TWO MEDFORD MAIL-TRIBUNE
Monday. Sopt. 24, 1945
Washington Waits Outcome
Of Remaining Tiger Games
New York, Sept. 24 (U.R)
Torturous hours of waiting be
gan today for the Washington
Senators, who must stand by
idle while the Detroit Tigers
play four more games which
will determine whether they
win, lose or tie for the Ameri
can league pennant.
Winning without a playoff
game or series with the Tigers
was an extremely distant possi
bility. The Senators, who muff
ed a golden chance yesterday by
splitting their last two games of
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the season with the tail-end
Athletics at Philadelphia while
Detro't was being shutout by St.
Louii, can't win unless the Ti
gers lose all of their four re
maining games. They will tie
the Tigers if Detroit loses three
and are out of the picture if the
Bengals win two or more.
Leonard Blows Lead
An apparent victory became
a bitter, 4 to 3 defeat in 12 inn
ings yesterday when E m 1 1
mntrht Leonard talew a 3 to 0
lead after holding the Athletics
scoreless for seven innings.
The Nationals countered with
a 4 to 3 victory on Rookie Mar
ino Pleretti's six-hit pitching.
At Detroit, the Tigers got
only two hits In a 3 to 0 white
washing by Nelson Potter. The
Browns knocked ' out Starter
Paul (Dizzy) Trout with four
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BEAR CREEK ORCHARDS
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The Yankees spoiled "Dave
rerriss aay ai Boston, oeauug
the rookie, 2 to 1, In five Inn
ings n his bid for victory 2i Be
fore fans who had given him an
automobile. The Red Sox won
the opener, 6 to 6, in 14 innings.
Bob Feller pitched his fifth
victory since returning to the
Indians, an 8 to 2, four-hit de
cision over the White Sox at
Cleveland.
Cubs Hold Lead
In the National league Chica
go took a 7 to 3 victory over
Pittsburgh In a game that was
rained out over the weekend.
The second game yesterday was
rained out. The shaky Cubs play
Pittsburgh twice today while St.
Louis Cardinals press ever clos
er to the lead.
Pnliinff nri to a came and a
half behind the leaders, the
Cards whipped Cincinnati 9 to
6 to end their home season.
Other National loop games
saw Boston beat the Giants
twice at New York, 4 to 1 and
7 to 5.
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Phillies at Brooklyn, winning 9
to 0 and losing 4 to 3.
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Coast League
W. L.
Portland 112 68
Seattle 105 78
Sacramento 89 85
San Francisco . 96 87
Oakland 90 93
San Diego 82 101
Los Angeles 76 107
Hollywood 73 110
National League
W. L.
Chicago 93 85
St. Louis 91 57
Brooklyn 83 66
Pittsburgh 80 68
New York 77 71
Boston 66 84
Cincinnati 60 87
Philadelphia 46 106
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W. L. Pet.
Detroit 86 64 .573
Washington 87 67 .565
St. Louis 79 69 .534
New York 78 71 .324
Cleveland 72 70 514
Chicago 71 77 .480
Boston 71 81 .467
Philadelphia 52 97 .348
DETROIT LIONS WIN
Milwaukee, Sept. 24 4U.R)
The 1945 National professional
football league season opened
dispiritedly last night as the De
troit Lions defeated the Chicago
Cardinals 10 to 0 at State Fair
Park.
(By United Press)
The curtain closing on the
Pacific Coast Baseball league
Sunday proved anti-climatic to
the championship race. As far
back as the middle of the season
it was an almost foregone con
clusion that Portland would cap
ture the league pennant far
ahead of the rest of the field.
Sunday the Beavers swept a
doubleheader from third-place
Sacramento and closed out with
an eight-and-one half game mar
gin over runner-up Seattle, lne
scores were 4-3 and 3-2.
The Rainiers divided a pair
with San Diego, losing the first
game 4-1 and taking the night
cap, 2-0. San Francisco dropped
two games to Los Angeles and
missed a chance to finish In third
place. The Angels won by
scores of 5-4 and 7-4 with tied
Adams and Don Osborn hurling
the victories, respectively.
Oakland came back to take
the day's finale from Hollywood,
4-2, after the Stars pushed across
a tally in the twelfth inning to
claim the first contest, 9-8.
Playoffs for the Governor's
cup get under way in Portland
Tuesday night with Seattle as
the guest team." Wednesday eve
ning San Francisco Journeys to
Sacramento to open the other
semi-final series against the
Solons.
The Beavers and Suds will
play three games in Portland and
the remainder of the games in
Seattle until one team wins the
best-out-of-seven, Likewise, the
first three games will be played
in Sacramento and the balance
of the series in San Francisco.
The winners of the two series
will meet for the championship
late in the following week. San
Francisco Is the defending cham
pion, having won the 1944 playoffs.
BY NELSON TAKES
Spokane, Wash., Sept. 24 (U.R)
Lord Byron Nelson rested atop
his golf throne again today after
breezing to an easy win over a
star-studded field of 37 fellow-
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Georcfes DllSpt.te will far .TarV
Lipscomb, coast chamninn. in a
return bout in one half of an
other double main event wrestl
ing nroeram at MpdfnrH armnm
Thursday nieht. Dusntte
ed the match and insisted that
Lipscomb not be allowed to use
tape. Last week Linseomh rlnim.
ed a sprained hand, but raked
the tape consistently over Du
sette's eyes. Dusette won the
matcn on a foul.
Rough Rufus Jones, colored
rough Euv from Detroit will
meet equally-tough Buck David
son in the other half nf thp rinal
bill. When Promoter Mack Lil-
lard offered Davidson a spot on
the card he agreed if he would
be matched with the Neern. sav.
ing he has a long-standing grudge
io seme.
Joe Lvnnm of PpdmnnH. whn
has built quite a reputation in
Australian rings while serving in
me army, win collide with tough
Gorilla. Poggi in the opener.
Frank Parker Wins
Net Championship
Los Angeles, Sept. 24 U.R)
National Tennis Champion
Frankie Parker today was also
the Pacific Southwest men's sin
gles champion after defeating 16-ycar-old
Herb Flam, national
junior title holder, 6-2, 6-4, at the
tennis club yesterday.
Margaret Osborne of San Fran
cisco won the women's title with
a straight set victory over Lou
ise Brough, Beverly Hills, Cal.,
11-9, 6-2. Miss Brough tired in
the second set.
pros in the $10,000 Esmeralda
open.
Nelson, record-shattering fair
way master from Toledo, O.,
posted a 22-under-par 266 for his
four trips yesterday around tne
rolling Indian Canyon layout,
setting an unofficial record for
par 27 courses.
His final round, of 64 capped
earlier rounds of 66, 66 and 70
to give him a seven-stroke lead
over his Gold Dust twin runner
up, Harold (Jug) McSpaden, San
ford, Me.
McSpaden made a spectacular
finish in edging Ben Hogan of
Hershey, Pa., for the $1,333 war
bond second money, blasting a
six-under-par first-nine 30 one
stroke within Ralph Guldahl's
all-time P. G. A. low of 29.
Hogan, who had pulled to
within two strokes of the mighty
Nelson at the 54-hole mark,
faultered on the greens to a final
round 77 and a tie with S?m
Snead at 275 for third place.
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SET AT BELMONT
New York Sept. 24 (U.R) A
new world's record for betting
on horse racing was set at Bel
mont park Saturday when a
crowd of 49,614 bet a total of
$5,016,745 on the eight race
card.
The amount surpassed by
$712,129 the previous record
$4,304 616 set at the Saratoga
meeting, which was held at Bel
mont, on Aug. 16. Until this sea
son, the $4,000 000 mark never
had been recorded but that
figure was reached four times at
New York tracks this summer.
Two other betting records also
were established total amount
wageied on a daily double and
the trial bet on a steeplechase.
BUCK FAUCETT CHOSEN
MOST VALUABLE PLAYER
Hollywood, Sept. 24 U.R)
Buck Fausett, hard-hitting third
baseman and manager of the
Hollywood Stars, has been
chosen the most valuable player
on the Hollywood club for the
1945 season, Bill Schroeder, di
rector of the Helms Athletic
Foundation, announced today.
Fausett, who joined the Stars
lsst year and replaced Manager
Charlie Root this year, batted
.318. It was the second year in
a row he had batted over .300.
NEWS FROM SHANGHAI
Shanghai, Sept. 24 (U.R)
The United Press today became
the first American news agency
to mske a complete news fils
available to liberated Shanghai's
two daily newspapers the Eve
ning Post and Mercury and the
Morning Herald.
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Joe Louis Given
Legion of Merit
New York, Sept. 24 (U.R)
Sgt. Joe Louis, heavyweight
champion, wore the legion of !
merit ribbon today his award
for being a model soldier, for giv
ing extensive exhibitions, and
for helping to develop a recondi
tioning program for returning
veterans. j
Sergeant Joe, who expects to ,
get his discharge Oct. 1, received
the award in a ceremonial pre
sentation at Fort Hamilton Sunday.
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Applegate Grange
Master Benjamin Ellis pre
sided at the Sept. 14 meeting of
Applegate Grange. Sixteen mem
bers and two visitors were pres
ent. Agriculture Committee Chair
man C. H. Elmore reported on
prices for produce and livestork
and the procedure for AAA
credit for getting superphosphate
for 1946. Brother Hunter report
ed on cooperative organizations.
Home Economics club will
meet Wednesday afternoon, Sept.
26, at Grange hall to clean and
prepare for booster's night. Har
riet Rich will be hostess for the
club meeting.
The federal crop insurance
program was discussed and mem
bers wishing to insure wheat
crops were urged to make appli
cation before Sept. 29.
Members were Informed of the
organization of the Jackson
County Livestock Shipping asso
ciation and were urged to be
come members by payment of
$1.00 membership fee.
Grangers were glad of a visit
from Brother Ashton Foerst, who
was home for a few days from
his work in eastern Oregon with
the F.S.A.
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