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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1939.
Bucky Walters Voted Most Valuable Player in National League ,
STAR FAR AHEAD
OF JOHNNY ME
Derringer and McCormick
Finish Third and Fourth
, Curt Davis in Fifth Place
By Judson Bailey.
New York, Oct. 17. (AP)
Coralling 303 of a possible 336
points, William Henry (Bucky)
Walters, Jr., the prodigious
pitching star of the Cincinnati
Reds, today was named the most
valuable player in the National
league.
His selection, more or less ex
pected, was made by a commit
tee of the Baseball writers As
sociation of America and en
titled him to a trophy offered
by the Sporting News.
Wins 27 Games.
The 29-yeor-old righthander,
whose talent for years was
buried under a bushel while
he masqueraded as an infieldcr,
led both major leagues in vic
tories with 27 during the regu
lar campaign and was instru
mental in lifting the Reds to a
pennant in his first full season
with the club.
He appeared in 39 games,
starting and finishing 31 of them
and losing only 11.
Second place went to Johnny
Mize, the St. Louis Cardinals'
slugging first baseman, who won
the hitting championship. He
received 178 points, including
one first-place nomination.
Four points behind him was
Paul Derringer, Cincinnati's
strong-armed veteran who pitch
ed the Reds to 25 victories and
lost but seven during the red
hot senior league circuit race.
He received two votes for first
place but missed second place
ranking In shuffling of second
ary votes, which ran his total
to 174.
Another Cincinnati hero,
Frank (Buck) McCormick, rated
159 points and fourth place.
Davis Polls 108 Votes.
The only other player to get
more than 100 votes was Pitcher
Curt Davis, the workhorse of
the St. Louis Cardinals, who
was givet) 10(1, although no first
place consideration. The one
other star given a first place
ballot was James Robertson
(Jimmy) Brown, the Cards'
classy inflelder, whose total went
to 99.
Other point gatherers, based
on a ten-place rating, were:
Joe Medwick, St. Louis, 81;
Leo Durocher, Brooklyn, 52;
Harry Dannlng, New York, 33;
Luke Hamlin, Brooklyn, 32; Mel
Ott, New York, 21; William
Jurges, New York, 20; Dolph
. Camilli, Brooklyn, 20; Billy
Myers, Cincinnati, 18; Stan
Hack, Chicago, 17; Angle Galan,
Chicago, 15; Terry Moore, St.
Louis, 15; Morris Arnovich,
Philadelphia, 10; Linus Frcy,
Cincinnati, Bill Lee, Chicago,
and Enos Slaughter, St. Louis,
8 each; Bill Werber, Cincinnati,
Medford Anglers Enjoy Luck
In Lower Reaches of Chetco
That the salmon are biting well In Chetco river and showing
promise of furnishing even bettor sport for fishermen as the
cold weather sets In can be vouched for by Mr. and Mrs. Jim
my Valentine, Mr. and Mrs. Bob Gilstrap and several other
Medford persons who spent a portion of last week engling at
Brookings.
Mr. and Mrs. Valentine and
the latter couple's wedding trip
the latter's couple's wedding trip
last Tuesday, Wednesday and
Thursday at the coast town,
caught and landed three beau
ties two chinooks and one sil-
versidc. The salmon, three of
nine caught Wednesday, ranged
in weight from 25 to 40 pounds.
Bride Gelt One.
To Mrs. Gilstrap, bride of a
day, went the day's honors, for
she hooked and landed, all by
herself, her very first salmon.
It was a Chinook weighing 35
pounds, and it was caught on a
number three nickel spinner and
a very small hook. The party
were trolling from a boat In the
mouth of the Chetco when Mrs.
Gilstrap experienced the thrill
of catching her initial salmon.
Not to be outdone by his
bride, the former Velma Sever
son, Mr. Gilstrap hauled in a
40-pound chinook. And to com
plete the successful fishing foray,
Mr. Valentine landed a 25-pound
silverside.
The four Medford people re
ported perfect weather In Brook
ings and gracious hospitality by
citizens of that town. They left
here Tuesday, following Mr. and
Mrs. Gilstrap's wedding, and re
turned Friday evening. En route
home they tried their luck at
several points along Rogue river,
south of Grants Pass, but were
not successful.
Sport to Improve.
Mr. Gilstrap reported that sal
mon seemed fairly plentiful in
the Chetco and that sportsmen
there expected fishing to im
prove later this month and in
November.
About a dozen Medford per
sons visited Brookings last week,
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Above are Mrs. Jimmie Valen
tine (left) and Mrs. Bob Gilstrap
(right) displaying the results of
a fishing trip to the Chetco liver
last week with their husbands.
Mrs. Gilstrap is shown holding
the first salmon she ever caught,
a 35-pound Chinook.
including Mr. and Mrs. Chick
Conway and Bob Ward, in addi
tion to Mr. and Mrs. Valentine
and Mr. and Mrs. Gilstrap.
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6; Max West, Boston, 5; Leo
Hortnctt, Chicago, 5; Ival Good
man, Cincinnati, Buddy Hnssett,
Boston, Pete Coscarart, Brook
lyn, and Elbie Fletcher, Boston-
Pittsburgh, 4 each: Harry Lava
getto, Brooklyn, 3; Bob Bow
man, St. Louis. 2; Eddie Miller,
Boston, 1; William Herman, Chi
sago, 1.
PICHE WILL PLAY
Billy Plche, regular right
halfback who was out of the
Eureka game last Friday with
a leg Injury, will be fit to see
action against the Klamath
Falls high Pelicans next Friday
evening in Klamath Falls,
Coach Bill Bowerman of the
Medford Black Tornado an
nounced today.
Piche's leg has almost entirely
healed and he will probably
open the game at his regular
position, the coach stated.
There were no serious casual
tics in the tough Eureka battle,
and with the exception of sev
eral cases of "charley horses"
the team came through the
thriller In fine style, Bowerman
explained.
The game will probably de
termine the conference cham
pionship, as Medford and Klam
ath seem to have outclnssed the
field In this section.
EDDIE H0GANT0TAKE
PROFESSIONAL STATUS
Portland, Oct. 17. (AP)
Eddie Hogan, former PN G. A.
open and amateur champion and
a ranking Portland amateur
slncc 1928. announced last nlgM
he would become professional nt
Portland's Riverside Golf club
November 1.
PHEASANT HUNT
Eugene, Ore., Oct. 17. (AP)
Joe Gordon, member of the New
York Yankees, world champions,
returned to his adopted home
here last night, but remained
just long enough to pack his
shotguns and head toward east
ern Oregon for bird shooting.
The former University of Ore
gon baseballer, considered by
many experts as the greatest
second-baseman in baseball to
day, said he had a "pretty fair
season" actually he was the de
fensive star of the Yankee in
field and boosted his batting
average in his sophomore year
in the American league some 30
percentage points above his aver
age of last year.
Gordon, who plans to build a
home here this winter with his
world series winnings, will re
turn to Eugene early in Novem
ber. He plans to take graduate
work at the university and hunt
and fish during his spare time
until spring training starts.
OREGON STATE WARNED
OF DESPERATE HUSKIES
Corvallis. Oct. 17. (AP)
"After losing three games, Wash
ington will be desperate, and if
they click they have enough
stuff to beat any team."
That warning was passed on
to the Oregon State football
squad yesterday by Heaver Scout
Jim Dixon, who saw the Wash
ington - W.S.C. game Saturday.
The Oiegoniuns arc working for
Saturday's battle with the Hus
kies at Seattle. Coach Lon
Stlner tried several different
combinations during Monday's
workout.
Promoter Mack Lillard is rap
idly running out of opponents
for Hans (Hitler) Schulz, the
218-pound German terror.
Last night in the Medford
armory the Nazi badman got rid
of his sixth straight local op
ponent, and this time it was
Cowboy Dude Chick, capable ex
junior heavyweight champion,
who fell before the onslaught of
the cruel Hun. .
Schulz made amazingly quick
work of Chick, who was ex
pected to furnish much more
competition than he did. The
German won the match with two
straight falls, inside of 15 min
utes, and the only time Chick
threatened to whip on his devas
tating airplane spin was at the
very beginning of the brawl and
at the tail end.
At the opening bell Chick
managed to hoist Schulz to his
shoulders and start the spin, but
the latter grabbed for the ropes
and foiled the maneuver. At the
finish Chick once more lifted
Schulz skyward but the attempt
ended in disaster for the cow
boy. Schulz, wiggling, kicking
and squirming, threw Chick off
balance and Dude fell over back
wards and landed on his head.
The blow stunned him suffic
iently for Schulz to pin him with
a body press for the second and
windup tumble.
The German grabbed the first
fall in nine plus minutes, using
leg-strap and a body press.
During this heat there was con
siderable slugging on the part of
both men, started, of course, by
Schulz. Once or twice Chick
drove Schulz to cover with rights
and lefts, but the German had
the better of the milling. He
seemed to be stronger than
Chick, and shoved him around
almost at will.
Pete Belcastro took two
straight falls from Speed La
Ranee in the middle event in a
match which provided most of
the evening's excitement. Pete
used dropkicks and punches to
the button to obtain his falls in
the second and fourth rounds,
during which Referee Earl Yoak
ley became entangled in a couple
of hot sessions on the canvas that
resulted in his white trousers
being ripped up the back. Earl
retired to the dressing room be
tween the third and fourth
rounds and reappeared in wres
tling trunks.
It was a gruelling match, with
Belcastro slugging and biting for
all he was worth and LaRance
returning the blows with gusto
and doing a little eating on Bel
castro on his own behalf. Bel
castro moaned long and loud
when LaRance nipped his ear,
and during most of the match
cried to the referee that Speedy
wasn't playing fair.
El Pulpo and Dave Levin bat
tled to a fall apiece draw in the
opening event. El Pulpo taking
his fall in the fourth round with
body scissors and shoulder press
and Levin evening the score in
the fifth with a series of reverse
body slams and a press. The last
four minutes of the sixth round
were last ana tunous as Levin,
enraged at a painful wrist bend
applied by El Pulpo, started to
toss punches. The big Mexican
fired them right back and the
entire house was in an uproar
when the struggle ended.
The hairy Ainus of Japan arc
a primitive race occupying a
position comparable to that of
the Indian in America.
Eureka Game Shows Up Weak
Points in Tiger Grid Team
(Editor's Note; This Is the third In a series of weekly arti
cles by Bernie Hughes, dealing with high school football games
in southern Oregon. Today he writes of the Medford-Eureka
game of last Friday night, won by Medford, 24 to 12.)
(By Bernie Hughes.)
The Medford - Eureka game
turned out to be a good test for
Medford, due to the fact the
Tigers had not played a team
ofEureka's caliber before, with
the result that the game turned
up a few weaknesses in the local
aggregation.
The Medford backs were weak
on tackling after the Eureka ball
carriers had passed the line of
scrimmage. They were hitting
them too high rather than sock
ing them low and knocking
them off their feet. They also
showed a little weakness on
passes over the middle, about
10 yards deep, although New
land did intercept one and run
for a touchdown.
The Medford line was caught
sleeping several times in the
first half when Eureka was run
ning its quick-opening plays,
ever, the Tiger forwards pulled
themselves together in the sec
ond half and did a pretty good
job of stopping the Logger at
tack. Medford's offense looked very
good at times, especially in. the
last half when the team got
organized. During the first half
nobody was doing a very cap
able job of knocking down the
Eureka line backers, who turned
in excellent exhibitions.
All in all, I think the Medford
boys turned in a good ball game.
By knocking off a few rough
edges, they should give Klamath
Falls a nice little party next
Friday night.
Eureka had several boys who
looked very good, especially
Louie Tomanovich, their right
guard. He is the best line
backer I have seen this year.
GOMM DRILL FOR
TILT TO WEBFOOTS
SPOKANE, Oct. 17. (AP)
With unexpected victories over
Texas Tech and University of
Idaho safely tucked away, the
G o n z a g a university Bulldogs
pointed this week for the Uni
versity of Oregon Webfcet,
whom they meet Saturday at
Eugene.
The closest Gonzaga ever came
to beating Oregon was in 1932
when they wound up on the
short end of a 13-6 score. Two
years ago the Webfeet gave the
Bulldogs one of their worst
trouncings, 40 to 6. in the Gon
zaga stadium.
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BOWLING
Pitt Ranked Number 1 Grid
Team; Oregon in 11th Place
By Bill Bonl.
New York. Oct. 17. (AP) Pittsburgh's Panthers, the team
supposed to be de-emphasized, deflated and demoted from top
flight national ranking this season, was given No. 1 position
today in the first Associated Press gridiron poll of the season.
Classic league bowling matches
laat night saw Mald-Rlte beat Zorlc
cleaners. 3 to 1: Ramblers beat Stude
baker, 8 to 0 and M. and M. beat
Active club, 3 1. Scores follow:
Maid Kite
Murray, J 176 187 161 24
Wilkinson 14B 132 170 450
Gable , .. 146 182 171 198
Hagen ......... .. 188 193 121 462
Bell 176 166 142 473
Totals 832 809 766 3406
Zorlc Cleaners
Welsenberger 167 165 165497
Saylor 144 166 181491
Lyons 165 131 165 461
Fabric 153 125 160 438
(Dixon) .75 175 175525
Totals 804 702 846 2412
Rtlldebaker
Handicap . 22
Paske 128
Sanderson 165
Stark 210
W. Prultt 119
Eada 313
Totals 867
Ramblrrs
Cannon 145
Proctor . 203
Green 193
Gates . 159
Rettsma 183
22
162
141
179
150
1R2
Totals 883
M. & !.
Rengstorff 205
Adair 177
Daws 143
Simmons 157
Hemstreet 188
Totals 870
216
116
162
135
163
842
171
233
139
158
168
859
Active Club
Handicap 19
Moore 147
Burroughs .... . 145
Larsen 150
DeVore 128
Sims 189
Totals 788
19
165
150
150
154
179
817
22 66
179 469
143 449
224 613
136 405
180 575
884 2577
205566
167 536
190 645
165 459
191 537
918 2643
170546
176586
134416
158 473
2564
19 57
163475
105490
147447
168 440
186654
868 2463
OREGON RESUMES DRILL
FOR GO WITH GONZAGA
Eugene, Ore., Oct. 17 (AP)
Three hours after they arrived
from San Francisco, where they
defeated the University of Cali
fornia football team, the Univer
sity of Oregon Webfoots resumed
training yesterday for their game
Saturday here with Gonzaga.
The team came through the
bear game without injury, but
Jay Graybeal, fleet halfback,
was suffering from a chest cold.
Weather
Northern California: Fair to
night and Wednesday, but cloudy
in extreme north portion tonight
with light rain in extreme north
coast; little change in tempera
ture; gentle northwest wind off
the coast.
By the Associated Press
Washington, D. C. Pat Comis
key, 197, Paterson, N. J., stopped
Joe Hill, 194, Los Angeles (8.)
Chicago Tommy Pallatin,
145, St. Joseph, Mich., outpointed
Johnny Barbara, 152, South
Bend, Ind. (8).
Milwaukee, Wis. Wesley
Ramey, 135, Grand Rapids,
Mich., outpointed Wlshy Jones,
137. Louisville, Ky, (10).
New York Mickey Farber,
135, New York, outpointed
Frankie Terranova, 140, New
York (8).
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British sympathizers.
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Oregon: Partly cloudy, prob
ably showers in northwest por
tion tonight and Wednesday and
in southwest portion tonight;
cooler in east-central portion to
night; moderate southerly wind
off the coast.
Victor over Washington, West
Virginia and Duke this season, I
Pitt again is riding high in the
esteem of the public and of the
102 experts who contributed
their ballots to this inaugural
election. Though the Panthers
were outgained by untried Ten
nessee, 24 to 19, In number of
first-place votes, they gained
enough support all along the
line to get a total of 709 points.
This put Pitt, only eastern
eleven to crash the first ten, in
front by 79 points over Notre
Dame, which also has won three
games, but took them all by
the narrowest of margins.
Michigan and Ohio State open
ed their Big 10 campaigns im
pressively last Saturday and are
rated favorites for the confer
ence title; Southern California,
with eleventh-place Oregon,
out on the west coast, and Texas
Aggies drew most of their bal
lots on the strength of their 33
7 thumping of Villanova last
week-end.
The standings of the teams
(points figured on 10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1
basis, first-place votes in
paranthesis):
First Ten.
Team Points.
1 Pittsburgh (19) 709
2 Notre Dame (16) 630
3 Oklahoma (9) 538
4 Tulane (13) 523
5 Tennessee (24) 512
6 Michigan (10) 472
7 Southern Calif 408 1-7
8 Alabama (2) 372 9-14
9 Texas A. & M. (51..365 1-7
10 Ohio State 322
Second Ten.
11 Oregon (2) 193 1-7; 12
Cornell (1) 172; 13 Duke. 117
1-8: 14 North Carolina, 77; 15
Carnegie Tech, 68; 16 Ne
braska, 53; 17 Mississippi, 36;
18 Southern Methodist, 30; 19
Baylor, 28; 20 St. Mary's, 24.
Also ran Louisiana State 15,
Pennsylvania 12, Harvard and
Navy 8 each, Oregon State 7,
Dartmouth 6, Kentucky 4, Ford
ham. Utah and Indiana 3 each,
U.C.L.A. 2, Auburn 1-7.
Elinor Glyn 75 Today
London, Oct. 17. (Ai-, Eli
nor Glyn, the novelist, whose
"Three Weeks" made sensational
American movie fare in the
flaming 1920's, is 75 years old
today. Still surprisingly youth
ful, the writer is living quietly
in a flal in Mayfair, far removed
from the days when shopgirls
devoured her romances in print
and on the screen
No Steel Slump
Portland, Oct. 17. (AP)
Steel men do not expect another
business slump in 1940, Vice.
President Donald B. Gillies of
the Republic Steel corporation
said here yesterday. Depleted
inventories stimulated steel busi
ness before and despite the
war, he declared.
Meteorological Report
Forecasts
Medford and vicinity: Partly cloudy
tonight and Wednesday, probably
with showers tonight, not much
change In temperature.
Oregon : Partly cloudy, probably
with showers In northwest portion
tonight and Wednesday and In
southwest portion tonight, cooler In
east portion tonight. moderate
southerly wind off the coast.
Local Data
Temperature a year ago today:
highest 66. lowest 29.
Total monthly precipitation, .06
Inches; excess for the month, .40
Inches.
Total precipitation since Septem
ber 1, 1939, 1.22 inches; excess for
the season, .14 Inches.
Relative humidity at 6 p. m. yes
terday 24 percent; 5 a. m. today 85
percent.
Tomorrow: sunrise 6:27 a. m.( sun
set 5:25 p. m.
Observations Taken at 5 a. m.,
120 .Meridian Time.
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Boston - 65 47 .00 P Cloudy
Buffalo 61 39 .01 Cloudy
Chicago 56 36 TP Cloudy
Denver 65 34 .00 Clear
Eureka 62 50 .00 P Cloudy
Havre 58 32 .00 Clear
Los Angeles.... 91 51 .00 Clear
Medford 78 40 .00 Cloudy
Omaha 51 30 .00 Clear
Phoenix 92 55 .00 Clear
Portland 64 53 .07 Cloudy
Reno 79 33 .00 Clear
Roseburg 68 45 .00 Cloudy
Salt Lake . 75 44 .00 Clear
San Francisco 67 52 .00 Clear
Seattle 61 50 .11 Cloudy
Spokane 62 40 .00 P Cloudy
Wash.. D. C 65 39 .00 P Cloudy
Wenatchee 59 44 .00 Cloudy
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DISTRIBUTION HOOKUP
Portland, Oct. 17. (AP)
Bonneville engineers are study
ing a plant to connect all north
west power distribution systems
with the Bonneville system, Ad
ministrator Paul J. Raver told
the American Institute of Min
ing and Metallurgical Engineers
last night.
Such a plan, he said, would
insure abundant and dependable
cheap power that would attract
metal industries to the region
and bring economical energy
"practically to the mouth of
every important mine in Ore
gon and Washington."
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