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PAGE FOUR ftrEPrOKD MATE TRIBUNE. SrEDFORP. OREGON. TTEPNTSPAY, JTJLT 17, 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says; Del Baker Still Holds Out Hope For Hutchinson Freddie Hutchinson, making hif first start for Detroit Tues day after being dragged back from the minors for one more try at the big time, came up with a six-hit, six-strikeout Job against the Athletics ... al though the Tigers were beaten, I to 1, young Freddie's perform ance was so satisfactory that Manager Del Baker is now more certain than ever that the ex Seattle high school kid has what it takes and will become a major league star. Eddie Brieti wants to know if . the world Is going backwards, pointing out that "here's Mar shall Petain. the old World war hero, running France . . . . Churchill is back In the saddle in England . . . Jack Dempsey is fighting again and Bobby Jones golf is headline news . . , strange goings on, pals. The Craters are. having a rather diillcult lime obtain ing a release from the Port land Babes for Joe Peccia. who is living hara now and play ing Softball for Woodan Box . . Joa played in lha out field for the Babes, bui Man ager Ray Brooks is reluctant to give the boy his release so ha can sign with the Craters . . a letter has been dis patched to League President Wllhelm in an attempt to get the thing straightened out. Eleven Yankee players, six of them pitchers, are reported alated for shipment down the river next winter . . . George Washington Case, American league's speed-burner, wears out fix pairs of baseball shoes per season at $17.50 a pair . . . Dick Strife of the Eugene Register Guard learns that the St. Louis Browns tried to snatch Dick Whitman, the University of Ore gon's outficlding flush and cur rently roaming the center gar den for Silverton, with a bonus of $3,000 for signing . . . Whit man turned it down for more schooling, however. '" Johnny Kilbane, the old fea therweight champ, is running for the senate in Cleveland . . . Wal ter Johnson is another former athlete who took up politics . . . . Joa DiSIaggio, say reports, is at last looking like his old self . . . tha Baer-Galento fight pics were In sound and everything, with the boys clearly cussing each other . . , Joe Louis already has knocked out four of the N.B.A.'s current 10 top heavies. Stanford and Notra Dama are cooking up a home and home grid sarias. the first at Palo Alto in 1943 . . . hara s hoping that arrangamtnts can bo made to bring a couple of collage elevens to Medford for a game next season or tha year following , . , Willamette want ad to play the San Diego ma rinas hare next autumn, bui nothing came of the datire. duo to lack of interest here. Just to be contrary, we pick Lew Jenkins to whip Henry Armstrong in their battle to night, and it might be a knock out .. . with Alex McDonald around, baseball in Medford high school will probably be come a major sport, as it should be, next spring. NATIONAL AMATEUR IN 1941 GOES TO OMAHA New York, July 17. (U.R) The 1941 national amateur golf championship will be held ut fcit gas Horo'a a lart that'a bolrtf provod (vary dor In Milooro Motor Tom mod niht on thai jno. nii rocka boat! of at oronom no ' i r m con matrn. iJwnora report li to 40 aavlnaa. Cut nur truck coats with thoaa hottor-ono inoorod, " " a ntt tlOCK Of VA1US ti.o ooroo.lt Miroooa p., rAC Woo or Mrioaio n SKINNER'S GARAGE 143 SO. RIVERSIDE Colored YOUTHFULNEGRO CLUBCONSIDERED GOOD AS DAVIDS Collegians Boast Stars at All Posts Craters Intact Except for Al Wray The Medford Craters take time out from their intensive Orev"n State league and state tournament battling to face the scintillating Piney Woods Col legians, colored barnstorming club, under the lights at the fairgrounds park tonight. The game is called for 8:30 slfarp. It will be the first home ap pearance of the Craters since July 7. In the interim they copped a couple of state tourney victories at Portland and gained an even split with Hills Creek In a two-tilt State loop series. The darkies, hailing from the Piney woods Negro school at Piney Woods, Miss., are rated on a par with the famous House of Davids and Kansas City Mon arch teams, and considerably better than the African Zulu Giants, who were here recently. Coach Plays Managed by Lee Payne, who coaches and teaches physical ed ucation at the Piney Woods school and plays left field for the club, the Collegians will line up with Webster Herron catch ing, John Henry Dunn on first, iiurnell Longest on second, Jim Wallace on short, Eugene Tyler on third, Clarence Knight in right and Bilbo Williams in cen ter. Piney Wood's starting hurler will be selected from this array of mound talent: Curtis "School boy" Hollingsworth, Eddie "Lef ty" Thompson, Leonard John son, C. M. Bickler, Augustus Forte, A. W. Cummings. The team won 126 out of 142 games played lust season against the best semi-pro clubs In the na tion, and has an even better rec ord this summer. Manager Tommy Hawkins of the Craters is undecided who will pitch for the locals, al though it will probably be Jim Kego, Bill Lanning or Steve Crippcn. Lanning worked against Hills Creek Saturday night, Rego pitched Sunday and Crippen's last start was at Port land Friday. Wray Pulls Muscla The Crater lineup should be intact this evening, with the ex ception of Al Wray, right field. Wray pulled a muscle again against Hills Creek Saturday night and probably won't be able to see action. Hawkins will catch, Patterson will be on first, Hincy Cook on second, McDon ald on short, McLean on third, 1'achcco in left, Peterson In cen ter and Calvert in right. NOVIKOFF STILL TOPS COAST LOOP HITTERS Los Angeles. July 17. Pi Louie Novikoff of Lo. Angeles and Steve Mesner of San Diego hold the Pacific Coast league batting lead. In games played through Monday, with averages of .351 and .345 respectively. Team batting leadership is held by San Diego and Seattle with .208 and .287 respectively the Omaha Field club, Omaha, Neb., th UnUed Slates Cioif association announced today Dates will be announced laUr. you w n i r miwf bottw PHONE 102 Piney Woods Collegians May Hurl Against Craters r When the ssnational Pinty Woods Collegians face tha State league Craters at the fairgrounds park tonight at 8:10, flinging for tha colored club may ba Curtis "Schoolboy" Hollingsworth (above), one of tha acts of tha barnstorming club's mound corps. The pitcher is known to his teammates as "Mr. Sparks." possi bly because of his fireball. TENNIS TOURNEY Jackson Heights, N. Y., July 17. (U.R) Play in the fourth round of the men's singles at the eastern clay court champion ships began today with the seed ed favorites led by Frank Park er of Pasadena, Calif. Parker, seeded No. 1, defeated Louis Valentine of New York, 6-0, 6-1, yesterday and Joe Fish back of New York, seeded fifth, won over Tom Brown, San Fran cisco, 7-5, 6-2 to complete the seeded contingent in ' :e fourth round. The women stars Virginia Wolfendcn, San Francisco, listed first; Dorothy Bundy, Santa Monica, Calif., second; and Nor ma Taubcle, New York, former national indoor champion, ad vanced without much effort. tlOW THEY? STAND American League W. L. Detroit 47 31 Cleveland 48 32 Boston ....45 33 New York 41 36 Chicago 36 39 Washington 34 48 Philadelphia 32 47 St. Louis 33 50 National League W. L. Cincinnati 51 24 Brooklyn 48 28 New York 42 33 Chicago 43 40 St. Louis 33 41 Pittsburgh ...33 42 Boston . 27 45 Philadelphia 25 49 Pacific Coast League W. L. Seattle 70 36 Oakland 64 48 Los Angeles 56 53 San Diego ...55 55 Hollywood 52 59 Sacramento ..... 52 60 Portland 37 57 SOUTHERN PACIFIC ACQUIRES CONTROL OF PACIFIC TRUCK EXPRESS Addition of This Trucking Servca to Railroad's Operations Will Increase and Improve Southern Pacific's Capacity to Serve Oregon Shippers Southern Pacific Company, on Julv 1, iwo. acquired control of the Pacific Truck fcxpress, whiin provides a local trucking service in Oregon, and a through service to California points. Addition of this trucking sen-ice to Southern Pacific's operations kill increase Southern Pacific's capacity to serva Oregon shippers, and through close coordinstioa with Southern Pacific's rail service, will give greater flexibility in freight transportation. This is in line with Southern Pacific's policy to uVt athantige of and develop new methods and new idru for the hem fit of (hose who wish to ship goods in the territory served by these operations. In view of conflicting statement and rumors that hiva com to our attention, Southern Pacific wishes to emphasize as strongly as possible that present schedules and high standard of service of the Pacific Truck Express will bo maintained or improved. Ill RMAN VT. Kt riN. CreraV Freight Apnl Southern Pacific Company Pacific Truck Expreaa w " or Pacffla Trwk Iioron (oat tor rotoa 4 utiSalu FIVE WRESTLERS Promoter Mack Llllarr! trwtnv came up with the names of five oi tne six grapplers who will tangle in a battle rnval at the armory next Monday night, and announced that the sixth gladi- ator would be named later in the week. Headinu the list, as riisrlrwt by the promoter, is Dangerous Danny McShane, former world's light - heavyweight champion. Pete Bclcastro, another ruffian, will be on hand for the fire works. Otis Clineman of Amur. illo, Texas, will return after a long absence, as will Jimmy Goodrich, former Notre Dame grid star. George Wagner of Houston, Texas was the fifth man mentioned. It will be ladies night with all purchasers of a ringside or uaicony ticket being given a free one to admit a feminine fan. B-0 WINS THIRD TOURNEYFRACAS Portland. Jiilv 17 i:pi tnhn Linde cast a long shadow over the state semi-pro baseball tour nament tnriav nftr nif-hir0 n & O Transfer of Portland to a -2 victory over Valsetz last night. It was the B &O chucker's third straight tournament vic tory. He pinched Valsetz to five hits and fanned 13. The defeat was Valsetz' first. Mololla passed out of the tour nament witli a 8 to 1 licking by Verboort. It was the second loss for the Willamette Valley nine. Scores: Valsetz 2 5 1 B O e u J Harris. Johnson and Dixon; Linde and Marr. Molalla i a Verboort 5 9 1 Cianni and Corbett; Lydia and N. Krieger. I EMEU E 15 TO 4; Mighty Medco lost Its first American league softball game of the year last night to Wooden Box, 15 to 4. in a riotous clash that saw Catcher D'Arcy of the winners ejected from the tilt in the second inning and both umpires replaced by two new arbiters as several hundred fans staged a five-minute demonstra tion against the calling of balls and strikes. D'Arcy was chased from the game when he protested too vi olently to Umpire Lew Miles on the latter's calling of Joe Pec cia's pitches for Wooden Box. and immediately the crowd took up the Boxmen cause. . To quiot the crowd, Field Manager Riney Cook instructed Miles and Base Umpire Fred Lennard to switch places, but Lcnnard refused on the ground that it would put his brother of ficial in a sorry light. E. H. Hed rick then substituted Fred Sol ler and Bill Newland for both umpires, and the game contin ued. At the time of the trouble Medco was ahead, 3 to 0, but in the third inning Wooden Box went base-hit crazy to tally 10 runs on seven hits and an error and ice the contest. Pachcco and Piche hit triples for the winners and Leavens doubled, while Wilson and Steiner tripled for Medco. Pacheco also scored from first base on a single to centerfield, on a hit and run play. Peccia, in pitching the Eox men to victory, allowed only four hits, while Steiner was rapped for 13 by the hard-slugging winners. In the other American league game. Copco tallied five runs in the seventh inning to wallop Catholic Men, 14 to 9. Kcvan tripled and doubled for the losers. In the National league. Bear Creek prnched across three runs in the seventh frame to edge out Fabcr's, 12 to 11, and Teamsters blanked Eagles, 7 to 0, on Russ Bean's one-hit hurl ing. Bean fanned 17, Scores: Copco 14 15 4 to Play Catholic Men 8 11 10 Ray Singler and P. Sakraida; Da I la ire, Myers and Darland. Wooden Box 15 13 9 Med co 4 4 1 Peccia and D'Arcy; Steiner, McLean and Wilson. Fabers 11 13 2 Bear Creek, 12 18 5 L. Pinkham and Troutman; H. Bohl, Curry and Wooten. Eagles 0 12 Teamsters 7 8 2 J. Vessey and Adams; Bean and Fraley. Scores Yesterday American League Philadelphia 3, Detroit 1. Washington 11, Cleveland 8. Chicago 5, New York 1. Only games. National League Pittsburgh 5, Brooklyn 3. Chicago 3, New York 0. St. Louis 4, Boston 3. Pacific Coast League Seattle 3, Oakland 2. Hollywood 3, San Diego 1. San Francisco 6, Los Angeles 3. Portland at Sacramento, Port land traveling. Fights Last Night By Associated Press Albany, N. Y. Buddy Knox, 190, Dayton, O., outpointed Jorge Brescia, 204, South Amer ica (10). Los Angeles Al Smith, 149. Los Angeles, stopped Irwin Kay 147, Los Angeles (7). Stockton, Calif. Jimmy Gar rison, 140, Los Angeles, and Dencio Cabanela, 142, Stockton, drew (10). Boise, Idaho Tiger Jack Fox, 182, Spokane, knocked out Pio Pico, 180. Mexico (9). Tou'll enjoy the Freah Sea Foods from Holly'., las . sixth. Phone 1300 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service 7 "You can't tell the Players without a scorecard!" The cry goes out to the millions in the nation's grand stands. Actually it is echoing a simple but fundamental principle of modern advertising. Advertising is the scorecard for intelligent shoppers. It does more than identify a product, however. It tells where this product is available, and at what price. About thousands of products, thousands of necessities and conveniences, it gives accurate information in stantly information that one individual could not se cure, even after the most painstaking and wearying search. You can't tell the values without reading the adver tisements in this newspaper! Craters I mil CHOICE TO BEAT JENKINS TONIGHT New York. July 17. .U.R) Henry Armstrong will out wigh Lew Jenkins by three and one-half pounds for their 12-round fight tonight at tlic Polo grounds. At the official woigh-.'n, Armstrong scaled IS'l: Jenkins 1351. 3 Harry Ferguson. Nsw York, July 17. (U.R) An irresistible force meets an immovable object at the Polo grounds tonight, and about 40, 000 students of the theory of thump are going to gather un der the stars to see what hap pens. The irrcsi-stmle force Llgl't weight Champion Lew Jenkins, the killer-diller from Texas who is riding a string of eignt straight knockouts and who may turn out to be the hardest HIKI WHISKfV SMOOTH AND UCWT SO WHAT'S THt ANSWCx QUICK.' k!-'Sfc. rO0ANPMllB'IVTe SUMO Minus Kcssiaa " pff sim of Oittiiiiis rjCr$ak-Jf ' usilsh-s muvati auMB.a euNDco whiskiy. 75S Neutral Spirits dittill.i froat Oraia. 0 Proof. Juliui Kmiw Buliliiaa Co, Inc. Lawtancabura, lad. Tonight hitting little man who ever lived. The Immovable object Wel terweight Champion Henry Armstrong, veteran of 117 fights, a tireless, mahogany colored chunk of flesh and bone who has never met the man who could knock him off his feet. Armstrong's great record he once held the featherweight, lightweight and welterweight titles at the same time made him a 9 to 5 favorite. Betting is heavier than on any recent fight here and the customers are looking forward to the best brawl between little min since Benny Leonard and Lew Tend ler tore into each other 23 years ago. Pay Less Dress Better BOY'S BLACK Elk Shoes No-mark composition solas. Sites 1 to 8. $1.98 pair M. M. Dept. Store, Inc. GI&C TRUCKS GASOLINE -DIESEL
