Baseball Comes
To Aid Crushed
;. Spokane Outfit
SPOKANE, June 26 W Organized baseball opened Its heart
today to help reconstruct the Spokane Indians baseball team,
lashed to three active players Monday night when a bus crash
carried eight to their deaths and Injured seven other players and
the driver.
Offers of player help came not only from the B league West
ern International circuit where Spokane was battling to rise from
fifth place but from major and minor leagues across the nation.
. The president of the Western International league, Robert B.
Abel of Tacoma, was to arrive in Spokane today to discuss in
voking an emergency rule to recruit players from other clubs
and enable Spokane to finish its season.
Owner Sam W. Collins, directing the Indians for the first time
this year, was too busy assisting relatives of victims to plan a
Br HALE SCABBROUGH
Spokane Tragedy
As it happened, although the
Spokane Indians were heavy
with former service men, only
two of the eight ballplayers
killed in the disastrous bus
crash were ex-GIs.
One was .
shortstop
George R. V
Risk, 25, ot J
Hillsboro,
Ore., who
played three t
years of army T7?
baseball with - v :
a team at
Salt Lake City
and who prior
to his army
service played
ball for Paci
fic university,
Forest Grove,
Ore.
The other was Pitcher George
Lyden, 22, of Tensed, Idaho.
He played with Spokane in
1942, then later was on a navy
team in Memphis. Lyden died
of his injuries yesterday morn
ing. All the players killed were
young fellows, the oldest being
Pitcher Robert E. Kinnaman,
27, of Brooklyn, Wash. He
started out this season with the
Oakland Oaks but was re
leased to Spokane.
First Baseman Vic Picetti, 18
years old and a San Francisco
boy, was an Oakland chattel
and was considered about the
most promising youngster in
coast baseball last season.
Manager Mel Cole, who also
caught, was just 25; Second
Baseman Marty Martinez of
San Diego was 24, Outfielder
Robert James was 24 and Out
fielder Robert Paterson was 22.
Paterson. incidentally. also
spent some time with the Oaks
this season.
Games Cancelled
Spokane games with Brem
erton ana laxima scneuuieu
fnr this week and next have
been cancelled but Sam W.
Collins, owner of the Spokane
club, expects a meeting ot me
directors of the Western In
ternational league will be
called in the next three or tour
days to see what can be done
about providing players for
Spokane.
The Indians are currently in
fifth nlace in the leaeue, nav
ine a record of 31 wins and 25
defeats, and are five and a half
games back of Salem in first
place.
Bob Kinnaman, one of the
bovs killed in the bus plunge,
beat Salem 7-5 in a relief-
pitching job Saturday night, a
game wmcn jviei toie caugm,
'Wrong Side' Driver
Survivors of the crash have
placed the blame for the holo
caust on an unidentified car
which was on the wrong side
of the road on Snoqualmie Pass
hiehwav.
Levi McCormack, injured
outfielder, said that he saw the
lights of the car coming on the
wrong side of the road, and
that the bus swervea or Bloo
ded in and through the guard
rail to avoid hitting the other
car. McCormack was quoted as
saying, "I don't know why we
didn't smash the other driver.
It might have been better.
Stctnkovich TKOs
Seattle Boxer
SEATTLE, June 26 (P) Mike
Stankovich of Fresno, Calif.,
scored a ninth round technical
knockout over Johnny Wells of
Seattle in the main event of a
fight card here last night.
Other results Included:
Manuel James, 159, Denver,
scored a fourth round technical
knockout over Ron Whalley,
Vancouver, B. C.
Freddie Steele, Vancouver,
B. C, 131, won a six-round de
cision over Paul Cook, 130, Ta
coma. Duke Harris, 137, Bremerton,
won a four-round nod over
Toughie Wilson, 132, Tacoma.
Boys'
"TEE" SHIRTS
Boys'
CORDS
OREGON
Woolen Store
1
i resumption 01 piay iniuit-uinnr-I
ly. He was determined, though.
to finish the season because
'the boys themselves would
want the game continued."
Collins was encouraged to try
again by a wire from Branch
Rickey, president ot tne ttrooK-
Ivn Dodgers in tne national
league, who promised "every
possible effort to send players
and help locate a new manager
if necessary.
President W. G. Bramham of
the National Association of
Minor Leagues also offered all
help possible.
President Clarence Rowland
of the Pacific Coast league said
in Los Angeles he had urged
coast teams to option surplus
players to the Indians.
William H. Klepper. Port
land's general manager, said the
Beavers and all other coast
clubs would "lend a hand" in
reconstruction, and Spokane's
opponents in the Western In
ternational circuit were review
ing their rosters to decide what
players to lend the Indians.
Spokane will not attempt to
compete at least until July 4,
though other league teams win
resume play tonight.
When reorganization ot tne
team begins, Collins will start
with three uninjured men
Pitchers Milt Cadinha and Joe
Faria, who drove to the coast
in a private automobile and es
caped the crash, and Infielder
Fred Lanifero, optioned to Spo
kane by San Diego just before
the tragedy.
Montana Girl Golfer
Paired With Rucker
TACOMA, June 26 UP) Miss
Edean Anderson, Montana state
women's golf champion consid
ered most likely challenger for
Betty Jean Rucker s Pacific
Northwest Golf association cham
pionship, will get her chance to
day against Miss Rucker.
Miss Anderson was an easy 7
and 5 winner yesterday over
Mrs. Alex Babbit, Tacoma, in
first round matches while Miss
Rucker defeated Betty Frank,
Seattle, 7 and 6.
STANDINGS ?
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
W. I. I
Oakland i 33 .
San Francisco 34 .
Lo Angeles 30 .
San Diego A3 .522
Hollywood 1 44 .494
Sacramento 42 48 .467
Seattle 31 54 .385
Portland - .23 54 .357
KesuiH reiterdar
San Diego 2. San Francisco 1.
Hollywood 2. Sacramento 1.
Seattle 6. Oakland 5.
Only games scheduled.
NATIONAL LEAGl'E
,., w- Pet.
Brooklyn js 23 623
St. LouU 35 28 .574
Chicago 32 25 .561
Boston .30 32 .484
Cincinnati 77 30 474
Philadelphia 26 30 .464
Pittsburgh .24 34 .414
New York .. .25 37 .403
Kesalts Yesterday
CincinnaU 15. Brooklyn 3.
Piusburgh 3. New York 0.
Philadelphia 5. St. Louis 3.
Chicago 7, Boston X
AMERICAN LEAGl'E
. W. L. Pet.
Boston j. it
new zone
28
28
Detroit
.608
.541
.508
.460
.438
.417
Waihlntftnn"
St. Louis
Cleveland
2a
PhiladelnhTi," '
Chicago
-23 35
44 .290
Kesalts Yesterday
Boston 1. Detroit 0.
Cleveland 8, New York 3.
Chicago 8. Washington 4.
St. LouU 7, Philadelphia 2
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Hot Jockey Boots Home
22 Winners In 38 Mounts
SEATTLE, June 26 (IP Marl
time delegates from all over the
world will be guests today at
Longacres race track, where
they'll see perhaps the hottest
thing on a horse since the inven
tion ot the horse blanket.
At least, 23-year-old Walt Lit
zenberg is the hottest jockey
seen on the Longacres oval in
its 13 years of racing.
In the first seven days of the
58-day meet, Litzenberg has rid-
Iowa Miss
Wants Shot
At Mildred
DES MOINES. June 26 (,F
There was at least one rival
among the 16 second round par
ticipants in the women's western
open golf tournament today who
hoped the defending champion
Babe Didrickson Zaharias doesn't
lose not until the semi-final
round.
The little lady who wished
the Babe well for two more days
was Phyllis Otto of Atlantic, la.,
the hard hitting Northwestern
university graduate who would
like a chance to duplicate her
victory over Mrs. Zaharias in
the western amateur titlecontcst
a year ago.
Phyllis equaled men's par at
37 for the first nine and was one
under women's par at the Wa
konda club for the 12 holes she
needed to eliminate Mary Agnes
Wall, Menominee,, Mich., 7 and
6. in the first round yesterday.
She wasn't sure she could do a
repeat performance against the
Babe.
She confided, "I bet she'd like
to cut my throat."
Little Phyllis meant it in fun,
of course, as she discussed Mrs.
Zaharias' desire for revenge.
Bus Driver Still
Unable To Talk
SEATTLE, June 26 UP)
Chris Hartje, 30, member of the
ill-fated Spokane Western Inter
national league baseball club,
remained in critical condition at
King county hospital today from
injuries suffered in the bus
crash that claimed eight of his
teammates.
Glen Berg, 24. Spokane,
driver of the bus and believed
to hold the key to the cause of
the accident, thus far has been
too badly injured to talk.
Of the hospitalized survivors,
Ben Geraghty, 31, Spokane, and
Richard Powers, 26, Oakland,
were described as in satisfactory
condition. Others injured were
Chief Levi McCormack, 33,
Spokane, facial injuries, and Er
win Konopka, 26, Moscow, Ida
ho, fractured neck.
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
Bjr The Associated Press
UNION CITY. N. J. Ray Robinson.
147. New York, won decision over Nor
man Rublo. 146. Albany. N. Y. UOi.
TRENTON. N. J Jlmmie Cortl, 134.
Trenton. N. J., outpointed Jackie Cal
lura. 130. Hamilton. Ont. 8t.
NEW YORK Irish Jimmy Pierce.
140?, Vancouver, B. C, won decision
over Tony Antognoll, 136U. New York
18).
Mike Grady, playing third
base for the New York Giants,
in 1895, made four errors on
one batted ball.
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29.50 to 45.00
733 Main
den 22 winners, placed four
times, showed three times and
finished out of the money nine
times for his 38 mounts.
The form players have been
taking a licking, and now they're
taking their cue from those fans
who just run an index finger
down the right hand column of
the race program looking for the
name "W. Lltxenborg. Their
finger then goes over to the left
hand column listing the post posi
tion, and then they head for the
sellers' windows.
Some of the track officials are
milking fearful grabs at their re
ceding hairlines because of Litzy
the Blitz's sensational streak. His
name in the lists has sent odds
down to 3-5 and 4-5 on nags
which ordinarily wouldn't figure.
An instance came in lust Sun
day's feature race, when he
brought Larry Kidd's My Em
pire from Inst to first in a mile
and a sixteenth race to win by a
lip and pay $11 on the horn to
beat the lines of the top-notch
Canadians, Mouse Hole and
Pagan Star, and the American
Last Roll.
Somebody hit the charts to
figure out that betting Litzen
berg the first seven duys with
nothing but $2 nosers would
have returned $105.10, which is
pretty fair pickings.
Strange thing about the
Wapato, Wash., flash is that he
never rode a horse up to nine
months ago.
Two Prelim
Bouts Booked
The next armory bdxing card
is slated for Tuesday ot next
week and two of the five bouts
which will eventually make up
the docket have been tentatively
slated.
Both bouts will be four rounds
in the lightweight division.
In what is temporarily listed
as the curtain-raiser, Bobby
Barney of Spraguc River will
meet a newcomer to the local
ring, Bobby Hannon. Barney
last week was the victim of a
kayo by Don Reynolds in the
initial canto of their scheduled
four-round opener when he
rested during a count after be
ing knocked down and failed to
get to his feet in time.
The second bout will put Don
Reynolds up against Herbert
Snell of Spraguc River. Snell
last week pounded out a four
stanza decision over Paul Wilson
in one of the most popular fights
on the card.
Aviation engineers are pre
dicting that, within the next
three years, jet propulsion will
be used as standard equipment
in cargo and transport planes.
Jet engines will be smaller than
air-couiea units oi loaay, dm
will develop from 6000 to 7000
horsepower.
One pound of salvaged fat
makes five bars of toilet soap.
WRE
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Georges Dusette and Joe Lynam (here on the mat) wllj get
another chance at Paavo Katonen (with the steoover toe
hold on Lynam) in a return tag team match. Referee Wally
Moss also will have a teammate, to help keep the four
grapplers in line. With six men involved anything can hap
pen ... so be there to see itl
THURSDAY NIGHT
8:30 P. M.
Armory Arena
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Castlcberry'i for Sections A, B and C
530 Main Phone 3333.
Klamath Billiards tor Section D
630 Main Phone 9167
Chapman Is
Cinch For
Some Honor
Phillies Now Only On
Game From Top Half;
Decision Cards, 5-3
By The Associated Press
Ben Chapman, the "fall guy"
who took on the thankless Job of
mannging the Phillies a year
ago, is a solid bet to be named
manager of the year In the Na
tional league even if his team
winds up in the basement.
Winning 18 of their last 24
games and moving from eighth
place to sixth, only one game
out of the first division, rates as
a minor miracle for the club
that holds the all-time record
for finishing last.
Philadelphia has taken the
Phils to its heart and Inst night's
5-3 decision over the St. Louis
CardinHls was the lutcst reason
for jubilation.
Brooklyn Battered
The Cardinals had a chance
to pick up a game, for Brooklyn
had been battered by Cincinnati,
15-3, earlier in the day. John
Hetkl scattered 10 Dodger hits
while Ray Mueller smashed two
homes and Ed Lukon collected
five blows off an assortment of
Brooklyn throwers. Starter Les
Webber was the loser.
Pittsburgh staggered out of
the basement behind Nick Strin
cevich, who scored his first win
of the year, a four-hit 3-0 white
wash of the New York Giants,
who now bring up the rear in
the National.
Chicago's Cubs stopped Bos
ton's five-game win streak, 7-3,
to the dismay of 34,331 funs.
Claude Passeau went the route
to decision Em Ruser.
Feller Beats Yanks
Tex Hughson's second straight
shutout was the big news in the
American where Boston stretched
its lead to 71 games by blanking
Detroit, 1-0, while New York
bowed to Cleveland's Bobby Fel
ler. 8-3.
Bill Dietrich suffered a broken
finger when hit by a line drive
off Cecil Travis' bat as Chicago
downed Washington, 6-4, and
Sam Zoldak outpitched three
Athletic hurlers to give the St.
Louis Browns a 7-2 night ver
dict over Philadelphia. Two
homers by Chct Laabs and one
by Walt Judnlch were the big
blows.
Veterans' Housing
Priorities Asked
PORTLAND. June 26 (P)
Applications for 450 HH vet
erans' housing priorities have
been filed with FHA here on the
district's third-quarter quota,
State FHA Director Folgcr John
son said today.
The quota of 3604 housing HH
priorities will allow 2703 for
sale end 901 for rent, Folgcr
said. Of second-quarter priori
ties only a few for eastern Ore
gon are still available, he said.
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