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TWO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1941. Scheduled Here tor Friday ft M. A Eiime of donkey, baseball, one tof , the , most hilarious of spdrts' from the standpoint of the spectators, will he staged at Kin lay field at 7:30 p. fri. Friday. The game will be under the sponsor ship of the RosehurR Lions cluh. Teams of local softball players will compete. All net proceeds will go to the fund maintained by the Lions club for the pur endse of classes for childi'en In needy families. included In the ehiertalnmeni for (He evening will be a laugh able donkey derby and other stunts featuring the troupe of trained donkeys. Under the rules of donkey base ball all players are mounted with the exception, of the pitcher, catcher and batter. The ball is pitched to the batter until he gets a hit, as there are no balls or strikes counted on the batter. When the batter gets a fair hit he mounts the donkey and tries to get to first base. A mounted player must get the ball and throw to the pitcher, who, In turn, must throw for the out. A player is safe oh base If the dun key has one or more feet on the base, the pitcher and catcher are not allowed to get out of their respective boxes to field a hall. ' Should a fielder or baseman get tiff his donkey to make a catch It Is hot counted is an out. The rilhner Is allowed to keep on go lh( until the fielder remounts and th'rdws the hall to the pitcher. , fielder going after the ball must ride to the ball, then may dis mount to make Ihc pick-up huf must get back bn the donkey be fore making the throw. When there Is more than one runner -OH-base, the fielder getting the ball may use fielder's choice In throwing for an out. Fielder's choice may be used only when there' Is Wore than one on tiase. In 'all other cases, the ball must h thrown to the pitcher who throws for the out. the rules may sound simple, hut play Is far from simplicity. The player arid dtinkey usually have altogether different Ideas about how the game should be played. Ijdrikey baseball previously played In Roseburg has attracted large crowds and I ho Lions club is making plans (or a big crowd at Finlay field oh Friday night of this week. Winning Streak Of Oaks Advances Them to Sth Spot (By the Associated I'ressl Driving toward the first tllvl on, Oakland's regenerated Acorns are coming Into their own as the most Improved team of the Coast lertgde. After languishing in or hear the cellar most of the season, In less than two weeks the Oaks soared to fifth place, and are now making menacing gestures toward Hollywood's first division berth, 34 games away. Last night the Oaks edged third-place Seattle, 5 to -I, In the Opening game of the series, con tinuing the surprising winning streak that has brought them It victories In the last 15 starts. Since trouncing San Francisco six games out of seven two weeks ago, the Oaks have split with Portland and beaten Seattle In abbreviated scries. Sacramento maintained Its comfortable position at the top of the league by beating Los An geles, 8 to 8, In a rieehlttlng game, hut thd Solons squeezed by on a pair of errors by two An gel pitchers. W'leszorek, Sacramento catcher, collected five hits in five times at bat, including a double and a home run with two on base. Sah Diego pounded three San Francisco pitchers fur 10 lilts, walloping the Seals, 7 to 2. Terry won his eighteenth victory of the season for San Diego, scattering eight hits. The cellar Portland heavers blanked Hollywood 4 to 0 behind llllcher's effective hurling. Hell' For From Work HOLLA, Mo.. There's going to be hell In the Philippines -if he can Just get there. J. Howard Hell, , Philippine mining engineer home' tor n visit, Is worrying whether he can get return passage or not in view of recent far eastern developments. OUR BCARblMG MOUSe Willi Mdibfr H6oii FAW.- YOUR ST BERNARD UOOK OUT, WOO BIS EMPTY TV&W W FLIMFLAM HAS SOME TOO WHO VA THINK Y'ARE, TME : FAR,JAKfe DID YOU TWlt-K lvf MOUhTTEO POLICE ?-HAT W, ( TO BAfAeOOZLfe YOUft OWN )Z SCENERY IS MY BREAD AN M j l&s. 6ROTHER WtrAtHA-f- v ' BUTTER (SlMMfe IT ' W MUMMER'S COSTUME AND Y BEFORE X FORGET I'M VOUft HORSEHAIR LIP DRAPERY f J V. BROTHER AN' STIR. YOU ( EAD, MANl , WHAT IS INTO AN E&GNOG I WIS V3l-irvc; -. -MfJ , S I I L WH t!Wwmr--5- 7 . ' -O v .... Surge of Pirates Puts Them Within 9 Gdrnes of top Iiy JUDSON BAILEY (Associated Press Sports Writer) The Pittsburgh Pirates are cut ting capers that must make their National league rivals tremble i.verv time the nupraneel'K' hrif? sails Upoh the scene these days, j During the past two weeks the bold Buccos have made every team they faced walk the plank winning Hi out of 19- and the Cincinnati Reds, their latest vic tims, apparenlly have gone down for the last time. The Pirates raided the Reds again yesterday, 7-5, lo send the world champions to their fifth straight defeat and kill whatever faint hopes they may have had for another pennant. Pittsburgh was outhlt, 1311, but scored three runs In the fourth on Vincc DIMagglo's hom er, and four runs on five hits in the seventh. This left the Pirates nine games ulit of first , place, Just close eiio'ugli to keep the St. Louis Car dinals and Brooklyn Dodgers from feeling they have the fight strictly between themselves. J The Cardinals look a li-2 set back from the Chicago Cubs to drop within one game oC the idle Dodgers. Lefty Vei n Onsen held the Red birds lo four hits and received timely hutting support from his teammates, principally Nicholson, who twice singled with the bases loaded for a total of four runs. In the day's other National league encounter the Boston Braves nosed out the Phillies, ID- 9 with a six-run seventh inning climaxed by Eddie Miller's homer with two on. The New York Yankees lost a game of their American league lead by bowing to the Washington .Senators, .1-3, while the Cleveland Indians squeezed past Detroit, 21. This left the Yanks with a 11 game margin. The Senators gambled on Car- rasquel, who hadn't started a con test all season, and he held the bombers to nine hits. Cleveland's victory In a night till was achieved on Heath's triple with two on In the sixth inning. The game was a tight pitching duel between Al Smith, who allowed six hits and fanned eight, and Newsom, who gave five safeties and struck out nine. The Boston Red Sox scored their second straight one-run de cision over the Philadelphia Ath letics, 6-5, on the strength of a five-run splurge in the first In ning. Pete Fox made three doubles to lead Boston's 13-hlt at tack. The Chicago White Sox-St. Louis Browns' night encounter was rained out. U.S. War Trend Scored by Fifteen Heads of G. 0. P. Underdog Team In City League Post Victories The underdogs Id the City Soft bali league had their day to howl Tuesday wheri Ward's, cellarites in the first half, defeated Bou cock's Butchers, 11 to 9, and the Texitcd Chiefs. ' who finished in (third place in the first half of tne schedule, won from the first place Dunham Transfermcn, 3 to 2. In one of the best played games of the year. Many new faces appeared in the lineups last night as the first games of the second half of the leagUe schedule started. All of the Roseburg players from the Legion Juniors were drafted Into service on the softball team and gave good performances. DeBer nardl, Crouch, Wlmberly, CUm mlngs and Loomis, were among the Juniors participating in last night's games. Montgomery Ward and Bou cock's played a nip-and tuck con test In which Ward's held a one run lead until the fifth Inning, when the Butchers tied the score at 6-all. The Butchers went out in front with three runs In the sixth, while Ward's added one in their half of the fifth to trail 9 to 7 going into the last half of the sixth inning. With the bases loaded and two down, Carstens hit a four-ply swat into the out field to push four runs across the plate and give the Montgomery Ward team Its first earned vic tory of the year. Homers Spell Victory. The second game was an ex ceedingly well-played contest In Illegal Use of Posfage Stamps Jails Youth SEATTLE, Aug. 5. -(API-Robert E. llackman, 23, of Spo kane, Is being held, to the federal grand Jury under $1,000 bond on charges of removing cancellation marks from 8 and 5 cent stamps to avoid paying postage on a package he mailed. Postal Inspectors told U. S. Commissioner II. S. Elliott, how ever, that the young man had sold nearly $1,000 worth of postage stamps, from which cancellation marks had been removed, In the past year. The package, on which he was specifically charged, contained more than $10 worth 'of such slumps, they said, and was ad dressed to a firm from which he expected to get merchandise in exchange. They said the cancel lations could only be detected with a microscope, and that Back man told them hi' learned to re move them through his hobby of. I stamp collecting. He came here three weeks ago en route to a job In Alaska. Blanket Rumors CAMP DAVIS, N. C- When a quartermaster officer started dis tributing woolen comforters to troops under a iKi-degree sun, the rumors began. The boys started writing the folks telling them they were off to Iceland at the closest. lhin-lfil nffifvr u-nr,. Imcl.ifr,.,! with questions, and camp phones! started ringing. The blankets j were withdrawn. ' Alexandria bay, n. y., Aug. 6. (API Fifteen republican leaders. Including Alt M. Landon and ex-President Herbert tJobver. Joined yesterday in an appeal "that congress put a stop to step by step projection of the United States Into undeclared war." A statement, declaring that "naval action," and "military oc cupation of bases outside the western hemisphere," coupled with "promise of unauthorized aid to Russia" has undermined "fundamental principles of demo cratic government," was made public by Frank O. Lowdcn, for mer governor of Illinois. "Recent events raise doubts that this war is a clear-cut is sue of liberty and democracy," the statement said. "It is not purely a world conflict between tyranny and freedom, the Anglo liussian alliance has dissipated that Illusion." Others who signed the state ment, released at Lowden's sum mer camp on an Island In the St. Lawrence river, are: Former Vice-President Charles E. Dawes; Irving S. Cobb and Clarence Buddlngton Kelland, writers; John L. Lewis, former CIO head; Robert M. Hutchlns, president of the University of Chicago; Geraldlne Farrar, op era singer: Reuben Clark, former United States ambassador to Mexico; Henry P. Fletcher, for mer republican national chair man; Ray Lyman Wilbur, for mer secretary of the interior; Felix Morlcy, editor and author; Hanford MacNWer, former U. S. minister to Canada, and J. Henry Seattergood, Philadelphia businessman. I wniun yuung jitc-K loomis weiu to the mound for Dunham's to ! pitch his first league game, hold ing Texaco to five hits, while El lison, the veteran Texaco pitcher yielded six hits. Two of the blows gathered by Texaco, however, were homers, one by Parks and the other by Flegel while a mis judged fly ball in the outfield gave Ellison a chance to romp home with the winning run in the sixth Inning after he had reached first on a single. The Transformen were held scoreless In all except the sixth Inning, when Schemer . walked and scored ahead of Plln Lau ranee, who rapped out a homer for his second extra-base hit, hav ing garnered a triple in the fourth Inning. Lineup changes by the several teams indicate a closer race dur ing the second half of the league season and fans arc looking for ward to plenty of excitement. Thursday night the Montgom ery Ward team will play Dun ham's In the first game and Tex aco and Boucock's will meet in the second contest. There will be no league games played Friday because the field will be used for the Donkey base ball game, sponsored by the Lions club. Summaries: First game R. H. E. Boucock's 210 033 0 9 8 6 Ward's 310 214 x 11 11 8 Campbell and Meyers; Moore and Hansen. Second game R. H. E. Texaco 010 011 0-3 5 0 Dunham's 000 002 0 -2 6 3 Ellison and Flegel; Loomis and Perry. 11 I ( By the Associated Press National. W. L. St. Louis 66 36 Brooklyn 64 36 Pittsburgh 54 44 Cincinnati 54 46 New York 16 49 Chicago 45 56 Boston 42 '57 Philadelphia 2G 73 American. W. L. New York ... 70 33 Cleveland .. ..: 58 43 Boston 52 48 Chicago 49 52 Philadelphia 48 53 Detroit 47 56 St. Louis 40 59 Washington .. 39 59 Pacific Coast. W. L. Sacramento 79 45 Sari Diego 69 54 Seattle 66 54 Hollywood 59 59 Oakland 57 64 Los Angeles 54 66 San Francisco 54 69 Portland 47 74 ) Pet. .647 .640 .551 .540 .44 .446 .424 .263 Pet. .680 .574 .520 .485 .475 .456 .404 .398 Pet. .637 .561 .550 .500 .471 .450 .439 .388 of an operation performed, last month. Durbin, who was Marion coun ty sheriff from 1901 to 1909, was ! horrj in Salem In 1866. Educated iri law at Willamette university. he turned to farming, winning many awards for his livestock ana iarm piouucis. f Survivors include tile wmow, i the former Mrs. Clara Patterson, former superintendent of the state industrial school for girls,! whom he married three years; ago;-ar.d thre children by a; former marriage. His first wife died several years ago. ' Floor Sanding and Refinfshing Old Floor Midi Llk Nrm CHAS. KEEVER Phono 51-J Phon 1M Money to Loan On City, Busintss Preptrty or Farm . Inquire at office of H. A. CANADAY 132. N, Jackson St., Roseburg, Oregon F. W. Durbin, Former Marion Sheriff, Dies SALEM, Auy. 6. AP( Frank W. Durbin, 74, prominent Salem farmer, hop raiser and livestock breeder, died in a Portland hos pital yesterday from the effects SURFACE YATER! May not be bothering you rigrrf now except in your profit patch, but a lot of those thin spot you just harvested were caused by it. Use a Killefer panbreaker arid let the surface water down where It does good instead of harm. "And You Own the Profits" DOUGLAS COUNTY Farm Bureau Go-op. Exch. RoMburg, Ortgoa y X Picnic Announced T h e an nual Commodore Rose descen dants' reunion will be held Sun day, August 10, at the Roberts creek school grounds. Relatives and friends are invited to bring basket dinners, set tor one o'clock. COME TO Winchester Park FOR PICNICKING TABLES FOR LUNCHES Winchester Auto Park Lymon L Spencer Representing New York Life Insurance Co. Protection, Retirement, Sav ings, Educational Plan. Ftoiebiirg Telephone 277 or 601-R COOKBOOKLET COUPON This Couoon and ntirles bearer to a cookbookler at the Newi Reviftw office, Roseburg, Oregon. DONKEY BASEBALL Sponsored by Roseburg Lions Club FINLAY FIELD FRIDAY, AUGUST 8TH 7:30 P. M. DON'T MISS IT IT'S A KICK! LAUGHS HOWLS SCREAMS! 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