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.
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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