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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON: WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19. 1940.
Sport
Graphs
Billy Hulen Says;
Ray Brooks Picks
All-State League
Baseball Outfit
Although it ii hardly the time
to itart bending brains to the
task of picking an All-State
league ball team, what with the
circuit only lust starting its sec
ond-half pennant race, Ray
Brooks of Portland, loop see
retary, has done lust that.
Ha and Jimmy Nutter, the
league's one-man publicity bur
eau, got into a mid-season fan
nlng bee the other day and
Jimmy was kind enough to fire
along the results to this writer
We certainly don't see eye to
eye with Brooks on some of his
selections for the all-star club
but of course we may be wrong.
We have been in the past.
Brooks names two catchers on
his mythical All-State league
outfit, both of them from Al
bany Jimmy Robertson and
Joe Leptich. The latter has been
playing in the outfield since
Robertson's return from Wil
lamette university.
Five pitchers were selected,
with Jimmy Rego and Steve
Crippen of Medford getting
places on the staff. Oscar (Red)
Miller and Glen Elliott of Al
bany and Del (Squeak) Wilson
of Sllvcrton are the other fling
rs. We would Include Lanning
of the Craters.
Brooks placed Buster Mc
Millan of the Portland Babes
en first. Don Klrsch of Bend
on second, Welly Graier of
Bend at short and Clint Cam
eron of Albany on third. How
Brooks ever named Graier
over Albany's Riley Richards
is a major mystery, or for
thai matter over Medford's
Alex McDonald. Graser cer
tainly didn't look hottUh
gainst Medford. while Rich
ards did, and how.
Al Wray of the Craters, Curly
Leinlnger of Jack and Jill Tav
ern and Vic Brown of the Port
land Babes were selected as the
outfielders, with Bob Bonney of
Rilverton as utility. Barney
Koch of the Portland Babes was
given the utility Infield post.
Nutter wrote that "competi
tion for places on the all-star
team was certainly keen, when
such players as Monroe Dean,
Ken Manning, Johnny Oravec,
Billy Moye, Riney Cock, Tom
my Hawkins, Rocky Peterson,
Nig Mebesius and Jim Farmer
didn't land places." We might
dd to that list the name of
Hank Pechaco, the 17-year-old
Crater outfielder whose fielding
In the two Albany games was
positively incredible.
Incidentally, that shoestring
catch of Pechaco's Saturday
night Is considered one of the
finest such plays ever seen here.
It simply brought your heart
Tight up Into your throat and
flood your hair on end. Reed
Charley of Lake Creek, a rabid
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Grants
fan, when asked how he liked
the catch, remarked: "I was Just
getting ready to give him the
devil for even trying for the
ball."
But back to that allstar busi
ness Brooks undoubtedly has
a good club here, but several
positions don t look the same
to us. That catching corps, tor
instance. Robertson is OK, but
Leptich is getting along in years
and we'll wager there are better
receivcu in the loop than he
is. Hawkins, for one, and Moe
of Silverton, for another. Any
way, it's a good team and Just
in fun, so we thank you Ray
Brooks.
For the benefit of certain
fans here who still can'i seem
to understand that It is im
perative to Import key players
if a winning team is to be
developed, we take great
pleasure in citing the case of
Albany. On the entire Alco
Oaks rosten is only one local
product Catcher Jim Rob
ertson. Every other player re
sides elsewhere, most of them
in Portland.
Contrast that with Medford.
which has these local players
on Its roster: Riney Cook, Cliff
McLean, Pat Patterson, Manager
Paul Hoffard, Billy Calvert and
Virgil Haynes. Bill Lanning
could also be classed as local,
for his home Is in Grants Pass
and he is steadily - employed
here.
The Craters did very well
financially, thank you. in that
Albany series last week-end
The net gate receipts of the two
games, after all expenses were
paid, was a neat $473.13. This
is more than the club netted
during the entire first-half,
when bad weather held doWh
attendance.
There is no way of knowing
Just how many customers saw
those Albany games, as many
season passes are In circulation
and all kids under 14 get in
free. Total attendance, though,
was probably In the neighbor
hoodd of 3,000, which is plenty
sweet for a town of this size.
The players' pot for the first
hair was split following the
series, and each gent received
over $10. With 25 per cent of
the net gate going Into the
players' pool, the second half
pot already has $118.28 In It.
There should be quite a melon
to slice when the second half
race is completed. This dough,
of course, is for the players'
expenses.
MEDFORD NETSTERS TO
PLAY KLAMATH SUNDAY
The Medford tennis team, fnl-
lowing several weeks of stiff
practice, will play Its first home
mntch of the year against Klam
ath Falls Sunday at U a.m. on the
local Junior high school courts.
H. G. Wilson, manager of the
local team, requests all members
of the club to be on hand at the
starting time.
The oldest institution of high
er learning in the western hem
isphere is the University of San
Mnrcos I.. Peru.
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THERN OREGON
LEAGUE LEADERS
Crippen to Pitch for Med
ford f Ostrom for G. P.
Crater Lineup Revised
If It rains no mora today, and
it's not supposed to according
to forecast, a question that has
been bothering Grants Pass
baseball fans for several weeks
will be answered tonight under
the lights of the fairgrounds ball
park. The quesion Is: Can the
Merchants, leaders of the South
ern Oregon league, whup those
Medford Craters, one of the best
clubs In the Oregon State cir
cuit? Game-time is 8:30 sharp.
Grants Pass dyed-in-the-wools,
a large majority of them, any- 1
way, are of the opinion that j
their classy ball nine can do ;
Just that, and to get in on the
"kill," if and when, a couple ;
of hundred of them are coming
to this town tonight to see what
they hope to see. !
Whether Manager Jud Per
noil's Southern Oregon loop
team possesses the all-around
stuff to wham the Craters is
rather doubtful, although they
certainly should make a contest
of it. Grants Pass hasn't been
beaten In seven starts this sea
son, and an undefeated club, no
matter in what league it per
forms, is bound to be something
more than a soft touch. Climate 1
city clients are rather worked
up over the fracas and it would 1
not be surprising if they took
Medford apart if their team j
wins. ;
Seven Straight
The Merchants, in succession !
have belted over Gold Hill, the
local Rogues. Ashland-Talent,
Ciescent City, Roseburg, Gold
Hill again and the Rogues again.
They boast considerable plate
punch in Joe Gray. Gordy How
erton. Chuck Ostrom and
George Hibbard. They have also
been getting nice chucking from
Ostrom, and they have signed
Big Nig DiSordi of the now de
funct Ashland-Talent Atees. Os
tiom will probably fling, with
UiSordi in reserve.
Big danger to the Craters la
that they probably won't take
the contest seriously enough, al
though Manager Paul Hoffard,
playing it safe, plans to send un
defeated Steve Crippen to the
pitching rubber. If everything
gees right, Crip will be relieved
by Righthander Virgil Haynes,
back from a fine season at Uni
versity of Oregon,
The Crater lineup will be re
vised slightly. Pat Patterson is
slated to play Softball in Grants
Pass tonight, so Bill Lanning
pitcher, will hold down first
base. Manager Hoffard, with a
righthander scheduled to fling
for Grants Pass, will open the
game in right field. Al Wray s
leg is still bad and he wont
play, Peterson being shifted to
centerfield and Calvert taking
care of left.
Ladles' Night
Admission prices for men will
be the same; for ladies will be
reduced to a bargain figure.
Batting orders:
VIedford
Peterson cf
Grants Pass
Hibbard ss
Howerton 3b
Woods c
Gray cf
Ostrom p
R. Lanning lb
Blacksmith 2b
Keith rf
Drolctte If
"alvert If
McDonald ss
McLean 3b
Hoffard rf
B. Lanning lb
Cook 2b
Hawkins e
Crippen p
HOW THEY
STAMD
National League
W. L.
Cincinnati 35 18
Brooklyn 32 17
New York 31 18
Chicago 29 27
St. Louis 21 2R
Boston 21 29
Pittsburgh .. 17 30
Philadelphia 17 31
American Loagu
W. L.
Boston 31 17
Detroit SO 20
Cleveland 33 22
New York 27 25
Chicago 24 30
St Louis 24 30
Philadelphia 20 31
Washington 21 33
Paclfle Coast League
W. L.
Seattle 4 30
Oakland 45 38
Sacramento 41 40
Hollywood 41 40
Ssn Diego 39 39
I Los Angeles 37 40
San Frsncisco 37 41
. Portland 28 47
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12 STKAICHT Howard
(Lefty) Pol It t (above). 11-year,
eld flinger for Houston's Buffs
In the Tex IcMue. cracked a
45-year-old record when he
pitched hi 12th ttrslfht victory
without a loss this season. He's
fresh out of high school.
Dodo is Scored By
Boy Who Thumbed
Way. To. Tourney
Chicago, June 19. IIP)
Francis Teril, 19 -year -old
youth of Puyallup, Wash.,
wanted to compete in the
Western Junior golf tourna
ment at all costs.
He was so anxious to have
a try at it that he bundled
up his golf sticks and a few
togs and hitch-hiked all the
way to the meet now in prog
ress in Chicago, making the
cross-country Jaunt in five
days.
Whether he wins or not, he
was rewarded yesterday when
ha scored a hole-ln-one dur
ing the qualifying round. He
registered an ace on the
200-yard tenth hole and
wound up with an 82, good
enough for a spot in the
championship flight.
UN, 154 ON
Games Tonight
No games scheduled in either
league.
Medco's softDall crew con
tinued unbeaten in the American
league pennant race by whack
ing out a IS to 4 conquest of
Wooden Box before a big gather
ing of fans at the stadium last
night.
Morrie Sterner hurled a five
hitter tor the winners, while his
teammates were belting Peterson
and Applegate, Boxer pitchers,
for 10 blows, including doubles
by 'Calvert and White.
All Wooden Box's hits off
Steiner were for extra bas
triple and double by D'Arcy and
doubles by Pacheco, Patterson
and Piche but nine bases on
balls Issued by Wooden Box
hurlers lost the ball game.
In the other American league
contest, Jennings Tire pounded
out a 10 to 3 victory over Lost
River Dairy, as Shafer hit a
homer and a triple, Williams
doubled and Bowerman doubled.
The latter also turned in a fine
defensive performance, handling
seven chances perfectly in left
field. Luman tripled for the
losers.
In a pair of National league
slugfest. Faber's trimmed Bear
Creek, 13 to 10 and Eiks shel
lacked Teamsters. 17 to 10. For
Faber's Babb and Webster horn,
ered. Webster tripled and A.
Pinkham and Anhorn doubled
Evans and Curry hit triples and
Loffler, Howard and Wooten
doubles for Bear Creek. Starkeyjthe question is whether he
and Rater tripled and Starkcy took the Dodgers' championship
and Massle doubled for Elks, and chance with him.
8"u, Kohn and Chrlstenson homered. Medwick suffered a concus
Kenton tripled and Kohn and 'Ion of the brain yesterdav
'" Christenson doubled for Team
M8 sters.
420 Scores R. H. t.
Medco 15 10 2
2 Wooden Box 4 S 2
384 1 Steiner and Wilson; Peterson.
Applegate and Kubll.
H.
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Jennings Tire 10
Lost River 3
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11 Mnff ar Inri :vav' uri,hl
in(j Luman.
R H E
Faber's ...IS 13 4
Ber Creek 10 11 a
L. Pinkham and Babb; W. Cur-,
ry and Wooten
H H F
Flks . 17 18 3
Teamsters 10 9 9
Stell and Archer; Dallaire
and Fraley.
i tie road.ide market offers
,n fpportuntty for many farm
ier to reduce costs of distribu
lion and increase farm income
RAY CHASE WINS
25-LAP FEATURE
Ray Chase of Portland, the
circuit's leading pilot, added to
his point total last night by
fogging his lily-white V-8 to an
easy victory in the 23-lsp class
A main event of Bobby Rowe's
midget auto race program at
the fairgrounds field before a
large crowd. His time was 8
minutes 25 seconds.
Chase won going away from
Wayne Gaffney of Yakima,
Wash., last week' local win
ner, and Jud Fuller of St. Louis,
who finished third. Les An
derson was fourth.
Running in second place for
20 laps. Chase got his big
break on the 21st when Ander
son, who had shown the way
to this stage of the struggle.
developed motor trouble on the
back stretch. Chase, Gaffney
' and Fuller roared past the erst
i while leader and from there on
; in they stayed in that position.
Anderson managed to finish
fourth.
The class B main event, for
slower machines, was copped
'. by Don Cameron, who negoti
ated the 10 laps In 3.08:85.
, Cameron took an early lead
and staved off the efforts of
Wild Bill Cummings of Butte
' Falls and Cliff Woodley of
i Grants Pas to overtake him.
1 The latter pair finished in
1 that order.
A special event, a watermelon
race in which the drivers cir
clued the track three times,
stopped In front of the grand
stand and ate a huge slice of
: melon, then leaped back into
j their "doodle bugs" and made
i one more lap. was won by Les
I Anderson, with Al Milton of
i Minneapolis second and Don
Cameron third.
The helmet dash, featuring
the three fastest cars on the
track as determined by time
trials, was grabbed by Les An
derson in the excellent time of
.52:47 for the three laps. Gaff
ney was the runner-up and
Chase finished third.
Not content with his win In
the helmet fracas, Anderson
came right back to take the
first heat race of seven laps,
with Chase second and Gaffney
third. Anderson's time was
2.10:27.
Jud Fuller broke Into the
victory circle in the second heat
race by driving Gaffney and
Chase into the ground in
2.09:71. Bruce Day of Los
Angeles copued the third heat
whirl, with Milton second and
Woodley third. His time was
2.12:78:
Frenchy Dubois of Montreal,
Canada, turned in the best heat
race time of the evening In the
forth event, tearing off the
seven laps in 2.08:44. with Bob
Anderson second. Don Cam
eron won the fifth heat race in
2.11:49, with Cummlngs second
and
Joe George of Medford
third.
Les Anderson, the Oakland.
Cal., flash, shattered the track
record in time trials with a
mark of .18:18.
The track was in its best
condition of the summer, with
no dust to mar the client's view
of the midgets.
JOE MEDWICK BEANED
BY BOB BOWMAN; OUT
OF GAME FOR 3 WEEKS
By Associated Press.
Joseph (Muscles) Medwick,
the big batter and leg man
who was supposed to bring the
Brooklyn Dodgers a pennant.
lying in a hospital today and1
when hit by one of Bob Bow
man's pitches in the first in
ning of a game which the St
Louis Cardinals ultimately won
7-3 in eleven innings. He's ex
pected to be out of the lineup
about three weks, after which
he may return as good as new
or he may not.
Loss of a player as valuable
as Medwick is nothing less than
heart breaking to a club In the
heat of a pennant chase. It
puts the Dodgers right back
where they were before they
pent that estimated $150,000
"" ,olir P'ers for Medwick
nd Pitcher Curt Davis a week
:gn today.
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Huskies Win Varsity Race
In Dusk; Cornell Second
By Bit! White,
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 19. (JPi It couldn't have been
screwier If Joe Penner, Olson and Johnson and Joe Cook had
teamed to stage It.
Usually a decorous and very I
staid affair, the 43rd annual
Poughkeepsie regatta became
anything but that yesterday,
and the only thing In its favor
was the cou-ageous perform
ance of Washington in winning
the varsity race.
The varsity race, scheduled
for the unusually early hour of
4 p. m. (E.S.T.). finally got off
In the gathering dusk some
three hours later.
Washington won. for the third
time in the last five years.
The Huskies negotiated the
four miles in 22:42 flat to wind
up three-quarters of a length
better than the pride of the
east a dogged Cornell crew
that battled every inch of the
way.
Syracuse beat out Navy for
third place in a final spurt.
California, last year's winner,
Columbia, Wisconsin and Prince
ton trailed along somewhere in
the rear.
Long after the varsity race
was finished and everybody had
gone home, late stragglers saw
some ghostly shells going down
the river and reporters were
able to ferret out later that the
junior race had been run, with
Washington, Navy, California,
Syracuse, Columbia and Cornell
finishing in that order.
JOE IN VICIOUS
FRAME OF MIND
FOR GODOY TIFF
New York, June 19. (JT)
Joe Louis is finely drawn and
appears to be in a vicious
humor for his second fight with
Arturo Godoy. the durable Chil
ean, tomorrow night at Yankee
stadium.
The face of the big Negro
still is expressionless and his
conversation strictly limited to
monosylablcs, but his stomach
is as flat as the pavement and
he Is down to 200 pounds, his
best fighting weight.
His final workout yesterday
was furious and purposeful. It
came as something of a shock
to the crowd at Greenwood
Lake to see the champion knock
Joe O'Gatty, a harmless spar
ring partner, down and out with
a sudden burst of punches.
The odds parlors still are lay
ing 5 to 1 against Godoy's
chances of lifting the cham
pionship, but a majority of
observers think he will go the
limit again.
Nationalism was once so fee
ble in the Balkins that the Rou
manians thought they were
Greeks, mistaking their rulers'
nationality for their own.
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Scores Yesterday
National League
St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 5.
Philadelphia 3, Cincinnati 1.
Chicago 6, New York 1.
Only games scheduled.
American League
Cleveland 2, Washington 1.
Chicago 4, New York 3.
Philadelphia at Detroit, rain.
St. Louis 11, Boston 7 (10 in
nings). Pacific Coast League
Seattle 7, Sacramento 1.
Hollywood 4, San Francisco 2.
Portland 11, San Diego 4.
Los Angeles 12. Oakland 4.
Rat BHtskrieg.
Portland, June 19. P) Rats
ejected from dark, dusty build
ings, destroyed to make way
for the Front avenue highway
development, might as well
Jump into the Willamette rivr.
Citizens formed a pest control
association today to prevent the
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