Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, June 01, 1941, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO MEDFORD MATT, TKTBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JUNE 1, 1941 Kelso, Wn. Team Delayed by Auto Mishap, Play Craters 1 :30 p.m. BOB FOX SLATED Southpaw Swetman To Op poseCraters Draw Bye In State League Play. Delayed by an automobile accident near La Center, Wash., in which no players were hurt but which prevented the team from arriving here in time for last night's game, the Kelso, Wash., baseball club will be in town today to clash with Med ford's State league Craters in their Sunday afternoon exhibi tion fracas at the fairgrounds park. The contest will start at 1:30 sharp. Manager Eddie Foss of the Kelso nine, in a telephone con versation with local officials, explained that his automobile, carrying several ball players, was involved in an accident about 30 miles from Kelso late Friday night and that the mis bap had postponed part of the dub's departure for Medford until Saturday afternoon, mak ing it impossible for them to arrive here in time for tne Saturday night tilt. Foss as aured E. E. McKlnney, Medford Athletic association secretary, that nona of the Kelso players ware hurt in the wreck and that the team would be at full strength for today's game. The locals, informed of events Saturday morning, immediately contacted Redding of the North ern California league to fill last night's date, but this game was then called off because a late afternoon shower left the field too muddy. It was expected to be OK for today, however. : Manager Foss of Kelso, in his telephone talk with Medford, said that Glen Swetman, former hurler for Lewlston, Idaho, of the Pioneer league, would pitch today's game. Swetman, a south paw, relies on slow curves, con trol and savvy. Manager Lou Sauer of the Craters said that Bob Fox, right bander who has beaten Yreka and who gave the Bend Elks only six blows last Sunday, .would be on the firing line for the locals. The remainder of the Crater lineup will see Slater catching, Al Fleishman on first. Sauer on second, Del Schroer oa short. Alex McDonald on third. Al (Wray) Lightner In left. Joe Cray in center and Glen Swanson in right. , Kelso, with one of the strong est semi-pro outfits in the state of Washington, will take the field with Jay Smith back of the plate. Toots Bailey on first, Johnny Melroy on second, Tir Miller on short, Mel Olsen on third, Tip Pietella in left, Lee Sonedecker in center and Eddie Garlick in right. ' The appearance of the Kelso Club here, after a hop of 383 miles from its home field, marks another step in the Medford Athletic association's program of bringing the very finest semi pro competition here for exhi bition games. The Craters draw a bye In State league play this week-end. In State loop games this after noon. Hills Creek will play at Albany, Klamath Falls will travel to Toledo and Eugene will entertain Bend. Zale Stops Hostak In Second REDS BEAT CARDS Tony Zale, NBA middleweight boxing champion, stands over the fallen challenger, Al Hostak of Seattle, former title holder, after Zale knocked Hostak out in the second round of their title bout in Chicago. Zale floored Hostak eight times. The referee is Johnny Behr. BEAVERS SPLIT Portland, Ore., May 31. (IP) Byron Speece pitched the Portland Beavers to a 6-3 vic tory in a seven-Inning nightcap here today to divide a coast league doublcheader with Oak land. Jack Salvesson blanked the Beavers In the first game, 6 to 0. Salveson never was In trouble after the initial Inning when' the first two batsmen singled. A double play at once pulled him out of danger. Speece not only hung up his fourth consecutive victory in this game, but it was also his fourth game without giving a base on balls. Salveson also did not walk a man in the first con test In which Marvin Gudat hit a homer for the Oaks. First game: R. H. E. Oakland 8 9 1 Portland 0 7 1 Salveson and Raimondl; Har- rell, Orrell and Schutz. Second game (7 innings): Oakland 3 8 2 Portland 8 6 0 Ananlrz, Mulligan and Rai mondl; Speece and Annunzlo. COUGARS CAPTURE AS BROOKS TAKE El WHITE SOX KEEP Cincinnati, May 31 UP) The hot and cold Cincinnati Reds cut St. Louis' hold on first place in the National league to a single game today by winning, 6 to 2, for an even break in the four-game series while second place Brooklyn beat the Giants by the same score. In so doing, the champions sent Lon Warneke to his first defeat after a string of five vic tories that made him tops In the loop, and gave Johnny Van dermeer his fourth triumph of the year and percentage of! .500. Extra-base blows figured In all the Reds' scoring: Frank McCormlck's double, Chuck Al eno's first of two hits, a single, and Ernie Lombardi's two-bagger for a pair in the second; Eddie Joost's double, a sacrifice and an outfield fly for one in the fifth and McCormlck's sin gle, Aleno's triple and Ernie Koy's double for a final brace in the eighth. H. H. E. St. Louis 2 8 0 Cincinnati 5 10 0 Warneke and Mancuso; Van dermeer and Lombard!. Chicago, May 31 UPh-The Chicago White Sox, playing Just good enough to protect their four-game winning streak, ad vanced to within a gam and a half of first place today with TROJANS EASILY TRACING RAY' OFF COP COAST MEET; Berkeley, Calif.. May 31. VP) Long gaited Grover Klemmer of a 4 to 3 victory over the St. I California loped to a world Pullman, Wash., May 31. HP) Washington State college and the University of Idaho pinched off the 1941 Coast conference northern division baseball sea son today with a double bill, State winning both tussles by scores of 9 to 1 and 8 to 5. Hank Bushman closed out his varsity pitching career by hold ing Idaho In check with five hits in the opener, but Bill Sewell had to rescue Cliff Chambers in the last frame of the nightcap when Idaho rallied for three runs. Lank Otis Hilton, Idaho flrst sacker, caused most of the trou ble for State with a double and triple in three trips. Both games went seven innings. Bus Accident Portland, May 31. IIP) Fourteen persons suffered In juries as a Portland-Eugene pas senger bus overturned on the Pacific highway 13 miles south of here Friday. New York, May 31 (IP) The Brooklyn Dodgers landed on Carl Hubbell for four runs in a big third inning today and went on to whip the Giants 5 to 2 and stretch their winning streak to eight straight. After playing to 59,4.17 In yes terday s doubleheader, in which the Dodgers pinned two defeats on the Giants, the two clubs attracted 23,753 today. Ducky Medwick paced the Dodger attack with a homer, a triple and a single. R. H. E. Brooklyn 5 11 2 New York 2 8 2 Casey, M. Brown and Owen; Hubbell, Wittig and Danning. Philadelphia, May 31 (IP) Si Johnson of the Phils and Manuel Salvo of the Boston Braves honked up in a pitchers' duel today and although the Phils were outhit six to four, they wen out 1 to 0 to give them the rubber game in the scries. The lone score came In the fourth when Outfielder Joe Marty smashed out a double and came home on First Baseman Nick Etten's single. R. H. E. Boston 0 8 0 Philadelphia 14 1 Salvo, Early and Berres; S. Johnson and Warren. Chicago at pored, rain. Pittsburgh post- I0KI ON BICYCLE TRIP TO 0LYMP1A His destination being Olym pla, Wash., 450 miles distant, Arnold Juki, who was gradu ated from Medford senior high school tliis spring, left Medford at 4 a. m. this morning on a bicycle trip he expects to com plete in four days. Planning to pedal an average of about 113 miles a day, Arn old will spend the first night in Rosrburg. Monday night in Corvallis, and Tuesday night in Vancouve;, Wash., with friends. He has a summer's Job In Olympia, where he will stay with his mother, Mrs. Sylvia Joki. Arnold should be in good condition for his bicycle trip, as he was a miler on the Tiger track team this spring and has worked a Mail Tribune dellv ery route for the past year. Re cently, he bicycled to Grants Pass, 32 miles. In less than two hours. Los Angeles, May 31. (IP) Los Angeles out-staggered San Diego in a coast league ball game today, pushing over two runs In the ninth Inning for a 12 to 11 victory In a contest that saw a total of 41 base hits rapped out by the two teams. Veteran Welly Berger, a pinch hitter, tied the count with a home run in the wild ninth. Eddie Mayo doubled. R. H. E. San Diego 11 19 1 Los Angeles 12 22 3 Hebcrt, Humphreys, W. Thomas and Detore; Prim, Stine, Berry, Coffman, F. Thomas and Collins. San Francisco, May 31. IP) The resurgent San Francisco Seals hurdled the obstinate op position of Sacramento again today, to nip the Coast league leaders, 14 13, in a 13-inning battle. Jake Powell's long drive with the bases loaded broke up the see-saw game, after pitchers for both teams had marched in and out of the game almost too fast for the S.OOO fans to record. Score (13 Innings) R. H. E Sacramento 13 23 3 San Francisco 14 22 2 Turbeville. Green, Martin Mungrr, Freitas and Caplingrr Jansen, Epperly, Kittle, Ballou and Ogroduwski, Sprinx. Roseburg, May 31. (IP) Ore gon federal employes elected Lee J. Caufield, Portland, presi dent here today. "V . . . Louis Browns, It was Chicago's sixth win In eight games with the Browns and their 14th triumph in thelr last 19 games. Young Jack Hallett wobbled badly in the early innings, yield ing five hits and four bases on balls in three frames. Then he settled down and hurled hitless ball until the eighth, becoming the 30th White Sox pitcher to go the route in 41 games. R, H. E. St Louis 3 7 0 Chicago 4 8 3 Harris, Trotter, Kramer ana Ferrell; Hallett and Tresh. New York at Cleveland, Bos ton atDetroit, postponed; rain. (Only games scheduled.) IN 10 YEARS TRY Houston, Texas, May 31. (IP) Ten years of striving for the women s trans-Mississippi golf championship finally was re warded for Mrs. Russell Mann today. But the attractive Omaha matron had to beat her good friend and room-mate, 22-year- old Mary Agnes Wall, in a bitter 36-hole fight before emerging a one-up victor. Putting told the story. Miss Wall, freckle-faced, amiable Menominee, Mich., miss, dole fully watched a 12-Inch effort roll by the 35th hole of River Oaks, where the greens laugh at the players. That left her one down. A bold brassie shot put her on the 36th green in 2. Mrs. Mann was to the right of the carpet in 2, shot over a trap and calmly rapped in a 15-foot putt for a half and the match: That s what I ve been working for all these years and at last I've done it." Mrs. Mann is the former Lu cille Robinson, Curtis cup player. ER'SADVI HESS PAL, JAILED New York, May 31. (IP) The arrest of Major-General Haushofer, the Munich profes sor who has been a close ad viser of Adolf Hitler in the war, has been confirmed in reports reaching London, the British radio said. In a broadcast heard here by CBS, the BBC said Haushofer's scheduled lecture May 24 at Strasbourg had been cancelled and that in recent editions of a magazine he edited "he made veiled references to the dangers which are threatening Germany in the east. "General Haushofer. the ra dio said, "who was introduced to Hitler in 1922 by Rudolf Hess, has been until very recent ly the closest adviser of the fuehrer In questions of geo policy. Rudolf Hess, who Is now prisoner of war in Great Brit ain, had shared Haushofer's fears for the future of Ger many." record tying time in the 440 yard dash to claim individual honors today In the Pacific Coast conference track and field championships that saw South ern California run off with the team title for the sixth succes sive year, Klemmer, 19 years old and physically equipped to give an antelope an argument over a quarter mile, was clocked in 48.4 seconds. It equalled the official world's record set in 1932 by lanky Ben Eastman of Stanford. Klemmer, who has been hit ting around 47 seconds with regularity, finished with 12 yard lead over the second place man, Hubert Kerns of U. S. C. In the scramble for the team championship the U. S. C. Troiana merely ran true to form. The Trojans total 73 points; California, expected to make a real fight of it, ran a dragging second with 48Vi points. Stan ford and Washington State tied for third with 24 tallies each. The rest finished as follows: Idaho 14; U. C. L. A. 12V4; Washington 9; Oregon 8; Mon tana 6: Oregon State 6. Five new conference records were established in the quarter, half and mile runs; the high jump and the javelin throw, One casualty was noted. Eu gene Swanzey oi wasningion was hit on the leg by a discus thrown by Carl Merritt of U. S. C. It caused him to withdraw from the 880-yard run and the accident also forced Washington to withdraw its team in the mile relay. Aside from Klemmer s great run in the quarter, uie nign jump and mile run produced outstanding performances. L.es Steers of Oregon, who already holds the unofficial world's rec ord of six feet 10 inches in the high jump, won the event easily at six feet 9 inches. Phil Leibowitz of Idaho opened the meet with a thrilling win in the mile run. The time was 4:09.3, fastest in the far west this year. L -4 r FORSUPREMETEST HOLLYWOOD DERBY, COMES IN FIRST TMn' Rav Johnson. Medford high's contribution to track and fi.M fame, left here for Klam ath Fall. Saturday where ne . : k ill was to Doara iram ui. fake him to southern California for the annual Compton (caw junior college Invitational meet next Friday nignx, June o. Johnson, winner of the state prep 440-yard dash champion ship for the past three years and current holder of the record at :49.3, will enter the Comp ton quarter-mile and compete against some of the finest college and Junior college runners on the Pacific coast. The race will be run at 9 p. m. Friday. The Mail Tribune will have a com plete story on the race in its next issue, Sunday, June 8. Coach Bill Bowerman will leave here by automobile Mon day morning, and he and Jonn- son will stay with friends in Westwood, Cal., until after the race. MAJOR THREAT IN Los Angeles, May 31. OP) Qualifying as a major threat in the $25,000 Hollywood derby in July, Battle Colors defeated eight rival three-year-olds today in the $10,000 win Kogers Mem orial handicap before 30,000 turf fans at Hollywood park. The fine looking chestnut gelding, owned by Edward S. v Moore of Wyoming, was never worse than fourth after the field got away, while Mrs. C. D. Harper's Strong Arm took over the lead at the far turn. Strong Arm couldn't hold oft the rush of Battle Colors, how ever, and had a tough duel in the stretch with Louis B. Mayer's Painted Veil to hold on to the place position. Battle Colors ran the distance in one minutes 23 3-5 seconds. He paid $3.80, $3 and $2.40. Strong Arm paid $4.80 and $3, and Painted Veil $2.80. Georgia (The Iceman) Woolf rode the winner and probably will have him in the Hollywood derby July 12. A total of $137,782 was wag ered on the race. i: Myrtle Andrews became the first Medford feminine golfer in several years to enter the Rogue Valley club's hall of fame ill day afternoon when she scored a hole in one on the 110-yard 10th hole while playing with her daughter. Connie, and guest from out of town. Mrs. Andrews, who usually shoots 100 and above, employed spoon to sink her tee shot It was the first dodo she ever scored and it left her naturally thrilled to death. The Fngliah hou of lords hu a rvd-bordered carpet marking the limits where a member may stand whan addressing the fathering. It la believed to have been let In the days when men earned swords so that a sale distance would be al tered Ji case of altercations. AT ROGUE RIVER The Medford Rogues, with two Southern Oregon league wins in as many starts, are xnected to make it three straight this afternoon when they clash with the Rogue River club in a loop contest at Rogue River. Thus far, the latter team has dropped both its league games. In the other league affair, Grants Pass will travel to Cres cent City. The two teams are tied for second place with one win and one loss. Both games are slated to start at 2:30. The Rogues will leave from Lewis Super Service sta tion at noon. Washington, May 31. (IP) The federal government may buy Oregon surplus loganberries and youngberries to be made ll to jam for the British, Sen ator McNary said. POISON OAK? Try a bottle ol ZEMACOL Tea man be eetuned of rear wionej heerlnll ref ended Oet a eottk todlj at WUTKRM THRIFT. A recent study of what hap pens to ordinary whole life in surance policies ever the years shows that, counting by amount of premiums paid, 57 are ma tured by death, 41'i are cash ed in, and l! j are lapsed. The life insurance companies own United States government bonds amounting to twice the total public debt of the country only 24 years ago. The com panies' contribution to federal financing now aggregates more than six billion dollars. SCRAMILI TWOLonir en t these three soldiers at Arhnclon tantonment In Virginia seems to have the nonchalance and skill needed te transport an egg la a spoon, daring a recent rare event. Disaster is brewing to the right and left Cae Mall Tribune want ads. Ore and Bullion Purchased WILDBBRO BROS. SMKirisa a ri riNiNo x New Skating Schedule Tuei., Thurf., Sat., Sunday Eve PRIVATE PARTIES ON ANY AFTERNOON OR MON WED. FR1. EVENINGS. ASHLAND RINK ASHLAND ARMORT O GREEN SLABS ,1 ? Big Heaping Lead 300 cu. ft. 12 or 11 inch Fill your car or trailer at eur yard at the end f North Central Ave. and McAndrews Road is A ri Timber Products Company Closing time lor Too Late to clas sify Ada is 1:30 p. m. Dae Mai Tribune want ads. Call Fire Fighters 1 ! For Meeting Af onday The fire-fighting platoon of the American Legion's Medford i National Disaster Preparedness f company will undergo a test drill at 7:30 p. m. Monday at the fire station, and all mem bers are requested to attend. Chief Roy Elliott wants aU local volunteer firemen also to attend the drill, and wear old clothes. Portland, May 31. UP) Po lice dragged the Columbia river today for the body of Charles Roysen, 6, Cascade Locks, missing since Thursday. f ) You know that you're Dad If s pretty swell guy . and well does he de serve the affection you may bestow upon him. It Is Dad who works hard to pay the monthly bills and keep the family going financially ... It Is Dad who worries and works untlr lnply and unselfishly. Well, June 19th Is HIS day so why not ben In to plan RIGHT NOW to make It a day he'll enjoy and long cherish In his mem ory. We have the little remembrances that are sure to please. May we help you plan Dad's -lather's Day" (Iftf IS STETSON DAY! June 15 Watch his eyes light up when the family comes through A-ith this gift! It's a Stetson gift certificate tucked in a miniature bat box containing a tin Stetson hat. He cashes in the certificate for the hat of his choice..! and lo! Father comes into his own! $5.00 to $6.00 LEE, AETNA and DANWAY Priced $2.95 to $3.50 Phone 1121 End North Central GLENN H. UTZ "UTZ FOR SUITS" Open Saturday Eve Until 8:30 P. M.