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f FOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thursday August 3, 1944 T GREAT CLEAN G0!& Pair Tangle In Main Mat Event Of Armory Program Morelli In Center Paavo K a t o n e n undergoes probably his most severe local grappling test in the armory to night when he meets tht bril liant Jack Kaiser of Vancouver, Wash., riding high on the wings of sn undefeated live-week cam paign in the Los Angeles area. Clashing in the one-hour, two-out-of-three-fall main event, the pair will bring to local fans the most scientific exhibition of the mat game seen in the Bartlett street structure this year, The other two matches" on the!ory ' that because of the low all-star program, however, will pit an unorthodox workman against a clean wrestler, thus balancing the card to include rough characters whose antics meet with favor among a large portion of the Mack Lillard entele. j was not thinned as would be Parks Underdog 'lone ordinarily In the natural Tony Morelli, the brutal Flor-I 'urn-?vefu ,rl'flM ,and raYeI Man whose three matches with bnrs ln ,he h'8h waters of win Katonen reached Just about the I er! . ultimate In savageness. will tan-1 gle with Herb Parks, the Cana-' dian - light-heavyweight cham pion, in the four-round middle event. Morelli, due to hisuper ior strength and disregard of wrestling ethics, Is favored to whip the lighter Parks. Pat O'Dowdy, another mean man, goes against Tex Porter, a mat scientist, In the opener, slated for three rounds or the best two out of three falls. This bout will begin at 8:30 sharp. Katonen, the Pacific coast light-heavy monarch, is expect ed to have his hands full with Kaiser, considered In grappling circles to ba the most up-and-coming youngster In his class. Kaiser appeared here three times in May, and although fall ing to notch a victory, he dis played more real class than any matman who has showed in Medford since the game was re vived. Leaving Oregon, Kaiser went to southern California and there hit his real stride. Big Card Meeting the leading light heavyweights fn and around Los Angeles, Kalset ran up an im pressive string of conquests. He didn't lose a match ln five weeks nd became the biggest drawing card in the territory. He figures to make the big, Finnish lefthander step high ln order to retain his rating as num ber one wrestler In Medford, where he has been beaten only once In nine starts. Some local observers believe Katonen can be had by a scientific workman of the Kaiser type. Maybe Kai ser Is the one to prove them cor rect. HOWTHI STA,yD American W. St. Louis .... S9 Boston New York Cleveland Detroit ...... Chicago Philadelphia Washington ... 42 429 i St. Louis Cincinnati Pittsburgh New York Chicago Boston . 39 Philadelphia 37 Brooklyn 38 .402 .396; Pacific Coait W. Los Angeles 84 San Francisco -.. 62 Hollywood ... . 60 Portland .... 58 Oakland 58 Sacramento .......... 57 Seattle 58 San Diego 54 rvt. .547 .530 .508 .496 .492 .487 .487 .454 Ever Hear a Highball 7 Drioln tparkls out loud when thT . EY! L. Pet. 42 .584 82 48 ,A31 SO 46 .821 SI 49 .510 4Q nn 47 61 480 4.1 AS .446 58 . National W. L. Pet. 70 28 .729 .... 84 42 .S63I 80 41 .849 46 51 .4741 42 47 .472 56 .411 55 58 -ith Canada Dry Watar. Itt "Pm Point Ca- 15 onation" inturri Itrallnaaa to tha lait up. PMowilt MANY ROGUE FISH M. Rivers, resident blol the Rogue River district, written an article in which he tells of reports that many fish in Rogue River are dying of fun gus Infections. The article fol lows: Reports of dying fish in the Rogue river have been coming in from many sources. Most of the reports have been 8bout the Galice and Hellgate district. This past week the waters of the Rogue have recorded around 78 degrees F. at several places In Josephine county and a re port of water temperatures around Agness at 81. degrees F. Trout and salmon can stand wa ter temperatures up to 83 de grees F. Many fish are dying of fungus infections which are quite pre dominant this year In the waters of the Rogue. A plausible the- water conditions throuwhou ,hs last winter, no, or very little, river bottom was turned over or "scoured." The sloughs and eddies were not cleaned by any high water. cli-iThe winter form of this fungus . A flsh weakened by a fungus Infection is more sensitive to yT X .r. .ra"'"''u"; TT. though that temperature might nui uvs leuiai 10 MlBl species ox fi.h. There are a few things people of the county can do to help. At the mouths of the cooler tribu taries, channels should be cut to allow easier access Into the creeks for the small trout and salmon. Cooler water will help these weakened fish to, recover. Feed the fish accumulated In the creeks with scrap meat (if any) or gather the dead fish and grind them up, wash In a 3 or 4 per cent salt solution to kill the fun gus present on the dead fish, and mix with bread, egg mash or meal and water. Good feeding conditions are usually not available for great concentrations of fish In smaller tributaries and good food con ditions are essential to the fish to combat their fungus Infec tions. This Is probably only the start of this year's mortality from warm water and fungus. The wa ter Is bound to get warmer be fore the season is over and many more flsh will perish as the re sult. The game commission Is short handed and unable to work on all the tributaries In the river below Grants Pass. Cooperation from the sportsmen and others, especially those living near the mouths of the tributaries, will certainly be appreciated. FACE DARK HORSE Kalamazoo, Mich., Aug. 3- OJ.Fn Defending Champion Pvt. Bob Falkenburg of Hollywood faced the tournament dark horse, Billy Smith of Orlando, Fla., to day In the quarter-final round of the National Junior tennis championships. Smith moved Into the round of eight yesterday by upsetting "o0 David of Chicago, the sevenui seeded player, B l, O-O. Meanwhile, Falkenburg had trouble of his own ln subduing Dick Savltt of El Paso. Tex.. who forced him Into a long deuce set before losing 8 6. 6-3. In the co-feature match, Henry Pfister of San Francisco will op pose Herb Flnm of Beverly Hills. Calif., third rnnked among the juniors. Pfister defeated Edwin Davis of Baton Rouge, La., 4-6, 8 2, 8-4. while Flnm moved up with a 6-2, 6-4 victory over Tom Molloy of Panama City, Fla. Approximately 89.000 medi um and heavy trucks will be manufactured for civilian use In essential war transportation during 1944. according to the War Production Board. mliod tiO liirui rruoA owl Cuddy Sees All-St. Louis Series, Fans Liking Browns Br Jek Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Aug. 3. (U.R) While there are still enough leaves on the trees to provide protective cover from snipers, we're moving out on a limb today to predict that Bob Muncrlef of the Browns is going to pitch against Morton Cooper of the Cardinals In the first game of an all-St. Louis world series. Knowing full well that the trees shed their leaves by world series time, we re willing to stake out a claim on our branch (not Branch Rickey) and park there until the Yankees, Red Sox, Indians or Tigers come along and prove we're wrong. There'll be company on the limb, too. The St. Louis fandom at long last is waking up to the fact that the long denied Brownies are on their way to their first pennant. They've been skeptical and with good reason. Year after year they have watched the team either totter and dodder in the second division or fold up after a good front run and yield the top spot to some other club. The rest of the nation accepted the Browns this year before their own fans did. Disappoint ments born of too many failures made them the poorest drawing club in either league until their recent home stand when the fans finally began to take them seriously. Now, our St. Louis operative Informs us, they are getting leady to go wild. The team is five and a half games in front, readying itself for the last trip east, which will make or break its chances. If, after invading the parks of the eastern contend ers, the Yankees and the Red Sox, they are able to come home still in front, the fans will "tear down the ball park." And there ' precedent for that. too. Louig ha, a,w; b always been an American league town." our in formant says. "In 1922 on Labor day when they drew a full house for a double header, the fans got so excited they ripped up the seats and tore the wooden sides off the park. After that they put up concrete sides, but there Is no telling what the fans will do If the Browns come home in front." He emphasizes that St Louls ans, by nature cautious,, have been waiting to see what hap pens, but that they will swing over to the support of the Cards If the teams meet in the i series. HOME RUNS BEAT BEAVERS TEE By United, Press Home run slugging gave the Los Angeles Angels a double win over the Portland Beavers yesterday, 3-0 and 6-5, and put the Pacific Coast league-leaders two games ahead of the San Francisco Seals, upset by Sacra mento 3-2. Hollywood regained undisput ed possession of third place, de feating San Diego 7-4, while the Beavers were being beaten twice. Seattle trimmed Oakland in both ends of their double- header S-4 and 6-1. Ray Prim shut out Portland with four hits in their opener, with Ted Norbert's homer giving him the necessary lead. Trailing in the nightcap, the Angels scored four times In the fifth on a three-run homer by Rip Rus sell and a second circuit clout by Norbert. Don Osborn was the winner In the finale, while Don Pulford and Clarence Federmey er were the losing Beaver hurl ers for the day. Line scores: First game Portland 0 Los Angeles .. 3 Pulford and Norager; 4 0 9 0 Prim and sarnl. Second game Porllnnd ... 5 8 1 Los Angeles 6 10 1 Llska, Federmeyer (6). Pieret tl (7) and Norager: Cornelias, Os born (6) and Sarnl, Grigg (5). WASHINGTON CENTER INKS BEAR CONTRACT Chicago, Aug. 3 U.R The world's champion Chicago Bears have added six more players to their 1944 squad, which will start training August 8 at Col legeville, Ind. Connie Mack Berry, end, and Pete Gudauskns. guard, both of last year's squad, have signed again, the Bears announced to day, and the champions also have contracted Johnny Long, for merly of Colgate: Ed Simonich. Notre Dame alumnus: Frank Paldlna. Indiana, all backfield men, and John Wratak. a renter from the University of Washing ton. . DEPENDABLE REPAIR SERVICE For Your ELMER RIDDLE 10 HAVE OPERATION ON BAD FLIPPER New York. Aug. 3 (UP) Lame-armed Elmer Riddle' of the Cincinnati Reds Is going to a hospital Instead of the ball park today, thereby putting a climax to the most ironic story of the baseball season, because he the one guy who might have kept his team within striking distance of the St. Louis Card inals. What happened to Riddle is a riddle, but the day his arm went dead in a game early this sea son may well be regarded as the one which blasted the bare chance the Reds had for de throning the Cardinals. Whether the operation for re moval of a calcium deposit in his right shoulder will enable him to pitch again will be a sequel story, but it is certain that he can't help the Reds of 1944 at this belated date. Cincinnati now is 16 games behind the Cardinals and has been all but mathematically counted out. Last year at this time, Riddle had 14 victories and went on to win 21, tying with Mort Cooper of the Cards for the league's top record. Hypo thetically assuming that he had encountered no arm "miseries" and had done as well this year, the Reds would have been many strides closer to the Cards. The Cardinals picked up an other half game at Pittsburgh last night, defeating the Pirates 8 to 4 on Max Lanier's five-hit pitching Job. The Pirates made all their runs in the third when they made two hits count for four tallies. St. Louis, tapping three Pirate pitchers for 12 hits, gave starter Truett (Rip) Sewell his ninth beating of the year. The Philadelphia Athletics split a double bill at Chicago, winning the first game 9 to 3 with a seven-run rally in the ninth Inning and dropping the second, 7 to 3. Chicago at Philadelphia in the National was postponed because of the transportation strike and there were no other games scheduled. T FLYING FORTRESS New York, Aug. 3 AJ.R). The war finance committee an nounced today that bonds pur chased by sports fans at various boxing events had netted enough to purchase a Flying Fortress and that the ship will be in ac tion soon over Germany. The bonds were bought during the war loan last January and February. Most of the money raised in an auction of boxing gloves and equipment at a fight ing between Beau Jack and Sammy Angott at Madison Square Garden, January 28. The committee announced that if there is a sellout for the war bond bout tomorrow night be tween Beau Jack and Bob Mont gomery at the Garden, enough money will be raised for pur chase of two B-17 Fortresses or the equivalent in war materiel. Embezzlement charged Berkeley, Calif., Aug. 3 IU.R1 Frank J. Maglera. 36, was held by Berkeley police today on a warrant Issued at Belleville, 111., charging him with embezzle ment of $932 from the Polish- Amerlcan Alliance at Belleville! of which ho was secretary. 1 FACTORY 0) 0) 200 Cubic Foot Load Dial 2123 Dial 2123 Timber PrWcts company E BOAST POWERFUL CLUB OF EX-PROS The lineup which the Marine Base Wingers ' from Corvallis will throw against the Medford- Camp White league All-Stars here Saturday night and Sun day afternoon is liberally sprin kled with ex-professional stars. A ; . 1 ,i I,,: i lHank Dlugokeckl, who was owned by the Cleveland Indi ans. Another hurler is Frank Dietzel, formerly of the Balti. more Orioles of the Internatlon. al league, and Don Blackwell, heavy-hitting- outfielder, played in trie Michigan State league. The Wingers are the only team to have defeated the U. S Naval Air Station club of Klam- th Falls, doing it by a score of 9 to 8 two weeks ago. Last Sunday, the navy outfit whipped the All-Stars, 12 to 7. Manager Paul Freer of the All-Stars said that Ted Bergold, the little southpaw, probably would pitch the Saturday night game, starting at 9 o'clock, with Steve Crippen working the Sun day afternoon contest, begin ning at 2:30. SAN JOSE SIXTH TEAM IN LEAGUE San Francisco, Aug. 3 (U.R) Frank Sobrero, ex-Santa Clara football star, today completed the six-team Pacific Coast Pro fessional league by depositing forfeit money for the San Jose entry. President J. Rufus Klaw- ans announced Sobrero, coach of the San Jose team, has 20 players signed and is preparing to open practice ses'sions at the San Jose State college stadium, Klamans said, v Other entries in the league, challenged this year by the new ly formed eight-club American loop, include San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, Holly wood and San Diego. NELSON, BABE FAVORED' TO WIN-S5000 TOURNEY Beverly Hills, Calif., Aug. 3 (U.R) Byron Nelson, a top money golfer, and Amateur Babe Didrikson Zaharias, were fav ored today to win the $5,000 Beverly Hills open tournament, starting tomorrow, on the basis of their victory in yesterday's 5500 18-hole tuneup. Nelson and Mrs. Zaharias posted a best-ball score of 63. With the 64's were Olin Dutra and Ray Bolger; George Sen neister, Salt Lake City, and Dr, Rex. Rennick, and Harold (Jug) McSpaden, the leading money- man, and Frank Borzage. THE GRANGE Roxy Ann Grange Roxy Ann Grangers held a picnic July 30 at Helman's Baths In Ashland. After a bas ket lunch, horseshoe pitching, cards and swimming were en Joyed. Regular business meeting will be held Friday, August 4, start ing at 8:15, p. m. Ladies are asked to bring sandwiches for refreshments and all members are urged to attend. Sams Valley Grange Sams Valley Grange will hold regular meeting Saturday night, August 9, when a large class in cluding candidates from Gold Hill, Live Oak and Sams Valley will be initiated ln first and sec ond degrees. Ladies attending are asked to bring cake or cookies. Ice cream will be furnished by the Grange. All members taking the sixth degree at Grants Pass are urged to be present to receive their Flora certificates from the sec retary. The Maritime Commission has constructed 4,441 cargo ves sels and special craft cf 33.694,- 153 dead-weight tons from Aug. 1, 1937, to June 1, 1944. a MARITIME "M" FLAG NY. S&.;?' ."Wr;?$ lip C. W. ELIASON presents U. v;au ci... a-, Victorv Fleet flap "for outstanding production achievement" the war effort to R. M. Wade & Co. and its manufacturing divi sion, Multnomah Iron Works, in an impressive ceremony held in Portland last Saturday. GILLIS C.KELLAHER, secretary (left) and WADE NEWBEGIN, president of the company (center) receive the flag and congratulations of Eliason. Merit Badges were awarded to all Wade-Multnomah workers. Since 1865 Wade Multnomah have been manufacturers and distributors of Jarm implements in the Pacific Northwest and since 1942 have also particiDated in the U. S. Maritime Droduction crozram- Billiards Bua for After-War Boom, Is Cochran Prediction By Hal Wood United Pess Correspondent San Francisco, Aug. 3 (U.R) Make way for the post-war sports boom folks and remem ber that the promoters, just an even lou per cent strong, are going to be the first to holler "I told ya so! With that malignant thought in mind, we called on Welker Cochran, the many-time balkline (4) and three-cushion billiards (3) champion, to get his opinion on what the future held alqng his special line. The gray-thatched master of the cue was taking life easy in his luxurious billiards emporium here, waiting for the daily after noon and evening rush that comes as regularly as the hands whirl around the clock. "Why, yes," he answered to our question, "we look to see billiards take their biggest boom in history after the war has been won. "In the first place, the old time pool hall is a thing of the past and billiards, taking a cue (to coin a phrase) from what hap pened in the bowling game, will be presented in a dressed-up form. "I don't think plans officially have been announced yet, but such big firms as Brunswick-Balke-Callendar already are pushing post-war programs that will call for elaborate billiard parlors that include cocktail lounges, television, news reel theaters, restaurants and bowl ing alleys." Pausing only long enough to take a deep breath, Cochran con tinued: "And the thing that really will get the big boom under way will be when the women join the men, Just as they have done in the bowling game. There is no reason in the world why a worn an shouldn't be as good (if not better) at billiards as the aver age man." In 1943 dentists averaged 50 hours of work on 51 patients a week, while the year before they worked an average of 47 hours on 44 patients. I y FROM THIS J Quality RECAPPING "A" Grade" Rubber On Your . 6.00-1 6 $7.00 r" Drive In today I Let ua Inspect your tire thoronghly. Onr quality recapping will wable you to get longer, safer mileage. Don't delay. Have tires recapped now and b ready for your next tire lnfpection. Cut RecaU An (juAiMteed I" ,1 HONORS OREGON FIRM WW - "V"1 "it S. Maritime "M" Pennant and nA;.ment" in FOR BIG TIRES In a determined effort to ob tain as many. heavy duty truck tires as possible to relieve the critical tire situation in' this area. McDannel Brown, district ! OPA director, today issued a public appeal directed primar ily at operators who have such tires on vehicles that are laid up indefinitely for repairs, or other reasons. "We are appealing to any body who has these heavy truck tires and is not using them to get in touch with us and make them available to meet the urg ent rieed," Brown declared. Tires size 8.2320 or larger are desperately needed, he em phasized, and the district Office of Price Administration is ex ploring every possible avenue to get any not in actual use at present. Brown said the OPA has loarned that some vehicles in this area which use heavy tires have been laid up indefinitely for repairs or for needed parts that it may take months to get, He urged the owners of these vehicles to contact the tire ra tioning division of the OPA, by telephone or by mail, at once. and offer any tires not actually being used Red Cross relief this spring to Kansas families affected by the worst floods since 1923 totaled $45,941.49, according to Harold R. Fowler, St. Louis, director of the Red, Cross emergency relief office. Reserve rtlrnded Wtilk . S Proof . 5714 Oram utra1 Spirits." The L.-llKrtotme lllMlllerr Havre de Grace . Mil. 5. fn q 'Jr. ...i I PAYETTE SERPENT GIVES BELIEVERS n McCall, Idaho, Aug. 3 (U.R) The "believers in the Payette lakes sea serpent put another ar row in their quiver here today to bolster their fight for recogni tion when Mrs. Jack Hogue, Pay- ette, Idaho, reported she had seen the monster rear its head at least two feet out of the wa ter and remain on the surface for several minutes. The "believers" and the "un believers" hava been battling out the question of the sea ser pent's reality- here for the past 15 years. The believers, who have supposedly seen the writh ing beast, say he's the real thing, while the skeptics attribute his "existence" to "bad whisky." Mrs. Hoge and three others to day said they saw the serpent, which they described as about 35 feet long, with a head some what like a submarine periscope. This was the second party in less than a week reporting to have sighted the water monster. The more geologically-inclined of the "believers" explain that the serpent is probably a sur vivor pf an otherwise extinct species of marine reptile, since the seven-mile-long lake was at least 150 miles long in prehis toric times. Japanese Shake up Navy General Staff By United Press" The Japanese navy ministry announced the appointment of Admiral Koshiro Oikawa, former commander of the Japanese fleet in China, as chief of the naval general staff, replacing Admiral Shigetaro Shimacfa, Tokyo ra dio said today in a broadcast re corded by United Press in San Francisco. The broadcast also disclosed the appointment of Shimada and Admiral Zengo Yoshida as "su preme war councillors," in which capacity Shimada presumably would continue to exercise in fluence in the conduct of the war against the Allies. Closing time for Classified fids 9 m. Too Lata to Classify. 12:80 o. m. Highest Prices Paid for Clean USED GARS We See If! We Do It! AUTOMOBILE RKET 6th and Bartlett Sts. 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