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MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE THREE
Drake All-American John Bright
Receives Custody of His Child
De Moines, Iowa (U.R)
Johnny Bright, AU-American Ne
gro halfback, admitted after
graduation from Drake Univer
eity Monday that he was the
father of an illegitimate nine-months-old
boy.
Bright accepted responsibility
for the child, born last Aug. 20
to Wilma Mae Kempt, 19-year-old
Negro, in a stipulation filed
in Polk County District Court.
He said he would pay the hos
pital expenses for the birth and
asked sole cSre and custody of
the child. District Judge C. Ed
win Moore granted Bright's request.
G Boxing Tournament
To Open in New Jersey
Fort Monmouth, N. J. J.R
Punch-throwing GI's from seven
Army areas around the nation
and three overseas commands
will start battling it out Tues
day night in the all-Army box
ing championships.
The new field house at Fort
Monmouth is expected to be
jammed to capacity for the open
ing bouts, in which the Army
fighters will be striving to gain
berths on this year's Olympic
boxing team.
It was reported the boy would
be taken to live temporarily
with Bright'! mother in Fort
Wayne, Ind.
A suit last year sought to have
Bright named the father of the
child, but the case was dismissed
when the girl refused to testify.
Bright's stipulation was in ans
wer to a second suit brought by
the girl's mother, Mrs. Doro
thy Madison.
The fleet back was the central
figure in a torrid exchange of
public statements last fall when
some Drake officials said Bright's
jaw was intentionally broken in
an early season game against
Oklahoma A and M.
WILLIAMS TO MOVE .
Willow Grove, Pa. (U.R)
Former Boston Red Sox slugger
Ted Williams, now a Marine
Corps captain, neared the end of
his refresher course as a flyer
Monday and will be moved to
Cherry Point, N.C., some time
this week. Williams, who was re
called to service this spring and
who reported to the Marine air
detail at the Naval training sta
tion here on May 2, has complet
ed 20 hours of flight training,
Public Information Officer, Lt.
Col. Jack Moore said.
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San Francisco (U.R) Little
Hank Schenz, the Oakland
Acorns' valuable infielder,' took
over the Pacific Coast league
batting leadership during the
past week as the veteran Joe
Grace of San Francisco dropped
25 points.
Schenz, with a 33S mark, has
clouted 65 hits in 194 trips to
the plate to lead second-place
Bob Dillinger of San Francisco,
who has a .322 average.
John Benton, veteran relief
artist for San Diego, tops the
hurlers with a 5-0 record.
The home run department is
led by Max West, Los Angeles
outfielders, with 13. Lou String
er of San Diego leads in runs-
batted-in with 36. Elmer Single
ton, San Francisco hurler, is the
strikeout king with 61.
Tonight the San Diego Padres
open their home stand Tuesday
in the southland against the
Fanfare
By DICK JEWETT
Mail Tribune Sports Editor
Ardent Medford fans probab
ly have been accused of crying
in their beverages over the pair
ings for the state baseball tour
nament. The kick, of course,
was that drawings for bracket
positions were made at Albany
last week although pairings pre
viously were published in the
February bulletin of the Oregon
School Activities association.
WHY NO NOTICE
Tournament officials at Al
bany, in explaining the draw
ing stated that incorrect re
ports about placings had been
published. It It supposed that
they referred to the February
bulletin of the OSAA.
What we don't understand
is why correction or retract
ion was not made immediately
if the pairings reported in the
bulletin were not to be follow
ed. Perhaps, sending notices
to baseball coaches and sports
editors throughout the state
was not practical. The least
that could have been dene,
nevertheless, would have been
correction in the March or
April bulletins.
Then there wouldn't have
been bitter feeling that skul
duggery or politics might be
involved.
No Cold Water
With no announcement within
a reasonable time that the bul
letin report was in error, it
would have been proper proced
ure to carry the tournament on
in accordance to February pub
lished pairings.
We don't intend by these re
marks to throw cold water on
the championship won by the
Alc-any Bulldogs. After all, they
won out over teams that proved
themselves best in districts
throughout the state. We con
gratulate them for anriexing the
crown. But there is a feeling
that tourney arrangements
worked out for the benefit of
the home team.
TWO GOOD HURLERS
With two pitchers, Derald
Wooton and Terry Maddex, as
good as any in the tourney,
Medford would have been in
a great position had it gotten
by Its first opponent. The
Black Tornado, therefore,
stood to gain the most under
the plan announced In Feb
ruary. It would have met
weak Junction City In Its op-'
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Portland Beavers. Runner - up
Hollywood also is at home, tak
ing on the disappointing Oak
land Acorns. Seattle and Sacra
mento open a basement series in
the California capital and Los
Angeles goes to San Francisco
in a battle for the first division.
ener with string The Dalles
or Albany its next opponent.
The Dalles would have used
its top hurler. Eddie Urness
against Albany.
As it was, Medford faced
and lost to Urness and The
Dalles in the opener while
Albany drew and thumped
Junction City in the opposite
bracket.
Could Kill Tourney
It is dissatisfaction and ill will
such as created by the tourney
pairings incident that could kill
state tournaments. Such drastic
results might place athletics in
a less emphasized but more pro
per place in the high school pro
gram. De-emphasis of sports,
however, would be a hard blow
to fans and athletes alike. And
what would poor sportswriters
do.
IRONCLAD SYSTEM
Anyhow, some ironclad sys
tem for pairings should be ad
opted, understood by all and
adhered to. A drawing every
year a week before a tourna
ment will suffice, if its un
derstood by all that the let
system will be followed. Let's
do away with the manipula
ting that appears to give one
team advantage over another.
CATCHES EYE
Medford's Derald Wooten
caught the eye of baseball ex
perts for his fine performance,
although a losi..g one against
The Dalles. The opinion was ex
pressed .that Wooton has great
possibilities and there was con
siderable, and unsettled, discus
sion as to whether he or Urness
of the Indians is the better pros
pect. Unfortunately, Medford's
Maddox did not get to show his
pitching wares.
Scores Yesterday
NATIONAL LEAGUE
Chicago 3. St. Louis 0
Pittabursh 6, Cincinnati 3
. New York 4, Brooklyn 2
Boiton at Philadelphia (poitponed,
rain)
AMERICAN LEAGUE
Washington 5, Philadelphia 3
Boston B, New York 3
Chicago 10. St. Louis S (completion
of game impended end of ?th inning,
April 20)
Chicago 4. St. Louis 2
(Only games scheduled)
WESTERN INTERNATIONAL
Victoria 7, Vancouver 0
(Only game scheduled)
Chester, Vt. U.R) While
communities around the country
are adding fluorides to their
water supplies to prevent tooth
decay, Chester has a different
problem: getting the fluoride
out.
There's so much fluoride in
the commuinty well that the
county health department has to
dilute tiie water so it will con
tain no more than two parts of
fluoride to one million parts of
water.
COPS ARK ON WAY to untangle these four wrestlers in San
Francisco ring before someone gets hurt. Mike Sharpe Is on back
at left while Gino Garibaldi (right) tries to break off a leg and
beat Ben Sharpe helpless. One of Ben's legs is gripped by Gari
baldi. Leo Nomelllni is kicking the hapless Ben. Despite tough
outlook Sharpes retained the tag team title. (International)
Bob Mathias
In 4 Events
At Portland
Portland (U.R) Bob Ma
thias, Stanford university's great
track and field star, is scheduled
to participate in four events of
the annual Pacific Northwest
AAU track and field meet here
next Saturday.
Mathias told Eldon Fix, chair
man of the event, he would com
pete in the shotput, discus and
the low and high hurdles, the
same events he entered at the re
cent Pacific Coast conference
meet in Eugene.
Ralph Sutton of Oregon State,
who' sprung one of the biggest
surprises of last week's PCC
meet, will be on hand to toss the
javelin. Chuck Missfeldt, Ore
gon's javelin ace who finished
second to Sutton's throw of 224
feet plus, will be on deck in an
attempt to reverse the story.
Hec Edmundson, veteran Uni
versity of Washington track
coach, will serve as an honorary
referee and will have several of
his Husky thinclads participating.
Woman Spends Time
Traveling on Railroad
Chicago (U.R) An attractive
brown-haired woman employe of
the Chesapeake and Ohio Rail
road says that she likes travel
ing just fine.
It's a good thing that Mrs. Ann
Stevenson does because that'
her job. Traveling, traveling and
more of the same.
She rides the entire network
of the C&O from Norfolk, Va
to Grand Rapids, Mich., and Chi
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cago, checking on cleanliness
comfort in the trains and sta
tions.
When Mrs. Stevenson com
pletes one run, she turns around
and starts all over again.
A Chester dentist, Lawrence
G. Mathews, who advocates
water fluoridation himself, was
surprised to learn about the
situation. Dr. Lawernce said
tooth decay among Chester chil
dren is "about as bad as any
where else."
Colorado, Nevada and Wyom
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