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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1942.
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. 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.
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In taste and quality. In I
making it, cost it
no object. .
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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With the first half of their
schedule completed, Alex Mae
Donald's Medford high baseball
ers are Inactive in the confer
ence play this week. They will
resume southern Oregon prep
loop play when they travel to
Ashland to clash with the Griz
zlies next Tuesday.
A non-conference tiff sched
uled with Eagle Point yesterday
was rained out but the teams
have arranged scraps for April
22 and May 3.
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susd
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Pacific Coast League
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Oakland .. 7
Los Angeles ....3
Hollywood .8
San Francisco 3
Portland ...5
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San Diego ...3
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