Pels Roar Past Baker
For 37-23 Tourney Win
Tall Story About Costy at th Bat
Every time I get Into baseball bull session I have the urge
to tell the story of the longest home run I ever saw, but every
telling results in my being canea a mim-iu-eujner or in mui
Of tne DUll-SCSSlOners naving
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Anyhow, it's a good story. This was back
about the summer of '38 or '37 when a pickup
team from Reform, Ala., was playing a ditto
from Carrollton, Ala., on a vacant lot at Car
rollton. Seems that I played something, don't
remember what, on the Carrollton team.
A high school boy named Sunny Curry was
doing the chucking for Carrollton this partic
ular afternoon, and the guy at the plate for
Reform was a big, pot-bellied fellow called
Little Doc Wimberley, on account of his father
was a physician and was known as Big Doc
Little Doc wasn't little.
So Sunny let a fast ball go down the groove
anil Little Doc whaled it out toward left field.
being a right-handed batter. As I remember it a fellow named
Albert Eiell was playing left field, deep. The ball was 50 feet
in the air when it went over Albert's head and still going up.
The field, which was actually just a vacant city block, didn't
have a fence, of course. The ball went clear out of the lot, over
the road and over a two-story frame house on the other side
of the street. Where it landed we never knew, because we
couldn't find the ball.
Out of curiosity we stepped off the distance from the
plate to the house and figgered that the ball had already
traveled S00 feet when it passed the house and was still
going strong.
I don't know if there Is any actual record for home run dis
tances, but the World Almanac says that the center field fence
In the Polo Grounds is 490 feet out and there have been balls
put over it.
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Copco Dam Fishway Has Good Chance
One of the big doings on the agenda of the local Izaak Wal
ton league for the coming year is to make further strides toward
having fishways built around Copco dam on Klamath river, to
enable salmon and steelhead to come on up the river to spawn.
Just about all the parties concerned are in accord now, and
there is a good chance that a fish ladder will be constructed
around the dam. It's a sort of four-pronged problem, concerning
the federal government through its Indian service, California,
Oregon and Copco.
This country would receive a tremendous boost in its
drawing card as a recreation spot if the runs could be re
stored to the river, and although almost everyone will agree
that it's a desirable aim. it takes organised sportsmen's
groups to give it a push.
Boyd Jackson and Wade Crawford. Klamath Indian tribal
delegates, have received instructions to help along the cause
when they go back to Washington in January.
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Reunion on Pelican Gym Floor
Up at the Klamath Union high school gym these afternoons
several members of former Pelican basketball teams are work
ing out with the present-day Klamath squads while down here
for Christmas vacation from college. Yesterday Wilbur Welch,
Jim Conroy, Dick Cada, Don Bigger, Rex Young, Jim Palmer
and others were scrimmaging. Several of the boys were mem
bers of . Klamath's last state championship team.
Draft And Swap Of Trippi
Sets Off Battle Of Dollars
CLEVELAND, Dec. 21 (IP)
Charlie Trippi, Georgia's all-
America.- halfback, was cnosen
bv the defunct Miami club in the
all-America conference's first
draft earlv today and immedi
ately was swapped to the New
York Yankees to touch off a
14 Million Fish
Freed In Year
PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (IP)
A total of 14,608,644 fish were
liberated in Oregon lakes and
streams this year, despite a fish
food scarcity which hampered
hatcheries, the state game com
mission said today.
The fish turned loose weighed
139.890.3 pounds. Included were
12,158,418 rainbow trout, 468,-
714 cutthroat, 463,576 eastern
brook, 628,273 steelhead. 105,986
Loch Leven, 248,440 silverside,
529,789 Chinook and 5450 chum
salmon.
L&C Triumphs
PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (IP)
Lewis and Clark e o 1 le g e
thumped the Oregon College of
education basketball team last
night, 63-35, despite a 21-point
effort by Center Abrahamson of
the losers. -
GIDDYAP. TEAM
MORRISON, 111., Dec. 21 (P)
Morrison high . school students
have decided on new nicknames
for their, athletic teams.
For several years the teams
were the Morrison : "Mallets,"
but students became irked - at
having their athletes called
Wooden Heads, Block Heads and
Hammer Heads.
From now on, the names are
"Mustangs" for the varsity and
"Ponies" for the reserve.
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battle of dollars that likely will
be without a parallel in sports.
Trippi, regarded as one of the
greatest of modern natural ath
letes, was drafted a week ago by
the Chicago Cardinals of the
National football league and
was selected by Hampton Poole,
coach of the Seahawks, on the
first draw here.
The draft in the two leagues
gives those two club owners the
right to deal for Trippi's signa
ture on a player's contract and
the bonus the Dixie dynamiter
will get for that bit of penman
ship is expected to erase the
record of $30,000 offered to
Whizzer White of Colorado, by
Pittsburgh in pre-war days.
Glenn Davis and Felix (Doc)
Blanchard army's- touchdown
twins of the past three years,
also were drafted in the session
that started late last nieht and
continued right through until
early today. Davis was selected
by the San Francisco 49ers and
Blanchard by Brooklyn but be
cause both are likely to remain
in the army, the bidding for
them is not expected to reach
the Trippi proportions. ";. , '
Davis was chosen bv the De
troit . Lions in the National
league meeting at New York a
week ago while Blanchard. who
had a year of football at North
Carolina before comim to
Army, was tapped by the Pitts
burgh Steelers. of the . senior
league a year ago.
Other players selected earlv
today, before the clubowners
adjourned until noon, are Dick
Hoerner - of ' the University of
Iowa, : first selection of the
Cleveland " Browns; and Frank
Barzilauskas, Yale lineman, and
Gene Roberts, Chattanooga's
little all-America back, by
Brooklyn.
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Oregon Ciiy
The Klamath Pelicans trailed
the Baker Bulldogs 21 to 17 at
halftime last night, then throt
tled the visitors with only one
lonesome bucket in the second
half to win their second game of
the 20-30 club's invitational
tourney 37 to 23 and going
way.
In the first game on the KU
maple last night, Loncview took
care of the uregon Uity Pio
neers, 55 to 34.
Baker's defense had the Peli
can fast break slowed to a trot
during the first half of the game,
but the second half was an en
tirely different story as the
scrappy Pels got into the groove
and ran the Baker boys ragged.
In the first quarter the Bull
dogs once were ahead 10-2, but
the Pels had pulled to 14-9 by
the end of the period. Baker's
Jim Calderwood was shooting
with deadly accuracy, but the
Pelican second string made it
shot for shot until the half.
Push Shot Ties
Then in the third quarter Jer
ry Thorn got a bucket to put the
Pels just two points behind and
Kay (jraig left-nanded a pusn
shot on a pass under the basket
from Clarence Bussman to knot
the score at 21-all.
A moment later Bussman
made one of two free throws
and the Klamathites were out
ahead to stay. Baker didnt
score in the third period, and by
the time it ended Klamath was
ahead. 29-21.
Klamath rang up eight more
points in the fourth period, and
Ralph Calloway pitched tne
Bulldogs' only ringer.
The scoring was scattered
through the Pelican lineup, with
Jerry Thorn's eight high. Joe
Zarosinski had seven and Gene
Hover six. For the Bulldogs
Calderwood accounted for 10
points and Calloway eight.
In the Longview-Oregon City
tilt the Lumberjacks jumped off
to an early start and led all the
way of the rough, wild-passing
scrimmage. The score was 21-11
at the quarter and 28-20 at in
termission. Buckled Down
The big Lumbenacki buckled
down defensively in the third
stanza, holding the Pioneers to
a single basket in that period,
and a free-swinging last quarter
saw the score pushed to 55-34.
In the tourney to date Mam-
ath is undefeated in two games,
Baker and Longview have one
win and a loss, while the Pio
neers have been unsuccessful in
two times out.
Tonight Baker and Oregon
City tangle at 7:30 and Klamath
and Longview go it at b:ju.
Dale Throckmorton and Ernie
Bishop did the officiating last
night, and a near-capacity crowd
saw the games., The 20-30 club,
sDonsoring the tourney, pre
sented tne Kiamatn county run-
lie Health association with an
iron lung between games.
Amateur Cagers
Given Warning
PORTLAND. Dec. 21 UP)
The Portland Basketball associ
ation yesterday warned players
they would be barred trom
Portland leagues if they per
formed with professional teams.
formerly the association al
lowed professional players to
perform if they played for "rec
reation" purposes.
Spokesmen said the action was
taken to protect teams "worried
over whether they have players
on hand from game to game or
whether they will see them in
professional lineups."
At least four players formerly
with amateur leagues here have
joined quintets in the new Pa
cific Coast Professional Basket
ball league.
Fish Talks Jon. 11
PORTLAND, Dec. 21 (IP)
The annual hearing on angling
regulations will be held by the
state game commission here
January. 11.
Seasons, bag limits, and other
rules affecting game fish dur
ing 1947 will be set.
Phone Santa Clausl Kids, lust
telephone 8117 and you can talk !
to Santa himself. Tell him what
you want for Christmas. Call
between noon and 8 p.m. today
or Sunday.
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For Pasadena
CHAMPAIGN, 111.. Dec. 21
(IP) Upwards of 1500 towns
people and stunems cneereo tne
Illinois football squad last night
as it boarded three special
coaches of the Panama Limited
for the trip . to Pasadena and
the Rose Bowl game with UlluA
on New Years Day.
The sauad of 43 players
Dwight Eddleman will Join the
group on its arrival in Pasa
dena Monday arter niaying witn
the Illini basketball team at
Berkeley, Calif. will arrive in
New Orleans today and take In
a sightseeing trip through the
city before shoving off for the
coast.
Coach Ray Elliot ordered a
heavy scrimmage Monday atter
noon, four hours after arriving
in Pasadena.
BOWLING
Ell Ross, who does a little
farming in the Bonanza area
and a little bowling on the
Bonanza Classic league annuel,
rnllerf a series of 691 to help
his team take two games of a
series from Edwards Richfield
this week.
Ross mark was zso-uu-zjo m
three games. He's one of the
hMt Icenlers In the state and
several times has entered me
charmed '700' circle.
Also in the Classic loon wai
ters Insurance beat Palmcrton.
Mill Davis Associated topped
Medical-Dental Barbers and Lan
dry Insurance clipped routes
Food, all bv two games out oi
three. Al Hackenworth had a
216 line for Landrv.
In the Boster league South
ern Oreaon Music and Leach
Service tied at 939 for the first
team game, but SUM copped
the next two and the series.
Mat Finnigan's quint edged
Rocers Jewelry and Nash beat
out the Sportsmen, two games
of three, although the latter
had a middle team game of
1003.
Don Ferguson rolled zua-zuz-184
for 595 for Cal-Ore but that
sauad won only one game of a
series with Moose.
In the Automotive circuit
Ashley beat Dick B. Miller
three times and Black and
White got three on a forfeit
from Balsiger. Anderson won
three from Jack's Shell and
Lombard took Buick by the
same score in a trio of very
close matches.
Susie Booth of the Lady Bugs
Oregon Equipment team was
high scorer for a single line
this week, topping 202 pins in
the middle game of her series,
but on each side of that game
she had 129 and 134. making a
series total of 465.
Oregon Equipment won two
games of three from Coca Cola,
but Janis Long and Clover
North had lines of 190 and 188
for the losers.
Pacific Fruit Express swept
three from the last-place Rogers
Jewelrv sauad: Clara Gates had
a game of 193 td help Houston's
Beauty win over Pine Street
Market, and Griggs Food beat
out Fluhrer's.
Houston's lead the Lady Bug
league with 26 wins and 13
losses, followed by PFE's 24 and
15. Oregon Equipment's 23-16
and Coca-Cola's 22-17. Griggs,
Fluhrers, Pine Street Market
and Rogers trail in that order.
In Termite league play the
ladies are proud of team single
games of 800 turned in by
Frank's Service, 807 by Moose
No. 2, and 821 by Pioneer To
bacco. Moose No. 2 took two of three
from Moose No. 1, Pioneer To
bacco won from Jack's Shell by
the same count and Frank's
Service drubbed Yellow Cab
three straight.
Record Gross Gate .
NEW YORK. Dec. 21 (TV-
Boxing shows conducted by Pro
moter Mike Jacobs to date this
year have already grossed a
record of $5,101,682 contributed
by 685,437 fight fans. This in
cludes 33 shows at Madison
Square Garden, three outdoor
shows at the Yankee Stadium
and 44 fights at St. Nicholas
arena. i
Game Tonight
MERRILL. Dec. 21 The Mer
rill high school cagers have I
slated a game with McArther I
high school of McArthur. Calir.,
for tonight at 7:30. The Cali
fornians are on a basketball
tour and played last night at
Dorris.
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Sugar Ray
Gets Title
NEW YORK, Dec. 21 (!) At
long last they've crowned the
uncrowned champion of the
wolterweights Sugar Ray Rob
inson and It happened Just
about In time, too, because the
sugar man Isn't nearly so sweet
in the swat department now as
he was once.
It took five years for the
Harlem strlngbran to get his
shot at the 147-pound bauble.
When he finally got the ticket
to the title taffy-pull last night,
he arrived on schedule in Madi
son Square garden with a 15
round decision over Tommv Bell
to take the championship Marty
Servo abdicated when he re
tired with an aching none in
September.
But those five years of wait
ing during which the uptown
beanpole had 75 fights, won 73.
lost one (to a middleweight) and
tied another apparently took
something out of the sugar man
that he isn't going to get back.
He showed against Tommy
that some of the fire has gone
out. This isn't taking a thing
away from Tommy the Thump
er, mind you, because the T
shouldered swatter out of
Youngstown, Ohio, was a fancy
fighting man In there Inst night,
and a crowd of 15.670 custom
ers who chipped in to a pot of
$82,948 liked him. Some even
booed the decision, although It
was unanimous and the Asso
ciated Press score card made it
8 rounds for Ray. 5 for Tommv
and 2 even.
Bell laid an assortment of
large left hooks on Sugar Rav's
whiskers that did the Hurli-m
Hammer no good at all. And
one of them even dumped Rob
inson for a seven-count In the
second round. And after Tnmmv
himself hit the deck in the 11th
and had lumps raised on him In
the 12th as Robinson tried to
put the squeezer over, the Ohio
hot-shot came charilne rlaht
back to take the 13th and 14th.
A-A Circuit
Belt Staked
CLEVELAND. Dec. 21 (IP)
The Cleveland Browns, winners
of the western division title, and
th Va.1. V-1 .
11 T I winner moot nmnrrnuf in 1
the first championship game of
the young All-America circuit.
Despite snow and sleet early
today, Sunday's weather Is ex
pected to be cold, clear and
sunny with the mercury In Cleve
land s huge Lakeside stadium
shivering somewhere in the
neighborhood of 20 degrees.
If the weatherman shows the
least bit of cooperation it is ex
pected that the crowd will be
near 50,000 as contrasted with
the 38,000 who froze In the Na
tional league final a year ago
when the temperature skidded
to three below zero.
Coach Paul Brown of the
Clcvelandcrs who remain 13 s
point favorites although all their
right halfbacks are ailing, has
equipped his Brownies with
canvas shoes, special Arctic-style
headgears, gloves and chemical
pads that may be palmed and
which serve as miniature stoves
when dampened by a few drops
of moisture.
Only the betting gentry and
the more rabid fans speak of a
13 i point difference in Sunday's
game.
Vince Considers
Two Baseball Deals -
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 21 (IP)
Vince DiMaggio, eldest of the
four baseball playing brothers,
said today he was considering
two baseball deals but has not
signed a contract.
Mentioned in connection witn
the outfielder were managers'
posts with the Salt Lake City
Bees of the Pioneer league and
San Bernardino, Calif., of the
New Sunset league.
Close One Dropped
The Sacred Heart Trojans
dropped a close basketball game
to the Butte valley Bulldogs or
Dorris, 30 to 26, at Fairview
gym last night. The Bulldogs
led 13 to 9 at the half.
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UCLA Favored
By 6 Points
LOS ANGELES, Dec. 21 Ml
UCLA's Urutns, ail curly under
dog on the odds mart, found
themselves favored today local
ly at least by six points over
Illinois In their Rosa Bowl clash
New Year's Day.
Illinois had been quoted as a
1 Vpoint favorite until the
Bruins started booming In prac
tices this week.
Working mostly on passing
and punting yesterday, the
Bruins uncovered another hot
number in third string Lett Half
Al Holsch, who caught several
long gainers from Ernie Case
and flashed in a brief ballpack
lng stint.
Weight Hoist
Try Cancelled
Several contestants, including
showed up at Portland's Central
YMCA for an AAU weight-lifting
match, but AAU officials
said that it had been called off
several days earlier. They said
that there were no plans to re
schedule the contest.
The matches were to have
been for state AAU laurels.
Stephen Kessler, Ed Parkhurst
and George Kovarlk, all from
Peebler's gym, were the local
contestants. Kessler was to par
ticipate in impound competi
tion, Parkhurst In the 181-pound
light-heavy group and Kovarlk
in- the heavyweight division.
Observers at the gym here
said that Kessler was a cinch to
win his division and that Park
hurst was almost a cinch to take
state honors In his bracket.
Parkhurst is scheduled to enter
a Mr. Pacific Coast contest to
night at Benson Tech to deter
mine the best-built athlete on
the coast, and his chances are
said to be good for that honor.
The weight-lifting trials were
to have been In three styles of
lifts two-arm military press,
two-arm snatch and two-arm
clean and jerk. Keasler, in the
three lifts, can hoist about 6U0
? minds and Parkhurst about
SO.
Redmond Coach
Asks Pay Hike
REDMOND. Dec. 21 (A't
Redmond high school Is threat
ened with the loss of Its coach.
Gene Langley, and an Instruc
tor. Floyd L. Bond, over a sal
ary controversy.
Each i s demanding a $75
monthly Increase and $500
bonus, Langlev now is getting
$3000 a year and Bond $2700.
A group of citizens said they
would finance the coach's de
mand themselves In order not to
hurt the hoop sound's chnnces. j
Th school board said It of
fered the men $60 Increases.
Eighth For OSC
CORVALLIS, Ore.. Dec. 21
(A') Oregon State's potent Bea
vers were still undefeated In pre
season basketball play today
after winning their eighth
straight game last night an B0
30 victory over the Portland All
Stars. Doug Martin, Oregon
State center, was high point man
with 19. 1
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Three Years Late. Trojans ;
Meet Green Wave Of Tulane '
NEW ORLEANS. Doc. 21 (IP)
The regular collego loolball sea
son li the deep south comes to
un anti-climax here this after
noon when the Snuthorn Califor
nia Trojans and Tule green wave
play a game originally scheduled
tor 1043,
Postponed because of wartime
truvel restrictions, the affair Is
something of a "consolation
bowl" for the slx-tlmrs-beatcn
Tulanians and four-tlmes-wal-loped
Trojans. The schools had
agreed to call It off again If
either had been invited to post
season classic.
Although three years overdue,
tho gume is a preview for the
next couple of seasons as far as
Tulane is concerned. Most of the
greenles who'll sea action art
RiMfburg 33, North Bend 29.
Lebanon 38, Medford 34.
Bond 41, Cprvallis 39.
Sensldo 40, Parkrose 31.
Albany 37. Springfield 26.
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Iluod River 40. The Dalles 32.
Limnincic at, uresltam 27.
lUilnllu 46, Estacada 38.
St, Helens 41, Astoria 24.
Washington 34, Jefferson 12.
Commerce .16. Grant 34.
Benson 51, Lincoln 41.
Wnivnt-tltv iVwatk ft n.l.
ridge 13.
Oregon Froih 43, Grants Pass '
33Franklin 23. Sabln 16. !
Pendleton 44, Goldendale, ;
Wash.. 36. i
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freshmen, and nearly all have
at least another year of eligi
bility. But it's the Trojans of 1948
whom the wave will be facing,
and the Callfornlans appear to '
be loo big, able and experienced '
for the locals. The visitors hive
an average 18-pound advantage '
In weight and possess an excel- '
lent p a's's I n I quarterback In
Micky McCarille. Their season s
record, also, gives them an ap-,
parent edge.
Tills Is the third meeting of '
the teams. USC beat Tulano 21
12 In the 1932 Rose Bowl and ,.,
Tulane whipped the Trojans 27-
13 In 1942, in USC's first gam ,
under Coach Jeff Cravath,
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game is expected to draw only -about
30,000 spectators. The ..
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