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Newspaper Page TextPAGE srx MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1041. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulett Says: Braddock Claim Billy Conn Will Win LouU' Toga Golfers Urged to Enter British War Relief Tournament It might be Jut more of the old buildup, of which Uncle Mike Jicobi is part master, but when you read the words of wis dom of plenty of box fight char acters concerning the upcoming Billy Conn-Joe Louis scrap for the heavyweight works, the more you feel that handsome William actually may be the gent to lower Louis from the throne. Take Jim Braddock, for ex ample. The former champion, who lost his crown io the Brown Bomber, has come out with a prediction that Conn will cap ture the title in their 15-round engagement at the Polo Grounds next Wednesday night, June 18. Braddock Is not the only well known mitt figure who has tabbed Conn to larrup Louis, but we do believe he is as keen n analyst of the situation as bas yet set forth his ideas. Braddock always did have sawy, and because of that we, for one, were more than pass ably Interested In what he had to aay about the battle. The following is what Braddock told the Associated Press and. as we have one seed against Bill New land's three that Conn cops, we hope that Jim is correct: "Joe LouU Is in for trouble when he risks his heavyweight championship against Billy Conn at New York's Polo Grounds June 18. I think Louis at his peak wai the greatest fighter I've ever aeen, good boxer and murderous puncher. But he to past his peak. He has never met a boxer as good as Conn. And he has never faced a chal lenger who moves about or throws punches as fast as Conn. "It has been nearly four years since LouU won the championship from me. June St, 1937. - He has turned back the challenges of many con tenders, some of them good men. But time has changed him. He isn't the hungry, am bitious fighter he was. He isn't as fast. And his punches don't carry the sip they did a year or two ago. Mediocre fighters have taken his Bun day punches without going down. He has softened up. He gets cut occasionally now. Ke gets hit with punches he would have dodged before. "Conn will not be hit any where near as often a those bigger, slower fighters Joe has beaten. Some ray Conn, when he is hit, will lose his temper and try to slug with Joe. I don't think so. I think he will be too smart. Anyway, it will be a great fight and here's how I think it will go: "In the opening rounds Conn dances around, in and out, al ways on the move and hitting Louis with lots of left Jabs. Louis stalks him, trying to block Conn's punches, not killing blow.s but tantalizing. "Conn feints Louis and Joe throws counter punches at fancy dancing Conn who has moved away. Then, as Louis leaves himself open, the chal lenger belts him with right up percuU and left jabs. "Along about the sixth round Louis Is mining punches bndly. His left eye plainly shows wear and tear from Conn's uppercuts. Joe begins to worry now and Billy is steadily gaining confi dence. Conn is fesher than Louis as they slow up In the middle rounds. Billy has re-acted well from the frw punches Joe has hit him. Conn has peppered Louis with light blows and the Champ Is puzzled. "As they move Into the clos ing rounds Conn is far ahead en points. He oosee confi dence and is more daring, hit ting Joe with harder blows. LeuU ts deiperete. taking chances and punching wildly, with Conn taking the edvant age to ram borne more blows. "In the final rounds Louis rea lizes only a knockout ran save his crown. He takes the offen sive, rushing Conn and punching with both hands but Conn eludes him. keeps pumping those Jabs nd uppereuts. Conn wins the 15 round decision and champion ship." ROGUES TO PRACTICE 5:30 THIS AFTERNOON The Medford Rogues, who travel to Crescent City next Sun day for their fifth Southern Ore gon league game, will work out at the high school park at 5 30 tonight. Paul Hess is slated to pitch against the coast club, with the rest of the lineup the same. The team will leave Lewis Super Service station at 8 o'clock Sun day morning. 1 8 HOLE BOGEY AFFAIR OPEN 10 GENERAL PUBLIC Local Tourney Slated for Saturday or Sunday; Golf Balls to All Entrants Not alone club members, but the entire golfing public, were urged by Club Pro Laddie Sel kirk today to enter the British War Relief society's nation-wide tournament next Saturday and Sunday, with local shotmakers, both men and women, to play on the beautiful Rogue Valley course. Although the national toumey will be in the form of an 18-hole handicap affair, Medford's tour nament will be a blind bogey event to give everyone an equal chance to win the prize. Those entering may play their 18 holes either on Saturday or Sunday, and will have the use of the course for any further play they desire. A nominal entrance fee will be charged, half of which will go to the British War Relief so ciety for the rehabilitation of British civilian air raid victims, and the other half will be used to purchase a 73-cent golf ball and a greens marker, which will be presented to every tourna ment competitor, along with a special prize to the winner of the tourney. Selkirk empha sized that the tournament en-, trance fee would include greens fees, and that no other charges would be made. To Aid War Victims The tournament, to be held next week-end at leading golf and country clubs throughout the nation, will enable 4,000.000 golfers to express their apprecia tion for the contribution made by the people of Great Britain to the game of golf, in addition to providing funds to care for victims of the aerial warfare over England. Teh tournament is sponsored by the British War Relief so ciety in cooperation with 800 committees throughout the United States, and a committee of golf enthusiasts headed by Robert T. (Bobby) Jones. The Rogue Valley Golf club is coop erating 100 per cent in the worth while cause, and a large number of entrants are hoped for and expected, Selkirk said. TRIMS ANGELS, 6-2; By the Associated Press If the San Francisco Seals could play all their series in their own ball park, they might be pacing the field in the coast league pennant rare. They subdued the Seattle Ral- niers last night, 7 to 8, for their second straight win over last year's champions. Sacramento duplicated 1U Tuesday night win by knocking off Hollywood, 10 to 3. Outhlt by Los Angeles, Port' land squeezed six runs out of five hits for a 6 to 2 win. Joe Callahan, Yankee farm hand re cently acquired, got rredit for the victory in his first starting assignment. He gave up nine hits. I Herman Reich poled his sec ond home run of the series to 'give Portland a 2 to 0 lead In the first. The slugging first sarker drove out a homer in the 11th to give Portland a 2 to 1 vlrtory the preceding night. San Diego trounred Oakland 8 to 0 for lta sixth straight It-ague triumph. The srore: R. H. E. Portland 200 202 000 8 0 L. A 000 010 0102 9 1 Callahan. Orrell and Srhultt; Fiores, Coffman and Collins. CRATER CYCLONE E: 27 TO 6 Portland Kids Shine in 26 Hit Attack Willard Smith Is Credited With Win Manager Lou Sauer said a couple of weeks ago that it wouldn't be long until the Med ford Craters had some guys who could belt that ball around a little, and, brother, he wasn't fooling. A half dozen Portland high school all-stars made their local debut against Dorris of the Northern California league at the fairgrounds park last night, and when the cyclone died down along about 11:45, a weary checkup by the scorekeeper dis closed that those yammering, hustling, fired-up youngsters, aided and abetted by other Crater regulars, had whaled out 28 scorching basehlts, stolen no less than 13 bases and scored the astronomical total of 27 runs. Dorris managed to tally six times, so the final score, sub ject to a second checkup, was 27 to 8. Probably nothing like that of fensive exhibition has ever been seen here before not even last year's Pacific Greyhound mas sacre of the Craters, 23 to 10, can compare with it. They Just couldn't get the crashing-Craters out of there as the entire team, apparently taking their cue from the capricious Portland kids, hit like fiends, ran like wild men and hustled like their lives de pended on It. RoberU Starts Three hurlers were used by the locals, with 17-year-old Wll- lard Smith, who relieved vet eran Freddie Roberta In the third Inning, getting credit for the victory. Smith gave up six hits and three runs in his 8 2-3 Innings of toil. Jack Brown, right-hander from Portland's Franklin high, flung the ninth and set the Lumberjacks down In order. Roberts, making his first start for the Craters, was wild, walk ing five men and cutting loose with a pair of wild pitches. He yielded three hits and three runs in his 2 1-3 innings of labor be fore Smith came to the rescue with one out In the third. Bearing the brunt of the al most unbelievable Crater bat ting attack was Burton Swope, who was with Portland's Beav ers part of last season and the Salem Senators early this year. The right-hander, relieving the starter, Bob Williams, in the ithird, was whscked for 18 blows and 20 runs. Williams, however. was charged with the loss as he waa rapped for eight hlU and seven tallies before Swope could take over. Aiding the Crater cause were eight Dorris errors, three by I Catcher Prevolos, who also had four passed balU. But despite those Lumberjack fielding mis haps, the Craters couldn't have been stopped last night by any thing less than a machine-gun quadron. t In Eighth T.a.r of iniPN nrnhihlfa a ft. I tailed description of the Crater run-making, so suffice it to re port that tne locals failed only in the sixth frame to ring the gong, with a nine-run eighth and a six-run fifth proving the big gest heats. Dorris tallied five in the third and one in the fourth. Leading the Crater plate ex plosion was Spike Johnson, the lanky first-sacker from Jeffer son, with four singles in five trips: Al Llghtner, with an In-side-the-park homer with the bases empty and a triple; Del Schroer, with a triple and three singles; Billy Calvert, with three singles; Joe Gray, with three singles. All the Portland boys, with the exception of Pitcher Brown, whammed out at least two blows. The Dorris workout put the Craters in fine fettle for their two-game series with the Klam ath Falls Pelicans here Satur day night and Sunday afternoon, the latter game to count in Ore gon State league standings. Box score: Dorris AB R H PO A Marshall. 3b IIS Brook. Sb .... S Roth, is 6 OWTHE3 National League W. L. St. Louis ..... Brooklyn Cincinnati New York Chicago Pittsburgh Boston Philadelphia 37 18 34 17 28 28 23 25 24 28 20 25 17 30 18 34 American League W. L. Cleveland New York Boston Chicago Detroit Philadelphia St. Louis Washington .. 38 20 29 22 28 20 28 23 28 24 24 28 18 32 17 38 Pacific Coast League W. L. Sacramento San Diego San Francisco Seattle Hollywood . Portland . Los Angeles Oakland .- 43 18 35 31 33 33 . 31 32 .- 30 32 28 34 . 28 37 ... 28 38 Pet. .698 .867 .500 .500 .480 .444 .362 .320 Pet. .643 .369 .565 .549 .547 .462 .333 .321 Pet. .703 .530 .500 .492 .484 .452 .431 .406 CARDS WIN, BUT LOSE INFIELDER F( Mclntyre, cf . Reed, cf Duracha. lb Hatfield. U Burman. if Montgomery, rf ratur, rf Prevoloe, e Williams, p Swope p Totala Mfdfnrd Schroer, as Churchill. Sb Johnson, lb -Oray. rf ,. Sauer, cf . Llghtner, ef . Martenaon, If Vols, 3b Calvert, e Roelandt. e Robert, p S3 6 34 10 AB R H PO A 3 1 3 3 Fights Last Night By the Associated Press Buffalo, N. Y. Gua Dorazlo. 187, Philadelphia, outpointed Clarence Jones, 184, Buffalo (10); Joey Pirrone, 137, Cleve land, stopped Harris Blake, 136, Buffalo, (2). Oakland. Calif. Odell Pulee. 189, Los Angeles, KO'd Leroy Evans, 206, Buffalo. N. Y. (4). smith, p . Brown, p tsiater 6 11O0 0 0 0 O 0 ..X 0 0 0 0 Touts 51 37 JS 37 11 sBatted for Smith In Sth. Dorris 008 100 0OO 6 Medford 31S 390 38137 Errors: Marshall 3, Roth 3. Dura cha. Prevolos 3. Volk, Calvert 3, Rob erta; Two-baaa hits; Bauer, Mont gomery; ThrM-baM htta: Schroer. Churchill. Llghtner; Home runs: Llahtner; Stolen bases: Schroer 3. Johnson 3. Oray 3. Sauer 3. Marten son 3. Calvert, Roelandt 3. Hatfield 3, Duracha, Marshall; Sacrifices: Hatfield, RoberU. Oray; Double plays: Marshall to Duracha; Baaea on balla: Williams 3. Swope 3. Roberu 8. Smith 3: strlke-outs: Swope 6, Smith I. Brown 1; Hits off: Williams a for 7 runs In 3 3-8 Innings; Smith 6 for 9 runa in 6 3-S: Swope IS for 30 runs In S 1-3: RoberU 3 for 3 runa In 3-13: Brown 0 runs In 1: Wild pi tehee: Williams 3, Swope 1. RoberU 3. Smith I; Passed balls: Prevolce 4; Winning pitcher: Smith: Losing pitcher: Wil liams; Umpires: Lennard and Miles: Time 3:48. Scores Yesterday National Boston S, Cincinnati 0. Chicago 3-7. New York 2-8. St. Louis 3. Philadelphia 2 (10 InnlngsV Pittsburgh 8. Brooklyn 1. American Cleveland 6. Washington 4. Detroit 3. Philadelphia 2. Other games postponed, rain lUly la planning construction of a plant to recover magnes'um and bromine from sea water, the department of commerce reports, i. Pscilic Coast San Diego 8, Oakland 0. San rrancisco 7. Seattle 5. ' Portland 6, Los Angeles 3. Sarramento 10, Hollywood 1. Western International Vancouver 4. Yakima 3. Taroma 7. Salem 3. Wenatchee 8. Spokane 7. doeing- lime rot Too Late to else au'J ads la 140 p. as. m33r I It's the perfect blend Inn with fun in the sunl 1 J 33 fi ne brews blended to make ONE great beer Fibit Blue Ribbon is smooth, delicious, and -y ih utt. Why? 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Rookie Walker Cooper, suffered a broken bone in his shoulder and a dislocation of his collarbone and since then both First Baseman Johnny Mire and Second Baseman Frank (Creepy) Crespi have had broken fingers. This triumph lifted St. LouU two full games ahead of the second-place Brooklyn Dodgers, who were shellacked. 8-1, by the Pittsburgh Pirates in another night struggle. Dick Errickson, who had won only one previous game, pitch ed the Boston Braves to a three I hit, 2-0 shutout of the Cincinnati Reds in a duel with Bucky Walters. The Chicago Cubs and New York Giants divided a double header, the Cubs winning, 3-2, and then losing, 7-8. The Cleveland Indians en hanced their lead by whipping the Washington Senators, 6-4, and the Detroit Tigers downed the Philadelphia Athletics, 5-2. Portland, June 12. UP) A log truck swerved into a ditch to avoid a train west of Gresham yesterday and both its occupants were killed. 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