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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, FRIDAY, MAY 23, 1941.
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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.
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Medford
REDDING TO FACE
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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 .
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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
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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
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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.
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van araalw dnnkina plaaiut
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Game Begins 9 p. r. .
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