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I i EX-GOLF GREATS LURED 10 ACTION Some 165 Shotmakers Vie for $42,500 in War Bonds Shute, Picard Enter. Chicago, Aug. 240J.R) A prize of $42,500 maturity value in war bonds, lured approximately 165 golfers over Tam O'Shanter's 72 par course today, bringing great players of past years out of re tirement and professionals from every corner of the country for a shot at the richest melon in golfing annals. The carnival atmosphere that has been a trademark of these a'l-American tournaments gave way to reminiscence as the huge field took its swings in three separate concurrent tournaments 26 in the amateur; 28 in the women's open, and upwards of 110 professionals in the men's open. Each field will play 18 holes medal daily through Sun day for a 72-hole total. Attention, however, was con centrated on the ail-American open, where first prize of $13, 462 in war bonds has caught the eye of not only the two top money winners of 1944 Harold (Jug) McSpaden and Byron Nel son but has brought back such ' oldtime stars as Denny Shute and Henry Pickard to tourna ment play. Saraien to Play Along with Shute and Picard have come "Light Horse" Harry Cooper, who enjoyed record suc cesses in the middle 30's and is now a pro at Minneapolis; Gene Sarazen, old "Mister Knickers" who won everything in sight be tween 1930 and '40; and it Is re ported that Walter Hagen, who glittered brightly during sports' golden era, will be here, to try to boost his golf winnings to over $1,000,000. These veteran campaigners re turn to find several new faces in the professional field, particu larly Bob Hamilton of Evans ville, Ind. Hamilton staged a "David and Goliath" act in the recent P.G.A. Nationals at Spok ane, Wash., by defeating Nelson We still have a few, each size Orchard Ladders left Our Advice, Protect Your self BUY NOW! American Fruit Growers, Inc. 314 S. Fir Phone 5214 fttisfiousne Reserve Proof . 5?H Grain Ntutril Spirits. The Lansdnwne Distillery Havre de Grace Md. nunlltn RECAPPING "a" Grade Runner On Your H . " 6.00.16 $7.00 - Drive to today! M thoroughly. Our quality PPl enable you to get long. ut mileage. Don t delay. Have tire, recapped now and U ready for your next tire Inspection. 214 SOUTH RIVERSIDE In the finals, and now the 28- year-old hoosier is testing his new golfing position against the year's greatest field. Action in the amateur cen tered around defending Cham pion Dale Morey, Ed Furgol, De troit, Mich., the tournament's medalist with a five-under-par 67; Ken Heilemann, St. Louis, who was second low qualifier with a 70, and Wilford Wehrle, former western champion from Racine, Wis. The ten low amj teurs for 72 holes will split $550 in war stamps. 18TH VICTORY AS P New York, Aug. 24 (U.R) The St. Louis Cardinals, who have operated without a bona fide relief pitcher all season, of fered evidence today that their strong-armed squad of starting hurlers would have about as much use for one as their bat ting champion Stan Musial has for a pinch hitter. Their pitchers, most of them big chesty fellows like Mort Cooper and Max Lanier, have gone 11 straight games without assistance from the bull pen and that pace more or less reflects a trend that has been in effect all season. Big Mort Cooper, ably assisted by Brother Walker Cooper, had it easy gaining his 18th victory, 11-1, over the Chicago Cubs at St. Louis last night. He scattered nine hits and his control was sharp, walking none and striking out five. Walker Cooper hit an inside the park homer and three singles for a perfect night at the plate, bringing . his recent pace to 15 hits in 19 times at bat. The victory enabled the Cards to keep ahead of the all-time rec ord pace of the Cubs of 1906, though they need 29 victories in their final 38 games to tie it. Playing at their present pace, they could clinch the pennant as early as September 15 earlier if the fast traveling Pittsburgh Pirates have a relapse. The game was the only one played In the majors yesterday. NO GRAPPLE IN NIGHT There will be no wrestling matches in the Medford armory tonight, Promoter Mack Lil lard's grapplers taking a vaca tion while the floor is being sanded and alterations made. The next program will be on September 14, making a total of three weeks during which the grappling ring will be unoc cupied. First Canadian contingent sent overseas in World War I landed at Plymouth, England, on Oct. 16, 1914. S3EEEG) LEGE FROM THIS LOSE TO TUCSON FOR REGION TOGA i Billings, Mont., Aug. 24. (U.B Slamming out 13 hits to score each of its men, Tucson, Ariz., I defeated Portland, Ore., 9-6 here j last night for the western sec-; tional American Legion Junior championship and for an entry into the little world series at Minneapolis Aug. 26. Heavy hitting Bob Acosta led the Tucson attack as he opened up with a long three-bagger in the third inning to send in the first run. Then the whole team got on the bandwagon to bat completely around and score seven of their nine tallies. Portland Pitcher Richard Montag was relieved by Jack Statzer in the third after allow ing four of the seven runs. But Statzer was hardly more effect ive as the Arizonians pounded him for three more. Tucson, who took an 8-3 thumping from Portland in the opening round of the tourna ment, got its other scores in the fifth and seventh for its second straight victory over the Ore gonians. Another triple by Acosta accounted for the seventh inning tally, while the other came on a fifth inning squeeze play. The Oregonians, who went scoreless until the sixth, when they pushed over two runs, went on a hitting spree in the seventh, garnering four counters. How ever, Pitcher Lowell Bailey of Tucson pulled himself out of a hole to fan two batters in a row to retire the side and stop the threat. Portland also started a rally in the 8th, getting two men on bases. Tucson, however, changed pitchers to keep on the safe side, putting in Joe Tully, who retired the side with no score. HOW TH ETC STA A V American W. L. St. Louis 69 51 Boston .... 64 55 .538 New York 62 55 .530 Detroit 62 56 .525 Chicago 56 63 .471 Cleveland 57 65 .467 Philadelphia 57 65 .467 Washington 51 68 .429 National W. L. St. Louis 87 29 Pittsburgh 69 46 Cincinnati 65 49 Pet. .750 .600 .570 Chicago ... 51 61 .455 New York 53 65 .449 Philadelphia 45 67 .402 Boston 46 70 .397 Brooklyn -..46 74 .383 Pacific Coast W. L. Pet. Los Angeles 80 60 .571 Hollvwood 73 67 .521 Portland 71 67 .514 San Francisco 69 69 .500 Oakland 68 71 .489 Seattle 67 73 .479 Sacramento 65 74 .468 San Diego 64 76 .457 One day's output of U. S. bi tuminous coal mines could de- : velop electrical power equlva ' lent to the total capacity of all I American hydro-electric plant working continuously for 48 days. my 0OQGO0 TELEPHONE 4757 3 Sport Graphs o Billy Hulen Says; New Coaches For All Conference Teams This Year When Southern Oregon con ference football teams open pre season drills next month, a new head coach will be at the helm at each of the four schools In the circuit. Three of the mentors will be brand new t. the loop, while one Al Simpson will be mere ly In Medford instead of Ashland surroundings. The Klamath Falls Pelicans, conference champions the past two years, reached into Port land to obtain a man to replace Frank Ramsey, now a marine. They got Marble Cook, 39, from Lincoln high, where he tu tored basketball and track and was assistant grid mentor dur ing the 1943-44 school year. The Grants Pass Cavemen also went upstate for a suc cessor to Jim Keith. They signed Mel Johnson, whose Springfield high eleven went through Its Tri-Counly league campaign last season unde feated and untied, and dead locked Corvallit in a non loop clash. Ashland's Grizzlies, replacing Simpson, hired 35-year-old John Stromberg, a graduate of the University of Minnesota, whose Stewartville. Minn., football ma chine lost but one contest in two years. The hiring of Cook, a 1934 graduate of the University of Oregon, snaps a long string of Klamath grid coaches whose alma mater was Oregon State. First it was Les Avrit in 1931, to be followed In succession by Arthur (Snowy) Gustafson, Buck Hammer and Ramsey, nil of them dyed-in-the-wool ex-Beavers. Having little background on Cook, we can't predict what sort of a system he will Install at Klamath Falls. But, it may be one designed to take full ad vantage of the almost unlimited manpower available at the larg est school in the conference a power attack built for big, bruising operators, of which the Pelicans always have plenty. " It's a different story with Johnson at Grants Pass. He believes in deception, and la almost certain to use the T formation. Like Simpson, he attended Clark Shauqhnesay's coaching school at Utah State College in Logan last June and came away convinced of its merits. The system Stromberg will teach his Ashlanders remains to be seen, but being a University of Minnesota man it Is likely he will send a "power" team onto the field, drilled to the nth de gree in fundamentals. Simpson, of course, Is 100 per cent for the "T" and the Black Tornado will be pouring it in cessantly during the season. FRY AWDOYLE Philadelphia, Aug. 24 01.R Top-seeded Shirley Fry, Akron, O., and Jean Doyle. San Diego, Calif., victors In their respec tive quarter-final matches yes terday, meet today in a semi final test In the 261h Annual Girls' National Tennis tourna ment at the Philadelphia Crick et Club. Miss Fry advanced Into the Penultimate bracket by defeat ing Joanne Dunn, Des Moines, la., 6-4, 6-0, while Miss Doyle moved up at the expense of Barbara Scofield, San Francisco, who fell under a 6-4, 3-6, 6-2 count. 200 Cubic Foot Load Dial 2123 TIMBERP C FACTORY o) iyj ik iw TO POST CHIEF Georgia Green, technician fifth grade in the Women's Ar I my Corps, is now serving as sec j retary to Col. Frank B. Lam i mons, post commander of Camp Pickett, Va. Cpl. Green enlisted in the WAC Oct. 12, 1943, and comp'ied basic training at Ft. Oglethorpe, Ga. In a recent letter to the Trib une, Cpl. Green stated that she was very busy, that she did not find the south particularly at tractive and was anxiously awaiting the riav when she could return to Medford. Cpl. Green I also wrote that she recently spent a week-end In Richmond, Va., with LaMurle Beck Witt, also in the WAC and working in the otfice of the adjutant gen eral at Ft. Washington, Md. Also stationed at Camp Pickett are Dolph Janes, LeRoy Edwards and Phyllis Curry, Cpl. Green wrote and the former Medford people see one another quite fre quently. Cpl. Green Is a graduate of Medford high school, Medford Business college and before go ing into the women's army was employed' by the Medford cor poration as a stenographer. She has a brother in the armed forces, a sergeant in an engineer unit serving overseas. He.- moth er, Mrs. Leone E. Webb lives on Kings highway. RACINE SHOOTER TOPS AT VANOALIA Vandalia, O., Aug. 24 (U.R) John Peterson of Racine, Wis., today held the "champion of champions" title at the annual Grand American trap-shooting tournament for having hit 98 out of 100 clay pigeons in the open ing day of the event. Peterson topped a field of 23 state champions, nosing out George Wagner of Dayton, O., and H. L. Cheek of Clinton, Ind.. who tied for second with 97 j birds each. i The tournament ends Friday when a field of more than 800 j shooters will compete In the ! Grand American handicap for $50,000 in prize money. The meet, cut short because of the wartime ammunition shortage, is open only to contestants who can provide their own shotgun shells. ROY HELSER GETS By United Press j The Los Angeles Angels cool ed off the threatening Holly wood Stars, taking a seven game Pacific Coast lead on a double win yesterday 16-12 and 3-0, as eight homers sailed over the fence In a single game. ! San Francisco parried Oak land's first division bid, 9-4, while Portland defeated Sacra mento 4-1 and Seattle topped San Diego 2-1. Portland's Roy Hclser twirled his 19th win against Sacramcn-i to, holding the Solons scoreless until the ninth. Gene Babbitt was the loser. Score: Sacramento 18 1 Portland 4 fl 0 Babbitt and Stclncr; Hclser, and Norager. Japs Have New Word For Loser San Francisco. Aug. 24 j (U.R) Tokyo radio today found a new way to describe an advance to the rear: "Showing clever strategy, cunning leadership and the , spirit to move ever onward, German forces are nearly breaking out of the Argentan trap in France." 1 Brahmaputra river is 1680 miles long. Dial 2123 COMPANY a TRAFFIC HAZARD Salem, Ore., Aug. 24 U.R) Slightly red-faced members of the highway department tell this story: A flagwoman working on a stretch of highway under con struction decided that the day was too hot for conventional clothing and appeared in a brief, two-piece bathing suit. She had no difficulty in stop ping traffic, the story goes, but it took the efforts of the state police to get staring masculine drivers started again. PW'S ESCAPE Lincoln, Neb., Aug. 24 J.R) ! Two German officers who es caped from Papago park intern-1 ment camp last night were j sought In the desert near here to day. The prisoners of war, Lt.J Friedrich Utbolino, 40, and Lt. Hans Harger, 25, left the camp last night by an undisclosed means. ; First Canadian contingent I sent to France in World War I ! landed in February of 1915 and proecded to Flanders. 1 A ff9& W ? SCHOOLGIRLS CAN'T DO WITHOUT WARDS ALL WOOL Vt.-.-r V ft- Montgomery Thunder. August 24, 1944 MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE FI VI , T MoIUesulaz, France, Aug. 24 (U.R) Two hundred persons were injured seriously and an unknown number were killed today when a German munitions depot exploded in Annemasse, France, near the Swiss border. The explosion leveled scores of houses, including the ancient HEAR CHARLES T. WETTERMAN Speaking on OREGON STATE PENSION K. P. Hall, N. Grape -8 P. M. Friday, Aug. 25 You are urged to attend the speaking by Chas. T. Wetter man on the Oregon State Pension or Retirement bill for Ore- ?ion. Come and get the facts first hand. It is free for the istening. 298 ,1 They're clones and know that AIL WOOL wears and looks better for days en end especially when It bears the famous Carol Brent label Both ilipons and cardigans come tn 6 Fall colors. 32-40. 117 SO. CENTRAL College of Annemasse, The munitions depot was lo cated in the Place de la Repub lique, right In the center of the Alpine town, which was liberat ed several days ago. ROOFING ALL TYPES f Free Estimates All Work Guaranteed Satisfactory J. A. WESTENSEE and G. C. WOOD Phone 5087 MONTGOMERY WARD :w K ' 31' at much a port of your life oi sodai! And what eo-ed doem'l ,'HONE 3930 Ward
