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1,A CKANDli UVUNING ORSlCKVIilt Phone 600 . Complete Local Reports Monday, June 18, 1915 Big League Leaders Drop Double Headers ' NEW YORK, June 18 (UP) Two younKsters and two old men brought the am hit ions Pittsburgh Pirates and De troit Tigers down to earth today and made it apparent that any ideas of runaway pennant races arc extremely prema ture. The Pirates and Tigers, after steady climbing, took over the lead in their respective races last week, but they looked like anything but pennant winners yesterday in dropping double headers. Two young Cnrdinnl pitchers, rookie Ken Burkhardt, and so phomore Ted Wilks, humiliated the Buas at Pittsburgh before 32,930 .funs, the largest crowd of the season, 7 to 0 and 0 to 2. It was a different story for the Tigers at Chicago as they were tamed by oldsters, Thornton Lee and Joe Haynos, 0 to 1 and 7 to S, Lee, gaining his eighth victory, effectively scattered six hits equalling his winning record for the past two. seasons. Haynes hud given up only nno hit and one run before he had to retire in the second game with un ankle injuiy suffered in u slide to third base. Sox Victory ii Costly - Sine" 1 1 io leaguo leading but ler, Tony Cuceinello, left the m eond game with a pulled muscle after making three hits, it was a costly double win for the White Sox. The amazing Dodgers took 'over the lead undisputedly, bene fitting by Pittsburgh's lapse and the Massachusetts curfew. Play ing at Boston, they handed Mor ton Coper his first defeat after six straight vietmies, I) to 0, then were suved at least temporarily when the second game was sus pc nded in the oiglilh with the Braves ahead, 4 to 1. The game will be completed in August. Phils Drub Giants The last place Phillies knocked the Giants out of a first plaro tie by drubbing them twice, 11 to II and G to 2. The Cubs scored 'all their runs in the ninth at Cincinnati to beat the Reds, 3 to 1, for the eighth straight time this season. Paul Derringer, who pitched only one inning, got credit for bis eighth victory. The second game was ruined out. . It u s s Christopher, who has won 11 out of the 20 games the Athletics have gained this sea ron, picked up his latest against the Yunkees, beating them 4 to 2 ut Philadelphia after New York won the first game, 7 to 1. The Boston Red Sox lopped the Senators twice at Washing ton, 2 to 1 and 7 to 1. Kinmet O'Neill won his fourth game in the oper.er while rookie Jim Wil win gave up only five hits to take the night cap. Cleveland at St. Louis in tile American league was postponed because of ruin. Maltese, native language of tin bomb-scarred island of Malta, is so ancient that its alphabet lias been lust, and cannot be rewi it ten. JUST RECEIVED! I I-:'. 12- and 8-2 Cnlilex Kleetric Wire Nn. 8 Weallin proof Wire ii and II. I. Hlrclric Al ul ins WiNillnTproof Sockets ,'t to 7-('tip Cory Coffee Makers l-Ciicuit Kiitninie Sit iiches. lireust Drills Pipe Dies x and -'4 -in Hose llibbs l,o()n Alladin 1 .am p Chimneys .Met ill Lunch IIoxik Indies Overnight Cawx Nash Mies and Jialteries K.iili oad Lanterns Wright & 1) it. s m Tennis Itackets Smooth Clothes Line Wire Babnenkarap's SPORTS Page 6 COMING UP Newest challen ger lor American league bat ting leadership ii George Caao, Washington outfielder, who is drawing closor to Tony Cucein ello of White Sox for lop placo. O Coasting Along By HAL WOOD United Press staff Correipondent SAN FRAN CISCO, June 18 (UP) It was about u week be fore the Pacific Coast baseball league swung into action on March 31 that this column pre dicted it would be a "year for the sluggers." As the penunt chase nears the half-way mark, the prediction is becoming reality even admit ted by the veteran Harry Wil liams, secietury of the league. Williums takes a gander at a batch of statistics and comes up with this Information: The eight Pacific Coast league teams up to June 12 score a total of 2,(iU5 runs or 351 more than during the same period last year. The totul amounts to about 10 runs per game, which is high scoring in any league. And, while a .327 average won the PCL batting championship last year, u .327 mark puts Norm Deweese of the Oakland Acorns in 12th place as of this date. Emil Mailho, the San 'Francis co fly-chasir, is tops with .3111, followed by such heavy swatters as Larry Barton, Portland, Jess Landruni, Sacramento, F rank Hawkins, Oakland and Cicorgo McDonald, Seattle, all with marks hi tler than .350. All this slugging is partly due to the fuel there an n't enough good pilchcrs to Red the bats men those shai p lui aking curves and high hard ones day in and day out. Hut some of the finest won and lost avi rages in the history of Hie league may he hung up by a few of Hie seasoned hurlers. Given good chalices of winning 25 games or more this year ale: Hob Joycr, San Fianriseo (12-5): liny lleber, Portland (11-4); Don I'ulford, I'm I land (1(1-4): Guv ! Fletcher, Sacramento (11-5); Vnl i lie Haves, Sun Diego (11-5). ANY IIOMS TODAY? Illustrated by "Hk.t. Nnwll I hattiot Rnn'i ;, "V , - .V, I,, rw Beavers Increase Lead by Double Win From Rainiers By United Press The Portland Beavers today were ruling to go on this week's scries with the second - division Sacrumento Solons after strength ening their lead in the Pacific Coust league to 4 14 games over Seattle. Portland knocked the Rainiers two full gomes down in the standings yesterday .with a dou ble victory 6 to 1 and 2 to 0, while the San Diego Padres push- i d :the Solons down to 6th place by scores of 9 to 7 and 8 to 8. The Hollywood Stars split wjfth Los Angeles, winning the 'first game 3 lo 2 and dropping the nightcap 5 to 2. Oakland and San Francisco also Split, the Oaks coming back for a 2 to 0 decision behind the one-hit pitching of Mitchell Chetkovich after drop ping the opener 7 to 6. Chetko vieh fanned three and walked five in his near-perfect perform a nee. Charley Peterson of the Seals drove in five runs to help Bub Joyce chalk up his 14th victory of the season. The gome was featured by the second attack on Umpire Bill Engcln in less than a week. Engcln called Jake Cau field out on strikes with the tie ing and winning runs on base. Two i r r i tatcd spectators dis agreed. The Seals copped the series 4 to 3. The Hollywood Stars won their first series in three years over Los Angeles Angels 4 to 3. The stars scored twice in the first Inning of the opener when Verne Reynolds singled, Manager Buck Fawsctl tripled nncl Brooks Hold er doubled. In the third Holder singled, stole second and scored on Ken Richardson's single. Both San Diego and Portland finished their scries ahead 5 to 2. Jack Tising was . credited with Portlands nightcap shutout of the Rainiers. He held Seattle to four hits. Don Pulford limited them lo five in the opener, Tony Criscoln was the. big gun of the Padre 23-hit barrage in liolli games. , in the first he got four hits in five times at bqt and two in three trips to the plate in the second for a day's average of .750. Nelson Shatters Golfing Record PHILADELPHIA, June 18 (UP) Byron Nelson, whose specialty is winning under pressure, made it plain today that no golfer in the world can top him whop he has his heart set on a champion ship. That was the way it was yes terday when he began the final round of the 72 hole Philadelphia Inquirer golf tournament one stroke behind the pace setters, Harold (Jug) McSpaden and Johnny Bulla. When Nelson finished his final round, he had shattered the 10- year course record with a seven under par 63, and he was 11 un der par for the 72 holes with a 26!). McSpaden pocketed second money, while Johnny Bulla of Atlanta, Ga., with u 270 totul was third. Strikers Return to Seattle Shipyard SEATTLE, June 10 (UP) The majority of Lake WashiiiBton shipyards 2,500 striking workers returned io uieir johs today us promised, bringing production of destroyer lenders back lo normal. The yard was penalized during Hie weekend when Hie navy or dered Hie transfer of a large at tack transport to Hip I'ngel Sound navy yard ai tiremeilon for re pairs. The attraction of the moon is Hie major cause of tides on earth, yet highest tides occur on Hie side of the earth away from Hie moon. n.v Grarta Alien and (ifortfo ilurn F.d Ren BUY A WAR BOND GET A KISS torat uanpi hf4 ib if' I t' 1 IT'S A WOMAN'S WORLD Pamela Diane Sneed, two and a half years old. youngest race horse owner, washes face of Pam Diano and pretties him for race at Santa Anita park while Papa Sneed looks on critically. Filly is same age as her owner. Baseball Standings By United Press PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L, Pet. GB Portland 47 30 .010 Seattle 42 34 .568 Vk Oakland 3!) 40 .41)4 0 Sun Francisco ...38 30 .404 9 San Diego 39 41 .488 D!i Sacrumento 38 40 .487 (Hi Los Angeles 38 40 .487 DVj Hollywood 30 47 .300 16 ."Games behind leader. . NATIONAL W. L. Pel. Brooklyn 30 21 .588 Pittsburgh 30 23 .566 New York 30 23 .560 St. Louis 29 23 .558 Chicago , 26 22 .542 Boston 25 25 .500 Cincinnati 22 27 .44(1 Philadelphia 14 42 .250 AMERICAN Detroit 29 20 .592 New York 28 22 .560 Boston 27 21 .529 St. Louis 24 24 .300 Chicago t.a 28 26 .500 Washington 22 20 .458 Cleveland 21 20 .447 Philadelphia 20 29 .408 TODAYS SPORTvPARADF By JACK CUDDY UP Staff Correspondent SCHENECTADY, N. Y.. June 18 (UP) With a miehty assist from "Two-Ton" Tony Galento, city of Schenectady one of the nations' hottest sports spots has rolled out (he red plush carpet lo welcome the dawn of the new golden era in spoi ls. Schenectady, a metropolis of more than 1110,001), and one of the country's busiest manufac turing centers, took weekend time off from the war effort to notify the baseball world, for example, Hint it lias no profes sional ball club, unci thai it will eoiipnate whole lieaitcdly with any major league outfit that might wish to establish a farm team there. It informed Hut boxing frater nity that impnitanl houts may be in the offing. And for Ihe benefit oi i:e na tion's high schools, assurance was given that Mount Pleasant high will eonlinue lo turn out its great baskelliull teams, and Noll Tor rance will still produce its ercum-oMho-crnp cross-country runners. Schenectady told America thai it is pieparing for the big post war spoils boom Saturday night at the first annual dinner of its newly organized Dapper Dun club modelled after the famous D. D.'s of Pittsburgh, than which there is no thiin-whicher. Vir tually every member of the Dap per Dans is a person formerly prominent in spoils in his own community, at least and or' who will help to stimulate sports intiresl in the community. Galenlo, former heavyweight challenger, was piincipal speaker at Hie dinner in Schenectady's Danish hall. The Orange. N. J., tavern proprii lor made bis speech without pay. -Two-Ton" Tony offered to make even greater r r. onl sacrifice for the Dapper Dam. He said he n willing to light ' lhat bum" Joe Louis ogam for nothing in Selunectady. with i nine proceeds of the title futht to go to witiows and orphans of ser t ice men lost in battle. I cam. gii in ... ' 1 I .iWC V I Mm Former Game Bird Pariah Gets Higher Rank, New Name ST. LOUIS, June 18 (NEA) Shukespcar's crock about what's in a name may be O. K. where roses arc concerned, but when it comes to ducks the Bard of Avon was 'way off. For years wild fowl hunters have generally despised the low ly coot or mudhen as utterly lacking in food value, therefore disdained to bother with it. - But a whitcbill boy, that's something else again. A bird Dolled up. , , with that name rates in fact any of the duck family with bill in its name is acceptable to the hunter's bag. So come next fall hunters will begin bagging the whitcbill, lit tle wotting that they're actually knocking down the former par iah, coot or mudhen. It came about this way: Ducks Unlimited, international sports men's organization formed eight years ago to restore waterfowl, discovered that the mudhen of fers real gustatorial relish. Laboratory analyses of hun dreds of the birds collected in all parts of their continental range, from breeding grounds in west ern Canada to Cuba, showed litem to be primarily vegetarian, nine-tenths of their food consist ing of plants, mainly pondweed, wild celery, sedges, algae and grasses. Also that the coot or mudhen, which finicky wildfowlers con sidered half duck and half chick en, is not a fish cater. Bui its name was against it. . ' So the board of trustees of DU, meeting ill St. Louis billowing a nationwide contest, officially changed the name from mudhen to whitcbill as a desirable means of persuading more sportsmen to put this fowl on the table and thereby help control its dispro portionate increase as a glutton ous raider on foods of other wa terfowl. The whitcbill not lo be con fused with lite fish and crustii-cean-cating scoter commonly called coot in coastal areas ac tually is an off-shoot of the marsh-dwelling rail family of game birds. Duck hunters all over the United States will rejoice, no doubt, in the new name. No longer will they have to hung their heads in shame if they bag n doen or so of the newly christ ened waterfowl. Because instead of a mess of coots or mutlhens, they'll have several braces of whitebills. TODAY and Tl'ESU.VY M.ETHFI BARRUI0RF 'K I .a. H T HMt Preakncss, Derby Winners Are Out Of Belmont Race NEW YORK, June 18 (UP) A thrcc-woy split of the turf's coveted triple crown apparently was assured today as the three-year-olds headed toward the $50,-000-addcd Belmont with Preak ncss victory Polynesian ineligible and Kentucky Derby winner Hoop Jr. lame in his stall, A wide-open battle was fore cast for Saturday's final leg of the triple crown becousc the three top colts in Pimlico's richest preakncss obviously will not go to the post and Pavot has been stopped in both his starts over a distance..-' 1 ' Polynesian, from the stable of Mrs. P. A. A. Widener, would have been the horse to beat on the basis of his wins in the Withers Mile and the Preakncss. The dark brown colt proved his class as he ran eight rivals into the light tan track at Pimlico to captured the run for the Black- Eyed Susans. But neither Polynesian nor Darby Dieppe, who finished third in both the Derby and the Preak ncss, had been nominated for the Belmont. Compromise Urged To Speed Draft Of Security Pact SAN FRANCISCO, June 18 (UP) Australian Foreign Minis ter Herbert V. Evatt today pro posed a compromise solution of the latest United Nations confer ence "crisis" over the powers of the general assembly as officials pressed for adjournment of the parley on Saturday. Evatt's suggested solution was submitted to the conference steering committee which im mediately voted lo refer it back to a technical committee for con sideration. The Big Five also ar ranged a meeting to consider it. The present language of the charter on the discussion powers of the assembly says it has the right to discuss "any matter with in the sphere of international re lations." The Russians say that is too broad and needs modifica tion and clarification. Saturday closing of Ihe confer ence now appears to depend on a quick reply from Moscow on the assembly powers question. Soviet Commander Of Berlin Killed LONDON, June 18 (UP) Col. Gen. Nikolai Berzarjn, Russian occupation commandant of Eer lin, was killed yesterday in a motorcycle accident, the Soviet controlled Berlin radio reported today. Marshal Gregory K. Zhukov, deputy commander of the Tied army, announced the death ot Berzarin, an expert on military operations in the far cast who recently expressed n desire to re turn there. The Russians had reported minor outbreaks by unruly ele ments in the city. But in the main Berlin had teen reported quiet, wilh Germans and Soviet occupation forces busily at work rehabilitating the ruined capital. PILOT IS KILLED SEATTLE, June 18 (UP) Ens. Austin V. Regan, jr. of Chicago, 111., was killed yesterday when his fighter plane crashed near the Astoria, Ore., naval air stalion, shortly after the takeoff on a training mission. PAYROLLS DECLINE SALEM, Ore., June 18 (UP) Industrial payrolls in On gon for May were down nearly $6,1)00,000 below those for Mav ,1944 from $40,845,439 to $40.90:1,909 accord ing to a report released today by the slate industrial accident com mission. The May payrolls showed a slump of more than $11,000,000 Irom the April figures which to talled $52,051,683. Granada IOMTK and TUKSDAY A SHOCKING FILM! BRUTALLY FRANK! 'NEWS and STOOGE COMEDY OPPOSES COMPULSORY TRAINING Compulsory military training in peacetime was branded as contrary lo the American way of life by Josephus Daniels, 83. left, noted publisher and Sec retary of the navy during World War I. He's pictured with Rep. Robert L. Doughlon, democrat of North Carolina, chairman of Ihe house ways and means committee, before which he appeared lo oppose compulsory training legislation, " '' v Jobless Payments Are Down in May SALEM, Ore., June 18 (UP) Only about one-half of the work ers who filed claims for jobless insurance in Oregon last year drew any benefits at all and the number who drew the maximum annual allowance amounted lo less than one per cent of the to tal, according to a report by the slate unemployment compensa tion commission. Of 4,698 workers who filed claims 2,297 failed to draw any compensation while 152 others were granted only a single week's benefits. Only 32 workers drew the maximum of $15 for 16 weeks. Unemployment benefits for May dropped 40 per cent below the April record but the monthly total of $24,903 more than dou bled the $11,064 paid out in bene fits during May, 1944. Belgians Demand King's Abdication BRUSSELS, June 18 (UP) The national committee of the liberal parly adopted by a vote o 88 to 3 today a resolution asking King Leopold of the Belgians to abdicate. The liberal parly action was taken as Belgians waited for the return of Leopold after five years of German captivity. Left wing threats of a general strike if he returns to his throne were heard frequently. Persistent reports indicated the king is expected to arrive in the capital from Switzerland today or tomorrow, accompanied by his commoner wife, and lhat a show down on his restoration to the monarchy is imminent. THREE ARE ARRESTED Three arrests were made by city police yesterday. They in cluded James Elmer Vess, 3210 Fourth street, Oris N. Hoss, 2004 Greenwood street, and Charles Eriekson, Tclocasct, all charged with drunkenness. Alexander the Great, Julius it" aKle. Caesar and lite Duke of Welling ton were never defeatd m bat ( PRE-WAR r QUALITY IJf 86 Proof 68.4J& Grain Neutral Spirits i V, A : - St 11 tad , M CORBY'S . .. - T University Gets , New English Head EUGENE, Ore., June 18 (UP) Dr. Philip Webster. Souers, past professor of English'.at Tulanc university, New Orleans, La., will head the department-of English at the University of Oregon this fall, succeeding Dr...G. Valentine Buyer, it wus announced today. Dr. Boycr retired to emeritus status in April of this year alter being head of the English depart ment since 1920. The Bible was printed in Braille for the blind as early as 1800, and the complete edition required 39 largo volumes. The Grtat M says: "No siree, no body's going o mold my opinions. Give me all the facts straight from the shoulder and hot off the wire. That's why I dial the Richfield Reporter." ' HAL PEARY, Tin Grtat Gildnlvi, On th Krift Chit Co.'l Ptrkay Margaril Program. 8:00 P. M. SUNDAY NBC I KHQ 10 p.n. 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