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TWO MZDrORD MAIL TRIBUNE Tuesday, April 24. 1945 Big League Owners Meet To Select Commissioner Cleveland, April 24 U.R Major League baseball pegins ' its own "San Francisco" confer ence today when the 18 club owners begin deliberating again In an effort to select a high com missioner whe may rule the des : Tiny ot me sport iur many bo nftor ihm war is ended. tirara inm Hicttnnt faf! t(ons, both equally reluctant to relax their demands. One, led by Col. Larry MacPhail, new head of the Yankee organization of , New York, wants no furtner ae lay In the selection of a man MacPhail and his adherents puo licly have acclaimed Ford Frick the National League as the top choice, although they probably would settle for lor mer Postmaster General James A. Farley, now : soft-drink company executive. , The other group led by Clark Griffith, head of the Washington Senators, and having most of . TTV I i 1 1JL TI L SPRING MERCHANDISE Coats, Suits. Millintry , AJtaratloni toy Experts Specializing LADIES' COATS & SUITS IN HALF SIZES Burelson's Ladies' Ready-To-Wear 91 No. Central Avenue SMUDGE POTS and LIGHTERS American Fruit Growers, Inc. 213 South Fir Sr. Medford, Oregon Its strength In the American League, wants to table action un til after the war when a domin ant national figure, possibly a returning war hero or an out standing statesman, would be available. The executives will hear the report of the four-man commit tee which was appointed after a previous deadlock in New York tc sift the field of candidates and reduce it to a workable number. The committee members, Phil Wriglcy of the Chicago Cubs Sam Breadon of the St. Louis Cardinals. Donald Barnes of the St. Louis Browns and Alva Brad ley of the Cleveland Indians have not revealed what candi dates are under consideration, but there was little doubt that chances for unanimity on one man were slim. Failing to elect a commission er, the Majors will remain under the direction of the three man commission which has ruled the gamo since Landis died last Nov. 25. It consists of Frick, William Harridge, pre ident of the Amer ican League, and Leslie J. u Con nor, secretary to Landis. O'Con nor, like Frick, Is a leading can didate for the Job although he has expressed unwillingness to accept it. Frick, on the other hand, has campaigned for it actively. BEAVERS SLATE Rew Bruin CoacH ON HOME FIELD TALENT HI TEAM Red-haired Doug Davis held Talent high school's baseball team to five scattered hits to give Medford high an 11 to 3 victory here yesterday after noon. Davis, who whiffed 11 Talent batters, was aided by 11 Talent errors while his team mates were making two. Her vey, on the mound for Talent, gave up eight hits to the Black Tornado and struck out five. Medford will play Rogue Rlv- er here next Tuesday In a prac tice game and will collide witn Grants Pass there May 4 In a conference game. Grants Pass won the first encounter S to 3 Score: , R HE Medford 11 8 2 Talent .. 3 8 11 Davla and Watson: Hervey arjd., Frlnk. . Farm bureau mcmbershin in Illinois has reached a record high of 110,838. Sv United PrAti Six Pacific Coast League Baseball teams swing back into action tonight in pursuit of the elusive league leadership. Portland, currently in front, and Seattle have monopolized the top-place honors through most of the first four weeks of nlflv snrt nnf9r in tin HanaAP nf losing that honor for at least two weens. Thft RpavAM TalrA nn flnlrlanrt tonight; Seattle meets Holly- wooa, ana Ban urancisco enter tains Sfln T)p0n Krrnmntn plays Los Angeles this week, but the two teams start off with a double-header on Wednesday. Manager Bill Skiff's Rainier sluggers fell off considerably against eood Oakland nitnhino over the past week and the Oaks annexed a tough 4-3 series and knocked the northerners out of the top rung. The high-spot Beavers won't find the nicking nnilA cn PQCV against the Oakland aggrega tion, wun manager uolph Cain- illl ever A threat n n nlnnli. hitter (he hit a homer in that role Sunday) and young Vic Picetti sparking the club wilh his sensational play, the Acorns have become one of the finest all-around clubs in the loop. The very surprising San Diego Padres, tied with the Oaks for third nlace and nnlv in, lay out of first, will be gunning for another series win over the Seals. The Sacramento. Sninn. be classed as one of the harder- hitting outfits. But their pitch ing hasn't been anvthlnir in k... about and that appears to bo Keeping tnem out of the first division. FIGHTS LAST NIGHT By United Press Detroit Charlie Smith, 133, Newark, N. J., outpointed Leon Spencer, Detroit (10). Holyoke, Mass. Lige Drew, 148, Springfield, Mass., out pointed Henry Jordan, 1441$, Philadelphia (10). Philadelphia Johnny Carter. 181, Philadelphia, outpointed Maria Ochoa, 163, Havana (10). Baltimore-Archie Moore, 188, St. Louis, stopped Teddy Ran dolph, 182, New York (9), Newark, N. J. C h a r 1 e s (Cabey) Lewis, 129, Havana, out pointed Gcorgle Cooper, 12934, Baltimore (10). Closing time for Sunriav Too Lute to Claulfy 8 .10 Saturday afternoon- Please remember. (Acme Telephoto) New Bruin football boss Is 40-year-old Bert La Brucherie (above), who stepped up from coaching at Los Angeles High School to take over ai Babe Horrell s successor at Univer sity of California at Los Angeles H. T Henry Niedermeyer was out standing event leader at the Medford Gun club practice shoot Sunday, taking first place posi tions in four of the contests, one of which was a tie with Bill Young for a first with a 23 score in the principal handicap of the day. Top winners In the events were as follows: Miss and outs, Niedermeyer, first; Turpin, sec ond; Jantzer, third, and Jim Ross, first; Turpin, second; Pease, third. Twenty-five bird handicap: Niedermeyer, 23; YoungPi 23, split first money. , Ten-bird handicaps: Jantzer, first; Jim Ross, Watkins and Young tied for second; Turpin and Niedermeyer tied for first. Elden, Watkins, Jantzer and Tharp lied for second. Backer-ups: John Ross and El den, first; Jantzer and Turpin, second; Watkins and Nieder mever tied for first, and Elden. Watkins, Jantzer and Tharp tied for second. The next shoot, the big occa sion of the season with visiting shooters attending from a num ber of other clubs, will be held on May 8. The annual team shoot and the war bond handi cap will bo shot. IP? J an La Sure We Can Help Don't go to the ration board for more gasoline they haven't got it. 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The county league, In order to save traveling, has been divided into three parts with Talent, Phoenix and Central Point in one division, Jacksonville, Qold Hill and Rogue River making up another section and Eagle Point, Butte Falls and Prospect completing the roster. At con clusion of the season the three winners will play off the county championship. Next Friday Cen tral Point will play Talent at Talent. 36th 'Annual Drake Relays to Be Held Friday, Saturday Des Moines, la., April 24 (U.R) Relays Director M. E. Easton said today more than 1,000 ath letes from 131 colleges, univer sities, high schools and grade schools will compete in the 38th annual Drake relays Friday end Saturday. Many big names are missing. So are large squads, but Easton is convinced the records for this year's meet will compare favor ably with- the 1942 event, the last time the meet was held with full-strength collegiate squads competing. There are 328 Individual en tries from 33 university and col leges compared with 2B4 from 36 schools a year ago. The high school entry has passed the rec ord mark of 456 set last year, with 969 preppers from 81 schools scheduled to compete on Friday. College and university events are limited to Saturday. Japanese Maidens Give Suicide Boys Blood-Dyed Flags By United Press Japanese troops of the special "suicide" attack corps have re ceived ten new Rising Sun flags painted with blood cut from the fingers of several hundred little maids from the Tokyo schools. Tokyo radio recorded by United Press, San Francisco, re ported high school girls sent the flags to the Kamikaze corps with the following poem: Ladies though we be "May we humbly follow our great eagles 'To soar and fall so nobly "In the protection of our em peror." The attack corps responded to their "blood sisters" as follows: "We will carry your, flags in our caps and ram into enemy warships. 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