TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE
ORXS
CRATERS 10 FLAG
Veteran Hurler Yields Only
' Three Hits in 6-4 Triumph
' -Sullivan Hot.
Rcd-halred Steve Crlppen
turned in one of the best mound
Jobs of his lengthy career at the
fairgrounds park Sunday after
noon to fling the Craters to a 6
to 4 victory over the Western
Personnel Reassignment Center
club and clinch the Medford
Camn White Baseball league
championship of the locals.
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The largest crowd of the sea-1
son saw the veteran righthander
limit the soldiers to but three
hits, which were bunched In the
fourth frame, along with two
Crater errors, to give WPRC all
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ned six, pitched hitlcss ball In
the other eight innings,
Meanwhile, paced by Homer
Sullivan, who belted a triple,
double and single, drove In two
runs and tallied twice, himself,
the Craters were collecting nine
blows off Ted Bergold, WPRC
southpaw.
The locals scored-twice In the
second, once In the fourth, twice
In the seventh and once In the
eighth.
Sullivan Triples
Floyd Lawson's single, Sulli
van's looping triple down the
right field line and Irwin's error
on the throw-In gave the Craters
a pair in the second, and Man
ager Paul Frccr's walk, stolen
base and Crippen's single to left
added another in the fourth.
After the WPRC, plnylng as
the home team, went into a 4
to 3 lead In their halt of the
fourth, the Craters bounced
back in the seventh for the mar
ginal 'runs without benefit of a
hit.
Stanmen andLange walked,
and the former went to third as
Swanson forced Lange. Swanson
stole second and they both
cored when D'Ambrosia drop
ped Lawson's pop fly back of
short. i
That made It B to 4, Craters,
but Just to clinch things the
locals got another In the eighth
on Sullivan's double to right
center and Frccr's single thru
the middle.
A bad fourth Inning spoiled
Crippen's bid fnr a shutout.
Jones, In right, dropped D'Am
brosla's fly to start things and,
after Birch funned, Pizzato sin
gled Infield and stole second.
Otte singled to center scoring
D'Ambrozia and Pizzato, and
reached second when Stanmen
failed to touch second on Brook
er'i force play. Lucido then
tripled to left center scoring
Otte and Brooker.
Fine Support
With tho exception of that
Inning Crlppen was complete
master of the situation. He faced
only 25 men in tho other eight
heats and had them breaking
their backs on his slow curve
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and change-of-pace.
The Crater hurler also re
ceived some fine support In
6pots, Second-Baseman Don
Wilky coming up with a great
catch and Stanmen starting a
double play in the sixth by stab
bing Otte's liner and catching
Pizzato off second.
Box score:
CRATKH3
AB R
WtlkT. ab
Stanmen, as
Lrinyt. 3b ...
Swanson, cf
LaWf:on. If ...
Sullivan, lb
Jones, rf ...
Freer, o
Crlppen, p
Holland, 3b ..
Ott, lb ...
Brooker, rf
De Kushlo,
Lucldo, cf
Hoag, o ....
Bcrgold, p
Totals 33 4 3 37 13
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BUMMARY
Errors fitanmen, Swanson 3, Bulll
van, Jonoa, D Ambroala, Blroh 3. Runa
bBtted lnsumvan a, Pr,Mi enppen,
Ott 3. Lucldo a. Two-baae hlta Wil
ky, Crlppen, Sullivan. Three-ba.se hits
Sullivan, Lucldo. Stolen bases
Stanmen, Freer, Swanson. Lawaon,
DAmbroala, Pizzato. Sacrifice Freer.
Double plays stanmen to Wllky,
l Amoroaia to uircn. ubscb on oau
crlonen 1. Bemold 6. Strlke-oui
crlppen 0, BerROld . wna pitcnea
Crlppen, B?rRold. Passed ball Freer.
Umpires Droletts and Wlmer. Time
3:13.
Mew Major Football
Circuit to Includs
Honolulu After War
Philadelphia, July 24. (U.R)
A new major league professional
football circuit spreading from
Boston to Honolulu will begin
operations in 1945, "war condi
tions permitting" franchise hold
ers In 10 cities announced to
day. The organization to be known
as the "United States Football
league" will be composed of eas-
onJ ,i,n.ln.n rllirlclnna mlth
the teams traveling to all of their I
games by airplane
The cities to whom franchises
have been issued ore Boston,
New York, Philadelphia, Balti
more and Pittsburgh in the east
ern division and Akron, Cincin-
; nati, Chicago, St. Louis and
nonoiuiu in me western nan.
Roland Donald Payne, Pitts
burgh Industrialist, who fostered
tho plans for the circuit, said
that applications for two remain
ing posts had been made by Se
attle, Portland, Buffalo, Detroit,
San Francisco, Los Angeles, New
Orleans, Fort Worth and Dallas,
and that franchises would be is
sued in the near future.
The Honolulu Islanders to be
known as the Bears, will be
coached and managed by F. J.
Brickncr, former St. Marys col
lego football player from 1931
to 1935, who Inter scouted for
the Gaels.
Stockholm, July 24. (U.R)
Guilder Hagg and Arne Andcr
sson, middle distance specialists,
ran in tho same relay yesterday,
but not against each other In a
race composed of four 1.500 me-1
tcr laps at Oercbro. Neither np-;
proachrd the world record for
the distance.
Hung, running the third lap
for the Malmoe Mai club, trav
eled 1.4110 meters In 3:411.4, the
shorter distance being duo to
curvature of the track. Ander
sson ran the fourth lap for the
Stockholm Hellas club, going the
full 1.MI0 meters in 3:53. Hellns
won tho match with a time of
16.2, while Mn;l was second in
16:5.8.
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4 10 13
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4 110 0
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3 117 0
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Totals 34 S S 37 . 13
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D'AmbroBta, ss 4 1 0 4 4
Birch, 3b 8 0 0 3 0
Irwin. 3b 1 0 0 0 0
Pizzato, 8b 4 113 3
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If 4 0 0 (3 0
8 0 110
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BROWNIES' SO-SO
PACE MAY BRING
L PENNANT
Other Am. League Teams
Unable to Strike Consist
ent Winning Streak.
New York, July 24. U.R)
Unless some team in the Ameri
can league strikes a consistent
winning stride soon, the so-so
pace of the St. Louis Browns
may be sufficient to capture the
pennant at the cheapest price in
the circuit's history, it became
apparent today.
At the same time, the St.
Louis Cardinals, playing at their
present hot pace, can take the
National league flag with the
fattest percentage of any club
since the Pittsburgh Pirates of
1909, all of which may make for
a world series with the shortest
priced favorite of all time,
No American league team in
the past month has been able
to string together enough victor
ies to dislodge the Browns and
even when the league leaders
falter, there'hasn't been another
squad able to take advantage of
the lapse. The Browps in the
past month have won only 16
games while losing .14, hardly
the pace to expect of a team rep
resentating the league in the
world series. Yet only two clubs,
the Cleveland Indians and New
York Yankees have done better,
each winning 18 and losing 12
in the same period, but both
were too far back to close the
gap.
All Divide
Little happened to alter the
Impasse yesterday with the
three leaders, the Browns, Yan
kees and Red Sox dividing their
double headers, while the Cleve
land Indians picked up a game
by winning two and taking over
fourth place. The Detroit Tigers,
who were temporarily menacing
collaPSf d
after winning six
straight, losing twice to the
Philadelphia Athletics.
Cleveland called in a pair of
"cripples", Jeff Heath and Mel
Harder, to punctuate Its victor
ies over Washington, 4 to 3 and
9 to 5.
Vernon Stephens' bases-full
homer sparked the Browns to a
9 to 3 second game victory over
Boston after the Red Sox hu
miliated the league leaders with
a 12 to 1 triumph in the opener.
The Yankees failed to gain at
Chicago, winning the first 7 to 6
with five unearned runs in the
third Inning and losing the sec
ond 10 to 6.
Detroit dropped to fifth place
with its twin trimmings at the
hands of the lowly A's, 13 to 3
and 3 to 2.
The Cubs and Giants gave the
record book a going over In di'
vldlng a double header, Chicago
winning the first 7 to 6 and
losing the second 12 to 10. Bill
Nicholson, with three homers in
the first and one In the second
equalled a major mork and set
one in the National for homers
In a double header.
ine Lards moved merrily
aiong, winning two at Boston, 3
to 2 and 8 to 2, behind their
aces, Max Lanier and Mort
Cooper.
Pittsburgh took over second
place, drubbing the last place
Brooklyn Dodgers 7
to 5 and ;
to 4
Bucky Walters failed for the
second time In a bid for his 18th
victory, but the Phillies paid for
the "snub" to the Cincinnati ace
when Clyde Shoun held them
to five hits for a 2 to 1 victory
In the second game. The Phils
took the opener 7 to 6.
Deaths from pedestrian acci
dents In Missouri during the
first three months of this year
Increased 74 per cent compared
with the same periold last year.
Hitler
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A bomb explosion Interrupted a headquarters conference similar to one pictured here, resulted
In Injuries to Adolf Hitler (center foreground) and to chief of his personal staff. Gen. Alfred Jodl
(second from right) and other officers. Mussolini (seen here at left) arrived shortly after the at
tempted assassination. Hitler, shrioking in maniac-like rage, told German people that "a small
clique of criminal officers" had planted the bomb which exploded less than 7 feet from him.
Big Bill Nicholson Almost
Cinch To Retain Homer Toga
By Jack Cuddy
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York. July 24 U.R Big Bill Nicholson, the Cubs' col
or-blind clouter, is making such a booming defense of his Na
tional league home run championship that the percentage now
is in his favor to retain it.
Over the week end, the Mary
land slugger blasted out five
homers to bring his total for the
season to 21, dead-locking Mel
Ott of the Giants at that figure
and equalling two major league
records with his splurge.
Brawny, brown-haired Nichol
son with a dental-ad smile said
in the dressing room after yes
torday's Cubs Giants double
header, "I don't know who'll win
the run title this season, but
whoever does will have a much
larger total than the 29 with
which I took it last year prob
ablv about 40."
Two factors favor Chicago's
right fielder to wind up with
40 or more four baggers. He has
garnered his 21 in the Cubs' 81
games. This pace would give
him 39.9 homers for 154 games.
Ott, his only close competitor,
made his 21 in the Giants' 87
contcstfi a pace that would
mean 38.3 homers for 154 en
counters. Even more important, how
ever, is the fact that Nicholson
a-l-w-a-y-s hits best in the sea
son's second half This was par
ticularly true during the '42 and
'43 campaigns when, as the big
fellow explains, "because of
spring training in the north, it
seemed to take me longer than
usual to get thawed out." The
Cubs trained again in the north
this year, and Nicholson indicat
ed yesterday that he's Just about
"thawed."
Although 28-year-old Bill Is
so color-blind that he can't tell
a blonde from a brunette, his op
tics certainly ogled the onion in
yesterday's twin bill. He wal
loped three round-trippers in the
opener, the first major leaguer
to turn the trick in one game this
season. These, combined with the
one he slugccd the last time at
bat on Saturday, equalled the
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major league mark for consecu
tive home runs. In addition, a
homer in yesterday's nightcap
gave him four for the double
header, a new National league
mark and one that equals the
major league record held by
three American circuit per
formers.
Salt Lake City, July 24. (U.R)
Posting a 271 for 72 holes,
two under the tournament rec
ord, Jug McSpaden of Philadel
phia, won the Utah open golf
championship yesterday, nosing
out Byron Nelson of Toledo, O.,
by two strokes.
The $700 first prize money
won by McSpaden and the $450
that Nelson won for second place
plus the $539 won in the pro-
amateur tournament brought the
total 1944 winnings of the two
to $36,990.
McSpaden sewed up the tour
ney with a record breaking 63
nine strokes under par on the
long Fort Douglas course yester
day morning, and then coasted
home with an even par In the
second round.
BLAST KILLS THREE
Long Beach, Cal., July 24
(U.R) Three persons were dead
today as the result of a gas ex
plosion Friday at the Texas Co.
Wilmington oil refinery, which
burned eight workmen. Dead
were: Henry Loury. 42, Lomita;
Grady Smith, 28, and Jessy
Gray, 22, both of Long Beach.
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L. Marble Cook, basketball,
track and assistant football men
tor at Portland's Lincoln high
school last year, has been named
head football and basketball
coach at Klamath Falls high
school to succeed Frank Ramsey,
now a marine, It was announced
over the week-end.
Cook, 39 years old, Is a 1934
graduate of the University of
Oregon and for seven years
coached at Beaverton high
school, where his cage teams
won three league and two dis
trict titles.
American
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Si. Louis 51 41 .554
New York 48 41 .529
Boston 47' 43 .522
Cleveland 46 45 .505
Detroit 45 46 .495
Chicago 41 44 .482
Washington 42 47 .472
Philadelphia 39 50 .438
National
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St. Louis 60 24 .714
Pittsburgh 46 36 .561
Cincinnati 48 38 .558
New York 41 48 .471
Philadelphia 37 47 .440
Chicago 35 46 .432
Boston 38 50 .419
Brooklyn 35 51 .407
Pacific Coast
W. L. Pet.
Los Angeles 59 49 .546
San Francisco 57 51 .528
Oakland 58 52 .519
Portland 53 54 .495
Seattle 53 55 .491
Hollywood 53 56 .486
Sacramento .. 51 57 .472
San Diego 51 59 .464
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TOP OF CIRCUIT;
BEAVERS 0IVI0E
By United Press
The sky-rocketing Los An
geles Angels, using the hapless
San Diego Padres as a stepping
stone, climbed into the driver's
seat In the hot Pacific Coast
league race over the week end
with some assistance from the
hustling Sacramento Solons.
Long heralded as the team to
beat in the league, the Angels
slapped twin defeats on the
Padres yesterday, 11-4 and 3-1,
winning six out of seven games.
Meanwhile, Manager Earl Shee
ly's Sacs, climbing out of the
basement, won a pair from the
third-place Oaklanders, 9-5 and
9-3. for a 6-3 series win.
The San Francisco Seals were
staying right up In the race by
trouncing the Seattle Rainlers
in the northern park, winning
yesterday's double - header 6-3
and 3-0. Hollvwood and Por"and
snllt a double-header, the Stars
grabbing the onener 6-2 but drop-
pint the nirhtcap 5-0.
Games this week send Los
Angeles to San Francisco, Oak
land to Hollvwood. Portland to
Seattle and Sacramento to San
Diego.
Rov Helser tossed a five-hitter
for Portland In the nightcap for
his shutout victory after the
Stars had pounde.d Pieretti for
12 safe blows to take the opener.
Three home runs, one each by
Butch Mnran. Brooks Holder and
Frank Kelleher. provided the
margin of victory. The series
went to the Stars. 4-3.
Yesterday's line scores:
Hollvwood 6 12 2
Portland 2 6 0
Intlekofer and Younkers: Pier
etti and Adams.
Hollvwood 0 .1 1
Portland 5 7 1
MIshasek, Hufford (5) and'
Hill; Helser and Norager.
FIRST PLACE BROWNS
DRAW SMALLEST CROWD
New York, July 24. (U.R)
The St. Louis Browns, fighting
for their first American league
pennant, drew the smallest
crowd at any of the major league
double headers yesterday, 13,759
fans attending their games,
whereas the last place Brooklyn
Dodgers in the National attract
ed a crowd of 15,715.
A total of 163,936 paid admis
sions was recorded in the two
major leagues, with 92,081 in the
American and 71,855 in the. Na
tional. Closing tlm for Sunday Too Late ;
to Classify 6 30 Saturday afternoon 1
nease rememoer.
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Paavo Katonen and Tony Mo
relli will meet for the third time
in as many weeks in the main
event of next Thursday night's
armory wrestling card, Promo
ter Mack Lillard announced to
day.
The rematch was arranged
when Katonen, coast light-heavyweight
champion, told Lillard
that his injured eye was OK
and that he wanted another
crack at Morelli. Last week,
Morelli opened up a cut over
Katonen's eye that forced Refe
ree Earl Yoakley to halt the
match and give the Floridan the
decision!"
Jack Lipscomb will face Herb
Parks in the middle event and
Milt Olson will meet In the
opener a rough newcomer.
Rowdy O'Doudy.
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