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pAge sec LIC LINKSTERS OPEN BATTLE FOR L ' Bourgeois' 1 6t Goifdom '! in , tourftey for Team ' and Individual Championships r Expect Hot Competition i (Associated Press Sport Writer.) 1 ST. PAUL, Mlnn.r Aug. 4. AP America "poor boys" of golf, those '"' shotmakera who cannot afford the time or-money to belong to private clubs, opened tbelr big enow, the na tional p u b 1 1 o links championship tournament, today over Keller's sun baked fairways. Almost every walk of American life and. Industry was represented In the reoord-smashtng entry list or 180 stars of the public links of the na tion. -.There men truck drivers, bar bars, struggling dot) tors, dentists and accountants, hotel clerks, freight Yi workers,: printers, poultry dealers, steel. -workers, stenographers and every ' day laborers all of whom play the '' gum for the game's sake first, last ) , and, always. v.,.;?' Keen. Competition. .. It was America's bourgeois of golf i, on parade and a sizzling struggle was In prospect for the pair of crowns offered the Warren O.' Harding ' trophy, for the best four-man team "and t the Individual . championship. "' Brooklyn's "four musketeers," headed ,', by Henry Fabrlzzlo, was the defender ' " of .the, Herding' m .iropfcy. while the defending tltleholdor of tho in dividual prize waa Robort. Wlngato of Jacksonville, Via., who thrilled his home town admirers by capturing the big prize right before their eyes at ' Jacksonville last year. '' .; Potn. Brooklyn's team and Wlngate faced plenty of competition, however, although they were favorites to re pent their performances of a year ago. I. :,: ; Trams to Vie. ' Twenty-nine .teams, representing es many cities In scattered sections of the United States, were on hand to Xtght the battle-of. allots for the Hard ing cup, while, tri race for Wlugate'e crown was an every man for himself proposition.' -.,:,'. Blghteen-hcle rounds will be played today and tomorrow and out. of. that " competition will be dacidstl tho win ner . of the Hsrdlng trophy on the basis , of -.total .medal . score-, for the four players on each team. The low 83 will quality for the match play struggle for. the championship, which will prooced at the rate of two 18 hole rounds a day , until Saturday. ( when the final mat.-h will be decided over M. holes. ... , ; . ' , Czar of Baseball ; Doesn't Like Title . : yln Troubled Times' i DAVfNPOHT, tovAugl' 4f-t4p, Judge Keneaiw M Landls, ar of baseball, doesn't like his title. "I don't know .who gave-It to me, but this is bud time tar 'czars' to be running, around," lie observed here. . ' ; , i "Baseball Is fine at least I haven't had any complaints re cently," he said when, asked about the new ball , , Judge Larnils was here today to address tlie annual aVinvention of the Iowa department of tlx Amer ican Legion. . HOW THEY ;STAN D i By I he), Aiisoclatcfl Press j!' V tTum ' v. v X' W,; IV, Pet. .San Pnnehica'.....':i.l7'.', 10 '.M Los Angeles .11 I J Ml . Seattle ......1 13 .MS Oakland , IS 14 .533 Portland 1 14 .417 Hollywood 14 14 .800 Sacramento 13 17. .414 Missions. 10 19 1 .844 American V.-, J . w., l, : pet. Philadelphia 79 28 .731 Washington 63 so .oil New York .k......9 4t .680 Cleveland 48 &S 4U0 St. Louis ... T ....43.. 6 , .44 Boston .i ,. 40 91 . .9S Chicago ; ... 87 - 93 J74 Detroit ........... , 39 , 9t - .373 National -. 1 W. , tv Pet. Bt. Louis 4 3H ' .WS New York .... 84 49 JMS7 Chicago . 69 45 .550 Brooklyn .. 55 48 .5.14 Beaton 47i o .485 Pittsburgh 4 50 .479 a Philadelphia 40 ' 90 '.400 Cincinnati ...... i....37 94 V. r - FOUR BATTLE FOR EN BROAOMOOIl 001,1- Cj.tlB, .SCAT TLB, Aug. 4 (APl-.Yhe,1 Una! 36 ' holea today for the Washirmmn Stale open golf crown appeared to be a bat tle between tliree former professional champions Nea Christian, Portland. . and Prank Rodia. and Walter inirsry. Beauts and rranela U. I Brown, Honolulu amateur, recognised as su of the longest drivers In the game Rodla led the field In the first. 89 holea yesterday with a crrd of 14:1. He waa around In the morning In 73 and took an even par 70 In the after non. Chrnrtlaa and Puney wr9 tied wrtn J4 taen, - - WASHINGTON OP The story FALL BY WAYSIDE Ll Pirates, Reds; .at Opposite' Ends of Scoreless Innings Achievement Athletics Near Double Win Mark - By (Jarre Talliot Jr.'-; ' -Associated Press Sport Writer, i They've declared a sort 'of open season on baseball records In the two major leagues. From now pn, pros pects are It will be a poor week that doesn't see a long-standing mark shot full of holes. Three clubs stood on the threshold of new records today.. The Pitts burgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds, with forty scoreless Innings to their , credit, respectively, appeared set to shatter all long distance marks .In l,iat specialty, while tha champion Philadelphia Athletics were on the verge of bettering the all-time mark for double victories. . - . . When they failed to score against the Chicago Cubs yesterday, the Reds ran their string of consecutive goose eggs to forty and at least tied one big league, mark. Only two other clubs In history have been blanked four straight days, the Boston Nationals of 1000 and the Clnolnnatl Reds of 1008. Losing yesterday 9 to 0, t.he Reds collected only five scattered hits off Bob Smith. . , v . . . PlUhbiirg till. - Pittsburgh, with four straight shut out victories to Its credit, three of them ever Cincinnati, had no oppor tunity to extend Its string. Rain prevented the Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals from playing l;ie only oth er game scheduled In the National league. The Athletics approached Vie ma jor league record for consecutive double wins when they stopped the second, place Washington Senators twice, 3 to 3 and 9 to 5, squaring tho series. .The all-time mark Is five, straight double killings, made by New York Americans of 1900. , Yesterday's twin victory was the fourth straight for .the Mackmen and their ninth of the season. 1','ie Athletics of 1911 were credited with twelve. Lefty drove's airtight pitching In tho. pinches enabled the Macklon aoe to hang up his 32nd victory In the first tilt. Home runs by Al Simmons, Jimmy Poxi and Phil Todt, the lat ur'a breaking a 6-6 tie In the eighth Inning, featured the ohamplons' sec ond win of Vie day.'; - , , , . i . .. . L'dnnaily DMIvtrs , Sergeant Oeorge Connelly, latest addition to Cleveland's mound staff; scored lis initial, triumph over the Bt. Louis Browns, ft to f. . ..'. Earl Whltehlll held , W Chicago White Sox scoreless Jn all but one Inning, to give Detroit a 7 to 3 vic tory In the third gums of their "cel lar series.:...-. , . , , Althcuuh thoy wore outhlt by a. wide margin,, tha New York Yankees stuggcrcd ii'irough to a 0 .to 9 victory over Boston. After bowing to Ed Wella for six Innings, the Sox .rallied to score six, times In the seventh and eighth rounds before they : finally were stopped oy uity upmnz. Karl Webb of the Red Sox hit his 4Sth snd 90th two-baggers, driving lit four. runs..,', , h. ... With Rod and Gun fialphSCowgUI. working with Kln a!d of Baiilo Point, la ousy this week eming small f.th from tributaries of thcTtoaue, "r-Tilctt are bemmlna; too low to support t..'H life. Many creeks nave become dry except tot occas ional pools, where the fish are ma rooned, unable to s.rlm to the nel", one. Here they becoiiie tbe prey of snakes and other destroyers, . Approximately , 30.000 trout, have been taken from Trail ereek and re turned to the Rom. The work will be continued In other strmma, for without- l Jtive fish would ba no chaae of survival. (.. . , .. Aeeoecnng to (eats mado at the Bk Creek hatchery. K will be taken about Augiut 19 and local fisherman will soon after atart egg flailing for salmon. Anglers who confine their sport' to fly flnhlng alone will then take to "alugl red uprights." . Severn! catches of trout from Butte creek new reported Kumtay. Part.ei of annlers went out from Dead In dian springs and found fishing good Crater creek on the Diamond lake road Is also btcomrnv a popular haunt with those who prefer ttshlna; for trout. - . , , Dangers of exunetion of the whit? pelican era deplcrrd ,n a pamphlet rreenuy iruicd rjy the emergency con. serration committee of New York An Associated lreM dUpatyi relating the efforts of tlie fuh and game eoirt mlsalon of klpntana to destroy tlie pelican to protect flatt lift, has In spired the pamphlet. MEDFORD M ATL 1 TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON'. -white pelican, according to the CLEO the. pamphlet carries, was orig inally xouna almost uirougnout iuc United States and Canada. Now the bird la only a rare visitor, except in a few of the northern and southern states. "Compared to the hundreds of thousands, If not' millions, of fish that are dally destroyed by fisher men or -by needless pollution of streams lp. this country, the number eaten by white pelicans la Insignifi cant," the article reads. "As an ad verse economic factor, the pelican la negligible,- and there are but few ponds or lakes o .the entire conti nent where its absolute extermina tion could in the slightest degree bet ter the fishing." elected. rllEN we advertised the fact that Firestone -was complete lines of Firestone Gum-Dipped Tires that not only met the price but beat the quality and construction of every grade of special brand tires sold by mail order houses arid others, the mail order houses made vigorous protests to Better Business Bureaus and made demands upon newspapers not to accept Firestone or our advertising. - ' We cannot blame them for they did not want car owners to know that they could get, at no more cost, a better tire made by a leading manufacturer, hearing his name and guarantee plus our guar antee and our service.;;? i ;,: . r'.o ; : i,When"car owners awakened to this fact,' they came to us, compared the sections we had cut from Firestone Tires and special brand mail order tires, and were astounded at the Extra Values we were giving. D--V.r-.VOl,'-M' P A R I Ttreers 4rNerlal ITlrtatest 8Ue Trp. Hail Ord.r T;p Ca.hl'rlt. Tlr. CathPrlea K"h Prlfe Kach P.r Pair 4.40-21. $4.9 $4.98 $9.4 4-.50.2l S.9 5.69 If. 19 4.75-19. ,5 .J ia.)t) 5.25-21 .57 8.57 I.70 .ofj-i(.ik. 11.40 it.4o, as. to umNrllMrlrraill lmiTtT. iiM iiii.T.ri I C O M P A R E j C,k'" l1'! Kach CPje, C..hPHre Aj. ;4.50-2. $9.95 8.70 916.70 5J0-I9... $1.$ 1S.S5 91S.9 4.59-21. S.7S SM 16.9 6.00-19. 14.90 14.95 X9.99 4.75-19.. 9.70 9.75 18.90 9.00-20... 1$, i;,.JS S9.S0 5J5-21- .9S 1S.05 5.30 9.J9.I.. I6.4S 16.6$ 3X.30 Firestone Service Dealers and Service Stores Save You Money and Tearo Super 8rve 8tstloit - n l r 8lngler Service Station Nip and Sip Service Station Central Point Dates Servic Station ..TIii Ffd J. Flck Hanrwar Jacksonville JIM MITH & WATKIN t Invite Us to Your Next Blowout . " ,. HICKS WINS be captained by Russell Jordan, and the other, the Wharf Rats, will be captained by Al Swanson. The Rlnkey-Dlnks Include Russell Jordan, Cleo Hicks, Leonard Hicks, Lee Hub ler, Oalen Knox, Bert Luman, John Dickinson. Floyd Parks, Donald At kinson, Recce O'Neill and Harold Klngsley. The Wharf Rate team Includes Al Svanson.' Tyree Dodge, Albert Oad dls. Earl Coss, Herbert Harper, John McKce. Bob Littrell, Oecrge Cook. Ellis BrcT.n. Seth Putnam, Floyd iiih anH fjarniif wintftmjt. A base The': olty j playground ping-pong championship was captured by Cleo Hicks when he defeated his brother Leonard, to enter the finals against Russell Jordan, ' whom toe defeated, 7-fi, 9-4.-, The -doubles . tournament begins this week. Drawing are made and posted in tbe Boy Scout room. . Two baseball teams have been se- ball tournament will be played be tween the two ' teams and the team winning two games out of three will ha chamnlons. . One, the Rlnkey-Dlnks. will During the- QUALITY amal COMSTKUCTION OsHiM Tra Qre.r Tire Mer Weight, . J'i Mer Thickness, ' . ' Mar Non-skid ; Depth, ikM . . aai .asc Mar Pile ' ' ' Under Tread r . 5 s Width. , a! at a Ixhn ...... .r "!(,,. ttr.ftS $6.S I . p R t c E S IDresim gpwlal Brand T)reM ous.'a Tin OldS.U Tt Mall Ord.r Tlr. Prte. Back Caih Priei kCadiPriM Each P.r Pair TRUCK O BUS TYPE Px5 noprk. 17.9$ 15.3S under the traad) 17.95 1545 34.90 a9.0 :S.9-Mnr unthrr the tread CO M FAR E QUALITY amal (JONSTaUCTION l"!...,. a9.S7 a.07 Mr Thlcknesa, J . iarkr. . . . Y7 . 934 s93 Mr NaicSkM ' Depth, lb . . .33 .35 Mar Pile . , UnilerTread , 7 Mr Width,' cm sac Ithr. ...... 5.1S LwrPrlc . . $14.90 $I4.9 PR I C E S -.Riverside snd Jackson, Medford Paclflo Highway, South How- Servic Station Trsll, Oregon W. H. Wright Stor ......Brownboro C. D. Hosg Stor.. Mcleod BILL TUESDAY; CaUS? ' 4,' ground, especially -the. wading? pool. Is proving a source of great pleasure for . the Children. Many yougstera are spending their time sailing bats, while others ulld sand bridges, tun nels and cave.- ,-. ' . LLOYD GEORGE GAINS FOLLOWING OPERATION LONDON, Aug. 4. (AP) David i.irrrf neorare. veteran Liberal leader. j was said to be torily today from last -weeKS' opera tion fcr a kidney ailment. He had a comfortable nlghti , Lovely Perm, waves 44.50. Finger I wavlng .85. Prevost's, 815 W. Main. 'Phone 883. hot afternom the piay furnishing us As history of , In When the Natltfllall Bttp BmIim Bureau realized that their Bulle tin No. 634 wa being taken advantage of by some ad vertisers they issued a Bul letin dated July 10th as follows t ; , "In our Bulletin No. 634 entitled 'Definitions of Terms Used in the Tire Industry we published definitions of First Line . Second Liner-Third Line Heavy Dutv and Super Heavy Duty Tires. "Our definitions pointed out, 'Although each man ufacturer's or distribu tor's first line tire may represent his best stand ard size 4 or 6 ply tire, there is not necessarily any equality of competi tive first line tires as to materials, workmanship or price.1 This interpre tation also applies to all lines of tires. "We therefore recom mend that advertising to the consumer shall avoid the use of these terms for the purpose of comparing competitive! products." A"8felal BraMd" Tlr is made by a man ufacturer for distributors su ch as Mail Ord cr hous es, oil companies and others, under a name that does not indcntlfy the tire man ufacturer to the public, usually because he builds his "best quality" tires under his own name. Firc stone puts his name on eery tire he makes. OsHfcl Guaratntcc Every tire manufactured by Firestone bears the name Firestone and car ries Firestone's unlimited guarantee and ours. You are doubly protected. 7? 'itiV EAGLE PL WOULD . PLAY GAME HERE . i ' f , .. i. - Efforts to brirtg tho ?agle ! Polft Grants Pass baseball game here Sun day are still being made by the Cheese makers, although the title tlt has been scheduled for the Grants Pass diamond. The game will deelde the-Rogue -Valley league champion ship. Both teams have won one game of the three-game series: " progressing satisfac a', result, our . business and throughout the country, increased so fast that it has been necessaiy Firestone to run their factories twenty-four hours a day and Firestor sold more tires in April, May and June than in any like period in tt the company.; - ; ; -. ; our advertising we do not laboratory tests which you cannot verify except in a laboratory neither do we make comparisons of construction or price based g misleading classifications such as first line tire, second line tire, or thit line tire"" we do not make comparisons to confuse and mislead yot i to actual values and service we only make statements and comparitei that you can verify for yourself in onr store before you purchase the tin Come in today and get the greater safety, extra,quality u extra values found only in Firestone Tires. . ' C O M P A R ". ' TlrtstMf 4rswlal 9)rMM ' ' lrsr -ksofHal TV" W m XT' - sis." ' W !S? C..?rie. J. 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