Baseball Field Being
Groomed For Summer
Klamath Sons To Install Light System, Extend Covered Stands;
Three-Games-A-Week Slate Planned For Recreation Diamond
By HALE SCARBROUGH
The groen light has opparently been given, or l Just about to be given, to an expan
sive basoboll program for Klamath Falli this summer. Work has already started on a re
vamp of Recreation field and Johnny Pastega, representing the Sons of Italy lodge and
Klamath Sons basoboll toam, Is flying to Portland this week-end to close a deal for flood-
"hplans for the work at the field, boing done by the Sons, call for extension of the cov
orod grandstand down first and third base linos to probably more than double the present
shielded sooting capacity, bringing centorflold fence In flush with the big new scoreboard
and seeding of tho ontlre ploying field,
Up In Portland the Beavers are installing on all-new lighting system to Vaughn street
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Striked V BpxM&l !
A 800-dnllar-plus mrlon will be split for prizes ut the con
t'Umlun of tho Cilv UowlInU association's men's krullnK tourney
which start Monday, March 10, hut the money ln't all the men
will have to fire ut durlnii tho four-day rolling on Recreation
1 1 vti.
Thuro will bo uhout SO nirrchiindlM) prizes In udilltlon, and
trophlos for Indlvlduul atura. Tho trophli'ii can bo anon now In the
window of Mutt KlimlKan's mwrtlnn gouda iilore on tho urounil
Hour bt-low the howling ulU-y.
There's un award for A and
D clam ell-events winners, an
hlher to cuch man of llio chain
plon A und U double tenon,
others for slnulra winnon In
e.uch clan und nilnlntiire gold
bowling pin to go to tho Indi
vidual members of winning
(rvrmiin teams.
Tho commltteo In churgo of
the tourney will decide how the
93(10 prize pot In to b divided.
Altogether thare are 14
;Ilve-man aquadi antarad In
clan A and four In clan Bt
'17 two-man taama In class A
-doubles. 20 In clan Bt 3B
contestants In class A flnglat
And 28 in clou B.
Starting with the team evont.
all night lanes will bo busy
Uondnv, Tuoaduy, Wednesday
and Friday nights, starting at
1 p. m. Monduy night la tor
tram rolling. Tuesday and Wed
nesday doubles and alnglea, and
Friday night to finish off any
thing thnt'a left.
Tho tourney will luko a
breather Thursday, tho night
reserved for rvgular league
bowling of the two ladlea' clr
culU. The ludiea have a tourna
ment coming up not long after
tho men finish, and last night
wu tho deadline for entriea In
that net.
Erie Hamilton hus promised
Unit Ilia alleya will bo plonty
fast for tho big rolling.
Valley Quint
AAU Winner
I PORTLAND. March 7 W
Salem and Eugene entrlci meet
tonight for the Oregon AAU
baoketbull chumplonahlp.
Holh advanced over Portland
Quintets lust night, tho Page
Woolens team of Salem downing
Sender's Yanks. 39-30, and Lum
ber Sales of Eugene trimming
Club Mecca. 57-48.
Neither team had much
trouble, although Salem was
forced to come from behind
17-11 margin in the first quarter.
Km nk Page led the rally and by
nulftime tho victors were safely
out In front, 34-23. Page scored
IS points, followed by Al McRae
Willi 14.
Tho Eugene team, led by Dob
Anet of Oregon's 19311 collegiate
champions, led throughout In de
feating Club Mecca. Chuck Tay
lor scorod 16 points lot the win
ners, Anct 12.
The two Portland tenms will
vie tonight for third place.
Tho tournament champion will
qualify for the AAU meet In
Denver,
Riverside Goes .
Into Final Tilt
Riverside grade school last
, night won the right to play Fair
view In tho grade school B bas
ketball tourney by defeating
t Fremont In a 11-10 close-check
" lng struggle.
Halfway point In that gnmo
saw Riverside ahead 8-5, but Fre
mont took a ono-point margin
late In the fourth period. Perry
Johnson thon hit two free throws
to givo Riverside the victory. Ho
had six points for tho gumo.
Riverside, once beaten, plays
undefeated Fnirvlcw at Falrvlew
gym this afternoon. If Fnirviow
wins, it's all over, but If River
sido wins another gumo will be
played Monday.
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Best Short
Controversy
Not Settled
By The Associated Press
Any controversy as to the best
fielding shortstop In the Nation
al league probably will revolve
around Marty Murion of St.
Louis and I've Wee Reese of
Brooklyn thla season now thut
Eddie Miller has been eliminated
from the plans of the Cincinnati
Reds.
President Warren Giles of tho
Reds removed Miller from the
controversy at the Hcds' Tampa
base yesterday following a con
fereiieo with tho slick Inflelder.
Miller, who has been bothered
with various ailments the pust
two seasons, has for several
weeks been undecided on wheth
er to retire from baseball.
Gllea said, "because of his in
decision at this late date, we are
definitely eliminating him from
our plana for 1047. Each of us
understands tho other's problem.
Ho has his own personal problem
to consider. Wo have our team
and morale to consider. We
think it is better for all con
cerned if our young infield pros
pects know definitely at this
duto that Miller la out of our
plans."
Olympic Ski
Trials Set
SUN VALLEY, Idaho, March
7 lA') American skiers will have
only American to worry about in
their next big assignment the
Olympic ski trials here tomor
row and Sunday.
Downhill and slalom races
will be staged during tho two
days to select this nation's teams
for tho winter Olympics at St.
Moritz, Switzerland, next Feb
ruary. About 12 men and eight
girls will bo chosen to wear the
stars and stripes.
The Americans came here
somewhat chastened from tho
lickings they took from Swiss
and Canadian skiers at the U. S.
down-mountain and slalom races
In Utah scvoral days ago.
Among thoso eligible for the
American Olympic tcums to bs
announced probably Sunday
night are Grothchcn Frascr
Vancouver, Wash.
Shidler Named
Retriever Chief
Hal Shidler, operator of Hal's
Sporta store, lias been Installed
as president of the Shasta Cas
cade Retriever club, and Larry
Watklns has taken over the
duties of secretary-treasurer.
An Informal sketch of the
Chesapeake retriever dog was
given at the club's Monday
night meeting by Dick Morgan
and Pat Montgomery, and
movies of the Portland retriever
trials and other .log films were
shown by Bert Roliu.
Plana, are being made for a
retriever show and trial to be
held In this area April 13, and
persons interested ir. entering
dogs may contact Dick Morgan
at Kenb. Several Shasta Cas-1
cade members are forming a car ;
pool to attend the next Portland
trial March 23, and Hal's Sport :
store will act us a clearing house '
for transportation. 1
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used
still in good condition, are being
pure-bused by the Sons.
They -vlll bo mounted at Re
creation field this spring In timo
to give our town night baseball
when the season opens.
A call for ball olayors has now
gone out, und Mel Curpcntcr
would like to huve all men in
terested in playing this summor
come to Recreation field Sunday
afternoon.
The Sons this yaar ara an
tarad in both tha Northern
California and Southern Ore-
f on laaguvs and will be play
ng at least two gamas a
weak one under lights on a
weekday and one on Sunday.
Thuro Is also a possibility that
still another squad will be
formed to compete in a loop
with Alturns, Tuleluke, Luke
view and other tov ns In that di
rection. Dime-bull falls will also prob
ably get to see some Pacific
Coast and Western International
leuguo teams in action here.
With lights for night ball avail
able, dickering Is under way to
have some of the big teams stop
off In Klamath Falls for exhibi
tions on Monday nights.
When new grandatand con
struction is finished reserved
seats and box scats will be put
on tho market for the season.
The Sons will also have fence
space for sale for advertising,
though most of it is already
spoken for, and there may also
be uniform and warm-up Jacket
advertising, and merchants In
terested can contact Gino Car
nlnl. A number of good ball play
ers have settled In Klamath
Falls during the winter and In
tend to turn out for action,
and Carpenter believes ihe
Sons squad and the two
leagues In general will play a
much faster brand of baseball
this summer than last.
Work on Recreation field Is
being done entirely by the Sons,
and when paid for will revert to
the City of Klamath Falls free
of charge.
Two Missing
From Eugene
By The Associated Press
The gaps may be closed to
night In the entry list for the
annual class A state high school
basketball tournament, sched
uled for, Eugene March 11-15.
Only two names are missing
those of the district 11 and
district IS representatives. Each
may be supplied tonight.
In District 11 Salem meets
Sacred Heart. A Salem win
would give it the title. A Sacred
Heart win would necessitate an
other game tomorrow night.
In District 18 Portland's Jef
ferson, and Roosevelt will settle
their deadlock in a single, de
termining game.
Molalla became the latest en
trant to the tourney, qualifying
lust night with a 42-37 victory
over Milwaukie in tho third
game of their playoff In district
12. Molnlla's last -half rally
proved too great for Mllwaukle's
stellar center. Ted Loder, to
overcome. Loder nevertheless
scored 19 points.
Aging Autos Bear
Stanford Crew
PALO ALTO, Calif., March
7 (A') If three aging automo
biles hold out. the unofficial
Stanford university crew -will
arrive In Corvallis, Ore., In
time for tomorrow's scheduled
race with Oregon State college
on the Willamette river.
The athletic department docs
not recognize rowing as an of
ficial activity. So the 12 crew
men are traveling on their own
funds plus a $250 gift from
crew alumni of the rival Uni
versity of California.
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I boxer lands one right on his chin.
Golden Cloves leu-pounder, is the lad getting slugged, but he
dacisioned Johnny Isso of Newark In this bout and want on to
win the eastern Golden Gloves title. AP wlrephoto.
DUSETTE OVERPOWERS
PETE FOR ROWDY WIN
Pete Bclcastro took one fall
In near-record time of one min
ute flat In last night's armory
main event wrestling match,
but Georges Dusette took the
winning tumble In even shorter
time. There was one other fall
and a brief spell of roughhouse
action In between.
The fight, a feud of long
standing, had barely gotten un
der way when Pete negotiated
his fall. Before the gong sound
ed to open the fight he roared
Y Hoopsters
Into Playoff
First round in the YMCA
Interchurch league basketball
championship playoff will be
held Monday night on Falrvlew
court The B division game starts
at 7 o'clock, the A game at 8.
Monday night in the B class
First Methodist plays Nazarene,
and In class A First Covenant
tangles with Knights of Colum
bus. Then on Tuesday night the B
division winner plnys First Chris
tian for the B title, and the win
ner of the First Covenant-KC tilt
meets Latter Day Saints for the
A class championship.
As the Y league schedule end'
ed the standings were as follows:
Tro
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Won Mt
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KC
Vint Covenant
flrat ChrtilUn
KlAtnalh Temple
n DIVISION
rirt Chriitun
Tint MelhodUt
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Cruz-Casino
PORTLAND, March 7 W
Two Californiums head the bill
in the Portland boxing card to
night Costello Cruz. Los An
gelcs light heavyweight, against
Jimmy Casino in a 10-round
bout.
Dick Wagner, Oregon City
middleweight, will meet Steve
Moran, Seattle, in a six-round
semi-final.
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have already been made known.
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one boxer looks whan another
Jerome Richardson. New York
into Dusette's corner and
clubbed the muscular French
Canadian.
A moment later he booted
Dusette, out of the ring right
into the KFJI radio section, end
when Georges got back in Pete
hung a couple of uppercuts on
his whiskers and pressed him
for the count.
Belcastro made the same pre
gong rush to open the second
canto, but Dusette had his eyes
open this time. They went the
entire distance of the round and
the fans were going wild for
the popular Dusette to take the
Weed Assassin.
In the third round, after
Dusette had been knocked
out of the zing once, into the
press section this time, he got
back in and took tha fight
away from Pete. Dusette's
finishing clutch was a power
ful, shaking lull nelson that
had to be broken br force.
Georges was given that fall
and as soon as the fourth heat
started he rushed across to
grab the nelson again and the
fight was over.
Bclcastro wasn't the only per
son to fall victim to a crick in
the neck last night. Frankie
Hart went the same way in the
semi-final.
After two rounds of clever
battling, Billy Weidner spun
Hart for a while, then set him
down and applied a full nelson.
The hold threw Hart's neck out
of joint and ended the bout.
The sportsman Weidner carried
the groaning Hart back to the
dressing room. 1
Herbie Parks took a one-fall
decision from Reuben Gracia
in the opener, dropkicking the
Mex in the third round and
taking the fall with a stamping
leg lock.
Hoppe Undefeated
CHICAGO, March 7 (fl5)
Former Champion Willie Hoppe
of White Plains, N. Y., and Jay
Bozeman of Vallejo, Calif., re
mained undefeated and tied for
the lead in the 1047 world's
championship three-cushion bil
liard tournament today. Each
had two victories after the first
two days of the 45-game round
robin tourney in which 10 of
the country's top ranking cueists
are competing.
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Point-Duel
Looks Even
Lanky Lads For UCLA,
OSC May Settle Issue
CORVALLIS, Ore., March 7
P)The Pacific coast title will
be at stake as UCLA and Oregon
State open their basketball series
tonight, and the outcome may
well depend on an awaited duel
between the far west's two top
point-makers Centers Don
Barksdale of UCLA and Ephraim
"Hed" Itocha of Oregon State.
The teams are matched so
evenly in statistics that many
believe the issue can be settled
only through a tremendous per.
formance by one of the giant
centers. Either is capable of it.
Barksdale, e lect D incnes ana
220 pounds, is classed by his
coach, Wilbur Jones, as the best
in the nation. His 16.3 points a
flame for a total of 108 is second
n conference southern division
history only to the 232 total of
Stanford's great Hank Luisetti
in 1938.
Hocha, ( feet inches but
slander at 17S pounds, has
bean the top scorer in the
northern division the last two
years. He totaled 217 this sea
son for an average of 13,3.
Coach Amory T. "Slats" Gill,
who has produced five north,
rn division championship
teams, rates him one of the
best turned out here.
The big question is whether
Rocha's two extra . Inches in
height can overcome Barksdale's
45-pound weight advantage or
vice versa.
If the big boys neutralize each
other, then comparative midgets
at 5 feet 10 may decide the
issue. They are Guard Lew Beck
(1 1.6 points a game), for Oregon
State, and Forward John Stanich
(11.3 points a game) of UCLA.
There also are 6 foot 4 Davage
Minor of UCLA (9.3 a game), and
6 foot 2 Cliff CrandaU of OSC
(9.8 a game).
The only player ailing on
cither squad is UCLA Captain
Dick Perry, a guard recovering
from an abscessed hip. Expected
to see action later, he will be
replaced in the starting lineup
by six-foot Doug Sale.
A second game will be played
tomorrow night and a third, if
necessary, Monday night
Jackson Gets
Another Bout
Sonny Kelly Jackson, the
flashy Portland colored boy, has
been signed for a return bout
with Ursal Snapp of Merrill, ac
cording to Promoter Mack Lil
lard The bout will be i Id
rounder at the head of next
Tuesday night'i card in the arm
ory. SnaoD took a SDllt decision
from Jackson here several weeks
ago in the first fight Ursal has
ever had to go 10 rounds. In
the past he has finished off much
sooner, and it was a matter of
much speculation as to whether
he could go the distance.
Jackson, who finished the fight
in much better shape than did
Snapp, made him work every
minute to get the decision and
Ursal proved that he could last
out 10 three-minute heats if
necessary.
Tickets for the Tuesday card
have been put on sale at Matt
Finnigan's sporting goods store.
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'B' Tournament ... ?
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Panthers Lose First
Round At Arlington i
ARLINGTON. March T (TP) A hlh-scorln Pleasant Mill
quintet became even more the
school basketball tournament
semi-finals.
Pleasant Hill, 61-40 winner over the previously unbeaten
Chiloquln team which had captured 24 straight games, will play -Parkdala
In a 7:30 p. m. contest today. Pleasant Hill will be,
seeking its 19th consecutive
win, I
The other semi-final game
will send a tall, smooth-working
Star of the Sea (Astoria)
team against Union at 8:49 p.
m.
In games yesterday Parkdale
nosed out Myrtle Creek in the
final 20 seconds with Bill An
drews sinking the winning field
goal. Star of the Sea drubbed
John Day, 36-16. holding the
eastern Oregon team to five
points In the second and third
quarters. Union overcame an
early deficit to defeat Dayton,
37-33.
In the consolation round to
day Chiloquln will meet Myrtle
Creek at 2:30 p. m., and Day
ton will play John Day at 3:45
p. m.
The lineups:
P. Hill (51) Pes. (40) Chiloo'n
Lindley 12
Dowdy 21
Lantz 6
Casey 3
Graham 6
Reserves:
F 15 G. Hatcher
F A. Hatcher
C 6 Severson
G . Jones
G 8 Barker
Pleasant Hill
Nichols 2, Cole 1;
Chiloquln
Hannigan 11.
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Dixie Howell, newly appointed
head football coacn at tne uni
versity of Idaho, will announce
the names of his two assistant,
coaches when he arrivea in Mos
cow this Sunday, Athletic Di
rector George Greene said to
day. The former University of
Alabama passing ace was given
a free hand In selecting his aides. ,
Howell is believed to have
secured the services of Perron
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Herbie Kronowitz, promising young
middleweight, makes his moat im-,
portant start when be tangles with.
Artie Levins (above) in the ten
round centerpiece at New York's
Madison Square Garden tonight.
Boxing men think Herbie i a
coming title contender. A victory
over Levine would go far toward
proving they're right Kronowita is
a good boxer with real mulching
power. He's strong, never lets down
and rallies quickly when hurt.
In Artie Levine, however, he meets
a stand-up boxer who can hold his
own with the best. Artie baa a power
ful left hook and a short, straight
right hand that is mighty effective.
Abo he has a way of rendering foes
groggy with a rapid series of short,
twisting head punches! Then whaml
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