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    PAOE 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
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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. .