Chiefs Down Turtle Creek, Race Ragged Game Dotted With 13 Misplays Lostrs Scort 6 Tallies In First Frame, Victors Similar Number In 3rd By DAN MINDOLOVICH News-Review Sporta Writer The advance notlrci called It a ball game, but lor three In nings It looked more like a cir cus boasting the world's most complete clown act at the Myr tle Creek ball field Sunday. The Roseburg Chiefs defeated Kenny Laurance's Myrtle Creek club, 14-7, and retained the South ern Oregon league lead, mostly due to the fact that some of the best Chiefs' players were on the Myrtle Creek team. By the same token, Roseburi? helped the host club to a fat 6-2 lead going Into the second Inning, due to some very discouraging fielding by Chiefs men. An overflow crowd saw 13 er rors committed during the course of the contest seven of which were tallied by Roseburg. Myrtle Creek ran wild In the first, on four hits and four Rose burg infield plays that went off like wet firecrackers. Not to be ou'done, Laurance's limp-fingered legion came back In the third, miscued three times; helped Rose burg regain an 8-2 lead. After giving up six hits In the first two innings, Chiefs' pitcher Don need settled down, naming the host team to only three more hits. Three Myrtle Creek hur lers gave up 15 hlngles between them. Reed didn't Issue a sin gle walk. Roseburg started out fine in the Initial atanza and Chiefs' boosters settled back fully ex pecting to see them win in the ''usual manner. Sandsrs Cleuta Homsr George Sanders, who batted a perfect four-for-four, started the frame with a screaming four base hit that went into the right field timber. By the time Bud Meek fished the ball out of the creek,' Sanders had crossed the plate, preceded by Ted Wilson, who got the first blow of the game. But Roseburg fans' spirits drop ped to a new low as they saw their club help the Myrtle Creek cause in the top of the first with butter-fingered play. Hits by Meek, Lovell Baker and Plln Lauranee were all good tor runs, while Frosty Loghry, ane Garren and Bud Shlrtcliff got to first on errors and scored. Roscburg's Wilson again start ad the hitting in the third In- 1 Bract's Motorcycle Salts & Service North Umpqua Rd. Open Daily Including Sundays. Wonderful New Comfort . tsx:ma.m.4 u mStttMa'wm . I H&jey .tfi....'Wi.WiN.IIf.-; . a ,M..iWia. lWsk.4v NUtweiee --fteiiiifaev y'-a,'.': ' ' I New VMet Dietr-HalfM ShI We f, don't fold tou up like a "ja lAmfe." sW5 ou ait comfortahiv in srais the height of your eatv rhair at home. We'si more) headroom, Irtroom, and shoulder room for tou. And no other ear has ever been so com- filetely engineered from the fundamentals up or your comfort, your convenience, your peace of mind. Created by CHRYSLER Lan lr Rom -You'll liko tho Chryiltr DtoUrV hit show "Tho SAMMY KAYE SHOWROOM" Ivory Mondoy Wodntsday Friday 7:1 S P. M. Station KRNR In National League 6 The News-Review, Roseburg, Ore. Men., Aug. 8, 1949 i o flaaaira o I Defeat In Two Games, 4 To 3 And 3 To 2, Drops Drain From Legion Junior Tournament ALBANY, Aug. 8. UPh-Hillsboro lined up today in a final berth for the Oregon American Legion Junior baseball title while -onetime losers Vale and Byerly's of Portland play for the other berth. nlng. scoring on a one-base hit by Norm West. Then with two away, and two men on, Lauranee bobbled a blow by Ray Stratton, newcomer from the University, to load the sacks. Barney Koch followed with a triple that put three runs across and the score at 6-all. Roseburg batted com pletely around that inning. Scort Almost Tltd Myrtle Creek came within one run of tying up the game in the fifth, when Lou Kotnick, getting his second hit, made it around the sacks on two more Roseburg errors, but the Chiefs continued to peck away at Bob Mircovich, who replaced Loghry after two and two-tnirds innings or nun- ing, and Jack Wilson, ex-Boston Red Soxer, to finally take the tussle. In the sixth, Ted Wilson, with Hamnton on base, beat out sacrifice hit, went to second on third baseman Loghry's over throw. Hampton scored on the mlscue, while Wilson tallied on a hit by George Sanders. Roseburg hatted around again In the seventh, with four runs being scored on three hits and one error. Wilson's four-for-slx, Koch's tbree-for-flve and Jerry Huggins' two-for-four were other outstand ing Roseburg batting marks. Ba ker and Lou Kotnick, each with twofor-flve. tuned In the best Myrtle Creek performance. neaebarf I Hampton. 3b Wliaon. et O Sanders, sa . weal, lb Htifflna, e Stratton, rf Koch. Jb V Bandars, if . Read, p 41 ii ii n a Mvrtla Creekl Hark, rl . F. Loghry, 3b Rakar, cf, aa . Lauranee. 3b ... Kntnlrk. If .. Garren. aa .. Shlrtcllrf, lb ... Cndarott, c. rf , D Loa-hry, ..... Mlrrovlch, p Wilson, p Brown, cf 1 0 4 1 Turner, 40 T t IT 11 Wliaon alnfled for Mlroovlch In Sth Roaaburs ....JOS On? 40014 Myrtla Craak 000 010 000 4 trrora Waal. Koch S, G. Sandara. Hampton. Hugflna, Read, Laurence 1. Carren, F. Loghry, Maak, Wliaon. Stnlan Baaee V. Bandera. Kotnick. Sac Strat ton. Read. 3h hit- Koch. Home runs Q. Sanders, RBI Wliaon, O. Sandera West, Hugglna, Korh .1, V. Sandera. Read, Baker, Lauranra, O. Loghry. Hlta oil Reed 0 for 7 rune In B Innlnga. D. Loghry T for 8 runa In S 3'S tnlngs. Mircovich 4 for S runa In 3 lS Innlnga. Wliaon 4 for 4 runs In 1 Innlnga. Rlrtke oula Reed S. Loghry I. Mlrcovlrh 3 Wliaon 1. BB Reed 0. Loghry I. Mlrco vlrh 1, Wtlann 3. Wild pitch Wliaon. 1111 by Mircovich tllamtpnni. Reed iLoghryt. Pgaacd ball--Turner 3 Left Roaehurg S, Mvrtla Creek T. Earned Roaehurg 10. Myrtla Creek I. Umplrea Rill Elrkholf. plate; Al Hegel baaee. Tune 3.0. New ir of aW jf TRESTOMATIC KU ID DRIVK TRANSMISSION " f 1 balanced control. There's no wheel tight. There's greater road stibilitv, earner handling, lene road shock. ea, and greater safetT, too for evenr thmg about this car is designed for safer dming. ROSE MOTOR CO. Hillsboro came from behind last night to defeat the Byerly's, 7 to 6, after winning an opening round game over Vale, 4 to 2, Saturday night. Drain, after los ing a first game to the Byerly's, 3 to 2, succumbed to Vale, 4 to 3, last night and dropped from the playoff. The final will be Tuesday with a second game that night if nec essary to determine the State en try In the Regional tourney slated to open Friday In Portland. After Drain scored two runs In the second Inning of the first game on Bob Cellar's since, two walks and two errors, Byerly's tied it up in the fourth. Lee Jack son singled and Dick Piazza reached first on an error. Both runner scored when Ken Davit doubled. In the sixth Inning Byerly't ad ded the run that won the game. Gene Montaigne singled and went to third on Rex Nicoud's single. Jack McBride then singled home Montaigne. In the second game, Vale broke a 33 deadlock In the top of the eighth Inning as Bruce Schefford drew first when hit by Drain Pitcher Hubert Derscham, ad vanced to second on a fielder's choice and came home on an er ror by Second Baseman Earl Simpson. 2 Exhibition Games On Chiefs' Card This Week The Roseburg Chiefs are sched uled to play two exhibition games at Finlay field this week, prior to meeting Central Point for a league contest Sunday at Central Point. Tuesday night, The Chiefs meet the Medford Craters for the fifth time this season. In earlier tus sles between the two clubs, Rose burg defeated the Craters by the following scores: 11-7, 6-1, 7-6, and 50. The Craters are still game, and a hot battle It anti cipated. Friday' night, the Umpqua Chiefs oppose Powers A. C. at the local bail nark. Last year, Pow ers beat Roseburg, 5-3. Thiessen Again Wins Motorcylt Derby OLYMPIA, Aug. 8. W For the second straight year, Eugen Thiessen of Eugene, Ore, Is champion of the "death head' derby put on yearly by the Olym pia Motorcycle club. He headed four other Oregon lans yesterday In the expert class. Trailing him were Red Rice, Portland; Hubert Simon, port Unci; Ray Highland, Eugene, and Roy Burke, Portland. Cliff Steering, Edmonds, won the amateur event. The novice competition was captured by For rest Hess of Tacoma with Bill Neu, Centralia, finished third. letter Iteerlnel In one nt the great advance since the war, we jive you new pcnler control steering. 4ft And the firM time, tie rrvls eoual length giTe tou 14 - 7; Knotted Brooklyn Goes To Top In Tie With St. Louis Dodgers Win Two From Cincinnati As Cardinals Down Giants In 1 Game By JACK HAND (Associated Press Sports Wrlur) Here they come down the stretch with St. Louis and Brook lyn neck and neck in the Na tional league race and 52 garnet to go. Brooklyn, which moved Into a first place tie by twice dumping Cincinnati while St. Louis was winning a single from New York, may nave a silent edge in the schedule. The Brooks have 28 home games left while the Cards must play 2a on the road. In the easy nlrkln' department. St. Louis has all the better of it. Th Cards have 30 games with Pittsburgh. Cincinnati and Chi cago. The last three teams In the standings, altnougn the Pirates have been tough for them all year. Brooklyn plays a total ot 16 with the sixth, seventh and eighth place clubs. The six big games between the Cards and Brooks may decide the Issue but it's more likely that it will go down to the wire in late September. Cincinnati, loser 14 of 18 starts against Brooklyn, was the step ping stone for Burt Shotton't men to regain a piece of first place. Joe Hatten shut out the Reds In the opener 7-0 and came on to work the last 1 23 in nings of the 2-1 second game when Rex Barney got into trou ble. Homers by Bruce Edwards and Jackie Robinson in the first game and by Spider Jorgensen in the second drove in eight of the nine Dodger runs. Edwards bashed his with the bases loaded in the sixth. George (Red) Munger got the Cards back on the win path as he stopped New York with seven hits. 92. Boston broke a five-game los ing streak by trampling Chicago 11-0, on Bill Voiselle's seven-hitter but tell back Into its tail spin in losing the second game In 10 innings, 4-3. Dick Sister helped the Phillies to a double triumph over Pitts- hurgh wltn a three-run pincn homer in the ninth inning to take the second game, 5-4, after tne mils won tne opener, 7-J, Yankees Gain Ground The New York Yankeet con tinued to fatten their American league lead at the expense of the St. Louis Browns although they had to be satisfied with a 2-2 tie In the second game. They smothered the cellar club, 20-2, In the opener. When darkness halted the finale at the end of 10 Innings, the Yanks had only two hits off Al Papal. The Yanks now lead by 51 games. They are 61 games out front of Boston whose seven- game winning streak was broken by Detroit, 6-4. Cleveland s hopes took a dou ble Jolt from the As with Elmer Valo and Mike Guerra dealing out the stiffest punches. Guerra's three-run homer and fine relief E itching by Charley Harris saved ou Brissle's 11th win, 5-4, in the first game. Guerra's two-run sin gle enabled Joe Coleman to grab Now Cafivantafxal Fa.iMt car w mirfff to net into and out of. Women enter and leave, kith dignitv. (lommon sense ertftineerinft of t wider doorwav and natural strp-in en ;" Iranrea male it teem ah-Mird ever to have to wrmtle your way in and out of a car. 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The Serapht left for Sacramen to last night after dropping boln games ol a Sunday uoubiehead er to San Diego, 6 to 4 and 7 to 4. They booted the first one on errors, then dropped the abrevi ated nightcap wnen San Diego's Orestes Minoso nomerea wnn two on In the extra inning. The Padres took the teries, 5 to 2. Sacramento, meanwhile, split with San Francisco, winning the opener, 2 to 1, but losing the finale, 3 to 2. The Seals tooK the series, 6 to 2, but the split en abled the Sacs to gain a full game on Hollywood, which lost two to Seattle. Sacramento and Oakland are six games behind Hollywood. The Rainiers, who show signs of getting hot again, cut through the league leaders like a blow torch in the second game, win ning it by the sepuclual margin of 14 to 2. Home runs by JacKie Albright and Bui Schuster, Los Angeles castoff, featured the as sault. Seattle took the seven-Inning opener, 3 to 1, and the se ries, b to 1. Like Sacramento, Oakland also split Its Sunday twin bill. Port land iced the opener on a mas terful l-to-0 shutout by Hal bails man. The Acorns bounced Back nir a 3-to-l victory in the after piece and a 5-to-4 edge in the se ries. BASEBALL STANDINGS (By lh Associate! Preu) NATIONAL LEAGIE W I St. Louii 3 31 Brooklyn Hi 31 New York M 41 Bueton . .VI 3; Philadelphia M S; Pittsburgh 46 a Cincinnati ..... . 43 8 Chicago - 0 Pet .818 .618 .A2Q ,5iS .3413 .451 .411 .37! AMERICAN LEAGL'B W New York 3 Cleveland 0 Botlon 39 Philadelphia .. 38 Detroit 37 Chiraso ... .. 44 L 37 43 Prt .637 .3,13 .373 .332 .3:i:i .423 .366 .327 ...34 70 rACIFIC COA&T LEAGl'K W L Hollywood 78 39 Oakland 72 6.1 Sacramento 71 04 San Diego H" 06 Seattle 9 68 Pet .39 .320 .526 .311 .3t .4:i Portland San Francisco . 82 37 .456 .418 Lou An ?! LEAGUE LEADERS (By tha Associated Press NATIONAL LEAGL'B Batting Robinson, Brooklyn, .383; aiaugnier. si. iouia. ja. Runs batted InHobintvon. Brooklyn, M Hodges. Brooklyn, A3 Home runs Kiner, Pittsburgh 29 Gordon. New York and Sauer, Chi cago. 24. Pitching Sewell, Pittsburgh, 5-1, .833, Ntwcomoc, Brooklyn. iO-J, .768. AMERICAN LEAGL'B Batting Dill In ger, St. Louis, .3430; Williams. Boston, .3447. Runs batted In Stephena, Boston 112; Williams, Boston. 1(19. Horn runs Stephens and Williams, Boston. 27. Pitching Reynolds. New York 11-3. .846; Kuzava, Chicago, 7-2, .778. Betty Evans To Play With Pro Chicago Queem PORTLAND. Aue. 8. OP) In 10 years, Brtty Evans had pitched 41 no-hit, no-run games for Portland fastball teams. Now It's paid off. The 23-year-old star boarded an airliner last night for Chicago to play with the professional Chi cago Queens of the National league. victory No. 10 from Al Benton In the second 4-2. Art Houtteman celebrated his 22nd birthday by pitching De troit to a 6-4 edge over the Red Sox, defeating Maurice McDer mott, the sensational rockie south paw. The Sox nicked Houtteman for 12 hits, Including the 27th home runs by Ted Williams and Vern Stephens. Dom Di.Maggio bunted safely in the first inning, running his hitting streak to 34 consecutive games. Chicago split a pair with Wash ington, the White Sox taking the opener, 4-1, on Randy Gumpert's eight-hit pitching, and the Sen ators breaking a seven-game los ing string to cop the second, 10, behind rookie Lloyd Hittle. Oittributtd in Roaoburj ' 0B & ' Olympic Club Team Wins Zona Swim Title SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 8. UP) The San Francisco Olympic club by the slim margin of two points holds the far western AAU swimming team championship. Olympic club swimmers edged out the former championship team, Pasadena Athletic club, 58 56, yesterday. California swim ming club, Los Angeles, was third :th 35, With two U. S. Olympic stars leading the way, Crystal Plunge oi ban hTancisco lar outdistanced divals in the women's division. The San Francisco swimmers am massed 100 points with second place Multnomah Athletic club, Portland, second with 25. Diver Zoe Ann Olsen and swim mer Barbara Jensen set the pace for the victors. Miss Jensen tool four firsts in the two-day meet. Weaver Tosses Hager To Capture Grapple Title Buck Weaver, wrestling villain from Indiana, made good his statement that he was "out to win that championship In any way possible" Saturday night at the armory, when he defeated diminutive Tex Hager in the linai match of a wrestling tour nament which was held to de termine the Pacific coast Junior heavyweight champion. In the semi-final match, Tony Ross defeated Yaqui Joe. and in th curtain raiser, Leo Karlinko decisioned Salvador Flores. Weaver had a little unexDect- ed support from the fans in the main event, considering the stunts he has been pulling here lately, out Hager was clearly the iavonte wltn two-thirds of the crowd. Weaver entered the rin with the same old tape around his wrist that he had used to advan tage in previous matches here, but Yaqui Joe who refereed the semi-final and final matches soon caught him rubbing Hager's eyes with it and made him take it off. Hager took the first fall with his spectacular flying scissors in 15 minutes. Weaver pulled one of his old tricks to win the sec ond. He pretended to have in lured his ankle and kept steDDlne outside tne ropes to rest It. Hag er soon oecame curious and stepped a bit closer to Inspect, Weaver made his famed back ward leap, grabbed Hager around the neck, and applied his neck cracker to win the fall In 13 minutes. Weaver came back and took the third fall with his own vari ation of the skin the cat In nine minutes. He bounced Hager off the ropes, grabbed him, and pinned him with his legs over nis snouiaers on tne mat Karlinko Pins Flores In the action packed semi final match, which was a scheduled two-out-of-three falls. 30-minute affair. Karlinko won the only fall with a body press In 14 min utes. In a flurry of action, Flores tnrew Karlinko out of the rorjes. Karlinko crawled back Into the ring and maneuvered Flores over to the ropes and choked him by tying tne ropes around nis neck. He then applied the bodv Dress to take the fall. After the referee awarded him the fall, Karlinko stomped on Flores' neck before he left the ring. The time limit ran out before either wrestler could gam fall. Yaqui Joe, substituting for his ailing protege, tne Yaqui Kid. showed the fans plenty of ring savvy before he fell victim to Tony Ross' arm stomps and ham- meriocks and lost the one-fall curtain raiser In 10 minutes. It was a rough affair, and both wrestlers dished out and took a lot of punishment In that 10 minutes. Bud Ward Wins Annual Open Golf Tournament TRAIL. B. C. Aue. 8. (!P Marvin (Bud) Ward, erstwhile national amateur golfing cham pion, won tne soou i rau-Koss and fourth annual open vesterdav with an 11-under-par total of 205 tor tne &4-noie event. It was his second tournament as a pro. Bill Mawhinnev. Vancouver. B. C. amateur, was second with 220, Don Taylor Wins Lower Columbia Golf Title LONGVIEW. An 8 i-w Don Taylor of Seattle won the 36 hole lower Columbia golf cham pionships yesterday by putting to- gainer two supero t.-w ior a lJo. Lou Stafford, Portland's defend ing champion, was second, slip nine to a nar 70 after knnttinc Taylor's 68 at the halfway point. Qtaol 1. - fnnH a! n...-ll4 -I - Iron, with definita amounts of carbon. by Sates Candy Co. j : r ' " ''. . " ' ' ...... s i IT....,.-. I J t5V'i! TJQr. ;,-v rdi . HARNESS HORSE IS RIGHT This gives you n idea of tho number of gadgets required to keep a pacer, fully equipped,: hitched to sulky. Honor's Lady, Harry Bedell up, carries all thl customary paraphernalia at Roosevelt Raceway, Westbury. N.Y. Title At Stake In Plywood-Squirts Game Tonight Tonight, four teams In the city Softball loop wind up league play with a twin mil at Mniay neia starting at 7:30 o'clock. Roseburg Elks and Veterans of Foreign Wars will play the early game, but It Is the nightcap Be Umpqua Plywood that will have the fans really stomping In the bleachers. Both Plywood and the Squirts hold down the number one posi tion In the league lineup, and to night's game may decide the city'i representative to the dis trict tournament. II the Plywooders win, they au tomatically become the city soft ball champions. They won the first half series and there would be no necessity for a playoff. But a Squirts win tonight would mean a replay between the two clubs to decide the city winner and the district representative. Three Softball clubs form this district. Reedsport, Cottage Grove and Roseburg will play a double elimination, home and home series, to determine the state entry. The state playoffs occur at Eu gene and will start August 31. Reedsport Semi-Pros Defeated By Banks PORTLAND. Aug. 8 UP) The surprising team from Banks vaulted to Wednesday's ' state final by posing a fifth consecu tive victory last night. Banks' manager Lenore Lyda allowed but one hit in hurling his team to a 4 to 2 win over previously unbeaten Reedsport. Fighting It out for the other berth tonight and tomorrow will be the defending champions of Albany and the Portland Reli ance and Albina Fuel teams. Albany got a five-run inning NEW LOW PRICE 13 nj I Gallon ' ' Rut buy in bom protection, for or 0 rr ::; that's SwrwiB-Williims. SWP House Paint! America's fa.onta, 7 0.T! 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