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TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, August 14, 1944 i s L Doerr's Homer Gives Boston Victory In Opener Rex : Cecil Winning Pitcher ', New York, Aug. 14 (U.R) The American league waa in a itate of agitation today regard ing the St. Louis Browns and their six and a half game lead In the league race, but, oddly enough, nubody seems to be able to do anything about it. The Browns circuit doormnts for so long that they established squatters' rights In the ce:lar. be gan their current eastern trip with a six and a half game lead and the margin hasn't varied a bit In six games already played. Without benefit of higher mathe matics It's obvtius that a con tinuation of that lead will re iult in the first American league pennant in history for the St. Louis club. The Brownies opened their road Jaunt by knocking off the champion Yankees three times out of four a feat which should have stretched their margin But the second place Boston Red Sox Icept pace by turning the same trick against Chicago to keep the ,same margin. Then yester day, when the two clubs opened their four-game series with double-header, each team won a One milch, one dguttte, ooe careless set can start a nglng 6r in n Oregon for etc Ir. the wood BE CARE FUI, for wood li a critical wir Item filling more thin 1200 iniliury uses. KFEP OREGON GREEN ASSOCIATION SALEM, ORt, DEPENDABLE REPAIR SERVICE For Your CAR TRUCK TRACTOR EATHERTON'S r ARM STORE SOS Bo. Riverside Ph. M4S Some people have "WHY THE RISING SUN IN YOUR TRADE MARK?" It started noon after Pearl Harbor. People wrote in and asked ua to do some thing nbout the sun in our fnmous old tradu mark. They thought it was a rising sun and it reminded them of Japan. Tho answer is, of course, that the sun in our trado mark is a letting sun, sym bolic of the WeBt and of our pioneer Sunset Route between New Orleans and San Francisco. game and the margin remained intact. Yesterday's opener in Bean town was a game expected of two top clubs. It was decided in the 13th inning on Bobby Doerr's 15th homer which gave Boston a 7-8 edge. Rookie Rex Cecil, re cently purchased from the San Diego club of the Pacific Coast league, arrived in town shortly before game time and pitched the last four Innings to gain the decision in his first major league game. The second game was called at the end of five innings because of Massachusetts' Sun day law and the Browns, with Nelson Potter pitching, gained a 6-1 triumph. Yanks Split Chicago and New York shared at Yankee stadium in a pair of lopsided ball games Rookie Mel Queen crowned the Sox with a five-hitter in the opener to win his first major league game. 10-1. Orval Grove pitched the Sox to an 11-3 win in the finale. The Philadelphia Athletics halted the winning streak of the Detroit Tigers Ht nine games by beating them 6-1 in the first of their two games at Shibe Park Dizzy Trout, however, became the first major leaguer to re cord 19 decisions In the night cap when he pitched the Tigers to a 6-0 shutout. Washington's Senators snapped out of their five-game losing streak taking both ends of a twin bill from the Cleveland In dians in the capitol. 2-1 and 4-1. The National league had a feast or famine day with all clubs either winning or losing two. The leading St. Louis Car dinals provided home fans with a double win over the Brooklyn Dodgers that slid the 'Bums" back into the senior circuit base ment. Max Lanier pitched a six hitter for a 4-1 win in the open er. Harry Brecheen won the nightcap for the Red Birds. 7-3. The Philadelphia Phillies came out of the cellar with 3-1 and 7-6 triumphs over the Chi cago Cubs at Chicago. The Cincinnati Reds bested the New York Giants, 4-3 and 9-2, before a home crowd. Rip Sewell pitched five-hit ball and clouted a home run to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to an 8-1 victory In their opener against Boston In the Smoky City. Frank Colman's two-run homer In the eighth inning of the second game supplied Fritz Ostermuellcr with tho margin of triumph in a 3-1 game. TOP PROS OPEN PGA TOURNAMENT Spokane, Wash., Aug. 14 (U.R) The nation's top active pro fessionals and a host of hopefuls teed off today in the 26th renew al of golfdom's most coveted tournament, tho national P.Q.A. championships. Today and tomorrow's 18 hole rounds over Manlto course will be medal play and will whittle the field to 32 who will begin match play on Wednesday for the $20,000 prize money offered by the Spokane athletic round table. Favored to be around for the finals and quoted at 3-1 in the betting were Byron Nelson of Toledo, O., and Harold (Jug) McSpaden of Philadelphia, top money winners of the year, thus far. Second choice and bracket ed at 4-1 were Craig Wood of Mamaroneck, N. Y., and Sammy Byrd of Detroit. asked: mm. We like to think that this emblem Is now symbolic of Japan, but in another way. You enn be sure that Southern Pacific and all the other railroads are trying hard to hasten the day when Japan's rising sun will set permanentlyl S-P The friendly Southern Pacific I SEALS IN DOUBLE BILL; TAKE 3RD By Uniltd Press Three Pacific Coast league teams swept double-headers yes terday afternoon, but the best the league-leading Los Angeles Angels could do was to gain an even split with the Sacramento Solons. The Solons grabbed the first game 3-2 but dropped the sec ond 6-3 In other games, the Portland Beavers extended their mastery oVer San Francisco by winning a twin bill, 4-3 and 3-0: San Diego took a pair from the shoddy Oakland Acorns, 4-0 and 7-2, while Hollywood walloped Seattle, 11-4 and 10-3. In series opening tomorrow Seattle visits Portland, San Di ego Invades Sacramento Oak land calls at Los Aneeles and Hollywood travels to San Fran cIsco. In Snn Francisco, the pitching staff of the Portland Beavers had another big day, trimming the Seals in the 14-lnning opener and then coming right back to blank the O'Doul club in the finale. The first game saw Mario PlerettI best Bob Joyce in a slab duel, while in the nightcap the veteran Ad Liska chalked up his second shutout of the series. The Bevos swept the seven tilt engagement and to add in sult to injury, while knocking the Seals down the league pen nant ladder, turned in four shut outs in the six-day stand. Scores: Portland 4 14 1 San Francisco 3 10 1 Pieretti and Adams; Joyce and Rpranz. Portland 3 7 1 San Francisco 0 - 4 0 Liska and Adams; Gibson and Ogrodowskl. TALBERUlUGH NET TITLES Rye, N, Y., Aug. 14. 0J.R) Billy Talbert of Indianapolis, Ind., and Louise Brough of Bev erly Hills, Cal., today held the singles titles of the eastern grass court tennis championships com pleted here yesterday and both gained their crowns with upsets. Talbert, seeded second In the tourney, defeated heavily favor ed and top-seeded Francisco (Fancho) Segura of Ecuador in a straight set match for the men's crown, 9-7, 6-4, 6-4, and Miss Brough bested National Women's Champion Pauline Bctz of Los Angeles In stalght sets 6-3, 6-1. In the double finals, Segura and Talbert teamed to win as expected from Charles Oliver of Perth Amboy, N. J., and Nick Buzolich of Los Angeles, 8-4, 6 2. The women's doubles went to Miss Brough and Miss Marga ret Osborne of San Francisco, defending singles champion, who defeated Miss Betz and Doris Hart of Miami, Fla. 4-8, 6-2, 6-4. There were 770 million pounds of vital food crops lost in California a fields and orch ards In 1942 because of the har vest labor shortage. Football on Coast This Year to Have Much Color By Hal Wood United Press Staff Correspondent San Francisco, Aug. 14 (U.R) The quality of play may not be quite up to what professional football should be. but sure as shootin there will be two big-time professional gridiron cir cuits operating along the Pacific slope this fall all dire predic tions of disaster to the contrary notwithstanding. In fact, there will be so much . football college, service, high school, American league and Pa cific Coast league that a dyed- in:the-wool fan will be able to absorb as much football as the average baseball manic. And what the games lack In Quality, they may make up in color. 1 Many of the college teams again will star big names from other colleges; the revered Amos Alonzo Stagg will be back at College of Pacific with what he hopes will be another power house; the service teams will be mixing big-name college stars with standout professionals. ' And last, but not least, the professionals will be offering the dangdest conglomeration of talent you ever saw. There will be youngsters still In their 'teens, ex-college stars who hold down defense factory 1obs, husky AH Americans from the army, navy and marines playing under assumed names to escape publicity thai might make" their company commander put a ban on their picking up that extra dough. And just a few of the boys who know very little about football but who make good copy for the sports writers. The Oakland Hornet-San Francisco Clippel pool has come up with the best item along this line. The lad Is Robert (Tarzan) Bootsln, a young nature lover from the Sonoma hills. Bootsin showed up at the first tryout all decked out in a flow ing beard and in bare feet. It seems that the husky lnd was exposed to the grid garre once while picking up a meager edu cation and It so fascinated him that he got hold of a pigskin and did a little practicing In his mountain hideout. Now, the c 1 u b s' publicity states, Tarzan plays without shoes or helmet and can "thread a needle with a football at fifty yards." SATCHEL PAIGE Chicago, Aug. 14 (U.R) De- snlte the absence1 - of Leroy (Satchel) Paige, the greatest Negro pitcher of them all. the 12th annual Negro East-West baseball classic was played last night before a crowd of 46.247 fans who Jammed Comlskev park to see the West win 7-4 and even the series to six rames each. Paige, star hurler of the Kan sas City Monarchs, who has done much to boost Negro baseball to its present position, announced August 1 that he would lead a 16-player walkout unless 100 per cent of the game s proceeds were turned over to war relief. But last night, Paige was the only player missing and his team won without him. TONY, LIPSCOMB It's or! Tony Morelll and Jack Lips comb will meet again In the Medford armory grappling ring next Thursday night In the top bout of another double main event. Promoter Mack Llllard an nounced today he had signed the two wrestlers for anotber con test, this time with the winner to tnke all the dough ordinarily spilt equally between the pair. Paavo Katonen will face Har old (Buck) Davidson In the low er half of the double main go. and Jack Kaiser will meet Pat O'Dowdy In the three-round opener. Both main events will be for one hour or two out of three falls. Reopening MEDFORD BOWLING ALLEY TUESDAY AUGUST IS Completely Reconditioned 415 Easl Main Noel E. Johnson, Proprietor Lee Denier, Manager S ON ROGUE Portland, Ore, Aug. 14 U.R) The state game commission an nounced today that about 10,000 acres of a hunting preserve at the Summer Lake swamp would be thrown open to public shoot ing. The area, a waterfowl won derland, has been controlled by private ownership which charged as high as $2 SO a day for shoot ing on the land. The game com mission said that In order to de fray costs of supervision, it would collect a fee Of $1 from each hunter admitted into the preserve. Thousands of waterfowl drop into the lake area every fall and It is expected the numbers would be greater this season than- at any time since the turn of the century. The commission also went on record as opposed to construc tion of any dams or other struc tures which tend to impede the migration of salmon, trout or other game fish on Rogue river and its tributaries. The U. S. bureau of reclamation already has surveyed sites for 33 dams on Rogue river and its various branches. P SEMI-PRO UPSET Wichita, Kan., Aug. 14. (U.R) Camp Kearns of Utah turned In the first major surprise of the 1944 national semlpro base ball tournament here last night by whipping the 20th armored division team from Kentucky by a 3-2 score. Brown, on the mound for the Utah post team, whiffed 14 tank men and only his wildness kept him from scoring a shutout. Lefty Johnson, handling the chucking chores for the Ken tucky nine, also was wild, Kearns took its winning margin in the second frame on two walks and a hit. The Kentucky team was a pre-tournament fa vorite. Lowry Field of Denver, loser of a first round game to the highly-touted Enid, Okla., army air. field, remained in the tour ney last night, ousting the Key Field, Miss., army post team by a 13-1 score. BOWLING ALLEYS Renovated and redecorated, the Medford Bowling Alleys will open Tuesday, Aug. 15 under the new ownership of N. E. "Bill" Johnson, who recently purchased the establishment from Ed Jones. Johnson announced he had in stalled Lee Denzer as manager, and sjiid that the alleys and all other equipment had been re flnlshcd and conditioned with the newest Brunswick products. FEATURE BOUT New York, Aug. 14. (U.f5 An east west welterweight match between Jimmy McDan icls of Los Angeles and young Aaron Perry of Washington, D. C, at Madison Square Garden Friday night features this week's national boxing schedule. The bout is slated for only eight rounds because of Perry's age, 18. OF TRAIL, FIRST IN FRANCE Seaman Aided In Blowing Up Obstacles On Normandy Beach; Under Heavy Fire A U. S. Naval Base in Eng land, July 31 (Delayed) A 19-year-old Trail, Ore., store clerk, survivor of one of the most des pesate missions of the Allied in vasion of France, today told how he and other members of the U. S. Naval Combat Demolition unit crawled up the Normandy beaches to blow up great steel, concrete and explosive obstacles constructed by the German army. He is Wendell M. Vaughn, sea man, first class, USNR, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Vaughn of Trail, who with eight other navy ,en and five members of the U. S. army engineers landed on the shores of Normandy in the wake of the first wave of Ameri can assault forces. Explosives Carried Carrying special tools and TNT strapped to his chest, the young Oregonian lai.ded in a small invasion craft,., swam through shallow water and crawled" up dunes to destroy enemy obstacles. "How we ever made the beach and how we ever carried out our mission," said Vaughn, "will always be a mystery to me. Be fore our vessel touched the shores of France the Germans opened up with mortars, big guns, machine guns and oil bombs. "We knew from photographs and charts what we were to ex pect. But there are no pictures or maps In the world wnicn can describe those obstaojes. Some were ten feet high and eight feet wide built like a pyramid out of heavy, standard railway tracks. Each of the three rails was sharpened at its upper end. Some were under the water and others were further up the beach Just at the high tide mark. Any lano ing craft, big or small, which came in contact with them would have been wrecked. "Sneaking up the beach on our stomachs we piacea our charges, wired them up and then took cover from the enemy shells which seemed to follow our every footstep. "Seeing those obstacles blown up and" knowing .that we had completed our mission was one of the most happy and proudest moments of my life. Vaughn with other members of his unit used every trick to carry out their mission. On one occasion several members of the unit found two abandoned bull dozers which they appropriated "Two men," continued Vaughn, "both of them former Seabccs, knew how to operate the bulldozers. In the face of all k nds of fire those two men hooked strings of cable to the end of the machines and after we had loosened them, with ex plosives, used the bulldozers to drag them tip the beach out of the path of other waves of as sault troops and vehicles which were beginning to arrive." Oth ers called upon army tank units tor the same assistance. Each unit was assigned a sec tion of an American invasion beach. Upon the elimination of the enemy obstacles depended largely the success of tubsequent landings of larger Invasion craft such as the LCI's (landing craft, infantry), the LCT's (landing craft, tank) and later the LST's (landing ship, tank) all of which carried powerful forces of In fantry, tank and artillery units backing up the assault forces. Brother In Army Vaughn, whose brother. Don ald R. Vaughn, is a private in the U .S. army, formerly was employed by Mrs. Mary Grieve at a store in Prospect, Ore. Shortly after enlisting in the nirnflffl WhlT . SS Proof . 67'4V Oram N n t r I plrlt . Th I flns H Iown KUtlllrri , I Havre, dt Uracil Blue Moon Stellar Rarity But Really Seen Sometimes By J. Hugh Pruelt Astronomer, General Extension Division, Univ. of Oreg. "Once in a blue moon," we say, meaning "almost never", or even "not at all." A promi nent eastern astronomer recent ly remarked that he did not be lieve a blue moon could occur since there are no known me teorological or optical reasons for it. We know that smoky air will show a red moon. Another eastern writer said the term doubtless comes from the use of the words "blue noon" to Indicate an occasional 13th full moon In a year, which occurs about once in three years. In olden times each full moon was given a special name, such as Lenten moon, egg moon, har vest moon, hunters moon, etc. The extra one, which might oc cur any month, was termed blue moon. But every time a scientist writes that the moon cannot ap pear blue, strong refutations come back from a few laymen. Four of these claims of actual observation have been published in the magazine Sky And Tele scope during the past five years One said that the half moon in the south had a -decided bluish tinge 20 minutes before sunset and that Its reflection in a quiet pond was even bluer. Another described his moon as green blue. Seen By Another The present writer considered blue moons likely due to consti tutional disorders of the observ ers until he and several others witnessed this very phenomenon shortly after sunset on July 28, 1944. The half moon in the south was thinly veiled by gorgeous red cirrus clouds. The thought occurred that the moon might simply appear blue by contrast, but when a little later it floated out into a very clear sky, the strikingly blue color was still there, and required no imagina tion. Presently as darkness came on, our blue moon turned into pale yellow. No explanation is offered. A blue moon may be a sight of a U. S. naval reserve, he volun teered for the Naval Combat De molition unit and was sent to Ft. Pierce, Fla., for an intensive course of training. He also par ticipated in a number of maneu vers in England. CHAMPION AGAIN Chicago, Aug 14 (U.R) After six days and 100 holes of golf. Dorothy Germain of Philadel phia won the women's western amateur golf title for the second consecutive year, and after six days and 63 holes of go!f Betty Jean Ruckcr of Spokane, Wash., establisned herself as one of the most promising stars the distaff side has given golfdom. The fame of this year's tour nament went to Miss Germain. Saturday, when she defeated Phyllis Otto, Omaha. Neb., in the finals. 9 and 4, to become the sixth woman In the 44-year-old tournament's history to win the crown two years running. generalworried Los Angeles, Aug. 14. (U.R) Brig. Gen. Ray W. Hays, state guard adjutant general, today called for recruits, declaring the otate guard would be needed to defend the coast against a possi ble last-stand vengeance attack by the Japs. AMERICAN HEROES EV LEFF BUY WAR BONDS TODAY ta auur vic tory and peace in days to cornel BROWNS CAFE lifetime, but normal eyes do sometimes observe it. This writ er is anxious to get accounts of blue moons by others at any time In the past. Address him at 1832 Longview Avenue, Eugene, Oregon. P4-' -'Ii.i''ti"' farsteAiimi In some way taxi cabs are like doctors. The tougher the war gets the more they keep on the go. If scientists are still tracking down perpetual mo tion, all they need do is harness a doctor or a taxi. When most people call doctor, it means an emergency. For most people, too, use of a taxicab means an emergency in transport. Father must catch a train. Mother must reach the hospital.The taxis still get there when you need them most I As people have been able to use their own cars less, they've needed taxicabs more. Yet the taxi folks have been bedeviled by the same shortages and re strictions that bother Mr. Aver age Man. You've seen, of course, bow well they've done about soma things like the manpower short age putting women at the wheel. They've solved soma equally headachy problems be hind the scenes. Take, for example, the com panies which followed a policy of frequent turn-in. They kept equipment new right up to tomorrow's sunrise. Inevitably, that meant they weren't pre pared to make older csbs do. They lacked tools and re pairmen and parts and supplies and shop-space. But of two ne cessities they had plenty en ergy and ingenuity. With these they've kept their fleets in work ing trim. Of course, every taxi com pany has weird talcs to tel! about things that "didn't used to happen." These merely em phasize the all-over accomplish ment. For everybody, an emer gency is a test. The taxi folks have licked emergencies by the thousands theirs and yours alike. t ftofl, wirh 7 ttsn, wordvrf le our tldimvna1 X-ffcwy A B-23 was taking off soma where In North Africa. It crashed and burst into flamas. Pri vate Eugene A. Canter ruihad for ward with three other soldiers to aid tha crew. Tha heat was overwhelm ing but Ganter and his companions, drenched from the hoses of rescue ap paratus, rescued three erew members from tha blaiinq ship. Then Genttr returned to remove loaded SO caliber machine guns. He won tha Soldier's Medal. Such are tha men your War Bonds fight beside. & BILLIARDS 1 . . -. , .
