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Show Homeless Bees Open Defense Of Pioneer League Title Tonight In Ogden Ballpark By MURRAY MOLER United Press 8 port Writer SALT LAKE CITY. April 28 "U.R) Four Idaho Class C baseball , teams and two from Utah take off .tonight in quest of 1947 honors in -the Pioneer league. Ceremonies are planned at 11 three openlnr cities. The most colorful will be In Foca-tcllo, Foca-tcllo, home of League President Presi-dent Jack Halliwell, where the official season opening -game will be played between Idaho Falls and the host Red-birds. Utah Cage Team Honored By : Down town Coaches W SOT. A 1 111 " A A . J I i ine oiaesi ana ouieresi traai- ftlonal sports rivalry in the state ! takes time out tonight while the Downtown Coaches club of Brigham Young university pays homage to the University of Utah son Square Gardens ' Invitational meet a few weeks ago. n is reany news wnen rrovo, the stronghold of the Cousars. Jputs on a feed for their heated -rivals from the up-state Univer sity, but the Provo fans who will be in attendance at the ban Tquet tonight pulled very hard for! 1 1 a n a. a i I luian ana iney want to pay nonor to Coach Peterson and his crew. Coach Vadal and his hoopsters fwill be- the guests of honor to-night at 7:30 at a banquet to be Iheld at Keeley's then, with Coach i Peterson acting as commentator,! Jim Tyack, Pocatello's new manager, has picked Righthander Bob .Taylor as the opening night pitcher with Ed Dcbarnabo catch ing. Ross "Rosey" Gilhousen, starting start-ing his initial season as Idaho Falls mentor, will send Leon Hay- worth to the mound for the Rus sets, with Dick Wilson on the receiving end. Boise is visiting in Twin Falls for the opening game there. Walter Lowe, Pilots manager, has selected Bill Collins, an option to Boise from Seattle of the Paci fic Coast league, as his first pitcher. Irv Konopka, former uni versity of Idaho star, will catch. Konopka was one of the few sur vivors of last season's bus tragedy that killed nine members of the Spokane team of the western International league. For Twin Falls, the opening pitcher will be 18-year-old Dick Walklngshaw. youthful star at Salt Lake City's South high school last year. Manager Man-ager Earl Boylard. with Lowe the only returned club boss In the league, has named Hal Danielson to catch. The third opener will be at Ogden, with the Reds playing host to the homeless Defending Dodgers Hold Top Spot In National Circuit Yith Vin By CORNELIUS RYAN United Press Sports Writer NEW YORK, April 28 U.R) Major league teams traveled to day toward the first intersectional games of 1947, with the American league going west and the National league coming east and the Brooklyn Dodgers were gird ing for their first real tests. The Dodgers edged the Giants yesterday, 9 to 8, to hold their one-game lead over the Chicago Cubs, who trimmed the Cardinals 3 to 0. Western teams filled out the rest of the first division-Pittsburgh division-Pittsburgh third and Cincinnati Fourth. The Phils and Braves, favorite "Fall Guys' for the Dodgers, were next, and the World Champion Cards were tied for the cellar with the Giants. who have broken even with the Dodgers in four games. Yesterday's Dodger -victory was scored In true Durocher fashion, although the deposed Lippy was faij away. A ninth-inning ninth-inning squeeze bunt by Eddie Stank y brought in Marv Rackley from third base with the winning run to climax cli-max a courageous comeback after the Giants led by 8 to 4 starting the seventh Inning. Johnny SchmiU' four-hit pitch- Champion Bees from Salt Lake , , tnn milh fnr y, rat-Hi- Must Be Good---Who Knows Bait Better -'St, "3w 1.. ' k 77 Monday. April 28, 1947 MLY HERALD Isaac WaJton wake up! . . . Here's something new in bait Flies made of a new material, called gantron. which the Armed Forces used for signaling during the war. glows under water, can be teen two miles away. Proving how enticing the new bait is to the finny fellows, Marjorie Ward dangles a tempting lull, of gantron before a tank at Steinhart Acquarium, San Francisco, and Sergeant Thomuson (that's the fish inside) nudges his nose against the glass, filled to the gills with curiosity. Following the Ball By DeMar Teuscher Herald Sports Editor Horace "Rip" Koehler, Ogden's new manager, probably will put Jim Zavitka, promising right hander, on the mound for the Reds, with Con Dempsey, former University of San Francisco ace, on the hill for the Bees. Tommy Thompson, ex-major leaguer who is now handling the destinies of the Salt Lakers, will start in right field for the Bees. the sports fans will be shown President Harwell's assign-Jfilms assign-Jfilms of the Utah games. i merits of umpires will send t, President Clyde James of the Eugene Blanck and Martin Vogel Downtown Coaches group stated to Ogden, Jack Howie and Thomas 'Sunday that the limited number iTominsky to Twin Falls and rcttArvatlAns li-oro nlmnct tfAna I-Tsicarth 7Alnic art1 Mov filrfililr trt . ... . . j !iC f " " " "iUutcn leonaras Duni won xne 'voice trat addressed them I r .V. lr J , YT I I first game, and Jim laoor s iumn- Jexpected by the time the f esti-, Destruction of the Salt Lake: inning homer gave the Phils the City uerks r ieia grandstands Dy Babe Draws Cheers From All Over World As Baseball Pays Honor On Babe Ruth Day nals. Bill Nicholson doubled home the first Cub run. and two more scored in the eighth on Andy Pafko's single, a walk, Stan Musial's error, Don Johnson's single and a hit batsman: Little Murray Dickson allowed five hits. The largest crowd in Crosley By MILTON RIC1IMAN Field history, 36,961, was reward- United Press Staff Correspondent ed by a double victory for the NEW YORK, April 28 (U.R Cincinnati Reds over Pittsburgh, cheers for the Babe echoed from o wj l anu ivj j , lire whsi . , vi, if i But the millions of fans who 12 innings. The Phillies beat the Boston Braves twice by identical scores of 5 to 4. A squeeze play in which listened to the broadcast of the "Babe Ruth Day" ceremonies from Yankee Stadium remember- Emil Verban scored on Pitcher ed sadiy today how weak was the 'vities open tonight. . Feature attraction of the eventing, even-ting, besides Vadal and the boys, will be the films of the games the jUtes played in New York City. There will be 200 feet each of the West Virginia and Duquesne game, and the full Utah-Kentucky title tilt will be shown. In addition. Coach Peterson will be the first recipient of the i?aie ex Memortai tropny, wnicn 'will be presented annually to the Utah coach who does the most to further sportsmanship and the -reputation of the state in athletic activities. Dale Rex was one of the great- est BYU stars, and was also one of He was decorated three times for exceptional bravery in Germany, and lost his life in the Third 'Army push across the Rhine. an arsonist and slow rebuilding of the field has forced the Bees to take to the road until at least May 23. Jn an exhibition game yesterday, Salt Lake lost to Helper of the Utah Industrial league, 7 to 5. Two Bees Left- fielder Jack Bacciocco and Pitcher Pitch-er Walt Lister were 'injured in the game and won t see action for some time. fCoast Bowler Wins Rirz Tourney Prize ' SALT LAKE CITY, April 28 U.R A Los Angeles bowler, Bill "Flesch, today won first prize of .$1,000 in the annual Salt Lake 'City Ritz Bowling classic with an 'eight-game total of 1779 pins. Second prize and $500 went to 'Paul Chase of Salt Lake City Jwith 1755. Both Chase and Flesch .turned in their outstanding totals, surpassed only once before in the Jhistory of the classic, last night. Milan Zlokovich of .San Lean-dro, Lean-dro, Calif., was third with 1752 'and Garner Wells of Dallas was Jfourth with 1751. Fifth place went to Joe Jacques of Vallejo, Calif., with 1701. , Highest individual game of the tournament a 297 was bowled two weeks ago by Greg Danielson of San Francisco. 1 Wa To San Francisco On Western Pacific's deluxe reclining re-clining chair cars, it costs only $17.16 from Salt Lake City to San Francisco; just $32.30 a round trip (plus tax). W. P. also offers low -cost Tourist Sleepers and Standard Pullmans with bedrooms, drawing rooms and compartments. compart-ments. It's the fast, dependable direct route to the Golden Gate. For la format Job call H. ft. COULAM, Gortl Agaat 48 South Main Strt Slt Lk City I, Utah Phone 4-6551 or Local Rio Grande Ageal Rejuvenated Oaks Set Hot Pace In Coast Loop Chase SAN FRANCISCO, April 28 (U.R) A thoroughly rejuvenated Oakland team, presently batting at a .292 clip and playing .800 ball over the last 10 games, today to-day has the rest of the Pacific Coast League sitting up and tak ing notice of the club that drew oblique glances after it dropped six straight at the season opening. open-ing. Even though they dropped three pitchers and two outfielders outfield-ers over the weekend, the Acorns go up to Sacramento for a series this week that gives promise of being the standout setto for the first month of the schedule. Yesterday's doubleheaders all ended in splits, leaving Portland and Los Angeles separated by- only six percentage points In their ding-dong scrap for the leadership. The Angels, behind Charley (Red) Adams' eight-hit hurling won the opener from the Beavers. Beav-ers. 6-3, but Portland bounced back in the finale, 4-3. San Francisco Fran-cisco dropped its first game to Seattle, 6-4 and captured the nightcap with ease, 9-2. Oakland ran its string to five straight over San Diego with a 4-3 victory vic-tory in the first clash and then lost the second game to Manny Salvo and company, 2-1. Sacramento Sacra-mento routed Hollywood, 11-4, over nine innings while the Twinks scored one run in the eighth frame of the second contest con-test for a 5-4 triumph. At Hollywood, a hit by Carl Cox chasing in Jim Delsing earned the Stars an even break. Solon pitcher Frank Nelson hom ered before he lost the decision to Ron Smith. Oakland contributed a total of nine errors in two games with the Padres. The San Diego victory vic-tory in the second game broke an Oakland string of triumphs that had reached five games after af-ter San Diego won last Tuesday's contest. second contest. Despite a 1 to 0 defeat by Washington, the New York: Yankees took first place in the j American league because the Browns Deal ine unicago wnue Sox twice. Sid Hudson spoiled Babe Ruth Day" for 58,339 Yankee fans with an eight-hit pitching job and a single in the eighth inning which started him around) to score the winning run. The Browns won the first game from the White Sox, 4 to 2. going on to victory after Al Zarilla's homer broke a 1 to 1 tie. Vern Stephens' three-run homer in the eighth inning settled the second game, 4 to 3, despite a triple play by the Sox. Boston and the Athletics battled bat-tled to a 6 to 6 tie stopped by rain as the teams went into the 10th inning. Rudy York hit a two-run homer for Boston. Cleveland and Detroit were rained out. Only the 58,339 fans who gathered in "The House that Ruth Built" could see the gaunt figure, dressed in a familiar camel's hair overcoat, over-coat, as he stepped before a battery of microphones at home plate. Leaders of NAM Touring the West NEW YORK, April 28 t.P Earl Bunting, president of the National Association of Manufacturers, Manu-facturers, and several of the principal prin-cipal officers of the NAM will leave today on a tour of Western cities to confer with industrial leaders on problems of prices, labOT, and taxes. Conferences are scheduled in Denver, April 30; Salt Lake City, May 1; San Francisco, May 5; Los Angeles, May 8; Phoenix, Ariz., and San Diego, Calif., on May 9; Portland, Ore., May 14; and Seattle and Tacoma, Wash., May 16. Provo Golfers Blanked By Fort Douglas Three straight victories, Including In-cluding a nine to two win Sunday Sun-day over Forest Dale club from Salt Lake City, today put Ogden's Og-den's El Monte team on top of standings in the Utah Golf association as-sociation season tournament. At the Ogden Country rlub, Logan and Ogden Country club fought to a six to six tie. In other matches, Fort Douglas of Salt Lake City blanked Provo. 15 to 0, and Utah Copper from Mag- na downed Nibley Park of Salt Lake City, nine to five. Fort Douglas John Geertsen-Steve Dunford. 3 Arnold Goff-Glen Burt 3 Steve Howells-B. L. Wood ... 3 Ben Lingeijifelter-Mel Jensen. 3 Henry Chapman-Hugh Pace . . 3 Total 15 Provo Club John Memering-Mark Nilsen. 0 Fred Crane-Ash Fielding .... 0 Gordon Crane-Capt. Henderson 0 Walt Zabriskie-Buck Dixon .. 0 Bill Griffith-Bill Brcdcsen . . . 0 Total 0 $$S$$SSSSS$$ $ $ K 0 PH0IIE Jumps to Penn Relay Victory 1 :r t v. i s . ssifty ! if mm VW Only they could st: that the Babe, who once strode defiantly to the plate, now welcomed a helping 'hand as he walked. The crowd rose with a mighty roar as Ruth walked slowly from the dugout. A big grin lighted his face. Then the 'stands became silent as he started to speak. "You know how bad my voice sounds," he whispered. "Well, it feels just as bad. Ruth's voice gained a little strength as he went to the heart of his extemporaneous speech, ex tolling baseball as "the only real game, in the world" and telling youngsters to start playing it at six or seven years of age. "You've gotta let it grow up with you." he said, "and if you're successful and you try hard enough, you're bound to come out on top, just like these boys have come to the top now." He gestured toward the New York Yankees and Washington Senator! grouped round him. "There's been so many lovely things said about me, I'm glad I had the opportunity to thank everybody," he concluded with a huge grin that made him look for a moment like the Babe of old. "Thank you." His words were piped into every other major league park and many minor league parks, for it was "Babe Ruth Day" everywhere. Even in Japan where programs were held at Tokyo and Osaka. There were rumors that organized or-ganized baseball will support a "Babe Ruth Foundation" which the big fellow would administer to foster baseball among young boys. ( Many other gifts flooded the Babe. He received a $5,000 Lincoln Lin-coln car from his new employers, the Ford Motor Co., and smaller gifts arrived at his apartment. Babe said he hadn't opened or looked at a single gift except the car. in which he rode to the stadium. He stave for seven innings of the game, then left a few minutes before Washington scored tne winning run in a 1 to 0 victory. Ruth, who began his major league career as a lefthanded Ditcher in 1915 with the Boston Red Sox and was sola to ine Yankees in 1920, retired as an active player in 1935. He has not been connected with organized baseball since 1938. when he served briefly as a Brooklyn Dodger coach. Cleveland Team Tops List In ABC Bowling Meet LOS ANGELES. April 28 H P' Cleveland's Eddie and Earl five topped the team division of the American Bowling Congress' 44th tournament today as the final 15 days of competition began. be-gan. The Ohio aggregation, sponsored spon-sored by Eddie Linsz, secretary of the Bowling Proprietors' Assn., of America, rolled 3,032 to displace dis-place the Brunswick Mineralites, New York. i Two other week-end changes were made in the standings. Gae-tano Gae-tano Kratter, San Francisco, rolled a 705 series to gain fourth place in singles and Lee Joug- lard, San Francisco, climbed to fifth place in all-events with 1925. As the classic entered its clos ing phase, two of last year s championship scorers already had been blasted. The Eddie and Earls' mark of 3,032 was nine pins better than the Llo-Da-Mars of Santa Monica, Mon-ica, Cal., hit to win the team event in 1946. Freddie Breckle. Detroit. Mich hit 738 in singles Friday, one pjn higher, thai the winning solo series se-ries scored by Leo Rollick, Santa Monica, last year. With many "name" teams scheduled to compete in the remaining re-maining days of the meet, all of last year s records were in dan ger. MAIL or in PERSON $25 to $300 $ KEN. HOUSTON, Manager $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ wils. -'- -ak. . -- . .7 Jockeys Injured As Horse Takes Spill TIJUANA. Mex., April 28 (U.R) Six jockeys nursed cuts and bruises today after a spectacular six-horse spill at Hilodromo de Tijuana when Favor broke a leg and fell in the fifth race. Injured were apprentices Willie Parnell and Michael O'Halloran and jockeys Francisco Rodriquez, Dave Flores, Donald Cargill and Jack Robinson. Favor, owned by J. Howe, was leading the field by two lengths when his left foreleg snapped. The other horses piled into him and' his rider, Parnell. MACMTTCIIELL DUD IS BIG DISAPPOINTMENT The 34th annual BYU Invita tional has passed ino history, and with it went some records of long-standing, but there are still a few things that sports fans all over the area are discussing. The main topic of conversation con-versation was the celebrated flop of the highly rated Les MacMitchell of NYU. Mac-Mitchell, Mac-Mitchell, who was supposed to be one of the best track stars in the nation, came to the meet because the officials had heard of htm and his record and went to great trouble to secure him to run. MacMitchell showed up, accepted ac-cepted the plaudits of the crowd, and gave a forewarning of what was to come by turning in a disappointing dis-appointing two mile exhibition on Friday. Then came Saturday, and the much publicized Centennial mile, which was supposed to be a duel between MacMitchell and Tommy Quinn of New Jersey, with Mac Mitchell coming out on top. At the start of the race, all eyes were on MacMitchell. few on Quinn and hardly anyone ev en noticed Clarence Robinson, lanky BYU runner who was supposedly sup-posedly just "going along for the ride." MacMitchell started out slow, and stayed that way until the second lay when he dropped out completely. He claimed a pulled muscle then later said the altitude got him. The altitude bothered Quinn. too. just as it has bothered every other athlete who has tried to run a mile or two mile in this region without getting used to the rarified air, but the New Jersey lad ran a nice race all the way, and put on a good show for the crowd. The thing that saved the race, however, was the great exhlbi tion of running- turned in by Clarence Robinson of BYU. If it had not been for the fact that both Robinson and Coach Floyd Millet figured that MacMitchell was the boy to watch, nobby might have been a lot closer to Quinn at the finish. As it was, the lanky sophomore, who was 40 yards behind when MacMitchell succumbed to the altitude, pulled up to within 25 yards of the speedy Quinn at the end 6f the race, and showed conclusively that he will be the man to beat tn the Big Seven mile this year. Outside of this one dud, the other big name athletes who par ticipated in the special Centennial Centen-nial events put on good shows, and the crowd was well pleased with the performances. There was one more blemish, blem-ish, however, to. mar that "fastest 100 yard dash ever run in Utah." Eddie Conwell. dusky New York speedster, turned In a 9.5 century, which is really stepping in any man's league. The catch was that Conwell jumped the gun, not once, but four times, and on the record breaking race he picked up about two tenths of a second by jump ing the gun again. From the looks of the race at the start. Conwell and all the others expected to be called back. but they weren t. It spoiled what might have been a mighty good race. We don't say that Conwell is not capable of running a 9.5 century. cen-tury. In fact, so is Lloyd La-Beach, La-Beach, who was also in the race and pushing Eddie mighty hard at the finish. But. if Conwell had been anywhere but at BYU where the crowd was expecting to see him, he would have been thrown out of the rare after the third time he went before the gun, Also, it has been a few years since we ran in track, but it seemed to us that starter Dale Schofield was holding the boys quite a long time between the "get set" command and the gun. Dale probably had good reasons for doinc as he did. however. but the incident did spoil an otherwise oth-erwise great race. Outside of these two instances, which the officials could not help at all, the meet was just as big a success as everyone predicted it would be. Even the uncooperative uncoopera-tive weatherman couldn't spoil the big meet, which Is getting more and more "big time" every year. Director Chick Hart, and his committee, of Eddie Kimball and Lcona Holbrook as well as everyone every-one else who had a hand in the meet should be well' justified in feeling proud of the great show that was presented last Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The Baseball Standings American League w New York 7 Cleveland 5 Chicago 5 Boston 5 Washington 4 Detroit 4 St. Louis 4 Philadelphia 3 Sunday's Results St. Louis 4-4, Chicago 2-3. Washington 1, New York 0. -- Philadelphia 6, Boston 6; called end of 9th, rain. Second game postponed, rain. Detroit at Cleveland, postponed, rain. National League L Pet. 4 .636 3 .625 4 .556 5 .500 4 .500 5 .444 6 .400 6 .333 Los Angeles 16 12 .571 San Diego 14 12 .538 Sacramento 15 13 .536 San Francisco 14 14 .500 Oakland 13 15 .464 Hollywood 12 16 .429 Seattle 11 17 .393 CALL 300 For Nationwide Moving Service! Agenta for Beklns, Allied Van Lines. Local and lozuj distance moving. Packing, moving, storage, crating and hipping. 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