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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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