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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 9, 1940. PAOE TWO Lawson Little and Gene Sarazen Battle to Tie in National Open CINCINNATI STAR COMES FROM REAR TO GAINPLAYOFF Six Players Disqualified, . Hullabaloo Caused After ' Oliver Also Scores 287, Canterbury Golf C o u r e, Cleveland, June 8. VP) Gene Sarazen. the dark, fast-striding little golf veteran from Cin cinnati, came out of nowhere late today through the rain and mud to tie Lawson Little for the national open championship at 287 strokes and carry the former amateur king into a playoff for the title tomorrow. Winner of his first open championship in 1922 and a re peater in 1932, Sarazen struck for his third title so unexpected ly that it wasn't until the last three holes that the huge gal lery swarmed around him. His finish was nearly as sen sational as that of '32 when he scored a final record breaking round of 88 at Fresh Meadow to snatch the title from Bobby Crulckshank and Phil Perkins. Little, winner of the British and amateur titles in 1934 and 1035, was in with what looked like the payoff score. Sarazen had "blown" on the out nine. going two over par, and he needed an impossible 34 coming back to tie. The course was muddy and heavy from a soak ing rain. While Little sat In the press tent and watched the score board with anguished eyes, Sar azen did it. The little guy not only picked up the two birdies he needed, but on the final hole, he nearly curled In a 45-foot putt that would have won him the title. There was a terrific hulla baloo because Ed Oliver, of Hornell, N. Y, had been dis qualified along with five other players for having made an un orthodox start on his closing round. Oliver had a total of 287, too, but It never was posted. His 71 in the afternoon was thrown out because the com mittee decided the 23-year-old tar had broken one of golf's most sacred rules by teeing off some 30 minutes before his scheduled starting time and without having reported to the official starter. There was a strong movement afoot to force the U.S.G.A. to admit him to tomorrows play off. Both Sarazen and Little were willing. But Hal Pierce, of Boston, president of the golf body, said flatly "The matter is closed. We will not consider it further." He complimented Little for having made a "sporting ges ture" In asking that Oliver be Included In the playoff. Sara len had said: "Shucks, let him play." Oliver was crying In the club house tonight. Little's four rounds were 72-89-73-73 287. Several times he looked like he was ready to blow the tournament. On the final four holes this morning, he went three strokes over par. But he came back fighting in the afternoon. Sarazen had rounds of 71- SWIM IN DRINKING WATER The water In this pool Is changing constantly and Is chlorinated lo meet slate requirements. MERRICK'S KLEIN TAILOR 12$ E. MAIN. UPSTAIRS This Check Made to Present This Check When Ordering TAKE LEAD ANEW Cinclnnatl, June 8. OP) The rampaging Cincinnati Reds regained the National league lead today clubbing out a 23-2 victory over yesterday's leaders, the Brooklyn Dodgers. In sharp contrast to yester day's battle, which went to the Brooks by 4-2 in 11 innings and gave them the league leadership, today's game was nothing but a batting workout for the Reds and a mighty headache to the Dodgers in general and to Pitch ers Fred Fitzsimmons, Carl Boyle and Van Llngle Mungo in particular. Brooklyn 2 7.2 Cincinnati 23 27 1 Fitzsimmons, Doyle, Mungo and Phelps, Mancuso; Derringer and Lombard!, Hershberger. Chicago, June 8. (P) Vern Olsen, freshman southpaw, pitched and batted Chicago to a 3 to 1 victory over Boston to day, giving the Cubs their fifth straight triumph. His double sent Dominic Dallessandro home with the run that untied the score In the seventh Inning, The young hurler also tossed out Buddy Hassett trying to steal home in the fifth, trapped Hassett on a rundown play be tween third and home In the eighth and had assists on four other plays. Boston 18 0 Chicago 3 9 0 Fette, Strincevlch and Lopez; Olsen and Cclllns. St. Louts, June 8. UP) Wal ter Brown, the New York Giants ace relief twirler, proved his effectiveness today, helping his third place mates sweep a doubleheader from the St Louis Cards by 4-2 and 5-2. First game: New York 4 9 0 St. Louis 2 13 1 Joiner, W. Brown and Odea: Bowman, Russell, Shoun and Owen. Second game: New York 5 14 1 St. Louis 2 9 2 Melton, W. Brown and Pan ning; Lanier, Davis, White and Owen, Padgett. Pittsburgh, June 8. P) Al though outhit 12 to 8, the Pitts burgh Pirates beat the Phila delphia Phillies 6-5 today for their fourth consecutive victory. Philadelphia 5 12 1 Pittsburgh 6 8 3 Higbe, L. Brown, Si Johnson. Smoll, Syl Johnson and Atwood, Warren; Butcher, Heintzelman M. Brown and Davis. New Mt. Hood Snow Portland, June 8 UP) Three inches of fresh snow on the windy reaches of Mount Hood Improved the course for tomor row's fifth annual Golden Rose summer ski tournament. Tre Kills Logger Molalla, June 8. P) Nels Staffanson, 54, of Colton, died under a falling tree at a logging camp yesterday. His widow, a son and two daughters survive. 74-70-72207. He started the final two rounds a stroke be hind Little and Sam Snead. He was two shots behind the vet eran Frank Walsh, who led the field at the end of 54 holes with 213. But while Walsh and Snead were falling apart In the final crucial 18 holes, Sarazen got tougher hole by hole until he pushed through to his favorite place in front. Hnrton Smith made a stout Hearted finish with a 69 to land a stroke behind Little and Sar azen at 2B8. Any kind of a score in the morning would hnve given him the victory, but he developed a slice and took 78. Craig Wood, runner up last year, had 289. Grouped at 290 were Ralph Guldahl, Byron Nel son, Lloyd Hangrum and Ben Hogan. Wilford Wehrle, of Noles, III. was low amateur with a ! total of 297. The amateurs are mi wnm inejr wrn in ooupy Jones' day. Speciol Not Good Good For Measure at f 10.00 or Orer, Sold AID TO SEATTLE Oakland, Cal., June 8. UP) Aided by four Oakland errors, the Seattle Rainier scored six runs In the first two innings of today's Pacific Coast league game and went on to win 9 to 3. However, Oakland holds a lead of three games to two in the series, which closes with doubleheader tomorrow. Hal Turpin went the distance for Seattle, outpitching a trio of Oakland hurlers. Catcher Bill Conroy, pinch hitting for pitcher Joe Mulligan of Oakland In the seventh inn ing, slammed a home run over the left field fence. Score: R. H. E. Seattle 9 11 0 Oakland 3 8 5 Turpin and Kearse; Cantwell Mulligan, Johnson and Rai mondi. San Diego, Cel., June 8. (P) A ninth-inning homerun by Johnny Barret, Seal center fielder, enabled San Francisco to nose out San Diego, 8 to 5, today and reduce the Padres coast league series edge to one game. The score: R. R. E. San Francisco 8 11 5 San Diego 5 9 2 Dasso, Ballou and Sprinz; Crakhead, Tobin and Detore. ROSEBURG PLAYS Southern Oregon League W. L. Pet. Grants Pass 5 0 1.000 Crescent City 4 1 .800 Ashland-Talent . 2 S .400 Medford 1 8 .230 Roseburg 1 3 .250 Gold Hill 1 4 .200 A fourth-place tie In the Baseball Southern Oregon eague standings will be broken today when the Medford Rogues and the Roseburg Indians, each with one victory In four starts, clash on the local high school field at 2:30 p. m. Other circuit games will find he leading and undefeated Grants Pass Merchants travel ing to Gold Hill for game against the cellarites, and sec ond-place Crescent City bat tling third-place Ashland-Talent at Ashland. Ray Tungate has been assign ed the Medford hurling duties by Manager G. A. (Doc) Gitzen with Al (Lefty) Wimer and Fred Thompson in reserve. Bus Sporer or George Barr, both right-handers, will labor for Roseburg. Manager Gitzen of the Rogues said the local Infield would spread out with George Gitzen catching, Tommy White on first, Johnny Gitzen on second, Orv Hampel on short and Bud Reinking on third. Sam Van Dyke and Dick Sakralda will hold down two of the outfield berths, with the third spot to be filled by Ed Hawkins, Bob Newland, Jimmy Lewis or Billy Piche. Swimmers U rged To Enroll Red X Move Swimmerr. and non-swimmers alike are Invited by Miss Fran ces Arnsptger, acting chairman of life-saving of the Jncksnn county Red Cross chapter, to enroll for the 1940 Red Cross water safety campaign to be given here June 17 to July 1. Special attention will be given to beginners' classes, as well as to the advanced students who ore ready for life-saving and water safety Instruction. Enrollment for six different classifications In the water safety school may be made at the Natatorlum on June 14. 15 or 16. Any Junior or senior life- savers In Medford who would like to assist In the school are i asked to contact Mis Arnspiger telephone 973 H. Cm Uall Tr.oune ent ada. 4th of July Discount Check Alter July 4th. 140 On Any SUIT Alter Date KLEIN -TAILOR F, LOSE TO TIGERS; YANKEES BEATEN Boston, June 8. OP) Tall Johnny Gorsica chalked up his first major league victory today as his Detroit Tiger teammates thumped the fading Boston Red Sox for the second successive day to win by a 4-2 margin. The Red Sox still clung to the topmost rung of the Ameri can league ladder by the slim margin of one percentage point. Detroit 4 5 1 Boston 2 9 2 Gorsica, and Tebbetts; Gale- house, Wilson, and DeSautels. New York, June 8. UP) A pair of singles one by Charley Keller and one by Buster Mills were all the hits the world champions could get off Al Mil- nar of the Cleveland Indians to day as the tribe won, 3-0. The lefthander racked up his eighth victory of the campaign against one defeat by his master ful hurling today. A crowd of 16,067 cheered him on. Cleveland 3 7 0 New York 0 2 3 Milnar and Hemsley; Russo, Murphy and Dickey. Philadelphia, June 8. UP) Roy Cullenbine, who was traded to St. Louis by Brooklyn be cause he wasn't hitting, drove in six runs today with a homer and double to lead the Browns to a 15 to 1 victory over the Athletics behind Eldon Auker's five hit pitching. St. Louis 15 14 3 Philadelphia 15 3 Auker and Swift; Dean, Beck man, C. Miles and Hayes, Bruck- er. Washington, June 8 The Chicago White Sox clung to fifth place today, trampling Washington, 12-6. Chicago 12 13 4 Washington 8 13 4 Dietrich, Brown and Tresh Chase, Monteagudo and Earley CLASSY PITCHING IN KITTY LEAGUE A pair of classy pitching jobs were done at the Softball sta dium Friday night. Freeman of Wooden Box blanking Catholic Men, 9 to 0, with one hit, and Maru of Fluhrer's Breadeaters giving up only two blows as his team pounded out a 13 to 1 win over Lost River Dairy, in Amer ican loop tilts. George Gitzen's triple in the fifth frame was the lone Catho lic hit off the Wooden Box hurl er. Piche hit a triple and Baker and D'Arcy slugged doubles for the winners. Ted Kerr, Wooden Box second baseman, starred on defense. Maru, flinging for Fluhrer's, was nicked for singles by Peter son and Luman. VanDyke and Trill belted doubles for the win ners. In the National league Fab er's out-clouted Gasco, 18 to 6, and Teamsters trounced Eagles, 11 to 7. L. Pinkham socked two homers for Faber's and Babb hit for the circuit once, while Graham homered for Gasco. A special meeting for all soft ball team managers has been called for Monday night at 7:30 in council chambers of city hall, and all skippers are requested to attend. PYidiy scores: R. H. I P!uhrr,s 19 1 boat River 19 1 alaru snd Lowery; Marchl, Luman and Luman. Wray. Wooden Bus - t IS . 0 I R. Slngler, , Catholic Men Freeman and Kubll. Sakralda and McOulre, Darllne raber's Oaaco .18 .. a L. Pinkham and Babb: Colvon. Shi ; nioua and Kykcr. Kaglra 7 19 1 Teamatere tl 19 P. Stall and Huntley; Dallam and fraley. WRESTLING MEDFORD ARMORY MONDAY NIGHT. 9:30 P. M DON SUGAI vs. ERNIE PILUSO BLACK PANTHER Vs. FRANKIE CLEMENS HERB PARKS vs. PRINCE MEHALIKIS 17 DRIVERS SET E E Seventeen pilots five of them young localites battling for their place in the racing sun and a dozen nationally- known "dooflle-bug" manipula tors have definitely signed up for the midget auto race pro gram at the new fairgrounds baseball park next Tuesday night, it was announced yester day by H. A. (Howdy) Murray, who takes care of things In Medford for Promoter Bobby Rowe of Portland. All set to pit their tiny thun derbolts against some of the greatest pilots In the business are Don Wiley of Medford, Wild Bill Cummlngs of Butte Falls, Jack Terrett of Yreka, Cal., for mer local driver; Cliff Woodley of Grants Pass and Bob Hitson of Klamath Falls. Their racing Jobs are tuned to perfect pitch and each and every one of them is determined to drag down top money In the 35-lap reverse handicap feature event. Going to the post against these five newcomers to the midget race industry will be the following top-ranking drivers: Les Anderson of Oakland, Cal., Howie Pearson of Seattle Frenchy Dubolse of Seattle, Wash., Jud Fuller of St. Louis, Rastus Greene of Birmingham, Ala., Al Milton of Minneapolis, Bob Anderson of Vancouver, Wash., Crash Campbell of Aus tralia, Ascot Louie of San Diego, Don Cameron of San Francisco, Wayne Gaffney of Yakima, Wash., and Ray Chase of Port land, current leader in the point standings. One of the most promising local drivers is Cliff Woodley of Grants Pass, who will handle a Chevrolet special. He tried out the one-fifth mile oval In Grants Pass Friday afternoon and ne gotiated the track in 15 sec onds. Woodley has set his sights on beating Medford's Don Wiley, who plans to take several prac tice spins on the fairgrounds track this morning. The program Tuesday night, third to be staged here this sum mer, will get under way with time trials for all cars at 7:30 sharp. Following this there will be a trophy dash, and six heat races will be run off next. There will also be class B main event for slower cars prior to the big feature attraction. Several thousand courtesy tickets to the races have been distributed to all Richfield serv ice stations in the county, and persons may obtain them by cal ling at the filling stations. The ducats are sold at a considerable discount under the regular price. CLARK AHEAD IN Leland (Pete) Clark, firing a one-over-par 71, yesterday hung up the lowest score thus far as 26 more players turned in quali fying cards for the annual Bar ker Paim Beach handicap tour nament at the Rogue Valley Golf club. All qualifying rounds must be completed to day. Eddie Simmons, with a 74, was second low scorer, while Hubart Price's 76 was next and the 78 s of Ike Staples. Jack Creager and Lee Watson fol lowed in line. Other scores were: Hance Cleland. 0J; Jack Pfeiffer. 99; Sid Rear.ey. 83; Roy Pruitt, 79; Almus Truitt. 85: Keith Kittle. 88; Jack Simpson, 94: Fred Greene. 82. Bill Thurlow, 97; R. B. Hammond. 87; Tod Por ter. 84; Earl Tumy. 87; Ed Nichols. 92; Don Bagley. 96; Emil Mohr. 100; Ernie Kofoed, 94: Frank Perl, 89; Bob Ruhl, 101; Rawles Moore, 89, and Glenn Jackson, 89. There will be a blind bogey tournament at the club today, with golf ball prizes. Scats on sale at Brown's Telephone 101 DEMPSEY WILLING TO PUT ON GLOVES Atlanta, June 8. OP) Jack Dempsey, biggest drawing card in boxing history, today Indi cated his willingness to re-enter the ring here July 1 for a feud fiaht with a wrestler. Cowboy i Luttrell. The Atlanta Constitution says that a 10-round boxing bout has been arranged between the former heavyweight champ. now 45, and Luttrell, a former fighter, and that Promoter Jim Downing is en route to New York with formal papers for Dempsey to sign. In New York Dempsey, when asked about the proposed match, said: "I may be an old man, but I'm willing to meet Luttrell any time, any place, for any num ber of rounds he desires." A crack on the Jaw from Dempsey's fist started the feud with Luttrell, who hails from Dallas, during, a recent wrest ling bout here. As referee, Dempsey questioned tactics Luttrell was using on his op ponent, Dorve Roche. The cow boy brashly bucked the former champion, and a brief hail of blows ensued. Luttrell is a former boxer who turned to wrestling and is widely known throughout this section. Thad Holt, Atlanta Con stitution sports writer who ar ranged for the 10-round bout with regulation gloves, said part of the proceeds would go to the Red Cross. The match is scheduled, Holt said, for the night of July 1 at the Atlanta baseball park. RACING New York, June 8. P) E. R. Bradley's Bimelich, beaten In the Kentucky derby but win ner of the Preakness, today won the mile and a half Belmont stakes at Belmont Park. George D. Widener's Your Chance closed fast to take second In front of the Millsdale stable's Andy K, and three other three-year-olds. Los Angeles, June 8. OP) Hysterical, bearing the racing silks of George W. Stratton of Los Angeles, captured the $10, 000 added Inglewood handicap at Hollywood park today, edg ing out the final furlong chal lenge of A. A. Baroni's Specify in the mile and one-sixteenth feature. Jockey Lester Balaskl gave ' Hysterical a masterful ride, setting a blistering pace and sweeping In to pay the fancy price of $16.40, $7.60 and $4.80 across the board. Wedding Call, owned by Gaffers and Sattler of Los Ang eles, ran third. The betting fav orite, Louis B. Mayer's Joy Boy, finished out of the money. More than one-half of the 170.000 farmer! In Kanaaa are member, of oo -operative organisations. THRILLS u uTmrm Aft. MIDGET HO' mm Fairgrounds Tues. June 1 1 Box Seats 75c On Sale at The Roxy Ann Confectionary General Admission 55c Children 10c Cat Yuur Courtesy Ticket from Your RICHFIELD SERVICE STATION and SAVE JOe JAPANESE FLASH 'TO FACE PILUSO If Don Sugal, the Japanese mat flash, If successful in trip ping up Portland's Ernie Plluso in the main event of Monday night's granple card at the arm- orv. he will automatically be come the top-ranxing wresuer of the group now performing In southern Oregon. In his first appearance here, two weeks ago, the Salem Nip ponese made short work of Bulldog Jackson, nobody's set up. Then last Monday Sugai really displayed his class by grabbing a two-fall-to-one vic tory from Prince Se'.aM Mehali kis, also no easy mark. So, while Don will be firing for his third straight win in the local arena, he also will be battling for the honor of being classed the number one mat man of the current crop. For if he downs Piluso there will be nobody to deny his claim to the crown. Right now Ernie must be looked upon as the best of the bunch. His straight-fall con quest of the erstwhile undefeat ed Black Panther last Monday was positively sensational a thundering sonnenberg attack doing the trick. True, Piluso has dropped matches here, but those defeats are so few and far between as to make no dif ference in the general ranking of the grapplers. By every token, Piluso is THE wrestler at this time. The Panther and Frankie Clemens will meet in the middle event, and Herb Parks will tackle Prince Me- halikis in the opener, FILMS Dl Jersey City, N. J., June 8. UP) James Hall, once a $2,500 a week Hollywood movie idol but of recent years an enter tainer in small New ersey night clubs, died in obscurity yester day at 39. Hall had a leading role In the film "Hell's Angels" and during his career as one of the screen's most popular male actors ap peared in the silent version of "Four Sons" and was leading man for Pola Negri In "Hotel Imperial" in 1927, Bebe Daniels in "Stranded In Paris" In 1926 Clara Bow in "The Fleefi In" in 1928, among others. Suddenly he dropped from the film world and later made an unsuccessful attempt to re turn to the stage on which he began his acting career as a boy of 15 in the Zicgfleld Follies. Two weeks ago he entered the Jersey City medical center suf fering from cirrhosis of the liv. er. He resided in a rooming house. Closing time (or Too Late to Clas sify Ada la I JO p m. r js-idiii; w JBULLETin Hollywood, June 8. UP) Hollywood'! start made it four in a row tonight over Portland, stopping the Beavers in a slug ging contest, 10 to 7. Score: R. H. E. Portland 7 13 8 Hollywood 10 13 1 Speece, Gonzales and Schultz: Bittner, Toste and Brenzel. Score: (night game) R. H. E. Los Angeles 5 11 4 Sacramento . 4 10 1 Bonetti and Holm; Munger, Gabler and Grilk. Pioneer Passes Salem, June 8. UP) Death last night claimed Mary C. Chadwick, 72, daughter of for mer Secretary of State Stephen Chadwick, and aunt of Stephen F. Chadwick of Seattle, former American Legion national com mander. When yon leal good yon wan t everybody to know it Tt'i why MASSAGIC Foot MaaeaguKi Shoes at the moat pabli dl ad of an betuae (ho. Men cannot held be batt f-a... far the mt mhd tati and amfort of theee ami ling fhoea WEYENBERG MASSAGIC FOOT MASSAGING SHOE, SPILLS! HEW DRIVERS I JL-e . ) m gnui (sjqm (tut tad M?y3 ' . fod and auM you fjmtjl Jc M jiM with wiTgfi $Q5ojjjl Time Trials 7:30 Races 8:30 'I v 7t
