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. THE REGISTER-GUARD, . EUGINE, OREGON FagtZlghi Bobbv Feller Wins 20th Game As Cleveland Indians Capture L m Pittsburgh In Winning Streak v Bucs Win 20th Out Of Last 25 Starts f; By BILL WHITE (Associated Press Sports Writer) He's listed in the box score as a catcher, but Al Lopez's Pitts burgh Pirate mates all call him "winning pitcher Al" and they point to him as the sparkplug in baseball's most sensational win ning drive. ' The Bucs, who have known the dregs of last place but are now only a game and a half behind ; the third place Giants, were paced to their 20th win in their last 25 starts last night by Iopez a 4-2 victory "over .the Cincinnati Reds and Bucky Walters. The experts, digging Into the Pirate performance, have come up !" with this excellent answer to the whys and wherefores of that suc- "' cess: It's Lopei's handling of the ' pitchers young Ken Heintzelman, " John Lanning, Dick Lanahan and ' Birj Sewell that has made the Bucs the hottest club in the big leagues. Al Says Its the Fielding '' Lopez modestly credits the team's fielding as the reason for the upswing. Manager Frankie Frisch says its because the club - "is hustling and getting the breaks." But the ball players, who A ought to know, thank Al for their ; Inspiration. Last night, for instance, Al scor t cd the first Pirate run in the sixth j Inning, which he opened with a , single. He singled Frankie Gus- tine home with another In the sev ' enth after the young second sacker i had personally pounded Elbic i Fletcher home, to the great delight J of 42,254 fans, who incidentally brought the attendance for seven j night games to 167,830. i Big Max Butcher had the Reds i In control all the way, parcelling out only nine hits, Including a four i bagger to Schnazz Lombardi. J The Cleveland Indians whacked i out 12 hits, including three horn i era, to hand Master Bobby Feller ! his 20th victory of the year and i take undisputed possession of first 1 place in the American league with ! an 8-5 victory over the Detroit I Tigers. Walks Three , Feller held the Bengals to seven i blows and brought his strikeout J total for the year to 197 with seven, n Bobby was In trouble In the sev- enth when he walked three men in a row and the Tigers capital ized on it and scored three runs. In the only other Major league game, jimmy Webb doubled in the ninth to score Bob Kennedy and give the Chicago White Sox a 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Browns In night game in St. Louis, The Sox left 17 men stranded, one short of the league record, Oldtimers Schedule Baseball Celebration An old-timers baseball celebra tion is scheduled for Thursday night at the Civic Stadium. Ev eryone is eligible to play and everyone Is invited, young or old. A tentative game has been sched uled at 7:00 p. m. which will pit the old men against the kids. Everyone Is promised a chance to play even If he has never seen a baseball before. THE ARISTOCRAT OF Glrnmore Distilleries Co. Inc., Loulsvllle-Ovrensboro, Kentucky ' PINTS flis!! ; $140 QUARTS ft -ifl 1 MrX CUHMORrt f D I 5 1 ,N I BARNEY McCOSKY, center field, another reason why the Detroit Tigers are In the thick of a dogfight with Cleveland for the American league pennant. Barney's big .350 batting average was good enough to put him in third spot in American league batting. Women Swimmers Warm Up For Meet PORTLAND, Aug. 13. (U.R) Helen Crlenkovich, 10-foot spring board champion from San Fran cisco, and Marjorie Gestring, na tional platform titlist and 1936 Olympic games champion from Los Angeles, were limbering up at Janlzcn Beach today for the national A. A. U. women's outdoor swimming, and diving champion ships here Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Also In the pool preparing for the meet were scores of Interna tional and American champions from New England, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Ha waii. Elsie Viets Jennings, national chairman of the woman's swim ming committee of the A. A. U. inspected the pool yesterday and predicted several world records would fall at the meet. Two teams expected lo be batt ling it out for club honors were the Multnomah club of Portland and the Women's Swimming as sociation of New York. Entries for the three-day meet closed last night. Parker, Grant Win In Newport Tennis NEWPORT, R. I., Aug. 13. U. Frank Parker of Pasadena, Cal., and Bryan Grant of Atlanta, Ga., won their first nnd second round matches Monday as the 24th an nual Newport Casino invitation tennis tournament began with seven of the nation's 10 top-ranking players competing. Parker defeated J. Thackera of New York 6-2, 6-1 and William Gillespie of Miami, 8-3, 6-2 and Grant eliminated A. B. Martin of New York 7-5, 6-4 and C. D. Steele Jr., 6-4, 6-2. Frank Kovacs of Oakland, Cal., defeated Willmer Allison of Aus tin, Tex., 6-2, 8-3 and as a result of his showing was considered a strong threat to the co-favorites, Parker nnd Don McNeill of Okla homa City, Okla. McNeill did not play Monday. Baseball NATIONAL W Cincinnati 86 Brooklyn 2 Tel. .641 .51W New York S3 46 PltUburlh . 53 40 Chlcaro H M St. Louis 4 i2 Boston TO S3 Philadelphia - .....33 64 .485 .383 .333 rot. .590 .487 .543 :51 .310 .443 AMERICAN Cleveland .. Detroit . Boston ..... Chicago .... 54 50 New York ... 53 51 Waihingtou 47 St. Unna 48 Philadelphia . 40 64 .385 COAST W L Tct. Seattle 93 47 .863 Oakland ...76 63 .547 Aneelea 74 64 .536 San DIcko ..70 68 .507 Sacramento 70 70 .5110 Hollywood 67 71 ,486 San Kranclico ................61 77 .443 Portland 44 74 .J19 Bob Smith Leaves To Join New York Giants PORTLAND, Aug. 13. OI.P.i Bob Smith, former University of Oregon halfback, left by plane lust night to Join the New York Giants, professional football team. The Giants begin drill this Thursday. Smith, a former star at Medford high school gained fame as an expert passer. He was prevented from playing in the rast-west game this year by skin cut, Sallee Sold Berries Before Pitching By NEA Service CHICAGO Charley Grimm challenges Rube Waddell's eccen tric reputation , , . with Slim Sallee, the old Red. "I found him one day selling strawberries off a huckster's wagon one hour before he was to pilch," uys the former Cub manager. Prison Team Plays Outside Walls But More Mistakes Lose Games SALEM, Ore., Aug. 13 U.R Carl Mays' baseball schoolboys edged a 5-4 win over the Oregon State penitentiary Greys in a Red Cross benefit game here Monday night that brought in $1039 to swell the war relief fund. Lanky Luke Crosswhite of the Greys struck out 14 of the Mays' boys with his varied and decep tive pitching but his mates' errors gave the game to the baseball school nine. The penitentiary band and quartet provided music and a prison clown kept the crowd laughing during the game. It was the first encounter for the prison team outside the penitentiary walls in 21 years. Drawings Listed For Softball Play SALEM, Ore., Aug. 13. 0J.R1 All three Portland entrants plac ed in one bracket, eliminating the possibility of two Portland teams in the finals, in drawings for the state softball tournament announc ed here last night. All winners have not yet been selected but the partial list for the Aug. 19-24 tourney here is as follows: (All games jre In the evening.) Monday, 7:30 District 4 (St. Helens or Astoria) vs. District 11 (Albany or Corvallis). Monday, 8:30 District 3 (Port land No. 3) vs. District 15 (Cen tral Oregon). Monday, 9:30 District 1 (Joe Mann Portland) vs. District 2 (Portland No. 2). Monday, 10:30 District 5 (Hills boro or Forest Grove) vs. District 13 (Medford, Ashland or Grants Pass). Tuesday, 7:30 District 7 (Mc Minnville or Yamhill) vs. District 6 (Oregon City). Tuesday, 8:30 District 16 (Pen dleton) vs. District 2 (Kennedys of Salem). Tuesday, 9:30 (Woodburn or Independence) vs. District 9 (Sa lem Square Deal). Tuesday, 10:30 D 1 s t r I c t 14 (Bonneville) vs. District 12 (Eu gene). 15th Hambletonian To Be Run Wednesday GOSHEN, N. Y., Aug. 13 0J.R) It is put up or shut up time In the land where the standard bred horse is king, and so not more than 10 of the 43 three-year-olds still eligible for the 15th running ot tne rich Hambletonian Wed nesday arc expected to be named when the $500 starting fee falls due Tuesday. Veteran drivers and trainers already have marked Spencer Scott, owned by C. W. Phellis of Greenwich, Conn., as the horse to beat tomorrow. If 10 go, the stake will be worth $44,000, the most since 1932 when it totaled , $53,339 and was won by the Mar chioness with Will Gaton at the reins. Most of Spencer Scott's opposition is expected to come from Dunbar Bostwock's Kuno. PLC Coach Resigns Contract For Year TACOMA, Aug. 13. of) End ing rumors he planned to quit coaching and enter private busi ness, Coach Cliff Olson announced today he had signed an agreement to continue as director of athletics and head coach at Pacific Luther an college for another year. Olson had his most successful football season In PLC history last year as his gladiators won seven out of eight games to rank as the outstanding small college team In the Pacific Northwest. ARROW SHIRTS The Mn' Shop BYROM & KNEELAND St K. It Weed's Games to Decide Teams In Coast Shaughnessy Playoffs (Associated Press) . With five weeks to go and the Pacific Coast league pennant all but rippling over tha Seattle club house, this week's series may point to the other three likely starters in the Shaughnessy playoffs. Los Angeles, playing spider to Portland's fly in Wngley field stands to profit mose handsomely. Portland is the only club that can be ruled strictly out of the $12,000 playoffs. The Angels have had two brief tastes of second place in recent weeks and liked them. Without op riosition more serious than the car' cuit's whipping boys, the Angel clouters could possibly move into the runner-up niche with an air of Dermanency. That would depend on whether the Oakland Acorns, still. second despite slumps and ' ijuries, con- Salem Wins Over Spokane In WIL (Associated Press) The Spokane Indians of the Western International baseball league stepped right up to the screwy record counter yesterday and walked off with two of the screwiest. First, they managed to play opponents in two different leagues on the same day. ' Then, in the second game, they garnered 15 runs in six innings and lost the game. The first Spokane opponent was Seattle of tho Pacific Coast league. The Seattle second-stringers pro cedded to give Spokane a 12-5 baseball lesson with the aid of a couple of home runs. Ira Schib ner, who stepped up from Spokane to Seattle this season, kept his former teammates in control al though he allowed 10 hits. Then, to complete the day, Spo kane met Salem of its own circuit. Salem won, 18 to 15, in the six inning struggle, while the bleach erites ran for their lives from batted balls. . Salem got 19 hits Spokane . 18. Spokane batted around in the first inning; Salem got 11 runs in the fifth. By the end of the sixth, everybody was ready to go home. Meanwhile, in the league's only other game, Yakima was beating Wenatchee, 10 to 8. The contest ended a five-game series of which Wenatchee won only one. Frank Volpi's. homer with two mates aboard in the fifth 'inning 'put Wenatchee in the lead once, but Yakima regained an advantage in eighth and held it the rest of the game. Virginia Wolfenden Dominates Essex Club Tennis Tournament MANCHESTER, Mass., Aug. 13. (U.RlFourth-seeded Virginia Wolfenden of San Francisco dom inated first day's play at the Essex County club women's invitation tennis tournament by defeating Barbara Neilds of Rye, N. Y., 6-1, 6-0 and Mrs. John Van Ryn of Austin, Texas, 4-6, 8-6, 6-1. Helen Jacobs of Los Angeles, the country's second ranking tour nament players, defeated Mrs. Philip Theopold of Dedham, Mass., 6-1, 6-1 and third-seeded Sarah Palfrey defeated Sally Poole of Manchestern 6-0, 6-0 in the sec ond round. Miss Jacobs and Miss Palfrey had received first round byes. Conn Still Favorite Over Bouncing Bob Facts on tonight's fight: Principals Light Heavyweight Champion Billy Conn, Pittsburgh, and Bob Pastor, New York. Distance 15 rounds. Place Polo Grounds at 10 p. m. EDT. Conditions of the bout Conn's title will not be at stake. Winner to meet Joe Louis for world heavy weight title in September. Expected attendance 25,000. Expected gate $60,000. Broadcast NBC Blue network. County Trapshoot To Be Meld August 18 The shoots committee of the Siuslaw Rod and Gun club reports that plans are progressing nicely for the Lane county champion ship 16 yard trapshoot to be held at club grounds near Munsel lake on August 18. . . Clubs which will compete are: Noti Gun club, the Cottage Grove Gun club, the Eugene Gun club, the McKenzie Gateway Rod and Gun club and the Siuslaw Rod and Gun club. It will be the first annual county shoot. GOLDEN STATE BEER Qts: ! 25c Case $2.73 Ed's. WINE Dept. Open Every Dy J a- m. to 1 a. m. 4 f.. Broadway Ph. MS tinue their skid against San Diego in the Padre park. The Oaks won last week, three games to one, but that was against the abject Portland Beavers. Sen Diago top hitting club of the lea gue while Oakland is next to worst did as well in last week's series against San Francisco. Nearness of the season's end was signaled yesterday with an nouncement that the Boston Red Sox have crooked a finger at Bill Fleming, Hollywood pitcher who leads the league in strikeouts with 132. Fleming had won 15 and lost 12 as of last week's compilation, which doesn't make him the lea gue's choicest plum. His price was unannounced, but the Stars will get two pitchers out of the deal, Alex Mustaikis and another as yet unnamed. Sacramento's drive for the first division runs head-on into the vis iting champions from Seattle, no trifling obstacle. Still the league's leading all- around hitter and home-run cham pion is Lou Novikoff of Los An geles with .358, a 20-point lead over the runner-up, Steve Mesner of San Diego. Among 19 other players with averages of more than 300 are Christotf ot uamana, Kearse of Seattle, Collins of Los .'.ngeles and Detore of San Doego. San Diego leads in team batting at .287, with Seattle only 6 points down and Los Angeles third at 278. Loudon Leads NGA Victoria Tourney VICTORIA, B. C, Aug. 13. (Canadian Press) J. P. Loudon, of Yakima, Wash., shot a 74 yes terday to win medalist honors in the annual seniors Northwest Golf association tournament here. Washington and Oregon golfers dominated the first rounds. E. L. Skeel, of Seattle, with a 77, was runner-up for the medalj and Wal ter Fovargue, of Aberdeen, Wash., was third with a 78. N. McFar lane, of Comox, shot a 79 for the best Canadian score. Scores of 84 and under qualified for the grand championship flight today. Qualifiers included: G. H. Ral eigh, Tacoma, 82; W. T. Abbott, Bellingham, 84. Raleight later withdrew. Major Leaders (By Associated Press) NATIONAL LEAGUE ' Battings Dannlng. New York, .332: Rowell. Boston. -331. Runs Frey, Cincinnati. 81: Mize, Louis, 76. Hits Herman, Chicago, 137: F. Mc Cormick, Cincinnati. 133. Home Runs Mize, St. Louis. 32: Nich olson. Chicago, 19. Pitching Fitzstmmonf, Brooklyn, 1U2. Sewell. Pittsburgh. 10-2. AMERICAN LEAGUE Batting Radcllff. St. Louis, .352; Fin ney. Boston. 349. Runs Williams, Boston, 90: McCosky, Detroit, 88. Hits McCosky. Detroit 147: Boudreau, Cleveland and Cramer, Boston, 143. Home Runs Foxx. Boston. 26: Di Magglo. New York, and Greenberg. De troit. 23. Pitching Newsom, Detroit, 14-2: Rows, Detroit, 11-2. Chicago Woman Golfer Duplicates Ace After Four Years CHICAGO Midlothian's sporty course holds no terrors for Mrs. O. O. Melick. Four years ago, the Chicago woman made a hole-in-one on its 12th hole. Now she scores another ace, this time on the 15th, which measures 180 yards and which she conquered with a spoon. mm Co ftM.! See photographs of advance Fall fashions . ; ; new furniture designs . . . thousands of items you will need this Winter for your home, your car, your wardrobe. Ask for a lend ing library copy now in our catalog order deportment. You con'get any catalog item quickly through our order service. Save money buy all your needs at . . ; 10JJ Willamette Phone SIM Pastor, Conn Battle Tonight Conn Still Favorite Over Bouncing Bob BULLETIN! - NEW YORK, Aug. 13. M Promoter Mike Jacobs today announced the postponement of the Bob Pastor-Billy Conn fight, scheduled for the Polo grounds tonight, until September 5. when it will be staged in Madison Square Gargen, ltain forced the postponement. NEW YORK, Aug. 13. W) Possibly the safest prediction that can be made about tonight's fight between Bob Pastor and Billy Conn at the Polo Grounds is that it will go 15 fast rounds to a split decision, with the manager of the losing gladiator yelling murder at the verdict. A fight between two such clever but light-hitting men usually ends that way, barring a bad cut that lorces the referee to stop it. Sel dom around here at leasts do the two judges and the referee agree on the winner, and the divergences of opinion between these supposed experts sometimes is amazing. So it is a reasonable expectation that after the last lick has been hit tonight and the slips have been collected and the winner's hand raised, there will be some yelling nnd gesticulating either by Jimmy Johnston, who manages Pastor, or by little Johnny Ray who thinks his boy Conn is the coming heavy weight champion. Because neither fighter is a knocker-outer, the match has not c. ated a great deal of interest and migiit not draw more than $50,000 at the gate. Still, it should be an exciting scrap, for both Conn and Pastor are fast, smart and willing, and they are soft hitters only in comparison to the sickening puncher like Joe Louis. It still is a mystery to at least one impartial observer why Conn has been a favorite ever since the articles were signed. By every yardstick in common use exper ience, weight, defensive ability and fire power Pastor appears to have a distinct edge. Anyhow, he looks like the more sensible choice. Yet the gamboleers still were of fering slight odds against Pastor's chances at the last call-over. NO GLASS ARM DETROIT. Denny Carroll, Ti ger trainer, removed a piece of glass from Pitcher Buck Newsom's index finger that had been im bedded for a month. PIIIKI H LU ft ns. V t c-Toled 'J Q O DON'T BE FO "I Pick Bob Pastor Says McLemore By HENRY McEMORE United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK, Aug. 13. u.B Tweedledum fights Tweedledee at the Polo Grounds tonight, I pick Bob Pastor. Don't ask me why I like Pastor over Billy Conn, because choosing between them Is like naming the more handsome of Siamese twins, or selecting which pea in a pod is most likely to succeed. Billy and Bob are that much alike as fighters. To start with, neither is a full-sized heavy weight. Conn despite all the talk of how he has grown in tin past three months, won't weigh much over 175 pounds tonight, and Pas tor will come in at 183 or there abouts. Then there Is the matter of Romeo Belcasfro Says Ladies Free A double main event is in store for local wrestling fans Thursday night at the armory. In one of the main events, Pete "Romeo" Bel castro, Italian villain will meet Otis Clingman. Belcastro is mat ing his return to local circles af- tor an absence of several months and is making a glorious gesture which he found lacking in his previous showings here. He has persuaded Promoter Herb Owen to admit all Lane county ladies to the Thursday card free of charge. In the other main event, George Wagner and Mike Nazarrian will tangle in a re-match that promises tb be plenty interesting. George and Mike were in a real battle in last week's main event. It ended in a victory for Wagner after he won the third and deciding fall on a foul. Mike used every foul meth. od known to wrestling yet pro tested long and loud at having the match taken away from him. Both the main events will pro vide plenty of fireworks with a meanie against a cleanie in both Belcastro is one of the most thor oughly disliked grapplers ever to show here and it is not expected that he has changed his ways any. Nazarrian after his debut here three weeks ago is fast becoming one of the most hated villains of the whole crowd and adds to his unpopularity every time he steps into the ring. Against these two ruffians will be pitted two of the most popular boys "in the Owens' stable Otis Clingman and George Wagner. speed. Whippet late teZl wuii nis hands and (stT There is nothing to j tween the coura!!! burgh AdonuSL0'' Conn has fights thathehtahfafj,: fightine hMri im toseePas'ioV e mesinthe(irstra. holt bout with tJT0."1 that thpr. I. ::.u,li make-up. " So, why do I lfte pj-J I don't know, unW. 'l cause r ft .il.r?""! smarter of the hvo. k? in book learnirh the ways of the tint ft Yorker hasn't had ItTufc, as Conn. Pastor nas ,1? about everybody fa thii incuding Louis, foci slow, hard way, wheroirJ a sensation almost frco and has yet to meet ft, ! f 'ghter that Pastor hah. The' winner of tonta will probably get late next month. This. for the loser. .. . ' ' Coast Golf Play Leaves Par Infad ASTORIA, Auj. !J,(j rolling, wind-whipped Country club proved triii qualifiers in the Oregon M lournament and old man never licked. George Inglis of PorlJ 18-year-old Glenn Spitijj Dalles tied for medalist lJ the under 32 years divisiij even par 73 s. Low. medal In the over a division was divided betroJ Hanset of Portland and I Lucas of Gearharl. ThejhJ Sissy Green, two-tiro of the Oregon junior girls! walked off with medalist i in the women's. She msii holes in 82. Match play started todr SHIFT AIDS RIZZ0 PHILADELPHIA Jota; struck his batting stride v Phillies when shifted to te in place of the incapacitated rill May. ARROW MESSENGEE-rl TTTfTrTC" iitk? mix 1 1 & 1 1 r I I a 1059 WILLAMETTE
