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FOR TITLE. BOOT i Katonen's Prestige At Stake In Main Mat Clash To- night Cards Start 8:30 J of the off-color maneuvers In vented dv me villainous grap ple gentry, of which George is a member. A pure and simple alley brawl will be witnessed in the middle event, with Jack "Bad Boy" Lipscomb meeting Harold "Buck" Davidson. They don't figure to waste any time with clean stuff. Billy McEuin and Herb Parks, the latter light-heavyweight champion of Canada, will match scientific holds in the opener. This match, railbirds believe, will develop into one of the classiest exhibitions of straight grappling seen here this year. The program will get under way at 8:30 sharp. BIG THREESTART Paavo Katonen stakes his pres tige, if not his Pacific coast light heavyweight mat championship, in a main event match with "Gorgeous George" Wagner in the armory tonighi, and if the latter wins the current crown wearer can expect a vociferous challenge from the glamour boy for a title bout. Wagner, ever since losing the championship to Katonen in a California match a little more than four months ago, has been agitating for a return shot at the toga. The clever Finnish matman has thus far ignored "Goregous George," but it is en tirely possible he will agree to give him a title clash if Wagner should win tonight. ' Katonen has promised Pro moter Mack Lillard he will de fend his crown in Medford be fore returning to California. Wagner, aware of this promise, will bend every effort to defeat the champ this evening and "force" him to put the belt on the block in a return match. Throng Expected The tussle, expected to draw another sellout crowd, will fea ture Katonen's science and knowledge of all legitimate holds versus Wagner's unortho dox tactics, which include most Highest Prices Paid for Clean USED GARS We See It! We Do It! AUTOMOBILE MARKET 6th and Bartlert Stl. Phone 3919 Berkeley, Calif., July 6 (U.R) The last of California's war time football "Big Three" was open for business today, and Coach Leonard B. "Stub" Alli son found 123 University of Cal ifornia hopefuls on deck, nearly three times as many as UCLA and USC turned up earlier this week. Allison kept nine returning lettermen from his So-So 1943 squad among the 123 candidates, mainly navy and marine train ees. Allison, who incidentally told the boys before sign-up that he was forgetting about a profes sional grid coaching job offered him by a San Francisco pro club, did not draw the top stars Jeff Cravath and Babe Horrell found returning at USC and UCLA, however. Cravath will have eight let termen from his championship Trojan team, including Quarter back Jim Hardy, star of the USC Rose Bowl victory over Washington last New Year's Day. Horrell was blessed with Quarterback Bob Waterfield, veteran of the 1943 Rose Bowl classic. FOXX TO COACH Chicago, July 6. (U.R) Jimmy Foxx, 36-year-old slugger who compiled a lifetime batting aver age of .323, has been removed from the active playing roster of the Chicago Cubs and signed as a coach,'' ending a playing career that started 20 years ago with the Philadelphia Athletics. Port Orford cedar was pur chased in large quantities by the Japanese before the war because of its resistance to the wood boring insects of Japan, Lie y r & Like Sunny Morning in Your Glass! HOLD a drink of ScHEJiXET Reserve np to the liglit watch it wink and sparkle . , . jut like a brcczc-swcpt country morning. Golden and mellow, smooth as sun rise, ScnEMJT Reserve is the result of real genius in blend ing. It's a favorite among finer whiskies. Try it soon. THIY NKO YOU Htlf DOWN ON THE FARM You'rt In tho fight, too whtn you ht'p to horvnt our vital form crop. So your loeol U.5. Employ mtnt Strvlco . . . and tpond your .par -pi limo down on jr, tho form for -r t Victoryl '": ' lj (Includes Stat and Federal Taxes) $5 5 0 45 Qt. SCHENLEY The else serve, ' who BUY and MOID WAR BONDS! Sdiontor DhrlWn CorptiorUn. N. Y. t IUNOCD WHISKFY PW. 40 ntil iWn diwWod from f dm Reds' Ray Mueller Equals Catching Mark In National , By Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, July 6 (U.R) Those "durability twins" of the ma jor leagues, Ray Mueller of the Reds and Frankie Hayes of the Athletics, probably will be doing business at the same old stand behind home plate when the teams square off for the annual all-star sociable at Pittsburgh next Tuesday night, but if they obeyed their creaking bones they more than likely would take the night off. The all-star contest usually af fords the majority of the major ' leaguers a three-day vacation I and how those two knights of I the iron mask could use it. wenner one o: mem nas missea a game this season and for catch ers that constitutes a baseball miracle. Moreover, Mueller went through nearly half of last sea son handling every game for ev ery Red pitcher and yesterday he tied a modern National league mark of 35 years' standing, when he caught his 133rd straight con test over the two-year span. I BY SEATTLE, 8-4 By United Press The Oakland Acorns, latest team to crawl to the top of the heap in the hectic Pacific Coast league pennant chase, were back in second place today after hav- This business of "overtime" in , baseball's must gruelling job is SpaIs g j nothing new to these specialists took in a spot where it s a soft day if , t , h p you don t get some hard knocks. ! th Q Mueller caught in 141 of Cm- m ahea(J o Diego, two cmnati's 154 games last year and ,ead Lqs A ,e ',hree mento in the Pacific Coast league in 1942 worked in 166 games. The 32-year-old veteran, who was born in the soft coal country of southern Kansas, has been in 510 major league games in six and a half seasons and he wasn't even a regular when he started with the Boston Braves in 1935. He also has seen service with the Pittsburgh Pirates, who moved him into the St. Louis Cardinal chain in 1940, where he remained until Cincinnati ac quired him in 1942. Port land and but five ahead of last place Sacramento. San Diego lost its third straight to the surprising Sacra mento Solons, currently the hot test team in the league, 6-5. Seattle thumped Portland, 8-4, and Los Angeles shut out Holly wood, 3-0. Score: Seattle 8 13 2 Portland 4 11 4 Speece and Spindel; Mosser, Federmeyer and Campbell. SEGURA, TALBERT ADVANCE IN MEET Neenah, Wis., July 6 (U.R) Francisco (Pancho) Segura, Mi ami University, and Bill Talbert, Indianapolis, Ind., seeded No. 1 and 2 players in the 57th annu al Western Tennis champion ships, entered the quarter-finals today against Dick Warner, Salt Lake City, and Dale Lewis, Logan, Utah, today. Segura, who took an easy 6-2, 6-1 match from Bill Grode, Men asha, Wis., yesterday, meets his first stiff competition in Warner who had advanced previously to the quarters. Talbert, considered the only obstacle in Segitra's hid for the western crown, smashed out a 6-0, 6-0 victory over Joseph Bleckinger, Oshkosh, Wis., yes terday, to back up his No. 2 tourney rating. OWTHFtf CTA A IBS S fm imi M B American W. L. Pet St. Louis 42 32 .568 Boston 39 34 .534 New York 35 34 .507 Chicago 33 33 .500 Washington 35 37 .486 Detroit 35 38 .478 Cleveland 35 38 .478 Philadelphia 32 40 .444 BOCK SHAW QUITS SANTA CLARA JOB Santa Clara, Calif., July 6. (U.R) Lawrence T. "Buck" Shaw, colorful coajli of the University of Santa Clara Broncos, was a free agent today after resigning from the position of head foot ball mentor he had held for the past eight years. Shaw and the university agreed to cancel a contract run ning until 1947 in view of the curtailed football program at the Jesuit institution, the Rev. Charles J. Walsh, S.J., president of the university, announced. The Broncos abandoned the gridiron last year for the dura tion of the war. No immediate action In naming n successor to Shaw is " contemplated, Father Walsh said, nor did he know j whether. Shaw would return to the position after the war. National W. L. Pet. St. Louis 48 19 .716 Cincinnati . 39 31 .557 Pittsburgh 35 30 .538 New York 34 36 CARDINAL ACE WILL ENTER ARMY JULY 11 St. Louis, July 6. 'U.R) George Munger of the St. Louis Cardinals, who became the Na tional league's leading pitcher last night when he won his 11th I victory against two defeats, will report for army duty next Tues day, July 11, the day he was i scheduled to play in the major ' league all-star game at Pitts burgh, he said today. Munger, whose work on the mound has overshadowed that of such veteran Cardinal stars as Morton Cooper and Max Lanier, I is 25 years old, .486 Brooklyn .... 33 39 .458 Philadelphia 30 38 Boston .... 29 42 Chicago .. 25 38 .441 .408 .403 San Francisco Oakland ......... Seattle San Diego Los Angeles Portland Hollywood Sacramento Pacific Coaii W. L. Pet. ... 46 42 .523 45 42 .517 , 45 43 .511 46 45 .505 44 44 .500 43 45 .489 44 46 .489 NEW GRIDIRON LOOP MAY INCLUDE HAWAII Pittsburgh, July 6. (U.R) Roland D. Payne, Pittsburgh in dustrialist and sponsor of a pro posed new professional football league, said today that plans for extending operations to Hawaii would be discussed in a meeting of representatives at Philadel phia on July 23. Payne said holders of certifi cates of operation would ratify j a constitution, select a name and elect permanent officers at the I meeting. 40 46 .465 The town of Scotia, Humboldt county, is built entirely of red wood. Ribbon Falls, highest In Yo semite, drop 1612 feet, a height almost ten times greater than that of Niagara. 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Donald pitched a seven hit ter and got 11-hit support from his mates,' Bud Metheny hitting his ninth homer of the year to go into a triple tie for the league lead. The St. Louis Browns In creased their margin to two and a half games over the second place Boston Red Sox, defeating the Philadelphia A's 4 to 2 in the ninth when Relief Pitcher George Caster singled home two runs to win his own game. Detroit held Boston back, de feating the Red Sox 8 to 1 with an early uprising which netted five runs in three Innings. The Washington Senators dropped the Chicago White Sox into fourth place by winning a 3 to 1 pitching battle. Cincinnati regained second place in the National league for the first time since June 3, de feating Brooklyn 4 to 1, with Ray Mueller tying a modern league mark by catching his 133rd straight game. It was Brooklyn's ninth consecutive defeat. The pace setting Cardinals won their seventh straight, de feating New York 4 to 1, as Pitcher George Munger won his 11th game against two defeats. The Chicago Cubs dropped to eighth place after being out one day, the Boston Braves defeat ing them 7 to 2 behind Jim Tobin's seven hit pitching. Dick (Kcwpie) Barrett of the Philadelphia Phillies gained credit for two victories in one day, winning a suspended game 9 to 4 with one inning of work, then going the route to defer. Pittsburgh 12 to 2 in the regular contest. The double defeat ousted the Pirates from second place. At Craterian rSs.rV C M ' , Stc ,Y- . rv'n- m Now playing at the Craterian Is ' Four Jills in a Jeep, ' with Kay Francis, Carole Landis, Martha Raye, Mitzi Mayfair and Jimmy Dorsey and his orchestra. Thursday, July 8, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FIVS Judge Takes Son From Embattled Heinz Parents INITIAL PLAYOFF The first of two games to de termine the Medford - Camp White Baseball league cham pionship will be played at the fairgrounds park Sunday after noon, with the Craters facing the Station Hospital. Two weeks later, on July 23, the winner of this contest will meet the West ern Personnel Reassignment Center club for the title. The first round-robin playoff series for the crown wound up in a triple tie, with each of the three teams winning one and losing one. The Station Hospital defeated WPRC but lost to the Craters who, in turn, were beaten by WPRC. CLIFT CHANGES MIND Washington, July 6. (U.R) Infielder Harlond Clift, sent to the Washington Senators in a tiade from the St. Louis Browns has reconsidered his decision to stay out of baseball this season and is flying from his home in Yakima, Wash., to join the team, President Clark Griffith said today. Hollywood, July 0 (U.R) Judge Charles E. Haas today reprimanded Clifford Stanton Heinz, Jr., scion of the wealthy food packing family, and his wife, who engaged in an em bittered fight over custody of their four-year old son, and ordered the boy placed In a nursery school. After the boy, Clifford III, has remained in care of "non-relatives" at the school for a year. Judge Haas ruled, the father will assume custody. The decision came after a five week trial in which Heinz al leged that Count Walter Von Neudegg, a skiing instructor, had been found naked in his wife's hotel room. The wife described the incident as a frame-up. Crew of the Coast Guard cut ter Spencer shaved off months old beards when they received official confirmation of their victory over a German sub. They had sworn not to shave until such a victory wmt achieved. Se Humphrey NOWI Humphrey Sells More Humphrey Buys More CASH FOR USED CARS I 33 So. 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' FOR NEXT WINTER Buy Nsw GREEN PiriE SLABS In 12" or 16" Lengths . . 300 cu. ft. $4.50 FOR IMMEDIATE USE FACTORY BLOCKS 200 cu. ft $6.75 DIAL 2123 PPS DIAL 2123 Timber P to Acre Company HIOfORO oiieoN W VnA ' v I.V d ?A Kit If Vt ZZl-gA..;zrSlL ..r.: i ..V.-.J.f : .lui.ii-A m LJtf ..'..t-K , ;,, t, V ,. ' . - Wort your fuur secure invest in War flond Know why this picture is unusual? This picture illustrate a story that couldn't lie fold very many years ago ... a story that but let's start at the be ginning. You're on a train, S. P.'s Streamlined Daylight, let's say. (That's its engine you see passing above.) Four and a half hours ago you left San Francisco for Los Angeles. Your train is climbing up to the crest of the Santa Lucias up the winding steel path that is the Santa Margarita grade. But wait ... look there ahead. Another train is coming down. A long freight train. And then it hnppeai. Tho thing that makes the picture above so unusual. Neither train stops. Vou're on single track, but neither train stops. Like the picture shows, the two trains pass. The answer? The answer is one of the most Important de velopments in railroading. It's a $17,000-a-milo "gadget" called C.T.C. Centralized Traffic Control. pi Miles from the meeting point of tho Daylight and the freight, a dispatcher sits before a C.T.C. board. Colored lights show him the progress of both trains. At the right moment ho moves levers connected electrically with track signals snd switches. In response, the freight glides onto a passing track, proceeds et reduced speed the Daylight "highballs" past. Then th freight rolls back onto the main line. Running time Is saved, for onco a heavy freight is stopped it takes a whilo to regain full speed. And C.T.C. eliminates! delays for delivery of train orders, and for hand-opening and closing of switches by the train crews. The great sweep of West and South where S. P. lines run for over 15,000 miles, is a land of vast distances and tough mountain grades. Here single track has lieen adequate in many cases to handla norma traffic. But with tho abnormal war load, some of this; line required greater capacity. At a time when new rail is hard to get, and we are pressed for manpower, C.T.C. is a bottleneck buster which helps us make the existing trackage carry maxi mum traffic. Today, besides tho installation over Santa Margarita grade we have C.T.C. nt many important points in California and along our Overland and Sunset Houtes. What docs all this add up to? Just tins. S. r.'s transcontinental routes bring troops and ail Immense volume of war material from Chicago and New Orleans and through the Pacific Northuvst to Pacific Coast porta for tht war with Japan. Where C.T.C. is installed on these routes, tht train handling capacity of single track sections is expanded 50 to 75 per cent. The Victory trains mast keep rolling. C.T.C. is just anothef way S. P. is making ire they do keep rolling faster and fustef end still faster. The friendly Southern Pacific
