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About Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 17, 1937)
PACE TWO frnPlTTFTmT) TvrXTV TKTBTTyTC. MTTOFOTro, OftflOON. TUESDAY. 'AUGUST 17, 1937. AGGRESSIVEKOHEN PINS CLEMENS BY LEG-BREAK HOLDS Before over 1300 customers, lergeat of toe summer season, smart, ag gressive little Sammy Kohen from tj.m vnrk citv nave Frankle Clem ens, the Indian "wonder boy," neat grappling lesson last nigm v the high school arena to win In two out of three falls. A rematch from last week when the two battled to a one-hour draw h intMi for no time limit, the match was over in 4B minutes when Kohen, forcing the action tnrougn out, clamped on a reverse leg-breaker to take tho deciding tumble. Pre viously, Clemens had grabbed the first fall In 21 minutes with his In .41. n nHrniv,r. from which Kohen extricated himself twice before going to sleep. The new lora jew "' back to grab the second fall 20 min utes later with a reverse leg-breaker and finished things up 8 minutes later with the same maneuver. - It was apparent from the first that the boys wore wasting little love on each other. It was also ap parent from the first that Clemens, this night, was going to prove not So tough for the villainous Kohen Although outweighed. Sammy held the upper hand the entire bout with the exception of Clemens' brlof flur ry when he won the first fall. Ko hen kept boring In, clamping on holds, and taking the aggressive and most of the time Clemens was skid ding for the ropes to save himself. In face, Clemens was on his bicycle the good part of the evening. Kohen did considerable damage with a crushing headlock before he finally switched his attack to the Indian's legs. When he did lower his sights and shoot for Clemens' underpinnings, It was all over but the shouting. Wild Man Zlm, making his first appearance In Medtord lost to flaahy Toot Estes In the middle event when Bates won the second and third falls after the wild one had taken the first with a body alam. The Zlm lunatic turned out to be a well-built grappler who apparently knows many of the answers. He has blond, curly hair that rails to his shoulders and Is strictly unorthodox In his mat work. He won the first tumble In the first round with body slams after considerable dirt. Estes came back to gather the second tumble in t. (wrnrul tanza with the same maneuver and wound up the matcn In the third canto with several drop kicks to the Wild Man's whiskers after sonnenbergs. Earl Yoakloy, referee from Albany, was a sorry looking sight after this match was a few minutes old. His shirt hung In tstters, th result of getting tangled up In a couple of mix-ups. Danny Savlch made short work of Jack LaRue In the opening event, taking falls In the second and third rounds with double leg-breakers while Lanue was not taking anything but a booing from the large crowd. Sav lch did an about-face last night, and was a cleanle again after being a meanle for three weeks. LaRue tried to be dirty but 8Bvch swarmed all over him from the opening gun and the Kansas City brut never had a chance. 1 Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Sayi; Fans in Dither Over Tight Race in Second Half sweeps both games, the regularly slated encounter and the replay of the protested game from the sixth Inning on. Ashland, although flipping fast, mill hat a chance to tie for the pennant. If the Llthlans get over Olendale next Sunday and Med ford and Crescent City split their two gamei, the race will end with the three clubs In a deadlock for first place. How ever, If either Crescent City or Med ford take both their battle, the pennant will go to the team that does Just that. With the second-half raoe ending next Sunday, here la how the three top outfits now look In the standings: W. L. Pot. Med ford 4 1 .800 Crescent City ..,. 4 1 .800 Ashland 4 3 . .67 Now, In case the Llthlans get back In stride and knock over Glendale In their final game, which may be anything but a cinch, and Med ford and the coast team divide their double-bill here, the final second half standings will appear like this: W. L. Pet. Medford 6 3 .714 Crescent City . .. 6 3 .714 Ashland fi 3 .714 If that should happen, a playoff for the second-half pennant would then be necessary, the winner to tangle with Crescent City for the league championship. As first-half winners, the Chlnooks are cinches for the championship playoff. Of course. If Crescent City wins the second-half. which they can do by beating Med ford In both games next Sunday, there will be no playoff for the title. Anyway, It's a great race and a surprising race, especially from the Medford standpoint. Floundering around In the second division dur ing the first-half while their field was getting In shape to be used, the Craters have surprised even their most loyal supporters by crashing straight to the top of the heap In this hectlo second-half dash. We all j realized Manager Mike Balkovlck had : a good ball club, but figured It was j not quite good enough to be a ser ious pennant contender. J There are several reasons for the I Inspired battle our Medfords are displaying for their first pennant tn I years. One of them Is undoubtedly Manager Balkovlck, himself. He has never stopped fighting, and his club has followed suit. For a time, along ! at the first of the season, dissenting players seemed to have about gum med up the works to the point where It was a fight to produce a ball team on Sunday. More than once Balko vlck took the Craters on trips with Just nine players, and was thankful he had that many. However, team members who didn't like the way things were being handled dropped out, dissension In the club was eliminated, the team won a couple of bull games, and the ohauge took place. The Craters be gan to fight. They really began to play baseball. And the result can be plainly seen In the present league standings. Medford la In the thick of the pennant battle, make no mts take about It, and the prediction Is hereby made that tbey wilt batter their way right Into the league championship. In naming guys who are also re sponsible for the Inspired drive to tho top, good old Jack Hughes, Larry Pepper, and Wally Rlckcrt cannot be forgotten. These are singled out only because of outstanding work. The entire club haa been playing great, and we mean great, baseball. Jack Hughes was almost over come with happiness following his magnificent pitching exhibi tion at Grants pass Sunday. He lost IS pounds In the 10-lmilng thriller, which Indlrntm he work ed pretty hard. It was the first time In his life he had ever beaten the Merchant! and he was on top of the world. Jack has come hark; that was proved con clusively, and he will pitch Med ford to the pennant, mark our words, There has never been anything like It; at least not for many, many moons. This second-half Southern Oregon league pennant battle la without doubt the most bitterly con tested, In addition to the tightest, to be stnged In the territory since Curt Davis, Duke Marlowe, Johnny Logan and other Medford greats hooked up In a flag tangle with Ann land, Grunts Pass and Klamath Falls that ended with all four tvama tied for the top spot. The present stretch squubble 1 not quite that close, but clow enough to produce a mild torm of fan-hyeUrlcs In Medford, Ashland and Crescent City, the homes of clubs atlll fighting for the aecond-hnlf title. When Medfi'rd knocked off Grunt la, 7-H. In 10 friin.fi and Crescent City hacked the once pro t'd tshland I. Uhlans, fl-4. laM Kunday, the nice be came nothing Icm Ihau a rat and dog fight, ulth the flip or a roin probably Indicating the ullimiite winner as definite.,! as any other method. As for Pepper and Rtckert. their pitching and hitting, respectively, has helped Immeasurably In the Craters' skyward clash. Pepper has won five ball games this season out of the total of seven the locals have copped, so that should be enough said about the fine righthander. ftlckert, mediocre with the stick dur ing the early stages of the race, has gone alr.g-nutty and la now over the 350 mark, besides fielding brilliantly. Mist Important of all, however. Is the refusal to quit which, haa feat ured the Medford play this second halt. They have won the close ones. Against Ci rants Pass Sunday, In a game literally dripping with bad blood between the players, the Crat ers fought from behind twice. They refused to be beaten. And, so long aa they feel that way about the busi ness, they won't be beaten. Cnwent City's win dropped the Llthlans. bleeding and battered. Into second place and Medford's cop from the Merchants socked Jud Per noil's club out of the race altogether. Those games also dead 1 reeked Crescent City and Medford for the leaguo leadership, which makes this coming Sunday a climax that John Q. Fan are always praying for but seldom see. It will be for the second -half championship when Medford and Crescent City inert at the local turf field provided that either team J I ffiEI TONIGHT IN CRUCIAL CONTEST Games Tonight. HUMHS vs. Jennings Tire. Fabers vs. Office Boys. Timber Products vs. Plche. Catholic Men vs. 20-30. Timber Products and Plche Hard ware will battle tonight at the high school stadium In a game that may decide the second-half championship of Medford's Commercial a o f t b a 1 1 league. A win for the heavy-hlttlng Tlmbermen will give them the pen nant and right to enter the district tourney Thursday and Friday, while a Plche victory will tie up the race. Earl Dale, sensational "windmill" hurler of Timber Products, will tan gle with Stelner of Yreka, the ace signed by Plche for this crucial bat tle. Stelner Is the gentleman who fanned the first 11 men to face htm In the Catholic All-tftar game last Friday night. He throws a fast- rising speedball that Is considered as effective as Dale'a bullet. Tonight will mark the next-to-last evening of the league season. Final games will be staged tomorrow and the district tournament will take place Thursday and Friday, with Medford, Ashland, Grants Pass and Klamath Falls champions competing for the district championship. Fire Eattng Fatal CLEVELAND (UP) Dan Nagyfy. 61-year old professional fire-eater at the Oreat Lakes exposition, died In a hospital here from toxic pois oning which doctors said was caus ed by chemicals he used In his act. Nagyfy's epitaph aa written by ex position showmen was : "A martyr to his art," Conscience Works EUOENE. Ore.. Aug. 17. (AP) A Eugene "dime store" collected on conscience when a Salem girl mailed a dollar bill In payment for a "few souvenirs' gathered in the store four years ago. "I see my mistake now. The principle of the thing was wrong,' she wrote. but was promptly kicked dov. into fifth place by the Angels, who took five straight from the Beavers last week. Oakland's Acorns, who won a three game series from San Diego and three out of four from the Missions last week, play hosta this week to the fourth-place 8an Francisco Seals. 1 fVi?)T " mm & 4 -Jill IK' CAULIFLOWER CHIEF. Mike Jacobs now holds (he reint of the fighting Industry, proba bly even more securely than the late Tex Rickard. He's leased Madison Square Garden. His next big match is the I.ouis-Farr scrap August 26. EXPERT ANGLERS SET FOR TOURNEY BUFFALO, N. Y.. Aug. 17. (AP) Half a dozen expert anglers, some already sporting casts as much as 30 feet over the national record, today set out to unseat Marvin K. Hedge of Portland. Ore., as distance champ Ion with a 5 ounce rod. The battle opened a four-day cast ing tournament among members of the National Association of Scientific Angling clubs. Also at stake In the distance com petition In the 5 ounce class was a mythical world title picked up by Hedge last month In Paris, along with an all-around casting champ ionship. The record Hedge hung up last year was 151 feet, and at least three of the anglers who faced him today whipped the bait out 180 feet In practice trials. Jack McFlsh Sparks of Waco, Texas; R. O. Miller of Hunt ingdon Beach, Cai., and Sib Llotta of Cleveland turned the trick before the tourney opened officially. KEEN NOSE -MS SENSITIVE LIPS (Itv The Vtoch.tcd Perm) San Dlego'i Padre Invaded Sacra mento today for a revfn-(me series which will have an Important bear ing on the Pacific Coast Bweball ensile leadership. The Padres held a game and a half lead over Sacramento after the two split a four-game tvrlea at San Diego last week. In third place, the Improving Lou Angeles club stands a good chance of fattening Its percentage hy enter talnlng the weakened Seattle Indiana Portland, which seems to have folded Ha tent after a desperate bid for a spot in the first division, open ncainst the San Francisco Minions ;n the bay city tontsht. Portland (Mjucesed into third piact, t If your nose is keen and your taste is sharp, you'll find Double Delight in this famous Kentucky straight Bourbon. It's "Double-rich"! A 40 PROOF whuke? with the Msrk f Mmt, Male to ht Bliirgtii Counter by muter Ktr.rotky dit'illrri the gooA nit) Kentvukv wr. COPR. 19-. 5CHFNLEY DISTRIBUTORS. INC., N V.C f pint 85c Quart Sf 1.55 Available in Oregon KINTVCKT SmUtHT BOURBON WHISKIV FISHING SEASON MARKED BY FLOCK OF TALL TALES CHICAGO, Aug. 17. (AP) Tall ftahlng talea hooked during the 1S37 season were ready for serving today to all who would listen. They Indi cated story telling was still the logical aftermath of every fishing trip. Here are some of the entries for this season's mythical fl&h tale title: Clarence Schuff, of A lien town, Pa caught a blue heron Instead of a fish on his hook. The bird dived Into a creek and came up with a minnow he was casting. L. O. Oagnler of Waukegan, IU-, hooked a wildcat on a night fishing trip. The line waa baited with liver. The wildcat was hungry. Three Aurora, 111., friends vouched for Bob Judd'a story that a three- pound black bass "Just jumped" Into his boat while rowing on the Fox river. At Buffalo, N. Y., William L. Klrat and Albert Atld showed friends a 13 pound sturgeon without a hook mark on him. They were tilting the out board motor when the fl&h snapped It, missed Its target and landed helpless In the boat. Oscar Corter of DeWltt, Neb., caught In a large can which was bob- hls hands. The fish had Its head caught In a large can wlch was bob bing up and down In the creek. At Oklahoma City, Okla., Dr. Dale Collins and his party were proud of a string of 15 bass. But the line came loose, and slipped Into the lake. Fif teen minutes later Dr. Collins had a strike. Up came the 15 bass, all strung. Mrs. Austin Forkner of Madison, Wis., Is still talking about a 30-lnch wall-eyed pike she caught. The fish chased her through the water alter she hit It with an oar, but she finally caught It with a net. John D. Mueller hooked an eight pound pickerel In Fox lake near Chi cago. After landing it, the fish squirmed out of his hands and flop ped hack Into the lake, but Mueller recaptured It. Nineteen hours later he learned It wej a prize-marked fish In a contest and was worth 1 1.330. At Uvalde, Tex., Carl Wright stuck his Index finger In the water. Some thing bit it. He Jerked up his hand and & three and one-half pound bass fell on the bank. A fish bit twice for Merle Koep- pier, 8. of Green Bay, Wis. He had It on the line once, but It got away, hook, line and sinker. To assuage hrr son's disappointment, Mrs. An tone Koeppler, his mother aald: "Never mind, mother will catch It for you." A short time later she landed a fish with Merle's missing hook and sinker. BRITISH SPORT FANS HAVE.THEIR DOUBTS ON FARR'S CHANCES LONDON, Aug. J7. (AP There's a suspicion in Britain that maybe Ifa Just as well thst the future ol the empire doesn't depend on Tom my Parr. Which Is to say that, If Louis mangles him August 26, the com monwealth will be braced tor the shock. If It Isn't braced, It won't be tho fault of the British 6ports writers. They have spent much time and many shillings looking at the pic tures of the Louis-Jim Braddock fight, and though generally Inclined to let their patriotism get in the way of their Judgment in decisions of this kind, they are picking Louis. "Nice fellow. Tommy, courageous and all that sort of thing, but h really can't attack, can he?" they say. Tha critics don't belleva their boy Is good enough to stay IS rounds with Louis without getting hit too maryy tlrrei. There also ts a tendency her to reg.'et Tommy's rucent eloquence. It's all nary well for Farr, to make a hit ln( America, but what Britain want to know Is, "Is It dignified?" Tommy's been quoted as saying he wants to win so he can hava ft family and bis oplnlona on tha 014 school tie have been printed. Ordi narily, one Just doesn't have publia opinions on having a family or on tha old school tie I NORTHERN CALIFORNIA GOLF SUBS TO PLAY DEL MONTE, Calif., Aug. 17. (AP) Three northe-n California golfer who qualified for the national amateur tournament at Portland next week have withdrawn, Douglas Lewis, pres ident of the Northern California Golf association, said today. The three, Robert Marsky of Saa Francisco, Ralph Hoffman of Oakland and James Rea of San Jose will b replaced by the first three alternates, James French, Ban Francisco, and Charles Finger and Lewis, both of Burllngame. Closing time for Too Late to Cla sifv Ada is 1:30 p. m. 3 sat - Nv ft iTC. 4 5 rv F ii w f ? - , (i w o I ill I r . li j txA, 4. "K ""i X 1 ' aH Vn cr ti i i-ta. T K B SB ..WS?-W' 1 "'fx"'''?: 3 tboe AX 1 ..-A- ' 1. ' .t.,nlP , -Ait" " . t - Sf-1 T tit I Vh v : 1 " j bre, the iew 's fx!. Nt give 4 1 vt swifts oilot any P-brication. f , A NEW STANDARD OIL FOR NSW CARS t
