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. EIGHT MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Augut 18, 1944 BY NELSON AND L1KERNALISTS Pair Win Easy Matches In PGA Meet; 5 Other Top Flighters Are Upset. SURFBOARD GIVES BELGASTRO NOD Ii By William Eberhart United Press Staff Correspondent Spokane. Wash.. Aug. 18 U.R) Byron Nelson and Harold Mc Spaden, bent on meeting each other in the finals of tne nation al Professional Golfers' associa tion, emerged with easy vic tories today from a welter of up sets which left five other top flight stars by the wayside. Nelson, the tournament medal ist from Toledo, O., was matched against Willie Gnggin, chubby White Plains, N. Y., veteran, In today's quarter-finals, while Mc Spaden opposes Bob Hamilton, promising young pro from Evans ville. Ind. Other pairings In the round of eight found Chuck Congdon of Tacoma, Wash., playing the P.G.A. president, Ed Dudley of Northficld, N. J., while Arthur Bell of San Francisco meets George Schnelter of Salt Lake City, Utah. Fry Beaten Nelson, gallery favorite by virtue of his all-around consis tency, advanced yesterday with a 7 and 8 victory over Mark Fry of Oakland, Calif., while Mc Spaden. the Philadelphia veteran trimmed Freddie Annon of Mamaroneck, N. Y., 8 and 7. Most of the other favorites, however, tumbled out of the run ning. The name golfers who dropped out were Tony Manero of Green wich, Conn., Sammy Byrd of Redford. Mich., Jimmy Hlnes of Amsterdam, N. Y. Craig Wood of Mamaroneck, N Y., and Tony Pcnna of Dayton, O., all given better than an outside chance of copping the title and forest prize of $3,300. Goggln, setting steady pace, eliminated Manero 4 and 3. Byrd lost to a rank outsider, Congdon, who played consistent ly on the greens while the for mer baseball player had putter trouble, to win 2 and 1. Pete Belcastro, substituting for Jack Lipscomb, employed his famous bouncing surfboard in the armory Inst night to trounce a Tony Morelli who, thoroughly searchbd before the match, was unable to enlist the support of any sort of gadget. No hard object was found on Morclli's person and, although he gave Pete quite a beating with punches, chokes and smothers, he couldn't take it when the Weed Italian clamped on his favorite hold. Meeting In the top half of a double main event, Morelli grab bed the first fall in eight min utcs with a body press after liter ally taking Belcastro's breath away with illegal smother holds. Feigning grogginess nine min utes later, Belcastro suddenly cut loose with a series of solid blows to Morelli's chin, belted him to the canvas and flipped him over for the surfboard. He bounced and bounced, and when it was all over Morelli was a sick character. The third fall took less than a minute. Pete came out of his corner, clouted Morelli once on his aching back and Referee Earl Yoakley stopped the match and gave Pete the nod. Morelli was in no condition to continue. In the lower half of the double main event, Paavo Katoncn took two straight fulls from Elton Owen, who was substituting for Harold Davidson, Kalonen's first fall was ob tained In 21 minutes with a re verse back-breaker, after Owen missed a dropkick and knocked himself half goofy when his head struck the mat. Two minutes later Katoncn had his second tumble, aided by rabbit punches to Owen's neck. Pat O'Dowdy and Iven Olson, substituting for Jack Kaiser, each took a fall in the three round opener. O'Dowdy, though receipting for a neat wrestling lesson, used hair pulls and a Bos ton crab to take the first fall in the second round. Olsen em ployed flying mnres, punches, dropkicks and a body slam to. even the mutch in the next canto. In a special attraction, Roy Deulschmnn, BO pounds, defeat ed his 02-pound opponent, Roger Ilobbs, with a hmmncrlock. The youngsters, after their pleasing exhibition, gathered up a nice shower of coins. True Team-Spirit Marks End On Saipan Of Ex-Grid Star By Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Aug. 18. (U.R) Carve the name of Alex Santilll high on the plaque of all-American fighting heroes that sports have contributed to the war. He died while displaying the ultimate in team-spirit. BUGS ON FUTILE Lieutenant Santilll of the ma rines, former Fordham football tackle, was killed by a Japanese sniper while leading a charge in the bloody fighting at Saipan on July 8. He wasn't scheduled for action that day. He had been "benched" by shell-shock. But big Alex, star of Ford ham's 1942 Sugar Bowl victory over Missouri, couldn't sit on the bench while his mates were battling down the Saipan field in rough going. The spirit im pelled him to join the fray, and the rugged body he had devel oped on the gridiron permitted him to carry on heroically, de spite his shell-shock. A letter from Saipan explains this. It was written by Ensign Gerald J. O'Brien, who was graduated from Fordham in 1943. It was received by the Rev. Ignatius W. Cox, S. J., pro fessor of philosophy and religion at Fordham. An excerpt follows: "A few days before the rough going was over, Al, who had charge of a machine gun outfit, was shell-shocked and one of his fellow officers carried him back behind the dines, a distance of about two miles. Well, they treated Al back there and the next day they had planned to evacuate him (the medics). The next morning Al got up, dressed and sneaked back to his outfit. He told them that he wouldn't let them go through all that fighting while he was tak ing it easy behind the lines. The officer who had carried Al back was injured that day, so Al took charge of his own outfit and also the Injured officer's rifle platoon. Well, he led those men so gallantly that they found them selves treading where fools normally fear to go. He account- el for many Japs and it was while leading his men in a charge that Al was shot. He was shut by a Jap who was hiding in a cavity in a coral sector of ground over which Al was charging. Al had blocked his last kick. 'The men told me afterward that they saw many friends killed, but they somehow could tako it in stride; but when Al got his they were brought to tears. It seems that Al was known by all, even by men who were not In his platoon, called him 'The Saint'." They SEATTLE SPLIT TWIN BILL By United Press The champion Los Angeles Angels and their closest com petitors, the Hollywood Stars, continued to draw away from the rest of the . Pacific Coast league last night, the Angels trimming Oakland 3-2 and the Stars topping the fading San Francisco Seals, 5-4. Seattle and Portland split a doubleheader, the Beavers win ning the first 5-3 and the Rainiers the nightcap 9-6. Sac ramento shoved San Diego fur ther into, the cellar, winning 4-3. Marino Pierettl chalked up his 19th win of the year when he twirled Portland to a win over Seattle in their opener. The Rainiers came back with a seven-run splurge off Ad Liska in the fourth inning of the finale to overcome a four- run Beaver assault in the first when Ted Gullic homered with the bases loaded. Frank Tincup received credit for the win. The linescores: First Game Seattle 3 9 1 Portland 5 9 2 Turpin and Spindel; Picretti and Adams. Second Game Seattle 9 13 1 Portland 6 9 3 Elliott, Tincup and Sueme; Liska, Federmeyer and Adams, Norager, Cook. "In Our Time" Coming Sunday TAKE 11 IN JOCKEY DIES Evansville, Ind., Aug. 18 (U.R) Jorge Alfonso, 24-year-old Jockey of Louisville, Ky., died yesterday of injuries sustained in a racing accident Wednesday at Dado Park. Alfonso, up on Bychance, suffered a skull frac ture when he was thrown from his horse which slipped and broke a foreleg while turning into the stretch in the third race. Use Mall Tnbuns Want Ada. MiTII TIRE MEN r VULCANIZERS - MOLD MEN and SECTION MEN Can Make $52.00 to $70.00 PER WEEK GROSS WITH OVERTIME A GOOD CHANGE TO LEARN A TRADE IN A BUSINESS THAT WILL BE IN DEMAND AFTER THE WAR 51 OF OUR WORK IS FOR THE ARMY See Mr. Bismark at HAWKIRS0H TIRE TREAD 204 NORTH RIVERSIDE MEDFORD, OREGON New York. Aug. 18 U.R- Maybe It's like trying to bring down a Flying Fortress with a bean bag, but for whatever it's worth, the Pittsburgh Pirates are moving at even a faster clip these days than the St. Louis Cardinals. The experts are calling it the seasons most futile winning streak, but the Pirates have run up 11 victories in a row and even though they are still 17V4 games behind the pace setting cards, they are playing as thougn every game was the pennant clincher. Yesterday was a good exam ple. They defeated the Phila delphia Phillies in oouoie header, 7 to 6 and 6 to 5, putting on late "squeeze" rallies to win both games. The plight of the Pirates In trying to accomplish the "im possible" at this late juncture, simply emphasizes the status of the Cards, who are bidding for the best won and lost record of any team In National league his tory. The Cards won their second straight shutout from the New York Giants. 7 to 0, last night, for their 40th victory in their last 49. By winning, they main tained a pace ahead of the Chi cago Cubs of 1906, who hold the Major league record for games won in a season 116 out of 154. The Boston Braves over whelmed the Cubs at Chicago with a five-run rally in the fifth anH went on to win 7 to 5. The Brooklyn at Cincinnati game in the National was rained out. The St. Louis Browns increas ed their first place margin to seven full games in the Ameri can, the greatest they have en ioved thus far, by beating the Athletics at Philadelohia. 10 to 5. The Browns made 15 hits, with Vern Stephens getting his 15th homer to tie Bobby Doerr of the Red Sox for the league lead. Johnny Lindelf tied an Ameri can league record with four doubles In pacing the Yankees to a 10 to 3 victory over Cleve land at New York. Detroit and Boston reached a three-all stalemate in their im portant series for second place In the Red Sox park, rairl end ing the game after five innings. Washington lost its second 1 to 0 game in three days, the Chi cago White Sox winning in the ninth on a long fly by Hal Tros ky which sent Guy Curtright home from third. ROW v;A;j 7 - J s-,l W Starting Sunday for a three day performance at the Crater ian with Ida Lupino and Paul Henreid playing the leading roles is "In Our Time ' with Nancy Coleman and Mary Boland. ALL-STAR ELEVEN Chicago, Aug. 18 (U.R) With the arrival of the tardy Indlanan contingent, the 1944 All-Stnr varsity began to take shape to day as Head Coach Lynn Woldorf of Northwestern stres sed defensive workouts in pre paration for the T-minded Chi caeo Bears. Three-ouarters of the 1941-42 Indiana backfield arrived yes terday. Quarterback Lou Saban and Halfbacks Billy Hillenbrand and Chuck Jacoby. Reporting along with thi three hoosier lieutenants was Lt. Billy Rein hard of the University of Cali fornia, who can play either tarkle or halfback. The 67-man squad was practic ally completed with yesterday's arrivals, and Waldorf has start ed to build a varsity which will be delegated to carry the brunt of tho collegians' offensive against the Bears. PAULINE BETZ IS E Chestnut Hill, Mass., Aug. 18 (U.R) Pauline Betz, the Na tional Women's Tennis cham pion, was a strong favorite to win the Longwood Cricket Club Invitation tournament today after advancing to the semi finals with a 60, 60 victory over Helen Pedersen Rihbany of New York. Miss Betz of Los Angeles played masterfully In all de partments, defeating the upset victor over Mrs. Virginia Ko vacs with ease. Other quarter-finals matches DEPENDABLE REPAIR SERVICE For Your CAR. TRUCK TRACTOR EATHERTON'S FARM STORE (08 So. RlTertide Ph. M4S went to Louise Brough of Bev erly Hills, Calif., who eliminat ed Shirley Fry of Akron, O., 6-2, 6-1, Dorothy May Bundy of Miami who ousted Doris Hart of Miami, 6-1, 4-6, 6-4, and Mary Arnold of Los Angeles, a 7-5, 1-6, 6-2 victor over Margaret Osborne of San Francisco. HOWTHEK? T erS av m mM r rm American W. St. Louis . 68 Boston 60 New York 59 Detroit 59 Chicago 50 Cleveland 54 Philadelphia 52 Washington 47 National W. 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