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PAGE FOUTt MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORP- OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 29, 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says: Softball Losing Popularity With Paying Customer Grants Pass Merchants Invade Crater Lair 8:30 Tonight j BILL LANN1NG TO ! OPPOSE FARTHING IN MOUND BATTLE WOW THEY STAND The ominoui report! Issuing from Klamath Falls and Salem concerning the dwindling pop ularity of Softball, leads us to wonder if the game, perhaps, Isn't slowly becoming passe as malor snort in Oregon. Klamath Falls, for the past several years one of the state's best-drawing towns for softball was forced to halt its season two weeks before the scheduled closing because of sharp de cline in patronage- Salem, probably THE hottest softball city In Oregon, reported the annual state tournament suffered a net loss this season of $200. It was the first time in the tourney's history that re- ceiDts failed to exceed expenses. Medford, also fine softball village in 1938 and 1939. didn't do so well this year. E. H. Hed rlck hasn't yet made a check of what business was done, but It Is no secret that the game here failed to make money. In fact, small loss was probably incurred. ' It looks like Fred Zimmer man of the Salem Capital Journey might be right whan he remarks. 'Softball has reached a crisis In its young life and next year may tell the story; whether It Is to sur vive as a sport for spectators pr return to the playground whence it had its origin." Medford's Bob Smith, when he left here to report to the New York pro grid Giants, weighed a nice 212 pounds . . . .now, after a couple of weeks of drilling, he Is down to 188 and still taking it off, he writes in a letter to his brudder, Johnny ' , Bob Is Inclined to believe he will make good with the "Jints," although he reports that no lineup has been chosen by his coaches as yet . . . None of Medford high's foot ball players are In danger of missing a year of competition because they belong to the na tional guards, because none of them do . . . the lone loss to national defense business was Ralph Cogglns, a 205-pound tackle prospect, who joined the regular army ... so that's one thing Bill Bowerman doesn't have to worry about . . At Grants Pass high, Coach Loren Tuttle is afraid one of his ace ball-carriers, Bud Jerke, will be called with the guards . . . Kenneth Williams, Jr., son of the famous big league ball player, will turn out for a back field spot on this year's Cave man eleven . . . Ellsworth Vines, the tennis star, believes he can win the national amateur golf crown In two years. Buch Buchwach. writing in ' the Eugene Register-Guard the other day, really put the people of Albany on the pan for not raising the necessary 11,500 to send the Alco Oaks, northwest semi pro champions, to the national tourney at Whichlla . . . Moose Clabaugh. now umpir ing In the Western Interna tional league, receipted for a minor pop bottle shower the night after calling one the home guard didn't like . . . Billy Reinhart, who tutored Joe Gordon at University of Oregon, says that the current Yankee second-baseman la due to become one of the all-time baseball greats ... the Yanks have made a pull hitter out of Gordon, Reinhart said, with the result he is belting In more runs than ever before . . . Discontine Trains Portland, Ore., Aug. 29. Two of the four passenger trains on the Astoria-Portland-Seaside run will be discontin ued about mid September be cause of operating losses, the Spokane, Portland and Seattle Railway company announced today. Closing Unit tor Too Ute to Ctu slfjf Ada U 1 .30 p. m. swih Exhibition Series Stands at One Tilt Apiece Mer chants Have Power Hitters IM- Unless all signs are awry. spiffy elbowing duel will be staged when the State league Medford Craters and the South ern Oregon league Grants Pass Merchants collide under the lights at the fairgrounds park tonight at 8 30. Big Bill Lannlng. with two weeks of rest behind him. will do the Crater flinging against his old teammates. Lloyd Farth ing, 20-year-old righthander with speed, control and a fine bender, will start on the Grants Pass hillock. Farthing beat Cres cent City last Sunday, 5 to 2, to square the Southern Oregon league playoff series. Both clubs will go all out In an attempt to finish on top, as ihelr exhibition series now stands at one game apiece. In the first tilt Grants Pass tripped the locals, 8 to 3, but the Cra ters came back to edge out a 3 to 2 victory and deadlock the set. Tonight's contest will be for blood. The Merchants, first half champions of the S. O. L. and probable 1940 pennant winners, will take the field with three regulars batting far over .300- George Erickson, outfielder, leads the club with a terrilic .481; Joe Gray is belting the ball at a .468 clip, and Gordon Howerton, third baseman, Is socking .385. The Invaders will probably line up with Woods catching, Clark on first, Earl Carrlllho on second, George Hibbard on short, Howerton on third, Erick son In left, Gray In center and Chuck Ostrom in right. Carrlll ho, from Junction City, played with the Eugene State league club early In the season. The Craters will take the field with their regular lineup. and although they haven' played lor two weeKs Manager Thommy Hawkins said the team was In fine shape for the clash. E TO GEJJNE HIT By the Associated Press The Pacific coast league did not lack for standout pitching last night, even though its brightest star, Kewple Dick Bar rett of Seattle, came a cropper in trying for his 23rd victory- Instead Barrett took his fifth defeat. 6 to 4, at the hands of San Diego, and the pitching job of the night, if not the season, was turned in at Portland, where obscure George Mungrr of Sacramento gave just one hit to beat the Beavers 7 to 0. For seven innings Munger mowed down Beavers like a machine, only two got on base, through errors. The Senator hurler was at the threshhold of fame when in the eighth inning Beaver Rookie Bob Bergstrom lined Into right field for a single. Los Angeles made It two straight over Oakland, 3 to 1. Hollywood massacred seventh- place San Francisco, 19 to 3. National League W. L. Cincinnati 75 Brooklyn . 67 St. Louis 62 New York 62 Pittsburgh 61 Chicago 62 Boston 48 Philadelphia .... 39 44 51 58 58 58 62 72 77 American League W. Cleveland 72 Detroit 69 New York 65 Boston 68 Chicago 63 Washington 52 St. Louis 51 Philadelphia .... 46 L. 50 53 54 58 57 68 73 71 Pet. By Sid Feder AP Sports Writer The only thing missing when Jimmy (do it with mirrors) Dykes opened his new bowling .590 and soda emporium in Philadel- Pacific Coast League W. Seattle 101 Los Angeles 85 Oakland 84 San Diego 80 Sacramento . 77 Hollywood 78 San Francisco 69 Portland 47 L. 55 69 71 74 79 79 85 107 .568 .546 .532 .525 .433 .411 .393 Pet. .647 .552 .542 .519 .493 .490 .448 .305 Scores Yesterday By The Associated Press National League Pittsburgh 5-5, Philadelphia 0-2. New York 5, St. Louis 2. Boston 8. Chicago 3. Brooklyn at Cincinnati, rain. American League Chicago 3, Boston 2. Other games, rained out. Pacific Coast League San Diego 6, Seattle 4. Los Angeles 3, Oakland 1. Sacramento 7, Portland 0. Hollywood 19, San Francisco 3. Western International Vancouver 6, Yakima 5. Salem 9-5, Wenatchee 3-7. Pioneer League Ogden 10, Idaho Falls 5. Twin Falls 4. Salt Lake 2. Pocatello 12, Boise 9. BIG 10 TO LIFT L Chicago, Aug. 29. P Wes tern conference athletic direc tors were reported today to have approved a proposal to permit Big Ten football cham pions to compete in Rose Bowl games against title winners of the Pacific coast conference. The directors, who are hold ing their midsummer meeting here, were said to have decided to recommend that the Big Ten faculty committee approve such an arrangement. Spokane, Wash-, Aug. 29. OP) Ernie Lain, the pudgy half back whose brilliant work in the Rice Institute backficld made him a football headlinei for three seasons, failed to make the grade with the Washington Redskins of the national profes sional football league. Lain was one of six men lopped from the squnrt of 45 to day by Coach Ray Flaherty as the Redskins wound up their pre season training program and entrained for Milwaukee, Wis., to meet the Green Uoy Packers Monday In an exhibition tilt. phia the other night was for the International Society of Magici ans to step up and present him with an engraved card as an honary member. If ever a fellow rated It for reaching into hats and pulling out all sorts of surprises, to the red-faced confusion of most of the .American league's first di vision, Jimmy is the lad. He's been doing It for years, too, out there with his Chicago White Sox. Right now, he's winding up his sixth full sea son as boss of the Sox, and he stands a good chance to finish In the first division for the fourth time. He's only a game away as a result of his 3-2 vic tory over the Boston Red Sox yesterday in the only American league to get by the rain. Over in the National league, the pennant race became a seven-team affair yesterday, to the surprise of no one. The Phillies, who never had a chance any way, dropped both ends of a doubleheader to some excellent elbowing by Pittsburgh pitchers Truett Sewell and Joe Bowman, and were eliminated mathema tically from the flag chase, Sew ell tossed a three-hitter in the opener for a 5-0 win, and Bow man came back with a six-hitter for a 5-2 decision. - The New York Giants climb ed back Into a tie for third place by trouncing the St. Louis Cardinals, 5-2, largely on homers by Jojo Moore and Tony Cuccinello. Dick Errickson's steady twirling gave the Boston Bees an 8-3 edge over the Chi cago Cubs, dropping the Cubs into sixth place. The loop's two pace-setters, Cincinnati and Brooklyn, were rained out. 'Frisco Clubber Looms as Local Golf Tourney Threat Another out-of-town title contender loomed before local shot makers today when Cy Donaldson of San Francisco, a 2-handi-cap man, placed his name on the entry list for the annual Southern Oregon-Northern California tournament atartiner Fri day morning at the Rogue Valley Golf club. uonaioson, wno won t arrive PITTSBURGH BUYS Seattle. Aug. 29. lP) Aldon Wilkie, slender southpaw, who was fired by the San Francisco Seals early in the season and talked himself Into a job with the Pacific coast league leading Seattle Rainiers, was sold yes terday to the Pittsburgh Pirates. He will report next spring. Manager Jack Lelivelt of the Rainiers refused to divulge the purchase price but said that cash and one player would be turned over to the Seattle club. Wilkie has a record of 12 vic tories and three defeats. Gibraltar has been a British possession since 1773. Greenwich observatory. In England, was founded in 1673. Athens, Greece, got Its name from the patron goddess, Athene The first modern olympaid took place at Athens, Greece, in 1896. Toledo collected $10,809 gambling fines alone. in Closing time (or Too Late to Clas sify Ads it 1 30 p m. DRINKING WATER . . . The water In this pool it changing constantly and Is chlorinated to meet stale requirements. MERRICK'S 1 9. M. to 4 P. M. j fluff 's easy w thot' wmisL STRAIGHT IOURI0N WHISHT to FIOO H'tAM WAinl I IONS IMC ' PfOtlA. IlllNOlt Take It easy tonight I Relax enjoy life more. And when you drink, choose the whiikey that's easy to take... Ten HiohI Try Ten High and toil iH right, bodied richness for yourself. Careful control in the world's largeit distillery is the secret of the flavor that reolly if "easy to lake (kV r 95c SI 85 W PINT QUA! PINT QUART here until Saturday morning, will be seeded into the cham pionship flight of 32. He was unable to be here Friday to fire his qualifying round and offic ials of the tournament agreed to waive that necessity. Leland Clark, local star, said of Donaldson that "he is def inite threat, even on a strange course." Clark related that Don aldson shot a three-under-par 69 on the Grants Pass course a couple of weeks ago, and was four under regulation figures at Eureka the same week. Nine more out-of-town golfers were registered for the tourna ment up to noon today. They were N. D. Looker and Thurston Lindball of Yreka, Cal., F. Sneed of Redding, Cal., Hugh McKinney of Callahan, Cal., Denny Hull of North Bend, Al Davis of Marshfield, Harold Johnson of Grants Pass and Bill Allen and Edmund Dews of Ashland. Along with the "foreigners" were the following local club bers: Eugene Thorndike, George Patterson, Jack Bierma, Lucien Clement and Bert Orr. All told, 42 had entered the tournament and Manager George Robertson said he expected the number to jump to about 100 as 18-hole qualifying play opens tomorrow morning. Five more entrants qualified yesterday. Harold Johnson shot an 83, Thurston Lindball a 95, George Patterson an 83, Bert Orr an 80 and Louie Blythe an 86. Several golfers were ex pected to qualify this afternoon. Medford s Eddie Simmons, tourney champion the last two years, will shoot 18 holes in the morning to compete for medal ist honors. As last season's title- holder Simmons does not have to qualify for match play. Sim mons has one leg on the Larry Schade trophy, which was put up last year after Eddie gained permanent possession of the first Schade cup by his 1938 victory, his third. All told, Sim mons has won the championship four times. There will be prizes, donated by the Rogue Valley club, for winners and runners-up in all flights, for winners and run n e r s-u p in all consolation flights, for the winner of the driving contest, and for low medalist. Marshf ield's Dick Hanen, a pre-tourney favorite, was last year's medalist with a 71. Following qualifying rounds tomorrow, the golfers will start 18-hole match play Saturday in all flights. Quarter finals and semi-finals will be played Sun day and the finals Monday, La bor day. The popular Calcutta pool will be held at the clubhouse at 8 p. m. Friday. 17 Forrest L. (Skeet) O'Connell, for the past four years athletic coach at Ashland high school, has beep named basketball coach at' Corvallis high school to succeed Hub Tuttle, who re signed to Join the U. S. navy air force, according to a press report. O'Connell, a former Oregon State college basketball star, re signed his Ashland post last spring following a casaba season that saw his Grizzlies win their second district 9 championship under his leadership. PROS, ALL-STARS Chicago, Aug. 29. (IP) Two of the nation's greatest collec tions of football stars will be looking for a break tonight a break in the deadlock existing between the Collegians and the professional champions after six all star meetings. The 1940 crop of college all stars and Green Bay, the pro fessional champions, clash in the seventh annual charity game at Soldier field tonight, with a record crowd of 85.000 expected to watch the battle for an edge in the series. Since 1934, when the series was started by the Chicago Tri bune Charities, Inc., the colleg ians and the pros each have won two games, lost two and tied two. 1W0 SALEM TEAMS IN SOFTBALL SEMI-FINAL Albany, Aug. 29. (JP) Two Salem entries, the defending champion Pade-Barrick and the Fairettes, reached the semi final round of the women's soft bail tournament here last night. The state champions easily defeated the Eugene River Road girls, 18 to 2, while the Fair ettes edged out the Corvallis Veterans of Foreign War club, 6 to 5. The Portland Laundry & Dry Cleaners' team will tackle the Albany Truax Oilers In the first semi-final contest tonight. F E BIG LOOP DEBUT Boston, Aug. 29. UP) BfTl Fleming, who came from th Pacific Coast league recently, didn't win his ball game but he made an impression on the Boston fans when he engaged in a sparkling mound duel yes terday with Bill Dietrich of the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox beat the Boa ton Red Sox 3-2. Fleming gave up only five hits in the seven innings he worked before giving way to pinch hitter. Fleming yielded all his hits in the second inning, good for two runs. EXAMS FOR GRID UMPS SLATED FOR SEPT. 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