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i MEDFORD MATL TRTBUXE. fEDFORD. OT?F,f!OX. SUNDAY. .7TTY 4. 1937 PAGE THREE Crater Mentor Undecided on Starting Hurler for Ashland Clash L OF MOUND STAFF Both Clubs In Top Form For First Game Of Inter City Series As Part Of Lithia City Celebration. Bis Mike Balkovick Is still hanging tough on his nomination tor Med ford's starting hurler In the opening battle of the two-game series be tween the Craters and Ashland Llth lans In Ashland this afternoon. Open ing pitch Is slated for 2:30 sharp. The Crater throwing corps was In creased to three yesterday when Al vln Merrltt, with Medlord at the start of the season, walked out of Hilt In the Northern California league with a fre agent status and signed with the Craters. The' acquisition of the former Medford Junior American Le gion righthander has thrown the Cra ter pitching situation today Into doubt. Manager Balkovlck Intimated that he would start Larry Pepper, brilliant righthander, against Ash land's Lefty Bob Hardy, but would make no definite announcement. It may be Pepper. Ray Erlckson or Mer rltt who will start the game, he said. Hardy for Ahland For Ashland. Bob Hardy will def initely open on the firing line, with Lowell Brown being held in reserve and working the Monday game. Har dy la burning with desire to again face Larry Pepper and avenge the 4-3 defeat the Crater hurler handed him June SO. Both clubs are reported In their best condition of the year for the two-game series which will feature Ashland's big July 4 celebration. Each won three and lost five games dur ing the first-half Southern Oregon league pennant race, and In two games against each other, split even The encounters will be for the cham pionship of Jackson county, In addi tion to settling plenty of bitter feel ing between the teams, and citizens of the two cities. . Manager Balkovlck said last night that the Crater lineup would be prac tically the same -that won two of its last three league games, and that he intends to use in the second-half stretch battle which starts July 11. Bob Smith will be on first base, Wal ly Rlckert on second. Dick Lewis at short, and Duke Hankinson on third. Fans, along with Manager BalkovlcL are hoping Hankinson snaps out of his batting and fielding slump and performs like he did in the Rose bur;!; battle here June 6. Itussell In Right In the outfield, Lyle Russell, the brilliant 18-year-old rookie who ap pears to have tremendous possibil ities, will he In right: Dick Sakralda will patrol the center garden, and either Johnny Smith or George Glt ren will be In ieft. Manager Balkovlck and Max Rudock will split the catch ing duties. For the Lithlans, Cliff ("Chief") McLean will do the catching, Leon ard Patterson will be on first base. Jack Baulding will be on second, Ted Schopf will hold down short and Ar ba Ager will take care of the hot cor ner. Outer works will consist of Dar rell Leavens, Phil Keaton. and Man ager Leonard Hall or Willie Durham. Ashland fans, it has been reported, have (250 cn hand to be wagered on the outcome of the two games, and It has been rumored in Medford that local enthusiasts are considering cov ering the money. ,The two teams will play tomorrow at the same time, with Lowell Brown do ing the Ashland hurling and one of the three Medford pitchers going to the mound for the locals. Largest crowd In years Is expected today and tomorrow. The chamber of commerce band will provide music at both en counters. JOHN LOHNDAHL SIGNS AS BEND HIGH MENTOR BEND. July 3. (P Th Bend school board announced the celectlon of John Lohndahl, former University of Oregon football and baseball star and coach at Redmond, to succeed Jerry Llllle as football and basket ball mentor at Bend high school. Llllie recently accepted an offer to coach at Grant high school, Port land. Londahl. ho had been elected to i the, faculty of McLaughlin high school at Mllton-Preewater. and ex pected to coach .there, has applied for a release. FREDDIE HAAS WINNER COLLEGE GOLF CROWN OAK MONT, Pa,, July 3 (AP) Freddie Haas, 21-year-old Louisiana State university graduate, rallied down the stretch to overhaul and de feat his team-mate, Paul Leslie, for the national Intercollegiate golf championship today. The score was 6 and 8. Tse Mall Tribune want ads. LAWN MOWER HOSPITAL LofktmJtha an kinds Repainrn and sharpening, etc Try oui work; it's the best. PHONE 2G3 V,t MILL CALX Dawscn Filing & Grinding Works 44 sntllH FRONT a " ' '" 1 ' ' ! 1 ' 1 f0 ri . h l IN THIS CORNER. Yeah, it's Maxie and a bunk of toast to London. Although he once mastered Heavyweight Champion Joe Louis, it looked like Schmeling would have to do it again to regain the title. EuroDe honed be would take on England's chamo. Tom Farr. TO OF POP BOTTLE WASHINGTON. July 3. (AP) To the accompaniment of a barrage of pop bottles thrown from the left field bleachers at Jake Powell, the New York Yankees nosed out the Washington Senators today, 6 to 4. to even the current series. The pop bottle Incident delayed the game several minutes between" halves of the ninth inning, after the Yankees had scored the game- winning run. About 20 bottles rain ed all a rou nd owe! 1 , Ya nkee le 1 1 fielder, and bleacherites accompan ied the throwing with a chanted demand to take him from the game. R. H. E. New York 5 7 4 Washington 4 9 1 Murphy, Makosky and Dickey; Weaver, Cohen and R. Ferrell. R. H. E. Chicago 10 19 1 St. Louts .-. 6 11 y Dietrich and Sewell; . HUdebrand. Smith, Trotter. Thomas and Huff man. R. H. E. Philadelphia 3 8 0 Boston 3 IS 0 Kelley. Turbeville and Bruckcr: Ostermueller and Berg. R. H. E. Detroit 9 10 1 Cleveland 8 10 0 Wade, Coffman and Bolton: Gale house, Wyatt, Brown, Andrews and Pytlak. NEXT MONDAY EVENING There will be no wrestling matches at the Medford Armory tomorrow night, the muscle-msnglers taking a one week holiday because of July 4 celebrations In several neighboring cities. Promoter Mack Llllard will resume his mat programs July 12, with a possibility the bouts will be staged under lights at the high school foot ball field. Llllard la negotiating with school and Softball association oftl clala. and a definite announcement will be made early this week. VANDERBILT CUP RACE POSTPONED TO MONDAY WESTBURY. N. V., July 3. (AP) The second annual Vanderbilt cup race, scheduled at Roosevelt raceway here today, was postponed because of rain. Officials said It would be held at noon ( Eastern standard time) Mon day. Cse Mall rrlbune want ads GREEN SLAB WOOED $4J00 Big DOUBLE LOAD Phone 7 Now Timber Products Company Ptmne J 10 TO 5 FOR FIFTH OF CHICAGO. July 3. (AP) The league-leading ' Cubs fell on Joe Bowman for five runs In the first Inning and contlnvred on to a 10 to 5 victory over .Pittsburgh, their fifth triumph In succession. Frank Demaree bflmered with one on to start the first Inning and then doubled and singled off relief pitcher Rus Bauers to feature the Cubs 13-hit attack. V R. H. E. Pittsburgh 5 10 0 Chicago 10 13 1 Bowman. Baueftv Ac Todd; Carle ton and Hartnettt (10 innings) R. H. E. St. Louis S 2 3 1 Cincinnati 3 9 2 Wei land and i Ogrodowskl: Der ringer, Holllngsworth and Lombardl. R. H. E. Boston 7 8 0 New York 4 9 3 Turner and Lopes: Schumacher, Baker, Smith and Mancuso, Dan ning. R. H. E. Brooklyn ..... 2 10 1 Philadelphia .' 7 12 0 Butcher. Jeff coat and Phelps; Pas seau and Grace. TENNIS LAURELS WIMBLEDON. Eng., July 3. (UP) Don Budge completed the greatest personal triumph in Wimbledon's long history today when, with some lively assistance from his fellow- Cal iforntans. Gene' Mako and Alice Mar ble, he added the men's doubles and mixed doubles champhonshlps to the singles crown he won yesterday. The Oakland. Calif., red-head's dominance of the closing day's play overshadowed Dorothy Round's some what lack-lustre victory over Jadwiga Jedrzejowsks. of Poland, 82, 2-8, 7-5 in the women's singles final. Teamed with Mako, the new king of tennis smashed England's Davis cup pair, George Patrick Hughes and Clif ford Raymond Davys Tuckey, com pletely out of shape to win the men's doubles crown at 0-0, 6-4, 0-8, 8-1. A little later. Budge partnered Miss Marble, United States women's title holder, to win an, easy 8-4. 6-1 tri umph over Yvon Petra and Mme. Mathleu of ' France for the mixed doubles championship. Vatinlus, a cobbler of Beneventum and favorite of Nero, was reputed by the ancients to have the biggest nose in human history. PINE End of V (antral HUMUS SOFTBALLERS TRIM FABERS; PICHE TEAM DROPS 20-30 Friday night's softball encounters at the high echool football stadium saw. HUMRS down Faber's grocery. 15-8, and Plche beat the 20-30 club. 4-1, in Commeralal league games. In the Service league, the Telephone company rapped the Groceteria, 9-4, and the postofflc slugged the Lions club for a 13-9 win. Home-runs were hit by Jack Hughes of the HUMRS, Creager of the Telephone team and Campbell tor the Groceteria and for Plche, he playing In both games. Phil Oil strap, on the mound for 30-30, al lowed only four hits for the best hurling exhibition of the evening. Finals in the bicycle races was won by Durrell Adams, with Richard Shelley, second, and Hal Adams, third. The youths raced three times around the track, or three-fourths of a mile. There will be no more softball games until the night of July 7. Scores: R. H. E. HUMRS 15 12 2 Fabers 8 9 6 Leavltt and G. Gitzen; D. Ayers and P. O'Connor. R. H. E. 20-30 17 2 Plche ...... 4 4 2 Vincent and Wilson; G list rap and McManamay. R. H. E. Telephone 9 11 2 Oroceteiia ........ 4 8 3 Leavltt and Creager; Orre and G. Gitzen. R. H. E. Postofflce 13 8 2 Lions .. - 9 10 8 D. Slngler and Pettey; Hayes and Anstey. REMAIN UNDEFEATED IN SOFTBALL LEAGUE Commercial League. Team W. L. Ave. Timber Products .. 4 0 1.000 Jennings Tire , 4 0 1.000 Lam ports ... 3 2 .600 Office Boys 2 2 .800 HUMRS ...... 2 2 .500 Fhihrers .... 2 3 ,400 Catholic Men . ...... 1 3, .260 Fabers 1 3 .350 20-30 Club ..... 0 4 .000 SerTlce League. Post Office 3 0 1.000 Telephone Company...... 1 0 1.000 Copco . ...... 1 0 1.000 Elks 2 1 .607 Linns 0 3 .000 Groceteria -.. 0 4 .000 Timber Products and Jennings Tire remained as the only undefeated pommerclal league softball teams after the third week of play, while the Postofflce. Telephone company and Copco boasted unbeaten records after two weeks of action. Jack Hughes, HUMRS, leads Com mercial league batters with a mark of .602. Following are the Individual bat ting averages for Commercial league players In two or more games and at bat seven or more times, as re leased by Fred Lennard, association manager: Player Team AB. H. Ave. Hughes, Humrs... 7 5 .714 Hulbert. Fabers 13 S .692 Kittle. 20-30 12 8 .067 Baker, Timber Prod..... 17 11 .647 Randies. Lamport 20 12 .800 Clark, Lam ports 14 ' 8 .571 White. Office Boys.. 11 6 .548 Curry, Plche 11 6 .545 VanDyke, Timber Prod.- 15 8 .533 Leavltt. Hnmrs 8 4 .300 Campbell, Plche 10 ft ,500 Fishing Tackle Groceries Launch Your Boat Here SHADY COVE Cattanack's Standard Oil Station 4 Pleaaant Stop, over oo the Trip to , Sao franctico Croaa tha Brldfn Uurlni Da;llbtl HOTEL WOODLAND WOODLAND. CALIF. New. (I reproof ballrjinf oo 0. S Hlibwaj P9-W 80 ROOMS SO BATHS RATEB FROM $2 00 COr't Kfc SHOP BOOM SLHVKE TAVKRN OFFICIAL AAA HOTEL COOL IN SUMMER tVABM IX WINTEB Data H. Chamh.ra. Proprietor WATER BABIES. At 13, Edna Child and David Abrahams have developed into swimming- prodigies and will enter the English naHonal diving championships. They are shown "in flight" at King fisher pool, Woodford, Eng.. during training. AERIAL CARNIVAL 5.000 VISIT FORI (Continued from Page One.) heat, the first aid station had noth ing to do. The police and national guardsmen were highly complimented by the inow management for their handling of the crowd and the heavy flow of motor traffic. The pilots were entertained at din ner Friday night in the Hotel Med ford by the Crater club. William M. McAllister, attorney, and Prank Rein hart, merchant, were Initiated Into membership. Tex Rankin, stunt pilot, and Dr. Raymond R. Staub, Portland physician and chairman of the Ore gon state board of aeronautics, were made honorary members. Before the serious Initiation cere mony the club Indulged In Its cus tomary high-Jinks, star act or which was the Introduction of Karl L. Ja nouch, Larry Schade and Everett Bray ton as the Russian filers who re cently made the non-stop flight from Moscow to Pearson field. Wash. Lee Bishop acted as Interpreter In an In terview with the Soviet blrdmen. O. C. Briggs, big eruption presided and Jerry Jerome was master of cere monies for the hlgh-Jlnks Oary aar asche, announcer at the airport show for the Standard Oil company of California public address system, as sisted In the hlgh-Jlnks program. Station Auto Park RAYLAND, O. (UP) An abandon ed Pennsylvania railroad station here haa been leased for storing automobiles. ANOTHER TRIBUNE SERIAL Love Spurs Them On.' HIDING into Red River, Kiy (young mistress of the Laiy Nine) nd Ted (newest man in her outfit) start on a lively chain of adventures. Together, they fight their way through a maze of de ceit, arson, murder and kidnaping. - READ THEIR BEGINS TUESDAY, JULY 6 In The MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE MEDFORD BOYS IEI IN MAIN GO TONIGHT ROGUE RIVER ARENA Baby Max Baer (Barney Wilder), a former Medford boy, and Don Lyon, also of Medford. will go to the post In the top half of the double main event boxing and wrestling card be ing staged in Rogue River tonight at 8 o'clock. They are welterweights. In the other hslf of the twin bill. Ray Lutmon of Grants Pass and Bus ter Carter or Eureka, both heavy weights, will tangle. Both fights are billed for six rounds or less. Baby Max Baer was born and rais ed In Medford, and recently returned from California where he fought In all the large fight centers. He will wear into the ring tonight the dress ing robe worn by Max Bear when he knocked out Prlmo Camera In 1933 for the heavyweight championship. Baby Max was a member of Bner's fight stable for several months, and is the Playboy's personal friend. In addition to the .double main event, there will be one more boxing bout, and two wrestling matches. MERRICK'S POOL , SWIM IN DRINKING" WATER Dally: 1 p. m to 10 p. m. Sundays: 10:3U a. m- to III p. r LOVE STORY IN TOLMICH STAGES E- MILWAUKEE. July 3 (Black thatched, wiry Allan Tolmlch. young ster from Detroit's Wayne university, whipped a world champion, and came right back to set a meet record to day to outshine a field of brilliant stars In the golden Jubilee renewal of the Amateur Athletic Union's sen ior track und field championship moot. Glenn Cunningham retained his 1.500-meter title with the help of a heartbreaking accident to little Archie San RornJB; four far-westerners surpassed Jhe accepted world pole vault record. And six grsnt Negro high Jumpers dominated their field but It was ToUnfch who out-sparkled them all todOTln Marquette unl- Tolmlch whJppeTPaeorgia's famous lrrest (Spec) towns, world record holder, over the 110-meter rute, and came back ait hour later to skim over 300 meters of low hutdlea In the meet record time of 33.3 seconds. All tht was or. top of a rlumph in the junior 100 meters cr.mplon sliip last night. Towns was forced to accept third place behind the flying Tolmlch and Ray Staley of Southern California. Tolmlch's time, 14 5 seconds, was good considering the wind. The 1,600-meter race, heralded as another great struggle between Cun ningham and his little Kansas rival, was right In the middle of being Just that when San Romanl stepped on the track curbing and sprawled on the cinders about 300 meters from home. As He foil, San Romanl's spikes raked Cunningham's left leg, but the veteran kept right on going to whip Jimmy Smith of Indiana, about 33 yards in 3 minutes, 61,8 seconds. Wisconsin's Charles Wenska finished third and San Romanl, as game as he is fleet, got back on his feet and finished with a brilliant sprint to salvage fourth place ahead of Gene Zenrke. A M Nw In drM, beautifully ftnhliad room, wRk eclowj . Ulcd bada and dramn, locatad an So Fraadaeo't faoa I Powall Strati oppoato Unto Squan Raawuraat CoRa I SSop Cocktail Room Clrealatlnf lea Wattr. M , AI,.JiJ0. too. uo.ioa tiMOU M "ltJO. 1.00. ISO. 4J0 oouw ": : M X OAIAOI IttVICI AT INTIANCI ' W , X WWIU AT OTAJIEU mtV SAN FIANCKCO M X. HAVy M TOy.MANAOIHO.OWNIt J X. "MEET ME AT THE MANX" Bill Sefton. Southern California, hoisted htm&elf over the bar In the pole vault at 14 feet. 7t Inches, bet ter than the accepted world record of 14 feet, 64 Inches established oy George Varoff a year ago. However, he won because he required fewer efforts to get over the top height, for Cornelius Warmer dam of Fresno, Cal., State college and the Olympic club of San Francisco. Earle Meadows of Southern California and Varoff all cleared the same height. Al LITTRELL LAUDS A statement expressing appreciation of the quick work of the fire depart ment in suppressing the Medford Do mestic Laundry fire was Issued last night by Al Llttrell, officer of the Jackson County Investment company, owner of the adjacent Sparta build ing and contiguous property on East Main street. Chief Roy Elliott and the regular and volunteer members of the de partment did a remarkable job of controlling the fire that threatened the whole business section adjacent to the laundry, Mr. Llttrell said. Considering the start the fire had, many spectators expressed amass ment at Its quick suppression. The laundry was a mass of flames when the alarm was turned In, Show Poor Taste HEALDSBURO, Cal. (UP) Olean ders may be highly desirable for home decoration but they are hard on cows. For several years past, the state hospital has had an epidemic each June of deaths among its prise herd of Holatelns, one of the most valuable In the state. G-men-like In vestigations this year revealed the fact that the cowa ate the clippings from oleander shrubs and the clip pings did the rest, Ducks have increased 16 to 30 per cent in number In the -last year according to Hugh M. Worcester agent of the biological survey. The "dust bowl," as defined by government agencies, consists of 90.779,655-acre expanse in Oklahoma. Texas, Kansas, Colorado and New Mexico.
