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BOXING UNDER FIRE; LOUIS TOWERS HIGHER OTooe Calls For Inquiry Br BUS HAM i WASHINGTON, June 21 (IP) ' Rep. Donald L. O'Toole, the scrappy Irishman who aimed a haymaker at the Louis-Conn ' fight, followed it today with a J short Jab ai the fisticuff sport in i general. "The trouble with boxing," J the New York democrat told a . reporter, "is that persons in au- thority in the various states pay 1 no attention to it until some , thing like this a national fraud and scandal comes along. "What the sport needs is prop. J er supervision, and the Rover i nors could solve the problem by putting competent men in as : boxing otnciais, paying mem well and giving them needed power." J Hot NBA Mtmbar ! O'Toole said the "National Boxing association can't get the job done because it lacxs au J thority." New York, for in. a stance, where the Louis-Conn fight was held, is not a membe; m the NBA. he noted. i Abe F. Greene, president of the NBA, came up fast with the answer to that one. ! "Mavbe this would be a good time for Mr. O'Toole to use his good offices to bring his home tate of New York into the NBA Greene commented in Paterson, N. J. He further suggested that the i' tongressman "keep boxing gen erally cut of his barbecuing of 'Promoter Mike Jacobs and con I jcentrate his fire on his home I i sector, which was the locale of I 'the promotion." j J ; As his clincher Greene re j ' marked that the NBA made the : (same objections to the bout, be f 1 fore it came off, that O'Toole j ; raised afterward. I ; Demands Inquiry i i O'Toole. a sauat. 44-year-old ! J Brooklynite with an athletic I background, sent a telegram to i i Edward Eagan, New York state boxing commission chairman ! ! iesterday, calling for an inves- ' i ligation of Wednesday night's I heavyweight championship ax ' fair. - ! , , He also demanded that purses ' i of the fighters be held up "in t justice to those woo were swin ' died." ' l l -r j u u. ( I i wile iiiui uauu vouvii uic i i Louis-Conn bout) and boxing ' I will be ruined in the United ! States for many years to come, i i he wired Eagan. ii In an interview later, O'Toole 1 said that Promoter Mike Jacobs J ! has an "absolute monopoly" on ; boxing, and that "boxing in New 1 York has not gone into the gut ; ', ter; it's gone into the sewer. . ' Ties Up Boxers i i Asserting that Jacobs ties up ; i promising boxers with contracts ; to light for him before he will ! , agree to arrange title matches. 1 1 the lawmaker added that the j promoter also controls bouts in j j Madison Square Garden, the ; Polo Grounds and Yankee sta- i dium. ' ! Jacobs, in New York. reDlied ; ; to O'Toole's blast by saying that . i the representative "wanted com I j plimentary tickets and I refused j him so now he comes holler ! I inB" i This O'Toole denied and stated that his New York law partner "invited him to attend the fight as his guest but he "turned it down. Will Sue Mike JJ Later, O'Toole announced that u he would sue Jacobs for Sinn. 000 for "accusing me of extor- tion i nave instructed my New o York attorneys to file suit for n damages." Of the fight, OToole told a reporter that Conn should not at have been permitted to enter the same ring with Louis; that he visited both training camps and M had first-hand knowledge of the M condition of the fighters. Louis was tough, hardened by work- ouis wnn rugged sparring part m ners; Conn was not, he asserted. : Badgers Clamor For Practice ; SEATTLE, June 21 UP) The migniy Wisconsin Badgers, seek- ""is meir iirst national cham m tlionshin In fi5 voars nf i-ntuma at the airport at 7:50 p. m. (PST) jusi nigm py clamoring for an immediate workout on Lake JJ Washington to make up for lost uiiii: in arriving nere nearly a day late. "Where's the shellhniise? asked Alan Wlaz, coach of the m cadgers, when he and his crew m men aepianea. Mt Thp KlimriRP raranlinn mm mlttee immediately bundled the BaHffPrs intn niitsmnKiTA. J took them out to the Univer- suy oi Washington shellhouse, m where Wismnain mil u.i i. m the water Illst e thn TTri.,a...,U.. of British Columbia, next to the 5 mai. crew 10 arrive, was pull Iling mcir s out. MUCH TM T TTTT r m mi l . m muiuugn mey are only two aand five-eighths inches in dl- ameter, the largest telephone "cables in use in the United States contain 3636 wires. MOOSE for MEMBERS and GUESTS SATURDAY NIGHT JUNE 22 idpbd Br HALE SCARBROUGH Heavyweight Fiasco The Louis-Conn fiasco Wed nesday night was Just about as poor a proiessionai ngni people ever paid good money to witness, and the radio broad cast of the fight didni ao a whole lot to improve it from a listen ers point of view. The mo tion picture version prob ably won't make It too any better. As mucn oi a pain as Gene Tunney gives us. the guy did predict about six 14 months ago that it would be a stinker, and stinker it was. But. for all that, we can't fig ure any solid ground for Con gressman O'Toole's demand for an investigation into the thing. On the face of things it looks Drettv obvious. Conn knew ne didn't have a chance and didn't want to get close enough to allow Louis to tag him. He danced and Dicyciea me best he could for most of eight rounds, but couldn t keep it up all night. Louis knocked him out the first chance he had to hit him solid. Louis didn t carry Conn . . . he Just couldn't catch up with him before. Louis, in our esti mation, never carried anybody, and he has fought some tankers who never got anywhere ex cept by being carried. The only oasis lor an inves tigation would be in the horri ble mis -match of the fight. Conn was no more of a match for Louis Wednesday night than Red Burman or Johnny Pavcheck or some of the other hopefuls Louis fought back be fore the war. That bnnes ud the question of just who would be a match for him. Well, Gus Lesnevich would have done a better job of putting up a fight, and Gus is tough enough to lane more nunishment. Lesnevitch. though. is a ugntneavy ana ne iignu iu that bracket, something Conn should have been doing. Elks Tourney Prizes In the recent Elks-Reames golf tourney which was won by Elks with a one-point margin, some hand prizes were given out for this and that. For instance, Gus Anderson's ball was closest to the pin on number three and he won a pen and pencil set given by Rogers jewelry. Wesley McNee was closest on number seven, and his prize was a barometer from the Lorenz company. Harry Wayne, the railroader, won a lubrication job offered by Gus Anderson's Shell sta tion for the shortest drive, didn't say how short, and won six golf balls donated by Mont gomery Ward for being tied for the highest score. Ray Ruger won the other six. Bob Thompson had the high est score on number three hole and was awarded a toy play horse by J. W. Kerns. Johnny West won a pocketknife from Falls appliance and a billfold from Dick Reeder for the low gross score. Morgan Johnson had the low est net score and won a lubri cation book from Dick Miller. Carl Woods hit the longest drive off the number one tee and received a cigarette lighter from Pioneer tobacco. Medford Dairy Man Sells Guernsey Herd MEDFORD, Ore., June 21 (JP) C. A. Smith, owner of dairies here and at Vancouver, Wash., said today he had sold his Med ford herd of 88 registered guernseys to the San Carlos dairy of Santa Barbara, Calif. Rising costs, he said, prompt ed discontinuance of his dairy here but he added that he would retain his Vancouver herd. INVENTED CELLULOID A New York printer, who was trying to win an award from a billiard ball manufacturer seek ing a substitute for ivory, is credited with the development of celluloid. Classified Ads Bring Results. HOTELS OSBORN HOLLAND . EOCENE OBE. HEDFOBD Thoroughly Modern Mr, ul Mn. J. E. Earlc? ni Jot Earlcf PrprIitorl DANCE! Joe Runs Out Of Prospecis Br GALE TALBOT NEW YORK. June 21 (API Never before in the nine years since he won the heavyweight championship has Joe Louis stood out over the world's fight ing men to the extent he does today. When the big, amber-colored Negro knocked out Billy Conn with such convincing ease Wed nesday night he just about fought himself out of prospective chal lengers for his title. He finds himself out on a high plateau, all by himself. Probably not since Jim Jef feries retired for lack of oppo sition has the field been so bar ren of contenders, men whom Promoter Mike Jacobs might hope to pit against Louis in a big outdoor fight. It would be difficult to guess when Joe will fight again. Tami Maureillo, a blubbery Bronx heavyweight who recent ly beat Britain's novice cham pion, Bruce Woodcock, and Joe Walcott, Camden, N. J., negro who recently defeated Jimmy Bivins and Lee Oma, are about the only scrappers anyone can think of who might just possi bly give Louis a few busy rounds at this time, and that is not an intriguing prospect. Might Be Year .Nat Rogers, Jacobs match maker, admitted yesterday while the fight post mortems were be ing held in Mike's plush offices that it might be a year before some youngster would emerge from the nation's gymnasiums and small fight clubs and catch the publics fancy. As outside possibilities in this category he named Jack Cran ford of Washington, D. C, Jim my Evans of Brooklyn and Umel ia Agramonte of Puerto Rico. He also mentioned Tommy Gomez, the pride of Tampa, r la., and said that maybe Woodcock would develop into something much better with more experience this side of the water. But at no time did Nat sound enthusiastic. Billy Will Quit When he showed up at Jacob's office yesterday to get his fat check, Billy had not changed his mind about quitting a busi ness that calls for a person to be hit by Joe Louis. His forehead still was discolored and he had a couple of half-healed wounds on his face, but he didn't look like a man who had been through a thresher, the way Tony Galen to did, for instance, after he had played with the champ. "I'm still not kidding myself," said the pride of Pittsburgh. "I I didn't have it last night, and wnen i Know tnat, mat s tne time to quit. I was fully pre pared to make a stinkin' fight for seven or eight rounds. I didn't care how much they booed, because I knew they would forget about that after I opened up and started banging Joe around. Yes. It Was "I felt good going into the eighth round. I kept telling the guys in my corner to take it easy, that Joe and I were fight ing IS rounds and to let me at tend to Joe. And then Joe hit me. That last left he hit me was a beauty, wasn't it?" Louis, with no one to fight, in tends to wrap himself up tern porarily in golf, and the new restaurant he is opening out in Harlem, at Fifth avenue and 125th street. The latter will be known as the "Joe Louis" res taurant, and a syndicate is sup posed to be sinking $800,000 in uie establishment. Portland, Tacoma Boys s In Finals PORTLAND. Ore.. June 21 UP) Marsh Smith, Rose City club of Portland, and Don Mozel, Tacoma, will compete for the Oregon Golf associa tion's junior championship to day. Mozel downed Ray Morgan, Eugene, and Smith turned back Dick Yost, Portland, 6 and 4, on the 20th hole of yesterday's semi-finals. Dick Estey, Portland, and Del bert Tatro, Rose City, will meet for the boy's division crown. Two Portlanders, Sally Lighty and Dorothy Alexander of Ald erwood, will play in the girls' finals. Johnny West of Klamath Falls, who won 3 to 2 in yesterday's round, is in today's finals in the under-18 age group. TOO COLD Venus, not Mars, is the most probable home of life on other planets, according to scientists and astronomers, who have esti mated that the temperature of Mars drops to at least 40 below zero at night. DANCE Saturday Night K. c. Sponsored by Modern and Old Tim Man SOo Olsen Will Take Mound For their third successive home game, barring the rain and type of weather which threatened to call off the tilt last Sunday, the Klamath Sons will have for opposition the Dunsmuir Railroaders. This will be the second meet ing between the Sons and the Railroaders, the first at Duns muir having ended 7 to 2 in favor of Klamath. Jim Olsen, who won the other Dunsmuir ijame by hold ing the Califormuns to seven hits, will probably pitch for the Sons this weekend. Olsen hurled the two final innings aguinst McCloud lust Sunday and fanned the last five batters to face him. The Droblem of finances, par ticularly the city's cut of the fi nances, is beginning to plague the Sons again. Manager M. G. Carpenter has been Informed by city officials that 20 per cent of the gate receipts for home games is being expected for payment for use of Recrea tion field. Carpenter said today that In the controversy over the im prdvement of the field last spring and the city's subsequent decision to spend some money on the park which was brought about by public pressure, there was an agreement for payment of a fee for use of the ball park, but not 20 per cent. The actual fee. he said, was not set. Sixty cents is charged for adult admission to the home games. 10 cents of that going to the federal government for amusement tax, and the sixty cent admission is not cal culated to make any money but to pay expenses. Can't Break Evan Carpenter says that it will be impossible to take another 20 per cent cut out for the city and come anywhere near breaking even, but the Klamath team is willing to pay a reasonable fee for use of the field. That issue has not been set tled, and also affects the local Softball league, which uses Recreation field three times a week, but the game this Sun day will go on as scheduled and the admission will be 60 cents as usual. Northwest Dentists Select Vancouver GEARHART. Ore.. June 21 (JP) Vancouver, B. C, has been chosen 1947 convention site for the Northwest Conference of Dental Medicine. At the annual meeting here yesterday. Dr. M. J. Wiley of that city was elected president and Dr. C. R. Hallman, also of Vancouver, secretary - treasurer. Dr. Lauri B. Alexander, Haney, B. C, was named first vice- president; Dr. S. M. rtayfisn, Butte, Mont., second vice-president. 1 Canada.' Montana Idaho Washington and Oregon sent delegates. STANDINGS 1 Pel. .4 ; ,27 .543 ' .44 ! .4HA i .471 I .375 .350 Oakland San FrandfCO Loa Angeles San Diego ..S3 29 .. 32 31 ...44 37 . 42 43 ...40 42 ...40 4.1 .. 30 50 Hollywood Sacramento Portland Seattle 28 52 Reiolla Yeaterday Oakland 14, San Diego 3. Hollywood 6, Sacramento 3. tOnly gamea acheduledi. NATIONAL LEAGI'E W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 33 21 .925 St. Louis 34 23 .31(6 Chicago 27 23 .340 Cincinnati 28 23 .310 Boaton 23 31 .440 PltUburgh 23 30 .434 New York 24 32 .429 Philadelphia 21 30 .412 Yeaterday'i Reaalla Brooklyn 7. PltUburgh 3. St. Loufa 0. Boaton 1. tOnly garnet played. I AMERICAN LEAGI'E W. Boaton ...42 New York 37 Detroit 32 Washington 29 Cleveland 28 St. Loula 28 L. Pel. 18 .724 24 .807 23 .381 28 .327 32 .448 32 .448 32 .4117 42 .203 Chicago PhUadeiphla IS Ycaterday'e Reanlts Detroit . Phllndelpnia 2. Chicago 3-1, New York 1-8. St. Louli 2, Boston 0 might). Cleveland 4. Washington 3 Inlghtl. TRUCKS AND PICKUPS FOR RENT You Drive-Long. Short Trips Move Yourself Sava H STILES' BEACON SERVICE Phona 8304 1201 East Main HALL Townsend Club Dancing 9:00 'til 1:00 Ladies SOo OCPCDLTJTO COltllAL Br "TOP-WRANGLER" Howdy folks: The Hillbilly programmy is runin' night onto ful. Noticed store windows are a soil in' the pace fcr the Rodeo. Town Shop has a western window in and giltin' plenty of the teeners rig ged out to contest fer the 4th of July queen. Jist hoered the big Queen Bull Is set fer June 29th with the Saddle club playln' hostess to all them little beau ties. Mac Barbour turned his brnh- mas in the fiiirgrounds already. . . any yuh fellers cure to prac tice sum foot racln' It orta whip up yore time considerable with one of them babies at yor heels lor a co-maker. Klamath has been sportin' sum celebrities. Charles Hester and his attractive wife spent sum time helpin' the Saddle club iron out a quadrille hoss- DacK. i ne Hesters hail from bun Fernando valley, the hosa capital of southern California, where for over four years, as a hobby, they started a hosa show that has grown into a Instiution with world-wide recognition. Betty Jclllnek of the Pal-O- Mine ranch, Murysvillc. is spendln' a well earned vacation m our fair city. Blanche Har mon gonna haff to buy a new hat that'll fit since her little quarter-hoss colt arrived. He's a week or now and she tagged nun Cisco Kid. Dorothy and Scotty Lacoma Dougnt a couple of fillies snip ped in from Wyoming, huff American saddle-bred and huff Morgan. With folks driftln' in fer the Rodeo our fuirground bellhop, Al Jones, is Jist a jump behind a run. Blanche Hatchctt and Muble Liskey trucked in two saddlers las' Sunday. . . . Dan cudn't make it fcr he's sick in bed with the doctor. Janet Dierdorff cele brated her birthday with a new pair of boots and ride with Barbara Daniels. Darlene Knowles Is back in the saddle agin, but sed she ain't aimin' to ride the cow-hoss race this year, it's too hard on the shins. Mrs. W. D. Miller had to take the kinks outta her hoss tother day when he got to fcelin' his oats. Don't fergit the auction sale tomorrow. Over a 100 hosscs with one to fit ever need. Seth Waters pulled in this week and is headed fer Plcasanton fcr the 13 days meet of the broomtails. It's time to stop throwin' the ad jectives 'round, I gotta git to a weddin'. Bye now. Pair Of Softball Games Set Tonight Two Softball games are sched uled for tonight as the local loop resumes competition after a one-game layoff. Second-place Moose takes on the Ashley Chcvrolcts at Recrea tion field, and the Four Star Merchants play VFW at Mitchell and Applegatc. The games start at 6:30. Classified Ads Bring Results FILMS Developed and Printed 9Cga Exposure Roll In 9:00 A. M Out 3 P. M. Carmichael's News Stand 1004 Main St FOR FINE FOOD BRITE i SPOT 138 E. MAIN NOW OPEN -6a. m.toll p. m. Under New Management Hugh Radspinnor and Peggy Kelly SATURDAY NIGHT 9 TO 1 AIR-CONDITIONED DANCELAND SIS Klamath At. "Music Ai You Like It" by The DANCEMASTERS Admission, 74c, Including Tax Sponsored by Post 1383, V.F.W. Umpire Fails To See Joke By The Awoclatad Press The Pacific Count league's biggest baseball burlesuuu of the season left the Oakland Acorns in the loud today with a game ami a half advuntuge over their chullengers, tho bun Francisco Seals. While the Seuls were idle lust night, Munugcr Cusey Sten gel's Jovial Acorns hud a hit ting bee uiui blasted the Sun Diego l'udres, 14 to 3. The game was u frolic for players and funs ullke. Popper Martin's happy but not very lucky l'udres cumo out on top in the fun by putting on mi eighth-Inning comedy. Del Uullinger, plnclwiltting for Kail Chappie, let Acorn Hurl er Fruncla Shea's first offering go by, mid Umpire Gordon Ford culled it a strike. Itutliiigor beefed and In the middle of the argument pulled j out a toy pistol, shoved it I against Ford's stomach and pulled the trigger. Ford fuiled to laugh and, ap parently considering such con duct unbecoming in a league which hud announced Its aspira tions to become a major, tossed Ualllnger out of the game. But the never-threatened Ouk lumlcrs hud a rip-roaring time putting across their 14 runs on 15 hits and four errors. In the only other league game scheduled the Hollywood Stars turned back the Sacramento Solotis, 6 to 3, captured their short series two games to one. Xuvier Kcscigim, Holly wood sturter, received credit for the victory, and Tony Freltus wus chnrged with tho loss. Bad Team Gets Win The mean team won a clean cut victory over the more or less rulc-ublding puir in lust night's tug mutch at the armory in a fight thut got out of hund very soon after the opening bell and hud Refereo Waliy Moss re maining content to Just keep out of the way. The team of Murtluo Angclo and Puuvo Kutonen worked over Georges Duaettc pretty thor oughly for the first full, with some classy cooperation. After considerable buttling around the ring, Mnrtino picked Dusettc up in an airplane spin, dumped him to the ennvus and held him while Knloncn came in. .Then Kutonen spun Dusettc a while, proped him up on his feet and belled him on the point of the chin. The ensuing press was just to hold him down for the count. The next full went to the opposition in a four-way battle. Dusettc hud worked Kutonen over to the corner where Joe Lynam, outside the ropes, hacked CALLING ALL FISHERMEN'. II MBd eur Ural. I For sun protection, get TANOSOL gives a natural tun without sunburn or blister. Try It! FLIES We've Just received a big new selection TROLLING RUDDERS 13c up HUNTERS! Come In und see the new WEAVER K-4 SCOPE POOLE'S Bicycles It Sporting Goods 222 So. 7th aiAi.p a news. m.m.ui r.m, o.t. raiiMT, j... ti. m, t iiM Red Sox Dumped By Browns Again, 2-0 Br Tht Associated Press If tne Uoslou Hod Sox cull still see through the log thut liua en gulfed them, they can tuku good guilder tonight at their scheduled opponent, Bob Feller, who nturted mem on their uiuut ing i eti cut. Silica Feller set them buck on their heels June 12, thu Boston luns have dropped seven ot the lust eight guinea Including lust nights 2-0 selbut'k at thu nuiiils ol the St. Louis Browns. Sammy Zolduk, a stringy ophonioro nouthpuw, upplled the whilewush brush to the rug ged Red Sox lust night, duplicat ing the lent of Teuiniuule Hub Wuncrlef the other night. Joo Dob.ioii, Zolduks mound op ponent, put up stiff opposition, but a first Inning lupse, when thu Browns tullkti all their runs, overshudowed Ills nine strikeout total. Boston lost only a half gume of Us lend as the lunner-up New York Yankees were held to a split In their double header by the Chicago While Sox. A neut eight-hitter by besueelucled Bill Dietrich halted the Yunkees 3-1 in the opener us Yankee pitching uce, Spud Chandler, gunning for his lllh victory, wus forced to accept his third defeat. Floyd llevens gullied the split for the Yanks by besting Lefty Ed Smith o-i in uie nightcap. Brooklyn's puce-sctllng Dod gers unci the challenging St. Louis Cardinal readied them, selves for their "crucial" three game series for the National league lend which xturts tonight hy knocking over the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Braves re spectively, in easy fashion. Brooklyn won 7-3 while the Curds triumphed 0-1. The third place Detroit Tigers advanced to within nine and half games off the American puco by routing the I'hlludelphlu Alh- him a couple ol times, then Martiiio bounced Into the rlnu to Join the (ray. A whirlwind brawl took place for a minute or so, then Diiartle deadlocked Marlino and Lynmn did the same with Kaloiien. The next step was to bush their heads toKether and Mnrtino wus counted out. I'aavo Knloncn was unassisted in the third full. Lynam hoisted him up for a wild spin but Knloncn knew how to combat it. He locked lens and arms around Joe's arms and when they fell to tho mat he had Lynum stretched out. In the oener last nlisht. Maid Oilly McKuIn and Jack Klarr went la a draw. Mi-Kuln took the first with a half crab and Kliier finished off with three dropklcks and a bcar-huu press. When you finance your car, damand that It b insured by on who specialise in insuranc. Insurance is our speclaltyl Hani Norland Agtncy, 123 N. 6th St. Phona 6060. Whan Fishing, Picnicking or driving STOP & SHOP at HUSKINSON'S STORE-KENO Assorted meats, fresh vege tables. Full line of canntd goods and soaps. OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS HUSKINSON'S KENO, ORE. 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