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PAOTC TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE. MEDFOHD OREGON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 0, 1940. Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Say:: Bob Hardy Goe Over .500 Mark' In Texa League Piluso to Get Second Grapple Shot at Nazarian Tonight rnwr wmwo Ashland'i Bob Hardy, the long and lean southpaw elbower, may ba the first native southern Oregonian to crash baseball's big time since Kenneth Williams grabbed his big bat and out fielder's glove and left the Grants Pass sand lots some 30 years ago for a long career In the place where they pay off in folding money and metropolitan headlines. Curt Davis, now with the Brooklyn Dodgers, is regarded by many as hailing from this section, and it is true that he went to San Francisco and thence to the majors from here. But Curt really wasn't a south era Oregon boy, having come to Gold Hill from Rickreall. Hardy, in case he makes the big league grade, will carry a true southern Oregon label and a Jackson county one at that. That Hardy Is doing very well for himself at Beaumont ' In the class A-l Texas league ts revealed in the last Issue of the Sporting News. Accord ing to the latest Texas loop pitching percentages, the Ash land portsider has won 7 and lost 8 games for a mark of .538, but has appeared In a grand total of 39 contests and has hurled 135 Innings. Hardy was used mainly for relief pur ' poses earlier in the season, but ' of late he has been taking his regular turn on the mound. Til NIL VUIH0 IU ERASE STING OF PREVIOUS LOSS Whitey Wahlberg, New comer, to Meet Hagen Nenoff, Wagner in Opener Battles Bulgarian Tonight Bob's last start, on August 30, found him blanking the third place San Antonio club, 6 to 0, with six hits. It was a nine, inning game, the first of a dou bleheader that saw Beaumont also win the nightcap, 4 to 0. In thii fracas Hardy fanned two and walked two. Six days earlier, on August 24, Hardy received credit for trim ming the league-leading Houston team, 4 to 3. In this game Hardy relieved Fuchs with one out in the seventh inning, and finished the nine-frame contest, yielding but one hit and no runs. He walked one and fanned none. Beaumont, a Detroit farm, is In second place, but has no chance to finish on top of the heap. Houston leads the loop by some 15 full games, with Beau- Along about 10 o'clock to night a goodly number of valley grapple fans and fanettes will have their answer to question that has been uppermost in their minds ever since the match was made six days ago can popular Ernie Piluso turn the tables on Mean Mike Nazarin, or will the awful Armenian again lambaste Ernie as he did three weeks ago? The question wilt be answered in the armory ring before what Promoter Mack Lillard hopes will be close to a capacity crowd. The boys are slated to go an hour or the best two out of three falls in the main event. And if you listen to either of the prin cipals the fracas hasn't a chance to last the limit. Both are dead certain they will bring things to a close in a hurry. Piluso, the clever, smart, lightning-fast and colorful scien tific matman, and Nazarian, the short, stocky, rather slow and rather thick-headed bad fellow, may stage the most hair-raising brawl of the year. Their first bout bordered on the sensation al; this one tonight may be a regular rip-snorter, a donny- brook, a shootin' match. All signs point thataway. Defeat Rankles Ernie Piluso is not a wrestler to forget a defeat, and especially a defeat such as he suffered at Nazarlan's huge hands In their first tilt. Ernie takes deep pride In his mat labors, and like every body in any line of endeavor he likes to win. In particular, he doesn't relish being whipped by a guy who doesn't know the dif ference between a legitimate half-nelson and a step-over toe hold. In short, Piluso hates to be beaten by one of the brutal characters. To say that that previous set back Nazarian handed him ran kles Piluso is putting it mildly, and Ernie has gone definitely on record as making the blunt statement he plans to get even, with interest, for that bit ter loss to Nazarian. He will jga,4 x- 4 v,J sy l- . .. rn When Steve Nenoff. the brutal Bulgarian, appears in the armory grappling ring tonight for the first time in two years, he will be face to face with George Wagner (above), clean and popu lar matman. The pair will open a program featured by the Ernie Piluso Mike Nasarian main event. The card will start at 8:30. SOL FLAG COPPED CARDS, PIH TIE Grants Pass. Sept. 9 IIP) The Grants Pats Merchants flew the 1940 Southern Oregon baseball league pennant today beside the 1939 bunting. George Hibbard singled in the ninth inning of the play-off finale Sunday to send Relief Pitcher Lloyd Farth ing home with the winning run. to 4 over Crescent City, also last year's runners-up. The first five Innings saw one hit and no scores. Then five consecutive Crescent bingles and four runs drove Nig Di Sordi to the Grants Pass bench. Farthing substituted in the sixth and Deo replaced Koll for Crescent City In the seventh. Short score: R. H. Crescent City 4 9 Grants Pass 5 H Koll, Deo and Johnson: Sordi, Farthing and Woods. E. 0 2 Di . " Tu. " : """""S i have the crowd behind him to a tlon. However, Beaumont is cer tain to get into the Shaughncssy playoffs, among the four first division clubs. That will mean a little extra sugar for Mr. and Mrs. Hardy. Nobody knows, of course, whether Hardy will eventually rise to the parent Detroit team, which is currently battling tooth and nail for the American league pennant. It stands to rea. son, though, that Bob will be looked over at Detroit's spring training camp next year. And even if he Isn't called up next spring he seems a cinch to re main in class A-l baseball, which is only a step and a half under the major leagues. As this is only Hardy's sec end season in prolesiional ball, following three years at the University of Oregon and sum mer "buih" stull in southern Oregon and in Idaho. It would seem within the realm of pos sibility that he might someday be up there where the fatted calf is cut. To make it unanimous and de vote this entire colyum to guys named Bob, we reprint a portion of a letter the M. T.'s Bob Gil strap received the other day from Bob Smith, a local lad try ing to bust into the lineup of the New York Giants of the National professional football league. Writes Bob- "Not much to tell on football, with the exception of working so hard I haven't time to stop ana iigure out man, woman and child- The program will start at 8:30 sharp with Steve Nenoff battling George Wagner, popular favo rite, in the six-round opener. It will be Nenoffs first appearance here in over two years, when he grappled under the name of Tiger Taskoff. Nenoff is a rough, tough hombre and may prove too much for Wagner, a strtct cleanle. In the six-round center attrac tion, Newcomer Whitey Wahl berg of Minnesota will grapple Jack Hagen of Shreveport, La. Both are legitimate workmen. Pittsburgh, Sept. 9. (P) Coach Jimmy Conzelman, mak ing the plunge from college to professional football after eight seasons at Washington university of St. Louis, at least can claim a moral victory in his first time out. His Chicago Cardinals had to come from behind to deadlock the Pittsburgh Steelers. 7-7. in the National league campaign opener yesterday but Conzel man's crew swept most of the statistical advantaees. The Cards counted up nine i and 4-2 first downs to only three for the Steelers, gained 110 yards rush ing to 85, added 128 from passes to 64 and from all sources netted 341 to 217. FELLER'S RELIEF JOB KEEPS TEAM AT TOP OF HEAP By Associated Press Nobody knows exactly who Is running the Cleveland Indians, but when Bob Fellers goes out there on the mound everybody knows who's pitching, win, lose or draw. He went to the mound at the start of the ninth yesterday with the score tied at 4-4 and hurled two scoreless stanzas (one hit, three strikeouts, one walk) be fore Jeff Heath doubled and scored the run that beat the Chi cago White Sox 5-4 in the ninth. Feller was credited with his 24th victory. This broke a s:x-game tailsDin by the Indians and kept them mathematically in front of the Tigers, although the two are tied in games won and lost. The Yanks also won to stay a game behind. Detroit battled courageously from behind again to beat the St. Louis Browns 5-4. The Yankees overwhelmed ttlA Dad Gav n A i -J .' n , pennant hopes. The Washington Senators and Philadelphia Athletics divided a doubleheader. The Senators' squeezed though a 7-6 triumph in the first game. The A's took the five-inning nightcap 4-0. scoring four runs in the fifth be fore darkness fell. The Cincinnati Reds were spellbound by Vern Olsen and the Chicago Cubs captured a 3-1 decision by bunching ten hits in the first six innings against Milkman Jim Turner. This was the cue for the Brooklyn Dodgers to take a doubleheader from the New York Giants and they did, 7-2 Crooner Bing Crosby Brings Glamor to Amateur Tourney By Gayla Talbot Mamaroneck, N. Y., Sept. 9. (JP) Glamor and romance finally have come to the national amateur golf champion ship in its 44th year, for Bing Crosby, himself, was among the 150 players who were digging around the winged foot club today in the first qualifying round of the title event. Whether Bing the crooner still will be around when match play starts on Wednesday af ter the 64 low qualifying scores for 36 holes have been posted is another matter, for he be longs only to the ordinary, or garden variety of golfer. But the possibilities attached to planting an attraction like Bing in a golf tournament have been only too apparent the last three days. BY PLAN TO E OIL AND SCRAP METAL T o k v o. Sent. 9 CAP. via The entire field practiced yes-i radio) Great concern has been NO POST-SEASON TILTS FOB BIG TEN IN 1940 Scranton. Pa., Sept. 9. (JP) Samuel Jackson Snead has evened his score with Byron Ncl. son, the Texan transplanted to Toledo, O.. who knocked him out of top money in the finals of the Professional Golfers' association championships last month. The long-driving Sliawnee-on-Dclawnre. Pa., golfer staved off Nelson's threat to win the $5,000 .- second annual Anthracite open golf tournament here yesterday with a 72-hole 276, two strokes below Nelson. Snead, who succeeds Henry Picard, Hershcy. Pa., won $1200 with his card of 138-68-70276; four under par. The PGA cham pion carded a 142-70.66 278 for $750. The U. S. open champion, Lawson Little of Bretton Woods. N. H., took third money of $525 with a HO 69-70 279. Chicago, Sept. 9. (JP) For another year at least post-season games are taboo for western con ference football teams. The conference faculty com mittee made this clear Saturday when it voted to defer action on a proposal to make the annual rose bowl game at Pasadena, Calif., on New Year's day a closed affair between the Pacific coast conference and the big ten. The Pittsburgh Pirates swept a doudbleheader from the St. Louis Cardinals 16-14 and 5-4 and took over third place, but the big show for St. Louis was Johnny Mize hitting three home runs in the opening tussle. The last place Phillies turned the tables on the Boston Bees and copped a double bill 2-1 and 3-1, the first game going 12 in nings as Kirby Higbe and Dick Errickson waged a pitching duel OW THEY; Scores Yesterday American League L. 56 57 57 62 63 77 80 78 W. Cleveland 76 Detroit 77 New York 73 Boston 72 Chicago 69 Washington 57 St. Louis 55 Philadelphia 49 terday, but there was only one gallery. It followed Crosby from first tee to final green, where one of his more fervent fem inine fans iVick out a foot and prevented Bing's approach from rolling into a trap. Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spo kane, the defending champion and a really fine golfer, shot a 68, four under par. In his final tune-up. Yet the only reason anyone saw him do it was the fact that he was play ing around with our movie men ace, who also comes from Spo kane. Crosby, who is rather short off the tee and stabs with nis putter, had a 40 coming back after going out in 43. That adds up 83. Ward Is to win, despite the fact that anything can happen In the course of the . four 18-hole rounds of match' play on Wed nesday and Thursday. In the last couple of years Ward has proved he can shoot right along with the profession als, and he came within a stroke of tying for the 1939 open championship. However, the boy from Spo kane will not lack competition. There are, besides him, nine former amateur champions in the field. aroused in Japan by a move ment in the United States to place a complete embargo on shipments to Japan of oil. scrap metal and other vital raw ma terials, Domel. the authoritative Japanese news agency, said in a broadcast today. Many Japanese also are alarmed over what they con sider indications of impending common action by Britain and the United States in the far east. Anxiety has intensified since the national defense council submitted to President Roose velt proposals for an embargo on essential materials, the agency said. 10 IN ASHLAND DISCOVER THEY IZ Ihf. ""I""', 'a.Vr"? Tokyo nVpaper Yomiuri commented, may prove the be ginning of an American block ade of Japan. Yomiuri said it would be madness to hope for improve ment of United States-Japanese relations, since "the course of the war In Europe and the fail ure of Great Britain must lead the United States to an imper ialistic policy." The newspaper referred to the "conviction" in t.ie United States that "the common en emy of America and England is Japan." TWO TIE FOR BLIND Mors than 98 per cent or all elec tricity generated by hydro-electric plant. Oil wells today are drilled In one fifth the time required ten years ijo. Ashland, Sept. 9 (Spl.) Two of this city's residents re ceived a rude shock last week; they found that they were "aliens" and were forced to reg. ister under the national regis, tratlon program now in prog ress. One of the residents, a wom an, discovered that her marriage to a Canadian occurred 20 days after the repeal of the former provision which brought natur alization through marriage. Since that time she has voted regularly and unchallenged. Now however, she must under take formalities of securing na turalization papers. Another citizen was born in this country but was taken to Canada when a youngster. His father became a naturalized citizen of that country. Upon re turn to the United States, he neglected to retain his citizen ship and although he served for two years with the U.S. armed forces in the last war, he must file for citizenship. Postmaster J. H. Fuller here said that registration Is mov ing at a slow . rate but added that the percentage of Ashland's aliens was small. It has been estimated there are between 75 and 80 persons who will come under the alien clause and of this number only 20 have been registered to date. Registrations are being tak en at the postoffice. Buy Austrian Peat Washington. Sept. 9. IIP) The department of agriculture announced today it would con tinue in 1941 its purchases of Austrian winter peas and hairy vetch to encourage production of cover crop seed for use in southern and central states. Two-thlrda of the entire popula tion of Australia has savings accounts of about ai.000 per capita. Salt la being used aa m stabiliser In the building of airport runways In Canada. Dr. F. G. Bunch and E. E. Kofoed, with scores of 73, tied for the blind bogey prize at the Rogue Valley Golf club Sunday. Bogey number was 73. Ivan Harrington won the low net prize by carding a 51, A. E. Allen won high net with a 97 and Leland Clark took the low Pet. ! gross prize with a two-under par .575168. .574 1 Club Pro Laddie Selkirk, in 568 ' charge of the weekly tourney, .537 j said he awarded a prize of one .523 I golf ball to George Roberts for .425 his "freak score" of 77. Roberts 407 ' a high handicap player, the 77 Pedestrian Killed Salem, Sept. U. Joe I Holt. 47, Leadvllle. Colo., was Seattle. Sept. 9. (Pi Tex killed early Sunday when Oliver, University of Oregon struck by an automobile while football coach, picks Washington) he was walking on the Salem American League New York 9, Boston 4. Washington 7-0. Philadelphia 6-4. Cleveland 5, Chicago 4. Detroit 5, St. Louis 4. National League Brooklyn 7-4, New York Philadelphia 2-3, Boston Chicago 3, Cincinnati 1. Pittsburgh 16-3, St. Louis 2-2 1-1. 14- to win the Pacific coast confer ence championship, with South ern California a close second. Arriving here by airplane yes terday from the east, Oliver said he based his prediction for a Washington victory on the show ing the team made in the second half of the 1939 season. As for Oregon's prospects. Oliver expressed little hope. Pointing out that he lost ten starting players by graduation he said he would build his of Dallas highway three west of West Salem. miles Pacific Coast League Sacramento 6-4. Seattle 4-6. San Diego 9-3. Portland 2-4. Los Angeles 5-fi, Hollvwood A , . j . . . - ' Portland Oakland 6 5. San Francisco 5-4. Cm Mali National League (Cincinnati K4 Brooklyn 78 (Pittsburgh 67 I St. Louis ...66 New York ..65 Chicago 64 Boston 56 Philadelphia 43 Pacific Coast L Seattle 107 Los Angeles P5 OakWnd HI San Diego 83 Sacramento 86 Hollywood . 81 San Francisco 75 FOR 1 WEEK ONLY $35.00 Suits Made to Measure n cat. NEWEST STYLES AND WOOLENS KLEIN the TAILOR Walk Upstairs and Save $10.00 out how I'm doing or f,.,1M. armlnd 2)o.pound Marshal TT."' T ' ! s"rom. fullback, and Jim tackle, his stand- what my c in- minion inm 1 may mane it. i Stewart, left The follows are reallv a cond',.i ....' class of men. They have deft. Oliver watched the Green Bav nite plans and none of them 1 racker.Colle A l lll have the false idea they .-an "rinhtai., "rn ,r p"' play the game forever. Most ot I p' them have played three years or more, are working on a master's dgree or paying for a husines. 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