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
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Day. Horrell was blessed with
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veteran of the 1943 Rose Bowl
classic.
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Chicago, July 6. (U.R) Jimmy
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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.
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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
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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.
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THIRD POSITION
New York, July 6 (U.R) If
Atley Donald and the New York
Yankees could strike a winning
stride at the same time there
might even yet be time for the
world champions to emerge
with another American league
pennant, it appeared today.
Moreover, if the drawling
Dixie flinger from Morton, Miss.,
has as much luck with other
teams as he does against Cleve
land no pitcher in baseball could
top him.
Donald defeated the Indians
yesterday. 6 to 2, for the 11th
time In 12 attempts in his five
years with the Yanks. The vic
tory moved them back to third
place ahead of the Chicago White
Sox. 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.
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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
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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