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MEDFORD MATT j TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON', FRIDAY, AUGUST 23, 1940.
Sport
Graphs
Billy Hulen Says;
Cleveland, Cincy
Seem Certain to
Clash in Series
It looki like an all-Ohio
World Seriei, all right, with
Cleveland and Cincinnati com
ing to gripi in the annual clas
tic for the baseball champion
ship of the universe . . . Feller
appears to have a great chance
to cop 30 games (or the Indians,
which should help plenty in
bringing them under the Amer
ican league wire first . . . the
Reds, with Derringer and Walt
ers, look far too strong for the
rest of the National loop nines.
When Alan Wray was chased
out of that softball game at
Salem last Monday night, as
Wooden Box trimmed Forest
Grove 12 to 2, it was his first
and only ouster from a soft
ball or baseball contest In seven
years of competition . . . Al
apouted Indignation when he
Was sent back to second base
after scoring on what he be
lieved was a throw from the
catcher to the keystone ... the
imps thought otherwise, how
ever, claiming the receiver was
just heaving the ball back to
the pitcher.
The gross gate of the Med
ford Roundup Days rodeo
last week-end was something
ever 12.600. the government
tax amounting to almost 1300
... the Medford Alhletie as
sociation's cut of the proceeds
amounted to less than S100
net, due to heavy expenditure
en pens, chutes, corrals, ad
vertising, etc. . . . The Salem
Senators of the Western In
ternational league are doing
so poorly at the gate that the
club will finish In the red this
year It It doesn't sell two or
three players for good prices.
Paul Zimmerman of the Los
Angeles Times reports: "I asked
Babe Horrell (U.C.L.A. coach)
who would be the best half
back on the coast this year . . .
and quicker than you can say
Jack Robinson he said 'Jack
Robinson'." . . . Butch Nelson,
the former Salem high line-
plunger. Is already tabbed num
ber one understudy to Oregon's
Marshall Stenstrom come fall.
Howard Hobson's basketball
Webfoots, in making their third
straight barnstorming Jaunt to
New York City next winter,
will clash with these opponents:
Long Island university (in Mad
ison Square Garden), Temple,
Duquesne, Bradley Tech, Okla
homa and Canislus . . . four of
last year's five regulars will re
turn for more action and Hobby
is optimistic regarding the
quintet's chances to win the
northern division championship
of the Pacific Coast conference.
Jack Miley of the New York
Post writes. "If his noodle
swells another Inch. Master Ted
Williams of the Boston Red Sox
won't be able to get his hat on
without a shoe horn" . . . Wil
liams had made himself highly
unDODular with his own team
mates and everybody with
whom he comes In contact, and
we wonder if that isn't one of
the principal reasons why the
Sox aren't putting up the stiff
pennant battle they were fig
ured to do before the season
started.
KATBALL
Salem, Aug. 23. T The
Pendleton Elks and Salem
Square Deal teams reached the
semi-final round of the state
softball tournament last night.
Thirteen hundred fans turned
out to watch Harvey Griffin
pitch Pendleton to a 4-1 tri
umph over the regon City Elks.
Vie allowed three hits.
Square Deal tied the score
with the Bonneville Engineers
In the ninth inning and went
on to win, 4-3. in the 10th.
Willis, Bonneville pitcher, hurl
ed a three-hit game but got poor
support.
The Portland Firemen and
the Corvallis Beaver Laundry
teams clash tonight in the first
half of the semi-final double -
header. Pendleton's Elk and the
Square Deal club of Salem bat-
tie in the second game for the
right to enter Saturday's finals.
BOB HARDY'S TEAMMATE
PITCHES NO-HIT GAMElse.ttie
Dallas, Tex., Aug. 23. OI.Pi
Les Mueller, a lanky, right-
game last night for Beaumont
hitter brought Beaumont a 1 to
0 victory over Dallas in the
first game of a double-header. Dunns th World r. shorn ms.
It wis Ms 15th victory of the, coo inattiaun, served in the Anwt
season (gainst nins losses. j irn rotors.
'Atherton Axe'
i CHARGE TROJANS,
! GAL AND BRUINS
! WITH VIOLATION
Schools Claimed Guilty of
Enticement No Mention
of Northwest Colleges
San Francisco, Aug. 23. U.B
The "Atherton Axe" cracked
down on three California uni
versities today and deprived
them of 10 promising football
players. The blow fell heaviest
on the University of California,
sponsor of the Atherton Investi
gation and the school which put
the sharpest edge on the instru
ment against proselyting.
A statement Issued from the
office of Pacific Coast Confer
ence Athletic Commissioner Ed
win N. Atherton declared Cali
fornia. Southern California and
California at Los Angeles had
been guilty of seeking to entice
the athletes to enroll in weir
Institutions.
No mention was made of
Stanford or the northwest
schools that are members of the
Pacific coast conference.
The athletes who were named
in the ruling and the schools
for which they cannot compete
In athletics, were:
Cal Loses 6
California: Jack Armltage.
Lo Angeles high school; Henry
Blnkley, Narbonne high of Los
Anaeles: Gustave Kroesen, jr.
Narbonne; Herbert Olds, Re-
dondo Union; George Phillips.
Fremont high of Los Angeles.
and Willard Sheller, Compton
U.C.L.A.: Tharen Hoages, ai-
hambra high, and John Fetro-
vlch. also of Alhambra.
Southern California: peiro-
vlch, Theodore O'Lea and Loren
La Padre, the latter two from
Phoenix. Ariz., high.
Schmidt's statement namea
no specific instances of proselyt
ing; it merely deciarea we am
letes were barred from com'
Define from those universities
by "reason of activities oi rep.
resentatlves of, or persons con
nected or associated with the
institutions, in violation of the
conference rules."
TIP WEST, 17-14
Seattle. Aug. 23. The
eastern All-Stars defeated the
west 17-1 In Seattle's first pro
fessional football game, held In
Siek's stadium last night before
a throng of 13,000 for the bene
fit of the kiddles war rescue
fund.
The teams were made up of
the members of the Washing
ton, D. C, Redskins, who have
been in training for their league
campaign in Spokane.
A four period goal by Bo
Russell, formerly of Auburn,
gave the easterners victory. A
pair of former Pacific northwest
collegiate stars gave the west
its two touchdowns. Jimmy
Johnston, former Washington
star, scored on a three-yard
plunge and Max Krause, former
Gontaga back, scored in a one
man plunging show that carried
him 16 yards in four smashes.
Dick Todd, formerly of Texas
A. & M.. scored both eastern
touchdowns.
tfOWTH
STAMD
American
W.
Cleveland 71
Detroit 67
New York 61
Boston 63
Chicago 59
Washington 50
St. Louis 49
Philadelphia 45
L.
47
52
33
55
54
65
70
69
L.
42
49
53
53
56
58
69
70
Pet
002
563
.535
.534
.322
.435
.412
.395
National
W.
71
65
58
58
Tit.
Cincinnati ..
; Brooklyn ....
j New York
1 St. Louis ....
' Pittsburgh
Chicago .
Boston
I Philadelphia
.628
.370
.523
.523
.504
.504
.389
.332
Pet
.658
.344
.541
.514
.500
.493
446
.304
. 57
. 58
. 44
. 38
Pacllic Coast
W.
L.
51
68
68
72
75
75
82
Oakland .......
81
80
76
75
73
6
Los Angeles
San Diego ....
f",m'n0
Hollywood
San Francisco
Portland 45 103
EY?
Headlock Master
Shreveport. Louisiana's gift
to the wrestling Industry, Jack
Hagen (above), will display his
skill against Bobby Wagner in
the opening event of Monday
night's program in the armory.
Hagen Is one of the best head
lockers In the business.
BRAWL EXPECTED
WHEN BELCASTRO
PACES NAZARIAN
Having disposed of Ernie Pil
uso last Monday eve to run hir)
Medford winning streak to four
In a row. Mean Mike Nazarian
is looking ahead to next Mon
day night when he will attempt
to knock off his fifth straight
wrestling opponent In the per
son of Pete Belcastro, the Mad
Italian from Weed, Cal.
Promoter Mack Lillard. in
signing Nazarian and Belcastro
for the one-hour main event,
took Into consideration the fact
that both gents are out and out
alley brawlers and that the
match, anyway you look at it,
should be one of the bloodiest
and wildest seen In the armory
In several months.
Belcastro has a reputation for
being a great winning-streak
breaker. Many times grapplers
have put together unbeaten
strings: then, Pete comes along
and belts them over. He has
popped off to the effect that
Nazarian has been lucky the
past month, but that he'll need
more than a prayer to keep
his record unblemished when
the gong rings Monday.
Ernie Piluso, who has copped
two of his last three bouts, will
attempt to regain main-event
billing when he tangles with
Otis Clingman in the six-round
middle event. It will be a clean.
scientific match, as both boys
know what It is all about as
regards legitimate wrestling.
Two more lily-white matmen
will be seen in the opener, pit
ting Bobby Wagner against
young Jack Hagen, the head
lock expert from Shreveport,
La.
PLAY IN LEGION SERES
Trenton. Mo., Aug. 23. (US)
Two far western teams, San
Diego, Cal., and Lewiston, Ida.,
were pitted against each other
today In the second round of
the western sectional American
Legion Junior baseball tourna
ment. In the other second round
game Topeka, Kas., which won
1 a 4 3 victory in 12 innings over
1 Lewistown yesterday, was pair-
ed with Enderlin, N. D. Ender-1
lln lost a 22-12 game to San
Diego last night.
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The Portland Beavers, it ap
pears, are gunning for a Pa
cific Coast league record.
A month ago one would have
said the Beavers hadn't a chance
to break the circuit's all-time
low.
That mark, set by an earlier
generation of Portland fly
chasers, has stood since 1921
a season's percentage of .276
(51 games won, 134 lost).
But the basement burtd has
gone at the thing with the, will
to succeed. In three and a' half
weeks they have won three out
of 25, and stand 53V4 games
behind the pace-setting Seattle
Rainiers.
At the rate of less than a
win a week, and only 3'i weeks
to go, the possibilities are ob
vious. Right now the Beavers
stand at .304 with 45 wins and
103 losses.
That includes last night's ses
sion at San Diego. The Padres
won, 8 to 4, for a clean-swept
three-game series. The Beavers
gave their admirers a fright by
leading 4 to 2 until the eighth
inning. Then they braced and
blew six runs and the bill
game.
There was only one other
league game, and in it Holly
wood beat Oakland 3 to 0, be
hind t h r e e-hit pitching by
Hiram Bithorn.
UPSETS FEATURE
Brookline, Mass., Aug. 23.
IJP) Unseeded semi-finalists
threatened the steady march of
favorites today in both the men's
and women's divisions of the
national doubles tennis tourney,
as the competition entered the
second last round of play at
Longwood.
Two capable southerners,
Russell Bobbitt, of Atlanta, and
Frank Guernsey, of Orlando,
Fla., provided the competition
with its first upset by blasting
out the second-seeded team, Bob
by Riggs, of Chicago and Welby
Van Horn, of Los Angeles, 6-2,
7-5. 3 6, 8-6.
The No. 2 seeding on the
women's list was another jinxed
spot, for Mrs. John Van Ryn, of
Austin, Tex., and Dorothy Bun
dy, of Santa Monica, Cal., un-
ranked in the draw, disposed of
Margaret Osborne, of San Fran
Cisco, and Pauline Betz, of Bev
erly Hills, Cal., in straight sets.
6-4, 6-4, in another surprising
quarter-finals match.
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New York Grid Giants Drill
To Be Soldiers McLemore
By Henry McLtmore
United Press Staff Correspondent
Saratoga Springs. N. Y., Aug. 23. OI.R) The big fellow In
the sport coat called to me clear across the paddock.
"Want something good? Sometriing real good, I mean.
I didn't waste any time pet
ting to him. because the big
fellow was Tim Mara, for years
one of the top bookmakers, and
when he gives you a
"good
thing" it
usually comes down
in front or is close enough to
have its picture taken at the
finish.
"Lemme have it, pal." I said.
"The things I've bet on so far
couldn't beat Sophie Tucker in
class C handicap, and it's a
long walk back to New York."
"It isn't a horse I want to
tell you about," Mara said. "It's
about my Giants. You know.
the New York Giants of the
In Collision With Selkirk
pro league."
"I'll save the giants for Octo
ber," I said. "Tell me about
' something that can find a hole
near the rail, not off tackle:
something that involves horse
hide, not pig skin.'
"Wait'll you hear about the
Giants." Mara answered.
"Wait'll you hear what they
are doing right now. Llssen.
they're drilling. Drilling to be
soldiers. And they're going to
keep on drilling until they
know enough to qualify as real
soldiers."
Then Mara explained his con-
College
tribution to national defense
From now on, his football play.
ers will spend part of each day
training to be soldiers. They
started yesterday, 50 of them,
under the direction of Captain
Bill Wood, coach of the West
Vnr.
l Wit A
9 to 15 Years of Age
Before 7:30 o'Clock
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, equipped them with rifles rent
ed from the Ives Costume com
pany of Broadway, and plans
to buy them military uniforms
in the near future. At the pres
ent time they are marching in
football pants, shoulder pads,
blue jerseys and cleated shoes.
"This isn't any nut idea."
Mara said. 'These are danger
ous days and the more men wa
get ready for trouble, the better.
Who figures to be a better sol.
dier than a football player? Ha
is physically perfect, accustomed
to hardship, likes the tough
going, and Is mentally quick.
Suppose every football squad,
professional and collegiate,
adopted our idea? It would
provide this country with thou-.
sands of trained, conditioned
boys and men boys and men
of the type best fitted for lead
ership. I have seen enough of
football to know that it is a
game in which only the gam
and the fit survive. And that
is the type you need In case of
war."
Mara's idea makes sense to
me.
Why not have the athletes of
this country prepare for mili
tary service? Prepare and play
their games at the same time.
It would make a happy com
bination, and. if I know the
athletes of this country as well
as I think I do, they would
welcome the chance.
Maybe Mara did have a "good
thing" after all.
Money Goes 'Round
Tulsa, Okla. P) Jack Gel.
fand, clerk of municipal court, C
takes in money paid as fines and
for bonds. In counting it, ha
places it in bundles. On the top
bill he places a small figure indi
cating the amount. "Thoso
marked bills come back tima
after time, he says.
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