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ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, ROSEBURG, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 1944 NINE Suhr's Bat Breaks S.F. Losing Sfreak (By the Associated Press) First Baseman Siihr drove in throe, runs last night as the San Francisco Seals won their first Coast league baseball game in eifiht starts with a 5 to 4 victory over the Hollywood Stars. San Francisco took the lead in the first inning when Suhr drove in. two tallies with a single to centerlield, then dropped behind as the Stars scored three times in tho fifth. The Seals came back with tallies In the sixth, seventh and- eighth frames, scoring the clincher on a single by Suhr. Sacramento's Dreisewerd pitch ed hi& 19th win of the season with a six-hit performance that defeat ed San Diego, 4 to 2. Seattle and Portland posponed their opener because of travel difficulties nd' will play a doub lcheader Thursday night. Oak land will opa i at Los Angeles to day with a doubleheader. DRAW ON?! 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The letter, written on Red Cross stationery, continues: "Yes, Mr. Finch, I was wound ed for the second timo, but I'm coming along fine, And at the Inst request of my comrades kill ed In action I'm sending you a special message, "In the last push, Mr. Finch, just before I was hit, several of my men died in, my arms. Through gasping breath and blood, one of their last wishes, Mr. Finch, was, 'Toll Mr, Finch aloha and good luck.' "We have never forgotten you, Mr. Finch. We will neven forget you to the last your sympathy, your kindness. "So with tho last message of your bravo friends till we meet again I bid aloha and good luck. "In appreciation. (Name omitted.) Eastern, Southern States Promised Heat Wave Relief (By the Associated Press.) Easterners and southerners, perspiring unhappily in a pro tracted above-90-degree hot spell, looked hopefully to the west and middlevvest today where some cooler temperatures indicated re lief might reach the heat-baked east oy riciay or Saturday. 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