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PA'flTC TWO MEDFORD MATTj TRIBUNE, MEDFOBD, QREGOy, MONDAY, "AUGUST, 29, 1938. Sockeye Will Choose Belcastro Tonight for Battle With Gloves WOULD SLUG IT OUT WITH PETE Will Demand Fight After Wrestling Strelich In Mid dle Event Pete To Face Kenaston If Able. Although Pete Belcastro, Weed's Mad Italian, could not be reached for statement today regarding the de termination of Sockeye Jack McDon ald to make him put on the boxing gloves In the Medford armory tonight and fight it out, everything Is , In readiness for a 10-round brawl be tween the two ex-puglllsta should Belcastro accept the challenge. . Promoter Mack Llllard contacted members of ths Medjord boxing com mission and stated that It was OK with them If Pete and Sockeye de cided to settle their differences with eight-ounce gloves. An attempt was maue to get In touch with Belcastro at Weed, Csl., at his home, but the villainous grapplar could not De found. Llllard said Pete was probably out In the woods checking over his bunting grounds for this fall. According To Rules Although the boxing commission gave Its consent to the battle, it Btressed the fact that It must be con ducted strictly according to official Marquis of Qyeensbury rules. There fore, It was decided that the fight would be scheduled for 10 rounds, with regulation weight gloves, a ref eree and probably three Judges. Pro moter Llllard was today lining up the officials, and It was believed possible that Fried Erlckson, member of the commission and an experienced ref eroe, would be third man In the ring. McDonald, blazing with anger over two wrestling defeats at the hands of Belcastro, msde known bis inten tion Saturday of forcing Belcastro hj to a fist fight. He purchssed a set of boxing gloves and stated ha would take them to the armory with him tonight and demand that Belcastro fight It out adding that If Belcastro refused he believed fans here would boo the Italian out of town. Mat Card To Oo On Promoter Llllard said there would be no cancellation of the originally scheduled wrestling card, which placed . Belcastro and Bgt. Bob Ken aston In the one-hour main event, McDonald and Steve Strelich In the middle event and Bobby Chick and Juan Sebastian In the opener. McDonald's plan Is to finish bis own match with Strelich, then wait In the ring for the appearance of Bel castro and Kensston for their main event. When Belcastro climbs through the ropes. Sockeye will approach him and demand that ha put on the gloves and slug It out. Impressarlo Llllard explained that the main event between Kenaston an'd Belcastro would positively be staged If Belcas tro was still in good condition fol lowing his fight with McDonald, If he fights. However, It Is doubted by many fans whether Belcastio will be able to stand up after ha fights Mc Donald let alone take on' Kensston In a one-hour wrestling match. Both McDonald and Belcastro have had more than a little boxing exper ience. For several years McDonald earned his bread and butter with the gloves In and around Seattle, meet ing such men as Rosonbloom, Young Plrpo, Pred Lenhart and Leo Lomskl. Beloostra, a second-rate pugilist be fore he turned to the mat game, has had two boxing battles with other wrestlers here In Medford. He knock ed out Gene Moore In two rounds several years sgo and belted Las Wolfe Into slumberland In thre heata a short time later. Although McDonald will be forced to engage In a tough wrestling match before he can accost Belcastro, he s supremely confident he ran wallop the daylights out of the vicious and vlllainoua Italian. "He aint nurt me," Buckeye almost ahouted Satur day, "and I know I can hurt 11m plenty. Pete hss been popping off about how tough he la, and I plan to offer him the chance to prove it If he refuses, he win show his true color snd 1 expect the fans to boo him out of town." McDonald ha tea Belcastro because he believes Peta fouled him unmerci fully in the two grappling matches he lost to the Ctillfornlan. "I have been to the doctor twice alnos the last match," MoDonald explained, "the result of being kicked In the groin Just before Belcaatro pinned me with that surfboard. I nave stood for his repeated routings and brag ging Just long enuogh. Now'l am ro ing to settle things with him 'or once and all. I'm going to knock htm kicking, If ha Isn't afraid to fight." Scores Yesterday Coast Seattle 13, San rranclseo 1. Portland 1-1, San Diego -. Oakland 7-B. Sacramento 3-10. -Los Angeles 13-0, Hollywood 3-3. National New York 7, Cincinnati I. Brooklyn 3. Pittsburgh 5. Philadelphia e-1. Chicago 6-1. Boston 1-0. St. Louis 3-0. American St. Louis 3. New York t. Detroit 4. Boston t. Chicago 4-3, Philadelphia -7. Cleveland 0, Washington 0. C. L. Perki ins DOCTOR Or OPTOMETRY Phone 313. ISO S. Central r Medford. Or. Fight or Flee f " '""' .-i . i IB N Sockeye Jack McDonald (tap) will challenge Pets Belcastro (below) to prlxeflght In the Medford armory tonight. Immediately following the middle wrestling event between Mc Donald and Stave Strelich. McDon ald has purchased elght-ounca boxing gloves and vows to "make Pete fight or get out of town." STAND American League W. L. Pet. New York Boston Cleveland ..... S3 37 .883 08 48 . 80 03 00 00 .888 .009 .004 Detroit ... Washington , 00 00 .000 . 40 87 .033 . 48 74 .388 Chicago St. Louis ... , Philadelphia . , 44 78 .807 National League W. L. Pittsburgh New York . Chicago . 70 47 . 00 03 . 07 04 .009 .804 Cincinnati . 04 08 .633 Boston - Brooklyn . 89 89 .800 , 88 83 .400 St. Louis , 00 04 . 37 78 .403 .333 Philadelphia Paclflo Coast League W. L. 90 84 Pet. .084 .368 .848 Los Angeles Saoramento . 80 00 . 88 70 , 79 74 Seattle San Diego ........ .816 San Francisco 79 70 .813 Portland , 73 04 .408 Hollywood - . 71 83 . 00 09 .481 Oakland J67 TRY NEWTARGETS Scores at the smallbore rifle range tumbled from 30 to 80 polnta below normal yesterday when the new type Expert targets were Introduced for tne, first time. Perfect scores on theae targets would require placing 30 conseoutlve shots In an Inch circle at 100 yards and the same number Into a three-eights inch circle at 60 yards, or considerably better than arms and ammunition companies csn guarantee their prod ucts. Onjy perfect nerves and co ordination coming from long train ing will result In high scores, as every rifleman knows. Smallbore practice will be held as usual next 8unday morning on the Mentora mile club's range at upper Table Rock. Scores yesterday were: 00 yds. 100 yda. Total Mrs. Ivan Waddell.,184 193 378 Ivan Waddell 18S 184 373 Otto Howard 191 174 308 C. R. Richmond . 189 170 304 R. L. Bdwards 183 177 300 Mrs. 6. M. Tuttle....l78 181 368 C. O. Osll 174 170 860 Hllbert Young 170 173 348 FIRST SHOULD COME YOUR aa aw neAif i n io plan to tpand yourvtcition it RICHARDSON SPRINGS In 0i mountain. nt Oike, BuHel V.otiAty. North1 islitomia J You Will Find Eve Vacation AHractJoAi Svorjr Comfort and, without extra coat, tht Famous Htalth-Building Minora. Waters IF you havo your haalth, leap it If you'va lott it, rag sin it That Springs can do wondert for you. TO TIE G. PASSFOR TITLE Locals Launch 14-Hit At tack In Crucial Windup Hampel Hammers Pair Of Homers For 12-7 Win. Southern Oregon League (Final second-half) W. L. Pet. .878 .878 .760 376 .136 .000 Medford Grants Pssa Crescent City , Yreka Olendale Ashland . 7 1 1 3 5 7 8 7 8 8 1 0 Yesterdsy's Results At Medford 13, Crescent City 7. At Olsndale 3, Oranta Pass 11. , Medford's crashing Craters cata pulted themselves Into a tie with Grsnte Psas tor the second-half Southern Oregon league champion ship yesterdsy as Orvsl Hampel ham mered out a brace or home runs and Billy Calvert and Rlney Cook each alugged round-trlppers to pace the savage 14-hlt attack which routed Crescent City's Koll-leas Merchants, 13 to 7. Austin Prszler, president of the Medford Athletlo association, jaid today that Fred Roper, business man ager of the Oranta Pass Merchants, would come to Medford today to meet with local officials regarding the playoff game between the Craters snd Merchants for the second-half championship. The game will bo played next Sunday, either here or In Oranta Pass. The winner will play Crescent City, first-half champions, for the circuit pennant. Record Crowd A record-breaking crowd. Jamming both grandstands and hastily erected temporary bleachers, saw the men of Paul "Hooser" Hoffard clinch the contest with two five-run outbursts In the second and third Innings, then add a pair more for good measure In the seventh. With Lefty Mike Roll, Merchants' star hurler, registered at the University of California and un able to play semi-pro ball after aohool start in accordance with Pa clflo coast conference rules, the C la tere climbed aboard Warren Howe, young high school righthander, for seven runs and nine hits In the first two Innings and finished off on his successor, Righthander Ralph Deo, with five tallies on five hits In five Innings. Lyle Turpln, youthful righthander from Klamath Falls working his first gsme for Medford, went the whole route. He wsa touched for 14 hits. but after a shaky start settled down snd hurled greet ball for the last five frames. Crescent City got six runs In the first four heats, but from then on was almost entirely at Turpln's mercy. The nephew of Seattle's Hal Turpln showed a blazing fast ball and a beautiful knuckler. N Hampel Sparks Hltfest Hsmpel, the slender, left-handed hitting first baseman snd league leading batter, powered the Medford clubbing attack. His two home runs and a single In three trips to the plate drove In five tallies, and he scored three himself. His first circuit wallop came In the second Inning with Lewis on base, he singled sharp ly to center In the third Inning scoring two runners and his second homer came In the seventh with the basee empty. Cook's four-base drive followed Hsmpel's In the seventh, and waa socked to the same field, right center. Calvert poled his number four In the third with Sakralda on. The Merchants tallied once In the first inning when Matson walked, went to second on a wild pitch, took third when Cook threw wide to flrat after fielding Spann'a grounder, and scored when Hampel bobbled John ston's easy roller down the first base SAVE TIME Travel while you sleep! leave In the evening. Next morning you're la Portland or San Francisco, rtfmM and ready for work or pleasure after a good night's sleep. You'll save a lot of time. Train fares are low. For example; SAN FRANCISCO Onvtjf RfajntltlD Tourist Fare $0.45 18.00 lower Berth 1.71 3.50 trnrn M4frt In Coaches t.41 U.00 PORTLAND Owe tpif KetfttftHf lMCUMhrt $9. SS $14.83 Lower Berth 2.50 $.00 ( taBMUN isumm) Id Coaches IS lO.tS For detailed Information oo train schedules, just phooe: Southern Pacific r. U. MOKKia, Aleut. f uone 4 line. Single by Howe, Miller and Matson In the second made It 3 to 0 for Crescent City, and It looked like Medford's jinx of never having won from the Merchants on the local field might be Btlll working. Get Going In Second But, It wasn't. The Craters found the range on Howe In the second, and when It was all over five runs were in and the game was stowed away. After White went out, Lew la singled to left and Hampel bit his first bom er, screeching drive to left-center-Cook walked, Turpln singled to right and Sakralda 'singled to center scor ing Cook. Calvert singled to left and Turpln dented the plate. Hoffard forced Sakralda at the plate, then Hoffard and Calvert pulled a double steal, with Calvert scoring and the manager going to second. Bob Johnston, Crescent City catch er, drove .a home run to right-center to open the third, cutting Medford's lead to S to 3, but the Craters came right back In their half to aend Howe to the showers and take a long lead. White walked to start It and Lewis beat out a hit to the pitcher. They both advanced a base on a passed ball, and Hampel again came through in the clutch with a rousing one-base blow to center scoring 'them both. Hampel went to second on the throw In, and after taking third on a short single to right by Cook, first man to face Deo, scored as Turpln bit Into a double play. Sakralda got bit by a pitch and Calvert laced his homer to right-center. That made It 10 to 3. . Crescent City came back In the fourth with a three-run flurry to ! again draw fairly close, but that was 1 their final serious bid for victory, j Singles by Miller and Matson, Spann's double down, the leftfleld foul line, and Johnston's single did the business. The Merchants' only run after the fourth frame came In the sixth, when Johnston singled, took second on a passed ball and rang the bell on Deo's one-baser to i right. j Until Hampel and Cook slammed their consecutive home runs In the seventh, Medford went hit less follow ing their big third Inning. Lefty Miller, Crescent City first baseman, hurled the final Inning for the visi tors and retired the Craters on four pitched balls. Craters Give Support The Craters gave Turpln brilliant support In the field, Billy Calvert handling 13 chances at second base without a mishap and Dick Lewis took nine attempts at shortstop perfectly. In the flttii inning, Fram sted tripled to left-center but was out at the plate trying to stretch It, Hoffard to Cook to McLean. In the ninth Inning. Medford ended the game with a snappy double play, Lewis to Calvert to Hampel. Medford's victory gave them an even break In the four games played with Crescent City this season, and climaxed a determined drive to the second-half championship, during which Olendale was beaten twice, Yreka twice, and Ashland and Grants Pass once. Lone game lost by the Craters during the second-half was to Crescent City at Crescent City, 3 to 16. Box score: Crescent City (7) AB R H PO A E Miller lb-p S 1 2 10 1 0 Matson 2b 4 3 3 1 0 0 Spann If 5 1110 0 Johnston C...6 3 3 S 1 0 Deo 3b-p 6 0 3 0 1 0 Reynolds rf ........ 6 0 1 0 0 0 Framsted cf 4 0 1 0 0 0 Loffer as. 4 0 0 3 3 1, Howe p......l 110 0 0 R. Johnston 3b-lb 3 0 0 4 U 0 Totals 41 7 14 34 18 1 o Car " TESTE? AT 25 M.P.H. you should be able to stop in 25 feet AT 50 M.P.H. your car is 4 times as hard to stop AT 75 M.P.H. your car is 9 times as hard to stop 4.1'I4..!,.M.iU Listen to tha Vie f Flmtana, Monday tnlng NtttenwM N.B.C. B. Nitwark. FIRESTONE th and Rheralde Phone 520 Medford (12) AB It H PO A E Sakralda cf..4 110 0 0 Calvert 3b 8 3 18 6 0 Hoffard If x 0 1 0 10 McLean e 0 1 6 0 0 White rf. t 0 0 10 Lewis as 4 - 3 3 4 (0 Hampel lb.S S JO 0 3 Cook 8b....8 a 3 J 3-1 Turpln p 4 1 1 0 10 Total 2 88 13 14 37 IT 3 Runs bv Innlnaa: Crescent City. 111 Medford 088 301 000 7 3 Ox 13 000 Summary: Runs bstted.ln: Hamnel S, Calvert 3. Sakralda. Tiimln mnir Johnston 9. Sosnn a. sfatson. dm Two-base hits: Spann. Three-base hi'.: Framsted. Homet runs: Hampel t, laivert, cook, jotinston. Stolen bases: Hoffard a. naivrt.. tv.ki. plays: Lofter to Matson to Miller: una to wuier v Miner; Lewis to Calvert to Hamtwl. Piu k.ii.. Johnston, McLesn a. Hit by pitcher: Sakralda by Deo. struck out: by Turpln , Deo 4. Bases on balls; off Howe a, Deo a. Turoln l. ia 9 hlte off Howe In a Innings; 5 runs! uiM wt ueo in o innings; no runs, no hits Off Mlllsr In 1 iTtnlx. nnu pitches: Turpln S, Deo 1. Loslni pitcher: Howe. Umpires: Miles and Ross. Time of game: 3 hours 38 minutes. GEORGIANS CAPTURE WICHITA. Kas.. Ano on rim A Jubllsnt bsnd of ballplayers from Bufard, Oa., headed homeward today With aS.OOO rajih th natiAn.i pro championship and about all the uwici uuiiur. oiierea in the annual tournament here. Buford soueesed nut tfc cham pionship last night with a S-4 vic tory over the 1987' champion Enid. Okla., nine. Enid stopped Buford. 7-4, In the championship game last yesr. Enid collected S3.000 for second place. 31st Fatality Portland, Aug. 39. (API An au tomobile crashed Into the concrete railing of the Love Joy ramp Inter section on the Broadway bridge early today and killed Frank O. Oaet. 31. The death was the 81st traffic fatal ity here this year. The California Oregon Power Company TAKE IN HARRISON HOT SPRINGS, B. 0.. Aug. 39. (UP) Racing for national titles for the first time outside the United States, two California klckcr pilots late Sunday von the U. S. class O racing outboard motor run-about championships on Lake Harrison. Ward Angllley of Marysvllle won the amateur crown and Charles Ta bued of San Francisco annexed the professlonsl title events climaxing the greatest outbosrd rsclng Tegatta ever held at this scenlo vacation spot. Maneuvering his "Grand Slam" across the finish line seconds ahosd of Heinle Fluhrer of Medford. Ore., Dale Frazke of Fresno,' Cel., retained his U. S. nstlonal class F amateur championship In the rsclng runabout divisions. John Kovscevltch, Arvln. Cal., atid Fluhrer each won a heat In the amateur clasa for . F hydros, but Fluhrer's wave-hopper developed mo tor trouble In the first heat and consequently was not officially clocked. Fluhrer's time of 47.84 miles an hour In the second heat was the .astest of the day In the amateur class. ROSEBURG JUNIORS WIN FOURTH FROM EUGENE ROSEBURG, Ore.. Au?. 29. (AP) The Roseburg Legion .Tunlora Sun day defeated the Eugene Legion Juniors 9 to 7 In a baseball game here, making the fourth straight win by Roseburg over the Eugene squad. Score: R. h. E. Eugene ........ 7 B 6 Roseburg B 11 3 Smith. Mortensen and Oatlln; Mc Dougal, fiyrd, Puckett and Norton. KELLY RETAINS CALIF. AMATEUR GOLF TITLE DEL MONTE, Cal.. Aug. 29. f AP) Roger Kelly of Los Angeles hold another year's lease on the Callfor- nla state 'amateur golf championship title today. . The stocky, long driving law stu dent of Loyola university became the fourth player In the 21 year history of the tournament to win the crown twice In succession by defeating Bob McGIashan, San Francisco. 8 and 7, In the 36 -hole finals yesterday. a Trap and skeat practice shoot at the Medford Gun club registered a big attendance yesterday morning, a light wind making the targets Just tricky enough tor sporty shooting. High In the best 60 at 16 yards was Lamport with a 50 straight and 73 out of his total 70 shot at. Mendenhall, Jantzer and Daniels each had 49 out of 50, tlie latter with 73x75. Lemery was high In the handicap with 47 out of 50 while Jantzer had a 25 straight at 28 yards. At the skeet traps Brown had 74 out of 75 shot at, a remarkable score; DeVore had a 35 straight while Reese and Jantzer each had 24 out of 25 shot at. A number of visitors participated In the shoot and there were many onlookers. Next shoot will be Sun- day. September 11. New Klamath Agent SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 29. P) The promotion of H. R. Coulman of Seattle to be general agent at Klam ath Falls was announced today by Frank H. Hocken, Western Pacific as sistant freight traffic manager. When is a mile not a mile? SAM BATEMAN'S Sixth St. Shell Station AUTOMATIC ELECTRIC You will enjoy boby's bath as much as he does after you install one of these genuine WESIX automatic electric water heaters. No longer will it be necessary to put up with on obsolete, expensive, unsatisfactory method of heating water. These new automatic electric water heaters ore like giant thermos bottles. They use less electricity because practically none of the heat is lost through radiation. It provides on obundance of hot woter at exactly the right temperature os constantly os the cold water supply. Ask for complete details about the new water heaters and the special, "off peak," metered rate for woter heating. WILL SEEK EOF GAS TAX PORTLAND. Aug. 20. (AP) Ore gon cities will ask the 1930 lefts-, lature to give them approximately 7 percent of the state gasoline tax receipts for their streets. Mayor Chas. H. Hugglns of Marshfleld, president of the League of Oregon Cities, said such action bad been decided on at a Joint meeting of the league's exec utive and gasoline tax committees Sunday. The amount requested for dlstrl-r-('n to cities would be f;1.50 per capita. ' I he league argued that "traffic on city streets amounts to 33 percent of the travel on highways . . , and street users contribute one-third of the highway revenues receives from the gasoline tax. The cities request amounts to about seven percent of the tax revenues." Wheat Plan Lfked CCRVALLIS, Aug. 29 (JP) Oregon wheat growers are applying for crop Insurance In numbers Indicating pop ularity for the plan.- Clyde Kiddle, state supervisor of Insurance for farm crops, said today. Some 300 ap plications bad been received at mid August. To Eye Utility Values SALEM, Aug. 29? (AP) The state tax commission will hold hearings here September 19-24 to determine property valuations for all electric utilities operating In Oregon. The valuations will be used as a base for determining 1939 taxes. WATER HEATER
