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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 12, 1041.
Sport
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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.
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By Judson Bailey
Associated Press Writer
It takes a great ball club
to survive a series of Injuries
such as the St. Louis Cardinals
have been getting.
In the course of beating the
Philadelphia Phillies, 3-2 in ten
innings last night, the Cardinals
lost the services of Third Base
man Jimmy Brown for about
three weeks because of a broken
finger on his throwing hand.
A month ago their regular
catcher. 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. George Lusk, about
68, Sandy, was killed outright
and Ivan Parkinen of Gresham,
the driver, died later in a hos
pital here.
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Seattle, June 12. OP) CracTte
ate managers and athletic direc
tors planned to join newspaper,
men today in the "death watch"
outside the chamber where Paci
fic coast conference faculty rep
resentatives were plunged In
heavy discussion over suggested
changes In the Atherton -purity
code."
The managers and directors
cleaned up the bulk of their
work yesterday and last night,
Including a batch of recommen
dations for code changes.
Their recommendations are
now before the conference's "su
preme court," and one director
said "we're not going to leave
town until they act on our stuff.
I don't want 'em to wait until
we're gone before they rule on
it."
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