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c EIGHT MEDFORD (OREGON) MEDFORDfTEIBUNZ Walt Dropo's Tigers to 4 to Br UNITED PRESS There is precious little for fans of the tattered Tigers to cheer about this season, but they were hailing wailopin Walt Dropo today as a worthy succes sor to hammerin' Hank Green berg. Since Dropo, the big moose from Moosup, Conn., electrified the baseball world by cracking out 12 straight hits to tie an all time major league record against the Yankees and Sena tors on July 14 and 15, he has kept banging away and has boosted his average to .300 from a puny .265. He now is tied for the league lead In runs batted in with 63, and Thursday he won another ball game with a two-run homer, his 16th, which beat the Senators 4 to 2. The defeat prevented Wash ington from gaining ground on the Yankees, who lost 4 to 2 to the fourth-place Indians. Cleve land climbed to within one per- Favorite Ousted In Coast Tourney Astoria (U.R) Eight golfers teed off in the quarter-final round of the Oregon Golf cham pionship tournament here Fri day with favored Dr. E. E. Palmrose of Astoria pushed out of the running by Lou Tobin of Portland. Friday's engagements pit Ralph Dichter of Astoria against Hank Brown, Portland; Virgil Mitchell, Portland, against Chuck Stafford, Portland; Tobin against E. R. Jones, Portland, and Jim Miller, Oswego, against Sam Benner, Portland. Tobins victory over Dr. Palm rose Thursday was the big upset of the tournament. The Portland golfer nosed out the Astorian 1 up. Dr. Palmrose' bogeyed on the last hole as Tobin came out of the rough for a par four. Upper Rogue Trout Fishing Said 'Good to Excellent' Portland (U.R) Sports fish ing has improved generally throughout Oregon during the past week and week-end angling prospects are good in most major streams and lakes, according to the Oregon State Game Com mission. The weekly report: Southwest: Trout fishing in up per Rogue river is good to ex cellent, but fair to poor in Grants Pass area. Fishing at Winchester bay is good provided weather conditions are satisfactory for crossing the bar. Trout fishing in the coastal lakes is fair. Good catches of trout are being made in the north Umpqua river from Winchester to Eagle rock and in the south Umpqua from Milo to Camp Comfort. Some salmon trout are being taken in the vicinity of Umpqua and the forks. Summer steelhead fishing is good at Steamboat, but only a few have been caught at Win chester. Conditions are very good with moderately low level clear VOnly DOLEHS ''Power-Ho DeLuxe Garden Tractor : gives you t? j CMckv Hitching ; Easier, Shorter Turns ' Simpler Operotten Smoother ftiHWHnoj , Una Us i ;5 Extra Valve Features to do Mora Jobs Faster and Easier Prove it to yourself. The Bo lens ' Power-Ho DeLuxe is superior to toy other frdea tractor. It delivers easier, faster operation and more all-around usefulness. Only Boies, ibe garden tractor pioneer, can offer these exclusive features. Coop4oo lino of hiiplofviofvts foe o)rotfftd utility lias CalHvallat Imr ftaariaa - , Com in Today CULLEN & CURRY, Inc. Telephone 2-71 15 123 S. Riverticfe-Medford trip. :: 1 i-t 1 ij: i n5 shgssn Arc: i . MAIL TRIBUNE Homer Leads 2 Victory centage point of the third-place Senators. The runner-up Red Sox, four games behind, also muffed a chance to gain when Chicago topped them 3 to 0 on Lou Kretlow's two-hitter. At St. Louis, the Browns ended a sev en-game losing streak with a 4 to 3 triumph over the Athletics In the National League, the Dodgers stayed seven games ahead of the Giants by dividing a double-header with the Reds, losing the opener 3 to 2, then winning 2 to 1 in 11 innings when Duke Snider broke things up with a -home run, the 100th of his big league career. The Giants defeated the Cardinals for the second time in a row, 9 to 5. and the Braves edged the Cubs. 3 to 1. The Phillies and Pirates had an open date. Ashland Golf Tournament Set Ashland Qualifying for the Ashland city golf tournament starts tomorrow and runs through Thursday, July 31, spon sors of the event reported today Qualifying will be over 18 holes with matches slated to get under way August 1, 2 and 3. Among Medford golfers who are contemplating entering the second annual Ashland tourney are George Harrington and Ed die Simmons, two of the state's leading amateur shot makers. Another leading Oregon golfer, Dom Provost Jr., Ashland, the defending champion, is expected to take part in the tournament. All entries must be submitted to the Ashland clubhouse by Wednesday, July 30. Persons in terested in entering the tourney may do so by calling the club house or by mailing in entry cards, which can be obtained in Medford at the Rogue Valley Country club pro shop. Use Mail Tribune Want Ads Dead line Sunday Classifieds Is at noon Saturdays. water. Central: Angling prospects for the week-end are picking up, The road is open into Three Creeks lake and fishing is good Blue lake is good on troll and fly fishing in the evening con tinues good. East and Paulina lakes are picking up on trolling and bait. Crane Prairie has been good on trolling and worms. Metolius river fly fishing is good. Upper Deschutes is still producing , some very nice catches. Mid-Deschutes is at its best. Few steelhead are reported taken in the Maupin area on the Deschutes. . Odell lake continues 1 to pro duce the big ones with 16 Mack inaw taken this week from HVi to 21 pounds. Trout fishing is also good in Odell. Crescent lake is good on trolling. Summit lake is also good. Little Deschutes and Crescent creek are fair. Elk lake is good and Davis lake is fair. ffgok WdnfsfratghtioudotfiafsJjofi... ...Be sure it's 0Wj BARCLAY'S Ml PINT Friday, July 25, 1952 San Franciscan Takes Easy Win In Tennis Meet Seattle, Wash. (U.R) Harry Likas of San Francisco looked like a good bet Friday to live up to his top-seeded billing as the Washington State tennis cham pionships rolled into the quarter-finals. The smooth-stroking Bay City artist gained a berth in the round of 16 Thursday by brush ing past Phil Seymour of Mill Valley, Calif., 6-2, 6-0. It was his third triumph of the tourney. Two seeded players were eli minated in the day's events. Sey mour edged sixth-ranked Paul Willey, Vancouver, B.C., 6-4, 4-6, 6-4, and George Manset, Los Angeles, trounced seventh-seeded Jim Davis, San Francisco, 6-3, 6-4. In other matches, second-seeded Conway Catton, San Fran cisco, beat Clyde Knox, Port land, Ore., 6-3, 6-4; Jerry De witts, Oakland, ranked number three, downed Lou Wick, Seat tle, 6-2, 6-4; Jack Lowe, Seattle, outlasted Harold Mitchell, San Francisco, 8-6, 9-7; and Law rence Barkley, Vancouver, B.C , eliminated Wally Bostick, Seat tle, 6-3, 6-4. Yanks Recall Schaeffer From Kansas City Farm Detroit (U.R) Left-hander Harry Schaeffer was recalled from Kansas City by the New York Yankees today to replace Army-bound Tom Morgan. Schaeffer, 27-year-old south paw who was with the Yankees rv siasws mm Golfers Open 2 Tourneys Spokane (U.R) Defending Champion Harold West of Pen dleton, Ore., was among the top contenders Friday as the com bined Northwest-Esmeralda Golf tournament opened on the Downriver course here. West was entered in both events. Other big names of. golfdom who signed the tourney register were California Open Champion Art Bell of San Francisco; Bud Ward of Great Falls, Mont., and five-time winner of the former national amateur champ Northwest open; Ray Honsberg er of Clarkston, Wash., semi finalist in the 1952 Professional Golfers' association tourney; Chuck Congdon, Tacoma, whi rl pr of almost every western title pvcont the Northwest: Ken Turker of Everett. Harry Um binetti of Seattle and Joe Greer of Yakima. The amateur division of the combined meet was also star .tnHrieri F.ntrants included: Bill Mawhinney. former Canadian and present Northwest amateur king; Oregon Mate i-nampion Bruce Cudd of Portland; Bill M nf SDokane. 1951 runner up in the PNGA; Dick Yost of Portland, former Oregon ama teur titlist, and Al Mengert and Ray Weston, Spokane. in SDrine training and has a 6-4 record at Kansas City, will re-i join the world champions imme diately. Morean. who had and 8-1 rec- oru as a rooKie iasi seasun, pucn ed his last game for the Yankees Thursday, losing it to the In dians, 4 to 2. Available in 12-oz.CANS l-WAY Bottles and Full Quarts "IC Wars. I STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKEY. 86 PROOF, JA& PARCUT & CO. LTD, PEORIA, ILL J I Verne Collins Hurls No-Hitter Softball Victory; Verne Collins pitched a no-hit, no-run game last night to lead Central Point to an 8 to 0 victory over Eagle Point in the Medford Softball league. Collins was rob bed of a perfect game when he walked Mosby, the second man up in the first inning. Mosby, the only Eagle Pointer to reach base in the five inning affair, died on first base. Collins struck out eight of the J 6 batters to face him and not a ball was hit out of the infield. In the second in ning Collins retired the side via the strikeout route. Central Point went to work in earnest in their half of the first inning, collecting six runs on five hits, an error, a walk and a f ielder s choice. 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