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PAGE ETGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY. JUNE 19. 1941. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Crater Increa Batting Average In L&tt 2 Start Gallant Billy Conn Knocked Out by Louis in 1 3th Round SUter Roelandt Churchill .boo .000 .000 Total 140 28 .200 Three week ago, after they had dropped their first two State league games, the Med ford Craters possessed a micro scopic team batting average of .134. Which was ample proof that It takes hit to win ball games. Now, after splitting even In their last pair of circuit con tests, the local have boosted their clout-figure to an even .200. Which still Is far above par for the State loop course, but which Indicates the lads are beginning to know what It feels like to propel the horsehide to unfieldable territory. ' That .200 figure, a we said before, is certainly not one to call for loud cheers and bot tle of brew, but It does repre sent a substantial increase over the average produced In the first couple of tussles. Any im provement, we always say, is better than none at all. Now, If the Craters keep on boosting their maul-mark every two game by 66 points, the number they picked up in their previou couple of tilts, it won't be long before the club boasts very adequate attack. Pretty soon, in fact, the team will be batting .600 or .700, which 1 a light exaggeration but which gives a rough idea of what can happen if the locals continue to Improve their plate work. It is expected the Craters will add helft to their batting aver ages when they play the Eugene Athletics here this week-end. the Sunday afternoon affair counting in league standings nd the Saturday night tiff be ing a kings-x exhibition. We do not mean to belittle Eugene and their pitcher, Pete Igoe, but the fact remains that Catcher Billy Calvert of the Craters was Igoe's battery mate all spring at the University of Oregon, and William will undoubtedly im part much valuable Information as regard the Igoe stuff, to his current Crater pals. s A'S, 14-2 AND ADD TO LEAD By Judson Bailer Associated Press Writer The light hitting Cleveland Indians suddenly have become lerocious at the plate and look capable of gobbling up the lesser ugnts or the American league In big gulps. Yesterday they really opened up getting 17 hits, including five home runs and four doubles to overwhelm Philadelphia, 14-2. iney scored seven runs in a rousing second inning and kept pouring on the power right on through the game. Hal Trosky hit two home runs and Lou Bou- dreau. Ray Mack and Ken Kelt- ner one apiece. This display of fireworks was accompanied by a four-hit pitch ing performance by Bob Feller, who coasted to his 14th victory of the campaign. The Indians' first place mar gin was increased to three full games as the Chicago White Sox trimmed the New York Yankees by one run for the second day in succession, 3-2. Joe DiMaggio hit safely in his 31st consecutive game. I The Detroit Tigers tore Into the Boston Red Sox for a 5-2 victory behind the steady, eight hit hurling of Lynwood (School boy) Rowe, who gave up only one extra-base blow, a homer by Jimmie Foxx. The St. Louis Browns squeezed out a 3-2 verdict over the Wash ington Senators In a night game The St. Louis Cardinals con tinued their climb in the Na tional league with a 7-3 triumph over the Phillies while the sec ond-place Brooklyn Dodgers were dropping a 5-1 nod to the Chicago Cubs. The Boston Braves beat the Cincinnati Reds, 4-2 with Al Javery besting Johnny Vander Meer in a pitching duel In which each allowed seven hits. CHALLENGER HAS TITLE IN GRASP; FAILSJJ3A1LE Five Rights to Jaw Ends Fight After Conn Elects to Punch With Champion Huskies Wet Their Sweeps Calvert probably knows more about the angle of break a Igoe curve ball and the Velocity of speed en Igoe's fast ball, not to mention his degree of accuracy, than Igoe doe himself. Billy, we would n't be surprised, even knows what Igoe eats for breakfast and whether he draws three cards to a pair or holds a knocker. All that information Inside Billy' head Isn't going to hurt the Crateri one little dab, and conversely it prob ably won't do Igoe and Eu gene any good. Of course. Manager Andy Hurney of the Athletics may double-cross the Craters and start somebody else on the mound Sunday. Like Joe Spen cer, well-known here, or Al Linn. In which case the Craters, except in the case of Spencer, would be going in there "cold," as they say. However, the odds are lengthy that Igoe will start the clash, so hire yourself a hall, Will, and start giving. Oh yes, those batting aver ages. Well, Calvert is the team leader with .429, not counting Pitcher Jack Brown with his one for one and McLean with hi one for two. Some of the boy listed below may not play anymore with the team, but here they all are, league game only: AB Brown ,-,,,, , 1 McLean 2 Calvert 7 McDonald n Volk 7 Martenson , 4 Eilertsen 4 Sauer ... .. 17 Gray 18 Schroer 14 Fox 8 Fleishman 11 By Cayl Talbot New York. June IS (JP) For fleeting, golden moments last night, Billy Conn of Pitts burgh held the heavyweight cnampionsnip of the world with in his grasp. Then Biily gambled, tried to match punches with Joe Louis. and the big negro snapped out or nis strange lethargy and knocked Conn kicking in the 13 th round before a thrilled crowd at the Polo Grounds. Conn, the 174-pound gamester, was well In front when the end came, suddenly and unexpect edly. Louis, drawn too fine in his training, had looked a slow, sullen defender of the crown. Conn had danced around him for half the distance, tied him up in the clinches, then had come on to slap the bomber's teeth out. At the end of the 11th round the Pittsburgh wonder boy had spread his mouth wide in a grin as he returned to his corner and waved triumphantly to the gal lery stretching far back into the dark stands. He thought he was "in," and so did an amazed audience. In the twelfth round, the slim, handsome challenger sent Louis reeling against the ropes with a vicious two-fisted attack. Louis looked slow, unable to take ad vantage of the targets offered him. The more than 64,000 elec trified fans in the big ball yard were only waiting, tensed, for T r7 1 The Universlt- nf Wmhlnalnn HlUa , . . , . - -- - ....... ........ ... ...... .--K. , nuason at rougn-eepsle, go ing r Immediately into training for the regatta. June 23. Left to right: Coxswain Vic Fomo; Stroke T.d Garhart. Tom Taylor, Walter Wallace, Charles Jackson. Doyle Fowler. William Neill, Paul Sindars and John Bracken. round closed, but that still didn't daunt Billy. He managed to get through the sixth on even terms. and the seventh began the rally that had the title won for him when he became too careless and confident in the 13th. Champ Pounded Conn won the eighth round and the ninth, lost the tenth, and then spurted to capture the eleventh and the twelfh. The roars of the crowd echoed across the nearby Harlem river as the boy who didn t have a chance" increased his pace to step around Louis and pound the champion from every angle. Louis up to this point had not reached Conn with a single right to the head. Billy had reason to feel confident. He had caught the over-trained champion with Scores Yesterday fltirrv in thm 12th that hori the final bell of the fight and nt T.nui. h.fnHHi.H int th. the announcement that the "win- r0peS. He had made a terrific nnn nnil nam fhamninn'1 a .-..,. .... " ngni 01 11 every second 01 me way. He had the championship in his right fist. And then It happened to him. He became in an Instant only the 18th victim of Joe Louis since the big negro won the American League Cleveland 14, Philadelphia 2. Chicago 3, New York 2. Detroit 3, Boston 2. St. Louis 3, Washington 2. National League Chicago 8, Brooklyn 1. St. Louis 7, Philadelphia 3. New York 2, Pittsburgh 2 (Time limit.) Boston 4, Cincinnati 2. in State Llghtner Monro . Johnson Swanson .1 S 4 4 Pet. 1. 000 .500 .429 .417 .286 .250 .250 .235 Pacific Coast League Sacramento 0, Oakland 6. San Francisco 6, Portland 5. San Diego 15, Hollywood 12. Los Angeles at Seattle rained out. Western International Yakima 8, Vancouver 2. Wenatchee 8, Spokane 6. Salem at Tacoma rained out. ZEKE B0NURA TAKES BIG BAT INTO ARMY .214 .125 .091 .063 .000 .000 .000 New Orleans, June IS. W Big Zeke Bonura's winding baseball road turned Into an army camp today, and Zeke took the latest curve with mingled emotions. The friendly cabbage farmer, dumped from the majors this year after seven slugging sea sons, expressed disappointment at being called when he had Just about batted his way back into the big show; but said he was determined to "give the army all I've got, Just as I did In baseball. nah and new champion Billy Conn. Louis Worried Then the 13th round began Louis came out, looking wor ried, and Conn rushed to meet him. From the challenger's cor ner blurted the warning cry; "move around," as it had come from Conn's manager. Johnny rtay, from the opening bell on. ! But Billy was heedless. He went tearing to meet Louis. A left hook caught Billy alongside the head and staggered him. He fell into a clinch. Louis, finally aroused, poured every thing he had into the boy from Pittsburgh. Five consecutive rights landed flush on Conn's jaw before he finally crumpled to the canvas. He was down, still trying to struggle to his knees, when the count of 10 came and Referee Eddie Josephs signaled that it was all over Then they half-carried the stripling bark to his corner, the blood pouring irom his nose and from a cut under his eye. He still had a smile on his lips, a kid full of courage and glory. Later he cried in his dressing room as though his heart would break, but the last the crowd saw of him he was holding out hi hand in congratulation to the negro who had beat him down. Seldom has heavyweight fight crowd seen the scales of victory shift so suddenly. Up to the instant when Louis caught and downed his man, it looked as though Conn had made good his boast and bedazzled the champion, a far bigger man. Louis, for all his 190Vj pounds and his vaunted punch, had looked like a slothful, disgusted fighter up to the instant when he connected. Conn's Left Scores Early in the fight, in the sec ond round. Louis shuffled in and poured punches into Conn's stomach. The kid looked in bad shape. The fight-wise ringslders nudged each other and said it title. STEERS WILL AIM Dog Runs Bases To Get Name In Regular Lineup Charlotte, N. C, June 19. A stray dog wandered into a baseball box score here. Bob Oritz, right fielder of :he Charlotte Piedmont league team, clouted the ball to deep right field and tore out for first. As he neared the bag, a ipotted terrier, long of ear ind tall, dashed from the stands. He caught Oritz at first and stuck with him all the way to third, where Oritz oeat him and the ball by a jlide. Then the terrier grab bed Oritz's cap and made merry around the Infield. In the Charlotte lineup the Vewa carried the footnote: "Stray dog." In the summary; "Ran with Ortiz in the linth." HOW THEY? STAMD National League Season Profitable Yarmouth. Nova Scotia U.R) Lobstermen In this little Nova i was about over. Scotian port are congratulating But the tiiird round saw Billy themselves on the close of one open up in spectacular fashion of the most successful seasons and slap Louis all over the ring In recent years. Entire catch Louis looked a sucker for Conn's -.u k-iii id nrw inj-, if noes, ine champion ap- Palo Alto, Calif.. June 19 (IP) Three world's records are apt to be In considerable danger at the national collegiate track and field championships here Friday and Saturday. Grover Klemmer, University of California sophomore who has already tied Ben Eastman's 440-yard dash standard of 48.4 seconds, will be pushed by fast field that includes three of the nation' finest quarter-mll-ers, and coaches have predicted that he might run under 46 sec onds. Les Steer of the University of Oregon has bettered the of ficial world high lump record ee times, and will be aiming at a seven-foot ceiling at the two-day N.C.A.A. meet. He has cleared 6 feet 11 inches. In the discus, Big Archie Har ris of Indiana has been flirting with the 174 foot 2 Inch mark established by Willie Schroder of Germany, and may surpass It at any time. His best has been an inch and a half short of Schroder's heave. STATE SHOOT STARTS AT GEARHART TODAY W. L. Pet. St. Louis 41 18 .695 Brooklyn 37 20 .649 Cincinnati 30 28 .517 New York 28 27 .509 Chicago 28 29 .491 Pittsburgh 21 27 .438 Boston 19 33 .365 Philadelphia 17 39 .304 American League W. L. Pet. Cleveland 38 23 .623 New York 33 24 .579 Boston 30 21 .556 Chicago 31 26 .544 Detroit 32 28 .533 Philadelphia 26 31 .456 St. Louis 19 34 .358 Washington 19 38 .333 Pacific Coast League W. L. Fct. Sacramento 50 21 .704 ISan Diego 39 3t .534 ! Seattle 35 34 .507 San Francisco 36 37 .493 Los Angeles 33 39 .458 Oakland 31 40 .437 Hollywood ... 30 39 .435 Portland 30 40 .429 SEAL RALLY NIPS BEAVERS, 6-5; OAKS TRIM SACS, 6-0 By the Associated Press The erratic Oakland Acorns, who find the going tough against second division teams. had an easy time walloping the Sacramento Senators, coast league leaders, by a 6 to 0 score last night. Eleven pitchers saw service In a weird game between Holly wood and San Diego, with San uiego winning 15 to 12. A see-saw game most of th way, at Portland, with the lead changing eight times, ended when San Francisco scored two runs in the ninth and defeated Portland 6 to 5. The Seals got 14 hit to 10 by foniana. The scheduled game between ftaiuo ana los Angeles was postponed because of rain. The two teams will pipy a double- header tonight The score: San Francisco 8 14 Portland 5 10 Jansen, Joyce and Ogrodow- ski; Marrell, Gonzales and land markets, fetching 14 to 29 cents per pound. STRAIGHT SCwJW" WHISKEYiWX. IfTlfs high Quality I wJ iooproofS $120 $930 . .V. MIT QUAgT SMTTir VPOKI lTO'RffE'3. (- MvMy,-n, Seaside. June 19. (Ft The annual Oregon State trapshoot chases. openea today at the Seaside Gesrhart gun club. Under aus pices of the Pacific Internation al Trapshooting association. It oners fzuiu in added Picket Competitor Middletown. N. Y. (U.R) Now It Is employers who are picket ing. When Albert V. Graham, proprietor of a beauty shop, re fused to close Saturday after noons in summer, his competi tors established a picket line ouisine nis shop. San Francisco OJ.Ri Returns ' from the California state three1 per cent sales tax increased SIB.-i 525,703, or 23.7 per cent, during the past 10 months, presumably because of national defense pur- PORTLAND MAY HAVE PRO FOOTBALL TEAM Portland, June 19 (P) Bob- ty Rowe. Portland rjromoter said today Portland might enter a professional team in the Plans are tentative, he said but a meeting with Jimmy Man das, West Seattle Athletic club business manager, is planned to aiscuss we outlook. 111 L 4; IM'iM M peered unable to tintrack him self. His handlers said later that money they were fearful at that stage Major competitive soberly, admitted when starts tomorrow with Louis, it ended that Conn had surprised him with his speed and ability to take punishment. Again In the fifth Louis came alive and belabored Conn's mid die. sending the challenger wob bling to his comer when the SCREENS SCREEN DOORS Buy 'em at the factory. TROWBRIDGE CABINET WORKS 10th k Crape Phone 4113 prize shooting some of the coast best known clay bird experts entered. I Not St.. I i, 3-. II -. 0.-H fi J !- f? -- Pin ftA'kLti i1 lkJJ'"'SH O GREEN PIHE SLABS Big Heaping Load 300 cu. ft. 12 or 18 inch Fill your ear or trailer at our yard at th end ol North Central Ave. and McAndrew Road Mioteae Timber Products Company SOFTBALL SLATE Four more Softball teams will inaugurate their 1941 campaign at the stadium tonight if the weather doesn't make playing conditions Impossible. ' Gasco and Fluhrer's are slat ed to collide In the 8 o'clock struggle, with Bear Creek Orch ards and Medco tangling in the 9 o clock fracas. The season opened Tuesday night Friday night's schedule will see Catholic Men and Rogue River Chevrolet facing off at 8 o'clock, and Jennings Tire and Coca Cola colliding an hour later. Cyprus hu bnn a British eolony and base slno 114. FAST FOUR MILES Poughkeepsie, N. Y., June 19. (iP) Thing are picking up in the crew camps along the Hud son. Day by day the eight var sity crews which, with M.I.T., will race four miles next Wed nesday are taking time trials, and each new time trial bring the cry of "watch Cornell," "Watch California," or whoever it happens to be. Yesterday afternoon It was California's turn, and the Gol den Bear rowed down the four- mile course in what Coach Ky Ebright said was "less than 20 minutes" but most volunteer stopwatch holders called closer to 19. Us 1111 Tribune want ads. onnnnanocooaoon urn ptlxFSiSF IE OID DRUM BRAND BluKltJmiittr iQQQQQDOQQQ i Jul PL $100 90 Proof-75 Grain Neutral A opinio, aivcr. Lisuucrs r : ki v i. vuijjWiiuwu w iu sa, iw HIGH IN RESULTS LOW IN COST Renting? Buying? Selling? Hiring? U.e MAIL TRIBUNE WANT ADS i Phone 2U1 End North CeatraJ
