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Chiefs Defeat House Of David, 7-3; Drain Wins Series Of Junior Legion Reed Allows Nine Hits But Strikes Out 11 Pitcher Also Gers Three Hits In 4 Trips; Visitors, Umpirt Stage Talkfests By DAN MINDOLOVICH Nwi-Rcvl,w Sporti WrtUr The Roseburg Umpqua Chiefs playing to an over-capacity crowd, t-asily beat an error-committing, teed of t at the umpire House of David baseball club, 7-3, in an exhibition tilt at Flnlay tield last night. Each pitcher gave up nine hits. Chiefs' hurler Don Reed struck out 11 and walked two, while the David chucker, Wally Pollock walked six and whiffed five. Bunky Hill .started Roseburg on its way In the fourth Inning, when, with two men on, he came In as a pinch hitter and socked a two-base hit that scored both George Sanders and Ted Wilson. Hill's two-base effort came as no particular surprise to regular Chiefs fans, who remember him for having pulled the fat out of the fire on many occasions with strategic bingles when the going was rough. In the same frame. Earl Hamp ton stretched a single into a round trip when right fielder Ray Tomskl bobbled. Jerry Coen, who ran for Hill, also scored on the miscue. Other Roseburg tallies came In the sixth, when Coen made first cn an error and scored on Hamp ton's double; In the seventh, when Norm West singled and scored on Barney Koch's base-hit. and In the eighth when Don Reed, getting his third hit in four trips, was forced home after Jerry Hugglns drew a walk with the bates loaded. Visiters Score Thries Fcr the visitors, Chet Ashman ran across the first 'David tally In the third on a Roseburg bob ble. In the sixth, Jim Hayes hit a triple and Roy Burkland walked. Then with two away, ratcher Charlie Stock connected for a double, scoring both base runners. Roseburg missed a beautiful opportunity to tally extra count ers In the eighth. With none kway and with the bases loaded, West flew out. All hands started to advance on the throw-In, but Hampton, on third, decided to go back. Virg Sanders advancing from second, had no place to go, and was chased down by the sec ond baseman. In the meantime, Hugglns, on first, decided to make a break for second base. A relay from second baseman to short caught Hugglns and that retired the side. The game was liberally sprin kled with chit-chat between bat ter and plate umpire Llndy Lind ner, who called em the way he saw 'em. Unfortunately, he and the batters didn't see eye-to-eje In several Instances. Flags Out Of Lin Virg Sanders enjoyed a short lived two-base hit in the fourth inning, when he poled one down what appeared to be Just inside the third base line. However, it was decided that the flags at the extreme ends of both foul lines were out of line. Time was called while both ban ners were moved to the correct positions and a dejected Sanders was hailed back to the plate. Earl Hampton, with three-for- You'v. h.ard nlbujiaitic tori.i of Nath Airflyt. per formaoc., economy, comfort and handling .at. 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(Pfcture by Dysert Studio, Drain.) five and Don Reed, with three tor-four. pad the Roseburg bat ters, while Jim Have, wlih two-for-four and Charlie Stock with two-for-two, were top 'David men. The box: Heut f IUvKi B R H O A Kafourney. cf . B 0 0 1 0 Aohman. lb, rf - A 1 3 10 0 Cook. If 0 0 0 I) G. Have, M 4 0 12 1 TormkJ. rf. e 4 0 0 1 0 J. Mavf-i. 2b 4 119 4 Rtirkland, 3b 3 1113 Stock, e S 0 S A 0 Pollock, p . 4 0 0 0 4 Andaraon, lb 10 0 10 3T 1 34 12 ait barf Chief: B R H O A Hampton. 3b S 1 3 0 1 V. Sender. II - 4 0 0 1 0 Hiimlni, c - 3 0 0 12 0 Wtat. lb 4 1 1 f 0 G Sander, M 110 3 3 Wll.on. cf 3 10 10 Koch. 2b .. 3 0 13 3 Dehernardl, rf 1 0 0 0 0 Reed, p 4 13 0 1 Hill 1 X 1 X X Coem, rt - 2 2 0 1 0 ii f i n r Hill hit doubta for Debernardl In 4th. Coan ran for Hill In 4th. Home of David . on ftrrj OOrt 3 Roaaburg Chtafa 000 401 Ux 7 Errors Ashman. J Hivm, Rurkland 2. Tomskl. Pollock, Dtbrnardl, Huin. Stolen hMi Hampton. Sac Wilnon, Koch, G Sanders 2b hit Athmart. Stock. Hill. Hampton 3b hit J. Hayes, Ashman. Double play- G. Haves to J. Hayes to Ashman. RFll Burkland 2. Hampton 3, Koch. Hill 2. Hits off Pollock t for 7 runs In 1 Innlncs. Reed 9 for 3 runs In B Innlncs. Strikeouts Pollock 3. Reed 11. RB -Pollock A, Reed 2. Hit batter Torrnki by Reed l-eft on hases Houso of David II. Rosehurf 9). Earned runs H. D 3, Rosehura 3. Em pires Lindy Lindner, plala. Lou Kit nick, bases. Time 2 10. 7 A & ' n TU- D..II timer inc duii Dies After Long Period In Trap SWOOPE, .Vs., Aug. l-m Folks In this northern Virginia community were downcast today. Elmer the bull is dead. For a week they had rooted for Elmer In his fight for recovery from the exposure he suffered when he was trapped for 21 days in a railroad culvert pipe. For those 21 days Elmer stood up to his shanks in water. Rail road workers came along last week and pulled him out. The black Angus had shrunk to a mere shadow of himself. Those three weeks had sloughed off 600 pounds. Elmer died last night aftpr a hearty meal of all the things that were supposed to make him well. "He'd gained back l.riO pounds," said the wife of Elmer's modest owner who consistently declined the use of his name In Elmer's story. No expense had been spared on Elmer's convalescent diet. Vita mins, eggs. milk, and finally oats were his as body builders. Elmer appeared to like the diet fine. And fan mall attested folks' Interest In his progress toward a normal 900-nounds. But today Elmer was on the way to the rendering factory. WOMAN FINED $t00 Martha Blerman. Roseburg, was fined $100 In Circuit court Monday when she pleaded guilty to a charge of lewd cohabitation. Judge Carl E. Wimberly reported today. 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It was the Drain lefthander's game all the way as he limited the Medford club to three hits in nine innings and struck out 13 opposing batsmen, allowing but a single walk. Cade's masterful performance climaxed two suc cessful mound appearances dur ing tournament play. Friday night he hurled another three hitter against Eugene to give him a two-game record of three runs given up (two of them unearned) on six hits, 21 strikeouts, four bases on balls, and two nit bat tersan enviable record in any league. Drain had lost Sunday night's game to this same Medford club by committing eight errors afield, and although last night's game was not free of bobbles, the Drain boys reverted to their usu al heads-up brand of ball in win ning me extra game playoll. Monday night's affair ended in the top half of the ninth on a fast double play, Clack to Simp-, son a play that was pulled io smoothly both teams and the spectator's failed to realize It un til plate Umpire Bill Borcher signalled the end of the contest. Medford Scores In 8th Drain gained a second Innlnj lead when Calvin Clack and Bob Cellers scored on singles by Bill Gordon and Mickey Coen. Medford's lone counter came In the eighth. Ray Smith, first man up, hit a double and scored on a similar blow by Don Den man, but three successive outs ended the brief Medford batting effort. In Drain's half of the eighth, Earl Simpson, first man ud. singled. Dick Gullle laid down a bunt, then made It to first on tr.e initial sackman's bobble. Marv Swearingen drew first on a field er's choice on which Simpson scored. Cellers walked, Clack struck out and Gordon hit a two-base blow that scored three runners. Gordon scored on a Medford bobble that also put Dersham on first. Joslyn walked, Cade grounded out and Simpson, com ing up for the second time that inning, fanned, to retire the side. Gordon, with three for four, Including the extra-base blow, was top Drain hitter. Denman, with three for two, including a two-bagger, paced Smith, who was the only other Medford hit ter. Gordon, has a tourney average of seven hits for 12 times at bat. He batted In six of Drain's 12 runs. Linescore: R H E Medford 000 000010 1 3 5 Drain 020 000 05x 7 6 3 Batteries Medford: Maddox 7 1-3. Turk 1. Montgomery 2-3 and Boshears. Drain: Cade and Gor don. Umpires Al Flegel, plate; Borcher, bases. BASEBALL STANDINGS fRv (he Associated Presst AMERIC AN LEAH I E Pet. .B.12 .!W3 .537 .340 .!U3 .41)1 .331 New York. Cleveland Boston Detroit Philadelphia Chtrafo Wathinfton Si Louia 34 NATIONAL LEAGt'l PH. ,R04 ,600 .3.11 .521 .813 .474 .39S .364 St Lou la ... BronklA . Potion New York .. Philadelphia Pittitnirf r Cincinnati I Chicago .... 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(Associated Press Sports Writer) The Boston Red Sox advanced to within two and a half games of second and seven games of the American-league leading Yankees yesterday, turning back the In dians, 4-3. Southpaw Mel Parnell gained his 15th pitching triumph, best, ing Cleveland's Bob Lemon with a nine-hitter. The Brooklyn Dodgers shaved St. Louis' first place lead In the National league to a slender half game last night, shutting out the Pittsburgh Pirates. 9-0. while the ParHinal. were Inttner fi.1 tn tha ! . . v a, .v ..... Boston Braves. Ralph Branca, back In form, limited the Pirates to four hits three by Ralph Kiner to register his 12th victory. Warren Spahn, helped by Sauer's and Bob Elliott's home runs, coasted to his 13th triumph. He limited the Cards to eight hits. A homer by Enos Slaughter pre vented the southpaw from pitch ing a shutout. The St. Louis Browns shut out the Washington Senators, 20. Karl Drews, pitching one of his rare good games, allowed eight hits for his fourth triumph. The New York Giants took un disputed possession of fourth place In the National league, wal loping the Chicago Cubs, 11-3. Bobby Thomson led the attack on three Chicago pitchers with a triple, two doubles and a single. Clint Hartung went the route for his ninth victory. Bob Chipman was the loser. Prizes For Model Autos Awarded To Oregon Boys DETROIT, Aug. 2. JP Elev en Oregon boys won prizes for model cars, submitted In the Fisher Body Craftsman guild competition. Gale Morris, Portland, won $130, a trip to the national guild convention In Detroit Aug. 24-27, and the right to compete in the national contest for a $4,000 uni versity scholarship. His car was best in the junior division, both for Oregon and for Oregon-Washington combined. Frank J. Coen, Eugene, won $150 for first Oregon prize In the senior division. Honorable men tion In that class went to Robert W. Weed. Eugene. The other winners were all Portland boys. OLATHE, Kas., Aug. 2 OF) A 30-year-old Callfornian was awarded the grand championship of the 18th annual national model airplane meet here. Roy O. Acord, Los Angeles, turned in the best overall per formance during the week-long event. The senior championship went to Einan Encvoldson, 17, San Francisco, and the Junior trophy was awarded to John Hum phreys, 15, Lakewood, O. Ted Entlcknap, Auburn, Wash., was named national novice cham pion. Motorboar Effects On Fish Being Studied KALAMAZOO, Mich., Aug. 2. UP) Fish at the Wolf lake hatch ery near here are participating in a project that may make it tougher than ever for their fel-low-fish to evade the angler's hook. They are demonstrating to sci entists how fish react to the sounds of a motorboat. When the study is complete, the facts obtained may help boat fishermen outwit their prey. In three hatchery ponds, fish are getting an overdose of motor boat sounds. Driverless boats, tied to a center pole, circle round and round 24 hours a day. Reaction of the fish are com pared to the behavior of fish In three other ponds undisturbed by engine sounds. The Outboard Boating club of America and the University of Michigan are sponsoring the project. Two Softball Games -V Scheduled Tonight City league Softball play con tinues at Finlay field tonight, starting at 7:30 p. m. Vehrnps of Foreign Wars op. pose Umpqua Plywood In the first game while Schemer Squirts and Roseburg Elks battle In the night cap. L'mpq'ia Plywood, current league leader. Is favored to down the Vets, while Squirts and Elks, both tied for second place, are expected to put on a terrific per formance for next to-the-ton do- I s'lion in the league standings. LEAGUE LEADERS (Bv the Associated Preit) AM KKIC AN' LCAGIE Batting Dillingar. St. Loula, .54; D- ataigio, no ion. Rum batted in William, Boa ton, 106 Et ohm. Boeton. 104. Homi nine William. Boeton. M; St phena. Boston, 23. PiWhinf Reynold. New York. 11-1. 411, wnn L.ivuna. a-z. .aou. NATIONAL LEAOt'E Batting Robinson. Brooklyn. .MT; lUuathter. St. Loula. .310. Rum batted tn Robinson, Brooklyn, ll; Hodgei. Brooklyn, tb Horn run Kintr. PttUburgh, 3T; Gordon, New York. XI. Pitching Sewe II, Pituburfh, tl, .KU; Branca, Brooklyn. 12-2, .900. Bob Dillinger Now Tops Hitters In The American CHICAGO. Aug. 2.-4.P) Bob Dillinger, St. Louis third-sacker who carried a $100,000 price tag during the winter trading sea son without any takers, nas bounced into the American league batting lead with .344. Dillinger climbed from fourth a week ago into first with a gain of five percentage points. Bos ton's Dom DiMaggio took over second place with a boost of one point to .342. Boston's Ted Wil liams and Detroit's George Kell, locked In the lead last week, were tied for third with .341 after dropping a point. Williams topped three special ized brackets and shared another. He added eight runs to increase his leading total to 97, slammed four doubles for a bag of 29, and added a homer to total 26. He and his teammate, Vern Steph ens, shared the runs-batted-in lead with 104 apiece. Another Boston Red Sox, little Dl Maggio, had the most hits, 123, an increase of 10. Dale Mitchell of Cleveland was ahead in triples with 14 and Dillinger led in stolen bases with nine. New York's Allie Reynolds con tinued with the best pitching per centage with 11-1 for .917. Virgil (Fire I Trucks of Detroit added two more strikeout victims to his list, which now total 109. Oregon Motorcyclists Off On World Jaunt SALEM, Aug. 2. UP) Two young men left Portland yester day on a motorcycle trip around the world that will take thein between one and two years. Douglas A. Yeater, 22. Salem, and Ralph Himmelsbach, Port land, expect to go to Alaska oy way of the Alaska highway. They then will ship their motorcycles to Japan where Yeater, a politi cal science student at the Uni versity of Oregon, will do some government research. After Japan, they will go to New Zealand, Australia, Singa pore, Europe and South America. Hunters' Names Drawn For Antelope Season PORTLAND, Aug. 2. B The State Game commission drew the names of 1,000 hunteri yesterday for special licenses for an ante lope season in the Harney-Mal. heur-Lake county area. The sea son will run Aug. 20-25. The commission did not dis close the number of applicants. Winners will be notified by mall. The commission also announced the limit on geese was raised from five last year to six this year. Only two of them, however, may De Canadian geese. Maj Jong Outlawed By Shanghai Communists SHANGHAI. Aug. 2. (.P) Now Mah Jong It taboo in Shang hai. Communist authorities today decreed it was a waste of time to play China's favorite game. hlxty-eignt players were ar rested, find up to 40.000 Commu nist dollars each, sentenced to four hours in jail and made to sweep the streets. Mah jong, a game with domi noes, was popular in the United States In the late twenties. way? I A cool breeze on the lake . . . solitude n r S-j I I ... the rippling sound of stives ... 11 , I I then homerd bound at twilight II . u t I I to a cool, refreshing glass of II - M I I I light Olympii. These are among the 1 1 " 9" VV I I good things of life. 1 1 i2rvi A I I a. -a lite I if ' th, Water" Vjjjg M etva'u laiwme c,mi oi'aM. w,tiT ... Hospital Toilers Defeat All-Stars In Uphill Battle Veterans hospital employes came from behind a 10-1 deficit to go ahead and beat the hospital All-Stars, 1211, In a Twilight league action at the hospital play ing field last nignt. Hopelessly behind for five in nings, the hospital employes sud denly came to life in the sixth in ning and batted completely around to narrow the All-Stars' lead by scoring seven runs on four hits. Again In the seventh inning, the employes pounded across four runs on three hits to leave the All-Stars behind. The All-Stars scored In every inning but the third ind seventh, while the employes were held to a lone run in the second until the big sixth. Three walks In a row, Issued by All-Star hurler J. Ralph, follow, ed by three two base hits, started the employes on the' scoring rampage. An error, another walk and another double narrowed the score separation to two, then in the seventh, with a new All-Star pitcher in the game, a single, two errors and two home runs cinch ed the lead for the employes. The All-Stars scored one run In the sixth and got two men on in their portion of the seventh, including the tying and winning run, but the nex( thr batters failed to get on base and the ball game was over. G. James and T. Anthony, each with two for four, paced the All Star hitters, while Spakovsky and Ulrich, each with two for four, led the employes at the plate. All-Star pitchers Ralph and Ed ward gave up nine hits between them, struck out two and walked five. Employee hurler Kidder al lowed seven hits, walked four and struck out two. Touring Americans Beat Swedish Athletic Squad GOTEBERG. Sweden. Auir. 2 CP) Touring Americans had an other track and field conquest to their credit today with a Swed ish squad their victims. Of the six events staged here yesterday, the U. S. invaders won the 110-meter hurdles, pole vault, broad Jump and 1,000-meter re lay. Their foes raptured the 3,000 meter steeplechase and the 1,500 meter run. Craig Dixon of UCLA, who this spring tied the world record for the 220-yard low hurdles, tri umphed In the 110-meter hurdles with a clocking of 14.3 seconds. Bob Richards of Champaign, III., narrowly defeated George Rasmussen of Oregon by pole vaulting 14 feet, 2 inches. American Athletes Lead In Dual Meet With Finns HELSINKI. Aug. 2. (JPl United States athletes held a de cisive lead over Finland today as their dual track and field meet entered its second and final dSy oi competition. The American atari had an ad vantage of seven victories in 11 events to work on after yester day's opening program. Thev were first in the 200-meter dash, 400-meter run, 3,000-meter steeple high hurdles, shot put, broad Jump and 400-meter relay. The Finns accounted for the 1.500 meter run, 3,000-meter run, high Jump and hammer throw. Beaver Baseball School For Boys Scheduled PORTLAND, Aug. 2. UPl The third annual Portland Beaver baseball school for boys i4 years and older will be held here Aug. 16 and 17. The classes will be held from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. with the boys guests of the Pacific Coast club at Vnliahn troAt narlr Tiwulav n H ' Wednesday nights. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT my tha Aasoclalad Preaai WEST fiPRINUKlELD, Maw. Doe William. IH'i. North Ad mi, Mas., outpointed Bart Lytall, 160, Fraano, CaU 10. ALLENTOWN. Pa Lew Jertklni. 141, Sweetwater. Tex., outpointed Lou Joyce, 10. Philadelphia ''. PHILADELPHIA George Sugart Cot. ner. 148 'i. Camden. N. J., outpointed Stubby Bobby Lee, 148 Baltimore . NEW ORLEANS Bernard Docuten, 143, New Or lean, outpointed Al Guido, 145, New York 10. PHOENIX Lonnl BUek Jack C-aft, ITT. Phoenix, knocked out Clde Bow man, ltl, Loa Angela iTi. Jackie Robinson Still Top Hitter In National Loop NEW YORK, Aug. 2. (.?) Nearly every week, it seems, an other challenger looms up to take a whirl at Jackie Robinson, but the star Brooklyn second base, man still holds a wide margin in the battle for the National league batting title. Six men now have tried to dis lodge Jackie since he took over the lead late in May, the latest being Enos Slaughter of the St. Louis Cardinals. Through games of last Sunday, July 31, Robinson owned a torrid .364, 36 points higher than Slaughter'! runnerup .328. Tha Cardinals' flyehaser led team, mate Al (Red) Schoendienst by one point. Willard Marshall of the New York Giants, second a week ago, lost nine points and fell to fourth place with .323. Bobby Thomp son, another of four Giants in the top 10, was fifth with .320. Tied for sixth at .313 were Sid Gordon of the Giants and Kiner. Whitey Lockman, still another Giant, followed with .312. Gil Hodges of Brooklyn, at .305 and Wallv Westlake of Pittsburgh. at .303, rounded out the big 10. Tigard, Hillsbore Out Of Semi-Pro Tourney PORTLAND, Aug. 2. VP) Hillsboro and Tigard fell from the state semi-pro basebail tournament play last night, nar rowing the field lor the state title to 17 teams. Bob Sijnor piched the second no-hit, no-run game of the series as he paced Reliance System of Portland to an ll-to-o win over Hillsboro In five mntngs. Gari baldi knocked Tigard out of the way, 9 to 1. In the third game last night, Portland Albina Fuel posted a third victory by defeat ing St. Johns, 9 to 2. Reliance has won two of three games played. The St. Johns loss was that team's first in the double-elimination play. Hillsboro Tips Salem In Junior Legion Game FOREST GROVE, Aug. 2. (P) Hillsboro won a berth In the Junior American Legion ba; ball tournament by defeating S lem, 10 to 7, here last night in a best-of three playoffs. t The two district champions had split earlier games. Hillsboro's Ron McKitchen drove In four runs to set the scor ing pace. His single in the third inning drove in two of the three Hillsboro scores that inning. Suit Yourself at Joe Richards