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Newspaper Page TextfEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WETjFSiySY, jJAY 12, 1937. PAGE FOUTt Freddie HARD LEFT TO JAW SPELLS FOR CHALLENGER Tacoman Refutes 'Chump' Charges Eastern Critics by Two-Handed Trim ming for Minneapolis Boy Bt frank oobbie. BBATTLK, May 13. (AP) Coro nation day found Freddie Steele 01 Tacoma, monarch or the middle weights, celebrating a new trlumpn a three-round knockout over Frank Battaglia, the gentleman farmer- boxer from Minneapolis. Steele blasted Battaglia out of the challenging column -with great fa cility here last nlKlit before about 8000 fana who turned out to watcn what wa a scheduled lS-round fight for the title In the clvlo auditorium Confounds Critics. Champion Freddie, at the same time, made good his promise he would prove hla right to reign to eastern fight critics who had Inti mated he was more of "a chump than a champ." The Tacoma fighter sent Battag. Jla to the canvas three tlm, once In each round the last time for keeps. Launching a two-handed fire at the start of the third. Freddie bung biasing left on Battaglla's Jaw and he fell flat on nia naiierou face. After Referee Tommy Clark. Seattle, counted 10, Frank's aeconds towed him off. Steele's first blow a paralysing left toppled Frank for the count of nine in 31 seconds after the first round opened. Battaglia shooked Steele with a right on the button early In the second, but Steele dash ed .In, mopping up the floor, with Frank until he flopped. The bell saved him at the three-count. Overlln Sees Bout. Ken Overlln, Richmond, Vs., mid dleweight, originally billed to tight Steele for the crown, was enough recovered from an attack of Jaun dice to sit In the eecond row. When Steele's first punch knocked Battaglia down, Overlln exclaimed: "I saw that start, but I dldnt see It finish. I never dreamed he was so fast." And after the knockout: "Steele was a great fighter tonight; a great fighter. But that won't happen to me (Battaglla's fate.)" Both Steele and Overlln are under contract to Promoter Nate Druxman, who probably will match them for the title in an out-door oout inis summer. BEAVERS, 21-0, WITH BARRAGE OF 26 US (By the AMOclatfd Pre.) The ocllar-dwelllng Mtulona Reds were ttlll the best hitters In the Pa eiflo Cout baseball league today. Blasting a barrage of 30 base hits, the Reds annihilated the Portland Beavers, 31 to 0, last night. Hal Toat, making his first appearance as a starting pitcher, limited the Beav ers to four scattered hits while his teammates massacred the offerings of tour Portland pitchers In the first Inning to get off to an 11 -run start. The Sacramento Bolons came from behind to defeat the San Diego Padres. 8 to 7, and remain In first place by a good margin. Los Angeles made 10 hits- Including homers by Hip Collins and Second Baseman Holt, to trim Seattle, 0 to a. Ed 8 tuts hurled San Francisco to a 3-1 victory over Oakland Frank Doljack, Mission' center fielder, hit five times out of six. In cluding a brace of homers and two doubles. Leftflelde: Harry Rosenberg also hit five cut of six. Gordon Blade of ths Redi, who complained of a sore back before the game, managed to get two doubles In his three times at bat. Altogether the Missions col lected nine two-baggers. India's deaths totaled 6.000 000 last year, of which 4,000.000 resulted from fevers. 300.000 from dysentery And 60,000 from plague. Snake-bite accounted for 23,000 and 13,000 com mitted suicide. SPECIAL Rumble Seat Tops HOHLWEG'S TOP SHOP 26 Years Experience 8th & Bartlett. Phone 687 Phone 1300 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service Steele Kayoes Battaglia 4iOWTHEY By the Associated Press, Coast. W. L. PC. .as 13 JMl . 23 14 .822 . 32 IS An .21 18 JS38 . 17 10 ATi . IS 21 AVI Sacramento San Francisco . Los Angeles -8sn Diego Seattle Portland Oakland . Missions 14 24 -SOB 13 2S .333 W. h. 13 3 PC. Pittsburgh St. Louis New York . J13 .888 Jobs . 10 , 10 Brooklyn S a 7 7 S 10 AH 10 .444 11 .380 11 .389 Chicago Boston . Philadelphia , Cincinnati W. L. . 10 8 PC. .887 .80(1 .471 420 83U .400 Philadelphia Cleveland Boston -..... Detroit . New York -St. Louis ., Chicago ....... Washington . 10 .315 11 .363 IT TO Tommy Hensler. brilliant Phoenix high school balf-mller, may enter the northwest Junior track and field meet to be staged In Portland this month. To raise funds to send Hensler to the meet, Phoenix high will present a boxing and wrestling card In the Phoenix gymnasium tomorrow night at 8 o'clock, with all money collected from a small admission charge going toward financing his trip. Mixing In boxing bouts will be fol ic wing: Oarren 140 vs. Patrick 136; Weir 180 vs. McCasIand 133; Vroman 160 vs. Furry 153; and Harris 130 vs. HUaon 115. The wrestling program will see Moore tangling with Olover, Waterman meeting Knowlee, and Anruh facing Harris. Hensler won the half-mile In the county meet at Ashland last Saturday In 3:13.8. He competed In the class B division, but his fine time bettered the mark established In class A by about one second. The Junior meet In Portland Is lim ited, to all athletes under 16 years of sge. Last year, Russ Werner of Med ford high won the half mile In record shattering time, DEFEAT COUGARS MOSCOW, Ida., May 13. (ffV-A pair of homers by West, second base man, batted In three runs and gave Idaho a 4 to 8 victory over the con ference-leading Washington State nine here yesterday. The win wa Tdaho's second of the season, but toft Washington State at the top of the standings. Rain at Eugene, Ore., forced can cellation of a scheduled doube-header between Washington and Oregon. The standings: W. L. Pet. Washington State - 8 3 .800 Washington 4 3 .667 Oregon ..................-... 4 3 .667 Oregon State - 3 6 .360 Idsiio - 3 B .200 A creeping alfalfa, discovered by sn American plant explorer on a trip to Asia three years ago, promises to be a valuable grazing and soil-holding plant for the semi -arid regions of the west. 00 0 DELIVERED No delay . . . imme diate delivery can be had on all models. SKINNER'S GARAGE 143 S. Riverside Phone 103 KATBALL ENTHUSIASTS START CAMPAIGN FOR OF A definite campaign to light the high school football field for night klttenball games was launched last night when Softball enthusiasts met at the Jennings Tire company. Pledging their support to the pro ject were the following teams: Office Boys, 20-30 club, Bughes and Under wood, high school, Jennings Tire company. Catholic men. Lamport. Active club. Toggery and Hubbard Brothers. The plan, according to Sam Jen nings, will consist of the various teams underwriting a portion of the initial cost of Installing glimmers. Admission price to all games would take care of the balance, he stated. An attempt will be made by high school officials this week to line up several more teams. Included being Shell OH company, Timber Products. Unique Cleaners and Medford Cor poration, all of whom have signified their Interest in entering the league provided lights sre Installed. Possibility of a lighted field will be definitely known next Wednesday night when another meeting will be hold at the Jennings Tire company on North Riverside avenue, at which time a report will be given by those working on the project. ' BOWLING Ora Mayer of Ban Francisco, win ner of the national championship In the ABO bowling meet at Syracuse, N. Y., last year by rolling 2023 In nine games, visited the Smokehouse alleys last night and showed local trundlers how It Is done. Teamed with Walter Antle In a three-game aeries versus Boy Prultt and Oeorge Eads, he extended him self very little to roll a 648 for the three games, Mayer was en route to San Francisco from Vancouver, B. C, where he and his doubles part ner placed first In their event with 1318, competing against more than 100 pairs of doubles. In a city league match last night. Plche'i took all four points from Headquarters Detachment. Scores follow: Plche Hardware Co. ' B. Plche , 148 173 188 509 A. Plche . 167 130 . 136 433 Powell 123 142 128 393 White .w. 180 172 142 494 Orr 177 133 198 608 Totals . 785 760 702 2327 Headquarters. Key Jenabeck ...... Whitesmith ... 122 143 164 421 , 89 03 138 330 , 122 118 119 359 , 155 189 180 524 , 143 131 128 402 ,82 62 64 178 , 893 736 783 2214 pemstreet Drlscoll Handicap Totals . Toy Balloon Travels Far COLUSA. Cel. (UP) A toy bal loon, three feet In diameter, released five months ago at Ashland, Ohio, came to earth here. It bore the In scription: "Ashland, Ohio, October 0, 1036." Rrntlanrt Ynrd Offers Tips LONDON. (UP) A pamphlet en titled "Catching Thieves on Paper." which glvea hlnta to police on how to make us of the Information gath ered by the criminal records office. haa been Issued by Scotland Yard. Use Mstl Tribune want aha. 1 iiilYrwwrrJ l35 FULL QUART p--iMv!l4 j&fhj Sport Graphs e e . Billy Holen Sayi : Attempt to Take Medford Players Charged to Hilt That big headache to bush base ballplayer stealing has started again In this territory, but thanks to a strict league ruling, the offend ing club la not a member of the Southern Oregon circuit. Hilt of the Northern California league is the outfit that seems to figure that all ball players, no mat ter with what team they are already affiliated, are fair prey for Juicy offers of easy Jobs and even extra cash for JuA wearing the Hilt suit. There Is supposed to be a Northern California league ruling that players cannot be paid for their ball playing. Maybe Hilt Is living up to that agreement and maybe it Is not. From rumors we have heard, it appears the Callfornlana are not, but be cause it Is hard to prove anything like that, nothing will probably ever be done about It. Anyway, the whole business, In short, Is that Hilt seems to have singled out the Medford Craters as the club to raid. If possible. Before the southern Oregon league season started, more than a few overtures were made to Donovan, Medford's shotgun-arm third baseman. He was promised an easy Job in the logging town and had tentatively agreed to do his national pastlmlng for them until local officiate heard about It and made1 arrangements to keep the great little ball player In Medford. Now comes word that Virgil Swanson, heavy hitting outfield er, has been approached. Just what Inducements, If any. Hilt has held out to Swanson Is a matter of secrecy. It Is not a Job, because Vlrg Is already em ployed In Medford by the post office, and Ir. perfectly satisfied. Personally, we don't doubt In the least that Hilt has offered Swan son an extra bit of cosh to play with them, league rule's not withstanding. It can't be defi nitely stated that Hilt has, be cause we don't know. But If It has, brother that ball club Is playing with dynamite. All the northern California circuit does when--a member team hss been discovered paying Its ball players Is boot said club right out of the league. And no fooling about It. That happened to Yreka last year. It was proved the Yrekans were hir ing plsyers from all over northern California and southern Oregon, and this season the Yreka franchise was sold to Klamath Falls and that was that. There was no comeback. It was done. Back to the player-stealing bual neas, the Southern Oregon lesgue precludes any of that by having a strict ruling committing players see ing action In the opening game of the season to the club they played with In that game. Until released by the manager of the original team, the player cannot Jump to another league team unless he takea up resi dence In another league city, after which he must wait two weeks before stsrtlng with the second outfit. The rule was drawn two years sgo after player trouble between Medford and Ashland threatened to break up the league. Medford grabbed Bill Courtney from Ashland and attempt- CONTINENTAL DISTILLING CORPORATION. PHILADELPHIA, in Third ed to get Cliff McLean. Ashland re taliated by plucking Billy Calvert from Medford and the battle was really a honey. Disruption of the circuit was averted at the last mo ment, snd since then there has been little trouble on that score. Naturally, In the Hilt snd Med ford case at present, there Is no rule Involved. Both clubs are members of different leagues and no laws govern the actions of teams In Inter-drcult dealings. If Hilt could grab s Crater player and use him for the rest of 'the year, nothing c Q u 1 d be done about It. However, If Hilt la offering cash Inducements to Medford players to Jump the local team, which doea not and never will pay for Its baseball help, then Hilt better watch Its step or else. Scores Yesterday By the Associated Press H. E. Portland 0 4 1 Missions 21 26 1 Radonlts. Drefs. Shealy, Mills and Cronln; Tost and Outen, Frankovtch. R. H. E. San Diego Sacramento .. 7 11 0 8 12 1 Craighead. Salvo, and Detore; Seats, Plppen, snd Franks. B. H. E. San Francisco ..... 2 7 0 Oakland . 16 0 Stutz and Monzo; Douglas, Hald and Ralmondl. R. H. E. Seattle 2 0 1 Los Angeles 9 16 3 Flckrel, Smith, Horns and Fer nandas; Thomas and Collins. National. Cincinnati, 12; Philadelphia, 3. New York, 10; Chicago, 1. Brooklyn, 0; St. Louis,- 7. Pittsburgh, 3; Boston, 0. American. Chicago. 7: New York, 2. Philadelphia, 4: Detroit. 1. Boston, 11; Cleveland, 4. St. Louis. 7; Washington, 6. LOCAL BOWLING ACES TO OAKLAND H Pour of Medford's finest bowlers Roy Prultt, Oeorge Eads, Ben Frank lin and Dick Miller will leave to morrow morning for Oakland, Calif., where they will compete In the fifth annual tournament of the West Coast Bowling congress being held at the "California Recreation parlors. Augmented oy several trunaiers from Grants Pass, the local quartet will roll under the name of the Club Cafe of the Climate city. Doubles, singles and 5 -man events will be entered by the team. Their first games will be rolled at 10 p.m. Friday, with singles and doubles being bowled Saturday. Co quill e Students End 2-Day Strike COQUTLLE, " May 13, (AP) . High school students ended a. strike here after demanding at a publlo meeting that the reasons for the resignation of Superintendent P. W. Lane be made public. Lane appealed to the students to return to classes, asserting that he had resigned his office of his own free will and calling attention to the financial loss to the school resulting from the strike. All but 40 of the students remained away from classes all day Monday and Tuesday morning. Round FOR CONTROL OF ALFALFA WEEVIL "Many lnqunea sre coming to this office about control of alfalfa weevil", stated County Agent B. Q. Fowler to day. Time la getting close when the weevil will be getting In their work and the farmera should be prepared to combat them. "Last year considerable spraying waa done and a check of these fields made during the last few days shows that there Is considerably less popu lation of young larva than In the adjoining fields that were not spray ed. From all Indications there will be a great deal of spraying this yesr and also some dusting. The cost is so low for carrying on these operatlona that every farmer ahould do what he can to decrease the population of the weevil," the county agent said. Calcium arsenate Is used at the rate of two pounds to one hundred gallons of water snd one hundred gallons of the mixture to the acre of alfalfa. The field should be sprayed when the weevil are actively at work and there are a large number out. Fields sprayed last year did not have the damage to the second crop that unsprayed fields had, as the second crop came right along as soon as the first waa taken off. Booms can be made to go across the back end of a spray rig with noz zles two feet to thirty inches apart. With an outfit of this kind thirty acres or more csn be sprayed In a day. Plana for an outfit of this kind can be had at the county agent's office. PACIFIC COAST EGGS BIG LOWEST PROFIT SAN FRANCISCO. May 12 (IP) The Pacific, coast poultry Industry, which contributes sround 8100,000.000 worth of food products annually, Is currently offering eggs in the market at the lowest profit margin since the nadir of the depression in 1932. Average prices to consumers are about 6 cents a dozen more than a. year ago on large eggs, and about 854 cents higher in returns to grow ers. Feed prices, however, ara out of sight of last year'a figures. The egg-feed ratio computed by Dr. Edwin O. Voorhles of the Uni versity of California Indicates the egg producers' chances of profit have been getting progressively slimmer In re cent months. The rstlo is the num ber of dozen eggs the .farmer must sell to buy 100 pounds of feed. This ratio has risen from 7.73 In January to 10.33 In April. At that point It Is higher than In the like month of any year since 1932, when It stood at 10.88. In 1932 conditions were so sdverse that egg producers thinned flocks by ruthless marketing. $1000 Burglary. CORVALLIS. May 12 (IP) Loot valued at approximately 1.000 re warded burglars who entered the Electrlo Lunch here. Police reported $690 waa taken from the safe, and 130 cartons of olearettes and a nuan. tlty of candy were also missing. Entrsnoe was gained by breaking the lock on a window. Use Mall Tribune want ads. IS TO NEW RULERS AT Homage was paid to their Britannic majesties In a cordial spirit of Amer ican good-will at the Coronation luncheon held this noon by former British subjects In the Hotel Med ford. . Sherry toasts were drunk to the new rulers, the Rev. Ernest S. Bart lam proposing the toast to his msj esty, Oeorge VI, and Mrs. A. C. Bevsn giving the testimonial to her maj esty, Queen Elizabeth. The group exchanged reminiscences about their places of birth, their schooling snd their coming to Amer ica and becoming American citizens. The coronation ceremonlea also were discussed, most of those at the luncheon having stayed up all night to listen to the rites on the radio. So enjoyable was the get-together thst It waa decided to hold two or three similar, assembles at special occasions during the year. The Rev. Mr. Bartlam presided at today's luncheon. j Thomas Judge sent his regrets at being unable to attend. He con tributed a large bouquet of gladioli for a table decoration. The table was also graced by two special Cor onation cakes. Those sttendlng the luncheon snd their places of birth were: the Rev. Ernest S. Bartlam, England; Mrs. Louis B. Kumphrys, India; Louis B. Humphrys, England: Mrs. W. W. Allen, England: Mrs. T. N. Parrett, Canada; Mrs. John A. Perl, Scotland; Miss Beth Watson, Scotland: Mrs. Charles Holloway, England; Mrs. R. J. Rlnsbsrger, England. Also Dr. R. c. Mulholland, Ireland; Dr. Frederick H. Johnson, Canada; John C. Mann. Canada; Mrs. R. G. Mulholland. England; Mrs. A. C. Bevsn, Englsnd; Frank Edwards, Eng land: Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welghlll, England: and A. H. Banwell, England. Although born In Oregon, Miss Kstherlne Satterlee was a speclsl guest, being Invited by Mrs. Holloway because she attended the coronation of King Oeorge V and expressed much Interest In the crowning of ths new monarch. CORVALLIS, Msy 12. (AP) Mrs. H. J. Bstcbellor, 67, wife of the head of the department of mining engi neering of Oregon State college, died last night from a streptococcus Infec tion, believed to have started a week sgo. Prof. Batchellor for many years was secretary of the state mining board and the couple Is widely known over the state. It was unlawful to play tennis in England In the reign of King Henry the Eighth. LUNCH HERE REGARDLESS of... Experiences Elsewhere Your Credit Is Good Here Lewis Super Service Station Phone 1300 WE NEVER CLOSE 8th and Front Feel at Home in "The Heart of Portland' Comrort . Convenience Courtesy Seme attractive Rates: Hotel Comelins 51) S.. Park Detached mtb bath BEN O. 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