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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.
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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.
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( 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
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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!
Added Attraction "Funny Jackass Derby"
ADMISSION 25c AND 10c
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