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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.
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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
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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. H
Principal Leonard Mayfield
of Medford high school an
nounced today that the annual
examinations for football offic
ials would be held in the school
Saturday afternoon, Septem
ber 14.
All local men planning to of
ficiate at grid games this fall
were requested to take the
exam.
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