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PAGE FOTTR M"EDFORT) MAIL TRTRUXE. MEDFORD. OREOOy. TUESDAY. SEPTEFBER 8, 1938. Eddie Simmons Wins Golf Crown in Dramatic Last Ditch Rally SLENDER STYL1S SHOOTS PAR GOLF TO FINISH ONE UP Harrington Holding Four Hole Lead at End First 18 Diok Sleeter Wins First Flight Honor IMS TOl'BHAMENr WINNER Championship nlsht. eddie Slmmon. Medford, beat mra Harrington, Madford, 1 up. First Fltfht. Clek Bleatar, Medford, Mat Inn Warrington, Medford, arid . Second Flight. tnistv Woodl, McMlnnvllla, Mat fesn Bberhart, Ashland, t rp. Third ntfht. J. t, Brady, San FYanelMd. tMtt yred Lannard, Medford, 8 and . Fourth FllfM. Wllsle prultt, Medford, beat Frank Hclnhart, Medford, 4 and I, Firth night. Bill Allan, Aahland, baat . Ruhl, Medford, 8 and I. SlitH Might. Sebastian Apollo, Medford, Mat A1 Ream, Medford, 1 up. seventh Flight. Jack Bentley, Aahland, Mat Don Hewhury, Medrord, 3 and 1. Second Flight (Connotation). L. L. Spencer, Roseburg, Mat Roy Prultt. Medford. 1 up on 30th. Third Flight (Consolation). Fred areen, Medford, beat Rat Par oris. Jr., Seattle, 9 and 3, Four'h Flight (ConMlatlon). Dr. I. R. Durno, Medford. Mat Bill Catey, Medt.vd, 1 up on aoth. Fifth Flight (Connotation). Jack Porter, Medford, beat Mai JPelroa, Medrord, 4 and 3. Sixth Flight (ConMlatlon). Oeorge Jail, Medford, beat Jerry Jerome, Medrord, 8 and 3. Hevcnth Flight (Consolation). F. Sneed, Redding;, Cl Mat Bd Dryadale, Medrord, 3 up. In a dramatic uphill battle that held a gallery or 1.000 In breathleaa suspense during the last nine holea, Medrord'a Eddie Simmons became the first three-time winner or the annual Southern Oregon-Northern California Coir tournament yesterday afternoon at the Rogue Valley Qolf elub, by dereatlng George Harrington, Junior high school athletic coach. In the an-hole final match. The margin was 1 up, the clash ending on the soth hole when Simmons aunk an 18-Inch putt for a par-four, while Harrington was taking a lira. Down four holea at the and of the morning 18, and still Mhlnd by three atartlng the final nine or the rternoon round, the slender Sim mona, considered the flneet form player In southern Oregon, brought smoking putter and red-hot Irons Into aotlon to slash away at the eemingiy unsurmountable handicap, Anally square the match on the SSrd hole, and battle It out on even terma with Harrington until tha rinal hole Third Victory. By Tlrtue or his spectaoular victory, Simmona, employe or tho Union Oil nmpany here and former Medrord high school athlete, won permanent possession of tha beautltul Larry Dcnaae tropny, the prlie to the tour nament champion since Its Inaugura tion 10 years ago. it marked tha third time In the past rive yeara Blmmona has crashed through to the top. Ho won the championship In ma ana 1B30. In his sensational rally on tha aiwmoon to overcome the four, hole lead Harrington developed M. fore lunch, Simmons turned In medal score or 70. perfect figures, while Harrington was taking a 7. Harrington toured the morning round In 73, while Simmona had a 78. The ehamplon reeled off nine straight pars starting the final IB. and on tha oars nine holes went over perfect usurps once, with a five on the 14th, "uv oirnirn tne ss-yard par-four 11th. Simmons' total medal score for an so notes waa 148. alt over par, and Harrington's waa 147. , Thrilling Finale. The match waa considered prob ably the moat thrilling ever ateged In the finals of the tournament. The two competitors, both under 38 yeara of age. both fine sportsmen and close friends, were as evenly matched aa any two golfers could be. Time after wme tneir driven were almost Iden tlest. ranging up to 3B0 yards, their Fmurw. on the whole, waa almoat ven-stephen. and It was only with the Irons that Simmons had a alight edge. Twice on the final 18, Harrlng- .n ovrr-pircned the green In crucial moments, and both times he did, Simmons was quick to take artvsn tago of the fact and win the hole. Simmons won tha 88th hole and the match when Harrington sliced his tee shot Into the rough a short distance from the fairway, and Ironed to within 71 feet of the pin. but atlll In the rough, on his second shot. Simmons' drive was stratum down the middle, 390 yards, and his second traveled to the left of the green and about 80 feet rrom the pin. Harrington ran his third shot up and over a bunker to within 30 reel or the pin. and Simmons, on hta third, uncovered a brilliant chip shot to ley his hall 18 Inches from the can. Ml.ses Final Pull. Harrington, with a righting chance atlll remaining, putted hard psst the hole, the ball Just grar.lng the rim. and then holed out tor hta rive, Simmona then dropped hla 18-lncher and sincere congratulations were In order. The champion squared the match on the 33rd bole, drawing abreast for the nrst time since the seventh of the morning round. He negotiated tha 170-yard, par-four bolt In stand- He Shoots Golf for Keeps sisssaaaaaMaaaaaawysaysPsaiiamaaiiiMiijj U -.lawitaffT rri'- JI.-J Youthful Eddie Simmons (above) Larry Sckad trophy yesterday by capturing the annual Southern Oregon Northern California golf title for the third time, Simmons, waging a stir ring uphill battle to defeat Oeorgr Harrington I up on the 38th green, turned In a par performance for the last eighteen holes. ard figures, while Harrington was taking a five, due principally to his second shot finding a sand trap over and at tha right of tha green Although Harrington mada a great recovery, exploding his ball to tha green, ha missed a six-foot putt which would have given him a halve. Tha next two holea thay halved, each belting out par foura, and the huge orowd wa tense with excite ment as they teed ofr up the hill to tha 88th, a straight shot 306 yarda away. Harrington Keeps Lead. At only one time during tha match, with tha exception of tha end, did Simmona lead. That waa when Har rington took a two-over-psr rive on tha fourth hole ot the morning round, while Simmons grabbed four. Harrington squared It on the aeventh, however, with a par-four, and than started to pound out a string ot birdie and pars and take commanding lead. The ultimate loser paired the 170- yard eighth to go one up, blrdled the par-five ninth to Increase his lead to two, blrdled tha par-three loth to make It three up. blrdled tha par-rour nth to go rour up. and parred the short 13th to send Simmons five down. That was the longest lead Harrington enjoyed dur ing tha day, and It apeared the blonda Junior high coach and former Llnfleld college star was on hla way to hla nrst tournament champion ship. Simmon took the lath, 14th and 18th with par-roura, but Harrington had another birdie In hla system on the 18th, a three, to go three up again. And. he came through with atlll another birdie on the 17th to make his advantage tour up. They halved the 18th to go to lunch, with Simmona still tour down. During that naming exhibition or Harrington's on the tlrst 18. he card ed rive birdies and aeven pars, and went over perfeot figures six times. Simmona ahot 13 para and no birdies Sink tang Putts. Starting the afternoon 18. Simmons won tha first hole when Harrington missed an 18-Inch putt. They halved me next three holea. and on the SSrd Simmona cut his opponent's lead to two up when Harrington rltched over the green and took s rive to Simmons' psr-four. Harring ton mada a great shot on the 35th. when he stood almost In the center of a bush and smscked his ball onto the fslrway to ultimately gain a halt on the hole. On the 37th. Harring ton, whose putter waa alternately hot and cold during the afternoon, drop ped a 18-rooter ror a blrdte-rour and lead or three holes again. They halved the 3th. then Sim mons began to turn on the heat with series or brllllsnt shots. He canned 30-toot putt on the 39th tor a blrdle-three. ehnnnin Kap.in9.nn-a lead to two holes, and came right back on the 30th with par-three. while Harrington was again pitching over the green, to become only one nown. Harrington's putter waa hotllng again on the 81st. coming through with a 13-fonter to earn him a halt and the S3nd was also halved, each of them being one over par. Sim mons then deadlocked t!.e struggle on tne 33rd. and after the nest two were halved, he won on the home hole for the match and champion ship. On the final 18 holes. Simmons whammed out 16 para, one htrdle and one over-par. Hsrrlnvtnn hoi II para, one birdie, and went over perfect figures six times. Come Through Hard Way. Simmons, in blasting his wav to the title, beat ntck Sleeter In the first round, 5 and 3; Jack Wooda In the second round. 6 end 4: Oeurge Psrsons of Seattle In the quarter rinala. and 3: and Leland Clark Jr.. or Medford in the seml-rinala. and 3 Harrington. In ahootlna hi way Into the championship match, eliminated Tom Fmmons In the first round. 5 and S; Rob Wood the second round. 3 end 3: and Hubert Bentley of Ashland, last year s 1 V'-rVi.':.M became permanent possessor of the winner, In the scml-flnals, 3 and 3. The four-day tournament waa this year conceded the finest ever held, In every respect. The entry list wss well over 130, golfera coming from aa far north aa Seattle and south to San Francisco, and they were greeted by aunahlne and comfortable weather throughout, with the exception of a rive-mlnute riurry or rain yesterday attemoon. The course waa In won derful condition and drew numorous compliments rrom visiting shot makers. For the tenth straight year the tournament was directed by Don Clark, and ha was highly praised ror the excellent manner In which the affair waa coducted. He, In turn, expressed his sincere thanks to every one for their fine cooperation In making the tournament such sn out standing success. Many Prises Awarded. To all night winners and runners up, and to all wlnnera or oonsolatlon bracket, the Rogue Valley Oolr club awarded handsome prlsses. ranging rrom golf balls to beautiful trophies and traveling bags. In a driving contest after the finals. Simmona won tlrst nlaoe with the longest ball, and Bill Selkirk. Jr., had the best average In three shots. Championship medal scores follow: (Morning round) Hnrrlngton Out 84484843 498 In 38858638 8 3473 Simmons Out . 84444864 540 In 84444444 83878 (Afternoon round) Harrington Out 8448S84S 487 In 34448844 43875 Simmona Out . 444S4543 538 In - 38845444 43470 HOW THEY? STAND American league W. 80 New York Boston Cleveland ... 74 78 88 S3 53 48 48 Detroit Washington , Chicago St. Louis Philadelphia Nnllnnal League W. Pittsburgh 78 Cincinnati ... 73 Chicago . 71 New York ...... 69 n.-ston 65 St. Louis 61 ro?l"!'n 87 r'"'"Pha 40 Pacific Coast Los Angeles Sacramento Seattle an Diego .. San Francisco . Portland . Hollywood Oakland PIKES PEAK CHAMPION SMASHES OWN RECORD COLORADO SPRINGS. Colo.. Sept. a (UPI txuls Unser of Colorado Springs, defending chsmpion In the annual lJihor day auto race ip pikes reek, led one of the rsstest fields In the hlatnry of the event Yester day to smsAh his own record end win a 11,590 prlre. 1'iner ran the la-mlle course In 15;4. to better his previous record of 16:018. It was Unser. fmirth straight win. Danish tobacco e-citerta estimate - thai Denmark "motel more tohacco In H37 then ever before, riarsretle l tosllri man th.n 1. 500,000,000 unit. League W. L ..... lit IK 01 71 aa 7 4 71 1 81 73 al 74 m MINGLE AS BUDGE CLINCHES TROPHY American Line Judge Calls Series of Foot-Faults On Australia's Adrian Quist at Disconcerting Moment Br narle Talbot PHILADELPHIA. Sept. 6. (AP) - The glittering Davis cup. symbolic of world team tennl supremacy, re malna In these United States for an other year, and tha maligned foot fault has reared Its ugly hesd again When Donald Budge had finished polishing ofr Adrlsn Quist or Aus tralia by score of 8-6, 6-1, 6-3 In tha match that settled the challenge round out at the oermantown Cricket club yeeterday, Frank Hunter, an old American Internationalist, salo, "Gee, It made me feel like I waa In Psrls again." Hunter had reference to tha faot arter tha French had won the big trophy from America 11 years ago they were very stubborn about turn ing It loose again. Visiting Amer ican teams complained French line Judges were extremely valuable In the French cup defense, and Inter national black looks were exchanged one year when W 1 1 m a r Allison thought he had defeated Oene Bor- ota of France In the deciding match but couldn't make It attck. As Quist Threatened What happened yesterday waa that an American line Judge, one Harold La Balr of New York, called a series of disconcerting foot-faulta against Quist at the exact point In the opening set when the little Austral Ian was blazing hot and threatening to give the worlds top amateur a trimming. Whether Quiet In any circum stance could have licked Budge and carried the challenge round to the tlnal match between Bobby Rlggs and Jack Bromwlch la subject to serious doubt, but the decision cost the Invader whatever chance he had and made the crowd of over 9,000 fighting mad. The referee had to calm them down twloe. Harry Hopman. captain of the Aus tralians didn't complain. He said he thought Quist waa foot-faultlng. What tha crowd and several prom inent American tennis orflclsls com plained about was the way La Balr WBlted Until the moat CrilClnl nnlnla of the all-Important first set. It broke Quiets confidence so completely he proceeded to lose his service eight straight times, possibly a record for blg-tlme tennis. If. S. In Danger Budge'a tennl had been so Indif ferent on tha previous day, when he and Oene Malta lost, t.h- rfn.ia. match to Quist and Bromwlch by 0-6, 6-3, 6-4, 6-3, there was active rear he would lose to Oul.t flam. experta still thought after the match wuiai mignt nave pulled It off but for hla acrvlce lapses. Aa thing turned out. Budge'a vic tory waa the vital one Ka,..A Dromwlch beat the tar out of Hlggs In the concluding singles mstch. 6-4. 4-6. 6-0, 6-3, giving America a final winning margin of only 3-3 over tha acropplng Ausslea. Scores Yesterday American league Philadelphia 3-3, New York 6-6. Boston 14-8, Washington 4-6. Cleveland 6-4. Chicago 4-3. Detroit 2-9. St. Louis 3-3. Niitlminl League New York 7-3. Phllscleiphla 0-4. Brooklyn 4-3. Boston 6-6. Chicago 3-4, Pittsburgh 0 8. St. Louis 3-3. Clnclnnntl 4-4. Coot l.niRiie Sfln Dlrgo 8-1. Sacramento 3-3. Los Angeles 1-6. San Ktnncisoo 3-4 Oakland 3-7, Hollywood 1-1. Seattle-Portland, rain. OOf-COr. IfJS, IF YOU AM THIS TYPE YOU'LL I UKg THIS BOURBON '""' . "rs-" ". H stlenlMi JV " .! r J I i In flreson .BBI,1,aaaaasaaaastasasaas I Sport Graphs Billy Hulen tayi: Six-Man Football Is Proposed for Class B Schools Bix-mn football, that boon to flmaJl high Mhools which hftven't the man-power, the playing facilities nor the tlo-rc-mt to properly equip grid ?quadi of he re g u 1 atlon 11 man variety, seems almost cer tain to make its debut amng class B high schools of Jack son county this season. Bob Woods Jacksonville high mentor, first suggested the program about a week ago, and now almost every Billy Hulen, coach In the nine county Institutions Is burning with enthusiasm over the prosppct of sending abbreviated pigskin outfits Into action. Woods hj contacted sev eral of the class B skippers and a meeting will be held sometime this week .to attempt organization of a league. At this time there seems lit tle doubt but that a circuit will be formed, with six and possibly eight county high schools entering teams. Rlney Cook. ex-Llnfleld college ath lete and new Phoenix high head man is positively In favor of the six-mar. grid gnme, and so are Roy Parr. Jr.. new Talent school superintendent: Lester WllsDn, Prospect coach: and Ken Hulbert, Central Point mentor. Arnold Oosnell. starting his first year at Engle Point and Ken Schill ing, new Butte Falls csach. hadn't yet been contacted by Woods, but was believed they would also be tr favor of the program. Gold Hill and Rogue River high schools have yet to name their athletic directors. Jacksonville and Central Point had planned to produce regulation 11- man football teams but according to the Jacksonville coach, ooth would be only too gled to ashcan the ldnn and go wholeheartedly for the Mx man variety. If the rest of the coun ty's schools fell In line and formed a league. There is no logical reason why such a loop can't bo organised. Smaller prep schools the nation over are turning to the game for their au tumn sports activity, and the county would prove an Ideal setup for a league. Kiiles for Mx-man fool hull don't differ greatly from thoe of the 11 -man variety except In the sire of the playing field and minor differences In equipment and of fensive tactics. Tennis composed of a half-dozen plRsklnnrr play on a grlillrnn 80 yards long. In stead nf 100. and 40 yards wide, dented shoes nre not allowed In the slx-mnn gnme, hut other equipment Is the same. The back field mnn receiving the hall from center on offense must pas the oval, either forward or Internlly. at Icnt two yards before the at tacking team can attempt an ad vance. In the six-man variety, there are three players on the line r.nd three In the back field, on offense two enda and a center, and a fullback. quarterback and one halfback. Ag gregations on defense can spread uut In any fashion, as In the U-m.in game. On six-man clubs, every player but the center. Is eligible to receivt forward passes, which throws the game wide open. Report from dif ferent part of t he country where the game has been played ..tate that it Is far more spectacular, from the customers' standpoint, than is the rec ulnt ion 11-man game. With only 13 men on the field, the hall is In plain sight at all times. It is pasd with wild abandon because all but one of the offensive teams1 player nre ellplble to receive, and there are laterals, reverses, and every other form of football magic produced as SCMNUV Du:ii8UIOS,INCHY.C i R y n. mm tha team srioot for touchdowns and let the defensive angle take cars of Itself. As for the cost of outnttlng squad, of course It would flepend upon how equipment was pur chased. Woods' suggestion Is that schools contact the class A In tltutlons and the Normal school at Ashland and arrange to buy uniforms, helmets and pads sec ond-hand. With cleated shoes not allowed, considerable sating would be made there. All players are supposed to wear basketball shoes which are much cheaper than football klrkers. Fall ha always been a dull ath letic season among the class B high schools for the simple reason that few of them have enough male stu dents attending to turn out regula tion football teams, In addition to being pretty hard pressed for money to spend on sports. But now, with this new six-man gridiron business sweeping the country and providing athletes with something to do until basketball opens up, the autumn season should take Its rightful plice in the sports picture. This depart ment will go the limit In assisting such a program to get started and carry on. i SEE MARGIN FADE By Associated Press The Pittsburgh Pirates, who stum bled around for weeks without suf fering any damage beyond that to their self-esteem, today awoke to the face the law of averages, as well as the Reds and Cubs, are catching up with them. Emerging from yesterday's holiday festivities on the short end of two games with Chicago, the battered Buccaneers also discovered their Na tional league lead had been cut by two full games. For while the Cubs were whipping them, 3-0 and 4-3, the Reds were taking 4-3 and 4-3 de cisions from the Cardlnsls a com bination of circumstances which left Cincinnati only four games off the pace In second place and Chicago live games away In third. Even the breaks went against the Pirates, except at the box office. An overflow crowd of 43,646, largest of the day's total big league attend ance of 170.560, at Forbes field saw the Cubs score three unearned runs to take the first game despite Ed Brandt's five-hit pitching Job. They then won the second on a ninth inning ground ruLe double by Carl Reynolds and Hank O'Dea's single. RIFLE COMPETITION CAMP PERRY, Ohio, Sept. . (AP) The sharp-shooting eight-man Cal ifornia national guard team won the National Rifle assoclatlon'a annual Infantry rifle mstch Monday over 70 other squads. The winning score was B5i. The U. S. Infantry team waa sec ond with 647 point. The Indiana national guard waa third with 601, while Florida and North Dakota squad tied for fourth with 600 each. Clarence E. Ward, of tha Los Ang el's police team, won the national individual pistol championship with a score of 385. Al Hemming, of the Detroit police team, waa second with 374 and Mark B. Wheeler, of the Los Angelea police aquad, wa third with 373. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press. BALTIMORE SUto Fjwih.r 133. Puerto Rico bantamweight chsmpion ouipoimea lou Tran&psrentl, 1131,, Baltimore (10), non-title. BENTON HARBOR. Mich. Jimmy Buckler, 133. Louisville, knocked out Kid Brock. 135, Galveston. Tea., (7). SYRACUSE, N. T Walter Wood, 163, New York.. outpointed Ralph De John. 164, Syracuse, (). Closing time for Poo Late to Clas ilfy Ada la 1:30 p. in. Modern -Type Construction Calls For CEMENT Use This Dependable Southern Oregon Product "BEAVER BRAND" PORTLAND CEMENT BEAVER PORTLAND fjEMEf.T CO. GOLD HILL, OREGON Bold in Medford by Medford Concrete Construction Co Porter Lumber Co Timber Products Co., Economy Lumber Co., Wallace Woods Lumber Co.. Big Pines Lumber Co , Medford Lumber Co Roscoe Turner Recaptures World's Air Speed Laurels By Devon Francis , (Associated Press Aviation Editor) Cleveland. Sept. -A big guy. with a wide, toothy grin, ha recap tured the world's choicest aviation trophy for the United Statea at a speed which those foolish visionaries used to write about In tha days of tha one-hosa shay. Snugly seated In a allver-hued rao- Ing plane, Roscoe Turner of Chicago breezed around a ten-mile course for 8314 minutes yesterday to Jack up to 363.419 miles an hour the pace for the 300-mlla Thompson trophy race. In anneilng the final event of the three-day national air raoea. Turner exceeded by It miles an hour the pace set by Michel Detroyat of Prance In the same race at Los Angeles In 193S. As an overtone to the squabble among eight entries for 145.000 worth of prlie money. Turner and Earl Ort' man of San Diego fought a private duel for the lead almost the entire distance. Ortman had out-flown Turner at Oakland only last May. Ortman fought odds too great to- overcome after Turner took an option on the lead at the 50-mlle mark. Turner's ship, rounding the pylons and flattening Into the straightaways at a 300-mlle-an-hour clip, wa faster. Moreover, toward the close Ort man'a oil pressure began ebbing. With his control stick In his stom ach, he pulled high, ready to aban don ship with his parachute If neces sary. HI windshield wa sprayed with oil. Ha wirelessed the airport control tower a warning, anxious to finish If he could, even with a frorn motor. The field was cleared for him. With three laps to go, he hung doggedly to Turner's heels. He flash ed over the line In second nlace. wheeled about, cut his Ignition switch and shot In blindly, guided entirely by radioed Instructions. For Turner, victory wa peculiarly consoling. Apart from the fact that he pocketed (18.000 first place prlsy money and M.000 more ror getting new Thompson record, he flnslly broke through to cross the finish line head of the field In an event which he had "blown" twice. On two oter occasion Turner "cut" pylons and lost the race. 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