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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDPOTtD. OREGOX. FT?TDAY. .TPLY 15. 133R.
Medford, Roseburg Legion Juniors Play Twin Bill Here Sunday
FOR OPPORTUNITY
IN STATE F
Visitors Already One Up On
Locals in Three -Game
Series Medfordites Are
Well Groomed for Test
Lefty Grove's Arm Dead
Mound Days May Be Done
By HID FEDEB
(Aaoclited Preaa Sports Writer.)
They bad lean Lefty Orovo In a hospital today with a "dead arm," and
the rumor itarted the rounds that Old Moae may not pitch any more
thla year.
Of course, there's no definite word
American Legion Junior baseball,
for the first time In six years, takes
Its place In the Medford sports plc
. ture Sunday afternoon at the high
school parte.
Clashing In a double-header, cll-
max of the three-game series to
decide the championship of this dla
- t trlct and right to enter the state
finals at Wood burn In August, will
be the powerful Douglas county
title-holders from .Roseburg and
Coach George Harrington's Jackson
county American Legion Junior team.
Roseburg won the opening game at
Roseburg last Sunday.
The first game of the twin-bill
nine-inning affair, will start at 1:30
sharp. Second battle will begin after
a 15 -minute Intermission following
completion of the opener, and will
be seven Innings. One victory for
the Douglas county club will clinch
the series and right to enter the
state finals, while the Jackson county
team must sweep the two games to
cop the series. v
Wittier Opening Choke
Coach Harrington said ho- would
send Al Wlmer, slender left-hander.
against Roseburg In the opening
encounter, while Bill Reed would
toe the slab In the nightcap. Herb
Botta will do the receiving in both
games. Remainder of the Jackson
county outfit, which has practiced
nteadlly for the past two months,
will see Larry Schade on first bnse.
Jimmy Lewis on second, Eugene Mil
ler at third, BUI Reed at short In
the first game and Al Oould holding
down that post In the second battle.
Dale Howard In left field, Cato Wray
in center and Bob Newland In right.
Harrington said that Mickey Miller
' would probably see action In the
seven Inning game In rlghtfleld,
and Louie Thurman on first base
In the same game. -. .
This year's Jackson county Amerl- i
can Legion Junior team, first organ
ized here since 1032, Includes three
pill
88w f
yet that the greatest southpaw of his
generation la on the shelf, and first
reports from physicians Indicated
things may not be as bad as first
suspected. But when a pitching arm,
particularly a 38-year-old pitching
arm. can't even hold a ball. Jet alone
fire it across, you can look for al
most anything,
It would be the toughest kind of
a break for Lefty, for Tom Yawkey
and, most of all, for the Boat on Red
Sox, If the ailing soupbone that sent
the great Qrove to the hospital yes
terday should keep him on the side
lines.
Grove, with his fast one gone but
his pitching "brains" working better
than ever, seemed headed for one of
the . greatest campaigns In his 14-
year career. Yesterday's 12-1 wallop
ing the Sox handed the Detroit Ti
gers was the portslder's ;4th win
of- the season, even though Jackie
Wilson had to finish. With rlie cam
paign Just about half over, and Lefty
showing no signs of letting us. It's
reasonable to assume he might have
won 36 games, which, they'll tell
you, Is fair to mlddlln' flinging
Zt was positively weird the way
It happened yesterday. There was
Lefty, going along great, tossing shut
out ball. All of a sudden, In the
fifth Inning, hla salary wing folded
There was no muscular reaction. He
couldn't even grip the ball.
"I've never had such an experi
ence before." he related, .iiforward
Physicians wouldn't even hazard an
opinion until, as they explained, they
completed long diagnosis and ex
tensive x-ray examination. ,
Junior high athletes, six from Med
ford senior high and two from St.
Mary's high. Wrsy, Miller and Thur
man Attended Junior high last year,
Schade and Lewis are from St.
Mary's, and high school athletes are
Botta, Wlmer, Miller, Howard, New
land and Gould.
Hoys Work Hard
The youngsters, all under 18 years
of age. hove showed , tremendous
enthusiasm all season, practicing
three times a week under the coach
ing of George Harrington. Many of
them are certain to develop into
real bnseball stars, their mentor
says.
With members of the team can
vassing the town selling tickets to
the double-header, and with local
fans anxious to once again see the
best of the county's young unse-
ballers In action, a huge crowd Is
expected. It will be the local team's
first and only appearance In town
this season.
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HELSfNGFORS SEEN
FAVORED SITE FOR
OLYMPICS IN 1940
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'Frisco Puts in Bid
SAN FRANCISCO. July 15. yp)
Man-made Treasure Island In
San Francisco bay was urged to
day by business .men and officials
of the Oolden Gate International
Exposition as location for the 1940
Olympic games, relinquished by
Japan,
Shortly after Japan announced
suspension of the games yesterday,
exposition officials conferred and
sent a telegram to the American
Olympics committee asking toot
the quadrennial athletic event be
held here.
They proposed that the exposi
tion could be extended for a sec
nd year, to run through 1940.
By OA.YLE TALBOT
NEW YORK, July 15. (&y Now
that Japan has tossed in the towel
the 1940 Olympic games are almost
certain to be conducted in Helsing
fors, Finland, a neat little city of
300,000 in the far norU:, only a brief
reindeer drive from the Arctic circle
The site, if approved by the In
ternational Olympic committee at a
special meeting to be called by Its
president. Count Henri De Balllet
Laiour oi ueigium, win suppjy in
great quantities the bucolic simpli
city that the Olympic folks have
been wanting to get back to.
When the Finns originally bid for
the 1940 games. 'and lost out to Jap
an, their big talking point was the
promise that t:ey wouldu't spall the
boys with elegant surroundings, such
as they wero forced to endure at Los
HOW THEYA
Sport
Graphs
a
Billy Hulen says:
Legion Juniors
Deserve Support
In Sunday Tilts
for what they are doing fur the
game In southern Oregon, 'it Is
hoped the grandstands will be
packed to overflowing.
It is sincerely hoped by local
American Legion officials and Coach
George Harrington that the old turn
stiles click merrily at the hign school
park Sunday
My
ILK
Billy Pile
afternoon as
Jackson and
Douglas counties
send their Amer
ican Legion Jun
ior baseball
teams at each
others' throats.
Baseball Is a
costly business,
what with uni
forms, balls, bats
and other equip
ment vital ne
cessities. And.
nobody . yet has
Invented a man
ner of obtaining said paraphernalia
except by purchasing it with genu
ine United states money.
There is no need to make more
than passing mention of the Im
portance American " Legion Junior
baseball plays In the perpetuation
and development of the national
pastime. Millions of words have been
written on the subject, and they
are all true. Without the slightest
doubt, the American Legloj Junior
baseball movement is the greatest
thing ever done to keep tne game
alive, because it operates among the
youth of the nation- instilling In
Angeles In 32 and at Berlin In '36.
Now that they will have twa less them the desire to play and love of
yeara to prepare for the event than ! baseball that couldn't be produced
.CJr men bctjiw pine, m any other way. American Leelon
Junior baseball is the cradie of the
entire industry.
FEATURE SOFTBALL
Onm.i Tonight
Office Boys vs. Zorlc (challenge
game), 6 p. m. '
Timber Products vs. Mald-Rlte (Di
vision A), 8 p. m.
Grants Pass vs. Wooden Box (Inter
city), S p. m.
Oranta Pass vs. Medford (girls). 0
p. m.
Const League
W. L.
Sacramento 62 45
Los Angeles 62 45
San Diego 66 50
Seattle 55 51
San Francisco 54 53 .505
Portland 50 56 .472
Hollywood ...... 40 58
Oakland 39 60
PC.
.570
.670
.528
.510
.458
.361
Nntlonal.
W. L.
Pittsburgh ...... 45 26
New York 47 20
Cincinnati ...... 42 3,1
Chicago . 40 35
Boston - 34 34
Brooklyn 33 42 .440
St. Louis 20 43 .403
Philadelphia 20 50 .286
PC.
.634
.618
.575
.533
.500
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THarxeimt- Harry B. Strang
Tlic Qrants Pass Boxers and Mod
ford's Wooden Boxmen clash In an
luter-ctty game and Office Boys at
tempt to climb back Into Division
A at the expenso of Zorlc, In feature
softbsll attractions at the stadium
tonight. In addition. Timber Pro
ducts aud Murray's Mald-Rlte meet
In a regular Division A encounter and
Tracy's Whippets of Grants Psss and
the Medford Merchants girls tatlgle.
to round out the four-game program.
In Division A battles last night.
Wooden Boxmen walloped Zorlc. 17
to 3, with Boxmen's Morris Stelner
whiffing 11 and Zorlc's Herron walk
ln the same number. The-game was
called In the film Inning. PIchc beat
Lamports, IS to 7 and Catholic Men
took a thriller from Jennings Tire
company. 6 to , despite home runs
by Stewart and Bohl of the losers.
Division B ended Its current sched
ule with I.ewls Super Service smack
ing down Elks, 13 to 5.
Division A scores:
Wooden Boxmen
Zorlo
Stelner and Wilson;
Sutterlee.
R. H. R.
17 13 5
.... S 1
Herron and
American.
W. L.
h"ew York 46 27
Cleveland 45 27
Boston 43 30
Washington ..... 41 38
Detroit 38 40
Chicago 31 37
Philadelphia 28 44
St. Louis 23 51
PC.
.630
.625
.569
.510
.487
.456
.389
.301
FEWER APPLES IN
R.H. E
13 8 3
.. 7 11 9
Kubll; Walker
Piche
Lamports
Hawk and Botts,
and Clllilsple.
R H. E
Cathcllc Men - 5 9
Jennings Tire 4 8 3
Meyer and P. Sakrntda; n. Slnglcr
and Stewart.
SLASHED!
Coats and Suits cut to 110 P5 up
Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann.
Use Mall mourn Want Ads
PORTLAND. July. 15. The
federal bureau of agricultutal eco
nomlcs estimated the Oregon. Wash
Ington, Idaho. California and Colo
rado nppte crop today at A percent
lew than last year and 3 percent
less than average.
Crop prospects In the five states
represented 37 percent of the nation
al total, compared with 34 percent
in 1037.
The government said the Oregon
output would reach 3.978.0C0 boxes,
compared with 3,900,008 boxes a year
ago.
The state's pear crop will scale
about 4,130.000 boxes. The output
In 1037 was 3.500.000,
The national apple crop of about
134.304.000 bushels will be About 36
percent lesn than last year and 11
percent off the 'ten-year average.
America's pear crop esttmat- of 31,
049.000 compared with 3y 548 000
bushels In 1037 and 34.338 000 for
the ten-year average.
tlcalty no limit to the simplicity
whlci v the Finnish people might
achieve. They should be able to ap
pease the Spartan Instincts of the
most rugged of the Olympic badge
wearers, Helslngfora has only three or four
first class hotels to accommodate the
visiting committeemen, sports writers
and spectators who will be drawn by
the event. And then sometring. of
course, will have to be done about
the athletes who always tag along.
It looks like a tight fit, but the
Finns claim they can do it, and they
haven t missed a payment yet on
their war debt.
4 :
Tunney Says Louis
Crown Is On Tight
CHICAGO, July 15. (p) Gene
Tunney believes that boxtng heavy
weight championship crown in lodged
tecurely on the head of Joe Louis
- "at least for five more ynrs and
probably longer than that."
The former heavyweight Mttehold-
cr, who came here preparatory to
addressing educators attending a
Purdue university summer session
Is convinced that none of the cur
rent crop of fighters Is capable of
whipping the Brown Bomber.
They .All llitve 'Km.
PORTLAND. July 15. (API Lewis
Mum ford, writer on social subjects,
sold in an Interview yesterday that
he didn't know of a city of more
than 25.000 "that Isn't disfigured
by slums."
PORTLAND, July 15. (AP) Con
tact with a 22, 000 -volt high tension
wire at the Beaverton sub-stotion
of the Portland Oenerol Electric com
pany killed Leonnes L. Dnubenspeck.
Portland wlrcman. yesterday.
Till year's team I the first
organized In Jackson ominty since
1JI32. What with the "recr
Mon. drop In, nipinhers'ilp in.
the local Leglnu and the Ren--oral
slump In basebtill Interest -until
lost year, a county team
was practically out of the qurs- ,
Hon. This sen son. however, with
veterans again lincklnnr .Mt-dford
post, and Inwtmll In general en
joying a spirited comeback, th.e
team was organized, with the
help of the Medford Athletic
association, nml placed In charge
of Coach (ieorge Harrington of
.junior high school.
The result has been even better
than expected. Starved for an out
let for their baseball-playim ambi
tions, local youths under 18 years
of age hove rallied to the on 11 with
amazing enthusiasm. Thjy have
proved definitely that they want to
play baseball, that bascbali Is still
the one game, so far as they are
concerned. When youngsters feel
like that toward the game, they
deserve the support of every fan in
the city.
We don't want to preach but
It's the simple truth that every
hasehnll lover In Medford has a
duty Sunday nftcrnoon and
that's to attend the double
header and plunk down hK two
bits along with the dycd-ln-the-wooK
These Legion Junh.r play
era have a game scheduled with
Klamath Falls at Klamath Falls.
July 23, and it takes money to
liny gnvollne nnd oil and meals.
Sunday afternoon, these kU
and the local Legion povt ran
he shown Medford s appreciation
During these blistering summer
days and nights, the ole' iwlmmin'
Hole is probably the nost popular
i place in town or country. .It's great
' stuff, diving Into the river, or creek.
1 or ocean, or public tank, wnlch ever
the case may be. But it's danger
; ous, too. Every year, thousands of
Uvea are lost by drowning, and In
many cases those Uvea could have
been saved had the swimmer follow
ed a few sensible rules.
Wayne Janes, the Red Cross field
representative who has been instruc
tor of the water-safety campaign at
the. Natatorlum the past 10 days,
which ends tonight at 8 o'clock In
a giant demonstration by rome 300
students, lists the following 10 time
ly hints for swimmers and divers
to remember when they escape ( the
heat In water:
(1) Never swim alone. Take a com
panion with you.
(2) Swim where there is a life
guard service and rescue facilities.
(3) Walt two hours ' after eating
beforo entering the water, to avoid
stomach cramps.
(4) Beware of streams with swift
currents and submerged rocks.
(5) Refrain from diving unless the
water is six feet deep, or over, and
free of submerged objects. .
(0) Non-swimmers are advised not
to bathe or paddle near deep water
unless accompanied by a life-saver.
(7) Non-swimmers should not use
a rowboat or a canoe unless accom
panied by a life-saver.
(8) Even the mast proficient swim
mers are admonished to be extreme
ly careful in the surf and to swim
along the beach and not away from
it.
(9) Long-distance swimmers are
cautioned about the necessity of
being accompanied by a properly
manned and properly equipped boat.
(10) When an accident requires It.
do not waste time in beginning artl- !
flcial respiration. I
CRATERS INVADE
GLENDALE PARK
Brown Slated for Mound
Duty Against Loggers Ag
gregationSecond Divis
ion Clubs All at Home
Icons Yesterday
Where They Play Sunday.
Medford at Glendale.
Grants Pass at Ashland.
Crescent City at Yreka.
Moving Into the second week of
the Southern Oregon league's second
half pennant race, the three clubs
deadlocked for first place hit tho
road Sunday for encounters against
the trio of second-division teams.
All games start at 2:30 sharp
Medford's crashing Craters, off to
a roaring start last Sunday with
their 18 to 1 slaughter of Yreka,
travel to Glendale to face the dan
gerous Loggers. Lowell Brown, star
lefthander, will pitch for the Cra
ters while either Merle Johnson,
righthander, or Glen Elliott, sen
sational southpaw, will be on the
Glendale mound. 1
Grants Pass, also off to a flying
start by beating Glendale lost Sun- I
day. 4 to 2. Invades the short left I
field fenced Ashland park. For tha
Merchants. Steve Crlppen, right
bander, will probably be on thflt
rubber. Manager Leonard Hall of
the Lithlans will counter with Al
vie Merrttt, the starboard fllnger
who turned in a four-hit perform
ance at Crescent City last Sunday,
only to lose. 2 to 1.
Crescent City, first-half champion
and 1937 tttleholdera. makes the long
jump to Yreka. Lefty Mike Koll la
slated to hurl for the coast club,
while Pete Poster will throw for
Yreka.
With the three leaders aU playing
away from home. It Is .barely pos
sible that the second -division clubs
may rise up and Jolt them to their
heels. If such happens the race
will be in a six-way tie, with alt
teams having one win and one loss.
TO
Jackson county league baseball
games Sunday will see Medford's
Junior Craters traveling to Gold
Hill, Instead of playing here as pre
viously scheduled, and Prospect mov
ing to Talent. Location of the Gold
Hlll-Medford battle was changed to
make way for the American Legion
Junior baseball double-header . be
tween Medford and Roseburg.
Manager of the Medford team wilt
be Doc Gitzen, acting In place of
George Harrington, who will handle
the Legion Juniors. Ray Erlckson,
righthander, will probably start on
the mound for the Junior Craters.
Phone 542 We'll haul away your
refuse City Sanitary Service.
Coast League.
Portland 2. Oakland 1.
San Francisco 2. San Diego 11,
Los Angeles a. Sacramento 1.
Seattle 15, Hollywood 3.
National League.
Brooklyn 2, Pittsburgh 3 (11 In
nin;s). Cincinnati 1. New York 0.
Chicago 3-5. Philadelphia 0-1.
Boston 10, St. Louis 5.
American league.
St. Louis 4, New York 5.
Chicago 9, Philadelphia 8.
Cleveland 5. Washington 1.
Detroit 1, Boston 12.
Dies 'Neath Train
PORTLAND July 15.-r-( AP) The
body of a man apparently about 35
years old was found last night be-
neain . tne wheels of an Oregon
Electrlo freight train. Police said the
only clue to his identity was a
hat band bearing the name of a
Port Angeles, Wash., merchant.
...dl CANNOT KMAL
Close, Log Camps.
TILLAMOOK, July 15. (AP)
i uiamook county logging camps
closed this week because of low
humidity and the dry condition of
tho woods. The temperature, nor
mally kept down by cooling ocean
breezes, has hovered near 85 degrees
for several days.
Break for Gulls
DELAKE. July 15. (AP) Gulls
feasted yesterday when a quirk or
the ocean threw thousands of small
shrimp upon north Lincoln beaches.
PORTLAND. July 15. ( AP) The
body of Dwlght Hanson, hotel worker
for one day. was returned to his
Tecumseh, Neb., home for burial ves
tcrday. He died of poisoning from
an untraced source.
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