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Friday Fight Card Readied IS I . v ITS: lit Vs r i sari? j n i n i i SCHROEDER WINS WIMBLEDON SINGLES The duchess of Kent presents the singles championship trophy to Ted Schroeder of La Crescenta, Cal., following the latter's victory over Czechoslovakia's Jaroslav Drobny In the tennis finals at Wimbledon, England. Filled With Freshness and Flavor . . . Cliff, Ball To Trade Punches In Semi-final Hardrock Gordon To Face Tough Headline Opponent In Keller Wagner, Salem With the signing of Al Cliff, Portland, and Davey Ball, Ba. ersfield, Calif., for a six-round go in the semi-final. Promoter Sandy Sanders completes his card for the Friday, July 8, box ing show , at the Roseburg Ar mory. Twenty-eight rounds of fast action fighting is scheduled for the semi-monthly fistic attrac tion, which promises to be well attended by boxing fans who are asking "Can Hardrock Gor don repeat?" his spectacular per formance of nearly three weeks ago, when he decisioned a favor ed Joe Kahut after 10 rounds of terrific slugging?" This is Gordon's second ap pearance here in Roseburg, and he will face a real puncher in Keller Wagner of Salem. Ac cording to Gordon's promoter, Ernie Nazelrod, Wagner has lost only one fight in his 12 most recent engagements. He was TKOd after suffering a cut eye. The Salem puncher formerly was South Pacific heavyweight boxing champion, and has re portedly hung up a string of impressive ring victories before being discharged from the arm ed services. Nazelrod Indicated Wagner fought in Roseburg before, , at which time he KOd his oppon ent. The Salem lad is In top form and hopes to travel to San Diego, to win new laurels there. Gordon may upset Wagner's applecart, however, by sending him down for the count. The Roseburg heavyweight Is work ing out every day at the Arm ory and expects to be in superior form. Cliff and Ball both fought here on previous cards, and both are reputed to be excellent box er; and crowd-pleasers from the starting bell. Cliff was voted by fans to be an outstanding fighter on an earlier card. Reserved seats, at popular prices, are available at Monarch Cigar Store and J-V Sporting Goods Store. WW To help meet shortages of fat and oils, Britain is operating a huge project for growing oil-rich peanuts in East Africa. SEMI-FINALISTS Fighting the six-round semi-final on Friday night's boxing card will be Davey Ball (top), Salem, and Al Cliff (bottom), Portland. Twenty-eight rounds of colorful boxing are tentatively sched uled, barring early round knock outs. Roseburg's Bab "Hard rock" Cordon and Keller Wag ner, .Salem, fight the 10-round main event.' The initial bout starts at 8:30 p. m. DodgersCardinals Dominate National All-Stars Chosen To Battle American's Best By JOHN CHANDLER NEW YORK, July 7. (API Th. Brooklyn Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals, presently in a dog fight for the pennant, domi nate the National League all-star team even to the extent of the pitching staff. Bill Southworth of the Boston Braves, who will manage the Nationals, picked eight hurlers. Three of them were Dodgers, ana two ot them cardinals. In all the Dodgers and Card inals each landed seven players on the 26-man squad, which in cluded first baseman Eddie Wait kus of the Phillies, as an honor ary member. Waitkus is recover ing from a gunshot wound in flicted by a crazed girl admirer. Another surprise nominee to the squad which meets the Ameri can League all-stars in the 16th annual game at Brooklyn's Eb bets field next Tuesday is Ewell Blackwell, Cincinnati's right hander. Blaekie, convalescing from a kidney operation, has only one victory this year. As expected, Southworth chose Brooklyn's aces, Preacher Roe (B-2) and Ralph Branca (10-2) but his choice of rookie Don New combe (6-2) was another eyebrow lifter. The two Cardinal nominees were lefthander Howie Poilet (10-5) and George Munger (6-3). Rounding out the big pitching eight are Warren Spahn (9-7) and Vern Bickford (10-4) of the Boston Braves, and Blackwell (1-0). Ohly two were members of the 1948 National League team which was defeated at St. Louis, 5 to 2. They are Branca and Blackwell. Fans Votes Prevail The rest of the team followed the dictates of the 4,637,743 fans who participated in the nation wide poll. Southworth, bound only to use the starting players named in the poll, followed the vote all down the line. Pitchers were not chosen in the voting. The starters, as chosen by tne poll, will be Johnny Mize of the New York Giants, first base; Jackie Robinson, Brooklyn, sec ond base rookie Eddie Kazak, St. Louis, third base; Pee Wee Reese, Brooklyn, shortstop; Ralph Kiner of Pittsburgh, leading both ma jors In home runs with 21, Stan Muslal, St. Lours, and Willard Marshall, New York, outfielders; ana Anay tsemmick, Fhiladelphia, catcher. Mize is the "veteran." having played with the Nationals in eight Drevious games. The Giants got four players on the squad, the champion Braves, the Reds and Phillies, two apiece, and the Chicago Cubs and Pitts burgh, one each. Robinson, Campanella and Newcomhe all are Negroes and will be the first of their race to participate In the all-star game along with Larrv Doby, Cleveland outiieiaer, wno is on the Ameri can League team. Unless they are Injured, thi eight players voted as "starteis must remain in the game at least three innings. The Boston pilot directed the 1943 and 1944 National Leaguers wnen ne was manager ot St Louis. The Americans heat his team In 1843. 5 to 3. The ntt year, Southworth's club beat the Americans, 7-1, and that's the last time the Nationals have won the all-star game. In all, the Americans have won 111 the Nationals, four. SOFTBALL TONIGHT Tonight at 7:15, the City Soft ball League continues play at Fin lay Field. Schemer Squirts op pose Veterans of Foreign Wars in the first game and Roseburg Elks face Umpqua Plywood in the sec ond contest. The Squirts current ly hold the League lead with three wins and no losses. 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"Young Chiang lit out of town as soon as his stepmother, Madame Chiang, showed up," Bu dar said. He said U. S. aid to the Na tionalists totaled $4,000,000,000 dollars since V-J day and charged it had been "misappropriated. The word "barbarian" was first used by the Greeks to mean "for eigners" but it later came to TRANSAMERICA CHIEF SAM H. HUSBANDS New president of Trantamerlca Corporation, who started hit ipse tacular bualneas career at 17 aa $35 a month bank runner. mean a bad or savage person. tkfii' nfl,ne 10 been completely Engine Recond It loner. All parti have been carefully Impeded and replaced when necessary with now Genuine Ford Parts t i i the parts that art made right to fit right and last longer. uifTAiirn "9 t? f? 90 ii in Lie w a m V-8F0R 1 IN LOCKWOOD MOTORS Rose and Oak Sts. Phone 80 a H H X X H M X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X X K f V V. 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