MEDFORD MAIL TRTBUNEMEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAY 20. 1938.
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LEAGUE-LEADING
CRATERS HOP TO
Lowell Brown to Face Lefty
Koll in Southpaw Duel
'Medford Bats at .402
Clip Erickson Leader
A southpaw pitching "battle of tho
century" will be staged at Crescent
City Sunday afternoon when Med
ford's league-leading Crater clash
with the Crescent City Merchants
In ft crucial Southern Oregon league
encounter. The battle starts at 3:30.
Lowell Brown, big Medford first
baseman with the explosive curve and
lzzllng fast ball, will start his first
ball game on the mound this year.
Opposl ng him wt 1 1 be Lefty M 1 ke
Koll, brilliant Crescent City southpaw
who pitched the coast team to the
pennant last season, and In his first
start last Sunday held Qlendale to
four hits In chalking up a 3 to 2
victory.
Medford holds the circuit's top spot
with two wins and no losses, while
Orescent City, Aahland, Qlendale and
O rants Pass are bunched In a tie for
second place with one victory and
one defeat. Yreka has exclusive rights
to the cellar with no wins in two
tarts. Other league games Sunday
will tee Qlendale traveling to Ash
land and Grants Pass entertaining
Yreka.
Manager Wally Rlckert of the Cra
tera plans to itart Tommy White on
first base, In Brown's position, and
probably Billy Calvert In left field
However, Calvert and Rum Acheson
will alternate. Remainder of the
heavy-hlttlng Craters will line up with
Cliff McLean catching, Manager Rlcki
ert on second, Dick Lewis at short;.
Arba Ager on third, Dick Sakralda in
center field and Paul "Hoosler" HoN
fard In right. Bill Rathke and Ray
Erickson will be reserve hurlers.
Team batting averages released to
day by League Secretary Austin Fra
zler. reveal one reason why the Cra
ters are leading the circuit an
almost unbelievable hitting percent
age of .402. Included in Med ford's
33 hits In 83 times at bat are two
homers, two triples and 11 doubles.
Ray Erickson, Crater pitcher, Is tho
nominal league batting leader with
three hits In four trips for a .760
average, although Avery, Olendale
second baseman, Is the actual pace
setter with five blows In seven at
tempts for a .714 average. Secretary
Frazler said Individual league batting
averages would be released following
next Sunday's games,
Team batting and Individual Med
ford averages follow;
Team Averages
AB. R.
Medford ' 83
Grants Pass 70
Qlendale 03
Yreka 07
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Ashland 78
Crescent City 72
Crater Hatting Averages
AB. R. H.
Erickson 4 3 8
Sak Hilda ......... 8 3 6
McLeun 10 8 6
Rlckert .... 8 4 4
White 3 11
Ave.
.402
.230
.243
.339
.237
.107
Ave.
.760
.626
.600
.600
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Fishing Will fie Good This Weekend
The road to Fish lake is expected to be open the salmon
are running in the river and lots of trout in the smaller
streams.
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With two straight wins to h:
credit, southern Oregon wrestling's
man of myatery the masked Black
l Secret will receive his toughest test
Monday night In the armory when
i he fncea Red Lyons, doplln Ghost,
I In the main event of Imprcasarlo
Mack LI Hard "a weekly offering of
legalized mayhem.
! Following hla defent three weeks
! ago by Junior Heavyweight Cham-
, pton Dude Chlok, the hooded demon
! unleashed a brutal attack that
brought him decisive victories over
Sfct. Bob Kenaston and Tony "Poosh
'Em Up' Garibaldi, and the consensus
i among local grappling fans la that
the mysterious villain Is becoming a
tougher nut to crack with each suc
ceeding match.
Red Lyons catapulted himself Into
a main event role last Monday by
handing Bobby Chick one of the
ex-Ilght heavyweight champs worst
defeats, and with the grappling mul
tltudo clamoring for a Secret-Lyons
embrogllo. LUlard went to work and
-ot their names on the dotted line,
The brawl is expected to prove one
i f the most sensational of the year.
Bobby Chick faces Floyd Brltt.
; vm-breaker expert. In the middle
event and Lefty Pacer and Oarlbaldi
mix In the opener.
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FAVORED IN MEET
CORVALLIS. May 20. (P Bend
the defending champion, and Grant of
Protland were the favorites today to
win the team title at the 13th annual
state Interscholastlc track and field
meet.
Preliminaries will be held today on
Bell field with the finals tomorrow
afternoon.
More than 200 athletes from the
einht state districts will compete.
Clear, warm axles guaranteed fair
weather conditions for the prosnects
of record-breaking performances In a
number of events.
Grant's 16-man team, the largest
In the meet, was ranked a shade
ahead of Bend. Washington of Port
land figured as a dark horse contender
with an eight-man squad.
Mellow memories
the "Giy Ninettes
recall Clarir'i
ly favorite ihi
as now.
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There are heroes and heroes m the
world of sports, but for our money
the most valorous In the whole busi
ness Is the guy who stays In tne:e
p 1 1 c h 1 n s al
though the
bleacher wolves
are howling tor
his neck and the
athletes are
threatening to
commit nothing
short of mayhem
and murder. We
mean the umpire
r e f eree, official,
"blind torn." oi
whatever his title
may be at the
moment, depend
Ing on what sort
7 of a content he
Is suposed to be over&eelng.
You can have your gent who knocks
homers with the bases loaded, runs
90 yards on the klckoff or wallops
an opponent Into oblivion In the
squared circle. We'll take the citizen
who .practically takes his llfo !n his
hands to call 'em s he wes 'em.
who never pleases everyone at the
same time and whoso every action is
alt wrong, to one side or the other
Take Earl ' YoakJey, for Instance,
the lanky referee whewe Job it Is to
keep law and order In Promoter Mack
LI Hard's wrestling arena, and keep
a couple of huskies out of the laps
of ringside patrons. Earl Is pro Dab ty
as a good a referee as any in the
smaller grappling circles, but to hear
the bleacher wolves yelp they aw
still bleacher wolves whether tney
park In the bleachers, galleries or
ringside reserved seats), he la the
ultimate in mediocrity. Nothing he
does Is right, to the wolves who are
backing the wrestler penalized, and
even when he does render a popular
decision he gets no thanks for it.
It was practically the same with
Ray Prlsble, the grappling referee who
preceded Yoakley. Ray received mere
than his share of catcalls and Abute
from the wolves, and especially in
Klamath Falls was he no friend of
the gallery and ringside customers.
Like Yoakley, Prlsble stood In there
and did his darndest, paying little
attention to the patrons and their
yowling.
While wrestling audiences are
probably the most violent voral-
- ly, your baseball hug Is not far
behind. Already (his season, wv
nrel umps have receipted for neat
verbal heatings on rinse drrMuiiK,
and Lew Miles, big Medford "man
In blue," even got a wild round
house swung at him In the league
opener at Ashland two weeks ago,
but by a ball player. And, that
brings up another phase of an
umpire's derided bravery he not
only has to fare he erowd's an
gry outbursts, but Is liable to get
tangled up with an aroused ath
lete now and then.
In the Grants Pass-Medford ball
game here last Sunday, both Miles and
Phil Griggs, Grants Pss contribu
tion to the umpiring situation, were
the targets of considerable beeflngr
on the part of' fans and players.
Grants Pass- dyed-ln-the-wools. vho
Had accompanied their club to Med
ford, raved and ranted over the call
Ing of balls and strikes, and Miles
wasn't alone In being the cause. They
even tongue-lashed Griggs.
As per usual, Al Drolette, Grants
Pass first baseman, wore a path from
the bench to the plate to squabble
with both ball-and-strlke umps, and
Jake Glpe, another Grants Pa
"ump-balter." gave Ancient Al plenty
of moral support. In Ashland, two
weeks ago. Clyde Young, the Ltthians
own umpire, took an awful verbal
beating from the stands and from
players of Manager Balding' team,
and with the Craters giving him many
dirty looks. It was a rough day in
every respect.
Wo, want It clearly understood that,
this little piece isn't a slap on the
wrist to naughty sport fans who
abuse the poor, dear umpire or rf
eree, MRybo they need a good, vocif
erous lambasting now and then, and
It's a cinch ball games and wre.itllng
matches would be pretty dull affairs
if fans were forbade yelling "You
blind robber," and such. That's the
Inherent right of the American sport
tr.g public to fire the works at any
body even remotely connected with
the game and far be it from this
scribbler to deny them that right.
In fact, when fans get sufficiently
heated up to sling their word-barrage,
you can he certain they are en
Joying the contest to the fullest ex
tent, and that means sport enthusi
asm Is rd-hot. which Is what every
body prays for.
Nope, this outburst Is neither In
defense nor to accuse, either the of
ficials or the fans and players. It
is merely our own private opinion
as to who are the real heroes In the
world of sports. May those "blind
robbers" enjoy long and happy lives.
successfully duck all pop bottles heav
ed at their heads, and keep right on
"calling them fast and walking away
tough." as the dean of umpires.
George Moriarlty, once advised young
umps to. do.
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