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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY. MAY 31. 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Saysi Grant Paw to Enter Semi-Pro '"TournauhencHtfre The Southern Oregon league will have at least one strong club entered In the district semi pro baseball tournament here June 10 to 21, Inclusive . . . Grant Pass Merchants, current S. O. L. leaders, with four vic tories and no defeats, will com' pete in the event, and several other teams from this circuit may enter, including the Med- ford Rogues, Ashland-Talent Atees and Cold Hill. The State league Craters will play in the tourney and there is a possibility Bend's Elks, also of the State wheel, will follow suit . . . from the Northern Cal- ifornla league, Klamath-Oorris, Hilt. Yreka. Dunsmuir and Weed are possible entrants, al though the complete list of clubs won't be known until next week. During the duration of the tournament, which will be directed by Ray Brooks of Portland. Oregon semi-pro commissioner and secretary of the Stale league, no soft bell will be played In Med ford . . . E. H. Hedrick. co operating fully with plans for the tourney, said that he would close down his Softball program while the baseballers battle tor the right to enter the state semi-pro meet in Portland In July. All games will be played un der lights at the new fair (rounds park and it will take two defeats to knock a team out of the running . . . tilts will be staged June 10, 12, 13, 14, 17, 19, 20 and 21 . . . Brooks wants at least eight clubs to enter so that an even bracket can be drawn. There is 'almost no limit to the honors that can be gained by the nine winning this dis trict tournament . . . from here the club goes to the state tour nament, the victor of which meets the Washington semi-pro tltleholder for the northwest crown , . . next step is the na- tional semi-pro tournament in Wichita, Kas., one of the world's largest sporting events . . . Vic tory in the Wichita tourney means the American champion ship and a huge chunk of cash. University o f Washington crew has drawn lane 7 at Poughkeepsie. the lane that has delivered three of the last four regatta winners . . . Joe Mc Carthy says his Yankees will be in first place by June 20, and the way they have been winning of late he might not be far wrong ... it is doubted by Pittsburgh writers that Prankie Frisch, the old Gas Houser and current skipper of the pitiful Pirates, will last out the year. BUI Lannlng, pitcher tor the Medford Craters, and Ralph Lannlng. first baseman tor the Grants Pass Mer chants, are brothers . . . Bob Smith, of Webloot and Med ford high grid fame, has been laboring on a semi-weekly newspsper In Yreka, Cel.. and playing a dab of baseball . . . his first appearance for the Yreka club resulted In a home run blast with three on . . . Charley Root, of the Cubs, has a glove made from a zebra hide . . . Max Schmeling, ac cording to reports from Ger many, Is still hunting and fish ing on his estate near Berlin ... the midget racers are tenta tively slated to wheel around the fairgrounds oval a week from next Tuesday. ConTalesclng A. D. Lewis. Jr.. who underwent an opera tion at Community hospital May 22. is recovering nicely and is able to have visitors now, atten dants said today. AMERICA : goodvear :tires MEDFORD SERVICE STATION "YOUR TIRE SHOP." C. C. FUHN AS. Proprietor. MAIN and PACiriC HIGHWAY. TELEPKONT 14 Bend Elks Here TO IGHT; Bend Also to Rely on Right handers On Mound Mc Donald at Short for Craters Because of the fact that Bend's Elks have only one lefthanded batter in their lineup, Manager Paul Hoffard of the Medford Craters will send his two ace righthanded pitchers Steve Crlppen and Big Bill Lanning against the central Orcgonians here Saturday night and Sunday afternoon as the two clubs clash in their State league baseball series at the new fairgrounds park. Hoffard said today that Crip pen, whose last start resulted in a 2 to 1 victory over the Sil verton Red Sox, would toe the slab In the Saturday night game which will start at 9 o'clock sharp. Lanning, who hurled the Craters to a 7 to 5 win over Hills Creek last Saturday eve ning, will work the Sunday afternoon tilt. Jimmy Rego, lefthander, and Or Williams, righthander, will be held In reserve, Hoffard stated. "If Crippen or Lanning get belted hard." the manager said, "Rego or Williams will get a chance to labor." Parmer for Bend While the Craters will be en trusting their pitching duties to a pair of starboard f lingers. Bend will be doing the same. Manager Clyde Stokoe plans to open with Jim Farmer, big righthanded fireballer, on the rubber Satur day evening, with young Bob Houtchens toiling in the Sunday afternoon game. This pair cop ped two games from Jack and Jill last Sunday, both allowing three blows. The Craters, deadlocked with Albany for the loop leadership with five wins and one loss, will take the field with only one lineup change. Alex McDonald, infielder from the Western In ternational league, will be at shortstop, instead of Crippen. lorn Hawkins will catch, Pal Patterson will be on first, Rincy Cook on second. Cliff McLean on third, Rock Peterson in left. Al Wray in center and Ted Ken- In right. Fast Ball Hitters Hoffard s decision to throw righthanded pitching against the fourth-place Elks was the result of a talk with Hawkins, who has played with Bend for the past several years and knows every Elk hitter like a book. Hawkins told Hoffard "that Bill Hatch, first baseman, was Bend's only southpaw sticker, and that the Elks were fast ball hitters. Hof fard believes Crippen and Lan ning, both curve-bailers, stand a good chance to set the visitors down. While the Craters and Bend are colliding here, Jack and Jill will play at Hills Creek, Silver ton will entertain Eugene and the Portland Babes will travel to Albany. This will be the next-to-last week-end series before completion of the first-half pen nant race. Batting lineups for Saturday. Medford Bend Peterson. If Cook, 2b Wray, cf McLean, 3b Patterson, lb McDonald, is Kerr, rf Hawkins, e Crippen, p Burton, 2b Askew, If Walker, cf Humpy, rf Gordon, 3b Hatch, lb Douglass, is Kramers, e Farmer, p EDDIE FERNANDES TO REPORT TO PIRATES Pittsburgh, May 31. I.P) In need of a hitting catcher, the Pirates took up their option to day on backstop Eddie Fer nandi-s of Portland, Ore., in the Pacific const league, and order ed him to report immediately r fifi mm ? ail Tribune Trapshoot Slated Sunday BIG ENTRY LIST Hi Ifll Mendenhall Is Only Two Time Winner Chester Woods Purse Also On Tap The eleventh annual Mall Tribune trapshooting tourna ment at the Medford gun club Sunday morning promises to bring out a record crowd to con- test for the coveted Tribune trophy, First placed in competition in 1930 with permanent ownership for a three-time winner, with the exception of S. G. Menden hall, who has two wins to his credit, the cup has been in dif ferent hands every year. Men denhall won the event in 1B34 and 1935. The other winners have been E. H. Lamport, W. W. Bates, H. R. Turpln, John R Tomlin, and George Jantzer of Medford. B. L. Hardenbrook and C. A. Dunn of Klamath Falls and H. Croisant of Grants Pass. A year's subscription to the Mail Tribune also goes to the winner each year. One hundred sixteen yard targets are shot in the event. Many From K. F. Klamath Falls has always brought a strong delegation to shoot for the coveted trophy and has made reservations for 20 shooters for Sunday's shoot. In addition to the Tribune plaque, th ehandsome Menden hall silver cup will be shot for on the same hundred targets. This trophy is for the lower bracket shooters only . " I three wins for permanent owner inrec wins ior permanent owner- ship and has been in competition inii i h. k... .., eiuiv u u . it i mo uv. ll tiuii twice by Sid Newton, and once each by H. Croisant and John Tomlin, and by Cliff Dunn and J. J. Stclger of Klamath Falls, the latter being the 1939 winner. The cup comes back from Klam ath Falls next Sunday and local shooters will do their best to keep the trophy in the home club for 1940. The Chester Woods purse, which will pay a second time winner this year $73, will also be contested for. A first win pays $10 and Wm. Heckman, E. W. Peace, H. Croisant, Wm. Bates, Fred McNclly, Sid New ton, C. G. Robertson and George Jantzer have single wins to their credit. The Woods purse is shot for In the handicap event which calls for SO targets at handicap distances. Doubles On Tap Twelve pairs of doubles will wind up the program unless there Is sufficient time to shoot some of the popular "miss and out" events. The shoot will be cashiered by Earl Troch, popular Portland, Oregon professional, assisted by the club secretary, Ed Pease. As usual the club will serve lunch at the grounds. There is no admission fee and the public is invited to attend as spectators or to compete in the events. Ten trophies will be awarded in addition to the perpetual Trib une and Mendenhall prizes and the handicap event will carry an optional money entrance. The club Is adding $60 in cash in the various events. Nags With "Cute Names" Pay Miss $4,429.80 for $2 Omaha, May 31 The horses' names sounded "too cute to miss" so Gene vieve Becker of Chicago was $4.42980 richer today her winnings from the track rec ord daily double payoff at the Ak Sar Ben racing plant yes terday. "Listen to how it sounds." the said. "It's a natural. Clear Ihe Way for Lillian C two :ute names and boy how they paid!" Clear the Way romped n the first race to pay Sfla ind Lillian C. paid $11 in ihe second. But the combina :lon on a $2 wager was some thing else Just ask Miss Pecker For purpurea of local government, England and Wales are divided primarily Into 0l administrative cvuntiM. A PAINTER OF REPUTATION Daily's Auto Painting ?t tiih ff.art.ert This Week-End for Series With Matman Mitchell If., s s;,...,.,.,. ,,,.., ,. , ,,.', ' i One of th best grapplers now appearing In southern Oregon is Jimmy Mitchell (above), the Negro flash from Tolsdo, Ohio. whose ring name Is the Black Panther. He goes against Ernie Piluso In Monday night's main event in the armory. RIFLE TOURNEY The third annuM Medford rifle club registered tournament closed last Sunday evening after two days of Intensive smallbore shooting among a greater num ber of competitors than ever before entnroH in IhA matches. w; . . x '"ner ?' srand aggregate of " 'o days' shooting was Ivan Waddell, with a total point score of 1979-87x's. Sec ond and outranked by only four x's was Mrs. Ivan Waddell, score 1979-83x, and Paul Dodge of California third with 1977 87x. Aggregate winners in the sharpshooter class were Mrs. S. M. Tuttle, 1971-79x and Bruce Smith of Grants Pass, 1958-66x. For the marksman class. C. J. Cunningham of Corvallis was first with 1949-82x, and A. C. Aikins of Eugene second with 1945-59X. Included among the entries were riflemen from as far north as Pendleton and Portland and from as far south as Fresno, Cal. A particularly welcome visitor was Frank J. Kahrs, rep resentative of Remington Arms company, who arrived in Med ford Saturday morning after a twenty-two hour trip by plane from the eastern seaboard. Regular weekly pistol prac tice will be resumed this eve ning at the Indoor range in the Merrick building. All pistol shooters are requested to be present. ROGUES PLAY AT C. CITY SUNDAY Heartened by their first vic tory of the season, a S to 2 con quest of the Ashland-Talent Atees last Sunday, Manager Doc Gitzen's Medford Rogues will travel to Crescent City next sabbath to engage the second place Merchants in a regular Southern Oregon league con test. Other loop games Sunday af ternoon will find the league leading Grants Pass Merchants moving to Roseburg and Ashland-Talent entertaining Gold Hill's Beavers at Ashland. Herb remedies alle viated disorder o loiter, stomach liter, altliie. Matl der, prostate (lam pilea, externa, aslh ma. 1 ca turrit, drti, tumut. MtMHl pre sure, rheuttia 1 1 m influent, stomach olrr. anil Htmoe ihate all JlMppeu J M i Herhaltet M eare I tperiertr Without Operation Hours 10 a. m. to t p. m Mon.-Tues.-Wed Only YICK SO HERB CO. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. Main Office Roseburg. Or a. PANTHER AFTER T T Jimmy Mitchell, the colored flash from Toledo, Ohio, who grapples under the monicker of the Black Panther, will gun for his third straight victory in the local armory Monday night when he tangles with Portland's Ernie Piluso in the one-hour main event of Promoter Mack Lillard's weekly mat presentation. Two weeks ago Jimmy upset all sorts of dope by staving off the vicious hammerlocks of Bull aog jacKson, ana finally pin ning the Portland toughie for the match. Last Monday Mitchell again scored a minor form-reversal by whacking Prince Se- laki Mehalikis in two straight tumbles. Mitchell is hot after his third consecutive win and believes he can get it at Piluso's expense. However, Ernie will probably offer the Negro his sternest test yet and many fans are of the opinion that Piluso will carry too many guns for the ebony hued matman. ine scientific theme, appar ent in the main event, will hold good in the two supplementing sKirmisnes. in fact, it is an all cleanie card one of the finest of its kind ever to be staged in the local arena. Don Sugai, who gave Bulldog Jackson a whopping grappling lesson last Monday and thrilled the crowd with his dashing and spectacular tactics, will collide with Prince Mehalikis in the middle event. Sugal is bound to become a number one favor ite with local clients. Herb Parks, Canadian cham pion who has been wrestling in Eugene, Salem and other north Oregon centers for many weeks. returns to tangle with Bobby Chick in the six-round opener. TRACK MEET Cambridge, Mass.. Mav 31 MV-Eastern track and field stars are massed for an attack on the IC4A meet's record book in an attempt to prevent seven Of the University of Califor nia's Golden Bears from walk ing off with the team cham pionship today and tomorrow at the stadium. It appears likely that nine meet records may fall during the two-day competition with out endangering the Golden Bears' chances of picking ud about 30 points, considered enough to enable them to be come the 17th far western vic tors in this competition In the past 21 years. BABES TIP JACK-JILL, 10-3 IN LOOP TUSS1E Portland, May 31. OF) The Portland Babes defeated Jack & Jill Tavern. 10-3, In a State baseball league game yesterday. The score: R. - H. E. Portland Babes 10 13 0 Jack & Jill 3 S 2 Carloscio, Carstens and Ama cher: Clow, Pcndergrass and Wittcke. Amateur Aviator Discovers New Use for Aeroplane Fabric... Result: a remarkable new shirt, now featured by Arnold Constable TBI Rl ibttl brlonts to a frllow namrd Tom Rigby. himself famous by inventing shirt Wings Shirts Four Portland Open Toumey Here June 9 Arrangements were completed today by the Rogue Valley Golf club for an open tournament here Sunday, June 9, which will feature the appearances of four of Oregon's top ranking professionals Ted Longworth, present Oregon open champion and pro at Portland's Waverley club; Joe Mozel. pro at Lloyd's golf course and driving range in Portland; Lawrence Lamberger, professional of the Portland Golf club. and Ivan Johnson. The professionals will com pete for cash prizes, while lo cal amateurs entering the open event will gun for trophy and cups put up by the Rogue Val ley club. Play will be 36 holes medal, with 18 holes In the morning and 18 in the after noon. In addition to the medal play, the four pros will stage driving exhibitions, show golf films and give a free demonstration of various shots. Officials of the local club are elated in being able to obtain the quartet of shotmakers and look for a huge gallery to turn out for the event. Among Medford amateurs ex pected to compete In the tour nament are Eddie Simmons, Bob Hammond, Leland Clark, George Harrington and several others. HOW THEY? STAND Pacific Coast League W. 32 34 31 32 . 30 ... 29 -...27 Seattle Oakland ........ San Diego ...... Hollywood San Francisco Sacramento Los Angeles Portland 22 American League Boston 22 10 Cleveland 23 12 Detroit 19 15 New York 17 18 Chicago 16 21 Washington . 16 22 St. Louis 14 21 Philadelphia 13 21 National League Cincinnati .25 .21 Brooklyn New York .. 19 Chicago Philadelphia St. Louis ....18 12 ....13 .11 9 Boston . Pittsburgh .. Scores Yesterday American League New York 4-4, Boston 0-11. Washington 6-14. Philadel phia 7-2. Cleveland 3-3, Chicago 1-1. Detroit 2-13. St. Louis 1-6. National League Cincinnati 4-9, Chicago 2-8. New York 7-12. Brooklyn 0-5. Philadelphia 3-1, Boston 1-3. St. Louis at Pittsburgh, rain. Pacific Coast League Seattle 2-4, Hollywood 0-3, (second game, 8 innings). Oakland 4-4. Portland 3-3. San Francisco 2-1, Sacra mento 3-0. Los Angeles 8 3. San Diego 2-3 (second game tie, 6 innings, time limit). Cm litll Tribune Kant ads. wry unusual He has made a new kind of T.ltl SklrtS. tlllli Winft. hue cuffs and collars of real unpiant fakn.: Hrnce our guarantee: Your ll.U back if Wings don't outlast any other skirt you've worn. ($1.65) Featured By M. M. at Local Pros Enter TOURNEY FINALS SLATED SUNDAY The championship of the an nual John A. and Frank Perl spring handicap tournament will be at stake Sunday after noon when George Harrington, winner of the first flight, meets W. H. 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