TWO MEDFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday. Sept 27, 1944
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Browns Blank Red Sox and
Tigers Whip Athletics to
Maintain Hot Pace.
St. Louis, Mo Sept. 27 (U.R)
In the e v e ii t the St. Louis
Browns and Detroit Tigers end
the regular American league sea -
son in a tie, a one-game playoff
will be held In Detroit, it was
decided today by the flip oi a
coin.
New i orK, Dupi. ii. u.r.i i
The Detroit Tigers and St. Lou .j
Sin Amw m lame
for the second consecutive day
today and about the only certain
ty in the red-hot race was that
the parties involved faced five
days of almost nerve-wracking
tension.
Both clubs won again yester
day, both have identical won and
lost records and both have five
big games left to play, a trying
situation for highly trained and
keyed athletes. To each player.
the difference In winning and
losing the pennant means up
wards of $4,000 regardless of
how they finish in the world
aeries. Thus, every play means
something extra to the partici
pants and It Is at this stage of
the game that "money players,"
the fellows who don't get rattled
when the chips are down, are
worth their weight In world
series checks.
The Tigers took a short-lived
half game lead yesterday when
Dizzy Trout pitched them to a
6-0, six-hit shutout over the
Philadelphia Athletics in an
afternoon game. The victory,
Trout's 27th and his seventh
shutout, was supported by a 13
hit offense from the Bengals bat.
The Browns came through In
. night game tp tie for first place.
beating the slumping Red Sox,
1-0, in a pitching battle between
Sig Jakuckl and Veteran Mike
Ryba. Jakuckl pitched five-hit
ball as the Browns achieved
their seventh straight win and
their 10th in their last 12 games.
Yanks Btill In
The New York Yankees, the
only ones who have not yet
counted themselves out of the 1
race, stayed within three games i
of the leaders by beating the
Chicago White Sox, 9-5.
The last place Washington
Senators defeated the Cleveland
Indians 8-3 when they pounded
five ' Cleveland hurlers for 19
hits.
In the National league the
Cincinnati Reds won two from
the New York Ginnts. 8-3 and
8-4 and the St. Louis Cardinals
stretched their victory skein to
seven by edging the Brooklyn
Dodgers 8-7. The Chicago Cubs
clinched fourth spot by winning
the first of two lop-sided games
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13-0. The Phillies won the night
cap, 10-1. Pittsburgh defeated
the Boston Braves 6-2.
JACK KAISER IN
FOR MAT BATTLE
Jack Kaiser, the Pacific coast
light-heavyweight wrestling1
champion, will be In good con
dition for his main-event match
with Harold (Buck) Davidson in
the Mcdford armory Thursday
night.
In his brawl with the "Gray
Mask" on last week's card, Kal-
ser was at first believed to have
1 sunerea a coupie oi DroKcn nos
' along with a sprained wrist, but
a later examination proved the
ribs were only bruised. He will
be close to top form for David
son, Promoter Mack Llllard said
man hood
I n's " ' will try to add
the name of Paavo Katonen to
his victory list In the other and
upper half of the double main
event, both of which will go an
hour or until one of the com
batants obtains two falls.
The "Mask," displaying a lot
nf iirtairthririnv ianiiMm olnnrf nrlih
some really good legitimate mat-
work, whipped Kaiser in their
non-title duel last Thursday and
I .cej no reasQn why he cant d(J
the same to Katonen, the ex-
coast champ who recently lost
his belt to Kaiser,
Pat O'Dowdy and Tex Porter
will clash In the three-round
opener.
SEGURA TO FACE
ET
San Francisco, Sept. 27 (U.R)
Francisco (Pancho) Segura. top
seeded foreign star from Ecua
dor will meet former Irish Da-
second.und match toJjny after
disposing of John Dclantonl, Snn
Francisco, 8-0, 8-2, in the 55th
annual Pacific coast tennis cham
pionships yesterday.
Women's favorites, Louise
Brough of Beverly Hills and
Margaret Osborne of San Fran
cisco, won easy first-round vic
tories, Miss Brough blanking
Mary Cattcrmole, 8-0, 6-0, and
Miss Osborne eliminating Phyl-
lis rlorron, 8-1, H O.
KEPT WITH CUBS
Chicago, Sonf, 27 (U.R) Man-
ogcr Charley Grimm nf the Chi-
cago Cubs today had kept
promise he made almost five
months ago when he replaced
Jimmy Wilson as the Cubs' man-
; ager.
When Wilson resigned after
the Cuba had lost nine straight
games, the Icam was In last
j place. Grimm, leaving his man
i agershlp of the Milwaukee Brew
ers, took over the team May 7
and promised the Cubs would
finish In the first division,
j In a twilight-night double
! header last night, the Cubs split
I with Philadelphia to cinch
fourth place as the New York
Giants, In fifth place, lost two
to Clnclnnntl
j SERIF.SRESUME
Honolulu, Sept. 27 U.R) The
service "world series" will be
resumed today, with the Navy
! All Star baseball team needing
I but one more win over the Sev
' cnth Army Air Force nine to
i clinch the crown after taking
three straight victories.
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Cinderella Man Ray Eliot
Of Illini Is Coach Of Week
Br Joe James Cutter -
United Press Correspondent
New York, Sept. 27 (U.R) His name was' Nussplckel and
when he came to college with $8.50 in his pockets, a kindly
dean of men offered to lend him enough money to go back home.
Today he is head coach and ,
Ma rarfn' tanrln1 "etnn iD(nh"
backficld Is exciting the fancy
of football fans the country over. '
He is the United Press coach i
of the week, Jovial Ray Eliot of
Illinois.
For a success story with a
Cinderella twist this is hard to
beat. Now the toast of the Big
Ten conference with his unex
pectedly strong and alert eleven
( his life is a far cry from the
day back in 1928 when he got
off the bus from Brighton, Mass.,
and took his first look at the
Illinois campus.
When he sought to enroll the
dean checked his financial status
and told him "son you haven't
enough money to go to college,
you'd better let me stake you to
a trip home."
Nussplckel Ignored the dean's
advice, changed his moniker to
Eliot, which was his mother's;
maiden name and got a Job. Four!
years later, he had won varsity
letters In football and baseball,
collected his physical education
diploma. After marrying his col
lege sweetheart, they went to
Europe on a honeymoon with the
money he had saved working his
wa thr?"Bn ,Bcho1
In 1942 when he was named
coach of the staggering Illini,
the home folks in Brighton
couldn't place him they remem
bered only a kid named Nuss
plckel. At that time the team hadn't
won a major football game In
three years and was the undis
puted door mat of the Big Ten. i
Since then they have reached)
the point where every opponent
respects them this year the Il
lini are the dark-horse contend
ers for the conference champion
ship. Eliot's philosophy may explain
why he Is known as a "players"
coach, why boys under him
swear by and not at him.
I am a
positive coach," he
said
'On my staff, we tell the .
boys how to make the blocks!
and tackles and then we tell
them they can do it. A lot of
football Is mental."
T
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South Bend, Ind., Sept. 27
(U.R) Crelghton Miller All
American Notre Dame halfback
last year, will report next Mon
day to assist Head Coach Ed
McKeever with the 1944 Irish
team, university officials an
nounced today.
MlMer, who holds a one-year
contract, is "illgible for another
year of competition under war
time rules, but high blood pres
sure has forced him to discon
tinue active oartlcipation In ath
letics. Me reportedly has re-1
iuscu to piny proiessionai tool
ball with the Brooklyn Tigers
and has chosen to study law.
EAGLES WIN
Boston, Sept. 27 (U.R) The
Philadelphia Eagles of the Na
tional Professional Football
league, a hard-running, smooth
working grid machine, marred
the debut of the Boston Yanks
last night when they scored In
every period to defeat the cir
cuit's new entry, 28 7, before
more than 23,000 fans at Fen
way Park.
University of
founded In 1906.
Alberta was
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PLEASED AT TRIP
Stockholm, Sept. 27 (U.R)
Gunder Hagg and Arne Anders-
son, a two-man record breaking j
team of distance runners, ex-,
pressed theti pleasure today at
their forthcoming trip to the
United States but cautioned that
Americans should not expect
"too much from us."
Both doubted that they would
be able to lovuer any of their
records on the trip but they
were happy to accept the Invi
tation of the U. S treasury de
partment, announced here yes-
terdav In nnki- a ernivnimtrv
tour to stimulate the sale of war
bonds.
Schoolmaster Andersson, In
terviewed at the Institution for
Wayward Children, where he Is
an instructor said he was "pes-
isimistic over chances of doing
j weii 0n indoor tracks."
Andersson holder of the world
record of 4:01.8 for the mile, said
he believed the four-minute dis
tance for the event eventually
would be achieved 'but not this
season and not by me."
TECH WILL OPEN
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Atlanta, Ga , Sept. 27 (U.R)
The black magic of double re
verses, triple laterals and hidden
ball plays, all sprung from the
single wine-back, goes on its
annual fall exhibition here Sat-
urday when the defending South-
eastern Conference champions,
Georgia Tech. onen the current
season against the Clemson Ti
gers. It's no secret around the flats
that the grand old man, Coach
W. A. Alexander, has his eye
cocked toward another south-
. -i ; i. : j it l
should get by Navand Kotr
Dame, he'd have a strong bid
for the mytnical national title.
This is Alexander's 25th year
at Tech. He's won more than his
share of games and had his share
of great football players.
HOW THEY?
American
W.
St. Louis 85
Detroit 85
New York 82
L.
84
64
67
75
78
80
81
87
Pet.
.570
.570
Boston
74
Cleveland 71
Chicago . 69
Philadelphia 68
Washington 62
National
W.
103
. 89
88
73
L.
46
60
63
76
84
88
89
00
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St. Louis .
Pittsburgh
Cincinnati
Chicago ..
691 i
.597
.577
New York 65
Boston 61
Brooklyn 60
Philadelphia .. 59
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TIGERS TO FACE
With one exception, Medford
high's Black Tornado will have
the same starting lineup against
the Marshfield high Pirates here
Friday night as that .which
opened against Weed last week.
Coach Al Simpson said today
that he had shifted Bill Plaskett
from right tackle to right end
and inserted Lynn Bessonette
into the right tackle position.
The other posts will remain the
same, with Cave at center, Ca
hill and Porter at guards, Shel
don at left tackle and Riggs at
I ieft end In the back! ield. Wat
nn will he at nnarter Bostwick
and Clark at the halfbacks and
Doty at full.
The mentor planned to send
his charges through a tough
scrimmage session this afternoon
and ease off Thursday night with
a limbering-up drill under the
lignts. He said that all players
were in excellent physical con
dition for their second clash of
the season against a Marshfield
eleven that is almost as big as
the Tornado.
The Pirates, coached by Wal
ter Commons, opened their cam
paign last Friday night with a
19 to 0 victory over the Ashland
high Grizzlies. They tallied once
in each of the first three periods
and played the fourth quarter
with second and third stringers.
According t o information
Simpson has, the Pirates em
ploy the "T" formation and the
Notre Dame box and boast a '
dangerous passing combination
in Gassoway, a southpaw passer,
and West, a big, rangy end.
ANGELS, SEALS
START PLAYOFFS
San Francisco, Sept. 27 (U.R)
The Los Angeles Angels, Pacific
Coast league pennant winners,
will attempt to lift the Govern
or's cup from the San Francisco ,
Seals when the two teams meet
In the seven-game final post
season playoffs, opening tonight
at Seals stadium.
Los Angeles also won the reg-
ular season championship last'
year, but was eliminated in the
J
Cisco defeating the Rainiers in
turn to take the cup.
Both teams will play without
their star outfielders, Cecil Gar
riott of the Angels having been
summoned by his draft board,
and Neill Sheridan of the Seals
being ineligible because he was
not with the team by August 1,
deadline for playoff participa
tion. Chemist to Study
Wood Utilization
Portland Ore., Sept. 27 (U.R)
Stephen N Wyckoff, director of
the Pacific northwest forest and
.550 ; range experiment station at
.497 1 Portland, today announced ap
.477 pointment of Dr. Edward G.
.463 Locke as chemical engineer on
.4561 the staff, to specialize In the en
.416' ginecring phases of the chemical
I utilization of wood.
Dr. Locke Is well known In
Ihe northwest and ffrariunted
from the chemical engineering I
donnrtment at Oregon State
college, with later graduate
.4!iu,WOrk at Ohio State university,
.438 He has been on the Oregon State
.409 faculty and has served as a con
.403 sultant and chemical engineer
.396 with the division of Industrial
nnH rpnnrrM rievplnnment of
tration.
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(Acma Telephoto)
Mrs. Frances Andrews reenter), 37-year-old Carmel Valley socialite,
flanked by her husband, Frank Andrews, and Police Matron Alice Lang
ley, leaves Salinas, Calif., Jail to face trial for murder of 19-year-old
Oklahoma farm boy, Jay Lovett. The state will demand death penalty.
PFC, SIZE1RE
S MEDAL
Mr. and Mrs. Albert R. Size
more of Butte Falls have re
ceived word that their son, Pfc.
Everett J. Sizemore, has been'
awarded the bronze star medal
for heroic achievement in con
nection with military operations
against the enemy.- Pfc. Size
more has been in the army for
the past three years and Is sta
tioned In the South Pacific. Be-1
fore entering the service he j
was In logging operations at ;
Butte Falls. He has one brother
and two sisters
News of the award came from
headquarters of the Seventh In
fantry division and was award- j
ed for bravery against the en-
emy on Feb. 3, 1944, during the
Kwajelein operation. Tvhen a
vicious counter attack was
launched from behind a bunker
at a platoon with an exposed left
flarik," the letter said, "Pfc. Size
more, an automatic rifleman, al
though within easy range of
bursting enemy hand grenades.
and in a fully exposed position,
dropped to the ground and !
placed a heavy volume of close
range automatic rifle fire against ,
the counter-attacking Japanese. '
'This action, performed dar
ingly and on his own initiative,
completely broke up the enemy ,
counter-attack and permitted the
successful withdrawal of his'
platoon from
difficult situa-
tion."
HOUSING PINCH
Lamed, Kas. (U.R) The
housing shortage may keep Paw
nee county from having the serv
ices of a county farm agent for
the duration of the war or until :
the housing situation improves. '
Two applicants for the vacancy ,
"fe given up the position after :
efforts to find a residence proved i
futile. Carl Conger, the last
county farm agent, owns his '
home here and plans to remain
so his house offers no solution.
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First Lt. Richard Wright was
awarded the Distinguished Fly
ing Cross Sept. IS, according to a
letter received yesterday by Mrs.
Wright, who resides at 514 Fran
quette street here. Lt. Wright,
bombardier on a B-17 has heen
stationed at a heavy bomber I
base In England since last April
and has flown many missions
over enemy territory.
Lt. Wright has been in the
air corps since March of 1943.
In the letter to his wife Lt
Wright advised her not to send
him any Christmas packages,
since he would probably be
home before that time.
The officer's brother, Donald
Wright, ts a storekeeper first
class In the navy and his father,
Capt. M. C. Wright is stationed
at the army air field at Hobbs,
N. M.
The city of Vancouver was In
corporated on April 6 1886.
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THE OWL CLUB
DOES WELL WITH 13
Boston (U.R) Rex Cecil, new
Red Sox hurler, who won his
first major league ball game in
the first big league ball park
ne ever oaw, is w,iviu.cu uiai
J 13 is not his unlucky number.
Cecil arrivea at renway park
from Calfiornia on Aug. 13 at
one o'clock which is 1300 in
service time. He won his first
came a few hours later that day
' in the 13th inning when second
baseman Bobby Doerr poled out
a home run for the 13th run of
the game.
Closing time for Sunday Too l4te
to Classify 6:30 Saturday afternoon
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