Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, August 20, 1940, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextfAGE rouK Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says; Midget Racing Hurt by Large Number Wreck Th saying li that no news li good news, but In the cat of midget auto racing, Insofar as Medford is concerned, It ap pear! the adage Is working In reverse. Nary a word have we re ceived In weeks and weeks from Bobby Rowe of Portland, spon sor and promoter of the "doodle bug" classics hers early this summer and In some two dozen other northwest towns. Such a lack of Information might possibly be taken as meaning that all la well with the midget industry and that soon the tiny thunderbolts will be returning to scrcclch and roar around the fairgrounds ov al. However, from various sources, mostly our newspaper exchange file, we discover that all Is not only NOT well with the midget game, but that it is In a rather precarious position Perhaps fighting for its life. In fact. It seems that Rowe is hav ing a difficult time keeping enough of the liiile crs and drivers in operation to stage a program. The machines are being wrecked and the pilols are landing in hospitals in alarming numbers, and al though the Janisen Peach cards have been held regular ly, those in ether towns have either been eliminated entire ly or have had their schodules drastically curtailed. Not all the drivers have been seriously injured, of course, in their crackups. But somo have, the latest of which occurred to Bob Anderson of Seattle, He lies critically hurt In a Vancou ver, B. C. hospital, his lung punctured by a broken rib and his leg badly fractured. He re ceived his bunging up in a mix up with another car and driver. Other pilots are not so un lucky when they tangle, escap ing with mere broken ribs or arms or Just severs bruir.es and shock. But, for every pilot put out of commission for even a few days. Bobby Rowe finds his list of drivers decreased. The cumulative effect of the acci dents Is to .make it virtually impossible for Rowe to send a complete lineup of cars and drivers to the various cities where the races are supposed to D staged. Thus, manyl towns, like Medford, have been doing without their midget bat tling tor the simple reason that there aren't enough cars and drivers left to produce a pro gram. The midgets have been filling their dates at Portland and the larger towns, but that's about all. Rowe. apparently, Is con serving his machines and pilots for the real racing centets like or -vugB0w"'- i , S..'-tO in BO".?. I ffi ..'- I yfcj i OtrwinRF. PlTMtm n. IM. Loillltlllt-Oiirniliofu, kfntuck pIT THE "jl ARISTOCRAT ON , ifionded, J Pints N5 ( Quirts ) rrS Silf! m Wooden MEDFORD CHAMPS MOVE TO SECOND ROUND WITH WIN Portland Firemen Next Op ponents for Locals Wed nesday Corvallis Wins Salem, Ore., Aug. 20. Last year's champlops, Joe Mann of Portland, and three other district winners had been disposed of as the state Softball tournament entered its second day today. Last evening's play saw the 1839 title-holders fall 2-1 before a last Inning rally of their home townsmen, the Portland Fire men. Joe Mann had gathered an unearned run in the sixth on a succession of Firemen errors. The Medford Wooden Box nine had no trouble ntiiling up the Forest Grove nine. 12-2 in the final game of the night even after the Medford first baseman, Al Wray, was ejected for ex pressing his loud and profane opinion of the officials. in the opening game of the evening Corvallis plastered a 17-1 victory on the hapless St Helens Papermakers. Corvallis batsmen pounded out runs at will, hitting everything two St. Helens pitchers had to offer. Julia Lee Wright of Portland scored an easy 8-2 win over Bend In the second game of the evening, but Bend had the satis faction of scoring both Of its runs on circuit blows, the only two hits the Portland pitcher, Ed Jossl, allowed them. Corvallis and Julia Lee Wright will open the (lay In Wednesday's semi-finals, fol lowed by the Portlsnd Firemen and Medford. By beating Forest Crova by a 12-2 score, Medford s Wooden Boxmen moved into the second round and will play their next game Wednesday night against the Portland Firemen, tourna ment favorites after their 2 to 1 upset of Joe Mann's Furlers of Portland In last night's contest. There will be one change in the Wooden Box lineup Wed nesday night, Dick Poterfield replacing Al Wray on first base. The latter will return to Med ford today to continue his Job with a local service station. Joe Peccia is expected to hurl against the Portland club in Medford's next start. Scores Yesterday By th Associated Press National New York B. Cincinnati 2. Boston 3. Pittsburgh 0. Only games. American Boston 16. Cleveland T. Only game. Pacific Csait No games scheduled. Western International Spokane 13-3, Salem 10-7 (first game 10 innings, second. S Innings). Wenatche 10, Vancouver 4. Portland and Vancouver, B. C. For which he can't be blamed, for there is where the attend ance la heavy and the dollars roll merrily. It appears that Bobby un dertook a too ambitious pro gram ior his llrst season of sending th midgets into the hinterland. He had Just so many cars and drivers, and when they hit th small-town tracks, many of which weren't th best in th world, crack ups were inevitabl. And with Ihoi crackups cam inurls to th drivers and wracked midgets. And you don't pick off trees gents willing to risk their necks In the thundering "bugr", nor can you find classy race Jobs in any old place. Replacements for battered pilots and battered midgets are hard to obtdin. So maybe we will see more races here this summer, and maybe we won't. Right now It looks like "won't." but other minor r-trarles and perhaps Hoi with one in the minor r-lrarlcs have happened owe will come up near future. WE HAVE " aiKrrtlw the ptltfd unl cure or mo ht(mi lord, nut a irr mi. month, sold one to a srn llrman ht In limn , , , Inrr thrn. Ihrre nlher mrnihrrt nt hit hum. 1U Until; hl bought uwtl ran tram ut. Cooksey Motor Co tie Cf lot. tlk lUrtlrll Dial 3618 1 Box Belts Forest OFF PILUSO FOR FOURTH STRAIGHT Mean Mike Katarlan. the maddest of all mad Armenians, registered his fourth straight grappling victory in the Med ford armory last night at the expense of popular Ernie Piluso. the brawl being one of the wild est seen her In mo.ith of Mon days. Nazarlan won the match by virtue of a savage and villainous attack that Piluso was unable to cop with, although he made things more than interesting for the 14-minut duration of the fracas. Ernie took the first fall In seven minutes with his favorite maneuvers sonnenbergs after a mlxup that saw Referee Earl Yoakley bite the dust and both wrestlers sprawled hither and yon. Piluso finally recov ered and lashed out with a series of torpedo shots and Nazarian folded up for the fall. Three minutes later Nazarlan evened the score with a terrific arm-breaker and finger-bends that forced Piluso to give up. During the rest period Piluso chased Nazarlan out of the ring and Into the customers, causing considerable excitement. The final fall turned Into a madhouse as both grapplers slugged It out, with Nazarlan finally clamping on his excruci ating arm-breaker again and Piluso giving up to save the arm. During the hysterical mo ments of the match Timekeeper Vivian Beach suffered a cut nose when he was kicked acci dentally by Nararian's second, and all in all it was a lurge eve ning. Wrestling without shoes, Sgt. Bob Kenaston of Gold Hill dropped a straight fall verdict to George Wagner In the open er. Referee Earl Yoakley award ed the match to Wagner in the fourth round when Kunnston re fused to halt his dirty work. Wagner got the first tall In the third heat with Sj sonnenberg. Tete Brlcastro handed young and popular Jack Hugen his sec ond straight setback In the mid dle event, clamping on a surf board In the third round that in capacitated Hagen for the eve ning. The Shreveport, La. clean le got a fall in the first round -with a fine headlock. but he couldn't beat Belcastro off in the third round. Leaders By th Associated Pren American Lagu Batting Radcliff, St. Louis, .362; Appling. Chicago. .344. Runs Williams, Boston, 99; McCosky, Detroit, 92. HitsCramer, Boston, 183; Radcliff. St. Louis. 134. Home Runs Foxx, Boston. 33; DiMaggio, New York. 23. Pitching Newsom, Detroit, 13 2; Rowe, Detroit, 11-2. National Lagu Batting Walker, Brooklyn, and Danning, New York, .327. Runs. Frey, Cincinnati, 86; Mire, St. Louis. 83. Hits F. McCormlck, Cincin nati and Herman. Chicago, 141. Home Runs Mize, St. Louis. 34; Rlzzo, Philadelphia, and Nicholson. Chicago, 19. Pitching Fitzsimmons. Brooklyn. 12 2; Sewell, Pitts bnrgh, 10 3. Log Brakman Killed Mt. Vernon. Wash., Aug. 20. (Ti Ben Stoop, 67. Beaverton. Ore., was fatally injured today In the collision of a Lyman Tim ber company logging train with a stalled "speeder." Stoop, a brakeman, was thrown from the engine as he attempted to open a valve to stop.he train. FOR GREEN PINE SLAIBS $3.75 Dial Timber Products company End North Mermaids Forsake Power For Technique, Rhythm, Timing Seattle, Aug. JO. (IP) On of America's foremost swim ming coaches looked at th won-and-lost ledger todjy and said h guessed th championship ra of th powerful amazons had passed. Th we gals, said Coach Ray -Daughters, whose pupils have won nigh onto their weights in championship trophies, have pulled to th front with tech nique and timing. It was a sad observation for Daughters to mak after watch ing that trim 13-year-old phen om, Mary Ryan of Louisville. Ky., outclass th field in the national A.A.U. women's cham pionships at Portland. Daughters has been a devel oper of th power swimmers. There were no petit lines about th famed Helen Madison a powerful 130 -pounder whom Daughters tutored to 18 world championships. Nor Olive Me Kean, the tall 140-pound flash who won two national cham pionships. And th Washington Athletic club's championship re lay quartet had pounds to spar. 'There's a new type of swim ming," Daughters commented. "Power has taken second place. The big, strong girls like Helene hav been supplanted by girls like this little Ryan Miss. Tech nique, stamina and perfect rhythm, timing and Judging of pace have made the Louisville lady the greatest swimmer of the decade. Nearly all of the successful competitors now are small of stature." BELIEVE II OR F, FOR NEW YORK GIANTS By Associated Press This one Is one of thos rare occasions like a total eclipse of the sun or breakfast without bacon and eggs. It marks the only time this or any other year when loyal Brooklyn fans will yell for, not at, the New York Giants. The Giants, probably without meaning to. are helping their rambunctious rivals from across the east river catch up with the league-leading Cincinnati Reds. And if there's anything a Dodger fan would rather see than the Giants being "moidered" it's his own team surpassing the Reds. Hence the tag line In every Brooklyn prayer, "and please, bless the Giants just for this series with the Reds." While the Dodgers were Idle yesterday the Giants, with a makeshift lineup that included Mel Ott at third, and Johnny McCarthy at first, hopped on the Reds by a 9-2 count. King Carl Hubbell screwballed the Reds into submission with a fine seven-hit performance. That left Brooklyn four games back of the Reds. While Hubbell was making hash out of the Cincinnati Reds. Dick Errlckson of th Bees was doing the same to the Pittsburgh Pirates' hopes for a first division berth. He won his ninth game of the season, 3 to 0. limiting the Bucs to nine hits and skidding them down into sixth place. In the American league's only game, the Boston Red Sox gained their most decisive tri umphs of the season over the league - leading Cleveland In dians smashing out 14 hits for a 16-7 win. Near Tragedy Linton. Ind. ili.Ri A gam of "hide and seek" with her 21 month old daughter. Judy Kay. almost ended In tragedy for Mrs. Guy Moss of this city. She was imprisoned for more than an hour in a poorly ventilated closet when the small child ac cidentally locked the outside catch on the door. She finally escaped by picking the lock with a coat hanger. $06 CUBIC FOOT LOAD 2123 Central Grove HAS SMALL LIST New York, Aug. 20 (&) It's hard to believe, but golfers ap pear to be a trifle more cautious than they were a few years back. At least thers aren't so many of them willing t spend five dollars on the slim chance flat they'll qualify for the na tional amateur championship, which will be played at the Winged Foot club, Mamaroneck. N. Y., Sept. 0-14. The entry list for the amateur shows the same downward trend that was seen in the open cham pionship. The official figures an nounced today by the United States golf association show that just 758 entries were accepted. That's the. lowest toal, with one exception, of any year since 1933. When the amateur was played at Portland. Ore., in 1937 there were only 619 en tries. Portland. Aug. 20. lP Gunther Krause of Portland. William G. East of Eugene and Herbert P. Welch of Lnkeview are the new members of the Oregon State bar's board of governors. V .JtL MVS m mm FOR THE MAIL TRIBUNE SCOUTS CUBS' i b 6 e t SPEEXB DEEWMlDtS Plenty of Time to Complete Four Speeder Before the Big Race! Register Now At Boy Scout Headquarters! Eait Main Street at Bear Creek Bridge FULL INFORMATION AND INSTRUCTIONS AT SCOUT HEADQUARTERS! HAVE THE THRILL OF A LIFETIME! 1 2-2 In I WITH LONG LEAD; DUCKS GO SOUTH By th Associated Press It's hard for a ball club to keep moving at a gallop when it ran win in a walk. That may explain why the well-paid Ralniers of Seattle let Sacramento sideswipe them for four straight last week and lost a three-gam Pacific Coast league series to Oakland a week earlier. For If some of the legging clubs have finally solved the Seattle problem, they apparent ly got the answer too .ate. Seattle has some 33 names to play before the Shaughnessy playoff. If Brewmaster Emil G. Sick's lads win only five of the 33, or an even 100 fur the sea son, they'll close the books with a .SS9 percentaga That would have won the pennant lart year. To put it another way: the second club, Los Angeles at the moment, could, in theory only, win all its remaining 32 games. The Angels would end the se mester around .633. which does not match the Ralniers' present gait of .6M. So the Rainiers should not be blamed if they coast a while, even against the Angels, whom they meet tonight. Meanwhile attention fixes on the drawn battle between Sac ramento and San Diego for fourth place and a spot In the playoff, with Hollywood Just a couple of Jumps behind. The split week which tonight FUN! THRILLS! Tourney pits Sacramento at home against San Francisco. San D'ego at home against Portland, and Hol lywood against the Oaks at Oak land, is worth watching for Its effects on the fourth place fra cas. Chilmark, Mass., Aug. 20. UT) Vacationing today at his sum mer home. James Cagney, "tough guy" of the movies, denied he had any connection with the communist party as charged In a Los Angeles Dies committee hearing last week. "You can blame it on west coast political aspirants," Cag ney said. HOW THEY? STAND National League W. L. Cincinnati 69 41 Brooklyn 65 45 New York 56 51 St. Louis 5 53 Chicago 57 57 Pittsburgn - 51 55 Boston 44 68 Philadelphia 37 63 American League W. L. Cleveland 61 48 Detroit (16 49 Bofton 63 "2 Chicago 53 52 New York 57 53 Washington 49 4 St. Louis 17 69 Philadelphia 43 67 Coast league unchanged. 9 to 15 Years of Ago mm to BEFORE ?EHHDAY Aug. 23, Opener SOOSE TO FIGHT MET Chicago. Aug. 20. (JFl A "champion" without a title that will be the strange position of Billy Soose, Farrell, Pa., mid. dleweight if he conquers Tony Zale of Chicago in their 10. round bout tomorrow night. Soose already holds a decision over Ken Overlin, recognized as the middleweight titleholder in New York and California. That was an overweight bout in which the title was not at stake. His fight with Zale also Is non-title affair. Zale Is the Na. tional Boxing association's mid dleweight champion. Lawrence, Mass. Aug. 20. iP) Maurice (The Angel) Tillet, 275, France, defeated Rudy Strombcrg. 225, Milwaukee, two straight tails. s w i r,i IN- DRINKING WATER . . . Th watr in this pool Is changing constantly and is chlorinated to meet stat requirements. MERRICK'S 1 P. M. to 9:4$ P. M. PRIZES! 7:30 p. m.