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TOUR MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE X Monday, Jul? 28. 1952 Studs Survive Lapses Afield To Sweep Pair With Coquille SOUTHWEST OREGON LEAGUE STANDINGS W. Drain 14 Coos Bay-North Bend 10 Medford 11 Bandon 1 1 Roseburg 7 Coquille 6 Brookings . 1 Keek-End Scores Medford 7-9. Coquille 2-8 Bandon 13-19. Roseburg 2-8 Coos Bay-North Bend 6-24, Brook ings 3-8. lEDFOrvTRIBUIfK L. The Medford Cheney Studs survived big innings by the op position and six of their, own fielding errors here Saturday to squeeze by the Coquille Loggers by a 9 to 8 score. The victory, coupled with the Studs' 7 to 2 win Saturday night, gave the home nine a sweep of the two game Southwest Oregon base ball league series. The win was also the second in two days for veteran hurler Paul Gehrmann, who came in to relief Herb Karpel at the start of the eighth. Karpel hurled good ball during his seven-inning stint but was frequently In trou ble due to loose support. The first inning, when Co quille grabbed three unearned runs after two were out, was an example of the troubles which beset the Studs during most of the afternoon. In that initial frame, after Charley Humble and Roy Harrington of the Log gers had been disposed of the roof suddenly fell in. Coquille Manager Dave Doug las reached first on an error by Stud First Sacker Clarence Mel bye, Lee Wert was safe on an er ror by Third Baseman Alex Mc Donald, Don Henchberger sin- cled and Henchberger crossed the plate on an error by Center fielder "Snuffy" Smith. Douglas and Wert had already scored The Studs settled down after that rocky start, but in all they committed six bobbles during the afternoon. A good share of these miscues can be directly at tributed to the blazing sun, which was glaring into the eyes of the fielders on the left side of the field. Nor were the errors the sole possession of the Medford nine. Coquille came through with four boots during the contest. In ad dition, on various occasions fielders for both nines lost the ball in the sun and it fell in for hits which were definitely of the "Chinese" variety. If the fielding was somewhat below par, the clutch hitting by the Studs left little to be de sired. For example, in the sec ond inning, Mellbye came to bat with the bases full and, with the count standing at 3 and 2 banged out a single that scored the first two Medford runs With the score tied at three all in the fifth inning, Karpel came to the plate, again with the bases packed, and he too waited out a full count. Then with the chips right on the line, the big hurler pounded out a double to deep right center field, driving in three runs Perhaps the " most important clutch hit of the day came in the eighth inning with the Studs trailing by one big run. Catcher Frank Roelandt tripled to drive McDonald across the plate with a score-tieing run and then came in for the clincher on Lee Wert s miscue at second base. The Studs are slated to do bat tle with the Weed, Calif., nine Wednesday night at the fair grounds diamond in an exhibi tion contest. They will be striv ing to fatten their league per centage this week-end as tney entertain the cellar - dwelling Brookings club in a Saturday night -Sunday afternoon two game series. buxsioke: Medford (9) AB Meltbye lib McDonald 1 3b) Roelandt c .. Gordon 2b) Smith (cf) Bianchi (ssi Shantz Leading Prospect For American League MVP Fawcett lift Blevins rf) Karpel (p) . Gehrmann (p) Totals H I 3 2 1 1 1 1 0 1 0 37 11 9 6 Coquille () AB H R Humble lift '. 5 2 2 Harrington (c) 5 2 0 Douglas (lb) 5 0 1 Wert 1 2b) 5 0 1 Henchberger (cf) 5 3 1 Ament iss) 5 4 1 Tavlor (3b) 4 11 Burr (rf 3 11 Bilbrey (p) 2 0 0 Gilson (p) 2 0 0 Totals 41 13 8 Coquille .300 004 0108 13 New York (U.PJ Bitsy Bobby Shantz of the Athletics was moving rapidly toward still another distinction Monday the first player on a second di vision team ever to receive the most valuable player award. In the competition for the American league - award, no player can come even ' close to Shantz right now with his rec ord of 18 victories and just three Kahut Loses To Buford Prineville (U.R) The judg es gave Joltin' Joe Kahut three rounds out of a 10-round box ing main event as the former pride of the Willamette valley dropped a decision to rotund Frank Buford of Oakland Sat urday night. A straight right to the chin dropped the Portlander for eight counts in the eighth round and put the heavyweight match on ice for the 205-pound Calif ornian. Some 2,000 fight fans watch ed as Buford took an early lead in the second and third rounds the Crooked River Rodeo arena here. The first and last rounds were called even but Buford had the edge in five. In a special 10 - rounder, Port land's Indian Dick Wolfe took . - er . nrt a decision over -unuji n.i of Trenton, N.J., a stablemate of Buford. California Golfer Wins Sioux City Open Sioux Citv. Iowa (U.R) Al Besselink of Escondito, Calif., tucked a check for $2,400 in his pocket Monday for his record breaking 266 which won the 15,000 Sioux City upen gou tournament. ' Rpsselink. three strokes behind Dace-setting Jimmy Clark of La- ffnna Beach. Calif., when the fi nal round began Sunday over the steaming Elmwood course, urea an eight-under-par 64 to win top money. Standings W. I.. Pet. G.B. Brooklyn . 61 27 New York 57 27 St. Louis 54 41 Philadelphia 49 46 Chicago 47 47 Boston 40 53 Cincinnati 39 57 Pittsburgh 27 71 defeats, his earned run average of 1.62, his strikeout total of 103 which is high for the league, and his record of 19 complete games in 21 starts. Ever since the award was es tablished for the two leagues in 1931 by the baseball writers, it has gone each year to players on first division teams. But bar ring a late season slump, there seems little doubt that Shantz will gain the accolade for the American, no matter where the A's finish. Sunday, Shantz, littlest man in the majors, turned in a five hit, 3 to 1 victory over Chicago after which lefty Alex Kellner gained a 9 to 3 decision to put the sixth-place A's only two games behind the White Sox and just four games behind the fourth place Washington. Cleveland won a pair from Washington, 3 to 1 and 3 to 2, moving from fourth to second 3V games behind the Yankees who lost their fifth in a row, 8 to 3, at Detroit, before winning, 6 to 0. The Browns beat the Red Sox, 8 to 1, then lost, 9 to 3. ' - '12:?- -Ssssb Vv-:M Q 'Sip' -N-y- $ i jar wf - l SETS Record Bob Mathias of Tulare, 10.2". Mathias set a world record of 7887 points Calif defending decathlon champion heaves decathlon championship for the sec- the discus in the second day of the Olympic ; . event at Helsinki for a winning distance of 153' ond straight time. Japanese Swimmers Set Olympics Record; Hoop Showdown Set for Today Pet. .693 .640 .568 .516 .500 .430 .408 76 4.i 10'i 15.i 17 23 ',i 26 39 AMERICAN LEAGUE W. L. New York 57 39 Cleveland 54 43 Boston 52 42 Washington 51 44 Chicago ..51 48 Philadelphia 44 45 St. Louis 39 59 Detroit 33 61 Pet. .594 .557 .553 .537 .515 .494 .398 .351 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet New York 57 Cleveland 54 Boston -I. -52 Washington 51 Chicago 51 Philadelphia 44 St. Louis 39 Detroit - 33 39 43 42 44 48 45 59 61 .594 .357 .553 .537 .515 .494 .398 .351 PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE W. L. Pet. Hollywood 71 47 .602 Oakland 71 49 .592 San Diego 64 55 .538 Seattle 58 56 .509 Portland 57 60 .487 Los Angeles 58 62 .483 San Francisco -....48 72 .400 Sacramento 47 73 -92 WESTERN INTERNATIONAL W. L. Pet. Victoria 65 , 32 .671 Spokane 54 48 329 Vancouver 48 43 ' .527 Salem :47 49 .489 Lewiston 47 51 .477 Yakima .. 46" 54 .460 Wenatchee 42 56 .428 Tri-City . 41 58 .422 G.B. 3'.i 4 5'i 7'i 9'i 19 23 G.B. 3.i 4 5'i 7'i 9'i 19 23 G.B. 1 7'i 11 13'i 14 24 25 G.B. 13'.i 14 17 18 20'j 23 j 24 Medford 020 040 03x 9 11 6 Doubles Humble. Karoel. Triples Roelandt 2. Walks given up by Karpel 1 in seven innings, cenrmann o in two inninrs. Bilbrey 4 in 6 13 In nings. Gilson 1 in 1 23 innings. Earn ed runs, off Karpel. 2 in seven in nings, off Gehrmann. 1 in two innings. off Bilbrey 5 in 6 13 innings, on Gilson 2 in 1 2 '3 innings. Winning pitcher Gehrmann. Chez Loses Game On Unearned Run An unearned run in the 10th inning gave Joe Chez, Medford bonus pitcher, his first set back in professional baseball Friday at Reading, Pa., according to word received here. Chez, pitching for Williams port of the Class A Eastern league, held the second place Reading club to five hits in tak ing the loss. He gave up four walks, two of the intentional variety, and struck out five. The score was 1 to 0. Chez, an All-Coast selection while pitching for the Stanford university baseball nine during the past four years, was recent ly signed by the Detroit Tigers organization for their Buffalo farm club, which assigned him to Williamsport. He has worked his way into a regular pitching assignment for the team and is expected to start again sometime this week. Women's Golf Activities Thirty four women golfers turned out Thursday, July 24, to play at the Rogue Valley Coun try club on ladies day. A spec tournament was held. There was a tie three ways in the "A' group with 12 specs each for Mrs. William Schei, Mrs. Bayard Getchell and Mrs. George Har rington. Mrs. Arthur Peters was winner for the "B" group with 12 specs and Mrs. H. D. McClure won in. the "C ' group with 13 specs. The play for next Thursday July 31, will be medal play. Pair ings will be made at the first tee, starting at 8 a.m. The Ringer Tournament which has been in progress for the past month, ends August 28 All participants are reminded to pay their entrance fee imme diately if they have not done so. Aero Club Breaks Marks In Winning Swim Contest Seattle (U.R) The Aero Club of Portland smashed two records and established another to win the ' senior Northwest AAU Invitational Swimming meet Sunday. The Oregon entry ran up 110 points. The Aero Club was fol lowed by the Washington Ath letic Club, Seattle, with 70; Mt Vernon YMCA, 11; Moore Pool, Seattle, 9; East Green Lake, Seattle, 5; and Seattle YMCA 1. . Helsinki (U.R) The U. S. basketball team defeated Rus sia, 86-58, and Americans scored a 1-2-3 sweep in the Olympic springboard dive Monday. The basketball game was the "big game" of the tournament, for the U. S. is defending champion and Russia is Euro pean champion. With seven foot Bob Kurland of Bariles ville, Okla., the Yanks soared to a 39-22 halftime lead and kept up the pace in the second period. Helsinki (U.R) A Japanese foursome sped to a new Olym pic swimming record of eight minutes, 42.1 seconds Monday in the 800-meter relay qualify ing trials of the Olympic games. The Japanese quartet M. Asano, M. Tanaka, H. Nishi ani T. Tanikawa shaved nearly four seconds off the old Olym pic mark of 8:46.0 set by the U. S. relay team of Wally Ris, Wally Wolf, Jim McLane .and Bill Smith in the 1948 Olym pics. An American foursome was among the eight teams that qualified for the finals of the event Tuesday. US Time Second Best The U. S. team, which won its heat in 8:50.9 for the second best time of the qualifying trials, was made up of Donald Sheff of Yale, Gaither Rosser of the University of Miami, Frank Dooley of Ohio State and Bur well Jones of the University of Michigan. The Japanese time for the distance fell short of the world record 8:29.4 clocking set by a Yale quartet at New Haven, Conn., last February 16, but it served notice of a serious threat to the Olympic swimming domi nation maintained by the U. S. in the '48 games at London. In addition to the U. S. and Japan, the teams which quali fied for the finals were France, winner of the first heat; Sweden, Argentina, Hungary, South Africa and Britain. An American was eliminated in the qualifying trials of the 1,000-meter kayak singles canoe ing competition when Michael Budi-ock of Yonkers, N. Y., finished fourth in his heat. The first three finishers in each heat qualified for the finals. Russia defeated Egypt 3-2, and Spain beat Brazil, 6-4, in water polo, and Brazil over whelmed Chile, 75-44, in basket ball, among the day's early re sults. Hoop Showdown Set Later in the day, the towering American basketball team head ed for a showdown with Russia. Many claims have been made about the strength of the Soviet squad during the last few years and many observers during the opening games here have come to believe that the Russians are the Yanks' chief rivals for the championship. The luck of the draw throws them, together to day in a second round game after each won three earlier games. Though not seriously threat ened in any game, the American team has so far failed to show its true form. Again in beating Uruguay Sunday, 57-44, the Yanks played lackadaisically in spots and pulled away only in the second half. The U. S. team is composed chiefly of players from . the Peoria Caterpillars, national AAU champions, and Kansas University, NCAA cham pion. Yesterday's Scores AMERICAN LEAGUE New York 3-6. Detroit 8-0 St. Lcuis 8-3. Boston 1-9 Cleveland 3-3. Washington 1-2 Philadelphia 3-9, Chicago 1-3 NATIONAL LEAGUE St. Louis 4. Brooklyn 3 Cincinnati 11. New York 4 (second game called, rain) Philadelphia 1--3. Chicago 8-8 Boston 5-3. Pittsburgh 2-3 (second Bowlers Set Meetings Here Tonight A special meeting of Classic league bowlers will be held to day at 8 p.m. at the Medford Bowling lanes, league officials said today. A meeting of mem bers of the Ladies Bowling as sociation will be held at 7:30 p.m. at the bowling lanes, they said. Some openings still exist In Medford Bowling association leagues now being formed, ac cording to Horace Green, asso ciation president. He urged all interested bowlers to contact the Medford Bowling lanes for in formation on entering any of the various leagues. Present plans for the bowl ing season call for a Classic scratch league on Monday night, to be followed by handi cap league plan. Tuesday will be ladies night. The Commercial league will bowl on Wednes days as will another new handi cap league, now in the process of being organized. The City league and the Triples league will bowl on Thursday and Friday nights are being left open at the present time for a second ladies league, if suffiecient interest is shown. A special high school league may be formed this year, Green stated. It is hoped that the league can be formed from stu dents of Crater, Jacksonville, Talent, Phoenix and Medford high schools, he said. In 1937 the asteroid Hermes, about a mile in diameter, came within 500,000 miles of the earth, although its path was such that it could not have struck. game tie, called after 11 Innings, darkness) PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Portland 4-2, San Diego 2-5 San Francisco 4-4. Oakland 2-3 Hollywood 2-7. Sacramento 0-1 Los Angeles 5-5. SeatUe 3-9 Millers Lose 'Iron Man' Game To Cave Junction WESTERN INTERNATIONAL Salem 4-1. Wentchee 2-5 Spokane 15-7. Lewiston 3-2 Tri-City 14. Yakima 1 (Only games scheduled) if ra if- II Oregon's popular old time Bourbon now years old! EXTRA AGE AT A NEW LOW PRICE' $Lio PINT You don't have to be rich to enjoy rich Old Quaker. t k ,9 , . -. . STRAIGHT B3fT!l!WIlriH WHISICIY IX YEARS 010. 14 PROOF. O10 QUAKER DISTILLING COMPANY. VAWRENCEIURG, IN0IAMAJ The Central Point Millers lost their seventh game of the sea son Sunday when they were forced to take the field for a league contest with Cave Junc tion with only nine men in uni form. The game was called in the end of 6Vi innings when Second Baseman Bill Donahoe of the Millers was injured. The score was Cave Junction 4, Cen tral Point 0. In other league games, Ash land defeated Butte Falls. 7 to 3, and Prospect forfeited to Glendale. In the Central Point -Cave Junction fracas, Pitcher Jack Burns scattered eight hits dur ing his six inning stint None of the Cave Junction runs were earned. Bob Fasel led the Millers at the plate with two for two and Dick Miles had two for three. D. Campbell had 3 for 4 for the by 4-0 Score Cave Junction nine and Tiger Smith banged out two hits in two appearances at the plate. Despite the many shifts in position brought about by the shortage of players, the Millers turned in some fielding gems. Donahoe and Curt Holzgang. playing at second and third base respectively, came through with sparkling plays. The Millers close out their season on the home field with a contest with Butte Falls next Sunday and a game with Pros pect the following Sunday. Mil ler Manager Ben Fagone is slat ed to attend a league meeting Thursday to decide on. the pro test of a disputed game between Cave Junction and Glendale, when ended in a free for -all a week ago. LINESCORES: Central Point .. O00 000 0 0 4 4 Cave Junction ..001 210 x 4 8 1 J. Burns and C. Isenberg; L. Maur er and R. Maurer. Marciano, Matthews Fight Slated in New York Tonight New York (U.R) Unbeat en, bull-shouldered Rocky Mar ciano will pit his wild, stunning blows against the speedy, cal culated punches of Harry Kid Matthews Monday night as they fight for the heavyweight chal lenger's rule in the dazzling patch of ring-light at Yankee stadium. Champion Jersey Joe Walcott has agreed to defend against the winner in late September. And if ages mean anything, Monday night's winner should have a half-grasp on the crown; for Walcott is 38, Marciano 27, and Matthews 29. Regarded from several angles, Monday night's bout seems the perfect challengers' fight; for this 10-rounder brings togeth er (1) the world's two outstand ing white fighters, (2) two con tenders with long, unbeaten rec ords, (3) outstanding represen tatives of the East and West, (4) slugger vs. boxer-puncher. 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