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Billy Hulen Says:
Hills Creek To
Withdraw From
State Ball Loop
This yrar's Oregon Stat lea
gue baseball race hasn't even
been completed, but already one
club bis announced that it won't
be among the starters for the
2942 pennant chase. And It
Wouldn't surprise If at least one
other team, maybe two more,
were missing from the circuit
ion opening day next season.
Hills Creek, after 15 straight
years of Cascade and State loop
competition, has given up the
ghost and disbanded for good.
We don't know the exact reason,
but Imagine it boiled down to
financial. Hills Creek is a little
lumber town near Eugene, and
although the mill backed the
Club and gave players good Jobs
the burden probably became too
heavy for such a small commu
nity to bear.
' No rumors have been heard
that Toledo plans to withdraw
from the league, but we under
stand the Mudhens will finish
far in the red and that Toledo
fans are not enthusiastic con
cerning a 1942 entry. The Mud
hens, once a real power in State
league circles, reached an' all
time low this season, with nary
a victory in 14 loop games. The
team really didn't belong in the
circuit; It was hoplessly out
classed from the very first, and
unless It can be bolstered Im
measurably, and the fans perk
tip, we won't be astounded to
see Toledo follow In the foot
steps of Hills Creek.
Anolhtr town on our doubt
ful list, though nothing has
been beard that it won't again
produce a club, is Eugene.
The Athletics, home team of
the league's largest city, sim
ply do not pull enough cus
tomer to pay the bat boy.
Why Eugene won't support
the A's is a real mystery, and
It's not because the club
doesn't win. The Athletics
' weren't so potent this season,
true, but last year they had
a fin club and still didn't
draw enough fans to break
even financially. And it can't
be' from lack of publicity,
either, for both the Register
Guard and the News are solid
ly behind the club and give
It 3 tremendous amount of
space.
It would be a shame If Eu
gene is forced to abandon its
franchise, end we hope it isn t.
But something, apparently must
be done in the university town
to whip up more enthusiasm.
The club can't lose money, year
after year, and keep going.
Right now, it looks like the
other five teams in the circuit
are certain to be back. Medford.
Klamath Falls, Bend, Albany
and Silverton al have success
ful seasons, some of them more
than others. But all of them
are certain to finish In the black
or so close to It that the red
will have at least a brownish
tint.
And while on next year's sub
ject, we would like to go on
record as fervently hoping the
league moguls vote to resume
the twice-a-weck schedule la
stead of this silly one-game-a
week 1941 slate. The league. In
cutting down this year sched
ule exactly one-half from the
1940 28-game program, took a
step backward. That's not pro
gress, decreasing the number of
games each tram plays, and we
hope the bosses wil see the light
in 1!U3 and go back to that
swell two-games-a-week, Satur-
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Lesnevich Outpoints Mauriello
CHAMP PILES UP
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Pair Rematched For Novem
ber 14 After Close Fight
Loser Down In Second.
By Bid Feder
New York. Aug. 27 JP
Gus Lesnevich, the fellow who
was always the bridesmaid and
never the bride in the light
heavyweight picture, was boss
of the 175-pounders today, but
he's going to have to prove it
again to make It stick.
The rugged Russian from Jer
sey, who waited through Billy
Conn's reign for two years,
whipping everyone but the head
man, gained undisputed posses
sion of the championship last
night in Madison Square Garden
by outpointing Taml Mauriello,
the young baby-faced flailer
from the Bronx.
Anybody's Fight
But he did it by a margin as
close as a fresh shave, and there
was such a question left in the
minds of the fans after it was
over that Promoter Mike Jacobs
announced immediately Cus
would have to defend the bauble
November 14 in the Garden
against Tami. Being a sportsman,
Uncle Mike wanted the matter
cleared up to the satisfaction of
all concerned. And the fact that
a return go would prove most
attractive to the cash customers
didn't have a thing to do with
making up his mind.
By flooring the 21-year-old
kid in the second round, cutting
his eye in the fourth, bloodying
his nose in the sixth and gener
ally running away with the
match through the first 10
rounds, Lesnevich piled up so
tremendous a margin that he
had enough to hold off against
Mauriellos' closing drive.
THE DALLES HAS
NINE GRID TILTS
The Dalles, Aug. 27. WV-
A nine-game football schedule
without a "breather" on the list
was announced by The Dalles
high school today.
The schedule:
September 19 Camas at The
Dalles.
September 26 Astoria at The
Dalles.
October 3 The Dalle at La
Grande.
October 10 The Dalles at
Bend.
October 24 Hood River at
The Dalles.
October 31 The Dalles at
Mllton-Freewater.
November 7 Oregon City at
The Dalles.
November 20 or 21 The
Dalles at Pendleton.
November 28 or 29 Medford
at The Dalles.
day night and Sunday afternoon,
schedule.
Most of the clubs this season
played week-end series, with the
Saturday eve contest being
king's-x. If they are going to rio
that, whv not make both games
regular league contests and get
those fans who can't be fooled,
who want LEAGUE ball and not
exhibition shift?
tie early ureoon
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third base during a doubleheader with the Brooklyn Dodgers In
New York. Southworth lost the argument, the teams split the
double bill, and the Dodgers retained their league lead.
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AT GRANTS PASS
Because some of the equip
ment for the new gun club at
Grants Pass will not arrive in
time to be installed for the
planned opening shoot Sunday,
the event has been postponed
until a date to be announced in
the future.
The Medford Gun club will
therefore hold a regular practice
shoot next Sunday, the skeet
events starting promptly at
10:30, to be followed by regular
trapshooting. The public is in
vited. Scores Yesterday
National
St. Louis 3-3, Brooklyn 8-1
(2nd game called 8th Inning,
darkness)
Chicago 3-11, Philadelphia 4-3
Cincinnati 4-3, New York 7-4
Pittsburgh 3-6, Boston 4-1.
American
Philadelphia 9-2. Detroit 11
Boston 0, Cleveland 4
Washington 3, St. Louis 0
Only games scheduled.
Coast
San Diego 5, Sacramento 3
Seattle 7, Portland 2
Los Angeles S.San Francisco 4
Oakland 3, Hollywood S
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GOLD HILL GIRL
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Announcement was made to
day of the employment of Ruth
Lance as clerk of the farm secur
ity administration migrant agri
cultural labor camp here. Miss
Lance is a graduate of Gold Hill
high school and has been em
ployed at CCC headquarters de
tachment under the national
youth administration program.
There are now 220 persons
living in the tent city and all
workers in the colony are em
ployed, Hayes Beall, acting camp
manager said. A general assem
bly will be held at 8 tonight to
hear reports from the camp
council.
A swing for children was to
be installed at the camp today,
the materials having been donat
ed by Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Car
penter of Veritas Orchard. A
washing machine was to be in
stalled today also to facilitate
laundry work. Rental of the
machine is to be paid by E. C.
Corn, orchardist, Mr. Beall said.
Los Angeles Richie Lemos,
I263,t, Los Angeles, outpointed
Joey Archibald, 127H, Provi
dence, R. I.,(10; Turkey Thomp
son, 188, Los Angeles, knocked
out Buddy Knox, 189, Dayton,
Ohio, (1).
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Cooper Beats Brooks 3-1
After 'Bums' Take
Opener 8-3 Reds Divide
By Judsoa Bailey
Associated Press Writer
Brooklyn's beloved bums have
met the enemy and although
they didn't conquer, neither
were they conquered.
Brooklyn looked Ilk whirl
wind in winning yesterday's
opener, 8-3, and then subsided
into a zephyr before the magni
ficent pitching of Mort Cooper
in losing the eight-inning night
cap, 3-1.
Because of Monday I rain, all
the National league contests
were doubleheaders. The world
champion Reds split with the
New York Giants, Pittsburgh
divided at Boston, and the Chi
cago Cubs captured two from
the Phillies.
Walters Loses
The Giantc beat Bucky Walt
ers, 7-4, then had the Reds re
taliate with a 9-4 decision on
six-hit hurling by Junior Thomp
son. Jim Tobln, using his newly-
developed knuckleball, pitched
a four-hit game to stop the Pir
ates, 4-3, and Max Butcher came
back with a six-hitter to win
the nightcap, 6-1.
The Cubs collected three home
runs for a 5-4 victory, then
romped to an 11-3 triumph in
the afterpiece with Dom Dal
lessandro hitting a grand slam
homer and Paul Erickson pitch
ing six-hit ball.
In the American league the
Boston Red Sox regained third
place by beating the Cleveland
Indians, B-4
Dutch Leonard managed to
evade trouble as the Washing
ton Senators shut out the St.
Louis Browns, 3-0.
The Philadelphia Athletics
swept a double bill from the
Detroit Tigers, who were held
to six hits in each game. Sam
Chapman's homer with the bases
loaded climaxed the 0-1 triumph
id the opener. The A's bunched
their hits for two runs in the
fourth inning of the nightcap to
win, 2-1.
BY MP'
Fort Custer, Mich., Aug. 27.
(P) Corporal Henry Green
berg, former outfielder of tht
Detroit Tigers baseball team,
was arrested by military police
at 12:30 a. m. today for speed'
ing Inside the Fort Custer
grounds.
Press relations officers at the
fort quoted the military police
as saying Greenberg drove his
own car 40 miles an hour along
Dickman road, where the speed
limit is 23 miles.
As an immediate result, they
explained, Greenberg automat
ically is "grounded" deprived
for 30 days of the privilege of
driving on the military reserva
tion. 17 DAY each tectien U private
lounf wbera you may work, play
or vatcii th tvtr chanctnf pano
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New York 84
Chicago 67
Boston .63
Cleveland .63
Detroit 58
Philadelphia 55
St. Louis 54
Washington 53
National
Brooklyn 78
St. Louis 77
Cincinnati 69
Pittsburgh .65
New York 58
Chicago 54
Boston a
Philadelphia 33
Coast
Sacramento 89
Seattle 2
San Diego...81
Hollywood 73
San Francisco...65
Los Angeles........63
Oakland ....64
Portland 61
ALL-STARS STAGE
Chicago, Aug. 27 W) Eigh
teen days is a comparatively
short time to condition a foot
ball team and get it keyed for a
big game, but the coaches of the
college all-stars believe last
night's drill in Soldier field may
have turned the psychological
trick.
The collegians wore the uni
forms in which they will face
the Chicago Bears, pro cham
pions, tomorrow night. They
passed and executed running
plays under the floodlights. And
in slack moments they stared up
at the ring seats from where
nearly 100,000 spectators will
watch them if the weather is
good. I
All the players named in a
poll of fans to start the game
for the all-stars are in shape to
play, but the coaching stalf, in
its grouping of gridders, made it
evident substitutions would be
made soon after the game starts.
Ken Whitlow of Rice is due to
replace Rudy Mucha of Wash
ington at center and Warren
Alfson of Nebraska probably
will go in for Tommy O'Boyle of
Tulane at guard. Tom Harmon
of Michigan and George Franck
of Minnesota, halfback starters,
will stay in the game but Walter
Matuszczak of Cornell will re
place Forest Evashevski of Mich
igan at quarter and Norm Stand
lee of Stanford will go in for
George Paskvan of Wisconsin at
fullback.
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RAINIERS SLICE
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By th Associated Pre
Important from a champion
ship slant were Seattle's 7-2 win
over Portland in Coast league
baseball play last night and San
Diego' success against Sacra
mento. Theso developments had
the effect of leaving the first
place Sacramentans only six
game ahead of Seattle and seven
in front of San Diego.
At Portland, infielders skid
ded over rain-soaked grounds in
fruitless pursuit of balls that
ordinarily would have been easy
to handle, and as a result both
sides scored a pair of gift runs
in the early innings.
A walk followed by Dick
Gyselman's double, however,
put Seattle ahead in the fourth,
and late in the game, after word
had been received of Sacramen
to's defeat, the Ralniers beat the
mud with joy, rapping out an
additional four runs, mostly on
Bill Matheson's eighth and ninth
inning homers.
Hollywood cracked Stan Cor
bett for four hits and four runs
in the first inning, when Cliff
Dapper poled a four-bagger, then
coasted to 6-3 victory over Oak
land. Larry Jansen, San Francisco's
rookie pitching ace, learned that
phenomenal hurling may prove
barren of results unless accom
panied by a semblance of sup
port afield.
Last night he limited Los An
geles to three singles and one
base on balls in ten innings but
won 4-3, only because the oppos
ing moundsman developed a
wild streak in the ninth.
Short scores:
Seattle . 7 12 0
Portland 2 10 0
Barrett and Collins, Fallon;
Liska and Schultz.
Fights Last Night
By the Associated Press
New York Gus Lesnevich,
175, Cliftside, N. J., outpointed
Taml Mauriello, 1703, New
York (15); world light-heavyweight
title fight.
Wilmington, Del. Sam Baca-
la, 150, Baltimore, and Jack
Sena, 148, Wilmington, drew.
Rain halted bout after 1:34 of
second round.
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Omaha, Aug. 27. (ffV-Mar-vln
(Bud) Ward, ruling favorit
and 1U39 winner from Spokane,
scored 7 and 8 over Alex Walsh
of Rockford, 111., and drew Otto
Greiner of Baltimore as his af
ternoon opponent, in the nation
al amateur golf championship.
Greiner put out Earl Christian
sen, Miami policeman, 8 and 4.
Omaha, Aug. 27. VP) IaW
those high-scoring national ama
teur golf championship seeker
will take a tip from Omaha's
own Johnny Goodman, they'll
start shooting for par instead
of birdies.
That was Johnny's advice to
day as 64 qualifiers for match
play in the amateur, none too
successful In their medal-play
battles with the Field club's
stubbord par-72 turned to per
sonal engagements, with two 18
hole rounds on the "black Wed
nesday" program.
The qualifying medal went to tV
the popular Stewart (Skip) Alex
ander, the 23-year-old former
Duke university collegian who
added a stupendous 77 to hi
first round 67. Skip's 144, ex
actly even par and set up early,
held through the day as at least
seven challengers saw their
hopes go glimmering on the Field
club's trouble-filled area. tXT
Johnny Burke, the former in-
tercollegiate champion, had th
best chance to overtake Alex
ander, but after a first nine 38
he finished with a 41, his 77
leaving him a stroke behind Skip
at 145.
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