PAOTC TWO
MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUXE. MEDFOHD OREGON, MONDAY. SEPTEMBER 0, 1940.
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Billy Hulen Say::
Bob Hardy Goe
Over .500 Mark'
In Texa League
Piluso to Get Second Grapple Shot at Nazarian Tonight
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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.
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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
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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.
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. " 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
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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.
Have the irons on the fire for
work In the afternoons on a
newspaper. I offered my errors
for nothing, but they seem to
think I can get some rent money
out of it ('they' being my
coaches )"
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G. PASS NAG KILLED
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Salem. Sept. 9. IV) Luvor.
BEGINS TONIGHT
Medfords 1940 bowling sea
son will get under wav at eight
oc'.ock tonight in the Medford
alleys, with six Classic league
teams opening a 35-week sched
ule that is expected to nrovM.
Wood of Grants Pass, was killed ; ne 1 romP,""n "en
Saturday in a Jump over a fence, r,',. ,
In the last ateenleehase rare .tL.0 "" Io1P" entered are
the state fairgrounds.
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