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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1942. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Lieber Scrapbook Gives History Of Medford Manager Charle (Dutch) Lieber, the big Manager-Pitcher of the Medford Craters, has a scrap book. And what a scrapbook it is. The volume Includes, in the form of clipped newspaper stor ies, an almost complete case his tory of the skipper's activities in organized baseball with the old Mission Reds of the Pacific Coast league, the Philadelphia Athletics of the American loop and Los Angeles of the P. C. L. In fact, the contents of the tome don't stop with a collee tion of press accounts concern ing Lleber-involved contests. In it are many newspaper pics of Dutch, ticket stubs and even a telegram he sent his daddy one afternoon from Sacramento. It said: "Dear Dad. Beat Sacra mento one to nothing. Six hits. Love to all." That was on April 14, 1930, when Dutch was with the Missions. ' On of the most Interesting . tarns In the scrapbook. a - yam that makes Dutch grin wryly In remembrance, deals with an 18-inning fracas he 1 lost to Sam Gibson of the Seals, 5 to 1. For In that game ' Dutch struck out SEVEN STRAIGHT TIMES, setting what Writer Will Connolly of the San Francisco Chronicle ' believed at the time, was a ' Coast league record for , whiffs. ' Whether it was P. C. L. rec ord for individual strikeouts we don't know, but it did top the major league mark for most strikeouts in an extra-Inning game. The 1942 edition of The Sporting News' "Dope- Book" reveals that one Carl Weilman of the St Louis Browns, on July 25, 1913, fanned six times in a 19-frame fracas. Connolly, in his account of the game, wrote: "That futile bat-waving by Lieber is of no small moment. After the fifth strikeout Lieber got self-conscious. He grinned sheepishly as he took his cuts. But he showed marked Improvement. The sixth time at bat he fouled two for the first time of the ev ening and worked Clbson down to three and two with the bags loaded and two out - the next pitch was the grand daddy of all strikes, right down the geometrical center, the ne plus ultra of pitched balls, and Lieb er let it go by." Connolly struck a happier note as regards Dutch when, later in the story, he remarked: "The irony is that Lieber is normally not a bad-hitting pit ' cher." A glance at last week's Crater batting averages, with Lieber perched up there at the .430 mark, would seem to bear out this long-ago statement. Not all clippings in Dutch's , scrapbook recall to his mind such sad golngs-oo as that seven-strikeout business. Not by a long sight. There Is one. for example, that reports on a great three-hit. 2 to 0 Job be did against Seattle and nonet other than John Miljus, who ran the local club sev eral years ago In this con test Lieber pitched six In nings of hltless ball. Another tells of Dutch equal ling the Coast league record of 11 assists for a pitcher, in a game in which he beat Sacra mento, 9 to 2. Then, there is the one showing Dutch as the second-best hurler in the coast loop, with 19 wins and IS losses and an earned-run-average of 2.90. But the clipping we like best, the one that describes his char acter to a T. goes like this: "For the first time since his arrival on the coast. Gabby Street (Mission manager) asked that one of his players be given favorable notice in the public prints. "I wish you'd say some, thing nice about Dutch Lieb er." urged the Sarge. ..."8ay he has the heart of a Hon and a million dollars worth of courage. He's pitched in 28 or 27 ball games already, which Is a season's work for most prima donnas. He's never whimpered. He never complains thr.t it isn't his turn to work or that he's not warm enough lor relief. You've got to go lor a kid like that. " 'He's kept plugging along WANTED Green chain pullers, dry chain pullers, endlllt and earrier driver, lumber handlers Jailers, buckers and railroad con stuctlon men. Top wages; steady work. APPLY MEDFORD CORPORATION McDonald And BITTER ENEMIES SLATED FOR HOUR T Craig and Kruse to Meet In Semi-Windup Casey, Brazil Back for Opener. The bad blood that exists be tween Sockeye Jack McDonald and Prince Selakl Mihalikis will receive a thorough airing, pos sibly with disastrous results for one of the two, when they col lide In the one-hour main event of tonight's armory wrestling program. Like last week's "grudge" match between Mihalikis and George Craig, tonight's feature attraction has all the elements of a bitter and bruising battle. Sockeye, who refereed the Mih-alikls-Cralg fracas, tangled sev eral times with the hot-blooded and rough-wrestling Arabian when the latter strayed from the straight and narrow, and Jumped at the chance to face him in a regulation affair when requested to do so by Promoter Mack Llllard. Mihalikis, formerly a strict scientific workman, still em ploys legitimate tactics, but has augmented his attack with man euvers of varying shades of off color operations. Disliking Mc Donald as he does (and the feeling is mutual), the Prince can be expected to overlook no opportunity to defeat the big ex logger. Sockeye Ready As for McDonald, he prefers to stay clean, but once his oppo nent displays symptoms of for getting such stuff Sockeye the oretically rolls ups his sleeves and goes to work. He plans no change in tactics against Mih alikis. Supporting the main event are a pair of fine contests. Craig. Camp White blacksmith who drew with Mihalikis on last week's card, is slated to face Broccoli Bob Kruse, arm-lock expert from Oswego, in the six round semt-wlndup. Craig may be forced to resort to unscien tific methods as Kruse, who grapples barefooted, is no stick ler for the niceties of the game. Two tremendously popular matmen will return after short absences to open the program at 8:30 sharp. They are Irish Jim Casey and Pedro Brazil, South American heavyweight cham pion. They'll go four rounds or the best two out of three falls. J1LE MENTOR TAKES NEW POST Jacksonville, June 29 (SdI.V- Leonard (Pat) Patterson, athletic coach at Jacksonville high school for the past three years, has resigned his position to ac cept a Job teaching physical edu cation in a Portland grade school. Superintendent A. L. Beck announced today. Patter son's successor at Jacksonville has not yet been named. In three years Patterson coached Jacksonville high six man football teams were unde feated and claimants of the my thical state title. His basket ball teams twice won the South ern Oregon College of Educa tion invitational tourney, and took the consolation champion ship In the state class B tourna ment two years ago. and now he's getting results. Dutch won his last four out of five games. He pitched 18 score less innings as a reliever, then Oakland broke the string with one run. After that he pitched seven more scoreless innings. Be sure to give him a tumble.' " Thanks Dutch, for letting us see your scrapbook, and forgive us for making such a to-do about it and putting you in the lime light. WATER WELL DRILLING mw ail ertti mmhini MIHItHAlB PHirta ROBT BURNS Telephone 243 L It. S. But SSI. nranta ran, PWr Hisnosr CRATERS LOSE TO 2; Medford Craters left for Klamath Falls Saturday after noon leading the Oregon-California league pennant race by a full game ever the Pelicans. They returned home last night a game back of the hard-clouting Bigbills. Playing with a makeshift lineup, the Craters dropped Sun day's game, 10 to 2 after being submerged Saturday night, 14 to 2. It was their first double loss of the season. Manager Dutch Lieber, still bothered with a sore arm, went the route for the locals and was belted for 18 blows, while Ken Benham, just out of Whitman college, gave up nine hits which he kept well scattered. Don Fawcett's single, Glenn Swanson's sacrifice and Paul Hoffard's single gave the Crat ers a run in the third, and Al Wray Lightner's single sand wiched by two Klamath errors accounted for the other Crater run in the fifth frame. Lieber escaped the Pelican shelling for two innings, but in the third two walks, an error by Swanson, Virgil Gross' single and Benham's double gave the Klamathites three tallies. Singles by Dixon, Larson and Manager Ernie Bishop shoved another score across In the fourth, and Virgil Haynes sin gled behind Hatfield's triple to give the Pelicans still another marker In the fifth. Klamath went to work on Big Dutch in earnest In the sixth heat, scoring four times on sin gles by Larson, Bishop, Hamp ton and Hatfield, and doubles by Paul Crapo and Dixon, and picked up their final run in the ninth on Hatfield's blow, an er ror by Johnny Gitzen and an outfield fly. Because several players were unable to make the Klamath trip, the Craters were forced to go into action with Third Base man Fawcett on short, Swanson on third, Leftfielder Dwlght Catherwood on first, Pitcher Joe Dickinson in left and Right fielder Don Madden catching. Dickinson hit a double and single and Hoffard two singles to lead what attack the Craters were able to manage, while Lar son and Hatfield each whacked out three blows. Next week-end the Craters will play the Owl Drug com pany team of San Francisco, Sat urday and Sunday afternoons. Short score of Sunday's game: Medford 2 9 4 Klamath 10 18 4 Lieber and Madden; Benham and Dixon. SUN BOWL FOOTBALL GAME VICTIM OF WAR El Paso, Tex., June 29 (P) The annual Sun bowl fotball game, which has pitted a border conference and an outside team on New Years' Day since 1938, Is to be suspended until after the war. Clewing time for CluslflM Ads . m. Too late to Clu4t!j 11.30 dustoff fhess FESTS with qour D0L1ARS n. tuUr amM m b.lj Unci. Urn 1m I IbMvuf l Job- doAtti ihtt of WAR BONDS, (hT mm cm 6mm M,000 tsghtur plana that rmt. Think h CTofMluMiaf mb mm ait mmt Lk that could do! Allw-CHalmsm SoIWvmi Thot WAR BONDS mrm toJn bftrt mi MtMt farm iavwononc Thai Amtrktm IWnwf, t vrfcif WA DONDSmrTMli4CV.CMMI mtnl Kfw? th cismu W MttJ m Tha fukliMt aasj mtmi ra eh fe b far Urmr ttWftah- m taka th ImoV vttirp. 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Kicked around at three stops out of four on their two-weeks swing to the west, the Yanks hit bottom yesterday when the Chicago White Sox mauled them twice, 8-2 and 13-1. Not only did the sixth-place White Sox sting the champions of the world with their first double defeat of the year,, but they did it at the expense of topnotch pitchers. Red Ruffing and Ernie Bonham. As a result, the Yankee lead shrank to five and a half games and would have dropped to four and a half if the Cleveland In dians had not become fed up with the treatment they were receiving from the second-place Boston Red Sox and salvaged the final contest of a four-game series. Tribe Divides At Cleveland, the Red Sox took the first game, 8-3, by scor ing all their runs in the fifth inning, but the Indians took the second when pinch-hitter Chub by Dean singled the winning run across for a 3-2 decision. The Detroit Tigers also split a pair with the Philadelphia Ath letics. Hal Newhouser pitched three-hit ball in gaining a 3-2 decision for the Tigers, but Lu men Harris blanked them on five hits in the afterpiece, 3-0. Washington s Senators nosed out the St. Louis Browns, 14-13 and 7-6. The Brooklyn Dodgers, lead ers of the National league, nar rowly escaped the Yankees' fate when Joe Medwlck tripled to give them a 2-1 triumph over Cincinnati in the second game after the Reds had bagged the opener, 6-3. Seven home runs carried the Pittsburgh Pirates to a double victory over the New York Gi ants, 8-7 and 9-3. Tommy Hughes pitched the Philadelphia Phils to a 2-1 vic tory over the St. Louis Car dinals in 13 innings, going all the way and yielding only 10 hits, but the Cards took the second game, 3-1. Jim Tobin tossed a three hitter as the Boston Braves blanked the Chicago Cubs for the second straight time, 3-0, but after 21 scoreless innings the Cubs rallied to win the nightcap, 9-1. Prof. A. C. 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June 29 (Spl Bob Kenaston was Inducted into the army recently and is station ed at Ft. Lewis. He was for merly a marine. His wife and daughter of Los Angeles are visiting relatives here at pres ent. Kenaston is well-known to sports fans of southern Ore gon, having wrestled her for many years. At one time he held the world's Junior heavy weight championship. MEMO TO ADVERTISERS Q. Do you know of any mtosuri for Iht valut 0 newsfiofier circulation to an advertiser such as tht standards that a business man uses in tuyint merchandise? A. Yes. In the well-known standards that have been approved and adopted by ad vertisers namely A.B.C. standards. Q. WhatisA.B.C.f A. A.B.C. stands for Audit Bureau of Circu lations, a cooperative association of 2000 advertisers, advertising agencies and pub Ushers in the United States and Canada. Q. What Is the Bureau '1 work? A. To audit the circulation of newspapers and periodicals so that advertisers can buy space on the basis of definite stand ards and verified facts and figures. Q. How does A. B. C accomplish this? A. The Burer.u has a large staff of experi enced auditors. These men visit the pub lisher members annually and make audits of their circulation records. This informa A. B.C. "AUDIT World Series May Be Taken On Nationwide Relief Tour By Harold New York, June 29 fP) revamped even to permitting on the Pacific coast? Ford Frlck, president of thei National league, was due in Chicago today for a conference with K. M. Landis, baseball commissioner, and the New Yorker'a Journey Immediately revived talk heard in every major league dugout during the past few days. Three changes in the rules have been proposed and all have as their objective the gathering of funds for Army and Navy Relief and for USO. Under plan No. 1 the series would be extended to nine games frort) the present seven with the service funds benefit ing from the extra contests. Plan No. 2 has the pennant Vm in i , '. t fafC i I I Y I L)W...i.A i n .-. Y..,n.,i. Iflfc. Questions and Answers Jf about Newspaper Advertising MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE This newspaper is a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations. of our latest A.B.C report tiring audited facts and figures about BUREAU OF CIRCULATIONS Claassaa Will the world series rules be the annual classic to wind up winners deciding the world title in seven tilts before going on barnstorming tour of the country. Most revolutionary is plan No. 3 which would have the competing nines play two games in the home park of each before opening a road Journey of nine to eleven games, each contest to count toward the champion ship. Under that setup the deciding battle might be played in such places as Toledo, Denver or San Francisco. In both the latter cases, cities with major league ball clubs would be avoided and the wan Coo on Je luxe ionialii! KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY Whether it's a iulen. a Collins or . . r .1 . a tall, cool highball, make yours with Bourbon de Luxe tonight. There's extra enjoyment in the National DlitiHen PrtxJarti Corp, N.Y. tion Is then published in A.B.C. reports for the use and protection of advertisers. Q. IFhat do these reports show? A. A.B.C reports tell how much circulation a newspaper has, where this circulation is, how it was obtained, how much people paid for it, and many other verified facts that advertisers should know when they buy advertising. Q. Are all publications eligible for A.B.C. ment' hership? A No. Only those with paid circulation. This is important to advertisers because it is the best proof of interest and purchasing power on the part of the readers. Q. Is this newspaper a member of the Audit Bureau of Circulations? A Yes. We are proud of our circulation and we want our advertisers to know just what they get for their money when they advertise in our columns. The audited information in our A.B.C report gives them the complete facts. PACTS AS A MEASURE OP dering series taken to places having the larger and better minor league plants. All the major chieftains of big league baseball have re mained quiet Weston Takes Early Lead In Tournament Portland, June 29 WP) Ray Weston of the Peninsula Golf club, Portland, maintained a six. stroke margin In the Oregon public links' association state golf tourney yesterday although he went three strokes over par on the third round. Second to Weston'a 213 strokes for the three rounds is Charles Stafford, Eastmoreland, with 218. Third is Bob Hofer, Colwood, with 219. For TIRED NERVES! Mountain Air Restful Rooms Tasty Meals. OREGON CAVES CHATEAU mi Qf M Proof I Ask for a copy our circulation. ADVERTISING VALUE WW Mr
