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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAH. TRIBUNE. MEDFORD OREGON. SUNDAY. JUNE 8. 1941 Craig Wood, Veteran Golfer Wins U. S. Open Championship BEATS OUT SHUTE BY 3 STROKES IN GRUELLING PLAY Texas Favorites Falter On Last Round Gallery Of 10,000 Watch. Tort Worth, Texas, June 7. '!Pl Craig Wood was paid off In full todBy for long yearj of golf ing hard luck. Under a broiling sun and be fore galleries that totaled some 10,000 the 39-year-old veteran from Mamaroneck, N. Y., stole the U. S. open golf champion ship right out from under the noses of those Texans who had been sure this was going to be the Lone Star state's own golf ing show. Bracketed In a first place tie 'at 36 holes with Denny Shute. 1940 champion Lawson Little, and Clayton Hoafner, Wood broke that deadlock by match ing par for the gruelling Col onial club course with a 70 on his morning card. .' This afternoon, playing last among the men with a chance to take the title, he looked to be wavering occasionally but each time got back to par, closing out his round with a thrilling 30-foot putt on the home green that brought a ringing cheer from the banked ranks of spec tators and gave him another 70. With that 72-hole score, over what was a very tough par all the way, the big easy-going .blonde beat T .ny Shute, who once nosed him out in a playoff for the British open title, by three strokes, and scored his second malor triumph In two months after never having taken one before. Two months Bgo at Augusta. Ga., Craig captured the Masters title. On that last time around the '7,005 yards of the Colonial -course which proved so disas trous to the homebred Texans Wood went over par on only three holes and had the putting touch for three birdies to wipe out those losses. Back of Shute, who was first after the opening round, tied for first at the halfway mark and even with Paul Runyan In second place with 18 to go, came large Johnny Bulla of Chicago and 135-pound Ben Hogan, who didn't hit his stride until this final day and then played 36 holes In two under par with a 68 and a 70 for 389. Bulla got that total out of a 72 and 71. Runyan, who was 71-75 for 291, tied with Herman Darrein, a surprise contender, on a clos ing 74-71. Jug McSpaden, Gene Sarazen and E. J. (Dutch) Har rison, who shot two 7 I s, were bunched at 294; Dick Meti with Lloyd Mangrum and Ed Dud ley at 295, and Sam Snead, Hor ton Smith and Henry Ransom, young Fort Worth pro, finished in a bunch at 2H6 with the low amateur, Harry Todd of Dallas. Two of the strongest advance favorites, 1SI40 champion Law son Little and P G A. titlrholder Byron Nelson, posted 2117 s. Lit tle losing all chance to repeat by blowing to a 79 on his third round. Others to break 300 were Vic Gheui, 2!)tt. and Gene Kunes of Philadelphia, 299. while Hoafner, from a tie for the 38-hole lead, soared to 300 at the finish. BELMONT STAKES New York. June 7 Mi Vhlrlawny, winner of the Ken tucky driby and rrr.-ikncss, to day completed Hie truf triple by taking the Belmont stakes t Belmont Park. J. Fred Hyer' Hnbert Morri 'n deeoiul, three lenyth hack of the IVrlu' -IVe:ikne-;s u inner Sonny V h 1 1 n e y's Yankee Chance wn third, another five lengths further l;iek, and Itob ert Kleberg's Itntm wn lat In the four-horse field The time for the mile and a half was 2 31. the slowest for thn stake in years. For the firt t:me since he began bis aniaring swerp of three-year eld honors. Warren Wright s little chestnut W ith the long tail ran a front rare Salina, Calif. June 7. i Bill McMackin brone rider from Trail City. S. D , held the lead today in the nM 'mm r boy championship lare of the Rodeo Association of America, for the second consecutive month. Portland. Ore, J.me 8 '-7 Carl Kmc. scout ffr the De troit American lcnr.ie bafc'al! club, distlo.cd t'Klny he h.-itt signed two p:t. lurs C layton Shaw of Orr'in State eclir-ee and Gordon I.ifb. Salfm Vet em International lcnsue club Beta left fur the ciit lis', night. WINS T FELLER Cleveland, June 7 UP) Jim Bagby, Jr., did the unusual to day. He held the Philadelphia Athletics to four hits for a 6 to 2 triumph to become the first Cleveland pitcher other than Bob Feller to win game In exactly two weeks. The result kept Intact the tribe's two-game margin over the second-place Chicago White Sox. Irving Hadley, the New York Yankee castoff, was the victim of a 13-hit Cleveland attack led by Hal Trosky'i fifth home run of the season. Single scored Lou Boudreau. Philadelphia 2 4 2 Cleveland 6 13 0 Hadley, Potter (6), Dean (7) and Hayes; Bagby and Hemsley. Chicago, June 7 OP) Chica go's White Sox repulsed the Bos ton Red Sox challenge for sec ond place in the American league by turning back Joe Cronln's slugging crew today, 5 to 4. The victory evened the series at one game apiece and snapped Boston's winning string at six. Boston 4 9 0 Chicago 8 12 0 Wilson, Fleming (6) and Pyt Iak; Smith and Tresh. St. Louis, June 7 (P) The Yankees were forced to come from behind with a five-run rally in the ninth today to de feat the scrapping Browns, 11 to 7. Catcher Bill Dickey's sin gle with the bags loaded pro vided the winning runs and drove Johnny Allen, fourth St. Louis pitcher, from the mound. New York 11 15 2 St. Louis 7 8 1 Gomez, Chandler (3), Stanceu (9), and Dickey; Munchlef, Kra mer (3), Caster (0), Allen (9), Trotter (9) and Ferrell. Detroit, June 7 OP) The De troit Tigers victimized Steve Sundra and Vcrn Kennedy for nine runs In two innings to erase an early deficit and take a 10 to 0 decision today from Washington, their second vic tory In a row over the hapless Senators. Washington 8 11 1 Detroit 10 13 1 Sundra, Kennedy (7) and Early; Corslgan, McKaln (2) and Tcbbctts. SAN DIEGO RALLY BEATS PORTLAND San Diego, Calif., June 7. UP) San Diego drove Byron Spccce to the showers with a four-run outburst In the third Inning today to defeat Portland, 8 to 3, and retain its slender hold on a Coast league first division berth. A triple, two doubles, a single and a wild pitch produced the quartet of runs. Catcher Annunzlo of Portland and Manager Durst and Haslln of San Diego were banished from the game In the fourth for protesting Umpire Jordan's de cisions. Score: R. II. E. Portland 3 11 1 San Diego 8 10 1 Speece, Callahan and Annun- ! zlo, Schulz: Herbert and Sal- keld. Oakland, Calif., June 7. UP) Henry Tlppen, Oakland right hander, pitched three-hit ball and his team defeated Los An- I gcles 5 to 0 tixiay for its second j victory out of five games in the series. ' l.os Angeles 0 3 1 j Oakland 5 8 0 ) Stine and Collins; Pippen and Conroy. Hollywood, June 7.- ! Hollywood clinched Its third ! straight series of the Pacific Coast league baseball wars to : day. rapturing a 7-4 decision over San Francisco for their I fourth victory of the week. i I Score: R. H. E. ' San Francisco 4 10 2 Hollywood 7 10 0 Seats and Ogrodowskl; Os ' borne and Dapper, Brentel. SCREENS SCREEN DOORS Buy 'em at the factory. TonuDDinrr i i iiiuuuniuui. J CABINET WORKS 10th st Crape Phene 4111 RAW RAY SETS IAL L Johnson Goes Distance In :48 Flat At Compton Meet Finishes Fifth. Although Medford's Racin' Ray Johnson finished fifth in the 400-meter race at the Comp ton (CalJ junior college invita tional track and field meet Fri day night, the Tiger speedster flashed over the distance in 48 seconds flat, two-tenths of a second faster than the national interscholastic 440-yard dash record of :48.2, according to a telegram received from Coach Bill Bowerman. Bowerman wired that John son, running in lane six, was "badly boxed at the turn and could not get through." An Associated Press message from Compton said that Johnson fin ished about 20 yards behind Urover Klemmer of the Uni versity of California, who won the race in :46.5. The world's record for the 440 is :48.4, tied by Klemmer in the Coast con ference meet recently. Running second to Klemmer was Clifl Bourland of the Uni versity of Southern California, with Kerns of the same school third. Eugene Littler of the University of Nebraska was lourth. '1 railing Johnson across the finish line was Johnny watchler of Pasadena (Cal.) Jun ior college, 1941 national Junior college quarter-mile champion. Seventh was James Herbert oi the New York Grand Street boys' A. A. Johnson, three-time Oregon prep 44u-yard dash champion, was timed in the Compton race by Coach iiowerman. Although he ran the distance under the national nigh scnool record, the mark is, of course, entirely un official and will not count as a new prep tigure. New Vault Record Compton, Calif., June 7. UP; arl lweauows stood off in the shadows of the pole vault pit ana watched in undisguised awe and perhaps a trace of sadness. lie was watching "that man'' ill action, the man who not only had beaten his accepted world pole vault record tune and time again, but who repeatedly haa tnuniDed his nose at a height they used to call the 15-foot ceiling. Meadows' 14 feet, 11 inches stands as the official world mark. It was great when he and his teammate at Southern California, tiill Svfton, set it in 1937. Toaay that mark is puny. Cornelius Warmerdara maue it look even more insignificant f'nday night. Warmeraam, the nearest tiling to a real, live jack-in-the- bean-stalk, rose to even greater heights while Meadows looked on. Warmerdam brought the crowd to its feet with a nigh mark of 15 feel, d-U inches, tie already had them in an uproar with a vault of IS feet, 4U inches. tioUi were better than his pre vious high, set six weeks ago at 13 leet, liH inches. Urover Klemmer of California outlived a box thrown around him and outran Clitf Bounaud and Hubert iverns of University ol Southern California and Gene Littler of Nebraska to win the featured 400-meter race in 48.5 seconds better than the 46. record held by John oodrufl of Pitt since 1939. Albany, June 7. ) Kamp (er Brothers market here was picketed today by the Butchers and Meat Cutters union, and union spokesmen said Hie firm' markets at ta. ,.n and Eugene also were patroled. O GREEN PIKE Big Heaping Load 300 cu. ft. 12 or II inch Fill your car er trailer at eur yti at the end of North Central Ave. and McAndrews Read Timber Products Company esteex XSopus-V Fboce 3111 End North Centra) REESE'S DISPLAYS TOPPLE BROOKLYN ELEAD Brooklyn, June 7. VP) Pee Wee Reese's error on Frank McCormick's roller In the eighth Inning today started a painful chain of events that resulted in the Cincinnati Reds beating the Dodgers 8 to 3 and dump ing the locals off the top of the National league standing. The Dodgers were leading 3 to 2 In a tight duel between Luke Hamlin and Bucky Walt ers when the Dodger shortstop made his second misplay of the game. Two were out at the time. Before the third out fin ally came the Reds had scored six unearned runs, knocked Hamlin from the hill and sewed up the game. Outstanding in the shambles that followed Reese's error was a homerun by Ernie Lombard! with two aboard. R. H. E. Cincinnati 8 12 2 Brooklyn 3 7 3 Walters and Lombard!; Ham lin, Kimball and Owen. Boston, June 7. (IP) The Chicago Cubs got only five hits today but their timing was per fect as they took the series opener from the Boston Braves, 3 to 1. R. H. E. Chicago .. 9 5 0 Boston 17 1 Passeau and McCullough; Er rlckson, Lamanna, Tobin and Masl. Philadelphia, June 7. Veteran Cy Blanton yielded eight scattered hits and fanned three batters as Philadelphia took a 2 to 0 game from the Pittsburgh Pirates at Shibe Park today. R H E Pittsburgh 0 8 1 Philadelphia 2 7 0 Lanning and Lopez; Blanton and Warren. New York, June 7. UP) Jimmy Brown, Coaker Triplett and Terry Moore each blasted four hits today as the St. Louis Cardinals waded Into four Giant pitchers for 19 hits and an 11 -to 3 victory that boosted them into the leadership of the National league. R. H. E. St. Louis 11 19 1 New York 3 8 3 Nahem, White and Mancuso: Melton, Adams, Brown, Wittig and Danning. LEGION JUNIORS START PRACTICE Rlney Cook, coach of Jackson county's American Legion Junior baseball team for the past three years, yesterday Issued a call for players to report for the first official practice session of the season at the high school park at 9 a. m. Tuesday. All boys In the county, who did not reach their 17th birthday by January 1 of this year, were invited by Coach Cook to be on hand for the drills, and tryout for the club. Included with the Jackson county team In the southern Oregon district are Marshfield and Roseburg junior legion teams. Each club will play the other two teams twice. No date has been set for the local teams' first game. Coach Cook expects the fol lowing players to form the nucleus of a winning nine: Hal Adams, catcher; Charlie Jand reau of Ashland, pitcher and third base: Bob Smith of Jack sonville, pitcher and lnfielder: Southpaw Howard Parker of Eagle Point, pitcher: Bud Pro vost of Ashland, first base; Don Fawcett, second base; Jack Swaryck of Jacksonville, short SLABS stop; Bob Davis, third base; Marlon Hardy of Jacksonville, i leftfield and Steve Dippel, cen- terfield. Other players Coach Cook plans to rely on are Dale Brug- i ger, lnfielder; Dick Fawcett, out fielder; Mark Marquess, short stop, and Homer Sullivan, catcher. Lost from last year's club because of their ages were Bill Reed and Cato Wray, pitchers; Lee Reynolds, short stop; Mickey Miller, first base, and Harold Fawcett, outfielder. I TO With Billy Calvert due to join the club today and two unidentified inf ielders from jTortland also slated to sign contracts and step into action immediately, the Medford Crat ers will present a strengthened I lineup when they go against the Hills Creek Hillbillies In a regular Oregon State league contest at Hills Creek this aft ernoon. Calvert, dynamic little catcher who worked behind the plate in every game played by the University of Oregon Webfoots this spring, mailed his signed contract to Manager Lou Sauer Friday. He will meet the team in Hills ..reek and return to Medford with the others players after the game. With Calvert on hand, Slater will probably be used as a sec. .id-string receiver Manager Sauer and Murray Marley, treasurer of the Med ford Athletic association, left here Friday night for Portland where they expect to sign a pair of Infielders recommended by Billy Ross, last year's skipper of Jack and Jill Tavern's State league club. Identity of the players is not known. Before leaving here Friday evening. Manager Sauer said that Bob Fox, smooth-working righthander, would pitch against the Hillbillies, with 18-year-old Willard Smith In reserve. Hills Creek, which Is tied with Bend for fourth place In the loop standings, having won one and lost one, will probably have Bun Kelsay on the pitching rubber. This year's Hills Creek club, managed by Monroe Dean, is rated the strongest ever to represent the little mill town. Other State league gawes to day find Eugene at Klamath Falls, Toledo at Bend and Albany drawing a bye. It was announced by E. E. McKinncy, secretary of the Medford Athletic association, that the Craters would tangle with Manager Red Talbot's Dor rls, Cal., Lumberjacks in an ex hibition game under the fair grounds park lights next Wed nesday night at 8:30. Dorris, a member of the Northern Cali fornia league, recently lost to the State league Klamath Falls Pelicans by only a 6 to 5 score in an exhibition game. yfuc a eutu fitC taJu tab mcr&eA A young telephone customer wanted to re.h her mother, who waa i nurse, in s hoiriul. 'Ihe telephone operatcr by dint of ipeciil effort located the mother, brought her to the telephone. . . . Later the young customer! signal light again appeared on the switchboard. The oper ator answered and haprr little voice eip!iined,"I'm hugging the telephone!" ir i JJ 'ringing folks together Though an average of more thin 79 mil lion telephone conversations per day are handled by the Bell System, each one is an individual transaction. And telephone people try to treat it as such. The sen-ice seeks to be friendly and helpful as well as technically efficient. THi HCiriC TILtPHONI IIS rth RArtl-tt SOFTBALL GAMES TO OPEN JUNE 17, ON 2-N1GHT SKED Softball, far from being dead in Medford, came from its winter hibernation at a meeting Friday night when tentative plans were drawn to form an eight-team league and schedule games for two nights a week under the lights at the high school stadium. Present plans call for opening games to be played Tuecday night, June 17. Six team managers signified their intentions of entering clubs In the loop. They were: Cath olic Men, represented by Ray Lewis; Timber Products, by Jim Boyle; Jennings Tire, by Ray fvngler; Bear Creek Orchards by Heinle Bohl; Medco, by Louie Kircher and Murray's Maid-Rite by Murray Bell. With openings for one or two more outfits anyone desiring to enter a team was asked to contact Sam Jen nings before next Tuesday night at which time the final meeting prior to the league opening will be held at Jennings Tire com pany at 8 o'clock. All team managers were asked to be pre sent at the meeting with their entrance fees. It was decided to limit players to local talent, with no out-of town pitchers brought in to bol ster one or two clubs. The man agers went on record as feeling that softball fans were more In terested In watching local boys play, than outsiders. Should local interest warrant more than two nights will be used each week, It was reported. However, present plans call for action only on Tuesday and Fri day evenings, with two games to be played each night on one diamond in the center of the field. Under the new setup eliminating the Importation of outside performers, the managers believe the teams will be much better matched than In previous years because no one or two clubs will boast a star pitcher It was also 'planned at the meeting to operate a league of young players, who will play their games at twilight. Any Boy Scout troop or other or ganization, wishing to sponsor such a youthful nine, is asked to get in touch with Sam Jen nings this week. A drive to sell season tickets Is expected to get under way late this week. Detroit, June 7 UP) The De troit News said today that Louis Norman (Buck) Newsom, 1940 world series pitching hero of the Detroit Tigers, had been fined $3,000 by owner Walter 3. A X D TELEGRAPH COMPAXT T-l-vh-'n- ia O. Brlggs for "failure to get into proper condition. Newsom was notified of the fine several days ago, the paper asserted. Two days ago the big right-hander was demoted from starting hurler and assigned to bullpen duty. The News said the fine equals the highest ever assessed in baseball, Babe Ruth having paid the amount in 1925 when sus pended by the New York Yan kees for "general misconduct." E FOR ROGUES IN Bolstered by the acquisition of Pitcher Steve Crippen and Outfielder Billy Piche, the league-leading Medford Rogues will tackle second-place Grants Pass Merchants in a regular Southern Oregon loop fracas at the high school park at 2:30 this afternoon. In the other circuit contest. Crescent City plays at Rogue River. Crippen, ex-Crater pitcher, who has been turning in win af ter win for Yreka, Cal., in the Northern California league, will start on the Rogue rubber, ac cording to Manager Paul Hof fard. Paul Hess, unbeaten in three S. O. L. starts, will be held in reserve, as will Lefty Al , Wimer, who hurled for the Uni One Featured in LIFE and The Saturday Evening Post for Father's Day 0 (AS- 1 &, II The tops for all Pops ARROW B0NAIR ENSEMBLE Want to give Did something especially nice, something that will warm his heart next Sunday? 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Hal Adams will do the receiving. Grants Pass, whose only de feat in league play was at the hands of the Rogues earlier in the season, will have Chuck Ostrom, fireballtng righthander, on the firing line. Ostrom's last start resulted in a two-hit, 4-2 victory over Crescent City. Y DELAY GALL FORFELLER Cleveland, June 7 UP) Man ager Roger Peckinpaugh of the Cleveland Indians believes 'it wouldn't be too much out of line" to ask a short deferment if Bob Feller is called into the army in August. Peckinpaugh made this com ment today as the star pitcher received his draft questionnaire and his selective service board said he might be inducted la August. of tho bett baseball gamea ol the aeaon will be held this afternoon at the high achool diamond when Paul HoKaril i Roguea will play their toughettl iial, the Grant Pai Mer chants. Be fture to tee this game wlil h start! at 2:30 p. m. And here'i annther reminder next Sunday. 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