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t PXGB FOUR MEDFOTID MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, .FEBRUARY 13, 1933. Schaaf Dies From Effects of Beating BRAIN OPERATION BLOWSPARALYZE Boxer Answers Fake Charges With Life Failed to Re gain Consciousness Fo lowing Crucial Operation E Br EDWARD J. NEIL. (Associated Press Sport Wrtler.) NEW YORK, Feb. 14. Pi Blonde role Senear, the boy 30,000 howling fane called ft faker, died early today in Polyclinic hospital from the effects of the beating Prlmo Oaxnera gare him in the Madison Square Garden prlw ring laat. Friday night. Re died at 4:.8 a. m., without r gaining consciousness, after an op eration on his brain yesterday to w . move a blood clot, deep In the motor area. Was Likeable Chap. Schaaf was one of the moat likeable of all the young ring men. Thus, with tragedy such as New Tork boilng fans haa not known since a Sunday morning In 1924, when lit tle Jerome died as a result of the beating he took from Bud Taylor, did the tow-headed youngster who always wanted to be ft priest, answer with his lit the critics who thought ha "laid down" to Camera so that hts part-manager, Champion Jack Shar key, could have an outstanding title ohaiienger In June. - For several hours last night, It seemed that the cruolal operation performed by Dr. Byron Stokey yes terday, when relief from an intra- eranlal hemorrhage became impera tive, would save Schaafs life. At sight his condition was excellent, though he had not regained con sciousness. Relatives Called. But about S a. m. his condition took a sudden change for the worae. Hastily, his mother, Mrs. Lucy Schaaf; a sister, Mrs. May Daley; his heart broken manager, Johnny Buckler, nd ft nearby parish priest were called to the bedside In Polycllnlo hosDltol As his life ebbed away they prayed, A house physician left for the alow ' tng pulse. A candle In one of flchaaf'a -hands burned low. As the doctor finally shook his head and loosed the other hand, wrapped In rosary beads, ssra. acnaar kissed her son's finger, "He's gone," she whispered. "My aarnng coy. Start Probe Anew. As soon as word reached police Headquarters mat scnaar had died, dateotlvaa were sent to Cameras ho tel to bring the Italian Oollath In for questioning snd probable charges ef nomicide. Although members of the homicide squad previously had exon erated all concerned of criminal neg ligence, a new investigation was ordered. ocnaaf died only after a terrlfle light in which eminent brain spec ialists were enroUed. The blonde tar was knocked unconscious by a left Jab to the face In the 13th round of a Jo-round match Friday night. One Lucid Moment. Schaaf had but one lucid moment before the operation, when hla moth er, his constant companion, managed to rouse him briefly from his coma. "Honey, are you my sweetheart?" ah pleaded. "Yes, Mom," he whispered. "How are you?" ah asked. "I'm okey, Mom." He couldn't be roused again. Buckley, the man who managed Sharkey to a championship and had ha same high hopes for Sohaaf. -stumbled from the room where the youngster died, with tears streaming down nis race. i waa tne finest boy I ever knew, he said. "And he had to die to prove that he wasn't a faker. The things they accused him of, things he oouldnt do, things that weren't in mm to do. He was like a son to Medford's Tigers will take a trip Into the frown reaches of the Klam ath baaln this week-end In conquest of the Klamath vallsy teams. Med ford meets Klamath Palla In a return game -in Klamath Falls Friday night, and plays Chlloquln Saturday night. Coach Darwin K. Burgher said this morning that ha would use his sec ond team against Chlloquln as they play on a "cracker box" floor and with the Ashland game coming the following week he didn't want to run any chance of Injuries. The first team, however, will meet Klamath Falls. The Tigers are pointing to the game here Thursday, February 23. with the Ashland high school. In the third conference game of the season for the locals. Ashland, under Coach Donald Faber, haa been ahowlng ex ceptional strength, and Is casting somewhat of a shadow over the cham pionship aspirations of the Tigers. By defeating the strong Klamath Falls team, 20-22, the Ashland team loomed as a contender of serious dimensions, and may make the trip to Salem In stead of the Tigers. Medford has not lost to Ashland on the basketball floor, for some time, and Ashland growling In a threatening tone thla year. Coach Burgher admitted thla morning that things looked bad I wouldn't want to be quoted,' Burgher aald, "but I don't Ilka the looks of this Ashland outfit. Unless my boys are on when we play Ash land, no telling what' will happen. It doesn't look too good." Medford's 'rigor Cubs will play the Junior high school In the preliminary to tne Asmana gams, Burgher an nounced. These two teams are old rivals. LADYlKSlWL STARTLING SCORE Boxing Boss Now The Lady Elk "champs" were de feated Sunday evening by the Elks city league bowling team by only iuo pins in the final score. rne ladies rolled a better game than any of the teams rolled laat week, Mrs. Prultt was high Individual for the ladlss with 404, bowling one game tor uo pins. Bray ton and Quenther teams roll tonight. There will be no bowling Tuesday night became of the mas valentine dance. .The Pllegel and Sherwood boya roll Thursday night alter loage. Sunday night's scores: Mrs. Prultt 152 205 Mrs. Olll ... . 127 Mrs. Flynn ... 77 Miss Holt .18 Mrs. O. DeVore. 101 Handicap Prultt ., Olll - Rankin Do Vote Eada Handicap , ...276 BS7 ..200 ..180 187 -144 .188 47 148 98 111 139 275 107 182 89 128 140 275 975 163 204 173 125 168 47 901 2733 193 056 232 816 166 626 136 406 243 689 47 141 946 -4- 870 1017 2833 GATES CAPTURES WATERBUCKET GOLF CUPS TRIED, JUNKED ASTORIA, Ore., Feb. 14. P) Ths eight-Inch cups on golf greens of the Astoria oou club will be removed. The large cups were tried as sn ex periment and the club membership urmiy opposed them. The cups were used on the second nine for a week. FIELD MARSHAL, WHO STARTED LOW, DIES LONDON, Feb. 14 (AP) Field Mar shal Sir William Robertson, 78, one of the moat Importsnt military lead era among allied commanders durln.t ths World war. it dead, sir William had the unique distinction of being ths only man in British history to rise from the ranks to receive field marshal's baton. Gates Auto bowling team won two out of three from The Mall Tribune quintet In their City league match laat night. George Gates waa high man for the evening. Fluhrer'a Bakery and Peerless Meat Market roll tonight. Scores: Gates Auto, 111 O Gates . 190 180 164 684 M. Cannon 164 128 182 424 J. Moore 148 183 198 607 E. Bollnaky 170 160 177 497 C. Baylor 152 163 190 495 Handicap 62 62 51 108 874 826 Mall Trthune. 18 2613 C. Pllhl E. Ollllngs J. Grlgsby . J. Murray . Dummy Handicap 1 148 101 144 145 162 123 1 140 97 146 166 163 123 I 112 108 136 177 162 133 : - r ? J "v f - FOR FT. KLAMATH Packey McFarland, noted light weight fighter of 20 years ago, hat become a member of ths Illinois athletic commission. (Associated Press Photo) SONS WILL PLAY while the Medford Tigers are In Chlloquln playing the boya from the reservation, Medford basketball lane will have a chance to see some of the best basketball played In the northwest when the Bona of Ashland normal meet the first string from the Multnomah Club of Portland here Saturday night. The teams meet on the Armory floor here Sat urday night, and at the Junior high scnooi noor In Ashland Friday night, line game here starts at 9 o'clock. Included on the Multnomah aauad will be Billy Keenen, ex-Unlversltv of Oregon letterman, and one of the beat basket shots In the northwest, and King Bailey, ex-O. S. O. player, at forward: Euates, former V. of W. player at center, and George Scalea of Willamette, Ray Smith, old time club player, and A. Palmbert, former Stanford atar, at guards. The Sons have won 14 out of 19 gamea played this year, having lost to urcgon, one to Willamette. two to Multnomah and one to the Multnomah club. The Bona also nave one win from Multnomah, and two from Monmouth, as well aa threa from Oregon. T,he squad returned Sunday from Chlco where they de- leaioa umco state Colloge 34-31 and 36-25. The Bona will be represented In the two games by Wlllard Jones and Lem Yandall at forward; Ward Howell and Charles Patterson at center and Dick Jocklah, Budd Jonea and Lyale Rceder ai guard. The gamea Friday and oaburuay win ne tne third outsand ing series of gamea that haa been brought to Southern Oregon by ths oona mis season, providing a brand of basketball nevor seen In southern Oregon before. . TIGER CUBS WIN OVER At the Senior high school Tester- day afternoon, the Tiger Cuba de feated the second team at basketball. 30 to 6, In a fast game, not Indi cated by the score. The line-up was: Cube Seconds Our"" F... Luman Campbell p Hlnrnan Stewart o arov. Trill o Ghelardl Oallnskl o Kunzman FORT KLAMATH, Ore., Feb. 14. (Spl.) Presenting' a wide and varied assortment of sntertalnment, Klam ath's seventh annual winter sports carnival will begin Feoruary 19, con tinuing until the night of Februaiy 36. One of the most extensive . pro grams in the history of the club has been prepared, featuring. In addition to 32-mlle race classic to the rim of Crater lake and return, 16-mlle race. expert ski Jumping, and numerous lesser events, the presence of Scotty Allen, nationally known Alaska dog racer, and his group of highly train ed Alaskan huskies. A dog race will be on the program aa well as a dog sled dash to the rim of the lake during the 32-mlle race, the dogs using ths highway rout and the racers the regular course. "Ths Princess of the Snows," sn honor for which seven Klamath county young women are now com peting, will be taken on the sled. Allen la a figure who has been the subjeot of numerous magazine ar ticles and literary effort In book form. The first Sunday of the carnival will present numerous racing and dog events, followed tiy a carnival week In Klamath Falls, where special en tertainment haa been provided for all nights of the week. Including two special "Pelloan" ahows, American Legion smoker, atreet parades, coro nation of the Snow Princess at a Dig "Snow" ball next Saturday night. All service clubs and other organizations of Klamath Falls have Joined to gether to make the carnival a county and southern Oregon event, expected to attract hundreds of visitors to this section. YAQOfllS WITH LEG HOLDS Lavery Tatlow Hickman Osborne Wakeman , Twldwell . Jacobson Hyer Woodcock , . 856 352 342 339 Total . Medford Rifle Club. C. R. Pomeroy . S. J..Brlstow . A. Sander Ed Lull - 324 - 316 - 290 ..3302 Ivan Waddell 8. H. Pomeroy C. R. Richmond D. L. Smith F. Bander H. E. Rlnabarger , 366 . 360 . 363 . 350 , 349 . 344 , 377 , 826 317 813 Total PORTLAND, Ore., Feb. 14. (API Taqul Joe, Sonora Indian, defeated Rex Mobley of Alabama two falls out of three In the main event of last night's wrestling card here. Joe weighed 160, 5 pounds less than Mob- ley. Mobley won the first fall with an airplane spin after 39 minutes of wrestling. The Indian won the sec ond fall in 12 minutes with a flying leg scissors and took the deciding fall In another 13 minutes with a a fly ing toe hold. Rob Roy, 17, Michigan, and Log ger Helbert, 161, St. Helens, Oregon, wrestled 45 minutes to a drew In the seml-wlndup, each taking ft fall. Roy waa later taken to a hospital here for treatment for sn Injured neck. LOCAL SHOOTERS DEFEAT KLAMATH The Rifle club's trip to Klamath Falls Sunday was highly satisfactory to the local boya, who returned with high Individual and team scores. After the match all team members sat down to feed furnished by the Pell- can City club, and again Medford took all honors. . o Dates will be announced shortly for the Yreka and Klamath matches at the local range, which the public Is cordially Invited to attend- Regular practice will be held Wed nesday evening at the Armory. Following are the results of the Ktamath-Medford match. Pelican Rifle and Revolver Club Leveque ... ... 365 823 834 818 2475 Children's frocks made. Gladys Natwlck Shelby, 15 Garglll Court. NEW LOW PRICE ON GRAIN GRINDING $ -J .50 PER TON ' Bring; your j'""1 I for , Vm jobi ' '.r 'tames ''" . ''; Monarch ' jd dc Feed Co. Mill Iocs "jtner 10th and So. Fir 8H. Cleaning Prices Cut! In order to retain our employees and patrons we have reduced 'cleaning prices In keeping with the times. 30 Day Special Men's Suits ...... 75, Lightweight Overcoat 75 Heavy .Overcoat $1.00 Plain Dresses 75 Up Jacket Suit 75$ up Coat . 75 up ill These Cash Price Effective Tomorrow at the following: City Cleaning & Dyeing Wks, 624 N. Riverside. Phone 474 Pantoriura Dye Works, Holly Street. Phone 244 Medford Cash & Carry, 530 E. Main. Phone 1700 Unique Cleaners, 20 S. Central. Phon 96 Camelo Cleaners, W. Main. Phone 1260 A-l Cleaners, 111 E. 8th St. Phone B04 Free Delivery DEFEAT GUENTHER All Elks' club tournsmente sched uled for tonight have been postponed to a later date to permit Elks and their guests to celebrate St. Valen tine's day at a dance In the Elks' temple. Last night's bowling match started out with a lot of enthusiasm and looked like a aunt victory for the Quenther team. Brayton got buay with his boys, however, and thev won two games of the match and chalked up a total acore of 2674 against Quen- tnor a -4io. Prultt and Bowman tied for high Individual total with 689 each. Olll and Orr bowl Wednesday night and Fllegel and Sherwood Thursday nignt alter lodge session. Scores Monday: 1 2 8 Quenther 187 176 157 620 DeVore 160 130 160 450 Ferguson 182 121 128 881 Kelly 180 101 124 405 York 116 121 160 306 Handicap 103 103 103 800 Brayton Prultt Bowman Wright . Brown Handicap 878 1 140 171 224 . 133 . 108 02 - 781 2 136 103 160 133 134 02 831 2470 8 155 205 185 180 132 02 877 848 94S 2874 AT THE FIRST SNEEZE Mistol I NIGHT MB X9fff?HsV K' J AND PUT ;f Essence of MUtol ON YOUR HANDKERCHIEF AND PILLOW IT'S NEW H SAVE your health and teeth. At these prices you can afford to have your dental work dons now. Extractions as low as .50 Sliver fillings aa low as 1.00 Cement Fillings as low as. 1.00 Porcelain fillings as low as 1.00 Oold Crowns as low 5.00 Plates as low as is no DR. R. D. COE 404 Medford Center Bldg. Phone 840 Phone 439-H I If III fill 1 M. BROWN FURNITURE Repairing, RerlnUhiiig 144 S. Central - Medford. Ore. WILLARD HOTEL KLAMATH OREGON FALLS 124 MODERN AIRY ROOMS BATH-SHOWER OR COM- UINATION. CENTRALIST LOCATED. FIREPROOF CONSTRUCTION. GRILLE IN CONNECTION. We Invito lour Patronage Rates S1.80 Up WILLARD HOTEL CONSIDER the PRICES of things in 1929-1 930 1931 and 1932 at TO DAY'S PRICES.then dOV! !! THAT "Prices Are Rising" is a fact backed by stock shortages all along the line from retailer to manufacturer. And there is a shortage of "sup plies" in most homes as well. Operating on a lim ited budget people have used the old things until they simply can't be used any more. If the things you and your family use are giving out, if your reserve supplies are running low, now is the time to stock-up . . . now, before the rising market catches you napping and you are forced to pay far more for things you simply must have. Medford shops, have never shown more attractive merchan diseand have never offered greater values I And here is another tip: you'll find that the best way to obtain full advantage of today's prices is to watch carefully the ads that appear in the Mail Tri bune. Buy now before rising prices take from your dollar its present value and use the Tribune as your buying guide. THE . MAIL TRIBUNE 1711 Sua Mala. K1-. ai nicRT AraTin, utk ralla Mrr,
