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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORI) OREGON. SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 15. 1940. Yankees Massacre Detroit, as Red Sox Rookie Beats Cleveland ' PAGE TWO TIGERS LEAD BY HALF GAME; COAST Tl DiMaggio Fattens Batting Average White Sox Take Six Straight. Detroit, Sept. 14. Yan kee power, dormant for three gamcj, exploded with old fash ioned violence today ai the world championi slaughtered the Detroit Tigers, 16 to 7, be fore a crowd of 58,697 fans. The victory lifted the world championi to within two games of first place in their belated quest for a fifth straight Ameri can league pennant. Despite the defeat, the Tigers stayed on top of the standings by a half-game inasmuch as the Boston Red Sox mowed down the second place Cleveland Indians, 6 to 1. Almost every hit meant a run today as the Yankees combed six Detroit pitchers for 18 safe, ties that included two homers by Joe Gordon and one by Bill Dickey. All of the Yankee scor ing was confined to the space of four innings, the victors get ting five runs in the fourth and seventh Innings, four in the sixth and two in the fifth, Joe DiMaggio, fighting to win the American league batting title, furthered his cause with four blows in five trips and drove home three runs. Gordon had a single in addition to the pair of homers which lifted his season total of circuit blows to 27. New York 16 16 2 Detroit 7 10 2 Chandler, Breuer, Trout, and Dickey; Newsom, McKain, Seats, Utile, Smith and Sullivan. Cleveland, Sept. 14. (IP) Earl Johnson, a tall, 21-year-old Boston Red Sox rookie, stalled off the second-place Cleveland Indians with four straight sin gles today for a 6 to 1 victory. Boston, held in submission for five innings by long-jawed John ny Allen, Cleveland rigiit-hand. er, turned on him in the next frame with a savage batting at tack which produced six runs. Meanwhile Johnson, a left hander in his first year of pro fessional baseball, was south pawing Die Indians into easy submission. The Seattle youth left St. Mary's college (Calif.) last winter, hurled in the Pied mont league fur a while and was pulled in by the Red Sox two months ago. He Justified Mana ger Joe Cronin's confidence by coming through for his sixtli American League victory. John son has dropped only two games. Boston .. 6 8 1 Cleveland 1 4 0 Johnson and DcSautels; Al len, Dobson, Howell and Pyt. )ak. St. Louis, Sept. 14. JP The St. Louis Browns moved to within a game and a half of the sixth-place Washington Sena tors today by defeating them, 3 to 2, in a game that had all the thrills of a championship affair. Washington 2 6 2 St. Louis S 7 l Chase and Early; Harris, Law son, Biktilli and Swift. Chicago. Sept. 14. if) The Chicago White Sox racked up their sixth straight victory to day with a ti to 3 decision over the Philadelphia Athletics be fore a slim crowd of 1.87S spec tators, the triumph was the Sox 13tli in lti games. I Philadelphia 3 8 0 Chicago 8 10 0 Potter and Hayes; Knott, Ap plcton, Brown and Trcsh. I Y Pullman. Wash., Sept. 14. Coach P.uue llollingbery will take a chance on the wrath of southern Californians. he said today. The Washington Siuii. college football mentor is pray-1 Ing for rain at Los Angeles September 28, when his Cougar gridders meet the U. S. C. I Trojans. The reason most W. S. C. ' football turnouts this week have ' been held In driving rain. Eair i weather greeted the llollingbery I squad today, but the field still I was slippery from continued j soaklngs. Hoiiinnbery said his crew was accustomer to dampness now nd he'd like to find conditions unchanged when the teanv goes south for its rc.iyo:! epener. Cat Uiu TrinuiM aui ids. I Something Like This Will Occur Monday mM'fo'"': Above Is an action shot of a recant battle royal in Klamath Falls between six ol Promoter Mack Llllard's grappling huskies. Identified In the picture are the two Chick brothers. Dude and Bobby. The rest of the boys are in too much trouble to reveal their faces. Monday night's wrestling card in the local armory will be started off with a battle royal, and more of the same action Is expected. BULGARIAN PLANS TO AID ARMENIAN IN BATTLE ROYAL Mike Nazarian, the Armenian grapple toughle, may not be a man without a friend, after all, when six of Promoter Mack Lillard's pachyderms bust loose all at the same time in Monday night's armory battle royal. When the free-for-all was first scheduled Nazarian, with ques tionable bravery, yelled that it was good enough for. him and he could wallop all five of the other matmen one at a time or in a bunch. But yesterday, Promoter Mack ' Lillard an nounced that Steve Nenoff, alias Tiger Taskoff and a grapplcr of Nazarian's ilk, had intimated he would not cooperate with the four clean boys in ganging up on the Armenian horror. Nenoff, It seems, plans to come to the aid of Nazarian if and when the quartet of scien tific gents advance on all fronts. Steve figures, according to Lil lard, tlot he and Nazarian can stand off the four legitimate matmen even though the latter group will outnumber them two to one. So far as Ernie Piluso, Whltey Wahlberg, George Wagner and Jack Hagcn are concerned, it doesn't matter to them what Nenoff does. He can cost his lot with Nazarian or remain neutral; it won't make a bit of difference in the battle plans of the four. They will attack Nazarian en masse, and that is that, they claim. Three regular bouts will fol low the battle royal, opponents to be determined in the order of their elimination from the ee-for-all. The two finalists will tangle in the one-hour main event. Pendleton. Ore., Sept. 14. (IP) Clay Carr, a versatile cow hand from Vlsalia, Cal., rode, roped and bulldiiggcd his way to the all-around cowboy cham pionship of the Pendleton round up today. Nick Knight of Cody, Wye. placed second to Carr for the all-around title, and won the burking championship. Carr clinched the Sam Jack son all-around cowboy champ ionship trophy by winning the steer roping contest and mak Ing good showings in the bull dogging and bucking events. The results: Calf roping: Dick Merchant, Tucson, Ariz., first; Carl Shep ard, adtress unlisted, second; Oran Fore, Sonerton. Ariz., third. Burking: Nick Knight. Cody, Wyo., first; Burl Mulkey. Griingeville, Idaho, second; Doff Aber, Wolf, Mont., third. Amateur bucking: Bert Evans. Seattle, first; Jack Edmo address unlisted, second; Stan ley Trice. Belle Fotirche, S. D., thud; Blackie MeKlroy, Enter ft AY MRU WINS WWII VI HIM II IIIW I nnimn i in Tmri KUUIYU-Ur IIILl! i i prise. Ore., fourth. Steer roping: Clay Carr. Vis alia, Cal.. first; Hugh Strick land, Burbank. Cal., second. Amanda French, 18. of White Swan, Wash., won the Indian girls' beauty contest. Cloainf llm or Too Lt to Ctu 11 AJ u 1 SO p. m. CHAPMAN TAKES AMATEUR HON WITH GREAT EASE Mamaroneck, N. Y., Sept. 14. (IP) They threw a tournament golfer In against a week-end golfer in the final of the Na tional Amateur championship MlUUy, UIIU UIC IVSUil naa c ... c- gone conclusion Biter me iirsi nine holes. What was supposed to be a! 36-hole final ended on the 27th j green, with Duff McCullouRh, the week-end player, racing across the turf to shake the hand of Dick Chapman, the seasoned campaigner and now title-hold-1 cr. For the gallery of 5,000 it1 wasn't much of a contest. i Chapman Richard Dorval Chapman is the full name thusj supplanted Bobby Jones as the second most decisive winner in' the history of the tournament. I For Chapman whipped McCul. lough by 11 and 9, while Bob- by's biggest score was 10 and 9, . ni. :i T1..-I. l... I ! -.. UKOiuai. I I 1 zinnia at u.ot Burn In 1928. i McCullough, 32-ycar-old Phil adelphlan who reached the fin als with conquests of two ex champions and a two-time final ist, looked as if he were going to make a match of it when he won two of the first three holes' with birdies this morning. But two holes later the match was squared. From there on Me.-! Cullough could win only two! holes with Chapman running off eight of the last nine and getting a half on the other. Chapman probably has tink. ercd with his golf game more than any amateur In the coun try. But this week the 29-year-old socialite's unorthodox style stood up well enough to give him the medal with two sub-par rounds, bring him through pre liminary triumphs against five tough customers, and finally carry him right to the champion ship Havemeyer trophy with a four-underpar performance for 27 holes. He played his home Winged Foot course like a master, and was entitled to full credit fori his feat of succeeding Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, Wash., as titleholder. TO OPEN SEPT. 27 Five Jackson county class B high school six-man football team will mmiw(. in thn ,..-.- I ference this year, it was an nounced yesterday by Albic Beck. Jacksonville school super intendent. The loop will get un der way Friday, September 27. Entering the league are Jack sonville. Phoenix. Talent. Gold Hill and Prospect. Each club will play the other conference teams once, making a four-game schedule. Games will be played Friday afternoons after school. Mr. Beck announced that six-man football Jamboree would te held in the near future, un der direction of Steven Kuler i inventor of the game and an instructor at Southern Oregon Collrge of Education in Ashland. tiilhttrtiril hum and Itiilut Aula Rpnnlnhlng Daily's Aulo Painting " Sn. nmtlrll Phon 3(SI GEORGIA COLEMAN, CHAMPION, PASSES Los Angeles, Sept. 14. (IP) Georgia Coleman, once acclaim ed as the world's greatest div ing champion, died in a hos pital tonight of a liver ailment. She had been unconscious since Tuesday. Miss Coleman, who was 28, was stricken with infantile par alysis on Thanksgiving day, 1937, and had never complete ly recovered although she fought with a cheerful spirit to regain her health. She first competed In the Olympic games at Amsterdam in 1928 and won honors for the United States in both the spring board and tower diving. In the 1932 Olympics she took the three-meter event and placed second in the high diving. The former aquatic star was born at Saint Maries, Idaho, and first learned to swim at Cata lina island at the age of 6. Her ' father, P. J. Coleman, was sup-1 crintendent of construction for the Wriglcy interests and the family lived on the island for seven years. In March, 1933, Miss Cole man was secretly married to Ross Gilson, a Jackson, Mich., golf equipment salesman, at Fort Lauderdale, Fla., but they had been separated for several years, the family said. KANSAS CITY IS T IflMM Minneapolis. Sept. 14. (Pi The Kansas City Blues won the 1940 American Association! championship today when they defeated Minneapolis, 4-0. It was the second successive year that1 the Blues carried off the pen. j nant. To Charlie Stanecu, pitching his first year in the AA league, went the honor of making cer tain the title. He blanked the Millers with six hits. Along with the Blues Minneapolis, Colum bus and Louisville have quali fied for the Shaughnessy play offs starting next week. GOLF PRO OFFERS William (Laddie Selkirk, pro fessional at the Rogue alley 'Golf club, yesterday announced the start of his winter rate for golf lessons. Selkirk said that 12 lessons would be given dur i ing the winter months for the price of six lessens at the regu lar rate. The lessons will include play from traps, bunkers and tree hazards, and an explanation of golf etiquette and rules. Stu dents vill be taken around the course and will learn under ! actual playing conditions, the j pro explained. All Electrical Work Anywhere Anytime OLSON ELECTRIC Phon two t V lurtlrtt HAND SCORES 7-6 VICTORY O'ER i Hood River and LaGrande Held Teams to Watch Klamath Wins. Ashland high's football Grizz lies, playing their first game under new Coach Leighton Blake, opened their 1940 season at Lakeview Friday night with a 7 to 6 victory over the Honkers. Ashland's touchdown was punched across in the second quarter by Martin Herrin. 190 pound fullback, who smashed through center on a fake re verse. A pass from Charlie Jandreau to Ken Caton, sopho more quarterback, added the extra point and brought victory. Lakeview tallied in the first period on an Ashland fumble deep In their own territory, and ' a double reverse. An attempted j place kick for the extra point i was unsuccessful. I Herrin of the Grizzlies was the game's outstanding player, both on offense and defense. Grants Pass Wins The Grants Pass Cavemen traveled to McCloud, Cal., Sat- urday to inaugurate their 1940 1 football season with a 7 to 0 ! victory over Dunsmuir. (Cal.) high. The game was played at McCloud because Dunsmuir hasn't a turf field, and all Cal ifornia prep elevens must per form on grass. The Cavemen tallied In the second quarter on two line smashes following a long com pleted forward pass. Dunsmuir threatened the Grants Pass goal line several times but fumbled at crucial moments. Upstate Games (By the Associated Press) It's a bit early to start pick ing champions in this one-day old football season but jot down Hood River and La Grande as teams to watch. The mid-Columbia Apple pickers electrified a home crowd Friday night by commit ting 64 points worth of mayhem on the Hill Military Academy team of Portland. Quarterback Shu Hasui, tiny Nipponese flash, scooted 88 yards for one score and crossed the Hill goal line three other times. The Cadets were scoreless. Farther east, La Grande opened its Blue Mountain league schedule impressively by routing Union 39 to 6. Klamath Falls' Pelicans, who tied everybody in sight last year, also looked good in a 13 to 6 home win over Chico, Cal. The Dalles and Baker fared less well in intersectional strife. The Camas Papermakers all but chased The Dalles boys back across the Columbia in a 31-to-7 debacle and Baker bowed to a tough Nampa, Idaho, outfit, 28 to B. In a Tualatin, Yamhill valley jamboree opening at Hillsboro. Vernonia beat Newberg. Sher wood downed Hillsboro and Beaverton socked Tigard, all by 7-to-O scores and West Linn ' nosed out Forest Grove 7 to 6. Everybody played one quarter. GRID EXAM TAKEN Two local officials took the annual gridiron examination Sat urday, and three more are ex pected to appear for the quiz in the near future. Those com pleting the exam at the senior high school yesterday were Bernie Hughes of Mcdford and Ed Eilertson of Prospect. George Robertson and George and Ivan Harrington will take the examination later. All offi cials working Southern Oregon conference games must take the exam. SQUAD WRESTLING! MEDFOR Battle Royal MEDFORD MIKE NAZARIAN ERNIE PILUSO WHITEY WAHLBERG JACK HACEN STEVE NENOFF GEO. WAGNER PLUS 3 Regular Malchaa I BULLETIN i f Sacramento, Cal., Sept. 14. (IP) Sacramento defeated Hol lywood S to 2 here tonight and made certain of fifth place in the league standings. Nubs Kleinke hurled his 15th win. of the season, besting Hy Bithorn in a duel. Chet Wieczorek, out fielder, donned the catcher's mask and protector in making a switch from the outfield. He intends to sign as a catcher next year. Night Game. Hollywood 2 8 1 Sacramento 5 9 1 Bithorn and Dapper; Kleinke and Wieczorek. LADIES' WESTERN TO MISS J Seattle, Sept. 14. (IP) Shooting a sensational four-un-der-par afternoon round, Betty Jameson, the solemn-faced na tional champion from San An tonio, Tex., added the women's western amateur championship to her collection today with a 6 and 5 victory over Marion Miley of Lexington, Ky., in their scheduled 36-hole match. They were even-up at the end of the first 18 holes, but Betty took command on the very first hole of the afternoon round to square accounts with the girl who gave her such a lacing, 7 and 6, in the finals of the west ern three years ago. Betty went out in the after noon in 36, one under par, then birdied three of the next four holes to wind up four under par for the final 13 holes. Vrt ion's uncertain putter, plus hooks and slices at vital points, made her game no match for the national titlist. Tacoma, Wash., Sept. 14. (IP) It will be a "double-plated" silver wedding anniversary for Mrs. Charles A. Hicks when she observes 25 years of married life for the second time Sep tember 28. While only a small percent age of married couples celebrate one 25th wedding anniversary. Mrs. Hicks, still peppy at 77, is eagerly awaiting her second. She celebrated her first as Mrs. John C. Ireland April 8. 1905. Ten years later, after her first husband's death, she mar ricd Hicks. 13 NO BAD LUCK FAMI Idaho Falls. Idaho. Sept. 14. I.? Friday the 13th unlucky? Not for this couple. Mrs. L. W. Taylor of Idaho Falls escaped injury yesterday when her horse fell at the county fair. A few hours lat er her husband was unjurcd when the same horse stumbled. Returning home the couple discovered the plaster had fallen from the ceiling of their apart ment. Nobody was hurt because nobody was home. , James Bay Wins Vancouver, Sept. 14. ;CP) I Victoria James Bay Athletic ' association oarsmen captured I three events at the fall regatta of the Vancouver Rowing club on choppy Coal harbor today- Oil Firm Freed Boise, Idaho. Sept. 14. IIP) After deliberating for 23 hours a federal district court Jury late today returned a verdict of I acqu.ttal in favor of the Dry j Lake Oil company of Nampa, j charged with violation of the ; federal securities act. Cm Mali Ttiburit want ads. ARMORY MONDAY NIGHT. t:30 P. M Scats on sale at Brown's Telenhone 2735 OVER SEALS, 84; RAINIERS WIN 2i San Francisco. Sept. 14. (IP) The Portland Ducks hammered out an 8-5 Coast league baseball victory over San Francisco here today. The northerners took three runs off Larry Powell, Seals pitcher, in the fourth and fifth innings, but Powell was not replaced until the eighth. Then Al Epperly took over and was reached for three runs in the eighth and two more in the ninth before he was removed in favor of Bob Jensen. Byron Speece was on the mound for Portland and blanked the Seals in the first seven innings. San Francisco's three runs in the eighth were made on three hits and an error. Score: R. H. E. Portland 8 14 4 San Francisco 4 9 3 Speece and Adams; Powell, Epperly, Jensen and Leonard. Los Angeles, Sept. 14. (IP) Clinching third place In the Pacific Coast league pennant race, big Ben Cantwell pitched and batted Oakland to 8 to 4 victory over Los Angeles today. The results of today's games mean that Oakland will play Seattle and Los Angeles will meet San Diego when the Presi dent's cup play-offs start next week. Score: R. H. E. Oakland .. 8 16 0 Los Angeles 4 11 1 Cantwell, Pippen and Conroy; Stine, Weiland and Hernandez. San Diego, Calif., Sept. 14. (IP) Seattle's Rainiers, 1940 Pa cific Coast league baseball cham pions, took a pair of Coast league games from San Diego here today, 14 to 8 and 6 to 4. The Rainiers shelled three hurleri in the opening game for a total of 17 hits. They broke a 7-7 tie in the sixth inning with a five-run splurge. In the second game, San Diego rallied for three runs in the fifth inning to knot the count at 4, but Seattle came back with line runs in the sixth and seventh to take the decision. First game: R. H. E. Seattle 14 17 2 San Diego 8 14 1 Wilkie, Webber and Camp bell; Humphreys, Craghead, Jcli and Detore. Second game: R. H. E. Seattle 6 14 0 San Diego 4 14 1 Gregory, Turpin and Kearse; Olsen and Salkeld. Hockey Club Sold Seattle, Sept. 14. (,Pi The long-rumored sale of the Seattle hockey club became an accom plished fact yesterday, with Fol ger Peabody and Jerry O'Neill, both of Seattle, taking over the ownership from Phil Lycette. Home From Mexico San Diego, Calif., Sept. 14. iP) Aldon Wilkie, Seattle base ball club moundsman, was back with his teammates here today after more than a day spent in Tijuana, Mexico, in a tangle with the immigration laws. Parker, Senior Champ Portland, Sept. 14 (IP) Ralph C. Parker of Waverley country club, Portland, captured the Oregon senior golf association championship by defeating Carl Christensen of Portland enlf 3 and 2, yesterday. Idaho Drills Moscow. Idaho, Sept. 14 tip) Coach Ted Bank, watching his University of Idaho football team wind ud a week nf liuht drill, observed today it was "too early to start talking per sonalities" and refused to name a tentative first string lineup. Closing time for Too uu to ri... iff Adi u 1 30 p m. Dial 2123 CR GREEN PINE SLABS U7 ' A - Timber Products Com pan y END NORTH OF SECOND PLACE; REDS WIN AGAIN New York, Sept. 14 (IP) A l.,t hnma nin bv Jimmv Rir ple in the ninth inning with one out and nobody on gave me league leading Cincinnati Reds their 35th one-run decision to day a 3-2 win over the hapless New York Giants. Cincinnati 3 7 1 New York 2 11 0 . Turner, Bcggs and Lombardi; r Schumacher and Danning. Brooklyn.Sept. 14. (IP) It'll take dynamite to get the durable Dodgers out of second place in the National league. They virtually clinched the runner-up position today when . they swept both ends of a doubleheader with the Pitts burgh Pirates. 5-0 and 4.2. Fat Freddie Fitzsimmons, the National league's most potent winner, won his 15th victory (against two losses) In the op ener. First game: Pittsburgh 0 4 2 Brooklyn - 5 13 0 Lanahan, Dietz, Klinger and Davis; Fitzsimmons and Man cuso. Second game: Pittsburgh ..2 7 2 Brooklyn 4 5 1 Lanning, Brown and Fernan- I des; Grissom, Carleton and Phelps. Boston. Sept. 14. (P) The St. Louis Cardinals climbed back into third place in the Na tional league race today by grab bing the fourth game of a series with the Boston Bees, 6-5, giving hard-working Clyde Shoun his 13th victory of the campaign. St. Louis 6 11 2 Boston 5 9 3 Shoun, Lanier and Padgett; Javery, Coffman, Sullivan and Berres, Broskie. Philadelphia, Sept. 14. (IP) The power behind 39-year.old Sylvester Johnson's fast ball held the Chicago Cubs to five hits today as the Phillies capi talized on a triple and homer for a 5 to 3 triumph. Chicago ...3 5 0 Philadelphia 5 6 1 Lee. Raffensberger and Todd; Syl Johnson and Milles. mtilti SZiSSZZZatZZal I Am Looking For STEADY CUSTOMERS I WANT COME-AGAIN TRADE. They are worth something to me: I am worth something to them. OUR INTEREST? 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