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Angels
Beavers Trim Oaks Again,
2 to 1 in 11 Innings
Speece Pitches Route.
Br the Associated Pre
Southern California baseball
fans are bursting with pride to
day as they contemplate the Los
Angeies Angels, new leaders of
we racmc coast league. .
The Angels have been
In at the top spot for several
weens ana last night they made
good With a combination nf
timely hitting, flawless fielding
ana steaay pitching which gave
them a 3 to 2 win over Sacra
mento, longtime pacesetters.
Jess Flores held the Solons
to five hits In a pitching joust
with Tony Freltas, who yielded
nine. Angel batters helped
Flores to the win by poling out
tnree safeties In the ninth frame
to score the tying and winning
runs.
Each team scored In the sec
ond Inning and the one-all tie
lasted until the ninth when Deb
Garms singled to be scored for
a Solon tally when Buster
Adams blasted out a double to
the left field wall.
Meanwhile, the Seattle Rain
ier moved close to the fourth
place San Francisco Seals In a
bid for return to the uooer div
ision and the Portland Reavers
came within striking distance
Of leaving their long-held berth
tn the league cellar.
The Rainier pushed Holly
wood a little closer to the bot
tom oosltlon when they blanked
the Stars. 4 to 0.
Barton Homer
The Oaks lost to Portland 1
to 1 last night In a hectic eleven-inning
contest that was to
have been a seven-Inning game
starting a doubleheader.
Larry Barton, Beaver flrst
sacker homered to break the
tie. The lone Oak tally was
scored on a fourth-Innings elr-cult-clout
by Shortstop Bill
Rlcney.
The second gam got under
way with little prospect of Its
being finished before the league
curfew rule would go Into ef
fect and the game wa finally
called after the third Inning
when part of the Beaver field
gave way under the thundering
pikes of Rupert Thompson.
Emll Mailho, Oak outfielder
went Into what appeared to be
n abandoned well or trench and
groundskeeper were called out
to attempt to fill In the hole
In the outfield.
Last night's win gav the
Angels a half-game lead which
they will have to fight to hold
for tonight the Coast League
teams switch opponents for the
second half of a split-week
schedule and Los Angeles draws
the always-dangerous San Diego
Padres.
Sacramento Is expected to
nave an easier time of it against
the San Francisco Seals, whom
the Padres Jolted 7 to 1 last
score:
Oakland
Portland
Buvton and uienn; spm
and Mayer, Leovlch (10).
SOGKEYE. PRINCE
RESUME MAT FEUD
The bltler wrestling feud be
. u .... taMr MrDonald
and Prince Selakl Mihaliku
will be renewed in the Medford
armory next Monday night when
the pair, each with one victory
over the other, clash for the
third time with the winner fac
ing the French "Angel" the fol-
1 MnnrlBttf niffht. McDon
aid and the Prince will face off
In the one-hour main event.
Pedro Brazil and Pete Belcas
tro will tangle In the center at
traction and Jim Casey will
take on Soldier Joe Buccola in
the four-round opener. Promoter
Mack Llllard announced today.
Fights Last Night
(By the Associated Prett)
Elizabeth. N. J. Wallace
Cross, 209. East Orange, stopped
Danny Cox, 18S, New York, (4).
Brooklyn Jerry Florello,
149, Brooklyn, outpointed Fran
cesco Monntanalr, 149, Brook
lyn, (8).
Small amounts of crude oil
are separated from the brine of
alt wells in the Red Basin of
China' Szechwan province, be
tween Chungking and Chengtu.
DOUBLE BY ADAMS
IN NINTH SCORES
WINNING MARKER
Soar to
Yanks Complete 1 12th Double Play
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Hassett io Rissuto to Hassett was the official description of this play In the second inning of
a game with Detroit in New York. It was the Yenkees' 112th double play of the season.
Rudy York of the Tigers was on first when Jimmy Bloodworth bounced to Hassett behind first
base. Hassett tossed to Phil Rissuto who covered second for the first out and then went
back to the bag to double up Bloodworth. Umpire George Pipgras calls the play at first
while Umpire Art Passarella Is at second.
Craig Wood's
Favored in Red Cross Play
By Watson Spoelstra
Detroit, July 17. (P) The revised American Ryder cup golf
squad, drawing four players from Bobby Jones' successful chal
lengers of 1941, ranked today as a surprisingly short favorite to
whin Walter Hagen's challenge squad in the two-day Red Cross
match starting tomorrow over the
scene of two na'ional opens.
Headed by Captain
Craig
Wood and reinforced by Ben
Hogan, Jimmy Demaret and
Gene Sarazen, the Cuppers
would seem to be long choices
in the rubber match of the war-
orDhaned series, but Hagen's re-1
putatlon as a snrewa lineup
manipulator probably contri
buted largely to the popular as
sumption that the challengers
have a bonafide chance to win.
Hagen, who captained . the
American forces to four vic
tories in six matches against
Great Britain, will come to grips
late today with Wood as sealed
lineup selections are exchanged
for tomorrow's five four-ball
foursome matches. Tomorrow
night they will disclose their
lineups for 10 singles matches
Sunday.
Wood presumably will suck
to the only holdover pair from
the 1941 cup squad Byron Nel
son and Nug McSpaden and
probably will keep the torrid
Texans, Hogan and Demaret, in
tact from the last two challenge
squads. Other Cuppers are
Corp. Vic Ghezzi, Lloyd Man
drum, Horton Smith, Sarazen
and Ed Dudley.
Hagen has Indicated he will
pair Henry Picard and Sam
Byrd, Harry Cooper and Law
son Little, Clayton Heafner and
Ralph Guldahl. and Jimmy
Thomson and Sergt. Jim Tur
nesa. Others available are Dick
Metz. Al Watrous. Melvln
(Chick) Herbert and Hagen him
self who may share a 36-hole as
signment with Watrous.
DiMaggio Stopper to
Face Yankees Again
New York. July 17. (41
Lefty Al Smith of the Cleveland
Indians was slated tn pitch
against the New York Yankees
today and his appearance should
bring back sad memories to one
Yankee Joe DiMaggio. It was
Just a year ago tonight that
Smith stopped DiMaggio's 56
game batting streak, with a
little help from Jim BnRhy in
the late Innings. Today Di
Maggio will risk a new streak
that has reached 13 games.
Scores Yesterday
(By the Associated Press)
Pacific Coast League
Oakland 1, Portland 2 (11
innings)
Sacramento 2. Los Angeles 3
Hollywood 0, Seattle 4
San Diego 7. San Francisco 1
National
Philadelphia 4, St. Louis 3 (10
innings)
Boston 8. Cincinnati 7
Brooklyn 0-2, Chicago 7-1
New York 3, Pittsburgh 1
American
Cleveland S, New York 8
Chicago 3. Boston 2
St. Louis S. Philadelphia 1
Detroit 8, Washington 8 (10
innings)
Western International
Spokane 0 1. Tacoma 12 (1st
game 12 Innings. 2nd 8)
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MEDFORD MAIL
Coast League Pinnacle After Whipping. Sacs, 3-2
Ryder Cuppers
difficult Oakland Hills course,
Chinese Player
Adds Color To
Joe Engel Club
Chattanooga, Tenn., July
17 (IP) Joe Engcl, president
of Chattanooga's baseball
club, has added a Chinese
player to his colorful team,
which includes one Mexican
and three Cuban players.
Ho Sing Ping (pronounced
"George Ho" by Engel), an
outfielder formerly with Hart
ford, Conn., In the eastern
league, was signed yesterday
bv Engel.
Negroes Eligible to
Play in Big Leagues,
Gotham Paper Claims
New York, July 17 UP)
The New York Hcrold Tribune,
in a special dispatch from Chi
cago today, quoted baseball com
missioner K. M. Landis as say
ing there was no rule, "formal
or informal, or any understand
ing, unwritten, subterranean or
sub-anything," against the hir
ing of negro players in the ranks
of organized baseball.
The newspaper said Landis Is
sued his denial of any racial pre
judice In organized baseball af
ter calling In manager Leo Dur-
ocher to explain a statement
credited to him (Durocher) by
the "Daily Worker."
Durocher was supposed to
have told "The Daily Worker
that he knew of several negro
players he would sign for his
ball club if negroes were per
mitted to play In the big leagues.
Durocher denied to Landis that
he made any such statement.
Defense Coordination
for Coast and Alaska
To Be Eyed by Solons
Washington. Jilly 17. OP)
Declaring that the problem of
defense ciwrdination on the
west coast and Alaska was
"rather fantastic." Senator
Brewster (R.-Me.) said today
that a special sub-committee of
the senate would fly to the area
to probe conditions.
Brewster said that Senators
Hatch (D. N. M.) and Burton
(R.-Ohio) would make a three
week Inspection of the whole
west coast, starting from its
southernmost point and project
ing into the Aleutians, where
Japanese offensive activity al
ready has left its mark.
"It isn't clear," Brewster told
a reporter, "Just who is in com
mand out there." The army
command, he declared, is located
at Anchorage, Alaska, and the
navy command is based at
Seattle. It would be Interest
ing, he said, to know Just how
these two commands "get to
gether." Cm 1UU Trlbuns ttnt sot.
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TILTS THIS WEEK
Battling to retain their slender
one-game bulge over the Klam
ath Falls Pelicans in the red-hot
Oregon-California league pen
nant race. Manager Dutch Lie
ber's Craters take to the road
this week-end for a two-game
series against the Dorris (Cal.)
Lumberjacks. Saturday twi
light game will start at 7 p. m
the Sunday tilt at 2:30 p. m. .
While the Craters are invad
ing the home grounds of the
third-place Lumberjacks, Klam
ath Falls will be facing the cel
lar ite Grants Pass Merchants in
a Sunday doubleheader at
Grants Pass.
Pvt. Joe Dickinson will fling
the Saturday tilt for the Crat
ers, with Manager Lieber, rap
idly recovering from a siege of
arm trouble, working the Sun
day game. Norm Worthley will
catch both contests.
Saturday's Crater lineup will
find Lieber on first, Gitzen on
second, Swaryck on short, Faw
cett on third, Waite in left,
wray In center and Madden In
right. Sunday, the Craters will
have Waite on first, Madden in
left, Hoffard in right and the
others in their regular positions.
With Klamath Falls heavily
favored to take both ends of
their twin bill with Grants Pass,
which has won only two out of
14 games, the Craters wiU have
to sweep their doubleheader
from Dorris in order to stay in
first place.
SILVERT0N, ELECTRIC
RESCHEDULE CONTEST
Silverton, July 17 (Pi Ore
gon s semi-pro baseball tourna
ment play, thrice postponed, is
re-scheduled for tonight with
Marine Electric, Portland, and
Silverton meeting In the semi
final contest.
The winner will play the
Portland Boilermakers for the
title.
UOWTH
STAnD
(By th Associated Press)
Pscific Coast
W. L.
Los Angeles 63 39
Sacramento .63 40
San Diego ...MI SO
San Francisco 50 49
Seattle SI 51
Oakland 44 59
Hollywood 44 83
Portland 40 60
Pet.
.618
.612
.528
.505
.500
.427
.411
.400
.871
.583
.557
.500
.500
.434
.391
.373
.707
.617
.541
.506
.477
.475
.411
.277
American
New York 57
28
35
39
45
43
47
56
54
24
31
39
42
46
42
53
60
Boston
Cleveland
Detroit ....
St. Louis .
Chicago ..
49
49
45
.43
..36
38
Philadelphia
Washington 32
National
58
Brooklyn
St. Louis
Cincinnati
New York
.50
48
43
42
38
, 37
Chicago ..
Pittsburgh
Boston ....
Philadelphia 23
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OREGON, FRIDAY, JULY 17, 1942.
LAABS DRIVES IN
FOUR TALLIES AS
St. Louis Moves Into Fourth
Place Tie as Slugger
Belts Two Home Runs.
By Judson Bailey
Associated Press Sports Writer
The biggest batting spree of
me season is now being staged
by little Chet Laabs of the St.
Louis Browns and, brother,
when he hits people forget all
about the complaint that the
ball is deader this year.
In the last six days he has hit
four home runs and driven In 18
tallies with amazing raids at
New York, Boston and Philadel
phia. His total production all
last year for the Browns was 15
homers and 59 runs batted in,
but with his recent surge he
already has brought his mark
for this season to 15 circuit
clouts and 58 runs driven in
Yesterday he drove in four
runs to beat the Athletics again,
hitting two homers, each with a
mate aboard, to help Al Hol
lingsworth win 5-1. Laabs' Im
petus has boosted the Browns
to an even .500 percentage and
a tie with the Detroit Tigers
for fourth place.
Detroit stumbled to Its fifth
straight defeat and eighth in
nine games last night at Wash
ington. The Tigers made six er
rors and lost 6-5 in ten Innings.
In the meantime the New
York Yankees boosted their first
place margin to 7V4 games by
belting the Cleveland Indians
85 while the Chicago White Sox
nosed out Boston 3-2.
At Chicago the wrought-up
Chicago Cubs and Brooklyn
Dodgers divided a doubleheader
in approximately five hours of
paying strict attention to base
ball. The Cubs made 14 hits
and took the first contest 7-0
with Lon Warneke helping Lefty
John Schmitz in the ninth.
Then Brooklyn battled back
ir the nightcap to win 2-1 when
Vaughn pinch singled, Pete
Reiser doubled and Joe Medwlck
singled to account for two runs
in the seventh.
Mel Ott shook up his New
York Giants at Pittsburgh, send
ing reserve first baseman Babe
Young to centerfield for the
first time In his We, ana oia
Carl Hubbell conjured up a
four-hit pitching masterpiece
that stopped the Pirates 3-1.
The Phils, led by Danny Lit-1
whiler, who batted in three runs
and scored twice, topped the St.
Louis Cardinals 43 in ten In
nlngs, and Cincinnati took a 7-8
decision from the Boston Braves.
Action to Control
Labor Pirating Is
Talked by McNitt
Washington, July 17. (IP) '
Manpower Commissioner Paul
V. McNutt, building methods to
halt the pirating of skilled labor
from war plants, said today gov
ernment contacts or materials
might be withheld from manu
facturers who violate the Job-1
freezing policy.
Admitting that the stoppage
of materials might hamper war
production and would be diffi
cult, therefore, to apply, Mc
Nutt Indicated in response to
questions at a press conference
that legislation might be neces
sary ultimately to guarantee an
adequate labor supply for essen
tial Industries.
He also forecast some action
"In the near future" on the ques
tion of wage controls, and said
that such controls "would imple
ment our efforts" to keep skil
led workers at their vital ma
chines. Cholly Knickerbocker
Dies of Heart Ailment
New York, . July 17 m
Maury H. B. Paul, 52. who as
"Cholly Knickerbocker" record
ed for years the activities of
New York's first families as
society editor for the New York
Journal-American, died early
today after a 10-week illness
caused by a heart ailment.
Paul was a native of Phila
delphia. After attending Episco
pal academy there and the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, he be
gan newspaper work as a re
porter on the Philadelphia Times
in 1914.
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AQUATIC PACEANTR Y Elyse Knox (center) appear with some of representative! from
48 states holding ribbons In a ceremony opening a new swimminc pool In Los Anceles. Calif.
FOR SERVICE FOLK
A music lover's 'listener's
hour," from Bach to Prokofiev,
will commence tomorrow at the
home of Philip Henselman, 415
Edwards street from 8 to 10 p.
m. All service men and wives
interested in participating in
this symphonic and social eve
ning should make contact with
the USO club house, 234 East
Main street, telephone 7131.
Henselman Is head of the USO
art committee, having painted
the murals in the Los Barillitos
room. He hopes to develop this
music group meeting each Sat
urday night at his home during
the summer. The first group
will leave the USO club house
at 7:30 tomorrow night.
The program will include:
Brandenburg Concertos, No.
O COOL GREEN Redwoods
OGOOD FISHING and
SWIMMING-also
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2 and 3, Bach; Symphony No.
40 (Jupiter), Mozart; "Can My
Love Ever Waver," Handel; "Te
Deum," Handel, sung by Marian
Anderson; Dedication, Schu
mann; "In the Shadow of My
Locks," Hugo Wolf; "Mouse Trap
Spell," Hugo Wolf, sung by Rise
Stevens; "Peter and the Wolf,"
Prokofiev. Conductor, Stokow
ski. Nerrator, Basil Rathbone.
RAGS, ROPE AND STRING
PRECIOUS IN ENGLAND
London, July 17. JP)
Severe penalties for those who
destroy rags, rope or string
were ordered today by the Brit
ish government, ranging up to
$2,000 fine or two years' Im
prisonment.
The ministry of supply said
hundreds of thousands of tons
of rags were needed as raw
material to make equipment for
the armed forces.
Americans normally drink
coffee at the rate of 550 cups a
year.
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BIRTHS
MATHENY To Mr. and Mrs.
M. W., 220 Barneburg road,
July 17, a girl, seven pounds, at
Sacred Heart hospital.
MEYER To Mr. and Mrs.
Joe, Rt. 1, box 519, July 17,
a girl, six pounds, at Sacred
Heart hospital.
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