Medford mail tribune. (Medford, Or.) 1909-1989, March 25, 1942, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR Sport Graphs o Billy lluhn Says: Reds Will Hold Tryout Camp In Town June 3-7 The Cincinnati Redi evident ly like Medford, its people and the treatment tendered, for they are coming back here this spring for the fourth time to conduct a tryout camp for young baseball players. Mickey Shader, who was ,tn charge of the 1940 camp, will supervise this year's five-day session at the high school park June 3 to 7, Inclusive, and writes that "I surely hope the Medford camp is a success, as your city Is one of my favorite spots." The camp will ba like all others sponsored by the Reds baseball club. Players should be between the ages of 17 and 21 and furnish their own unl forms, gloves and shoes. Those displaying potential major league ability will be tendered contracts with one of Cincin nati's minor league clubs. In a "notice to players" on enrollment blanks for the 1042 camp, Frank C. Lane, vice pres ident of Cincinnati's minor league clubs, explains: "Do not confuse these try out camps with the so-called baseball schools. While dur ing the course of the tryouts some instruction Is glren by the supervisors, still our pri mary objective is to enroll only those baseball players between the ages of 17 and 21 who are deemed as being outstanding players in their respective communities and, as such, qualified to enter . professional baseball. No tui tion is charged by us for en rollment. We furnish bats and baseballs. You are to bring your own uniform, glove and baseball shoes.". The Reds plan to hold 26 of these camps in the west this spring and summer. Two will be held in Oregon, in Medford and in Eugene June 12 to 16. Inclusive. Players desiring to en roll in the Medford camp may obtain blanks from this writer at any time. J. Russell Acheson, football, basketball and track coach at Medford high, and Norm Worth ley, athletic mentor of Junior high, will be among those pres ent locally for awhile yet, any way . , . the pair made a rapid trip to San Francisco over the week-end to confer with Gene Tunney regarding enlistment In the U. S. navy, physical educa tion division . . . they didn't see Tunney but got all the In formation . . . Russ decided to stay with his coaching for the present and Norm had a dental deficiency. Received a letter from Pvt. AWin C. Gould, former sports Seagram-Distiller (..orporalinn. N. Y. I KEEP YOUR I EYES PEEIED1 I I The "Good New." is r-Jv II I io break I ButS.gr0'P0l'CT, B I fWhcves is ur I I To .Pt.n ",P"'L,, I I So watch (or the .tatement I ve il nka- 1 r f 1 Coast Conference Eases COMPROilEACT CANCELS 1-YEAR :nda: Atherton May Have Salary Chopped In Retrenchment Program Code .Stands. By Call Fowler Portland, Ore., March 2S UP) With financial retrenchment and expanded physical fitness programs the main themes. Pa cific Coast conference officials went into the final sessions of their emergency wartime meet ing here today. That the conference will make some effort at retrench ment was seen in the prediction of one source that Conference Commissioner Edwin Atherton would be signed for 1943 "but with a cut in salary and operat ing expenses." Atherton's present contract terminates Dec. 31, 1942, and calls for $10,000 salary and $10,000 for office expense. Ath erton had recommended some slashes could be made, it was understood, and the conference faculty representatives likely will take him up on It. In line with physical fitness, the conference last night eased restrictions on freshman partici pation in varsity athletics in what amounted to a compro mise. The faculty men voted down a proposal to allow freshmen to enter varsity competition Imme diately -on enrollment. Then they voted to allow the frosh to become eligible without wait ing a full-calendar year, as they had to do previously. The pres ent requirement of 24 semester hours or 36 quarter-hours was retained. Fits Academic Picture Now it will be possible for a freshman entering school In January to be eligible for foot ball in September, and a basket ball player, entering In June, could be eligible in January, provided, of course, he got in the required number of hours In consecutive terms. One reason for relaxing the freshman rule was to fit the athletic picture more closely to the academic picture. The south ern division schools intend a speedup educational program whereby a student can get through school in three years instead of four by going to school constantly, summer and all. . The faculty men, meeting until 11:30 last night, only re laxed In the case of the frosh, however. They refused to relax present Atherton code restrictions on alumni contacting prospective students of known athletic abil ity. And they also declined to permit a further moratorium to northern division schools on the requirement, adopted last June, that each student must pay the first $63 of his tuition himself. The requirement already was in effect in the southern division, but northern division schools were granted an extra year to put the program into effect. Officials took time out to act favorably on a request of Stan lord that the Stanford basket ball team be permitted to play the Great Lakes Naval Training Station team at Chicago March 30 Stanford plays Dartmouth thi' weekend for the national cr , cite hoop championship. Ex-Vandal Scrapper Knocks Out Opponent Seattle, Mnrch 25. Knocking his heavier opponent out of the ring In the fourth round and flooring him twice in the fifth, Frank ie Guenther of Seattle, former northwest Golden Gloves champion from the University of Idaho, scored a fifth round knockout over Bob Reid of Boise here last night. Guenther, 167 pounds, re cently turned professional. Reid weighed 173. The fight was scheduled for six rounds. There are now 12.511 air-con Jltloned passenger cars in opera tion on our railroads an in crease of 525 within a year. editor of the Medford Hi Times and Junior legion ball player, who is stationed at Lowery Field, Denver, attend ing armament school el the U. S. Air Corps . . Al writes that another local boy. Frank lin Jones, a former guard en the Black Tornado football team, also is at Lowery Field. For the first time In modern baseball history, a major league club Is in spring training with out a single representative of the home town press coverine the workouts . . . the tram 1' Cleveland, and young manage' Lou Bmirircarj says be nilssc the scribes. MEDFORD MAIL A Couple of i mm ' - William Conn (left), and Jo Barrow. Just a couple of buck privates In Uncle Sam's khaki, sit in the sun and gab at Fort Dix. N. J. You'll know them as Billy Conn and Joe Louis. Conn, ex-challenger, turned up to watch Louis spar five rounds In preparation for his Army Relief Fund title bout with Abe Simon. Reds Have Great Pitching, No Hitting; Outfield Weak By Cayl Tampa, Fla., March 25 (ft out of a .300 hitting outfielder Reds will have to start another blight Insufficient hitting to In baseball, possibly barring th Nobody can accuse General Manager Warren Giles of not' having tried, even though Cin cinnati fans are reported becom ing very restless about outfield ers to stock a farm system. They practically need a revolv ing door on Crosley field to take care of the hungry horde. Yet the Reds are as far from having a big league outfield now as they ever were. Theirs Is a gloomy training camp this spring. To give an Idea of the situa tion: The team's star outfielder Is Mike McCormick. At least, he Is the only man sure of his job. And while Mike is an exception ally gifted fly-chaser, he batted .285 last sis son and drove in only 28 runs. Regard, too. the other hold overs from last year, with their batting averages: Harry I raft. .249: Jim Gleason, .283; Ival Goodman, .268; Ernie Koy, .241. That tells the unhappy story of the Reds, and explains why they scarcely can be expected to fin Ish higher than third in the Na tlonal league again this season. Their only hope lies in the pos slbllity that Hank Saner, who clouted .330 for Birmingham last year and drove in 114 runs, will do somewhere near thai well against big league pitching So Giles, in his desperate effort to get batting strength while his pitching staff still is hot as a pistol, has been forced to take a chance on almost any outfielder put on the market At the moment there Is reason to believe he could obtain Joe Medwick from Brooklyn, but he would have to give up one of his top pitchers probably Elmer Riddle and there Is no assurance that Joe would help the Reds. It is a mean problem. BASEBALL (Yesterday's Scores) Pittsburgh (N) 3, Chicago (N) 2. Detroit (A) 8. New York (Al 1 Brooklyn (N) 4. Boston (A) 3 New York (N) 11, Philadel phia (N) 6 Washington (A) S, St. Louis A 1 Cincinnati (A , Cleveland (A) 6 (12 innings) Chicago (A) 12. Philadelphia (A) 3. Cloatnff time for Claeelfled Ada a in Too late to L'laauf; 12 30 p. m. Phone 2119 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anyw here Anytime Lewis Super Service TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. Buck Privates Talbot Unless they can talk somebody very soon now, the Cincinnati season under the same old back up the finest pitching staff at of the Chicago White Sox. TIGER BALL CLUB Coach Alex MacDonald's Med ford high diamond crew grab bed Its tlrst conference test of the season here yesterday after noon by downing Ashland, 12 to 9. The Tiger nine showed its heels to the Lithians in the op ening canto by bludgeoning in seven runs. Lee Reynolds got four nits in six times up to pace the Bengals. Ashland tallied four counters In the fifth stanza. The teams play a return en gagement in Ashland Friday af ternoon. Gitzen. Plunley and Wray pitched for Medford. with Adams catching. Mansfield, Jan dreau and Provost hurled for Ashland. BOWLING Ladlf- lf(u rwulu lut nlht: Walr.Kott's Drug 3, OfNce Supply 1; Toilr'a oilmot S. Llttrrln l; Valrntlne'a Caf a. Rlrhrield Oil 3. Scores rotlow: Walnarotta Drilfa Llttrrll. ! .. 4.1S Barr, R 462 Knlpa. O S78 am. D sob Gardner, al. 499 orrtre Supply Slmi, Z... 4S8 Colton. r... ssj Porterlield ... 894 Pranka. W 393 Prultt. O 442 Heap S3 Total 2134 Tntai lilt Tollr's Gllmora Toller ton 48 DaTidaon 300 Ollham 38S Wllklnaon 463 Carblenef &03 Llltrrll'l H. Corwtn.- 384 K. Llttrrll ... 419 M. Swoape 393 D. DeVore ... 407 P. Terry 377 Heap 36 Total 1998 Total 3001 Valentine's Cafe Corby 340 Svoape. A. 431 Brewed SO Dreealer 387 Buah 43 Heap ST Total 3041 Rlrhfletd Oil Prochnow 339 Witter 431 Hafen 443 Rnoi 378 Sherwood 464 Total 304 1 9k 3 OREGON, WEDNESDAY, Restrictions On I ABE SIMON PLANS JOE FRIDAY EVE By Sid Feder Summit, N. J., March 25. fP An army travels on its stom ach, and since Joe Louis is in the army, Abe Simon's battle plan for Friday night's fuss In Madison Square Garden Is to bang away at Joe's tummy to see how far It can travel. Large Able gave the tip-off on this stunt today as he wound up training ior the 15-round rowdy-de-dow for the army emergency relief benefit. Sim ply, he plans to charge the Bomber into the ropes right from the word go and work on that mid-section until something happens. At least, Abie is going Into the ring with that Idea in mind. What Joe will do about It Is a horse from a different garage altogether. Joe's funny that way. But that isn't worrying the Long Iflend dreadnaught a bit, because Simon predicted flatly today that Simon would win. "And what's more," he added for the benefit of a gasping aud ience, "if the opportunity pre sents itself, I'll even knock Joe out." This Is like saying you'd take the U. S. mint if someone hand ed it over on a platter. In things like the mint and Joe's heavy-weight championship, op portunity usually doesn't even knock one little tiny knock. UNKNOWRTOLFER TALK OFJpy Pinehurst, N. C, March 25. VP) Les Kennedy, 24, unem ployed son of a Lynn, Mass., policeman, was the talk of this resort town today as a result of his par-wrecking 66 in the north and south open golf cham pionship. The unassuming youngster, with a sun-peeled nose and a shock of sunburned hair stick ing out of his topless eyeshade cap, was the man nobody knew for most of yesterday, but when the day was dying and the pres sure was on, the kid who had never won a tournament or come close, blasted champiorj Sammy Snead and ex-champion Ben Hogan out of the lead. He never batted an eye as he three-putted the 16th green. He just moved over to number 17 and batted out a birdie deuce. He showed no trace of emotion as he missed the 18th green, and was impassive when his long putt for a par four rolled wide on the cup by two inches. At the TRAINING CAMPS (By the Associated Press) Lakeland, Fla. In the De troit Tigers' first 11 Grapefruit league games, of which they won only three, the Bengals' team batting average was .198. Of the 71 hits, only 20 were for extra bases, two home runs, and most of those off rookie hurlers. Anaheim, Cal. News that pitcher Vern Olsen will be lost 10 days Is so much more gloom for the Chicago Cubs, who have lost eiRht of their last nine starts. X-ray pictures show that Olsen suffered fractures of two fingers on his left hand Sunday when hit by a line drive off the bat cf Myril Hoag, Chicago White Sox outfielder. Daytona Beach, Fla. Don Padget, big catcher-outfielder purchased by the Brooklyn Dodgers from the St. Louis Cards in midwinter has been ordered to report for induction in the army on April 1. Under rules of the sale, the Cardinals ; will refund the $25,000 pur : chase price. San Bernardino, Cal. Vet eran Ted Lyons and Johnny Humphries will pilch for the Chicago White Sox today j Taylor - Tots OA QC HANSEN HARDWARE 35 North Bjrttctt MARCH 25, 1942. P. ; .t 1 r - sW i E '- . 3 -v S I -is- H E'-4 " it '.'1 ft SHARES HIS SHAR E For benefit of Army Relief Fund. Pvt. Joe Louis, training at Fort Dix, N. J., meets Abe Simon March 27. In January Joe kajoed Buddy Baer, turned over entire purs of $47.100 his share of $89,092 check given Navy Relief Fund against Pittsburgh. Luke Ap pling, the erstwhile holdout shortstop, is now working out in the camp but Manager Jimmy Dykes refuses to estimate when he will start using the veteran. Xenny Dow Enlists As Navy Carpenter Salt Lake City, March 25 tT) Kenneth Dow, Oregon State all-conference fullback in 1940 and conference heavy weight boxing champion in 1939, has enlisted as a carpen ter's mate in the navy. Dow, of Great Falls, Mont., had signed to play professional football with the Washington Redskins this season. 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New York Joey Archibald, 126, Providence, R. I., drew with Frankie Rubio, 127, Brooklyn (8). Los Angeles Chalky Wright, 130, Los Angeles, stopped Jorge Morelia, 139Vi, Mexico City (6). PJJirmin"i New Cnual Wear SenuDoa DOUBLE DECKER" Jarman's new flexible, double platform sole is the newest contribution to casual type footwear. Soft, flexible, styled for good times! smts or THE H0U F0RTHE MAN OF THE HOUR M. M. Dept. Store $HOl$ FOR MIN E NOT TO RETIRE Salt Lake City, March 23. (Jfy Alf Engen, the ski Jumper, whose trophies would overflow a one-room cabin, isn't going to retire from the white slopes after all. While Engen was preparing for last Sunday's intermountaln championships, word spread that the "old man of Ecker hill" was going to leave future competition to others. But All explained today that he's not giving up the sport merely curtailing his activities. Instead of continuing to follow the ski jumping circuit across the nation, in the future he'll stick mostly to western meets where his past achievements in clude everything from winning the national amateur Jumping title to cleaning up cross-coun try and slalom foes. Napa, Calif., March 25 iffy A three-run rally in the eighths inning enabled Oakland to de-l feat Portland in an exhibition baseball game here yesterday. The teams play at Vallejo to night. Portland had a two run lead, having scored in the first, fourth and seventh innings, when Oak land came to bat in the eighth. Mel Duezabou hit a double, Westlake singled, Guadat sin gled, Rigney sacrificed and Shortstop Martinez made an error, and Oakland had scored three runs and won the ball game. The score: Portland 8 7 2 Oakland 7 7 3 Cohen, Johnston (6) and Leo vich, Castro; Yelovic and Bux ton (8); Raimondi. Drink it with Pleasure ...ond pour if with pride. LW.Horper is unexcelled In haite ond quality. 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