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rOUR MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Thunder. Sept. 7. 1944 L RETAIN ABILITY American League Prexy Sees Players Carrying On Careers After Conflict. Chicago, Sept. 7 (U.B Presi dent William Harridge of the American league predicted to day that wartime interruption of baseball careers would have lit tle effect on the future ability i of players and said that "practi l cally 100 per cent" of the Junior I circuit's stars now In service ' would regain their former star ' dbm after hostilities have ceased. The careers of few player will be dulled permanently by wartime service In the armed forces. Harridge said, pointing suit after his discharge and baf- out that such stars as Joe DIMag- fled American league batters for ball ahead of them after the war Is over. Few Exceptions With the possible exception of Henry Creenberg, former De troit first baseman who is 33 years old; Cecil Travis, 31, Washington; Billy Dickey, 37, New York Yankees, and Luke Appling, 35, Chicago White Sox, the Anerican league's list of playei.- In service will shift back in full to an active player list with all men having many good playing days left, Harridge said. Harridge cited three reasons why he thought the players now in service would fight their way back to the top again. The first and most Important, he said, was the conditioning they get In the army where the training is much more rigid than that at a spring training camp, Second, he said, was the rec ords of the last world war, and the third was the record of two stars recently discharged from the service. In 1918, Harridge pointed out, Sgt. Hank Gowdy returned from active combat duty to major league prominence with the Bos ton Red Sox, and Red Faber did the same thing with the Chicago White Sox. Faber turned in his service uniform for a baseball Ruling on Freshmen Boosts Navy Grid Stock Sky High By Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Sept. 7 (U.R) Many staggering American foot ball coaches felt as hopeless today as Japan war lords, follow ing the coincident navy announcements dealing with Japan and the gridiron. The Japs got their bad newsl when Navy Secretary Forrestal i disclosed that the navy will not be demobilized until Japan Is de feated. Gridiron pilots got theirs in the Annapolis anouncement that the navy academy s foot ball players will be eligible for four, instead of three, years of varsity play, This addition of one year's eligibility makes available for the academy's team six potential all-America performers from last season's eastern championship suad an outfit that lost only one same. It means that the sailor squad, recently taken over by Cmdr. Oscar Hagbert, Is vir tually certain to repeat for the IN BAY REGION ALL TANGLED UP BEVOS. 4-3 By United Press Four teams of the Pacific Coast league last night showed considerably tighter fielding than their fans have grown ac customed to lately, as San Fran cisco, Sacramento and Holly wood turned in victories by one run margins. The Seals defeated Oakland eastern title and will be the. 2 to 1, Sacramento gained a final-inning victory over Port land, and Hollywood s sixth place Stars eked out a 13 to 12 win over first place Los Angeles, gio, former New York Yankee slugger, and Bob Feller, youth ful Cleveland mound star, would have many good years of base- FOR LEASE Store Building and Paved Parking Lot at the Northeast corner 6th and Bartlett St. Communi cate with JOHN R. TOMLIN P.O. Box 152 several years. RAMS WHIP BOSTON ON 60-YARD SCORING RUN Cleveland, Sept. 7 (U.R) A 60-yard touchdown run by Tom my Colella on the second piny after the opening kickoff, high lighted the 9 to 0 victory of the Cleveland Rams over the new Boston Yankees in a National league football exhibition game here last night. The Rams, returning to active competition after a years lay off, lost no time in settling the issue. Colella, a halfback, swept wide to his right and raced down the field for the score. Fullback Walter West converted. I country's outstanding thrust to the notional crown. Rights to this crown will have In be nroved bv triumphs over all eastern opposition includ- reducing the letter's lead over in armv but nartieularly over San Francisco' from 10 to nine games. Seattle and San Diego were idle. Gene Babbitt of the Solons Craterian Star Now showing at tne Crateri an is Irene Dunne in "The White Cliffs of Dover", with Alan Mar shal, Roddy McDowall, Frank Morgan, Van Johnson and C. Aubrey Smith. The picture ends Saturday night. 'tit ing army but particularly over i n t e r - sectional opponents as Duke, Georgia Tech, Purdue and Notre Dame. In making this change, Navy merely, has followed the four year ruling which was adopted at the Januard meeting of the National Collegiate, Col. Law rence (Biff) Jones, graduate man ager, announced that Army was following the same policy. What else could he do? JOYCE WINS Oakland, Calif., Sept. 7 (U.R) Willie Joyce, speedy 140-pound-er from Gary, Ind., won a 10 round decision over Chester Slider, 143, San Francisco, here laM night before 4,000 customers. Slider took an early lead but Joyce finished fast to win the judge's decision. edged Syd Cohen of the Beavrrs in a mound duel in which the Solons outhit Portland 9 to 6. The winning run came in the eighth when Mel Serafini dou bled, was sacrificed to third by Catcher Jim Steiner and scored on an error on the" play. S.core: Portland 3 6 1 Sacramento 4 9 1 Cohen and Adams; Babbitt, Pillette and Steiner. RECORD-DIVORCE-FILING Reno, Sept. 7 (U.R) Divorce actions begun in one day hit an all-time high here yesterday when 58 were filed. The previ our record of 42 in one day was established earlier this year. Willing Water says Use i !sr JJ1L w i ater LJserally Waste and Extravagance in the use of water is sabotage Use all the water you need for cleanliness and for health. Drink what you need. Use what you need for cooking. Use the water you need for bathing and in the laundry but Don 't waste it'. Use water on your lawn or your garden wisely. Don't water-log the ground. Better to irrigate it well as the rain would do, say once a week, than to sprinkle lightly every day. Avoid wasteful habits, such as letting the faucet run while you do something else. Don't accumulate piles of trash in the cellar or the attic or any other place around the home. That's a fire hazard and it takes water to put out fires. Don 't let water fixtures leak whether it be a drip or a deluge. Waste of water is sabotage. STOP IT! A WW A CITY OF MEDFORD WATER DEPARTMENT City Hall Bldg. Phone 4906 San Francisco, Sept. 7. (U.R) The professional football situ ation in the San Francisco bay region took another step toward complete entanglement yester day as the owners of the Oak land Hornets of the American professional Football league all but threw in the sponge and a member of the Pacific Coast Professional Football league ap parently Jumped to the Ameri can loop. The latest report is that Virgil Dardi, owner of the San Fran cisco Packers In the Pacific loop, has changed horses in mid stream and will team up with Frank Sobrero, the on-again, off again owner of the San Jose entry In the same loop, to take over a spot in the American league. The two would operate the entry from San Jose, loaving Oakland out in the cold. Meanwhile, Marty Brill, coach of the playerless Hornets, was reported to have turned down a chance to take over the coaching reins of the San Jose club. And the latest entrant into the field are co-starred in the dar picture is J. Rufus Klawans, ing story- "Between Two president of the Pacific Coast , Worlds", coming Sunday to the league, who happens to be hold- Rialto Theatre along with the ing 52,000 of Mr. Sobrero s hilarious comedy "Sailors Koll money as a guarantee that that ' day". individual will stick with the Pacific loop. Also, says Klawans, all the players under contract to Sobre ro will revert' to the Pacific league if Sobrero & Co. fail to finish the season or start it. Ti Here Sunday (SB'-;- Eleanor Powell and John Gar- Dallas, Tex., Sept. 7 (U.R) Lt. Ben Hogan, who has been busy for three days whittling strokes off his game, appeared well equipped today to chal lenge Byron Nelson, favorite in a field of 181 golfers teeing off in the four-day $13,333 Texas victory open. Hogan, the little Fort Worth, Tex., ex-caddy, who worked his way to top man among the pro fessionals before going into the army air forces two years ago, was 10 strokes under par for 54 practice holes on the narrow 6,378 yard Lakewood Country club course. Nelson Is bidding for his sev enth tournament victory this year. He has been resting since winning the Nashville, Tenn., tournament last week-end, and hasn't even tried the course here. TO ORGANIZE BOWLING LOOP AT MEET TONIGHT A six-team City Bowling league will be organized at a meeting at the Medford alleys tonight at 8 o'clock and anybody Interested In entering a team is asked to be present. At present the league has four teams lined up, with two mora needed to fill out the circuit. TROOPS PRAISED Somewhere in the Southwest Facinc, sept. 7 (U.R) A U. S. anti-aircraft artillery battalion which landed with New Zealand troops on an island in the Solo mons hro been commended by Brig. Gen. Dan J. Duff, D.S.O, it was announced today. 33 MINES SEIZED Pittsburgh, Sept. 7 (U.R) Thirty-three coal mines in Penn sylvania and West Virginia were under control of the department of the interior today in the gov ernment's effort to break strikes called by a subsidiary of John L. Lewis' United Mine Workers. 00 YOU WANT TO SELL YCSJR GAR? See Us Top Prices No Delay Any Make or Model Skinner's Garage 143 S. Riverside - Ph. 2740 MOW TilEY' or 4 a American League W. 3-2 By United Press Pitcher Rufus Gentry, knock ed out of the box 20 times this year, was strong all the way to give Detroit a 3 to 2 victory over the White Sox at Chicago last night, providing welcome relief to the over-worked Al Newhouser and Paul (Dizzy) Trout. The victory moved the Tigers a game and a half be hind the leading Yankees and a game behind the second place Browns. Roger (Doc) Cramer tripled and Eddie Mayo singled to pro vide the marginal run in the third after the Tigers scored twice in the first inning. Gen try held the White Sox score less after the third, permitting no player to get beyond first. There were no other games in either league. I New York 74 St. Louis 73 Detroit 72 Boston 71 Cleveland 64 Philadelphia 63 Chicago 60 Washington ." 55 National League W. h. St. Louis 93 Pittsburgh 76 Cincinnati 69 Chicago 58 New York 59 Boston 54 Brooklyn 53 Philadelphia 50 Pacific Coast W. L. Los Angeles 89 San Francisco ...... 80 Portland 78 Seattle 77 Hollywood 77 Oakland 76 Sacramento 72 San Diego 69 IS Hollywood, Sept. 7 (U.R) Marine Sgt. Barney Ross, Guad alcanal hero and former light weight and welterweight box ing champion, today held a gold medallion from the Helms Ath letic Foundation. Foundation Director Bill Schroeder presented the special award to Ross at Legion stadi um last night for his ring and war record. Ross won the Navy Cross for his heroism on Guadalcanal in holding a foxhole by himself in the fnce of two-way Jap gun fire. The foundation presents a regular award to the southern California "athlete of the month." NEXT THURSDAY Wrestling will be resumed In the Medford armory next Thurs day night after a month layoff, Promoter Mack Lillard said to day. There will be no matches in the armory tonight. Lillard said he was negotiat ing with Jack Kaiser of Vancou ver, Wash., the new Pacific coast light-heavyweight champion, .to appear on the program. Kaiser recently defeated Paavo Kato nen for the crown. I I Use Mall Tnbuus Want Ada. ' feg5?lg58B&g ( MONTGOMERY WARD ti JPLIfflM ?8 Si. pet. Mtirm frffvroi WILLIAMS BEATS ANGOTT BY NOD Philadelphia. Sept. 7 U.R1 Hardhitting Ike Willaims, the skinny Trenton, N. J., Negro lightweight was ready today lor whatever kind of fighting the armed forces may ask of him after outpointing Sammy An gott, the former lightweight champion. In his last boxing bout for the duration. 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