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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-
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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.
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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.
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
Williams won a split decision
In the bout at Shibe Park last
night, trouncing the Washington,
Pa., veteran for the second time.
The deciding vote was cast by
Referee Mat Adgle after Judge
Eddie Loughran voted for Wil
liams and Judge Lou Press fa
vored Angott.
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