MEDFORD 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
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' The rich, full -bodied RYE
IfU flavor of this finely distilled
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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
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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.
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Summer Knight Passes
LUBBOCK, Tex., July 29. ( AP)
Summer Knight, brother of Winter
Knight, died here today. Summer
Knight, 33, died of pneumonia.
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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.
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(C) Silrsy Stores, ln.
Onklsnd, Cslll.