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PAGE EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD, OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 10, 1942. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: Hardy, Drolette Provide Craters Great Umpiring One of the biggest headache! in semi-pro baseball and, we imagine, in the professional leagues of lower classification, as well, is the scarcity of com petent umpires. Rather a thankless Job at best,' what with the grandstand and bleacher "wolves" howling their heads off at every opportunity, the players doing their share of beefing and the remuneration not making the recipient rich, it is tough for a "bush league or team to obtain arbiters with thorough knowledge of the game and its rules. In this respect Medford is ex tremely fortunate this season in being able to hire the services of Ashland's Bob Hardy, who has spent two seasons with Beaumont of the class A-l Texas league. The beauty of Hardy's work behind the plate Is that, being a pitcher, himself, he gives the corners to the flingers whose balls and strikes be is calling. Most hurlers, and their catchers, are prone to ques tion every close pitch which is called against them, but seldom this year has Hardy been taken to task. There has also been a minimum of yelps from the stands. Hardy calls them the way he sees them, and he sees the corners with an uncanny eye, with the xe , suit that his umpiring has been highly satisfactory with players and fans alike. With, those two seasons of professional baseball forming a firm background, Hardy knows the rules from A to Z, knows what to do in every situation and, of no little importance, keeps the game moving, the players hustling on and off the field. In case that left flipper of his doesn't come around after a years rest, and he wants to remain in organized baseball, he might find the path to the lop via umpiring. Hardy Isn't the only capable armier available to the Craters Last week, in the Nangano Dray age series, his umpirlng-mate was none other than Al Drolette of Grants Pass, for many years one of southern Oregon's lead ing semi-pro players and who, for the last three seasons, has been "calling 'em" In the class C California State and Pioneer leagues. The California wheel, where Al had been umpiring this year, folded up July 1 because of poor attendance m a couple of towns and' the loss of many players to the armed forces. This released Al to return to his home and, incidentally, to do some "man in blue" work for the Craters. Drolette said he had an offer to finish the season in the Pioneer circuit and hadn't yet decided whether to accept or spend the rest of the sum mer at his home, umpiring for the Craters on the side. Here's hoping he chooses to releci the Pioneer loop offer. iiitcffftFSI8 frith ijslt DOLLARS Ajaai wMhak. Caaatliag laiaraaiiaaal aaa B a chaap .a r B. 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Several "calls he made on Steve Crippen pitches didn't meet with the ap proval of Crippen, Catcher Norm Worthley, Manager Dutch Lieber and the fans. Maybe Al missed a couple or several, we won't attempt to Judge, but re gardless you can rest assured that If he continues to work Crater games the umpiring will be A number 1. If you don't be lieve it ask any player. Promoter Mack Llllard Is put ting Big Joe Corbett of Australia via Boston in against Sockeye Jack McDonald in the main event of next Monday nights armory wrestling program, he announced today. Joe is returning after an absence of several weeks, and should make McDonald step. Bob Kruse and Prince Mihali- kls will tangle in the six-round center affair, while Cliff Olsen will face Soldier Joe Buccola, wrestling instructor at Hamilton field, In the four-round opener, Salstrom. Granafo Released by Salem Salem, July 10 (IP) Phil Salstrom and Johnny Granato. shortstops for the Salem club of the Western International base ball league were given their outright releases last night to make room for Curly Robbe. left-handed hitting shortstop op tioned to Salem by the Los An geles Angels of the Coast league. Robbe will report here Satur day. HOW THEY? STAND By The Associated Press National W L Pet. Brooklyn . J.53 21 .716 St. Louis 44 29 .603 Cincinnati 41 35 .339 New York 40 38 .513 Chicago 38 42 .475 Pittsburgh 34 41 .453 Boston 35 47 .427 Philadelphia 22 84 .289 American New York 52 26 .662 Boston 47 30 .610 Cleveland ....45 36 .556 Detroit 44 39 .530 St. Louis 37 42 .468 Chicago 32 44 .421 Philadelphia 34 31 .400 Washington 29 31 .363 Pacific Coast Sacramento 39 37 .615 Los Angeles 56 39 .389 San Diego 34 45 .545 San Francisco 48 44 .522 Seattle ....48 48 .500 Oakland 44 51 .463 Hollywood 41 59 .410 Portland 33 60 .355 Cloalnf Umt for Claaalflad Ada a. m. 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WA BOND "TaTai Invade FOR LEAGUE LEAD Dickinson To Oppose Haynes In First Clash Lieber Will Pitch Sunday's Tilt, Manager Ernie Bishop's league leading Klamath Falls Pelicans Invade Medford this week-end lor a two-game Oregon-California loop series with the Craters who, trailing the pace-setters by one game, must capture both contests In order to forge into the top spot. Saturday night's fracas starts at 9 o clock sharp, that Sunday aiiernoon at 2:30. Both tilts will be played at the fairgrounds park a short distance south on the Pacific highway. Virgil Haynes, rlghthanded ace of the Klamath mound staff, win oppose Pvt. Joe Dickinson of the locals In the Saturday evening battle. Haynes, a fire- baller, has exercised a real Jinx over the Craters this season. He has beaten our boys twice, the last time by a 14 to 2 tally with only lour blows. That was in Klamath Falls June 27, and the loser was Dick inson. In their second meeting Saturday night Pvt. Joe will be firing to even his score with the Pelican flinger. Benham Sunday Kenny Benham. star of the Whitman college hill corps, will take care of the elbowing for the Pelicans In Sunday s game, while Manager Dutch Lieber plans to toss for the Craters. Lleber's arm, sore for the past several weeks, Is slowly round ing into shape again. In the dis astrous Klamath series two weeks ago Benham followed Haynes to the mound and hurled the Craters into a 10 to 2 set back, with nine hits. The loser was Lieber, so the skipper, like Dickinson, wants revenge. Klamath's lineup will see Dixon back of the plate, Bishop on first, Hampton on second. Larson on short, Gross on third, Hatfield in left, Paul Crapo in center and Soran in right. Medford's Saturday night line up will find Norm Worthley catching, Lieber on first, John Gitzen on second. Jack Swaryck on short, Don Fawcett on third, Waite in left, Al Wray in center and Paul Hoffard in right. Sun day, with Lieber pitching, Waite will move to first and Glen Swanson will patrol left. Catherwood Leaves Dwight Catherwood, regular left-fielder and cleanup hitter. has left town to join the armed forces. The Pelicans, with one of their best teams in years, will be making their last 1942 ap pearances in Medford. Thus far, in the four games played be tween the two clubs, Klamath has copped three. INTESTINAL ILL PUTS SPEAKER IN HOSPITAL Cleveland. July 10 Tris Speaker. 54-year-old baseball immortal, was reported "resting comfortably" at Lakeside hospi tal today. His condition became grave unexpectedly yesterday. Dr. Edward Castle said the for mer outfielder suffered compli cations from an intestinal per foration. McDONALD 1 ci3 if J&wJ wBa Medford Bud Ward Defends Title O Q Corporal Marvin (Bud) Ward, was defending his two-time Western Amateur golf championshan title in tha tournav at Spokane. Wash. Ward Is shown on the tough tree-lined Manlto RED SOX, YANKS By Austin Bealmaar Associated Press Sports Writer With long rests behind all of them, pennant drives in front of some of them and artificial light round most of them, major league pitchers enjoyed one of their best days 'of the season yesterday. The masterpiece of the day was the 11-lnning stint of Char lie Wagner ,who held the De troit Tigers to four blows in pitching the Boston Red Sox to 2-1 decision in broad day light. The Red Sox needed the vic tory to stay within four games of the American league leading new York Yankees, who drop ped the St. Louis Browns. 5-2. Hank Borowy kept his place at the top of the circuit's pitching ranks by holding the Browns to six safeties. Phil Marchlldon of the Phila delphia Athletics whipped the Cleveland Indians. 5-2, In a night game. Marchlldon turned In a five-hitter after a shaky first inning. In another night tilt on the American league program, the Chicago White Sox dumped the Washington Senators. 4-2. as Johnny Humphries hurled five hit ball. Whitlow Wyatt pitched and batted the Brooklyn Dodgers to a 3-2 decision over Johnny Van der Meer and the Cincinnati Reds. While Wyatt was notching his as water is to a thirst-racked wanderer. When what is EXPORT LAGErVBEEFv CANDY CO., Distributor. Phone 2330. for Two driving one down tha fairway course. ninth victory against two de feats under the lights at Cincin nati, the St. Louis Cardinals blanked the New York Giants. 9-0, to maintain their pace eight and a half games behind the first-place Dodgers in the National league. The Philadelphia Phils met a similar fate at Pittsburgh, where the Pirates whitewashed them, 9-0, in a night game for Army-Navy relief which drew 29,448 fans and a gate of $36,308.51. The Boston Braves and Chi cago Cubs played the longest game of the day, an afternoon affair that ended when Buddy Gremp smashed a home run in the 13th inning to give the Braves the nod, 4-3. Scores Yesterday (By the Associated Press) Pacific Coast League San Francisco 1, Hollywood 6 Los Angeles 6, Oakland 3 (10 Innings) . Sacramento 5, San Diego 1 Seattle 3, Portland 2 American St. Louis 2, New York 9 Detroit 1, Boston 2 (11 in nings) Chicago 4, Washington 2 Cleveland 2. Philadelphia S National Boston 4, Chicago 3 (13 in nings) Brooklyn 3, Cincinnati 2 Philadelphia 0, Pittsburgh 9 New York 0, St. Louis 9 Western International Tacoma 8, Salem 3 Vancouver 5, Spokane 11 The Twin Cities, St. Paul and Minneapolis, are going picknick- Ing instead of Joyriding this summer. Applications for pic nics In parks which can be reached by street car have Jumped 20 per cent. mind and body are weary, more stimulating and in vigorating; hat is more whole some than a glass of really good beer a light, mild, delicately flavored bw..... a lippy, Ungy, true Bohemian type Uger like - Game Week-End Series FIRST 2MATCHES Rosand and Metzger Fall Before Champ in Western Amateur Golf Tourney. By Russ Newland Spokane, July 10 W) Mar vin "Bud" Ward, who could be a general Instead of an army cor poral ii military ability was measured In terms of golf. Is in a playing slump and as third round matches of the Western Amateur championship got under way today he wasn't exactly a good bet to retain his title. Between now and Sunday's 36- hole finals some of the country's topnotchers who are on their games will cross the path of tne national amateur and defend ing western titlist. Off Ward's second round show ing yesterday he wouldn't stand a chance against some of the better linksmen he has been in the habit of beating fairly easily in the past. Ward, medalist with 141 for 36 holes, won both his matches but his dizzy scrambling was al ternately the despair and Joy of the gallery that trailed him into woods and rough. He defeated his first round rival. Otto Rosand of SDokane. 7 and 6 and followed with a 3 and 2 win over Fritz Metzger of Tacoma. Neither gave the champ much of a tussle, which helped, although Metzger had his match square at the 11th after tossing away two chances with inaccurate putting. Good Fishing Seen for Jackson County Portland, July 10 (JP Some fair and some good fishing is in prospect In Oregon waters this week-end the state game com mission reported today. Limit trout catches have been reported from the Nestucca river, the Deschutes has been yielding well and good catches have been taken from Jackson and Josephine county streams, the bulletin said. SUB FOR SUGAR Hattiesburg, Miss. (U.R) More than 278 south Mississippi farmers are solving their sugar problem by growing cane sor ghum for syrup. Containing iron and calcium, it can be used as a sugar substitute on the table and in cooking. TRAINED MECHANICS QUALITY MATERIALS 5 LOW COST X YOUR CAR OR TRUCK WILL LAST LONGER IF YOU HAVE IT SERVICED REGULARLY-SEE YOUR CHEVROLET DEALER ' Ha has trained mechanics. a a a He u$es quality mate' rials. a He performs all service operations at reason able rotes. . a a It pays to see your Chevrolet dealer for car-saving service because ROGUE RIVER CHEVROLET Hal Turpin Pitches and Clouts Beavers Into 3 to 2 Defeat By The Associated Press The San Francisco Seals need players badly, especially pitch ers, but they won't get Ira Scribner, Seattle hurler, whom the Rainiers tried to option on a trial basis. Judge W. G. Bramham, Na tional association of minor leagues director, ruled yester day that one coast league club can't option a player for a trial period to another club In the same league. Scribner, who did not accom pany the Seals for. a series at Hollywood this week because of a sore arm, is headed back to the Rainiers. Seattle's veteran hurler, Hal Turpin, saved his own game at Portland last night as he batted In the tying and winning runs and limited the Beavers to nine hits to win, 3 to 2. Seattle initiated scoring with a lone tally in the second inning, then permitted the Beavers to forge ahead in the sixth, 2 to 1, after Rube Thompson hom ered. Turpin singled In the seventh to drive in the tying run and repeated his performance in the ninth to give the Rainiers the victory. Besides chalking up his 14th win against four losses, Turpin cracked out three hits in four times at bat. San Francisco bowed to Hol lywood, 6 to 1, as Bob Joyce one of six twirlers the Seals have, allowed II hits. The Sacramento Solons, also playing in southern California, defeated San Diego, 5 to 1. Los Angeles, in second place behind the Solons, went 10 in nings with Oakland and won, 8 to 3. Short score: Seattle 3 10 4 Portland 2 9 1 Turpin and Beard; Orrell and Mayer. Fifty-one thousand tons of blackplate have been saved by cutting down its use in bottle caps or enough to turn out 2.000,000 55-gallon drums for shipment of oil to Australia. A GRAND OLD CANADIAN WHISKEY NAME I SPECIAL 4Cv V ,m '2.20 I JLfl Moor QajctedDaiEteg GkigCb for years, Chevrolet dealers have had the largest num ber of trade-ins and, there fore, the widest experience in servicing all makes and models. . . . Better have a check-up today. NINTH AND BARTLITT STREETS F Silverton, July 10 (JP) Tha Portland Boilermakers contin ued undefeated in state semi pro baseball tournament play last night with a 3-1 win over the Portland FiremSh. It was the first setback in the double elimination .event for the Fire fighters. Tonight's game pits the de fending champions, Silverton, against McElroy's of Portland. Silverton has been defeated once. Score: Boilermakers 3 7 S Firemen 14 3 Windsor and Barker; Brown, Bubalo and Roelandt, Coal Shortage Seen Winter Possibility Washington, July 10 (Ph Interior Secretary Ickes said to day there was a growing possi bility of a coal shortage next winter, unless the public changes what he described as its atti tude of indifference to govern ment appeals for summer pur chase and storage of fuel. New "danger spots" have de veloped in the midwest and in the Pacific Northwest, he said. New England previously had been described as a fuel emer gency area. Fights Last Night By The Associated Press Fall River, Mass. Davey Crawford, 127, New York, out pointed Victor Corchado, 128, Puerto Rico, (10). New York Jimmy Carollo, 192, Brooklyn, and Buddy Moore, 192, New York, drew (6). Although civilian building hag been halted, war construction is booming at the rate of 12Vi bil lion a year. Dae Mall Tribune want ads. BLENDED WHISKEY ...lha araSant la tka . S. 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