fEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, WETjFSiySY, jJAY 12, 1937.
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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.
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Coast.
W. L. PC.
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. 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
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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
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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
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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.
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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-
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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.
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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.
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