Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, May 06, 1937, Image 6

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE src Craters LEAGUE LEADERS MEET CELLARITES IN SECOND WEEK Ashland Goes to Roseburg Grants Pass to Glen- dale Balkovick Looking Over Hurling Candidates ftouthern Oregon league. W. . 1 . 1 . I . 0 . 0 . 0 L. PC Roseburg .... Crescent City Oranta Pass . Medford Olendsle ... .. Ashland 0 1.000 o l.ooo 0 1.000 1 .000 1 MO I .000 (inmea Next Hundaj. Medford at Crescent City. Ashlsnd at Roseburg. Orant Pass at Olendale. Southern Oregon league ball clubs awing Into their second week ol play Sunday, with the three leaders, winners of opening battlea last Sun day, tangling with the cellar trio. Roseburg's aurprlalng Flratea, who took a 10-lnnlng thriller from tne Qlendale Loggers, entertain the Asn land Uthlana on Flnlay field. Bat teries will probably conalst of aeorge Brr on the mound and Ooff back of the plate for Manager Chuck Tay lor's Piratea and Lowell Brown or Wayne Combest In the box for Aa. land and Al Slmpaon wearing the big mitt. At Crescent City, Ralph' Deo will attempt to repeat his slx-hlt pitch Ing performance at the expense of Manager Mike Bslkovlck'S Meaiora team, while the latter will start either Ray Erlckson. Ray Tungate or Larry Peppor In the box. Henry Ma llntrerno will catch tor the California outfit while Manager Balkovick will do the Medford receiving. An intense rivalry will be resumed at Olendale, when Manager Judd Pernoll sends hla Orants Pass Mer chants against the Loggers of Jake Olpe. Last year a near riot ensued at a Merchant-Logger battle over a foul ball decision, threatening for a time to dlarupt the entire league. Neither team ' has any love for the other, and one of the most bitter games of the year aeema In atoro. Batteries for Grants Pass will be Phil Orlgga to Hugh Hartman, and for Olendale, Alvln Merrltt to Frank Thompson. Oamea last Sunday uncovered many weaknesses and atrengths In the six clubs. Ashland booted the ball nine times In losing to Crescent City, 3-D, and la spending an Intensive prao-tloe-week on defense. Roseburg dis played a powerful hitting team by hammering over six runs In tne tenth frsme to break a 0-0 deadlock. Orants Pass, In shutting out Med ford, 0-0, served notice that It la rebounding from the baseball dol drums .of the past two years, and that young Phil Orlggs, the COO hurler, must be ranked as one of the finest In the league. Some fine batting exhibitions were turned in by Individual performers, Roaeburg'a Baker, right fielder, top ping them all with four hlta In six trips Including a home run and four tallies batted across, Thompson, Qlendale catcher, also hit for the circuit and Al SUva, Crescent City left fielder, collected four blows In alx chances. Official league batting avaragea CAANAM'S KV1N CROWN LtNDIO WHIS. :rr. Thm might wfcUkiM In ttvl r4Ht ar rMrl mt trior eej, atralaM wtiUhlM, M IS utral aplrllfj JUmf frn Atnari raina. 0 Prf. SMftramDUtHtr Cr BEFORE YOU J 33$SM$u! 091101 p b l ft to Invade Crescent City Diamond 4fOWTHEY STAMD (By the Associated Press) Coast W. L. Pet. Sacramento San Diego San Franelaoo Loa Angelea 11 11 .6S6 M II Ml IB II IT 14 Ml .848 Seattle Portland Oakland . Missions 14 16 .800 13 1 .S87 13 10 87 10 33 418 National W. Pet. .813 .887 .883 .800 .800 .483 .308 .183 Pittsburg St. Louis ... New York . Boston Chlcsgo ..... Philadelphia Brooklyn Clnelnnstl .. W. L. Pet. .8 8 .737 Mew fork Detroit Boston . Philadelphia Cleveland . Waahlngton -St. Loula ........ Chicago 4 .838 .838 .888 .444 84 .388 .300 will be released following Sunday's games, and each week thereafter. There will be no first-game averages announced. Eugene "Alleyette Leads Tournament VANCOUVER, 8. 0.. May 8. (fl) Delay Statzer of Eugene, Ore., last night went Into first place In the class "A" .singles of the women's northwest International bowling con gress with an aggregate of 884 which also Included the high single gsme In the tournament, of 333. . Paired with I. Sherman, the couple rolled 838 In the class "A" doubles event. They were the only two United States' entrants bowling last night. LOUIS NOVA FLATTENS THEODORATUS IN 8TH OAKLAND, Cel., May 8. P) Louis Nova of Oakland, former national amateur heavyweight champion, chalked up another knockout victory today In hla short oareer In the pro fessional ranks. He knocked out big aeorge Theodoratos In the eighth round of a ten-round match here laat night. Theodoratos of San Francisco, a one-time football atar at Washington State college who also recently turn ed pro, was floored for nine-counts In the seventh and eighth rounds be fore a right to the Jaw ended hoe- tllltles. Nova weighed lOS1 and Theodor atoa 318. RUFFING ENDS HOLDOUT WITHOUT GAINING AIMS DETROIT, Mny AP) Charlay (Rk1) Ruffing, holdout pitcher of thi Now York Yankees, put on uniform again today after reaching an agree ment on a 1037 contract In which his baaeball club made no concessions. Ruffing said he would sign a formal : contract as soon as Baseball Commit- j aloner K. M. Land 1b lift his suspen- 1 slon. Ruffing, the Yanka' only 30 -game pitching winner last year, agreed to a 116,000 salary but will be docked for time lost so far this season. The club offered him llfl.OOO several weeks ago but he held, out for lfl.000. HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETIC SECRETARY APPOINTED BAKER, May 6. (p) The Oregon High School Athletlo aossoctatlon will have Ita first full-time secretary June 1, when Troy D. Walker, principal of Baker high school, opens headquar ters In Portland, June 1. His appointment by the Oregon state athletic board to succeed John h. Oary. resigned, was announced Wednesday. Letter D. Harris, principal of the Junior high school here, will suc ceed Walker as head of Baker high school. SCHAEFER TRIMS HOPPE IN PORTLAND EXHIBITION PORTLAND, May 6. OT) Jake Schaefer, 3A-3 balkllne billiard cham pion, bested Willie Hoppe here, win ning three out of four matches Wed nesday. In the afternoon Schaefer took the 3B-9 balkllne match, 13A to 93, losing to Hoppe in the three-cushion event, 36 to 30. Schaefer made a clean sweep of the night mstches, winning the first 136 to 61 and the three cushion 36 to 33. Closing time for Too La( to Ctaa- sify Ads is 1:30 p. m. ty ? Jf $ s MEDFORD MAIL CRATERS DEFEAT CAMP WIMER IN EXHIBITION TILT So fsr as a harraued scorekeeper could figure out after six Innings of craey bsseball, Med ford 'a Craters de feated CCC Camp Wlmer yesterday afternoon at the fairgrounds field, 36-4, In an exhibition game. Ray Erlckson and Larry Pepper di vided the Crater mound duties; Erlck son working the first four Innings and allowing only two hits and whif fing eight, pepper, in his two In nings on the rubber, gave up a pair of hits. Phil Orlggs, who shut out Medford In the Southern Oregon league open er at Grants Pass last Sunday, pitch ed the final frame for Wlmer, and was nicked for base hits by Oeorgo Oltsen, Donovan and Wally Rlckert. Previous to Griggs appearance, two CCC hurlers utterly failed to stem the Medford onslaught. . Manager Mike Balkovick of the lo cals used hla entire squad In the practice affair. Three members of Coach Linn Mills' Talent high coun ty class B champions played for the Craters and gave good accounts of themselves. The Craters will hold Intensive workouts today and tomorrow sit the fairgrounds field at 6 p. m. In prep aration for their second Southern Oregon league battle at Crescent City next Sunday, RON OF DEFEATS (By the Associated Press.) A triple play, good pitching and perfect fielding won a baaeball game for the MI U on Reds, their first vic tory In elRtit starts. . The Reds, most consistent losers In the Pacific Coast league baseball race, defeated the Loa Angeles Angels, 6 to 3, yesterday. They gave their right handed pitching ace, Leroy Herrmann, errorless assistance while ho limited the Angels to eight scattered hits. Max West of the Reds and Bobby Mattlck of the Angels hit homers. Seattle nosed out Portland in a 13- Innlng game last night. 7 to 6, and San Diego easily defeated San Fran cisco, 7 to 3, The Sacramento-Oakland game was postponed because of a ohartty boxing program at Oak land. The teams will play a double header Friday night. FUTURE OF FELLER CLEVELAND, May JP The im mediate pitching future of Bob Fel ler, on the ahelf for nearly two weeks with a muscular Injury to his "mil lion dollar" right arm, was In doubt today. Manager Steve O'Neill of the Cleve land Indians said he didn't know when the Iowa schoolboy would make hla second appearance of the season because the arm ailment had proved more serious than originally expected. O'Neill said the club's plans to start Feller thla week-end were shat tered by the young strikeout sensa tion's report that hla arm atlll hurt In batting practice Tuesday. (3D Be asederats la ell thing and charroclw Is sura te follow. . , . Only by spar laf use con yen hilly appredoie a whiskey te feed as eur Century Club. 90C PINT-CODE Ne. 165 C $1.75 QUJIRT-CODE We. Ill A Century OistUlinft Comfwiy TtorU, Illinois TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, Scores Yesterday (By the Associated Press) Coast R. H. Seattle 7 11 Portland ...... ..... 6 8 Turpin, Home and Fern and; Car son and Cronln, Wilson. R. H. K. ........ 7 16 0 3 7 1 8s n Diego San Francisco - .... Wsrd and DeTore; Woodall. ' Flowers and , . R. H. E.' Mission 6 13 0 Los Angeles 3 S 3 Hermann and Bprlnz; Lleber and Collins. Sscramento-Oakland postponed ac count charity boxing matches. National St. Louis, 13; Boston, 1. Pittsburgh. S; Brooklyn, 1. t Chicago, 17; Philadelphia, 4. Cincinnati, 8; New York, 6. American Philadelphia, 7; Chicago, 8. New York, 7; Detroit, 3. Boston-St. Louis, rain. Washington-Cleveland, rain. ENTER MARSHFIELD'S Entry blanks were made available today at the Jackson County cham ber of Commerce for the first annual striped bass derby to be held, on Sun day, May 33 in the Isthmus Inlet under sponsorship of the Marshfleld Elks lodge. First Medford team to enter la composed of Frank Perl, Kenneth An thony and Frank DeSouza and from from the first letters of the names they derived the name of their ag regatlon',4, the "Pads." The derby will be held from 3 to 4:30 p. m., the winner .to be the team hauling in the most pounds of striped baas in the allotted time. En triBs will consist of a boat with three fishermen, men, men, women or both. A variety of prizes, donated by Marshfleld merchants, will be award ed. There will be a queen coronation ceremony, a band concert and other features to entertain spectators Park ing space has been provided for 600 cars. The contest Is fashioned very large ly after Med ford's first annual cat fish derby and the local association will furnish the crown tor the queen. It is expected that the Elks lodges In Medford, Ashland and Grants Pasa will help to promote the bass derby and that anglers and spectators from these cities will' attend the Marsh field contest. J. W. Flanagan, Marshfleld post master, la general chairman. Girls Challenge Dads To Match Girls of the senior high school physical education classes have chal lenged high school dads to a volley ball, match of three games, to be played during the all-school fair to morrow night at 8 o'clock In the girla' gymnasium. Ray Henderson has been appointed captain of the dads' team and all men accepting the challenge are re quested to call Jitm at 770 or 754-L. Miss Carln Degermark la coaching the girls' team which has been practicing for five weeks and expects to ad minister a sound trouncing to their opponents. OREGON. TKTRSDAT. TRACKSTERSFOR MEET IN K. FALLS Coach Bill Bowerman of the Med ford high Tigers snnounced today his track and field squad that will compete in the fifth snnual southern Oregon-nortnem California meet, on Modoc field In Klamath Palls nnct Ssturday afternoon. Sponsored by the Klsmath Falls 30-30 club, a total of- nesrly 30 teams will enter, according to reports from the Pelican city. Over 00 Invitations were metled out. Figured to offer the greatest threat to the five-year domination of the Pelican team are Medford. Bend and Corvellls. To date, entries received Include. Medford. Corvellls, Orants Pass, Bend, Alturas, Lakevlew. Klam ath Palls snd Treka In the class A group; snd Chlloquln Forth Klsmath, Bonsnea. Keno, Dorrls, Henley. Malln. Merrill and Tulelske. In the class B brscket. Coach Bowerman aald this morn. Ing thst, according to his form sheet, Medford waa good for 30 points, with iO needed to win the meet. How ever, his compilations were based on the minimum expectancy of hta team and he stated that if several of the Tiger performers turned In better-than-expected times, Medford stood a good chance of winning. Bobby Ettlnger and Croaby will be entered In the century, and Tycer and Crosby In the 320-yard dash, he said. In the 440, Abbott and Ltnnell will carry the Medford banner: In the half-mile, Werner and Jones will perform; In the mile will be Barker and Reich; and In the hurdles, Bow man snd Luther will take care of the high and Bowman and Hill the low. Howard will be the only Medford entry In the discus, Jsvelln and Shot put. Ettlnger will compete In the broad Jump; Horner In the high Jump: and Hill In the pole vault. The relay team will be composed of four of the following six sprinters: Ettlnger, Crosby. Hill. Bowman, Lln nell and Chlldera. Because of the great number of athletes competing, only two entrants In esch event will be allowed. The Medford squad will leave here Saturday morning and return that night. 32 AT HILTON'S PLACE GRANTS PASS. May . p) Tea terday's banner salmon fishing day on tho Rogue saw five Klamath Palls anglera auoceed aa well or better than local . residents. Mrs. Charles Rose, John Stewart, end Art Pease each took the legal limit of three chln ooks. Charles Rose and Cliff Hogue were content with two each. Thirty-two fish were taken at Hil ton's hopyard alone, and the annual Influx of out-of-state anglera was well under way. BEARCATS SMOTHER ALBANY COLLEGIANS ALBANY, Msy 8 (P) Scoring al most at will, the Willamette uni versity Bearcats swamped Albany col lege In a basebsll double-hesder here, by scores of 21 to 1 and 20 to 0. Bill Anton held the Bucs to two hits In the flve-lnnlng nlghtcsp. MOWING ANOTHER JOB THE JOHN DEERE GEN ERAL PURPOSE TRACTOR WILL DO AT LOWER COST Purpose with Power-Driven Mower in your hay fields. It puts two days into one, it gives you the capac ity of two to three men gives you time to get all the rush jobs done without a lot of extra help. You can mow down from 25 to 35 acres a day. Take off the mowing attachment only a few minutes job and you have the tractor available for raking, loading and hauling. You can do almost everything on the farm with a John Deere General Purpose including planting and cultivating. It cuts down your need for horses to a team for the odd jobs. Cam. In .ml I u. t.H rmi met. .Hsut this maner m.Unf, Lber-Mfin, power -vilpmOTt. HUBBARD-WRAY 29 N. Riverside. MAT 6. 1937. Sunday BELCASTRO AND BRITT MEET IN MAIN MATCH P Pete Belcastro and Alvln Biitt will meet In the main event of Promoter Mock Llllard's weekly grappling card at the Medford Armory next Monday night, It was announced today. The two tangled two weeks ago, with Brltt winning by virtue of his pain ful arm-breaker, barred early this week by the Medford boxing commis sion. . In the middle 'event, Toots btti and Cowboy Billy McEwen will face each other In what should be one of the fastest and cleanest affairs aver stsged here. Both are superb grspplers, and Promoter Ullard. In announcing the card, aald he con sidered the bout a "natural." Sailor Dick Trout, a clean-wrestling newcomer from San Pedro. Calif., will tangle with an old favorite In Oeorge Lagoski, the raging Russian Lion. Lagoski has been appearing In and around Spokane, Wn., since leav. ing southern Oregon several weeks ago, and will be welcomed back with open arms by fans wntf consider him one or the nest snowmen In the game. OREGON DEFEATED, 6-5, BY EUGENE, May a. (p) Oregon university will seek revenge today on the Cougars of Washington State col lege, who ecored a 8 to 9 victory over the Webfoots yesterday and slipped Into first place In northern division basebsll conference stand ings. It was a hard-fought, even-steven game throughout, with BUI Saylea of Oregon and Mel Marlowe, Cougar southpaw, both faltering after five Innings of shut-out pitching. Score: r. h. E. W. S. C. 6 9 3 Oregon 6 13 3 Msrlowe. Selnko and Eastman; Say lea and McLean. Shadow Disclosed As Columbia Grad PORTLAND, Msy 6. (fl) The Red Shadow dlsappesred from the wrest ling horizon last night when the 335 pound grsppler doffed his mask dur ing a bout with Vincent Lopez of Los Angeles and was Introduced as James Cssey Morrlsey. law graduate of Columbia university, New York. The two went W a draw In 43 min utes, winding up a two-hour match Interrupted a week before when bjih men were disqualified. At haying time when you need 24 hours of sunshine day to keep up with the many jobs that are pressing you put the John Deere General CO. Phone 202 DOG RACING TO START LATTER PART OF MAY nAt .im vr a rapt Murray Kemp, manager of the Multnomah Xennell club, aald last night grsy hound racing here would open be tween Msy 34 snd May ai. wim Anndrich SAFETY S1LVERT0WNS 4.50 X 20 THERE'S A QUOTATIONS W( HOT OFF THE TICKER! I n VsL''iivi Hm' the Goodri:n entr-' ,n HI I "fO -t the low-priced fieldl-a full df I WB mension tire, made of "wear- I 1 X. 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