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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD, OREO ON. FRIDAY. AUGUST 13. 1937. Craters -Loggers Tangle Here Saturday --Game Called for 4 o'clock PAGE EIGHT PEPPER TO HURL FOR MEDFORD IN Craters Will Journey to Grants Pass Sunday for Tilt With Merchants Hughes to Do Slab Work Southern Oregon League Standings. W. L. Pet. 4 1 .800 8 1 .750 3 1 667 8 3 .600 1 3 .260 0 6 .000 Ashland Crescent City .....-. Med ford Grants pass , Glendale Roseburg . ........., Game Tomorrow. Olendale at Med ford (4 p. m.) (James Sunday. Med ford at Oranta Pass. Creacent City at Ashland. Olendale at Roseburg. Med ford 'i fighting Craters, knock ing at the pennant door for the first time In many years, open a two-game week-end flurry tomorrow afternoon at the high school turf field that will either skyrocket the men of Manager Mike Balkovlck to a prac tical deadlock for first place or drop them entirely out of the white-hot championship race. It will the rough and tough Olen dale Loggers moving Into town to morrow afternoon to make up the two clubs' postponed game of July 35, which was called in the fifth frame because of rain with the score knot ted at 3 all. Larry Pepper, curve ball er, will be on the Medford mound In this crucial encounter while either big Larry Nunnenkamp or the equally huge Carpenter will fog them over for the Loggers. Opening pitch is slated for 4 p. m., late starting hour being due to ale nd ale's Inability to arrive earlier. Face He) lie Sunday. Sunday, at Oranta Paas, the Cra ters will face Rudy Heyne, league's leading pitcher with four wins and no losses, and the terrific batting pwoer of the Merchant outfit, seven regulars of which are belting the apple for a J 00 or better average. Manager Mike Balkovlck will send good old Jack Hughes to the rubber In an attempt to silence the Mer chants' heavy artillery. Hughes, one of Med ford's most popular ball play era. says he la ready to go the route. If he la, Merchant sluggers can pre pare for plenty of blinding speed and sharp hooks. Sunday will see the next-to-last week of the hottest Southern Oregon league pennant race In many years. To remain in that hectic stretch bat tle, the Craters must cop both their Olandale and Oranta Pass encoun ters. One defeat, Just one slip, and It's curtains for the Medford ball club that has been alternately warm and cool all season. Two wins, how ever, and the Med fords will roar Into the final week of play practically tied with either Crescent City ' or Ashland, depending upon the out come of their game In Ashland Sun day. ( Donovan's Bat lint. Especially heartening to Manager Balkovlck, who has been troubled by a lack of offensive power all year, la the sensational hitting spree Prank ("Donny") Donovan seems to me In augurating for himself. Last Sunday the great little third sacker clouted three doubles and a triple, and la boasting an even .500 batting mark from B safeties In 16 trips. Donny la expected to worry Olendale and Oranta hurlera plenty. Bob Smith la the only other Medford regular above the .800 mark; he la hitting .345, and facing two righthanders In a row, should boost that average consider ably. Erlrkfton, Merrill Belief. In addition to Pepper and Hughes, who will be the starters during Med ford s Important week-end. Ray Erlck eon and Alvin Merrltt, both excellent pitchers, will be on hand for relief duty If needed. Bothered by an In jured finger on his glove hand for over two weeks. Pepper la at last entirely recovered. He has been work ing out dally and Balkovlck say he is back In old-time form, and that hla overhand curve ball, best dtpay-do in the circuit, la acting up again. When that curve Is working like It ahould. young Larry Pepper la not reached for many basehlU. Mrdford's lineup tomorrow and Sunday will se Rum Acheion back of the plate, Smith on first base. Rlckert on second, Lewis at short, and Dono van at third. Hoosler Hoffard will patrol left, Dick Sakratda center, and Oeorge Oltzen, right. s TITLE THIRD TIE CH1CAOO, Aug. 13 (AP) Mar lon Mlley of Cincinnati, O.. became the first to win the women's west ern golf derby three times In a row Thursday when she fired her fourth subpar round to hang up a record total of BOfl for the 73 holes. Her three under par 77 for the last round stretched her margin over second place, Patty Berg ot Minneapolis, to eight strokes. Die freckle-faced Minnesota miss shot 39-41 60. even par. Miss MUey's card waa 39-3977, three better than perfect figures, A ding dong battle developed for third place, with Miss Betty Jame son of San Antonio, Texas, trana Mtalippi women's champion, nos ing out Miss Beatrice Barrett of Minneapolis by one stroke SJ3 to 824. Rippy Blasts x X -W A h V It I it" . -t, d ir&M h SZ V W r .Sri' i m Ajl Claude Hippy of Washington, D. C runner-np In lust year's tourna ment. Is gunning for greater glory In this year's nutloiml public links toiirnnuuMil at Hun I'ranclKco. This striking picture shows him blustlng out of the sandy riHiRh during one of hlft qualifying rounds. CATHOLIC ALL-STARS OF YREKA, MEDFORD IN KATBALL FEATURE Do in p Tonight Lamport vs. Plche. HUMRS vs. 20-30. Yreka vs. Medford All-Stars. Catholic All-Stnr teams from Yreka and Medford will tangle tonight at the high school stadium In one of the feature attractions of the local softhall season. The hnttle will net underway at 8:45 sharp, one hour af ter thetwo commercial league teams finish. The Catholic Mcn-Fabera game, originally scheduled for to night, has been cancelled to make way for the All-Stnr encounter. Medford will present a team liber ally studded with stnrs from other Commercial lengue teams, Father Meyer of Catholic Men and Ray Slngler of Jennings will divide the hurling duties. John Smith of Of fice Boya will catch. Bob Smith of Timber Products will be on first, Wally Rlckert of Catholic Men will be at second. Dick Lewis of Timber Products will hold down short, and Frank Donovan of Catholic Men will be at the hot corner. Ray Lewis of HUMRS will take care of the roving shortstop position. In the outfield. Dick Snkralda of Catholic Men will play left, Hoosler Hoffard of Timber Products will be In center, and Dick Slngler of Jennings Tire will be" in right. The Yreka all-stars will also bo composed of the finest players in the California town's softball circuit. Timber Products won itn lflth straight game last night by drfenting Fluhrers. 6-1. Earl Dale fanned nine and allowed four hits. Last night's scores: R II. E 8 1 4 3 Timber Products fl Fluhrers 1 Dale and Burrcson; Eberhnrt and Plche. R. H. E. Plche 3 6 0 Fabers 14 4 Vincent and Botts; Hulbert and Bsbb. R. H. K. Jennings Tire 13 16 3 Catholic Men 1 3 3 R. Slngler and Stewart; Meyer and P. Sakralda. R. H. E Office Boys ............ 0 13 4 30-30 Club 5 13 3 Colton and Harrington; Miles and Brown, Hittle, L OPEN SEMI-FINAL SAN FRANCISCO, Ai. 13 (AP) Four battle-christened survivors of the national public links national championship entered the eml-flnal round of the tournament today over the long Hartlln Rolf course. Carded for 36 holes of mutch play, out of an original field ot nearly 300 KoJIera entered from all parts or the nation, the quintette was paired a follows; Andrew Srwcdko. Pittsburgh. Pa., ve. Bruce MoCormlek, Uw Alleles. Don Erli'Kwn. Aihamtira, Cal., v Prank Toronto. .Mmrnln. fal. WATCH FOR THE OPENING ROLLER SKATING Medford ARMORY SOON I From Rough s- ' Ik RENEW MAT FEUD Y NIGHT It's Sammy Kohen versus Frankie Clemens once more in the main event at the high school grappling arena next Monday night, and after the sensational exhibition the two produced last Monday evening. Pro moter Mack LtllarU Is expecting a near-record turnout. The two bat tled to a one-hour draw In one of the toughest squabbles seen here and afterwards applied so much pres sure to the wrestling Impresario for a rematch that there wns notnlng else the promoter could do but agree. Another feature of what should prove an excellent program will be the Initial appearance of Wild Man Zlm, a long-haired maniac from the east with a colorful record behind htm., LI I lard .said that Zlm, while considerably unorthodox In his mat work, was not extremely vicious, al though his appearance was enough to frighten the average grunt and groaner into some other line of en deavor. The wild Man will face flashy Toots Estes In the middle , event. Danny Savtch, who used to be a gentleman, but Is now nothing more than a brute of the worst type, will face n fellow fouler when he meets Jack LnRue In the opening fracas. Savtch has apparently for-, gotten nil he ever knew about clean: tactics, and many fans are hoping j he gets his ears socked down, even though La Rue Is far from an angel. f Scores Yesterday (By the Aiwoctnted Press) Coast R. H. Ban PrnliclHco 6 8 0 Portland 3 8 1 Shores flnd Woodnll; Ltaka, Carson (01 and Tresh. R. H. e. Loa AnRelea 8 13 I Scnttle 3 5 t Berry and Collins; Plckrel, Oppelt (5) and Femandes. R. .. 4 CMktnnd 4 7 1 Snn Weso 3 8 1 Olds and Ralmondt: Hebert, Salvo 101 and Starr. R. H. E. Sacramento .......................... fl 14 1 Missions 8 11 0 Kllnger and Pranks; Bsblch, Os borne (8 and Sprlnz. Nitllnnnl Boston. 8; New York. 4. Philadelphia. 3-8; Brooklyn, 3-3. Plttsurnti. 18: Chicago, 8. Only games scheduled. American Neu- York. 10-5; Boston. lfl-S. Detroit. 11-4; Chicago. 8-8. Washington. 8: Philadelphia. Cleveland, 7; St. Louis, 0. Meerschaum Pines Hack MILWAUKEE (UPI William J. Kunstler. meerschaum pipe maker. Is certain prosperity has returned. In his little tobacco shop he U maktn meerschaums saln aXter seven yera during which he sold hardly Ik one. Use Mill Tribune want ads. $cXtm6m Salem Brewery Ass'n, Salem 1 JftfM'i Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says: Doubtful if Babe Will Hook Up With Raft Baseball Plan This business of Hollywood motion picture stars mu&clelng into the sports world has about reached the point where every male movie guy who draws down 1000 or more po tatoes per week either owns a race horse, a prize-fighter, or Is hot and bothered toward promoting some kind of a team. Best known examples of screen performers In sportdom are Blng Crosby, who operates a large racetrack near Los Angeles and is re ported to be making plenty, and Al Jolson, who bought the contract of Henry Armstrong, a mighty little black fighting man, and is cleaning up. Now comes Oeorge Raft, who causes female hearts to flutter, with the Idea that he will establish a Pacific Coast league baseball franchise In Hollywood and get the one and only Oeorge Herman Ruth to manage the club. Raft says he can do It, and flew east yesterday to put the prop osition to the Babe. Mr. Raft, It Is believed by this department, will have to do some tall and rapid talking to get the former home run king's monicker on the dotted line. Take a fellow like Babe Ruth, who has never known anything In base ball but the top, who la considered the greatest slugger of all time, and who has enough dough salted away to keep him in beans for the rest of his life. It's beyond comprehension that Ruth, or any other fellow in the same spot, would accept a prop osition to manage a ball team in ihe minor leagues, no matter how lucra tive. If the Bambino needed the money. If he was an 'old, worn-out and broken-down player .it might be different. But. he's not. He's still tops In the hearta of America's base ball public and he knows he deserves something better than a minor league managerial Job. Am way, we wonder Just where a new llolhuoori team would fit In the present Const league set up. You can't operate an AA liaspball circuit with nine tennis, mid the present outfits are strug gling ulong right nicely us It Is. Excepting, posslhle, Scuttle, which Is having trouble as usual but will hang In there so long as HIM Klepper Is at the helm. The rest of the clubs are all shotting sweet attendance Increases and don't think any one of them wouldn't raise all kinds of hades If it were nke1 to relinquish Its franchise and step peacefully aside while Ituft took a hand at being a baseball club owner. There really is a need for two clubs In Los Angeles, though, what with the Arutels being home only half and enjoy better motoring too, in this smarter, more modern, more comfortable car OFFICE ANT) SALESROOM SPARTA BLDO. No. 33 for Joe DiMaggio Joe niinngglo of the New York Y'ankees, stepping across home plate In the first Inning of a double header at Boston to chalk up homer No. 33. He drove In Frank Crosettl. the time. San Francisco and the bay district supports three teams Seals, Missions and Oaks sand Los Angeles and vicinity boasts a far greater pop ulation. However, Los Angeles had its chance at continuous baseball when BUI Lane operated the Hollywood club before pulling out for San Diego three years ago, so little sympathy is wasted on citizens of the southern California metropolis who let the present San Diego Padres slip away from them. If Raft Is successful, which is doubtful In the extreme. It can be, expected thai all California will start hollering for elimination of the two tle so as to clear the way for the Hollywood franchise and another. It has happened many times before although not under the same cir cumstances. Several yenrs ago, when both Portland and Seattle were hav ing bad days, attendance was poor and the teams were far down In the race, the squawk from California club owners and sportswriters for a Cali fornia league was loud and long. But It didn't get one strike on Seattle and Portland heads. BUI Klepper and Tom Turner, then Portland's top man, dug In and battled It out toe to toe with the southern gentry and when It was all over the latter scur ried to their holes and were quiet. Since then things have been peace ful so far as talk, concerning the elimination of Portland and Seattle has been concerned. However, If Raft pulls off a miracle and gets Ruth's name to a contract, arranges for Gil more stadium in Los Angeles like he plans, and really goes to town as he claims he will do, then Portland and Seattle better stock up with plenty of verbal ammunition or they will find themselves relegated to bush league baseball for good. Wild Man Zlm. the sideshow wrest ling attraction who appears on Mack gtfye on First Cost ge on Gas and Oil qe on Upkeep ROGUE RIVER CHEVROLET LUlard's card next Monday evening, must really be a peculiar gent. Lil lard says that Zlm likes nothing bet ter than. to brouse among the bushes 'bordering a cool stream, far away from civilization where he can revert to nature and hold his own class In nudism. The Wild Man, whose hair droops to absurd lengths, doesn't pre fer to live the life of normal persona. LUtard states, but likes to be left alone with hla thoughts, if any. Zlm, so the report goes, was disappointed In love early in life, and has not been the same since. By the Associated Press Sacramento's socking Senators, only a game and a half behind the Pa cific coast baseball league's leading San Diego teab, open a four-game series with the Padres rn San Diego today the league leadership the ob ject of their attack. The Senators made it three in a row over the cellar San Francisco Missions by staging another ninth inning rally to win, 6 to 5, yester day. Oakland trimmed the Padres, 4 to 3, to take two out of three games and give the Padres their first series loss at home this year. Today the Oaks will open against the Mis sions. Los Angeles made It two out or three over the Seattle Indians pound ing two Seattle pitchers for 12 hits and an 8 to 3 victory. A three-bagger by Frankie Hawkins helped San Francisco beat Portland, 5 to 2, to give the Seals the edge In their series. Today Los Angeles will go to Portland and the Seals to Seattle. M1IW1(D)1LW jf - V " I ! VOWS & mm the w Eiii SERVICE DEPT. 32 NORTH RIVERSIDE GEORGE EARNSHAW HAPPY HURLING ON SAND LOTS PHILADELPHIA. Aug. 13. ( AP) Big Oeorge Earnshaw. who used to breeze them past the batters with out much trouble, pitching for Con nie Mack's American league pennant winning athletics seven years ago. is pitching for a Philadelphia sand lot team this year, but Just the same he's "happy." "I'm perfectly satisfied." the "Big Moose" said. "When I quit the Car dinals at the end of last season there were two things in the Dack of my mind. First, I wanted to be home with my family. Second. 1 wanted to be my own boss. Pitch ing semi-pro ball satisfied both am bitions." Earnshaw, a former Warthmore college star before he gained promi nence with the A's. has won 13 OW THEY (By the Associated Press) Coast W. L. Pet. San Diego 80 58 .588 Sacramento 78 57 .578 San Francisco - ... 72 63 .533 Los Angeles 71 64 .526 Portland 68 63 .519 Oakland 62 74 .458 Seattle 57 77 .425 Missions 6 51 85, .375 National , W. L. Pet. Chicago 65 37 .637 New York .. 58 43 .574 St. Louis 55 47 .556 Pittsburgh 63 47 .530 Boston 49 54 .476 Cincinnati 41 57 .418 Brooklyn 40 59 .404 Philadelphia 42 62 .404 American W. L. Pet. New York .. 70 30 .700 Boston 58 41 .586 Detroit .' 57 42 .578 mil FINER CROWN TASTE NEVER ' "ve" 0OWH BLENDED WHISKEY. Th. a,r.lBht .hi. hi. In (hi. product ar B yr r mor old, S7'; airtight whl.kl, and az noutral aplrlla dUllllad from Amarloan grain, o l-rool. Copr.ttl7, SaagranfOUtUJara Corporation, txaaullv Olfloaa, Naw Yard. CHEVROLET MOTOR DIVISION, General Motofi Salts Corporation. DETROIT, MICHIGAN - General Motors Installment Plan monthly payments to suit your purso. a games and lost two on the sand lots to date. "I think I'm Just as good as ever," he said "I've been taking care of myself. I'm weighing about 212 and the arm feels wonderful. Good for several more years, anyway." "They used to think I was a strikeout artist," he went on. "Well, I guess I still am, tanning an aver age of 10 to 12 batters a game. That should prove I'm in shape. If my record la not sufficient." As for the money angle. Earn shaw thinks 'I make out better this way, counting my insurance earn ings," "St. Louis offered me a contract that was a Joke. That's why I quit. They'd have to double the offer to Interest me." Chicago - 61 45 .578 Cleveland .... 48 51 .474 Washington 45 53 .459 St. Louis 32 67 .323 Philadelphia 29 69 .298 WILD BILL BOYD GETS l-ROl KO IN DEBUT TACOMA, Aug. 13. (AP) Wild Bill Boyd, former all-navy heavy weight champion, celebrated his pro fessional debut here last night wtih an impressive one-round knockout of Wes Hayes. Portland. Ore., negro. Boyd, who weighed In at 18416, sent Hayes to the canvas with a flurry of punches. The Negro rose unsteadily at the count of nine and was floored again for the full count. Hayes weighed 172. In other bouts, Dave Ward, 129'i, Tacoma. knocked out Martin KM, 132!i. Portlandt In the first round and Jack McComber, 172 2, Tacoma, knocktd out Art Pettit. 180, Port land, in the second round. miii urn I THAT VARIES L . m rsiun 2 . . -u FOR ECONOMICAL TRANSPORTATION USED CAR LOT 234 N. RIVERSIDE. FOOT OF 4TH 8T.