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rOUn MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesdlay, BP. SO. T! LEAD WITH 4 TO 1 Hal Newhouser Flings 26th Triumph To Give Bengals Game and Half Margin New York, Sept. 20 (U.R) The cry of "hold that tiger" echoed through the American league today but It appeared that there was no one capable of car rying out that refrain. Without benefit of either music or lyrics, the tiger In ques tion h Detroit Tigers, held -.-, - - same and a half lead In the tlgnt Junior circuit penannt chase, hilr strongest oft ne season And with Dizzy Trout, a 24-game winner, slated to oppose the New York Yankees in today's contest, the Bencals were favored to in. crease or at least maintain their nrivnntnCG. Hal Newhouser southpawed the champions into 4-1 submis sion In the first of tneir imporv ant three game series yesterday to drop the Yanks to three full ffnmes off the pace. It was New- hnuser'a 26th triumph of the campaign and the sixth time In seven starts that he has beaten New York. Hank Borowy, ace of the Yan kee staff, allowed the Bengals eight hits but the Tigers bunch ed theirs to score a first Inning run, two more in the sixth and the other In the eighth. Brownies Crack The second place St. Louis Browns lost a tough one to the Washington Senators to drop a game and a half behind Detroit. Battling to a 0-0 tie through 10 innings, the St. Louis defense collapsed in the 11th and per mitted six, Washington runs to score as their ex-tcammate, Johnny Nlggellng, shut them out, 6-0. The Cleveland Indians threw considerable cold water on the pennant hopes of the fourth place Boston Red Sox, dropping them five games off the pace with an 8-2 shellacking. The Chicago White Sox made RADIO SERVICE & TELEVISION CO. So. Columbui Avo. Off Stewart Ave. Radio Parte for All Radios Service In very short time. All work guaranteed. Thou sands of Radio Tubes and Supplies. See our store first. We are a large firm. You can see us as late as 9 p. m. P. O. Box866,Medford Have a Coca-Cola Soldier, refresh toada 1X1! i tiss . . . or a way to relax in camp From southern camps with their moss-hung cypresses to camps ncr the north woods, there'f one place soldiers can rclsx the Post Exchange. There they ettle down to "shoot the breere" together. lUtt "Coht", ehey say. Coca-Cola is a refreshing reminder of what they left behind. On "Compsny Street" la camp as on Main Street at home, Coca-Cola stands for thi psust that rejrtsbtu la your own refrigerator, Ice-cold bottles of Coca-Cola are a symbol of friendly way of living. OttltO UNOU AUIMOIItY Of TMI COCA.COIA COMPANY IT Coca-Cola Belling Company of Medford a bid for fifth place by defeat ing the Philadelphia Athletics 6-3. The only National league games scheduled, Pittsburgh at Brooklyn and a doubleheader, Cincinnati at Philadelphia, were rained out. F T E Spokane, Wash., Sept. 20 (U.R) Francis Schmidt, 58, for mer head football coach at Ida ho and Ohio State universities, died last night at St. Lukes hos pital after an extended illness. His physician did not dis close the nature of Schmidt's illness, but it was learned the former coach had been under treatment at the hospital for more than a month. During a seven-year coaching tenure at Ohio State, Schmidt saw tils teams win 38 games, lose 18, tie one, capture the luao ,u, uu uiiv, wap.u.i. w.-,. r-i...... tiiix nnm share ,t 0 and pIaca ,econd three times. He was named to the head football' post at the University of Idaho In March 1841.. In 1043, however, the university joined other northern, division coast conference schools in dropping football because of the war. Last March, with foot ball prospects still uncertain, the university did not renew his contract. MIFFS SIM By United Press The $12,500 Governor's Cup Pacific Coast league playoffs gets under way tonight, with the Los Angeles Angels, regular season pennant winners, enter taining the second place Port land Beavers, and San Francis co and Oakland clashing at Emeryville. Winners of the two best four games out of seven series will meet next week at either Los Angeles or Portland In the fl ats. The Seals and Acorns will play three night games at the Oakland Club's park, then move across the bay to Seals stadium. A gome will be played Saturday night unless one club already holds a 3-0 lead, with a double header scheduled for Sunday. Los Angeles and Portland will follow a similar schedule, with all games in the southern city. I SEEK NEW PREXY Toronto, Ont., Sept. 20 (U.R) The National Hockey league ! sought a new president today after It was learned that Major Connie Smythe of the Canadian ! army had declined the $15,000 j a-year post. Smythe, recovering from spinal wounds suffered in ! Normandy, said last night he be . lleved he could do more for hockey by remaining as head of Maple Leaf Gardens, home of the Toronto club. ClMlni tuna rot OlaeaiHed ad. . m. Too Lata to claaalfj, 13 40 Predicts Two-Handed Grip Will Revolutionize Tennis Br Jack Cuddy United Press Staff Correspondent New York, Sept. 20 (U.R) Les Jahn, nationally known tennis Instructor, predicts that the net game will "go baseball" during the post-war period. Red-headed Jahn, professional at the Orange Lawn Tennis club, South Orange, N. J., and at the exclusive Graham-Ickcs school, Palm Beach, Fla., says that the two-handed drive, larger rac quets and an accent on power will feature play during the next decade. "Within the next 10 years many top-flight players will be gripping larger racquets like baseball bats," he said during a chat at the Stork club. "They'll be using the double grip, some what after the fashion of Pancho Segura and Jack Bromwlch. But, unlike them, they'll be using a terrific two-handed serve." Jahn emphasized that, while double-grlppers Segura of Ecua dor and Bromwich of Australia are now considered "freak" per formers, advanced students of the game are becoming convinc ed that they have introduced a style which will revolutionize tennis. It will be the most im portant change In the love sport since Maury McLaughlin popu larized the top spin back around 1012. Jahn, who Is ambidextrous can play a complete match with either hand continued, "the double grip is certain to feature future play because It not only provides increased power but also assures less expenditure of energy by the over-worked right wrist weakest link in the tennis chain. And it permits greater accuracy with side spin the flat ball. "Tennis Is a conservative game. Changes always are op posed bitterly by the gray beards, who for example, object ed loudly and lengthily to the Introduction of shorts as a per mlssable court costume. Conser vative Instructors will be re luctant at first to teach the double grip technique, lest they be regarded as freak professors But they'll fall Into line. "I have been experimenting for some time with certain pri vate pupils, with surprising re sults. For example, there's an 11-year-old girl in South Orange who can double-grip her way to victory over 20-year-old girls In her area, and beat many of the teen-age boys. The double grip is particularly helpful to young sters becauso it enables them to use adult racquets to ploy the adult game. JACKIE WILSON SCORES UPSET WIN OVER SHANS Washington, Sept. 20 (U.R) Pittsburgh Jackie Wilson, former lightweight champion, scored an" upset 10-round decision over Cleo Shans, Los Angeles Negro, in the main event fight at Grif fith stadium here last night. Shans, a 2-1 favorite In the betting, was no match for Wil son's sharper punching and bet ter boxing as time and again the veteran Pittsburgh Negro out maneuvered his opponent and scored with both hands to the head and body. There were no knockdowns. Cie Mall Trlbuna Want Ada. OF I KNEES OF FILLEY Chicago, Sept. 20 (U.R) The Irish of Notre Dame who orig inated the multiple team system to rise to national football glory, today based hopes for their sec ond consecutive national cham pionship on two recently re paired knees. The knees are owned by Capt. Pat Fllley, also captain of last year's once-defeated team, who Is needed for almost full-time play at guard this fall. ' Notre Dame's guard corps Is undermanned and Head Coach Ed McKeever said the squatty, 175-pound star ''must come through" If Notre Dame plays for national honors this season. Fllley reported for practice six days ago after recovering from operations on both injured knees. He is expected to start when Notre Dame opens a gruel ling 10-game schedule against Pittsburgh. Sept. 30. but the question is when Fllley will be ready for heavy duty. Seldom has one player held the answer to Notre Dame's sea son prospects. This is the third war-time football fall, however, and not the years of Knute Rock ne and following seasons when two and sometimes three com plete Irish teams took the field during a game; But with Irish luck, Notre Dame has gained outstanding freshmen, bulwarked by V-12 trainees. If the guards hold up the Fighting Irish should be one of the nation's great teams once again. r,nna are backs Crelehton Miller, Johnny Lujack, Angelo Bertelll, Jim Mello, and linemen Jim White, Johnny Perko and John Yonakor. However, freshmen or hold overs have a habit of rising to the occasion at Notre Dame. SOFTBALL CHAMPS ARE STILL IN TOURNAMENT Cleveland, Sept. 20 (U.R) The field in the world's Softball championships was narrowed to 12 today as the tourney enter ed the quarter-finals at Lake wood Elks field. Six men's and six women s teams readied for competition, wun tne aoicuers irom nammar Field, Calif., favored to keep their unbeaten streak intact against the Zollner Pistons (Ft. Wayne, Ind.), also undefeated, in defense of the men's diadem they copped last year. WEATHER Northern California Clear to day, tonight and Thursday, ex cept partly cloudy north portion today. Little temperature change. yourself It'i nantral for popular namte to ax-qiilr frltnJIa aKbrertf rloti. That's why you hear Coca-Cola called "Coka". GIVE KAISER HARD Jack Kaiser won't be putting his Pacific coast light-heavy- weight belt on the line against the "Gray Mask" in Thursday night's main event armory wres tling match, but he may be fac ing one of the toughest battles of his career. At least that Is what Promoter Mack Llllard thinks. From in formation he has gathered, the hooded ruffian is capable of giv ing any grappler of his compar able weight in the United States a terrific struggle, with a good chance to take the nod. The "mask" weighs In at about 185 pounds, practically the same as Kaiser, and, according to Llllard, is rough and dirty plus being a better-than-average hand at legitimate tactics. As with all the masked matmen, who prefer to remain mysteri ous, the "Gray Mask" won't tell anybody where he comes from or what background he has. Kaiser, who whipped Milt Ol son last week In a great match, will be favored, of course, to get over the "G-ay Mask" hur dle, but anything can happen when an unorthodox wrestler starts pouring on the heat. It is just possible that Kaiser will be upset. Two other fine mstches are on the slate Paavo Katonen meets Harold Davidson in the midale event and Silent Ratan returns after a long absence to face Pat O'Dowdy. L Chicago, Sept. 20 (U.R) The world's champion Chicago Bears, their T-offensive sputtering with out the services of Ens. Sid Luck man, will open defense of their title against Green Bay Sunday with an almost "freshmen" back field and rated as decided un- derdogs. The National Football league season, which got under way last Sunday, when Green Bay de feated Brooklyn 14-7, will pick up speed this Sunday. Cleveland meets the Chicago Card-Pitt combination at Pittsburgh and the Injury-weakened Bears play at Green Bay, Wis. The Bears, already hit hard by the manpower shortage, have lost the services of Ray Nolting, crashing halfback, and Ray (Scooter) McLean, breakaway halfback. Nolting fractured his leg last Sunday in an exhibition ' game against New York and nrobablv will be out for a month. Los Angeles, Sept. 20 (U.R) Ecuadorian Francisco (Pancho) Segura today moved up to the semi-finals In the Pacific iuth west Tennis championships aft er trimming San Francisco's Jack Jossl 6-0, 6-4 yesterday at the Los Angeles Tennis club. Winner of today's tilt be tween Bill Talbert and Morey Lewis. Los Angeles players will face Segura In tomorrow's semi finals. Segura had an easy time yes terday, keeping Jossl hopping all over the court with his famed forehand shots which he sizzles across the net with a two-handed grip. In a second-round match Lewis downed Nick Vuzollch, Pepperdine College, Los An geles, 6-3, 6-3. Oaa Wall Tribune Want Ada, PROMPT SERVICE REASONABLE RATES OH MOVING VAN SERVICE v .. . PACKING, CRATINli STORAGE DISTRIBUTION lOCM CARTAGE CALL US WHEH rOU NEED ANY OF THESE SERVICES !i ' 703 North Central PHONE 7104 "Trie Canterville Margaret O Brien and Robert Young are co-starred w i t h Charles Laughton in "The Can- Sport Graphs Billy Hulen Says: T-Formation Of Tiger Gridders Is Real McCoy The T-formation that Alexan der I. Simpson's Medford ,high Black Tornado places into op eration against. Weed in the 1944 curtain-raiser here Friday night will be as pure as a well known brand of soap. It -will be the real McCoy. Since 1941, when Clark Shaughnessy's "rags to riches" T-formation Stanfordites startled the gridiron universe by going through the season unbeaten and untied and then knocking off Nebraska in the Rose Bowl, various prep coaches have toyed with the system. a a They have used "T" playi on occasion "T" plays in the sense that the quarterback handled the ball and shoved it at some other back breaking quickly for a hoped-for hole in the line but with almost no exception those coaches retained their basic attacking formation, usually the single wing or Notre Dame box. a a a The one exception we know of In Oregon was Grant high of Portland's state champs of last season. Jerry Lillie's team cm- ployed the "T" exclusively, and with a much smaller outfit downed Klamath Falls, 6 to 0 in Multnomah stadium for the title. As for this year's Medford club, it hasn't a single play that isn't unadultered "T" stuff, straight from the master him self, Shaughnessy, whose coach ing school last spring was at tended by Simpson. Shaughnessy gave the boys the works at Logan, Utah, and the Tornado mentor has passed the knowledge he gained of the formation right on to. his charges. And they love it. a a a The basic theory of the T is that every attacking area, straight ahead, off tackle, wide sweeps and all the pass C aaraa aauaW AaaaaaenKtjM WKS DFORD THURSDAY NIGHT BOUTS STARTS 8:30 P.M. o THRILLS! o SPILLS! The Country's BEST TALENT Tickets Now On Sale AT BROWN'S and Gliost" Coming terville Ghost," coming Sunday to the Craterian. ing territory can be struck more quickly and with more potency than with any other offensive system, a a a Most of the running plays are designed to break the ball-carrier into the open as rapidly as possible, before the opposition even knows who has the ball, and with a minimum of block ing in the line in order that more downfield blocking can be mustered. Some of the plays are execut ed so quickly that all a lineman has to do is merely brush the opening forward to open a path through which the mail packer streaks. It is a tricky, wide-open color ful system in which the oppos ing team, in theory, never knows what to expect. The man in motion gives plenty of emphasis to this deception. Ed Kirtley, the veteran back field coach who has seen sys tems come and systems go at the South Oakdale school of learning, Is almost overcome with enthusiasm for the "T." a a "I can still hardly believe what I see," Kirtley says in discussing the quick-opening holes which Is a "T" funda mental, the hocus-pocus which goes on in the backfield and the almost unlimited attack ing possibilities of the forma tion. To understate it, he is completely sold; on the thing, a a a So are the players, for as I Shaughnessy told his coaching-! school students, "there isn't a boy in high school or college i who wouldn't rather outsmart ! and trick an opponent to create a big gain or a touchdown than i do the same through brute strength." ! NO EMERGENCY San Francisco. Sent. 20 (U.R) Attorney General Robert W. Kenny ruled today cattle rus tling is not among the war-time emergencies for which state funds may be used to meet. Sacramento, Sept 20 (U.R) George Spaulding, 45, former California highway patrol ser geant, today faced superior court trial on a charge of stealing gasoline ration coupons In vio lation of the state's newly passed "black market law." Stock Ranches Farms Country Homes Our Specialty THOMAS J. HIGHT Broker Holly Theater Bids Dial 5397 &E THE OWL CLUB JlLliite LLi Hartford, Conn, Sept. 20 (U.R) Featherweight Champion Willie Pep of Hartford today held his most Impressive victory since starting his comeback campaign after receiving a med ical discharge from the navy an eight-round knockout over Charles (Cabey) Lewis of New York. At the start of the eighth of the scheduled 10-round .non title tilt Pep caught Lewis with a right to the head which dropped the New York negro for a four count. 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