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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, APRIL 14, 1942.
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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-
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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.
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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
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..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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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Bowser
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Howard
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Porter, J, ,
Franklin
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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.
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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.
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