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TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE 10 LEAGUE LEAD, TIED WITH SEALS Ralniers, Stars Close Be hind; Portland-Seattle Go .15 Innings in Nightcap. By United Press The Portland Beavers, who yielded their Pacific Coast league supremacy for a day last week to the Seattle F.ainiers, found them selves tpd for first place today with the Ban Francisco Seals while the Ralniers and the Hol lywood Stars were close run- ncrs-up each a half-game behind the leaders. The P.alnlers won a series from the Beavers Sunday, 4-3, dropnlnn an opener 3-2 but com ing back In a 15-lnnlng wild nightcap to edge out the Bea- vers 94 before ,14.000 far The Seals, taking five games to the, Los Angeles Angels three, split a double-header, dropping the first game 6-1 and taking the nightcap 3-1. Solons Tie Series The cellar champs, the Sacra mento Solons, tied the San Diego Padres 4-4 4n a series by drop ping a double-header to the Pad res 6-2 and 4-1. The Hollywood Stars won seven games to the rc ! wwitn it rMi C nyi tnii i Cii '1 JT The Uufome BMIIIuf tJ, Htm tna U4. - CLEAN FACTORY - THE EFFICIENT FUEL! 200 Cu. Ft. Load DIAL 2123 Timber P ' I Vi ,,r - A J L. l- It v,-"; For those moments of relaxation, you'll lf3J -'-- find Banhty't Ryi a mellow companion. jv'i jf --14 1 $arriaij5 MlPS : Straight RYE W iU k. V'v Proof r Tptrff Y-"0A'i -.' Jet. lore! A Cft. limit (pi l-ftm"'! ' ' -'(J "-ft, r..H., iim.i. May rs;; Monday, June 5, 1944 Oakland Acorns' one, taking Sun day's double-header 7-5 and 3-0. In weird nightcap, Seattle scored twice in the first on three singles and once in the fourth on Christopher's home run. Port land caught up in the seventh and from then on the game was scoreless until the 14th. The Bea vers then scored on a double by O'Neill and an error by Lyman. The Ralniers retaliated when Roy Johnson lashed a trlp'e to deep center field to score Hal Sucme. In the final frame, Con nie Creeden crossed the plate on a double by Dobbins which won the Rainiers the series. Camp White Eighteen golfers teed off Sunday afternoon., in the first scheduled tournament of the camp's history. The tour ney, an 18-hole blind bogey, was won by Captain Virgil Lancas ter of Post Engineers, who shot 68. His 25-stroke handicap li;ave him a 73, closest to the bo- I iti e cMi t - - mruu - J SCU SUtlo7 Hosp.r won ,Pn; .v,. -ir. second place, traveling the cir cuit in 84. taking an IS handi cap for a 76. TSgt Don Vocller of the Post Special Service branch and SSgt Bob Carlson, Headquarters Sec tion SCU 1913 Supply Sergeant tied for third money. Both golf ers drawing a 25-stroke advan tage, turned in a 102 for a 77. Heading the field in the Wom en's Tourney were Marian Moore of the Camp White Gas Ration Board. Mrs Betty Taylor of the Quartermaster Receiving Ware house Office took second honors and Mrs. June Scott, Civilian Personnel Office, 'placed third. KATONlFACE Paavo Katonen, Pacific coast light heavyweight champion, will face Bulldog Jackson, rough and tough rascal from the Yukon, In the main event on Thursday's Aarmory mat menu, Promoter Mack; Llllard an nounced today. In the semi-windup Llllard has matched George Wagner, connoisseur of classy dressing gowns, and Harold "Buck" Da vidson, former Klamath Foils bad boy. A newcomer to Medford, Tarzan Potvin, will swap holds with Silent Rattan, deaf and dumb athlete, In the opening match. DM Mill Tilbun Want Ads. $6.75 DIAL 2123 Company Once Mighty Yankees Must Smoke Up in Home Contests New York, June 8. (U.R) The once-mighty New, York Yan kees boarded a train for the east today with their hearts consid erably heavier than their bats and convinced that their home play would have to far exceed their road average if they ex pect to repeat as American league champions. The Yankees completed their worst road trip since their first outing last year by splitting a doublcheader yesterday with the Cleveland Indians for a record of eight games lost on the western tour and only five won, a road percentage of .383 as compared with their over-all average of .550. In 1843 the champions fared much worse on their first western Junket, losing seven and winning only one, with seven games Deing rained out. The Yanks were extended to 11 innings to win their first gome yesterday, 64. The Tribe took the second, 4-3 with a three run splurge in the eighth which broke a 1-1 tie. The Chicago White Sox, In last place on June 1st, climbed into the first division with their fifth and sixth consecutive vic tories, at the expense of the Washington Senators, who plunged from fourth place to last. The Sox won their opening win, 6-3, in 10 innings. The sec ond game was hardly a contest, Chicago winning 0-1. Detroit and Boston split a pair, the Tigers winning the first, 2-1 and Boston the second 5-1. Philadelphia at St. Louis split two 4-3 decisions. Homers, instrumental In carrying the Giants to a seven game winning streak last week, were largely responsible for the first of two pastlngs they took from the Pittsburgh Pirates. Five circuit clouts. Including two each by Babe Dahlgren and Jim Russell, gave Fritz Oster mueller a 0-4 triumph In his first start as a Pirate and hand ed Bill Volselle the loss. The Pirates won the finale 7-4 with Preacher Roe receiving the credit. Cincinnati bounced back Into winning stride with a pair of four hit victories over the Bos ton Braves. Rookie Arnold Carter won the opener, 2-1 and Clyde Shown won tho nightcap, 7-3. The Chicago Cubs won the first game of a scheduled double-bill from the Brooklyn Dodgers, 6-5 but the nightcap ended in an 8-8 tie with the game called at the end of the 10th inning because of dark ness. wow tiie& American League W. L. St. Lc:;ls .. New York . -. Philadelphia Detroit Boston Chlcngo .. Cleveland ...... Washington 20 St. Louis Pittsburgh Cincinnati New York . Brooklyn ... Philadelphia Boston Chicago Pacific Coast League Portland San Francisco Seattle .... Hollywood San Dlrgo Los Angrlcs Oakland Sacramento Fortuna, in H'imboldt county, boasts that since it was founded in 1873 its citizens have never locked their doors. Pet. 25 20 ,n56 21 18 .538 21 20 .512 23 22 .511 21 22 .4MB 19 21 .475 21 24 .467 23 .465 National Lenque W. L. Tct. 27 13 .675 23 15 .603 24 17 .585 19 23 .4!2 18 22 .450 16 20 .444 20 25 .444 12 24 .333 W. L. Pet. 33 25 .569 33 25 .569 33 26 .559 33 26 .559 . 31 30 .508 27 31 .466 24 34 .414 19 36 .345 fearer i nu iinnniTAi ii di nuoniHL IS CONTESTED BY Playing what may be the first non-contest game of the current Medford-Camo White league, the Station Hospital nine won a nar row 11 to 10 victory from the Western Personnel Reassignment Center. . The game, a scoring race from the start, came to grief in the seventh frame, when the entire battery of the Station Hospital team become casualties from a collision. Lucldo, WPRC fielder, attempting a bunt, popped up between Pitcher Steuber and Re ceiver Hunt of the Hosoltal squad. Both worthies. In a fran tic attempt to make the out, col lided head-on and both hit the dirt somewhat dazed, each with a broken nose. Neither one made the catch and the ball rolled free. Lucldo made the base, and two runners scored, but the umpire ruled that Lucldo was out and the scores ruled out, and runners went back on base. Manager Mickey Phillips of the WPRC men questioned the decision, al lowing the game to proceed only under protest. No action had been taken on the protest after the game, and Lt. Charles E. White, camp ath letic and recreation office, an nounced that it would be taken up at a meeting of the associa tion toniRht. Score: R H E Station Hospital 11 18 3 WPRC 10 15 6 Steuber, Johnson and Hunt; Thurston, Bergoid and Hoag. SUN BRINGS OUT Fine shooting weather brought out a crowd of 34 trapshooters for the Medford Gun club ham and bacon shoot yesterday morning, and 18 contestants made prize-winning scores. Winners In the potluck event were Painter, Daniels, Mona ghan, Eads and Lcmery, First and second place win ners respectively in the miss-and-out events were Turpin and Young; Nicdermcyer and Elden; Watkins and Jim Ross; Lemery and Jantzcr; Elden and Daniels; Jim Ross and John Ross. Outstanding scores at the 16 yard traps were registered as follows: Jantzer 123-125; Pease 121-125; Bow.er 05-100; Turpin 73-73; Young 73-73; Croisant 73 75; Thomas 25 straight. Highlight of the day was the shooting of Don Smith who fin ished a perfect score In the main mlss-and-out event contested for by 20 entries, In which Turpin finished second and Bowser third. Eighteen hundred and fifty targets were thrown. The secretary reported the largest paid membership the club has recorded since 1936 and that the east end of the pro perty Is being prepared for the Medford Rifle club ranges. The next Gun club shoot is planned for the last of June. ANGOTT-WILLIAMS GO HEADS WEEK'S SKED New York, June 5 (U.R) This week's national boxing schedule Is headllred by a 10-round bout between Sammy Angott, former lightweight king, and young Ike Williams at Philadelphia's Shibe Park Tuesday night. Williams of Trenton, N. J., Is a 214 to 1 favorite to beat vet eran Angott. The bout Is expect ed to draw more than $60 000. On the same night, another en counter brings together Feather- wrlgi.t Champion Willie Pep and .tuiie Kogon, hnrd-hlttlng New Haven lightweight. In a non-title bout at Hartford, Conn. SOFT COAL SHORT Washington, June 5 UPi Solid Fuels Administrator Har old Ickes said today that the notion had little more than a month's supply of soft coal In sock piles on May 1 the "smallest protection" against emergency since Pearl Harbor. Cue Mull Tribune Wn Adi. DEPENDABLE REPAIR SERVICE For Your TRUCK - TRACTOR CRATERS WIN 10-3 AT The Medford Craters, left with an open date yesterday by the forfiet of the 493rd Escort Guard Company of Camp White, played a non-league tilt with the Cheney Lumber company of Central Point. The Craters behind the pitch ing of Dick Kidwell, wh.o gave up -only six hits, handed the Lumberers a 10 to 3 shellacing on the Central Point diamond. The Medfordites found Lees, lumberman hurler, not '.uo hard to hit, and poled two runs across the plate In the second heat fol lowed by 1 in the third. Two of Central Point's three tallies were chalked up in the fourth inning which left the Cra ters with only one point advan tage. Medford broke loose in the fifth and sixth frames ,to score three times in each. Lees who took a terrflc pounding left the mound in the sixth to be replaced by Livings ton, who held the, Craters to only one counter in the remain ing three heats. Don Safford, Crater southpaw relieved Dick Kidwell in the eighth, giving up two hits and the Lumbermen's final score in the ninth frame. Score: Lumberers 3 6 4 Craters 10 16 2 Lees, Livingston and Ace. Kidwell, Safford and Weyeneth. Closing time for Sunday Too Late to Classify 6:30 Saturday afternoon Please remember. -f.H- r, ST fT. MA mm 4 I Si . V k,,f YlYA Six Get Diplomas From Shady Cove School 8th Grade Shady Cove, June 5. (Spl.) Graduation ceremonies were held at the Khariv fnva arhnnl May 31 for eighth grade gradu ates. Alfred Felle presented diolomss to Jnnn Connor Vi i an Hall, Betty Lakey, Jack Myers,! umuaia tjiseii arm aniriey xani. Special avards for perfect attendance records were pre sented to David Cattenach, Charlene Peile and Margie Tant. There were a number of honor able mentions for only one day's absence during the year, A Parent-Teacher association meeting was held at the close of the graduation program and it was voted to have a "fun" meet ing in June. A committee of five was appointed to arrange the program. The evening of June 21 was set as a tentative date. The committee consists of Mrs. Sanderson, chairman, Mrs. Tur ner, Mrs. Bailey, Mrs. LitUefield and Mrs. Stelle. There will be a P.T.A. board meeting June 19. DOG LEADS WEDDING PAIR Los Angeles, June 5. (U.D Pang, a seeing eye dog, led the wedding procession yesterday when his master, Ben Helwlg, and Ruby Nelson, both blind, were married. Helwig, an in spector in a war plant, lost his sight in an accident nine years ago. His bride has been blind since birth. 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