EIGHT HERALD AND NEWS
Friday. March 30. 1943
PCL Baseball Season to Get
Underway Saturday; Portland
To Tangle With Oakland Oaks
PCL Starts Tomorrow ! I !
Our learding House
With Mor HoopU
Oklahoma Aggies Bounce
DePaul, 52-44, for Title
Kurland Leads Oklahoma to Victory
In National Basketball Championship
Br Tha Atsoclattd Prtss
Mutcrially strengthened by
players honorably discharged
Irom military service, the eight
member Pacific Coast Baseball
league inaugurates Its fourth
wartime season tomorrow in
California cities.
Sunny weather Is forecast and
attendance recoros tor ursi aay
games may be broken.
Indicative of fan Interest, a
crowd of 8000 of Sacramento's
"little people alone Is expected
to turn out to watch their lowly
Senators play the Hollywood
Stars, the runnerup team in
1944. Los Aiuteles. the 1944
winner, has been tabbed as "the
team to beat again tins year,
The coast league games, as
in the past 45 years, will signal
ize the season's start of organ
nrnfessinn&l hall tn the na
tion. The last practice games
were played Thursday.
The leagues otticiai senaoit
will be at Emeryville where
California Governor Earl War
ren tosses in the ball for the
game between the . Oakland ,
Acorns and Portland Beavers. !
Other games will be in Los
Angeles and San Diego. .!
Managers have picked the
following batteries for Satur
day, i
Portland Ad Liska and
Eddie Adams; Oakland Fred
Stromme and Bill Raimondi.
Hollywood Rodney Smith
and Jinv Hill; Sacramento Tuy
Fletcher and Ed Schluctcr.
San Francisco . Ken Bran
do!! and Joe Sprinz: Los An
geles Don Osborn and Roy
Easterwood.
Seattle Carl Fisher and
Hal Sueme; San Diego Jim
Brillheart and Del Ballinger.
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By ORLO ROBERTSON
NEW YORK, March 30 (P
After 18 years a team coached
by 41-year old Bank Iba has
reached the pinnacle of basket
ball. -
When Iba's Oklahoma Aggies
capped their NCAA champion
ship with a 52-44 victory over De
Paul of Chicago, national Invi
tation tournament winners, in a
NCAA Not
To Repeat
"Boner"
By JERRY LISKA
ANN. ARBOR, Mich., March
30 Because the National
Collegiate Athletic association
won't repeat a "boner" it com
muted last year, utuo stale may
be an also-ran instead of a poten
tial t h r e a t in the 22nd annual
NCAA swimming meet opening
here today. .:
The B u c ke y e s had been
ranked only behind Michigan's
Big Ten champions among con
tenders for the title now held by
aie, wnicn is not competing tnls
year. Cornell is rated third in a
field of 15 eastern and midwest
ern schools which have entered
70 aquatic stars.
At a meeting last night; how
ever, coaches of the association
upheld a ruling by H. C. Willett
of Southern California. chairman
of the NCAA eligibility commit
tee, that Keo Nakama,- Ohio
State's 440-yard and 1500-meter
free style champion, would, be
unable to compete because be is
a post-graduate student. .,
Last year, according to Buck
eye Coach Mike Peppe, the,
NCAA allowed Diver Charles
Batterman of Columbia to com
pete, although he had graduated
from Ohio State. Batterman won
both the low and high board div
ing titles.
A's Ace Outfielder
May Be Inducted
PHILADELPHIA, March 30
P) Outfielder Hal Peck, for
whom the Philadelphia Athletics
paid Milwaukee 520,000 and four
players underwent a preinduc
tion physical examinall- yester
day. His case maylBMfarded
to Washington ftwoia-vA.
A's Outfielder Chfcv,. Metro,
also was instructed to report at
the examination center again to
day. .'
Red Cross game at Madison
Square Garden last night, it
marked the greatest triumph for
the coach who is rated one of the
shrewdest men in the business.- I
So last night's triumph was in-!
deed gratifying as It was
achieved before a sell-out crowd
of 18,158 fans, who contributed
more than $50,000 to the Red
Cross. The gate receipts were
$36,358 and the remainder came
from an $8000 auction of the
ball, program sales and radio.
.. Tbe game was expected .to be
a battle of basketball's top big
men the Aggies' seven-foot Bob
Kurland and De Paul's six-foot
nine-inch George Mikan. But
Mikan fouled out after 14 min
utes of play and Iba, moving his
men in and out of the game like
a chess master, assigned Kurland
to almost a ball-retrieving and
play-making job in the last half.
The Oklahoma red-head took
only two shots in the last half.
making one of them. He added
two free throws to boost his total
to 14. Mikan counted nine times
during his short appearance.- .
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Eagles to Even
Hockey Series
SEATTLE. March 30 (P)
Portland's Eagles and Seattle's
Ironmen are even up in their
playoff series for the northern
division, Pacific Coast Hockey
league championship today, the
latter navmg come from behind
in the first period of their con
test last night to win an easy
6-2 victory. Each team has won
one game.
Manager Frank Dotten and
Ursaki led the Seattle scoring
with two goals and an assist
each. . Morin paced Portland
with one goal and an assist.
Alline Pate
Leads Convacs
Into AAU Finals
ST. JOSEPH, Mo., March 30
(JP) Mrs. Alline Banks Pate,
red-haired scourge of women's
basketball, who still looks like
the belle of the high school sen
ior prom after five years of high
pressure national AAU play, will
attempt to lead her Nashville
Convacs mates into their second
consecutive tournament title
over the Little Rock, Ark., Dr.
Peppers tonight.
. Mrs. Pate who has been on the
mythical team from her fresh
man year in the event back in
1940, personally conducted the
Convacs into the finals last night
with a 20-pound blast as the Boe
ings of Wichita, Kas., bowed 28
11. The Dr. Peppers advanced at
the expense of the Nashville
Business college team 25-15.
Artie Dorrell Gets
TKO Over De Leon
HOLLYWOOD, March 30 (IF)
Artie Dorrell scored a six-round
TKO over the game but out
classes Rene De Leon in a sched
uled 10-rounder last night in Hol
lywood Legion stadium. De Leon
weighed 145i, Dorrell 1461. Dor
rell is from Dallas and De Leon
from Mexico City.
Referee Frankie Van stepped
in and stopped the bout with De
Leon cut, bleeding and wobbling.
FORMER UO COACH DIES
SEATTLE, March 29 (IP)
Bruce C. Shorts, 67, attorney,
banker and a former football
coach at the Universities of Ore
gon and Nevada, died yesterday
after a long illness.
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By HUGH FULLERTON, JR.
NtiW YORK, March 30 in')
Lou Nova, who used to turn over
and stand on his head in his
dressing room, has turned over
a new leaf instead and as a sym
bol he's wearing an "iron" hat
li'-.e Manager James J. John
toon's. . . . Even the experts who
made Miner Joe Baksi a favor
ite to lick Nova tonight began
back-peddling when they heard
that triple J actually planned to
work in Lou's corner. . . . They
figured that Jimmy might revive
some of the stuff that Nova had
when he licked such guys as Mux
Baer and Tommy Farr. . . . When
DePaul's baskctballcrs faced tin
all-star team in a benefit game
for Vaughan ' General hospital
last fall, George Mikan hud to
face seven-foot Bob Kurland of
the Oklahoma Aggies, Don Ottcn
(6-1 H) of Bowling Green and
Bill Henry (6-U) of Rice in one
game. The experience didn't help
him much against Kurland last
night when he fouled out in less
than 15 minutes.
.
NO SHORT SNORTER
The Giants are claiming some
sort of a record for Ernie Lorn
bardl since their visit to the Cur
tis Bay, Md., coast guard station.
Schnozz kept an e n t i r c bar
racks awake all night with his
snoring and teammates claim the
bugler quit in disgust when he
found everyone awake in the
morning. ... He said Lomburdi
had a bigger and louder bugle
than Uncle Sam gave him.
THE REAL LOWDOWN
When Billy Banks, Washing
ton lightweight, stepped into the
ring to fight Billy Morris the
other night, his bright green
trunks were adorned with the
words: "Information and -statistics."
. . . Billy explained, "I'm
a messenger for the Division of
Information and Statistics of the
Civil Aeronautics administra
tion." Brenda Helser
Will Team Again
With 'Cody Kids'
PORTLAND, March 30 (A)
Brenda Helser will team again
with the famed "Cody kids" of
the Multnomah Athletic club to
seek national swim honors,
Jack Cody, club coach, said yes
terday he had been assured.
Miss Helser, now in Holly
wood, takes the attitude, Cody
said, that she, Suzanne Zim
merman, Nancy Merki, and
Mary Ann Hansen are defend
ing champions In the 400-yard
relay. "I want to be with them
to defend the title" in the na
tional women's outdoor swim
ming championships in Los
Angeles in August, she said.
The winged M four holds
the American record of 4:09.1
for the event.
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Lippy Leo May Face
Choice of Positions
By JOE REICHLER
BEAR HOUNTAIN.N.Y,
March 30 (I) Lippy Leo Dur
ocher, who has been airing his
loquacious talents, may face the
choice today of continuing us
manager of the Brooklyn Dodg
ers or pursuing a budding career
as a radio entertainer.
Durocher incurred the wroth
of Branch Rickey, president of
the Brooklyn club, when he left
the Dodgers' spring training
camp last night to go to New
York for rehearsal of a radio pro
gram on which he Is to appear in
a guest role Sunday night.
"There must be an election of
professions," dcclnred Rickey,
and ho intimated there would be
a showdown today.
Durocher could not bo located
in New York lust night for com
ment. Rickey discovered Durocher's
absence wnen he attempted to
contact the munagcr to discuss an
"important development." Rick
ey would not say what the de
velopment was, but it was be
lieved to huvo grown out of a
telephone ronvursatlun with
Dixie Walker, the club's leading
holdout and the league's batting
kii t.
Walker, holding out for $22,
500, an increase of approximate
ly $8500 over lost year's salary,
was reported to have agreed to
reduce his original demand to
$21,000 if he were paid his en
tire salary In war bonds.
Rickey s reply wos, "If Dixie
will ucccpt his asking price In
war bonds at their mnturlng
value, he's in right now." Thai
would bo $16,873 at the purchase
price.
Durocher has appeared on sev.
criil radio shows during the win
ter, Including one last Saturday
for which he is said to huvo re
ceived $1000. Ho has ulso been
offered a spot on a weekly rudlo
program.
The Dodgers are slated to play
an exhibition gome with Mon
treal at 2 p. m. Sunday, four
hours before the scheduled
broadcast. It takes about two
hours to get to New York from
Bear mountain. , .
Swift Swede Set
For Farewell
Appearance Here
NEW YORK, March 30 f11
Guilder Huegg. the Swedish rec
ord breaker, will make his faro
well indoor trnck appearance in
this country Saturday.. when he
renews his rivalry In the mile
race with Jim Rafferty of the
New York AC at Buffalo in a
meet sponsored by the Niagara
AC. Rofferty has defeated Hnegg
three times.
JORGENSEN TO REPORT
SEATTLE. March 30 P-'Bob
Jurgcnscn, University of Wash
ington basketball guard and n
caudldato for the baseball team,
has been ordered to report for
induction Into the armed forces,
tho school announced yesterday.
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Rex Cecil
Looks Good
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, Formtr San DUgo Hurling '
Sematlon May Mods Grada
' NEW YORK, March 30 (!).
Ilex Cecil, who proved some,
whut of disappointment after
costlnif Ilia Boston Hod Box
$20,000 Inst year, Is Klvliiu evi
dence that hi) inlMht yat pay
dividends. , ,
Tho former Snn DIoko pilch.
Init sensation, who was expected
to take the place of Tex llunh
son but could win only four
out of nine starts, Iturlud .bril
liantly yostwduy ,uh tho Red
Sox downed tho Now York
Yankees UO. Cecil held the
Yankees to two hits lit flvo
scoralvM frumot and struck out
five butters.
Mnnaiiar Joo Cronln nomin
ated Joo Wood Jr., and Oils
Clark to hurl nKulnst tho Yan
kees today, Shortstop Skcoler
Newsomo Joined the Sox sguud.
Other eunip briefs:
Marlon Arrives
CATIDS Shortstop Marty
Marlon nrrlvod. talked salary
terms with owner Sam Dreadon,
no uurecmcul reached. Gcome
Dock Ins, formerly with Ameri
can association, arrived to be
come loth Card pitcher on
hand. Three still absent Ted
Willis, Hurry Urecheen, and Al
Kurlsleh.
BltOWNS Pitcher Jack
Kramer reported. Catcher Joe
ScliulU and Pitcher Sam Zoldsk
Joined workouts. Al La Macchla
pitched four rimless limlnus for
Browns, who tied with Toledo,
3-9.
URAVKS Plenty of skull
praetico for team promised by
Maunder Hob Coleman, after
check Inn defensive lapses, while
awaltiiiK next exhibition name
scheduled for Monday.
Likes Pitching Staff
WIUTK SOX Manager
Jimmy Dykes likes pltelilnx
staff but worried over holdouts
Johnny Humphries and Orval
Grove. Third Hiueman Grey
Clurk, First Busvmun Joe Or
eimo unheard from. Outfielder
Howard Huberts reported, Haiti
chased iuiuad under grandstand
for brief workout, Intcrsquad
game Sunday,
CUUS Despite showers,
team drilled on depot grounds,
preserving record of not missing
a practice. Pitcher Ed llanyiew
ski's arm, re-injured Wednes
day, still stiff., Clncy Coach
Jimmy Wilson visited Cubs'
Mumper Grimm to arrango
eight exlilglllon games between
clubs.
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