Cleveland Tips Yankees, 5-4
Home Run By
Hegan In 9th
Decides Game
Brooklyn Edges Pirates,
Also In 9th, As St. Louis
Loses To Boston Braves
By JOE REICHLER
Associated Press Sportswrlter
Is this the tart of that long
awaited New York Yankee col
lapse? Baseball experts, who vowed
the Yankees would finish no
higher than fourth this year,
wor that old wise look today.
A good many of them were ready
to give you that "I told you so"
routine.
And they may have something
there. For the Bronx Bombers
of late have looked like anything
but the league leaders they are
In losing yesterday, 5-4 to
Cleveland, the Yankees extend
ed their losing skein to three
In a row. They now have drop
ped four of their last five games,
three of them to second divi
sion clubs. Whereas they once
boasted an eight-game margin,
their lead has shrunk to three
and a half games over the ad
vancing Indians.
The Tribe battery of pitcher
Bob Lemon and catcher Jim
Hegan was responsible for the
Yankees' most recent defeat.
Lemon not only whipped the
Yankees for the third time this
year In racking up his 11th tri
umph, but hammered his fourth
home run, with Hegan on base.
Hegan broke up the game In
the last of the ninth with a
home run.
The Boston Red Sox climbed
back Into third place, seven and
a half games off the pace, de
feating the Chicago White Sox,
6-4. Vern Stephens' two-run sin
gle highlighted the Red Sox
Ihree-run ninth Inning that kay
oed starter Marino Plercttl.
The Tigers blew a 6 0 lead be
hind Hal Newhouser, but bounced
back to eke out a 7-6 triumph
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over the Washington Senators.
Three successive eighth Inning
walks plus a long fly by Johnny
Upon brought in the winning
run.
Four home runs helped the St.
Louis Browns sweep a twilight
night doubleheader from the
Philadelphia Athletics, 9-4 and
5-4. It was the Browns' fifth
straight victory, Jack Graham
and Sherm Lollar hit four bag
gers in the first game, and
Gerry Prlddy and Dick Kokos
slammed circuit clouts In the
second. Bob Dilllngcr was the
chief gun In the brownie at
tack, turning In six consecutive
hits three singles and a triple
in the opener.
.The Dodgers picked up a full
game on the Cardinals, edging
out the Pittsburgh Pirates, 4-3,
while the Boston Braves knock
ed off the Rcdbirds, 5-2. Eruce
Edwards singled with the bases
loaded in the ninth to snap a
33 tie and give the Brooks the
decision.
Southpaw Warren Spahn post
ed his 11th triumph, limiting
the Cardinals to six hits as the
Braves batted Max Lanier out
of the box in the fourth. Elbie
Fletcher socked a three-run
homer off the Card southpaw In
the third.
Scoring at least once In every
Iimim?. the New York Giants
battered three Cincinnati hurlera
for 20 hits Including three homers
to humble the Reds, 13-3. Hank
Thompson, Johnny Mize and
Marshall contributed hom3 runs.
LB.'-ry Jansen coasted to his lOih
victory, with Howard ox gil-
tint; tagged with the defeat
L,elty Ken Heimzeiman pitch
ed another masterpiece as (he
Philadelphia Phils nipped the
Chicago Cubs. 10. Hcintzcltnan
scattered nine hits for his 12lh
victory against three defeats. A
single by Andy Semlnick scored
Willie Jones from second with
two out In the last of the eighth
for the only run.
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DOUBLE MAIN EVENT
TEX HAGER
vs.
BILLY McEUIN
and
YAQUI KID
vs.
BUCK WEAVER
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TOP HITTER Hal Edgar Is still
high in the batting average de
partment with a .349. In his last
full game, Edgar hit three-for-four
times, including a double
and a triple. More recently Ed
gar has been playing 'part
time and his batting has suf
fered some. The ex-Senior high
ball player and student plans to
attend the University of Oregon
in the fall, where he expects to
major in journalism and minor
in physical education. Ha plans
to turn out for baseball and
football at the "U," and write
sports for the Oregon Daily
Emerald.
Trout Catch By Hand
Costs Man $20 In Fine
GAINES, Pa., July 20. P
Fisherman Raymond R. Cole
was so proud of catching a 28
Inch brown trout with hit bare
hands that he mounted the
catoh and hung It In a local
tavern.
A postcard-maker took pic
tures and sold photos of the
fine catch,
v Cole's fame at a fish catcher
spread far and wide even to
the ears of Roger Stevens,
Galnet Justice of the peace.
Yetterday Stevsm arretted
Cole and fined him $20 and
cottt for the catch.
Catching fith with your
han.: it Illegal In Pennsylvania.
Half-Season
Softball Title
To Be Decided
VFW, Plywood Teams
Will Clash Tonight For
Coveted League Honor
A red-hot clash Is on tonight's
City Softball league agenda at
Finlay field. Veterans of Foreien
Wars, who defeated Schemer
Squirts Monday night In a three
way battle to decide the first half
champion, meets Umpqua Ply
wood. .
The winner of the Plywood
VFW tussle will wear the first
half. City league Softball crown.
In the twilight action, set for
7:30 p.m., Roseburg Elks play
the Squirts. The contest is a con
tinuation of , second-half league
action. ...
The Plywood HneuD mav in
elude Garrison, left Held; White,
snortstop; Harris, catcher;
Bauehman or Forbes. Ditcher: C.
Long, third base; Benson, first
base; Dwight, right field; M.
Long, second ease, and Puffin
barger, center field.
For the Vets, the HneuD mav
Include Taylor, first base; Pot
ter, second base; Ray Bates,
third base; Seltz. catcher: Bob
Bates, shortstop; Brunner, cen
ter iield; Foster, left field; Goz-
neu, pitcher and Kamp or Da
vidson, right field.
District Series In Offing
Only , a few weeks of Softball
remain before district competi
tion ' between Roseburg, Spring
field and Reedsport starts. The
winner will participate in the
state tournament to be held at
Eugene starting August 31. The
tournament will continue through
September 3.
The Roseburg team that wins
the city softball crown will choose
players from the other
three teams and the All-Star com
bination will play under the name
of the league winner.
Last year, Schemer Squirts
and Sutherlin Pastime were co
chariiplons of the City league.
Sutherlin represented the city by
winning the first of a three-game
series with the Squirts. Due to
lacK of time, it was agreed that
the first game winner would rep
resent the city. Later, the Squirts
and Pastime played the second
game, which the Squirts won.
The third game was never played
and and both clubs remained
"champs."
Sutherlin was defeated by
Springfield In a close district
playoff series fought at Spring
field and Drain.
Sorlnefield was defeated by Eu
gene in the state playoff held In
eastern Oregon.
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Chiefs To Battle
Glendale Tonight
Friday night at Finlay field,
the Roseburg Umpqua Chiefs
face Glendale In the only exhibi
tion game scheduled for this
week.
Careful check of the seorebook
reveals no previous contest with
the Glendale club this season.
This is fortunate in that it Is
quite impossible under the cir
cumstances to foul up the score
of a non-existent "previous tilt."
Yesterday's News-Review er
roneously stated that Crescent
City defeated Roseburg in an
earlier tussle. It was Central
Point instead that handed the
Chiefs a 12-6 scalping.
Crescent City lost to Roseburg.
Claude Buckley did the pitching
and he allowed five hits. Rose
burg hit nine times, Including
two-for-three by Buckley and
Tennis Tournament At
Yoncalla Attractive
Yoncalla rplrtonri am hnuHntf
top interest in the tennis tourr
men. now being held in that com
munity. Twenty women and 17
men have entered the competition,
now in its second week.
Four matrhpft nf tho firet rnnnrl
have been played by the men
COmnpritOrs With tha uroman
slated to start singles play lat .
this week. Final playoff matches
will be held July 24 to determine
the community's champions.
n odiaoor aance was neia on
the tennis courts Saturday to help
Dav for court litrhta I
furnished the music
two-for-four by Norm West. The
final score was Roseburg 4, Cres
cent City 0.
The Chiefs travel to Crescent
City Sunday for a Southern Ore
gon League game there.
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Semi-Finals In
Titular Grapple
Tourney Dated
The semi-finals of the double
elimination tournament to deter
mine a successor to Ben
Sherman's vacated Pacific Coast
light-heavyweight wrestling
crown will be held Saturday night
at the Roseburg armory.
Principals in the two hour-long
semi-final matches will be Tex
Hager and Billy McEuin in the
first set-to and the Yaqui Kid
and Buck Weaver in the last
match.
Last week Georges Dusette ,
Pierre LaBelle and Klser were
eliminated from the running.
The two winners of Saturday's
semi-finals will meet in Rose
burg next week for the title plus
a fat $200 purse being put up
by the promoters.
The unpopular Weaver who has
announced his intentions to go at
any lengths to gain the title,
needed police protection to retire
from the ring last week after
BONE TWISTERS The Yaqui
Kid, at top, and Buck Weaver,
lower photo, will stage the main
event in the weekly wrestling
show at the Roseburg armory
Saturday night. .';
using unscrupulous methods to
defeat Kiser. As Klser had the
villain down he reached from
behind and patted him on the
back, causing Kiser to think he
had won the match, whereupon
he released his hold, and Weaver
went on to win.
Kiser's younger brother, Dale,
was at ringside and took a poke
at Weaver, with a fight ensueing.
As a result all the other three
grapplers in the tourney have
vowed to see that Weaver doesn't
win the title.
But Weaver's chances appear
fairly good in spite of the fact
he's facing the sensational Kid
Saturday.
The other semi-final between
Hager and McEuin looms as a
toss-up with perhaps a slight edge
going to the rough and tough
Texan, McEuin.
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Yoncalla School Head
Wins Bass Derby Priie
Yoncalla grade school Principal
Al Hoffman walked off with the
top prize in the bass derby spoil
r Jred at Reedsport this year.
The prize fish weighed 43
pounds 12 ounces to give Hoffman
a ten horse power outboard motor
valued at $250. He also won the
weekly prize of $75 in fishing
equipment.
Accompanying Hoffman when
he made the prize catch were
r uther Daugherty and Dick
Tho.-pe, both of Yoncalla.
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