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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, JfEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1934. SOFTBALL RULES Another Contender 3 TEAMS IN TIE AS ELKS BOWLING Scientists Doom Wingless Rooster To Sift Nature's Secret of Flight COLLEGE CAGERS Fl WILL MAKE PLANS PAGE TWO y Two Sizes of Diamond De cided On Different Size of Balls to Be Used Pitching Motion Is Defined By FRED B.UI.KI' (United Frew staff correspondent CHICAGO (UP) Softball, whim sprang Into a major sport almoiit overnight, nas a national rules com ralttee, a set of standardlwa rules and a "steering committee" to guide It next summer. Organization of the game aa a na tlonal aport waa made at the flrat contention of the game, at which 100 recreation executives, representing atates. were present. The most Important result of the convention was the adoption of the first set of rules ever drswn up with the approval of all the organizations snonsorlng the sport. Since softball began to spread like wildfire two years ego, th have been almost aa many rules as there were teams, and almost eveiy com munlty played Ita own particular type of game. Out of the two-day session there evolved a set of rules which sre to be placed Into effect next summer. A rules committee of prominent recreation directors was appointed The points moat commonly disputed were clsrlfled In the new rules. In cluding the size of the diamond, size of ball, what conatltutes a legal piicn, bsse running and batting rules and the Infield fly rule. Two Sires of Diamonds. It waa decided to set two standard size dlsmonds, one with eo-foot base lines and the other with 45-foot bsse- llnes. On the larger diamond tne 13-Inch regular seam ball Is to be used. On the smaller diamond, the 14-Inch ball It to be used. The pitch. Ing distance In both cases Is to be 87 feet. Aside from the size of the dia mond, the rulta are Identical through. out both types of game. A Kgal pitch the moat disputed point under the many varied rulea which have pre vailedIs defined as: "A ball which Is delivered by the pitcher with a Mil arm swing, fol lowing through with the arm parallel to the body, the hand below the hip. and the ball not more than six Inches from the body. Bnappy or Jerky re lease at the hip or delivering the bell across the front of the bcdy shall be considered Illegal." Bunting or attempting to bunt waa made an automatic out. A team is to consist of 10 plsyers, according to the new rules. On an Infield fly, the batter la out and the ball be comes dead, no play being possible on any of the base runnera. who can not advance. Base-running rules were changed to bar the runner from taking a lend off any base on penalty of being de clared out. nd from trying to atenl unleaa the ball has passed home plftte. rian Tournament- Reports to the newly-formed Na tional Softball association Indicate that last summer more persona prob ably played softball than any other sport, excepting golf. Colorado re ported 700 teams and 38.000 players. Detroit had a similar number. Popu larity of the game waa general throughout the United States. Tentative plsns for a national tour nament to be conducted by the asso ciation were approved. A committee waa named to work out detailed plana. The trans of the Medford Gun club were kept buny Sunday, until mid -afternoon to accommodate the large number of shooters who turn ed out to enjoy the sport. Interest was particularly keen at the skeet traps, Rursrll Semon making high peore with an 18 and a 30 for a total of 38 out of RO. At the regular traps Rid Newton was high with 49 out of 80. Four 3ft straights were made during the day. Sid Newton, Bill Bates, Elmer Wilson and Ftalph Green turning the trick. Next Sunday, February 38, the club will stage the first o( a series of registered shoots at which special trophies will be awarded. At 80 targets Sid Newton 40 Bill Bates , . 47 Fd ltmpnrt .... 47 Geo. Porter . 48 T. B. Daniels 48 Flmer Wilson 48 B I,. Deatnn (Pro.) 48 H. Crolsant ... 44 C. M, Brewer, Jr. 88 j Dr. B L. Lagrson .. 83 Chas. Woods .. . 81 At 38 targets Ralph Oreen 98 Clarence Bnda 3, Sam Jennings 33 F. W. Pease 31 1 Ray Coleman . 31 i At 38 Skest Rusaeli Semon . 30 H. Crolsant 30 Ron DeVore 10 E. 0. Solinsky 18 Sam Jennlnga ... .. 10 B. L-. Deaton 18 Jas. Moore ,. 18 Rny Coleman . 18 t H Pierce . 17 Dr. B 1,. Lageson 18 Con DeVore 14 Chas. Woods .. ..... 18 T. E. Dsnlels . 18 H Flilhrer 18 Fverett Brsyton 13 Dr. B. R Durno 0 The CWA ordered 473 800 employ." dropped from its par roll next rndajr. 1 4 Three teams, thos captained by Kl wood, E. Orr and ErlcXAon are tied for first place In the Elks club bowl in tourney aa the competition rolls Into the final week. Erlekon'a outfit copped the cash prize again laat week for high team total. The DeVore and Say lor quint roll tonight. individual and teem standings for week ending February 10: Oma. TU'a Avga Hdcp Steve Hamas (above) was hailed is another potential challenger for the heaxywelght champlonshlpwhen he decisively whipped Max 8ehmel Ing In Philadelphia to win a 12 round decision. (Associated Presi Photo) E By Alan nould (Associated Press Sporte Editor) NEW YORK, Feb. 19. (AP) The honors In the AU-Amerlca battle for mile running supremacy rest today with Princeton's blnck-halred Bill Bonthron, the boy who says he hstes track sports and doesn't seem to care what old Pope Time thinks about It. Bonthron outeprlnted end beat his Knnsas rival, Glenn Cunningham. Saturday night In the first and per hapa only time those two grest col lege runners ever will meot at the mile distance. Hla margin of victory wna by Inches, gnlned In the lest sweeping stride of a hair-raising fin ish that provoked a highly emo tional outburst by a crowd of 16.000 apectatora In Madison Square Garden. World's records bloomed before and after this dazzling mile finish. Keith Brown of Ynle lilted hla own Indoor pole vsult mark to 14 feet, 4 Inches. Wslter Marty of Fresno. Cnllf., Slate college, hoisted himself to a new rec ord or six feet, 8"J Inches In the high Jump and John Collier or the Boston A. A. twlCo equalled the world stand of 7.4 seconds for the 60-ysrd high hurdles. Brown added 3 Inches to the Indnnr record he set last year .and beat Bill Graber of Southern Cali fornia, whose outdoor mark of 14 feet. 4i Inches made In the Olympic tryouts at Palo Alto two years ago. Is the only performance superior to the lstest achievement of the Ell ace.- Graber'a best Saturdsy night wsa 13 feet, nine Inches. Marty also took the measure of his greatest rival, George Spitz of New York Univer sity, In negotiating the greatest height msn hss ever Jumped with out some artificial ssslstsnce. The blond Callfornlan, who attempted 6-0'.i -after hla first record Jump, topped Spitz's previous world Indoor mark, of 6-B'i and his own unot flclsl outdoor standard of 6-B't, made last year. Splta cleared 84 Saturday. Prultt , 38 Eads ...'. 39 Olll 88 Erlckson 39 Rsnkln - 38 Solinsky 38 1 Gates 30 I Paske ........ 38 DeVore ... 80 Orr, Eugene .. 39 Sherwood .... 39 Wstson 39 Ouenther, Hugo 39 Ouenther, Herb 16 Jerome .. 36 saylor 39 Ferguson 33 Bowmsn 37 Alenderfer 37 Brayton ... 33 Orr. Bert 83 Smlth 30 Andres 37 Sanderson . 30 . Rose 33 Strang, Herb .. 39 Thompson ..- 30 Rostel 16 Ebel Fredette 33 Brown 18 Elwood 18 Kelly 39 Strsng, Vlrg . 39 White 33 Fabrlck 18 York 30 Holmes 37 Hegel 19 Schade ..-...... 3 Olmsoheld - 30 Boomer 38 Corum - 8 Suits clesned and pressed, 88c Dresses 78c up. Pel. 833-J. Economy Clesner. 1738 No Riverside. 7370 7684 7104 7343 8438 8339 8330 6348 6738 6671 6471 8481 6433 3464 88.10 6360 6386 4360 4398 6187 6186 4711 4313 4619 8014 6898 4809 31C3 906 4988 3693 3673 6760 8688 4776 3804 6640 3760 3639 .417 8383 4369 778 303 104 187 186 179 176 178 174 173 168 166 168 168 168 163 161 100 169 169 167 167 167 186 164 133 181 160 160 161 161 149 148 148 146 146 149 143 139 138 130 137 130 130 Team standing Won tost Pctg. Elwood - 13 6 668 Orr, Eugene 13 6 8S6 Erlckson .....- 13 6 608 Ouenther 0 0 Solinsky ....-.. 7 11 388 Watson - 1 " 38 DeVore - T H 388 Saylor 13 333 PLAYOFF LOOMS - BEARS AMD TROJANS SAW FRANCISCO. Feb. 10. (AP) nrnnAi,t.M of a nlav-off series between the California Besrs and Southern California Trojans for the southern division, Paclflo coast conference, baaketball championship loomed to day. The Bears lost tneir one-game leadership as they were upset 40 to is hv tha u. 0. L. A. Bruins In Los Angeles Saturday night while the Trojans conquered otsmorfl at raio Alto 3.1 to 33. F, rosh and Rooks Split Hoop Honor CORVAL-US. Ore., Feb. 19. (API The home basketball fires blazed brightly this season for the Oregon State coltege Rooks and the Ore gon Prosh. The home team won each time In their four-game aeries. The Rooka put on a driving sec ond half finish to win 36 to 30 here Saturday night and even the series. 1'rcnrh Tire of Allen Bankrupts PARIS (AP) The city of Nice and the department of Alpea Marltlmea have petitioned the chamber of dep utise to pass a law whereby "any for eign merchant established In France who goes through bankruptcy three times, ahall be expelled. Dims IT r-rw:flTMT-mmmiZi!!i7 H LJH Q .Br F. B. COI.TON AModated Pre hrtet.ee Writer WASH1NOTON, D. C (AP) "Lind bergh." the wlngleea rooater, la doomed to die for a group of eel en t lt a aoon , to gl ve th e m not a chicken dinner but a chance to learn how and why he waa hatched with out wings. The flrat bird ever known to live to grow up after being hatched ab normally w ingle, "Lindbergh" atrute and crows aa proudly aa any other male fowl In the bird house of the National 2500 here, but without the cu&tomary wing flapping. He has no wlnga to flap and knows It. Placed when hungry on a high table, with corn on the ground below, he cluck Indignantly, but won't Jumo. Degenerative Fault The roster seem to be a victim of a degenerative tendency that began attacking some birds as far back aa 86.000,000 years ago. A bird called the Hesperorla, also without wings, was living then In Kansas. When "Lindbergh" goes to the chopping block the scientists study ing him hope to learn something new about what makes birds lose their wings, or the use of them. There are many blrde either wing less or with wings too small for fly ing, such aa the ostrich, the New Zealand kiwi, the penguin, and the great auk. now extinct. The kiwi, though wingless, haa rudimentary wing bones Inside hla body. When a young kiwi start to develop within the egg 1U prelimi nary wing structure haa a "wrist" bone and three "fingers," but when it hatches only a single "finger" bone la left. Wlnga are modifica tions of the same bony structures that turn Into front legs or arms In animals and man. Checking On Nature The same thing that regularly hap pens to klwla may .have happened to "Lindbergh." On the other hand. If there are not even rudimentary wing bones, the scientists believe they can deduce what happened Inside "Lind bergh's" egg to cause nature to for get hla wings. It waa something that happened, before he waa hatched, they feel sure. It takes only a small upset In the normal development of an egg to spoil the chicken developing Inside It. For example, says the Smith sonian institution, a chicken nor mally develops In an egg with Its head under, Its rlg,ht wing. If the head somehpw la placed under the left wing, It dies. . "If the point of failure In the de velopment of this bird can be estab lished," says the Smithsonian, "it may throw some light on the general problem of the physical mechanism 1 of bird flight, itself, and of Its loss I In some specie, not yet understand able from normal emhryologlcal material. "The earliest known birds pos sessed well -developed wings. Lossj of the power of flight represents a degenerative rather thnn a primitive condition among living birds." 1 All this doesn't Interest "Lind bergh," who at the age of six months seems happy and healthy without his wings. He 1 a Plymouth Rock from Rose Mill, Ky., and seemingly proud of It. McGraw's Illness Takes Bad Turn NEW YORK, Feb. 10. (AP) John J. McOraw, part owner of the New York Giants, who la 111 with uremia In a New Roche lie hospital, was re ported worse today. A bulletin Issued by his physicians said his temperature and pule were somewhat Increased, and that he apent a restless night. 1 Spain Counts RInt Heath MADRID. (API -The weekly pub lication, "Labor." summing up disor der casualties for 1033 In Spain, anya J 72 parsons were killed and 403 se riously wounded In the clashes. "Liwlhergh," wingless rooster at the National zoo, lV-ishingfon, Is as carin-nounn as inougn ne were c named nut in nis bone structure, sclelntlstB think, may be found the secret of flight. ELEVEN REASONS ST. LOUIS, Mo. (UP) When Mrs. Mary E. Dlrker, 49, decided she want ed a divorce ahe apepared In Circuit Judge Hoffmefster's court and enu merated 11 reasons why she should have her petition granted. The reasons: y One A week after the wedding her husband discovered she had (280 in a bank and demanded the money, Two When she refused to give him the money he choked her. Three Ho beat her 20 timea in six months. Four Since their separation he has continued to visit her and beat- her. Five He nogged her every night until 3 a. m. Six He wanted her to open a beer tavern before beer was legal. Seven He threatened her life sev eral times. Eighth He called her "terrible names." Nine When visitors came he met them at the door and told them to get out. Ten He wouldn't work and ex pected her to support him. Eleven He drank continuously. "And, Judge," Mrs. Dlrker said "that all happened in six months then I left him." The divorce was granted. feylonesc Priest for Century COLOMBO. (AP) The Very Rev- erend Mcegamuwe Sri Sanghatlssa, a Buddhist high priest, has Just com pic ted 100 years' service In Ceylon. He Is 107 years old, having been ad mitted to the priesthood at the age of seven. - Ralph T. O'Neil, American Legion leader, asked to testify before grand Jurora Investigating army contract-letter. In keeping with the times Drug and Toiletries at Cut Prices at JAR MIN'S DR0Q STORE. INTO THE BEYOND The last thing that it i possible to do for the loved one who hat gone li to arrange a funeral eervlce that will fitting ly symbolize the esteem and affection in which they wore held. When services are held hore they have that fitting character and quality yon desire so much. And the cost is comparatively moderate. CONGER FUNERAL PARLOR WEST MAIN AT NEWTOWN Solicited For Membership In Order of Golden Rule and Declined Your Parties This Week Will Be Real Successes If You Serve SNIDER'S ICE GREAM Red, White and Blue Bricks Hatchet Center Bricks Special Washington Birthday Molds For your special party orders . . . Phone 203 Snider Dairy & Produce Co. E LOS ANGELES. Feb. 13. (AP) Al Gordon, a Jokester off the track but a stubborn speed merchant when he get a whiff of gasoline fumes In hla nostrils, added a 250-mlle road stock car title to his unbroken list of automobile racing victories today. The veteran Long Beach pilot left a field of nationally prominent driv ers In his dust before more than 50,000 persons' at Mines field yester day when he recklessly wheeled his machine around the sharp turns of a 2-mile course to beat out W. H (Stubby) Stubblefleld, Los Angeles, by thirty-two seconds. His time of four minutes, 14 sec onds was s.lfitly more than 63 miles an hour. Third and fourth place went to two of the country's leading expon ents of the speedways, Lou Meyer, South Gate, Calif., and Peter e De Paolo, Los Angeles. Hopper Poison Kills Cows MERRILL, Wis. ( UP) Molasses and bran, prepared to poslon grass hoppers, tasted good to a herd of cowa on the Gottlieb Karau farm. Nearly a dozen of the cowa died. L SEATTLE. Feb. 10. (AP) The basketball championship race In the coast conference, northern division. Is about all over except the shouting, with Washington "In" aa title-holder, but this week's five games may change the stand Inge of the other teams. While the southern division lead Is knotted again, with California and Southern California tied for flrat place, each having won seven out of their 10 games, the University of Washington is far out In front in the north. The season will end next week." - Cinching the title Friday night by defeating Oregon State Beavers In a bitter 24-21 battle, the Huskies went on to win again Saturday night, 35 to 2. . Oregon, In third place, will be chal lenged severely tonight and tomorrow night by the Idaho vandals, at Mos cow, Idaho. On Friday and Saturday nights, Washington closes Its season on then home floor here with a doubleheader against Washington State. The standings: W. Washington 13 Oregon State ....... 7 Oregon 4 Idaho 4 Washington . State 4 The time Sat golfing ha, arrived, the un Ii not shining In win, and all women Interested In that Terr Inviting sport are asked to gather at the club house of the Rogue Blver Valley Ctolf association Wednesday morning at 10 o'clock. A captain for the new season will be elected at the meeting and tour nament plans developed. A number of women golfers wera on the course yesterday during tha sunshine and showers, which consti tuted a perfect day. The weather 1 unusally fine for so early In tha season and the lesders are expecting to get more golf Into 1934 than they j hsve had In many a year. In order that plans may get off to a "driving start" Wednesday morn ing all the women interested are urged to attend the meeting. Pet. JJ57 .500 .417 .333 .333 Dry, Abandon Building ARENA, Wash. (UP W. C. T. U. officials here deeded the organiza tion's temple, built In 1895, to the village to be used as a community building, following the repeal of prohibition. 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