitions of basketball
ever seen in Klamath Falls and
temporary bleachers will be set
up. in the gym to handle the
overflow crowd. - Climb on the
"March of Dimes" bandwagon
now and take in the game be
tween Shannon's of Portland
and the United States Marinesl
Omo Swaps Leather
With Baksi Tonight
At Madison Square -
NEW VnilK .Ton 9 IB;
Lee Oma and Joe Baksi, the
two best current noHvi hoairu.
weights, tangle at Madison
oquare uaraen tonight in a 10-
rouna Dout mat has aroused al
most as miirh intaroet ac a .In
Louis title scrap. Promoter Mike
jacons anticipates a crowd of
16,000 and a gross gate between
$80,000 and $100,000.
the Pennsylvania hard coal field,
is a o io n ravorite, but many
betting boys believe these odds
are out nf lfnp Omn a noi.if
nonentity in the fistic world
umu a tew months ago, is re
ported in top shape and ready
tO Offset Raltst'c hllll.lilrA TlteUoe
with stinging left jabs.
BIG LEAGUE TALENT
CHAMPAIGN Howie Jud-
son. hieh.fimrintf ' THInni. m..
ward, is headed for a major
league DaseDau career as a pitcher.
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in the classified.
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Above is John Cox. who will
handle on of the Leatherneck
backcourt assignments whan the
marines collide with Shannon's
of Portland Saturday night in
She "March of Dimes" game on
the KUHS maple. Cox has four
years of high school experience
and six years of independent
ball. He is one of ihe outstand
ing defensive men on the
Leatherneck squad, but will
have all he can handle when
he takes on Roy Pf iuegrad.
Shannon's ace forward and for
mer Oregon State cago star.
Frick Traps
Colleagues
Far Off Base
By JERRY LISKA
, CHICAGO, Jan. 26 m The
joint meeting of the major
leagues at New York on, Febru
ary 3 is beginning to shape up as
the most important baseball pow
wow since the late K. M. Landis
was hired as commissioner in
1921.
On the surface, the manpower
problem and whether the 1945
season will be delayed, curtailed
or cancelled, apparently are the
prime topics of discussion. But
there's also a question of major
league unity, or lack of It, due
tor a snowaown.
The question was posed the
other day when National League
president f ord rricK and Own'
er Clark Griffith of the Washing.
ton Senators held an apparently
self-inspired conference with Se
lective Service Director Lewis
B. Hershey.
i The interview seemingly
caught Frick's two colleagues
on the baseball advisory council
American League President
win narridge and Leslie M.
O'Connor, Landis' secretary
pretty far off base.
O'Connor's comment that
UO Plays
Husky Five
Tonight
Webfoots Must Break Even
In Series With Washington
To Remain In First Place
By The Associated Press
Oregon State college, high
scoring team of the northern
division, Pacific Coast confer
ence and only club in the circuit
to check the speedllned Univer
sity . of Washington Huskies,
passed the touring Seattle quin
tet along to Oregon's Webfoots
today with an intimated "Okay,
boys, that's how."
Oregon, the team that rode in
to first place on the strength of
the double OSC triumphs Tues
day and Wednesday, must break
even in its collisions tonight and
Saturday with the Huskies to re
main in front.
A double win for Washington,
however, would send it back in
to the pace position it held until
Wednesday night. A double loss
would- crush it back to third,
lifting OSC into second spot.
Far back of the leaders at pre
sent but with a chance to get
back in' the running, Idaho and
Washington State clash tonight
at ' Moscow and tomorrow at
Pullman. Two victories for eith
er team would put it hard on the
heels of the pace setters, and a
double loss would just about
knock the victims out of the run
ning. -
, Idaho, which won four straight
last year from the WSC Cou
gars, has yet to post a win this
season in division play. State
has won two, both from the cur
rent league leaders. The two
cellarites each have lost four
games. :
, Oregon State ran its scoring
total to 333 points in defeating
the Huskies and now holds a
scoring lead of nine over Ore
gon. ' . Each has - played seven
games, one more than the Wash
ington teams. OSC also carries
the best defensive record, allow
ing opponents an average of 42.1
points per tilt.
As they step into this crucial
series, Oregon' has won five
games and lost two and Washing
ton is a half-game back, with
four wins and two losses.' The
Oregon State record is four and
three.
Frick did not "act In any official
capacity on behalf of baseball"
hardly could be described as
knuckle-rapping, but it did hint
that all is not cozy in what now
is baseball's sanctum sanctorum.
- Baseball studiously has
steered clear of asking wartime
favors since Pearl Harbor and
whatever the intent of the Her
shey interview, some admirers
of the late Commissioner Landis
may have a word or two to say
on it at the February 3 meeting
when Frick plans to report on
his Washington pilgrimage.
Frick has asserted that Gen.
Hershey simply outlined the ef
fects of current manpower rul
ings' on baseball. Commissioner
Landis was stoutly opposed to
any meeting with government of
ficials which might be interpret
ed as a bid for special treatment
of personnel in wartime.
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"Grey Mask" to Bop Beaks
With Gust Johnson Tonight
The "Grey Mask" will return
to the mat wars once acain to
night at the, Klamath Punch
plaza when he butts biceps with
Gloomy Gust Johnson for the
first time here in the main event.
Johnson has long been seeking
a bout with the hooded hoodlum
and will face the initial test bent
on flopping the "Mask" and re
vealing his true identity. Gust is
a hard, clean muscle and once
he obtains a hold he is as hard
to dislodge as a bulldog.
The masked menace has been
taking each and every opponent
as they come, however, and will
attempt to do a repeat perform
ance on Johnson by using his vic
ious head butts. This mntch will
really be the battle of the giants
as neither grappler has ever
asked for quarter in the Klam
ath arena.
Athletes Killed in Action
Receive Posthumous Award
By RALPH E. WALllS
:; PHILADELPHIA, Jan, 26 (ff)
The most courageous athlete .of
1944 is a composite of many
persons the little known and
the great who came from every
field of snort to elve their lives
in the service of tHeir country.
For the first time in a decade,
the Philadelphia. Sporting Writ
ers association paid this unique
annual tribute to a group, '
a postnumous award to all
courageous athletes who made
the supreme sacrifice and whose
patriotism, courage and sports
manship were embodied In' Lt.
Robert Wilson, U. S. army air
corps," read the' inscription. .
The lieutenant, 22-year-old
only son of .Coach. Jimmy Wil
son of the Cincinnati Reds and
former manager of the Philadel-
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Proprietors
phia Phillies and the - Chicago
Cubs, was killed last December
on a volunteer mission over
India.' ' -
"Jimmy said he just couldn't
make lt artd said you would un
derstand," Sports Editor Ed Pol
lock of the Philadelphia Even
ing Bulletin told the more than
110.0.' members and guests. Pol
lock presented the award to
Dick .Spalding, lifelong friend
of the lieutenant, and a coach
for the Cubs. . . , .
Last year's most courageous
athlete award went to Pete
Gray, one-armed baseball play
er, who is now the property of
the St.; Louis Browns.
; Marty (Slats) Marion, sports
top for the World Champion
St. Louis Cardinals, was named
the "most outstanding athlete
of 1944."
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NEW HAVEN, Conn., Jan. 28
(P) Chunky Alan Ford, record-
smashing Yale swim captain.
was revealed today as a young
man with a mission he's going
after every spring record In the
book.
Nineteen and a navy V-12 stu
dent, Ford, who this week set
five new tank marks, has less
than three weeks of intercol
legiate competition left. He'll
graduate in mid-February,
Yesterday Ford, maintaining
his assault on 20-yard pool rec
ords, set new marks of 55.7 for
the 100-meter and 56.4 for the
110 yards events. Existing
records were established in
1927 and 1928 by Johnny Weis
mullcr. He missed Weismullcr's
48.8 for the 100-yard event by
six-tenths of a second.
On Tuesday he hung up a
record 17.4 for the 40 yards,
swam 50 yards, which owned
no previous record, in 22 sec
onds flat, and was clocked at
27.5 for a new 60-yard record.
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Ducks Withdraw
For Duration
Of Hunt Season
NEWORLEANB. Jin. 28
(rV) Tilt 35.000.000 ducks
that winter in the mrihlnd
noir the moi'lh ol the Missis
sippi didn't arrive.
Sportsmen comulalnod. Tho
state sent out searching par
ties. A U. 8. department of in
terior expert covered tho area
by plnno.
No ducks,
The hunting season closed
January 20. Now the air Is
full of them.
"The birds ust stsgod a
strategic withdrawal for tho
duration ol the hunting sea
son," explained a conserva
tion department oKlclal,
In the scml-wlndup scuffle,
Joltin' Jack Klscr will tanglo
with bndmnn Billy McEuIn In an
other bout that should ring the
hell. McEuIn knows tho ropes
when It comes to the mat busi
ness and may well provlclo Kiser
with an interesting evcnlne. Jolt-
in' Jack also knows his way
around and will be out to re
deem himself In Uie eyes of
Klamath fans for his defeat last
week by the veiled varmint, j
Tough Tony Ross Is slated to
bop beaks with Milt Olson In the
opening fracas. Both these boys
may be counted on to provide a
first-class match, although Milt
was unablo to absorb tho rough
treatment dished oui by Tony
last week. Olscn is convinced
that he can guzzle Ross, how
ever, and Promoter Mack Lillnrd
booked the re-match on the
strength of Olson's fine showing
against odds last Friday.
Tho referee will bo W a 1 1 y
Moss and the first tussle is sched
uled to come off promptly at 6:30
p. m. The armory is expected to
be bulging (it the sides tonight
and an evening of fast action is
coming up for Klamath rassling
fans.
N. Y. Yanks Sold
For $2,800,000,
Declares Becker
PHOENIX, Ariz., Jun. 20 (!)
Roburt A. lli'ckor. n bimlnt'M lis
soclate of Dili Wtrlib. I'lmi'iilx
contractor, said here Unlay
Webb, Cnpl. Dim Topping uml
Col. Larry Macl'liull hiul pur
chased tho New York Yankees.
"I uiHli-rstuntl the deal was put
through yesterday arti'iinicin."
Becker sold. "Mr. Webb tele
phoned mo In the morning to
transfer sonic money lu lilni
there to facilitate his part of the
transaction."'
Becker said ho believed the
price Involved was iirouml $2,
800,000. LONG ON LEADERS
STATE COLLEGE. Pa Ten
former high school captain nro
playing college basketball for
the first lime at Penn State.
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