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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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.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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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