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I PACE TEN HERALD AND NEWS, KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON TUE5DAY, MAY 8, 1948 Honeymoon In Pro Football Over, Inflated Paychecks Coming Down OREEN BAY. Wis., CNEA1 The honeymoon is over for professional football players. That is the word of Curly Lam beau, one of the pioneer of the port who has been directing the destinies of the Oreen Bay Packers lor 30 year. Forecasting a stabilization of sal aries, baaed on aound business pro cedure and the law of supply and demand, the former Notre Dame fullback and National league star poke in behalf of the men who haw been footing the bills. "The honeymoon is over." said the packer chief. "There is plenty of telent for all teams. Several years ago It was different. The players had the owners on the spot and they took advantage of It. But to day It is no trick to sign 100 men." Declaring that only four and possibly five teams In two leagues broke even or better last year. Lam beau fixed the losses of the 13 others in the millions. "But the players all got paid." he said. "They make all the money In pro football today. And they are turning down contracts tor four monthV work that call for more money than a competent executive not to mention some of the top coaches of the country can earn in the entire year." Recalling that Don Hutson of the Packers and Bronko Nagurski of the Chicago Bears, two of the all-time greats of the sport, start ed for $175 a game, Lanibeau found ample ground for statistical com parisons in present-day prires. "Since 1939. living costs have gone up 100 per cent and the na tional wage scale has Increased 89 per cent." he said. "But profes sional football salaries have In creased nearly 400 per cent and In same cases many times more In the last 10 years. "Club executives took cuts or held the line to weather the financial storm In pro football, but the play erV salaries continued to skiwket. Clubs and club owners no longer can stand the strain." One of the prime reasons for the tremendous Increase in players' sal aries was the all-out drive for pro ladders between the two leagues when the All-America conference was organised In 1946. And. too, the National league's re fusal to accept the All-America cir cuit and work out a professional football world series continued the expensive bids for the better players with higher salaries. Approaching the salary problem Impartially from a business stand point, Lambeau, one of the more ac complished and experienced admin istrators In the game, said he did not anticipate any drastic cut In salaries, but they would be leveling off to where clubs stood a fair chance of at least breaking even on a year's operation.- "Men along In years, almost ready to retire, have put their savings In to professional football and gone broke. But the players got theirs. The present situation is too cock eyed to be sound. Readjustment Is Imperative and Inevitable," he con tinued. Lambeau's observations followed a contract conference with Tony Ca iikdeo. Packer veteran and one of the higher salaried halfbacks of football. Canadeo rejected Lam beau's offer and walked out of the conference, becoming the Packers' first holdout Commenting on Canadeo's action, the veteran coach said. "We'd like so have Tony with us. but we'll be okay at left halt If he Isn't. It has always been and always will be our policy to pay players as much as invisible. Our aim Is to give Packer fans a good football team. "Last season we did a little bet ter than break even, but It was ac complished by cutting operating ex penses, not salaries. "Moreover, our profit on the year's operation wasn't as much as the Increase some of the players are asking. "The only raise we are giving are to A couple of men who made less than J.VXtO last year, and whose play certainly warranted an Increase." Western Mail IBaq e te Karol Took A Chance And WW Skate Again By JACK HE WINS SEATTLE, May 18 tPv This Is one of those now-it-can-be-told stories: Karol Kennedy will skate again. When the Kennedy kids Peter and sister Karol won the na tional figure skating crown you didn't know her back was tightly taped and she was wearing a leg brace. That would have been an alibi for their poorer showing In Europe. But now Karol is recovering after a spinal operation. Her doctor is wondering how his 16-year-old patient managed to walk, let alone skate In the Olympics, the world figure skating championships, a European tour and the American nationals. This was to have been "the year" for the Kennedy kids. At the world championships last year they had missed first place by a referee's reversal of the Judges' decision. They should have hit their peak for the Olympics, but when the scores were In the Kennedys placed sixth. Annie Creek Boudreau Sets Hot Bat Pace CHICAGO. May 18 R Lou Boudreau, Cleveland's manager shortstop, slammed nine hits in 19 trips to the plate to soar into the American league batting lead with .440. Boudreau's 11-point climb, in averages computed through Sun day's game, gave him a 43 point edge over his nearest rival, Boston's Ted Williams. Al Zarilla of St. Louis, the leader a week ago. 'plunged to third place with an 84-point drop to .394. Hoot Evers of Detroit was fourth with 360. followed by Ken Keltner, Cleveland. .356; George Kcll. De troit, .338: Dave Philley. Chicago, .324; Hank Majessi. Philadelphia, 331; Bob Dillinger, St Louis, .316, and Pete Suder, Philadelphia. 313. In the National league, Philadel phia's rookie outfielder, Johnny Blatnik, unofficially took over the league's stick lead when he collected three hits in four times at bat yes terday. Blatnik is hitting .438 to .435 for Boston's Tommy Holmes, and has a live streak of hits in nine consecutive games. Prank G us tine, runner-up to Holmes a week ago, slumped 38 points to drop to 393, according to figures including Sunday's games. Oustine holds an 18-point edge over Carl Furillo, Brooklyn outfielder, who boasts a 375 mark. Ten Former Open Champs Seek Repeat NEW YORK, May 18 (Jf) Ten champions ranging from present titleholder Lew Worsham to Ama teur Charles (Chickt Evans Jr.. who prevailed 32 years ago will seek to repeat in the National Open golf tournament at Los Angeles next month. They are listed in the all-time record field of 1440 who filed entry for the event at the swank Riviera Country club June 10-12. Other past champions entered in clude Gene Sarazen 11922-32), Tommy Armour (1927), Craig Wood (1941) and Lloyd Mangrum (1946). Evans, still a crack golfer, won in 1916. These specialists are exempt from qualifying along with . 19 players who finished In the first 20 last year behind Worsham: National Amateur Champion Robert H. (Skee) Riegel and the host profes sional, Willie Hunter, former amateur king. The other 140 places In the 171 tnan field will be determined In 29 sectional qualifying tests, all but two of which will be on June 1, Nit fi f- Wivst ..hi' Little Bob drier. 12-year-old son of Andy Gigler, displays the five pound, six-ounce rainbow trout he snagged in Annie Creek. After the seven years it took to make them top-rank skaters, it looked like the Kennedy kids had lost their touch. It was obvious that Karol was no longer a skater of ability. Other stars of the ice fra ternity accused her of laxiness, of not trying. Even at school her teachers thought Karol was sham ming. Several physicians examined her and could find nothing wrong. Life was rough especially when you had set your heart on winning the Olympics. You couldn't excuse a poor performance by saying your back hurt: you'd be tagged as an alibi artist. You wondered if you might be kidding yourself about the pain In your back. Maybe it was Just imagination that stiffened your left leg until you walked with a step and a half. . . A year ago in Oslo, Norway. Karol had fallen while sliding on a hillside. There was a stabbing pain in her back, which was dismissed as a strain that soon would go away. But It didn't go away and spills In skating practice made it worse. By last fall, when the kids began serious practice for the Olympics. Karol could sleep only an hour or two each night. She couldn't sit or stand in comfort. She began walk ing with a limp. Another practice session sDill in Switzerland Just before the start of j bald-headed Knox, who vouches for the games put a final seal on the j him SJfSJL"'- The match is scneauled for one flm . s?m L5?nbeeJ ?n5": hour time l.mit or two out of three goTww sixth. tumbles. Tag Match Card's Top Tag teams captained by Pete Bel castro and Olen (Buddy) Knox will be the feature of Friday night's wrestling card. Promoter Mack Lil lard announced today, as the result of a challenge to Knox issued last week by the Weed assassin. Belcastro has selected the popular Al Szasz as his friend-in-need for the duel, while Knox is going to depend on a relatively untried hand for his assistance. Knox's partner will be Alex Kasa boski, a newcomer to the North west maul theatre and a man of Russian descent. Kasa boski is unknown here but has an acquaintanceship with the Softball Loop Opens Four-A-Night Slate Softball will make its 1948 debut Wednesday evening under the Modoc field arcs when the Klamath Falls Softball league starts Its four-game-a-nlght schedule. Games will be played, weather permitting, on Mondays, Wednes days and Fridays, with four games a night being run, two at a time, one at each end of the field. Tomorrow's slate sets Tulelake VFW and the Four Star Merchants, and Ashleys and the Merrill VFW at 7:30. followed by Eagles vs. El llngsons and the Knights of Colum bus vs. Telco at 8:30. Following Is the remainder of May's schedule: Joe Pyle Given Win Over Palmer Karol wouldn't quit. They went on to the world events at Davos. Switzerland. There an exnert tjrH her back and the kids grabbed off iourtn place against the same pairs I VANCOUVER. B. O. May 18 lift tney met in the Olvmnirs. Rmi. ! A flurry of hard right? In the clos- Karol couldn't stand plane travel, j rounds gave Joe Pyle. 145. Mon a European tour WAS PUt short n treal. a 10-round decision last night the Kennedys could head for hom i over Phil Palmer, 146's. Vancouver. by sea. j B. C. They stopped off at Colorado! S'lmin5rlw; ' Springs for. the nationals and there I Bobbins. 142. Vancouver. B. C , found that daily massage and heat I declsionei A1 Davis. 141. Tacoma. 8: treatments gave Karol some relief i ?arry Smlth 142- Vancouver. B. C, A special brace was made for her knocked out Denn Abney. 142. Salem, leg. She wore that and a heaw 1 8: Roy wutem. 159. Montreal, de- , ri 1 vwiuiiiTu xwy nunanu, aremer- Owls Have Nine-Game Grid Plan OVS. May 18 Dale Dougherty newly-hired first football coach for Oregon Vocational school, will find an ambitious schedule already laid out for him and the Owls' first foot ball team when he reports to the hilltop campus soon after June 1. The Owls have lined up nine games, a pretty fair schedule con sidering a very late start and the fact that the school will be enter ing college football for the first time. Here Is the Owl slate: September 17 SOCE at Ashland. September 24 EOCE here. October I U. of Nevada Frosh here. October 8 Lewis and Clark col lege here. October 15 OCE at Monmouth. October 22 Vanport college. October 29 Pacific U at' Forest Grove. November S Open. November 11 Chlco Jayvees at Chico. November 19 Chico state at Chico. The Vanport game may be played either in Portland or here, the lo cation not definitely set. For the November 11 tilt, a Junior squad of Owls will engage the Chlco Jayvees. There Is a possibility still of ad ditional games with Lassen Junior college at Susanvllle, Clark college, Vancouver. Wash., and the Port land U Frosh. Most of the games will be played on Friday night, but some may be shifted to Saturday afternoon dates. The Owls are planning to play home games at Modoc field and therefore have to scissor out a schedule to fit that of the high school Pelicans. May 21 7:30. Weyerhaeuser vs. Eagles vs. Tulelake VFW. 8:30 Moose vs. VFW. Slay U 7:30, Four Star vs. Merrill VFW. Weyerhaeuser vs. Moose. 8:30 KC vs. Calhouns. Ashley vs. VFW. May 2 7:30. Tulelake VFW vs. Merrill VFW. Eagles vs. Telco. 8:30 Elllngsons vs. Calhouns. Four Star vs. VFW. May S8 7:30, Ashley vs. Weyer haeuser. Eagles vs. Merrill VFW. 8:30. KC vs. Moose. Telco vs. Calhouns. May 31 7:30, Tulelake VrW vs. VFW. Four Star vs. Weyerhaeuser. 8:30. Elllngsons vs. Moose. KC vs. Ashley. Hunt Movies Are Slated Motion pictures taken by Dr. Ralph W. Stearns during a big game hunting trip In Canada will be shown tonight at the Wlllard hotel during a meeting of the Klam ath Sportsmen's association. The meeting will start at 8 p. m.. and will be followed by a dutch lunch. Orders will also be taken for pheasant eggs, to be supplied by the state for local hatching, and for or ganization insignia for Jackets. Every member of the association is urged to attend tonight's meeting and to bring along a non-member who Is interested In hunting or fishing. Donovan Fines Larry Shepard SAN FRANCISCO. May 18 i Jerry Donovan, president of the Far West Baseball league, announced Monday he had fined Manager Lar ry Shepard of the Medford club 10 for abusive language toward an um pire. Donovan said he had received numerous complaints that managers throughout the class D circuit were exceeding the bounds of propriety in their conduct toward arbiters. He warned that stiffer fines would be Imposed If the practice continues. Three new umpires have been added to the Far West league staff. They are Prank Arbinl. 8an Fran cisco; Hal Wlndell, Fresno, and Steve Yuhase. Oakland. They suc ceeded Joe Garibaldi and Howard Lovctt. resigned, and Stanley Dol lar, released. Gems Heading For Home With Uneven Record Diamonds Rap Out 13 Hits To Take Twilight Contest PITTSBURG, Calif.. May 18 (Special) Seemingly unable to get an even break on the road, the Klamath Gems start bark home to. day In an effort to get bark Into the Far West league's first divi sion. The Gems lost a curtailed twilight tilt to the Pittsburg Diamonds Monday 11 to 6. making a road rec ord this trip of four losses and two wins. The Klamath Palls team stands In a fifth place lie with Pittsburg at eight wins and nine defeats for the season thus far. an average of .471. Dave Stratum. Pittsburg right hander, limited the Gems to eight blngles Mondnv while his mates were finding Forrest Schottgen for 13. Including a fifth-Inning triple by Gael Ames. Stratton walked nine, the same number the Gems had stranded on base. The Diamonds took the game In hand In the first Inning by batting completely around the lineup and scoring six runs. STILL NIIIFTINR Lineup for the Gems showed some more shifts as Manager Joe Gantenbeln tried to work out a winning combination. He put Joe Aiuelmo In right field, moved the erstwhile catcher. Tom Mankey. from right to left, replaced Gene Bonner In renterfleld with Irv Whltt and alternated Dick Dcsrnlso and Don Carllne behind the plate. The Gems travel today and open In Klamath Falls Wednesday Might akainst Uie league-leading Santa Rusa Pirates who last until stretch ed 10 Innings to brat Medford 8 to 7. The Pittsburg squad also hits the road and o p e ns Wednesday night at Medlord. Box score: Klimill I all. AH S H O r Wallaca, 3b 4 13 3 10 Small, lb S 1 1 S 0 U MUM, m 3 0 0 1 1 0 Anaalmo, rf 13 10 0 0 Manktr. If 3 I30OO Ua.calao. c 3 0 0 3 0 1 Carllne. t 3 0 0 3 0 0 Talor. 3b .4 0 0 1 Rotintr. rf . I 0 0 t WhKt. rf 3 111 Stholtgfn. p 3 0 0 0 Braves Solid Team In N.L Blatnik Takes Hitting Lead By JOE REICHLER Associated Press hporle Writer They may rave about the wonderful Ht. Units Cardinal pllchlng staff. They nmy gitpo In awe at the New Yurk Olunu' devastating power. They may admire and envy Brooklyn's depth with Its youth and speed. Tho solid team In the National league, however, Is the lloatiui 1,rloston Is not In first place. Tho Cards hold that sit and the Giants are second. The Braves are third, but only because they got olf to a miserable start. They dropped six of their first .even game.. Since then Boston has won II and lost four, the best record by far, fi in the circuit (or the period. Billy Southwnrth's turn haven t lost since May . They open a H-llnme home nland tonight, boasting the league's No. 1 pitcher In lllll Volselle, No. 1 bat ter In Tommy Holmes, the best field ing percentage of any rlub In lha circuit and a four-game winning streak. The Hiave. ended a successful road trip last ulitiil by rrushlng the Dodger. In llrooklyn. l'J-3 II marked their fourth sttalulil win over Brooklyn without a srtbark. It also gave thrm a record of eight vic tories in II mad games, No tram In the leas lie and thai Includes the Cardinals -boasts three front Hue hurlrrs such as Boston's Johnny Halu. Warren Hpahn and Volselle. This trio has. liven up only thrre run. In Boston's last tour games. I Another lint club, the Philadelphia Phils, defeated the New York Oiams 7-1. The victory moved the Phils 1 up to .fourth place, only thrre (ler- ceutage points behind the Braves. Johnny Blatnik pared the Phils' 10-hll attack against llobn Nrwsom and three successors. The rookie uutflrldrr. plrkrd up 111 the draft l.st tall, rrarkrd thrre hits In four times up to wrrst the league's bat ting leadership from Boston's Tom my Holmes with .431 to .433. He has hit safrty In nine ranserutlv gamrs. Those were the only games sched uled In the majors. tiff MJSTANDINGS FAR WEST W l. Prt. Snnta Kosa II -M Orovllle 0 Keddlllg .H) Marysville 8 .671 KlBinuth Falls .471 Pittsburg 0 .411 Medford a II -.3M Willows 5 11 .313 Monday's Hr.ults Hum a Kosa 8, Medford 7 (10 In nings). Pittsburg II. Klamath Falls t. Others rain. NATIONAL I.KA'il'K fit. Louis 13 7 New York IJ 0 Boston 13 10 Philadelphia 13 11 Pittsburgh 13 II Brooklyn 11 13 Chicago 8 13 Cincinnati 17 .Monday. Itesulls Boston 13. Brooklyn 3. Philadelphia 7. New York I D.M1 .871 .MS Ml Ml .471 3l Jit) Toult 3S Plllabarf An RndantMrSfr. Sb .. ft Emaraon. Jb 3 Bi. m 5 Aim. If - ft Harold, rf S S 31 Only games. A.MKIIIl'AN l,K.(.t K Unchanged. Aged Umpire Dies I.U8 ANMKI.KD. May 18 Mv-One of baseball s oldest umpires 111 point of service Is dead. He was Anthony Beck. fJA. who had been in organised baseball for 33 years. Berk collapsed last Thursday night while en route to Anaheim to um pire a Sunset league game. He died yesterday. Brrk formerly umpired In the Pacific Coast league. He made his home In t-os Angeles. lb Andaraon. cf 3 10 3 10 rurlla. e 4 113 0 0 Stratum, p 3 0 3 3 3 0 Toull . JS II 13 31 II 3 Klamalh Tails 3IU 010 3 . Plluburff WJO ZIO 1 II SUMMARY: 2B - Whl((. ritiaraiMi. Rtratton. rurlla. 3nAma all.. R.l. anbarsar. SO by Slralum ft. AVttnll.an lin off Juration S, tirhnnsan ft. Earoaq runa -f!t(burf 10. Klarnalh ralia LOn-r-lltabura: S. Klamath rail .. HBI Mankay 3. Anaaltim. Whlll. Csr llna, Wallara. Rndanbartar 3. Ama. 1. rurlla 2. Htratltin. Andaraon, Ruaa, Harold Tlma3 hours Lakeview Wins Baseball Start LAKF.VIEW, My 18 Lakeview made Its home debut of the Inter state Baseball league a success Sun day by topping Tulelake II to 6 Manager Vic Lasater and William Brlrhar hit home runs for Lake view. Tulelake acquired seven hits snd committed four errors, to 13 hits and two errors for Lskevlew. Also In the Interstate league Sun day a doubleheader al Alturas saw Alturaa swsmp Bprague River 21-5 and Canby beat Chlloquln 10-5. rapping oi upe when she and Peter won the American title in sen ior pairs. A physician with a hunch at last found the trouble. He believed she had a ruptured disc in her spine, but first X-rays failed to reveal it. With Karol in a hospital bed. her crippled leg in a traction splint, the doctor took a series of X-rays and at last found his diagnosis was cor rect. The ruptured disc was pressing against a branch of the sciatic nerve, crippling the leg. The Kennedys were warned that an operation could make Karol well or cripple her for life. She wanted to take the chance: the family told the surgeon to sharpen his knives. . . The Kennedy kids will skate again. ton, 8. Another No-Hitter SEATTLE. May 18 upiThe no hit, no-run pitching of Mike (Lefty) O'Brien gave Franklin high school a 3-0 win over West Seattle yes terday and third place in the final city standings. It was the second seven-inning no-no performance of the season here. Error Suggested In Patton's Mile SAN FRANCISCO. May 18 IP) Dink Templeton, veteran track coach, says Mel Patton's S3 100 yard dash looked like just a S.S sec onds effort to him. "My own watch was stopped at .S. I was sitting right on the fin ish line" when Patton, of USC, bet tered the .4 world record at the Fresno relays Saturday, Templeton i sam toaay. 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