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Newspaper Page TextMEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, MAY 25, 1942. Two Joes, Savoldi and Corbett, Headline Tonight's Mat Program, PAGE TWO DROPKICK ARTIST SLIGHT FAVORITE TO IIP CORBETT Dude Chick and Corral Clash In Center Match Adeli and Buccola to Open. Jumpln' Joe Savoldi, Amer lea's number one dropklck ar tist and Australian Joe Corbett, gigantic 235-pound grappling anecimen. will provide trie nrnin event pyrotechnic on tonight's weekly mat program in the armory. The struggle la ilated for one hour or two out of three falll Cleaning In the six-round middle event will be Cowboy Dude Chick, the larlat-spinnlng cowhand from Wyoming who'll be making hia firat local ap pearance in over a year, and Alberto Corral, the capable Mexican. Opening the card at 8:30 aharp, In a four-round tussle, will be All Adeli, the mean Turk and Joe Buccola, new comer late of the San Fran ciaco Bay area. Three "Joes" The program, It can be no ticed, la studded by three genu named "Joe," and the two top "Joe's are expected to stage a whale of a tea party for what Promoter Mack Llllard predlcta will be another comfortably filled house. Joe Savoldi, former Notre Dame footbjU all-American, is xavorea 10 un ine mciwn w Joe Corbett, but only after a severe contest. Corbett sup porters, and there are quite a number of them, point out that their favorite will possess a considerable weight advantage over the drop-kicking Savoldi, and that If the match goea any great length this superior heft will prove the deciding factor. However, Savoldi fans come back with the argument that Jumpln' Joe haa many times faced guys bigger than he, and Just as many times has knocked them into oblivion with hia ter rific leg belts. They profess no fear that Savoldi will be un able to cope with Corbett T TWICE ON VANDY, STARR FLINGING By Austin Bealmear Associated Press Sports Writer If you're one of those skep tical citizens who figured the Concinnatl Reda were in for a rough summer because their pitching had gone to pot, you'd better get ready to change your outlook, which la exactly what the Reds are doing. With seventh place In the National league staring them In the face, the Reds called on Johnny Vander Meer and Ray Starr for a bit of hurling against the St. Louis Cardinals yester day and what that pair did to the pre-season favorites was enough to make future oppo nents shudder. Vander Meer tossed a five hitter in the opening game and singled in the deciding run for a 3-2 decision. Then Starr blanked the Red Birds on three hits for a 2-0 win in the night cap. The New York Yankees lost to the Washington Senators but added half a game to their American league lead because the St. Louts Browns swept a double-header from the second place Cleveland Indians. The Boston Red Sox finally beat the Philadelphia Athletics after dropping the first game of the afternoon, but slipped Into fourth place In the Amer ican league as the Detroit Tig ers whipped the Chicago White Sox twice and took over third place. The Boston Braves divided their bargain bill with the Philadelphia Phils, but regained the National league's No. 2 berth and the Chicago Cubs surprised everybody, including themselves, by pinning a double defeat on the Pittsburgh Pi rates. While all that was going on, the Brooklyn Dodgers ap parently tired of losing at the Polo Grounds handed the New York Giants their first shutout of the year, 6-0, to salvage the final game of the series and snap a three-game losing streak. It took the Phils 11 Innings to turn back the Braves, 3 2. on Mickey Llvlngton's single with the basea loaded, but Bos ton squared accounts with a 6-3 triumph in the afterpiece on a three-run homer by Eddie Miller. Rip Sewells wild pitch In the tenth Inning helped the Cubs beat the Pirates, 7-8, and Phil Cavarretta and Lennie Me rullo led a 14-htt attack that made it unanimous for Chicago, 11-4. Washington's victory was Its first over the Yankees this year. The Senators pounded three pitchers for 17 hits and came from behind to win, 8-8. Cleveland out-hit St. Louis In both contests, but Tribal errors helped the Browne win, 3-2 and 4-1. The Detroit Tigera collected a total of 23 hits in crushing the White Sox. 8-2 and 14-0. Manager Joe Cronin returned to the Red Sox lineup and drove in two runs, one a homer. as Boston downed the Athletics 6-9, in the second game after losing the first by the same score. Warmy Breaks Record Again With Vault of 15 Feet, 7 Inches San Francisco, May 23 JP) School teacher-athlete Cornelius Warmerdam, who has been kick' Ing holes in the pole vault cell ing since the spring of 1940, had a new record today in the latest effort to determine "how high is up in this event. In the northern California relays at Modesto last Saturday night he vaulted 13 feet 7 Inches to better his own outdoor record set three weeks previ ously at IS feet ft Inches. Accredited officials were pres ent In sufficient numbers to assure its eventual acceptance as a new American mark. Warmerdam la the only ath lete in history who has vaulted 19 feet or more but he cannot explain how he consistently manages to propel his lean six foot frame over the bar at such extraordinary heights. The 16-foot ultimate which well wishers have set for him is possible but Improbable, In hla opinion. After his latest record vault, he said he thought he could Increase the height to 19 feet 9 inches. His coach, Charles Hunter of the San Francisco Olympic club, dis agrees with that peak to the extent of predicting a future flat 16 feet for the Piedmont high school study hall master. CRIPPEN FLINGS TWO-HITTER FOR 3-0 CRATER WIN Don Fawcett Belts Dorris Pitcher for Four Hits Two-Game Series Split. Oregon California League W. L. Pet. Klamath Falls.- Medford Dorris Grants Pass... ...3 ...2 1 ...0 .730 00 00 ,.00'J White Sox Pitcher Starts Navy Duty Week-End Results At Dorris 0, Medford 3 (Sun day) At Dorris 13, Medford 1 (Saturday) At Grants Pass 0, Klamath Falls 2 (Sunday) At Grants Pass 5, Klamath Falls 10 (Saturday) (By Associated Press) Oregon's Webfoota are the northern division. Pacific Coast conference baseball champions for the second consecutive year. They clinched the crown Satur day by beating Oregon State 4-3 in Eugene while the Wash ington Huskies were losing their sixth game of the season to Washington State in Pullman 3-2. The Webfoota will close their season against the Beavers In Corvallis today. Standings: Oregon Washington O. S. C W. S. C. Idaho . Won Lost " 8 6 i to DICK HANEN WINS COLLEGIATE TOGA fVtrvallla Hm Wmv 9 tS Dick Hanen of the University Of Oreeon won the Individual golf championship of the north ern division oaiuraay on tne Corvallis country club course with a four-under-par 70-70 140. The T'nlvrltv nf TVa.hlns. ton won the team rhimnlnn. ship, carding 877, and set a new scoring record. Tne total was one over rtar mnti nlna under the record of 386 set by Washington State in 1938. Other team imr.!1 nrmn State 611. Orrron 812. Wuli ington State 633. Scores Yesterday A sterling two-hit flinging trick by Steve Crlppen and sen sational hitting and fielding by Don Fawcett, the young high school second baseman, com bined to create a 3 to 0 victory for the Medford Craters over the Dorris, (Cal.) Lumberjacks at Dorris yesterday in the second game of a two-game Oregon California league series. The win gave the Craters an even break in the set, Dorris having blasted out a 13 to 1 conquest in the Saturday twilight affair. Crlppen, notching his second victory of the current season, held Dorris hitless for five in nings. In the sixth Shortstop Crlspl tingled with two away and in the seventh Snaveley, right fielder, singled with none gone. The next three callers, however, filed out to leave Snavely stranded on first. Not a Dorris man reached second base as Crlppen, In rare form, com pletely baffled the foe with hia fantastic twist, and benders. Diminutive Don Fawcett pro vided the spark in two of Med ford'i three scoring Innings. His first of four singles In five trips to the plate occurred in the first inning, and alter worm worm ley followed with a alngle Faw cett scored as Dwlght Cather wood forced Worthley at second. Lleber Singles The Craters picked up anoth er tally In the third when Worthley reached base on an error, went to second on an in field out and scored on Manager Dutch Lteber's one-base blast. In the fifth frame Fawcett again atarted things off with a single, and after Worthley and Catherwood went down Al Wray Llghtner knocked his second double of the game to icore Fawcett. In addition to rifling out four hits, Fawcett fielded in spectac ular fashion. He atarted a fast double play In the eighth Inning, and all told handled five tough chances In perfect style, one of them a beautiful running catch in short right. The Craters will play the powerful Bear Photo club from San Francisco next Saturday and Sunday afternoons, both games starting at 2:30. Saturday is Decoration Day. Box score: UEOPORD AB It H TO A 8wmryck. Sb .0 0 0 1 4 nwctt. lb 5 Worthley. m .a Catherwood, If Wry, cf 14 1 I 1 1 Lelber. lb -Adams, e -Lang, rf Crlppen, p . o o a o . o a i o .. e i is o .4 0 0 1 .40160 .4 0 O t Totals DORRIS Brooks. Sb Oakee, 3b CrUpt. as Ooldban, e n. Snarely. rf Carlitrom. If , Duracho, lb , Iran, ef Snider, p .. an S IS 34 17 AB R H PO A o o a a o o o . 0 1 3 1 . o o a o o l o o S 0 0 0 0 S 0 0 11 0 .S O 0 0 0 .S 0 0 0 6 By the Associated Press National Brooklyn 6, New York 0 Cincinnati 3 2. St. Louis 2-0 Boston 2 6. Philadelphia 3-3 (First game 11 Innings) Chicago 7 11, Pittsburgh 9-4 (First game 10 innings) American New York 8, Washington 9 Philadelphia 6-9, Boston 8 6 (2nd game 8 innings) Detroit 6 14, Chicago 3 0 St. Louis 3 4. Cleveland 2-1 Pactiic Coast San Francisco 3 2. Seattle 6 0 San Diego 2 3. Oakland 8-4 Sacramento 2 3, Hollwood 10 (1st game 10 li.r.ir.g;) Los Angeles 3 7. Portland 2-3 Westtrn International Salem 4-7, Spokane 9-3 ToUls 31 0 13 19 Medford 1 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 S Dorris .0 0000000 00 Errors: Lelber; runs batted In; Catherwood, Wtt. Lelber: two-baae hits: Writ t: stolen beeee: Lens. CMeple, Devon; eacrincee: Worthley. Oakei: double plays: Fmwrett to Worthley to Lelber, Smryok to Ad ams to Lleber: left on baaee: Med ford II, Dorrlt ; Crlppen 3: Snider 3: strlke-ouu: Crlppen 3. Snider 6; um pires: Kauer sod Jonea; time 1 it. NORTHWEST GOLF TITLETO GIVAN Everett, Msy 24 .T Forced into an extra nine holes to prove his supremacy, Harry Givan, former Walker Cupper from Seattle, won the Pacific north west open golf championship here yesterday In a playoff with the defending Champion Al Zimmerman, of Portland. Givan and Zimmerman fin lshed the regular play in a dead beat with identical 230 scores : --'" -jn,m Shouldering his sea bag, John Dungan Rlgney (right column, second from front,) 27, the Chi cago White Sox pitcher, marched to his barracks at Great Lakes, I1L, along with other new navy men. He wore the uniform of a seaman first class. and decided to aettle the Issue! immediately with an extra nine holes. Givan took the lead on the first hole with a par End fin ished with a two under par 33, while Zimmerman trailed con stantly to card a 37. Trailing the co-leaders by three shots at the end of the regulation 72 holes was Chuck Congdon, Tacoma pro, with Bob Connelly, Seattle, and Ted Jef ferson, Bremerton, following with 286s. 8-5 OVER LEE SAVOLD Washington, May 23 UP) The twice-postponed Lou Nova Lee Savold heavyweight scrap comes up again tonight, weath er permitting, with each fighter forecasting a victory that may lead to a shot at Joe Louis and the top title of the boxing world. Nova, starting comeback eight months after being flat tened by Louis, was about an 8-5 favorite with the betting boys. But Savold, the cocky Des Moines, la., lad with an impressive record behind him for the past year, remained a good outside choice to upset the ex-yogi man front California. BILL, 3-2, 7-3 By the Associated Presa Sacramento reposed today In the Coast league's No. 2 posi tion, supported there by a tripod of two sturdy right arms and one seasoned portside flipper. This equipment la the Joint property of Blix Donnelly and Larry Kempe, the righthanders, and Tony Freltas, the lefty. They .combined talents in a three-way weekend assignment to raise their team over the heads of both San Diego and Seattle and into a niche second only to that heM by Los An geles. The accomplishment, achieved at the expense of a Hollywood club which concurrently de clined into seventh place behind San Francisco, had every aspect of brilliance. In the triple turn, the Sacra mento pitchers allowed the op position only two runs and a meager 12 hits. Freltas, flinging in the open ing game of yesterday's double header, had the toughest go of It, working ten innings before his mates got him enough runs for a 2-1 victory. Kempe pitched a three-hit, 3-0 number in the seven-inning nightcap. Donnelly made his showing Saturday, a five hitter good for a 4-1 decision. Sacramento took the series, five games to two. At Portland, where Los An geles twice trounced the last place Beavers, 3-2 and 7-3, for a four-to-two series margin, Hurler Jim Lynn won the first game with a one-hit perform ance. Lynn let only six men reach first base, four on walks, Rupert Thompson on a single and one on an error. It was that miscue and three others like It that deprived the Angel hurler of the shutout he deserved, for without them neither Lindsey Brown he came in on Thomp son's blow nor Ted Norbert ever would have been In posi tion to score. The short second game was a walkaway. Los Angeles whack ed 13 hits, 10 of them off Sid Cohen and seven of them in the third Inning, when Cohen gave up six runs without getting a man out Jess Dobernic of the Angels, hit heavily in the early stages, yielded in the second inning to Charlie Adams, who was credited with the victory. At Seattle, Al Libke of the Rainiers earned himself a 6-3 verdict over San Francisco with a neat 8 2-3 inning relief stint. In the nightcap Larry Jensen clinched the series for the Seals, four games to two, with a seven inning, two-hit Job, 2-0. - Pitching was of scant conse-Q quence in the Oakland-San Diego double turn yesterday. The Oaks won the first, 8-2, working Bill Thomas for sis hits, a walk and all their runs in the second inning, and thought they should have won the second, which went to the- Padres, 3-4. Scores: Los Angeles 3 10 4 Portland 2 10 Lynn and Campbell; Orrell and Castro. (Second game) Los Angeles Portland 7 13 0 3 12 0 and Todd; Dobernic. Adams Cohen, Hilcher and Castro. CITIZENS REPAIR STREET Portland, Ore. (U.PJ There were some bad holes on north g east Mason street in Portland,' but instead of asking the city or county for aid, the property owners did the work themselves. Approximately IS turned out for the one-day Job. Army Adopts Trap Fort Devens, Mass. 0J.B There'll be no rats or mice at this army post if a new mascot lives up to its record. Soldiers have adopted Quincy, a 10 pound cat offered by a Bedford family, who said the animal was a topnotch mouser. . . HERE'S A NEW OPPORTUNITY: CHOOSE YOUR OWN BRANCH OF ARMY SERVICE! If you've passed your 18th birthday and aren't yet 20, here's where you get a break! A new Army ruling makes it possible for you to enlist at once and pick out any one of the eight combat branches in which you want to serve. After you're 20 you'll no longer have this choice. 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