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MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREfiONT, THURSDAY, JUICE 5. 1941.
Sport
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Billy Hulen Says:
Fait Competition
Facet Johnson in
Compton Quarter
'Texas
There is chance that fist
full of nation-wide publicity will
descend on this little old village
of Medford tomorrow evenin
But brother, she's a slim chance.
Racln' Ray Johnson goes to
the post alone about B p.
Friday in the featured 400-meter
gallop of the annual Compton
Cal.) junior college invitational
track and field show, and if
such a thing as an athletic mir
acle happens to occur, return
ing the local speed demon the
winnah, this burg will suddenly
find itself on the sports map to
an extent undreamed of by even
the most optimistic chamber of
commercer.
Understand us, we are not be-
littllng Racln' Ray's ability
a runner over the 440-yard route.
The boy is terrific, and when we
say the odds against his copping
that Compton quarter-mile are
louslly lengthy, we do not mean
to Imply that he hasn't the stuff
of which great sprinters are con
structed. He has that, as his
Medford high school record
(three-time state champ, curren
record-holder, never defeated
will testify.
What we mean is that Rapid
Raymond, rapid as he Is, Is
almost certainly not rapid
enough to raise the hopes of
local fanatics that he will con
quer the field in that Comp
ton contest. Why? Well, cli
ents. It is all a matter of com
petition. It is a matter of
what other guys will be in
there lifting them up and lay
ing them down along with the
Tiger whlis.
If our Racin' Ray were com
peting against only high school
quarter-milers; if Junior college
and college laddies were barred
from the affair, we would com?
out with the flat prediction that
Mr. Johnson would get the
checkered gonfalon with some
thing to spare. We believe, and
have the backing of several
track experts which we aren't,
that Bill Bowcrman's protege
can lick anything in the Pacific
coast's prep circles. We ask you,
can you Imagine any high school
440'er showing his heels to Ray-
mona; iope, of course not.
But the trouble is that Racln'
Ray won't be Just dueling with
boys yet to enter the portals of
higher institutions. He'll be in
there, friends, against several of
the mightiest quarter-mllers on
this western seaboard. Including
gentlemen from the Pacific
Coast conference's big colleges
and universities. There will also
be. we understand, a couple of
mid-western and eastern col
legians, all of which adds up
to the fact that the field will be
slightly tough.
Before Bill Bowerman left
here by car to meet Ray in south
ern California, the latter having
Jaunted there by S. P. choo
rhoo, he stated It was his sor
rowful understanding that a fel
low by the name of Grover
Klemmer, hailing from the Uni
versity of California, was slated
to compete In the race.
Grover Klemmer, to the un
informed, happens to be quite
a quarter-miler. It happened
that he tore llckety-split for
440 yards last Saturday, In
the Coast conference meet in
the time of i48.4. It happens
that 146.4 is merely the
world's record for that dis
tance, having been set by one
Benlamln Eaitman of Stan
ford several years ago. It hap
pened, therefore, that the
Golden Bear's Mr. Klemmer
equaled the best time ever re
corded for a couple of fur
longs. Against that sort of competi
tion, Racln' Ray, on paper, will
be in company definitely too fast
for him. Raymonds best time
for the quarter is :49 3. a figure
he wrote against Salem high
here early this spring. The
spread 'twixt the best marks of
Klemmer end Johnson, if our
subtraction is correct, is :02 9
hich, in turn represents ap
proximately 27 theoretical yards
ff cinders between the pair.
Klemmer out in front. ;
The above figurine, of ronrsr
Is only hypothetical. As
GOLF EXPERTS
LONE STAR STATE
HEAD HUGE FIELD
Nelson Favored, Followed by
Hogan, Demaret, Man-
grums, Metz and Guldah
Against Field', as National Open Gets Underway.!
Fort Worth, Tex., June 5.
(Pi Denny Shuts, who
twice has won the P.G.A.
championship, made his open
ing bid for the 45th U. B.
open golf title a strong one
today by shooting a one-under-par
69, first sub-par
round over the 7.003-yard
Colonial club course.
Benefited by a two-under-par
start on the front nine.
Gene Kunes of Philadelphia
posted a ene-over-per 71 to
take the early very early-lead.
By William T. Rives
Fort Worth, Texas, June 5.
(P) Golf's greatest extrava
ganza the national open start
ed today in the cow country of
Texas, the links-mad state which
produced a band of profession
als ranked as favorites to con
quer the Colonial club course.
All records attendant to the
tournament teetered as the field
cautiously spread over the par
33-35 70 layout, which has had
the nation's finest golfers mut
tering through practice rounds.
Apparently the only mark
which might make stand was
the scoring record of 281 held
by slope-shouldered Ralph Gul-
dahl.
A few bold souls predicted
even that would be broken. Un
der a steaming sun which was
drying out the course, many of
the players reported Improved
practice rounds yesterday, and
only a handful of holes would
give trouble to a man on his
game.
Attendance Record
Never before has the open
been held this far south and
Texans stampeded to the course.
The advance ticket sales record
lrcady broken, officials freely
forecast that the attendance fig
ure would be shattered ere Sat
urday's finale.
Home folk declared It was
Texas against the field, and on
ly a few would say them nay.
Installed as No. 1 favorite was
lean Byron Nelson, former Fort
Worth caddy whose string-
straight game appeared made to
order for the baffling course.
Close behind was Benny Ho
gan, another local product who
is leading the Vardon trophy
race and in money won this
year.
Other Texans In the running
were: Jimmy Demaret, who to
ted bags around Houston courses
in early youth; the Mangrum
brothers, Lloyd and Ray: Dick
Metz, and Guldahl, who twice
has won the title.
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USKA HURLS BEAVERS
10 6-4 VICTORY OVER
PADRES: SEATTLE WINS
(By the Associated Press)
A 36-year old veteran of the
Seattle pitching staff hurled and
batted the Rainiers to a shut-out
victory over powerful Sacramen
to last night.
Hal Turpln. hero of the frv
chalked up a 2 to 0 win and,
delivered the blow that sent o-er
the runs. It was the first shut
out defeat of the Coast league!
uaseoait season for Sacramento.
Nubs Klelnke pitched four-hit
Dau, two of the hits coming in
the eighth Inning on both ends
of a walk and a sacrifice. It was
at this point that Turpln got
the hit that drove across the
two runs a clean single to
center.
The Hollywood Stars made a
new bid for public favor by
drubbing San Francisco for the
second straight night, 5 to 3.
Oakland fell into the cellar
spot when Los Angeles finished
a one-sided affair and marked
up a o to I victory.
Portland staved off a ninth
Inning rally and took a sernnn
straight win over San Dieirn ft
o 4. San Dirso eathernH 11
hits to Portland's 9, but failed to
make them count.
The scores:
R. H. E.
Portland 0 9 0
aan jjiego 4 11 0
iisxa, (..onzales (9) and An
minno; Malman. Thomas (1),
uiewer io) and Dctore.
SPOKANE WAITRESSES
OBTAIN WAGE BOOST
Uncle Sam Calls
Heavy Hitter to
Defense Service
Jackson, Tenn., June 5.
UP) Baseball fans who think
fate has been unkind to their
favorite team might consider
the customers here.
Big Newt Parker banged 17
home runs In the first 19
games for Jackson of the Kit
ty league, and climaxed It by
walloping four In a double
header. Next day Uncle Sam called
him to the armv.
Scores Yesterday
post-
National
Boston 4. St. Louis 2.
Pittsburgh at New York,
poned, rain.
Chicago at Brooklyn, rain.
Cincinnati at Philadelphia,
rain.
Spokane. June 5. l,V) Mar
garet Leishman. secretary of the
Cooks and Walters union (AFL).
said today the organization's dif
ferences with Spokane restaur
ant owners had been settled with
the grunting of a requested in
crease in nay.
Under the new scale, wait
resses will receive $2.50 and
women cooks $4 00 per eight
hour shift. I
TO HANEY; HIRE
VET LUKESEWELL
St. Louis, June 3. (P) Af
fable Luke S e w e 1 1 , veteran
American league catcher and
Cleveland Indians coach, stepped
Into the frying pan today as man
ager of the floundering St. Louis
Browns.
He was signed to a two-year
contract last night, replacing
rrea naney tn a swift move
aimed at improving the miser
able plight of the club that was
expected to be the surprise team
of the Junior circuit this season.
Haney had been manager since
me start or the 1939 season.
A change of pilots had been
rumored for several days, but
the announcement by President
Barnes caught even newsmen bv
surprise. It came less than two
hours after the Brownies had
won their second straight game
from Washington to move out of
me cellar into seventh place.
UOW THEY?
STAMD
American League
. w- L. Pet
cieveiana 30 19 612
Chicago 27 18 .600
American
St. Louis 7, Washington 4.
Chicago 8, Philadelphia I.
New York at Detroit, rain.
Boston at Cleveland, rain.
Coast
Seattle 2. Sacramento 0.
Portland 8, San Diego 4.
Hollywood 5, San Francisco I.
Los Angeles 6, Oakland 1.
Western International
Salem 9, Spokane 5.
Wenatchee 5, Yakima S.
Vancouver 8. Tacoma 3.
s Klemmer Is, we don't believe
he can beat Johnson to the wire
fry 27 yards nor anywhere near
lliat distance. However, the fart
does remain that Racin' Ray will
be hoofing It in company ap
parently quite a bit speedier
tian he is capable of matching
right now. Johnson, remember.
Is still Just a boy out of high
school this spring, and It would
te asking too much of him to
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get out there and battle such
gents as Klemmer right down
to the ribbon.
We ll see what we'll lee to
morrow night, though, and lets
everybody keep the old fingers
crossed. Racin" Ray COULD
good ""dually win the race: stranger
things have happened. Although
not probable, such
POSSIBLE, but we for one will
be satisfied if the local speed
ball finishes in the first division.
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THE TOGGERY
34 NORTH CENTRAL
MAC MacKENNA ART HESS
1 New York 25 21 .543
Boston 22 19 .537
Philadelphia 23 22 .511
Detroit 24 23 .511
St. Louis, 15 29 .341
Washington 16 31 .340
National League
W. L. Pet
Brooklyn 32 13 .711
St. Louis . 32 14 .696
New York 22 19 .537
Cincinnati 21 25 .457
Chicago 19 23 .452
Pittsburgh 15 22 .405
Boston 15 25 .375
Philadelphia 14 29 .326
Pacific CoaifLeague
W. L. Pet
Sacramento 39 18 .684
Seattle 30 26 .336
San Diego 29 30 .492
San Francisco 29 30 .492
Hollywood 27 28 491
Portland 25 30 .455
Los Angeles 25 33 .431
Oakland 24 33 .421
La Grande, Ore., June S. m
An early morning grocery
store fire sent LaGrandc's May
fire losses to $5613, tops for any
month this year, Fire Chief Par
ley Hutchison said today.
LEAGUE PINNACLE
AS CARDSBEATEN
St. Louis Infield Falters to
Give Braves 4-2 Win
Connie Mack Honored
L
FOR GRANTS PASS
By Associated Press
Simply by staying In out of
the wet while their chief rivals
were fumbling themselves Into
defeat, the Brooklyn Dodgers
have climbed back into the
leadership of the National Lea
gue.
Larry MacPhall's "boughten'
wonders are a half-game in front
of the St. Louis Cardinals, who
dropped a 4 to 2 decision to the
Boston Braves in one of the
three games played in the big
leagues yesterday.
The Cards' infield, regarded
by many observers as the one
questionable spot in an other
wise great team, committed
three errors to present the
Braves with the same number
of unearned runs and the mar
gin of victory. Rookie Frank
Crespi made two of them at sec
ond base and Jimmy Brown
bobbed up with another at third.
All the other National League
contests were washed out by a
general rain in the east, and
only two American league
games escaped the downpour.
The St. Louis Browns, play
ing their last game under Mana
ger Fred Haney, walloped the
unfortunate Washington Sena
tors 7 to 4 and thereby climbed
to the dizzy height of seventh
place in the American league,
Under the lights at Comiskey
Park last night, the Chicago
White Sox observed "Connie
Mack night by walloping his
Philadelphia Athletics, 6-1, be
hind the five-hit pitching
Thornton Lee.
A crowd of 32,659 turned out
to honor Philadelphia's 78-year
old manager, presenting him
with a gold plaque and a watch
during the pre-game ceremonies.
of
Closing time tor Too Lata to claa-
uy Ada la 1:30 p. m.
STUPENDOUS!
GIGANTIC!
CLEARANCE
AND
CLOSE
of USED
Seems To Be
OUT
CARS
In Vogue
Our Sale la not STUPENDOUS er GIGANTIC and we are
NOT CLEARING or CLOSING OUT We want a good sub
stantial stock of used cars on hand at all times.
We Sell More New Cars than any Dealer
ship in this part of So. Oregon, therefore
We Handle More Used Cars.
?L?a , y e" h,nd 29 u,,d Cn"ol rom 1921 to
1939a, Model A Tords in abundance, also a supply of Plr
mouths. Dodges. Buicks and Studebakers.
We especially call your attention to a 19.40 Ford one-ton pick
up. And 1940 -ton Chevrolet pickup.
This week end we will fc.v. en display the last word In a
Chevrolet Special Logger. This unit as equipped will sell
for approx. S227S. and dad., all competition.
Remember we take ALL the guess out of your buying in
car. ever $300. And that we have the ONLY exclusive U.td
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ROGUE RIVER
CHEVROLET
TH AND BARTLETT STREETS
With Chuck Ostrom slated to
do the flinging for the opposi
tion. Manager Paul (Hoosier)
Hoffard expects his Medford
Rogues to face their toughest
test of the season here Sunday
when the Grants Pass Merchants
, invade the high school park for
a regular Southern Oregon
league contest. The game will
start at 2:30.
Ostrom, slowly rounding Into
shape, finally hit his stride last
Sunday and the result was a two
hit victory for Grants Pass over
Crescent City, by a 4-2 count.
Although the Rogues, undefeated
in three loop starts, hold a pre
vious win over Grants Pass and
Ostrom, Manager Hoffard admits
his club may have more than a
little trouble with the husky
right-hander's blazing fast bail
and sharp hook.
Paul Hess, who has rung up
three straight victories for the
Rogues to put them atop the cir
cuit, will do the firing for the
locals.
T
A meeting of all Medford per
sons interested in Softball has
been called for 8 p. m. Friday
at the Jennings Tire company,
229 North Riverside avenue, for
the purpose of discussing plans
for the possible formation of a
summer circuit.
Sam Jennings, who will be In
charge of the confab, requests
all prospective team sponsors
and managers to attend.
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