MEDFORD MATL TRTBUNB. MEDFORTV OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 13, 1941
PAGE TWO
NELSON TO MEET
GHEZZI TODAY IN
P.G.AJITLE PLAY
Sarazcn Loses To Champ
ion In Thrilling Round
. Mangrum Too Strong.
Cherry Hills. Denver, July 12.
(p) Broad-shouldered Byron
Nelson, master of the Iron shot,
clamDed stronger hold on his
Professional Golfers association
championship today when he
bowled over doughty little Gene
Sarazen 2 and 1 in a par blist
ering 36-hole semi-final match.
As a result the big fellow
from Toledo, Ohio, who won the
crown last year at Hershey, Pa.,
Will defend it in 36-hole finals
against Vic Ghezzi, Deal, N. J.,
who outlasted slim Lloyd Man
grum, Monterey Park, Cal.,
to win 1 up after being 3 up
at the 24th.
Hard Fought Game
I Nelson had no snap In con
quering 39-year-old Sarazen,
Veteran of the tournament and
possessor of the most illustrious
career of the lot. The squire
from Connecticut went down
fighting and the applause of
several thousand fans was not
less for him than for the man
be congratulated with a hearty
handclasp on the 35th green.
.The defending titleholder
shattered par and the hopes of
oldster Sarazen with a brilliant
assortment of shots, mainly to
the greens. He's the "Deadeye
Dick" of the game In this re
spect. , When he finished, he was
four strokes under par for the
Cherry Hills course. He had to
be to win. Sarazen, who donned
the robes of a PGA kingpin
In 1922 for the first of three
times, about the time Nelson
was a 10-year-old boy, ended
up three under par for the
match.
Misses Easy Putt
' That's golf In any league,
three putts on the 17th green
cost Sarazen a chance to fight
it out on the last hole where
the event might have been
squared. The number of the
rnost colorful performer In the
field, old plus lours sarazen,
didn't coma up this time. He
missed a four-foot putt, easy
enough for any dub to kick in.
While the Sarazen-Nelson
duel proved the dramatic
touches of age vs. youth, the
Ghezzl-Mangrum encounter fur
nished its thrills In a rousing
comeback by the Californian.
Playing in his first PGA
chamDionshlp. Mangrum's us
ually nerveless game fell to
pieces for the morning round.
Wild shooting forced him to ac
cept three penalty strokes. He
was 3 down at the 18th, 4 down
at the 24th and 3 behind at
the 30th. He appeared hopeless
ly outclassed, yet stuck to it
doggedly to win the 32nd, 34th
and 35th holes with 4s, the last
birdie.
Tough Luck
With the match deadlocked
and the crowd for him after
the plucky comeback, Mangrum
belted his drive some 273 yards
and too far. The ball rolled to
the edge of the lake that bites
Into the last fairway. He could
not take stance except by
wading into water and had to
waste a shot chipping back, so
he reached the green in 3.
Ghezzi, meanwhile, hit his sec
ond to the left of the green and
chipped up dead for his par 4.
Too much muscle put Man
grum out of the running. Had
the drive been 18 Inches less
he might have turned up as a
finalist in his freshman year.
Ghezzi floundered on five of
the last nine holes to card a 40.
He completed the 38 holes in
88-74 142, even par, against
Mangrum's 71-71144.
LIGHTNING KILLS
3 GOLF CADDIES
Louisville, Ky., July li.tP)
Three golf caddies were killed
by lightning here today and two
others were knocked down as
they accompanied players.
The dead were: Richard Coug
lar, 14; William L. Karger, 17.
and Bobby Harding, 17. The
Inured were William Wild, 17,
and Joseph Knight, Jr., 12.
Cotiglar, Karger, Wild and
Knight were accompanying golf
ers at the Louisville country
club and were standing In a
group when the bolt struck
them.
Harding and two golfers had
sought shelter in a shack at
Audubon country club when! culture committee learned here
lightning struck the shelter, kill-1 this week. The average produc
ing the youth. tion was 420 bushels an acre
To Face Londos
, ST
Tha highlight In the wrestling
career of Pete Belcastro (above)
will come when he clashes with
Jim Londos, International heavy
weight champion. In the main
event of next Monday night's
open-air grapple program at the
fairgrounds park. Few fans give
Pete a chance against the great
Londos, but the Weed Italian
believes he can more than hold
his own.
BEAT ALL-STARS
Mixing superlative playing
with their famous clowning
antics to keep a huge crowd
In an almost constant uproar,
the Colored Ghosts from Sioux
City, Iowa, defeated the Med
ford softball All-Stars, 6 to 2,
at the stadium Friday night.
Red Strickland, on the mound
for the dusky barnstormers,
allowed only four hits and
fanned a dozen, while Maru
yama and Landers, All-Star
flingers, yielded 12 blows.
The locals were held hltless
and runless until the fifth in
ning, when blows by Cowan
and Jim Boyle accounted for
the two Medford tallies. Evans
and Swanson made Medford's
two other hits.
The Ghosts scored once In
the third, twice in the fourth
and three times in the sixth
to ice the contest.
In a pair of regular City
league games, Fluhrer's nosed
out Coca-Cola, 10 to 9, with
five-run blast in the fifth and
final inning, and Rogue River
Chevrolet captured a . brilliant
duel from Gasco, 1 to 0.
Landers, on the rubber for
Chevrolet, allowed three hits,
while Stern gave up only two
for the losers. Chevrolet scored
the game's only run in the
fourth on hits by J. Darland
and Powers.
Scores: R. H. E.
Ghosts 8 12 0
All-Stars 2 4 3
Strickland and Bulford; Maru,
Landers and J. Smith.
Coca-Cola 9 8 2
Fluhrer's 10 8 0
Ice and Cowan; Walker and
Newland.
Chevrolet 1
Gasco 0
Landers and Darland;
and Babbs.
2 1
3 4
Stern
STATE NET TITLE
Portland, July 12
Daphne Buckell of Oakland had
an easy time of it today defeat
ing U-Ien Gurley of Sacramento
o u. 0 2 10 win lne Oregon state
women's tennis title on the
Irving-ton courts.
Dorothy Head of Alameda,
women's champion last year,
salvaged the junior women's
title today with a 6 2. 6 3 win
over Betty Thompson. San Fran-
Cisco.
o. She entered the iunlnr
fina
Is yesterday by downing
Patty Greenup,
Tacoma, 4-6,
6 3. 9 7.
Klamath Spud Shipments
Klamath Falls. July 12 HP)
Potato shipments from the Klam
ath basin totaled 9.835 carloads
in 1940, a department of agri-
HOLLYWOOD DERBY
WON BY STARETOR,
O'ER PORTER'S CAP
Favorite Beats Field Of
Seven Paper Boy Third
Photo Finish For 2nd.
Los Angeles, July 12
Staretor strengthened his claim
as one of the nation's outstand
ing three-year-olds today when
he whipped seven rivals (n the
fourth running of the $23,000
Hollywood derby.
The Delaware-bred colt, own
ed by Hugh S. Nesbltt, of Los
Angeles, flashed across the fin
ish line three-quarters of a
length in front of his arch foe.
C. S. Howard's Sorter's Cap,
while the crowd of 32,000 which
had Installed him as 6-3 favor
ite, cheered lustily.
Harry L. Warner'i Paper Boy
ran third.
Confident of victory over the
Howard colt, and holding a
seven-pound pull In weights,
Georgie Woolf brought the Nes
bitt colt up on the outside as
the field came into the stretch,
and came on to win decisively
It was a photo-finish between
Porter's Cap and Paper Boy,
with Edward S. Moore's Battle
Colors a close fourth.
Staretor defeated the luckless
Cap in a tight finish a week
ago, but was disqualified lor
bearing' over on the Howard
colt. He removed all doubt as
to his superiority today with
his gallant drive to the wire.
The win was worth $19,675 to
his owner.
Saretor ran the distance in
2:03 1-3. He paid $4.40, $2.80,
and $2.40; Porter's Cap $3.40
and $3.20, and Paper Boy $4.
Staretor emerged as a pos
sible threat against Mioland
and older horses in the big Gold
Cup handicap next week.
New York, July 12. UP) A
sharp slump by Jeff Heath of
the Cleveland Indians, contin
ued climbing by Roy Cullenbine
of the St. Louis Browns and
the Yankees' Joe DiMaggio. and
a descent from the "stratos
phere" by Ted Williams of the
Boston Red Sox marked the
American league batting race
this week.
Pete Reiser of Brooklyn and
Johnny Mize of St. Louis con
tinued to slug it out in the Na
tional. Williams, stopped cold by the
Detroit Tigers' Buck Newsom
yesterday, finally dropped be
low .400, though only to 398.
Biggest tumble was taken by
Heath, who skidded from .380
to .366, yielding second place
to Cullenbine and further en
dangered by having DiMaggio
and Cecil Travis of the Wash
ington Senators only a point
back of him.
Cullenbine climbed three
points from .368 to .371. Big
gest increase among the lead
ers, though, was DiMagsio's.
The Yankee ace, running his
hitting streak to 80 straight
games, bagged 12 safeties in
five contests to zoom from .348
to .363.
Reiser of the Dodgers and
Slaughter of the Cardinals each
slumped a bit. A week ago it
took a fourth decimal to split
them, with Reiser at .3552 and
Slaughter at .3550. As of yes
terday's games, it was Reiser
still out front at .331 and the
Cordinal first baseman second
at .349.
Ousted Coach Gets Job
Salinas, Calif.. July 12. UP)
A canvass of school board mem
bers disclosed today that Marlon
"Tiny" Hall, ousted coach of
Salinas Union high school, will
be named new coach of Salinas
Junior college to succeed Lloyd
"Bud" Winter, who was signed
last week as head track coach
of San Jose State college.
Claim Sub Sank
Berlin, July 12. ,pA Brit
ish submarine was susw bv
i German air attackOrdav
ana a i.uuu ion freight was
! destroyed In British coastal wa
ters, the German high command
reported today.
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TO FACE TOLEDO
Battling to get into the thick
of the Oregon State league's
second-half pennant race, the
Medford Craters will clash with
the Toledo Mudhens at the fair
grounds park this afternoon at
2:30 sharp. It will mark the
first and only appearance of the
Mudhens here this season.
Either Bill Smith or Jack
Brown will do the flinging for
the Craters, Manager Lou Sauer
announced, with Big Dutch Lei-
ber held in reserve in case the
visitors get frisky with the of
ferings of Smith or Brown,
whichever the case may be.
Boyle Eagleson, ex-American
Legion Junior hurler, is expect
ed to start on the firing mound
for the Toledo nine, with Burn
ell Bali, former Crater catcher,
doing the receiving.
Manager Sauer plans no
changes in the local lineup from
that which conquered the col
ored Palmer House Stars Wed
nesday night. This will find
Frankle Roelandt catching, Al
Fleishman on first, Cliff Mc
Lean on second, Del Schroer on
short, Bob Churchill on third.
Al Wray in left, Sauer in cen
ter and Joe Gray in right.
Toledo will probably take the
item with Hawkins on first. Fin
nell on second. Goodell on short
Logan on third, Haram in left.
J. Anderson in center and
Hoover in right.
Both the Craters and the
Mudhens will be gunning for
weir first second-half victory
each having dropped opening
games two weeks ago, the Cra
ters to Albany and Toledo to
Eugene. No State league games
were played last week-end.
The Craters have apparently
started to roll after hot and cold
performances in early-season,
and Manager Sauer predicts
they will win today's game and
start down the pennant trail. Al
wray, after a long batting
slump, has started to sock like
he did last season. Gray and
Sauer are also hitting better
and Roelandt, with two blows
last Wednesday, gave promise
of turning into a definite plate
mreai.
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Portland, July 12. (p)The
Portland Beavers edged out
Seattle in the twelfth inning
today, 9 to 4, for their first
Coast league win of the week.
John Gill and Danny Escobar
opened the twelfth with singles
and Lea Scarsella fumbled Joe
Annunzlo s sacrifice bunt, which
filled the bases with none out.
Manager Oscar Vitt then sent
Ted Noi'bert to pinch hit for
Joe Cosiarart. and Norbert
lammed a single that would
have been a double under any
other circumstances. Gill scored
with the winning run.
Scarsella hit a home run for
Seattle with one on in the first
dui nerman Reich evened it for
Portland in the third, also with
a two-run homer.
Score: r. h. E
Seattle 4 12 1
x-oruana 3 i n
Turpin and Fallon: L iska and
Annunzio.
Oakland. Calif.. Julv is jp
Ralph Buxton, giving up only
five scattered singles, pitched
Oakland to a 4-0 victory over
San Francisco today in a Coast
league game.
The Oaks scored all their run
In the fifth Inning, bunching
four hits and two walks off
Larry Jansen, young Seal right-
nanaer. jansen allowed Oak-
iana six hits altogether.
Score: R. H. E.
San Franclsco..... 0 5 1
Oakland . 4 6 2
Nasi Bomber Down
New York, July 12. PA
Reykjavik, Iceland, dispatch
broadcast today by the British
Broadcasting company said an
armed British trawler had shot
down a German bomber in
flames after withstanding its
aerial attack.
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CHAMPION LONDOSYANKEES TAKE 5
FACES BELCASTRO
T
Through all the publicity bal
lyhoo that has been focused
on Jim Londos, international
heavyweight champion, Pete
Belcastro of Weed, Cal., his op
ponent Monday night, had re
mained strangely silent. Which
was not like Belcastro, whose
confidence in himself makes
Dizzy Dean appear a shrinking
violet.
Yesterday, however, the Mad
Italian broke his long word-famine,
and through Promoter
Mack Lillard came out with the
flat statement that "I'll take
that Greek apart and find out
what makes him operate, If any
thing." Said Lillard: "Pete honestly
believes he can beat Londos, and
after listening to him describe
the havoc he plans to wreak on
Jimmy, I am at least convinced
that it will be one of the wildest
and roughest matches we have
ever seen in Medford."
The promoter went on to say
that he didn't really think Bel
castro could defeat the cham
pion, but he did admit that Pete
had a chance. "You know," Lil
lard mused, "anybody as rough
and dirty as Belcastro always
stands a chance to upset the
dope bucket, and while he cer
tainly doesn't figure to win,
there is a possibility that he
might pull something and cop
the match."
Belcastro told Lillard that the
Londos name and reputation
meant less than nothing to him,
and that he planned to attack
and keep on attacking until
somebody dropped. "And Pete
is sure it won't be he that
drops," Lillard said.
If Belcastro runs true to form,
Londos does appear in for a
busy evening. Nothing, no mean
trick In the book, is taboo to
Belcastro, and he always opens
up with everything he has.
Londos, of course, is expected to
cope successfully with the Bel
castro explosion but, there
still is that slim chance that
Pete might get in a lucky wallop
or something, and go on to win.
Two exceptionally fine sup-
purung maicnes are on the pro
gram, which will be the first
ever held at the Open-air fair
grounds ball park. Cowboy
Dude Chick will meet George
Wagner in the semi-windup, and
Ernie Piluso will face Newcom
er Billy McEwen in the opener.
First two matches will be for
six lu-minute rounds or the best
two out of three falls, while the
main event will go an hour or
until one pachyderm gets two
tumDies.
JUNIORS TO PLAY
COOS BAY EARLY
The Jackson county American
region junior baseball team,
with Bob Smith of Jacksonville
slated to do the pitching, will
xangie with the Marshfield Le
gion juniors at the senior high
school park at 11:30 this morn
ing, giving fans plenty of time
to later attend the Crater-Toledo
Mate league fracas at the fair
grounds park.
The local juniors, with two
victories in five starts, must
win this morning's game to
remain in the running for the
district 4 championship.
Closing time fur Too Lata to Claa
ttj Ada U I :S0 p m.
WRESTLING!
T& MEDFORD FAIR GROUNDS
Monday
It
SEMI
CHICK vs.
Cowboy
"Dude''
OPENER
ERNIE PILUSO vs. BILLY McEWEN
OPEN AIR ARENA 1:30 t. M.
Ringside Reserved Seats, including tax. Tie
Oa Sale at The Owl Club
General Admission, Including tax. ISc
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CLEVELAND LOSES
St. Louis, July i:. CP The
New York Yankees beat the
Browns, 7-9, to sweep their
three-game series.
The Yankee club's victory,
combined with Cleveland's loss
to Philadelphia, made the New
Yorkers' American league lead
five full games.
The victory further, as the
club's twelfth In succession,
established new 1941 league
record for winning streaks. The
Indians' 11 straight in the early
part of the season had set the
previous high.
Score: K. H. E.
New Yorlc 7 8 1
St. Louis $ 10 2
Bonham, Murphy and Dickey;
Auker, Muncreif and Ferrell.
Cleveland, July 12. UP)
Connie Mack's scrappy Athletics
cast off the Cleveland Indians'
spell with a 4 to 2 victory today,
pegged on Wally Moses' two-run
circuit clout and Lester Mc
Crabb's five-hit twirling.
Score: R. H. E.
Philadelphia 4 11 1
Cleveland 2 8 1
McCrabb and Haynes: Milnar.
Heving and Desautels, Hemsley.
Detroit, July 12. (JP) The
Boston Red Sox called on two
rookie pitchers to tame the De
troit Tigers in a double-header
today and the youngsters, aided
by some potent slugging, won
both games, 7 to 5 and 10 to 2
Three home runs helped the
Red Sox -take the twin bill,
Jimmy Foxx getting his thir
teenth in the first game and his
fourteenth In the second while
Bobby Doerr also contributed a
four-bagger in the opener.
First game: R. H. E
Boston 7 10 2
Detroit ... 9 9 0
H. Newsome, Ryba and Pyt-
lak; Corsica, Thomas, Giebell
Benton and Tibbets, Sullivan.
Second game: - Jl. H. E
Boston ,, , ..... 10 16 1
Detroit .... 2 9 2
Hughson and Peacock; Trout,
Kowe and McKain and Sullivan,
Chicago, July 12. p) The
Washington Senators made the
most of their nine hits today,
defeating the Chicago White
Sox, 5 to 3, to salvage the last
Of three games in their series.
Score: R. H. E.
Washington .,, 5 9
Chicago - 3 0
Leonard and Early; Ross and
Tresh, Dickey.
Dl MAGGIO BLASTS
51 STRAIGHT HITS
St. Louis, July 12. HP) Joe
DiMaggio walloped a double off
Elden Auker of the St. Louis
Browns in the fourth Inning
today to run his consecutive-
game hitting streak to 51 con
tests.
The Yankee clipper's two-
bagger drove in Tom Henrich
with the first Yankee run. The
ball sailed over Walt Judnick's
head in center field.
Auker came close to halting
DiMaggio s streak in New York
two weeks ago, when Jolting
Joe didn't get a hit until the
eighth.
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July 1J
JIM
LONDOS
InternaUanal Heavyweight Champion
VS.
PETE
BELCASTRO
- WINDUP
GEORGE WAGNER
CARDS DEFEATED
Ttmnklvn Julv 12. (IP)
Rni-lrv Walter slowed UD the
red-hot Brooklyn Dodgers today
by pitching a superlative six
hitter to give the stumbling
world champion Cincinnati
Reds a nerve-tinelinc 3 to Z
victory before 16,022 fans.
In soite of the loss the league-
leaders remained 3V4 games
ahead of the St. Louis Cardin
als.
Tha Rd had been blasted by
Brooklyn bats for two days, but
today Walters weakened in on
ly one Inning the eighth
when the Dodgers pushed across
ineir two tallies.
Cincinnati 3 6 0
Brooklyn 2 6 3
Walters and West; WyattJ
Brown and Owen, Franks.
Philadelphia, July 12.-
Timely hits, including Elbie
Fletcher's eighth home run with
one on base, coupled with John
Lannings six-hit pitching gave
the Pittsburgh Pirates a 6 to 1
victory over the Phillies today.
The triumph was the Bucs' 11th
In their last 14 games.
Pittsburgh 6 8.1
Philadelphia 16 2
Lanning and Lopez; Podgaj-
ny, Pearson and Werren, Living
ston. New York, July 12. Al
though he needed ninth-inning
assistance from Walter Brown
to get out of a bad hole, young
Bob Carpenter hurled his sixth
victory for the Giants today,
holding the St. Louis Cardinals
to seven hits and driving in
three runs with a single and
double. The score was 6 to 4.
St. Louis 4 7 1
New York 6 8 3
White, Hutchinson; Krist and
Padgett; Carpenter, Brown and
Hartnett.
RACING
Chicago, July 12. (IP) War
ren Wright, Chicago, made a
clean sweep of the rich Arling
ton futurity today with Sun
Again winning. Some Chance
running second and Wishbone
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DEFI OF ROGUES;
SET DATES LATER
The Medford Craters of the
Oregon State league, through
Treasurer Murray Marley of the
Medford Athletic association,
yesterday accepted the chal
lenge of the Southern Oregon
League Medford Rogues for a
three-game series to determine
the city championship, and of
ficials of the two clubs were
expected to get together immed
iately to set dates for' the series
and decide on a division of tha
gate receipts.
Meanwhile, an air of mystery
was injected into the situation
with the sober announcement
by Manager Paul Hoffard of the
Rogues that he had signed an
unidentified pitcher to fling for
the Southern Oregon leaguers,
said hurler to wear a mask
while doing his chores and un
masking at home plate after
the game only If the Rogues
are beaten.
In all seriousness, Hoffard
vowed that this incredible angle
to the series was straight goods.
He explained that the "mystery
pitcher" had won IS straight
games in an outlaw league in
Nevada this season, had been
disbarred from organized base
ball, and was a big righthander
with "a faster ball and a better
curve than Dutch Leiber's."
In case the pitcher does show
up for the game wearing a
mask, it will be the first time
in local baseball history such a
strange thing has happened.
Date for the first game of the
series is a matter of conjecture.
The Craters are tied up wltti
State league games every Sun
day until the schedule ends Au
gust 17, and have a date with
the Kansas City Monarchs here
next Wednesday night. No
game, is scheduled for the fol
lowing Wednesday eve, July 23,
and fans are hoping the two
teams can get together on that
night.
All-Star Voting
Chicago, July 12. (P) The
season for all-star football bal
loting opened today with an
announcement that fans would
have until July 29 to name a
collegiate team to oppose Chi
cago's Bears, pro champions, in
the annual charity game at
Soldier field, August 28.
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