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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 3, 1941. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Eugene Fan Boil Over Dropping of A' From Tourney Eugene fani and players of the State league Athletics are up In armi over the ousting of the club from the state semi pro tournament, after Ray Brooks, secretary of the circuit had previously named the A's as one of the competing teams ... it seems that Brooks chang ed his mind and dropped Eugene from the tourney in favor of Portland club, because he fig ured Eugene couldn't place a strong enough lineup on the field . . . i As originally set up, the tour nament was to Include only league leaders throughout the state as of June 22, but Brooks changed that to place in the tourney what he believed were the eight strongest teams in 'Oregon . . . believing the orig inal plan was to be used, the Medford Rogues applied to Brooks for admittance, and were refused . . . Manager Paul Hof fard said Brooks told him in a letter that the Rogues couldn't afford to make the long trip to Albany for the meet ... all of which might have been true, but the fact remains that the , Rogues, with considerable fi nancial backing, were willing to lose money in order to com pete, and as leaders of the Southern Oregon league should have been allowed to enter . . . Big Bill Borcher. the fire balling Softball pitcher who ; burned up the local league here two years ago. Monday Bight flung his third no-hlt. no-run game of the season for ' Weyerhaeuser In the Klam ' ath Falls circuit . . . Bill fanned 20 battsrs In register . lag his fourth shutout of the , year . . . also working for the lumber mill and playing soft . ball are Paul Jackson. U. of Oregon basketball star, and " Virgil Haynes ... the latter . does the catching for Borch er and Jackson plays short- "Lou Novlkoff-1 blgjeague pltchtav the giant stride k ; big him easy pick aharpshootlng hurt control" . . . thatVw- of Charles C. Chapman, Cin cinnati scout . . . "Al" and Mrs. Al shot the Rogue Valley Golf club course Tuesday, and paid the greens and fairways, and the general layout, several fine compliments ... Chapman, Incidentally, likes Bob Churchill velly velly much . . . the young third-sacker's rifle arm, speed, fielding ability and HUSTLE has Impressed the scout no end, and Bob will prob ably be invited to attend the big Marysville, Cal., tryout camp In September, at Cincinnati's expense . . . this camp, unlike the one now running here, is only for boys actually recom mended by Cincinnati agents or picked up In the preliminary camps, and to get a bid practic ally assures the player of con tract offer . . . Note to wrestling fans: pre pare for some really big news, which may break any time ... here Is hint) Mack Llllard plans to open up outdoors at the fairgrounds park week after next, and on the pro gram may be the biggest name In the mat game ... It's not definitely tiled yet. but Mack Is angling and believes be can swing the deal ... Ashland high's Grizzlies are looking forward to a great grid Iron season, with only Bob Weaver of last year's 11 regulars due to be missing . . . Ashland and Grants Pats both will have turf fields ready by fall, which completes the Southern Oregon Conference s grass-gridiron cam' paign. Cloilng time fur Too Let to Clas sify Ads U I M p. m. O GREEN P HE Big Heaping Load 300 cu. ft 12 or II Inch rill your car or trailer at our yard at the end of North Central Ave. and McAndrews Road Timber Products Company Phono 1123 Walks, Clutch-Hitting Give Craters 4-2 Win Over Yreka GRIPPEN BEATEN E SE Dutch Leiber Scatters Eight Blows to Notch Victory- Craters Held to Five Medford's State league Cra ters made it four straight over the Yreka Miners and two in a row over red-haired Steve Crippen at the fairgrounds park last night by combining nice hit ting in the clutches with seven bases on balls to turn back the invaders, 4 to 2, in an exhibition game played before large crowd. Big Dutch Leiber went the route for the Craters and yield ed eight blows, three more than the locals managed off Crippen, but whenever the Miners threat ened the ex-Coast leaguer bore down to escape trouble. He struck out nine. Including Pinch hitter Casey Jones in the eighth inning with the bases loaded. Crippen, whose only defeats this year have been suffered at the hands of the Craters, gave up only two hits in the first six innings, but four bases on balls in the first frame, coupled with an Infield error, spotted the home boys to a pair of runs and from there on they were not headed. Yreka Scores rirst The Miners drew first blood In the first inning with a run on O'Keefe's single to left and Sameich's double to left, and they scored again in the seventh on Crlppen's double and Fleck's single. That was the total extent of damage to Leiber. The Craters clinched the game in the first two innings. After scoring twice in the first with out a hit, they got another In the second when Frankie Roelandt walked, went to third on Del Schroer's single to right and tal lied as Bob Churchill grounded out. That Crater first was a funny one. Schroer walked and Churchill sacrificed. Manager VOU Saucr walked and Short dop Samelch bobbled Joe Cray's bouncer, Schroer scoring nd Sauer going to third. Al iVray walked to set the stage for a double steal, with Sauer crossing the plate. From the second to the sev enth the lone hit off Crippen was Churchill's hard belt to left. but in the seventh Schroer singled hotly to left and was sacrificed down by Churchill. Joe Gray then hit a ground-rule double under the left-field boards and Schroer came hime with the final Crater run. Spike Johnson tripled to right In the eighth, the ball taking a bad bounce over Manuien's head, but he died there as Volk whiffed and Schroer grounded out. Leiber Tough Leiber was in fine form, and especially tough with men on. In the third, fourth and fifth the Miners placed runners on one base clouts, but couldn't send them around. In the eighth, Manuien's single, Schroer's er ror and a walk to Crippen load ed the bases with two gone, but Leiber turned on the heat and fanned Jones, batting for Mor gan, on three whistling curve balls. That ended for good Yre ka's ambition. Schroer, with two blows, and Gray, with couple of runs-batted-ln, led the Craters at the plate. Crippen hit a double and a single in three trips for the Miners, and Fleck also hit twice. The Craters will play at Cres cent City July 4 and 5, returning home to face the Palmer House Stars of Chicago in an exhibi tion game Wednesday night. Box score: Yraka: AS ft R K A O'Kaela. 9b , 1 1 a 0 Blanaa. lb 4 0 10 1 Samalch. m 4 0 t 1 t Maaulan, rf . 4 0 10 0 sla 1 0 0 t 0 1 0 1 1 Totals SB 1 t 94 10 () Batted for Morgan in Sth. Mtdford: AB ft R po A Schroar, w 4 t I 4 Churchill, lb i 10 10 0 autr. cf S 1 0 1 0 Oray, rf . 4 0 110 Wray. If , S 0 0 1 0 Ulbar, p a 0 0 0 Johnson, lb , 4 0 1 13 0 Volk. 2b 4 -0 0 a 4 Roalandt. e 1100 Totals n 4 S ST IS Traka 100 000 1003 Medford .110 000 lOi t Irrora, SAmelch, Scnrotr, Volk; rum batted In, Samelch, neck, Oray 3. Churchill; two-baat bits, Samelch, Oray; three-4aat hits, Johnson; stolen bases, Schroer, Sauer 3, Wray. Roelandt: sacrlflcei, Churchill 3; double plays, Leiber to Schroer to Johnson; base on balls, Crippen 7, Ltlber 1: rtrlke-outs, Crippen I. lei ber ; hit by pitcher, by Crippen (Roelandt): paaeed balls Fleck i; um pires. Miles and Lennard; time 1:40. GEORGE GITZEN HITS HOMER; 45 HOPEFULS With the arrival yesterday of four boys from McMinnville, at tendance was boosted to 43 at the tryout camp for young play ers being held by the Cincinnati Reds' baseball system at- the high school park. The camp, un der direction of Charles - C. Chapman, will end Saturday. In an intra-camp game yester day, George Gitzen whaled a long home run and several other youngsters showed up well, Chapman announced. Among boys Chapman mentioned as be ing better-than-fair were George and Johnny Gitzen, Alvin Ross, catcher and Bob Monroe, out fielder, both of Portland; Bob Caviness, southpaw pitcher and Melvln Berry, outfielder, both from McMinnville; Pitcher Jack Brown, Catcher Frank Roelandt and Third-Baseman Bob Church ill, three members of the Cra ters. Among those attending the camp are the following: Alvin Ross, and Bob Monroe, both of Portland; Jack Beeler, Bob Caviness, Melvin Berry and James White, all of McMinn ville; Wayne Huffman of Lafay ette, Ore.; Rennie MacKenzie and Joe Tiller, both of Burns; Marion Hardy, Jack Swaryck and Stan Winter, all of Jack sonville; Russell Hawk of Ash land, and the following from Medford; Jack Brown, Bob Churchill Frank Roelandt, Darrell Slater, Hal Adams, Rlney Cook, Bob Davis, Steve Dippel, Don Faw cett, George and Johnny Gitzen, Ben Plymale, Bill Reed, R. Alan Weir, Al Wimer, and Bill Gitzen. Scores Yesterday American League New York 8, Boston 4 Philadelphia 7, Washington 6 Detroit 1, Chicago 0 Only games scheduled. National League Boston 3-0, New York 4-6 Brooklyn 9, Philadelphia 3 Pittsburgh 8, Cincinnati 3 Only games scheduled. Pacific Coast League Los Angeles 8, Oakland 1 San Francisco 4, Hollywood 0 Seattle 3, San Diego 0 Sacramento 4-0, Portland 3-7 Western International Tacoma 8, Spokane 8 Yakima 9, Salem 1 Wenatchee 7, Vancouver 3 (10) innings). Cat Mall Tribune want ads. Keesler's is drink To serve to friendi SeammtU, of Crlppra, p Morgan. If (s) Jonas, If Fleea, e lacNtU, lb FOR FIRST MATCH By Loudon Kelly Colorado Springs. July 3 W) A young, powerful wristed northwesterner armed himself with a long-hitting driver and an accurate putter today to trail jinx that has dogged western amateur golf tournament cham pions for the last 17 years. Blue-eyed Marvin (Bud) Ward of Spokane, who won this title last year In his first crack at the 42-year-old tournament, scoffed at superstition and said "it doesn't matter whether you're champion or not, it's whether you're hitting that ball that counts." Ward and stoical Harry Todd of Dallas, medalist with a one-over-par 141 for two days of qualifying over Broadmoor's mountain meadows, are the big favorites and are in opposite brackets. Ward was national amateur champion two years ago. The defending tltlehoider drew a strong foe, knlckered Rodney Bliss of Omaha, for his first round 18-hole match today. Todd, western champion in 1939 and low amateur at this year's national open, was up against Lyman Wright, former Montana rodeo rider from Colorado Springs. FOR FRITZ ZIVIC By Gayle Talbot New York, July 3. VP) Bummy Davis, the unpopular little waif from Brooklyn, can go back and tell his army bud dies In Texas that he put up a courageous, fight before he bowed to' Fritzie Zivic last night at the Polo Grounds. In fact, the ringside regulars were trying to remember any boxer who had absorbed a worse licking in a local ring just before Bummy finally sagged against the ropes in the 10th round and signified that he had taken enough. Bummy's face was smeared with blood and he was helpless. his head and body being torn by the machine-gun punches of the welterweight champion, when Referee Arthur Donovan sprang between them and call ed it off. Los Angeles, July 3 (P) Challendon goes to the post to morrow in the $20,000 Ameri can handicap to determine, to some extent, what chance he has of regaining the laurels he earned as America's stake cham pion in 1939-40. It's the first race for Big Pete since a disappointing campaign at Santa Anita last winter, and he encounters stout opposition in the rich Fourth of July at traction. A dozen or so rivals are ex pected to run in the mile and one-eighth feature, including Charles S. Howard's Mioland and Edward S. Moore's Big Peb ble. o perfect oil your It's the lightest and the mildest And the smoothest of the blends I ICESSHER'S BLENDED WHISKEY tiOWTH STAND Americas League W. L. Pet. New York 43 26 .634 Cleveland 43 30 .389 Boston 36 33 .922 Chicago 36 34 .514 Detroit 37 36 .307 Philadelphia 34 36 .486 Washington 26 44 .371 St. Louis 24 42 .364 National League W. L. Pet. St. Louis 148 23 .676 Brooklyn .48 24 .667 New York 38 32 .543 Cincinnati 36 34 .514 Pittsburgh ...29 34 .460 Chicago 31 39 .443 Boston 26 40 .394 Philadelphia 20 30 .288 Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. Sacramento 59 28 .678 Seattle 46 38 .548 San Diego 47 40 .540 San Francisco 41 46 .471 Los Angeles 40 43 .471 Hollywood 38 45 .458 Oakland 36 49 .424 Portland 34 50 .405 7-0, TO SPLIT DOUBLEHEADER By the Associated Press Seattle and San Diego must have some sort of an agreement. The two teams traded places in coast league standings again last night, with Seattle climbing back into second spot by virtue of its 3 to 0 win over the Padres. Sacramento's league leaders seemed to be headed for another slump, splitting a double-header with cellarite Portland. A Beav er rally in the ninth inning of the opener fell one run short, and the Solons squeezed by 4 to 3. In the nightcap, however, Portland hammered seven runs off George Turbeville in the second Inning and won easily, 7 to 0. Los Angeles moved Into a per centage tie for fourth place with San Francisco, beating Oakland 8 to 1. Hollywood's release of Veter an Infielder Bill Cissell last week proved a boomerang. Cis sell sparked San Francisco to a 4 to 0 victory over the Stars last night, collecting three hits in three trips to the plate. Scores: (First game) R. H. E. Portland 3 5 1 Sacramento .. 4 11 1 Harrell, Gonzales, Callah. Or- rell and Annunzio; Holllngs- wortn and Grille. (Second game) R. H. E. Portland 7 9 1 Sacramento 0 4 2 Reed and Schultz; Turbeville, lurpm and Kluttz. (7 Innings) lEKTSOFlLL TO END TONIGHT The last Softball games until next Tuesday, July 8, will be played at the senior high school stadium tonight. Fluhrer's and Jennings Tire Company are slat ed to take the field at 8 o'clock, with Gasco and Catholic Men clashing an hour later. There will be no games to morrow night, July 4. Next Tuesday's schedule finds Bear Creek and Coca Cola playing at 8 and Medco facing Rogue River Chevrolet at 9. TRIPLE BAT TOGA T By Judson, Bailey Associated Press Writer Poker-faced Joe DIMaggio. the greatest player, excluding pitch ers, In the present era of base ball, has reached his goal of a new all-time major league rec ord for hitting in 45 consecutive games, and now can try shoot ing for another prize the "triple crown of batting." This bauble Is the three-way championship In percentage hit ting, home runs and runs batted In and is one of the most elusive batting honors in the game. DiMagglo has a chance. His blow yesterday to break the 44-year-old mark of Willie Keeler for hitting In the most consecu tive games was a sizzling home run, his 18th of the season, and preserved his leadership in this department. In batting in three runs to help the Yanks rip open the Bos ton Red Sox B-4 he also lifted himself within four "RBI" of the league leader. Teammate Char ley Keller, who hit his 17th homer in yesterday's game. In the other American league tussles the Philadelphia Athle tics clipped the Washington Sen ators 7-6 on Bob Johnson's 17th home run in the tenth inning and Detroit nosed out the Chica go White Sox 1-0 in a spectacu lar night game pitching duel between Bobo Newsom and Bill Dietrich. In the National league the Brooklyn Dodgers punished the Phils for Tuesday's setback by taking a 9-3 decision. Pittsburgh beat the Cincinnati Reds 8-3 for Paul Derringer's tenth loss of the season. The Boston Braves and New York Giants divided a double header with two four-hit pitch ing exhibitions. Dick Errickson and Tom Earley shared the mound assignment in winning the first game 5-4 and Bill Lohr man retaliated with a 6-0 shut out in the nightcap. FISHERMEN-LOOK Ererythlng you need from A to Z. Good quality. ' Low Prices. Trolling Rod Heel Line S1.JS Trolling Bod Reel Line 14 50 Trolling Rod Reel Line S5J0 New a H.r. Champion Motor 441.50 Cliffs Sport Shop 817 North Rtrerelde Ave. TO KIN1W WHAT'S ACTUALLY , IN3EWS m WMummmm A Daily Feature in the PvHAML ITEHIBUKfE Soldier Mulcahy Is Nursemaid To Young Draftees Boston, July 3. (VP) Hughie Mulcahy, one of the hardest working pitchers the majors have had In years, hasn't changed bit since he gave up his five-figure base ball salary to wear Uncle Sam's khaki for $21 a month at Camp Edwards. Hughie, who doesn't drink, spends most of his nights tak ing care of his comrades In arms who do, "They call me Ma Mul cahy." Hughil said. "But af ter all, I've ben around so long that I couldn't sleep If I thought those kids were rambling around somewhere making chumps of themselves." RIFLES ARE BANNED IN Portland, July 3 (JPh-Rifles may not be used in hunting up land game birds this fall, the state game commission said to-. day. Shotguns used In upland bird shooting must be plugged to 1 limit them to three shells. 1 Branding and registering of wild animal traps is required by a new law, the commission said. Unbranded traps may be used by landowners or lessees for un protected non-game animals but a permit must be obtained. The trapping season will be Nov. 15 to Feb. 15. SAC HURLERS LEAD IN PERCENTAGE, WHIFFS Los Angeles, July 3 (P) Al Hollingsworth and George Tur beville still give Sacramento a pitching edge in the Pacific tell THUS' i. OLD Now READ if nlrffJil' KJ MEOGCSIDE DISTILLERY COR Paul Now von can read this widely quoted authority on events in Washington in his famous daily column, Newt Behind tbt News. Paul Mallon knows what's going on backstage knows how to write a column that is as readable as it Is reliable. He gives yon fundamental facts, tells you about the important issues and personalities, gives you today the inside story of the events which will make tomorrow's headlines. Coast league. Al has won 13 and lost only two games; Turbeville has won eight and lost two. George Munger, another of Pepper Martin's Sacs, has sacked 83 batters via the strikeout route. Next are Jess Flores of Los Angeles and Ad Llska of Portland with 75 each. Fights Last Night By the Associated Press j Miami, Fla. Tommy Gomez, 1 182, Tampa, knocked out Mickey : Dugan, 196, Cleveland (2). ! Paterson, N. J. Patrick Ed- ward Comiskey, 212, Paterson, ' stopped Italo Colonello, 195, New York (5). WE WILL BE CLOSED Friday and Saturday JULY 4 & 5 Let's All Enjoy the Rogue Wonderland Hohlweg'sTop & Glass Shop 8th Si Bartlett. Phone 3075 YOU CAM GET COOD DOURDCttl WHlCKEYfor OKIY your first tasta Z 85c 7 PINT 7 will At. you! $1.65 QUART S5 PROOF NAPA, CALIFORNIA ALL0N End North Central - rmvATt tKm. turon wwtutrr. 73 N Ntvtrl tlrt wJittiTWe, from Onto. M fSW. JwHvt K .( (XttiWwf C , htm'ahrfJ UKi J , , je
