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PACE EICHT HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, ORECON WEDNESDAY, MARCH 31, 1948 Big Crowds See Openers Beavers Bear Oakland 3-0; Seattle Snowed Under 17-2 Debacle By Stars By The Associated Prtct The lid blew off the Pacific Coast league season with a thunderous blast of heavy hitting yesterday. Attendance at the four opening game, one day and three night contest, totalled 1,644, topping the 39.408 aggregate of last year. The largest crowd, 13.80S at Oakland last night, saw the tightest ball game of the lot as Portland beat tile Oaks, 3-0. amid a reasonable collection of seven hiU apiece. Lefty Roy Helser, winning pitcher, drove In two runs to help his own cause. The slimmest crowd, 6514 at Hollywood, watched the night's wildest battle In which the Stars slaughtered Seattle, 17-3. It was one of the biggest opening game scores In league history. During the Stars' 15-hit bombardment the sparkling four-hit pitch ing of their righthander, Rugger Arditoia, was almost overlooked. Los Angeles Angels assembled 14 hits to smack the San Diego Padres, 7-4, before 7852 at San Diego. In the only day game the I Through? San Francisco Seals' 16-hlt attack wrecked Sacramento, 7-4, before a record opening day crowd of 13, 478 at the California capital John Rttchey became the first negro ever to appear in a Coast league game when he pinch hit for San Diego Shortstop Jake Caul field. Rltchey got a round of ap plause, then grounded out. San Francisco Manager Lefty O'Doul's outfit began the campaign as If they meant to go out and clinch the pennant early. They nicked Sacramento Starter Jack Salveson for three runs in the first Inning on lour hits. Hugh Luby hammered a 340-foot home run in the fourth. ONE BAD FRAME Jack Brewer of the Seals gave up nine hits and had only one bad Inning, the third, when the Solons got three runs. Manager Jimmy Dykes' Holly wood Stars slammed the ball all over the lot They collected four runs In the first frame, two in the second, eight in the third, and three In the sixth. Outfielder Gus Zeraial smashed two home runs off Henry Besse. the Seattle start er. Lou Novikoff finally got Man ager Jo Jo White's club In the scor ing column with a homer in the fourth. Los Angeles came from behind to trip San Diego. Outfielder Cece Garriott smashed a two-run homer In the eighth that settled the Issue. The veteran Tom Seats had been going along nicely until this stan za, but he had to leave the prem ises and the Angels promptly hopped on his successor. Xavier Rescigno, formerly of Hollywood. Th box: Pcrtund Bucker. ef Zak. ss M Smith. If . Storey. 3b Mole, lb Keich, rf Mullen. 2b Bsllinger. e Uelier. p Oiklind AB Holder. If , Combs. 3b 4 Chriftopher, cf ScarseUa. rf 4 Etten, lb 4 Samcoff. 2b 3 Hamrick. as Raimondi, c W. Haley, p , 4 Totals 34 Portland . Oakland 34 0 7 27 10 000 100 1013 000 000 0000 Summary: Bun Smith. Reich. Mullen. Errors Zak. Combs. Hamrick. Buna batted In Smith. Helaer 2. Two base hits Samcoff. Reich. Home run Smith. Left on bases Portland 7. Oakland 10. Bases on balls off Helser 3, Hafey 3. Struck out by Helser 6. W. Hafey 4. Buns responsible for Hafey 3. Um pires Engeln, Doran, Gordon. Time of game 1:57. Takes Pin Title Junie McMahon. Chicago, won the individual event in the 1947 ABC meet with 740 pins. Fred Breckle, Detroit, came in second piece with a total of 738 pins. OSC Net Coach Is Thinking CORVALLIS. March 30 (JPi Slats Gill, veteran Oregon State college basketball coach, admitted here today he is considering one of two offers made to him for head coaching jobs at other institutions. Gill returned yesterday from New York, where he has been attending the national basketball coaches meeting, and confirmed rumors that he has been offered the coach ing jobs at UCLA and at the University of Minnesota. He did not indicate definitely which of the two he is considering. Spec Keene. Oregon State director of athletics, said he was aware of the offers and that he personally was hopeful that Gill would decide to remain here. Gill has coached Oregon State basketball teams for 21 seasons, winning five northern division pen nants and two coast conference titles. In the season Just concluded the Beavers tied for the northern division title but lost the playoff to Washington. UCLA, which has been seeking a head coach for some weeks since Wilbur Johns became athletic di rector there, was soundly defeated twice by the 1947 Oregon State team which won the coast title. BUI Bevtns, Yank hurlrr, was kmtrked from the mound in one inning yesterday by the St. Louis Cardinals and asks to be sent to a clinic for treatment of hii pitch ing arm. JIM AIKEN WILL VIEW NEW DUCKS EUGENE. March 31 W Nine players transferred from Washing ton and California junior colleges will be on hand for University of Oregon spring football training, which starts next Monday. They enrolled for spring term yesterday. Others are expected to I sign up in the next few days. They include Fullback Paul Sav age. Yakima. Tackle Wlllard Win terrlnger. Wenatchee. and seven from California. There also will be five transfers from larger schools, all of whom will be eligible for play next fall. They include John McKay. Purdue halfback in 1946: Sam Nevllls, Pur due tackle in 1946. and Jim Aiken Jr.. son of Coach Jim Aiken and Nevada quarterback for two sea sons. Aiken expects a turnout of 60 for the 30-day training period. Dickson Sets Yankees Down With No Hits Bill Sevens Shelled In First Stanza By Cardinal Sticks NEW YORK, March 31 (') Murry Dickson of the St. Louis Cardinals hurled the second no run, no-hit nlue-lnnlng spring exhi bition game in baseball history yes terday. The performance showed Manager Eddie Dyer he was justi fied In standing by the little right hander last year when he couldn't win for losing. The Cardinals, and Dickson in particular, had tough luck nil through the 1947 season, lie wound up with 13 victories and 16 losses. The fans were down on him, but Dyer kept rushing him into vital contests despite the boos from the crowd. Murry picked on the world cham pion New York Yankees in St. Petersburg, Fla. yesterday. He faced 30 butters, walking five and hitting one. He struck out six. The Yanks' best effort was a screaming liner that Joe DIMugglo hit straight at Shortstop Tommy Glnviauo. Dickson didn't have to work hard. The Cards stepped out in the first inning and clubbed Bill Sevens lor seven runs. From then on the St. Louisans didn't score. They didn't have to. Bevens. who came within one , man of pitching the first perfect I game in World Series history last I fall, lasted only an inning before ! leaving the game and complaining I he was "through." He said he would ask to be sent to a clinic lor ex- aiiuiuiituii oi nis uirowiug arm. The first ball I threw in the game was the finish." the Oregon native asserted. "The moment I put something extra on the pitch, pain shot from the shoulder down through the arm." T can't pitch at all with this much pain." The late Cy BInnton of the Pitts burgh Pirates pitched the only other spring no-hitter, according to the sketchy exhibition records. He blanked the Cleveland Indians with out a blow in New Orleans. April 9. 1939. Coaches Would Rather Just Let The Whistles Tootle) NEW YOKK INKA1 If the only way to limit fouls is lo slow up basketball, let the whistles blow. That Is the opinion of the ma jority of coaches and others keen ly Interested 111 Dr. James Nalsmlth's 1(1 per cent American game. There is far too much whistle blowing, of course, with (he mini- Host City Tops ABC DETROIT. March 31 Mt Host city quintets dominated the Ameri can Howling congress team stand ings today after the most sustained session of five-man competition yet recorded 111 the 45th annual AHC championships. Detroit teams held down third, fourth, sixth and tenth places. Sel dom In the history of the competi tion has a host city displayed such I a wealth of power, AUC officials ! said. ) The latest shift In the leaden i came late last night as members of Detroit's Michigan major league dominated the five - man rolling. Maclnnls brothers tallied 31185 for third place, dislodging the local Vulcan Engineering quintet which had taken over the third rung with 3980 a few hours earlier. The Mnclnnls total wus but 17 pins off the pare established last week-end by Cnvoll's of Cleveland, leaders In the division with 3003. High School Grid Uniform NEW YORK. March 31 UPv Next season the nation's high schools will play their football on the collejra pattern. A uniform set of playing rules was adopted here this week by a special committee representing both the college and high school or ganizations. Whereas in the past there have been as many as 150 differences in the two codes, the revised standards reduce these differences to half a dozen, none important. The main differences remaining deal with length of quarters and substitutions. Carroll Leaves To Join Cards Joe Carroll. 1033 McKinley avenue, left Tuesday morning for Fullerton. Calif., to begin spring baseball train ing with the Fresno Cardinals of the California State league. This will be young Carroll's third season in professional baseball as the property of the St. Louis Cardinals. He was a star hurler while in high school, and immediate ly after graduation in 1946 became a member of the St. Louis Cardinal organization. Little Ads get Big Results. Use The Herald and News Want-Ads! 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Kvery body has become offt'iisivc-iiiliideil, emphasising speed, speed anil more speed. The fast break resulted In free scoring. And you can't get away from the attendance records set throughout the country, A record turnout of n.SOO saw the Philadelphia Wan Ion oral the New York Knickerbockers at Matllsou Square Oat'den the oilier night. "And all those people wouldn't have been there were not the pro fessionals playing I he college type of fast break," declares Joe Lap chick, the Knlcks' coach who Is director of basketball at the Klulith avenue amphitheater. "Lei's let well enough alone." Kventtiully tome sort of a happy medium between the fast break and the old controlled ball style may bo worked out, but meanwhile coaches mo certain that Hie lusl break Is working no hardships on Hut ath letes. Dr. Harold Cuilsou, Pittsburgh couch, and Dr. Cleurge It, Kdwariln, former Missouri mentor, uller ex haustive research In connerllon with rnrehorne busketball, reported that there was no undue strain mi the participants, no excessive burden on the heart. Defending his cn-workeis. mid mi nimum Unit Ills lu'opoimls would slow iii the game, Matty llegovlih, prominent eastern official, suggests that baskelliall adopt delayed whistle, so that a pluyer fouled at the start of a play would be able to coinpleic It without being Interrupt ed. If the shot wus missed, the foul would be culled uud taken. If lite player made the shot, no foul would be called. FIRCRESTS PULL OUT OF PRO CAGE PLAYOFF SKA'ITLE. March 31 i,Vi- Poll laud and Scuttle will clusli here Thursday night in the oixMitng gnino of a best-of-flve series for the Pacific Cou.si Professional Haskel bnll league title. The revainted schedule was mode necessary when Hflllitulium offi cials withdrew the Flrcrests from the preliminary playoff last night In protest of action by leugue otfl cluls in forfeiting the HelllnKhum club's 84-77 win over Seattle Mon day night. The league action resulted when Seattle protested HelliiiKhain's use of Norm Huker. Tormrr Vancouver star. Ill the clash, niienliig game of a best-of-three preliminary pluyolf series. League President Ray Clark ruled agulnst the lleliliighnm club yester day, and his decision was upheld last night in a round-robin tele phone poll of officials. Duron llar ofsky. league commissioner, said his office recommended Clark's decision. I Hrllliigliuin, iKv,ed out of the first hulf title by a half game tnurglu, cuiiie bark lo win the second hulf crown H i ui quality to meet Hruttle for the right lo pluy Portlund. Tile latter club won Its way Into the title round by rupturing a post season round-robin series. After league officials upheld Clark s order last night, Dirk Hmllh, owner of the Hellinuham fruurhlnr, approved a stutemeni Issued earllrr by Chile llkshop. the KlrcTests' pluytr-courh, that the teum would not show up for reiuulniiig pluyolf games. After a foul shot, or uliola Hrgo. vlch would penult Iho offensive train to ri'luln possession, whether the shot was iiiuile or not. Ilcgovlch would flu 1 1 ly Iho rule on kicking the bull. The olflrlul must now Judge whether the kirk was Isi teiillonul. On u lup-lli following a rebound, llrgovlrh would ullow only olio point for the drum liisteud uf two. "Tlii'ie Is no arieure or skill, only si.n ailuclird to a rebound lup-lli," ho explains. "The only way a small mull ran defend ugulusl the big mull on tills play is to check him hard, which makes for more fouls." Aflcr all sroren, llegovli'h would liuvo the ofllrlals slop the pluy inoiiiciitiirlly and handle the bull, either ul renter or end court, until both sides were ready. 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