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PAGE SIX MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE, MEDFORD. OREGON, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1942 TED LYONS TOPS AMERICAN LEAGUE HURLERS IN ERA Veteran's Mark Is 2.10 Runs Per Game Chicago Chucker Wins 14, Loses 6 Br Paul Schslfels United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Dec. 22 flJ.fO Ted Lyons, pitching patriarch of the Chicago white Sox, com' pleted 20 consecutive years of mound service last season by compiling the best earned-run average In the American league, official avenges based on 100 or mora innings disclosed today. Lyons stepped directly off the Baylor university campus in 1923 to a steady job with the Whit Sox. Despite his 42 yean he has become the best Sunday pitcher in the game. He regis tered a mark of 2.10 while win ning 14 and losing only tlx. He worked in 180 innings, faced 681 batsmen, allowed 187 hits, 42 earned runs out of a total of 82, gave up 28 bases on balls and fanned SO. A pair of New York Yankees' righthanders, Ernie Bonham and Spud Chandler, followed Lyons in the earned run tables. Bon ham, one of the two pitchers to win zo or more games in '42, compiled a mark of 2.27 to Chandler's 2.37. Bonham Second Bonham won 21 and lost five while working in 228 innings against 840 batters. He allowed 10B hits and 57 earned runs, 24 . bases on balls, and fanned 71. Chandler triumphed In 18 games to five losses, allowed 176 hits in 201 Innings while facing , 743 batters. He gave up S3 earned runs, fanned 74 and walked 74. , Bonham and Tex Hughson of the Boston Red Sox were the only men to top the 20-games-won mark. Bonham's record ranked him third In the won-and-lost percentage column while Hughson's with the league high total of 22 victories against six losses placed seventh with .788. No. 1 man In the victory-average column was Wilbur Butland of the Red Sox, whose seven vic tories and one defeat gave him a mark of .875. Butland also tied the major league record for the ALUMNI QUINTET TO FACE BENGALS Former basketball atari of Medford high will again trod the local maple Wednesday night when an alumni team, led by Big Bill Wall and Henry Her man, students at Oregon State college, face the varsity Tigers in a game starting at 8:15. In addition to Wall and Her man, the grade will have Walt Kresse, Bob Reynolds, Hugh Williams and Warren Holbrook, among others, In action. Herman was captain of last year's dis trict 4 champs and also playing for the 1941-42 Tiger quint was Reynolds and Wall. It will seem like old times when the "aluminums" take the floor, for coaching them will be Russ Acheson, Medford mentor last season who is her after having completed his civilian1 pilot training course at Klamath Falls. Acheson will be leading the boys he tutored for several years. The Bengals, according -to Coach Lome Arnold, will line up with Captain Don Fawcett and Darrell Montelth at the for wards; Dale Nledermeyer at cen ter and AI Weir and Hob Deuel at the guards. The Medford sophs will play an Order of the M team In the 7 o'clock preliminary. Figh's Last Night Br United Press Baltimore, Md. Alt Brown, 247V4. Detroit, outpointed Pat Comiskey, 226, Patterson, N. J, (10). Holyoke, Mass. Henry Vas- quer, 137, New York, outpointed Johnny Compo, 130, New Haven, Conn., (10); Jim Renlck. 140, Hartford, Conn- won a foul over Joe Gillls, 135, North Adams, Mass., (3). most putouta mad by pitcher in a single gam with five. Strikeout honors want to Hughson with 113 In 281 Innings and Buck Newsom, who whiffed the same amount in 214 Innings with Washington. Last year's to tal was 260 registered by Bobby Feller for Cleveland. The '42 season duplicated the 1941 American league campaign In providing no no-hit games. It was the 20th time in the circuit s history constituting major league record in which a pitch er failed to notch a hltless game. i FROM THE MAKERS OF AMERICA'S QUALITY TIRE If III General's Varfire Mtddaff thm Most cuf Waitiaf MpdJIctixnM Meae fcv wsiswsa wfc swhr itrsai sera's ... ae la keew hew te bulls' tires r ewe rmUs ... erwers venjeraTs Quality Way (tmsssi' ft wnb reautanea tar sekk- , f ieam,ltiTep0sjsV steps as slew, evea wear T l1 reeeer last teas Seasrsl Tire ex.tr fiawus leaf atlleeee PILLS IVIRY TIM NEED rVftf r INI PICTION tVRIPAIDINO RICAPPINO Y EXMKTS WHO KNOW HOW IIAWKINQOIJ TIRE TREAD SERVICE Veteran Ted Lyons Too Good For Own Good; Joins Marines By Jack Caddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Dec. 22 UJ5 Success in sports, particularly baseball, can provide some talented athletes with extremely lucrative careers yet for Ted Lyons, Chicago Whit Sox right hander pitching veteran, exceptional ability brought hard luck he was too capable for his own good. Lyons, 42, oldest pitcher in the major leagues, reports shortly to Quantlco, Vs., as a first lieu tenant in the marines. Although he left baseball with one of the greatest victory records In that sport's long history, ha was tied to a mediocre team by the very ableness of his own efforts. The amiable, good looking Scotch-Irishman got an unlucky break the very day in 1923 that he stepped off the Bsylor univer sity campus into the uniform of the White Sox. In 20 years of pitching for these door-mats of the American league he won 259 games, yet not one did his club finish in first to provide him with the thrill thet makes every baseball man's life eompleti participation in the World Series. Lyons could hav grumbled about the low card he drew in the diamond draw but he took a bad hand and played it to the hilt Official American league averages released today capped nis superb career by making his 2.10 earned run average the best in the league. In 180 innings of oltchina. he faced 881 batters all this, while younger players than he had re tired won 14, lost six, gave up 187 hits, 42 earned runs out of a total of S2, allowed 28 bases on balls and fanned 50, superlatives crow scarce when it comes to describing the will to win that has made Lyons such a y ear-In. year-out Idol of Baseball men, Perhaps a remark mad at a cnanc argument In a recent dugout discussion can best illus trate what we mean. The debate hinged on a theoretical game which would have had thousands of dollars hanging on the out come wiin tna selection of a pitcher coming from a choice of tn major lea true Roundsmen. past and present. The immortal Ttis Sneaker shot his answer in the debate: Id pick Ted Lyons without a second thought With him on the hill, I wouldn't have a thing to worry about They don't come any tougher. BATTLE TONIGHT The second tea hockey battle of the young four-team circuit will be played at the Medford Ice Arena tonight starting at 7:45, with the 91st Infantry Di vision Snipers meeting the 78th Hospital Clippers. Both clubs, composed entirely of soldiers stationed at Camp White, hav several former col lege and semi-professional play ers gracing their rosters. In the opening loop game last Saturday night the USO Bomb ers trimmed the 91st Gunners, to 1, and the winner of tonight's contest is expected to be the team to battle It out with the powerful Bombers for the league championship. MOST FANS WAN GRID CONTINUANC Chicago. Dec. 22 (U.a Nlnety-slx per cent of the na tion's football fans want Inter collegiate football continued during the war, a poll conducted by the American Athletic Insti tute indicated today. Ma, John L. Griffith, com missioner of the Big Ten and president of the Institute, re ported that approximately 23, 000 replies had been received from among 100,000 question naires distributed at football games this fall. He said 88 per cent of the ballots asked for continued com petition and 98 per cent ex pressed the belief that football strengthened wartime moral. BOWLING Udtos fescue remits last slant: OMto SHipply S. Dsns Truster 1; KKnn) OU t. VatentUM's I. aeons follow! Deris Traasrm Office Surotri - sub, a. ui ooitoa. r tn OfTora, B. MS Sweeps, Ml Oorwln. It JI rmnka. a. 43S whoMwr, P. M JohiMoa. T. 4SS ItUbM, B. 40 Adlor, V.' Sit SMI SSS MilM Oil: Valtnttao Car: L Los Angeles, Dee. 22 (U.B The off -and -on welterweight battle between undefeated Ray (Sugar) Robinson and Henry Armstrong will be fought Janu ary 29 in New York's Madison Square Garden, Armstrong's manager, George Moor, an nounced today. Moore said "Hammerin Hen ry" will definitely meet the Har lem sensation on that date, de spit previous reports the fight had been cancelled. He said Promoter Mike Jacobs confirm ed the fight yesterday by tele phone. Th Armstrong-Robinson bout previously was scheduled for the Garden January 29, but was dropped after Robinson declared ha "didn't want to hurt Hank's eyes." CcjcsIi Hack Is CO Today; No Tkongfcl Cf Qxittixg Gss.0 Philadelphia. Dec. 22 U.B Connie Mack was 80 years old to day and the perpetual motion man of baseball snorted at re ports that his beloved Athletics might have to us men of 40 "because that's too old for a ball player." No, we won't us men of 40." ha said. "Well (tick to youngsters, those th Br my doesn't want" Even though men half his age are "too old" even in a war time player shortage, the tall, white-haired, grand old man of baseball still gives no thought to retirement "I'm In 100 per cent shape and liable to go right on until I'm 100," Connie said. Mack la pleased that th gov ernment is Interested In th con tinuation of baseball. "Government officials have taken a sensible attitude," he said. Their attitude is a lot dif ferent than In 1918." Baltimore, Md.. Dee. 22 (U.B Big Boy AU Brown. Detroit Negro, won 10-round decision over Pat Comiskey of Peterson. N. J, before 2,000 fans at th coliseum last night Matching two of th biggest men in th gam, the fight was slow and uneventful but there was no doubt that Brown out. pointed Comiskey. IMS SHOPPING 'TIL CHRISTMAS! Greeting Cards - Seals Wrappings SHOP For GIFTS at the West Side Pharmacy The Rexall Store. Medford. Oregon West Main and Grap Phon 3330 JUST RECEIVED A HUGE KEW SHIPMENT CF GIFT TOILETRY SETS BEAUTIFUL SELECTION FOR LADIES AND MEN ALL ATTRACTIVELY BOXED READY TO GIVE- Priced 29c to 59c Th Largest Selection of Toiletries in Town J. J. NEWBERRY CO. 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