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BIX MED70FD MAIL TRIBUNE Friday. Sept. 29, 1944 Tigers Meet Marshfield Tonight in Crucial District Grid Contest TILT HAS BEARING ON SCRAMBLE FOR SPOT INPLAYOFF Coach Declares Locals In Fine Fettle; Pirates Have Great Passing Attack. Pennant Race At A Glance New York, Sept. 29. (U.R) The American league pennant race at a glance: Team W. L. Pet. Games behind Games remaining Detroit 88 64 .573 .... 4 St. Louis 85 65 .567 1 4 New York ....83 67 .553 3 4 Games left to play: Detroit At home: 4 with Washington. Away: None. St. Louis At home: 4 with New York. Away: None. New York At home: None. Away: 4 with St. Louis. Bostwlck LH Elwood Clark RIL McCarthy Doty KB . Duncan Medford high's Black Tornado and the Marshfield high Pirates clash at the stadium tonight ai 8 o'clock In a game that Is vital' ly Important for both teams in their campaign for number 1 ranking In the state's southern Oregon district, one of four whose ace elevens will engage In playoffs for the state cham pionship in late November. Although tonight's competing aggregations operate In differ ent conferences Medford in the Southern Oregon loop and Marshfield In the Coos county wheel the loser will be vir tually eliminated from recogni tion when the time comes for the selection of the district's leading club. Both are In the same district. In other tilts Involving South- PEP-WRIGHT TIFF New York, Sept. 29 (U.R) A new record Indoor featherweight gate of approximately $85,000 is expected to be set at Madison OPEN FINAL SET TO CATCH TIGERS St. Louis, Sept. 29 (U.R) With an eye on the weather and Detroit the St. Louis Browns and the New York Square Garden tonight when Yankees called on their pitching Willie Pep defends his 126- aces in their last-ditch attempt pound crown (New York ver- to overhaul the Tigers for the sion) against ex-champion American league pennant. "GRAY MASK" AND JACK KAISER WIN Chalky Wright In a return 15 round bout, Pep, of Hartford, Conn., and veteran Wright, Los Angeles Negro, established the current record of $71,868 In their first brawl, November 20, 1942, when I Pep captured the title from era Oregon conference teams, , Chalky on a close decision: Ashland opens its home season A large contingent of Pep s tonight against Yreka, Calif., and Klamath Falls travels to Sa lem for a night fracas. Coach Al Simpson of the T formalion Tornado, which wal loped Weed, Calif., in its opener, 42 to 6 last Friday, said today that his numerically small squad was at full strength and all the players were in fine shape. The team worked out lightly under the arcs last night and, accord ing to the mentor, "looked sharp." Work On Passes Much of the practice time this week has been devoted to work on pass defense, as the Pirates of Walter Commons, who down ed Ashland, 19 to 0 last week, boast a fine aerial combination Connecticut admirers Is expect ed to swell tonight's crowd to nearly 18,000. Pep Is favored at 13-5 because of his youth, speed, ringcraft and brilliant record. E- SOLD TO BROWNS Memphis, Tenn., Sept. 29 (U.R) The Memphis Chicks an nounced today that Pete Gray, sensational one-armed outfield er, chosen the Southern Assocla- ln Don Gassaway, quarterback tion's "most valuable player In to Bob West, lanky, 180-pound end. The Pirates, who attack from the single-wing with occasional "T" plays, will take the field with a team almost as big as Medford's. They showed plenty of class in blanking Ashland and Simpson expects a very tough game. Paul Davis of Grants Pass will referee, Virgil Swanson of Medford will umpire 'and Nor man Sting of Medford will act as head linesman. Probable start ing lineups: Marshfield ..LE.., ..LT ..XG.... C.. .RG .RT.. Medford Riggs Sheldon Cahlll Cave Porter Bcssonctte Plaskett Watson 1944" has been sold to the St. Louis Browns for an unannounc ed sum and one player. Whether Gray would report to the Browns for the current series with the New York Yan kees in St. Louis was not re vealed. The one-armed slugger, In his second season with the Chicks In 1944, batted .333 and collect ed 167 hits for 221 bases. He batted in 60 runs, and stole 68 bases to tie the modern Southern league record In that department. West NAVY ALL-STARS TAKE GOWan I , i a i rnnu i nuu ririn win rnuivi ahivit . Smith . Maine Megalc Furlong Field, Pearl Harbor, T. H., Sept. 29 (U.R) The navy McCall : all-stars, probably the best base- ,..RE... Falconer' ball tram In operation, today ..QU Gassaway continued to hold their domina- tlon over a team of 7th army I air force all-stars, winning their fifth straight from the soldiers and their 12th straight in com i petition. j Johnny Vander Meer of major j lcaguo double no-hit fame, pitch ! ed the sailors to a 12-2 triumph yesterday on a five-hitter. The sailors won the first four in a I best-of-scven series but decided i to piny out the string for the : benefit of service men. They were scheduled for a double-header, necessitated by rain which postponed the opener of their crucial four-game series yesterday, and Manager Luke Sewell of the second - place Browns nominated Jack Kramer and Nelson Potter to keep St. Louis, battling for its first pen nant, In (he running. Manager Joe McCarthy of the Yankees, facing an almost hope less three-game deficit, was ex pected to counter with Hank Borowy and Ernie Bonham. But it Mattered little which team won unless the Washing ton Senators upset the dope and beat the Tigers In the closing four-game series at Briggs sta dium. The Tigers must lose one before either the Browns, only a game off the pace, or the Yan kees can even tie them. And the Senators have been easy for the Tigers this year having won only three of 18 games. New York, Sept. 29 (U.R) The National league, baseball's step-child during the red-hot American league pennant race, held the game's dimming spot light briefly yesterday when all of the Junior circuit contests were rained out. In the only Major league games played, the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Brooklyn Dodgers, 10-6, and the cham pion Cardinals bested the New York Giants, 2-0. MONEY TO LOAN! On JEWELRY. CAMERAS and MUSICAL 1NSTF1U MENTS. Used and unre deemed lewelrr at great Brings PEOPLES LOAN CO. 22911 E. Main Strut State License P 137 Cluatng tlma for Claimed aria 0 a. m Too Lata to Claaallj 12 :3V TO SEMI-FINALS San Francisco, Sept. 29 (U.R) Speedy Francisco Segura, Ecua dorian not star today was In the semi-finals of the men's singles of the 55th annual Pacific coast tennis championships after squeezing out Navy Lt. John Ager North Carolina state cham pion 2-6, 6-4, 7-3. Ager's backhand won him the first set. He was leading 2-0 in the crucial third set when Se gura began forging ahead finish ing up In a whirlwind of volleys In which he used both hands on his racket. Morey Lewis. Canadian title holder from Los Angeles, ad vanced by a straight-set victory over Pvt. Tom Brown, former University of California player, 6-3 6 3. The "Gray Mask," he of the head-butting tactics, won his second straight local match and Jack Kaiser, the coast light heavyweight king, emerged vic torious in the double main-event of last night's Mack Lillard wrestling card In the Medford armory. The "Mask" noggin-knocked Paavo Katonen, ex-coast cham pion, Into submission In the top half of the twin main event and Kaiser disposed of Harold (Buck) Davidson in a wild lower-half brawl. The hooded monster took the first and third falls In his clash with Katonen, the first coming In 16 minutes with head butts and a crab hold. Katonen cap tured his lone fall three minutes later but at the 27 minute mark the "Mask" launched another series of savage head smashes that turned Paavo's legs to rub ber and finally pinned nirn with a press, much to the disgust of the goodly throng. There was much loud shout ing among the customers accus ing the "Mask" of having some thing hard, other than nls head, under his mask. But, Referee Earl Yoakley, probing with his fingers, was unable to discern anything that could be termed a foreign substance. The Kaiser-Davidson donny brook was a dinger. Jack grabbed the first fall In 15 min utes with a skin-the-cat. but Davidson came back to take a tumble with a back-breaker over his knee and a cress after ham mering at Kaiser's sore and bandaged ribs, which he Injured in losing to the- "Mask" last week. Preparing to come out of their corners for the third and de ciding fall, Davidson got pre mature and rushed across the ring to beat Kaiser on the ribs again. Kaiser was ready for him however, and In 30 seconds clamped on a shoulder stand for the windup fall. In the opener, Tex Porter took the lone fall of his match with Pat O'Dowdy in the third round, with a body press after diving over the ropes from a position on the ring apron. SEALS TAKE 5-0 "Mask of Dimitrios" Coming The thrillinif mvsterv. 'The Mask of Dimitrios." starts Sunday at ine Craterian, wun Sydney Greenstreet, Zachary Scott, Faye Emerson and Peter Lorre. The picture will run lor tnree days. Trojans Favored Over Stagg Team; UCLA Liked Over Cal By Hal Wood United Press Staff Correspondent San Francisco, Sept. 29 (U.R) Football fans will focus their attention on two major clashes In the 1944 Pacific Coast Col lege gridiron race this week-end as the powerful UCLA Bruins come to Berkeley to rough up their big University of California cousin and the USC Trogans entertain Amos Alonzo Stagg's fighting .College of Pacific Tigers in the Los Angeles coliseum Saturday. Although the onl y perfect-1 Use Mall Tribune Want Aria. San Francisco, Sept. 29 (U.R) Scoring their second consecu tive shutout last night the San Francisco Seals took a two to nothing lead over the pennant winning Los Angeles Angels In finals of the Pacific Coast league Governor's Cup playoffs win ning 5-0 behind the seven-hit pitching of Tom Seats. It was Seats' 27th victorv of the year and followed a 4-0 shut- record team in the state's col lege war-time "Big Four", Coach Stub Allison's Bears are on the short-end of the pre game betting odds. Some sports writers, however, and thousands of Bear fans, are picking Cali fornia to win on the strength of its 31-7 defeat of an out classed St. Mary's team last week. The Trojans, who held the Bruins to a last-second 13-13 tie last week, look like the best bet against the 82 year old Stagg's aggregation but the scrappy COP outfit, who dropped a 7-6 decision to the powerful Fleet City Bluejackets and then whipped back to trounce Falrfield-Suisun army, 25-0, and St. Mary's Pre-flight, 14-6. may easily upset the wise money boys calculations. In the northland, the unbeat en University of Washington will probably use the Waterboys against Tiny Whitman, which has lost twice to Willamette. Last week the Huskies played fast and loose with Willamette and turned in a 71-0 score. IN SHELL SALES New York, Sept. 29 (U.R) Bowling's secret invention, the automatic pin-rpotting machine which eliminates the pin-boy was revealed today in exhaustive demonstration by its inventor af ter nine years of ultra-secret development. Perfected in 1940. and granted sanction of the American Bow ling Congress, the machine will revolutionize bowling as dras- out hurled by Bob Joyce Wed-tically as the' sound-track did nesday night against the Angels. the motion picture industry," its ine line score. .manufacturers predicted. Los Angeles 0 7 2 Operating on the suction Drln- San Francisco 3 10 1 FINAL 1944 FLOWER PLANT SALE 72 HARDY PERENNIALS THIS WEEK ONLY $tf.00 POSTPAID JZ Set our thoie strong field grown flowers before cold weather and they will be blooming early next Spring. This week it positively your last chance. Offer will not be repeated In 1944. Rush your order today. 12 Sweet WivelsfielJ, very early 12 Coreopsis, golden yellow, Ions blooming 12 Shasta Daisies, pure white with golden center 12 Rose Dawns, rare sliver pink flower 12 Kelway Marguerites, English strain 2 Hesperis, fragrant purple spikes 4 Gaillardia, orange, yellow and red flowers 4 Baby's Breath, for mixed bouquets 2 La Martine Delphiniums, new rich deep blue 72 The 72 one and two year old plants shipped postpaid for $2.00 2 Blackberry lilies added to jrour ; 'hjprnent if order mailed Immediately Offer made this week only and will not be repeated Send cash, check or money order to CLARK GARDNER 729 American Building Name Addrtil ................ Seattle 4, Washington Caih.ChcckorMO End Send COD NON-TITLE BOUT Hollywood, Sept. 29 (U.R) The bull and the fencer meet In the arena again tomorrow night at Hollywood baseball park when bantamweight cham pion Manuel Ortiz, fights Carlos Chavez, contender for Willie ciple electrically driven and automatically controlled, the machine can average nine and a half games per hour per alley as compared with a six-game average for pin-boys. HOLLYWOOD SEQUEL Hollywood, Sept. 29 --(U.R) Lucille Ball, red-haired screen Pep's featherweight crown. In a siren today had a clear path for non-title bout at 126 pounds or, an uncontested divorce from less. 1 Um Mall Ada. FfOOT P. Li " i TV""" 4"" I 1 Kh Washington, Sept. 29 (U.R) The office of price administra tion today revoked the 25 per cent premium price allowed for less-than-box sales of ammuni tion for civilian use. Maximum prices for single shells henceforth will be determ ined by dividing the price of the full standard box by the num ber of shells It contains. This will mean lower retail prices for single shells and cart- j ridges, the OPA said. ; I Greene Puppies i Capture Honors At Oakland Show Two Cocker puppies, one black male and one red female, bred by Mrs. Charles R Greene of Greene-Lea Kennels, Medford- won at the Pacific Sanc tioned Puppy Match held at Oak land Calif., on September 24. The black male now owned In California won Best Puppy In Match, while the red female went best red puppy in the rhatch. There were 43 Cocker puppies entered of unusually fine quality, according to report to Mrs. Greene. DEER PLENTIFUL IS STATE POLICE WORD TO HUNTERS Oregon's Oct. 1 to Oct 31 sea son on blacktail and mule deer hav'ng not less than forked horns opens Sunday and a state police game officer said that In case of rain, which appears like ly, hunters should have little trouble in bagging their limit of one. The policeman said that his personal observations and talks with ranchers In this area led him to believe that there are more deer at the present time than In some 29 years, probably because of the decreased hunting activity since the war started. He said he has personally seen many fine bucks in the Antelope and Applegate districts and quot ed farmers as saying the animals were so plentiful they were com ing rignt down out of the high places to eat crops. The officer predicted that hunters would find plenty of game in the lower hills where lots of oak trees are growing, as the deer are seeking the abun dance of acorns. The special deer season In the federal Hart Mountain refuge extends from Oct. 7 to Oct. 15, inclusive, and will be limited to the holders of 200 buck and 300 doe deer tags. Closing tlma (or 8unaay Too Lata to Clnaslly 5:30 Saturday afternoon Pleasa remember. DO YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR CAR? See Us Top Prices No Delay Any Make or Modal Skinner's Garage 143 S. Riverside - Ph. 2740 Phone 2119 for Towing or Wrecker Service Anywhere Anytime Lewis Super Service CANNERY WORKERS WANTED! MEN and WOMEN are urgently needed to help Medford's own cannery prepare FOOD for VIC TORY. The ARMED FORCES receive 78 of our pack. Pear canning now underway. DAY SHIFT ONLY. Apply at once at ROGUE RIVER PACKING CORP. 13 So. Froni Phone 3982 Latin-American Actor Desi Arnaz, now a staff sergeant In the army. Arnaz, stationed at Birmingham General hospital in the special service office, filed notice he would not contest Miss Ball's suit. Their marriage l that Miss Ball once predicted wouldn t last a week lasted three years, nine months and six sore arm, but should be ready days. for the world series next week. Die Mall rribunt Want Ada. SAN FRANCISCANS PAY MORE STREET CARFARE San Francisco, Sept. 29 (U.R) San Francisco's two major street railways officially were merged into a single system un der municipal ownership today, and automatically this city's tra ditional five-cent street car fare I was lipped to seven cents. The Market Street railway was absortfl1 into the Municipal Railway Lines, effective at 8 a. m., under a purchase plan ap proved by the voters wherein the city paid $2,000,000 down and owes $5,500,000 to the Mar ket Street Railway for Its equip ment and facilities. Future pay ments will be made from profits of the merged systems. BORE ARM New York, Sept. 29 flJ.R) Manager Billy Southworth of the St. Louis Cardinals said that his ace southpaw, Max Lanier, had returned to St. Louis and was scheduled to begin treat ments by Dr. Robert F. Hyland, club physician, today for a 'catch" in his back and for a 9 m . .v ,A3 Br- -'-"f'. S J 1111 1 3 L IIP ( '""JV ' ""!15IV','W'- 1 -i UTiim salajii' 'ill . II T 1 uliaiiiinni'aiaHi HLrM'IH WHI'KI.Y M MIHir 5:is UHI MIIKII M'IKI I lib LA.NMJim.NS lUMlLLlUV HA Ktt I't l.B.Ut. URLA.D Words Ciaiiwi" Motor GuotJ plus Fed fox Ye. , i ' ' f ,fln b0 trode.l And look o 6th nnu??n si-gal. drums 600 8 .vWanla Oil. In T .-I... P.J. fox. drum depo" SALE! HI-Pressure or Cup Grease UX CAN 63c Both top quality t , , both at e IOW prlcel Will not clog fllfingj. I lb. High Preisur Create lSe Salel Graaia Gun, spring fed 2.89 I IVIontgomery Ward 117 South Central Phone 3930
