HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON
THURSDAY, JAN. 22, 1941
PACE EICHT
By ' i
I ) Jlale ScawiaufJt
Billings, Mont, Fans
Ringing In Celebrities
For Diamond Stock Sale
Billings, Mont, new addition to the expanding Pioneer Baseball
leacue In attempting to flrld . community baseball team and finance
a building project much the same as Klamath
Baseball, Inc., In doing here, but the Billlniss
people are putting In llourlshe the local or
eantration didn't think of.
They're selling stock to baseball fans, too,
and tha list of shareholders In the Billings
club now Includes Bing Crosby, Mickey Coch
rane and Bob (Brown Derby) Cobb. The
Oroaner Is honorary chairman of the board
of directors. Mickey Cochrane has a brother
In Billings and Cobb worked In Billings before
he established his famous restaurant in Holly
wood Bnd became an owner of the Hollywood
Stars baseball team.
The Billincs club Is Incorporated for one
hundred grand, same as here, but their stock sells for $100 a share,
while stock In Klamath Baseball. Inc., Is going at $25 a share. No
celebrities are In on the local deal. The stock is being bought by Joe
and Tom and Susy Fan.
Ruth Drew Down 100-Cent Dollars
Speaking of baseball, the salary situation In the majors Is getting
astronomical. Joe DiMaggio reportedly will get $60,000 from the Yankees;
Ted Williams got $75,000 last season from Boston: Hank Greenberg
was something of a flop at Pittsburgh but his contract called for a
bonus system which brought Greenberg an estimated $85,000. Bob
Feller had a turnstlle-click clause In his paper which probably put him
In the comfortable $85,000 bracket
But they're all peons compared to Babe Ruth. In 1930 the Babe
got a cool 80 grand, and in them there days Income taxes were some
thing that the owners and not the players worried about. Ruth took
v(. nav tinm in hnrketsf til He nrabablv netted twice as much in the
long run as the highest paid star of today gets to keep after Uncle I alumnus asserted himself in the
Sam finishes picking his pocket ' world series was when he was tak-
' ing a shower. Branca is playing
ft- Iff fL ' professional basketball this winter
naiaer oiur is unanimous wioice
Chuck DeAutremont the Red Raider football flash who will be with
the San Francisco "49ers of the All-American pro conference next sea
son, was a unanimous choice for all-Far Western conference for 194".
The only unanimous choice, by the way.
Coaches of the Far Western circuit voted on the following first
team:
Position Player School
Right End Thaine Gatlin Southern Oregon
Right Tackle LeRoy Clark Chico
Right Guard Don Martin Chico
Center Tom Varicola Humboldt State
Left Guard Jim Christiansen Cal Aggies
Left Tackle Bob Hunt Cal Ageies
Left End Evert Schlinger Cal Aggies
Back Jim Thompson -.. Humboldt State
Back John Nedderman Cal Aggies
Back Jack McBee San Francisco State
Back Chuck DeAutremont .. Southern Oregon
Rickey Sees
1948 Dodgers
As Tough One
Assertive Brooks
Moy Pattern Play
After '34 Rcdbirds
Bv IIAKKY ;it.YSON
NFA Sports editor
NEW YORK, Jnn. ii tNKAt i
Branch Rickey sees the 1948 Dodg
ers as a new Gas-House Gang.
"This club." said the Deacon, "has
the makings of the most interest
ing, rugged and best one In my
Brooklyn tenure."
Asked if he believed the return
of Leo Durocher would have some
thing to do with the rase, jhe Dea
con replied: "No. It Isn't that,
though Leo might be said to be
mixed up in .the situation some
what. "Eddie Stanky typifies the as
sertive player type we have, as do !
Jackie Robinson and Ralph Branca, i
I have an idea Dick Whitman w ill
be one of our new Gas-Housers."
This is the same Stanky who Is
concerned about his Job at second j
base, where Mnhatnia Rickey has i
made It quite clear he would like :
to employ Robinson, who doesn't i
smack the long ball often enough
to be used at first base, where he
still was anything but a polished
hand at the wind-up last fall.
SKISIKS FA1LIRE
Branca came close to being uu-
beatable w hen right during the ;
season, but the only time the young j
and large New York university ,
With Gloves On, Yet
L X !
I I : h f ,IV
rr.'-f t A it
against the advice of all baseball
men. Outfielder Whitman was re
called from the minors.
Although fabled in song and
story, the Cardinal Gas-House
; Gang was greatly over-rated.
: With the Deans, ill-fated Bill
j DeLancey, Ripper Collins. Frisch,
, Durocher. Martin. Medwick. Or
, satti, Terry Moore. Jack Rothrock
' and some more, the so-called Gas
! House Gang accounted for only one
j of the numerous pennants won by
the St. Louis Nationals. That was
in 1934.
One of the silliest games Imaginable Is basketball with bovine gloves,
particularly the way It it played by a gang of exuberant high school boys.
Pelican athletes put on a riotous exhibition of the farce recently at KU
gym. much to the delight of a big crowd of spectator It is not a foul to
punch an adversary in the nose.
Rest Of NoCalLoop
Eyeing Klamath Falls
Jack Nichols
Out To Grab
Scoring Race
Husky Cagcr Runs
Slightly Ahead Of
Hanson's '45 Pace
HKAVl'LE. Jnn. ti (11 Jack
Nichols, who racked up an all-time
high for Washington InM yenr with
'JIM points in northern division lum
kclunll piny, iippnienlly Is uiit I Inn
year to grab off the division scoring
mm ll and evru take n whack nl the
all-time murk of Wi.
Big Nick has rolled in tin count
ers In four games and Is 1.1 points
per game ahead of the puce set by
Washington Slate's Vluco IIiiiimiii
when he compiled the record in
11145.
For all Kit nifA played mi fur this
season Cliff Cruiuliill of Oregon
Stale held a comfortable lend, with
Nichols slow ly narrowing the milium.
Crumlul! hus pouted In 'Jlill points in
i tunics and Nichols 'JIB In 10. The
latter hus pu ked up 'J8 counters on
Crundnll since the start of con
ference piny.
All teams except WuMiluMott
State hnve representatives uiiiong
the scoring leaders. Forward Kd
Uuydu topi the Cougars with 10U
points In 17 games. The puce set
ters: I
Al l. 41AMKS I
Crundull. OHO
Nichols. Wash.
Wiley. Ore.
Phoenix, Idaho
Uartelt, Ore.
Carey. OSC
CONr'KUKNCE
Nichols. Wash.
Carey. OSC
Crandull. OSC
Torrey. OSC
Wllkliui. Ore.
Vaudenburgh, Wash.
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Diamond Stars Fight
For Reserve Clauses
HOMTON, Jan. 3'J il'i - A long IM nl iurl liotulilrn, heuiled bT
baseball's U xle Walker and Johnny i Flreinaiil Murphy will appear
objectors al the slale house today during a legislative hearing on a bill
thai would unlaw the reserve clause in conlriicln of professional ath
letes employe,! by Massachusetts oiguul.ulloiis.
The measure. Hied at the request of Hubert Murphy. Ilostou labor
relations counsel, would "prohibit employment ronliacln In which th
employers reserve the right In sell or exchange the peiMinul service of
mi employe, or lo renew contracts of
einployiiiiut without the employe i
consent"
I'ltsMiae ol such leijMatlon would
make u prolcsslonul alhiete a free
ugeiil. Ill a position lo sell his ser
vices lo the highest bidder, on ex
plrulloii of Ills contract.
The reserve clause Is the back
bone of huscimll." sn Id Walker, th
star outfielder lecenlly Iraitrd lo
thr IMIIsIiiiikIi I'lialrs by the Na
tional league peuiiunl winning
llriHiklyii DiMlgeis. "Major league,
baseball phi) its, b moot aut lulled
group llirsc days, nio convinced
thry nerd that iluil.se as much
the chili owni'is du."
"It would mill Imim-IiiiII," said
Murphy, who has retlied from the.
bullpen lo be a Huston lied Sox
scoul. "HiH'uklng ns the representa
tive nt I he AiiUTlfiiii league's play
eis, I iiiii'il nay that legislating the
reserve contiai l out ot baseball cpn
tructs would kill the sport. 11 U4
I pluyers were made Iree ugents when
thrlr coiilrncls expire, the richest
ball clubs would be able to hire all
, of the stars. That would sllllo coin
I IMiltlun uiid ruin the game."
Hob
Red Birds the Gas-House Gang
when they roared down in front In
1930-31, and, following the conquest
of '34. when the great Dizzy Dean
clinched it on the final day. the
Cards did not prevail again until
'42. And that one and subsequent
of whether knowledge of wildlife and its protection shall be added to i winners certainly were no part ot
the list of studies of Oregon public schools to the jury the school i pas-House Gangs under the quiet
youngsters themselves. i ? efficient, yet thoroughly ageres-
sic amy ouuiuworui ana caaie
Dyer.
MARTIN TERRIFIC
Pepper Martin was terrific with
his natural color, but when he or
ganized the Mudcat band the Gas
House Gang became more of an act
than a baseball club.
Things got so far out of hand at
one time that the irrepressible Mar
tin actually asked Sam Breadon to
change the name of the club from
the Cardinals to the Mudcats.
Burt Shotton. a fine old gentle
man, last year straightened out the
Brooklyn pitching, gave the club
balance and poise it lacked under
Lippy Leo Durocher.
Handled by a man under whom
they didn't have to be unruly, the
Bums were able to concentrate on
the Job at hand, went on to the
pennant not a few think they
should have copped the previous
season, when The Lip was having
such a high, old time for himself.
The Cardinal Gas-House Gang
and the Brooklyn clubs of the past
two campaigns are something In the
way of evidence that It doesn't pay
a baseball club to be too rambunctious.
Klamath Falls probably will have , 1 attendance location, with Weed
a semi-pro baseball team in the I following closely.
Vnrllurn Ca llfMi-Mto lnncrix, nvl A It iltinH, nnu M.-rMn,,,!
No one thought of calling the i ...c i . -.rt.ir.- ui nh.ct. vi.' r... ;,.- ...a
club in the Far West circuit, but the i Hilt are In the NoCal for sure, with
other towns in the NoCal loop want ! Klamath and Redding still on the
CINCINNATI, Jan. 22 UP)
Baseball Commissioner A. B. Chan
dler and organized baseball are
ready to make peace with the Mexi
can league and welcome back the
many stars who jumped their teams
for higher pay across the border In
1946, it was learned Wednesday.
The commissioner himself would
make no statement, but from a
Ikes Sponsor Wildlife Essayists
ine state division oi tne izaai: wauon league is tatting tne question
The league is offering JtlOO in prizes for the best essays written by
eighth gTade pupils on the subject: "Why Conservation of Wildlife Re
sources Should Be Taught in the Public Schools."
Essays must be between 300-500 words and in the hands of Paul
M, Dunn, forestry school dean at Oregon State, on or before March 1.
PEACE OVERTURE MADE
TO MEX BALL CIRCUIT
source close to him it was said the
purpose of a scheduled conference
between Walter Mulbry, secretary of
baseball, and Alejandro Aguilar
Reyes, Mex league commissioner, !
"is obvious."
Mulbry is in Mexico City now for j
a combined vacation-business visit. I
He said there earlier Wednesday t
that some time in the future It
might not be Impossible to have a j
"fine spirit of cooperation between
baseball In the United States and '
the Mexican baseball league."
Chandler believes that if peace :
could be restored it would be a good j
thing for the sport.
Chandler also believes that the i
stars who jumped the major and I
minor leagues and subsequently
were suspended for five years will
have paid their debt to baseball so-:
ciety by the time the current truce ,
becomes a real peace, and should be j
given back their Jobs. j
Among the great players who j
were lured into the Mexican league
were Pitchers Max Lanier and Fred '
Martin and Second Baseman Lou
Klein of the St. Louis Cardinals;
Catcher Mickey Owen of the Brook
lyn Dodgers; Nap Reyes, lnfielder,
George Hausmann. lnfielder. Out
fielder Danny Oardella and Pitcher
Ace Adams of the New York Giants.
The Mexican league quit trying to
capture American stars last fall
after it was reorganized and Reyes
became head man.
tn know definitely In a hurry
Since Medford dropped out and
Redding is on the verge of being
kicked out of the league for con
tinued poor showing, the Northern
California circuit is having to be
made over, and If Klamath Falls
drops out the league will definitely
be weakened.
Klamath last season was the No.
Lure Dealers
Vote Against
Spinner Ban
PORTLAND, Jan. 22 The state
game commission will be asked,
probably in strong terms, to junk
one of its proposed rules that ban
nlng multiple blade spinners from
Its 1948 fishing regulations when the
commission meets here Friday.
John Arff, sports fishing lure job
ber, said petitions protesting the
proposed rule have been signed by
hundreds of fishermen at sports
shops throughout the state. The
petitions will be filed with the game
commission prior to the adoption
of the 1948 rules.
Arff said that the fishermen can
not see the need or feasibility of a
rule banning certain gear so long as
the state sets a limit on the catch of
sports fishermen anyway.
The multiple blade spinner ban
would make trash of much gear
which fishermen habitually have In
their tackle boxes and sporting
goods store owners from all over
Oregon, meeting In Portland yes
terday, reported they had about
180,000 worth of multiple spinner
lures on hand which would be put
off the market by the game com
mission's proposed rule.
Adler Chosen
Sports Prexy
Dr. George H. Adler, county cor
oner and ardent sportsman, was
elected 1948 president of the Kla
math Sportsmen's association dur
ing a meeting at the Wlllard last
night.
L. H. Smith of Keno was chosen
vice president; Tom O'Dwyer, secre
tary, and W. J. Kessler, treasurer.
Directors will be John Raffetto,
Ray Sherer, Hal Shidler, Dr. G. L
Wright, Paul Winter and Rex Hiatt,
The Sportsmen's association prob
ably will not be formally repre
sented at Eugene this week-end
when the state game commission
holds Its hearings on the proposed
1948 angling regulations.
J. L. DEAN
Public Accountant
and Auditor
New Office Location
308 North 7lh St.
Phone 9346
Dressed
V. r 1
A, ' 4
Joe Lynam, who wrestles AI Wil
liams here tomorrow night, is a good
looking young fellow In the squared
circle, and a good looker outside the
ring. This Is one of his lnfrrqurnt
pictures In "civics."
Auburn Hires
Earl Brown
As Grid Boss
AUBURN. Ala.. Jan. 22 Pi
Auburn's weeks-long search for a
head football coach ended today
with the naming of Earl M. Brown.
Canisius college mentor and former
Notre Dame star, to the post.
Appointment of the 32-year-old
coach was announced last night by
Acting President Ralph Draughon
of Alabama Polytechnic Institute
fAuburn). Salary terms were not
disclosed.
Brown Is scheduled to start spring
football practice here February 2.
An Auburn spokesman Indicated an
announcement would be made
shortly on appointment of his as
sistants. Brown succeeds Carl M. Voyles,
whose contract was bought up by
the school after the 1947 season,
when the Auburn football team
ton two games and last seven.
Voyles was named head coach of
the Brooklyn Dodgers of the All
American pro football conference by
Branch Rickey yesterday.
Nip Olympics
TOKYO, Jan. 22 P Japan,
barred from the International
Olympiad next summer, plans to
hold Its own "Olympic games" at
the same time. This was announced
today by the Japan Olympic society
as a gesture "to express respect and
felicitation to the International
Olympics, and also to demonstrate
the healthy existence of Japanese
athletics."
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Name Contest
Comes To End
Next Monday
The "name the baseball club "
contest now being sponsored by
The Herald and News and radio
station KFLW for Klamath Base
ball Inc. comes to an end Monday
at 6 p. m.
All entries to be Judged must be
In by that time.
Judges J. A. Mahoiiey. Joe
Peak and Clyde Carlstrom prob
ably will pick the winning name
Tuesday and it will be announced
Wednesday night during the
scheduled baseball banquet at the
Wlllard hotel.
Don Neal of KFLW is handling
the entries and reports he has
some fine ones, so the Judges are
going to be hard-pressed to select
the one by which Klamath's entry
in the Far West baseball circuit
will be known.
To enter, write down the name
you would like the baseball team
to carry, plus a statement in 50
words or less giving your reasons
for believing Klamath Falls is
ready for professional ball, and
mail to The Herald and News
sports department or to Don Neal
and KFLW, In time to be de
livered before 6 p. m. Monday.
No box tops are necessary.
In judging the entrants, the
names submitted will be of pri
mary concern, then In case of tics
the statements will be taken Into
consideration.
Suitable and valuable prizes will
be awarded the first, second and
third place winners.
ience and me time rapidly ap
proaching when something definite I
has to be done in the leugue. '
The Sons ot Italy lodge, holders
of the Northern California fran
chise here, have done some dicker
in? with Kiumath Baseball Inc..
backers of the professional baseball
club, for use of the park the latter
Intends to build and has been as
sured It can use the park for a
nominal rental when the pro club
is out ot town.
The stipulation is that the pro- i
fessional club's schedule be drawn ,
up first and the Sunday clubs j
schedule tnllored accordingly.
Probably the Sons will keep the
franchise Itself or turn It bark to
the league to be picked up by bii- I
i other organization locally so that i
! Klamath will be represented tn the
! Northern California circuit. But
the other points In the league are
sitting on the anxious seat to know
what is going to happen.
' Redding in particular Is waiting
j for some action from the Sons of
' Italv here because Redding also is
In the Far West pro circuit and the
Northern California league. If
Klamath pulls out of the latter, so
probably will Redding, leaving the
NoCal circuit Just six teams Instead
of eight.
Junior Hoopers
Await Action
Fremont Junior high hoopiiirn w ill
j see action the coming week-end
against Keno and Altamont.
j The Pathfinders will tackle the
; Keno eighth graders at Fairvlew
I gym at 4 p. m. The Fremont midgets
will meet the Keno second team In
the preliminary.
Fust basketball game ol the year
between the Fremont gang and
Altamont Junior high will be played
at Altamont Saturday night. This
affair is set for 8 o'clock, with a
7 o'clock preliminary featuring the
Fremont babes and (he Altamont
seconds.
Feller's
Stipend
Highest
Cl.KVUl.AND, Jan. ii il'
IVIIcr started hoiiic-luuitliig today
alter signing a I1MH coiilract which
Cleveland Indians I'itmiIciiI lull
Veeck inn 1 1 1 1 ii I nnl would continue
him as biiM'tiull's highest pold per
former. As usual. I ciiiis ol the agreement
were not aniiounced, but Veeck said
the strikeout king could make as
much as last years SH7.00U. uiid
milled that "Willi a phenomena!
year he can make a couple of dol
lars more."
The Tribe president described a
"piicuoineiiul year" as u season that
would draw about l,7,'iu,000 cash
customers.
HASH OF MO 000
Feller's base pay Is lo remain
"about the same." a figure estimated
at 40.WH), but his bonuses are to
begin at a higher atlenduiice murk
and cover a w ider scale of tutal paid
admissions.
Veeck stoutly maintained tiiat
Feller's total earnings would exceed
that of Ted Williams, the Boston
Ked Sox slugger who was rcitorird
lo have signed for SNO.OOO recently.
Joe DIMaggio Inked a New York
Yankee contract that was said to
cull for I'iO.OOO.
Feller termed the contract "as
good as any" he has signed In his It)
yeurs with the Indluiis.
Clussllird Ads Bring Itetulta
Trojans Win Pair
DOItRIS, Jan. 22-The Butte Vol
leg high Bulldogs last two buskct
bnll games to visiting quintets Horn
Sacred Heart academy of Kiumath
Falls Tuesday night. The class A
game went to the Sacred Heart
Trojans 47-27. and the Sacred Heart
B team won Die opener, 28 to 24.
Nomad Hoopers
Visit Merrill
MKRHIIX. Jan. 22-The Harlem
Topn, a nomad basketball leum from
New York, will play an exhibition
Ituitie with the Merrill Veterans m
Foreign Wars here Saturday ntght
In the Merrill high school gym.
The feature game starts at 8.30
p m A preliminary lilt will put
Merrill high against Illy III a
county B school contest.
The Harlem Tops are ruireiiily
pluyiug nightly In the Sucrumcnto
vallev. and the Merrill game will
be their first Oregon apiwarauce.
The team dotes on comedy and trick
basketball playing but when pressed
can piny a great straight game.
I K.IITS LAST NK.HT
OAKLAND-Bert I.ytell. 12.
Oakland, outpointed Billy Smith,
I'M. Oakland. 10.
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BONANZA. Jan. 22 The Merrill
Huskies clouted the Bonanza Ant
lers 36-16 in a county league prac
tice game here Tuesday night. Low
ell Snapp counted 12 points for
Merrill, followed by George Price
with seven.
For the Antlers the usually high
scoring Dennis Dnvls was held to
six points, but still topped the Bo
nanza firing.
Bonanza won the class B game
30-11.
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