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TAO'P! TWO Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says; Dean's Release Come A Shock To Baseball Men Everybody knew it was only a matter of time, but the news of Jerome (Dizzy) Dean'i exit from the National league yes terday, via the waiver route, must have been a shock to many fan and baseball men. It was to this writer, at least, for it seems like only yesterday that "Ole Diz" was boiling that hard one of his down the slot, pitching the St. Louis "Gas House Gang" to pennants in 1934 and 1931 and winning an incredible num ber of games. Dean's rather short but bril liant major league career is probable ended, now. When the Chicago Cubs obtained waivers on him it meant simply that no other club in the major leagues was willing to risk $7,500. the waiver price, to purchase his contract. What a drop in value that is from the stupendous price Chicago paid the Cardi nals three years ago for the pitcher $185,000 and three ball players, including Curt Davis. Unless a miracle happens and Dean stages a comeback with a minor league team, he is all through. And if he is, the game will say goodbye to one of the best fllngers, and certainly the most colorful, of all time. Dean has been censured for his continual popping-olf. criti cised for bis poor showing the ' .last two seasons with the Cubs and condemned for his ' disregard of training rules. But when the big fellow had U. when his right arm was whipping that leather nugget ' plateward with the speed of machine-gun bullet, there were .aene to deny that he was as good a pitcher as ever whiffed a batter In the pinch. Dean's finest season was In 1934, when he hung up the amazing record of 30 victories while losing seven. That was the year he and Brother Paul practically alternated from day to day in twirling the Cards to the pennant. He won 28 games and lost 12 In 1933, and came right back with 24 and 13 In 1938. His other years with the cards saw him win 20 and lose 18 In 1933, win 18 and drop 13 In 1932 and cop 13 and lose 10 in 1937. If the State league leading Hedford Craters ever find it difficult to win ball games in the orthodox fashion, they shouldn't have any trouble brain-trusting their way to vic tory. Without doubt they are the most scholarly crew in the circuit, what with no less than four of them being full-fledged school teachers. Counting the catcher, four fifths of the Crater lnlleld earn their bread and butter by imparting knowledge to students. Pat Patterson on first coaches and teaches at Jacksonville high. Rlney Cook on second coaches and teaches at Medford junior high. Alex . McDonald on short dittoes at Grass Valley high and Catcher Tommy Hawkins does the same at Laplne. Baseman Cliff McLean attended j B" '" 'fl ,we?k-"d 0 University of Oregon two years. P ray for the leadership In Centerfielder Al Wray is a1""1' K0"A- fat h" den,, th,e graduate of Modesto, (Cal.) jun ior college and Pitchers Bill Lanning, Jimmy Roro. Steve Crippen and Orv Williams, and Outfielder Ted Kerr all are high school grads. The weather man has acted, like a number one heel toward! the Craters so far this season, the locals failing to get a good weather break for any of their local Saturday night Slate league games. It was positively miser able on opening night against Jack and Jill, it was cold and uncomfortable asainst Hills Creek on Saturday eve, and last Week against Bend it threatened to rain throughout the game, though the shower held off until the final ptitout. HOWTilEYA bmNu & American League W. L. Pet. Boston 24 12 .887 Cleveland 25 14 .841 Detroit 21 18 .586 New York 21 18 .338 Chicago 18 23 .439 Philadelphia 15 23 .303 Washington 17 24 .415 St, Louis 14 23 .339 National League Cincinnati 28 11 .718 Brooklyn 24 U . New York 21 IS .818 Chicago 19 21 .473 Philadelphia 14 19 .4:4 St. Louis 14 22 .389 Boston 12 22 .353 Pittsburgh 10 23 .303 Pacific Coa.t league unchanged. 1 4 Clubs Ready 7 GAMES SLATED IN Tl LEAGUES IF WEATHER FAIR First Tilts Start at 8 Sharp On Two Diamonds 7 o'Clock Parade Tentative With their eyes cast skyward and their fingers crossed, some 140 Softball players Impatiently await the opening of the 1940 season tonight at the high school stadium. If rain does not postpone the Inaugural for the third time, 14 teams will swing Into ac tion under the lights. There will be three League A games, three League B tilts and one Girls' loop contest. Opening frays are slated for 8 o'clock sharp. A gala parade through the downtown district Is scheduled to start at 7 o'clock, but should weather look threatening the parade will be called off. The games, however, will be played unless it actually rains pitch forks at 8 o'clock. League A games, pitting the city's six finest teams against each other, will be of five-ln-nlng duration. The three Lea gue B clashes will be of four frames, and the feminine tilt, between Hunt's Craterians and the Girls' Community club, will go four heats. All games, al though shortened, will count In league standings. Following Is the schedule of games: League A. Lost River Dairy vs. Jennings Tire. Medco vs. Wooden Box. Catholic Men vs. Fluhrer's Breadeaters. League B. Elks club vs. Gasco. Eagles vs. Bear Creek Or chards. Copco vs. Faber's. The two girls' teams will collide following the Elks-Gasco contest. League A games will be played on the north diamond; League B tilts on the south field. The above games are listed in the order of their col lision, with two tilts to be play ed at the same time on the two diamonds. 8 CRATERS SLUG .300 OR BETTER The Medford Craters boast eight players who are batting .300 or better In State league contests, and four of them are way up In the stratospheric .400 bracket. Pitcher Jim Rego is hitting .444, Alex McDonald, shortstop, Is clouting .429 Pitcher Steve Crippen has a mark of .412 and Al Wray, centerfielder, has an average of .400. Leonard (Pat) Patterson, first pitiir nine u.111-3, u ninf i eight. The club batting average, for players on the roster at the pres ent time. Is .318, from an ag gregate 77 hits In 242 trips to the plate. Following are the Individual averages for State tea cue games: AB R H Avg. 9 14 .444 1 7 1 3 .429 17 5 7 .412 25 8 10 .400 34 4 13 .308 i 33 9 11 .333 3 0 1 .333 33 6 10 .303 27 7 8 ,2Hfi 11 3 3 .273 20 8 S .250 6 0 1 .167 17 2 1 .039 Rego Crippen Wray ... Cook ... Patterson Williams McLean Peterson Kerr Hawkins Lanning Hoftard Cloaing t-ma for Too Late to CUa tify Ads la S0 p m. Midget Auto Races Tuesday -June 11 FAIRGROUNDS Get Your Courtesy Ticket From Your RICHFIELD SERVICE STATION and SAVE 20c MEDFORD MATL Dean Gambles on Comeback With New Sidearm Delivery By Tom Slier. Chicago, June 4. yP) The oblivion accorded womout ball players beckons to Dizzy Dean, but the one-time great pitcher isn't bowing out without one last desperate gamble to regain hif old nlch In booebel). Always a fignier with a great heart, Dizzy refuses to give up hopes of again becoming a star big league hurler. A few days ago Dean asked Owner Phil Wrigley of the Chi cago Cubs to send him back to the minors where he plans to experiment with a new deliv ery. Wrigley agreed and the club announced yesterday all big league teams had waived on Dean, thereby setting the stage for his ' return to the minors. His plsn, as outlined now, is to option Dean to Tulsa, a Cub affiliate, in the Texas league. In which circuit he began his amazing flight to major league stardom. Recently Dean's arm was ex amined by Dr. George Bennett of Johns Hopkins hospital In Baltimore. The physician told Dean he was through as an overhand pitcher. He suggest ed Dizzy try a sidearm delivery. "We can't try out Dr. Ben nett's suggestion In the big lea gues," explained Dizzy's wife, Patricia. "7 Tie majors aren't for experiments, so we want to go back to the minors and see what happens. "We know it Is big gam ble. If Dizzy falls to click down there with his new deliv ery, and he satisfies himself that he's really through, at least we'll know where we stand. "But If It develops that his arm really la finished, then we can take it." CLASSES -SLATED New and enlarged Red Cross llfesaving and water safety courses of instruction will be given by the Medford chapter during a two-weeks campaign, June 17 to July 1, Marjorie Kelly announced today. Six different classifications, covering swimming and diving, life saving and water safety, will enable all lovers of water sports to take advantage of this free instruction. Edwin H. Carroll, director of American National Rer! Cross first aid and life saving In the Pacific area, has arranged to send an expert instructor, Harry Harvey, here for the two-weeks period. Persons who have taken courses previously are invited to enroll for this ad vanced Instruction. Students will be required to devote IS hours to the water safety classes of the school Appropriate certificates will be awarded upon completion of the work In each classification. Classes will be held dally Monday to Saturday inclusive, The school will observe the usual Sunday holiday. Scores Yesterday American League Chicago 7, St. Louis 1. Cleveland 4. Philadelphia Washington 9, Detroit 3. National League New York 4, Pittsburgh 3. Cincinnati 3, Boston 2. Brooklyn 3, Chicago 2. Only games scheduled. Pacific Coast League No games. ANGELS FARM MALL0RY TO TULSA, TEXAS LOOP Los Angeles, June 4. (41 A former University of Oregon lnfielder, who burned up the Pacific Coast league for a few days but subsequently slumped, was shipped out to the Tulsa Texas league club yesterday by Los Angeles. He Is Elmer Mai lory, who Joined the Angel club this year. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. for Softball Opening at ,7-1 FOURTH STRAIGHT By Judson Bailey. Associated Press Sports Writer. The way the New York Yan kees are rolling now makes it difficult to Imagine how a few weeks ago they could lose eight straight and slither around in the cellar of the American lea gue day after day. There were good reason, of course injuries. Illness and in disposition. But they are all gone now and It appears that nothing short of a catastrophe can keep the clib from Its fifth consecutive pennant. The 7-1 shellacking the Yanks gave the St. Louis Browns yes terday was the fourth In a row over the tail-enders and tenth victory In eleven games. Al ready New York is within 4H games of first place and only a game and a half out of third. The league-leading Red Sox outhit the Chicago White Sox 14-10, but were beaten 7-4. The third-place Tigers were 9-3 victims of Dutch Leonard's knuckle-ball at Washington. Lefty Al Milncr chalked up his seventh triumph against one defeat for Cleveland by shut ting out the Philadelphia Ath letics 4-0. The Cincinnati Reds topped the Boston Bees 3-2 with all the scoring being done in the first grame. Hugh Casey of Brooklyn held the Chicago Cubs to five hits and won 3-2. The New York Giants nosed out the unlucky Pittsburgh Pi rates 4-3. BAFFLED BEAVERS TRY HOLLYS NEXT By the Associated Press. The spotlight of the Pacific Coast baseball league is focused on Oakland tonight, where the home team has a double motive in Its attempt to trip its guest of the week, Seattle. Oakland Is only a couple of games behind league-leading Se attle. And the capture of the series would be in the nature of revenge for the sis garnes-to-one drubbing dealt the Oaks when they tackled the north erners two weeks ago at Se attle. San Francisco. In fourth place, opens at San Diego, which is in third spot. Portland", which Increased Its unwilling claim to cellar spot with nine losses out of the lust 15 starts, opens at Hollywood. Los Angeles meets Sacra mento at the state capital. Fights Last Night By the Assosiated Press. New York Pete Scalzo, 128, New York, National Boxing as sociation's featherweight cham pion, outpointed ex-Champion Mike Belloise, 128, New York. (81. Chicago Leo Rodak. 133, Chicago, outpointed Jackie Wil son, 128. Pittsburgh. (10). Des Moines, la. Eddie Simms. 200, Cleveland, outpointed Cy clone Lynch, 195, Denver, (10. Omaha. Neb. Billy Mar qunrt, 133, Winnipeg, outpoint ed Sammy Murco, 133, Omaha 8. Hrb rrtnetflt a.l guiirr. itomick liter, kidney, mad dt, prnauta flan pllra. h ifmi, in ma. cat a it ft. drupt; tumor, bliMd prv tur. rlituma dim InMufnf, ttomavh ulcr. and nmor rha all disappear Without Operation Hours 10 a. m. to p. m Men- Tues. Wed Only YICK SO HERB CO. Jacksoa Co. Bank Bidg. Main Olfice Roseburg. Ore. 1 i h i HtrtMlHt 14 Year Ctpntnr OREGON. TUESDAY. JUNE 4, 1940. PILUSO TAKES 23 JIMMY MITCHELL Jimmy Mitchell, the colored Black Panther from Toledo. Ohio, dropped his first grap pling match In the Medford armory last night when Port land's Ernie Piluso torpedoed him ' twice In 23 minutes with flesh-shattering Sonne nbergs and pinned him with body presses. A fairly large crowd turned out for the 100 percent scientific program. Ernie's first tumble came af ter 17 minutes of rip-roaring action, during which the ad vantage changed hands with lightning-like rapidity. First Piluso would have the upper hand, then Mitchell would forge Into the lead. The latter used a headlock to good ad vantage. Finally Piluso saw the open ing he had been waiting for and started firing sonnenbergs. Three of them sent the Panther reeling to the canvas and Ernie pounced on top for the tumble. Piluso wound up the fine match six minutes later, and in the same manner in which he grabbed his first tumble. The pair traded legitimate maneu vers for a spell, then suddenly Piluso launched his shots to Mitchell's mid-section. Four times Ernie smashed the Negro to the carpet before he piled on him for the fall and match. Don Sugai, Salem Japanese flash, made It two straight here with a two to one fall victory over Prince Selaki Mehalikis In the middle event. With the falls standing one each, Sugai cut loose with a dropklck In the fourth canto and the Prince went down for the count. Just prior to this payoff Mehalikis was sonnenberging furiously, but the dropkick caught him as he was coming in and it was all over. - A. Boston Crab ;-.ve the Prince the first fall In the sec ond round. Sugai hit with two sonnenbergs, but on the third Mehalikis dodged and whipped the Jap over In the crab, forc ing him to give up. Sugai evened the score In the third round with successful sonnenbergs, followed by a body slam and a press. Bobby Chick defeated Herb Parks of Canada in the opener. using a shoulder stand in the fourth round for the deciding tumble after copping a fall in the second heat with a knee- wallop to Park's chin and body press. Parks took a fall In the third round with drop kicks to the button and a press. Promoter Mack Lillard an nounced that Bob Kruse of Oswego, one of the games leading matmen, would be here In the near future to grapple an outstanding opponent. CONN, LESNEVICH GO WEDNESDAY FOR TITLE Detroit, June 4. iP) Their . SEE Arturo Godoy In Action L2. Apprarlne In Ma tint mo tion plrtur In an exhibi tion bout bfw4n hlmir and . . . MAXIE R0SENBL00M "former champion" mm the Hiiiini remit? In "Grandpa Coes To Town" TODAY & WED! NEW RIALTO THEATRE neavy training gruia ximsucu, Champion Billy t onn ana Chal lenger Gus Lesnevich tapered off with light workouts tooay in preparation for their 15 round light-heavyweight title scrap tomorrow night. BEAR CREW HEADS FOR P0UGHKEEPSIE REGATTA Berkeley, Cal., June 4. W) The University of California crew entrains today for Pough- keepsie, N. Y., to defend its national intercollegiate cham pionship at the regatta June 18. Coach Ky Ebrlgnt said he doesn't think the Bears' chances of victory are too good. It looks plenty tough," he declared. I IS AIRED IN COURT The civil action of H. C. Mon- tag and wife, and J. L. Curry and wife, against A. Dean Tate and wife, involving sale of a tourist camp near McLeod on Rogue river, was underway in circuit court today. The plaintiffs allege "mis representation" in their pur chase of the resort, and seek remuneration in their invest ment. The complaint says amount of business, number of tourists, fishing and other con ditions were not as represented. The sale was made in 1938. CJGE5 IF MM I IS FUshtne down th straightaways at ipaaos at M" ai l3 eillas aa hour. Wilbur Shaw traaka4 ta vlctery la this raat race te baeoma a thraa-rima wlnnar and the aaly man arar ta win twa canracative victerlai at radianapalis. 100 nilti a4 grinding, pounding, tartaring eaad and not ana tira failad: hara'a praof at Mraty proof of blowawt protection proof of tire lupariority bactad, not by claimi, but by parfareae. Pataatad tonttractia faaturaa I he Pre. tona Tirol aiad by thata grtat drivan an the ipaadway ara incerparatad in the Firattano Champion Tirai yea bay far tha highway. For f rot tor ufoty, aaonomy and depend ability, equip year aar witp a lot e4 fhooa wandarful tiroi today. I 3W&z M Bkat J L.i '1 jMwmr' I liTS ?fiV 0,4 yip! Limrn at ta -faeof a Mmdtf Ninth and Riverside Stadium CERTIFICATES UK Certif cales o f nomination were issued yesterday by the county clerk to Republican and Democratic winners in the May primary, as follows: For county judge, J. B. Cole man, Republican, and Ira E. Schuler, Democrat; for assessor, C. A.- Myers, Republican, and Ray Schumacher, Democrat, and for commissioner, Arthur E. Powell, Republican, and E. B. Poyer, Democrat. Certificates of nomination, on both tickets were issued to H. W. Conger, coroner, George R. Carter, clerk, Ralph Sweeney, treasurer, and Nick S. Young. constable. These candidates will have no opposition in the gen eral election unless an indepen dent files. According to the official count George W. Neilson re ceived both the Republican and Democratic nominations for dis trict attornev. and Attorney W. M. McAllister received the dou-l ble nomination for state repre sentative. Official notification will come from the secretary; of state, as they are state offices. E. T. Newbry of Talent Is' If 11 i l rt r " u t 1 urns LIFETIME GUARANTEE I Erery Firestone Tire carries a written lifetime guarantee not gl limited to 12, 18 jjj or 24 months, 3 but for the full 2 life of the tire j without time or rj mileage limit 13 ireMa ,VSC JtM Mi Tonight the other Republican nominee, and William N. Carl of the Ap plegate, the Democratic choice, unopposed. Quaker Leader Dies Portland, June 4. WV Death claimed Rev. Chester A. Hadley, 52, general superinten dent of the Friends (Quaker) church in Oregon, yesterday. He began his pastorate at Salem's Rosedale church. 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