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PAGE YOUR T IN SENIOR WHEEL Dodgers Open Battle For Runner-Up Berth; Reds, Pirates Also In Chase. New York, Sept. 22 U.B The battle for second piace in the National league entered the home stretch today with only two gamei aeparatlng jJrooiuyn, rininnntl and Pittsburgh. The Dodgers, at beat a poor road club, winning only 11 out of 81 games, open 13-game western schedule with the league champion St. Louis Car-ji-.i. Thu nliv threat affainst UllWH. ' J V J - the Bed Birds, journey to Chi cago tor three contests witn ine Cubs, start home with three Vi PlntM and close the season with lour against the . Reds. Brooklyn, due to its disastrous ' week-end against the last place New York Giants, in which It dropped three out of four games, could easily drop the runner-up spot to either Cincinnati a game behind or Pittsburgh only two back. The scredule favors lust such an occurrence. While the Dodgers are engaging the ad mittedly stronger western clubs, Pittsburgh and Cincinnati will be meeting the second division sterners. The Beds open the stretch drive with the last place New York Giants for four games and Pittsburgh takes on punchless Boston. Their recent home stand en abled the Dodgers to regain the second slot after relinquishing it following the mldseason club house rebellion and subsequent slump. . At Ebbets Field. Durocher's Dandles won 14 out of IS games, but once on the road, lost five out of seven to the Braves and three of four to the Giants. The trip Is do-or-dle for the Dodgers, similar to the last road schedule the Bums played In 1841 only then, by sweeping through the west, Brooklyn won the pennant this year they'1 ' gladly settle for second place . money, . TROJAflEM TO DEFEAT UCLA Los Angeles, Sept. 22 U.B The early price along the wager ing front headquarters lists the U8C Trojans 8-1 favorites over UCLA's Bruins In their Coast Conference opening game Satur day in the coliseum. Onlr thing surprising about the odds la that they aren t of larger proportions. If ever one team seemed ready to kick the living daylights out of another, this one coming up would seem to be It. Jeff Cra vath trimmed 30 men off his squad the other day because the turnout was too big to handle. If Babe Horrell at UCLA tried that he'd well, he couldn't do It. alnca he only had 28 to start with. NOME GETS MEAT Nome, Alaska. Sept. 23 (U.R) Nome was saved from a meat shortage today by 21- Eskimo reindeer herdsmen who brought back 74,000 pounds of meat from the annual autumn deer round-up on the desolate coastal plains bordering the Bering strait- Dm Mall TTlbun Want Ada. YICK SO CHINESE HERB CO. Jackson Co. Bank Bldg. mm J. H. Leong, Herbalist STOMACH ULCERS Heart. Ithenmatlsm, Asthma. Catarrh. Piles, Prostate Gland, Ecsema. and all dliordars of Llrer. Kidney Trouble. Jaundice, and ether complaints dis appear after using. CHINESE HERBS "All By Myself" ( ( -. - - y ; 1,1 Starting a three-day engage ment at the Rlalto Sunday Is "All By Myself." co-slarring Pat- rlc Knowles and Evelyn Ankers Schacht Back From Tour Of Battle Zone Mad At Axis By Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Sept. 22 (U.R) Al Schacht, baseball's prince who Just returned from seven weeks terranean war area, Is convinced for some United Nations big-shot bearing. "Otherwise," he asked, "whyl would they keep tryin' to knock me off all the time I'm over ttrffe?" Because of this apparent mis conception, many of Al's antics were not acting during his busy tour of troop concentrations and hospitals at which he put on 140 shows. , Baseball's blithe spirit first realized that the Axis had him "taped" when he stepped off a plane at Cantsnla, Sicily. A ser geant rushed up to htm yelling 'It's a showl it s a showr Schacht, delighted at the chap's enthusiasm, replied, That's right, rm here lor a show." But the sergeant grabbed Al's arm and pointed frantically at an approaching Messer schmldt. He shouted, "Hit the dlrtl hit the dirt". "I took one look at that plane, and I hit the dirt like a guy slldin' head first- into home plate," Al said. "I hugged that while that plane came roaring and strafing over the field, witn our ack-ack guns shooting back. That was my baptism In Sicily. Later on, I got sorta used to this stuff; Id just shiver from the hips up particularly In the teeth." The ; former major league pitcher, with the aquiline nose, became so Incensed ' at Nazi planes one night In Blzerte, that he might have gone right out and thrown baseballs at them If he hadn't been so cozy in a handy culvert. Those planes had Interrupted his shower bath, and: "In two shakes I'm running down the hotel corridor, dripping-wet, try ing to climb Into my uniform In the dark. I tumble over some luggage In the lobby; but I fin ally get-outside and dive Into a culvert I stayed there threo hours Just fighting mad." - Football Briefs Moscow, Ida., Sept. 22 (U.R) The University of Idaho ap peared to be on the verge of abandoning football for the dur ation today as college athletic officials conferred with Lt. Paul B. Washke, physical education Inspector for the 13th naval dis trict, in hopes of bolstering the small vandal turnout with 40 navy trainees stationed on the campus. The navy trainees have Indi cated they would add their weight and numbers to the van day squad if navy permission Is granted, said Athletic Director J. A, (Babe) Brown. Seattle, Sept. 22 U.R Coach Ealph (Pest) Welch strove to iron the "bugs" out of his model T plays today as he worked the University of Washington back field precise drills to dovelop speed and timing for the offen sive he plan; to use in his open ing tilt against Whitman College Saturday. Pullman, Wash., Sept. 22 (URt Three new linemen, in cluding Bob Plrarrirv a.F all. city high school guard from seam, Doostea tno Washington State grid squad to 32 members today and left little doubt that the Cougars have adequate man power to field a team. Plcnrdo Weiahl IRQ nminri. hut MrnnH the sobriquet "Submarine" be cause he is several inches short er than any man on the squad. Alrnlana traffic t th finn Francisco airport during July totalled 1230 planes, carrying 13,130 passengers. ZERO CLUB Out of bounds, civilians only Delicious chicken and steak dinners 7:00 p m. 3:00 a. m except Sunday. Phone day time S300. night 9101. 1 MEDFORD. MAIL Here Sunday In a new comedy of four-sided fun. Its partner picture, "Lon don Blackout Murders," features John Abbott. of entertaining in the Medi that the Axis mistook mm because of his distinguished T The Medford Gun club will hold its first practice shoot at the club grounds at the Crater Lake highway Four Corners at 11 o'clock Sunday morning in anticipation of the opening of the upland bird season in Octo ber. As the club has a large paid- up membership this year a. big crowd Is expected for the event. The club has an ample stock of trap-load shells purchased a long time ago In anticipation of an ammunition shortage and, while trap-loads are not powerful enough for upland bird shooting. they are the regulation loads for clay targets. Shells will be sold at the club' to the members Sunday, but only for use at the traps, the club having allotted Its ammunition over a period of shoots that will permit of trap shooting throughout 1B44 by the exclusive use of shells for trap-shooting- LEFTY LA CHANCE -' Hartford, Conn., Sept. 22 flJ.B Maurice (Lefty) LaChance of Lis bon, Me., today held a 10-round non-title decision over Phil Ter ranova of New York, recognized by the . National Boxins associ ation as the featherweight cham pion of the world. LaChance used his height, weight and reach to advantage in scoring the upset victory here last night, keeping Terra nova at bay with a right Jab and a looping left all the way. The winner, weighing 128 to Terns nova's 123V4, knocked the cham pion down In the seventh and went down himself in the eighth. Neither fighter took a count. Referee Frank Conway award ed every round to the New Eng land contender. DORAZIO TAKES Washington. Sept. 82 (U.R) Gus Dorazlo Philadelphia heavy weight, today pointed for a shot at jimmy Bivlns, "duration1 heavyweight champion of Cleve land, o as the result of winning a split 10-round decision from Al Hart of Washington, last night, Dorazlo, giving away 2S pounds to the Negro soldier, pounded steadily at Hart's mid section to lake the decision. Promoter Goldle Ahearn an nounced last week that ha had signed Bivins to meet the win ner of the fight here on Oct 12 Dorazio weighed '01, Hart Dm Mill itiuiM want Ada. Auto Mechanic WANTED TOP WAGES This Is not a temporary ob J. C. STANSBERRY Ford Dealer Sr. Helens, Calif. 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