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About Herald and news. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1942-current | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1947)
Slushy Snow Forces "tTurnback Just Short JUM Of Mt. Shasta Peak Attempt by several members of the Crater Lake SIU club to get to the top of 14.380-foot Mt. Shasta Sunday failed principally because of bad snow conditions, although two men came within about 15 minutes distance of the summit. Climbing Mt. Shasta is nothing new. but Its not an Inconsiderable feat, although mountaineers will say that the Siskiyou peak Is an easy one Cliff Cain and Tom Rlckard. starting from Shasta-Alpine cabin on the south side of the slope at 6 a. m got on up to about the 14.000-foot mark In some nine hours but turned back because the wet snow made the footing tricky. Thev, along with Earl Clark, started up. carrying skis. , and got to about 11.000 feet before they put crampons tice climbers) on ,ht"'r 1'topped off at what is called Heart rock, but Cain and Rlckard wei". t until they ha to turn back. Mr. and Mrs. Durwood roster also jCWk .'r the climb, but they only reached 11.000 feet before stopping. -1 . ter turning back Cain and Rlckard made what is called a tittinr r'. back to Heart rock. That maneuver might be best described iy it.llnr that It's hard on the seat of one's trousers. The whole bunch put on skis and came back down the slope. The party had packed in Saturday night, leaving their cars at a place called Sand flat about 18 miles from the town of ML Shasta, carrying In sleeping bags. food, snow glasses and sunburn lotion. They reported that the weather wasn't bad, not windy, but the season was Just about two weeks late for really good snow underfoot. Ruffians Wearing OutTheirWeicome Jefferson Opposes Pelicans PORTLAND, May 30 (v The Jefferson high Democrats today held ine forURim lnterscholasuc base ball league championship as the last class A and B school entries lined up for the state baseball tournrv opening at the Vaughan street park The Demos first foe is the pow erful Pelican learn from Klamath Kails, undefeated in all play this year. That game will be run off at 3:4S p. m. Thursday. Klamath Kails was one of the first teams definitely receiving a spot in the playoff, Jefferson defeated the Grant Generals 1 to 0 yesterday when big Bailey Bretn, Jefferson's toot 3 Inch righthander, hurled a three hit game. The win gave the Democrats the city title and the district 4 berth in the playoff. In other class A qualifying games Hlllsboro. I to 0. and Central Cath olic (Portland) defeated Scanpoose, 4 to 1. Hubbard snatched a class B spot by defeating Lowell, 10 to 1. The tournament schedule will see class A schools open first rounds Thursday with class B schools meet ing Friday morning and the class A semi-finals coming Friday after noon. The finals will be Saturday. The schedule: i Thursday: Class A 9 a. m. Hood River vs. Forest Grove; 11:15 a. m. Salem vs. Central Catholic (Port land i: 1:30 p. m. Sandy vs. Eugene: In the past few days this corner has received four or five letters from 3:45 p. m. Klamath Falls vs. Jeffer wrestlimr fans who are fed up with the extra-curricular behavior of some I50" ( Portland!. of the grapplers who appear regularly at the armory, with Pete Belcastro d"" 77 ,V m' Hub in particular coming in for a round of verbal abuse for his unsportsman- isle Liitv- l-ao n m J i V like actions in exchanging profane sallies with the fans and at times I Class A sem -finals even roughing up a customer. I Saturday: Morning consoiatlon Tony Ross is another regular offender, although Tony doesn't come to ! games: afternoon tournament finals. Klamath Falls as often as does Wild Pete, while the rellow who lights I under the cognomen of the Grey Mask is as bad as any at brawling with j the Inns The criticism of the matches Is welt-founded because our armory has seen some sights that go beyond the pale of regular wrestling and that is reallr going some and it would seem to be up to the city appointed wrestling and boxing commission to keep the matches with in some bounds. There's no doubt that certain of the grapplers are wearing out their welcome. Belcastro being one of them, and the fans will be pleased to note that Pete Isn't on the card for this week. The Champ And His Scepter The Smithy, A Mighty Man Was He One of the most honored adjuncts of horseracing Is blacksznithing. and the shortage of capable equine pediatricians has Bill Kyne. the Port land Meadows czar, worried. The smithies seem to belong to a vanishing race, and If some don't show up the ponies might be running around barefooted before this racing season at the Meadows is over. A track blacksmith is an artist, healer and magician, working with steel and aluminum. He rebuilds hoofs when they crumble, reshapes them when they contract or spread, calks them against mud and cushions them against injury. Each thoroughbred poses an Individual problem or maybe It's four individual problems to the smithy, and each thoroughbred needs a new two-pair of shoes every 15 days when he's busy. Dusette Has Main Event Georges Dusette. clean fighter and one of the fans' favorite grapplers, is ticketed for the main event bout on Thursday night's wrestling card at the armory. Dusette will fight the lately-turned villain. Herb Parks, in a five-rounder. non-title. Parks currently holds the transient coast Junior heavy crown one-time worn by the muscular Georges. The semt-windUD will also be five-rounder, with Bucko Davidson of Klamath Falls going to the mat with Pierre LaBelle. The handsome Pierre is coming back after having been away from the local scene for six months. Opening the card Stocky Kneilson will tangle with Gorilla Poggl over the three-round route. Kneilson is a newcomer from down Tennessee way. Oregon Wins Protest Tilt EUGENE. May 20 (Pi Southpaw vujiu "oj Miuv qui, me uregon fatal Beavers here yesterday as the Uni versity of Oregon nine won 8-0. The game was delayed a half wiuic umpires ana uoacn Ralph Coleman argued over a third tlflJCA rlofi ci fit, in ha i : .w....w.. ,u uic OlAlll lulling. Umpire, Buzz Bingham ruled Ranny t:. .,. "u v irom me mouna but Chief Umpire Ken Westover re versed the decision. Oregon was then ahead 2 to ( VOU'll LOOK BETTER IN nousws ASK YOUR DEALER Fish Worms For Sale 2421 Oregon Ave. and play continued under protest of Coleman. The scores: Oregon State 0 5 4 Oregon ,. ; 6 5 Kruger. Gallagher (71 and Roe landt; Day and Carlson. President's Cup All matches in the first round play of the president's cup tourney at Reames Country club must be completed by sundown Sunday. The Kiwanians won the service club championship last Sunday by de feating the Rotarians 21-12. Upper Lake Regatta Is Month Away The first postwar regatta for Up per Klamath lake will be held on Sunday. June 22, with expected en trants from four states. The boat show and races will be sponsored by the Junior chamber of commerce in cooperation with the Oregon out board association. The association is contacting drivers from California. Washing ton, Idaho and Oregon for entries and a good representation in all race divisions has been assured. In addition to the regatta and other boat events, one of the fea tures of the day will be log bucking and log chopping contests, and 67 logging operations in the Klamath area have been asked to enter their best and burliest woodsmen In these events. A boat show featuring boats and motors from most of the 18 dealers in this area will be held at Bal- siger's display room on the Friday ana saiuraay preceding we regatta. Up at the high school nine KU girls are being chosen to compete for the title of Regatta Queen. A sailboat race Is another water event planned. Tentative plans call for admission by lapel buttons costing 75 cents for adults, SO cents for children under 12. , , ,. Classified Ads Bring Results. Bobble Thornton. Falrvkw student, won the Eastern Oregon marble championship last week-end In lorlland. def rating players from llrnd, The Dalles and Pendleton. Shown nrre Willi the trophy that tors with the championship, Bobby is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Foster Thornton, 1801 Warden. A Portland mlgster won the state title. Post-Season Track Event Called Off For This Year In Portland with Uie KUHS baseball team. BUI Bowrrman of Medford Is the new president of the Oregon Coaches association, succeeding Deller who moves to the executive board for lour years. Frank O'Neill of Ash laud is vice president. The talked-of track playoff be tween the powerful Southern Oregon conference (district 3 and the Port land schools (district B will become a reality next year, but plans to inaugurate the meet which would have been held at Medford this sum mer have been cancelled out. Paul nriirr. truck and field coach at Klamath Union high school, said that there Just wasn l enougn time to get the meet lined up lor this year, but that it win oe a regular i h.w" VANCOUVER. B. C. Mav 20 in one of the towns down here and "T"' ,R nf'"'r..A1 H"y' " the next it will go to a Portland on'y he felt "we need a change irUrk i scenery." announced yesterday a. f.r the Pelicans' -class A t lx Joe' ' not be granted .Su'taMSc season fi2K& r'de " L"5du Pow y" "?Lpl,e. Jf5.", " u They are Alex Haller. Vic Bovine. letters, oui tor u ('.'- RHv Kawksworth. Hnrvev Duncan. Sextet Of Jocks Denied Licenses Hurt Arm Sidelines Bridges II y The Associated Press The pendulum uf Intermit in the Pacific. Const league swings today to Sun Francisco, where the loop leading Heals entertain for the first lime this season their cross-bay rivals, the Acorns of Oukland. The snappy Heals, too, may find that big aches from little Oaks ran grow. Casey Stengel's crew has bullied Its way up Irom the rellar to fourth pluco in the standings, getting tougher week by week, The Oaks' veterans seem to be Just rounding to form. Brooks Holder, batting pacesetter for Iho club regiu lars, has a .a;U mark mid eight homers. lately he has been getting solid support from Mel Diiranbou, and Tony Babul, both .341, and Maurice Van Kobnys. .310. Klsewhere along the roast wheel, firth-plare Kan Dlrgo Invades Kralllc, where Jo-Jo White's Itain iera have Jumped to seventh and hope lo climb higher! runner-ups l.os Angeles lakes a whark at Sacramento's atxth.spot Holons, and the bustlinr Beavers of Port land tie into Hollywood'! dimmed Mars. The Beavers received a serious setback Sunday when veteran Tom my Bridges tore a muscle In his pitching arm while putting some siieclnl effort on a fast ball against Sun Dlrgo. Bridges will be out of the Portland lineup for two weeks or probably longer. Bridge is 40 years old, and an In Jury that might not have bothered a man of 25 may keep lilm sidelined indefinitely. HKRAI.D NR III, OH. TUSSUAT. Mr H. I Hli '! lAafll f a:m ' Williams ami Best Slugger llv The Associated I'reaa Aiiierlcnu league iiiumigci'i Imd belter devise a "bleacher hill" for Ted WIUInniB. Trick shifts and all, the Uoslon Red Box slugger still li Hit greatest as well as the most feared batsman In baseball today, Ills circuit clout yesterday came with one aboard In the last of the ninth to save the American league champions the Ignominy of dropping both ends of a double header to the League Leading Detroit vigors. The Bengals had won the 12-liiuliig opener 1-1 and were ahead 4-3 with nno awuv In the Red Sox half of the ninth of the second game. Up stepped Williams and blasted his two-run homer Into the right field blcnolicrs to give the Sox a 5-4 win and a split In the twin bill before 38.JH1) paid fans. In defeating the Red Sox In the opener on George Kelt's lath Inning double which scured Kcl Lake from first, trie Tigers gained the distinction of handing Dave iHoole- Ferris his first defeat on home I 4i one and possibly to more events on , Jlmmy 8lvewr,ghl ,, Emll Roy; the calendar. ti w.n known here This coming Saturday night under '" "'w?.n'r?- the arcs at Medford tne mamatn a squad will compete In the first an- 1 nnitl Southern Orefion class B AAU 1 track and field meet, at a get-ready . for a state AAU (class a) in ron land May 30 and 31. Coach Deller said today that he planned to take about 20 of his up coming boys to Medford. and prob ablv would take a few to Portland. He "listed Gary Dawes, high Jumper: Jim Thornton, distance runner, and Gordon Fletcher, hurdler, as ones who will probably go to the Portland meet. The Pelican chances at Medford Saturdav will be lessened by the ab sence of Dawc. who will already be national i.r.Atirt: Batting Walker. Philadelphia. .373: Gustlne. Pittsburgh. .351. Runs batted In Torgeson, Boston, 39: Marshall. New York. 24. Home runs Mine, New York. 10: Torgeson. Boston, and Miller, Cin cinnati, 8. PltchlngRowe. Philadelphia, and Spahu, lliwton. 0-0. 1 000. AMKKK'AN I.KAtil'R Butting Mtillin. Detroit, and Mc- Qiilnn. New York. .307. Runs batted In Williams. Boston. 24: Doerr. Boston, and Kennedy, Chicago, 21. Home runs Williams. Boston. 0; Keller. New York and Gordon, Cleveland, 7. Pltrhtng-Dletrlrh. Philadelphia. 2-0. 1.000; Hutchinson. Detroit, 5-1, .533. grounds In two seasons. The third place Indians remained hard on the heels of Detroit and Huston bv taking a t-4 derision from the New York Yankees at the Yankee stadium. The Chlcaao Cubs look undisputed possession of the National leagues third place, only four percentage points behind the second place New York Giants and a Half game uciiinn the tint plare Huston Braves bv nut-slugging the llrooklyu Dodgers 8-7 at Wrlgley field. The loss (Implied the Brooks Into the second dlvlMon. Marking Hie 11th successive game hi which they failed to score moro than two runs, the Washington Hen atora bowed to the Chicago White Sox 4-1 In 13 Innings under the lights at the capltol city. Bkeeter Dickey's double with the bases load ed in the 13th accounted for the winning runs. The Ht. 1.001s Cardinals finally broke the spell the left-handed pitchers have held over tlirin this season for a a 5-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phils in a night game at St. Louis. B ALT1 MOR K Curlls "HsUlicl. man" Shrppard, IDO, Philadelphia, knocked out Charlie Williams, 1)8, Duff ato il. Ginger Agrees To Local Fight Ursal 'Ginger' Snapp is definitely signed to fight here in a lO-nmud main event Tuesday night, May 27, according to Promoter Mark l.lllard. His opiwnent lias not yet been named. Snapp Is also slated for a 10 rounder, null! event style, at Port land next Friday, having made a hit with Tex Salkeld, the City of Roses ring Impresario, by drubbing Joey Alblua last week. This will be the first local boxing card In a month, due to Hearth of fighters, and the first fight for Siiano In the Klamath swat shop liana Norland Auto Insurance. Ul since lie rorkrd Kay Garcia Id sleep N. 6th ML in five heats March 35. The Gun Stort'g Expansion Sale Features SilllllliES Buck Stelner and Apach As Low As TIIK GUN STORE 114 Main LADIES' DENIM JEANS SIDE OPENING PRE-SHRUNK BLUE DENIM SIZES 22 TO 34 OREGON WOOLEN STORE 8th and Main 3 ai .miii "i- s 7 A rmut si n ay M.I tf motoric l . 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