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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, MONDAY, OLTUbck o, i4i, Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: . Northwest Teams Regain Prestige With Victories TVi nnrthwest Intercollegiate football situation, we are happy to report, U looking up. Not ao long ago Just three days back. In fact It looked like the "ho hum" era Mr. Will Connolly of the San Francisco Chronicle tried unsuccessfully to usher In two years ago had at last aettled down over the broad expanse of Washington and Oregon. In the opening week of Pa cific Coast conference scuffling, Stanford had laced the Web foots, El Trojan- had subdued Oregon State and the "QT Uclans had beaten the Cougars from the Palouse country. Mean While, there was a terrific new grid power prowling the coast California's Golden Bean. They were rushing headlong to rasa dena on the Impetus of a thun dering 31 to 0 conquest of St. Mary's Galloping Gaels. It anneared as If about all the success the poor northwest chools were to enjoy this sea on would come at the box office, or on a strictly non-Call fornia scale. The big machines (mm tha sunny state seemed ready to dominate the league as never before. All that was prior to Saturday- Things are different now, and oh, how different. California's mighty Bears are beaten, 13 to 8 by a Wash ington State team that wasn't supposed to stand chance, and Oregon State Is definitely an eleven to reckon with , thanks to Its I to I conquest of a Washington outfit pre viously considered the only northwest team stacking up with the top California quads. And Oregon' stock looks bet ter now than ever, following Stanford's 33 to 0 shellacking of UCLA. The Webfoots, wh put up a whale of a battle be fore being downed by the In dlans In the opener, 19 to IS, hould now rate much higher than tha Bruins, and on a com parative score proposition in volving WSC, UCLA, Stanford and California, the Ducks on paper are better than the Gold en Bears. . It was a bad Saturday In very respect for the California teams, Stanford excepted, of course. The Trojans of USC were trimmed by Ohio State 33 to 0, and because of that they will probably be the under dogs to Oregon next Saturday ven though the game will be played In Los Angeles. Despite their fine victory over Washington, the Corvallls Beav rs can't rate over Stanford next Saturday, but things don't look promising for the other two California elevens California and UCLA. The Bears play Santa Clara, which Is enough aid, and UCLA tackles Mon tana, which has one of Its best teams In years and years, W wouldn't be surprised to see the Montanans come up with a win. Professor I. Plckem did It. Nope, not 12 for 12 again, but something even more spine tingling. He picked a big. fat upset Oregon State over Washington and until the last few minutes of the con test when the Beavers scored a safety, Plckem hid the exact score nailed at 7 to 6. The guy must be getting good or lucky. It wasn't a half bad day for the professor all the way around. Out of 12 games he missed only three Southern Cal losing to Ohio State, Har vard bowing to Penn and, of course, California dropping to Washington State. Correct picks were Mcdfor.i over Grants Pass, Klamath Fall., over Dunsmuir, Ashland over Coqullle, Oregon owr Idaho Stanford over UCLA. Duke over Tennessee, Notre Dame ovel Indiana and Fordham over Southern Methodist. And, not to forget Beavers over Huskies. As a result of the nine for 12 record, the professor's sea on's percentage now stands at a neat .873, as follows: Games Won Lost Pet. 24 21 3 .873 BRONCGS TOPPLE LOYOLA, 20 TO 6 San Francisco. Oct. 8 (jpwl Santa Clara breezes into the third week of Its football season today wijhout yet having had to how the trumps In Its playing hand or even test the might of its first team. Tha Broncos, Who COIM Up GIVES YANKS 7-4 Catcher Owen Drops Third Strike In Ninth And Yan kees Tally Four Runs. Brooklyn, N. Y., Oct t-UP) This Is what happened In Brook lyn yesterday: At approximately 4:40 p. m. with the Dodgers leading the Yankees by a score of 4-3 before 33,800 supremely happy Ebbets Field fans, with two Yankees out in the ninth Inning and with two strikes on Tommy Henrlch, feared Yankee slugger, Pitcher Hugh Casey of the Dodgers curved a curve that ' Henrlch missed by close to a foot. Catcher Mickey Owen of the Dodgers failed to catch the ball. Not only did he fail to catch it, but Owen, one of the finest receivers In baseball, permitted the ball to bounce off his mitt and roll clear to the stands Why, even Ernie Lombardl of the Cincinnati Reds would have caught that ball. KacPhall Cries What happened after that shouldn't have happened even to a Dodger. President Larry MacPhail of the Flatbushers leaving the darkened park an hour later with big tears rolling down his cheeks, said. In fact: "I've been sitting in there say ing to myself that this simply could not have happened. May be I dreamed It." Let us not dwell upon the horrid details. As almost every one knows by this time, the Yankees burst loose like sky rockets after that unhappy 'muff by Owen. Big brawny persons bearing names like Joe DiMag glo, Charlie Keller and Joe Gor don slapped Hugh Casey silly, bouncing balls repeatedly off the right and left field fences. And when the nightmare ended the Yankees were leading 7 to 4, held an Impregnable-looking lead of three victories to one In the series, and the Dodgers and their supporters wanted to go off to some quiet spot and die. There never was anything like It before In baseball and, pray Abner Doubleday, there never will be again. It simply could not have happened, and yet it did. The only thing that made It believable was that on the previous day the Dodgers had been beaten because Fred die Fitzsimmons, considered the greatest fielding pitcher In base ball, had been struck on tht knee by a ball batted by those same Yankees and deprived of a probable victory. The result was that the Dodg ers, after having put up a plucky fight, went Into the fight engagement at Ebbfts Field today hanging on the ropes and about ready to utter those im mortal lines: "Hullo Mom, I done my best but I lose." Post-Mortems The post-mortems were many last night. Some said that Casey with two strikes and no balls on Keller in the ninth witn Henrlch and DiMagglo on the sacks should not have come down the middle with the third one. That was the one Keller pickled, sending In the tying and winning runs. He is notori ous for swinging at bad balls. Owen apparently wa . the only one unwilling to scatter the blame. He said: "It was my fault. They were right In giving me an error. The ball didn't hit the dirt. It broke farther than I expected and I missed It" Casey, himself, said that he bore down especially on the pitch giving It everything he had, and that It "Jumped" far titer than any ball he threw In the game. It obviously was no optical Illusion, It curved. It looked to these eyes that It would have been a ball If Hen rich had not swung, giving him a walk, but others thought it caught the corner. Nrw vora AB R PO A Sturm, lb . Rolfs. 3b ... Henrlch. rf t 8 . 4 8 3 DiMagglo, ef Keller. If Dickey, e .... Oordon, 8b Rlnuto, s Donald, p m Breuer, p Selkirk' , 8 . a . 5 . 4 ,300 10 0 against a tougher University of California proposition next top pled Loyola of Los Angeles, 30 8. yesterday with no more effort than they put forth In squelch ing University of Son Francisco the previous Sunday. Alaska has only 3,300 miles of automobile roads. Everybody t . When Phil Rtssuto. Yankee shortstop, was run down between second and third In tha fourth Innlnq of the fourth World series game Sunday, even Umpire Be be Plaelll Joined in the gallop. Pee Wee Reese, Dodger shortstop (carrying ball), finally overhauled Rissuto for the third out after Catcher Mickey Owen flrtd a peg to second. Rissuto starred for third when Larry French pitched Into the dirt while Johnny Sturm was batting. Tha Yankees won 7 to 4, after a ninth inning rally. (A.P. photo by wire and airmail to Mail-Tribune). Murphy, p 10 10 ToUIs 8 BstUd for Brauer In 8th. Brooklyn AB R PO A ReM, Walker, rt 084 Reiser, ef CimllU, lb R!gg. 8 Medwlck, If Allen, p Cuey. p Owen, e - .. Coscirart, 8b Hljbe, p Prench.. p Wwdell, If Totals New York Brooklyn Irror, Owen. 85 87 14 .100 800 0047 000 320 000 4 Runs batted In, Kel ler 8. Sturm 9, Waadell 3. Reiser 3. Oordon. Two-base hits, Camllll, Kel- I lar 8, waadell. Walker, Oordon. Home j run, raiser, uouoie piays, uoraon to Rissuto to flturm. Earned runs, New York 8, Brooklyn 4. Left on bases. New York 11, Brooklyn 8. Buses on balls, oft Hlgbe 3 (DlMa;glo. Dickey): off Casey 8 (Dickey, Ruzzuto); off Donald 8 (Owen 3. Ccararort): off Breuer 1 (Rlgga); off Allen 1 (Dick ey). Struck out. by Donald 8 (Reiser, Cos:arart): by Hlgbe 1 (Donald): by Breuer 3 (Rlgsa, Casey); by Casey 1 (Henrlch): by Murphy 1 (Coscar art). Pitching summary, off Htgbe. hits and 3 runs In 3-3 Innings: off French, no hits and no runs In 13 Inning; off Allen, 1 hit and no runs In 38 Inning: off Caaey, 5 hits and 4 runs In 4-13 Innings: off Donald. hits and 4 runs In 4 In- nlnga (none out In th; otf Breuer. 8 hits and no runs In 8 rnnlngs: otf Murphy, no hits and no runs In 3 Innings. Hit by pitcher. Henrlch, by Allen, winning pitcher. Murphy. Los ing pitcher, Caaey. Umpires, Ooets (NL), plate: McOowan (Ai.), first base; Plnelll (NL). sewnd base: Onem (A.L.). third baae. Tims, 3:54. Attendance, 88,813. 1ST FLIGHT TOGA IN GOLF TOURNEY Two night winners In the first IB-hole match play Merchants' tournament were determined at the Rogue Valley Golf club yes terday. Tod Porter scoring a 2 and 1 victory over Frank Perl in the finals of the first fllxht and Roy Donelson defeating Dr. F. G. Bunch, 3 and 2, in the finals of the third flight. Al Lit trell and Max Pierce will play this week for the second flight championship. To the flight winner and runners-up were presen'ed large boxes of assorted pears, donated by the following six packing companies: American Fruit, Crystal Springs, Southern Ore gon Sales, Myron Root, Bear Creek and Pinnacle. Sunday's clock-putting con test was won by Charles Clay, with a score of IS. Firing 18's were Bayard Getchell, Mrs. Rose Bunch, Leland Clark and Russell Shallemn. An interesting competition of over a year's duration came to an end yesterday when Al Lit trell defeated Gordon Green, 2 and 1, to win a $141 set of Ken neth Smith clubs. It started when the pair agreed that every time they played the loser was to put $S In a pool to purchase the clubs, the ultimate winner to be deter mined by three matches, after enough money was in the pool to buy tha sticks. Littrell won tha first match three weeks a.-to on the 19th green, and his opponent tied the series September 28 by winning on the 18th. Littrell then won the series and the clubs yester day with his 2 and 1 victory. Runs in Dodger Put-Out :'f a - sc.- jr, x T-Formation Indians Prove Class of Conference Again By Russ Newland San Francisco, Oct. 6. OP. Pigskin preview: Stanford's football machine is rolling In high gear again. The T-forma- tion Is hitting on all clyinders. The bugs that caused the shaky start 10 days ago apparently htve been eliminated. Off latest performance 33 to I 0 over the University of Cali fornia at Los Angeles Bruins last Saturday it will take more I than the presently determined ability of remaining Coast con ference opponents to stop the defending champions and Rose Bowl winners. Oregon State college gets the next chance. The northern stal warts on their. Corvallls field could apply the brakes with "breaks." Stanford fears the weather more than Oregon State. Mud on the ground and rain in the air are natural enemies of the man in motion plays, quick openers and deception Shaugh nessy sets such store by. Wet weather will be looked for but a dry field will be hailed with Joy by the Stanfords. They'll b after their 13th suc cessive win since opening the 1.140 season. Anybody super stitious? Oregon State proved Itself a better wet field team than Unl "slty of Washington last week winning 9 to 8. Rushing statir tics favored the victors but ir eluded an 80-yard touchdowi run. Three Washington passer were intercepted to halt potentia' scoring threats. The other eight conferencr teams all see action this week two in non-league games. Un vtrslty of Montana's Grizzlier apparently stronger than In sev eral seasons, travel to Los An geles to meet U. C. L. A. Frk night. University of Idaho take on Gonzaga In hopes of winninf iti first game of the year. Gon znca Is in the same boat. It I billed for Friday. Oregon, after cracking Idahc 21 to 7 last week, takes or Southern California's Trojanr Saturday at Los Angeles. Th Trojans proved nothing mon than mouse meat for Ohio State'. rip roaring Buckeyes last weel and the 33 to 0 beating will no soon be forgotten. Washington meets Its keenet rival, Washington State, on th lalter's Pullman field, and th latter will be high, no less. I should be. after upsetting Uni versity of California, 13 to 8, and completing the Job by solid, not flukey, football. California, meanwhile, renews gridiron relations with stout Ssnta Clara, after a lapse of sev eral years. After California swamped St. Mary's 31 to 0, In its opener the Bears were touted as top contenders for the title. They probably will line up at short enders against the visitinr Santa Clara men after such a let down. DEFEAT MONTREAL Columbus, O.. Oct. 6 .$" Columbus possessed Its third little world series championship In nine years today and you'll find the kid who clinched it WATER WELL DRILLING MW ll ultll Mtl'III.M MIMItNAlk run i ROBt. BURNS Telepnone 241 L a L Orsnls rasa, rsrine HIjMraj r' ". pearched somewhere In the stands at Brooklyn rooting for his big brother to come through for the Dodgers in the senior classic. He's Harry (Little Dixie) Walker, center fielder for the Red Birds and younger brother of "Big Dixie" Walker, right gardener for the Brooklyns. "Little Dixie" crashed a home run, with two mates on base, to climax a last-of-the-ninth five run rally for the Red Birds yes terday and beat the Internation al league Montreal Royals, 9 to 8. The victory gave the Ameri can Association pennant and playoff winner a four to two ad vantage in the wee series. and K - ' -' J. -..w. a .w , , .....wjl. .J . ... niin-iMMMf jnW nflf IITl r-"- "llsiltTL.llAlllWisld O 19 MAJOR OREGON PREP TEAMS KEEP FLAWLESS SLATES By Matt Kramer (Associated Press Staff Writer) Nine major high schools, look ing stronger with every game, retained undefeated status In Oregon high school play over the week-end. Lop-sided scores featured play. only one of the leaders, Ashland, having a close battle. The Grizzlies scored a 12-7. win over Coqullle on Halfback Charles Jandreau's 90-yard return of a kick-off in the third quarter. Two other southern Oregon leaders chalked up early scores to squelch opponents. 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The Mail Tribune and the Free MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Grants Pass, 19 to 7, although the losers made a valiant last half comeback. In the mid-Columbia area Hood River defeated Camas, Wash., 25 to 8, for its third vic tory. But In eastern Oregon only Milton-Freewater, which had an open date, was unbeaten. A fast-improving Pendleton team outfought a previously unde feated Baker eleven, 21 to 19. and The Dalles pinned the first defeat in three years on La Grande, 24 to 0. Albany and Salem ran wild In western Oregon, the Vikings white-washing Oregon City, 48 to 0, and Albany trouncing Bend, 38 to 0. Eugene, Corvallls and Astoria got back to winning ways. Eugene won its cross-town game from University High, 19 to 0, Corvallls opened at home with a 14 to 0 decision over McMinn ville and Astoria measured Mil waukie, 14 to 0. 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