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PAOE TWO MEPFOTtD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, QREflON, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 29, 1937 GUARD SITUATION BOYS ILL HARD Linemen Get Severe Course in Blocking As Game With Hood River Nears Backfield Encouraging Coach BUI Bowerman, as he ham mers his Medford high school Black Tornado through furious practice sessions In preparation for their night football game with Hood River high here next Friday night, Is still plenty worried about the guard situation. In fact, the mentor became so disgusted with the antics of the guy who are supposed to come out of that line In a hurry and knock someone down for keeps, that he kicked' over the traces at the end of s gruelling workout yesterday afternoon and ordered the entire team to get to the dressing room and out of his sight. No fooling, Bowerman was fit to be tied. "Our guards are so terrible," he gritted, "that they make the whole squad look bad.' Drill On mocking. Yesterday's drill consisted of block ing, blocking and more blocking for the linemen and maneuvers destined to break ball-carriers away from would-be tacklers. Backfield Coach Ed Klrtley worked his charges on pivoting away from danger, and seemed fairly well satisfied with the manner In which they assimilated and put Into practice that knowl edge. Not so Read Coach Bowerman, with tils linemen. Shoulder blocks, crow body blocks, straight-ahead blocks and every variety of blocks the chief drilled his forwards on. It was man-to-man for awhile, then two-on-one. Then, two teams lining tip for actual orlmmage, with blocking again stressed to the nth degree. Yesterday. Wally Brl, Gene Archi bald, John Chllders, Sam Richardson, and Scrip ter were tried at the guard slots, and all, according to the head man, have so much to learn It is pity. Seversl different combina tions were sent Into offensive sctlon during scrimmage sessions on the baseball field and none of them were satisfactory. They weren't blocking. and as result, the backfield wna having a tough time getting any place. Bowman Oeti Away. Jack Bowman, working at both left and right half, broke loose for several nifty gallops, but It was luslnly because of his own ability and not good blocking that sprung him loose. The speedster, by the way, appears to be one of those slashing, smashing, nigged ball-pack ers of the Boh Smith type. Given some down-field help, he will go and go plenty this season. The offensive forward wall spread out, to start things, with Red Root and Don Montelth At the ends. Hu bert Santo and Dan Erheart at the tackles, Scrlpter and Erl at the guards and Prentice, center. The guards were changed several times. In the backfield, Jack Hill, Bowman, Warren Bayllsa, Willie Caples, Shorty Campbell, Rod Stead and Bob New land saw action. On defense. Miller and Wilson were at the ends, Dale Howard and Bar row were at the tackles, Archibald and Chllders were at the guards, and Baker was at center. Several shifts were made from time to time, with defensive linemen being tronsfcrred to nffenne and vice versa. Bobby Ett Inner, blocking quarter back and left hair, took things easy yesterday favoring a slightly injured knee received In the nlumnl game last Saturday. ROBERTfOTTLE IS WASHINGTON, D. 0.(Bpl.) Rob ert M. Tntlle, P. O. boi 1168. Med rorri. Ore., has qualified aa an ex pert rifleman In the Junior diviaion or the National Rifle association. It as announced here today. The only grade higher than expert la distin guished rifleman. He la a member of the Medford Rifle club and won hla qualification medals under the aupervlslon of 8. M. TMItle. Instructor of the club. Of the totBl of soiva Junior shoot ers of the country who havo quali fied to far this year In all Rrades of shooting proficiency from the be ginning grade of pre-markaman to the hlchest grsde of distinguished rifleman, only 88 have succeeded In attslnlng the distinguished rating and 3M the expert rating. BEARS WARNEDTo TAKE BEAVERMEN SERIOUSLY BERKELEY, Calif., Sept. 30 (A ) Oallfnrnla'e Rears, who stesmroll ered Bt. Mary's under a SO-7 score yesterday, were warned today not to take Oregon Stnte too ilghtly next Saturday. Though the Reavers lost to Idsho. 7-8. Coach L. B. "Stub" Allison warned hla chargea "they're pointing for us, and they're In th rlrht snot to best its.M tet I'l Light t'p your Dark Corners and Closets OLSON ELECTRIC Pbone 115. 3 N. Bartlett Schindler Gallops to Troy t. i i, t. & V i -",,-fi. Amby Helilnillcr (34), Nnulhern Cullfnrnla (imrterl)ui k, la nhown amlillng (14-vards to Ihe Tropjuns' Urst store In their rail openr-r nnlnt the College of the ParMc at Htorktnn on a punt relurn. (ieorse (!8). Troy t tackle, nnd Oenn lllhlii (rlht), enil, are cleaning up on the Tigers' lust defense man. The game, plated In L os Alleles, ended In a 40 to 0 victory for II. S. c. Sport Graphs Bill; Hulen 8ays: Grants Pass and Ashland Banked As Dark Horses Add Grants Pass to the list headod by Ashland as being In the darkhorse or "don't sell 'em short" category for tms coming Southern Oregon confer ence plgAkln race. "STJ Lolke the driz- pp W,; i znes, arants Pass lost Its first foot ball game of the season last Sat urday to Worth Bend. 8-0. As North Bend has seldom been ex tra salty In the past, the logical conclusion to draw after the game was that Orants Pass would moat cer tainly be the Billy nu Its weak sister of the conference. How ever, according to some expert dope straight from the field of battle, those Ce-vemen are going to be nobody's shortcake. Our Informant Lb Captain Lee Bown of the state polios, who last Saturday witnessed Grunts Pass receive-what, to all appearances, was a surprise setback. There was very little surprise stuff about that bull game though, nays Cap Bown. North Bend slapped a great machine on the field, one of the finest high school machines he had ever seen, and It was far from a disgrace to be beaten by the Coast outfit. Powered by a huge fullback transfer from Nebraska, Captain Bown stated that North Bond would ex tend any high school team In the state, and whack most of them de cisively. On the other hand, while look ing rather slow-footed and rag ged, he Informed that the rove meii appeared to nmess plenty of material which was almost cer tain (o start rolling before the season was done for. They are all big guys, he stated, and as soon on they learn a few more funda mentals are hound to he tough. Me said the team did a great job In holding the North itriul pow erhouse to one touchdown. Grants Pass, It will be remembered, tied with Klamath Falls for the con ference title last year by defeating Ashland and the Pelicans while fall ing only to Medford, Losing Ken Prultt, all -con fere nee fullhaok and Art Wlnetrout, gigantic tackle, along with several others, . the Cavemen were not figured to have a great deal of say-so in the race this season. But. If what Captain Bown says Is true and If vague rumors that have wnfted to our ears are well-founded. Orants Paw will be right back up there, knocking at the door. Becauso of all this football hysteria lately, we sort of lost touch with the Mr' mm FINE BLENDED WHISKIES SOLD ARE CROWNS" REASON? FINER TASTE TS1 t.tM wttufcl, an , SOrMl. 0.jS7. U$tm-QIHHn (-mr:,: , - - jr. - -f - pa v tf p. national pastime, which Is still rag Ing In the coast and major leagues and which bad Its final fling for this neck of the woods at Grants Pass last Sunday when all-star teams of Jack- son and Josephine counties struggled through a double-header. A really fine exhibition of pitching thus es caped more than routine notice and we are more than glad to make what amends are possible now. We moan the ball game turned In by young Larry Pepper on the mound for the Jackson county nine. Working in the first game of the twin bill, and after almost a two-month vaca tion from hl5h hard ones and curves. Pepper went In thero and set the heavy-clouting Josephine county out fit down with five measly hits and one run. A great exhibition In Itself, but here Is what la far more Inter esting: Popper, who only this year be linn to play serious baseball, de fenterl Bill tanning, who this season was a member of the EI Paso tram In the class D Arl-xnna-Texas league, where he won 13 and Inst 11 games. If that's not pretty good pitching ror s youngster not yet 20 years old, we'll eat all the hasehlts you ran explode In this direction. It was a real mound duel, with Larry, as above mentioned, giving up five blows and La lining being nicked for eight. To show his superiority In every respect, Pep per sliced two safeties off the Lnnnlng delivery and made him self much hated hy opposing players In all departments. Larry waa talking to us yesterday and remarked on how he would like to attend the training camp spon sored by the Cincinnati Reds In Bend next month. Which, to our way of so- called thinking, would be the smart est thing ho ever did. Under the keen eyes of big league scouts who will be hand at the csmp, Larry will Uy have a chance to go some where If he displays what It takes, which Is a "swift" and a hook. On the latter point, there would be no argument, because that Pepper dlpay- do Is almost aa good as they come While not so terribly fast. Pepper Is, nevertheless, probably speedy enough to attract the average scout's glance, Scores Yesterday By the Associated Press Coast league plny-off: R. Portland 3 San Dlugo - 4 Llska, Thomas and Cronln; 1H and Starr. National Plttsbungh 0. St. Louis 2 Chicago 2, Cincinnati 0. Others postponed, rain. American New York 9-1. Washington 0-3. Cleveland 7, Chicago 0 (second game called end third, darkness.) IVtrolt a, St. Louis 1. Philadelphia-Boston, rain. LOUIS FAILS TO HELP HIS SOFTBALL SQUAD SALINAS. Cal., Sept. 29. (&) World champion heavyweight boxing champion Joe LouU of Detroit failed to hit last night as his softball team, opening a barnstorming series In Cal ifornia, lost to the Monterey Beer team. S to 9. 25 OF ALL m -) rat u tfltilH trM kmtn (rat. Qffrwto, lit)aIM OMms H Tor. Touchdown CtH X! 'v-4'-ytr mm IN TENTH WINS PLAYOFF OPENER, 4-3, FOR Si DIEGO TEAM SAN DIEGO, Calif., Sept. 39-. (AP) Outfielder Rupert Thompson and the San Dleso Padres wero one up on the Portland Beavers today after taking the 10-lnnlng opening game of the Pacific Const league title series, 4 to 8. Thompson's second home run of the day was the deciding run. His first homer accounted for all of the other Padre runs. He hit It In the third lnnlns with Pitcher Wally He bert and Shortstop George Myatt on the pathways. Portland scored runs In the sixth and seventh Innings to tie the count, but following a precedent he set early In the season Thompson sent the funs home when he hit for the circuit with one sway In the last ol the tenth. San Diego got only four hits off two Portland pitchers. Ad Xilska and Bill Thomas, but two of them were Thompson's homers. Hebert was nick ed for seven hits. He Is the only southpaw on the Pndre pitching stoff ond has consistently been poison to the Beavers this season. The second game of the seven game scries will be ployed today. RICH BELMONT PRIZE BELMONT. Mass., Sspt. 29. (API Byron Nelson of Reading, Pa., won the 93,000 top prize In the (13.000 Belmont open match play golf tour nament Tuesday by defeating Henry Plcard of Hershoy, Pa., one of his Ryder Cup team mates, S and 4 in what was scheduled to be the 36 holes final. Plcard earned 92,000 for finishing as the runner-up. Most of the match was played In a driving rain, which ruined Pieard's tee shots, especially during the after noon play, which started all even after Nelson twice erased two-holes deficits during the morning round. Phone 13J0 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywbere Anytime Lewis Super Service lyv"j iwmi..s a i up- jf gitS Yankees Favored in Dope To Capture Subway Series By OAYLE TALBOT NEW YORK, Sept. 29 JP There being no further serious argumei t about the winner of the National league pennant. It becomes fashionable once again to start comparing the talent of those two colossal New York Institutions, the "Jlnts" and the Yankees. Which will win the second "sub way series" In as many years, start ing a week from today? The dope, all things being considered, must favor the Yankees, run-away champions of ' the American league, to repeat last year's alx-gnme victory over Colonel j Bill Terry's slickers. I Boasting the greatest collection of ! sluggers in baseball, the Yanks have systematically bludgeoned the life out ' of the opposition in their league. They j bit with all the power (and, inciden tally, the grace) of a ten-ton truck i Their ad misers say they will, once1 again, strew the Giants all over the ! Bronx. Those who swear by the National leaguers' brand of baseball tight ! pitching, fast fielding, ha Ed fighting say it's going to be o different story ; this time. They think Carl Huboell ! and Cliff "Mountain Music" Melton,' two of the greatest southpaws ever i to pitch for one club at the same I time, will slow the Ruppert rough- housers down to a toddle starting' next Wednesday. That la going to be the drama or the series, when Melton and Hub bell and then Hal Schumacher (prob ably In that order) start trying to slip strikes past Dlmagglo, Dickey and Gehrig. There will be the danger of an explosion on every pitch. It's up to the Giants' pitchers to see that It doesn't happen. Can they? The ability of the Yankees' two aces, Vernon Gomez and Charles "Red" Ruffing, to hold down the: Giants' scoring won't be quite so im portant. Nobody, including the Giants themselves, expects the Terry-men to go on a batting rampage, though they have been getting runs In surprising clusters lately. They will be playing in the big series for one run and de pending on pitching and smart field ing to protect It. Over Confidence Defeated Beavers CORVALLIS. Ore., Sept. 29. (AP) Attributing the Oregon State Bea vers' defeat at Moscow last Saturday largely to "over confidence," Coach Lon Stlner today planned several shifts In the lineup before taking his football squad south this week end. Bfn Ell. sophomore reserve full back, and Hal Hlgglns. left halfback, who have been out with Injuries, were expected to return to atrengthen the squad this week. Closing time for' Too Late to Clas sify Ads Is 1 :30 p. m. -HOW THFTC M mt twm f at a By the Associated Press National W. L. Pel New Torn 91 M .838 Chicago 89 80 .597 Pittsburgh M 80 68 .541 St. Louis 79 70 530 Boston 75 73 .507 Brooklyn 62 86 .410 Philadelphia .... 58 89 395 Cincinnati 57 91 J85 Amerlrnn W. L. Pet New York 99 48 .873 Detroit 87 62 .584 Chlca.30 ......... 82 66 .558 Cleveland .. , 79 69 .534 Boston .. 78 69 624 Washington 71 75 .486 Philadelphia 49 95 .340 St. Loulo 44 104 297 VIE AT AUGUSTA CLEVELAND, Sept. 26. p) Capt Charles Clark of Wllloughby. O., sec retary of the National Golfers' Sen iors aoclatlon, announced today that a national championship tournament for professionals 60 years of age and older would be held this winter at Bobby Jones' Augusta National course. Capt. 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It is better to trust to them than to trust to guesswork. would be held the lost wee. In No vember or the first week In December. The tournament la the first ever held exclusively for the veteran profes sionals, and Its purpose la to honor the 200 or more ellglbles lor their contribution to American golf since the turn of the century. A 61.500 trophy, presented by Al fred Vaughn, well-known amateur, goes to the winner of the tournament. The veterans will play 18 holes dally for three daya. CAIXISON HAS PRAISE FOB UOI1 SMITH AND GKAYIiEAL EUGENE, Sept. 29. I AP) Despite their 28-13 defeat at the - hands ol U.C.L.A. last week. Coach Prink Oal llson was loud In his praise of his SrSir-8 J"' Barclay Si Co., Ltd., Detroit, Mich. IPgood name to go BUY ''J PDIVATF 5TOCk STRAIGHT RYE WHISKEY University of Oregon football squad men on their return to the campus. "Our passing combination of Smith to Graybeal. or vice versa, looks great," he said. The two, with Paul Howe, all sophomores, sparked the advances leading to both touchdowns scored against the Bruins. Predicting that the Stanford game here this week will develop Into an aerial battle. Calllson said It would be "our Oraybeal. Smith and Ander son against Paulman, Orovea and Hamilton." , The Gadsden Purchase, by which a large slice of Mexican territory was added to Arizona, cost the United States $10,000,000. Age takes "first place" in Barclay's cellars! Here Barclay's Private Stock matures through 2 long years! Only patient aging could impart such robust flavor and mel lowness to this fine whiskey. You'll like itl $1.50 l. SIM , ? YEARS f2A 1 ' I
