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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. MONDAY. JUNE 9. 1941 Craters Blast Hills Creek, 5-2 - Rogues Blank Grants Pass, 1-0 F CI 6 HITS IN SIXTH ; ALL LOCAL RUNS Fox Gives Losers 9 Scat tered Blows Craters Sign 6 Portland Prep Stars Oregon State League W. L. Pet. Alhanv S 3 2 1 1 1 0 0 0 1.000 Klamath Fallf Bend Medtord Eugene Hills Creek Toledo .750 .667 .333 .333 .333 . .000 .000 Sllverton 3aaulta Sunday At HIUi Creek 2, Medford 8. At Klamath Falli B, Eugene 5. At AT ny 4, Sllverton 3. At Eend 14, Toledo 2. It finally happened! After weeks of Ineffectual atlckwork. the Medford Crateri finally found their batting eyes all at the same time yesterday and In one gigantic explosion they bunched six sizzling blows for five runs to produce a 8 to 2 decision over the Hills Creek Hillbillies and move into a tie for fourth place In the Oregon State league standings. Played at Hills Creek, the game was errorless. Held to one hit for five Inn ings by Bun Kelsay, Hillbilly hurler, the Craters brought the roof crashing down on his head In the sixth frame to give Bob Fox his first State league vic tory. That one inning was all the Craters needed to clinch their Initial loop contest. Calvert Singles Bobby Volk, the second base man from Portland's Washing ton high school, who signed with the Craters yesterday, opened the huge sixth with a single, and was sacrificed to second by Fox. Del Schroer walked, and then things started to happen. Bill Calvert, playing his first 1941 game with the locals, busted a single. McDon ald singled. Joe Gray singled. Manager Lou Sauer singled. Al Fleishman singled. Al Llghtner grounded out to end the Inning, but the damage was done, the Crateri had five runs, and the ball game was In the cooler. It was a good thing that sixth Inning rally occurred, for Kel say had the Craters baffled In the other eight heats. Schroer's single In the first was the only other sock the Craters were able to manage, being retired In order In the second, third, fourth, fifth; seventh, eighth and ninth. Fox yielded nine hits to the 'Billies, two more than his team mates manufactured, but he kept them scattered except in the third and sixth. In the third, Blalle. Stelzer and H. Parks singled for one run, and In the sixth H. Parks and Manager Monroe Dean bracketed singles around a walk to Howard Parks to account for the other Hills Creek telly. Fox Fans Four Fox fanned four 'Billies and had the number of all of them with the exception of H. Parks, who hit three for four, and Stel zer, who made two blows. Kel say fanned one. Disregarding the sixth Inn ing, the Craters showed definite signs of starting to shellack the horsehide. They socked no less than 11 flies to the outfield, all of which were caught but most of which were well kissed. Besides bringing back to Med ford their first league victory. the Craters returned with six. count 'em, Portland high school stars, who have signed contracts and Joined the team. All were selected on the All-Portland in terscholastic nine this season. The youths are Volk, Mar tlnsen, third baseman and out fielder from Jefferson; Church Ill, third sacker from Franklin: Johnson, first baseman from Jefferson: Roeblandt, catcher from Franklin and Brown, pitcher from Franklin. The Craters will play Dorr Is. Cel.. of the Northern California league in an exhibition game h.re Wednesday night, and the Kl. ith Falls Red Sox In a State league conter' here next Sunda. afternoon. Box score: Um'.ortl Al P K PO A Schroar, as I t I I Calvart. 114 0 McDonald, lb till Oray. rf 111 Bauar. ef , 0 11 ritiihmn, lb ,. , , 4 0 1 IS I Lwhtnar. U . , 4 0 0 1 0 Volk 1114 roi. p eoo Totals SI t T 17 II AB R H PO Hills creek Atelarr, as Fluff, 3b H Parka. If How. Parka, rf . Wnsht. ef Dean. Jb O Kelsay, e BLalle, lb 1 11 Ryan Gets -'-lis iniS-'-'i? f .frrff'.iy- ' -' Jack Ryan, Louisville, gives up trying to keep dry and slothes along through a downpour In the National Open at Fort Worth, Texas, leaving the umbrella to his csddy. The rain was so hard play was held up a while. Ryan had a fine 71 opening day but this soaked course wasn't to his liking and his second round was 82. 8 Oreanfleld B. Kelaay, p . ...0 0 0 0 0 .a o o o l 1 0 0 0 0 ToUis . 37 S 37 13 Bitted for Blatle In th. m Batted for B. Kelaay In Sth. Medtord , nnn 005 0006 Hills Creek 001 001 000 Sacrifices: Wright. Pos: Double playa: Volk to schroer to Fleishman: Baaaa on balls: Fox 8, Kelsay 1; Strlke-outs: Fox 4. Kelsay 1; 11 TILT TO PADRES, 3-2; BLANKED IN NIGHTCAP By the Associated Press A gruelling pitching duel, 'one of the longest and finest ever seen In San Diego's Lane park, featured Coast league baseball games yesterday and its result assisted San Diego to a second place berth In league standings. Al Olsen, San Diego soutn- paw, pitched San Diego to a 3 to 2 victory over Portland's Ray Harrell in a 17-inning Marathon game. Both went the punishing route with Olscn giving up nine hits and Harrell allowing but seven. George Oetore, facire catcher, singled to drive In Hal Patchett with the winning run. San Diego made it a clean sweep of the double-header, cop ping the second game 1 to 0. Bill Salkeld's home run clout gave the Padres the winning run. Pitcher Larry Powell al lowed the Beavers but one hit. Tony Froltas pitched Sacra ment to a 5 to 4 win over Se attle in the first game of their double-header and won his own game by singling in the winning run in the eighth inning after two were on. Nubs Klelnke. who lost a four hitter earlier in the week to Seattle when Hal Turpln shut out the Solons, pitched another four-hit game to give Sacramen to a 4 to 1 victory. San Francisco stnsscrrd sor rowfully throiiKh the week's games against Hollywood, drop ping the opener yesterday, 4 to S, and winning the finale. 1 to 0, to lose the series to the Stars. 3 games to 2. Los Angeles took both games of a double-header from Oak land, 13 to 10 and 4 to 0. (First game 17 innings) Portland 2 9 0 San Diego 3 7 1 Harrell and Annunzio; Olsen and Detore. (Second game 7 Innings ) Portland 0 11 San Diego 13 0 Liska and Schulz; Powell and Salkeld. MENDENHALL CAPTURES TRAPSHOOT AT EUGENE Eugene. June 9 t.-T S. C Menrienhall of Grants Ps won the 16 ysrd event of the Kucene Gun club registered shoot Vester day by cracking 99 of 100 tar gets. Lloyd Templeton of Alhany and Charles Seller of Aurora tied In the harutirap event with 94 of 100. and Trmpliton won the shoot off to gain a leg on the president's trophy. Cal Fay of Coqullle won the doubles with a score of 22 I'M alau lnbuj.e maul sua. a Soaking BARTELL IS HERO AS GIANTS TAKE By Cayle Talbot (Associated Press Writer) Remember Dick Bartell, the scrapping, chirruping little shortstop who qualified as the fall guy of the last world series by holding the ball while Buck McCormick of the Cincinnati Reds went charging home with the tying run in the deciding game? Well, . ...gs haven't gone so hot for Bartc' since that fate ful day. The Petroit Tigers t iriv-d him loos not long ago. and he barely caught on as i free agent with his old club, the New York Giants, in the other league. Two days ago Dick finally slipped into the line-up as pinch-l.itter, and he seemed so happy about It that they let him start yesterday against the league-leading St. Louis Card inals In the first game of a double-header. He practically ruined the Cards single-handed. He singled two runs home In the ninth inning of the first contest as the Giants scored five times to tie the score, and then In the tenth he pounded a home run into the left deck with one on to win the encounter. 7 to 9. He clouted a double and a single in the nightcap, which the Giants also won. 12 to 7. , and now It's Jurges' turn to wonder when he'll get off the 1 bench. The double defeat dropped ; the Cards into second place In the torrid National league race despite the fact Brooklyn was losing a single tilt to Cincln inati. 3 to 2. The Reds scored jail their runs off Whit Wyatt j In the ninth. Taul Derringer 'winning his own game with a telling double. The Pittsburgh Pirates ham mered the riilllies, 12 to 2. and then were set down 8 to 2. ! Chicago thumped the Boston ! Braves. S to 1, then got slaugh tered, 13 to 1. In the American league the Boston Red Sox supplied the I big news by bouncing the Chi cago White Sox twice. 9 to 3 ;and 3 to 0 Old Lefty Grove won the 297th decision of his j career In besting another orig inal settler. Ted Lyons. In the . opener. i Cleveland set the Phlladel phia Athletics back twice. 7 to 4 and 8 to 6. The Yankees went on a home- jrun rampage, with Joe Dimes; sio blasting three, to subdue the St. Louis Browns 9 to 3 In their , first game and 8 to 3 In the second. Washington fell on Dizry Trout and Buck Newsome to scuttle Detroit. 9 to 3. Coach Signed Redmond. Ore , June Clyde Martin, Condon High oliol coach, will become ath letic director and coach at Red mond L'nion lliuh next fall, re placing W. P. Kenna. who has been called to army duty. C!o:r. llni foi Lata to cUs- s::; Aji is 1.10 p. o. CR1PPEN FLINGS 3-HITTER TO WIN PITCHERS' DUEL seael-- y Gitzen Scores Lone Run After Belting Triple Double Plays Aid Victory. Medford's hustling Rogues cap tured their fourth straight Southern Oregon league base ball contest yesterday at the high school park as Steve Crip pen turned in brilliant three hit pitching trick to blank the Grants Pass Merchants, 1 to 0, In a game that was run off In an hour and 20 minutes. Manager Paul Hoffard's gang of youngsters tallied the game's lone run in the very first In ning, and from then on Crippen and Chuck Ostrom, Merchant hurler, locked horns in the sea son's finest hurler's duel. Os trom, like Crippen, gave up only three blows. Johnny Gitzen, the Rogues' little second-sacker, was the of fensive hero of the well-played contest. Leading off for Med ford in the first frame, he socked a line-drive triple down the left field line. Then, after the next two batters had been retired, Gitzen crossed the plate on Catcher Farthing's passed ball, a tough pitch that got away from him and rolled to the screen. Gitzen also hit an in field single In the third to ac cumulate two of his team's three blows, the other being made by Catcher Hal Adams In the eighth. Bwaryck Stars Two double-killings aided Crippen In registering his shut out victory. One of them came in the ninth Inning, after Ray Clayton of the Merchants singled to left with one away. Moore hit to Swaryck at shortstop, who threw to Gitzen who, In turn, rifled the ball to Hampel to re tire the side and end the game. The other twin slaughter also was started by Swaryck. Man ager Erlckson reached first base in the second Inning op Hampel's error, but the threat was killed when Swaryck flagged Ostrom's liner and doubled Erickson off first base. Not a Grants Pass runner reached third base' as Crippen. mixing a bewildering variety of slow stuff with an occasional fast ball, and getting great sup port from his mates, set the Mer chants down with monotonous regularity. In the third Inning Ken Williams, Jr., dropped a Texas league single into left, but was out trying to stretch it Into a double on Harold Fawcett's fine throw to Gitzen. In the sixth Laubach singled to left and took second on a wild pitch, but Crippen bore down and fanned B. Clayton and got R. Clayton on a roller. Ostrom Tough After the first Inning, the Rogues couldn't do anything with Ostrom and took a string of horsecollars from then on. Git zen singled in the third but was promptly thrown out trying to steal second. Cook got life on an error in the seventh and was sacrificed down by Bill Piche. but he died there as Ostrom whiffed Hampel and Hoffard. batting for Mick Miller. Adams singled In the eighth but was stranded when Crippen filed out to left for the third out. Crippen struck out five Mer chants and walked but one. while Ostrom fanned four and gave up no free passes. Cripper also fielded his position in grand style, coming up with six as sists and one putout. Box score: Omit Paae AB R R PO A R. Clayton. IB 4 0 1 14 0 Moore, as 0 0 0 4 Farthlnc. a a 0 0 4 1 Bnrkson. ef .8 0 0 1 0 Ostrom, p , 0 0 0 1 Stout, rf 0 0 0 0 Williams. If O 1 0 Laubaeh 3b S 0 113 B. Clayton. Sb S 0 0 TntaJs Madford Oltsea. to Coo. 3b Plena, cf Hampal. lb -Ulnar, rf ...... a Hoffard. rf arrck. aa Fawoelt. If Mama, e cnppan. p .asm it AB P. H PO A . 1 1 i 1 . 0 0 s .10 0 10 .S 0 0 1 1 .10 0 10 .1 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 S 0 0 0 1 . 0 1 0 -001 Totala J 1 rt IS S Battad foe Miller In 7th O. Pass 00O 000 PTC 0 kixtiord 100 000 cox 1 Errors: Hampal. R. Clsvten. B Clayton: Threa-baae hita: oitsan: sscrumi: Plena. Doubia piarv warrck to Hampal: PsrarrtS to Olt sn to Hampal: Basra on balls- Crlp- : pan t: Btnka-oiita: Crlprn 5 Otror 4; Fasasd balls: Ailama. rr!h:n I Vmplraa: Aelwson and W:i:nmi. I Tlma I JO. Natchitoches, the site of Lou isiana State Normal college, was the f:rt white settlement in Lc;:i'isna founded in 1714. four years before New Orleans. Trainer Clears Whirlaway Mystery; Horse Needs Work By Sid Feder New York, June 9 (P One of the Jones cleared up the mystery of Whirlaway today. ine explanation was as sim ple as dunking a doughnut. The only thing wrong with the Ken tucky cannonball, back there when they were labelling him "bum" all the way from Aga warn to Agua Caliente, was that he just wasn't getting enough work. Since Trainer Ben Jones still was busy reading over the con gratulations that poured in for Whirly's Belmont stakes tri umph Saturday, Young Jimmy, Ben's son and assistant, came up with the story of whythe colt's form chart looked like the zig-zag trail a fly takes mean dering across a bald head. The chief thing wrong with Whirly when he was flounder ing -around back there, said Jimmy, was that as soon as he was given a vacation of a couple weeks he wanted to make a habit of it. But when he was kept punching the clock regu larly, he won his 2-year-old championship, followed It up by climbing into the "horse hall of fame" as the fifth triple crown winner in history, and now looms as a distinct threat to Seabiscuit's all-time money-winning record. "It's not that he's lazy," Jim my pointed out, "but we found that when we took him away from the track for two, three weeks and let him Idle, he for got all about how to run. Then it takes him time to straighten out again and learn about racing once more. He's that whacky." SILVERTON LOSES IN LEAGUE DEBUT By the Associated Press Not even a new state league baseball team could stop the rampaging Albany Alcos and the 1940 state champions re tained undefeated status yester day (Sunday) by defeating Sil verton, 4-3. Silverton made an auspicious first appearance with homers by Jack Richards and Ken Man ning in the Initial Inning good for three runs, but Red Miller, Albany pitcher, who hasn't lost a game In months, blanked them thereafter. Albany coupled time ly hits with Silverton errors for the winning runs. Klamath Falls trimmed the Eugene Athletics twice, but only one game counted on league rec ords. A Saturday night exhibi tion game was won, 12-9, and the regular encounter yesterday was 9-5. Bend walloped Toledo, 14-2, batting around the lineup in the fourth inning to score seven runs. Scores: Silverton 3 3 2 Albany 4 7 1 Toolson and Robertson; Mil ler and Amacher. Eugene 5 10 1 Klamath Falls 9 10 1 Wiltshire, Spencer and Bish op; Hanauska and Davis. Toledo 2 6 4 Bend 14 19 Eagleson, L. Anderson and i Ball: Hatch and Kremers. When You REPLACE.. DEMAND For ALL CARS WELDING Arc & Acetylene Portable Welding Outfits Discs Sharpened by Cold Rolling No Heating No Grinding BERGMAN'S SHOP 118 South Bartlett f boys finally WOW THEK2? STAMD National League W. L. Brooklyn St, Louis New York Cincinnati , Chicago Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia , .33 .34 .24 ..24 ..21 ..18 16 16 Cleveland Boston ... Chicago .. New York Detroit Philadelphia St. Louis Washington 17 34 Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. .694 Sacramento .. San Diego Seattle Hollywood San Francisco Los Angeles Portland . Oakland 43 33 31 30 31 28 26 -26 19 31 30 30 S3 33 34 36 .516 .508 .500 .484 .444 .433 .419 Scores Yesterday National Cincinnati 3. Brooklyn 2. New York 7-12, St. Louis 5-7. Chicago 3-1. Boston 1-13. Pittsburgh 12-2, Philadelphia 23. American Boston 9-3, Chicago 3-0. Cleveland 7-8. Philadelphia 4-6. Washington 9, Detroit 3. New York 9-8, St Louis 3-3. Pacific Coast San Diego 3-1, Portland 2-0 (first game 17 innings.) Hollywood 9-0, San Francisco 4-1. Los Angeles 13-4, Oakland 10-0. Sacramento 9-4, Seattle 4-1. Western International Wenatchee 8-6, Salem 9-9. Yakima 7-0, Tacoma 1-9. Vancouver at Spokane post poned. HUSKIES SLATE GRID OPENERS FOR 5 YEARS Seattle, June B. VP) Inter- sectional football openers through 1943 were announced over the week-end by Ray Eck man. University of Washington athletic director. This September, of course. It's Minnesota at Seattle. In 1942 Amos Alonzo Stagg'i College of the Pacific eleven will come north from Stockton. Calif. In 1943 Kansas State of the Big Six conference will open here Then in 1944 the home-and- home arrangement with Minne sota will be resumed, with the Huskies at Minneapolis, and the Gophers here in 1949. Admiral Francois Darlan of 1! France holds the British Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian or- ider. and TRUCKS OVERLOAD SPRINGS... For TRUCKS and PASSENCCR CARS with HOUSE TRAILERS Phone 2771 American League W. L. 34 20 26 20 28 22 28 22 27 24 24 26 16 32 GOLFERS ASKED TO POST SCORES! Club Pro Laddie Selkirk to day requested that all competi tors in the Barker Palm Beach tournament post their week-end scores at the Rogue Valley course clubhouse so that en trants will know who they play next. Selkirk said that many golfers failed to post results of their Saturday and Sunday matches. nYiais laiil 1 1 II i aiajVs TstlTfl 1 1 MA -n i - III laasl On The New JSa$-jS!tu 2eJe CHAMPION TIRES Don't miss this money-saving opportunity to equip your car with the FIRST and ONLY tire made that is Sajti-Sured the new Firestone DeLuxe Champion. Itis5j-Crcagainstskids and blowouts and Salti-Surtd for longer non-skid mileage. This may be your last chance for a long time to buy Firestone quality tires at prices, so buy now! THIS YEAR'S BIO TIRE BARGAIN ?i atstA. aVS) J. CONVOY TIRES know of no other tire thai delivers so much mileage and safety at such s low price. 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