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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1942. Sport Graphs ... . o . Billy Hulen Says: Football Playoff Plan Backed By Leonard Mayfield Thanki to the untiring efforts icf : competitive-minded Oregon educators, one of them being Principal Leonard B. Mayfield ef Medford high, there'll, be a state prep football ehampionihip playoff next autumn. The delegate auembly of the Oregon High School Activltiet uociation approved the grid playoff at ita annual convention the last week in March, and al though Troy Walker, tecretary of the OHSAA, managed to get around to announcing the newi only, day before yesterday, its better late than never. .- Delegates voted overwhelm ingly in favor of the playcff, which certainly cooled off the efforts of Eldon Jenne, Portland high schooi athletic "czar." to Induce the OHSAA to eliminate all championship contests and tournaments. Jenne it was, re member, who last month tried to get the state coaches' associa tion to go on record as favoring the discontinuance of the state basketball meet, only to have the mentors toss right back at him a unanimous negative vote. Jenne, a coach once himself, belongs to that school of thought among educators that ' Is strongly opposed to compe ' tltive high school athletics. ' He is an athletic "reformist" ' in the sense that he would : substitute intra-mural sports for-the highly-competitive In terscholastic brand, doing j away entirely with all state ' programs designed to deter ; mine , championships. '. I At .the OHSAA convention Jenne campaigned vigorously against the amendment which OK'd the football playoff, but after listening to an Impassioned Drink it with Pleasure : ...and pour it with pride. I.W.Harper is unexcelled In taste and quality. In I making it, cost it no object. . I.W.HARPER i The Cold Mtdol Whiskey ll!wTUCKT vsy 2'i,nua cox" Y esjk : ruffing pra i - : i connandpastor xMJank farmhand THREE-HITTER AS rTtZ " 1 RANKED Veteran Aids Cause With Two Hits Brooks Down - Giants Behind Davis. By Judson Bailey (Associated Preaa Sport Writer) Sports fans now have had their first taste of a tonic labelled "major league baseball, an antidote for war worries" and the dose given 190,773 per sons in eight cities yesterday had an altogether agreeable flavor. At Washington, before Vice President Wallace and 31,000 other fans. Old Charley (Red) Ruffing embarked on his 18th American league season by hurl ing a magnificent three-hit 7-0 shutout against the Senators. Although he had looked al most helpless In some of his training efforts, Ruffing gave as grand a show as any in his career. Besides three singles he allowed only one walk and never let a man past first base. He accounted for two of new York's 10 bingles off young Sid Hudson and one of these slashes by the husky, 37-year-old right hander knocked in two runs. Hubbell Belted At New York 42,633 fans, the biggest turnout of the day, watched the Dodgers down the Giants, 7-5. in the Polo grounds. The National league cham pions looked invincible as they stabbed old Carl Hubbell for four runs in the first inning, belted him out of the box with Peewee Reese's two-run homer in the fourth and ran their mar gin to 7-0 in the first six stanzas. But they didn t look so good in the seventh when Curt Davis gave five runs on two walks and four hits Including a tremend ous homer by John Mize with two aboard, and their five er rors for the game were best for gotten. The Chicago Cubs nosed out the Cards, 8-4, by bunching two runs in the first inning and three more in the sixth off Mort Cooper. The Reds were set down, 4-2. by the Pittsburgh Pirates as big Max Butcher outpitched Bucky Walters, six hits to seven. Johnny Cooney, the 41-year-old handyman of the Boston Braves, took over first base and provided a flmely single and double to help beat the Phils, 2-1. Williams Homers Ted Williams, the batting hero of last season with a .408 aver age, opened this campaign with a three-run homer on his first trip to the plate and also col lected two singles. He knocked home five runs as the Boston Red Sox overpowered the Phila delphia Athletics, 8-3. The Cleveland Indians let loose a war whoop calculated to chill some of their rivals for the American league's first division as they trounced the Detroit j Tigers, 3-2. Likewise, the St. Louis ! Browns made an early bid for j recognition as a first division contender by chopping dowr. the .Chicago White Sox. 3-0. in the 'day's tightest hurling duel. speech by Mayfield the delegates quickly passed the alteration. No plan for the grid playoff has yet been drawn up, but this will be done before schoul clones for the summer vacation, by probably three members of the delegate assembly. It Is probable, however, that the playoff will operate In a manner similar to the one held in 1940. The state was split In to four districts, with the best team In each district playing a semi-final game and the two winners nvetlng for the crown. Medford, it will be remembered, defeated The Dalles, 7 to 0, while Bend and Salem were playing a tie in the other semi final tilt. Then In the final game Bend wnipped the Tornado, 20 to 7. j The gate receipts of the cham pionship game this year will be divided among the two compet ing elevens and the OHSAA. with the latter body coming in tor 80 per cent of the net and the teams getting 23 per cent each. The playoff will be held the first week In December. We think the delegate as- sembly should take a bow for j its action. Right now America needs all the strong, healthy, determined, competitive-minded and toughened young men It can develop and along these lines no less a person thsn General Douglas MscArthur. ; according to Esquire msga- sine, holds thst competitive athletics are invaluable in the 1 development of good soldiers. t : OKAY, MISTER, IT'S A KAY O Eyes closed. Dleto en the canvas after knockout barrase from Lou Amayo In Western WEBFOOTS LOSE Seattle, April 18 (P) Vaughn Corley, who was named head football coach at the University of Oregon this week, will come here next Monday to be sworn In an ensign in the United States naval reserve and will then leave for Annapolis for training, the 13th naval district announc ed today. Corley applied for a navy po sition here several weeks ago and will have a part In the navy's physical-fitness program Corley succeeded Gerald (Tex) Oliver, who was commis sioned a lieutenant-commander in the naval reserve recently. Oliver has Just been named to coach the football team at the navy's far west school at St. Mary's college. Corley had been Oliver's assistant on the Oregon football coaching staff since 1938. El Seattle, April 13. (IP) Coach Ky Ebright of California was caught hedging a bit today on his prediction that the Washing ton varsity should win in Satur day's Lake Washington regatta. He slipped a neatly turned 'however" Into his heretofore bearish forecast on the hopes of his Golden- Beats. 'We didn't travel 1,000 miles for nothing," commented the quiet-spoken California coach. who brought three towering crews to town last night. "I can't tell which crew will win. After all, that's the reason the race Is being held. Vt e haven t had much luck against Washington the past two years. For that reason, if for no other, Washington should be favored. "However, we have a good crew. And it will take a crew considerably faster than we are to beat us." FOR JAGGED FISH H. R. Newcomb of Grants Pass, resident biologist of the Oregon Fish and Game commis sion, said today that a reward of $1 would be paid to fishermen catching Chinook or Silver salmon which have been tagged by the California division of (Ish and game to aid in the study of salmon migration. The tags or discs. Newcomb explained, are fastened on the sides of the fish by means of a pin through the fish's body. Phone 2119 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service y ( There are two discs on each tag ged fish, and when one is caught both these discs should be re turned to the division of fish and game, bureau of marine fisheries, natural history mu seum, Stanford university, Palo Alto, Calif. Along with the discs should be sent the date and place the fish was caught, the size of the fish, the kind of fish (Chinook or Silver) and the name and ad dress of the person catching the fish. BOWLING Ladles' leag-ue results last night: Tolly's Gllmora I, Office Supply 1; Uttrell's 3. Valentines 1: Walnaoott's S. RtchXleld Oil 1. Scores follow: Office Supply Tour's GUraore Hup 180 Sims 443 Tollcfion 476 Colton . 443 Davidson 441 Davis 800 Ollhara 430 Pranks 387 Wilkinson 400 Prultt 40S Carblener 484 Total .3193 Total ..3333 Llttrell'e H eap 30 If. Corwln 849 N. Itttrell.- 376 P. Terry 333 D. DeVora.... 458 B. Friable 447 Valentine's Cafe Corley, V 366 Swoape. A 443 'Brewold, B 878 Dreaaler, L 877 Bush, P 424 Total -.1339 Total ..1987 Richfield OU Walnarotfs Droit Heap 3 Prochnow 403 Swoape. T-. 437 Witter. O 488 Barr. R 476 Hasten. E 361 Knlpi. O 407 Knox. 8 426 Swoape. M 433 Sherwood. M. 473 0111. D... , 463 Total ..3174 Total .3307 X 3 JARMAN'S NEW STYLE SENSATION FOR YOUR CASUAL WEAR Here's the smartest new contribution to leisure type footwear. Jarman's new "Dou ble Deckers" have a flexible double platform sole light In weight, styled for good times, built for comfort (hois for vy Mp'rS if M. M. Dept. H'ltS Or THI HOUR FOR Je" V eCV , J Hldalf e of Burling ton. Ia.. settles A.A.U. tourney at Denver, Cole, BEAVERS BLANKED BY OAKLAND. 6-0 (By the Associated Press) Some baseball philosophers say its the base hits that pay off and it seems they are right. Los Angeles and Oakland, two of the Pacific Coast league's heaviest hitting outfits, made use of their willow workmen to chalk up wins yesterday against San Diego and Portland respec tively. The Angels, who top the league in team batting, thumped the Padres, tailends on the base hit list, 8 to 1. The Oaks, third In the team batting standings, defeated the Beavers, third from the bottom of the list, 3 to 1. Angel heavy-hitters went to work at the outset to blast Padre Hurler Bill Thomas for six hits and three runs in the first two innings. It was much the same story in Or.kland where Mike Christ off, Oak left fielder, stepped to the plate in the first to slap out a double and score Emil Mailho. Christoff further hiked up his personal batting average in the fourth when he accounted for the Oaks' second tally of the night with a swat over the left field fence for a home run. Unfavorable weather caused postponement of other Coast league games. Scores: Portland 0 7 1 Oakland . . 3 8 3 Hilcher and Leovich; Buxton and Glenn. Store THt MAR 0 1 T H I HOUR LOGICAL LOUIS OPPONENTS Washington, April 13 UP) Billy Conn and Bob Pastor, the two fighters tentatively schedul ed to tangle with Joe Louis be fore the coming summer ends, were listed as the "logical con tenders" for the heavyweight championship today in the Na tional Boxing association'! new quarterly rankings. Conn, who went 13 rounds with the Bomber last June and is scheduled for a re-match in June or July in New York this year, remained at the top of the list. Pastor moved Into the select set through his victories over Turkey Thompson, Lem Franklin and Booker Beckwith. Chief changes In other divi sions found Jimmy Bivins, Cleveland negro who recently outpointed light - heavyweight boss Gus Lesnevich, moving into the challengers' set among the 173-pounders tlong with Billy Soose, . Booker Beckwith and Ken Overlin; Tony Martin of Milwaukee Joining Georgia Abrams as logical contenders for Tony Zale's middleweight crown; Charley Burley of Pitts burgh and California Jackie Wilson ranked among leading welterweight challengers; Allie Stolz, Newark youngster who meets Sammy Angott for the lightweight crown May IS, mov ing up to a contender's spot In that division, and Charley (Lulu) Costantino, New Yorker unbeat en in 33 professional starts, sky rocketing among the feather weight contenders. Cat UaU rrioune want ada. a s I 1 Liked a lot! When we put Imperial into the picture, experts agreed we had a masterpiece a whiskey with an aroma, a smoothness, a favor that put It in a class of ona. And predictions were that we had the makings of a winner! 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De Rose was signed to a Kan sas City contract but Yankee Scout Joe Devine, who signed him, recommended ha be sent to a class C club, to Amsterdam (N. Y.) in the Canadian-AmerU can league. He's strictly a green pea. Graftage is an ancient art, known to horticulturists at least two centures B. C. POULTRY and EGGS WANTED 0. K. POULTRY COMPANY 4th and Fir St. T MOVING Local and Long Distance Oregon Wash. Cel. Eads Transfer Dial 2828 I it 2 Liked by more! And predictions were right! When we decided to really ahov off Imperial, folks "crowded "round"-sales scorned. For instance, In one big test-state it bopped ahead of 332 long-established whis kies to reach first place and has stayed there i
