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-
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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.
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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
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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 -
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. 0 I
R. Slngler,
, Catholic Men
Freeman and Kubll.
Sakralda and McOulre, Darllne
raber's
Oaaco
.18
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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
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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
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Fairgrounds Tues. June 1 1
Box Seats 75c On Sale at The Roxy Ann Confectionary
General Admission 55c Children 10c
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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.
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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.
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