3 Rornrrlc W IIWVVI UJ lopple; Sac J. C. Leads Davit, "World's Fastesr Human,' Fells; Batiste Scores 29 Points Alono DENVER, May 31 (UP Sac ramentn, Calif., Junior college won the national Junior college trark and field meet In Denver university stadium today as three records were toppled and Hal Davis failed again to live up to his billing; na the "world's fastest human " Sacramento, with dinky Joe Batiste, Ita "one-man" track team, scoring 2D pulnts. had a comfortable margin over Comp ton. Calif . Junior college, runner-up to Los Angeles City col. lege In 1040. Compton arorrd 8 3 5 points to Sacramento's JLp 1-B. ZjSant lege f Santa Ana, Calif., Junior col- ege finished third with .10 point, and Davis' Salines. Calif., team was fourth with 44. From that point on the teams were strung out with 20 of the 30 entrants scoring at least one point. Davis, expected to run the p 100-yard dash in about 8 4 sec onds the world's record could do no better than tie his 8 qualifying time of yesterday. He won by two stt-ps over Browning. His time was one tenth of a second off his 1940 meet record of 9.3 as was his winning time in the 220 -yard dash. Davis breasted the tape three .strides ahead of Joe Ilyl ton of Pasadena. Calif , Junior college In 20.7 seconds. His meet record for the 220 Is 20 8 Batiste smashed the day-old record of Walt Smith of Santa Ana, Calif . Junior college, win ring the 220-low hurdles In 23.4 uconds yesterday In leading the qualifiers. Smith topped the low barriers In 23 8 seconds to break the old meet mark of 24 seconds flat, set by Rlchey Browning of Vlsalla. Calif., Junior college last year. Browning was third , In today's finals, with Smith sec ond. Batiste succumbed to a bad . break on the 120-yard high hurdles stumbling over the two , next-to-last barriers while a step In front and finally losing his right shoe. He didn't finish, and Jack Bollacher of Trinidad. Colo., Junior college the host school went on to take first place In 19 seconds flat. Vernon Cooley of Sacramento broke the second meet record, tn the pole vault. Cooley topped . the bar at 13 feet 61 inches. He tried three times at 14 feet, but couldn't come near a successful lump. The national Junior col- L mm rmMA .. 1 'I f-..t Ill . R.ches. held by Bill Seflon and Earl Meadows, who established It with Southern California Jun ior college in 1H34. John Wachtlcr of Pasadena, Calif., Junior college won the 440-yard dash for the second year In a row, and smashed the record set in 1B39 by Wilbur Miller of San Mateo, Calif., Jun ior college. Wachtler's time was 48 5 seconds conipurcd to Mil ler's meet mark of 4'.i fist but Miller's national mark of 47.1 till stands. IUGENIAN LEADS IN SENIOR GOLF TOURNEY EUGENE. May 31 (Ji Match play began in the Oregon Senior Golf association's annual spring handicap tournament at the Eu jene Country club today. Bert Prescott, Eugene, turned Wi the best medal round with a five-over-par 77, in qualifying play yesterday. Runnerup was C. D. Chrlstensen. Portlond, twice association champion sec tary. 88-18 70, shared not honors. The tournament, usual ly held at Gearhnrt, attracted it largest field on record. It Is now estimated that at l least 20,000 more airplane me. chanlcs arc needed In order to have sufficient ground crews for eur 80,000 planes in 1942. :in t m A' s m i H. I. aVrS"F4 l,-t .? f. j. X J Vl9b " USC Sweeps Coast Track Meet; Klemmer Equals 440 Record BERKELEY. Calif . May 31 (UP) Crover Klemmer. long legged University of California sophomore, today equalled the world's record of 48 4 seconds In the 440-yard run but Univer sity of Southeri. California's balanced power easily won the Pacific Coast conference track and field championships. USC rolled up 73 points, win ning five events, to capture the team championship. California was second with 48i, and Stan ford and Washington State tied for third with 24 each. Other point standings were Idaho 14, UCLA 12. Washington l, Ore gon 8. Montana 8 and Oregon oiaie o. Not Pressed Klemmer s smashing victory In the 440. In which he was not pressed, tied the world mark set by Blading Ben Eastman of Hal Davis Misses Dash Record Try Salinas Sprinter Runs :09 6 in National JC Trials; Batiste Races By CARL REICH DENVER. May 31 (UP) Hutt lln' Hal Davis of Salinas. Calif.. Junior college, billed as the "world's fastest human." fell three-tenths of a second short of expectations Friday, hut blazed across the Denver University stadium cinder track for 100 yards In 96 seconds, pushing a five-mile wind ahead of him. Davis, who It was believed might shatter the world's mark of 9 4 in the clear, more rarified atmosphere of Colorado, led the qualifiers for the national Junior college track and field meet In his special event with a perform ance that was up to standard considering the unfavorable wind. Walter Smith of Santa Ana, Calif.. Junior college broke the only meet record, when he rock eted over the 220-yard low hurd les In 23.8 seconds. The old meet record of 24 seconds flat was held by Browning of Vlsalla. Calif., J. C. The National Junior college record of 23.3 seconds was set In 1P36 by Lee Roy Kirk patnek of San Mateo, Calif., J. C, in the northern California Junior conference meet. I Davis was only one-tenth of a I second off the national J. C. ccn- tury da.sh record he set last ycarj at Salinas. In the 220-yard dash, he was far behind his 1940 record j of 20.6 seconds, which he holds i on a partnership basis with Clyde Jeffrey, who ran it In 1938 with' j Riverside, Calif . J. C. Neverthe- less his time was five-tenths of : a second better than the time of ! Hylton of Pasadena, Calif., J. C., and Alvin Gohr of Trinidad, Colo., who won heats In 22 5, Joe Batiste. Sacramento. Calif Junior college's "one-man track team," who had been expected to break the low hurdle mark finished second to Wakefield of Santa Ano, Calif., J. C, in the;ance of nine pitchers on the seconn ncai. ine lime was 24 i. Batiste won his heat in the 120-yard high hurdles running the tall timbers in the near record time of 14.9 seconds, only six-ientlis of a second slower than the national JC mark of 14 3 and only one-tenth of a second slow. er than the meet mark. COUPLE OF COUPLETS No wonder Bucky doesn't rate. His Nats have lost a dozen straight. The Dodgers twice defeat the Giants And flatbush drinks their health in pints. ( () Repealed by request. Looking tor Bargains? to the Classified page Turn i 3t:b o u .MJftTdrl ..V-r-;. -,;-;. Pogue Una Ksntucly tourben Is en of e rare group of famous Ksntucky Whlslclas. (vary golden drep llvai up to ell the high itandords of quality estob Rihad at far bock at 1876. Distilled by th H t. Pogue Dlttilling Co. In Maytville, Ksnrucky, "The Original Bourbon Coun try," ihlt whlikty hat uttly eernad ttia till of Americo'i most authentic Bourbon. far, Jtoltoim. tsrrmi I Stanford back In 1032 Klemmer broke with the lead ers but did not extend himself during the l'jng pull down the straightway. He cut across grad ually from his outside position and barely got the pole In front as the big field swung Into the bend. Coming out of the turn, Klemmer lengthened his stride and hounded away from the pack to win by IS yards, seem ingly not even breathing hard. Klemmer returned to run California's anchor lap tn win ning the mile relay. Besides Klcmmer s mark, four othpr new conference records were established In t h e mile run Phil Lelbowitz of Idaho was timed at 4:09.3. breaking the old mark of 4 11 8 made by Louis Zamperinl of USC last year. Record Leap Les Steers of Oregon, unoffi Honolulu Lad, 16, Is v. tw. 'm'ni I Sensation 01 the swimming world Is Billy Smith. 19. Honolulu, who turned In five record-shattering performances In one week. He's shown here after defeating Otto Jsrets. crack Chicago merman, tn the 2 free-style, bettering the tvld record by two-tenths of a second. Seals Take Senators in Marathon Bay City Nina Outlasts Sacs, 14-13; Angels Edge Padres; Ducks, Oaks Split CAV rDAvrrcrn st.. o. (upSan Francisco' outlasted me &acramento Senators, 14-13, today in a 13-inning marathon enlivened by a bomb explosion, total of 47 hits and appear- mound. Sacramento got 23 hits off Jansen, Epperly, Kittle and Bal lon. San Francisco counted 22 safeties off Turbeville, Green, Martin, Munger and Frcitas. The Seals apparently had the game sewed up going into the eighth with a lead oi 13-10. But in the eighth the Sacramentans whacked in three runs to tie the score. They played scoreless ball through three overtime in nings until the 13th when the Seals sent in the winning score LOS ANGELES, May 31 (UP) The Los Angeles Angels man aged to oul.lug S:ill Diego 12 to 11 in a game featured by thrac home runs, 42 hits and eight pitchers during the nine inning batting orgy. A home run with one aboard by Pinch Hitter iierger in the last half of the ninth enabled the Angels to edge out the Padres. Both teams had a field day at bat. PORTLAND. Ore., May 31 (UP) T h e Portland Beavers and the Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast league split a dou bleheader today, with the Oaks winning the opener 6-0 and dropping the nightcap 5-3. The win gave the Beavers a 3-1 edge in their series, due to wind up with a doubleheader tomorrow. Byron Speece hung up his fourth straight win in stopping the Oaks in the seven-inning game, while allowing eight hits. IDAHO HURLER TO SIGN WITH BOSTON SOX OROFINO, Ida., May 31 (UP.) Chuck Bechtol, right-handed pitcher for the University of Idaho baseball team this year, said Friday he will sign a con tract June S with the Boston Red Sox. Bechtol first attracted the at tention of Ernie Johnson, Bos ton scout, while pitching last year for Lewis'on normal school. cial world record holder, failed to better hia mark of 6 feet, 101 inches In the high Jump, but he broke the conference record of 0 feet, 7 inches made by John Wilson of USC last year. Wilson Jumped 8 feet. 8 Inches today for second place. Steers easily cleared 8 feet, 0 inches. Bob Peoples of USC cracked the Javelin record by seven feet He tossed the spear 231 feet I Inch to break the mark of 224 feet, It Inches set by Boyd Brown of Oregon in 1939. The half mile climaxed the record-breaking performances. Bill Dale of Washington State barely nosed out Clarence Barnes of California. The win ning time was 1 51.7, cracking the record of 1:82 3 established by Rosa Bush of USC in 1937. New Swim Phenom S-Si'N BASEBALL STANDINGS AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Cleveland 29 17 .630 Chicago 2S 16 .810 New York ..... 23 19 .948 Detroit 23 20 .333 Philadelphia 21 21 .300 Boston 19 19 .500 Washington 14 28 .333 St. Louis 13 27 .325 NATIONAL LEAGUE W. L. Pet St. Louis 31 30 20 19 17 14 13 12 11 12 17 23 21 21 24 27 .738 .714 .541 .432 .447 Brooklyn ...... New York ... Cincinnati .... Chicago . Pittsburgh .. Boston Philadelphia .400 .351 .308 COAST LEAGUE W. L. Sacramento 38 15 Seattle 29 24 San Diego 28 27 San Francisco .... 27 28 Hollywood 24 28 Portland 23 27 Los Angeles 22 32 Oakland 21 31 Pel .717 .547 .509 .491 .462 .460 .407 .404 Smolinski Signed To Grapple Next Tuesday at Armory Joe Smolinski, the pounding Pole, will make a reappearance at the Klamath armory next Tuesday night. Promoter Mack Lillard announced definitely Saturday. The Pole, last seen here dur ing the Pacific Coast Junior heavyweight grappling tourney last winter, Is now stationed at Fort Lewis, Wash., as a member of Uncle Sam's growing army. He will take a one-week leave to wrestle at various Oregon towns. The baby-faced matman will meet Karl Gray next Tuesday in the opener of a card head lining Taro Ito and Pete Bel castro. Ernie. Piluso and Jim Heffner will complete the bill. INTERCEPTED LONDON, May 29 (JP) The German freighter Lech, 3290 tons, trying to run the British blockade from a South Ameri can port to occupied France, has been intercepted by a British ship, the admiralty announced today. NO PLACE FOR CATTLE - Cattle cannot live in the steamy hot lowlands of New Guinea, so a small herd of dairy cattle has been transported into the mountains by airplane and is doing well. Read the Classified Page. ' Pro Net Star C I .fwassy 4sV!V' i Donald Bud.q, professional Contelmsn, 19-year-old Stanford Calif., enter St. Chrysostom's their wadding. White Sox, Gaining in By United Press The second-place teams Chi cago's surprising White Sox and the Brooklyn Dodgers climbed to within striking distance of their loop leaders Saturday when the major league schedule was cut to four games because of ram. The Dodgers, whose victories and defeats have come in streaks from the season's star, ran their current winning string to eight games and reduced the St. Louis Cardinals' lead to one game by beating the New ork Giants, 5-2. Sox Win, 4-3 The White Sox advanced to within a game and a half of the leading Cleveland Indians with a 4 to 3 decision over the St. Louis Browns in the only Amer ican league game played. Bob Hallelt, rookie Chicago pitcher, hurled seven-hit ball lor his sec ond triumph which was clinched in the futh inning when Joe!flh, The world champion Cincin nati Keds clambered into fourth place past the idle Chicago Cubs Dy scoring their second straight triumph over the Cardinals, 9-2. Johnny Vander Meer, although giving up seven passes, was tight in tne pinches and allowed but eight hits lor his fourth de cision. Braves Shut Out The tightest mound jobs of the day were turned in as the Phila delphia Phillies gained a 1 to 0 decision over the Huston Braves the (Quakers collected only four hits irom the combined offer ings ot Manuel Salvo and Rookie Tom Earley, but bunched two of them in the fourth inning for the only run of the game. Si Johnson twirled a six-hit shutout for the Phils. The Dodgers swept their three-game series with their ln terborough rivals by whipping over four runs in the third- in ning for all the margin needed to win. Hugh Casey, after giving up a giant tally in the opening inning, pitched scoreless ball un til relieved by Mace Brown in the seventh inning. Together, they limited the New Yorkers to eight safeties. Joe Medwicks homer paced the Dodgers' 11 hit attack off Carl Hubbell and Johnny Wittlg. Ntoontl lMIM a. h. I BrooklMi 1 II t S'w lt t t J Cum, M. Prruro and Owfn; HubMt, Wit tlg tnd Dinning. R. 1. 0 sjlvo. tarlty tnd Brm; Johnioo tnd Wamn. CMrago ground. Pittiburgn poatpontd, t St. touK . Cincinnati Warn-kt tnd Mancuao: Vandtrmttr tnd Lombardl. Anwletrt Ltagu 'w York . Cleveland poitpoaed. rata. Bolton Detroit poatpoQed. rain. tt. loull . Chicago . Harrla. Trotter. Kramer tnd Ferrell: Bal- lett and Treiti. (Only aeSeduled trnea. BUDGE, STOEFEN IN PRO NET FINALS CHICAGO. May 31 U.R Don Budge and Lester Stoefen, who as young California amateurs swept doubles' competition at Forest Hills, Wimbledon and Paris, moved in to the doubles finals of the national profession al tennis championship Friday but on opposing teams- Grenada is an island of the West Indies. Takes a Bride PS ' " "V tennis star, and Miss Dlerdre university student of Glendala, Protestant church, Chicago, for Dodgers Majors Soort Briefs By EDDIE BRIETZ NEW YORK. May 31 (The ! Special News Servicel Mike tui7 taua nf s ine DOES, ooyBl has ruled there'll be no Billy Soose-Tony Zale fight to clear up the middleweight muddle for the simple reason that Soose it pledged to give Ken Overlin a return shot first TODAY'S GUEST STAR Art Cohn, Oakland Tribune: "Seems to me that a bout in which the Messrs. Louis and Baer heard a bell that did not ring in the first round and Mr. Donovan did not bear a bell that did ring in the sixth, snoum te called nobell prize CAUGHT ON THE FLY The Messrs. Rene Cortes, Willard Marshall and Connie Ryan of the Atlanta Crackers don't know it yet, but they'll be Yankee farm-hands next summer probably at Newark . . . Bob Pastor returns to-the fistic wars at Griffith stadium, Washington, June 16, against Buddy Knox, although why the guy should be a drawing card, we don't know . . . We ran into Horace Stoneman in a night spot and he swears he's ready to take the rubber out of his bankroll any time the other clubs will talk business with Terry . . . Truth is, Terry was so high and mighty when he was winning that none of the other clubs want to give him a break. THE ROUND-UP Down in Mississippi they are wondering why every first-class high school football prospect (except two) is headed for Mis sissippi U. this fall instead of for Mississippi State, which had the last Orange bowl winner . . . Of course, the fact that Mike Conner, czar of the South eastern conference, is an alum nus of old Miss couldn't have anything to do with it. When Connie Mack is hon ored at the June 4 night game i at Chicago, six members of the I White Sox will be leading the j cheering Jimmy Dykes, Coach j Mule Haas. Dario Lodigisni, Lee , Ross. Edgar Smith and Bill j Dietrich all of whom were tu-1 tored by the tall tutor in their early days. LONG CHILDHOOD Sixteen years of the life of a j cicada are spent underground In 1 an immature stage. On the 17th ' year, it emerges, sheds its outer covering, and becomes an adult j "17-year locust." I June 1. 1941 Pelicans Drop Contest To Albany Alcos, 64 Hanauska Hurls for Locals; Mud Hens of Toledo in Battle Today Two ex-Willamette university pitchers hurled against each other last night in a contest which saw the Albany Alcos defeat the Pelicans 6 to 4 at Albany. Toolson and Hanauska battled on the mound in the State league game for the Alcos and Pelicans respectively. Albany batted in four runs in the fourth Inning, virtually clinching victory. Eddie Wilson, ex-Beaver outfielder, hit a home run with two men on in the fourth. The Alcos scored another run in the fifth, and a final cir cuit in the seventh. The Pelicans scored one run in the first Inning, one in the fifth, and homers by Marshall Eyestone and Paul Crapo. Peli can first baseman, in the ninth. Pelican Manager Ernie Bishop, playing second base, accounted for three hits, and Paul Crapo got two hits for Klamath, mak ing a total of eight hits. Last night's contest against the .state and northwest semi pro baseball champions marked the second loop tilt for the Pelt cans, who have been handicap ped the past two weeks bf bad weather which has forced can cellation of four games and pre vented practice sessions. The locals edged out the Bend Elks. 6-4. three weeks a g o in their initial 1941 league contest. Albany trounced the Eugene Athletics, 14-2, Friday afternoon on the home field behind the five-hit hurling of Bed Miller, ace southpaw who is also slated to twirl for the Aleos Sunday afternoon against Hills Creek, third league opponent for the ! champs in as many days. The win was the second in as many official starts for the victors. Sunday afternoon at Toledo the Pelicans will battle the Mud Hens, at present languishing In the cellar position with two straight losses. The Toledo squad dropped a 10-2 decision to Eugene in the season's open er and lost, 9-1, to Hills Creek " 's'; U$L,: Bill Hanauska. erstwhile Wil lamette university pitcher, like ly will draw the throwing job in the Sunday game for Klam ath with Warren Wahner. regu lar receiver who was also sched uled to catch the Saturday night contest, billed to handle the backstop situation. Orin Davis also may see mound duty over the weekend. Summary: . H. E. Albany 6 8 1 Pelicans 4 8 1 Toolson and Robertson; Han auska and Wahner. Albany Belts Out 14-2 Win Over Eugene ALBANY, May 31 JP Al bany belted out a 14-2 win over Eugene in a rain-shortened State league baseball game here yes terday. Before the contest end ed In the sixth inning, Riley Richards. Albany shortstop, swatted two homers, and Volker, Albany outfielder hit another. Score: R. H. E. Eugene 2 9 3 Albany 14 13 2 Ankarburg, Lind, Huraey and Bishop; Miller and Amacher. ON PURPOSE Although tobacco Is used ex tensively in nearly every coun try of the world, it yields no food, drink, clothing, shelter. nor ornament. Tuesday, e3V '"'"... PHONE FOR TICKET RESERVATIONS The, Rialto Phone S777 Waggoner's Drug Phone 3263 Louie Polin's . Phono 6865 Hershberger's ...PhM 6878 PAGE ELEVEN Joy Boy Wins $10,000 Cap At Hollywood INGLEWOOD, Calif.. May 31 (UP) Movie Producer Louis B Mayera Joy Boy Friday galloped to three-length victory In the $10,000 Argonaut handicap at Hollywood park before a Me morial day crowd of 95,000 race fans, largest crowd in the his tory of the three-year-old track. Joy Boy, restrained by Jockey Jackie Westrope until be hit the home turn, moved into command in the stretch and drew out three lengths in front oi the finish. Exemplify, second in the pre miere handicap a week ago, again finished in the place posi tion, while no competition, an entry with Woof Woof, was third in the mile race. The lightly-regarded winner paid $31.80 on $2 pari-mutuel win tickets. Chiefs. Caps. Nats Victors In WI Loop By The Associated Press Roy Younker won the little red wagon in the Western Inter national Baseball league last night won it fair and square with a 14th Inning home run that gave Yakima a 6-9 victory over Tacoma. Pete Jonas pitched a three hitter for Vancouver, which de feated Spokane 4-1 In an after noon game. The evening match was washed out. At Salem, the home team shut out Wenatchee, S to 0, in the afternoon game but weakened in the night contest to post its first home-park loss of the sea son as Wenatchee won, 4 to 3. ' MAJOR LEAGUE LEADERS , Br Th , AMIRICAN LIAOUB BAtroo - wuiittu, Boaeea. .M vicaey, eev sort, .J7B. KlS's - j. DIMagglo. Xrr Tort. ti Knickerbocker. Chicago, St. HITS S. Chapman. rhHadeJlhli. 1: Slebert, nuladelphu, aid Irtvla, Waihlng toD. Si. ROME KCSS York, Detroit, it; Jot, ton. PMIa'lelphll, 10. niCHIXfl - raller. Cleeelett. - 1M; Lroot. Chlctgo. si. NATIONAL IfAOUl BiTTrxO Belter. Brooklyn. Srs; Slaughter. St. Louie, and Btek. Chicago, JJS. JtrNS Moon. St. loan. SS; Xlck. Chicago, gs. BITS - Slaughter, at. Unit. U; Moot. St. Loula. 53. home urns cimrm, Breokin. us Ott. Ne Tork. 11. PITCHING - Waraeke. St, Ink. M: M. Cooper, it. Loma, t-L Local Gunners Shoot at Mtdford There will be no shoot at the Klamath Gun club Wocua traps this Sunday, it was announced Saturday, Most local scatterfunners will Joumey to Medford for the an nual Medford Mail-Tribune tour ney. 8:30 P. M. Armory Thrills Spills