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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (April 14, 1947)
Play Ball Majors Open Season Today Bob Feller, strikeout king of tht big leagues. U destined to have a great on lhi yr, ccoiding to all baseball observers, and graat season ii what th Cleveland Indians ar expecting oi him bcaua Robert is bing pid th highest salary ever received by ballplayer. Solons, Yanks Start Season Southpaw Harry Truman, described by baseball fans as one of the best pltcners to ever innaou me wnne nousc, uuscu uui the first ball this afternoon at Washington's ball park and the 1047 hio leaeue diamond season was on. The traditional opening day Senators and New York Yankees, and the other 14 clubs -in tne majors sit the first day out. They get to work tomorrow. History Is about to b mad in th majors tha advent of th American Ngro to th big top. Jackie Robinson. ex-UCLA football flash and war veteran, is expected to be on first bat for th Brooklyn Dodgers tomorrow afternoon. He has been. ' signed to a Dodger contract, after months of wavering by, Brooklyn officials, and if he plays Robinson' will become the first Nearo ballnlaver to ancear on a maior leaau diamond. Brooklyn may also add another first the Dodgers are liable to go on the field tomorrow sans a regular, manager. Leo Durocher, titular field head of the Brooks, has been banned for a year by Commissioner Happy Chandler, and so far his successor hasn't been announced. Baseball writers are already in agreement on several Dhases of this big league season. For instance, they are reasonably cer tain tnat: St. Louts' Cardinals will win Red Sox will do the same in the did it last year. ' Bob Feller and Hal Newhouser will get the headlines as the best right and left handed pitchers, respectively. Ted Williams will hit to 'left field, or right field, or into the bleachers or anywhere else' and the so-called William, xhift will flunk. In its stead Theodore will piques, miu will gci Hwiutiy niivruuuu. And, th baseball leers agree, along about th middle of Jun lot of th rookies who set th Grapefruit circuit ablate this spring .will be making reservations on homeward-bound .trains. It happens every year, f., i Muscular Dub Will Clash For Coast Wrestling Belt mat pair or strong men, Georges Dusette and Billy Weidner, will come to grips in a mighty tussle next Thursday night for the privilege of wear ing the Pacific coast junior heavyweight wrestling crown. The title fight will be staged at the head of the week's muscle card in the armory, Promoter Mack Lillard announced this morning. The battle will be of five rounds duration. Billy Weidner, ex-circus tra peze artist and strong man, now holds the crown, hav 'ng wrested it from Pete Belcastro, and Du sette is the logical contender in that he is the man who had the Fqirview Takes Volley Diadem Pelican erade schnnl ntnnui the B class inter-school volley- oaii tourney Saturday, beating Fairview 15-6 and 16-14 in the final games on the KUHS gym floor. Fairview came In second and mversiae won third place. The tourney lasted all day. with Pelican beating Roosevelt 15-7 and 13-13 in the first round. topping Fairview 15-5 and 15-9 in the second round, then beat in? Fairview aasin in the finals. The class A tourney will be held next Saturday at the KU gym. Golfers! You Will Find Grand, New Spalding Golf Sets HERE Bobby Jones Models Jimmy Thomson Models MATCHED WOODS Starting at 39.50 MATCHED IRONS . Starting at 48.00 THE GUN STORE 714 Main game is between the Washington the National loop flag, Boston American circuit. Those teams be fed nothing but low,. inside urea ot toojung ar mem every belt before Belcastro acquired it. Dusette actually won the title bid last Thursday when he put uie ciamps on Belcastro In a sort of elimination contest. Reserve seat tickpti far the fight are now on sale at Castle- terry Drue and the Klamath Billiards, and general admission ducats will be sold at the ar mory iignt night. two other bouts as yet unan nounced will complete the grap ple card. Dinner Dates Now! Phone 9063 San Make m JT : ' Wi San Francisco's f " &r I 'Till Favorite Entertainer- I HARRY BOIVIN: "His long stay at th Copacabana is no accident. He travels first class in Bay Area theatrical circles." DICK MAGUIRE: "I hav heard him mora than one and his double-talk routines ar always fresh." Henthorne Speeds For Ducks Dave Henthorne. University of Oregon freshman flora Kiam ath Falls, turned in three speed performances on the cinder track at Eugene Saturday to lead the Webfoot track squad to a 79 to 52 victory over the Idaho Van dals. Henthorne is a former KUim-. ath Union high school thinclad star and navy veteran. He won the iuu-yara cuisn m 10.1. the first time since fleet Jake Leicht returned to the Ore gon campus that- the looiuau flash has been bested on the cin dors. The Klamath Falls boy was a full stride ahead of Leicht when he broke the tape. Henthorne came back later to win the gruelling 440-yard sprint and, then turned in a fast per formance as. anchorman for the winning team in the mile relay. Pels Blast Cave Squad The Klamath baseball Pell- cans started their season off right Saturday afternoon bv de feating the Grants Pass Cave men 8 to 8 in a game played at Grants Pass. Irving Whitt, tighthander. finished the game for the Pels and was the winning hurler. Whitt also led the batsmen with four hits in four times at the plate, while LeRoy Coleman's triple was the heaviest blow of the day. Righthander Pat Williams started the game for the Klam ath boys and was relieved after two innings. Grants Pass got 10 hits, the Pels nine. Tomorrow afternoon the Pell- cans again hit the road, this time to Medford for a game with the Black Tornado. Coach Ed Ryan said that he planned to start Williams on the mound again, and counter with Whitt. Sandman Tops Fast, Fancy Field SAN BRUNO. Calif.. April 14 (VP) Texas Sandman, an unof ficial 2-1 favorite, tops a fast and fancy field of seven horses entered in the $10,000 added Portola Handicap at Tanforan track Saturday. The Sandman, with Grant Zu felt up, packs top weight of 121 pounds in the feature race for 3-year-olds and up over a mile and one-sixteenth. None At All CORVALLIS, April 14 (IP) Freshman Fred Gallagher join ed Oregon State college's base ball famous over the week-end when- the Portland boy hurled a no-hit, noj-un seven inning,. 1 to"0,vnctory over tjje Ujyver- sity or'Montana. The Beavers won the earlier game,: 11 to 8. PHOENIX, Ariz., April 14 (IP) Sonny Trueman, John Day, Ore., was second in bareback riding and Jerry Ambler. Glen- wood. Wash., third in saddle bronc riding at yesterday's an nual Phoenix Junior chamber of commerce rodeo. LOAD BINDERS $5.00 to $14.95 SWAN LAKE MOULDING CO. OPENING! Wednesday Mite AT Francisco's Favorite Entertainer. JOAQUIN GARAY Direct from the famous COPACABANA NIGHT CLUB, where he has appeared for the past six years. HIS REPERTOIRE INCLUDES Ballads of the Day AI Jolson Impersonations Ad Libbing Comedy & Satire What Klamoth People Think of STPflR .By. MU AMmnA, Sports Editor Tempers Flare... Another Tie Game Keeps Padres Aloft By BILL BECKER Associated Press Sportiwrlter Along with temperatures, competition and tempers were ris ing steadily but the San Diego Padres today si ill clung to a slight percentage lead in the Pacific Coast league race. After dropping a hectic three-to-two series to Portland that Included two ties, the Padres had a bulge of 24 points on the San Francisco Seals bv virtue of having been credited with one less victory and also one less defeat. Portland won the first game of Sunday s twin bill. 7-3. and then the umpires, evoking the time limit rule, called the second game at 4-4 at the cud ot tiie sixth inning. Frauled Padre fans let go with everything from Bronx birds to pop bot tles. Earlier, they had seen Man ager Rip Collins and First Sacker Vince Shupe benched for protesting decisions. Four Beaver homers by Dan- Esco bar, Dick Wanner, Al Mura tore and Harvey Storey did little to sooth th 8230 cus tomers. Elsewhere, other sizeable turnouts saw splits: ' At Los Angeles, the season's top crowd of 16.940 saw the Angels defeat Oakland, 4-2, then bow, 3-2. on Gene LUlard's bases-full double in the last in ning. Lusty beefs by both man agers, Bill Kelly of the Angels and Casey Stengel of the Oaks, featured the week-end activity, which wound up with Log An geles the 4-3 series winner. Hollywood and San Francis. co, making up lor a postpone ment earlier in the week, crammed four names into the week-end. dividing twin bills both Saturday and Sunday. A lathering of 14,307 saw the Seals clinch the series. 4 to 3, by taking . the finale, behind Lefty Bill Werle's tight relief flinslna 6-5. It was Werle's third win. Hollywood won the opener 7-3. Sacramento s Solons also wound up with a 4-3 margin over the Seattle Rainier to keep, pace with Los Angeles in a third-place tie, one game back of San Francisco. After clinch ins the series with an 8-3 win in the first game, the Solons fell in the nightcap, 4-3, befort the slugging of Johnny Rucker, the ex-Giant, and Manager Jo Jo White. COTTAGE WINS COTTAGE GROVE, April 14 (A) Cottage Grove won a three-way track meet from' Eu gene and University High FrJ dajr, scoring- 68i points. Eu gene had 57, University 25 Vs. 1 THE BEST - BICYCLES And TRICYCLES at the LOWEST prices - come from POOLE'S Bicycles and Sporting Goods - 222 So. 7th LAKESHORE i II si tit i Him Dozen Squads Will Compete PORTLAND, Ore., April (fP) The second annual state high school baseball champlon- stup piayoii will be held at the university or Portland here May 22-24. Twelve teams will be In ac tioneight in class A and four in class B divisions with the contestants coming from the! same districts that were set up last year, when Jefferson of ; Portland won the title. ; District winners will be sc-j lected by committees with en. : tries to be posted at the Unl- I versity of Portland by May 17. Klamath Falls is in district : 2, and one team will go to the I tourney from this district, which includes Jefferson, Crook, De-1 schutes, Lake, Klamath, Doug-1 las, Curry, Coos, Josephine and : Jackson counties. 1 The smaller high schools in the county will have a chance , to enter B class competition, also In district 2 with the same : counties listed above. Meeting Called THE DALLES, April 14 Representatives of 100 sports men's groups will discuss hunt ing regulations and replenish ing oi fishing stream at the quarterly meeting of the Ore gon Wildlife federation here Saturday. 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April 14 Wl Babe Ruth, vacationing here lifter his recent illness, playc ' nine holes of golf yes terday In 43, hid first golf since last your. "I haven't felt better since I left the hospital," Ruth said after the game. He said he planned another game Wednes day or Thursday before leav ing fur New York Friday. The current record -breaking U. S, orange crop was nearly twice as large as the pre-war average. City Delivery .Service. Ph. 8417. feeautiUt TOUR CARWITH TAILOR MADE to fit YOUR cor. EXPERT UPHOLSTERY and TRIM WORK BALSIGER MOTOR CO. Main at Esplsnad Phone 3121 f I a THOMPSON IS DIFFERENT because it's are five years or mora old. lir.RAI.D Nl;V, Kl.milh tulli, Orl. Circuit Smash Wins For Solons MEDKOHD, Ore., April 14 (A') A four-run homer by right field er Ben Gregory In the eighth Inning uuvo Salem a ti ll win over Wenntehvo yesterday as the two Western Intvi'iialloiial lcaguu nines cloned mil their lo cal exhibition season. Salem dropped a doubleliond er to the University of Oicgnit ninti Saturday by scores of U-4 ami 4-0. HARRELL SOLD SAN FRANCISCO. April 14 tl'l Hay (Cowboy) Han-ell, 35, who whs ui'ttiitiud by the Sun Francisco Seals in 11141 from Portland, was. sold ycslerduy to Sacramento in a straight cash deal. Tho amount was not an nounced. The veteran right hander, who was In the major leagues for six seasons, won 13 and lust 6 for the Seals last year. There are more than 20,000 employes l:i the U, S. railway mall service. 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