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AGI EIGHT HFRALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS, OREGON WEDNESDAY, APRIL l, 19 OPENING DAY THRONGS SET GATE RECORD Br JOK RE1CH1.F.R Asaoclated Press Sports Writer About the only thing missing In yesterday's mid Monday's major Iwiue opening names was a no-hltter. Practically everything else happened, to the delight of 331,783 fans ho set record for opening day attendance. As for the results themselves, Brooklyn sneaked past the Olanla 7-6 In New York- the Cards shut out Cincinnati 4-0 In St. Louis; Wash ington gained revenge for Its one-sided defeat by the Yankees Monday, thrashing the world champions Detroit defeated the White Sox In Chicago 6-a, and the Indians sent a record Inaugural crowd of 73.163 dome happy with a 4-0 triumph over the St. Louis Browns. In other games, the Philadelphia Phillies had a successful home teener as they whipped the Boston Braves 3-1, and Pittsburgh did like- a-wise with a S-J win over the Chl- I cago Cubs. The Red Sox and Phila- Higher Portland Gets Notch In 8-0 Victory San Diego Tumbles Into Fourth Place By Loss To Seals By The Associated Pre First division teams kept pace in ihWaclfic Coast league today but the third and fourth placers switch ed positions. Portland took over third spot by shutting out Oakland last night, 1-0 while San Diego dropped to fourth when the Padres were lam basted by second place Los Angeles, 15-4. The league leading San Francisco Seals hung on to their hall game edge by smacking Sacramento. t-3. The cellar dwelling Seattle Rainiers slipped past Hollywood, a-i. Manager Jo-Jo White of Seattle won the bail game in 'the 10th in ning when he singled with two out to drive in Bill Ramsey. Twice the Rainiers came irom behind, as each team knocked out eight hits. Southpaw Roy Helser pitched Portland to victory, allowing Oak land only five hits. It was Helser who shut out the Oaks in the sea con opener at Oakland. Last night his Beaver mates assembled 11 hits off the Oakland pitching brothers. Will and Tom Haley. SEVEN BTNGLE8 Bob Joyce held Sacramento to even hits as San Francisco beat the Solons. The Seals slammed Tony Freltas hard in the early Innings. They scored twice in the first on lour hits and got three more tallies In the second on three safeties and a walk. S i Diego scored four runs in the first Inning against Los Angeles but didnt get any more while the Angels were racking up 15. The game was marred by wretched fielding. There were nine errors. Jack Graham slammed a three -Tun homer for the Padres but Ed Sauer duplicated the feat lor the Angels In the second. The box: rWkl&nd AS A Dutsabou. at Comas. Jb LodisUni. lb Xttcn. lb Christopher, et . Van Robays, It . Hamrlck. aa Kalmondl, c W. Hafejr. P LUlard. e T. Haf.r. p Totals Partlaal Sucker, of . JUt to, M Laior. If Storey, 3b Mote, lb Belch, rf Basinskl. 3b . Balllnter. e Helser, p Totals , Oakland Portland . e 10 11 000 310 n a oooo 12K S , Combs, KTTMMARY: Errors Duazabou flulrukl. Runs batted In Lazor 3. Bal linger 3, Helser. Two base hits Lazor, Rucker. Three base hits Christopher. Sacrifices Ratto. Baltlnfer. Baslnskf. TVuihle nlava LiDard to Hamrlck. Left on bases Osklsnd 9, Portland 5. Losing pitcher W. Hafey. Umpires Sears. Orr and Ford. Time 2:00. Attendance 3723. delphla Athletics were Idle. Here are some ot the opening day highlights: Eighteen home runs were belted yesterday and Monday not an un usual number, but look what some of them produced: Sun Spence, Vera Stephens and Bobby Doerr hit theirs in succes sion in one inning record-tying feat but the Red Sox lost any way. George Vlco, rookie first baseman of the Tigers, formerly of Portland, smacked one on the first pitch served him in his first major league game. Tommy McBride of the Senators slammed one with the bases loaded in the first inning. AND IS HE PROUD Mike Trash of the White Sox hit one his first in 787 games. He had not hit a four bagger since 1940. Previously he had hit only one home run in 10 years in the majors. Four teams started the season under new management and each got Ucked the first day. The dis appointed pilots were Joe McCar thy, Red Sox; Zack Taylor. Browns: Joe Kuhel, Senators, and Billy Meyer. Pirates. Bobby Feller of Cleveland. Hal Newhouser of Detroit, and Ewell Blackwell of Cincinnati, came through handsomely. Feller pitched one of the two shutouts that graced the opening day. He handcuffed the Browns with two singles. Black- well gave up seven hits and one run. Newhouser allowed two runs and eight hits. Two greybeards Rip Sewell of Pittsburgh, who will celebrate his 40th birthday next month, and Dutch Leonard, 38 - year - old knuckle-bailer got opening day as signments and made good. Sewell, besides his homer, held the Cubs to six hits in the Pirates' 3-3 win, Leonard also doled out six safeties in ourpitchlng Johnny Sain of the Braves. In all, 37 freshmen saw action. 16 In the National league. And Dodger Manager Leo Durocher celebrated his return to baseball after a year's suspension by having a run-in with Umpire Bill Stewart This all happened on opening day. Bird's Eye View Of The Baseball Park v - J T . - v , . V. . ; v- j- 4i.s - o l' r"T - . -t I ' - .e.4.., ' f ' ' ' ".'i ' . -"r i fell ivi-t m -rmasata ' iiftitttt ' Ti -V"1 "" Keith t ook, cameraman for The Herald and News, shlnnird up a 90-foot light pole In renterflrlri lo get this shot of the construction work which Is fast making the eratw'ille cow pasture on Crest street look like a baseball park. The work is supposed to be completed by May . first game for the Klamath (irms. Arc-Lights Will Burn At Gem Field Friday The lights of the new baseball park will go on Friday night. Bill Spangler, president of Klam ath Baseball Inc.. said that Instal lation of transformers would be completed Wednesday or Thursday by Leach Electrical Service and a dummy run with the arcs Is sched uled for Friday. The floodlighting syr-em includes 180 individual globes of 1500 watts each and is expected to light the field as well as any system on the coast. Work on the park and grandstand is moving along and the biggest headache Klamath Baseball Inc. has right now is the weather that and Pel Pitcher Tosses No-No CENTRAL POINT. April 21 Pat William, senior righthander for the Klamath Union high school Pell cans, pitched himself a seven-inning no-hit no-run baseball game here Tuesday afternoon as the Pelicans trimmed the Pointers in a double header. Williams' no-hit effort came in the first game and the Pels scored early for a 10-0 win. He fanned six. The Pointer batsmen still had diffi culty in the second tilt, getting only three bingles off Lewis Shade. The Pelicans took the second game, 7-1. Viks Undefeated SALEM, April Jl Wi Salem's Vikings remained undefeated in track for the season by scoring 69 points to lead Molalla and Spring field in a three-way meet. Molalla I scored 48 and Springfield 30. DOZEN IN THINCLAD SCRAMBLE The 30-30 club's annual Invitation al track and field meet comes off on Saturday, May 1. this year at Modoc field and one dozen teams have en tered already. Probably four more late entries are expected, to make a field of 16. The entrants include the Klamath Union high school Pelicans, defend ing champions: Medford. Grants Pass, Roseburg. Henley, Weed. Tule lake. Malln. Merrill. Lakevlew and Central Point. All teams will be pitched on the same leveL There will be no classi fication, as In the recent Hayward relays and the annual state track tournament. Another first being added by the 20-30 club for this meet Is the Is suance of trophies for every event. There will be 13 Individual event prizes, the championship team award, the Ralph Hill mile award, the Bob Leslie Memorial award for the 100-yard dtrsh and a separate trophy for the high-point Individual. The 20-30 club's annual track meet is the high point of the cinder sea son here and always sees strict com petition from the schools entered. Klamath Falls and Medford have long dominated the tournament but one smaller school or another al ways shows up to take some events. For instance, Henley's Fred Hess grabbed high jump honors last year when Klamath, Medford and Grants Pass thlnclads were pulling down most of the events. This year the meet will be a day affair, preliminaries starting at 10 o'clock and the championship runs at 1 In the afternoon. The trials will cut the field for each event to six or eight finalists. meeting current bills. Time to work on the playing field is very short and a bad session of weather will virtually wreck any chance of having a stand of grass this summer. The field Is being gone over with a disc and harrow and will be (ertlliird and grass planted. Some leveling and shaping remnlns to be done. By opening day May 8 there may not be much noticeable grass on the playing surface, but after the Medford series of My 6-8-10 the Gems will take to the road again for nine days and thai respite pos sibly could give the green stuff a chance to take root. Jack Roper has oeen awarded the Job of painting the outside of the fence and the grandstand and an order has been placed lor folding chairs to go into the box seats. A few boxes remain to be sold. Mean .'hlle. arrangements are be- ing made for an opening-day cere mony, ine iuctiiuru iaukhb i furnish the opposition. Secretary of State Earl T. Newbry will perform the function of tossing out the first ball. .STANDINGS Pacific Coast Los Angeles W. L. Pet 11 8 .647 13 0 .591 11 S .550 11 10 324 10 11 .476 . 8 11 .431 7 10 .412 7 12 J68 Oakland Hollywood Sacramento Seattle .. , . Yesterday's Results Seattle 3, Hollywood 3, 10 Innings. San Francisco 8. Sacramento 2. Los Angeles 15. San Diego 2. Portland 8. Oakland 0. Western International W. L. Salem 2 Vancouver - 2 Yakima 3 Wenatchce - 3 Spokane 3 Victoria' 2 Bremerton 1 Tacoma 1 Yesterday's Itesults Victoria 4. Salem 2. Vancouver 8. Wenatchce 7. Tacoma 4. Yakima 3. Spokane 6. Bremerton 1. Turn those no-longer- used ar ticles InU) cash now I Herald and News Want Ads are inexpensive and bring quick results. Pet. .667 .667 .600 .500 .500 .400 J33 .333 Canuck Boss Out In Huff VANCOUVER, B.C., April 21 (CP) Mac Colville, coach of Vancouver Canucks, Pacific Coast hockey league champions, left here early today by automobile for his home In Edmonton. Before his departure he announced "I've had enough and I won't be back." The former New York Ranger star said in an Interview he ex pected to stay In Edmonton and would probably retire from hockey. Colville intimated that one of the reasons for his resignation was the abuse he and his team received when Canucks failed to get rolling hi the first half of the season. "They didn't give us a chance," he said. "We were kicked when we were down and I'd rather live in a olty where that doesn't happen." Canucks Owner Coley Hall could not be reached lor comment. ROD And REEL REPAIR "GUN STORE 111 MAIN STREET J FIGHTS LAST NIGHT Los Angeles Bernard Docusen. 145, New Orleans, outpointed Nick Moran, 145, Mexico City, 10. Jersey City Tippy Larkln, 1444, Garfield, N. J., outpointed Joe Lu- clgnano, 147, Hoboken, 10. Club Hiocco MACDOEL, CALIF. 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He rolled 11 stralctit strikes but left the No, 10 pin standing on hli final ball. It was the l'.'th i99 score In the history uf the classic, but only twice before has the count been marked up in the tram rolling. THREE IN LOCK FOR TOP SPOT By The Associated Press Three teams were lightly knotted for the northern division Pacific Coast conference baseball lead to day. Washington State climbed along side Washington yesterday by club bmg the Huskies 16-8, and the two clubs were Joined In the lead by Oregon, which knocked off Idaho 7-3. Kach of the leaders has two wins and a loss. Idaho has dropped all three starts and Oregon State has been unable to get Its season under way because ol weather. The Iicuvers try again today and tomorrow as they entertain Idaho. Washington Jumped on Arnie Torgeson, starting Cougar hurler, for a 6-0 lead in two innings, but could fashion only two more tallies throughout the game as the starters ran wild against the parade of five Washington moundsmen. Idaho bounced Into a lead against Oregon on Joe Whitcombs three run homer In the sixth. It was short-lived, however, as the Ducks came back for three In their half of the frame and picked up another trio. Including Don Dibble's circuit smash. In the seventh. The Press Sox Shouldn't Happen To A Dog NKW YOltK People who be lieve busebiill writers covering the Klorlilu training caniM have a lite of ease should look nt the spring casuulty list of 11)48. It appears thai more scribes were Injured than ball players. After a week of -overlug the Cin cinnati Hints 111 Tampa, Tom 8vik of the Cincinnati Post decided to lake an alleriUHin ofl. He went fish ing. Not only was ne shut out bill a rainstorm came up ton ing Bwoe to seek shelter on a porch. Swnpe noticed a dog on the porch and because, as he puts It, "the dog seemed lonely," he tried to pet him. The stray mongrei chewed up 8wope's left hand and It took four days to find the dog aim test him for rubles. Swnpe has changed his mind about dogs. At Clearwater, where the Phila delphia Phillies trained, thieves broke Into several automobiles and Frank Yeutter of the Philadelphia Bulletin lost a new typewriter. But that was nothing to what hapiienrd lo Yeutter a few weeks later. Walk ing Into a restaurant with Phillies President Bob Carpenter, Yeutter slipped and his right leg went Irom under his 32o-pound frame. He cracked his kneecap In several places. Stan Baumgartner, ex-sotiihpaw pitcher who writes for the Philadel phia Inquirer, hud a big scare his second night In Clearwater. A lum ber yard adjacent to his cottage caught fire at midnight and he carried his three children to safely. Arthur iHedi Patterson. New York Y'ankre public relations man, was playing in tit annual writers' game under floodlight In Tampa. Sliding into second base he spiked himself. Krom now on spikes will be ruled out of this game, especially since Patterson, being with a major league team, was the onlv player In a position to borrow spikes. So If you think covering the swing training ramps Is such a soft tourh. be careful not to mention It lo the writers. Western Mail HBag ... . a I Retired From Active Duty But Still Walking By KI NS NUWI.ANII SAN FRANOIHCO. April si uV--During the 30 , i ,n!?,,.T,i track and field at the University of Callloinla, venerable W a Iter ' Ohr Istla probably set an iill-llme record for walking. He virtually never stood still while a meet was III progress mid his tolal inllciiKO could lie com puted In box car figures. , Mr. Ohrlslle was all ntdalnr when lie. retired from warning III 1U.U and he Is crowding "0 now, Did he retire to the easy chair? lite rain rod straight gent you see several times a week playing golf In Ala- ,iei llon. "An umpire never niskes lords la Mr. Christie. HUH walking. ,. miMnki" replied lloritkl. Try In Pel Captain Given Award It runs In Uie family. Don Zuro slnskl Tuesday night was presented the 30-30 clubs trophy as the out standing player on the Pelican bas ketball team this past season. The 1M7 winner was Joe Zaro slnski, Don's older brother. Don Zaroslnskl was captain and guard for the Pels and played al most every minute of every game. He was one of the defensive aces of Uie hoop season and was chosen the outstanding player of the South ern Oregon conference. Members of the Pelican teum were honor guests at the club's annual basketball banquet at the Wlllard hotel. In the mutter of rnlhuslusin nud orgunlsatlon from top to bottom, the new Far West Class I) Husclmll league, opening April 30, will get oil to a start seldom achieved by a small minor circuit. It embraces major league-backed clubs In Med ford and Klamath rails, tire., Maryavllle, Heildlng, Willows. Oro vllle, Santa Rma and Plllsliurg And In those cities, sporta writer and radio broadcasters have formed an association to boost the new league to the sky. Charles Zrno of Pittsburg Is pres ident and I.eo llnmierty of Murys vllle Is secretary of the association. On the boxing front we leurii that Phil Brubaker. once a lending Cali fornia contender for Ihe heavy, weight title. Is now a Uia AiiKdrs policeman, llrulmker, known us Ihe Dliuiba Farmer when he was fight ing, gave up championship loqiiru llnns when he was beaten by ex Chnmp Jack Sharkey In lIKIo. Clarence "llrlrk" Ijiws, president of the Oakland llaselmll club, pre dicts a brilliant future for the Oaks' kK! outfielder, Wult Porckuv, onlv, 1R years old but a regtilnr. Pik-rkav. a product ot nearby IVrhmotttl. stnrred In the F.nquir all slur game In Bronklvn when 16. tie's a left handed hitter of the long bull tyi and a swell fielder. When Coast league Umpire Ed florskt apiieared on Oroucho Murx' program the other night he was asked If he would overrule a fellow umpire If the Intler mudr a bud tell Hint to Hiuls. "I,elly" O'Doul of tin OUTBOARD MOTORS Authored All anal tllVICI .M..a MOTSIE'S Britain Aims At Davis Cup Bid LONDON, April 31 I'll Orent lliltnln, which lust won the Duvls cup in !i:i. opens Ha IU4 bid to challenge Ihe United Slntes for Uie fumoiis tennis trophy here tomor row when It meets India In the oiM'iiliiu series of the Kmoiean (one diminutions. With 3 countries entered, eight other matches will romplrte first round piny In the Kuiopeuu nine uy May 4 Women Schedule Putter Contest p Women of Kennies Oolf and Country rlub will conduct a putting cuiilest this Friday morning wllh prizes lining to the plnyrrs who turn In the lowest number of putts on nine holes nud nlso on IS holes. Ill rase of Ilea, the winner will he detrrmliird on a practice green. 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