PXGE FOUR
MEDFOKD MATE TKTBUNE. MEDFORD. OftEGOTC. TUESDAY, MAT 28. 1940,
Sport
Graphs
Billy Hulen Says;
1 4 Teams
Open 1 940 Softball Season at Stadium Tonight4
SEVEN
Zamperini Gains Revenge PANTHER SCORES
OW THEY?
RAY SCHUMACHER
WiLL INAUGURATE
EVEN IN TORRID
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National League
CONTESTS
Pitching Main
Factor in High
Crater Position
It is not hard to find the prin
cipal reason for the lofty poii.
tion of Medford'i Craters in the
State league baseball race. You
don't have to look further than
the pitching records to under
stand why the locals are cur
rently tied with Albany for the
loop leadership.
Of course there are many con
tributing factors for the fine
showing thus far of Manager
Hoffard's gang good, old-fashioned
socking in the pinches,
pretty nice defensive work in
general, hustle and spirit, to
mention Just few other reas
ons why the Craters have won
live and lost one game.
But that excellent mound
work Is undoubtedly the largest
ingle asset the Medford club
has shown to date. As a matter
of fact, we wonder what other
State league tcani has such a
high calibre flinging staff?
In the six league games the
Craters have played,' four of
their starting pitchers have gone
the entire distance. This may
not be incredible, but it is at
least remarkable. In comparis
on to soma of those major league
contests, where anywhere from
two to six pitchers labor for
each club, the local record is not
bad by a long sight.
Jim Hego started the thing
by hurling the route against
Jack and Jill and winning. 10
to 1, while giving up five hits.
Then came Sieve Crippen's
t to 1 win over Sllverton tn
which ha yielded seven blows
ever nine frames. Next was
Big Bill Lanning's 7 to 5 con
cniest of Hills Creek, while al
lowing seven hits over the
complete stretch. And last was
Rego's 12 to 3 victory against
Hills Creek Sunday, in which
she Hillbillies accumulated
but six safeties.
In only two games did Med
ford's starting pitcher fail to
finish, and on both those oc
casions it wasn't that the flinti
er was belted out of the box.
Orv Williams, opening on the
rubber against Jack and Jill,
was relieved in the fifth Inning
by Crippen, when he had a
lead of 8 to 3 and was in no
danger. Crippen went in simply
to get some work, and not be
cause Williams was getting his
ears shelled off. On the other
occasion Rego, starting against
Sllverton, was ejected from the
game in the second inning for
squabbling with the umpire, and
Williams finished.
Baseball fans are rather a pe
culiar brand of sport clients at
times. They are probably no dif
ferent in Medford than in any
other town, large or small, but
that doesn't alter the fact that
some of their ideas are well
nigh Impossible to understand.
For example, when Medford
entered the State league this
spring; when it was decided to
compete in the fastest semi-pro
circuit in Oregon and perhaps
the entire northwest, local en
thusiasts were solidly behind
the move but it was practically
ICO per cent agreed that Med
ford would HAVE to go out and I
get itself a baseball club of a'inea coast league batting
calibre to stand up against the
best other teams could otter.
Medtord did this. It got a
first class catcher, three swell
pitchers, an Infielder and two
outfielders. And now, despite
tha fact the Craters are not
only In the first division but
are actually deadlocked for
the leadership, Jutt what so
many fans deemed absolutely
necessary, we hear criticism
that too many outside players
are being used and the local
boys aren't being given a
chance.
It Is true there are out-of-town
players on the club, but no
body can deny that unlets these
boys had been brought to town
the Craters wouldn't be where
they are now by about seven
places in loop standings. It also
Is true that FOUR regulars on
the team can be considered
"local" In every sense of the
word.
Cliff McLean, third baseman.
has year-around position here. I successful season with a 41 vie.
and has resided tn the county . tory over the Oregon Webfoots
tor six or seven years; Leonard in Eugene yesterday.
Patterson is coacn at Jackson-1 Clayton Shaw, on the mound
ville high school and is certain-'for the Beavers, had the best of
ly a permanent resident of the Bob Rleder in a pitching duel
county; Second Baseman Riney 'although he allowed six hits to
Cook is coach at Medford Junior; the Heavers' five. Bonney sin
high school, and Manager I'aul gled home two runs in the fifth
Hoffard has lived here for over ! to decide the contest
10 years. Th, ,rorr,. R ,, T
That would seem to be a pret- Oreann State sua
ty fair representation of local ;
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Gala Parade to Start at 7
P.M. First Games at
Field is Slated For 8
Medfnrd's 1S40 Softball season
under the lights at tha senior
high school stadium gets under
way tonight with 14 brilliantly
uniformed teams in two leagues
swinging into action in six
games. The gala opening night
program will start at 8 o'clock
sharp, following a parade
through the downtown district.
League A clubs, the six finest
in the city, will come to grips
in three five-inning games. Lost
River Dairy will face Jennings
Tire company In the first tilt
and this game will be followed
by the Medco-Wooden Box
clash, and the Catholic Men
Fluhrer's Breadeaters contest.
All league A games will be
played on the north diamond.
Girls Play
Six of the seven league B
outfits wilt" also see action this
evening, colliding In three four-
inning games. Teamsters, the
seventh club, draws a bye. The
league B teams will face off
like this: Elks versus Gasco.
Hunt's Craterlan versus Com
munity club, tha city's two
girls' teams: Eagles versus Bear
Creek Orchards, and Copco
versus Faber's. These games
will be played on tha south
diamond.
All games tonight, ' although
shortened, will count as regular
league contests.
The grand parade will leave
the county courthouse at 7:00
o'clock, move east on Main
street to Bartlett street, north
on Bartlett street to Sixth
street, then west on Sixth street
to the postofflce, where it will
disband. Every player of all
teams will be in the parade, as
will senior high school band
and drum corps, and the Junior
high drum corps. Several floats
will also participate In the line
of march.
Field Improved
After the parade disbands.
players will ba transported to
the stadium for field ceremonies
prior to the first pitches on
both diamonds.
Considerable I m p r o vement
has been made at the stadium.
The bleachers have been screen
ed so that spectators are better
protected, a high screen fence
has been erected on the east
side of the field to keep balls
out of the hedge, and the dia
monds are said to be in tip-top
condition.
BAT LEADERSHIP
Los Angeles, May 2R (4)
Improving his average by seven
points, Johnny Moore, swattlns
Angeles outfielder, easily
honors with .427 in the past
ween a games through Sunday.
The league's home-run king.
Lou Novlkoff of Los Angeles,
increased his total by one to
15 while his teammate. Bob
Collins, clouted two and Jump
ed into second place with nine.
The total of Ed Coleman of
Portland remained at 8.
In team batting, San Diego
passed Los Angeles and San
Francisco to take second place
at .283 as Seattle remained at
the top with .291.
OSC ENDS SEASON BY
BEATING OREGON, 4-1
By the Associated Press
The Oregon State Beavers.
newly crowned northern divis
ion. Pacific Coast conference
' baseball rhamnlnni. elnt 4h.iv
Ormon las
Shaw and
and Walden.
Leovich; Rtederl
talent, especially when the oth
er Slate league teams, with the
exception of the two Portland
outfits, run far heavier to so
called imported material titan
does Medford. i
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Louis Zamperini (right) of Southern California won sweet re
venge over Paul Moore of Stanford, who recently conquered
him, by caoturing the mile run in the Pacific Coast Conference
track and field meet in Los Angeles. Zamperini covered the
distance In 4:11.6. a new meet record. Phil Leibowiis of Idaho
ran third.
Lawson Little Paces Open
Qualifiers With Great 134
By Hugh S. Fullerton, Jr.
New York, May 28. UP) Old man par apparently hasn't
i chance and the best of the amateur golfers not much
more when the crack professionals who think they may win
the national open championships start taking golf courses
apart.
Thirty-one of the best players
the low 30 in last year's open
and the home club pro at Cleve
land's Canterbury club where
the 1940 tournament will be
played June 0-8 were exempt
ed from yesterday's sectional
qualifying rounds for the open.
Yet when the rest of the entry
list of 1,163 had finished play
ing 36 hole rounds in 23 dis
tricts the fairways were fairly
littered with the pieces they
had chopped off par. And only
five amateurs were able to lead
the way in their respective dis
tricts, including two who tied
for top honors.
The greatest Job of par break
ing by any of the 139 qualifiers
and one of the greatest ever
seen in these sectional rounds,
was turned in by Lawson Little,
who won both the United States
and British amateur titles in
1934 and 193S. Notably unsuc
cessful In his professional car
eer since then. Little suddenly
got "hot" and shot amazing
rounds of 6S-69 134 to lead
the big field In the Chicago
district.
Scores under 70 weren't at all
rare with 1,132 good golfers
firing away, but the only one
to come within three strokes of
Little's figure was Leonard
Dodson, who carded 68 69 137
at Kansas City.
The highest successful score
in any district was 155 at Jack
sonville, Fla. The amateur aces
were the principal victims, tn
addition to Willie Turnesa, 1938
amateur champion, and Ray Bil
lows, last year's runner-up to
Bud Ward, such prominent
Slmon-pures as Chick Evans,
onetime amateur and open
champion. Art Doering. Bobbv
Dtinkelberger. Trailer Bill Holt,
and the former tennis cham
pion. Ellsworth Vines failed to
make the grade.
Ben Hogan, a sensation
among the pros last winter,
could earn no better than an
alternate's berth, while ex
ehampions Billy Burke and
Willie MacFarlane missed out
along with Whiffy Cox, Chand
ler Harper, Joe Klrkwood. Al
vln Krueger. Bill Mehlhorn and
Jock Hutchison, Sr.
Six former open champions
were successful. They were
Gene Snrazen. Jcihtmy Farrell.r' "Hioyrs
Walter Hagen, Johnny Good r r!,,'fl
man. Tony Manero and Sam
Tarks, Jr.
The National Resources board
reports 881.725.U00 acres ol
land in the United States "essen
tial incapable of tillage."
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Steve Crippen, pltcher-lnfield-er-outfieldor
and what hove you,
is the leading batter of Med
ford's Stote league Craters, In
cluding games of last week-end.
Crip has connected safely six
times In 13 trips to the plate
lor an average of .462.
Three other Crater players
are In the .400 class Al Wray.
centerfielder; Jimmy Rego. pitch
er, and Riney Cook, second base
manwhile Cliff McLean, third
socker, and Bill Lanning, fling
er. are above .300.
Crippen also leads the club
In home runs with one. while
Wray is the leading run-scorer
with eight.
Crater averages:
AB
Crippen 13
Wray 18
Rego ...... 9
Cook 28
tunning 3
McLean ........ 28
Patterson .27
Peterson 20
white 8
Ball 8
Hawkins 14
Hoffard .,16
Kerr 4
R H Avg.
5 8 .462
8 8 .444
1 4 .444
4 12 .429
0 1 .333
6 8 .308
7 8 ,296
5 5 .250
6 2 .250
0 2 .250
5 3 .143
2 1 .063
3 0 .000
MARSHFIELD TO HAVE
STATE KEG TOURNEY
Eugene. May 28. iP) The
State Bowling association, at a
meeting held here Sunday, se
lected Marshfield as the site
for the third annual Oregon
state championship tournament.
President Ed Johnson of Eugene
said dates had been shifted to
November 22 through December
8 In order to eliminate con
flicts with other tournaments.
The directors also recommend
ed Klamath Falls as the site
for the 1941 tournament.
The hotel business ranks sev
enth In I'nited States In number
and capital In
GREEN PINE
SLABS
FACTORY BLOCKS
BUNDLED KINDLING
Or fill your esr or trailer at our fuel yard on tha
corner of North Central Ave and McAndrews Road.
Timber Products company
Phor-a 7
lu SIVi minutes of some of
the finest scientific wrestling
produced in the Medford arm
ory this year, Jimmy Mitchell.
alias the Black Panther, meas
ured Prince Selaki Mehalakis
for two .traight falls in the
main event of Promoter Mack
Lillard's weekly program last
night.
While the result was not ex
actly an upset it was surpris
ing in tliat Mehalakis failed to
obtain a fall, marking one of
the very few times In the
Prince's career he has been de
feated in two straight tumbles.
The Panther, more aggressive
than ever, got his first fall after
27 minutes of spectacular grap
pling. The boys slapped on
practically every hold in the
book and for a time it looked
like the Prince was on his way
to a tumble as he clamped on a
figure-four leg-breaker and kept
it for about 10 minutes. The
Panther suffered considerably,
but finally he broke the hold
and put the Prince's cranium
in a terrific headlock. Mehal
akis endured the hold for al
most a minute before giving
up.
The last 414 minutes were
even more rapid-fire, with first
one then the other seeming to
nave the advantage. Just be
fore the end the Prince sonnen
berged Mitchell to the carpet
and once more clamped on a
leg-breaker, but that latter, with
a mighty heave, kicked loose
and socked the Prince squarely
in the kisser with both feet.
Mehalakis went over backward,
flat on his back, and the Pan
ther leaped on top for the fall
and the match.
Bulldog Jackson ran true to
form in the center attraction,
losing to Dou Sugal on a foul
in the fourth round after each
had obtained one fall. Jack
son's tumble came in the sec
ond round and was produced
by a series of arm-breakers over
the ropes, followed by his fav
orite hammerlock. Sugal gave
;"P-
The Salem Japanese flash
brought into play his Jiu jitsu
sleeper, a variation of the re
verse chin lock, to win his fall
in the third heat. The match
e'ded the next round when
Jackson, despite Referee Earl
Yoakley's warnings, refused to
refrain from winding Sugai's
arms around the ropes and foul
ing him in other ways.
After the match was given to
Sugai. Jackson roared and
stamped around the ring and
mingled with the customers for
fully ten minutes in violent
protest of the decision. But as
usual it didn't do him any good.
Sugai. making his first ap
pearance here, displayed a wide
variety of colorful maneuvers.
He sonnenberged like a master,
he showed he knew what the
flying mare was all about, and
he came up with a new manner
of dropklck a single-leg sock
to the chin, with the other leg
saved to land on.
A painful boil on his leg
forced Frankle Clemens to cease
wrestling after he lost one fall
in the second round to Ernie
Piluso. Piluso worked on the
leg during the first canto and
finally, in the second heat, he
pinned Clemens with a leg
breaker and body press.
Fights Last Night
Chicago Henry Waeker, Tay-
lorville, 111., 195, knocked out
Willie Muldune. 183, Cleve
land (1).
New York Bobby Ivy, 130.
Hartford. Conn., outpointed
Texas Lee Harper, 130, Port
Arthur. Texas (8).
3 0 0 CUBIC
rOOT LOAD
Cnd North Central
W. L. Pet.
Brooklyn 20 8 .714
Cincinnati .22 P .710
New York 17 12 .586
Chicago 13 IS .545
Philadelphia 11 15 .423
St. Louis 11 20 .355
Boston . , 0 18 .333
Pittsburgh 8 20 .288
American League
Boston 19 B .679
Cleveland 20 12 .625
Detroit 17 14 .548
Chicago 15 17 .469
Washington 15 18 .455
New York 13 17 .433
St. Louis 12 18 .400
Philadelphia 12 18. .400
Coast league unchanged.
145 TO QUALIFY
Tacoma. May 28. (Pi Al
bert (Scotty Campbell, Seattle,
former Walker cup team mem
ber, will Join with national ama
teur Champion Marvin (Bud)
Ward in representing the Pa
cific northwest in the national
open golf tournament.
Campbell qualified for the
national meet yesterday when
he led a field of six candidates
for the tournament berth over
the Tacoma Country and Golf
club course. His score, one
over par, was 71-74 145.
Other scorers: Chuck Hunter,
Tacoma, 147; Chuck Congdon,
Tacoma, 151; Bill Christie, Se
attle, 160; John Burns, Yakima,
161, and Jim Christie, Seattle,
162.
Ward automatically qualified
for the national by finishing
fourth in last year's event.
GANNETTSEES NO
DANGER FOR U. S.
Portland, Ore., May 28. (P)
America should not "trust its
defense program to a president
who by July will have spent
$67,000,000,000 in the war
against depression and failed to
win. Republican presidential
aspirant Frank Gannett told
Oregon Republicans last night.
He called the president's pre
paredness messages "outrageous
promotion of hysteria" and as
serted America was in no dan
ger of attack. "We are not at
war and under right leadership
we need not be at war, he
said.
Seattle, May 28. (Pi City
light rate reductions estimated
by Supt. E. R. Hoffman to save
consumers $200,000 annually
were approved yesterday by the
city council.
California's 1940 cherry crop
is valued at $2,427,000.
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By Associated Press
National league fans, who
have endured enough hair-raising
races in recent years that
they can feel blase about the
child's play . now going on in
the American league, never
have had anything closer than
the Cincinnati Reds and Brook
lyn Dodgers are today.
They are tighter than a tie,
if such a situation is possible.
The Dodgers are on top In
percentage .714 to .710, but
they are half a game behind
in won-lost ' calculations. Cin
cinnati has won two ffames
more (22) than the Dodgers,
who have lost one less (eight)
than the Reds.
The Reds did all that was
in their power to capture the
lead in stopping the Pittsburgh
Pirates 2-1 and 7-3 yesterday.
But Cincinnati's best just was
not good enough to erase that
percentage margin as long as
the Dodgers continued to win
and they chalked up their
fourth straight victory with a
6-0 shutout of the Philadelphia
Phillies.
Bill Posedel held the New
York Giants to four safeties
while the Boston Bees pounded
out a 7-1 triumph with 13 hits
off three pitchers.
The Chicago Cubs kept the
National league design four
cornered by belting the St.
Louis Cardinals 7-1.
The Cleveland Indians slip
ped half a notch in their ef
forts to overtake the Boston Red
Sox in the American league by
losine a night game to the De-
I troit Tigers 6-1.
The New York Yankees pull
ed a pitching chestnut out of
the fire in old time fashion.
They got only four hits, the
same as the Washington Sen
ators, but triumphed 5-0. Spud
Chandler allowed nothing but
singles, well separated, while
the Yankee blows included
Charley Keller's fifth home run
with two on and Joe DiMag
gio's third.
This enabled the Chicago
White Sox to climb back Into
the first division by outslugglng
the St. Louis Browns 1 hits to
nine for a 7-5 victory.
Scores Yesterday
National League
Cincinnati 2-7, Pittsburgh 1-3.
Boston 7, New York 1.
Brooklyn 6. Philadelphia 0.
Chicago 7, St Louis 1.
American League
New York Washington
Chicago 7, St. Louis 5.
Detroit 6, Cleveland 1.
Boston at Philadelphia, post
poned, rain.
Pacific Coast League
All teams idle.
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Ray J. Schumacher, unop
posed Democratic primary can.
didate for county assessor, re
ceived 2.148 votes, according to
the official count completed
yesterday. The vote of Schu- i
macher was inadvertently omit.
ted from the published Den
cratic count. ,
Schumacher will oppose C
A. Myers, Republican nomine
for assessor. Ira E.' Schuler, un
opposed for the Democratic
nomination for county Judge,
will cross votes with J. B. (Blin)
Coleman, Republican nominee.
iE. B. Poyer, Ashland, Demo
I cratic commissioner nominee.
will oppose Artnur c. Lowell
of Central Point, Republican se
lection. William N. (Farmer
Bill) Carl, who received the
Democratic legislative selection,
has no running mate and will
contest with the Republican
choices. Atty. W. M. McAllister
and E. T. Newbry.
Ralph Sweeney, treasurer,
received the nomination of both
parties, as did County Cleric
Carter and Deputy District At
torney Neilson.
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FOR LOCAL BOYS
Capt. Carl Y. Tengwald an
nounced today that a few en.
listments would be made to fill
existing vacancies in Company
A created by reorganization and
enlargement of the company. All
single, male citizens between
the ages of eighteen and thirty,
five are eligible, if physically
qualified. -
"Recent national develop
ments have made Interest in the
national guard Intense." Capt.
Tengwold said. "The guard not
only gives the men of the nation
a course in military training, but
provides and makes possible
healthy and profitable vacation.
This year, according to informa
tion, the summer training period
will be held at Fort Lewis,
Wash., where perhaps the larg
est concentration of troops sine
the World war will be brought
together. This In itself will be a
sight-well worth seeing and be
ing a part of."
Drills are held at the Med
ford armory, Third and Bartlett
streets each Tuesday evening.
Visitors are cordially Invited to
witness the various exercises,
starting promptly at 8 p.m. Any
one interested in enlisting in
Company A may do so by con
tacting First Sgt. Lindley at
the armory at any time.
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