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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.
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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
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in pints. (
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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.
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try of the world, it yields no
food, drink, clothing, shelter.
nor ornament.
Tuesday,
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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 ,
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Slebert, nuladelphu, aid Irtvla, Waihlng
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ton. PMIa'lelphll, 10.
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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.
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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