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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MATL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY. JUNE 10, 1941 Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Ken Williams Had Plan To Elevate St. Louis Browns The St. Loult Browns gave the ' old heave-ho to Fred Kaney last week and grabbed Luke Scwell, Cleveland coach, to replace him : on the managerial throne. Rea ' son for the change was no mys ; tery, of course, to those who have followed the misfortunes of the Brownies for these many years. For the past 11 campaigns St. Louis' American league entry has floundered in the second di , vision, and the shift in managers was Just another attempt by the . club owners to lift the team out of the doldrums. Sewell is the umty-umpth skipper to take the reins in the past decade. v We were talking to Ken Wll- liams about the club Sunday, when the former major league star came here to umpire the ; Rogue-Grants Pass game and t cast an eye on his 18-year-old son. Kenneth, Jr., who plays leftfield for the Climate city out fit. Ken, Sr., Incidentally, took . his ancient 42-ounce war club out of the moth balls and gave it to the boy to use against the i Rogues. It was one of the bats ,' Ken used when he swatted 39 ; homers for the Browns in 1922 , to lead the Iood In round-trippers, and it still had a base hit ' left in it. Ken, Jr., dropped a single into leftfield on his first trip to the plate. Anyway, Ken gave us an in--sight on what he considers has been the main trouble with the Browns In all their poor years. And, If anybody not directly con nected with the club should know of what he speaks, Ken Williams most Certainly is that gent. It was with the Browns that Ken spent most of his 12 years in the big show, and It was he, along with George Sls ler, who batted them into second place under the Yankees in 1922. Only once before, in 1903, had the Browns finished second; they have never won the pennant. "In 1937 that team of '22 had a reunion in St. Louis which I attended," Ken re called, "and I got pretty fair look at the club in several games against the Yanks. Af ter watching them play under Rogers Hohniby, who was run ning the club, I went to the front office and made them proposition. This was the day after Hornsby was canned and Jim Bottomley had been put In to run the team. "Well, I said to them. 'I can pull these guys into the first di vision in two years. I'm so sure of it that I'll take the club on en arrangement that If I don't. I don t get any money.' Ken laughed, "they looked at me like I was craiy, and maybe I was. But I knew what I'd do with the team, and when they asKea me now I planned to pull the Browns Into the first division In two years. I told them. "1 explained that they weren't hustl!ng on the field and that would be my point of attack. The players didn't seem to give a d n, which is a rather com mon attitude among players on a club that can't afford to pay major league salaries. They were playing only for their next pay day. or for a sale to a richer club, and I actually saw the start of an Inning delayed while a St. Louis outfielder walked slowly to his position on the field, Just like a dead-pants busher." Ken said. "I told them I'd make It clear to the players that they hid to hustle on the field, but that after the game they could do as they pleased. Yes. parties at night, a few drinks, anything they wanted iuit so they hustled during working hours. That's the main thing, and to me. It looked like the Browns had enough natural atuti to reach the first division if they played ball for keeps." However, Ken related, his pro position to the team owners .. - -. . . .. uiun i cairn noia and he re turned to Grants Pass, where he is a night patrolman for the city police. Ken's Idea of putting the plav es entirely on their own. Just so long as they hustled on the dia mond, might have worked, at that. It certainly couldn't have done much harm when von check and discover the Brown.lon c- "escott. 71. former Au- finished seventh in 1938. last In 1939 and sixth last season. He mlght've had something there. Washington. June 10 P Senator McNary (R.-Ore ) has offered a measure (S1612) In the senate authorizing the ad ministrator of tho Bonneville nroieet V. ! free" of toll. ,h.-"hS bridge, acros. the Polnmhi. ! river at Cascade Lock, and Hood River, Ore. Nyssa, Malheur Ore., June 10 (Pi county beet growers received more than $33,000 this week in payment for the 1940 rrnP' Rising Reds Rap Brooks Again; Threaten Third Place , 1 I ... ! I CHIPS REGISTER 9 TO 7 VICTORY ON LATE-GAME RALLY Loss Drops Dodgers To Sec ond Place Behind Cards Prey Homers, Doubles. By Judson Bailey (Associated Press Writer) The Cincinnati Reds are be ginning to win like champions, even If they don't always look like baseball's kingpins. Taken game by game during the past couple weeks the Reds have been the beneficiaries of more lucky victories than you could shake a bat at. But they all add up to a sudden surge that has brought the world champions eight triumphs in their past 10 games, lifting them within a half game of third place in the National league. The Reds have been in a bat ting slump all season. For the first five innings yesterday Hugh Casey of the Brooklyn Dod iters held them hitless. Their first single in the sixth was wasted. Then In the last three Innings they made nine blows, including a home run, four doubles and a triple, coming off with a 9-7 vic tory and making the Dodgers yield the circuit lead to the St. Louis Cardinals who trounced the New York Giants, 6-2. Pirates Win Lonnle Frey,. a one-time Dodger, was the big gun In the Reds victory, driving in four tallies with a homer In the eighth and a double in the ninth One of the fine pitching per formances of the day was a six hitter by Rookie Aldon Wil- kle of the Pittsburgh Pirates, who shut out the Philadelphia Phillies, 5-0. The Pirates got to Lee Grissom for a run In the fourth and finished strong against his relief for pairs of runs in the seventh and eighth. The Chicago Cubs set off a 21-hit fireworks display at Bos ton to beat the Braves 13-6, and present 42-year-old Charley Root the 197th victory of his career. Root coasted along, allowing 14 hits but no walks. Yesterday was an open date for all American league clubs. Hints tie i II Portland. Ore.. June 10 m Lou Jennings, Portland, be came odds-on favorite to retain his Oregon amateur golf cham pionship as he fired a 71, only par of the day on the Oswego Lake Country club course yes terday. Jennings, who is an automatic qualifier because of his title, was not seeking medal honors in the first round, and insisted that Harold Salvador, Portland, who shot a 73, should be ranked as low scorer. Jennings' "prac tice round," however, was post ed with the others' scores. Matt Hatula. Portland, came in with a 74. and seven players had 733. They were Bob Heifer. Marty Leptick, Bob McReyn-i olds, Ray Isaacs, all Portland; Dick Hanen, University of Ore gon; Reg Ott. Oswego, and George Beechler, Hood River. GOLF WIZARD RAISES MONEY FOR BRITAIN London. June 10. (.f Eng land's finlf wirarri Tfunrv t-nt. ton. has turned his fairway magic into cash for Britain. The 1934 and 1937 r,rltlsh open champion has raised $104.- m for the Red Cross and St. John's ambulance fund in ex hlbltlon matches last fall and this spring. Sports In general have contri buted $557,456 to the two or ganizations. Former Publisher Dies Portland, June 10 i.V Nel- ror" ,n1 c""don newspaper ''"b,ih,'r - died here yesterday. The widow and a son survive. San Francisco Butter Sin Francisco. June 10 i.Pi Butter: 92 score, 37c; 91 score. 35c; 90 score. 35c; 89 score. 34c. c . - Sacramento. June 10-.- fd ,r.d. MuV"'''" !nd ,r,d'' 381C' 21lic: POISON OAK? Try a bottle el ZEMACOL "" e mutiea M root none, ciwenaii, refunded oei a koiti, Htef at HtattaM 1 uuitt. I Casting Expert m WCJ5u3 Scheduled to give a free clinic for anglers on the courthouse lawn from 4 to 7 p. m. Wednes day is Roy L. (Doc) Haslett, the "Gypsy Angler," who is shown with Mrs, Haslett after a very successful fishing trip.. Haslett, who will appear here under the auspices of the Rogue River Sportsmens club, invites all anglers to bring their tackle to the clinic and receive his free Instruction. TONIGHT; MINERS FACE SEALS By the Associated Press Ambitious Hollywood, fresh from a decisive victory over San Francisco, tackles league-leading Sacramento In the feature series of Coast league baseball this week. In taking five out of seven games from the Seals, the Stars didn't seem able to do anything 1 wrong nor the Seals anything ; right. The Stars will be able to show Just how good they are when they go up against Sacramento on the Senators' home grounds In a seven-game series starting tonight. Kicked around by Hollywood last week, San Francisco opens a seven-game series with Seattle tonight. Only a half game ahead of Seattle, San Diego will have a pretty good chance to make its second place stronger when it starts its scries against Oakland tonight. Los Angeles will entertain Portland, the results probably determining which team will temporarily hold sixth and sev enth spots. Louis Gerlinger Dies Portland. Ore., June 10 (P) Louis Gerlinger, 88, retired lumberman who once had ex tensive holdings in Pacific Northwest railroads, died here yesterday of bronchial pneu monia. At one time he was president of the Columbia Val- '' - v "''road, Willamette Valley uumber company and Slletx L.umber company. KLAMATH FALLS JOCKEY CLUB Eight Day Race Meeting Evenings I p.m. June II, 12. 13. 18, l, 20 Afternoons 2 p.m., June 14 k 21 ttOOO in Purs. Pari Mutual Betting t nrtr lrene h Oregon Piste vunnc Comm. Fairgrounds Klsmath Tails. Or. Admission 75c I PISH LIBERATION IS BY E Liberation of trout in waters of Oregon is now on In full blast, with crews operating in various sections of the state, the Oregon state game commission has announced. Four new liber ation trucks have been placed In service, all equipped with pumps that keep water in the I tanks circulating, thus provid I ing necessary oxygen required I to keep the fish in good condi tion. In addition to the large trucks, the commission is also using tu smaller three-quarter ton trucks, on which new port able tanks are being carried. , Pack strings have also been j placed in service to plant the wicia u, ma iiign aiuiuaes with fish. Special pack cans to carry fish have been constructed for use on the horses of the pack string, and back pack cans are also available to the men who will plant fish in waters that cannot be reached , easily by horses. The latter cans are built to fit on the back of a man. The first pack string went into service on May 26 in the Wil lamette national forest where 16 lakes in the northern end of the forest are to be planted with both eastern brook and rainbow trout. The fish are be ing transferred from the Klam ath hatchery to the Fall River hatchery to supply the pack train. Recent liberations have been made in various sections of the state including: rainbow trout from the Klamath hatchery; native cutthroat from the Alsea hatchery; Chinook salmon from the federal Butte Falls hatch ery. Liberations planned for the immediate future Include rain bow and eastern brook from the Union hatchery Into waters of eastern and southeastern Ore gon, large native cutthroat in waters of the Alsea river system from the Alsea station and yearling spring rainbow from the Klamath hatchery into the waters of south central Oregon. 4iOW THEY CT2. V Pet. ' St. Louis 688 .673 j .311 1 Brooklyn New York Cincinnati Chicago .. Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia . Others unchanged. national League W. L. 33 16 33 16 24 23 23 23 22 25 19 24 16 29 16 32 kS.. , .... SOME T H I N C TO BLOW A 8 O U Twtim It eemes to leather luncs. Bandman Merle Evsns Is rliht up there with the best, for In the last tt yrm with a blc circus he and his eornet hsve blared forth at least 1 .231,000 selections And tint's a lot of wind. As band leader, he plars an averase of ITS numbers a per formance, twe performances a day, 160 days a season. O GREEN PINE SLABS Big Heaping Lead 300 cu. ft. 12 or 16-inch Fill your car er trailer at our yard at th nd of North Central At, and McAndrtws Road Timber Products Company Phone Hit I Hail to the AJt First among those to congratulate the new National Ooen Golf champion. Craig Wood champion. Little clasped his arms around his successor after Wood left the green where he dropped a 30-foot putt for score of 284. three strokes better than the second man. The tourney was held in Fort Worth, E FOR DORRIS TILT; Medford's State league Crat ers, revitalized by the signing of six Portland high school all stars and Catcher Billy Calvert, jwill workout at the fairgrounds park at 5:30 p. m. today in prep aration for their exhibition game with the Dorris (Cal.) Lumber- Jacks under the lights here Wednesday night at 8:30. Returning to Medford with the club Sunday, following the Hills Creek victory, were a half dozen youthful diamond lumin aries from Washington, Frank lin and Jefferson high schools in Portland. All the lads are 17 and 18 years old, and were se lected on the All-Portland inter scholastic nine this season. Placing their signatures to Crater contracts were Jack Brown, right-handed pitcher from Franklin; Frank Roelandt, catcher from Franklin; Spike Johnson, first baseman from Jefferson; Bobby Volk, second baseman from Washington; Bob Churchill, third sacker from Franklin, and Harold Marten son, third baseman and outfield- er from Jefferson. Martenson P'aycd in the State league last year with Ray Brooks' Portland Babes. Vo,k was the only one of the .500lflx wto saw action against Hills .468 Creek Sunday, and he turned in .442 8 flawless fielding Job at second .356 bnse- A" of them are expected .333 1 t0 P'ay Part or 811 the game against Dorris tomorrow eve ning. End North Cfntzal r 1 , , - i - I New Champ m, r 1 (left), was Lawson Little. 1940 Texas. AT Medford tennis players will have the opportunity of playing on three of the finest concrete courts in the state when the floodlighted courts under con struction at the senior high school are opened to the public in about three weeks. The courts, all full-length, will have a medium grey surface with inlaid yellow lines. The distance from backstop to back stop will be 120 feet, providing for the deepest back-court play. Twenty-four 1000-watt flood lights will illuminate the courts for night-time players, and it is the plan of City School Super intendent E. H. Hedrick to op erate the courts on a self-sustaining basis. Meters will be in stalled, with after-dark players to pay for their use of the flood lights. There will be no charge in the daytime. Construction work on the courts is largely done by em ployes of the Medford school district. When the courts are ready for play, Medford will have six con crete courts, three being at Jun ior high school, and three city owned dirt courts. LA. LUCK ON ROGUE Among enthusiastic fishermen on Rogue river yesterday was Dr. L. A. J. LaMotte. eye special ist from Los Angeles, who with his wife are here for two or three weeks' fishing and to visit their old friends, Mr. and Mrs. C. S. Butterfield. Yesterday's trip resulted In a nice catch of trout and 12 pound salmon, the largest one. of course, estimated at about 20 pounds got away. The doctor's enthusiasm and fish stories of his catch last year will bring several of his friends to the valley this year to try their luck. The doctor and wife will make the trip again in September. Cm Mm Tribune want ads. MX tests? Pill WISH RELIEF FOR THIS WEEK Club Pro Laddie Selkirk to day reminded all members of the Rogue Valley Golf club of the handicap tournament for the British War Relief society. Play er, entering the tournament, a nation-wide affair, will receive a golf ball in a specially wrapped box, and a green-marker, with the low net scorer winning a special prize. The tournament is officially slated for Saturday. June 14, but Selkirk said that local en trants could shoot their 18-hole medal rounds any time this week. Payment of the small en trance fee will enable every en trant to play 18 holes on the Rogue Valley course with greens fees eliminated. The annual Barker Palm Beach tournament continued over the week-end. Following are the results: Championship Flight Ike Staples defeated Cid Reaney, 2 and 1; George Har rington defeated Jack Creger. 1 up: Leland Clark defeated Ho bart Price. 2 and 1: Leland Clark defeated Ike Stapics, 6 and 5: Eddie Simmons defeated George Harrington on 19th hole. First Flight Lee Watson defeated Orln Schenck, 1 up; D. Irving de feated R. Moore, 1 up; Ben Trow bridge defeated Frank Perl on 19th hole; Dave Irving defeated Lee Watson, 2 up; Ben Trow is a a a PL $ 1 a OING RSI i take the Tribune along! om needn't miss an Issue of the Mail Tribune whilo you're away on vacation Just drop the coupon below In the mall with your vacation address and we'll sea that your copy is mailed to you dailv! People tell u. they enjoy this service . . . that home town new. keep them up to date . . . help, them enjov their vacation more! THE MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE: PUase mall m my copy of thTribun from to t8 th following address: SUBSCRIBER ' HOME ADDRESS VACATION ADDRESS.. post orrict bridge and Jack Horner in play off. Second Flight Eddie Nichols defeated H. Cleland, 1 up: Max Pierce de feated R. B. Hammond, Sr., 1 up; C. M. Kidd defeated Emil Mohr, 3 and 2; Gain Robinson defeated Bob Ebel, 2 and 1. Third Flight Justin Smith defeated S. A. Gibbs, 2 and 1; Ed Drysdale de feated Fred Scheffel, 3 and 1; E. Thornike defeated R. Royer. 2 and 1; John Cupp defeated John McLennon, 1 up; Justin Smith defeated Ed Drysdale on 24th hole; John Cupp defeated E. Thorndike 1 up. Fights Last Night By th Associated Press Cincinnati Ken Overlin. 162, Washington, outpointed Ezzard Charles, 161, Cincinnati (10). New York Abe Simon. 233, New York, stopped Pete Tama lonis. 179, Buffalo, N. Y. (2). Providence, R. I. Bobby "Poison" Ivy, 127, Hartford, Conn., outpointed Joey Archi bald. 124, Pawtuckett, R. I. (10) (non-title). Scores Yesterday National League Cincinnati 9. Brooklyn 7. Chicago 13, Boston 6. St. Louis 5, New York 2. Pittsburgh 3, Philadelphia American Lagu All teams idle. Coast League All teams idle. Western International Spokane 7, Vancouver 1. ' Others teams Idle. OID DRUM BRAND BfencecWhishy 0 0 90 Pnf-75C6 Gnin Neutral ,C1, Lyi9l41ICI AWAY I w m ni(i i i f '
