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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (April 19, 1932)
PAflTC FOTTR START NEW YEAR IN FEEBLE EORNI First Week Finds St. Louis In Seventh Place After Four Straight Defeats Giants Also Slow to Start By Oayle Talbot (Assoclte Prees 6 porta Writer) With the big league ball season ana (rigid week old, It begin to look aa If the champion St. Louis Cardtnala will receive a run for their money In the national league. In losing their fourth etralght home game yesterday the champions set a new low for the last two sea sons, dropping Into seventh place. Their 1 o n g e a t losing stresk at Sportsman's park last season was three straight, and only once did they drop four In a row on the road. Long Climb Ahead Where they started last season with a succession of triumphs, win ning eight of their first eleven games and taking a lead they never relinquished, they found themselves today with only two wins In six starts and a long, uphill climb be fore them. It Is probtble Sergeant Street's boys will collect themselves soon and move around the top, but the odds are long against their making another such runaway as that of last yesr. Charlie Root of the Cubs set them down with four hlte yes- terdav and would have scored shutout but for an error by Bookie Bill Herman In the ninth. The score was 8 to 1. Giants Also Slow The one cheering note for the Cardinals la that the New York Giants, generally regarded aa their most dangerous rivals, have an even worse start. Walter Betta of the Boston Bravea handed the McOraw- men a 7 to 1 beating yesterday. sendlni them definitely Into the basement. Led by Bsbe Herman and Bay Kolp, the Cincinnati Beds further aroused their constituency with a 6 to 0 win over Pittsburgh. Kolp held the braves to five bit while Herman drove In four of the Reds' runs with a double and a home' run. Babe Phelps, a sensation for Brooklyn In 1930 and a flop In 1931, made his debut by blanking the Phillies. 8 to 0, on six hits. Solons Dnib A's The Washington Senators supplied the fireworks In the American league with a crushing 18 to 7 triumph over the Athletics. Wslt Johnson's proteges topped things off with , a six-run splurge In the ninth, to which Sam West and Joe Judge contributed homers. Wes Ferrell rang uphls second victory aa Cleveland stopped the Chicago Whltesox, a to 1, Vlo Pras ler pitched sterling ball for the losers, permitting five hits In eight Innings, but the Sox made six er rors behind him. Whitlow Wyatt of Detroit like wise scored vlotory No. 3 as the Tigers took a loose one from the St. Louis Browns, 14 to 7. The Yanks and Red Sox were not scheduled. Berlin Records Iow Crime BERLIN (AP) Crime's true low was reached here when counterfeit ers started putting out fake four pfennig pieces, each coin being worth approximately one cent. Maps Guide Berlin Blind BERLIN. (AP) To assist blind persons, maps In relief showing bus, street car and subway lines to various sections of the city have been placed on principal street corners. ENJOY THE FUN OF DOING YOUR FURNITURE WITH THIS ENAMEL Maqicsll You can't help but My It after you hav dipped your brush into a color of iparttlins ENAMELOID. Enameloid Is thi Rapid Drying Decorative. Enamel of a thousand household uses. Try it on your kitchen set, right on over the old surface. See how it covers amaiinajy solid then dries to a smooth porcelain surface, gleaming, lasting and sanitary. Don't pass up the fun of doing your breakfast nook pieces with Enameloid. Rapid Drying Enameloid (all colore) per quart . , 1.70 IKK HKRWI?V.WII.I.IAM QI'AI.ITV llltl SUM ton bust rAi. riu rkni i.t QUICK DRYING VARNISH STAINI lust tske tkoie worn furniture pieces end see how quickly you can brlnj them to life stain with FLOL AC quick drylna vamiih and stsln combined. AA n sis popular wood effects Including Extra Dark MahosanyPer Pint. 7UC Don't Min "Keeplnjr Up With Daughter" Every Friday Morning Over KMED From 10;30 to 10:48. Hubbard Bros. Inc. Bine 1884 on. OVERC.4I.MSO PKEKMT1VB BIDS By Tom O'Nell. Preemptive original game bids are msde beceuse the hand of the bidder Is of little use defensively and la highly strong in one suit. The theory Is that If partner of the original bidder has not strength enough to mske the contract a suc cess the opponents have game poaal bllltes and will be shut out with small loss to the preemptive bidder. Opponents with hsnds of great distributional strength are not de terred by preemptive bids and at times overcali them successfully. One of the accomplishments of Miss Florence Pitch of the Deechspelles club, New York. Is a slam on such an overcali on which ahe was dou bled. Here was the hand: NORTH (Mtss flro) AOS t NONE J 10 7 4 2 (UALCK) WEST A j i 1 10 7 4 2 4 2 K I 4 44 A KJ f 16 ACS 7 - i t q e 5 A J 9 5 Th bidding: Weat, four hearts; north, tlvfl club; tut, five hearts; .south, six clubs; weat, double; north, east and south, paw. Miss Fitch cross-ruffed hearts &nd diamonds until the knave of dia monds and set up and the queen of hearts the only one of the suit left in dummy and she discarded it on doubled contract. -thb Play TV (AST SOUTH ' WEST NOTH t s us i &g s i 3 org 7 s 4 Z 9 J US s i rg a 4. 4 7 ST 7 9 JT A 7 t 5 10 Kf (2 9 K (53 t 3 L?g 4 GET 7 9 J EJJ S KTJ Af ,. 5 4) LAMPORT AND DE VOE TEAMS TAKE OPENING To start the schedule for the ktt- tenball series here, DeVoe's defeated Your Office Boys 8 to 4 and Lam port's won from Jennings' Tire, 11 to 10 In the contests staged on Van Scoyoo field last evening. In the seventh Inning Lamports made four runs to got in the lead of the fust-moving tilt. Batteries for the events were Elliott and Harrington, DeVoe's; Col ton and Leonard, Your Office Boys; Ray Slng ler and C, Spears, Lamport's; and Slngler and Stafford. Jennings Tire. T. I. Deck and Johnson were umpires, Playing for DeVoe's were Harrlng ton, Elliott, 1. Bowman, Dick Lewis, B. Finch, Zumbrunn, Dudley, Ouen ther, L. Older, Smith, For the Of fice Boys were T. Leonard, 8. Colton, B. Kesney, J. Watson, J. Trill, T. White. W. White, J. Smlrth, R. Payne, D. Watson. Lamport's players included O. Spears, Ray Slngler, T. Williams, R. Qreen, Dan Watson, M. Stflu, V. Swanson, F. Per'. H, Isaac, L. Franks, The Tlremen were O. Stafford, D. Slngler, R, Slngler, F. Dunn, c. Dunn, 0. Laws, S. Jennings, F. Runts, J, Dudley and B. Jennings, Roaeourg, P. R. Walker opened real estate office In Roseburg Nation al bank building. IfEDFORD MAIL CONTRACT (By Associated Press) Coast leaguers prepared (or new assaults on new fronts today to open the third week of the annual baseball war. The artillery was quiet yesterdsy as the big guns were be ing shunted off to new salients. ean Francisco will meet the In vasion of the Oaks tonight, the other games being daylight con tests. Portlsnd wss entrenched in the home grounds sgalnst the Mis sions, the Angels went to Sacra mento, and the Hollywood Stars were far from home among the Tribe's wlgwama In Seattle. The Seals remained at the top of the league Just as a week ago, with Sacramento. Hollywood and Portland completing the flrat div ision. The fourth piece Portland Ducks are leading the coast league In team batting average with Sacra mento, the team ' that pre-season dope figured one of the weakest outfits in the lesgue. In second place. The Ducks' average Is .351 and Sacramento'a .347. Both the Ducks and Senatora have There Is It's A.B.C. Circulation That Counts! You Get It When You MAIL TRIBUNE TaTS TRTBUNT5, MED FORD, two players esch batting above the .400 mark. The veteran Larry wood all, Sacramento catcher, la leading the league with a mark of .500 In the 11 gamea played. Bob Johnson of Portland Is second with .483 In the 14 gamea. Frank Demaree, Sol on outfielder. Is third with .473. Moore.' of Portland, also Is above the .400 mark, batting .418 to place eighth In Individual batting hon ors. f- Fl BIG BUTTE WATER Dr. Emmett J. Carpenter and party apent Saturday afternoon and Sunday on Big Butto creek, where despite the rainy weather one mem ber of the group caught the limit of large trout, and the others also made good catches. Accompanying Dr. Carpenter were Clifford Bchaier. Frank Hardesty. and Frank Roberts. Salmon eggs were used for bait. Brland In "Ole Cloes" PACY-SUR-EURE, France (AP) A monument to Arlstlde Brland. showing the late foreign minister In old clothes and with a fishing rod. Is to be erected In this, the nearest city to the hamlet of Coche rel, where Brland had his country home. Craters In East Indies. BANDA NEIRA, Moluccas (AP) Several new volcanic craters have opened In this district of the East Indies, the eruptions being accom panied by earthquakea and land slides. Msny villagers took refuge In the forests. "A.B.C." Circulation! You KNOW Just How Many People Are Reading Your Message When You Advertise In An ABC Newspaper Wise shoppers do not merely ask for. a sack of sugar, a bag of eggs or a handful of nails they SPECIFY the EXACT AMOUNT they want and tested scales ASSURE THEM FULL MEASURE . . . Isn't it equally good !"Hlgment, in buying display advertising or -'-ring a classified ad, to insist upon FULL MEASURE for your dollar? A. B. C. is the scale upon which newspaper OREGON. TUESDAY, TRACK MEET HERE SATURDAY During the past Mver&l weelu, itu denta of all of the echooli In the county with the exception of Med ford end Ashland, have been practic ing for the annual field and track meet acheduled for Saturday, April 23 at the Jackson county fairgrounds. A. H. Pitch has been appointed man ager of the meet. In tshe town and rural divisions, silver loving cups will be given the winning teams, the trophies having been donated by the Rotary, Ktwanls and Active clubs of Medford. and the Ashland Rotary club. Individuals winning the events will be awarded ribbons In first, second and third places. Brophy's Jewelry store on Main street will display the trophies this week. According to announcement, they will be given the winning schools at Vie close of the meet Saturday. Standing of school teams will be determined by a point system, with three places figuring In the town school events, and five for the rural schools. Both boys and girls will compete. Classifications are to be arranged according to enrollment with A, B, and C for the towns and A and B for the rural. The track, which Is overgrown with grass and weeds, will be worked over today by the county grader. T.he NO APRIL 10, 193k. SAIJDE RETURNS TO TURF WHEN CASH RUNS SHORT By Orlo Robertson (Associated Press Sports Writer) NEW y.RK. April 19. (AP) Earle Sande Is on his way back to the top again, with designs on the Kentucky derby. Winner of three derbies, a feat equalled only by the great Isaac Murphy. Sande again has answered the call of the turf with hopes of being the first to boot home four winners In the aso.OOO blue grass classic, which will be renewed at Churchill Downs May 7. Sande hasn't got a mount yet but he has several prospects. Maxle Hlrsch, trainer of Mrs. Louis G. Kaufmann's tick on and on post, has promised him one of the colts if both are sent to the post. Pete Wallls, contract rider for the stable, will get his choice but even Hlrscb can't decide which Is the better of the two. grounds will then be In first-class shspe for the events. , Ten lettermen from the Southern Oregon Normal school will assist Fitch, but other officials for the field carnival have not been named. According to the usual custom, the Bellvlew Parent-Teachers' will serve a luncheon at noon at the fair grounds. . Event scheduled for the morning are : Seven inning volleyball game. 800 yard run, SO yard dash, 100 yard dash, 120 yard hurdles, 80 yard hur dles, pole vault, high jump, broad Jump, girls baseball throw, flag race for girls, hop. st?p and Jump. 75 Guess wor circulation is measured ... if a newspaper's circulation has an AUDIT BUREAU of CIR CULATION guarantee, you eliminate all cruesswork. You KNOW that you are getting FULL MEASURE That is why 90 of the Hing newspapers of the United States and Canada are A.B.C. members, giving their ad vertisers positive assurance of the QUAN TITY and QUALITY of their circulation. Two years ago Sande returned to the saddle, after a disastrous ex perience as trainer and owner, to ride to fame and fortune aboard Gallant Fox. He previously had won the derby with Plying Ebony and Zev. The task of making weight told on America's turf Idol, however, and he turned to the movies and radio to keep his mind off the Job Earle's comeback campaign was given a temporary setback yester day when he was suspended for three days for misbehavior at the post. "It was my fault." Earle said. "I was too anxious to get away on Top." Sande has money but most of it is tied up in real estate. He admits the need of ready cash was a fac tor In his decision to return to the saddle. yard dash, chinning and potato race. The afternoon's schedule includes 50 yard dashes, 100 yard dash, 220 yard run. shot put. Javelin, sack race, 440 relay, 220 relay. Stockholm Needs Room STOCKHOLM. (AP) An Interna tional contest for city planning ex perts Is to be .held by this capital. The city intends to modernize the Norrmalm district, whose old, nar row streets can not carry modern traffic. Roseburg. Plana under considera tion for establishment of bus line to operate between here and site of northwest national soldiers' home. FOOTBALL INQUIRY BRINGS CRITICISM ON RULE REVISION WILMINGTON, O., April 19. (AP) The revised football rulea, re lating to the klckoff, were exposed to a coach's criticism that they were responsible for the critical In jury of one of his players. Tom Williams. 19. a Wilmington high school player, suffered a brain concussion in a practice game yes terday while trying to block an opponent. Coach Amos Smith said Williams, playing as guard, on the defensive team, was exposed to great possi bility of injury because the new rules prevented him from meeting the full speed of an opposing play, er with equal force. The Wilmington team went thru a 10-game schedule last season, un defeated and without a serious In Jury, but Smith predicted the new klckoff rule will "result In more Injuries than ever." To Recall Disarmament GENEVA. (AP) As mementos of the disarmament conference, the Swiss government is distributing a booklet contolning complete series of the postage stamps Issued In honor of the gathering. I Klamath Palls. Plans under way to remodel Klamath Variety store. Halsey. W. J. Moore of Brownsville leased local blacksmith shop. 1 Use the
