FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
Monday, June 28, 1944
SEORTvS
BARGAIN BILL 10
10
game as Cincinnati took the first
of two games from the Chicago
Cubs, 4-3. Claude Passeau pitch
ed four hit ball in the nightcap
to gain a S-0 shutout for the
Cubs.
New York and oBston split.
Two errors and three singles in
the first inning of the opener
gave Boston's Charley Barrett a
three-run working margin and
I he went on to win, 5-1. Rookie
Bill Voiselle won the nightcap
for the Giants 4-1, with a three
hit performance his 10th of
the season.
Tigers Trimmed Twice As
Leaders Start Sastern
Trip White Sox Second
Yank Hopes Revive As Team
Comes Home for Long Stand
By Jack Cuddy
United Press Staff Correspondent.
New York, June 26. (U.R) East side, west side, and all
around the town Gotham's hopes in the Yankees blossomed
again today as Joe McCarthy and his revivified pennant-de-'
fenders returned to the city for a long home stand.
sprouted from
New York, June 26 (U.R)
The St. Louis Browns today en
trained for the east to undertake
what may prove to be the cru
cial three weeks of the season in
their quest for their first Ameri
can league pennant.
The time has come to take the
Browns seriously in the tight
Junior circuit race and if they
can continue any semblance of
their current pace they will re
turn home on July 18 with an
, old baseball axiom on their side:
"The team in first place through
July 4, is the team to beat for
the pennant."
If frame of mind has anything
to do with winning games on
Wis trip, St. Louis should be In.
Yesterday the Browns swept a
twin bill from the Detroit
Tigers.
The double victory, 5-4, In the
10-inning opener, and 5-2 in the
second increased the Browns
league lead to four games.
. The Ciiicago White Sox climb-
. ed into second place with a twin
victory over the Cleveland In
dians. Bill Dietrich scattered six
hits for an 11-0 shutout. The sec
ond game was cut to seven in'
nings by rain and the Sox eked
out a 4-3 decision.
Yankees Win Pair
A four-run first inning proved
to be Just the margin Hank
Borowy needed to gain a 4-3 vic
tory for the New York Yankees
in the. opener against Philadel
phia and Ernie Bonhnm scatter
ed 10 hits for a 5-2 win in the
finale.
Washington and Boston split
a pair, the Senators winning the
first game, 5-4. Tex Hughson
saved the day for the Bo-Sox,
however, with a masterful
three-hit performance in the
nightcap for a 4-0 shutout.
In the National league the St.
Louis Cardinals stretched their
league lead to nine and a half
games over the second place
Pittsburgh Pirates with a 2-1
victory in the first game and the
second was called after nine In
nings with the score tied at 5-5.
The Brooklyn Dodgers regain
ed the first division with a
trouble victory over the hapless
Philadelphia Phillies. Veteran
Curt Davis held the Phillies to
seven hits to win the opener, 4-1,
and Rube Melton annexed the
afterpiece, 2-1, in 10 innings.
Bucky Walters won his 12th
T
TO DROP IN RACE
By United Press
The San Francisco Seals, top
club in Pacific Coast league
standings, this week battle the
San Diego Padres, their nearest
rivals, for the lpading position
while four other clubs struggle
to escape a tie for fourth place.
The Padres, 2 'i games behind
the Seals, edged through tight
games Sunday with the Holly
wood Stars to win the series 5-2
by taking an opener 2-1 and
nightcap 7-6. The third place
Oakland Acorns swept a double-
header from the Seattle Rainiers
5-2 and 6-2 to win the series by
five games to one.
The Los Angeles Angels, tied
with Hollywood, Seattle and
Portland for fourth, won their
series with the Beavers 5-2 after
splitting a doubleheader. The
Angels copped the opener 6-5
while the Beavers swept the
nightcap 12-0. The last-place
Solons made their second series
win from the Seals 5-2, dropping
Sunday's opener 10-1 but win
ning the scsond game 1-0.
Games this week, besides San
Francisco at San Diego, include
Portland at Oakland, Hollywood
at Sacramento, and Seattle at
Los Angeles.
The Angels converted 14 hits
Into 12 runs in the second half
of their twin bill with the Beav
ers. The first game went 10 in
nings before the Angels drew
final blood with a three-run out
burst In their half of the tenth.
Dick Conger allowed the Beav
ers only three hits in the seven
inning nightcap. Garriott led
the Angels' batting assault
against Portland with four for
four. Including a home, his sec
ond of the afternoon.
Yesterday's llnescores:
Portland .... .. 8 11 1
Lf,s Angeles 6 11 1
Pulford, Llska, Sullivan and
Adams; Cornelias, Osborn and
Fernandes.
Portland 0 8 2
Los Angeles 12 14 3
Cohen, Ott, Mosser and
Adams, Norager, Cook; Conger
and Fernandes.
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These hopes
the fact that the third-place
Yanks won six of their last
seven games, and that Pitcher
Ernie Bonham seems to have
returned to form. Meanwhile:
the ' leading St. Louis Browns
and second-place Chicago White
Sox are starting road tours. The
Brownies and Chicox have play
ed less than .500 ball away from
home thus far.
The Yanks open their home
stand Wednesday, starting with
the Browns. From then through
July 9, the McCarthymen will
have 14 games against western
invaders. After time-out for the
all-star game at Pittsburgh, July
11, the Yanks entertain Boston
for four stadium contests, before
swinging into the west July 17.
Yankee admirers are confi
dent that the New Yorkers
now only four-and-a-half games
behind the leading Browns
will regain first place before
they make their next trip into
the midlands. During the past
week they played the brand of
ball customary for Yankee
teams, climaxing their surge by
taking both ends of a double
header from the Athletics at
Philadelphia yesterday,
Six victories in seven starts
was a heartening came-back, in'
deed, for a club that had made
perhaps the sorriest showing in
McCarthy's regime as they lost
17 of the 22 contests preceding
June 20. They were in seventh
place once; and only the medi
ocre performances of other clubs
prevented them from dropping
deep into the cellar because of
an impotent outfield and a
floundering mound staff.
ENABLE CRATERS
TO WIN, 6 TO 5
BELL GETS TEST
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New York, June 26 (U.R)
Tommy Bell, young Negro
knockout artist from Youngs-
town, Ohio, gets a big-time test
tonight against Pvt. Frltzie Zlvic,
former welterweight champion,
at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, in
one of the two important outdoor
shows on this week s national
boxing schedule.
The other big moonlight mill
at Braves Field, Boston, Thur
day night, unveils World Ban'
tamweight Champion Manuel Or
tiz of 1 Centro, Cal., for his
eastern professional debut. Or
tiz tackles Larry Bolvln, Rhode
Island featherweight, In a non-
title brawl.
HAGG SETS NEW
2-
Stockholm, June 26 (U.R)
Gunder Hagg, In his second race
of the season at Oestersund yes
terday, picked up where he left
off last year by setting another
new world's record when he ran
two miles in 8:46.4
Hagg's performance turned In
, in his first big race of the season,
I broke his own record set two
years Hgn 01 o.lf.o.
I The Swedish distance star,
who made an all-victorious
: American tour last summer, will
meet his countryman and world
j mile record holder, Arne An
j riersson, In a 1500-meter race on
' Wednesday.
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The Station Hospital infield
cracked wide open in the last of
the ninth inning at the fair
grounds park yesterday to hand
the Medford Craters a 6 to 5 vic
tory in the second game of the
rund-robin playoff series for the
Medford CampWhlte league
championship.
As a result of their win, the
Craters can clinch the pennant
by defeating the Western Person
nel Reassignment Center club at
the fairgrounds Wednesday
night. A victory for WPRC will
deadlock the series at one win
and one loss for the three con
testing teams. The Station Hos
pital holds a 2 to 0 win over
WPRC, who were defeated 11 to
4 by the Naval Air Station at
Klamath Falls yesterday.
Fight Fielder Stammen, first
man up for the Craters in the
ninth, with the score tied at 5-5,
reached second base when Em-
ick. Medic third-sacker. threw
his ground bail far over the first
baseman s head.
Dick Kidwell, who hurled the
ninth inning for the Craters, sac
rificed him to third, and Steve
Crippen struck out. Calac, Cra
ter second baseman, smashed
one at Shortstop Kastelic and
that gent obliged by throwing
wild to first to allow Stammen
to cross with the winning run.
Crippen worked the first eight
frames for the locals and did a
fine Job, fanning 11 and holding
the soldiers to seven blows. Neu
bauer's single, a walk and Kob
llch's error gave the Hospital
two runs in the first inning, but
from then until the eighth Crip
pen dished out horsecollars.
In the meantime the Craters
were picking up a tally in the
third on Crlppen's walk, a
passed ball and Calac's double
to left and another in the sixth
to tie it at 2-2 on a walk to Kiel-
bow, an error. Virgil Swanson's
infield hit and Weyeneth's fly to
left.
The Craters apparently Iced
the thing In the seventh with
three runs on singles by Kiel-
bow and Lane, an error and a
walk. In the eighth, however,
the hospital roared back with
three runs of their own to dead.
lock it again at 5-5. Kastelic
opened with a triple to right and
scored on Neubauer's single to
center. Rogers singled to right,
sending Neubauer to third, and
immediately stole second. Crip
pen fanned Hunt for the first
cut and also struck out Johnson.
But Catcher Weyeneth dropped
tne Dan, and while he was throw-
1 n g out Johnson, Neubauer
scored. Kobllch's return throw
to the nlate was wild and Rogers
also tallied.
Kidwell, relieving Crippen In
the ninth.. faced only three men.
and he whiffed every one of
them.
Charley Johnson, who hurled
a no-hlt, no-run game against the
WPRC June 18. went the route
for the losers. He held the Cra
ters to five hits and fanned 11,
but his support was even worse
than that given Crippen.
Swanson hit two singles for
the Craters, while Neubauer
belted a triple and two singles
for the Hospital men.
Score; ,R H E
Hospital 5 7
Craters 9 5 3
Johnson and Hunt: Crippen,
Kidwell and Hebner, Weyeneth.
RETREAT ENDS
Camp Cooke, Cal, June 26
(U.P More than 1000 soldiers
and officers of the 11th armored
division returned to military du
ties today after a twrxiay splr
Ituel retreat at historic La Puris
Ima MIslon. The retreat was
the first of its kind for military
troops In the United States.
RED IN ARTILLERY
Hollywood. June 26 (U.RV
Private Red Skelton. who con-
fesses he has always hoped he
could get into an artillery out
fit, today "dood It." Skelton
started basic training with the
a.ird Field Artillery at Cams
Roberts. Cal.
Sammy Byrd Sel To
Defend Open Title
In Victory Tourney
Chicago, June 26 (U.R) The
nation's best golfers from pro,
amateur, women's and military
service ranks will tee off Wed
nesday in the five-day victory
national open championships at
Chicago's Edgewater country
club with Sammy Byrd defend
ing his title.
Byrd won by seyen strokes
with a 72-hole card of 274 last
year, with Craig Wood as run
ner-up. The former New York
Yankee outfielder warned that
he is ready to defend his crown
by his recent triumph in the
Philadelphia invitational open.
Embellishing the star-cluster
ed field will be Byron Nelson,
Harold McSpadcn, Sgt. Jim
Turnesa, Henry Picard, Gene
Sarazen, Lt. Lawson Little,
Tommy Armour, Johnny Revol-
ta, Ky Laffoon, Jim Foults, Ben
Hogan and Jimmy Demaret.
The amateur field includes
Johnny Lehman, Chick Evans,
Bob Cochran,- Art Doering, Wil-
ford Wehrle, George Dawson.
Storekeeper Mike Stolarix and
Bill Chambers.
WAGNER, AGHIU
TO MEET AGAIN
"Gorgeous George" Wagner
will get his return shot at Wal
ter "Sneeze" Achiu-in the main
event of next Thursday night's
armory wrestling card. Promoter
Mack Lillard announced today
after signing the pair yesterday
for the rematch requested by
hundreds of fans.
Pete Belcastro and Billy Mc-
Euln will tangle In the middle
event and Harold Davidson will
face Tony Morelli in the opener.
Ivan Jones, newcomer who was
to have appeared on the card,
will, be unable to be In southern
Oregon on that date, Lillard
said.
TRI-STATETOGA
Cincinnati, O., June 26 (U.R)
Francisco (Pancho) Segura,
Ecuadorean tennis star and win
ner of the national clay court
tournament at Detroit last week
today held the tri-state tennis
singles championship.
Segura gained the title yester
day in the final round of the
43rd annual tourney when he
defeated Billy Talbert of Indian
apolis, Ind., 9-11, 6-2, 7-5, 2-6,
7-5.
In the women's final Dorothy
Bundy of Santa Monica Cal.,
winner of the women's crown at
Detroit, defeated National
Champion Pauline Betz, of Los
Angeles, 7-5, 6-4.
HOWTHO?
CTA k g
American League
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 38 27 .585
Chicago 30 27 .526
New York 31 .29 .517
Boston 33 31 .516
Washington 30 33 .476
Detroit 30 34 .469
Philadelphia 29 34 .460
Cleveland 29 35 .453
National League
W. L. Pet.
St. Louis 41 16 .719
Pittsburgh 31 25 .554
New York 32 29 .525
Brooklyn 33 30 .524
Cincinnati 31 30 .508
Boston 27 36 .429
Pniladelphia 22 35 .386
Chicago 19 35 .352
Elks Convention
Marred by Death
Of Ross J. Wright
Grants Pass, June 26. Ross
J. Wright, musician and promi
nent Elk, died of a heart attack
in his room at a local hotel Sat
urday. He had been In failing health
for several years, but was still
active, operating his music store
on North Sixth street, and had
been in charge of the entertain
ment for the state Elks conven
tion. His musical program for the
Elks memorial service at 11
o'clock this morning was given
as he had planned it.
Ross J. Wright was born in
Lineville, Iowa, on Dec. 10,
1892. He sang baritone with an
Orpheum circuit quartet for
many years, touring the entire
United States. He later appear
ed on early radio programs
from eastern stations and in
1930 retired from the stage and
radio and moved to Salem where
his sister, Mrs. Jessie Dent,
lived.
In 1935 he moved to Grants
Pass where he established the
Wright Music Store.
Wright -has been prominent
in Elks activities and until re
cently when he resigned because
of ill health was an active mem
ber of the Lions club.
The body is at the Hull and
Hull funeral home and funeral
arrangements will await word
from relatives.
In 1939 the Coast Guard
saved $63,000,000 worth of ves
sels and cargo.
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San Diego . 42 40
Oakland 39 38
Hollywood .. 40 40
Seattle 39 39
Portland 39 39
Los Angeles 39 39
Sacramento 33 43
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