TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE Wednesday, May 18, 1945
University Of Oregon To
Resume Big-Time Sports
To Meet "Sneeze" Achieu
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AMInff President Orlando J
Hollis today announced that the
University of Oregon will ra
.ma full Tinrf Initiation In foot
ball and other sports at the start,
of the 1945-48 school year.
Hollls said Lt. Cmdr. Gerald
a rra- Oliver, former head
football coach on leave with the
Naval Reserve, is willing to re
turn to his coaching post If the
Navy will give him an honorable
discharge. He now is stationed
at Los Angeles.
i.rllt. U Oreenn's "nartlci
nr. in nil intercolleKiate
sports will depend upon the
broadening or me awibuc piu
grams, besides football and bas
ketball, by other member schools
. v, tnifin fnnst Conference."
The decision to reinstate the
n r n a r a m followed a
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recommendation of the Univer
sity Athletic Board last night.
The announcement means inai
all intercollegiate sports, includ
ing track, baseball, tennis, golf,
awimmlng and skiing, as well as
football and basketball will be
resumed providing proficient
competition can De iouna mm
Jamt. mnnnnwpr is at hand.
Anson B. Cornell, athletic
manager, will be in charge of
the "overall" program. Howard
a Hnhsnn. head basketball and
baseball coach, will return from
a Sabbatical leave this summer
and resume his regular duties.
Hollia said John A. Warren,
who served as head football
coach to the last Oregon war
time season of 1942 and coach of
4u. iod Var Western NCAA
basketball champions, will not
return to his regular auuea as
freshman coach in view of con
ference rules allowing freshman
athleteg to compete on varsity
teams.
Warren will, however, be as
aistant football coach, as re
quested by Oliver, and a salary
adjustment has been made for
the wartime coach.
HOPPE BOOSTS BILLIARD
.MARGIN OVER CHAMPION
Seattle, May 16 U.R Chal
lenger Willie Hoppe today held
a 63-polnt lead over San Fran
cisco Champion Welker Cochran
as they entered the finale in
their transcontinental three
cushion billiards match. The
pair wind up the Seattle series
here tomorrow. The totals now
stand at 4183 to 4120.
OAKLAND ROOKIE
GETS HOI RUN
TO BEAT SOLONS
By United Press
The critics who claimed that
Vic Picettl wouldn't hold a Job
in a double-A league got their
answer last night when the 17'
year-old Oakland first baseman
slammed out a homer and three
singles to pace his club to a 7-5
victory over Sacramento.
The Oaks were behind, 3-2 in
the last of the fourth when Pi
cettl drove one 360 feet over the
right field wall. It was the first
circuit clout of his career.
San Diego trampled Holly
wood, 10-6. The Padres Jumped
on Jim Sharp for five tallies in
ttfe fifth frame and were never
headed.
The San Francisco Seattle
and Los Angeles-Portland series
start tonight.
Sacramento ....... 5 12 1
Oakland 7 15 1
Porter, Powers and Marcucci;
Gilmore and Raimondi.
San Diego 10 15 1
Hollywood . 6 11 1
Wensloff and. Ballinger; Sharp,
Marshall and Hill.
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Paavo Katonen, above, former coast llght-heavywelght wres
tling champion, will collide with Walter "Sneeze" Achieu in the
seml-wlndup of tomorrow night's card at Medford armory. "Gor
geous" George Wagner will meet Tony Morelll in renewal of a
bitter fued started last week while Antone Leone and Georges
Dusette meet In the opener. Dick Boatwright, Medford, and
Otis Mackie, Trail, meet in an a dded bout of three rounds.
GOLD MIKE WINS
Arcadia, Cal., May 16 U.R)
Gold Mike, California bred six
year old who was a surprise win
ner in yesterday's $5000 Anita
Chlqulta feature race at the
opening of the Santa Anita
track, today was one of 18 horses
nominated for the $25,000 San
Gabriel handicap Saturday.
A fourth of Pennsylvania's
top-soil has been lost, according
to Francis Pitkin, State Planning
Board chairman.
E.
TENTH STRAIGHT
LEAGUE VICTORY
SCORES YESTERDAY
National
Brooklyn 6; Pittsburgh 3
New York 5; Chicago 4
St. Louis 8; Boston 7
Cincinnati 7; Philadelphia 3
New York, May 16. U.R)
They laughed when Boss Branch
Rickey brought out his 1945
Brooklyn Dodgers, but today.
Just one month later, the laughs
have turned to cheers that
reached a crescendo when the
team won its 10th straight game
last night.
That's something that hasn't
happened to a Dodger club since
September of 1943, which was
before General Manager Rickey
instituted his "Bobby Sox" youth
movement in full scale proportions.
Vic Lombard!, gaining his
third win, held the Pittsburgh
Pirates to five hits in the 6 to 3
victory, getting off to a safe
start when the Dodgers made
four runs in the first inning.
Despite their surge, the second
place Dodgers still were unable
to gain on the leading Giants,
who won their 10th game in 11
by topping the visiting Chicago
Cubs 5 to 4. Phil Weintraub's
sixth homer, which put him in
a tie for the league lead with
Manager Mel Ott, provided Van
Lingle Mungo the margin he
need for his third victory.
The St. Louis Cardinals came
out of a hitting slump at Boston,
beating the Braves 8 to 7.
The Cincinnati Reds made
seven unearned runs for all their
scoring in a 7 to 3 victory in a
night game at Philadelphia.
All American league games
were rained out.
Before the war, Cuba pro
duced a quarter of the total sugar
cane output of the world, Includ
ing 50 to 60 of the sugar used
in the United States.
'
g Jmooin jailing
fl railroad's roadbed has a lot to do with
travel comfort. A well-built roadbed doei away
with annoying, sleep-disturbing bumps . . . like
a boat breasting a choppy sea. It gives you
"smooth sailing."
The kind of gravel used for roadbed ballast Is
an Important factor. Union Pacific uses a
special, sturdy type of crushed granite which
stands up particularly well under wartime's
heavily loaded freight and passenger trains.
Then, too, it acts as a "cushion," resulting In
more comfortable riding and less wear on
locomotives and cars.
Thus, even the ballast used on the railroad's
roadbed plays its part In the efficient, 'round-the-clock
transportation of troops and essential
battle-line freight over Union Pacific's Strate
gic Middle Poute, uniting the East with the
Pacific Coast
Future "smooth sailing" over life's highway
can be assured by holding tight to the war
bonds we now have . ; . and, as an extra
measure of economlo protection, buying as
many more as we can possibly afford.
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Sport Chips
BY
Harry Chipman
Mail Tribune Sports Editor
and Fay Davidoff will take ear
of duties in the outfield.
The Medford Softball associa
tion is expected to emerge from
the embryo stage tonight and
Mnunm forth into a full-fledged
league. Bob Ebel, president, has
called a meeting of all interested
in revival of the sport for the
Chamber of Commerce building
tonight at S o'clock.
All Interested In sponsoring
teams are asked to be at the
meeting to "voice opinions on
how the league should be oper
ated. Ebel said opinions of play
ers and team sponsors are need
ed to know along what lines to
proceed with information of the
city loop.
Several business men have In
dicated a desire to see the
league revived and some have
suggested they may be wffllng to
sponsor teams. Sam Jennings
and Timber Products have def
initely entered" clubs and several
others are expected to' formally
do so at tonight's meeting.
Don't skid your car Into the
junk pile, warns the National
Safety Council, reminding that
braking distance at 20 miles per
hour on wet concrete is 26 feet.
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George Barr, who is big
enough to go bear hunting with
a switch, will start on the mound
for the Medford Craters when
they meet the Cheney Lumber
company nine at Central Point
Sunday afternoon. It will be the
first test of the season for either
team and, since the league has
not yet been formed, is billed as
a practice game.
Barr, who stands six feet, two
inches tall and tips the Fair
banks at 212 pounds, dealt his
teammates a bad time during an
intra-iquad game at the Fair
grounds park Sunday. His fast
ball with a sharp curve boomed
across the plate and caused some
of the Crater batters .who had
pretty good opinions of their
stick ability to fan the breeze.
George Gitzen, who has seen
service behind Washington State
college's plate, will do the re
ceiving chores Sunday with
Homer Sullivan pegged for the
initial sack. Freddie Stammen,
up from J. C. Tucker's high
school team where his hitting
was none too good, will hold
down second base. He is a
smooth-working fielder who has
shown a lot of improvement in
hitting since he has been under
the watchful eye of Crater Man
ager Paul Freer. Harold Lang,
a veteran in the southern Oregon
baseball picture, will be at the
hot c -ner with Jim Cave, an
other high school boy, at short
stop. Herb Burnham, Dick Faw
cett, also from the high school,
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