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1-rIdoy, Sepi. 22. 1944
Big Medford Eleven Faces Weed Here Tonight In Seasons Opener
TIGERS TO FIRE BROWNS WIN TO IMost Major Grid Contest fPIERETTI HURLS iySff
AT
Locals to Field 181 -Pound
Starting Lineup; Contest
Called for 8 Sharp.
Operating from the Clark
Shaughnessy "T" formation and
with one of the heftiest aggrcga
iinn. In Mndford history, the
Black Tornado launches Its 1944
gridiron campaign at the stadium
tonight against the Weed, (Calif.)
Cougars. The kickoff 1 at 8
o'clock sharp.
One of the largest opening
game throngs In years Is expect
ed to be on hand to see what sort
of a machine Coach Al Simpson,
last season at Ashland, has de
veloped in his first year here.
The Tigers will open the clash
with an eleven averaging 181.4
nlaver. The forward
New York, Sept. 22 (U.R)
If the St. Louis Browns can pull
the American league pennant
out of the fire, and they were
only half a game out of the
lead today, the credit well may
go to an allegedly damp base
ball which Pitcher Nelson Pot-
Saturday Rated Toss-ups
By Carl Lundqulst
United Press Staff Correspondent
New York, Sept. 22 (U.PJ The first big football Saturday
of 1344, full of hazards for teams that go st each other with
out benefit of comparative scores or past performances, rolls
around tomorrow with major elevens in every sector putting
hopes for perfect seasons on the block.
The day s big games are near
toss-ups in most cases. Cornell,
expected to be one of the pow
ers of the so-called Ivy circuit,
meets a spunky Syracuse eleven,
returning after a year's layoff
from football, in the Eastern
ter mrew during a game witn feature. Indiana and Illinois
the Yankees Inst July. square off to oocn the Bla Ten
Potter drew a 10-day sus
pension for the alleged use of
illegal pitch and he's been fight
ing mad ever since, so mad In
fact that he has won eight out
of 10 games, the only pitcher on
the club to show a semblance
of consistency since the team
hit its Into season slump.
Throwing dry baseballs all
the way, he defeated the Wash
ington Senators 9 to 4 last night
and the victory, coupling with
lapse by the leading Detroit
Tigers made the American
season, with both teams rated
offensively powerful on the
basis of high scores in prelim
inary tests last week. Purdue,
the defending Big Ten cham
pion seeks to carry on its 1943
record of eight straight vic-
Virles, but the going may be
i tough against .Great Lakes
Naval, expected to be close to
the top among the service teams.
wall punishes me lairoariKs Bi!lenRUe race skin.tifint again.
187 pounds ana ipe dbcbb uvcr-, Xhings even looked a little
age 172. better for the Yankees, who
Despite allthis beef, the Tor- saivaged the finae of thcir
nado does not lack speed andserius with the xigers by win
dash. Glen Bostwick. 158-pound i ninR 5 t0 4 in 10 innings,
left halfback, Is lightning fast; Tne Boston Red Sox, out of
182-pound Marvin Doty can!the running wiln everything
ramuie uura 1113 iu.iia.-n. i.,t,ut slide rules, remained six
and Bob Watson, mz-pouna quar
terback. Is far from slow. Jerry
Clark and Earl Barnhart, right
halfbacks, can also step.
Reservas Weak
While Coach Simpson Is fair
ly well pleased with the manner
in which the squad has assimilat
ed the Intricate "T" formation
plays during the past three
TO
was the losing pitcher as the . , ,...,,,, innnir
dh tho title hopes of the Phoe
. . "ix. Avis,, Hnmblers, 1-0. They
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Seats, W'erle and Ogroddwkl; 1 mHv In the tourney.
Salvo and B. Kaimomu.
Portland S 10 1
Portlanders got 10 hits.
Line scores:
San Francisco - 1
Oakland S
Mask" had the match tucked
away. In a wild brawl he clamp
ed on a leg-breaker, then slam
med Kaiser to the mat and fin
ally rammed his hard head Into
Kaiser's own. Stunned,, Kaiser
went down and the masked one
jumped on him for the fall.
Kaiser, who had sprained his
wrist hitting the "mask" qver
the head and received the brok
en rib when kneed, was unable
to continue and Referee Earl
Yoakley gave the match to the
curtained grappler.
Paavo Kntonen won his mid-1
die event match from Harold i
Davidson, taking falls in the sec
Ists, Southern California and
U.C.L.A. renew hostilities in
the West Coast feature with the
Trojans favored to start a suc
cessful defense of the Pacific
conference title.
In other eastern games, Samp
son's Sailors should have less
trouble with Colgate than
against National League profes
sional teams, Rochester Is a dis
tinct favorite over Union, Pitts-
games behind by losing their ' burgh gets a nod over West Vir
third straight to Cleveland 5 ' ginia, Scranton and Villanova
to 2. I rate about even and Bucknell
The St. Louis Cardinals 1 should repeat last Saturday's
nnd nnrf IMi-H rniinHe nffi Flaw.
Two long-standing antagon-: , ,, . .,i.i. i i t
Silent Ratan'and Pat O'Dowdy
drew in the opener, each getting
one fall.
weeks of practice, he Is frankly : a-"8 6 ' 5
worried over the dearth of ex
perienced reserves. The entire
squad numbers only 32 men,
clinched their third straight
National league pennant at
Boston, when they won the
opener of a double header 5 to
4, then went on to make It a
sweep by taking the second
Ine t:hlcni?o Cuhs tonk n
firm grip on fourth place by
defeating the New York Giants
r hiiov , hv. BnnH flrt U double header 11 to 8 and
team," the shipper ,ald, "but," rmsuurgn pusnea
after that the boys just simply
lack experience and size, al
though some of them are turning
Into fine players. In a nutshell,
wa are one deep and there's no
way of getting around it.
The Tornado will take to the
turf with touchdowns uppermost
In Its mind. It will shoot the
works for tallies, with Watson
handling the ball from center on
every play and tossing the
passes, and Bostwick, Doty,
Barnhart and Clark scooting off
the tackles or hitting through
quick-opening holes In the line.
Cougars Light
The Cougars, according to the
weight chart they sent Medford,
will field a team much lighter
than the Tigers. The team will
average 1S4 pounds. However,
Weed won the northern Cali
fornia title last season and is
expected to be just as potent
this year. Last game between
the two schools was In 1941.
when Medford walked off with
a 38 to S victory.
Starting lineups:
the Brooklyn Dodgers docper
Into the cellar by toppling them
twice, 10 to 4 and 14 to 6.
The Cincinnati Reds main
tained their pace behind the
Pltsburgh Pirates bv winnine a
Hnnhln hnnrlnr (mm iha Hhilllna
at Philadelphia, S to 3, and
8 to 4.
Medford
Rlggs
Sheldon .
Cahill
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Porter ...
Pla.kett
Whlllock
Watson QB
Bostwick Lit
Barnhart ..RH Wilson
Doty . FB Percy
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Cambridge, Mass. (U.PJ A
woman reported to Police Lt.
Richard J. Linehan that a girl
held her up at gunpoint and
robbed her of one cigarette.
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COAST FEATURE
San Francisco, Sept. 22 (U.R)
An opening day clash that
may go far toward deciding Pa
cific Coast Conference Rose
Bowl honors will bring the Uni
versity of Southern California
Trojans and UCLA Bruins to
gether before an estimated
crowd of UO.OuO In the Los An
geles coliseum tomorrow in the
fcaturo Tacific Coast gridiron
game.
At Berkeley, the traditional
opener between the university
of California Bears and St.
Mary's college was expected to
draw the west coast's second
largest crowd nf the week-end,
perhaps 35.000. University of
triumph over Muhlenberg. Har
vard's Informal rate over
Bates.
Other midwestern matches
find Michigan favored over
Marquette in the first night
games in Wolverine history,
Iowa Pre-flight is expected to
win easily from Minnesota's
Civilians, and Northwestern
should top Depauw in a game
tonight.
Two Southwest conference
teams, Tex A & M playing Bry
an AAF and Rice meeting Gal
veston Ai r , may encounter I
trouble since the service teams
are an unknown quantity while 1
iexas Tech may have the same
difficulty against Lubbock AAF
in a homo town battle that com
pletes the array in that sector.
By United Press
Marino Pierettl, Portland's 28-
game winner, turned in a five-
hit pitching job that gave the
Beavers a 3-2 win over the Los
Angeles Angels and a two game
lead over the pennant holders in
the Pacific Coast League Gov-
ernor's Cup playoffs.
Oakland's Manuel Salvo chok
ed the San Francisco Seals off
with seven hits in last night's
other playoff game, the Acorns
winning 5-1 but finding them
selves with only a 1-0 series lead
after their opening victory was
ordered replayed on a Seal pro
test. The playoffs continue tonight.
at Los Angeles and Oakland.
with Portland needing only two
Los Angeles 3 5 1
Pierettl and E. Adams; C.
Adams, Horton and Fernandas.
Sarni.
PORTLAND GIRLS
W KATBALL TOGA
Cleveland. Sept S3 0! R?
The army air ronr "Raiders"
from Hammer field, Fresno,
Calif, today held the King's
crown in the world softball
championships for the second
straight year.
The soldiers copped the men's
title bv e.i!7inp th Fnrt Wnvni
mule whi3 in eliminate me An-j ind., Zollner-pistons, 1-0, in a
gels in the best four games out j 12-lnning pitching duel late last
of seven series. night at Lakewood Elks starium.
Johnny O'Neill's single andj The softball "Queens" cham
Spencer Harris' long double to'pionshlp of 1944 went to the
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All four Southern Oregon
conference football teams will
open their 1944 seasons tonight,
each of them colliding with non
loop foes.
Meford meets Weed here.
Klamath Falls plays host to
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