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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, SUNDAY, JULY 26, 1942. 'ANGEL' BILLED TO BATTLE SOCKEYE 'Wrestling Greatest Drawing i,. Card Here Tomorrow i' Night Big Crowd Due. . Maurice "The Angel' Tillet, gargantuan French grappler rec ognized as the greatest drawing card in American mat circles, 'will make his Initial appear ance in southern Oregon Mon day night, clashing with Sock- eye Jack McDonald in the main -event of Promoter Mack Lll- lards weekly armory program, Although there will be no In--crease in admission prices (or this super-colossal wrestle en vgagement, Lillard announced that the entire lower floor .would be reserved, with gen eral admission customers occu pying the balcony seats. An overflow crowd is expected to attend, and Lillard advised fans desiring reserved seats to obtain them immediately. ... From top to bottom the pro- 'fram is one of the strong -est ever offered local fandom. Pete Belcastro. the Weed wild man, will tangle with big Joe -Corbett of Australia via os- 'ton, In the six-round middle -event, while Irish Jim Casey -Will face Pedro Brazil, South -American heavyweight champ, In the four-round opener start- -ln? at 8:30 sharp. - McDonald, who earned the right to meet "The Angel" by disposing of Prince Selaki Mih alikis on last Monday night's card, will be outweighed by more than 80 pounds, but de- aplte this handicap he is com pletely confident of defeating the 268-pound monstrosity, often referred to .as "the ugliest wrestler In the world." .'. ' Sockeye won't be facing Til let for the first time tomorrow night. Back In 1940. before a tremendous crowd packing the Minneapolis, Minn., auditorium. McDonald took on the giant "Angel" in a gruelling battle that went SO minutes and 17 seconds before McDonald was clutched in Tillet's famous bear .bug and pinned for the lone fall of the match. ' This time, McDonald plans to stay away from that bear hug if humanly possible to do o. He plans to pump rights and -lefts into the Tillct anatomy and 'head, keeping the giant off bal 'ance, and keep blasting until 'Mr. "Angel" goes down for :CLASSAHONQRS , Salem, July 25. W) S. G. rMendenhall, Grants Pass, shat tered 198 targets, 120 of them ' in succession, Friday to win the class A championship of the , Grand P ac 1 f 1 c International i Trapshoot association tourna tment. Class B was topped by Ted JWelty. Salem, with 195 of 200 . targets; class C by M. E. Cornett. Klamath Falls, and Del Criter tor, Canby, tied at 187; and class D by C. B. Jones, Gervais, 183. J Cornett lost out in the high gun handicap to Gus Dodele, Albany. Dodele broke 49 of 50 targets to Cornett's 48. T Robert R. Myers. 454 Haven street, will leave tomorrow to take up duties as aircraft com municator at a post in this reg Ion. Mr. Myers, who has been employed for the past five and a half years at Hubbard Broth ers Hardware store,' has been studying for some time to qual ify for the position and has Just received word from the Depart ment of Commerce. Civil Aero nautics Administration, of his appointment. Mrs. Myers and their small son, Kenneth, will remain in Medford for the present. Cm Mall Trunin wnt ads. o WE'RE OPEN EVERY WEEK-DAY NIGHT 'TIL 8:30 NUNN-BUSH SPORT OXFORDS. On Sale S8.9S I0GERTON SPORT SHOES $4.93 to S5.8S The TOGGERY What a Profile, "Angel"! 7 - . a X. ' sr.- .. &m v v.- : Above is tha fastastie side vlevr of the face of Maurice "The Aagal" TiUat. the gigantic Frenchman who will wrestle Sockeye Jack McDonald in the main event of Monday night's armory mat program. "The Angel" is one of the greatest and the most colorful wrestlers In the industry at the present time. WEHRLE FOR ALL TITLE Chicago, July 25. (IP) Mar vin (Bud) Ward won Tam O'Shanters all - American ama teur championship today with a 7 and 8 victory over Wilford Wehrle of Racine, Wis., and By ron Nelson took a commanding lead in the Tam open by com ing in with a 34-3163 for a three-day total of 203, 13 under par. Nelson s great round Included a spectacular string of three holes on which he went five under par with a birdie, an eagle and a hole In one. ' On the 18th green, the Tole do pro stuck his second shot five feet from the pin and needed the put for a 84 and a new course record which would pay him $500 for making. But the putt broke an inch off line and he took a par. His par-shattering three holes were the ninth, which he blrdied with a 4; the 475-yard 10th. where he placed a three iron second shot eight feet from the cup and rammed in the putt for a 3, and the 135-yard 11th, where his six iron tee shot lit 20 feet in front of the pin and trickled up into the cup. In tha final bout of the six-day amateur competition, Wehrle, after playing the out going nine of the morning round even with Ward, the Spokane. Wash., army corporal, suc cumbed rapidly from there on. Ward was four up on his Wis consin rival after 18 holes and boosted it to 7 up after 27. The match ended on the 30th after they had halved tha last three holes. The 1941 national champion was in great form with a 33-35 88 for his morning whack at the course and with a 34 for the first nine holes this afternoon He was a stroke under par for the three holes of the back nine in the afternoon and over 30 holes was seven under par. CRATERS TO PLAY The Medford Craters and the Grants Pass Merchants will meet at Grants Pass this afternoon in the second game of their two game Oregon-California league baseball series, the clash start ing at 2:30 sharp. First tilt in the set was played here last i night. Manager Dutch Lleber plans I to do the pitching for the locals if his arm feels right by game time. If not, the boss will prob ably send Lefty Al Wimer to the mound. Wimer already holds a decision over the Mer chants. N In other loop action. Klamath Falls and Dorris will play at Dorris In the second fray of their series. BRAVES DEFEATED Brooklyn, July 25 (P) Two streaks were ended today as the Pittsburgh Pirates defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 4-1, for their first triumph in five out ings and the first Dodger set back In an equal number of starts. Hank Gornickt, Pirate right hander, outpitched and outlast ed Curt Davis of the Dodgers to notch his first triumph of the season. He yielded only six hits and held the Dodgers scoreless after the first frame, when Pete Reiser celebrated his return to the lineup by singling home the lone tally after Arky Vaughan singled and went to second on apassed ball. The victory was the first for the Pirates at Ebbetta field this year. Score: R. H. E Pittsburgh 4 7 1 Brooklyn 16 2 Gornicki and Lopez; Davis. Head, Rowe and Owen, Sul livan. Boston, July 25 UP) Enos Slaughter slammed out his eighth home run of the season today to give the St. Louis Car dinals a 6-3 verdict over the Boston Braves and provide Pitcher Howie Kirst with his eighth victory of the season. Slaughter's circuit clout came in the fifth with two mates aboard to furnish the exact margin by which the Red Birds whipped the faltering Braves. Score: R. H. E St. Louis 8 10 2 Boston 3 10 0 Kirst, Gumbcrt and Cooper; Tost, Donovan, Mulchings and Lombard!, Klutts. New York, July 25 (IP) The Cincinnati Reds snapped a four game winning streak for the New York Giants today, chok ing off a late inning rally to triumph 8 6 Gene Thompson held the ! Giants scoreless for six Inning while his mates landed on Bill ! Lohrman for 12 of their 13 hits and all their runs. Score: R. H. E. Cincinnati 8 13 1 New York 6 13 4 Thompson, Beggs and I.nman no; Lohrman, McCce, Koslo Adams and Danning. SCAPPOOSE COACH Scappoose. July 25 Ir win Elder, Nyssa high school coach for the past two vears, . ... . : t has been appointed coach at f appoose niKn school, principal i nuruin mimninrra tooay. 3 OVERTIME GAMES Detroit. July 25 The New York Yankees pushed the Detroit Tigers deeper into fifth place In the American league today, winning for the second straight day, 7-2, as Fordham Hank Borowy registered his tenth mound triumph against a single defeat. Borowy scattered seven hits In hanging up his fourth straight win and his fourth of the year over the Tigers. The Yankees pounded four Detroit hurlera for 14 blows and drove starter Virgil Trucks off the mound in the fourth frame when they scored their first four runs. Score: R. H. E. New York 7 14 1 Detroit 2 7 2 Borowy and Hemsley; Trucks, Henshaw, White, Wilson and Tebbetts. St. Louis, July 25 (JP The Boston Red Sox made 20 hits off an assortment of St. Louis pitchers today but had to go the tenth inning before they could beat tha Browns, 9 to 8. Score: R. H. E Boston 9 20 1 St. Louis 8 12 3 Judd, Brown, Ryba and Con roy; Auker, Caster, Hanning, Appleton, Ferens and Sewell, Ferrell. Cleveland, July 25 (P) The Cleveland Indians unloosed a characteristic ninth-inning rally for four runs today, but the result was only to make every body's dinner hour later because Washington, thanks to George Case's single and Bill Zuber'r effective relief pitching, finally blasted out a 10 to 6 triumph in 13 innings. Score: R. H. E Washington 10 16 3 C'eveland 6 8 0 Newsom, Zuber and Evans. Early; Smith, Ferrick, Eisenstat Embree and Denning, Desautels, Hegan. Chicago, July 25 (IP) Phil Marchlldon won his twelfth game of the season today when he doubled in the tenth inning and scored on a sacrifice by Mike Kreevlch and a single by Elmer Valo to give the Phila delphia Athletics a 2 to 1 vic tory over the Chicago wnue Sox. Score: R. H. E. Philadelphia 2 6 0 Chicago 1 7 1 Marchlldon and' Swift; Lee and Turner. CLARK GABLE IS A visitor "somewhere In southern Oregon" Is Clark Gable who arrived In Medford Friday by United Malnliner. Louise Kilgore, employe at the United States weather bureau at the Medford municipal airport, rec ognized the popular motion pic ture actor and was fortunate in securing his autograph as he alighted from the plane. Gable is believed to have flown here for his favorite sport, fishing. He has been a frequent visitor at good fishing spots on the Rogue. Gable questioned the weather bureau employe on vehicle anywhere for hire with the weather and she remarked in 10 road miles of Grants Pass, today that "Gable has beautiful dimples." Art Crohaw, another weather bureau employe, who furnished the pen for the autograph laughingly said yesterday that he would auction the pen to the highest bidder, JOE GORDON A FATHER New York, July 25. OP) Mrs. Joe Gordon, wife of the Eugene, Ore., boy who made good as second baseman for the New York Yankees, gave birth yesterday to an eight-pound, six ounce son. He Is their second child. ..., TTTTT , . D .',. j '"i, ' L, ' All Portland produce prices steady, unchanged. Dm UaU Vrlbuns want ada. ALL -HEAVYWEIGHT CARD WRESTLING - i v Medford MONDAY NITE SHUTOUTGRABS 3 YRS. OLD TITLE; Chicago, July 25 VP) Shut Out clinched the 3 year-old championship ot the year today by galloping to victory In the $88,250 Arlington classic under one of the most magnificent rides ever delivered by Jockey Eddie Arcaro. . The handsome son of Equi poise, owned by Mrs. Payne Whitney of New York, won by three-quarters of a length to the cheers of 45,000 spectators, Valdina Orphan was second. four lengths ahead of With Re gards. King's Abbey was fourth in a field of nine. The winner ran the mile and a quarter In 2:01 2-5, equalling Omaha's record for the stake and was only one-fifth of a second off the track record es tablished by Discovery in 1935. Shut Out, closing at odds of 3 to 2, paid $5.00, $2.80 and $2.40. The place price on Val dina Orphan, coupled , with Rounders as an entry, was $2.80 and $2.40 to show. With Regards returned $3.20 to show. Shut Out, winner of the Kentucky derby, the Belmont stakes, the Blue Grass stakes and the Yankee handicap, had won $148,747 in 11 starts this year and wrapped another $69, 700 around that bankroll as a result of today's triumph. Trailing the first four across the finish line in the order named were the Milky Way farm's Dogpatch, Valdina farm's Rounder, Col. E. R. Bradley's Bless Me, Mrs. E. H. Augustus' Trelawny and Hal Price Head ley's Anticlimax. The original field of 11 was reduced by the withdrawal of Aletern and Bolus. Valdina Orphan's share of the purse was $10,000 while With Regards earned $5,000 and King's Abbey $2,500. SET FOR AUGUST 4 Four public hearings Involv ing applications connected with motor carrier operations in southern Oregon have been clled by the Public Utilities C . .amission of Oregon for Tues day, August 4, in the Jackson county courthouse. At 0 a. m. on that date, a hearing will be held on the sup plemental application of Everett A. Faber and Donald E. Faber of the Farmers' Supply company for extension of service to oper ate as a common motor carrier of property between Medford and Central Point on highway 99, between Central Po' t and Eagle Point and between Med ford and Eagle Point on high way 62, and between Eagle Point -and Butte Falls via high way 62 and Jackson county road. At 10 a. m. the application of Earl C. Leever of the Ter r..lnal Cab company, for a per mit to authorize operations as-a common carrier of persons and their baggage anywhere for hire within a 10-road-mile radius of Medford, will be heard. The application of J. M. Gorm ley and Effle Counce, both of Grants Pass, for a permit to authorize operations as a com mon carrier of nersons bv motor will be heard at 11 a. m. Aug ust 4. At 1 p. m. will be heard the supplemental application of the Rogue Valley Transit company for permit authorizing oper ations as a common motor car rier of persons and their bag gage between Ashland and Grants Pass via highway 99. between Junctions with high way 99 and Camp White and Medford municipal airport by connecting public highway. 20 Years' Eaperlance Electrical Strvice Specialist OLSON ELECTRIC Dial 1840 2 N. Bartlett ARMORY BEGINS 1:30 THRILLS! SPILLS! Tickers Now On Sal At OWL CLUB, Phono 2300. HI-WAY, Phono S387. "Private Buckaroo" Holly Show 0 The nation'! top singing trio. Tha Andrews Sisters, and, the nation's No. 1 dance. band, Harry Jamei and his orchestra, come to the Holly Theatre Wednesday for a four day run In "Private In Rialto Comedy Comedy lovers are jamming the Rialto Theatre trying to get seat! to see the surprise comedy sensation of the year. "Take a Letter, Darling", which stays on at the popular theatre through Thursday night with Rosiland Russell and Fred MacMurray in top roles. Robert Benchley heads a supporting cast ot funsters. FIRST PRISONER EXCHANGE LOURENCO MARQUES, Por tugese East Africa, July 23 (De- loyed) (P) The first diplomat ic transfer of nationals between the United States and Japan since the start of the Pacific war was completed here today when more than 1,100 North and South Americans boarded the Swedish liner Grlpsholm to take the places vacated by Jap anese diplomats and their fam ilies brought from America. CARLOAD Blacksmith Coal Now Here Bergman's Shop 118 South Bartlett 2 - CTC ON HAVEN ST. FOR jVAS DEFENSE HOUSING We're Open Every Week-Day Night Until 8:30 WORKING IN THE FRUIT..? O That's a familiar question these days ....Tha crop of world-famous ROGUE RIVER VALLEY pears and apples MUST be harvested within the next few weeks ... it will take every available man. woman and child to do the job. It will call for Sturdy New... CflottBies! SEE the fine array of work clothes at our store. They're TOUGH, :OM FORT ABLE ECONOMICAL, too. You w:ll see why UTZ's have become south ern Oregon's leading store for the working man. A complete department devoted to working clothes and work shoes! GLENN "Men's Buckaroo", which plays as the "mid-week" change on the thea tre's new "show-value" policy. "Klondike Fury", starring Ed mund Lowa in a thundering arctic thriller, Is scheduled as the second feature. PLAN 10 HOUSES Construction of ten defense dwellings on Haven near Sum mit street - designed for sale ! to persons engaged in war in dustries or to military person-1 I nel, will begin Immediately, it was announced yesterday by i Harold H. Brown of the Harold H. Brown agency, which is handling all transactions con nected with the project. The houses, all of which are i expected to be completed In ap proximately two months, are to sell for from $4,200 to $4,500. Brown stated. He added that construction of other dwellings, i for sale or for rent, would follow in the near future. Builder of the houses is George S. Rusco of Klamath Falls, vho recently purchased a home on Rogue river. I. S. Sten ersen of Klamath Falls is the supervisor of construction. Built under the F. H. A.'s title 6 plan, the dwellings will be of individual design, wfth hardwood floors throughout and floor furnaces. Closing time tor Cluslfled Ada 8 l m Too lata to Classify 13:90 o WINDOWS and DOORS li A n tt U A M PLANING r M IS U II 1303 1309 Court St. H. UTZ Wear" FOR TYPEWRITERS Washington. July , 25 ( Chairman Donald M. Nelson of the war production board today appealed to all Americans own ing standard model typewriter!, made since January 1. 1935, to sell them to the government Earlier this month, Nelson di rected a similar appeal to 25,000 business firms and large users of typewriters. Responses still were coming in, he said, "but it is now apparent that we will also have to obtain many thou sands of typewriters from pri vate individuals." More than 850,000 typewrit ers are desired by the army, navy and other governmental agencies. HEAVY EATERS Portland, July 25 W) Port land is feeling a meat shortage because of an influx of heavy eating workmen, packers said. POISON OAK? Try a bottle ot ZEMACOL Ton mutt be MtWIrd or tour money rhrfrtull; n-riindrd Ort a boltle today SI UMThKN THKIt'T. 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