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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. FRIDAY. JTTLT 29. 1938. Craters and Grants Pass to Clash Here Sunday in Crucial C ontest BOXERS TRIM TIMBERMET1 4 TO 1 TO TAKE SECOND HALF TITLE UNDISPUTED I FAn I Heads Grappling Team PAGE EIGHT OF SO. ORE. LOOP GOES TO WINNER Brown Will Get Call in Ef fort to Repulse Visitors Huge Crowd Expected for Important Battle Games Sunday Grants Pass at Med ford, Ashland at Yreka. Glendale at Crescent City. . Tied for first place, each with three victories and no setbacks, Med ford's crashing Craters and the Grants Pass Merchants battle It out In Med ford Sunday In the fea ture attraction of the Southern Ore gon baseball league's fourth week of second half activity. The game starts at 9:30 sharp. For this crucial encounter, the winner of which takes over the un disputed league lead, Manager Wally Rlckert of the Craters will start Southpaw Lowell Brown, the circuit's top hurler. on the pitching mound. Manager Jud Pernoll of the high flying Merchants plans to send either Steve Crlppen or Orvall Hoffman, both righthanders, to the box against Medford. This ball game, on, of the most Important to be staged In Medford this season, 'may determine the ulti mate second-half pennant winner and right to face Crescent City, first-half winners, for the league championship. With only four more games to play following this week's encounters, the winner her Sunday will have a one-game lead over the second place club a margin not to be sneezed at as the six teams roar Into the stretch drive. Crowd Expected Medford, best drawing town In the loop by far, expects to see attend ance records shattered when the Craters and Merchants take the field. The game Is a "natural" In every respect. Last time the two clubs clashed the Merchants applied a coat of 4 to 0. whitewash to the locals, evening' the count for the season. Medford defeated Grants Pass early in the year. Brown, the big left-hander, who has been beaten only once in six starts, claims his educated flipper Is In tho best condition It ever has been. He Is confident he can set down the Merchants, backed by a terrific slugging bunch of teammates whose club batting average Is .320, tops In the circuit. a, P. Has Brisk Club. Grants Pass, while not such i basehlt-crazy outfit, Is a brisk, snappy, smart and hustling .club, Ken Williams, ex-major leaguer sign ed at the start of the second-half as a coach, has fired the team to heights It hasn't reached for three years. Since Williams has been in the third-base coaching box, the Merchants haven't lost a game, and right now are probably the fight Ingest gang of pastlmers In the circuit. It la a well-balanced team which has been receiving fine pitch ing from Crlppen, the red-headed ex-Cinclnnatl Red hurler, and Hoff man, a youngster. Hugh Hartman, a dangerous hitter. Is back with the team after a year's absence. Crlppen,' In his last go against the Craters, blanked them with four safeties, and If he can repeat the performance, or even come close, the locals will have to play their heads off to beat him. Whether he can again silence Med ford's six smash ing left-handed hitters Is a moot qvtestlon which only the game itself can answer. Crescent City, tn second place, entertains Glendale and Aahland moves over the Siskiyou mountains to Yreka, In other league games. Olcn Elliott, brilliant Myrtle Creek high school southpaw, is back with Glendale agnln, and may cause Cres cent City no little trouble. HOW THEY? Pacific Toast Tram W. h. Pet lot AnRflrs 71 50 .7 Sacramento 08 53 .662 Brattle .-. .. 64 56 .533 San Dlrgo -.. Ban Francisco Portland 64 67 .539 63 S9 .01(1 66 64 .467 Hollywood 65 66 Oakland ..... . ........ 43 79 .466 .953 National W. h. Pet. .... 65 31 .64U Plttsbursh New York . Chicago Cincinnati Brooklyn ..... Boston St. Louis ........ Philadelphia 63 38 60 38 ... 49 40 .578 .668 .551 41 47 .460 ... 38 46 .4511 37 49 .. 36 59 .430 .306 W. L. Pet ... 63 30 .650 Nrw York Cleveland Boston Washington Detroit ... ., Chicago Philadelphia, Bt. Louis .... . 61 30 60 33 46 43 ... 43 46 .630 .601 .505 .483 33 41 .461 ... 31 46 .3M .... 36 58 .310 lliilclirrs Uvp Srhrs TULSA. Okla. (API The last thing that J. W. Hollnsworth. Tulsa's new Inspector of weights and measures, expected to find was a butcher who ave his customers too much weight But. setting out on his new job, he discovered that about half of the acalea that didn't weigh accurately gave the customer too much weight; the other halt short weighted the bujer. ; f, , ; .VI , ?. rt i Bgt. Hod Kennston of Gold Hill wrestling team of Jack McDonald and Joe Sniollnskl In the npen-alr program at the high school stadium next Monday evening. He will team with Benny Wilson of Texas, and attempt to even the score with the two husky meanles. Sport Graphs ... Billy Hulon says: McGraw's Theory Proved Sound by S. 0. Pennant Race It was always the tueory of the late John J. McGraw, baseball's "Little Napoleon," that pennants are not won by beating flrat-dlvlslon teams. but by taking every advantage of the weaker second - division clubs and piling up a largo mar gin of gnmo-vl-v torles In the sea sons's series with lower outfits. His idea, and It has proved cor rect many times, was that pen nant contenders would Just about split oven with each other dur ing Uie soason, and that the cham pionship team would bo the one which accumulated the reatost num ber of victories over clubs out of the race and inferior to tho top fllghters. McGraw followed that theory all through his great career as manager of the New York Giants, and proof of Its soundness Is attested by the fact that John won 10 pennants. That theory was never so graphic ally Illustrated na right here In the Southern Oregon league during the first-half flag chase. Medford and Orants Pass, first division clubs, broke even in their two-game series with each other, and with Crescent City the other first-division team. But. Crescent City won the pennant be oauso It didn't lose a game to Yreka. Glendale or Ashland, the trio of second-division teams, while both Med ford and Orants Pass were felled once by Yreka. Medford, Grants Pass and Crescent City, the three pennant con tenders, all were unable to get more than an even break in battles with each other, and the championship was won by Crescent City because It followed McGraw's theory to Uie let ter and knocked off every second division outfit It faced, while Med ford and Grant Pom didn't. Taking that theory as a possible indicator regarding the second-half race. Grants Pass has all the advan tage over Medford and Crescent City, which teams are onln making a three-way rnco of It. Following the game here Sunday, Orants Pass will be playing only second-division clubs until the end of the season. But. Medford and Crescent City must tangle with each other twice moro before the wLndup. If Grant Pns bent Medford Sunday, then follows Men raw's theory hy pouring It on I he sec-nnd-iilvlslon teams, the Mer chants will breeze through to the second-half title. After Medford conies only Yreka. .hliuti1 nnrt (llenilule twice, all lower-bracket teams. So, If tinmis Puss wallops the rraters and plats to form s (till nst tile remainder of their npponeuts. It will be too had for Mnlford and Crescent City. That's what makes the game here Sunday so vltslly Important, to both Medford and Crescent City, in addl tlon to Grants Pass. By winning, Mir Merchants can see a clear patti ahead to the ting, with Medford and Cits cent City unable to do anything a bout It becau se nelt her (aces the Merchant again. But, If Medfura wins, then Grants Pass will have one defeat and Crescent City will have a chance to level off Medford to their sire because they must fsce cui.i other twice more before the season Is over. In short, U all bolls down to tin fset that, following games Sunday, Grants Ppss has by tor the easiest remaining schedule of sin of the three contending clubs. While Qrsnts Psss will be taking four crack at Billy II tile n. (anovej, gets another shoi at the the second-division members, Med ford and Crescent City will he butting heads twice and facing weaker teams only twice. For their own sake and for Orescent City's, U;e Craters sim ply must win from Grants Pass, eisc It will probably be the Merchants racing through with an unblemished slate. STEEOlT FIGHTING CAREER TACOMA, Wash., July 20. (UP) Two nights after he lost the world's middleweight boxing championship Freddie Steele, 38, retired from the ring last night. ' Eddie Miller, the ex-champion's manager, made the announcement Steele was knocked out In a little than a minute and a half of the first round of a scheduled 18-round fight by 22-year-old Al Hostak of Seattle Tuesday night. Miller signed a five-year managerial contract with Steele the first sign ed agreement tho two have ever had to keep anyone from getting Steele into a ring again. Steele, who started fighting when he was only 10, hod 140 fights in 11 years in the fight game. "I wanted this contract so I would i.iave supervision over Fred for five years so nobody could come In and persuade him to get back through the ropes," Miller Bald. "He wants to rest for awhile and then he will look around and get into some sort of business." Steele la estimated tobe worth be tween 950.000 and $100,000. Steele and his wife moved this week from Tncoma to Seattle to await the birth of their first child early next month, TOT Promoter Mack Llllard's pair of two-man wrestling teams play an en core next Monday night at an open air high sc-.ool stadium, the cast be ing the same, with one exception, as that which sent a thoflsand local fan Into spasms of excitement last Mon day In the first tesm grapple ever staged In southern Oregon. Follow ing the match, considered the most thrilling ever seen here, customers demanded a return go between Uie two tandems, and Promoter Ltllard obliged. Lone change In personnel of the teams will see Benny Wilson of Texas, dropklck specialist, replacing Plash Kelly aa Sgt. Bob Kenaston's team mate. The mighty duo of Sockeye McDonald Bnd Polish Pnlooka Joe Smlllnskl will remain Intact, and confident of repeating Its four-fall victory of last Monday. Opening the program, expected to pull the largest gate of the seaeou will be All Pasha, the villainous Hin du and Flash Kelly of San Francises, clesn and scientific but tough when needs be. They will brawl over the Australian route consisting of six 10-mlnut rounds or the beat two out of three falls. Scores Yesterday Coast Seattle 6. Sacramento 8. Ban Diego 3, Hollywood 1. Loa Angeles 0, Portland 1, San Francisco 1, Oakland 0. National Pittsburgh 9, Philadelphia a. New York 3. St. Louis 1. Cincinnati 4, Boston 3. (Only games scheduled) American St. Louis 4, New York S. Detroit 13. Washington 4. Boston 137. Chicago 8-5. Philadelphia 0. Cleveland 0. (Game called end 3rd. rain) WINDOW OLASS - We tell wtndo Iiasa and will replace fout broken windjai reasonably, rruwortdfe Oab i tnet Worlu, THREE-PLY TO OPEN FOR YEAR'S TITLE Steiner Holds Timbermen to Three Hits While Mal colm Stine Pounds Out Two of Boxers' Wallops Games Tonight Orants Pass vs. Catholic Men (lnter-clty). 8 p.m. Oold Hill vs. Medford Merchants (girls), 8 p.m. Ashland vs. Jennings Tire (Inter city), 9 p.m. Behind the three-hit hurling of Morris Steiner and the "clutch" hit ting of Shortstop Malcolm Stlne, Wooden Boxmen defeated Timber Products last night at the stadium before 2000 spectators to win soft ball's Division A second half cham pionship. The score was 4 to 1. By their victory In the neebnd- half playoff battle, the colorful men of Manager Paul "Hoosler" Hoffard earned the right to meet Timber Products, first-half champions, In a three-game cerles for the season's pennant. First game of the chairi' plonshlp series will be played next Tuesday night, with the second en counter, ond a third if necessary, to follow probably on Wednesday and Thursday. It was announced last night that the first playoff game would take place tonight, but It was moved back to next Tuesday upon agreement of players of both teams, Steiner Too Good Steiner was simply too good last night, and Stlne waa simply too tough at the plate with rupners on base. The Boxmen hurler gave up only three safeties, two of them coming In the last Inning, and fanned six with his twisting, fire ball delivery. ' Stlne, in getting two of the five ' Boxmen hits off Earl Dale, Timberman pitcher, batted In three tallies. Timber Products scored their lone run In the first frame, when Billy Calvert walked, went to second and third on two passed balls, and scored on Bob Smith's single. The Boxmen tied the count in their half of the first Inning on Bert Luman's triple to right center and Stine's fly to Calvert In center field. Luman scoring after the catch. The winners iced the battle In the second by scoring three times, Ham pel crossing the plate on Bob Wil son's drive and Greeman and Wil son scoring when Stlne blasted a single through short, which Dick Lewis partially knocked down, but could n t recover In time to prevent both runners reaching the plate. From then on, both hurlers blank ed tho opposition. In the last In ning, Dale and Hammack hit sin gles for Timber Products, but Ham mack was, thrown out at third at tempting to steal to end the game. Jennings Win In a regular Division A game, Jennings Tire beat Lamport's, 6 to l; Gasco beat Groceteria, 18 to 9, In a Division B game; and Grants Pass girls defeated Fluhrer'a girls, 13 to 11. zoric of Division B traveled to Ashland last night and walloped the Elks, 24 to 8. Tonight will see two lnter-clty games played. Ashland meeting Jen nings Tire at 9 o'clock and Grants Pass facing Catholic Men an hour earlier. A Gold Hill girl's team will face the Medford Merchants girls at s o clock. Scores: R. h. E. Wooden Boxmen . 4 A 0 Timber Products 13 1 Steiner and Wilson; Dale and J. Smith. R. H. E. Jennings Tire 6 9 3 Lamport's 14 4 R. Slngler and Stewart; Wslker and GUllsple. NEGRO YOUTH PLOWS UP $2,000 IN GOLD BATH, N. C. (AP) The plow of Edward Connie, a negro youth, turn ed up several bars of gold in a field near the mouth of the Pamlico river. They are believed to have oeen hid den by the Pirate Bluebeard more than 300 yeara ago. Connie's uncle, Dallas Jordan, took the gold to the mint In Washington and received 93,000 for It. 1 GERMAN BUILDS GARAGE DOORWAY BIT TOO LOW AUGSEBURG. Germany. July 39.- UP1 Oscar Schulta, annoyed by de- aya because of the Oerman labor shortage, decided to build his own garage. After weeks of work he dis covered that he liad build the door way several inches too low. So, every night SehultaB let the air out of tho tires of his car and patiently pushes It In. Yamhill Taxes alow McMINNVILLE. July 39. (AP) Yamhill county tax collections are so low the county will have to cut relief expenditures 35 per cent, Judge Wil liam O. Powell notified the 'state re lief committee yesterday. He said only 3.Vi.59 h4 been paid on rolls of 1670.017. An Authorised StMONIZ will protect jour car's finish. Daily's Auto Painting ;s Joulh Bartlett SS2VS 23 - DODGERS' DAY !n base ball world came when club hit winning streak, with Cookie La - vagetto doing bit for cause.' Silverton Captures Semi-Pro Laurels SILVERTON, Ore.. July 20. AP) Silverton won the Pacific north west Beml-pro baseball championship and the right to represent this re gion in the national tournament, last night by defeating Eastern State Hospital of Medical Lake, Wash., 8 to 6. It was the third straight vic tory for the Oregon team. The Oregonions drew from behind in the eighth Inning with a six-run barrage to wiri the final contest. CORVALLIS, July 29. ( AP) Dr. John Fulton, head of the Oregon State college chemistry department, announced the award of a $750 re search scholarship in chemistry to Albert Hughes of Salem. PENDLETON, July 29. ( AP) Fol lowing conferences with four archi tectural firms, A. E. Doyls and asso ciates, Portland, were today employed by the Umatilla county court to draw up plans for the county's proposed new 8300,000 courthouse here. The rich, full -bodied RYE flavor of thu finely distilled whiskey makes U D L ths "Budget - Wise" Canadian ernment mpervision, Agad In charred oak casks for 4 years 6 months. 85 proof, SI. 15 S2.20 ' The rich, full -bodied RYE IfU flavor of this finely distilled V whiskey makei U D L the Whutew aaad-in-wood. 4 years 6 month-, 85 proof. i $1.40 82.70 Dl Straight- Bourbon WhliUy distilled in Can- V ids under Canadian gov K PAIRINGS LISTED Pairings for tne final 18-holn rounds In the H. Chandler Egan Me morial 72 -hole handicap tournament, to be played at the Rogue Valley Golf club Sunday, were announced today by Don Clark, tourney director. Starting at 8:30 a. m., players will tee off In threesomes at five minute intervals for the windup of the med al affair. . Orln Schenck and Eddie Simmons, pacing the field with 197 and 201, respectively, at the end of Uie first 54 holes, and Tod Porter, with a 218, will Btart their final round at 3 p. m. All others will begin firing in the morning. Contestants who . will complete their third rounds today and to morrow will be paired by Don Clark Friday evening. Following are the pairings for golfers ready for tha final 18, with their starting times: 8:30 B. Catey, Doc Boomer, G. Harrington. 6:35 L. Nass, L. Clark, 3, Houston. 8:401. Harrington, L. Watson, H. Price. 8:45 H. Ravlzza, W. Klncaid, Bill McAllister. 8:50 S, Appolo, V, J. Robinson, S. Clement. 8:55 B. Williams, C. Adair, D. Milestone. ' t . 9:00 H. Hathaway, G. Patterson, A Lalng. 9 :05 S. Rlegel, G. Robinson, M. Pelrce. 9 :10 G. Codding, R. Royer, Al Heorn. 9:15 B. Bauer, Wilsle Pruitt, V. Rolfe. 9:20 Bob Watson, Al Walker, J. H. Beall. i 3 p. m. O. Schenck, Eddie Sim- I mons, Tod Porter. FREMONT, O. (UP) Paul Gray went fishing In the Sandusky river and "caught" a bicycle. It was In good condition except for a missing sporcket. sobb MPORTED PIISNER T SEEK NEW FIELDS PENDLETON, July 39. (AP) More than a thousand transient harvest workers who swelled Uma tilla county's population during late sprlruj and early summer, have bun dled families and belongings Into battered cars and moved to other areas In search of work. , Ending of the 1938 pea and cherry harvest In Umatilla county caused abandonment of temporary homes tents, cabins, auto trailers at Athe na, Adams. Weston, Thornhollow and Milton - Freewater, Alex Manning, district manager, Oregon state em ployment service, said today. "They'll be back later," Manning said, - "for the prune and apple harvest In the Milton - Freewater country." Manning ' said ' that the transient worker follows a definite circuit In Oregon and Washington. Coming from the middle west and southwest, he first heads for eastern Oregon and Washington for the cherry and pea harvest. Next he leaves for the hop a'nd fruit picking around Yaki ma. Then to Ontario for the beet harvest. One of the final large crops Is the southern Oregon potato yield. 4 : Summer Knight Passes LUBBOCK, Tex., July 29. ( AP) Summer Knight, brother of Winter Knight, died here today. Summer Knight, 33, died of pneumonia. cntt m S3 twNS Aged and mellowed THREE LONG YEARS ' ,: ... It's smooth as silk ! YEARS . ' ' RYE .... $1.05 Pt. $2.00 Qt (J tO t&l rplfat BOURBON $1.05 Pt $2.00 Qt. j VliB rQrAi '. : -YET C05T b" get it at Safeway MEDFORD JUNIORS TO PLAY KLAMATH SCHOOL NINE HEREjmWIORROW Medford's American fceglon- Junior baseball team, their state Legion schedule completed for the year, clashes with the Klamath Palls base ball sci ool team Saturday afternoon at the local high school park In an exhibition encounter. The battle starts at 2:30 sharp. Although Klamath Falls didn't pro. duce a Legion Junior club this sea son, their baseball school team la composed of youngsters of Legion age", and has been playing other outfits In the same age category. Bob Newland will pitch for the lo cals tomorrow, with Herb Botts doing the. catching. Coach George Harring ton announced. Larry Schade will play first, Jimmy Lewis, second; Bill Reed, short; Eugene Miller, third; Cato Wray, left field: Dale Howard, center field; and Al Wimer, right field. CCC FIRE FIGHTERS HALT IMBLER BLAZE LA GRANDE, July 29. (AP) Sixty-six CCC youths checked a brush and forest fire today after it covered 400 acres near Imbler. The fire, the largest of the year in the Union-Wallowa state warden's terri tory, destroyed about 100 acres of woods. - (C) Silrsy Stores, ln. Onklsnd, Cslll.