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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON'. TUESDAY. JULY 1. 1941. PAGE SEVEN Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Chance Slim of Player Reaching Major Loop Peak Browns Shell Feller to Showers and Trim Indians, 12 to 6 What are the chances of a young, ambitious baseball player reaching that ultimate goal of all professionals in the "national pastime the major leagues? Well, according to one of the country's foremost scouts, it is just hold your breath one chance in 10,000. Yes, the odds against any baseball player climbing into the big show are 1 to 10,000, no matter how hard he tries. That is the opinion of Charles C. Chapman, who for years has watched diamond performers come and go in his position as Pacific Coast scout and repre sentative of the Cincinnati Reds, 1940 world's champions. Chap man is here to conduct the an nual tryout camp for youngsters between 17 and 21, which start ed at the high school field this morning and will continue through Saturday. "In our series of tryout camps.'' tha genial, keen minded Chapman explained, "we sign to minor league con tracts about one player in 50 on the average. And of those young hopefuls who sincerely desire to make baseball their profession, only one in 200 finally succeeds in making the major league grade. That means that only one player In 10,000, who tries to break Into organised ball, will eventually attain the heights." Chapman, who is a full fledged professor of history at the University of California, hastened to make it clear that, although the odds against a prospect reaching major league status were very long, it was worth the gamble for boys sin cerely desiring to make baseball their means of livelihood. 'The rewards are rich in the major leagues," Chapman said, "and if a player is careful of his money he can lay aside enough during his baseball car eer to make him secure for the rest of his life." payroll. Lightner, we under stand, was making considerably more than the W. I. L. average, so his release will save that much dough for the Senators. Roy Helser's sale to the Seals was another example of th Senators tightening their finsn cial belts; another high-saKried player is no longer on the ros ter, and his sale brought some $3,000 into the coffer. Lightner was probably the most popular player on the Sa lem team, even though he wai not getting those base knocks, and was certainly the hustling est. In that latter respect, he and Little Brother Allan are two of a kind, for Allan is an A-number-1 hustler, no matter what. Here is what Ron Gemmell of the Salem Statesman said of Lightner: "The Antelope drew his pink slip for failure to pro duce what he was getting paid for basehits. and the Antelope, being the kind of a guy he is, was the last to criticize the man agement even tho'igh he hated it like the dickens. Lightner, the hustlingest gent yet to wear Solon livery, bowed out trying his darndest, and that's about all that can be asked of a fellow. "No one was more per turbed over his failure to hit than was the Antelope, him self. Al did about everything in the batting book in at tempts to regain the swing that netted him a .292 aver age and a new league triple record last season, even to working out daily when the club was home, but nothing seemed to work. Not even the spectacles, which he pro cured as sort of a last ditch gesture." Antelope Al played first base for the Craters against Albany lsst Sunday and will arrive in Medford after he straightens out his affairs in Salem. He may not be here for tomorrow night's game with Yreka, but he plans to come before the week is out. ROY HELSERSOLD TO COAST SEALS I 9- IN SEVENTH HEAT CLINCHES AFFAIR Slim Crowd Sees Fireballer Routed; Reds Beat Char ley Root and Cubs, 7-1 How did the Medford Craters happen to land Antelope Al Lightner, who batted .292 and set a new Western International league record for three-base hits last season while playing for the Salem Senators? In the first place, of course, the Craters got him because Salem released him. In the sec ond place, because his little brudder, Allan (Wray) Lightner, calls Medford his home and plays left field for the locals. Allan had quite a bit to do with Big Brother Al deciding to sign with the Craters. Antelope Al was given the pink slip by Salem, partly be cause of his failure to hit this year, and partly because the Senators, who aren't drawing well, decided to cut down on (he WOW TH ETC American League W. L. New York 42 26 Cleveland 42 30 Boston 38 30 Chicago 36 32 Detroit ...35 36 Philadelphia 32 36 Washington 26 42 St. Louis 24 41 10 FOR YREKA HERE mm miput I Salem, July 1. &) Roy Hel ser, Salem Senator southpaw pitcher, who has . won nine games and lost one this season in Western International league competition, has been sold to the San Francisco Seals of the Paci fic coast league, Howard Maple, business manager of the Salem team, announced today. Maple did not disclose the price. As part of the deal, the Senators will obtain Charlie Schanz, San Francisco right handed pitcher, on option. Helser will report to the Seals immediately, while Schanz will join the Senators Thursday night at Yakima. Maple said that because at tendance at the Salem ball park has not been as high as expected, he was forced to sell players to obtain revenue. By Bill Bonl Associated Press Writer Bob Feller's weak spot, it seems, is Sportsman's Park in St. Louis. It's not the Browns who play there who bother him so much, it would appear, since Rapid Robert has beaten them twice in achieving his total of 16 vic tories. But those two triumps came in Cleveland. By the banks of the Mississippi the fabulous Feller also has pitched against the tail-enders in two games, and each time they have shipped him to the showers. The way they did It yesterday was horrible to behold for all but a St. Louis fan, and there were only 1,408 of them in the stands. For six innings the Brownies let Feller and the In dians coast along on a 6-3 lead. Then, before Feller or the tribe could recover, they exploded for nine runs and a 12-6 victory that was Feller's first defeat in four starts and made it three straight losses for Cleveland. Tigers Los The only other American league game yesterday saw the Chicago White Sox trim the De troit Tigers, 7-6. The Dodgers won their 10th straight from the Phillies, 9-2. The Cardinals were nosed out, 4-3, by the Pittsburgh Pirates. The hard luck that has been dodging the Boston Braves' i Manuel Salvo since he beat the Phillies on the second day of the season kept right on his heels. This time it was a fluke double by Johnny Rucker of the New York Giants a hard grounder that bounced off Sec ond-Baseman Carvel Rowell's head into centerfield which drove in two of the three nth Inning runs with which the Terrymen won, 3-0. Cliff Mel ton pitched six-hit ball for the winners. In another night encounter the Cincinnati Reds teed off on "Old Man" Charlie Root for five hits and five runs in the first inning and went on to rout the Chicago Cubs, 7-1. National League W. L. St. Louis 47 23 Brooklyn 47 23 New York 37 30 Cincinnati 36 33 Pittsburgh 28 33 Chicago 31 39 Boston 24 39 Philadelphia 19 49 Coast league unchanged. Pet. .671 .671 .552 .522 .459 .4411 .381 .279 Fights Last Night By th Associated Press Providence. R. I. Buddy Knox, 191, Dayton, Ohio, knock ed out Lorenzo Pack, 194, De troit (7). Washington Bob Montgom ery. 136, Philadelphia, stopped Wishy Jones, 137. Louisville (5). Johnstown, Pa. Teddy Yar- osz, 174, Monaca, Pa., outpointed Jimmy Young, 173, Scranton. Pa., (10). Seven brothers named Patten are stationed on the U.S.S. Nevada. k NATWNM. FIVOMTf FM THE PUT 7 TEARS! l 6J5 Gal. iWlMncng I One Uste of Wind- f 90 Pt. . ''""""'I tor will tell you s 9" I why this smooth ( ftliiiWii 1 bourbon is a populir seller. A winner for JJ I mellowness snd economy. i."57" M You ' W P'""y 1 l.f" you sen" is -Not of . ffcj LEMOS, SCALZO FIGHT TONIGHT Los Angeles, July 1. JF) Richie Lemos, the Mexican jumping bean, goes after Petey Scalzo's N.B.A. featherweight championship tonight in a 10 round battle offering more odd angles than a surrealist's geo metric design. The Los Angeles-born Mexl can says he'll KO the New York titleholder in six rounds, no more. That despite the fact Scalzo KO'd him in eight frames here recently. TWO Ttt1LLS"WILL OPEN SEMI-PRO MEET Albany. July 1. P) A pair of doubleheaders will open the Oregon semi-pro baseball tour nament here Sunday. Silverton . will play Marine Electric, Portland, at 1:30 p. m Valsetz will meet Forest Grove at 3. Albany will take on United Furniture workers, Portland under the lights at 7:30 p. m. and Dairy Creek will meet Bend at 9. Jacksonville, Fla. Frank Po- reda, 190, Jersey City, stopped Jose Fonseca. 186, Mexico (4). San Francisco Ray Lunny. 134, San Francisco, knocked out Eddie Marcus, 132, Los Angeles (3). KATBALLERS PLAY Tonight's Softball schedule at the lighted senior high school stadium will find Rogue River Chevrolet and Fluhrer's clash ing at 8 o'clock, and Coca Cola meeting Gasco an hour later. On Thursday night, Fluhrer's will play Jennings Tire in the first game and Gasco will meet Catholic Men in the second tilt. Those games will wind up soft- ball activity until Tuesday, July 8. Closing time for Too Lata to Clas sify Ads la 1 :30 p. m. Steve Crippen. who boasts one 382 of the hottest winning streaks in .369 , Northern California league an nals, will pitch for the Yreka Miners against the State League Medford Craters in an exhibition game here Wednesday night at 8:30. Last Sunday Crippen, former Crater, notched his seventh straight N. C. L. triumph by flinging the Miners to a 9 to 3 victory over the Weed Sons, and keeping Yreka at the top of the heap. Crip allowed six blows and fanned 11 in besting Cliff Fisk. former University of San Francisco gridiron star. In addition, the red-haired right hander belted a triple, double and single to help the Miners' 12 h it attack. Crippen's only defeat of the season, in any company, was suffered at the hands of the Cra ters here the night of May 20, when the locals registered 7 to 4 victory when the Yreka in field came apart in the fifth inning to allow five runs to cross the plate. Remembering that setback Crippen is determined to get re venge by ramming the Crater bats down their collective throats tomorrow night. He is confident he can accomplish this fete, too. I m certain I can beat the Craters," he said. "My arm is in great shape now and I wouldn't be surprised if I shut them out." On the other hand, the Craters are just as confident they can take the measure of the red-head again. They oeueve urippen is one pitcher they can hit lustily, regardless of the fact he is un beaten in the Northern Cali fornia loop. Manager Lou Sauer plans to start Dutch Licber on the Crater pitching mound, with Frankie Roclandt behind the plate. The locals will workout this after noon at 5:30. Golf's Hall of Fame May Include H. Chandler Egan .... It will be interesting to the many friends of the late H. Chandler Egan, to learn that there is a movement on foot to elect him to the golf Hall of Fame, where Bobby Jones, Walter Ha gen, Gene Sarazen and Francis Ouimet have already been in stalled. In a recent Issue of the Christian Science Monitor, A. Linde Fowler, golf expert and member of the Hall of Fame nominating committee, discusses the problem in detail, his com ments regarding Mtdford's famous sportsman and outstanding national golf star, being as follows: "To my list of nominations for the golf Hall of Fame, which thus far has included Bobby Jones, Walter Hagen. Gene Sara zen, and Francis Ouimet, the four originally named by the committee of which I was a member; and Charles E. Evans. Jr., Jerome D. Travers. and Wal ter J. Travis as additional per sonal selections, tilready men tioned in these columns, I would now add the names of three more amateurs, viz.. H. Chand ler Egan, Robert A. Gardner and Jess W. Sweetser. "Now as for H. Chandler Egan, I doff my hat to a golfer with an extraordinary record. Here was a man whose first match play appearance in a na tional amateur was in 1902; who won the amateur title in 1903 and 1904; was runner-up in 1909 and who actually won his first round match in 1935 at Cleve land, at the fourth extra hole. That's only scratching the sur face. As a Harvard man, he won the intercollegiate in 1902 and Scores Yesterday National Lagu New York S, Boston 0. Brooklyn 9, Philadelphia 1. Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3. Cincinnati 7. Chicago 1. American Lagu Chicago 7, Detroit 6. St. Louis 12, Cleveland 0. Only games scheduled. 32 years later, at the age of 50, he was named a member of the American Walker Cup team for the match at St. Andrews, Scot land. Signal Honor Why that signal honor? Well, in the national amateur of 1933 at Cincinnati all he did was to defeat Johnny Goodman, the na tional open champion. It was not that Goodman slumped. The open champion had a 72; Egan a 70. In 1929. at Pebble Beach, Calif., Euan's victims in the na tional included George Von Elm, the 1926 amateur champion; Jess Swetser, national and British ex-champion, and Rudie Wil helm, one of the Pacific North west leaders. "Incidentally, Egan won the Pacific Northwest amateur title in 1915, '20, '23. '25 and '32 and the Western in 1902. '04 and '07. He was a long hitter, inclined to be wild, but great out of the rough." Pacific Coast Lagu No games. Western International Spokane 7, Salem 3. Tacoma 7, Vancouver 8. Only games scheduled. HAS SMALL FIELD Colorado Springs, July 1. fP) The draft and other national defense measures have ripped a tremendous gap In western ama teur golf tournament ranks this year. The field for the 42nd running of the event, beginning at peak hemmed Broadmoor today with the first half of the 36-hole qualifying round, is by far the smallest in modern times for this meet, generally regarded as sec ond only to the national for simon-pure linksmen. Streamlined Salisbury, N. C (Pi With the streamliner doing 80 miles an hour, the engineer suddenly saw a hand moving back and forth on his front window, like a windshield wiper. He stodped the train. On top of the engine lay a youth who said: "I guess I just wanted to get off!" July Clearance SUIT SALE Hat Bought Oklahoma City Ft The hat that L. F. Allmond lost in a res taurant had his name, address and phone number in It. A week later he received a letter from Columbus. O., enclosing a S5 bill. 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