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PAGE TWO MEDFORD M ATL TRIBUNE. MEDFOTCD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 5, 193S British Golfers Snare Walker Cup From America For First Time 16 YEARS BATTLE F iSlVE Capture 7 Matches To Before 10,000 Pacific Coast Youngster Stars With Brilliant Scoring ST. ANDREWS. Scotland. June tr- UP) An ancient St. Andrews oaddle hi blua eyea awlmmlng with tears, earned America'! Walker cup Into the Matorlo (rant room of tha royal and ancient golf club tonight and aet tn triumphantly under the portrait of old Tom Morrla, almost leffendray figure In tha annala of Brltlah coif For IS yeara (treat Britain had tried to win tha trophy. Three tlmee bad Malted thla old gray clubhouae and gone home again. But today Britain won It. 7 matchea to 4, and tha old man carrying It through cheering crowd of 10,000 waa proud and he wire happy. Tha facta of thla victory and It waa a deolalve victory can be die- missed summarily. The Brltlah led at the end of Scotch foursome play yetterday by 2 to 1 having halved the other match. Marvin (Bud) Ward of Olympls, Wash., squared It today by playing 15 holea In five under para to bant prank Pennlnk, English amateur champion In 1D37 and 1038, 19 and 11 flootland'a Heotor Thomson thumped what waa only a atrange ahadow of Johnny Ooodman, 8 and 4, but Irre rjreaalble Charley Yates, who won the British amateur Just a week ago, came back with a 2 and 1 victory over Jim Bnien to tie It up again at 8 to a Then, for a brief and brilliant period, the United States led at 4 to 8 a Johnny Plscher, playing one of the moat herolo games of hla life, reeled err 10 holea In alx under 4'a to make tip a four-hale deficit and beat much-astonished Leonard Crawley, ana a. After that, however, America's re sistance collapsed. Brightest spot on the American aide of the picture, In addition to vlotorlra by Tates. who hung on to beat Bruen. and Fischer, who came back to down Crawley, waa the brilliant scoring of warn. Tha Psolfto coast youngster, rated by British orltloa the weakoat member farded a certain loser to Pennlnk, or tha unltod States team and re started orr with an outgoing 3a In he morning that waa four under par no lert mm an up. He came back in no, two under par, winning four mora holea to be a up: ploked up iter luncn witn the same deadly accuracy on tha greens, and didn't lose a hole of the as the match lasted. Hla 87 waa one atroke better than aobby Jones' amateur course record and, though match play scores uau ally are not aecepted as records, this one deserved to be since Pennlnk made tha young westerner hole every putt. Ward's la and 11 margin has Been bettered Just once and equalled once in nine previous matches bet tered by Jones, who beat Phil Perkins 18 and la. In 1038. and equalled by onea, against Cyril Tolley In 1038. DATES Coach Oeorge Harrington has an nounced that practice dates for the Jackson County Junior American Legion baseball team the remainder of this week will be at 11 a. m. on Wednesday, Thursday and Fri day. All positions on the team are wide open, the coach aatd. and urged all boys In the county under 18 years of age to report for work cuts. GOLF ClBllRS TO TACKLE M'CIOUD A la-man golf team from Mo Cloud, cal.. will be In town today clash with a picked docen hook, re and sllcers of the Rogue Valley Oolf club this morning and after noon. Handicaps of the Callfornlans run from a to 30. Oeorge and Iran Harrington each won a set of Dundee briar pipes last week by ahootmg a birdie and eagle on the same 18-hule round. GUI) mmsm 1047 THO FELLER WILD GROVE GETS 9TH WASHINGTON, June eWAP) The league-leading Cleveland Indians walloped the Senators 11 to 4 today. Let down without a hit during the first three Innings, the Indians hop pod on Elon Hogsett In the fourth and scored 8 runs. Bob Feller who started for the Tribe became wild aa tha game pro. gressed and waa lifted In the fourth with nobody out. Dennis Oalchouae finished, hurling good ball. Score: R. H. Cleveland 11 II Washington . . 4 7 Feller, Oalehose and Pytlak; Hog sett, Weaver. Kelly, Krakouskaa and R. Ferrell, BOSTON, June 4. (AP)-Thase old reliables. Lefty arove and Jim my Foxx, were Just about the whole "works" today aa the Red Sox trounc ed the Detroit Tigers, 8 to 8. Drove, although tagged for 10 hits, blanked the Tigers for eight Innings and fanned nine In chalking up hla ninth win of the year agalst one do feat. Foxx, driving In four of the Sox1 five runs, hit his lath and 19th horn era of tha year off Tommy Bridges, and added a alngle before he wound up. Scoro: R. H. E. Detroit ...... .... 8 Boston 8 10 0 Bridges. Coffman and York, arove and Desnutels. PHILADELPHIA, June 0. (API Philadelphia downed the Chicago Na tionals, 0 to 4, today In a heavy-hit-ting contest. Score: R. H. E, Chicago . 4 10 1 Philadelphia e 14 3 Lyons, Clabler, Cox and Sewell Caster and Brucker. St, Louis at New York postponed rain). SET NEW RECORDS, WIN C.A.A.A. TITLE NEW YORK, June 4. (API Rain nd records, a rare track and field combination, fell In large quantities today aa Southern California's In vincible Trojans aprcacteagled the field In the 63nd Intercollegiate A.A.A. championship meet at Ran dalls Island stadium. Three meet marks were shuttered, among them the olasslo one-mils record that haa stood for 35 years. and two othera were equalled in a darning battle for Individual titles that accompanied Southern Cantor- a s one-sided team triumph. Dean Cromwell's Trojans, picking up where they left oft In MKM. had not the slightest trouble recapturing the team trophy. They tallied In 10 of the IB events, nearly doubled the point score of their nearest rivals, Michigan Bute, and won the championship for the eighth time since mas. All told Pacific coast colleges have won IB of the 18 C A A A A. meets In which thev have participated since lai. southern California tallied 4714 points, Michigan State 34 and the university or California 33U, to make It 1-3-8 for the Invading forces from the west. Plttaburgn, 1037 victor, led the eastern bnmid. by finishing fourth with 3014 toints. Manhattan waa fifth with IS uolnt Harvard sixth with la points, with the others scattered as follows: Frlneeon. 10".: New York Unl- erslty, 10; Rhode Island state, a- Columbia. 814; Cornell and Penn State. 7 each;. Yale. i,; Brown. 8; Boston college and Maine. 4 each; Syracuse and U.O.L.A., 8 each; Ford ham and Colgate, a each; West Vir ginia and Pennsylvania. 1 each. RACING SAN FRANCISCO. June 4.-(AP Indian Broom won the 18.000 oMed Mnrchbank handicap today, defeating hla stablemate, Whlchee, by s now? in a photo-finish In the closing pro gram of the Tanforan spring meet ing. 6ar Shallow, the favorite, was third. Closing time rot roo Late to Clas sify Ads u 1:30 p m. 1 MSW Roht Now rodav sre this big car value! 1 17 inch whcelhase Nash ,elan, with trunk, four-door model Tours complete for thi, amasing price! You get Nash beauty, Nash's hearr steel E DEFEATS GIANTS CINCINNATI, June 4: (AP) Even King carl Hubbell, the old meal ticket, couldn't atop the Olants' los' Ing slldo today, and the New York era had their National league lead cut to a allm half-game by dropping an 11 o 2 duolslon to the Reds. Score: R. H. E, New York ...... a 8 1 Cincinnati . 11 18 1 Hubbell, Coffman, Oregon and Dannlng: Weaver and Lambardl. CHICAGO, June 4 (AP) Chica go's Cuba climbed within a half- game of first place In the National league today when Larry French turned In aix-hlt, 8 to 1 victory over the Philadelphia Phils as the league leading New York Olants bowed be fore Cincinnati's Reds. Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 18 3 Chicago ... 8 8 0 Pssseau, Hallahan and Atwood; French and Hartlett, Odea. PITTSBUHOH, June 4. (AP) A tough break for Freddy Fltzslmmoui proved a lucky one for the Pirates today, and the Bucs nosed out the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4 to 8, In 11 In nings. After holding the Pirates to six hits and two unearned runs for eight Innings, Pltz hurt his hand In field ing a ball in the eighth, and had to retire, with the Dodgers loading a-a. Score: (11 Innings) R. H. E. Brooklyn 8 7 3 Pittsburgh 4 11 0 FltEslmmons, Tamulls. Pressnell and Phelps; Tobln, Brown, Swift and Todd. ST. LOUIS, June 4. (AP) Jim Turner, one of the finds of the 1037 season, held the Cardinals to 7 hits today aa the Boston Bees took the flrat of a four-game series by a score of 8 to 8. Fletcher and DIMagglo hit nomers for the Bees; Padgett and Medwlck for tha Carda: Score: R. H. Boston 8 14 St. Louis B 7 Turner and Mueller; McOee, Lun ler, Shoun and Owen. '. TO SEE SOCKEYE ON LADIES' NIGHT It will be lariat spin versus Boston orab tomorrow night In the Med ford armory when Cowboy Dude Chick world's Junior heavyweight champion face Sock eye Jack McDonald In the main event of Promoter Mack Hi lar d's "ladles night" grappling pro gram. Advance reserved seat ticket sale Indicate another capacity crowd of 1000, the promoter said yesterday. and warned fans to obtain thclt ducats aa early aa possible. With every ticket purchased, whether for a reserved seat or gallery, the pur chaser will be given a free one to admit a lady friend. Chick, master of the sensational airplane spin, and McDonald, one of the game's leading exponents of the payoff crab maneuver, will be tang! ing for the first time since they battled each other to a draw last January, That match, according to the consensus of locsl fans, won one of the most sptne-tlngllng ever seen here, and waa the aecond time In three years Cowboy Chick had been held to a draw. McDonald, who has been touring the southwest since leaving here several months ago, has sworn to beat Chick, and many cus tomers believe he has an excellent chance to do so. If he doss, it will be the second time the champ has last a local match. Floyd Britt and Red Lyons will turn on the heat in the middle engage ment, and as neither cares much about clean and scientific wrestling, the result should be an alley brawl de luxe. In the opener, Bobbv Chick and the Black Secret, masked again following his temporary face-nakedness last Monday, thanks to Dude Chick, will provide the action. WKYBRtDOS, Eng.. June 4 (AP) Alice Marble, former American singles title-holder, today won the St, George's Hilt tennis tournament, defeating Mrs. Heine Miller of South Africa In the final round, 6-3. 0-4 bodv, Super-Thrift Engine, 9) noriepower, Sea-Leg shock absorbers. Dancing Sand sound-proofing, over sire hvdraulic brakes frame for tour protection! Don't delav come inl THIRD PLACE TIE PORTLAND, June 4. (AP) The Portland Beavers bunched their hlU on Eddie Servant, today while the beet Seattle could do with It blows off Joe Hare was two runs, so the Beavers won, 4 to 3. The game put the Portlanden back Into a tie for third place. Manager Bill Sweeney, playing In the Portland lineup against doctors orders, regained his batting eye with single in the sixth that became run on Frederick' double, and In the eighth poled ft home run Into the left field bleachers. Joe Hare waa often In difficulty but his mates played errorless oall bohlnd him and In the pinches the Rainier could seldom produce the needed hit. Score: R. H. E. Seattle 2 1 0 Portland ...... 4 i 0 Serventl and Splndel; Hare and Dickey. SAN DIEGO. Cal., June 4. (AP) Shortstop Joe Orengo's big bat and Henry (Cotton) Plppen's ef fective pitching combined to give Sacramento a ft to 2 victory over the San Dlcgo Padres here today The Solons tightened their grip on the coast league lead and took threo to two edge In the seven-game series. Orengo's three -run two-bngger in the opening Inning gave Plppcn substantial lend and, thanks to good support afield, he was able to reg ister his tenth 1038 win. Byron Humphreys, new Padre rlghitianUer matting his flrat home start was the victim, although he pitched shutout hall after the first Inning score: r. h. B, Sacramento 8 7 1 Snn Diego 3 6 2 Plppen and Grube; Humphreys. aaivo and Hogan. SAN FRANCISCO, June 4. (API- Los Angeles and San Francisco di vided a Pacific coast baseball league twin Din today, the Angels winning the first encounter, 5 to 2, and the Seals the second, II to 10. First game: R. H. B. Los Angeles 5 7 1 San Francisco 3 8 2 Salveaon snd Sueme: Shores and Sprna. Second game: R. H. E. Loa Angeles 10 9 1 San Francisco . 11 la 3 Thomas. Berry and CoUlns; Mil ler, Mann, Ballou and Woodall. LOS ANGELES. Juno 4. (API Hollywood trimmed Oakland 12 to 7 today In a game that started with a scoring splurge resulting In 10 runs In the Ilrst Inning. score: r Oakland .. 7 Hollywood - .ia H. 7 14 Van Flcot, Olds, Moore, Pyle and Ralmondl; Bablch and Brenssel. KLAMATH FALLS. June 4. (AP) Percy Loccy. director of athletics at Oregon State college, assured the Junior chamber of commerce today there "waa no reason" why the an nuol Oregon Freshmen-O. S. C. rook football contest could not be played at Modoc field here next season. Loccy, however, said final arrange ments had not been completed. Camp Prescott Five Finally Gets Feast A belated basketball celebration was held Friday evening at Valen tine's cafe when the members of the Camp Prescott basketball team were guests at a banquet given by Lieut. Charles E. Holmes, Jr- com psny commander. The team won the Medford dis trict championship this spring but rush of company business had preveuted the celebration when first scheduled. Among those present were Charles Gravette. Jay C. Kaylor, Hnrold McClung. Earl Estee. James Gregg, Johnnie Spray berry. Lem uel H. Kennedy. Albert Robinson Hunter Dixon, and Lieut. Roy Croft. 3 THE BIQ HALF - TIIE - a, MATH llf GET i v saasa. or i " ' 1 - ""'3S5SjaselBaMeaai.w Authorities acclaim the smart deign of the new 14-foot W illys, "Mairaiine f Art" mv ot W illv."...one of the verr best lo look at." oa gel so murh for so little money no onder thousands are- turning lo Will.-, Quality-lmilt to "lake it" . , . sturdy K-X e hands ..powerful Kl'Kl, SAVEK engine.. Cut expense. come in for ride in the new half-the-gae car it's priced IhrLOVl EST hv fur of all se-Hana, raiments lower than msnv used car. WILLYS CLIPPER $659 ... for the family 5rdan; Federal, State and loral latee and trans, portal loo rharrrs from the factory at Toledo, Ohio not Inrlnded. SOFTBALL TEAMS WILL OPEN PLAY With 14 highly-trained Softball teams signed for action, and with enthusiasm mounting as the big night drnws near, plans are being rapidly torn it U : for the gala open ing under the lights at the high school stadium next Tuesday eve- g at 8 o'clock. This season, all clubs are united In one league, which is divided. Into two divisions A and B. The A di vision, consisting of eight high-powered outfits ready to display an ex pert brand of softball, wUl play a i:-game spilt season -chedule, each team meeting the others twice Win ners of each half will play for the championship at the end of tha season. Division B consists of six clubs and will play a 10 -game schedule. every team meeting the others twice. To give B division clubs the oppor tunity of advancing into the A di vision,, a ladder arrangement has been provided whereby the top B division team can challenge the but torn A division outfit, and by win nlng will automatically enter the upper division. There will be four evenings of coftbalt each week throughout the summer' months Tuesdays, Wed , nesdays, Thursday and Fridays, with ; the latter night - seeing lnter-clty i clashes between Medford and other southern Oregon and northern Cal ifornia teams. All games will start at 8 o'clock. Division A teams will play their games on. the north diamond; division B teams on the south dia mond. , Following are the teams entered division A; Timber Products, Pichc. Ma Id -Rite, Lam ports. Office Boys, Catholic Men, Jennings and Wooden Box Men. Division B teams are Lewis ' Super, Western States, Elks. Gasco, Domestic Laundry and Groceteria. CALLISON TRIAL SET FOR TUESDAY REDWOOD CITY, Calif., June 4. (9P Charged with drunken drlv- Ing. Prince G. (Prink) . Calllson, who identified himself in court as a for mer University of Oregon football coach, was released yesterdsy on $100 cash ball. Peace Justice Edward R. McAull- iffe set Cslllson's hearing for June r. Policeman Cole Stafford, who arrest ed Calllson said he waa "very much a gentleman" when taken Into custody. The former mentor, Stafford . said, was alone In his automobile and was "driving In an Irregular manner" on a main street. Calllson, the officer declared, re fused to say where he had been, out stated he was en ' route to his San Francisco home. Broom Polo Play Season Opens Today First of a summer series of broom polo games between six southern C j egon and northern California teams will be played this afternoon, when the Medford Riding Academy outfit clashes with the Sams Val ley aggregation at the BUI Dug an ranch in Sams Valley at 2 o'clock Admission la free, and all are In vited to attend. Other teams to see action In the horseback polo series are Grants Pass, Scotts Valley. Yreka and Cres cent City. Brooms sre to be used in the first round of the tourney; af ter that regular polo mallots will be used. Members of the academy team are iris and Clarence Dodge, Birdie Cog gins. Jack Lake, L. Smith, Gene Hamilton, Jim Henry and Buzz Swearlngen. Panama has more automobiles per capita than Germany, more than twice as many as Italy. 9 times ss many as Japan, and 23 times as many as Poland. NEW GAS CAR CRATER JUNIORS TO MEET TALENT, Ray Erlokson, fast-ball right hander, will be on the mound for the Junior Craters today at the high school park as Medford fans get their first glimpse of baseball as displayed in the newly formed Jackson county league. For Talent, Dick Skeeters or Harold McAbee, brilliant high school hurlers, will do the pitching. The game starts at 2:30 sharp. Medford, managed by George Hat ring tun, won Its first start Inst Sundsy by walloping Butte Falls, 13 to 8, while Talent was beaten by Prospect, 6 to 1. In the other league clash today. Gold Hill, admitted to the circuit when Butte Falls withdrew, travels to Prospect. All clubs In the loop are com posed almost entirely of young, am bitious ball players. A league ruling makes It mandatory that each team have at least five high school per formers on Its regular roster, but most of them Include six or seven prep pastlmers.. Medford 's lineup today will see Manager Harrington catching Erick son. Larry Schade on first base, Elmer Harnlsh on second, Wayne Curry on third, Johnny Gltzen on short, Shorty Campbell In left field. Billy Piche In center, and Dale Howard In right. Bob Newland will be held in reserve as a pitcher. 4- use MaU Tribune Want Ada. Mfy Ads Is 1:30 p m. ond round. 4 Tv-s .a rl C-axnS California Oregon k V far- I fc 0 or 1 rL Wf I If rower Company t - in. II Tliif ir kir rlnsuiu I ! i inn .3 ivic r.Nju7 rati I the new Westinghouse Automatic Electric Water Heater I ill It never foils to provide oil the hot water the fomily I j . I needs, night ond day ot exactly the right temperature. I Automatically controlled, no one hos turned a switch I or found it necessary to even remember the heater since i it wos.instolled. 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At Ashland, the Ltthlans will be strengthened by the return from col lege of Pat Patterson, slugging first, baseman and Oregon State college regular: Al Simpson, catcher from University of Oregon; and possibly Bob McKlnney, regular Oregon State college pitcher. If McKlnney Is avail able, he will do the hurling: If not. either Larry Pepper or Clay Lewis will get the nod from Manager Jack Bauldlng. Simpson or George Oltzen, St. Mary's high star, will do the receiving. Steve Crlppen. right-hander, will work on the mound for the Grants Pass team with Al Drolette back ol the plate. . . f AND TRAVIS LEAD NEW YORK, June 4. (AP) Cecil Travis of Washington, In the Amer ican league and Enos Slaughter erf St. Louis, and Chuck Klein of Phila delphia, in the National created the major disturbances In the big league hitting races this week, although last week's lenders still were out in front today. Hal Trosky of the Indians, boasted an 18-polnt bulge over hla nearest rival In the American league rocs, with a .383 batting average to date, and Cookie Lavagetto of Brooklyn, had a narrow edge in the senior cir cuit, with a .301 mark. Travis, Slaughter and Klein went on hitting sprees during the seven day span. Travis, collecting 13 bits In 26 chances, boosted his average ai points to -353 for filth place la the American league race. Slaughter, regaining the batting power with which he started the sea son, travelled at a neor-JJOO clip to gain 31 points, boost his average to .354 and skyrocket Into third place In the National league. Klein, the Phillies' vetean walloper, banged out ten hits In 20 chances, which rslsed his average 30 points to .347 and a, tie for sixth place. 1 ' Budge Wins AUTEUIL, France, June 4. (AP) Don Budge made his playing debut In the French hard court tennis championships today and earned an easy 6-1, 8-2, 6-4 victory over An- tolne Gentlen of France In the sec ond round. f 1 . 1 HAtF THE OAS TWICE THE STYLE COMPLETFLY EQUIPPED PENNINGTON MOTOR CO. St outh nartlett. th ami Kartlelt. WALTER W. ABBEY. Inc. I
