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SIX MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE Fanfare By DICK JEWETT . Mail Tribun Spm Editor A big surge in auto racing ac tivity, interest and enthusiasm has been noted here in the past few weeks with a program get ting underway at the Medford Speedway, plans announced for races at the Ashland Rodeo grounds and racing slated at the Jackson County Sheriff's Mount ed posse grounds. Promoters kay.Reid and Ed die Claasen at the Medford Speedway and the posse at its grounds have scheduled races for Friday, July 4. Reid and Claas en anticipate 40 vehicles for their stock car ruckus. Cars of the Southern Oregon Midget Ra cing association will participate at the posse grounds. Hard top stock car events will commence at the Ashland track on July 12. The program calls for races on Saturdays through the summer and early fall. -' Racers of the valley have forrrved the Southern Oregon Stock Car Racing association with Blair Crosby, president; - Jim- Palmer, vice-president, and Wally Cannon, secretary - treas urer. HELPS CONFIDENCE The Medford Cheney Studs' pair of wins ovr the Coos Bay-North Bend Lumberjacks during the week-end should strengthened their confidence for the Southwestern Oregon Baseball loop series with league-leading Drain on July 12 and 13. Medford lost its opening series with Drain 8 to 3 and 7 to 4. Since then, however. Coos Bay has wal loped Drain and quite soundly, 8 to 1 and 10 to 2. It goes to prove that anything can happen in the Sawdust Circuit and that the Studs are potentially just as strong as any other club in the circuit, despite bigger names else where. PROGNOSTICATOR - Don Faber, the Central Point grocer who handles the public address system at the Studs' home games, proved an excell ent prognosticator Sunday. When the Studs came to bat in the eighth stanza, he predicted a big inning for the Medford crew. The Studs scored three runs, enough to win, in the canto. We saw Don rapping his knuckles on a table top before the first Stud batter stepped up to the plate in the inning. GOOD LUCK GITZEN Pitcher Paul Gehrman calls First Baseman George Gitxen the "good luck charm" of the Studs. "When he plays, we win," according to Big Paul. SALTZMAN OUT itoseburg .of the. SWOL won't have the chucking services of Hal Saltzman, ex-Portland Bea ver, after all. Because of a back ailment sustained during mili tary service, his doctor has nix ed baseball participation by Saltzman this season. FELL IN HOLE Th four hits given up' by Derald Wooton to Boise in nis professional start with Great Falls of the Pioneer League were not hard ones. "They just fell in the hole," the ex Medford high ace, has inform ed his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wooton. TO PACIFIC Ron Craig, Jacksonville high's all-around athlete, is slated to enter Pacific university at For est Grove next fall. Portland Star Top PCL Batter San Francisco (U.R) Big Joe Brovia of Portland hiked his average eight points last week to take over the Pacific Coast league batting lead, of ficial averages disclosed Tues day. The Bevo outfielder is 'now belting at a ".324 clip for 83 games. Bob Boyd of Seattle, last week's leader, holds the runner up spot. He slipped 10 points to .320. Although he's way down on the hit parade with a .272 mark, Tookie Gilbert -of Oakland is high man in the important runs-batted-in department with 58. Johnny Lindell ranks at the top the PCL pitching department with 12 wins against only four losses. Lindell, a former New York Yankee, has. three more wins than any . other twirler in the league. Los Angeles' Bill Noi san ranks second with a 9-3 rec ord, followed by Steve Nagy of Seattle with 9-4. . ALL UNION Barber Shops Will Be CLOSED July 4 and 5 Local 269 J.B.A. Yankee Castoff Makes Good On Washington Mound Staff By United Press Sen. Frank (Spec.) Shea from Connecticut is one guy who does not have to worry about stick ing in Washington this election year when a lot of other senators are having their troubles. Shea, the prize forgotten man of the 1947 world champion Yankees, was about to be sent to the minors when his old boss, Manager Bucky Harris of the Senators asked that he be in cluded in the big trade which sent Irv Noren to the New York ers. The Yankees were promptly willing to unload the chunky right hander who hadn't won a game with them all season and who had won only 15 in the four long and unhappy years after his great rookie campaign of 47. Shea had been a sore arm victim but claimed he had re covered and the Yankees hadn't given him a chance to show he Professional Ball Provides One Of Fastest Stepping Stones to Business Success, By HAL WOOD San Francisco flJ.R) Profes sional football provides one of the fastest stepping stones to success in the business world for college graduates and should not be overlooked by youngsters with athletic ability just getting out of school. That's the learned opinion of scholarly Gordon Soltau, former Minnesota star and last season one of the greatest ends in the National league while perform ing for the San Francisco Forty Niners. "Most kids just getting out of school are in debt," reasons Sol tau, "And how else can they pick up about $1,000 a month for the next four or live months?" Third Year Soltau will start his third sea son with the Forty-Niners this fall and right now is complet ing his third year as a steel salesman for Monarch Steel Products Co. in San Francisco. "It was through professional football that I got this job, and steel, being one of our biggest industries, is going to be my busines sin the future thanks to the game of football." The blonde, 6-foot, 2-inch star, who is a slender 200 pounds, probably is one of the smarter athletes around the country to day. Ha is an accomplished pub lic speaker, and is. a member of the. Speakers Bureau of the northern California Volunteers for Eisenhower. Frogman Soltau is as close as a glomour boy can come to being a soldier of fortune in these times. Be sides being a football hero, he was one of the famed "frog men" in World War II, hitting the front lines in both the Euro pean and the C-B-I theaters. That, of course, required him to be a top-flight swimmer. He also starred in basketball and hockey while at the Univer sity of Minnesota. Counting his war service of three years, he has hit just about all corners of the globe. Getting back to professional football, Soltau is sold on the pro team. Don't Fritter Away Your Dividends Invest them in a Jackson County Federal Savings Account. 3 CURRENT DIVIDEND RATE Invest by July Wth Funds invested here by July 10th will earn dividends from July 1st ir (r vackson SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATION 126 EAST MAIN MEDFORD, ORE. Growing With Jackson .County Since 1909 TuM4r. Juir 1. 195: was okay. As soon as he joined the Senators he began to win regularly, and Monday night he posted his sixth victory against only two defeats, topping the Athletics, 6 to 2, on seven hits. Washington, by winning, mov ed to within four games of first place again, as the Red Sox top ped the leading Yankees, 4 to 3, on the four-hit, eight strikeout pitching of rookie Dick Prodow ski. The Red Sox moved to with in 3Vi games of the top. The White Sox also moved to within 3V2 games of the lead by defeat ing the Tigers, 7 to 2, as Art Houttemann suffered his seventh straight defeat. Cleveland, which was idle, held to fourth place, four games out and two percent age points ahead of Washington. The National league race tightened up when the Giants won 8 to 7 and 4 to 0 decisions in Boston while Karl Drews blanked the Dodgers for the Phillies, 4 to 0. Player Says "This is hard to believe," he points out, "but the spirit on the professional football clubs is higher than it ever is in col leges." He claims that the pro game is "100 per cent better" than that played in college and lists three reasons: (1) The players spend their full time at playing the game. (2) The individuals are older and more mature. (3) On college teams there are only three or four really good foot ball players; the rest are just good athletes. Americans Gain Round of Four At Wimbledon Wimbledon, England (UP)- Louise Brough, Beverly Hills, Calif., battling to regain the Wimbledon singles crown she won three straight times, be came the first American to en ter the women's semi-finals Tuesday. She defeated Jean Quertier Rinkel of Britain, 6-1, 9-7. Attendance continued to fall as temperatures rose." Only 21, 000 were on hand for the start of play Monday. Barely 17.D00 were present as competition be gan today but the center court was packed to its 15,000 ca pacity as U. S. Champion Mau reen Connolly started her quarter-final match with Thelma Long or Australia. Miss Connolly rallied to gain the semi-finals with a 5-7, 6-2, 6-0 victory over Mrs. Long. Standings AMERICAN LEAGUE New York Boston Chicago Washington Cleveland .. St. Louis .... Philadelphia Detroit NATIONAL LEAGUE W L Pet .723 .667 .559 .528 .455 .449 .391 254 GB "3'i 10'i 12 'i 17 18 22 32 Brooklyn New York . Chicago St. Louis . Philadelphia CincinnaU ... Boston Pittsburgh . 47 18 44 22 38 30 38 34 30 36 31 38 27 42 18 53 ic ounty Jiederal W L Pet. GB 39 28 .600 .. 37 31 .544 3'!. s. 38 32 .543 3 a 35 30 .538 4 37 32 .536 4 32 37 .464 9 27 33 .458 9i 22 48 .328 18 ?i Senior Circuit For July 8 Ail - New York (U.R) Big blast ers like Hank Sauer of the Cubs, Bobby Thompson of the Giants, Stan Musial of the Cards and Jackie Robinson of the Dodgers give the National league start ing lineup a tremendous bat ting edge over the American for the July 8 All Star game. A position-By-position . check up of the eight starting players not counting pitchers on each team revealed Tuesday that the Easter Sent To Minors Cleveland, Ohio (U.R) A publicity blurb from the Cleve lantflndians, favored to win the 1952 American league pennant in pre-season polls, said early this year, f'Luke Easter is the key to a winning season." Tuesday the Indians threw away the key but kept the door open. In a surprise move the In dians announced Monday night they were sending the big Negro first baseman to their Indian apolis farm club. But Easter was snt down on a 24-hour basis and the move was regarded as one calculated to shake the clumping player out of the dol drums. , Easter has gone to the plate 221 times, and while his average is a weak .208, he has tallied 24 runs, gotten 46 hits, of which six were two-baggers and 11 were home runs. He has driven in .33 runs, a respectable mark this early in the season. Baseball School Attendance Good There will be no city school baseball activity on Thursday because a number of boys will be leaving town with their fam ilies for the holiday week-end, Lee V. Hagsdale, physical educa tion director for the school sys tem announced. He reported that registration for the first week of the sum mer baseball program was 125. He said that average attend ance has been 100. There are three general divisions, the sand blowers, ages 7 through 9; pee wees, 10 through 12 and the cubs, over 12. The divisionmg is not strictly according to age, however, ability of the young sters being a factor in their class ification. Hitting Stressed There are 30 sandblowers reg istered, 65 pee wees and 30 cubs. The program- last week stress ed hitting, bunting and base run ning. This week pitching and catching get the emphasis. Next week instructions.: in other pos itions will be given. The instruction is given Mon Jays through Thursdays from 8:30 a.m. to noon. Scores Yesterday American League Boston 4. New York 3. Washington 6.' Philadelphia 2. Chicago 7. Detroit 2. (Only games scheduled). National League New York 4. Boston 0. New York 8, Boston 7. St. Louis 7, CincinnaU 3. Philadelphia 4, Brooklyn 0. Chicago 5, Pittsburgh 4. FREE USE OF A CAR While We Paint Yours It Will Pay You To See ITCH FOR FIRST CLASS AMMO Radiator . Wholesale HtJ STEAM CLEANING Cart, Motors, Machinery, etc. MHchell Paint & 608 SOUTH Has Power Star Game National leaguers had a com bined batting average of .301 compared to .295 for the Ameri can. What's more, the National had an edge in home runs, 77 to 54, and in runs batted in, 336 to 242, for all games played through last week-end. - The senior circuit had the major leagues' leading batter in Musial at .339; the home run king in Sauer, who has 20; and the co-runs-batted-in leaders in Sauer and Thomson, with 62 each. Five of the National league starters have batting averages of .300 or better. The junior league has four. In addition to Musial, the National loop has Robinson, .329, Sauer, .308, Whitey Lockman of the Giants .307, and Enos Slaughter of the Cards, .302. The American league's .300 hitters are Al Rosen of the In dians .332, Dom DiMaggio of the Red Sox .314, Dale Mitchell of the Indians .306 and Hank Bauer of the Yankees .300. The loop's Jop home run hitter is Yogi Berra of the Yankees with 15 and the top man in RBI's is Rosen with 47. Turner Intends To 'Burn Down' Gavilan in Bout Pleasantville, N. J. (UP) Unbeaten Gil Turner, the world's hottest young fighter, said Tues day he would "burn down" wel terweight champion Kid Gavilan in their title fight at Philadel phia's Municipal Stadium Mon day night. i The 21-year-old Philadelphia Negro said he would set such a blistering pace, 26-year-old Gav ilan of Cuba would wilt before the scheduled 15 rounds were finished. "I'll beat him for sure; maybe knock him out," declared the broadshouldered youngster. Never Kayoed No one ever knocked Out Gavi lan; not even Sugar Ray Robin son in 25 rounds. However, Felix Rocchichio manager of heavyweight cham pion Jersey Joe Walcott watched Turner in two work outs here at Miss loana Byrd's training camp and made this statement: "Turner is the greatest fight er I've ever seen. He's greater than Henry Armstrong was at his peak. He throws more leath er and hits harder than Arm strong did, and he is much more versatile. He will knock out Gavilan without too much trou ble." Sacramento Nine Tops Salem, 4-3 Salem (UP) The Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast league defeated the Salem Senators of the Western v Inter national league 4 to 3 in an ex hibition game Monday night. Sacramento scored its only earned run in the seventh when Jack Steinagle singled to score Bill Glynn. Connie Perez of Salem hit four for five to pace the Sen ators' attack. Repairing Radiator Shop RIVERSIDE ELL Automotive Sv&4-ggJrB Shop- .yGJLp U.S. Olympic Divers Open Competition New York (U.R) The final trials for those hopefus seeking berths on the U. S. Olympic men's diving team opened Tues day with eliminations in the three-meter springboard event The diving trials will be staged during the next three days at the Astoria pool in conjunction with a water polo tournament, which will determine the make up of the U. S. team for the Olympics at Helsinki later this month. Dr. Sammy Lee, Army medi cal major recently returned from Korean service, was the stand out entry in the diving events. The little Korean-American won the high-board Olympic title at London in 1948 and took third in the springboard. Miller Anderson, former Ohio State star who made the 1948 Olympic team both in high and springboard diving, also is com peting, along with John McCor mick of the Pasadena Athletic Club, the 1952 AAU outdoor one meter champion. Two title-holding collegians included in the field are David Browning of Texas University, NCAA outdoor and AAU indoor champion at both one-meter and three-meter diving, and Bob Clotworthy, Ohio State, 1952 AAU outdoor three-meter cham pion. Satch in Clouds Over Selection New York (U.R) They put the final touch Tuesday to Satchel Paige's private castle in the air. "It's something I always dreamed about,"- declared the Browns' 44-year-old relief pitch er upon being notified of his selection to the American League All-Star team. "It's a mighty big honor and I appreci at it plenty." There were only three things he ever wanted, Paige explains. "A long time back," he says, "I always wanted to pitch in the big leagues and I got to do that. After I came to Cleveland, I wanted to pitch in a World Series and in 1948, I got to do that, too. "That left only one more thing I wanted to be picked on an All-Star team." Dead line Sundav Classifieds is at noon Saturdays. BUY ONE TIRE and GET THE ( MX WORN Skt DANGEROUS J r f fh mis J crn Jjw . ALL SIZES I First Line... First Quality '3 WlLBK 90$ of all tire troubles happen in the last 10 of your tire's life. Why risk an accident? & This is the famous Fisk Air-borne tire. Built for thousands of extra safe miles with its cold-rubber tread its tough rayon construe tion its low-pressure comfort. Come in today. 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Harlow telephoned Oregon Athletic officials of his decision Saturday night from the South east conference school. He will work under new Head Coach Raymond (Bear)" Wolf, who mov ed up to the No. 1 spot upon re signation of Henry Ernka last season. Casanova said he would begin immediately a search for a re placement to join two other grid coaching aides, Jack Roche and Johnny McKay. FASTEST, COOLEST WAY TO SACRAMENTO VALLEY CITIES FLIGHTS EVERY DAY (From Medford Airport) Southi&sfiAinVays PHONE MEDFORD 2-5851 AT LIST SECOND TIRE orne AW ml m 1st TIRE4,7 '23 2nd TIRE '11 BOTH THE GREAT FISK t're guaranteed for life for materials and workmanship. Brand-new 1952 design. They won't last long at this price. 6.0016 EXCHANGE PLUS TAX TIME to finish him olf, because I knew I had hurt him. I never saw his hook coming." Pep went flat on his back but was saved by the bell. Collins, brash New England title-holder from Medford. 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