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MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE." MEDFORD, " OREGON, TXJESDAy, DECEMBER 28,"l9f8. PAGE THREE V TOP 3 PITCHERS IN SENIOR LOOP Pollet, Lanier, Cooper Estab- lish Lowest ERA Marks Adams Sets Record. By Glen Parkins United Press Correspondent.. New York. Dee. 28 (U.R) There were three very good reasons why the St. Louis Car dinals won the National league pennant in a walkaway. The reasons Pitchers Howie Pollet, Max Lanier and Mort Cooper. Official figures released today placed those three, one, two and three respectively in the earned run table for pitchers who com peted in 10 or more complete games. This is the first time In the 32 years that earned runs have been a part of National league statistics that three pitch ers from one club have held the first three positions. Pollet led the circuit with a mark of 1.75, the lowest since Carl HubbeU's 1.66 in 1933. Lanier had a 1.90 and Cooper, 2.30. - Other pitching features of the 1943 season saw Ace Adams, .the New York Giants' workhorse, set new record by pitching in 70 games. This displaced his mark of 61, set the previous year. Truett (Rip) Sewell of the Pittsburgh Pirates, pitched In the most complete games,. 25, Vhrlstmas was coming. As a Standard of California tanker berthed alongside a Navy trans port in a Southwest Pacific har bor, our tankermen had every right to be thinking about tur key and trimmings. Yumt But aboard the transport, the Navy had 100 Marines. Just off Guadalcanal I For ages they'd been on iron radons of two sorts Jap bullets and canned grub. Brother, could they do with a drumstick I ' So our boys broke out all their Christmas turkeys ... and their New Year turkeys, too . . . and every plum pudding, apple, nut and what-have-you in store for the whole holiday season. Those Marines ste every smidgen. . So our lads put to sea feel ing like Santa Claus real Christmas giver-outers. Somo tlmo later came a Jap sub. W-H-A-MI Suddenly they're in awfully small boats in an awfully big ocean. Next event looks like Christmas din ner for the sharks. But huzzah! here comes the Navy ! Rr-rr-rrr and a Navy plane is dropping food, blankets special knives and forks, even. Dot-dash, dot-dash , . . and a Navy ship picks up our tankerless tankermen. Cast your bread and turkey upon the waters, and they sometime! come back as life savers! We've waited a year to tell you this story at Christmas something everybody shares. Its . moral: Whether in overalls, uniform or white collar, we're together in this war. Their Christmas and yours helps us all realize how much Ameri cans really are all for one and one for all. a ffiTffiTtTFR GEES) SUMO P 'l mt.wm r...r4. and tied with Elmer Riddle of 1-inclnnaU and Cooper for the most victories, 21. Wyart Leads Whit Wyatt of the Brooklvn Dodgers, led in won and lost percentages- with 14 victories and five defeats for .737 the highest mark compiled by a pitcher working in 10 or more complete games. - He also had the longest winning streak of the season, 10 games, starting Aug. 1 1 and completing the sea son with his skein intact. King Carl Hubbell of the Giants became the second south paw in league history to record 250 or more victories. Hub re quired IS years to turn the trick and Eppa Rixey, former Phila delphia and Cincinnati portsld er, needed 21. ' Paul Derringer of Chicago, Joined the select group of 200 game winners by notching 10 victories last season. - Johnny Vander Meer, the Cin cinnati speedball hurler of dou ble no-hit fame, started the most games, 36, issued most bases on balls, 162, and . for the third straight year struck out the most batters, 174. Nate Andrews of the Boston Braves, lost moot games. 20, and tied with Van Lingle Mungo of New York, for hittirig most but ters, 6. Alva Javery, Andrews' teammate, pitched most innings, 303, faced most batters, 1,286, allowed most hits, 288,' most runs, 130, and most earned runs, 108. . Pasadena, Cel., Dec. 28 U.B The University of Washington Huskies, out to snap two Rose Bowl records, due in today for their New Year s Day game here with the Southern California Trojans. The Huskies never have won a Rose Bowl assignment and the Trojans never have lost in six tries. Coach Ralph (Pest) Welch said heavy sessions would be in order each day until the game Satur day. The team took a light work out yesterday after arriving by train from Seattle. Los Angelus, Dec. 28 (U.R) Twice beaten Southern Califor nia, the underdog in the Rose Bowl game against Washington university, Is going to try to capitalize on a "secret defense weapon to offset the northern era' physical advantage, Coach Jeff Cravath laid today. Beyond disclosing that the tac tic would be designed to combat the "T " formation which Wash ington uses, Cravath would re veal no more. DUCKS CANCEL TILTS BECAUSE ERB DEATH Eugene, Ore., Dec. 28. (U.R) The University of Oregon bas ketball team today cancelled two non-Conference games this week- with' the Albina Hellshlps of Portland out of irespect to the late president of the uni versity, Dr. Donald . Erb, who died Saturday. The Oregon Duck squad will resume play on Jan. 7 against the University of Washington Huskies in Seattle. Football Briefs Houston,. Tex., Dec. 28. (U.R) Arkansas A & M college and Southwest Louisiana - Institute, the opponents in the New Year's day Oil Bowl game are geared to throw everything Into a reck less razzle dazzle of passing and running plays, reports from the respective campuses indicated today. . . New Orleans, Dec. 28. (U.R) Coach Bill Alexander of Geor gia Tech's Yellow Jackets re duced workouts to light drilling and running tactics today to minimize the possibility of in juries before the New Year's day Sugar Bowl game with Tul sa. All of the 36 players on the squad were on hand except Tackle Bill Chambers, expected to arrive later today by plane from Los Angeles. - Bay St. Louis, Miss., Dec. 28 (U.R) Coach Henry Frnka, attempting to polish the Tulsa offensive after a holiday layoff, put the entire squad through a series of stiff workouts today and indicated that he would continue the process until late in the week In preparations for Saturday's Sugar Bowl game with Georgia Tech at New Or leans. Miami, Fla Dec. 28. U.R Ctach Bernie Moore said today his Louisiana State football team definitely didn't belong in the Orange Bowl competition against Texas A & M after the sluggish manner in wnicn it went through Its two-hour prac tice session Monday. Cm Mau rtiouna want aoa Dr. A. A. SouW Announces Phone 2870 No Ana. Call Nurses' Regrttry 2657 Apostolus Rehabilitation Due To.Navy Conditioning By Jack Cuddy (United Press Staff Correspondent) - 1 -' " ' New York, Dec. 28. (U.R) The navy has done a grand job in rehabilitating Boatswain's Mate Year" and erstwhile mystery man Before Apostoli joined the navy in 1941, the boxing fra ternity was worried about him. Something had happened to the former middleweight champion. A great fighting machine had mysteriously gone to pieces. The apparent "blow-up" of Frisco Fred was the most per plexing puzzle to confront Cauli flower Canyon in recent years. Some experts thought he bad been affected by too many head blows; others attributed his let down to managerial troubles, and a few of the more romantic- minded were positive he had lost the duke ' in a secret love affair. . - - Apostoli, the former San Francisco bellhop who - had taken the elevator up in the world, was at his peak early in 1939 recognized as ' middle weight champion by the New York commission when he had his two memorable over-the-weight brawls with Billy Conn at Madison Square Garden. Apostoli lost a 10-round decision to Conn on Jan. 7, and a 15 round verdict to Pittsburgh Billy on Feb. 10. Both were close, excellent fights, spiced by rough tactics and vicious swear ing by both principals. Many fans thought Apostoli won the' second encounter, but decision was unanimous against him. Although the middle weight king spotted Conn six pounds, he gave Billy the fight of his life that night and nearly knocked him out in the closing rounds the same Conn who, two years later, almost wrested the heavyweigni crown from Joe Louis. Early in '39, Apostoli had everything. He was beautifully proportioned; he was a knock out puncher; he was a superb boxer; he had the durability and stamina nf a mustang. But after the second Conn fight. Fred never seemed the same in the ring or out, and his career was spotty until he Joined the navy. On Oct. 2, 1939, Apostoli lost the mwaie weight diadem on a knockout to Ceferlno Garcia, the Filipino bolo puncher, who couldn t have carried Apostoli's shoes In Feb ruary of the same year, in 1940, he was knocked out by Melio Bettina and lost to Tony Zale. What had happened to him? ' At 267 He was too young to be burned out. The experts sought an answer, but couldn't find It. After Fred joined the navy and was stationed at the Nor folk. Va training base, hearten ing reports began coming up to Jacobs' Beach. Apostoli again changed. He was himself again just like the chap who had come east and captivated New York in '37. He had a new manager. ' He registered five knockouts, was held to a draw by Ken Overlin, and took a de cision over Saverio Turiello. Then he asked for active sea duty. He asked for action, and he got it In the southwest Paci fic as a gun captain. His bravery under fire, his boxing, and his good fellowship made him one of the most popular enlisted men In the navy. Yesterday he was named Boxer of the Year" by the Ring magazine. Indeed, the navy has taken the bellhop up again. L I .', San Francisco, Dec. 28 (U.R) A duel for offensive honors be tween two freshmen was pre dieted today by rival Coaches Andy Kerr and Babe Holling berry for the annual Shrine East-West football game. Kerr, who said ills East squad lacked a ' powerful breakaway runner, intends to build his of fensive around the passing of 19-year-old Bob (Hunchy) Hocrn- schmeyer, -Indiana star, while Hollingberry and Buck Shaw of ALDERS Com I I - I I 1 cup lifted flour 4 tips-baking powder 1 tap. salt rill Fred Apostoli, "Boxer of the of the ring. . - -. i the - West -squad were using Freshman Bob Wedemeyer of Honolulu and St. Mary's college, in their key offensive plays.- OUT CALLURA TO KEEP MITT TITLE New Orleans, Dec. 28 9J.T0 Phll Terranova of New York re tained his world, featherweight title today because he is the only boxer who ever has been able to stop Jackie Callura of Hamil ton. Ont., short of the scheduled distance for a bout. Terranova won a technical knockout in the sixth round of their fight in the Coliseum last night to bear out the support of the 7.000 fans who had made him a 1 to 2 odds on favorite. It was the third time he had stopped Callura, nnd he accomplished the job by jabbing him relentlessly with hard body and head punches. ' Callura was felled four times for counts in the sixth round be fore Referee Eddie Coulon stopped the bout, just as the lighter s second was winding up to toss in the towel. Callura's best rounds were the second and fifth, which were scored even while Terranova took all of the others. Whenever the Canadian went on the of fensive, Terranova utilize-. a sidestepping technique to good advantage and was able to fend off the most destructive punches. He appeared as fresh at the fin ish as at the start. . The blow which set Callura down for 'the last time was a crushing right to his chin which dropped him flat on his back. Though he started to rise on the count, Referee Coulon called it off. Terranova weighed . 123V4, Callura, 126. SEEDED GIRL TAKES FIRST NET VICTORY ' Chestnut Hill, Mass., Dec. 28 (U.R) Seventeen-year-old Shirley Fry of Akron, O., indi cated today after her first round love set victory that the spon sors of the National Girls' In door Meet made no mistake when .they put her in the top seeded position to win the 1943 title. Miss Fry, whose consistent play last summer earned her 15th place ranking among the nation's women tennis players, yesterday defeated Annette Do mine of Paterson, N. J., 6-0, 6-0. In matches at the Medford al leys last night, Medford Mill works defeated Domestic Laun dry, 2 to 1 (Eads 579, Porter 205); Signal Oil defeated M and M, 3 to 0 (Proctor 601, Stark 235), and Office Boys defeated Murray's Mair-Rite, 2 to 1 (Klatt 551 Klatt 202). . - , MANGRUM INDUCTED Los Angeles, Dec. 28. (U.R) Lloyd Mangrum was in the army today but the 29-year-old veteran of America's Ryder cup golf team said he will compete In the Los Angeles $12,500 golf open Jan. 7-10. Inducted yesterday, Mangrum said he hoped to get Into the air forces to help out a tail gunner stepson. He was given a 21-day furlough. SWEATER WARNING Boston (U.R) Warning to wo men workers (as posted in a local war plant): If the sweater Is too big for you, look out for the machines. If you're too big for the sweater, look out for the men. Meal Recipe'20 BOWLING CORN MIAl DUMPLINGS leap Albert Cora Meal 4 tbips. shortening M cup milk Sift baking powder and salt, stir In corn meal Cut in shortening as for biscuits. Stir in milk. Drop from table spoon into boiling chicken or meat stew, cover tightly, and boil gently but steadily for 20 minutes without lifting lid. Serves 6. Albm Cm Mu( hib Tbiu mid Ytttw, h ubthumt, fimt-jUnrti, fixt-ltxmnj"jiui Htbt-fir ftrtel tUif rimlul Italian 'Manpower. .) V': '. ? ::v.; :.-- vf-' f V ,-. '.-. M. .- J r ... . -. . .... i.vVi.f. ' ''-4v.';?4J f mm " r kHDiiiBiiiiBi cranes are laoawg u lennoii, iiajy, no BailTse lorn M and aid British Eighth Army transport men repair railroad. Here they lift heavy rail Into place. Railway was smashed by Allied' bombers -before Allies took town. . Engineer, Artist Building Huge Model Train Exhibit By Merle Kingman United Press Start Correspondent. Chicago (U.R) Elmer Tolstead believes the nursery rhyme, fell short when it said that little boys are made of- frogs and snails and puppy dogs' tails. ' He thinks they are also made of toy . trams. With only his opinion to guide him he has planned the largest model train exhibit ever built. with 17 electric locomotives pulling coaches over a labyrinth of tracks 3,000 feet long extend ing through three rooms of the Chicago Historical Society build ing. The exhibit is partially constructed and Is scheduled to be opened to the public soon. Tolstead, 61-year-old retired consultant engineer, said that one train will be able to run 15 minutes without duplicating its route. "I am building this up for the pleasure of small boys and few that have grown up, or per haps have not grown up, Includ ing me," he said. "Its been on my mind for 45 years." At. Its present construction stage, the exhibit is a mass of tracks strewn haphazardly about between a miniature roundhouse, a- jackknlfe bridge, a 45-foot truss bridge and a railroad car ferryboat. The ferry will transport cars over a "lake" six Inches deep which covers most of the 35 by- 70-foot main room. It will trail two wires along the lake's metal bottom. These will gather elec tric power from a central con trol platform from which it will be operated. : The ferry, copy of one formerly operating at Port Costa, Cel., will be steered by varying the speed of either side paddie. The truss bridge is modeled after one across the Missouri river 14 miles north of Omaha. Neb. - The jackknlfe bridge, with a four-foot span, is opened and closed by electricity and 50 pound weight concealed in one end. Each locomotive and the bridges and Industrial operations performing like a many ringed circus will be controlled Indi vidually from a central control platform. While one locomotive Is bumping freight cars into a siding others will race along 1 280 feet of main line. A car dumper, modeled after several In Norfolk, Va., and Con neaut, O., and already complet ed, overturns coal barges and empties their loads through a chute Into coal barges In the lake. . These operations and an au thentic signaling system arovide a model railroad that can dupli cate, any actual railroad opera tion, Tolstead said. He has employed several men at part time on its construction. His one full-time employee Is Theodore Saunders, 35, former professional artist, who switched HUBBARD BROS. WILL BE CLOSED TWO DAYS DEC 29 and 30 FOR INVENTORY O HUBBARD-.'. RAY CO. Will Remain Open KZZS&Uft) 9 IIH " ' I ' ' . . i ' . i to model train building because, he said, he is . just a fellow who haunts the toy departments at Christmas." - - . Saunders, who has exhibited his paintings at New York, San Francisco, Philadelphia, and the Chicago Art Institute,, is design ing and building the landscapes. In his bag of tricks are: A field of cut wheat simulated by a doormat,- cornstalks -made from broom straws, a lawn of velvet, plowed ground made from coffee grounds, a six-inches-deep lake made opaque and deep ap pearing by a dash of milk of magnesia, - and ..a., locomotive snowplow which digs chalk and flour snow,. - - ' - The sound effects include a phonograph equipped, with re cordings of a train gathering speed, sustaining speed and stop ping. The phonograph, con trolled from the central plat form, synchronizes sounds with operations. Loud-speakers - are hidden in the landscape and only the speaker nearest a passing train operates, so that the sound appears to come from the train. With- an affectionate . touch, Tolstead demonstrated an elec tric mechanism' looking much like a - pipe-organ, which he purchased from the New York World's Fair. He pulled a lever and out came the lonesome wall of the engine whistle. He pulled another and somewhere a coal barge moaned in the. night.., - "You know," he said, "my son, Elmer (Elmer, Jr., 23,. mathe matics instructor at Brown, uni versity. Providence, R, I.), used to be interested in trains, .toq. When he was a small boy he wanted to be a railroad engi neer, so I got him a toy train. "I took a great liking to .that train." . ' ' He gave a toot on the sound effects machine boat Whistle. "I guess that's why- he took up mathematics. r TEST DISHWASHER , . Des Moines, la (U.R) A me chanical dishwasher that will sell for the price of a vacuum cleaner is already .in .-the., test ing stage for the post-war housekeeper, according to the December issue of "Better Homes St Gardens" magazine. Two revolving brushes will wash and wipe the dishes. It will even polish pots, pans and silverware to any housewife's taste. Cladug tlmo rot olauIMM adl 9 m Too law to Claastfy 1340 .'London, ' Dec. 28 U.R) Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur W. Tedder,. commander of Allied air forces In the. Mediterranean, to day was named deputy-supreme commander ot the western Invasion-armies under Gen. Dwight D. Elsenhower, An official announcement said Tedder's appointment, which emphasized the importance ot the Tple assigned to alrpower in the, coming . invasion, - resulted from the recent conferences be tween Prime Minister Winston Churchill and President Roose velt in the middle east. Gen. Sir Bernard C. T Paget, now'cbmmander-ln-chief ot Brit ish home forces, has been named chief of Allied forces In the mid dle east under the supreme com mand or Uen. Sir Henry Malt land . Wilson, the announcement added.. , Washington. Dee. 28 (U.R) The War Food Administration an nouncer today that there will be no marketing quotas on the 1944 corn , crop. The announcement was intended to encourage farm ers to plant more corn next year, Despite- the - near-record sup- DRESSES IN SIZE 50! ' ,YIS-WI HAVI THEM! ' ' For the woman who takes large aise dresses, we just , received , these vary smart " looking printed Jerseys la alia IDVi to SO. : ' We only have one of a kind, , so don't delay. MILLERS ' NE Alt FIRST NATL. BANK wmw, Mi.'.u,i ' 1 .'.'.'.'.ii ui w 1 -! v. wai '.'V'IH I WJH! m H I W V M M 1 1 J ; liSigiliijilliiiigl ::: 1 Service Stationery with Compact Shoe Kits. Navy Military Sewing Kits In Navy or Khaki Box., lchaffer Money Belts. Navy or Khaki Twill . ritted Roll-Up Toilet Kits, Navy or Khaki. Reducedl Swank Card Kits In Leather Case . Tie and Hose Sets. Khaki or Black. Were 1.31. now 79e Clearancel Garrison and Oversea Cap Covers... ...... &0e Reducedl Khaki Tie and Handkerchief Sets. were 1.60 Now 7I New Testaments with Steel Covers 2 M M ontgomery Ward Pribiloff hie Eskimo Catchet - For Ball Team New York, Dec. 28 (U.R) President Ford Frick ot the National league said today he had evidence from. Manager Frankle Frisch of the Pitts burge Pirates that baseball had - gone beyond its ' last frontier. Frisch, now on a tour of U. S. military bases in the Aleutian islands and Alaska with a party ot major league players, reported a conversa tion to Frick that he had with and Eskimo in . the: remote Pribiloff islands. "You fellows know' any thing about baseball?" Frisch said he asked in his best "bro ken Eskimo dialect.". . ' - "Sure," the Eskimo replied in perfect English. "I'm the catcher on our team."- - ' ply ot 3,469,951,000 bushels of corn on hand the demand f or -livestock feed is so large that marketing quotas will -not be, needed to handle a surplus, WF A otii nais said. v WFA also announced that it will release 8,500.000 pounds ot government-owned canned apples tor civilian use, principally by hotels, restaurants and bakeries. All the apples to be released are packed in No. 10 cans not generally distributed through re tail stores. . i,. .. . i CRIB3ACE FAN AT 100 Arlington, Mass. (U.R) On of the best cribbage players in. these - parts is .Miss , Jeanetta Gilbert, who recently observed her 100th birthday. IVIRY ITIM SILICTIO POP. ITS USCFULNISS AND OOOD LOOKS ' You con bet the boys ore ' counting on you to make their ' ' Chrlitmat cheery so don't . forget that gifts sent to Service . Men stationed In Hie United Stole MUST be mailed early I Wards have dozens of gifts for you -.' to choose from practical, ' space-saving things they need gnd wont; ' Insignia.. or Khaki Twill . ..Box SOo ., 1.00 1.00 J.3 2.00
