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Newspaper Page TextPAOE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY. AUGUST 11, 1940 LAKEVIEW EASILY; TO STATE EVENT MedforJ's Wooden Box soft ball crew looked toward the state tournament to conquer Friday night after Joe Peccla flung a beautif ul two-hitter and hii teamnutes pounded out seven blows, including a home run by Al Wray, to submerse Lakevlew. 8 to 1. at Klamath Falls In the finals of the dis trict tournament. The Boxmen, becoming the first Medford club to earn a berth in the state tourney, will mark time until they head for Salem for the meeting opening on August 20. Tho tournament lasts one week. The locals clinched the game In the first inning with a three run explosion at tho expense of Peters, Lakeview flinger. An error, a walk and singles by McLean, D'Arcy and Campbell did the trick. Wray belled his homer In the fourth with the sacks vacant, and the Boxmrn went on to tally twice each In the sixth and seventh. Lakeview s lone run came across In the first Inning as Peccla walked two men and an error let the marker score. Prior to the title game, Lake view defeated the Grants Pass All-Stars, 0 to 1, by scoring four runs in the third and two in the fifth on Hansen's homer with a man on. An all-star team, selected by tournament officlnis, found four Wooden Box, four Lakevlew and one Klamath Falls player on the select list. The first team follows: Peccia, Medford, pitcher; J. Hay, Lakeview, catcher; Wray, Medford, first base; Vossen, Lakevlew, second base; Pacheco. Medford, third base; Lasater, Lakeview, shortstop; Hensen, Lakeview, left field; Plche. Med ford, centerf ield; M a h o n e y, Klamath Falls, right field. The second team was: Peters, Lakeview, pitcher; D'Arcy, Medford, catcher; How- erton, Grants Pass, first base; H. Crapo, Klamath Falls, sec ond base; Packham, Lakievlew, mira Dase; Learning. Ashland shortstop; King, Klamath Falls, Jen Held; Dollarhlde, Lakevlew, center field; Boyle. Medford! right field. Scores: R. H. E. Grants Pass 18 3 Lakeview 8 8 9 James and Pruitt: Peters and J. Hy. R. H. E. Lakevlew 12 4 Wooden Box . 8 7 4 Peters, Langley and J. Hav:l Peccia and D'Arcy. LEGION BASEBALL TITLE FINALISTS Hillsboro, Aug. 10 l Post office Pharmacy of Portland and Oregon City earned the right today to meet for the Oregon American Legion Junior baseball championship. The Portland nine collected 20 hits in defeating Burns, 18 to 0, while Oregon City con nected for 11 blows in turning back Eugene, 8 to 2. The championship game will be played tomorrow. Score: R. H. E. Portland 18 20 0 Burns 0 2 4 Frahler, Wilkins and Ent whisle; McKern and Oas. Score: R. . E. Oregon City 8 11 2 Eugene 2 8 2 Brobst and Knoop; Kirk and Faubn. Rala Halts Race Chicago, Aug. 10 () A heavy rainstorm swept Wash ington park an hour before the $30,000 added American derby today, with the result that Bimelech was scratched, reduc ing the field to five. The track was sloppy. J WRESTLING! MEDFORD ARMORY MONDAY NIGHT, 1:30 P. M ERNIE PILUSO vs. PETE BELCASTRO BOB XENASTON vs. MIKE NAZARIAN JACK HACEN vs. JIMMY GOODRICH CARDINALS, TAKE SIX GAME LEAD Cincinnati, Aug. 10 T) With his high, hard one and snapping curve working like a clock, Whitey Moore pitched the Cincinnati Reds to their third straight victory today, a fourhlt 8 to 0 whitewash of the St. Louis Cardinals. . His performance, coupled with Boston's defeat of Brook lyn, stretched the Reds' Na tlonal league lead to six games. The tall Ohloan also helped himself to his fifth win and best game of the year with a pair of singles, one driving In a run and then handcuffing Terry Moore In center field to let in another. Score: ' R. H. E. St. Louis 0 4 2 Cincinnati .j... 8 S 0 Bowman, Doyle and Padgett; Moore and Lombard!. Boston, Aug. 10. (IP) Chet Ross' eleventh home run of the year came In the sixth Inning with the bases loaded today and gave the Bees a 4 to 3 vic tory over the Brooklyn Dodg ers, shattering a five-game win ning streak for the visitors. Luke Hamlin, whose "home run ball" recently incurred the acid displeasure of president Larry MacPhail, was the victim of the Ross wallop. He Just had relieved Lee Grissom after three straight singles had filled the bases. Score: R. H. E Brooklyn 3 11 C Boston .. . 4 8 3 Grissom, Hamlin, Head, an Phelps; Salvo and Berres. Pittsburgh. Aug. 10. 0P Southpaw Vern Olsen held the Pittsburgh Pirates to seven scattered hits today as the Chi' cago Cubs capitalized on Dom inic Dallessandro's fourth-inn Ing triple to break the Bucs eight-game winning streak 1-0. Dallessandro scored the Cubs' winning tally on Al Todd's long fly to shove the Pirates out of the first division which they gained yesterday in defeating the Cubs. Score: R. H. E. Chicago 18 0 Pittsburgh 0 7 0 Olsen and Todd; Klinger, Brown, and Davis, Lopez. Philadelphia. Aug. 10. (Pi Hsrry Gumbert of the New York Giants was the victor, I to 0, In a rattling good pitcher's duel with old Si Johnson of the Phillies today. Though he didn't strike out a man, Gumbert allowed only five hits and supplied the win ning run himself when he doubled In the third Inning. Score: R. H. E. New York 1 8 1 Philadelphia 0 8 1 Gumbert and Danning: Si Johnson, L. Brown, and War ren. TO TACKLE HAGEN Jimmv Goodrich, the former Notre Dame football luminary. win uiuvicc inr uiwiiinif-rvcm opposition for Newcomer Jack U l If 1 : .. 1. . ,, . . . , " .. o.,..Y wrestling program. Promoter Mack Lillard said yesterday. Goodrich, who has been in Hollywood the past couple of! . ij t V if j 7 L . . .7 .nl khiiisi, iiie iiiv-poiina srtenuiic inaiman I ram ffprcveDon, l. Jimmy also Is a clean wrestler. Clashing in the one-hour main I event will be Klamath Falls' s,ore manager and mountain i Ernie Piluso and Weed s Pete climber, wired his family today Belcastro. as onnosite In (heir!'0,,' British Columbia that he 1 grapple tactics as night and day Piluso. strictly legitimate, is nevertheless well able to pro tect himself against dirty work men, such as Belcastro. Mike Nazarlan and Bob Ken aston, both of them out and out bad men, are slated to hammer each other from pillar to post in the six-round middle event. Clounf tun for Too Ut to Clu nrr Ads u 1 so p. m. Seats on sale at Brown's Telenhone 2735 TIGERS LENGTHEN LEAD TO 6 GAMES, Chicago, Aug. 10. (JP) The Detroit Tigers stretched their American league lead to a full game today with a 3 to 2 victory over the Chicago White Sox In a five-inning, rain-shortened con test before 17,247 spectators. The rain, which held up the game an hour and 29 minutes in the third inning, forced post ponement of the second game of a scheduled double-header. The victory was Schoolboy Rowe's eleventh of the season as against two defeats, although he was hit freely in the early stages. The victory, coming as second place Cleveland was rained out at St. Louis, enabled the Tigers to gain a half game in the two team battle for first place. Score: R. H. E. Detroit , , 5 7 1 Chicago .. 2 8 1 Rowe and Tebbf-tts; Lee and Tresh. New York, Aug. 10 (JPi The Yankees scored their second straight shutout over the Phila delphia Athletics today, 13 to 0, as Rookie Ernie Bonham held the luckless Mackmen to five hits to score his first American league victory. The youngster from Kansas City struck out three and didn't give a base on balls, while his mates plastered three Athletic f lingers for 13 hits, including home runs by Charley Keller, Joe Gordon, Babe Dahlgren, Red Rolfe and Joe DiMagaio. DiMaggio also slugged a double ana drove in four runs. Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 0 3 0 New York 13 3 1 Potter, Dean, Beckman and Hayes; Bonham and Dickey. Washington. Aug. 10 (& Earl Johnson, rookie left-hander from the Piedmont leaeue. checked the Nationals here to day as his Red Sox mates made the most of their five hits off Ken Chase and Walter Master son to deal Washington a 3-0 defeat. Boston capitalized on an error by Third Baseman Cecil Travis to score their runs, all unearned. in the third inning. Score: R. H. E. Boston 3 a j Washington 0 9 2 Johnson and Foxx: Masterson, Wilson and Ferrell' Cleveland at St. Loui n,t. poned, rain. . DR. GITZEN TEAMS IN CRATER DEFI Manager G. A. CDari -.u, of th ,.,v, n . cumc irora oaiem, i-oruann VlJdTr'g?nasu'wii0V and occasionally Eu h.h.i : '"l"""-v' on,gene. but this challenge to the State League Craters for a game to decide - v ma i tram. icciia-i a ine city oaseball championship. 'Man i r- that w. ran ZJ, .l'X" fecl Gitl ?J "L"1' CrJa,"' Gitzen said ind would like 1 crack at thm UVI1 -.. ti,m ., Aith.,.,K .1.- " " ' lare so In IK. Oreoon ira.. " ' ' . V ' "v v mis reason con lenmi m,- thi lL. . . - uau Dreaus plagued th-m .11 season. Several times they had 'games won in lat in,,in i.. to lose out on rrmr. r,"fi..i.. hits by the opposition. I ... vr"1Fr unisned second " Aioany in the Oregon State ' league. . an rancisco, Aug. 10. (.P), "am Bedeyan. 24, grocery! ancl J Arnold, also 24 and San Franciscan, had scaled tn Peak of Snowpatch Spire, wnicn nas defied atlemnts world-famous climbers. Action! IVietiford AUG. 17 and IS FAIRGROUNDS PARK Outstanding Stock and Riders SATURDAY NIGHT SHOW :30 P. M. SUNDAY SHOW 2 P. M. Parade 7 p. m. Saturday Admission Adults: Box Seats 11. S3. Reserved SI. 10 Bleschers 75c. Tax Included. Children lie SFomoted by Medford Athletic Attn. S OAKS, 4-2 Portland, Ore., Aug. 10. (IP) The Portland Beavers rallied behind the two-hit pitching of Ad Llska today to defeat Oak land, 4 to 2, in a Pacific coast I league game. The veteran hurler with the 1 submarine delivery was in rare norm ana retired Uakiand in 1-2-3 order until Bill Lyman doubled in the seventh inning Lyman was brought home on Marvin Gudat's infield grounder. Catcher Bill Conroy got Oak land's other hit a home run into the centerfield bleachers in the eighth. The c e 1 1 a r-place ' Beavers grabbed a three-run lead In the third inning on three hits, a walk and a sacrifice and then added one more In the fifth. The Portland win evened the four-game series at 1-1, Score: R. H. E. Oakland 2 2 2 Portland 4 7 2 Corbett, Mulligan, D a r r o w and Conroy; Liska and Adams. Los Angeles, Aug. 10. (JP) The second of Rip Collins" two doubles and "Peanut" Lowrey's third hit of the day drove over a run with two out In the ninth inning to give Los Angeles its 'second consecutive Coast league victory, 7 to 8, over Sacramento today. The victory, coupled with Portland's upset of Oakland. boosted the Angels into secor place, Score: R. H. E. Sacramento .. 8 10 3 Los Angeles 7 15 3 Munger, Rlel, Gabler and Ogrodowskl, Grilk; Stine, Fal lon and Holm, San Francisco, Aug. 10. (JP) San Diego made it three Coast league victories In a row over Son Francisco today. 8 to 3. Southpaw W a 1 1 y Hebert spaced 10 Seal hits and was never In serious trouble. The Padres scored all their runs off Larry Guay, who started for the Seals. They tallied twice in the fourth and four times in the fifth. Score: R. H. E. San Diego 8 11 1 San Francisco 3 10 3 Hebert and Salkeld; Guay and Sprinz. CALL ISSUED TO HORSESHOE ACES Horseshoe pitchers of Jack S ,nn Tv, ers' tournament at Salem Sun day, September 1 and Labor day, September 2, have been requested to send notice of their intention to S. A. Stone, Cap ital Journal office. Salem, Ore. In recent years entrants have come from Salem, Portland. season tourney officials hope that central and pmit-in.i ...;n l. wuttit in wicLtiii vwu ue ifiJie- i st'iui'ii uy cxpci l iusmts. l lie tournament will be held at the luiuimmciii win ue nein ai uie ; ame time the state fair open,. Enabling players to take in the A nine-lane outdoor court be s"e of the tour- nament if it doesn't rain, and " aoe ,ne P'vers will move into an indoor three-lane court. Nnsit Irritated. Unrlln .Inn 1 Jl . - i I .u j ritation today-presumably dl- rected at Rumania over the "slowness with which the Bal- kan nations are fettling their disputes. Lumber Pickets, San Diego, Cal., Aug. 10. (.Pi Pickets still were ptrolling In front nt Inmhr H h,,HHir, material yards todav after fail ure of labor leaders and lum bermen to reach a settlement of ol.the dispute which down 13 yards. had shut Spills! Thrills! Round-L'n Days FOR TITLE TEST PORTLAND BEACHjTITLE ALL AWRY Portland, Aug. 10 (IP) FemI- nine record-breakers from Mas- sachusetts to Maui converged j todav on Jant"n beach pool for the opening of the National Women's Amateur Athletic un ion championships here August 18. The entire crop ol present American girl diving and swim ming champions Is scheduled to arrive or file entries before the Monday midnight deadline. Early arrivals, Joining Port land's own champions in train ing at the pool, included four 'teen-aged girls of the Alexander House Community association, Wailuku, Maul, Hawaii. They Included Fujike Katsutani, 13 year - old national 800 - meter breast stroke champion. The Women's Swimming as sociation team of New York. boasting one of the nation's foremost relay combinations, will arrive Sunday. Other Sunday arrivals will Include Helen Crlenkovich, na tional indoor and outdoor spring board diving champion, and Leota Woodmansee, both of San Francisco; Doris Brennan of Olneyville Boys' club auxiliary, Providence, R. I., national out door 300-meter Individual med ley champion, and Dorothy Leonard, Worcester, Mass., for mer national indoor 200-yard freestyle champion. Portland hopefuls already working in the pool include Nancy Merki, 14-year-old who overcame infantile paralysis to become national 400 and 800 meter freestyle champion. LURES GOLF ACES Astoria, Aug. 10. (P) Three defending champions were reg istered today to defend their titles in the annual Oregon coast mid-summer golf tournament opening at the Astoria golf and country club Monday. Qualifying rounds of medal play will start then with more than 150 Oregon and Washing ton golfers entered. Match play will begin Tuesday. Defending champions are Dr. Kay Bridge, Portland dentist, champion of the "under-32" age group; Leon Hanseth, 42-year- I old Portland broom manufac I turer, the "over-32" titlist, and Miss Jessie Miller, Gearhart, cM' tudent. women's champion. ON CRATERS' LIST The Big Lakes club of Klam- v Falls, champions of the I Interwonderlan-1 league, and the State league Medford Craters will play the second game of their two-filt exhibition series at the fairgrounds nark starting at 2 o'clock this afternoon. First contest was staged last night. One of the season's best games will be staged heie next Wed nesday when Mt. Shasta City, current leaders of the strong Northern California loop, tan gles with the Craters under the fairgrounds arcs. Thus far the California team has won 12 games and lost only one, and will send Rex Cecil, the loop's top hurler, against the locals. Dw Mill Trlbun want ids. DIAL 4923 tor Quirk. Drprndahlt aerrtrr Unique Cleaners Hotrl Alien Bids Hud Unrenll MIOLAND. OREGON Chicago, Aug. 10.- Splashing through a sloppy track in a driving rain. Mio j land, an Oregon bred horse. galloped to a three length vie - tory in the $62,000 American derby at Washington park to day to throw the three-year-old championship into perplexing puzzle. Mioland, owned by Charles S. Howard of San Francisco, led from start to finish. Sirocco, winner of the Arlington classic, finished second, and Weigh Anchor third, four lengths back of Sirocco. Gallahadion winner of the Kentucky derby, finished fourth after running last most of the way, with Super Chief fifth in the five-horse field. The race lost much of its sj peal by the last minute scratch ing of Bimelech, Col. Edward R, Bradley's potential three-year-old champion of 1940. An hour before the race, a terrific thunderstorm drenched the rac ing strip and thousands of spec tators Jammed under the stands. Most of the 33,000 received a soaking. Mioland, fourth in the Ken tucky derby, and second to Bimelech in the Preakness. never was headed, with Jockey Johnny Adams piloting him to victory. Mioland splashed over the mile and one-quarter route in 2:03 4-5. The winner returned SI 4.20 to win, $5.00 to place and $3.40 to show. The place price on Sirocco was $3.00 and $2.80 to show. Weigh Anchor returned $3.20 to show. Gallahadion, holding a reputation of great mud-running ability, went to the post at tWO tO One With heavy backing. with the field reduced to five. the race had a gross value ofi 502,150. Owner Howard col lected $44,900. Mioland's owner Is the San Francisco automobile dealer who bought Seabiscuit for $8, 000, then saw the 'Biscuit be come the largest money winner of all time. Mioland is a bargain purchase, too. Howard paid H. W. Ray of Oregon $13,000 for him on the eve of the Santa Anita derby. Philadelphia, Aug. 10 Officials of the Baldwin Loco motive Works expect to begin "within six months" production of $5,689,725 worth of giant tanks for the U. S. army. We Know a Lot of Men Who Wear Tropical Worsted and Gaberdine Suits in Winter as Well as in Summer! It's an old fashioned idea that Tropi cal Worsted and Gaberdine Suits are for Summer only and as we say in the heading of this ad. we know lots of men who wear them the year round . . . but nevertheless when the end ol Summer arrives, sales on these fine suits drop off . . , hence this August special. ... If you are an office man and want a light weight suit for Fall, we-suggest one of these dark shaded worsteds or gaberdines. They are certainly priced right. Single & jfely '. double r:TwH-0 breasted ' A ' w( m Gray JVt', Teal blue 1 I dk-Green Wf and Tan fJ'Kr I J $19.S5 to $25.00 O"'- 'y Values for J 151495 MANX'S HELEN JACOBS NO TEST FOR ALICE, 10 WINS EASILY Rye. N. Y., Aug. 10. The end of the trail came today for Helen Jacobs, four-time na linnnl rhamninn snH nne nf the few women believed capable of iextending Alice Marbie, queen of the world's tennis courts. Her game ready and her strategy carefully planned, she took the field against Alice, hoping to end the ruthless domination of the blonde Cali fornia n but Alice won with ridiculous ease 6-1, 6-0. That gave the girl who hasn't been beaten since the semi finals at Wimbledon in 1933. her third straight eastern grass court tennis championship, a margin of four matches in the six times the two bitter rivals have met and left her atop her field by a margin as wide as any champion ever enjoyed. In gaining the trophy one of tennis' most coveted possessions Ashland. Representing the alum Alice lost only one set, and I ni is Otto Frohnmayer, county that to Pauline Betz, another j alumni director for the uni coast girl. versity. In the day's other headliner. Oliver, who recently signed National Champion Bobby Riggs , a contract for another three was far from good but even years as Duck grid coach, and then he was far better than i Hobson, Vernstrom and Fansett. Henry Prusoff, winning 6-2, 6-2, :re making a 5,000-mile tour of 6-1 In a thoroughly uninterest- j the state under the sponsorship ing semi-final struggle. of the Oregon Federation. The victory sent Riggs into ,. r - - tomorrow', finl BMint rnn Vancouver, B. C, Aug. 10 McNeill, Oklahoma City's na tional clay court and intercol legiate champion. Gardnar Mulloy and Prusoff defeated Charles Mattmann and Bob Harman. 6-4, 6-4, 3-6, 6-1 in one semi-final doubles match while McNeill and Frankie Parker took care of the veteran duo of Wilmer Allison and John Van Ryn, 6-4. 6-3, 6-3, in the 1 nronn T CROSETTI i FOR FIRST IE New York, Aug. 10. IIP) Frankie Crosetti, Yankee short stop, received word today that president Will Harridge of the American league had suspended him three days for disagreeing with Umpire Summers' decision in the seventh inning of yester day's game with the Athletics. Summers, who called Crosetti out at the plate, said he had recommended the player's sus pension more for pushing him STORE FOR MEN! FOOTBALL TO VISIT Football Coach Gerald A. Tex" Oliver. Basketball Men tor Howard Hobson, Federation Director Roy Vernstrom and his (assistant, Elmer Fansett, of the j University of Oregon, will pre- I . ay '"e"ora s Lincoln graae school gymnasium. The public is invited. The two Webfoot coaches will talk about intercollegiate ath letics, telling stories about their chosen sports. Of interest to the audience will be several reel' of motion pictures of football and basketball games in which Oregon participated last season. Hobson and Oliver will make comments, as the films are shown. Local members of the Oregon Federation who are arranging the program include Phil Lowry of Medford and Don Walker of (VP) Robert Howard, wealthy Los Angeles sportsman, and his film-star wife, Andrea Leeds, are in Vancouver today In the course of a week's vacation in British Columbia. than his verbal protest. It was the first time Crosetti ever had been suspended. IN- DRINKING WATER . . . The water in this pool is changing constantly and is chlorinated to meet state requirements. MERRICK'S 1 P. M. to 9:45 P. M. .