Chen ey "Studs" Baseball Team Wins South ern Oregon Championship

A proud man is I3en Cheney. His o'rvn personally financed and directed semi-pro baseball team has u,on the championship of Southern Oregon for the year 1950. The name of the team is The Cheney "Studs" Baseball Team.

Mr. Cheney, as you have probably guessed, is the orvner and operator of the Cheney Lumber Company, rvhich operates lumber manufacturing plants in various places in Southern Oregon, as well as one in Northern California, and one in Tacoma, Washington, and maker of the well knorvn and advertised Cheney "Studs." While the headquarters of the various Cheney lumber concerns is in Tacoma, most of the production of lumber, rvhich totals from five to seven hundred thousand feet daily, is from Southern Oregon mills. The Burns Lumber Co., of Los in California for tr,r'enty years.

Mr. Cheney's hobby is baseball. He eats and sleeps baseball. In his earlier years it was his ambition to be a big league baseball player, but fate decreed that he should become a prosperous and successful manufacturer of fir lumber instead. But he kept his baseball interest ah,vays. Some of his best personal friends are big league baseljall men from the Epst, and he goes East in the fall to see some of the big g'ames. And he still plays part time ball on his own baseball team. You rn'ill find him with the rest of the team in the accompanying picture. He puts on his uniform and plays with the team as often as business allows throughout the season.