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3 Scorned Southpaws Turn Tables On Former Buddies By JOE REICHLER Auociftled Preu Sporlswrltaf A trio of scorned southpaws were dancing on ir today to the music made by the moans and groans of the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians. Fresh from upset victories over the pennant contenders, the trio pitchers Stubby Overmire, Bill Wight and Billy Pierce proved once again how embarrassing it can be to underestimate a castoff. Overmire, cast adrift by Detroit last winter, gained sweet revenge upon his former employers yes terday when he hung a 6-2 defeat on the league leaders to give the St. Louis Browns an even break in their doubleheader. The Tigers had come from behind to win the onener. 5-4. Wight and Pierce, traded off by tne New ront xanKees ana ir ecrs. respectively, turned in spar kling performances in pitching the Chicago White Sox to 2-1 and 6-5 triumphs over the Indians. Taking advantage of the Tiger and Indian lapses, tne yanxees won two games from the hapless Philadelphia Athletics, 6-4 and 5-2, to climb into second place past the Indians. The Bronx Bombers, who open a long home stay Tues day with an important three-game series against the Tigers, thus chewed a full game off the Ti gers' lead and moved another game, in front of the Tribe. The Tigers' margin over the Yanks is three games. Rid Sox Hold Boston's idle Red Sox remain in fourth place, six games off the pace. A washout of their scheduled game with Washington halted tem porarily their seven-game winning streak. Ram also cut the National league activity. With the four eastern teams yielding to weeping skies, the spotlight was thrust on the St. Louis Cardinals. The Red birds rose to the occasion, coming from behind to nip the Cincinnati Reds, 3-2. Stan Musial drove in all St. Louis' runs with three sin gles. Howie Pollet gained the nod over Cincinnati's Ken Raffens berger. The victory moved the Cards into a third place tie with Boston. Paul Minner and Frank (Dutch) Miller, another pair of discards, pitched the Chicago Cubs to a 4-2, 5-2 sweep of a doubleheader from Pittsburgh. Minner. the former Brooklyn Dodger lefthander, al lowed eight hits for his seventh victory in the opener. He was helped by Andy Pafko's 29th bomer. Hiller, an ex-Yankee, spaced seven hits for his ninth victory against two losses. Bill Serena drove in three runs for the win ners. Ralph Kiner rapped his 37th homer for the Bucs. Tigers Coma Back The Tigers were forced to over come a 4-1 deficit to beat the Browns in the opener. They won in the ninth when Aaron Robinson, former Yankee and White Sox. sin gled Vic Wertz home with two out. The 31-year-old Overmire, who was able to win but four games for Detroit in the last two years, gained his fifth victory for the Browns in the nightcap. He allowed nine hits and walked four but was strong in the clutch as the Tigers left 10 men stranded. A home run by another castoff, outfielder Marv Rickert, gave Wight the edge in the pitching duel with Cleveland's Bob Lemon. Wight gave up five hits to six for Lemon. Rickert's homer came with one on in the fourth. - Pierce allowed only six hits in the second game, which seventh inning home run by Gus Zernial decided. The big bat of Joe DiMaggio and some slick pitching by lefties Kddie Lopat and Eddie Ford gave the Yankees their two victories over the A's. DiMaggio's three run homer and two subsequent singles helped Lopat gain his 14th win in the opener. Ford checked the A's with six hits in the night cap for his fourth victory. Cheney Studs Add Two League Wins Central Point added two more scalps to its belt over the weekend by downing Ashland Saturday night, 8-1 and Crescent City on Sunday, 5-3. This finishes their schedule ex cept for one makeup game with Roseburg. The Chiefs proved to be a nemesis two Sundays ago by edging the Cheney Studs 1-0 for their first league loss. Man ager Earl Sargent of the Chiefs announced yesterday that the final do-or-die game will La played next Sunday afternoon, Aug. 27, at Cen tral Point. If the Chiefs win again Lthey will be in I tie with the Muds. FOR... SERVICE . . . EXPERIENCE . . . CO-OPERATION.. . . Investigate the services offered by your "Home owned, Home-ope rated" bank. Money left on deposit with us remains in DOUGLAS COUNTY. All facilities available for your Individual needs. Douglas County State Bank Member Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, logrxMiroi 8 Th News-Review, Roseburg, Or. Mon., Aug. 21, 1950 Louis-Charles Fight Will Finish Heavyweight Boxing By'GAYLE TALBOT (For Hugh Fullerton Jr.). NEW YORK -OPl It is ironic and regrettable that Joe Louis, the man wno revived heavyweight box ing and made it the most glamor our sport of them all tor more than a decade, should now b e forced to bury the remains. For no matter what happens on the night of Sept. 27 whetner Joe whips Ezzard Charles or Ezzard Wallick Piledrives Grable In Mat Duel Both Lee Grable and Leo Wal lick made good use of their fav orite holds Saturday night at the Roseburg armory, but Detroit's Wallick showed how he became Pacific coast junior heavyweight champ by taking two falls and the match. , In the first fall Wallick was making illegal use of the fists which piqued Grable no end. Fin ally, after some heated discussion, Grable batted his opponent into the ropes and took the fall with his hinhlv vaunted abdominal stretch. This is the hold with which he took the Hawaiian junior heavy weight championship a short time ago. Wallick came back with a will for the second fall and, after a series of reverse hangman's holds pinned Grable to the mat. Throughout the match Wallick was making considerable ellort to catch Grable in his favorite pile driver. Grable, however, up to the last minute, put on a fine defen sive show frustrating Wallick's every attempt. Finally Wallick succeeded after slugging Grable into submission and left him un conscious on the mat. Cowbov Ace Abbott pegged him self as a real meanie as he lost the preliminary match by making illegal use of the ropes. Popular Jack Kiser, although winning the match on a referee s decision, found himself pretty well tied up in the ropes where Abbott' had left him, dangling by the neck. Abbott got the first fall with a reverse headlock and kiser took the second with a skin-the-cat. COAST LEAGUE By Tha Associated Press w Oakland 90 San Diego 84 Hollywood 80 Seattle 76 San Francisco ... 73 Portland I u 67 Los Angeles 65 Sacramento 57 Pet. .604 .568 .537 .510 .493 .462 .442 .383 Sunday's Results , Seattle 4-8, Sacramento 3-6. Los Angeles 6-3, Hollywood 4-4. San Diego 5-1, Portland 4-0. San Francisco 11-1, Oakland 9-5. Saturday's Results Portland 5, San Diego 4. Los Angeles 9, Hollywood 7. San Francisco 11, Oakland 4. Seattle 8, Sacramento 5. whips Joe the game is a goner for a long time to come. Good heavyweights appear to be a van ishing race, gone with the dino saur. The coming fight means nothing to the 36-year-old Louis except au opportunity to raise some money to pay off -taxes. He has no desire to fight again, and the training grind will be galling to him. If. he wins, then what? He will have done nothing more than prove that the younger heavies are a sorry lot, indeed, as had been more than suspected. Had the old champion not been forced to come back, then it might have been possible in time to be come accustomed to Charles as the titleholder and to generate some interest in a bout between him and, say, Lee Savold, the ex bartender. But if Joe wallops the Cincinnati Negro, as the bookies now favor him to do by odds of 3-1, Ezzard might as well wrap it up. And beyond him there isn't a heavy weight in the country of any stat ure Even around the gyms these days the managers no longer call you aside and confide that they have a young heavy prospect who can move around and take it and throw a left hook like Dempscy. There is a distinct spirit of lassi tude among the pilots. Charles is in an unenviable spot in every respect. He never wanted to fight his old idol, Louis. It was forced upon him. It offered him his first chance to make some real money, even though he had to accept 20 percent of the net while Joe was demanding and get ting 35 percent. The fight offers him very little else. It is highly doubtful that a victory would boost his popularity or cause him to be regarded all of a sudden as a humdinger of a heavyweight. He was unfortunate in having to go through with the Freddie Beshoie bout in Buffalo. Though he finally stabbed Fred die into a bloody wreck after 14 rounds, hzzard let everyone see once again that he couldn't dent a doily with either fist. Not only that, but he got hit far too often by Beshore. "And if that guy can hit him," as one observer put it, "so can Joe Louis. That's all I want t o know." Finally, if Ezzard fools 'em and bats the old champion around for 15 rounds, what will the fans say? Why, they'll say that Ezzard, the coward, waited until Joe was fat and decrepit and out of breath and tnen supped him the works. They say the biggest mistake Jack Johnson ever made and he turned in some beauts was in cut ting down and humiliating another champion who tried to come back, Jim Jeffries. Pastime Vins Grudge Game Sutherlin Pastime and Scher ner's Bottlers of the city Softball league staged a friendly grudge battle in Sutherlin Sunday after noon before a crowd of 150 people. The Pastimers won 6-5. Since nothing was at stake, the game lacked much fire usually found in a regular league game. There were numerous errors, part icularly by the Schemer's who were playing with a makeshift team minus many of their star players. Ralph Sanstede pitched for Schemer's and gave up four hits while Swede Vang handled the mound chores for the winners and gave up an equal number. Highlight of the game was Jack Loomis' homer for Sutherlin with two men on bases. Spud Harris slammed a homer for the losers. Tomorrow night-the city champ ion Schemer's Bottlers will jour ney to Drain for the district play offs. They will play the first game with Cottage Grove at 7:30. The second game will pit Springfield and Coos Bay. The winners of these two games will meet at a date to be decided later. Hours Announced For Football Togs Football Coach' Cece Sherwood of Roseburg senior high school announced Sunday that equipment will be issued Wednesday, Aug. 23, between 3 and 6 p.m. Issuing will take place in the main high school building for the fouf high school classes; fresh men, sophomores, juniors and sen iors. The seventh and eighth grades will not report for equip ment until a week later, on Aug. 30. Practice will begin Thursday and will be held every night but Saturday, when the high school hopefuls will appear on the field in uniform at 7 p.m. and workout until 9. Alterations will be made on these times for certain posi tions. Sherwood said that some of the backfield will probably report twice a day. W. I. L. SCORES WHY SUFFER FROM ' THE HEAT? ELECTRIC FANS lie ! M OFFICE and HOUSEHOLD FANS UP TO 50 LESS OSCILLATING and STATIONARY IN SIZES 8" TO 16" BLADES A GOOD SELECTION OF QUIET POWERFUL ELECTRIC FANS REDUCED AS MUCH AS HALFI USE FOR COOLING HOME IN SUMMER, FOR WARM AIR CIRCULATION IN WINTER. BUY NOW! 36 At jackscnsx ye 268 By Tha Associated Press W L Pet. Tacoma 78 48 .619 Yakima 78 50 .609 Tri-City 69 57 .548 Wenatchee 69 58 .513 Victoria 58 71 .450 Vancouver 53 71 .427 Salem 52 75 .409 Spokane 49 76 .392 Games Sunday Tacoma 7-1, Salem 5-0. Yakima 10, Spokane 2. Tri-City 27, Wenatchee 2. Only games scheduled. - Games Saturday Tacoma 8, Salem 3. Yakima 12-8, Spokane 2-1. Tri-City 2-6, Wenatchee 1-5. Victoria 6-4, Vancouver 1-3. In The Majors Br Tha Associated Praaa NATIONAL LIAGUI W L Pet. Philadelphia 69 45 .605 Brooklyn 60 47 .561 Boston 60 50 .545 St. Louis 61 51 j New York 57 53 .518 Chicago 50 63 .442 Cincinnati 47 64 .423 Pittsburgh 41 72 .363 Yesterday's Results St. Louis 3, Cincinnati 2. Chicago 4-5, Pittsburgh 2-2. Phildelphia at New York and Boston at Brooklyn, postponed rain. AMERICAN LEAGUE W L Pet. Detroit 72 39 .649 New York 71 44 .617 Cleveland 71 46 .607 Boston 69 48 .590 Washington 50 61 ,450 Chicago 46 71 .393 St. Louis 39 72 .351 Philadelphia 40 77 .342 Yesterday's Results Chicago 2-6, Cleveland 1-5. Detroit 5-2, St. Louis 4-6. New York 6-5, Philadelphia 4-2. Washington at Boston, postponed rain. Major League Leaders By The Associated Press National League BATTING Musial, St. Louis, .363; Hopp, Pittsburgh, .343. RUNS BATTED IN Ennis, Philadelphia; 100; Kiner, Pitts burgh, 97. HOME RUNS Kiner. Pitts burgh, 37; Pafko, Chicago, 29. PITCHING HUler, Chicago. 9-2..818. American League BATTING Goodman, Boston, .357; Kell, Detroit, .349. RUNS BATTED IN Stephens, Boston, 118; Dropo, Boston, 113. HOME RUNS Rosen, Cleve land, 33; Dropo, and Stephens, Boston, 27. PITCHING Trout, Detroit. 10-2, .833. Idaho Star Paces Win In Junior Legion Play YAKIMA, Wash. WP Dick Dodel, star hurler for the Lewis ton Ida. Junior Legion baseball nine, struck out 21 players last night as his teammates routed the Kau Tom post of Honolulu 20-3 in a second round game of the American Legion regional junior baseball tournament. Only three islanders got hits off the Idaho ace. One of the blows was an inside-the-park home run by Albert Abinoha with a mate aboard. ' It was the double elimination tournament's first defeat for the Hawaiians who earlier had drub bed Billings, Mont., 9-3. Lewiston, which byed through first round play, tangles tonight with Yakima, the tourney's only other undefeated team. The Wash ington champions smothered Port land's Contact Lumber Co. nine 25-4. Padres Slap Bevos Twice,7 Show Slight Gain On Oaks By JIM HUBBART Associated Press Sportswrtter It still looks like an Oakland schoo-in for the Pacific Coast league pennant today, but those rampaging San Diego Padres are closing ground fast. While Oakland was splitting with San Francisco, the Padres won two more from the hapless Port land Beavers yesterday by scores of 5 to 4 and 1 to 0. San Diego now trails the Oaks by games. The shutout went to Al Olsen via a three hitter in the seven inning finale, it was his 17th triumph of the campaign, and it snapped the hitting streak of Port land's Luis Marquez at 20 games. Garrison finishes were the or der of the day at Los Angeles and Seattle. A 10th inning homer by Chuck Stevens gave Hollywood a 4 to 3 victory over the Angels in their second game; Tod Davis lofted one aver the fence in the Golfing Expert . Pleases Fans Paul Hahn, the Hanford Calif ornia golf pro, staged an amazing exhibition of divot magic at the Roseburg Country club Sunday afternoon before a crowd of about 40 people. ' His repertoire of shots included some that had the golf enthusiasts agog. Best known was the William Tell shot in which he cracks a ball from the lips of his assistant. This startling precision highlighted the entire performance. For in stance, he drove off six balls in quick succession with accuracy from graduated tees placed in a line in front of him. Some of his trickier shots were slapping the ball 250 yards straight down the fairway while in a sitting position, hitting a ball 225 yards while standing on one foot and using one hand, and hitting two balls at once with one slicing and the other hooking. Hahn spends his summers at the Riverwood Golf club at Dun dee, Ore. He was impressed by the local country club and prom ised to return again next year. EUGENEAN WINS TITLE GREAT FALLS, Mont. VP) Eugene Thiessen of Eugene, Ore., national 10-mile motorcycle cham pion, added the northwest district motorcycle ti'.le to his list o f laurels yesterday. bottom of the ninth to give the Rainiers a 4 to 3 conquest of Sac-' ramento in their opener. Davis' round tripper was h i a second of the contest. He tagged it on the first pitch by reliefer Ken Gables and with one aboard. Seat tle also won the afterpiece, t to 6, with a two run sixth inning. Stevens led off the 10th with his homer after the Hollywood! had tied up the scheduled seven inning affair with an unearned tally in the seventh. The Angels took the opener, 6 to 4, via catcher Ray Cash's three run homer in the sixth frame. At San Francisco, Al Gettel chucked a five hitter in behalf of Oakland in the second game and whipped the Seals, 5 to 1, while his mates raked Al Lien and Coa Dempsey for 11 blows. San Fran cisco won the opener, 11 to 9, on Brooks holder's two-run double in the seventh. That game was the first PCL pitching triumph for 24-year-old Teddy Savarese, up from the Yak ima, Wash., farm. Marquez, labeled by Portland Manager Bill Sweeney as "the best player in the league right now," demonstrated yesterday that he's certainly the fastest, anyway. The Peurto Rican centerfielder won a 75-yard race between games at San Diego. He finished six feelr ahead of Orestes Minoso, Padre third baseman. Marquez already holds victories over Oakland's Artie Wilson and Jum Busby of Sacramento, and that's just about the elite o the PCL speed merchants. As usual, the clubs will travel Monday. Tuesday night's series openers find San Francisco at Hollywood, Los Angeles at Oak land, Seattle at Portland, San Diego at Sacramento. SEP Key to Your Bigger Salary and Brighter Future HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMA EARN YOURS AT HOME THROUGH AMERICAN SCHOOL NO CLASSES! If you're 10 or ever and failed ! finish hit it NO WASTED TIME1 school 'nd now FREE LESSON Ns otill . . n o . vut'wt-at .ration of ny Mnd. Onr xrtdttte h en- LOW PAYMENTS; tered over aOfl coll re and nntvirlttat. mm i.C II ""WRITE TODAY FOB FREE SAMPLE AMERICAN SCHOOL, 1440 Broadway, 0 Oakland 12, Calif., (Dtp. RO-B-21). Ploasa sand fret trial linon and 42 paga booklet. 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