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EGEOTOUD' 5DOL' TMBUITE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, HT7GT7ST I, 1932. T IN OPING DAY 'Babe' Didrickson of Texas Hurls Javelin H3 Feet, 4 Inches in Sunday Games Champs Face Trouble By Alan Gould, (Associated Preu Sport Editor.) IOS ANQELBS, AU(t. 1 . (P) After glittering Inaugural before the greatest crowd In Olymplo history, then a record-smashing competitive overture, the Olymplo track and field champlonahlps today featured the prospect that two of the moat popu lar tltleholder. Percy Williams of Canada and' Lord David Burghley of England would be hard-pressed to keep up the pace and probably de throned. Both barely survived the first day'a battle for places, which gave 50,000 spectators In the Olymplo stadium a succession of unexpected thrills, saw Olymplo records shattered In four men's events and witnessed, all told, no leas than eltfht record perform ances up to and Including a world record Javelin throw, for women of 14S feet, 4 Inches, by the "one-woman" track team from Dallas, Texas Mildred (Babe) Dldrlkson. Champ Faces Threats. Williams, In the semi-finals and finals of the claaelo 100-meter dash, outstanding event on this afternoon's program, faced not only the swlft returnlng challenge of a crack trio of Americana Eddie Tolan, Ralph Metcalfe and Qeorge Simpson but the threat of a new German filer, Arthur Jonath. : The Canadian star, who won both sprint titles at Amsterdam four years ago, survived by way of the third and last qualifying position In a trial heat won by Tclan, the former Michi gan negro ace, in the new Olympic record time of 10.4 seconds. Wil liams. In this heat of the second aeries, trailed Carlos Lutl, surprise contender from the Argentine, as well as Tolan. Meanwhile Jonath, ft big, rangily built German, came through his sec ond test In 10.8 seconds, also beating the former Olymplo mark of 10.6, which he equalled In his first race. Little Jap Gallant. Metoalfe and Simpson, neither of whom was extended in sweeping through a brace of victories apiece, were docked In 10.7 seconds In tholr second races, Metcalfe, the Mar quette university negro and American sprint champion, particularly seemed to have lots to spare aa he breeaed to hu second victory over the sole Japanese survivor, Yoshloka, a gal lant little fellow who churned up the cinders with a big handkerchief wrapped around his head. The favorites, aa they stacked up among the e .en dozen of the world's beet sprinters surviving the two pre liminary rounds, were Tolan, Met alfe and Jonath, In that order. Otherwise the first day'a track and field competition was marked by the orownlng of throe world champions, aa follows: Three Crowned. (1) Leo Sexton, United States, who twice shattered the Olymplo shotput record with successive marks of 03 feet, H Inches, and then, for a cli max, M feet, 4 8-16 inches. (9) Janusa Kusoclnskl, Poland, who broke the Finnish domination of the 10,000-meter race by beating the belt of Finland's youngatera, Volmarl Iso Bollo, and cracking Paavo Nurml'a Olymplo record by negotiating the distance In 80 minutes, 11.4 seconds. . (8) Duncan McNaughton, Canada, who captured the running high lump, at 6 feet, 6 Inohea, after a prolonged Jump-off duel with hit southern California teammate, Bob VanOsdel, repreeetlng . the United States. (4) Mildred (Babe. Dldrlkson, United States, whose world record toss of 143 feet, 4 Inches, on her first try with the Javelin, marked the de but of this extraordinary girl athlete in Olymplo competition. It also en abled her to beat the German, B. Braumuller, who had held the pre vious women's mark of 132 feet, Inch, and lost yesterday despite Im proving her own mark of 143 feet. BH Inches. HOW THEY STAND. Portland ,, , Hollywood San Francisco Loa Angeles Seattle Sacramento Oakland -.. Missions National. W. L. PO. . 76 48 .610 . 70 63 Mi . 64 64 .638 . 65 67 JI33 . 68 64 .476 . 66 67 .466 . 63 70 .431 . 48 74 .393 Pittsburg Chicago Philadelphia Boston ..... Brooklyn St. Louis New York Cincinnati W. I. PO. , 69 40 .696 , 68 45 JH1 . 68 80 .816 . 61 40 .610 .60 63' .400 , 47 63 .476 , 46 53 .469 . 44 61 .419 New York Philadelphia Cleveland . Washington Detroit St. Louis Chicago Boston .. W. L. PO. , 68 33 .673 , 61 43 .593 , 68 43 .680 , 58 46 .864 , 61 48 .636 , 48 54 .460 . 83 64 .340 , 36 73 .363 BASEBALL YESTERDAY Coast. a. h. 10 18 Batteries: Ludolph, A. waisn, ret ber and Rarlmondt; and Campbell. Second game: Oakland Los Angeles Baecht, Moas R. H. K. .883 .341 Batteries: Thomas and La Veque; Pltr.ke and Cronln. Sacramento B. 0 4 13 3 R. H. . 6 11 San Tranclaco Batterlea: Tlncup and WlrU: Hen derson and Wallgren, Brenzel. Second game: R. H. K. Sacramento . . 4 0 3 San Francisco 6 10 8 (Seven Innings). Batteries: Vlncl, Bryan and Wood all; McDougall and Brenzel, Hollywood Seattle .... R. H. I. 7 13 8 . 8 11 8 (18 Innings). Batteries: Page and Bassler; Wal ters and Bottarlnl. Second game: R. R. B. Hollywood 16 8 Seattle 8 9 0 (7 Innings). Batteries: Sheehan and Mayer; Nelson and Bottarlnl. R. H. B. .363 . 8 10 1 AMERICANS FAIL DAVIS TENNIS CUP TRY PARIS, Aug. 1. P) Once again the United States has failed by the barest margin three matches to two to wrest the Da via Cup from France, but her defeated young warriors car ried bright hopes for the future aa hey etarted home today. They were beaten when Jean Bo- rotra came back from a tennis grave of hit own choosing to play some of his meet inspired tennis. But not ntu Ellsworth Vines, Jr, Uncle Sam's greatest hope, had met and subdued Franco's Idol, Henri Cochet, and given the defenders a taste) of what la In store for them next year. The three -dsy series concluded of flolally when Boratra, 34-year-old Dervish, sent 13,000 admirers into Bear-hysterics by defeating Wllmer Allison. 1-6. 8-8, 6-4, 6-3, 7-8, In the first of yesterday's concluding singles. Barely had the throng carried Bo rotra from the court, however, when It ardor was dampened by the sight of Cochet being defeated. It was hi first beating In Davis Cup play In MX years. Vines, whipping himself to the heights, came back after dropping the flrta two sets, to defeat the little tennis muter, 4-6, 0-6, 7-6, 8-8, 6-3. Time and again In the final three sets the partisan crowd, almost against Its will, rose and cheered the Oeltfornlan'a magnificent play. Missions Portland Batterlea: Reuther, Brlggs and Hofmann; McDonald and Palmlsano. Second game: R. H. E. Missions 4 10 1 Portland 8 7 3 (10 Innings). Batteries: Osborne and Rlccl; Kou- pal and Fltzpatrlck. PUTS YANKS BACK Big Fellow -Still Limping, Leads Team to Three Vic tories In Four Games by Heavy Work With Stick B7 OAYJ.E TALBOT. (Adioclatcd PrM Sports Writer) For all anyone can prove to the contrary. Babe Ruth it 111 la the Yankees, and the Yankees still are Ruth. The big fellow, up from a bed of pain, has been back In the line up only four days, and he has trans formed the leaders from a sickly, badly scared club to the old confi dent, all conquering team. The Bambino, still limping slightly. wae rushed back Into the pennant fight last Thursday after the Yanks had dropped three straight. Since then he has been to the plate 13 times, collected 10 hits for an aver age of .769, driven In 14 runs and scored five times. The Yankees von three of the four games. Gets Four Homers. Included In the Babe's four-day collection were four home runs, run ning his total to 30, leaving him 11 behind Jlmmle Foxx of the Ath letic, the pace setter. He smacked No. 80 yesterday, along with a pair of single to drive in five runs to help squelch Detroit, 12 to 8. The Cleveland Indians, making their debut In their new stadium before 60,384 fans, found the Ath letics ungracious guests. Lefty Grove limited the Indians to four hits and In the eighth Inning Mickey Cochrane clicked a single that won the game, 1 to 0. Monte Weaver, Washington's rookie star, scored his 17th victory at Chi cago's expense, 8 to 6. Irving Hadley and Bob Cooney each turned in a nice pitching Job to give the St. Louis Browns a pair over Boston, 13 to 3 and 7 to 3. National Race Unchanged. The National league flag race re mained at a standstill aa the lead ing Pirates observed an off day at Philadelphia and the Chicago Cuba split with Brooklyn. Charley Root pitched the Cubs to an easy victory In the first, A to 3, but the Dodgers rallied In the seventh Inning of the nightcap to win, A to 4. The Boston Braves also divided with St. Louis, Paul Derringer blank ing the Braves, 7 to 0. In the opener and Boston slugging Dizzy Dean for a 7 to 3 declfil?n !nt the second. Dean hit a homer. Breaking a seven-game losing streak, the New York Giant tum bled Cincinnati twice, 4 to 8 and 6 to 4. E SEASON COSILY CHICAGO, Aug. 1. (AP) Arling ton park spent 9700,000 this season trying to beat the races, but wound up loser, Just like the horse players. That was the admission today of John D. Hertz, chairman of the exec utive committee of the fashionable Jockey club. The loss will be slight, he said, but whatever deficit, It will amply made up by the creation of good will among patrons of the sport. Arlington gave away In purses the staggering total of $700,000 averaging 423,000 dally. It hung up 488,000 for Gusto's triumph In the Arlington classic, the richest three year old race of the year. About 950,000 allotted to Umpqua National Forest for Improvement and maintenance work, to be expended during summer months Roseburg News-Review. Gold Beach Clearing of tunnel and tracks at McKtnley mine, six miles east of this city, progressing. Wendlmg Camp No. 3 of Booth Kelly Lumber Co., started operations. E WILL HAVE SPOT Asbland fight fane are also tak ing keen Interest In Wednesday's card here which will bring Leo Lonukl and Jack McCarthy together again In the main event. Aside from the feature match, Llthla City citi zens will be on hand to view their welterweight pride. Jlmmle Hall, In action against Tex Porter, Medford, In a four-round brawl. Porter, fa miliar to valley wrestling fans as an exponent of the grunt and grmv ace game, la trying hla hand at leather pushing. He la rated plenty tough and la expected to give Hall, a more experienced boxer, an evening of trouble. Hall has had 16 battles and has never been defeated and In fact has yet to be stretched on the resin for any count what ever. Lomskl, the "Aberdeen assassin," la expected to work out this even ing at Promoter Mack LUlard's open air arena on the city playground. According to word received Satur day from Portland toe la "In the pink" and expects to put McCarthy away in an early round thereby I quieting talk that tne wisn i would have won their last bout a riisa neroetrated i-7 the wily Pole In the fourth round. McCarthy has been training steadily since the last card and la not at all awed by Lomskl's claims. McCarthy expects to again tear In from the start and maao a It. A alx-routM seml-wlndup will pit Herb White, sensational little Butte Fall lightweight and Bplder Fields, Jacksonville. la Fields, the Butte Falla boy will meet probably the wut. w h. tt.a f.c.d so far In hla meteoric rise In the flstlc firma ment. ,. Although xne term "grudge match" If often used aa fan bait, It may be honestly employed to describe Wed nesday's curtain raiser between Del Campbell, young Medford aspirant and Roy Harris, Phoenix boy. Each haa exhibited a marked distaste for the other and the final acceptance of the match was given by Campbell only on a "winner-iaac-aii uit. .rfntp scheduled for four rounda. should whet the appetites of those wno nave proviaeu mcm selves with the fast-selling paste boards for Wednesday's armory en tertainment. Roseburg Portland Bridge Co. re ceived 126.900 contract for construc tion of super-structure of proposed bridge across Umpqua river here. La Grande City repairing pave ment on local streets. SWINGS INTO LINE ( Continued from -page one) The O. O. P. assault on Roosevelt's Saturday night apeech brought. Secretary Mills of the treasury, as serted In Washington that when the democratic presidential candidate talked about fiscal affairs of the fed eral government, and credit expan sion he knew not whereof he spoke. Sees Amazing Deceit Senator L. J. Dickinson telling Roosevelt by telegram from Algoni, Iowa, that he believed the New oYrk governor had "committed an amazing deceit upon the American people" by saying the St. Lawrence- waterway was included In the democratic unem ployment plank. Watson of Indiana, senate republi can leader, Insisting at Chicago that Roosevelt's program waa "part friendly to protection, part friendly to free trade, while another part de mands an International conference to determine all tariff rates" and that "It Is quite manifest he (Roosevelt) cannot defend them all." BOY SCOUTS END LAKE OF WOODS IP FOR YEAR Boy Scout camp closes Tuesday. The fto boys In camp will return to .their homes after two weeks spent at Camp McLaughlin at Lake o the Woods. This year's camp has been one of the most auoceasful yet held. Attendance waa good and competent leaders carried on an Interesting and complete program. Many hikes were taken from camp, the longest of whloh was the trip up Mt. Pitt. . A number of horse trips were tn each period. Swimming, boating and flatting were especially good In the lake and the scout en joyed ell thee? sports. Court of honor Sunday brought to a close the greater part of the ac tivities In camp. The scouts were awarded the merit badges and rank insignia they nave earned during their camp atay, A number of scout went to Lake o' the Woods lor this court, having passed tests In town Many visitors also spent Sunday In camp with the boya. Thla court of honor will be the last held until school opens. Two eagle applications have been turned In at headquarters for the next court. Carl Slough and Cleo Hicks, both of troop No. 7, have completed their requirements for scouttnga highest rank. With camp closing, the scout will start preparatlona for the fall Jam boree. Thla la a competitive contest, the vertoua troops vising for a silver cup. "Honor and Satisfactory Camper" awards will be given then The contests entered will Include tint aid. fire bulldltur knot tying. tree cutting, model aeroplanes and booths displaying the various scout craft and work don by the troops O. S. Hoover, scout executive, will return to Medford this week, having been In camp etnc June 27th. Band Box Opening Coat Department la readiness for the fall and win tr season, a coat department haa been Installed at the Band Box and Shoe Box, and attractive numbers are alretdy on display. Mr. and Mrs. U. J, Carpenter are again meeting their customers at their women's store after a week's fishing trip and vacation spent along the coast. e Phone 643. 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