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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MATT. TRTBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON. SUNDAY, JUNE 15, 1941 Revived Craters Battle Klamath Falls in League Game; 2:30 P.M. PELICAN STAR 10 FACE BOB FOX IN Pitcher's Battle Expected When Mound Stars Vie This Afternoon. Bill Hanauska of the Pellcani and Bob Fox of the Craters are slated to take the mound for their resoectlve elubi today as Klamath Falls and Medford clash In a regular Oregon State league ball game at the fair grounds park. The opening pitch will . be at 2:30 o'clock sharp. The two trams met in an exhibition game last night. In view' of past records of the two pitchers, today's contest figures to develop Into an air tight hurlers' duel. Hanauska, short, stocky right-hander who flung this spring's Willamette university varsity into the runner-up position in the Northwest conference flag race, has won one and lost one game for the Pelicans thus far this year. He dropped a 6 to 4 decision to Albany, although whiffing 11, but came back to trim Eugene, 9 to 9, last Sunday. Fox, in two loop starts for the Craters, has broken even. He lost a heart-breaking 2 to 0 affair to the Bend Elks, but last Sunday scattered seven blows to turn back the Hills Creek Hillbillies, 8 to 2. He is the Craters' ace moundsman, and believes he can muffle the big bats of the hard-socking Pelicans, who currently hold down second place in the loop standings with three victories and one setback. Manager Lou Sauer of the sensational Crater kids, his con fidence bolstered by their 27 to 6 massacre of Dorris last Wed nesday eve, went on record Sat urday as predicting the locals would belt over Manager Ernie Bishop's Pelicans. "We are hit ting now," the skipper explain ed, "and with the pitching we can expect from Fox, I am con fident we will be able to take Klamath to the cleaners " The Craters will take the field with those Portland high school all-stars very much in evidence, though some of them won't start the game. The Med fords figure to open with Billy Calvert back of the plate. Spike Johnson or Al Fleishman on first, Bobby Volk on second, Del Schroer on short. Bob Churchill or Harold Martenson on third, Al Llghtner in left, Sauer In center and Joe (Gray Ghost) Gray In right Sauer plans to let Churchill and Mar tenson, who also 1s an out fielder, divide the third basing duties. With Johnson on first, the Craters would present an all-Portland high school In field. Klamath Falls, considered one of the two top teams in the State league, will open with Warren Wahner, fiery receiver, behind the bat; Paul Crapo on first. Manager Bishop on sec ond. Jack Lloyd on short, Ar land (Babe) Schwab on third. Reed in left, Peters in center and Clyde Carlstrom in right L STARTS TUESDAY The annual summer baseball school of the Medford school system, conducted by Riney Cook, Junior high school ath letic coach, will open Tuesday morning at 9 o'clock, and all youngsters in the county be tween 8 and 18 years of age are invited to enroll. There is no tuition charge of any kind, and all equipment Is provided by the school board. Boys enrolling are asked to fur nish only their own gloves or mitts, and shoes If thry desire. Classes will be held daily throughout the summer from 9 to 12 a m., except on Sun days and Mondays. Coach Cook, who handles the American Le gion Junior baseball team, said that boys showing promise would be given the opportunity of playing on the Legion Junior nine. RACING Los Angeles, June 14. oJV Painted Veil, given a rousing ride by Jockey Jack Westrope. today won the 110,000 Sequoia handicap at Hollywood park, sprinting the seven furlong route in 1:23 2 3. Auguray was second and Omelet third. Painted Veil paid 33 80, $2 00 and $2 20. Cm llu Tritium earn eua. BIRD SEASON IN J ODT. 22T0 NOV. 4 Special Antelope And Doe Mule Deer licenses Game Board Meets. Portland, June 14. VP) The state game commission dropped prices for antelope hunting licenses today at meeting In which seasons and bag limits for the 1941 season were established. Special antelope tags will cost $1 this year, against $5 previ ously, and 3,000 licenses will be offered sportsmen. Three thousand doe mule deer tags also will be Issued for the Ochoco area of Grant, Wheeler and Crook counties and 800 in the Fremont area of Lake and Klamath counties, selling for $2 each. They will entitle the hunt er to a doe in addition to the buck allowed on the regular hunting license. An unlimited kill of elk wiU be permitted on the designated ranges which were hunted in 1940 and no special cow elk licenses will be issued. The $5 elk tag is good for one kill of either sex. Season dates included: Antelope Sept. 22-Oct. 0 In Malheur county and Sept. 28 Oct. 8 in other designated hunt ing areas. Blacktailed deer Limit . one buck with forked horns, Sept. 20-Oct 23. Mule deer Sept. 20-Oct. 23. Elk Eastern Oregon open territory Nov. 1-18; western ter ritory (Coos and Douglas coun ties) Aug. 31-Sept. 7. Clatsop county elk areas closed to hunt ing this year. The Willamette valley, closed to pheasant hunting since 1939, will be opened for three days this season, with shooting dates Oct 22, 23 and 28 with a bag llmti of two cocks in one day and four for the entire season. No valley, mountain or bob white quail may be taken. Other bird seasons Included: Oct 22 Nov. 4 Jackson, Josephine, Douglas and Coos counties, four cock pheasants day, 12 for the season. Bag limit of 10 quail a day. Curry, Tillamook, Clatsop and Lincoln counties are closed. Eastern Oregon upland game bird regulations Oct. 22-Nov. 4, Klamath, Hood River, Wasco, Sherman, Killlam, Morrow, Umatilla, Wallowa, Un ion, Baker, Grant Crook and Deschutes counties, four cock pheasants a day, eight in any seven consecutive days. Bag limit of 10 quail a day. Oct. 22, 23, 28. 29, Nov. 1 and 2, Harney, Wheeler, Jeffer son and Lake counties, three pheasants a day, six for the sea son. Quail may be taken in Harney and Jefferson counties. Oct 22 Nov. 4 Hungarian partridge bag limit six birds a day in Wasco, Baker, Malheur, Morrow, Sherman, Umatilla, Un ion and Wallowa counties. Oct. 22-28 Blue grouse bag limit two birds a day, six for the season, in Clatsop and Co lumbia counties. Malheur county's pheasant and quail season will extend from Oct. 22 to Nov. 23 with a bag limit of four birds In one day, including one hen pheasant and a limit of 18 birds for the season. Bears were placed on the list of protected animals and the hunting season established from November 1 to 30 with a bag limit of one. Previously year round open seasons have pre vailed in all counties except Klamath, Jackson and Jose phine. CONTORTS The annual Rosa and Ross iteelhead fishing contest will open today and end October IS, land all anglers In the valley are Invited to enter at no cost I to themselves. The contest Is sponsored by Ross and Ross I store in Central Point and Ken ineth Powell of the Central I Point American. Winner of the contest will receive a "Granger Champion" fishing rod from Jim Rosa, pro prietor of the store, while the runner-up will be awarded a Shakespeare steelhead reel by rowell. White Salmon. Wash., June 14 WV Verdell Ragdale, graduate of Willamette university In Sa lem and high school coach here for three years, has signed as football baseball coach at Ca mas. Wash., high. PORTLAND LOSES TO ANGELS 3 TO 2, Los Angeles, June 14. VP) Merullo's single with two out': in the 11th Inning scored Moore from second and gave Los An geles a 8-2 victory over Portland today. In the fateful 11th, Moore had doubled with one away off Or rell. Storey then was purposely passed and Collins struck out. That set the stage for the winning hit by Merullo, one of the club's weakest batters. Inci dentally, it was his third hit of the game. Coffman, who took over the Angel pitching post in the eighth after Weiland retired for a pinch bitter, got credit for the win. It was his first victory of the campaign. The outcome cut Portland's series lead to three games to two. Owen's first homer of the year with one on gave the Beavers their two runs in the sixth. Score: R. H. E. Portland , 2 18 0 Los Angeles 3 12 0 Speece, Llska, Orrell and An nunzio, Schultz; Weiland, Coff man and Collins. San Francisco, June 14. Seattle withstood the efforts of three San Francisco pitchers today, defeating the Seals 8-5 for their second win of the series. With the score knotted at 8-all going Into the seventh, Rainier pitcher Ed Cole and shortstop Ned Stickle smashed out doubles to put Seattle two runs in front Seattle added another tally in the eighth on Al Nlemlec's three-bagger. Score: R. H. E. Seattle 8 10 4 San Francisco 8 7 3 Cole and Campbell; Joyner, Seats and Sprinx. San Diego, Calif., June 14 HP) San Dlegos' Coast league win ning streak was halted at eight games today as Oakland came from behind to nose out the Padres, 3 to 2. The victory ended a losing streak of six games for the Oaks, who had dropped four straight to the Paddes. Score: R. H. E. Oakland 3 9 2 San Diego 2 7 2 Buxton and Raimond); Olsen, Pillette and Etore. New York. June 14. UP) The climate at the batting sum mit of the major leagues must agree with long Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox and Pete Reiser of the Brooklyn Dodgers, because they still are up there on top. Williams slowed down from .438 to .410 during the week, but was 40 points ahead of his closest rival In the American league, Rnokle Pat Mullin of the Detroit Tigers, who has a modish .370 figure. Reiser, who remained In front of the National league with .338, was being challenged today by Enos (Country) Slaugh ter of the St Louis Cardinals, who gained 25 points within a week to reach .332. Greenwood Lake, N. Y., June 14 ) After watching Joe Louis prance through four slow rounds with a quartet of spar mates today Jim Braddock, for mer heavyweight champion, de clared himself "more than ever convinced that Billy Conn has an excellent chance of winning the title Wednesday night." Louis appears overtrained, ac cording to Braddock, who also feels that the champion Is being hit too often by his hired hands. General John J. Phelan, chair man of the New York state athletic commission, and the commission's physician. Dr. WH liam Walker, examined Louis before the workout and said that the champion was in excel lent condition. Ore and Bullion Purchased V1LDB8RG IROS SVK.TTX. ft RrFIMNfl CO. OsWHlM tsFnM r-t: .n? van r--o DEFEATS FELLER; END WIN STREAK New York, June 14. UP) Simply by trotting out some of their old fashioned habits of hitting at the right moments, the Yankees overcame the twin- Jinx of Bobby Feller and the Cleveland Indians, 4 to 1 today. While Atley Donald band- cuffed the tribe with three hits. allowing only one man to get as far as third base, to the evi dent enjoyment of a crowd of 44,161 who poured out for the bombers home coming from the west, the Yanks did Just enough to end Feller's eight game win ning streak and chalk up a vic tory over the Indians in Yankee stadium for the first time this year. Stretching their winning streak to six straight, the Yanks climbed to within three games of the American league leading Clevelanders in handing Feller his third defeat of the season, against 13 victories. For Donald, it was the second win of the year, against one lost. R. H. E. Cleveland 13 0 New York 4 8 0 Feller, Eisenstat, and Hems ley; Donald and Dickey. Philadelphia. June 14. WV Elden Auker hurled shutout ball until the ninth inning when Wilson Miles doubled and Bob Johnson hit a home run, as St. Louis scored an easy 7 to 2 vic tory over the Athletics today. R. H. E. St. Louis 7 12 1 Philadelphia 2 7 2 Auker and Ferrell: Hadley. Potter, C. Harris, and Hayes, Wagner. Boston, June 14. OP) The Chicago White Sox broke a four game losing streak today to defeat the Red Sox 3 to 2 and move within a few percent age points of the third-place Bostonians. R. H. E. Chicago S 10 0 Boston 2 10 0 Smith and Tresh; Harris, Fleming, and Pytlak. Detroit at Washington post poned, rain. SUB-PAR GOLF TO WIN STATE TOGA Portland, Ore., June 14. VP) Roy Wiggins, diminutive Os wego, Ore., golfer, came storm ing from behind to win the Oregon amateur championship from Alan Mills, San Francisco, 1 up, today in a performance duplicating the finals of five years ago. Mills, a former Portlander playing under the banner of Portland's Alderwood club, took a three-hole lead In the first nine holes, but saw it vanish as the 118-pound Wiggins began firing sub-par golf. Wiggins was three under par on the second nine at Oswego Lake country club to take a 1-up lead which he held by shooting even par on the final 18 holes. Wiggins won the 193C championship from Mills 1 up Dorothy Ann "Sissy" Green, Portland, won the women't title by defeating Mrs. Omar Anderson, Portland 8 and 4. Mat Palacio, San Francisco, won the first flight title with a 4 and 2 victory over Louis Obln, Tualatin, Ore. Husky Crew To Race Chicago. June 14. W) The University of Washington var sity rowing crew, national col legiate champion, will meet the University of Wisconsin In an exhibition one mile row on the Lincoln Park lagoon tomonow as a feature of the first annual Central States Schoolboy asso ciation regatta. TRY OUR HERBS When Others Fail For quick and permanent relief el ailments even el long standing. CHINA HERB CO. 133 E. Mala St Medford CARDS LEAD CUT BY DODGER WIN; St Louis, June 14. VP) Brooklyn Dodger bats exploded in a 17-hlt barrage against four St. Louis pitchers today to win a 12 to 5 victory and reduce the Red Birds lead over the National league to two games. Held to two hits for the first five frames, the Dodgers sud denly began battering the fences in the sixth, driving Harry Gumbert from the hill and scor ing seven runs before they were retired. That was the ball game, and the five runs they added in the next two innings were purely for show. R. H. E. Brooklyn i. 12 17 2 St. Louis 5 12 1 Hamlin. Tamulis, and Franks, Owen; Gumbert, Shoun, Na hem, Hutchinson, and Mancuso, Marshall. Chicago, June 14. (IP) With Vern Olsen, sophomore south paw, allowing only three hits for his second consecutive shut out, the Chicago Cubs outman euvered both the rain and the Philadelphia Phillies for a 3-0 homecoming victory todsy. R. H. T. Philadelphia 0 3 0 Chicago 3 5 0 Blanton, Crouch, Hoerst Pearson, and Warren, Living ston; Olsen and McCullough. Pittsburgh, June 14 (P) Long-range hitting sparked the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-2 vic tory over the Boston Braves today as Vlnce Dlmaggio and Al Lopez drove in five runs with two homers. R. H. E. Boston . 2 7 0 Pittsburgh 8 9 0 Salvo and Berres; Butcher and Lopez. New York at Cincinnati post poned, rain. Harvard Frosh Win New London, Conn., June 14. VP) H a r v a r d's freshman eight put the crimson fleet In position to gain Its fourth con secutive dean sweep of the Thames river regatta today by defeating its Yale rivals by four lengths in the opening two mile upstream race. 7 Tl REDS HELD HERE FIRST WEEK JULY The 1941 tryout camp of the Cincinnati Reds' baseball organ ization, for young diamond hopefuls between 17 and 21, will be held In Medford at the senior high school field July 1 to 5, inclusive, and will be In charge of Charles E. (Al) Chap man, Pacific coact scout and representative of the world's champions. No tuition fee will be charged, and players will be asked to furnish only their own uniform, shoes and gloves and pay their own transportation and living expenses while In town, if they come front outside Medford. All other equipment will be furnished. Chapman who has "discover ed" many young players who later made good in the major leagues, said in a letter yester day that all aspiring players be tween 17 and 21 were cordially welcomed to enroll for the five day tryout session. Youngsters ready to make good in profes sional baseball will be tendered contracts to one of the Cincin nati farm clubs Riverside, Cal Tuscon, Ariz., Ogden, Utah or Columbia, S. C. All enrollees of the school will receive a thorough tryout Games will be played every day, and ex-professional stars will explain the secrets of cap ably performing at every posi tion on the diamond. Youths desiring to attend the free school are asked to obtain en rollment blanks from Jack Cumming or Bill Hulen, Cincin nati agents, aa soon as possible. First V. of P. Game Portland, Ore., June 14. (P) Coach Robert L. Mathews of the University of Portland an nounced today that bis team would open its 1941 football season against the University of Hawaii here the night of Sep tember 19. Okay Splash Dam Portland, June 14. JP The state fish and game commis sions, in Joint session, agreed yesterday to permit splash dam logging operations on the South Coos river if fish life was pro tected. SUNDAY CLOSING ' for Automobile Dealers In order that our employees may attend church and have a day of rest the following New and Used Automobile Dealers will be closed all day Every Sunday beginning Sunday, July 6, 1941: Abbey Motor Co. 123 South Riverside Cooksey Motor Co. 132 South Riverside Crater Lake Motors Riverside and 8th Sts. Ederton Motors 111 Nerth Bartlett Humphrey Motors 93 South Riverside Keep Jonr Oe Medrnl.Ge 5buU be cooler this Summer if you wear a hutted top-piece! Reason: knitted cotton lets your body breathe. ..lets the heat out. ..soaks up perspiration. And bow about your shorts? Are they climbing op your legs these days? Let's be brief I Switch to SKJT-Shorts and let freedom ring ! They're knitted, too, for cool, cool comfort 50c auT-saoBTS GLENN H. UTZ "UTZ FOR SUITS" Open Saturday Eve Until 8:30 P. M. Medford Motor Co. 134 East 9th Pierce Allen Motor Co. 112 South Riverside Perry Ashcraft 128 South Riverside Rome River Chevrolet 230 East Ith Skinner's Garage 143 South Riverside This Is Father's Day . , . and it la a fin opportunity to allow Dad Just bow graufui to Dim you ars lor the many things h doea EVERY day tor all tha family. It SHOULD Da Fa thara Dar and Mother's Day erery day of tha vearl Incidentally, sum mer officially begins June Slit . . , It Isn't too early BIOHT NOW to choow your summer-weight suit, lighter underwear, straw hat and cool, rentllated cwforda. why not dress IK COMFORT thla year . . . you can do It at little coat barel c Shirt Onl 50c ITSLITIC SHUT
