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t llEF0SO)UkTRIBimi I Tuesday, July 29, 1952 MEDFORD (OREGON) MAIL TRIBUNE WW Stengel, Dressen Haven't Been Canned Yet, But They May Be Starting to Worry By UNITED PRESS Casey Stengel and Charley Dressen are among the few man agers they haven't got around to firing yet in the major leagues this hectic season, but the way things were going for them to day, they could well be envying the other guys who got the boot. For it looks as if the panic could be on for both the Yankees and Dodgers. Despite the fact that both still hold comparatively comfortable leads, the immediate f uture looks none too bright. Both Stengel and Dressen couldn't be blamed for wishing they didn't have the cares that were lifted from the shoulders of Tommy Holmes of the Braves, Rogers Hornsby of the Browns, Eddie Sawyer of the Phils, Sed Rolfe of the Tigers, and now Luke Sewell of the Reds. Hornsby, a bear for trouble, bounced back into action as Sewell's successor, but the oth ers at the moment are enjoying peace of mind which can't be shared by the pilots of the two league leaders. Brooks Experienced Brooklyn, which knows more painful experiences about col lapsing contenders than the Yankee empire, suffered the bigger case of jitters. Whipped into submission four straight 0 I'Jben you check the prices ofifca Roots Motor . Company 101 W. Jackson at Fir MED FORD 0 o mm MS, times by the up-and-at-'em Cardi nals, their lead was reduced to four games over the idle Giants after Monday night's 3 to 2 de feat. It was the sixth defeat in the last seven games. The Yankees are in their worst slump since Stengel took over the club in 1949. They lost five in a row for the longest losing skein in his regime, won a sec ond game of a double header to snap that in Detroit, then lapsed into bad baseball again Monday to lose a 12 to 2 de cision. What could console them, however, is that they still are three games in front of second place Cleveland, whereas at this time a year ago, they were just a bare half game in front of runner-up Boston. Brooklyn, however, had a fat and growing lead of nine games at this time in 1951. Satch Starts. Wins In the only other major league game Monday, ol' Satchel Paige started his first game of the sea son for the Browns after many distinguished relief perform ances, and he gained a 6 to 3 victory over Washington. It was Paige night at St. Louis and the great Negro hurler was present ed with many gifts. He had to have relief help from Bob Cain when he tired in the seventh, but Cain protected the victory. It was his seventh win, tops for his brief but meteoric major league career. Bobby Young was the big Brownie batsman, trip ling home three runs. Pete Run nels drove in all the Washington runs with singles. Cost of Living Hint- Go. To Ponca City Games Ponca City, Okla. (U.R) The Ponca Cily Dodgers want to set a new national attend ance record for Class D base ball clubs and think they have the right formula. On Thursday night, fans at tending ihe Dodgers' game will get a pass for a future game, a key chain, a $25 furni ture sale . discount certificate, a $10 jewelry store certificate, a free quart of oil, discounts on ice cream, a bar of soap a pack of cigarettes, a minia ture loaf of bread, potato chips, comic books, toys and even bags of flour. Pass holders are out of luck. The management wants 7,000 paying customers. Sergeant Jose Ortega, chief scout for Portola, discovered San Francisco Bay in November, 1769. PCL Real Dog-Fight This Year; All Teams Have Chance to Go Up By HAL WOOD San Francisco (U.R) From top to bottom the Pacific Coast league is enjoying one of its finest competitive years with every club in the loop fighting somebody else for a chance to go up at least one more rung. As play resumes Tuesday night with Seattle at Portland, San Diego at Sacramento, Holly wood at San Francisco and Oak land at Los Angeles, the race shapes up like this: Bares Want 41h . A two - team battle between the Acorns and the Stars for first place; San Diego pretty well entrenched in third; Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles fight ing for fourth with only 2Vz games separating them; and San Francisco and Sacramento en gaging in a tooth-and-nail en counter to keep out of the cel lar with only one game separat ing them. As a result of the close com petition, attendance figures have picked up all the way through the circuit. Last week, for in stance, 84,633 fans turned out in the four series. Of course, this doesn't compare with the pre-television days when Oak land and San Francisco used to draw nearly that much in one series, but it is a good gen eral indication that the national pastime isn't exactly dead on the West coast. Seattle-Portland Series Oakland topped the home at tendance last week with 26,155 fans for it long series with the Seals; Hollywood drew 23,596 playing against Sacramento; Seattle, rained out of one night's revenue, still attracted 20,181 fans. San Diego, in the throes of a slump, tailed off to 14,701. us NEW teganf HEARING All $7C torn CttJmctiam DvKti J 1 Hi Imkm Cos ; GEORGE E. WHITE West Side Pharmacy PRESCRIPTION SERVICE Main Grape Medford, Oregon 1 V HASTY EXIT Stock-car driver Jim Merrell leaps clear of his -careening auto as it rolls over during a race in Atlanta, Ga. Merrell's car was rolled when he was struck from the rear while trying to avoid another auto stalled on the track. Softball Action Resumes Tonight; Babes, Electricians Action in the Medford Soft ball league resumes tonight with Andy's Jewelers playing Camp White in the first contest and Trowbridge and Flynn Elec tric tangling with Eagle Point in the nightcap. In contests played over the week-end the Medford Crater Babes romped to a 20 to 0 vic tory over Butte Falls in wo men's competition and National Guard defeated Trowbridge Flynn, 8 to 1, in the men's league. J. Ingle pitched a one - hitter for the Crater Babes and re ceived plenty of help from her teammates as they took a 2 toO lead in the initial inning and went on to add four more runs in the second and another six ih the third. After being held scoreless in the fourth frame Medford Driver Sets New Record But Fails to Win Hardtop Races Billy Rosenbaum, Medford, set a new track record at the Ashland Rodeo grounds when he drove his hardtop racer for a 25-second timing in the time trials Saturday. Rosenbaum was shut out through the rest of the evening, through, because he broke an axle. This was Rosenbaum's last race of the season, as his duties as a crop dusting pilot begin this week. Ashland drivers monopolized most of the first places. Ash land's Gilbert Wall won the main event' and Austin, of Ash land, took the semi-main event. The special event race was om- I There are some good natural ! I ; x : i c T-: ;n series mis weeiv. aan iiego win attempt to get back in the pen nant chase against the tail-end Solons; and Hollywood, leading the pack by one game, hopes to pad its advantage against seventh-place San Francisco. Seattle and Portland always is a natur al; and Oakland at Los Angeles is just about as good. San Francisco (U.R) Right hander Johnny Lindell picked up two more victories during the week to bring his mound record to 17-5 and a convincing leadership in the Pacific Coast league pitching race, according to statistics released Tuesday by William Weiss and including games of July 27. Next closest among the regu lar hurlers is Fred Sanford of Portland with a 12-4 mark. Lin dell also leads the loop in strike outs with 124. Bob Boyd, Seattle first sack er, is the top hitter with a .321 mark; and Tookie Gilbert of Oakland leads in home runs with 21 and in runs-batted-in with 82. Carlos Bernier is tops with the base stealers with 52. AN AMERICAN FAVORITE IN OREGON 0U ""BOURBON sans THI AMERICAN DISTIUIN6 CQ, INC, WW I ' sl Take Wins the Babes roared back with eight tallies in the fifth. National Guard Hurler Dick Phillips gave up just three hits in pacing the National Guard nine to its victory. The Guards men combined two hits and four walks in the first inning to jump into a 4 to 0 lead.. While picking up only five hits of their own, the Guards men took advantage of eight walks and three Trowbridge and Flynn errors, all by shortstop Lou Schell in the third inning, to roll up their eight runs. LINSCORE: Crater Babes 246 08 20 17 0 Butte Falls 000 00 0 1 8 J. Ingle and Stenson; E. Zimmerlee and Shephard. National Guard 440 Ox 8 5 0 T bridge & Flynn ....000 10 1 3 3 T3Y i 1 1 i Tic an4 om a n Paw tnH .Ettinger. itted because so many cars were entered in the time trials. The only Medford racers to place in the main event were Kodat, third, and Netherland, fifth. Kodat was 10th in the semi-main and Radke of Medford was 11th. Whaley, of Medford, won the third heat. Dennis McCoy, Ash land, won the trophy dash and Swain, Roseburg, took the fi nal heat. Other heat winners were Janousek, Ashland; Scott, Klamath Falls, and McCoy, Ash land. Only one accident was report ed. Bob Holcomb, Medford, was slightly cut on the face when his car flipped and rolled over six times. Only first aid was necessary. Woman Keeps Coffin In Death Preparation Honey Grove, Tex (U.R) An 83-year-old Negro woman, who thought she was on her death bed in 1935 but who recovered has kept a coffin with her since then. Mrs. Emma Hawkins said she didn't have enough money for a coffin when she was sick and she pledged the Lord she'd buy a coffin if she got well, "so I'd be fit to meet the Lord like a body ought to." Mrs. Hawkins said she keeps mothballs in the grey satin-lined casket and it is just as good as it was when she paid $65 for it. Now, she said, it would be worth three times that. Many visitors come to see Mrs. Hawkins and her coffin. She doesn't object to pictures but al ways refuses a standard request: that she get in the coffin for a photograph. "I'm only going to get in that coffin once," she said. "When I lie down in it, I'm not getting up!" YORK, PKIN, ILLINOIS, SAN FRANCISC : s $395 250 45 QT. PINT ' ' TJViW I Senator McKeller Faces Tennessee Political Fight Memphis, Tenn. (U.R) A po litical fight involving the veter an Sen. K. D. McKellar is shap ing up in Tennessee, with the political leader E. H. Crump in McKellar's corner in a come back role. The white-haired Crump, whose senatorial candidate lost to Estes Kefauver four years ago, hopes that the large Mem phis and Shelby County vote in west Tennessee will keep the 83-year-old dean of the Senate in his congressional seat. McKellar, rated an influen tial man in Washington, is pit ted against Rep. Albert Gore, 44-year-old middle Tennessee Democrat, in the Aug. 7 primary balloting. Has To Campaign The Crump organization, which is moving back into state wide poltics, is' solidly behind McKellar, who won re-election in 1946 without even leaving Washington. His friends did the campaigning. It is not known just what type of campaign McKellar p'lans this time, but a "whistle stop" rail road tour has been mentioned. Most observers expect McKellar will be forced to wage an active campaign to defeat Gore. Gore has been going up and down and across the state for nearly two years, speaking at civic club meetings, talking over the radio arid shaking hands. The winner of the nomination is virtually assured of election in the November general elec tion. Gore was caught in a re-districting squeeze in 1951 and his fourth district, which he had rep resented for 14 years, was elim inated. He has been busy cam paigning for the Senate ever since then. Fireworks Expected Kefauver whipped the Crump organization in 1948 to win elec tion to the Senate and many of his backers are lined up behind Gore this year. McKellar will have plenty of powerful support himself and most observers predict a heated campaign. Gore said he planned no per sonal attack on McKellar and was making the race on his own record, but did add that " I have no machine behind me." Kefauver, busy with his cam paigning for the Democratic presidential nomination, is tak ing no part in the battle but he and McKellar have clashed often and sharply on the Senate floor. McKellar will equal the rec ord for service in the senate, 36 years, upon completion of his present term. 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