TWO MEDFOHD MAIL TRIBUNE
Detroit Hangs Onto Lead
Despite Slump At Plate
New York, July 17 (U.PJ It
is risky to pick flaws in a pen
nant favorite right after it ap
parently has sliaken a serious
slump, but the wonder of it all
today is that the tottering users
still are in first place.
A browse through the books
reveals that they ate suffering
from a serious case of base lilt
anemia. That wasn't surprising
since the prevailing belief has
been that prize pitching has kept
up in the race. But, it was a
that the club has
only three dependable starters
at present and tnai n is wiwuui
a top flight relief pitcher.
Even with a 12-hit attack
which produced a 9 to 4 victory
over the YanKs ai new lorn. yu
terday, the Tiger lineup has a
season average of only .248.
Tk wlntnrv pnllnled with
double deflation of the Senators
by the Browns at Washington, 7
to 3 and 5 to 1, put the Tigers
three full games aneaa.
Unpredictable Bobo Newsom
iimn Vila tonrtnn stmleht after los
ing 12 in a row, a two-hit, 7 to
1 triumph wnicn gave ine nm
letics a split after the White Sox
won the opener, 6 to 2.
Cleveland made all its runs In
the sixth, two of them on a
homer by Pat Seerey, to top the
Red Sox at Boston, 3 to 2. Allie
Reynolds won his ninth game.
The Cubs scored twice in the
last of the ninth to beat the
Giants, 4 to 3. It was Chicago's
fifth straight win and their 16th
In 17 games.
The runner-up Cardinals kept
pace at St. Louis with a 2 to 0
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SIXTH AND IVY STS.
Tuesday, July 17. I94S
shutout by Harry Brecheen over
the Braves. Brecheen, who has
been out with arm trouble was
making his first start since June
23. He gave up six hits.
Tom Seats, shelved as a starl
ing pitcher by Manager Leo
nurnrhpr when the Dodgers
were winning, came back now
that they are losing to win his
second straight assignment, beat
ing the Pirates at Pittsburgh, 8
to 4.
riMlarlnlnhla nnri Cincinnati
were not scheduled in the Na
tional.
Ponies Set to Fly
To Nation's Tracks
In Post-War Period
San Francisco. July 17 U.R)
The ponies are going to really
fly after the war.
You may have your doubts
about that last nag you wasted
$2 on, but the pitch is that Bay
Meadows, northern California's
race track, is planning a post
war air field for the convenience
of face horses and patrons.
General Manager Bill Kyne.
says 230 acres of the track's
property next door to the racing
strip will be used for the con
struction of a class three air
port which will accommodate
1,900 planes for parking and
housing. '
Preliminary work will be
started in August, proving It is
all no pipe dream.
UOYVTH
STAND.
City Softball League
W L Pel.
Camp White 4 1 ,850
Junior Chamber ....3 2 .600
Littrell Parts ........3 2 .600
Silver Dollar ,...,...3 2 .600
752nd MP ....2 3 .400
Ordnance Shop ..2- 3 .400
Jennings 2 3 . .400
State Guard 1 4 .200
Southern Oregon League
W . L Pet
Navy ................... 6
Marines ..............4
Medford .... ...3
Central Point ......2
1.000
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.500
.333
.200
.167
Ashland .............. 1
Butte Falls 1
American
W. L. Pet.
Detroit 44 32 .570
Washington .... 40 34 .541
New York . 41 36 .532
Boston 41 36 .532
Chicago . 40 39 .506
St. Louis 37 38 .493
Cleveland 36 39 .480
Philadelphia 26 81 .338
National
W. L. Pet.
Chicago 48 29 .623
St. Louis ,. 45 34 .570
Brooklyn ....... 45 33 .563
Pittsburgh 41 38 .819
New York 42 41 .507
Boston .............39 40 .494
Cincinnati ....37 38 .493
Philadelphia , 21 63 .250
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SOFTBALL LEAGUE
GAMES TONIGHT
Jennings vs. Ordnance Shop.
Silver Dollar vi. Camp White.
Silver Dollar Grill and Camp
White will battle tonight for
leadership of the City Softball
league when they clash in the
second game of a doubleheadcr
at the high school field.
Silver Dollar, now in a second
place tie with Junior Chamber
of Commerce and Littrell Parts,
will move into a tie for first
place if they can stop Camp
White, while a win by the sol
diers will extend their lead two
games ahead of the field.
Jennings Tire Shop, losers of
three games In a row, will go
against Ordnance Shop In the
first half of the dual program,
starting at 7:45.p. m. They are
tied with 752nd MP's for third
place in the loop with the losers
slated to be sole occupants of
the fourth place spot.
Jennings started out like
champions to win their first two
games but slipped into a slump
which has stuck with them for
their past three contests. City
Softball experts figure the club
is due to win and might pounce
on the Ordnance men to break
their Jinx.
Nelson Retirement
From Tourney Golf
Is Denied by Star
Dubuque, la., July 17 (U.R)
Byron Nelson, new Professional
Golfers' Association phamnUn
has denied rumors that he may
retire irom tournament golf to
rest an ailing back.
Nelson, here for an exhibition
match with Harold (Jug) Mc
Snaden. Sanforrl. Ma nM re
porters yesterday, "my back Is
an ugm aiier an, l won the
PGA title Vpatorrinv sffnn on.,nn
full days of golf."
Nelson and McSpaden are
scheduled to appear in Sioux
City, la., today and will con
clude their series of exhibition
matches tomorrow at Rochester,
Minn. Both planned to tee off
Thursday in the St. Paul open
tuunianieni.
Nolson. whn ntillArt kAni.
muscle during a driving contest
hi ine recent Chicago Victory
National open, said he might
stop at the Mayo clinic for a
checkup while in Rochester. But
he said he had vrv tntnni.n f
playing in the St. Paul match
and the $60,000 Ail-American
open' which starts at fi,i,.on'.
Tarn O'Shanter club July 23.
SUGAR ROBINSON BOUT
IS SET FOR CHICAGO
Chicnco. Jnlv 17 fiioi rw-
motor Jack Kcarns said today
that he had arranged for a 15-
round bout at fhlraen h.,...
Ray (Sugar) Robinson, negro
welterweight, and Jake Lamotta,
miciaicwcignt line contender.
Kcarns said the riatn
set as soon as the two fighters,
Dotn nw Yorkers, agreed on
the weight.
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BEAVER-SEATTLE "
COMBINATION IS
Pacific Coast League baseball
teams took a busman's holiday
yesterday by" doubling up to play
two all-star games for the bene
fit of the Association of Profes
sional Ball Players of America.
At Wrigley Field in Los An
geles, Los Angeles and San
Diego teamed up to score a 3-1
victory over Sacramento and
Oakland. A Seattlo-Portland
combination trounced a Hollywood-San
Francisco team 13-3
at Portland.
The southern game saw the
squads dueling scoreless for six
tight innings. The Angels and
the Padres cut loose in the sev
enth when Mel Hicks and
Mickey Kreltncr of Los Angeles
singled with two men out. Guy
Miller scored them both with a
long dpuble to left field corner.
The northern squad finally
scored in the ninth when Al Mc
Elreath, Sacramento, doubled
and scored on a single to right
by the Solon s Joe Marucci.
The northern clubs hopped on
John Marshall for six runs in
two Innings and were never
headed. The winners tagged 17
hits, including six doubles. They
were threatened only once dur
ing the evening when they got
three runs on one hit, two walks
and an error. Seattle's Carl
Fischer was credited with the
win while Marshall, a Hollywood
right hander, was charged with
the defeat.
ine PCL pennant race re
sumes In earnest today with
Seattle meeting San Francisco at
Seattle, Hollywood at Portland,
San Diego at Oakland and Sac
ramento at Los Angeles.
Lightweight Champ
Hurt in Car Wreck
Phoenixville, Pa., July 17
(U.R) Physicians at Valley Forge
General Hospital said today that
the injuries lightweight cham
pion, Cpl. Bob Montgomery suf
fered in an automobile accident
were not serious and would not
affect his boxing career.
Montgomery, home on fur
lough from Luke Field, Ariz.,
suffered muscle strains on the
back and right shoulder and a
lacerated right knee when the
car he was driving overturned
near Princeton, N. J., as he was
going from New York to Phila
delphia. His wife and three year
old son also were Injured.
FIGHTS LAST NIGHT
By United States
New York Quecnsboro Are
na) Danny Kapilow, 1465-4.
New York, stopped Ernest (Cat)
Robinson, 1474, New York, (6).
Newark, N. J. (Meadow-
brook Bowl) Georgie Parks,
183, Washington, stopocd Jim-
mle (Shamus) O'Brien, 178V4,
Philadelphia, (9).
Pittsburgh Juste Fontaine,
136, Pittsburgh, stopped Pedro
Hornandor, 133. New York. (5).
LONDON FAVORITE
London. July 17 (U.R) Brit-
Ish Heavyweight Champion Jack
London was a slight favorite at
5 to 4 odds to retain his title
against Bruce Woodcock, young
railroad worker whom he meet
tonight In the Tottenham foot
ball stadium before an expected
crowd of 50,000.
IRISH PRACTICE
South Bend, Ind., July 17
(U.R Eight lettermen from the
1944 Notre Dame football squad
and 102 other gridiron aspirants
have reported for summer prac
tice. Coach Hugh Devore said
today.
NINTH NAZI DIES
Ft. Douglas, Utah, July 17
(U.R) The death toll from a ber
serk American army guard's
shooting orgy last week at the
branch German prisoner of war
camp at Salina, Utah, today had
risen to nine. Ninth Service Com
mand officials here reported that
German Pfc. Friedrich Ritter
died Friday from wounds suf
fered when Pvt. Clarence V. Bcr
tuccl, New Orleans, turned a
mounted machine gun on the
TOW camp enclosure.
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THE LAND OF THE FREE American soldiers repatriated from Germany wave joyfully as they
get first glimpse of New York skyline. The men, all with erutches, are aboard Swedish exchange
liner Gripsholm headed for Jersey City pier. Of the 1,206 repatriates, 463 are exchanged American
prisoners, 632 are civilians, 42 are merchant seamen and 78 are Canadians. (U. S. Navy Paoto.l
Mussolini Needed Her Only In Adversity
Widow Sums Up Life With Former Leader
(The following exclusive In
terview Is one of the few pub
lic statements ever made by
Mrs. Benito MuisolinL It is
her first to an American cor
respondent tine the death of
her husband and her removal
to a British internment camp).
By Ann Stringer
(United Press Correspondent)
A British Internment Camp,
Terni. Italy. July 17 (U.R) "I
was never close to him when he
was high; I was always near him
when he was down."
With that weeping epitaph,
Benito Mussolini's gray-haired
widow summed uo her life with
the flamboyant Duce who left
her for a younger, prettier mis
tress at the height of his Fascist
nower.
Pouring out her words be
tween choking sobs. Donna
Rachele revealed in an exclusive
Interview that she spoke to the
doomed Duce by telephone only
six hours before he was slain by
a band of Italian Partisans near
Milan last April,
In British Custody
We. spoke informally In the
six-room apartment In an aban
doned synthetic rubber factory
where she and her two youngest
children are being held in Brit
ish protective custody.
Throughout the interview,
Donna Rachele defended her
dead husband against every ac
cusation except his final Infi
delity with Clara Pctaccl, who
shared his death and humiliation
in the bloody public square In
Milan.
For the red-haired Clara, Mrs.
Mussolini had nothing but hat
red and a fierce satisfaction that
Benito's mistress was dead.
Her eyes literally flashed
when Clara's name was men
tioned. She pushed herself far
back in her chair, sat up
straight and spat out:
"They've done well to hang
her. She was the only one
around Mussolini who had any
thing really to do with the Ger
mans." Then, speaking even more
furiously and pounding the table
before her. she almost shouted:
"Mussolini (she always re
ferred to him that way) never
had anything to do with women.
He never let them have any in
fluence over him. That was pro
paganda just to ruin him.
"Mussolini at the most had
five minutes with a woman, then
he would leave her."
Widow Defends Duce
She trembled with anger and
emotion as she spoke.. But the
frail widow, still attractive in
spite of her 56 years, maintained
her dignity, presenting a far dif
ferent picture from the hulking,
peasant-type woman I had been
led to expect.
"I tast saw Mussolini about
eight days before he was killed,"
she went on, holding a clenched
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"1 talked with him by telephone
about six or seven hours before
he met death.
"He called me at 3 a. m. at
Como that morning and told me
to try to get into Switzerland,
but that If I failed, to turn my
self and the children over to the
American authorities.
"Of course I knew something
was wrong. I knew he was in
danger, because he told me he
was With the Partisans. . But I
did not know he was going to be
killed." .
Planned U. S. Home
"We should .have gone to
American when we first got mar
ried," she said. "We had planned
to and we talked much about it.
We planned to live there and
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raise our children there. But
then Mussolini changed his
mind."
Mussolini's decision not to go
to the United States came about
because he felt himself growing
powerful politically in Italy, and
because his friends persuaded
him to "betray the proletariat,
although his sympathies always
were with the working class,"
she said.
Asked why II Duce signed the
Axis pact that led Italy Into
war. she shouted passionately:
"Everybody is to blame for
that. Everybody, from Badog
Uo (Marshal Pietro Badogllo, pre
mier of the post-armistice gov
ernment) up to the king.
"They all blame Mussolini.
They killed him while Badoglio's
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Examinations Will
Be August 25 For
State Office Jobs
Salem, July 17 New exami
nations for clerical and casework
personnel have been scheduled
by the merit system council. The
examination date has been ten
tatively set for August 25. Ex
aminations will include ad
vanced and beginning clerical
and stenographic series includ
I n g administrative secretary,
stock control clerk, and tele
phone operators; beginning and
advanced caseworkers, assistant
casework supervisor, and case
work supervisor with the State
Public Welfare Commission.
Vacancies exist in all covered
agencies; State Public Welfare
Commission, State Board of
Health, Unemployment Compen
sation Commission, and the Crip
pled Children's division of the
University of Oregon Medical
School.
Applications for these exami
nations must be received by Aug
ust 9. Detailed information may
be obtained by writing Professor-
William Griffith, 616 Mead
Building, Portland 4, Oregon.
Legion Head For
Immigration Ban
Hollywood, July 17 (U.R)
Homer. L... Challlaux, American
Legion field director, yesterday
asked that all immigration be
prevented until America's 10,.
000,000 or 12,000,000 servicemen
have found jobs and readjusted
themselves.
STILL FRIENDS
Hollywood, July 17 (U.PJ
Navy Lt. Walter Kane, former
husband of Screen Star Lynn
Bari, and his wife, Muriel Mor
ris, announced today plans to
end their three months marriage
in the divorce courts. Lt. and
Mrs. Kane said personality dif
ferences caused the marital
breakup but added they would
remain friends.
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