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TilKSOAY, APRIL 13, 1954 PAGE TEN WERAU ANT) NEWS. KLAMATH FALLS. OREGON IJob Season To Many Top Br JOB KEICHLER vnuv in . The ' mslor ; leagues today opened what prom ises to be one 01 we mu i i. ina baseball seasons In many i years. Barely has a campaign started with so many vital questions watt- " tag to be answered. The latest and perhaps the most Important Is: How much will Enos Slauifhter help the New Yorlc Yankees? Did the live-time pennant win ning Yankees insure another flag when they acquired the 311-year-old Slaughter from the 61. Louis Cardinals on the eve of the peu- . nant race? Or did they blow their chance when they sold star pitcher Vic Raschi to the Cardinals six weeks earlier? trospects . . ". ' , The answer may be a long time coming. The prospects are . for close races In both leagues. All last year's runner-ups appear strengthened and eager to take a crack at the defending champions. Por the first time In years all IS clubs started the campaign on the same day. Some 216,000 fans were expected to see the eight in augurals. Slaughter, on hand for the Yank ees' opener In Washington, was not in line to see action, but Mickey Mantle, the young outfield star, was slated for duty In center field, apparently recovered from his knee operation of last winter. A sellout of 30.000 was assured to watch President Eisenhower throw out the first ball. After that either left-hander Chuck Stobbs or right-hander' Bob Porterfleld was to take the mound lor me sens. tors. Southpaw whitey rord, who holds a 8-0 lifetime record against Washington, already has been named to open for the Yankee?. SOUTHPAWS A battle of southpaws was In prospect In Philadelphia, where Eddie Joost was making his man agerial debut with the A s. Mel Parnell of the Boston Red Sox and Bobby Shantz of the Athletics were the opposing pitchers. A turnout of 12,000 was expected. Each team's key slugger was absent. Ted Williams, whose frac tured collarbone was reported mending rapidly, is not expected bsck In the Red 8ox lineup until May 16 at the earliest. Gus Zer nlai was out of the Athletics' line up with a sprained neck. Baltimore, returning to the ma jors after 61 years, hoped to get off on the Tight foot In Detroit. Manager Jimmy Dykes, who moved from Philadelphia to Balti more, planned to start either Duane PUlette or Don Larsen or. the mound. A crowd of 30,000 was elated to see veteran right-hander Steve Oromek make the first pitch for the Tigers. PITCHING DUEL A good pitching duel was In prospect In Chicago where Early Wynn of Cleveland and Billy Pierce of the White Sox were to Clash before 30,000. The National League's largest crowd some 36,000 figured -to be on hand for the renewal of the Dodger-Oiant feud at the Polo Grounds. Ssl Maglle, who has beaten the Dodgers 18 times In 54 decisions, was ready to test his once aching back against the Brooks, who had Carl Ersklne. 'their World Series hero, fit and ready. The Dodgers, except for Man ager Walter Alston, presented the same lineup that appeared In the series Inst October and the OiBnta had Willie Mays, their rookie star of 1951, back In center field after two years In the Army. Clncinnstt, opening the season at home for the 69th straight yenr. was host to the Braves, who had rookie Henry Aaron In the lineup In place of the Injured Bobby Thomson. A capacity crowd of SO. ooo was assured long ago to watch this battle of right-hander, with veteran Bud Podblclan going for the Redlrgs against sophomore Bob Buhl, Making his manngrrlnl how for Cincinnati was Birdie Teh beits. REVAMPED A revamped Pittsburgh team, which opened at home for the first time In years, was set to face Philadelphia's ace Robin Roberts with a lineup composed of sum hard-bitten veterans as Walker Cooper and Sid Gordon and fuzsy fneed youngsters as Curt Roberts and Gnll Allle. Bob Friend, who pitched sensntlonslly in exhibition games, was the Pirates' nominee. Some 20,000 were expected to be on hand. Rookie Wally Moon was sched "led for duly in center Held, Alex Grammas at shortstop and Tom Bearden, Hatten Top PCL Pitchers SAN KHANCISCO i Gene Bearden. ihe former major leag uer now trying to win his way tuck to the top as a Seattle hurl r, tied wllh Los Angeles' Joe Hatten lor Ihe lead during the llrst week of the new Pacific Const League season. Although he Issued 11 walks. more than any other hurlcr. he also came within one of tvlng Hntten's 13 strikeouts, as both men puenca two victories each. TORONTO Esrl Walls, 194 Toronto, stopped Tommy Hnr Nvn, 183 S, Los Angeles, 1. SYDNEY Marshall Clayton. 144, New Orleans, stopped Carl Contes, 137 Vt, Baltimore. 13. I For HUDSON HORNETS See JUCKELAND'S Answer Questions Alston at first base as the Cardi nals played host to the Chicago Cubs In St. Louis before about 18.000. The Cubs, under Stan Hack, who replaced Phil Cavarretta orJy a couple of weeks ago as man ager, also boasted three newcom ers in the lineup. They are center fielder Bob Tal bot, shortstop Ernie Banks and second baseman Gene Baker. Har vey Haddix, a 20-game winner for the Redblrds last year, was named to oppose veteran southpaw Paul Minncr, Snead Wins Masters AUGUSTA. Oa. Ufc Sam Snead. the drawling West Virginian, made two conquests in winning his third Masters gelt championship be beat Ben Hogan by one stroke in their 18-hole playoff and also licked a bad case of "yips." ' Yips" Is a Enead-coined word the Slammer uses to describe' put ting Jitters, and he said belore the tournament he was in the midst ol the worst case of his career. But Sam handled his putter ade quately Monday and came home In 2-under-par 70 to Hogan's 71. The victory bracketed Senad with Jimmy Demaret as a three-time Masters winner, Hogan, too, was seeking his third Masters title, and had hoped to' become the first man . ever to capture two in suc cession. Snead picked up tS.oon for his victory and Hogan got (3,136. Each also got an undlcslosed per centage ol the playoff gate. Clark Griffith Not Awecl By Presidents WASHINGTON (in Clark Orif- flth, not one to be awed by Presi dents of the United States, says he once told Franklin D. Roosevelt to stay away from .the baseball senson opener and made it stick. At a luncheon Monday honoring- his Washington Senators, the 84- yenr - old clubowncr recalled he had been dropping In at the White House for 43 years to present gold passes to the nations chief ex ecutive. I had a lot of Interesting ex periences," Griffith said, "but I think I got the biggest kick out of the time I told off President Franklin Roosevelt." Griffith said it was early during World War II, either in 1943 or 1943. GREAT FRIEND "Roosevelt was a good baseball man and a great friend of mine," Griffith said, "He greeted me as usual and I gave him his pass and he said he'd be at the ball park on opening day. I said no he wouldn't. And Roosevelt said: Why not?' I aaid there was a war bn. He said: 'Who's running this show?' and I said: 'You're running the country, Mr, President, but I'm running my ball club.' "Roosevelt laughed and slapped his side. 'I know who you've been talking to,' he said, 'that blasted Secret Service. They told me I couldn't go but I didn't think they'd go behind my back like that.' "That's what Ihey did. They nunc up to me and told me they'd been trying to keep htm from go ing but that he Insisted. So they told me I was the only one who could tell him olf." Orlfflth paused, amid lsughler, and wound up: 'I did It, He sent out a subsit lute." Girl Athlete Causes Disagreement PORTLAND l.n Lewis and Clark and Willamette University have called off a scheduled North west Conference tennis match be cause the No. 3 "man" of Ute Lewis and Clark team is a girl, i Eldon Fix, Lewis and Clark ath ctlc director, said Monday his team voted not to play Willamette when officials of Ihe Salem In stitution protested because of the presence of Lorraine Dlmoff of Portland on the team. Leslie Sparks, Willamette ten nis coach, said the protest was based on a belief the league was organized for men's athletics. Other schools In the conference are being polled, he said, and Wil lamette will "abide by the re sults." ' Fix rates Miss Dimolt as the No. 2 "man'- on his team. She defeated a man In nonconfer- enoe. match with Reed College of Portland earlier In the season. TIME OUT "I don't mind your watch in that opening GUnt-Dodgrr fame, Ed, but mast yon have it on so load?" Lakers Win Sixth NBA Playoff MINNEAPOLIS (AP) The In domitable old pros of the Min neapolis Lakers Tuesday etched another championship Into one of the most striking success stories in professional basketball history. The Lakers won their third con secutive National Basketball Assn. title Monday night by belting Syracuse 87-80 In the decisive sev enth game of the final playoffs. It gave Minneapolis, which en tered pro basketball strictly as a gamble in 1947, a record of six titles In seven years of operation. Almost all of its playolf supremacy has hinged on Indestructible Geor ge Mikan and Jim Pollard, who have been wth the team since its organization. It was Pollard who piloted the Lakers Monday night alter Syra cuse had shaken olf a wave of playoff injuries to tie the series at three games apiece. The graceful 6-5 forward ram med in 31 points and kindled a first quarter drive which put Min neapolis in front to stay. Pairings for the best ball tourna ment at Rcames Oolf and Country Club have been announced by the club officials as follows: Drew and Humble vs. Woods and Peyton. Scrogglns and C. Baxter vs. F. Hall and E. Edge. Ray Clark and L. Pnlmerlon vs. O..Rratton and Firuicl. Tarr and Lawler vs. E. Hall and Orove. Gillian and Torgerson vs. S. Bec ber and H. Perrln. , G. Broslerhous and Scott vs. R. Beeber and G. Anderson. Mulllns and Bingham vs. Logsden and E. Brosterhous. Merryman and D. Miller vs. Dru Uner and G. Barker. John West and T. Perkins vi. Moty and B. Perrln. Robinson and Toylcy vs. F. Flink and J. Ivory. Clyde Riltcr and Geo. Clark. HOCKEY PLAYOFFS By THF. ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday's Results AMERICAN LEAGl'F. Cliveland 3. Hershey 1 f Cleveland leads best-oM final series, 3-1 1 WESTERN LEAGl'F. Edmonton 5. Calgary 3 tbest-of-seven semifinals series lied 2-3) (ilk, w- -Or MM THE GUN STORE SPORTING GOODS II Event of the Year" CLAYTON HANNON. Sports Editor Yanks Sneak Card From National Loop By C.AVLE TALBOT NEW YORK iffi No matter how glib the avowals of oihcr National Leaetie clubs that they couldn't have used County Slaughter, the basebnll public Is not going to be lieve them and Is. once again, tak ing a bilious view of the Yankees' ability to sneak veteran stars who figure to help them out in the rival lenpue. Either of two clubs which ex pect to challenge the Dodgers Milwaukee and New York would have been strengthened for the race starting today if it had Slaughter available to play right Held for even 100 games. Either team r-ould have afford his 830,000 salary, considering the prize at stake. But neither could have got ten him. and knew it, and so their later protestations that a 38-year-old Slaughter didn't fit into their plans were so much top dressing. CONNECTION It would be difficult to convince any fairly intelligent fan that there was no connection between the eariier deal which sent pitcher Vic Raschi from the Yankees to the St. Louis Cardinals and this latest remarkable demonstrations of Yankee Influence. It would be equally futile to sug gest to him that the Cleveland In dians, the Chicago White Sox or the Boston Red Sox could have bought Slaughter's supposedly fad- Confidence Expressed By Trautman COLUMBUS, Ohio UPI The bo3S of minor league baseball blos somed out with confidence Tues day and criticized what he called overemphasis on the "plight" of the minor leagues. George M. Trautman, in a dis patch to league and club presi dents, said there is more evidence than in recent years of interest in baseball in the lower classifica tions. Trautman said "Many self-appointed experts, ' some qualified and some not, offer, publicly and privately, panaceas that will, as they express it, 'Save minor league baseball.'" The minor league president said 'Too much emphasis is being placed upon the 'plight' of the mi nor leagues, with the resulting as sumption that the very existence of the minors Is In Jeopardy." Trautman said that is not the case and urged baseball men to "substitute hard, intelligent work lor oratorical recitals and press releases about our difficulties." Accident 0 May End Grid Career PALM SPRINGS, Calif. UH The pro football career of Tom Nlck oloif, co-captain and end of the 1953 Southern California team and third draft choice of the Los An geles Rams, may have been ended by a tralllc accident. ! Nlcholoff suffered a broken right1 leg. broken right hand and brain j concussion Saturday night when I his auto tailed to make a turn on- ' to the Palm Springs cutoff from tlv main highway. He was en rou to the desert spa from Banning. Nichololf, at the wheel, escapeu death as his car hit a bridge abut ment and a timber from the rail ing rammed through the machine. ing services for, a minor lengue relief pitcher and three nanvclcs athletes from the tall grass, as the five-time world champions did. Perhaps it is only fair to the superefficlent Yankee organization to state that no one complained when Raschi was spirited out "of the American League and sold to the Cards. On the contrary, there was considerable rejoicing that the Yanks- appeared to have weakened themselves. Now. though, there is the feeling that It was Just a case of waiting lor the other shoe to drop. There is resentment at the apparent collusion between the two little rich boys. Pin Meet Leaders Change Underwood's Camera Shop took over the lead in Class A action of the 10th annual Men's City Bowl. ing tournament last night at Lucky Lanes. i The Camera team and Beeber's knocked the top three teams of the night before down from the lead with high totals for the eve ning's action. Underwood's collected a total of 2843 pins and Beeber's was close behind with a 2821 total. Stone's Signal, who was leading the team events going Into last night's ac tion held on to third place with a 2797 total. In Class B action the top three teams of opening night remained in the lead for top honors in that class. uonsoimaiea Frcigntways con tinued to lead the pac with o 2937 score and Summers Lane Tavern and Mac's Store were second and third with scores of 2868 and 2849. Howard Dixon combined lines of 204-163-209 to tnke the high in dividual series honors with a 566 total. Ivan Bold was runnerup In series and took top place In game honors with a 218 game. His ser ies score was 649. Dixon was runner up lo Bold In the game event with 209 pins for one line. In Class B, Carl Brown took hleh series with a 612 score and Bill McKune was high for game action with a 193. Team competition will continue tonight at Lucky Lanes starting a! 7:30. GAME OFF This afternoon's baseball game between Oregon Tcrh and South ern Oregon College has been can celled because of rain. Art Kirkland, OTI coach, told the Herald and News this morning that It had been raining hard in I Ashland and more rain is ex-, peeted. ' The game will be made up April 31 at Ashland, according to Klrk-j land. 1 NOW IS THE TIME! 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DOWNCAST Hollywood skipper Bobby Bra gan isn't in the least downcast. He says he expects help from Pitts burgh and that additional pitching talent will turn the trick. The Stars were cheered Monday by the Bdditlon of Jim Walsh, turned back by the St. Louis Cards, and Lino Dnnoso, star of the Mexican League, a southpaw loaned by Pittsburgh. Bragan also hopes to get George o Donnell irom the pi rates. Portland will get a stiff test at San Diego, for Lefty O'Doul nom inated Cliff Fannin, who lost nis first start last week, to open on the mound against Portland's Red Adams, who won his initial game. Los Angeles, meanwhile, is hop ini! to fatten up this week against San Francisco, which bowed six times in its seven-game series against Seattle. And Seattle is scheming to duplicate that record at Sacramento. Jerry Friday tap ped Jim Davis (1-0) to start against Ken Gables (0-0) in the opener in the California capital city. Committee Schedules Ball Movies The second hi a series of four baseball movies will be shown Wed nesday evening in the Fremont Junior High School auditorium at 7:30. Bob Bonney, city recreation di rector, and Jim Souza, chairman of the Klamath Sports and Recreation Council, are in charge of the mov ies that are open to all basin res idents who are interested in baseball.- The movies are educational as well as entertaining and feature many major league players who piny the arts of hitting and fielding. Especially those who are inter ested In forming a team in the summer program or playing for a team are invited to attend for an evening of enjoyment. Scoreboard PRO BASKETBALL By THF, ASSOCIATED PRESS Monday's Results Minneapolis 87, Syracuse 80 (Min neapolis wins best-ol-7 final play off series 4-3). COLLEGE BASEBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS . George Fox 7, Portland State 4 Willamette 9, Pacific 0 Seattle Pacific 2, Pacific Lutheran 1 NO CHARGE FOR PLANS or ESTIMATES GALLOWAYS BLDG. SERVICE Phone 2-2564 Evei. 6469 SUITS 69 from Manstore Phone 3463 v. DON PETERSON sGets Second Chance WASHINGTON Ml The Na tional Boxing Assn. figures that if anyone is going to take Rocky Marciano's heavyweight champion ship away from him in the foresee able future, it'll be E z z a r d Charles. Charles, who once held the title himself, gets the next shot at Mar ciano's crown in a 15-round bout at Yankee Stadium June 17. If Charles wins, he'll become the first heavyweight ex-champion to re gain his title. BOOSTED The NBA boosted Charles to "logical contender" In its spring ratings announced Monday. This Is the ; highest rating any chal lenger has been given since Mar ciano won the title. Three fighters were named out standing boxers: Nino Valdez of Cuba. Don Cockell of England and Roland LaStarza of New York. Dan Bucceronl, who was rated well up in the winter ratings, stumbled to seventh place among the heavyweights behind Tommy "Hurricane" Jackson, who won an upset victory over Bucceroni earl ier this year. UNCROWNED Harold Johnson, who calls him self the uncrowned light-heavyweight champ, was rated the only logical contender to Archie Moore's, title, and the NBA once again urged Moore to defend his crown against Johnson. The BA selected three logical contnders for Bobo Olson's mid dleweight title; Rocky Castellan!, Joey Giardello and ex-c h a m p Randy Turpin. Minor League Baseball MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS TEXAS LEAGL'E Dallas 3, Houston 0 San Antonio 12, Fort Worth 4 Oklahoma City 5, Beaumont 3 COAST LEAGL'E No games scheduled BPBDS9 W V wjl J lwywp JiyWLImn)tWffl jaw MewMH 'M !! Kxlra olrphoM ervlee for ymr home. Today, in any room you want, you can enjoy the added convenience of an extension telephone. Extensions make it easier for the whole family to place calls, receive calls. And this extra serv ice is yours for just pennies a day. We can offer extension telephones again because they require no additional outside wires, cable, or central office equipment just the telephone instruments. Available through your Pacific Telephone busi ness office, extensions are part of our plan to bring more useful service, dependable service, at low cost to you. Pacific Telephone works to make your telephone a bigger value every day. McCall's Successor Named Don Peterson was named the new head basketball coach of Klam ath Union High School at a meeting of the school board last night. This -was the second major change in the athletic department in the past lew weeks. " Peterson was selected by the k.J t- nlapa TSaitl Mr-Poll ...h.. handed in his resignation Monday to accept a Job as head basketball coach at Grant High of Portland. The University of Oregon gradu ate came to Klamath in 1951 as a general science teacher and assis tant basketball and assistant base ball coach. Peterson graduated from Roose velt High school In Portland, in 1947. While at the Portland school he was two year all-city baseball and one year all-city basketball. Dming this time he also played in a shrine baseball game that has since been disbanded. The game would consist of an all-star team from Portland and a team of high school stars from up-state. After graduation at Roosevelt he enrolled at the University of Ore gon where he played freshman bas- kctball and baseball his first year, . His sophomore year, he played on the first string for John Warren'i hoop squad and in the spring was playing on the baseball squad. ., In Uie final basketball game of Ills sophomore yenr against Oregon State, Peterson injured his knee and had it operated on in hopes to follow out his athletic career at Oregon, but the knee was too badly Injured to continue with sports in college. Since coming to Klamath he bad compiled a good record with his junior varsity basketball teams and his Wildcat baseball squads. This action of naming a new ma jor coach Is second big Job that has passed through the hands of the school board members in the last two weeks. John McGlnnis was) named to the job of head football coach last week succeeding Bob Henaersnott. 1 Spring Practice Starts at WSC PULLMAN, Wash. Ml Coach Al Klrcher called the first spring football practice session at Wash ington State College Tuesday and said he looked for 22 lettermen to report for the No. 1 drill of the 20 ollowed under Pacific Coait Conference rules. After reviewing movies of last season's games, Kircher said Mon day spring training will stress tackling, pass defense and pass offense. Kircher has lost only three reg ular starters from last year's team. The 22 lettermen include six seniors with two years' varsity ex perience. The others are juniors who saw action last season. For STORAGE CALL Klamath Powder I Equipment Inc. 350 Spring Ph. 2-3181
