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Newspaper Page TextPAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MATT; TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, AUGUST lfi. 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says; Mt Shasta City Better Club Than Albany Champion Mt. Shasta City might not have possessed the sheer bat ting power of Albany, but m every other respect the cantor- nians looked as good if not bet ter than Oregon's semi-pro champions . . . their infield per formed like a Pacific Coast lea gue first line of defense and their battery work was truly spectacular . . . the Craters shouldn't be ashamed in losing to such a club by a 3 to 1 count . . . Rex Cecil, In our opinion. was the best pitcher to appear here this season better than Albany's Red Miller, or Eu gene's Bob Wiltshire and Jack Richards, or any other hurler you might mention ... we un derstand the only thing keep ing him out of double-A ball, and possibly the majors, Is an unquenchable desire to play, but not baseball . . . The four top clubs in the 'Northern California league, In fact, are exhibiting a very fine brand of ball . . . they have all brought In well-known per formers and are drawing tre mendous crowds. . . Dunsmulr has Ernie Sulik, former San Francisco Seal and Hampton Pool, ex-Oakland catcher; Weed has Bill Shores, formerly of Portland; McCloud has seven St. Mary's college stars and Mt. Shasta City, of course, has Cecil and three very fine pastimers from Los Angeles . . . A poor club won't draw, and although Portland is on of the best baseball towns on the coast the team Is In the ltd bacaus of Its 10117 show ing . . . last week. Holly wood had to wire home for railroad far after computing a rls with lh Bavrs at Portland . . . Eddl Brlali predicts that Johnny Psky, ih former Bavr bat boy now going lik a hous afir for Rocky Mount in lh Pied mont laague, will b Manager Jo Cronin's successor at shortstop tor ih Boston Rd Sox ... Texas Tech will have a couple of tackles this fall named Bird Dog and Double Ug . . , the dope is that Oscar Vitt is posi tively through at Cleveland af ter this season, regardless of If IN THE "COLLINS" 40 mo-a at S-asnm't S Cmwn HINDI WHIISIT. T21jr train natural apiril. MU I'roof. aaram-l)iilillrr Orpfalln. N. Y. Famous BRONCOS, BULLS TO TEST METTLE; $1,000 AT STAKE Noted Bronco Riders Will See Action Calf Roping, Trick Riding On Card With several of the Pacific Coast's greatest riders perform ing on high class and plenty tough broncos and Brahma bulls the first Medford roundup un der sponsorship of the Medford Athletic association will open a two-day stand at the fair grounds field Saturday night at 8:30. The program will be re peated, and perhaps with em bellishments, Sunday afternoon at 2:30. Competing for some $1,000 In prize money will be, among many others, the following list of well known riders: Jack Sherman of Calgary, Canada, winner of the North American bronc-busting title In 1037 and of the Australian championship at Sydney in 1038; Bob Lockie of Red Bluff, Calif., winner of the bronc-rld- Ing and all-around champion ship at Bend July 4; Marshall Flowers of Redding, Calif., three-time victor in the bronc rldlng event at the famous Sal inas, Calif., rodeo; Jack Myers of Red Bluff, Calif., winner of the bronc-riding and all-around title at Salinas In 1037; Felix Cooper, colored bronc-rider and bull-fighter of Los Angeles; Buck Wheeler of Missoula, Mont., a ranking bronc-rider and Smokey Moran of Medford, an ace bull and bronc rider. Rueker To Announce Bob Rucker of Medford, a trick roper and rider and Hugh Jones of Medford, an expert calf roper, also will be seen in action, Rucker, in addition, will do the announcing. Max Barbour of Klamath Falls will furnish about 50 head of bucking horses and Brahma bulls, the same line that showed at Salinas this year. Among the famous bucking horses sched uled to participate In the rodeo are Whiz Bang, Golden Rule, Red Bluff, CB, No Name, Doc Depression and Reservation. Droopy, a Brahma bull which never has been ridden, will test the prowess of the ace riders. In addition to bronc and bull riding there will be calf roping, bulldogging, wild cow milking and local steer riding. A feature of the two-day program will see Felix Cooper do battle with a bull, barehanded. In a polo game last night, the Indians beat the Cowboys, 3 to 0. Also on the program were trick roping exhibitions and a potato race. Scores Yesterday National Lagu Chicago 1, Cincinnati 0. Boston 12, New York 1. Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 2. (Only games). American Leagu Cleveland 3, Chicago 4. Detroit 8, St. Louis 2. Boston 11, New York 1. Washington 9 3, Philadelphia 4 8. Coast Lagu Seattle 5, Sacramento 1. Portland 2, Los Angeles 10. Hollywood 7, San Francisco S. Oakland 8, San Diego 2. whether the Indians win, lose or draw . . . Hal Trosky and Rog ers Hornsby are being named as most likely to take over, if and when Oscar gets the bro gans . , . Softball folds up for another year with tonight's big double header at the stadium, and fans are warned that the program has all the earmarks of being by far the most thrilling of the season , , . wrestling here abouts Is picking up boxofflce speed lately, but It's still noth- ing like It was In the "good old ! days." . . something is need ed to stimulate the game here, but what it is we can't say off hand . . . perhaps more tough les. perhaps more new faces, perhaps a slice in prices, per haps well, your guess is as good as ours . , . We would like to see boxing given a whirl here, not com pletely ousting the grapple 1 game but maybe a show now j and then, to see how It takes I with the fans, or possibly a fight or two on a wrestling program j . , . Mark Lillard might have difficulty getting good boxers at first, due to the lark of turnstile turnips, but if the fight racket ! caught on th crowds would j pick up and better boys could be brought In , , . Clonus tlma for Too U to Claa lfj Ada la I 0 p m. Riders to Appear in Rodeo Saturday Eve, A-CUNNIN C-Pretty llene Davidson of Alliance, Neb., has her eye on a title at the Grand American fraphl inc tourney Aug. 16-23 at Day ton. More than 1,000 shooters are expected, to fire at , of a mil lion clay bird. FAT FREDDY FITZ Brooklyn. Aug. 16 (P) They're finally Roing to come right out In meeting tonight and give fat Freddy Fltzsimmons the pat on the back he's been earn ing as a ball-players' ball-player for IS years. It's Fitzsimmons' night at Kb bcts field, and fans, players and baseball writers are joining in honoring one of the grander guys in the game. Some 30,000 fans are expected for the festivities, to which the game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Boston Bees is only incidental. Fat Freddy, now 39 years old, will be called up to home plate to make a speech and to receive several gifts. The baseball writ ers are presenting him with a set of smoking pipes. His Dodger teammates are giving him a hunting rifle and the fans, who have chipped in about $2,000 will hand him a gift purchased with that sum. Mayor Fiorello H. LaGuardia will make the presentation. ALICE MARBLE IN TOURNEY FINALS Manchester. Mass., Aug. 16 (U.R) Defending Champion Alice Marble of Beverly Hills, Cal., today crushed Sarah Palfrey of Brookline, the nation's third ranking plnyrr, to advance to the final round of the Essex county club Invitation tennis tournament with a 6 1, 6 3 tri umph. Unseeded Pauline Botr of Los Angeles gained the rifcht to face Miss Marble tomorrow by trouncing Mary Hardwirk of England, top foreign seed, 6-1. 6 1. V Mall Trlbuna want art. SATURDAY Is Th Last Day For a FREE S57.50 RADIO HUMPHREY MOTORS 33 So. Rlrtrsid. DoSoto Plymouth Dial 4980 FACE BO AND 01 Washington Champs Bring ing Fine Club for Softball Twin Bill at Stadium Medford will pit Its choicest softball talent against the barn storming Ray Oil Burners of Seattle, three-time Washington state champions, in a whopping doubleheader at the stadium to night that brings the 1940 local season to a close. Medford Corporation with Morris Steiner on the mound, will face the invaders in the first game starting at 8 o'clock. Medco finished second in the city campaign recently ended. Wooden Box, southern Ore gon champs and state tourna ment entrants, will go against the Seattle club in the second contest starting about 9 o'clock. Joe Peccia will pitch for the Boxmen. The Ray Oil Burners come to town with a gaudy reputa tion and with two hurlers ranked as among the finest in the nation. They are King Kong Cowan, said to be the fourth best flinger in America and possessor of a pair of no-hit, no run victories in the national tournament, and Speed Ball Massey, a giant colored elbower who claims to have won 41 straight games in two years of competition. Last For Boxman Both these hurlers are slated to see action tonight, although it isn't known which will pitch against whom. Other players in the Invaders' lineup will be Nick Galando, Louie Bianchi, Manager Glen Gianini, M. C. Chatman. Frank Longo, Ralph Hjelma, Louie McCready and Jack Deas. Tonight's game will be the last for Wooden Box before they hit for Salem and the opening of the state tourney Monday night. The Boxmen, after de feating Medco for the Medford championship, knocked over Ashland and Lakevicw to cop the district meet at Klamath Falls. SNEAD EARLY LEADER Toronto, Aug. IB 'UW The second 18 hole qualifying round of the annual Canadian open golf championship today reduces the field of 129 to the leading 60 contestants. Sam Snend from Shawnee-on-Delaware, Pa., winner of the tourney in 1938. sliced four strokes off par yesterday with a sizzling 67 to lead the field through the first 18 hole qualify ing round. Followed around the entire course by his bride of four days. Snead chopped two strokes off the Scarboro course record by going out in par 36 and coming home with a brilliant 31. Cloalng tlma for Too Lata to Claa If y Ada la 1 30 p. m. ws'r sorry, jt fcw Wlfl t fcntwP Ym. trt ritam I.Vt knp at tmprisl anti RaotavtU. W laatr than lik nytltv. W tKtm with 4ti rtipMl. Wa vt ll tKcrn trtlt tail In W4 at m ' tt. It. hw wtr H know tnt th r CO0V-OH. That thiff wjlJ j ) rti Mm ttntct al fcet. Want rtttP . . latttr tto al th Imperial a RMlt hn m FrtlaJ. Ctflttt to, lust I lxt Of tw tm I irt tftjtngt . , . Kpt. it, tanks and thaatrat. Wn)r Vow nW lit Kiftf ... bvt ta n lowt SL I . aaW n 1 1 National Semi-Pro Tourney Draws 32 State Champions By Carl Lundquist United Press Staff Correspondent Wichita. Kan., Aug. 16 U.R The only city which offers it baseball fans a "world series" every year, got around to its national semi-pro baseball tournament today. Tonight the first two games of the long series will be played at Lawrence stadium before a crowd that will run to 15,000 or better, counting those who will be lined along the foul lines and against the outfield fences. There are 32 teams in the con test. Two defeats and the team is out of the competition. The teams, state champions, are com posed of men who play for the love of the game, a little cash and maybe that chance in a mil lion that a big league scout will catch their play and give them a shot at a big league berth. The winning team will get $3,000 and a trip to Puerto Rico to play the San Juan team for the world semi-pro title. The Duncan, Okla., cementers won the title last year and are back for another cut at the gate receipts. But they won't show tonight. The opening game will be between the hometown Stear man Aircraft team and the Gol den, Colo., Coors. The Houston, Tex., grand prize nine will play the second game against the Wilmington, Del., Allieds. The man responsible for the semi-pro congress, Raymond Du mont, was a little dazed today by the extent of his enterprise. Dumont used to run a sporting goods store here and he dreamed up a semi-pro tournament in the hope that it would enable him to sell a few uniforms and a few dozen baseballs. Today he runs the semi-pro show, has commis sioners in most of the states and George Sisler, the former big leaguer, is his national commis sioner, a sort of a pleasant-faced Judge Landis. Dumont isn't content to give his fans baseball and nothing else. He has streamlined the game. The batters wear helmets if they want to; if the pitcher decides to issue an intentional pass he so indicates and the bat ter goes to first without the tire some wait for the four pitched balls; if any team leads by 10 runs at the end of the seventh the game is over. There's fun for fans, too. The umpires wear blazers instead of the conventional blue. They don't bother to dust home plate, either, fur a mechanical gadget takes care of that item. Then there's a hidden microphone back of home plate and if a nice row develops over a decision the conversation between the umps and the players can be cut into the loud speaker system for all to hear. Dumont also sells a comoina tion life time tournament pass and insurance policy for $100. If the holder dies of a heart attack while attending a game his estate will receive $5,000. Myrtle Point, Ore., Aug. 16. W Arthur H. Jines, recently pastor of the Fairmont Presby terian church, Eugene, an nounced today his purchass of the Myrtle Point Herald, a weekly newspaper. Z. : ft- . Twr 4? 9 MOOr i l .j ; asar a d -a i Eai x mt fJL? a ( "$mi.iT" I rot t o a 1 Ul EN JOT 1 x OPENS IN PORTLAND; 60 MERMAIDS ENTER Portland, Ore., Aug. 16 (U.R) The National A.A.U. women's senior outdoor swimming and diving championships opened here today with the defending Los Angeles Athletic club team wrecked by injuries and profes sionalism. With the field wide open, 60 of the finest women stars from New England to Hawaii went after records in the aluminum lined pool at Jantzen Beach. Popular favorite to win the 100-yard freestyle, and perhaps break the long-standing record of 1 minute 6.8 seconds held by Helene Madison, was Patsy Mc Whorter, 15-year-old nymph from the Newark Women's Ath letic club, holder of the bulg of New Jersey free-style records. Defending titleist Mary M. Ryan of the Lakeside club, Louisville, Ky., was favored in the one mile free-style, although local hopes centered on 14-year-old Nancy Merki of Portland, who has visions of breaking Katherine Rawls Thompson's AAU mark of 23 minutes 47.7 seconds. Closing time for Too Late to Claa ify Ada la 1 30 p. m. IN CHARGE Gen. Don Us MacArthur (above), former chiff-of-staff of U. S. army, now heads a military mission to the Philippines and as a marshal In the Philippine army Is active In streng thenlng that country's de fense program. t J4 COWRTiaT MOATMIIIM PACI'lt MAIL WAT t Vy"" v Ti CABINET GOTtGE . . . Idaho points with pride to Cabinet Corp, one of the scenic gems of the l'laho-Montana line, here Clark's Fork river cuts through the Cabinet Kange of the Rockies. America points with pride to Century Club a typical gem of the modern di.-lillrr'a art. This rich, mellow whiskey is made straight for you to enjoy. -Ut Your Oua Tatlt Till l'ou" CENTURY CLUB STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY iiiiz: PETE, KENASTON SIGNED FOR NEXT Promoter Mack Lillard an nounced today that Pete Bel castro and Sgt. Bob Kenaston had been signed to complete the list of six grapplers who will battle it out in three matches In the armory next Monday night. Belcastro. the Mad Italian from Weed. Calif, will face popular Jack Hagen, headlock expert, in the six-round middle event, and Kenaston, Gold Hi'.l tough Ruy, will clash with popu lar George Wagner in the six round opening event. Previously, Lillard had com pleted arrangements for Ernie Piluso, the Klamath Falls flash to tangla vith Mean Mike Na zarian, big Armenian, in the one-hour main struggle. With the siginng of Belcastro and Kenaston, the program be came evenly balanced between clean and dirty matmen, witn Piluso, Hagen and Wagner pro viding the scientific action and Belcastro, Kenaston and Naza rian the brutal tactics. OAKS, EUGENE START PLAYOFFS SATURDAY Albany. Ore., Aug. 16 (U.R) Albany and Eugene meet here Saturday night in the first of a two-out-of-three series to decide the Oregon state baseball league title. The second game will be played at Eugene Sunday, and the third, if necessary, will be played at a later date. Deathless Days End Portland, Aug. 18. P) Portland's freedom from traffic deaths ended last night at 43 days. John Welter, 61, struck by a hit-and-run driver on Wednes day, died of injuries. Automo bile accidents have killed 38 persons here this year. F.S.C. Buys Prunes Milton-Freewatcr, Aug. 16. (Pi Morris J. Robb, federal sur plus crop purchasing agent, be gan a 10-day program yesterday of absorbing 200 cars of fresh Italian prunes. Closing time for Too Lata to Claa ilfy Ads la 1:30 p. m. (EOOEWOM Because Chevrolet trucks pro vide the power and durability to do the work most efficiently, and because Chevrolet trucks operate with such great economy, Chev rolet trucks are out in front In sales leading again in 1940 by a wide margin, as they have led year after year. You will find it wise to modern ize your trucking equipment now, at today's low prices. ... a yf ... avi CDC W TRUCK CHEVROLET GIVES Crfei Proof! a the . , atrsrk - Of i art "-VVc-va Wb" jits mn r-'-'- - Our C"",iV- c.mi ' -Hiia Dtuort. ROGUE RIVER CHEVROLET OFFICE SALESROOM SERVICE DEPT USED CAR LOT NINTH AND BARTLETT STS. Sunday BE ?By Associated Press) With only a month to go In the 1940 Pacific Coast league baseball campaign, the Seatt'.e Rainiers, top team with a 16 game margin, have won two contests lor every cne they've lost. Kewme Dick Earrett chalked up his twentieth triumph of the semester last ni?lit In holding . the Sacramento Solons to seven hits while the Rainiers touched Tony Frcitas for 13 to trim tho Solons, 5-1. The second place Oakland Oaks pofted a 6-2 win over the San Diego Padres. Lee Sline of the third place Los Angeles SerDp'is allowed only eight hits in pitching a 10-2 victory over the Portland Beavsrs. The Anyels scored three in the first inning and repeated in the second, when Lou Njvikoff, the league's home run star, knocked out his thirty second of the season with two aboard. Lee Fa!!in took over Portland's pitchin'j chores from Ad Liska in the third. Hollywood defoated San Fran cisco, 7-5. HOW THE? m in V B National Leagu W. L. Pet. 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