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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATT. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. TUESDAY. AUGUST 9. 1938. All-Star Softball Teams Will Open Week of Warfare Tonight M'LEAN HOFFARDll Armstrong Has Strong Arms OUTFITS TO MEET f IN INITIAL TILT r , Zorlc and Gasco Clash in Preliminary, Starting at Eight o'Clock -Pritchett, Lewis Meet Tomorrow 9 A ' . f '? V . damn Tonight Zorlc vs. Ossco. 8 p. m. McLean's v. Hoffard'a, B a. m. Sir - Vv ' , . The all-star Softball teams of Cliff "Chief" McLean and Paul "Hoosler" Hoffsrd open a week's play of red- hot action tonight at the nign ecnooi stadium, with the first pitch slated for 9 o'clock. A preliminary between Zorlc and Gasco gets under way an bour earlier. Botii battles will be staged on the center diamond. McLean, star of ths Timber Pro ducts champions, will do the pitch- Inn for his club, while Bert Luman. former Wooden Bos luminary, will be back of the plata. Morris Stelncr will be on tbs mound for Howard's gang of clubbers and Bob Wilson will do the receiving. This Is the eamo battery which carried Wooden Box- men Into a playoff with Timber pro ducts for the city championship. With the four all-star team man- kgers still scurrying around to select the finest performers from the en tire league, lineups for the McLean's and Boffard's won't be definitely known until Just before gamo time tonight. However, both skippers claim they have gathered together unbeat able teams. Tomorrow night, second night of all-star action, Charlie Pltchett's olub will clash with the nine of R L. Lewis. . v fv i CONFIDENT UN AS FIGHNEARS Lightweight Champ Doesn't Look Like Push-Over for Terrible Armstrong Bet ting Remains at 12 to 5 Fljtht Broad rast. The Henry Armstrong-Lou Am bers lightweight championship fight tomorrow night In New York City will be broad cm t ovr a na tional radio hookup which In clude KMED. The fight sched uled for IS rounds, wt!l start about 8 p. m.. Mdford time. PORTLAND NET STAR MOST IMPROVED OF NET STAR'S COACH llrnry Armstrong Oihnre). will have the harking of a set of powerful shoulders and arms In hU flsllc fraras IVrcliirtuluv night with Lou A in her , light weight champion. Armstrong holds the welter and readier titles, (A. P. rhotu). 0. s. .S.L.T.A. BV DREW Minni.ETON YORK, Aug. 0. (AP) The PORTLAND, Aug. . AP) El. Wood Cooke, Portland's Davis cup quad member, la the moat Improved tennis player Iri the country, Joseph A. Thurston, chairman of the na tional parka and playground' com mittee of the TJ. 8. Lawn Tennis as sociation, aa!d In an Interview here. NBW "Cooke has learned to sustain his placid course of the United States sallies and has added depth and Lawn Tennis association toward one peed to both his forehand and back- of the game's most successful years band drives," said Thurston. "His has been Interrupted by the lusty roactions are remarkably rast, ne complaint of George Hudson who bits the ball much harder than he claims he has been separated from did last year and his net game Is his No. 1 pupil, Frank Kovacs, the growing stronger constantly. He no hanky Oakland, Calif- Davis cup longer has any weak spots in nis hopeful. I Hudson, for veara a auceessful Cooke was a finalist In the Sea- TO,ch In Berkeley. Calif., announced bright tournament this year and h. m(J,m,.,rt ,, ,, .., von the New England championship. lhe v L T A bMallM of cll Denying that a player had to be th,t WM .. , ., "tennis bum" to gain top-rank- wltn ,tBr yog Ing experience. Thurston said the p)ny6rg association's rules permitted players t ' c,forrin, ,n prfpaml """" '""' statement, charged coaches, backed w.vn e.,,n7. p..a, dui, p.,er rep- by ..Rt.crptbl1 Mml, lp ,y (lrm teaentlng states, such as Cooke, have or drtIlg t,lr merchM1. .' dlse." had been allowed to coach -A good tennis plsyer doe. have D ,nd wightman cup squads. r . V 1 w,nt n Investigation of the snoat of them are youngsters-Don- ,,, ,,,, ln BmRtmr 7 " . ' : L fnnls." Hudson said later. He added "Those who reach the top havehN fcn--, .h. Brt.i . i good thing In professional tennis DUt w nxlm for if thmv wtfth fn fnltnw Ik " ha m. ..... 1 Sport Graphs Billy Hulen says: Brown's Flipper Gone Again With Old Dead Feeling if they wish to follow It,1 narked. MEDFORD BOYS ENTER CMTC TRACK EVENTS 'Why at the Sea Bright tourna ment due to the pressure being brought upon Kovacs by tennis of ficials. It was no longer healthy for tne lad to be seen In my company.' ine break between pupil and mas' ter waa emphasised further by KO' vacs who claimed Hudson hart never taught him "a darned stroke.' 'I don't owe Hudson anything, VANCOUVER, Waah.. Alur. a.tn Kovacs. who is playing In the Company C, paced bv sroun of eastern grasa court championships Oregon athletes, captured the annual Rt -y iooa lessons rrom rum CMTC track and field meet here. "" twenty of them, but only be- topplng Company D by four points cause my father had paid Hudson In with a total of ST. aovance Thomaa W. Flahburn. Nysaa, built Said Holeombe Ward, president of up Company C's early lead with a 'he u. 8. L. T. A.: "It's too hot to- victory In the 100 -yard dash In 10.8 oay to get eiclted.' seconds, and he ran second In the HO-ysrd dash. Raymond Crosby. Med ford. of Company B. placed second In the loo-yard dash and Charlea Hashrouk. Balem. was third for Company 0 In tne no-yard dash. Donald Horner. Medford. was sec ond In the broad Jump and third In me high Jump for Company B. Ti HOW THEY? STAND There were no gomes plsyed yes terday In either the raclflc. Ameri can or National leaguea. . '1- ',! 1 Billy Hulen. NANCY HURST GRABS MEDAL PLAY HONORS ASTORIA, Aug. 0. (JP Naney Hurst. Portland. Oregon wom-ns golf champion, posted an BO yesterday to win medaltst honors In the Oregon coast mtd -summer tournament. She tS dpfenrllnsT rhimntnn Timber Products company, whose t powerful Softball team won ths city DIIRl FY inAUn CWTCDC Ahimnlonnhln tnr th itmnl trt.lht I v w ' wr" ' i-lll T TO PLAYERS LEGION JUNIOR PLAY BURLS Y, Idaho. Am. 0. - (fih year, ataged a ft ft la banquet In the basement dining room of the Hotel tt. own team, for Wooden Bomen. ?"rl2.,m; f"frth. inner.i.D ln tht. VnMtn-. rsr. .nH Xh" lonsl American Lelon junior n. Aff 11.1. f h- bball champloivhlp tournament by dcfeattnR Parma. 15 to 7. yesterday for Its second straight victory. Bur lor offlclnls of the Medford Boft- ball association. Oscar Anderson of ths Timber Products company, was Jrt aster of ceremonies. Over a half-hundred players and fuests pttthered to rat thick steskn nd miss havoc with two 16-gallon kBs of beer. Short speeches were ttsde by all players and ofriclali. nd ths banquet was fudged ft com plete success by all who attended. ley will repwaent Idaho In the four- state tournament. CtoRlnc time for Too Lat to Clas ftlfy Ads is 1:10 p. m. Entire HiVlERY stock RICDUCKD Sthelwyn B Hoffmann Closing? time for Too Lat to cias- 'tfy Ada Is 1:10 p. m. -- - Spectaolfs were Invented durln lbs 13th century. It Is sadly reported here today thnt the big left arm of Lowell Brown, the southpaw flipper which ta play ed a highly Important part ln keep ing Me d f o r d's Craters In this year's Southern Oregon league pennant race, no longer carries enough pitching magic to keep pace with the circuit's hitters. That fact, which may ex plode Med ford's hopes of winning the second - half champ Ion Rlil p. became painfully appnrent at Cres' cent City Sunday, when the big left hander was belted from the box ln the third Inning. It was not alone Brown'a Inability to dam the ava lanche of bftschlts the Crescent fired at him that Inspires this story. Revealing far more the true condi tion of Lowell's arm were hla own words after the game. "It Juat felt dead," he said, "no snap or life at all. It was like a rubber band that had been stretched no much tt had no elasticity left. I tried my best to put some rip on the fast one. but the tire Just wasn't there. My arm didn't hurt a bit, doesn't now. but it feels plenty dead." It ha been evident since the opening second-half game agnlnxt Yreka. July 1ft. that Brown has not been right. He heat the ralirnrnlam that dat. Is to 1, with sit hits, and that wa hit lat good exhibit Inn. tgalnt Ashland he was hit freelv and ditto ngatnt Grants pass. Only the Crater batting attack ssTed him on thoe two occasion, be raus both Vhland and tJrnnt Pass In II led enough runs to win an ordinary game. During the first-half race. Brown hurled aome magnificent baseball. He blanked Crescent City at Crescent City. 4 to 0. while allowing a measly two safeties, allowed only four hits In bestliw Olcndale. and again against Crescent City In the first-half wind up. was touched for only 11 hits in IS Innings, although losing through errors snd bad breaks. He seemed well on the way to complete recovery from an arm ailment caused by toss ing heavy alt cans around. Now, although the bothersome b!ood-clot In his pitching elbow has disappeared, thanki to the manipu lations of Dick Llnnell, Brown's arm hss gone completely desd. There Is no psln nor soreness; It is simply lifeless. He can't get any ehlp on his fast one and his once -great curve ts nothing more than a wrinkle He still hss control, but that li all Whether the arm will come back, only time can tell. Lowell said after ! the game Sunday that he had hopes ' tt would, with a good, long rest Mnnneer WaHv Rlckert ttd that he dktn t have to pitch again until he felt his arm was OK, and Brown answered that he would give It a two weeks' vacation from any thiowlng, and see what happened. Tied for the league leadership with Crescent City and Grants Pass. Med ford still has an excellent chance to win the second-half championship, provided Bill Rathke, the game little righthander upon whose shoulders the pitching burden will fall for the next two weeks, at least. Is able to hold Yreka and Olendale fairly well In check while his teammates get plenty of runs. Only three more battles remain ln the second -half race. Medford travels to Yreka next Sunday, comes home to face Olcndale and Olenn Elliott August 21. and ends the season -against Crescent City here, August 37. If Rathke enn beat Yreka and Olcndale and nd the Craters Into the Crescent City game atlll tied for the lead, anything can happen. Brown's arm may be nllve again by then, or Rathko might pos sibly be able to set the coast team down. Billy Calvert really went pugnaci ous In the fifth Inning at Crescent City, Sunday, and almost swung on Umpire Ross after pushing him around a little. Bill saw red when Ross called a third strike on him. a pitch, by the way. that looktd from the prct box like It might have nicked the outside corner of the plate. It was a sharp curve. Any way, BUI advanced threateningly up on the umps. gave him a couple of shoves, then cocked his right hand down around his knees and made ready to let fly. Players of both clubs gathered around and separated me pair, and no damage was done, t'mplre Rosa ordered Calvert out of the game and out of the park, hut arter a long confab between Manager Klckert of the Craters and Manager Roy Deo of Crescent City, the latter went to lint for Calvert and asked the umpire to let mil remain in the game, which the arbiter did By GAVLE TALBOT NEW YORK, Aug. 9. It must be admitted Lou Ambers, the light weight champion, does not look nor talk like the pop-over he is sup posed to be for Henry Armstrong tomorrow night at the Polo grounds. In his final training spasm yester day, the 135-pound king looked as tough as a smoked boot and his con versation all was to the effect he knew exactly how to take care of the fierce tittle negro once he got him Into the ring. The average man wouldn't like to face Armstrong with a baseball bat, yet Ambers talks like he can t wait to take a smack at the fireball who has dethroned the featherweight and welterweight champions ln the last nine months. "Don't worry about me," he advised , a visitor to hla camp. "Wait until we've gone IS rounds snd then ask Armstrong how he liked It." Two prominent persons watched Lou's final workout. One was Joe Louis, the heavy champ, who flew In from Detroit. The other was Al lovino of Pittsburgh, a former fight -cr whose clslm to fame Is that he knocked out Armstrong back In 1932, when Henry name was Melody Jack son. Louis declined to pick the winner. Both boys, he said, were his friends. The betting still was 13 to 6 that the negro would bag his third title, a feat that seemed unbelievable until Henry came tearing out of the west. The best that could be said for tne crowd prospects was the predic tion of Promoter Mike Jacobs there would be $100,000 in the till. Other estimates backed It down as low as $75,000. The fight hasn't caught on. iney will weigh ln tomorrow at noon, and there probably won't be a pound difference between them. Each plans to do 134. TOURNEY WINNERS VETERAN JOLLEY KEEPS BAT LEAD LOe AVORLES. Auii. (AP1 Smead Jolley, veteran Oakland out. fielder, still provlni to the tounnsters that he can swing a potent bat. re mained atop the Paelilo Coast league hitting list today by a 43-polnt mar gin. Including Sunday's Karnes, Jolley Is batting at a 383 ellp. with Port land's Harry Rosenberg climbing Into the lesd In a red-hot race foi ninner up honors. Rosenberg's average Is .30. with Bill Llllard of Sen rran Msro. sold to the Philadelphia Ath letics last week, at .330 and Prenchy Uhalt of Hollywood and Brooks Holder. San Francisco, tied at .338. Ted Norbert of San Francisco re tained the home run lead with 1. San Francisco heads the team battlnc standings with 3M. Trailing the field at .349 are the Sacramento Senators, currently waging a hot race with Los Angeles for the league lead. SAN FRANCISCO. Anc 0 pi Followers of the snort t.w m. William Tell and Robin Hood legend nry heroes competed today In the second day of the National Archery association's 59th annual champion ship tournament. Curtis Hill of Dayton. Ohio, who two years ago set a national archery distance mark of 814 yards, six Inches, won the free-style event yes. terdsy. but fell far short of his own mark. He sent his arrow 610 yards, four Inches. Miss Olen Vlnysrd of Canby. Ore., won two events. She took the wo men's class two event for bows up to 50 pounds with a shot of 320 rants one foot, sli Inches, and the omen's unlimited class with a shot that went 345 yards, one foot .six Inches. Another two-event winner was also an oregonlan, Gene Warnlck of Port- iana. in class three for bows up to tw pounds ne sent sn arrow 43R yards, one foot, and In the imiimitM, claAs shot 463 yards, one foot, nine PETE'S DROPKICK FLATTENS LOGGER FOR PAY-OFF PIN Although falling to display a single maneuver that local fan's hadn't seen a thousand times before, Mad Italian Pete Belcastro won himself a grappling match at the open-air high school stsdlum last night by dropping Sockeye Jack McDonald with a vicious dropklck to the whis kers with the count standing one tumble apiece. Tt was Pete's first ennearsni. ur In over a year, and If he picked up anything new on hla lengthy tour of tlit east and south it. miiidnt t.. seen with the naked eye. Maybe he reBiiy nao a "mystery" hold to bring into play last night, but If he did he never got around tn uslna- it. n. me same oia rere Belcastro, a drop kicking, halr-pulllng. hard-punchlnr sly and tricky Belcastro. and he gave McDonald more punWment than the ex-Seattle logger hes been forced to take for many months. In fact. It was McDonald's first setback In four months, since Kenaston beat him af ter getting off his crutches to do It The match waa a bruising affair In which anything went. The boys pounded each otner from pillar to post, with Belcastro having a clear advantage, believe it or not, every time they stood toe to toe and slug- -a. sacuonaio drew blood from the Belcnstro nose mldwsv through the match, but Pete inflicted severe pun- lanmeni vo ejocKeye'8 body and head A body slam after a wild flurry of flats gave Pete the nivnlns fell K... McDonald oame back to even the score with a side strip, the only new tnctlc displaced durinz the evening The third tumble saw both fire drop- kicks wun aoandon, with Pete going down first, getting un arm nriin? Sockeye to the canvas. They took turns planting their feet in each other's faces until finally Belcsstro ny a wnopping aounie-rjarreled shot that caught Sockeye flush on the button and dropped him flat. Pete Jumped on top and Referee Earl Voakley counted to three In nothing flat. . Many customers believed the ref wss a little hasty In tolling off the three-count, and so did McDonald But, thats the way it waa and tliere wss nothing to do about It. Sgt. Bob Kenaston of Ooid Hill also won himself a wrestling match In the middle event, clamping on his Oold Hill crab to demolish Polish Pa looka Joe Smollnskl and wind up ths affair then and there. This brawl was one you read about, and stole the mow by a city block. The lone fall came In the second round when Kenaston. out on his feet, pulled bis senses together enough to put on the crab hold and send Smollnskl to the showers for Hie rest of the night. Joe was unable to continue. For the better part of two frames Smollnskl battered and pounded and head-locked Kenaston until it looked Ilka the Oold Hill pride and Joy would not be recognizable to his own mams. They spent considerable time out of the ring, with Referee Earl Voakley also taking a neat pasting. Just before the second round end ed. Kenaston socked Joe on the chin, dazing him, then picked dim up and tossed him Into the press row. As Smollnskl sailed through the ropes his head came In contact with the edge of the ring and tie fell to the grass ln a stupor. Kenaston, himself, was wandering around tha ring try ing to feed the birdies which were singing so sweetly when Joe crawled back through the hemp at the count of 10. Pretty soon Kensston groped His way to where Smollnskl was reel ing and, by pure Instinct, applied hla Olid Hill crab. And, that ended ths match. Benny Wilson took two straight falls from Flash Kelly In the opener, gaining the first In the Initial canto with a body press snd the second in the tulrd round with dropklcks and a body press. , Boston has suffered severely from fires. Destructive fires occurred there In 1676. 1679, 1711, 1760, 1872 1889, MEN'S LIGHT IN TWO GREAT PRICE GROUPS From the season's finest array of suits. Pinfied and Timely Suits that formerly sold up to $35.00. Gabar dines, Shetlands, Tweeds and Worsteds included in this final clearance of all summer suits, while they last! REINHART & BARKER " Medford 's Arrow Shirt Store" New Fluhrer Building ( Phone 80 DERRICK'S POOL SWIM -IN- DRINKING WATER Haiti :0O p m to 10:00 B nni1sT 10:00 itn Is ifl:o p rr Comfort New HOTEL CLARK In Downtown LOS ANGELES Convenience is another oi fertng of this note! vVbetbai on business or piessurs Dent the Hotel ciarl makes an Ideal "base of operations as well as a restful billet at the end of the day . "campaign Oood rooa naturally sod mcderate charges at well as tot room aeeommodatlona give fins significance to assuring wore COMPORT ROOM!) ftlnsle rrom rt.50 B4TH! Double from &M 666 Fifth and Hill r. 0. B. MOrimss. Hsnster HE WAS A MENTAL MARVEL "I saw him years ago in vaudeville. He re cited a poem while writing different sentences with each hand, one backward and the other upside down. "Boy. he son was good! When I try to do two things at once I don't accomplish either one. I guess my mind fs single track." 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