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BABE SCHWAB
Arland "Babe" Schwab, 22-year-old
third sacker for the
Pelicans, comes to Klamath
Falls from Silverton, Ore., with
an enviable reputation in semi
pro ranks plus nearly a season
of pro experience with the
Portland Beavers.
Schwab has held down about
very spot in the infield and
promises to be a bulwark of
defense for the local team.
Semi-pro records in Oregon
show plenty of power at the
plate for Babe and a season or
two ago the versatile youth led
the Oregon State league in the
hitting department.
Plays at OSC
Arland was popular in sports
during high school days at Sil
verton, participating in basket
ball and baseball. He played
for two state championship
teams in American Junior
Legion ball, his team in 1933
winning the state and regional
tournaments and traveling to
Topeka, K.as., for the national
playoffs where they lost to the
Chicago entrant.
While a student at Oregon
State. Schwab played four years
of baseball, one year with the
rooks and three seasons with
the varsity, under the direction
of Coach Ralph Coleman. He
also made the freshman basket
ball squad.
During summer vacations Ar
land was a member of the Sil
verton Red Sox in the State
league, his team taking pen
nants in 1938 and 1939. During
the latter year the Red Sox
walked away with the state
tournament and regional play
offs and headed for Wichita,
Kas, where the Oregon boys
fought their way into third
place in the national tourna
ment Babe Joined the Portland
Beavers in June of 1940 and
played 80 games at second and
third under Manager Johnny
Fredrieks. He took spring train
ing with the Beavers recently
at Santa Monica and was later
optioned to Wenatchee of the
W. L league. Not wishing to re-1
port at Wenatchee, Arland
asked for voluntary retirement
in order to play semi-pro ball.
Officials of the Pelicans feel
fortunate in securing such an
experienced player for the lo
cal team. Babe is now employed
at Weyerhaeuser Timber com
pany. BASEBALL STANDINGS
NATIONAL
Brooklyn
St. Louis
New York
Chicago
Cincinnati
Boston
Pittsburgh
Philadelphia
AMERICAN
LEAGUE
W. L.
22 6
18 6
12 11
10 12
10 15
10 14
8 14
7 19
LEAGUE
W. L.
20 9
13 9
13 10
14 14
12 15
11 14
10 15
8 15
Pet.
.786
.750 !
.522
.455 !
.400 i
.4171
.364 I
.269
Pet.
.690
.591
.565 j
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Cleveland .
Boston
Chicago
New York
Washington .
Detroit
Philadelphia
St. Louis
.444
.440
.400
.348
PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE
(Aftar Tutsday's Games)
W. L. Pet.
Sacramento 25 9 .735
San Diego 20 16 .556
Seattle 19 17 .528
San Francisco 18 18 .500
Hollywood 17 13 .486
Oakland 15 21 .417
Los Angeles 14 21 .400
Portland . 13 21 .382
MAJOR LIACUI LEADERS
r Th AMoclatatf Pre.
AMERICAN LEAGUE
BATTING Crr,nint Uoitcn, AlZ: TrTli
Whlnitlrti. .411.
HOME KL-XS-Johinon. PrHLrMphln. 7;
Gordon. NVw York, and York. Detroit .
PITi HINU-llrder, clml.nd. and John
son, fioaton. .-.
NATIONAL LEAGUE
RATTING-Jursn, N York, J;
SlA'ieM.r, St. Loula, ..14.
HUME mss-Camlll, Brooklyn, and
Ott. Near York. 7.
PnTHIXO-Ca-ejr, Brooklyn. M; Warn
k. St. ImjIb, 4
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Here's Bogota. 9-ytr-old of the C. C. Conley stables, in training at the fairgrounds tor the
eight-day Klamath Jockey club race meeting beginning June 11. Bogota last year won four out
of five races at the fall meeting here and was second in the fifth. He's a Eugene-bred horse by
Beauregard out of Combustion. Jockey Tommy Gibson is up.
Softball Opening Set Back
Two Weeks, Begins June 3
Softball opening for the 1941 1
season has been set back two !
weeks to Tuesday, June 3. ac- j
cording to an announcement i
made this week by Lynn Roy- j
croft, president of the Klamath '
Softball association. Original I
evening for formal opening of ;
this summer's twilight program '
had previously been designated '
for Tuesday, May 20. !
The probability of a smaller
number of teams than the 16
clubs that participated last sea- j
son and the lack of the expected I
response for entry fees were j
cited as the reasons for setting
back the inaugural ceremonies.
Deadline for the S25 entry fees
and complete rosters must be in i
the hands of the league direc-1
tors not later than Monday, May j
26, Estin Kiger. secretary-trea-1
Pelicans Face California
Teams Saturday and Sunday
Drawing a bye in State
league competition this week,
the Klamath Falls Pelican base
ball club goes out of its league
to engage Redding and Mt. Shas
ta of the northern California
loop in a two-game weekend
series.
First game of the practice
tilts will be played Saturday
night at Recreation park in
Mills addition against the Red- j
ding outfit starting at 7:30 p. '
m. The other contest, also to be
played on home grounds, will 1
see the Pelicans tackle the Mt. !
Shasta nine Sunday afternoon
at 2 o'clock.
Group Asks State I
Cage Meet Stopped
PENDLETON, May 14 (P) j
Officials of the Blue Mountain 1
conference want the annual !
state high school basketball j
tournament to be discontinued. I
They pointed out yesterday
that football championship play
offs were declared unsound by
the State High School Athletic
association last winter, and
recommended that the same ac-
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Down the Stretch
surer of the loop stated Tues
day morning.
KC Again In
At a meeting of directors
and team managers last week
at the city hall 13 clubs were
represented and doubtless will
have rosters lined up and ready
to go when the opening games
are played less than three weeks
from now. Directors of the
association hope to have 14
nines in the fold when the sea
son's initial tilts are played.
Ten of the Softball groups
that were included in the 1940
program will again be repres
ented this year. Heading the
list of holdovers, of course, is
the championship Knights of
Columbus aggregation, which
has been riddled by "gradua
tion", so to speak. According to
Although quite pleased with
the way his boys looked in de
feating the Bend Elks, 6-4, at
Bend Sunday, Manager Red
Sanders expressed keen interest
in the games with the northern
Californians, knowing that his
charges would get some much
needed work in actual game
competition.
Pointing for the all-important
contest with the Albany Alcos,
State league, Oregon and north
west semi-pro champs for 1940,
slated for Sunday, May 25,
Sanders probably will send all
three of his hurlers, Orin Davis,
Clyde Carlstrom and Virgil
Haines, and both his catchers,
Warren Wahncr and Lawrence
Granger, into action this week.
Weather permitting, workouts
for the locals will be held Wed
nesday, Thursday and Friday of
this week, according to Man
ager Sanders.
tion be taken on basketball
tourneys.
If the tournament is con
tinued, however, they urged that
it be confined to eight Class A
schools and be staged In a dif
ferent section of the state each
year.
" . . . rowing his own boat"
whan it comes to choosing a
good eating plactl
reports only five men of the
i original 11-man squad including
Eugene ''Brownie' Myers, star
southpaw pitcher, and Bert
Earr. hard-htting catcher are
still in town to defend the KC
, title.
Other teams to participate in
, this year's pennant race arc
I Lamm's Mill of Modoc Point,
i only out-of-town team, Wcyer
' haeuser. Pelican Bay, Kalpine.
; Long Bell. Lowell's, Conwhit,
, Webb Kennett and the Elks.
Sears Roebuck and Turner
Chevrolet, as well as the Eagles
Lodge, are new clubs entered
this year. The latter group, how
ever, is merely a possibility
which will be decided one way
or the other in the next two
weeks. i
Coast Rules
Too Strict,
Says G-man
SAN FRANCISCO, May 14
'.Pi Regulations that have
caused some 48 high school and
freshman athletes to be barred
from intercollegiate competition
at certain Pacific Coast confer
ence schools is too harsh, in the
opinion of the man charged
with administering them.
Edwin N". Atncrton, confer
ence commissioner and former
G-man, said today he was in fa
vor of modifying some of the
rules which he described as be-
'ing "apparently more severe
than they should be."
"The rules are pretty strin
gent," Atherton said. "We can
not close all avenues of infor
mation to prospective enrollces
just because they happen to be
athletes.
I "Our present rules cause pen
alties to be inflicted for activi
ties permissablc in other con
ferences which otherwise arc
supposed to be models of per
fection." Atherton reported all of the
cases in both his purges, la.it
I summer and last weekend, in
ivolvcd cither subsidization or
'recruiting. He said individual
i alumni or alumni groups were
! chiefly to blame.
U.S. GRANT
San Diego's
Leading Hotel
RATES
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Dizzy Dean Asks Retirement
From Baseball, Will Coach
Gabby One
Won't Play
In Any Club
CHIC A G O. May H At
Jamrs GallHKlitT, jioncral man
aticr of the Chieano Cub?, au
lumuctHi today thnt Dizzy Dvan,
one of base bull's most srn. Na
tional characters of the Inst
ttecutle, had requested that tic
bo placed on the voluntary re
tired list.
Gulluither said Dcun was send
ing him a letter to that effect,
and that the letter would be
forwarded to Ford Kriek, presi
dent of the National leatiue.
He added that the Cubs would
probably accede to Dean's re
quest. The once treat pitcher wants
to step out of active baseball
at the end of today s name.
Tomorrow is the deadline for
cutting the Cubs' squad to -5
players. Manager Jimmy Wilson
is carrying -tt players, and un
til Dean's request came through
today he was in a
position of
having to decide whether his
one time battery mate would
be one of those cut adrift.
Dean, 30 years old last Janu
ary, was truly one of the game s
greatest performers while witn
the St. Louis Cardinals through
l!kI7, but he has been almost
worthless since the Cubs ac
quired him for $185,000 ami
j three players. He has won a
; total of 16 games in three sea
sons with the Cubs; in six
years with the Cards he aver
aged 22 victories per season!
He started one came this sea
son against the Pirates April
25 and barely lasted one in
ning, yielding three hits and
three runs.
"I'm asking for my retire
ment for a year,'' Dizzy said at
his hotel, where the telephones
began to pester the "great one"
a few minutes after the Gallag
her announcement.
"I don't know just what I'll
do," he said. "I'm going to
stick around here for a while
and watch the boys (the Cubs)
win some ball games. They're
going to win a-plenty. Gut a
great ball club, a young club
"I'll be out there today (the
Cubs and Boston Braves were
scheduled) and I'll go in there
to pitch if they tell nic to."
Asked whether he would try
to return to baseball after a
year, Dizzy said he might but
"It'll only be somewhere in the
Cubs' organization; I wouldn't
go with anyone else. This ball
club has been too good to me."
CHICAGO, May 14 (API
Dizzy Dean, who earlier today
asked to be placed on the re
tired list by the Chicago Cubs,
was given his unconditional re
lease this afternoon and General
Manager James Gallagher said
he would be signed immediately
as a Cub coach.
Gallagher said:
"Dean is too valuable a man
to leave big league baseball en
tirely and, as he says he doesn't
want to play for any other club.
Manager Jim Wilson believes he
will be of value to us."
Wilson said Dean would be
used in such tasks as pitching in
batting practice, hitting fungoes
to outfielders and coaching
young pitchers.
The Cubs have two other
coaches, Charley Grimm and
Dick Spalding.
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Meeting Changed The reg- j WAR BOOMS BASEBALL
ular meeting of Job's Daughters PHILADELPHIA Baseball
will be held Monday evening, attendance this season should
May 19, instead of Thursday ! spurt "because people are work
night as planned, due to the cd up about the war and will
Scottish Rite reunion now in j relax by going to games," says
progress.
Today.
JHE0BEG0JV TRAIL
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OLD HERMITAGE,
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money will buy
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A four-year-old mhukey
famous since 1870
PAGE TKN
Vasdell
Helos Cubs
Down Reds
Ookt Beat Beavers, 3-2
Padres Lose to Angels;
Rainicrs Take Stars 12-2
By PAUL SCHEFTELS
Uniud Press Correspondent
Despite the thunder thut ac
cotupiinlcit the rise of the
Brooklyn Dodgers' ri.se to com
mand of tlte National, league
there has been little rhecring
for Jimmy Wusdcll, the prize
! substitute for the pace-setters.
Wasdell. who spent four
years trying to land a regular
berth with the Washington Sen
aturs, came to the Dodgers last
season but sees little action.
Jimmy gets his chance when
one of the regular outfielders is
hurt or in a slump but on the
records ( the season so far, he's
done the UcnI job on the club
both at the plate and in the
field.
Savanth Straight
His performance Wednesday
as HriMiklyn defeated the Cincin
nati Reds. 6 2. for their seventh
I straight
victory behind the
eight-hit pitching of Whit Wyatt.
who also won his seventh
straight, was typical. He con
tributed a double, single and
sacrifice to Brooklyn's 11 hit
drive and scored one run In four
trips.
Wasdell. a southpaw both at
the plate and in the field, now
boasts the club's highest batting
average .1HH. except fur Pinch
Hitter Joe Vosmik who has hit
.444 in five games. Wasdell has
gone to the plate an even 50
times and has cracked out 19
hits. Currently he is subbing for
the injured Pete Reiser.
Pittsburgh defeated the Phila-
dclphia Phillies 12 to 7 in a
game in which nine pitchers
were used, five by the Phillies.
Nick F.ttrn, Dan Litwhiler and
.Toe Marty homered for the
Phils.
Boston at Chicago and New
York at St. Louis were rained
out, the Cards dropping two
games behind the Dodgers.
Indians Win
i Clarence Campbell's homer
with one on in the eighth inning
gave Mel Harder the decision
over Red Ruffing and the Cleve
land Indians their second
straicht over the New York
Yankees. 4-1. Until pitchers al
lowed six hits. Gene Desautels
and Gee Walker also hit homers
. for the Indians.
1 Joe Cronin's four-run homer
in Ihe seventh featured a seven-
run uprising that gave the Bos-
(,, n,., Sox a 10-7 victory over
the Chicago White Sox. The de
cision put the Red Sox in second
place 3i games behind the In-
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DUiy Uran
dlans and half game ahead of
the White Sox.
Steve Sundra won his third
straight as the Washington Sena
tors trounced the Detroit
Tigers, 9-4. Ben Chapman horn,
ered for the winners.
Bob Harris allowed nine hits
as the St. Louis Browns de
feated the Philadelphia Ath
letics, 105.
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RAILROAD BRIEFS
Formar Superintendent Hera
Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Knights of
Los Angeles left Monday for Se
attle after a short visit in Klam
lath Falls with Mr. and Mrs
i Howard Llstoe. Knights was
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Northern in this city before his
retirement In 1938.
On Vacation E. J. English,
master mechanic with the GN, is
spending his vacation visiting
his mother in Wisconsin.
To San Francisco Mrs. E. II.
Crawford, wife of a conductor
on the Great Northern, is spend
ing a few days in San Francisco
CHICAGO Three brothers of
the Cubs' southpaw, Vern Olscn,
are professional wrestlers.
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MAIM and ESPLANADE
Sacs Drop ""I
Contest to )
Seals, 4-3 j
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Pittsburgh Pounds Out -'
12-7 Win Over Phillies;
Indians Bear Yanks, 4-1 "'
SAC'HAMKNTO. Calif.. May'
14 (UP) The bun r'ranclscu
Seals tonight got two unearned
runs In the sixth Inning to beat
Sacramento, 4 :i. In a Pacific ,
Coast league game.
With two men on base. Bub '
Itluttner, Sacramento second '
baseman, dropped a pop fly lit '
short right field, allowing tli
two runs to go in. Nanny rcr
nandez and Wally Carroll goty
Sun Krancisco other two runs
on homers In the fifth
Sacramento's big Inning wa
the third, when two singles and -a
homer by Don Gutleridgo ac
counted for three rum.
OAKLAND. Calif., Muy ll"
llT Oakland tonight squared
II.- series with Portlund by beat-"
nig the Beavers .1-2 in 10 In
nings In a Pacific Coast league
game.
Oaklund lied the score at 2 2'
in the eighth and In the first'
overtime inning scored the win
ning run when Johnny Verges'.'
walked and Hugh Luby laced"
out a triple to center. T
Henry Pippcn won on nine.',
hits while Ad l.iska of Portland
i Kave up eight blows and tanned
seven men,
errors.
The Oaks had threa
SAN HIKC.O. C'nlif.. May 14
iL'P) C.uilo Horn-IU hurled th.
Lo-i An uric ball club to victory
in the second same of the trrie
with Snn Diego tonight, noting
out the Pad re i 2 to 1 at Iinv
field.
Monettl hitd little difficulty-
with the I'iidre until thi
eventh when I'ntrher Hill Sal
keld tripled and Mrl Muzzera
doubled to bring in the Sin,
Dietio tally.
The first Los Angeles run.,
rame In the third when Pranuts
Lowcry doubled and Phil Wein
traub doubled. In the eighth the.
Angel chalked up the winning,
i run when I.owrry doubled and.
irame in on Kddie Mnyo's iingU '
to left field.
HOLLYWOOD, May 14 (XT);
The Seattle Hauliers trounced
the Hollywood Stiirs. 12 to 2.
in their Pacific Const league
baseball game at Gilmore field)
tonight.
Hollywood stepped out with;
a one-run lead In the first Inning'
when, with two out. Hob Kahle'
pounded out a circuit clout over
the left field wall.
The Rainicrs evened the scorjr"..
In the third when Gil Campbefla
scored on Spencer Harris' blow
to left field. The visitors then
stepped ahead in the fourth,
scoring three runs. Walks to'
Campbell and Cole, a error by
the Stars' Joe Hoover, a n d
double by Bill Lawrence drove
three markers across the plate
and put the Rniniers In the lead.
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