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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.
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Brooks Get Catcher
VERO BEACH. Fla.. March 31 l,T
Branch Rlckev announced todav the
purchase by Brooklyn of Roy Cam
panella. negro catcher, from Mon
treal. That Campanella would be
moved up was announced some
time ago, but the deal wasn't made
official until today. Rickey also
intimated that ban Bankhead.
negro pitcher, would be farmed out.
Boston Talks
Boxing Exams
BOSTON. March 31 cPv Profes
sional boxers would be forbidden to
compete In Massachusetts unless
certified bv a doctor If they had
been knocked out six times In a
vear. under a hill approved by the
legislative committee on public
snfety.
The measure, which requires that
doctors passing on a boxer must
be selected bv the boxing commis
sion, was sent to the state house
today.
It would be effective If the boxer
had been ruled knocked out. either
by a ten count or a technical kayo.
If a boxer was found to be
physically unable to box by an ex
amination under the proposed sta
tute, he would be allowed to apply
for reexamination in three months.
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ber of rule Infract Ions ourluit tu
40, Ml mid tit) n guine, ami ofllilals
frequently sei'intnuly nioie im
portant t lut ll star pei loi lueis.
Hut us Michigan atatc's veteiiiu
coach Urn V. Vim Alslyne points
out, players today are geared to the
fast break. Bo arc the fans. 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
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haustive research In connerllon with
rnrehorne busketball, reported that
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participants, no excessive burden on
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Defending his cn-workeis. mid mi
nimum Unit Ills lu'opoimls would
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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
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After a foul shot, or uliola Hrgo.
vlch would penult Iho offensive
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