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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. APRIL 22, 1942,
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Billy Hulen Says:
War May Reduce
Field In Annual
Golf Tournament
Despite the effort! of most
sports to continue operating as
usual, the war is having, and
will continue to have, much
fleet on almost all phases of
every type of athletics.
One of Medford'i major sport
ing events the annual Southern
Oregon - Northern California
amateur golf tournament will
most certainly feel the Impact
of the conflict, not so much In
attendance but In the ranks of
competitors.
In rapidly Increasing numbers
men of fighting age are enter
ing the growing army, navy and
air corps, and by the time Labor
Day rolls around, traditional
date of the tournament, we won
der Just how many good golfers
will be left to compete, not only
local but out-of-town shotmak
ers. We understand that three
of Medford's best golfers are
headed for some branch of
the armed forces, Eddie Sim
mons and Bob Hammond to
the army and Leland (Pete)
Clark to the navy. There are
probably many out-of-town
players, who annually make
the trek to Medford, also slat
ed for early duty In the serv
ice. We know that It would entail
considerable work and tome
rapid planning, but we wonder
why it wouldn't be good idea
to advance the dates of the tour
nament to the Memorial Day
week-end, May 30-31, thus giv
lng the three above mentioned
local players and probably a
number of fellows from outside
Medford the opportunity of com
peting In the event?
If this could be done another
one of Medford's finest players,
George Harrington, would be
able to enter. Harrington, on
Labor Day, Is much too busy
with his position in the pear
Industry to play in the tourna
ment, but be could do so next
month.
Dick Hanen, winner of the
last two tournaments and
current ace of the University
of Oregon varsity golf team,
could undoubtedly come here
for the clastic If it were held
over the Memorial Day week
end, and with the local stars
and others the field would
be as strong as any in the his
tory of the meet. It won't be
If the tourney is staged the
Labor Day week-end.
Diminutive Del S c h r o e r,
shortstop for the State league
Craters last year, is proving no
less than a sensation both at bat
and afield for the Western Inter
nations: loop Salem Senators . . .
Sunday, as the Senators trim
med Portland s Reliable Shoe,
6 to 2, In an exhibition game,
Little Del blasted a double and
two singles in four trips, whaled
in one run and handled six
chances In perfect fashion . . .
he appears to have the shortstop
berth clinched . . .
Oregon State's Rose Bowl
success evidently whipped up
plenty of grid enthusiasm at the
Corvallis institution, for Coach
Lonnie Stiner has a huge squad
of 60 turning out for spring
drills ... the Pacific Coast
league has a number of players
in the service, but Rollie Schef
ter of the Portland Beavers is
the only club executive In the
armed forces . . .
ROOKS DEFEAT ALBANY
WITH FIVE HOME RUNS
Corvallis. April 22. P The
Oregon State college rooks
clouted five home runs, and Al
bany high school added two
more as the rooks won a 10-8
baseball game here yesterday.
Most of the round-trippers sailed
over the center field fence, short
ened this season.
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Portland Clinches Game
With 4 Runs in Second
Don White Leaves Seals.
(By the Associated Vnu)
The San Francisco Seals said
goodbye last night to big Don
White, and perhaps not without
the thought that this meant
adieu as well to whatever Coast
league championship hopes they
may have cherished.
It was a slightly dismal part
ing. San Diego was on hand
for the occasion and uncooper
atively dumped the San Fran
cisco club, 5-4.
Today the 23-year-old giant Is
returning to Seattle to volunteer
for navy service. With him he
takes a .463 batting average, the
league's best so far this season
by more than SO points and
nearly 200 points above his
team's average of .272. That's
a stiff loss for the Seals to swal
low. But it's the navy's gain
and hence accepted gladly.
At Portland it was time of
greeting Instead of farewell.
Some 7,300 Oregonians turned
out to welcome their Beavers
and watch Ad Liska, the diminu
tive underhand fllnger, Indulge
in his favorite pastime opening
home seasons with well-pitched
victories.
Has Won Four
Liska turned back the Holly
wood Stars, 0 3, holding them
hltless In all but three innings
while his mates got him four
runs on five hits in the second,
enough to go on.
Liska, who has ranked among
the league's ranking pitchers for
more years than most fans can
recall, had previously won for
Portland the first games of this
season at San Diego and Los An
geles. He picked up another
victory somewhere along the
way and now has credit for tour
of the Beavers' seven so far.
The play at San Francisco and
Portland was all the league had
to offer for the night. Oakland
and Seattle failed to reach the
latter'a home park In time to
open the schedule there. The
start of a Sacramento-Los An
geles series at Los Angeles was
postponed, with a doubleheader
set for Friday night to compen
sate.
Score:
Hollywood 3 9 0
Portland 8 12 0
Joiner, Perez (7) and Brenzel;
Liska and Leovlch.
HOW THEY?
STAnD
National League
W. L. Pet.
Brooklyn
Pittsburgh
St. Louis
Boston
.... 6 J
B . 3
.750
.625
.571
.500
.429
.429
.333
.286
.. 4
4
S
3
2
.. 2
Chicago .
New York
Cincinnati
Philadelphia ..
American League
W. L.
Pet.
.714
.714
.371
.556
.556
.375
.286
.230
Boston
8 2
5 2
4 3
5 4
8 4
3 5
2 8
2 0
New York
Cleveland
St. Louis
Detroit
Washington
Chicago .....
Philadelphia ....
Pacific Coast League
W. L.
Pet.
.688
.643
.526
.462
.462
.444
389
.385
Oakland 11
Seattle 0
Hollywood . 10
San Francisco 8
Los Angeles 6
8
5
9
7
7
San Diego ....
10
11
Portland . 7
Sacramento 3
8
Sixteen thousand horses died
of Influenza in New York City
in 1872.
OLD OSCAR
PEPPER
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COOO LUCK TO YOUt-tea Bodr. be,.m,,
ef the Cleveland Indians who slrned a two-rear contract last No
vemberhe was 24 st the time wishes his mirrored Imafe a good
season. This youngest manaser In major leafue history succeeds
Rorer Fecklnpaush, who's now enral mana-er.
Novikoff Seen
As Success In Second Try
By Duke Moran
Pittsburgh, April 22. !P) Lou Novikoff. last year's oris
oust, is oacK tor another whack at baseballs big show and Man
ager Jimmy Wilson thinks he may make good this time because
the publicity heat is off.
Lou, a stocky, likeable guy
with a wide smile, a priceless
dialect and a murderous bat
at least in the minors came up
from the Pacific Coast league to
the Chicago Cubs last year un
der one of the heaviest deluges
of superlatives ever showered
on an untested major league
rookie.
He was described as the kid
who couldn't miss but he did.
Wilson, who knows a ball player
when he sees one, thinks the
preliminary press notices hurt
Lou.
"I think the kid was nervous
and tightened up trying to live
up to all the things they said
about him," Jimmy commented
as he watched Novikoff pole out
a long smash from the batting
cage.
After hitting only .241 In 62
games for the Cubs last year
when he expected to hit at least
.300, Novikoff was farmed out
to Milwaukee In the American
association. There he tore the
league's pitchers apart and scat
tered the seams everywhere,
leading the league with a gaudy
.370 average in 90 games.
BOWLING
The aectmd-helf race In Uit Ladle'
league came to .n end last Bight wltb
Tolly's Otlmore winning the utle
with 88 nctoriee and 34 defeats and
earning the right to roll Ricndeld
OH, first-hair Champa, for the league
toga neat Tuesday night. The other
teams ended the aecond-half race in
this order: Walnecott'e Druse, S3 and
35; Llttrell'e. S3 and 37; Oflloa Sup
ply. 11 and a: Valentlnee Cafa, 34
and 88 and Richfield oil. 31 and as
In final gamea last night. Valentine's
beat Wainscmt'a. 4 to O: Office Sup
ply defeated Littrel'e. 3 to I and
Tolly's Ollmore defeated Richfield
Oil. 3 to 1. Score fallow:
IVainecelt's Drug Valentine's Cafe
Heap 45
Llttrell. M.. 4J7 Corley. V 84
Barr. ft.... 433 Swoape. A-.- S73
Knlpe. O. 433 Brewold. I - 471
Bwoape, M. 409 Dreealer, L-. 501
Olll. D SIS Bush. F 437
Total
..3338
Total ..3430
Office Supply Co.
H eap as
Sim. Z 470
Colton.' T 458
Dane. H S90
Frank. w 403
Prultt, O 417
Total 3 IS
Ultrcll's
Corwin. H 880
Llttrell. 1 443
Terry. T 883
DeVore, D 438
Friable, B 891
Total 3013
""iicnneid oil
Pfrvhnow 438
witter 878
Hagea 884
Tolly's OUniort
Heap 88
Trllefeon . 4M
Davidson 841
Oilham 438
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Reds Seem Headed for
Cellar As Erslwhile
Great Hurling Folds
By Judsen Bailey
Associated Press Sports Writer.
The Cincinnati Reds are stag
gering groggily at the doorway
to the National league cellar
and finally learning what their
best friends wouldn't tell them
during spring training.
The Reds' pitcnlng, one of
baseball's marvels for the last
three years, suddenly has fal
tered. Yesterday the St. Louis Cardi
nals shut out the Redlegs, 8-0.
The fact that Cincinnati did not
score would never cause a rip
ple of concern anywhere, be
cause the club never has been
able to hit, but that Bucky Wal
ters gave up 11 hits in 6 1-3
innings was a matter of moment.
The Dodgers administered
threshing to the Boston Braves
! in a 13-2 decision.
In the only other National
league game Truett (Rip) Sewell
held the Chicago Cubs to six
hits while the Pittsburgh Pirates
patterned a 5 2 triumph around
home runs by Bob Elliott and
Stu Martin.
The New York Yankees crush
ed the Philadelphia Athletics,
10-4, by way of celebrating
Manager Joe McCarthy's 85th
birthday.
The Detroit Tigers whipped
the Chicago White Sox, 4-2.
with Linwood (Schoolboy) Rowe
and Johnny Corsica sharing
six-hit pitching stint.
Cleveland bunched Its hits to
beat the St. Louis Browns, 4-2,
in the other American league
game as Lefty Al Mllnar kept
seven safeties adequately spaced.
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GRIZZLIES. 8-1
The Medford high baseball
club bettered its position in the
southern Oregon Prep league by
downing the Grizzlies at Ash
land yesterday, 8-1. But the
possibility of the Tigers lodging
themselves In the loop's top
notch was thwarted when a
Jacksonville-Grants Pass double
header was called off, leaving
these clubs tied for the lead.
Bill Baylies flung three-hit
ball to pace the Medford win
while Cato Wray blasted three
singles in four times up and
tallied two runs to lead the hit
ters. Don Fawcett followed
Wray with wo triples In four
times up.
The Tigers chalked up four
runs in the first canto, one In
the second and three in the
fourth. Jandreau scored Ash
land's lone tally In the fourth
when he sneaked home from
second where Riggs had placed
him on a fielder's choice. Riggs
was caught between first and
second and Jandreau took ad
vantage of the opportunity.
Baylies whiffed six men while
his teammates were finding
Jandreau for 14 bingles.
Jacksonville downed Rogue
River In a non-league game yes
terday, 18-3. Sanford, Hueners
and Smith split the mound dut
ies to strike out 18 Rogues.
The Redskins will play a
double-header with Grants Pass
Friday and another at the end
of the season to make up for the
postponed tilts.
Scores:
Medford 8 14 2
Ashland 1 3 2
Bayliss and Adams; Jandreau,
Quackenbush and Riggs.
Rogue River 3 8 7
Jacksonville 18 13 2
K. Hatch, Thompson and Gor
ton; Sanford, Hueners, Smith
and Campbell, Johnson.
League Standings
W. L.
Pet.
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.750
.714
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J'vUle
Grants Pass...
Medford
Ashland
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SALEM SENATORS LOSE
TO BEARCATS, 2 TO 1
Salem, April 22. VP) Wil
lamette university snapped a 10
game baseball losing streak yes
terday by defeating Salem of the
Western International league,
2-1-
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Jones and Robertson Gird For Tennis
Match Sunday; Former Favored 2-1
Barring a retaliation air raid
by Jap bombers or something
equally unpleasant occurring to
toss a wet blanket on proceed
ings, Sid Jones and George Rob
ertson will square off for their
long-awaited and much-talked
about tennis duel on the high
school courts Sunday afternoon
at 2:30.
Amid rumors of secret work
outs and such, most of them con
cerning Robertson, the friends
of both competitors have risen to
the occasion and laid a certain
amount of legal tender on the
man of their choice. It was re
ported late yesterday, without
confirmation, that no less than
700 seeds were available for any
Robertson supporters at the
Juicy odds of 2 to 1. As yet
Robertson money has appeared
only In driblets, but some ob
servers believe a last-minute
flood of the stuff will send the
big, blonde, bespectacled man
ager of the Medford hotel lounge
into the match an even choice.
Jones, co-owner of Jones and
King paving contractors of Hay
ward, Calif., now operating at
the cantonment, Is alone in ad
mitting previous net experience.
Sid modestly relates that he
played plenty of tennis about 25
years ago, and in big-time com
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Cleveland, April 22 (if)
The St Louis Browns' veteran
submarine hurler, 31-year-old
Elden Auker, may drop out of
baseball for year-round war
production job, to take part in
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petition to boot He Is supreme
confident he can win.
Robertson, on the other hand,
is giving the boys the old silent
treatment when the subject of
his past tennlsing, If any. Is
brought up. Nobody can seem
to discover whether George
knows the difference between a
forehand drive and a love game,
but those rumors of secret work
outs at the fire hall Indicate
that he at least knowa what
tennis court looks like.
Interested parties,, delicately
weighing the chances of each
man, see Jones as having the
edge In experience and Robert
son with youth on his side. How
many sets they will play has not
been determined and will prob
ably be left to their own dis
cretion. One may prove about
all they can manage.
Robertson, it has been re
ported by a reliable source, is
not satisfied with the judges
Russ Olson, Harold Brown and
Moose Muirhead and plans to
enter a protest. This action,
however, has been delayed as
George can't seem to find any
body to protest to. He is be
lieved to have tried the United
States Lawn Tennis association
without receiving the courtesy
of a reply.
he said, "but something prob
ably will be decided next week
end.
'The way I feel about it, if we
don't win this war, there's not
going to be any baseball. We've
got a whale of job on our
hands, and it's bigger pen
nant race than sports."
Should he leave the Browns,
he would be the first major
leaguer to drop out during the
playing season for a war plant
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Matchmaker Jake Mintz said to
day he was convlncecV there waa
"something funny" about Boxer
Abe Simon's decision to retire)
from the ring and that he would
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mission to inquire into the mat
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matchmaker, whose picturesque
language always carries an ac
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time Simon and his manager
Jimmy Johnson have walked
out on us rather than fight
Harry Bobo."
Simon's announcement to re
tire came little more than a
week before his scheduled 10
round bout here April 27 with
the slugging Bobo, who kayoed
Lem Franklin recently in one
round. Simon attributed his re
tirement to a back injury and
his wife's reluctance to let him
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