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TWO MElJFORD MAIL TRIBUNE Sunday. Dee. 17, 1944 RANDOLPH BEATS AIR FORCE 13-3 OH SNOWY FIELD Final Goal Line Stand Wins . A.A.F. Layden's Tackle : Saves Score. New York, Dee. 16 U.B The Randolph Field Ramblers, taking tn lha skvwavs despite definitely "bad flying weather," defeated the Second Air . Force Super bombers 13 to 6 today to win the AAF football championship, staving off a touchdown In the final minute with a brilliant goal line stand. Played before hardy gather ing of 8 356 fans who braved a fury of snow flurries, for the treasury department's $79,800,- 000 bond bowl promotion, the Texas "West Pofnt of the Air" eleven was tested thoroughly for the first time in an all-victorious season that netted . 11 straight victories. - It was a bone-crushing battle between super-charged lines and ever-running backflelds but an early margin, secured through second and third period touch downs, gave Randolph the vic tory despite the great offensive display by the Superbombers In the final moments. Almost simultaneously with the opening klckoff the snow started and saan made the trampled Polo grounds' turf a sodden mass. After 10 minutes, the players on both teams, des pite their gaudy uniforms, look ed like doughboys fresh out of fox holes. Although it appeared at times that the alert Superbombers of fense would assert itself for an ultimate victory, the Issue actual ly was settled in the final 29 seconds of the first period when Pete Layden, ex-University of Texas star lobbed a 83-yard pass to End Harry Burrus, who tuck ed It in on the five-yard line and went over undisturbed. A heartbreaking tackle by Layden In the last second of the first half prevented the Super bombers from tying the score. Evans was swarmed by tacklers ,s he attempted a touchdown pass from the 13 and ran straight through the center of the line , where Layden nailed him, a yard and a half from the goal. CORPOIHILS BOnLEJINED $25 ' Cel. Herald RllMol PaiiI WtaA. ford alrbase, was fined $29 for disorderly conduct yesterday on a chares of throwing a hnttio which struck Mrs, Anna Settall a glancing blow on the head at the wrestling matches Thursday nism at me Medford armory Mrs. Scttell was not Injured, ac cord I nil to the nnl , Paul's two companions, Herman Hclmuth Huebner and rtnnnlri .; Gerald Parker .were both fined SJlUfor disorderly conduct. DO YOU WANT TO SELL YCUR CAR? See Ut top Prices No Delay Any Make or Model Skinner's Garage FIELDER, LEADING INAL HITTER I 'ill Mill. h 2740 j New York. Dee. 18 U.B Fred (Dixie) Walker, the Idol of Flatbush, won the 1944 national league hatting championship by a margin of 10 percentage points over Stan Muslal of the St. Louis Cardinals, last year's winner, tne official averages revealed to night ' The veteran Brooklyn out fielder rapped out 191 hits in 83S times at bat for an average of .387 against .347 for the slug ging right fielder of the world champion Cardinals. Joe Mcdwick of the New York Giants finished third with .337, followed, by Johnny Hopp of the Cardinals with' .336 and Phil Cavarretta of the Chicago Cubs with .318. A total of 14 players hit .300 or better, with the St. Louis Cardinals winning the club bat ting title for, the third year in a row with an average of .273. Brooklyn was second with .269. followed by Pittsburgh with .265. A number of new records was established with Manager Mel Ott of the Giants leading the way with five. By scoring 91 runs, he brought his lifetime total to 1784, surpassing the old mark of 1740 held by Honus Wagner. His 46 long hits brought his extra base hit total to 1028, breaking another old Wagner mark of 1004. By hitting for 102 extra bases Ott extended his own league record to 2078, while his 26 home runs brought his total to 489, also a circuit mark. Ott extended to 48 his record of hit ting two or more homers in a game. Ott also tied two records. By playing his 19th season with New York, he tied the. mark of Charles (Gabby) Hartnett with the Chicago Cubs and by scoring six runs In the first game of a doubleheader on April 30 he equalled his own modern record. Slugging Bill Nicholson of the Cubs established a new league record by hitting four home runs in a doubleheader and also tied the major league mark, and es tablished a new national loop record, by hitting four home runs in four consecutive times at bat. COOSlYlE ; BEATS ASHLAND Ashland, Dee. 16 Coos Bay high school's barn-storming bas ketball team took a 40 to 39 victory over Ashland here last night. It was a close contest all the way with .Ashland leading 11 to 10 at the end of the first quarter and still ahead 22 to 21 at the halfway mark. In the third period the Pirates rang a couple of lucky shots and moved into the lead and had a 34 to 32 ad vantage at the end of the period. , After the first two minutes of play not more than three points separated the two teams at any one time. Jandreau. of Ashland and Fttssaway of Coos Bay ticil for high score honors with 12 each. Ashland "B" team beat Coos Bay "B" team 34-33 in the pre liminary. Lineups: Ashland Joi. Coos Bay Tyson, 8 .. f Wright, 3 Provost, 2 f... Miller, 8 Reedy, 6 c Duncan, 12 Samuelson. 10 g .. Gassaway, 9 Jandreau, 12 g....McCarthy, 4 Substitutions Ashland O'Harra, 4. Coos Bay, Knowlton, 4. Officials Virgil Swanson Medford, and Roland Parks, Ashland. BASKETBALL High School MUwaukie 39, Beaverton 13. Roosevelt Preps 19, McMinn ville 17. Roosevelt 31, Franklin 29. Washington 48, Lincoln 22, Benson 84, Jefferson 29. Grant 48, Sabln 21. Central Catholic 42. Scap- poose 29. Pendleton 42, La Grande 22. Klamath Falls 32, Salem 16. Bend 28, Corvbllis 26. Eugene 27, Prineville 20. 4 I PAIR0FB0XERS Converge on Kassa, Rail Center Lull Comes To Budapest Front. Tijuana, Baja Cfa, Mex., Dec. 16 (U.R) All was not quiet be low the border today as no less than four different groups jumped Into the squabble over ownership of the flower-bedecked, $2,000,000 Agua Call ente racetrack scene of the first $1000,000 handicap in the Americas. Not since the lush jazz age, when gay champagne parties and reckless betting were the vogue, had the sleepy little bor der town seen such excitement. Everyone with an interest In the track was claiming it right fully belonged to him. Eddie Nealis, present operator, woke up Wednesday morning to dis cover that local police officials acting on orders of the Mexican supreme court had seized not only the .grass-overed racing strip but his lavish 17-room, complete with Turkish baths and secret panels. But Nealis wasn't giving up this thousands of dollars invest ed in the Spanish-style plant without 'a fight. Today he in structed his attorney to file an injunction in Mexico City, pro tecting the seizure. Branding the action a "cold blooded stead," Nealis said he had just begun to fight. EAGLEWLOOP TEAM NS GAME Eagle Point, Dec. 16 Eagle Point high school's basketeers defeated Butte Falls 26 to 11 at Butte Falls in a pre-season game Thursday 'night. Eagle Point was enjoying an 18 to 3 bulge at halftime. Wol- gamott of the winners was high point man for the game with 10 counters. Conley led the losers with four. Butte Falls' second team won from Eagle Point seconds 11 to 8 in two overtime periods. The score was tied at 8-8 at the end of the regular playing time. Lineups: Eagle Point Pos. . Butte Falls Wolgamott 10..f Phillips, 2 Young .'. t Baker 3 G. Chamber. 6 FIMs 2 Osterhout 4 g .......Conley 4 Chamber. 2 g Lowe Substitutes Butte Falls, Stephenson. San Francisco, Dec. 17 (U.B The California state athletic commission, acting to stop a flurry of questionable ' boxing matches in past months, today suspended Cocoa Kid of New York and Cecil Hudson of Los Angeles for six months and re commended a criminal investi gation of gambling activity. -Cocoa Kid,, a 31-year-old vet eran ef 240 fights whose real name is Luis Hardwlck, was sus pended for the maximum time allowable time and lost his $600 purse on charges he feigned four knockdowns in a bout here No vember 24 with Billy Smith of Oakland, Cal. Hudson, a 23-year-old Negro welterweight managed by for mer triple champion Henry Arm strong and booked by Arm strong's manager George Moore, also was under a cloud after his bout with Freddie Dixon of Phoenix, Ariz. The commission hearing brought out the fact that Hudson had been ill with dysentery for several days before the fight, however, and that it was his first bout since being discharg ed by the army in October. RACING Inglewood, Cal., Dec. 16 (U.PJ Happy Issue, four-year-old fil ly, today sprinted off with the fifth running of the $75,000-ad ded Hollywood Gold Cup at Hoi lywood park galloping the mile and one quarter distance in 2:01 38, a new Hollywood park track record. OREGON AUTO HEATHS Salem, Ore., Dec. 16. (U.R) The Oregon state department re ported today that 22 persons were killed in automobile accl dents during November, three more than for the same month last year. GREEN FIR' SLABS 12 INCH OR 16 INCH LENGTHS 300 CU. FT. LOAD DIAL 2123 TlMBERP $575 DIAL 2123 Company osteon OAS SALES DROP Sacramento, Dec. 18. (U.R) An upward trend in gasoline consumption indicated by Sep tember tax collections was re versed in October, Richard E. Collins, chairman of the board of equalization, reported today.. ClMlfia time for Classified Ads 9 a. m. Too Lata to Classify 1230 p. m. GOLFING ARTIST SETS PACE FOR RICHMOND OPEN Richmond, Cal., Dec' 16 (U.B ijlammin' Sammy Snead, long driving fairway artist from Hot Springs, Va., moved into undis puted leadership in the $7,800 Richmond Open Golf tourna ment here today, firing two-under-par 69 for the second con ranking professionals went on a secutive - day as the nation's ranking professionals went on a par-shattering binge. Snead, fresh out of the navy and recent winner of the Port land open, had a 208 total for the 84 holes of play dbrlng the first three days of the tourna ment, but was only one stroke better than Charles Congdon, Tacoma, Washington, who fired a hot 67 today, just one stroke Over the course record, for a 209. i Harold (Jug) McSpaden, Phil adelphia, and Leonard Ott, Den ver, Colo., led the assault on Host Professional Pat Marko vich's record competitive mark of 66 posted in 1939, McSpaden pairing a 33-31 for 64 and Ott a 33-32 for 63. 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