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SPORTS jai. t&AK mi FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. July S. 1944 shoved them Into fourth place by clipping them twice. The Yanks, who couldn't hit when It counted, left 10 men on the banes In each game and lost the first 3-1. the second, 7-2 Washington and Chicago split, the Senators taking the first game 2-0 on a splendid four-hit pitching performance by John ny Nlggellng. The nightcap went 12 Innings before the White Sox emerged with a 3-2 triumph. Cards win Pair The Cards stretched their .Na tional league lead to I0V4 games, longest of the season, with two wins over New York. Four runs In the first Inning provided the league champs with a working margin which they extended to win, 6-2, In the opener. The sec ond game was hardly a contest, the Cards winning 9-1. Mort Cooper and Harry Brecheen were the victors. The Chicago Cubs came out of the senior circuit's cellar for the first time since April 27. with a twin victory over the Boston Braves. The double loss, 7-1 and 4-2, dumped the Braves Into the vacated eighth place. Brooklyn's dismal Dodgers, without a victory on their cur- SI. LOUIS CLUBS IN FIRS! PLACE AS JULNPASSES Hopes Strong for First Inter- City World Series Cubs Leave Cellar WAGNER 10 FACE CHAMP KATONEN ISDAY NIGHT New York. July 5 OI.R) The fourth of July has come and gone, and thus, according to the baseball adage, St. Louis is as sured of Its first inter-city world erles. The adage has it that the team In front through July 4 Is the team to win the pennant and both St. Louis clubs passed that prophetic day at the Jop of their respective leagues. The Browns' margin, consid erably more precarious than the Cardinals', remained at a game and a half over the Boston Red Sox as they split a twin bill with the Philadelphia Athletics. Sig Jakuckl continued his sensation al brand of pitching by hurling his third shutout in four games to win the first game for St. Louis, 4-0. The ex-soldier has al lowed but one run in his last 37 Innings on the mound and that cost him a 1-0 decision with the New York Yankees. The "As" clouted three Brown pitchers for 13 hits in the nightcap, the long est of which was Frankie Haye',' two-run homer, to gain an 8-3 victory. Boston and Detroit shared vic tories, the Tigers gaining a 4-3 edge In the first game. Boston bounced back to win the finale, 7-4, largely through the offensive efforts of Second Baseman Bob by Doerr, whose bat provided five runs during the game, three on his eighth homer. The Cleveland Indians whit tled the New York Yankees down to the .900 mark and "Gorgeous George" Wagner, the man of the plural dressing robes, who lost his Pacific coast light-heavyweight wrestling crown to Finnish Paavo Katonen some four months ago, gets an other crack at that worthy in the armory Thursday night. And, although Southpaw Kato- I nen s title will not be on the block, Wagner is determined to turn the tables on the current champion and, with that as a talking point, demand a match for the bauble. Katonen has promised Promoter Mack Llilard he will defend his toga here be fore returning to California. Katonen, 34 years old, will' be returning to Medford after an ab sence of a month, during which he hung up an Impressive string of victories Jn the northern part of the state. Katonen, born In "Heavenly 3ooy" Here Sunday V 4 t j y ft f I 7 W i 1" id t Opening Sunday for a three-1 "Heavenly Body," with William day program at the Craterian Is I Powell and Hedy Lamarr. .... -.iiuMin-- rent road trip, extended their FinIand, tu'rned professional losing streak to eight games by dropping a nalr to the Cincinnati Reds. Gee Walker clouted a hom er with the bases loaded In the fifth inning of the first game to account for a 6-2 margin. The nightcap went 10 innings before the Reds edged out a 2-1 tri umph. The Philadelphia Phillies and the Pittsburgh Pirates divided. the Phillies winning the first 3-2 and the Pirates the nightcap BOND MATCH DRAWS Hollywood, July 5, (U.R) Bring Crosby and Bruce McCor mlek beat Bob Hope and Johnny. Dawson 2 and 1 yesterday In a $1,000,000 war bond golf match at the Los Angeles country club. More than 3,500 fans golf and movie paid in the million to see their favorites. ROLL OFF LINE Tulsa. Okla. (U.R) Eight hundred Liberator bombers had been assembled In the Tulsa Douglas Aircraft Co. plant up to June 1, MaJ. Robert L. South wltck, army procurement of ficer, announced recently. wrestler at the age of 21 and six years later won the European middleweight champ I o n s h I p, which he-held for two years un til growing into a light-heavyweight. In 1941, Paavo copped the world's light-heavyweight title from Wild Red Berry in Holly wood, but lost it the next season when Billy Varga broke his leg with a toehold. He was inactive for some time, but after return ing to the ring he grabbed the coast diadem from Wagner. The pair will clash In the one hour main event. Two rowdies, Harold "Buck" Davidson and Jack Lipscomb, are scheduled to tangle in the four-round center attraction, I while Billy McEuin and Herb Handsome Lee Oma To Face Lou Nova In Next Battle By Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, July 5 U.R) If handsome does as handsome is, the ring's great sex-appeal slugger Lee Oma should become heavyweight champion of the world without having an eyebrow plucked by a hostile glove. Oma, the "Russian Rocker, who resembles the late Rudolph Valentino except that he has more oomph grandiloquently accepted Lou Nova, the Yogi man, as his next opponent, to prove that beauty is more than skin deep. Oma, of the glossy black hair, olive complexion and blonde- PROUD OF HENS Cleveland (U.R) E. W. Price of suburban North Royalton of fered an egg to prove his con tention that hens are going all- out" for the war. The egg meas ured four and one-half Inches long and three and one-half inches wide. Wartime restrictions may keep your - W. j'f i aquaintance to an occasional bottle of , " -- jjH' Barclay's Straight Rye-but nott w iib f VfeaCTja jjciftf pleosun that its quality is rigidly maintained, . HffV IS h 1 mlmj$ M3S0 . mivati stock tJ Ay V jKwAsSSa Jot. tordoyt Co. IMtri horia, llltix.lt H W'-'i J (9 tZ. '"" ALL-SIT AIR ARB Parks will stage a scientific i .nn.in. th ,.,ni nnii. match In the three-round opener. I with Nova at Detroit's Olympia on July 14. He eagcriy accepted Nova as his opponent; but he was reluctant to return to De troit, his home city, where he is regarded as an "ugly duckling" despite his masculine beauty. Oma, now 27 and apparently at the peak of his prowess, is regarded as an "ugly duckling" In Detroit because of early mis takes that he made In and out of the ring mistakes that we will not enlarge upon at this writing. Suffice to say that since Larruping Lee left Detroit 14 months ago he has fought with such effectiveness that today he is the sixth ranking American heavyweight, In the ratings of the National Boxing association. and the Ring magazine. Handsome Oma, whose father and mother were born in Rus sia and who machine guns the Russian language himself., has fought 25 times under the colors of Manager Tex Sullivan, since his reformation. He lost only three bouts and won 22. Of these victories he Is working on 19 in a row. He has kayocd 12 of these ; opponents, including Danny Cox, Larry Scalone, Johnny Denson. Herbert Marshall. Dusty Wilker son and Georgle Parks He has outpointed such well known performers as Wallace Cross and Buddy Knox. Tex Sullivan, former secretary to Heavyweight Champion Jim Braddock and Manager Jne Gould, says: "Mannging Oma is a brand new experience for me. It Isn't Just a question of keeping him In shape and arranging matches it's me against the women. Everywhere Oma goes, I have to fight the women off. Sometimes 1 wish some opponent would bash In his nose and spoil his perfect profile, and give him cauliflower ears. It would mnke things easier for me. At first. I was polite to the women; but I am no longer polite. Now I puh TO JOHN THOMAS Los Angeles, July 5. (UP) Henry Armstrong, one of the prize ring's most enduring insti tutions, showed signs of wearing out last night in losing a slow fight to John Thomas, 10 years younger and a pound lighter. The former triple champion, weighing 139, shuffled in and out for 10 rounds and won only two. He split another and Refe ree Reggie Gilmore awarded the unanimous decision to the other local battler on his more solid, more frequent blows. Armstrong got a split verdict in their last meeting. A different man from the one who belted Bumy Davis around In Madison Square Garden a while back, Armstrong was un able to put Thomas in trouble at any stage of the fight. There were no knockdo wns, no clinches, and although Arm strong and Thomas both found themselves up against the ropes occasionally, it was Just for convenience. iOAKS TAKE OVER TOP SPOT; BEVOS SPLIT WITH SUOS By United Press The Oakland Acorns, until re cently close contenders for the Pacific Coast league cellar Cham pionship, today held the leading league position following their sensational Fourth of July upset of the San Francisco Seals, 9-2 and 1-0, before 15,000 wildly ex cited fans. The Sacramento Solons, still in last place, meanwhile contin ued to narrow their losing mar gin to games behind the new leaders as they copped a 3-2 and 2-1 victory over the San Diego Padres The Seattle Rainiers spilt a doubleheader with the Portland Beavers, taking the first game 3-1 and dropping the second 1-3. The Los Angeles Angels won their opener with the Hollywood Stars 3-0 and lost the nightcap 6-5. Seattle scored its tallies In the opener in the fifth and sixth frames as Demoran, Rainier pitcher, allowed the Beavers but three hits. The Beavers got their lone tally in the sixth. In the nightcap, Submarine Ad Liska pitched for the Beavers, allowing eight hits. Yesterday's line scores: Seattle 3 5 1 Portland 13 3 Demoran and Lyman; Cohen, Federmeyer and Campbell. 1 Seattle 1 8 ( 2 Portland 3 5 0 Babich and Sueme; Liska and Adams. SERVICEMAN SETS 1ST HOW THEY? Pacific Coast W. L. 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(U.R) The Baltimore Orioles of the International league, prepared today to complete their home games at Baltimore s municipal stadium after their own park was destroyed yesterday by fire which wroucht damage estimate ed at $130,000. Fall River, Mass., July i (U.R) u. S. Coastguardsman Clayton Farrar of New London, Conn., one of the nation s out standing distance runners, today held a new recoM for the 15 kilometer distance. Farmr. competing In the ama teur athletic union race here yesterday, covered the distance, approximately nine and a miles, in 50.11 to crack the Mark of 51:29 held by Lt. Joe McClus key of New York. John Kelley of West Acton, who finished sec nnfl tn Farrar. also broke the old mark when he was clocked In 51:9 as did Army Sgt. Norman Bright, who was third in 51:23. OLD PIN-UP Minerva, O. (U.R) The latest in pin-up girls is two-year-old Sondra Sue Houze of Minerva who was selected the pin-up girl of Co. 1020 at Camp Green Bay, Wis. 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