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.
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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.
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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.
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Francisco's
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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
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.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.
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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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LEWISTON. Idaho. Anrll 14
(A') A lti-hit attack, featured
by two horns runs mid three
doubles, gave the Urcnwrtun
Bluejackets a 14-8 decision
over the University of Idaho
Vandals yesterday.
The circuit blows wore clout
ed by Dais Murkurt and Allen
Maul..
The Bluejackets turned in a
4-3 ten Inning win over the
Yakima Stars Saturday with Ai
Adkliio tripling home Charlie
Bii8hong In the extra framo,
Bambino Better
MIAMI BEACH, Fin.. 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.
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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.
Nineteenth Annual
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April 19-20
America's Biggest Two-Day Contest
Full Program of Exciting Round-Up Events
Wild Brahma Bulls Fighting Broncs
Thrills Drama Color Excitement
Bands Western Music Cowboy Clowns
Brahma Bull Fighters
Trick Riders and Ropers Special Events
4 Races Daily Including Quarter Horse
and Relay Race
FREE STREET DANCE
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