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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 22, 1931. TH BIG III Eighteen Years of Play Bring Mark Never Before Attained by Major Player : Hit Starts Yank Rally By Hugh B. Fullerton, Jr. Associated Press Sports Writer Babe Ruth has made 600 home - runs In his major league career. , ' In the third Inning of the Yankee. Bt. Louis game yesterday he drove one of George Blaeholdcr's offerings far over the bleacher roof at Sports. nan's park. . It was his 36th four . .bagger of the current season and brought his total for the 18 years of his major league career up to 600. a mark never before attained or even threatened by any other ' major leaguer. The Babe reclaimed the pellet from the youngster who found It out In Orand Boulevard, giving In exchange 10 reward and a new autographed ball. lilt Htnrts Hnlly. The homer started the Yanks off to the winning rally In their 11-7 victory over the Browns. Lou Gehrig duplicated the swat a moment later and before the Inning was over the Yanks had five runs and the game safely tucked away. Philadelphia's champion athletics and the Chicago White Box ham mered out 24 hits between thorn and although the Box had a 14-10 edge in the hitting, Philadelphia won 15 to 13. Washington's batters rammed out a total of 18 hits off Clint Brown and Pete Jablonowakl to take the fourth game of the series from Cleveland, a to S. Walk anil Errors Alii. Boston and Detroit produced fewer hits In their olash but seven bancs on balls off Eddie Durham and Wiley Moore more than made up for the absence of blows and the Red Box tossed In five errors to make things easy for the Tigers to walk off with an 11 to 6 triumph Yesterday's defeats loft Boston and Chicago tied for sixth place, S7 games behind the Athletics and with 37 to play. They still have their mathematical chanco to win the pen nant, however, as the A's havo 39 to go. .- -i Only one game In the National league survived a spell of threaten ing weather. In It, the Boston Braves took a close battle from the Pittsburg Pirates, a to 1. t , ' Juvenile Cast Now at Fox Craterian Another rollicking, heart-warming juvenile comedy drama, will make Its appearance at the Fox Craterian starting a 3-day engagement Sunday. It la tho famous Mark Twain story, "Huckleberry Finn," with J a o k 1 e Coogan, Mltal Green, Junior Durkln and Jackie Scarl In the featured east. "Huckleberry Finn" Is the further adventures of the lovable youngsters who won favor from screen fans of all ages In "Tom Sawyer." Junior Durkln, as Huck, runs away from home, in fear of his angry fathor. His father follows him, takes him to a deserted cabin, but Huck is rescued by Tom, and, together, the boys decide to embark on a life of adventure. The story tells how they save two young sisters from a pair of roving desperadoes, at great dan ger to themselves. This advonture brings them great satisfaction and honor. YESTERDAYS RESULTS R. H. E. Los Angeles .3 4 0 Portland 7 8 0 Batteries t Mou. Wetzel. Nelson and Campbell; Bowman and Wood all. R. H. E. San Francisco 0 16 8 Seattle ....19 13 3 Batteries: Davis, Bablch, Doug las and Mealcy, Ward; Page and Cox, Bottarlnl. R. H. E. Sacramento . - 8 18 3 Missions 1 13 1 Butteries: Plynn, Chesterfield and Wlrts; Caster and Hofmann. ' ; " R. H. E. Oakland 3 6 0 Hollywood ... 9 11 1 Batteries: Pearson, Dag! la, House and McMullen, Read; Shellenback and Basnler. : George O'Brien Is Star Rialto Drama George O'Brien Is seen In' "A Holy Terror," current success at the Fox Rialto theatre today and Sun day In which, ho portryas the role of a young society man who trails the auspeoted murderer of his sup posed father and falls In love with a beautiful girl he meets In the . west. The climax Is reached when the boy discovers he has been track. Ing his own father. ' Sally Kllers, beautiful and viva. clous screen actress who was widely acclaimed far her performances In "Quick Millions" and "The Black Camel," enacts the role of the girl and others In the oast are Rita La Roy, Humphrey Bogart, James Kirk wood and Stanley Fields. Irving dimming! directed. With Rod and Gun Look Out for Lefty By Pap . Fishing in Crater lake and Diamond lake Qias Improved greatly during the cooler weather of the past two weeks, It Is reported. Limit catches are be. Ing taken at each of the places. Many tourists are availing themselves of fishing In Crater lake since fishing licenses are not required In the na tlonal park. One party of tourists report catch. ing four trout within an hour All measured between IB and 30 Inches. The Crater lake limit Is five fish. Bass fishing at Lake o' the Woods Is said to be at Its best oither early in the morning or late In the even ing Just beforu cark. Many local flshermon prefer the bass because they are such a delicious pan fish Some trout are being token from Rogue river now on eggs and files. Tho California buoktall fly, tied lo cally by an Ashland man, Is said to be the favorlto of the river fish Just now. Reports from Wardon F. M. Brown at the mouth of the Rlgue river state that a few steelheod and some sal mon are beginning to conio Into the stream. Because of the unusually low condition of the Rogue, the fish are not coming upstream fast, Mr. Brown states. Instead, they are gath ering at the mouths of tributary streams alongshore where the water Is cooler. Mr. Brown says the wator In the Rogue Is lower now than was ever known before. ' II mmi tri mi , in - if TO OPEN GRIDIRON AT . LtTFRS &G 6AT CAME-. AKO BoooTjzV HIM fZoiT OP -Tub 6rooJlvaj . SlOSSBfZ. -WAS aSAaJ CCW.iT NTo -His oWaj. EAGLE PT-EUGENE F, E PITS FAST TEAMS TRAPSHOOTKING TO USE CRUTCHES Hendershott's baseball team from Eugene will play the Eagle Point nine - at the fairgrounds diamond Sunday afternoon at 3:30 o'clock. Fans are promised some Interesting baseball when the two league chum plons meet. The Eugeno team won the Lane-Benton county league title with 10 wins and no defeats. Later the same nine trounced Lebanon, winner of the Cascado lenguo title. 0 to 1, Eagle Point's Cheesemakers won the Rogue Valley league tltlo and have since cleaned up on about everything the county can present In the way of baseball. Mope Russell, former pitcher for the Woodland team In the Sacra mento valley league, will pitch for Hendershott's tomorrow. Russell was probably the outstanding pitcher In tho California circuit and has been playing equally good ball In the Willamette valley this season. Pitching for Eagle Point will be taken care of by either Cook or Best. The Eugone team Is a mixture of young and old. There aro three high school boys that are reported to have all, the ear marks of good ball players, several former Univer sity .of Oregon varsity diamond men and others from the school, of hard knocks Harry Dutton, formerly from Grants Pass, will play center field for the visitors. VANDALIA, O., Aug. 32. (AP) The king of American trapshooters was on crutches today but by Mon day he hopes to defend his crown In the annual grnnd American .handicap tournament, national trap-shooting clsslc. The king Is Rufus A. King Jr., IB. and he arrived yesterday from his home In Wichita Falls, Texas. Although his right leg Is In a cast and he can walk about only with the aid jof crutches, the 16-ycar-old king pin of American target men Intends to be on the range for t.he tourna ment Monday morning. The leg was fractured several weeks ago. Among the stars the youthful king must beat are Qus Smith of Long Beach, Calif., California representa tive In the Orand American. 1 Hcppner Andrew Baldwin pur chased Heppner Soda Works from I Mrs. Nettle Flower. I CITY PLAYGROUND J Medford's first city playground Junior tennis tournament Is pro gressing rapidly. Results of the matches played are as follows: Vern Campbell defeated Albert Randies In a hard fought match 3-6. 8-6. 6-3: Earl Coss won from Bert Lumon. 6-0, 6-0: Norman Moty defeated Dale Roberts e-1, 8-6; Sam Van Dyke 8-7, 6-4, 6-3; George Dudley defeated Bill Walker 6-1, 6-2;; Cleo Hicks defeated Frank Brown (scores not reported), Winston Campbell won by default from Ed Valuer, and Earl Coss defeated Winston Camp bell (scores not reported). Matches to be played as soon as possible are: Claude Manke vs. Cleo Hicks, Bob Fowler vs. Bob Holz gang. Albert Holzgang vs. Ralph Coghill, and Vern Campbell vs. Nor man Moty. No more matches should be scheduled for after 4:30 p.m. Participants must remember to re port the scores of their games to Verdun Boucock or to Miss Coss. All of the ping pong players have been eliminated from tho tourna ment except Albert Gaddls. Ray Lewis. Charles Ford and Rusoell Jordan. Darwin K. Burgher, coach of the Medford high school athletics, with bis bride returned yesterday, after spending the vacation attending sum mcr school at the University of Ore. gon and visiting his Idaho, home. Burgher will start next' week get ting ready for the football season, and the first Job will be the leveling off and arrangement of ' a practice field at the new senior high school on Oakdale avenue. It Is probable that all games this year will be play ed at the old tilgh scaool field, with the practice held on the new field. Ray Henderson, coach of the Junior hlghj school, will return the first week In September to resume his coaching duties. .... Coach Burgher will have plenty of both old and new material to work with this fall. Lettermen scheduled to return are OUUnskl. Dutch Zum brunn, Blllle Walker. Wilton White. Bill Cunningham, Sunderman. oil ver Hughes, Joe cave, jr., and a num. ber of freshmen of considerable heft. Prospects for football and basketball Include Tommy White, Junior high school star, who may be developed Into a quarterback the weak spot In the gridiron squad. ' HOW THEY STAN D ' .(By the AfMX-laled Press.) Coust,' . W. L. San Francisco 27 31 Pet. .663 .... 26 22 .642 Los Angeles Oakland ...I 36 23 .643 Portland - 26 23 .642 Hollywood . 2S 22 .532 Seattle - 33 24 , .489 Sacramento 20 37 .426 Missions 1 30 .362 American. SET FOR SUNDAY ' Tennis teams from Grants Pass and Rosoburg will arrive here Sunday to play In the double header .matches with the Medford Tennis club. The Grants Pass match Is sched uled for 8 o'clock In the morning. Eight men and two women entrants are coming from Grants Pass. Roseburg will be the second on the local club's schedule for the day. The match will be held in the afternoon at the high school courts: Such players as John Reddy, Kra mer euel, Alvln Tollefson, Carter Boggs,. Harry Garfield, Jtmmle Ed mlston, Helen Edmlston, Mrs. Almus Prultt, Almus Prultt and others will defend the Medford club against the Invading racquet wleldcrs. -. LAST IGHT (By the Associated Press.) Fort Dodge. la. Owen Phelps. Mesa, Ariz., stopped Hairy Dillon, Chicago. (4); Paul Wongley. Minne apolis, outpointed Henry Falengano, Des Molne, (6). Philadelphia . Washington ... New York Cleveland St, Louis Chicago : Boston' Detroit 83 32 .722 71 46 .607 67 49 .678 COLEMAN'S Hi ... 56 60 .483 ... 49 87 .422 . 47 70 .405 ... 47 70 .46 72 .405 .385 National. St. Louis 75 43 .638 New York - - 65 50 .665 Chicago 68 53 .655 Brooklyn 62 69 .612 Boston ' 67 60 .487 Pittsburgh .... 66 62 . Philadelphia .. 49 70 .412 Cincinnati - 43 76 .381 PLAY-OFF IS BY 60-FOOT PUTT SEATTLE. Aug. 32. (AP) Ernie Tate. Vancouver. B.CTpro dropped a 60fcot putt on the ninth hole of a playoff with tvro other golfers yes terday to win the Pacific northwest assistant professlonels' championship. Tate was tied with two Seattle players, Bill Zongker and Bob Dun can, with 144's for the regular 36 hole play. Tate's sensational putt gave him a birdie 2, to break a tie with Zong ker at the last hole. - STATE GOLF CROWN SPOKKANE, Aug. 22. (AP) The Workington state women's golf cham pion-ship is at home In Suokane to day, held by Mrs. Guy Riegel. Mrs. Rlegel won it yesterday by a 8 to 5 margin, defeating Mrs. W. A. Kirkman of Seattle, In a sensational 36-hole match over the Manlto course. The new champion took 151 strokes, 14 over women's par. to cover the 31 hcles, while Mrs. Kirkman required five more strokes. Indianapolis. Tracq Cox, Indian apolis, knocked out Eddie Anderson, Cody, Wyo.. (4). Chicago. Buck Everett, Gary, Ind., outpointed Joe Dokter, Buffalo, (10). . San Francisco. Fidel LaBarba. Los AngelfcL outpointed Pluto, De Sa. Portugal, tlO). Loyola Sprinter Sets Africa Mark JOHANNESBURG. Africa, Aug. 22. ( AP) Fifteen thousand spectators to day saw Emmett topplno of Loyola university (New Orleans) crack sprinter of the American barnstorm ing track team, set a new South Afri can record for the 100-yard dash In winning the event over a star field of Transvaal and South African uni versity athletes. Running on a perfect track and In Ideal weather conditions, the Amer ican flash was .t)mcd in 9 3-8 seconds. VICTORY OVER L By ,e Aswlitti fl - ' a tie ui uJ runa gatherea 1 7 over ix Angela land lost ninht . . 1 Ed Coleman, scoring two u,J him, was the big rok, ,1 SeattlA nriri o.. out 2fl h.r. k. " eight errors and the iZ?J the same. 1Q t o .""I , lour MtJ , second Inning when the 8mi,1 three errors. Indian pia!l two bm H tu" "I! nnfAfri Hallo nl " """" tu WSIKS. Tho Iffl,,.., . I ... ..iu,uu uea, t ... ucr oacramento with J inrtlno- falin i- ........ H six runs and drove Leftv pi,J the mminri ' -1 V r n n V c-n - I .cB,0it-u n 22mi of the season as the start d. Oakland 9 to 2. Lee homed ii stars In the seventh. f TO FACE ALBANT Walker Floral Co. moved to new location in Brennor IllllldlllK. PORTLAND, Ore. Aue. a A surplus of available n and a dearth of likely oppj cumionts me sponsors ol Dcmpsey appearance here Mi August 24, In the first four- bout of his "fighting tour country. Citizens In all walks ol Hid Informed the Portland boilng mission they would be glut iiciste, out the commission. meeting yesterday, decided to down all such offers and selt referee from among the reguj censed referees. The referee i selected some time before j night. Ralph H. Gruman, prom?t the Dempsey show, said todl did not expect the former 1 weight champion to am until late Sunday night or a morning. Dempsey will start his four- bout against Big Bill Hartnllj ton negro. So far no other nents have been selected, but man said he expected to slgr. more today. His purpose In i Ing four Is to Insure Dempl rounds of fighting. A krJ would end one round and sj fighter would be brought In next round. Inwa Makes Lots of I'nH DES MOINES. Ia. (API-I though Iowa imports about cent of its cheese consumptl state's factories last year pi 1.373.892 Bounds of It. Prod costs averaged 18.83 cents a R3ai?Es ITUnese aittes im Yum? (Safleimte SEPTEMBER 7 to THE MAIL TRIBUNE'S ANNUAL Jack Whiting Star Holly Mystery Hit Jack Whiting, lost seen In the Holly In "Top Speed" with Joe Brown, is one of the featured play ers In "Men of the Bky" the fea ture attraction opening at the Holly tomorrow. Irene Delroy plays oppo site him. In this romance of spies of the earth and sky. "The Reckless Hour" with Dor othy Mackalll, H. B. Warner, Conrad Nagel and Joan Blonriell, closes at the Holly with the last perform ances tonight. 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