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THURSDAY1. APRIL «, 1844 CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN. C'dSrtTHAL POINT. OUI8.11N t Pointer Nine Defeat Medford 7-2, Friday in three runs ahead of him. Another run had been driven aero«« the plat» before they were finally retired. This made the score 7 to 4. for the Cavemen, The Pointers gut one run across in the fifth when Blumen- stein connected wlth a double, followed by another double Shrier (his second for the day). In the middle of the fifth, Shrier went in to pitch and Colley took firrt. The Cavemen were held down that inning, but the Pointers scored no runs in their half of the sixth, so matters were still bad. The aecond half of the sixth start"d bad when Sage dropped a third strike letting Smith of Grants Pa « get on ha.ee. Then, when another batter had got on base on an error, and another walked, the Grants Piu-s second baseman connected with a single follpwed by another walk and another hit, driving in five runs, to make them a total of twelve runs, In the Pointers last chance to bat, Blumenstein got a hit and Anhorn drove him in with another single. Then Sage got a base on ball.-', but Colley grounded out leaving two men on base at the end of the game. The game was not considered too bad a loss, as It was kgainst an A class school, and showed that with more practice to iron out fielding errors, the 1’olnter.M should have a fairly good team against B league competition. There were five errors on the Pointers, while the Cavemen collectd only two. The first conference game will b< at Qold Hill, April 14. —The Central Pointer Behind the three-hit pitching of Glenn Shrier th** Central Point base ball team defeated the Medford HI nine. 7 to 2. Friday, April 17. The game, played on the Medford Hl dia mond, was the Pointers’ first win of the season. The lanky Central Point achucker collected nine strike-outs to his credit which contributed greaily to the victory. The Pointers collected four hits and four runs in the first inning I when Shuler lead off with a clean hit. Freeland got on base due to an error, and Lull connected with a hit. driving Shuler across the plate. Then Blumenstein belted out a single which scored both Freeland and Lull After Shrier grounded out and Hol- land fanned, Anhorn got on base oit an error and Sage hit a single, but Colley grounded out to end the sco-- ing spree. In Medford's half of the inning. Ethertcn got on, due to an error, but was put out when Cave hit into a double play. The second inning was uneventful, Freeland getting a hit, but was put out at second when Lull hit into a double play, YY’atson, Medford'» firs; baseman, got a base on an error but Shrier struck out two men to retire the side. The third Inning went much th<> same way, with three Pointer men and Shrier again grounding out, whiffing two Medford men. In the fourth Inning the Pointers again went down quick, though Shu- ler hit another single, The Tiger'» half of the fourth was not so easy. as Eatherton, the fir.-it man up. teed off on a low ball which went for a The Central Point grade school triple and could have been stretched into a home run. Then Cave Tiled softball team defeated the Howard out to centerfleld, but Etherton ecor grade school Tuesday, April 4, 4 to ed after the ball was caught, After 3, in an extra inning game, The the bases were filled with two walk? game, scheduled tor five innings, was and a base on an error, the Tiger's tied 3 up. at the end of five innings, next man filed out to center, and but in their half of the sixth, the Watson was cuught off Vase, to make Pointer grade team scored a run from a lucky punt which gave them three outs and end thfe-threat In the fifth innings, the Pointe's the ball game. • The grnde school team la being collected three more runs off of hio- coached by two high school students. by Lull and Shrier, a long triple by Blumenstein, and a base oil an error John Freeland anil Dan Sagb, as no by Freeland. The Pointers went out regular coach is available’ for the grade school team. one-two-three the rest of the game. The team's next game will be «t in the sixth Inning, Medford got Jacksonville, Tuesday, April 11. their second rUn oft of hits by Faw —The Central Pointer cett and Watson, but Shrier bore down and struck out the last two WORKS YT PORTLAND men to retire the side. At the Tiger'« Allie Maple went to Portland to last bats, they grounded out, one-two- play in the band l«ut has ended up three, to end the game, 7 to 2. by working in the YVillimntte Iron, In all, the Pointers collected nine Steel and Ship buildng Co., and pltche.', hits off the two Medford and playing in the band odd times. Lindley and Fawcett. Though this Before he left he gave Instructions game does not count in the confer- about his dogs and after he was out ence play, it supplied good practice of the country bls father run an ad and game experience for the Poln- in the American, for a home for the ters, for their future conference race dogs, thinking Allie wouldn't see it —The Central Polntar It wasn't long before a letter came from Allie asking what he meant by the ad. Allie visited friends in Long view. who also read the American. Grade School Nine Edge Out Howard 4-3 Pointer Nine Loses Opener to G. Pass 12-6 Miss Ardelle Fee has returned t > The Central Point baseball team Central Point and will .-pond Hire started out this year’s season by summer with her grandmother, Ruth dropping a non-conference game to Helfrich nn<l aunt Maude Helfrich. Grants Pass, 12 to 6. The game wa.« played on the Grants Pasa diamond, and was threatened by rain from start to finish. The Pointer nine got first bats, and Wayne Shuler, lead off man, started the game with a double througli center field. Then Freeland got on base on an error which also »cored Shuler. Lull got a base on balls Blumenstein got on bace when the Grants Pass shortstop put Lull out on second. Shrier then popped out. to the pitcher, and Holland walked. filling the bases, This looked like a chance for a 4<ill, but the Caveman Pitcher bore down on Anhorn and struck him out to end the Pointer rally. Grants Pass al«o scored one run In their half of the first, when Tom Colley issued them ■ two walks, and two of their men got on base due to fielders choice, but then Colley bore down and with two strike-outs retired the aide. The second inning started with triple by Sage, but Colley and Shuler struck out. and Freeland went out ul first, leaving the runner on third. In the opponents’ half of second, all three men filed out to Th« ,yP* oShm9'°n Freeland. Shrier, Anhorn. pectively. In the third inning, the Pdinters rune. rallied and collected three la'ii smith. Mgr., Curie'll Building, Lull walked, then Blumenstein struck Port la ml out, but Shrier came back with a Hollar. 1 double which scored Lull, also connected with double, which ■cored Shrier, Then Anhorn got oi base on an error which put Holland over for another run. Then Sag' struck out and Colley went out at firrt, ending the rally. This made the score 4 to 1 in favor of Central 1 Point hut it didn't stay that way long. The Cavemen weal on a •P% • In the fourth, and scored six runs. M they started hitting the ball all over the lot, and a long home-run b" Smith, the Granta Paaai catcher drove Kyle ’s Restaurant Grange Paper Tells Letter« From Our of Mrs. Ethel Lathrop Boys in Service Somewhere in Italy March 2«, lull Dear Folks, I will write you another letter to- night and tell you I am still at the same place working in an orderly room, I hope to get a "new assign ment anil a steady job soon. I suppose you have had a goo 1 idea of where I have been during my six months in Italy, but the censor hip rules have been changed so that now I can tell you that I landed txt Salerno about ten days after the original landing and we fought up through this mountainous country, crossing the Volturno River etc. . The weather and the Mountains made the going tough and I am very thankful to be here to tell, about it. One of our biggest engagements was k. Ethel Lathrop the crossing of the Volturno. following article was printed 1 was also at the landing at Anzio In the Orange Bulletin giving stories and there is where I had the toughest of the grange candidates: fighting of all. I have made three K. Ethel Lathrop was born on i amphibious landings under fire and farm, with an ancestry of many I know you realize what that means generations of farmers, reecJved a after seeing the pictures in the Life college education, taught school, Magazine the past year, It U still * married and raised a farm family. my favorite magazine and I think it's She is a charter member of Central articles and pictures are "swell." Point Grange and has been active in If this pasties the censor, I will Grange work ever since, having write more of the same soon. I served as Subordinate Lecturer. would sure love to tell about this • Home _ Economics chairman and country and all I have seen here, r captain of both Subordinate and imagine the papers are full of Italian Pomona Degree team«. She took th" news now. I Seventh Degree at Sacramento in I suppose you wonder sometimos 1935. just how much of this country's« From 1939 to 1941 she was presi - language I have learned. I know i dent of the Oregon State Home Ex few words but, these Italians talk so tension Council and was sent to much with their hands that it is England in 1939 to represent Oregon fairly easy to make yourself under The children pick up tit" at the triennial conference of the stand Associated Country Women of the slang and songs fast. Some can sing World. At the present time she is "Pistol Packin Mama” real well. a member of the Port-War Planning Where did you get the wildlife committee for the United States stamp on the back of your Easter card ? Even a picture of a squirrel group of constituent members. In December, 1941, "Farm Journey look» good to me. A« I have saiil and the Farmers’ Wife” Chose her to before, I sure miss the game and represent the YY’ertern States at a bird.« we have in Oregon; ; no Meadow 1 conference in Chicago to discuss how Larks or Robins here to sing in I never have seen such a farm women could aid the war effort. winter. At present she is Second Vice- scarcity of wild life as there is in President of the Medford Chapter of Italy. I have had a chance the past Zonta International. In addition to her many duties as a farm wife, she month to visit some of those historic studied finds time to asairt in various forms places In Italy which of community work. PAGE TB HK E about in «chool, and I have seen a lot of interest: ng things. When i person sees and walks about in those ancient places where human beings lived and died ao many hundred years ago. It give» one a strange feeling. I realize what short stay we have on this old earth at best and how customs and ideas have been passed down from generation to generation until today. I will have a "travelog" story to tell you •onie day when thia is over but I «till haxw as beautiful a place tu see us our own Pacific Coast. I hope this war will soon be finished. Many of my f ne friends have given their lives for their country. I hope that after this is over we have a better world so that those fellows "will not have died in vain.” So you have nil niy old letters saved up. There must be a big of them now; all about alike maybe they keep you informed I am still fine and planning un brighter future. Best Wished to All, Cleo Young. « LETTER I RDM SON— ^!r. and Mrs. Lathrop rertdved a letter from their son I.t. Ernest laithrop In which lie nu ntiuned that he was much Interested in the letter from Major Sisco in The American as Majdr Sisco inspected their kitch- CL A Y’S en. The letter referred to waa print ed In The News newspaper, printed In Springdale, Arkansas and handed to us by Mrs. Martha Booth. Major Sisco is In the medical corps station ed in the southwest Pacific zone. Lt. Lathrop also extend» his thanks for the paper which he says he enjoys. Mother’s Day Cards Mother’s Ihn Is Sunday. 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