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PTGE TTTGHT TifEDFCRD MAIL TRTBTTNTF:, rEDFOUT).' OREGON. FRIDAY. "AUGUST 12. 1938. U'IW1.U! i-,J TIMBERMEN, STARS T0NIGHT1CLASH Preliminary Between Groce teria and Lewis Super at 8 P. M. Dale and Stei ner, in Pitching Duel flamea Tonight Groceteria vs. Lewis Super, 8 p.m. Timber Product! va. AU-8tar. 6 p.m. Medford's brilliant and successful 1038 aoftball season cornea to an and tonight at the atadlum when Timber Products, champions for the oast two years, displays the star' studded lineup It will use In the district tournament at Ashland next Thursday and Friday nights. Facing the powerful Tlmbermen tonight In the season's finals will be an . all-star club gathered to gether by R. L. Lewis, manager of this year's Cathollo Men team. The game will start at 0 o'clock, follow' lng a preliminary between Oroce- terla and Lewis Super Service which begins at 8. Earl Dale, who hurled Timber Pro ducts to the pennant, will be on the mound for that club this eve ning, while Morris Stelner of Wooden Boxmen will toll on the all-star rubber. Timber Producta has been strength ened by the addition of two players, and for the tournament will also have Stelner. Paul Hoffard of Wooden Boa will play centerfleld ' for the Tlmbermen and Bert Luman of Wooden Box will catch or hold down second base. If Luman playa second tonight, John Smith will do tha re ceiving. Cliff McLean haa been shift ad to third base, Dick Lewis will re main at short Bob Smith at first, and Billy Calvert and Floyd Baker in left and right fields, respectively. The all-star team will Una up with Herm Kewland catching, Stel ner pitching, Charlie Prltchett on first base, Wally Blckert on second, Simmons on short, Virgil Bwanson on third and Blttle, Caples and Campbell In the outfield. Last night's gamea saw Hoffard's team beat the Lewla nine, 5 to 4, behind 13-strlkeout pitching of Stel ner. Tha Lewis' were able to reach Stolner for only four hlta, while Hoffard's team belted Dale for eight safeties. Zorlo beat Elks. 8 to 7, despite a homer In the seventh In ning by BUI Bowerman with two aboard which almost tied the score. Score: R. H. B. Hoffard 8 8 3 Lewis 4 40 Stelner and Wilson; Dale and P. Sakralda. , HOW THEY.;' STAND National League L. PO. .833 Pittsburgh ... New York . Chicago Cincinnati . Brooklyn Boa ton ....., , S3 88 87 44 JUJ4 . 88 48 .654 . 88 48 .848 . 47 S3 .476 . 48 61 , 48 86 .474 .484 St. Louis Philadelphia -.. 30 68 .313 American league W. L. New York . Olevelnnd ... Boston Washington Detroit 84 S3 .867 67 38 88 40 .800 .63 81 .808 40 63 .480 . 41 60 .461 39 89 .370 34 66 .348 Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis .. Purl lie Const league, W. L. PO. Lob Angeles 70 66 .686 Sacrumento . 77 88 .870 8sn Diego 71 84 .636 San Francisco ...... 71 66 .633 Seattle 70 68 .810 Portland 63 73 .487 Hollywood 81 74 .483 Oakland 40 87 .360 STAR! TOURNEYS INDIAN APOM8, Aug. 12 (AP Forty-six state chnmplon teams In American Legion Junior baseball, training school for big-league Mara like Cleveland's Bob Feller and Wash ington's Buddy lwls, will play throughout the United States today through Tuesday In 12 regional tour nament along the road to the 1038 "Junior world series." Three regional tourneys start to day and the other nine tomorrow. The winners will go Into three sec tional meets next weekend leading up to the final aeries for the na tional championship. The Legion's national headquar ters here reparled today more than half a million boys under 17 were playing Junior baseball. Intended to trach cltlrtnahlp through sports manship, In 30.000 teams through rut the country. Legion officials reported Informa tion from 118 of the 377 clubs In the country's professional baseball leagues showed 531 former Junior baseball layen m their rosters. 33 of thr-- i-i th mi 'or. Use Mall moune Waut Ada. i Square Off In Fun mm t i - " '....-. ... - X f ILa It was Just for fun nhrn Lou Ambers (left), lIshlivilRht clumiplon, and Henry Armstrong struck a spurring pose after they welched In for their fight Wednesday. Amliers welched 135 and Armstrong 13.1V4. The fight was later postponed to next Wednesday, because of ruin. (A. P. photos. BATTLE 1939, NEW YORK. Aug. 12. ( AF) Joe Louis, the heavyweight .champion. haa lust announced he will fight four times In 1030, and It would seem some four fellowa are heading for a ring-full of trouble. Loula will box next in Maaison Square Garden In January, according to Mike Jacobs' plans. Max Baer the new Baer" Is expectod to ne the opposition on the Pacific const in April, with Juno and September bouta outdoors In New York. Mike Jacobs, who thinks slightly more of Joe thnn he doos of his right eye, said yesterdny the cham pion would not fight ugnln this year. 'Joe Is willing but ms managers ain't" commented Michael, "they're afraid the Income tax men will take most of his dough." Anyway, the shuffler will retire to his softbnll games and norso snows until such time as the rest of the heavyweights have forgotten what happened In Ynnkea stndlum tne night of June 33. In case you've forgotten. It hap pened to Max Schmellng In one round. Jacobs haa large plans for an elim ination tournament which will In clude Tommy Farr. Tony Oalento. Ounnar Barlund, the Finn, and any one else with beef and temerity enough to face the chnmplon. Elsowhere on the fistic front the day waa a busy one. Lou Ambers and Henry Armstrong. stalemated by rain, returned to their respective camps at Summit and Pompton Lakes. N. J., to work a little more for next Wednesday night's bout In, Madison Square Gar den. PATTY BERG WINS I CHICAGO, Aug. 13. (AP. After three years of running second, little Patty Berg of Minneapolis was a first-time winner today of the wo men's Western Golf association 73 holo derby, longest mednl play event sanctioned for women players In this country. Miss Berg winged home far In front of her field yesterday, com pleting the four rounds In 308 strokes, a new tournament record. Her rounds were 73. 78. 75 and a final 83. the card of 73 being the best single rotind ever registered In the event. Second place flntsher waa Marlon Miley of Lexington, Ky., winner of the tourney for the last three sum mers and holder of the previous record of 309 shots, made in 1937. The Lexington girl, with a final round of 78. two under par, had an aggregate of 318 strokes. Mrs. Opal S. Hill of Kansas City, with a last round of 78. finished third at 331. a stroke better than Beatrice Bar rett of Minneapolis, who had a final card of 83, Scores Yesterday Cnait Hollywood 0. Los Angeles 3 San FrancUco 4. Seattle 8 San Diego 7. Oakland 3 Portland 3. Sacramento II ViHtu.nl Chicago 7, Cincinnati 8(14 Innings) New York-Boston, r.itn. (Only gunuvt scheduled) American Washington 8. New York D Boston 3, Philadelphia 5 Detroit 1. Chicago 13 St. Louis 8-8, Cleveland 7-3 WINDOW GLASS -We sell indow glass and will replace jour broken windows reasonably Trowbridge Cab inet Works. Bobs Back A After tteveral weeks nlmenee. from the I rn I wrestling ring, Unhhy Chick (above) ret ti run to vn$i with Drop- kick Benny Wilson In the opening event nt the Medford nrmurv net Monday night. Jtohhy Is a big favor ite here herntiKe of his clean and sparkling taction. WILL GIVE KENASTON Sgt. Bob Kenaston's prayers have at last been answered. The big Gold Hill ex-Marine will Monday night In the Medford armory be teamed with a highly capable partner In his grudge battle with the wrestling tandem of Sochrye Jack McDonald and Polish Palocka Joe Smollnskl. The partner Is Pete Belcitsra of Weed, Cal. And. the Mad Italian figured to be quite an Improvement over Flash Kelly and Benny Wilson, two guys who have failed to lend Kenaston much help In a couple of team matches with 8oekeye and Joe. Heretofore, the Gold Hill pride and Joy has been forced to .neet the two villains practically single-handed, and the results were not pleasant Insofar as Kenaston's health was concerned. Sockeye and the Pry look a handed him terrific beatings on both previous occasions. Now. nowever, with the vicious and crafty Belcastro standing shoulder to shoulder with him. Kenaston sincerely believes he has an excellent chance of turning the tables and whacking Sockrye and Joe good. t The teams will scrap for one hour, or until one tandem grabs four tum bles. It is the feature event on the program, which will be staged In the armory after three weeks at the open air high school stadium. Bobby Chick and Benny Wilson will open the card In a singles" en gagement, going six 10-mlnut rounds or the best two out of three tails. TOUGH WINTER AHEAD FOR MULE DEER HERDS TULKLAKE. Calif.. Aug. 13. AP) Mule deer losses In the southern Oregon-Northern California region may be heavy next winter because 13.000 acres of mahogany brush. Juniper and grass were reduced to a wasteland of a.hcs. The 1 ava Brd monument tm v:dcd a br;n.''.rg ground or the deer each winter. ; F, IN YREKA JAUNT Locals Remember Surprise Defeat at Hands of Cali fornians in First Half Crescents to Play Ashland Southern Oregon League W. L. Pet Medford 4 Grants Pass 4 Crescent City 4 Yreka 3 Olendale ..... . .800 .800 .800 .400 .300 .000 Ashland - 0 Games behind leader. Games Sunday Medford at Yreka. Crescent City at Ashland. Grants Pass at Glendale. With only three more weeks of play remaining In the second-half South ern Oregon league pennant race, the trio of first-division clubs, all tied for the lead, move against teams mathematically eliminated from the struggle, next Sunday. A defeat at this stage of the race will probably mean curtains for any of the pace setters, and while the lower bracket clubs den't figure to cause a great amount of trouble, the league-lead ers won't be taking their encounters lightly. Medford seems to have tne tough- eat assignment, traveling to Yreka for the first and only time this season. It was Yreka which knocked the Cra ters out of the first-half champion ship by pulling a surprise victory out. of the beg, and Manager Wally Rlck- ert'a hard-hitting crew is moving Into California determined that such an occurrence won't happen again. Either Bill Rathke. righthander or Cliff "Chief McLean will do the Crnter pitching, while Walt Foster will work on the Yreka mound. Mc Lean, regular catcher, may be given the starting hurling assignment. Manager Rickert said, because of his speed and sharp curve ball. In case he Is, Billy Calvert will do the Med ford catching. At Ashland, the Lithians will be at tempting to stop the mad rush of Crescent City to Its second straight championship, and at the same time win their first second-half encounter. Grants Pass moves to Glendale to complete the day's program. I KLAMATH OUTFIT HERE SATURDAY IN WINDUP Med ford's American Legion Junior baseball team rings down the curtain on Its 1938 season Saturday afternoon at the high school park, by clashing with the strong Klamath FaMn base ball school club at 3:30 sharp This will be the third and deciding encounter of the year between the two teams. Two weeks ago, the locals swamped the Klamathltes In a game here, but lost at Klamath Tails last Saturday. Coach George Hnrrtgton announced that Don Croucher, righthander, would open on the Medford mound, with George Gltzen back of the plate. Remainder of the Medford lineup will sec Larry Schade on first, Jimmy Lewis on second. Johnny Oltzen at short, Wayne Curry on third, Cato Wray In leftfleld. Dale Howard In center and Mickey Miller In right. PORTLAND ARCHER WINS NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP SAN" FRANCISCO. Aug. 13. (AP) Shooting a grand total of 3013, Pat Chambers of Portland, Ore., won the men's championship as the annual nntional archery association tourna ment neared a close yesterday. Chambers coupled a double Ameri can round of 1398 with an earlier double York score of 1814. Larry Hughes of Burbank. Calif., was sec ond with a grand total of 3830. You'll enjoy 'Tusk fuui a.lHOilLTl.la.lU.M.'rWIIiH.l.'.f: I Hotel Cornelius MJ a n part Feel at Home in "The Heart of Portland' Comfort Contrnlfnce Conrt.ty servtra attractive Rates: Oftarned oslti With bath BIN O URIMSOM Mr. Pnrtlanil IN THE HEART Sport Graphs ' Billy Hulen says: "Dream" Team Is Picked From City Softballers ' Strictly on our own. and tn no way officially, ws present herewith mythical all-star aoftball team for tha 1938 Medford season, and warn that the opinions herein expressed may not neceS' ear 11 y coincide with those of hundreds of fana and scores of players. This la merely our own private "dream" team, concocted after . H serious aellDera- '' I tlon with the ItTjLM wrJter, and ' hasty glance at Billy Hulen. the batting aver ages. It may not bo composed of the best performers in the circuit, it probacy Isn't, but it Is our "cherce" for a gang of softballers upon whom we would stake our last copper against any like club In southern Oregon. So, let's forget friendship for a minute, let the chips and possible bruised feelings fall where they may, and start ahootln'. First, the pitching staff, and let's name one other moundsman to keep Earl Dale and Morris Steinet com pany. Dale and Stelner, of course, qualify automatlcaUy. They both hurled sensational ball all season, and one can't be selected without the other. For that matter, there la little to choose between them. Out. back to the third pitcher. On all good mound staffs there Is always a south paw chucker, so let's place Kay Sing ler, the portslder of Jennings Tire company, on the mythical outfit. He worked some fine games this year, and with a stronger hitting team behind him would undoubtedly have copped more victories. There were four outstanding catchers In the circuit John Smith or the Timber Products champs, Boh Wilson of Wooden Box, Don Hteuart of Jennings Tire and W-ayne Kuhll of Plche. With that quartet of receivers staring us In the face, there Is only one thing to do. And that's to flip a coin. We did, and the answer (a John Smith, regardless of his wild-eyed base-running activity. First base Is almost as tough to fill, what with Bob Smith of Timber Products, Orvat Hampel of Wooden Box. BUI Caples of Lamports and Del McKee of Plche. all playing great ball. Charlie Pltchett of Mald-Rlte was also a sweet first-sacker and powerful slugger, but he did not play In all his team's games. Anyway, let's give the initial cushion call to Orval Hampel, a brllllftnt fielder and slashing hitter. At second base, there Is no ar gument. It Isn't even rlose Cliff "Chief" McLean of Timber Prod ucts, league-leading hitter with nn average of .477 and a sensa tional defensive performer, wins the berth hands down. It Is fairly easy to select the out standing shortstop, also. He Is Dick Lewis of Timber Products, boosting a season's batting average of 39$ and : a pretty good defensive record Mai colm Stlne of Wooden Box, Ra Lewis of Catholic Men and Waytie Curry of Plche were other top sho.t-patch ers. but the Timber Products boy surpassed them all. Now, the third base post Is a dell cate proposition. Lloyd Hammack of Timber Products and Hale Greeman of Wooden Box were good hot corner guardians, but neither, in our esti mation, were as good as Bert Luman of Wooden Box, who didn't play third base much this year, but who should have. Luman spent most of his time In the outfield, or back of the plate, but aa our mythical outfield and the catching post la all settled, TliM .1100 a .11 So up OP THE CITY the true tri in ill rliiif all Sii'3 III pjj2i Luman has to be placed somewhere. He It a money player; he hit .394, and It would be plain absurd to leave htm off the club. So, he gets the nod at third base, with our sym pathies to Hammack and Greeman that such a situation cropped up. With Paul "Hoosler" Hoffard of Wooden Box, Billy CaHert of Timber Products and Merrltt Hlttle of Jennings Tire, our mythical outfield would have speed to spare and power to waste. Hlttle batted .410, Hoffard .372 and Calvert .368, and they can all get around better than average. Hlttle, especially, could carry the mall for this writer any time he chose. That's them, boys and ghls, and where could you Improve any? If you think you can, we will be In our office for Interviews from 4:10 to 4:13 a. m. every third Tuesday. So, stay In line and don't shove, and we'll get this thing straightened out to everybody's satisfaction some day maybe. We have heard same talk around town that Pitcher Lowell Brown and Outfielder Tommy White of the Med ford Craters are planning to Issue a written challenge to us for a foot race. It seems like the two boys were put out no end when wo scrib bled recently that they weren't ex actly blessed with wings on their heels. At this writing, we have not yet received the challenge, either verb ally or In black and white.' Perhaps the boys have given the matter more serious consideration and decided It might be wise not to display their footracing ability Jn public again. Anyway, their challenge would fall on deaf ears or blind eyes, as the case would be, because we have a horribly sore finger and couldn't pos sibly run them a race. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. Wesley Ramey, 134 !a, Grand Rapids. - out pointed Eddie Brink, 140, Scran ton. Pa., (10). NEW YORK Jarl JohnBen, 190, Norway, outpointed Mike Alfano, 190, Brooklyn. (8). Beer es Brov Scotch Grouse Slaughter Is Most Expensive Sport PERTH. Scotland, Aug. IS. (JPi Over a thousand Scottish moors, over laid with peat and often covered with heather, wealthy British and American sportsmen participated today In the most expensive sport In the world. Dawn brought the opening of grouse shooting season It was esti mated would cost 10,000,000. King George VI, presently at Bal moral Castle, Scotland, ana Queen Elizabeth are expected to spend sev eral days as guests of the American financier. J. P. Morgan, who is enter- 1 talning a big party in hia Scottish home at Oannochy. The monarch haa rented two ex clusive areas of waste ground for his own shooting, the Clencal later Galrnshlel and Micros Moors. Mor gan customarily has five weeks of grouse shooting a year. Many hunting parties started before daylight so the plump, red-brown birds related to the American part ridge or prairie chicken could be rushed to London by airplanes and fast trains and be served at luncheon. Maybe next August. New Yorkers will be eating grouse 24 hours after they are bagged In Scotland, if regu lar trans-Atlantic air service la ln augrurated by then. The grouse will bring six or seven dollars each tn London stores today and tomorrow, but next week the price will be about a dollar. Grousing Is an expensive luxury reserved for a comparative fw. The rental of a moor alone costs any where from $500 to $35,000--usually nearer $35,000 for the season which ends December 0. Many owners of moors large tracts usually more or less wet, with peat and often hearther get enough from rentals paid by rich Americans to live on the year around. The Jackson county baseball lea gue ends Its 13-game schedule Sun eC " Z the mm'- 0U " not Derby vor--not s not s''-. pWsner bitter betv vVe It's the .irom tuiuv Safeway Stores, lnc, Oaaland, Calif. day, with Manager Charlie Skeetera Talent nine traveling to Medford to clash with the Junior Craters, and Prospect moving to Gold Hill. Both games start at 2:30 sharp. Gold Hill leads the circuit with seven wins and three losses, and by defeating Prospect will clinch the pennant. Talent, In second place with seven victories and four defeats, can tie for the championship by beating Medford while Prospect takes the measure of Gold Hill. - . Phone 542. We'll haul away your refuse. City Sanitary Service. EVERY DROP frm-i-wi-in s 1 - RYE id BOURBON r-LN $1.05 Pt. mj $2.00 qt. r. wi?Zr thfo and Qnt Haff
