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Baseball Cracking Down
On Money-Laden Outfits
New York, Feb. 1 (U.R) Tak
ing a business as usual attitude,
the major leagues moved today
to crack down on members in
their midst with overloaded
bankrolls as well as the bumper
crop of rookies flushed by the
sight of victory money.
A special committee of the two
leagues recommended for adop
tion at the majors' meeting open
ing today a rule that any player
paid a bonus for signing be made
subject to the waiver rule if
his employers decide he has not,
or can not, make the grade.
In other words, a prize rookie
picked off the campus of some
college or the loom line of a
spinning mill cannot be bought
up for a neat sum and then
farmed out for his prep work.
The St. Louis Cardinals, for in
stance, could not give a player
a bonus for signing and then
farm him out to Columbus with
out the rest of the clubs in the
league passing on him.
The celebrated case in point
was Dick Wakefield of the De
troit Tigers who was signed off
the University of Michigan cam
pus for $52,000 (with an auto
mobile thrown in, some people
say). The Tigers had him out
to pasture for two years before;
he came Into Briggs stadium as
a star.
The majors' recommendation
was in line with the minor
leagues', recent application of a
flat ban on bunuses-for-signing.
The meeting of the major
leagues coincides with a gather
ing of numerous minor circuits
and the big town will boom with
baseball for the next three or
four days.
Sgt. Bob Kenaston, former
marine from Gold Hill and ex
junior heavyweight champion of
the world, has decided to at
tempt a wrestling comeback and
has issued a challenge to any
one, Promoter Mack Lillard said
today.
Joe Lynam, coast champion,
and Jack Lipscomb have been
signed for the six-round main
event. Lipscomb has been after
a rematch ever since losing to
the Redmond flash two weeks
ago. Lynam took the belt from
the ex-Hoosier some time ago.
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HOUSE OF DAVID
WILL PLAY HERE
The House of David basket
ball team, one of the most color
ful touring casaba crews of the
nation, will meet the Ashland
Elks on the Medford high school
court Thursday, Feb. 14, it was
announced today.
The whiskered basket tossers
are touring the west coast on
th-ir way to California and have
agreed to accept the date here.
They will play an all-star team
at Grants Pass Feb. 13.
The Elks, conquerors of the
Klamath Falls Marines, are con
sidered one of the strongest in
dependent teams in this part of
the state.
Tornado Set For
Conference Clash
With Grants Pass
About 35 members of the
Medford high school basketball
squad were to leave by bus at
5:30 p. m. today for Grants Pass
where they will engage the Cave
men in a Southern Oregon con
ference game.
Medford, unbeaten in league
play, will be gunning for its
fourth circuit victory and the
second win over Grants Pass.
The junior varsity will tangle
with the Grants Pass JV's in the
preliminary. Their rivalry has
become almost as strong as that
between the contestants of the
main game and a hot battle is
expected on the smaller Grants
Pass floor.
Junior High Downs
Grants Pass Frosh
Medford junior ligih. basket
ball team romped to an easy 40
to 25 conference victory over
Grants Pass Frosh there Wed
nesday afternoon. Neidermeyer
and Reich tied for high honors
with nine each while Williams
paced the losers with eight.
Grants Pass eighth graders
squeezed out an 18 to 17 win
In the preliminary.
Junior high cagers took a 4f
to 17 practice win from the
Jacksonville Frosh here yester
day while the Medford eighth
graders were whipping a simi
lar team from Jacksonville 32
to 5. Medford travels to Rose
burg for a game tonight.
WOOD, RUSSELL CLASH
IN FEATURE NET MATCH
. Miami, Fla., Feb. 1 W.R)
Sidney Wood of New York and
Alejo Russell of Argentina were
to meet today in the featured
singles match of the University
of Miami tennis tournament.
Johnny Mack Brown Here Sunday
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Johnny Mack Brown talks it
over with his "side-kick" Ray
mond Hatton in "Flame of the
West," coming to the Rialto Sun-
day for a three-day engagement.
Kay Francis in "Divorce," is the
added feature.
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Philadelphia. Feb. 1 U.B
Baseball Commissioner A. B.
Chandler asked organized base
ball last night to spend millions
of dollars on a world-wide pro
gram of sandlot games for the
good of the game and oi war
veterans.
The commissioner told the
42nd annual banquet of the
PhilnHolnhia Snortine Writers
association that the sandlot pro
gram was "an obligation to the
new generation,' 'and that it
would set the standard for the
major leagues of tomorrow.
Chandler shared the spotlight
with Canadian-born M e r y 1 1
Frost, 1945 Dartmouth football
co-captain who was chosen the
most courageous athlete of the
year.
Elks Quint Licks
Illinois Valley
Ashland, Feb. 1 Ashland
Elks turned back the Illinois
Valley Ramblers by a 55 to 20
score here last night in an In
fantile paralysis benefit tilt. The
Elks piled up a 16-0 first quar
ter lead and were ahead IB io
7 at halft-me.
Southern Oregon College of
Education downed a stubborn
and hard-fighting Mobilgas team
from Medford 54 to 40 in the
preliminary.
CHARLES B0TTJER TOPS
RIFLE CLUB SHOOTERS
Charles Bottler,, with a 381
score, was high man at Ihe
weekly practice shoot of the
Medford Rifle club. The rifle
club practices each Wednesday
and the pistol club on Friday
nights. Both groups use the
range at the Merrick building
on North Riverside avenue.
Jimmte Bolton shot a 378 for
second place. Octavia Waddell
was third with 377 and Lew
Conger and Phil Whitlock tied
for fourth with 375.
BOWLING
An all-star men's team from
Camp White defeated Burgoyne's
! of Medford, women's state cham
i pions, in an exhibition match
here Wednesday night. Total pins
for the camp were 2524 while
the champions bowled a total
of 2289.
70 YEARS OLD
New York, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Baseball's senior circuit the
National League has its 70th
birthday party tomorrow.
BOY TRIES SUICIDE
Benicia, Calif., Feb. 1 (U.R)
i Howard Shanklcs, 13, was In a
I critical condition In Vallejo
i Community hospital today after
shooting himself with a .22 cali
ber rifle when his mother re
fused to let him stay home from
school.
IN TITLE MATCH
New York, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Freddie (Red) Cochrane, 30-year-old
freshman at Seton Hall
college, will make his first de
fense of the world welter
weight championship tonight
against Marty Servo, a body
belter from Schenectady, N. Y.,
in the first post-war title fight.
Betting men indicate that not
even a special cheering section
of 500 Seton Hall rooters in
Madison Square Gardens' bal
ccny can prevent Cochrane, a
red-headed ex-sailor, from los
ing his crown. They have made
Servo, 26-year-old former coast
guardsman, a 14-5 favorite to
capture the fight game's second
most valuable diadem.
WITNESSES TELL
OF BEATINGS IN
JAP PRISON CAMP
Yokohama, Feb. 1 (U.R) Pro
secution witnesses today describ
ed how former Japanese prison
camp Commandant Asao (the
Ferret) Fukuhara ordered an
American prisoner of war con
fined to the guardhouse until he
died of starvation and blinded
another by an unprovoked beat
ing. Omuta Camp Interpreter Dia
gaku Kozasa testified that Fuku
hara used belts and bamboo
sticks to beat prisoners. He said
he saw Wm. H. Knight of War
saw, N. Y., tied outside a guard
house for three or four days un
til he got "very thin and looked
like a sick man."
Cpl. Walter R. Johnson of
McPherson, Kans., allegedly
died of starvation after Fuku
hara ordered him confined to a
guardhouse, and Kozasa said a
beating given Hollan O. Moye,
McCrae, Ga., resulted in the
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MTOFOHD MAIL TMBTJrTE THltR
latter's loss of one eye.
In the atrocities trial of Kitaro
(the Bull) Ishlda, the prosecution
rested its case after the defend
ant took the stand in his own
defense.
Ishlda admitted he beat SSgt
Thomas Melody of Los Angele:
"about three times" with a ban
boo club because Melody, whi
was playing a musical instru
ment at the time, failed to salute
him.
Texas' pecan crop in 1943 was
only 19 million pounds. Forty
three million pounds were har
vested in 1944.
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A Missionary Speaks
at
The Church of the Nazarene
1st and Holly St.
Missionary Service at 7:30 P.M.
' with
MRS. EUGENIA GOATS
Missionary In Guatemala for 17 Yean
Other Services Sunday:
9:45 A.M. A Sunday School with Vision I
1 1 :00 A.M. Sermon by Ray. George Coulter.
"A RUGGED RELIGION"
500-FOOT PLUNGE
Somes Bar, Cal., Feb. 1 (U.R)
Elmer Richards, 26, a dis
charged war veteran, was re
covering today from a miracu
lous escape from death after a
car In which he was riding
plunged over a 500-foot em
bankment in to the Klamath
River gorge and broke In two
midway in its fall.
, The driver of the car, J. J.
Burns, 50, whose home address
was not available, was killed
Instantly. The body of the car
fell into the river. The chassis,
with Richards in it, was caught
on a ledge 400 feet down the
side of the cliff.
Humbolt county officials said
Richards, an Indian, was not
considered seriously injured.
Clerk Lists Long
Service Record
In Quitting Job
San Francisco, Feb. 1 (U.R)
Molly Minudrl, a brisk, blonde
clerk in the county recorder's
office for the past 11 yeaw,
quit today.
Her resignation, given to
Recorder Tom Toomcy, read:
"I have: .
"1 Been copyist in the rec
order's office for 11 years.
"2 Been secretary of the
Council of Municipal Em
ployes for six years.
"3 Been secretary of the
A.F.L. Municipal Employes
union since it was founded.
"4 Cooked, kept house and
battled the store lineup for my
husband.
"5 Raised two daughters.
"Today our cat, Moonbeam,
got pregnant.
"Mr. Toomey I quit."
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