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Mi t il I ;! ! 4 I; id s Si it k t ; ,i it 1 f i'i it ' . i Gordon Helps Indians Back On Win Path By The Associated Preu Wht a difference player makes. A month ago anyone brash enough to pick the Cleveland Indians to win the American league pennant would have been labeled a "nut"' and rushed to the nearest psychopathic ward. Today that thought Is wander ing through the minds of many fans and they don't all live In Cleveland. And oddly enough, their biggest reaapn is not Bobby Feller, baseball's number one righthander. TUe guy ts"the former Yankee star second baseman. Bullet Joe Gordon. In performing like a thoroughbred at his old second base post and teaming perfectly with Boudreau In the field. Gordon has set a terrific pace with his war club. At the moment, Gordon Is baiting well over .300, si leading the league In home runs 1 and trails Bostons BoDby uoerr in the important runs-batted-ln de partment by one for individual leadership. On defense, he has made only one error in 80 chances and has helped the Indians com plete 19 double plays In 16 games. The 32-year-old Oregonian ham mered out two home runs and a Ingle yesterday and drove In four runs to lead the Indians to an over whelming 16-1 victory over the St. Louis Browns. The triumph enabled the Tribe to take over the runner up spot only a game and a half be hind Uie front running Detroit Tigers who swept a doubleheader from the Chicago White Sox 10-0 and 6-1 before 45.755 fans In Chi cago. The defending champion Bos ton Red Son gladdened a crowd nf 32,211 hometown rooters by nosing out the Yankees 8-?. The Philadelphia Athletics divided a pair with Washington, winning the opener 4-t and dropping the nightcap 2-1. The Chicago Cubs took over the National league lead by one full game from the Boston Braves by whipping the Reds in Cincinnati twice, 6-3 and 4-3. A turnout of 51.840 saw the hometown New York Giants hold the Braves to a split as the Polo Grounders won the first 8-1 and lost the second 11-3. Earl Torgeson homered in the sec ond game after fanning four times. The Philadelphia Phils handed the Brooklyn Dodgers a severe Jolt bv humbling them twice before a record Shlbe park crowd of 40.S59. 1-1 and 8-4. The double defeat dropped the Dodgers from first to third place. The St. Louis Car- dinals emerged with a win and a tie in their doubleheader in Pitts- burgh, winning the first in 10 in- nlngs. 10-6. and tying the second. 1-3. with the game called at the nd of seven innings oy tne i p. m. Pennsylvania curfew. Henthorne Remains Unbeaten By The Associated Press The undefeated Washington and Washington state college track and field squads rolled toward a bang up collision this Saturday to decide the northern division coast confer ence dual meet cinder crown. Each of the schools rolled over their week-end opposition, the Hus kies squelching Idaho 89-42 at Mos cow and Washington state besting Oregon 80!-j to SO!? on the Cougar oval. An addition to the Hisky-Cougar clash, this week-end. brings about two other traditional meetings Oregon State vs. Oregon at Eugene, and Montana vs. Idaho at Moscow. The northern division champion ship meet In Seattle will close the season May 31. Washington State swept 1 of 15 first places against Oregon but bowed to the Ducks in the matter of top performance. George Ras niunin, Oregon freshman, soared It fact 9 78 inches to set a new meet record in the pole vault, and Dave Henthorne, another Duck freshman, paced the sprinters in both she century and furlong to remain undefeated. Dick Armstrong and Lyle Clark tied for Individual honors in the Moscow meet. Idaho's Armstrong taking both springs and Washing ton's. Clarke dominating the hurdles. Washington's Jack Hensey con tinued his reign over the 880 field with a time of 1:54.2. POTATO FERTILIZER 10-16-8 Klamath Valley Special Potato Fertilizer NOW AVAILABLE AT I.W.IKlBIRNS 4 Farm Equipment TS4 So. Sixth St, 'PORTLAND -HEADOftS SPRING MEET STARTS On mil north of Portland city limits mt .Union and Vancouver Avemjes . . . Direct busses from Portland and Vancouver . . . Grand stand ceats : 83c ptua tax. Clubhouse : 91.25 pirns tax. Phone WKbster 3207 for table reawvaJioM. pojt . . 7:0 p.m. SATURDAY, 7 KM CM. TM IHtTHWIlT'l MOIT Tag Match Set Again Promoter Mark Lillard has an nounced that the tag match of last Thursday night will be held over for another showing before mat fans here this coming Thursday. The team set-to will have Georges Dusette and Bully Weidnrr match ing their brawn with the rough stuff pulled by Pete Bclcastro and Herb Parks. The latter, after several sea sons as comparatively mild fellow, has suddenly blossomed out into a full-fledged villain of the mat. The team match, main eventing the card, will be a finish fight, two falls out of three with no time limit. Opening the Thursday card will be a return of the be-whiskered French Canadian. Bennv Trudcll. fighting Dory Funk Diliard in a three-rounder. It will be the first Klamath showing for the latter, al though he was scheduled to be here once before and had to call It off because of an injury. By The Associated Press AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. 12 7 .633 ' 7 .563 11 9 .550 8 7 .533 11 10 .534 9 9 .500 8 13 .400 7 14 J33 Detroit Cleveland .... Boston . (Washington Chicago New York . I Philadelphia ou urais Sunday's Results Boston 8. New York 7. Cleveland 16, St. Louis 1. Detroit 10-6. Chicago 0-1. Philadelphia 4-1. Washington 0-2. Saturday's Results New York 9. Boston 6. St. Louis 8. Cleveland 3. Detroit 5. Chicago 2. Washington 4. Philadelphia 3. NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Chicago 14 7 .667 Boston 13 8 .619 Brooklyn 11 8 .579 Pittsburgh 9 9 .500 Philadelphia 11 12 .478 New York 8 10 .444 Cincinnati 9 14 .391 St.. Louis 6 13 .316 Sunday's Scores Chicago 6-4. Cincinnati 3-3. St. Louis 10-3. Pittsburgh 6-3 'sec ond game seven-inning tiei. New York 8-3. Boston l-ll. , Philadelphia 7-5. Brooklyn 3-4. Saturdav's Scores New York 2. Boston 1. Brooklyn 4. Philadelphia 2. Cincinnati 6, Chicago 1. Pittsburgh 3. St. Louis 0. PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Los Angeles 25 17 San Francisco 24 18 Sacramento ... 22 20 San Diego 20 19 .595 .571 .524 .513 .500 .476 .439 .381 Portland .20 20 .20 22 Oakland Hollvwood Seattle - . 18 23 16 26 Testerdav's Results Oakland 6-3, Seattle 5-2. Los Angeles 3-6, Hollywood 1-5. San Francisco 3-0. San Diego 0-1 Sacramento 3-0. Portland 2-3. Saturdav's Scores Oakland 4. Seattle 3. Los Angeles 11. Hollywood 6. Sacramento 4. Portland 2. San Francisco 12. San Diego 4. -Klamath Falls, Oregon IIAMTIFUL CLUIHOUSI Sons Slug Yrelca For 16-7 Edge An explosion for six runs in the second inning of Sunday's ball game with Yreka never left the issue in a shade of doubt and the Klamath Sous went on to whip the Indians 16 to 7 In the Northern California league opener at the Siskiyou county seat. The Sons added another run In the third, six more In the fifth and finished off with three In the Sev enth frame. Floyd Shotwell tossed eight innings and was the winner. He was relieved by Frannie Miller ! In the ninth, w hen the final pair of runs for the Indians came across. Only extra base blow of the day was a home run over the Yreka diamond's left field wall bv III Hatfield with two aboard. That came In the fifth Inning to round mil the six-run splurge of that frame. j A total of 10 mlscues was marked down six for Yreka. four for the I Sons, during the sloppily played ; contest, The Sons may have sustained a severe blow In the fifth inning when Shortstop Dale Graham was hit by one of Pitcher Skip Craw ford's deliveries and put out of action. He may have a chipped bone in his right elbow. Klamath's nrrh - rival In the Northern California league, the Weed Sons, also won a game vester dav. beatinr Mt. Shasta 13 to 6. Box score: YRFKA INDIANS AR R II O A K Moron, is S 1 1 3 1 I Youns. It 4 0 110 1 V. Brhnke. cf 5 llorkaday. 2b, p 4 Dunham, e , 4 Jones, rf. 3b . 4 Martin, lb S Crawford. 2 3 2 0 1 2 0 13 0 o is t O 0 0 Favero, p . . - . t O 0 O O Fleck, rf 1 0 0 0 0 Total! 37 T 10 17 14 KLAMATH SONS AB R H O A K Brook. 3b . a Millar, rf. p Pisan. If Tognolt. 3 b ..n Ha If laid, cf Golbar. lb Pastaga. rf. If Graham, aa Loacalao. aa rV r r h . c . Shotwell. p Horn, rf .110 0 . .. 3 2 0 1 0 0 2 0 2 2 2 6 2 2 3 0 0 5 .... 2 I I 2 12 0 0 13 10 1 a 0 1 3 1 0 10 3 0 3 2 1 4 3 0 4 3 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 Total! Klamath 41 16 12 27 14 4 ..061 060 300 16 Yreka . . . - 023 000 OOS T SUMMARY Doublet, none: triple, none: home run. Hatfield: stolen basa. Brooks. Plaan. June. Martin: double play. Graham to Tognoli: bases on balls, off Crawford 6. off Favero 2: struck out. by ! Crawford 1. Favero 1. Hockaday t. Shot. ; well S: pased balls. Dunham S, Derrah ! 2. Loatnl pitcher. Craw ford. Eugene Puts 4 In Tourney EUGENE. May 12 iP Eugene higli track and field athletes piled up 48 point honors here Saturday to win tiie class A district event and qualify four men for the state tournament. Siuslaw led class B entries to qualify seven participants, with Mo hawk and Cresset each sending four and Lowel and Mapleton each one man. Springfield qualified four In class A. Cottage Grove a similar team, while Roseburg and Marshileld quallef two men and Myrtle Point. Elmira and North Bend each one man. The Eugene relay team set a new district 880-yard record by racing the distance in 1:34 to clip a full second from the old mark set in 1934 by a Roseburg team. Junior Legion Needs 2 Coaches The American Legion junior base ball program for this summer is in dire need of two coaches, according to Hal Shidler. chairman of the program this year . An effort is being made to run four teams Conger, Del Moro, Mills and Altamont and so far arrangements have been made to have Ernie Bishop coach Mills and John Argetsinger do the same for Del Moro. The coaches needed are for Alta mont and Conger. Any person will ing to take on the job. which will not take much time but will enable more youngsters to play baseball, should contact Hal Shidler at Hal's Sport shop on Main. Gaspineau Moves SILVERTON. May 12 IJP Gerald Gaspineau, Ashland coach, has been appointed physical education di rector and coach at Silverton high school. He succeeds Ray Boe. who expects to remain on the faculty here. OUTSIDE PAINTING ' Guaranteed PRE-WAR QUALITY! Pure Lead and Oil, or L.T.Z. Used Exclusively! Phone Today for estimates and listings for the season. ROPER and ROPER PAINTING CONTRACTORS -1430 Klmlh Aft. Phon W. AMPLE FREE PARKING SPACE RACING EVERY NICHT EXCEPT SUN DAY Class B Entry in r I I 'A ;t r '.7 i v.y. LsaisiassaBsssssssBaasass.uaaaBSmjksai 1 This local bowling tram, sponsored by the Millard hotel, will leave ; Wednesday to take part in the Women's Western bowling congress In Seattle. Picture shows, front to bark, Kulh Milne, nernlre Hrlll, Dena ; Baekes. Martha Met ollum and Ethel Bordon. Isabelle Milne, now living Frisco Team Leads NIBC SEATTLE. May 13 i-Pi The "300 ' Magazine tram of Sun Fran cisco forged 230 pins out in front 'of the Northwestern International ; Bowling congress yesterday with a jspHikliug 3008 pins. I Three of the five team members 'had three-game series In the 600s. Individual scores: Jerry Warden 506. Bert Lindstronm 623. Al Reah 647, Ken Rose 598 and Bob Wild 634. t 1 Day Averages Even 200 Pins SPOKANE. May 12 tT- All even 200 average gave Ned Day of West Allls. Wis., an eight-game total of I 1600 pins and first place in the ! $12 500 BPOE bow ling classic today, j Day's total was 31 pins more than I Matt Dosen. Butte. Mont., second: ! Dick Jacobs. Bremerton, Wash., is third with 1558. ! Competition continues until May t 31. Cleveland Wins ABC LOS ANGELES. May 12 IAt Cleveland won its second American bowling congres team championship when the 3032 total of the Eddie and Earl Linsz five stood up under the final attack by 72 tennis In the national kegling classic last night. Training Finish FUGENE. May 12 lA't Quarter back Norm Brocklin tossed three touchdown passes and sneaked a fourth tallv Saturday as the Whites defeated the Greens 26-19 in the closing Intra-snund sMimmnge nt the Oregon spring football pro i gram. Varsity Passes SEATTLE. May 12 W A pass conscious varsity rolled to a 27-6 victory over the seconds Saturday as the University of Washington football squad wound up Its spring training program. Three of the five tallies came on aerials. Em! 80 PAGES HUNTING AND FISHING ARTICLES SCENIC PICTURES MAPS AND CHARTS IDENTIFICATION FISH DRAWINGS . . . SEND YOUR FRIENDS A SOUVENIR FROM THE WEST ! SOe at all magazine stands or sporting goods stores or writ, to Southern Oregon Outdoor Guide. 211 South eth St. Grants Pass, Oregon A Good Sign to GO by! jit (GjJ35 mS IJ its 14 well-timed departures daily from KLAMATH FALLS Count on Greyhound to take you where you want to go . . . when you're ready! Thousands of miles of Greyhound routes link your community with nearby towns and distant points everywhere in the West, throughout the nation. Frequent schedules let you travel at your convenience. Ask your Greyhound Agent for handy pocket timetable. Agent, J. K. Sayre Depot, 904 Klamath Phone 5521 mm SEATS ALWAYS AVAILABLE GREYHOUND Seattle Bowling . Senna Service, Spokane, was sec ond in the open division with 2778. i followed In order by Washington i bowlers. Everett, 2756: Simpson Log. I glng company. Shelton, 3751 and j39th Street Club, 2740 I New leaders held all three top places in the class A singles and doubles divisions of the Western : Women's Bowling congress as the i 13-dav meet enlered Its final week. I Best scores were posted In the tingles where Agnes Tweit. Belllng ham. put together a 608 series. In - hiding a 345 game, to take the 'ad. She was follower) bv June inrobsen of Seattle with 5f7. and "ortland s Glendolene Vlnyard with ,567. 20 Trots Asked i PORTLAND. May 12 Ore gont Trotting. Inc.. a new horse breeders' associating, todav an nounced it would ask the state rac- ing commission to authorize 20 days I of horse racing at Portland Mea- i dows. Officers said they would ask that ;lhe meet open July 16. I I.IQt'OR SALES DOWN ! PORTLAND, May 12 Mi Ore- gon's liquor sales arc still running j below last year, the state liquor I control commission reported todnv. April s sales were $3.206.847 a dc ! fllne of $377,567 from April. 1946. ! Fewer permits were sold, too: 22.- 825 compared to 33.188 In the prev , lous April. The modern streamlined navy needs men with all the edura tlon they can get, none of the 50 or more trades and vocations is one in which some education is not essential. W Buy. 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The first ami second places In ouch event qualified for the stale tourney. The Klniuath entries will be: High Hurdles -Hob Mocnbce. first, llioiid Jump Irvlu Wliltt, fust, and Tom Edwards. Mile Maurice Dormuii. second. Low hurdles- Bob Kcdkey, second. High Jump Gary Duwra, first. Shot put Klwood Hose, first. Javelin Irwin Whltt, first. Harold Hrnluerd of Grant Puss will compete in both the 100 and 320-vard tlnsht's and on the relsv tenm. Geoige Fulleiion of Ashland again copped the mile, time 4:30. Fairview Faces .Pelican Squad Fairview and Pelican remained lunlopped in the city grade school ! cluss A Softball tourney and will ! collide this aflornuoit at 4:30 on j Modoc field. Ill the one-beaten bracket Riverside and Roosevelt will play on Mills field. I Saturday's games saw Mills best I Fremont 13-8: Pelican beat Hlver Islde 6-3: and Fairview tointed Roosevelt 5-3. Then In the second round Pelican beat Mills 7-3. and Riverside cllpiml Fremont 13-3. The second loss put Fremont out. 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