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AMERICAN LEAGUE
RACE WIDE OPEN
SAYS NATS' BOSS
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Bluege Claims All Clubs
Have Pennant Chance
Boston, Tribe Liked.
By Carl LundquUt
I ' , UP Staff Correspondent
New York, June 20. (UK-
Manager Ossie Bluege, wno
doubts his Washington Senators
will add to the commotion in
the national capital by bringing
the world series there this fail,
,sad today he believed the Amer
ican league pennant would go
to "any team that can keep to
gether the players it has now.
"It looks as if we will all be
losing players from now on out
and the loss of Just one key man
will be a vital factor to any
team," he said.
Taking an off-day audit of the
standings after his Monday game
with the Yankees was rained
out, Bluege said the pennant still
was within easy grasp for any
' club, provided they can "put on
an occasional winning streak of
five or six games and keep their
pitching staff in shape."
"We've been up against it be
cause we lack a power hitter
and because we are shorter on
pitchers than any other team in
the league," he said. "We have
to take a goqd licking every so
often just to let some of our
pitchers get rested up."
Yanks Unmentioned
Bluege, who significantly
omitted the world champion
New York Yankees from any of
his specific references, said the
batting punch of the Cleveland
Indians and Boston Red Sox
might pay off in a pennant for
either club.
"Any team that can win nine
In a row like the Red Sox just
did has to be reckoned with this
season," he said. "They were go
ing along in the second division!
and all of a sudden started win
ning games and they haven't
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cooled off either."
The St. Louis Browns with
what he described as a "wonder
ful winning spirit" may have
their troubles from now on, he
said.
"They had more players than
any of us before they had to cut
down to make the player limit,"
he said. "They had two sets of
outfielders for every position,
giving them a chance to alter
nate against right and left hand
ed pitching. And what is very
Important, they have the same
Infield they hud a year ago and
that Is something that you can't
say for very many clubs this
year. However, things may be
different for them from now on,
especially with a long road trip
coming up."
By United Press
The Los Angeles Angels took
a 8-1 win over their Portland
hosts In the only Monday activ
ity in the Pacific Coast league
as the Beavers made three er
rors and failed to hit in the
pinche.5.
With their eighth consecutive
defeat, the Beavers dropped in
to fourth place behind Holly
wood, with the Seattle Rainiers
runner-up to the leading San
Francisco Seals as the league
moves Into the 11th week of the
1944 baseball season.
The Seals stay home this
week to meet the cellar cham
pions, the Sacramento Solons,
while the seventh place Oak
land Acorns go to Seattle. Port
land entertains Los Angeles
while Hollywood plays host to
San Diego.
Yesterday's score:
Los Angeles 5 12 1
Portland 17 3
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VAUGHAN OUT
New York, June 20 (U.R)
Any lingering hopes that the
Brooklyn Dodgers had held for
the return of Infielder Arky
Vauglian this season were dis
pelled today when it became
known that Vaughan's request
to be placed on the voluntary
retired list had been granted by
Commissioner Landis.
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BY 10-2 SCORE
New York, June 20. (U.R)
As far as New York National
league fans are concerned, the
baseball season Is a success if
the Giants win more than half
of their games from the Brook
lyn Dodgers and today they
were reasonably certain that this
season would be a whooping tri
umph. The Dodger-Giant rivalry
probably is the most bitterly
contested In baseball today and
of the 10 games the clubs have
played this season, the Giants
have emerged on the long end of
the score seven times. The two
meet 22 times over the campaign
and at their current pace, the
Giants stand to win 14 or more
of the meetings. .
In the 10 games played the
giants have scored a total of 79
runs as compared with the 44
the Dodgers have chased across
the plate the most humiliating
defeat coming April 30, when
nearly 60,000 fans saw the New
Yorkers trounce the "bums,"
26-8 to establish a seasonaly high
scoring mark.
Last night, playing at Ebbets
field In heavy weither the New
Yorkers swamped Durocher's
dismals In their own back yard,
10-2. The victory put the driv
ing Giants within a half game
of the second place Pittsburgh
Pirates, extended their current
victory string to four games and
marked their 17th triumph in
their last 22 games.
Harry Feldman recorded his
sixth victory of the campaign
and his third over the Dodgers
as he scattered eight hits in his
evening's chore. But more pleas
ing to New York fans, who
would miss a chicken dinner to
see a Brooklyn player commit
an error, was the fact that
the Dodgers mishandled three
chances.
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American
W. L.
St. Louis 32 25
Boston ...... 30 24
Detroit 29 28
Chicago 24 44
Washington ......26 28
New York 25 28
Philadelphia 25 30
Cleveland 26 30
National
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 35 16 .686
Pittsburgh 28 21 .571
New York 30 25 .545
Cincinnati 28 25 .528
Brooklyn 26 29 .473
Philadelphia 21 29 .420
Boston 24 34 .414
Chicago 17 30 .362
Pacific Coast
W. L. Pet.
San Francisco 41 30 .5(19:
Seattle 38 34
Hollywood 38 25
Portland 37 35
San Diego 37 38
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Los Angeles 35 37 .486
Oakland 34 37
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Sacramento . ...28 41
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Townsendites To
Meet Friday Night
By Lea Parker
Next Townscnd club meeting
will be Friday, June 23, In
Townscnd hall, 219 West Main
street, with everyone welcome.
A. O. Soholm, Townscnd or
ganizer, will meet with Medford
clubs at 7:30 p. m. Friday, June
30. All Townsendites and their
friends are urged to attend.
Townsendites enjoyed an In
teresting meeting June 16 when
Townscnd bulletins from Wash
Ingon were rend reporting that
the drive for signers for a state
petition for 0 per month pen
sion to all over 60 years old
had, been a complete success.
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Eight-Club Pro
Loop To Hold First Confab
By Gene Friedman
United Press Staff Correspondent
Los Angeles, June 20 (U.R) And the American Professional
Football league, brainchild of W. L. (Big Bill) Freelove, emer
ges from its hothouse consistency into full bloom with the
two-day league meeting Thursday and Friday.
'Eight clubs, each of which
has one or more backers of the
solid flesh variety, will be rep
resented at the meeting, actual
ly the first organization meet
ing of the league, since up un
til recently the league's mem
bership was in doubt.
At this writing there are
eight clubs (a nice even num
ber) Seattle, Portland, San
Francisco, Oakland, San Diego,
Hollywood and two Los Angeles
teams, one of which is unnamed
and the other of which is Free
love's own Mustangs.
Among other things the meet
ing will be to decide whether
Lcs Angeles is capable of sup
porting three professional foot
ball teams in the same league.
It may be decided to transfer
the franchise elsewhere, per
haps Spokane, but at the mo
ment, there are still three Los
Angeles teams.
Jerry Glesler, who has signi
fied assent, will be selected of
ficially president and commis
sioner of the league. The selec
tion of Glesler to head the
league is expected to strengthen
the league, not only as to lead
ership, but in prestige.
A constitution and by-laws
for the league are among the
other Important matjers that
will come up and it is expected
that both a constitution and by
laws will be adopted at the two
day session.
In addition a schedule will be
devised for the convenience of
the eight contestants. League
play is expected to open some
time early in September, but
even that general date is only
tentative. Games will be played
on Wednesday nights and on
Sunday afternoons, as long as
the weather permits, but that
again is something that will be
thrashed out at the meeting.
Eligibility of players what
college players will be permit
ted to play, what former pro
players, mostly ex - National
leaguers will be allowed to play
these are also matters that
are expected to come up.
There will be a frank discus
sion of what Gene Doyle, press
relations man for the league,
terms "territorial rights," or the
right of franchise, mostly re
volving upon the odd situation
which finds Los Angeles sup
porting or hoping to support
three teams.
There are many enthusiasts
who still expect the American
league to be as strong or strong
er than the veteran National
league, who expect the National
league eventually to be forced
into yearly playoffs with this
"child prodigy."
The old refrain can still be
used "watch us grow!"
Chamber Delivers
300 Certificates
Frnmed membership certifi
cates are being delivered this
week to members of the Jack
son County Chamber of Com
merce. This is an innovation
with the chamber, membership
cards having been used In the
past. Frank Hull, manager of
the group, states that more than
300 of the certificates are being
presented to individuals and
firms In all parts of the county.
HICCOUGHS PLEA WINS
Houston, Tex. (U.R) Haled
into county criminal court to
face a drunken driving charge,
a 45-year-old motorist presented
a new, and convincing, defense.
His snakish driving, he said, was
due to a violent spell of hic
coughs, not whisky. The Jury, in
sympathy with the hiccough vic
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GAME POSTPONED
The baseball game between
the Medford Craters and the
Western Personnel Reassign
ment Center club, originally
scheduled for tomorrow night
at the fairgrounds park, has
been postponed a week to Wed
nesday niglv', June 28, because
of the circus, It was announced
today. . ,
Next Sunday afternoon the
Craters will tangle with the
Camp White Station Hospital in
the second game of the round
robin playoff series for the first
half championship of the Mcd-ford-Camp
White circuit. The
hospital has won one game thus
far in the playoffs, a 2 to 0
blanking of the WPRC last Sunday.
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Baltimore, June 20 (U.R)
Hard-hitting Lee Q. Murray, of
Norwalk, Conn., recognized by
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weight champion, today held a
12-round decision over Curtis
Sheppard of Pittsburgh.
Murray, weighing 185VS,
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night before 10,000 at Oriole
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greater ring experience and an
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pected. to go the limit since each
tighter has demonstrated a
punishing attack in previous
bouts. Sheppard weighed 207 Vi.
FREETras 10
Tickets for the bond show,
"The Call of Freedom," are to
be secured through headquarters
of the Fifth War Loan drive, 21 1
North Central avenue, it was an
nounced today. The show, being
staged by men of the Western
Personnel Reassignment center,
Camp White, will be given at the
Craterian theater Friday night
of this week.
Admission to the show will
be by bond purchase only, and
persons desiring the tickets are
to present a bond, dated not ear
lier than June 19, at the drive
headquarters. The headquarters
are open from 12 noon until 4
p. m. and from 6 to 8 p. m. Bonds
of any denomination are accept
able. FM STATION ASKED
Washington, June 20 (U.R)
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Federal Communications com
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