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PAGE FOUR rePFOKD MATL TRrBUXE, MEDFORD. OREGON. WEDNESDAY. MAT 11. 1938. - - in -'El ! ttl W vi rr'V'.rf? 0 ... . . 1 1 I vmmmmKmmm TAKES GRADE SCHOOL PENNANT WITH EASE Final Oroile Kchnnl W. L. Pot. Lincoln 8 0 1.000 Washington -. 8 ' XM Roosevelt 1 4 .300 Jackson 1 .187 Lincoln school, coached by Bay Hunsaker, won the Mcdtord grade school baseball championship Tues day attcrnoon by defeating Washing ton. U to 7, In the Icaguea Ilnal encounter. The victory waa the sixth straight for Lincoln. Members of the championship team were Homer Sullivan, catcher: Doug Phlmley, pitcher: Russell Nicholson, first base; Roger Newton, aecond base; Robert Waterston, shortstop: Donald Wilson, third bore; Keith Barrow, centerfleld; Jack Ballantync, lelt field: Donald Barrow, right field: and the following utility players: Junior Ingram, Kenneth Llndlcy, Oerald Pence, Lewis Cox and Robert Fred erick. Hugh Blaylock and Bert Bris tow were rcaulnra and lettormen, al though transferring before the season v:as completed. Lincoln's drive to the pennant, first since 1033, Included wins over Jack son, 13 to 7 and 14 to 13: over Boost Telt. 18 to 11 and 18 to 6: and over Washington, 7 to 6 and 14 to 7. V , t SENIORS WIN, 6 TOO, IN OF AT LONC LAST, base- ball's last major league holdout, Joe DiMagtio (above) returned to Yankees' fold, aliening a con tract for 525,000 the aalary he vas offered last January III TRACK DUEL For the first time In their brilliant track and field careers, Med lord high's Buss Werner and Chris Barker will run both the half-mile and mile In the huge southern Oregon district meet here next Saturday. Coach Bil BoVormnn said today they would both be entered In the two middle-distance events, marking the first time they have run both distances In the some meet. Hereto fore, this yoar, Barker and Werner fcave alternated. Last Friday at Grants fast. Werner ran the half and Bar ker the mile. Two weeks ago, Barker rntered the half and Werner the mile. With the entrance yesterdny of Ker toy. Conch Bowermnn announced that the list of teams to competo :n the meet was now complete. There will be 18 schools and nearly 300 athletes entered. Winners and runners-up In All events will qualify for .the state tneet at Corvallls the following week. BOWLING JENNI SOFTBALL CHAIRMAN Sam Jennings was laat night elect rd chairman of tho Medford softbnll e. wor In t Ion at a meeting In the M, J. Hognn company brokersRe office of some 30 trams managers and spon sors. He will act as the "Judge Lan dla" of tho sximmer Softball cam paten. Fred Lennard waa named a coin tnlttee of one to draw up tho ached ule, and Lennnrd, Al Plche and Sum Cotton were appointed to the Inter- tlty schedule committee. The latter committee will arrange ganva be tween team from Med ford, Ashland, Klamath Falls, Grants Pass and Yreka. Cal. Colton chairman. The ladles bowled In regular league action last night at the Smokehouse alloys with City Mnrket taking three out of four points from B.P.W. club, Valentines beating Concrete Con structlon. 8 to 1, and City Cleaners taking all four points from Medford alleys. Scores follow: Medford Alleys Miller 168 300 169517 Lendt 107 124 133 303 Payne ............ 133 00 63 334 Sims 3B 1 ID 119 366 Dummy, 130 130 130300 Totals Sfifl 673 833 1060 Jack Weaver rnmmed two yards through center shortly after the sec ond querter started to give the grad uating senior the touchdown that defeated Anhland hlgb's varsity foot ball team, 6 to 0, last night as the newly lighted atnletlc field was ded icated before a crowd of 1000. Coached by Leonard Warren, SONS player, the seniors had things their own way the entire game, and three other times renehed the five-yard line only to lose the ball on fumbles. Weaver and Jimmy McNals, quarter back, tore off several Ion runs Coach akect O'Conncll's varsity. ending a lon Aprliy; practice cam paign, were unable to seriously threaten their much heavier uppon nents. Ken Hnrrls. halfback, got off . several long punts and Charlie War ren broke loose a couple of times for nice gallop. i The seniors touchdown came after a steady march from midfleld. After i losing the ball on downs on the eight-yard line, the big senior line smashed through to block Harris at tempted punt, and then recovered on the varsity five yard line. Weaver carried It three times, the last of which sent him over the-goal line. A pass was Incomplete for the extra point. Sport Graphs ... Billy Hulen says: J'ville Promoter Plans Box Fights On Friday Nights City rlen ners M. Prultt 175 rrlsbee 138 Shreeve 114 Bateman US Watson .. 143 Handicap as Totals 735 187 107 132 130 173 30 73B 189508 158388 133388 150 418 188482 20 87 788 3251 B.P.W. ( Illh Scherrer 108 Brockway 87 Punk ...... 134 Sears .............. 102 Fraeler .. 07 Handicap so Totala 60S 155 108 141 104 ENJOY GOOD SPORT Salmon fishermen are enjoying pood catches along Rogue river. cording to reports coming In the past few days. R. I. Twlng of Grants pass got three Sunday: Ralph Hilling and Ralph Hilling, Jr.. of the same place, landed threo each Monday. Five chlnooks were landed at Wool -ridge's barge Tuesday and five or tlx were rcportxl taken at We-A.ik-tl Inn. near Savage rapids dam yes terday. Water In the Rogue Is reported ialrly clear. COUGARS TRIM IDAHO WITH GOOD HURLING MOSCOW. Idaho, May 11. v nrannsfora' pitching together with even Idaho errors tiave Washington State the opening pa me on Idaho's home grounds, Tho margin waa fl to e. Brannafors rallied from a four-hit first Inning to hold the local tfm to four hit the remainder of the game PASTOR TECHMICALS RAMAGE IN NINTH LO ANOn.ES. May 11. (UPI Bob Pastor, New York heavyweight, won s technical knockout victory rtvor I.M HaniSKo or San DtrRO, Cal.. last nlirht al Olympic auditorium, al thouKh he was unnhle to knock his opponent to the canvas once. The refereo halted the bout when Pop r)eti. HAmae-e's manager, threw In the towel after 2 minutes. 25 eoonda of the ninth. RnmsRe weighed 107, PMtor 103, City Market 131 148 103 Bates Fields . Goodrich DeVore 124 Dummy 180 Totals 884 118 144 108 1,31 180 801 Mathlaa 120 Ootmlas ... no Phillips 04 Carlson .. 144 Swoape 178 Handicap 31 Totala 877 142 131 104 125 134 31 007 Concrete fou(. Semon 171 Prultt 188 dramas 128 Simmons ...,.... 188 Johnson 130 Totals 768 140 131 91 82 114 587 130402 127 3112 155 130 80296 00288 80340 680 1075 103 402 110 400 128337 104 410 100 480 713 2038 143 405 102343 127325 135104 144 458 31 03 682 3026 145 405 162 150 00316 118 ,168 148410 670 2025 Scores Yesterday Coasl . I.eaciie Portland 5, Los AngeloA 9. Seattle 4, Oakland a. Hollywood 4, San Diego 5. San Francisco 0. Sacramento 3. National l.eacue At Pittsburgh. Boston, rain. At St. Louis 3, Brooklyn 10. At Cincinnati 7. Philadelphia a. At Chicago 1, New York fi. j' r '-: r; Billy nules) Anierlnin League At Washington 8. St. Louis 6. At New York. Chicago, rain. At Philadelphia, Detroit, rain. At Boston, Cleveland, rain. SOFTBALL MARATHON IS ENDED BY HUNGER EUREKA, Cal., May 11. (UP) Softbnll teams representing the Lol ota Merchants and tho Humboldt Stnndnrd, Eureka newspaper, met here Just before tho lunch hour Tues day. Three and one-half hours later they were still playing, with the score tied at 1-1 and the game In the 22nd Inning. Just when It looked like a new record, ns several hours of daylight remained, someone complained of being hungry and the gome was called to permit the players to eat lunch. Fight fans, whose favorite dish is served up only occasionally In south ern Oregon, wftl get a chance to en joy their fill next Friday night at Jock' sonvllle, accord ing to Match maker Otto Eb slg. Under the pro motion of Virgil Wilson. known to citi zens in the box fight Industry as Montana Red. a fighter him self, six four round bouts will be presented In Jacksonville hall, with Bernle Wilder, 138-pound Medford! te meeting Art Grant, 141. of CCC O.imp Lava Beds in the feature attraction. Grant. Esslg says, won the Golden Gloves title of Ohio in 1036 and 1037. Ealg, manager of Montana, Red. says his fighter wos hurt about six months ago. and since that time they have been Btaglng programs In Morrill with good success. He said they planned to produco brawls In Jacksonville every Friday night, bringing In good CCC boys and oc casionally a rep fighter such as Jack Htbbard. the Klamath Falls logger Easlg believes the game can be built up In Jacksonville. Other bouts on the card next Fri day evening will see Don Lyons, of Medford versus Henry Dlety, of Merrill: Lee Qraham, 135 of Jack sonvlllo versus Andy Ferency, 135 of Tule Lake. Cal.; Merle Jones. 128 of Jackjonvllto versus Howard Gohcen 130 of Ashland, and another four- rounder between a pair of good boys. trolt, he got a base on balls and was promptly hipped off first . . . In the same encounter, he belted a nice double but got thrown out by 20 feet trying to stretch it Into a triple , . . U Mickey tittering . . . Bill Lannlng, Grants Pass pitcher two years ago and the same big right-hander who pitched for the Southern Oregon league all-stars In Medford last season against the Portland Beavers, Is with We na tehee In the Western International this year ... he belongs to the New York Yankees, and was farmed out j for more seasoning . . . This Tommy j White, Crater utility man, looks like the sweetest young hitter to show hereabout In years ... he swings from the left side of the plate and has great natural action . . . Baseball may be the American national game, but It takes a for eign country to draw the crowde . . . In a recent high school game In Osaka, Japan. 100,000 fans pack ed Kosheln stadium, and turnouts of fifty, sixty and seventy thousand are common In the land of the set ting sun . . . and, speaking of Japan they are certainly shooting the works on Olympic game arrange ments . . . the swimming stadium will seat 30.000 when constructed, a grandstand seating 30,000 will be built at the scene of the winter games, and the main stadium en closing the running field will hold 100.000 when completed. 4 ; OW THEY? STAMD Coast W. San Diego 32 Los Angeles ........... .... 31 Hollywood 30 Portland 30 San Francisco 20 Sacramento .19 Seattle 18 LJLLARD INS FIFTH IN SEVEN SIMS BY By the Associated Press A third baseman who turned pitcher with hopes of crashing the majors, today had more strikeouts to his credit than any other pitcher in the Pacific coast baseball league. He was Gene LUlard. property of the National league Chicago Cubs. Last season with the San Francisco Seals LUlard played every position but catcher. He was recalled by the Cubs at the end of the season and sent to Los Angeles. Lasr- night he won his fifth game In seven starts by fanning 11 Port land Beavers to raise his total for the season to 50. Portland nicked Lillard for four runs In the seventh Inning, but he weathered the storm, fanned four players In the last two innings and won the game, 9 to 5. Sad Sam Gibson of the San Fran cisco Seals fanned nine, beating Sacramento's Solons, 9 to 3: Seattle's Dick Barrett whiffed nine Oaks to win easily, 4 to 2. Manuel Salvo of j San Diego fanned six Hollywood stars j before he did a balloon ascension. I Howard Craghead relieved him, fan- I ned two more and was credited with a ft to 4 win. 4 elrcus and of the late Charles Ring ling, waa sentenced today to two years In federal prison and fined $5000. . Charles D, M. Greer, another for mer agent, -was sentenced to three months In jail and fined $1000. A federal Jury convicted the three men April 28 on two counts of de frauding the government of $3,359, 018 In income taxes on circus enter prises from 1918 to 1932. Daylight saving time doesn't really save any time. Clocks merely are turned an hour ahead so that the : evening remains light longer. KILLEFER UNDERGOES SURVEY IN HOSPITAL SACRAMENTO, Cal.. May ll-(UP) William (Bill) KUlficr, managar of the Sacramento solons of th Pacific Coast league, today entered a hospital . for observation. In III health for many weeks. Klllefer has lost 40 pounds In several months. Otis (Doc) Crandall took charge of the club pending Klllefer's return, which was Indefinite. Capital of the republle of Andorra la Andorra, a village of about 700 population. BASSETT CASE RUSE Oakland - 13 National State Hatcheries Yield More Fish SALEM, May 11. (AP) Improve, ments In hatchery facilities during 1037 raised the state gamo commis sion's fish production capacity to ao.ooo.ooo annually, state Oame Sup ervisor Prank B. wire reported today to Governor Martin. Last year the commission releavd 31.874.009 trout. Wire asserting that in. commission hopes to operate nsicncnea at run capacltv this voar The commission ratned and released 40.000 Chinese pheasants .last year at Its four game farms. The number win oe increased this year. HELEN MOODY DEFEATS BRITISH STAR EASILY LONDON, May 11. Helen Wills Moody dropped only one game today as she defeated Miss H. R. Bullen. 6-1, 6-0. In the third round of the North London tennis tournament. Wood Wlim In (lib. SACRAMENTO, Calif.. Mny 11. (AP) Henry Woods, Yaklba. Wash., negro, stopped Frank le Santos of Oakland, Calif., in the, sixth round of a scheduled 10-round bout Inst night. Woods weighed 158, Santos 13B. Cuff scrlbblings: wonder what' happened to Bob Smith up at Unl verslty of Oregon? ... in a spring practice football game the other day in which the Webfoot varsity boo a gmg of gratis, all the ballyhoo waa for Duke Hanklnsoii, the Seattle high flash who played third base for the Craters last season and Jay Graybeal, the Pendleton Jackrabblt , . . Although southpaw Bob Hardy is supposed to have his glimmers set on a srml-pro season in Van couver. B. C. this summer, the boys in Aal: land are secretly expecting him to return and pitch m to the pennant ... If the Llthtans don't get Hardy they bPttor get someone What price youth note . . . 70-year old Sandy Herd shot a 67, six under par, on England's Moor Wont golf links last month . . . Frank Perl kreps right on being the ace prog' nostlcator In these here ports . . he put the finder on J. V. Watson to cop the annual spring handicap tourney, after the first round, and Watson did it . . . Gerald Walker's screwoy base-running waa terrific headache to Manager Mickey Coch rane of the Detroit Tigers last year, but now Jimmy Dykes of the Chi cago Whlto Sox has Walkers antics to contend with . . . Walker was traded to the Sox during the winter, and soon after this season's cam paign started, in a game against De- BASEBALLER HELD FOR MURDER OF TEAMMATE CAMDEN. Ark., May ll.J.jnck roster. 33. Benton. Ark., baseball play er, waa held without ball on tlrst de gree murder changes today, accused or killing Curtlss Carson. 38, a team mate, with a baseball bat after Car son threw cold water on him as thev were taking a shower. HIGH SCHOOL HURLER MAKES HALL OF FAME SPOKANE. May 11. fpi Dick Woll- ters, Lewla and Clark high school hurler, yesterday turned In a no-hl. no-run same to defeat the North Central hlh 7 to 0. He pitched 14 strike-out. and allowed seven bases on balls. Phone 43 We'll haul away your refuae. City Sanitary 8ervlce. Hlwonlxlng v.111 protect the tlnl.h of jour r.ir from damag ing summer sun. Daily's Auto Painting V! oulh Martlet! Phone 1300 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhcr Anytime Lewis Super Service 3tei FAi.iti.it Hold MiTiUli r 1 In A rut Hon llutory s I dpi sin Mepl.rn LVutut wk rtitftontrd by 1 I l'.N,(te.iwitlithiif!..Mt.ul1illoi'Pmnmmilr II IV .iPHiif n I IS. Huil-Ii Inc ite U,vcnUii ttht jiiii.it.-I'nilrJ MjtinlAtK-i .'i.lM. ' W. New York 17 Chicago . .......... 13 Pittsburgh . - 11 Cincinnati ... 10 Boston 7 St. Louis : H 8 Brooklyn 8 Philadelphia 6 Amcrlnin W. Washington 15 Cleveland 13 New York ...... 13 Boston 12 Chicago .............................. 7 Detroit 7 Philadelphia 6 St, Louis , 5 SEATTLE. May 11, .AP) The Se attle Methodist Ministers association today protested to Gov. Clarence D. Martin the using of a state patrolman, disguised as a clergyman, to trap Mrs. Mary Eleanor Smith Into confessing the James Eugene Bassett slaying. It also called Its protest to the at tention of the Seattle Council of Churches arid Christian Education. The Rev. Percy M. Hammond, asso ciation secretary, said the protest was voted yesterday by pa-stors represent ing 48 churches in this vicinity.. "We were unanimous In our 11 pro test, and quite a number of vigorous speeches were made." he said. Use MaU Tribune Want Ada Circus Aides Given Pen On Tax Evasion .412 j NEW YORK, May 11. ( AP) John .389 M. 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