Slave' Clause Under
Attack From Diamond
NEW YORK, July 20 It looks as though
the biggest job the baseball owners and league
presidents will have on their hands when they
meet with the six players representatives here
on August S will be to convince their opposite
numbers that the so-called "reserve clause-' is
great thing ior everybody and should be
retained.
. It seems certain that the six player-spokesmen
three from each league will enter this,
the first such meeting in diamond history, bear
ing a mandate from their fellow performers
to take, a whack at the clause which is the
backbone of organized ball.
The players never have liked the clause,
for the reason that it binds them for their
playing life to the club which first gets their
name on a contract. Unless the player is sold
or traded, he can never hope to better his
situation, become a member of a team which
pays higher salaries.
This causes admitted inequalities, and it
rankles the star who is drawing down perhaps
Notice To Klamath Baseball Fans
It has come to our attention that perhaps individuals and
business firms in Klamath Falls have been solicited for ball
players performing certain feats in the various games this
year, such as home runs, stolen bases and the like.
We wish to make it clear that the Klamath Sons baseball
team has not sanctioned any such solicitations, but do appre
ciate voluntary contributions on the part of anyone interested
in so doing, in such an event, please notify John Pastega,
M. G. Carpenter, the public address announcer at the ball
park or a member of the KFLW staff at the park.
Do not give cash or check or other prizes to anyone.
Merely signify your award by an order placed in an envelope
or given verbally to the above parties. If your award is won,
the player winning will be given a note to you saying that he
is entitled to it. If you care to contact the player personally
after the game, you may do so.
We. would be pleased to hear from individuals or-firms
in Klamath Falls who have made contributions to date who
might be under the impression that their contributions have
not reached the player entitled to the award.
It is our sincere desire to sponsor a team, representative
of Klamath Falls, on a sportsmanlike basis and conducted in
a businesslike manner.
We extend our sincere appreciation for the wonderful sup
port you have given us and trust you will continue to do so.
, Klamath Sons Baseball Committee,
M. G. Carpenter, Manager,
John Pastega, Business Manager.
Twin Bill Scheduled For
Local Diamond Tomorrow
Two baseball eames are on
the slate for Klamath Falls
home grounds tomorrow after
noon, and a third is being
played down at McCloud.
The newly-formed Lowell
Packers will play their first
game of the season against a
team from Bieber, Calif., on
Recreation field starting at 1
o'clock, and following that tilt
will play a second game with
Sawyers Go
Into Second
Palmerton Lumbermen upset
the Veterans of Foreign Wars
and at the same time boosted
themselves into an undisputed
Softball second place when they
walloped the Vets 15-11 last
night on Recreation field. The
game was finished in semi-darkness,
about 8 p. m., due to dis
putes between the teams.
Leading the game almost all
the way, Palmerton smashed out
seven runs in the last of the sixth
Inning to clinch the game. The
game was tied up at the end of
the third frame 6-6, until the
Lumbermen pulled out in front
again with two runs.
Frank Hall pounded out a
home run during the sixth for
Palmerton, and Don Schortgen
dropped a long, hand fly good
for all bases into center field
during the first of the seventh
for the Vets. Batteries for the
Vets were Olsen and Sweet, and
Hall and Ashby switched posi
tions during the fifth as batteries
for the Lumbermen.
Elks squeezed through with a
narrow 6 to 5 win over the Ash
ley Chevrolcts in the other soft
ball game played at Applefiate
field last night. The Elks man
aged to put the varnish on Ash
ley in the final stanza by edging
one run on their opponents after
a 6-6 tie-up.
Rex Young swatted the only
homer for the game, for Ashley.
Batteries for the game were Bel
lotti and Dcrrah for Ashley;
Myers and Murray for the Elks.
Portlonders Win
Semi-Pro Rounds
PORTLAND, July 20 (IP)
rorunna nines outclassed
staters in both contests nf
up-
the
Oregon State semi-orn hasnhall
double elimination tournament
first rounds last night.
Vince Pesky whitewashed the
Woodburn Firemen, 8-0. and
helped out the Rialto Billiards'
batting end by pounding out a
homer with the bases loaded.
The Portland Firemen, scoring
on a single and two errors in the
last minute, edged Valsetz, 1-0,
Ia the evening's opener.
MOOSE DANCE
For Members and Guests
EVERY "
SATURDAY NIGHT
MOOSE HALL
1010 Pine St.
I
the Junior Legion all-star team
which is representing Klamath
Falls m state Legion play.
The Packers have been prac-1
ticing about two weeks and
havi n tpam cnmDosed of most-!
lv all ptf-qprvieemen. This eame
with Bieber will be a sort of
shakedown cruise, although the
Californians have been organ
ized all season.
Included in the Packer line
up are Frank Hall, Joe Derrah,
Byron Cody, Buck Ferguson.
Jimmy Allio, Jim Derrah, Al
Bellotti and other local ball
players. Clyde Walsh, managing
the team, said that Jimmie
West, marine
who has been!Union creek or Natural bridge
playing with the Klamath Sons,
may pitch against Bieber tomor
row.
The second game of the Sun
day double bill will be between
members of the Packer squad
and the Junior Legion stars.
Also tomorrow a Northern
California league game is being
played by the Klamath Sons
against the McCloud Loggers
down at McCloud, and the tilt
will be on the air over KFLW
at 2 o'clock.
Klamath has knocked over
the Loggers twice in its march
to the top of the league this
season and are heavy favorites
to cop this one. Scores of the
other games were 8-0 and 7-4.
The Sons are without bus
transportation, probably for the
rest of the season, so have made
arrangements to go to McCloud
tomorrow in private cars.
Fluhrer Putting
Up Scoreboard
A new scoreboard, to be
built by Fluhrer's bakery, has
been started at Recreation field,
according to Fred Hoagland.
manager of Fluhrer's. The first
load of lumber arrived at the
field yesterday.
When completed, the new
scoreboard will be 40 feet long
and 18 feet high. It will be
made of masonite board, paint
ed green with black team and
score-by-inning boxes, and will
have yellow lettering.
The new scoreboard will be
built in the northwest corner of
the field behind the present site
of the flagpole facing the grand
stand. The flagpole will be re
moved and placed near the end
of the board.
Work is being done by Cecil
Green, contractor. The old
scoreboard behind the grand
stand has been taken down.
Part of the materials of the old
board will be used for the new
one, and the remainder of the
board will be done away with.
SAN DlEflO Poltf TAAim Vnri i
"'"c,c "iwuph out Aivaro Estada, I
ioo, mexico Lily, u, ,
LONCi BEACH, N. Y.-JImmy Callura,
123, Hamilton, Ont.. outpointed Bob
Rlchardi, 123',a, Spokane, 8.
$10,000 a year from one of the less prosperous
clubs to realize that players no better than
he are making twice that with, say, the
Yankees or the Detroit Tigers.
The player either can accept the contract
offered him by his owners, or he can hold out
and make fight of it each spring, or he can
retire from baseball, Dickie Kerr, the great
little White Sox pitcher, quit baseball for life
when he was at the height of his career Mid
Eddie Roush once remained out of the Giants
line-up for a year.
That is the player's side of it. Some feel that
they are "slaves," and they have always felt
that the reserve clause was a wicked, unlaw
ful instrument that would not stand up if it
were challenged in court. Yet there has never
been a serious, sustained effort by the players
to fight it out in the courts, and President
Larry MacPhail of the Yankees declared yes
terday that he had never had a player tell
him the clause should be abolished.
rs
co from
HUMID
By HALE SCARBROUGH
I Fishing Roundup
' From all reports, angling this
1 week and this weekend have not
been and is not expected to be
so good, except for the report of
! the game commission which
comes in over the teletype and
: says that all lakes and streams
in Klamath county are good.
Still, according to the game
commission's findings, Jackson
county the
j Rogue, both
I forks of the
i Applcgate, Hy-
atl lake and
i Fish lake are
! the best pros
; pects in the
state now, with
limit catches of
trout and some
steelhcad be
ing taken in
the Rogue.
Local observ
ers see the Up
per lake at the
mouth of Wood river for troll
ing as the most nearly sure thing
around here. That's trolling and
bait fishing.
The mouth of Seven Mile is
another spot in that area that is
good. Both Wood and Seven Mile
should be trolled on up for a
quarter or half a mile.
Down the Williamson to the
lake, trolling two-tone wobblers
should be good this time of the
year.
The Chewaucan and Deep
creek are good spots to try flies,
any of the grey patterns recom
mended by those who have been
over, and as a last resort a small
spinner and a fly or a small
spinner with a gob of worms
should do the trick.
The upper sections of the
Rogue should be about ripe for
flies, and in the area around
there are a dozen good creeks
and streams to be worked.
We understand that Crater
lake will soon be open for fish
ing, but that story in the paper
the other day about the kid who
nearly slid off into the lake
makes you take it with a grain
of salt.
. We're going on vacation now,
vacation, that is Saturday aft
ernoon and Sunday to grow a
beard, fight mosquitoes, cat this
and that cooked over an open
fire and, a faint possibility, catch
some fish in Diamond lake.
Just received a note from an
old friend with whom we flunk
ed several college courses back
in the pre-war days, saying that
our alma mater, the University
of Alabama, has a trifling squad
of only 85 football players work
ing out this summer, and that
doesn't include the first string
who is turned out to grass in
the summer.
Thto fripnH ia tha innri. n.,k
licity at the university, and quite !
proDaDiy ne lorgot to mention
the second and third strings
which are developing muscles in
Birmingham steel mills. When
they get all the players together
at once down there, they work
out in battalions.
DODGERS BURN
BEND, Ore., July 20 (IP)
Those Brooklyn Dodger football
ers training here for the 1946
professional grid season were hot
yesterday on the field and off.
The Oregon Sun put a pre-tan
burn on the 61 athletes. .
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
Br The Associated Press
NEW YORK Chuck Taylor, I44C,
Coalport, Pa., outpointed Tony Pellone,
141 'i. New York, 10.
SAN FRANCISCO-Wlllla Brown. IBS,
San Francisco, outpointed Eddis Read,
213. Fresno, 8.
HOLLYWOOD, Calif Fabela Chavei,
132. Los Anaele. outrnint1 Atrrtn
Escobar, 120', Monterey, Mexico, 10.
SATURDAY NIGHT 9 TO 1
AIR-CONDITIONED
DANCELAND
SIS Klamath Ave.
"Music As You Like It" by The DANCEMASTERS
Admission, 74c, Including Tax
Sponsored by Post 1383, V.F.W.
Above His Class
. !
7Y-j ;
4L4L,
JD
Ursal Snapp. Merrill's light
heavy. is standing head and
shoulders, plus a pair oi boxing
glores, orir his local field of
opponents, so Promoter Mack
LUlard is sifting through the
amateur lightheavy ranks oi
the northwest to find Snepp'i
next adversary.
Wl Pennant
Race Close
By The Associated Press
Third place Bremerton chopped
a full game off its Western In
ternational league disadvantage
last night with the help of Spo
kane and roosts today in third
place just a full game back of
Salem and half a tilt behind
Wenatehee.
John Pinlar set the league
leaders down with four hits in
leading Bremerton to its 5-0 win
over Salem. At the same time
Spokane was taking advantage
of six enemy errors at Wcnatchco
to trounce the second place team,
8 to 5.
Tacoma's Tigers rallied from
the wrong side of a 4-2 score
with four runs in the sixth frame
at Tacoma to turn back Victoria
6 to 4.
At Yakima, Lefty Al Yaylian
pitched the hometowncrs to a
7-0 shutout victory over Van
couver, with Yakima getting all
its runs on six hits and three
Vancouver errors.
Salem was in line today for
some new hitting strength. Gen
eral Manager William Klepper of
Portland's Coast league Beavers
said he was sending Danny Es
cobar to Salem, along with Eddie
Wheeler, and taking George
Vico and Wally Flagcr to Port
land. Service Golf
Meet Slated
Starting the service club links
tcurncy Sunday, golfers repre
senting the Lions and Rotarians
play 18 holes on Reames Coun
try club course starting, at 8
a. m., and the winners play the
Kiwanians Sunday, July 28.
Matches will be made at the
first tee tomorrow and the
games, 18 holes, will be played
on a handicap basis. Bob
Sproat is chairman of the Ro
tary team and Moon Mullis is
chairman of the Lions.
The Kiwanis club won the
service tourney last year.
Golfing members of the Lions
are Paul Angstead, Dan Bastien,
Jack Bishop. Bill Bratton, Ray
Barnes, Dr. C. J. Cox, Ed Hick
man. Gene Hooker, Lloyd
Drew. Morgan Johnson, Paul
Lee, E. R. Leint, Wes McNec,
Moon Mullis, Roy Rakestraw.
Ed Robinson, S. A. Rose, Bill
Sheldon, Hal Shidler, Dr. Boyd
Sprague, Larry Whytal and
Clarence Humble.
Rotarian golfers are Hugh
an?pl2f11.
Marshall Cornett.
Herb Hauger. Tommy Jerrow,
W. E. Lamm, Paul Landry,
Ralph Macartney. Dr. George
Merryman, Dr. John Merryman,
Henry Moc, Howard Perrin,
Lloyd Prock, E. H. Thompson,
Tom Wattcrs, Bill Hagelstcin,
Bob Chilcote, Mitchell Tillotson,
Jack Martin and Bob Sproat.
Klamath Gunners
Slate Trapshoot
The Klamath Gun club Is lo
hold a shoot tomorrow at the
Wocus firing grounds in prepa
ration for the Pacific Interna
tional Trapshoot association fir
ing at Salem July 26-27-28.
Many of the gunners from here
are planning to take part in the
Salem shoot. Tomorrow's firing
begins at 10:30.
Classified Ads Bring Results.
Waiver Fee
Gives Sox
More Wins
By The Associated Press
Bill (Sinker Bull) Zuber, a
luckless pitcher who couldn't get
anybody out for the Yunkces, Is
proving to be a $7300 bargain
find for the pcmiunt-buund Bos
ton Red Sox.
Picked up for the nominal
waiver fee when New York cut
him loose, the 31-yenr-oldster has
earned three utrulglit decisions
for his benefactors and hasn't
been beaten yet. Ho added a
four-hit, D-2 decision over Chi
cago yesterday to his Impressive
rccurd.
Even in victory, Zuber had to
play second fiddle tu Ted Wil
liams yesterday when Umpire
Red Jones evicted 14 While tiox
players and coaches after he had
warned Pitcher Joe Hayncs about
"dusting" Williams.
Margin Boosted
With the Yankees and St.
Louis. Browns unscheduled, the
lied Sox upped their lead over
second place New York to lit
games.
Hal Ncwhouser of Detroit
chalked up his 18th victory in
an unimpressive performance
against Washington, 10-5, allow
inn 12 hits. With 71 games to
play and at least 15 more piten
ing starts, the swift lefthander
remained a good bet to reach the
charmed U0-win circle.
Hank Greenberg's tremendous
triple with the bases loaded and
Birdie Tcbbets' two-run double
helped the Tigers overcome a 5-0
Washington lead and go on to
win.
Barrel-chested Pat Secrey of
Cleveland hammered two home
runs, his 15th and 16th, in the
Indians' 6-1 romp over the Ath
letics. Brooks In Tie
Brooklyn came out of Its div
astrous slump long enough to
down Cincinnati, 8-4, and go into
a first place tie witli the Card
inals who were washed out of
their night tilt with the Phillies
after three scoreless innings of a
pitching duel between Johnny
Bcazlcy and Hugh Mulcahy,
Rookie Warren Spahn con
tinued his impressive lefthanded
work, dumping Chicago, 6-1, to
give Boston its third straight j
western scries. The Braves, ad- j
vancing steadily in the past two I
weens, are now only four games ;
behind the third place Bruins. I
Ray Sanders and Tommy Holmes j
pacen ine aiiacK wun six oi me
12 hits off three Cub hurlers.
Amateur In
Driver's Seat
CHICAGO, July 20 (IP) Only
one pre-tourney favorite, mus
cular Frank Stranahan, the
Toledo, Ohio, amateur, was In
the driver's seat toduy as the
S10.000 Chicago Victory Nation
al Open golf meet moved Into
the second round at arduous
Medinah Country club.
Stranahan and Professional
E. J. (Dutch) Harrison of Little
Rock, Ark., exploded three-undcr-par
B8's yesterday to
leave Defending Champion By
ron Noison and leading 1946
money-winner Ben Hogan gulp
ing their dust in the 72-hole test.
While Stranahan, the 28-ycar-old
millionaire's son who won
the Kansas City Invitational last
weekend, and 36-year-old Harri
son, whose last major conquest
was the 1945 St. Paul Open,
were taking tricky Medinah
apart, Nelson and Hogan floun
dered with 73 and 75, respec
tively. Because Harrison faded in the
recent Canadian Open after
starting with 69-68, Simon-4
pure btranahan was favored to
cause most embarrassment for
some 55 professionals gunning
for the Open's top swag of
$2000 in war bonds.
When Fishing, Picnicking or Driving
STOP and SHOP at
HUSKINSON'S STORE
KENO
Plenty of Buffer, Cheese and Olco. Fresh Fruits
and Vegetables.
Full Line of Canned Goods and Soaps
OPEN EVENINGS AND SUNDAYS
HUSKINSON'S - KENO, ORE.
Oregon and California Licenses
Announcing
Real Estate
Agency
H. "Pat" Howes
Realtor
511 E. Main St.
Midland Empire Bldg.
Phone 6417
State Junior Tropshoot Champion
r -?.;l!, ' ; - '1
Mervyn Gleason, 16-year-old ion oi Mr. and Mrs. M. C.
Gleason, 1147 East, Is snarlnq various honors alonq the coast
with his scatterqun, the most recent being the Oregon Junior
trapshoot championship et Portland. In the Washington stele
shoot at Yakima he won first honors in the 19 yard handicap,
and tied lor first place In class D shooting at Portland June
21. The Gleaions plan to go to Vandelle, O., In August where
he will compete for the national Junior championship.
Acorns Muff Another
Chance To Go Ahead
By The Associated Press
A southpaw on thn hill stood between the Oakland Acorns
and the top of the Pacific Const Baseball league today.
While the San Francisco Seals, holders of half fame
advantago in the pennnnt race, were losing Inst night, the
Acorns had their second chance In as many nights to overtake
them, but Lefty Cliff Chambers of the Angels blocked the path.
Angel Manager BUI Sweeney said months ago a good southpaw
was what it would take.
In turning back the Onklnuders 8 1, Chambers, the top
strikeout artist of the league, funned eight men and boosted
his record to 154 whlfflngs this
season. , ,
The Portland Beavers shaded
the Seattle Ralnlcra 9-6, with the
difference in the score furnished
by a second-Inning homo run by
Dnnnv Escobar, who was told
Just before the game that he was
neaded for the beaver lunn club
at Sulem. In addition to tscu-
bur's three-run homer, the Beav
ers got three of ihe game's- lour
tripics, two of them pounded out
by Harve Storey. Winning pitch
er was veteran Ad Lisku, al
trough he yielded 12 hits.
Pitchers Earl Chupple and
Tom Scum let the Sucramcmo
boions have only five hits but
tncy could only get a spill ol a
uouolchcader lor the Sun Diego
Padres. In the scvcnth-lniiiu;
opener, the Solons got three sine
tics olf Chappie to blank the
Padres 3-0 In a hurling duel vic
tory for Guy Fletcher. Scots llm
Itea the Solons to two blngles
in the ninc-lnning nightcap lor
a l-l decision.
The Hollywood SUirs by the
nomc-run rouic uuscu uui wtv
Seals 6-5, snuffing a rally by tile
league leaders with the buses
loaded in the last half of the
ninth inning.
Alabamions Donate
To Spokane Fund
MONTGOMERY, Ala., July 20
lp) Each baseball team In the
Southeastern league has contrib
uted $50 to the Spokane fund
for the families of plnycrs killed
and injured in the June 24 bus
crash, League President Stuart
X. Stephenson said last night.
The contribution added $400
lo the fund.
Insurance
Agency
Wm. F. "Bill" McKibbin
(Successor to
Bogue Dale Agency)
Neale Goes Into
Net Semifinals
SEATTLE, July 20 M') Port-
land's Emery Neale slammed his
; Wuy to the semi-f Inals in the
WliMhtntf tun atnte tetmin tonrnsi.
mcnt yesterduy. But he was the
only norlhwcslcrner lo remain I
In the running. He bounced out
Bill Bcale of Sun Francisco, 6-1,
6-1.
Harry Buttlmcr and Jim Liv
ingston of San Francisco and Art
Larson, Sun Lenndro, kept pace '
with Neulc, who meets the for
mer today.
Wolly Bostlck of Seattle kepi
northwest hopes nllve in the
Junior singles by trimming Dick
Rowley of Everett, 6-2, 6-1 111 a
quarter-finals match. Hero Bgnln
all tho other survivors aro Call
tnrnluns. The same situation held
in women's singles, with Gladys
Ross of Scuttle the lone north-
westerner to reach the semis.
John Du Priest of Tacoma and
Dick Bniley. Spokane, tangle
today for the boys' singles crown
after respective victories yester
dny over Paul Wlllcy of Van
couver, B. C 0-6, 8-3, and Terry
Campbell, Spokane, 11-9, 0-2.
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SAT. NIGHT
BALDY'S BAND
"JUST GOOD DANCE MUSIC"
Featuring Vocalists
VAN THOME
MARY MAHONEY PATTY MEYERS
74c Per Person
Qom tit
oitit alI
K
By "TOP-WRANGLER"
Howdy folks:
First I wmitu nuiko a cuitkc
shun on lim' week's bUni'as. In
stead of sixteen dullaie the Mud
dle club tuk up fer Mnmliull
Fields, it wiiz. Kikti'cii hundred.
Notice Ivo spoiled her nut this
tune os my decimal won't gll
mituk fer a lly spec uglil.
Tulhrr nlto Sheriff Low thru
his conk limine on Del Morn
0en icf a buffet wpper of gig
gle wider. A gtiuil inuny of the
old piconciir buekurons will on
huiul. I dlil auinv cvesdroppln'
and heerd lliey thrown! Uuy
llnrloii mid his lunleru nut lie
eu( the plueo wu. lite up cniilf.
Ernie Head bought herself a
new hut fer the ih-cimIoii and
nuked t'luii'lle, "ain't It piirty?''
Charlie saw the bill and tlio'l it
wuic a pelli'aul
Sylvia llillls I our ti"W little
sage brush iiieen since las' Sun
day when nhc spurred her boss
Silver In the ribs und cupped
the title lit the "Sninkey" auc
tion. Unkle Henry Nlcol from
Lakevlew wu In town nhuppln'
at I.es Wright's elalilllimcnl.
Little gliinl Elmer Mnlslger Is
worn tl o w n tu a mldglt si.a
since the trek to Hurl nioiiii
lulu. Don SIduii nuide fly lit
trip lo Cnlllornla in Hint brand
new aeroplane, lie Jlst kin t
live down the story of his
maiden puruchule Jump . . .
that he iiiiruvelled his union
suit nforo he found the rip curd.
A few of lliein clly slickers
from Hollywood are here per
sonally fer I ho iiiuiiliiint that!
bolu' singed Snttlily In cornice-
shun with the Oregon made pic
ture "Canyon l'uuage." Hill
maivhuntln' miso mimt rlilo a
foul-legged animal to tract down
the fugitive. Mr. Lamb, our lo-
cnl theatre mgr., Is shure butr.y
Ingenearln this search fer Jus
tice. Outtn Claude lllbberl's chuck
weuiln where everbiiildy sees
evrrbuddy and yuh kin gll an
rye full as well as a bally full
of tasty vlttles , . , cnwguf and
cuwpokcs line up und shoot Ilia
hreeio on everything from soup
to cow lini.iU'm.
Dave Llnkey Is up and at 'em
agin but doln' his riding' from
behind a wheel. Pat llogue Jlst
got back from Pleaseuton where
he got some bosses runnln' In
the meet clown thar, Uranli
Pass Is havin' a big Rodeo this
weekend. Reckon I'd better be
a gltlln' fore rltcr'i cramps sets
in.
Bye now.
C.Im.iIUIb r- niu l,1ai I A
(r,,u Inharrn whlrh enntalna not
j nicotine.
Dance
MERRILL
COMMUNITY HALL
SATURDAY
JULY 20
Music by
LES GARDNER
and the
WESTERN HILLBILLIES
Adm. 60c per person, tax Ine.
Dancing I ts 1
Dancing 9 Till liOO