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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1942.
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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
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McDonald And
BITTER ENEMIES
SLATED FOR HOUR
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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
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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.
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DEFEATED TWICE
BY
Ruffing and Bonham Pound
ed for 6-2, 13-1 Losses
Reds, Dodgers Split.
By Austin Bealmear
Associated Press Sports Writer.
It begins to look as if the
New York Yankees, expected
by many to be naming a start
ing pitcher for the world series
by the Fourth of July, won't
even be in first place at that
fast approaching stage of the
campaign if they don't pull out
of their current spin.
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.
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bridge University believes all
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Guns For Prince
Anxious to take a fall out
of Princa Selaki Mihalikis in
the main event of tonight's
armory wrestling program Is
Sockeye Jack McDonald (above),
the big ex-logger from Tacoraa.
McDonald la rough and tough
and expects to make short work
of the Arabian.
BOB KENASTON IS
Gold Hill. 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.
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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
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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
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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.
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