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PAGE FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942. Sport Graphs o Billy Bulen Says: New Loop Should Produce Exciting Baseball Season There U, at present. cer tain amount of mild pessimism prevailing among a number of local bate bell fans concerning the newly-formed Oregon-Call. fornla league, In which the Cratera will do their 1942 cavorting. Although theie tried and true paying customer! are grateful that baseball of no matter what calibre. Just ao long a it If baseball, will be performed here this summer, they are plagued by the feeling that a four-team league cannot measure up to a circuit embracing six or eight clubs. They opine thH such a small wheel as this Oregon-California setup will not provide enough variety of competition for the Craters, that it may become tiresome watching the same three teams (Klamath Falls, Grants' Pass and Dorris) play the Craters over and over again 11 summer. While we grant that theoreti cally a six or eight-club loop Is more conducive of fan Interest than a four-team league because of the greater number of teams and players to be watched In action, the smaller circuit in one respect can be much mora In teresting. Place four strong, evenly matched ..outfits ..Into., league competition and you have a situation that any fan will grant Is far more exciting from a crowd standpoint than an eight-club wheel, for ex ample, with two or three weak teams that aren't In the Class with the others. Four strong teams In a four team league Insures stiff com petition EVERY game. But In a circuit wtaere half of the clubs are strong and the others below-par, many games are lop sided and lacking In anything thrilling. Last year s State league fur nishes a good example of what we mean. Silverton, Albany, Klamath Falls, Bend and Med ford were all closely matched, and when any of these clubs tangled you were sure of a good ball game. But, Toledo, Hills . Creek and Eugene were not so hot, and as a result when one of these teams met one of the stronger outfits the outcome was seldom. If ever, In doubt. As for the Oregon-California circuit, If all four clubs turn out to be strong and nearly equal In strength, we'll have exciting baseball here every week-end the Craters are home. There won't be any walkaway series; the winner will have to fight for his laurels. Fans can be certain of this mucht Medford. Klamath Falls and Dorris will enter good teams. Manager Dutch Lleber of the Craters says the locals will be almost as strong. If not as strong, as they were last year, and you can rest assured that Co-Managers Er nie Blsnop and Paul Bernadou of the Pelicans and Skipper Owner Had Tolbert oi the Lumberjacks will have pow erful nln.a. Just what Grants Pass will have it problnmatlcal, but Fred Roper la busy lining up players and the Merchants will prob ably be OK by May lf-17. In augural dates for the league. Medford Is prepared to help the Merchants in fielding a strong team. Manager Lleber Mid the Craters would relin quish all claim on Bill Lannlng, the big righthanded pitcher who's working on the canton ment, If Grants Pass wanted him and it was OK with Bill. Al Fleishman, the Crater first sucker, lives in Grants Pass, and Lleber said it was all right w.th hlra If Fleishman played with Grants Pass, although making It clear that Medford could cer tainly use Al. and certainly wanted him in case Grants Pass didn't Fights Last Night (By Assixiated Press) New York Charles (Lulu) Costantlno, 128V New York outpointed Harry Jeffra. 127, Baltimore (8) Chicago Willie Joyce. 1.16. Gary Ind.. outpointed Sammy Secreet. 147, Pittsburgh (10). Detroit Benny Goldberg. De troit featherweight knocked out Chick Sanchez, also Detroit 7V Pittsburgh Frltrie Zlvic. 149. Pittsburgh, outpointed M a x I e Berger, 148, Montreal (10) Baltimore Louis (Kid) Cocoa. 180V4, Baltimore, won by tech nical knockout over Bobby Brit ton, ISltt, Miami, Fla. (8). Vaughn LINE MENTOR TO SUCCEED OLIVER. Corley To Be Youngest Of Coast Loop Coaches Warren Named Assistant. Eugene. Ore.. April 14 AP) The University of Oregon named Vaughn Corley at foot ball coach last night and became thm fntirth Pacific f nact Mnfr. ence school this year to elevate an assistant to the head mentor's job. The university athlatlr hnarri granted a leave of absence to Coach Gerald A. "T" Oliver who will take a commission as lieutenant commander In the navy. Oliver's contract had a year to run. Oliver will report at Annapo Us April 20, and later Is expected to be named football coach at th. naval physical training station lor aviation cadets at St. Mary'g college, California. Texas Tech Grad Corley, Oregon's line coach for the last three years, will be the youneest Of the ennferene mmn. tors 34 years. A native of Lub- dock, lexas, he played football and track at Trm Tch hains graduated In 1928. He coached at Las Cruces, N. M., high school for four yeara and was assistant at Naur Mnim State college in Las Cruces for six years. John Warran. frashman m. was named Corley's assistant coin appointments are for the duration of the war only. The three other assistants re cently elevated at other schools are Jeff Cravath at Southern California. Jim Ijimmnn st.n. ford and Pest Welch at Washing- tun PETE BELCASTRO IN TOP Ml MIX Popular Pedro Rrarll .mni... ed a backward body slam and press io garner the third and deciding: fall after aa i.,t Of his SChedulerf nna.hni,. event with Pete Belcastro at the armory last night. . The South American out of apparent grogglness after a meiee or unorthodox tactics tO lain tha fall. Urn kmA -....I. ously taken the opening fall by climaxing an exchange of fisti cuffs and elbows with a terrific shoulder butt to Belcastro's mid section and pinning the Weed wlldman with a body press. Bra ill held his opponent's shoulders to the mat for the count as the watch ticked the UVVminute mark. Belcastro arahherf tha fall after 20 V minutes of fire works. Pete unleashed himself from a hammerlock, then an arm-lock applied by Pedro, and after cuffing and kneeing Bra zil to (routines, and amnlnvino a couple of body flips and choke holds, the Weed battler fasten ed on a pile-driver to win the fall. Irish Jim Casev was aw.rH.H his middle event-match with Billy Marcus when Marcus, out cold from a blow to the law was unable to answer the bell for the third round of the six- round match. Tug Carlson won his opening bout from Bob Knit by the foul route in the fourth round when Kruse, bend ing Carlson's arm over the rope, refused to let go in spite of Ref eree Earl Yoakley's warnings and attempts to break the hold. The middle match, an excel lent exhibition of tumbling, pro mised to be a clean affair until Marcus began rough tactics in the second canto. Following a bit of cuffing and hair pulling. Marcus dropped Casey with an arm-lock, then kicked him un der the ropes and out of the ring, ine irate irishman un lea.ihed a haymaker as he came back through the ropes and sent Marcus reeling backward to the mat for the fall. Eefore winning on the foul Crlon took the Initial fall of the curtain-raiser in the open Ing stanza with a painful toe hold. Krime conceded the fall but Carlson was forced to do the same when the Oswegan ap plied a torturing arm lock to win the third round. I'rnmotpr Mi-lr l.lllar4 an nounced before the main bout i that ladies night would again be observed next week and that attempts were being made to arrange a match for "Sockey" Jack MacDunald here next Monday. Corley s Mf'! V ati.iTasail1l.-a.sii,-)?iliiis,i v. Va-r " A 'Lr f.-i.a. : r v , ,f - f '' j -rtmi "Trrw rwJ'u" 5 ' f 117 I r ' ''hit f , I , v ' 4 4 , ..3p.fWf.rtjr. i BAREFOOT BO Y Csnillnt 8. J. Folks, son of a Florida cattleman, kicked off his hlgh-hrelrd ranch boots to fire top scora f Z19 In Southeastern Intercollrglate rifle championship at At lanta. Ile a a Junior at the University of Florida. BOWLING Th Clauls iMgua andtd It second-half achedul last Bight with Murray's Msld-Rlto winning th championship with S3 wins and 18 lowcs. Mald-Rlt nd Htwklnaon Tin Trsad, first-halt champ, win bowl at a p.m. nut Monday for th lata championship. Earl Reluma was Medford top bowler for th toc with an averag of 187 In 87 game, and will recwlv a trophy from th lagu. Fluhrers Bakery finished sec ond to Mald-Rlt In th second-hall race with 30 win and IS defeats, followed In order by Domestic Laun dry with 11 and 33. Bulolt nrebu with 31 and 34, Hawklnson Tire Tread with 18 and 39 and Fntr and Klelwr with 14 and 31. In gams Isst night. Hawklnson beat Mald Rlt. 3 to 1: Domestic Laundry but rosier and Kleleer. 3 to I and mih rar beat Bulck Fireballs, 3 to 1. Scores follow: Rulrk Fire Ball rtuhrer's Bakery Portertleld MB Pask 807 Compagnonl 583 Parr 558 Reluma 583 Total 3895 Pniltt Hodge , Davis Oral Adair Total . 519 484 e3 - 819 eoi ..37S0 Domestic Ldry. Potter Klelaer Heap 108 Cannon 551 Boon 534 Rudd 4S4 Burrough 543 Semon 538 Total 3886 Oreen Gardner - 8-aylor Runta Eacla 878 , 831 557 848 515 Total 3917 naaktnann Tlr Marray's Mald-Rlt H'cap 37 Prultt, w... 88 Hagen 838 witter 507 Absente 83S Leonard 519 Stark 809 PeVor 5M Proctor 547 Bell Sim 809 484 I Total 388 Total .3819 Jack Dempsey Helps Sale of War Stamps St. Paul. April 14 VP As sisting In a war-bond sale and an auction for the Red Cross at the annual dinner of the Twin Cities Newspeper Guild. Jack Dempsey helped 650 guests buy tSS.000 worth of war bonds and stamps last night. Before the dinner. Dempsey revealed he had applied for enlistment in the coast guard and had ben offered a lieuten ant's commission. The tin container used for food is really a steel cm with only 1 25 per cent tin. applied as a thin coating. Cloatng Um for Classified Ad L m Too UM to Classify 1J SO POISON OAK? Try a bottle ef ZEMACOL Too most h aHnrd or tour mnnry chem HllT n-runorll C.rl a totllf j tvd at MtMtKN IHKirt. Appointed Head VJ .awr -aw a 1 J J BEAVERS TO FACE OAKS THIS WEEK (By Associated Press) It's slippery at the summit of the Pacific Coast league base ball pinnacle, but the Seattle Rainiers are adept at retaining their footing at the top. They have slid back only once In seven starts, losing to San Diego Saturday. That single slip-up seemed to Inspire the Seattles to greater effort for they came back to play alert hall and take both games of a Sunday double-header from the Padres. With such veterans as hurler Hal Turpin, who pitched a no hit, no-run win In the first game against the Padres Sunday, able to play with caution, the Rain iers are apparently safe In the camp ground near the top of the mountain. Turpin and his aides are still in southern California on their Coast league climbing expedi tion and are set to open a series with the fourth place Hollywood Stars today. The Padres mix It this week with the third place Los An geles Angels who lead the league in hits so far this season. Another Pacific northwest 1 vluu ulv ruruana oeavers, are !'n 'or a determinative test this j week when they come up ! against Oakland, number two ..... W ,L. .1 I V. team of the Coast league. The Seals and the Sacramen to Solons, victory-hungry after series defeats last week are opponents this week. Texas is the greatest oil refin ing state, as well as the largest producer of crude. : gdqdco a no .u LJ i.m -nrr u V . a. 9 0 0 0 ' Jkz&J '2?? tutmT annuls BY NELSON BEATS IN PLAYOFF DUEL Victor Shoots Great 69 To Capture Second Masters' Title See-Saw Match By Gayl Talbot Augusta, Ga., April 14 JPi Byron Nelson, called by such an authority as Tommy Armour the "greatest golfer I ever saw," sported hig second Masters' championship today as the win ter tour came to an official end and the professionals scattered to their respective home courses to see if they still had any balls and steel-shafted clubs to sell. The slim, red-faced sharp shooter gathered himself togeth er after taking a nerve-shattering six on the first hole to shoot a great 19 and defeat his old Fort Worth friend, Ben Hogan, by a single stroke in yesterday's play-off for what probably will be the last Masters' tournament until after the war. They had tied at the end of the regulation 72 holes at 280 strokes apiece. The play-off between these two Iron-nerved competitors, who have been battling each other ever since they were cad dies, was a corker. They are among the best shotmakers In the world today, and their pri vate duel for the Masters' was worthy of their abilities. In the end it wag Hogan, the fabulous little money winner, who was forced to bow. He has not yet won a major championship. Kelson Rallies At the outset, it looked like a walkaway for Hogan. Nelson, still looking wobbly from the previous day, when he blew what looked like a certain vic tory, pushed his opening drive far Into the woods on the right of the first green and was lucky to wina up with a six. When Hogan won the fourth hole with a par three to go three ud it looked like It was all over. But it proved to be only the start of a see-saw struggle that saw Nelson come back and take the lead with a sensational eagle three on the eighth hole a lead he never relinquished. He wag out In 33 to Hosan'a 36. and they both blazed home in 34 aa a crowd of nearly 2.300 rampaged over the fairways. If one shot could be said to have beaten Hogan toward the end of the epic match. It was when he under-clubbed on the short 16th hole and took a four to Nelson's regulation three. That did it. When It was over and the money was split $1500 to Nel son, $800 . to Hogan the an nouncement that three more great players of another day had been nominated for golf's hall of fa.r. They were Walter Travis, Jim Barnes and Tommy Armour. This fell a little flat, in view of Armour's defiant pro nouncement earlier in the day that Nelson was the best man with the sticks he ever saw. ROLLIE SCHEFTER FACES INDUCTION Oakland. Calif., April 14 t!P Pacific Coast league baseball will lose one of Its executives and the army will gain a promi nent private shortly In the per son of Rollie Schefter. vice president of the Portland club Schefter, who arrived here with the team for the series with Oakland, disclosed today he would report to his induc tion center in Portland next Sunday. A graduate of the University of Notre Dame and former varsity baseballer there Schefter said he hoped to be come a candidate for officers training school after completing basic training as a private. co nosis. uu Oregon Countless Grandmas Buried Today As Ball Season Opens By Austin Bealmear New York, April 14. AP This is the day that business men neglect their business, professional men neglect their secretaries and office boys beg off for grandmother'i funeral. It's major league baseball's opening day. Unless the weather Inter venes, all 16 teams will move off together Shis afternoon, with something like 200,000 fans in the stands and countless others following their favorites by re mote control. Facing their first wartime sea son since 1918, the 67th annual National league campaign and Its 42nd for the American cir cuit open in the most unusual setting in the history of baseball. The war failed to Interfere with the country's national sport because President Roosevelt bade the game go on. But the customers will have a hard time forgetting that the United States Is at war. Air raid precautions will be observed day and night at most of the major league parks. Signs and arrows will tell the fans which way to go to be safe from bombardment information that might also be helpful to visiting pitchers in lpaces like Yankee stadium. Barrels of water, bins of sand and other paraphernalia un known to ball parks In the past will be found in strategic places now. And if some clubs don't perform better than they did in spring training, they may find the customers turning to the sand piles for amusement. The 1941 champions of both the leagues open on foreign fields. The New York Yankees, owners of the American league and world series crowns, start their drive for the sixth pennant in seven years against the Wash ington Senators in the nation's capital. The Brooklyn Dodgers begin the defense of their National league title against their blood enemies, the Giants, at New York's Polo Grounds. The Yankees, top-heavy favor ites to rule the junior circuit again, open with new faces at the far corners of their Infield, but with all their heavy artillery still loaded. While the Senators waded through the grapefruit league as if they owned it, they'll be gun ning for the pennant with a made-over lineup that contains more question marks than a quiz program. FOR HUSKY RACE Berkeley. Calif., April 14 (P) Thirty-one University of California oarsmen sped toward Seattle today and their big annual rowing regatta with the University of Washington Huskies on Saturday. Before the three Bear crews entrained last night Coach Car roll M. "Kay" Ebright predicted a Washington victory in the varsity race. Five veterans are back from the Washington varsity which set a new Oakland estuary record in beating the Bears last ear and then went on to win the National regatta at Pough keepsle. N. Y. California may have an edge In size, but the Huskies have the advantage in experience. The New York Stock Ex change was organized on May 17. 1792. as a market for the bonds of the United States. Dm Mall TTibun want ada. BUY YOUR POULTRY NETTING NOW! Buy before It Is too lata. WE ALSO HAVE GOOD STOCKS OF LOW HEIGHT Field Fencing And 14 ga. Barbed Wire GOOD STOCK OF PIPE Hubbard Bros. Main And Rivcrtid Football Coach WAINS VICTOR Ray Watkins, ace Central Point trapshooter, captured the Hons share of the four weeks war stamp shoot at the Medford Gun club Sunday, winding up the series with 14 points. Being the lone shooter to accumulate 14 points In the scoring brought him 40 percent of the stamp accumulation. Bowser, Pease and L. Jantzer with 13 points each divided 30 percent of the purse and Brown, Smith and Niedermeyer with 12 point scores divided 20 per cent. Turpin, with 11 points drew down a 10 per cent cut. The best 50's at the 16-yard traps found Turpin high gun with a 49x50. Brown and Daniels had 48'g and 47's were scoreti by Wood, Thomas and Steiger. Turpin, Watkins and Brown each had a 23 straight In the handicap event the win ners were Turpin 23: Thomas and Eads 22 and Brown 21. The detailed 16-yard scores: Turpin 49,50 Brown - .4850 Dnlel , .8x50 Wood 475o Steiger . ..4750 Thomas 47irftA Porter, O. .48x50 roly 46x50 Eads .48x50 Watkln 45150 Nsldermaysr Bowser -.44x50 Howard Slagl Porter, J, , Franklin .34x35 Oregon Fighter Loses In AAU Mitt Tourney Boston, April 14. (AP) Re sults in the first rounds of the national A. A. U. boxing tourna ment last night included: 126-pound class Aubrey Hol derfield. Little Rock. Ark., de feated Denny Quinn, Eugene, Ore. 147-pound class Lou Amayo, Kansas City, Mo., defeated Le roy Durst, Longview, Wash. ayV'"1 - - k ,, J Mi aW-- mtr Nwrr, " s T f aT .trTSTja. GET THESE SHCRWiN-WfUMMS 329 Shmwin - GAL " " " IN St HOUSE Th Mttttndlnity bautifu1. duribl houM paint most utd by America ! home owners! Economical to apply and to uta. May nad ily b wathed-to cut repainting cotta. $MtKWIN.WlLUAM SEMI-LUSTRE WALL FINISH 89 SHtKwiH Williams ENAMFIflin PINT MCOKtTIVt MAmtL Th quictMirylng. on-cot ntml mven, can us. Oiv tDarklin raw i. ..... wJw-a. toyt oee.Bon.1 piscsa. Wash. bl. ChoK ef 16 colon, FREE COLOR.STYUNG srvirr eollmion of hor Tco m sks wain and 773 Ruth, Convalescing, Selects Pirates and Yanks to Win Flags Hollywood. April 14 UP) The doctor says Babe Ruth is getting along perfectly all right, but some interviewers wondered just a bit. THfe big fellow, re covering from pneumonia, said he liked the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the National league pen nant. "Sure, I know most of the boys are picking them fourth or fifth, but I think Frankie Frlsch's boyg are going to be a big surprise. Watch 'em," said the Babe, with just a trace of defiance. Of course it was no"urprum wnen ne picxea nis oia team, the Yankees, to repeat in tha American league. Ruth, stricken a week ago while working on a movie based on the life of the late Lou Geh rig, hopes to leave the hospital in a day or two and return to New York in another week or so. He looked pretty good but In no condition to step in there and take , his cuts. His hand, curved around the bowl of a big pipe, shook a little. ALSAB TOUTED AS Rnnn nrRRY rft Havre De Grace, Md., April 14 OP) For a colt that hasn't been able to win a race this year, Alsab looked today like a mighty good bet to run away with the heavy sugar in the Kentucky derby. Alsab went down to his fifth straight defeat In the Chesa peake trial yesterday but made such an impressive effort that many in the crowd of 12,000 immediately tabbed him as tha horse to beat in the big race at Churchill Downs May 2. Train er Sarge Swenke sent Mrs. Al bert Sabath's colt postward well rested and about 75 pounds heavier than he was after the Florida campaign, in which the 1941 juvenile champion appar ently went stale. And Alsab served notice that he Is on the comeback trail, s R. Sterling Clark's Colchis, which dead-heated Alsab in the Eastern Shore handicap last fall, came up -with another brilliant performance vesterday to beat him by a neck in the six-furlong race run in 1:12 3-3 Colchis was not nominated for his derby. J3jY VALVES NOW Wiuia PAINT si 2c 1 QT. J',,k,.m'tn,lr """Ma. butiful wan 'V:JChnd room. hallway TOior srymta BorT Wor,i ' ax7 afena HURRA Df. DDAC Katj n a a aa 11 11 Riverside Phone 2189
