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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR ifEDFOTCD M AIL TRIBUNE. MEPFOKD. QBEOON. WEDNESDAY. AUGUST 3. 1938. Timbermen Trim Wooden Boxmen 6 - 3 in Pennant Series Opener DALE'S FIREBALL HANDCUFFS FOES IN BITTER CLASH McLean Blasts Homer Over Center, ield Barrier to Break 1-1 Tie in Third- Fine Support Features With a mighty hom-run blast ever the centerfleld fence by Cliff "Chief" McLean featuring a nine hit batting attack off Morris Stelner, nd with Earl "Fireball" Dale hold tag the oppoeltlon to five acattered safeties, Timber Product won the ftrat of a three-game series for the Davlslon A eoftball championship last night at the stadium by defeat ing Wooden Boxmen, 6 to 8. Fifteen hundred spectator! were In the grandstand aa the two bitter rivals taged their most thrilling encounter of the season. Second game of the championship series will be played Thursday night, atartlng at 0 o'clock. In case Wooden Boxmen win, the third and decid ing battle will take place Friday Tenlng. There will be no gamea at the stadium tonight. Homer llrrnks Tie McLean's thundering circuit clout bis second of the year over the distant barrier came In the third Inning with the score tied, 1 to 1 nd with Dick Lewis on base by virtue of a single. It gave Timber Products I 1 to 1 lead which they never relinquished, and was the pay off punch of a sensational ball game. The Boxmen tallied first In the Initial frame, when Bert Luman smashed a single which Secondbase man McLean knocked down, went to second on the Chief's error, took third on a steal and scored on Mine's Infield out. Timber Products tied the score in the second when pale punched a sharp single to center following Baker's walk and steal of second. In the third, the winners tallied twice tnore on McLean's homer and then sewed the game tight with two more runs In the fourth. Calvert belted single counting Perry, and Dsle crossed the plate on Bob Smith's grounder to ahort. That made It 6 to 1. Boxers Score In ftth Wooden Boxmen rang ths gong twice In the fifth on hits by Bob Wilson and F. Smith and two errors. BiMclng the score ft to 8, but the slugging Timbermen oarae back In he sixth to chalk up their final Sally on consecutive doubles by Dick twta snd MoLean. Both hurlers were aided by sensa tional support afield, Orval Ham pel, Boxer flrstbaaeman, coming up with a great running catch of a foul fly and Lewis, Timber shortstop. hauling In a couple of foul pops after long runs. Neither pitcher was throwing strikeout balls, Dale whiffing only two and Stelner fanning three. Dick Lewis hit three for four snd SdcLean socked two hits for the wln fcers. while Stelner colleoted two of hie club's five safeties. In a preliminary encounter, Bill Bowerman clouted two homers to lead Elks club to a 13 to 10 victory ever Lewis Super Service station. Bcore: R. H. B. Timber Products ...... 6 9 3 Wooden Boxmen 8 8 3 Dale and J. Smith; Stelner and Wilson. 4V, 'f lmf If I v S-SLAmm Vl r i r? "v"" -"f ii ? - - i' v li ..V.i DIZZY DAYS are expected of the Cubs with Gabby Hart nelt (left), 38, managing the team, and Dizzy Dean (right), ths "si 85.000 Great One" pitching a new tantalizing "clidcr." BOYD WINS BY KAYO . IN GOING-AWAY BOUT WENATCHEE. Aug 8. (AP) Wild Bill Boyd, Seattle heavyweight, whr leaves for New York late this week to become a ring protege of Jack Sempsey, said farewell to the Pacific northwest last night with a second round knockout of Jimmy Morris. Detroit negro, in a scheduled ten round main event here. Boyd weighed 100 and Morrla 186 Use Mall Tribune Want Ads. ow they; 3iviy Coast League Won Lost Pot. Los Angeles 74 S3 .887 Sacramento 73 63 .679 San Diego .... 87 60 .633 Snn Francisco 67 60 .628 Seattle 64 61 .613 Portland . 68 67 .464 Hollywood 86 70 .444 Oakland 46 83 564 National League .. Pittsburgh 87 88 .633 New York 64 40 .874 Chicago 63 41 .689 Cincinnati 81 43 .648 Brooklyn 44 49 .473 Boston 43 47 .473 8t. Louis , 88 34 .413 Philadelphia 3B 61 .833 American League New York. 67 31 .648 Cleveland 84 31 .636 Boston 61 36 .680 Washington 48 17 .506 Detroit . .... 47 47 .600 Chicago 86 48 .444 Philadelphia 30 64 .857 St. Louis 38 60 .318 BOtlGMEYS E Scores Yesterday The Med ford bowling alleyi will be cloaed from now until September 1, while workmen Inn-tall two new Alleys, 46 new scnU for spectators, new players' bench?, it new bur nnd completely redecorate the Interior, It was announced today by BaH Si mo, owner. Addition of the two new alleys will bring to eight the number which will be Available for bowlers this fail. They will all be A. B. C. regulation alleys, enabling tnt city bowling as sociation to Join the national organ isation, 81ms said. The entire Interior will be redec orated, the walls and celling will be calsomlned and painted and the al leys put In the finest condition pos sible. 4 rmipic lrcfer Planes PAUIjDINO, O. (UP) Mr. wid Mrs. J. A. Betta, respectively 83 and 73 recently took their first alrplnue rldo. "That's the way to travel. We're going again, soon," they said. Beavers to Work for U. S. On Dam-Building Project WASHINGTON (UP) Uncle Sam soon will be using beavers to build dams In Oregon. Washington, Nev ada, Utah and Wyoming, The paddle-tailed animals have been "employed" on dam-construction work for two years In Idaho, lach of 300 bf avers, according to Secretary of the Interior Harold L. Ickes, performed 300 worth of labor that coat the government only 88. The beavers were trapped In areas that could be harmed by the beavers' Instinctive dam-bulldlng. The anl inala were freed In streams that were to be dammed. The beavera Immed iately began apannlng the streams with dama of wood and mud. These dams. Ickea reported, pre vented excessive silting and erosion. The work was so effective and In expensive the government will ex tend Its activities. Large-scale operations. Ickes said, will reduce from 8 to 88 the cost of catching and transporting each beaver. Original plans for "employing" the wild beavers were precipitated several years sgo. according to a report submitted by the division of grazing at Boise. Idaho. "In the early days of the north west" the report said, "beavers were plentiful and their pella formed one of ths greatest sources of ravtniM Nntlnnal League Chicago, 7; New York. 0. St. Louis, 3-3; Brooklyn, 6-9. Pittsburgh, li Boston, 3. Cincinnati, 3; Philadelphia, 3. Amerlcnn League New York, 3: Detroit, 4. Boston, 4; Cleveland, 7. Philadelphia, 4; Chicago, 8. Washington. 8; St. Louis, 3. Const League Portland, 6; Seattle, 3. San Diego, 0; Sacramento, 8. Los Angeles, 0: San Francisco, 9. Hollywood, I: Oakland, 3. EX-ST. MARY'S HALF TO COACH AT DORIS MORAOA. CnU Aug. 8. (AP) "Sad Sam' Miller, reserve halfback on the 193 St. Mary's college foot ball team, . today became the 70th Gael to enter the coaching profes sion. Miller announced he had ac cepted a position an head coach at the Dorr la Union high school In Sis kiyou county. Excitement Too Much FTtESNO. Cal. (UP) Seldon Hul bert, aa-year-old culinary worker, feared his house was aflamo when a fire was reported In the aame neigh borhood. Hulbert pedaled his bicycle two miles to the scene of the fire and was so wrought up when he ar rived to find his home safe, he col lapjwd from nervoua exhaustion and required hospital treatment. Thief Smashes Out LA WTO N, Okla. (UP) A broken Inside lock on the rear door of a birglarlred Lawton grocery puEnled officers. Finally they concluded that the thief had hidden among the store merchandise and had been locked In At closing time. He had to smash the lock to get out. Seven dollars In pennies were his loot. ) Takes Jail Keyes NACOGDOCHES. Tel. (UP) Sher iff W. B. McClaln hopes to recover more than a fugitive from his Jail In tils hunt for Natt Llnthlcum. Lln thlcum not oly escaped. He took the Jail keys with him and locked thu doors from the outside. Tnxl Fees to Change TORONTO (UP) Toronto, one of the few large cities on the continent where taxis operate on the mllue and none system rather than meter ratts, will adopt the latter on All cabs operating In Mie city effective Sept. 15. Advertising, Investment and pub lishing firms employ a larger pro portion of woman with higher aca demic training than other offices. TO When Pete Belcastro, the Mad Ital ian of Weed, Calif., makes his first wrestling appearance here next Mon day night In over a year, he will put on display for the benefit of looal fans and his opponent a brand-new, devastating maneuver, learned while touring the middle west, east and south and one that has brought him a sensational string of victories against some of the finest grapplers In the country. Just what Pete's new hold Is called, how It works and what It does to prove so effective Is a mystery. In several letters he has written to Pro moter Mack Li Hard. Pet has men tioned the hold glowingly, but has Steadfastly refused to reveal Its secret. He wrote that he was saving It as a surprise for fans and for the guy In the same ring with him. According to Promoter Li Hard, the mystery ma neuver must be one of the most effective In the game, for Pete's won And lost, record white on the tour Indicates the Italian really had some thing other than his usual routine of dropklcks and underhanded tactics. While the match Is not definitely signed yet. It will probably be Pete versus Sockeye Jack McDonald Mon day night, LI Hard stated. McDonald, he said, was anxious to face the dy namic Belcastro, and the latter has written that he doesn't care who he meets. Just so long as he Is tough. There couldn't be a tougher bozo than McDonald, so the brawl will undoubtedly be arranged. Llllard will announce the complete program to- Sport Graphs . . . Billy Hulen says: Nigger Fishing Technique Told By Joe Wharton 1 i Billy Hulen, ICKES DESCRIBES SELF AS 'JUST HOD CARRIER' FOR GREATEST BUILDER SEATTLE, Aug. 3. (AP) Secre tary Ickea. who described himself last night as "Just the hod carrier for the greatest builder of all time President Roosevelt," rested here to day preparatory to sailing tomorrow with his wife aboard the steamer Mt. McKinley for Alaska. Introduced to a rally of builders, architects, labor and civic leaders and realtors as "the greatest btiUdor in the notion today," Ickes In an un scheduled address said he merely helped CArry out a public works pro gram of some $500,000,000 "to thc end we might get business going " He declared cooperation between employer and labor Is a short cu,t that will solve most building prob lems. "You have talked cooperation here tonight," he said. "I believe In this sort of cooperation but we must also have the cooperation of the public. "Publlo money Is being spent. We must have honest work, honest con struction by contractora, honest work for an honest days pay by labor." Joe Wharton, who releases these reliable fishing bulletins for the Grants Pass Chamber of Commerce, comes up with a lulu this week. Joe describes how to do some "nig ger fishing," as he terms It, and for nlmrods who don't have much luck with fltea It should be Just the thing. He writes, "If '.' fish to the dally i I legal limit, or mt LlJ more' ta tn on'" ' consideration, here la the latest Improved meth od. Oo to a lake, row to a place where the water Is deep snd cool, and anchor. Prom your tackle box take a few cans of sweet corn any brand will do If It Is rich and creamy, Remove the tops and empty the con tents overboard. The kernels sink slowly while a milky hue permeates the water in an ever-widening circle from the boat. "Light your pipe, cigar or cigarette, or what have you. and. with a cold bottle within reach, relax for an hour on the cushioned reclining chair with which every boat used for lake fishing should be equipped. Looking Into deep water you will soon see fish congregating, attracted from a wide area by the cream of corn. When they have gathered in sufficient numbers to suit your fancy, throw a few handfulle of "feed" eggs and you will be gratified to see the trout dart "greedily at them, vtelng with one another to see which will get the first mouthful. "When you hate accustomed them to such a munificent hand out, reminding them of flnserllnr days In the feed pools of the hati'hery, artfully conceal a small hook (attached to a fine wire leader testing around ,10 pounds) In an eitg, throw It out with hnntlftil. Hefore the trout which sv, allows the hook ran recover from his surprise, drag him In, slip a net under him and lift him bodily Into the boat. In less time than It takes to tell, you have ynnr limit and con boast to ad miring friends of your prowess as an expert antler." Cuff acribbllngs: It's definite that Bobby Ettlnger, three-tlmea All-Conference back for Medford hlgh'a Black Tornado football machine. Is golnst to Oregon State college this fsll . . . regardless of Ettlnger's Inability to pass or kick, the little fellow stands a great chance of cracking the Beaver varsity before his three years are up . . . he can run and block with the FLAVOR INGREDIENTS SO SMOOTH YOU CAN DRINK IT STRAIGHT I DiVilfid from lOO". Groin Ntufral Spjr.fi, 90 Proof BEN-BURK, INC., BOSTON, MASS. for the Indians and early day set tlers. . . . "After the animals were trapped out, ths streams had nothing to check the silt In the spring run-off. Consequently, gutllles were washed through the surrounding meadows and drained the water rearrvs table lower As a result of this, and also overg rasing on the surrounding hills. : the once -productive mesdowa became ' rinr. harrvn and more or 1ms ws.it I land. . , . "A few years ago the Idea was conceived to attempt to transplant a few colonies of beavera In one of our most eroded stresms. We carried them In for miles by hand to get them started. In a few years they have performed almost a miracle. Phone 1300 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service Modern-Type Construction Calls For CEMENT Ue Thig Dependable Southern Oregon Product "BEAVER BRAND" PORTLAND CEMENT Beaver Portland Cement Co. GOLD HILL, OREGON Sold In Medford by Medford Concrete Construction Co.. Porter Lombet Co., Timber Product Co., Economy Lumber Co., Wallace Wood Lumber Co, Big Pine Lnmber Co.. Medford Lnmber Co. bsst of them . . . Stavs Fowlar. Ash land's contribution to University of Oregon football, said Frosti coach John Warren wanted to males him over Into a center . . . Fowler, how ever, stated he was going to take s fling at thai fullback post If possible , , , and, ths Oregon varaltj will be rather weak at ths tackles this year, Fowler ststed ... Um Ambers Is ons gu; who picks Lou Ambers to whip Henry Armstrong In their combined lightweight and welterweight championship brawl . . . Lou says hs will outpoint ths dusky hurricane . , . everybody is glad to see Chalmers Clssell, ex-Portland shortstop, get snother chance to mako good In the major leaguea . . . the New Tork Olanta will be the first real pennant-contending team Clssell has ever played with in the big show, and the thought of thst may be the tonic he needs ... In his last season In the Pacific Coast league, two years ago, he helped the Beavera grab the pennant . . This southpaw flrst-baseman nsm ed Miller who played with Grants Pass last Sunday Is another piece of St. Louis Brown property . . he's not much of a hitter, but how he can field . . . Somettmea a change of managera In mid-season Is good for a ball club, sometimes It Isn't . . . apparently It was good for Yreka, because right after BUI Beall was appointed skipper the California blanked Qlendale, I to 0 . . . then came back last Sunday to shutout Ashland. 13 to 0 . . Dabby Hartnett, new manager of the Chicago Cuba, stole a base the other day, his first since 1835 and third In seven years . . . and, It won the ball game. Mrs. Mac Wilkins Remains Medalist PORTLAND, Aug. S. (AP) Mrs Mac Wllklns of the Portland Golf club rounded her home course In 84 yesterday to maintain her medalist standing by beatrng EUlen Knowlton. Portland. S and 3 In the first round of the Oregon Women's Golf aaso clatlon tournament. Mrs. Wllklns will meet Mrs. Bruce Beardsley, Portland, In the aecond round today. The upper bracket of the. champ ionship flight waa completed by Charla Ilgner and Mrs. L. B. Mont gomery, both of Portland. Margaret Crosble. Portland, beat Mrs. Omar Anderson, Newberg, In the closest match of ths day, winning on ths 18th. Armstrong -Ambers Battle Seems Box Office Floperoo By Oayle Talbot . . 0 th astute Mile Jacobs fin- .,yZ bldTpuV pecker c lp fight bs. tween Henry Armstrong ana iaju n,.... . . Two daye of investigation rer ths great fight public simply isn't intrKtl. even with three titles on dlsDlav and one, the light weight, actually Involved. Perhsna It'a the heat. The fight looked like a ateam-wlnder when It was arranged. If for no other reason. It offered Armstrong tne unneara-oi opportunity of adding the lightweight crown to the featherweight and wel terweight tiaras he already held. But now there's little talk about the battle and the advance sale has been so Door that there have been persistent reports Jacoba would plaa- ter on another postponement, uut Mile vows there will be a fteht a week from tonight it there'a nobody but him and the ushers to lena voice. One difficulty Is that Ambers does not lend himself readily to the old ballyhoo. For all his boxing emu. thn ltffhtwi.!tfht chamn la a colorless Individual. Nothing exciting happens to htm, and he doesn't say mucn. There waa an abortive attempt to stir up .a controversy tne otner aay Ambers' manager threatened to claim the welterweight title If Lou won. vh Armstronff camo dldn t enter Into ths spirit, ladle Mead, Henry's pilot, fanned himself a moment ana said: "It doesn't matter, becaus Ambere Isn't going to win." PAIRINGS LISTED FOR JUNIOR LEGION SERIES PORTLAND. Aug. .8. (AP) Ths Dalles meets Woodburn and Postof flce of Portland tackles Eugene Sat urday In the opening baseball games of the American Legion Junior atats championship series. The Dallea and POstofflce won ths draw as home teams for the contests st Woodburn. The winners of Saturday's games will meet Sunday for the Oregon title and the right to enter the regional competition. The losers will meet In' a consolation preliminary. Entlro HOSIERY stock REDUCED Ethelwyn B. Hoffmann telment DlHHIing Co Lc laollvills. Kr. HE WAS A MENTAL MARVEL "I saw. him years ago In vaudeville. He re dted a poem while writing different sentences with each hand, one backward and the other upside down. "Boy. he sure was good! When I try to do two things at once I don't accomplish either re. I guess my mind h single track." We all learn more and do more when we con centrate on one thing at a time. That is one of the tog advantages of newspaper advertising. Your newspaper "wafts for you" until you have the time to concentrate on its inviting contents, and concen tration produces deep impression. The newspaper's ability to carry your advertising message to the public is not limited to any time of day. nor to any single group. Newspapers are read by everyone able-to-read and able-to-buy. for NEWS is a universal want. THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Prepared by West-Holliday Co.. In.