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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FTVE Craters Battle Crescent City In League Title Game, 2:30 Today TilTPFOnn MATT, TRTBTTNTE. MEDFOTW, OTtECiOX. SUNDAY. SEPTEMBER IS. WIN MEANS TITLE, TURPIN TO PITCH CRUCIAL BATTLE Chance Looms For First Pennant In Ten Years For City New Umpires On Job. , With thslr thundering war clubs cocked and primed for a savage dis play of offensive pyrotechnics, Med ford'a crashing Craters mova Against th classy Crescent City Merchants this afternoon at the high school park In the second of their three game playoff series for the 1938 Southern Oregon league baseball championship. The battle starts at 3:30 sharp. Medford may clinch the pennant today. A win for the Craters, follow ing on the heels of their 7 to 6 vic tory at Crescent City last Sunday, will bring to this village Its first league title In over 10 years. A win for Crescent City and the series will be deadlocked, necessitating a third and deciding encounter. Pitching for Manager Paul "Hoos ler" Hoffard's Medford club, which blasted Its way to the second-half championship by copping eight out of nlns games will bo youthful Lyle Turpln of Klamath Palls, the prom ising righthander with the beautiful knuckler and snapping hook. Turpln Is undefeated In thla loop, having won all his three starts to pitch the Craters Into the playoff series. Two of those wins were against Crescent City, and he Is figured to again set the Merchants back on their haunch es today. Crescent City's mound choice Mm among three hurlers, Manager Roy Deo of the caast club announced yes terday. They are Jim Klrby, the flashy third baseman, who compiled a fine record In the San Panclsco winter league: Byron Miller, the south pay first baseman who Is In experienced in the box but who is reported to possess plenty of twist ers; and Chub Howe, the high school righthander. Manager Deo stated he wouldn't announce his hurling sec tion until Just before game time. Word was also received from Cres cent City yesterday that Bob John ston, heavy-htttlng catcher, would be back of the plate for the Mer chants, today, adding much In the way of potential run-making assets, The Craters, determined to end the & series In two straight games, will take the field with the same lineup that has seen action the last month. Tonv my White, right fielder and Cliff "Chief" McLean, catcher, returned Friday night from Portland, where they worked out with the Beavers for a week, and are in perfect shape. Orval Hampcl'a injured wrist la ex pected to be sufficiently healed for him to hold down first base: Billv Calvert will be on second. Dick Lewis on short; Rlney Cook on third: Hot- fa rd In left and Dick Sakratda In center. Because of the extremely bitter rivalry between the two clubs, which reached lta peak last Sunday at Cres cent City when umpires were shower ed with pop bottles end players al most rioted, neutral officials will oe used In today's game. Phillips of Glendnle will probably work behind the plate, and Rlggs of Grants Past may coll them on the bases. Harmon of Klamath Falls could not be ob tained, as he Is working the North ern California league playoff ganm At 1 o'clock this afternoon, officials of both teams will meet with League President Dom Provost of Ashland to A aettle Crescent City's protest of last week's game, which Is based on the alleged Ineligibility of Wally Rlckert Medford utility player. The meeting will be held behind closed doors. In five games played between the two clubs this season, Medford ha? won three of them, and two encoun ters have been protested. Every time the Craters and Merchants have clashed on the playing field the re sult has been a near riot, and today's squabble figures to be the toughest of the season, for both team. A record-breaking crowd Is expected. In case the Craters end the series today, they will meet the Klamath Falls Red Sox here next Sunday in an Inter-league tilt. The Portland WHENEVER THE QUESTION MONEY O HAS YOU GOING 'ROUND IN CIRCLES CALL TO SEE US. OUR CASH LOAN PLAN WILL SOLVE YOUR PROBLEM. OREGON FINANCE 00 W. E. Thnm Mr. IS S. fnlral IMinn l l.lrrn.f No. S-SII, M-S17 Prontl ind Auo toini Grant Beaten .a W.h.V.-..1v.w.v.- Hrvnn "BltM" Cirant of Atlanta. tiimnl Mngles rh!iinpi(Hi.hls n(, Vorest bv Sldnev Wooil of New York, fl-2, golns after a quirk return, by Ornnt, field. 1 (By The Associated Press) Joe Prep unfurled the 1938 Oregon high school football season with a series of warm-up game over the week-end and favorites came throuzh with expected victories In moat of them. Defending champion Jefferson high of ' Portland blanked n team from across the Columbia at Multnomah stadium when the Democrats de feated Vancouver. Wash.. 14-0. Astoria repulsed an invasion by The Dalles. 26 to 0. aa the Fisher men's new coach, Norvllle May. made his debut at Astoria. The Dalles was unable to get beyond the Fishermen's 35-yard line. Htllsboro went to Forest Grove and won. 6-0. Klamath Falls toyed with the Hill military team frnm Portland oh the Klamath Falls gridiron and won. 40-6. Hood River disponed of Lebanon In convincing fashion. 19-0. Mllwaukie ran over McMinnvllle In an opener at McMinnvllle, 29 to 6. Baker downed John Day under a hot sun In an afternoon game at Baker. 24 to 0. Mil ton-Free water put up a spirited battle against Walla Walla high at Walla Walla but succumbed to the Washington eleven, 12 -6. Beaverton whipped Vernonla at Vernonia, 33 to 7. Union used more than 20 men In defeating Halfway at Union, 31-13. Grant high of Portland got a hard ftht from Long view, Wah., at LonR vlew but pulled out with a 14-7 victory. 4 Couch Gporge Harrington wnds h'ft Medford Junior high footbnll team Into action for the first time thl year next Thursday afternoon at Von Scoyoc field, the Juniors closhtnii with the Jacksonville high Miners of Coach Bob Woods. The encounter will start at 4 o'clock. Three other (tames have been j scheduled for the Medford Juniors. . Harrington announced, and several i others are pending. Sept. 30. Central : Point high will tangle with the local ' Juniors at the high school field tn a night game: the Medford team will ; play Grants Pass frosh at Grant j Pass, Oct. 7; and on Oct. 14. Ash ' land Junior high will appear here. Hsrvsrd astronomers announce that they have found a temperature drop of 1.500 degrees between the surface of tht sun and Its over-lying atmos phere. Beavers will be in town Tuevlar. September 7, for an exhibition en counter with the Medford team, tlw game closing the season. If Its GLASS We Have It If Its MINIMUM COST We Have It Now is the time to replace broken Auto Olasa and Window Olau You Can Alwaya Save at Medford 'a Only Exclusive Olana Shof 36 S. Bartlett MedfOfd GlaSS CO. Phone 446 By Woods :&e& -?tav$ On., went out of the mrn s na- llllh. N. .. when he was trounced 0-2. The aclle Wood Is shown who Is at the farther end of the HUNTERS PREPARE L With the open season on buck deer only two days away, many southern Oregon hunters have already packed up their groceries, blankets and fire arms and started their annual trek Into the mountains to pitch camp and be ready for the zero hour Tuesday, 30 minutes before sunrise. There are no changes of any kind In the deer hunting laws this season. Open season Is from September 20 to October 25. Bng limit la two Columbian blacktall or one mule deer having not less than forked horns. State police game department of ficers report that deer are plentiful, with most of them being higher In the mountains than usual, probably because of better feeding -In the upper altitudes. No word ha been received from upstate regarding the closing of national and state forest reserves because of fire hazards. ASHLAND BEATEN BY I A triple lateral pass good for 35 yards and A touchdown late In the fourth quarter enabled Weed high to break a o-all deadlock and defeat Ashland's Grir.zlles at Ashland Fri day night, 13 to 6, In the first fo3t- ball game of the season In southern Oregon. Angels Glorgls, Weed right halfback, scored the touchdown. The Callfomtans let 6 to 0 at the end of the first half, their touch down coming In the first quarter when Olorgla Intercepted a flat pass and raced AS yards to the goal line. The OrlMlles csme back to tie the count In the third period, with Char lie Warren bucking It over after a forward pass from Harris to Jessel gained 30 yards. Ashland outgalned the wtnnors. 138 yarda to 120, and made seven first downs to Weed's five. The game marked the first time In two years the Weed goal line has been crossed. : RACING HAVRE DE GRACE, M1.. Sept. 17. tPi Time Alone, 2-year-old brown colt, running hla second race, won hla flrct victory today in the fea tured aio.000 added Eastern Shore handicap over a field of IS. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. f Por ter's Mite, a ao to 1 shot owned by W. E. Boeing, hung up a new world's record for a six and a half furlong on a straightaway course In defMtins 13 other 3-year-olds today In the Champagne stakes, Belmont park's prep for the October 1 renewal of the 1100.000 futurity. Closing time tor loo Late to Clfts rUy Ads is t ;S0 p m. GREENBERG AHEAD OE RUTH'S RECORD Yanks Lose But Near Loop Title White Sox Rookie Hitting Fool. DETROIT. Sept. 17. (AP) Big Hank Greenberg went out rn front of Babe Ruth's record home run schedule today with a pair of round trip blows that gave the Tigers a 7 to 3 victory over the New York Yankees. The four-badgers were his 62nd and 63rd of the season. The first came In the opening frame with one mate on base and the second cama in the fifth with two aboard. Big Hank rounded out the day with two singles for a perfect batting after noon. The game was the Tigers' 139th lu the league standings, or 140th If tie Is Included. Ruth, back In 1927 when he act the all-time high of 60 homers In one year, did not hit his 53rd until the Yankees' 142nd game of that campaign. He had whacked No. 92 In the 139th game. In clouting his two homers, Orcen berg also had the distinction of equalling a major league record Jim my Foxx of the Boston Red Sox broke only a few weeks ago. This was for hitting a pblr of four-baee wallops In one game nine times dur ing a season. Despite tha defeat, the Yankees gained ground In the American league pennant chase. Slnee Boston 'i second place Red Sox were defeated In Cleveland, the Yanks now need only one victory or a loss for Bos tonto clinch their third straight loop championship. Score: R. H. E. New York $ S 1 Detroit 7 10 0 Pearson and Dickey; Benton and York. ST. LOUIS, .Sept. 17. (AP) The Washington Senators went on a hit ting spree and collected 33 aafc blowa. Including eight doubles, two trlplea and three home runa, to win a double victory over the St Louis Browne here today, 10 to 10 and 11 to 1. First game: B. H. E Washington 10 17 3 St. Louis 9 11 Monteagudd, Weaver. Kelly and Livingston. Giuliani; Vanatta, John son and Sullivan. Second game: R. H . B Washington 11 16 0 St. Loula 1 5 0 Krakauskaa and Giuliani; BUdllll, Cole and Heath. CLEVELAND. Sept. 17. ( AP) Sett Hrath continued hie batting ram page today, pounding; out his 15th home run and three singles to lead the Cleveland Indians to a 6-4 vie tory over the second -place Boston club. The outcome left the tribe one game behind the Red Sox the same place they were when the four-game scries started. Jimmy Foxx also colic ted four hits, Including his 48th home run. Score: R. H. E. Boston 4 10 a Cleveland - fl 11 0 Wilson and Desautels; Whltehllt. Humphries and Hemsley. CHICAGO, Sept. 17. f AP) Mervyn Conners, White Sox rookie flrat base man rocalled from Shreveport two weeka ago, blasted out three consecu tive homers In the second game to day as Chicago swept a double header with the Philadelphia Athletics. 8 to 4 and 7 to 4. The youngster's feat fell one short of Lou Gehrig's record of four In a row In ft game June 3, 1983. Conners' fourth effort was a double. First gsme: R, H. E. Philadelphia , 4 13 3 Chicago 8 13 3 Oumpert, Buxton and Wagner; Lyons and Sewell. Second game: R H. E. Philadelphia 4 8 1 Chicago .. T 9 I Ren Inge r and Wager; Knott and Tresh. denlnr Oolf Champ PORTLAND. Sept. 17. (P) l. Storm of Portland became the atate aenlor aaaoclatlon golf champion yea terday when he beat Often r Puntaet, alo of Portland. I up, In tha tour nament final. MEDFORD ARMORY MONDAY NIGHT Alvin Britt Tiker Tsakoff Paul Murdock vs. Charley Cary Hugh Adam vs. Nick Bozinu (Blark Secret) CUBS TAKE PAIR TO TIGHTEN RACE ffl BOSTON. Sept. 17. Shut out for eight Innings. Pltuburgb'a plucky Pirates came from behind today to score two runs In tho ninth and edge out the Boston Bees. 3 to 1, In the rubber contest of the three game aer ies. Both teanw bscked up airtight pitching with errorless ball. Despite their victory, tho Buca -nw their National leaguo lead cut to two and a half gnmna as the second place Chicago Cuba took two fnm New York. R. H. t. Pittsburgh J 0 Boston - - 1 0 Kllnger and Todd: Sliotfner and Lopes. NEW YORK. Sept. 17. (m The Chicago Cubs climbed to within 3't snmes of the pace-setting Pittsburgh Pirates In the hot National league race today by sweeping a doublehead er with Bill Terry's fading Olants be fore a crowd of 2J.J57. Bill Lee was tagged or 13 hits in the opener, but air-tight support, in- eluding three double playa. gave him a 4 to 0 decision, his third straight shutout and his eighth of the year. Stan Hack hit ft two-run homer and drove In the deciding run with a single to take the nightcap 4 to 3 beoro darkness and rain halted play at the end of the seventh. (First game) R. Chicago 4 New York 0 Lee and Hartnett: Wlttng, H. E. 7 0 13 1 Brown, Coffman and Dannlng. (Second game) (Called end of 7th because of rain and darkness). R. H. r. Chicago 4 8 1 New York 3 8 0 Bryant and Odea; Lohrman, Oum bert and Panning. St. Louts-Brooklyn, rain. Cincinnati-Philadelphia, ratn. TO FACE HOSTAK SEATTLE. Sept. 17. (AP) Al Hos tak of Seattle, new middleweight champion, will be shooting for his 17th consecutive knockout when he meet Harden (Young) Stuhley of Chicago In a 10-round, non-title bout here Monday night. Agalnat Stuhley. however, Hoatak will be tangling with one of the cleverest boxing-dancing maatera of the ring. The Chicago boy traveled 30 rounds In three fights with Fred die Steele without hitting the can vas. The scrap will be Hostak's first showing since he won the title from Steele with a first-round knockout In July. Football Scores (By the Associated Press) Elon 7; Virginia Military Institute, 33. Emory and Henry 0, Virginia Tech. 33. Norfolk Naval Training Station 0, William and Mary 37. Presbyterian 0, Clem son 36. Csrson-Newman 30, Mars Hill 0. Wyoming university 30, Fort War ren 7. Statlstlr, Indicate that at leaat 138,000.000,000 pounda of plant food elementa are removed from the aoll by eroalon In the United State, each year. For All Klnda of P.lertrle vrirlnt; or Repairing Call OLSON ELECTRIC Phone IIS. X N. Bartlelt Authorlted Iluco-Dnlui Auto Reflnl,hln Station Daily's Auto Painting 2f) South Bart left Seat, on aale at BROWN'S, Tel. 101. VALENTINE'S Ctrl. Tel. ta 8 AND 7 VICTORY IN NAT 16-1 Putt Greens Outclass Abbott Champion Loses Putter In Rush Admirers. OAKMONT COUNTRY CLUB. Oak- mont, Pa., Sept. 17. ( AP) William Peter Turnesa, bashful 33-year old seventh son of the noted New York golfing clan, climbed to the national amateur links throne today over Oak mont's tricky terrain and then lost to some admiring gallerylte tho "maglo wand" putter with which he won the light to rule. Turneaa, better known as "Willie." the only slmon pure among tho seven brothers, romped to an 8 and 7 victory over B. Patrick Abbott of Pasadena, Cal., In the 36-hole finals on the 42nd annual championship. giving one of the greatest exhibi tions of trap-escaping and putt-drop ping the big fairway feature has ever witnessed. Aa the last putt dropped on the 39th green the gallery of several thousand, which already had nudged two of Tumeaa'a flying shots into traps, swarmed over the putting sur face and hoisted the youngster shoulder high. The putter he used but once on 18 of the 39 greens, was lost In the shuffle. Someone walked away with It as cameras clicked and Willie grinned shyly In the midst of the big crowd. The 16-one putt greens spelled vic tory for Turnesa. for he won nine of those holes and tied atx others to strangle any hope Abbott had of adding the national amateur laurels to the public links crown he won two years ego. The California stock com pany actor played good enough golf from tee to grem but he couldn't stand up under the heart-breaking parade of one-putters that Turnesa tired at Mm, STARTS TUESDAY SEATTLE, .Sept. n-(AP) The pacific Northwest golf championship and a purse of $500 will be at stake Tuesday and Wednesday when pro and amateurs battle over 73 holna at the Earllngton golf club here. One of tho strongest field's of thrt annual meet made up of sharp-shooters from Oregon, Washington Brit ish Columbia will shoot for the crown held by Stan Leonard of Van couver, B. C. Many of the contestants also plan to compete In the first annual pro- salesman tournament, ft novel event in which some 300 persons are ex pected to take part at the Flrcrest club, Tacoma, Monday. , Sun spota are dark, cloud-like re glons from 500 to 50,000 miles In dls meter which last from a day to a week and In number In 11-year cycles. LAMPORT'S BIG BUCK CONTEST RULES 1 Hunters do not have to reg ister. 2 Deer must be displayed at Lamport store for one hour (Optional with Mr. Lamport) 3 No person barred, hunting supplies may be purchased at any store in any town. I Deer entered in this contest must not be entered in any other contest. 5 $15.00 in merchandise for lar gest mule deer displayed at Lamport's store. 6 $15.00 in merchandise for lar gest black tail deer displayed at Lamport's store. BASEBALL TRY OUT With downs of young baseball players from point in southern Ore gon and northern California signed up for trials. Mickey Shader and Hank Severeld move Into Medford next Wednesday to conduct the an nual baseball t ryout camp of t he Cincinnati Reda of the National league. The camp lasts three days. starting Wednesday morning and continuing through Friday.. Shader, scout for the Cincinnati minor league farm system, and Seve reld, former major league catcher. will arrive In Medford from Spokane. Wash., where they are holding a similar camp thla week. The Medford ramp wilt be the only one In Oregon. Three loeal pastlmers have signed for a tryout, and many more are expected to turn out. Tommy White, BUI Plche and Ray Erlckson have all put their names on the dotted line Harold Me A bee and Dick Skeeters of Talent, and Tiny Jones of Ashland have also registered for the camp. Verne Shangle. Medford agent for the camps, explained that It waan't necessary for young players to regis ter prior to the start of the sessions, and that all boys between the agea of 17 and 31 were Invited to attend There la no 'tuition fee, the players merely furnishing their own gloves, shoes and uniforms, and living ex penses If coming from outside the city. The Reds provide all other equipment. Although It won't be definitely known until opening day the exact number of candidates, Shangle est! mated that over 40 youngsters will try for berths In professional baso ball under the expert eyea and tute lage of Shader and Severeld. FIRST TEST FOR EUGENE, Ore., Sept. 17. (AP) ! Tax Oliver recounted today Oregon's ! meeting with Washington State col- j lege at Pullman next Saturday would ' measure the strength of the old and new In Pacific coast conference foot ball. The Oregon coach, starting hi first season here after transferring affili ations from the University of Arizona, tackles a Cougar team trained by Orln E. Holllngbery, a veteran of 13 conference years. Both men, however, have been In the football business for 17 seasons, Oliver mused that the "old and new" angle would extend only to point of Pacific coast service. Both men sre exponents of the modern, pass-sllngtng style. Gophers Tough MINNEAPOLIS. Sept. 17. (AP) Minnesota's gridiron opponents have received official notice the Oophers still are tough. Yesterday the Mln nesota varsity demonstrated It we beginning to master tho usual Gopher power house offensive. The first -string era ran over the reserves for 10 touchdowns. Fish Htrlke Ended ASTORIA, Sept. 17. ( A vote by the Pacific Coast Fishermen's un ion ended a Columbia river Mth strike. CONTEST 226 EAST MAIN STREET TOUGH BULGARIAN AND BRITT CLASH Y A rip -roaring, slam-bang mat pro gram la on tap for armory customers tomorrow night, the three-star card featuring Armbreaker Alvln Brltt and Tiger Tsakoff, the brutal Bulgarian, In the one-hour main event. Tougii as all get out. Tsakoff Is expected to give Brltt one of his severest testa in the local hall of horror. Tn the center engagement, Paul Murdock and Mighty Mite Charloy Carr will mix It for six 10-mlnute rounds, or until one of the boys ob tains a pair of falls. Murdock, teamed with Brltt last week in a team bat tle, proved that he has developed one of the mast effective aonnenberg ma neuvers In the game. Carr will be making his first appearance here In. several months. He la small but pow erful, end reliea entirely on clean and scientific stuff. The match has the earmarks of being one of the neatest exhibitions of straight wrestling vet seen here. Hugh Adams. ex-House of David grappler and Nick Boslnls, better known as the Black Secret, will claah In the six-round opener. Adams, a clean workman, has shaved off his lengthy whiskers, and Bozlnls, mas ter of the Boston crab and other ler Itlmtto holds, has doffed his mask. Both will appear with their faces en tirely exposed. Grid Game Today SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 17 (AP) College football crashes Into the sports picture here tomorrow tn a game bringing together St. Mary's university of Texas and tha Univer sity of San Francisco. Use Mall Trtoune Want Ads. SUIT! COATI 27i32Ji $ 37" BOWLING KEEP FIT! NIW V ' f Fibrils XiirtiyV M AM TOP "it.. " Kith the llnMt aport al all, BOWt 1NGI S rnodrrn, up-to-date jf. Ml ; healthful yt real fun. Meet your frlenda here. Medford Bowling Alleys 418 t. Main near the Brldr , Under manaiement of Earl Slma WE HAVE A COMPLETE LINE of SUPPLIED Red Shirts Red HaU Canvas Hunting Shoes All makes Rifles all calibers Remington, Western and Winchester Ammunition r AH calibers and weight bullets.