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PAGE TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, JULY 28, 1942. Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says: "Dickinson Day" Slated Sunday; General on Hand Pvt. Joseph Dickinson of Cedarville, N. J., the gentleman who is currently pitching and batting the Medford Craters to what is expected to become an Oregon - California league pea nant three weeks hence, if not sooner, is going to be honored with a "day next Sunday after noon at the fairgrounds ball yard. As an expression of their gra titude to the big righthander for the herculean work he has been doing In the buttle down the home stretch, the board of directors of the Medford Ath letic association has designated next Sunday, when the Craters clash with the Dorris (Cal.) Lumberjacks In the second game of their two-game series, as "Joe Dickinson uay. And, as a feature of the "day," Major General Charles H. Gerhardt. commander of the 91st infantry division at Cantp White, will present to Joe a gift from the Medford Athletic association. A major general, himself a great base-, .ball player and all-around athlete while at West Point, will stand beside another grand ball player, a private, and place in his hands a token of the esteem in which he Is held by the "front office." Local fans and fannettes, who have watched Joe mow down enemy hitters, knock in run af ter run for his own team, field his position In flawless style and contribute that pitching strength the Craters needed to forge into a -full two-game lead over the Klamath Falls Pelicans, will also have the opportunity of making their contribution to the quiet, likeable . "ball player's ball player." A box will be placed at the entrance to the grandstand and U. S. legal tender placed there will be collected and the "purse" handed over to Joe, probably along about the seventh inning. And friends, that box oughta be tilled to overflowing. While It Is sometimes bad for team morale to single out a cer tain player and accord him most of the credit for a club's success especially in semi-pro ball where the performers work on a gratia basis we don't think any of the Craters will begrudge Joe the plaudits we are giving him. Joe Joined the Craters when the pitching situation was be coming very bleak. Manager Dutch Lleber's arm had Just gone sour on him. Lefty Al Wimer was having trouble with his control and only Steve Crlppen, released last week-end to Grants Pass, was available for regular duty. Joe stepped in, with the Craters and Klamath tied for the lead, and since then has won five and lost one. Now, lmtead of the locals and Pell cans being tied, the Medfords are two games out front with only six to play a big, beau tiful lead. Not alone has Joe done yeo man's work on the mound. He is hitting a terrific .481, tops for all Crater batsmen, and plenty of those blows have chased run ners across the plate. Especially appropriate is the designation of next Sunday as "Joe Dickinson Day," for at that time the Craters will play the team that Joe, on July 18 and 19. defeated twice is as many days. That week-end Is the hightllglit of Jie's career with the Craters. He whipped the 'Jacks, 10 to 4 in a twilight game Saturday, then came right back the next afternoon to fling eight frames and receive credit for the 17 to 9 Medford victory. In civilian life Joe is a profes sional baseball player, the prop erty of the Chicago Cubs. The 28-year-old soldier spent last season with Milwaukle In the American association and Madi son in the Three-Eye league. When the war is over Joe plans to take up where he left off. working at the Job he loves, the Job of playing baseball, but right now he is engaged In a greater task. The task of whip ping the axis. The baseball he pitches for the Craters represents his re crestion while in the army. And brother, this town is lucky that Joe happens to be stationed here. "Joe Dickin son Day" will alford every body the opportunity of shew ing Joe Just how glad we are that he is on duty In Medford. Dickinson, with three hits In fcur trips against Grants Pass Saturday night, raised his bat ting average from .433 to .481 to take over the Individual Crater clubbing lead. The aver ages follow: AB H Avg. Dickinson 27 13 .481 Wane 17 8 .472 Byron Nelson Crushes Clayton Heafner CHAMPION FIRES 5-UNDER-PAR 67 IN PLAYOFF DUEL Heafner, Shooting 71, Leads Only Once Eagle on Fifth Turning Point. By GAYLE TALBOT Chicago, July 28 (JP) Byron Nelson, one of the greatest of modern linksmen waa home ward bound today with $2,300 In his hip pocket, once again having demonstrated that when the big money Is on the line he virtually Is unbeatable. The demonstration came as the grand finale to that golfing circus known as the Tarn O' Shanter $13,000 open tourna ment. Yesterday Nelson crushed big Clayton Heafner of Durham, N. C, by four atrokei in their 18- hole playoff for the champion ship of the dizziest of all golf events. The pair had tied at the end of the regular 72 boles, with totals of 280. Atones for Collapse Ai though to atone for his unaccountable lapse of the prev ious day, when he soared to an inglorious 77 on the fourth round, the ex-Texan took Tarn O'Shanter'i soggy acres apart with a 87 five under par to send Heafner down for the count. Not that Heafner weakned. The big fellow stayed in there gamely all the way to score his 71. Aside from his one terrible round. Nelson shot these scores at Tarn O'Shanter: 87-71-3-7 270. Yesterday Nelson was out In 33, back in 34. He was down to Heafner only once during the play-off Two up at the turn, he was converting it into rout toward the close. Probably the mat wss de cided as early as the fifth hole where Nelson, already 1-up, blasted Into the hole from about 33 feet for an eagle two to beat Heafners birdie three. After that experience Heafner must have realized it was no use. BEAVERS 10 PLAY (By Associated Press) Pacific Coast league baseball teams play a busy split schedule this week to make up games lost earlier in the season. Los Angeles and San Fran Cisco started things off last night at Los Angeles where the loop pacesetters downed the Seals, 8 to 2. The Seals hold a precarious fifth place In the league race and they have gruelling test of nine additional games this week three with the Angels and a set of three double-headers at Sacramento starting Fri day night. The Angels finish out the week hosting the Seattle Ral niers. who open a three-game series at San Diego tomorrow evening. After entering Seattle, the Padres start a three-game series with the Hollywood Stars who play tonight, Wednesday and Thursday nights at Oakland. Portland begins a three-game stint at Sacramento tonight and then moves to Emeryville Fri day night to finish the week against the Oaks. Salem Third Baseman Sold to Louisville Salem, Ore., July 28 lP) Bill Johnson, third baseman for the Salem Senators and one of the leading hitters in the Western International baseball league. Is en route to Kansas City, Mo., where he will Join the Louisville club of the Amer ican association. Salem Business Manager Al Llghtner announced last night that Johnson had been sold out right to the Louisville club for an undisclosed figure. He was batting .303 when sold and led i the league In stolen bases with 32. Lieber ...... ?3 32 .438 Hoffard 21 9 .429 Madden ...... 43 17. 393 Worthley ... 60 23 .383 Wray S3 20 .364 Fawcett 68 1 .23 Gltzen . . .. 30 13 .260 Lange 20 8 .230 Snyder 4 1 .230 Swanson 30 7 .233 Johnson 3 1 .200 Swaryck . 31 3 .161 Piche .. 4 0 .000 Solveiter 2 0 .000 Cae auu Tribune nat ads. Father Out, gBiMPliPPplW-P-J l:Q P, Wnf S&lp I fail ' . m a rfm Lrf- tX f'fcVV M n -Jim The C. Tyrrell Garths, senior contenders in the All-Amerlcan Tarn O'Shanter Country club. qualify) junior shot ISO for 38 in Beaumont. Texas. CAMP'S OFFICERS WITH RIFLE CLUB Under perfect weather condi tions, two selected rifle teams of officers and non-commissioned officers of the training Cadre at Camp White fired a team match with the Medford Rifle club at the club outdoor range Sunday morning. All teams fired the Dewar NRA course of twenty shots at 30 yards and twenty shots at 100 yards, with metallic sights. The two Waddell's were tops on the civilian team, living up to their Camp Perry traditions, while two former Camp Perry 30 cal. shots, Richmond and Tuttle, finished In last place. Major Merrill of the 383d in fantry placed at the top of the service men with Sergeant Crow ley of -the 381st Infantry, in second place. The army men were firing under a handicap by reason of using the civilian rifles with which they were not familiar. All club members expressed their appreciation of the oppor tunity to become better acquaint ed with the army personnel, and hope that other matches may be arranged In the future. The score follows: Medtore Rifle Club Score X's Ivan Waddell T.....394 20 Mrs. Waddell 393 14 Phil Whltlock 392 13 D. J. Bolton 388 13 Mrs. Tuttle 387 11 W. E. Thomas S81 7 C. R. Richmond 380 10 S. M. Tut'le 380 5 Team score high 6 2335 82 Team score low 8 2308 63 Infantry Team Score X's Major Merrill 3!)0 12 Sergeant Crowley 388 3 Lieutenant Ball 373 11 Sergeant White ... 372 7 Sergeant Counts 363 4 Lieutenant Jackson 357 3 Team score 2243 44 Special Troops Team Score X's Sergeant Bnsco 383 16 Sergeant Goodln 370 7 Sergeant Grant 370 3 Sergeant Gunther 364 3 Sergeant Milos ... 363 4 Sergeant Hendricks 306 0 Team score .. 2138 33 Fights Last Night (By The Associated Press) Pittsburgh Anton Christofor Idis, 167, Cleveland, outpointed Mose Brown, 171, McKeesport. Pa . (10): Ezzard Charges, 163. Cincinnati, knocked out Book er Beck with, 171. Chicago (8; Frltzle Zivlc. 1481, Pittsburgh, won by technical knockout over Norman Rubio, 147j. Albanv. N. Y. (8); Harry Bobo, 206. Pittsburgh, won by technical knockout over Claudio Villar. 104. Spain (4); Joey Maxim. 193, Cleveland, outpointed Cur tis Sherpard, 181 li, Pittsburgh (10). Son Stays In and lunlor. (above) were both Amateur golf tourney at Chicago's But father shot e 169 and failed to holes and qualified. Their home is Williams and Reiser Lead Major Baiters; Gordon Average Slips New York, July 28 (Pi This time last year the National league was sufering tinges of embarrassment whenever bat ting percentages were consider ed because Ted Williams of the Boston Red Sox was burning the fences with a .400 ylus aver age. But It Is even-slephcn now with Wiliams leading the Amer ican league and Pete Reiser of Brooklyn topping the national with identical marks of .354. Williams took a big lead over Joe Gordon of the New York Yankees during the lest week and Reiser shaded Ernie Lom- bardi of the Boston Braves to suggest that the 1942 batting championships in both major leagues may go to the same hitters that won them last year. Gordon .after setting the pace much M the season in his cir cuit, has slipped to .338 and Lombard!, himself a former bat ting champ, backed down to .340. E Los Angeles. July 28 (.-Pi Blasting Eddie Moore from the Pacific batting leadership is proving a bigger task than his league-mates may have antici pated. For another week, the big Los Angeles outfielder held top ranking honors in games played through Sunday with a percent age of .361. Close behind came Ted Nor hert. Portland, with .334, while Ed Waitkus. Los Angeles, held third place with .338. Sacramento headed the team batting competition with .279. only one percentage point ahead of Los Angeles. San Francisco with .269, was third. UOWTilEYA . (By Associated Press) Pacific Coast Won Lost Pet. Los Angeles 71 Sacramento . 68 Seattle 61 San Diego 60 San Francisco ....... 57 Hollywood -...31 Oakland 49 Portland 41 43 47 32 87 38 67 66 70 .621 .391 .540 .513 .504 .432 ,42 .369 Pet .695 56;i .530 .325 .473 .4:8 .383 .3t8 American Won Lost New York Boston 66 29 ...34 53 ..S2 .47 ...40 ....38 .....40 Cleveland ., St. Louis Detroit Chicago Washington .. Philadelphia .. 60 63 (National unchanged) Cloaint linn f r r!uiriro Kit S m too lata to c.aaau'j 11 JO aa. f. mm TO "THE ANGEL" IN 15 MUTES Sockeye Jack McDonald knows now what It's like to grapple a mountain of granite. For IS minutes he tugged and heaved and threw his 213 pounds against the hulking frame of Maurice "The Angel" Tillet in the main event of last nights armory mat program, and when it was all over the net result was: McDonald, no falls; "The Angel," two falls. Sockeye, himself quite a man. couldn't do a thing with the 273-pound Tillet, who certainly lived up to his reputation as be ing "the world's ugliest wrest ler," and one of the toughest. Not on'y did McDonald fail to budge Tillet with his Sunday de luxe shots, but he actually knocked himself goofy trying to sonnenburg the French mon strosity to the canvas. This incredible operation oc curred after the pair had traded clouts and arm holds for 15 minutes, with the overflow crowd roaring futile encourage ment to McDonald. Sockeye fired a dropkick to The An gel's" button, and wound up on the seat of his own pants. Changing his tactics, McDon ald then rebounded off the ropes and sent himself crashing head-on Into the bulging stom ach of Mr. Tillet. A moment later Sockeye was clawing at the canvas, having, for a mo ment, no Interest in the pro ceedings. He had knocked him self plumb goofy on that cast- iron "Anger torso. This was the signal for Tillet to create his first fall. He waited until McDonald had climbed shakily to his feet, then grabbed him in his famous bear hug and powered him to the mat for a press and fall. Still shaken to the soles of his feet, McDonald dropped the next tumble three minutes after the gong. Somehow he managed to hoist "The Angel" to his shoulders for what, apparently, was to be a body slam, but it was too great an effort. Slowly Sockeye's leg gave way under him, down he went with Tillet in the saddle, and that was all there was to it. Tillet merely lay on top of the weary Mc Donald while Referee Earl Yoakley tolled off the count. Tillet wasn't very active, but he didnt' have to be. He waddled around the ring taking every thing Sockeye tossed his way. and occaMonaly throwing short Jolts at McDonald s chin that rocked the latter back on his heels. He was simply too pow erful and too rugged for his lighter opponent. Joe Corbett defeated Pete Belcastro In the middle event when Pete, with the falls stand ing one each, didn't wait for the fifth-round bell to start his rough stuff. He rushed fiom his corner and proceeded to work Corbett over, with the result that Joe wai awarded the fall and match "n a foul. Corbett employed a press to take the first fall in the third found, and Belcastro used punches and a press to even the score in the fifth. Irish Jim Casey took the lone fall of his match with Pedro Brazil, using a reverse Japanese scissors and press in the fourth and final round to gain the tumhle. Promoter Mack Llllard an nounced there would be no more matches here for the next two or three weeks. Scores Yesterday (By The Associated Press) American Lsaque Boston 8 Cleveland S (Only major league game played) Pacific Coast San Francisco 2 Los Angeles 8 (Only game). FIRST CANADIAN PBY Vancouver. B. C, July 28 .P) Witnessed by 7.000 work men and other spectators, the first PBY Catalina flying boat built by Boeing Aircraft of Canada was christened here yes terday and floated on the Frascr River. Cm Mall Tribune Kttnt a'ls. CARLOAD Blacksmith Csal Now Here Bergman's Shcp lit South Bartlett POISON OAK? Try a bottle of ZEMACOL Toe mutt be aalMlre of your munri rh--:(,:lif rrhinrtrit nti a fcottl lodaj at WLsItaM IllHlil. Time Out From The Links -V-- C- --7tv - ) . A. 11 1 1 IF While their husbands battle par over the Tarn O'Shanter golf course in Chicago in the $15,000 open, these three women get out the oil to soften the effects of the sun as they relax at the country club pool. L.-R: Mrs. Ronnie Williams, Detroit; Mrs. Ralph Guldahl, Rancno Santa Fa, Calif., and Mrs. Jimmy Johnson of Detroit. UNDER LAST YEAR Los Angeles, July 28 VP) Pacific Coast league attendance is running about 150,000 behind that of 1941, but the Los An geles club shows an increase of 20 per. cent and will play to 500,000 persons by the end of the season. President Clarence (Pants) Rowland says. The increase in home attend ance at Wrigley field so far is 32 per cent, with 210.000 admis sions or 51,000 more than last year at this date. On the road the league-leading Angels have drawn 162,000, more than 11,000 over 1941. GOVERNMENT PAY HIKE WAITS ROOSEVELT PEN Washington, July 28 (IP) The senate today passed and sent to the White House a bill raising the pay of 150.000 gov ernment employes in the lower brackets. Among other things, the bill fixes SI. 200 per year as the minimum for full-time adult employment, instead of $1,020. : iv , m a.v-' "4-n. .r5rVi -f H i This whiskey U 4 years old . . . J? jit w3 for 'Shanter Title r""! ffon ini sTUJC " . llaSlif i'l f i"T f M RAY ALL-EVENTS Salem, July 28 (Shatter ing 380 out of a possible 420 targets, Cal D. Ray, Coquille, Ore., won the over all title in the Grand Pacific International Trapshooting association's 12th annual meet here Sunday, it was revealed with completion of tabulations last night. Other winners were: J. O. Cotant, Pocatello, Idaho, runner-up high over all, 378 out of 420; Frank Bava, Sacramen to, Calif., high over all in class C and D, 358 of 420; Frank Troeh, Portland, doubles Cham pion, smashing 112 out of a possible 120. FISHING BOAT LOST Depoe Bay, Ore., July 28 UP) Efforts were made today to lo cate and salvage a fishing boat that foundered yesterday off the north Lincoln county coast. Chuck Youngblood, the skipper. and his crewman were taken off the sinking craft by a nearby fishing boat shortly before it went down. ; IS ' 1 Man, the extra enjoyment you'll get from today's Ten High! Good reason! . . . Ve've "plussed" this famous whiskey..; added an extra birthday to it . . . given it a rich bonus of extra flavor, extra mellowness. Now it's here! The "bonus year" Ten High a whiskey so "super" in tttrj uny that you'll doubt your palate the first time you taste it! Yes, now more than ever, you'll find DouiU Your Enjoyment in the whiskey with "no rough id get." Straight Bourbon VThiskey. 86 proof. Copr. 1942, Hiram Walker & Sons Inc., Peoria, III THE WHISKEY WITH "NO ROUGH EDGES" TT1 t V LEAGUE'S FIESTA Final preparations are being made today for the third annual summer fiesta of the Jackson County League of Women Vot ers which will draw a large attendance tomorrow evening at the Porter Neff home on Berke ley Way. Scheduled to begin at 8 o'clock, the entertainment this year has been called a "Victory Fiesta" and will have a patriotic theme. It was announced this morn ing that a special invitation is being sent to officers of Camp Whit and their families to at tend the fiesta as a gesture of friendliness from Jackson coun ty people to the newcomers. Tickets may be secured from league members or at the gates Wednesday evening. The plans include a great variety of entertainment with games, dancing, bridge and for tune telling by "Connecticut Connie." Refreshments will be served from several booths. The main program includes a quizz session with six of the valley's most prominent residents taking part, songs, and an exhibition of old-fashioned square dancing to be staged by a group of serv ice men from Camp White with local girls as partners. 1 PAIR CLUES Los Angeles, July 28 &) Frank K. Hauser returned home wearing socks of a different hue, said his wife Adele. She became suspicious. She came across a phone number and the woman who answered said she was Mrs. Hauser lirst name, Lois. Hauser was held for trial on a charge of bigamy. WPB's order halting the pro duction of golf balls will save 3,000,000 pounds of steel. WARMING MEDFORD BUSINESS HOUSES Do not cash any checks on Holland Hotel without check ing with the Hotel. Forged checks are now being circu lated in this city. HOTEL HOLLAND Great- TEN HIGH Like lush, purple grapes ' ' year after year, after year, after year
