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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE. MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, APRIL 27, 1942. Five-Man Battle 2 REGULAR DUELS' WILL FOLLOW ON I HEELSOF CLASH Free-For-AII Set When Carl son Runs Out On McDon aldLadies In Free. Five of Promoter Mack Lll lard's heavyweight wrestlers big guys like Sockeye Jack Mo Donald, Pedro Brazil, Irish Jim Caaey, Pete Belcastro and Broc coli Bob Kruse will clash in a battle royal in the Medford ar mory tonight to set the itage for two regular matches to fol low. The battle royal was arranged late last night when Llllard re ceived word from Portland that Tug Carlson, the mean Mlnne aotan, had taker a powder and run out on his scheduled main vent struggle with Sockeye Jack McDonald. Lillard said Ted Thye wired him that Carl son suddenly checked out of his hotel and grabbed a train for San Francisco, with no word of explanation. First Man Out Llllard, falling to uncover a substitute for Carlson, decided to send the five pachyderms at each other's throats in a battle royal, with the first man elim inated to drop out of further action. The next two matmen pinned in the battle royal will come back to grapple six-round match, and the last two remain ing in the free-for-all will face each other in the evening's main event, one hour or two out of three falls. Plenty of pyrotechnics are cer tain to develop when five such wrestlers as above mentioned climb into the same ring at the same time. Belcastro and Mc Donald, who never have liked each other, are figured to tie Into one another without wasted motion, and Kruse won't be hold ing back. Brazil and Casey, both strictly scientific-minded, may team up to get rid of one of more of the other three. Every lady accompanied by a purchaser of a ringside or gen eral admission ticket will be ad mitted free. KEEPS 440 TITLE Portland, April 27 (TV-Nancy Merkl of Portland's Mult nomah Athletic club retained her 440-yard national freestyle swimming title yesterday In the Oregon Invitational meet's spe cial event In 8:31.0. Second was Suzanne Zimmer man, Mac, with Muriel Mellon, San Diego, third. Miss Merki also swam with the Multnomah club team that won the AAU national women's 400-yard relay Saturday night. The time was 4:12.4 minutes, equaling the record set by the same team at Buffalo, N. Y., last year. The Washington Athletic club team finished second, followed by the Multnomah club B team and a San Diego quartet. Besides Miss Merkl, team members were Joyce Macrea, Suzanne Zimmerman and Bren da Helser. NEW SKEET FIELD T Work on the new skeet shoot ing field of the Medford Gun club Is expected to be completed this week, when the field will be offered for use to the aviation branch of the United States army. During their stay here last summer the aviation forces stationed at the Elks picnic grounds used the gun club skeet field every dsy for training aviators In marksmanship at fly ing targets. The local club's new field Is said to be Ideal for aviator's use and will be turned over for gov ernment use without charge. It Is located on the Central Point market road near the Four Corners on the Crater Lake high way and is open to the public on Sundays. Cougar Track Squad Defeated By Vandals Moscow, Idaho, April 27 (VP) Surprisingly strong, the Univer sity of Idaho track team toppled Washington State college, long time powerhouse in Pacific northwest college track circles Saturday 79 2 S to SI 3 3. The Vandals piled up nine first places. ' Vie in Mat Battle Royal m Mim 1 i 1 m i,ini pii'mwws ..... - - - f- r. .' i; : i - , ,l ' J v . - - r - v2 " i iK: i r 4 , c ititi ' i 4 , '' c . M v ' 'i f i tf When five heavyweight wrestlers clash In a battle royal In the armory tonight, two of the principal characters Involved will be Pedro Brasil (standing) and Irish Jim Casey. The South Amer ican is shown applying a painful Klamath Falls match. Babe's New Problem Is Reducing Daily Cigar Consumption New York, April 27 VP) Babe Ruth, whose chief worry two weeks ago was pneumonia, came home today from the west coast confronted with a new problem how to reduce his daily consumption of 10 to 13 cigars. "The doctors say cut down on cigars and no beer or high balls," the former home-run king said as he arrived by train from Los Angeles. Ruth was stricken while play ing In a film, based on the life of the late Lou Gehrig, but made a rapid recovery. He appeared brown and healthy and said that he would register Immediately in the fourth selective service regis tration. He is 47. Referring to reports from the west coast quoting him as pick ing the Pittsburgh Pirates to win the National league pen nant, he said: "I said the Yanks seemed sure to repeat In the American league but I didn't pick the winner in the National. I did say: 'Watch out for the Pi rates.' " TIGER NINE WILL PLAY AT J'ViLLE Weather permitting, the south ern Oregon prep league base ball schedule will continue to morrow with Medford Invading the Jacksonville lair and Grants Pass traveling to Ashland. The Cavemen are favorites to drop the cellarite Lithians and should increase the margin of their loop lead. But the going will be tougher for the Tigers, who split with the Jacksonville club earlier in the year. LaGrande Victorious In Quadrangular Meet Pendleton, April 27 (VP! La Grande nosed out a favored MiltonFreewatcr team in the annual Per.d!;ton quadrangular high school track meet Sat urday. Paced by a fresh man, Courtney, who earned 164 points, La Grande scored 72'4 points, MiltonFreewater 70U, Walla Walla 42, Pendle ton 19. Courtney won the 100 and MOVING Local and Long Distance Oregon Wash. Cal. Eads Transfer Dial 2628 Royal Scheduled on Tonight's Wrestling 4 ft Z- 1M mmm ,... w-.r -- - i a f'Mi -!'""' i arm lock on Casey, in a recent 220-yard dashes, the broad jump and ran on the winning relay team. Scores Yesterday (By the Associated Press) National League Boston 3-8 New York 2-5. Cincinnati 9, Chicago 3. Pittsburgh 2-4, St. Louis 0-4. Brooklyn 3-10, Philadelphia 1-2. American League Philadelphia 6-6, Washington 1-3. Detroit 10-7. St. Louis S-3. Cleveland 3, Chicago 2. New York 7, Boston 2. Pacific Coast League San Diego 2-2, San Francisco 0-3. Portland 4-4, Hollywood 3-3. Seattle 6-4, Oakland 2-3. Los Angeles 14-3, Sacramento 8-3. Western International League Vancouver 3, Spokane 1. Tacoma 9 8, Salem 4-1. HONOR U-BOAT CHIEF Washington, April 27. UV) Lieutenant Commander Rich ard G. Voce, of Chicago, has been awarded the navy cross by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz. Pacific fleet commander, for submarine successes against Japanese ships, the navy an nounced today. The eovernment of the Do minican Keoubhc is rationing existing stocks of motor vehicles, tires and tubes. rr t fs??r IS NEEDED . . . The beauty that Is expressed In a Conger funeral Is a last) ing tribute to the memory of Jour loved one. Conger funerals are ndled with a sincere understanding that you and your relatives will ap preciate. We would like to tell you about our pre-arranged funeral plan o that your sorrow will be lightened by the knowledge that ererything will be handled properly. CONGER FU.NEIIALIIO.ME Phone 3147 715 W. Main St. SINGLE BY ILLS KEEPS CLEVELAND FIRST TIED FOR Pinch-Hitters Blow Gives Tribe 3-2 Win Over Sox Curt Davis Cops Third, By Austin Bealmear Associated Press Sports Writer. His real name is Colonel Mills, but the fans who watched him keep the Cleveland Indians in a first-place tie in the Amer ican league with a two-run single at Chicago yesterday now know why his friends all call him "Buster." Held to one hit by Johnny Rigney for seven Innings, the Indians were about ready to kiss their winning streak good bye. Then Jeff Heath opened the eighth for the Tribe with a single and Les Fleming fol lowed suit. Manager Lou Boudreau, who has surprised everyone else if not himself by the apparent miracle he has worked at Cleve land, wiped out half of the White Sox two-run lead with a double and looked around for a pinch-hitter after Ray Mack had been purposely passed to load the sacks. His choice was Colonel (Bus ter) Mills, an outfielder who has shifted from the majors to the minors and back again more times than a pianist. Eight Straight Purchased from Kansas City shortly before the season opened for just such game saving chores, Buster lived up to his name by smacking a single that scored Fleming and Boud reau with the tying and win ning runs. The 3-2 triumph was the eighth straight for the fast-trav eling Tribe, which kept even with the New York Yankees at the top of the American league. The Yankees, meanwhile, ex ploded as usual In one big inning, pushing over six runs in the third at Boston and coast ing to a 7-2 decision over the Red Sox behind the two-hit pitching of Marvin Breuer. At Detroit, a couple of other streaks were kept alive as the Tigers swept both ends of a double-header with the St. Louis Browns, string of losses to nine. Jimmy Bloodworth led the Tigers to a 10-5 victory in the curtain-raiser with four of his team's 13 hits, while Barney McCosky set the pace for the 7-5 verdict in the afterpiece by driving in four runs, two of them on a home run. The Philadelphia Athletics got a pair of nine-inning pitch ing performances out of Luman Harris and Roger Wolff and walked off with both ends of a twin bill with the Senators at Washington, 6 to 1 and 6 to 3. Davis Beats Phils In the National league, the Brooklyn Dodgers tightened their grip on the lead and the Pittsburgh Pirates pushed the New York Giants out of second place with the help of the Bos ton Braves. Playing with something of a makeshift lineup, the Dodgers downed the Philadelphia Phils, 3 to 1 and 10 to 2, as Curt Davis and Ed Head chalked up their third pitching victories against no defeats. The Pirates blanked the St. Louis Cardinals, 2 to 0, In the first game at St. Louis, but the second wound up in a 4-4 dead lock when darkness Intervened at the end of the 11th. At New York, the Boston Braves snapped out of an eight game losing streak and ended the Giants' four-gams winning party by capturing a double bill. 3 to 2 and 8 to 3. The Cincinnati Reds enter tained their first Sunday home crowd with a 9-3 decision over the Chicago Cubs. AD LISKA VICTOR IN 14 FRAMES AS (By the Associated Press) The Pacific Coast league didn't do things by halves last week, to wit: 1. San Diego fattened its bat ting average with 88 hits in seven games against San Fran cisco, winning six of the seven. 2. Seattle pitchers held Oak land to six runs In five games, letting down only once, when Oakland scored eight times for its only victory in the six games of the series played so far. 3. Los Angeles murdered Sacramento six times straight, before relenting in the series finale to spare the Senators a complete disaster. 4. Portland and Hollywood played overtime In four games out of seven, Portland winning three of the four extra-Inning affairs as well as two others for a 3-2 series edge. Oakland got five runs in two tries against Seattle yesterday but failed to win either time, the Rainlers taking the regula tion length opener, 6-2, and the eight-inning afterpiece, 4-3. Portland pulled out ahead, 4-3, In the 14-inning grind that open ed yesterday's twin bill, but in the later effort, only half as long, Hollywood was at 3-4 win ner. Ad Llska of Portland and Charley Root of Hollywood, the starting pitchers, were still on hand in the 14th inning of the opener when Al Wright doubled and Danny Amaral singled him home with the deciding run. It was Liska's fifth victory of the year and second of the week. San Diego's batting composite would have been even more stunning had not Tom Seats of San Francisco limited the Pad res to three hits in the seven Inning nightcap of yesterday's doubleheader. The Seals won 3-2. Earlier in an eight-hit per formance, the Padres shut out the Seals, 2-0. The Los Angeles-Sacramento Sunday split produced 30 hits, seven home suns, two triples and eight doubles. Although the Senators took the seven inning second game, 3-3, after Los Angeles had won the opener, 14-8, most of the batting prizes accrued to the Angels. Scores: (First game 14 Inn ings). Hollywood 3 12 0 Portland 4 14 0 Root and Brenzel, Atwood (14); Liska and Castro. (Second game seven Innings). Hollywood 5 10 0 Portland 4 9 1 Schaefer, Singleton (2), Cohen (7) and Castro, Hawkins (7). ROYAL WIDOW ILL New York, April 27. VP) The New York World-Telegram said today that the Empress Zita, widow of the last emperor of the Austro-Hungarian em pire, was a patient in the doc tors hospital here and would be operated on within the next two weeks. Die Mall Trlbuna wl ada. ly Joe Marsh A FEW weeka ago, I had occasion to visit some friends of mine in Ne braska. Nebraska eertalnly Is a treat Stats. I like Nebraska. I like thou Immense cornfields that seem to stretch from horiion to horiron. (Plenty of wheatSelds ia Nebraska, too.) ... But the thing that Interests me most about Nebraska right now is the very important social experi ment the beer people started there several years ago. Beer Itself Is naturally a bever in of moderation. Yet, all too often, people are inclined to blame ber wrongly for any misconduct of the customer or the proprietor In a p'.ac. licensed to sell beer. e e So, the brewers tot together to see what they could do about this. They weren't really responsible for their retailers . . . tn fact, they're not allowed to control retailers. But the brewing Induitry worked out a plan by which It cooperates with the public authorities to elim inate bad conditions ia the minor ity of places whose conduct would reflect oa the law-abiding majority. .Vo. S3 of a Saiei CRATERS DEFEAT REDDING, 5-2 ON CRIP'S PITCHING Steve Crlppen pitched the Medford Craters to a 5 to 2 vic tory over the Redding, (Cal.) Cubs at the fairgrounds park yesterday afternoon, scattering 13 hits effectively and whiffing the same number. The win gave the Craters a clean sweep of the two-game series, the locals hav ing whaled the visitors, 18 to 5 Saturday night. Dutch Lieber's crew tallied all its runs in the early innings, landing on Bob MacDonald, lanky Redding southpaw, for a pair of markers in the second, one in the third and two more in the fourth. From then on MacDonald held the locals at bay with a lot of slow stuff and good control. Crlppen, taking things easy, blanked the Cubs for five in nings, then eased up and yield ed a run In each of the sixth and seventh frames on six hits. The Craters bunched three hits in the second for their first two runs, Sowers singling in field, Solvester singling to left and Lang singling infield, and got another in the third when Madden lined a hit to center scoring Alex McDonald, who reached first on an error and gone to second on another Cub mishap. Four solid blows gave Med ford its final two runs in the fourth. Crippen singled to left, and after two fielders choices McDonald, Catherwood and So wers belted singles. Singles by Allen, MacDonald and Marletto gave Redding a run in the sixth, and one-base blows by Hammerickson, Allen and MacDonald created Red ding's other run In the seventh Sowers led the Craters attack with three for five, and McDon ald, Solvester and Crippen each got two singles. Norm Worthley hit a double in the sixth inning, the only extra-base knock of the game. Crippen's slow twisters and his occasional quick one com bined to handcuff the Cubs at critical moments, 11 runners be ing stranded. He fanned Johnson five straight times and got Da vis thrice on strikes. Box score: llln AB B H PO A Hammerickson. cf. Corella, 11 Johnson, lb Allen, as MacDonald, p Marletto, e Davis, Sb Jergenta, rf Shelton, 2b Totals ...39 3 13 24 10 AB R K PO A -40100 Medtord Lang. If Worthley, es -3113 S 3 1 1 4 3 MeDon-ld, 3b Catherwood, cf 4 0 10 lowers, lb 8 1 3 10 Solvester, 3b 8 t 3 1 Madden, rf 3 0 10 Swtnson. e s 0 0 13 Crlppen, p 4 0 3 0 Toila Redding Medtord -37 8 13 37 10 000 001 1003 031 300 0O 8 Error! : Shelton 3. Da-la, Solvester; Runs batted In: Allen, Marletto, Lang. Catherwood. Sowera, Madden, Crlp pen: Two-base hits: Worthley: Stolen baaea: Hammerickson. Crlppen; Sacri fices: Madden 3; Double plays; Mac Donald to Sowera. Solvester to Sow- iom where I sit . . . The beer people urge proprietors of retail places to conduct them properly and to obey the law. They urge consumers to cooperate, and ask the public generally to report law violations to the authorities. They send warnings to careless re tailers and If conditions are not corrected they take the case ap with the authorities. Naturally the authorities and the public have wel comed this as aa added force Is building respect for law and order. That program is now operating In many states - and with tha Na tion at war, brewint Industry or-ga.-.u.tions cooperate with civil and military authorities to assure f -od conditions in beer outlets arcu-d tha army camps and naval a.ationa. Somehow, to me, that's a mighty Important, public-spirited erTort. 1 d.n't know of anything like H ever having been tried before. If people really help the brewers with that program they'll be doing a grsat ti.inf for the country. j Mr'" AP AC H E William Woouward owns Apache, glamor boy of, the Derby field who's belns trained by Sunny Jim Fitislmmons.1 Joe Dumlin is up. Apache's 1941 total was $15,015. A lesty brown colt, Apache is out of Flying Song by Alcasar. era, Allen to Johnaon; Bases en belli: MacDonald 8; Strlke-outa: Crlppen 13: Wild pitches: MacDonald: Um pires: Hardy and Phllllpl; Time 1:58. HOYVTHEY m s a r a -t-i American League W. L. Pet. New York 8 3 .750 Cleveland .. 9 3 .750 Detroit 10 5 .667 Boston 7 3 .383 Washington 5 9 .357 Philadelphia 5 9 .357 St. Louis 5 10 .333 Chicago .. -.. 3 9 .250 National League W. L. Pet. Brooklyn 11 3 .736 Pittsburgh 7 5 .583 New York 7 6 .538 Chicago 6 6 .300 St. Louis 5 8 .455 Cincinnati 3 6 .455 Boston 8 8 .429 Philadelphia 3 10 .231 Pacific Coast League W. L. Pet. Seattle 14 8 .700 Los Angeles 12 8 .600 Oakland 12 10 .545 San Diego 13 11 .542 Hollywood 12 13 .480 Portland 11 13 .458 San Francisco 7 12 .368 Sacramento 6 14 .300 DISAPPROVE WATERWAY Portland, ApriJ 27. (Pi The proposed intercoastal waterway connecting Puget sound and the Columbia river via Grays Har bor and Willappa bay again was reported unfavorably yesterday by district army engineers. Hext time, try ths trcin ,. ,ar. ;.'"'. .w-,k -e -s.LkII. r. I m -re. C IT'S A FACT! On roundtrip rickea to New York, Chicago and most other eastern cities, the Southern Pacific will take you east through San Francisco and Los Angeles for not U more rail fare than you'd pay to go direct. Beortyou plan your trip tast, inx tstigatt this amazing bargain. Th Friendly See F. G. Morris. or. I. . OBMAXDT. O. f i Program Prep Ski Meet Staled For Mount Hood May 3 Portland, April 27 VP) En-1 try blanks are in the mall for the first Oregon high school ski meet to be held on Mount Hood May 3. Officials said races for IndUfex vlduals will be held because W some schools will have only on or two entrants. Team scores will be kept for schools with more than three competitors. Entry lists close May 1. TOLEDO COURSE PICKED New York, April 27. (VP) Byron Nelson's home golf course, the Inverness club of Toledo, O., was added today to the list of sites for qualifying trials lead ing to the Hale America national open tournament. GAS STATIONS CLOSE Portland, April 27. (VP) Shortages of gasoline and labor have caused 123 Portland serv ice stations to close since tha United States entered the war, an industry survey showed today. THERE'S NO HURT LIKE FORGETTING Be sure and send Mother a Greeting for Mother's Day, Sunday. May 10th. SWEM'S GIFT SHOP -.-nfMlfi'S. SABS Southern Pacific Agent Phone 2390 write SJt pacific Bldg., Portland, Ore. e
