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Newspaper Page TextPAOE SIX MEDFORD MATT, TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. THURSDAY, JULY 18. 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says; Grapple Program Should Pull Big Gathering Monday Armstrong, Jenkins Purses Ordered Held by Commission NO REASON GIVEN FOR ACTION; LEW 6 Sweet Swatter's Sad Sixth With one of those popular battle royali on the schedule, with jitter-bugging Danny Me Shane rlvtcd to a contract, and with three weeks of no wrest' ing during the Fourth of July season, if next Monday night's armory grapple doesn't do a tweet piece of business. Pro moter Mack Lillard will begin to believe his enterprise here . is really jinxed. For several weeks prior to the July 4 shutdown, fans stav ed away from the arena in vast droves. The reason, Lillard be lieves, was due to a number of circumstances: the torrid wea ther, too many clean and scien tifie performers, and by the same token not enough bad boys, and the possibility that , customers had had their mat appetities pretty well dulled by the every-weck programs. That three-week layoff, the battle royal and Danny Me Bhane should be lust the proper mixture to bring the boys and sl'l flocking back to the Barlleit street torso twisting tabernacle, the pro moter believes. And to whip up even more Interest in the fight festival. Mack his des ignated it as ladies' night. Ail In all, it looks to Lillard like a near-sellout, and he claims that it will be if there are still 1,200 wrestling cli ents in the Medford area. Jenkins Unable Come Up for Seventh After Six Knock downs Referee Stops It At Drolctte has left Grants Pass for an umpiring Job .In the class C Pioneer league, and his many southern Oregon friends wish him the best of luck. . . , Al has been working the home games of Medford State league Craters, and he rates tops with the players and fans, alike. ... we predict that Drolctte. now that he has his chance If professional baseball, will rise to a lofty pot in the arhitering profession. . . . Via the A. P.'s Fred Hamp ton comes .vord that Frank Clanelll of the Oregonian has a hunch that either Albany or Medford will win the cur rent state semi-pro baseball tournament, because of their fine hurling staffs. . , , Fllnger Hoy Helser of the Salem Sena tort is being keenly eyed by San Diego of the Pacific Coast league. . . . Roy, Inst year voted the nation's outstanding semi-' pro player, has thus far won 10 and lost four games for Sa lem, and la hitting at a .410 clip. ... I New York, July 18 flJ.R) The New York boxing commis sion today ordered Promoter Mike Jacobs to withhold the ptirset of Lew Jenkins and Henry Armstrong, who fought last night at the Polo grounds. No immediate reason was given, but the commission an nounced it would meet tomor row, and ordered all persons connected with the fight to ap pear before it. The order was contained in a letter to Jacobs from John J. Phelan, chairman of the New York boxing commission. One puzzling feature of the order was that the letter was dated yesterday and apparently was written before the fight. There was a controversy in the dressing room l-st night before the fight, over the amount of bandages that should be put on Armstrong's hands. There was said to be a private agreement between Hymie Cap- lin, manager of Jenkins and Eddie Mead, manager of Arm strong, that Henry should be allowed to wear more bandages than the commission allows un der its rules. Another possibility was that the commission might be at tempting to hold part of each fighter's purse as a forfeit. Armstrong and Jenkins have promised the commission in writing that they will make the next defense of their welter weight and lightweight cham pionships in New York state. The forfeit would be for the purpose of enforcing that agreement. V 1 SU Lai As' V. ay, a, m Al Wray. because he went hltless against . Hills Creek last Saturday night, la batting .380. the first time this sea ton he has been below the .400 mark. . . . Bill Cummings of the Klamath News and Herald tayt that Klamath Falls will probably be in the State league noxt year, prin cipally because the Northern California loop. In which the Lumberjacks are competing this season. Isn't attractive to good semi pro players. . . . The Yankees are fourth In the American league, but their farm clubs are doing OK. . . . Kansas City, Akron, Dinghamp ton and Butler are leading their respective leagues, and Newer it tecond in the International. ... at least a dozen midget rare drivers in the northwest have landed in the hospital so far this summer. . . . Although Cln- MOTORISTS ATTENTION If your motor hratt or ndlmnr lnk. r rail HOOPER'S RWIUIOR 0.KWI.Il SI Ritrtfdl Pimm 4ft 1 By Harry Ferquson. (U.P. Sports Editor.) New York. July 18. U. They shook the fog out of Lew Jenkins' brain In the early hours of today and told him he was a refugee from a hurri cane another victim of hurri cane Henry Armstrong, that human ttorm who growa more destructive with ths years. Armstrong blew his man down at the Polo grounds last night in a bout that proved nothing except that the little brown man from Los Angeles only person ever to hold three world championships at one time is pound for pound one of the greatest fighters of all time. "What Hit Me?" Minutes, yes even hours, after the fight ended In the sixth round. Jenkins still was ask ing what hit nun and when. He said he did not remember going back to his corner after the first round, and as they sponged the blood off his Iran face, he wanted the details of his downfall. Here they are: Armstrong took everything that was hand ed out by Jenkins, one of the hardest hitters of the little men. and waded In with a two-handed attack that would have broken through a stone wall, j Armstrong fought a crafty, savage battle and Jenkins, out on his feet for five rounds, obeyed the command of his big heart to keep going for 15 minutes when brain and bone and muscle cried "milt." Pilches Off Stool. It ended with Jenkins rolling crarily on his stool between the sixth and seventh rounds and finally pitching towaid the floor as his seconds caught him. Ref eree Arthur Donovan stopped it then, giving Armstrong a tech nlcal knockout in the sixth. He had been on the floor six times, and each time he got up and asked for more. Blood was gushing from his Hp and his vacant eyes proved he was in the never-never land. Hut the roar of the rrowd was as much for him as it was for Hurricane Henry, who also car ried a few marks of battle back lo hit dressing room. clnnati appears to be repeating in the National league, paid ad missions may drop as much as 100 000 under the million of 1939. J : - Jj Lew Jenkins, the lightweight champion from Sweetwater, Tex., is shown bouncing on one of the three times he fell to the canvas in the sixth round of his non-title bout with Henry Armstrong, the welterweight champion, who won the bout on a technical knockout when Jenkins did NOT come out for the seventh round. The bout was held in New York. SOFTBALL SLATE Games Tonight American league: Catholic Men vs. Jennings, 8 p. m.: Mod- co vs. Fluhrcr's Brcadcaters, 9 p. m. National league: Gasco vs. F.Iks, 8 p. m.; Bear Creek vs. Teamsters, 9 p. m. Medford Corporation, after suffering Its first defeat of the season to Wooden Box Tuesday night, will attempt to get back in winning form tonight at the ex pense of a strong Fluhror's Breadenters Softball club. The game will start at 9 o'clock, fol lowing another American loop tilt at 8 between Catholic Men and Jennings. The National league slate pits Gasco against Elks at 8 and Bear Creek against Teamsters an hour later. 7-HITTER TO TIP ;, 13 TO 2 Homncxworth. ef 1 1 Johnson, p 1 O e 0 Buckley, p 10 0 0 TotaJe Med ford: McDonald, m . Calvert, It. rt . Wray. rt BEATS ALL-STARS Detroit, July 18. fP) Gene Sarazcn, the little fellow with the big swing, called for a re match today between his chal lengers and America's Ryder cup golf team. "I'm not ready to admit de feat," was Sarazen's comment after his hand-picked squad lost to the cuppers, 7 to 5, In a two-day benefit match which ended yesterday over the tough Oakland Hills course. That the event, which netted the Red Cross war relief fund an estimated $16,000, might be repeated was indicated by Tom Walsh, president of the Profes sional Golfers' association. Scores Yesterday American League New York 4, Cleveland 3 (13 Innings). Boston 8-8. Detroit 3-3. Washington 5. Chicago 2. St. Louis at Philadelphia, wet grounds. National League Cincinnati 4, Boston 3. Brooklyn 2, Chicago 1. Philadelphia 3. St. Louis 0. New York ut Pittsburgh, rain. Pacific Coast League Seattle H. Oakland 1. Los Angeles 3. San Francisco 1. Sacramento 6, Portland 3. Hollywood 11, San Diego 3. HOW THEY? 5mvms American League i W. L. I Cleveland 48 33 Detroit 47 33 Boston 47 33 New York 42 38 Chicago 38 4D Washington .. 35 48 Philadelphia 32 47 St. Louis 33 30 National League W. L. Cincinnati 32 24 Brooklyn 49 28 New York 42 33 Chicago ...43 41 St. Louis 32 42 Pittsburgh 33 42 Boston .. 27 46 Philadelphia 26 41) Pacific Coast League While Steve Crippen was el bowing a smart seven-hit con test his Crater teammates were shelling three Piney Woods flingert for 18 blows, all of which was sufficient to give the local State leaguers a rousing 13 to 2 victory over the Barnstorm ing colored Collegians in front of a large crowd at the fair grounds last night. The young Negro team could do almost nothing with Crip pen s variety of lazy dips and benders, interspersed with an occasional quick one. McLean's error and singles by Wallace and Knight accounted for a Piney Woods tally in the second, and Wallace's 340-foot smash over the right-center wall in the fourth was good for another. At other times Crippen bossed the situation, with fine support from the eight other Crater players. Every Medford laddie collect ed at least one baschit, and Al Wray. Patterson and . Crippen himself got three apiece. Wray belted a triple and double, and Manager Tom Hawkins and Rock Peterson cracked doubles, as all the boys had a large evening. The Craters opened their scor ing in the first when Calvert walked and scored on Wray's three-bagger against the right- center boards. Calvert, incident ally, drew five bases on balls during the evening, his one sin gle giving him a perfect night at the plate. Singles by Peterson and Pat terson and two fielding boots gave the" locals three more runs in the third, and they went ahead 6 to 2 in the fourth by punching over two more tallies on Calvert's tingle, Wray's dou ble to right and Hank Pacheco's single over second. ' Augustus Forte, Piney Woods' starting flinger. was blasted from the box in the fifth as Hawkins opened with a double to right and scored on Crippen's single to left. When McDonald singled to left scoring Crippen, that was enough for Forte. Leon ard Johnson replaced him and retired the side without further damage. Johnson lasted to the seventh, when the Craters unleashed their largest Inning, good for five runs. Crippen opened with an infield blow and went to second on McDonald's sacrifice. Calvert walked and Wray singled, scor ing Crippen. McLean singled scoring Calvert, and Peterson doubled to right chasing Wray and McLean across the plate and Johnson out of the box. Jim Buckley took over the mound job at this point and allowed one more run, on Patterson's infield single scoring Peterson. Next Sunday the Craters play a State league doubleheadcr at Bend, then move to Portland to McLean, tb Peterson, ef Pacheeo. Jb, If Patterson, lb Hawkins, e Crippen. p Cook, 3b . s AS M It PO A I 1 Totals . Piney Woods MM ford -44 It ia n 10 010 100 000 1 ..103 310 601 IS Errors: McLean 3. Porte. Wallace. Tyler, Wtiliama: two-ban hit. Wray. Hawkins. Peterson: three-baas hits. Wray. home runs. Wallace: stolen baaee. Pacheoo 3. Crippen. McLean: escrtfleee, Hawkins. McDonald: dou ble plave. Loneeet to Wallace to Dunn, Wallace to Long eat to Dunn: Deeee on balla. Porte 3. Jobnaon t. Biickli-y 1. Crippen : itrtka-outt. Porte t. Johnson 3. Crippen t: hits off. Porte 11 for a runs in 4 Inn Inge. Johnaon for runs In 3 1-3 Innings, Buckley t for 1 run In 1 3-3 Innlnirs: wild pitches. Porte 3: paus ed balls. Wllllama: loalng pitcher, Porte: umpires. Miles and Lennard: time 3:3S. HOSTAK AND ZALE FOR PUNCH Seattle. July 18. Wl A couple of middleweights who punch so hard they have trouble getting fights, will take it out on each other under the stars here tomorrow night in a 15 round cloutfest for the 46-state N.B.A. middleweight title. The sluggers are Al Hostak of Seattle, the titleholder, and Tony Zale of Gary, Ind the challenger. Managers of both fighters complain their boys have car peted so many gladiators tnat the top-notch Fancy Dan boxers won't have anything to do with them. Hostak has had only live fights since winning the crown here from Freddie Steele in 1938. Zale has fought about a dozen times under his present handlers, Sam Pian and Art Winch of Chicago. Pian and Winch agree with Eddie Marino, Hostak's pilot, that it's hard to coax anybody into the ring with a puncher. 4 T01 Portland. July 18. Al bany, co-leader of the state league, defeated Battle Ground, Wash., 4 to 1, in the Oregon semi-professional baseball tour nament last night. CM,. A .. I I 1 t, : J 1 f... A IV. .. HI lu. 1 - ..iniJU ,.,iv L,l Oliuai L . . j K ".V Veil, 11 to 5. game wiHi uiav iieit-riiune me ultimate state tournament win ner. . Box score: Piney Woods: AB Dunn, lb .... s 0 Longest. 3b 5 0 Tyler, Sb , s 0 Wllllama. cf, e o Payne. If S 1 Wallace, aa t 1 Knight, rf 4 0 i Herron. e 1 0 i Forte, p . 3 0 R H 0 3 1 1 0 3 1 0 0 PO 10 I 0 Albany's victory advanced the Alco-Oaks into the quarter finals along with Medford, B. A ' and O. Transfer and Jack and 0 1 Jill Tavern, and set the stage 9 for the crucial Albany-Medford ? struggle next Monday night at Portland's Vaughn street. Tour er i nament observers are of the 0 opinion that the winner of the 0 Oaks-Craters clash will probab 0 Hy go on to cop the title. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press New York Panchn Villa. 127, Mexico, outpointed Sammy Venti, 129, Brooklyn (41; Leo Rodak, 137, Chicago, outpoint ed Johnny Bellus. 138' , New Haven (6; F.vcrett Righlniire. 1 131. Sioux City. Iowa, and Sal Hartnla, 123, Huston, drew (til. Columbus, Ohm Jack (Bud dy Walker. 194, Columbus, i outpointed Johnny Whiters 197, Pontlac, Mich.. (10). You'll enjoy the Presh Sea rvle from HolVs. 13ft K rtixih. Seattle Oakland Los Angeles San Diego . 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