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PAGE TEN MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Schroer Streak of Lightning On Baeball Path This half-pint, 18-year-old Del Schroer, the kid from Portland who currently is playing a con ' tiderahle amount of shortstop , for the State league Craters, is . so gosh-awful rapid on the bases that when he takes off and ' shifts into high about all you see is a flash of something, then a cloud of dust as he socks the dirt at his destination. Billy Ross, who managed Del . and the Portland Jack and Jill- - ers last season, tells us the ; youngster can do the century in : "around :10.4" with his monkey suit on. That's traveling, my friends, but we don't doubt i in the least after watching the lad burn up the base paths against Yreka Wednesday eve. For example. In the second Inning Del reached first on a boot. Alex McDonald, the next clubber, slapped a "charity-hopper" down to short and It looked like a cinch force out at second base. But when the Yreka shortstop got the " ball in his hands and turned to force Schroer at the key stone, there was Schroer slid ing Into the bag. With so chanc to make the play at second, the Yrekan then wheeled to fire to first, but by that time McDonald, who is ae dray-horse himself, was practically crossing the bag. Thus, McDonald was given a feasehit. and it was due entire ly to Schroer's flaming speed. Manager Sauer has lifted Schroer from eighth spot in the batting order, where he hit against Albany, and placed him in the lcadoff position. He has a sharp eye, is a fair hitter and, . of course, is really a streak of lightning. He should be an ideal ; number 1 batter. If he hit left " hsr.dcd they never would get - him out on ground balls. Al (Wray) Lightner isn't hit ting yet, nor is Joe Gray, and when they finally start finding the ball the Craters will present a much more potent offense. Lightner is still tied up in the shoulders ana arms from a winter's hard work at MedforU Corporation, but he says he is getting loosened up. Gray never was an early-season hitter, but when he starts to pound the horsehide it is well pounded. He should begin to hit shortly. Lightner. Incidentally, throws a terrific curve from the outfield, a point that Skip per Sauer Is trying to remedy. Al has a very powerful arm. but his throws describe a wide are because of the way he grips the bsll and lets it go. He throws too much side arm, and Sautr. who has one of the most accurate and strongest arms in baseball, has been showing Al how to whip the apple straight over hand so that ft will stay on a line. The Craters have already made plans for their Fourth of July pastiming. They will play a tWo-game scries with the Cres cent City Merchants of the Southern Oregon league, at Crescent City. TO PLAY Al K. FALLS The Medford tennis team, un .Managership of II. G. Wil son, will travel to Klamath Falls Sunday for eight singles and four doubles matches with the Klamath netsters. The matches will start at S a. m. Members of the Medford team who will make the trip are Y. Maruyama. S. Maruyama, Roy Koyama, Clayton Lewis. Don Hrrried, Wilsie Pruitt, Del Cooley, Lon Chaney and Roland Halper. COLLEGE BALL TITLE AT STAKE THIS WEEK By tha Associated Press Oregon, Oregon State and Washington begin a battle to day for the northern division Pacific coast conference base ball championship. The Huskies meet Idaho at Moscow In the first of two games and wind up their season at Pullman against Washington State next Monday and Tues day. Oregon and Oregon Slate meet at Eugene today and at Corvsllis net Monday. t'M Mm mount int ads. Medford REDDING TO FACE F Rogues Play Host to C. City Sunday Afternoon Lei ber Hurls for Redding Medford's two baseball teams, the Oregon State league Craters and the Southern Oregon loop Rogues, will serve local fanatics a heaping dishfull of their fa vorite pastime this week-end. Saturday night, the Craters wilUplay host to the Redding Tigers of the Northern Califor nia league in an exhibition game .U the floodlighted fairgrounds park, with the contest starting at 9 o'clock sharp. Sunday afternoon, the Rogues will entertain the Crescent City Merchants in a regular Southern Oregon league battle at the high school field at 2:30. . The Craters, who travel to Bend Sunday for a State league game, will be facing one of the best of the N. C. L. clubs in the Redding nine. Dutch Leiber, former Pacific Coast league curveball artist, does the fling ing for the Tigers, who are managed by Leo Vistanier. The Redding infield will see Mc Donald on first, Wickert on second, Ted South on third and Roman on short. In the outfield will be LaGaste, Paulsen and South. Five of the Tigers arc "imports" from Sacramento. Smith To Pitch Manager Lou Sauer of the Craters said that Willard Smith of Portland, recently released by Vancouver, B. C, of the Western International league, would do the hurling Saturday night against Redding, with Dur rell Slater, from the same club, catching. The rest of the lineup will find Al Fleishman or Put Patterson on first, Sauer on second, Schroer on short, Mc Donald on third, Lightner in left, Joe Gray in center and Ed Eilcrtsen in right. Jerry Gas tineau and Fred Roberts will be ready to step into the hurling breech If needed. Pete Fox is slated to fling against Bend Sunday in the State league game. The Craters will workout at the fairgrounds park at 9:30 this afternoon. The skipper wants all players to report for a stiff batting drill. First place In the Southern Oregon loop will be at stake when the Rogues clash with Crescent City. Last Sunday, while the locals were bouncing Grants Pass, S to 4, Crescent City was grabbing an 8 to 7 victory from Rogue River. Hess On Mound Paul Hess will be on the mound for the Rogues, who will field a slightly revised lineup. Pat Patterson, according to Man ager Paul (lloosicr) Hoffard, will be on first base, and Orv llampcl will hold down short in place of Mickey Miller and Jimmy Lewis, respectively. Remainder of the lineup will be Hal Adams, catcher: Gitien, second base. Cook, third base; and Hoffman, Catherwood and Hoffard In the outfield. Ray Koll, little lefthander and brother of the University of California's Mike Koll, will pitch for Crescent City. In other Oregon State league tilts Sunday, Toledo will plav at Hills Creek, and Albany will travel to Klamath Falls for a Saturday night and Sunday aft ernoon series, the Sunday game being the league affair. Eugene draws a bye. In the other Southern Oregon league game, Rogue River will play at Grants Pass. tfOW THEY? STAMD (By Associated Press! National Won Lost St. Louis 22 8 Brooklyn 22 12 New York Chicago ... Pittsburgh Cincinnati .. Boston Philadelphia Cleveland .. Chicago New York .. Boston Detroit Philadelphia Washington St. Louis Sacramento Seattle . San Francisco. San Diego Hollywood . ret .710 .647 17 14 .54S 14 15 .433 12 15 .444 14 18 .438 12 19 .387 10 21 .323 American I Won Lost Pel. 25 12 .676 19 12 .613 10 17 .528 . 15 15 .500 . 18 17 .485 14 19 .424; 14 21 .4"oi 11 20 .333 Coast Won Lost Pet 33 11 .750 26 19 .58 23 23 .504 22 23 .4119 20 24 .4VV Ball Clubs Entertain Strong Foes Lochinvar Has His Books ma Br fa. Yi V Li R tor.. 1 John Wast, Stanford university Golden Gloves boxing champion, and Miss Mary Helen Linger announced their plans to be married shortly after he arrived in Kansas City from the west coast. The 1.500-mile motorcycle trip of Earl Lee Archer, University of Arkansas sophomore, from the Kentucky Derby to Kansas City, a trip inspired by Miss Linger's blonde attractiveness, was a closed if not forgotten incident. West and Miss Linger shown. ' Tiger Coach Launches New Plan for Prep Track Meet Stymied in his attempt to arrange for an abbreviated track meet between Oregon's prep champion runners and hurdlers and California high school athletes at the Compton, (Cal.) junior college Invitational meet June 6, Coach Bill Bowerman of Medford high today turned his attention to trying to pro mote a similar meet in San Francisco or Los Angeles. Officials of the Compton meet notified Bowerman that It would be impossible to place on the program events pitting the Oregon champs against the Cal ifornia boys, due to the fact that the program already was com pletely filled. Immediately upon receiving this bad news, Bow erman launched his attempt to promote the idea In other Cali fornia localities. The Tiger mentor last night sent telegrams to the physical education and athletic directors of San Francisco and Los Ang eles public schools, and to the state physical education director at Sacramento. The telegrams inquired on the possibilities of arranging such a special track meet. In addition, Bowerman sent air-mail letters to C u r 1 e y Grieve, sports editor of the San Francisco Examiner; William Leiser, sports editor of the Chronicle: Art Cohen, sports ed itor of the Oakland Tribune, and to the sports editors of the Los Angeles newspapers, asking that they aid in promoting the meet. All six of Oregon's champion runners and hurlers have signi fied their desire to make the trip to California for the pro posed meet. Wally Still of Mac high, state 100 and 220-yard dash champion, wired Bower man yesterday that he was ready to go. Previously, the fol lowing had sent the same sort of telegrams: Ken Wilson of Alsea, mllcr; Stuart Schwelzer of Adrian, low hurdles; Leslie Peake of Milwaukie. half mllcr. Ray Johnson, quarter-mller, and Andy LaMarr, high hurdles, both of Mcdfnrd, are breathless with anticipation. Whether Johnson will com pete in the Compton meet, in case the proposed prep duel now contemplatea is not arranged, is i Hit.,, ill' ti , VV U ylW V,tMIU I rtW HSTIIUHT to, j XV l! 1 n-cawis. mimi, me I ;- ,' 1 w 'A ur CP 77 Qjf if 'J 1 ft "I anal .iijM.-i.JU Mi-.. SJm a matter of conjecture, Bower man announced. The coach received word yes terday from the president of the National High School Ath letic association in Kansas City that any record Johnson might set at the Compton meet would not be official. This additional bad news thus shattered John son's hopes of bettering the na tional interscholastic 440-yard dash record of :48.2. Furthermore, Bowerman said he had been informed by Comp ton officials that Johnson would have to run against California collegians, several of whom have consistently run the quar ter this year In under 47 sec onds. This would place Racin' Ray in company too fast for him at his present stage of develop ment. Fights Last Night By tha Associated Prats New York Gus Lcsnievich. 175, New Jersey, outpointed Anton Christofordidis. 166, Cleveland (15). Chalk Wright. 127, Los Angeles, outpointed Sal Bartolo, '29, Boston (8). Fall River, Mass. Mike Kap lan, 144, Boston, outpointed Freddy Camuso, 145, Fall River (10). STEELE IN INITIAL FIGHT OF COMEBACK Hollywood. May 23. (1 Freddie Steele of Tacoma, for mer king of the world's middle weights, ends a two-year ab sence from ring combat tonight. He takes on tough Jimmy Cas ino of Los Angeles In a 10-round bout at Hollywood stadium which may make or break his comeback plans. Mallowed by anolhai ytat ol ae y. ima famous wniitav la eivine van araalw dnnkina plaaiut Nottune has baan addad to the l nca mm Cut in 1 JO Year " MTtRMl rtWIfa HSTIIUHT CO, AK aat. Mallear DEFLATED RETURN HOI TO ENTER DOGHOUSE By Judson Bailey Associated Press Writer The Brooklyn Dodgers, who paraded into the west last week pointing arrogantly to their rec ord as 1940 s leading road team in the National league and to their six victories in seven games away from home in the east this year, are slinking back to Flat bush today with a string of tin cans tied to their tails. They're in the doghouse be cause of losing six straight at Pittsburgh, Chicago and finally St. Louis, where they handed over the circuit lead to the Cardinals. Many of the Dodg ers chums are shouting "them bums" and the tumult is so great that if the returning war riors could hear it they might delay their arrival until after nightfall tonight. The Dodgers lost again, 7-6. yesterday but they showed they are not yet cowed. Brooklyn outhit the Redbirds, 13-11, and went down battling. The Cincinnati Reds mean while took a 6-4 victory from the New York Giants. Ernie Lombardi hit a home run in the first inning with the bases loaded and Frank McCormick pounded his eighth of the sea son with one on in the third. The Cleveland Indians edged out the Washington Senators, 4-3. The Chicago White Sox held determinedly to second place in the American league by whacking the Philadelphia Ath letics, 4-1, behind the six-hit hurling of John Rigney. Bob Muncrief and Jack Kra mer combined in a five-hit hurl ing job for the St. Louis Browns, who beat the Boston Red Sox, 4-1. This enabled the New York Yankees to advance into third place by capturing their third straight victory. They beat De troit, 6-5, with Bill Dickey hit ting his third home run in four days. Scores Yesterday By tha Associated Press National Cincinnati 6, New York 4. St. Louis 7, Brooklyn 6. Boston at Pittsburgh, wet grounds. Philadelphia at Chicago, rain. American Cleveland 4, Washington 3. Chicago 4, Philadelphia 1. New York 6, Detroit 5. St. Louis 4, Boston 1. Coast " Seattle 5. Oakland 3. Portland 7, Hollywood 3. San Francisco 9. San Diego 8. Sacramento 11, Los Angeles 7. Western International Tacoma 10, Wenatchee 2. Yakima 7. Spokane 3. Vancouver 9, Salem 6. Dm Mall Tribune want ads. Be Smart! Buy That Used Car Now! Used Car Prices Going Up Week -End SPECIALS 1933 PLYMOUTH FORDOR SEDAN $149 A real week end special. Ba sure to sea this one. 1938 FORD Y-8 '60' COUPE $399 Nice radio. Gleaming Black baked enamtl. A claan car 1934 STUDEBAKER FORDOR SEDAN . . . .$199 A real family car. Good rubber. Good mechanical condition. 1938 PONTIAC COUPE $499 Here's one you'll want to own. Priced $30 under market vaL 1935 FORD CPE. $249 1935 FORD Truck $199 A good motor. A clean car. l'j tonl Worth easily S100 Morel 1938 PLY. COUPE $499 1940 Ford Pickup $529 Try and match this one. Compares to new pickup only Southern Oregon's Finest Selection of Vied Cars SO More to Choose From. CRATER LAKE MOTORS MEDFORD. OREGON BAER AND BOMBER SET FOR TONIGHT'S FIGHT Washington, May 23. (IP) Buddy Baer had a 35 pound weight edge on Joe Louis today as they weighed in for their heavyweight title bout in Grif fith stadium tonight. The challenger tipped the beam at 237'i pounds while Louis scaled 201. Except for a brief "hello" no words passed between the two. By Gayle Talbot Washington, May 23. (IP) Before a somewhat distinguished capital audience tonight, Joe Louis will play another stop on his "farewell tour" of the heavy weight circuit before he puts away the five-ounce gloves and has himself fitted for an army uniform. After tonight's bout with Bud dy Baer, which will mark the 17th defense of his title, the negro heavyweight champion plans to fight about twice more this summer and then see if he can't rustle himself a commis sion. He has gained the consent of his managers and plainly is looking forward to his "vaca tion" from the grind. Tonight's crowd promised to be large and noisy. Promoter Mike Jacobs, having watched the advance sale for some days, forecast a total gate of $125,000, which would be terrific for Washington, Several cabinet members and a bevy of senators and such will be at the ringrtde. "The only trouble," Mike grumbled "is that most of the guys around here who can af ford to buy $15 seats want ! passes. Boy, what a list." AD LISKA SCATTERS 9 HITS TO TROUNCE HOLLYWOOD, 7 TO 3 By the Associated Press j Ad Liska, who has pitched more baseball games this year than any other f linger in the Pacific coast league, now joins . the leaders in the number he has won. j The little sidearm artist, only member of the Portland mound corps with a better than even average, achieved his seventh victory last night, scattering nine hits to defeat Hollywood. 7-3. He thus moved in beside Tony Freitas and Al Hollings worth of the virtually invincible Sacramento Senators, each of whom also has come out on top seven times. The Portland victory. Its first in three tries against the stars this week, had the effect of lift ing the Beavers from eighth to sixth place, ahead of Los Ange les and Oakland. The Angels lost their third straight to Sacramento, 11-7. to This Week-EncU' decline from sixth to seventh, and the Oaks dropped their sec ond in a row to Seattle. 5-3. San Francisco unseated San Diego from third place with a 9-8 decision. The scores: Hollywood 3 9 1 Portland 7 9 3 Bittner. Osborne and Brenzel; Liska and Schultz. Horses vs. Tractor Oconto, Wis., May 23. (IP) Farmer George Donlevy sold his horses and bought a tractor vs. TIGERS Adults 4Sc, Box Seats 60c. High School Students. 30s Students under 14 years of age FREE, courtesy Medford Athletic Association. HIGH IN RESULTS Renting? Buying? Selling? Hiring? Uie MAIL TRIBUNE WANT ADS because a team ran away, drag ging him under the wheels of a wagon. Then the new tractor hit a stump and toppled over him, injuring his arm. Closed Corporation Aten, Neb., May 23. (IP) Said teacher Ruth Clark to cousin Carol Clark: "School is dismissed for the summer." And that ended the school year for Cedar county's one pupil, one teacher and one-family school. I Dm Mall Tribune want ads. Baseball Saturday Night Fairgrounds Game Begins 9 p. r. . LOW IN COST Portland 18 Los Angeles....' 18 Oakland 18 25 .41i 26 .'409 , 27 .401'
