TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Monday, August 14, 1944 i
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Doerr's Homer Gives Boston
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: 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
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"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
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The friendly Southern Pacific
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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.
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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
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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
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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.
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