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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 15, 1940. pact: two Sport Graphs Billy Hulen layi: - Joe Smolinski Southpaw Champ of Grapple Ring All sports fans are Interested In title-holders, 80 today we would like to present for your approval the left-handed, re verse English champion of the Mcdford armory wrestling arena one Joseph Smolinski, sometimes called the Polish Pa looka and other times called worse than that. Mr. Smolinski, a large, chub by, baby-faced Individual, Is to wrestling what Tommy Farr is to boxing. He is to the grapple industry what Knox college used to be to football and what UCLA currently is to basket ball. Joseph is, to put it right bluntly, the goldurndest also ran of all the gladiators Mack Lillard ever has brought to this village. It has been so long since .Joseph emerged victorious in an armory scuffle that people have began to lay wagers on how long it will take his opponent of the evening tq press Joe's shoulders firmly to the mat. The hair on Joseph's shaggy head is becoming tinged with grey in waiting for the time when he will stride victoriously to the dressing room, As per our recent promise we delved back through the musty files In search of the glorious date of Joseph's last mat tri umph, and Just as our weary eyes were about to give out en tirely it hit us smack in the face April 24, 19301 Eight and one half months agol On that evening in the Med ford armory Mr, Joseph Smo linkl, with the Jeers of the mul titude ringing in his ears, alao ped down one Pete Belcastro twice and made the latter give up under the pain of Boston crab holds. Belcastro had won the first fall with a surfboard, but Joe was not to be denied and came roaring back to defeat the Italian bad man. Since that red letter eve In the life of Joseph Smolinski he has staggered to the post exactly 11 times In the local grapple emporium. And on not one of those 11 occasions has Joseph got his man. In stead, they have got him, and plenty. In fact, down that long stretch of 11 matches over a period of eight and one-half months, Joseph has managed to obtain only (our falls. His opponents, on the other hand, have accumulated 21 tumbles. And Joseph has not been choosy in the brother wrestlers he loses to. Ten different mat men have pinned him solidly to the carpet; only one, Sgt. Bob Kenaston, having the honor of beating him twice. The others went against Joe Just the one time. Starting on May 1, the date which inaugurated Joseph's sen sational ll-brawl losing streak, here is the chronological history of the drive which has crowned our Joe southpaw champion of the local grappling kingdom: May 1 lost to Bob Kenaston, no falls to two. May 8 lost to Marshall Car ter, one fall to two. May 15 lost to Pete Belcas tro, no falls to two. July 31 lost to Dude Chick, no falls to one. August 7 lost to Bob Kenas ton, no falls to two. August 28 lost to Franklc Hale, no falls to two. September 1 1 lost to Venablc, one fall to two. September 18 lost to Billy Hans Sclmlz, no falls to two. September 25 lost to Dave Levin, one fall to two. October 2 lost to Speedy La Rance, one fall to two. January 8 lost to King Kong Clayton, no falis to two. Tonight, in the armory, Jos eph faces a nice Finnish boy by the name of Zlm Zimovich. And he can rest assured that, to a man and woman, fans will be cheering him on to a continu ance of the string of consecu tive "victories" he has manu factured. ELWOOD COOKE GAINS FLORIDA TENNIS TITLE Orlando. Fla., Jan. 15 (Tt Ehvood Cooke needs only one more Florida state tennis tour nament singles championship to claim permanent possession of the meet's trophy. The Portland. Ore., star, ranked sixth nationally, gained his second leg on the cup yes terday by defeating Henry Pru soff of Seattle. Wash., 8-4, 8-1, 6-4. In the finals. Wayne Sabin, another Pacific coast star, also has two victor ies to his credit in the local tournament. Cloftlnn ttnif fjr T.xj Lata to Claa atir Ada la i -so p. m. Prince, IISTER MATIN TO MATCH CLEAN Chick Will Face Montgomery in Center Bout; Smolinski and Finn Meet in Opener A pair of super-grappling smoothies, Prince Silaki Mehali kls and King Kong Clayton, toe the mark in the one-hour armory main event this evening, wind ing up an all-star program the first two-thirds of which are ex pected to furnish satisfaction to the most blood thirsty local fan. It will be ladles night again, and for every ringside or bal cony ticket purchased a free one will be given to admit a femi nine customer. Promoter Mack Lillard expects a near-capacity crowd to turn out for the new year's second mat carnival. First Two Rough The rough-house activity will be provided by the first two bouts, In which Joe Smolinski will attempt to stretch his losing streak to 12 straight against Zlm Zimovich in the opener, and Cowboy Dude Chick will tangle with Bob Montgomery in the center match. Smolinski and Montgomery are the villlans In these two brawls. Mchalikls, making his first start here lost Mondoy night in throe years, defeated Cowboy Dude Chick, and will enter the ring an "even up" choice to down the sensational Negro from Birmingham. Clayton, a great piece of grappling machinery, won from Smolinski' on the last program. The main event is figured to be one of the best exhibitions of straight wrestling witnessed here In many months. JVIchalikis and Clayton both are masters of every scientific maneuver in the book and there Is certain to be no rough stuff attempted. Both like to win, but they draw the line at getting out of line. A great amount of interest will be centered on the opening bout between Smolinski and Zimo vich, the popular Finnish wres tler. Smolinski has not won a ratch here In e one-half months, during which time he has dropped 11 consecutive ver dicts, and clients will be Inter ested to see whether Joe can make It an even dozen. TED FOR SOUTHERN San Francisco, Jan. 15 (IPi Southern California's Trojans were off to an auspicious start today In their campaign for the southern division title in the Pa cific Coast conference basket ball race. They bowled over University of California, division champion last year, 49 to 38 and 56 to 49, in their two-game series Fri day and Saturday nights at Los Angeles, and did the Job with the finesse that marked their highly-successful eastern tour. Stanford, meantime, was rout ing the University of California at Los Angeles Bruins, 53 to 38 and 40 to 36, In a pair of games at Palo Alto that stretched the U.C.L.A. losing streak to 2!) de feats in conference play. Southern division standings: w. L. t)T Asm. So. California 1 0 103 8S Stanford a 0 as 74 Clltornl 0 a 8J 10S V. C. L. A 0 a 1 S T I With enough snow finally on the ground to make skiing fair ly good. Crater Lake national park attracted the largest at tendance of the 1940 winter season yesterday. Snow depth Is still somewhat below normal. Park visitors yesterday num bered 930 persons in 230 auto mobiles. Of the visitors. 6S6 went to the park to engage in winter sports. 214 to view the winter sights and 26 to reduce travel distance by using the park as a short-cut in getting to their destinations, ranger records showed. Attendance for the week Monday to Saturday, Inclusive, was 203 persons. Added to Sunday's total, this gave an at tendance of 1 139 persons for the entire week through yesterday. CloUnjr unit for rrai UM to c"l It? kit it I SO p. m. Clayton Versatile Prince Mehalikis OAKLAND TOURNEY . . I ! ' V. rfl &4 , Not only U Prince Mehalikii (above) quite a wrestler; he can alio beat out a nifty tune on the pipe organ, as he is doing in the above picture. The Prince faces King Kong Clayton in to night's main event in the Med ford armory. FOUR-GAME ROAD TRIP SLATED FOR LEADING BEAVERS By the Associated Press Those tough country gentle men from Corvallis, with the basketball leadership of the northern division of the Pacific coast conference In their hands, pay a visit to Pullman tomor row that may have i let to do with turning a leadership Into a championship before it is over. Early as it is in the confer ence cage season, Oregon State has already demonstrated pow er enough to stop Oregon and Idaho; and the lads who figure things out In advance have al ready discounted the University of Washington city slickers as serious threats for the title Hence, what Washington State does against the Beavers tomor row night and Wednesday may be more important than It seems for If Washington State can't stop the Oregon State boys, who can? The two Pullman games are the headliners of the week's cage program, although Oregon State gives Idaho two more chances at Moscow Friday and Saturday. Washington, idle near ly two weeks in conference com petition, ploys host Friday and Saturday to defending cnampion Oregon at Seattle. The standings: W. L. For Agst Oregon State 3 0 125 105 Oregon 2 1 121 103 W.S.C 2 1 126 103 Washington ..l 1 74 89 Idaho 0 5 171 217 THREE AAU TILTS Three AAU basketball league clashes are slnted for Tuesday night. Salvation Army and Southern Pacific meeting In the Medford junior high gym at 7:30, First National Bankers and Lost River Dairy playing an hour later on the same flooi and the Little Sons facing Lewis Super Sen-ice on the SOCE maple in Ashland at 7 30. Saturday night, the Little Sons grabbed a thrilling 42 to 38 win from the First National Bank In a preliminary to the SOCK Klamath All-Star game in Ashland. Bub Wilson scored 12 points for the Bankers. Vtt Mill TttbuiM ut us. Battle in Main !', I -' -" f T r. BORCHER MAY GET MOTION DUE TO Eugene, Ore., Jan. 15. fP) Coach Howard Hobson of the title - defending Oregon Web foots prepared today to make over his lineup because of what he considered its poor exhibi tion against Oregon State last Friday. Hobson said that Vic Town send, hustling guard who made 14 points against the Orange men, and John Dick, veteran center, would stay put but Red McNeely and Ted Sarpola, for wards, and Matt Pavalunas. guard, would be demoted to the reserve list at least during prac tice for games- this week end with Washington. Paul Jackson, George An drews and Toivo Pilpo will be tried extensively in Pavalunas' position, Hobson said. Unless Ted Sarpola emerges speedily from his scoring slump he will sit tho next few games out while his place is taken by either Hank Anderson or Earl Sandness. Bill Borcher looked like the most serious menace to Mc Neely. He played his first vars ity game last Friday. I IDAHO VETERAN LEADS Eugene. Jan. 15. (Jp Roy Ramey, veteran University of Idaho forward, clung to the northern division basketball scoring lead today, but his 47 point total was only 10 more than the 37 scored by Paul Llndeman of Washington State in two less games. Vic Townscnd. sparkplug university of Oregon guard. ; holds down the third position with 31 points. Townscnd. in i clrientally. hasn't been charged J with a personal four In the I three games he has played to i date. Berkeley, Cal., Jan. 15. I A slight earthquake at 4:22 ! a. m. today was registered on i the University of California , seismograph, Dr. Perry Byerly, i seismologist, reported. He said the shock apparently , centered about five miles from Berkeley along the Hayward ' fault. There was no damage. WATER WELL DRILLING M III lllll M WHIM Ml'I'IKUt l-KII t ROBT BURNS R. t, Oranti I'j l-arutc Higriva? Tfl S7 WON BY DEMARET; HAEFNERFALTERS Haefner Hits Ball in Three, Then Dubs Four-Inch Putt; Winner Earns $2100 By Russ Newland Oakland, Calif., Jan. 15. m Texas Jimmy Demaret, with $1,200 in his pocket and a new title added to his professional golfing feats, was the toast of the Oakland open tournament today but the man that more people were talking about was the one who not only tried to climb a tree but missed a four inch putt. Without taking a speck of credit from Demaret, who fin ished in par equaling figures for the Sequoyah course, a 35-35-70 test, the final round of the 72-hole medal play open was mainly written around the amazing exploits of bulky Clay ton Heafner of Linville, N. C. Last Nine Disastrous For 63 holes Heafner had paced the field two strokes ahead of his nearest rival which happened to be Demaret. On the last nine things began to happen. Heafner and Demar et were playing in the three some. On the 147 yard 12th, the man from North Carolina lofted his ball into trie branches of a big tree. When It didn't drop down, its boss started to climb up after it. The pellet plopped to the ground. Heafner whacked it over the green. He stuck a chip shot up to within a worm's length of the cup then casually gave the ball a one handed swipe. To his utter astonish ment It missed the hole. The five, against Demaret's par 3. put the pair on exactly even terms sharing the lead with six holes to go. The top contenders halved the last two holes which left Demaret holding a check for $1,200 and Heafner one for $583.33 as the result of a three way tie for second place. Boy Breaks Arm During Heafner's 12th hole tree shinning and putt-missing incidents, a small boy became so excited he fell into a ditch and broke his arm. Heafner, Horton Smith of Oakpark, 111., and Ben Hogan of Whiia Plains, N. Y., divided second money with scores of 2R2. Dick Metz of Oakpark. 111., winner of last year's Oakland tournament, followed with 283. BY JUDGE LANDIS By Tom Siler Chicago, Jan. 15. (P) Com missioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. who always has the last word in organized baseball, has spoken again, and as a result the far-flung farm system of the De troit Tigers is a mere shambles. Landis, In a voluminous and strongly-worded report handed down yesterday, wrecked the in tricate "chain-gang" setup of the American league club and warn ed all baseball executives of even more severe penalties for similar rules infractions in the future. He charged Detroit and affili ated clubs used "fake agree ments," "false certificates of club relationships," "cover-up" deals and similar practices in operation of a farm system. Free agency was awarded 91 players, valued at close to $500. 000. including pitchers, Lloyd Dieti and Steve Rachunok, in fielder Benny McCoy and Out fielder Roy Cullenbine of the Detroit club. The nther 87 were scattered among 15 minor league clubs. Bob Hardy, southpaw pitcher 10 'Chan & Chan rr.irni w wire oj f ' hprhal rrmrtlv mv rnu hat Attn m till trrt, Sttimarh Troiihit, CnnMliiaiifMi (nlc Conch, RhrumatUm. St nut Troiihlr. Pile. Art hr tit. Co it I it, Vxttma. Append iclil. HUh Blood P !- ur, Pnwtaie. Hrart Livrr. Bladder, hliluej, l.untv Blood, t rinarr tn.uhlev Herb ntll you rrller. tSi L. Mjin NOW OPEN DAILY lcept W ed led IP t m to IS 10 a. m. to 3:30 p. m. - Event from Ashland who was (signed by Detroit last spring an-d sent to the club's farm team at Beau mont in the Texas league, said today that, so far as he knew, he was not affected by the Judge Landis ac'.ion. Hardy said he expected to receive his 190 con tract some time in February, and would leave for Beaumont for spring training about March 1. Gale Smith and Ford Mullen, two other University of Oregon players who were signed by De troit along' with Hardy, have been recalled by Beaumont from Jacksonville in the East Texos league, Hardy said, and would probably be with the Texas loop club the coming season. BASKETBALL Correction In an AAU league basketball game In the Medford senior high school gym Friday night, Gold Hill beat Prospect, 34 to 21, In stead of Prospect defeating Gold Hill by that score, as announced Sunday. Officer Acquitted In Shooting Girl Mauch Chunk, Pa., Jan. 15. (JP) Corp. Benjamin Frank lin found vindication today for the fatal shots he fired Into the body of 14-year old Joan Stev ens in his acquittal on murder r . t lit- Healer t xroM"1 y urates ; tor - J', n Serev't .tie , tie" TAELE RADIO f!Il$l988 Outstanding performance enMtlnnal low prlca. Pu!h-baiton tuntnt. built in antenna. 9th and Riverside mm Grapple FEE PLANS AT E The various forms of "group" or prepaid medical care were described by Dr. Edwin R. Dur no, Medford physician and sur geon, in a talk at the weekly luncheon-meeting of the Ki wanis club In the Hotel Med ford today. The merits and deficiencies of the various plans were out- 1 lined by Dr. Durno and atten tion was called to the pioneer ing of Jackson county physic- ians and surgeons in organiza Ition of their own pre-paid med ical service association three years ago. Other club guests today were C. P. Wessela, Dr. Walter Hoppe, Dr. O. J. Halboth and H. B. Murphy. Robert Bauman, president, presided. Roy R. Har per was program chairman. and manslaughter charges re sulting from her death. From Mrs. Mayme Stevens, mother of the slain girl, came 1 me comment, i iusi ueavjtj. The commonwealth can now go out and kill other children." ANNUAL STORE MANAGERS CLEARANCE SALE 1 fA.V. 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According to police reports, the two injured women, Jerry Warren of Ashland and S. J. Overstreet of Medford were oo cupants of a car involved In a mishap with a vehicle driven by Orrin David Day, 33, of Eagle Point. None of the other persons were injured. The report said that Day at tempted to make a left-hand turn across the highway In front of the other machine, with the result that the Day car was struck on the right rear fender. Closing tlmo for Too Late to Clu lly Ads la 1:30 p. m. TWIN WAFFLE IRON $4?9 Beg. 95.98 Chromium plated groastle cast aluminum grids. An amazing special! HAT COVERS .coupes SI 49. SEDANS & $IJA9 $m COACHES l3 Seat coven improv appearance and pro les! upholstery. Sen lational bargains! CONSOL Reg. f!9M 13" ipeiker. motor tnnlnf. Rich, hind Korked cabinet. Pho n o 1 r a p Bitch. I frun,. To 3 .; t'iS? -L - Sin A- I TEN TUBE AUTO SUPPLY & SERVICE STORES Phone 520
